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LORD BROUGHAM. Veß 4 o l ..t a t neeting of the Reformers of Abercromby Ward, Li -11,,,i21, to celebrate the return of Dr. Carson at the late ZelPal Electi o n, on the Chairman (Joseph Brice, Esq.) wea l. " Lord Brougham, the enlightened patriot and un idvocato of national education," 1, r. would LARDNER, in returning thanks, said—Nothing, he was to afford to that gifted man more sincere pleasure .7t.0 receive from a company so intelligent as the present l tribute of its homage to his services in advaneirg the mo •st an a . • u Intellectual character of his fellow countrymen.— ii.._ e : Ar t and cheers.) With respect to the public and poll character of Lord Brougham, a difference of opinion take exi st ; although there were b ut a f ew me n who had ti a lon g p u bli c lif e , i n th e course of which lie had Pan active part the stirring events of the times, with Paster credit than that distinguised nobleman. But what eptcir ,clifference of opinion might exist respecting him as a tr e c iau—and it should not be forgotten that he had con- I ti led, by his advocacy for the extension of municipal privi eet, to h um produce such meetings as the present, every friend of t h a nitY must award to him the most disinterested praise for steocuntinued exercise of hi 3 talents to *drama education s aor n gthe people.—( Cheers ) If there were one individual 11 , -9 tam another who had produced the greateet results by P 'earied an d anx i ous l a b our f or the advancement and edu ofttouof the lower classes of his countrymen—on which their I and mo ra l happiness so much depended—that individual %, Lord Brougham. The richness of the fruit which his geni us and philanthropy bad planted, was now beginning to PPear, and the cause of national education had received an hrepetus which cou ld not be withstood. The influence which Politically exercised in the country, the resou r c es of his tTiwerfuland. active miad—all had been made subservient to e cause whi c h h e had so mush at heart. Dr. Lardner then teceeded to b ear test i mony to Lord Brougham's unremitting in the cause of science and literature, even when en- T r i fled in the most arduous public duties. During the passing the , Ref orm Mil, he ( Dr. L.) was travelling in the Ro uth of It a l y an d h e we ll re membered seeing the walls pla _ 'rded wi t h ' Lord Brougham's excellent work on Natural , T heology. T o hi s exert i ons m ight be attributed the ex's :nee of the London University, with its accompanying be ,ta, which enabled thd young men of the present day to at "ilu the hi g h est academic honours without reference to s-ct or and presented all the advantages hitherto exclusively P 2 7 3 : sassed by Oxford and Cambridge.—( Cheers.) The o ft r h in g of that excellent institution was the King's College. 'e L on d on U n i vers i ty was ca ll e d into being by the Whig a nd Radical parties,—and the Tories, ashamed of being out th* i t eped by t h e i r opponen ts, founded the King's College—so a th e cause of literature and science, in Loth instances was benefited. But it was not to London alone that these advan. 'ages were confined. In the North there was the University D urham—an institution which would confer great and per tanent •good. It was impossible to trace the career of Lord h:"gharn without being convinced of the striking national hefits produced by his unrivalled talents. Even in retire taent his active mind was ever at work to serve his countrymen ----it seemed as though his spirit never slept. Whatever amount ( If credit he (Dr. 1..) may have received for the works with which his name was connected, which the press had g iven to t he World, it was owing to Lord Brougham, from whom he bedr ec received many valuable suggestions, and whose friendship prized.—( Cheers.) LITERATURE. at a short distance from its surface. Hence the idea that the healthines. of the air, at different times, and in different places, depends upon the relative quantity of oxygen gas, has been exploded. Eren in the miasmata of marshes, arid the effluvia of infected places, there is no deficiency of oxygen, so that their noxious qualities must be owing to some p inciple of toe subtle a nature to be detected by chem'cal in a a. Nay, more, in the infectious atmosphere of an hospital, the odour of which' was almost intolerable, Seguin could not discover any appre ciable deficiency of oxygen, or detect any other peculiarity of composition. Perhaps some of our readers may not be aware how very small a proportion of any foreign ingredient can b: detected ; if so, the following experiments will satisfy them upon this point :—A single grain of iron, dissolved in nitro hydrochloric acid, commonly called aqua regia, - - and mixed with three 3,137 pints of water, will be .diffusgdArouglohe whole mass; by means of the ferro-cyanuret of c p,ota,‘*4):: which strikes a uniform blue tint, some portion of iron may be detected in every part of the liquid. This experiment proves the grain of iron to hare been divided into ratlizr more than twenty-four millions of parts ; and if the same portion of iron were still further diluted, its diffusion through the whole liquid might be proved by concentrating any portion of it by evapo ration, and detecting the metal by its appropriate tests. Agai.:, starch is so delicate a test of the presence of iodine, that, ac cording to Stromeyer, a liquid containing 1-450,000 th of its weight of iodine, receives a blue tinge from a solution of starch. These facts are mentioned to show how very greatly diluted those poisons must be which the air is supposed to hold in solution, when they thus baths the endeavours of the most scientific chemists to detect them. And we can scarcely be so credulous as to conceive, that existing, as they must (if, indeed, they exist at all except in imagination), in a state so diluted, and consequently so very widely diffused, they could he capable of producing the powerful, and, in many instances. the sudden eff2ets whic have been ascribed to them. We have, therefore, Perhaps, sufficient grounds to justify us in re jecting the notion of a poisoned atmosphere' being the cause of epidemics, as unphilosophical, inasmuch as it is devoid of even the shadow .of proof " THE NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT OF SCOTLAND. No. XVI. Rdinbvrgh, Blackwood and Sons, 1 837. This part contains a map of Ayrshire, with a sta tistical, historical, and topographical account of the pariJtes of Ayr, Newton-upon-Ayr, Ochiltree, St. Quivox, Sorn, Muirkirk, IVlauchline, Monkfon, and Prestwick ; Galstian, Ardrossan, Dalty, West Ku bride, Dalrymple, and Dunlop, by the Clergymen of these districts. As we have repeatedly stated, this work does honour to the abilities and the industry of the Clergymen of the Church of Scotland; and, when completed, will deservedly take precedence of every other work of the kind ever published. THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF AGRICUL- TUBE. No. XXXIX. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh. This is a publication which the intelligent agricul turist should no more think of wanting , than he would of tilling his fields without a plough. Every Num-_ ber is sure to contain some two or more articles of more value to a farmer than its entire cost. In the present we find, among the subjects of general inte rest, an article on the kinds of food best for. fattening cattle; another on the diseases incident to cultivated plants; a third on the manufacture of cider; a fourth on railways ; and a fifth on the propagation of apple trees. The names 'of the writers are prefixed to their respective articles, which adds to the weight of tl.e statements therein contained. HEATH'S BOOK OF BEAUTY Longman, London, 1837. The title of this Annual is no misnomer, for it is n every respect a " Book of Beauty," containing s(n e of the loveliest female portraits we have ever S , e eti, engra ve d in the first style of art ; an d several 'etches in prose and verse, which, to quote Cole- • lid ges description of his Christabel, are " beautiful exc eedingly." The Countess of Blessington is the !clitor--and who so every way qualified to superintend 1 li ght, graceful volume of this descrip tion ? We will not compare it with other Annuals, for " comparisons" ---43 Mrs. Malaprop justly and 'eloquently remar ks— - s are odorous," and in truth, the " Book of Beauty" is _ l Work sui generis. The portrait of the Countess of e lleaterfield, which forms the frontispiece, is that of a a ngularly lovely young woman, whose beauty how -1 v er, is less the result of any symmetrical regu arity of feature, than of the sweet, modest, and gentle expression of her countenance. This en graving is skilfully executed by Robinson , whose , `'ispositio n of the long, auburn tresses, has infinite spirit and freedom. The portrait of Mrs. Woombwell is another highly-finished specimen of art. The features are cast in the .purest classic ould ; but there is a shade- of pensiveness, amount ing almost to melancholy, in the expression of the countenance, that reminds us of an admirable French 1';7 444 we once saw of Madame de Stael's Corinne. tho,e next picture is that of Miss Lethbridge. This , only in outline, is the gem of the Number. The igh f ace is truly English ; but never have we gaze d on a more truly beautiful one. There is an anima ."