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said by those who know his affairs well, that the 6 44 ;_Propert y of the late Baboo is next in extent to the h, t uils ot the Rajah of Burdwar, and pay nearly ten lass i tr %tie to the East India Company vearlv. ItZunderstand that the mortal remains of the departed L ill not be embalmed preparatory to being conveyed , etae u e ent to India, but that a vault will be purchased in dtp osit t ed r3r . at Kensall green, where his remains are --------- _ _ ?o: -SAL INTELLIGENCE. W a p. lit JULY 31.—The Monarch, 1,400 tons, Cap , all one of the splendid fleet of Mr. Green, of Black ttror,sail this evening or to-morrow morning at day "Licutta direct. Ibis beautiful frigate (pierced for w hich we have no doubt she could carry and fight her th l u i ead many 50-gun frigates on the navy list) was , then the Experimental Squadron was assembled - ‘l,s e •P'ear, and the royal yacht, with her Majesty on tif or ,_reed round her. She looks an admirable compa litne Constance, 50, Captain Sir B. Walker, although koi;;_l,e 726 tons longer in build! 'M appears to have been made with regard to the k k.der l i o ra ,...roersion of her Majesty's brig Contest, 12, Com aricialurdo. This vessel was built at Cowes by Mr. a , Was understood to be a sister vessel to the Daring. h7+laaille el arkably handsome vessel, and will unquestion -41411, b ut she does not resemble the Daring. Her kied l4lle ll More like that of the Waterwitch, but the stand rake of her mast s are very different from either. 'lets 1 r ake very little, and the foremast stands much 4 il)ttiZ W ard than the Daring's, which had an unsightly ther o e : , and caused the necessity of putting goring cloths Lbtitn:joUrse, to enable the fore tack to be hauled out to N e y` lll . However, all this has nothing to do with the eoy e ,,After being commissioned six weeks it has been ~tioo ti e that she has immersed nearly all her copper, Nli tiA s he is not complete in her stores and provisions, r o i l l 4 l ,,at yet taken her crew aboard. It has consequently 4.e otl q requisite to haul her away from her bulk, and Ni et tier streak of copper all round her, and this has been ti lhe to- day. daj la d, an old 42, was docked last evening, to be fitted t t - e Put for coals for team-vessels, to lie at Callao. This Nid ep a,for a long time a desideratum, and will cause a t Pteo". 4°l e saving both of time and expense. The !(1 4 " , .120, was undocked to make room for her, but et, c' the got out of the basin owing to the neaping of the ,4he 'reerald tender sailed last night with supernumer aries h hiouth • `ton,`„"eY tender arrived with men from Plymouth for „' 4 oce and Eurydice this morning. ti n ' e w of the Eurydice, 26, Captain George Elliot, were I: l l , :elenths.' wages in advance yesterday. t....alletance, 50, is still short of a few hands, but it is 4 ti o 'l will be completed to-day by a draught from L ws _ e... - er—Excellent, Victory, Contest; Comet, and At rolers • Seaflower and Netley cutters. Kati' head —C ons t ance and Eurydice ; Monarch East bo c k i tts —Prince Regent, Naiad, Cambrian, Leander, 4;11 aii a nd Rattlesnake. t ili btritZasio—Neptune, Edinburgh, Trincomalee , and ni4 lighter from Pembroke-yard arrived this P o 8. %le Nto Oek od SUNDAY.—The Athol troop-ship, Master Pearn, arrived this morning at Spithead, from ;711 1 , Indies, with military invalids from the regiments Mg: cm that station. She left Halifax on the 23d efJune, A4aluda on the 11th ult. onstance, 50, Captain Sir Baldwin Walker , and the h o 'ee, 26, Capt a i n George Elliot, sailed this morning for They weighed about eleven o'clock, the Con r'st. and stood out under royals and flying jib. There odesteady working breeze from S.S.W. Th e Eurydice soon er stern to her larger competitor, and maintained the I „'_e th e race (which had evidently been agreed pon) Bo ' k ,as we could follow them from the shore. They join the i u l i e leVl o e_eLtrd .. e_r Sir William Parker. u `' , 12 , Commander M'Murdo, bent sails, and en board her officers and crew from the hulk on Friday tae TyGoodwill, navy lighter, sailed on Friday evening, with af D evonport Dockyard. ii Netlen tender, sailed for Devonport with supernume- O n Friday evening. 4-,en s.n . APPOINTMENTS. ,t ' B-4 . Adamson, to the Caledonia ;T. H. Moly the Spartan ; E. W. Vansittart, to the Contest ; R. 41 1 ' 1 1 Yte, to the Columbine; W. Horton, to the Queen; J. 4 1 . 1 es c 1846), to the Inflexible. tt 4t :r r. Hart, to the Inflexible. i e. Kent, to the Dido. e, ,!istructors—W. E. Shaw, to the Calypso ; Rev. N. SOroe, B.A. (acting ), to the Raleigh. t o tle t h a nt Surgenn—G. E. Freeman, to the Caledonia. i: 11 Charge —J. B. Burlace to the Nautilus, vice run" Rennie, to the Spartan ; W. Sainsbury, t )l at r t° 7• I t qo i t r y: . 3 ' Assistants—R. Todd and H. Goldsmith, to the D. Bowden, to the Actaeon. A D • t °lllt COAST GUARD. -At; it J. Pegus, R.N., to Winchester Station, p'ot, 4 ,' ; `°ant Southey, instead of to the Grand Redoubt t ro O Xewan cl l 4tt: t i o s s .- Lieutena . nt G. A. Hine, from Newtown, to I, elt vice Barnard, previously removed ; J. Williams, It o 4te , Island of Innis-gowla, to Blackhead, vi . ce amp 6'are st e 4; Lieutenant IL Stokes, from Manmesbay, to ii a „ 4 l.4 4 _ 4l ion, vice Millet. t h ;'Art ` l , JULY 31.—The Columbine, 16 guns, Cm: 14,10ri er cle th, is completed by the dockyard,. with the ex N I Painting her weather-work, which is now in hand. t, p 'erti, B are on board, and she received her sea stores "tti• e " 7 She is expected to sail in the beginning of 11 1 „„ek. 4 rid hF, h ' e arly p e at steam-packet, Lieutenant Rigge, commander, R I Zg p ti i, + e a oly ; her rigging is complete, and she is now 4Zrf or - p`ed• She is provided on board with provisions and I r h 'Nvu months, and goes out of dock on Wednesday th e ntit e she will take in. her coals, and will sail for Trieste tit Nk 1 8th of next month, to be there on the Ist of z ki 'or, ready for the . 1 She calls in at Gibraltar ialt a . Mr. G. • - •t m a • a u t: second master ; Mr. D. P. kri'aniara, clerk in charge ; and Mr. T. Tait, assistant s, have Joined her. The purser will join her at Malta, Th e Webb, master. ENI 101 111 deg steam-sloop, Commander Davis, is fast pro- Nr:g in her fittings and rigging, and is getting her sea board. e ma I S llman master, :sailed this day for Ports jot`lochester, Sedgwick, master, arrived from Ports ,2sth instant and she is refitting. 'sti w e kutine, 12-gun brig, is ordered to this port to be Or e a2 1 (1 to have her defects made good. f f ,„ °l _l ) Faithful arrived on the 29th with a cargo of tim- P 4 ,1 Riga for the dockyard. The Alexander Cochrane, ' 1 641. t'°rt, arrived on the 29th with a cargo of hemp from ttst4tc:r the dockyard. The Recovery arrived on the 30th etersburgh with a cargo of hemp for the dockyard. PROMOTIONS. 1 4 "" 11 Hogg, inspector, is appointed acting foreman of p„, a rd, vi ce Bl es l e y ; John Dulvey, leading man, al ,- p ie, t s',_aCtin g inspector, vice Hogg; and Henry Cardwell, iir w. ahip - wriglit, is ' promoted to acting leading man, v Y. SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION. Lky 1 , 1 , - analiß SENTENCED TO BE HANDED.—On Wednes -I,7tir e r ning the ships of the fleet sailed out of Cove Har f,'llite a two-months' cruise, as stated in our last. Previous deParture a court-martial was held on board the 4 1fo ' of Marines, named James f r the trial of a private R`oli Oyer, ,° l l three charges, viz. :—For assaulting Sergeant , his superior officer; for assaulting Sergeant ais supenor officer ,• and for assaulting Corporal ;'oti,'• The Court consisted of Admiral Pigott, president ; '"odores Collier and Bremmer, and the captains of the :everal ships of war and steamers constituting Nittl a udron. It appeared in evidence that the pri_ rit 4 ) a fin e l oo ki ng man t w enty-six years of age, had ,°l, l board in a disorderly manner, after parting wi t f , 41 l o ,' his necessaries on shore, and was ordered to be pu , 11 ,41, 0 . -8 ' Sergeant Connor then requested him to go down °, l `atit' r ," :ll which he turned round and struck him ; Ser -1,."N •`-'onnor then sent for a guard, and he was forced o ti „. let° the fore cockpit, when he strucleSergeant Smith. 1i " : 5 ,-, t hen thrown down to be ironed, and was laid hold mot 'orporal Webby, when he said that he would the e e t ransported for nothing, and turning round, struck 44,T0,P0ra1. They all swore that the prisoner was not 4,,,,,tr0nat the time, and that all the blows he gave were in toTh wretched man had nothing to offer in his defence, but t,h ro Z ,that he s gorry for what had happened, and to inirriself on wa the ' mercy of the Court. The Court having 411 1 1 r e ' ear ed, the members remained in deliberation for an then on its being again opened, silen,eN J udge-Advocate rose an the most death-like kep:' e, though the Court-room was filled with officers, sea 4hbithrd marines, and said, " Does it please the Court I I,r.read the sentence upon the prisoner?" The Tent (much affected)—lt does. l'ain e d m 4 dge-Advocate then read the document, which con. court he charges, the names of the officers comprising the Stat e ' anti of the several witnesses, an a d u whichNVento on t o t hat the Court, having well and charges th 'elite, declared the first and second m considered proved, and a t the thi r d was not proved, and adjudged that Private .44 1 , s Sayer be hanged from the neck from one of her Ma vessels, at such time, and on board such vessel, as the 1' of the Admiralty should direct. tft e ,. re sident--James Sayer, I am sorry, indeed, that I cannot tarried You hope that the sentence of this Court will not be m eet out, and I recommend you to prepare yourself to I , l Your doom. The court is dissolved. tit t „ g Prisoner was then removed in custody of the Provost e ti Lual. It is said that within a very short time the unfor all Prisoner has been twice whipped, and has undergone t i erk" e r modes of punishment known in the royal navy. - . ieporter. T- 1 13 -‘ 1: LASH.—EXPOSDRE OF THE PERSON AND TOR. gt„ t ." Two AGoNIES IN oNx."—lf the Government do ` 8 speedy warning the spread of reading and intern 'wiljreach the soldiery to such an extent as (coupled theirfrith knowledge of the sympathies of the public being 00 Ni : real against this beastly punishment of torture , an d o st ret 0 manslaughter or homicide) will goad themtoa ° Pp os ta l!lerstanding among themselves, wh i ch , w atc hi n g it 1 11111t Y , will some day place us of a su dden, and wh en s I ttia e j lt expect it, or are prepared for it, in the midst ofta llroturtevolution It only needs a martinet man-flayer to ~nten De for a soldier, who is a favourite with his comrades, nit - I .