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lleocy check, ill the User Of 3. It last. ye end ded ;nee of donista rift :—.• esday) frol is cow of the ,nstone ster to ered 10 2d, sill as fast nt that Meet and we to m y, Lsses of as for o ye' st have le eOll . Dar* , sirt, „ tig ht be co d of d been ted caffir", epe e tit and it 0 1 1 rghw th the his 846. A et ;emelt" h imst• tog 01 nigh A to imi 3 of the s w -hell eco~ " - s, so e h as the -- avoided all all the difficulty, we will not say danger, of ! breaking down stone walls * * * Informed by the same 'ippon-units* that Sir Andries Stockenstrom's residence, ir tie- P. NOrton's, Major BlakewLy'a, Mr. Robinson's, 3 •P, t4inter's, Mr. Nielaud's, Mr. Andrew's, and several others, many of them fine, spacious, well-finished dwellings, have been fired and consumed by these ruthless destroyers. In a ddition to th e num b er of cattle swept away, the loss of .... C heeP, beautiful fine-woolled merinos, has been immense. men and horses are getting completely worn out, and unless help is received very speedily the consequences must ba still more deplorable. Colonel Somerset brings information that Lieut.- Colonel Richardson had moved downwards to Port Peddie, there to watch and act upon the Congo tribes, Who were kno*wn to hav e j o i ne d th e con f e d eracy aga i ns t the colony * * defence Receiv e d an account o f a very ga ll ant J. Smith made by a small party a ssem bl e d at the f ar m of Mr. , tigh J. attack ,lo the Winterb erg . Th e K a ffi rs ma d e th e i r t but were stead with their usua l determinat i on and su b t il ty, ay met by th e ga ll ant li tt l e party —k eep i ng u p an i ncessant fire of vollies f rom t h ree guns at a t i me, un til a enemy at length sheered off Without his expected booty. Mr. Smith' s sons distinguished themselves by great intre- , vidity. Fine genial weather. Average of the, thermometer 68 deg. in th e shade. . THuRBI34Y--Received to-day an account of a most gallant affair at Salem wi htth a stron body of the enemy, who at tempted, in daylig, to capture the cattle of the inhabitants of that village. Th e b ravery and determination of the young m e en, who attacked an d d efeated the enemy, is deserving of th highest commendation. The folio been hand. e d to us Wing details of the spirited affair at Salem have gra"z°hinfr v 'a r ednesday, the 20th inst , the Salem cattle were out t weer , on the fiat, near Dr. Livingstone's, in number be • att- A 2,000 and 3,000, when about eleven o'clock they . were 1 ... Aeked by about 300 Kaffirs, who came upon them . in three Before u .dies, shouting and making the most horrid noise. the cattle guard could collect the cattle together, the were in th e m id st of them, and then they opened a severe fire enemy fir on the mounted patrol, who came to the relief. The gaffers ed got off with about 1,000 head, but were immediately pursued by the patrol and the Fingoes, who were speedily r a eF t nf ew r o s r ffi u ce i d . Vern Salem. The patrol came up to the enemy flutes, who turned and fired upon them, and theehnniwnnednretdonheraed loading their guns as they proceeded. b Were retaken on the Salem side of the Ka T te' re iga 'were, however, got through the river with the rest. They rushing after them but the Stars still -pursued—the patrol and the u Fingoes through a very narrow pass, 0 r g e h a numbersebi nreaching the he of high the Were in the bush on both sides. On ground s on the opsosite side the marauders n showed themselves in great numbers, but being hotly pursued ran i . nto the bus. The patrol then retook the whole of the cattle in the enemy's possession, not far from Keulder's ; and in addition to their own, a number supposed to have been taken from Farmerfield the previous night. The whole of the cattle were brought through the bush in triumph, and on returning home to Sa lem in the evening the Fingoes sang a war song, and seemed in a transport of delight. In the affray one of the Fingoes was killed, but on the side of the enemy several must have fallen, as the K.affirs were seen dragging away the bodies. The bravery of this party, which did not consist of more than twenty mounted men, and about thirty Fingoes and others on fcrot, is beyond all praise. Mr. H. Gardiner, the Fi eld - Commandant, Mr. J. Gardiner, Mr. Wedderburn, and Mr. Scavin, acted with the greatest courage and fortitude. Mr. F. Short being pursued by one of the enemy turned and shot him in th e h ea d, hi s gun being charged with buck eaot. A ball grazed the hat of Mr. Scanlin, when he in stantly brought down the man who hail fired itond his body was observed to be dragged into the bush. The patrol state that the Fingoes conducted themselves in the most deter mined manner. One man knocked a Kaffir from his horse which he was riding, and captured his horse, and took the Kaffir's ;kaross. The Kaffirs, though numerous, were ex ceedinsly cowardly and seemed to have very little manage ment in using their guns. " Farmerfield was attacked o n Tuesday night, and about 400 head of cattle taken. Man of the Kaffirs came within gun shot of the chapel, and sho y t at the people who were de fending themselves there. When will assistance come?" The folio Justice o the Paeac dent coepy._of the Official Report of the Resi " Sir, I have to inform you that, finding it impracticable To go or send to town, as the enemy were very numerous _nriong th eR. ariega, and heavy firing having been heard during was e night in the direction of Farmerfield, I went there, and _as informed that two desperate attacks had been made, and that notwithstanding the inhabitants behaved very bravely, the enemy being so numerous, succeeded in getting off with 000 head of cattle. While hearing these particulars, messen gp.s came from Salem to say that the Kaffirs, in number about 300, were attacking our party, who had charge of the !Attie. I immediately returned, and, proceeded with a few friends to the farm of Dr. Livinone. On arriving there, we perceiv e d a herd of .cattle, about a mile a n d a half on the other side of the river, in possession of the Kaffirs, and n , Our . i tartY, consisting of 11 Europeans, 3 Hottentots, and ''''' -r ingoes, a short distance from them. Our friends soon commenced the attack, and after a sharp struggle, succeeded in getting possession of the whole of the cattle, the enemy f ° ll , owing them down the road and through the Kariega, firing sharply all the time. I have often heard that the looker-on sees more of the game than the players. Being in that situation, I could not help wishing that some military Man had been there to have seen the gallant and steady man nerp in whi c h our friends advanced in three art" against our enem many to one in the affair, in which all conducted themselves so well, it is almost unfair to mention names; yet I cannot om it to mention those of Messrs. H. Gardiner, T. Scanlin, G. Wedderburn, and T. B err i ng t on . Th ey fol lowed on this side, and kept firing until the party got clear of the bush. Our party escaped with no other loss than one brave Fingte, who was mortally wounded, and was obliged to be left, he being un a bl e t o s it on a h orse . W e and the inhabitants of Farmerfield are now placed in very critical circumstances. We have very little ammunition, and we cannot send a sufficient number of men to insure its safe arrival. I most earnestly request that you will without delay 'bring before Colonel Johnstone, or his Excellency the Governor, our perilous situation, that a good supply of am munition, &e. a may be sent here, or we shall not only lose our cattle, l'aut our lives will be destroyed. We are able and willing te, defend ourselves, but cannot without the means. " I B ' aould be obliged if you will get his Excellency to ap point Mr. H. Gardiner Provisional Field Commandant. He Jaas shown sound judgment and great bravery. (Signed) "W. H. MATTHEWS, J.P." The following is the report of this affair made by Mr. Gar diner, the leader of this gallant little party "The cattle were feeding on the main between Salem and Dr. ;Livingstone's farm, about a mile from Kariega rie when sudd en l y the Kaffirs came on them i n three divisiondgs., Itbouco ul t d. 300 rushed in amongst th e cattle, got up as close as they. to the guard under co g ver of the c attle, anal openea a terrific fire. -roe guarcl bein weak then retreated, the Baffirs driving off 1,000 head. They were immediately pursued by the little party, who soon recaptured 600 head. The rest, the choice of our flock, they drove into a deep kloof on the opposite side of the Kariega. Our party then being reinforced from Salem, followed them. Here the Raffira had every advantage. They had lodged the cattle safely, as they thought, in the bush, which they surrounded on all sides, with a d e t erm i nation to fight for them. O ur little party, determined not to be daunted, advanced upon them, and recaptured all the cattle, and one horse. We unfortuneaely lost one Fingoe in the affair, but we have reason to believe that many Kaffirs were shot: several were seen to fall. I must say that the whole of the party acted With great courage. (Signed) 11. GRDER." Some int e lli gence was brought this' day bra FIN ingoe, who got through the bush with difficulty during the night, from the position on the Fish River, under the command of the Field Cornet Jury Lombard. This Fingoe states that the position is surrounded by Kaffirs, that many cattle have been taken, anti that unless succour be promptly afforded, the camp would either be carried or must be abandoned. The messenger also stated, that on his way through the bush he overheard the Kaffirs speak of their designs, one of which is said to 'oe an attack upon Graham's Town. A party of Hot tentqls set out to reinforce this position, and also a detach ment of C. M. Rifles under Lieut. Salis. * * A party of 60 Cradock Burghers arrived to-day in town, having on their waydiate down left d et a chments at Fort B rown, and other inter me hous posts. * Rec e i ve d i nformation that the large Pohl farm e called Carel's R ust , t h e residence of Mr. C. F. ,on the old Bay - road, had b een fired by the Kaffirs, and also the dwelii ng of the widow Heley, at Salem Hills, on the Bathurst -road, nine miles south of town, besides many other buildings, which, in the absence of fuller information than we possess, we abstain from specifying. FRIDAY. —This morning some Fingoe spies came in, who had been sent out the previous night, stating that the Kaffirs were in great force in the bushy ravines border ing the Kowie and Kariega Rivers, and it was instantly resolved by Colonel Somerset to move with a strong force is that direction. This force mustered on the market-place at ten, A.lll. It consisted of 150 men of the C. M. R. under Major Armstrong, a detachment of the 7th Dragoon Guards, under Cornet Banbury, and parties of the Cradock and Al bany Burghers, under their respective Field Commandants. Two light field pieces, under Captain Brown and Lieutenant Gregory, were attached to this force, making, altogether a force of about 300 mounted men. At half-past ten o'clock this force moved from the market-place, the Hottentot riflemen cheering as they defiled towards the drift, taking the road leading to Weest's Hill —it being intended to take take up the old position of Major Frazer, at Lembard's Post, so celebrated in Katlic warfare 'and by which Salem, Far merfield, Bathurst, Port Frances, and some other interme diate stations, would be equally protected. * * * The Fingoe * picquets have thi s week fully maintained that high character which they had before earri , d for themselves by their activity, courage, and vigilance. This will be seen by the following report made by their commanding officer, Mr. J ames Th ac k wray ( one o f Colonel Smith's corps o f guides) : ' "TO LIEUT.