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DUTCH MAIL "'HE ~.I,ICC.r, J . 1 7: •E rsary or the hirth6,, :;., a' tie'-. p; :t. '-,% in ti.,' t; titi! in o‘ner Zr t!,e ir. , p the The -et ow ..t tip.. :nor!' the t b. k pt with •••, boa,• fit . • . 1` f a e(1 hlltia. o' 911 - it: , in th , evening in front of the place. feere is a consAierable concourse of strangers of dis ieetien at ti e be Present at. the falcon hunt. The Duke and Duchess of Leeds arrived yesterday fro London. We are assured, that since the King's return, Baron Van Grotestein, intend.,nt of the Royal T heatre, has been instructed ' to request Mademoiwlle Rach , l, when she passes through this place, on her way from 8. - -lgium to England, to act a few times in the Royal l'he.tre here. UTRECHT, JUNE 30.—Our journals are filled with det4iled de,eriptions of the flies given by the students* to celebrate the 210th anniversary of the foundation of our university. The Procession representing the entry of Philip 11., Pei.nce of Spain,into Utrecht, October 30. 1549 —This procession er masquerade h ad been got up with the greatest care. All the persons concerned were in the costume of that time, and the dreFses of the re presentatjves of the many historical ch irac , er3, Which sere very splendid, hail a most brilliant effect. Among them were Philip 11., William of Orange, n Doke Alba. Maximilian of Burgundy, Albert Va Egmont, Bishop of Utrecht, and many of the most remarkable char.7.cters of that age. The weather being . extremely fine the cto.ucourve of persons to witness tht se very interesting fetes was very great, and all will long remember with pleasure the scenes they have enjoyed 011 this occasion. IRELAIN 1). DUBLIN, JUNE 17. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. TEE QUEEN V. CHARLES GAVAN DUk*.PV, PROPRIETOR Or THE " NATI..N" NEWSPAPER' At the sitting of the Court this mo rning this case was called on. The jury panel having be. called over, Mr. Holmes, on the part o f the traverser, hand in a challenge to the array, on the ground that the jurors had not been summoned in sufficient time. Sir Colman O'Loghliti cited various authorities, showing the ad missibility of the challenge. The Chief Justice having expressed his intention to receive the et , allenge, the At torney Goner '1 demurred, but on Si,- Colman o%to oglilin i nt i mat i ng that he was then ready to proceed argu tient, his Lordship ,aid that there was :to necessity, as he would allow the demurrer. Mr.. LANGLY opened the case for the Croix, charging Charles Gavan Duffy with having published in u certain new.paper, called the Nation. a malicious and seditious libel of and concerning her Maje:ty's Government, and Calculated to excite towards them a hostility in the minds O' the Irish people. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL the i addressed the Courtfor the prosecutien. He commented on the article contain- leg the alleged libel at great length, and concluded by calling upon the jury, as honest men, for their own sakes, for the sake of the liberty of the press, and the tran quillity of the country, to find a verdict of guilty against the traverser. The u sual proofs of proprietary, publication, and in ference haviog be, 13 given, the case for the Crown closed. Mr. Horams th. , n proeuedtd to address the Court for the defence. The L , tuned Gentleman rests his case principally on justification, and comments in strong lan guage on the treatment of Ireland by England. The Learned JUDGE then summed up. The jury having retired, in some t i m e after it was an nounced to the Court the,: there was not the slightest likelihood of their agreeing. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was unnecessary for them to come into Cour' if they had not agreed. When the Court was about to adjourn, at half past five, the CHIEF JUSTICE directed the sub-sheriff to ask the jury if they had agreed. The sub-sheriff stated as the result of his inquiry that they had not, and never would.—(Laughter.) Bailiffs were then sworn to prevent persons from com municating with the jury, and to keep meat, and drink, and fire from them. JUNE 18. At the sitting of the t ourt this mornin g , by order of the Chit f Justice, the jury in this case were conducted into Court. The Registrar asked them if they had agreed to a verdict. Foreman —I can inform your Lordship that we have not agreed to a verdict, and my opinion is that we shall not agree. Several jurors—We never shall— we never can agree. The CHIEF JUSTlCE—Gentlemen, you may retire for the present. The jury were then re-conducted by the sheriff to their room, to abide the decision of the Court. RUMOURED LEGAL CHAN GE S. The following appears in a proviucial paper, an d has just that amount of truth in it which attaches to all the rumours of the anxiety of a declining Ministry to pro vide for the public services of its officers :—" In conse quence of the present uncertain position of Ministers, It is said that Mr. Justice Perrin will not resign at pre sent, if his health at all permits his remaining on the bench. A pr oposition was made to Judge Burton, sug gesting his retirement, in consequence of his great age ; but the fine old fellow, who, I am happy to say, is in excellent health, refused point blank. This step, on the part of the government, was made in order to provide for Mr. Greene, the present Attorney- General, lest the %Vhigs might come in, and the right boo, gentleman be thereby shelved. Atter old Burton's refusal, an application was made to Judge Torrens, who agreed to retire, if his son was provided fur - but no office being at prese nt vacant, the Castle peo ple again foiled." FREE TRADE.—The Mayo Constitution, in placing before its readers an account of some recent cattle lairs, says W n atever may be the future effect of Sir R. Peel's free-trade measures, we candidly confess that the cattle-feeders of Ireland hay as yet no ciuse to com plain. There were lately . held two fairs in our neigh bourhood, at which the prices of all kinds ot sto of Balla ck were hi g hl y remunerating. We allude to the fairs end Turlogh. At the former tee demand for milkers was unprecedented. They rated at from 8/. io 11/, and in some few instances went as high as 13/. 10s. fro the A gen tieman with whom we conversed, on his return fair, told us that he obtained at Balla 30s per head more for a lot of heifers than he would have got a month pre vious for the same lot in the same state. At both these fairs sheep were advanced in price, but pigs a shade . lower." On the 11th instant, says the Nenagh Guardian, eight men, all armed, went to the house of Wm. Egan, Esq , Ballimierry, broke open the parlour door and the door of a room inside, when they found three guns, which they carried off. Although there were two men in Mr. Egan's house, and several men in the yard and about the place, still the party never met with the slightest opposition. - STATE OF TAADE: FOREIGN WOOL TRADE.—LEEDS, JUNE 19. Almos , an average quantity of foreign wools has changed hands this week, without any apparent variation in prices. Recent advices from the German wool fairs re e ss port greater activity among buyers, and more eagernto purchase than was at first manifested those upon . There was paid alsato a perceptible improvement in prices the commencement of the Breslau fair. ENO:MISS WOop MARKET.—LEEDS, JUNE 19.—Sales during the present w. ek have been sm.lll, and last week's prices are barely maintained. lr u es. WOOL MARKET, JUNE 18.—We have had another large show of wool and the business done sad ver y considerable. Prices, however, have declined about 6d per stone. Hum, WOOL MARKET, JUNE 16.—Th market was well supplied, and there was plenty of buyer..., b ut t h e dull intelligence from several other provincial markets operated strongly upon prices, which here suffered a de pression of Is. to is 6(1. per ton, as compared with last week, the sales effect. d being at 255. to 275. 6d. per ton for hog fleeces and, the growers believing that the de. pression was in part attributable to the large quantities which are ever) where pouring into the markets in con sequence of the gre at and rapid p ro g ress made in shear ing daring the late unsurpassed fine weather, deremained termined genera lly to hold back , and a large quantityas amore u noold. We fe ar, however, that the fall h serious cause, for formerly, under similar circumstances, with s brisk manufacturing trade, we have seen prices advance, and we incline to think that a slackness of or ders in t h e mills for goo ds composed of British woo ls is the c hi e f reason of the fall. Should a new impetus be g iven to the woollen trade, there will be no fear of pric es being maintained. LEEDS.—Our markets a the Cloth Halls have seldom been duller than they were on Saturday and Tuesday. There are, heensw, more good' delivering off the mat - There ket days, at the merchants' warehouses, than has been the case for the las t few weeks. The and s tocks on hand the are d 'with the manufacturers continue low, p a trifle lower. June is generally a dull month for mess, and, and, as usual. there has b en litlle doivg in the Tsvarehouses. The fine warm weather, and the prospect. a . an early harvest, have put peop le in the trade in w ' its, and a good early autumn trade is very confi dently expeoted. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY, J UNE 18 —The demand for wool still continues comparatively restricted. busy an d spinners do not y e t w f ith their accustomed the new clip spirit. There is a large supp l y .staplers' hands. One of them informs us he never knew a in the better clip. There is more inquiry for tor yarns, and in &erne sorts the demand exceeds product l i then the get up, p a p t i t . t b il ut, stran to say, the prices do not • spit tern will refuse to increase their p i ec e tearket had a very spirit- d appearance, a n i) a n. returning Our a goods were sold in many cases at a siit a th g t reat number' Vance. 'fite piece market exhibits si. , ,ns ee a brisk trade. , T , h ''' F aiDA y.— ,„o demand for goo d s h as MeNcHESTErt , n extre limited 'his week , and the r ew sa l., bee extremely which have , ern eff cted were at a sli:ht redection in price. Yarns coetieue in bat teed..r ,te demabd. at pre vious rates. The uncertainties, both political and mo netary, appear to be the rea-ons for the want of anima lion now existing. LEICwESTER.—There has not beta much bus market ; theiness doing in thewarehouses for the London whole sale houses there being engeg-d in their half-yearly stock taking. There is nothing new doing in the ship ping demand. Yarns support their late advance. The wool trade is somewhat flatter, and good farmers' lots do not obtain above 28s. per tod, but prices will not be fixed till after the fair.—Leicester Journal. REPRESENTATION OF IPswicg.--Air. Rigby WELIANI, who some time since retired from the representation of Ips wich, has again. ' 3 ddressed the electors , soliciting taeir votes at the approaching clection.