The Sun. — London, England, 1846-10-26 00:00:00

' ' - s..ft -..v, ti. ..ri t'..n..:--i ' t S ‘ 1;3-1- " 1 H ATFIELD HOUSE. !i,erriEen v , FRIDAY NIGHT —The li",arl , Talbot and last eves'ounnint Ifi gestre arriv e d at t h e Marquis of Salisbury's ssg in time to join the dinner circle. T he Queen and Prinea Consort, accompanied by the tiet.le Lost, and followed by the distinguished party re thir`itelrge,a the, mansion, entered . the great hall shortly • .Bnt 0 clock, the band of the Hems militia, well- The tilteued in the music gallery in the hall, playing the we 1 ac wn tune of " The roast beef of Old England." what tune of arrangement of the guests was some- Qiitt• „ a t' departea from. Her Majesty was supported ou the . by Prince Albert, and the noble best on the Lady lis left. In succession to the Prince Consort sat r, Mildred Ho pe , the Marquis of Exeter, and the kaientess Spencer an Viscount Melbourne; the Countess o el f li?),:_ in _ sb o `'.. r cue'h, the DMlte of Wellington, the Mar a. ..',.' , 3 t . Exeter, sat in the same order, on the left of seated,' marquis of Salisbury. When the company . were i the Rev. E. Fabhfull, Rector of Hatfield, an domestic chaplain to his Lordship, said grace. sm ile banquet was of the most sumptuous description, 7,Leentriplised all the luxuries that wealth could procure. tnnti desert was Particularly excdlent, and was placed ‘i 1 1 10 er the able superintendence of Ferdinand. la hen . a I be . e3al liana' had taken their seats at the banqueting t r a :( l , that ancient chamber afforded a brilliant coup 1 : 1 , the hall being illuminated by a great number of lei t 3 P 4, in addition to more than twenty Chinese lanthorns, the r eo P f e aded by an invisible wire from the pendants in ~ l abr ... The table was lighted from superb golditcatnining 4,:rialtrreately with which were costly vases containing es. ( ;i i al tiewerl.' Al the attendants were in full dress, and itr„.. Were a silver badge of . he aalisbury arms on the left ef l IThe effect was truly tnag , titiet2nu '1 ne Marquis ad Pro sr a 2 l i bury rose at the conclusion of the repast, a f i s;" %a a toast, " The Queen." The t illili tarY band struck up " God save the Queen.' .. ' th e ealth 0 2 1 . her Maje,ty way The rising from their places. then drunk, the whole of Prince' 0 Noble Host then gave e His Royal Highness Mar ch-" Adbert," when the band performed the " Cobuurg At a ~ tli r e in b e a e ni e lt i te n ; to ten o'clock her Majesty retired time.from -hall, the ladies leaving a:, the same 3 ,Nlet t e v "„e,r,t and the Noble host, and the guests, sub tire %te r " -- J °ll rued to the s lendid saloon, where the en and a select circle frad assembled. At the re ttathr ni ti . t 15 f the Queen the band played the nation i Previo 'rill 4 ;l her Majesty and her Royal Consort of the 14 1 , 113 1 4 for. their private apartments, twelve the direct ion arusts who have recently been employed, under t h e of mi.. Sang, in the embellishment of the siaginri afforded the royal l party much pleasure by In the some Popular vocal music of that country. hr.. „selection wi-re, " Die Capelle," a Das Sc sv „ a i r th,„ ~, Der Vogel," and " Der Kohler-bauerbube. h lie rts - ;' ar quis of Salisbury, as colonel of the South ioll..) '"lnatry, non-commis gave the privates and ree ti l u : efficers of the four troops a substantial entertain separla the riding-school, and before the assemblage hashL tt J eci, the health of the Qui en and her itlustrious Was heartily drunk, as well as the health her', :(4euel- The officers dined together at the Saltis i,c-rrns Tavern. tlattlla Morning, long before noon, the was park quick atie, ee rd with thousands of people, who came in ty ih e t? s n into the town from all parts of the coutr3 e . alighte itind PerrniSSiOn of the Noble Marquis not th e Pabeat obstruction was offered to the admission of th e. alent;' 4 1 14 110 restriction was placed over their mo r % s rattlio!,u,e7ond that no one was allowed to transg auL. eipttt- se,,aonseanneyorthern court, which was amply fli .0 sat , moderate desire. the 3 a most beautiful day, the sun shining with all seesertttarltt.h that could be expected in the autumn , an er , i 4-tie P a rk in the northern direction presented tiociti rested r , ; appearance from the hundreds of strangers tott ne r , l e in parties to witness the bullock that was being T hs " w hole a short distance down the north lawn. in the e 3 l leen and his Royal Highness did not go out d Pray; 4 l Part of the morning, nor did they atten th e n i r ! In the chapel. The Duke of Wellington and t he of the guests staying in the mansion F. Plitithp t,ue service, which was performed hy the Rev s . ' I li '°,ll, assisted by the Rev. A. B. Starkey. . the 4s 4 q a t Highness Prince Albert, accompanied 13); t ° Rh -1.11 ' 14 of Salisbury about half past ten went out of „90t in the southern ' part of the park. The John ettusivoellington, the Marquis of Exeter, Lord 21 4 . k i n' L ord Charles Wellesley, the Earl Spencer, r d . eoleaVoar, Mr. G. E. An-on, Colonel Buckley, air Viali` Seymour were of the party. The battue was in Ilearlyl,ealled Coombes-wood. Prince Albert killed Was %Li 40 head of game, and the Duke of Wellington W as or i,79essful, considering that the Noble and he Gallant lt ' ll ci not exert himself in the sport. Marquis T he result of the e ln ete r Made some excellent shots. e e , o,4rngs sport was, on quitting the T plantai 4 on p s a a r ! tr ides e " )el ti a return of killed-158 pheasants, hear , 152 rabbits, and 4 hares, giving Shorti a total of 318 Ton, 1 Y after the shooting party returned to the man- Th e r,ttoeheou was served in the winter dining-room. ar • nee ' th e it (teen and Prin Albert and other noble guests of 1,,_ cites, were present. ttl'ille.iiztrieiatieses were ordered at three o'clock to take la ale the company a drive in the . park. In the H oge u populace had congregated in the park in tl l am bers, and had mostly assembl . ed _in n t r he Wher"n Court, and without its boundary in . the k, Wereek,leveral carriages of the . neig t h h b e ouriag a gentry p" north venue R er 1 , 1 '91 up by the road leading to half. Man and the Prince Consort passed out at Which ast three , o'clock, and entered the pony phaeton P rec ede d been provided. The illustrious visitors were r, the Marquis of Salisbury, Colonel Buc 1{ y, the..`"Wenel Seymour, the Equerries in Waiting, and After the Queen's c "Val outriders in scarlet liveries. arra Lo d in Wkiting; th. - Re were the Earl of M . orton, t Iti• Marquis of Exeter, Viscount I h n e gest r re, and Mr. n J d . f o , our, on "•• Half h ors eback, and two open carriages a IX, containing the Countess of Gainsborough, Lady 17aldred Hope, the Countess of Brownlow, Lady Charl es well 1 Lady Braybrook e, Lady Blanche B a lf our, il l'il the Hon. Dawson. As the pony phaeton came by the western gateway, and a n ed through the north court t o th e north avenue, the vast body of spectators saluted her Majesty and the Itoyal Prince by loud and long protracted cheering, to which plaudits the Q ueen an d Prince condescendingly r esponded by repeatedly i nc li n i ng towards the multitude. The Queen and p arty t h en proceeded to view the a ncient tree, so carefully preserved at the turn of the northern and eastern avenues, called " Queen Elizabeth's y ak," from that Queen having been seated in the shade °I Its b , Urn rageous branches when the death of Mary was „"linounced to her. We understand that her Majesty ex au aced herself highly please . d . by the sight of the oak, 1,"" as a memento of her visit to the spot had a small -4- 4 ,.,„, h e . "Ll lopped from the trunk to be preserved. From lien. ee the carriages were conducted to the vineyard to ea "„he beauties of that fairy retreat. Her Majesty and 1-Zrrince Albert alighted, and entered the gardens, `t walked to the lower terrace, which give a good corn tattn(l. of the grounds. It may be as well to state that thee vi of is on a slope, at the bottom of which_ . runs older ttver Lee. As the Queen was there a desiccated el of the hydrangea was presented to her Majesty. float' Majesty appeared gratified at the gift, and gave the ereol skeleton to her maid of honour. The party next r ound the park, and in the course of the road saw The ileilletiard oaks for which the park is so famous. four, of party returned to the mansion at half-past if after an agreeable drive. ti ti , i " Duke of Wellington took equestrian exercise hi s It a the absenc e o f t h e Q ueen, and wherever he made ThlV ear ance he w as ent h us i ast i cally cheered. er e Poke of Rutl an d , t h e M archioness of Exeter, •calh"4o Russell, th e E ar l o f B rownlow, the Earl bel t ""' and Lo r d M arcus Hill walked to Queen Elizabeth's Whi le afterwards went over the vineyard. m, de the royal party were absent in the park, the 114,:1ns of Salisbury's dependents were regaled on the to s - t",,, /Ir- Parebroiher the land-steward, was present ietteerintend this entertainment, ' but it was far from , e enr ei r , tin gs the bullock, which was roasted whole at _an 'our e tb i l ls fire nearly twenty hours, being greedily . de la th ". Str .e f ong ale was supplied to those participating T he ease house, to of the Yeomanry Cavalry lunched at the h o use tbn'tlay, when they comprised Captains Paris, Il )41 % Str se Y' M.P., 'Le .4..' Ilal a n d Thornton ; Lieutenants furry tt atton, Branton, and Gaussen e Cornets Sir her teult, Bart., Lewis, Kinder, Pelly, Sir Robert ~se er N c i i . ,art., Xenable Crawley, and Parker. During . '''and ~'"',,,aq's visit the Floddesden troop, under the eom ten v ec l .