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THE QUARTERLIES. THE EDIABURGII REVIEW. No. CYCIV. . Although there are no less than ten contributions in the current number of the Edinburgh, we doubt touch whether a single article amongst thEnt will •attain even a temporary amount of popularity. Not that the papers in the April instalment are altogether devoid of talent, or that they are without being suf ficiently diversified, but that the talent displayed is throughout (for the most part) dull and scholastic, ... tedious and dogmatical. Suggested by the Nou velles Causes Celebres, the opening article, is a kind • of biographical sketch of " Tronson du Coudray, Whose name we should rather have seen among the 46 1.1 - nsuccTssful Great tiler," who are celebrated in such a very congenial spirit by Pro fessor Creasy. The argument upon "Nationa l Educati! )n " which follows is a dry and didactic repetition of facts already again and eßatn reiterated—'rom the laborious volume of Mr. "Pei now her Majesty's Ambassador to Greece, down to the most secent number of some of our pro , vincial contemporaries. To some ex tent, however, in this arti c l e we can forgive the repetition for the sake of the philanthropy, by which it is no less glaringly distinguished. A review of " Parini's State Romano," is followed by a chapter on "Athenian Architecture," and this again, by—the most important contribution in the present number of the Edinburgh—the paver on " Investments for the Working Classes." The introductory sentence& of the article here particu. larized, are, unhappily, of almost universal applies tots: — We have often had occasion to remark on the ob- atacles and perplexitie?, the hidden perils, the opposing risk., the surprising sod untorese(n dilemmas, which beset the path of active beneficence, esreciagy when attempted on a great scale. The difficulty of doing good is at least equal to its luxury. To the conscientious and the thoughttul the path of philanthropy is one of briars and thorns. On the one band lies toe shame and re• preach of witnessing a vast accumulation of misery without an effort to relieve it: on the other the danger —even more clearly apprehended in proportion as our .experience is wide and our inquiries deep—of aggra rating the evil we attempt to mitigate. On the one side See the sin of the Levite who looks upon the wounded and bleeding victim, and passes by, either in shrinking sensi bility or in sheer despair: on the other lies the risk, from ignorance or incaution, of pouring in oil which shall cause the wounds to fester, and wine which shall stimu late the fever. It is no easy matter to steer between Scylla and Charybdis; and we should deal gently with the pilot—if only he be cautious and mod.st-,who, in shunning one reril, incurs shipwreck from the other." - Poor Feargua O'Connor's involvment with reference to his land scheme, is, in the course of the argument, accounted for in a manner which is clear, without, of .• course, being satisfactory. After an estimate of "John Knox's Liturgy," comes a criticism of M. Bayous' biography of " Mallet du Pan." Strangely graceful is the opening of what, at a first glance, seems to be very drily suggestive, namely, the review of "Roebuck's Whig Ministry of 1830.' In the course '* • of these preliminery remarks to a political review it is exquisitely said, in reference to the respect and gra titude in which the venerable Simnel Rogers— (decidedly rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno, for inasmuch as he is both a Poet and a 13 , inker)—is 1,, held by the public up to this very moment—" It • r : Would, indeed, have been extraordinary if the poet of ,t, Memory should not live in our recollections." A notice of " Squier's Nicaragua" is succeeded by a - Paper on "L or d D er by' s Ministry and Protection"— At-Paper unquestionably free trade, but also unques . tionable Whig—as Whig as might have been expected °' Under the livery of buff and blue. And so the num : bet. of the Edinburgh is brought to a conclusion. LITBRATURE. TAE JESUIT IN INDIA. One Volume. Burns and Lambert. A curious volume, in some respects really extra ordinary in its revelations, is the one here published. It recounts the progress made by the Jesuit mission aries in Southern India during the last few years, the writer—evidently a man of singular intelligence— . h aving qualified himself for the task of inditing the narrative by four years spent in the midat of the labour s he enumerates. Sir Harcourt Lees is dead, it is true, but we have still amongst us men interested ee iri Watching the movements nearer borne than the Madura mission of the disciples of St. Ignatius de 146 Y 0. 13. Indeed, the development of the Society of Jesus in England is amongst the number of those remarkable events which arrest, by the force of their very singularity and importance, the atten tion of the most indifferent spectator. During several years the Jesuits have extended, - - Unobserved, it may be, but none the less securely en that account, the wondrous influence exercised by : them now-a-days scarcely less effectually amongst the people of these islands than amongst any other of the various races of Christendom. It behoves every one, therefore, really solicitous to forward the cause of truth in religion to scrutinies keenly the course Pursued by this unassuming but dominant association. Spreading their ranks over the whole of the habitable region s of the glebe, the Jesuits are everywhere ac tuated by the same motives, swayed by the same laws, struggling towards the same achievements. They are differently clad, it is true, in different re gions, speaking in those difbrent regions a different language, and adopting towards their different inhabi tants very different kinds of demeanour. But in all other respects the Jesuit is still the Jesuit, nothing more and nothing less than the Jesuit, be he in the train of his General at Rom., be ha a resident at , • the College of S:ony hurst, be he in the streets of Paris, or in the solitudes of Hindostan, floating over the oriental seas, or threading the forests of America, Passing under the luxuriant foliage of the south or over the sterility of the northern snows. it is, con sequently, not waste of toil to pore over the pages Which let us into the secret movements of the Society, even when these movements are so far removed from our own observation as the southern portions of the Asiatic continent. We remember the almost awe inspiring effect of that scene in the Juif Errant, in which Eugene Sue described M. Rodin as bending over a globe representing the earth, the surface of Which was marked in red dotted lines, with the track of the footsteps of these übiquitous Jesuit missionaries. Here, at any rate, is a volume which enables us to trace those footsteps somewhat more comprehensibly in one direction, namely, into the southern quarters of our Indian territory. Toe scene of the missionary la bours there, described by the anonymous traveller, embraces part of the Carnatic, the province of Tan jore, and the country down to Cape Comorin, Cons prising, in fact, the southernmost extremity of Hin dostan, and being designated the Vicariate of Madura. Situated at from about 7.51 to 11.50 north latitude, the climate is very relaxing, from the perpetual heat reachio g some ti mes 100 F ahrenhe i t i n t h e day t i me, and falli ng on l y 12 degrees by midnight—cholera prevalent, and almost invariably in its most dan g.erous intensity, by reason of the previous exhaus tion. Here it is that the missionarie s are described as battling Om, or the Trimoutsiiva, idolatry believing not merely in with an rahar . a the Creator, Visbnou the Preserver, end oc but, besides these, or Sichem, the Destroyer but, Y 1 thip log the symbols selected by the most sometimes, as in the instance of grovelling P fetichism . the petr i fied t .fied shell called Salagranan, this idolatry descends e e ven ri to the deification of the freaks of Nature, branchin g off into a mythology altogether so intricate as to render all other mythologies numerically insignificant b Comparison. According to the account glven by this little volume, the temptations to adventure upon the labours of Christianizing the ilindoos—ft,r the Mug sultrier], in the present state of things seem to be but Pe rsua si ve hopeless — are anyth i ng the advent:l- v e e r i h n e' a worldly sense; the dwelling o fi mud leave., his bed s lug a hut, tbatcheil with pti m mat spread on planks, his food rice, occasionally acc ompan i ed by the flesh of some lea n and tough poultry. Yet, by means such as these, it is de. far ed that - upwards o f f the globe al one - . have been redeemed to 150 000 idolaters in that quarter o a belief in Christianity. liowever, the matter here considered is one demand ing the serious attention o f the public — aiding them, as these statements cannot fai l to do, in their e ff ort to comprehend the progress of the Jesuit party in England by watching the movements of their brethren in Hindostan. BLEAK HO USE. No. 111. By C harles Dickens. Matured and mellowed in style, ``Boa" ever in originality. Bleak Rouse, the- tw o fi rs t num b ers to c o mmence in a subdued which is seemed as in fresh as tone, such as even filled our mind with disqpoint tnent, has alryady in the third number developed it self with A vigour and rapidity that promise to ren der it not unworthy of the pen of our incomparable novelist—one who, without extravagance, may b' - called the Le Sage of his generation. Exercising during his lifetime an influence that Le Sage never obtained—read by thousands and thousands almo't on the instant of publication—his green nunaters lying simultaneously on the tables of the artiz in end 0 the patrician—we exult to find a genius possess , ng a power in some respects so very solemn in its re sponsibility, always displaying itself in the indult a . tion or the worship of the good, the gentle, and the b-autiful. Seldom has the large heart of Charles Dickens revealed this tendency inure conspicuously tian in the May instalment of his new fiction. Esther becomes more loveable than ever (uncon sciously to herself) in the writing of her autobio graphy. Mr. J arndyce himself, capital fellow though he is, with his perpetual terror of the east wind, and his uncomfortable liability to be "floored again," has his nose put out of joint by his friend -and former aohool-fellow, Lawrence althorn, who literally bursts into the narrativs, tckes Ur! zo:rice:, partiality by storm, and gives promise of being one of the most glorious creations of the author, to whom • • the world is already indented for such beings as Old Weller, and Tom Pi nc h, ar.d Captain Cuttle, and Traddles, and•Jolna Will ott And pdr Agntellini s and 1 , 0' aII ' AO ° °1 10 4 "4 7 , Ter tli • AO 4 star t n gor. h • plor," for the 5 - 0 s ili ii° r I 111013D"f J3 SP 1,1 , 12.)' able s., .cite lls 0 receipo 11 t ie ; for 4 0 seta° ...