The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-27 00:00:00

SPORTiNG NOTES CLXXVII. St'l-TING MEETING TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 01 — Lupin opened the ball for the season o n the " 0 Ferusry, and at the expiration of the mont h the ascend SPring Meeting at Liverpool is marked for deal a. From thi s mee ti ng t o t he Houghton at Newmar ie, in October next, with the exception of the Derby nettling week, there is presented an unbroken striog of nmeetings. The card sports fire races for issu e on Wed. , o e 'd 4 Y next, commencing with the Tria l Stakes of 5 6 7a "Oa, with 30 added by the Earl of Se fton ; 3 y rs, 41b. 4 7n, Sat 411 i; 5 pro 9st; 6 and aged , 9 st 41 b;' mares 4 nd geldings allowed 41b, one mile and a q uarter, a subs., or no race. This stake closed on the It of January. and the subscribers have to name °t) Tacsday evening by seven o'clock. The second race ()4 ,, th , eard is the Liverpool Spring C u p (a handica p ) of 100 ~,,vs, i n s p ec i e , by s ubscription of 15 soya. each, 10 forfeit,,,,, and 5 only if declared, &0. , w ith 60 added, one 4 " e and three quarters. Eig hteen acce p tances '‘Ye been obtained to the Cup; one, however, Joe Miller, it t h e s ee ms , was left in by mistake. The difference between .13 and lightest weights is four pounds short of three stone, Abdallah, who figures at the head of the list, at Bst , '1 )istands but little chance of clearing the winning post arse Hungsrford, at Sat 51b, will, 1 take it, without any trouble, dispose of all the heavy weights, although, in opinion not good eough to be te actual t each, ate Wiseman and Kilquade, at h ist 131 b each, of but little account; the Irishman being I best o f th e braise. The Abbess of Jervau x, 7st 11119, ti4B been backed off and on for a good deal of mone y ; bOl from some reason or other which does not seem very i e l le ar, her position in the market is ve r y unstable; I, :waver consider her chance to be a ver y fair one, al otigh the distance may somewhat m ilitate a g ainst it. Telford and La Fiancée, at the same weight as the "bbess, cannot possibly have any chance in her presence. tiehia ' 7st 71b, I hold id dome estee m, as her, running has - year was a; tins earat h ee .eupertor; I expect to, see le rigure well in-the race. .The colt by Red. Deer, out found Sister to Portobello, I shou ld ima g ine will hardly be "Ind at the post. True Girl, Tat 11b, is asserted by her iidmirers to be n , it . only a true, but a good one Ke wi‘e. Her performanc es last year were g enerally Z' s hes victorious kind ; but as . .she beat, nothing but orses of iba trashy class, they will not - diet() rely upon, ; 8 :: guide in this instance. She has found many sup - . B t d eri : but I do not place myself among them. Merry $ fist Ile and Sir Charm Napier, Est 9 1 b, I pre e, will the missing list, or, if runners, will,not g•i'lrora -filly, 3 yrs, 6st- 51b, in the company of a Pn'earl os , at 2 lb s l ess , can have no hopes wh atever. h an ee qlei. sst :111b; may likewise be put' down as hope ;,, — 'The' remaining trio of lightweights , Don Carlos: ; Snowdrop, Est 11b ; and Surprise, sst 111 b, Qua , it is not stall improbable, turn out the trump card; i t „ "gh. despite the great favouritism of the last l eled, it would surprise use alittle were Snowdrop .and nn Carlos to play second fiddle to Surprise. In a word, I ii :Pent the w i nner w ill s p r ing from the light - weig hte, and b`NownnoP will probably be the animal, Surprise od ow Don Carlos in close attendance; Isehia ,.The Abbess, iungerford b e i ng the foremost heavy wei g hts. have already given my opinion on the . Grand Na twnai and although in the generality of my remarks I 4llticipate the exact state of - the case will be found, yet, from certain signs in the market,' I expect on or betore tlrjnr id aY next I shall have to alter my previous sole°. ford, may as well remark, however, that Mel oimple Harry, Dolly's Brae, Silent Friend, ldaria 11 ° , .k, James, Bullfinch, Venture, Maley, ep -rt cm, R.,yal Blue, Perjury, and Buscot are I ,,l_ o insprobable starters. Sir John, it was reported, i t quite up to the mark; it seems, however, that 4 0 _ 3 now himself au , te. Maria I)sy's condition is by lit seettes first-rate. Toe tavourites maintain their po- Vileu,ll firmly in the odds; Chieftain, Miss Mowbray. and ‘rsgo, are in capital condition, and the last accounts C e ) ,, 41 Ladra's quarters report her a s q uite to 'rk• My final opinion on this stake, with all the late st w k n info rmat i on from Liverpool, &c., will app ear-on n itY or Tuesday next. ' • I am, Sir, yours, &c., • THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. mence d_the present analysis, of which a favourable opinion has beep espressadsby corgpotq‘t judges. .it contains 'a :Hebrew Grammar and Paradigms • of- Ver'J The introduction, which-i-. in three pa?ts, treats of the-genuineness of the Pentateuch, and an investigation of the structure of the. Hebrew lan guage. Of the analytical portion the author observes in the preface:— ; • "In this part of it every word is analysed, num bered, sad indeied. In the first chapter all the accents are marked, their.namea andpowers,given and the rea sons assigned, when ihe word's are accented contrary to the general rule. In the first three chapters, all the words are written in the English as well as in the Hebrew charactere„and . sillabled, in order to lessen the cl-theolty ot reading the Hebrew text. Throughout the whole of 'this part of it the principles of the structure of the language, laid stl,)wo. in the third part of tii.e intro dueeion, are ilinstitated; and likewisethe piinciples of the vowel points contained in a grammar whieh.precedes it. The great difficulty that th e student' meets with in tbe acquisition of the Hebreiv Tangnage arises froio,,the.fact that all the welds are uww-to.klitn. This drilidulty can only be mastered by attention'ar.d perseveranee: There: is on royal" rad by which it can be avoid d. In the: study of, more modern -:hinguages,-,,partieillaily,. those which are cognate, and which have common roots, a stuck of vocatdes may tie -obtained -"Comparatively little dificulci. ; • In Hebrew, liowe*y, every word may be said to be new to the learner; its similarity to words in other languages being seldom obvious to him at the commencement of the ,study.. Ho . will Pewisa find words, previonslr knotin, connected , with fragments of • pronouns, or other words,- which modify or alter their meanings, iinCivhictCgreatly.disguiiie their formS, and often prevent him ; from again reeOgoiiing them. Dori vatiyes are few in Hebrew, compared with those in the .Tudo-Enrops•s4l.languages; compound words, that is those *hiefi are wade. up. of two or more- distinct , words, are almost, unknown, so that the knewledge of iznn waid:'ll . 6lol - the leainer but to a very few others." Having thus . shown„the difaculties of the student, the author i,rocee s cis to remove them as far as; possible, by showing the principles of the cOMposition of words and the gameral itructura of the- - Hebrew language. The work must prove of the . greatent assistance to . the learner„ vv,ho,will derive most valuable information froth the various divisions of the volume: - - • Beb. 27, 1852. --........._=._ ''PORTING INTELLIGENC'. TATTERSALL'S — YES TERDAY. ‘.. 9 LIVER POOL SPRING CUP. : '. t° 1 agst Mr. 'Gooch int Surpriae—take 9 to 4 ... LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. . ; 10 t o i -11, '' agst Mr. Atkinson's Chieftain • • . ~,. 1 2 ' cl I opt Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray—take n • 20 -to ,„ .1 agst Mr. Goodwin's La Gana Ladra • 261,,,4 agst Mc. S. Thompson's Hardwick ..,. '" 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John ao •° I agst B Ch arling's Bedford, 6 . yrs old—taken - . to 1 Sot Mr. oyee's Bedford, 5 yrs bld —take n 1 ' 111 METROPOLITAN HANDICA P. 21 0 1 apt Duke of. Bedford's Hesse Homburg, . 4 4 . ' yrs, 7st 3 1 b 15 • .tol a b t General Anson's Backbiter , age d, Bat 31b 25 g to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Haresfoot; 4 yrs, sst 71b CHESTER CUP. No betting. 1 , DERBY. ' ,I to I eget Mr. Merry's,llobbie Noble7-taken 1 , to 1 aget Mr. J. Stanley's Orelio N a , . ;, to 115 agst Mr. J. Scott's Phantoro—taker zp,,, * above quotations, with very few . exceptions, are .. ''''', op_from offers. Business was unusually dull. ittV E .on P OOL ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. tk, 6 ,,...tuaday evening Mr. Copeland in troduc i ng tis popular 61 1 , - ", a let dramatic performanCes, for the fie gs __hule to the Liverpool public a Yankee actor named 'ti: / e 'w , who created a great eensatiop at the Adelphi 4. 04 :tre 2 in London, during the last few months. Mr. h its Silsbee is undoubtedly the best comedian America h e ever sent us; and if we may judge by the laughter h eated ated on Tuesday night , when. we saw him in a %lb:tilled the Yankee Ploughboy, he will prove highly bs o , " l i_ee. at the above estat.ensument. He does not give Itia;: idea of the 'cute town Yankee, tall and slim, boaa chewing tobacco and whittling, but the rough, ov et e*,_and smart rustic Yankee, full of droll sayings, htte k , °yru T with cunning, and a fund of bread unctuous th orn " a r which is irresistible. His dress is quite unique, lutte n a tll4 home-spun and rough, and of the most esai. Z` j r•Provoking description; while his walk, his ac tetairs look, and dancing are irresistibly comic, and off t he unlike anything we ever saw before, either on or 'Pleegsh4tlle---although, doubtless, true to nature. The lug, t he played in was poor,. and the plot so bewilder cue we.will not attempt to describe it. In tact, no 1 4,_11167. re e for the piece—it is all Silsbee—whom the tteeti",t ? Our at with a perseverance andenergy which ti on," g i,",: . `e moat blasé playgoer. He convulsed the house : 4 %," ~v , r ° eghly Yankee story of a " sausage specula. 