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bIIGU'ELITE INSURRECTION. (From the Tinvs.) wi gentleman, jtv.t ,:::red from Oporto, has favoured us th a copy of the following proclamation, issued on the 1014 inst. : PRO LEGS ST GHEGE. IN THE N...t.mis H. M. F. M. DON MIGUEL I. PROCLAMATION " Iby the General-in-Chief and Military Director, Re ginald ]Mcdonnell, to the soldiers, Royalists, and pa:riots of Portugal. Soldiers and Royalists,—Wat with Charter and Constitu ,o, Portugal has become the prey of faction and the sport of anarchy ; it is, th-..refore, you who must rise and take the . lead in rescuing your country from the state of degradation in which it lies. The crisis has arrived, and the remem brance of past events ought to spur you on to exertion; for in the war which you have lately waged with invasion and rev olution, you were not vanqui s hed, you were betrayed. Your fleet was captured in a simulated combat; your capital was occupied without even the form of defence; our army was subdivided and rendered ineffective detail ; and, w h en fi na lly assem bl e d, it wa s d eco y e d t o Evora, and th ere ca j o l e d i n t o a needless and base capitula tion. Such were the combined effects of domestic intrigue and foreign chicanery, aided and abetted by the perfidy of those councillors who surrounded the throne, and to whom, by a dire fatality, your destinies were confided. Your invading adversaries, conscious of their own weakness, were astonished at their own success : they instinctively anew that they owed no such advantage to any virtue in themselves, yet they cunningly made the most of the occa sion, and strove to impose on Europe the belief that all Was due to their proper wisdom and heroism. The foreign press teemed with the productions of their pen, professing, in title, to be histories of the war, productions of invidious and sinister character, in which facts were garbled, distorted, and suppressed, in order that you might have censure and they -might have praise; but this wretched ambition was not all, for in public, if success made them vain—in secret their fears made them cruel; and while abroad they were ac tive with the pen, at home they were active with the painard. The Convention of Evora had scarcely been concluded when a plot was formed for its violation though the Royalist armed force bad been dissolved, the Royalist party was still undiminished in its numbers, and still unchanged in its sen timents, it formed the vast majority of the Portuguese nation. As it could not, therefore, be destroyed in body, recourse was had to assassination to destroy it in spirit ; every Royalist of any leading, and who bore a good name, was doomed to be a victim. A system of murder then com menced, and rapine and sacrilege were its concomitants. Men who had laid down their arms, returned to their homes, and founded their hope of security on the faith and . solemnity of public treaty, were persecuted and attacked. Some were arrested, and dispatched in prison —some were slain in the street—and others were butchered at their own homes, in the midst of their horror- stricken families. There was not a sanctuary which the dirk of the assassin did not invade and pollute with crime. The Convention of Evora was disregarded as if it never had been. This demoniacal policy did not, in strictness, appertain either to Chartists or to Septembrists; each of these parties, if taken as a body, was certainly free of the crime, and ought to be in justice free of the blame. It was not the Polley of parties, but the policy of Ministries that led to the 11 ,ritY—Ministries chiefly composed of unprincipled men, loac i i ,vrith official knavery scrupled not to betray both friend e u„,ta; men who, in fine, were by greed of power, rendered " (13 to shame • who sacrificed justice, humanity, and de el3ttrt t • • th en 0 gratify their selfish propensities. What they were f or t i le suela they are now, and such would continue to be— spurious character is for ever the same. No other ) ,. C° Urse of p o li cy i s, i n d eed, to b e expecte d f rom a ra w and t r o ltitionary G overnmen t, th a t mus t needs be a mockery to eyes of the nation, and thus kept alive to its own in --cleney for there is no authority so unjust and cruel as that which is haunted by the fear of contempt. Soldiers and Royalists, your fate has been hard ! fortune hag been cruelly severe, and public opinion has done you on gi You sacrificed your wealth to maintain the altar and the throne in their Divine and legitimate purity, and Yet you have been denied the principle of patriotism. You ventured your lives in the active discharge of what you d tl eined to be a duty, and yet you h ave b ean d escri b e d as avoid of moral virtue! you fought better than your adver tries, and that too under every disadvantage, and yet you Z,a_ve been decried and stigmatised as cowards! I make "se assertions boldly, for I speak of facts which I know, find of conduct which I witnessed. A knowledge of these r i sPlitable facts has enabled me to advocate your cause brroughout Europe, in despite of opposition, and the remem mice of your good and noble conduct impels me now to 'ate the field, and fills me with pride while I thus address Y° l 4 for I know you will learn with delight that the war of restoration is declared. t 130 u Miguel I. h as this day been pro c l a i me d Ki ng o f Per .ligal and th e Al garves w i t h th e i r d epen d enc i es; b ase d on t he national restoration of the Cortes of Lame o, and the fundamental laws of the monarchy. oYour ancient and legitimate standard now waves in .ten hostility to both charter and constitution, and eir Vacillating governments. It is the symbol of Your faith, of your laws, of your King, and of your 63111 ) trY• It is the signal for you to arm, to truster ;nu to march and to rally around it, that you may recover the rights and redress your wrongs. Many of the best and iilierbravest of the Royalists are already with me in the field. t ° Plan is formed and our system is established. Our sys- VII is conciliatory, and it therefore is national. We recog fiet no ne as enemies, save those whom we encounter in the a m -- Yr e make no distinction of party; men of all parties j u , t ai nnogst us, and every appointment shall be founded in e• Promotion shall be strictly confined to the operating in - 1 413 4 valour and obedience shall be the sole recom micritions candour, make this declaration in the fulness of honesty Il i _ ~ for my will is good and my power is ample. goa ln._eeds of every brave man shall be rewarded. The ser their' corporals, and soldiers shall daily and duly receive las rations and their pay, so long as the campaign shall ar4 and While they remain under my immediate command. to see aril empowered to promise, and this I pledge myself gliaim e tert:ortned, 'and you are all of you sufficiently ac- With th e With my character to know that I never break faith B eitu tr oop , the c o en ,„ lad Royalists, in December, 1833, when I quitted evil CO, at Santarem I foresaw and foretold all the th e - le n in the sequel b ' efel you, but as I had not then int a Power to do you any good, I retired with my character the ct, and made my resignation serve as a protest against all se proceedings which did you any harm. It is, therefore, I repeat, that in the war which you then waged with inva -81011 and revolution, you were not vanquished ; you were be trayed. It is now time to regain, by your own loyalty and bravery, what you lost by the treachery and imbecility of others. You have only to do, after a 1 ipse of nine years, what your forefathers did after a apse of sixty—when they spurned a foreign yoke, deposed a foreign Bing, and placed upon the throne the native and legitimate Braganza. Arm, then, and hasten to the standard of your ancestors, by that standard which first was unfurled against the Moors by the founder of your monarchy; that standard which first guided the way, as a volant beacon, to oriental navigation ; that standard which so lately, in Portugal, in Spain, and in Prance so frequently triumphed over the hosts of Napoleon. But you are not called upon to rally around it in force on account of the dangers to be braved, and the obstacles to be einvionnted ; for to vanquish a weak and spurious Govern ment, continually haunted by fear, but little force will be s quired. You are call e d u p on t o p rove , by your rea di ness 1 "° arm, that the state of political feeling in Portugal has been saY misrepresented. You are also called upon to prove, Your energy in the field, that the character of the Portu eel% Royalists has been foully calumniated ; and, finally, „," Coa called upon to join in the enterprise, that numbers ir7 give to it the grandeur of nationality; and, above all, at as sm.pecess. many as possible may share in the glory of its 14 - t rt uguese—lt is not to my voice alone that you now You listen also to the voice of your dethroned sove -1*", Who speaks to you from his exile. The General-iia• Chief and Military Director, 1 4 REGINALD MACDONNELL. live the King Don Miguel L tsg oo shove been apprised of the fact of a number of m ote 'ng having lately started in the suburbs , the pro till.B Of Which profess to afford servants and others moving ba ti k: s ubordinate ranks of society all the security of savings' li s h '9 with a much larger rate of interest than these estab• fi n , !ents pay. In one or two cases it is stated that as much c h a ve per cent. is allowed for moneys paid in, and all the d 15 11 , ; e , t er ef savings' bank business being assumed. the party ti e " h g is permitted by the managers to withdraw, at any th e 9 sums from 1/.larer demand is made upon establishment, proper notice mgt be given ; and should itetend to a greater amount than 251., three months is fixed t f the date of repayment. It is not alone the high rate of in- Q.est proffered on these deposits, which in ordinary money .t!ansactions is not considered indicating a safe basis of business, ‘ t has excited suspicion of the associations, but the stronger fact, that in one particular instance several poor servant girls w,`.`e had so disposed of their savings have experienced co nsiderable difficulty in getting them returned when they hav e appli e d f or t h em. T he greatest caut i on oug h t to b e ex ercised on the part of persons who with commendable pru dence seek means of increasing the surplus of their income by laying it out at interest, in selecting a savings' bank Which is really known to be under the management and su perintendence of trustees and others who have not so much In view the desire of profit as the security and safety of the earnings of the poorer classes of the community. S ecur i ty, with a lower rate of interest, like an investment in Consols, will be found in the long run much more advantageou s to the depositor than the prospect of a high rate of interest accompanied by the uncertainty of a return of principal.