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It - " ix >~ ~:~ .' `~ ",. :';- j,.~ THE QUARTERLIES. E EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. C.XCIV. Althofigh there are no''l , ss than ten c , ntributions io the curretit'numbr of . the Erlilikurgh, we doubt ranch Whether a single article amongst them will . attain eVerk a temporary amount cf popularity. Not that the,..pakrs in the April .insteltneet are altogether devoid of talent, or that they 5.,3 without being suf, Niel:all...diversified,. but that thelalent displayed is throughout for the most pirt) dull and scholastic, tedioue-and dogmatical. Suggested by toe Nati belles Coithes' C dem, the . npeoing article, is a kind Of biographical Sketch cf " Tronson du Ceulray," whose nainevie should "rather have seen a mo ng the Uneucc?s, , ful Great- .11er," who ere cklebrated in such. a ..very ; congenial spirit by Pro fessor Creasy. ;. The, argument upon -o.Nationel E ducatitst - which - - fillows is a dry and: didactic' 4epetition- of facts already again and again reiteraterdna the- laborious volume of Mr. down to her Maksty'a Ainbaasader to Greece, , to the most rec e nt number of some of our pro :40041 conte m p o r a ries. To - site` e.!ent, "however, n this ticl e We can fOrgiee the repetition for the sue O ', the philanthropy, by which it is no less glaringly A rstinguished. A r e view of " Parini's Stato ltomano,, nAI e" ; I°ll °Wiirl by, a chanter 0n..`." Athenian Architecture, ' this , again, -by, , he most important contribution in the Present ntindrer of the h dinburgh—the paper °n " I nvestments fcr the Working Classes." The introductory sentences -of the article here particu larized, are, unhappily, of almost universal applica tion " WO:have often had occasion to remark on the ob stacles and perplexities, the hidden perils, the opposing ricks, the -surprising and unforeseen dilemmas, which beset the path of active beneficence, especialy when attempted. on a great scale. The difficulty of doing good is at least equal to its luxury. To the conscientious and the thoughttul the path of philanthropy is one of briers and thane .- On the one hand lies tan shame and reO roach of witnessing a vast accumulation of misery without an effort to relieve it: on the other the danger .--eyen,niorp. clearly apprehend e d i n p ro p ortion as our _ experinCe ,wide and our inquiries deep —of aggra vating'jge eilf we attempt to mi t i gite. On the one aide lies the'sip of the who looks upon the wounded and bleeding victim, and passes by, either in shrinking sensi bility or in sheer despair: on the other lies the risk, from ignorance or incaution, of pouring is oitavhich shall muse the.rounds to fester, and wine which shall stimu late thefeine._ It is no easy matter to steer between Scylla:aua asrybdis• ' and we s h ou ld d ea l gent l y whh the pilot-:if only he be cautious and modst—who, in shunning one peril, i ncurs shipwreCk fromthe other." Poor Pette,gus O'Cunner's -involvment.with reference to his scheme, is, -iu the course of the argument, accounted for in a. manner which is clear, without, of course,: being satisfactory. After an estimate of "John- Koox's Liturgy," tomes a 'criticism of M. 1 7 r a it y c o e u fu si: is biOgr a ph y .af .41 Mallet d u P an. " S trange l y the opening of what, at a first glance, seems 1 ° be very drily suggestive, namely, the review of “Roelittek'S Whig Ministry of 1830? In the course . of theSe Preliminary remarks to a political review it 'a exquisitely said, in reference to the respect and gra titude in which the venerable Samuel Rogers (decidedl y rare avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno, inasmuch as he is both a Poet and a Banker)-s-is 41 d hrthe. public up to this very moment—" It indeed, have been extraordinary if the poet of Should not live in our recollections." A ' rnice -Uf " Squiet's Nicaragua" is succeeded by a 1 , 34 , 1 , 3e r . 0n ".Lord D er by' s Mi n i s t r y a n d Protection"— u n e a p k et . unquestionably 'free . trade, but also unques -na4le Whig --as Whig as might have.been expected bOder the livery of buff and blue. And so the num er af .the Edinburgh- is brought to a conclusion. - LITERATURE. TAE JESUIT IN INDIA. One Volume. Burns and Lambert. 0 chrism; volume, in som e r e spects really extra- It 1 4rY, in its revelations, is the one here published. re "nnte the progress made by the Jesuit mission beta !So ut h ern e 4 lndia during the last few years, b„ ; w riter— i evidently a man o f singular ntelligence— ng ;qualifiedalified himself for the task of inditing the iirstive: by f our years spent i n t h e m id st o f t h e ; i t u re he enum e r a t es . Si r H arcour t L ees i s d ea d, ~.(Y la tr ttei" but we have still amongst us men interested Watching the movements nearer house than the soade ra tu • • 1, 0 ..lasion of the disciples of St. Ignatius de NJ , Aisefeed, the development of the Society of re ee ,,... 113 in England is amongst the number of those events which arrest, by the force of t t h io e: l l; r v k ; r b. y le Singularity and importance, the atten °` the most indifferent spectator. During _veral y ears the Jesuits have extended, It"hs erved, it m ay b e , b ut none the less securely on that acce`unt, the wondrous ieflaence exercised by th: rn now -a-days scarce l y l ess e ff ec tually amongst the People of_th ese i s l ands t h an amongst an y other of oti e variou s r aces o f C hr i stendom. I t b e h oves ev e ry ()f e l therefore, really solicitous to forward the cause _4truth in religion to scrutinize keenly the course P rsukd by this unassuming but dominant association. Spr a l„, ; ezt mg their ranks over the whole of the habitable egions of the globe, the Jesuits are every where ac• lawn by the same motives, swayed by the same it's struggliog towards the same achievements. ."'eY are differently clad, it is true, in different re rain"s) B Peskicg in those different regions a different ti - quage, and adopting towards their different inhabi _.n. te very different kinds of demeanour. But in all here and the Jesuit is still the Jssuit, nothing rarid nothing less than the Jesuit, be he in t • College of the of his General at Rome, be he a resident at Stony burst, be he in the streets of . L aris, - nr i n t h e solitudes of Hindostan, floating over 'lke oriental seas, or threading the forests of America, I : lB ve s ing under the luxuriant. foliage" of the south or se r the sterility of the northern snows. It is, con- " el itlY, not was t e o f t o il to p o r e over the pages svhi e • eu let us int o t h e secret movemen t s o f the Society, ev en *hen these movements are so far removed from ligr; awn' observ a ti on as - t h e sou th e r n portions of the r% —i t'le continent. We remember the almost awe inspiring effect of that scene in the Juif Errant, in sshi, 1, • em Logen e Sue described M. Rodin as bending over globe representing the earth, the surface of t rac k was marked in red dotted lines, with the Jesuit of the footsteps of these übiquitous vol missionaries. - Here, at any rate, is a .pirection, f 41:3 3e which enables us to trace those dire P s somewhat namely, more comprehensibly in one into the' southern quarters of our tudiau territory. The scene of the missionary la 2urs there, described by the anonymous traveller, zelbracea part of the Carnatic, the province of Tan- J e re, and the country down to Cape Comorin, com i d )ri sillg, in fact, th e sou th ernmost extremity of Hin „llstee, and being d es i gna t e d t h e Vi car i ate of Madura. si tuated at from about 7.51 to 11.50 north latitude, t he climate is very relaxing, from the perpetual heat teaching sometimes 100 Fahrenheit in the day time, and falling only 12 degrees by midnight—cholera prevalent, and almost invariably in its most dan gerous intensity, by reason of the previous exhaus tion. -Here it is that the missionaries are described as battling wi.h an idolatry believing not merely in Om, or the Trintouti—Brahraa the Creator, Vishnou the Preserver, and Siva, or Sieben", the Destroyer — but, besides Be'the wor,hippieg the symbols Destroyer — selected by the most grovelling fetichism. Sometimes, as in the instance of the petrified shell called Sslagranan, this idolatry descends even to the deification of the freaks of Nature, branching off into a mythology altogether so intricate,igastilfitocarVbeyr all other mythologies numerically in compitison. According to the account given by this little volume . , tha temptations to advinture upon the labours of Christianizing the Hincloos—fer the Mus- Suitt:len, in the present state of things seem to .be hopeless no anything but persuasive in a worldly "nee; the dwelling"" of the adventurer amprued. 31 t, thatched witho palm leaves , hismat a ad 4 plank s hi s f oo d rice, occasional] beda bung y accompaniesl,4 the flesh poultry. Yet,.b y el some lean and tough it 'eaos such as these, is de, Jared that upwards of 1 5 50 ,000 id o l a t ers in that quarter of in Christianity. of the globe al one i re been redeemed to a belief wever the matter here considered is one demand-tug the serious attention of the p o hne—aiding them, d 0, in their effort t ie statements cannot fail to. " % reprehend the progress of the Je suit p art y in ;„ e lLlled by wa t c hi ng the movements of their bre thren ottelndostan. 4,-EARiIIoUSE. No. 111. By Charles D ickens. ,as Iltlitared and mellowed in style, Boz" is as fresh . . t,7r .onginality. t 0 4 71 two Bleak House, which seemed to first numbers to commence in a . subdued )11 Z , , such as 'even filled our mind with dtsapPoitlt spu—' has already in the third number developed it de with vigour and rapidity that promise to rep . ; novelist_ not Unworthy of the pen of our incompara . y c , l l l ,i 'st---one who, without extravagance, may . b d ar e i _" the . Le Sage of his generation. Exercising ebt ug h is lifetime an influence that Le Sage never —relict by thousands and thousands almo't tne ; 4 :9 3 ttuat of publication—his green nuoite . s - "„g simult aneous l y on the tables of the artinn end the PatriDian---we exult to.find a genius possessing Power in sorne respects so very solemn in its re- Donsitii• - • • th, Icy; always displaying i tse lf in the ineulca. 