The Sun. — London, England, 1846-05-28 00:00:00

EPSOM RACES. The gnat event brought to an issue yesterday after noon, taken as a betting race, was perhaps one of the least profitable to book-makers that it has ever been our task to describe, owing, we conceive, less to the growing importance of the Spring Handicap than to the heavy losses sustained by some of the leading specula tors in Capel-conrt. And if it showed a falling off in the amount of money at stake, it, until recently, pre sented few of those exciting movements amongst the favourites that gave so much importance to the transactions at the corner, the only remarkable features having been the infatuation with which, in the face of warnings that, if not given in direct words, were suf ficiently intelligible to all but the wilfully blind, thousands were lavished upon animals that the published reports of the betting must have told had no earthly chance. But if the race lost caste as a betting event, it has sustained its supremacy with the public. In truth, the enormous extension of Derby clubs, which are now established in almost every house of entertainment in the kingdom, temperance hotels not excepted, has diffused an interest amongst all classes, and thus created an inducement to witness the denouement of a race in which their hopes and fears had been so deeply involved. The benefit to those interested in the success of Epsom Races that resulted from this mania, was seen yester „day in the immense crowd gathered on the Downs. The the Corner, both sides of the straight run in, and every spot of the ground that afforded even a glimpse of the course, was covered The splendour and animation of the scene, heightened by the beauty of the weather, and the gay colours that met the eye in every direction, have never laten sur- Passed. There certainly was a falling off in the number of horsemen, but this might hare been expected ; the removal of the circle, or ring, on the hill, and the an nouncement that the betting, as well as the saddling, would be in the vicinity of the Grand Stand, took away the chief inducement to equestrada , and thus caused the throng near the ending post to be much g reater dun we have seen on any former occasion. The Stand was the centre of attraction to all who preferred to them selves a cool and comfortable enjoyment of the racing. The character of the visitors was, perhaps, less aristo cratic than of old, but a more fashionable disp'ay we have never met in this spacious, and, as now ordered, most convenient edifice ; in mere numbers, the attend ance was unprecedented, and the receipts, we trust, will have satisfied its enterprising proprietor that his efforts to elevate the character of the meeting, and to consult the convenience of all classes, have been appreciated. The large room at the western extremity, with the lawn in front, the latter rendered available for the pur pose of business,_ by the erection of a circular rail way in the centre, was understood to be devoted to the use and behoof of the subscribers at "the corner ;" the crush, however, was so great as to lead to a suppo sition, that many found their way in, whose features Would not he recognised at Tattersall's ; whereat the bona fide subscribers grumbled exceedingly. Apart ments were reserved for the use of the Jockey Club and their friends, and the magistrates, still leaving ample room for Mr. Careless, who, as usual, had the care of the r efreshments. Immense as was the crowd within the Grand Stand, the proprietors of the minor ones had no reason to be dissatisfied with their share of patronage ; t hey were, one and all, full to overflowing. In short, tot to be prolifix on features that have been so often de scribed, it was a " grand day," in the fullest sense of the W ord ; it proved that John Bull has lost none of his r elish for a sport that throws all others into the shade. Having treated of matters preliminary to it, we may 11 °w bestow our attention upon the race itself. The start was fixed for half-past two; and trainers having, by Permission of Sir Gilbert Heatbcote, walked their horses round the large paddock contiguous to the " w ere, on the elevation of a large flag on the roof of the stand, conducted to' the course, and having been saddled in front, and pa sse d the ordeal of criticism before the with th ousan d s congrega t e d i n thi s v i c i n ity, were , nearer approximation to the time than is usual on F l eet races, cantered round to the starting-post. Mr. ibbard's efficiency as a starter was a guarantee that the ev ent._ would come off without a repetition of those irri tating disappointments which, in the " good old times," Were the unfailing preludes to the Derby. One failure " 1 Y occurred ; at the second attempt the horses quitted the post, and at five minutes before three a movement ?Mongst the horsemen on the hill, followed by one long prolonged shout from the stand, proclaimed the start for The Derby Stakes of 50 goys. each, h ft, for three years old ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 21b ; the owner of the second horse to receive 100 sovs. out of the stakes, and the winner to pay 100 sovs. towards the police regulations of the course Last mile and a hal'. (193 Subs.) Mr. Gully's Pyrrhus the First (S. Day) 1 Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes.... General Shubrick's Brocardo (Holmes) 3 The following also started, but were not placed : Lord Maidstone's Torn Tulloch Sir G. Heathcote's cby Hetman Platoff... ...... (Chapple) 0 Mr. Johnstone's Grimston (Lye) 0 Mr. Drake's Bold Archer.. Lord Chesterfield's Ginger (Duffle) 0 ...Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum... (Sly) 0 str• Meiklatn's Fancy Boy • (Templeman) 0 Colonel A nson ' s lago ... .••• . (F. Butler) 0 Mr. O'B r i en ' s Th e Traverser Mr. Drinkald's Widred (Mann) 0 Mr. E. Peel's Spithead . ,giorrd E Russell's Sting (H. Bell) 0 RBulkeley' s J o i nv ill e I N cr.ilerry's Pe r i co lt (Robinson 0 Mr. • Alostyn's cby Phceaix—L'Hirondelle ,,(Marlow) 0 R. Clark's The Conjuror .. ............(E. Edwards) 0 Mr, Wall's Cro wn P r i nce (W a k e fi e l d) 0 Mr Cantle). (Pettit) 0 amsay's Malcolm _Lord Orford's B ( lackie (Robertson 0 Whitehouse 0 Lord Eglinton's Sotad e s (Masson) 0 Batthyany's Tragical ..... (Crouch) 0 Balchiles Sir Edmund . (W, Balchin) 0 41 i ; T. P owe l l ' s Holloway (Chifney) 0 i d ritting at Starting.-5 to 1 agst Fancy Boy -8 to 1 agst - wrondell e -10 to 1 agst Tom Tulloch-10 to 1 agst Sting 7-10 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes-10 to 1 agst Conjurnr— „ll to I agst Humdrum - 1 5 to 1 agst Pen colt-25 to 1 agst Br ocardo-25 to 1 agst lago-40 to 1 agst Nanette colt-50 to 1 agst Joinville-50 to 1 agst Sotades-50 to 1 agst The traverser, and 100 to 1 agst Grimstone. Sir Edmund horses following him for about 200 yards. Blackie then took °l 3 the running, atten d e d by The Conjuror, Sir Edmund, The Traverser, J o inville, Tragical, Grimston, and Spithead; Tom Tulloch, Sting, lago, Brocardo, and Fancy Boy lying In advance of the second ruck , and in the rear , last but one , zir Tatton Sykes. They ran in this order at a good but far from a superior pace, to the commencement of the turn, Sir Tatton there being last but four, and as some of his friends Who were stationed there, imagined, altogether out of the race. The Conjurer here went up to Blackie„ and went oa With a slight lead, until half way between the tarn and the road, when both having had enough IT it, the running was taken up by Grimstone, Brocardo, who had reached the front rank at the turn, taking the seco n d pl ac e, J o inville thi r d, T om T u ll oc h, Sting, Pyrrhus the First, and Fancy Boy next, well ,`,!'_ l :ld Sir Tatton Sykes also getting into the first flight in Sing round the bend. This order was kept until within Sirnee and a half of home. Grimstone then gave way, the Tattoo Sykes went in advance, followed by Pyrrhus "ta st, Brocardo third, and Joinville fourth, in which re lationi 9 1 ey neared the Stand. Sir Tatton's lead then began calling and at the centre of the inclosure, Sam Day. upon his horse, reached him in the last two or three strides, and won by a neck, beating—not the horse, but his rider who u ' t was too m uc h ex h a usted to finish ; Brocardo third, tha length from the winner, beating Joinville not more Bov a head. were well up, b ut so Tom Tulloch, Sting, lago, and Fancy ciistvely c lose together that we cannot say which was fifth; our opinion lea ns towards Tom .. 111 "h• There seems to be no doubt that S ir Tatton Sykes in ° l l,l have won h ad he not l a id so much out of his ground the early p to m p art of the race, or had Scott been in a condition a"e the most of him at the end. Sting too lost his chanceobe conseqnence of Spithead having crossed him, and ged, Bell to pull back and go round his horses—a cir 1, Instance that led to a complaint of foul riding against b ad n , cis- Fancy Boy was still more unfortunate; he was turri 7licked twice ice before the race, and . in running round the l ook was run against, and almost . Isnocked down ; he was tm tog well at the time, and notwithstanding the loss of 1 1 ,—U nd consequent on the accident, finished respectably. he race was run in 2 min. 55 sec. P revious to starting, The Conjuror was objected to on the taeore of age, and a counter objection was made by Mr. E. B. Clark against Tom Tulloch . The Carew Stakes of 5 sovs . each, with 30 added ; three years old, 7st 101 b; four, Bst 111 b; five, 9st 21b; six and aged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 120 soy's. One mile. Mostyn's c by Hetman Platoff, out of Miss Thema ....sins, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 c. Rainsbottem's c by Mus, out of Belvidere, 4 yrs (H. Bell) 2 Mr. Walker's The Attorney-General, 6 yrs (Lye) 3 Mr. York's Bletsoe Lass, 5 yrs getting —Even and 6t05 on Hetman Platoff colt Won by three lengths. The winner claimed. The Polesdon Stakes of 5 sows. each, with 30 added; three- Years-old, 7st 101 b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 21b ; six and a ged, 9st 61b. Mares and geldings allowed 31bs. New T.Y.C. Drewatt's Prudence, 4 vrs ... (Esli n g) 1 Mn, Ford' s Th e Attorney, 4 yrs ... ............ (J. Howlett) 2 Mr. Walker's The Nobbler, 5 yrs ..... (Lye) 3 Gr T o he following also started, but were not placed :—Gen. svenor'a Scarlet Runner —Duke of Rutland's Alexa—Mr. the Tailors—Sir G. ea sister to Devil among Lion's Gram in. ea thcote's fby Liverpool—Mr. John- Betting-5 to 2 agst Alex ral-4 to 1 agst Liverpool 6474 to 1 agst Attorney-Gene- Won by half a length, the Nobblesd 5 to 1 agst Prudence. claimed. a bad third. The winner The Burgh Stakes of 5 sovs. each, v s l t i 30 added ; three yrs old, 8.,t 21b ; four, Bst 111 b ; five geldings allowed 3lbs. . and aged, .9st winner x a to t be 41b ; mares and sold for 80 soles. Last half-mile. ' The Mr. Cooper's Caen, 6 yrs •• . Mr. Ford's br c The Attorney, 4 yrs ......... Mr. T. Walker's The Nobbler, 5 yrs .............. ....... ...... 2 The following also st arter!, but were not placed. ; • -Div, J. S. Douglas's Lucile —Mr. E. Mason's Malvoisie-111r. 'n % Osbal deston's Brother to Sore lla—Mr. T. Smith 's Antonio— Smith's BrOMptoll—Mr. Greville s Motilla—M r . T. Dawso Montgomerie Betting 2 to 1 against Caen and 4 to 1 agai ns t M otilla tw o lengths; Nobbler a bad thi r d, and. Won in a canter by great tailing amongst the others. LATEST OAKS BETTING. 2 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant 4 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mowerina 6 to 1 agst Sir C. Monck's Vanish 8 to 1 agst Treen's lot 11 to 1 agst Mr. Preston's Osprey 12 to I asst L Ord G. Bentinck's Princess Alice 20 to 1 agst Lord Orfortr's Prussic Acid RomTow.