—Elenry Vincent has also de clued hi mse lf caudid4C...PlYon folk Chronicle, LITERATURE. THE DEBUTANI . E; or, the London Sayan. A Novel 3 Vo!s B!,, Mrs Gore. Reform is Inc (Tiler of the day. No moil - ploy, how ecer venerable ; eo po,ition, however elevated, can se cure in , - ;fail and faulty institutions from the innovating had of refornevion hie politicians are redressing leg si -..tive abuses ; while philanthropists are aspiring to re. ova: the 1 eoele ; iere has devoted her prolific pen to .ttat k e pew,r deemed in &able by its votarie-, and hitherto regarded as inzincible by its foes. In this, the second novel she has given us this season, she is again earnest to expose the faults and follies that reign in the supreme a bodes of fashion ; and to show, or rat her to eneetivour to show, hew vice flourishes and how virtue lades in the withering at mosphere that pervades there. The chief object of these velumes is to portray the evils attending the career . of a debutante, and, indeed. the whole system of "coming Ow," so universally established in the beau monde. The concluding words of the whole work might have been placed on the title-page ; they fully express its memo, end might served for its inieto. "The best pos sible conscience-keeper for a woman is her lord and master ; and had I a daughter destine° to move iti the slippery paths of the great world, it is only u nder the protection of a m an authorised to control and defend her, that, as our London seas in is at present constituted, I should t are to see her—a _Wu • tante !" To illustrate this opinion this hook was writ ten; to prove its truth is the evident object from the first page to the last. The history of the Debutante is in tended to furnish a picture of the world of fashion, and a ye y gloomy picture it certainly present s. It. per trays to us a sphere in which moral deformity is reckoned lovely ; ,a garden v. here only artificial flowers are seen ; a ceneourse of living b ings hag fly to be called human, for in all their words and acti , ms there is no token of a heart. Such at lea-t are the ideas with which these volumes inspire us. For example, we mnv cite the feelings of a young novice on first entering the charmed circle. " She had heard tor the first tie,. the jargon of the world ; she had seen for the first time an exchange of glances invalidate in a dielogn the words that tell from the lips of the speakers ; she had seen one feature give the lie to another in the samt countenance, and heard axioms plausibly delivered at variance with every action of the life of him wh, mouthed them ; the hypocrisy oc . social life was un veiled before her." Now, although we may admit there is some truth in all this, we must also admi• there is more of exaggeration. It is also well known that t here is evil to be found everywhere ; whoever data lift the flimsy external veil and pierce beneath the sur face, in every place, in every class or circle, will fin , much, very much that is bad, but also (and for the honour of human nature, let us not doubt it !) he wil find more, much more of geed and virtu , us. If we agree with Mrs. Gore that sin and shame flourish in hig places, we call upon her to admit that virtue reigns theta also ; that some of the best and purest iedings of ot, nature adorn the highest and the pr-udest. more enno ()ling them than dues their rank, their wealth, or their ancestral dignities. In the " Debutante" we hay. only the dark side of the picture, and although we may own the tale is sufficiently interesting, the style ant mated, and the whole brilliant (and as tue name of the authoresS is a sutfieient guarantee). we must protest against many of the characters, and much of the plot. because they are (an unpardonable fault for a novel) most unnatwal. We can pardon any omissions en commissions, faults or failings,. in a fiction, if it hie fulfil the main object of i ts creation—if it but " hold r mirror up to nature," and paint real virtues, or exp o se real vices, and show us men and manners as they are. i And in this the w ork bef ,re us s most certainly deft vent. Do such revolting situations as the following ever “eztur in real life ? Or , it the y do, it is only as unilate ral exeeptions which (as elicit) are best left alone. In Of denouement of the tale we find a reformed rceue, recent)) married, and anxious to enjoy the happ.ness of domes tic life ; filled with horn); by the discovery that the mother of his wife was once his mistress. And, again. we read of a married woman eloping with a man jus . returned from the funeral of his wife's father, and th, (lay before the birth of his own son ! In any common place author, whose works would not be read, sucl things would matter little ; but when we find such a writer as Mrs. Gore devoting hes powerful talents te grace such themes, and, moreover, presenting them as fictions of London life, we cannot refrain from express ing our disapproval; nor from ex.iressing also a hope, a strong hope, that she may in future select acme happ ier subject, and let the theme be as attractive as the writer. VILL.4GE TALE.s• FROM THR BLACK FOREST. Translated by Meta Taylor. These little fictions from the German of Bertholo Auerbach acquire for themselves a peculiar attraction from the circumstances of their portraying the domes tic manners and the national customs of the inhabitants o f the Black Forest. They are simply, but ph asantly, written, aiming rather at fluency than elegance, appeal ing more to the sympathies than to the heart. The humorow vein in which some of them are composed is to us particularly fascinating, inasmuch ;:s it is a specie , of comic writing essentially diffrrent from that with which English readers are familiar. It has less of the shrewdness of Swift, the exub,:rance of Dickens, and th. propriety of Addipon ; but possesses a playfu lness scarcely inferior to any of those famous hutnourists " Hansjorg and his Pipe" is the most provoking piece o' storytelling Auerbaeh has ever produced ; seeing that it arouses the attention up to a certain point, and then, as a friend of ours most appropriately remat•ked to us, " ends in stns ke." " Tolpatsch" is r• adalile enough, but scarcely so agreeable as many of the shorter tab s towards the end of the volume, such as " The Nily Tree," or " The Axe." The translator has acted morn judiciously than many of that excellent fraternity. striving more after the-original neatness of the German than e ndeavouring to give it any adventitious embellish ment. Most translators, in consequence of-this latter failing, should more correctly designate themselves " ParaphraserN," tut Meta'Taylor is a truthful transla lawn The little book of " Village Tales" would wile away many an hour which might otherwise hang tediously ; and we, therefore, commend it especially to all habitual searchers after amusement. ALGERIA AND IIINIS IN 1845. 2 Vols. By Captain Kennedy. In reading a volume of voltages or travels, the judi cious reader will never anticipate any solid disquisition upon governments, or any psychological historiette of a pe, pie ; the principal charm. indeed, of such a produc tion would be that, it should sparkle with the animation of novelty, and that its pervading tone should be one of naturalness. It were, in fact, outrageous to imagine that, at the very momeut when the imagination of the writer is in a turmoil, from the multitude of new images and unexpected i leas which it has recently im b bed during his perigrieations, there should remain sufficient precision or premeditation to facilitate the c oncoction of some solid and symmetrical work. Nay, supposing that this were possible, we would willingly wag r that the satisfaction of the reader would be con siderably diminishe '. There would be wanting that agreeable con amore character which renders a book f this description so proverbially palatable. No matter, indeef, what may be the country depicted, or who may be the narrator, our minds al-toys enter upon a work ol travels with that enst , with which we all of us revert to the hours of childhood ; and we look upon the author or the authorsss, as the case miy be, with some swab a wonder, though, of course, modulated by experience, as we gazed upon the w,ather-beaten visage of Uncle llarnaby, when he returned from sea, after a long voy age somewhere, with a r kably husky voice, and a r,markably rough pea-jacket. Just as soon, moreov r. would we have our present travel-writers bind them selves in all the formalities of cotupo: ition, as we would tl--en have wished Uncle B mnaby to deliver the history of his adventures in prim paragraphs end pragmatical sentences. In either case, the more spontaneous, the more rambling, the more fragmentary the narrative the greater becomes our satisfaction—and this un douttedly, not from any partiality for the neglect of all literary formulas, but solely because that very spon taneous, rambling and fragmentary character is as it were an assurance to us that we are receiving the de scriptions from the lips of one who has actually visited the scenes, and in wht se memory the impression they had caused is still vivid and gratifying. We feel ourseltea c.impelled in very fairness to preface our notice W . the two volumes before us, relating to Mg ria and Tunis, with these explanatory observations because we are com pelled to confess that they are altogether unembellished by the charms of rhetoric, and yet that they are agreeable iTrertbelees : Oar previous remarks will at once in- dicate that this pleasing effect is produced by the gos sipping tone of the writer, whosee:it s s rather to tell you write you a descriptiono h f his all about the occurrences of roamings. We journey than to would consequently wiz literary merit, it performs .to i ;,,vitiis arn it u % in p g ar if t, it isunsah-mply, that while this work has no notwith standing, "excellent well pretensions to high s K ta e n n t n i e a d L y A ap c p c e o a m rs pan to ied ha h v y e Viscount a most delightful t,'lt'innli. pre rely ' 6 when count Fielding, Captain tour through the two regencies, nj ing . the chibouka a w t ith Rome nn a i r a s of the lon g lt , ;t r n a a c n t i s ee d , o' n ' no-lessd e p x r t e r te o n r i d i in g the most i e n. ry cookery extraordinary relish for the of the Arab tribe'. By such means alone a yeller expect to render himself familiar with a anyth e 'nestle economy of a foreign race, and capacitate o. him self for the office of estimating their merits or their de merits as a nation. It would be superfluous in us tt indicate by any expression the phases of northi•rn African society ; every one has already acquired such an intimate acquaintance with them through literary telescopes like the present ; and, since the invasion of the French troops.. Algeria has been depicted perhaps more repeatedly, ao any other tropical regin. Still, as those individualsiptions are simply nothing more than the i views taken of a country by the writers, it bec omes a matter of cori,sity to be- , hold, as it were, the same spectacle throuvh a different coloured glass. In olier words, the p o et uso of several authors upon ,one nation is tantain-ti,.i parent the t m on or e e tbearing arguments upon fill sides of a que,tion ; they enable u us to arrive at more acvtir.ite cotic'Thd us th upon the nation and the question. And the mole trans went), t h h a , ve are f o t h i tiini.,g lihood (either ot the de cripti,.Tl or Ole Itra vveuntinged by prejudice, the oreater like matter. These travels in Algeria and a clear vi , w upon the survey taken by hint of 4 th " 0 14 by Captain ikenne.iy. The T Prin , ipal advinttt,-s of the s . e . i t - 1 1:: m, es .. i rr o: ss ;regions and,i :iimth gala r 1 y ki en and seßrehin, , ion of the alive in the city, the tent, or th :!i w.l ; d rteimo4 is equally the assistance of an exeelle! is s hough they convey to the reader Almost as accurate . ' he contriv , s to landscapes, and incidents, and individuals, a as n" had been witnessed by himself. The work command attention both from its own remarkable to sa d 4 ; u rd the political romance which i, ca-t over the princ ip.