The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-06 00:00:00

QUARTER TO THREE. ( - lasso:8 96 a ••„ ... ... Ditto Account, Feb. 10 ... ... 9q i BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0%.4,0C11- From the Official List.) 8 per Cent. Red ',lva A:2:iuities... ..... 97 1 3 per Cent. Consols Ann:. New 314 per Cent. Alas - 98 Vai India Stock Do. Bonds, 10001 7l 72 p Cons)ls for Account 96 % 1, E2 EKchlaner Bills. 11,4 d. 1,0001. • Small . — 60 64 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.... Ditto, 5 per Cent Equador Bonds O/8 4 Grenada, 1 1 4 per Cent. Ditto Deferred II , xican Bonds, 1846, ex Jan. Coupons Ditto Account . 3 2 100 /4 Portug - nese Bonds, 5 per Cent 92 y il 92 Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Account ... .. 93 Spanish Bonds. 3 per Cent — Ditto, New Deferred l77g Spanish Coin. Cert. Coup. not funded l l,i per cent. ....ividenAs on the above payable in Londot. Dutch 2 1 4 per-Cent., 12 Guild LLOYD'S v.—( 1 kiiB DA Y.) LONDON, FEB. 6.—Wind at noon, N.W., fresh breeze and fine clear dry weather. SUNDERLAND. FEB. s.—The Jelin and Mary, of thl s port, has hpen got ft* shore much damaged. LYNN, FEB. s.—The Revol ut i on h as came off a() Black Shore Sand. GLOUCESTER.— Arrd. Boreas, Quebec. GALSTZ, JAN. 22.—The Danuoe is now entirely fire of ice. CLYDE.—Arrd. Palendar, St. John's, New Brunswick; America, Windsor, United States. HARWICH, FEB. s.—lt blew very hard all night at W., and continues. The Content, of and from New castle for London, has been assisted in leaky, having been on shore on the Ganfleet Saud. DEAL, FEB. :s.—Wind W.S.W., strong.—Arrd. Ocean's Bride, west coast of Patagonia. Put back a ' large fleet of the outward bound. TEIGNMOUTH, FEB. s.—The John Paley, of Preston, Newcastle to Nantes, got ashore and sun k l ast night on the Ore Stone north of Torbay during a gale; crew saved. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. s.—lt has blown a hard gale all day from west—with a heavy sea. BRIDLINGTON, Fan. s.—The Lady Ann, Goole to Sunderland, sunk north of Flamborough Head, having bean in contact with the Curlew brig of Sunderland; crew saved. SLIGO, FEB. 4.—The weather has been very boisterous here for the last fortnight, nothing but con stant gales of wind from W. to N.W. DUNGENESS ROADS.—Put back, Roman Emperor, Sydney, N.S. W. LIVERPOOL, FEB. s.—Wind N.W. to W.S.W., fresh. •—Arrd. Panic, Shanghai; Express, Mauritius; Pris cilla, Pernambuco; Vivid, New Orleans; Italy, ditto. Sid. Fairfield, Calcutta. A brig was seen 23d Decem ber inside the Colorado Reef at anchor, with her lower Masts standing and abandoned. ri P LYMOUTH, FEB. s.—Wind W., strong gale.—Arrd. ‘ lci eld, St. Michael's from Hull, under jury rig, and considerable damage to hull, fromcontact, 21st January, With the Stanhope schooner. BELFAST, FEB. 4.—Wind W.—Arrd. Rosamond, N ew Orle ans . RAMSGATE, FEB. s.—The Perseverance, of a n d f rom London, for St. Michael's, has put in with damage, b aying been run foul of whilst at anchor. PALBIOLITH, FEB. s.—lt blew a violent gale all lost Shipping rides well. IN EWBURGH, FEB. 4.—The Mary, of Dundee from London, is on shore and leaky. rSHIELDS, FEB. s.—The Sibsons, of Blyth, hence to a don, was a b an d one d 3 d i nst., in a sinking state off ter Point; crew saved. , a EXCHEQUER. —(THIS DAY.) ‘ u 'lttings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Mr. Baron MARTIN and a Special Jury.) IRE ATTORNEY• GENERAL V. WATTS . This was an information filed by the Attorney-General b t o recov er penalties from the defendant for assisting and eing co ncerned in unshipping a quant i ty of unnianu actured tobacco, on which duty had not been paid. The Attorney -General and IMr. Watson appeared for the Crown ; and Mr. Collier for the defendant. lowiThe s muggling of the tobacco was effected in the fol ug The k in genious manner:—There was a ship nam ed —wift, bound w i t h a carg o of coa l f rom Neath, in Passag e on board the vessel, and when off the Lizard he prevailed on the captain and crew to stand over to the island of Jersey, and take a cargo of tobacco, pro thing to give each of them 10/. as their share of pro the profits arising on the venture. The ship was put but 4 th e and arrived at a place known as Good Night Bay ro l u n b roug h t and at night 200 bales of tobacco were ..._ g from the shore ia boats., and deposited amongst V," c oats. The vessel then made the best of her way to a-iymouth, but care was t aken on nearing the English alcoast to so alter her a rse asas to make it appear that le had come round Lizard. Instead of putting into the port she went up the river Tamar to a place six or seven miles distant where the cargo of tobacco VMS un shipped in boatt. , L lere the defendant, William Watts, who was a pilot assisted the captain and crew to remove t he tobacco from , the hold. The transaction came to the A wedge of the Revenue officers in consequence of , ems of the crew their portion of the " sp poileackiug ' " who had not receiv e d . the Mr. WATSON said th e C rown would ' only proceed for ' , o thought penalty of 100/. Th ough entitled to sue for more, the justice of the case would be satisfied by going for one penalty. ti..llr. COLLIER contended that the defendant was simply i 'ttged as pilot to the ship, and had no participation in be e n Qlu ggling. As soon as he discovered that he had ... deceived, and was required to render other assist.. '"'ea besides piloting the vessel, he requested to be put the ho re , a request which the captain complied with; and re llson he did not give information of the illegal n ...--h sac tion was that h e h a d a great di s lik e to act the in- dious part of a common informer. Th L e earned Th e havin summed u ; ur _ J y found a JUDG verdict fu r p, the Crown. CO MMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) tr: (Before Lord Chief Justice JEuvrs .) WALLACH V. WEBSTER. 1131.8 Wits an action for an alleged breach of agree teetit • 44b ,... Ili theatrical matters, of which the following is a .. - -qtary • frobs t ;:Wallack's engagement with Mr. Webster was 4 1 ; 41 alarcb, 1851, to, June, 1852, ; at 301. per week, of e ngagement to be subject to the rules f 4.4,7 theatre. Mr. Wallack appeared and utterly Mr. Webster offered every inducement to D4 r ; ,", 41 1ack to cancel the engagement without success. to the subsequently committed various breaches lita' - n e „ ru les, and in particular by not attending the pre ry meetinc , of the company for the season 1851 18 52, but Mr. Webster being absent from .England, ki tto rt bein g i n f orme d o f suc h breach being e orn _ lab ac „.,' Mr. W a ll a ck was paid a week's sal ar y st et - willent to such breach by the treasurer. Mr. Web. Wij a ° ,_ ll being inf orme d o f th e br e ach, discharged Mr. of ~e 4s and an ac ti on was brought for arrears breand it was objected by Mr. Wallack that the Wa r , Was condoned by the payment of the week's 4,4 4 ' At th e t r i al i t was int i mated to M r. Webster's offered er th at Mr. Wallack would compromise, and 3004 a to abandon all claims on payment of 5001, but T tl Fas offered and accepted. oon a i, l being a vi r t ua l a b andonment of an engagement e , ide erably a b ove 1,000/. in value, the compromise was St e , n tlY an advantageous arrangement for Mr. Web f4o ' 0. and was lit era ll y a verdict in Mr. Webster's 1 4 ! 4 r. Sergeant Wilki ns appeared for the plaintiff, and Watson for Mr. Webster. 11, IIVIIN AL COURT. rt , HIS DAY.) OLD COURT. kunDEß.—Jose Furtozo Berdago, aged 30, described 41 a sailor, was indicted tor the wilful murd er of Alm on . Jame s Mr. Clarke and Mr. O'Brien appeared for the prose tlttion• and Mr. Ballantin e d e f ende d the prisoner. IitrA;LA.RKE, having open e d t h e case, proceeded to ' ll l the following witnesses:— Sarah Slater—l live at No. 29, Greenfield-stre e t, 41 alerciab-road. On W e d nes d a y, t h e 7 t h of January, Ab * tut to the house, N. 109, New Gane, wher e ained a ll d ay , an d o went to bed with a l friend there. , e ut two o ' c l oc k on t h e follow i ng morning two I,,helards an d two women came in. One of the Sp a niards wi t c h the prisoner. Th e woman did not rema i n l ong ti," t hem. I knew the deceased man Almon, and when toy c ame in he w a s s it t i ng b y the fire. Besides tttbtleeeased there were two women and my self Th t i in the room whi c h t h e S paniards came into. 11 1 , - `° was also a woman name d Mary Anne Smith *i t ' ll % but she was not in bed. She lived in the house Rar e , , t he dec ease d. E m ily Willi s was there, and Mar es!, 4 -' 3 novan and a man were up stairs. The man 4% "own before the aecessed was stabbed. As soon Rather two women went away the Spaniards spoke to k aki' and then gave Emily Willis two sixpences, I tep t - g Signs that they wanted something to drink. I 10 4%0 °14 and fetched some gin and beer, an d the pri t„tritsel "mptinion asked the deceased to drink, but he h eir Alter that the Spaniards spoke together in "r 1 language and then went into the passage, Iver,e,theY remained about two minutes. While they ( 4) t ,, z , 'here I board some knives opening, and made rej 4t ien to that effect to the people in the room. I n lli,ecilont afterwards the Spaniards returned with the go their hands, and Mary Ann Kerwin told me to d outa nd call police. I went to the street door and Ari, o _ c> . ! but before I could call a second time the 11 agedseized tee by the h a i r o f t h e h ea d an d 11 „ wi t h , the tee into the The deceased then get ha s i room. d when t lt!)rispeerntention of opening the windows, raisi.cl his knif e an d sta bb e d h i m i n the °l4d " hz on cried " Oh dear, I amst,bbed," and th e i r "er on his back. The two Spaniards then took hsel hr to p him 8 1 bay; I pursued the prisoner, out d ° Q it tlit h ti qtep him,".and he was ultimately seized an sltatttt,•ll„3-exaMined—l "4p V I I* I went to rtnel haoinubaeldt o of s eaellmwy ocrkod,sionutmoafrxa 4 1) ° , 4 % - it e u r ,, w _ i n w , .bnt I did not know it was a brothel. 