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nalure, calling him a thief, and other words to the same eff ot , but of such a kind that he trusted he should be excused from repeating them. This nil occurred in the presence of three other gentlemen. For this ho sought protection. Mr. Tc-mple stated that all the offensive expresssons which Mr. Stephens was represented to have uttered bad been used. Mr. Hodgkinson said. that since the occurrence of the offence he had, uader Mr. TernpWe instructions, written to Mr. Stephens to request a written apology, but so far from that being given the iasult had been aggravated by repetition. _ Sir JOHN KEY asked Mr. Stephens what reply he had to wake to this statement? Mr. Stephens admitted that he had used the epithet of " thief." It was the custom of members of the Stock Exchange to express themselves in strong terms respecting the characters of those par ties who they conceived were likely to injure themselves or others. Sir JOHN KEY to Mr. Temple—Were you ever cou ♦icted of " thieving?" Mr. Temple (with a laugh)— No, never,. sir." Sir JOHN KEY required Mr. Stephens to cuter into his (Lyn recognizance of 501. to keep the peale, and both parties left the court. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Hamlet is unquestionably Mr. Kean's greatest part, end we have never seen him to higher advan tage —more successfully mastering the immense diffi culties of the character, and more judiciously develop ing its salient peculiarities, preserving at the same time with consummate skill the peculiar tone which should prevail throughout—than in his impersonation of the Danish Prince last evening. With Mrs. Kean as Ophelia, and the minor parts in such highly efficient hands as those of Harley, Addison, Meadows, &c., it is not surprising that this splendid perform ance is sure to draw a bumper house. Last nig ht not a seat w as l e ft unoccupied, and many were dis appointed of admission. The pantomime, moreover, is in the zenith of its popularity, continuing to afford immeasurable enjoyment to all classes of spectators evening after evening. "The Lily and the Bee"— to inappropriate title for la belle Leclercq and Core mack, the accomplished representatives of Columbine the Fair and Harlequin the Active—contribute their sparkling aid with unwaning brilliancy to the general triumph. Flexmore gives to some ex tent a new reading (so to term it) of the Clown. That degree of lubberliness which used to be considered a necessary , ingredient in the cha ratter, he entirely discards, assuming, too, en attire of a new and superior description, that gives biro a singularly light appearance, excellently suited to the agility and rapidity which characterise every feature in the performance of this admirable artist. His Clown is;a sharp, humorous, rascally scamp; adroit, unscrupulous knave and cozener; in lightness end activity "feathered Mercury" in disguise; but be never illegitimately resorts to any of those mounte bank feats, the introduction of which upon the boards is properly allowable in a professed posturer alone, and many of which may be daily seen done 'very cleverly by street tumblers. The Pantaloon Wants rubbing up ; a dose of joint oil, or stirrup oil, or something to infuse into him a little more supple ness and animation, Taking the entertainment on the Whole, both as regards the introductory and comic Portions, Harlequin Billy Taylor may fairly lay claim to the first honours of the 5F aeon. ST. MARTIN'S HALL. Mr. Hallah last night opened the second season of his monthly concerts; and the entertainment, although of a nature not by any means popular, and helped by 310 particular adventitious a id s , attrac t e d a l arge an d attentive audience. The staple of these concerts, as our readers are aware, is music (partly sacred, partly Secular) of an elaborate and ambitious class, performed by a small but well-selected orchestra, a good corps of soloists, and a chorus selected from the members of Hullah's upper school. The general effect, of Course, resembles Exeter Hall, on a small scale. But 'Without venturing upon the great oratorios, there is an ample field for Mr. Hullah's labours in the interpre tation of that cl as s o f minor hut stillimportant works which , under the names of cantatas, !operas, &c., have been given by the greatest musicians to the World. These concerts, too, afford an eligible means for the introduction to the world of works by young c omposers aiming at a high and serious style of art. S evera l compos i t i ons o f t hi s c l ass havein deed been already given. The programme of last lught presented no nov e lty, w ith th e ex ception 1 W sacred song, "By th e waters of Babylon," by ir.Wayley, and sung by Miss Alleyne. The com position is a tolerably flowing minor melody, the treat ment aiming at that of Mendelssohn. The first part of the concert included that great composer's Ninety fifth Psalm, with which Mr. Hullah's audiences are Well acquainted, and Mr. Leslie's promising work, Produced last season, " A Festival Anthem." The solos were given by Miss Birch, Miss Alleyne—whose great nervousness materially impairs the powers of a avveet and flexible voice—Mr. Swift, who in several passages threw more animation into his music than ;" 7 .,e have e ver b e f ore h ear d L hi m ex hibi t , an d M r. Frank Budda. The psalm was steadily and (evenly executed, and the gran d c h orus , Come, let us sing to the Lord," with its mas sive and impetuous strength, went with great effect. In the F e stival Anthem, Mr. L es li e a pp eare to us to have been uncommonly unhappy in his choice of Words ; and the fact has naturally re-acted against t he composer. What possible musical idea, fur in stance, could be eliminated, even by Handel, from such phrases, long dwelt on, as t' Great was the com- P.any of the preachers," and " They of the hou se h o ld d ivided the spoil ?" The second portion of the con pert was entirely devoted to a spirited and interest.. Is ,_g rendering of Handel's famous St. Celicia ode— the well known and manifold beauties of which can sever pall upon either a musical or popular auditory. DEA TH OF Sin WILLIAM OGLANDEB.—This Tenet.. able Baronet died en the 17th inst. at Parnharn ; he was son I )f o th fifth B4ronet as born at Parnham, 1769 married, 1 ,? 10 , e eldest daughter w of fourth Duke of Grafton ; ; succeeded father in 1806; was a Deputy Lieutenant of Dorset, and represented Bodinin in Parliament trom 1807 to 1812. He s ucceeded by his son, now Sir Henry Oglander, born in a i ll , and married in 1845 the ycungest d au ghter of the late lr George William Leeds, Bart.:. bdissing—and has not been heard of since the 2d of 'December last—the spirit of the French nation.—Punch. GRAY's INN, JAN. 21.—At a pension of the Hon. " e ciety of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Terence Hu g hes, 44 N , was called to the degree of barrister-at-law. T HE MUMMY.—Since the discovery of the mummy In the c r ypt of St. Stephen's, a great number of perons visited, by permission, the spot where the relic lies. It is stated that the remair,s will not be removed for fear they sh ould by being disturbed become entirely destroyed. It is Idt endedthey should remain in their present resting place, and that th e wall should be so rebuilt as to admit of the c urious in such matters having a view of the ancient relic. dgeneral opinion prevails that several other b odies wil l be scovered in or near the crypt, and the speeulative suppose th at treasure of a more substantial and lucrative nature m ust also be deposited in the vicinity of the ancient dead. Mr. Crompton will, it is stated, be the new Judge tti place of Justice Patteson. The vacant Mastership in the Exchequer has been 'tied up by th e appointment of Mr. Chatfield, a solicitor. T he Li ver p oo l St an d ar d says —M r . P age t, o f the N orthern Circuit, has been appointed private secretary to the '-'crd Chancellor—salary 1,5, 01. per annum. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND IN oLVERHAMPTON t _RTENSIoN TO LoNDoN.—A numerously-attended meet i ng Of the town of Uxbridge and its neighbourhood, called by a Provisional committee of landowner s , was held yesterday at ptaking the Public Rooms, Uxbridge, f or the reose of mea sures for establishing a railway -- • communication between that district and the metropolis, by means of the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolverhampton Extens i i r o f T. F to London ; Mr. Christopher Towers in the chair. t F. Clarke moved that, in the opinion of this meeting, th e tow n and neighbour hood of Uxbridge were not supplied with acco mm odation by the resolution, adequate o M W railway with the metropolis adequate, Or ne ar l y e l tion, With its wants. Mr. W. F. de Salts seconded which was carried unanimously, Mr. Parson (a u shareholder in the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamptonae Company) then described the plans of that company for affording the required accommodation; and Mr. J. N. Hilo sert moved, "That this meeting having heard the state ments made with respect to the lin4. proposed by the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway pa ssin g close to t his town, and joining the South-Western nea r Brentford, i s of opinion that such a communication was highly desirable, 4 a, 4 (1 this meeting would therefore support such a p ro j ect with t he utmost cordiality." This was seconded by Blr. Hilton, and carried unanimously. A committee was afterwards appointed to watch over the railway communication of the district. " Aed BRISTOL AND EXETER RAlLwar.—The es 4. ,11111. , e xpense of constructing the new deviation line to Yeovil 15 <3,50 /., bring a reduction of about 2,4001. on the original estimate. LONDONDERRY AND ENNISKILLEN RAILWAY.