---' 1 0 k be l Wee % ....0" 101 THE SUN, Dick Swivelle. His roaring voicP, his interne superlatives, his boihterous laughter, his grey h ear t, his go, gi humour, and hairs, his young his canary, all :win up on ono immediately. A tt rrible dragonness of a Mrs. P.irdiggle (with her five restrained boys) is introduced in like manner, and sweeps us away in spite of ourselves, into a visit to the hovel of an abandoned briekmaker. Ada and Esther are of the party who are thus characteristically addressed by the lord and master of the hovel, the brickmaker I wants a end of these liberties took with nay place. I wants a end of being drawed like a badgfir: Now you're a going to poll-pry and (location according to custom—l know what you're a going tl be up to. Well! You haven't got no occasion to be up to it. save you the trouble. Is my daughter a washin? Yes, she is a washin. L'ok et the water. Smell it! That's wot we drinks. How do you like it, and what do you s, thinkii is ir of a gi t :;,_ it ins ,s teadl An% my place dirty? nod n lyre lly dirty, i nuOrally onwholesome•, five dirtt s ' y• and onrrhAeorne children, as is all dead in fants, and sti much the better ter them, and for us be sides. Have I read the little book wot you loft? No, I an't read the little hook wot you left. There 'at , tie body here as knows hlw to read it; and if there wos, it woulii'llt be suitable to me. It's a book fit for a bahby, and I'm not u bv,by. - If you was to lenvo me a dolt, 1 Bnsmkrnt nuns it. How have I been conducting, of my self? Why, I've been drunk for throe days; and I'd u been drunk four, if I'd a had the money. Don't I never mean for to go to church? No, I don't never mean for to go to church. I shouldn't be (x A n d how did my IFtle the beadle's too gar.-feel for me. giv' her ; and if - she pected there, if I did; gat that black eyi ? Why, I says I did'nt, she's a Lie!" Before Ma and Esther leave the room, but after Mrs. Pardiggle -and her children have departed, Ole poor child, in the arms of the brickmaker's wife, dies. cried Ada, rsinky lour, ingon theh her little r kneesttle h thin* : i it. " here'.(l.oEollthei r ! o Esther, The suffering, quiet, pretty little thing! lam so sorry for it. lam so sorry for the mother. I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! 0 baby, baby!' " While they are still there, a poor woman, calling out "Jenny ! Jenny !" hurries in and falls upon the neck of the bereaved mother. " She had no kind of grace about her, but the grace of sympathy; but when she condoled with the wo man, and her own tears foil, she wanted no beauty. I say condoled, but her only words were Jenny! Jenny !' All th© rest was in the tone in which she said them. . "I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another; how the heart of each to each was soft ened by the hard trials of their lives. I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us. What the poor are to the poor is little known, excepting to them t•elves and God." Our friend Harold Skimpole appears for a moment in this number, but in that moment utters thoughts anent the Bee that we should have liked to have re ferred to the.consideration of Dr. Watts. It is at breakfast, and he is eating honey when he thus dis courses : " He had no objection to honey, he said (and I should think he had not, for he seemed to like it), but he pro tested against the overweening assumptions of Bees. He didn't at all see why the busy Bee stiould he proposed as a model to him; he supposed trio Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it—nobody netted him. It was not necessary for the Bee to make such a merit of his tastes. If every confectioner went buzzing about the world, banging against everything that came in his way, and egotistically calliog upon everybody to take: notice that he was going to his work and must not be interrupted, the world would be quite an insupportable place. Tnen, after ill, it was a ridiculoua position to be smoked out of your fortune wish brimstone, as a , cin as you had made it. You would have a very mean opinion of a Manchester man, if he spun cotton for no other purpose. He must say he thought a Drone the embodi ment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. The Drone said, unaffectedly, Y.O will excuse me; I really cannot at tend to the shop! I find myself in a world -in which there-is so much to see, and so short a time to see it in, that I must take the liberty of looking about me, and begging to be provided for by somebody who doesn't want to look about him; This appeared to Mr. Skirn pole to be the Drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy—always supposing the Drone to be willing to be on good terms with the Bee: which, so far as be knew, the easy fellow always was, if the con sequential creature would only let him, and not be so conceited abut his honey." E Esther obtains some delightful nick sucahYas Old Woman, Cobweb, Mother n B y rn the es vi Hub bard, and Dame Durden. And, by the way, again, this same Dame Darden has a love passage in the ninth chapter—Mr. Guppy formally filing a declara tion, or in other words popping the question. The scene is described with infinite humour. After Guppy has departed, of course rejected—saith Esther : " I sat there for another hour or more, finishing my books and payments, and getting through plenty of bu siness. Then, I arranged my desk, and put everything away, and was so composed end cheerful that I thought I had quite dismissed this unexpected incident. But, when 1 went up-stairs to my room, I surprised myself by beginuiug to laugh about it, and then surprised myselt still more by beginning to cry about it. In short, I was in a flutter for a little while; and felt as if an old chord had been more coarsely touched than it ever had been since the days of the dear old doll, long buried in the garden." - The closing chapter of the number has reference to Mr. Snagsby, law stationer, of Cook's-court, Cursitor-street, who is described as emerging from tea, "greasy, warm, herbacious, and chewing ; to Mrs. Snagsby, wife of the aforesaid, whose sharp nose is said to have been " like a sharp autumn even ing, inclining to be frosty towards the end," to Guster (" by some supposed to have been christened Au gusta"), their poor slatternly servant girl, who "has fits," and who regards with such admiration " the little drawing• room up stairs always kept, as one may say, with its hair in papers and its pinnafore on." Besides these, we are introduced again to Mr. Tulkinghorn, the solicitor of Lincoln's Inn-fields, whom we accom• pany to Krook's rag and bottle shop, and up to the mysterious second-floor lodger, " The Law Writer, strongly suspected by us and by others, we opine, to be one of the family of the Jarndyces. So ends the number on the threshold of his apartment. FINE ARTS. THE HOLY FAMILY. Painted by Murillo ; engraved by Bridoux. 111‘Lean. A superb hue engraving of this celebrated master. pi-ce has very recently been issued from the esta. blishment of Mr. Thomas M'Lean of the Haymarket. Of late years the graver has been s o generally super seded by the mczz dioto-rubber, and the etching• needle, that we regard with very peculiar satisfaction its employment in the highest department of what may be called , in a twofold sense the "imitative art." par excellence. More particu larly are we rejoiced to witness the appearance of a line engraving with anything like superior preten sions about it, when the artist has selected for representation some more than usually remarkable original. Precisely thus is it with reference to the magnificent production before us, in which the mas ter-skill of A. Bridoux has admirably interpreted the master-genius of Murillo. It is now many years since the " Holy Fa.nily," painted by Murillo some where about 1660 ((lamely, in the forty-seventh year of his ege, and twenty-five years before his demise), came to be regarded as amongst the noblest evidences of hi: powers by the people of this country. Produced originally at Cadiz for the Marquis of Pedroso, the picture was valued according to Cean B-ranudez at 800 pesos of 15 reels or 600, crowns, being ultimately bought for the E..glish nation in 1837, together with Rubella' " Brazen Serpent, " for the sum of 7,350/., and deposited in the National Gallery by order of the Government. Every one who has visited that melan choly repository of the artistic treasures of Great Britai❑ must have paused before that, if before no other picture in the collection, in admiration. It is numbered, indeed, with the masterpieces of the whole tii. gallery, with the "Sr. John," also by Mu of Guido, with the teaching Cupid," the " Ecce Homo" and the " Mercury Leonardo da Vi Cupid," of Correggie " with the "Susannah and the Elders," and the ' "Christ"Lotanandd t h h i e s n D o a c u t g o h rs t , lrs o ," f the more conspicuo del zarus" of Sebastiani, and with the "Raising of Ls To expatiate on the heauties of this " Holy Family" serene e Child, the lovely of Murillo— celestialfeatures countenance of the Divine the Blessed Virgin, the" and maternal tenderness of and meditative aspect of St. Joseph —the matchless grouping, the pathos , peculiarities of colouring, the glo . rio t e as, the solemnity, and all the other the composition would be worse than superfluous, e h f em ß at , rido s t u h perfluous, and transferredwe are would be even out of place here en abled to remark that they are all of t to the engraving by the skilful band with one exception, of course—that of Colouring. um The ll ' plate, which is 23 inches high by 20i- wide, does inconsiderable portion of credit will be reflected upon the establish, - signal honour to Mr. Bridoux, while no merit of Mr. M‘Lean by the issue of every successive impression. _-.............rairmem.