„iiii,„s i.i 4, ~•,• ht.:, oy ill: pr. tr.-eted earn.,:iigns . between toe liable o ti.: and the wild trouts of Abd-el. Kaden Captain Kennedy i§ Ohing whatever as an author. but is admirable, for the nonce, as a teller of travels. HISTORY 01 7 CIVIL! ;I9 ByWilliam Alex- ander Maekirthon, F. roll Sgrt This is in many respects a very remarkable w it is the first art , isipt that has been ma-t 4 it the English language " to delineate front the roost authentic sources, and the best records of foregone days the gradual pro gress of civilisation, and the results on its social rela tions of En , okind," and although the author has long been an active and. influential member of the gri at Con servative party, yet he may fairly boast that in the com position of this work, he has not only avoided, but abso lutely divested himself of all party bias and political feeling. Mr. Mackinnon considers that civilisation and public opinion do not co-exist:in 6qual proportion, but that the latter depends so much on the former that the history of one includes in some degree that of the other. He says that "civilisation is famed and gains strength accordine to the information, moral principle (based on religious faith), facility of comtnunication, and amount of wealth possessed by indtviduals composing a given eonininnity." ['hese elements he styles the" I-, quisites of civilisation" and he proceeds to show that " the form of any Govern ment and its mea.-urea becomes adapted to the interests and wants of a people as public opinion grows and is disseminated " He defines public opinion to be •' the idea ,mterttlined on any subject by the best informed, most intelligent and moral persons, which opinion is „sadually understood and spread among the pe: - .ple and adopted as their sentiments." For the ior mation of public opinion he considers e middle ;lass as the m •st impottant, the upper not being sufficiently numerous, and the lower not sufficiently in ormed. Indeed, without the existence of a preponder atine. middle cla.,s, the existence of public opinion, which is what nigicians call an esset,tial rude of civilisation, would be impossible. " Popular clamour" (which is de ified to be an "excitement, created by and exercising in fluence on the passions of the multitude, who usually orm rash re.,olue , , and act without reflection, judgmeet, or regard for consequence:,") would usurp its place, and popular clamour is et influential in proportion as the iower class is numerous, ignorant, poor, and fanatical." " Wherever," continues Mr. Mackinnon, "civilisation, oad a middle class are spread over a community, public pinion will he all powerful, and popular clamour impotent." Ho proceeds to trace the history of mankind hrough various stages of society as they advance towards civilisation, and proves that in all countries a* Avilisation and public opinion advances liberty and the s'elfare of the pncple are incre-tsed, and that, as a nation o f unacquainted with the rit quisites of civilisation, no natter what institutions may be tormcd, its Government -oust be insecure if not arbitrary; and that - in proportion is the middle class has increased, at,d commerce and nanutactureA are the great elements of middle class nerement, so hascivilisation progressed, and so has public --pinion become omnipotent He then proceeds to ,insider the state of civilisation amnia the ancients, and contends that it had not made any :rear progress among either the Egyptians, the Greeks, r the Romans. as among all these- nations 111 , -re was ,n atter absence of moral principle, that great important lement in the formation of public opinion. He admits hat human genius shone with great lustre in Greece, -tut he adds, " genius in a few individuals does not imply [nformation and prosperity in a people." The pyraniida , f Egypt, the temples, and thvatres of Greece and dome, and the cathedrals of the middle ages, have, by nany writers, been ad lured as proof of a high state of ivilisation. Mr Nlacicinnon, on the contrary. contends hat they prove a low stile of civilization. He consider) shat these great works o iginati d from a despotic power, "Itemised over an ignorant and unciYili , e I population. He einarks that "as nations advance in civili,ation, and as the we a lth of communities increases, useless monuments iessen in proportion. The reason is evident. In a •sivilised and free country the energies and wealth, or .command of labour, is employed by individuals for their rwn convenience, comfort, or luxury ; in forms r days, vhere the command of the labour of a nation, or the neans for payment of that labour depended on one min, there the population was forced to apply their neans and energies to gratify his wishes. In those days he stupendous edifices we see were the labour of slaves, sr of a conquered people." And he arrives at he conclusion that they " denote deficiency of .sivilisation and public opinion, certainly not to improved state of society." He then pro seeds to trace the gradual rise of the middle classes to England, and the consequent progress of civi. osation from the period of the Conquest up to the pre ent time. He afterwards traces its rise and progress in he different states of Europe, and consid:Ts the state of civilisation in Asia and America, concluding by showing •ts influence on social life, and its evils and benefits. gr. Mackinnon avows himself to be a follower of Malthus ; and although on some points we differ (rpm him (not having quite that reverence for the doe trines which he professes), yet we consider that his book will henceforth be a standard authority in all matters of political philosophy. His style is clear, concise, and flowing; he is in general sound, and never dull; and he nas, in this work on civilisation, produced " something which the world sail' not willingly let d e." There are two circumstances, however, to which we think he has ,carcely given due weight—the invention of printing and the discovery of America. The first may •se said almost to have given rise to public , pinion by enabling it to diffuse itself, in lependently of popular clamour ; and the second, by aff , Tding a peaceful owlet for surplus popu• ation, tendered wars and other violent checks less fre quent, thus giving tine to the middle class to consoli late itself ; and by giving an immense impetus to com uerce, contributed largely to the creation and the more equal diffusion of wealth, without which a middle 'lass could not subsist. In a second edition (and this work is destinel to go through many editions) we hop* err. 311,ekinunn will give us chapters on each of these important subjects. - THE PLEASURES OF HOME; or, Domeaic Scenes and iffectiong of the Circle round` lie Hearth By Stuart Farquharson, Had this poem been published fifty years since it would have rapidly passed through at least tin editions nd Dr. Farquharson would have been haikd as th, poet of the age. But now, alas ! " We are fallen uron gloomy hays," and in this titiiitarian age the poet Lutist " bale his time," —nevertheless, if he " throw his bread upon the waters c,e will tin 4 it after many days." Dr. Farquharson has done this, and he has produced a work that the world will not willingly let die. When we say the world we mean the quiet world of the domestic hearth ; and wEils many a poet. who enjoys high conteteporary fame. laving risen like the rocket will go down like its stick, the author of" The Pleasures of Home" will for ages yet .0 come be gratefully remembered in the quiet homes of England by those who circle roun I the h. arth. Thr po-tn is written in the Spenserian stanza. We cannot better describe it than in the words of its girtrd author, "The scenes are simple, and the moral plain ; No pompous language of the eumber'd line; Such would deface and rende7 doubly vain My task uf homely thought s, a theme like mine,— But with sweet melody and just design, Bring to the eye and picture to the soul, The spot where virtues dwell and brightly shine; Where holiness and love the heart controul Not lays of martial might, or Bacchanalian bowl." It is a series of beautifully painted interiors of th , Hornes of England, and as such must commend it.el to all those who love and appreciate homes. In thi construction of his stanza, in the high moral feeling in cu'cate.i, in the trutlit'ulness by its descriptions of this sublime and beautiful as found in Nature, " The Plea• .ures of Home" reminds us nut untrequently of "TEL Minstrel," but Dr. Farquharson is a truer poet than Beattie. The p..etry of Beattie was the poetry of *chola,. ship; the poetry of Farquharson is the poetry of Nature. and we shall range " The Pleasures of 11.. me " of Farquharson on the same shelf in our librar3 with the " Task" of , Jovvper. But while this, according high but deserved praise to the poetry of Dr. Fai - qharson, we must protest against his criticism. In a preface, which extends over sixty• six pages, he has thought proper to revive and elaberati the malicious libels of a " rancorous renegado," and to drivel oceans of nonsense in vituperation of " the Sa tanic school of poetry." The sublime is as essential al element of poetry as the beautiful; and while aceording the palm 01 the poet to the author of "The Pleasures of Home," we cannot refuse it to those on whom the wot has not smiled as it has on Dr. Farquharson, who, like the preacher of old, having found " that all is vanity,' have, !' in words that burn," gi‘2n utterance to their thoughts, and who, unhappiest among the unhappy, have become the laureats of de spair. True poets are they—greater perchance than those who paint life like Dr. Farqharson, caldeur de rose. and wiser too, for Solomon was the first of them. It this be " the Sataide school" of poi try, he WkS " The wisest man the world e'er knew," the founder of that school. Let 1)1.. Farquharson stick to poetry, and leave fruch criticism as that which he dis plays in his preface to " The Cottt rs," and such smal• fry. That they should seek to revive the forgott• n slanders of the late laureate is according to the fitness of things, but it is uttt-rly unworthy of a man of genius and a true poet like Dr. Farquharson. ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION AT BERMONDSEY WALL Soon after Cite o'clock on Friday morning a most alarmlug the was discovered in the warehouses belouiping to Mr. J. Glendining, com pile/chant, lierniondsey• wall. Within the walls of the warehouse of Mr. Gleudining the fire' burn .d until the whole of the cornetts, con sisting of stock, machinery, and valuable stores, were entirely de stroyed, and the building rendered comparatively valueless. The proprietor is insured in the Sun both for the contents and building. THE LATE ACCIDENT IN THE TowER.---Sa, urtiny an inquest was held before Mr. Payne, at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of William Ilolints, aged 35, who died yesterday morn in g in the above hospital, from injuries received on Tuesday by the fall ing of the wall which forms a portion of the Old ..Map,oflice h the Tower. Ap st mor em examination was made, and it ,as found that the deceased hat received several contused wounds on the torehead, . and Its ribs were also fractured. One of the sufferers, named Thomas, still remains in the hospital in a ve.y precarious state. The other three :ire g lag on favourably. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death." THE EMPia:SS MARIE LOUISE. pa , is Mu :bes ing {irony Trieste of the Arc —Referring to the s of Panne, the Courier Francais says, that " the eonmiander of the Duke's troops, Colonel Schwing, for_nerly an officer in the Austrian army, had resignedhis po , t, and take n service once more in that of the Emperor, receiving, at the same ti me, the oat rof St. George. Ills succ e sor is said to 28 of age, • eeneral Count Neipperg. He is a young matt, years . te a son of the ex-Em , press, the issue of her left-handed marriage with ~ ... and at present known a . mo t of All , I UNA fa OF T • 111 E ' ~ALE —On Friday ctestoN , iF TUE ~ .ount 11.outeutiovo, and is 3lnJor us a regl- HF LATE W. UPCOTT, ESQ. —Col/. Messrs. SotheV concluded the strian driagectoit:' sale o the rare em London InStittition. The books sold yesterday re- of the Lout n t ( cif book, the property of the late W. tip cott, Esq.. 'Med prii,cd ), •- , ,•,,,e of notice :—" Graphic Illustrations of following being . ap,serY.-- ~, drawingS, and 1,215 prints of churches, Oxfordshire,"consisling of t?. , ~ 1 'Lilts &c., which occupied the late i ii, to the counties of Oxford and Northampton, the old houses, and antiquitiea. Or r , .. Qx.ford Alinatiack," front containin g ne4ly a e.Anplete set of fir 2il. Ps. Acollec ' of ihom , atida of advertisements ami the cominememkot to the present time, Sold .., tlon sting of many hundreds,. proprietor twenty-four years hi cOlicettiiiliek, itold for .?.3,51.; a portfolio, ''f at cuttlir.fs in packets, COll ,l to aveills 01 i great public lottrost, &c. sold for 8/. 155. ld were The other lots , so _ _ , I equally curious, and the'il d 4 , g t wily has No I,)etNr WU 2,09Q1. WA 3,0091. Ine j paragraphs reliiiing 'GENERAL ROSAS. As anything tending to throw liOlt - upon the charac ter of this exrraordinar3 - 'person must necessarily be of interest et the pres.-nt time, we make no apology for in serting the following cerrespcndence BRENT, JUN., TO MISS ROUE)._ " Buenos Ayres, February 1, 1846. " My dear Menne herewith send a letter for your lather. This letter has been my occupation on many Sabbaths ; and I have not visited the house of God on those days. But I feel and know that I have been employed in the vvc.rk of our Lord and Master. May God bless this my work. " I have kept no copy of it ; I have not time. I ask of you, dear Manuelita, to make me a copy of it, in your own hand-writimr, it you have time. What a pleasure it would be to me to preserve this letter to your father in the haud-writing; of Manuelita. But I know how much you are occupied, and I know full well the aid you give to your father, while he is so seriously engaged in affairs of state. If you sheuld not have time, ask your father to have a copy made for me. May God bless you, and pour down upon you his choicest blessings, is the Indent prayer of truly your affectionate friend, " NV. BRENT, jun. " To Miss Manuel:), de Roses y Excurra." ikirss BOSAR TO MR. W. BRENT, JUN. " La Encatnacion en Palermo de San Benito, February 11, 1846. "My very esteemed Sir,—l have had great pleasure in ariii•r ring to papa the esteemed letter you sent to sne for him. It contains luminous and benificetit principles of :reth and virtue ; and a just and gracious God will bless this your work of charity and of love for the liberty and happiness of the Americans. Papa esteems it as an affectionate and noble testi mony r f the interest you take in the welfare of the Ar gentine Confederation, and of the fervour with which you profess tee religious and patriotic princples which elevate and honour the United States, your happy country. He replies to you to-day also, with peculiar heartfelt satisfaction. _ " As regargls myself, I have perused with tenderness and emotion your important letter, which raises the mind towards our Lord God, the Supreme Author of all 001 and of all happiness, and places under the auspices of his omnipotence the destinies of Iny country and of America. " Agreeably to your wishes, which I regard as n fresh t..l:en of affection and distinction, I forward to y ou for the present a copy, authenticated by me, of your beauti ful and interesting production, reserving to mysel f for wore tranquil times, when papa s.ucceEds in obtaining the repose of private life which he long t ince so ardently d. sires, to send you a copy in my own hand writing of your abovementioncd letter. The day when I can ac conaplish it will be a happy one for me. " Meanwhile I fifer to you the expression of my ac knowledgment., and of the clistingu,shed consideration with which I am your very aff!ctionate and obedient servant, MANUELLA ROSAS Y EXCURRA.. " Mr. William Brent, jun., Charg4 d'Affaires of the United States." The letter from Mr. Brent to General Roses, alluded to in the preceding, is too lengthy for ins.-rtion in our columns, nor is it necessary for our object, which is simply to illustrate the character of one of the principal actors in the affairs of the River Plate. It is sufficient to ray that the object of the letter is to show the efficacy of public prayer and fasting in producing national de liverances, which doctrine the writ' r supports by various quotations from Scripture, and instances drawn from the experience of tho United States; and to recommend the setting apart of a day for that purpose in Buenos Ayres, which he does in the following words:— " I ask, then, Sir, from you, as the head of this nation, that places so much confidence in your Excellency, that you will recommend a day to be set apart for humilia tion and prayer, to be observed by all who shall be thus ieligionsly inclined ; in order that they may offer, at one and the same time, their united vows and adorn rions to Almighty God, on the solemn occasion pro duced by the war, in which he has been pleased to permit the injustice of two foreign nations to involve the nations living on La Plata. " In this, my friend, as on all occasions, let us obey the command of him, who says, Psalms, xxxvii. 5, ' Commit thy way unto the Lord ; trust also in him ; and he shall bring it to pass.' " But let all this procedure be done in charity. By excess of power the angels fell ; by excess of know • !edge man lost his high estate. But of charity there is no excess. Nor angel n.ir man ever came into peril by charity. " Your friend, " W. BRENT, jun. " Buenos Ayres, Dec. 1 4 , 1845 ." „ The reply of General Rosas is as follows : GENERAL ROSAS TO MR. W. BRENT, JUN. "La Encarnacion en Palermo de San Benito, Feb. 11, 1846. " My esteemed Friend,—The letter you hate aderessed to me has produced a lively impression in my mind. from the affectionate terms in which it is conceived, and the benevolent design it has in view, as well as from the grateful recollections it awakens, inasmuch as it asso ciates reflection upon the decrees of our being with the most profound interest for the welfare of my country Ind of the American cause. " Our Lord God who has created the world by his Divine word and Omnipotence, has given to nations rights and liberty. His adorable providence graciously wateheth in order that the injustice of the strong shall not prevail over the reason of the weak, nor disturb the hartnoni us concert which his infinite wisdom has es tablished from the beginning of time. " The origin of all truth, and the source of happiness for the human race, is to be found in Divine revelation. The political and physical history of the world is a sue: cessive and constant corroboration of the truth of the Sacred SJriptures, which is handed down from age to age. Political and moral philosophy would be led away into conritsion, without the ineffsble light of faith and he fervour of Christian charity. "You have sought in this unerring guide appropriate considerations and salutary precepts in order to arrive at a result worthy of a people venerating religion and loving liberty and independence, who struggle with faith and courage to preserve that great blessing of Providence, without which they cannot live or prosper among the nations of the earth. " I recall with pleasure and satisfaction our deli.slitfit interview on the night of the 17th of June; and, con sidering the profound interest with which you roger( American affairs. affected by an unparalleled event in these republics of La Plata. I conceive all the intensity with which you meditated upon these subjects, raising your spirit towards God. " Fruit of this intellectual concentration —origin of the truth which is formed in us by the ineffable goodness of God—ire the important reflections you present to me, and which, with the most profound gratitude, I in the highest degree esteem. " Fully concurring in your ideas, in which I find per fect harmony with my own and with the sentiments of my heart, I have the gratification to state to you that -he governments and people of the Argentine Confede ration have always addressed, and do not cease to offer up their humble and Christian supplications and prayers, hat the Lord our God may vouchsafe, in his infinite goodness, to continue t- e visible protection he extends to them in the just struggle they maintain for their liberty and independence. Agroeably to a regulation and c on vtant practice, during the p er i o d of my