—On Monday night, the 18th instant, a fire broke out in the High-street of this town, by which seventeen dwel -1458 were destroyed by the flames, and at the request of the Rev. V. . P. Somerset, the rector, Fred. Kitson, Esq., and several other re !pectable inhabitants, an inquiry was made before H. R. Aberdeen, coroner, as to the cause of its taking place. The jury, after rne consideration, returned a verdict that the said dwelling-houses ere wilfully and maliciously set on fire, but by whom no evidence a PPeared.— Western Times. The match at cricket between the Universi t y and to_ o Cambridge was played on Monday and Tuesday, to the dis mature of the former. The number scored by the University at two i nnings.. was 213, and by the town at the first innings , 209. The ~11 1 L1 111a d,.tilerefore, only seven to score at the seconcl innings, ulor Plked pro Arma yesterday. LITERATURE. TEM INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF FREE NATIONS. Vol. I.—The Greeks. Vol. IL—The Dutch. By IV. Torrens M'Cullagh. These volumes display great research, vast store of historical knowledge, an intimate acquaintance with the relations between the various states of ancient Greece and those of the United Provinces of Holland, and at the same time combine with much learning the most rational views on the causes which led to the astonish ing wealth, power, and fame of these distinguished com munities. Many of the false notions respecting the greatness of Greece, the superior virtue, or patriotism, or bravery of certain divisions of the country, to the disadvantage of others, and the high ideas instilled into youth at our public schools, not of the in dustry, perseverance, and commercial activity of the Greeks, but of their skill in war, their matchless brayery, and their principles of training youth, in many respects so objectionable, are justly cxposed and the real merits of the people brought into full view.- The remarks on this subject in reference to the absurd praises bestowed upon Spartan legislation and Spartan bravery show judgment and a real knowledge of what consti tutes a nation's greatness : " Among the numerous perversions of truth which a.re systematically foisted upon our youth through the medi.ain of the miserable thin g s entitled school-histories, there are few more immoral and corrupting than the fabulous tales of Spartan virtue. For anything that appears to the contrary in these lying epitomes, the national and social excellence of Greece might be taken for a plant indigenous, specially in Laconia, and chiefly cultured there, theugh a few of its golden seeds were shed from time to time over the barren hills of Peloponnessns and lonia. The delusion is, however, thanks to better habits of historical inquiry, beginning to disappear. We are getting somewhat clearer conceptions of the parts respectively played by Corinth, Samos, lEgina, Chios, Megara, and the other enterprising secondary states in the season of Greek youth and prime; and learning to mete with truer measure the praise so long engrossed, under false pretences, by one which, with vaster resources than any of them, did less for the literature, the arts, the industry, the social elevation, or the constitutional freedom of Greece than the least of the three score city-states around her." This is a fair specimen of the author's views, but gives only a very imperfect sketch of his acquaintance with Greek history, his selection of circumstances which con tributed to the superior prosperity and wealth of certain states as compared with others, and the comprehen sive outline given of the commercial, poli tical, and - domestic institutions of this celebrated people from their very commencement, " when their Hellenic ancestors had come from steed-famed Thes saly, and imposed the impress of their worship and their rule on the Pelasgic race," to the period when cor ruption and disunion weakened the different states, and they began to yield to more powerful neighbours. The volume on Holland, though it was nothing classical, is no less interesting, because it shows what really esta blishes and constitutes the greatness of a people, what can be done by industry, perseverance, and the observ ance of public faith, and how superior was the practical knowledge of the Dutch to the vague and endless theories of the ingenious Greeks on government, both as regards the power, the wealth, and the independence of a country. In these respects the Dutch leave the Greeks, and perhaps all other nations far be hind. " Holland," says the author, with perfect truth, " a s she stands at the present day, is the greatest fact in the industrial history of free nations. Not only have the Dutch done more in days gone by, with less means than any other people in Europe for maritime discovery, enterprise and trade, and for the practical application of sound principles of banking, insurance, public credit, and currency ; but, despite their unparalleled necessities and financial difficulties, they have i❑ the main pursued a more consistent tone of liberality in trade than—with the single exception of the Swiss—any other free people to the present time." The volume on Holland gives by far the best summary we have seen of the history of the Dutch, and will be found not only interesting as a his tory, but useful as a book of reference. COURT LIRCULAR. The following bulletin of her Majesty's health was issued yesterday : " Buckingham Palace, May 27, 1846, "Nine o'clock A.M. " The Queen has slept perfectly well. " Her Majesty and the infant Princess are going on favourably. (Signed) " JAMES CLARK, M.D. " CHARLES LOCOCK, M.D. " ROBERT FERGUSON, ALD." Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace yesterday morning. His Royal Highness Princess Albert rode out on horseback yesterday, attended by the Equerry in Wait ing the Hon. Captain Gordon. Her Royal Highness visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge called at Buckingham Palace yesterday to inquire after the health of her Majesty. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duchess of Cambridge visited his Royal High ness Prince Albert yesterday. The inquiries after her Majesty's health were again very numerous. . The Queen was going on perfectly well last evening. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, honoured the ])uke of Wellington with their company at dinner yesterday at Apsley House. The Noble Directors of the Concerts of Ancient Music had the honour of meeting their Royal Highnesses. After dinner the Noble Duke, and his illustrious guests pro ceeded to the Hanover-square R 001139, to honour the per formance of the Concert of Ancient Music with their presence. Prince Alfred took an airing yesterday in the pleasure grounds of Buckingham Palace. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of Winchester, Chichester, Exeter, Gloucester and Bristol, Hereford, Lincoln, Norwich, Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester ; Earls of Devon, Bessborough, and Chichester, and Right Hon. 11. Hob►bouce. VOCAL CuNCERTS, HANOVER- SQUARE ROOMS. The third of these classical performances took place on Tuesday evening, and was, we are happy to say, at tended by a much larger audience than either of its pre decessors, and an audience, moreover, which proved by their attention that it understood and appreciated the fine music of our old masters. Miss Birch was unfortu nately labouring under illness of so severe a character as to prevent her being present. Her place was supplied by Miss Ley and Miss Rollo Dickson. The chorus, under the direction of Mr. Turle, was admirably drilled, and no • thing could be finer than the way in which the madrigals (Benet's " All creatures now Are merry-minded, and Wilbye's "Flora gave me fairest flowers,") were given. The glees, too, were admirably given by Mr. H. Phillips, Mr. Lockey, and Miss M. B. Hawes. "By Celia's ar bour" (Horsley), " Oh! Bird of Eve" (Lord Mornington), and "Return blest Days" (Stafford Smith), were enthu siastically encored. Of the solo performances, the finest undoubtedly were " 0 beautiful daughter of Spring" (Beethoven), by Mr. Hobbs, and " In infancy our hopes and fears" (Arne), by Miss M. B. Hawes. SADLERS' WELLS. The last concert for the season took place here last evening, under the direction of Mr. F. Chatterton. Among the vocal and instrumental performers engaged were Miss Maria B. Hawes, Miss Dolby, Mr. llarrison, Mr. Henry Phillips, Mr. John Parry, Mr. Distin and his four sons (Saxe-horns), Signor Camillo Sivori (violin), Mr. Richardson (flute), Mr. Chatterton (harp); &c. The theatre was exceedingly crowded, and the attention and anthusiastic applause which accompanied the execution of the more popular compositions, testified that the numerous auditory fully appreciated the enter tainment. Miss Dolly was encored in Mercadante's " Ah to Riedt," and a similar honour was conferred on the Distins' performance on the Saxe-horns, on John Parry's "Fayre Rosamond," who of course substituted another comic song for it, and on Camillo Sivori's Fan tasia on the violin, who, following the prevailing fashion for substitutes, gave the " carnival of Venice." PLYMOUTH, MAY 26.—Her Majesty's frigate Raleigh, 50, Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, which left Portsmouth at one o'clock on Sunday, hove in s'ght of the citadel with a blue ensign at the peak between four and five o'clock this morning. At that hour she was descried over the Rennie rocks to the east of the harbour, all sail set, with light wind from the northward. At six o'clock, when reaching to the eastward, she hoisted her signals at the main royalmast-head, namely, a yellow flag and a blue and yellow flag over the union-jack, and lowered her main royal. At a quarter to seven these signals were acknowledged by the telegraph at Mount Wise. She then shook a reef out of her topsails, fore, main, and mizen, and tacked to the westward, against a light contrary wind and ebb tide. At half-past nine o'clock she was about three miles to the south of the western end of the breakwater, when she was boarded by Mr. Walker, the harbour-master. She then saluted the flag of Port-Admiral Sir John West, which was answered by the Caledonia, 120, Captain Manly H. Dixon. Having been laid close in towards the breakwater, the Ra leigh entered Cawsand Bay, and then reached into the Sound, where her sheets were let fly and sail shortened in good style, and she was skilfully moored at half-past ten o'clock. The Raleigh seems to carry hergfuringsahteigghivoeustgorfeatht satisfaction. the water, the general appearance of this line LAUNCH OF THE SHIP BARHAM AT BLACYWALL.