't w ere b i le the string of Jonathanisms, which rolled, as a l an yw e ever his lips, were as preposterous and absurd quit e - 'e ever met with in print. Silsbee, in fact, is yeneris—" none but himself can be his pa. se e 1 1 ; and all who eni°y hearty laugh should go and • r p 0 I Times, Feb. 26. , G RE i 088 SOUTHERN AND WESTFAtN ( I 'LELAND) RAILWAY Iniles). Return for the we ek ending Feb. 21:— p ztssengars, parcels, &c. £3,135 18 10 M erchandise and cattle 1,017 13 3 C orresponding Week last Total L 4,153 12 1 year ... 4,345 9 5 JUR HOLMPIRTH CATASTROPHE.—PIIBLIG MEET AT ItAatclizsTEß -Yesterday in compliance with a -maal7YbilumiaptemusnflY.lign W.:equisitiori;a public meeting of the Itob at „,„ 1 / 2 1 4ci th tei• was held in the Town Hall ; th e meeting. wan .14k ,consider emayor, presiding. The object of tor raising a subscripti on • taken the stops necessary to be_ . ferers by the recent cats behalf of the surviving suf ferers Was addressed by the v. Josi a h ath Rev. Holmfirth. The meeting derefield; the Lord Bis hop Bateman vicar of Flud •of Manchester' James Charles torth, E s q., Sir J o hn Potter, the. R e , 44 0 Ma Bailey, CanonStowell, litllev, and the Rev. Canon Esq. the Rev. H. W. v:' IA Grath, the Rev. 4 tehard s Fletcher, the'Rev.pr. c"„!ay. Resolutions exp r e s si ve of sympathy with the tut -ers, and appointing a committee to receive subscriptions, were • unanimously. Before the -meeting el)lCarried separated cribed, including one donatio on e ` 1 ,3301. was sli a a of 2001., - I W.t/ and sixteen o • f 50/ each, with othe elite & ~ - re of smaller T he followi ng memorandum is from the C oin . Tnitte e B ndholders :-" The Committee of I d . of Mexican o eale an in conformity with what they belies B ondholders have, rtheir constituents, opened ncgotia tise to be the wish o. Mex i can assignment to the m of 4 :(),, for an advance on the Indeinnity; and hope, a f ter '_ ",000 dolls. i,f the American United States early neat Wq:errivEd of the packet from the . factory result." We ek, to be able to communicate a setts Th i •yesterday of Messrs. x„ e allure was announced Their liabilities am ount Shoobridge, and Co., shawl-printers. t h e difficulties of cunt to about 40,0001.0 r 50,0001., and as . is feared the m e l ino have not been of recent growth, it s ets will prove small. P A cc Mau DO TaIOTIC TOAST AND SENTIMENT.— . _ j us . foreigner ever be before us in civilization, or behind I .h b attle Punch. , • - C0n,,,„ „, return to „the -.. E LECTORS. --ACCOTaing to a 'Si (Wee of Commons (yesterday printed), obtained by fo=rtte r r „,, - Ileathcote, the number of county • electors regis %-, property situated within the limits of each borough Th•Emgland was 76;827, and in Wales 4,948, making 81,775. 14 total cotiuty constituency in England is given at 396,967, ut Vales 31,856, making 428,823 ' Da A , rtee; - ' l3l - or LADY CARBERY.-tocounts have been lav--°ed. from Ireland announcing the death of the above Ca tie The melancholy event took place at the fa . mily seat, r i ie Freke, Ross-Carbery, .on Monday, 23d mat. s eer , of who WM in her 86th year. was the third daughter e "rthor Saunders, second Lord of Arran, by the lion. le Anneals A.nnesle daug hter of William, Viscount Glenaw .l,l, and married, ? - 3' Jan u ary, 1783, John, sixth Lord Car coa*„ 'By.her Ladyship's death considerable estates in . _ t he . ter e es of Cork and Limerick, in which she held a life in- Bt, devolve upon the present Lord Carbery. TR. Q h a , - .PITAL SERMON.-The Bishop of Manchester Lord Al a consented to preach the sermon this year before the , the Y ? ra od Corporation, on behalf of the Royal hospitals of Mond ay. of J London. The ceremony will take place on Easter at Christ Church, N ewga te-street. 'Gov °ST AGE STAMPS POE THE RomaNs.--The Roman a t Cnnient have sancti o n e d the introductio n of p osta g e Wim ps for the pre -payment of postage on . letters. The It i • s pis about th e s i ze o f t h e E ng lish'postage stamp ; a nd on •4,,represe n t at i on of the tiara an d k e ys, the badge of Papal ttnY and power. , P LEA r b e th e -"R THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH. -It • seems to ea _,. desire. of our leading statesmen that the shouldpresshecon .Willed use Parliamentary language' For t .1 „.0 reputation of English literature we hope journalists .„: 1 ° no such thing.-Punch. P h AO T A , , mg.- uric . meet; -- VILTHOP2EDIC HOSPITAL --The annual J. )37 t g of this charity was held yesterday in the board-room, Ulm. ' l4 ' s q . . DIP in the chair. By the report it appeared the • *, 44 receipts for the year amounted to 2,418. ~ iand after Th e () Ing the expenses there remained a balance of 11,01. le _ tal number of patients admitted duringtbo year was ~:kl 3 , 1 .. 1 , 4 _ , . _, sis l Ooa , —"Log a total since the opening of the char ity "' THE SUN, LITERATURE. THE METAMORPHOSE'S OF APULEIUS. A Romance of the Second Century. Translated by Sir George Bead. Longman and Co. Already the student of letters had reason to be grateful to Sir George Head for his translation from the Italian of Cardinal Paccsi's "Autobiography . ." His present contribution to our imported literature will, if possible, be still more peculiarly acceptable. The " distinguished 'foreigner" to whom Sir George acts in the present instance in the capacity of drago man, is this time, however, no denizen of the nine teenth century, much less one among the eminent ecclesiastics of Christendom. As the title-page, or rather as the mere title•of the work indicates, it is the volume of the " Golden Ave," peneed by Apuleius of Madaura ,as far back as thet' seemed century when, standing as it were almost equi-distant between the modern epech 'and the days - of. antiquity, the Pagan- scholar watched—him self not altogether unmoved —the contentione then raging among the opposing Yanks of'the be lievers in classic mytbolo,ey and the -believers - he: Christian Revelation. A Nutnidian bYliiith; and Roman by adoption, Apuleius acquainted hittself-at an early age with the various phases of life during his generation, by travels extending over .a great part of Asia, over Italy, and over Greece. His marriage at: Oea, a town situated near Tripoli„ and passed through by him when on his way to Alexandria, is, of- all, the most interesting among the chequered in cidents in his career—the most -interesting, at least, of those vicissitudes which have been happily preserved to our remembrance... It was -in consequence of his union with the rich widow Tudentille, that he was compelled by her relations to stand his trial on the of witchcraft, a trial . which actually 'tnok place at Sabrata, in the presence of Claudius Maximui the. proconsul. How the - accused vanquished his: calumniators upon that occasion, what. adroitness 'he displayed in his defence, and what signal approval lie wrested from his -auditors, are fects already familiar to those - acquitinted with his'" Apology.' A con siderable portion, however, even of our educated • classes, may not be so well acquaitited - vvith the vs rious and marvellous occurrences recounted' in his' more celebrated "Metamorphoses"—being deterred from the perusal of a volume in' all other respects fascinating, by the crudeness , and the-disagreeable imperfections of - its Latinity. Many are doubtless aware of the leading events in the life of Apuleius, who are, for the reason mentioned , a lto g ether ig norant of the real charms of his literary master piece. In rendering the " Golden Ass " into our vernacular, Sir George Head has • effected for old Apuleius what was originally effected in a similar manner for old Rabelais by Urquhart, His transla tion reads throughout clearly and unmistakably as, a translation—many of the gentences having a construe.: tion as purely Latinized as any in the prose writings of Milton—but it is scarcely a jot the less admirable on that account, evidencing, as that very circumstance does, its careful and scrupulous atcurecy. As a ver sion from one tongue into another, the volume before, us is remarkable for its faithfulness : and the story, or " romance," as it is not unhappily termed by the translator, suffers nothing from its transformittioo from the incorrect original into a fluent and at times' eloqUent example of our own language. Than the " Golden Ase,' or, as Sir G eor g e prefers to,call it -. simply, "The Metamorphoses," there is no more preci ous curiosity preserve , : to us from the waxen tablets and scrolls of papyrus, upon which were first indited the intellectual treasures ot antiquity.. Allowing fora little anachronism, it is precisely the work which, having been unheard of by moderns until then, it would have been appropriate to have dis covered in the subterranean city of Pompeii, or',of Herculaneum, to have foun d a copy of it lying, I for example, upon one of the .tables in,the house of Salina. It-admits us into_ secrets elsewhere. impene treble. It unfolda before us the whole routine. of thee daily life ot the pagan 'multitude, during - the second