4 h, or the wors hi p o f the good', the gentle, a n d th e 4tit tli• Se ldo m has the large heart o f Ch ar l es t "sens revealed this tendency more conspienottsly s zto in the Alay invtalment of his new ficti on . k i th " becomes more loveable than ever (uncon- Rra ° tisly to hertelp in the Writing of her eutobio. th Mr • ITUye d e hitnFelf, capital fellow , e 1„ A g" . 18 , with his perpetual terror of the, etc s'ad'hia Unininf o rt a ble liability to be "floored n 's,p," has his nose put out of joint by his friend f ormer school-fellow, Lawrence Boythorn, who erally bursts into the narrative, takes the reader'e Pe er of thebei ng or: storm, and gives promise • of t t. most glorious creations of the author, to whom world is already indebted for such beings as Old ,v,:( e ller, and Tom Pin c h, an d C apta i n Cuttle, and xraliles, and John Willett, and AID ,Nantellini, And T !! E SUN, Dick Swivelle-. His roarirg voicy, his intense superlatives, boisterous laughter, his - g r e y hairs, his young heart, his 'good hnoncur, and his canary, all -win upon -one - immediately. _ tFrrible dragonnesz of a Mrs..Padiggle (with her five i n s pite. pf ourselves, into a visit to restrained boys) is introduced in hkJ manner, and swe:eps us away the,bovel of an abandoned bricktnakQr. Adn. and Either are of the party who tire thus characteriatically addressed by the lord and master of the hovel, tho brick maker : wants a end of these liberties took with my place. I wants a ead of being thawed like a badger. No w you're a going to poll-pry and question according to cestom—l know what yeu're a going to be up to. Well! You haven't got no occasion to be up to it. I'd rave you the trouble. my daughter a wathin? Yes, she is a washin. fit the water. Scaell it! That's nut we drinks. How do you lik it, and what do you think of gin, instead! A n 't m y p l ace ? Ye's, it is dirty-4's DaCrally !Arty, and natvrally onwholcume; and , w e 've h a d five dirt) and onr.le,lci.ortre children, as is all dead in fants, and so much better for them, and for us ha sides. Have I rea d t h e l i tt l e b ook wut you left? N. I at. read the littl e b,, e k wet you left. There an% no body here as k nows h rw to read it; and if there won, it would'nt be suit a bl e to me. L'a a but k fit tor a b3bhy, and I'm not a vir -If you us to leave MC a doll, I, s!-tould' n t nius i t. How havej been conducting of self? Why, been drtiiik for three - day e l and I'd a been drunk f our , if I' d a had the mon-y. Don't I never mean for to go to church? No, I don't never mean for to go to church. I shouldn't be c xpeated there, the . beadie's too ger.-teel for me. And bow did.aiy wife get that black ? Why, I giv'- it her; and .i f she says I did'nt, s h e ' s a Lb !" if I did; Before Ala and Esther leave the room, but after Perdiggle and her children have departed, the poor child, in the arms of the :brickmaker's wife, dies. " 0 Esther I' cried Ada, sinking on her knees beside. it. `Look here! 0 Esther, my love, the little thing! The' stiff-ring, quiet, pretty little thing! lam so sorry for it. lam so sorry for the mother. I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! 0 baby,.baby! " While they are still there, a poor _ women, calling out "Jenny I Jenn . y . !" hurries in and falls upon the neck of the bereaved mother. " She had no kind of grace about her, but the grate of sympathy; but when she condoled with the wo man, and her own -tears .fell, she wanted no beauty. I say condoled, but her only words were ' Jenny ! Jenny 1' All the rest was in the tone - in which she said them. - "I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see whet they could be to one another; to see how they felt for one another; how the heart - of each to e,ch was soft etted ny the bard, trials or 'their lives. - I think the best side of such people is almost hidden from us What the poor are to the poor is little known, exeepting,to them selvf.s and God." Our friend Ebrold Skimpole appears for a moment in this number, but in that moment utters thoughts anent the Bee that we should have liked to have re ferred to the consideration of Dr. Watts. It is at breakfast, and he is eating honey when he thus dis courses : " jHe had no objection to honey, he said (and I should think he had not, for he seemed to like it), but he pro• tested against the overweening assumptions of Bees. He didn't at all see why the busy Bee snould be proposed as a model to him; he supposed the Bee liked to make honey, or he wouldn't do it—nobody ri,ked him. It was not necessary for the Bee to make such a merit of his tastes. If every confectioner went buzzing about the world, banging against everything that came in his way, and egotistically calling upon everybody to take notice that be was 'going to his work acd must not be interrupt-d, the world would be quite an insupportable , place. Teen, after all, it was a ridiculous position to be smoked out of your fortune with brimstone, as a :on as you had made it. You would have .a very mean opinion of a Manchester man, if he spuu _ cotton for no other purpose. He must say be thought a Dione the embodi ment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. The Drone said, unaffectedly, 4 1'AI will excuse me; I really cannot at tend to the shop! I find myself in a world in which there is so much to see, and so short a time to see it in, that 1 must take the liberty or looking about me, and begging to be provided for by somebody who doesn't want to look about him.' This appeared to Mr. Skim pole to be'the Drone philosophy, and he thought it a very good philosophy- - -alwaye 'supposing the Drone to be willing to be ou good terms with the 13cc; *high, so far as he knew, the ea'sy• fellow - always was, if the con sequential.creeture would only let him, and net be so conceited about his honey." • By the way - Rither obtains some delightful nick= names, such as _Old Woman, Cobweb, Mother Hub bard, and Dame Durden. And, by the way, again, this same Dame Darden has a love passage in the ninth Chapter—Mr. Guppy formally filing a declare tion, or'in other words popping the, question. The scene is described with infinite humour. After Guppy has departed, Of - course rejected Esther : I sat there ,tor another hour or more, finishing my books and pa 3, Merits, and getting through plenty of bu siness. Then, I arranged my desk, and put everything. away, and was so composed and cheerful that I thought. I had quite dismissed this unexp , cted incident. But, when 1 went up-stairs to my room, I surprised myself by beginning to laugh about it, and then surprised myselt still more by beginning to cry about it. In short, I was in a flutter for a little while; and felt as if an old chord had been more coarsely touched than it ever bad been since the days of the dear old doll, long buried in the garden." file closing chapter of the number has reference to Mr. Snagsby t law stationer, of Cook's-court, Cursitor-street, 'who is described as - emerging from tea, " greasy, .warrit, herbacious, and chewing ;" to Mrs. Snagiby;wife Of the aforesaid, whose sharp nose is said to have beets " like a sharp autumn even ing, inclining to be frosty -towards the end," to Guster (°. by some supposed to have been christened AU tttsta"), their poor slatternly servant girl, who "has fits," sad. who regards with such admiration " the little drawing-room up.stairs always kept, as one may say,' with its hairdo papers and its pinnafore on." Besides these, we are introduced again. to Mr. Tulkinghorn, the solicitor ef'Lincoln's Inn-fields, whom we accom pany to Krook's rag and bottle shop - , and up to the mysterious second-floor lodger, " The Lew Writer," strongly suspected by us and by others, we opine, to be one of the family of the Jarndyces. So ends the number on the threshold of his apartment. FINE ARTS. THE HOLY > Painted by Murillo ; engraved by Bridoux. M'Lean. A superb line engraving of this celebrated master piece has very recently been issued from the esta blishment of Mr. Thomas MeLean of the Haymarket. Of late peers the graver hes been so generally super seded by the mezz Ainto-rubber, and the etching. needle, that we regard with very peculiar satisfaction its employMent 'in the highest department "of what may be called in a twofold sense' the "imitative art" par excellence. More particu larly are we rejoiced to witness the appearance of a line engraving with anything like superior preten sions about it, when the artist hes selected for representation some more than usually remarkable original. Precisely thus is it with reference to the magnificent production before us, in which the mas ter-skill of A. 13ridoux has admirably interpreted the master-genius of Murillo. It is now many years since the "Holy Family," painted by Murillo some where about 1660 (namely, in the forty-seventh year of his age, and twenty-five years - before his demise), came to he regarded as amongst the noblest evidences of his powers by the people of this country. Produced originally at Cadiz for the Marquis of Pedroso, the picture was valued according to Cean 13-roaudez at 800 pesos of 15 reels or 600 crowns, being ultimately bought for the Eeglish nation in 1837, together with Rubens' " Brazen Serpent, " for the sum of 7,3501., and deposited in the National Gallery by order of the Government. Every one who has visited that melati-' choly repository of the artistic treasures of Great Britain must have paused before that, if before no other picture in the collection, in admiration. It'is numbered, indeed, with the masterpieces, of the whole gallery, with the "St. JAI)," also bY Mu 7 r tt i , a rith the " Ecce Homo" and the "Mercury. t i h og Cupid," and of Correggio," with the "Sussnnah oe Elders,"- and the "Lot and his Daughters," the Guido; with it • Christ and the Doctors" of Leonardo da V' loci' and with the " Raising of La zarus" of -Sebastian d e l. i.he more conspitaio Piomho." To expatiate on , of Murillo—the cells beauties of this " Holy Family' Child, the - lovely fea " t a u i r e e l countenance of ' the Divine he BleSsed Virgin; the s and maternal tenderness of of St. Joseph—the' :rene and. meditaiive aspect' matchless grou ping. the xquisi b te colouring, the and all the other gloratune, the solemnity, s pedhliarit . the composition would be wo superfluous' ise than p f would be even oat of place here, brit that, t,we;are en ribled toremark that they are all of there transferred to the engraving by the skilful hand of.Bridoux—eau, with one exception, of course—Aliat of colourige 'The plate, 23 inches high by rt 4 -e plate, whic t . is 2- Wicie; (Wig signs: honour to Mr. Bridoux, while no inconsiderable portion of credit will he Talented upon-the, establish ment of Mr. M‘Lean by the issue of every stiocessivci rasion. .... ]II AY , p,AY 5.