1 hat..the girls were who came to the door. nit th e ll oe ue lived in the house were unfortunate girls, b y sash lived with aQ3 an. 1 4 .3? of these 313 - I saw nothing done people to provoke the Spaniards, nor 4 14 lee i tny . one raiso a poker to th Wh o 111 '0 of th 8 • h - ern. Ido not know 4410 to th e girls, nut and Willis door with the 44zulirda Were the two . owitb, w h o . D THE SUN, I had been oat two or three hours, came in at the same time es the Spaniards and the two young woraen. Mary Ann Kerwin, tl.e lanelady of the brothel, stated thlt there w re five women who lived ie the house, and with the excretion of one they were ell prostitutes. The deceased Amon was a sea faring man, and had lodged in her house two or three days when this happened. The prisoner and his compaeion brought two girls to her home on the night already referred to, and said they wanted two beds for the night. Sh e told them that all her beds were en gaged, and the two girls went away, but the prisoner and his companion remained larking with the female lodgers who were sleeping in the parlour. The witness then gave the same account of the stabbing that was given by the last witness, and stated that when the de ceased refused to drink the gin, the prisoner threw the contents of the glass on the table. Almon was taken to the hospital the same night. He had given no provo cation but refusing to drink the gin. Cross - examined —Sh e was charged last April with rob bing a mare and tried at the Clerkenwell Sessions, where she was convicted and sentenced to six months' imprison ment. She robbed the man of two sovereigns, and since then two warrants had been issued against her for as. straits, and on both occasions she was fined Ms. and 128. Two women broke her windows and she returned the compliment on their heads. On another occasion, while she was in the streets she was taken up for robbing a man of his watch, and tried in the City. She was con victed and sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She did not know how many times sho had been fined and irepri,oned ter assault, but it was a good many. This witness was a tall gaunt-looking woman, about thirty years of age, with au exceedingly course and re pulsive expression of features. Emily Willis, a prostitute, gave a similar account of the scene in the brothel. Cross-examined—The deceased skylarked with Mary Ann Smith. He had a cane in his hand. It was not a poker. The prisoner's companion wanted to stay with Smith, but the refused as he would not pay before hand. The prisoner would have been very civil to me, but . I would have nothing to say to bite. When the prisoner and his companion. brandished their knives some one certainly did seize the poker, but it was not the deceased. Mary Ann Smith, another prostitute, also gave corro borative evidence. Cross-examined—l was to have had four shillings and Emily 'Willis the same, but the money was not forth coming. Mary Donovan confirmed the evidence of the previous witnesses. Cross-examined—There was a man named Wifferman i❑ the room, and he had a poker in his hand when the stabbing took place. She believed he took it up in his own defence. John Wifferman, a German sugar baker, and the man referred to by the last witness, gave confirmatory evi dence. Cross-examined—I secured the poker to protect my self. I was afraid they would stab me too. I did not brandish it, but I took it from one side of the fireplace to put it on the other, so that it might be handy in case I wanted it. The circumstances attending the arrest of the pri soner were then detailed by two men and a policeman. Mr. Daniel Ross—l am a surgeon, and on the morn ing of the Bth of January I was called in to see the de ceased, He had a serious wound in the abdomen, and I ordered his removal to the hospital, where he afterwards died. The surgeon who attended the deceased in the hospi tal was too ill to be present to-day, but another medical gentleman who saw the deceased at the time be was dying, stated that he had no doubt whatever that his death was the result of the wound. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BALLANTINE then addressed the jury for the de fence, and insisted that the prisoner must have received great provocation before ho drew his knife upon the deceased. It was clear, he contended, that an at tempt was made to rob this man and his companion, and while they were labnuring under the excitement which such an. impression must have produced, they drew their weapons in self-defence. It was quite evi dent that there had been no premeditation in this case; the act was the result of an accidental quarrel, and it was preposterous to suppose that it could be treated as a murder wilfully and maliciously committed in cold blood after calm deliberation. The LORD CHIEF BARON having summed up the evidence, The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter. The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' prisonment and hard labour. BOW - STREET,-(THIS DAY.) Thomas L am b ert was charged with steal i ng a watch and chain, o f the value of 101, Mary Osborn e . • the property of Mrs. The statement of the prosecutrix was that, on the sth of November last, as she was passing through Tottenham-court-iond on her way home, there was considerable obstruction on the footway, and the pri soner, who seemed to know her, accosted her by name, with an offer to conduct her through the mob, and see her safe home. She accepted the offer, supposing that the prisoner had some acquaintance with her, although she could not recollect anything of him. He attended her to her house, No. 9, Warren -street, and spent the greater part of the evening with her. He renewed his visits, and ultimately made her au offer of marriage, which was accepted. She provided him with money to discharge other preparatory expenses. The banns were accordingly published, and a day appointed for the wedding; hut in the meantime the prisoner represented that he owed about 1801., which he hoped to be able to pay off within three weeks or a month, and sug gested that it would be better to defer the marriage until after that time, lest her property should be attached for his debt. She consented, and lived with him as his wife, in her own house, from that time till last Monday week, letting him have on different occasions sums of money amounting to nearly 601. On that day his real wife presented herself with his child, and conse quently the prosecutrix ordered him to leave the house. He refused to do so, and violently assaulted her. Before he left the house he broke into the room where the watch was deposited, and took it away without her knowledge. He had since come to her house repeat edly, and annoyed her very much. She wished only to recover her watch, and to obtain protection from further annoyance. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the prosecu ,x had given him the watch and chain. He added ,hat she knew he was a married man from the time that ;he marriage was put off. Mr. JARDINE having heard all the statements and re criminations of the parties, told the prosecutrix that she had acted very foolishly, and had herself only to blame. She could have expected nothing better than what she now complained of. But he advisei the pri soner to give her up the watch, and her to give him his clothes. If the prisoner, who must be discharged at present, gave her in future the slightest annoyance, he (Ur. Jardine) would afford her effectual protection. Tho parties then left the offic...t. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—MONEY ORDERS.--BarrOW" upon-Humber, Lincolnshire, will be opened as a minor money-order office, on the 6th F e b ruary next. Th e i ss ue and payment of mo ne y- or d ers h as been discontinued at t h e minor money-order office at Bodenham, Herefordshire; post masters will, therefore, cease to draw orders for payment at that place, and will erase its name front the printed lists ac cordingly. The Australian Steam Company (via the Cape of Good Hope) have announced that their first iron auxiliary steamer of about 1,500 tons registry and 300-horse power, will be ready to start for Port Philip, Adelaide, and Sydney, early in April. It appears that the company have purchased two boats, out of six which have been recently built at GlaQgow for the Cunard Company, with the view, since entirely given Up; of establishing a cheap line to New York in conjunction with their present steamers, and that at the same time the option has been obtained of taking two more. Eventually the Australian Company contemplate the em ployment of vessels of a larger size, but under existing cir cumstances promptitude was all-important, and those they have now purchased are capable of accommodating a great number of passengers, and are expected to realise a com paratively high speed. Advices from Sydney bring the report of the Bank of New South Wales, adopted at the h a lf-y ear ly meeting held on the 22d of October. The gross profits for that period, including the balance from last account , was 14,6651 ., leaving the disposable amount, after the deduction of expen diture, 11,4371. Of this 6,3201. has been appropriated to a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum; 4,3664 has been placed to the credit of the reserve fund; and 7511. has steanaf r\ i ? been carried to the account for equalising future dividends. Messrs. LAUNCR OF THE AMAZONAS STEAM-FRIGATE.— Yesterday Was launched at Blackwall the auxiliary screw tonnage is 1,676 I.ite called the Amazonas. She was built by wilttraz and Sons, of Blackwall-yard, and is to be armed !oong 68 -pounders on superintended the i r n i e v i e ) the main deck. Her vernment. Th e pr t ni!: and she belongs to the Peruvian Go al harbourmaster of the city of London THE LIVERPOO r arrangements- L ENGINEERS.—The Mayor, Mr. who were chosen as media°tro" y and Lloyd, town councillors, Littiedale, and Messrs. 