century of Christianity. Through ie3 pope we are enabled to follow the Roman of that age, within those dorcieetic limits preaided over by the fares and penafes, as well in as into the sanctuar ies of that mystic worshipwhich he proffered his homage to One or other among ehe principal divinities of the Pantheon. We stand by him on the hear th,,we walk with him through the forum, we follow him.into the fields, we accompany him even in the holiest pre-. cincts of the most sacred temples of his,religion. Everywhere the doors are flung open byhand of the R.omancist as we track his steps in the mean dering course of his narrative. And what a narrative it is ! abounding from first to last with the marvel lous, replete with poetry, both of thought and of ex_ pression, and coloured with the most gorgeous dyes of fiction,' dyes unsurpassed in brilliancy even by the variegated splendour of the "Arabian Nights' -En tertairn:nents. ' Occasionally, indeed, there is per ceptible in the " Golden Ass" a kindred richness of imagination to that revealed in that oriental encyclo paedia of fiction—as, in truth, is actually remarked by the present translator of Apuleius, when in the fifth episode we find mention made of the talking water, calling to mind the babbling fountains and warbling leaves* mentioned, if we remember rightly, in the tale of one of the One-Eyed Calendars. It is also observed with some show of reason by Sir George Head, that in the narrative of the soporific vapour re enclosed by Cupid in the box of Proserpine, Chamisso may have obtained his first notion of the devil rolling up and carryit* away the shedone of poor, Peter Schle- - m il, Further on is the - story) inflect, towards the close of it, it is observed in a footnote, that,Le Sage,. in his " Gil Bias," has been greatly indebted to the Metamorphoses," as may be recognised in a glance at the record of the cave of robbers, - of the captive damsel, and of Dame Leonarda, While we are al luding to these singular and interesting coincidences, 'we may briefly refer to that description, at'page 358, of the piper " sounding a warlike D iric melody upon en instrument, which, mingling a heavy buzzing sound with the s har p blast of a trum p et," is here supposed to have indicated " the origin of the bag pipe." .Tbose who may still be unacquainted with the fascination. of this wondrous fiction of Apuleius, will find, on -nn examination of the present volume, that Sir George Head has afforded them reason to b e thankful for one of the must bewitching books that pagan wizard ever penned for the delectation of Christian as well as infidel reader. Following in it the fortunes of Lucius, it is impossible not to become very speedily interested in his welfare and his misfortunes, even prior to his memorable transfor mation into An Ass, namely from hiS departure from Corinth to his interview with the two travellers, to his arrival at Hypata, to his admission into Miens house, to his acquaintance with his mother's friend Berrimns, to his flirtations with the servant maid Fotis, and so on through the incident, at first terrible, but at last ludicrous, of his arrest, and trial for the murder of three citizens, up .to the fetal moment when he watched the witch Pamphile change herself into an owl, and thereupon • endeavoured himself to emulate:her transformation. By Fotis's mistake in the selection of the magic ointment, however, Lucius becomes metamorphosed into e. donkey, and thenceforth come all those sufferings end vicissitudes which only terminate with his - restoration to his original shape by eating some roses during the procession of Isis,,shortly after which he is initiated into the mystic rites 'of. that goddess and of the divinity Osiris. e Those who, have. never themselves glanced through the pages of this celebrated v olume can heve no adequatthe expe coaceteo. tion of the abounding fancy of which it is nent. The ingenuity of the plots, the alternation of the sources of exc it e ment, the diversity of the charac dlitiee by charac ters introduced, the surprises that are constantly startling the reader into attention and kindling a new curiosity as to the denouement—are all of them qua and perpetually swhich the work is peculiarly and plentifully out for the ever rauittiivnguished. -From the commencement of the nar e to its conclusion, you hurry on with an eager ment. His sufferings increasing anxiety, solicitous through out of the unlucky wight Lucius, who seems miseries with with the gardener, wit h d oo med to calamity and disappoint' :l e r with the robbers, his escapes his w ee h lous impostors, with the baker,- itsif-leziftinegic. i r l i t at s ia z tni,sme the of the the soldier, with the cook and warmest stages in his career as a confectioner—e donkey, enlists our sympathies in his behalf the beneficence of until the momeet when, t i t ir lgisr ne is relieved from the torments additional consequent r a 6 c ll . dons to a story his metamorphoseisn. must not omit to enumerate the vani„Yus attractive, we which the main: history, that of Lucius , i s with inte • episodes as.the " Tale of A '. epersed—sdch ristomatrea " that the Commercial Traveller,_ _ of. " Dioph aiie : the Chaldean," that of: , c' Telephron the gtudent,", that of "The Robber, ,. together with those of the " Rural Tyrant," of the " Wicked S'epniother," of, th e e Woman Condernue-d to be thrown to Wild Beasts," of the "Singular Punishment of a Crimi nal," of the " Death of Charity acd Tlepolemus".__ and and, best of all, that exq uisite story of " Cupid Psyche," which is the must beautitullegend preserved to us anywhere of that lovely old mythology. Perhaps the most unsatisf4ctory portion of the whole of the work under review , is that descriptive ot Lucius' initiation into the Pagan mysteries --the account of those secret rites being little more than a jumble of ambiguous insinuatio n s . • the " Meta- By presenting morphoses of Apuleius to us to an English public in the I guise of an e_egant and l i t eral • Sir George translation, Head has conferred a b ene fi t upon th e reading pope`' lotion, a benefit for which every classic student will be eager to proffer his acknowledgments. ANALYSIS AN/) CRITICAL INTERPRE7. TATION OF THE HEBREW TEXT OF. . THE BOOK OF GENESES, By the Rev. William Paul, A. 31. While engaged in the study of the Hebrew lan guage some ye!irs ago, it occurred to the writer of this volume that a very useful work might be corn posed to assist the learner, having the Hebrew text of Genesis for its basis. Under this impression he COM'. LONDON;' . . ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. ,By the Author of " Sketches of Cantabs." . Earle. - The reader is informed in the preface of this book that it is'a m light woik." It conoerns America, and will probably -furnish very useful information to those desirous of extending their acquaintance in the new world. The styleis free and easy ;it describes the socidl vystOrns;•the mode of carrying on transactions, and the domestic habits a the Americans. A DISCOURSE CHURCH GOVERN MENT. By the Most Reverend John Potter, Archbishop of Canlerbisry. 'Revised and Cor. rected by the Rev. John L. Crosthwaite.' W. Tegg and Co. Tills *is the - eighth - editiOn of the work in question ; it was originally published in 1707. The'fact of its remaihing in elistotwe for upwards .of :a century, speaks of itself for its value .end merit. The inten tion of the authOr was. to establish, the ,knowledge of the principle upon 'which the Church of. England, ever since the. Reformation, has maintained her rights, and the just prerogative of the civil magistrate. The following are the subjects treated of:--The naY We and constitution of the Cbristiah Church ; the foundation and' government of th e Church whilst Christ lived on earth; .thegovernMent of the Church in the time of the Apostles ; from tbeir time till the time of Constantine the Great; and lastly, the - powers which betong.to the Church. Inits present form the book appeara with ittereased , attractions, as it has been illustrated with additional notes and authorities. The students oftheology must be interested in such a publication, and will doubtless deiive great assistance from its learnedltreatiiei. : - HI T S u T R O I R . Y vo O i t : V T .T H I. E and E r . 1 11 1 1. 2 1y E F N . C T . ll Sch C l E oss N ei Translated by D. Davidson. Chapman and Halt.. ..We here ult-ct with au extensive plan of hi stor y . 