-The Brunswic k s e h .1). i — i P a L TIT-PiTE: I Captain W rll SOUTHAMPTON V. FISMOUT Harvey, whic ''s steamer Su tan, a sular and Oriental Compaq) fog, going apt.alf speed s r t t e ßro e o n k l e n ; in the Needles..hplaesitsatghei,spinorta thicklast lursdia,y,, —say, five or sin. miles ,Docks the day Southampton an the Aiediterrane". She left accomplished about twenty-. before at 2 30 P.M., and had thus hour—bound with the mails for e made the en- • she would have cr o4 sed the Channel and hate six miles in sixteen liotirs. Had she sailedh f r om Plymouth the trance to the Bay o f BiScay, while she was threading ditfiolt .navigation - r of the Southampton waters and the Needles Passage. On S un d a y mor ning, the 2d instant, at half r paifs ten o'clock, t h e P en i nsu l ar a n d O r iental Company' steamer. Aladrid, Captain Weeks, from Spain, was seen by a ti' matt to = the south war d o f .t h e : Edd ystone , w ithin two houra.,s4l, of Plymouth. She . arrived -at Southampton on Monday night, and her ma il s reach e d London on T ues d a y forenoon. Had the Madrid come i nto Plymouth, he r l e tt e rs would have reached the metropolis on Monday—more than twenty-C?ar 119%4 earlier than by the c9nrke adopted. LON PARLIAII , ,I,I62.iT . ARV DIVISIONS (From the Votes a.; i frvcee.( 7. . Q I the llowe of Commons ) AvEl):. Esatir , 3ia . i. 5. • - TENANT , RIGIIiT (IRELAND) BILL. Orcler read, - ,for - .resumin'g' 7 the Further proceeding on Amendment proposed to Question, " That the Bill be now • re.id a,, second,: time,," :nd which Amendment was Co leave otit time iva:'d " noiV," and at the end of the Question to add the ,words" upon this day six, months:"— Question egain prtCpoicd, " That the word'' now' stand part of the Question." Further proceeding resumed ; Question put. Tue House divi,'ed :,-- BIINORITY7- AYES, 57. Adair, It. A. Heard, .J. I. 'O'Brien, John B arron, Sir A. Henry s . lexander O'Brien, Sir T. Barron, Sir 11. Higgin, George - O'Connell, M, .T. Ilass,'M. T. Howard, P. 11. O'Flaherty, Anthony Bellew, R. M. - HoWard, Sir It: . Perfect, Robert IlLike, M. J. , . Keating, Robert . - Power, N cholas Brigh, John Keogh, , William . Rawdon, Colonel Burke, Sir T. J. Karshaw, James • Reynolds, John • i;utler, P. S. Lawless,"Cectt sadietr, John Castlereagh, Vise. M'Cullagh, W. T. ' Scrope, G. T. Cobden, Richard Maga[]; W. 11. Scully, Francis. Cogan, W. 11. Maher, N. ' - Scully, Vincent Corbally, M. E. Meagh c, Thomas Sullivan, Michael Devereux, J. T. Mahon, o'4ierrnan Tetment, R. J. Fox, Richard M. 3111,uraTI. Robe,t Thompson, Colonel French, F. Mensell, William \Val:ley, T., Gould, Wyndham Moore, G. IL : Walinsicy, Sir S. . Grace.o D. J. Murphy, F. S. ', - . TELLEtiA. Grattan, usury Norreys, Sir D. Crawford, W. S. • Greene, John Nugent, bir Percy Roche, E. B. .. imp: MAJORITY -tiOES, 167. Addeley, C. B. Duncan, George - Lowther, Henry Anson, Viscount Duncornhe, A. 31acnaghten, Sir E. Arkwright, G. Dunne, Colonel Mandeville, Viscount Bailey, Craw,hay Du Pre, C. G. Manners, Lord C. • Bailey, Joseph East, Sir J. - Manners, Lord J. Beillte, U. J. Edwards, IL March,.Earl of • Bald Oct., E. 11. Egerton, Sir P. Morgan, 0. • .Ilaukes, G. • Egerton, W. T. , Naas, Lord Barrington, Lord Farnham, E. ' Napier, Joseph Barrovvh W. 11: - ." :. -... " , Ferrer, James ••• Neekt, Joseph Bennet; Philip - • l - Fell.owes, E. , Newport, Viset. Bereslord, William , • - Ferguson, Sir.% . Noel, G. J. l- Bernard, Vi count - Floyer, John .. - • O'Brien, Sir Lucius Blair; Stephen Forbes, Wm. : . Parke, C. W. BL-tndford, Marquise ; .Vottly - ce, A. D __ . ,Pakington, Sir J - oh3l bouh im-Carter, J. Forester, Gi: C. ' Booth, Sir R. G..- Forster, M. Patten, J. W. Bowles; Admit - M - 3 . - Fox,. S. L. - Pennant, Colonel • 13rernridge, Richard' Freesturt, Colonel -- Philips, Sir. G. R. Bridges, Sir 13. FreshEleld, J. W. -- Pilkington. James Briseo,ll. Firller A. E. , Pugh, David Brooke, Sir A. Galway, Viscount_ Pusey, P. Brotherton, J. ; - Gilpin, COlonel . Ricardo, Osman Bruce, Lord E. Gore, W. 11.- U. - - Richards,Richaid Bruce, C. L. . . loulburn, Henry Rushout, Captain ' BUck, L. W. '''• Granger, T. C. , - ' Sandars, George Bunbirry, William . Greenall, Gilbert Seyme r, LI. K. Burghley, Loa . ,: -, Gleyn, Howel Smyth, J, hn George Burrell, Sir C. Raiford, Sir IL _ SMollett, A. Carew, W. li. Pole Hamilton, CIO. A.. Somerville, Sir W. Caulfeild, J. M. Hamilton, J. L. - • Stafferd, Augustus Cayley, E. S. . Hamilton, Lord C. " Stanley,Stn Edward Chichester, Lord J. - 'llardinge, Cr S. - - 11. Child, Smith Haitie, Alexander Stuart. J. Christopher. R. Hayes. Six E., , Stuar t Henry G. Clements, Charles ~... Utadlam, Thinnas _ - l'ennent, Sir J. Clerk Sir G. Reurage , G. u.' - - Thesiger, Sir F. Clive,. R. 11. Henley, J. W. Thicknesse, R. A. Clive. Henry B. Hildyard, T. B. B.T. Thornely, Thomas Cobbold, J. C. _ Hill,. Lord , E. ',•.-• = Trollope, -Sir .J. Cochrane, A. - B. , , _/... Hope; Sir J. . -.-.. , Tyler, Sir G. Cocks, T. S. Hotharn, Lord,. ,_. Tyrell, ,Sir J. T. Codrington, Sir W. Hughes, W. B. _ Verner, Sir W. Collins; Thomas Hume, Joseph Vesey, Hon. T. Colvile, C. R. Johnstone, Sir J. ViEters, Viscount Conolly, ThomaS, Jolliffe, Sir W. 11. - Vy=se, H. R.ll. Corry, H.: - = ~ -- ~-.• -Jones - , Captain.: ---- , Walpole, S. U _. Cotton,, W. 11. Kelly, Sir F. Walsh, Sir J. B, Darner, Colonel ,-,.., ~,i Kass, ColOnel• _ Welby, G. E. Davie, Sir H. - Janos, ,W. - 8. • • Whiteside, James Davies; D. A. S. Langton, W. H. Worcester, Marquis Denison, Edmund t emiard, T. B.- := -' Wynn, H.. W.-- Dod, J. W. .. Lennox,•Lord:4. . -Yorke, E. T. Dodd, G. Lennox, Lord IL G. . - , , Drumlanrig, Viscount Lalie, C B. , -, 'MUMS. Drummond, Henry Long, W. • - _ Bateson, T. Drummond, Home . Lowther, Colonel .Mackenzie, W. F. ... . . 'PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. 'WORCESTER; AND HEREFORD RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, after a prdiratteel int:fairy, toad _opposition on the partof the Great Westerni-Railway• end - other interests, the CoMmittee, consisting of Mr. Childers, Colonel Peel, and others, paased•the preamble of this Bill, promoted by the London and Noeth•Western Railway, for making a line. from Worcester to se - record, with branches to the city of Worcester, to Malvern, and to Ledbury. The Bill also takes Powers to enter into working arrangements with the Midland and London and North-Western Com• pgn;es, to whom it vvingive access to andicommunication with the districts otAouth , Wale3. -- - The estimated cost of-the line is 220,000/. • Evidence was adduced on the part of the Commissioners or the Severn Navigation to show that I:ie : prnnosed fixed bridge below Worcester, clitT O i g the , railway serails' the :Severn, would annihilate the navigation at the time of high tides, and that it would be necessary to have ,a swing or draw bridge,. The, promoters of the railway, proposed a fixed bridge ()fa Specific height and span, and that vessels at the time ~f hi g h tides should lay up at- Worcester. Ultimately e i m , E A were introduced, leaving the matter to the juris diction of the Admiralty. .The Parliamentary and other expenses of pfetecuting the - Bill for this line are said t 6 amount to between'4o;o9ol. anc1 2 50,0001; • Lotan.)N AND NORTH-WESTERN 'RAILWAY.—The ComMittee, in reporting the preamble of this company's tan Bills, state that the Object of the first is to effect ar rangements with regard to, capital, and for enlargement of the' stations at Wolverton and _Kilburn; and of the voond, for newdinrnittar Oxford, Jo :connect with the Buckinghamshire railwlys, and the Oxford,. Worcester, an d,Wolverhamptorcand - tn'e&ct arrangernenta between the 'latter • company • and `the 'London and North- Western. The Committee report that the financial obj-ct of the compaik 'id' to enable thein to convert, by- - degrees, their existing :`debt -into irredeemable stock, bearing grin ual -interest not exceeding three and a half per cent, Such new or debenture stock to hive priority of interest Or dividend over all existing prefe rence shares or stock of the company; but inasmuch as the debenture stock will only be created instead of mortgages or debeturea bearing on an average a far higher rate of interest, which interest has now a priority over all preference shares or stock of the company, the Committee did not?deern the creation of the debenture steek . to bea " granting . of preference or priority" within the meaning'cit . the 128th - standing order, or an alteration of the terms of any. existing preference or priority, within the meaning 'of the 129 , h standing order.: The Committee amended the Bill by declaring the eXpedieney of creating a debenture " stock," with an interest not exceeding 3i per cent., instead of an in ' tereat positively of 3f per _ GREAT WESTERN R A ILWAY. --Ye _ ster av the Com -13,1t, -for the purchase• and transfer n this o f the arrangements with tlie Wilts,Someraet, and Weytpou th, at Didcoti passed the preamble. l mnPnilentst'a an d Avon Canal, for making and-fer additional *orka • FREE-TRADE PROTECTIONISTS. The only remedy proposed -by the present Adusinis• triad?