— IRISH PRovisross —The importations of provisions of various descriptions from the principal Irish ports into the port of Liverpool during the past week, being from the 31st of July to the Gth irritant exclusive, consisted of the follow ing articles, viz. :-6,743 firkins, 243 half firkins, 1,236 bas kets, casks, &s, and 84 boxes of butter; 628 sacks of flour; 61 racks, 330 quarters, 89 tons weight, and 1,220 barrels of oats; 106 tons weight, 258 bags, and 154 other packages of oatmeal ; 124 sacks and 24 tons weight of barley ; 55 sacks of malt, 182 packages of bacon, 238 barrels of pork, 575 ackages of linens and cottons, 372 sacks of farina flour, 32 arrels of general provisions, 65 bags of malt, and numerous Packages of beef, whiskey, seed, lard, hams, and various other articles. In the same period the following is a com pendium of the principal and most noticeable arrivals of a illar character, from the same quarter, at the port of Lon do°: -1,159 boxes of salmon, 1,377 boxes of eggs, 756 ham pers of hams, 3,526 packages of bacon, 91 7 packages of lard, ' 8 °f malt, 848 casks of porter, 100 cheeses, 13,194 boxes bar other packages of butter, 822 packages of pork, 2.237 els and 8,707 quarters of oats, and 124 pigs, in addition , °63 7 bales of paper, and various other articles of food of — "nor importance and of merchandise of too numerous and g e neral a character to be further enumerated or specifically mentioned. MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, AUGUST 13. `-Yesterday evening a detachment, consisting of 2 corporals and 29 privates, with 5 women and 14 children, of the 99th Regiment under command of Adjutant Rupert Barber Deer 'ng, of the 99th, arrived at the Invalid Depot from Graves -11(1, at which place they di s embarked from the ship Templar, ...aPtain Brown, f rom New South Wales. Most of the men i'ere i wounded in the late engagement with t he New Zea .7Lers. Some were required to be taken into the hospital Barracksit, and the remainder were removed to St. Mary's r ii Brompton Lieutenant R. 0. F. Steward, of the iou f ici a:oldment, came . home in the ship, as also a detachment 27th Regiment, consisting of 1 sergeant, 1 corporal. fu to 10 Privates. This latter detachment left the Cape of ,00d Hope as a convict guard, with convicts for Hobart ._lrn r , and at the time of their embarkation the 27th were 1 41 2 . _0_e orders to proceed to Englhnd; but owing to the re rpt outbreak with the Kaffirs the regiment has been de ilicietnweheztied,ifllotgroakelw the detachment was removed from Hobart South Wales, where it embarked with the v e England on the 20th of April, in the expectation of with their regiment at Chatham. One woman and children came home with the 27th. GREAT SWIMMING MATCH FOR 201. AND THE sad .na . Monday evening Pewters (the London) te l uer ,o o (the Oxford) champions, decided their claims periority between Blackfriars and Vauxhall von. tl es, and after a very admirable contest, the Londoner opponent gave up at Westminster-bridge. setwillea? Yi d t to g r 111 3 ,1 ers in At ' ear.) 'ear.) ) verxicae l l ti tertain eo )e encirel/ lc b o b, Gove-: cr • 10 ObVing tb el f into - leg 110 53' lin der.ify , d be CO ;old 085 CO lllll ;.. 13 1 , ASI on of ° 'BO' orOrl to t 10 essg 3"11 #1 1 : 1 . to . 9 ,i,st , s ted o f L As 1. 313° er grea ie lige os t Idiog,;rdi atter,' bB 4 pur e tba kets 31 '0 3 li ne g,o o3 )ug ht ,sts be iten t el'i3ll),(ero 0 14' t he o e , b of J ° is an • O le lace o ri. five ho Ifirs t ig 4 a the rri ( Ed )r, 9 l o pd Cei ; '" frOA S ;P e c'ape./ Of t pA) tO S ; s o !rea te for rsati ° P ber hiP ot L ic of °lll. 130 is s irice i‘f 'ear- 0 bee il e 'ne s of I st : g ciasP e ' b° sinc e dow o op , !jlent the s bolo _ " boa t . but a ighing • ' precis ell Coons r yes- oth A pi toil,- 2S °tl i i;t fre !Jets! fe'j 3 i r r ,s 9 of Q , 1 1 3 , 4,tly fe , (1 13C it 5 t t Ir '"fll6 :61V 11r / ,0135c'e Lee 1 ags t 'elf ), : 1 AgSl ioct" T STT N, LONDO N t , 0 7,7E - I),X IrS DAY . E vg, V . a, A. TT G SIT 19, 1846. F the:tengue-of 'the writer as its subject maybe- 140871ga ----- to tickle ever the tongue of the reader. Mr. Cocks has 'FOREIGN QUARTERLY BETTIE TV. ) evidently undertaken his account of the Claret Country," with an epicurean i gusto, and he knows moreover precisely what i e n. To with touch interest at the pres nt time: It is a ",full, tion to introduce, and how it should be introducdfira o true, and oarticuler account' of the career of the our thinking there is nothing whatever superfluous i Brothers C * abral, and we quite concur in opinion with his chapters, nor are their contents in any instance su tho a rite; - , that • perficial. The theme is ostensibly familiar to the author , . 't may be a Western Europe has offered noparallel in. recent times ' ant' he treats it well ; and if the conceit for the bare-faced effrontry with which official peculation and Permittod, we. should say. that he treats venality have been practised during the last fouryeara in because it is so - familiar . • A history of Bordeaux, Portugal, where it was not one individu d alone of a ministry, with which the volume commences, is singularly it so well but the majority of its :Leathers, who made either stock- interesting ; it describes the growth of that beautiful jobbing, orcontract selling, or patronage vending, the great town, from the period when it was denominated Burdi business of their public lives ; and notwithstanding the noto riety of such practices ; c arr i e d on year after,year, they en- gala by the Romans, down to its reception of the Dakes de N, niours and d'Aumale in 1845 Besides this, we are joyed the favour of the court up to the latest moment, to an • extent unequalled by any former administration." regaled with a charming narrative of its antiquities, its modern buildings, the character and customs of ita in- The government of the Cabrals habitants its system of public instructions , and the cele " Sprang out of a rebellion planned by a disgraced emploie s ' the elder Cabral (J.,ze Bernad o da Silva Cabral) in 184-2, brated personages of which it is the birthplace; among and executed by the younger brother, Antonio da Costa whom should be especially motioned the renowned Cabral (then Minister Of Justice), who set the novel exam- "Legislator of Nations," Charles Secondat Montesquieu. ple of abandoning his portfolio, to upset the Government of' A railway trip to La Teste s and an excursion by steamer which he was a member." to Ruyan, billow, and thereupon the reader is inducted to The elder brother Joze da Silva was originally an the pith of the whole performance—a description of the official in the Court of Relaeoa of Oporto, and to which qualities, the localities, the seasons, and the manufacture post he had been appointed during the constitutional of claret. Separate accounts are devoted to the six great regency, while at the same time his younger brother wine districts of Upper Medoc, namely, the Arrondisse- Costa Cabral was appointed to a magisterial situation ments of Bordeaux, Lesparre, Libourne, La R‘ale, Ba in Penella. On the r eturn o f Don Miguel, Silva Cabral as, and Blaye. Of the manner of the composition, we became one of his most zealous partisans, and proclaimed shall afford our readers some inkling by transcribing the him as absolute King at Nellus, whilst Costa Cabral accounts of the ceremonies, of the vintage, and of the remained a Pedroist and emigrated to Belgium. 1 preparations necessary before the pressure of the grapes, Silva Cabral, at the tall of Don Miguel, passed over to I and the fermentation of the liquid that exudes upon that the winning side, and persuaded Don Pedro that all i pressure. The following is more than merely graphic ; through the reign of lion Miguel he had been secretly lit is photo-graphic:-- attached to the Queen's cause. Don Pedro conferred on "The vintagers ale disposed in the following manner. The him a magisterial office in Oporto, and here he exer- women and children are employed to cut off the grapes. cised his ingenuity in arresting Miguelites, and seizing They ought to reject and pick away whatever is defective, their property for the State. A mysterious loss of much unripe, parched, or rotten : one critter is allotted to every of this property in its way from the coffers of the row of vines, and the grap es t h us cut are put i nto b as k ets . Miguelites to the Treasury brought Silva Cabral into For every eight rows of v ine th ere are two carr i ers o f b as t es , or buckets, thirty or thirty-t wo o f w hi c h ma k e a c h arge , or bad odour, and he was dismissed from the off i ce he held load, which again is comp ose d o f two sma ll tu b s, ca ll e d do in Oporto. He was, however, soon aft er appointed to miles placed on a cart. A car r i er , t erme d a v id e p an i er , re the office el Corregidor of the district of Roeio, in the calves' the basket of every vi n t ager , as soon as it i s f u ll, and neighbourhood of Lisbon, and here he imprisoned a empties it into the bucket, which is carried on the back of priest named Da Silva and seized all his property, which another, to be emptied into the tubs placed in the cart. A was of great value. In consequenee of the severities commandant, or inspector, is set over every twelve reges, whose exercised upon him, the unfortunate priest died. An in • duty is to hasten the cutters, and to see that they do not vestigation took place. The witnesses declared it was forget any of the grapes. When the two tubs on the cart their profound conv i c ti on " t h at t h e i mpr i sonmen t are full, the hoarier, or ox-driver, conveys the load to the of the deceased priest had been concerted in order to ad- eufiera spacious outhouse, where the wine is made. mit of those robberies being made, which were 'abetted Wh en f t o te r t o u r bs fi h v a e ve m a e r o riv w eil o in the c t u o ietie r e etohnetyenatreeiorteo ceived b by the Correeidor," and the judges to whom the matter the pressoir, y or wine -press, Which is made either of wood or was referred, decided against the Corregidor; and this is stone, and composed of four sides, sixteen inches high, and the man who was recently appointed by the Queen of j o i ne d at r i g h t ang l es, h av i ng a bottom of nine square feet; Portugal, Minister of Justice and Religion. Costa this press is about two feet from the ground, and slightly in- Cabral, on his return to Portugal, was appointed to a dines towards the front. The men next scrape the grapes judicial situation in the Azores, and wits elected as De- off the stalks; this is done either with rakes, or by rubbing puty for St. Michael's to the Cortes. He distinguished .the bunches on a wire sieve. The st a lks having been carried himself by the violence of his ultra democratical opinions, away into another press to drain, the grapes arrethrown into the low bv and contributed largely to bringing about the revolution in each other, a heap, and trodden trthe men, who, bare legged, and fol- round base the till of 1836. In the clubs he was constantly denouncing for whole g is gradually levelled and crushed. of Some heap proprietors assassination all those who opposed his views, and was are averse to the /outage, or treading of grapes : confining called, and seemed proud to be called, the Murat of Lis- the operation to the egrappage, or scraping the grapes from bon. Silva Carvalho had procured him his ap- the stalks, they instantly pour the fruit entire into the vat. pointment to the Azores, and of course Silva Carvalho While this operation is being performed, a hole in the front was the object of his unceasing attacks. By Count of the press allows the matt, or juice, to escape into a tub, Bowfin he had been brought into the Ministry, and, of called gargouille. The men empty this juice into long course, he immediately commenced a series of intrigues buckets, termed comportes, which are traversed near the top against him, which ended in the downfall of his ministry. by a long stick, for the purpose of being carried by two men, who pour the juice into the caves or vats. It is usual to fill His influence over the King Consort became very great these vats only to within fifteen inches of the top; otherwise in fact, the King was governed by his German favourite there would be a risk of losing much wine at the time of Dietz and by Costa Cabral ; and, at length, while still fermentation." Cabinet Minister, he left Lisbon, and put himself at the Mr. Cocks has presented to merchants and connoiseurs head of an armed force to destroy the