`-•alatain. Paris, have mounted guard, and were tc js t roop. i n that duty this afternoon by Captain Thorn- All Thorn honour debt Principal families of the county have been -4 invitations as well as the clergy. I ,,Pt (~ CE —At the " est (113 ING AT BUCKINGIIAM-PALA • the itr„,, eliaster Court of Sewers, on Friday, M r. Blore, 4.:Titeet employed to carry into effect the improvements the 6 o l ur a, Itera t i o n s in Buckingham Palaee, attended f __ Woods a im t i,at the instance of the Commissioners . Sewers(lrats, to represent to the Commis King's sow ,that, during the late heavy rains, the ro, o sioners of k eL .r 8 Pond Sewer, the only one for the servicew..,' ~,,te7takam Palace was so completely charged the ing frot)rntllteheerpowli. Of the arch, that all the water p greatest i nept aee was returned t . o it, causing the impeding th e works 4-0-vvllvieemnce by the inundation, and _ by th e e progress. lie was, therefore, instructed fa le Qttraissioners of Woods and Forests . to apply th r o ft've to l ay down an independent drain below titl3ll:lresent one to be available in case of a recurrence of the ett yY rains, so that by the opening of the flood-gates or a s ' e eae of surface water may be discharged into the titltiSluental water in t. James's-park. By the adcy g of this course, in times of heavy rains, adr g:tnf four feet lower than that possessed by the pre that in„e,ans would be effected. The Chairman remarked t t Luis w as a special court, and that it wal unusual I ; ) ad a ts ite ally other business than that of which notice re,d''aen given. Mr. Blore urged the necessity of un- Latilakte proceeding, as the Operations of the works dis ens u s e k e i tl i very .considx-rably int: rrupted. Commissioners Portpart, ,in which several Hon. rooka "t, the application of Mr Blore was granted. A re . was . s evv , . received from the surveyor, on the state of the It ro le IQ Grosvenor square, North Audley-street, and . s 1,,..,()K-street. The report was received, and new work ,fre ordered to be done, the estimated cost of which Zennts to 3 ,736/. In the course of the reading of the YtPathatve"%atned report, it was stated that the sewers in district had existed for upwards of one hundred trts' but that the west side of Grosvenor•squar e , up rlls time remained entirely unprovided for. the. al" I\TEEDLE TRADE. —The nedle-pointers and ofotn. anufacturets of Bedditch are still at variance, and itte latter have resolved the decisive measure of Pl°3a.`-; uponchin,, supersede entirely the practice L_n 0. . yto . "4 d p 'nun so injurious to hie. IZEIE WIGANg' C HIMNEY-- A chimney has lately high erected by a mist at Wigan which is 420 feet i Vlci coucaine 3,000,000 bricks' • ' ' ' I' . 1) :1 Jr•—• ',a...A MA DRID. On the lath instant a grand banquet was given in honour of Mr. Cobden, at Madrid, by the members of the " Spanish Commercial Association." The guests assembled at half past six, among whom were D. Alvaro Flores Estrada, the Spanish economist ; the Duke of Sotomeyer, Spanish Ambassador to the English Court ; and numerous other persons of distinction. Counts Santa thane, Gonzala, and More!) y Pena Aguyac were pre vented from attending by different causes. The chair was taken by S. Alvara, having on his right Mr. Cob den, Duke de Sotomayer acting tie vice-president. The health of Mr. Cobd , n wes propesed by the President, after a short and emphatic speech, in which he alluded to the services rendered by air. Ceb,len to his country. Mr. Cobden then reae and spoke in Enelish, as that lan guage was familiar to nearly all present. We give his speech at length : Gentlemen, it is with the deepest gratitude that I ac cept this manifestation of your sympathy ; I accept it as a proof of your approbation of the principles of free trade, avid of the means resorted to by the leaders of the League in England. We stool up, gentlemen, as the advocates of free trade, not in a party spirit, but in the common interest of all ; and we obtained our end solely by moral means, which deserve, I hope, the praise of the honourable men of every country. From the very beginning of the struggle we never entertained the slightee& idea of having recourse to physical force ; we placed our confidence in the strength of reason and ar gument. Our only weapon was the pen, our loudest artillery the voice of our orators. We did not make proselytes by force, but by conviction. Fur seven years a fierce struggle was kept up amongst twenty-seven millions of people, without shedding a single drop of blood. The battle was lone and fierce ; but once gained, the victory is eternal. All present are no doubt well aware of the precise objet we had in view in our struggle for free trade. We had, gentlemen, a great principle in view. We demanded for every Englishman the right of exchanging the produce of his labour for that of every quarter of the globe. We demanded the suppression of all protective duties. We said to our iiovernment, you must not concede protection to this or to that branch of industry to the detriment of another. Equal justice to all classes is the great principle pro claimed by us. We demand for England the right of buying Spanish corn and wool on the same terms as similar productions in England ; we propose for the sugars of Cuba the same right enjoyed by those of Jamaica. We demand for the agriculturists the right of buying articles of Spanish manufacture which they may stand in need of, on the same footing as if they were British produce. What we advocated has become the dominating policy of the people of Great Britain. Gentlemen, the cause of free trade is not confined to one country alone, it is the cause of humanity and civilisation all over the globe. And where may I hope to meet with greater sympathy than in this illustri• ous capital of the Iberian Peninsula ? To no country does free trade offer greater advantages than to Spain ; to no country has nature been so prodigal in her gifts. Spain produces what other lands must acquire by labour and by industry. Commerce is the exchange of articles of equivalent value, and the nation that exports is, like wise, in the necessity of importing. There are indivi duals in every country who say, "We must produce within our frontiers all that we stand in need of, and we will be then independent of the stranger." If Providence had meant such to be the case, it would have framed the earth on a far different plan, and given equal advan tages of soil and clime to every nation. My country, for instance, would have been gifted with the vine and the olive, and other blessings denied to us, and other countries would possess iron and coal mines which so largely compensate with us the absence of other na tural productions. But no, Providence has in its wisdom assigred peculiar productions to each land, so that nations in acquiring the comforts of life might learn to live united with each other in the bonds of harmony and of peace. lam confident, gentlemen, that, before long, this great nation will have emancipated its commerce from the restrictions which, but a short thee since, weighed upon the commerce of my own country. An other page of your history will be filled, like the immor tal pace which records that three centuries ago a great roan left your shores to discover a new hemisphere. You must not accuse me of detracting from the glory of that great man, when I say that in my opinion the establish ment of tree trade will confer greater benefits on your country than the di,covery of America. The genius of Columbus procured to your country a large continent exclusively inhabited by savage tribes ; free trade will open to your enterprise a civilised world, and every nation will press forward to off r you the various pro ductions of thir industry in exchange for those of your fawn red and productive soil. I conclude, gentlemen, said Mr. Cobden, in good Castilliau, "by drinking to the universal adoption of free trade, the surest guarantees of the peace of nations." The meeting was then adressed by several Spanish merchants and nobles, advocating the general principles of free trade, and especially the liberty of discussion; at the conclusion the meeting expressed its gratification at the presence of its illustrious guest. 4TH E SUN, LON DON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 26, 1846. .. .!. i ~ , . ... i ~'. i'. . flO,OOO T TT 7,P, A TTT",F spectators. The cavaliers then took their stations on horseback the stall was opened, and a brave bull leaped forth. He bounded in in the first exultation of freedom, and made the circuit of the square in a few minutes. Ile then s opped for a space in the centre ; tossed his head, and urveyed—with an eye in which terror and rage were mingled—the surrounding multitude, whose mad shouts rase higher every moment at the gallant bearing of the noble brute. The rigidness of etiquette melted away like frostwork bolero the sun the moment the animal appeared. The alguazils, who were stationed in front of her Majesty's Loix with their faces turned to her, forgot their respect, scampered away, and, in their haste, were urconscious that they not unrerely exhibited nut the front part of their persons, even under the very eyes of royalty. The ring was cleared in a moment, and the ground was lei t alone to the bull and his antagonists. The cavliers—whose only arm, I should have said, was a short light spear with a steel point about five or six inches long—did not quail. Their spurs were dashed into the horse's flanks, and they bounded into the centre of the square. The ardour was equal, but the glory was not so. They poised their lances, and attempted to dash them at the bull. One was thrown from his horse at the very first encounter, and another fell under the animal. They were both obliged to re tire from the arena, having received contusions from the fall, of too severe a character to allow their remain ing any longer. Two cavaliers only remained at their post, D. Antonio Romero, Lieutenant of the Maria Christina Regiment, whose padrino was the Duke of Abrantes; his assistants were the Chiclaneros and Labi, two eminent toreros; the other, Cabanas, the godson of the Duke of Osuna, a young man twenty-five years of age, an officer in the Halberdiers. Well and bravely did these two champions do their work. The last-men tioned planted with great skill and force three lances in the bull; the last blow was mortal; but, at the moment it was given, his horse got frightened, became com pletely unmanageable, and, at length, flung his rider, who was compelled to retire from the arena. and was carried off in the arms of the attendants. His wounds are of a serious character. Romero was now left alone of the four cavaliers, and, in truth, Le was the hero of the day. His lances were most beautifully aimed, and most accurately planted ; his management of his beautiful and fiery charger was so consummate, his bearing so graceful, his coolness in encountering the furious animal before him, so perfect, and so unusual in a mere amateur, as to excite the most frantic enthusiasm amongst the concourse. Nothing could give you a just idea of the prolonged shouting of the vast multitude. Four bulls fell by his hand—•two of which were, however, to be relieved from the death agony by the caehete, or knife used for that purpose. The fourth, before receiving the deathblow, made a rush at him, and placing his horns low under the horse's belly, actually lifted into the air the noble animal and his rider. The cavalier fell under the horse, into whose entrails the horns had en tered, and both rolled together on the ground. A shout of terror at the danger of the cavalier, and of applause at the brave act of the bull, rent the air. It was for a moment believed that Romero was either killed or dan gerously hurt, but trai.quillity was at once restored, when, in a minute or two, both horse and rider rose from the ground, the rider seated as firmly in his sad dle as if he had never been disturbed from it. Another shout hailed this new proof of excellent horsemanship. But the cry of admiration was beyond all description, when the next moment the spectators beheld the bull fall dead, in the very act of preparing for another bound. This attack on the horse had only been a desperate effort of expiring strength, and was made at the very moment he received the last lance of the cavalier. THE POETICAL WORKS OF HORACE SMITH. 