-COLONEL.-COLONEL JOIINSTONE COMMANDING. u 4. May 1, 1846. " Graham's Town, .I. Sir—l beg leave, in compliance with your order, to hand Sou a rep ort of duties performed by the Fingoe and Bech a na_ p ic quets, commencing f rom t h e 21st of April to the end of the same month. "April 21st—No. 1 picquet shot a Kaffir near Round Hill, who told the guard he was Mocomo's man ; heard several parties of Kaffirs on the flat, and fired 15 rounds at the same. " 22 d — Another Kaffir found near Cawood's farm, supposed to have been shot by picquets the preceding evening. "23d—No. 2, Bechuana Xaffirs,picquet, attacked a party - of Malony's who the same evening had succeeded in taking Mr. and Palmer's cattle, to the number of 121 head, could escape. killing the latter person's herd, and a Hottentot, before they 24th—No. The picquets recaptured the whole of the cattle, and supposed two Kaffirs were wounded in the scuffle. very quick firing during the • " 25 th No. 5, , report having seen several fires, and heard g night, and brought their • picqueat fired at 30 K a ffi rs — woun d e d t wo , assagis. " 26th—No. 3, picquet report having heard very quick firing all night t owards Mr. Ogilvie's farm. . " 28th—No. 1, Bechuana picquet, attacked ap o Kaffirs, an d captured five oxen stolen from C. Maynar arty d, lisq, f and four horses belonging to the thieves. "No. '2, captured two horses, six fowls, one dish ; sup pose one Kaffir wounded. " 29th. —No. 1, brought in two hrses left in bush by . Raffirs, on th e Flat above Col. Somerse o t's. " 30th. —No. 1, found an ox which the Kaffirs abandoned on their approach ; ten sp i es returned from direction of Begelly farm —report having seen two fires. " MAY I.—No. 3 picquet, report all quiet during the night ; No. 4 picquet was fired at by three men proceeding to Cawood's farm with four others. Three spies returned from Kowie Bush, who saw a great number of fires, which were lit up about 11 o'clock and put out just before dayliplit.—l have, &c., " JAS. THACKWIIAY." Peddie, 12 o' c., Noox.—An express j ust come in from Fort brought in by eight or ten Dragoon Guards, brings intelligence that Pato, having joined the confederated chiefs against the colony, had sent a part of his warriors into the colony, and that he had also attacked the Fingoe settlement, the en gagement then r ag i ng when the express left the post. * 3 * Received communications from this point, the sub s`ance of which is contained in the following extracts : " FORT PEDDIE, APRIL 30. " Since th e d ate of my last, nothing of any consequence has taken plice. The body of Kaffirs which were within two miles of Fort Peddle (when I last wrote to you), have dispersed and entered the colony ; and we were kept in the most painful suspense until yesterday, not having received any utly4 frQul the ti'Dcp4 yr Graham's Tov4 IlinGQ the 24th THE SUN, LONDON, WhDisTESDAY EVENING-, itTtr 1, 1816. inst., when Colonel Richardson, with 274 of the 7th Dra goons, reached this, having heard that we were hemmed in on every side. Pato has openly declared himself our enemy, the war cry' having issued from his kraal, and so I think we have warm work before us, as at this present moment about 500 Kaffirs are within one mile, of Fort Peddie, fight ing with the Fingoes of this settlement ; the bugles are blow. ing and tro3pa turning out, &c. The Kaffirs are very daring." Another hand writes : " From the 21st to the 27th we were kept constantly on the alert—war cries on all sides—but nothing done. We lost our position at Sand Drift, and which caused such a panic here, although the strongest post on the frontier, garrisoned by 200 men, yet 'officers and all moved their baggage for security into the infantry barracks. Stock (Eno's son) re mains steady, but his men, there can be little doubt, have joined the enemy, but not in anv great numbers. Umkie also, with a few, remains steady. .Sesola, Nonibi, and Pato, are the only chiefs who have openly mustered a war party. Umhala is still quiet, but there is good reason to believe that he is as deep in the plot as any of the rest. There are still those who are willing to believe that Pato is quiet, and has ,committed no overt act against the colony, and this in the face of his driving in the Fingoes from Sand Drift, and of his people in great numbers being in the colony, and returning with large herds of colonial cattle. Such nonsense is quite sickening, and if Pato should be again acknowledged as a chief it will be a great error. " May Ist.—Pato's people have attacked the Fingoes close to this, and the parties are now engaged. "An instance of what may be done, if the Kaffirs are dealt with properly, has been reported to us as follows : Some 20 or 30 Kaffirs being seen on the Konap Heights, Mr. R. Ayliff, of Leo Fontein, sent out a party of 12 Hottentots, who creeping stealthily towards the spot fired a volley into them, when such as were able instantly fled, panic struck, leaving 12 guns, several assagais, and many other things in the bands of the attacking party. Three of the enemy are said to have been shot dead." We are informed, also, that a most resolute resistance was made a few nights since to an attack by the enemy in a position taken by some Dutch farmers on the Konap, under J. Nel. The Kaffirs were in great force, but were repulsed with the loss of 46 of their number, who are said to have been shot dead. LITERATURE. ROGUE'S EUROPEAN LlBRARY.—.History of Civilisation. By M. Guizot.—Literary History of the Middle Ages. By the Rev. Joseph, Berington. In issuing these two celebrated publications in such a portable and moderately priced form, Mr. Bogue has per formed a service to the reading public, while he has adorned his excellent series, entitled the " European Library." So important do we consider these works, and so necessary do we conceive their perusal to be, that we feel justified' in designating them elementary books to one of the widest fields of human knowledge. They induct the reader to a capacious and yet concrete and symmetrical cognizance of the progress of that ex • traordinary race of beings of which he is an unit. They are perhaps the most fitting pioneers of historical lore ; they serve as a connecting medium between ancient and modern times. Certainly the most im- Fortant fact to us, as inhabitants of the earth, is the fact of barbarism having become modulated into civilisation. Before we have acquired some accurate sense of the manner in which this change was developed, of the causes which originally withdrew mankind from their primitive rudeness, and of the consequences which have followed from that momcntuous meta morphosis, we are ignorant of our true position in the scale of creation. That ignorance is an intolerable anomaly (in the present age especially), and it may be effectually dispelled by the perusal of these volumes. Can there be a more for cible recommendation to any literary venture than this ? We opine not ; and in uttering it we have been actuated solely by a love for truth and a reverence for justice. One circumstance in connexion with these Histories is singular enough, inasmuch as they are intimately associated with each other in subject, as well as in publication. The one is the production of a Protestant. Frenchman; the other of a Roman Catholic Englishman. Any particular allusion to the " History of Civilisation" by M. Guizot would be at once super fluous and impertinent, as the writings of that illustri ous stateman have justly achieved for themselves an European celebrity. Since the chapters of the present lucubrations were first pronounced in lectures at the Sarbonne, in Paris, they have illicited a constantly enlarging attention, both from the vastness of the theme and the remarkable excellence of the com position. The survey taken by Guizot is peculiar for its extent, and yet the remotest outlines of the panorama are pencilled with a marvellous distinctness. The work enlarges the mind, and imparts fresh vigour to the faculties. In the " Literary History of the Middle Ages," on the other hand, we obtain a more minute and elaborated description of one segment in the cycle of civilisation. Namely, of that extraordinary period in the history of the world, when the popular intellect was slum bering save in the recesses of the casual philosophers, and, be it said in justice, in the cloisters of the monasteries. This, indeed, is not the only instance in which the cor rectness of the titlo of " Dark Ages," as applied to those times, has been disproved. The secretary to the present Archbishop of Canterbury has already spoken boldly in defence of those ancient ecclesiastics; and has sufficiently demonstrated that but for the literary and scientific spirit which was fostered in the monastic edifices, the classics would possibly have been swallowed up and lost in the almost universal apathy of the popular mind; and that, but for such cha racters as Copernicus, and Friar Bacon, and a thousand others, either wearers of the cowl cr clients of the cowl, philosophy might have lagged on for many centuries, in the same effete and slumberous manner. As a new ex position of these circumstances, the work of Berington is extremely interesting, and, with its renowned com panion already noticed, cannot fail to carry instruction and ilitellectual advantages among all classes of the com munity. PLEASURES OF POESY. By W. H. Haynes. The author of this little volume has altogether mis taken his subject. He can write a brilliant passage and an effective stanza, but, as far as these pages can indicate, he is incapable of producing a con tinuous poem very far removed from medio crity. There is a want of sustained vigour, and an indistinctness of conception, throughout these two cantos which sadly deteriorate from their merit as an accumulation of musical sentences. Akenside, Rogers, Campbell, and Warton have severally dilated upon the Pleasures of Imagination, Memory, Hope, and Melancholy. Mr. Hayne s a tt emp t s , if possible, a loftier flight,—videlicit, the " Pleasures of Poesy." But the presumed fraternity with his pre decessors renders his failure so much the more manifest. He reminds one of the philosopher in "Rasselas," who, to test the merits of his artificial wings, ascends to the summit of a conspicuous eminence, and tumbles into a lake. Is the water in this instance Lethe ? Unquestionably it will prove so to the poem, but the poet may extricate himself from the same catas trophe if he strives to compose something more likely to live. We do not mean to imply that the writing is altogether faulty; on the contrary, there are in the volume para