1-1 between the men and their esterday with both masters employers, had a conferencre.:3e of s e ction being the em trpool of men and men. men. The latter had . sY excluded men their views in writin g , theirlachil:potbinterview, and stated ployment by the master engineers sy said, rather than long ttbscrip longing to other benefit societies, whilst connected with the Amalgamated Societ They were wil ling to submit to almost any, terms•tfi s by sacrifice altogether the benefits to which tion, they were entitled. On the retirement Messrs. M‘Gregor, Willie, and Preston, on the pert oPte:4; employers, mediators, and the had an interview with the requirements of the men were handed to them in writing They took away the document, and promised, after giving it' a full consideration, to return an early reply. THE REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—AdnairaI Houston Stewart yesterday issued an address to the electors of Greenwich, in which be states that in soliciting their suffrages he neither presumes upon official influence (the gallant officer being one of the Lords of the Admiralty), nor upon private friendship, but rests his pretensions upon an hnnest and anx i ous desire to support t h e aut h or o f t h e first Reform Bill in his promised measure for an existence of reform. CANTERBUR Y , F EB. s.—The retirement of Mr. Plumptre from the representation of this division of the county has plunged the district into all the bustle of elec tioneering excitement. The High Sheriff has received her Majesty's writ directing the election of a knight to serve the eastern division, and the nomination has been fixed to take place on Monday, the 16th inst., on Bareham-down. The contest is likely to be rather a sever e one b etween S i r Ed ward Dering, Conservative, and Sir Brook W. Bridges. INSPECTION OF COAL MINES. --The district hitherto inspected by Mr. Dickenson comprised the counties of Lan casnire, Cheshire, Statc)rdshire, Shropshire, and Worcester shire, and also No rt h W a l es. Th e district Las been . ;:ivided Mr. Dickenson now takes Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire, and Mr. Wynne is appointed_ to inspect the coal mines in Lancashire, Cheshire, and North 'Yates. Mr. William Lancaster, formerly of the Ince Hall Coal and Can nel cou3pany, takes part of Mr. ALMA district, bcotlgid. LITERATURE. THE HEIR OF ARDL' , NNAIV. 3 Vols. L'y the Author of "Anne Dysart." album and Co. Regarding the second work of a writer as the se verest test of his or her aLilicics, we are gratified to remark in the effusion before us no tokens of retro gression, perhaps we 'might even say evidences, here and there, of progress in the way of improvement. "Anne Dysart," we took occasion on its original ap pearance, to commend as a fiction raised above the ordinary level of the domestic or romantic tales con tributed by the novelists of the day to our literature. Remembering the satisfaction with which we perused that production at the time, and remembering, more over, the earnest praise which we deemed it but right to accord to the narrator, we have recognised with no small degree of pleasure the fulfilment in some measure of that promise, and the justification of those encomiums in the very charming story in which are here recounted the adventures and vicissitudes of " The Heir of Ardennan." In her second composition, we perceive, it must be acknow ledged, but little more than the repetition, and it may be also the development to some extent and in some particulars, of the merits which in her first commanded fur the authoress at our hands very sincere and cordial commendation. There is ob servable in both fictions, for example, the same de lightfully surprising skill in the discrimination of character, the same graceful recognition of the balance of good and evil in human nature—a truth inculcated very admirably by Sir Bulwer Lytton in his drama of Not so Bad as we Seem—and, above all, the same generous insinuation of that most sweet and most pure morality which takes its root in the sanctuary and blossoms under the censers of religion. Not that the novelist is perpetually thrusting impertinent clip pings of this morality upon the reader, but that she is ever indirectly infusing its influence into their minds through the medium of the creations and the inci dents flowing from her imagination. For ex ample , the heroine of her present story—a story of domestic life in Scotland—is one of those truthful and loveable delineations in which the heart instinc tively beholds the incarnation of goodness. Caroline Irvine, nevertheless, is no model young lady —per haps we should say the very reverse—but something immeasurably better, a susceptible and bewitching character distinguished by the blending of passion, simplicity, and tenderness. It is impossible to trace the narrative of her fortunes without loving her in the end as earnestly as the most infatuated of her re latives. Conspicuous in the midst of the latter, of course, are her sister Agnes and her father the Major —Agnes a quiet, ladylike, thrifty, and industri ous spinster, who would infallibly have dwindled into a nonentity but for the amiability which is her dis tinguishing characteristic, and the Major, a testy, self willed, self-opinionated veteran, whose affection for his child would have called forth the sympathies ,of Parson Adams, and whose devotion to his profession must have infallibly secured for him the friendship of Uncle Toby. Associated with the graces and the sensi• bility of Caroline Irvine the reader always thinks, with a sort of forgiving respect, of the sister drudging over her Berlin wool, and of the father babbling over the charms of his incomparable " Carry." Several of the personages introduced in the course of the story, the scene of which is only once removed to London and once to India, being otherwise restricted to the highlands or the lowlands of Scotland, are remarkable for the brilliant and yet natural colours in which they are depicted, the authoress dashing her sketches off with a rapid and masterly pencil, every touch replete with expression and every shade and outline suggestive. Nothing Dan be happier than the description of Mrs. Howard, the vain, silly, simpering simpleton, who at nearly forty, continues the girlish airs of a coquette, and who is not unjustly regarded by Mr. Ross as "only one remove from an idiot." Then, again, the whole family of the Rosses are painted with a felicity of manner worthy of all praise, the good, vulgar, un assuming and hospit a bl e motherl (one of the most thoroughly agreeable among all the imaginary beings in the book), the sublime and sorrowing Maria, the inquisitive chatterbox Isabella, and William, who with his everlasting stories about the Countess Ida and the gifted Vervier, is little better than a nincompoop. Besides these, among the low lenders, th e r e are th e Purvises—Mr. Purvis, a little, vulgar-minded, consequential cockatoo, always talking grandly about his titled acquaintance; Mrs. Purvis, larger in bulk, more vulgar-minded, more consequential,: and altogether more intolerable, and jabbering, moreover, with a perpetual emphasis which the authoress is obliged to italicise by way of distinction; John, silly-looking, helpless-nosed, and awkward : but, more terrible than all, the daughter Jane, with her corkscrew ringlets, and her streaming ribbons, and her flowers, and her fine airs, with her eyes goggling up to the cornice, and her petticoats swaying to and fro with the affected "gentility" of her carriage. The humour!of the chapters in which these same vulgarians are introduced is delicious—as may be seen more especially in the laughable record of the love scene in the pantry. Wattie, the gar dener, looking after his "floors," and Peggy the old domestic, marvelling at the wisdom of " the bairn," must not be overlooked as lending additional charms to the homely villa of Wallacefield, where Caroline is born and educated, and whence she pro ceeds at the age of sixteen on her first journey to visit her married half-brother in the Highlands at Locharroch. Here it is that the real interest of the story commences. Here it is we encounter for the first time the silent but in reality gentle John Gor don, his grim but also warm-hearted wife Catherine, and—the hero of the n ovel—Malcolm. Mixed up iu the plot with these and the before-mentioned per g are the beautif u l Vi olet Smythe and the handsome e Arthur Cornish. Out of the history of these two characters come the two most enthralling pas sages in the whole work—the incident on the ice where Arthur is nearly drowned while skating, and the death-bed scene of the unfortunate and broken hearted Violet. As we cannot but think that our authoress has in the person of Mr. Gordon, other wise Locharroch, taken a hint from her own delinea tion of Mr. Bolton, so we cannot but think also that she has taken a leaf from " Boz" in her description of Sir Arthur Cornish, who is nothing more nor less than a married Steerforth. Again, in the final love scene, the love scene that brings the fiction to a close, the influence of Charles Dickens is perceptible—the de claration of Caroline being merely a paraphrase of that simple, and because simple, most eloquent and touching acknowledgment of Agnes to David Copper field—" I have loved you all my life !" And here in this very scene we are compelled in justice to avow that we consider the authoress to have shown herself the least artistic. She should have refrained, we mean, from rendering the hero contemptible in our estimation, by making him act in a manner which he himself afterwards endeavours to repudiate —repre senting him as declaring his love to a girl he believes at the very time to be engaged to another. Apart from this, we must plainly avow that Malcolm Gor don, with all his amiable qualities and shrewdness of intellect, appears to us rather " slow" than otherwise. At any rate, we regard him as several degrees below Caroline Irvine in cha racter—and, therefore, as somewhat ill-selected far the hero, what thouglahe is the Heir of Ardennan. Insomuch is this the feeling with which we close the narrative, that we can scarcely forgive the heroine for rejecting Major Smythe, fop though he was at times, white though his hands, and sparkling his