16 period extends from 1799 till 1815.. The sub jects included are'the countries of Europe during that eventful time. • All the plans. of Napoleon are related, his campaigns dwelt upon, and the unprecedented effects they produced- ,upon all the kin_gdoms of the bein continent" - tatefullY particularised. The work ioncle.r o , r 4 ig s t that Ljy..hy tb a er Ge e-is rm g a r n es , tiptairsti:olitt;subcohi'vnto forbe his filli*Aind.' _Oa the other .side, th e admirers of N4P4o.'n-Will doubtless-be disappointed that the great- Emperor is so often slightingly spoken of. H owever, to ootain a correct opinion of history both sides should be perused, without -permitting- the mind to be biassed by any peculiar or 'national - prejudiBek, which must inevitably present themselves in details so near our own days. In attentively studying the work before us much valuable information will be gained by those who have hitherto only read over the summary of the chief events,: instead of gradually watching their de velopment and tracing them to their finality, noting down their influence and estimating their advantages. As a most useful and interesting chronicle of impor tant epochs, theie Volumes will be duly appreciated. PRINC-E,SS'S THEATRE. Flexmor9's beu e fit last; evening wag. a genuine u Put of the, being completely ocruPrpeied' by revery tile rising of the ettrtain. That extraor dinary and entrancing drama Thi,Cor.sican. Brothers pr educed the same unprecedented -sensation on the audience as itdid on Thesday nigh o e. panto mime, which kas now passed, ifs jubilee night, went off with peculiar . - freshneat and spirit. Miss Le_clereq and tormWoh:, who claimed most admirably, And indeed all concerned, seemed determined to put forward their'utthoilt powers in honour of the star of the evening. "A"very pretty little intermediate ballet, entitled The Gipsy, arranged by Flexmore , gave occasion for ;Madile t Auriol's ext-cation of the Cracovienne and a spirited pas de deux with the bOefoictire. !Both dances were encored with flatter ifllorgmwearrmwtabs. singularly appmpriate yadlle. Auriol's Polish costume in the and becoming:, arid her performance iu both was characterised by a felicitous combination of activity -And refinement. Flxmore's reception was what a seven years' estab lishediavourite at_this theatre might expect from its frequenters. .As _our first pantomimist he is 01 6 ' newly - deserving of public patronage, and it was certainty - dispensed to him last ' evening in the heartiest and most ample manner. By not over crowding the bill of fare, as is but too often injudi ciously done on; benefit . nights, the performances were over at hal4past eleven OLYMPIC THEATRE. Apiece from the Freud), called the Advocate and hie Daughter, was produced with . success last evening et this the,:tre. , It is more pleasing than striking. Tpe plot turns ppon the incident, of a French advo clte or barrister succeeding, by his forensic skill, in annulling a clandestine marriage, fthe lady concerned in which he" discovers, in the middle of the process and beforefhis cOlieluding speech, to be his own daughter, ' , whom he thinks 'abroad in Italy. The Oats are the cliscdVery of the fact, and the 'subse quent struggle 1 upon the father's _part between duty tni his client and affection' for ',his daughter. The dinonement consists in the softening of the plaintiff in the (tlad)fcriii4g hu'sband's father), a majestic baree,4ajeitiOally rendered lby Mr. Diddear. The bride was played by Miss Sarah Lyons,, with natural impulse and feeling.' Mr. Ferret), Miss Lyons, :and Mr. Hoskins were called before the curtain at the 'conclusion. 4 , LAST LAYS' OF THE PrnAnui)s.—The panorama of the Nile, we Understand, is about to close. This is the . oldest of our pictorial. moving exhibitions, and has been a great favourite with the public. We regret that it has to leave London, but before it goes it may be wellto warn those who have not already seen it that the oppOrtunity for so doing will soon have 'pissed 'away.. Since its removal to .Pall-mall, 'lf has received some very attractive additions p b i f a ' c t e h d e b c e i f t o y r , e b u u s t , which it did not IposseSa under its on phrase. Formerly' ItialtiiiiwdwwteheseapwagsstroefaetiC?: oiarfoiEtwiysnpat'rarsobrnwireirso-peyoleis. thoroughfares,viaere. still ringing --With the tread of Haroun al Raschid,.and still reminding us '4ii the ortraal ~of modern tripmphal ceremonies of th 'glorious p proces y siOns which ever greeted the entry 'of Saladin.e rhe interest of the Nile as a subject must ever continue t ith the river, and before this vivid delineation of its aeenery ceases Lobe one et onfinefropOlitan exhibitions, it will be r in tot'teresting.,a,;dnedesrvaida etkesiirotnanr t : obtain i,lad i - an ; pyramiditl e idea t o f: h wi i shatE sepulchre. g Y p t w . a . s in the days her pro u d Pharoahs when cities were set apart for tombs, E • EQUALIZaatON OF TUE L A ND-TAX.—.A. meeting of the inhabitani,tdf the liberty of the Rolls, to . take into trn 'a es b a j revenue, but to th t P he eq u u nt a t l ? iz t a . tion of the lanct.!.tax, was held at in the chair . _ Mr. yesterday eVening i - Mr. Steel the r. Shaw_said. they met to take* into can- Which the s a c n t a to in ju th st e ice ta:t t, t a h s- e divisin. ine qu alitiesTahm.eut of the land-tax in the Holborn ment of the sums paid by th r 1692. 'He. submitted a state made since-th:ewyt wade. There had been lle as mpstead, 135 t, 4d., the liberty of compared .it yvitti others. Ti7,54r:1440311es of. tlolhorn, and Rolls 1,437/. ss . )3d., St. Mary a mannersource St. (ieorge bald it present oii iiri4 l p of St. Andrews . and etas 1,3991. ss. Id:, Si- John's , Ha mpstead, ." I cL Si-. Pau- P,addington 3544 6s. tOd.- He asked 855/. 17s. 4d., large and wealthly parishes of Marylelt It was fair that the should pay so mUch less than their,sina e a " : St. Pancras i division. In Oa it oWn parish the', land.'•r a leighbours in the the pound, in . arylebone only Is. 4d. Re;. 2s. 6d. in the present u equal, mode ; of assessing - tart°aP"ed that - tngland and Wales was not only illegal, but ealled u-tax In Equitable distribiltion; Mr;Josepti Lowe sec fo ra more seconded the reso- lution, which was carried . unaininobily. Two other. resolu d on s wer,f PeseSl—Fit.4,, that the'eommittee should W a ii . lipon the'COdinOioners foro6i op i n i ons; and next, drat the inhabitants of the Rolls liberty be requested to aid the ' Committee with subscriptions.`' . . : -, • - i • . QuEBEC,...E, ,-; E.B. - G.—NOVEL guxcuor.—A.n l suicide extra- Of to o k . Ordinary caseplace recently at Tecumseh, near Streetsville, Canada , West. A poor woman named Withal)* diWen to desperation by a drunken hUsband, took an axe to bed wi t h actually rubbed her neck against it until she seveied the windpipe. FRIDAY - EVENING; SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FRO3I THE 71,10itNING} PA.P.EILS OF TRIS,DAT. TIalE5.--41abiagh the gentle Men of the Anti-Corn- Law League who assembled the other day at Manchester have wisely determined to wait for an actual declaration of war, souse of them show a nervous anxiety to pro 7 voke Lord Derby to that fatal and unnecessary step. The worthy chairman, whose solid speeches have so often given his hearers a keener relish tor " the una dorned eloquence" of the next speaker, will evidently he grievously disappointed if to-morrow's post does not bring him the news of Lord Derby's political suicide. " The head of the new . Government," he says, "is pledged to - the restoration of protectioti; it is not a question with him of to-day or yesterday, nor will it be a question of to-Morrow, , tillit is disposed of. With him it - is the sole object; and almost the perpetual aim of his party, in desiring - ato renew the Conservative e l em ent in the Government—to restore protec rl i f:Cr S m 3 Or s t al sl r l p t i e r. t) ti G g er r h g e e re W than i l6°11 .; .one usually the fi re o finds and reiteration, V 7 0 .811 of us knOW ia' weak fera l in " kw langt'nge of , b4sicees-like or serious men; . , s often a wea of exeggeratien. IV it - really true that Lord Derby eteedi at this moment cotnraitted to Arlie at protection. in -that blind and determined : feishien heie described? Wereit so; we 'Shetild 'nOt' have a' word to sey to his Lordship, for wesiteuld - i4rtitinly think it as little kind-' ness Whim . as to the 'country to' flatter him with the hope 'of aasingle week's power. Bat what - is the proof, the sole proof, on which Mr. G. Wilson ventures this earl strong and alarming estimate of I. Derby's intentions? The proof is such that the estimate falls to the ground the moment we hear it. "He. did not know if gentlemen nad read attentively his statement' at the opening of the present Parliament , but he (Mr. G. Wiison) 'perceived, 'on referenee to that - statement; that lie'veas as distinctly position could he —to the , restoration of the corn-laws." with most laudable net in an official e d : , then b i e n— proceeded, as n s ,o • , an' 13 man Y all that - Lord Derby, sold the • first night of , the . session on the sub- M fairness, pledged r;G. i sW t to tel . qic°u°l Wilson ject of protection.- This we will not :quote over again, 'tor it is spite unnessary to do so. 'All that Lord Derby said on that eccesiou, wh ether . in, his, speech,er when cross- auestioeed by Lord Yarborough, etrong as it was, en d ex pli c it es it was, only amounted to a decided opinion iu favour of protection, Emd e n desire to see it aestored. His opinio, he said, had undergone no alter a - tion, But, is any r oan committed fairs ,. try given course of actien,by the mere - expressiott .01 his opinions and' wishes? There are very few statesmen, if any , who have not iiften given utterance to opinions and aspira tions which they do not dream of - bei — e 8 able to carry into action. In this land of free thought, send in a Le* , gislature the atmosphere of which is as flee as that of the ptiblio, platform or. the private, hearth, est er ", man is permitted to express his opinion without_ entailing the reeptinsibilitY of a pledge. If we oacteae g i ek to ostracise men of their opinions, we shall -lose not; iely valuable • Menabitt,"vih at is more; that freedom of speech which is the breath 'of free States, and which enables as to know whoin we hive to deal with. We allow.a man to, hold an to avoii'ifie atitirect opinion in favour of the exclusive.pree tensions of the Chureh eof EnglanCi, or the Church of Itoint•infaviiur of any point of the Chartez.