---- -,he exp ense o f co n s tructing the prop ose d ex t ens i on li ne to Enniskillen and other works, with subscription towards the co hatruction of a new bridge over the Foyle, is 152,0001. EXAMINATION OF A WIFE AGAINST HER HUSBAND. the course of an argument in the Court of Chancery Yesterday, the Lord Chancellor took occasion to state the circumstances under which the difficulties with respect to this question h a d ar i sen . Hi s Lordship observed that wh en the Bill was before the House of Lords, he moved that the clause which g a v e th e co ur ts of law the power cf examining t hef Wife be str uc k out , an d it wa s struck out accordingly. In the body of the Bill, and in another clause, there was, rever, a power given fur the reception of the evidence of Wife in certain cases, and in the trial of criminal . offences. T hat 'clauAe by an oversight, and in consequence of the late elat which the Bill was discussed, had been permitted to 4 8 A nt ,, ► ain, and one of the learned judges, seeing that the evi v'eowas receivable in certain specified cases, assumed that it _as),receivable in all, although the generally clause had been nieit out. That view of the matter was, his Lordship add ed, not one that was generally adopted. SCOTTPII MIDLAND RAILWAY.—We understand t hat the referee has awarded 1,6001, to this company as the nn al sum to be p a id b y the Post-office for t h e conveyance the mails on this line to Aberdeen.—Dundee Advertiser. The Great Northern R a il av Companies have Provided. 4, f00t warmers" in the first-class through trains. tIe TUE LATE DR. LINGAR D —A few Protestant gen- E u,,en, to mark their sense of the high literary attainments Erie deceased historian, and of his private worth, intend to erect a monument to his memory, in the parish church of a b? r u tll3 Y, near Lancaster, in which village the doctor resided ar t half a century. His remains, it will be remembered, interred at Ushaw, in the county of Durham,—Preston LITERATURE. EXCELSIOR; or, The Realms of Poesie. B y Alastor. Second Edition. William Pickering. Graceful as this little .volume is, even in its external appearance, it can scarcely fail to prove attractive to the enthusiast about poetry, by reason cf the very pseudonym (Alastor) which the author has selected from Shelley, and of the very title itself (Excelsior), which he has borrowed from Longfellow. In its general character the work is essentially discursive. It abounds throughout with criticisms upon the fa vourite poets of the writer, and with allusions to his own more cherished dreams upon the diviner myste ries of existence. Everywhere in the pages of "Excelsior" it is impossible not to recognize the deep and devotional fervour with which it has been penned, Alastor betraying in every sentence the earnestness of a very impassioned temperament. The moat con spicuous fault in the book is that of exuberance. Its desultory manner might be regarded as not only excusable, but even allowable, from the very nature of the subjects unfolded—but with the exuberance of its style, it is unquestionably otherwise. Among all blemishes, however, in an author manifestly young and inexperienced, this is as unquestionably the most entitled to forgiveness. Better surely to witness in his earlier effusions a prodigality of metaphor that can be pruned down, or an extravagant abundance of language that can be in time corrected, then to observe the evidences of a feebleness which no practice can invigorate, or of a sterility that defies cultivation. Wel come, thrice welcome, therefore, to us are initial volunaes replete with errors of the description here indicated, errors which practice . cannot fail to overcome, and which are consequently preferable to the stunted merits of a puerile and faultless mediocrity. Ac cording to Plutarch, the popularity of Alcibiades was in the first instance attributable to the squandering of his wealth among the Athenians. Nevertheless the blandishments of a correctly balanced and adroitly selected diction are too important of their kind not to be sought after at the outset with the most sedulous attention of the student. In verbis etiam tennis cautusque serendia, Hoc met, hoc sparnat promissi carminis &actor. As with metrical, so a!so, though in a lesser degree, with prose compositions, more especially, should those compositions,as in the example under consideration, have reference to criticisms upon poets and upon poetry. Alastor wins the confidence of his reader at once by his evident acquaintance with his subject, and not only his acquaintance with it, but his profound and burning admiration for it likewise. Poetry, the study of poetry, it may be also the writing of poetry, is clearly enough his vocation. His reverential regard for that divinest among the Fine Arts is visible in almost every chapter, but more particularly so in those chapters which relate exclusively to its consideration. Immediately after his " Invocation" he adventures, humbly but earnestly upon a "Definition of Poesie." He considers her to be the "beloved handmaid and faithful servitor" of the Divinity. Fantastically, but beautifully also, he says that "at her girdle she wears the golden keys of Time, Space, and Eternity." The close of the definition is not the least eloquent gen.• tence in the volume, where the writer exclaims " That poetry is alone true, grand, and sublime, which takes man from his wormlike crawling in the dust, and plumes his soul with angel wings of aspi ration, which shall soar upwards and upwards until they rest on the glorious footstool of God." Throughout the principal part of the " Excelsior" we discern the same generous blending of rapture and adoration. The writer has manifestly a yearning for that loftiest employment of human existence which he has attributed in such noble words to Gilfillan— that of " loving as a child, but worshipping like a seraph," that " mighty God" to whom all our energies should be dedicated. Having somewhat ingeniously mapped out what he designates " the Four Quarters of the Poetic World," Alastor glances at the various poets (principally living ones) who are numbered among his more peculiar favourites. A fanciful semblance is thereupon traced by him between Byron and the Sun, Keats and the Moon, and Shelley and the " dim mysterious starlight"—referring with justice the misanthropy of Byron to his misfortunes, speaking of Keats in a tone of gentle and genuine affection, and repudiating with a scorn that cannot but prove infectious, the charges of unmitigated cul pability directed against the beautiful and elevated me mory of Shelley. As affording the readiest means of ena bling the reader to estimate the nature of "Excelsior," we shall at once, however, illustrate our remarks upon it by quotation. Imparting an immediate interest, moreover, as they do to the pages of the volume, our extracts shall be restaicted to those passages which relate to writers now living, beginning not inappro priately with Alastor's allusions to the Poet Laureate. These are the opinions pronounced by him upon TENN YSON. " Not exactly cypress, but a wreath of weeping wil low, should encircle his name. He is enamoured with ideal beauty and purity of soul, and ho sings the praises of holy and exalted friendship more than the warmest passion of love. He may be characterised as an elevated philosopher with a poet's expression, which a delicate perception of the beautiful and true has given him. " His harp is not strung with strings whose wild loud notes shall first awaken, and then petrify the world, but with silken, silvery, gossamer chords, whose fairy melody is heard only by the delicate spiritual ear. " Yet keeps he perhaps too close to the shores of Time, and dares not, or will not, sail the mighty oceans of mind, and bring as like golden fruit from beyond the distant shores, sublime and inspiring ideas of futurity. do keeps his wings too closely furled, when we consider his poetical powers ! " May Time give him courage and bear him happi ness;—root up the willow which points, with its thou sand drooping and nerveless arms, to the cold EARTH, and transplant the poplar which ever points, with its one firm giant fingers, to the bright, glorious, an d joy-inspir ing HEAVENS. Having thus gracefully symbolized his estimate of Tennyson, the writer turns to the consideration of. BAILEY. " This is, perhaps, the greatest poet of the preeefit generation, inasmuch, as in his Festus,' he has endea voured to display the boundless aspirations, thoughts, and feelings of a young enthusiastic spirit, deeply im bued with a love of Nature, man, and God, yet wanting the greatest and most comforting doctrine of Faith, from lack of which spring all the uncurbed and bound less, but broken, aspirations of youth, and the feelings and excesses attendant thereon. "He has nobly dared to do all this, and the world has not let him go unrewarded. " His last work ' The Angel World,' shows, however, an increase of faith and humility, consequent upon his having exhausted the more wild and passionate feelings of his heart. " Long ere we knew his name,'whilst the hot ferment of youthful thought made us desperate, we had formed many similar ideas to those propagated in Festus,' amongst many others still wilder. W e thank God that a most humble and confiding spirit is now at work within us, and we trust that by our works we may never sow one seed of doubt relative to these revelations, which are the only hope and comfort of myriads. Still, we are determined to put the most kindly and Christian like construction upon them, and to look more at their general spirit than at isolated passages. "Now that Bailey has exhausted all phases of un belief, we look for the highest poetic blessings from him. He will know how to administer relief to minds in similar miserable mental states. " All phases of mental suffering must have been en dured by one who seeks to enlighten the variously framed minds found in the human family. " Baileyyvvished to become God's poet-priest, which faith and humility will yet constitute him—(this was a favourite aspiration of our own from boyhood). " He approaches the nearest