2 Vols. Lying before us are th e miscellaneous poems writ ten by Horace Smith, collected together in two delightful volumes, and embellished with a character istic portrait of the author. What more is necessary after saying thus much ? All the drollery, all the sentiment, all the elevated thoughts, and sparkling conceits contained in these writings are already familiar to a large majority of the reading public. It is advisable, however, to remind those who are acquainted with the compositions of this clever writer that these miscellaneous pieces can only be enjoyed by hurting after them in a variety of different publi cations and scarce periodicals, unless advantage be taken of the present edition, where they are, for the first time since their production, accumulated to gether. One of the authors of the ever-memorable — and, as he himself might have said in one of his hap piest imitations, the never-sufficiently-by-any-means to-be-admired " Rejected Addresses," Horace Smith, entered upon the literary world while yet in the bloom of his intellect, and in subsequent periods of his career produced these fugitive composi tions. Horace Smith is another brilliant reason why a name, whish is usually treated with so much ridicule, should be, on the contrary, in the very highest estima tion. Adam Smith, as the arch-authority in the philo sophy of political economy; Sydney Smith, as the most epigrammatic of modern wits; Sidney Smith, as one of our most distinguished naval commanders ; Horace Smith, himself, his brother James, cum cateris paribus, would be enough even to redeem from obloquy any name that might happen to be originally execrable. In his different writings, whether prose or metrical, our author has striven incessantly to inculcate benevo lent and elevating principles. For this anxiety to benefit his fellow-men we s h ou ld h ave h onoure d him, even if his works had been devoid of all other excel lence. Sometimes, indeed, he allows himself to be carried away by a succession of extravagant conceits, as in his " Hymn to the Flowers," where he apostro phizes them alternately, as "day-stars," " matin-wor shippers," " bright mosaics," " floral apostles," "ephe meral sages !" and " posthumous glories !" In this, how ever, he has only sinned as grievously as the great master of poesy, Shakspere, in presuming. It is in this identical " hymn" that first appeared, if our recollection serves us faithfully, a very exquisite metaphor that has since been copied from repeatedly, or suggested similar imageries, as in the ;" New Timon," and elsewhere. This is the verse— " 'Neath cloistered boughs, each floral bell that swingeth And tolls its perfume on the passing air, Makes sabbath in the fields, and ever ringeth A call to prayer." In " The Shriek of Prometheus," though a mere fragment, Horace Smith adventured upon a loftier style, and not altogether unsuccessfully. The phantom eagle of Jove rising from the ravine where Prome theus is chained in the Caucasus, its breast " gorged with the gore" of that great victim, the description of the drop of the heart's blood of Prometheus fall ing from the eagle's talons " warm on the pilot's hand," and the closing lines " Through the whole night the Argo bore Those throbbing hearts along the Pontic shore," farm a picture which long haunts the imagination. As a specimen of the curiosities of fancy that may be discovered in these volumes, we transcrib• this strange sonnet " On an Ancient Lance, hanging in an Ar moury : This was the last display made by the ealleros plaza. Romero retired with some slight bruises, and was again and again saluted with the waving of hand kerchiefs from the balconies, and the shouts of the mul titude. " Once in the breezy coppice didat thou dance, And nightingales amid thy foliage sang; Form'd by man's cruel art into a lance, Oft bas thou pierced (the while the welkin rang With trump and drum, shoutings and battle clang) Some foeman's heart. Pride, pomp, and circumstance, Have left thee now, and thou dolt s il en t h ang , From age to age, in deep and dusty trance. What is thy change to oars ? These gazing eyes, To earth reverting, may again arise In dust, to settle on the self-same space; Dust, which some offspring, yet unborn, Who tries To poise thy weight, may with his hand efface, And with his moulder'd eyes again replace." Of the spirit by which Horace Smith is animated in regarding the phases of human life, a whole folio volume could not afford a more thorough and truthful indication than those six lines in " The Old Man's Paean," where he says— To dark oblivion I bequeath The ruddy cheek, brown hair, white teeth, And eyes that brightly twinkle ; Crows' feet may plough with furrow's deep My features, if I can but keep My mind without a wrinkle." Of his "comic poems" what need possibly be said ? His Sonn?t to his Nose ! Rabelais and the Lampreys! York Kidney Potatoes ! Patent Brown Stout ! Pitt's Bon-mot! or that outrageous bit of facetiousness the Address to the Mummy, beginning " And hast thou walked about (how strange a story 1) In Thebes's-street three thousand years ago ?" We shall not, however, pillage further from these laughter-moving volumes; they require no recom mendation, not even the recommendation of an ex tract. The professional bull-fighters then continued the combat. Montes, notwithstanding his recent wound, never conducted himself better than yesterday. His play of skill with the sixth bull was most artist-like and beautiful. The others lost nothing of their reputation. Eleven bulls were killed, and the usual proportion of horses. The spectacle ended at six o'clock, when the Queen and royal family quitted their balcony. It may be necessary to say that the horses mounted by the caballeros were of the best kind, and it is said were given by the Queen for the occasion. The animals em ployed in ordinary bull fights are of the worst possible description. The duty of the professional bull-fighters, while the caballeros were engaged, was to attract the attention of the bulls, and assist them when hard pressed. They did their duty well. The balconies of the houses were hung with splendid tape stry of various colours ; and with the immense multitude—not less than 30,000 were present—state carriages and retainers of the gran• dees, picturesque costume of the attendants, alguazils, halberdiers, pages, esquires—all presented a spectacle of a rare and most exciting character. The last time such a display was made was at the ceremony of the Jul a, or the taking the oath of allegi ance to the Princess of Asturias, now Isabella 11. The Queen and her sister looked well yesterday. When her Majesty and her husband presented them selves in front of the balcony, many vtvas were heard and handkerchiefs waved. W hen the Duke de Mont pensier and his wife showed themselves, not a viva was uttered, nor a salute returned. The son of Louis Philippe must know from yesterday's experience that Spaniards, when they are well pleased, can be as noisily enthusiastic as other people. It excites compassion to witness the desperate efforts of this poor young man to catch a stray salute, but in vain. The fact of the papers and letters from Portugal not having reached here, renders the supposition probable that the districts near the Spanish frontier are in in surrection. OPENING THE PORTS. SCARCITY AND DEARTH OF FOOD. A grand ball was given at the palace last night. The usual persons were invited. The French Ambassador gives a ball to-morrow night, at which it is believed her Majesty will be present. It appears that presents are showered by the bushel, on the active but inferior agents of the Montpensier marriage, by M. Bresson. Musical boxes, watch:•chains, shirt-buttons, are sent about in great profusion. L ou i s Philippe, and his matt-of-all-work in Madrid, must have a curLrus idea of the Spanish character. They look upon Spain as navigators do—some unknown and savage land, whose inhabitants it is necessary to soothe by presents of glass beads, painted feathers, bits of looking-glass, &c. The Provost of Polloltsha;shas;eeeived the follow ing letter, acknowledging the receipt of the memorial of the inhabitants of that b urg h to Lord John Russell, praying for the opening of the ports, and prohibition of distillation from grain : " Downing -street, Oct 16, 1846. " Sir,--I am desired by Lord John Russell to acknow ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th ult., and of the memorial of the inhabitants of Pollokshaws which accompanied it. " Lord John Russell is deeply sensible of the calamity which now presses so severely on the poorer classes of the United Kingdom, owing to the almost total failure of the potato crop ; but he trusts that the measures which the Government will adopt, and the exertions of proprietors on their own estates, will tend very greatly to mitigate the distress. .6 I have also been instructed to inform you, that it is not the intention of the Government to prohibit the r distillation from g ra i n.