---a soul—in the large, full eye ;an intellect in t he high and expanded forehead ; a delicacy and sensibi lit y ; a bout the mou th, which we have rarely seen combined In the same face. Were chivalry still extant among Miss Lethbridge would have knights without !lumb er in her train. At the famous tournaments of. t he Field of the Cloth of Gold, " her bright eyes" would h ave rained influence, and adjudged the Prize." Th e verses i n ill us t r ation, of this portrait are from the pen of Mr. Grantley Berkeley. We cannot s ay they are worthy of the subject. They are t ame and monotonous ; clogged with unmeaning ex pletives ; and such trite, school-boy, common-places as the " Lord of light," the " effulgence of the ruby t`ies," and so forth. " Dolorida," as the name Mr- P o rts, is the picture of a girl whose face, though P re tty, is of far too dolorous a character to be gene attractive. On (coking, however, to the poem in ill ustration o f t hi s engraving, we find abundant cause f bolorida's grief ; for she is a young and fund wife, 'emu, sitting up till long past midnight , fur a hus b a nd, who, had he the slightest taste-or feeling, should ha ve been hours since locked in the " heaven of her ; e mbraces." Th ere is a touching scene in one of r le ldilig's latest novels, on this very subject , where l ie; des cr ib es A me li a wa i t i ng till nea r day-break, alone her scant, unfurnished room, for the arrival of her 1811 and Captain Booth, a prey to a thousand vague ala rms a n d jealousies. " The Butterfly" is repre euted b y two rosy , p re tty little children, who are ne°king, with eyes sparkling with wonder and .eager , at a butterfly, which is resting on the boy's arm. , R hoda" is an arch, laughing you n g female—the very pers onification of innocence and gaie t y . Of the va -1.1"(Ins prose and vet-win illustration of t hese several , n g ra vings, the best arc the tales from the p ens of fir ' li nlwer and Barry Cornwall. The Countess of .-si ngton also contributes several very elegant so nnets. • EL --N FINE ARTS. SAUNDERS' POR7'RAITS OF LIVING RE. - FORMERS. PART. 2. Saunders, London, 1837. The present part of this elegant and useful work contains three portraits, one of Lord Melbourne, the second of Mr. Leader, and the third of Mr. Grote. They are all good likenesses . , and engraved in the first style of art ; but that of Lord Melbourne is the most spirited and faithful portrait of his Lordship we have yet seen. We should not omit to mention that the memoirs which are attached to each engraving are very gracefully and impartially penned, in a style far supe rior to the general average, of such productions. A J i C TRICITY : ITS NATURE, OPERATIOIN 61, 1 IMPORTANCE IN THE PHENOMENA T IIE UNIVERSE. BY wilerineeD, aI,CRETARI" TO THLE'LOLO If ELECTRICAL SOCIETY. London, Long Ain and Co. 1837. This is a very able work ; and, judging from the 4 o t it)" of some of the opinions advanced by the : til °r, one likely to attract more than an ordinary e f tree of attention. To the general reader the title is ar inviting ; but there arc few so ignorant of the subjects of which it treats as not to be able to eri v e from it much valuable infort' +on. Among af tie auth or ', •of most startling theories is T.- 'on-existence tv Pestilence by contagion—which, if established, ; tila put an end to all quarantine laws: The follow ho cxttact embraces his opinions upon this important It ma , y y fairly b e ques tioned whether there be a subject and eted with medicine upon which opinions are so various p t , ito s ° aumercus as upon that of epidemics. We read of subtle 4ri sir n f, field i n so l ut i on b y the atmosphere ; of noxious effluvia, substiats from marshes, or from decaying animal and vegetable hee r , r 'ces ; but these supposed poisonous particles havy never k att detected by our most able chemists. Even admitt . ing that aft e :", undeigoing decomposition, may, in the first instance, th e an i n di v i dual, it remains to be exp l a i ne d in what manner ti)r°P'gction of the di-ease from one individual to ano ther, 414 a , number of ot h ers can h e effected. Whatever disagiee - . 'Pinion, however, may exist as to the specific cause of the idea that it exists in the atmosphere is generally t hat I' n ed• Now, it is material that we should bear in mi nd ;4141•4C composition of the air is not only constant in the 'ol; e , s l)l4 ce, but i n a ll re ,,i ons , and in every latitude. Whether rted at -the summit 6 of Mont Blanc, or Chimborazo , or i n iq 0: w est valleys its elements arc invariably the same, and tlate relative proportion. Berthella has examined the P i ay 1 7-gypt, and lie found it to be similar to that of France. e s an . "l l "ae brought air from an altitude of 21,735 feet above and found its composition the same as that collected THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1837. THE ARCHBISHOP OF COLOGNE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. 16, Pal mall, Nov. 28, 1837. Silt—l read with the deepest regret the following paragraph in your paper' of yesterday. It was one of your leading articles . ." The conduct of the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne (o,oste) has occasioned some trouble in that city and pi o since. He refused to ble=s or ssnction marr;agcs betuern Protestants and Catholics unless the children were to te edu . cated in the latter persuasion. Th's being contrary to the principles of the Prussian Government, they urged the Arch bishop to resign: He refused, and a body of Prussian troops, having surrounded the Palace, took the prelate into custody, and carried him off to Magdeburg for committing a brelch of 'the public peace. It is a melancholy duty to be obliged to employ troops to enforce tolerance ; but it is a sacred duty, when legally and constitutionally applied." lam quite sure that you %%ill me detest invle.anee of every deseription---that ynu detest it equally whether a:‘plied by a CathoPe State or Ihince to a Protestant, or by a Pro testant State or Prince to a Catholic. I may be permitted to . _ hate the former, namely, the persecution cf Protestants by a Catholic State, more than the latter, simply because such a crime serves to tarnish the r,•ligion which I prefer and cherish. lam certain, also, that Ido you no more than ju:.