---in- favour of deitiociattie'liestitatiene, or _any_other possible or im possible change, so longaec he is content to shape his hotuai measures to the ,circumstepees of the times and to the'dertiaudi of the peoPle. We did not ourselves un derstand 'Lord .- Derby to goat all beyond a str ong ex .. Preisieb or Ottinieb. Ner is this any new remark of ours, . for in our observations on his speec h W e said - - - e" The Earl of Derby in fact is bidding fir power, and the.iiiy ,Moderation of his toile hetarena a, Man already trembling with Ministerial responsibility. But we defy any auctioneer of political property to describe the okeet terms of the bid in this instance. If the Protec tiouists have commissioned the Earl of Derby for this Pdic 6 , We must beg to inform them that, th'ough he has gtatified the ears of a polite, assemblY , and w on , t h e price of his rivals, he has not dOne .the business :with which he was charged. Re has not told the' .liouses of Lords what he is prepared to do, and whether he is irisincilititely prepared to do anything at all for the good of the agriculturists. • All that he asks for his own followers is, leave to doubt whether, after $ few years, it may not,pethsPe be advisable . to-levy a duty of 3s; or 4s. a quart e r ee foreign wheat. This possible pioblematiepaulo post futurum expedient is the moat solid and Appreciable item in his budget, or rather the oil One—the solitary crumb of hope left at- the bottomef his .political wallet." - ' Among other observations to the same purport we also observed, that " there Was scarcely a hit in the speech which- lnight not Have been interchanged is the most amicable spirit between the members of • the Government themselves, and.certainly none that • should preclude th e hope of Lo r d D er b y ' s • own ultimate co-operation." Of course we may even now be'mistaltent but that we, our impression at the time, before there was any immediate expectation of a Ministerial crisis. That impression of the speech we seennreason to alter; and if it be true, Lord Derby it at this-moment quite -at liberty to post pone the question of free • trade altogether till the people are evidently sick of it...--6 time which his Lordship may - think very - near, - but which we think about ay remote a contingency as tie ap proach of it cornet or any other purely speculative events Mr. G. Wilson does not, indeed, state the case against Lord Derby without any qualification. He onl y says that his Lordship is as distinctly pledged "as any man not in an official position could be. That is con siderate ; but he might have carried his consideration somewhat further. A man not in an ofieiel position could have pledged himself very much more, or .rather he could have pledged himself, which Lard Derby did net on this occasion. Had his Lordship asoved a reso lution, and divided the House on the Cern-laws' or some other kindred question, and so stest into power —or had he announced what he m ean t to do in the event of his accession to power, either of those courses would have been a pledge which it would have been nec e ""Y to redeem. But hafact then' ' of the sort 1 'll e is nothing this instance. Lord Derby, ea th e: conigjeooolCOnnt ,01 the session, merely said that his opinion NVOI uncha n g ed ' in vigorous hgt not, very . serious labua e. Wat do ubted, ;te a we must be permitted still to doubtg whether he 011 *as not ." cajoling' . his. m ore hoist' 81auu trouble sante follower), though quit e tine' er t cit)y his mere s ensible and intelligent allie s . lea IVett; says " 1 will de e " or "I would do," or commit himself to any course of Wattle ,which- the people . did not demand of than Centiot a• lien `out Of Office'. de . naut3h morhe more : And have not men out of office does n' ac u ee — r ia s i very lately? Mr. G. Wilson, then, should have 0 .-- ---- his qualification much further. "rit e words he quoted pledged Lorcl.,Derhy. to. nothina b t to speak the truth, I not to- immediate action. Ravioli'stated his abstract opinion, and having taken nothingby' 3 it, done nothing, obtained nothing, he stood wholly unp!edged. Had he simply said that he thou g h t t h e. Ch urc h of England had a claim to every man's cit'' , in this island, and that the day would Come when all men would hock to its scum, he would not have been .thereby hound to pro pose -a law - against dissent or a re-im os i t ion of the Test 0 H - an d Corporation Acts. - a . -' 5 WIZ -into:office, not in cons eauence of 'anything . he has said this session, or anything he has said at all, b u t simple because, one .Government having relic'---, he c' ---, ne h ppenato bo the only Mau who can form another. Of course, a- we find ourselves considerably abused for stating the a ase natural light. We are trimming , • • are singing h d "—we are a a peen° e worshipping the rising sun—we are undermining the obligatioa of pi e d ees _ s te are asking a feir trial for confessed political millefacters. But we are acting only in' the - i n t erest , a . truth, commoni sense, and our country. 'Wh at can be the possible ad „tentage of trying to entangle a l argo party, compre .eeiiteug a majority of the country gentlemen, and many .wont useful anchexcelleut man in tat a one net of error , and potting on them a : perpetual , bread o f po litical disability? la the people, of. ,England are tO. go on at this rate, blesting every •perty in suc'eestion, and , tying to every th e e ', Deck all 'the e foolish things,. all the hasty things - , Al! 64 l'eatiggeT c a t ie ee - ---n o' , and all the' merely semi' Me nhir of cases s th'engS; he harry a a a e 'd ro pped in the whole• of his career's and then call them pledgee— Jet them look to it, for they will not Only damage, th'cy .will utterly ruin,thetr cq 4 n trY. Here we are with four dist i nc t parties in the Legislatur e , ne i ther ea them at all approaching to- a majorit y in the , l o wer House. Our -onlY chan". of good government, is -that these . four parties should think )383 of their differences end more of their commee points; and t h at instead of representing e }star , schools of abstract opinion they should `meet on the common ground of practical improveinent As this is really the only chance for the nation, we cannot respect the zeal of those who amuse themselves by baiting and badgering enthusiastic or loquacious every e politician to stick to has said 'or everything he done, however, h e may w i s h to forget it. To us it seems much of a piece with the schoolboy trick of trying to persuade two inoffensive lads 'that they are each ot hers enemies, and m , e ust fight it out. • Of course there are people who think they have an in (crest in the ruin of every party in its tore; but they must be looking government to some other form of than that we live under. We see no op, kit% wh atever atever for the nation, except every party should have the greatest possible freedom of action ! room for repentance,_ encouregement to conversion, and - oblivion of errors, that cr. moraleed co ns i stent , * ._, the maintenance of politicaly a nt i eise , faith. y with 'DAILY NEWS. — When the Earl o f '-'" . Derby was last tharteed with the fornittioia'or a Ministry, h e evinced Some retention of his early principles,. and of those i ialous which satiated. hies e ven after ta. t ee separatiou from the Whigs. AirremembeihOw ,• even who h - a declared suc h Tory, be objected to the sending), a with as' Lord Londonderry to the Court of . St. - Pete rs h or - h K Ia the yams spirit, when Lord Derby was training his Cabinet l a sayear, he ierknowit to have . I te acted Sir htratiord Cannitii to be Minister for 'Foreign Affairs., `We now find the inexperienced Lord _Dit ti a a lm e es t hury ft etiolated . to at e t - poet... This -may either. rta I f rorn - its not bein g nobaßsudor re , ~ ~ Worth, while to reuiCee *ens 04 . 66 . iii a mini an impudent Psiti t ' '' ili 'Cl ' i a d ' v e t st ‘ k t s ° ' t il: tion; the othea reason clay a few instates' ur •:-----,-,-, El l o ss i 4 by not - a - ; ; ma)? " 13 ;h- desire to concil i ate :ling, gooliiit,ng to the Foreign,Otlicie Sir Stratford deter e known to y occasions as a hsve acted en want' Lard Malasesbury is smeotnned considered; to eheapower. more prepir men t . sidated; and withouetutes. afar .We do o conciliate ' • Austria. - übt, however, the Resits* , and, 'own eonciliation." There i s no ; epee peasibility of their r it is impestibl ''' -- in force ; • e • the Hoitie Act at Present . r r i v Minister can "Minister or. the ° e - f• lateens with re gretify the degree and pretensions o It K _ speet to Hun . . . _ Li 6_ e oseuth should rearm ariaa and Italtau ref. g te:.. continuo' t l ect ur e, ' d tiazz ni othere is hithertat'telk, an „ ,Can be ceerc.d :no Beitiehlaw whereby the) lf admits, thatt or silenced. ' And r ie t eleed i the Tinies itse excited th it is no par ' Ifneelish Ministerehat er 6 resentment an . hostility or Prince Sehwalenibs F e , bbiutst.that it is th e .ecotiotry ttedeeelieelend, and ,c 1 , and its way of .thinhing, that are odious and intolerable to the Aus , strians. • I' Ve have the mitfortui e to be a oonstitutionel People, and to enjoy, the liberties oi aseoeiatioh and the Press. For theao qualities Louis Napoleon dreads sed Prince Schweizeuberg detests. us. But 111 m is this to be remedied? What can Lord Malmesbury do in the bust• ness but make lame excuses for what he may not ad mire, but cannot ' prevent? In the dispatch recently published