* lies simply In-maintaining the existing commer cial policy of the country. Our friends of the Protection press, if they would be true to their own colours, must prtTare to furbish up some of their best samples of in vective against the Derby "traitor" and the "renegade" of Buckinghamshire. In what respect does the reluc tant adhesion of the preSent First Minister to .the doc trinea of Free Trade differ from their recognition by that great statesman who, to his country's loss, was. inatcbed away from us, e xcept in so far that he ha s been .snore slow to discern the pulley which this country could not but pursue if it would maintain its rank in the scale of nations? What kind of pledge did the hate Sir Robert Peel give to the great Conservative Far y in 1842 which can for a moment be compared with:4lle pledges given by Lord Derby as chief spokes man and recognizci leeder of the Protection-party. since 18461 If Sir Robert Peel was a traitor, what is Lord Derby ? Let it not. hoWever, be-fora moment supposed that we wish the Quintilians and Ciceros of monopoly to. turn their pens against the leaders of the present Administration. For the sake of decency , let them at last leave off calling of hard names, and recognize results which any but a blind man can perceive. If there be any " treason," or any such heavy matter in Lord Derby's present positidn, it is that he has not the man liness to act as Sir Robert iPeel did at a far more mo mentous time. No_ than can make a great .speceh in more efficient style than the.present Premier when he fairly sets about it. Why doeshe shrink from the odium of acknowledgieghfs mistake; and admitting in the face of the country and of his own followers that he was mis taken? " Ohl buttheelectiofis are coming on; we must not alienate the votei,pf ..our orarPartisans. We must not completely desitoY the — shaken faith of the agricultural . constituencies!" It would appear to any unprejudiced observer as though poor Sir.ltobert had risked far more than. this, and had exposed himself to a storm of vitu peration which would not reach Lord Derby's-head. It is, , however, of the Protection writers and the Protection press that we are speaking at the present moment. Why doT.not they, even at the twelfth hour, make a tardy at tempt to escape from the mud through which they hive bean too long dragged .by every blockhead who on any heitings or at any Protectionist me eting throughout the eountry has stood up to add his little quantum of non .- seoSe to the literature of Protection? -. It had been our speak of thelastshiftiand changes el the Protection writers, but a feeling. of com punOtean—evereetnes-us-even -at-the-last moment. Why _ triuMph4iVei*enp.whoae,p_oaitiOn..so much ridicule, is dit attaahe — katber let us entreat .the public to look the tlao example - :which themselves had Set. We will not tOo'CurionslY remark upon 'their canning arguments for proving; that there 'is a substan tiaj difference between the fiscal policy of thelate and 'the present Chaiocellor et the Exchicieer. Mr. Disraeli inky , have eulogised i . ba:suceOsa of the Free-trade policy. t it in 4irprese,nt budget. That is nothing. He has not adopted the formal terms of Sir Charles: Wood's • motion, nor, a 5 far as 'yre, are aware, borrowed the Right Gentleatei hit--that is everything.' Be it so. 'ltiaas absolute a certainty as . anything can be which is predicated humandid not the wisest of their evene4esossf—. t t h h a o t se ere six months are out the calumniators of Sir Robert Yeti, the professional dit,Coimieis of mares% t!ftFt, the literary griepineemOpierliivhere no grievance ed, will will be lo w t i c t l ag tT x td_ m _f e r o o t tri 4 tb re a e :C .,tr rr a o d r e o a f r i t h ic e l i e r s, * , a a y n s ci asorrbing the salVation Country. to the very men opposed this policy from the first. Content have let not . be over curious sv6 avoid neellessly wounding the n with the Let us F b e o l - u f 0 the ye Times, iivho arc least entitled to such reierve.— REMOVAL of T a n S OFFICE ISTA A It FROM SOMERSET.:HotrEsz.---W has been foUnd necessary to apply to Parliament for an Act - amending the existing Act o for registration of births; - deaths, "and marriages ' The object of the amendment intr o d uce d- in the House'of Com mons by Lord John Manners, and rea d a second; time op `Monday, is to:Alter a olau,se of the above Act of Parliathent, providing that the offices of the Register General Shall be situated •' within : the citiea_ of ,London or Vir'estnainster; it baying been found expedient to vacate the present offices in'SOßlellet-place, in favour of the Board of Inland Revenue. It is understood that. tii6 department of the Registrar,Ge r of the L r ouloa U niversit y . n so e rr. i.a e l twimille i n li P r t e lY pa r r e a l t n io o n7at to Co n w ew ard offi Co c l e l s eg lv e, h i i n eh th h e a N v i e c i n b l e t 3ll. SPORTING NOTES. , - No: ccxx.t. THE RACE FOR THE CH ES rEn, CUP AND THE FIELDS 7816n1Z-0-1-V.-- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUiV. retesiks on the Cap eerie tor the most part,. correct; the four horses that I 8,--lected to occupy foremo:-.1 posit!ons included Jos Miller arid Stilton, the first and second; Duo an Dourras had to give place to his stable companion, Cockcrow, that beine the eag selwed by Lord Waterford to win with; and Hothorp, the remaining horse 'of my team, though in eplenti.id condition, was unable to give two' steno for the year to the winner. .The running of Joe Miller scd Stilton at Epsom was revered in this instance; as on tl7e Thew, Stilton beat Joe in a canter by the same distance that t r e e yesterday beat' Stilton on the Rooden. The true nature of the Handicap running of the year was borne Out yesterday by Chit for the Cup, as the first and second for the MetroPolitrii, and ihe first for , the Northamptonshire S.. ekes, obt a i ne d" th e first three places; Poodle Gni:ding a geed third, .and the much talked-of Benita a fair. fou t tn. Joe's victory was almost a repetition of the lied D.er game in 1844, as ho had the lead pretty eeeely froe a the commencement to the fini,h, never having been healed after he had taken the command of the vat,. The race was rua ate good.paere the time being '4 min. 6 sec. ' The immediate (free' "of the result f 'the race for th e C up was the iippk-atance of Joe Miller st 15 to 1 for 'the Dorby. His chance for the great event on the D owns of Epsom IS 'of a very inferior kind, as the publi c w i ll find, - it being a slightly different thing to carry 4st 10113 at Chester, receiving weight from nearly everything in the race, and hearing Bst 71b in the Derby at level weights, with the, best, horses of the year. Felny notes yesterday I forgot to state that Bethge lert and .Merry Bird would be first .and second for the Triennial Produce Stako', and the information Will be of little or no service now 'OtnisSions and mistakes will. occur in the best ordered stateof giega. Seven etakesfigtire oft theiist for to-elorreies-tbree 'of which—the , 5' SOVlL'Handicap; Ladies' Purse, - and Grand Stand Cup—close and panne this evening. The Wirral Stakes will, in all probability-, terminate in a walk over; the owner of the filly by Orlando out of the .Maid of Avon, being the recipient of the forfeits.' The Eaton Stakes may possibly b e ceuteg t c d by the Black Doctor, Belts of Hardwi c k, and Calot or BESS OF RAnDIVICH. and CALOT Occupying the first and second places, with the Black Doctor in the third posi tion, and Ibis last. The Cestrian Stakes will be contended for by Scipio, Stratagem, and 'Water Lay STRATAGE3I and Feint) filling the first and second places, Water Lily third aad last.• • The field for the Cheshire Stake!, I believe, will con shit of Alountain Deer, the Marquis, Goldfinder, Black Doctor, Ephesus, Cardinal Wiseman, Duleet, and Merry Peal: Goz.pfiNpgik Or. MERRY PEAL, the former for choice, looking most like busines*; the Marquis close up. - The Betting' on to-rnorros'S events is as fol lows:—Cestrian Stakes-2 to lon the field. Wirral Stakes-3 to 1 on- Maid of Avon filly. Che:shire Stakes —3 to 1 sgst Goldfinder; 4 :O 1 each agst Merry Peal, Joe Miller, and the Black Doctor. Eaton Stakes-6 to 4 agst Calot; 2 to 1 agst the Black Doctor. I am, Sir, yours, &a, THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 6, 1852. SPORTING INT-ELLIGENCE. CHESTER RACES.--WEDNESDA Y , The Corinthian' Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all ages. Gentlemen riders. 7 fur longs. (6 Saba:) Mr, Morris's Haresfoot, 10st 51b • (Capt . , Little) 1 Mr. Davies's Gaylad, 6 yrs; lOst 51b - (Owner) 2 Mr.Dawson'a na Emerystone, gat 41b (Mr.C Boynton) 3 Mr.H.French'sHaPPYQaeon,6yrs,lostsll3(Mr.Garnan) 4 Betting,-5 to 4agat Haresfoot, and 7to . 4 agst Emery stone. Won by half a length. Awl in 1 min. 27 sec. First year of the. Second Triennial Produce Stakes of 10 sove. each, h ft. with 30 added. T.Y.C. Mr. Drewe's Defiance, Bst 6st , (Charlton) .1 Mr. Worthington's Je.quenetta, Bst 21b (J. O s b orne ) 2 Betting-6 to 4on Defiance, who waited Until the half distianoe, and won a well-contested race by a neck. The ma was not timed. The Tradesmen's Plate of 200 sovs., added to a handicap sweepttakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if de ' glared; the second to. receive 50 sove. out of the stakes, the third to save his stake, and the winner to pay 25 soya. towards expenses.. The winner of either the Northamptonshire . Stakes, Metropolitan Stakes, Newmarket Handicap, or the Somersetshire Stakes, in 1852, to carry 101 b extra, or of any other handi cap race of the value of 200 sous., including the win ner's own stake, bibs: extra. Cup Course, about two miles and - a quarter. '(2lo'Subs., 81 Of whom de. Oared.) Mr. Farranee's Joe Miller, 3 yrs, 4st 10lb (H. Goater) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Stilton,-3 yrs, Est 81b (Aldcroft) 2 Lord Clifden's Poodle, 3 yrs, sst 31b ...(T Sherrard) 3 Mr. Whieldon'a &nail, 3 yrs, 4st ...... —(Fordham) 4 The followi ng also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Martinson's Nancy, 4 yrs, 9,t 1113... (F. Marlon) 0 Mr. - Mangan's Russborough, Bst 71b ......