— f t y h e e s t n e r r i d t a c y l a s t sh took r p e l s a t l e e n g a e t v t h e net dockyard of Mr. mßiecrhcarhadn Gr e ene vs l tl o re welt-known ship-builder of Blackwall. The Barham is a splendid t v i e lo s u se s i a o n f d l p ,loo tons burden, and has been built for the East India trade under the immediate superintendence of the owner. The launch came off at three o'clock in the afternoon, before several lie rirsedtvritrhdd place which a glance at the launch could be obtained, being cor friends, the dockyard, the Blackwall pier, and every other christened by Lad y' eimasiii:end.lateAl: a : f,m, theeo were e t Ai respectable a a rd s . y g G e E r r n ei b lag e . Lo rd Ellenbor o u g h , party , minutes after thre el e enn o b°t" aa:tfeeryweErldienborough, with the usual oc r l boo o'clock kg presenth , t a h and d formalities; and music of a band stationedavoennsus the r numerous l e was ro:l es amid the cheers of the spectators, the of the cannon discharged on f the pier, and the loud-sounding welcome of the dockyard, the " dog g ro s m a neighbouring yacht moored abreast vessel glided gracefully shores " were struck away, and the ma jestic The vessel plunged several the bosom of its future element. of Greenwich, when hundred yards into the river in the di rectionb y four steam-tugs, wbo brought she was swung round and taken in tow copper-bottomed and fitted up with masts to the dock, to be there will he ready for sea in six weeks. Afterand rigging. The Barham dejeliner was prepared in the mould loft, the launch a magnificent guests and the friends of Mr. Green were invited. which the elite of the Ye' sel will shorily he launched from the same yard, Another large The Head Mastership of the ]Dorchester School has become vacant by the ret,r chester Grammar ement of the Rev. Richard Cutler. The election of a successor is to take place next Saturday, the 30th inst. _ EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES, &C. —At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Henry and Mar garet Barnaby, two persons of respectable appearance, brother and sister, the former living at Harefield, and the latter at Kensington, were committed on a charge of having been concerned in stealing, in the month of January last, a wooden cash-box, containing Bank of England and other notes, with title-deeds,leases, and other securities, to a very large amount, from the King's Arms Inn, in the village of Hareteld, about two miles from Uxbridge, the property of Mr. John jtateliftV, the laellord. TUE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1846. GUERNSEY SfNGtJ 7 LAR CASE AT (From the United Service Gazette.) A j,idi. ;jai occurrence has recently taken place in the Island of Guernsey, which we feel it a duty to visit with what we conceive to bewell-raerited censure. It apps ars that a private of the depot of the 27th, named Tb omas Curry, v,as arraigned before the Royal Court for misdemeano.„,r, and near the close of the trial captain )f the s'Adier's company—Captain Cole, wh o N s ‘ p i o t k ne e s i s .o 'w ur e a r b e i, e y al i i n e" .. . :. tto character. One of them was the 'defence of the accused. One of the jurats of the ( ,:ourt in giving judgment on the case, said, " lie f ound in all the cases brought before the Court, that the officers gave a good character to the accused. These g ,entlemen perhaps only looked to the qualities of the men', its soldiers, but certain it was that they gave good c . .tiaraeters to the worst men. Fossey, of the 48th, was ,ne of the worst men in the corps, and yet he re ceiv al a good character from his officers ; and so it was in almost every case which occurred. He therefore could ariosy no weight to the testimony which had been given fa your of the prisoner." A more glaring piece of absurdity, in utter mockery of lr.w and justice, it has seldom been our lot to contena plat e ; and though the matter ought to be canvassed in calmness of spirit, yet it is almost impossible, whilst pe rusing such gross and insulting remarks, to refrain from giving free vent to indignation. The Learned Jurat no doubt consider( d himself perfectly safe upon the bench whilst uttering his totally unfounded calumnies upon brave and honourable officers of the British army. Capt. Cole could not refuse to come forward and give his testi mony, and to whom are the privates to look for kindness and protection if it is denied to them by their superiors? But it would be monstrous to suppose that a gentleman over whom such restrictions prevail should falsify his oath, his honour, and his veracity, to screen the guilty. Captain Cole holds her Majesty's commission, and must, consequently, be esteemed a man of firm rectitude, on whom the imputation of a falsehood would be destruc tive to character—he speaks on behalf of the prisoner, and Justice Midas Dobre3 coolly insults, not only him, but the entire British army, from the misnomered "judgment-seat." We scarcely know in what terms to speak of this totally uncalled-for indignity upon gentle men infinitely superior to the individual who presumes to perpetrate it. With this and other glaring facts before their eyes, the Government at home cannot fail to adopt some measure for cleansing the Royal Court ; fur it is monstrous that it Jurat should decide that the received evidence of good conduct from the officer of a prisoner, given on oath, shall have no weight whatever in the judgment he purposes giving. A writer in the Guernsey Advertiser of the 18th offers the following remarks:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE GUERNSEY ADVERTISER. Sir,—Junius, in one of his letters to Chief Justice Mansfield, has the following note :—" In one of them (referring to a political trial of the day), Judge Aston had the unparalleled impudence to tell Mr. Morris, a gentleman of unquestionable honour and integrity, and who was then giving his evidence on oath, that he should pay very little regard to any affidavit he should make." Thus spoke the indignant Junius, of a corrupt judge. After a long lapse of years, it has been reserved to a Jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey, to adopt the " unparalleled impudence" of Judge Aston;—Mr. Jurat Dobr6e has had the ambition to earn for himself this un enviable distinction. Upon the trial, which has just taken place before the Royal Court, of a soldier of the 27th depot, Captain Cole, to whose company the man be. longed, was called as a witness for the defence. Captain Cole's sworn testimony was favourable to the character of the accused soldier ; but Mr. Jurat Dobr63, dis , regarding alike the sacred office of the Judge, and the sanctity of an oath, dared to proclaim, from the judgment seat, that " He could allow no weight to the testimony which had been given in favour of the pri soner." Captain Cole's testimony was in favour of the soldier, and, for this special cause, Mr. Jurat Dobree presumed to cast discredit upon a British officer—equal in rank—equal in honour—and equal in integrity, to any one of the jurats of the Royal Court of Gurnsey. A greater and more unjustifiable indignity could not be put upon any gentleman ; and no jadge would so betray himself, if he felt the sacred, and responsible attributes of his office, and also if he felt what he owed to his own honour. To mark more strongly the partisan spirit of Mr. Debr6.3, as a judge, he went back, without right or necessity, to an old case of a soldier of the 48th depot, formerly quartered in Guernsey, with the sole motive, that he might cast an insult and indignity upon the officers of that regiment, not now in this island. Mr. Dobr6e, from political hostility, has deeply compromised the honour and character of the judicial institutions of this island ;—he has struck a blow, fatal for the in tegrity of the Royal Court of Gurnsey—fatal it may yet prove—to its future existence as a judicial body. " Judges," says Lord Bacon, " ought to be more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their por tion and proper virtue." Guernsey lately saw the testimony of an abandoned woman—a self-convicted felon —eagerly courted and implicitly credited, by Mr. Jurat Dobree and others, in order that—through this polluted witness—they might strike at the innocence of a soldier, then under trial for an alleged petty offence. Upon this disgraceful woman's evidence, the Royal Court of Guernsey found this inno cent soldier guilty, and sentenced him to imprisonment upon bread and water. The result was announced with a shout of triumph in the Guernsey Star, whose unprin cipled editor is the acknowledged hireling of the faction. The injured soldier was soon proved to have been inno cent ; and the Chief of the Court—the Presiding Judge on the trial—felt it his duty to represent the case to the Crown, and her Majesty immediately commanded the soldier to be instantly set at liberty. England will now hear, with one indignant feeling, that, while the Royal Court of Guernsey implicitly re ceived the testimony of a polluted witness, in order to convict an innocent soldier, a Jurat of the same Court has openly, and from the Bench, attempted to cast dis credit upon the testimony of a British officer of the highest honour, because this officer's evidence was fa vourable to an accused soldier. These are now facts in the history of Guernsey, and few will think that they reflect honour upon the administration of justice in this dependency of England. Identified with the British army by past recollections and associations, I know its honour. The honour of British officers stands firm and erect before the world, and bids a proud defiance to those who attempt to tar- ' nish it. lam not personally acquainted with Captain Cole, or any of the officers of the 27th Depot ; but the army feels that they support and uphold the honour and character of British officers ; and Captain Cole, I have no doubt, feels that the indignity cast upon him by a Jurat of the Royal Court of Guernsey, equally in volves the honour of the British Army ; and 1 am con vinced he has considered it his imperative duty to the service to bring the conduct of Mr. Jurat Dobr63 under the notice of the Head of the Army in this island, with a request that it may be submitted to her Majesty's Go vernment. The honour of British officers may be safely entrusted to General Napier, who is honoured by his Sovereign as one of her most gallant soldiers—a soldier sans pear et sans tache ; and Sir James Graham is not the Minister who will permit an indignity to be un justly cast upon the army. In a former letter I expressed an opinion that the course of events passing in Guernsey would, at no dis tant day, call forth the power of the Sovereign, and of the Imperial Government and Legislature. That opinion has not been unjustified. It is now certain that her Majesty's Government have issued a Royal Commission to inquire into the several institutions of Guernsey, more especially the constitution of the judicial tribunals, and their administration of justice ; and it may be safely trusted that the British Parliament will make such organic changes in the constitution of Guernsey, as are demanded by the advanced intelligence of the age— changes much wanted, in order to secure to the middle and lower classes the possession and protection of all their just rights, and make their interests no longer subservient to any privileged class. Guernsey will then be appointed to take its proper position amongst the other dependencies of England. F. HAMILTON, Formerly Captain and A. D. C. to Sir J. Elope. Guernsey, Feb. 16, 1846. The feelings expressed by Captain Hamilton are echoed, not alone by the army—they are taken up by the English press, and the British Parliament. A most unwarrantable indignity has been offered to every officer holding her Majesty's commission ; but we already see the day of well-merited retribution approaching. Her Majesty's Government will vindicate the honour of British officers, and will teach Mr. Jurat Dobree and the Royal Court of Guernsey, that they will no longer be suffered to insult honourable witnesses with impunity. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sir—lt is with very great surprise that I find in your paper of the 9th of February, 1846, the following words ascribed to Mr. H. Dobree. Mr. H. Debi 61 said : " That he found in all the cases brought before the Court, that the officers gave a good character to the ac cused. These gentlemen, perhaps, only looked to the qualities of the men as soldiers, but certain it was that they gave good characters to the worst tnen. Fossey, of the 48th regiment, was one of the worst men in the corps, and yet he received a good character from his officers." If Mr. Dobre3 so expressed himself (I sincerely hope he did not), he has attempted to take away the charac ter of a poor man: he has impugned the veracity of offi cers and gentlemen, and committed himself to a direct E'a 1 sehood; Private Fossey, of the 48th regiment, bore an excel lent character at the time referred to, as a good man and as a good soldier. There is no such -thing as a good soldier being a bad man, however much Mr. Dobree • may think fit to depreciate the military branch of her Majesty's service. The Royal Court of Guernsey (always excepting Mr. Debree), believed the testimony of the officers of the 48th Regiment, and I have no doubt will continue to do so. Mr. Dobree, in his place as jurat, is at liberty to ex• press his sentiments on matters brought before the Court; in so doing he had better confine his opinions to the laws of his country, and things he can form some estimate of, and leave the conduct and character of the British army alone. "Ne sutor ultra crepidam." I have the honour to be, sir, }'our obedient servant, CAVENDISH BOYLE, L j ie a u m t ai . 4 c B a t , h A ß p e r p, il t. 3 ,.and Adjutant of the depot daring its service in Guernsey. Kingston, FIRE AT A CA RD M ANUFACTORY . B e tween three and fsur o'clock yesterday afternoon, while the workmen were en gaged on the premises of Messrs. Reynolds and Son, card-makers, Vere.street, Clare-market, the heat became so intense, that they were unable to proceed, and on examining the cause, they discovered the wain scoting of the dryi ng -room on fire. They instantly sent for the engines, and assistance was speedily obtained. Meanwhile, the workmen had procured water from the New River main, and on the firemen reaching the spot, the destruction of that and the adjoining houses was preventel. The damage done, howev e r, was ver y ex tensive. The firm is insured In the County and .hand-in-Hand - Mom TRADES THE TUR The labourer and the capitalist, in the most logical sense, represent the same thing. The property of either is identical ; and . the terms by w hi c h it i s known, ac cording as it is possessed by th e one or the other, are convertible. What is capital, but the labour of yester day ? and what is labour, but the capital of to - day ? It is capital that pays for labour, and it is labour that gives profit to capital. Of all worldly things, the labourer should reverence capital, help to accumulate it, and strain every n erve to i ncrease its pro fi ts . M one y i s capital, and capital i s money. The la b ourers ' wages are thus paid by capital. The more capital there is in com parison to the supply of labour, the higher must wages become—the greater the supply of labour in proportion to capital, the less will labour be remunerated and, therefore, where there is less money than there are men, money will be of the greater value,and men of th e l esser . H ence , i n a ll poor countries labour is cheap, and in rich countries dear. In Ireland, where men are more abundant Than money, wages fall to 6d. ; in England, where there is more money than men,t)re j they and rtihsaento2s. ploughmen,e d. in they America, r reach wh . What a t u there nr is their stupid cant, think they serve the cause of the work ingeir deemed blockheads, then, must those men be who, in m men by emptying the vocabulary of Billingsgate upon that class of the community by whose enterprise, skill, and activity, wages are found for lab our ; or who, with tongue set in cheek, and knowing wink, endeavour, in inflated bombast, to inflame ignorance to madness against the only hand that can help it, at the bidding of a Stanhope, the signal of the Morning Post, or the bribe of Bentinck, or the foolometry of Bond-street. If all capital were exhausted in wages, where would there be employment for the next generation of la bourers ? To melt all profit down to wages is less an injury to the employer, th an a ro bb ery of the industry of our posterity, in order t o pamper t h e l a b ourers o f the existing generation. The sooner capital is ex hausted, the earlier must employment cease—the more pro hembar kih fi c t r a c b a o p u irt consequentlyapl r i cdu in t h c e e m s h e , ux t stte e nws ai greater ogneso bf e employment, the leo. y m letn it temptation s eacin tdial ittheyo evident that the higher profits and wages are, or, in other words, the dearer the commodity is which is produced, the less it will be bought, the demand will fall off, and with it, of course, both wages and pro fits. It is a self-adjusting process, requiring neither combinations amongst masters, nor strikes amongst men. If wages encroach on profits, capital ceases to employ labour, anti wages fall—if profits encroach on wages, more capital is tempted to embark in the trade, the demand fur labour increases, wages rise, and the balance is re-adjusted. In the silk manufacture, which is protected by a duty of 30 per cent., neither profits nor wages are higher than in the cotton trade, which is unprotected—the monopoly only tempted more capital to compete with that already embarked, and induced more weavers to eater the trade. Even the corn•laws have done nothing for present p ro fit s i n l and. As rents rose, capital sought investment in the sou, until three per cent, has become the average profit of landholding. Let us not be misunderstood. Our labours in the cause of the repeal of the combination lases, are better guarantees of our sympathy with the working classes, than any mere hollow professions or empty asseve rations. As to the perfect moral and social right of labour to strike for more wages, there cannot be two opinions among sane men. The bakers strike against the public for a rise in the price of bread —the farmers at Mark-lane carry back their wheat, or " hold" it, if the price does not suit, which is just a turn-out against the millers for a rise in grain. The tallow, or tea, or sugar merchants, refuse to sell, and strike for a rise in the gains on their respective specula tions ; and the working man, a merchant of industry, who takes his skill, his ten fingers, his labour to market, instead of bread, or wheat, or tallow, or sugar, is of course quite entitled to bring those home again if the price does not please him, and strike for a rise in the profits of labour, as other merchants turn out for a rise in the profits of capital. But, as public instructors and guardians of popular rights, bound to do equal justice betwixt masters and men, and much more, to protect the weak and peaceable against the violent and the powerful, we must, once f or a ll, d ec l are our inextinguishable detestation of all monopoly, whe ther of labour or of profit—of all tyranny or dictati on , whether of masters and men against etch other, or, worse still, of men against men—of all invasions of the perfect liberty of every subject of the State, whether capitalist or operative, to " do what he likes with his own." By effecting the repeal of . all protective d u ti es on domestic production, the class of capitalists have mani fested a spirit of justice worthy of all imitation ; and by the a b roga tion of all the privileges of mu nicipal corporations, and throwing open every branch of trade, commerce, and manufacture, to every subject of the realm, instead of confining their pursuit exclusively to guild brethren and f reemen o f chartered companies, the middle classes have done all that was possible to recognise the commercial equalities of citizenship. Can this be fairly said of the class of operative artizans ? Have they thrown open their re spective crafts to the equal competition of their fellow countrymen ? Have they abandoned their pretensions to a monopoly of labour ? We have seen notices posted upon many factories, prohibiting any man from seeking work from the master, without previous liberty from the hands to do so. To say nothing of their dictation to wards the employer, what is this but a deprivation of the right of their fellow workman to dispose of his labour in competition with their own ? In nearly every trade the journeymen pass stringent rules, to prohibit masters from taking more than a certain limited number of apprentices. But if agricultural labourers earn only 14d. a day, and the batter, or carpenter, or bricklayer, or tailor, can get ss. for the latter to say t o th e former, "We shan't admit you i nto our trade, or permit your sons to be taught as apprentices to it," is to commit a double wrong, by preventing a peasant from improving his own or children's condition, and by rendering it im practicable for agriculture to relieve itself of that glut of labour which reduces its wages below the means of sub sistence. We sp ea k, as we have always spoken, w i t h out either . fear or fa vour . W e have waged an exterm i nat i ng warfare-with the exclusive privileges of corporations, the tricks of trade, the iniquities of protected manufac tures, and the monopoly of lanclocrats. It is now time that we should 'also remind th ose w h o have not yet cleared their minds of the prejudices of the protective system, and of the stupid c rotc h ets an d i n fl a t e d nonsense of mouthing, itinerant patriots, that of all oppression the most cruel, and of all dict a ti on t h e most i nto l era bl e , i s t h at which is practised, not by the poor against the rich, but by the poor against the poor. What right has one poor man to say to another that is poorer, " You shall not be suffered to ask leave to work?" or one class to tell another, " You shall not be permitted to l earn t h e myster i es o f our cra f t , becausewe claim the privilege of keeping the employ ment it affords entirely to ourselves?" How shall those denounce masters, who go from factory to factory, for cibly to prevent the hands from any longer following their avocations ; march up the lines of railway to pro hibit labourers from earning their bread, under penalty of the most dreadful imprecations, meet importations of workmen from the south at the pier, and threaten them with murder, if they dare to accept of em ployment, or cast vitriol in the eyes, or cast lots for perpetrating the assassination of those who only desire peaceably to earn their daily bread ? There is a reign of terror in Ireland—and exterminating warfare of the poor against the poor —an atrocious system of dictation to the orderly and well-disposed, by the turbulent, the idle, and those who allow liberty only to themselves. Let us have none of that in honest, free, right-minded, intelligent England. We have defended men from the oppression of their masters. We are also determined to protect men from practising tyranny against each other. We have said that voluntary strikes are perfectly justis fiable ; but we must also add, that in our whole expe rience, we never knew them to be wise. What turn-out ever ended substantially in gain to the operative ? From first to last, the war of labour against capital has termi nated uniformly and inevitably in favour of the latter. A great amount of money has been sprit, wages lost, and profit prevented from being realised, to the loss of all, and the final humiliation of the labourer, by the reduc tion of wages, conseqeent on the destruction of employ ment. C Irk, Dublin, Limerick, have lost large and lu crative branches of trade and manufactures, and Ireland nearly all its mineral commerce, by strikes. Soitalfields has driven