to our ideal of a poet, for he boldly seizes many problems that perplex and deeply interest the world's mind, and endeavours •to solve them. His heart is one mass of religious feeling, and he sees every object through an elevating and divine medium. He knows well enough that everything created bears the stamp of divinity; and is thus full of deep spiritual meaning. " As for the beautiful and gorgeous imagery, which lies as thick on his pages as moonlight snow on the large leaves of yonder winter's evergreen, we will only say — that it was never surpassed, and that never were the riches of a w ea lthi er m i n d di sp l a y e d to th e wor ld." Almost immediately afterwards the author thus speaks of " One of obuter.ilatest p oe s. RENT. His classical expression, the delicate of expressiveylaot his thoughts, and his great com mandthe trio of classically-n n g ut uage, hint that he will complete Keats are already membe u r r:l poets, whereof Shelley,and ii H e has already given 'us of Mythology,' and other minor'Aletheia; or, the Doom in the purest and most crystal poems,u, whichf arc 'teepee i m bued with the deepest love and most at- - Po sir, and:are delicate percep tion of the beauties and operations of titled ' Orchestral,' wig think on e of nature. mo One en graphic and imaginati ve g ems of modern poetry.36"quisit° " Here is the germ of one of the truest poets, who shed a lustre on any age, draped in the waving folds of classic grace and elegance. " We hear some critic has dared to call Kent a voluP Wary, when criticising' Ale tbeia: If richne ss of stns_ fiery, fulness of expreslon, and ripeness of natural affec tions, constitute voluptuousness, then, and then only, is Kent guilty of the charge. Let us remind such critics that a filthy mind sees everything, through its own me dium, and t o it, even p ur ity herself sums unclean. " Whets we survey our small, but illustr ious band of living p oe t s , with such names as Bailey, Atherstone, Longfellow, Tennyson, Mackay, and Kent, as their leaders, who shall dare affirm that the rPeent age will be a blank in the poetical annals English I - l ' ?" of the auguaf,.- Cordially and earnestly may we commend the justice of his subjoined panegyric upon LONGFELMW. " A fleeply•heloved American poet, who, however, sighs a little too much after the Past, which seems to him as a setting sun; the Future a p pear i ng b ut as a sma ll star of the seventh magnitude, with u ncem i n , tw i n kling light. " Ytit is his soul a gem of the purest ray serene,' which also, cFrtaiLly, ' the dark unfathomed caves of ocean' (the deep oc , iin of thought) have borne; nor has he yet forgotten those dark caves cf gloom. Perchance he may yet flash back more strongly the cheering rap of the Sun of hope, and rutty yet enliven as well as exalt mankind—the latter of which he has al ready done. " The world's face is amply suffused with tears; it is the poet's duty to wipe away a few—not to add more. " He has read of, and, perhaps, believed too impli citly the glories of the Past; which, alter all, if vio,wed MlCRO—instead of TELE—scopically, would have shown far more defects than beauties, and far more misery than happiness. " One would be led to fancy that he had Written many of his poems under the dense gloom of a pine forest (to which same sombrous trees he is deeply attached). He is, however, a bard of deep love and warmest sympathy, of the purest heart, and most elevated and enlightened Christian feeling. The elegance and deep sentiment of his poetry (and prose likewise) are unsurpassed in any language. "May God prosper him, and throw a few more sunny gleams of Hope through the shadowy forest of his mind, and chow more brilliantly to the world the clustering tufts of hopeful.eyed flowers and blossoms under its gloom! " His grand Psalm of Life' must neither be forgotten by himself nor the world!" These sentences of eulogium upon Longfellow we can find it in our heart to approve to the very utter naost, even in spite of the disappointment experienced very recently on the perusal or his " Golden Legend —scarcely less impious than incoherent. Willis the American, and Larnartine the Frenchman are names subsequently brought from beyond the Channel, and from beyond the Atlantic, to be classed among thecata logue of Alastor's especial favourites. For Charles Mackay and Eliza Cook he acknowledges his predi lection ; in regard to the latter, he says she is, " through her weekly journal pouring a flood of sim ply beautiful thoughts through the mental veins of her beloved country ," while, in regard to the former, he vows that "he who loves him not as a brother must have the dry heart of a mummy." Sir Bulwer Lytton is subsequently mentioned in terms of profound admi ration, tnough we do not conceive that the writer has to the full appreciated the genius of that remarkable and comprehensive intellect—one of the most remark able and comprehensive in the range of our national literature. Fully ar.d entirely applauding the tribute next offered to the " true poet's heart" of Dickens, we would gladly witness the realisation of' the hope expressed in reference to that matchless delineator of character. The following sentences will be agree able, inasmuch as they relate to a celebrity as po pular as T kJ E 8 1.. T N 7 o N 0 LEIGH HUNT. " The fathei of a new school of poetry, where subtle fancies and interwoven imagery supplant the old broad backed day-light similies of Pope, where one thought was often swelled pompously out through a whole page. Keats was an admirer and follower of this master, and with him seemed to wish for the romance and brilliant fancy of Chaucor once more to sail into our poetical firmament. " Once we detested him, for his attack on Byron when dead, but now he has explained that away, we love him for his kindliness and innocence of soul, his heartiness of sentiment, and hatred to all mawkiness; and wish heartily that his body was as young as his soul. "His ' Tale of Rimini' contains many exquisite and richly coloured word-pictures, and many notes of joy and sadness hover around a quivering string of narrative filled with the deepest pathos." Here, moreover, is Alastor's mention of BARRY CORNWALL. "His renowned songs have all the beauty, and greater force and freshness than Moore's. His imagina tion is bold and vigorous, and his fancy throws around his compositions the most luxurious tendrils, chastened with airily-hung flowers of thought. "His larger poems resemble the bold stems of high soaring pines, through whose dark-fringed tops the glittering moonbeams dart, and fall on the gleaming leaves of the giant ivy wreaths entwining them, and on the fanciful flowers of the sweet-scented woodbines, in termingled with and hanging out their waving tassels from sach dark coverts." Charming as the songs of Barry Cornwall are to us, we cannot, however, consent to hear him brought into comparison with the author of the incom parable melodies. Besides the foregoing, a multi plicity of other poets are enumerated and criticised, such as Schiller, Pope, Goldsmith, Campbell, and Chatterton ; and subsequently Alastor refers to such " high arguments" as the definition of time, or as the relative position of man and nature, conveying his more recondite notions upon creation and existence through the medium of "an explanatory vision of thought," in which he shadows out a forthcoming poem, entitled " The Enthusiast." From what we have already said of the volume before us, and from the passages excerpted from its pages, we doubt not but that the reader will, with us, look for ward not without curiosity for the appearance of its successor. " Excelsior" has, by its earnest spirit, won from us our hopes f o r th e success o f " Th e Enthusiast.', A HISTORY of MODERN WINES. By Cyrus Redding. Third Edition. Henry Bohn. Considering the sale of a work as the only rational criterion of its popularity, it is, of course,:unnecessary to observe, after mentioning that the present edition is the third, that Mr. Redding's " History of Modern Wines" is regarded by the public as meritorious. 'Without siny question, the volume lying before us is the best ever penned upon the subject dearest to the heart of the bacchanalian. It comprises not merely the original merits of the work, but a variety of additions also ; and those, many of them, most delectable to the bon vivant. In his preliminary chapter the writer gossips very delightfully about the wines of all times, ancient and modern—wine being, as entymology tells us, yin to the French, win to the Anglo'-Sairon, :rein to the German, vinn to the Dutchman, wyn to the Dane, vinum to the Roman, vino to the Italian, vino also to the Spaniard, vinho to the Portuguese, and owns to the Greek—so similar have been sentiments entertained towards it by Dean kind in all ages and in all climates ! To render his indulges himself' now with a sc r a p f ro m Ovid, now yet more palatable, the author gossip upon the subject with one from Martial, now with one from Horace, trolling them out with an unmistakable gusto. Then follow his admirable dissertations on the Vine and on the Vintage. Therein he tells us all about the matu rity of the grape, the mode of gathering it, the way of pressing it, the treatment of it in the vat, the course of fermentation ; and all the subsequent pro cesses conducing to the glorious ultimatum of a nectar fit not only for the consumption of men but of gods. The wines of France, the most wonderful of all, are enumerated by Mr. Redding with an evident admi ration ; and next he takes into account successively, those of Spain, of the Canaries, of Germany, of S wit zerland, of Portugal, of Madeira, of Italy, of Hun gary, of Austria, of Styria of Carinthia, of Greece, of Persia, of the East, of Africa, and of America. Ultimately he initiates the reader into all the mys teries of keeping wines, and lets them into the secrets also of their adulteration and sophistication. The Ap pendix to the volume is