(E. Keegan) 0 Mr. Osbalde s t on ' s M ou n tain Deer, B s t 61b ...(Hiett) Mr. E. Phillip's Truth, 4 yrs, Bat 21b (.l. Doyle) 0 Mr. Mosely's Alo nzo, 5 yrs, Bst ...... .: (Simpson) 0 General Anson's Baeltbiter, agcd, 7st 121 b (Charlton) • 0 Mr. Greville's Ariosto, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ...(Dockeray) 0 Lord Wilton's Lady Evelyn:6 yrs, 7st 81b (Flatman) 0 Lard Eglintoe's Hippolytus, 4 srs, 7st 81b (J. Sharp) Mr. Phillips'a Le Jeff, 4 yrs, 7,t 61h Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder, 4 yrs, 7st 61b (W. Sharpe) 0 Mr. Clark's Old Dan Tucker, 7st Sib (G. Mann) 0 Mr. Saxon's Black Doctor, 7st 51b ..... (J. Osborne) 0 Lard Waterford's Dac-au-Dhurras, 7st..:(D, Doyle) 0 Sir W. Booth's Retail, 6 yrs, Tat .........(Kitchener) o Duke of-Bedford's Hesse Homburg, 4 yre, 7st (Esling) 0 Mr. Notes Birmingham, 4 yrs, Est 12:b ...(Knight) 0 Mr. Morris ' s Hungerford, 4 yr s , E st 101b...(Basham) 0 Mr. H. Hill'. Hothorpe, 4 yrs. 6st 101 b ( Arnold) 0 Mr, Langshaw us Gholab Singh, Est 10Ib (H. Neap) Lord Waterford's Ceckcrow, Est Sib (W. Wynne) 0 Mr. Martinspn's View. Halloo (h b) ...(E. Harrison) 0 Mr. Eisher's'Brebe, 4 yre, 65t.4111 ..,,.,••, (Hickman) 0 Mr. Farrance's Cardinal Wi seman, Est 41b J. Wynne) Mr. Drinkald'a Dulcet, aged, 6it (p a yis) O. Mr. Delamere's Harp, 4 yrs, 6„t . ... . .... (Atbertba) 0 Mr. Disney's Indian Wartiar, sst. • Illb ...(T. Smith) 0 Mr.: It Stewart ' s Wilmontes yrs,-6 3 t Mr. Thomas's toe, Sister to Fencer, sstlolb ( (J. Doyle)- 0 iolb Chili:cm) 0 Mr. Osborne'e Merry Bird, 3 yrs, sst 610 1 ...(Carroll) 0 Mr. Pilling's The High Sheriff,: sst _alt.( T. Sherwood) 0 Ld.W aterford's Redmond O'llaulon, sst 81b (Garvey) 0 Mr. Copeland's Lady Atnyott, 3 yre, sst (Kendall) 0 Mr. Phillips's Koh-i-noor, sst (car s st 3 1b) (W e ll s ) 0 Mr. W. D. Holtay's Ulrica 3 yrs; 4st 1210 (A. D o dd) 0 Mr.- Saxon's Richard ri mmer, 4st 101b ... (Q a inton) fell Mr. Grevilles*Soareer P ow, a yrs, 4st 71b ...(Stegeles) 0 Mr. G. Hill na Barley Suga r , 3 yrs, 4st alb ...(Cliff) 0 Major Pitt na Vampyre, aged, 6st 10Ib (Glasebrook) 0 Betting-7 to 2 agst Stilton (9, Bto 1 agst Joe rail . (1), 14 to 1 agst Nancy (t), 15 to 1 agst Merry Bird, 100 to 6 egst Goldfinder, 20 to 1 , agst Bonita, 20 to 1 apt Lady Evelyn, 25 to 1 ,asst Indian Warrior, 30 to 1 agst Poodle, 33 t o o 1 agat ockrow, 33 to 1 agst Black Doc tor, 35 to 1 gst Harp (t), 50 to 1 agst High Sheriff, and 50 to 1 agst any other. Lord Waterford declared to win with Cackrow. Joe Miller made nearly all the runninss, and won in a canter by a length • and a half. Poodle a good third, Benita fourth, Black Doctor fifth. Run in 4 min. 6 ace. 60 Guineas given by the Members for the City, added to a sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, the latter to go to the second. Once round and Lord Waterford's Sharavo a din. (11 Subs.) gue 3 yrs, Oat 121 b (Doyle) 1 Mr. E. P s a b r r 3 ' r e n S e t Lady d y A r i g ; ;le a: ;t o s l r b s 7st (c) ( b li or te n t e t ) ) 3 2 Mr. J. 0 Mr. E. Buckley's Royal George, bat 1210 Sir C. Rushout's Flounce, 3 yrs, 6 st 1010 ... (Charlton)(Arher) 0 0 Capt. Harcouts,'s Burndele, yrs, Est 121 b (Arnold) 0 Betting-6 to 4 agst Sanita, 2to 1 og s t L a dy Agnes, d stmtoelbeatgosteeSnhasercavoongduften.d third. Won cleverly • by a leogth, And- Her Malesty's Plate 100 gai ns as. Mr. spence S. Michael, 3 yrs, 7st 21b... (Charlton) 1 Thrice rotted. Lord Waterford's The Marquis. 4 yrs, Oat 2tb (Doyle) 2 stewart's Banshee, 3 yrs, let 21b (W. Sharpe) 3 Mr. J. Osborne's Priam the Third, Moiklam's Paddy Bird, n 7st 21b (Basham) 4 - Yrs, 7st 21b...(Araold) 5 s e tting—Even ,on Marquis, 3 t o • St Michael, and 4 to 1 1 agst Paddy Bird, 4 to 1 ags , length, a length agst Banehee. Won eeferly by Ma third, and the same between third and fourth, Priam beaten off. Run in 7 min. 8 sec. The Scramble Handicap of 5 soya. quarters . qa each, and 30 added. (11 Subs.) Mr. Shirley •4 's Miss Fanny , yrs, Bstsilla(W. Sharpe) 1 Mr. Mapgab's Tancred, 4 .yrs, B s t 71b . . . (Keegan) 2 Lord Chesterfielp's f by.L.n,rebst (T. Smith) 3 Six others ran. Won b Y half leugtb. LATEST - BETTIN s G AT - cli nEß. •(1 - rlic ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL) THi:DEE STAKES. 3 to 1 agst Hyacinth 3 to 1 agst Attack ' • DERBY. 8 to, I agst Alcoran—taken - 9tb 1 agst Hobble Noble x 1 to 1 agst Claverhouse 12 to 1 agst Stockwell 15 to 1 agst Kingston 15 to 1 agst Little harry 15 to 1 agst Joe Miller 50 to 1 agst Augur _r 5~:4 i~Ud'li. Pit '43 ROYAL MIMES YACHT CLUB. t?th el e l piazza to all The entries fur the Grand C hallen g e Cup, __ royal ynchts,closed at ten o'cl ock last R i ght , u Coffee-heuse, and ars as follow: _ Cygnet, 35 tons, HOD. Mr. La m h ton. Mtv quit°, 50 tons, Lord Lendesborou g h. Volante, 48 tons, J. L. Craigie, H su . Mouse, 15 tone, G. E. Browne, War Hawk, 66 tone, G. Bartlett, .g gq . Pauline, 35 tong , C. 13randetb, Ebq. , The lace is appointed for the 14th instant, from Erith -round the Nore Light and back. The Ruby steamer has been ch.:lle - red by the club, and will leave L'endon-bridge at r.:alf-past. nine in the morning. The band of the R o y,' Blues will be in attendance. ABOLITION Ok TUE SVNDAY FAIRS IN BATTERSEA FIELDS.—The Commissioners for the new park in Battersea Fields, have just issued a notice of caution whic h has been widely circulated, and will have the effect of sup pressing this monster nuisance ; and wholesale des ccrat i cm of the Sabbath. The following is a copy of the notice issued Caution.--Notice is hereby given, that on and after Sunday next, the 9th of May, 1852 , all persons seen trespassing in 'Battersea-fields with horses, donkeys, coc k_ shies, barrow, &c., on a Sunday , will be taken into cus tody, and a ll suc h persons so offending. during the week, without proper authority, will be taken into custody, th e i r horses impounded, and the owners dealt pith according to law." 1 2 • = HER _MAJESTY'S STATE BALL. gave a State Ball es-rtirg at buck inghaea .01lacc, which %v 1. most numerously- at'endcri by the nobility and gentry, nearly two thottalnd invitations having been issued, and o,inne to her Majesty's gracious permission dispensing with the Court mourning on this ecoa:ion (except for the le.dies of oot - household), the ball presenter} the brilliant and magnificent character usual at the State receptions of the Sovereign. The grand hall was decorated wih. Insautiful flowers. Thiteball, composed of white marble • and supported by marble columns, has two recesses or• alcoves at the foot of the: greed- staircase; these were filled with the choicest plants, groure,l with excellent taste, springing from a border of mosses end mignionette, the one group surmounted with a beautiful specimen of the " acacia • sirma,a," tint' the corresponding group with the " trtllsa indica alba." The sculpture ga llery adjoining the greed hall was filled with sofa tabl's and setters for the accommodation of the vi=itors. The grand staireage • was brilliantly illuminated ; at the foot wore two tripods, bearing a mass of glob a of light, intersperselwithcut crystal, the upper portion of the staircase leing bunj?. with whole-length portraits of various members of the 'Roy al Family. The antrorocm at the top of the staircase is a most beautiful specii-nen of internal decoration. The arched et. ring is supported by columns of wlike rhsrb:e with gilded capitals. This room con ains Gliasoaisi statues in marble of her thjesty And his Royal Highness Pi ince Albert, in which colour is truingly and with much delicacy introduced in the ern...Meets and drapsry. This apartment leads to the greed drawing-room, the throne-room, and the picture gallery; -anti on the 'other side of the picture gallery are , the yellow drawing-room, the saloon, the ball room; and the supper ! room. The throne ruonkwss appropriated as a second ball room, the orelest;ra was formed in the deep alcove in which the - throne' is situate ; it was but slightly raised above the floor, and the front was hung with draperies of crimson : velvet embroidered in gold. The ball-ronm, which has a massive arched roof of great - magnificence, being 1-tunnelled in architectural conipirrtments, profusely enriched with gilding, is, sup ported by columns of crimson scagliola of, the Corinthian order with gilt capitals. The permanent orchestra is a gallery at the north end. The haut pas, on which the seats of state were placed forlier Majesty and Prince Albert, was covered with crimson. The draperies enclosing it were of amber-co loured satin and white lace, and at the back, forming a back-ground to the seats, was a most brilliant assort ment of beautiful flowertr, rising to a considerable height abeVe the seats. The draperies were surmounted by a broad and massive gilt cornice. _ . Full-length portraits of her Majesty and Prince Al bert, by Winrerhalter, ornament this apartment. Adjoining the baq-room is the supper-room, having a deep recess at the end, within which a buffet was ar ranged, on which the more exquisite specimens of jewelled and ornamental gold plate were most effectively displayed, with the aid of a background of dark crimson andesuinerous lights from golden candelabra. This room contains the portraits of George IV., in the robes of the Garter, .by Sir Thomas Lawrence, placed in the middle, with those of George 111. and Queen Charlotte, by Gainsbarough, on either side, Frederick, Prince of Wales, and the Princess of Wales, and the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland. The tables for the supper were ranged round three sides of the apartment. The Yeomen of the Guard lined the grand hal and staircase under the command of Captain . Kincaid, the exon in waiting. Captains B allairs and Rickfords, exons of the corps, were also present. Aguard of honour of the Foot Guards was on duty on the Palace lawn, with the band of the regiment. The comeany began to arrive at the Palace at nine o"olock, those having the entrée alighting at a tempo rary entrance in the, garden, and the general company entering from the ptincipal portico. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary arrived at ten o'clock, attended by Lady Suffield and Major Baron Knesebeck. Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Maids of Ho nour,- the Grooms, and the Equerries in Waiting, by whom they were ushered to her Majesty. Soon after ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain from the yel low drawing-room, through the saloon into the ball-room. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness wore accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess o f Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and were attended by the Mis tress of the Robes; the Countess of Cbarlemont, lady in waiting; Hon. Matilda Paget and Hon. Mary Seymour, maids of honour in waiting; the Lord Steward, tho Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household; the'Comp troller of the Household; Lord Polwartb, lord in wait ing; Sir Edward Bowater., groom in waiting; Lord Charles Fitzroy, equerry in waiting; the Pages of Honour in Waiting; the Groom of the Stole to the Prince; Lord George Lennox, lord in waiting to his Revd Highness; .Lieue-Colonel Francis SeyMour, groom in waiting to his Royal Highness; and Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness. The Queen wore a dress of white tarlatan over white watered silk, trimmed with black and white flowers and diamonds. Her Majesty's headdress was composed of a wreath of blank and white flowers -and diamonds. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge wore a dress of black net over black glace silk, embroidered with black bugles, the stomacher ornamented with pearla . and diamonds. Her Royal Highness's head dress was formed of a magnificent tiara of large pearls and diamonds, with black lace lappets. Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary wore a dress of white net ever white glat 6 silk, el. gently trimmed with white bugles and white roses, with ornaments of pearls and diamonds in the stomacher. Her Royal Highness's head-dress was composed of white roses, pearls, and diamonds. The assembled visitors followed her Majesty and her august circle from the saloon and picture gallery into the ball-room. A criachille was immediately formic], and the Queen opened the ball with the Duke of Beecl , uch, the viy U-vis being his Royal Highness Prince Albert and her Royal liighn( as the Princess Mery. His Ito) al Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at half past ten o'clock, attended by Lord William Panlet and Major the Hon. James Maedcnald. The ball having been opened, dancing was com menced in the throne-room with the " Quadrille of All Nations.' The brothers Labitzky attended with their orchestra in this bill-room, and played the following dances- WALTZES. Flying. Leave 3 Lovely Rhino Tory The Berate (Ist time) Summer Night's Dream QUADRILLES. Quadrille of All Nations 1 Martiri Steinhof Martha Stratus. POLKAS. Alice Vienna Labitzky. The Royal Marionette GALOPS Military The I,3ara Keene ... The quadrille baud of Messrs Coote and Tinney were stationed in the ball-room, and performed a number of quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, and galops. Refreshments were served during the evening to the numerous assembly in the green drawing room and the garter room, and between twelve and one o'clock supper was served to her Majesty and her illustrious guests in the state dining room. The service was entirely of gold plate, and soine of the most beautiful specimens of ar tistic skill in the'precieus metals were displayed on the lung range of tablei on which the repast was laid. Single flowers of great beauty, and groups of plants in full blossom, relieved occasionally tha gorgeous magnificence oldie golden service; the whole being brilliantly lit with gold candelabra. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel lion. A. Gordon, at tended on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Colonel the Hon. C. Grey. The Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Ma jesty yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at Clarence House, St. James'e. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent dined with her Royal Highness the Dachess of Gloucester last even ing, at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. 'rho Education Committee of her Majesty's Most Hen. Privy Council had a meeting yesterday at the Council-office. Present, the Lord President, the Earl of Derby, the Marquis of Salisbury, Sir John Pakington, the Duke of Northumberland , and, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley. A deputation of stema.owners, consisting of Mr. Thomas Thompson (-Hull), Mr. Charles M'lver (Liver pool), Mr. A. Bannister (Mayor of Hull), and Mr. %V. H. Pearson, had an interview with the Right lion. J. W. Henley and Lord Colchester, at the Board of Trade. The deputation was introduced by Mr. William Brown, M.P., and Mr. James Clay, M.P. ' COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES; WEDNEsDAY.--Ther Dutch barque jeParat which was on shore at the back of the Wight , wa s towed to thi s harbour by the Queen g a mer ste (noon) between nine and ten o'cletk t hi s morning, and w aloegside the - Medina 'Commercial Whqrf, pre paring to discharge the remainder of her cargo. There en no pumps going since she' arrived, a nd she appears to make very little water: She is a . very fine ship, and if her masts had not been cut away would very soon have been ready for sea again. Tha wind ind weather have very much from been much -in her favour, oushe would never have floated . _ out of that disastrous b3y. ' . - The grass and spring Cori] is suffering the continued drought, as are the gardens; the wind has been from the north and east, almost continuously, for more than three months. .. ____........--,,,....,,.... e C u ap ui ta:n a DEPARTURE 01" TUE UNITED STATES MAIL STEAM-1411' ATlANTlC.—Yesterdriy forenoon, about eleven Ma rg il e s , taeustiult-Iship Ala fe a r ti t c' h o'eioek, the United States West, left the -Mersey for. No* York, mails of sixty same hoar the PSataleensgearn4dgnfaiiirtiasveli ritmeecrlca. About , the Liverpobl and 'Philadelphia_ compan3 's screw steam- ship City of Manchester als o left the Mersey, nd a bound for Philadelr phis, with seventy-eight passengers a fall cargo, con sibting chiefly a PinnalleAt'er and girMingLara goods. .~J 1852. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE DUKE OF Pi 04THUrdlIERLAND'S LEVEE.—The f o ll ow in g - eftieera were-reseeted atitieCosiett'o Ivre. y 4 , 6- I to! day : Atirnirdl.Wr-triliov,-Atlaiiral...7. GOtrii", I 1. Rear Admiral SirrJatrei Rohr Admiral Itsbiti• i son, Hear admiral Cator, Sir lilery Cep•sin IL chard Devonshire:atel-Juhu F. Appirbb ' both of 1838, have aecepted the retieement, Commandur _-Noreott, 1838, and.Corernander (dieter, 1851, have been appointed to the coast-guard. • • Her Majesty's paddleewheel eteem.sloop-Bezzard, 6 guns, at Davenport, is ordered for immediate commit:- Edon, but no officers ha,vo as yet, been nominated, to her. A.ssd ac.cidentoccurred on board the Amszon, 26, Capt. Barker, lying 'in Plymbuth Sound. ' We under stand that in striking the topgaliantmast, it caste down by the tun, when otes. man was killed, and _four others serieusly wounded. PoitTSMOUTII, WEDRESDAY.—IIia Royal Highness the Comte Wt. vita, Lord Eli Air Adutir4l of the Neapolitan fleet; and suite, arrived at this. p:/rt this afterpot4a to in vent the chief ebjects..pt.ieterce- • The Q i c 116, Captain Wi,;e, Kits s towed into her hoer this Afternoon by ,Ve Sprightly. end Eehosteamer: , . The Slpt: b,',80, Captain PuicAl, e,mercis_cl her crew . in gunnery this morning at Spithead with shot and 640 at target The Prince Afgeat, 90, Captain Ha rr i s , struck - Core niodoro Alarlin% brotel I , eadant last evening at sues, t i the Corunallelore heviog... / zone on 14-ave. The Wirichester,• (.3,,ptaiti Loeb, C.D., bent saiii this morning. _ The steam- frigat o .Highll,fer,2l, Captain Matson, will bo ready to g o -t o S p i thead this week. The court-martiahon the surviving effieers and Men of the Birkenh ea d bid s fair tolast several . days. PLystottete, WEDICESDAY,;-11er Majesty's steam: vessel Vixen 6, Commemter F. L Barnard, board Sir _Charles Hoth am , the Envoy ' to ' Brez l .l, - an o d n snite, sailed yesterday for. Rio Janeiro. Her Majesty's' frigate AltitiZ)o, 26, Captain C. Barker, which arrived on Sunday from Portsmouth, went up harbour on. Monday, with unbent sails, and commenced taking out stores, .preparatory to being paid .off. Her Majesty's ship Rodney, 92, Captain C. Gra:- . him, now in the Sound, is 150 men short of her cow plement. . . The crew of the Britomart, 8, Commander. Hoseltine,. were paid wages on Monday. 'The frigate Leander, 50, Captain Decree, was taken out of dock on Monday, andreasted on,Tuesday.- . APPortiTNENTS, WOOLWICH, MAY s.