•- tice when I attribute to you detestatim of Protestant p-rsecu lin of Catholics. In this conviction I procce.l t) put you in possession of the facts:— The venerable. Archbishop of Cologne, Monseigneur Droste de Vischring, has not been guilty of any breach of the peace. or of any force, violence, or turbulence ; on the contrary, the force and violence have been used towards him. lie has been dragged from his home and his flock by ruffian military power, and is now probably perishing in the dungeons of Magdeburg. His only crime was a consi•ientious refusal to administer the sacrament of matrimony in cases arid under cir cumstances in which his sense of duty told him that he ought not to administer it. In that lam convincel he was perfectly right, and I have no doubt that you and every other "tened Protestant will agree with m when you are acquainted with the real merits or the caw. It would, indeed, have be- trayed his scared and awful trust if he had acted otherwise than as he ha 3 done. If you can procure a book published at Augsburg in 1835 the German name of which signifies, " Materials for the Ec clesiastical History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century "* —you will perceive that the King of Prussia had carried oa, even to that time, a most emaciating, heart'ess, and treache rous persf, , cution of his Catholic subjects. If you cannot'pro cure that book, let mu refer you to an article on the subject which you will find in the third Number of The Dublin Re view, published in December, 1836. The arti..le ai;l be found at page 168, and is entitled " Persecution of Catholics in Prussia." The difficulty of bringin7 before the tribunal of public opi nion the tyrannical acts of the King of Pru , sia is exceedingly great, because the press is thoroughly and entirely enslaved in his territories. Even when a book is published in any neigh bouring state, ' (riving a true account of 11:s conduct, he pro cures the work to be suppressed. The book I have above mentioned was published in Bavaria; but when the conten's became known to the minions of the Prussian King. be inter fered hith the Bavarian Government, and procured the sup pression and destruction of all the copies . which rema'ned un sold, and an edict forbidding the publication of another edi.ion. Thus the exposure to universal execration of the breaches of public faith and of the violation of religious liberty by the Prussian Government, are protectel by being concealed, and the victims of a most galling, virulen', and continued persecu tioi, are deprived of public sympathy and succour. The Rhenish provinces were Catholic when ceded to Pats sia ; and they were ceded under the most sacred pledges of preserving the Catholic religion in !ts full integrity. Alas, sir! these pledges have been violated without remorse and without shame, and this violation has been t.ffeetuated and the royal honour has been forfeited by a system of chicanery and fraud which would excite contempt for its meann..,s3 if its wickedness, and the 'extent of its inflictions, did not render it deserving of a louder and stronger tone of exe cration. Let me, however, bring you to the m ire immediat- sub ject of this letter, the persecution of the Archbishop of Cologne. The subject matter and cause of that persecution were the marriages called " mixed marriages;" that is, marriages be tween a Catholic and a Protestant; and the education of the children of such marriages. It seems sufficiently clear that this is a subject with which the law ought not to interfere. It should be left, as it is left in these countries, to the contracts or agreements, or to the religious opinions or scruples, of the parties them selves. But in Prussia it was deemed otherwise, and in mixed mar riages the contracts or agreements of the parties as to the bringing up of their children were declared void, and the law directed that the boys, until the age of fourteen, should be brought up in the religion of the father, and the girls, until the same ag,., in that of the mother. This was a vexatious and meddling law • but it had this much of justice in it, that it was equal, and bore with the same weight and severity on all parties. The Prussians, however, were but a short time in po3session of the Catholic provinces when they altered this law, and in stead of it made another, namely, a law declating that all children born in wedlock should be brought up in the religion of the father. The object of this law was obvious. Almost all the offices of state in the Catholic provinces were filled by Protestants ; the " mixed marriages" were nearly all betwe .n Prote - 4ant men and Catholic women. The law was founded ol that fact. Yet even this Jaw did nit suffice. It had been followed and superseded by another law, which in all " mixed mar riages"—that is, when either parent is a Protestant —peremp torily prohibits the bringing up any child as a Catholic, al though either or both parents should d,si.e it I The Catholic clergy very properly refused to celebrate mired marriages" under such conditions. They left such parties to be =lied as Protestants, and simply dezlined interfering. They could not countenance so glaring a viola. tion of the conscience of,Catholics, and therefore they left such marriages to the Protestant. clergy, who, of course could have no difficulty in maming the parties, as all the children were to be Protestants. Now, Sir, I submit to you whether the Archbishop was not perfectly justified in such refusal? Suppose in this country a Protestant Archbishop or Bishop was called upon to celebrate a marriage of parties who were bound by law, in despite of the one of them • who was a Protestant, to bring up all their children Catholics, is there one Protestant Bishop living who would not decline to celebrate such a marriage, and would not leave the parties to look elsewhere for the marriage ceremony? I am convinced there is not one. Again, suppose the Archbishop WAS wrong in poilt of re ligious opinion —yet his was a conscientious acruple, and ought to have been respected—the very odious and execrable principle of persecution is the making one man the ju , lge of another man's religious scruple s ; ald without the aid of that principle you cannot censure the Archbishop. - To work out the decree prohibiting the bringing up any o the children of a mixed marriage as Catholics, the Archbishop and his Clergy wen , : calle] on with the severest menaces to subscribe a convention or declaration, consisting of four arti cles. I send you two of them, the second and third : " Art. 2. In the examination of parties presenting them selves for marriage the pastor must not interogate about the religion of the future offspring, and the nuptial bent , diction must be conferred indifferently on all such mixed marriages. " Art. 3. In the sacramental confi'ssion the priest is prohi bited from obliging the Cathol.c to rear the children in his or her religi3n, and must not refine absulutioA by their not com plying with such conditions." Now, sir, it is utterly impossible that any Catholic clergy man could conscientiously sign these articles. • It is equally clear that the Government could.not require such signature without directly outra;ing the religious doctrines and disci pline of its Catholic subjects. The Archbishop refused to comply. All he did—the only " breach cf the peace," as you call it, he was guilty of—was to refuse to comply. He refused meekly but firmly, Ile was immediately threatened with the vengeance of time Government. He was told he should be " destituted." His reply was- that lie was ready at once and without a murmur to give up the Archiepiscopal palace, and to relinquish the gosornment sti pew! of 1,200 thalers a year. . All he desired was to be al lowed to live in a private house of the humblest kind. " I li , ve no money," said he, "and must live in paverty and upon the charity of the faithful. As to my worldly good-, I can easily remove them; they consist of one other robe worse than that which I wear." lie was not allowel to retire into privacy. He was not al lowed to dwell amidst the flock whic% he cherished, and who loved and revered him. His habitation was surrounded by a troop of horse, and as fast as they could gallop he was hur ried out of the city of Cologne, and carried off to Magdeburg, there - to await whatever fate his tyrannic matter may Impose. tam quite sure that when you compare the real state of the facts with your comments, you will agree pith me that time Archbishop is blameless, and that the brand of intolerance of the most cruel nature is justly to be affixed upon his op pressors. The Catholic Church has always discouraged " mixed marriages." It wisely considers that sectarian animosities form a bad ingredient for domestic tranquillity and happiness. It naturally desires that the children of a Catholic parent should be educated as Catholics. The Protestant Church as naturally desires that the children of a Protestant parent should be educated as Protestants. Between both the law cujht to be neutral. There is no justice—no fair play —except in that neutraLty. The Prussian Government, however, be comes the partisan of the one party, and precludes all amicable arrangement by preventing any agreement or c o mpromise, and by positively prohibiting the bringing up of any of the children as Catholics ; and when the Catholic Bishop lefuses to aanction marriages of this deser;ption, the army is called out, RS you say, '• to en/'urge tolerance." I trust that public opinion in England w:11 be rou od on this subject. I think there ought to he a meeting of the friowls of religious liberty, of all denominations of Christians, to offer a t ken of sympathy with the suffe.ings of the venerable Arch bilop, and of execration of the inty and meddling, but, at th e same time, virulent and persecutug spirit of mhe Prussian sUljects ; in violaticn of bib soltITI ttng4gMe, P 4, anduf"tlie righ ts ' q t; pon S c i, nce. lsll4ll be my fault, unless such . arnecov shall ta t a I have the honour to be your h um bl e servia t, DANIEL O'CONNI tr " Buitrage zur Kirchengeschichte des Neunzelin' place. rhunderts in Deutschland." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your columns having been kindly open to the case of Mr. Hamilton, the late highly respected assistant curate of this district, your readers will be gratified to learn that a meet ing of the inhabitants took place in the large room of the Rose and Crown inn, which was completely crowded, yester day evening. 1 bad the honour, in consequence of my official capacity, of being called to the chair, and n , ver did I witness a manifestation of deeper inter, st than that which prevailed throughout the whole proceedings. It tell to my lot to explain to the meeting the object of their being called together, namely, to present a tea-service of plate, subscribed for by nearly three hundred inhabitants of the district, ana of which about one hundred of the poor had voluntarily come -forward with their humble tokens of respect in sums not exceeding one shilling. It would be in truding too much upon your vain . ble journal at this time to give even an abstract of the noble speeches of the plain, manly, and unsophisticated tradesmen, who gave vent to their feelings without the slightest ebullition of passion, or intem perate declaration of their honest sentiments. One and one only feeling pervaded the whole meeting, that of indignation at the unprecedented treatment of a gentleman, the proof of whose worth the present circumstances so unequivocally confirmed. I need scarcely tell you that every resolution was carried unanimously : but when I add that each was passed with acclamation, you will judge of the spirit which animated the meeting. And when the Rev. Gentleman, conducted by my brother Chapelwarden and two of the se lect Vestry, made his appearance, in accordance with the request of the meeting, I am free to confess, so overcome was I by my feelings, that it was with difficulty I could commu nicate the sense of the meeting, on formally presenting to him the inadequate testimony of our indelible regard. lam too poor in language to express the effect produced by the address of Mr. Hamilton, in reply to my announcement of the object which brought us together—the unstudied eloquence, the manly avowal, the Christian forbearance, the grateful out ptlitirings of his °veil swing heart, made the strongest impres sion on every individual present ; nor am I trespassing the bounds of truth when I tell you that tears in abundance rolled down the cheeks of many amiable and susceptible daughters, ssters, and wives of those who were scarcely able as men to suppress a similar consequence of their feelings; and I lament the want at that time of professional means of giving to the world the report of the whole proceedings, which now can live only in the memory of a deeply-affected audience. The meeting did not immediately disperse, but free and ani mated conversation upon the topics of the night succeeded for a time the graver business which had e included, while Mr. Hamilton, passing among his friends, received indivirlually that expression of regard which had been collectively given in a more formal manner. I beg to repeat my thanks in the name of the inhabitants for the attention you have paid to our feelings and sentiments, and—l have the honour to remain, Sir, Your obliged bumble servant, J. POULTON, Chapelwarden and Chairman of the Meeting. Staines-road, Hounslow, Nov. 25, 1837. CALCUTTA.—We have received papers and letters by the overland mail from Calcutta to the 11th of September. The money market and the state of business are represented in a gloomy light. The exchangs's were as follow :—Trea sury Bills on England, at 30 days' sight, Is. 10d. to Is. 10id. per sicca rupee ; E. I. Company's sixmoilth li s' i s ll i s g , ht di o t r to; on London and Liverpool, twelve private months'bills date, with shipping documents, 2s. 2d. per Co.'s rupee ; Go vernment advances on goods to the extent of two-thirds of approved value, 2s. per Cu's. rupee; bills of the houses to constituents, 2s. to 2s. Old. per ditto; American Bills not negotiable. Indigo was without purchasers. The quantity exported this year, to the 7th September, was as follows :—To Great Britain, 73,891 maunds ; France, 19,954 ditto ; North America, 4,3Sti ditto ; Persian Gulf, 2,723 ditto. Total, 100,954 maunds, leaving about 10,000 maunds on hand. Famine had been raging in the Mynporee district, and Futtygliur is stated to be in a worse condition, children being offsred for sale at any price; and the cholera was also raffing. In Oude the cholera was taking otf from 700 to 1,000 persons Lily. THE NABOB'S WIFE.—The new novel, by a po pular authoress, under this title, pons: sses more claims to the attention of the lovers of fiction than can be advanced by the majority of iecent works of this class. In the charact .n- of the wife herself, wheth.r we contemplate her moving in the luxu vious and gorgeous citit s of the East, or reigning as the queen of fashion in the English metropolis, there is much to excite admiration and %yonder —admiration of her brilliant attractions and accomplidthent3, and wonder at the inscrutable mystery by which she is surrounded. Since the " Corinne " of Madame de Stael, no heroine has been invested with such glittering attributes. Samuel Blake, of Warwick, Mass., relates in th e Greenfield Gazette, th e s t or y o f hi s horse's travels. By his account it appears that his hors e in the course of ten year s ha s v.s:ted Boston 220 times, travelling each time 170 miles, total amount 37,400: Bssides these visits to Boston, as a toam hsr,e he has p. rformed inan)ier journeys and trips to different parts of the country; sornstinsesi if; a light carriage , and sometimes in a waggon, besides working on the farm, ci timeted at 4,000 more. Total amount of travel in ten yews, 44,400 miles, a distance of about equal to once and two-thirds 1 round the globe. During the ten years he has eaten 1,140 bushel.; of corn, eves iging 114 bushels a year, and nearly ten quarts a day. This great horse traveller, says Mr. Blake, is now as sound in all his limbs and as smooth as any volt that can be prod uced.—American Paper. SOUTHWARK REFORM DINNER. List night there Ras a dinner at the Bridge House Tavern, Southwark, to cothmemorate the return of Alderman Hum• phery and Mr; D. W. Harvey. The room was crowded Mr. B. Wood was in tha Chair. On Lis right were Alder man Humphery, Mr. D. O'Connell, Mr. Grt , te, Mr. Pattison, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Hume, Mr. Hinde, General Johnson, &c. ; on his left, Mr. D. W. 11 trvey, Mr. Duneumbt., Mr. \Vaklcy, Mr. Attwuod of Birmingham, &c. Be-ides those Members there were about 340 gentlemen sat do.vn to dinner, in the hands ,me new room of this tavern. • The CHAIRMAN proposed `• The he filth of tile Queen," which vias responded to by the company with the most en thusiastic cheers. The health of the Duke of Sussex was next drunk with great cheers, as was also that , of the Duchess of Kent and the rest of the Royal Family in England. The words which we have marked in italics were caught up by the compeny, and repeated in a very significaat manner. The CHAIRMAN then vroposed the lied th of the Mini4ers— " Lard M:lbourne and her M ijest ) 's Nlin:steis ;.may they :IA ai:h firmness, relying on the support of- the - people."--( Loud applause.) He was gene sure that he might answer for the people of Southwark doing justice to that toast.—( Hear.) Ile did not expect th it all persom could be of the same epinioa. What two men thought alike? He wa- for further reforms, but he would cho.)se the proper time for urging thAa.