the silk trade to the north by dictating an Act of Parliament rate of wages to the capitalist. The trade of Sheffield is rapidly leaving it by the in sane tyranny of the artisans. How can it be other wise ? Capital owes no allegiance to any soil or trade, or manufacture. It cannot be bullied out of its own terms. It will do what it pleases, and go where it likes, and has this great advantage over its assailants, that when it is idle it does not need to be fed. It may, indeed, be possible to prescribe the conditions on which it is to be employed, but it is not possible to com pel its employment, if it does not accept of those condi tions. Presume to dictate to it, and it will insensibly steal out of the dictator's company, and join a less re stricted speculation. Meet it everywhere with fetters on its use, and it will noiselessly emigrate to some freer at it will altogether evaporate , and leave labour without mosphere. Arrest it, if it be possible , on its flight, and employment, and its suicidal tyrant without wages. Strikes in such a country . as this 1 Are there not four millions of Irishmen starving on sixpence a day, and two millions and a half totally without employment ? Are there not a million and a half of unemployed English and Welsh paupers in our union woikhouses ? Are there not two hundred thousand Scotch "able-bodied poor ?" Here are upwards of four millions of the people ready to fill . up any gap, or to rush into any port of in dustry that will shelter them from the st orm of poverty. Until they are all absorbed into the labour mar k et , f a i rly paid waon oldrkmehn strike' o w us h e o about th f e o i r r aearriss.e of colliers strike for wages, infallibl y a rise on 3s. 6d. a day, and large importations from Ulster instantly displace the recusants, and create a re dundancy of labour. Weavers strike in Manchester, and Mr. Muggeridge draws hosts of emigrants from Wilts and Dorset to jump into the shoes of the Lanca shire operatives. Liverpool bricklayers and carpenters strike, and shoals of underpaid workmen from Devon shire are glad to get the wages which the local hands despise. British navigators turn out, and a whole colony from Ireland cheerfully accept of re muneration, amounting to seven or eight times what they can earn at home, and so permanently supersede the malcontents, when they offer to resume their work, they are not accepted. Let this system of strikes go on long enough,, and the wages of the skilful artisan will sink to the level of those ot the hodmen, anti those of the highest-paid districts will equa li se themselves with those of the Tipperary serf, or the Dorsetshire ploughman. Force up wages in any trade, and such a temptation will thus be held out to labour, that a g l ut in the supply of operatives will rapidly beat down the price. But the higher wages a re, the lower profits be come ; the inducement to employ capital in the trade diminishes, the demand for labour consequently falls, and wages come down. Where, of course by moderate wages, profits increase, capital is called into the market, employment enlarges, And wages mount. Let the work : ing classes, then, beware of tampering with capital, or with the customers of the capitalist, by inconsi derate turn-outs, or mere experimental strikes. So long as 4,000,000 of paupers are waiting to be employed, and capital can live without food, the inevitable result must be signal discomfiture. If they will venture on the ex periment, let them wait until the corn-law is repealed, and the new tariff passed. The nation will have 50,000,0001. a-year more to spend on manufactures ; foreig❑ trade will also be extended, and the much greater cheapness of all the necessaries of life will enable the labourer to sustain a turn out for a much longer period, at a time, too, when universal commercial activity will render his assistance more indispensable. In the existing stagnation of trade, when the supply of labour is greater than the demand, common sense will shew him the necessity of postponing his action upon the market to a more convenient season, when greater intelligence and more ripe advice may at least convince him that his wisest policy with 4,000,000 of competitors, ready and eager to jump into his shoes, is to let sleeping dogs lie, to know when he is well, and to keep a good place when he has got it.—hispatch. MILiTAR Y HONOURS. (From sut the T unes.) teiVtime informed of the The army of the spirit in which its services have been acknowledged by a grateful nation ; and the troops are now displaying vanquished country or bringing home to theirP oavnnlhtooresst the honours and decorations which have been the due reward of their conduct and courage. Our own tribute of admira tion to this army has been neither scantily measured nor tardily paid. In the absence of information, we augured nothing but success from the known character of the soldiers and their chiefs ; and when the first shapeless rumours were tortured by our contemporaries into tidings of that disaster and defeat which their ill-omened forebodings had predicted, we combated, by argument and inference, the credit and currency which ill news can always too readily command. It is not in any invidious or ungracious spirit that we now advert to the subject. Our remarks, we are quite certain, will but embody the sentiments of nine tenths of our readers, and give expression to thoughts and feelings which half the nation must have involuntarily ex perienced. It is in itself no slight consequence of the obdu racy which has refused to the Peninsula veterans the recom pense of a riband that at the recurrence and results of every successive victory—of every event which should be the signal of universal joy—a body of British soldiers should be forced into a recollection of their own unheeded services, and a vast portion of the public into an unseason able sympathy with their unmerited neglect. It would be begging the question at issue if we were to endeavour to collect from precedents what particular achievements were entitled to decorations and what were not. It seems both reasonable and necessary to conclude that the intrinsic merits of the troops should have the foremost place in con ferring a claim to such rewards; and instances are not want ing, either in our own history or that of the French, where honours have awaited even the unfavourable issue of a struggle in which success, though not commanded, has been deserved. The intensity and duration of the conflict, the character of the enemy, the nature of the quarrel, the mag nitude of the stake at issue, the critical exigencies of the period, are all considerations which may be fairly added to those of the personal prowess of individuals or detachments. A less equitable criterion, perhaps, is taken from the advan tage attending the event, when the gratitude of the nation is measured by the benefits acquired, and not by the efforts which acquired them. But, whatever conceivable standard be assumed, we hold it as beyond all question or denial that the veterans of the Pe ninsula are incomparably better entitled to a comme morative decoration than any soldiers whom the last four generations of Englishmen have seen. From the day when Marlborough was superseded on the Scheldt to the day when Sir Arthur Wellesley landed at I%londego-bay—a dis tance of a century—England fought no great war. If by such title is implied a desperate struggle between two mighty nations, systematically conducted with all the art of strategy and all the force of discipline through a series of complicated campaigns up to a triumphant issue or an equitable compromise, modern England has known but two such—the war of Marlborough in the Low Countries, and the war of Wellington in the reninsula. The title cannot be bestowed on our faithful adherence to Maria Theresa, on our escape at Dettingen, or our efforts at Foutenov ; nor on our honourable diversions in favour of Frederic li., on the subsidies we advanced, or the commander we lent him at Minden ; nor on our grapple with Montcalm in the savage wilds of America, or our captures of Quebec or Montreal;— no, nor on our conqueSt of Hindostan. The bravery, and perseverance, and success of the nation may be abundantly illustrated from such transactions, but there is no prominent chapter in English history for the great Prussian war, or the great Austrian war, or the great American war . N one of these contests call e d a body of British soldiery into being which stepped forth at a stride, and at once took place above every other. Such a feat was never perfohned but twice. In 1696 we were sneered at by Louis and Villeroi, and in 1796 by Napoleon and Carnot. Ships we might certainly manage, but as to land-fighting the English were a cipher. Marlborough and Wellington arose, and in 1713 and 1813 our troops had fought their way through the armies of the first military power in Europe to the very frontiers of its terri tory. In the coalition against the giant usurper England's blow was given in the Peninsula. The records of that war are the records of our share in the delivery of Europe; and it is fur no less a service than this that a token of acknow ledgment has been now asked and refused. It is not for a battle or a siege that the reward is required, for the passage of a stream or the capture of a convoy. It is for seven suc cessive campaigns, the least of which wo u ld su pply a b a ttl e equal to any that has ever been blazoned on a medal; the poorest of which would show a siege such as Vauban never dreamt of; and the shortest of which, besides its prominent and deathless glories, witnessed such unrecorded instances of bravery and sufferings as the Gazettes of years could never comprise. A comparison between this great war and any other of the achievements usually re fersed to is impossible to be drawn. It can supply a parallel to any one of them without suffering by the omission. Take any serge or battle, or advance or retreat, or attack or sur prise —take any exploit which has either claimed or carried off a decoration or reward, and you may match it, step by step, from any campai.:n of the Peninsula war. Nothing ap proaches it but the campaigns of Marlborough. In these— in their bloody battles, in their desperate storminga, in the successive overthrows of the bravest French marshals, and the defeats of the choicest French troops, in the gloomy com mencement and the triumphant close—there is a very re markable similitude. But such resemblance or rivalry exists nowhere else; these two contests stand alone. Next in rank are unquestionably the battles of India; but the subjugation of Hindostan is not a fair subject for comparison. It was a mighty contest, but not a great war. Even if the campaigns of Clive and Coote could be connected with those of Lake and Wellesley---even if the work had been achieved in seven years, by a single army, and that an English one-it could hardly be called so. There was no well-matched and worthy foe for the British soldier —scarcely for the British-drilled Sepoy. Few of the early victories would be memorable, but for their momentous re sults and the strange disparity of the force by which they were won. No partiality can represent Dhoondiah or Holkar as a Soult or Massena. The mighty enemy was not in the inhabitants, but in the country. This region and this cli mate our troops subdued; and we should be the last to dis parage the merit of the conquest. Nothing could have a greater effect in elevating and ennobling the soldier's cha racter than some of the incidents of this Asiatic warfare. The Indian soldier was an European in a country