government of in wine a volume for which they will be grateful, and in which be was a member, and to restore the charter of recommending it as we have done, we cannot surely be Don Pedro, which he himself had helped to set aside in performing any disservice to the advocates of total absti -1836. He succeeded, and for four years he and his nence. For the teetotallers, as a body, we entertain brother were ministers. "In that period he suspended feelings of the most unaffected respect, but the teetotal the Constitution three times, and caused the Queen to lers themselves cannot but acknowledge, that, taken in affix her signature thirteen times to ordinances in vie- moderation, wine may be eminently beneficial, and that lation of the written charter, which is the fundamental a supreme authority has declared that it " maketh glad law of the state." When he came into power he was the heart of man!" This volume cannot therefore prove, pennyless ; when he was expelled from Portugal, the in any particular, prejudicial. other day, by an indignant people, he was possessed of large estates, large sums in the public securities, of a castle at Thomar, and a palace in Lisbon, the produce of the most barefaced peculation; and yet no Minister ever received such support from the Court as Cabral ; and it is to force him upon the unwilling Por tuguese people that the Spanish Government is at this moment concentrating iris forces on the Portuguese fron tier; and to support him that the Spanish Minister at Lisbon, Gonzales Bravo, contrary to the law of nations, interfered in the internal concerns of the State to which he was accredited. This, however, may be accounted for, by the fact, that Cabral is in league with Dietz, the German favourite of the Portuguese King, and that Dietz, if not an agent of France, is certainly one of the warmest of the upholders of French influence and of French interference in the affairs of the Peninsula. The article on the French political preachers of the sixteenth century is worthy of study. The writer clearly shows that the ob ject of the Guises and the League was to esta blish a sacerdotal democracy, and that the preachers openly enforced the duty of assasssinating all those opposed to them, as a " holy, heroic, praise worthy deed, which would assure Paradise to the per petrator ' • and one of the Garin declared, in a sermon, that the family of Jacques Clement, the assassin of Henry 111., ought to be ennobled. The massacre of St. Bartholomew was constantly held up as an example worthy to be followed ; and, even after the League was suppressed by the firmness and wisdom of Henry IV., Boucher, one of these preachers, declaimed bitterly against the edict of Nantes, and published a treatise in defence of the attempt at regicide; made by Jean Cha tel, in 1595. The writer thus concludes : LITERAT-URp. GAUGE EVIDENCE. The Bi6tory and Prospects of the Railway System, Illustrated by the Evidence given before the Gauge Commission. By Samuel Sidney, author of " Bristol, a Free Port," 6.c. We have here the gauge evidence arranged under the separate heads of " Narrow Gauge Evidence," " Uni formity of Gauge Evidence," " Intermediate Gauge Evidence," and " Broad Gauge Evidence." The evi dence is preceded by a brief history of the gauge ques tion, in which the author avows himself a " Narrow Gauge Man," and it is illustrated by a map, showing the territories of the respective gauges. is a history worthy of serious contemplation even in our own times. But let us not forget, above-all, that our fore fathers were watching with painful anxiety every phase of this, to them, fearfully tragic story. Their faith and peace were equally at stake. Spanish money was as actively em ployed against Elizabeth as against Henri 111. or Henri IV. The knife of the assassin had doubtless been more than once prepared for her. Hundreds of cunning Jesuits and wily preachers, educated expressly for the purpose, were sent into this country in disguise, and were busily engaged in sowing, in private the same seditious principles. A Ligue was prepared for England, if it had succeeded in France. Let us not, then, judge too rashly the statesmen, who, in condemning Mary of Scotland, thought that the death of an ambitious woman, a Guise by her mother's blood, a ready instrument in the hands of her family, was necessary for the safety of their country. The designs in which she partook were those of the Spaniard, the pope, and the house of Lorraine; and when she manifested her zeal for the establishment of the Catholic church and the overthrow of heretics, it was to be done by means such as those employed on the continent by Spain, and the pope, and the Guises. It is thus that, at certain periods, to understand our own history, it is necessary that we should have something more than a superficial knowledge of that of the surrounding nations." In addition to these articles, we have an admirable review of " Stoke's Discoveries in Australia," an inte resting " Biography of Herder," a stirring account of the attempt of Burlamacchi at Lucca, in the year 1546, to originate a movement for the nationalisation of Italy; a learned review of the " Oxford Graduates ;" recently published work on Modern Painters, and several amus ing notices of recent American publications. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. No. 11. New Series. A prosperous course seems to lie before this periodi cal; and its contents, for excellence of writing, for variety of contributions, and for uncynical morality, justify the success which they promise. " Methodism as it is," though of anything but general interest, is a paper so agreeably compiled, that it will be perused with at tention, especially as it relates to a very large and in fluential body of our countrymen. Scme of its ani madversions are not altogether undeserved ; many of them are richly merited. " The History of the Doe is a capital collection of memorabilia relating to that most sagacious of animals ; but we marvel that the writer, while referring to Youatt and Martin, as authorities, entirely overlooked the recent and excentric narrative of Jesse. There is likewise an elegant little dissertation on the last twenty years ot' the reign of George lEL,evoked by the concluding volume of Mr. Knight's " Pictorial His tory of Eogland." Never was any similar fragm-nt of time in the records of England, or possibly of Europe, so fraught with wonderful occurrences, or so remarkable for an array of extraordinary personages. Parlia are mentary buncombea oHnrdoa and n o s S r de h y e w w r a i a t d:a k n t h , e t h e ya n w t a e r r t ep e i ne t r s o a i woPs da h aab e s 3i l t, I Roanul s. Ps he r oalel i r, t ta t rHn , ygu F uwm o ea x ress: only second in excellence to the Shalc:perian and Mil tonian eras : Coleridge, Shelley, Campbell, and Byron issued their couplets as irregularly as Bulwer, Tenny son, Elliott, and the author of the " New Timm," do in our generation. The startling news of an Aus terlitz or a Trafalgar are now replaced by intel ligence of a division upon some free-trade ques tion, or (according to the mal adroit fascetiousness of Lord Brougham) the latest bulletin of the potato disease. Hallam and Lingard in history ; Haz litt and Gifford in criticism ; Bentham in philosophy ; Erskine in forensic and Hall in pulpit eloquence ; Mack intosh as a biographer ; Foster as an essayist, then occupied posts which are now almost vacant. Sydney Smith was to his day what Punch is to ours. The Waverley Novels were then devoured with avidity, like that evinced by the public for Martin Chuzzlewit and the like. Brougham and Jeffrey were then reviewers ; their present representatives we cannot enumerate. Miss Mitford has been succeeded by Miss Martineau ; in lieu of Miss Edgeworth we have Mrs. Gore or the Countess of Blessington. The parallel might be con tinued almost ad infinitum, and we fancy would not be altogether uninstructive. The closing years of George 111. are among the most memorable lessons of humanity ; and it is singular enough to reflect how at that great epoch the imaginations of men were filled by the names of two extraordinary charac ters, Napoleon and Byron—the one the hero of the sword and of the sceptre, the other the hero of. mis anthropy and the pen. With other contributions upon Thomas Cartwright, the Argentine Republic, &c., the Eclectic Review is readable arid inaructive. COURT CIRCULAR. - - Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, Bart., left Osborne House yesterday morning, on her return to her residence, Frogmore House, Windsor. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, honoured the performance of the Italian Opera with their presence yesterday evening. The Honourable Louis M'Lane, late Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States to this Court, left London on Mbnday for Liverpool, to embark with his family on the Britannia steamer, which leaves for Boston this day. A deputation on the affairs of the Mauritius, consisting of Mr. Barclay, Sir John Reid, Mr. D. Barclay, Mr. A. Lewis Gower, and Mr. Hunter, had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. - Mr. Edwin Chesshire, and Mr. R. Chesshire, jun., of Bir mingham, had an interview yesterday, accompanied by Mr. Spooner, - M.P.; with the Earl of Clarendon, President of the Board of Trade, and exhibited to his Lordship a plan and moilel of an improveinent invented by Mr. E. Chesshire, for materially reducing the dangerous effects of collisions on rail ways. General Pasley and Captain O'Brien were present at the interview. The Attorney-General had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American provinces. ➢ir. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. DEPARTURE OF HER MAJESTY, PRINCE ALBERT, AND THE COURT. - - PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 18.—Her Majesty having altered the day of her departure to Torbay, Plymouth, Falmouth, &c., to this morning, instead of Wednesday, the necessary orders tor the yachts, Victoria and Albert, Fairy, and Black Eagle, to be got ready. were issued yesterday, and soon after six o'clock this morning they were lying off Osborne Creek, with their steam up. At half-past eight her Majesty, Prince Albert, some of the Royal Family, suite, and attendants pushed off from the jetty at Meade, and were taken on board the Victoria and Albert yacht, in her barge. At nine o'clock the three yachts put to sea, the royal yacht leading down the Solent, with the royal standard flying, and on passing through Cowes Roads, the yachts of the club and several merchant vessels were dressed with flags, and saluted her Majesty. At half-past nine o'clock, the Victoria and Albert yacht rounded Egypt Point, and was then out of sight; the wind was blowing strong from west, but the weather fine and clear. In the afternoon the wind shifted to the southward of west, increased considerably, causing a very rough sea : this would be felt more outside the Needles, but as neither of the yachts were in sight from Portsmouth at three P.M., it is ex pected her Majesty has either kept on her course down Channel, or put into Swanage or Studland Bay, to wait until the weather moderates. If the yachts reach Weymouth, they will be much better sheltered. DEPARTURE OF HER ROY AL HIGHNESS THE DUCHESS OF KENT FROM THE ISLE OF WIGHT. PORTSMOUTH, AUGUST 18.