„` e- of exposure and flagellation—his comrades resent its `') PLl" n e . s a—dernur—murmur—refuse to carry it out, or , 'Al l - *l i lt it to be carried out :—they are mutineers. or aZ'oLer regiment is called in to butcher—to fire upon, (,14en, no them—this other regiment refuses to do so—an d "0(I " ° t Only military flogging is abolished for ever,. b u t, ngrant that, with such a mode of abolition, military „,,Pie t e . e B n t !' ) not spring up too, and the social fabric fall to „"wiit,il, °nee and, perhapq, for ever! We describe not this "II an ,`3--- probabilitv will be the titter name, ?.s ti me goes 1 41 3 ,- 'l, In telligence spreads a thousandfold with it—from , to produce it, but with the oppcsite desire of era- Llood - *g . and abolishing for ever an irritant, an exasperaut of i gnominy which otherwise, sooner or later, wi . ll the , - "'Y Produce acatastrophe The torture of the lash is 4 Ifler ' e llibll stible matter, now in ' an exposed situation, which til t fo _aPark will some day ign ite and explode 1 We would th ev r th e new Government'a fair trial ; but if, at starting, 1 14 4e(TITBit a capit a l cr i me aga i ns t a ll no ti ons o f h u manity lash , w cc ial imp rovement, by defending the use o f t h e accurse d to L e 'hail pray for their doom to be sealed, and their days Tn"M,l)ercd.—Hood's Magazine for August. o , tib se „,, ~,,kjonutN NATIONAL PllND.— rho amount of oia s ci- 1 ) Is to this fund sent to the secretary in Manchester now s : ," 1 3 , exceed, ' 40,0001, Amongst the sums received during the tr 2 0 61: 4 . we observe the firm of Walker, Smith, and Hacking, Bury, I c i ,and the names of R. Ashton, Esq., Limefleld ; R. Walker, l etu oi .Z. Bury; W. Richardson and Sons, Manchester ; John e beste r Manchester; Itostron , Dutton, and Co., Man .& each for 1001 . - -Manchester Guardian. A van utelon ci , ,Tvits gathered few days ago in a garden at 4116;'4 , a s rag u "9l. wl l i ch measure% 17 incites In diaplets.r and 4 feet "4 11,4 4 lbs THE MAGAZINES. BLACK WOOD. Honour to old,Maga ! Honour to Christopher North! Notwithstanding all the wit, wisdom, drollery, senti ment, "peptic precepts, and dietetic instruction" lavished upon their readers during three hundred and ,sixty-nine numbers of the former, under the supervision of the latter, the wit is not less piquant, the wisdom less mellow, the drollery more resistible, -the peptic precepts less digestible, or tie dietetic instruction less palatable, as the pages of the old Edinburgh magazine accumulate in bulk Blackwood for August, lea, is scarcely in ferior in intrinsic merit or extrinsic attraction to any preceding number. We are not, unquestionably, treated with a revival of the " Noctes Ambrosianae"—as glorious Nights as the famous One Thousand and One. We miss the crutchet-stick of Christopher, the familiar patois of O'Doherty, and the interjectional pithiness of Tickler. " Ten Thousand a Year" tells us no longer of the machinations of Oily Gammon, or of the gentle and beautiful Kate Aubrey. Jerrold no longer presents us with the "Peregrinations of the Man of %Vex, or of any other specimen of the genus homo. Sir Frizzle Pumpkin bath no more Adventures, and the lyre of B. Simmons is silent. Yet despite all these deficiencies of our old favourites, Blackwood is Blackwood still ; and from the perusal of this present number, we cannot think any one can rise without having derived both information and amusement. What we welcome so heartily in this number for August is the purpose which is traceable in almost every individual article. Generous principles are inculcated—principles both moraland utili tarian, and we are the more rejoiced at this circum stance because of the frivolity which has been latterly the most striking characteristic of so many periodicals. Maga is not, this month, without his political article ; and, bearing in mind the extraordinary measures of commercial reform which have so recently been carri-_d through Parliament, the singular vicissi tildes wltich have in consequence befallen the dif ferent legislative parties, and more especially the " strong party" of Conservatism, advisedly so called, we turned with peculiar interest to the lucubrations of old Ebony. Our curiosity was excited by the mere heading of the essay, a suggestive one under present circumstances—" The Late and the Present Ministry." That we can have but little sympathy with the views entertained by Blackwood with reference to the most advisable movements of the legislature, we presume, our readers will readily comprehend, and fancy that Chris topher himself, could not scruple to admit. Our opinion upon this point cannot therefore be tinged with any thing approaching to partiality. Yet we are so eminently satisfied with the pervading tune of the political article before us that we commend it most seriously to the atten tion of all sticklers for protection. Although the writer thinks infinitely wrong, to our mind, as to the probability of the Russell administration, and mistakes the prudent and circumspect phrases of the Premier for hesitation and premeditated obscurity, we admire the spirit of the strictures upon the illustrious statesman who so re cently and so gloriously retired from the office of First Lord of the Treasury. There is none of that vulgar acerbity in Blackwood which has lately been in dulged in so lavishly ; there is no gratuitous abuse or supplementary sarcasm—yet Blackwood is not one jot less devoted to the cause of protection than my Lord George Bentinck himself. When we find so much earnest ness and so much gentlemanly toleration linked together, we are compelled to attribute the leaning towards the protective system to a conscientious conviction. Though, at the same time, be it observed, we are at a loss to comprehend the adherence of such talents to such an exploded system. Thus speaketh Blackwood:— " We cannot join with the more violent of the protec tionists in their virulent denunciations of Sir Robert Peel." Again: "as the financial reformer of the whole national system, he (Sir Robert) may, though at heavy risk, become a public benefactor." Again, say we, ho nour to Maga Such language is most graceful after the coarse and revengeful epithets cast by others upon that same extraordinary statesman. Time, we feel sa tisfied, will alter the writer's preconceptions as to the intended policy of the new cabinet ; and lie possesses so much fairness that he will not then shrink from con fessing his misapprehensions of Lord John Russell. "The Army," is a courageous and stirring appeal in be half of a very noble and a very neglected class—the soldiery. Recent occurrences have tended to display the lamentable state of mismanagemeut into which the cor respondents of the Horse Guards hare fallen, or rather in what a degraded condition they are allowed to con tinue. We have ourselves represented the brutality, and indecency, and immorality, and impolicy of that ex ecrable system of military flogging which only a few days ago deprived a fellow creature of life at Hounslow, and deprived him of life moreover, through superfluous cruelty, hurrying him to a premature death in the most excruciating agony. A system that permits such exhi bitions of barbarity is one which calls very loudly for reform ; and calls for a reform, moreover, of the most comprehensive character. Black wood recommends the substitution of rewards ,for punishments ; rewards to lure to good conduct, not punishments to awe into subordination ; ribbons to ex cite a wholesome spirit of emulation, not scourges to goad into drunkenness and to debase. The writer re commends likewise a material alteration in the plan of enlistment; condemning on very adequate grounds the enlistment for life, and proposing in its place an enlist ment for a limited period ; namely—for seven or five years. He observes, " Let the lash, at once and totally disappear ; replace torture by instruction, hold out ju dicious rewards instead of disgraceful punishment - ap peal to the sense of honour of the man, instead Of the sense of pain of the brute." We cordially coincide in these very admirable views ; we would gladly know our soldiery to be properly educated, properly stimulated to exertion by medals or other recompenses, properly allowed an opportunity of rising in their profession, and that not merely to the post of non-commissioned officers, but to the highest and noblest ranks. Surely there would be no degradation to the service in such an ar rangement, premising that the privates of each regiment were prepared by tuition. Surely, Ney, Massena, and Murat, and Junot, were no discredit to the Gallic legions l Surely the father of Lady Peel was no dis grace to the mess-rooms of the British army ! Were such a system as this introduced our soldiers would be morally and socially elevated ; they would be enabled, like the veterans of Napoleon, to beautify their native country during the continuance of peace, as well as to defend it during the period of war ; their leisure hours would not, as now, be irksome and wearisome ; they would no longer be the drones of the national hive, but would tend to the improvement as well as to the glory of the empire. Blackwood has come forward nobly for the vindication of these enlightened principles ; and if its fellow labourers of the press join in the like spirit of independence and benevolence, the boon will be achieved, and our army will be most ma terially benefited. Well may the writer repeat that excellent old adage, " Fas est al) hoste doceri 1" The military system pursued on the continent is not wholly unworthy of imitation. Another admirable article is intitled, " Mesmeric Motentebanks." It is a delicious bit of irony : overwhelming the followers of Mesmer by an adroit and capital satire. " Moriamur pro Rege Nostro," is likewise a delightful and enthralling story. It reminds one of the best fictions which have appeared in this magazine. The characters are cleverly grouped, the incidents vividly coloured, and the plot ingeniously constructed. Although we are by no means inclined to agree with the writer of the paper on the " Romantic Drama," in his admiration for the old unities, we must nevertheless confess that his arguments in favour of a revival of those unities, as a means of reviving a love for dramatic entertainments, are singularly striking, and deserve a trial. "My College Friends," is the fourth continuation of an agreeable series, and one which promises an unlimited source of entertainment. The article suggested by Dr. Tschudi's " Peru," and the re view of M. Soyer's " Gastronomic Regenerator," are conceived in admirable spirit. They revive our re membrance of the pungent criticisms indulged in of yore by Maga, while they improve both our taste for litera ture and dietetics. With an assortment of papers thus varied, sparkling, and serious, Blackwood cannot fail to crease its popularity, and to perpetuate its supremacy. BENTLEY. We are delighted to meet with our old friends Mr. Ledbury and Jack Johnson in the present number. Mr. Ledbury revisits Paris and is ignominiously ex. pelted from his Lodgings." 