of:Prince Schwarzenberg to Lord Granville, it iseplainly said that if the British Government does not, make use of ell tee legal means in their potrer to render innoxious the Austrian refugees, the Austrian Go vernment will torment and persecute English travellers in the Austrian dominions. This pleasant threat has reference, no doubt, to the expected return of Kossuth to this country. If you do not gag Kossuth, threatens Prince Schwarzenberg, we will molest and impriton all the cu rious and commercial English who venture into Bohemia, visit Vienna, er go to see pictures or gondolas at Ve nice. The Times proposes a ready remedy for this, which is, that Englishmen should stay at home; if they do go abroad, that they omit . Austria and the Venetian. terniteines filen their route, consoling the reselvee with• the hope than then 9 e a. good time coming, ; wee's a Übe-, eel A.astrien'Sliiiister may rise to power, ,who may not ma ke it life business Or his policy to peittecizie Ehglish: 'Min.. We do not think that John Bull, `young or old, n o; b e muck inclined to take this hint,,er respect this in terdiction. They will venture to Venice or to Carlsbad, and they will prefer the Trieste route,_ by Which they escape quarentine, tottay other. Besides, if Schwarz reeherg succeeds ixi l dAerrieg Englishmen from 'teeing amongst his stibjects, Louis Napoleon will try the same, and then The Ordnance estimates h just been •' ' and we ave isewea , we shalt be fairly t , xpelied from the continent and be are now able to s e e what the authorities propose to do banished _. not merely from the remote Vienna, but the in this department of the neighbourieg Paltde Royal. Boulogne will become for- public service. Comparing the sums about to be' *demanded from the Parliament with bidden groalid. And Englishmen will be condemned thoie voted for si m il ar p urposes l ast year we fi n d an in to the peine forte et _.dure of spending their money at crease under the he a d s o f p ay an d a ll owances o f 36,7421.; increase under 9 o 9 f t. home. We doubt mach our countrymen's submission t • an d undercommissariat scientific branch"su ppl te a an a to such severity as this. We should soon have associa tions for cpening the continent, and instead of putting increase of 10,2531. 'The enormous cost of the Ordnance down KoSsuth and Lotus Blanc by such means, . they office itself is reduced from 75,9501. to 75,580/, showing would become the most popular men in England—and the wonderful saving of 3701. Other reductions on cer n& all the Malasesburys in Downing-street could quell tam branches appear on the statement, which winds up, them. Russia, however, is not so personal or so full. of h owever , With the announcement that 25,666/. more w ill pique as Auatrie. And Lord Derby may hope that - by be required in the coming year than was asked in the means.of Wet Russian alliance what he once repudiated past. One thousand extra men are proposed ti, be and despised, he may, secure England, and all that added at this additVui cost to the Ordnance military England holds dear on this side the Rhine. But Russia cot p . , . abhors Constitutional Government*, and is reseived to There can be no better time than the • present for in tolerate them no' more. It has set •up the antagonist trodncing to the notice of the new Master-General of the principle of legitimacy and divine right; and evidently M en a ce , .am t ate -the 'public, the' defective state of the deems mat no other bulwark can bravo the tide of revs- royal regiment of Artillery; and when speaking of that Wien. Loots Napoleon has not won Russian favOur, corps, we refer of• course more particularly to the proper because Russia sees' the Bonaparte' throne based'upon .expenditure of the sum it costs—that is to say, about force atone, and' not upon any principle•that •nduld re- 400,0001. a jear of the - public money. But first one _cover the -respect of . tfie people, or. netain that of the word• about stores. army. The restoration of the Bourbons, the elder first, To the 'Ordnande the nation has entrusted the care of is the reigning idea at St. Petersburgh. And it is pos- all onr engines of war, powder itosnofootee:‘ , 7, ..a coast Bible bit teat a restore:tea of-Uelainm to Holland'should batteries, and the 'organisations of the corps whose par make part of the same scheme. As to the choice, pre- ticular duty it is to work these engines and man these diledons, or resistance of the people, rulers now know batteries. And how has this trust been fulfilled? Sim how thet can be overcome, and they regret having ever ply thus: that at the end of six-and-thirty years of actel on the belief that it .could not be overcome. To peace there is scarcely anything of a satisfactory nature restore the'.statns of 1815, in the west of ,Europe, is to show for the vast sums expended. Whenwe are ask then the dominant idea, with which Louis Nipoleon ing for additional national defence, this becomes a really 'istr be halt menaced—half gulled. Will the Toidee be vital question. srty spectacles of -to it ? or , has Lord Malmesbury a pOur powder magazine, worth hundreds of thousands of sufficiently magnifying power to - have discerned the pounds, is situated on the River Thames, and open on small and hidden symptoms of these great changes and every side. A spark from any Gravesend steamer, when cotaing e dangers? The veteran of foreign diplomacy. the powder is put-out to dry, might occasion an explosion wil, teSwever, soon ' give' the first leeson to the new which would shake the very Ordnance-office in Pall-mall; statesmen of Downingtstieet, and make them - - believe whilit•to protect. this store from incendiaries, who might that adhesion to the new Holy Alliance is the only mode in safety • any night lay a train for its destruction, there of saving England from war and invasion, and 'a j nnc- arenot hall a dozen -sentries. Custom may be a good Liao of all Europe against her. We have nodotibt that thing in its way; but it never can be shown to the satis- On Times will then discover that • Englienchwas in ex- faction of the people of. England, that-because it has been trecie danger, and that the only safety for England lies usual to store powder at Purfleet, it should there be iii a renewal of the Alien Bill, the proscriptiou of nth, stored for the future; and that because some twenty gees, full satisfaction to be given to Austrian and Rim- years ago not more than halt a company of artillery 'police. If with these conciliating measures Slit elan could be spared to garrison the place, that the garrison terlsoel and Piedmont be abandoned to the dictation or snould stilt be restricted to so small a force, when there nmupatien of Austria and France—if England suffers are hundreds of artillery-men learning wahine drill at all these things, then Lord Derby, and Schwarzenberg Woolwich for want of something else to do. and Nesselrode, will welcome Englishmen as fellows of Our splendid and most valuable arsenal at Woolwich the right sort, whom no police need meddle with, but is also totally unprotected. As far backas the time of the who are ready to act es police for the gagging and fet- great Freachrevolution, a distinguished officer—General tering of Europe, if required. How far the Tories are Tarleton—explained to the House of Commons its ex likely to fulfil theseh hopes and prospects time will tell. posed situation, Ina from that day to this nothing has The names of the new Ministry certainly give ne war- been done beyond improving certain field officers' guar rant of their acting as honourable and patriotic English- tern. ' Yet we have fortified arsenals such as Portsmouth men should expect. and Plymouth, and central situations like Weedon , • HERALD.—W hen the Greeks,. after t he battle of where guns and cartridges could be much more safely Marathon, 'would have awarded theiprizseo the man who stored- than at Woolwich. Such improvemeuts would had deserved most of his country; to decide among the not cost the nation one -penny. Th e re would be no oc nnmerous claimants, and arrive at the most satisfacto r y casion for removing one brick from the Woolwich arse conclusion, they- hit on the following expedi ent. To ntiL . Guns might be cast there; cartridges might be every deputy they gave two votes, and, on examining manufactured there; but when once guns are finished the result of the poii, it WAS fotitid that every man Pve and cartridges packed, let them he at once sent off. If . the first vote for himself, sand the second for Thenais- s t ores are requ i re d at Gib ra l ta, C ana d a , or even for our toelss; and ,thus t ru th prevailed when selfishness no own southern counties, could they not be fo rwarded far longer stood 'in the way. Not unlike the claims of The- more rapidly and expeditiously from our southern sea mistocles is the position of the presen t Protectionist p o rts, besides affording employment to certain peop le — Ministry in relation to the other political parties in the termed fire-masters—who have for the most part nothing S tate, Judge of the claims of each oft these separately to do? Another point, also, should not be overlooked. to that prize which the present Administration Would it not be as advisable to mount such guns as are has received, and they will tell you that they already made in such batteries as we possess, instead of alone are competent to the task of government, and keeping them locked up at Woolwich? Would it not be that they alone fully