The Sun. — London, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

IXPRESS FROM PARIS 11ESIGNATIO SPAIN. N OF M. ISTUR ITZ. We have received accounts from Madrid of the Ist of September by extraordinary express. • Isturitz has resigned his post as Prime Minister, , 11114 goes to L on d on as Am b assador i n t h e p l ace o f t h e _", like d e Sotomayor, who is recalled. Further chan ges in the Ministry are expected. The suc cessor of M. Isturitz is not yet known, but , General Supposed that General Narvaez will be appointed. Narvaez was expected in Madrid in the course !the week. Ile goes back at the request of the Fr ench Government. rt Tile excit ement on the subject of the Montpens i er 54,41'0 continues unabated, and the opposition to Wa s dail y extending in quarters where no such feel -143 e xpected. Isturitz's resignation is said to have been in wnsequence of his having given his opinion that it as d angerous t o procee d w i t h th e M on t pens i er t C ri age in consequence of the opposition which it occasioned in the country. li th esu r. , l . 3 ulwer h a d an i nterv i ew w i t h M . Isturitz on b oth sub ject of th e marr i age, an d t h e exp l anat i ons on si des are said to have been very violent. f e -28 Pagno/ s a y s th a t M. I s t ur it z ex p ress ed his os to to th e F rench Ambassador, that they had gone 41 ° f ur, in settling the marriage of the Infanta and te e ,. buke d e Montpensier without consulting the unc, s -P oi the country, and that M. de Bresson's S h: l7 ,_ er Was, "What F rance h as d one w ith th e p en " n "oews h ow to maintain with the sword. " fur Mad r i d correspondent contradicts the report Duke de B ulwer had formally protested against the e de M°n tpensier's marriage. The P a • Papers of Sunday contain no news of Iv 44 lh .nter eSt. Parti es i n th a t ca pit a l ar e l oo ki n g 0 int ense int eres t t o E ng l an d f or an express i on o f 11 1 ,1 , " o rl the recent events in Spain. t ) uke de Montpensier was expected in Paris to Panay or Tuesday. It is said he will proceed about the end of September.—Chronicle. As Sa tu t in IT RTON.—(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)— c O ei n , St l'ua y n ight last, the. sth instant, an alarmin g u el'oe ciecu rred at the Marley Tunnel, on the South a d 4Railway. From the information I have receive , Wori 9 rs that ate ut ten o'clock in the night several titintaeto were engaged in removing the centre an upe ,4l4,3itaat bad been used in erecting the arch over te , 4 1e1 1 ;', 48 all the masonry was considered perfectly safe. 411 , e 4-e ueY to relate about fifty yards of the arch fell ,eatel.epibltotreiresd four , men, and others received injuries. elapsed before the bodies could be e . xtru- Q3' th,1 1 „ I ld the poor fellows were literally cut to pieces T A - ,„" e ,at'Y mass which fell on them. e ,451tiran ASSOCIATION.—On Thursday next eo lith lOsh Association will commence its meetings at l I t eoe r 4 „ l3ll3 too, under circumstances of more than u,tei "er eh-gement. The savans, instead of having to wan tate] Pitt for beds, and getting at last very bad accom stian ▪ „, at an exorbitant charge, will find that the o _ -Annaittee has • caused a general registration f be 411 able lod It is to be hoped that there will all of these select apartments to meet the wants r a • w ' of se a PPIy for mony them, or the struggle for precedence ar i the har - that ought to exist among all the enee. note •PTD RE READERS' A S SOCIATION.—_n Sunday 1(1k 1 . th e n a sermon i n a id o f t hi s A ssoc i at i on , w hi c h i s 00 p tronage of the Lord Bishop of b •Jti. s av tl, ,ard the Bisho a of Winchester, was preached at Ceurch, P Southwark, by the Rev. J. W. ' l4 ttr e ,,: U. A., chaplain ; at its conclusion there was a of 9/. eiI°i44,,,TEI4IME GARDENS.—In consequence of the visi t confusion created in the Temple on Sundays ° llth,'" Q rs to the gardens, a notice was posted yesterday /v ould 13tiocipal entrance, intimating that the gardens p not be op, . n on Sundays. I,(Jlieetteic,Gl'l MAN-OP-WAR AT NORTH SnIELDS.-- °FIIgLDS, SEPT. 4.—The Sardinian corvette 4 Po r ie ll e ar rived in our harbour this afternoon ; she is Itle /1 1%- '4 to mount 0 8 *uw, and has on board near 300 . ' l) g c ircumstance 6 of a foreign man-of-war visit ,,tatorsq" Father Tyne" " being . rare, crowds of spec idtair; 43 '€' been attracted to view the Aurora, many . "ath; n g the sailr-like appearanee cf the strangers ktt treks and there were passing amongst the crowd re frel b Y no means intended to be disparaging to the yet characteristic of that national feeling 4 1'4, 4 Prevails amongst all classes of Englishmen, be cetyit that for mettle and dexterity there are none to kte 4 r,„ 4 re with Our own expert brave countrymen who G o ,' the wooden walls of Old England.—Shipping in:r ANTELLIGIENC - Top picking commenced on - grounds at Orchard Portman, near Taunton, on day. The crep unustrally bountiful. t tt ' t he storm o f Suniay was si ngu l ar, from the a a r - „ me partiality o f th e showe rs . About noon, after a r 11,:duizy morning, the sun burst forth, and whil e shining nn 1 )+ a sharp c h i p of thunder was hea r d over the t ,e t , e rn portion of the metropolis. The thunder con kVl,te ~ at intervals until past four,. and was a ccom - tki 4 by exceedi ng ly parti a l showers. At Islingto n i t 4(1 14" very heavily during_ nearly an hour, whilst on the 44.. aide of the City-road scarcelya drop fell. A nlire,r S hower came down in the immediate...nsteiireb backour „° Se ymour -street, Somers-toe n,. Ass ILnington• crescent, scarcely a stone's throw distant, C,t Perfectly dry. A correspondent assures us that a 'lard a b lf of Blackfrfars-bridge show , d the effects of 4 tale e a ,nweri whilst on the other half not a vestige o : - al be seen. Along the line of the Richmond 'ltel • w a , a l the tall was copious and continuous, whilst in eve r y on th e north side of the Thames, no wet whaL- T:De observed. tkO n All arr----It is understood that the erection and earrisef barracks and military forts in Ireland . will , s 4 by f orward very extensively during next winter. willVtleh Means a considerable amount of employment 1 41 '44 afforded to the labourit , * classes, and an accom ktia ist i °, ll much desired by the military will be obtained. 0 0 ,Ved that the new barracks intended to be erected . r at Will cost 1 9 ,000/.-6th Royal (Warwicltehire , ) h ' it Pe . . Panies of this regiment have Left Cork for . th '1 454 ',. 4e Y will anticipated some weeks since. i h 4 t litat-ta‘r° Gi braftar a , s a w 'h e ere, .having been joined by the k:Plit e ,, "I of the Rifle Brigade from . Corfu, mov . e n t a o p - cif their destination. This will be the seco eg ef this p r .ed , corps at the Cape, to which it first pro ak l ace 41 1 , 482 1 e and returned so recently as 1842.-13th i t ; is co r Xres Light Infantry: Lieut.-Colonel Squires, oloti ) ,,:ancled this regiment on the . occasion of the 44,4an,t 3,eot_ttr,ressltinretaa,tioafnt? of colours by the Prince Consort, is r d a d n honourable service in the army an ay rring scenes. U H r e ingwhich he was a mover in took part in the Peninsula 4' 1 44 4:aleae wa e r e s nea t:nd was at the battle of Ghuznee. r,,aPTI,,, r from the unattached list will most probably I ;; 4 atio - : v acancy —3oth (Cambridgeshire): Companies I t bat a ' regiment have arrived from Dublin, and the shortly follow.—The 55th (Westrnore ia'cienporlefollecad-quarterist of this regiment have left and is understood will relieve the Ctia,ci for re fr o o r m k, Limerick to Dublin. tati • e ' n C sErta. M.P.—Last Thursday morni b ng t, t o h o e li! t pe!.._ ra on board the Willi Yarmouth, amJtilliffe steam-boat, 4 th e l 'aße from London for m e informed Pee t .e .s aPtain and stewardess that they might shortly le t , '4 addition to tneir number, one of the female Abe ti trs 'havi ng b een t a k e n with the pains of labour. Lhown e Xpected addition at length took place, a well • e a llaedical Member of Parliament acting as doctor '4 'Wife on the occasion. h a b e Both are "doing as well i t4l et ow expected." A gentleman walking on i ? l ,l4,_Zo i MAKE U .c U in A i N ty o. of Harwich observed a man tdhe withvi a pickaxe, raising a material from . 411r leWergage f the cl.ff, and on asking the man his ,?,113,eirt, o told "he wes raising stones for ma -44,..t:q. This ll rather as puzzled our friend, who became i I. 4 h tli k g , hlnte his inquiries. The man observer, 4.- L l k w hich ia looked like stones, are crystallised fish ; bard now, will, when put through a CI, 11441'13161e t v o er powder. My master ships a great le t ri 7 .of it to London, there to be ground, and then „k`litwith guano to give it weight."—Bury Post. C AMDEN-TOWN.—On Saturday night an eV 41 -.6 d estruction of p ro p er ty by fire took place in tad go•street, Camden-town. The calamity oc- Ole" ) 11 a house o ccu pi e d by a gentleman named k ;ga• ( . 1 ) lind whi c h f orme d one o f a range o f new build- I:tti;tttn: it s discovery, mes s engers were dispatched for 4 (1 0 ,:e , and s evera l eng i nes prompt l y arr i ve d fromthe 1, 3' tie of nt and West of England stations. rh ta a,O f these the i flames were arrested in their pro 'lttheltlt a lthough the adjoining property was saved, Laol k Ning to Mr. Crouch was completely destroyed. fee Atsy AGAIN.