where that birthright gave him precedence above millions. The Indian officer directed districts and gave law to princes at an age when other ensigns had hardly learnt their facings. If, pe r s ona lly, th e f oe was o f ten unworthy of his bayonet, yet this 'fugitive and wily adversary was in trenched behind the most formidable bulwarks of nature. There was the night march and the ceaseless chase, through steaming forests and scorching sands, over the deep ravine and the deadly jungle. Before a road could be trodden it had to be made. Fullarton's movement against Seringapatam, when we first shook our swords at Tippoo in 1783—Lake's unrivalled cavalry march upon Furruckabad— and Smith's famous chase of Meer Khan, when our harassed dragoons in one month rode over 700 miles of the roughest country in the world—are exploits without a parallel in their way. Even the hot and eager rush of Crauford's division to get in time for the bloody glories of Talavera cannot match them. We shall not be accused, we are sure, of any inclina nation to depreciate the Indian army, or any remissness in advocating its claims; but in postponing them, to those of the Peninsular veterans we are doing it neither injury nor discredit. We are not for robbing one army to reward an other. Lord Hardinge and his troops have well won their decorations. A riband at the breast is no exorbitant re compense for four savage battles, even though the Seikh re doubts and the Sutlej were not like the bloody ford of the Urumea or the fiery breach of Badajoz. But could nothing be done for the best service of all? Could no unappropriated combination of colours be found—no square inch of riband spared— no dangling bit of metal devised—to intimate that the bearer had fought his way through a girdling chain of forts and armies from Cadiz to St. Sebastian ; that he had seen the backs of Massena, and Soult, and Suchet, and Junot, Jose ph teol d regimentalaanndd h M i sa halfr m : o in t osdnoV,i over rt Frenchmenot r h ; e t b h o a r tdf6rhroesmohfald, Spain, r hunted en andet — e d K ce irn p ieg e d nsating the while his want of supplies by his sagacity and courage, and learning his way as he went along? For it was in the Peninsula that these men were formed. The host which " could go anywhere and do anything" was not carrid into Spain, but was made there. The history of the British army is almost identical with the history of this war. It was here that the different regiments' earned that individuality of re nown and character which gives to their otherwise meaning less numbers an historical life and a local habitation. Some few corps had already made steps towards this position— the 12th and 56th at Gibraltar—the 76th and 78th in Central India—the 89th as far back as Plessey. But it is in the records of these wars alone that the regiments, and brigades, and divisions assume so memorable a familiarity of aspect; it is from the Peninsula almost ex clusively that their titles are traced, and their nobility de rived. The war which gave a history to the army, an im mortality to the regiments, and a character; to the soldier, is not permitted to give a riband to the survivors. And why? Is it because others would ask if these were listened to ? Does a repudiation of one debt carry with it a quittance from all others? Is a denial of every obligation the most reputable mode of avoiding the discharge of any? Would an act of honourable honesty be so very dangerous a prece dent? But the argument is not less unsound than unseemly. It is extravagant to assert that there are any claims which even approach these in magnitude. Where are they to be found ? The campaigners of Egypt and America may have a claim as against. the soldiers of Amoy and Gwalior, but none against the men of the Peninsula. If a medal were asked for Barossa, or a badge for Fuentes d'Onor, a stand might then perhaps be made for Aboukir and Blaiensburg. But if Fuentes d'Onor and Barossa had never been trodden by Englishmen, there would still be the great Peninsular war. It is useless to appeal to the usages of the War-office in the days when these exploits were achieved. Su c h customs might have been a warrant for circumscribing the rewards at the time, but are none for withholding them now. If medals had centinued the ex clusive perquisite of co mmanding-officers ever since the peace of Paris, there would be less reason to repine. But it was unfair to change the entire system of honours without regard to existing interests. It was unjust to place survivors and successors upon an unequal footing. Of the two courses, the denial of all decorations till the undecorated race of veterans had passed away would have been the more consistent, and the less ungracious. To have left all alike without a recom pense would, at the worst, have been but adhering to a cold and unthankful precedent. To depart from that precedent on a less imperative occasion—to give to the con querors of the Seikhs what is still withheld from the conquerors of the French--and to range these con trasted warriors in the same ranks—is an act of galling in justice. Has the claim been too long deferred ? But even if a plea whi c h i s deemed d i sreputab l e i n a c ourt of bank ruptcy be admitted i n a cour t o f h onou r, in this case it can be overthrown. The claim cannot be statute-run, for it has repeatedly been urged in the interval. Nor is there any judgment or ena c t men t w hi c h fixes the limitation of a na tion's liability to a p er i o d of thirty years. is Statues for deeds of as old a date are erected daily. Itbarely atwelve month since her Majesty accorded to a regiment of the line the privilege of bearing an inscription on their appointments commemorative of their gallantry two and thirty years back. A more becoming course would be to turn our cul pable remissness to the advantage of the sufferers ; to assume that a cause so great could only be adjudicated by the less biassed decisions of after years ; to acknowledge the claims as more immovably established from the sevenfold searching and long abeyance, and to proportion at length the reward and the manner of its bestowal to the magnitude of the deserts and the treatment they have hitherto experienced. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE EXPERIMENTAL SQUADRON OF 1845. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The long-looked for report of Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker (accompanied by reports from the captains of the respective ships), upon the performances of the various ships under his command, comprising the expe mental squadron of 1845, has at length been printed and published. The surprise and discomfiture of the detractors of the Surveyor of the Navy must necessarily be great on perusing this report, inasmuch as it establishes the complete success of his ships. Placing that faith in the document before us which as a Parliamentary return it is entitled to, we find Admiral Parker's report agrees with all the succeeding ones in awarding the palm to the Surveyor's ships. Knowing as we do the anti pathy Rear-Admiral Parker was supposed to entertain for the productions of Sir William Symonds, we are not surprised at the report being unaccompanied by any " opinion" from the gallant Commander-in -Chief; but we regret the circum stance, as it compels us to take the report merely as we find it ;consequently we ca n on l y g i ve t h e result of the trials of sailing or speed without reference to the other essential qua lities of a ship as an efficient man-of-war; but as all the trials were copiously reported in the ver • figures used in the re t urn, and some nine months bef ore the returns appeared, we sh a ll on l y now touch upon that part of the do.. cument before us having reference to the trials whi c h t oo k place under the superintendence of Ad ir al Parker, the Rear report of which h as b een hitherto withheld. In a word, then, the Queen is declared to have been the bestof the three deckers, and the Albi on and Canopus thebest of-the two deckers, in the sixtee n t r i a l s w hi ch took place under Rear- Admiral Parker's command. We subjoin a selection from the reports of the respective captains of the ships up on th e i r qualifications:— - The Trafalgar, 120, Captain Martin.—" She carries her lower deck ports longer open than any other ship in the squadron, except the Rodney, and her rolling and pitching being less than theirs, her capability of effectively using all her batteries is proportionally increased. Being extremely weatherly, having great power of using her lower deck guns, being very easy, and consequently having little wear and tear, good stowage, and ample room on her decks, are the Trafalgar's good points. I believe her defects would be corrected in a very great degree if her masts were placed further aft." The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Rowley.—" The St. Vin cent is decidedly a leeward ship in comparison with the rest of the squadron. She rolls deep, but easily, and does not jerk or strain anything. I s h ou ld sa y s h e rolled during the late trial quite equal to the Albion and Canopus. In very light air before the wind, the St. Vincent would run away from the whole squadron—except the Queen. My opinion of the Trafalgar is, that she is a very weatherly ship, and particularly in bad weather, but the other ships all fore-reached her. The Queen always appeared to me to be a remarkably fine man-of-war on all points. In all mode rate weather, whether on a wind, going free, or before the wind, she has no competitor, the Albion being the next ship to her. With the Queen, Albion, Rodney, and Canopus, the St. Vincent had no chance. In strong breezes and a heavy head sea the Queen also proved herself a very fine ship, standing up remarkably well under a heavy press of sail, and appearing to pitch easily. The Queen is cer tainly much stiffer under a press of sail than the Trafalgar or any of the squadron, the Albion excepted. The Albion's superiority over the other two-decked ships, and particu larly the Rodney, a ship of her own class, consists chiefly in her being much stiffer under a heavy press of sail. In strong breezes on a wind, I did not perceive much difference be tween them, except on one occasion, when the sea w as right ahead, the Rodney b ea t the whole squadron and ap peared much easier than the Albion. In moderate weather and smooth water the Albion is the fastest ship, and off the wind will always beat the Rodney. Before the wind and in a heavy swell the Rodney would fight her lower-deck guns better, and with more safety, than the Albion. The Van guard was certainly very much improved from what she was during the preceding cruize, and, considering how very light she was, surprisingly stiff under a press of canvass. I could not perceive much difference between her and Canopus on a wind, but off the wind Canopus was certainly the fastest ship although she appeared much more crank under a press of canvass than the other ships, heeling more with two reefs in her topsails than the Queen and Vanguard with one. She is not so weatherly as either the Albion or Rodney, but fore reaches considerably. Under easy sail I should say she was steadier than any of the other two-decked ships. I have only to add that I have come to this conclusion upon the relative merits of the several ships after the most careful and attentive watching during the late cruise." The Queen, 110, Captain Sir B. Walker.