understand the wishes of the better to use well what we have, than to be crying out nation and are prepared to carry them into effect. The for extra money to build more batteries with? But young Peel party, if we may trust their organ, are the now let us turn to the. Artillery. exclusive posseesers of intellectual statesmanship—they If, however, the resources which we possess in arms are the 'bright comet on the political horizon, but with- are not properly applied, the state of the Ordnance corps out itettait. They look forward to the time when au in- i s st ill worse . Th ere are at W oo l w i c h fi ve batteries of tellectual Ministry 41101 displace what they modestly foot artillery and three troops of horse artillery, which call the present race of iucapables—the Whigs are should give us a complement of forty guns fit for service; drivellers; the Reformere ' ignorant and unmannerly ; b u t how does the case stand? We find upon investiga the Protectionists, behind the age. It will never be tion that to put a troop, of horse artillery on a war foot well with the world until mankind open their eyes to ing it would be requisite to break up the whole of the those blessings in store for them, which they have three troops at Woolwich, and furthermore to beg hitherto overlooked in a most unaccountable manner— horses of the troop at Newcastle. Again, the foot field until they ferrOt out from their modest retreat this batteries are formed for the purpose of bringing into the knot of philosophers, who are ready to put the nation field guns of a heavier calibre than those used by horse to rights in a trice, with the same ease as they is cold solve artillery, but so far from this being proper, they have a syllogism. The Reformers, on the other hand, regard the only six-pounder guns, so that it the men were given Peelites with unmeasured contempt ; they look on them nine-pounder gnus, they would have to leave their am as a spurious broOd, a cross, a hybrid between Whigs milnitionnereggone behind. : And all this saorifice of effee and' Tories, with the faults of both, and the excellences cieney ; is made just . to, 0 able to ".show off" on Wool of, nether.. If they do not express' that contempt, it is , ;viett-comnicin,. previously—es Sir Charles Napier well because` they feel that this party has lei ability to do shy s —t o enjoying champagne luncheons. Upwards of mischief, and therefore they care not about its incline- some dczen companies of men are retained at Woolwich, tier. Of thetopinions they entertain of the Whigs, 'we tinguard Our .arsenal; a duty which the sentries in Ports ge:ve copious proofs in our , impression of Wednesday. mouth dockyard could do just as well, yet by keeping the At the late meetings in Finsbury and Marylehone, stereo - and - gnat' 'at ' Woolwich we withdraw twelve bun amendments were- moved on the - original resolutions; not Bred efficient Men from our coast defences. Yet session in.order to aeften the asperity of ',their language • towards after session siee.e,the representative of the Ordnance, get ,. the :defunct Cabinet, but to aggravate it •terefoldo e The up in his Place ' in the Louse, and congratulate the Witt Oa had -haunted ,;the councils of th e. countrY7— nation on • the' Maloney 'of . the artillery. they were " wanting in petrified integrity''S--" the Re- . The , proptieta to add one thousand men to the artil form Bill:Wag an idle mockery and a delusion"—" Lora lery looks' - like au ._ -addition to our means of defending John hecl' deb:lived the nieoplie for six years, and done no- England. Do not let the people be too mire of this. thing,for them"—these wore some of the flowers of Liberal This additional' thoitiand Men is to give, we are told, ten rhetoric with which the speakers perfumed the memory of ex tra won' each .company --but half the artillery the late Whig Administration. 'Butthey have quite se mo- c ompanies are serving abroad, a fact which we can dest artassiiranee in their ownmerita and Capabilities as the scarcely suppose' the Ministry to have been ignorant of youngePeelites have in theirs. Mr. Bright has no mil" when their plan was made known. Consequently, • our givings about the. First Lordship of the Treasury; Mr. thousand ' men may—so far:is force in England is con- Hume of his fitness for the Chancellorship of the Ex- caned, be, in reality, only half that number. chequer te Sir Benjeinitnllell's rubicund ambition would .. The chief oppoSition to putting the. regiment .on. a not blush under thet honour of the Home Secretaryship • '' footing . arise' from the , difficulty of coming to Secretaryship; proper _ e nor would Air. Cobden feel strange (however the country any agreebaent en to how promotion should be given to ,a might) in seat at the Board of Control. They feel no t h e officers in • the higher ttenks,—a - consideration core hesitation about the justice of their own claim', or to teinly of some weight, and which, unless duly settled, whom the prize should be awarded. To whom e l se , in- would give, orrathsr . does give, .us officers who from deed, except to those who know what trade is, by a feel- age and debility are totally unfitted for command. Tois ing experience of its workings and mysteries—who it was that caused a division of the regiment into bat know what money is, by having petised their lives in its tallow, each battalion having its head quarters at acquirement—whose years have not been spent among Woolwich, with a lieutenant-colonel and an adjutant; men of birth and 'education, in the atmosphere and thus giving twelve colonels and twelve adjutants to do among the• traditions of statesmen, but in- the actual what might be easy work for any two efficient officers. hard work of the mill and the factory, MI to Many a good plan for remedying this has been pro" whom the cabalistic letters ..C. s. d. are " the be-all posed, but one was too French, another too RusLian , and the end-ell" of ' this sublunary,, world. and so on—as if an 'English plan must be something Verily, if the conceit of Pythagoras -was a just one, unique. We - have imitated foreigners in too many of that all difficulties in heaven. above or in tare-earth their bad points to be too proud of adopting some of their the below were resolvable by numbers, if it' be. possible to good ones. .There are, howeverotwo well of .b • mr• cipher away all political complexities, it the essence of Master-General's consideration—one made Y wisdom is. comprehended within the calf-skin Cooker, retitle Hume and the other by Colonel Chesney, the enc Messrs. Cobden , and Bright are the only helmsmen fit commander of the Euphrates expedition. captain for the State. Why will not the nation have them? Mr. Hume proposes that the rank of secondn expensive. The third and the last party aro the Whigs, now mute of artillery should be abolished as useleseeaseid. It is a from theid last defeat; but whose evening organ at last For its utility not a word could ever a b captain in the puts in a tacit claim to the gratitude and regard of the sort of brevet rank, its holder beingatillery. At present nation, on the ground of their long experience in office, army, but a bond fide lieutenant of r___ two heads to one their silent and successful progress. In these respects there are two captains to a coropa a n n y k is not sufficiently undoubtedly the late Administration has claims above house—for. the .distinction of . r all others—it may well gain the first vote for .itself, thebe great to induce the second captain W obey the first with second for the present Ministry. If long continn a ance , any great alacrity. Gods Colonel Chesney's proposal is to do away with the a Claim to respect and a privilege for place, i name let them have the full use of that claim,common In tend- present battalion system, and its consequent imposition with all abuses which have only the merit of long . d oin g nothing at Woolwich. And really of field officers . ing to shelter them. But i'f length of years bring honour, Woolwich has so outgrown its original purpose, that the with them; and if this be all sooner some decisive measure is taken to change the they also bring incapacity . . fault that time will system the better. At present we have' that their successors want, it is a . whole an innu -1 kupon each of these parties look merable host of colonels, lieutenant-colonels easily mend. Just as , adjutants, from some fancied merit and t ff urgeons actually a a -s not knowing what to do with their own claims as supreme, reason do they • - But although the servicewould liar to themselves, for the same their tune. be tat once Peculiar accusations against improved by Colonel Chesney's i throw out the roost incompatible . - ptan, no promotion the present Ministry. One party reproaches ty reproaches it with in would be lost; for the colonel proposes that every two another thinks it b arteries of field artillery should be formed into capacity and intellectnal inferiority; of men ''. tery on a war footing, with a field one bat wo clever end too brilliant, bat not composedofficer to command it. g and inexpet A judicious arrangement. figures • another regards it as too f you th ' arc always ex• Probably the idea that rienced in the ways of oar; a Our the formation ' or another use and too less battalion at head -quarters cluiming that the last Alibis y tr was too old would attract public t a - 11 at the sam e time tendon gave origin to the beekneyed. Different winds blow a scheme of giving ten men per ass. For the company instead of raising from different points of the political c co , in , p i,, , 1 , men have ons , thousand dition to our home force. But lust six years, and viifahl the last Cabins:,°''s they hay ( ' any public tiseesure to b the time has gone by for beiti Calling out for new blood iu thec' !itouggled .np -in the dark. estoen have been The nation likes to lino been ceruplaining that no young St'lltoud or .more u rn Ow that _the w tor what it pays taxes, and is brbught ferward, and none were more_ . , _ denew b money so paid - should be properly ex- organ. W''. n" pended. f gent in the cry than the Pen tivcistrya num ber o Lord Harding© is aand he —4° have a new infusion inthe. forward--aild now has now an soldier of some reputation, 8 vdinig-Statesinen have been broughtnd more experienced opportunity of making groat improvemee m t . in the de what itethe'cry? "We want older .i o, tien a n older set ' - pertinent which he has undertaken to goye statestnen." - Impose, on thd n nsfatent - o rgan The country is willing towhat is right; but, if we pay same co are to pay well I well. Let us have of men, and then the. e re want • yoneger military I ' tot, us- be served ' . ,,._,, ~... will veer roUnd ' end ell , . hes beeo raised realities —not costly, '.tinselled, InPec"*" in - will . . effietee' shani • tn ia," •'A ' geaeral •' cola . ,or' on ,in - 4.7 Daily News. ..