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nature, cilling him a thief, and other words to the same elf' et, but of such a kind that ho trusted he should be excused from repeating them. This nII occurred in the presence of three other gentlemen. For this ho sought protection. Mr. Temple stated that all the offensive expressscns which Mr, ,Stephens was represented to have uttered had been tit;ed; Mr. Hodgkinsoa said, that since the occurrence of the offence ho had, under Mr. Ternple'e instructions, written to Mr. Stephens to request a written apology, but so tar from that being given the insult had been aggravated by repetition.' _ Sir JOHN KEY asked Mr. Stephens what reply he had to make to this statement? Mr. Stephens admitted that he had used the epithet of " thief." It was the custom of members of the Stock Exchange to expre'si thereselvcs in strong terms respecting the characters oViose:PV ties who they conceived were likely to injar_e ttiem.lves or others. Sir JOHN t EY to Mr. Temple—Were y:.tt ever con victed of " thieving?" Mr Temple (with a laugh)— No, never, sir." Sir JoaN KEY required Mr. Stephens t 3 enter into his ovn recrognizance of 501. to keep the pease, and both parties left the court. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. 'Hamlet is unquestionably Mr. liean's greatest part, and we have never seen bim to higher advan tage—more successfully mastering the immense diffi culties of the character, and more judiciously develop ing its salient peculiarities, preserving at the same time with 'consummate skill the peculiar tone which should prevail throughout—than in his impersOnation of the Danish Prince last evening. With Mrs. Kean as Ophelia, and the minor parts in such highly efficient hands as those of Harley, Addison, Meadows, &c., it is not surprising that this splendid perform ance is sure to draw a bumper house. Last night not a seat was left unoccupied, and many were dis appointed of admission. The pantomime, moreover, is in the zenith of its popularity, continuing to afford immeasurable enjoyment to all classes of spectators evening after evening. " The Lily and the Bee"— no inappropriate title for la belle Leclercq and Cur mack, the accomplished representatives of Columbine the Fair and Harlequin the Active—contribute their sparkling aid with unwaning brilliancy to the general triumph. Flexinore gives to some ex tent a new reading (so to term it) of the Clown. That degree of lubberliness which used to be considered a necessary ingredient in the character, he entirely discards, assuming, too, an attire of a new and superior description, that gives bun a singularly light appearance, excellently suited to the agility and rapidity which characterise every feature in the performance of this admirable artist. His Clown is,a sharp, humorous, rascally scamp ; an adroit, unscrupulous knave and cozener; in lightness and activity " feathered Mercury" in disguise; but be never illegitimately resorts to any of those mounte bank feats, the introduction of which upon the boards is properly allowable . in a professed posturer alone, and many of which may be daily seen done very cleverly by street tumblers. The Pantaloon wants rubbing up ; a dose of joint oil, or stirrup oil, or something to iniuse into him a little more supple ness and animation, Taking the entertainment on the whole,'both. as regards the introductory and comic Portions, Harlequin Billy Taylor may fairly lay claim to the first - honours of the station. ST. .MARTIN'S HALL. Mr. HuHale last night opened the second season of his monthly concerts; and the entertainment, although of a nature not by any means popular, and helped by no particular adventitious aids, attracted a large and attentive audience. The staple of these concerts, as our readers are aware, is music (partly sacred, partly secular) of an elaborate and ambitious class, performed by a small but well-selected orchestra, a good corps of soloists, and a chorus selected from the members of Mr. Hullah's upper school. The general effect, of course, resembles Exeter Hal), on a small scale. But without venturing upon the great oratorios, there is an ample field fur Mr. Hullah's labours in. the interpre tation of that class of minor hut still important works nnder the names of cantatas, anthems, Sec., have been given by the greatest musicians to the world. These concerts, too, afford an eligible means for the introduction to the world of works by young composers aiming at a high and serieus style of art.. Several compositions of this class have in deed been already given. The programme of last night presented no novelty, with the exception of a sacred song, "By the waters of Babylon," by Mr.Wayley, and sung by. Miss Alleyne. The corn- Poaition is a tolerably flowing minor melody, the treat- Meta aiming at that of Mendelssohn. , The first part of the concert included that great composer's Ninety fifth Psalm, with which Mr. Hullah's audiences are well acqtiiiinted, and Mr. Leslie's promising work, produced last season, " A .Festival Anth em ." Th e solos were g i ven by iss Birch, Miss Alleyne—whose great nervousness materially impairs the powers of a sweet and flexible voice—gr. Swift, who in several passages threw more animation into , his music than We have ever before heard „him exhibit, and Mr. Frank Bodda. The psalm was steadily and evenly executed,'" and - the - grand chorus, " Come, let us sing to the Lord," with its mas sive and impetuous strength, went with great effect. In the Festival Anthem, Mr. Leslie appears to us to have been uncommonly unhappy in his choice of words ; and the fact has naturally re-acted against the compotter. What possible musical idea, for in stance, could be eliminated, even by Handel, from such phrases, long dwelt on, as ti Great was the com pany of the preachers," and " They of the household divided the spoil ?" The second portion of the con cert was entirely devoted to a spirited and interest ing rendering of Handel's famous St. Celieia ode— the w e t! known and manifold beauties of which can never pall upon either a musical or popnlar auditory. DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM OGLANDEB.—TIIIB vener. able Baronet died en the 17th inst. at Parnham ; he was sou of the fifth Baronet ; was born at Parnham, 1769 ; married, 1810 , eldest daughter of fourth Duke of Grafton ; succeeded his father in 1806 ; was a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, and represented Bodmin in Parliament from 1807 to 1812. He ja succeeded by his son, now Sir Henry Oglander, born in 1 811, and married in 1845 the youngest daughter of the late Sir George William Leeds, Bart.: Missing—and has not been heard of since the 2d of December last—the spirit of the French nation.—. Punch. GRAY'S INN, JAN. 21. —At a pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day; Terence Hughes, tSci , was called to the degree of barrister-at-law. Tuz MUMMY.—Since the discovery of the mummy in th e crypt of St. Stephen's, a great number of perons Visited, by permission, the spot where the relic lies. It is stated that the remains will not be removed for fear they should by being disturbed become entirely destroyed. It is intended they should remain in their present resting place, and that the wall should be so rebuilt as to admit of the curious in such matters having a view of the ancient relic. general opinion prevails that several other bodies, will be discovered in or near the crypt, and the speculative suppose that treasure of a more substantial and lucrative nature must also be deposited in the vicinity of the ancient dead. Mr. Crompton will, it is stated, be the new Judge in place of Justice Patteson. The vacant Mastership in the Exchequer has been filled up by the appointment of Mr. Chatfield, a solicitor. The Liverpool Standard says—Mr. Paget, of the Northern Circuit, has been appointed private secretary to the Lord Chancellor—salary 1,5;.01. per annum. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND W OLVERHAMPTON EXTENSION TO LONDON.— A numerously-attended meeting of the town of Uxbridge and its neighbourhood, called by a provisional committ ee of landowners, was held, yesterday at the Public Rooms, Uxbridge, for the purpose of taking mea sures for establishing a railway communication between that district and the metropolis, means of the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton bExtension to London ; Mr. Christopher Towers in the chair. that, in the opinion of this meet t Ajr. T. F. Clarke moved ling, dwith accommodation by e . town and neighbour hood of Uxbridge were not su railway with the metropolis adequate, nearly adequate with its wants. Mr. W. F. de Salts se lr n O . d r ep the resolution, which was crried unanimously, (a large shareholder sp a the Oxford, Worcester, and Cr erhampton Company) then described the plans of thatcojm. n for affording the required accommodation; and mr. Hib bert moved, " That this meeting having heard the state ments made with repect to the line proposed by the Oxford-, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway passing close to this town, and joining the South-Western near 13 rentford, is of opinion that such a communication was highly desirable, and this meeting would therefore support such a project with the utmost cordiality." This was seconded by Mr. Hilto n , and carried unanimously. A committee was afterwards appointed to watch over the railway communication of the district. BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The estimated ,expense of constructing th e new d ev i at i on li n e to Yeovil is 43 ,54 W., bring a reduction of a b ou t 2,400/. on the original estimate. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.