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A nna Maria Dawson and Sir George Couper, Baronet, embarked from Mead's Creek, Osborne, shortly after eight o'clock this morning, in Admiral Sir Charles Ogle's sailing yacht the Fanny, and the wind being fair she arrived in Portsmouth harbour by half-past nine The Admiral was waiting in his barge to take her Royal Highness and suite to the Clarence-yard, and they landed at twenty minutes to ten o'clock. A guard of honour fur• nished by her Majesty's 3d Buffs, the commanding officer of that regiment, and Captain Carter, and the officers of the Clarence-yard were on the wharf to receive her Royal High ness. As her Royal Highness had arranged to travel by the mail train, which leaves Gosport at half•past ten o'clock, she was pleased to accept the offer of Mr. Grant, the store keeper of the department, to remain in his house until the carriages arrived, when that gentleman availed himself of the opportunity of pointing out to her Royal Highness the rooms, &c.; which her Majesty, Prince Albert, his Majesty the King of the French, and the distinguished English and French ladies and noblemen who were with them, used in October, 1844, when they were prevented embarking in the yacht and French squadron by a heavy gale of wind, which compelled his Majesty and suite to return to London, and cross over to France by way of Dover. The Duchess of Kent expressed to Mr. Grant her thanks and hearty acknowledg ments for his attention, and on Mr.Mears, the superintendent of the terminus, announcing that the engine and carriages were ready, her Royal Highness, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and Sir G. Couper, were escorted to the platform by Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, and the train quitted, leaving tne Gosport terminus at half-past ten o'clock. The Victory, and the other men of war in the harbour, were decorated with flags in compliment to her Royal High ness, and royal salutes were fired from that ship and the Platform Battery, on the Fauny yacht passing with the royal standard flying. WEYMOUT H.-TUESDAY. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Her Majesty's steam yacht has just put into Portland Roads, with the royal standard flying at her mast head. A. royal salute from Portland Castle greeted her arrival. The Eagle and other revenue cruisers have gone up into the roads, and our Town Council are now deliberating as to the best methods of testifying their loyalty and respect to our beloved Monarch. Colonel Freestun has most handsomely placed his yacht at their disposal ; and although it is blow ing a heavy gale from the S.S.W., with much rain at inter vals, the inhabitants arc all on the quz vice, looking from the Nothe and Look-out, in the anxious hope that the Queen and Prince will honour us with a visit while their vessel is lying in the roads. We believe that guns are to be placed on the Nothe, in order to salute her Majesty from thence; and that, if pos sible, the Corporation will proceed to the royal yacht with a loyal address and invitation to honour us with a visit. P.S. It is just post time, and the gale is increasing, so her Majesty will not be able to leave Portland-roads to night, there is such a heavy sea in the Channel, and the wind seems likely to continue in its present violence. BORDEAUX AND ITS WINES. By C. Cocks. Those who relish that most flavourous of all beverages, claret, will relish this very agreeable volume. And who, we should like to know, does not relish claret? If there actually be any individual with a palate so callous as not to be tickled by the vine-juice of Medoc, we should be uncommonly glad of an introduction to him, and should prize his friendship as that of an unique specimen of hu- i .......___ _..... - inanity. Everybody at all worthy of being consid er ed as : CUP OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.—The public anybody has admired the ingenuity with which Sinbad ' library of Caen has just been presented by Madame de the Sailor got rid of the Old Man of the Sea, by present- ' Mathan with a most curious mlic—nothing less than the well ing him with a calabash of wine ; and we could scarcely ' known cup of William the Conqueror, which has been for the ( ,k , f ru now it. , i ce i n ad tu a r m ie e s m h a a t ii i d a e n d . down from father to son in the family of take upon ourselves to blame the, old gentleman, supposing the wine in question were such wine asLaflre, or Châteaux- SECESSION ?nom ' THE CHURCH.—Dr Duke, of Hastings, with his lady, and all the members of his family, age has, durfn th . e last w days, conformed to the Roman lying open beforeo r Latour, us , ha o s r a H k a in u d t from I ' Que ural • t u i nfa d i n it s pages come as glibl, and as pleasant], age of which it is commemorative ; the descriptions con- „,,_ et HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, --........,.....11.1•161.1,..... __________ , Last night was the last subscription night of the season. Castle, Le , ifortishire, had made her will as far back as The opera was I Puritan; the ballet L e J ogemen t d e P ar i s , t h e year 1803, and lived to th e age o f e i g h ty-three, w:th , and between th e open. and ballet the " National Anthem" out having altered the same saving a few legacies and was sung, and, of course, all present rose from their seats. The directions by codicils. With' this exception she leaves house, at this moment, presented the most brilliant coup the whole of her property , Margaret W a lp o l e an d h er children, subject to her adoption of the c o l our , was here completely realisei. Thereto her sist e r th e Ri g h t li on. d'icil. The effect of t h e bunion d'or draperie s w as ver y fine; Lad the idea of " th e f ramed pictures, " which had suggested the 1 will direction and appoint men t, an d to whom - the administra beona more extra repr esen t at i on on Thursday —the farewell t ion of her etlects were granted. Th e e xe c utors ap long Thursday" o f th e season, of which last night may be Pointed in th e w ill being herbrothers, the Ri g ht H on. considered the legitimate termination. At this, the close of Charles George Lord Arden, and the Right Hon. Spen the season of 1846, we cannot take leave of Mr. Lumley cer Perceval, both having pre-deceased her Ladyship. without congratulating him on the success —the great ant The amount of her personal property is stated at 6,0001. deserved success—which has attended his enterprising an I DOWAGER COUNTESS OF SCARBOROUGH.—The Right spirited management. A success achieved too, in spite of a Honourable Henrietta, Dowager Countess of Scarbo continued succession of ill-natured attacks upon the manage- rough, by her will, executed in June, 1837,. has left to moot and all connected with it. These attacks, however, Richard George Lumley, Esq., of Tickhill Castle, Baw were so palpably groundless, that we think they did rather try, Yorkshire, all her property, both real and personal, good than harm, inasmuch as they not unfrequently drew at tention to the virtues of omission in the management, which subject to the payment of any legacies which might be but for these would have passed unnoticed; for instance, specified in a codicil or memorandum signed by her, and a great outcry was made for an opera to be corn- appointed him the to worobate was posed expressly f or h er Majesty ' s Theatre, when it was granted on the sth of sole August executor , ' by motion and decree of found that Verdi was too ill to finish Lear in time. Now, the Court. The personal estate was valued at 100,0001. with the music of Don Carlos still ringing in their ears, we The Countess died at the advanced age of eighty. think that the majority of the subscribers will consider that Within two months after executing her will, her Lady- Mr. Lumley exercised a very sound and judicious discretion ship made several codicils, being lists of legacies ; these in acting as he has done. The season opened with great were written consecutively on one sheet of letter paper, brilliancy. Su completely were the audience on the opening night surprised and delighted by the novel commencing with the date 19th of August, 1837, and and gorgeous, yet tasteful, character of the decorations, that each signed by h er ; most of the bequests therein stated, they actually whe n th e h ouse was fully lighted up gave amounting altogether to 17,0001., her Ladyship appears three rounds of enthusiastic applause. The opera chosen for to have afterwards paid to the parties at various periods the opening was Verdi's Nno, and the manner in which this during her lifetime, and has erased their names, placing opera was produced and conducted, at once established opposite to each the word "paid," and the date. Her Balfe's fame as a conductor, and secured to him his position. Ladyship had also made a further codicil in May, 1844, This is an opera which, perhaps, more than any other, de- and attached her signature, in which there are eight ponds for its success on its chorusses, its orchestral effects, legacies of 1,0001. each, and four of 500/. each, but these and the general ensemble of the music, and therefore upon the intended beuests, amounting to 10,0001., are nvalidated abilities of the conductor, and yet deprived of that which all for want of attesting witnesses. his predecessors for the last fifty years had enjoyed—the as- •. sistance of Dragonetti, whose marvellous powers of ADMIRAL OTWAY.—Sir Robert Waller Otway, Bart., " pulling up " an orchestra have passed into a G.C.8., an Admiral in her Majesty's Navy, died proverb, and to whose e xer ti ons are d ue no inconsiderable Possessed of perso na l p roperty amounting to 60,000/. portion of the credit which former conductors have enjoyed; He had executed his will in 1842, and has made ample deprived of the invaluable assistance of Il Drago, Haire con- provision for his relict, Lady Clementina Otway, ap ducted this opera in a manner which left nothing to be de- pointing her residuary legatee for lite, and then the sired, in a manner so admirable, that Nino and I Lombardi, same to be divided equally among all the children, to an opera by the same composer and of the same character, each of whom he has left a legacy of 2,0001. He has also have been repeated more frequently during this season than left his lady the residence at Hyde Park-gardens, with any others, and have always drawn crowded houses. After the furniture and plate, carriages and horses, but subject Easter carve Grisi, Mario, and Lablache, the glorious trio. They made their debut in I Puritani, and here again we had to the payment of 3001. a-year to such son or grandson an opportunity of obser v i ng h ow B a lf e conducted an opera of a as shall inherit th e b aronetcy. T o his brother, the Rev. totally different character; and with a perfect recollection of S. J. Otway, and General Sir Loftus Otway, he leaves a the night when this opera was originally produced, and of pecuniary legacy to each as a token of affection, and the manner in which it has been conducted during each suc- specific bequests to others of his family. Leaves 501. to cessive season, we have no hesitation in saying that Balfe need be distributed among ten poor deserving persons on the not shrink from a comparison with any of his pre- Castle Otway Estate in Ireland. The acting executors decessors.' The production of I L om b ar di was the great are Sir George Graham Otwa Bart. operatic -" fact" of th e season ; the cast was amazingly y, ,the son, and Francis L. B ec kf or d , Esq. Lady Clementina Otway, the strong, and th e nz i se en scene magnificent. We h ave a l ready ' given a li st o f t h e operas performed during the season which relict, ha v i ng a power reserved to prove hereafter. Sir it is, therefore, unnecessary to repe a t. Wi th regard to the Robert was Groom in Waiti ng t o h er M a j esty. performers, the present season has i ntroduced two to our General Sir E VAN L LOYD, Colonel-in-Chief of the 7th notice of great promise--Madame Sanchioli, whose powerful Dragoon-Guards, late of Ferney Hall, Shropshire, had, voice and energetic action