administration. the ministers of the altar in the holy saxifice and in their prayers invariably invoke the protection of the Most High in favour of the republic. In their sermons and uious exhortations they implore with a glowing love of country the continuance of th e bl e ssings of God towards a people who combat against the slavery and desolation with which they are threatened by the foreign er and the impious and cruel faction of ruthless Unitarians, who have lsareed nothing nor forgotten anything in the re oeated discomfitures with which Divine Providence has chastised their impiety, their treachery , and their cr uelties. The peoi.le in the Christian exercises, in the novenas, rogations, and proc ess ions, which are freq uentl y oracti.ed, with all the spl er y ou r of divine worship, hat plore with faith and hope the protection of the Almighty. Co this constancy in praying to and blessing the Lord God, I ascribe, and have always ascribed, both the victories which have crowned the national arms and the simirable fortitude of the country in resisting the strongest attacks of the foreigner. " On different memorable occasions of national glory the Government has Consecrated the trophies to the author of every triumph, and directed religious demon strations to be trade in order to sslemnise the great events of the country. In our annals you will find a series of documents to this purport, with which your religi' us and enlight lied mind will sympathise. " And, indeed, sir, in these times of difficulties and , rials, with which the infinit el y j ust God has been olcased to test our fidelity t o the oath of independence which we have taken before his altars, and on tbes_book of truth and swhation. much cloth it behove the in habitants of the republic humbly to offer up to Heaven the fervint tribute of their thanksgig, inasmuch as it hem • plenclid and I.lustrious victories, fa t t h o ful per-everance and firmness of will and pres , its he Confederation inaccessible to andhaca action granted a aw t t i h t h the ferocious treacheries which have been the scourge of other countties—stet ng from the expression of the public v,ice and the justme of its cause—and possessed of claims on the ss ineathies of America and of the triends of freedom in both hemispheres. " In moments of public consternation in other coun tries the goodness of Divine Providence has been made visible, at the humble and faithful prayers of the .4flieted ; and I deeply venerate the examples you re call, and which are ,o much connected with the glori ous deeds of the United States. Those signal blessings of God speak to the understauding, and to the heart, and will stimulate the lively and incessant religious fervour of the country, and of the ministers of the Lord, to eontieue their prayers and supplications in the esta blished form, grateful in the eyes of the Most High, B o tribute to him and not to cease to bless him, hilinhle thanksgiving for the stat e of thin g s su p erior to tl,e difficulties, glosious, full of vigour, and of the future promise. f et, blessings of God are the strength and con centration of wills for a patriotic and just purpose and duty, the wisdom displayed in the councils of the con fe,'crate governments, the subordination arid glory of the national armies, the fidelity and energy of the people, and the favourable circumstances of a land which, although invaded and beleaguered by powerful enemies, po sesses in its position efficient elements of glorious resistance, and in the fertility and abundance of its soil sufficient reseurees to relieve it from all apprehension of ex.r , me calamities. " Yes: humble and faithful prayer, agreeable to the high designs and precepts of God, is certainly most ex cellent in the history of civil and religious institutions; and there is nothing more becoming Christian people, and in consonance with revealed truths, • than gratitude for the blessing receiyed-s-thani-set• the received—thanksgiving to tsupreme author of all good. ‘t in these feats and reflections you will F i nd that the ritlVer and supplication which you love and piously , venerate,. are practised throughout the republic, both in' its capitals and in the towns of its vast rural disfticts, in the military encampments as well as in the posts and forts situated on the frontiers of the desert ; and that the present occasion is a very appropriate one for the humble gratitude of the country for the infinite bles sings with which the Almighty God favours it, to be continued to be ardently expressed with faith and hope in the success of its just defence, in the midst of which it preserves its energy and its honour unsullied, re ligiously fulfilling tho oath of national independence de clared on the 9th July, 1816, before God and the uni verse, in the meritorious city of San Miguel del Tucu man. Its illustrious founders are, like the great Madi son, among the mighty dead ; only one, but a very dis tinguished one, of those venerable patriots, is still living; but the spirit of all animates and guides the Argentines. This is a blessing, a work of the Providence of God, wherein is discovered the perfect adorable image of the merciful Father of the Peoplo. " And here I think the canticle cf our rogations is applicable, Thou shalt go out with pleasure, and be is caved with joy ; hills shall skip, and thou shalt be heard with delight. Confess the Lord, for he is good and also the precept of tie Gospel which reco mmen d s humble privacy in prayer, in supplication, and in fasting. " The history of my country offers to consideration events which it is gratifying in me to recall, as they bear relation to your reflections and to the pious prac tices which I have stated - are observed in the Republic. " The repulse of the' two strong British armaments which attacked Buenos Ayres in 1806 and 1807 is to be ascribed to a special favour of Divine Providence, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, mother of Good, invoked by General Liniers, and by the people of Buenos Ayres, as is the custom at present in our prayers, supplications, and pious exercises. " In the triumph of General Belgrano over a powerful Spanish army in Tucuman, a like blessing of the Al mighty was repeated through the intercession, of the Blessed Virgin, under the appellation of our Lady of Mercy, to whose devotion that illustrious general was particularly attached. " The trophies of all those victories have been humbly laid down before the tabernacle of the Lord. " I myself. at different periods of my public life, have acknowledged and revered the visible protection of God towards the republic, as well then as in the present cir cumstances. "It is from a deep sense of humble gratitude for those blessings that I have placed at the foot of the altars of the Most High in the churches of San Miguel del Monte, Azul de San Serapio Martir, and in the holy cathedral church of Buenos Ayres, the trophies obtained in the expeditions of the years 1833 and 1834, to the deserts of the south, against the Indians ; and in the festivals of the church in honour of the Blessed Virgin, under the appellation of our Lady of Mercy and of the glorious St. Martin, patron of this city, the valuable and hono rific medal awarded to me by the Legislature, and which I do not wear on my breast, is dedicated by me to adorn the divine image of our Lady of Mercy, which is venerated in the church of this name in this city, and that of our holy patron. " To the same origin are to be ascribed the memorable victories of the army of Orientals and Argentines. under the command of the illustrious General Manuel Oribe, President of the Oriental State, and of the distinguished Generals Urquiza, Echague, Pacheco, and others, as well as the glorious deeds of which you have been a witness at a more recent period. " Tkese and several other facts, the relation of which would be too lengthy here, ought to convince us not only that the reverent prayers and supplications, as esta blished and practised in the country, offered up . to the Lord our God, have been graciously heard by his infinite goodness and providence, but also that we are bound to tribute to him cordial and incessant thanksgiving for his divine protection, and to testify our thorough confi dence in the propitious continuance of his unspeakable blessings. " Behold here, my dear friend, bow my ideas and se ntiments coincide with yours, and how your Christian and generous desires are fulfilled beforehand, and the divine and salutary precept on which yon found them is venerated. " I feel that my country and the friends of religion, of justice, and of liberty, will highly appreciate the letter you have written in such solemn moments. For my part I will always regard it with a preferent and heart felt esteem ; and I will hand it down as a pious and throughly American monument of a distinguished friend who has the glory of having grown grey in the honourable and faithful service of the glorious inde pendence and happy advancement of the United States. " I have the highest pleasure in reiterating to you the distinguished consideration and esteem with which I am your affectionate servant and friend. "JUAN M. DE ROSAS. Wm. Brent, jun., Esq., Charg‘ d'Affairs of the U. S. STEAM BETWEEN HARWICH. AND ROTTERDAM. EXPERIMENTAL EXCURSION. The port of Harwich was for a considerable period the great packet boat station for the North Seas. Situated upon the most convenient point for the run from England to many of the principal sea-ports of the north of Europe, it com manded, before the introduction of steam, much of the mail and passenger traffic to Belgium, Holland, and the countries bordering the Baltic. It is the intention of the Eastern Counties Railway and the projected Harwich steam shipping companies to make a vigorous effort for the restoration of the place to somewhat of its former importance as a packet station, and by placing it in direct communication by rail with London,: to make the route through Essex, embarking at Harwich, the principal highway to Holland, thus saving the tedious navigation of' the river and the Swinn, and re ducing the time of transit between London and Rotterdam by a very considerable proportion. An experimental trip, with the view of ascertaining by actual experience in What time the journey from London to Rotterdam, by Harwich, could be performed, took place last Wednesday. the directors of tifie Eastern Counties and Eastern Union Railways being the gentlemen under whose auspices the experiment came off. The distance between London and Rotterdam, by Harwich, is about 222 miles, the land journey to Ipswich comprising 68, and the run across, the remaining 154. The trip was accomplished on Wednes day in about fifteen hours and a quarter, including several stoppages for pilots off the Brill, and a detention of nearly an hour fur the Custom-house inspection upon entering the Meuse. We may add, too, that the wind, which freshened