especially valuable, and here and there are scattered through its pages some very elegant and classic illustrations. MURRAY'S READINGS FOR THE RAIL. Further instalments of this very admirable series of cheap republications have more than justified the praises lavished by ourselves upon the enterprise im mediately upon its commencement—at the same time that each additional work betrays, more and more clearly, the value and variety of Mr. Murray's latest scheme in the way of a cheap, instructive, and enter taining periodical. Already as guarantees of the truthfulness of his very propitious prospectus we had welcomed the appearance of the first series of " Essays from the Times"—awaiting still with -some curiosity the issue of its immediate successor. Already again we had expressed our satisfac tieu at the reprint in a popular form of Lord Mahon's very admirable history of "The Forty-five." And the last of the sources of pleasures afforded to us by the development of the project sketched out for himself by the publisher was the production, at a comparatively insignificant pride, of an abbreviated narrative of " Leyard's Nineveh." Added to all these, we have now three new instalments to particularise as lending their attractions to the series, and as furnish ing worthy materials as Readings for the R a il. we had b p e r a e u vi t o if ti .u s l ly fo m rm ent i i n on t e h d e carrying out of this excellent " Nimrod `: s Nimrod on in the a C p h o a p s u e' l ' a w r enterprise. on a t the similar manner we nn e have,raosatnhnaot equallyunce as published mastrly in essay of the late Mr. Appleby, known as" Nimrod on a l s now well t the Road." It is somewhat amusing, by the way , to read the latter paper, boasting, as it does, throughout of the speed secured in the way of ago --boasts that are now-a-days rendered loco motion by the fast coaches of thirty years_ laughable by the velocity obtained on the railways, alai 6/ the annihilation of time, so to speak, by means of Cie electric telegraph. It was an in genious notion, that of Nimrod, to portray in a vivid manner the changes brought about among travellers through the means of certain imaginary adventures of an old gentleman, of a hundred years ago, suddenly awakened from a trance and spirited away on the Comet in the midst of the roar of Picadilly. We should like amazingly to read a similar story told in regard to railways by a yet more brilliant writer than Nimrod, we mean Sir Francis Head, the delightful author of " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau," and very recently of the "Faggot of French Sticks." Among the more amusing witticisms in "Nimrod on the Road," commend us to that in which the American of the name of M'Adara is designated faceti ous l y t h e Colossus of Roads. Reading this moat charming and graphic paper, the least instructed readers in such matters become, long before its conclusion, familiar with every portion o f a coach, and with all the accompanying technica lities. Clambering on the box, or on the bench, stuffing trunks into the bo o t or t h e s lid e , s t epp i ng down by the roller-bolt, or sitting up on the gammon board, incomprehensible though some of the phrases might have been beforehand, become readil y before before t h e close of this most gossipping and lively dissertation. There is a gusto, moreover, quite catching, in the autho r ' s account o f "the springing the cattle" on the level country, Towards the conclusion of the little volume we come upon a droll enumeration of the various kinds of vehicles which have been successively popular in this island — the family coach, the singlebodied phxaton, the curricle, the gig, the whiskey, the stanhope, the tilbury, the buggy, the dennet, the cabriolet, the doublebodied pbwaton, the britschka, the donkey-cart, the pony-chaise, the barouche, the chariot ; and we might add, the drag, the dog-c ar t, an d, cos iest and most popular of all Just now, the brougham. Be sides the popular works already enumerated as forming portions of the Readings for the Rail, we may mention a charming little edition of " iEsop's Fables," interspyirsed with a variety of fanciful or facetious illustrations. EMILY _HOWARD. By Mrs. Dunlop. 3 Vols, Colburn. The scene of this novel is laid in Portugal, and the descriptions of life in that country, and the customs and manners of the inhabitants, give it an interest and originality not often met with in works of its class. The heroine and her mother are English, but most of the chief characters are Portuguese. The authoress is evidently acquainted with the nation and country she describes; the account she gives of it is very favourable and attractive. We must except, however, the marriage regulations. All is arranged by the parents, and as their ideas of family grandeur sod the necessity of keeping up their ancient name far supersedes any desire for the happiness of their children, the most melancholy disappointments result. The , plot is simple, but the interest continues throughout unabated, and the tale forcibly exemplifies the evils ensuing from indecision, vanity, and deceit, and shows how the joyous and light-hearted Emily, the only child of an indulgent mother, reared in a home of plenty, never troubled by a care, and totally unprepared for sorrow, surmounts the heavy misfor tunes which suddenly befal her, by a sense of right and an earnest endeavour to fulfil her duty. She finally attained a degree ofpeace and happiness which her rival, the vain and deceitful Inez, though living iu the midst of undisturbed prosperity, never knew. It is a most fascinating work, 'which the variety of scenes, events, and characters prevents from ever be coming tedious. The following extract is when Emily, all her bright hopes completely overthrown, pays a last visit to a favourite spot;— " They went first to the ruins of the Moorish castle; and as Emily sat amongst the large stones and broken carved work, where she bad loved to play as a child, and gazed now on the moss-grown arches and crumbling walls, and now on the peaceful valley and s l um b er i ng ocean, solemn thoughts arose' within her, an d her sp irit was wrapt in a c alm which she had of late feigned, but longed for i n va i n . The wild desolation, in th e m id s t o f which she was seated, spoke to her only of decay and the mutability of all things earthly, whether it be ever restless man, or his works, or his j o ys , or his sorrow s . On the very spot where she then sat brave men had fought for victory, bold minds had schemed, human lov e had r e j o i ce d, f on d h earts b a d pined; and what now re mained to tell of those hard-won triumphs, of those proud designs, those dreams of joy, those withering regrets ? A ruin ! " But the seasons had never ceased to roll on in re gular succession—the rich valley bad yielded its har vests, the orch ar d s h a d blossomed, the rocks h a d st ill towered in unc h ang i ng grandeur, and the ocean had alternately slumbered and tossed itself in fury,—all alike unconscious that generation atter generation was being gathered to the tomb. As these thoughts passed through Emily's mind she felt for the time raised above the passing show in'which the few years of human life are spent, and her soul found a temporary rest in medi tation on the power and the promises of the Eternal Creator. ' Yes, all things change but Thee,' she mur- Inured, and the heaviest sorrow endures not through eternity.' COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAR. 21. The following had the honour of dining at the Royal table last evening: —His Grace the Duke of, Wellington, Lord and Lady John Russell, the Right Hon. Sir F. and Lady Arabella Baring, and the Rev. Mr. Birch. The band of the Royal Horse Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and played the followingseltction. Overture, " Lodoiska" Waltz, "Bird of Paradise" ................ Koenig. Selection, " Freyschutz" ..................... Weber. Finale, sth Symphony ................... Beethoven. Galen, "P r i nce of Wales" .................. Seaman. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended, and performed the following compositions: -- Overture, " Zampa" Quartette (Op. 43), allegro, adagio, tempo di minuetto, two violins, viola, and vio loncello—Messrs. Sainton, Day, and H. Chipp Spohr. Aria, " Euryanthe" The Queen walked in the Home Palk and the Slopes this morning. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family, took their usual walking and pony exercise. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this forenoon, attended by Lieut.-General Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Hon. C. Grey, and Colonel F. H. Seymour. Lord Byron and Lieut.-General Sir E. Bowater have succeeded the Earl of Morley and Captain Hon. J. Dan man in their duties of Lord and Groom in Waiting to her Majesty. Invitations have been received by the following per sonages, and they are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day:—Lord and Lady Seymour and the Hon. J. Her mione St. Maur. Viscount Canning, Sir James and Lady Graham, and Colonel Wylde. Lord and Lady John Russell took their departure this morning. Mr. Mitchell, M.P.'had an i ntervie w with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Bonham Carter had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. The Hon. Col. Anson had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down ing on Tuesday. deputation from householders and residents in the district of Burnham, Somersetshire, had an interview yesterday with the General Board of Health, at their offices, Whitehall. The deputation consisted of Messrs. John Gunter, George Reed, and Samuel Hobbs, mem bers of the local board of health for the Burnham district. Mr. R. S. Maedonnell, governor of the Gambia, had an interview with Earl Grey at the Colonial-office yes terday. The Cambridge University commission had a meeting yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. Present—the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely, Sir John Herschel, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson, secretary. Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor o f the Exchequer yesterday. Admiral Pandas had also an interview with the Right Hon. B aronet . Lord and Lady John Russell arrived in town yester day from Windsor Castle. The Marquis of Lansdowne left town yesterday for his seat, Bowood-park, Wiltshire. LONDON LIFE A, ---- i a §4 .7 . -- --"___ The half-yearly meetin g Of RANCECO MP A 1V Y. the offices, 81, King William_ thl3 company was held at in the chair. The auclitors'street, City ; Mr. C. Franks assets of showed that the funded property, and other amount to, from annual dividends of the company, now on morigages, 99.3 . 511. 1 9s. si s on stock and interest • ; annual premiums on 4,846 existing pelicles, 2d 207,473; 1; 32,314/. is. • . Is. 4 balance in hand, f urn iture, Sze , total l, 306,825/. 9d. A. re duction of 69 per c mt. is now mac!© n -d e in the premiums of policy-holders. After a short was stated that the whole of conversation, in which it thoie profits were divided amongst the policy-holders i n et , prem i ums which, within l a s' shape of diminution dinini short time had increased from 67 to 69 per cent, di and, therefore, the income-tax was only _ on their vested pro perty, the report was adopted elected an auditor, in the room of Mr. V. B. Corrie appointed a director. Th e c 7 . 11 .of Mr. T. Howell, chairman then brought forward the following resolution • be authorised to pay the ' ' That the directors representatives t of Matthew Ledger, who died in California o n 16th Sept., 1851, without having obtained a licensel:l; directors to go to that country, th e 8 from the court of of 591/. 15s. 2d., being the office value of the policy N ill 0 . 1 5 ,009 on his life on the day preceding that on which - resolution was void." The chairman stated that this p olic y became rendered necessary in consequenc e of Mr having vitiated his policy b y g oin g from Yau . Ledger Land to California withou t the co nsent of Diemen's Mr.. Ledger having contemplated proceed. the directors. ma, his representatives in this . country fl in g o Califor company for permission for him to do so, to the however, declined to pay the extra a ' Mr. Ledger, to state that 0n ,.. the premium. it was, however, fair tn eant required extra Mr. Ledger had always paid the for . residing in Van Diemen's Landa premium should be director's now thought his representatives and the allowed to receive the amount his policy i was worth the day before he voided it by leaving the to, the fol lowing This resolution having been agreed to before 0, the delay lowing was also passed, to avoid, in futu r necessariiy ceased by having to come its ly.coniing meeting of the policy-holders to obtain t h.., a general the payment of the value of a policy oue'...t• consent to theourt, hold on voided - .—" That the order of the general the 13th of January, 1830, relatii,g to in dying by t every case the office value of a policy on the life (q uay Payment or by his own h::.nels, be rescinded; rind that society where any policy of assurance issued shell become void, the directors be autho r i„„ h .2 policy not ex powered to pay, if they shall think fit, any ' e - ( i and em ceeding in amount the office value of the day preceding that on which the policy ' n icY on the wall have be come void." A vote of thanks to the chairman and directors closed the proceedings. ---------. ---- THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION AT . G— p tAT BR IDGE . —The jury, after hearing much contrad i ctor y evidence as t o the construction and strength of the boiler which ex ' loded eventually concluded their labour s by r eturning follow: th e ing verdict :—" That the deceased came by thei r d eat h s through the bursting of a boiler , b ut w h at . w,, the precise cause of the boiler exploding there W as not sufheieat evidence to show." MRS. ITLENNAL—We learn that Mrs. M`Lennan and child, who were so providentially saved from the wreck of the Amazon, arrived in this city on Saturday evening, and are now staying at Comely Bank. Mrs. 11PLennan is still in an indifferent state of health, and of course suffers much anxiety regarding the fate of her husband , who was also on board the ill-fated vessel, and has not since been heard of.— Zciltiburgh, ,Advertiser. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. LIVERPOOL. JA.N. 21. This afternoon, at half-past two, the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Captain Nye, arrived in the Mersey, from New York direct, with thirty-nine passengers, and 700,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Pacific left New York on the 10th instant at noon, and encountered very heavy adverse winds throughout her voyage. Immediately upon the re ceipt of the telegraphic announcement of her being off Holyhead this morning, it was currently reported that Jenny Lind was amongst the passengers by the Pacific ; but it now appears that the Swedish song. stress has delayed her delay to Europe until the 28th instant, when she will sail on board her old favourite " ship the Atlantic, under the command of Capt. West. On the day of the departure of the Pacific, a tele graphic communication was received in New York trom Philadelphia, announcing the safe arrival on the previous (1 ,, y, at the latter place, of the screw -steamer City of Pittsburg, after a passage of forty days from Liverpool. The Royal mail steam-ship Cambria arrived at Bos ton on the Bth instant, at one P.M. • The principal and most interesting intelligence by this arrival is the conversational banquet given to Kossuth 3t Washington, on Wednesday, the 7th inst., at the National Hotel. About 300 persons were present. The Hon. W. IL King, President of the Sanate, presided, supported by Kossuth and Speaker Boyd on his right, and the Hon. Daniel Webster on his left. Several distinguished individuals occupied seats near the chair. The first toast was " The President of the United States," to which Mr. Webster responded. He said— "I am here, to-night, Mr. President, with other heads of departments who belong to the executive administra- Lion Of the Government, and who are the confidential councillors of the President. I rise in their behalf as well as my own, to tender to the company our thanks for the manner in which the sentiment has been received by the meeting here assembled, and to assure you, sir, a❑d all present, that in kindness and good wishes towards the guests of the occasion, and in attachment to the great principles of political liberty—(Applause),— and national independence—(Applause)—there is no man who partakes in a higher degree than the Presi dent of the United States in the general feelings of this vast community.—(Applause.) Mr. King, in giving the toast of the evening, said:— It was one to which every generous American would cordially respond. He, in common with others, while the Hungarian struggle was going on, rejoiced in her success, and mourned her temporary defeats. We honoured those who struggled, and were prepared to sacrifice all to obtain liberty. We followed our illus trious guest in his mournful exile, were the first to call him to return, and the last that were ready to receive him with open arms to the land of liberty and of hospi tality. The toast I give to you is this:—" Hungary. represented in the person of our honoured guest, having proved herself worthy to be free by the virtue and valour of her sons, the law of nations, and the dictates of justice, alike demand that she shall have fair play in her struggle for independence."—(Enthusiastic cheering.) In reply Kossuth made a long speech, which he thus commenced : As once Cyness, the Epirote, stood among the senators of Rome, who, with an earnest word of self-conscious majesty, controlled the condition of the world, and arrested mighty kings in their march, thus, full of admiration and of reverence, I stand before you. Legislature of the new capitol—that glorious hall of your people's collective majesty. The capitol of old yet stands, but the spirit has departed from it and come over to yours, purified by the air of liberty. The old stands, a mournful monument of the fragility of human things—yours as a sanctuary of eternal rights. The old beamed with the red lustre of conquest, now darkened by oppression's gloomy night— , yours beams with freedom's bright ray. The old ab sorbed the world by its own centralised glory—yours protects your own nation against absorption even by itself. The old was awful with irrestricted power— yours is glorious with having restricted it. At the view of the old, nations trembled—at the view of yours, humanity hopes. To the old, misfortune was only in troduced with fettered hands to kneel at the triumphant conqueror's heels—to yours, the triumph of introduction is granted to unfortunate exiles, invited the honour of a seat, and where kings and Caws never are hailed for their powers, might, and wealth, there the persecuted chief of a downtrodden nation is welcomed as your great republic's guest, precisely because he is persecuted, helpless, and poor. In the old, the terrible vice victis was the rule—in yours, protection to the oppressed, ma lediction to ambitious oppressors, and consolation to the vanquished in a just cause. And while out of the old a conquered world was ruled, you in yours provide for the common confederative interests of a territory larger than the conquered world of the old. There sat men boasting their will to be the sovereign of the world—here sit men whose glory is to acknowledge the law of nature and of nature's God, and to do what their sovereign, the people, wills. Sir, there is history in these parallels. History of past ages, and history of future centuries, may be often recorded in few words. The small particulars to which the passion of living men clings with fervent zeal, as if the fragile