-- The expense of constructing the proposed extension line to Enniskillen and other works, with subscription towards the c onstruction of a new bridge over the Foyle, is 152,000/. EXAMINATION OF A WIFE AGAINST HER HUSBAND. the course of an argument in the Court of Chancery Yesterday, the Lord Chancellor took occasion to state the ci rcumstances under which the difficulties with respect to this question had arisen. His Lordship observed that when the Bill was before the House of Lords, he moved that the clause which gave the courts of law the power cf examining „Luke wife be struck ont, and it was struck out accordingly. I the body of the Bill, and in another clause, there was, ncwever, a power given for the reception of the evidence of the wife in certain cases, and in the trial of criminal offences. That clause b y an overs i g h t, an d i n conseque nce of the l a t e hour at which the Bill was discussed, had been permitted to remain, and one of the learned judges, seeing that the evi deuce was rec e i va bl e i n certa i n specified cases, assumed that it wa s:receivable in all, although the generally clause had been addedout. That v i ew o f t h e mat t er was , hi s Lordship , not one that was generally adopted. SCOTTI , II MIDLAND RAILWAY.—We understand t hat the referee has awarded 1,6001, to this company as the annual sum to be paid by the Post-office for the conveyance of the mails on this line to Aberdeen.—Dundee Advertiser. Tile Great Northern Railway Companies have provided " foot warmers" in the first-class through trains. TIIE LATE LINGARD.—A few Protestant gen tlemen, to mark their sense of the high literary atta i nments of the l eeeased historian, and of his private worth, i ntend to erectlfraby a monument to hi s o , near Lancaste r , i n memory, in the parish church of which village the doctor resided aht) l ut half' a century. Hi s remains it will be remembered, a re interred at Usha w , i n the county of Durham,—Preston Chronicle, T E L ITERATURE. EXCELSIOR; or, The Realms of Poesie. B y Alastor. Second Edition. William Pickering. Graceful as this little volume is, even in its external appearance, it can scarcely fail to prove attractive to the enthusiast about poetry, by reason of the very pseudonym (Alastor) which the author has selected from Shelley, and of the very title itself (Excelsior), which he has borrowed from Longfellow. In its general character the work is essentially discursive. It abounds throughout with criticisms upon the fa vourite poets of the writer, and with allusions to Ms own more cherished dreams upon the diviner myste ries of existence. Everywhere in the pages of "Excelsior" it is impossible not to recogniie the deep and.. devotional fervour with which it has been penned, Alastor betraying in every sentence the earnestness of a very impassioned temperament. The most con spicuous fault in the book is that of exuberance. Is desultory manner might be regarded as not only excusable, but even allowable, from the very nature of the subjects unfolded—hut with the exuberance of its style, it is unquestionably otherwise. Among ell blemishes, however, in an author manifestly young and inexperienced, this is as unquestionably the most entitled to forgiveness. Better surely to witness in bis earlier effusions a prodigality of metaphor that can be pruned down, or an extravagant abundance of language that can be in time corrected;than to observe the evidences of a feebleness which no practice can invigorate, or of a sterility that defies cultivation. Wel come, thrice welcome, therefore, to us are initial volumes replete with errors of the description here indicated, errors which practice cannot fail to overcome, and which are consequently preferable to the stunted merits of a puerile and faultless mediocrity. Ac cording to Plutarch, the popularity of Alcibiades was in! the first instance attributable to the squandering of hilt wealth among the Athenians. Nevertheless the bfiandishments of a correctly balanced and adroitly selected diction are too important of their kind not to bq sought after at the outset with the most sedulous attention of the student. In vorbis otiam tennis cautusque serendis, Hoc aueet, hoc spernat promissi carminis auctor. As with metrical, so also, though in a lesser degree, with prose compositions, more especially, should those compositions,as in the example under consideration, have reference to criticisms upon poets and upon poetry. Alastor wins the confidence of his reader at once by his evident acquaintance with his subject, and not only his acquaintance with it, but his profound and burning admiration for it likewise. Poetry, the study of poetry, it may be also the writing of poetry, is clearly enough his vocation. His reverential regard for that divinest among the Fine Arts is visible in almost every chapter, but more particularly so in those chapters which relate exclusively to its consideration. Immediately after his " Invocation" he adventures, humbly but earnestly upon a "Definition of Poesie." He considers her to be the "beloved handmaid and faithful servitor" of the Divinity. Fantastically, but beautifully also, he says that "at her girdle she wears the golden keys of Time, Space, and Eternity." The close of.the definition is not the least eloquent sea tepee in the volume, where the writer exclaims " That poetry is alone true, grand, and sublime, which takes man from his wormlike crawling in the dust, and plumes his soul with angel wings of aspi ration, which shall soar upwards and upwards until they rest on the glorious f:totstool of God." Throughout the principal part of the "Excelsior" we discern the same generous blending of rapture and adoration. The writer has manifestly a yearning for that loftiest employment of human existence which he has attributed in such noble words to Gilfillan— that of " loving as a child, but worshipping like a seraph," that " mighty God" to whom all our energies should be dedicated. Having somewhat ingeniously mapped out what he designates " the Four Quarters of the Poetic World," Alastor glances at the various poets (principally living ones) who are numbered' among his more peculiar favourites. A fanciful semblance is thereupon traced by him between Byron and the Sun, Keats and the Moon, and Shelley and the " dim mysterious starlight"—referging with justice the misanthropy of Byron to his misfortunes, speaking of Keats in a tone of gentle and genuine affection, and repudiating with a scorn that cannot but prove infectious, the charges of unmitigated cul pability directed against the beautiful and elevated me inory of Shelley. As affording the readiest means of ena bling the reader to estimate the nature of "Excelsior," we shall at once, however, *illustrate our remarks upon it by quotation. Imparting an immediate interest, moreover, as they do to the pages of. the volume, our extracts shall be restricted to those passages which relate to writers now living, beginning not inappro priately with Alastor's allusions to the Poet Laureate. These are the opinions_ pronounced by him upon TENNYSON. " Not exactly cypress, but a wreath of weeping wil low, should encircle his name. He is enamoured with ideal beauty and purity of • soul, and he sings the praises of holy and exalted friendship more than the warmest passion of love. He may be. characterised as un elevated philosopher with a poet's expression, which a delicate perception of MB beauti(ul and true has given him. " His harp is not strung with strings whose wild loud notes shall first awaken, and they petrify the world, but, with silken, silvery, gossamer chords, whose fairy melody is heard only by* the delicate spiritual ear. " Yet keeps he perhaps too close to the shores of Time, and dares nut, or will not, sail the mighty oceans of mind, and bring as like golden fruit from beyond the distant shores, sublime and inspiring ideas of futurity. He keeps his wings too' closely furled, when we consider his poetical powers ! " May Time give him courage and bear him happi ness;—root up the willow which points, with its thou sand drooping and nerveless arms, to the cold EAUTH, and transplent the poplar which ever points, with its one firm giant fingers, to the bright, glorious, an d joy-inspir ing HEAVENS. " • H a ving thus gracefully symbolized his estimate' of Tennyson,' the writer turns to the consideration of BAILEY. " This is, perhaps, the greatest poet of the present generation, inasmuch, as in his Penns,' he has endea voured to display the boundless aspirations, thoughts, and feelings of a young enthusiastic spirit, deeply im bued with a love of Nature, man, and Crock yet wanting the greatest and 'most comforting doctrine of Faith, from lack of which spring all the uneurbed and bound lees, but broken, aspirations of youth, and the feelings and excesses attendant thereon. "He bas nobly dared to do all this, and the world has not let him go unrewarded. " His last work The Angel World,' shows, however, an increase of faith and humility, consequent upon his having exhausted the more wild and passionate feelings of his heart. " Long ere we knew his name, whilst the hot ferment of youthful thought made us desperate, we had formed many similar ideas to those propagated in Festus,' amongst many others still wilder. We thank God that a most humble and confiding spirit is now at work within us, and we trust that by our works we may never sow one seed of doubt relative to these revelations, which are the only hope and comfort of myriads. Still, we are determined to put the most kindly and Christian like construction upon them, and to look more at their general spirit than at isolated passages. "Now that Bailey has exhausted all phases of un belief, we look for the highest poetic blessings from bins. He will know how to administer relief to minds in similar miserable mental states. " All phases of mental suffering must have been en dured by one who seeks to enlighten the variously framed minds found in the human family. "'Bailey wished to become God's poet-priest, which faith and humility ,will yet constitute him—(this was a favourite aspiration of our own. from boyhood). " He approaches the nearest to our ideal of a poet, many , problems that perplex and d fo e r e h pl o y bo ia ld te ly re s s e t iz t es the worlds mind, and endeavours to solve them. His heart