—This worthy appearsto aib re etased a copy of the Parliamentary return of and odd and addresses of parties who have subscribed geeds to the amount of 2,0001. and upwards, eptid to labtless indefatigably employed in sending them ae 4,letters through the ost. One we have seen to- C,,,f011-„,,the B ishopsgate-street Within post-mark, and is . f ;Nl)l ° ,;',, B, all in the hand-writing apparently of this t k lal ye.‘,"toe fellow;—" The undersigned is able to in °l something to your advantage, value leol. Wlei t i ii lfus, on receipt of 20s. for his cost and trouble; Olette-"Y, on An; accountant, 5, York-street, '''street, Whitechapel, Sept. 3, 1846.—A1l post b, ilst be 'd by " h, et 4 ou. Cirl y PT OP A. VERY OLD DEBT.—The new Pope oh, ' e ged an Anglo-Roman Company to intersect . p i • - :all States with railways—a curious and interest eou,altuir:°ogfe to the benefits reciprocally conferred by the kni old in intersecting our own country with yYpti, a queducts, — The Builder. S . ll t aist,;,, sT r A :r•--Great preparations are making t at , t he atkl 4 r a grand Archery Fete on Friday nex • of ere determined to spare no expense to render 4 4144 - % e ae f ilt aaperior to all preceding f:etes, and upwards 14 041. y nen th. e nobility and gentry are inviied. :the en `s Wlll cl ose w i t h 4 gran d box, Weippert's Ingaged. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1846. COU LAR. ROYAL VICTORIA AND ALBERT YACHT. PENZANCE, SEPT. s.—Her Majesty and Prince Al bert, and the royal suite, left Falmouth at eight o'clock, A.M., this morning, and proceeded in the royal yacht round the Lizard Point, and on to the Land's End, pass ing round the " Long Ship Rocks" into Sennen Cove. i The yacht then retraced her steps into Mount's Bay, and anchored off St. Michael's Mount, in Mount's Bay, at half-past one o'clock. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince went round Penzance harbour, in the Fairy. Prince Albert landed and inspected the tin smelting works at Penzance, and witnessed the whole process. Afterwards his Royal Highness visited the Geological Museum of Cornwall, and then proceeded in the Fairy to inspect a copper mine on the eastern side of the Bay. Mr. Richard Taylor, mineral agent to his Royal High ness the Duke of Cornwall, was in attendance on his Royal Highness. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, attended by the Countess Haack and Count Puckler, left Cashiobury Park, Herts. the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, yesterday morning, for the Wat ford station, and tray( lled to tow nby the London and North-Western Railway, arriving at the Euston-square terminus at eleven 'clock. His Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Mi nister, the Earl of Denbigh, and Baron Witzleben, re ceived the Princess upon her arrival. The whole of the royal party proceeded to the Tower of London, where the Princess was conducted through all the different offices and departments. Her Royal Hi_•huess and suite embarked from the Tower on the Childe Harold, and passed down the river to view the Thames Tunnel, Greenwich, and Wool wich. The royal party returned up the river as far as the New Palace at Westminster and Lambeth Palace, and then proceeded to Hungerford, where the Princess and suite disembarked. fler Royal Highness afterwards left the Euston square terminus at six o'clock, on her return to Cashio bury Park. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, left their residence at Kew yesterday, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, at Cashiobury Park, Herts. Earl Grey returned to town yesterday, from a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, at Grove Park, Herts. Sir John Pelly had an interview with the Noble Earl at the Colonial-otlice. A deputation, including Mr. Young, Mr. Agliorby, and Mr. Harrington, had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood left Grove Park, Herts, yesterday. on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, at Woburn Abbey, Bedf tr d-hire. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Gibraltar. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. Only in two instances will the odds given below be found to vary to any extent from those quoted at War wick. Sir Tatton Sykes, as a market price, may be re turned at 3 to 1, although, as we were informed, a hedging bet was booked on terms more favourable to the backer. 6to 1 was laid to several hundred pounds against Brocardo; 9 to I to two or three hundred against Fancy Boy; 20, 18, 15, and finally 12 to 1 against Crane brook. Plenty of offers to lay against Mr. O'Brien's horses, but no backers; their prices, therefore, must be looked upon as nominal. We are unable to make any quotation against Poynton; 500 to .10 was laid twice in the early part of the day, but no such odds could be obtained afterwards; 30 to 1, perhaps, would be nearer the mark. Closing average:— ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Sir Tatton Sykes 6 to 1 agst General Shubrick's Brocardo—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's The Traverser 9 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Fancy Boy—taken 10 to 1 agst Col. Anson's lago 10 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Grimston 12 to 1 agst Mr. Cranstoun's Cranebrook 15 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance 20 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting 40 to 1 agst Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock 50 to 1 agst Mr. Skerratt's Romance. GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 6 to 1 azst Mr. Wormald's Quadruped 6 to 1 agst Mr. L. Fox's June 8 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Morpeth 8 to 1 apt Mr. Mostyn's Ennui—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Cranston's t'ranebrook. DERBY. 1000 to 30 agst Mr. O'Brien's Liberator—taken It is proper to remind speculators on the St. Leger ,hat Thursday next is comparing day. SALE OF THE LATE BENTINCK STUD. The first division of the Leviathan stud lately pur chased by 11.1 r. Mostyn, of Lord George Bentinck, was sold yesterday by Messrs. Tattersall; it was numerously attended—excited a good deal of competition for a few of the prime lots, and on the whole realised the satisfactory total of 3,195 guineas. The following are particulars of the various lots:— Guineas. Nightcap, 4 yrs. by Bay Middleton, out of Chapeau d'Espagne Alva., 5 yrs, own Sis. to Mora 26 The Dutch Girl, 3 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Flaniand 3 Lupine, 4 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Marrowfat 52 Yawn, 5 yrs, Sis. to Gaper 54 Pula, 4 yrs, by 13ay Mi .dletou. out of Puce 4l Ratifu, 4 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Camarina's dam Kitty, 4 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Pussy Papilio, 5 yra, by Bay Middleton, out of Bob Peel's dam Mora, 4 yrs, by Bay .Middleton, out of ‘lalvina 7O Charlotte, 5 yrs, by Liverpool, out of Brocade lOO Clink, 5 yrs, by Glaucus, Out of Jingle 3O Charming listr-, 5 yrs, Sis. to Coronation 9O Ail-round-my-Hat, 3 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Chapeau d'E,pagne 5O The Mail ot Orleans, 5 yrs, by Jereed, out of Anchorite's dam My Dear, 5 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Miss L tty Fhang asirna. by Phantom Skill, 5 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out ot Skilful '4ouvenance, 7 yrs, by Bay Middleton, out of Souvenir __ 54 Discord, aged, by Mulatto Clumsy, 4 yrs, by Bay Middleton l5O Pug, 4 yrs, by Bay Middleton . Princess Alice, 3 yrs, by Bay Middleton 6OO Blackbird, 3 yrs, by Plenipo 320 Marquis of Conyngham, 3 yrs, by Slane 260 Scinbr, ro, 3 yr,, by Bay Middleton Comrade, 4 yrs by Bentl9y A bay yearling colt, by Eli,, out of Miss Petwurth 100 A bay yearling colt, by Colbtick, out of Skilful A chesnut yearling colt, by Bran, out of Katherine 17 The sale of the two-year-olds takes place this after noon. WESTERN MEETING AT AYR.—THURSDAY. The Produce Stakes of 50 sous. each, 20 ft, for three yrs old. Two miles. (7 Subs.) Sir J. Boswell's Sweetheart, 7st 121 b (Holloway) Mr. Campbell's Eglantine, Bst Lord Eglinton's Draco, B,t alb. 3 The Two Years Old Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, with 25 added. Three-quarters of a mile. (5 Subs.) 11r. Merry's Maid of Motherwell (Holmes) 1 Sir J. Boswell's f by Caliph, out of Bella The Free Handicap of 5 sovs. each, p.p., with 30 added One mile and a half. (4 Subs.) Mr. Robertson's To►n Tough, 6 yrs, Bst 12 lb. ...... (Parr) 1 Lion. J. Kennedy's f by Doctor, 3 yrs, 7st 21b Mr. Merry's Hope, 4 yrs, 9st _ • _ The Gold Cup of 100 sots. (the overplus in specie) by subs• of 10 each. Two miles. (15 Subs.) Mr. Meiklatn's Inheritre , ,s, 6 yrs, 84 131b...(Templeman) 1 Mr. Merry's cby Don John, out of Peri, 5 yrs, 7st 51b ... 1 The Railway Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. W. H. Johnstone's Marian Ramsay... (Noble) 1 3 1 Mr. A. Cook's Surety, 5 yrs Lord Eglinton's Bretwalda, 4 yrs FRIDAY. . _ The Ayrshire Handicap of2ssovs. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared ; the second to save his stake; 100 soya. added. Two miles. (22 Subs., 13 paid.) Mr. Meiklam's inheritress, 6 yrs, Sat 121b...(Templeman) 1 2 Sir J. Boswe . l . l' . s _Sw . eetlleart , ,3 yrs,_6st_.2.lb Mr. Campbell's Eglantine,p ins sst 71b The Ayrshire Mineral Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 15 added; the second saves his stake. One mile and a half. (19 Subs., 8 of whom de clared.) Mr. Meiklam's Inheritress, 6 yrs, 9st ...... ...