fingers of men could arrest the rotation of destiny's wheel—these particulars die away. it is the issue which makes history, and that issue is always logical. There is a necessity of consequences wherever the necessity of position exists. Principles are the Alpha; they must finish with Omega, and they will. Thus history may be told often in few words. Before the heroic struggles of Greece first engaged your country's sympathy for the fate of freedom in Europe—then so far distant, now so near—Chateaubriand happened to be in Athens, and he heard from a minaret raised upon the Propyleam ruins, a Turkish priest, in Arabic language, announcing the lapse of hours to tho Christians of Minervastown. What immense history in the small fact of a Turkish Imanm crying %out " Pray man, the hour is running fast, and the judgment draws near." Sir, there is equally a history of future ages written in the honour bestowed by you to my humble self. The first Governor of independent Hungary, driven from his native land by Russian violence, an exile on Turkish soil, protected by a Mahommedan Sultan against the blood-thirst of Christian tyrants, cast back a prisoner to far Asia by diplomacy, rescued from his Asiatic prison by America, crossing the Atlantic, charged with the hopes of Europe's oppressed nations, pleading, a poor exile, before the people of this great Republic, his down-trodden country's wrongs, and its intimate connexion with the fate of the European conti nent, and with the boldness of a just cause claiming the principles of the Christian religion to be raised to a law of nations, and to see not only the boldness of the poor exile forgiven, but to see him consoled by the sym pathy of millions, encouraged by indi v id ua l s, associa tions, meetings, cities, and states, supported by operative aid, and greeted by Congress and by the Government as the nation's guest, honoured out of generosity with that honour which only one man before him received— and that man received them out of gratitude—with honours such as no potentate ever can receive, and this banquet here, and the toast which I have to thank you for.; oh, indeed, sir, there is a history of future ages in all these facts." Kossuth then glanced at the fate of Hungary, paid a tribute to the greatness of the United States developed by union, and touched upon the principle of non-intervention : " We have no fair play (he said); the Cossack already rules, by Louis Napoleon's usurpation, to the very bor ders of the Atlantic ocean. One of your great statesmen, now, to my deep sorrow, bound to the sick bed of far advanced ego—alas! that I am deprived of the advice which his wisdom could have imparted to me—your great statesman told the world !30 years ago that Paris was transferred to St. Petersburgh. What would he now say, when St. Petersburgh is transferred to Paris, and Europe is but an appendix. to Russia? Alas! Eu rope can no more secure to Europe fair play. Albion only remains; but even Albion casts a sorrowful glance over the waves. Still we will stand in our place—sink or swim, live or die. You know the word. It is your own. We will follow it. It will be a bloody path to tread. Despots have conspired against the world. Terror spreads over Europe, and anticipating persecution rules from Paris to Pesth. There is a gloomy silence, like the silence of nature before the terrors of a hurricane. It is a sensible silence, only dis turbed by the thousand fold rattling of the muskets by which Napoleon murder& that people which gave him a home when he was an exile, and by the groans of new martyrs in Sicily, Milan, Vienna, and Pesth. The very sympathy which I met with in England, and was ex pected to meet here, throws my sisters into the dun geons of Austria. Well, God's will be done. The heart may break, but duty will be done. We will stand in our place, though to us in Europe there be no fair play. But so much I hope, that no just man on earth can charge me with unbecoming arrogance, when here, on this soil of freedom, I kneel down and raise my prayer to God—' Almighty Father of humanity, will thy w mer ciful arm not raise a power on earth to protect. the !E t i , _, of nations, when there are so many to violates r It is a prayer, and nothing else. What remain to the oppressed if they were not . ,e r i _ mlttcd to pray? The rest is is the hand of Go o d. wr encou tlemen, I know where [ stand. No honour, n where I raging generosity, will make me over forgetro my duty stand, and what is due from me to yell- Here will be is silently to await what you or your () p l u c k! . and be it y our N'' , ill knows to be my prayer and na pleased to pronounce about that which Wpielabc ,op,inio.n to pronounce, or bo it your aim, wi y ilnot before it with de_ will understand your will, and to take 130ticO of it, v . otion, hopeless, perhaps, but my bow wart full of admira tion, love, and gratitude t? d even here, I may be glorious land. Eat one sing younirYogrenerous eoe, to your le w rd as may secure me f'm Ford the noble minded p onle permitted to say, only sueh being misunderstood. I came .0 t ' o ts enerous epemti ' %`" - of the United States to reeuom pathy for the impending these n oppressed nations enter- Republic, as a state, as Dower li g °l9 s t t a ru in g ri b i t g l o fr f ee op y p r . es; . ed f v° " 4 . ra- I interpreted the on the European continent, u oestmen, senators, ,aa and - hopes and w tain; but as to your great ishes which on legislators of that.Repubhc,. only t ase.ertain from their wisdom and experience what is their judgment upon a earth, I stand before . thestat ae •ion of national law and international qt..,s, .right. I hope that they will, by theforeboding events and now , . t events on the other great continent, feel induced to pro nounce in time their vote about that law and those rights, and I hoped and hope t . a. prono . uncing their vote it will be in favour of th n e broad principles of international justice, and consonent with their republican institutions and their democratic life.. That is all I know and Europe knows; ws; the immense weight of such a pronunciation from such a place. But never had I the impious wish to try to entangle this great Republic into difficulties inconsistent with its own welfare, its own security, its own interest. I rather repeatedly and earnestly de clared that a war on this account by your country is utterly impossible, and a mere phantom. I always declared that the United States remained masters of their actions, and under every circumstance will act as they judge consistent with the supreme duties to them selves. But I said, and say, that such a declaring of just principles would insure to the nations of Europe fair play in their struggle for freedom and independence, because the declaration of such a power as your Repub lic will be respected even where it should not be liked; and Europe's oppressed nations will feel cheered in resolution and doubled in strength to maintain the de cision of their American brethren on their own behalf with their own lives. Various speeches followed, and the banquet passed off most satisfactorily, On the following day the Jackson Democratic Association entertained Kossuth at dinner, five hun dred persons being present, and he spnke at conside ruble length in explanation of the position of affairs in Europe as connected with Hungary. A correspondont of the New fork Herald writes as follows : " Previous to Kossuth's arrival in this country, I statcd to you that dispatches had been received by the Government, giving an account of his conduct on board the Mississippi, and which were calculated damage him in the opinion of the people of the United States. W ith e view, probably, to avoid all appearances of hos tility to the Magyar, the subject was dropped, and, when the Mississippi arrived at New York, one of its officers went so far as to denounce, in tufo, the injurious imputa tions. But the subj , ct is now attracting attention here, and there is no doubt Congress Will call for the informs tion in posJession of the President. The most important dispatches are in the State Department, and they consist of coraniunicat ions from C a pt a i n L ong to Consul Hodge, and the Consuls dispatches to the department.: In ad dition to these, the navy department has on file dis patches from Commodore Morgan and Captain Long. These dispatches detail a series of insults, on the part of Kossuth and his suite, to the officers of the Missis sippi, which nothing but the forbearance of those in sulted, the peculiar position in which they were placed, and the partial apologies of Kossuth, could have pre vented from being summarily punished. Kossuth had had an interview with Henry Clay, who welcomed him cordially to America, but depre cated any intervention in the affairs of European nations. The health of the venerable statesman still continues to decline. " We learn from Washington," says the New York Herald, " that Kossuth does not deem it necessary for him to immediately return to Europe, now that he is convinced his mission to this country has proved a failure. Perhaps Louis Napoleon's coup d' &at also assisted him in arriving at this conclusion. It is said that he now contemplates a visit to the West. After once seeing the fertile land in that region, it is not at all unlikely that he will be disposed to settle quietly down there, and pass the remainder of his days in agricultural pursuits. Possibly he may yet be a member of Congress from one of the western states." A telegraphic communication from Washington, of the date of the 9th, says :—" Henry Clay has written a letter in favour of General Cass for President. I stage this on unquestionable authority. It is also asserted that Mr. Fillmore will soon be out with a letter declining to be a candidate, but intimating in favour of Daniel Webster. Great commotion among the other Presidential candidates." The report of the late judges and other officers of the territory of Utah, respecting the religion and polygamy of the Mormons, has been laid before the President. Accompanying this curious exposé of the doings in Mo rmondom was a counter statement from Governor Brigham Young and his coadjutors. The latter party, of course, charge the judges and secretary with official misconduct, but do not establish the fact that the social condition of the Mormons is any better than represented by the nturned officers. A CHALLENGE FROM KOSSUTH TO CAPTAIN LONG, &c. (Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.) WASHINGTON, JAN. 7.