considerably towards evening, was right in our teeth, accom panied by a slight swell from the eastward. Making allow ances, therefore, for these unfavourable circumstances, it may be fairly presumed that the sea passage from Ipswich to Rotterdam may be performed without much difficulty in about twelve hours, while the transit from town by rail need not occupy more than two additional hours—the re sult being, that letters written and papers published in London early in the morning may be received in Rotter dam, the Hague, and the surrounding towns, on the same evening. The special train which contained the experimentalists of Wednesday left the Shoreditch station at half-past five A.M., and cracked on through the nvadows and woods of Essex at a goodly pace to Ipswich. Thane the Orwell steamer lay gay with colours, and musical with overplus steam, waiting to perform her part in the race. No delay occurred, and within ten minutes we had exchanged the railway carriage for the deck, and were gliding down the quiet pastoral river, shoot ing by its weirs and abounding fishing station, en route for Holland. The little town of Harwich, with its flotilla of boats lying idly before it, was soon passed to the right, and the German ocean opened gradually to the view, the long low coasts of Suffolk and Essex stretching away, dimmed by the summer haze on either hand. Scattered trawlers and small fishing craft beat lazily about in the light breeze; a vast fleet of boats were dredging for cement—an odd sounding species of industry (we should as soon think of fishing up ready made warming-pans,) Felixtown and its martello tower appeared like grey specks to the left, and the distant sails of vessels in the Swinn threaded on the horizon like beads. The weather was delightful—the easterly breeze just rip pling the undulations of the slowly heaving swell, and tem• paring the atmosphere to a pleasant coolness. The day wore on agreeably, but the sun was low in the horizon ere the sails of the Goree pilot-boat were descried looming through the light vapoury haze which hung over the ocean. As we passed through the clumsy Dutch craft riding at anchor— the sweep of his bright polished bows plunging heavily into the short head-sea which the freshening breeze had raised, the pilot, a fine hardy-looking seaman—decidedly Dutch built as well as his vessel—pulled on board, busily employed in bracing up his second or third pair of trousers with a piece of spun yarn, and was quite astounded by the intelligence which reached him from a dozen voices at once, that we were from London that morning. The Dutchman walked aft, gave the spoke of the wheel a wrench, signed to the captain to move on, coiled up the lead-line in his hand, and then said it was quite impossible. A copy of the Morning Chronicle of the day was then put into his hands—he glanced at the date--hove the lead phlegmatically—walked to the helms man—" South-east by South"—and then said, " e'er fasht; vet fasht, indeed." The rest of the voyage was soon performed. The low sandbanks which fortify Holland against the assaults of her perpetual enemy, the sea, hove up on the horizon—with the towers of distant churches looming dimly through the even ing mist. Then we - wound our way through the compli cated channels by which the Meuse is entered, and were soon gliding up its quiet sedgy stream—remarking the lazily turn ing windmills—the snug Dutch hamlets—with their steep red roofs, half embosomed in green trees—the willowy mouths of half stagnant canals and creeks opening to the main stream—the interminable rows of trees stretching far along the banks, in monotonous lines along the swampy level, the pile of bigger trees occasionally kept in countenance by rows of junior branches of the same vegetable family. Here and there you saw the masts and long vanes of Dutch boats moored in canals off the main stream, peering up amid pol lards and elms, and behind low straggling cottages, and around ricketty old windmills. Here and there, too, a crawl ing schuyt brushed lazily by the rushes, drifting with the muddy stream, from the banks of which ever and ano n storks, looking like geese in consumptions, rose, and flocks of starlings and curlews came pipingby. Groups of sabot-shod, blue-bloused peasantry loitered by cottage doors, and over all the setting sun blazed down, th r ough the summer mist; with that rich golden glory which you see in the pictures of Cuyp. And so we crept up the river until, as the evening was deepening into 'night, we got alongside the great elm. lined pier—the well-known Brompjes of Rotterdam. Two of the party, BIT , . Beke and Mr. Alfred Cobbold, im- medietely etarted for the Hague with newspap ers o f the day for his Majesty, the principal officers of state l and the journals of that city. Great sati s fa c ti on was evinced at the receipt of newspapers almost wet from the London press ; and in token thereof their bearers, who bad strolled almost accidentally into a club-house, were elected honorary memT hers by one unanimous shout of acclamation. Next morning the Nierutze Rotterdamseh4 Courant ap PPred with a jaw-breaking Dutch paragraph, which, being interpreted, is as follows :-- 4 ' We have received this day several English papers—viz., the Morning Chronicle, Times, and .Morning Herald, all of this day's date, June 17. • 6 These papers were dispatched per railway from London to Ipswich, and from thence by the steam-boat Orwell for this port. The train started at half-past five o'clock, and at half-past seven the steamer arrived in our harbour. As she had to strive against a contrary wind and other obstacles, we trust with confidence that future trips may be perforrqd with still greater rapidity." After an eveningpleasintly devoted to the lions of Rotter d,,aM, and a capital timid at.' the excellent hotel of the Pays 16a3, whose Marble lobbies and painted saloons — nay , ev en the fearful 'climb up innumerable flights of staircases to aerial glorious moonlit view of the fine 11Pd-rooms, commanding a old Ditch town, its jumble of trees, high peaked houses, and ships' rigging—we shall ever remember with pleasure, we started yesterday morning homeward bound, about twenty minutes after ten, and after a delightful run, made still more so by ceaseless attempts to baffle the heat by exercising iC with manner of pleasant liquid relics of Holland, we let go our anchor oil Ipswich at ten o'clock, having performed the passage in about twelve hours. Among the gentlemen - present were J. B. Cobbold, Esq., chairman, and John Fortman, W: May, and J. Cobbold; Esqs., directors of the Eastern Union • and G. Fisher, Esq , of 'Cambridge, W. C. Wells, E sq ., o f Chelmsford, and T. Gibbes, Esq., of London, directors of the Eastern Counties Railway, and Norwich Steam-packet Companiee. - WASTE LANDS IN IRELAND. The following is an abstract of Mr.Poul - ett izrope's Bill for proMoting the Reclamation of Waste Lands in Ireland, which stands for a second reading on Wednes day, the Ist of July :- 6. Whereas it appears from reports at various times laid before Parliament, as well by Parliamentary Com mittees es by Royal Commissioners, that in Ireland large numbers of able-bodied persons arc suffering great _distress from inability to obtain either constant employ ment or the occupation of land throughout which to support themselves and their families by their labour ; and likewise that at the same time large tracts of land in that country remain in a state of waste, upon which many of such distressed persons might be usefully em ployed, and might be enabled permanently to maintain , themselves and their families, if encouraged by the' grant of a durable interest in the lands which may be reclaimed, to exert for that purpose their utmost is dustry : be it therefore enacted, 36e. "Clauses 1 to 16, authorise appointment of two Com missioners, who, together with chairman of the Board of Works, are to form the waste lands commission—to have power to appoint assistant commissioners, officers, &c., and other general powers, such as are given to Commissioners of the English Inelomre Act of 1845, and the Irish Public Works Act, 1 and 2 Wm. IV. cap. 33. 17, 18. Authorise the Treasury to advance a sum not exceeding two millions, to Commissioners, as required for the purposes of the Act. Interest to be payable on such advances. s s "19. Empowers Commissioners to purchase (compul sorily) any tract or tracts of waste land, not being less in any one case thun five hundred statute acres lyi ng together, and any land adjoining or near to, or included in such tract or tracts of waste land in the proportion of not more than ten acres of such land to every hun dred acres of waste. "20, 21. Power to Commissioners to make maps, surveys, and reports, with opinions to be sent to Lord- Lieutenant, and lodged for inspection somewhere in the neighbourhood. and notice thereof to be given. "22 to 24. Powers to the Commissioners at the end of one month, or within one year, to publish conclusive notice, &c., to be enrolled in the Court of Chancery, &c. "25, 26. Powers to corporations, trustees, and other parties, to sell and convey, and forms of conveyance. "27. Satisfaction to be made to tenants, &c., and may be accepted. " 28. Commissioners empowered to award value. " 29. Appeal given against award of Commissioners to a court of arbitration. "30 to 33. Appointment of court of arbitration by Lord-Lieutenant, to consist of three fit and proper per sons, to hold their sittings at such place or places as he shall appoint, &c.. with power to summon witnesses, &c., and give final judgment. "34. Awards to be recorded. " 35 to 40. Purchase money how to be applied (as in Fisheries Act of this session, &c.) " 41. After publication of final notice, and payment or investment of purchase money, Commissioners may enter and commence works. 