(Templeman) 1 Mr. Ramsay's Inglewood, 3 yrs, 6st slb 2 Mr. Merry's John Harris, 4 yrs, 7st 9lb The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. Merry's Hope, 4 yrs, 7st 10Ib ; Mr. Robertson's Saladin, 6 yrs, 7st; and Lord Eglinton's Plaudit, 6 yrs, 7st 71b. Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr, Nicoll's Cameleopard, 4 yrs (Holmes) 1 1 Mr. A. Cook's Surety, 5 yrs 0 2 Lord 4 Eglinton's Bretwalda, yrs __ 0 3 . _son J. — Kennedy's fby The Doctor, 3 yrs 0 4 Mr. W. 11. Jonstone's Marian Ramsay, 4 yrs Mr. Merry's Brevity, 6 yrs Sweepstakes of 5 SON'S.. each, p.p.. with 100 added. Heats, one mile. (10 Subs.) Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, 6 yrs, Bst 101 b ...(Parr) 1 1 Lord Eglin ton's Plaudit, 4 yrs, Bst 21b Mr. Merry's br cby Don John,out of Peri, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 0 3 Mr. Rqmsay's Inglewood, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 2 dr Mr._Meiklam's Trueboy, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b ..._ ... _ . Match 501., p.p. H - alf a mile.—Mr. Telfer's Young Ire- Land, 6 yrs, LOst 71b, beat Mr. Miller's Parlington, 6 yrs, LOst 71b. BECCLES RACES.-FRIDAY. The Stand Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 10 added, once round (4 Subs.), w( re won, in two heats, by Mr. Theobald's Chemise, 4 yrs, 9st 61b (Cotton), beating Sir Edmund and Kitty. The Town Plate of 50/. ; winner to be sold for 180/. Heats, twice round. Mr. Pemberton's b g Best Bower, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b 2 1 1 Mr. Theobald's Pigskin, aged, 7st 101 b Three well-contested heats. The Whoo Whoop Stakes were won, in two heats, by Sir Fretful, beating Pigskin and two others. COOMBES AND LETT.—The match between these celebrated scullers, for 50/., is appointed to come off on the 23d instant between Battersea and Hammersmith. LONDON V. NEWCASTLE. -- The London watermen have accepted the challenge of the Newcastle men to row on the London river for 3001. a side. The Honourable Mr. Fane and the Honourable E. Stopford embarked on Saturday morning on board the General Steam Navigation Company's mail steam-ship Princess Royal, for liaraburgh• SURREY THEATRE. Mr. Macready, who is engaged at this theatre for a limited number of nights, made his first appearance here last evening in the Lcharacter of Hamlet. Was Hamlet really mad, or did he only feign madness? This is a question on the discussion of which much good ink has been wasted, and which, judgirg from the past, never will be definitively settled. in con sidering it would be well to refer to the language which Shakspere himself puts into the mouth of Hamlet—" I am but mad, Nor. Nor. West," saj s Hamlet—which would lead to the inference, that he was feigning madness merely, andthis seems to be the idea of Mr. Macready ; but then Hamlet, after observ ing that the world is out of joint, adds— " Oh ! cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right." He does not accept his mission—it is too great for him—the burden of executing justice has been cast upon shoulders too weak to bear it. A man of firm ness and decision and judgment is wanted. Hamlet has judgment, but has no firmness and no decision. He is from very weakness a sceptic. He will not trust to the evidence of the ghost. He requires something to confirm it. "The play's the thing in which I'll catch the conscience of the king." The play con firms the evidence of the ghost. It is a true ghost — he will take the ghost's word for a thousand pounds; but again he argues and doubts, and refuses to fulfil his mission The soliloquy commencing " Now could I kill him, but now he is praying," which is omitted. in the acting play, throws great light upon Hamlet's character. It shows him to be a man who fears to do his duty—a cloistered student cast into the world of action. If by madness is meant an inability to distinguish right from wrong, then Hamlet is not mad; but if by madness is meant a deficiency of judgment, then Hamlet is mad. Hav ing feigned madness in the first instance, he at times becomes the victim of his feigning, and is actually mad ; as, for instance, in his scene with Ophelia ; but when necessity requires, he can always recall his wan dering ideas so as to out-manceuvre those who would play upon him; witness his scenes with Rosencrantz, and Guilderstein, and with Polonius; and, above all, the closet scene with his mother. He is such a doubter —he has such a dread of coming to any finite dec sion which shall involve action as its consequence, that he at times actually doubts his own sanity, and almost argues himself into the belief that he is not sane ; but when the occasion requires it, we find Hamlet is perfectly sane. Modern scientific re , searches into the nature of sound and unsound mind prove that doubtful sanity, such as that of Hamlet, are to be found existing in nature ; and as those researches are continued, so will the character of Hamlet become more and more understood We understand Hamlet better now, than our ancestors, even of fifty years since, under stood it ; and, in fifty years hence, his character will be better understood than it is even at the present day. In drawing the character of Hamlet, Shak spere was at least three centuries in advance of his age, a proof that he possessed an intuitively mira culous knowledge of human nature—that he was " not of a day, 'but for all time." The Hamlet of Macready is well known to all playgoers—to write a critique on it now would be a work of snpererogation. Admitting his conception of the character to be a just one, his development of it is perfect. The " letting I dare not wait upon I would," . which is the essential point of the character, was finely _ _ - - given by Maerea;'iy. He sees the ghost—he is all decision—he will wipe out from his memory " all tri vial fond records," and proceed at once to action. Then comes the doubt. The ghost may be the devil tempting him to destruction,—he will have further proof. This phase of the character was very finely rendered by Macready. Never was willing self-deception more truthfully delineated. The play scene was a triumph of art. The nervous management of the fan, as he lies at Ophelia's feet, was very fine; and in his address to the King, ex plaining the plot of the play, he spoke daggers. The closet scene, too, was sublime. "Is it the King ? " he exclaimed, after he had stabbed Polonius, in the tone, and with the action, of a man who felt as if he had suddenly relieved his mind of a burden. It was evident that he wished it might be the King, and that he hoped he had done his duty without having had to undergo the pangs of " screwing his courage to the sticking place ;" and his agony at finding that it was Polonius, and not the King, was true to Shak spere. He was agonised, not at having killed the rash and meddling fool, but at finding that still the burden of revenging his father's murder—that burden which he felt was too hard for him to Lear, and from which he hoped that a lucky chance blow had relieved him, was still pressing on him. We never _ saw Macready act better than he did last night ; he carried his audience with him, throughout, and so rivktted their attention to the stage that they, a Monday night's Surrey audience, were, in all the principal scenes, charms-d into quiet- ness, and taught to appreciate the beauties of hak- spere. He was well Supported. Cooper was the Ghost, and Mrs. Ternan the Queen. The character of Ophelia was well sustained by Mrs, C. Gill, late Miss Fanny Vining, a lady who promises to be an acquisition to the metropolitan boards. There is a pathos and a natural simplicity about her style of acting which goes at once to the heart. The house was crammed long I:efore the rising of the curtain ; the pit and gallery were overflowing; every seat in the boxes was ocrupied, and every part of the box lobby, from which it was possible to catch a view of the stage, was crowded by those who were glad to get even standing room. THE MARQUIS OF WORCESTER AND HIS CONSTITUENTS AT STOW. The Marquis of Worcester dined with a party of his constituents at the Unicorn Inn, St )w-on-the- %Vold. on Friday, Aug. 28. The festivity partook both of a sport ing and of a political character. It was formerly an an nual custom with the late Duke of Beaufort, when -he hunted that part of the country, to send a present of ve nison as a compliment to the farmers over whose land he hunted ; but that custom has been discontinued for seve ral years until the present time, when a renewal has been thought politic, having an eye to the pos.-ible contingen cies of a general election. Accordingly, in the early part of last week, the following note of invitation was sent to a very large number of the Tory residents within a range of ei , ..;ht or !en milt's of Stow : - - "In consequence of his Grace the Duke of Beaufort havCng sent some venison to S' ow, as a compliment to the yeomanry of this district, the Marquis of Worcester has expressed his wish to meet with his constituents and to dine with them, at the Unicorn Inn, on Friday next, at four o'clock in the afternoon, when the pleasure of your company is requested. " Stow-on-the- Wold, Aug. 24, 1846." The gathering, however, was not by any means so nu merous as was expected, and as a political demonstration it was a signal failure. Thirty-eight gentlemen and farmers sat down to the dinner; the company including Lord Redesdale, who was in the chair, H. E. Waller, Esq., of Farmington, about six clergymen of the neigh bourhood, a few professional gentlemen, three or four tradesmen, and the remainder consisted of a sprinkling of farmers and some old sportsmen who formerly hunted with the duke's hounds. It was a comfortable " venison dinner" enough, but the marquis's " wish to meet his constituents" was certainly a disappointment. The ho nour of a visit from the self•invited nobleman, even though the privilege of a cut at a haunch of venison was superadded, was not a sufficient attraction to draw the agriculturists from their useful occupations in their fields ; and if he is wise, the most noble the Marquis of Worcester will take this circumstance as a hint that the electors of East Gloucestershire are not so enraptured with their representative as to make his re-electon a t all a matter to be very confidently calculated upon.