—" I consider the Queen to be a most magnificent man-of-war, in every respect superior to the St. Vincent or Trafalgar, or any ship I ever served in ; she is fast, and bad on the whole a decided ad vantage in sailing over every other ship of the squadron. She is very stiff, very weatherly, rolls and pitches very easily and without straining ; she steers and works remarkably well ; her spacious decks are well adapted for working the guns, as well as for the comfort and health of the officers and crew. She can stow under hatches seven months' pro visions of all species for her war complement, and would, if the hold was properly stowed, carry at least 550 tuns of water, and, in my humble opinion, she is the finest ship in the world." The Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer.—" I beg leave to state that the Albion's behaviour during the late trial cruise proved herself to be a good seaboat during the heavy gales; when under a close-reefed maintopsail, foretopsail, and maintrysail, her motion was remarkably easy in the heavy sea that was then running, and I am fully persuaded no ship could behave better. In comparison with other ships which were all near us at times, I consider her behaviour equally as good as any of them, and they all appeared to roll equally as deep, though I think she rolls rather quicker than the St. Vincent, Queen, Trafalgar, or Rodney ; this perhaps is owing to the want of ballast. Her pitching motion is remarkably easy, and apparently less than other ships. With respect to the other ships of the squadron, I consider the Queen to be by far superior of her class, on all points, either in fine or bad weather. The Trafalgar is rather a more weather's , ship in bad weather; but no sailer, either on or off the wind. The Canopus is equally as quick in her motion as the Albion in a sea-way ; she is also crank, as is the Rodney, which is a great advantage the Albion possesses over every ship in the squadron." The Canopus, 84, Captain Moresby—" In keeping station in order of sailing under easy or moderate sail, the Canopus had much the superiority. In reference to the whole squa dron combined, the St. Vincent, in blowing weather or in strong breezes, showed a great leeward propensity ; the Queen, as compared with the last cruise, fell into a doubtful comparison with Rodney, Albion, and Canopus. The Tra falgar maintained her extraordinary weatherly qualities, with want of speed. The Albion, I thought, did not do as well as, the first cruise. The stability of the Queen, Albion, and Vanguard, as compared with the St. Vincent, Canopus, Rodney, and Trafalgar, was very apparent. In chasing by the wind in such weather as we encountered during the late cruise, my opinion is that an admiral, having his flag on board the Queen, would have found Rodney his leading ship, Canopus next, then Albion, Vanguarti, and St. Vincent, Trafalgar hanging to w i n d war d, an d pic k e d up on crossing tacks." The Rodney, 92, Captain Collier.—" In the trials by the wind during the last cruise, all of which were in good breezes, always with a considerable swell, and sometimes against a head sea, the Rodney had the advantage of the whole squadron on the 3d, with the Queen, Albion, Trafalgar, and Vanguard, against a head sea ; the Rodney weathered considerably on the Queen and Vanguard, and also on Albion and Trafalgar, but not so much. On the 6th a gale from the north-west came on about sunset, and under a close-reefed maintopsail, fore-staysail, and maintrysail, the Rodney in twelve hours weathered fifteen or sixteen miles on St. Vin cent and Vanguard, and considerably on all the rest of the squadron, but less than any on the Trafalgar. The Canopus, from her place in the line, has generally been nearest us. I consider her, under the 'weather spoken, the next best ship to the Rodney; the Trafalgar, although weatherly, is not so much so as the Rodney, and slower. I consider the Queen the fastest ship both by and off the wind in fine weather." The Vanguard, 80, Captain Willes.—" Queen, perfect in all point& Albion, the same, except she appears to have a quick rolling motion in a moderate swell, and to roll deep in heavy weather and before the wind. Rodney, a fine bold man-of-war ; carries her ports well, even with a large quantity of provisions and water on board. Sails well, is generally weatherly, stands well up to her canvass, and is remarkable for her easy motion in a head sea, but is slow in stays. The Canopus, fast when it does not over blow, is apparently not so stiff under canvass as other ships of the squadron ; does not stay well in a heavy sea, but still a fine man-of-war. Trafalgar, stiff and weatherly, but by no means fast ; requires a strong wind to make her keep corp: The St. Vincent sails well in light winds and smooth pany well with the other ships, and appears to p i tch w m a u t c e h r, is leewardly and crank when it blows hard, but apparently lowerver y easy.deok g uns T he a Vanguard,gd i,oHeight ht nobleoot of f a t n well, hee man-of-war, water; ; carrying a s r t r o ) w l h s g her considering her magazine occupies the principal part of the main hold; is best calculated for heavy weight, and which is required lower down. I consider her superior and faster than any ship in the experimental squadron. She sails better the last cruise than the first in consequence of raking the main and mizen-masts much aft, an d b orrowing weights from their fid lo o ss ot o t f h b ot a , ll i a f st p f r r and n pa rt i p r op p be of fl a sl the t c e e d s toin ho ld. sailing counteract feel theoo o w e r properly h e stowed l and working she would be equal, if not superior, to any ship of the squadron." The Superb, 80, Captain Corry.—" In the trials which have taken place ' off the wind,' the Superb, on each occa sion, beat all the squadron," &c. The Bat, victualling-buoy, and Rocket, steamer, were un docked to-day, and the Cambrian, 36, docked for repairs. The pendant was hoisted to-day on board the Eurydice, 26, Captain G. Elliot, arrived here on Monday. Rear-Admiral Superintendent H. Parker, C. 8., went on Admiralty leave yesterday f or t h ree weeks. His flag was struck on board the Victory at sunset. The dockyard duties will be carried on during his absence by Mr. W. Purdo,. the Master-Attendant, and those of the Ordinary by Captain J. Pascoe, of the Victory. The Echo, steam-tug, embarked to-day on board the Florentine, freight-ship, at Cowes, four officers and 184 men belonging to the 14th, 23d, 71st, and 81st Regiments, from Parkhurst-barracks Isle of Wight, for Quebec. The Cornwall, freight-ship, to embark detachments of the 45th Regiment for the Cape of Good Hope, and of the 12th Regiment for the Mauritius, arrived at Spithead to• day. The Camel, lighter, with stores from Plymouth, arrived . yesterday. _ The Grecian, 16, Commander Montgomery, sailed from Rio for Bahia on the 17th of March.— Times. ARRIVAL OF THE ORIENTAL.—SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 28.—Arrived at the Motherbank at nine last evening, the Oriental, Captain Joy, with the Indian mail. Her dates are —Malta, May 14 ; and Gibraltar, May 20 ; with about 170 passengers. She passed on the 22d, off Lisbon, four ships of war, supposed to be the Russian squadron. On the 24th she passed the packet-ship Madrid, running for Corunna. The Oriental would ha ve arrived here on Monday last, but for a head-wind, which has been dead against her for the last three days. Her mails have just been landed at the South ampton Dock, and will be in London to-morrow morning. The Madrid is expected hero to-morrow night. EPSOM RACES.—We believe that the plates and stakes run for this season exceed those of any former occasion. In addition to the sum of 3001. given by the ?nee of the Grand Stand, Mr. Dor- ling(the clerk: of the course), John Ivatt Briscoe, Esq., late M.P. for East Surrey, the' lord of Epsom manor, has appropriated three fourths of the rents of the booths, &c., being in amount nearly 5001., to be run for at the various races during the present meeting, and which has been his usual practice for many years. PIGEON EXPRESS. —WINDSOR, EDNESDAY.—lni mediately after the race for the Derby, this afternoon, a carrier pigeon, belonging to Mr. Oxley, the proprietor of the Windsor Ex press was tossed on Epsom Downs, with the names of the three first horses attached in the usual way. Within less than thirty minutes afterwards the bird alighted en Mr. Oxley's pigeon-house. The distance from Windsor to Epsom is very nearly thirty mile s , straight acme the country. I • COMMERCIAL POLIC / 741F7T — HE \ '- EMPIRE. • 5.,.„t A copy of the speech of the Gove g gtieral to the Legislative Assembly of Canada ; rideince J. relative to certai n p resumed changes ‘tliTceoritmarcial policy of the empire, were on Saturda mined fiy Oder . ‘: of the House of Commons, on motion Lord— fl -'--- Bentinck and Sir George Clerk. The-444M* extract therefrom, and is the most recent current con tained in the return, being a dispatch from the - Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone to Governor the Earl Cathcart, dated May 18, 1846. "My Lord,—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's dispatch. No. 40, of the 28th of April, transmitting to me a petition to her Majesty from certain merchants and others, citizens of Quebec, praying that her Majesty will not sanction the contemplated modi fication iu the tariff on wood goods. " I have laid this petition before her Majesty, who has been pleased to receive it graciously, but it has not been in my power to advise her Majesty to assent to its prayer for the reasons which I shall proceed to state. " Her Majesty has invited the Parliament to adopt the proposal to which the petition refers. " The House of Commons will enter to-night on the consideration of the Customs' Duties Bill, in which this proposal is included, at the advanced stage when the Bill is reported to the House from the Committee of the whole House immediately before the engrossment and • third reading. At suck a stage it would I believe, be most unusual for the House of Commons to reverse the decision which it has given on the occasions afforded by the various earlier stages of the Bill, and by the preliminary committee, which is required, with respect to all questions of trade, and in which they ordinarily undergo the most searching examination. Thus, her Majesty having recommended to Parliament a particular course, has had no reason, in the reception which Parliament has given to the recom mendation, to adopt any alteration of it. " But I must not be understood as implying that this is the principal diffidulty which obstructs a compliance with the prayer of the petitioners ; there are others, including some of a higher order :—First, her Majesty's Government do not doubt the very yt disposed,hfeoiru ndopinions t ih o ne n i p mo g ns general ou g btl r i o h u e n edr d , s o , nki t a o agj er a se t ta t a y ch great weight to their e sions, to adopt an d to adhere gt'svarGieotyveomf ocmecnat b - to proposals unacceptable to many of the parties immediately affected by them, notwithstanding thei r b e li ef in the high integrity of those parties, and their perfect freedom from any con sciousness of an interest that could warp the judgment; and her Majesty's Government cannot but observe on the present occasion, that they do not find any reason to suppose, from the evidence before them, that the opinion of the petitioners with respect to the impending change in the timber duties, is shared by the people of Canada, at large, or by their representatives, who, on the con trary, appear to have evinced their intention to abandon reliance upon the artificial advantages which protective laws may confer, and to place it