graphs of no inconsiderable beauty. But those advan tages are marred by such forced similitudes as, where the author is speaking of the time, " When Newton's eager telescopic eye, Explor'd the realms of circumambient sky." A figure of speech, which calls up any unpleasant recol- lection of the visual organs of a lobster 1 Again, the repetition of strained adjectives, is a remarkable blemish in the whole poem. For example, in the very same page, (p. 50), we have :-- "And his far roar awakens pallid fears, &c." " Yet even thus, amid the pale alarm, Bcc." What shall be said, moreover, of such dissonant rhymes as these : " Transmuter of base passions to the ore Of love that leaves the breast no longer poor !" " To the fair orb of day, with homage due, In worship bent the Incas of Peru.' Again, is there no lack of grammatic construction in the following ? " Whose obelisks retain - thiYrnultlight - lore _ _ Of buried time, which ages have :forbore !" Such expositions of failure as the foregoing, are anything but hypercritical, since, with the like flaws, no real eminence in poetry can ever be attained. Mr. Haynes has endeavoured to breathe through the opheoclide of metre, and his powers have proved inadequate : let him restrict himself to the flageolet of metre, and he will succeed. A passable ballad, or a tolerable canzonet, would always be preferable to a laboured and abor tive epic. DRAMAS FOR THE STAGE. By George Stephens. Two Vols. Our national literature, perhaps, is more en riched with dramatic writings than with any other description of composition. And this cir cumstance arises not so much from the num ber of our professedly dramatic poets, as from the fact of almost all our celebrated bards having, without ex ception, ambitioned the production of a play. Thus Milton, with an essentially epic mind, has given posterity his delicious masque of " Comus," as well as the " Sam son Agonistes ;" thus Thomson, though almost solely endowed with a descriptive genius, produced the " Tan cred and Sigismut , a," with the " Edward and Eleo nora;" thus also Dryden, whose chief capacities were those of a translator and a lyrist, displayed considerable fecundity as a playwright. Within our own times Byron, who rose before the world as a satirical and meditative poet, with a greater facility in the production of cantos than of colloquies, of stanzas than of scenes, was not contented without the publication of " Manfred" and " Cain;" while Shelley, at first lost in the exalta• tion of ethical philosophy, ushered into immortal life, possibly the most glorious of his creations, certainly the most splendid tragedy of modern times, his "Cenci." Such as these are, so to speak, the adventitious aids thrown in, from generation to generation, to our dra matic literature. And, what with our great English dramatists, advisedly so called, our Shaksperes, Jon sons, Wycherleys, Sheridans, Farquhars, Beaumonts, Knowles's, Massingers, and Talfourds, render Great Britain in the world of letters second to none other in ancient or modern times. It is from this very richness and splendour of our dramatic compositions that, we conceive, may be derived the decadence of the popular passion for theatrical amusements—the decadence at least as far as the representation of new plays are concerned. The Shaksperian drama can never, it is true, become distasteful to the public, as long as the language in which the great Titan of Poesy has written, continues in existence ; for, as the lexicographer has said in his behackneyed, but not less beautiful phrase, " Shah pere wrote not for an age, but for all time." It is in the modern drama that the histrionic art has for a long period been exhibiting tokens of a scarcely re parable teddewcaiyth; euanasdtetrhplise,eebsecianutsheatwsetylaureofallrieteardaytursoe e becomet to measure. time may be employed to infinitely better ad afasteiedaiosueiseabsneyesosnd vantage in studying and restudying the chef d'oeuvres of our many matchless dramatists, than in frittering that evenings away in company with the O'Keefes and the Reynolds, and the almonds. That, we take it, is the whole secret of the so-called downfall of the stage. The people will never fail to relish the repetitions of the book-shelf plays, such as are performed at the Hay market, at Sadler's Wells, and occasionally at the Prin cess's. But notwithstanding all the epigrammatic sparkle and keenness, and dagger-like flashing of wit, which is the principal characteristic of Jerrold ; notwithstanding the jocund and rollicking bonhonunie of Bourcicault, or the stern reflectiveness of Spicer, the modern drama, looking at it in its general aspect, cannot by any means flourish. This is not in consequence of a deficiency of ster ling dramatists, for we can boast a Talfourd, a Sheridan Knowles, and (vide " The Lady of Lyons," and " Riche lieu," and " Money,") a Bulwer : neither is it from a paucity of histrionic talent, while Macready, and Miss Faucit, and Farren continue before the footlights. It is rather from that spirit of the age, to which we have already referred—a spirit of intense thoughtfulness, and hence a spirit of fastidiousness. The motto of this generation might aptly enough be Cui bone?" We are therefore persuaded that Mr. Stephens, in publishing two large volumes of tragedies and comedies like the present, has adventured too much. He has adventured too much in presenting to public criticism a collection of plays which, while they evince the scope of his intellect, are nevertheless too crude and precipitate to acquire him any solid or imme diate popularity. We regret this the more as in several portions of his work we recognise a very considerable aptitude for dramatic invention, and a very nervous flow of ideas and expression. Ilad he restricted himself to the composition of a single play instead of attempting so many ; had he pruned exuberances and scrupulously collated the manuscripts of that one performance ; had he in fine concentrated his very admirable powers upon a solitary theme, and thrown his whole imagination and his whole judgment into its execution, we are convinced that he might more readily have secured the attention of his contemporaries, and threugh them of posterity, than by the laborious production of these two volumes. Will he redeem his vantage gretintl ? Se has, we feel, the innate capaeity for so doing. "Philip Basil" is a sufficient attestation of this. Will he revert to the original dic tates of his ambition, and forsake, as incon sistent with his talents, such conventional frib bles as Courtall in " Rebecca and her Daughters ?" If he acts thus, and restrains the superfluity of his fancy, and imparts a more artistic sequence to his plots, he may produce something worthy of himself, and not un worthy of forming another link in our chain of literary treasures. The two volumes before us, amidst an abundance of valueless matter, justifies us in anticipat ing much. Mr. Stephens has it in his power to realise or .disappoint those anticipations. May they be realised ! MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD. It has become quite a necessity in magazine writing to flavour the literature of such periodicals with i com pilations of histori ca l romance . F o r one thing, t im parts a semblance of solidity to what might otherwise appear the mere frippery of pencraft, and infuses both brilliancy and inte res t i n t o a nu mber which might otherwise elicit the stigma of immeasurable dullness. Among the melodr ama ti c c l ass o f th e se publications, the court debaucheries of Charles 11. furnish a dainty sup ply of materiels to b e di s h e d u p into "A revel at Sedg ley's L9dgings," or " A walk in the Mall with Nelly ;" with others of a more morbid appetite the "Reign of Terror " is the most popular epoch ; while those of a fastidious delicacy situate their plots in the purlieus of the Palais Royal, during the reign of the Grande Monarque. There are, however, three themes which present attractions t o a ll d escr ipti on s of magazines, and which, but for their b e i ng a lt oge th er exhaustless, would have long since become f r itt ere d away into the veriest commonplace ; those themes are, to employ the lan guage of Count Monthol on , " a s ingle thing, a single event, and a single man—the thing is Waterloo ; the event, the fall of the Empire ; and the man, Napoleon." History will become wholly distasteful! when these mighty and momentous facts—than which none are more mighty or more mom en t ous in the entire range of history—fail to arouse th e a tt en tion and to kindle the imaginations of men. Blackwood, in the present num ber, adds another chapter to the commentaries which have already been written, and will still continue to be written, again and again, u p o n these three extraor dinary topics. By a rather anomalous clash of words, the paper is entitled " The Last Recollections of Napo leon," and every one who is familiar with the political creed and the literary antipathies of our Edinburgh contemporary cannot remain in doubt for a single in stant as to the sentiments which are inculcated in the contribution. They are thoroughly anti-Napoleon. They are built up on a succession of fallacies which have not even the merit of being specious; every alter nate sentence is a sophism, but such a sophism as John Willet himself would have penetrated in a second. The writer undoubtedly is not so facetiously outré in his hatred for the Emperor as Colonel Mitchell ; indeed he concedes so much as to acknowledge that " it is perfectly childish to question the talents of Napoleon," though in good sooth "it needs no ghost to tell us that." But while thus grudgingly eulogising his " antipathy," he discloses the real prejudices of his heart in the sentence, "that the character of Napoleon was a singular compound of the highest intellectual powers with the lowest moral quali ties !" A very "singular compound," without question ! " The highest intellectual powers with the lowest moral qualities." Why, that is literally a description of the arch-fiend himself ; and surely it is not indicative of the coolness of dispassionate criticism, to compare an historical character with the attributes of the devil ! To our thinking such a proceed ing is the very quintessence of bigotry. But taking the sentence in its literal acceptation, it is altogether a meta physical paradox, for the most illustrious analysers of the human intellect, men who have anatomised the phases of the mind, and familiarised themselves with the emotions of the heart, coincide in declaring it to be in compatible with ethics, and to be averse to all experience, to suppose the possibility of a man wholly and essentially depraved. The utter villain is a creature to be encoun tered in novels and melodramas, but never in real life ; for even those who are almost demonised in nature, re tain some lurking place (however gloomy) for the sym pathies and tenderness with which they are still linked with humanity. In either case, therefore, the senten tious expression with which this contributor to Blackwood sets out, is clearly an exaggeration. That is the premise of the entire article ; and the premise being thus exaggerated, the inferences are, by