— Glou cester Journal. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ma. EDITOR,—The navy has not had fair play in the different promotions that have occurred, for those that were too old ought to have had their retirement long ago. I do not want to see renewed the rank of yellow admiral, by gluing those captains less than those that get their flag on accepting the retirement. It ought to be done by seniority, and not in the way proposed, which is an act of injustice, for long and faithful service last war, has claims to the gratitude of this country, and not in the breasts of those who are devoid of feeling. but to provide for their relatives by such acts of injustice. They fished last year, but did not succeed, and I should think that they will have the same chance this year, unless they give them all alike, subject to the class they belong, which is but reasonable. As this country is somewhat indebted to her navy for protection by sea, they (milt to take care they do not destroy that efficiency by a mistaken parsimony, for if they have not money enough to cAnplete the retirement, ask for more, or retire fewer, and fill the vacancies up as they occur, but do not be unjust to the defenders of your country.—l am, Sir, London, sth September, 1816. ONE OF THEM. We understand, from good authority, that the Hon. Adolphus Chichester, brother to Lord Temi.lemore, and grandson of the Marquis of Anglesey, is about to lead to the hymeneal altar, the daughter and sole heiress of one of our wealthiest Commoners. This gentleman has just completed his 21st year. The marriage is to take place about the middle of November. TUE LATE GENERAL SIR Wiu. NOTT, G.C.B.— We have much satisfaction in announcing that the Queen, on the recommendation of Lord John Russell, has presented a son of the late gallant General to a valuable living, as will be seen by the accompanying copy of a letter from the Prime Minister to the Rev. Mr. Nott:—" Chesliam-place, Aug. 28.—Sir, I have much pleasure in informing you that the Queen has ap proved of my recommendation of your presentation by the Crown to the living of Tutterton, in Lincolnshire. The living, which is near Boston, is worth, I understand, from 900/. to 1,0001. a year. I trust that you will be enabled, by this increase of income, to give that assist ance to your sisters which your circumstances may war rant. It is as the son of Sir William Nott, as well as in the character of a deserving clergy man, that I have brought your name before her Majesty.—l have the honour to be your faithful servant, J. RUSSELL. The Rev. Wm. George Nott,"—Carmarthen Journal. MAGAZINES-CONTINUED. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA ZINE. How is British Oregon to be governed and peopled —how is its extensive frontier to be defended ? These are questions which are ably discussed by Lieutenant- Colonel Wilkie in an article on the Oregon treaty in the present number of the United Service. He pro poses to form the country between the Pacific and the Rocky Mountains into the province of Victoria, and to form of the territory between those mountains and Hudson's Bay another province. These provinces to be separate and distinct from Canada, and to have their geographical boundaries accurately marked out. With regard to the peopling and the defence of these territories the following is Colonel Wilkie's pro position : " We see with what rapidity the population of the United States increases, by natural means and immigra tion : wild and uninhabited as this north-western portion of their territory is, it would be foolish to reckon on its continuance in that state even for a short period. Sup posing, then, that this country, on the southern side of the boundary, becomes peopled, even in a moderate de gree, what have we to delete! our new line of demarca tion, or how prevent trespass on the 50th degree of latitude ? " Our present frontier of Canada is in some measure defended by the great chain of lakes, which gives facilities of speedily supporting any threatened point ; but how is this frontier to be defended, extending from the Lake of the Woods, to the Straits of Fuca, a dis tance of 1,200 miles ? Add to this the Canadian and Nova Scotia frontiers, and it would require a force greater than the whole British army to defend it. In that portion still without inhabitants, there would be nothing for it but regular troops, arid these could not be fed in a country devoi , i of resources. " Now, then. is the time for the Government to esta blish something of the same nature as the military colonies of Russia, but more consonant with our laws and institutions. The whole of this newly-marked frontier might be granted to occupiers, on condition of military service, and that to be a sufficient tenure as long as it was fulfilled. This would, in the first instance, be an easy task, as nothing would be required but a certain degree of organisation and training to the use of arms, as no call for defence could be made probably under half a century. The grants of land would be in propor tion to their productiveness and the means they might afford for subsistence, and as the country became gra dually settled, a militia would arise with it, capable at all times of defending the frontier against any enemy. " The migration to Oregon is already in progress by the ' pioneers of civilisation,' and they have even talked of a gigantic railway from New York to the Columbia. It is firth-, then, that we should look to the people of our own territory, and plantirg there a population capable of self-defence ; for most assuredly such is far beyond the actual military means f Great Britain. There are many inducements to emigration ; the country is tolerably fertile, and it may be called a virgin soil ; it is intersected in various directions by rivers and lakes ; those on the eastern nod northern pv.tion offerir , com munications between Like Superior and the head of Hudson's Bay, and on the north an easy distance be tween the Lake of the Woods and Lake Winnepeg. In the 104th degree of west longitude, the rivers that cross the frontier have a southern course to the valley of the Missouri : the White-earth, Porcupine, Williams, Bralton, and North Mountain rivers, all fall into that great stream, and thus give a commercial outlet in the Gulf of Mexico. Although the region in the vicinity of this frontier is within the same parallels of latitude as the country between Dieppe, yet the winter is severe. An amelioration of climate may, however, be looked for, when the country becomes inhabited, the earth cul tivated, woods cleared away, and morasses drained. Crossing the Rocky Mountains, the rivers on the west side, of which the Columbia is one, take a different direction, and full into the Pacific. This division of territory, commonly called Oregon, but properly speaking New Albion, will rise every day in value, when it is consi dered the increase of commerce with China ; and should the north-west passage be ever secured for even a short time of the year, this country, with the great Islands of Queen Charlottee and Vancouver, the harbours of Nootka Sound and those in the Straits of Fuca, will become of the highest importance ; indeed, it would seem that Government had begun to consider it in that light, as I observe one of her Majesty's ships is now employed in surveying the Straits of' Fuca„" Tliis is a matter well worthy the attentive conside ration of the Colonial Secretary, and C o l one l Wilkie is deserving of the gratitude of the country for having drawn public attention to the subject. Our old friend Colonel Firebrace continues his exposé of jobs and jobbers, and adds a postscript on the subject of cor poral punishment. He clearly fixes the responsibility of the continuance of flogging on the officers com posing courts-martial, " Military writers" observes Colonel Firebrace, " say to civilians who are zealous for the abolition of flogging, you take this away from us. at least give us something in its stead.' This is hardly fair, seeing that they themselves have actually the power in their own hands to vary the punishment in almost any shape they like ; there is not a word in the articles of war about flogging ; the penalty for cvt ry offence is simply marked thus, shall suffer death, or such other punish ment as by a general (or regimental) court-martial shall be awarded.' Surely, my military friends, here is ample scope for your invention ; you might even try your hand at thumb- screws or anything of the same kind ; it only shows how inveterate habit is, when we have adhered so long to this practice, so much reprobated, and never tried to find something else. To my own apprehension it may be got rid of, both at