42 to 46. Power to purchase release of incumbrances, and apportion the same ; with the rents reserved—mort gagees to convey to Commissioners, &c. Tenants at will to quit after notice, &c. _ "47. Persons authorised to sell may refer to arbitra tors to fix the price. " 48. Demesne lands not to be taken, nor supply of water to towns interfered with, &c. " 49, 50. Power to Commissioners to execute works— to inclose, plant, or cultivate any of the lands purchased and taken by them for the purpose of this Act, and to execute such roads and drainages, and erect such houses, cottages, buildings, and fences thereon as shall be deemed proper or the improvement of such lands, &c., and to lay out such lands into farms of not less than five, nor more than one hundred acres. " 51 to 54. Power to Commissioners to offer farms for sale by public advertisement on lease for ninety nine years, either at a nominal rent for such premium or fine as can be got for the same, or at a fixed rent, or at a rent nominal for the first seven years, and after wards increased, and either with or without a fine, giving, however, always to the tenant the power of pur chasing a lease of ninety•nine years for the sum at which the farm was originally valued to him. with in terest not exceeding five per cent. ; and subject in all cases to conditions and covenants to be laid down by Commissions for the improvement of the lands, &c.. or for the adoption of any particular system of husbandry. ":55. Leases to be forfeited in case lessee or owner for the time being, cease to reside upon and cultivate the same, and to keep in repair the premises, &c., or shall erect additional houses. &c., without license of Commissi oners, or shall dispose of his interest without such license, or make default in performance of covenants in leases. " 56, 57. Power to Commissioners to accept surrenders, or to consent to assignments of leases, &c., and to waive forfeitures, " 58. In case of farms vesting in more than one person, at the tenant's death, or otherwise, the same to he sold and the produce invested for the benefit of such persons. " 59. Farms to be valued and offered successively to the persons in whom they vest by devise or through intestacy. "60, 65. Power to Commissioners to leave two-thirds of purchase money . of farms let for 999 years on -mortgage, with the interest to accrue during period of repayment to be divided into equal instalments ; and tenants authorised upon giving notice to pay off the principal, &c. Powers to'enter or recover payment when in arrear. " 66. Commissioners may form model farms, distri bute prizes, and found agricultural schools upon any of the lands taken for the purposes of this Act. "67 to 80. Power to Commissioners to make roads and drains necessary to their operations through other lands adjoining such as they may take, and to charge all parties deriving benefits therefrom with a rate thereto. Rate may be compounded for. " 71. Commissioners empowered to purchase, by vo luntary agreement with the parties, any lands adjoining to the lands taken by them. " 72. Commissioners empowered to contract with owners of lands, waste or other, for payment by a rent charge in lifu of gross sum. " 73. Leases, &c., to be free of stamp duty. " 74. Application of receipts by commissioners, first to payment of interest on advances by Treasury, next to ) expenses of works, purchases, &c., and surplus to be from time to time so expended. " 75. Accounts of proceedings to be annually laid before Parliament. "76 to 81. Commissioners, &e., protected in execution of their duties. " 82. Interpretation clause—Waste lands being defined as any lands lying together, which, on the average of the average of the entire tract, would not let for more than two shillings_and sixpence per acre per annum to a solvent yearly tenant.' " 83. Act may be amended this session." FRIGHTFUL AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT : WESTERN RAILWAY.—On Friday morning an accident of a most de- plorable character, which has resulted in the death of an exeellent servant of the company, happened near the terminus of the Great Western Railway, at Paddington. It appears that the deceased, John Vaten, was a painter in the service of the company, and was about thirty or forty years of age. He was engaged at his work on some carriages at the time of the occurrence, and it seems he was much afflicted with deafness, so that the signals were not very readily heard by him ; and while thus occupied one of the trains came up, and before he could get out of the way he was knocked down, and the wheels of the carriages passed over his legs and arms, which were severely fractured. He was immediately conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he died in about two hours. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR,—On Wednesday morn ing, a man named Harper, from Helper, applied at the Police-office for the apprehension of a man and woman, who ho said were in the town, and whom he charged with robbing, under the tbllowing sin gular circumstances :—The woman, whose name he said was Mary Jones, had been lodging at the house of his (Harper's) father with her husband ; and on Tuesday she had decamped in company with a one• legged tailor (whose name was very appropriately John Shuffiebot tom), taking with her some wearing apparel and bed-clothes, the property of Mr, Harper, sen. Shortly after the necessary particulars had been giien to the police, Shuffiebottom and his paramour were apprehended by Inspector Wilkinson, breakfasting at the Black's Head, Broad Marsh ; but when they were taken to the Police-office, the complaisant stated that the woman was his wife, but that he had said her name was Jones because he was afraid the police would not apprehend her for taking her husband's property. The prisoners having been thus arrested under a false ' charge, were dismissed, and suffered to leave the police-office. When ~ they arrived in the street, the husband endeavouring to put on an engaging look, exclaimed, " Which man will you have, my lass? Will you have your husband, a proper man, or the tailor with the wooden leg ?" adding, as a clincher, "if you Will come with me, you shall ride home." A great mob which had been collected was much amused with the manner in which the fair one looked at her suitors, and she was greeted with shouts of " have the tailor." " Nay, don't have him ; he's not even the ninth part of a man, he's hi tlan lost his leg" 80. The woman, who in addition to her infidelity, most have had a very bad taste, at last declared for the tailor, whe stumped away with his prize, leaving tits a d the stuulildaepnpy mhvi h . llarbfudlid carriedmet in/I.—Nottingham Jou, nal. SINGULAR PIIENOAMNON.—OR Tuesday l as t , a b out h a lf-past two o'clock in the afternoon, away several waggon-loads of hay from a field bet • Clay, on the Osmaston-road, Derby. The hay belonging to Miss in the air for nearly half an hour, and gradua Was held sus need the neighbouring fields and gardens. With y fell, spreading over ticular locality, not a breath of air was the exception of the par- NOVEL TRAVELLING stir! he —Notts Merevry. • NIL Wm. Bunn and Mr. Wm. Oxborrow, of Wickham trifling wager to go on a44 Market, coachbuilders, under t k ari f fe r t t a o London, a distance of 53 miles ve d ic'e u i'Pedet." Wickhamffonutr.ofay a light ; which they accomidshed on Whit•donda r y m , g by h s e tart hours at three o'clock in the morning, resting six hours during the day, and a rriving at e ll d Saracen's re old ate at eight o'clock in th e even ing,making eleven holm on the road.—lpswich Journal. —.yesterday Mr. DEATH OF , A BOY TRO3I PLAT- Nicholls-row, Yetintal- Raker held an Wettest at tho Lord NelsriZ y - cara . The deceased green, on George Thomas Norton, aged en.fanotheiN back, when he and some other boys were leaping even.ne.the stornach. Medical ad fell and struck himself a violent hlaw_or a ,___. days, when lie died: vice was procured, but he linge red lc"' fu'l of food ; had it been The surgeon said the child's st , o o a i ..c,',,,,,t have proved fatal. Verdict, empty at the time th e injury v nu "Accidental death. o M USK ET - BALL. We were yesterday (Thu(Thursday).4 wAT the RL3alst ann i ver sary of the Battle el' Waterloo, favoured w ith the sight musket. ball that had wounded one of our brave so ldi e rs in the mi d st ofa ßetween of that great battle. three and four . oon of the 18th of June, 1815, whil s t th e second b a ttalion of Br itish o'clock on the ai.e_P:t under the infantry, command of Lord Harris, i n s olid square, was resisting a ch arge of French Calrassien, led on by Marshal Ney, private James Brian, of the 73d Regiment, received a musket -ball in the head just above the left temple. He was carilt.d off the geld by his comrades, apparently dead, but ultimately re covered, and now resides in Beck-street, in this, town. Many efforts have been made to extract the ball, but they all proved ineffectual ; on Tuesday last, however, it made its way out, through the poor fellow's mouth, after having subjected him to almost continued torture since it entered. He is now, we are happy to say, free from pain, and appears likely to enjoy better health than he has done since he left the army. The ball on One side was quite flattened.—Notts Mercury, • Paer LA.TIGN AND RELIGION OF THE Wonul,.--It calculated that there are 1,660,000,000 souls in the work!; of whom 153,000,000 are in Europe, 156,000,000 in Africa, 00,000,000 in Asia, 150,000,000 in America, and 7,000,000 in the islands of the Pacific. Five parts of the Po p ulation are Christians, six are M4hOwetana, eig , 1140,9 4;0 molators t a3g the Jews form one pall. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. R. Banister, draper, Portsea—tinal dlr. of in the pound, on any Saturda y , at (ho office of M r: G reene , Alder manbury. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, BArnghall-street. W. Kearton, cheesemonger, Lamb-street, Spital-square, July lk.), at twelve—•W. J. Haddan. brewer, Tottenham, July 10, at half-Past twelve—C. Bartlett, merchant, South ampton, July 10, at one—T. B. and 3. Waller, grocers, Ips wich, July 13, at twelve--J. Harlow, tobacconist. Leicester square, 'Tilly 10, at eleven—W. Stone, laceman, Woad-Ate - et, City, July 10, at one. • In the 'Country. • M. Toulkinsnn, linendraper, Kidderminster, July 10, at twelve, at. the Birmingham District Court—W. Suminers and N. Rae, rope makers, Manchester, July 14. at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—W. Ilabgood, merchant, Man chester, July 14, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—T„ Harrison. victualler, Birmingham, July 15, at one, at the Birmirigham District rt. CERTIFICATES to be gyented,unless cause, be shown to the contrary, onn - the day herein mentioned. R. - 11. Blacker and C. Earith, jun., ws - rettnuemri Gresham -street, City, July 13—T. Gandy, groeer. Lower road, Islington, July 13—J. .S. B. llndgett, bookseller, Strand, July 13—J. IlarloW, tobacconist, Leirester.square. July 10—W. Stone, lareman, Wood-street, City, July 10— B. 11. Bullock, commission agent, Nicholas-lane, City, July 10—E. ClifF or d , victualler, Minster, Isle of Sheppy, july 10—W. ThoinpFon, ship chandler. Fowkes.buililings, Great Tower-street, City, July 10—W. Stearman, carpenter, Princes. street, Cadogan-street, Chelsea, Judy 10—T. Taylor, grocer, Newcastle-upon. Tyne, July 18_-,1;. J. Staples, sur geon, July 13—C. Parker, linendraper, Liverpool, July 15— S. Sham, cloth finisher, Leeds, July 13—T. Clay, merchant, Hadderefiehl, July Walker-arid B. Williamson, share brokers, Leeds, July 14—P. Mottram, draper, Shrewsbury, July 14—J. Timmins, brick maker, Cavuham, Shropshire, July 10—;..1. Blundell, pawnbroker, Wigan, Lancashire, July 10-4. Davies, mercer, Shrewsbury, July ;13—.T. Howarth, woollen manufacturer, Rochdale, July . 