is one mass of religious feeling, amneddihuems.eesHeevekrnyowobsjewcetuthernoouugghh t a h n a e t l e e v v e a r t y m o g in ad divine g n created bears the stamp of divinity; and is thus full of deep spirituel meaning. " As for the beautiful and gorgeous imagery, which lies as thick on his pages as moonlight snow on the large leaves of yonder winter's evergreen, we will only say— that it was never surpassed, arid that never were the riches of a wealthier mind displayed to the world." Almost immediately afzerwards the author thus speaks of "One of ou of expressive °I KENT. latest poets. His classical expression, the trio of classicaelllanguage, the delicate beautyhis thoughts, and his great corn wandhint that ho will complete airpady iope.ntural poets, whereof Shelley . and and othevorer Ho has already g 7 members. Keats are ' Aletheiti; or, the Doom n min n or poems, which are steeped of Mythology,' Count of Poesie, and:are el l t iLnd most delicate percep in tho purest and m ost imbued with the deepest L s : one ns of of nature. One en titledpoetry. of moderne most exquisite don of the beauties and operations who shed ' Orchestral,' we think graphic and imaginative gems " Here is the germ of ono of the truest poets, a lustre on any sge, draped in the Wayinglafooeltds; of classic grace flud clepnce. " We hear some critic has dared to call Kent a v° 1u p. teary, when criticising ' Aletheia.' if richness ofima gery, fulness of expresioe, and ripeness of natural atTec- Lions, constitute voluptuous ness, then, and then only, is Kent g u ilty of the charge. Le t us remind s uch critics that a filthy mind sees everything through its own me dium, and to it, even purity herself seems unclean. " When we survey our small, but illustrious band of living poets, with such names as Bailey, Atherstone, Longfellow, Tennyson, Maeltay, acd Ken t, as their leaders, wh o shall eiare afarm that the present age will be a blank in th e poet i ca l anna l s 01 t h e teglrsh language?" Cordially and earnestly may we commend the justice of his subjoined Panegyric upon LONGFELLOW. it A deeply-beloved a:Lori:mu poet, who, howovGf, sighs a little. zoo much after the Past which seerni to. him ai a setting sun; the Future appearing but as a small star of the seventh toDgnitude, with uncertain, twinkliug light. " Yet is his soul a gem of the purest ray serene,' which also, c=,rtaiLly, tho dark uofathomed caves cl ocean' (the deep ocean ofthought) have borne; nor has he yet forgotten those dark caves a g l oom. " Perchance ho may yet flash back more strongly' the cheering rays of the Sun of Hope, and may yet enliven 0 N) N w 4 --f as Well AS - exalt mankind—the latter of which he has al ready.done. " The world's face is amply stiffased with tears; it is the poet's duty to wipe away a few—not to add more. "'He his read of, and, perhaps, believed too impli citly the glories'of the Pest; which, after all, if viewed MlCRO—instead of TELE—soopically, would have. shown far morn defects than besuties, and far more misery than happiness. " One would be led to fancy that he had written many of his poems under the dense gloom of a pine forest (to which same sombrons trees he is deeply attached). He is, however, a bard of deep love'and warmest sympathy, of the purest heart, and most elevated and enlightened Christian feeling. The elegance and deep sentiment of his poetry (and prose likewise) are unsurpassed in any language..` May God prosper him, and throw a few more sunny gleams of Hope through the shadowy forest of his mind, and show more brilliantly to the world the clustering tufts of hopeful eyed flowers and blossoms under its gloom! " His grand Psalm of Life' must neither be forgotten by himself nor the world!" Thee azotances of eulogium upon Longfellow we can find it in our heart to approve to the very utter most, even in spite of the disappointment experienced vciy recently on the perusal of his " Golden Legend" —scarcely less impious than incoherent. Willis the American, and Lamartine the Frenchman are names subsequently brought from beyond the Channel, and froth beyond the Atlantia, to be classed iimong the cata logue of Alastor's especial favourites. 'For Charles Mackay and Eliza Cook he acknowledges hiS predi lectiou ; iri regard to the latter, he says she is, " through her weekly journal pouring a flood of sim ply - beautiful thoughts through the 'mental veins of her beloved country,'' while, in regard to the former, he vrow's . that " he who loves him not as a brother must have the dry heart of a mummy." Sir Bulwer Lytton is subsequently mentioned in terms of profound adini ration,tnotigh we do not conceive that the writer has to the full appreciated the genius of that remarkable and comprehensive intellect—one of the most remark able and coMprehensive in the range of our national literature. Fully and entirely applauding the tribute next Offered to the " true poet's heart" of 'Dickens, we would gladly witness the realisation of th e h o p e expressed in reference to that matchless delineator of character. The following sentences will,be agree able, inasmuch as they relate to a celebrity as po pular as S 14', LEIGH HUNT. " The fattier of a new school of poetry, where subtle fancies and interwoven imagery supplant the old broad b.cked day-light similies of Pope, whore one thought was often , swelled pompously out through a whole page. Keats was an admirer and follower of this master, and with him seemed to wish for the romance and brilliant fancy of Chaucer once more to sail into our poetical firmament. " Once we detested him, for his attack on Byron when dead, but now be has explained that away, we love him for his kindliness and innocence of soul, his heartiness of sentiment, and . hatred to all mawkiness; and, wish heartily that his body was as young as his soul. " His Tale of Ramine contains many exquisite and richly coloured word-picturee, and many notes of joy and sadness hover around a quivering string of narrative filled with the deepest pathos." Here, moreover, is Alastor's mention of BARRY CORNWALL. "His renowned songs have all the beauty, and greater force and freshness than Moore's. His imagina tion is bold and vigorous, and his fancy throws around his compositions the most luxurious tendrils, chatitened with airily-hung flowers of thought. "His larger poems resemble the bold stems of high soaring pines, through whose dark-fringed tops the glittering moonbeams dart, and fall on the gleaming leaves of the giant ivy wreaths entwining them, and on the fanciful flowers of the sweet-scented woodbines, in termingled with and hanging out their waving tassels from such dark coverts." Charming as the songs of Barry Cornwall are to us, we cannot, however, consent to hear him brought into comparison with the author of the incom parable.. melodies.. Besides the foregoing, a multi. plicity of other poets are enumerated and criticised, such as Schiller, Pope, Goldsmith, Campbell, and Chatterton ; and subsequently Alastor refers, to such " high arguments" as the definition of time, or as the relative position of man and nature, conveying his more recondite notions upon creation and existence through the medium of "an explanatory vision of thought," in which he shadows out a forthcoming poem, ‘entitled " The Enthusiast." From, what we have already said of the volume before us, and from the passages excerpted from its pages, we doubt, not but that the reader will, with us, look for ward not without curiosity for the appearance •of its successor. "Excelsior" has, by its earnest spirit, won from us our hopes for the success of " The Eathusiast." A . HISTORY of MODERN WWES. By ..Cyrus Redding. Third / Edition. ~Henry Bohn. Considering the sale, of a work as the only rational critiiion.of its popularity,, it is, of ccurse,:manecessary to obier.v.e, after mentioning that the present edition is the third, that Mr. Redding's " History of 'Modern Wines" is .regarded by the public a Joeritorious. Without any question, the volume lying before us is the best eVer, penned upon the subject dearest to the heart ottbeblicebanalian. It comprises not .merely the original merits of the work, but a variety of additions also; .and those, many of them, most delectable to the bun vivant. In his preliminary chtip!.er the writer gossips very delightfully about the Wines of all times, ancient : and modern —wine being, as entymelogy tells us l yin to the French, win to the Anglo-Saxon, weir to the German, vinn to the Dutchman, wyn to the Dane, vinum to the Roman, vino to the Italian, vino also to the Spaniard, vinho t h a ve been sentiment s en t erta i ne d towar d s i t b y man kind t d h i o n . all tligueBel Andoivo to the Greek—so similar ages and in .all climates! To render his gossip upon the subject yet more, palatable, the author indulges himself' now with a scrap frpm Ovid, now with one from Martial, now with one from Horace, trolling them out with an unmistakable gusto. Then follow his admirable dissertations on the Vine and ou the Vintage. Therein he tells us all about the matu rity of the grape, th e mo d e o f gat h er i ng i t , the way o f pressing it, the treatment of it in the vat, the co urse of ,ferthentati en , an d all ' the subsequent pro cesses conducing to the glorious ultimatuin of a nectar fit not, only for the consumption of men but of gods. The wines of France, the most wonderful of all, are enumerated by Mr. Redding with an evident admi ration ; and next he takes into account successively, those of Spain, of . ' the Canaries, of Germany, of SWit zerland, of Portugal, of Madeira, of Racy, of Hun gary, of Austria, of Styria, of Carinthia, of Greece, of Persia, of the East, of . Africa, and of America. 