—Commander F. N. K. Wasey (1,850) to study steam at the factory at Woolwich Dock . - yard, vice Commander Bowyear, passed. ConorganderAichsel de Courcy (1848) to study steam at the factory, vice, Captain Cospatriek B. Hamilton, passed. - - Commander Philip de Santrinrez- -- (1845) I -to -study steam at the factory,- vice Lieutenant Richard .Moore, passed. :Commander Henry I. Lacon 0842), to study , steam at the factory, vice Lieutenant Macdonald Bourchicr, passed. . ;Lieutenants Macdonald Bourchier and Richard Moore, having completed . course of study of steam, were severally examined-as to their knowledge of steam and marine steam engines' by Mr. Charles .Atherton, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard,. and. on passing satis factorily received their certificates accordingly. - The Herald, 28, Captain Henry Mangles Denham, was visited to-day by a great number of ladies and gentle men, who were conducted over the vessel by Captain Denham, who showed them the arrangements which have been made for the long stay of the Herald on the sur veying service in the South Seas, and the numerous pre sents intended for the natives of the islands in that part of the Pacific) Oman. • LOSS OF THE BIRKENHEAD. A court-martial, consisting of Rear-Admiral H. Prescott; C. 8., president; Captain Chiids, 0.134 of the Excellent; Captain G. B. Martin, C 8., of the Victory; Captain Scott, of the Neptune ; Captain Henderson, C. 8., of the Blenheim; Captain S. T. Lines; of the Sampson; Captain Robinson, of the Arrogant; Captain Loch, C. 8., of the Winchester; Captain Warden, of the Retribution; Captain Symonds, of the Arethasav Cap- Wit Harris, of the Prince Regent; Captain Matson, of the Highflyer; and Sir G. L. Greetham, Deputy Judge- Advocate of the Fleet, assembled yesterday morning at nine o'clock, on board the Viotory,- to try Mr. R. B Richards, master's assistant; J. Bowen, 'l'. Dunn, able seamen; A. Stone, ordinary seaman; and John Ashbolt, stoker, for the loss of the Birkenhead, or rather to in vestigate the conduct:of the survivors of that awful wreck. The witnesses called when our report left were Thor. Coffin, who bad the first middle watch on the night of the wreck; Thomas Daly, of• the first watch, and look out man on the forecastle; Colour-Sergeant Drake, on the poop when the ship struck; John Archbold, gunner, in bed when the accident happened; and Mr. W. Cul 'bane, assistant•surgeon, in his cabin at the time. Ail these witnesses •were subjected to close and lengthened examination, and deposed to a great num her of facts connected with the disaster; but nothing calculated to alter materially the main incidents already before the public. One of them stated, that had the boats remained rear the wreck, and not pursued the schooner,. more lives might have' been saved; but all seemed to agree that both on board the ilf fated sbip,and after she had sunk every effort was used that, under the circumstances, was precticable. The ompanni of the boats stated that they could not, .without danger, take in' more then they held ;.tteat they heard no cries and SlVirtril oesea• of 'distress which they did not seek to rcli:3ve;• that the heaviness of the surf, in their judgment, renthrid landing impossit.le; and, in short, that they acted for the•b:st in the trying emer gency. As to the course which the ship was steering, it was proved that she was some three miles from shore, which, however, was not visible in the darkness; that the soundings were taken; that tlia rate of speed at the dine was 7i knots; diet a light bad been discerned shortly before the catastrophe look place, - and that the sound of the surf was not distinguishable. It was alto shown that the boats were in perftet order for launching had time permitted; that the captain was perfectly col• leeted, and that the orders Nshich he issued were obeyed; that the engines were backed for two minutes alter the ship struck, and that she yielded to them; that in ten lIIIIIIIte3 the fires were completely extinguished. and that she went down in less than half an hour. Questions were put to the witnesses, not only by the members of the court-martial, but by the prisoners, and at six PN. the Court was adjourned till to-morrow morning. EXPERIMENTS WITIA,ANCHOAS. . _ Mai s.—Tarp. anchors, in addition to those previously described, were delivered at Woolwich facyckyard on Monday last, one by un American named hiattes, which has an a rrangement to prevent what is technically termed "fouling.".,other, The by Brown,. Lennox and Co., Ad m i r alty contractor, differs only slightly from'Sir Willittia Parker's plan in section and in length of shank, and with a palm more speanshaped. The testing the seven anchors for trial with the usual strain applied to anchors of similar weight whet da livered tor service - conimeneed 'on Monday afternoon by Placing one of - Lieutenant Rogers'a anchors, weighing 19 cwt. Sibs., in the testing-frame, and applying a strain of 19i tons, when the first tested arm was found to have &Limed 6th - s of an indb;and the other s.l6tbs, both returning to their original position when the Strain, was withdrawn. On Mr., Miteheson"s anchor, weighing 21 cwt. 141 b., being subjected. toe strain of 218 tons, it de flected , the point of the palm extending * when mea sured froin: the shank, and the other arm gave exactly the same result, the palms returning to within * of their original position from the deflection and to their entire original position when measured from the s . hank. ' Brown, Lennox, and anchor, of 20 cwt. 3 qr's. 10b., on • having a • strain - of' 21i tons applied, deflected g and * from the shank, bah arms giving a similar result, and on the strain being Withdrawn the deflection was entirely removed, 'and she arms resumed their original position. On Tuesday Mr: I3CittO'd anchor, of 21 cwt. 141 b., was placed in the testing-frame. and o a,, strain of 2lt tons applied, and wan found t o o a d rm tl i t d t 6l l 2 an incb, and the distance of the point of th from the shank, and the other anchor g b a .o v t e h a ur s th im s result. On the' strain being withdrawn re awned their original poAtion. Mr. TrOtatiLn'S anchor, weighing ;1 cwt. 1 qr.; had . . a strain_ of 21i tons ap plied, and' defletted f,' - the point of the arm extending trieda-16 theom d i e b ti e e . ati sba c o n fr - w ; ndn aasi%owitthoutne otl , l a er by ar e ni being xt • ebsiogt of the arm, and on t h e .stre .being ,withdrawn the, in deflection returned to a and the arms , to their origi: Anchor, weighing 20 e w 't. na l position.. Mr. Honiba/ra and the t ' e n n s sio a n pp of liedl the arm it 3 . qr. 71b., had a l s , trei a i n n d o th f .2 a t i t deflection and the other aria gtiVO eXSCtIY j the same result. OU ttie strain' being w ithdrali b l' i 'tki . b e firstacfl eteetsito?,oafreihreetu'tirtnheedr 0 its original position, its entire. original positioit when Ito within *, .and to from the2oshant Lieutenant Rogers's kedge measurt ighilig cwt . 1 qr., Was placed in a testing - frame, anchor, f rame , and on a strain. of 21* tons being applied, th . deflection,e wa s.l inch, the point o f t h e arm extending i of aninch from the t..hank. The deflection when the other was arm inches, and the eXtantion tested was 1 3-16th o f an inch, and oh the strain being withdrit*n the deflection on the one side . returned to 646 avadt he a to its origina l position. The deflection on the other aide re t u rned to I of an inch an d t h e arm to its original po sition. The anchors are now l y i ng on the wharf, ready to be transferred to Sheer nes e t o contend for the palm of surriarity as regard s th e i r h o l d i ng Will subsequently be br oug ht b ac k to roper ties, .and Woolwich to undergo tin ultimate or breaking strain, in dockyard order to determine 'the greatest degree both of maximum strength and holding properties, the two great essentials for an incisor. A. committee of six naval offisere and six of the most eminentshipowners, assisted by Mr. Athe r t on , c hief h engineer at Woolwi c h dockyard, have consented to act as jurors on this occasion, Oat-of rathei. snore than 30 persons who exhibited anchors at the Great Exhibition in Hyde-park last yelitirv,e6nthioanves to t'esPOnded to the invita tion to' submit theiractual tests and'prao tical tor superiority. The . anchOrs were weighed a - id tested wilutit their stock.. . Yesterday it Court of Directors was hold at the East India House, when Lieutenant-General' Lord Frederick Fitz- Clarence, G. C. H., was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the company's fOrds on the Bombay - eitablishinent. LINCOLN'S INN, =MAY s.—The following members of this secisty have been called to the bar and were sworn in this evening in th e Hall :—John Buck, M.A. ; Richard 0. Turnef, B.A. ; William J. Potts, Di! ; Charles Lees,.B.A. ; Francis 0. Adams, M.A. ; Johu - 15. Smith, B.A. and Augustus A. Vansittart. riLINTERI' D UAMSTIC: Ro yal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has sat 10/. to the amateur secre tary of the Pri n te rs ' D ramat i c Soc i ety , in - aid Of an m performance at St. Jam es ' s Theatre, on Saturday last, fo r r the se funds of the'P r i nters ' P e n s i on Sb e i e ty F..adownient a nd the Almshouse ri 'tor DEATH OF MR. ALEXANDER MACKAY (From the Chronic'e ) leie with sincere regret that we record the th tub, ort his way home, of Mr. Alexander Mackay, th e . a t ee,o7 or the " Western World," - and lately the Commissien to Indic of the Man c h es ter Chamber o:Cern:lame. %I n Mackay was for ma ny years conn e ct e d w i th this F our r t . and We pannot withhold from hie n ame th e .tei6n - l er to the memory of an abl e coadjutor an d of .11 n elaluc tin d ' fr - end. By Mr. Markay'S untimely fate an opening career of great promise is out short. Endowed with high mental qualities, possessed of a clear intellect - and' acute and rapid powers of reasoning —a keen observer, and an in stinctive lover of truth—Mr. Mackay added to these gifts ' a most amiable !disposition. Ihese 'powers hid been as certained, and were in the act of being applied to iai port4nt public purposes, when the climate if a hit country, acting upon a naturally delicate constitution, cut him off•-•:not, however, before he had to 'a great ex; tent cdrnpleted his t xender Me.eksy was the son cf Mre Meekli - , P. tench-respected hantier in Inverriess, anif vne, born thet toe n about 1821. H ; as educated et the neigh. houvring tewn of Elgie, end af• - ervtaiels at Abereeen. " teetangerefete ltd hien fist to Canada, where he Was destined for thecilor.i.d bar, 4r.:1 for 'Seine brief epace practised with repute. Journalism, however, scams to have hei More attraction for Mr. Mackay than profee s heed practice, and accordingly he soon be came the cot (lector of a highly respectable news Paper in Toronto. After residing its Canada for several veers, and travelling weer' ' tw great portion of the provinces and the States, he re turn( d home in search of a wider sphere than could be afford - A by colonial life. He was speedily engaged an' connection with this journal, and so hi g hly were his acuteness and logical abililties estimated, that he isas sent out again by the Morning