'We have not the actua ignominious expulsion in the present number, although the following escapade of the wine-warmed Ledbury at the Chaumiare seems very likely to lead to his expulsion from the good city of Paris altogether. Mr. Ledbury determines to play the jeu de Bague, a game in which the player, seated on a wooden-horse in a roundabout, tilts with a small spear at some small rings. On one of these horses Mr. Ledbury mounts:— " For the first few rounds Air. Ledbury simply smiled at the company, politely bowing to them every time he came near them, like the little man at the evening party on the top of the organ, and then he kissed his hand, and waved his pocket-handkerchief, and finally, with the flourish of his spear, began to play, imitating martial music on a cornet. By some good luck or another, he carried off a ring or two, at which the students and grisettes who were looking at him, cheered. This was quite enough to drive him into any act of wildness: and, after a few more turns which did not im prove his steadiness, coming on the champagne, he formed a project of unequalled boldness. One of the garde was stand ing near the game, looking with folded arms and frowning brow, upon the players. As Titus came near him, he seized his helmet, and lifted it forcibly from his head, directly after wards putting it upon his own, to the intense astonishment of the soldier. " Any insult offered to the authorities is sure to be hailed with acclamation by the frequenters of the Claaumiere and a roar of delight burst forth. At this Mr. Ledbury was so excited, that by some marvellous exertions, he contrived to stand up in his stirrups, and would have got upon the horse itself, to have thrown himself into a tableau, had not the enraged functionary stopped the machine, and pulled the offender from his charger. The crowd pressed round, and tried to hustle him away, by pushing the grisettes, all in a heap against the guard; knowing that he would not attack them. Jack had sprung from his perch like lightning, and seeing their object, caught Ledbury by the collar, and dragged him actually through a party of gendarmes, who were coming to the scene of the row." This paper is illustrated with great spirit by Leech ; the other illustrations of the number ale illustrative to the continuation of Brian O'Linn (this tale increases in interest as it proceeds, and promises to be the chef d'cfuvre of Maxwell); and a beautiful little vignette of the caves of Dahra, and which serves as a headpiece to an article of Everard Clive, on military atrocities. Among the papers of permanent interest, we have a translation, by the Archbishop of Dublin, of a review of Dr. Nean der of the Memoirs of Dr. Arnold, which is full of deep theological learning, and a paper by E. V. Rip pingille on poor Haydon, which should be studied by all who are endeavouring to create a taste in this country for works of high art. Of light and amusing articles, we have an abundance. " The Lioness," for instance, is a capital story, capitally told ; and Paul Prendergast's "Last Days of a Bachelor," in the merriest manner imaginably . , inculcates an ex cellent mai. Ting Mrs, Mathews, in her Tea Table- talk, tells piquant anecdotes of the late Justice Parke, and of Miss Mellon, and of Theodore Hooke, and an annonymous contribution in "A First Evening in Na ples, and "La Fusta di Santa Brigida"—(we imagine both pa; ers proceed from the seine pen)—gives us some pleasant off-hand sketches of Neapolitan scenery and Neapolitan society. For some time past we have ob served a marked improvement in this periodical, and the present number more than sustains the character of its predecessors. FRASER'S. We are glad to perceive, from the commencement of the " political" article of Fraser for the present month, the more sensible of the protectionists—in fact the great majority of the party—accept, like sensible per sons, the establishment of free trade as "un fait accompli." " There is no employment more profitless, in public as well as in private life, than to look back upon misfortunes that are beyond remedy, and to complain of their occurrence. Peel's Corn Bill, whether for good or for evil, has become the law of the land. The great principle of free trade is estab lished as that onwhicla the commercial policy of this country must henceforth be conducted, and let its remote conse quences be what they may, there is no power in any quarter to avert them. We have taken a step in politics which does not admit of recall. Lovers of the Arcadian state of exist ence may mourn over this, hankerers aster feudalism com plain or threaten, and men of soberer jugdment than either doubt the wisdom of measures which bid fair to convert England, at no distant date, into a huge manufactory. But the impulse. having been fairly given, we may no more hope to stay the progress of events than to arrest the speed of the railway carriage, or the descent of the loosened rock into the lake. NVe are in the beginning c,f changes, of which it would puzzle the sharpest-sighted to foretell the end, and there is positively no help for it. "Entertaining these opinions, and heartily subscribing to the doctrine that ' the brave never repent,' we purpose for the future, as often as the projects of politicians make a de mand upon our attention, to look at them with a forward rather than with a backward glance, forgetting, as far as we are able, party feelings that have been engendered of old as sociations, and delivering our sentiments on men and things more with reference to the effects which they seem calculated to produce upon society hereafter, than in the idle purpose of trying them by the test of bygone arrangements." Of course, then, there will be some few impracticables who will repudiate the doctrine of Fraser, but we be lieve that he speaks the sentiments of all, but the most minute fraction of his party; and, believing that, we re joice at the determination here expressed, to look for the future at political matters rather with a forward than a backward glance. The paper is entitled " Will the Whig Government stand?" and the writer answers the ques tion in the negative. The fact, however, that the ex pectations of the writer have already been falsified would seem to show that the writer has been somewhat hasty in making his calculations. The writer of the series of " Contemporary Orators," takes as his subjects. Mr. C. Wood, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. Hawse, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Ward. His sketches of Milner Gibson and Ward are highly graphic. He does ample justice to the talents of Mr. Hawes, who has always been, in our opinion, an under-rated man ; and he passes a high, but teost de served, eulogium on Mr. Wyse. With regard to Mr. Charles Wood, the writer considers that he will turn out the least efficient Member of the Administration, and that he will prove a foil even to Mr. Goulburn. There a another political article in this month's Fraser, de voted to the praise of the aristocracy, in which the writer sets about gravely to argue that the aristocracy of rank in England is also the arisctocracy of talent. Of I the manner in which the writer makes out his case, take the following as a specimen : " It was a review, in fact, of the late struggle against the corn-laws that suggested this article; for it proved most in contestably that, with the exception of those two remarkable men,• Richard Cobden and Robert Peel, the overwhelming superiority of talent lay, on either side of the question, with members of the aristocratic body." The writer should have carried his exceptions to a much greater extent to make out his case, for unless he includes among his exceptions such men as Sir James Graham, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Disraeli, he will not have a leg to stand upon; and once admit exceptions to be made in this manner, there is no propo sition, however absurd, which may not be demonstrated. The literary contents of this number are excellent. We have an admirable philosophical analysis of the life and writings of John Foster, the essayist—a continuation of the series on the " Manners, Traditions, and Superstitions of the Shetlanders "—a Celtic story entitled, " Red Finlay of the Deer "—a plea sant gossiping paper about Hampton Court—a most amusing jeu d'esprit, entitled, " Proposals for a continua tion of Ivanhoe," in a letter to Alexandre Dumas, by Mon. Michael Angelo Titmarsh, and a variety of other amusing articles. TAIT'S. Unusual merit characterises ithis magazine—a ma gazine, by the way, always meritorious in some degree or other. The principal feature, perhaps, in this number is, the amount of sterling information conveyed in a most popular and agreeable manner. Elizabeth Thorn ton continues her excellent romance of "Truth and Falsehood ;" and, if the succeeding chapters are only equal to the elventh, twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth, her present fiction will unquestionably obtain a much larger circulation than either the " Marchioness " or "Lady Alice." This authoress succeeds best, we con ceive, in her delineation of the emotions of her fic titious characters in situations of excitement ; here her writings are invested with a very charming, and some times a very touching delicacy ; in evidence of which we would adduce the description of the scene between Herman and Lady Felsenburg, when the former dis covers that Bette is his sister. " The Catholic Doctrine of Music" is an admirable paper, and will afford gratifi cation to all truthful lovers of the " divine art." Some of the reflections are remarkable for their sagacity. The notice of " Mary, Queen of Scots," and the continuation of the anal:, sis of Ulrici's recent criticism upon the dramatic art of Shakspere, are both of them elaborate compositions. It is a singular w ee fact that while a Frenchman was the first - to attract the attention of the learned to the supreme genius of our wonderful countryman, the Germans have displayed the most peculiar capacity for analysing his productions. Indeed the commentaries of William Au gustus Schlegel may be regarded as the noblest tribute ever paid to the glory of this divine teacher of humanity. There is more subtlety in his elucidations, more ardour in his panygerics, more appositeness in his illustrations, more indications of capacity in his " Lectures," than in all the commentaries upon the same poet that have ever proceeded from the press of any nation—from Voltaire to Ayscough, from Malone to Collier. We say this, moreover, not in depreciation of the latter, but in all justice and,candour towards the renowned German. In the disquisitions which he has produced upon the dramatic genius of Sophocles, lEschylus, Aristophanes, Calderon, Racine, Cervantes, Corneille, Moliere, and especially of Shakspere, Schlegel has displayed a noble affinity in his intellect for theirs; in crowning others with, what we may be allowed