will, when somewhat on his marriage with the Right Hon. Alicia, Lady refined, entitle her to aspire to the rank of prima donna, and Trimlestown, settled 22,000/. on her ladyship and their Mademoiselle Corbari, whose sweetness of voice and artless- issue, and having provided for his two daughters on their ness of manner have created a general feeling in her favour. marriage, viz., his daughter Alicia, now Mrs. Oakeley, Castellan, notwithstanding some one had thought proper to and his daughter Louisa, now Lady Dixie, he leaves to kill her in Russia in December, returned to us in March, im- leis son, Evan Lloyd, Esq., subject to her ladyship's life proved in voice, in science, and in acting. Fornasari has been with us since the com mencement o f the season; and Grisi, Mario interest therein, the wh o l e surp l us of the trust moneys (whose marvellous i m p rovement b oth as an actor and a invested in the Bank o f I re l an d , also the freehold and singer we have repe a t e dl y h a d occas i on to notice) and leasehold estates, la n d s , an d h ereditaments Lablache have been with us s i nce E aster. In the stock, &c., and his personal es t a t es i n England farming England, valued choerographic department we had on the opening night at 5,0001. To her ladyship he leaves, for her own ab the new ballet of La Catrina, with Lucile Grahn solute use, all the furniture, plate, books, pictures, car es the heroine. Her pas strategique in this ballet riages and horses, and has appointed his son sole exe created quite a furore, and La Catarina was repeated almost tutor. This gillant officer died at the age of seventy every night until the arrival of Cerito and St. Leon, when the eight, and has been sixty-six years in the service, thirty gorgeous spectacle of Lalla Rookh was produced ; the pas de neuf in this ballet was perfectly original, and exceedingly two . of which was in the 17th Light Drae.oons, in which regiment he entered when twelve years of 6 age. beautiful, and on the "long Thursdays" it generally formed a portion of the evening's entertainments. The late Lieut.-General Sir CHARLES PHILLIR , ,Of Eoline, Ainia, Ondine, and various st oc k b a ll ets, were re• her Majesty's army, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal peated daring the early part of the season, and at length in Neapolitan Order of St. Januarius, has devised his the month of July came La Gitana, and Taglioni. She re- freehold messuage and lands at Linwood Lyndhurst, in peated the Gitana for a few nights, and then was produced the New Forest, and all other his real estate to trustees, the great hit of the season, the Pas des Deesses, which has been to permit Lady Phillips to occupy the mansion for life, repeated every evening since its first production, and which has or, if judged more convenient, the trustees are empow created quite as great a furore as the Pas de goatee. The ered to sell the estates, the surplus funds arising there 'Messes Taglioni, Cerito, and Grahn, arc confessedly the from to be deemed part of his residuary personal estate, three greatest danseuses in the world, and they were sup and to be invested on good security, the dividends, in ofported by Louise Taglioni, Demellisse, and Cassan, either forest, and annual proceeds to be applied for her own whom, on any other stage, would rank as premiere danseuses. Hitherto each season o f M r . L um l ey ' s manage- use, and aft er h er decease to assign and transfer the ment has been an improvement on the preceding one. How principal to such of his nieces, the daughters of his late it will be possible for him to surpass the glories of the season sister, Mrs. Emily Bignell, as shall be living and un of 1846, we are utterly at a loss to imagine. married. Leaves to Lady Phillips, the carriages, horses. and household stores absolutely, and the use of all fur niture, pictures, books, plate, and other effects in and about the mansion. The acting executors are his re lict Lady Phillips, and her brother, Frederick Leman Rogers, Esq., a power being reserved to the deceased's brother, W. E. Phillips, Esq. This distinguished offi cer had served his country, for upwards of half a cen tury, in the West Indies, Egypt, Genoa, Sicily, and Malta, where he was for some years Deputy Quarter master-General. Sir JOHN SAUNDERS SEDIUGHT, Bart., late of Beech wood park, Hertford, has directed his executors and trustees, within three months after his decease to invest 2,0001. in their names, or of trustees to be nominated by his son and the officiating minister of Flamstead, to be held and applied as a perpetual endowment for a na tional schoolhouse and school, lately erected by him at that place for the support of teachers, and the education of the children of the poor in that neighbourhood, in the principles of the Established Church. Has left legacies to all his servants, and annuities to the follow ing: —to his gamekeeper, his butler, his late groom, and to widow Wilson, 501. a year to each. Bequeaths to his son, Sir Thomas Gage Saunders Sebright, Bart., the fur niture, plate, books, pictures, horses, cattle, and farm stock, at and about the park and mansion at Beech wood, together with the estate called Seddesley Woods, in Worcestershire, and all other lands and tenements; and to his daughter Frances , 7,0001., t o b e a c h arge upon his estates at Wor ces t er and Salop. Leaves the residue of his personal estate in trust for his daughters and their issue, in certain portions and under certain provisions, on failure, for the children of his son Sir Thomas or the right heirs. The personal property was estimated at 90,0001. The executors are Sir Thomas G. S. Sebright, Bart., the son, and his nephew, the Rev. N. R. Calvert, Rector of Hunsdon, Herts. The venerable baronet was in his 79th year, and made his will in January last, being three months before his death. He was Deputy- Lieutenant for the county of Herts, which shire he had represented for nearly thirty years. The late WM. TYRINGHAM PRIED, Esq., M.P. for St. Ives, Banker, London, of St. James's-place, West minster, and Trevethow, Cor nwa ll, h as d ev i se d t h e whole of his freehold property to his sister, Mrs. Eliza bah Hoare, wife of Richard Hoare, Esq., and at her decease upon certain special trusts ; he leaves her the house at St. James's-place, with the furniture (except certain pictures), and the carriages, horses, &c. Be queaths all the furniture, plate, and other effects, at his mansion, at Trevethow, to Charles Tyringham Praed, jun. His shares in the Grand Junction and Grand Union Canal Companies he has bequeathed in certain portions, and has left several pecuniary legacies, and to each of the clerks in his banking house nineteen guineas, and to each of the porters 101., and to his own servants mourning, and one or two years' wages, according to service. He directs 1,000/. to be applied to charitable purposes, in sums of not less than 501. nor more than 1001., to be divided amongst such in stitutions or societies in England as the executors shall think proper. Gives to the Rector of Lelant, Cornwall, 1001., to be distributed amongst the poor of that parish. Leaves 100/. to the Cornwall County Infirmary, and 100/. 1 to the Bucks County Infirmary, at Aylesbury. The residue of his personal estate to be divided equally between his nephews and niece —Ellen, William, and Edward, the children of his sister, Mrs. Whinfield. His personal property, liable to duty, was estimated at 45,0001. He appointed as his executors his partners, Vere Fane, B. J. M. Praed, and P. Johnston, Esqs. His death occurred on the Bth of July last, aged sixty five, and he made his will on the 6th of March previous. THOMAS BUNBURY, Esq., late one of the representa tives for the county of Carlow, of Lisnevagh and Moyle, in Ireland, has left all his real, freehold and copyhold, and leasehold estates, to his brother, Kane Bunbury, Esq., for life, and after his decease to his nephew, William Bunbury M'Clintock, and s , his heirs, for ever, upon the condition that he shall apply for the necessary license under her Majesty ' s sign man ua l t o use an d b ear ' the surname and arms of Bunbury ; and bequeaths to his brother, for his own absolute use, the furniture, books, farming stock and implements, and other effects at Moyle, the plate for his life only, and then to his nephew, John M'Clintock, absolutely, to whom he leaves all his furni ture and effects at Bath, and at the St James's Hotel, and also bequeaths to his nephew, John M'Clintoch, a legacy of 50,0001. sterling, and 10,0001. Irish currency, secured on mortgage; and to his said nephew, William B. M'Clintock (to whom he leaves the reversion of his real estates) a legacy of 30,000/. To his cousin, Thomas Bunbury, 2,000/. To Mrs. C. Elmore an annuity of 403/., or a sum equivalent, and an immediate bequest of 2001. A few other legacies, including his bailiff and household servants; and hopes that his brother Kane, on his succeeding to Moyle, will follow his example and give to each of the labourers and others employed on the estate a suit of clothes, as he had done when he took possession. All legacies to be free of duty. The residue of his personal estate be leaves in trust, to pay the interest, dividends, and annual proceeds to his brother Kane for life, and at his demise to divide the said residue into three parts, giving two-thirds to his said nephew, W. B. M'Clintock, and the remaining third to his said nephew, John M'Clintock, absolutely. The exe cutors are his two nephews, W. B. M'Clintock, Esq., of Manor House, Highgate, near Cloves, F ermanagh, and John M'Clintock, Esq., of Dromeskin House, near Castle Louth, and William Elliott, Esq., of Har courtsgthraemet, Dublin. The p ersonal estate in England l in . and within the province of Canterbury was estimated for probate duty at 180,000/., which is exclusive of the value of the real estates and other effects in Ireland. The de ceased died at the age of 71, and executed his will only two days before his death.—Post. LICENSED VICTUALLERS' FETE AT VAUXHALL.— MR. H. GREEN'S ASCENT DURING THE STORM LAST Nic,D T. — The fancy fair and fe"te chumpetre, in aid of the funds of the Licensed Victuallers' School, was yesterday resumed at the Royal Gardens, VauxhalL The fineness of the weather in the early part of the day, combined with the attractions of a nocturnal aeriel trip with fireworks by the veteran Green in his coronation balloon, drew an immense assemblage of spec tators, in fact on no occasion has the " royal property" been so crowded. Unhappily in the evening a most unpropitious change in the weather occurred, which materially affected the programme of entertainment, and a facetious announce ment was made that in consequence of the waterworks there would be no fireworks. The inflation of the balloon in the Waterloo Ground commenced at an early hour in the after noon, but the wind blowing strongly from the south-west, and the rain descending in torrents, the filling of the ponderous machine proceeded with great difficulty. Rather than disap point the public, Mr. H. Green, brother of the aeronaut, determined to brave the storm, and, if possible, make the ascent with pyrotechnics. The inflation of the balloon having ter • minated, it was exhibited to the public by means of varied coloured lights, which had a very pretty effect, but Mr. Green soon discovered that the ascending power was not sufficient, and was compelled, most reluctantly, to decline taking with him a most ingeniously constructed machine with fireworks, invented and arranged by Darby the artiste of Vauxhall. The balloon was literally saturated, the net ting absorbed about 300 cwt. of water, which occasioned the balloon to collapse, in consequence of the contraction of the cordage, so that the balloon, about 111 feet in circumference was reduced to about 108 feet. After the arrangement of the usual preliminaries, Mr. H. Green stepped into the car, wet to the skin, amidst the cheers of the assembled crowd, and pulling the " liberating iron," the balloon arose but slowly into the realms of air. Mr. Green took with him but a small quantity of ballast—between forty and fifty pounds. The balloon took a north-easterly direction, and Mr. C. Green predictedthat his brother would descend in the neigh bourhood of Hackney. The entertainments were kept up till a late, or rather an early, hour this morning. BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOOL SOCIETY.