••••• k steam-packet, Captain ; The Brun swic k NESDAY, MAY ..-- port last Thursday, :oily the Penin- Harvey, which left this steamer Sul, an, C4pt. Brookes, SOUTHA.MPTON V. PLYMOUTH. —PLYMOUTH, WED sular and Oriental Compan y's . hound with the mails for —say, five or six miles an hour — in the Needles Passage, Docks the day, the Mediterranean. She left Sout hamp ton about twenty six :\ before at 2 30 P.M., and had thus accomp li shed from in a thick fog, going at half speed miles in sixteen made the en she would have crowed the Channel and have s threading the mince to the Bay of Biscay, while she wa a and the difficult navigation of the Southampton water hours. had she sai le d Needles Passage. On Sunday morning, the f-'d Plymouth half-past ten o'clock, the Peninsular and Oriental C in o s i t t a p n a t . ll Y r a ' a t s. steamer Madrid, Captain Weet-s, from Spain, was seen b y 1 fisherman. to the southward of the Eddystone, within two' hours' sail of Plymouth. She arrived at Southampton on Monday night, and her mails reached London on Tuesday forenoon. Had the Madrid come into Plymouth, her litters would have reached the metropolis on Monday—more than twenty-fout hiturg earlier thet a 1:7 the coterie 44°Pte4; LONDON, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS - ------.---- (From the Votes ail frocee , lings of the House of Commons) WEDNESDAY, MAY 5. , TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL. - . . Order read, for resuming. the further proceeding on Amendment proposed to Question, " That the 13111 he now - read a second time," .nd which Amendment waTto leasi - e :out the word "now," and at the end of the Question to add the words" upon this day six months :" Question again proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question.' Further proceeding resumed; Question put. Tue House divVed : MINOItITY—AYES, 57. Adair, R. A. Heard, J. I. O'Brien, John Armstrong, Sir A. Henry, Alexander O'Brien, Sir T. Barron Sir H. Higgins, George O'Connell, M. J. Bass, Al. T. Howard, P. 11. O'Flaherty, Anthony Bellew; B. H.,•.. Howard, Sir R. Perfect, Robert, Blake, M. J.-: Keating, Robert Power, 3T:cholas Keogh, William Rawdon, Colonel Bright, 'John Kershaw,4arncis Reynolds. Joint Burke, Sir T. J. F;titkr, P. 5. • • Lawless, Cecil Sadlcir, John Castlereagh, Vise. 11PCullagh, W. T. Scrope, G. P. Cobden, Richard Magan, W. 11. Scully, Francis Cogan, W. 11. Maher, N. ScullY, Vincent. Corbally, M. E. 3lcagh v- ... . Thomas Sullivan , Michael DeVereUX, .1. T. Mahon, ON ;orman Telma*, R. J. Fox, Richard M. 31i1 4 - . - aO. Robert. Thompson, Colonel French, F. . ,Illon3eil, William Waliley, T. Gould, Wyndham Dloore, C. 11. Walmsley, Sir I. Grace. ID 1). J. Murphy, F. S. TELLEn9 Crawford, W. S. Grattan, Henry Norreys , Sir 1). Greene, John Nugent, sir Percy Roche, E. B. MAJORIT Y -NOES, 167. Adderley, C; Ft• . Duncan," George • Anson, ViS:COUIIt Duncombe, A. Ark wright, G. Dunne, Colonel Bailey, Craw-hay Du Pre, C. G. Bailey, Joseph East. Sir J. Baillie, H. J. Edwards, 11. Baldock, E. H. Egerton, Sir P. Baukes, G. Egorton, W. T. Barrington, Lord - Farnham, E. Barrow, W. 11. Farrer, James -Bennet, Philip Feliowes, E. Beresthrd,William Ferguson, Sir R. Bernard, yleount Floyer, John Blair, Stephen - Forbes, Wm. Blandterd, Marquis Fordyce, A. D. BOnham-Carter, J. . Forester, G. C. Booth, Sir R. G. Forster, M. Bowles, Admiral Fox, S. L. Brenaridge, Richard Freestun, Colonel Bridges, Sir B. Freshlleld, J. W. Brisco, M. Fuller, A. E. Brooke, Sir A. Galway, Viscount Brotherton, 3, • Gilpin, Colonel Bruce; Lord E. Gore, W. R. 0. Bruce, C. L. Goulburn, Henry Buck, L. W. Granger, T. C. Bunbury, William Greenall, Gilbert Burghley, Lord Gwyn, Howel Burrell, Sir C. Halford, Sir 11. Carew, W. H. Pole Hamilton,' Geo. A. Caulfeild; J. M. Hamilton, J. 11. Caylcy, E. S. • Hamilton, Lord C. Chichester, Lord J. Hardinge, C. S. Child, Smith. • Hastie, Alexander Christopher'. R. ' • Hayes, Sir E. Clements, Charles , Headlain, Thomas Clerk Sir CT; Ileneage, G. 11. Clive, R. H. Henley, J. W. Clive, Henry B. ' 111.1dyard, T. B.T. Cobbold, J. C. Hill, Lord E. ,Coehraue, A. D. Hope, Sir J. Cocks,'T. S. Hotham, Lord Codrington, Sir W. Hughes, W. B. Collins, Thomas Home, Joseph Colvile, C. R. Johnstone, Sir J. Conolly, Thomas Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Corry, H. --, Jones, Captain Cotton, W. H. Kelly, Sir F. Darner, Colonel Knox, Colonel Davii, Sir H. " Knox, W. S. Davies, D. A. S. Langton, W. H. Denison, Edmund Leonard, T. B. Dod, J. W. Lennox, Lord A. Dodd, G. Lennox, Lord H. G. Drumlanrig,ViscOuNt Leslie, C P. D r uthmond, Henry Long, W. Drummond, Home . Lowther, Colonel Lowther, Henry Macnaghten, Sir E. Mandeville, Viscount Banners, Lord C. Manner=, Lord J. March, Earl of Morgan, 0. Naas, Lord Napier, Joseph Ne,ld, Joseph Newport, Visct. Noel, G. J. O'itrien, Sir Lucius Packe, C. W. Pakington, Sir John Palmer, Robert Patten, J. W. Pennant, Colonel Philips, Sir G. R. Pilkingtou, James Pugh, David Pusey, P. Ricardo, Osman Richards, Richard Rushout, Captain Sandars, George Seymer, IL K. . Smyth, John George Smollett, A. Somerville, Sir W. Stafford, Augustus Stanley, Edward Stuart, H. Stuart, J. Start, Henry G. Tennent, Sir J. Thesiger, Sir F. Thicknesse, It. A. Thornely, ThomaS Trollope, Sir J. Tyler, Sir G. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Verner, Sir W. Vesey, lion. T. Villiers, Viscount Vyse, H. R. H. Walpole, S. H Wa'sh, Sir J. B. Welby, G. E. Whiteside, James Worcester, Marquis Wynn, li. W. Yorke, E. T. TELLERS. Bateson, T. Mackenzie, W. F. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. WORCESTER AND HEREFORD RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, a f ter a psetracted incsiry, and opposition on the part of the Great Western Railway and other interests, the Committee, consisting of Mr. Childers, Colonel Peel, and others, passed the prteamble of this Bill, promoted by the London and North-Western Railway, for making a line from Worcester to Hereford, with branches to the city of Worcester, to"Malvern, and to Ledbury. The Bill also elites powers to enter into working arrangements with the Midland and Ignition and North-Western Com• pales, to whem it will give Heeezet to and i communication with tbe districts of Sewn Wales. The estimated cost of the line is 220,000/. Evidence was adduced on the part of the Commissioners of the Severn Navigation to show that the proposed fixed bridge below Worcester, tarrying the railway across the Severn, would a nnihilate the navigation at the time of high tides, and that it would be necessary to have a swing or draw bridge, The promoters of the railway proposed a fixed bridge of a specific bright and span, and tbat vessels at the time of high tides should lay up at Worcester. Ultimately clauses were introduced, leaving the matter to the juris diction of the Admiralty. The Parliansentary and other expenses of prosecuting the Bill for this line are said to amount to between 40,0001. and 50,000/. LOND , N AND Nowell-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The Committee, in reporting the preamble of this company's two Bills, state that the object of the first is to effect ar rangements with regard to capital, and for enlargement of the stations at Wolverton and Kilburn; and of the second, for new lines near Oxford, to connect with the Buckinghamshire railways, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, and to effect arrangements between the latter company and the London and North- Western. The Committee report that the financial object of the company is to enable them to convert, by degrees, their existing debt into irredeemable stock, bearing annual interest not exceeding three and a half per cent, such new or debenture stock to have priority of interest or dividend over all existing prefe rence shares or stock of the company; but inasmuch as the debenture stock will only be created instead of mortgages or debetures bearing on an average a far higher rate of interest, which interest has now a p riorit y over' all preference shares or stock of the company, the Committee did not deem the creation of the debenture stock to be a " granting of preference or priority" within the meaning of the 128th standing order, or an a lt er ation of the terms o f any existing preference or priority, "thin the meaning of . the 129: h standing order. The Commit tee amended the Bill by declaring the expediency of c reating a debenture " stock," with an interest not exceeding 3i per cent., instead of an in terest positively of 3i per cent. mi GREAT Ig RAlLWAY.