home and abroad, in peace or war, or if retained at all, it should be reserved for the punishment of infamous or detestable offences, and those on whom it was inflicted should be immediately drummed out of the service, the marks on their back being a bar to their ever entering it again. "References have frequently been made to the exemp• tion of the French soldier from the lash, but even in that service recourse is had sometimes to corporal punish• ment far more severe, as in the case of the fosses in Algiers, where the condemned battalion underwent tor tur,s far more painful than any flogging ; these cases, are, however, very rare. One of the most common pu nishments of the French soldier is le boulee, the man dragging at his ankle a cannon-shot attached to a chain ; this I think might be applied in England with advantage —releasing a man from his tether to take him out to a field-day or guard-mounting, would make him consider them in the light of a recreation or release. It is a wearying and severe punishment without marks of dis grace attached to it, but perhaps the British Lion' might again roar, if he saw a f ree -b orn E ng li s h man clogged like a trespassing goat or d on k e y. P r i sons are about to be built at all the barracks, which I hope will answer ; I would suggest something to make this pu nishment more stringent, and at the same time less un just to the culprit's comrades ; that to each sentence of imprisonment be attached a cl ause , t h at w h en t h e per i o d fur which the man has been sentenced has expired, that he should further be obliged to bring up all the duty lost li during his durance, and h ave on l y alternate n i ghts i n b ed, until he has pulled up his lee -way." We sincerely hope that we shall hear no more of the necessity of flogging. Let the Boulet be substi tuted for it by all means. " A wearying and severe punishment without marks or disgrace attached to it," and which endangers neither life nor limb, is the punishment of all others suited to bring a refractory soldier to his senses. The other papers are excellent. This is a most valuable number of the United Service. COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By G. A. A'Bcckett. No —di By far the best number which has yet appeared. It is full of fun, pun, and plea s a n t r y, an d th e illustra tions by Leech are rich and racy. As a specimen of the method in which the history is told, we give the following description of the death of William Rufus : " During a boisterous dejeaner a la fourchette, at which the Red King greatly increased his rubicundity by the quantity of wine he consumed, a postman arrived with a dream from the Abbot of St. Peter's, at Gloucester, done up in an envelope. Read it out,' exclaimed Rufus, atter having glanced at its contents; and on its being found to forebode a violent death to the King, he ordered a hundred pence to be given to the dreamer, which, supposing him to have been taking forty winks,' would have been at the liberal rate of twopence halfpenny a wink for his rather disagreeable doze over the destiny of his sovereign. Rufus laughed at the prediction, and repaired to the chase, accompanied by Sir Walter Tyrrel, when a hart, in all its heart's sim plicity, came and stood between the illustrious sports men. The extraordinary hilarity of the bounding hart attracted the attention of Rufus, who drew his bow, but the string broke, and Rufus, not having two strings to his how, called out to Tyrrel to shoot at the bald-faced brute for his bare-faced impudence. Sir Walter in stantly ohe) ed; but the animal, bobbing down his head, allowed the arrow to go through his own branches towards those of a huge tree, when the dart, taking a somewhat circuitous route, avoided the body of the hart and went borne to the heart of the sovereign. Tyrrel ran towards his toaster, and attempted to revive him ; bat though there was plentyOf hartshorn in th e f orest, none could be made available. The unfortunate regi irov France—taking ta i k t i T t ' sg owF galloped to the rench leave o f cide, merely muttering to himself some inc o h erent ex [67, a e s coast,si on s as an tod fled hi s d his country, according to the usual custom of male factors." The author's reflections on the various events that he records are some of them very piquant; for in ' stance, noticing the oaths of allegi ance taken to Maud by the barons in her father's lifetime, and broken by them immediately after his death, he ob serves,— " These parties—the respectable families that came in with the Conqueror —were all guilty of the grossest which, a few years and wo u ld in years ago, wo u ld h ave rendered them all liable to the p! the present day expose them to seri ous p unishme nt." perjury, WE BANKERS' MAGAZINE . In addition to the usual scientific contents of thi s magazine, we have this month an am us i ng biographi cal sketch of . the celebrate d " Abraham Newland," o vs l ll o al lv t a h s e p fo a r perof nearlythe Bank of half a crntury the f ame d payee England. THE UNION MAGAZINE. The opening article of the present number, en " The Drawing-rooms of Engl an d," i s a smart attack upon those amateur pianists and vocalists who infest evening parties, " Making night hideous" by their unseemly noise. The evil we fear is too inveterate to be ever diminished by any remonstrances from isolated individuals, and we advise the writer to set about the organization of his threatened Anti- Music-desecration League without loss of time. The paper on " The Jesuits" is continued, and we have a history of the expulsion of that society from Venice. The safety of the state, nay, its very existence, called for that expulsion, for " the Senate had discovered that the Religieux had made use of the tribunal of peni tence to get acquainted with the secrets of families, and the resources and dispositions of individuals; that by the same means they knew the forces, re sources, and secrets of the state; and that they sent an account every six months to their general through the provincials or visitors ; and that after their retreat from Padua there had been found, in their abode, many letters, which they had not had time or caution enough to burn, and which j us tifi e d b ut t oo muc h the reproaches to hich they had been subjected." The assassination of Henry IV. of France soon fol lowed, and it was proved that Ravaillac, his assassin, was a devoted student of the work of Mariana, " de Rege et Regis Institutione," in which regicides are held up to honour as glorious and heroic patriots, and are exhorted to pursue their designs openly, and the writer laments that their number is so limited. The subsequent history of the order is then briefly traced, and its attempt to supersede the University in the control of the education of the country, an attempt which for the time was rendered unsuccessful by the discovery of the notes of the lectures delivered by Hereau, a Jesuit professor, who in his public lectures to the students advocated the murder even of kings, if such were necessary to advance the interests of that order. These things are recorded in various proses verbaux transmitted to the Parliament of Paris in 1644, and they still stand upon the records of the Court to this day, uncontradicted. Well may this writer say— " On recounting these proceedings, who is not struck with amazement at the audacity of the doctrines at this time propounded by the Jesuits ? How then must the reader wonder at the words of the present Archbishop of Thoulouse in addressing Louis Philippe, King of the French, and who, after protesting that the expulsion of the Jesuits was demanded by the same class of men who destroyed the order in 1762, and attempted to subvert the Christian religion, adds, We declare utterly false the imputations against the Society of Jesuits, whose constitutions, long approved by the Church, breathe the purest spirit of the Gospel, and have produced a great number of saints. We further declare that their dis persion would be highly injurious to religion, and pre pare again its overthrow. We at the same time affirm, Sire, from our most intimate conviction, that if your Majesty has anything. to fear for the stability of your throne, it is from irreligious men and the enemies of order, and not from the Jesuits, that such an apprehen sion is justifiable.' We trust tbat events may prove the truth of the Archbishop's words. We admit that the order has done much for education, much for the Chris tian religion, but we must not forget the evidence which history affords us of the constant intermeddling of the order in state affairs, and the commotions which inva riably followed on such intervention. As Englishmen we have had enough of experience warning us to beware of priestly government. Let the Jesuits, and every other religious community, confine themselves to a mission andEnglishmen andgoodwill generoustotheirmoles t profession,them nay, more, will protect and support them ; but let them beware of political intrigue, under peril of condign punishment for an attempt at once unbecoming, imper tinent, and audacious. England has more than once proclaimed, not by words but by deeds—deeds of stern resolution—that she will not commit to priests the for tunes of her empire or the direction of her energies." The story of " William Fleming, the Deal Boat man," is continued ; and the sketcher of " British Landladies" is peculiarly happy in his sketch of " The Motherly Landlady," which is well illustrated