-011 Sa turday afternoon a meeting was held at the house of the in stitution, in the Borough-road, for the purpose of presenting a testimonial of respect to Mr. Cornwell, the senior tutor in the normal school of that establishment. The meeting was very numerously attended by the masters of the society's schools from all parts of the country. About 60 of those gentlemen sat down at five o'clock to an excellent repast, which was provided by the committee of the institution. The subsequent proceedings took place in the lecture theatre, to which the company adjourned at six oslock. Mr. Crossley, the master of the central school, presided on the occasion. Messrs. Ames and Althans, the secretary and treasurer of the fund committee, read addresses, warmly ex pressive of the gratitude and respect entertained towards Mr. Cornwell by his former pupils. The testimonial, which con sists of a massive silver tea service, was then presented by Mr. Ryder to Mr. Cornwell, who delivered a very feeling and appropriate reply. Mr. Dunn, the secretary of the so ciety, complimented the subscribers on the graceful manner in which they had evinced their estimation of the high at tainments of their tutor, and their determination to pursue the studies which had been commenced during their residence in the society's training establishment. At the conclusion of the meeting the chairman adverted to the circumstance of his having received, from a number of the youths who had been educated in the model school, a similar tribute of their regard, and in an impressive manner urged the teachers pre sent to persevere in a firm, unvarying line of duty, assuring them that they could not fail by such means to secure ulti mate success. FRANCE. —OTAREITE.—SORIO of the French journals state that dispatched have been received by the French Go vernment from Otaheite, according to which the attempt of the French to land at Wahine proved a failure, they being repulsed with a loss of 110 men. Governor Bruat intended avenging this d.-feat, and had begun to organise a large ex pedition ; but England is said to have interfered, and not only has the expedition been abandoned, but the fort at Wahine is to be dismantled. France is said to have given up her claims to the island, and a treaty to that effect was to be concluded with the husband of Pomare, who is king of Wahine. The command of the Uranie frigate is said to have been taken from M. Bonnard, and entrusted to M. Mal manche. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE NEAR LEAMINGTON.—An event of the most distressing nature occurred on Friday last, at the seat of the Rev. W. Field, Learn-house, midway be tween Warwick and Leamington. For a series of years past, Mrs. (and now the Misses) Field had conducted a seminary for young ladies, on this beautiful spot, at the back of which the river Learn steals silently along its banks, being orna mented by variegated shrubs, and so suitably decorated by the hand of man, as to render it one of the sweetest retreats of which the midland counties can boast. A young lady of property, twenty years of age last December, whose friends reside at Manchester and at Bristol, at her own desire, and at her own expense, became a pupil of the Misses Field on the Bth instant, and on the afternoon of the 14th was found a corpse, being rescued from the river by the gardener who, at the first alarm had foll owe d some of the young ladies to the spot where she was last seen. The young lady, in various letters which she left upon the bank, and which were found upon her person, spoke in the highest terms of praise of the Misses Field, but she appeared to lament the want of an earlier and better education, and to think she should never become a " true sch oo l girl." A most respectable jury sat upon the body on Monday evening, and from the evi dence then adduced it was feared the family of the deceased was tainted by insanity, and a verdict—that she destroyed herself while under that influence—was returned. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT HAMMERSMITH.—Last even ing an accident of a serious character took place at the Broadway, Hammersmith. Shortly before eleven o'clock a splendid horse, drawing a Brougham, proceeded along the road from Kew towards London, having no one inside, and no driver on the box. On arriving at the Broadway, it came in contact with one of the Hammersmith Conveyance Company's omnibuses, which had just arrived from town, and which was setting down its passengers. At the time the accident occurred, there were still seven or eight persons remaining in the vehicle, all of whom, from the concussion, were thrown together with considerable violence, some of them receiving bruises. The pole of the omnibus was broken off, and one of the horses so severely injured that it was found necessary to slaughter him, and the other had one of his legs broken in several places. Neither the Brougham, nor the horse drawing it, sustained any injury beyond a 1 1 slight abrasion of the skin. I CAMBERWELL FAlR. — Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, the fair on Camberwell-green commenced in the usual man ner, by beating of gongs, firing of cannon, and an extremely large supply of discordant instruments of every variety, which were brought into active service for the occasion. The opening having been completed, the festivities of the day commenced, and were kept up until six o'clock last even ing, when the company were suddenly put to flight by an unexpected shower of rain, which increased and conti nued for several hours. The booths, shows, &c., were very numerously filled during the day, and the line of road from the Elephant and Castle to Camberwell was crowded with thousands of fair-going folks. A large body of police-officers of the P division were on duty for the purpose of preserving order, and for the detection of the light fingered gentry, who generally reap a rich harvest at the metropolitan fairs. The fair will close on Thurs day night. DEATH BY FLY WATER.—CAUTION TO MOTHERS.— An inquest was held yesterday, at the Angel Inn, West Ham, Essex, on the body of an infant child named Sophia Louisa Barfoot, daughter of Mr. G. Barfoot, the relieving officer. It appeared in evidence that being much annoyed by flies, Mrs. Barfoot was supplied with a portion of what is called fly water by a female friend, and not being aware of its delete rious qualities placed a small quantity upon the window sill in a pomatum pot. The stuff was purchased at a grocer's shop in the neighbourhood, and bore the label of an Italian warehouseman in Tavistock-street, Covent.garden. On Fri day last, whilst the window was being cleaned, the pomatum pot was laid upon a chair in the parlour, and the deceased, who was eating some bread at the time, dipped it frequently into the liquid, which contained a good deal of saccharine matter. The poor little thing soon sickened, and falling into convulsions died in twelve hours, notwithstanding the most prompt medical attendance. A verdict was returned in ac cordance with the evidence, but the coroner, Mr. Lewis, as well as the jury, very warmly censured the practice of vend ing such deleterious articles, without some label descriptive of their poisonous properties. HOUSE OF LORDS. OTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE SCOTTISH JOINT-STOCK BANKS BILL. DLSSENTMN T-- • Ist, Because the Bill is inconsistent with those free and lib era Principles of trade by which her IViajesty's Ministers arer understood to be governe,l, inasmuch as, under the pre tent a of removing a monopoly disadvantageous to the public, it co vers the monopoly with a protection that fixes it more firm, ly than ever. - While it protesses to open the door to an equal dispensation of -chartered privileges to all Scottish bank: i that may petition for them,- it bars it,' at the same time, against any bank but such as may choose to submit to vex atious conditions, calculated to create in the public mind .individious distinctions between them and the old chartered banks, which by this Bill are to be exempt from such conditions. 2d. Because the legislative interference with the manage meat of joint-stock companies, which this Bill provides, is erroneous in principle; but, even if it were sound, the incon sistency of its application is conspicuous, as it imposes rigid rules and restrictions on one class of banks, whose consti tution and unlimited responsibility offer to the public the most perfect security, wuile it exempts from all such inter ference another class of banks, less securely constituted, ind in which the probabilities of mismanagement are as great, if not greater. Bd. because the confining of certain privileges to one class of banks in Edinburgh, while the banks in other large towns are, by this Bill, to he debarred from the attainment of such privileges on equal terms with their competitors, is disadvan tageous to the public ; for the exclusive privilege of re ceiving deposits of public money, trust funds, railway de posits, &c, greatly increases the trading power of the char tered establishments, and the large sums which are thus di rected to these banks, in place of being permitted to flow in their natural channels, enables them to change the rate of discount when the existing state of commercial affairs does not warrant such a step, and the relations depending bet Ween other banks and the public are thus liable to be disturbed, and speculation encouraged. 4th. Because the Bill takes away all discretionary power of granting charters of incorporation to banks founded on such equitable principles as circumstances may at the time suggest, and as was done in the case of the Commer cial and of the National Banks of Scotland, and because it limits the power of her Majesty to the granting of charters according to the specific provisions of this Bill only; that is, upon terms and conditions which no bank in Scotland is likely to accept. Consequently this Bill, if passed into a law, will become an act for no apparent object of public ad vantage, but in reality an act for preserving to the five chartered banks of Edinburgh their existing monopoly. RADN OR. PARLIAMENTARY. BUSINESS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18. Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills, to which their Lordships have agreed : Court of Common Pleas Bill—Sugar Duties (No. 3) Bill— Militia Pay Bill—Forms (Assessed Taxes) Bill—Naval Medical Supplemental Fund Society Bill, without amend ment—Amendments to Booth's Charities (Clowes') Estate Bill—Duke of Cleveland's Estate (Bathgate and Wrington) Bill, without amendment—Caledonian Railway (Clydesdale Junction Railway Deviations) Bill, with an amendment— Taff Vale Railway—Allhallows (Northampton) Tithes Bill —Glasgow and Belfaq Union Railway Bill—Poor Removal Bill—Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company Bill—Sion College Bill—East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway Bill—London and South. Western Rail way (London-bridge Extension) Bill, with amendments. DEATH OF SIR C. WETHERELL. This venerable and much-celebrated lawyer, whose name has been rendered familiar to our readers by his providential escape from the Bristol rioters, his determined opposition to the Reform Bill, and other measures, and by his connexion with the Government on the occasion of the prosecution of Thistlewood and his associates, expired at half-past five o'clock on Monday evening, at Preston Rectory, Maidstone, from the effects of the melancholy accident, the particulars of which have already been recorded in this' paper. He breathed his last in the presence of his nephew, Mr. Nathan Wetherell, barrister, Mr. Peach (hi s clerk), & c. &c., being for some time previou% indeed we might add from the mo ment of the accident, quite unconscious of all that was pass ing aroun d. Yesterday morning the melancholy news was conveyed to Lady Wetherell, the Hon. Mrs. Warneford, her mother, Archdeacon Wetherell, the Rev. W. Wetherell, the brothers of the deceased, Mr. Richard Spooner, M.P., who is married to a sister of the deceased, and to the family mansion, 34, Berkeley-square. Lady Wetherell, it will be recollected, proceeded to the bedside of her now departed husband on Tuesday week, but returned to town on the following day agreeably to the re quest of the medical gentlemen in attendance upon the Right Hon. and Learned Knight. As a politician and a public man perhaps no one was better known than Sir Charles Wetherell, and though his extreme opinions for many years past found but little sym-, pathy throughout the country, all admired the honesty and candour which he displayed, particularly upon resigning the Attorney-Generalship when the Catholic Emancipation Bill was brought forward by the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel in 1829; and we need hardly state that in so doing he made a heavy sacrifice, as otherwise he would have long since been called upon to fill perhaps the highest office of his profession. Sir Charles Wetherell was born in the year 1771, being the third son of the Rev. Nathan Wetherell, D.D., M.A., of University College, Oxford, and Dean of Hereford. At a very early age the deceased evinced a strong desire for the legal profession, and in 1790 he entered the Inner Temple as a student, having previously completed his education at Oxford. In 1794 he was called to the bar by the Honour able Society of the Inner Temple, and of that institution he was the leading bencher for many years. His progress as an advocate, principally in the Chancery Courts, was pretty rapid; in the course of time he received a silk gown, and in 1823 was appointed Solicitor-General, being on the occasion knighted by his late Majesty George IV. In 1826 he suc ceeded to the Attorney-Generalship, an office which he re signed on the formation of the Canning Mini4try in 1827 ; but .the formation of the Wellington Government in 1828 once more witnessed him the King's principal law officer. In 1829, the Government of which he was a member deter mined upon conceding to the claims of the Roman Catholics —a course which met with the marked disapproval of Sir Charles, and resolving not to sacrifice principle for in terest, he resigned, and never again held office under Government. The deceased was first returned to Parliament for the now disfranchised borough of Boroughbridge ; he also repre sented Oxford for a cons id era bl e per i o d , but latterly he de clined taking any part whatever in the proceedings of the Legislature, as he never could reconcile himself to the ma chinery of the Reform Bill, which, like other measures deemed by him inroads on the constitution, he emphatically but unsuccessfully opposed. Since his retirement from Parliament, Sir Charles de voted himself to his professional duties, his practice being confined to the Equity Courts. Apart, however, from West minster Hall and Lincoln's Inn, he held three lucrative ap pointments, viz., those of Recorder of Bristol, standing counsel to the University of Oxford, and leading legal adviser to his Majesty the King of Hanover. In his addresses to the House of Commons while a Member Sir Charles was generally very satirical and sometimes per sonal in his remarks ; in consequence he was involved on many occasions in conflicts with Hon. Members. Indeed, in various ways the deceased showed tokens of eccentricity. more particularly so in his manner of dress, which his oldest friends seldom remember to have sees adjusted in an orderly manner. Sir Charles Wetherell did not enter the married state until far advanced in life. He had completed his 60th year when be espoused the daughter of the late Sir Alexander Cooke, of Studeley Priory, Oxfordshire. By this lady, now dead several years, he had one child which expired four months after birth. He married a second time about eight years since Miss Warneford, the daughter of Colonel and the Hon. Mrs. Warneford, of Warneford-place, Wiltshire. This lady, by whom the deceased had no family, is about forty years of age, and is heiress to a large property. At the time of the melancholy occurrence Sir Charles, it appears, was returning from an inspection of an estate which he purchased some months back. It is generally understood that he has died very wealthy, if indeed not enormously so. Though a member of the Inner Temple, he kept his offices for many years back in Stone-buildings, Lincoln's About four months ago he purchased the splendid mansion formerly occupied by the Earl of Abergavenny, in Berkeley square. Th e mortal remains of the deceased will, it is understood, be interred in the Benchers' vault, Temple, unless his repre sentatives should resolve otherwise. DEATH .4 GENERAL WuLFF.—Lieut.-General Wulff, of the Royal Artillery, died at the residence of his (laughter, Lady liardinge, on the Gun Wharf, Chatham, on Monday, the 17th instant, at the advanced age of 83 years. DEATH OF B 4RON DEDEL.—We regret to announce the demise cf his Excllency Baron Dedel, the Netherlands Minister at this Court, which event took place on Monday last, at his residence in Wilton-crescent. DEATH OF THE PRINCE DE ROHAN ROCHEFORT.— PRAGUE, AUG. 7.—The death of his Highness the Prince Benjamin Bohan Rochefort has the more deeply affected the inhabitants of Prague, to whom he was known, as the dread ful catastrophe was wholly unexpected. He arriyed here in the afternoon from one of his estates, intending to leave the city in the evening of the same day. Towards sunset, in order to refresh hi mse lf a ft er hi s j ourney, he resolved to go to the military swimming institution. In spite of the warn ing of the superintending °Dicer, the Prince ventured the dangerous leap from (or over) the barrier, when he was so unfortunate as to be carried under the raft, and though all the swimming masters followed him, it was with the greatest difficulty that they got him out of the water. All means taken to recover him were unavailing, his exertion in leaping having doubtless caused a rush of blood, which proved fatal. DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN CHEVALLIER.—We have this week to record the death of a most valuable and much esteemed magistrate in this county, the Rev. J. Chevallier, 111. D., of Aspal-hall, than whom few persons lived more universally esteemed by his relatives, his friends, and his neighbours, or who will be more generally missed and la mented by them now that he is taken away. Dr. Chevallier, for many years past, has taken a leading interest in all the plans for improvement of the district in wlich he has re sided ; and his name will be long identified with the agri culture of this county, % by the wid e l y -extended reputation which the " Cheval lier barley has acq u i re d, w hi c h was first cultivated under his auspices, and on the estate where, for many generations, his family have resided.—lpswich Express. D EA TH OF REAR-ADMIRAL_ TRENCH.—On Sunday morning, at six. o'clock, the Hon. William Le Poer Trench, Rear-Admiral, breathed his last at his residence, nearßallina sloe. He was in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and re tained his faculties, unimpaired, to the moment of his disso lution. Disease of the heart was the cause of his death. He 's was the uncle of Lord Cl ancarty, a n d f or a cons id erable period acted as bis Lords hip agent. SINGULAR Roa n ERY -- Yesterday Mr. Inspector Henderson, belonging to the New Cross station, Kent-road, gave information to Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu, at the station of the K division of th e Metropolitan Police, in the Blackheath•road, that the galvanic apparatus used for the electric telegraPh had bee n stolen. He had no clue to the robbery, but it was suspected that a party of low fellows fre quenting the vicinity of the spot where the apparatus had been fixed were the thieves. It was used lately for the pur experiments on th e cutt i ng through the in pose of trying clined plane between the Kent -road station and Sydenham. It had been placed at consid erable expense, and would, if sold as old metal to dealers in marine stores, fetch very little. It could, however, be made no other use of. Mr. Henderson left an engraved plan of the apparatus, for the purpose of assisting the police in th eir exertion s t o t race t h e property. Aiaother person died yester day,PossosiouS BEBRIEs.— , from the effects of eating a in the London Ho spital pie, the principal ingredients in which were called bilberry herts, but which, there is no doubt, contained berries of the nightshade. There are three other persons in the same hos -1 pital who are in a state of great suffering, from eating berries of a similar description; one i n G uy ' s H ospital, and two in the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's inn-lane, S FORTIFICATIONS AT CIOSPOitir The new work s at the Blockhouse Fort, on the GOspOrt side of the harbour, are rapidly progressing towards comple tion, and will be of a very formidable description. On the side facing the sea is a double tier battery for 26 eight-inch guns, fourteen of which are already mounted, commanding the anchorage of Spithead ; while that part of the fort which is parallel to the harbour is well defended by a strong tower and numerous loopholes for musketry. The num ber of guns will be, in all, about fifty-six, very few of which will be less than thirty-two pounders, and the greater part of still larger calibre. Commodious bar racks for five officers and a hundred men are in the course of construction. All the new buildings within this fort are bomb proof. At Priddy's Hard, on the same side of the harbour, the powder magazine and ordnance station, hitherto almost unprotected, are undergoing such extensive alterations as will render them an extremely strong posi tion. The lines round Gosport, Portsea ,and Portsmouth, which have been for some years nearly disarmed, and in many places suffered to fall into decay, are being repaired and put into a state to receive a very large and powerful equipment of ordnance. A new and beautiful battery for six guns, in the ravelin of the Spur Gate, f already finished. It is pro vided with magazines; storehouses, and all the other re• quisites, and is most perfect in its arrangements. Southsea Castle. now used as the military prison of the district, is mounted with thirty-two guns, thirty-twos and twenty-fours, and we hear that it is intended further to in crease the artillery of this important post. Alterations on a very large scale are in contemplation for the works at the entrance of the harbour on the Portsmouth side. According to the projected plan, a double tier battery will occupy the space of the present saluting battery. from which seventy guns, by crossing their tire with those of the Block House Fort opposite, will render it