—lesterday the Com mittee of the Kennet t and Avon Canal, for making this VEs TEa company's Bill, for the purc h ase and i arrungements with the Wilts, Somerset, and Weyouh, and for a ddi t i ona l works at Didcot, passed the m preamble. FRE E•Tiblag PROTECTIONISTS inis• Tto orey remedy prop osed b y the present Adm traiina_ lies simply in maintaining the existing commer cial p..licy of the country. Our friends of the. Protection press, if they would be true to their own colours, must prepare to furbish up some of their b est sam p les of in vective against the Derby " traitor" and the "renegade" of Buckinghamshire. In what respect doss the reluc tant adhesion of the present First Minister to the doc trines of Free Trade differ from their recognition by that great statesman who, t o his country's loss, was exce pt in so far that he has snatched away from us, been more slow to discern the policy which this country could not but pursue if it would ma i n tain its rank in the scale of nations? What kind of pledge did the 'ate Sir Robert Peel give to the great Conservative par y in 184'2 which can for a moment be compared se an the pledges given by Lord Derby as chief spokes man and recogniz, , d leader of the Protection party since 1846 ? It Sir Robert Peel was a traitor, what is Lord Derby ? L tit not. however, be for a moment supposed that we a i‘li the Quintilians and Ciceros of monopoly to turn. their pens against the leade rs of the present Administration. Fer the sake of decency let them at lest leave off calling of bard names, and recognize results which any but to blind man can perceive. If there he any " treason," or any such heavy matter in Lord Derby's present position, it is that he had not the man linens to act, as Sir Robert Peel did at a far more mo mentous time. No than can make a great speech in more efficient. style than the present Premier when he fairly sets about it. Why does he shriek from the odium of acknowledging_his mistake, and admitting in the face of the country and of his own followers that he was mis taken?" Oh! but the elections , are coming cn ewe must not alienette the votes of our own partisans. We must not -completely destroy the shaken faith of the agricultural constitutinci,el" It would appear to any unprejudiced observer as though poor Sir Robert had risked far more than this, and had exposed himself to a storm of vitu peration which would not reach Lord Derby's head. It is, however, of the Protection writers and the Protection press that we are speaking at the present moment. Why do not they, even at the twelfth hour, make a tardy at tempt to escape from the mud through which they have been too long dragged by every blockhead who on any hustings or atarey Protectionist meeting throughout the country has stood up to odd his little quantum of non sense to the literature of Protection?: It had been our intention to speak of the last shifts and chanes.ofotvheerePomrootsecotsioenvownriattertsiciebulatsat moment. feeling W of com punctionbtriumph over men to whose position so much ridicule is attached? Rather let us entreat the public to look the other way, than imitate the example which themselves had set. We will not too curiously remark upon their cunning arguments for proving that there is a substan tial difference between the fiscal policy of the late and the present Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Disraeli may have eulogised the success of the Free-trade policy and maintained it in his present budget. That is nothing. He haanot adopted the formsl terms of Sir Charles Wood's motion, nor, as far as we aro aware, borrowed the Right Hon. Gentleman's hat—that is everything. Bo it so. t t he yvi l willlbi tee hoa writing e `.have g turned is as absolute a certainty as anything can be wh i c h is l predicated of human beings, and not the wisest of their _irilobert Peel, the professional discoverers of mares' - species—that ere six months are out the calumniators of Sir v x a e n e c i e lf er m no otm h n Free-tradegt er e s ewr r hr r e of theirn articles, grievance ways.and Theys s, nests, iee ateribtog the salvation of h • t pn. country to the very men who "fifty() opposed this policy from the fire!. Content with the testilt, let nd usn l ot be over curious about the process. L et us avoid needlessly even of needlessly wounding the 'elf love those who are Times. least entitled to such reserve.-- ReMOVAL 017-------THEI R;IGISTRAR:GENERAL'S OFFICE FROM SOMERSET-HOUSE.— It has been found necessary to a fo p r p i ' . , x. ' e g t o i s P t r a e r t i l e i a h m e o n f t b fo i r r t h a n s , A d c e t e t a h m s en e di d ng m t h e e rr e i x ag i s e t s i . n g T A h c e t object of the amendment introdueedrpvisentedetzrh,eGetellrfiee second o u r s s e t shalll°fit i me Com monss t oh Parliament,ne by atJlhteeehrn:ffiecl offices s Manners, oefetf h the i n ei d taehgei of London or We a I i i i n c h the have vie i te t 3 n , s ipl i r t a id t cl e ai d )r : gi w sth i t th in the cities lit having been found expedient to vacate the present o fti e o r es ; , ii , , s o me, set-place, in favour of the Board of Inland Revenue. It is understood that the department of the Registrar-Ge ' 1 the London Uniyenity, at to Co n w ew ard oifi Qo c l e t s ;g l e, t Q h l i lo p r r t e ly pa r r e a lo n v s e - il s some timewill THU RSDA Y EVENING, SPORTING NOTES. No.. CCXXI. THE 2,-.%.CE FOll THE Cl-111>> CER CUP AND THE FIELDS FOlt TO•MORROW. TO THE EDITOR 01' THE SUN. re,aarks on the iattp were, for the most part, correct; the four horses that I selected to occupy the foremost positlons included Joe Miller and Stilton, the first end second; Due an Dburras had to give place to his stable compaeion, Cock crow , that being: the na selected by Lord Waterford t o w i n w ith ; and Ththerpe, g the remaining horse of my team, though in splendid condition, was unable to give two stone for the year to the winner. The running of J.:e Miller and Stilton at Epsom was reversed in this instance; as on tte Thwns, Stilton beat Joe in a cantor bv the same distance that ,f,:e yesterday beat Stilton on the Roodee.. Dl9 true nature of the aindieep running of the year w2s borne out yesterday by th , t for the Cup, as the first and second for the 'Metropolitan, and the first for the Northamptonshire St a k es , obt,in,d the first three places; Poodle finishing a rood thin], kid the much talked-of Benita a fair 1-',., urtn , sv ic.,,ry was almost a repetition of the [Zed 1 - Yer game in 1844, as ho had the leal pretty Learly from Ghc conmene.--,ment to the tint-h, Lt:ver having been headed after he had token the command of the van. Ti,e retae was run at a good pee, tlx. time 4 min. 6 see. The immediate effect of th e reollt, c f the rice tor tar Cue was the appeara nce of Joe Miller at 15 to I for th e D ar by. his chance for the great event on the D owns of Ep so m is of a very inferrer kind, as the p u bli c will End, it being a slightly differtnt thing to carry 4st loth at Chester, receiviug weight from nearly everything; in the race, and he arin g Sst 7lb in the Derby at level wei-t b hts w ith the best horses of the year. _ . In my notes yesterday I forgot to state that Bethge fart and Merry Bird would he first and second for the Triennial Produce Stakes, and the information will b . e of little or no service now . Omissions and m i s t a kes will occur in the best ordered stale of things. Seven stakes figure on the list for to-morrow, three of which—the 5 sove. Handicap, Ladies' Purse, and Grand Stand Cup—close and name this evening. The Wirral Stakes will, in all probability, terminate in a walk over; the owner of tha filly by Orlando out of the Maid of Avon being the recipient of the forfeits. The Eaton Stakes may possibly be contested by th.s, e Black Doctor, Bess of Hardwick, and Calot or I bis, BESS OF EIARDWICK and CAL OT occupy i ng th e first and second places, with the Black D octor in t h e third posi tion, and Ibis last. _ The Cestrian Stakes will be contended for by Scipio, Stratagem, and Water Lily : STRATAGEM and SCIPIO filling the first and second places, Water _Lily third aad . . The field for the Cheshire Stakes, I believe, will con sist of Mountain Deer, tho Marquis, Goldfinder, Black Doc tor,Ephesus, Cardinal Wiseman, Dulcet, and Merry Peal: GOLDFINDER or MERRY PEAL, the former for choice, looking most like bustuess; the Marquis close up. The • Betting on to•morrow's events is as fol lows:—Cestrian Stakes-2 to lon the field. Wirral Stakes-3 to lon Maid of Avon filly. Cheshire Stakes —3 to 1 agst Goldfinder; 4 io 1 each agst Merry Peal, Joe Miller, and the Black Doctor. Eaton Stake —6 to 4 ag4t Calot; 2 to 1 agst the Black Doctor. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 6, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.--WEDNESDAY. The Corinthian Handicap of 5 sov s , eac h, w ith 20 added, for all ages. Gentlemen riders. 7 fur longs. (6 Subs.) Mr, Morris's Hareafoot, lOst 51b (Capt, Little) 1 Mr. Davies's GaYlad; 6 yrs, lOst 51 b......... (Owner) 2 Mr. Dawson's nrilEmerystone, 9st 41b (Mr.C.Boynton) 3 mr.H.F„newsHappyQueen,Gyrs,lostsiti(Mr.Gaman) 4 Betting-5 to 4 egg Harestoct, and 7to 4 agst Emery stone. Won by half a length. Ruts in 1 min. 27 sec. First year of the Second Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft. with 30 added. T.Y.C. Mr. Drewe's Defiance, Sat Est (Charlton) 1 Mr. Worthington's Juquenetta, Bst 21b (J. O s b orne ) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Defiance, who waited until the, half distance, and won a well-contested race by a neck. The race was not timed. The Tradesmen's - Plate of 200 sovs., added to a handicap sweepstakes of 25 Bova. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if de ' Glared; the second to receive 50 sovs. out of the stakes, the third to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 son. towards expenses. The winner of either the Northamptonshire Stakes, Metropolitan Stakes, Newmarket Handicap, or the Somersetshire Stakes, in 1852, to carry 101 b extra, or of any other handi cap race of the value of 200 sovs., including the win ner's own stake, Sibs. extra. Cup Course, about two miles and a quarter. (210 Subs., 81 of whom de clared.) Mr. Farranee's Jos Miller, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b (H. Goater) 1 Mr. Meiltlarn's Stilton, 3 Yr', sst 81b (Alderoft) 2 Lord Clifden's Poodle, 3 yrs, sst 31b ...(T Sherrard) 3 Mr. Whieldon's Benita, 3 yrs, 4st . ..(Fordham) 4 The followieg also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Maxtinson'e Nancy, 4 y r s, 9.t 11b... (F. Marson) 0 Mr. Mengan's Reesborougb, Bst 71b E. Keegan) 0 .. .(Hiett) 0 Mr. Osbald es t oo ' s M oun t a in Deer, Set 610 Mr. E. Phillip's Truth, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ......(.I. Doyle) 0 Mr. Mostly's Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst ...........(Simpson) 0 General Anson's Backbiter, aged, 1215 (Charlton) 0 Mr. Greville's Ariostn, 4 yrs, Tat 10lb ...(Dockeray) 0 Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn, 6 yrs, 7st 81b (Fietmen) 0 Lord Eglintoe'e ILppolyais, 4 1 rg, 7st 81b (J, Share) 0 Mr. Le Juit ' 4 yrs, 7,t tilt> .......(Knott) 0 Mr. Palmer's Geldfincler, 4 is. Gib -(0V. Sharpe) 0 Mr. Clark's Old Dan Tucker, 7st 51b (G. Mann) 0 Mr. Saxon's Black Doctor, 7st 51b (J . Osborn() 0 Lord Waterford's Duc-an-Dhurras, Doy le ) Sir W. Booth's Retail, 6 yrs, 7st (Kitchener) 0 Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg, 4 yrs, 7st(Esling.) Mr. Netts Birmingham, 4 yrs, 6A l2lb ...(Knight) 0 Mr. Morris's Hungerforcl, Mr. H. 11111's Hothorpe, 4 . yrs, Oat 101h...(Baehatn) 0 4 yes, Gst 101 b ...... (Arnold) 0 Mr, Laugshaw na Gholeb Singh, 6st 10lb (H. Neap) 0 Lord Waterford's Cockcrow, 6st 811) (W. Wynne) 0 Mr. Martinson's View Halloo (la b) ...(B. Harri son) 0 Mr. Fisher's , Breba, 4 y re , list 41b (Hickman) 0 Mr. Farrance'a CardinedWisemae, 6st 41b (J.Wynne) 0 Mr. Drinkald's Dulcet, aged, 6st ............... (Pavis) Mr. Delamere's Ha rp, 4 yrs, Est (Aatierton) 0 Mr. Disney's Indian Warrior, sst 1 Ilb (T. Smith) 0 Mr. R. Stewart's Willi:tont, Mr. Thomas's nu Sister to Fencer, sstlolb (J. Doyle) yr ,, , Set 101 b (Chilman) 0 Mr. Osborne 's Merry Bird, 3 yrs. 5,,t Cub ~.(Carroll) 0 Mr. Pilling 's The High Sheriff, sst 6ib(T. Sherwood) 0 Ld. Waterford's Redmond O'llaolon, sst 81b (Game') Mr. Copelend's Lady Atnyott, 3 rs, sst (Kendall) Mr. Phillips's Koh-i-noor, sst (car Sat 31b)...(We1 1 e) 0 Mr. W. D. Holtby's Ulrica, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b (A.. Dodd) 0 Mr. Si4st xon's Richard Primmer, 101b...(Quinton) fell Mr. Greville'e Searecrove, 3 yrs, 4it 71b ...(Stegities) Mr. G. Hill na Barley Sager, 3 yrs , Oat 315 ...(Cliff) 0 Major Pat na_Vampyre, aged, 631 101 b (Glasebrook) 0 Betting-7 to 2 apt Stilton (9, Bto 1 agst Joe Mil ler (t), 14 to 1 agst Planet' (t), to 1 agst Merry Bird, 100 to 6 agat G oleander 20 to 1 agst , 20 to 1 eget Benito, Lady Evelyn, 25 to 1 a"f. Indian Warrior, 30 to 1 agst Poodle, 33 to 1 eget C e res tor, 35 to I agst Harp ( t ), 33 to 1 agst Black Doe et) 50 to 1 agat a nd 50 to 1 agst any other. High Sheriff, , er. Lord Waterford declared to win with Cocarow. Jue Miller made nearly all the running., and won i n a center by a length and a halt. Poodle a good third, It en i ta fourth, Black Doctor fifth. Run in 4 min. 6 sec, 60 Guineas given by the Members for the City, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, the latter to go to the second. Once round and a dis. (11 Subs.) Lord Waterford's Sharavogue, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Doyle) 1 Mr. E. ,Parr g 84nita, e 3 Yrs, Est 10:5......._... (aloft) 2 r Mn, J. seseorne's seauy Agnes, 3 ye, Tat (Osoorne) 3 Mr. E. Buckley's Royal Geor ge , 6 € t 121 b (Charlton) 0 Sir . C. Rushout's Flounc e , 3 yrs, Est 1.0 a)... (Archer) 0 Capt. Harcourt 's Burndale, 3 yrs, 6:1 121 b (Arnold) 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Sanita, 2to 1 agst Lady Agnes, e nd 4to 1 egst Sharavegue. Won cleverly- by VI length, the same between second and third. Mar Majesty's Plate 100 guineas. Thrice round. M r . Spencti'a St. Michael, 3 3 rs, 7at 21b... (Charlton) 1 Lord Waterford's The Marquis, 4 yrs, 9st 2lb (Doyle) 2 Mr. Ste'vad'' s B ffishee ; 3 yes, 7st 2lb (W. Sharpe) 3 Mr. J. Oshorne'a Priam the Third 7st 21b (Barham)4 M. n e e s t e en'a Paddy Bird, ‘3 yrs , 7st 21b...(Arnold) 5 B e tting—Even on Marquis, 3 to 1 agst Paddy Bird, 4 to 1 :l e ast St, Michael, unct 4 to 1 agat Banshee. Won, cleverly by half a length; a length between second and third, arid the same between third and fourth, Priam beaten off. Run in 7 min. 8 s , c. The Scramble Handicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Three-quarters of a miles, (11 Subs.) Miss Fanny, 4 y rs, Mr. Shirley's Bst 41b (W. Sharpe) 1 Mr.. M angan 's Tancred, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Keegan) 2 Lord Cb es terfiele's fby Lanereost ..... (T. Smith) 3 Six others ran. Won by half a length. LATEST BETTING_Ar CHESTER. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) THE DEE STAKE S . 3 to 1 agst. Hyacinth 3 to 1 agst Attack DERBY. 8 to 1, agst Alcoran--tal een 9 to 1 apt Hobbie Noble 11 to 1 agat Claverhouse 12 to 1 agst Stockwell 15 to 1 agst Kingston 15 to 1 agst Little Harry 15 to 1 agst Joe Miller 50 to 1 agst Augur CLUB. ROYAL THAMES YAelii The entries for the Grand Challenge Cup, open to all royal yaohtihclosed at ten o'clock last night, at the Piazza Coffee-house, and are as follow : Cygnet, 35 tons, Hon: Mr. Lanibton. muiqu i t e, 50 tons, Lord Londesborough. Volante, 48 tons, J. L. Craigie, E sn . Mouseils tons, G. E. Browne, E sc 7: War Hawk, 66 ton°, G. Bartlett, A q . Pauline, 35 tons, C. Brandeth, E N. The race is appo inted for the 44th instlint, from Erich round the Nom .Li ght and hick- The Ruby steamer has been chartered by the club, nud will leave I:ondoc-bridge at self'- past nine in the morniug. , The b au d o f the Roya l `Blues'-will be in attendance. , F - : . ADOLI T I 0 N OF TUE SUNDAY .0 AIRS IN BATTEUSSA FIELDS.—The Commissioners for the new park in Battersea Fields, have just issued a notice of c au ti on which has been widely circulat ed, and will have the effect of sup• is a copy pressing this monster nuisanc., and wholesale desecration of the notice of the Sabbath. The following r.tiee the is hereby given issued :—" Cuution.-- , that on and after Sunday next, the Oth of May, 1852, „II persons seen trespassing in b'attersets-fields with horses, donkeys, cock shies, barrows, eze-, on a Sunday, will be taken into ens t'ay, and all such persongw so, offending d ar i_ the week, .without proper authoritY, ill be taken into cu stody, their horses impounded, and the owiure dealt with acc9rdiug L to law:" , . HER .MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. The Queers gene a Stare lastevEning at Buck ingham l' ace, which•was r•no,:t nurne:rously attended by the nobility and gentry, nearly two thousand kvitations having bean issued, and owing to her aje3ty's gracious permission dispensing with the Ccnrt mourning on this occasion (except for the ladies of the household), the ball presented the brilliant nod reagnificont character usual at the State receptions of the Sovereign. The grand ball was decorated wish lx?autiful fl3wers. This hall, composed of white marble and supported by marble columns, has two recesses or alcoves at the foot of the grand staircase; . these were filled with the choicest plants, grouped. with excellent taste, springing from a border of mosses and mignionette, the ono group eurnaounted with a beautiful specimen of the " acacia armata," and the corresponding group with the " rziloa indica nibs." The sculpture gallery adjoining the grand hall was filled with kola tabl , s and settees for the aucommedation of the grand stecase was brilliantly illuminated; , at the foot were two tripodit, bearing a maoof globts of light, intersperied with nut crystal, the tipper portion of the stairca,,e being hung with wboli•-levy: , li portraits of various members of the Royal Pue:ily. The ante•roi m at the top of the sta;rcase is a most beariWul epecitry n of internal decoration-. Toe arched supported by cilumna of white mei bLe with gilded capitals. This room contains Gihen's st,AAres in marble et her Mej.isry and his Royal Highness Prince' lbert, in which colour is sp tringly and with much &Nosey introduced in the ornaments and drapery. This apartment leads to the green drawing-room, the throile•roona, and the picture gallery; and on the other side of the picture-gallery are the yellow drawing-room, the saloon, the ball room, and the supper-room. The throne room was appropriated as a second ball room, the orchestra was lamed in the deep alcove in which the throne is situate ; it was but slightly raised above the floor, and the front was hung with draperies of crimson velvet embroidered in gold. The ball-roam, which has a massive arched roof of great magnigcence, being pannelled in architectural compartments, profusely enriched with gilding, is sup ported by columns of crimson scagliola of the Corinthian order with gilt capitals. The permanent orchestra is a gallery at the north end. The &cut pas, on which the seats of state were placed for her Majesty and Prince Albert, was covered with crimson. The draperies enclosing it were of amber-co loured satin and white lace, and at the back, forming a back-ground to the seats, was a most brilliant assort ment of beautiful flowers, rising to a considerable height above the seats. The draperies were surmounted by a broad and massive gilt cornice. Full-length portraits of her Majesty and Princo Al bert, by Winterhalter, ornament this apartment. Adjoining the ball-room is the supper-room, having a deep recess at the end, within which a buffet was ar ranged, on which the more exquisite specimens of jewelled and ornamental gold plate were most effectively displayed, with the aid of a background of dark crimson and numerous lights from golden candelabra. This room contains the portraits of George IV., in the robes of the Garter, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, placed in the middle, with those of George 111. and Queen Charlotte, by Gainsborough, on either aide, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. The tables for the supper were ranged round three sides of the apartment. The Yeomen of the Guard lined the grand ball and staircase under the command of Captain . Kincaid, the exon in waiting. Captain s Bellairs and Rickfords, exons of the corps, were also present. A guard of honour of the Foot Guards was on duty on the Palace lawn, with the band of the regiment. The company began to arrive at the Palace at nine o"clock, those having the entrée alighting at a tempo rary entrance in the garden, and the general company entering from the principal portico. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess ofCaamtlorniddgede and the Princess Mary arrived a t ten o'clock, te by Lady Suffield and Major Baron Knesebeck. Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Maids of Ho nour, the Grooms, and the Equerries in Waiting, by whom they were ushered to her Majesty. Soon after ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain from the yel low drawing-room, through the saloon into the ball-room. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and were attended by the Mis tress of the Robes; the Countess of Charlemont, lady in waiting; Hon. Matilda Paget and Hon. Mary Seymour, maids of honour in waiting; the Lord Steward, the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comp troller of the Household; Lord Polwarth, lord in wait ing; Sir Edward Bowater, groom in waiting; Lord Charles Fitzroy, equerry in waiting; the Pages of Honour in Waiting; the Groom of the Stole to the Prince; Lord George Lennox, lord in waiting to his Royal Highness; Lieut.-Colonel Francis Seymour, groom in waiting to his Royal Highness; and Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness. The Queen wore a dress of white tarlatan over white watered silk, trimmed with black and white flowers and di a monds. Her Majesty's headdress was composed of a wreath of black and white flowers and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of black net over black glace silk, embroidered with black bugles, the stomacher ornamented with pearls and diamonds. Her Royal Highness's head dress was formed of a mageificmt tiara of large pearls and diamonds, with black lace lappets. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary wore a dress of white net over white glace silk, elegantly trimmed with white bugles and white roses, with ornaments ef pearls and diamonds in the stomacher. Her Royal Highness's head-dress was composed of white roses, pearl', and diamonds. The assembled visitors followed her Majesty and her august circle from the saloon and picture gallery into the ball-room. A quadrille was immediately formed, and the Queen opened the ball with the Duke of Bucclaucii, the zip a-via being his Royal Highness Prince Albert and her Royal Highness the Princess Mary. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at half-past ten o'clock, attended by Lord William Paula and Major the Hon. James Macdonald. The ball having been opened, dancing was com menced in the throne-room with the " Quadrille of All Nations." The brothers Labitzky attended with their orchestra in this ball-room, and played the following dances : WALTZES. Flying Leaves Lovely Rhine n Strauss. Tory W L a e b l l i i t n z k g y t 0 Guernsey.. The Berthe Oa time:) Summer Night's Dream QUADRILLES. Quadrille of All Nations I Martini Stoinhof ...... Martha Straw. POLKAS. Alice Vienna LaLitzky. The Royal Marioneue GALOPS _ _ _ Military The Laura Keene The quadrille band of ,Messrs Coote and Tinney were stationed in the bail-room, and performed a number of quadrilles, wallvs, polkas, and galops. Rdreshmeats were served during the evening to the numerous assembly in the green drawing room and the garter room, and between twelve and one o'clock supper was served to her Majesty and her illustrious guests in the state dining room. The service was entirely of gold plate, and some of the most beautiful specimens of ar tistic skill in the precious metals were displayed on the Lang range of tables on which the repast was laid. Single flowers of great beauty, and groups of plants in full blossom, relieved occasionally the gorgeous magnificence of the golden service; the whole being brillitntly lit with gold candelabra. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Atbcrt, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. A. Gordon, at tended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. Grey. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Ma jesty yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarerce House, St. James'i. Her Royal llghness the Duchess of Kent dined with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester last even ing at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. The Education Committee of her Majqsty's !Jost Hon. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the Council-office. Present, the Lord President, the Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury Sir John Pakington, the Duke of Northumberland, and the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. A deputation of stem-owners, consisting of Mr. Thomas Thompson (Hull), Mr. Charles Wlver (Liver pool), Mr. A. Bannister (Mayor of Hull), and Mr. W. H. Pearson, had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester,_ at the Board of Trade. The deputation was introduced by Mr. William Brown, M.P., and Mr. James Clay, M.P. ' COWES, , ISLE OF WIGHT. (Enoid OUR OWN ConnEsPoNPENT.) Japara, COWES, WEDNEsDAT.--The Dutch barque which was, on shore at the back of the Wight, wa s towed to this harbour by the Queen steamer between niDO and ten o'clock this morning, and is law., (noon) fine ship, and if alongside the Medina Commercial Wharf, preparing to . discharge the remainder of her cargo. There have been no pumps going Since bho arrived, and she appears to make very little water. She is a very her malts had not been cut away would very soon have been ready for sea again. The wind and weather have or she would never have floated been much in h er favour, out of that disastrous ay. The grass and spring corn is suffering very much from the continued dreught, as are the gardens; the wind has been from the north, and _east, almost continuous ) y, for more than three,raonths.. . . --------.l"r-- - - —- THE UNITED STATES MAIL —.Yesterday forenoon, about eleien S T o'clock, the United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic, Cap . ta!n 12f.typtigoT-ric. West, left the m ers ey for New York, with upwards of sixty pa ,, vge r,3, a f.ir average cargo, and the mails for the United British America. About the same hour the States and 00l and Philadelphia Company's screw steam- ship Lily rp of' M a nchester also left the Mersey, bound for Philadelr phis, with seventy-eight Passengers and a fall cargo, cor.- tiist ipg chiCtlY of Mancliezter and Binuippani govds. "MAY 6 1852. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE I rt.FI • s E DUKE OF NORTIIUNBERLAND'S LEVEE.—The followifg cflicers were presented at his Grace's level rs to day :—ltar Admir.,l Wr:uc)lope ' Ad mita! — 7 GossAin, 1 Ri - er Admiral Sir tLIMCi Srlini.;,Ren.e Admiral R3bin • I sun, Rear Almiral Cj.tor, Sir Henry Flit. Cap'ain Richard Devonshire and John F. Appl:by, both of 1838, have accepted the retiremait. Comtuander Noreott, 1838; and Commander Gator, 1851, have been appointed to the coast-guard. • • Her Bbiwy's paddle-wheel steam sloop Buzzard, 6 guns, at D.vonport, is ordered for immediate coihrajz-• slop, but no olficeN have as yet been nominated' to her. A sad accident occurred on bard 'the Ardszon, 26, Capt. Barker,' lying in Plymouth Sound. We under stand that in striking the topgallantmast, it came down by the run, when one man was killed, and four others seriontly wounded. PORTLMOI3TiIcWEDNEsDA.T.—His ROyttl Fliehcess the Comte d'Aquila, Lord High . Admiral of the Neapolitan deer, and suite, arrival at this port this afternoon to in :Pi Cr. the chief cbj•ets interest. The git en, 116, C,'-aplain was towed into har bour this 6. fver::(v),l by Ve Sprightly and Echo steamers. The SuptAb, 8), C,./i'ain Pa, crll, cxereis , d her view in gunnery this morning at Spithead with shot and blue!! at ...tkir—et Itz7,.nnt, 90. Captain Barrie, struck Com modore Mai - qt.'s broal pewit - I:it last evening at suns , t the, commDdore having gni.t. on Ipave. Toe Winchester, 50, Girrain 1.4.)ch, C. 8., bent sails this morning. • The steaai-frigatc Higbflser, 21, Captain Matson, will be ready to go to,Spif hcan this wcck. The court-martial on the stirviving (tilts and men of the Birkenhead bids fair to I,st everai darn. - PLYMOUTH, VerioNrsnar.—Aler Majesty's steam• vessel Vixen, 6. Commander. F. L. Barnard, having on board Sir Charles _Both the' Envoy to arazl,-Isnd tuite, sailed yesterday for Rio. Janeiro. Her Majesty's frigate irnarm, 26, Captain C. Barker, which.arrived on Sunday from, : Portsmouth, went up harbour on Monday, with unbent sails, and commenced taking out stores, preparatory to being raid off. Her Majesty's ship Rodney, 92, : Captain C. Gra ham,.now in the Sound, is, 150 men short of her com plement. The crew of the Britomart, 8, Commander Heseltine, -were paid wages ou Monday. The frigate Leander, 50, Captain Dacres, was taken out of dock on Monday, and masted on Tuesday. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, MAY s.