brilliant. Poor Violet's story is what alone casts a ray of romance over the pages of the work under consideration, pages which are 'otherwise dedicated exclusively to a very clever, and in many respects, a very charming delineation of domestic life in Scot land. With this life the authoress everywhere be trays herself familiar, whether it be in depicting the trim parterres of Wallacefield, or the gleaming loch s and purple heather of the highlands, or the woods of Ardennan, or the solitary precincts of Locharroch, or the busy streets of Leitb, cr the urban and sub urban splendours of the most princely capital in Europe—Edinburgh. If for nothing else, these three volumes would be acceptable for inasmuch as they afford this graphic and admirable insight in c t o o tl t a h n e d p . peculiarities of tthheessecetnheerystaunry, as we haved the society of Scotland. shown, has a variety of other and not less estimable excellences. It unfolds anew some of the minor and unnoticed mysteries of the human heart—mysterieshumlhumility o w f h t i b c eh student, ewurti,tae and dconfesses theto r s e a g m a e r d time,wit hthe y with the lofty purpose of the philosopher. It delineates, as we have observed, and occasionally with consummate skill, a variety of curious but natural characters. It relates a story of love, elevating and not enervating in its in fluence, and through the career of the heroine, Caro line Irvine, inculcates, as we have already remarked, indirectly but most persuasively, some very noble and chastening p r i nc i p l es. From all these considerations, f l o t i will l be up comprehensible with pronouncedwhat b y ourselves satisfaction w'e upon "Anne Dysart" with others as deservedly pro nounced upon its successor, "The Heir of Ardennan." p, ALDDLESZX HOSPITAL. — Yesterday th e annua l h e ld general court of the governors of the ab ove - named charity was at the institutiou, Si r R obert H. Inglis, Bart„ P M. P . in the chair. Th e minutes of the several weekly board meetings recorded the bequests of various legacies, and of the presentation to the Museum by Mr. Jacob Bell o f the specimen s ex hibi ted by him at the Great Exhibition. The income of the charity for the first year w eixtil i libits a fall ing-off to the am ount of COOL, compared that of the year before, and has been exceeded by the expenditure t to the extent of upwards of 2,0001. Several thous:lml are patients were relieved in the course of the year, and 256 are at pre sent in the hospita'. The report having been adopted a vote of thanks was passed to the Marquis of Westminster, as Lord Steward, for a present of three large sacks of waste liner , f ro m the Palace for the use of the hospital. The govern ing officers for the ensuing year were then appointed, after w hich, on the metion of the Hon. Admiral Percy, the thanks of the court were given to the chairman, and the business of the day terminated. Manx fisherman lately sold some Lancasbire ending them that they Were 111411 X mountai n t rout . . co tt on -spinners a quantity of dog fish, at la rge pr i ces, per- LONDON, EVENING, GREAT FLOODS IN YORKSHIRE AND LANCASHIRE]. SEVENTY LIVES LOST 1 HOLMFIRTEI, THURSDAY.— lioluafirth,. a vpuh?ns locality in the Vir est Rid ing of Yo-hshire, situated a few miles from the tow n o f fl uddersfiAl, has this nay been the scene of one of the most terrific catastrophes we hays ever had to record, caused by the bursting of what is called the Bilberry. Reservoir. This reservoir is situated in a part of the locality above the village of Holmtirth, to answer as a feeder to the mills, &c., of the district. By the recent heavy rains (which caused an unusual pressure of water upon it) it burst this morning so early as two o'clock. The rush of water was tremendous; and the current, which flowed resistlessly upon the village below, caused appalling devastation and destruc tion of human life. Whole rows of houses (one row alone having fifty-four persons in it) were carried away levelled with the ground. A roused by such a terrible by t visitation,hew iatteirs; and mills an d warehouses were a l so impossible to describe the horror and consternation of the inhabitants who had escaped the wreck around them. The streets were literally block aded with the ruins of houses, warehouses, &e. The missing inmates of the destroyed houses (most of whom had been no doubt sent into eternity while asleep, un conscious of the instrument of their destruction) were the first objects of solitude and search. Body after body was recovered, and within a few hours no less than sixty were found dead. A t the time of writing, how ever,it is impossible to gi ve anything approximating to a lull description of the calamity, or an estimate of the number of dead. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. HUDDERSFIELD, THURSDAy. This morning dreadful occurrence, attended • witha most • a fearful loss of life and destruction of property, h appened in the Holmfirth Valley, about six mile s south of this t w Holmfirth is situated at the foot o f a range of hills . which a portion of what is t ermed the " Backboneof om Eng land." The valley bet ween that village and Hudders field is studded with woo ll en mills, advantagehaving which been taken of the many excellent sites the rapid r fall of water from the hill s to the lowland Upon the many streamlets which flow from presents. the hills above Holmfirth the same ch aracteristic is presented, and the several valleys and hill-sides teem with a busy and enterprising population, a Very considerable por tion of the woollen cloths for which the West Riding is so celebrated being manufactured in this locality. As iu summer time the mills often h a d to stand for want of water, there being but little from the hills in dry wea ther, but more than enough in w et, a company was formed some years fa g% and a namber of gentlemen were incorporated by Act of Parliament, and em powered to construct large reservoirs for the storage of water in winter, to be let down the rivulets in summer, as it might be required for the use of the mills, power being also given to rate the several mill properties for the benefits thus conferred. Amongst others the Holmfirth Reservoir Commissioners con structed a reservoir called the Bilberry Reservoir, si tuated about three miles and a half above Holmfirth, to the south-west. During the last week there have been very continuous falls of rain, and the water has over flowed the embankment of the reservoir f or several days. Indeed, f e a rs were prev i ou sly entert a i ne d of its safety that i n by parti es w h o res id e d near to it, an d who were aware t , h ad Wednesdayevbeen er was a day of incess ant rain; and accounted as a w or k of first-rate the rivulets and s t reams i n the neighbourh ood were much swollen, A of bo th u t t s o l n ar e g t e hi r s es m er o v r a n i i r ng w ( a T s (Thursday) a ay) the em bankmentway, and an immense volume of water thereby suddenly liberated. The torrent rushed onwards with devastating force ; some mills were swept down—others were gutted--ma chinery and materials, both wrought and unwrought, being either rendered worthless or carried away by t h e flood. Dwellings shared the same fate. With a sudden ness that r en d ere d a ll a l arm i m possibl e , t h e buildings with their sleeping inmates were swept along the engulph ing torrent. At Holmfirth a whole street of houses was thus carried away, with their inhabitants, to the number of sixty souls. Hundreds of other dwellings were flooded, and the escape of many of the inmates from death has been most miraculous. The destruction of property has been enormous. The stocks of the shopkeepers who lined the streets on each side of the Flolme are wholly destroyed, or damaged so as to be all but worthless. The furniture and clothing of private dwelling-houses are also destroyed. One of the most beautiful valleys in the world has been rendered a scene of awful devastation! Bridges have been carried away, and large steam-engine boilers lifted from their seats, and borne along by the overwhelming torrent for miles, and then left in the fields. Trees torn up, and the soil leashed away from the lands adjoining the course of the main stream. But more awful still, more than seventy lives have been lost! At the time we write it is impos sible to tell the exact number, or even to approximate to it correctly. Whole families are swept away, and there are none left to tell the number. Upwards of fifty bodies have been recovered. They are deposited at the several public-houses along the line of devastation ; and the mangled appearance of many testify to the force of the torrent which had swept them before it. It is im possible in this hasty account to particularise; bat it may be stated that millowners, shopkeepers, and work people have met with a common fate. The calamity is a most frightful one, likely to be the ruin of one of the most spirited of our manufacturing districts. All classes will suffsr—tbe manufacturers from the loss of mills, me chinery, and materials —the shopkeepers from the loss of stock, and the operatives from the loss of employment. Some of the bodies recovered were found fourteen miles from the place where the reservoir (the cause of this awful havoc) was situate. Preparations are being made for holding an inqtest on the bodies already re covered. MANCHESTER, THUR SDAY .