by Mason. " Mr. Wick Wickerstaff 's Party" was such a jolly one that we are quite ambitious of his acquaint ance, and when next he gives a spread we hope he will favour us with a card of invitation. We have, besides, an elaborate review of " Mr. Wright's Essays on the History of England in the Middle Ages," and several other papers of considerable merit. THE MIRROR. " The Eagle's Nest," by the editor, is continued in this number, and increases in interest as it pro ceeds. He also commences another tale, ,entitled wile Poor Artist," which promises well. We have, moreover, several reviews, tales, sketches, and poetical pieces. Among the latter is an ode to Sir Robert Peel on his resigning office, which is full of the fire of poetry. The author has taken Cowley for his model, and has been at times exceedingly happy in his imitation. We give the opening stanzas as a specimen : " Hail, hallow'd statesman ! glorious in thy fall, As sets the sun while light is over all ; The fruitful seed he calls to birth, Thou spread'st in harvests o'er the earth. He sinks—but not in radiant grave to die. And as thy course is run Like to the bless'd sun, Each morrow both arise in immortality. "Plenty and riches now our country hails, And wins to all our ports the crowd'd sails, With od'rous spice, and the cane's honied fruit, The needful corn, and luxuries to boot, That ev'ry poor man's palate glad shall taste. These, with a frozen eye, Protective lords deny, But these the Lord of Lords ordain'd should never run to waste. " By thee the mighty steam bark's dashing prow And swelling sails bring in the fibrous snow, Merry to make our million wheels to fly, With laughing groups of infant industry : Six days of cheertul labour, while they feel The coming seventh, by God design'd For sweet refreshment of all living kind, Making each little bounding heart an altar rais'd to Peel. "That sacred day, railway and Thames behold, Carriage and deck all filled with young and old: Peasant from cot—from home the artizan— Both, from blest meal, that God design'd for man, With all their happy children round their knees, They whom sour preaching knaves Would turn to starving slaves, While their own ' capon lin'd round bellies' swell with ease." THE PATRICIAN. The present number opens with the first of a series entitled the " Royal Houses of Europe." We have this month the lineage of the royal houses of Austria, Bavaria, Belgium, Denmark, and France. The curious history of James Annesly is concluded, and in the celebrated Peerage causes we have the case of James Percy, the trunk-maker, who claimed the earldom of Northumberland. The Patrician, how ever, is not devoted exclusively to genealogical sub jects. " The Man without a Name " is an Italian tale, full of romantic inte res t, an d th e " Add ress o f the One Hundred and Two Chief Heritors and Clans in the Highlands of Scotland to King George the First on his Accession to the Throne ' is a most valuable contribution to history. This address, im ploring the favour of the King, was delivered to the Duke of Argyle for presentation, but it is alleged that the Duke, " seeing more prospect of personal aggrandisement in an insurrection, which would ren der his services indispensable, than a peaceful submis sion of the highlands to the house of Hanover," never presented the document to the King, and the chiefs in consequence joined in the rebellion of 1715. The writer of the article says that this document is unno ticed in history, but that he believes it to be genuine. We hope that in the next number he will give us the evidence in support of its authenticity which has convinced his mind. If it be genuine, it throws an entirely new light on the affairs of 1715. THE TINY LIBRARY. This is the sixth part of this prettily illustrated and cheap periodical for children. It is just what a child's periodical ought to be—instructive without being heavy, and amusing without being trifling. THE RAILWAY REGISTER. The paper on the "Ability of the Public to make the Projected Railways" is a very valuable contribu tion, and the most fairly written dissertation on the subject we have yet seen, for while, on the one hand, it shows the utter groundlessness of the fears of the panic -mongers, it on the other hand exposes un sparingly the fallacies and absurdities of Mr. J. T. Hackett, who has done the railway cause infinitely more harm by his injudicious advocacy than the panic-mongers could possibly have done it by their attacks. From this admirable article we extract the following observations on the oft-repeated fallacy about" the rich becoming richer, and the poor becom ing poorer," a fallacy which for ages past has been part of the stock in trade of platform orators and mock humanitarians : "That the rich are becoming richer, and the poor becoming poorer, that the wealth of the country is being heaped within a few hands, is a common preju lice, as old, at least, as the time of Solomon, and nut the less a falsehood. Instead of its being true that the wealth of the country is in fewer hands, the truth is that the wealth of the country is in more hands, and the march of events is in favour of a wider distribution. What makes the capitalist is not his money, but his intelligence ; in mos t leading cases, he began life with little or no mone y, and though his money is now an instrument to him for doing great things, yet his intelligence is his real strength. His just conduct of his Own operations, his proper appreciation of the proceedings o f o th ers , hi s economy in applying . his own means, his power of com manding and combining the means of oth ers , an d hi s skill in directing his operations to a right end—all these give the capitalist his power. What the other classes want is not money, but the essential qualities enume rated above. Look at the money hoarded by these latter the means they squander in self-indulgence or careless waste; look at the sums placed in savings' banks, and so abstracted from the money opera! ions of the working classes; last of all, look at the lean societies, benefit lodges, sick clubs, co-operative stores, harmony has, and building companie•4, where the funds are, almost without exception, embezzled . and ab sor b e d b y t h e managers, and the objects of foundation utterly frustrated in a greater or less number . of years : " " Gleanings among Mum and Miners" contains much r useful information as to the present stake of many f the mines of Cornwall and Devonshire, and the paper on " American Railways" is a valuable contribution to railway statistics. The present number fully maintains the high character which the Railway Register has deservedly acquired. ATURE. THE PARLOUR LITE NOV R ELIST. Vol. 1V.,--Mans field Parh. This neat r e p r i n t, in one small volume, of Miss Austen's chef d'eure reflects great credit on the typography of Messrs. Simms and M'lntyre, of Bel fast, the printers of this series of novels and romances. The type, although small, is beautifully clear, and the book is got up in excellent style. As to the work itself, it would not be one whit less a work of supererogation to review "Mansfield Park" than i would be to review " Waverley" itself. T, No. IX. .13y WE KNIGHT 01% GWYANE. Charks Lei Pr. Decidedly the best chapters that have appeared of .his capital " Tale of the tine of the Trnion," are contained in number nine. Bagenal Daly is one of the most felicitously conceived, and one of the most spiritedly delineated of all the characters created by Harry Lorrequer. The story has now reached its central interest : ruin has fallen upon Maurice Darcy, the noble hearted Knight of Gwynne : he is bereft of his possessions by the perfidy of his soli citor, who has committed suicide through remorse of conscience and dread of retribution. Gwynne Abbey, and the lands attached thereto, have vir tually fallen into the hands of a miserable parvenu, in the shape of Mr. Hickman O'Reilly : and the feelings of the reader are fully aroused in behalf of the bankrupt hero of the fiction. All the accessories of this plot are very skilfully introduced, and the varied dispositions of the personages in the story are developed with a skill attributable, firstly, to the intuitive powers of Mr. Lever, as a novelist, and, secondly, to his long practice and expe rience as an author. Already is the "Knight of Gwynne" superior as a whole to any of his previous productions ; it is more characteristic of Ireland and the Irish than " Harry Lorrequer"—it is more com plete as a romance than " Charles O'Malley"—it pos sesses a more concentrated interest than " Jack Hinton"—and is more fascinating, both in description and incident, than " Tom Burke." Mr. Lever has evidently buckled up for the composition of a book more enduring and unique than any his lively ima gination had hitherto evoked. In this laudable en deavour he has—if he only proceed as he has com menced—succeeded. The account of Tate Sullivan's farewell of the picture gallery in Gwynne Abbey is admirable, and Phiz's illustrations of its denouement inimitable. As the autumnal evenings close in, a number of this serial would impart an exquisite zest to a bottle of Madeira and a dish of walnuts. TURLOGH O'BRIEN. No. Vl. The fortunes of Sir Hugh Willoughby are ap proaching n earer an d nearer to the critical and decisive moment. Hence it is that the story possesses such a peculiar interest, and arouses so much curiosity. The writer's descriptions of the streets, customs, costumes, and tenements