—I have the honour to b e , Si r , your obedient serv an t. 46 William H ec t o (Signed) 6 .R. W. GREY. , Es q ., —Glasgow Al gas . Provost of Pollok shaws." Theinvitations to yesterday's bull-fight came from the palace. To-morrow they proceed from the Ayun tiamento ; and the last is entirely open to the public.— Times. M. G. IN VENTIONACoInNsidRerAILIbIieRO jAmDprAolvAeeciiiiinii, TR N AT E E W LLIN client; has just been effected in the app lic a ti onpower to y iERY AND carriages on railways by an officer o f a a Vienna.oP i promises not only to supersede the at hat principle in moving heavy bodies up a plane of tri o s considerableertcp r elevath m, but also bids fair to remove the possib f recurrer ice of those appalling accident . . i ityo a, s Which are of so frequent occurrence both in England and Fr The inventor is Captain F. Freisauff von Neude au : . formerly directe d the mili tary studies of the gsgo,nws ofoheArchduke Charles of Austria; and so great seemsthe confidence inspired as the .. to the complete • f that the success of the new princip..e, celebrated engines r Gunther,from whose locomotive . , factory the greater titY ilwa s part of the engines on t Ta y of the southern states has proceeded, not Oialy answers un for its perf ec ti on, b ut has dertaken the c onstruction of similar crrriages at his own expense The inven tion consists in making the advance of a whole train quite independent of the :adhesion of theiil ocomotive's wheels to the rail on which it moves, an; 1 by con veying th e p rope lli ng power o f the engine to the axles of all the carriages, thus making th eir advance depend on their own adhesion. Each carriat , e becomes thus a locomotive, distinguished from the real locomotive only by the. circumstanc e that • the motive pc, wer is _ e not t is i independently a p p li e d , b ut i m engine-carriage. Th e whole tr ain is t partedhus to enabled th dto ascend any rise that m ay occur above the I evel of the railroad which the engine, if alone, would be able to ascend. The same officer has also invented a break, by means of which a train may be conveyed dow n-hill with perfect safety, and at an equal rate of speed. The re sisting power is placed without the line of road. Carriages built, on the principle of Captain Freisauff hove been tried at the great steam-engine factory of M. Gunther at Wien-Neustadt, and have been found to answ er the most sanguine expectations. On a line having arise of one in forty t hey drew a dead weight of 600 tons at the (minimum) rate of one and a half German miles (eight English miles) an hour, and conveyed the sa COQ down an inclined plane with perfect safety.—Liters :ry Gazette, Oct 17. PORTUGUESE GRAPES AND ONIONO.--1 ?c• show the extent to which the importation of these fruits have taken place within the past four or five d .tlys, in con tinuation of our former notice of the subject, the follow ing, the most exten sive of the arrivals, ma , be particu larly noticed as being beyond all former p recedent of previous seasons for the supply of such art ;it des. One vessel, the Countess of Liverpool, from Lisl ozmi a, brought 1,099 packages, being au entire cargo, of gfropes ; the a lso from Lisbon, 914 Speedy packet ., piwkages of grapes ; the Anemone, from Oporto, 84ii ho ICE. 3, baskets, and strings of onions, and 58 packages of 0 'apes ; the Little John, from Lisbon, a complete cargo, consisting of the large number of 1,134 packages of g rapes ; the Jack-o'-Lantern, from Lisbon. 1,395 Paeltin ;et ; of grapes and other productions ; the Black River p acket, in ad dition to an extensive cargo of wine and o; her produce, n 353 boxes of onions ; the Ellen, from -port a, ne ar ly 400 packages of onions, &c.; the Mary, from Lisbon, 678 packages of grapes , 163 boxes of onions, 8:.( L ; the Ad eline, from Lisbon, 1,126 baskets of grape: ;, and 105 chests of lemons ; the Victoria, 437 , paces.a. 7 f3s of grapes and a variety , of other fruits ; and, final) ,y, the Lusi tania, from Oporto, 102 packages of gre pes and 1,409 packages o f onions, the whole the product a of Portugal. It may with truth be remarked that the se ,pplies of these fruits from the southern states under notic a have been of almost unparalleled extent. This may I se readily ac counted for, owing to the facilities which the extraor dinary fineness of the weather this summe r has afforded for their 'prod u ction. We have before p. trticularly al luded to the unusually large supply of Ham burgh grapes this year, and borne testimony to the excelle a ice of their quality, which is undoubted and universall 16 remarked, and it is now a matter of well-known fact, t i tat the vin tages throughout the whole of Europe (Eng la nd not ex cepted) have this season yielded a suppl: f of grapes which, for quality us well as quantity, has p ! rhaps not been equalled, or, at all ev ents, excelled in Vae present genert4l9ll. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF MURDFIZ AND SUICIDE. On Wednesday, the 30th day of September last, George Heal, y, of Great Gonerby, in th.o county of Lincoln, labourer, brought to his father's house, at that place, a girl named Mary Hill, aged about nineteen, who stayed with him there till Thursday, the Bth instant, and on that day, during his absence, she left the house. On finding that to be the case, he left home the same even ing, saying he should be back in an hour and a half, but never returned. On the following Tuesday morning, the 13th instant, information was given to the police at Sleaford, about fourteen miles from Great Gonerby, that a man had poisoned himself at a beer-shop there called the Plough, and an inquest was held on the body on the following day by Mr. George Kewney, one of the coro ners for Lincolnshire, wh en th e deceased was identified as the George Healey before named ; and from the evi dence it appeared that he had come to the Plough on Sunday evening very wet and without a hat, and said that his hat had blown off in Belton fish-pond, which is twelve miles from Sleaford, and he had fallen into the water in trying to get it out. He stayed at the Plough, and on Monday was a good deal in bed, hut came down occasionally ; and at various times of the day employed different little boys to fetch him two pennyworths of laudanum, which he put into a sodawater bottle which he had borrowed, saying he was going to take physic. In the evening of Monday he was sitting with the com pany in the house, drinking and amusing himself, when three boatmen came in, and one of them said to one of the company, " That's the fellow we pulled out of the river last night ;" on hearing which he withdrew from the room and went to bed, and in the morning was dis covered dead, and the sodawater bottle under the mat tress with the remains of the laudanum In it, and a small phial which he had sent for the poison, to disarm suspi cion, in his pocket. After hearing the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of felo de se; and the Coroner directed the police to look out after the girl, as the man was a very bad character, and she had not been heard of since she had left her father's house. On Thursday, the 15th instant, the body of a woman was discovered in the river Witham, in the lordship of. Harroby, close to Grantham, and immediately adjoining the garden of Mr. Kewney, the coroner, fourteen miles from Sleaford, which . turned out to be the body of the woman in question, and had evidently been in the water some days ; and an in quest was held before the same coroner on Friday, the 16th instant, when the most remarkable circumstances were brought to light. It appeared that after Healey left bis father's house he went to Lincoln in search of the girl, and not finding her there he returned on Friday to Fulbeck, about 11 miles from Grantham, where he discovered she was with an aunt. He then went to the constable's house, and in his absence borrowed the con stable's staff and handcuffs, stating he was the constable of Great Gonerby (which was totally false), and was going to take a woman into custody for stealing silver spoons and sugar-bowls, at Great Gonerby. He then charged two respectable persons in the village to assist him in the Queen's name, saying he expected resistance, and went to the house where the girl was, where by main force he took her into custody on this pretended charge, and conveyed her in the Lincoln carrier's waggon to Grantham, where he took her to a respectable public house, the Blue Man, gave her supper, and had her Hocked up all night, stating he should take her before the magistrates in the morning. Accordingly, in the morning of Saturday, the 17th, at nine o'clock, he requested the landlord to take care of the hand cuffs and staff till his return, and left the house with the girl, saying he was going to Mr. Mariner's, the clerk to the magistrates. Instead of this, which of course he never intended, he called at the Blue Pig, another public-house in Grantham, where Mr. Morris, the constable of Fulbeck, puts up, and left word that Mr. Morris would find the staff and handcuffs at the Blue Man, where he had left them for him, and thence he and the woman were traced to the field through which the river Witham runs, where the body of the girl was found, and where they w,re seen to take the river side instead of the footpath ; and at 10 o'clock Mr. Botherway, the occupier of such field, picked up out of the river, within 10 yards of the spot where the body was found, a hat with a glove and handkerchief in it, which, on the inquest on the woman, was identified as belonging to Healey ; and between 10 and 11 o'clock on the same day Healey was met by a person who knew him, on an unfrequented road, in the direction of Sleaford, without a hat and wet up to the waist, and he said, on being asked the reason of being without a hat, that it had blown off in Belton fish-pond (through which he had passed in his road from the field before mentioned), and he had tumbled in in trying to get it out. On the same day, Saturday, he sold his coat at Sleaford, and in the pocket was the fellow glove (quite wet) to the one found in the hat taken out of the river by Mr. Botherway. Under all these circum stances there can be no doubt that Healey had murdered the woman by drowning her; but, as he had anticipated justice by committing suicide, and as there was no direct evidence of the manner in which the girl got into the water, the jury returned a verdict of "Found drowned." What makes the case more remarkable is the fact, that it was in open day that the deed was done, and within ten yards of a hovel in which Mr. Botherway and some of his men must have been within a quarter of an hour of the girl being drowned, which hovel is close to the river's edge. From the circumstance of Healey having appeared wet on the Sunday evening, it is conjectured that he contem plated suicide by drowning, but was prevented by tLe boatmen. • SPRING CIRCUITS. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. HENRY REVELL REYNOLDS, Esq., Chief Commissioner. Essex—at Chelmsford, Tuesday, March 9. Essex—at Colchester, Wednesday, March 10. Suffolk—at Ipswich, Thursday, March 11. Norfolk—at Yarmouth, Saturday, March 13. Norfolk—at the Castle of Norwich, Monday, March 15. At the City and County of the City of Norwich—the same day. Norfolk—at Lynn, Wednesday, March 17. Suffolk—at Bury St. Edmunds, Thursday, March 18. Cambridgeshire—at Cambridge, Friday, March 19_ Huntingdonshire —at Huntingdon, Monday, March 22. Northamptonshire—at Peterborough, Tuesday, March 23. Rutlandshire—at Oakham, Wednesday, March 24. Lincolnshire—at Lincoln, Friday, March 26. At the City and County of the City of Lincoln—the same day. Nottinghamshire—at Xottingham, Monday, March 29. At the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham—the same day. Derbyshire—at Derby, Wednesday, March 31. At the City and County of the City of Lichfield—Thursday, April 1. Staffordshire—at Stafford, Saturday, April 3. Shropshire—at Shrewsbury, Tuesday, April 6. Warwickshire—at Birmingham, Thursday, April 8. Warwickshire—at Warwick, Friday, April 9. Warwickshire—at Coventry, Monday, April 12. Leicestershire—at Leicester, Tuesday, April 13, Bedfordshire—at Bedford, Thursday, April 15. Northamptonshire—at Northampton, Friday, April 16. Buckinghamshire--at Aylesbury, Monday, April 19. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. Jolla GREATIIED HARRIS, Esq., Commissioner. Berkshire—at Reading, Friday, February 19. Oxfordshire—at Oxford, Monday, February 22. At the City and County of the City of Oxford, the same day. Worcestershire—at Worcester, Wednesday, Feb. 24. At the City and County of the City of Worcester—the same day. Radnorshire—at Presteigne, Friday, Feb. 26. Herefordshire—at Hereford, Monday, March 1. Brecknockshire—at Brecon, Wednesday, March 3. Carmarthenshire—at Carmarthen, Friday, March 5. At the Borough and County of the Borough of Carmarthen— the same day. Cardiganshire—at Cardigan, Monday, March 8. Pembrokeshire—at Haverfordwest, Wednesday, March 10. At the Town and County of the Town of Haverfordwest— the same day. Glamorganshire—at Swansea, Friday, March 12. Glamorganshire—at Cardiff, Monday, March 15. Monmouthshire—at Monmouth, Wednesday, March 17. Gloucestershire—at Gloucester, Friday, March 19. At the City and County of the City of Gloucester—the same day. Somersetahire—at Bath, Monday, March 22. At the City and County of the City of Bristol—Tuesday, March 23. Devonshire—at Plymouth, Saturday, March 27. Cornwall—at Bodmin, Tuesday, Mirch 30. Devonshire—at the Castle of Exeter, Thursday, April 1. At th 3 City and County of the City of Exeter—the same day. Dorsetshire—at Dorchester, Tuesday, April 6. At the Town and County of the Town of Southampton— Thursday, April 8. Wiltshire—at Salisbury, Friday, April 9. Southampton—at Winchester, Saturday, April 10. HOME CIRCUIT. WILLIAM Jolt x LAW, Esq. Commissioner. Kent—at Maidstone, Saturday, March 6. At the City and County of the City of Canterbury—Tuesday, March 9. Kent—at Dover, Wednesday, March 10. Sussex—at Lewes, Wednesday, March 24. Hertfordshire—at Hertfor4, Wednesday. March 31. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. CHARLES PHILLIPS. Esq. Commissioner. Yorkshire—at Sheffield, Thursday, Feb. 11. Yorkshire—at Wakefiela, Friday, Feb. 12. At the Town and County of the Town of Kingston-upon- Hull—Thursday, Feb. 18. Yorkshire—at the Castle of York—Saturday, Feb. 20. At the City and County of the City of York—the same day. Yorkshire—at Richmond, Tuesday, Feb. 23. Durham—at Durham, Wednesday, Feb. 24. Northumberland—at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Friday, Feb. 2G. At the Town and County of the Town of Newcastle-upon- Tyne—the same day. Cumberland—at Carlisle, Monday, March 1. Westmorland—at Appleby, Tuesday, March 2. Westmorland—at Kendal, Friday, March 5. Lancashire—at Lancaster, Monday, Al*rch 8. Lancashire—at Liverpool, Tuesday, March 16. Montgomeryshire—at Welsh Pool, Friday, March 19. Merionetshire—at Dolgelley, Monday, March 22. Anglesey—at Beaumaris, Wendnesday, March 24. Cornarvonshire—at Carnarvon, Friday, March 26. Denbigshire—at Ruthin, Monday, March 29. Fli n t s hire—at Mould, Tuesday, IVlarch 30. Cheshire—at the Castle of Chester, Thursday, April 1. At the City and County of the City of Chester—the same day. SINGULAR SUICIDE BY A BEADLE. —On Tuesda y last Mr. Jeremiah Sinclair, beadle of Stepney Old Church, committed suicide at his residence, No. 5. Eagle-place, Mile-end. Mrs. Sinclair left her husband at home, as usual, in the morning, and on her return from work, in the evening, discovered the bedroom door fastened on the inside. On looking through the key hole, she perceived something hanging. She became alarmed, and called the assistance of police-constable 163 K, who immediately forced the door open. On entering the room, Mrs. Sinclair saw her husband sus pended by a silk handkerchief from the bedpost. The constable instantly cut the deceased down, and Mr. Storey, a surgeon, was immediately sent for, who promptly attended, and pronounced life to have been extinct some hours. The unfortunate man was 74 years of age, and had filled the situation of beadle at the old parish church in Stepney, for the last 20 years. He had formerly been in the merchant service, and had lost hi right arm. A ROYAL BULL FIGHT. MADRID, OcT. 17.—The Gazette of this morning says not a word about the amnesty. En revanche, how ever, the Grand Bull-fight came off yesterday, and no doubt the nation will be content. The Queen, accompanied by her husband and the rest of the Royal family, entered her balcony at a quarter to three o'clock, in the Casa de Panadicia of the Plaza Mayor, or Great Square, and seated herself under a magnificent canopy of crimson velvet embroi deTrewdoin o'clock gold had been the hour named by her Majesty asttwo a c ompany for t the spectacle o commence.rssed inAtanehiaeloft pfha to lberdiers, dressed costume, made their appearance ; and, to the sound of clarions and drums, took their places in the space in front of, and immediately unde;,hethe balcony set positions by ynoapart for the royal personages. occu pied by these domestic guardians of the Royal person, might, no doubt, be one of high honour, but it means one to be envied, nor was it without i w ts a danger. Placed outside the barrier which separated the spectators from the arena, they were exposed to an encounter with the furious animals whose tortures were to afford amuse ment to the young Queen and her sister ; and as eti quette prevented them from turning their backs on their royal mistress, their danger was still the greater. A s the code of royal etiquette is not, however, so cruel as to be unredeemed by some traits of tenderness, the halber diers enjoyed the enviable privilege of being permitted, in extreme cases, to turn round for a moment when they felt the bulf's horns at their back, and defend their lives with the lance of their halberds—the only weapon al lowed them, The Queen's appearance in the balcony was the signal for a burst of martial music, which continued until she and those immediately about her had taken their seats. The Princes, Spanish and French, were dressed en bourgeois—black dress coats; and on their breasts flashed diamond stars. The Queens and Infanta were simply habited, and with few ornaments. They wore light bonnets it la Francaise, and held in their hands small parasols to protect them from the sun, which had just begun to shine from an almost unclouded sky. In a short time afterwards some stir was noticed amidst the crowd collected near the arch through which there is a passage to the Calle Toledo. Places were gradually made by the attendants, and then entered four very handsome carriages, each drawn by six horses, covered over with the richest and most massive, though not to an English eye the most tasteful, caparisons. From their lofty crests nodded high plumes of different colours, designating the noble houses to which they be longed. They were the state-carriages of four grandees —namely, the Count of Altamira, the Duke of Abrantes, the Duke of Medina Celi, and the Duke of Osuna. The horses were of the pure Andalusian breed, and were certainly beautiful creatures. These exhibitions are, from an ancient period, held in the Plaza Mayor, the grand square of the capital ; whereas the ordinary bull fights take place in the loca lity constructed expressly for the purpose, the Plaza de Toros. The caballeros are brought to the ground in the state carriages of their respective padrinos, with a long train of domestics, habited in ancient costume, and wearing the colours of the houses they belong to. They are then and there conducted in front of the Sovereign, to whom they are presented in due form. They then mount on horseback, and the spectacle begins. The caballeros of yesterday were—R. Roman Fernan dez, of the Guard of Halberdiers ; paddl), the Count of Altamira ; he wore a c.esturne of the time of Austrian dynasty, his colours, sky-blue and white ; the padrino wore a court dress ; D. Antonio Romero ; padrino, the Duke of Abrantes, costume of the same period, colour, green ; padr•ne, the maestrante uniform ; 1). Frederico Vare'a y Untie, padrino the Duke of Medina Celi, cos tume blue and white ; padrino the maestrante uniform • D. Jose Cabanas ; padrino, th e D u k