— (Cheers. ) As to the Ballot, when the proper time arrived he would call for it, as he ‘Nould for the extension of the franchise, and the short .ping of the duration of Parliaments —(llear.) There were some persons dispoAed to fall back a little, even upon Toryism ; but hart they hot known en )ugh of Toryism for the last forty ye:.rs? In 1797 the Hon. Mr. (now E trl) Grey proposed Reform. Pitt, after having supported Reform, then resisted it ; a•AI Mr. Fox said, the debt being 23,000,0001., if reform did not take place ruin trust ensue. The debt had reached more than three times that amount, and ruin was approaching the country bafore they could get reform. The passing of that measure alone, he thought, entitled the Ministers to their support. WhA had the Tories ever done but to involve the country Li debt, in wars, in Holy A:Bailees, resisting every popular measure and everything like Reform. After the war there was the Man chester riot, followed by the Ma ichester massacre, and an at tempt to murder a Queen.—( Hear, hear.) He thought they ought neither to dispute among themselves nor to abandon the Ministers. The . CII . IIKMAN said he had now to propose the healths of their Members, who sat on his right nd • left. He wrongly eulo,, , rzed both Members, and concluded- with giving " The healths of Mr. Alderman Humplir,y and Mr. D. W. Harvey, the Members for Southwark:" It was honoured with many rounds of applause, and trmendous cheering. Mr. Alderman HUMPHREY retuned .his acknowledgments. Sheir Chairman had exprcs3ed good feelings . towares the Mi&sters. He must say thmt he was much annoyed at the feeling produced in the House of Commons on Monday week ; and, perhaps, the Hon. Member wh had produced that effect was sorry for whit had passed. Some hours after, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer made observations that considerably abated what had fallen from Lord John Russell ; an I he be- lieved that such result had been mainly produced by his Hon. Colleague. Mr. D. W. HARVEY next rose, and was received enthu siastically. He was proud to say that Southwark had set an example to all England—an ancient borough of every variety of,wealth, interest, industry, and power, enforcing activity at hoine, arousing the sluggishness of other climes; and by its generous institutions and exertions also c)ntributing to the humanizing of man in every quarter of the globe. This constituency had felt that it had a high duty to per form ; not to selectindiviluals who would be at the beck of any Ministry, or waiting about the steps of the Treasury— they sought no such men. He felt the deepest debt of grati tu le to them, fur when disowned by the place in chose service he had passed his earliest years, they had offered him, a stranger, an asylum. With respect to present affairs, it was uppermost in ail men's minds—what was to be done?— ( Hear, hear.) For himself he must declare that it was with the utmost pain that he heard Lord John Russell's de clarations ; yet he felt bound to say, that they were uttered firmly and manfully. It was manful because it was so early, and coming from one so stationed ; but it was painful, as checking all hope, as far as Governm tilt was concerned, regarding the ballot, extension of the franchis t, and abbre viating the duration of Parliament. The event was painful, because the declarations came from one whom they had expected so Much. He, however, rejoiced at the event, because it dispelle.l delusion. What was the good of the Reform Act, except that it should be followed by practical effects? But was there a man who believed that any mea sure with a popular impress could be brought forward and receive the sanction of the three estates? The Government had not a majority of above 40; and there they were sur rounded by timid Whigs, and feverish Reformers, and enlight ened Radicals.—( Loud Cheers.) When they found such a mixture, and beheld it opposed by a fixed opposition of three hundred Members, led on by skilful le tders—at oae time so wily, that you would almost think that they really wished well to the Administration—( A laugh)—at [molter proceeding so fiercely that death blows appea, ed unavoidable—where was the man who could lay his hand on his heart, or with the sanc tion of his understanding could say, that there was any chance for any popular measure ?—( Loud cheering.) At the coin meneement of the Session tha Government might have dis pelled the gloom—proclaimed liberal sentiments and measures —and aroused the sleeping lion, whose repose would have . . given new energy, and when aroused there might have safely been an appeal to the people.—(Cheers ) But that oppor. tunity had been lost; and as regardel the present Gcnern ment he for one was disappeinto.—( Hear, hear.) He had no longer any confidence in the present Ministers.—( Tremen dous huzzaing, and cries of " Hear, hear.") Let not that declaration engender despair. Lord J. Russell's declaration was accompanied with something of a consolatory character, and laid their hopes at the feet of democracy. Lord J. Rus sell said, that while he would be no party to changes, he was not idiot enough to say that the Reform Act must be a final measure; that it belonged to the people to convey, in the c,lm record of their opinion, to the Senate and the Throne, a hat it was that the nation willed.—( Hear, hear.) That was a mighty truth. He was not desirous of having for his epitaph—" Here lies a pioneer in the cause of freedom." It was for an advocate to act boldly—it was for the people to act promptly.—( Hear, hear.) However, their prospects were not without some bri A lit spots. There was one individual whose variety of attlinments was unequalled, who had stepped forward and spoken out at this important crisis —(Cheers) — and he hesitated not to say that the moral courage of Henry Brougham—(Treinendous cheering)—would still be found adequate to all his other great and unrivalled qualities.—( Loud and continued cheering.) Henry Brougham's recent declara tion in the House of Lords would give a tone to opinions round which the country, he trusted, would rally. He must hero, howeser, condemn those who would " deprecate" the Reform Act '• it was a most val ua bl e measure . I ts ele ments were good. It consecrated that gnat principle, that the people must be freely, fully, and fairly represented. If the Bill had not effected its object, it ought to made to do so.--( Hear, hear.) Nor were the chief defects of the Act to be attributed to its framers and supporters.—( Hear hear. ) It was in the power of the people to do much: they might imitate the example of Southwark. He felt delight to see among them one individual in particular ; and he begged have to express his personal acknowledgments for the attend ance of his Hon. Friend the Member for the city of Dublin. --(Loud and hearty cheers : Mr. O'Connell bowing to Mr. Harvey in the most friendly manner.) .The CHAIRMAN Said, he had a toast to propose which it was important he should not delay, because the Hon. Member ( Mr. O'Connell) whom it concerned, had far to go that night —he had to go to Norwich to attend a meeting there to.mor row (this day).—( Cheers.) The toast was—." Just and equal government to Ireland—health and prop 'rity to her able re pt., sentatives, then present, Daniel O'Connell and J. Hume, Esqrs."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'CONNELL then rose, and was received with im mense eh 'ering and waving, of handkerchiefs. He admitted that the Reformers were placed in a most difficult situation. The Ministers were in a small majority in the Commons, and in a small minority in the Lords ; therefore how were the Ministers to be blamed? Was it their fault that they had only a small majority in the Commons? He deplored Lord J. Russell's declaration, but so far as En.sland•was concerned, he rejoiced at it. Englishmen were not boobies; they would now know their precise situation Were the Ministers to blame that they ha I 300 members oppwed to them ? As to appealing to the peoVe about what - his Hon. Friend had talked, he wanted to know, who seat the 300 there? Not the Irish most certainly. But what could be the situation of Ministers when they found themselves crossed in every more by 300 members ? There must, however, be the amendments of the Reform Act; the Ballet, extension cf Suffrage, an I shortening the dura'ion cf Par'iaments ; and the Ministers and the Parliament must be told by the people, and in a tone not to be misunderstood, that these just and re quisite irnprovemews of the Reform Act must b: had. But all depended on the people, and to achieve thei,. obj .cts they must "agitate, agitate, agitate." They must petition from one end of the country to the other, and all must act as if every thing depended on each individual's proc.