— A flood, happily unat tended with a n y very ser i ous consequences, occurred at Manchester, on W e d nesday, through the over flowing of th e r i ver I rwell, and the two brooks, which a are t known l y as a the riversvvth morning, and the addition madAleee throughout the day from a very early •d i n the to period in the e to the rive and its xd exceeding e c d k t D a g g n r ei n o r r k p sRn in o'clock Rain tributary rivulets seems to have deed. The Irwell commenced been avery great o'clock in the morning, and its riseerifsin- about . a was regular and rapid until about seven !elm h tha d t tima one hour it is known to have gained an additionOno'clock; 'of during one yard to its level, and nearly as much periods. at other _ By four o'clock the Irwell had overflowed its banks and laid the whole of the fields in Lower (which, Broughton (w as the name implies, is low land) under water, and by half-past four there were two rows of houses re, the s. people, standing near to Broughtousl • 'midst of of an immense sheet of water, u wind that was blowing, and forcedi upheaved by a . tr a u a l into a rough tempest-tossed lake. About the EaMedlock same time the broke over its banks and submerged all th e quarter of the town adjacent to Oxford-stre Little Ireland (from the fact that a col_ Tt, known g as of Irish had isted there for a long time), and the filled ele with en time was standing four feet deep i inhabitants, many of whom had ton the houses of the he utmost precipitancy t o avoid rush up stairs In Broughton the inbabitanta of the ho a drenching. the water in a a s . ho ‘ rt any were View were in the same Predicament e s deptha t Broughton of obliged to leave carpets and othe ar i d ma of r costly articles (urniture covered with water to five or six feel geh r t a °'ll ;o li a lt t l , e with lv wchailci,ehdhteo the ---- Mr. Beswick, chief superintendent of police, of Man intheßur°seti pro ceeded to the houses to remove those who desired it to safer quarters, and to assure those who had more nerve that they would not ba injured. p ro , one row, which was not considered a safe pile of buildings, thirty per .? of o e t s , t e a r n , d w p h r o o c l i u v r e e s d sons were removed. The -. eatne care was extended to Little Ireland by Mr. Taylor, superind of the D 1 division, who procured a boat, and retenndered ent assistance to those who desired it. Th® inhabitants themselves, also obtained a coal - barge, and . used it for the removal of fanailiee, furniture, and ltve stuck, such as pigs, of which there is a large number kept in the vicinity. The water got into the lower portion s of many m ill s situate on the banks of the Irwell, d an genera he 11 ms bin er y suc- biler 6 ceeded in putting out t te a) and so stopping the y; but in none has o any greater i damage than the one case where a g loss of time been sustained, ex cept - n sadden irruption of water int o a patent candle manu• factory destroy is ed a sod deal of mate rial in course of preparation, and it thought that a los s o f 100 1 . w ill be incurred. Two poor men n amed B arie _ Y and Addey, who let out boats for hire on the Irwell, have had their sheds on the banks of that river washed awa— y and seve ral of their boats destroyed. Barley calculates his loss at 40Z., in boats, and them. The water continued to rise until about half past seven o'clock, when it continued 'Or s ome tine to flow equally and with great velocity towards Liverpool, and then commenced falling. There has flood of equal m agn it u d e in Manchester foreat been a t lea s t a dozen years. Tidings reached Manchester yesterday that a reservoir of great length and breadth, in the Holmfirth valley, near Huddersfield, burst its anks o n b Wednesday night, an d was h e d awa y a large min a house, leaving scar ce ly a ves ti ge o f th em standing an ; a d nd that in the village of Holmflrth itself there was great is computed at above 20,0001. devastation, beside s severa l li ves l os t. The d - aruage done NO iltje r R e E n li c e ll s _AS l T v E e ß s N tat C ed Oil a N f T ew lE d S ay A s N s D ina G e ß th E a A t TZ between these companies had been amicably arran ge d , learn that by the arrangement the Eastern Counties ter • We RA I :L a :AY E S. becomes intact. The Great Northern Company, as a nicer sary consequence, ceases to run trains between PetelZe. rough and Wisbeach. The other traffic arrangements °.em brace details which we are not yet enabled to give to th public, but they tend to develop the resources of the twt! lines and to prevent that competition which could re su l t only in comparative ruin to both. The Eastern Counti es c erh - .. - tany have now simply to construct the Harwich br,nch to afford them the means of fully developing, without competi tion, the resources of their important district. It is pre sumed that the arrangement secures the East Anglian lease to the Eastern Counties Company. A man named Masque, condemned to death in October last by the Court of Assizes of the Landes, for m ar _ der, was executed fur days ago at Arjuzaux, the pla ce in which the crime was committed. After his condemnation he was confined in the prison of Mont-de-Marsan. On being told that his last day had arrived, he complained that no notice had been given him of the time of his execution, and proceeded to dress himself with great care. He partook of breakfast, and drank several glasses of wine. The commie. sary of police solemnly asked him if he acknowledg e d h is guilt, but he answered "No." He was then conveyed to A.rjuzaux, accompanied by a pries, who gave hi m every consolation. He requested food, which was supplied. B e then demanded to be allowed to live two hours longer, but was told that could not be granted. He walked firmly to the scaffold, _engaged in prayer, kissed the crucifix, and ex. hotted the crowd to take warning from his fate. He then gave himself into the hands of the executioner, and a mo ment after his head fell.— Galignani. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TA UTErtsALL'S—YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 12 to 1 egst LI Gazza Ladris 20 ti 1 agst Chieftain 20 to 1 agst Cogia The above bets wore taken to 101. each. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 15 to 1 egst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg-- taken and afterwards offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Miss Ann—taken and afterwards offered CHESTER CUP. 18 to 1 agst Mr. S. Stanley's Confessor—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Martinson's Nancy—taken and after wards d 20 to 1 agst Mr.J. Pilling's High Sheriff 33 to 1 agst Mr. Parkinson's Grand Duke 33 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Ringleader 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken 40 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg—take 50 to 1 40 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus —take 50 to 1 50 to 1 agst Lord Wilton's Lady Evelvn—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Cooke's c out of Due-an-Darras's dam—taken 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Gooch's Surprise—taken 1,000 to 15 eget Mr. Farrance's Cardinal Wiseman —t. Confessor was backed freely in the first instance at 20 to 1, and finally at 18 to 1. The outlay on the other horses quoted was inconsiderable, and the prices, with the exception of Nancy, who was less in favour, and High Sheriff, very nearly the same as on Monday. DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Hobble Noble—taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—taken and after wards offered 14 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio—taken and after wards offered 14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Claverhouse—taken and afterwards offered 16 to 1 agst Lord Ribblesdale's Lapidist 20 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Alfred the Great—taken 20 to 1 egst Sir R. Pigot's Filius. A considerable outlay on Lapidist, resulting in an im provement of four points, was the principal feature of the betting on the above event. Augur, Orelio, Clever house, and Alfred the Great, were backed to some amount, but without leading to any noticeable change in the quotationE. OAKS. 175 to 25 agst the Duke of Richmond's Red Hind (t). THE CHESTER CUP ACCEPTANCES. We are authorised to state that Herbert was left in by mistake. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1852. Acceptances for the City and Suburban Handicap. Aphrodi4 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 51b— Prime Minister, 4 yrs, Bst 3 1b—Bordeaux, 5 yrs, Bst llb —The Italian, 5 yrs, 7st 111b—Tho rn hill, 6 yrs, 7st 111 b —Merry Peal 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Hungerford, 4 yrs, 7st 61b —Guy Mannering, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Ianthe, 4 yrs, 7st 61b —Jack-in-the-Corner, aged, Est 13 1 b—Kilmeney (late Lily), 4 yrs, 6st 81b—Edward of York, 4 yrs, Est 81b— Diligence, 5 yrs, Est 81b—Lucio, 3 yrs, Est—Odessus, 3 yrs, sst 131 b—B cby Cotherstone, out of the Wry neck, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Mary Ann, 3 yrs, sst 71b—The Brahim, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Sir Charles Napier, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Greengage, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Julien, 3 yrs, sst 21b—B f by Lanercost, out of Cytherea, 3 yrs, sst Lady Isabel, 3 yrs, sst—Flounce, 3 yrs, 4st 1 llb—Mer lin, 3 yrs, 4st 10Ib—Butterfly, 3 yrs, 4st 71b—Snarry, 3 yrs, 4st 51b—Surprise, 3 yrs, 4st 51b. The rest pay 5 soya each. The highest weight accepting being Bst 61b, it was raised to that weight, and the others in proportion. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Worcestershire lads., Mon. Ombersley; — Wed. Ply. mouth Arms, 'Jewell; Fri. Coventry Arms (High. green)--710i, Beivford;hire hds., Tues. Whitfield-10f. Warwickshire lids., Mon. Hampton Coppice; Tues. Milford-bridge; Thurs. Lower Shuckburgh; Fri. Upton House. Shropshire lids., Mon. Ercall Mill; Thurs. Worthen .10i. Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon. Boulter's Barn; Wed. Wilcote; Fri. Bourton-bridge; Sat. Dean Cross-roads —lOl. Wriestland hds., Wed. Hay-gate-10. Ludlow hds., Tues. Bircher-common; Fri. Cookridge coppice-10i. Ledbury hds., Mon. Perryatone; Fri. Edwin's-wood Upton-on-Severn harre., Tues. Northend-green. Mr. Conyer'a hds., Tues. Old Sampford-11. Crawley and Horsham lids., Mon. Silgate Ledge; Wed. Nuthurst Village; Fri. Balcombe Mr. Lushington's hds., Tues. Ringleston; Fri. Stone Stile Farm -11. Monmouthshire Mon. Penissa Pluid Toll Bar; Tri. Skenfrith Bridge-10i. Mr. Lee Steere's lids., Mon. Plaistow Village; Thurs. Newbridge House—i 1. N. W. H. lids., Tues., Rod Lodge; Thurs. Stanton Park; Sat. Brighton harrs., Mon. Patcham; Wed. Race Course; Sat. Duke--10:;. Brookside harm, Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs. Telscombe Tye-10i. Southdown lids., Mon. Polegate-10i. THE ARMY. The 52d and 633, at Limerick, are picking up lots of recruits. The 3d Buffi depot beat up for recruits in the town of Boyle on Saturday, and they have reduced the stand ard height to 5 feet 6i inches. Last Baturday the 81st enlisted 15 young men at Bor risoleigh, who proceeded to Templemore. The 6th depot at Nenagh has enlisted a number of able young paupers from the union workhouse. Several young men employed in the Waterford and Limerick Railway Extension works have enlisted in the , 89th Regiment, at Clonmel. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Right Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., commences his levees for the sea son on Tuesday, the 10th inst., and every subsequent Tuesday, when Sir Francis will grant interviews to thirty officers. Rear Admiral Prescott, C.B. , went out to Spi t h ea d with the gentlemen f rom the ay Office, in the Ports mouth, yacht, and paid the Retribution, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, s i x months ' pay. Assistant Surgeon—Dr. F. C. Sibbald (1846) has been appointed to the Tyne, store-ship, at Wool w i c h . Barracouta, steam-sloop, at Chatham, is fitting as an advance steamer of the first division at Sheerness. Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Be'grave, having had her compasses adjusted, and taken in her powder and live shells in harbour, went out and anchored at Spithead on Tuesday evening. She will sail on the 7th instant, for the Cape, as we have before stated. Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C. 8., has Commenced entering men, to fill up to her sea-going complement, 820. DOCKYARD.—The following change. have t a k en place consequent on the death of Mr. Richard Passley, fore man of the ropemakers at Chatham:—Mr. John T. Taylor, foreman of ropemakers at Devonport, has been transferred as foreman to Chatham. Mr. W. Snook, layer at Portsmouth, to be foreman at Devonport, vice Taylor. John Johnson, leading man at Chatham, to be layer at Portsmouth, vice Snook. W. A. Flood, acting leading man, to be leading man, vice Johnson. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—We had a most severe gale of wind last night, with heavy squalls. The ships at Spithead, consisting of the Britannia, the Retribution, the Fury, and the American packet Ocean Queen, all rode safely, with topgallantmasts on deck and yards braced to the wind. At the meeting of the Portsmouth town council held this week, a proposal was made by Mr. Child; and se conded by Mr. Vendenbergh, that the thanks of the council be presented to Vice-Admiral Le Blanc, Port- Admiral of Brest, for having so promptly sent out a steamer, unsolicited, to endeavour to rescue the survi vors of the ill-fated steam-packet Amazon. The motion was carried by acclamation, and the sentiments of the council were ordered to be engrossEd on vellum and emblaz ined for presentation to the gallant French chief. The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, was to have been paid advance to-day, but the very foul state of the weather has prevented Rear-Admiral Prescott and the officers of the Pay-department from going off to Spit head to perform the duty. It is expected Rear-Admiral Dundas will hoist his flag on board of her on Saturday, and sail the same or the following day for the Mediter ranean. PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—A rumour is strongly sup ported in military circles here that Lieutenant-General Viscount Hardiuge, G.C.8., will be appointed to com mand-in-3hief the south-western and home districts, a Major-General being stationed in this garrison. We give the report as we have received it. Woo'mica, FEB. s.—Commander Charles G. Phillips (1848), at present studying steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard, and who accompanied Sir John Ross in the Felix on his searching expedition in the Arctic regions in 1850 and 1851, has again volunteered to proceed in any future expedition in which his services may be approved of by the Admiralty. FEBRUARY 6, 1852. the 20th Novembcr, 1851, as per receipt from National Debt Office, signed by Sir A. Spearman, Bart., and laid before the n the hands of the actuary THE ENGLISH PRESS. F .(o y ro r in em t a h r e ke 7 d 'an w e i s t2 considerable cm- The Earl of Dei phasis in his speech on the Address, that as in these days the English press aspires to share the influence of statesmen, so also it must share in the responsibilities of statesmen. If the first of these propositions be estab lished, the second follows as matter of course; and wa, of all men, are the least disposed to lower the proper functions or to deny the responsibilities of th© power we may derive from the confidence of the ['Wolfe. But be that power m o re or loss, we cannot admit that its main purpose is to share the Mows of statesmanship, or that it is bound by the same limitations, the same duties, the same liabilities as that of the Ministers of the Crowr. Tho purposes and the duties of the two powers aro constantly separate, generally indepeedent, som e _ times diametrically opposite. The dignity and the freedom of the press are trammelled from the moment it accepts an ancillary position. To perform its duties with entire independence, and consequently with the utmost public advantage, the press can enter into no close or binding alliances with the statesmen of the day, nor can it surrender its permanent interests to the convenience of the ephemeral power of any Go vernment. The first duty of the press is to obtain the earliest and most correct intelligence of the events of the time, and instantly, by disclosing them, to make them the common property of the nation. The statesman collects his in formation secretly and by secret means; he keeps back even the current intelligence of the day with ludicrous precautions, until diplomacy is beaten in the race with publicity. The press lives by disclosures; whatever passes i nto i ts keeping becomes a part of theknowledge and the history of our times; it is daily and for ever ap pealing t o t h e enlightened force of public opinion—an tpc o i P n 4 i h n e r e ' e f a P c o h s s b i b e t l e the t h e marchpresent or a ' n e d v e the nt f — u t s u t r a e n d a i d g extending its survey to the horizon of the world. 'The statesman's duty is precisely the reverse. He cautiously guards from the public eye the information by which his 'actions and opinions are regulated; he reserves his judgment on passing events till the latest moment, and then he records it in obscure or conventional language; he strictly confines himself, if he be wise, to the practi cal interests of his own country, or to those bearing im mediately upon it; he hazards no rash surmises as to the future; and he concentrates in his own transactions all that power which the press seeks to diffuse over the world. The duty of the one is to speak—of the other to be silent. The one expends itself in discussion—th e other tends to action. The one deals mainly with rights and interests—the other with opinions and sentiments. The former is necessarily reserved—the latter essen tially free. It follows, therefore, from this contrast, that the re sponsibilities of the two powers are as much at variance as their duties. For us, with whom publicity and truth are the air and light of existence, there can be no greater disgrace than to recoil from the frank and accurate disclosure of facts as they are. We are bound to tell the truth as we find it, without fear of consequences— to lend no convenient shelter to acts of injustice and oppression, but to consign them at once to the judgment of the world. Statesmen, it is said, have duties of a nicer order; they are bound to repress the throb of in dignation which will rise at the sight of evils and op presions they cannot avenge; they are prone to pursue particular objects rather than to pledge themselves to general principles; they are forbidden to risk for an in stunt the important interests confided to their care; and, though the support of public opinion is essential to their success, it is only by rem and occasional efforts that they can attempt to guide it. If the public writer shares in any degree the influence of the statesmen, he shares at least few of those per sonal objects which constitute so large a part of ordi nary statesmanship. He is not toiling or sacrificing the best years of his life and the best faculties of his nature in the pursuit of personal aggrandizement, for none can either reward or corrupt the obscure course of his labours. Even the triumph of his opinions is not accompanied by the applause of a party or the success of a struggle for patronage and power. Those opinions which he has defended, and, so to speak, created, slip from him in the moment of their triumph, and take their stand among established truths. The responsibility he really shares is more nearly akin to that of the econo mist or the lawyer, whose province is not to frame a system of convenient application to the exigencies of the day, but to investigate truth and to apply it on fixed principles to the affairs of the world. The responsibility we acknowledge has therefore little in common with that of statesmen, for it is esti mated by a totally different standard of rectitude and duty. Of all professions statesmanship is that in which the greatest laxity of practice is tolerated by the usages of society. Concealment, evasion, factious cembina lions, the surrender of convictions to party objects, and the systematic pursuit of expediency, are things of daily occurrence among men of the highest character once embarked in the contention of political life. We know not if these be useful or essential parts of statesman ship, and we more than suspect that Lord, Grey would confess by his own experience that they are not so. But we know that they aro absolutely destructive to the credit, the