necessity, nothing but one mar velous distortion. Among other things, the writer de clares that Napoleon was selfish and heartless. Now history assures us, that never was man so worshipped as was this man. Colonel Muiron was shot dead at Arcola in defending his life ; Savary wept in the bit terest anguish, because not permitted to share his exile at St. Helena. On the return from Elba, the love of a whole nation preserved his life better than a Phyrric phalanx. His wives entertained towards him the sin cerest affection : his household submitted voluntarily for six years to the most cruel caprices, and the most irksome privations of banishment, rather than be se parated from the great man whom they loved so well. Heartless, forsooth ! Then, as to his selfishness — what pomps, and pensions, and dignities did he not shower upon his satellites, only to be repaid by ingrati tude in the days of his tribulation. Many times did he re turn the crowns of Austria and Prussia to their conquered monarchs; and, at one period he permitted Alexander to return to Russia in freedom when captured by the grand army :—was this selfishness? So far was Charles James Fox from deeming Napoleon selfish or heartless that he declared " he believed him to be the best as he was certain he was the greatest of men!" Now we would more readily bow to the judgment of Charles James Fox than to those of the anonymous Blackwood con tributor, MM. Chateaubriand, Bourrienne, Mitchell, and the Due d'Otranto, all put together. But we neither pin-our--opinion-down to the dictation of -Pox or any other personage: the scroll of history has been written and unrolled, let those, who will, read ! We might, with the least possible effort, disclose the flimsiness of all those fallacies which we have already remarked as the principle constituents of this article, but that we con eeive such efforts to be little better than killing summer flies, which must inevitably die away when the cool ness of the wintry future has passed over them. Agreeing with an elegant writer in the Cyclopredia, Brittanica (a Professor of Edinburgh too 1) that "no one has been (like Napoleon) the object of such unspar ing abuse, such bitter detraction, such inveterate and unrelenting rancour," we agree with him also in the conviction that "neither envy, nor malice, nor hatred, nor slender can ultimately succeed in depriving him of his just fame." Believing this we can afford to pass over such relics of the Georgean prejudices in silence, and to leave the justification of the Emperor Napoleon to time and the reason of posterity—satisfied that while his memory will be one of unparalleled greatness, it will be no less a memory of eminent and beautiful goodness. " Marlborough's Dispatches," " Rogues in Outline," and "Elinor Travis" are continued, the latter with some what of improvement. The tale of " The Americans and the Aborigines" is brought in this number to a conclusion, and, though it may bear the appearance of a rather questionable compliment, we consider the last part to be decidedly the most ac ceptable. Colonel Lord Howden's description of " The Death of Zumalacarragui" is a literary curiosity, and will be perused with the utmost interest ; the disserta tion upon " Peru" conveys a remarkable bulk of useful information. By far the most agreeable contribution, to ourselves, however, is that headed " New Scottish Plays and Poems," which is brimming over with the music and the poesy of the " Land o' Cakes"—the land of mountain and of tarn"—" the land of Ossian and of Burns"—or by whatever other title of beauty you may please to affix upon Scotland. It is a critical essay, well worthy of the taste and the nationality of Blackwood. perusing them, the reader will acknowledge that, as Robert Hall said about Johnson, Gil&llan " shines most on the angles of a thought." " Byron's mind, in itself essentially unspeculative, was forced upwards upon those rugged and dangerous tract s of thought, where he has gathered the rarest of his beauties, by intimacy with Shelley, by envious emulation of his Lake contemporaries, and, above all, by the pale hand of his mi sery, unveiling to him heights and depths in his nature and genius, which were previously unknown and unsuspected, and beckoning him onward through their grim and shadowy regions. He grew, at once, and equally, in guilt, misery, and power. An intruder, too, on domains, where some other thinkers had long fixed their calm and permanent dwelling, his appearance was the more startling. Here was a dandy discussing the great questions of natural and moral evil; a roué in silk stockings meditating suicide, and mouthing blas phemy on an Alpine rock; a brilliant and popular wit and poet, setting Spinoza to music, and satirising the princi palities and powers of heaven as bitterly as he had done the bards and reviewers of earth. Into those giddy and terrible heights where Milton had entered a permitted guest in pri vilege of virtue; where Goethe had walked in like a pas sionless and prying cherub, forgetting to worship in his ab sorbing desire to know; and on which Shelley was wrecked and stranded in the storm of his fanatical unbelief; Byron is upborne by the presumption and the despair of his mental misery." . . . Such articles as this one upon Bulwer are very appro priately introduced into the pages of Tait, since the principle characteristic of that magazine is that of elaborate and dispassionate criticism. The credit which it has already acquired in this respect is fully sus tained in the present number by the notices of Prince Labanoff's " Lettters of Mary Stuart," Ulrici's volume upon " Shakspere's Dramatic Art," Murdoch's " Tour in France and Italy," and particularly by Thomas Do Guincey's sound analysis of the " Miscellaneous Works of Mackintosh." We should recommend the son of Sir James Mackintosh to revise his editorial notes after the blunders and the " sins of omission" which De Qaincey has therein exposed. A great responsibility is always assumed by any man who undertakes the editing of a bygone author, especi ally if that author has acquired for himself a reputation so solid as that of Mackintosh ; and it becomes the bounden duty of such an editor to fulfil the responsibili ties of his self-imposed offices with the utmost care and the most scrupulous exactitude. Indeed anything like an editorial slur, anything indicative of slovenliness in the supervision of works like those, is excessively repre hensible. Hence we are inclined to think that a fresh edition of these miscellaneous writings is necessary for the reputation of Mr. Robert Mackintosh, if not for the reputation of his celebrated father. The paper, such as it is, written by De Quincey, will not be attractive to the general magazine reader, but to the contemplative and to the lover of bibliographic curiosities it will prove—to em ploy a, somewhat cant and conventional phrase—" nuts." The little poem addressed "To the Clouds," might possible appear more worthy of insertion, did it not recall, by the very association of its title, the dainty lines of Shelley—and, by them, sink into insignificance. In the "Literary Register," there arc some agreeable quotations ; and, what with the continuation of " Truth and Falsehood, a Romance," Tait is not unworthy of this summer season. POSTSCRIPT-SATURDAY MORNING. Last night the Fingoe picquet again suri;riSed a party of Kaffirs, said to be about 12 in number, all mounted, passing along the flat at the head of Colonel Somerset's kloof. These Kaffirs did not approach sufficiently near for the picquet to do execution, and had they not fired when they did, the enemy Would have escaped. Several long shots were exchanged, the result being that the Fingoes captured one horse, with bags full of reins, halters, clothing, &c., also a pass, purporting to be signed by the Diplomatic Agent, dated February 15, but in what year does not appear. This pass appears to be a forged document. Received a report that last night the re sidence of Mr. Corbitt, above the Mill River, had been fired by the enemy. The premises had been abandoned, but they contained most of their furniture, oats, hay, &c., which, to gether with the buildings, was reduced to ashes. The enemy then proceeded to the residence of Mr. Wilmott, where a party of farmers are assembled ' • but finding them on the alert, and the place well defended, they moved off in another direction, without firing a shot. The great body of Baffin appear to have struck off towards the Bushman's River Poort, a favourite haunt of theirs—the paths leading to that point being, it is said, covered with the spoor, or foot marks, of the enemy. It is understood that Colonel Somerset will detach a strong body of his division to the point of danger. The detachment of the Cape Corps, under Ensign Salis, which proceeded to the station of the Field Cornet Lombard, returned to town this morning, reporting that they had not fallen in with the enemy, and who would appear to have moved across the Zuurberg towards the ravines of the Bush man's River, as before stated. The Kaffirs avoid meetingour mounted men in open day. MARTIAL LAW. By a proclanattion dated " Head Quarters, Fort Beaufort, 23d," his Excellency warns all persons, under pain of death, against furnishing ammunition, intelligence, &c., to the enemy. He also offers a free pardon to deserters who shall return to their duty within ten days after the 27th April. From elan William, the most distant of the western dis tricts, the Burgher force has already marched for the frontier. The contingents from all the othes districts, except the Cape district, are also in motion. THE LATE MR. B. R. HAYDON. Yesterday a meeting of gentlemen took place at the cham bers of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, in Sergeants' Inn, to devise some means of providing for the widow and daughter of the late Mr. Haydon, the melancholy circumstances of whose de cease are still fresh in the recollection of our readers. Among the gentlemen present were, Lord ➢iorpeth, Sir J. C. Hob house, M.P., Dr. Bowring, M.P., Mr. W. Hamilton, Count D'Orsay, the Rev. Dr. Croly. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. Jerdan. Lord Morpeth was called upon to preside, and his Lord ship, in common with every gentleman who took part in the proceedings, expressed his deep concern at the deplorable death of Mr. Haydon, and his sympathy with that unfortu nate gentleman's widow and daughter, who, in consequence of the embarrassed state of Mr. Haydon's affairs, are left in a state of utter destitution. Several resolutions were proposed and adopted, the first embodying an expression of deep regret at Mr. Haydon's death, which had been caused by distraction of mind conse quent on his pecuniary embarrassments. The second and third resolutions were in the following terms : " That without presuming to offer any judgment as to the place which Mr. Haydon will ultimately fill in the annals of his art, or any opinion on the controversies in which he was sometimes engaged, this meeting feels that the efforts of his genius, and the circumstances of misfor tune which obstructed them, justify an expression of public sympathy with his widow and daughter. That such ex pression would be most fitly conveyed by securing a perma nent provision to his widow and daughter, left wholly desti tute by his death ; and that a public subscription be opened for that purpose." Mr. Sergeant Talfourd read a letter he had received from Sir Robert Peel, expressing his regret that the pressure of public business would prevent him from attending the meet ing, and stating that the Queen had been pleased to grant Mrs. Haydon a pension from the Civil List of 50/. a year. The Right Hon. Baronet requested, that in the event of a subscription being determined upon, his name might be put down for 100/. as a contribution from his private purse. It was stated that Lady Peel had assigned a pension of 251. a year to Mrs. Haydon out of a fund over which, from her position, she has control ; and that Sir R. Peel, having found that a son of Mr. Haydon, who held a situation in the Cus- diately gave him a step in rank. The prompt generosity evinced by Sir R. Peel in promoting the welfare of his un fortunate'family was warmly eulogised; and the following resolution was unanimously adopted :—" That the thanks of this meeting be respectfully tendered to the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, for his prompt and considerate attention to the application made to him for assistance by the deceased Mr. Haydon, and for his munificent acts of kindness towards his family." Lord Morpeth, Sir J. C. Hobhouse, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, and Mr. W. Hamilton, were appointed trustees of the subscription. A committee was formed to carry the re solutions into effect, and a vote of thanks having been given to the Noble Chairman, the proceedings terminated. The subscriptions announced at the meeting (including Sir R. Peel's contribution of 100/.) amounted to upwards of 4001. It was stated by several gentlemen well acquainted with the position of Mr. Haydon's family, that the peculiar circum stances of the case rendered prompt - exertion on their behalf most essential ; and a confident hope was expressed that the differences which had existed between Mr. Haydon and many of his professional contemporaries would not prevent them from aiding to alleviate the distress of the widow and daughter of a talented and able, though an eccentric and unfortunate artist. ACCIDENT ON THE BRIGHTON RAILWAY.—TWO LIVES LOST. BALCOMBE, TUESDAY EVENING.—An accident of a most lamentable description occurred on Monday evening, on the London and Brighton Railway, at the Balcombe station, situate about a mile and a half on the Brighton side of the Balcombe tunnel, by which two persons, one a female pas senger and the other the station-clerk, lost their lives. The station, it should be stated, is of the worst construc tion, and offers but trifling security, or even accommodation, to the public. It is what is termed a good second-class station • but all it comprises is a kind of sentry-box en the left of the up line, just sufficient to shelter the station-clerk, his desk, &c. It is approached by a deep flight of steps from the main road, which passes over the railway; there is no platform or railway to prevent persons wandering on the line, while the pathway is so exceedingly narrow that it is diffi cult to keep a steady footing on the passing of trains. Pas sengers travelling by the down trains are compelled to walk across both lines of rails to the opposite side, and to this dangerous system may the accident in some measure be attributed. It appears that at about ten minutes before three o'clock, among the passengers who came to the station and booked themselves for the half-past two o'clock train from Brighton for London, were Mr. Arthur Murphy, who holds the situa tion of a store-keeper in the ordnance department in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich, and his wife, Mrs. Sarah Murphy. One of the clerks had in the morning got leave to go to Brighton on business, consequently the only person to perform all the duties of the station was the station clerk, a man named Shaw. The down two P.M. express train orcel passes aotceks t a opnr fi ca w f before ruou s m e o c n o t n an d roi s guilldtobne acd t o h om e p tees t d h ui i n r p t thirty a s l s io i nnnsUgetgetusheepnatpls3at,s passen gers Oe. there is no clock at the statin pas sengers, or even a notice board,o gers over the rails. According to appearances, however, like f'or the guidance ymost Stations,proceeded caution ing them as to crossing the line. After taking the tickets Mrs. Mu the rails in the direction of the shed on the up-line,oancrdoasst the same moment the down express was heard by Shaw ap proaching at its usual velocity. He looked out of his door way and saw that she had apparently slipped or fallen on the down lines of the rails. Seeing her imminent danger he heroically rushed out, caught hold of her, and made a desperate effort to throw the unfortunate lady off the line, when at the same instant the engine struck them both to the ground, and the whole of the train passed over them, killing them instantaneously. A more appalling sight was scarcely ever witnessed. The wheels had passed completely over the head of Shaw, thereby rendering the least recognition of his features impossible. The head of Mrs. Murphy was sadly mutilated, it was nearly cut in half; and to add to the shocking catastrophe, she was far advanced in pregnancy. The sufferings of Mr. Murphy, on discovering the dreadful fate of his wife, as may be easily conceived, were of the most heartrending: character. He was the first to raise the mangled bodies off the line, and they were afterwards con veyed to a neighbouring public-house. Not the least fault can be attributed to the engine driver of the train. He saw the dangerous position of the unhappy persons, and used every means in his power to stop the engine by shutting off the steam and applying vigorously the breaks, but the rate of the train, as it does not stop at Balcombe, entirely prevented him effecting his purpose. Mrs. Murphy, it appears, had been stopping at the neigh bouring village of Cuckfield for the benefit of her health, and her husband had come down only the day before to accom pany her on her return home. The station clerk had been in the service of the company since the opening of the rail way, and was greatly esteemed. He was 41 years of age, married, but no family. The bodies of the deceased now await the county coroner's inquest. ACKNEY THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—Last evening the annual meeting was held at the chapel, Holywell Mount, Shoreditch, F. Smith, Esq., in the chair. The seminary was founded in the year 1803, since which time 150 students had gone forth as ministers; during the past year two had com pleted their studies, and one had entered the seminary. The expenditure was 1,5191., which sum exceeded the receipts by 1.12/. Resolutions to promote the success of the institution were adopted, and the meeting separated. THE LORD MAYOR'S VIEW OF THE UPPER DIS • TRICT OF THE THAMES.—The Court of Aldermen having passed a resolution on Saturday last, requesting the Lord Mayor to take the usual view of the City's jurisdiction above bridge, his Lordship has issued summonses to his brethren 9f the Court to join him on the sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth of August, to commence at Oxford and come down the river in the state I barge. FRASER. Fraser has an article this month on the state of parties, which is valuable, as showing that the Protec tionist Tories are still the same bigotted, prejudiced, un reasoning set of men that they were fifty years since. Like the Bourbons of the elder branch, " they have learned nothing, they have forgotten nothing." Speaking of the glorious free-trade measures of Sir R. Peel, which (forgetting the memorable declaration of the Right Hon. Baronet, that the corn-laws were not merely impolitic but unjust) he endeavours to sneer at mere fiscal arrangements ; he says : " We begin by expressing our unqualified regret that any consideration whatever should have induced Sir Robert Peel, on a mere question of fiscal arrangement, to break up the best and strongest Government that has sat at the helm of affairs for a quarter of a century. Had the trade of the country been depressed, or the public revenue fallen away— had there been threatenings of foreign war, which only a change of policy could avert—had there been poverty, want of employment, discontent and incipient agitation at home— some excuse might have been found for his proceeding, though even then it would have been perilous. But that he should have chosen a season of unexampled prosperity to try such an experiment, does, indeed, strike us as being an act• to which, on the score of absolute political madness, we can discover no parallel. Granting that he was right in the prin ciple of his measure, the time which he chose for pushing it forward would have placed him in the wrong." Now this is the true old Tory doctrine—listen not to reason, grant not that which is "right in principle," because it is right—but knowingly maintain the profit able wrong until it is wrested from you by physical force, or until all the, world plainly perceive that you have yielded that to threats which you would not yield to reason ; for that is the meaning of finding fault with Sir Robert Peel for not waiting until " discontent and incipient agitation had afforded him some excuse for his proceeding "—as if any excuse were needed for doing justice. Can a party honestly maintaining such doc trines as these (and that they are honestly maintained by them, we verily believe) be safely entrusted with the administration of the affairs of a mighty empire ? In the following passage the gist of the argument of Sir R. Peel, derived from the failure of the potato crop, is either misunderstood or misrepresented : " The ostensible ground of the Minister's change of policy was the failure of the potato crop, and an anticipated famine in Ireland. Was it candid in him to urge such a reason for the abandonment of opinions and principles which he had held throughout the whole course of his previous life, and to which the party. which brought him into power was pledged ? Surely not; and, with all possible desire to avoid saying harsh things, we must be permitted to add, that he himself knows that it was not. -The Government did not wait, it could not wait, for the passing of its corn-bill or the ac ceptance of its reformed tariff, ere it provided against the risk of destitution in Ireland. Long before Parliament met, or the Times had said a word on the subject of the Cabinet discussions, abundant supplies of Indian corn were poured in from America to Ireland." not tc p u a t t e forward faminew theia Ireland, failure o afs the t h Sirl potato 4 31; c 4, l' andt ‘; j e A ostensible ground of his change of policy ; what he said was, that he might have proposed a partial suspension of the corn-laws, to enable him to provide against that famine (in fact the pouring in the abundant supplies of Indian meal was a partial suspension of the operation of those laws), but that if he had done . so, the whole question of the policy of those laws would have to be re-considered when their