to term, the chaplet of eulogistic criticism, he has endued his own name with a reflex of their glory. It is frivolous to imagine that too many books can be written in exposition of such works as those of him who wrote " not for an age, but for all time." Every perusal of such works discloses some hitherto unrecognised beauty ; every mind, especially if remarkable for astuteness, appre-2iateb some meaning which would never have presented itself to another dif ferently constituted, and hence the interchange of thoughts between such minds; and the collation of those innumerable perusals cannot but tend to divulge more excellencies than could otherwise superficially present themselves. The advantage of commentaries on a by gone author is tantamount to the dissections made upon a corpse. The veins and nerves, which are concealed 1 under the surface, are then displayed by the skilful touches of the dissector's knife. The veins and ramifica tions of thought in literature are disclosed in a precisely analogous manner by the penetrant survey of the com mentator; with this advantage, however, that the dissec tions of the latter cannot mutilate or injure. For these reasons, we are always prepared to welcome any fresh illustrations upon the plays of Shakspere, provided they possess the characteristic of novelty. If collected together, the folios, and quartos, and essays and pamphlets, directly or indirectly relating to Shakspere would form a gigantic and splendid library : Ul rici has just added another volume to the collection ; and still there is room for more. A perfect edition, and a perfect biography of this poet have yet to appear, and this despite the industry of Mr. Payne Collier, the costly labours of Mr. Blondell, and the enthusiasm of Mr. Charles Knight. "An Even ing's Adventure at a Country Inn," is a comical conceit, and the pourtraiture of the resurrectionist with a nose " much reiembling the toe of a crab in formation ; the colour rich, rare, burnished red," and with a complexion which appeared " as if the outer skin had been peeled off, and the under cuticle suddenly frozen, so red was it; — not the redness of health, but an unearthly, dark, crim son hue, like a stain of blood on a towel," is ludicrous though extravagant. We are greatly pleased to observe, that while Tait acknowledges the real talent of M. Michelet, the bigotry of his recent productions on the People and Jesuits, meets with a severe and deserved castigation. As usual the literary notices in this Maga zine are copious and discriminating : the one on poor Haydon's last performance " Lectures on Painting and Design" will be perused with singular interest. Among several choice pieces of verse, scattered between the prose contributions, the translation of Freiligrath's " Revenge'of the Flowers" must be particularised for its fantastic notion and its dainty imageries. The emerging of the elfin phantoms from the petals of the different blossoms is beautifully described : "From the flower-bells, gently sweeping, Come three spirits robed in air; Shields they bear with light emblazoned, Crowns amid their flowing hair. Starts a tall and graceful maiden From the rose's purple lap ; Pearls upon her forehead glisten, Waving curls her bosom wrap. From the ' Iron-Casque' up-springeth, Girt with sword, a valiant knight; From his helm, a heron's feather Pending, long and silver bright. From the ' Turkish turban,' stalking Proudly comes a Moorish king; With the half-moon's golden crescent On his turban glistening." In reviewing the "Politics of the Month," Tait evinces its general impartiality, though we cannot but regard its strictures upon the new Administration as rather super cilious and unflattering. Its indignant remonstrances at the injustice of the Irish Church Establishment are likely to impress the public mind forcibly, and to drive the popular opihion in the right direction. They, there fore afford us very considerable pleasure. Timo and events will place Lord John Russell and his colleagues in their true light. Till the policy of their government be further developed by acts, we shall continue, like Tait, expectant and sanguine. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Dr. Coulter's "Adventuresin the Pacific," and Her man Melville's Residence in the Marquesas Islands" (of which latter we ourselves have already given a !fa vourable notice), have suggested a theme to one of the contributors of the Dublin University, which he has treated in a capital article, leading off the Au gust number. The delineations of an uncommon race of beings in a distant quarter of the globe ; the account of their domestic manners, of their recreations, their religious ceremonies, disposition, features, language, dress, and general character, is always a subject of the utmost fascination; but that fascination is infinitely en hanced when the narrator writes in a good-humoured and agreeable strain. Such is the case in the specimen before us, and the reviewer has rendered his composi tion equal in attractiveness to a passage of romance. In the subsequent pages of the magazine, however, we are presented with veritable pieces of fiction, among others, the continuation of Mr. Carleton's vivid tale of an "Irish Famine," and "Signor Formica," a pleasant fiction, in four chapters. Now that the French metropolis is in an unusual state of animation from the elections, and from the recent attempt upon the King's life by Henri, the paper entitled " Paris in 1846 " will be devoured with an appetite. Nor has the recent recurrence of the July jubilations detracted from the interest with which any thing relating to that brilliant city will be regarded. With no city in the world, perhaps, are associated more reminiscences of glory and shame than Paris—the glory of Charlemange, Henri IV., k Grand Roi, and Napo leon ; the glory of the Champ *de Mai and 1830 ; the shame of its double capitulations, and the devilries per petrated in its precincts during the Reign of Terror. Paris is indeed tesselated with grandeur and meanness, and the writer of this article has felt this whilst penning his lucubrations. "Stray Leaflets from the Oak of German Poetry"—alway's right welcome—are this month peculiarly, so. Some of the verses are inimitable. We cannot refrain from quoting a very elegant sonnet, addressed to Sir E. Butwer Lytton, by Kenealy, and we do so the more readily, as they are a favourable speci- • men of the poetry , admitted into the magazine " Like the young Moon, when down from Heaven she came, To court the slumbering Shepherd, as he lay Nooked in a dell amid the Latmian hills, Filling the spot with an ambrosial flame Of light ethereal from her silver ray— So to thy soul comes genius from the skies, And such immortal splendours there instills As charm the young, and glad the old and wise. O Venus-souPd—Historian—Minstrel—Sege— Weaver of dreams of light from olden lore — How shall I thank thee for the enchanted hours Passed with thy spirit o'er the golden page? So Plato mus'd—so Shakspere wrote of yore— So dreamed of love, Rousseau, 'mid Clarens' lakes and bow'rs.' " Political Prospects" is a marvellously sombre and long-winded lamentation on the hopeless position of national affairs. The Dublin University might have saved itself the trouble of writing such unnecessary expressions of grief. It will meet with few sympathies, either in its indignation with Sir Robert or its melancholy forebod ings as to the Russell Cabinet. Its intolerant spirit, moreover, :is here and there developed in a manner ab solutely ludicrous. It scorns the May nooth grant, as another " attempt to give to Popery an ascendancy" in Ireland, as if Popery was not already in the ascendant among a people more than eight-tenths of whom number themselves in the pale of that church! Again, it speaks of Popery being "aggrandised in Ireland" by that same grant. As well might we talk of a pauper at the street corner being aggrandised by the gift of a few halfpence! The literary portion of the magazine is, however, of ex ceeding merit. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE. Two capital conceits form the illustrations of the August number, " Success to the Secret," and " The Compliments of the Season"—the said compliments being nothing less than a brace of grouse painted by Han cock. Surely such compliments are ever welcome, like the cup of sack dispatched per Bardolph to Sir John Falstaff. There are some rare articles too in the Sporting Magazine, such as would prompt the hermit of Vauxhall, himself, to induct his lower extre mities into buckskins and tops, and to sport " pink " one day in the week at the least. " The Sportsman's Dressing Room" for the nonce, would give even the dispeptic a longing for an amble over the stubble. John Mills continues his "Life of a Foxhound" with excel lent spirit ; there is a freshness and originality about the second chapter quite exhilirating. Who will discredit the notion of dogs having a language of their own, after reading the conversation between Ringwood, the hero, and Trimbush, the old adept in the chase? Who would not carol with Linton? — The moors! tie moors! the joyous moors! When autumn displays her golden stores — When the morning's breath Blows across the heath, On the mountain-side, 'Es gladness to ride, At the peep of dawn o'er the dewy moors! At this iniatory season, when the young sportsman, like Aurora, in Shakspere, "stands tiptoe on the misty mountain's top" with expectation, this magazine will prove a welcome instructor, and we will engage that the aspirant will not find hie tutor in the smallest degree churlish or superficial. The number is in most respects seasonable and. clever. MONTHLY PRIZE ESSAYS. What has attracted our especial perusal in this second number of a new adventurer among the periodical literature is an essay upon " The Works of Charles Dickens." We have read it very carefully, and are forced to pronounce it most egregiously flippant : it is the very coxeombry of criticism. First of all, it is merely a trifle beyond nine pages, and the possibility of analysing the works of such a writer as Dickens, in nine pages, appears to us about as reasonable as the compression of the Iliad into a nutshell. Secondly, the writer assails the writings of Dickens as being of a decidedly immoral tendency, and if that be not the very prudery of literary squeamishness, then Archer's Sermons are only fitted for the shop-windows of Holywell `. Thirdly, the writer throws himself into a violent fit of excitement and indignation at the dinner of tripe devoured by poor Trotty Veck upon the door step of Mr. Alderman Cute ; " Delicacy," says he, " would have prompted us to turn away till the old man had finished his dinner 1" Fourthly, Dickens is called something little short of an advocate for Drunkenness, from such circumstances as that of Dick Swiveller moistening his clay till it becomes of a slippery and uncertain consistency I Fifthly, Miss Haredale and Dolly Varden are discovered to be identical characters: and so on "to the end of the chapter." We will not insist upon the arrogance of such opinions, or of their moral absurdity they are their own counterpoise. In a rather grandiloquent piece of metre, called " The Dead and the Dying," there is this solemn expression, of an angry spirit:— " Slapping round mine ears Those cursed wings 1" &c. in other words, actually boxing his ear! The other contributions are, however, in a great measure devoid of these blemishes, and if the publicatien be judiciously supervised it will prosper. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEXIN.GI-, AUGUST 3, 1 lenity. Several reviews fill up the remaining pages of Dolman for August ; —the one on Mrs. Bray is, in our opinion, amazingly good-natured. We have seen many a criticism on infinitely better writers penned in Linguage not !;alf so eulogistic, and judicions criticisms too This, however, is generous weakness after all ; and if the proverbial ffigidity of the critic is wanting, the elegance of the sche!ar is apparent. The talent of this magazine has mellowed in the year and a half which has now elapsed since its commencement, and it is as large in promise as ever. THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. We are glad to see a letter quoted here, from the Mar! Lane Express, in which the writer says "Sir Hobert Peel has conferred a great boon upon the coun try by a repeal of the corn-laws :—I cannot believe Sir H. Peel would have consented to remain in the House of Commons to assist in carrying out other commercial reforms, if he had not the good of his country at heart, and more particularly so atter having submitted to the most insolent and degrading language that ever fell from the lips of man." The mere admission of such sentences into a professedly agricultural periodical is a point gained in favour of justice and fair-play, which latter, t,s everybody knows, is a jewel. It is satisfac tory also to observe a very great modification in the reprehensive language employed against the obnoxious freedom of importation to foreign grain. Though a considerable reduction is declared to have taken place recently in the prices of grain the Farmer's Magazine acknowledges that "it bould be unfair " to attribute that reduction altogether to the Parliamentary realisa tion of Free Trude. We welcome this spirit of con cession cordially, and expect before very long to find the Protectionists among the warmest admirers of the late League. " Wonders will never cease." The Farmer's Magazine for August is commendable. MR.O'CONNELL'S REPLY TO THE lION. C. LAWLESS. British Hotel, jermyn-street, July 28, 1846. My dear Sir,—Meaning you, of course, no kind of dis respect, yet I cannot avoid saying that I was sincerely sorry at receiving your letter of the 18th instant. lam still more sorry that you thought it right to publish that letter, be cause it necessarily imposes upon me the painful act of a public reply,. You are—it need not be said—entitled to every kind of courtesy in manner and in expression, as well as in substance. Nobody can be less inclined than I am to stint or limit that courtesy, but I am bound to tell you the whole truth, and not conceal from you any of the sentiments, however grievous to me, that your letter has excited. Addressing you, therefore, with entire civility, and, at the same time, with perfect candour, I am reduced to the un pleasant necessity of telling you that your letter tills me with anxious fears that Ireland has little to expect from any exertion of yours. I say this, because in bitter sorrow I perceive how trivial the pretext is upon which you decline joining. in the struggle for Irish nationality. Yet how glorious is that cause—how glorious is the strug gle for elevating one's native land from provincial degrada tion to legislative independence! Ireland once had a Parliament of her own. The unsuspi cious testimony of the late Lord Clare, and of Mr. Pitt, prove the extent and rapidity of the improvement of Ireland from the period of the independence of her Parliament until the fatal day of the Union. Ireland was deprived of that Parliament by the foulest means by which liberty was ever struck down—fraud and • corruption, and brute force. How is it possible that you cannot discover the indignity offered to your native land, and to yourself personally, by the practical assertion, as a matter of fact, that Englishmen and Scotchmen are fitter to legislate for Ireland than are the Irish to make laws for themselves? Let me now bring you to the pretext under which you de cline to join us. Your woids are : "Lord Milltown suggested the formation of an Irish party to assist the Ministry, if willing to do justice to Ireland. You state in your reply that the repealers are determined to do so. This, my dear sir, is the very point I should wish to see proved, for a doubt of this has alone prevented my joining the A ssociation." Thus, you refuse to join the Association because you doubt whether I and my fellow-repealers are determined to assist the Ministry in doing justice to Ireland. How can you doubt it? I, who take a leading part in the Association, stated that fact to you as one within my own knowledge, and one that I was, and am, perfectly ready to realise by my conduct. I am here to assist the Ministry in doing justice to Ireland. Every other repeal Member who shall be elected must avow his readiness to attend, to assist the Ministry in doing justice to Ireland. It is not possible, I think, for any man reason ably to doubt the sincerity with which we repealers declare and exhibit our determination to assist the present Ministry to do justice to Ireland. Upon your own showing, therefore, we are entitled to your joining us immediately. But you have an excuse—you allege a fact—you refuse to join the Association for the following reason :—You allege that Mr. Sheil is a man of powerful talent—a statement which everybody must admit—you allege that it was with difficulty that I prevented his being opposed in his election for Dungarvan. Such is your excuse for not being a member of the Asse ciation. I mean no disrespect whatsoever when I sad•, there never was a more futile excuse for neglecting a great national UULY In the first place, let us dispose of the fact, and that the more readily because it is infinitely more strong in favour of your excuse than your own statement—the truth being that I went to Ireland, not to prevent Mr. Shell being opposed in his election, but to assist in having him opposed by a re pealer—if he could be so opposed with a reasonable prospect of success. Take the dates. On Friday the writ for Dungarvan was moved for; on Saturday I started for Liverpool, and on Sun day night went across to attend the Association on Monday, at•cne o'clock. Monday came, and I attended the Association, but no in fimnatioa reached us during the day of any movement in Dungarvan, or of any candidate in the repeal interest. I therefore moved that the matter should be referred to the committee. _ _ . Tuesday came, and for the first time we had a communica tion from Dungarvan, stating that the election was to take place the ensuing Saturday, leaving only an interval of three days, and also informing me that the repeaters of Dun garvan were divided, many of them being of opinion that there ought not to be a contest with so little time to pre pare; and several repealers—among whom were some of the most influential—having already promised to the agent of Mr. Sheil their votes for that election. Thursday—the committee-day—arrived, and there was no further information about Dungarvan. We of the committee examined strictly and minutely the list of the voters of Dungarvan, and we were of opinion, with the exception of one or two, that there was not the least prospect of success fully opposing Mr. Sheil at the election, which was to take place the next day but one. Some few there were who thought that Dungarvan ought to be contested at all events, even with the certainty of de feat. The majority of the committee were of opinion, as so was I, that such a course would be vexatious and unbe coming, and it was not adopted. Thus, therefore, if there be anything in your argument, it is strengthened, not weakened, by the determination of the repealers--a determination which I coincide in, to sub stitute a repealer for Mr. Sheil, if that were practicable. Its impracticability is manifest, there being from the time the committee met but one day between us and the election. Thus I meet your excuse in front. I take the bull by the horns. I admit that all the repeaters desire to have a re pealer returned for Dungarvan instead of Mr. Shell. Now, I do most respectfully implore of you to consider the amount of the objection which you raised against joining the national cause. It is just this—because the repeaters should prefer a repealer to Mr. Sheil as a Member for Dungarvan. Recollect, also, I pray you, that if a repealer had been re turned in Mr. Shell's place, that repealer would also join with me in assisting the Government (just what you desire) to do justice to Ireland. I know full; well how little chance there is to convince a public man by a public letter; and yet I do not see how you can resist joining the Association, at least without abandon ing your professed principle of action. You say you would join the Association if we were ready to assist the Government in doing justice to Ireland. We are ready—most ready to assist the Government in that great work. 'Why do you not at once determine to assist us? There never was, and there never will be, a period at which your presence in the Association would do so much good— it would repair the unhappy feud which the physical force men have created in the Association—it would restore us all to agitation by peaceable means alone. You could, as a matter of course—Lord Cloncurry's son could, as a matter of course—command a repealer's seat in Parliament. I urge this upon ycu, as that seat would give you an op portunity of judging of the perfect sincerity of (I use your own words) " our hearty co-operation with the present Go vernment in all the acts of atonement which Lord John Russell has held out to us." I have the honour to be, very respectfully, my dear Sir, your faithful and sincere servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. THE FALL OF RAxx.--During the storm of Satur day a depth of rain equal to four and a half inches fell, and yester day morning there was an additional half inch of rain, making the total depth of five inches. As the average depth of rain In a year in the neighbourhood of London does not much exceed twenty inches, we have had nearly the quantity of three months fall of rain within twenty-four hours. FOOTPATHS STOPPED BY A RAILWAY.