•edings.. Mr. O'Connell then retired, accompanied by the Chairman, Mr. T. buncombe, &c. Ile was greeted with tremendous applause, all present rising, and every person endeavourin , to pay the Englishman's compliment_ that of having `• a shake of hands." It was hence no trilling task to get out of the room. Mr. SCIIOLEFIELD '(the Chairman) gave " The health of their lat e Ch a i rman , 13. Wood, Esq.," which was given with all the honours. Mr. HumE, in answer to lou I calt.s, rose. He begged to return his acknovledgments. As to the recent declaration of Lord J. Russell lie had heard it with rain, because he viewed it as the declaration of all the Ministt rs— ( Hear) —he viewed it as such. But was it therefore right that ho should entirely give up the Ministers ? Last Session, and on other occa sions, he and others had comp . () nixed opinions to keep in the present .Ministers on account of the late Severeign ; but now, when there was a Sovereign on the throne, po'sess ing, according to eduestion aid declaration, opinions favour able to liberal measures, ought the Ministers to have pansed?. Then what must be his feelings when the Reformers' views were blasted, as it were, by the declateition of the Ministers egain.t the three great paints to p, rfeet R,:forai Ilea%) Yet, instead of des..7rting the Alatin.if.trhsien, he would call on the people t o un it- 1 a nd let the press deUl .re to the Ministers what they ought to dcH.( [Fear.) He would continue confi denee to those Ministers who Ind been brought in on the shoulders of the peoele—te advance), hot to cheelc Reform ; tall it must be still with the yiesy of alsemeing measures of l a lefj rous tn ect. He eq hy tiveN' i not l l i t tiist buters'r b ti eeesi."P til d.eclar4 t a ti lQ o ' o r: 1 ;f le tl s : oi eeuvl be were riot, oat, it would ho evident, that, without the people, the few Member& in Ow !louse of Commons could do little or nothing. —(Hear.) He should deplore a change of Government, because it would check the progress of moral improvement in Ireland.—(Hear.) He would support the Fr sent Ministers —not only to keep out the Tories for ever—(cheers) —but in the hope of soon teaching the present Minhters the folly of their own recent declaration. There must sooner or later be thnte reforms which had been demanded, particularly that ef the Ballot.—( Hear.) When we left, which was after eleven 0',10..k. +h . ! room continued crowded, an•l seven' Members ICma..acd ; several toasts remained to be given. BOROUGH OF LAMBETH. Last evening a highly-respectable company of between two and three hundred gentlemen, gave a dinner to Messrs. Ten nyson D'Eyncourt" ald Hawes, the representatives of the borough; \V. A. Wilkinson, El., in the Chair. The hating been 'rem:vett, and the u=ual local tolsts The CHAIRMAN gave, " Her Majesty's .Ministers, and may their m.. , asures deserve the confiktiee of the l co• i de."—'llns toast was drunk with thee dines three. The CHAIRMAN said, that the business of the evening' was to celebrate the return of their guests, the two Members for the borough, to Parliament.. It would ill become him to speak of the merits of their representatives ; they were better known to them than to him ; they were not new men in the borough, but old, tried, and faithful servants—they had been advocates of the rights of the people. and had rot given a single vote which their constituents could disapprove if. lie proposed the h&alth of Messrs. Hawes and court. The toast was re:Tived with the greatest enthusiasm. When the applause suLsiled, Mr. Hawes came forward and said that he was not •arts.. i us to detract from the mu -its of a Ministry which l ia d been the means of accomplishing so much for ttie He did not forget the services which they ',lad rendered to the cause of religious freedom, nor- could thay themselves be insensible that they hal gained credit wit , ' the coun try for what th"y had already dune in con:olidating ti.e rights of the people., .. Ile wait anxious to express himself in those terms tovra.-ds. the. Ministry, in order to prepare the way for the subsagnent remarks which he should feel it his duty to make, and that h 3 might be free to censure the late exhibition which Lord John Russell had made in Parliament His Lordshi2 had (for reasors wh'eh he could not attempt to describe, for ho ayes at a loss to imagine what they were) . the daring to desert • the cause of the people ; the people would not on that steecu edesert Wm. He had, however, promised to improve the Reform Bill in i s detei!s, to amend the defects in the mode of registering the votes of the constituency, and to alter the clauses which en forced the payment of rates as a qualificatioa for enfranchise ment. —( Hear, hear.) These would be imrolt int invr,ve ments, which he knew how to value and apprciate ; but he felt it to be the duty of their representafves t 3 point out the course which they intended to pursue wider the circum- • stances ; and he. felt it to be 1 eculiarly the duty of those who acted an independent parr, and who would rot be influ enced by factious feelings. He would support them when they were right, and he would oapos3 th-ra ei h. n they were wrong.—( El: a-, hear.) From old recolle,::ions he was free to coefess that he was more anxious to support them th in to o:Ter them opposition. The objection made against the Reformers was, that the more that was granted to them, the more they would demand. It was painful that this should emanate from a member of the Cabinet ; it Ives the more surprising, as the Ministry had taught the people to look forward to further improvements. The people demand the Ballot, and he would ale by what right or by what fair de ductions could the extension of the franchise be connected as a necessary consequence with the vote by Ballot ? They only sought protection for the exercise of a political right, to be ef fected by means not injurLus to the institutions of the coun try. The Ballot, as a writer in the Examiner uell expressed it, " was the protection of public opinion against power ; " they demanded protection for their votes, and they would wring it from the Ministry.—( Cheers.) '1 her would also demand an extension of the franchise, and a she:l:ter dui ation of Pad ament. Lord-John Russell himself had no objection to shorten it by two years, but his Lordship was afraid of a change. He wi , hed to see the Church based upon enlightened principles, and not - supported by taxes levied upon their bro ther Christians. He wished to do as he would be done by. The Hon. Member sat down amidst long-continued cheering.) Mr. TReaNYSON D'EYNCoURT then came forward, ant, having co.nplimented Mr. Hawes upon the able speech he hal made, said he was happy to meet with such a respect able assembly of his constituents in a district which was the str,mg-hold of the Teri: s in the borough, yet there, at the last election, he and his colleague had a majority cf two hundred. Tho support which he had received was to be attributed to the - recollection of his forme: services.