e o f O suna, costum e red and yellow ; padrino the uniform of a colonel of cavalry. The caballero of the Duke of Abrantes is a Lieutenant of the Regiment of Maria Christina ; and that of the Duke of Osuna an officer of the llalberdiers. After the carriages came, led by grooms dressed in the richest livery, twenty eight horses, at the rate of seven ft r each Cir iage. The harness of the horses was of the most gorgeous description. A complete band of toreros (bull- fighters), engaged to prote ct t h e ca b alleros en plaza, accompahied each carriage on foot. All this train made the circuit of the square, the angles of which had b en rounded off for the occasion with temporary structures, until they came in front of the royal balcony, when each caballero and his padrino descended, and made a profound obeisance to her Majesty. They again entered the carriages, and having once more made the circuit of the place, they disappeared in a direction dif ferent from that they entered. About halt-an-hour then elapsed ; after which a new spectacle made its appearance in the same place where the carriages had entered. Seven Kings-at- Arms, with their pages and esquires sustaining the shields cf the house of each grandee, entered, escorting each caballero en plaza, and followed by the respective bands of torero:. They again placed themse!ves in front of the royal balcony, and bowed low. The caballeros, with the exception of one who was flung from his horse the moment he mounted, saluted her Majesty on horseback. The toreros knelt, and bent their foreheads to the ground. In addition to the above, a number of musicians, dressed in grand cos tume, followed the cavaliers, and with their martial strains seemed to animate their courage. The picadors, or hull-fighters, armed with lances, and on horses, fol lowed also. The key of the stall where the bull is kept ready for the combat is in possession of whoever the authority may be that presides. On this occasion the cara of the kty was entrusted to the Queen. It is flung from the balcony with ',web grave ceremony. At the moment th, en delivered the key, a multitude of pigeons, their necks adorned with gay coloured ribbons, suddenly rim from each corner 'a the place i 4 u4 pleir flight FLOUR FROM CALCUTTA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUJ Tavistock Hotel, Friday Evening. Sin,—ln the third column of the third page of your publication of this evening, I observe a paragraph re garding the importation of East Indian flour, which you appear to consuler as something remarkable. F or y our information I beg to inform you that it is by no means n ovel or extraordinary. Flour has been imported into this country from Calcutta to a great extent during the last eighteen years, being the produce of the " Calcutta Strand Flour-mills," and recently of the " Cossipore Establishment." It is not, however, adapted for human consumption, but exclusively employed as " sizing " for manufacturing purposes. Whilst on the subject, I may remark, that wheat to any extent might be imported from the rich and fertile vallies of the Ganges were the ports of this country open to its free admission.—l have the honour to subscribe myself, Sir, your most obedient servant, AN EAST INDIA MERCHANT. MADAME D'ARBLAY ' S DIARY AND LETTERS. VOL. Vi.—Besides the royal, noble, and distinguished personages lately alluded to as figuring in th e s i xt h volume of this interesting work, will be found the follow ing:—Napoleon, when First Consul; the Duchesses of Kent and Cumberland, the Duke of Wellington, Lords Harrington, Melbourne, Walsingham, Chesterfield, Howe, St. Vincent, Beaulieu and Aylesbury; Ladies Albinia Cumberland, Henry Fitzgerald, Augusta Low ther, Melbourne, Hates, Charlotte Bruce, Courtown, Charlotte Bellasys, Inchequin, and Templetown; the Bishops of Exeter and Salisbury; Pitt, Fox, Canning, Erskine, Burke, Wyndham, Sheridan, Warren Hastings, Wilberforce, Dundas, Frederic and Dudley North; Sir Sydney Smith and Sir Lucas Pepys ; Generals Burrard, Harecourt and Manners; Drs. Herschell, Fisher, James, Aikin, and Professor Young ; Samuel Rogers and Wil liam Mason; Mesdames Hannah Moore, Barbauld, Crewe, Boscawen, Darner, Chapone, Ord, Garrick, Siddons, Pope, Miss Betterton, &c. There is reason to believe that no offer has been made by the Mexican Government to Messrs. Reid, Irving and Co., to undertake their agency. We state this, as a rumour has been spread to the contrary effect. Times. THII GOVERNORSHIP OF BOMBAY.—It was reported a short time since that the Earl of Dalhousie had been appointed Governor of Bombay, in place of Sir George Arthur, who had resigned from indisposition. We have good authority for stating that Lord Dalhousie denies having received any intimation of such appointment, and that he regards the contemplation of it by.the Govern ment as extremely improbable. We hear that his Lord ship has expressed himself to that effect in answer to several applications made to him on the supposition that he was really about to depart for Bombay, and had the patronage of that presidency at his disposal.—The Britannia. LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.M.- - We are still on the look-out for the Great Western, but up to the time we write, no intelligence has been heard re specting her. It is uncertain whether she would sail on her day, as she had to undergo some repairs, rendered necessary from the effects of the hurricane she encoun t, r.'d on her last outward passage. If so, the delay ex plains her non -arrival. SUPPOSED ROBBERY ON THE LONDON AND BIR MINGHAM RAmwey.—On Friday, shortly after eight o'clock. a gentleman, whilst travelling from Coventry to London, by the Birmingham and London line of railway, was either robb• d of, or lost, a pocket-book, containing a number of Bank of England notes, to the extent in value of nearly 501., a bill of exchange, several receipts, and other miscellaneous articles of the greatest import ance to the owner. The unfortunate loser, it appears, did not discover his loss until he had nearly completed half his journey. THE MURDERS BY POISONING IN ESSEX.—CLAVRR, /NG , FRIDAY EVENING. --The Coroner's inquiry respect ing the deaths by poison of Joseph and James Chesham was brought to a close this afternoon, when, after some voluminous, but not very material evidence, the jury re• turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Sa•rahChesham, the pi9ther of the deceased cbildreu. POOR T,i,ENIPAT A 1„k CT The Poor Law Coirdnissioti(rs have issued a ei; cular, dated the 20th instant, stating that they have consulted the Attorney and Solicitor-General on the construction of the late Removal Act, and give as the result:— I. " That the proviso to the Ist section of the 9 and 10 Vict., c. 66, which sets forth the exceptions to the principal enactments that are to be excluded in the com putation of time, is net retrospective in its operation, so as to apply to cases where the five years' residence was complete before the statute. 2. " That an interval between the completion of the five years residence and the application for the warrant of removal filled up by one of the exceptions contained in the proviso will not p event the operation of the statute in restraining the removal of the pauper whu had resided for the specified time. 3. " That orders of removal obtained previous to th• passing of the Act, but not then executed by the re moval of the paupers, cannot now be executed in cases where the Ist and 2nd section would have prevented them frcm being granted if the applications were made subsequently to the passing of the Act. 4. " That the 2nd Section does not apply to the cases of widows whose husbands died before the passing of the Act 5. "That the 4th section does apply to persons who became chargeable before the passing of the Act, and continued to do so till the application for the warrant. 6. " That the statute applies equally to the removal of persons born in Scotland, Ireland, or the Channel Islands, as to persons having settlements in England, so as to override pro tanto the provisions of the 8 and 9 Viet., c. 117." As to the effect of the first proviso, so far as it relates to the time before the passing of the Act, the simple fact of the actual residence of the pauper is alone to be con sidered, and consequently that no time during which the party may have been in the receipt of relief is to be omitted from the calculation of the term of residence, while any absence during that period, such as that caused by an imprisonment, or a residence in an hospital, is to be treated as an interruption of the continuous residence to which the statute applies. With reference to the second question, the Commis sioners consider that the principle of the construction must equally apply to intervals in the time during which the period of residence is comprised, so that for example, a residence of three years in a parish may be united with a subsequent residence of two years in the same parish, though in the interval the party may have been out of the parish in prison for several months, or serving her Majesty as a soldier for several years ; this obser vation is, however, to be qualified by the supposition that the absence is one which is protected by proviso. In the application of this statute no difference exists whether the cause arise between two parishes in the same union, or in different unions. WILLS. BIsHOr OF ST. ASAPII.—The will of the Right Rev. William Carey, D.D., Bishop of the Welsh Diocese of St. Asaph, was proved in the Prerogative Court of Can terbury, on the 21st ir.st. He has left the whole of his property real and personal, to his widow, and appointed her, together with the Venerable Archdeacon H. C. Jones, the executors. It bears date the 29th of March, 1843. His personal estate was estimated at 40,0001. The late Venerable and Learned Prelate died at the age of 77. He entered upon holy orders in 1892, and was male a Prebendary of Yark, and, in 1809, was installed as Prebendary of Westminster. On the translation of Dr. Pelham to the see of Lincoln, in 1820, Dr. Carey woe consecrated Bishop of Exeter, the value of which was 2,700/. ; and in 1830, on the death of Dr. Luxmore, he was translated to St. Asaph, with an income of 5,300/. The see at the present time remains vacant, the Bishop of Bangor having declined accepting it, or uniting it with that of Bangor. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS.—The parish authorities of Lambeth have had left to them a clear sum of 1,5001. by the late Mrs. Edridge of Kennington-place, the inte rest to be applied for the benefit and comfort of such poor persons of that parish who are of the age of sixty years and upwards. This benevolent lady has also bequeathed a like sum of 1,500/. to each of the fol lowing valuable institutions in that quarter, viz.— The School for the Indigent Blind, near the Obelisk ; the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, Old Kent-road ; and Bedlam Hospital, Lambeth-road. The legacies to be paid free of duty. She is stated to have died possessed of personal and funded property amounting to 35,0001., and it is probable would have extended her munificence to other charitable objects, as her will was not com pleted to the full extent of her testamentary intentions; for, although it was properly executed, she had left open the disposal of the residue to be made by her at some future period by a separate document, but which she never put in force. CAPTURE EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday week information was received by the Brighton police :that two men, who had absconded from Liverpool, and were charge with fraud, had arrived in Brighton, and were about to sail by the Fame packet for Dieppe ; but the police having no certain information of the men, and no particulars of the charge, suffered them to depart by the steamer which left the harbour on Tuesday morning. The packet had got half way over, and the men, no doubt, congratulated themselves on having effected their escape, when some accident occurred to the machinery, and the weather being exceedingly boisterous, the cap tain determined on returning to England. On learning this fact, Mr. Chase, the chief officer of police, directed Superintendent White to proceed to Kingston and watch the men as they came ashore, so as to know where to find them if necessary. White proceeded to Kingston accordingly, and about three o'clock the packet came iato harbour. The passengers were forwarded to Brighton by an omnibus, and White, who was in plain clothes, placed himself in the vehicle near the two men in ques tion, and came with them to Brighton. On the way he took occasion to recommend them to a public-house, and on their arrival here kindly showed them to the Jolly Fisherman. On Wednesday, Mr. Searle, of the firm of Reeve and Searle, solicitors, of Liverpool, accompanied by an officer, arrived, with a warrant signed by Mr. Commissioner Perry of the Bankruptcy Court, for the apprehension of James Maw and William Chapman, the names of the parties in question. White accompanied his breeher officer to the Jolly Fisherman, and there found the two men, who were forthwith lodged in the Town Hall for the night, and on Thursday White pro ceeded with them to Liverpool.--Brighton Guardian. WRECK OF LORD MOUNTCASHEL'S YACHT WANDERING SPIRIT.—On Saturday evening the beau tiful yacht, Wandering Spirit, lately built by Mr. Wheeler for the Earl of Mountcashel, as a present for his son, Lord Kilworth, was wrecked off Kinsale har bour. She had sailed from the Cove of Cork on Saturday, for Kinsale, having the Countess Mountcashel and the Ladies Moore on board, who were about spending some days in the latter town. The yacht made a very pleasant trip, the day being remarkably fine, and arrived off Kinsale har bour at about five o'clock in the evening ; but on rounding the Hangman's point , a headland stretching out at the mouth of the harbour , the captain inquired of the pilot, whether he was giving t he point room enough. The pilot replied that the yacht was then in 10 fathoms water. The captain immediately took the lead, and was in the act of heaving it, when the yacht struck on a reef of rocks. Such was the force with which the vessel struck, in consequence of the great headway she was making, that she was raised fully a couple of feet from her water line. The boats were immediately lowered, and Lady Mountcashel and family were safely conveyed to land. Shortly after, in spite of all the efforts of cap tain and crew, the yacht filled in and rolled on her beam ends, in which position she now lies in deep water. On Sunday morning, Sir 11. Pigot, Rear-Admiral, hav ing received intelligence of the disaster, sent the Myruri don steamer, with a number of ship carpenters, to the scene of the wia ck. It is thought that the Wandering Spirit will be totally lost. She is a beautiful schooner yacht of 140 tons, built by Mr. J. Wheeler, of this city, and is valued at over 3,0001. Mr. Wheeler hastened to Kinsale, yesterday, on receiving account of the wreck.— Cork Southern Reporter. A parochial clergyman, who anticipates much distress amongst the labouring poor, mechanics, and peasantry, during the approaching winter, and early spring, from the failure of the potato crop—begs leave to suggest, to such:of the more opulent classes as can feel for the wants of their poor " brethren in the flesh," the liberal distribution of Patna rice amongst them ; to• gether with copies of the following receipts for dressing it, in productive and palatable ways. 1. Put 11b of good rice into five pints of cold water, and as soon as they shall boil, set the saucepan where the water and rice shall simmer, gently, for one hour ; then add two pints of milk ; stir the whole, and let it simmer another hour ; when done, stir in 4lb. of treacle, and serve it up. Where milk cannot be procured, water may be used, instead of milk—and to make a change, the rice may be flavoured with onion and salt, instead of treacle. 2. If rice be preferred in a drier state, it may be thus pre pared :—Boil llb of rice in four quarts of water, until it be quite tender—then pour off the water, and cover the saucepan for the rice to steam, and serve it up. Either of the above receipts will furnish a palatable meal for four or six persons, according to age.—Sherborne Journal. AN INFANT POISONED BY ITS NURSE.—On Monday last, an inquest was held at Codnor Park, in this county' before Mr. Whiston, jun., coroner, ou the body of Sarah Wardle, a child aged four months, whose death took place on Saturday morning last, from the effects of laudanum administered the day before by her nurse girl, a child named Elizabeth Parker, aged twelve years. From the evidence which was taken before the jury, it appeared that the nurse girl had sent another girl for a pennyworth of laudanum on Friday morning, and that she had poured half of it down the child's throat ; and in about half an hour afterwards she took it home, and the mother of the child asked the nurse whether she had given the child anything, to which she replied she had only given it two teaspoons full of ale at the brewhouse of Mr. Whysall. The child appearing to get much worse medical aid was sent for, and on arriving at the house where the child was lying, after making . several inquiries, the nurse girl again repeated having given the child some ale, but denied having given it anything else, until after the child's death, when she admitted having sent a child for some laudanum in a small bottle, ? and having poured part of the co ntents down the child throat, and also having washed off the label from the bottle which contained he word poison upon it. The child also told one of the witnesses , who was examined, that a companion of her's, who was a nurse-maid, had bought a pennyworth of laudanum and had given the same to the child she was nursing over night, and that it was dead the next morning. The ' jury, after con sulting a short time, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Elizabeth Parker, as it appeared from the evidence of the medical gentleman that the death was occasioned from laudanum ; whereupon the coronor is sued his warrant for the committal of the nurse-girl for trial at the next assizes,—.Derby Reporter. THE MANCHESTER ATHENXU/171. MANCIIESTF:R, FRIDAY.—Last evening the fourth an nual soirée took place in the Free-tradelall, when the vast area of that large and elegant structure was crowded with well dressed ladies and gentlemen. The arrange ments, however—at least so far as the metropolitan press was concerned—were not of that perfectly convenient character its representatives had met with on previous celebrations. Formerly covered tables for the reporters were raised to nearly the level of the platform, but on this occasion rough deal benches, oft which they were compelled to wipe the dust with their own handkerchiefs were placed on the level of the flooring, and so imme diately under the platform, that it was with great diffi culty we could hear the chairman, who could not be seen, a he spoke behind a table, without advancing to the front of the platform. The band of the 69th Infantry was present, and at intervals, during the evening, played some exquisite overtures, &c. The Right Hon. Viscount Morpeth, M.P., was in the chair, supported by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Ebrington, M.P., the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P., Mr. Brown, M.P., Mr. M‘Gregor, of the Board of Trade ; Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., Dr. Bowring, Mr. Edwin Chadwick, of the Poor-law Commission ; Dr. C. Mackay, Mr. W. H. Ainsworth, Mr. W. Chambers, of Edinburgh, &c. Lord MORPETEC, on presenting himself, was received with loud and long-continued cheering. When the ap plause had subsided, his Lordship said—Ladies and gen tlemen, I trust that I shall be believed when I say that I appreciate my situation. With whatever incidents of distinction or responsibility I may happen to be invested elsewhere—honeured as I may be by the choice of no mean constituency—(Cheers) —on the other side of the hills which bound your prospects—permitted, as I am, to take a part in the highest councils of the State—yet I can with truth assure you, that I find something very new, fresh, and large in the honour of being called upon to preside at the jubilee of the Manchester Athenamm. —(Cheers.) And this sense of honour, and, I may say with as much truth, of difficulty also, is certainly not lessened when I call to mind those who have preceded me in the same post upon these brilliant occasions. The last echoes of this place, which I feel it a hardihood in my self to rouse again, answered to the accents—deep, gentle, and earnest as his own spirit—of Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. —(Cheers.) Why, gentlemen, the name of the Athe naeum itself suggests that it is a befitting theatre for all the utterances of the bard of lon and the Athenian Cap tive. Next before him, I know your spirits must have thrilled under the spell of so potent a magician as Mr. Disraeli. In the very hottest conflicts of political party from which we are happily here sheltered, I think it would have been impossible, even for his most exposed victim, to have been blind to the point, the genius, the brilliancy, which played even around the wounds they made. But here, on this gorgeous stage, amid this con genial auditory, on the topic familar to him, of literature, of art, and of imagination, I, who could only read in cold print what he said, apart from all the kindling ac cessories of time and place, can easily believe how the admiration, which is not withheld froin him even on the barren ground of political controversy, must have hero swelled into enchantment.