'Ultimately be initiates the reader into all the mys teries of keeping wines, and lets thein into the secrets also of their, adulteration and s o phi st iC a ti on . Th e Ap pendix to the volume is especially valuable, and' here and there are scattered throngh its pages some fay elegant and classic illustrations. MURRAY' S READINGS FOR THE RAIL. Further instalments of this very admirable series of cheap republications have more than justified the praises laaished by ourselves upon the enterprise im mediately upon its commencement—at the, same time that each additional work betrays, mere and more clearly, the value and variety of Mr. Murray's latest scheme in the way of a cheap, instructive, and enter taining periodical. Already as guarantees of the truthfulness. of his very propitious prospectus we had welcomed the appearance of the first series of " Essays from the Times"—awaiting still with Some curiosity the issue of its immediate successor. Already, again we had expressed our satisfac tion at the reprint in a popular form of Lord Mahon's very admirable history of " The Forty-five." And the last of the sources of pleasures afforded to us by the development of the project sketched out for himielf by the publisher was the production, at a comparatively insignificant price, of an abbreviated narrative of " Layard's Nineveh." Added to all these, we have now three new instalments to particularise as lending their attractions to the series, and as furnish. in;; worthy materials as Readings for the Rail. " Nimrod on the Chase" we had previously mentioned as reproduced in a popular and beautiful form in the as carrying. out of this excellent enterprise. " Nimrod on the Road" we have now to announce published in a similar manner, as well as that equally masterly essay of the late Mr. Appleby, known as" Nimrod on the Road." It is somewhat amusing , by the w a y , to it read the latter paper, boasting, asdoes, throughout of the speed secured in the way of loco motion by the fast coaches of thirty years ago --boasts that are now-a-days rendered laughable by the velocity obtained on the railways, and by the annihilation of time, so to speak, by means of the electric telegraph. It was an in genious notion, that of Nimrod, to portray in a vivid manner the changes brought about among travellers through the means of certain imaginary adventures of an old gentleman, of a hundred years ago, suddenly awakened from a trance and spirited away on the Comet in the midst of the roar of Picadilly. We should like amazingly to read a similar story told in regard to railways by a yet more brilliant writer than Nimrod, we mean Sir Francis Head, the delightful author of " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau," and very recently of the "Faggot of French Sticks." Among the more amusing witticisms in "Nimrod s na c m o e ms of s us of Roads on the Road," commend us to that in which ( t i h e e s i gnAated American n etio o uly the of the M'Adamis . Reading this most charming and • h . pap, •paper, the least instructed readers in such matters become, long before its conclusion, familiar with every portion of a coach, and with all the accompanying technica lities. Clambering on the box, or on the bench, s tuffing trunks into the boot o r the s lid e , s t epp i ng down by the roller-bolt, or sitting up on the gammon hoe rd, incomprehensible though some of the p a ras ,es might have been beforehand, become readily understood before the close of this most gossipping and lively dissertation. There is a gusto, moreover, quite catching, in the author's account of "the THURSDA springing the cattle" on the level country, Towards the conclusion of the little volume we come upon a droll enumeration of the various kinds of vehicles which have been successively popular in this island— the family coach, the singlebodied phwlton, the curricle, the gig, the whiskey, the stanbope, the tilbury, the buggy, the Bennet, the cabriolet, the doublebodied phwaton, the britschka, the donkey-cart, the pony-chaise, the barouche, the chariot; and we might add, the drag, the dog-cart, and, cosiest and most popular of all just now, the brougham. Be sides the popular works already enumerated as forming portions of the Readings for the Rail, we may mention a charmin g li tt l e e di t i on o f " ./E sop's Fables," interspersed 'with a variety of fanciful or facetious illustrations. EMILY 110 WARD. _ B y Dunlop. 3 Vas I if rs . Colbzirn. The scene of this novel is laid in Portugal, and the descriptions of life in that country, and the customs and manners of the inhabitants, give it an interest and originality not often met with in works of its class. The heroine and her mother are English, but most of the chief characters are Portuguese. The authoress is evidently acquainted with the nation and country she describes; the account she gives of it is very favourable and attractive. We must except, however, the marriage regulations. All is arranged by the parents, and as their ideas of family grandeur and the necessity of keeping up their ancient name far supersedes any desire for the happiness of their children, the most melancholy disappointments result. The plot is simple, but the interest continues throughout unabated, and the tale forcibly exemplifies the evils ensuing from indecision, vanity, and deceit, and shows how the joyotis and light-hearted Emily, the only child of an indulgent mother, reared in a home of plenty, never troubled by a care, and totally unprepared for sorrow, surmounts the heavy misfor tunes which suddenly befal her, by a sense of right and an earnest endeavour to fulfil her duty. She finally attained a degree of peace and happiness which her rival, the vain and deceitful Inez, though living in the midst of undisturbed prosperity, never knew. It is a most fascinating work, which the variety of scenes, events, and characters prevents from ever be coming tedious. The followi ng Emily, all her bright hopes coin extract is when completely overthrown, pays a last visit to a favourite sp ot " They went first to the ruins of the Moorish castle; and as Emily sat amongst the large stones and broken carved work, where she had loved to play as a child, and gazed now on the moss-grown arches and crumbling walls, and now on the peaceful valley and slumbering ocean, solemn thoughts arose within her, and her spirit was wrapt in a calm which she had of late feigned, but longed for in vain. The wild desolation in the midst of which she was seated, spoke to her only of decay and the mutability of all things earthly, wheth e r it b e ever restless man, or his works, or his joy s , or his sorrows. On the v e ry spot where she then sat bra ve men h a d fought for victory, bold minds had schemed, human. love had rejoiced, fond hearts had pined ; and what now re mained to tell of those hard-won triumphs, o f t h ose proud designs, those dreams of joy, those withering regrets ? A ruin ! Oa seasons had never ceased to roll on in re pita succession—the iich valley bad yielded it s har vests, the orchards had blossomed, the rocks had still towered in unchanging grandeur, and the ocean had alternately slumbered and tossed itself in fury,—all alike unconscious that generation alter generation was being gatt.ered to the tomb. As these thoughts passed through Emily's mind she felt for the time raised show the passing show in which the few years of human life are spent, and her soul found a temporary rest in medi tation on the power and the promises of the Eternal Creator. Yes, all things change but Thee, she mur mured, and the heaviest sorrow endures not through eternity." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 21. The following had the honour of dining at the Royal table last evening :—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Lord an d Lady John Russell, the Right H on . S ir F . and Lady Arabella Baiing, and the Rev. Mr. Birch. Tee band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and played the following selection. Overture, " Lodoiska" Cherubini. Waltz, "Bird of Paradise" ................. Kcenig. Selection, " Freyschutz" weber. Finale, sth Symphony Beethoven. Galop, "Prince of Wales" ••• •. Seaman. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the following compositions: — Overture, " Zampa" Quartetto (Op. 43), allegro, adagio, tempo di minuetto, two violins, viola, and vio loncello —Messrs. Sainton, Day, Hill, and 11. Chipp - Aria, " Euryanthe" The Queen walked in the - Home Palk and the Slopes this morning. The Prince of Walee, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, took their usual walking and pony exercise. ills Royal Highness Prince Albert went ont shooting this forenoon, attended by Lieut.-General Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Hon.' C. B. Phipps, Colonel Ron. C. Grey, and Colonel F. H. Sol moor. Lotd Byron and Lieut.-General Sir E. Binger have Rneeeeded the Etul of Morley and Captain Hon. J. I)en. man in their duties of Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Invitations have been received by the following per sonages, and they aro expected to arrive at the Castl, to-day :—Lord and Lady Seymour and the Hon. J. Her mimic St. Maur, Viscount Canning, Sir James and Lady Graham, and Colonel Wylde. Lord and Lady John Russell took their departure this morning. Mr. Mitchell, M. P., bad en intei view with Lord John Russell ycsterday, at his official residence in Di wnirj g . street. Mr. Bonham Carter had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. The lion. Col. Anson had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down.- ing•street, on Tuesday. A deputation from householders and residents in the district of Burnham, Somersetshire, had an interview y es ierday with the General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs. John Gunter, George Rced, a n d S amue l H o bbs, mem bers of the local b oard of health for the Burnham district. Mr. B. S. Maecionnell, governor of the Gambia, had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office yes terday. The Cambridge u niver , " ,, , L ) commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of t h e Treasury, in Downing -street. Present—the Bisho p of Chester, the Doan of El y , Si r John H ersc h e l, the IV R ev . Professor Sed gw i ek, and the Rev. Bateson, secretary. Lord M.enteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Admiral Dundas had also an interview with the Right lion. Baronet. Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in town yester day from Windsor Castle. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood-park, Wiltshire. LONDON LIFE4--s--.., Tho half-yearly mee t in g '''uliANCE COMPANY. auditors the offices, 81, King W of this company was held at taem-street, City; Mr. C. Franks in the chair. The funded property, and other assets report .showed that the amount to, from annual dividends of the company, now on mortgages, 99:3514 os ends on stock and interest 4,846 existing elide s, 207 4.75 d.; annual premiums on furniture, &c., 32,3144 ls. 3/. ls. 4d.; balance in hand, duction of 69 per cent. i s no 4; total 306,8251. 9d. A re policy-holders. After a short made in the premiums of was stated that the W h ole rt, conversation, in which it amongst the policy -holders ti. the profits were divided of premiums which, within i n the shape of diminution f r om 67 to 69 per emit, ,f t , short . time had increased t h e i n come-tax was only ' llll ;nution, and, therefore, a i d pro perty, the report was adopted on their vested elected an audit or, in the , and Mr. V. B. Corri c r. Th :° o aa of Mr. T. Howell, a ppointed a directo f orwa rd the following resolntien chairman then brought b e authorised to pay the l'Presentatives " That the Matthew directors Ledger, who died in Californi a of without having obtained a lic ° e 4 the 16th Sept., 1851, directors to go to that country, X° from the court of being the office value of th e p,)i ? S um of 5911. 15s. 2d,, on the day preceding that en vv Z ei. t i ln. 5,009 on his life void." The chairman stated that the policy became rendered necessary in cense quenc t e h ia resolution was having vitiated his policy by goi nz of Mr. Ledger Land to California without the frontconsent Van Diemen's Mr. Ledger having contemplated pro ll e t of the directors. nia, his representatives in this countreeding to Califor company for permission for him to de pplied to the however, declined to pay the Extra so Mr. Ledger, on the premium. It was , however, fair required Mr. Ledger had, always paid the /air to state that for residing in Van Diemen's ', e xtra premium directors now thought his represent arid, and the allowed to receive the amount bis policy should be day before he voided it by leaving th l c o Y was worth the place. This resolution having been agreedhat-mented lowing was also passed, to avoid, i n 7. ti to, the fol necessarily caused by having to co in , be llre, the delay meeting of the olicy-holders to obtain ~ :re a generel the payment oft he value of a policy 0 " 4 ir consent to voided:—" That the order of the generain its becoming the 13th of January, 1830, relating to the °llrt' held on the office value of a policy on the life o f , ja Payment o by his own hands, be rescinded; and thetY.persen case where any policy of assurance issued , in every shall become void, the directors be sad the society ised and ere,- powered to pay, if they shall think fit, no ceedinv, in amount the office, value of t h e Y sum note x day preceding that on whic h the policy ‘, policyY cn the shall have be come void." A vote of thanks to the chairman a n d directors closed the proceedings. --........_ TUE LATE BOILEEEXPLOSIO N AT GREAT BRIDGE.. —The jury, after hearing much contradictory evidence to as w , the construction and strength o f the boi ler hich eventually concluded their labou rs b y r eturning the fexploded ollov, ing verdict :—" That the decea sed carne b y their deaths through the bursting of a boiler, but what was the precise cause of the boiler exploding there w as not sufficient evidence to show." MRS. APLENNAN.—We learn that Mrs. M‘Lennan and child, who wore so providentially saved front the wreck ennan is still in of the Amazon, ar r ived in this city on Saturday even i ng, and are now staying at Comely Bank. Mrs. APL an indifferent state of health, and nf course su ff ers much anxiety regarding the fate of her husband, t i ho was also on board the ill-fated vessel, and has not Since been heard of. Zdinburgh slclvertiser. ire vENi G, JANUAAY 22, 1852 to entangle this great Republic into difficulties inconsistent with its own welfare, its own security, its own interest. I rather repeatedly and earnestly de• dared that a war on this account by your country is utterly impossible, and a mere phantom. I always declared that the United States remained masters of their actions, and under every circumstance will act as they judge consistent with the supreme duties to them selves. But I said, and say, that such a declaring of just principles would insure to the nations of Europe fair play in their struggle for freedom and independence, because the declaration of such a power as your Repub lic will be respected even whore it should not be liked; and Europe's oppressed nations will fee/ cheered in resolution and doubled in strength to maintain the de cision of their American brethren on their own behalf with their own lives. Various speech es f o llowed, and the banquet passed off most satisfaotorily. On the following day the Jackson Democratic Apsociation entertained Koisutli at dinner, five hun dred persons being present, and he spice at conside • ruble length in explanation of the position of affairs in Europe as connected with Hungary. A correspondent of the New York Herald writes as follows: I" Previous to Koseuth'a arrival in this country, I stated to you that di s p atc h es h a d b een rece i ve d by the Government, giving an a ccou n t o f hi s c3 nduct on board the Mississippi, an d w hi c h were calcu l ate d to d a mage him in the o pi n i on o f t h e peop l e of the U n i te d St a t e s. With a view, probably, to avo id a ll a p pear.inees of 1.,05• tility to the M agyar, the su bj ect was dropped, and. when the Missi ss ip p i arr i ved at New York, ono of its fficers i went so far as to denounce, in tato, the injurious imputa tions. But the subject is now attracting attention nere, and there is no doubt Congress will call tor the informa tion in possession of the President. The most important dispatches are in the State Department, and they consist of communications from Captain Long to Consul Hodge. and the Consul's dispatches to the department.; In ad dition to these, the navy department has cn file dis patches from Commodore Morgan and Captain Long. These dispatches detail a series of insults, on the part of Kossuth and his suite, to the officers of the Missis sippi, which nothing but the forbearance of those in sulted, the peculiar position in which they were placed, and the partial apologies of Kossuth, could have pre vented from being summarily punished. Kossuth had had an interview with Henry Clay, who welcomed him cordially to America, but depre cated any intervention in the affairs of European nations. The health of the venerable statesman still continues to decline. " We learn from Washington," says the New York Herald, " that Kossuth does not deem it necessary for him to immediately return to Europe, now that he is convinced his mission to this country has proved a failure. Perhaps Louis Napoleon's coup di kat also assisted him in arriving at this conclusion. It is said that he now contemplates a visit to the West. After once seeing the fertile land in that region, it is not at all unlikely that he will be disposed to settle quietly down there, and pass the remainder of his days in agricultural pursuits. Possibly he may yet be a member of Congress from one of the western states." A telegraphic communication from Washington, of the date of the 9th, says :—" Henry Clay has written a letter in favour of General Cass for President. I stase this on unquestionable authority. It is also asserted that Mr. Fillmore will soon be out with a letter declining to be a candidate, but intimating in favour of Daniel Webster. Great commotion among the other Presidential candidates." The report of the late judges and other officers of the territory of Utah, respecting the religion and Polygamy of the Mormons, has been laid before the President. Accompanying this curious exposé of the doings in Mo rmondom was a counter statement from Governor Brigham Young and his coadjutors. The latter party, of course, charge the judges and secretary with official misconduct, but do not establish the fact that the social condition of the Mormons is any better than represented by the returned officers. A CHAL 'LENGE FROM KOSSUTH TO CAPTAIN LONG, &c. (Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.) WASHINGTON, JAN. 7.—A1l the circumstances con• netted with the alleged difficulties on board the United States steam-ship Mississippi. after she started with Kossuth and companions for this country, as reported under the authority of an attache to our paper, are gospel truths, and are on record in the Navy Depart ment, and will be furnished when called for officially by Congress. The thing went so far, that Kossuth chal lenged Captain Long, but subsequently withdrew the challenge, and apologized. This apology sealed Captain Long's lips—for among men of honour retractation and apology close the lips of both parties. Still the facts occurred, although suppressed for the time. It was series of petty insults and vexations, continued from day to day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 10.—Government securities and State stocks are in demand, and our quotations are fully maintained. Speculative railroad stocks and bonds have been rather fluctuating, but with the ease now vaani fetted in the mosey market, prices appear gradually to assume an upward tendency. The general tone of the money market, from the unceasing abundance of capital, is easier, which is not without its influence upon the price of money. The tales of mercantile paper range from 9 to 12 per cent.—choice names being held at lower rates of Interest. • NEW ORLEANS, JAN. B.—The Cambria's newspas been received and published. Cotton has been active, the sales reaching 7,500 bales; prices closed at an ad vance of Sc.; strict middling being quoted at 71c. CHARLESTON, JAN. B.