— ( Hear, hear, hear.) For his pa: the was not surprised at the declarations which had been recently made : he was one of those birds of evil omen who, during the discussion of the Reform Bill, advocated Hou.sehold Suffrage. He did so in a speech which he delivered on the 30th March, 1830. He th n thought that would be the just medium at which the elective franchise should rest, and he was of the same opinion still. He was a late culvert to the Ballot, for he hated se crecy; but when he saw the means resorted to to coerce the 501. copyholde►s, he thought the protection of the Ballot necessary, for he held that what the la.v gave a man he had a tight to use freely. Their representatives could do nothing within the walls of Parliament, unless they were supported•from without, an] he therefore called upon them to be urgent and instant in their demands for the three mea sures Which a Minister of the Crown had denounced. His Honourable CoPe Igue had said that it is the duty of your re presentatives on this occasion to declare to you aai.t the course which they intend to follow. I can assure you that no personal consideratkns, not even the highest honour which the Crown could bestow, would ever induce me to give a single vote cont: ary to my bounden duty to you, or to my own feelings in the great cause of public liberty. The Right lion. Gentleman coneludeil.a.very able sp^ech, sshich our limits will not allow us to report at greater length. Messrs. Buller, Clay and Lushington, hating addressed the company, and the health of the Chairman and Seere!ary ( Mr. Buckler), being drank, we left the mecting in the enjoy ment of a social entertainment. THE IRISH SOCIETY. A grand dinner was given yesterday by the Irish Society to the Earl of Mulgrave and Lcrd Morpeth, to congratulate them upon their re-appointment by her Majesty to the important offices of Lord Lieutenant and Chief Secretary of Ireland. The Chair was taken by Sir Matthew Wood, the Governor 9f the Society ; John Ebenezer Davias, Esq., the Secretary of the Society, acted as Vice-Chairman ; and Wm. Richard son, Esq. (the Deputy Governor), and Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter assisted the Chairman on the right and left. Inde pendently of the Earl of Mulgrave and Lord Morpeth we saw at the chief table Sir Robert Ferguson, M. P. ; More °Ter rell, Esq., M. P. ; R. Currie, Esq., M. P. ; J. Gibson, Esq., M. P. ; Sir Charles Style, M. P. ; Ncrman M'Donald, Esq. ; and Lieutenant-Colonel York. When the cloth was removed, the CHAIRMAN, in a short but energetic speech, proposed " The health of the Queen." The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed by many rounds of hearty applause. Other loyal toasts followed, after which the CIIAIRMAN pro posed " The health of his Excellency the Earl of Mulgrave." The toast was drunk with three times three, and followed by many rounds of applause. The Earl of MULGRAVE trusted he need not assure the company that he was not insensible either to the warm expres sion of their kindness to. him personally, or the flittering allu sions which had been made to his public conduct in the high office which it had pleased her Majesty to confer upon him. It was with peculiar feelings that he remarked the striking difference between the place in which he had the honour of addressing the company, and that part of the United Kingdom with which he was by office connected. Contrasted with any thing to be found in Ireland, he cool l not conceive anything more distinct than the small spot of mother earth upon wl.t:h was reared the rich and unrivalled C:ty of London. The en couragement of industry, the progress of intelligence, the public spirit of her citizens, the universal extension of benevolent and kindly feelings between man and man, had made the City of London not only a blessing to the land to which she belonged, but the admiration of the whole civilized world—( Great applause)—and when he con trasted the condition of that hitherto unfortunate portion of the empire which had been entrusted to his care with the prosperity of the City of London—when he considered the great national capabilities with which heaven bad endowed the kingdom of Irelatid--when he looked at the state in which she had hitherto been left, in spite of those ca pacities, merely by the neglect of man—( [lear, hear)—when he considered this, remembetino . at the same time that the Irish Society had at all times done all they could to correct the evils under which the whole country was labouring, he could not but hail the banquet of that night as an indication of their disposition to continue their efforts for the im;trove ment of the Sister Gauntry, nor could he fail tc cherish the recollection of the•day as a pledge that they would, collec tively and individually, exert every means in their power to direct the industry and capital of London, which abounded to an overflow, towards the further improvement of a country which they had already and materially benefitted. He would not at that time enter Wither into the discussion of a subjr'ct which belonged more to the calm consideration of the phlo sopher in his closet, than the hasty comment of a speaker at a convivial meeting.—( Applause.) He would add but one word more, and he begged them to believe him sincere when he uttered it a more convenient season tivy should any of them be dispoied to avail themselves of the invitation which he then cordial) , gave the-n, to present themselves where he should be in a situatian to return their hosptility, he sbould be most happy to see them—( Greet cheeting)— aad he could assure them that ho should then, as now, hive the heartiest pleasure' in drinking all their good healths.— ( Continued e..eering.) Sung, Mr. Broadhurst—" And does not a mccting like this make amends." • The CHAIRMAN then proposed ",‘‘ The health of Lord Mar p. 6, the Chi.! Secretary for Irelind."_.(CheKs.) T'ne health was drunk with all the honours. Viscount Monrwrii could with truth as , ure the company that it \la:. a seurce of great pride and gritifica'ion to him to have been so entertained upon such an ozcasion awl lv knoh a company.—( Loud chew ) The-e was only one observa tion connected with the internal affairs of Ireland which he felt himself s,ifo in h:.‘arding; and to tlint:he would confine hiniaelf,—( Hear.) Ile could not but rejoice in the connee, tion which that Society established between that peat me tropolis, the heart of the empire, and the r,mokst provinces of Ireland, the abode of the poorest and most destitute of their feilow countrymen-4 Applause)--a eonnoction which he hoped was destined to perpetuale, as it was intended t i es tablish, a perfect identity of interest and union of kind and friendly f,teling betw2cn the richest city and the poorest pro vinces i t the empire.—( Chev rs. ) However remote-the pro. v'nces might be, he believed he could prescribe no more effica. cious rem_.dy for the evils and diso•ders uhich were still suf fered to disturb the surfice, Ertl vitiat , s tl!e syst,m of the body p6litic in Ireland than that all the la.dlords of that country, whether Englishmen or - nttiVas, should imitate the cxami I tti n udicicu; superintenlence.and liberal and excellent maiiage. merit wh;ch had Ovays been exhibited in the opefatittni of the Ir.sh Society.—(Great eheertug ) • Th,.! CHAIRMAN next proposed " the health of ber Mlost)(4 Ministers." Thu toast was drunk with Much m)plause. The Earl of .111tYLORAVN, In th - 0 absence of his Right tie, n , Friend the Charic,ller or the Richequer, who watt ig.:,pera. tively called elsewhere, briefly returned thanks, I) eing uped his legs, he wcv..ld not longer defer a toast vit'Ach he was upon the point of giving when I e last addrirjied them, and which l!e felt no im.onsiderable der r`': shame should have keen oeferie I even for s ) short a tir.,o the health of the sv ortb7 Baronet, the Governor of 'Cue Society.—; Cheers.) • r.lO - the health Gl' Sir Matl...w WO3Ti within the L'ndon, be would not add nnc wor,Y, eccan‘e he b iiir a give iio exprcs. ion to any le..iintet.t in Id; prais' which 0 4 . b y, did not every one br them already feel.—( Api lause.. • - Sir 71iATTI1EW Woof) returned thanks., - - `Whether as the Governor, or a humble mcn.her of the. F,ueiety, no man could be more anxious or more de , iroua i)lan he was .to carry out every pcsiible measure for the Vuefit of Ireland.---(CheerF.) The CHAIRMAN next prori e d " Prospet ity to ti.c trade and commerce of Ireland,.",__lirunk with great applause. Mr. MORE O'FIP:RALL returned thanks. The Z..,'ltatitnarr next propose.l the health of Sir Robert Fe guson, - lhe representative of the city of Londonderry, and One - 01" t trynts of th- Society.—(Chet rs. ) - it R. FERGUSON b. iefly returned thanks. Amongs the ty great a ivantagea that thn Society hnd conferred upon e districts in which its pt.