of old Dublin— namely, Dublin towards the close of the seventeenth century—are excessively clever. His brush has somewhat of the manner of Rembrandt and Teniers combined, though its painting is sometimes terribly smudged and tarnished by the hurry of his fancy and by the distressing abundance of his language. The struggle between Tisdal and Deveril is described with much power—the attention of the reader be comes literally breathless during its perusal. THE ARGENTIIVE REPUBLIC. By Col. T. Anthony King. There is something so blunt, and honest, and even chivalrous, in the character of Colonel King, as deve loped by this remarkable volume, that the reader can not fail to be interested in the narrative of his adven tures, and cannot hut repose an implicit reliance upon the authenticity of his statements. Little was known respecting the merits of the intestine wars which have so l ong ravage d the A rgent i ne republic, Bolivia, and Uruguay, before the appearance of this important work ; and that little was piecemeal and confused. To Englishmen, enjoying the blessings of a free and liberal constitution, such vicissitudes as those which have illustrated the History of the Argentine Republic will ever be peculiarly enthralling and attractive. The spectacle of a nation struggling to maintain its integrity, and to realise its independence, is the most solemn and instructive that can well be conceived. Such a spectacle is the one presented to us in these four hundred and forty-two pages. The endeavours of the citizens of that republic to relieve themselves of the yoke of Spanish and Brazilian domination, are recorded with circumstantial candour and explicit ness in its chapters ; and the writer is a man eminently qualified for the duty of historian, both by the native vigour of his intellect, and from the circumstance of his having been ps.rsonally implicated in these en deavours during a period of twenty-four years. The narrative is one of bloodshed, and rapine, and cruelty; it is penned with charming simplicity ; and is rendered vivid by the agreeable minuteness of its survey. Colonel King informs us, that having forsaken his home in the United States, for some unexplained rea son, in 1817, and in the fourteenth year of his age, he found himself unfriended, unknown, and penny less, cast among a people of whose language he was altogether ignorant. After wandering about Va and Baltimore in a state of extreme destitution, our ad venturer was received into a kind of piratical vessel, but in a few weeks was again cast adrift in the har bour of Buenos Ayres. Here he appears to have been hospitably received by a publican named Flusk ; was subsequently engaged as a shop-boy by a French perfumer called Coquelet ; and was ultimately welcomed into the Republican army as bandero, or flag-bearer, the most subordinate rank in the profession. He afterwards obtained a commission as ensign in the corps of General Ramarez, and by indomitable perseverance and unflinching resolution raised himself step by step to the honourable position which he at present occupies. We admire the innate strength of mind which these facts evince, and we admire still more the beautiful simplicity with which they are recorded. We must not foolishly consider Colonel King in the light of a mere mercenary, although he is a citizen of the United States fighting in the Argentine service. "I was born," says he, "upon the soil of a free country, and reared under the pro tection of her flag; civil liberty is my heritage, and for that I am ready to fight in any quarter of the world !" Civil liberty is my heritage ! That is a noble expression, and it is the key to the character and disposition of Colonel King. We do not possess the leisure to follow him through the intricacies of the startling and extraordinary occurrences which he witnessed during his campaigns as an Argentine sol dier. We shall leave the author to describe the bloody and dreadful scenes of which he was no indolent spectator, confident that his volume will be enshrined in many a library, and perused by many a lover of the more eventful features of modern history. San guinary deeds have unhappily been repeatedly perpe trated in the territories of the Western hemisphere ; those noble regions of the globe have been often dark ened by martial crime : but among the annals of those iniquities a more direful picture is not presented than the one here given of the civil conflicts by which the Argentine Republic has been devastated. CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. By Albert Smith Part I. _ _ This is the first number of a new tale by Albert Smith, and if this may be considered as a fair specimen, " Christopher Tadpole" will be quite as popular as his elder brother, " Titus Ledbury." The tale opens with a prelude, the scene of which is laid in the city of Chester, and most quaintly and graphi cally is that quaint and picturesque old city described. We are introduced to the coffee-room of an inn, where we find a certain Mr Gudge, a doer of dirty work for noblemen and gentlemen, and who, if we mistake not, is " cast" for one of the principal parts in this story. He is joined by a gentleman and a young lady ; the latter is taken suddenly ill and dies in giving birth to a male child, which is committed to the care of Dr. Aston, an apothecary, residing in a town in the salt district of Cheshire. " Dr. Aston was still a bachelor, but from having brought the whole parish into the world, even to those who now had great grown-up boys and girls of their own, he might be looked upon, and indeed was so, as the head of a very la rge f am ily. A n d h e was no t on ly the medi cal attendant, but he had b ec o m e the confidential friend of nearly all his patients, who sent for him as often to allay family irritation as to heal recognised corporeal complaints. lie lived in a small house, quite in the centre of the town, opposite the great inn, and next the bank ; and an old housekeeper, with an odd groom, or footman, or, indeed, assistant upon a pinch, formed the human portion of his establishment. " He was very clever in his profession, from long ex perience ; but put no trust in uew-fangled remedies which from time to time we read of; for he had seen so many things start up to cure everything, and quietly tumble down again after a short noisy life—with names that nobody but chemists who had written large books and almost chrystallised or sublimed themselves in lab )- ratories by long study could understand—that he only believed in the old-fashioned drugs whoso virtues cen turies had tried. So that when a crack London physi cian once prescribed Terrosesquicyanuret of the cyanide of potassium' upon being called in to a patient, Dr. Aston waited until he was gone, and then said, he would rather trust to rhubarb. And the patient got rapidly well." The first chapter opens with a grand scientific meet in at the Parth'non of the town in which the doctor resides, and here the author indulges in his talent for good-humoured quizzing. his sketches of " the scientific gentlemen " are admirable. He also makes this meeting the vehicle for introducing a charming little romance, entitled the Story of the Pepur Gate. The proceedings are interrupted by a messenger who COMM tg fetch the doctor tO a inAn on whom A lump of rock has fallen in a salt mine. This man is Fletcher, with whom the doctor had placed the child to be taken care of, and the child is in the mine with him. In the next chapter we find Mr. and Mrs. Gudge vulgarising in Hyde Park, Mr. Gudge fixing himself upon Sir Frederick and Lady Arden, to their great horror and annoyance, and Gudge actually terrifying Sir Frederick intosending him an invitation to his aristocratical fete. Whence comes the power of Gudge over Sir Frederick ? The latter is the gentleman" of the prelude. THE LATE M. HAREL. The vicissitudes of a player's life were proverbial, even before Geld.mith's charming narrative of the strolling comedian, with which, we presume, no Eng lish reader is unacquainted. Far more interesting. how ever, would be the details of the hopes and struggles of the eventful life, just closed, of the highly-gifted, but unfortunate, gentleman named above. We hope some pen worthy of the task may, before lot g, giv e his me moirs to the world; but, in the meantime, the reader will not be displeased to read the following biographictel sketch of the deceased, which we borrow from a con temporary, and which, from his long connexion with the drama, is not inappropriattly placed here:—" M. Hard, who died about a fiatnight ago, was born in Normandy, in 1790. He was of a good family, and was, when very young, made Sub Prefect of Soissons. On the return of Napoleon from Elba, M. Hard, who was then only twenty-three years of age, was made Prefect of the department of the Landes, but on the Restoration he was exiled, and was not permitted to return to France until the year 1821. M. Hare! wrote successively for the ./Vain Jaune, the Mine: ve, the Cour rier Francais ' and the Constit u ti onne l up to 182 7 , w h en he contract e d a liaiqm with Mlle. Georges, and took an interest in theatrical affairs. In 1828 he obtained the privilege for the Odion Theatre, and in 1832 purchased the Porte St. Martin Theatre of M. Crosnier. In this speculation, notwithstanding occasional successes, he was a great loser; and at length, all his pecuniary re sources being exhausted, he was overwhelmed with debt, and judgment was obtained against