—Commander F. N. K. Wasey (1850) to'study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dock yard, vice Commander Bowyear, passed. Commander Michael do Conroy (1848) to study steam at the factory, vice Captain Cospatrick B. Hamilton, . passed. Commander Philip de Saul/rues (1845) to study steam at the factory, vice Lieutenant Richard Moore, passed. Commander Henry I. Lacon (1842), to study steam st the factory, vice Lieutenant Macdonald Bourchier, passed. Lieutenants Macdonald Bourchior and Richard Moore, hating completed a course of study of steam, were severally examined as to their knowledge of steam and marine steam engines by Mr. Charles Atherton, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, and on passing satis factorily received their certificates accordingly. The Herald, 28, Captain Henry Mangles Denham, was visited to-day by a great number of ladies and gentle men, who were conducted over the vessel by Captain Denham. who showed them the arrangements which have been made for the long stay of the Herald on the sur veying service in the South Seas, and the numerous pre sents intended for the natives of the islands in that part of the Pacific Ooean. LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. A court-martial, consisting of Rear-Admiral H. Prescott, C. 8., president; Captain Chads, C. 8.. of the Excellent; Captain G. B. Martin, C. 8., of the Victory; Captain Scott, of the Neptune ; Captain Henderson, C. 8., of the Blenheith; Captain S. T. Inners, of the Sampson; - Captain Robinson, of the Arrogant; Captain Loch, C. 8., or the Winchester; Captain Warden, of the Retribution; Captain Symonds, of the Arethusa; Cap tain Harris, of the Prince Regent; Captain Matson, of the Highfiyer; and Sir G. L: Greethave, Deputy Judge- Advocate of the Fleet, assembled yesterday morning at nine o'clock, on board the Victory, to try Mr. R. B Richards, master's assistant; J. Bowen, T. Dunn, able seamen; A. Stone, ordinary seaman; and John Ashbolt, stoker, for the loss of the Birkenhead, or rather to in vestigate the conduct of the survivors of that awful wreck. The witnesses called when our report left were Thos. Coffin, who had the first middle watch on the night of the wreck; Thomas Daly, of the first Watch, and look out mat on the forecastle; Colour-Sergeant Drake, on the poop when the ship struck; John Archbold, gunner, ' in bed when the accident happened; and Mr. W. Cul bane, assistant-surgeon, in his cabin at the time. All these witnesses were subjected to close and lengthened examination, and deposed to a great num ber of facts connected with the disaster; but nothing calculated to alter materially the main incidents already before the public. Oae of them stated, that had the boats remained near the wreck, and not pursued the schooner, more lives might have been saved; but all seemed to agree that both on board the ill-fated ship and after she bad sunk every effort was used that, under the circumstances, was prectesble. The ec:upants of the boats dated that they could not, without danger, take iu more than they held; that they beard no cries and saw no cases of distress which they did not seek to relieve; that the heaviness of the surf, in their judgment, rendvred landing impossible; and, in short, that they aced fur the brat in the trying emer gency. As to the course which the ship was steering, it was proved that she was some three miles from shore, whien, however, was not •isible in the darkness; that the soundings were taken; that the rate of speed at the time was 7 keots; that a light had been discerned shortly before the catastrophe took place, and that the sound of the surf WhS not distinguishable.. It was also shown that the boats were in perftct order for launching had time permitted; that the captain was perfectly col lected, and that the orders which he issued were obeyed; that the engines were backed for two minutes atter the ship struck, and that she yielded to them; that in ten minutes the fires were completely extinguished, and that she went down in less than half an hour. Questions were put to the witnesses, not only by the members of he court7inartiel, but by the prisoners, and at six P et. he Court was adjourned till to- , morrow morning. - - EXPERIMENTS WITH ANCHORS. Woomvicli, MAY S.—TWO anchors, in addition to those previously described , were delivered a t Woolwich Dockyard on Monday last , o ne by a u American named Isaacs, which has au arra n g em e nt to prevent w h a t i s technically termed " foulieg." The other, by Brown, Lennox and Co., Admiralty contractor, differs only slightly from Sir William Yarker'a plan in section and in length of shank, and with a p alm more s p ear-sha p ed. The testing the seven anchors for trial with the usual strain applied to anchors of similar weight when de livered for service commenced on Monday afternoon by placing one of Lieutenant Rogers's anchors, weighing 19 owl. albs., in the testing-frame, and applying a strain of 198 tons, when the first tested arm was found to have deflected 5-16ths of an inch, and the other s.l6ths, both returning to their original position when the strain was_ . withdrawn. On Mr. Mitobeson's anchor, Weigh ing cwt. 141 b., being subjected to a 'train of 21# tend,.en In t Ge ee. fleeted to the point of the palm extending * sured from the shank, and the other arria_g n a w v?l,f l e l i Y r the same result, the palms returning to n w_ab o l ti l r """ entire original position from the deflection i and t o the shauk. original position when measure i t 3, _ ar o f 20 owl* Brown, Lennox, and Co'e. a o i.h 2 liv tons a pplied, 3 qra. 10;h., on ing deflected and * from the siraanala being withdrawn the similar result, and on the stra in both arms giving a d and the arms resumed deflection was entirely r em ove d, , anchor, their original position. °T.vritteethsdeaytesbiori;gl..eiraoat'an and a of 21 cwt. 1410., was plac e d ld, and was found to deflect of strain of 21i tons applied , and an inch, and the dis . t d an t le h ce n from the shank, d ee d the withdrawn both arms re sumed Mr . Trotman's anchor, result. On the strai n their origi n a l l r p , had a strain of 21i toes up. weighing 21 ow e t. ted ci; the point of the arm extending plied, and defle cted 3-16 from the shan k ; and onwitthheouotthearnyaremxtebnesiinogn t r ied the defl ect i o n was , of the arm, and on the strain being withdrawn the deflection returned to * and the arms to their origi nal position. M r. Honibalre anchor, w e i g hi ng 20 cwt. 3 qr.a7lb., had a strain of 21i tons applied, and th e deflection w as, arias, and the exten s i on o f the ar and the other arm gave exactly the same result. On the strain being withdrawn the first tested are returned to its or iginal position, and the deflection of the other to within *, and to its entire original position when measured tram tke shank. Lieutenant Rogers's kedge anchor, weighing 20 cwt. 1 qr., was placed in a testing frame, and on a strain of 21* tons being applied, the deflection was 1 inch, the point of the arm extending of an inch from the shank. The deflection when the other arm was tested was 1 3-16th inches, and the extension I of an inch, and on the strain being withdrawn, the deflection on the one side returned to 6.16 and the arm to its original position. The deflection on the other side returned to 4 of an inch and the arm to its original po sition. The anchors are now lying on the wharf, ready to be transferred to Sheerness to contend for the , palm of superiority as regards their holding properties, and will subsequently be brought back to Woolwich dockyard to undergo an ultimate or breaking strain, in order to determine the greatest degree both of maximum strength and holding properties, the two great essentials for an anchor. A committee of EiX naval officers and six of the most eminent shipowners, assisted by Par. Atherton, chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, have consented to DCA as jurors on this occasion. Oat of rather more thin 30 persons who exhibited anchors at the Great Exeibitiou in Hyde-park last year, 6 have responded to the invita tion to submit their inventions to actual tests and prac tical triels for I, uperiority. The anchors were weighed and tested wi h Alt their eteeki. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the Etna India House, when Lieutenant-Genera Lord Frederick Fitz. Clarence, G.C.H., of the company's was appointed Commander-iu-Chief Pally's farces on the Bombay CztabliSiiirient. LINCOLN'ti ItiN, MAT s.—The following members of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evoniug in the Hall :—Juhu Buck. bI.A.; Richard O. Turner, b'.A.; WilliamJ. Potts, Esc' ; Charles Lees , 8...1n'1 Francis 0. Ad ams , bI.A.; . J o hn f.i. Smith, B.A. ; a Augustus A. Vansittart, M.A. PaDITERS' DRAT.IAT IC .SOCIETY •--Ii 'll°:fal to the secre t.amaHighness the Duke of Cambridge tary of the Printers' Dramatic Soc h i:4%7 101. a1d 431. a . as n teur performan,ce at St. jaines's Thcatre,.oll Sat urd a y. t i t A f g, t i i h s e e funds of the Printers' Pensiett Society "" Endowment Faud. . DEA7FI OF MR. ALEXANDER MACKAY (From the Chronicle.) . Ir, is with sincete regret that we record the death, on his •;-- I; ty h ome , of air. Alexander Macti y ,••• thb author of the Western World," and lately the Coinmiseioner fedi tof the Manchester Chamber ot Commeire. Mr. Mackay was for many peers connected with this journal, end we cannot withhold ;hen hie name the tribute due to the 'memory of an able coadjutor and of a valued friend. By Mr. Mackay's untimely fate an opening career c) . great promise is cut short. Endowed with high mental qualities, possessed of a clear intellect and acute aril repid powers of reasoOng—a keen observer, and'an ih sinctive lover of truth—Mr. Mackay added to these gifts mast amiable disposition. These powers had been as certained, and were in the act of being applied to im portant public purpoies, when the climate of a het country, acting upon a naturally delicate constitution, cut him off—not, however, bei:oro he had to a great ex tent completed his hole , A lexeeder Mackay was the 'eon cf Mr. Mackey: a much-rcrpe6fed hank .4. in Invervess, and was born in eee , educated at the neigh t.hat town about 1824. fie tiouring town of Elein. and after weld; at Aberdeen. Famlly entente-tants kd him first to Canada, where he was destined for the c tloaLl bar, .end for some brief optic„ practised with repute. Journalisen• however, ter ms to have heft more attraction for Mr. Msoltay than prefee *nine! practise, and accordingly he soon became toe ego d uctor of a highly respentabie newspaper in Toronto. After residing in Canada for several years. end iravelliog over a greet portion of the proviuw-s and the .Stater, he re turned home in search of a wider sphere tinin could be efferded by colonial life. Ile was speedily gft ed in contection with deli jeureal, and so highly were his ,:cuteness and laziest rtnililties coin:teed, that he ass sent cut again by the Morning Chronicle to the Ueiteel States, for the purpose of examining the dip:omatie. bearings of the trea'tes as to the Maine bounden; tried observing the feelings of the American