( petty was situated, one of the mo.t mportant wal the recent establishmert of the agilcultival school—an iastitution which derived its source. "v. JO) , from the liberatit/ of the Society, and which he would in. sure imm date and lasting benefits, not ontSr *o the tenantry of the Society, but to the country at large. A 3 one of their tenants, he could only say he heartily a•egrett.id that his inte rest under them was so small. —(Cb - ..ers. ) S. veral toasts followe I, wrongs. which were the healths of " Mr. Alderman Harmer, and the other gentlemen who ha.l acted as deputies of the Soci-ty in visiting Ireland." The CIIA IRMAN then . t . reposed " The health of Mr-Stephen Spring Rica, the son of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and late sheriff of the county of Limerick." Mr. S. Ries: very briefly returned thanks. As it was now approaching to midnight, the party broke up, haying, as it would seem, derived much mutual satisfaction from the splendid entertainment. FRENCH VOYAGE ROUND THE WORLD. The Annoricain, a Brest paper, contains the following account of the voyage of th.! Bonite, the first French ves serth-t has circumnarighteA the globe since the revolution of uty : • The sloop Bonile, armed with twenty-two 24 pounders, an two 12-pouti,lors, and e.a.eyng a crew of 1.51 men, under the command of M. Auguste Vaillant, Capitaine de Corvette, left T,iulon on the Bth of Februa-ry, 1836. The Bonitc carried nut Consuls to Chili, Ecuador, and the Philippines, so that at the time of the departure of the sleo,) the indit idu tls embaiked on hoard amounted in num ler to 162. In order to render this vovage useful to the cause of szience, Govetninent decided that the vessel should enm plete a vome ronnd the globe, and persons were put on board qua:ifitid, in concurteuce with the officers, to satisfy the (I , ..nuands contained in the instructions drawn up by the Academy of Seitnee. -• M. Gaudichaud, therefore, phar maceutic Professer to the Navy, who had previously sailed round the world in L'Uranie, and M. Darondcau, hydro graphical. engineer, embarked on board the Bonite ; the former to devote himself to botanical investigations, the latter to occupy himself, along with the officers of the sloop, with hydrographical woks, and observations of ter restrial magnetism. We Iran also from the Ajinales Maritimes that to M. Ey doux, Naval Surgeon of the first class, and who sailed round the world in the Favourite, Capt. Vaillant intrusted the zoological section ; to M. Chevalier, Enseigne de Vais seau, the geological section ; and to M. Fouchard, an offi cer of the same rank, the astronomical department. M. Lauvergne, who had been twice • round the world in the Astrolabe and the Favorite, was engaged as draughtsman to the expedition. The B onite, on leaving France, proceeded to Cadiz, and thence to Brazil. After a short stay at Rio Janeiro, she visited Monte Video and the Rio de la Plata. After leaving that. river she sailed alon; the coast of Patagonia aad Terra del Fuego, doubled Cape Horn in the middle of winter, and arrived at Valparaiso. The Bonite succes sivelY touched at Goblja, Lima, Payta, and reached Puna, in GuayaTiil. From the latter port, Capt. Vaillant took his departure for the Sandwich Islands. It was his inten tion, we are told, to have taken the Archipelago of the Gallapagos on his way, in order to draw up a correct chart of theso :islands, but the continual south and south-west winds, and the strong currents from the north, prevented him from putting into execution a design which would have been most useful, the position of those islands being as yet but imperfectly known. The expedition, accordingly, proceeded towards the Sandwich Islands. After visiting the ports of Karakakao .and Kailana, in the island of Owyhee, the vessel repaired to Honolulu, the capital of the kingdom, in the island of Weds- On lea‘ing the Sandwich Isles the Bonite sailed to the Phillippincs, traversing the Marianas, by the Chan nel of the Assumption. Captain Vaillant, having satisfied himself that the Mangs rocks do not exist there, as some navigators have imagined, continued his course to the Phi rppines. He arrived at Manilla in December, 1836, and, having landed the consul, sailed for China. He made Macao on the Ist of January, 1837, and after some stay sailed for Cochin China ; he remained for some time at the port of Touranne, and then sailed through the Straits of Malacca. The Bonite touched at Sincapore, whence she proceeded to Malnca, and from the latter place to the Prince of Wales's Island. Thence she continued her course towards Ben gal, and sailed up the Ganges, to within 30 iniles of Calcutta. Captain Vail!ant greatly regretted that his in structions prohibited his visiting the metropolis of British ndia. On leaving the Ganges, after having made most in- teresting observations of terrestrial magnetism, the Bonile sailed for Pondicherry, running along the coast of Orixa, Golconda,. and Coromandel. After a tedious navigation against the trade wind she arrived at the chief settlement of the French dominions in India. Captain Vaillant there caused all the scientific works to - be repeated, which had been executed at every port where he made any stay since leaving Europe. He then sailed for Isle Bourbon, where he arrived on the 11th of July last. Thus, at the end of eighteen months of an active and most fatiguing navigation, the sloop had almost effected her circuit of the globe ;- she completed it by returning to France by the way of the Cape of Good Hope. The voyage which the Bonile has just accomplished pre sents one most remarkable fact. Notwithstanding the murderous climates she has visited, notwithstanding the sudden transitions of temperature to which her crew has been exposed, notwithstanding the activity of a navigation frequently impeded by gales, tempests, and contrary winds, she has not had to deplore the loss of a single individual etnbarked on board of her, either among her nutnersus pas sengers, her officers, or her crew. No serious illness ma nifested itself, with the exception of some cases of scurvy towards the close of the voyage. This gratifying circumstance is principally due to the enlightened plan acted on by M. Eydoux, Surgeon-Major, to thl assiduous cares of the Second Surgeon, M. Souleyet, and to the medical precautions constantly observed on board of the vessel. Tile pet feet harmony which prevailed among the officers and the crew, and the unceasing care of the commander or the vessel, contributed also, no doubt, to so satisfactory a result ; be succeeded in enforcing at all times the most exact cleanlinrs•, and made his men dross by night as well as by day according to the variations of the thermem ter ; he kept th m c Instal t y occiipie 3, endeavoured to procure them every comfort compatible with the con finement of a ship, and (a thing unheard of in the case of a French crew) he never allowed them to land. The greatest care was also taken to preserve the most scrupu lous cleanliness in the lower parts of the vessel, and to ex pel every offensive smell, constantly renewing the , air by means of ventilators and perfumes. - - To have performed such a voyage without losing a single man is a fact, which, considering the number of the crew, w ill f or m an epoch in the maritime history of European nations. Nor must we omit to obsezve that no accident occurred to the vessel herself during the twenty-one months of her absence from France. Letters from Odessa mention that two cases of plague had occurred in that city. It seems that a vessel laden with wood had arrived frora the Danube. On the passage a, woman had died. Oa the arrival of the vessel the crow were' sent to the quarantine station, • where two of them died. SO. veral parcels of merchandise, however, through the negligence of the health officers, were allowed to Le landed, and among other articles was a fur pelisse of the woman who had died. This pelisse was hou&ht by a soldier belongiag to the Guards, and by him carv-bml to the barrack, where two soldiers were taken ;11 and died of the plague a day or two afterwards. All vommurluation between tho barrack and the town NM imme diately cut off, ani it had not been ascertained that any'ffesh case had since occurred. ISLS OF WIGHT.--A new Light House, which 3,000 L, i4,About be erected ,by the cuff near End, not a great dia u here the ship Chi i - chtlon . was wrecked w4 t l a ' n :i l e n e c it o f y: o t l , 3 , u o i p ;:r i :d e m n i d it c ?l e f e last sear. M.. 1 has kindly given a piece of land for the purpose. Mr. Thoinas Dashwood, builder, of Ryde, has the cult-net, and Mr. Carpenter, Mariner, the appointment to reside in the house.—Ha„ipshirc Telegraph.