power, and the success of a public writer; and he who would traffic with his pen on such terms had better take refuge at once among those mercenary hacks who court the favours of every successive Govern ment. Of all journals, and of all writers, those will obtain the largest measure of public support who have told the truth most constantly and most fearlessly. Again, the eyes of a Minister are rivetted upon the interests of his own country, and his duties can scarcely be said to extend beyond it. The press owes its first duty to the national interests which it represents, but nothing is indifferent to it which affects the cause of civilization throughout the world. The press of Eng land, standing, as it now does, alone in the enjoyment of entire freedom, would grievously neglect its exalted pri vileges if it failed to recollect how much is due to the common interests of Europe. It may suit the purposes of statesmen to veil the statute of Liberty, and to mut ter some formulary of disiegenuous acquiescence in foreign wrongs, dictated by their fears rather than by their convictions; but we prefer to await for our justi fication the day when the entombed and oppressed li berties of Europe shall once more start into life, and array themselves under the standard to which we cling. For to what, after all, are the statesmen of Eng land to look for strength and national power, if injuries and offences rise against us, but to the enlightened re solution of the people of England to uphold the princi ciples on which our own polity and independence are founded? Far from thinking that language of too great energy and effect has been employed to convey to our countrymen a true and just impression of the political condition of the great nation which exists within a few miles of our own coasts, we fear that this sudden change in the state of France is still but imperfectly under stood in all its formidable coast quences to Europe, and possibly to ourselves. It is th e unquestionable duty of Miuisters to watch over the maintenance of our pacific relations with other States, and to dis alias all that might be erroneously construed into hostile intentions on our part, while they provide effi ciently for the independence and security of Britain against all contingencies. But it seems to us the first duty of public writers is to take care that the people of England are not lulled into indifference to the destruc tion of liberty and the violation of political rights in such a country as France, since that liberty and those rights wore the chief ph dges of our pacific relations and our common interests. It is our duty to point out danger, however remote, whether it consist in the uncertain policy of a neighbouring State, or in our own disarmed condition ; and a far heavier weight of responsibility than we now bear might be laid to our charge if we had neglected to describe the late occurrences in France in their true colours, or if we had affected to acquiesce, from a shortsighted and mistaken policy, in a revolution which call, for th e u t most vig i lance on the part of this country and of the rest of Europe. ST. MARYLEBONE BANK FOR SAVINGS, No. 7G, WELBECK-STREET, CAVENDISH...SQUARE. - The twenty second annual general meeting of this institution was held on Thursday, the sth of this month, at the office, No. 76, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square; the Rev. John Rums Spry, D. D., in the chair. It appeared from the several reports read to the meeting that the progress of the bank during the past year had been of a satisfactory description ; no less than 2,526 new deposits having been made in the last year. 22,176 deposit accounts remained open on the 20th November last, of which 16,859 held balances averaging l ess than 31. Os. sd. each. The sum in the bands of the Government on meeting was ••.£344,034 3 5 n the bands of the , treasurer, Sir Cl au d e Edward Scott, Bart., whose acknowledg ment was likewise produced ... 1,750 0 1 ... 29 9 8 The balance due to depositors at th at date *: 345 ,813 13 2 as per balance-sheets produced ... 344,980 8 0 . _ .---_______ Surplus ... . 5 2 The balance due to depositors has .. since B risen to 350,5541. - Os. 7d. The advices from New York firmness by the escribe increasing ease in th e money market, and Atlantic much in all descriptions of securities. For money'at call t h e highest rates now obtainable were from 5 to 6 per cent. The message of the Governor of Virginia had been received. It showed the debt of that State to be 11,921,038, dolls., which, under the existing sinking fund, will be liquidated in the course of thirty-three years. , ,t,a B message of G overnor Lowe states the From debt atMaryland 15,29(Au0. dolls., red eemable at different various periods up to 0 After paying the interest on this, the receipts for h t e h s e e pa r s . , year exhibit a surplus of 420,954 dolls. Under these °' fund cumstances, and looking at the fact that the , si 9 n of the State, which has now reached 2 , 253 0 1 increasing in a ratio beyond the amounts of This reduction I here after to be paid off, the Governor recommends a reduction of 20 per cent, from the existing property-tax. to the extent of d 6 eh d t olls., will affect the receipts of the coming y 149,341 dolls., but allowing for circumstance,that e mates present an excess of 222,106 dolls. taken place among later from California. Some failures havegot app ar,here was the e s nothing;t i- , apparently they were the cotton dealers at New Orleans, latest accounts from the not of much importance. n a u ti a o rL , ry at ha N n Vh d ic f h or d t a h t ee 1 Mexican frontier were to th T e h a 6t Caravajal was again colleting attempt upon Matamoros. From alleged purpose of another that city having been recent local disturbances Mexico there was no add ia itional news, but the fact of the immedi ately suppressed was confirmed. sA revolutionary v j o a l LS FOR THE CITY OF LONDON. INCOME-TAN A given notice that they will meet on Wednes day, above Act, have —The Commissioners for General Purposes, acting under the k in the forenoon, for the purpose of hearing I at eleven o'clock appeals under Schedules A and B of the and determining appeals all persons who shall think themselves ag grieved the 18th inst., at said Act, from grieved by a here with respect of lands, tenements, a . . 0 of --, the assessment made by the assessors for the said parish of • e a notice and who have delivered in a written such their intention to the Surveyor of Tax e she ci ty will be dis trict. The different parishes throughout t 4ken alphabetically, ditanlencS, for the PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, FEB. 5. The following:Railway Bills were ordered to be brought in: Chester and Holyhead. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 1). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. 2). Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction. The undernamed Railway Bills were presented, read a first, and ordered to be read a second time: — London and North-Western. Blyth and Tyne. Bristol and Exeter (Yeovil Branch). London, Tilbury, and Southend. London and North-Western and Buckinghamshire. Shrewsbury and Chester. Monmouthshire Railway and Canal. Dundalk and Enniskillen. Edinburgh and Glasgow. Vale of Neath. Midland Great Western of Ireland. • — •The UnnUfkl LIVERPOOL UNION .5.,4,14 • met tin of the proprietors was g h e ld yesterday, at the Clarendon rooms ; M i r. J. A. Turner n the_ chair. The report showed that, in addition to a dividend of 6 per cent. paid t o the pro prietors, a much larger amount bad been realised. The old debt account bad been written off in full, whilst a surplus of 14,7001. 12s. 6d. had been carried over, making a valid surplus of 56,52 61 . 3s. 6.1. The report was adopted, the chairman congratulating the proprietozs on the favourable position of affairs. at A cerin tor a by t3 Early on Saturday morn ing, stander rushed into a burning house for the purpose of saving some children whom he erroneously Su in the building , an d wa s unable to retu rn , supposed were When the fire was extiaguiaaed l romaine were fotlad burnt to ciaderz, FR IDA Y FURTHER DISCOVERIES OF GOLD. By the ship Phcealcian, which has arrived from Syd ney in eighty-four days (the quickest passage ev er made), we have six weeks later dates from New Seutla Wales, giving accounts of further discoveries of g old in various parts of the colony, and disclosing the most wonderful results to the diggers. It may be remembered that the first discoveries w•-re at Ophir end the Turon riser, in the Bathurst district, about 150 miles north west of Sydney. The last discoveries are at Brai dwood, about 200 miles south from Sydney; and, from private letters, it appears that these diggings are likely to sur pass all that have yet been tried in any part of Port Philp or New Santh Wales. The amount of gold re calved in Sydney is now about 17,0001. per week. The total value of gold shipped from S3dcey amounted to 218,9471. 6s. 3d. ; the pree was 635. per oz. Bills on London, drawn against gold, 6 per cent. discount. 1 A large number of diggers left town per Shamrock steamer on Saturday last, with the intention of landing at Broaler (about 200 miles south of Sydney) and pro ceeding from thence to the Aralune and Braidwood dig gings. Oar intelligence from that quarter is more en couraging than ever, and success seems to be more cer tain than either at the Turon or Ophir, and many mines are doing exceedingly well. Forty licences have when The the Tn y r o r n e a haseh t b h e e e a bottom. mo fort oh been t a k en out for a waterhole which has been partly drained, an d the proprietors anticipate golden results e th i a m n p o o r s d si in bi a l r i i ty ly o q f u w ie o t r s k i i n n c g e our last iu consequence the river from expeuay hs usrrtieentnoualeladmteounnhyea Sabbath therains. t last sn r At tents. which tremendousAt t Ophircaused c m soto a lar t s t mi e d r e s wr c aa o bs n le tinue . Tenders have been invited for the Waterhole at the junction of Lewis Ponds and Snmmeshill Creeks, and an application has been made for one lower down. The escort brought down from Ophir 133 ounces, Bathurst 173 ounces, and Sofala 3,70] ounces; Gundagai 160 ounces, Braidwood 240 ounces, n value 17, and 7901. 