upon the natural and permanent guarantees afforded by the resources of the province and the energy of its inhabitants. " Her Majesty's Government mist seriously doubt whether, if the allegations of the petition were made good in their whole extent, with respect to the disadvan tages entailed upon Canada by her distance from this country, by the dangers of the St. Lawrence, the suspen sion of its navigation during a portion of the year, and by the inferior quality of Canadian timber, that circum stance would have the effect of producing the conviction in this country that the measure now under discussion should be either qualified or abandoned, inasmuch as it would certainly show that the present system could only he continued at a very heavy cost to the nation. " But her Majesty's Government do not are the belief of the petitioners in the existence and in t sh he force of these disadvantages. They cannot forget the pre dictions, the confident, and, without doubt, sincere pre dictions of ruin which attended the progress of the measure of 1842, nor can they fail to contrast with those predictions the great subsequent extension, and the ap parently flourishing condition of the trade at the present moment. " With respect, indeed, to the disadvantages of dis tance, which undoubtedly affects the competition of Ca nadian with that of the Baltic, her Majesty's 'Govern ment have not failed to make what they deem to be a sufficient provision, all things considered, for the charge which it entails, by proposing to retain a protective duty of 15s. per load on foreign wood ; and inasmuch as they can by no means admit that it is the proper office of commercial laws to attempt in general to secure to places which are remote all the advantages of proximity, they trust the petitioners will recognise in the plan as it actually stands, a proof of their great anxiety to give every just consideration to the claims of the parties engaged in the trade, and to those of the colony, so far as its interests may be conceived to be affected by the question. "Her Majesty's Government look forward to an active competition, under the law as it is proposed that it should stand, and a competition by no means unfavour able to the timber and deals of Canada. Nor is it com petition alone which her Majesty's Government an ticipate ; on the contrary, they conceive, as I have already had occasion to state to your Lordship, that to no inconsiderable extent the consumption of Baltic timber is actually auxilliary to the demand for that of Canada, and, therefore, that to this extent a measure which cheapens the first, is likely to cause positive improve ment in the market for the last. " For these reasons, which I need not pursue into further detail, and for others to which I have thought it unnecessary on this occasion to refer, her Majesty's Government have been unable to advise her Majesty to assent to the prayer of the petition transmitted to me by your Lordship, " I have, &c., (Signed) " W. E. GLADSTONE." ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The monthly meeting for May took place last evening, at the rooms of the society in Sack vine -street, Piccadilly. The object of the society is to inquire into the distinguishing characteristics, physical and moral, of the varieties of mankind which inhabit, or have inhabited the earth, and to ascer tain the causes of sach characteristics. The secretary, Dr. King, read a paper on the nature of the inhabitants of Batacalda, Ceylon, a race of Moors inhabiting a tract of land on the eastern shores of Lake Batacola, and some villages near the southern end of it; also a paper communicated by Dr. Tochudi, entitled, " Have the ancient Peruvians embalmed the dead, or not ?" in which, although put in the shape of a question, the author contends, and makes out a strong case, that the bodies have been preserved by the natu ral drying of the soil. The secretary said, the question having arisen, and there being some Peruvian mummies in this countrx it would doubtlessly soon be set at rest by examination. Major-General Briggs read a paper on the Native Races of India, in continuation of one which he had before produced. The purport of it was to prove that there are at present existing in India many millions of a primeval race, who inhabited India long before the incursion of the Brahminical race, who came in from the north, and were not originally the inhabitants of that country. In. the first place he com menced by confuting the generally-received opinion that the Sanscrtt was the aboriginal language, and showed, on the contrary, that it was introduced by the Brahmins as a learned language, and that it was spoken, now by scattered tribes, or castes, which he would, on a future occasion, prove to be the primeval race. Major Briggs introduced the two young Brahmins, who have recently come to this country to be instructed in medicine, and who have distinguished themselves by their advancement at King's College. They took part in the dis cussion, and defended the Hindoos from the charge of pirating their knowledge of astronomy from other nations, which was incidentally suggested in a discussion which our space will not allow us to give at length. The address elicited great applau;e. The anniversary meet ing takes place On this day. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—A meeting was held yesterday evening in John-street, Adelphl, Alderman H. Hughes in the chair, when the recommendations of the committees of agriculture and chemistry, fine arts, mechanics and mechanical arts, manufactures, and colonies and trade, were submitted to the members. A correct list of the successful competitors could not be obtained, as many of the articles were only authenticated by an initial or a motto. On the table were a number of beautiful designs for binding covers of Bibles. The prize specimen was a perfect gem of artistic elegance. So mai.' of the works of art excited the admiration of the members, that be ther consideration, in order that complimentary testimonials m v z r it was determined to refer the subject back to the committee for Mr awarded to the meritorious artists who submitted thei o r f mil t for competition. There were a number of specimens which gave great satisfaction The design ewers, water jugs, &c., am a tea service was most graceful, and of the milk ewer is be 4 leved to be modelled from Vatican. On the subject an antique vase preserved in the yatic but different of the manufacture of an interesting of uniform colours. articles of the •ante form, explanation was given by the secretary. No size, matter how many sizes o f an y , given article are r equ i re d, th e l argest alone i s m odelled, which, on being exposed to the tettion of the fire, osilinnk-shiinchthaesepcmordruisonfoormf one - . sixth e odofpirtsbuucelk, and becomes th e mould of this is again dimi nished in a similar degree in the comae of the process, and by their means a series of any extent can be obtained without any addition& call on the labour of the designer. T wo models of quart e a u la viner lypsl iendegfeonlieargale,a&pcp.r,oaysailts. ornaments, o e f nt t s h , e w m as w;i art th jugs with stalk handle ° v e rs r ee and e i v v ing. 'I he successful patterns will go forth to the public with the stamp of the approbation of the Society, and are sure to obtain great popularity. The time of the meeting was so fully occupied by these details that no paper was read to the Society. FATAL AFFRAY 'WITH POACHERS.—On Tuesday night last a gardener in tile employ of Major Q. F. Winterton, of Fenwick Lodge, Surrey, was awoke by the barking of a dog kept on i the premises, and thinking that, thieves were about he ,let the dog loose. The animal immediately crossed an adjoining paddock towards an extensive fish-pond. The man followed, and on arri • ng at the pond perceived several men in the act of dragging the water with a net. The dog, a powerful animal of the mastiff breed, at tacked the poachers, and got one of the men down. The gardener ran back to the house for assistance, and shortly returned to the pond, accompanied by two of Major Winterton's sons and several of the men servants, when they discovered the dog lying dead, and the poachers removing the net. The party from the lodge immediately made a rush at the poachers, who, leaving two of their number to se cure the net, closed with the attacking party, and a desperate struggle ensued. The poachers wielded short bludgeons, and two or three of carried fire-arms, which, at the the servants com mencement of.the fray, they threatened to use, but were restrained by Mr. Robert Winterton, who called out to his party net to fire. However, one of the servants having been thrown down and nearly throttled by one of the gang, fired a pistol at his opponent, the bail taking effect in the groin of the poacher. At last th e entire body of poachers decamped, leaving their nets behind. In the pursuit that followed a groom, named Robert Staines, overtook and grappled with one of the poachers, near the end of the fish-pond. In the struggle the two men tell into the pond locked in each other's grasp. the water being upwards of twenty feet deep at the spot. Atter a short interval the poacher rose to the surface, succeeded in reaching the bank; and escaped. The incident being observed by another of the servants, an alarm was raised, and the running party having returned from an unsuccessful chase, means were taken to recover the body of the groom, which after a time was dragged up, but life of course was extinct. None of the poachers were recognised as belonging to the neighbourhood. The wounded poacher remains in a very precarious state. FALL FROM A MAST.—Yesterday morning a distress lag accident occurred to a lad, named John Eastman, aged 14 years, 'which it is feared will terminate fatally. He was engaged in making some repairs, on the mast-head of a vessel lying off Mill Dock, Dock head, when he missed his footing, and fell to the d ec k w i t h fearful he had received a severe wound on the head, and other serious in juries. He was conveyed ashore in a boat, and carried to the nearest when it was ascert a i ne d that he had received con surgeon's, who, after affording the necessary a id , ordered his removal to Guy's Hospital, cussion of the brain. He lies in a very hopeless condition. D Edwardt T lILI N , sff MAY de n will 23. s—lio cur Mn. JUSTICE COLERIDGE.—We are h a p py to h ear that this Learned Judge is d a il y i mproving in health u L re E n a LEGAL. A t L the bar that R U3MU i Sir Rt.--- Ara;reeptiOrertfroims his prdent office, andleave . Ireland. Whatever post he is destined to fill elsewhere, his loss in, this country can scarcely be repaired ; for a more upright, fearless, able, or painstaking judge never held the Great Seal in any part of the United Kingdom. A new distribution of silk gowns is spoken of in the hall, Mr. Smyly, of the north-west circuit, and Messrs. Rolleston. Wall, and Christian, of the Leinster Circuit, are the persons for whom the honour is said to be intended. ACCOUCHEMENT OF HER MAJESTY.—The chief rabbi of the members of the Jewish persuasion in Great Britain, the Rev, Dr. Adler, yesterday issued 4 form of thanksgiving for the safe deli very of her Majesty and birth of a Princess, to be offered in all syna gogues throughout the United Kingdom, on " Sabbath the sth day o Sivau, A.M., 5606— (Saturday. May3o.)" Sir Robert and Lady Peel intend to give a magnificent entertainment on the 9th of Jane. Lady Peel, the same evening, will bold an assembly in honour of her Majesty's birthday. It is to be a full-dress party.