—A1l the circumstances con nected with the alleged difficulties on board the United States steam-ship Mississippi. after she started with Kossuth and companions for this country, as reported under the authority of an attaché to our paper, are gospel truths, and are on record in the Navy Depart ment, and will be furnished when called for officially by Congress. The thing went so far that Kossuth chal lenged Captain Long, but subsequently withdrew the challenge, and apologized. This apology sealed Captain Long's lips—for among men of honour retractation and apology close the lips of both parties. Still the facts occurred, although suppressed for the time. It was a series of petty insults and vexations, continued from day to day. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, JAN. 1 0.—Government securities and State stocks are in demand, and our quotations are fully maintained. Speculative railroad stocks and bends have been rather fluctuating, but with the ease now mani fested in the money market, prices appear gradually to assume an upward tendency. The goneral tone of the money market, from the unceasing abundance of capital, is easier, which is not witht - Ait its influence upon the price.of money. The sales of mercantile paper range from 9 to 12 per cent.—choice names being held at lower retes of interest. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. B.—The Cambria's newsEhas been received and published. Cotton bxs been active, the sales reaching 7,500 bales; prices closed at an ad vance of *O.; strict middling being quoted at Tic. CHARLESTON, JAN. B.—Cotton has been in active demand—the sales of the weak amounting to 3,700 bales; prices close buoyant, and have an upward tendency. THE LOSS OF THE AMAZON. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.-Th o Hecate steaus-sloop, Commander Hand►, which was dispatched from this port on Thursday last, on the, we fear, now hopeless task of discovering the remains or survivors, if any, of the ill fated Amazon, returned here this morning without being enabled to accomplish any of the objects of her mission. Her machinery broko down while at sea, and as soon as it can be repaired she will start again. She weld into Brest, and cruized about the spot whore the accident occurred, but could not see or hear anything more than is already known. One of the trawling boats of this port brought in yesterday a piece (about half) of a ship's new fir beam, about 18 feet long, In the middle of the beam is a piece of an iron knee, and a number of iron spike nails; it is supposed to be a lower-deck beam, about 12 by 15 inches square, and to it is attached part of a lady's dress, slightly burnt. One or two of the sides of the beam are only rough-hewn. Several ships in the port have reported that pieces of wreck are floating near the Bolt Head, in consequence of which Messrs. Fox, S 'us, and Co., have issued ad vertisements to the following effect:----" Wreck.—A quantity of wreck being reported to be floating about the coast, supposed to be part of the remains of the Amazon, parties bringing in the port any portion thereof are re quested to communicate immediately with Fox, Sow, and Co." WEYMOUTH, JAN. 19.—The paddle-bex of a large steamer, supposed from its size and appearance to have belonged to the Amazon, was washed on shore yester day in the West Bay, near Fleet. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The remains of a lower made mast, 62 feet in length, burnt from end to end, with several small bolts and three iron hoops thereon, about 24 feet in diameter and 4 inches broad, supposed a part of the Amazon was picked up yesterday, about nine miles S.E. of le Start Point, and towed in here by the pilot cutter Fanny, No. 13, of this port, Robert Kers well, master. FALMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Yesterday afternoon a large piece of wreck was washed ashore on Swanpoe.lb having, in connection with the circumstanefe its s t the !a, having de struction of the Amazon, every likelihood o formed a part of that ill-fated vessel. The piece of wreck consists of six 20 feet 8 inch in length planks of red pine, with the remains of a seventh plank, almost wholly burnt away; they are three i nches in thickness, with a nine inch aurfaee. There are four stanchions, on beams, that had been tenentei at one if not at both ends; the thickness of the stanchions, or beams eight bothct i on ends of inches by six inches , and in l en g th si x feet, Th e wreck had most evidently been subject to th e a a fierce fire. No paint being discernible, a anu of the wreck being fair, it is hard to judge as to what part of the vessel , or to what vessel, it belonged. Th e most probable thing m y appears, to e. Jjudgment, of its having formed a part of a dwarf bulkhead in which go ods or stores ar e stowed on board ofsteamers, part of an orlop deck._ The f lush aide Of or was the wreck muc h more charred and burn t t h an the sides to which the beams are attached. I cannot believe it forms a part of a paddl e-bo x , as w as reported here last night. The wreck has not been water. A piece of black cotton riband, as rna if il p Y a d rt ays in glcd e ndrou one of the spik 'of a hat band, was entan ord stanchion was enalls of the wreck. The fifth the nails remained. gone, if one had been attached; BRIDPORT , J AN. 20, The part of a paddle-box re ported pick e d up yes terday is now on the beach ; the half of the b rass b 4 cwt. 101 b • with earing taken from it this day weighs ~ ten upright iron bolts, with screws, about 20 feet long see the name'' Low ltroor." Everything is quite new. G 'HATS - WITH THE " DISPATCH."—The second distribution of the ill us t ra t e d co l oure d Ch ar t o f the Great Exhibition will take place on Sunday, the Ist of February, on which day all persons who were disappointed in receiving a copy of this highly interesting statistical document may secure it by giving orders to the newsvenders in town and country, or by forwarding them to the Dispatch - o ffice, 139, Fleet -street. This highly-finished Chart shows by diagrams, in different colours, and at one view, the number of persons who, daily, during a period of five months, visited the Crys tal Palace ; the amount of money tak en at th e doors, and derived from various sources; and other valuable statistics. It is surmounted with an engraved View of the Building, and has been prepared by Corporals A. Gardener and J. Mack, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and copied by permission of the Royal Commissioners, for the Weekly Dispatch. In consequence of the expected large demand for the Chart, over and above the enormous issue on the 4th of January, it is earnestly requested that all orders may be sent in at the earliest:possible period. LIVES of THE QUEENS OF ENGLA.ND, BY AGNES STRICKLAND.—The fifth volume of the newly-revised edition of Miss Strickland's popular work, just published, contains the lives of Anne of Denmark, Consort of James L ; Henri etta Maria, Consort of Charles I.; and Catherine of Bra ganza, Consort of Charles II. --three narratives full of curi ous information, and of singular value. With the exciting interest of a romance, the reader of Miss Strickland 's his tory hurries on from page to page. Her volumes are fall of confirmation of the poet's assertion, how realities at times outvie romance —how history may nurse fable in the start ling grAngimeas of ito 404 H ft S v ; JANUA Y 22, ISL 2 NAVAL INTELLIGENC, E. PROMOTIONS. Second Master—William Stanton (18.t8), lat e o f t h e ordinary guard-ship at Portsmouth, has Clem prow A c d to the rank of master. Acting Boatswain—Joseph Dennison. APPOINTMENTS. Master—F. W. Paul (1841), from the IlLonareh, ordi nary guard-ship at Sheerness, has been appointed to the Horatio, 24, screw steam guard-ship at that port. Paymaster—H. S. Hooper (1846), late of the Victory guard-ship at Portsmouth, to the Magioienne, steam guard -ship at Devonport. Second Master—J. M. Pridham (1847), late of Ache ron steam-sloop, to Magicienne. Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master-Commander Pettey, will have her defects completed by the 26th inat. Intrepid screw-schooner, for Arctic service, will be out of the engineers' hands on the 23d. Pioneer all be in hand unsil the sth February. Magicienne stem-frigate, Captain Ramsay, commis sioned as snare guard-ship at Devorport, is to have a complement of 200 men. Resistance troop-ship, Master-Commander. Bredshrew, will be completed for further service, at Woolwich, by the 24Th instant. Victoria and Albert royal yacht, Captain Lon 3 A. Fitzelarence, was brought down from her moorini ;3 at Portsmouth Harbour on Tuesday; she was dime aced, and will go into dock to refit when the Eurydice comes out. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The examination of the preserved meats at the Royal Clarence Victualling Establishment, Gosport, has concluded. The following is the result of the entire inee eent i on Total number opened, 6,378; condeined, 5,463; good, 910. It thus appears that out of 6,378 can%i o tershoafve"bpereen served meat" opened in this inquiry,only found consumable, the rest having been condemned from not only the general putridity of their contents, but from the fact of those contents disclosing the " preservation" of matters never bargained for by the " high contract ing powers." Nor does this large number include all. It must be borne in mind that about three months or so ago the agent for the contractor was allowed to carry off without examination 2,000 canisters of stuff, forming a portion of the same contract, their smell alone condemn.. ing them in his estimation! The officers who have been deputed to perform the disgusting task of reporting upon these discoveries ought to be handsomely rewarded for their trouble; and now they have completed their labours, we trust their conclusion here i het a pr.ltlas to a more rigid and satisfactory inquiry in a higher place. The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, flag-ship of the Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean squa dron, bent sails this morning, and was afterwards taken over to the Gosport shore, for the purpose of swinging for the adjustment of her compasses, Lee. Tne Edinburgh, 58, screw steam-ship, is being has tened with her fitting very expeditiously. Part of her engine works are on board, and she is being copparei, preparatory to leaving dock. A remarkable accident occurred in this dockyard yes terday afternoon, which might have been attended with serious censcquences. A large party of workmen are employed in preparing the foundation for the new smithery, and a number of holes are being dug to re ceive the columns. These holes are about six feet by five feet, nine ft et deep, and are lined with wood to pre vent the loose earth from falling in. In the one in ques tion was a man at work with a pickaxe, and a pair of horses were engaged close by in hoisting the Mud front a hole at a further part of the building. The horses had just drawn up a load of mud and were turning round, when one of them slipped backwards into the hole, and dragged the other in on the top of him. Fortunately there happened to be an iron drain pipe across one side of the mouth of the hole, which prevented the horses from falling on the man, who otherwise would have been crushed beneath them. He was soon extricated from his perilous situation, and escaped unhurt, with the exception of a slight, bruise on the arm. The next thing to be done was to get out the horses; and after some deliberation two scaffold poles were erected across the hole, and the uppermost horse was slung and hoisted to the top, but just at the point of being lanled he slipped from the slings and again fell on the top of the other horse. Every one present now thought both of them were dead; another attempt, how ever, was made, and after some time they were both got out, and neither of them hal received much injury. PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty's steam-vessel Hecate, Commander Hand, arrived here this morning from Brest, after a fruitless search for survivors of the Amazon. She has been cruising on the grounds, as ordered, but has not fallen in with any portion of the wreck; neither has she seen the Sprightly or Avon. The Hecate is ordered to sail again on the same mission when some repairs to her machinery have been com pleted. Her Majesty's surveying vessel Sparrow arrived on Sunday from Queenstown; on Monday she went into harbour to be paid eff. Iler Majesty's tra❑sport Diligence arrived on Monday with stores from Wcolwich. The steamer Shahperi,:42,o tons, Captain Butcher, built in the Thamas for the Turkish Government, put in hero to coal on Saturday evening, on her way from Lon don to Constantinople. She is expected to sail this after noon. The sloop Tern, of Whitstable, Captain Livingstone, from Whitstable for Sr. Michael's, in ballast, which put in here yesterday, reported that about a quarter to four o'clock on Monday morning, Start Point bearing N. by W. about seven or eight miles, wind southefly, saw an. object, to all appearance the bottom or side of a large ship. Captain W. H. Kennedy, Inspecting Commander of the Coast Guard for the Plymouth district, immedi ately dispatched a revenue cruiser in search, but in con sequence cf the hazy and unsettled state of the weather she returned without effecting any discovery. The fishing sloop Amelia, Tucker master, belonging to Mr. Millman, of Plymouth, picked up on Saturday near the Eddystone, a piece of red pine 22 feet long and 131 by 121 inches thick, burnt about three parts through, and then, apparently, broken off by some vio lent concussion, attached to it was a piece of clear cross-barred muslin, the fragment of a lady's dress. Th e timber is judged to hare been a part of one of the lower deck beams of the unfortunate mail-packet Amazon. The owners of the Amazon, the Royal Mail Steam packet Company , throu g h their agents at Plymouth, Messrs. Fox, Sons, -and Co., have paid the master of the Dutch galliot Hillecbicna, the sum of_ 60/. and the p or t charges incurred , fo r returning to Eagland with thirteen of the crew and pas sen g ers of th e Amazon, picked up at sea on the evening of the 4th inst., instead of landing them at Gibraltar as originally intended. WOOLWICH, JAN. 21 . — Th e Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander H. W . Allen ; left Woolwich to-day, and will take the authorities on board at Portsmouth, their object being to visit the harbours of refuge at Jer sey and the Channel Islands. t frond the G oneral Post -offi ce .) S EABORNE MAILS. [N rigniSes that Althebymathilse mareornisenng rACNS. When made up hi FroinwTh l at 10eneralPost-otnes port dis_ London. patched. due. Liverpool .• B it, pkt.)N 4an 23 Liverpool .. America (b 7 s. kt.) Jan. 27 „. America (b b Y y M N l l4th of the tnonth— Spoinauthaommulpt. America st coast )•• - Africa (W e „, ..... N'l9th & 30th of mo. Dover Alevuldria • • N Daily .. • • . Dover • Belgium M 9th of the Month South t. Brazil 4" M 9th of the month SonthaimmPpt. Buen° faChagres) M2d ~.v• 17th of month Southampt. C,: l n i e fb o rni f Ge a ` v od Hope X 14th of month Plymouth • • Cap© o ut ••• • N 711117th 27th of mo 'Dover • • Central America • • M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. Chancel 14 " ** • • N Mon., Wed., &Fri.,Southampt. S'outhampt. Chili •• • • • • • M 17th of the mouth Southampt. France • • M & N Twice dail i Greece * • • y.. Dover •• Hamb gh • • • • 7th 17th 27 tit of molDover • • ur Holland .„ • X Tuesday & Friday London .. • Wednes. & Satur. London .. Honduras„ Ireland . N 17th of the month SolithamPt• • • •• M & Tvrice daily .. Holyhead— India (via Southamp Indies.) M 20Lh of the month Southampt. (viaMstrseilles) Ni 8 th& 24th efmonth Dover Mediterranean (via Routharn , tor i ) - M a Mediteri4neu (via Mar seilles) •• •• N Mexico Madeira Malta* .. .. Naples* .. • • • • N Papal States* .. • • N Peninsular— •• • • M Peru • • " M i j Ar ai r ' iv 2 e(l 9 Jan. 29 Feb. 3 Jan. 28 Daily Feb. 16 Jau. 16 Jan. 20 Feb. 3 Jan. 30 Jan. 20 Tn. Tk.Sat Jan. 20 Twicedaily Jan. 30 Tnes. Sat. Mon. Thar Jan. 20 Twicedaily Feb, 28 Feb. 1 20th of the month ISouthampt. 1 Jan. 2i nth& 24th ofmonth 2d of the month.. ,9th of the month 7th,17th,19th,27th & 30th of month 15th 15th 25th ofme 15th 15th 25th of mo 7th 17th 27th of mo 17th of the month sth 15th 25th of mo 17th of the month 'Dover •• Southampt. Southampt. Feb. 1 Feb. 5 Feb. 16 Jan. 211 Jan. 22 Jan. 22 Jan. 26 Jan. 22 Jan. 22 Jan. 20 I 1 Dover Dover Dover .. Southampt. Southampt. Dover •. Southampt. Tuscany* .. N West Indies M West Indies (except Havana & Nassau) 1112 d of the month ..ISenthanipt. I r et % 5 * The mails to those c onntries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. The direct Havre mail from London via Southampton during this month will be made up three times a week only, instead of daily. citipoion „ . _ maiis t o and from California, via the United Mato are now despatched and due by every .American packet ALARMING STEAM-BO AT COLLISION. GRAVESEND, JAN. 20.—A very serious collision hap pened on the river last night, nearly abreast of the en trance of the Thames and Medway Canal, which ended in the foundering of a fine brig, called the Spray, Mr- Turnbull, laden with coal, and bound from Newcastle to London. In the course of the day the brig had brought up near the spot above described, and was at speller w h e n the unfortunate o ccurrence too k place. About e ight o'clock the Royal Victoria steam-ship, fro m Leith , wa s observed coming ;. up the channel, an d on:nearing this place it is custom ar y, w h en p ra cticable, for them to steer a little t o t h e K ent s ide, in order to take on board the usual river Pilot The Royal Victoria' is said to have done so on this oc casion, and, at that particular moment, a smack, under canvass, had got so in the v of tho brig a s t o entirely prevent its being seen by the steamer until they were close to each other. The engines of the steamer were, with all dispatch, s topped and reversed, but th e way she had on and the sharp tide which was running, drove her on to the brig with considerable force. It was soon found that she was fast filling with water, a n d the crew lost no time in s avin g what the y coul d and making their way en board the Royal Victoria. Shortly after wards the Spray wen t do wn in sever a l f at h oms. Had the vessel not been en' and lying at an c h or, i t is thought that she might have b een got neare r i n s h are, where her W c h a nce of being raised would have been greater. Captain I I Rowland, the harbour-master, has already made . arran .ge ments to the the wreck out o: the way . of tae naviga tion the channel. It will be blown tion of up if other means fails. The steamer did not sustain ' • any injury that we could hear. A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. William M'Ewan, Sons, and Co., tea merchants and patent sugar re finers, of Glasgow, was held on Monday, at which it was resolved to place the affairs in the hands of Messrs. land and Mackenzie, accountants, for investigation.. Tha . liabilities are upwards of 100,0001., and the assets, is ex pected, will realise about 60,0001. In the meantime Jim sugar refinery, as well as the other business of the firm, 15 t o be carried On under illspection...Arorth Brituh Arad.