1 Mudgesos 142 ounces: in a l l, 5,474 ounces, or i. The price remained firm at 545. to 645. 6d. up to Thursday, when it suddenly rose to 655., at which large quantities were purchased by a mercantile house desi rous of remitting 10,0001. by a vessel which sails on Tuesday next, and, consequently, before another escort can come in. It was necessary, therefore, to make a push to accomplish that object, and miners and dealers must not be disappointed to find the price fall as sud denly as it rose immediately after that vessel's depar ture, as nothing but the fact of 10,000/. being in the market could have raised the price from 635. 6d., with exchange at 5 per cent., to 65e. with exchange at 6 per cent. The tender for Government gold was accepted at a fraction over 655. Total gold shipped to this date 218,9404 6s. 3d. Exchange on London drafts against gold, 6 per cent. discount; freight, f per cent. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, FEB. 5. The following were the additions to the Royal dinner party yesterday :—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kett, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Ba roness de Speth, Lord Cowley, Lord Portman, and the Hon. Mrs. Grey. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and performed the following selection : Overture, " B rasseur d e Preston" ... Adam. riumanze, " Es. sass e i n M aegdlein " from the opera of " Casilda Ernest,Duke of Styrer-Landler Sagew-oCdoa.bourg. Recit. and N ac h t i ga ll en Duett, " Es war die Nachtigall die sang" (Casilda) ..- •.. Ernest,Duke of Saxe-Cobourg. Ernest,Duke of Saxe-Coou. Her Majesty's pri va t e b an d attended afterwards b in the evening, and performed the following compositions: — Overture, "Le Serment" Auber. Solo, Violin, M. Sainton, " Le Carnaval de Venise" Paganini. Scherzo Notturno, "Midsummer Night's Dream"... ... Mend e l sso h n. Selection. Ballet, " Stradella" Flotow. The Queen walked in the Home Park and Slopes this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Royal children took walking and pony exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this forenoon, attended by Li eu t enan t-C o l one l the Honourable A. Gordon. The Marquis of Westminster, Lord Steward of the Household, arrived from London this forenoon at the Castle, and had an audience of the Queen, to present the address of the House of Lords in answer to her Majesty' s Speech on the oc cas i on of opening Parliament. Lord Marcus Hill, the Treasurer of the Household, also ar rived from London and had an audience of her Majesty, to present the Address from the House of Commons iu answer to the Speech from the Throne on the opening of the present session of Parliament. The Queen was attended by Lord Waterpsrk, Lord in Waiting. Invitations have been received by the following per songes who are expected to arrive at the Castle to day:— Ballet from the opera " Casilda" The Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Anglesey, the Earl and Couatess of Min'o, Viscount and Viscoun tess Mahon. Lord and Lady Ashburton, Lord Broughton, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. Lord Cowley left the Castle this afternoon. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. His Excel lency had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry La bouchero yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Abbott Lawrence, the American Minister, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial office. Mr. Osborne had an interview with Lord John R ussell on Wed nesch . ty, at hisofil cid residence i n D own i ng - stree t. A deputation, consisting of Lord Stradbrolie Sir Ed ward Gooch, Bart., M.P., Mr. .Adair, my., ' and Mr. Pete, ALE, had an interview with Si r G eorge Grey yesterdayyesterday, at the Home - office, on the subjot of equa lising the county rates of the county of Suffolk. Major-General the Hor. George Cathcart, Gov ernor with of the Earl C ap G e r o e f y. . Good li r. cri Hope, pp s h h a a d d an also interview a n interview yes terday with the Noble Earl, at the Colonial-office. Mr. Rumbola, M. 1 )., had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere. Mr. had aninterview yesterday with Dispatches were received from the Governor of New Sir Geo lll rg ° e st3. G .n r ' e M y; P ' South Wales yesterday, at the Colonial-office. REWARDS Fog SAVING LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK. Yesterday, Ellice National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Ship wreck John - Greet, Yesterday, a meeting of the general committee of the Royal president of the society, the Duke of Northumberland i n Ithi, the . w as held the chair, supported by • of ral the Coast Gue , R.N. (comptroller-generd); Captain t 'n M'llar ' A ashiogton, Re'L'iT ; al)a C l ul uh d ,'9, I LN• Captain je i riingnam, R.N. ; Colonel t . q oun, eiees.. ; Captain In gletield, R.N. ; Ceptain Perrot , Captaina Ward, le.N. - ; Cap tain Preston, Mr. Edward Hurryd Mr. W. S. Ater la 11 Tne minutes of the previous meeting having been " ''' a read by the secretary, Mr. Lewis, a reward of 11/. sees voted to the of the Holyheae - boat, in c ' crew d life-boat, onsideration of their dahlc and persevering exertions i n • very lau saving the whole of the passengers (43) of the Town of Wexford which was wrecked in Holyhead Ba 3• 0 exford steamer, l ast. The silver medal of the institu.tio n the 4th January presented to commissioned-boatman James was ordered to be Dunbar Coast-guard Station, in ernes Brown, of the conduct in having twice, at the appreciation of his gallant the sea to save the master and peril of his life, jumped it schooaer Susan, of Frazerbur h one of the crew of the recent occasion on the Yell g ' which was wrecked on a remainder of the crew having Carr. Pont, been rescued from their perilous coast-guard, wh o line, by other men belonging to the were medal of the society rewarded with a grant of 5/. The Wil liam itancliffe coxswain was also voted to be presentel to WU was stated to fiave assisted, of the Southport life-boat, who in saving 90 persons during the past seventeen years, services of poor ns from shipwreck. The praiseworthy themselves in Irish boatmen, who had laudably exerted fro . saving two persons who had been capsized In a boat in Rutland Basweeks since, were rewarded with e i i, county rb of Donegal, a f f t e b w auksof the institution was resolved to be p e re s s p e e n c t i e a d l l ' o ot s e ev o eral officers and gentlemen who had creditabl exer ted themselves in assisting t o save their fello w-creatu y res from a watery grave through shipwreck. TRANSFER BOW:CF.—Notice was issued yesterday , at the Bank of England, that the transfer books for the un permentioned annuities, due the sth day of April next, will be closed and opened on the following days, viz. —Bank Stock, from Thursday the 11th of March, until Thurs ' day the 15th of April ; Three• and - a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities, from Friday the 12th of March, until Friday the 16th of April; Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities, from Thursday the 11th of March, until , Thursday the 15th of April; Long Annuities. from Thursday the 11th of March, until Thursday the 15th of April; An nuities for Terms of Years, from Thursday the 11th of March, until Thursday the 15th of April. East India House.—The 1 transfer books for East India Stock will be shut on Thursday 1 the 4th of March next.' at 3 P.M., until Thursday the 15th of April following. South Sea House.—The transfer books for South Sea Annuities will be closed from Thursday the 11th of March, until Thursday the 15th of April next. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN 13LACKFRIARs-AOAD.—At h a lf past five, o'clock yesterday morning a fire broke out upon the premises of Mr. Joseph A. Addison, known as the Broadwall Steam Saw Mills, situate at 114, Broadwall, Stamford-street, Bl ac kfriars-road. Several e ngines were speedily upon the spot, and a ready supply ee water easily procured; but from the inflammable nature of the materials, and the hold which the conflagration had attained upon a large mass of sawn deals, the f i reme n at once saw that the best plan would be for them to endeavour to confine the flames, if possible, within the building, and prevent the adjoining houses from being affected, in which, by great exertions, they succeeded. The destruction of the saw milli was, however, complete, together with nearly the w h ole of the contents, in less than an hour. The origin of the fire is unknown ; but it is surmised that a spark must have fallen upon the saw-dust or shavings the previous evening before the workmen closed their day's labour, end, after smoulder ing during the whole of the night, suddenly burst into a flame in the morning. As far as we could l earn DO one has received personal injury; but we fear that th e proprietor i was uninsured — a fact the less to be accounted f or when it is building reco ll ec t e d that the same was entirely destroyed two veers since, and the then • by fire about , proprietor was • • ed. The amount of property destroyed also uninsured. present instance must certainly, even upon a low estimate, be at least 1,000/. NORTH DEVON RAILWA Y . P T --... he % • orks on this line were form ally resumed on Monday. The first sod of the new works was the barn b the Hon. Ne•Cv ton F e ll owes assisted by Mr. Sbarland , an of the c ' company, in the presence of a large party of the landowners and other the district. It is understood that inhabitants o he t every exer tion will 1 made by M r. Brassey, the cont ractor, to complete the works as soon as possible. A Brighton inackarel boat, belonging to Mr. May, boat-builder, shot her nets ' one night during the past week, and succeeded in catching upwards of 7,000 fine full), which fetched about NI.