—Cotton Las been in active demand—the sales of the week amounting to 3,700 bales; prices close buoyant, el-.d have an upward tendency. THE LOSS OF THE AMAZON. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Hecate steam-sloop, Commander Hand, which was dispatched from this port on Thursday last,.on the, we fear, now hopeless task of discovering the remains or survivors, if any, of the ill fated Amazon, returned here this morning without being enabled to accomplish any of the objects of her mission. Her machinery broke down while at sea, and as soon as it can be repaire4 she will start again. She went into Brest, and cruised obout. the spot where the accident occurred, hit'bailfd no see or hear anything more than is already 4 Itirl p One of the trawling boats of this pert broutint - „ln i n.stekaay a pi ece ( a b ou t half) . of a Ship's new . fir, beam ? about 18 feet long, In the middle of the beam is a piece of an iron knee, and a number of iron spike nails; it is Supposed to be a lower-deck beam, about 12 by 15 inches square, and to it is attached part of a lady's dress, slightly burnt. One or two of the sides of the beam are only rough-hewn. Several ships in the port have reported that pieces of wreck are floating near the Bolt Head, in consequence of which Mesas. Fox, Sons, and Co., have issued ad vertisements to the following effect:. Wreck.--A quantity of wreck being reported to be floating about the coast, supposed to be part of the remains of the Amazon, parties bringing in the port any portion thereof are re quested to communicate immediately with Fox, Sons, and Co." WEYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—The paddle.box of a large steamer, supposed from its size and appearance to have belonged to the Amazon, was washed on shore yester day in the West Bay, near Fleet. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The remains of a lower made mast, 62 feet in length, burnt from end to end, with several small bolts and three iron hoops thereon, about 2i feet in diameter and 4 inches broad, supposed a Flirt of the Amazon, was picked up yesterday, about nine miles S.E. of the Start Point, and towed in here by the pilot cutter Fanny, No. 13, of this port, Robert Ket 3 " well, master. FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Yesterday afternoon a eleareghe piece of wreck was washed ashore on Swanp 0 b ea ch , having, in connection with the circumstance o f the g de struction of the Amazon, every likelihood of i t s formed a part of that ill-fated vesse l . The piece of wreck consists of six 20 feet 8 inch in length planks of plank, almost red pine, with the remains of a seventh in ._ thickness, with burnt away; they. are three inches tnicknen, with a nine inch surface. There are four stanchions, or beams, that had been tenentei at one if not at both ends; the thickness of the stanch ions, or b eams ei ht inches by six inches, and in length Mix f eet. The wreck had most evidently been subject to the both actionof and ci as to end s a fierce fire. No paint being discernible, tda of the wreck being fair , it is hard to j part of the vessel, or to w hat ve ssel, it belong of is what hs most probable thing appears , to my j udg m ent, having formed a part of a dwarf bulkhead in which goods or stores a re stowed on board or steamers, or a part of an orlop de ck. The flu sh si de of the wreck was much more charred and burnt than the sides to which the beams are attached. I cannot believe it forms a part o f a paddle-box, as was rep or t ed here last night. The wrec k has not been many partuYys in water. A piece of black cotton riband, a . of a hat-band, was tul entan gled round one of th e spiken aof the wreck. The fifth or one end stanchion was gone, if one had been attached; the nails remained. BRIDPORT, JAN. 20.—Th e part of a paddle-box re ported picked up yesterday is now on the b eac h ; the half of th e brass bearing taken from it this day weighs 4 cwt. 1 01 b.,• with ten upright iron bolts, with screws, about 20 feet lo ng : each; on one of th e i ron cas tings I see the name Low Moor." Everything is quite new. G distribution of the ill us t ra t e d co l oure d Ch ar t o f the Great Exhibition will take place on Sunday, the Ist of February, which d ay a ll persons who were disappointed i n receiving a copy of this highly i n t eres ti ng s t a ti s ti c al document may secure it by giving orders to the newsvenders in town and country, or by forwarding them to the Dispatch-office, 139, Fleet -street. This highly-finished Chart shows by diagrams, in different colours, and at one view, the number of persons who, daily, during a period of five months, visited the Crys tal Palace; the amount of money taken at the doors, and derived from various sources; and ,otheri valuable statistics. 1 , It is surmounted with an engraved ew of the Building, and has been prepared by Corporals A. Gardener and J. Mack, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and copied by permission of the Royal Commissioners , for _ the Weekly Dispatch. In consequence of the expected large demand for the Chart, over and above the enormous issue on the 4th of January, it is earnestly requested that all orders m ay b e sent in at the earliest possible period. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, BY AGNES STRICKLAND.—Tbe fifth volume of th e newly-revised ed i t i on of Miss Strickland's popular work, just published, contains the lives of Anne of Denmark, Consort of James L ; Henri etta Maria, Consort of Charles I. ; and Catherine of Brn ganza, Consort of Charles II. —three narratives full of curi ous information, and of singular value. With the exciting interest of . a romance, th e rea d er o f Mi ss S tr i c kland 's his tory hurries on from p age to page. Her volumes a re full of confirmation of the poet's assertion, how r ealities at times outvie romance — ho w history may surpass fable in the start ling tetraugeuem 0144 Are" AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 21. This afternoon, at half-past two, the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the Mersey, from New York direct, with thirty-nine Passengers, and 700,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Pacific left New York on the 10th instant at noon, and encountered very heavy adverse winds throughout her voyage. Immediately upon the re ceipt of the telegraphic announcement of her being off Holyhead this morning, it was currently reported tbat Jenny Lind was amongst the passengers by the Pacific ; but it now appears that the Swedish song stress has delayed her delay to Europe until the 28th instant - , when she will sail on board her old favourite Ship the .'l.tlantic, under the command of Capt. West. On the day of the departure of the Pacific, a tele- • raphic communication was received in New York Tom Philadelphia, announcing the safe arrival on the previous day, at the latter place, of the screw-steamer City of Pittsburg, after a passage of forty days from Liverpool. The Royal mail steam-ship Cambria arrived at Bos ton on the Bth instant, at one P.M. The principal and most interesting intelligence by this arrival is the conversational banquet given to Kossuth et Washington, on Wednesday, the 7th lost., at the National Hotel. About 300 perso ns were present. The Hen. W. H. King, President of the Senate, presided, supported by Kossuth and Speaker Boyd on his right, and the Hon. Daniel Webster o n iis~left. Several distinguished individuals occupied seats near the chair. The first toast was " The President of the United States," to which Mr. Webster responded. He said— " I am here, to-night, Mr. President, with other heads )f departments who belong to the executive administra tion of the Government, and who arc the confidential councillors of the President. I rise in their behalf as well as my own, to tender to the company our thanks for the manner in which the sentiment has been received by the meeting here assembled, and to assure you, sir, ind all present, that in kindness and good wishes towards the guests of the occasion, and in attachment to the great principles of political liberty—(Applause),— and national independence—(Applause)—there is no man who partakes in a higher degree than the Presi lent of the United States in the general feelings of this vast community.—(Applause.) Mr. King, in giving the toast of the evening, said:— It was one to which every generous American would cordially respond. He, in common with others, while the Hungarian struggle was going on, rejoiced in her success, and mourned her temporary defeats. We honoured those who struggled, and were prepared to sacrifice all to obtain liberty. We followed our illus trious guest in his mournful exile, were the first to call him to return, and the last that were ready to receive him with open arms to the land of liberty and of hospi tality. The toast I give to you is this:—" Hungary. represented in the person of our honoured guest, having proved herself worthy to ba free by the virtue and valour of her sons, the law of nations, and the dictates of justice, alike demand that she shall have fair play in her struggle . for independence."