14-11. Rowbotham, calico printer, MancheAlr, July 16—H. R. Osborne, grocer, Truro, Cornwall, July 10 -1 1 . R. Morley, merchant, Hull, July 10— J.. Thompson , grocer, Norwich , July 10—J. H. HipwooJ, merchant , Cornhill , July 10 Emanuel silversmith, Hanover - square, July 10— A. and M. --M. Duffield,. zinc workers, July 10—W. Buchanan, merchant, Chester, t J e e r t: j r3 u , 13 c . 11 1 3. 0 nLb chambers. sheep salesman, July 10—W. Brown, cotton spinner, Manchester, July 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. • . 'aCtietsv,—hlaberlewhearil,', Fore. street, City, J. Hamer, J. Clough, T. Smith, and W. Holgate, calico printer s , I rwe ll Springs, Lancashire—J. H. B eret stock and G. Parnell,. brew ers , W a l worth—R. Garnett, J . G arne tt, W. Garnett, wor s t e d sp i nners,. Bradford (so far as regards R. Garnett)—T. an d C . Prance, brewers, Bocking, Essex—J. and G. Ilainpson, pork butchers, Ashton-nnder-Lyne—G. and W. Lard, cott on sp i nners, 11rount-pleasant•Mills, Lan • cashire—J. and. G. Wise, carmen, Hyde-place, Holton—J. Wynn, T. Wilson, J. llall, G. R a n, T. N a‘mome, Hemingway, woollen manufacturers, Aldam's Mill, York shire (so far as regards J. Wynn)—P. S. F. Martin, D. Wat ney, G. Swayne, and G. Bovill, Gwendraeth Anthracite Coal Works—C. B. Fooks and E. and F. Johnson, auctioneers, Serle street, Lincoln's Inn-fields—T. Sangster and J. Younger, masons, North Shields—B. Currey, W. Currey*, and W. Wilmer , attorneys, Old Palace•yard (so far as regar d s w . Wilmer)—L. Fonseca and C. Steinhardt, perfumers, Bread street, Cheapside.—M. Heathcote and R. P. Collison, sur geons, Maghuli, Lancashire—R. .Forman, jun.,. and F. p Williams, stockbrokers, Derby—B. Nias and H. Saunders . upholsterers, Brighton. SCOTCH' SEQUEsTRATIoNs. William . Miller, engineer, Glasgow, June 29, and July 24, at twelve, at the office of Mr. Smeaton, Glasgow. George Thomson,". bookseller, Glasgow, June 24, and July 15, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Miller, Glasgow. Archibald M‘Nicoll, merchant, Johnstone, June 24; and July 15, at four, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. James Scott, painter, Jedburgh, June 25, and July 23, at twelve, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh. James Montgomery, grocer, Kirkintilloch, June 26, and July 17, at twelve, at Walker's Black Bull Inn, Kirkintilloch A VETERAN AMAZON. The Indicateur of Bordeaux has opened a subscrip tion in behalf of a heroine whose history is thus related by the journal above-mentioned :—" There has been staying at Bordeaux, for several days past, a poor woman, already advanced in age, who has passed her winter days in receiving assistance from some poor people, and in the cold and wet nights slept in granges or stables, for want of means to procure a better lodging. Catherine Rohmer was born at Bolmar in 1782. Her father was a sergeant, and her mother followed the camp. At the siege of Cal abria she saw her father killed, and at the battle of Fleurns a cannon-ball carried off the head of her mother. In 1802, Catherine Rohmar married Fran cois Girard, the drum -major of the 62d half-brigade, A sutler, like her mother, she followed the division or General Donnadieu, was present at the taking of Saragossa, entered with the division in Portugal, and afterwards returned to Barcelona. At this epoch she had already eight sons all following her regiment.- From Barcelona she went to Austria with the division of General Charriere, and received a lance-wound at the battle of Wagram. She was present at the taping of Vienna, and also at the battles of Glogkau, lintzen,, and Bautzen ; accompanied General Rapp to Dstntaie, stayed a short time at Dresden, and from thence passed several months in garrison at Naples. Ever ready to support the fatigues of war and expose her life in attending to the wounded, she returned again to Spain, and was present at the taking of Girona, where her husband was decorated. On this occasion she acted as a soldier herself, and taking up a musket fought against the enemy, who for a moment seemed likely to be victorious. Attached to the expedition tent against Russia, she went to 'Warsaw, Cracow, and even as far as Moscow. In the retreat, Catherine Rohmer crossed, with the first division, the bridge of the Beresina, and was counted among the 25 meat who alone remained of the four battalions of 1,000 men each who entered Russia. At Courbevoie, near Paris, her regiment was re•organised. She took part in the en counters of Chalons, Troyes, Bar-sur-Aube, and Brienne, and was at Fontainbleau when Napoleon abdi cated. With her husband she set out to follow the Em peror to the island of Elba. and had then ten sons in the army. She returned to Paris, and lastly was present at the battle of Waterloo. In ISIS, her husband was appointed adjutant in the artillery. In 1823, she fol lowed Girard to Spain, where be wt,s killed by a mus ket shot between Barcelona and Gracia. She returned alone to France, and married Antony . Varin, a sergeant major, accompanied the latter to Algeria, and was pre sent at the - taking of Algiers, Bona, Mascara. Oran. and Constantine. In this place she lost her husband and two of her sons, and was herself wounded at Bougie and in the engagement of the Maison Carree. The Government prosecution against the proprietor of the Nation has failed. There being no prospect of the jnty coming to an agreement, yesterday (Thursday), about two o'clock, they were discharged by the consent of the Crown and the traverser. We understand they were nearly equally divided in opion, there being seven for conviction. and - five for acquittal. That they could have agreed npifn a verdict of acquittal was scarely to be hoped for.--Dubin Freeman. . , The Philadelphia Gazette states that smile armed schooners, brigs, and small steamers, arc now fitting at New York, for the purpose of cruising in the Gulf of Mexico. Lieut. T. D. Shaw of this city is named as having been or dered to the command of the Petrel, to cruise in the Gulf o f Mexico. TEE MILE:---There is a great difference in the num ber of yards in a mile, in different countries. The following table - will be useful :—England, or America, 1760 yards ; Russia, 1109; Italy, 1476 ; Scotland and Ireland, 2200; Poland, 4400; Spain, 5028 ; Germany, 4866 ; Sweden and Denmark, 7223; Hungary, 8800. EXPOSURE TO THE SUN.—There are few points which seem less generally u nd ers t oo d, or more clearly proved, than the fact, that exposure to the sun, without exercise sufficient to create free perspiration, w ill produce illness; and that the (same) exposure to the sun,with sufficient exercise, will not produce illness. Let any man sleep in the sun, he will awake perspiring and very ill—perhaps he will die. Let the same man dig in the sun for the same l ength of time, and he will perspire ten times as much, and be quite well. The fact is, that not only the direct rays of the ban, but the heat of the atmosphere, produce abundance', bile, and powerful exercise alone will carry off that bile.—. Popular Errors Ex plained. Books are to be opened in New York, 28th proximo, for subscription to raise 1,000,000 dollars for shares in the Ocean Steam Ship Company, which is lately incorporated by that state, and has a contract with the United States Government for conveying t he mails, &c., to other countries. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JUNE 19.—About 400 hhds. West India, and 1,000 mats Mauritius have found buyers this week at the former currency; the market con tinues dull, and purchases are still only made to supply im mediate wants. In East India there is very little doing. Refined goods vet:) , scarce, and prices have further te n d ency to advance.—Bristol Mercury. 'BOLT.--This week, a poor man lost a lovely ti ° y about three and a half years old, and of course appliadfo; a Christian burial, but this was refused, because the little fellow was not a Christian, not having been christened by a " l n d or yet baptitod • by t a le d r i g sa yn en r ing of m th in e is Z r o ; or al ma t n h ' e s e c h h il u d re e h e o f u e vi n e ! , t e e d b e r e e c o u m r r e m e i t t i t o e d u to the earth in sure and certain hop e unto et e e h m ar til eh T , 6, , b ab u o t n w t a t s w fe el‘e fetched at b lo ythesexton of ~ the poor like a dog. The _only mourner allowed to afflicted mother , present was the b n e ight, and buried who marked the spot where theyh prejudiced adlaid her child, then with tearful eves, and a breast heaving with sorrow, returned to her home, of course not at all in favour of that church which refused Christian burial to her son.-esZkverfbie News. . - ' es em a p n l d oy ln ed bo a n t the labourer,. 1 ACTIVITY AT TUE CHA RLESTON NAVY YARD.--AA Boston journal state that are ec n h o a w ni Charleston Navy Yard. about _ _ , s, there 7 00 m B e t w een three and four hundred of thes e are to work on . th e Independence. She will probably be ready for her crew in J seven or eight w eeks. The rope-walk at this y ard is turning o ut about fift e en tons of cordage daily, for the navy. Th ere are already collected at the Charleston frame eyafordr a two e complete steamer: for f ram es tor sea steamers, and harbour defence. All these might be put up and got off its BEGGING PETITION.--tin Friday a short time. upon emergency. afternoon, a man called on Mr. Harmer, at I ngress Abbey, Greenhithe, , with a petition, numerously stat i n g that the bearer, John Gibbs, a farmer, at Ayleiford,had, since April last, lost.four signed, valuable horses and three cow and upwards, a n d t h at he wolifle3d t b i i: a t o t e t a d u a the value of 93/. r t ruined and like wise his family,uniees aided by the benevolent in the western part of of the county of Kent. It, however, happened that Mr -firmer had only a few minutespreviouslv read a paragraph in th e .3ra idstone Gazetre, cautioning the piddle against being im posed on by this individual, and stating that the signatures to the petition were forgeries. He, therefore, told the man he should detain, him and his memorial, whereupon the fellow set off at full speed from the front of the house to wards the river, and would doubtless have escaped, had not Mr. Harmer raised an alarm to some people who were making hay in the ' Pia, when some of the females ran and got over the Park fence, seized and held him securely until some of Mr, Harmer's servants came up and took him Into custody. On being co nveyed before ' A x e Rev. Mr. Renouard , . a neighbouring j F stice, the man - mitted that the mcmorial-kwas a fabrication, and that his name, instead of being Sohn Gibbs, was William Miles.; Mr. Renouard committed him for examination to the lock-up at Dartford, con victed and .unish and he will, no doubt, be co n p ed signatures r as a rogue and vagabond . Amongst t he , eq , 9 ,,, Rey E . G. Marsh Vics.r mending the petitioner were the • . , of A v lesford; the Rev. W. Valian ce, Lady M'ariarinch, th e Bev, C. R., Sir J. H. Horley, Ashenden is -.id Son, Colonel Best, Edward Wickham, the Rev. J. Stiepherd, and '4bout ilizty other indiyidualf. . -