-011 Saturday an investigation took place before the magistrates at Richmond, rela tive to an alleged infringement of private and public rights by the Richmond Railway Company. Mr. Spence, an inhabitant of Mort lake, stated that the company had erected a wooden bridge, with high steps to it, leading to the church, which bridge was a nuisance to every one, but was particularly unpleasant to ladies, from the ab sence of side-boards, or bannisters. lie also said the old road had been fenced, and made private property. Several other inhabitants complained of the infringement, which, they stated, kept them from entering their own property in the manner they had been accustomed to. The chairman said he was sorry he could not interfere, as the Railway Act was worded in a particular manner, but he thought they might get redress in one of the superior Courts if they would incur the expense. BOROUGH AND COUNTY VOTERS.—On Saturday, the lists of voters entitled to vote for boroughs and cities, as also those who claim to vote for counties, for Members of Parliament for the several borough cities and divisions of counties in England and Wales, were posted on the doors of the churches and chapels in each parish, signed by the respective overseers of such parishes, and are to continue so posted until the 15th of August, under the provisions of the Registration of Voters' Act. By the Gth of Victoria, cap. 18, sec. 25, any persons wilfully damaging, defacing, or altering such lists, are liable to a penalty of 40s. All persons entitled to vote, or who have claimed to vote in respect of occupation or property within such parish, should therefore examine such lists, and see that their names and places of abode are correctly described therein, so as to entitle them to vote at any ensuing election. CHATHAM, AUG. I.—This morning at seven o'clock eight detachments, selected from the provisional battalion assembled on the parade ground, to the number of 325 men of the following corps, Bth Foot, 17th, 22d, 28th, 60th, Ist battalion of Rifles, BGth, 25th, King's Own Borderers, and 78th Highlanders, and after being inspected each man was provided with the articles of war ; they were then marched off the ground en route for Gravesend, attended by the drums and fifes of the provisional battalion, for embarkation on beard the ship Ann for Bombay and Cananore. The troops on leaving the barracks were cheered by their comrades assembled to witness their departure. Seven officers embarked with the above, also ten men belonging to the 10th Hussars (the Prince of Wales's Own) from the cavalry depot at Maidstone. Captain James Knox is in command of the ship. CRICKET. KENT V. SUSSEX. This match was brought to a conclusion on Saturday, when the result was 84 runs In favour of Kent. ETON v. HARROW.—This match was resumed on Saturday, and, as was to be anticipated from the disproportion in the two elevens, brought to a conclusion in favour of Eton. The Han. rowians were beaten in one innings by 135 runs. ACCIDENT THROUGH THE BURSTING OF A CANNON. —On Friday afternoon th e Mercers' Company made an excursion to Richmond, and when off the Wandsworth Distillery were saluted by firing some small cannon. One of them burst, inflicting such in jury on William Goodge, the man who fired it, as to deprive his friends of all hope of his ultimate recovery. His nose was lite rally cut off, and he received several severe scalp wounds. He was taken, in a state of great agony, to St. George's Hospital. According to letters from Rome, his Highness the I'ope intends shortly to RAU a tour through the provinces of the itonutti tisAtedi. DOLMAN'S. A pleasing description is given by Mr. Jerningham of " the once-in •a• hundred-years Jubilee of Liege." And as this jubilee occurs but once every century, being, in that respect, according to the editor's happy phrase, "like the bloom of the aloe-tree," we f.incy Dolman could scarcely have commenced with a paper more pe culiarly palatable to its readers. The immense multi tude of pilgrims (as we may term them) present, the splendour of the ceremonies, the variety of the cos tumes,_ and the eminent men, who are there assembled together from all quarters of the earth, must render the occasion in the highest degree impressive, and must, for the time, altogether fill the imagination. " Loiterings in the Channel Isles in 1845," are delightful notes of an excursion to Jersey, Guernsey, and Sark. For the gra tification of such among our readers, as may be tempted to take a similar trip, we transcribe one paragraph : "It has occurred to me that the followinf, list of expenses might be useful, as showing the trifling cost of a month's visit to these interesting islands :—Fare from Southampton to Jersey (fifteen hours), 11. Is. ; expenses on board, 6s. ; board and lodging at Bree's, Bath-street, for a fortnight, at 11.55. weekly, including servants, 21. 10s. ; a pint of Port daily, at ls. 6d., 11.1 s. ; a bottle of Cognac, Is. 6d. ; fare to Guernsey, ss. ; a week's board there, li. Bs. ; a pint of Port daily, 10s. 6d. ; bottle of Cognac, Is. 6d. ; fare to Sark and back, in a fishing boat, 25.; two days at Sark, 10s.; porterage throughout, ss. ; cigars, 10s. 6d—Total expenses, 101." Our loiterer has a very agreeable way of depicting the panorama of scenery, and personages encountered on his journey. His staff is a steady one, and points out the most interesting features of those Anglo-Gallio islands: his scrip—is mere valuable, we opine, than that apper taining to the majority of railways. The poetry inserted in this magazine is almost always of a higher order than is usual in periodicals. In proof of this we would transcribe " The Dumb Girl's Warning" but for its length. Here, however, are three most delicious stanzas, signed with the initials E. E. M. K., and are admirably suited fur music:— , e I LOVED HER. "I loved her when her girlish face, With smiles and blushes rife, First sunn'd with its all-matchless grace My else unenvied life; When from her young heart's secrecy, As saints ascend the skies, The telltale truths resistlessly Would haunt her timid eyes. " I loved her when the festal throng Her joyous laughter woke; Some hidden rill the flow'rs among, Less sweetness would evoke: And later, when the passive shade, Of thought her features wore,—..A twilight's wealth o'er summer glade! Still dearer than before. "I loved her when my plighted bride, — Half fear, half tenderness_ We dared the tempest to divide . - Our hearts' deep trustfulness: • But now, when years and constancy Have proved her faithful v ow _ The tendril to the guardian tree— Oh ! most I love her now 1" Galileo has presented a noble subject for the author of the " Vicissitudes of Illustrious Men," and in evidence direct er attention esti n g and to earnest paper, particularlyomf.etwheoueldxcellenceofpaper, dilating upon the proofs of the existence of a Deity as t this interest i ng exemplified by the mechanism of the celestial bodies; the description of Galileo looking from his chamber at Padua into a night sky; and the scene between the great astronomer and the poet Milton, near Florence. " A Sound of Home" is, to our thinking, a beautiful fragment: the writer, we would wa ger , h as a warm heart. The Rev. C.Plowden's " Memoirs of the Jesuits in Russia" is continued, and will, as a matter of course, prove attractive to all Roman Catholic readers. There is also a paper upon " Pope Pius 1X.," which will be welcomed by the same section: we observe that the writer speaks in very eulogistic terms of Pius. The amnesty recently published appears to have rendered the present Pontiff a most popular sovereign. We hope he will continue the same system of gradeful and spontaneous REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON VOTES OF ELECTORS. The following report has been delivered among the Parliamentary papers printed by order of the House of Commons : The Select Committee appo!nted to inquire into the alleged facilities afforded to vexatious and fraudulent objections and fraudulent claims by the present system of registration of county voters for Members of Parlia ment ; and to whom several petitions, alleging the ex istence of an organised and extensive system of fraudu lent and vexatious objections to the votes of duly quali fied doctors, were referred ; and who were empowered to report their observations and opinion thereupon from time to time to the House ; have agreed to the following report : In pursuing the inquiry committed to their charge, your Committee . have found it their fir s t duty to go into the matter of the several petitions referred to them, com phiining of abuses in the way of objecting to country voters alleged to have been vexatiously raised by the Anti-Corn-law League ; and f or thi s p ur p ose th e y h ave examined, besides several gentlemen who have acted as revising barristers, parties connected, on the one hand, with the counties from which the petitions emanated, to sub,tantiate the alleged grievance, and, on the other hand, with the Anti-Corn-law League, to explain the pro ceediogs complained of, their object, and the results. They have also gone, though with less fullness, into the other branch of the inquiry committed to them ; viz. the facilities for 'risking fraudulent claims, which the present system of registration may be supposed to afford ; and on this head, perhaps, it will be convenient at once to bring forward the few observations which your Committee have to offer. There is no doubt that, according to the law as it now stands, facilities do exist for creating votes, by a system of granting rent charges to the amount of 405., and of splitting up property into small freeholds of that value ; and such facilities have been taken advantage of by dif ferent parties, at different times, and in different deg' ees, for the purpose of increasing electoral influence through the means of individuals so put upon the register. In many cases, these new electors are in no other way con nected with the respective counties, and in some in stances, as in the case of rent-charges, they bear no share in the county burdens. It is held by the Courts that such divisions of pro perty, although made for the express purpose of multi plying voices in elections, are not within the meaning of the 7th and Bth William 111., c. 25, commonly called the Splitting Act ; but that a " conveyance made in comple tion of a bond fide contract of sale, where the money passes from the buyer to the seller, and the possession also from the seller to the buyer, and where there is no secret reservation on trust on the part of the seller, is not avoided by reason of the object or motive of the pur chaser and seller being to multiply voices at an election." In consequence of this decision, it has been suggested to your Committee, that it would be desirable to check the practice of splitting up tenements into many qualifica tions, which has, during the last two years, acquired a Hew extension, either by bringing it within the provisions of the Act of William 111., or by raising the qualification