him by 150 creditors. In order to preseve his personal liberty, without which he could not carry on the business of his theatre, he took care never to go out until after sunset, but the remedy was ineffectual, for the recors (Anglice, Sheriff's officers), accompanied by the corn missary of police, frequently found their way into the theatre during the rehearsels. The danger having become imminent, M. Harel had a trap made near the prompter's place, and it was so contrived, that by press sing a spring with his foot, it would lower, and carry him with it into the regions below. As soon, therefore, as one of the myr m id ons o f t h e l aw made his appear ance, M. Hard pressed the spring, and disappeared. In vain would he have been searched for in the place to which he descended. But, in order to prevent any officer from venturing upon the stage in pursuit of him, he got a paragraph inserted in the newspapers, stating that there were traps all over the stage, unknown except to the performers, and that an unfortunate recors, whilst pursuing M. Harel, had fallen through one of them, and had broken his leg. This was quite sufficient to pre vent any attempt being made in that way. In order that M. Harel might be apprised when any new judg ment had been obtained against him, nearly half the clerks of the huissiers were in his interest, for he gave them free admissions to his theatre. His per sonal liberty being secured, it was next necessary to prevent a seizure being made at the theatre, for this would have prevented his bringing out his pieces, and he was constantly going on, in hopes of a succis. He had an ingenious mechanism made, by which all the dresses, properties, &c., could in an instant be re moved from one flight to another. Thus, when an officer came to effect a seizure, he was shown into an empty space. On his leaving that to proceed to another part, everything contained in it was whisked off to the place that he had quitted, and so on, until the officer, finding nothing worth seizing, went away. The receipts of the theatre being almost nominal, M. Harel was about to strike his flag, when. he heard of the arrival of Van A m b urg an d his lions at Havre. M. Harel engaged him, and for a time there was at the Porte St. Martin what the French call a succesfou. But as the novelty wore off the receipts di minished, and some new gag—to use a theatrical term— was to be tried. It was announced in one of the journals that a superb lion had been landed at Havre ' of such a ferocious nature, th a t even V an Amburg would not dare to undertake the taming of him. Two days afterwards the same journ a l s t a t e d th at V an A m b urg ' s pride had been roused, and that he had set off for Havre to under take the task. A third article announced that he had succeeded, and would appear the following evening, at the Porte St. Martin, with the new lion. The theatre was crowded to the ceiling. A fine black lion appeared, and obeyed all the orders of his master. The shouts of the audience were tremendous. The lion was only one of his former menagerie, which had been dyed black for the purpose. The trick was never found out, and M. Harel had a few more good houses on its strength. It is related of M. Harel, that one day, when completely destitute of funds, he went to the Mi n i s t er o f t h e Inte rior, to implore M. Thiers to advance him 10,000 f. M. Thiers sent out word that he was too busy to receive him. M. Hare], who was in the cabinet of the Secre tary, wrote—" lam a desperate man—l have a brace of pistols with me, and if you refuse to receive me, I will blow out my brains here.' M. Thiers was alarmed, re. ceived the applicant, and gave him the 10,000 E. At length all the expedients of this extraordinary man were exhausted. He was compelled to give up the theatre, and went on a strolling expedition into the country with Mlle. Georges, and a wretched company of tragedians. He had, indeed, previously shown a desire to live a more tranquil life, and had written an 'Eulogy on Voltaire,' for which be obtained athe chief prize at the French Academy, and some theatrical pieces, which were rather successful. His strolling expedition was a miserable failure; he returned broken in health and stricken in spirit, and the curtain finally fell upon his • strange eventful history' in an asylum for the insane, when he died at Chatillon, near Paris, in his fifty-sixth year. Many witty things and clever savings are attri buted to M. Harel, and there are many, the credit of which has been taken by other men, but which were really his —as, for instance, the remark so long attri buted to Talleyrand, that La parole a ere donned Phomme pour deyuiser sa pensee." THE DISCOVERY OF HUMAN REMAINS, ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS —(SUND AY). It is impossible to describe the sensation that has been created throughout the neighbourhood of Haggerstone, Kingsland, and Hoxton, since Saturday morning, when the appalling discovery of human remains and pieces of coffins were made. Throughout the whole of Saturday and yesterday were to be seen in the immediate vicinity of Wallis's-fields numbers who had been drawn there anxious to witness the remains of those whom they feared might turn out to be some of their own relatives. From inquiries made since the case was brought before Mr. Broughton at Worship -street PoliCe Court on Saturday, the following particulars were ascertained: Richard Pray, a foreman to Mr. Gold, of Worship street, said that Mr. Liddiard, churchwarden of one of the City churchcs; had employed his master to clear out the vaults of a church in Friday. street, Cheapside, and that the human remains and pieces of coffin in question were brought from that church. Inquiries were then made ,in Friday.. street, when it was ascertained that the vaults of St. Matthew's Church had been cleared out as stated by the man, and that the building itself was un dergoing repair. Upon the church doors was posted the following notice, which also tends to confirm the statement made by Mr. Gould's foreman, as to who gave the order for the removal of the remains:-.--" St. Mat thew's, Friday -street. Notice is hereby given that there will be no service in this church on Sunday, the 6th day of September, 1846, in consequence of repairs. Dated Friday, September 4, 1846. Signed W. Liddiard and John Mair, churchwardens." Mr. Jeremiah Long, the senior churchwarden of St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, has spared no pains in try ing to find out the perpetrators of, to say the least, such shameful desecration. He has also exerted him self to find out the friends of the ;persons whose remains have been discovered. There is no doubt that the publication of the names on some of the soffin-plates will bring forward their relations this day at Worship street, when the case is to be again ht ard by the magistrate. Waller, the beadle, was sent oil Saturday by Mr. Churchwarden Long to take charge of all the pieces of coffins and remains of bodies he could find. Upon his r e t urn to the field, he f oun d t h at a vast quantity o f bones, pieces of coffin, & c ., h a d been deposited in holes made in the ground. He, how ever, found about two or three bushels of remains, which he took possession of, and the same were interred in the consecrated ground belonging to the parish in the Hackney-road. _ Th• remains of the coffin; prove that some of them were of recent construction. One is only eight years old. The plate has been cleaned, and has been found to bear the following :—" E. C. Connell, died 21st of February, 1838." Another has the following inscription : " Master John Ingleby, died the sth of February, 1834." A third plate bears the name of " Ann Webb, died," the month, and also the year, are, however, not perfectly legible. 'The police, and also the parish authorities, are making every endeavour to find out the friends of the deceased, so as to bring the offence home to the proper parties. REPRESENTATION OF NORTH LEICESTERSHIRE. -It is understood that at the next general election Lord Charles Mkinners will resign the representation of tho northern division of this county, in favour of his ne phew, the Marquis of Granby. This will create a vacancy in the borough of Stamford, which will be filled by Lord John Manners, who will leave Newark, for which borough the succeeding candidate will be John Henry Manners Sutton, Esq., of Kelham Hall. JURY LISTS.—On Sunday, the list of all men quali fied to serve as jurors for the ensuing year, commenc ing the Ist inst., were posted on the doors of the different atetropolitan churches, as required by the 6th Geo. 4., c. 50. All objections will be heard by the justices in petty sessions for the parishes in the county of Surrey, at the Court-house, Newington-green, on Friday,_ the 25th inst. ; for the parishes in the borough of West minster, at the Guildhall in the Broad Sanctuary, on the 24th inst. ; and fir tho parishes within the Holborn Union, at the board-room of the workhouse, Little Gray's Inn-lane, on the 29th inst. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.— On the afternoon of Friday last, w idle the half-past two o'clock train was on its way to Oxford, and when within about a mile of that city, a cow which had strayed upon the line from a common through which it passes, was knocked down by the engine and killed inst;:ntly. A few days ago the nest of a Guinea hen, contain ing 113 eggs, WM found in an outhouse at Clitheroe.