re-enactment should be proposed—that in the face of such a failure it would be impossible to re-enact them— and that therefore it was better to consider the question at once, with a view to its final settlement. The failure of the potatoe crop was put forward as a reason for the immediate consideration of the question, not as a reason for the abandonment of principles and opinions pre viously maintained. They were abandoned because they were found untenable, and because the experiment of the tariff had demonstrated that those free-trade doc trines which had previously been admitted to be cor rect in theory, were likewise profitable in practice. The true reason of the Protectionist hatred to Sir R. Peel is here undisguisedly set forth. It is not that they dread the consequences of a repeal of the corn-laws:— "We do not value the Corn-law one jot in couiparison with the state of feeling which its repeal has occasioned. In deed, it is our honest conviction, provided gentlemen ex ercise common prudence, and farmers exert themselves, and labour be not stinted, that Great Britain and Ireladd will, in a very few years, raise more than corn enough for the con sumption of its own inhabitants; and that the home-grower will be able to beat the foreigner out of the field, and be him self a gainer all the while, on account of the preference which will always be given to the very superior article which he raises." His crime, in their eyes, is, that he has broken up the Monopolist party. " Sir Robert Peel," says this writer, " was more than the Minister of the Crown. He was the avowed head of that party," &c., and the inference to be drawn from all this is, that in the estimation of the Tory party the duty of allegiance to the party over rides the duty of allegiance to the Sovereign. By break ing up a party so thoroughly selfish and so completely anti-national as this, which would fain ride rough-shod over both Sovereign and people, Sir Robert Peel has conferred a benefit on his country scarcely in ferior to that which he has conferred on it by adopting the principles of free trade as the groundwork of his commercial policy ; and that the party is completely broken up we have the unwilling confession of this writer:— " And, now, last of all, is there strength enough in the Pro tectionist party to justify an attempt on their own parts to assume the Government? Without hesitation we answer that there is not." The literary contents of the present number are of a high order. There is an excellent review of Mr. Mackin non's work on Civilization. An interesting resume of the contents of Captain Stokes's recently published account of the voyage of the Beagle along the coasts of New Holland, and graphic sketches of the Dukes of Richmond and Buckingham, the Earl of Radnor, Mr. Villiers, and Mr. Bright among the contemporary orators, besides several other papers. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE, the compositor,—and, if so, it betrays a strange care lessness in the correction of the proofs: or the whole error springs from the vascillating or confused notions of the writer,—and, if so, is an egregious specimen of his incompetency to express any decisive opinion upon matters of such moment. Among the quotations from the satirical fragments of Canning, we rejoice to en counter, yet once again, that inimitable travestie of Robert Southey's Sapphics, in which " the friend of humanity " responds to the appeal for sixpence from the " knifegruider, in that memorable outbreak of indig nation-- " / give thee sixpence ! I will see the damn'd first— Wretch whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance ; Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, Spiritless outcast 1" _ _ " The Drama in connexion with the Fine Arts" is a capital dissertation on the lamentation about the decay of dramatic art. But, in the very eulogiums which it lavishes upon some amongst those wbo still grace the histrionic profession, we think the writer entirely sub verts his own proposition, that this decay is traceable to the deficiency of good actors and actresses. During the palmiest days of Siddons, and Kemble, and Kean, the old playgoers were wont to shrug their shoulders in deprecation of such performance with a " Ha! you should have seen Garrick!" Precisely in the same manner, Macready and Phelps, and Miss Faucit and Vandenhoff, are contemned by a cry of " Ah! you should have seen Miss O'Neill!" or what not. The decay is traceable rather to the extreme fas tidiousness of the age than to any exceeding paucity of histrionic talent. Steven's " Memoirs of George Heriot" are agreeably reviewed, and the cursory glance thus taken of the ever-memorable " jingling Geordie" of Scott will be relished by the readers of the magazine. " The Ideal of Imitative Art" is likewise worthy of praise, as an elegant group of gossiping remarks about painting ; while " The Stepson" forms a very in teresting story, though a story rather suited for a winter's evening and the ingle-nook, than for the sultry days of July. Among the " continua" ar ticles we may mention Carleton's powerful tale of the ",Irish Famine," and the picturesque serial about " Irish Rivers." We cannot possibly see the humour of the pasquinade upon the martyr of the cellar, and howevermuch Mr. William Smith O'Brien may have laid himself open to ridicule by his recent episode upon - Parliamentary business, we think he might have been spared the punishment of suggesting a bad joke. But for the importunate demands upon our space, we should be tempted to extract the mystic and exquisite verses entitled " The Wine Spilled ;" they form a dainty decoration to the Dublin University. LOYAL UNITED FRIENDS.—On Monday last the 24th anniversary of this highly-respectable body of men was cele brated at the Highbury Barn Tavern, Islington, on which occasion above 500 friends partook of a dinner, served up in Mr. Hinton's proverbial good style. General Secretary Spiers officiated as chairman, and was supported by several influential past officers and distinguished members of the order. After the cloth had been drawn the chairman, in a short speech, proposed " The Queen," which was drunk amid much applause, as was also " Prince Albert, and the rest of the Royal Family." "God save the Queen" was sung in ex cellent style, the company joining in the chorus with great enthusiasm ; after which the chairman, in a few appropriate words, gave" Success to the order of Loyal United Friends :" this toast was received with raptures of applause ; after which, P. P. Beeby, of the No. 8 Lodge, sang a song, of his own composition, to the tune of the " Old English Gentle man," characteristic of the order. P. P. Hill, of the No. 16 Lodge, then proposed—" Prosperity to the Gift Funds of the order ;" as did P. P. Beeby, " The Pension and Friend-in need Funds." Both .toasts were received with great ap plause. S. P. Huntley, in a complimentary speech, gave " The health of the chairman," which was responded to with every demonstration of respect, and acknowledged by General Secretary Spiers, in a neat speech. Secretary Burgess, of the No. 15 Lodge, proposed the health of Special President Nuntley, who, he stated, was justly eminent for his social and other distinguishing qualities, and who was an ornament to the order. This toast was well received, as was that of the stewards, also proposed by Secretary Burgess. The latter was acknowledged by P. Edmunds, of the No. 7 Lodge. The last toast was " The Ladies, " given from the chair; after which the company adjourned to the pleasure-grounds of this celebrated place of festive enjoyment. At nine o'clock a ball commenced, and was attended by a large body of the members and their fair companions, which was kept up to a late hour, when the company broke up, highly delighted with the enjoyments of the day. In February last an English coachman, named Pye, in the service of Mrs. Maxwell, baying in the Bois de Bou logne unbridled his horse, and . the animal being suddenly frightened by the smacking of a carter's whip, — it became restive, and struck an old man, named Bergounioux, with such violence, that he died. Pye was tried on Saturday for his negligence, and sentenced to six days' imprisonment, and to pay 300 f. a year to the.widow Bourgounioux for her life. Mrs. Maxwell was declared by the tribunal to be responsible for this payment. MANSLAUGHTER BY AN ENGINE DRIVER.—A man named George Hecker, engine-driver at the Grace Mary Col liery, Rowley Regis, has been committed to take his trial for manslaughter, in causing the death of a collier through his negligence on Monday last. It appears that the de ceased was being drawn up from the pit, and Hecker having neglected to slacken the engine, the skip struck with great violence against the pulley of the pit-frame, and the deceased was jerked out of the skip, fell heavily on the ground, and was killed. MUTINOUS CONDUCT AT CHATHAM BARRACKS.— On Saturday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, Chat ham Barracks became a scene of riot, which for a time ap peared likely to lead to serious results. Detachments of various corps, it appears, were at the time held in readiness to march to Gravesend on Monday to embark for India, and some of their comrades being placed in confinement for breach of military discipline, a number of men of the 98th Regiment united for the avowed purpose of liberating them, to effect which, they first commenced by an attack on the guard, removing the soldiers from their posts, overturning the sentry boxes, bursting open the doors and wrenching off the iron liars of the black hole, and liberating the prisoners. At this stage of the proceedings the most serious conse quences were apprehended, a detachment was called out, and with muskets loaded with ball proceeded to the scene of riot. After some resistance the ringleaders were secured, and being put in confinement, order was speedily restored. One sergeant received vary serious injury in the affray from a violent blow on the head. On Monday morning, when the detachments marched to Gravesend, thirteen of the rioters, handcuffed, accompanied them. THE DUCHESS OF NORTHUMBERLAND'S FETE CHAN FETRE.—Yesterday afternoon the Duchess of Northumberland gave the last of a:series of these fetes champetre at Sion House, Islaiorth. The weather was rather unsettled, but from the admirable provision afforded in the mansion not the least in convenience was experienced by the numerous visitors. The full band of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), under the direc tion of Mr. Tutton, was stationed on the lawn, and rendered the :scene most enlivening by their musical performances. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck and Lady Augusta Cadogan, arrived at half-past five. The Duke of Wellington was among the early arrivals, and Sir Robert and Lady Peel came shortly after six o'clock. Her Highness Princess Grassallcovich and the Countess Murray came early. His Highness Ibrahim Pacha, accompanied by Major Dickson, Semi Pacha, Colonel Bonfort, and M. Nubar, arrived at six o'clock, and remained until nearly eight o'clock, The de jeuner was announced shortly after six o'clock, and it is needless to remark com prised every luxury that wealth could procure. The Ethiopian singers were engaged, and afforded much enter tainment to the company. Mr. Green's Nassau Balloon descended on Monday evening in a field of barley belonging to Mr. Kynaston, in the parish of Stanford Rivers, Essex, a mile and a half from Ongar, and 21 miles from London, having travelled this dis tance, besides the entire length of London from east to west, and the further distance that Cremorne Gardens are from the capital, in the short space of half an hour. The strong wind that was blowing throughout the afternoon obliged Mr. Green to use the heaviest of his grapnels and ropes, weighing together close upon 5 cwt., the difference between them and his mild weather apparatus being equivalent to the ordinary , weight of three persons. Nevertheless, eight gentlemen be sides Mr. Green participated in the aerial flight :—Mr. G. Lawton, of Ditchley-park, Essex; kr. J. J. Fryer of Kensington • M. J. Armstrong, of the College of Civil En gineers, Putney; Mr. Powell, of Benson, Oxfordshire; Mr. Sargent, of Fleet•street ; Mr. G. H. Davidson, the publisher of the well , known Music for the Million; Mr. Spencer, the soli citor; and Mr. Van Buren, of the Cremome-gardens. The bal loon took a direction perhaps the best possible for a perfect view of London and all the adjacent places. It traversed the great and main lines of St. James's Park, Trafalgar square, the Strand, &c., and left London by crossing St. Martin's-le-Grand, Finsbury, Shoreditch, &c., whence it continued its course over Hainault Forest, and the inter vening places, till it was made to descend as stated, after having had Chelmsford in close view, and the Nore, and an immense range of country of corresponding distance in the prospect. While over the grounds of Buckingham Palace, her Majesty's health was drunk, and the National Anthem was sung in a style that showed some of the party to be no mean vocalists. The next round of champagne was quaffed in respect to Ibrahim Pacha, who had done the aeronauts the honour of his company at starting. After landing, the balloon sustained ,some damage, from the boisterous state of the weather; but Mr. Green and his party reached London in safety, without any accident to detract from the enjoy ment of the trip. LORD FRANCIS EGERTON.—In the Gazette of last evening it will be seen that his Lordship has been elevated to the peerage by the title of the Earl of Ellesmere and Vis count Brackley. Both those titles had belonged to the Egerton family, in the house of Bridgewater, for some cen turies descendants of the celebrated and virtuous Sir Thomas Egerton, whom Queen Elizabeth made her Lord Keeper, and conferred other honours on, for his distinguished abili ties, particularly in the suppression of the conspiracy of the Earl of Essex. On the accession of James I. he enjoyed the favour of that Sovereign, by whom, in 1603, be was created Earl of Ellesmere, and subsequently, in I 616 ' he was further raised to the dignity of Viscount B ra ckley, and the King further intended to have conferred an earldom on him, but he died before the patent was made out. The earldom was, however, immeedxiparestay conferred his Lord sonV s count Brackley, the muni ficent p atro n of Milton, who wrote his "Comus" oyfort the e Earl uponwhen Presi dent of the Principality, who had it performed by his family at Ludlow Castle, in Wales. The viscounty and barony thus became merged in the superior title of Earl of Bridgewater, and were enjoyed in direct succes sion until the death of Francis Henry Egerton, eighth and last Earl and ninth Viscount Brackley, and Baron Ellesmere, who died in February, 1829, when those titles became ex tinct. It is generally known that Lord Francis Egerton, then Lord Francis Leveson Gower, nephew of the Earl, in herited a large portion of his extensive estates, as well as his valuable collection of paintings, familiar to all connoisseurs of the fine arts as the Bridgewater collection. In 1833 he as sumed the name of Egerton, in lieu of his patronymic Leve son Gower. In 1820 his Lordship was returned to the House of Commons, as Member for Bletchingley, and in 1826 was elected to represent the county of Sunderland, which he con tinued to sit for until 1830. In 1835 he was returned for the southern division of Lancashire, in conjunction with thtS Hon. B. B. Wilbraham, in opposition to Viscount Molyneux (now Earl of Sefton) and Mr. G. W. Ward. His Lordship was Chief Secretary for Ireland, from 1828 to July, 1830, when he was appointed Secretary-at-War, and filled that office till the succeeding November. The Nolile Lord was offered a high appointment by Sir Robert Peel when he came into office in 1841, but declined the honour from his unsettled state of health. We understand that Mrs. Magee, of Dublin, lately deceased, has bequeathed the sum of 20,0001. to trustees, for the erection of a Presbyterian College in Ireland. The de ceased was relict of the Rev. Mr. Magee, Presbyterian mi nister of Lurgan, and sister of Major-General Stewart, of the Royal Irish Artillery.—Northeen Whig. MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—The late Miss Lucy Harmer has bequeathed the sum of 1,000/. to the Philanthropic As, 09404911 t9r oho listawatim of hytailo Wrcuslerg. There is a dash of Harry Lorrequer in this number of his quondam-magazine; it is by an anonymous but fa miliar contributor, and is the commencement of a series of " Sketches of Burschen Life." It is quite impossible not to participate in the exhilarating spirit flowing through these chapters; they are redolent of good humour, and, while they initiate us into the mysteries of the student's life in the German universities, they put us on good terms with both students and universities. Slicing an odd nose off in a duel, or lopping away a casual ear in the like description of amusement, are un doubtedly drawbacks to such a condition of society in the nineteenth century ; but, making this somewhat ex orbitant allowance for the excitement of youthful blood, we are prepared to esteem henceforth every Bursch who ever perambulates the streets of Manheim, be he a frog, a camel, a fox, or a bemossed head—for such are the eccentric titles of the German universitymen tallying with the freshman, the sophister, and the senior of our English universitymen I Garnished with their chore caps and their meerschaums, and followed by their trusty poodles, we would not unwillingly claim ac quaintance with any one of these students!; for, as this writer assures us, and as we can likewise avouch, they are about as intellectual and cordial a race of fellows as can be found anywhere on the face of the earth. There is a brotherly character about their friend ship for each other which cannot fail to enhance them in the eyes of every gregarious mortal. We commend the procession of "farewell" at Heidel berg to the perusal of all Cantabs and Oxonians—it is a pleasant and moving picture. The paper upon " Bell's Life of Canning" is a somewhat slovenly piece of criti cism; nor can we fully comprehend the consistency of the writer who declares that he " boldly impugns" Sir Robert's policy in one sentence, and in another remon strates with Lord George Bentinck, for seeking " to baffle a Government upon a measure in which they are clearly right." Either he alludes in one instance to the free-trade policy and in the other to the Coercion Bill,— , and, if so, makes a sad bungle in the expression of his ideas—or the contradiction of opinion is attributable to • - - - . - _ _ . +Per L THAMES GRAND REGATTA . SECOND PAY. Many heavy engagements depen,led upon the issue sor .) 1.3- terday's races; there were no less thAn twelve upon the IL% and of the number eight were first ra,`e. It was the grand day, or one of them ; tor so brilliant were the entr ies that it would have been impossible, had the comp mittee of manage ment wished it—and their desire has invh.riably been snot only to arrange the sport so as to afford e:ich respect ive crew or individual member a fair chance of success,. 'but to afford as much gratification as possible to the.' Public- 4 (k have dished up less than two great aquatic ban Vets. Of these, however, we must give precedence in weight to that of yesterday. Upon a moderate calculation, there were at least 50, 000 persons present. The Bishop of London had given perm le sion for respectable persons to enter his extensive gwrtn,ffs on the Middlesex side of Putney-bridge. The towing-patez on the Surrey shore along the course, a mile and a halt least in distance, was almost impassable, whilst the Thames was covered with pleasure-boats filled with company, who partook of the gratification incident to this great nationa pastime. The Maria Wood state barge was moored a few yards below the regatta committee boat, and at three o'clock the Lord Mayor, accompanied by the Sheriffs and civic authori ties, took their seats on board of her. Shortly afterPards his Highness Ibrahim Pacha and suite arrived, an d 'were entertained on board the state barge. The regatta com mittee waited upon him with the magnificent prizes for the various victors, and his Highness expressed his admiration of them. After witnessing the first three races ; he left is the Lord Mayor's state boat, to join the party given at the Duke of Northumberland's, Sion-house. He appeared much pleased with the rowing, and was received throughout the aquatic - course with loud cheers. The Vice-Chancellor en tertained a distinguished party at his seat on the bank* of the Thames at Fulham, and some of o.e houses were graced with fashionable company. • AMATEUR SCULLERS' MATCH FOR THE SILVER CHALLENGZ CUP AND SILVER WHERRY THE LATTEII PRESENTED BY MESSRS. MAKEPACE AND WALFORD. FIRST HEAT. Mr. Barton, Cambridge University, (pink) I Mr. Russell, Cambridge University Rooms (1. blue) ... ••• • "" 2 Mr. Kennedy, Amateur Scullers' Club (yellow). Mr. F. Loane, Thetis (black). All got oft together well, and then pink dashed off' with the lead, and opposite French's was a length and a half in advance of the whole party, blue being second, with yellow a length away from them. Yellow made a very plucky en deavour to mend his position, but was unable to ,do so. The winner retained the lead, and came in first by five lengths. SECOND HEAT. Mr. G. Peacock, Ariel Club (green) 'lir. T. 11. Fellows, Leander Club (red) 2 Mr. Compton, 'Balls (purple). Mr. Bachelor, Cambridge University Rooms (stripe). They all made a good start but Mr. Bachelor. Mr. Pea cock shortly drew ahead, improved it all the way up, and won by three lengths. LANDS3IEN'S Foult-OAR MATCH, FOR VARIOUS MONEY PRIZES. TAIT'S. With extreme pleasure we observe an accession of talent to this able periodical, in the person of Mr. George Gilfillan, as a contributor. What he has commenced in his eloquent volume of " Literary Portraits," he appears determined to complete here—namely, a gallery of those personages who have during the present century adorned the literature of Great Britain by their writings. And we are glad to observe, in the first paper of his second series, a very remarkable improvement in the style of composition. What was previously extravagant in brilliancy is now modulated to something approaching to rhetorical