out of rent charges and freeholds, where the holder is not resident within the county or division of the county of which he claims to vote, from 40s. to 101. On this latter suggestion, being rather a question of general policy than properly belonging to the province of your Com mittee, they forbear from offering an opinion ; on the former a recommendation will be found in No. 2 of the Suggestions at the end of the report. Before, however, they quit this subject, they feel called upon to state, after a full investigation of the facts, that in the case of the numerous small freeholds of this nature which have been recently created under the influence of the Anti- Corn-law League, they have no reason to believe (although the freeholds were acquired avowedly for the purpose of obtaining votes for a particular object) that they have been paid for otherwise than out of the funds of the purchasers themselves. The League have, how ever, contributed to this object, by affording, in many Cases, the assistance of their agents to facilitate the ne gotiations and purchases ; for which purpose, also, the sums paid by persons desiring qualifications in various counties have been collected into accounts with certain bankers to the credit of certain agents of the Anti- Corn-law League. With regard to the power of making objections, which has mainly occupied the attention of your Committee, they think it will be convenient first to state the change which has been made in the law upon that subject by the recent Act for " Amending the Registration of Voters." Under the Reform Act the objector was to give notice of his objection to the person objected to, or he was to leave it at his place of abode, as described in the list, or he was to deliver it personally to the tenant in occupation of the premises. Under the present Act (6 and 7 Vict. c. 18.) the objector is to give the notice of objection to the person objected to, or ha is to leave it at his place of abode, as described by the list ; and when ever his place of abode is not in the parish or township to which such list relates, be is also to give or leave a duplicate notice at the residence of the occupying tenant. The most material alteration, however, made by the re cent Act is, that the production of a duplicate, stamped by the postmaster, of the notice of any of these objec tions, is made conclusive evidence of the service of the notice. , An alleged abuse arising out of this new facility o proving the service of objections, is one of the prilacipti grounds of complaint. It is alleged that, taking ad vantage of this provision, the agents of the Anti-Corn law League posted at Manchester on the 22d, 23d, and 24th of August last, but mostly on the 24th, the last day permitted by the law, many thousand notices of objection (the Postmaster at Manchester states them, including duplicate notices to overseers and occupying tenants, at upwards of 23,000), principally directed against voters for North Warwickshire, North and South Cheshire, North Staffordshire, South Lancaster, East Gloucestershire and Buckinghamshire ; so late, and in such numbers, that the Postmaster was not able to dispatch them for several days suc cessively ; and that a very large proportion of such notices consequently did not reach their desti nation till long after the time contemplated by the law—in some cases after the day appointed by the Act for the overseers to notify publicly the objections made. It is alleged that these notices were in a very large pro portion, directed against persons of undoubted qualifica tion, men of large property in houses and land within the respective districts, tenants of large farms, and other persons of that description, on the chance, as they ima gine, of such parties, or some of them, not appearing to defend, and thus losing their votes ; that in fact a large number of unquestionable votes was thus struck off for want of such appearance, the parties objected to being in many cases prevented from attending by remoteness of residence, illness, business, unwillingness to lose their time, or, as in some cases, on the conviction that the notices which had been delivered be yond the time appointed by the law were informal ; and it is also stated that a very small proportion of such objections proved on examination to be valid ; while the redress intended to be provided for such cases by the late Registration Act, in the power conferred on revising barristers to award costs, was withheld or re fused, except in a few instances; either because the ob jector having failed to sustain one objection, declined to attempt to sustain any more, and was thus enabled, ac cording to the interpretation put upon the Act , to with draw himself altogether from liability to costs, or else because some trifling amendment in the description was required in the opinion of the revising barrister; and that by reason of a rule generally laid down by revising barristers, that no costs shall ever be allowed when an amendment, however trifling, is admitted in the descrip tion, the claimant was in such cases precluded from ob taining compensation for his loss of time or the trouble imposed on him in sustaining his vote. Complaint is further made, that the agents of the League, in most cases, did not even attempt to sustain a serious objection, but confined themselves to raising some trifling objection as to the description, to shield them selves from costs, and it is also stated that, in the cases of South Cheshire and North Warwickshire, persons were selected as objectors, who, having notices so numerous to sign in so short a time that they could not get through them themselves, delegated that task, to a great extent, to others, who signed their names for them, and thus created many invalid notices ; the invalidity of which, when established, was held to be a reason for not giving costs to the voter who appeared to answer them, though, if he had not appeared, he would have lost his vote for non-appearance. Now, on this statement, the main points, which appear to be disputed by tho other party, are not as to the number of objections served, nor that a large proportion of them were served on parties of undoubted qualifica tions. The numbers stated by the chairman of the League, when analysed, will be found to vary in no material degree from those of the complainants. The main difference is in the proportion claimed as suc cessful, and in the inference to be consequently drawn from such proportion, as to the vexatious or justifiable use which shall be held to have been made by the League of the opportunities of objection offered by the law. On this point the conclusions drawn by the respective parties do materially differ ; and on neither side is such evidence adduced as can lead to a very accurate conclusion. The details of what takes place in the revising barristers' courts are not matter of official record, and the best information to be gained re specting them is, in most cases, derived from im perfect recollection, or from the notes of the contending parties taken hastily on the spot, and communicated, possibly with some exaggeration, to the party papers in the respective counties. Besides which, a different esti mate of success will always be taken as an evidence of justification by different contend in g parties. The Chairman of the League claims on his side as suc cessful all ojections which terminated either in amending the description of a vote or in expunging a name ; whether, in the latter case, the name was expunged upon an investigation of the qualifications, or by reason of the non-appearance of the voter ; whether the name had been already struck out, or the description amended, at the instance of the overseer, or whether the alteration was solely due to the interposition of the League. On the other hand, the complainants admit to the credit of the League only those cases in which a really bad vote was struck off upon the hearing of the case, and where, but for the interference of the agent of the League, the vote would not have been struck off. One party conceives itself entitled to serve notices upon every voter, in the description of whose claim the smallest error can be discovered, and maintains its right to do so, not only on grounds of strict law, but also as acting in the spirit of the law, and as the only means by which such accuracy of description can be secured as will provide a pure register, and enable parties to examine into the real sufficiency of the qualification. The other party mainly looks at the hardship of ex posing the voter to the chance of being compelled to prove his vote, however undoubted, year by year, and of obliging him to come up to the Court of Revision, at what ever distance he may be residing, and at whatever inconvenience, frequently when the cause i,,9 trivial omis- sion or a technical error ; and that at no real peril o g T N cos 's to the objector, who m a y on ly a tt em pt t o sustain "-' lis objection against the parties not appearing, .• i . ...Tl - il s -r " - -' -1.- ' . w h m it is evident he runs no risk, for if they ti e ': w e s :.- ,, -- --4 -- ---- appear he is certain of success, and if they do -='•`-‘ f'-'' , C...;f:01: , he withdraws his objection. •) - -,:-.-•: , •74 , • t According to the different views of this subjec kit.".. may be taken, different conclusions will, of cou - -:Ve'• , :.., :--, drawn as to the proportion of the objections ma fiji",-:::;'...-- the League which were really very vexatious, or 'v.-I f .': A k far the League were justified, upon the whole, in 4 044 general tenor of their course in this respect by the reasons assigned. The investigation, however, fully establishes the fact, that udder the law, as it now stands,. the bond fide voter is exposed to the possibility of such vexation and annoyance, that he might easily be deterred from coming forward to support his vote, however well entitled to it, and that, practically speaking, he has neither protection nor redress. Under the circumstances, your Committee beg to offer the following suggestions, which they hope may prove to be a material improvement in the registration of voters, combining protection and encouragement to the bona fide voter with sufficient security for keeping the register pure and in a state of intelligible and accurate description. =;r ,'- `. SUGGESTIONS. 1. That the operation of the Act of 7th and Bth William 111., c. 25, s. 7, commonly called the Splitting Act, should be extended to all conveyances, grants, con tracts or holdings made or given by the same party out of the same tenement, for the purpose of " multiplying voices in an election," notwithstanding that such con veyances shall have been made bona fide, and the pur chase-money paid, and though the possession may be really transferred, without any secret reservation on trust for the seller. 