perfectly impos sible for any vessel to force its way into the port. The following will, we believe, be found a correct list of the guns intended for the defence of Port: mouth and the harbour : Two 50 pounders of 97 cwt ;17 eight-inch guns 0f65 cwt.; 15 eight-inch guns of 50 cwt.; 60 thirty-two pounders of 56 cwt. ; 38 twenty-four pounders of 50 cwt. • 36 eight-inch howitzers; and 76 t wenty -f our pounders of 20 cwt. Making 244 guns in addition to the present armament. INDIAN CURE FOR ASIATIC CHOLERA. A letter from Major Wallace, of the 4Gth Regiment of Native Infantry, addressed to the editor of the Madras Spectator, gives an account of many individuals (attacked by this dreadful disease) rescued from the very jaws of death, and when utterly given over, by administering the following recipes, from the year 1818. For a full-grown, robust man or woman, one teaspoonful of red pepper, one teaspoonful of black pepper, two teaspoonfuls of strong decoction made of cloves, cinnamon, and cardamoms. The above to be put into a large-sized claret glass, to which add sixty drops of laudanum, and then fill the glass three-fourths up with brandy or arrack, and then fill up the glass to the top with boiling-hot water, to which add some grated nutmeg. The above dose to he divided into two equal parts, one to be given, and, if retained, which generally it will be, no more need be given; if rejected, the rest to be given. Should this likewise be.vomited,• a second dose to be similarly prepared and administered. Hot bricks to be applied to the chest, stomach, arms, legs, and feet, and the patient to be kept as warm as po s ssible. The following morning a dose of castor oil to be given. To a person between twelve and twenty years of age, two. thirds of the pepper, laudanum, and spirits to be given, lent the same quantity of the decoction, the glass filled up with hot water. To children between three and twelve years of age, one third or one. fourth, according to the age of the child, of the peppers, laudanum, and spirits, with one teaspoonful of the decoction, the glass, as before, to be filled with hot water; this last to be divided into three equal parts, and adminis tered as directed for the others. Each dose when given to be as hot as the patient can drink it, without pain or inconvenience. After the dose, if retained, the patient will complain of excessive thirst and a burning sensation in the intestines. This is almost a certain indication of recovery; but nothing whatever should be given either to allay the one or palliate the other, till about four or five hours after the castor, oil has discontinued operating, when mullagatawny, made strong with pepper and chillies, with some well •boiled rice, should be given, and this food continued for three or four days after recovery. To a European, young and robust, the whole wine-glass to be given at one dose, if he is very bad with cholera. If the spices cannot be procured, a strong decoction of ginger will answer the purpose.—Literary Gazette. CHARGE OF INFANTICIDE. —ALLEGED RAPE.—Yester day an inquest, which was adjourned from Friday last, was resumed and concluded by Mr. William Baker, Deputy Coroner, at the Black Horse, in the Kingsland-road, on view of the body of a newly born female infant, the offspring of Mary Fisher, a single woman, which was found in the soil of a water-closet by Policeman Coles, G 126, at No. 4, Great Leonard -street, Shoreditch, where she was living; the parti culars of the first inquiry in reference to which have al ready been given. The inquiry was adjourned for a post mortem examination, which was made by Mr. John Hall, surgeon, Paul-street, and Mr. R. Davis, surgeon, Worship square, who were of opinion, from the lungs floating in water, and other appearances, that the deceased had breathe& There were no external marks of violence. The mother of deceased said, that she was assaulted some months ago, against her wish, by a man, a stranger to her, who led her among some ruins, where he effected his purpose while she was in a state of insensibility, and that on her recovery she : found her shaWl in her mouth, and her dress was torn. Verdict, "That the deceased child was found immersed int the soil, but by what means it became so immersed, whether by accident or design, there was not sufficient evidence to the„ jury." SUICIDE OF ONE OF THE PARISH SURGEONS jv r BnIGIITON.—On Monday morning Mr. Thomas Beld en pa, rish surgeon at Brighton, not making his appearance a the usual hour, his servant became alarmed, and on knocleing at the door she received no answer. She then info'rmed the inmates with whom he lodged, who sent for the chief officer of police. The officer broke open the door and found Mr. Baldey lying in bed quite dead, with a small phial and a glass standing on the drawers at his bedside. On examin ing the contents of the glass it was found to contain prussic acid. A coroner's inquest was held on the body in the even ing, w hen it was proved that deceased had purchased an ounce of prussic acid at a chemist's, and it is supposed that he took the whole. Deceased had been unwell for some time, and in an apparently low state of mind. The jury returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity." Deceased had been a parish surgeon several years. VISIT TO THE PEOPLE' S FARM. —On Monday, a monster procession of vans and other vehicles, containin passengers, took place from the metropolis to a districtcall e d g Herringsgate Farm, near Rickmansworth, in Hertfordshire, which has become by purchase the property of the Chartist Co-operative Land Society. The object of this society is the location, on small farms, of the members selected by ballot, and who are also furnished with the pecuniary means for putting the same into cultivation. The company were chiefly corveyed in vans, of which 175 were engaged, whi c h lett Oxford-street at seven o'clock in the morning, attended by bands of music, banners, &c., accompanied by every de scription of vehicle, the procession extending to more than a mile in length, and proceeding in more or less order to the destination. The number congregated on the spot, includ ing persons from the vicinity, and those who had arrived by train from London, could not have been less than 6,000. A. great many marquees and shows were on the ground, which had the appearances of a very lively country fair. After an inspection of the houses, school-room, &c., a public meeting was held near a temporary hustings, which was addressed by Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Mr. Clarke, Mr. Smallwood, and several other friends of the cause. The arrangements, which were under the superintendence of the county rural police, were conducted with great order. The amusements were kept up till a late hour, and it was long after midnight before the majority returned to town. GRAVESEND REGATTA.—There will be a regtita at Gravesend on the 26th instant, in honour of Prince Albert's birthday, when several vsluable prizes will be contended for. Foot liAcE AT THE BEE -HIVE GROUNIN NVALWORTEL —The match between Piddingt on an d M athews, to run two miles for 201., was won by the former, after a good race, on Monday. RELIC OF AN EXTINCT RACE.—A St. Vincent's journal notices a curious relic found on a neighbourhood islet '.. —"A Curiosity.—An article deserving this name was found last week in a cave on the small island of Batawia, and i. now in the possession of George Cropper, Esq. It was in tended, as it appears to us, for a child's couch, and is cut out. of a solid piece of wood, either cedar or mahogany, the length 2 feet 3 inches, breadth 10 inches, height about 15 inches. It is so contrived that when not used as a couch, it can be placed upright on the hind legs, when it presents the face of a man elaborately carved and standing out in bold relief with the arms resting on the breast. Some suppose it to be the work of the Charaibs who were sent over to Ba tawia after their insurrection, but the of. the face is decidedly not Charaib, having the appearancel sOther t ala " CUM.. elder antiquity than theinsurrection of . osities may likely be found in the same cave u p on an explo ration, and which may lead to something decisive as to theit origin. The cave itself is of vast extent, an d d oes not ap.. pear to have been visited for a lon g per i od. " SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY. —On Monday, the following serious accident occurred on, the line of the Atmospheric Railway to a man named J h Hawkins, aged twenty-th ree years, residing o at Sydenham:. —lt appears that the unfortunate man was. employed at the Dartmouth Arms' station, and while engaged on the plat form some portion of the machinery 'aught the sleeve of hist frock, which drew his right arm 'in between the works, antic before he could be released the limb was most fearfully lace-, rated in several places. lie was seen by a surgeon, and sub sequently placed in one of the carriages and removed to the accident ward of Guy's Hospital, where he was immediately put under the care of Mr. Norris, the house-surgeon. Lie y g progressing very favourably. TEE STATE OF EUROPE.--England has had great meet as Ministers—Pitt, Fox, Canning Grey, &c. ; but we doubt whether either retired from the public service with a reputai, tion which Sir Robert Peel will carry with him. It is true} there have been constant wars, continental alliances, and serious troubles which demanded great prudence and ability. but Sir Robert Peel has grappled with and overthrown, i the corn -laws, the great monopoly of the rich landholders[ who hitherto have ruled the nation, and having accomplished it, together with a rev i sion of the tariff, andestablished re forms commensurate with the times, he surrenders the seat of office and retires to private life, unquestionably the great man of the age. The new Whig Ministry will no doubt get on smoothly, inasmuch as nearly all irritating questicAs are in a measure subsided. The query now is, what France do? Guizot, under the Peel Ministry, could (I , :aw together the cords of a friendly alliance. Lord Palmel:ston and Lord J. Russell are no great admirers of French policy, and will not follow in the wake of M. Guizot. The query now is, will there not be a corresponding change of Ministry France? in Louis Philippe has In:.t one object in view, peace with England and the support, of that Cabinet for his dynasty when he dies, to secure Ns I ,llcll he will be compelled to change his men and his pol.'.ey as England changes. One thing ix certain, the preSnt Ministry will not be induced to carry out and recognise any entangling alliances with France, what.. ever may be their objects.—LVeu' York Sun. - FATAL ACCIDENT AT A TURPENTINE 5T1L14....1A u inquest was held yesterday at St. Bartholomew% Tiospits4 before Mr. Joseph Payne, on the body of William Lloyd, aged 30. George Osborne said that the deceased was a glove cleaner, and was employed with witne ss a t N o. 108, High. street, Hoxton. On the 25th of last month the deceased WIN standing upon a still used for rectifying turpentine, when by some means, which could not correctly be accounted for, the spirit caught fire, and in trying to extinguish it his clothes were in flames. He escaped from the building, and the fire was quenched, but by that time he had received many severe barns. He was taken to the hospital, and died there on Sun day last. Verdict, "Accidental Death." ROBBERY.—Yesterday information was forwarded to the police of a daring shop robbery at Mr. ly):att's, 26, Ebury-street, Pimlico, a watchmaker, the shop being _ dered of a number of valuablegold 1 whichthe the momentary absence of the attendan t, IT c thieves got clear QM and silver watches, . during 0. 6t ° 1 ags;... g(0 9~