correctness ; what was an exorbitant elongation of paragraphs, heaped one upon the other for the expression of a single idea, is now reduced to a brevity more consonant with the object—namely, the utterance of that single idea. Still Mr. Gilfillan must guard himself from falling into an extreme of condensation when he is thus endeavouring to correct this tendency to copiousness. Despite the sneers of certain frigid critics, he must, if he would not utterly ruin his genius, avoid cramping his powers by a too strict subjection to the rules and formalities of composi tion. We would the more particularly urge this upon him, as in his writings we recognise the impetuosity of an enthusiastic thinker. Mr. Gilfillan throws his thoughts upon paper with a nerve and earnestness which we would not see abated one jot, even though it were at the risk of encountering the blemishes of pre cipitation. Originality and depth of sentiment, and spontaneousness of diction may be frittered away byla too great anxiety to produce sentences peculiar for ele gance, or arguments of a precise sequence, and a prim ap propriateness. We say thus much because we believe Mr. Gilfillan •to have received his credentials as an author rather from nature than from the book shelf ; his mind is animated rather by an in nate vigour than by reflections from the dilectus or schoolings from the dorainie. " Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton" is the first contemporary writer considered in this new series, and forms an admirable opening paper to Tait for July. It is to be hoped thut Dickens, and Carleton, and Marryat, and the rest of that fraternity, will be anatomised by the same cunning hand. Full justice is done to Bulwer as an essentially unique ro mancer. He is shown to be no copyist of others, but to have formed for himself a class of novel writings, and (what is still more) a class of readers. But we conceive the critic rather exaggerates when he observes that Sir Edward's " stile is vicious from excess of vi,tue, weak from ; that every word is a p y, the close of every sen t e nce a climax. ' a s trength The analogy drawn be tween the characters of Byron and Bulwer is eccentric enough and Plutarch ian enough; and the eccen oint, repletion every clause of se s,tbgethaut tricity of it is especially vitible in the concluding remark j t a n d a e t d " way of doing penance, threw his s w y h st i e le m ß i Y n r trili b e y Greek war, Bulwer has with better result leaped into a tub of cold water !" Cordially do we coincide with Gilfillan in regarding " Zanoni" as in all respects the masterpiece of Bulwer Lytton ; the memory of that beautiful book clings to us like a vision, the like of which is never seen but once—a vision of the mysterious, the solemn, and thepathetic. As a specimen of the novelty with which Mr. Gilfillan invests even themes handled a thousand times before, and as an ex ample also of the brilliant mannerisms of his style, we transcribe a few observations about Dyron. er FIRST I-1 EAT. Lambeth crew (green)........ Hammersmith crew (pink) ...... ....... ...... 2 Alillbank crew (light blue). Endeavour crew (black). It was a splendid race. Green, pink, and blue dashed off together, green showing for about ten seconds in slight ad— vance, and then they fell into as even a line as at the moment of starting. Blue then made a spirt, and went out in ad vance, and off Craven-cottage had cleared their boat of pink altogether, and gave symptoms also of beginning to shake green off. Green then put on a fine spirt, and went right oar and oar into them, and pink following suit, the three boats all became level again at the Crab-tree, and made, as it might be termed, a fresh start for the ra ce. The exer tion had, however, found out some of their " weak points ;" but pink looked most like those in a condition to win. They continued oar and oar up to liammersmith bridge, where green got a quarter of a length ahead, and, notwithstanding the exertions of their opponents, never lost it. SECOND HEAT. Wandsworth crew (yellow)... I Chelsea crew (purple) The Mars crew (stripe). "1 ,V ill if I Can" (red). The first two boats got the lead almost immediately after starting, and as both were entitled to race in the grand heat, purple at the Crab-tree very politely allowed the winners tb pass them into the first place. WATERMEN'S PAIR OARS MATCH FOIL 80 GUIVIEAS. FIRST HEAT. John Doubledee, Lambeth, and Kipping, Hun gerford (black) .. . .......... ..... 1 Charles Campbell, Westminster-bridge, and Kelly, Fulham (light blue) 2 Perry, Lambeth, and Braithwaite, Hungerford (stripe).' G. 'Everard, Blackfriars-bridge, and C. Bartlett, Vauxhall (red and white). John Phelps, Fulham, and J. Godfrey, Strand lane (pink). Light blue, black, and pink made play at a rattling speed. red and white being left astern of the party . Black almost immediately after overhauled light blue, who had began to show in advance, and kept the lead. A smart race followed for second place. AMATEUR SCULLERS' MATCH. FINAL HEAT. Mr. Barton, Cambridge University (pink) Mr. G. Peacock, Ariel Club (green) ... 2 Mr. T. H. Fellows. Mr. Russ ell. At the start Peacock took the lead, closely pressed by Fellows, Mr. Barton lying a good third. The latter gen tleman, however, soon mended his position by taking the second place, and off the Crab-tree challenged Mr. Peacock. Some smart rowing occurred, resulting as above given. WATERME:k.T'S PAIR•OAR RACE FOR 80 GUINEAS. SECOND HEAT. R. Coombes, Millbank, T. Coombes, Millbank, (red) .. . 1 R. Doubldee, Lambeth, T. Goodrum, Millbank, (green) ... 2 IL Stretton, Lambeth, G. Campbell, West minster (purple). H. Green, Vauxhall, Meckiff, Horseferry, (black and white). Dodd, Hungerford, Wilson, Hungerford, (yellow). Red, green, and yellow showed themselves in advance im mediately after the start, and made a pretty race almost oar and oar for some distance; oft the committee barge red and green led, yellow giving place to purple; red and green maintained the level all the way, but the second pair had their work to do to keep in advance of purple, who came in close upon their quarter. STRANGERS' PRIZE OF 50 Soya., OPEN TO ALL THE WORLD. FOR FOUR-OARED BOATS. Oxford watermen (purple) ............ ......... 1 Bristol crew (red) Eton crew (light blue). Eton took the lead, the Oxford boat was next, the Bristol crew rowing very smartly and beautifully between the pair. The Eton crew kept the lead to between Craven-cottage and the Crab-tree, when, having steered out of their course,u the Oxford crew, who took the proper vater, passed y, as did also the Bristol crew, who throughout rowed very luckily . CHAMPION SCULLERS' ISIATCH FOR 251., OPEN TO ALL. TILE. WORLD. RobertkNewell, Horselydown (red) ••• 1 W. Pocock, Lambeth (light blue) John Phelps, Fulham.. For an instant only they were together. Although the greatest artistes of the day, they made a very hollow race. Newell, who defeated Clasper at Nevcastle-upon-'4ne last week; went away with the lead, and did as he liked with them throughout. Pocock, who took the second place at starting, and kept it throughout, played much such another game with Phelps, who really rowed very hard throughout. THE GRAND CHALLENGE CUP, FOR EIGLir-GAR BOATS. THE THAMES CLUB, LONDON. Mr. R. J. Walmsley, stroke 4 Mr. Webb 7 Mr. T. Stratton 3 Mr. Blake 6 Mr. P. Gayford 2 Mr. W. Field 5 Mr. Robinson 1 Mr. H. Field. Walmsley, steerer. ETON AND WESTMINSTER .pXFORD?. Mr. W. 11. Milman, stroke 4 Mr. .M. Wi lson 7 Mr. T. W. A. Steygate 3 Mr. H. E. C. Stapylton 6 Mr. W. Winter 2 Mr. P. Burton 5 Mr. J. W. Conant I Mr. W. C. Stapylton. Mr. Haggard, coxswain. FIRST TRINITY ' CAMBRIDGE. F. George, stroke 4. Garfit 7. Vincent 3. Turner 6. Wolstenholme 2. Sidebottom 5. Cloves 1. Maule. Welland, steerer. They all went off at a great pace, the Oxford boat taking a slight lead at first. The Thames, however, opposite the committee barge, outstripped them, and took the leading po sition, the Cambridge boat being in the centre, about half a length in the rear, and the whole forming as pretty a picture as could well be conceived. The Thames retained the lead, winning by upwards of three lengths. LANDSMEN'S FINAL HEAT. Lambeth (green) 'Wandsworth (yellow) .. 2 It was a good match all the way between the first and second boats, the others, within three minutes of the start, having fallen astern, and made a private race of their Ma. Won cleverly. ATERIDINVPAIR-OAR MATCH. FINAL HEAT. R. and T. Coombes (red) 1 R. Doubledee and Goodrum (green) ............ -• • 2 Black got the start, but fell off. Red then went in ad.. wince, green being close up to them. A smart race between green and red throughout. Below the Crab-tree green rowed up to red, and became oar and oar with them. Red then went away, and won by a couple of lengths. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE (RECEIVED TIS DAY.) BETTING AT MANCHESTER H .—TUESDAY., LIVERPOOL CDP.-5 to 1 agst Mendicant (t., and after-. wards offered), 9 to 1 agst Conjuror (t.), 10 to 1 agst My Mary (t. freely), 10 to 1 agst Yardley (t., and afterwards offered), 12 to 1 agst Lightning, 16 to 1 agst The Hero (t.), 16 to 1 agst Satyr (t.), 20 to 1 agst Robin Burns, 20 to 11 agst Poynton (t.), 20 to 1 agst As you-like-it (t.), 20 to 1. agst Intrepid (t.). GOODWOOD STAKES.-500 to 35 on the field, 16 to 1 agst The Hero (t.), 20 to 1 agst Jack Cade (t.), 30 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (t.), 30 to 1 agst Orion (t.). ST. LEoEa.-6 to 1 agst Sir Tatton Sykes, 13 to 2 agst Pyrrhus the First (t.), S to 1 agst Brocardo (t.), 10 to 1. agst Grimston, 12 to 1 agf t Dolo, 25 to 1 agst Brother tois Millepede. PUGlLlSM.—Nlachren and Jones, both heroes of the steel and cleaver, met yesterday, according to articles, to settle an oldgrudge, and decide the winner of 40 sovs , duly staked on their behalf. The fixture was Horley, 251 miles on the Brighton rail, and thither, by the nine o'clock train, a pretty tolerable sprinkling of the partizans of both men. were steamed. Little time was lost, and shortly after eleven, " Auld Tom Oliver" having made the necessary arrange— ments, 11PLaren threw his cap into the ring ; Jones soon followed suit, and at the half hour before noon the men. crossed hands, and were quiCkly at work. Jones, despite slight visit to his olfactoky organ, had it his own way from the first, and had lie possessed more ring talent, and relied less on the tapping, left hand lead-off of the sparring school, the affair must have been very much shortened in its dttra-. tion ; as it was, after a game but unskilful struggle of one hour and thirty-five minutes, during which fifty rounds were contested, M'Laren was compelled to cry " Hold, enough.' Jones, the victor, has much to learn ; he had the game iQ his own hands, but certainly did not know how to play it. He left off with merely a slight tumefaction of the lip, and a little damage to his left hand. The men were again en route between three and four, and all hands reached the " long village" in safety at an early hour, after a well-condacte4. orderly, and uninterrupted mill, the losing man with nom, other damage but that of the temporary disorrappmer . 4°. lo L the symmetry of his countenance, J 3 last r by