—(Loyd cheers.) On the first of these annual occasions, the first at least that was held upon this scale of size and splendour, this chair was filled, and it never can be filled more worthily, by Charles Dickens.—(Applause.) That bright and genial nature, the master of our sunniest smiles and our most unselfish tears, whom as it is impossible to read without the most ready and pliant sympathy, so it is impossible to know, at least I have found it so, without a depth of respect and a warmth of affection which the rare union of singular qualities at one commands.—(Cheers.) I have made it my business to read what these, my predecessors, have said. But this, while it ministered most highly to my excitement, has certainly in no way diminished my embarrassment ; for I feel that it would indeed be an office irksome to you, and hopeless to myself, to endeavour to recal in fainter expressions and with feebler colouring what was portrayed by them with such richness and exuberance. I feel that at this time of day, and especially in this place, it would be at best an impertinence to inculcate that knowledge in no community will b.-3 a dangerous thing ; that commerce, which originally formed, and which still ennobles such a community as this, is the natural ally of literature and art ; and that the pursuits which may be here cultivated, and the habits which may be here fostered, if rightly directed and properly guarded, are such as to give a grace and a glory to the lives and characters of men (Cheers.) Ido indeed feel, with the most ardent and gifted of those who have preceded me, and of those who now surround me, that the impulses and associations which are impressed upon our own times are to be hailed with gratitude, and fostered with anxious attention, to rivet and transmit them. Ido indeed rejoice that Eng lish commerce seems in these our days to be rising to the real height of its position, and to feel the true dignity of its calling.—(Cheers.) But this the Tuscan, this the Genoese, this the Venetian may have done. The worthies of our English commerce are content to be merchants, without being princes. If we have our Medicis, they are not intent upon seeking alliances with the thrones of Europe, but they feel it ought now to be their true aim to raise to the same level - of knowledge, of happi ness, of virtue, with themselves, the whole body of the people.—(Cheers.) I rejoice that in Manchester, be yond all dispute the first city in the ancient or the mo dern world for manufacturing enterprise and mechanical skill, you have not been content with that display of wealth which may jostle in your streets, or be piled in your warehouses ; you have not thought it sufficient to raise factories tier upon tier, or magazines that will ac commodate the traffic of the world, but you have thought it your business, too, to build and set apart a home and a haunt for innocent enjoyment—for useful instruction — for graceful accomplishment—for lofty thought, a shrine of philosophy, a Pallas Athena, in a Christian land.— (Loud cheers.) Long may it be the resort—with the other and kindred institutions, which it does not seek to overlay or eclipse, but rather to encourage and excite— along with them may it be the favourite resort, where all that are engaged and engrossed in the business or the labour of this unparalleled hive of industry may find repose for their flagging spirits, a neutral ground for their manifold differences, invigorating food for their reason, and an impulse onwards and upwards to all the best and highest tendencies of our nature.—(Loud cheers.) lam glad to perceive that while the benefits of your institution are not confined to any condition, to any class, to any denomination, so also they are not ex clusively appropriated even to one sex.—(Laughter and cheers.) Women have always played an important, perhaps I might dare to say not uniformly a beneficial, part in this world's history. But, as civilisation advances, I have all confidence that they will play both a more recognised and a more elevated part than they have ever yet done.—(Cheers.) Among the many currents which the restless activity of our time is ever eddying along, I trust that a prominen t one will be devoted to make the educatioi, of women sound, substantial, en lightened, all that it ought to be to train those who, in any case, must be the real trainers, and who may be the best trainers, of all our citizens and all our workmen. —(Loud cheers.) From all I can gather, the whole some effects of your institution have not been confined to its own walls and its own operations. While it has walked its own rounds it has also been suggestive of many kindred processes; or, if I may borroivan illus tration from one of the disputed problems of the upper sky, in its career of light and progress it has thrown off from itself separate bodies, which harden into distinct masses, and glow with independent lustre.—(Cheers.) For I may ask you whether it is not very much owing to the impulse of ideas thrown out and caught up here, at your lecture rooms, in your school gatherings, or is. the more earnest friction of your discussions—whether it is not very much owing to the agency of your mem bers, your officers, your founders, that, to select an in stance, the public parks which add so much both to the material and moral beauty of this great city—(Cheers) —the public baths and wash-houses, which are calculated to have deeper effects than on the mere skin and linen—(Cheers)—and all the attention which has been bestowed on sanatory regulations—(Cheers)—in &great degree owe their rise?—(Cheers.) Can you look to other sources for the foundation of your industrial schools, for the weekly half-holiday in your ware houses, or for the early closing of your shops ? (Cheers.) With respect to this i last topic, one not re motely connected with the best interests and widest ex tension of this institution, my attention has been specially called to a meeting which I believe it is pro posed to hold on this same classic ground, by the members of the Manchester and Salford Early Closing Associa tion.—(Cheers.) My duties would prevent me from accepting the invitation with which I have been honoured to attend that meeting, and, indeed, I doubt whether it is precisely the matter in which a stranger ought to in terfere. I can only say, that if any general arrangement can be Arrived at between the employers and the: em ployed, which shall secure to the rising manhood and womanhood of Manchester a greater amount of leisure for blameless recreation and for mental culture, 1:to one will rejoice more cordially than myself.—(Cheers.) You will perceive that I have adverted to some of the m o re () e re obvious topics in connexion with this institntiont e h g th pro indeed, the duty imposed upon me, essence. theceedings of this evening, in some de manded. Let me for a little time os now ofr tP turn from arY you who constitute it, you w institution to yourselves, to h y o ou ar w e o by whose eloquence h its are life 1 tasn m embers , delighted, when addressing the heretofore you have been before him toldtheist • of Manchester arrayed . I perceive that one of the ora to rs youth emphasis to aspire. Far be ft from me to tell them otherwise. All whof ee l within themselves the sacred flame, who are strung to the high endeavour, who are girded for the immortal race, I would address in the terms used by the great moralist-poet, Dr. Johnson : Are those thy views, proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of truth; Let all your soul indulge the generous heat, Till captive science yield her last retreat, Till reason guide thee with her purest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day." —(Mich cheering.) It is with these views, by pati en t inquiry, by diligent study, by humble-minded searching after truth, that all real knowledge is to be wooed and won—(Cheers)—equally apart from that shallow pre• sumption which sets up its own speculations and sophis tries in the place of conscious reason and a disciplined faith, and from that blind bigotry which bears down fair argument, decides against proof, and condemns without a hearing. I have said that Ido not wish—that I could not wish, to damp or discountenance the purpose of any of the rising youth around me to aspire; for I well know that genius is the property of no condition, the appanage of no class. It will often be seen to rise, like the fabled goddess of old out of the ocean billow, from those sur faces of society where you would least expect to find it, break through the surrounding uniformity, and shed sudden radiance around the new horizon.—(Loud cheers.) But while I am ready to track its shining course, and to bask iii its genial warmth, I would also beg to remind you that there is something more admirable than genius, and that is virtue ; there is something more valuable than success, and that is duty.—(Load cheers.) The hope to succeed in the world, and to play shining part in the society mound us, any *a act