public ow the question. His letters upon these subjects were replete with most valuable information, and with clear and logical reasoning. Not long after his return, Mr.. Mackay published his " Western World." the great ability and comprehensive grasp of which were at once acknowledged. Tne book was indeed pronounced to be the best and most complete work ever written upon the Transatlantic Republic. Its success was great and immediate, and the volumes became at once a standard authority upon that most. important subject. The author's connexion with this journal was prolonged for some time afterwards. As one of our special correspondents, engaged in investigating the condition of the English rural population, Mr. Mackay rendered important services to the question of Labour and the Poor, while his versatile pen was frequently rs r devoted and successfully tur ne d t o ot h er top i cs o f ge neral lite rary a ndpoliticalA i t m e e t l h f e t s o e t t h t l e e m t oepnito f o o fe th e corn-law questionthe suffrage; and his pamphlet upon our system.of represen tation, with its analy s i s o f the constitution of the House of Commons, became a text-book which withit a large class of Re formers on the question oftxeated, and was repeatedly quoted in the House of Commons. that period Mr. Mackay determi ne d to devote Prom political life. He joined the Reform himselfty, a% d to de livered many able speeches at publi c meetingsf ar the metropolis upon the franchise question. He had be fore him the hope of ultimately entering Parliament; but he consented for a time to withdraw from home politics, and to accept from the Lancashire cotton interest a mission to India to investigate the possibility of extending the growth of the plant in our Eastern possessions. Somewhat more than two years ago he departed full of hope and spirit. He died on his passage home. The subjoined extract from one of our Manchester contem poraries will give additional particulars, besides show ing the high character Mr. Mackay had earned for him self in the East. Our melancholy task is over when we again express oar heartfelt sorrow at the loss of a highly promising author, a rising politician, an accomplished gentleman, and a most amiable man. (From the Manchester Examiner and Times.) It is with feelings of deep regret that we announce the death of Mr. Alexander Mackay, the Indian Com missioner, appointed by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Mackay loft this country on the 20th December, 1850, under the must favourable auspices— being accredited and recommended to the Chamber of Commerce of Bombay by the Chambers of Com merce of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and carrying with him the full confidence of the mercantile and manufacturing public connected with the cotton trade. The object of his mission also received the unanireour approbation of the British press, and .we have reason to know that it was regarded with good will by the leading members of the Administration. The main purpose of his appointment was to ascertain by an unbiassed but minute investigation on the spot, the real obstacles which prevent an ample supply of good cotton being obtained from the East Indies, and the Causes which impede the extension of our commerce with that country. The mission was one requiring great industry, intel ligence, and sound judgment, on the parts of the indi vidual selected for the arduous and responsible under taking ; and it was peculiarly fortunate for the jute rests represented by the body with whom the mission originated, that they were able to 'secure the services of a gentleman so eminently qualified iu every respect to carry out their views. Mr. Mackay's inquiry embraced a multitude of details, all bearing on the main subject of the mission—such as the meats provided by the Indian toverament to promote the internal as well us the ex. ptt trade of the ceentry over which they rule—the nature of the rot is by %%bleb the prodece ot the interior is brought to the eea,t—the ea , Pea , e f inter conorneica tion between neighbouring de.tricia—the state and tuatiag,me.nt of docks, piers, quays, Sec.—the condition of the agricultural population, and the circumstances which tend to stimulate or repress their industry—the nature of the land tenure, partimilar/y with reference to the security of the cubivator—the (anoint and kind of taxelon, and the made of levying nod connecting it— ail departments of irleiry requiting minute and im partial pereetial o bservation. On his arrival, Mr. Mackay was cordially received by the Bombay Chamber of Cennnierce, end every facility afforded to him for the prosecution of his inquiries, which were continued during the whole of last year, and the results of which have been from time to time transmitted home. The Whence of the climate of India, was, however, too much for a constitution not naturally robus., a nd he was compelled to terminate his labours t h a n he had anticipated , a nd endeavour to r egain s h o ir er h ea nn by leaving she country. In a letter ad dressed to the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, dated March 30 t h, he mentions his intention of returning at the he time, states that before. hire, he had succeeded in traversing atoisEesoigelahnadd, but, ofthe • - portion of the cotton field disabled h the greater to the condition, wants, and pros portant conclusions u.e and that he had from actual observation arrived at inn.' the , district pe-his return home , by the aid ets ofile cotton trade in greatin question, and that he hoped, on . of re ' newed health, to make the information he had gathered c:lCsucive to the common banefit of India and England. These unticipations, alas! were not destined to be We are told that al i f tis a t. o hour of his death, ' realised. Ho lat "14 on the 3ct o f April, but his gradually failed until the 15th, on the evening dayilt le e e ü bga i t w he it il hut hi h s an d t h a t up to that Tried /In retained the full use of tale jam i t i ee , having, previous to his dissolution made se h tf o r Fff i te e hh r e his will and ceufil.d his papers to the care of ' • res. a renew pa„ecgter, to be trensima.ed to his brother in Inverness. Th es e and other details are cont a i ne d in be / 0 0 e addressed bit 'Mr. 4.ithur Latham, a mercantile gentietnaP,w l p was on beard ti .e saute vessel, to Mr. Bailey, the, president of-the .Chamber of Commerce. With the regret inseperable from the untimely fate of Mr. Mackay is mingled a fe main object a hi s talabloll eling of sati s f ac ti on that the has plished. not been left unaccom- "At sea, on board this Hon. Company 's, steamer p hn r . i u l 17, 185.2. , Mr. Alexander d(arSir ca A c y k Yo a du v a , li t w3 l; ; a il : .1\1,4 My suffered in India, be ve:as 0-1 doubt have heard . from l out ts to b l e e alth having h a s n er t i r ous b y the steamer of thel 3d inst., in the b a o 7 p e e t th e at c t u he change _would strength gradually failed, _would benefit him. Thi s , h owever , w a s not to i 3 e. its liver until the evening of the 15th, hen the doctors su ppo se that an abscess ot the liver burst into the lungs, already diseased, and saffacation and consequent death ensued. I am glad to say that he suffered little until with• in half an hour of his decease, and until then also re tained the full possession of his faculties. The captain has confided to me his papers for delivery to Mr. Thomas Mackay, of Inverness, whom be has lett his sole legatee and executor, under a.will drawn up a few hours before 'his deith. These I purpose to send by the first steamer to Messrs. Arbuthuot, Bwart, and Co., of Liverpool; and I have suggested to Mr. Mackay that on their arri val ho should select those of a private nature, and ar range with those of Mr. Mackay's friends on whose behalf he came out to India as to the disposal of the remainder " It is at . Mr. Mackay's own request, made when all that I now address you; and any hope furthermos t wasinformation happya t a o n s e this sad affair I shall be afford respectingo;dy ou,onyour addressing me a line, to the care of Messrs. Artbuthnot, Ewart, and Co. where I expect to be about three weeks or a month hence.—Mt anti= I am very truly yours, .... " AST/11111 J./AVIAN. Thomas Bszley, Esq., Manchester." ___.--• . GREAT ALEN. _ Bouvet „„,. THEIR MOMENTS OF COMposIT. isi-rTece.s• Bulvver wrote posed his grand sermons on his scented; influence before his first novels in full dress, commencing his great work, inv oked ni tho the Holy Spirit; Chryseetoui prayed while contemplating a knelt down before cornposi%" g reat yoorpsoua „ o ve ti r th r a il t ili t4 o • 7 l ,to ilO p Se of well he ra i tTn,l l BC or S a vv i notr work, Bacon without 13 1 i o g u b t t first fr' g . piayiug a prelude on voice. Bentham cout" k " irg ..stite.k.ntatailar" and the organ, or his pullet:. Saint Winitd 4. patTrandiai';dration, riG , ss ,d the w,:otis.. CALDO OS composed his e s w ith she roar of lattle in hi* eftsz.; re n i v e sc r d or h t i n s;: i ‘,% e !a _ „t Was r a y s ui , l 4 d o i t vr tn . _ ti t ra , ...io wrote bits „- in the meld ce4r; Rqesse,, a finest pAcees to ~art y in the znurvi t , l4 . L 4 wr „to wor • T , °age. at mict ayter, at 1: 10,,e re, tour iu a c i n a r i n i ng , and %%rutc, 1111 hie at night. L•s, Fonsaine orote bi 3 Fables chic fIY indeir ahue,e of aitree. Pas cal wrote most of his '1.11.-vughts on Hale wraps of parer, t his by-motnetits. Luther, r‘heiisludying, always had his dog lying at his kat. Calvin ttnise.l in his bet Kleine compassed his verees while walking about, reciting 1 them in ti lou d "jet. —Eliza Cook's Journal. The convict William Baldry, who was lE ft for execution at the recent Suffolk assizes, for attempting to murder his wife by means o f administering arsenic, has been reprieved during her Majesty's pleasure. He will be !fent Lc" . 91310 POW lAtt,Lemolat 110.41101 es, sr, 'ea Ef•SC i 130 0 111 it 0 0 yell s e'. . . .° ; 1 "_' 9 '" "' 5 '" 5 0 6 - - - 2 0 5 3 7 1 0 5 9