Chronicle to the United States, for the purpose of examining the diplomatic bearinga of the treaties as to the Maine boundary, end observing the feelings of the American public on the question. His letters upon these subjects were replete with Most valuable information, and with clear and logical reasoning. Not long after his return, Mr. Madcap published his ". Western World," the greet .ability and comprehensive grasp of which were at once acknowledged. The book was indeed p w r r o it n to ou np no:d e t n o be the beat and must complete work ever the Transatlantic Republic. Its success was great and- immediate, and the volumes became at once a standard authority upon that most important subject. The author's connexion with this journal was prolonged for tome time afterwards. As one of our special correspondente; engaged in investigating the condition of the English rural population, Mr. Mackay rendered important services to the question of Labour and the Poor, while his versatile pen was frequently andary s ucces sfu lly a nd political other After t t o h p e ic a s et o t f i e g m e e n n e t ra e l f l lite rary questio n h e devoted himself to the topic of the suffrage; and his pamphlet tworiour system of represen tation, with its analysis of the constitution of the House of Commons, became a text-bookwi h Re formers on the question of ita large clase•of Re whic(iftreated, and was that Mackay th e determined Hou e to devoteommonhsi.msFelrfotmo political life. He joined the Reform y de livered many able speeches a t public mpeaerttings, and in the metropolis upon the franchise question. lie h ad be fore him,the hope of ultimately entering Parliament; but he consented for a time to withdraw from home politics,' and to accept from the Lancashire cotton interest a mission to India to investigate the possibility of extending the growth of the plant in our Eastern possessions. Somewhat more than two years ago he departed full of hope and spirit. He died on his passage home. The subjoined extract from one of our Manchester contem poraries will 'give additional particulars, besides show ing the high character Mr. Mackay had earned for him self in the etaee. - Our nielareholy task is over when again exPresfok heartfelt sorrow at the loss of a highly promising author, a` rising politician, an accomplished gentleman, and a most amiable mare (From the Manchester Eiaminer and Times.) L is with feelings of deep regret that we announce . the death of MreAlexander Mackay, the Indian Com missioner, appointed by the Manchester Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Mackay left this country on the 20th December, 1850, under the most favourable auspices— beihg accredited and recommended to the Chamber of Comme=rce of Bombay by the Chambers of Com merce of Manchester, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and carrying with him the full confidence of the mercantile arid manufacturing public connected with the cotton trade. The object of his mission also received the unanimour approbation of the British prest,. and we have reason to know that it was regarded with good will by the leading members of the Administration. The main purpose of his appointment was to ascertain by an unbiassed but minute investigation on the - spote ' thereat obstacles which prevent an ample supply of good cotton being obtained from the East Indies, and the r causes which impede the extension of our commerce with that country. The iniaion was one requiring great industry, intel ligence, and sound judgment, on the part of the indi vidual selected for the arduous and responsible under tekieg ; and it was peculiarly fortunate for the inte rests represented by the body with whom the mission originated, that they were able to secure the services of a gentleman so eminently qaalitied in every respect to carry out their views. Mr. Itieekay'a inquiry (embraced a multitude of details, all bearing on the mein subject of the mission—sach as the means provided by the Indian Government to promote the interns-I as well as the ex . port trade of 'the country over which they rule—the nature of the reads by' which the produce of the interior is brought to the coast—the mans ef inter communica tive between neighbouring districts—the state and tnanagment of docks, piers, quays, &a.—the condition of the agricultural pepulation, and the circumstances which tend to stimulate or repress their industry—the nature of the land tenure, particularly with reference to the sNturity of the cultivator—the arcoant and kind of taxation, and the mode of levying and connecting it— all .departments of in quiry requiring minute and im partial personal observation. On his arrival, Mr. Mackay was cordially received. by the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, end every facility afforded to him for the prosecution of his inquiries, which were continued during the whole of lash year, and the results of which have been from time to time transmitted holm. The influence of the climate of India, was, h ow ever, too much for a constitution not naturally robust, and he was compelled to terminate his labours sooner than be had anticipated, and endeavour to regain le a ving the country. In a letter ad dressedbithenittn by o the Bombay Chamber intention o f of returningCommerce, dated Mardi 30 th , he mentions his t o E ng l a nd, but, at the same time, states. that before - disease had disabled him , he bad succeeded in traversing fi rv e a ld tio o n f th ar e n y v r e erle at n i c tn y . , athnedt that greater be p h o a r d t i from of c h t e u e cotton observation eecte of the cotton trade in portant conclusione as to greatt be th c e onattio d n i , s w tr te t ts i , n a ci n u d es p t r ion os: re newed health, to make the information an e gathered and that he hoped, on his return hams, by be thhaedaidof oesduciee to the common benefit of India cLdestined These enticipstions, alas! notwere 3 to- be realised. He left India on the of Apr il , but his e ate told that strength graduallydaiteti untai , the 15th, on• the everaing of which day be bra eked : ro b , ao ha he suffered until with:a a ur of his death, fi t t d na l. m lis ited to his brother in Invereess and that up to h a t vhiatv pTrrioovoha papers to 'his toe e e d dei tirhoe dissolution u eria a i e t O a f . his faculties,- , p h r a i h s tn e w s e e e il g a l (n'ai'dn' and o t : b' e ne e de taiika . re contained in a aletutceerraizi; below), addressed by M.. Arthur Latham, gentleman, who was on board the same vessel, to Mr , Wjl'izth'eiletbr.e-grPerteistkidse6pnacreobfi.ethf°roCriahoatihmsebeatuiranfactoitsmtiCeolitithmfasettert:Cei 2ariollolablekcatyoifshmisinmgliesdsiaonleehtgnot been left unaccorn lion. Company's steamer At sea, on h A oa y r d d ai t i h e, e ..a pril 17 iSlk,l that his doubt have heard from " My dear Sin—y on - Mr. Alexander Mackay,* suffered iu India, he was abo.utistohleeaaltvhe t i t! 3d T in the hopetwnonubldteabmeneerfitorhhtthabevaitng country s e rinn s b i by strength gradually failed until the change i e t v b e e r, e w ve a n s in n g ot ef to tb b e e. 151.1 this, when the doctors' - u t pPose l that en abscess of th . e . a li n v d er stl s ti bu e r it at tt,an. into ana the lungs, death ensued. sou l quent d am glad to say that. he suffered little until with• in half an hour of his decease, and until then also re tained the full possession of his faculties. The captain has confided to me his papers for delivery to Mr. T homas Mackay, of Inver ness , Whom he has lets his sole legatee and executor, under a. will drawn up a few hours before • `h,leath to Messrs. Ewart, a nd Co., of Liverpool; Arbuth no t, - 5- d• Theta I purpos e to seed by the first steame r and I have suggeste d t o Mr. Mackay that on their atri val. he should select those of motivate nature, and ar range with those of Mr. Mackay's friends on whose behalf he came out to India as to the disposal of the remainder. "It is at Mr. Mackay's own request, made when all hope was at an end, that I now address you; and any this sad affair , I shall be further information re 3 s , p o e tt e , t o in n g your addressing me a. liaise most happy to afford to the care of Messrs. Artbuthuot, . Ewart, and c oo , where I expect to be" about three weeks ler a month hence.—Mtantiine lam very truly yours,' - " ARTHUR LATHAM. " Thomas Baztey, Esq.. Manchester.". . , GREAT MEN. s • • THEIR MOMENTS OF COMPOSITIOX.—BOBSIIet CO M- , in posed his, grand serous oa hi s knees; n u /wei r wrote , his first novels in full dress, scented; Milton, before commenc ing his great work, i nvo k e d the influen" of the. Holy spirit; Chrysostom meditated and studied , whilecutemplating a painting of Saint Paul. Bacon knelt down before composing his great Work, and prayed for light from heaven. Pope never could compose well , prelude on without tirst declaiming for some time at the top of Ws voice. Bentbath composed after pirlYieg 'I the organ, or whilst taking his ••cntelentacular" and " postprandial" walks* in his garden. Saint Bernird competed his Meditations am idst the woods. Camo n$ composed his verses with the roam!f battle in his ea rs; Sage, at mid for.the Portuguese poet was a roer. Tasso wrote IN finest pieces in the lucid intervals of madness; Rousseau Byron , a t midnight. klardonin rose at four in the wrote his works early in the morning; Le day; %rote . till late at night. 1, 9 , F - morning, and ow . wrote his Fables chi; under the s h a de of t able t 4 ree r ag en! wrote mos t o f his Thoughts on little scraps tree. .... :it his by-moments. Luther, when stud * ... pa rer , Yin always r had hi 4 dog lyiaz; at his fte'•• ettlilo Ltudied ' loud voice . — Eliza Cook , Iticitie composed his verses while stalking in his bal. about reuising them ins 8 J ournal. The convict William Baldry vebo was left fcr exiNution at the recent Suffolk amizes, ior attempting to murder his wife by means of administering arsenic, has been reprieved daring her Majesty's pleisure. He will be sent to ODIC penal 0tt143.1449t fit gin rissaageg 9f his Ma