2. That any person who has established his right to vote by sufficient proof to the satisfaction of the revising barrister may require him to write " Proved" against his name, and he shall then be entitled to the privileges conferred on a " proved registered voter;" but every per son intending to vote shall give notice to the overseer of his intention to do so, and the overseer shall enter against his name in the register or list of claimants the words " Claims to prove his vote ;" and any person on the re gister may at the time of revision object to such vote without previous notice. 3. That a claimant to be registered shall insert the post town of his place of abode in his notice of claim ; and that in all cases where the notice of objection is served by the post, the party objecting shall insert in the direc tion the post town stated in the notice of claim. 4. That the objector shall reside within the limits of the same polling district as that in which the party ob jected to claims to be registered. 5. That a double entry of the same name for a dif ferent qualification shall constitute a ground of ob jection. 6. That the party objecting shall be bound to state generally the nature of his objection (that is to say) ; that he objects under ono or more of these heads:-1. "On the merits of the qualification." 2. "On the ground of misdescription." 3. "On the ground of a double entry." 7. That if he objects on " the merits of the qualifica tion," he shall be confined to questions arising out of the third column. S. That if he objects " on the ground of misdescrip tion," he shah be allowed to point out any errors, omis sions, mistakes, or inaccuracies in the first, second, and fourth columns, or any mere verbal error in the third column; but he shall not be allowed, under that form of objection, to go into the merits or nature of the quali fication. 9. That on an objection on the ground of double entry only, he shall be confined to that head of objection. 10. That for each notice of objection to voters on the rt gister the party objecting shall deposit 2s. 6d. with the overseers of the parish in which the property is situated, to abide the event of the revising barrister's decision. 11. That any person, being a " proved registered voter," whose vote is objected to " on the merit of quali fication," shall be entitled, on establishing his vote a second time, to recover, as of right, the sum of 40s. from the party objecting, over and above the 2s. 6d. which the party objecting had deposited with the overseers. 12. That any person already on the register, other than a "proved registered voter," whose claim is objected to on the merits of qualification, shall be entitled, on establishing his vote, to recover the sum of 2s. ed , which the party objecting had deposited with the over seers, and such additional sum, not exceeding in the whole sum of 405., as the revising barrister, according to his discretion, shall think fit to award. 13. That where a party has only been objected to " on the ground of misdescription," and the revising bate ister has anything to add or to alter in his claim, he shall not be entitled to any casts whatever ; but where the revis ing barrister has nothing to add to or to alter in his claim, he shall be entitled to the 2s. 6d., which the party ob jecting bad deposited with the overseer, and also such additional sum, not exceeding the sum of 405., as the revising barrister, according to his discretion, shall think fit to au ard. 14. That a party objected to on the ground of misde scription, shall be at liberty to make a declaration of what he considers to be the proper description of his claim to vote, before a magistrate, who shall certify under his hand such declaration was made before him ; and on such declaration being produced at the revision, the revising barrister may, if the description appears to be sufficient, amend the claim, or allow the vote, without requiring any further evidence. 15. That the name cf a party objected to on the ground of double entry may be retained on the register for all or any of the qualifications on which he claims to vote ; but he shall be bound to elect at which polling place he inteeds to vote, and he shall not be permitted to vote elsewhere ; and wherever his name occurs on the register no entry shall be made against it to this effect. 16. That where a person is objected to on the ground of double entry, and the objection is sustained, no costs shall be given ; and the party objecting shall be entitled to recover back the 2s. 6d. which he had deposited with the overseers. 17. That in all other respects the power of the revising barrister as to giving costs shall remain as it is under the 46th section of the 6 and 7 Vic. c. 18, except that the amount which is not to be exceeded, shall be fixed at the sum of 40s. instead of the sum of 20s. 18. That in the list of the persons on the register, or claimants to be transferred to the clerk of the peace column nAct6 containing an theVicto ria,n ames of flBth, those p 9, persons sbew who claim to prove their vote ; and, in the list of persons objected to, to be transmitted under the same section, shall be aided columns specifying under which of the three heads of objections in suggestion No. 6 the parties are objected to ; and the clerk of the peace for each county shall, before the day of , file the same in alphabetical order, and retain them till produced to the revising barrister, open to the inspection of any regis tered voter. Your Committee wish, however, further to state their opinion, although they are not prepared to offer any , specific suggestion for the purpose, that, without alto gether depriving claimants or objectors of their respec tive rights as now enjoyed, it would be very desirable to render the registration a matter of official duty on the part of responsible and competent officers, to be employed in forming and correcting county registers. They cannot conclude without submitting to the House that the present mode of remunerating revising barristers appears to have led to or induced a greater hurry of business than is quite compatible with that minute and deliberate investigation which is necessary to ensure as much as possible a complete and clear and accurate register, and that some alteration in the present system of remunerating these officers would be desirable. ) PROTESTANTISM IN POLA/s:D. Count Valerian Krasinski, in continuation of his second lecture at Williss's rooms, on Saturday last, reviewed the history of Protestantism from the time when the successor of Stephen Batori, Sigismund 111., ascended the throne in 1586, glancing occasionally at the political events as they happened more or less to affect the subject under discussion, and adverting transitorily to the literary States of the na tion. Sigismund Vasa, the son of the King of Sweden, end rt the me% o f descended from the Jayellon dynasty, by his n , he sister of Sigismund Augustus, entered upon V. m a re i gn heresy f rom Poland; f all orty years' duration, d i n h r e a t l i n o n o s , t ha l i i l k e e d l and his measures, as far as their effect . can be gauged by the character of the Senate, entirely fulfilled the augur of the Pontiff; for that body which, in 1572, contained but two or y by to Po e p x e tilp ex at t e us th three Roman Catholics, at his death numbered nearly as many Protestants. Ilis policy was never to confer the offices of state, and never to bestow the crown lands, ex cept on those of the favourite sect. The comparative efficiency of this mode of conversion to Rome among the Polish no bility, led the lecturer to parallel this period in his nation's history with the times of James 11. of England, when Dryden, and many of less note with posterity, were induced to adopt the religion of the court ; an identity of effect, he said in circumstances less creditable to England, for there the peer age was hereditary, which in Poland depended on the pleasure of the court. Discontent and civil war soon fol lowed. In 1r,91 a riot broke out at Cracow, and the Protes tant church was burned to the ground. De Thou ascribes this to the instigation of the Jesuits, but the Roman Catholic wr iters say that it orig inated in a Scotch congregation, who, beginning to dispute upon matters of faith, ended with blows. The Jesuits were then-in possession of about 50 colleges and schools, and an annual income of 100,0001. The Eastern Church numbered within her pale the vast population of the south-stern provinces of Poland. Several attempts to b ea ring them under the dominion of Rome utterly failed, but continuing in their own faith, they were among the most loyal subjects of the Polish Crown. The civil power of the magistrate, which suffered during the reign of Sigismund 111., a weak king, never re covered that authority under his successors which could enable it to give effect to the measures of good government, or to defend the rights of the citizens against the encroach ment or the insult of party; consequently, the weak were under the necessity of yielding to the strong, and the ad , herents of Rome wielded their power with a harsh hand over the diminished numbers of the Protestants. DEATH OF THE COUNT DE ST. LEU.—A letter from Leghorn, of the 25th ult., announces as follows the death of the ex- King of Holland, father of Prince Louis :—"Count de St. Leo, Prince Louis Iluonaparte , died here this day of a fit of apoplexy, with which he was attacked yesterday. From the moment of the attack he re mained in a complete state of letkargy, nud expired this morning without a struggle. He was in the sixty-eighth year of his age, The prince had been paralytic for several years, and lived a very retired life. lie kept himsel: entirely free from all political intrigues, and supported all the vicissitudes of fortune wit h a rare rcsignation. and dignity. He had no one with him at the moment of his death but a young man, whom be had brought up, and who never quitted him. An express was immediately sent off to Florence with the news for his brother the Prince de Montfort, the ex-King of West phalia, aged 62, who is the last survivor of all Napoleon's brothers. The deceased Prince has left but a very small fortune, not exceeding, it is believed, 50,000 or 60,000 francs a-year. By his will he expresses, a wish to be buried at St. Leu, in France. This wish will be eXecut'Ad as sown as the body can be embalmed." Lord JoHN RUSSELL has conveyed to Mr. 'Ml derspin, in the following letter, the sense which her Majesty en tertains of his claims and services :—Chesham-place, July 16, 1546. Sir,—l have received her Majesty's commands to place your name on the list of pensions to deserving persons charged up on the Queen's 's v 0 list, for a yearly sum of one hundred pounds. It gives me great pleasure to convey the Queen's gradeus wish that you will a r_ein this testimony to your services as the founder and promoter u t . schools.—l remain, your obedient servant , J . Itus aßL ' derapio, Dart On-upon• Humber." • 17,