—(Enthusiastic cheering.) In reply licpsuth made a long speech, which he ,hus commenced : As once Cyness, the Epirote, stood among the senators Rome, who, with an earnest word of self-conscious majesty, controlled the condition of the world, and Arrested mighty kings in their march, thus, full of admiration and of reverence, I stand before you. Legislature of the new capitol—that glorious hall your people's collective majesty. The capitol tf old yet stands, but the spirit has departed From it and crime over to yours, purified by the sir of liberty. The old stands, a mournful monument of the fragility of human things—yours as a sanctuary of sternal rights. The old beamed with the red lustre of conquest, now darkened by oppression's gloomy night— yours beams with freedom's bright ray. The old ab sorbed the world by its own centralised glory—yours protects your own nation against absorption even by itself. The old was awful with irrestricted power— yours is glorious with having restricted it. At the slew of the old, nations tremb:ed—at the view of yours, humanity hopes. To the old, misfortune was only in iroduced with fettered hands to kneel at the triumphant conqueror's heels—to yours, the triumph of introduction is granted to unfortunate exiles, invited the honour of a seat, and where kings and Caesars never are hailed for their powers, might, and wealth, there the persecuted 3hief of a downtrodden nation is welcomed as your great republic's guest, precisely because he is persecuted, eelpless, and poor. In the old, the terrible vice victis was the rule—in yours, protection to the oppressed, ma lediction to ambitious oppressors, and consolation to the vanquished in a just cause. And while out of ,he old a conquered world was ruled, you in yours provide for the common confederative interests of a territory larger than the conquered world of the old. There sat men boasting their will to be the sovereign of the world—here sit men whose glory is to acknowledge the law of nature and of nature's God, end to do what their sovereign, the people, wills. Sir, :here is history in these parallels. History of past ages, end history of future centuries, may he often recorded in few words. The small particulars to whiCh the passion )f living men clings with fervent zeal, as if the fragile lingers of men could arrest the rotation of destiny's wheel—these particulars die away. it is the issue which makes history, and that issue is alwayS icigical. There is a necessity of consequences wherever the necessity of poeition exists. Principles are the Alpha; they must inish with Omega, and they will. Thus history may be told often in few words. Before the heroic struggles of Greed first engaged your country's sympathy tor the fato.stf freedom Europe—then so .far distant, now so near—Chaieaubriand happened to be in Athens, and he Beard from a minaret raised upon the Propyletnus -uins, a Turkish priest, in Arabic language, announcing the lapse of hours to the Christians OS Minervastown. What immense history in the small fact of a Turkish Imaum crying ?lout " Pray man, the hour is running fast, and the judgment draws near." Sir, there is equally a history of future ages written in the honour bestowed by you to my humble self. The first Governor of independent Hungary, driven from his native land by Russian violence, an exile on Turkish soil, protected by a Mahommedan Sultan against the blood-thirst of Christian tyrants, cast back a prisoner to far Asia by diplomacy, rescued from his Asiatic prison by America, crossing the Atlantic, charged with the hopes of Europe's oppressed nations, pleading, a poor exile, before the people of this great Republic, his down -trodden country's wrongs, and its intimate connexion with the fate of the European-conti nent, and with the boldness of a just cause claiming the principles of the Christian religion to be raised to a law of nations, and to see not only the boldness of the poor exile forgiven, but to see him consoled by the sym pathy of millions, encouraged by individuals, associa tions, meetings, cities, and states, supported by operative aid, and greeted by Congress and by the Government as the nation's guest, honoured out of generosity with that honour which only one man before him received— and that man received them out of gratitude—with honours suoh as no potentate ever can receive, and this banquet here, and the toast which I have to thank you for.; oh, indeed, sir, there is a history of future ages in all these facts." Kossuth then glanced at the fate of Hungary, paid a tribute to the greatness of the United States developed by union, and touched upon the principle of non-intervention : " Wo have no fair play (he said); the Cossack already rules, by Logis Napoleon's usurpation, to the very bor ders of the Atlantic ocean. Ouo of your great statesmen, now, to my deep sorrow, bound to the sick bed of far advanced age—alas! that I am deprived of the advice which his wisdom could have imparted to me—your great statesman told tho world (30 years ago that Paris was trausferred to St. Petersburgh. What would he now say, when St. Petersburgh is transferred to Paris, and Europe is but an appendix to Russia? Alas! Eta. ropo can no more secure to Europe fair play. Albion only remains; but even Albion casts a sorrowful glance over the waves. Still we will stand in our place—sink or swim, live or die. You know the word. It is your own. We will follow it. It will be a bloo3y path to tread. Despots have conspired against the world. Terror spreads over Europe, and anticipating persecution rules from Paris to Pesth. There is a gloomy silence, like the silence of nature before the terrors of a hurricane. It is a sensible silence, only dis- turbed by the thousand fold rattling of the muskets by 1 which Napoleon murders that people which gave him a home when he was an exile, and by the groans of new martyrs in Sicily, Milan, Vienna, and Pesth. The very sympathy which I met with in England, and was ex pected to meet here, throws my sisters into the dun geons of Austria. Well, God's will be done. The heart may break, but duty will be done. We will stand in our place, though to us in Europe there be no fair play. But so much I hope, that no just man on earth can charge me with unbecoming arrogance, when here, on this soil of freedom, I kneel down and raise my prayer to God—' Almighty Father of humanity, will thy mer ciful arm not raise a power on earth to protect the law of nations, when there are so many to violate it?' It is a prayer, and nothing else. What would remain to tha oppressed if they were not per mitted to pray? The rest is in the hand of God. Gen tlemen, I know where [ stand. No honour, no encoui raging generosity, will make me ever forget stand, and what is due from me to you. Llere my . _ du is silently to await what you or your w isdom wi . ll . ‘o whe d re t pleased to pronounce about that which public oplmr be it your will knows to be my prayer and my aim, and - to pronounce, or be it your will not to Is notice of i t, I will understend your will, and bow before it with full of admira de- de- votion, hopeless, perhaps, but my heart . tion, love and gratitude to your g enerous people, to your glorious l ' erid. But one iingle word even here, I mny b e of oppres se d f reedom permitted to say, only such a word as may secure me f; m being misunderstood. I cam e to the noble-minded p eo p' e of the United States to obta in itsgenorous operative sym pathy for the impendingstruggleon the European continent, and I freely interpreted the to ascertain from their hopes and wishes which these _oppressed nations enter tain;oinslytheir judgment but as to your great Republic, as a state, as a po wer on earth, I stand before the statesmen, senators, r and viisd o legislatorsai and e f e x t that a t, r t law end international upon a question of national _ right. I i e t i n o e p o u bli c, what , h o pe that they hoped and no will, by the fereb)ding o events on the oth er g reat continent, feel induced t pro nounce in time th eir vote about that law andthose rights, and I hoped and hope that pronouncing their vote it will be in favour of the broad principles of international justice, a nd consonant with their r e p u bli can i nst i tut i ons and their d e mocratic life. That is all I know and Europe knows; the immense weight of such a pronunciation from suc h a place. B the imp But never h a d I • ious wish to try NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTIONS. Second Master—William Stanton (1848), late of the ordinary guard-ship at Port9n2outb, has been promoted to the rank of master. Acting Bcatswain—Joseph Dennison. APPOINTMENTS, Master—F. W. Paul (1841), from the Monarch, ordi nary guard-ship at Sheerness, has been appointed to the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship at that pork Paymaster—H. S. Hooper (1846), late of the Victory guard-ship at Portsmouth, to the Magicienn e , steam guard-ship at Devonport. Second Master—J. M. Pridham (1847), late of Ache ron steam-sloop, to Magicienne. Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commande r Petley, will have her defects completed by the 26th inst. Intrepid screw-schooner, for Arctic service, will be out of the engineers' hands on the 23d. Pioneer will be in hand until the sth February. Magicienne steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, cenamis :ioned as steam guurd-ship at Devonport, is to have a Complement of 200 men. I Zeistance troep.ship, Master-Commander Bradshaw, will be completed for further service, at Woolwich, by the 24th instant. Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lord A. Fitzelarenee, was brow ; he down from her moorings at Portsmouth Harbour on Tumlay; she was dismasted, and will go into dock to refit when the Eurydice comes out. Pone's:noun:l, WepeersDAse—The examination of the preserved meats at the &eye! Clarence Victualling Establishment, Gosport, hos concluded. The following is the result of the entire investigati(?n:— Total number opened, 6,378; eondemed, 5,463; good, 910. opened in thi s i nquiry, only 910 have been It thus appears that ou t o f 6,378 canisters of " consumable,pre the rest having be en con d emned from f s o e u r v n e d d m eat " not only the general putridity of th e i r contents, but from ' the fact of those contents disclosin g th e " preservation " ' of matters never bargained for by the "high contract ing powers." Nor does this large n um b er include all. It must be borne in mind that about three months or so ago the agent for the contractor was allo we d to carry off without examination 2,000 canisters of stuff, f orm i ng a portion of the same contract, tneir smell alone condemn ing them in his estimation! The officers who have b een deputed to p e rform the disgusting task of reporting upon these discoveries ought to be handsomely rewarded for their trouble; and now they have completed their labours, we trust their conclusion here is but a prelud e to a more ri g id an d sat i s f ac t ory i nqu i ry i n a higher place. The Brita nn i a , 120, C apta i n G o ld sm i t h, flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean liciaa dron, bent sails this morning, and was afterwards taken over to the Gosport shore, for the purpose of swinging for the adjustment of her compasses, Ste. The Edinburgh, 58, screw steam-ship, is being has tened with her fitting very expeditiously. Part of her engine works are on board, and she is being coppered, preparatory to leaving dock. A remarkable accident occurred in this dockyard yes. terday afternoon, which might have been attended with serious consequences. A large party of workmen aro employed in preparing the foundation for the new smithery, and a number of holes are being dug to re ceive the columns. These holes are about six feet by five feet, nine feet deep, and are lined with wood to pre vent the loose earth from falling in. In the one in ques tion was a ma e at work with a pickaxe, ana a pair of horses were engaged close by in hoisting the mud from a hole at a further part of the building. The horses had just drawn up a load of mud and were turning round, when one of them slipped backwards into the hole, and dragged the other in on the top of him. Fortunately there happened to be an iron drain pipe across one side of the mouth of the hole, which prevented the horses from falling on the man, who otherwise would have been crushed beneath them. He was soon extricated from his perilous situation, and escaped unhurt, with the exception of a slight , bruise on the arm. The next thing to be done was to get out the horses; and after some deliberation two scaffold poles were erected across the hole, and the uppermost horse was slung and hoisted to the top, but just at the point of being landed be slipped from the slings and again fell on the top of the other horse. Every one present now thought both of them were d ea d ; another attempt, how ever, was made, and after som e ti me they were both got out, and neither of them had received much injury. PLYMOUTH, T SDAY. --Her Majesty 's steam-vessel Hecate, Commander Hand, arrived here this morning from Brest, after a fruitless search for survivors of the Amazon. She has been cruising on the grounds, as ordered, but has not fallen in with any portion of the wreck; neither has she seen the Sprightly or Avon. The Hecate is ordered to sail again on the same mission when some repairs to her machinery have been com pleted. Her Majesty's surveying vessel Sparrow arrived on Sunday from Queenstown; on Monday she went into harbour to be paid off. Her Majesty's transport Diligence arrived on Monday with stores from Woolwich. The steamer Shahperi, 420 tons, Captain Butcher, built in the Thsmas for the Turkish Government, put in hero to coal on Saturday evening, on her way from Lon don to Constantinople. She is expected to sail this after noon. The sloop Tern, of Whitstable, Captain Livingstone, from Whitstable for St. Michael's, in ballast, which put in here yesterday, reported that about a quarter to four o'clock on Monday morning, Start Point bearing N. by W. about seven or eight miles, wind southerly, saw an object, to all appearance the bottom or side of a large ship. Captain W. IL Kennedy, Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard for the Plymouth district, immedi ately dispatched a revenue cruiser in search, but in con sequence of the hazy and unsettled state of the weather she returned without effecting any discovery. The fishing sloop Amelia, Tucker master, belonging to Mr. Millman, of Plymouth, picked up on Saturday near the Eddystone, a piece of red pine 22 feet long and 13i by 12i inches thick, burnt about three parts through, and then, apparently, broken off by some vio lent concussion, attached to it was a piece of clear cross-barred muslin, the fragment of a lady's dress. The timber is judged to have been a part of one of the lower deck beams of the unfortunate mail-packet A.MhZOG. The owners of the Amazon, the Royal Mail Steam packet Company, through their agents a t Pl ymouth, Messrs. Fox, Sons, and Co., have paid the master of the Dutch galliot Hillechiena, the sum of 601. and the port charges incurred, for returning to England with thirteen of the crew and passengers of the Amazon, picked up at sea on the evening of the 4th inst., instead of landing them at Gibraltar as originally intended. WooLwics, JAN. 21.—The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander H. W. Allen, left Woolwich to-day, and will take the authorities on board at Portsmouth, their object being to visit the harbours of refuge at Jer. sey and the Channel Islands. R. 1N aignifles thatStlfEe"mail?ariteNsEentlVlAfronalith'Se General Post-ofiloa by the night—and Di by the morning--disPatch.3 ..."..--.—=---- -- F h eh Made up in From what PLACES. General Post-office port die- when London. • pat c h ed. due. B et. pkt.)N Jan 23 • • . • Liverpool .• Jan. 29 MI of the fit"Ont.l; America (V ~.. id.) ii,Jan. 27 America Aeriea (by (y y r. i st ,' !!)k.t..)• • • • Liverpool .• Arrived S p o i3 u ica th o mn itth pt. J F an eb .. 3 29 Africa (A.,f/V,iest •COQ)., N , l9th & 30th of mo. Dover .. Jan. 28 Aleasn'"" -. ... •• N Daily . 13018hun ".. .. M 9th • .. .. Dover .. Daily of the month Sonthampt. Feb. 16 e ... M .. _ 9th of the month Southampt. Jau. 16 Brasil • • a(v • _iar -)bl 2d & 17th of month Sonthampt. Jan. 20 Cape o f GOoq lioPe N 14th of month Plymouth.• Feb. 3 conste nll 2l ° P le* ""'N7th 17 th 27th of mo , Dover .. Jan. 30 Central America • • Li Id & 17th of men. , Southampt. Jan. 20 Channel Isles .. .. „. ~,,, ...,.“ -.en. Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th•Sai• CBantifeno°rni"YrrC: • Chill • • • • • • • m 17th of the month Sonthampt. Jan. 20 France .. .. M& N Twice daisGreece* y.. .. ,Dover .• Twicedaily. • • llamburgh • • •• N 7thl7th27th ofmo D ov er •• J an . 30 Holland .. .. N Tuesday & Friday 'London .. Tiles. Sat. .. Honduras . .. MlVednes. & Satur. London .. Mea.Thur ' • • Ireland • N 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20 • • •• & N Twice daily.. Holyhead Twicedaily7, India Inclia(via Southrur.p.) hi 20th of th e month Southsusapt. Feb, 28 (viaAlarsoilles) NlBth&24th, efmonth Dover • • Feb. 1 Mediterr anean (via \ SOnthawnton) •• M `2oth of the month l Southampt Jan. 23 Mediterianean (via , 1 Mar seilles) .. . N Bth&24th of monthiDover •• Feb. 1 Mexico Madeira .. .. .. M 9th o f th e mont h SouthsalPt• Feb' 16 Malta* • • •• r 7th,l7th,l9th,27thDover Jan. 28 Naples* .. • . .. N sth 15th 25 th ofme Dover ... Jan. 22 . Papal States* .. .. Nisthlsth2sthefmo Dove! Jan. 22 „I'enhistilar • • • • .. M 17th 17th 27th of mos u il & 30 th of month . } eru • • • • • • ..31 1 17th of the month Sotat. Jan. 22 Tuscany* .. .• • • is th SouthamPt. Jan. 20 oa West Indies .. .. 31117th of the n i 'lstlllsth2stliofMo Dover • • Jan. 22 ,7th,17th,19th,27th & 30th of month . Naples* .. NT sth 15th 25th ofme Papal States* Nisth 15th 25th ef me Peninsulas •. • • .. M 17th 17th 27th of mo Peru •• • • • • •• 5117th of the month Tuscany* •• Nisth 15th25thofmo West Indies 111 17th of the month West Indies (except 'Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the mont h .. Southanipt. I Feb. 5 * The mails to those c ountries thus marked (*) are convoyed by French packet via Marseilles. The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. Csurosnis.—Mails to and from Califor nia , via the United fitates are now despatched and due by every American packet: ALARMING STEAM-BOAT COLLISION. G RATEsEND , JAN• 20.—A very serious collision hap pened on the river last night, nearly abreast of the en trance of the Thames and Medway Canal, which ended in the foundering of a fine brig, called the Spray, Mr. T urn b u ll, laden with coal, and bo un d f rom Newcastle to London. In the course of the day the brig had brought up near the spot above described, and was a t anchor w h e n the unfortunate o ccurrence too k p l a ce. About e i g ht o'clock the Royal Victoria s t ea m-ship, from Leith, was observed comingilup the channel, an d on - ,nearing this place it is customary, when practicable,. for them to steer a little to the Kent side, in order to take on board the usual river pilot. The Royal Victoria is said to have done so on this ou eanion, and, at that particular moment, a smack, got so in the w ay of the brig under canvass, had entirely prev en t it s being as to Th e engines of the. steamer see n by the steamer until they were close to each other. were, with all dispatch, stopped and. .reversed; but th e way she had on and the sh ar p tide which was run n i ng , drove her on to the brig w ith considerable force.. It was soon found that she was fast filling with water, and the several fatho ms . H a d t h e t down in sev wen crew lost no time in s avin g w hat the y coul d and making their way on boar d the Royal Victoria. Shortly after wards the Spill)? vessel not been la den, and l ying at anchor, it is thought that she might have been g ot nea rer in shore, where ber chance of being raised would have been greater. Captai n Rowland, the harbour-master, has already made arrange ent, to remove the wreck out of the way of the naviga tion o f the channel. It will be blown up if other means fo il s . The steamer did not sustain any injury that we cou ld hear. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. William M'Ewan, Sons, and Co., tea merchants and patent sugar re finers, of Glasgow, was held on Monday, at which it was resolved to place the affairs in the hands of Messrs. Dl`Clel land and Mackenzie, accountants, for investigation. The liabilities are upwards of 100,0001., and the assets, it is ex pected, will realise about 60,0001. In the meantime the sugar refiner Mai/. be carried on under impaction...4l 7 ora Briii al 3r, as well as th e o th er business of the firm, is to