„ • o f gentile that Mere' %Vac 'n° meta of ' varlet& red-tapemm; , . one the Mirtstrye—tothing but ono in . peecedente told records. . --- ------- The venerable • Dnenti or Anennisuor Bin nitAY.— utinitl. to travcl beyond its own h/. -into -the . preterit A. Il D o I. ' INit 'rralr. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, wh ose at at tteronan tics born . r., his I,lolltotterest enemies cannOt tom nahgerimaillnese was noticed in this paper yesteeday, died mini", ti"n e t° ' ll° d emus, and et the e a uee at a quarter to . six. o'clock on Wednesday morning, at his rebut and arts ' ' • , bliu. The death of this ex authority P ra '" °' great t brillient parts and acuteness residence 'n Monntjoy• square, been a 1 _ _ Christian . authority excleing, that of the Exel l eq uee „ w ho . ,cellent prelate, mese of for are iiiiiitted for a: Chan . cra rna ,, ce, ali _ t . hearance in - a country wl , -- - It this is ru ~. it d themoderate menof the several - • • religious deee not see that a _ is deeply regretted by . ted spirit? No' . knot can hold , i - • - • The parish priests and prebendiaries of the a narrow and clieeop • - % in s ; he would discover sofas in the t enomenationg. se mble in a day or two, to select a Vicar suth a shifting, -Peres°!e;the crystal with A . magnifying dieeile arc toa: ill be entrusted with the ecclesiastical au flaws. or " — AL fia*s. 'Sikh are the ' - Camtular, Beliei the • ppointinent of a new Roman Catholic Arch les,' to discover . . amiable thority anti . 1 g ~. , f , disappointed selfishness . Prove, to bishone t• • • occuptsbun® ° e a spereers of the present .ltd minis- A decree has just been issued by. the Spanish G o " thin and o thermime- , t s formed' of mete of triedabilityt for the ancharge of certain certificates, amounting tration that e.l and they will r o) e c i ) s oo _ , e issued in 18•48 - , in sat!sfaction of claims of .13ri known integrity, 9 • Provo that t- la subjects , according to an arrangement between the two hvitide we n of gemt• • . such is the case, and us . il , , • Die rate of interest paid upon them has been 5 per i n sa y that they want men of - experience. point tam • they w of Stanley, \Vela I- - cent, and it was stipulated that Spain should have the iron fie to t e e esinsei.,.. g.on, Sugdon; and Han - e on of redeeming them during the first four y e ar r s at , d i n go, find they wid assert: they want young men. Pro- date of their issue at 55. and at any subsequent Pe . 0 ' the names lAht r . , , Of Walpole, Mannpra, at young Stan- ae on giving six months' notice. She has DOW aVa ! c d they will stilt have l e y, an another shift—they require self ~f this. .rice they clause, and . •it • the latter p e, therefore is at rran i red under the leen of figures. Prodace the names of win be paid oil. tit Et „„t e , o no . .. , The debt having been a lso would have felt Hell and they w ill teem something e l se . Their a u ee si e e d ee te s et the British Governmen i t; in ,, lants in e „, a 0" fastidiousness is' like that of Benedict, the bachder, and. h e .. e maintain the rights cf the fi e c ee ularly met, and the arises pretty much from the same cause. " Till all graces fault,. th _interest . has always b, , , ..,. s as high hi 66. grace. - price of the certificates in the.mgge‘ '''' via one woman, one woman shall net come to my 04DNANQE 'ESTIMATE& --- Feb. 17 and 24 (Robert Stephenson Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never ' 4 a a an colourexc eI ! e i e t t pleaseenusi look on hei; mild; . or conee not near m e; nobl e , or not Esq., M.P.; V.P., p il a i pe th r, e , c i h o a n ir) t , h t e he p d er is m cu an ss e i n o t n vv on ay Mr o i .. _ -I, fer an tingelf - of go s o h d all d b is o co o n f rse u ! clan; and "her hairoccup ied the whole of theca evenings. God!! AbOilt a 3 definite as this last would be the al ways, The importance of diminishing the cost of mainte oljection 'in the meuth of the Chronicle aad others, nance of way was admitted by all thes peakers, and against the present or any other Minhary, not of their own formation, even if it combined all qualities, as per- numerous improvements introduced for that purpose feet and as plentifully as to suit the captious fancies of a were mentioned. Those which appeared to have ob. Benedict. A Ministry that shall suit all tastes and meet tamed the most general approval, were Mr. Fowler's all objections is a thing impossible, like any other per- long chair ; Messrs. Adams and Richardson's fished fections. In the present one there is at least such a joints ; Mr. Samuel's fished chairs; Mr. P. W. Bar combination of talent, experience, official capacity, and young blood, as will satisfy the candid. More cannot low's cast-iron sleepers ; and Mr. W. H. Barlow's qualities, self-supporting broad-flanged, wrought iron rails. fairly be demanded, unless Lord Derby descends Each of these systems were shown to possesslpeculiar to au, electieism in politice, which iS as objectionable as 1Rv0...18n .T. jude,ea,:,:: electicismin relegfor. , A fair and-temperate 'edvocaerof latter corral); i d but 'eappeared to be admitted, that the his own views will conimand the respect of the nation; __w that th ne the greater number . of advantages, vwe are fain to believe; of all parties, however diversified now works e e more powerful machinery of . the iron their opinions. ' For there are plenty of questions in. an d i n - the iron lines, without timber sleepers, was combated; which, if all cannot agree, yet all can combine ---sanitary, facility, eel& at a less cost. The asserted rigidity of and it was stated that, from the evenness of the joints, social, and even commercial—for the well-being tercet of the country. ' the wear and tear of the rolling stock would be dimi nished, the cost of maintenance of the permanent way would be materially reduced, and that provision against theeffeets of the contraction and expansion of a long length of rails rivetted together need not be made, as in practice the anticipated effects were not experienced. It was stated, that the system of fishing the joints had been practised in Germany for some time, and that as far back as 1838 rails with a hole at each end bad been exported from this country ; it appeared, however, to be the g eneral o p ini on , that these. holes were not intended for fishes, but for tr aversing pins to hold down the ends of the rails in the joint chairs ; however, within the la s t few y ears the s ystem of fish in Germany.edjointsha had b e en introduced with great advan tage Th e numerous varieties of form proposed by Mr. Adams, for inflexible girder rails, for hollow ir on sleepers, for. a.combination of timber and stone bear ings, &C., were discussed; the system of accumulat ing all kinds of assumed forms was censured, as hav ing a tendency to retard the introduction of unprov menti by -practical . engineers • and the compound rails were objected to as being fess substantial at first, and more 'expensive to renew than Barlow's rail, which, when exfoliated on the surface, could be again ' rolled, at a cost of less than 2/. per ton ; the other inc.aifiemsioila were not unuaidored. to be required, as with the present experience in railway affairs, with good materials, care in putting them together, and keeping the whole in oeder, a . good travelling road might be made and maintained on any of the usual stems. Up to the present time a strong bridge ril, firmly secured to a strong longitudinal balk of timber, soundly packed with dry gravel ballast, and well drained, had been admitted to be, if not the best, one of the' - best kinds of permanent way. It remained to be demonstrated by time what amount of improvement was introduced by the continuous broad-flanged rail, which it was admitted did appear to be well adapted for foreign lines, but with respect to them it..was contended, that in almost all the tropical climates there were some kinds of timber which resisted the white ant, and those would neces sarily he used ; but it was probable that the use of iron might be found ultimately more economical, even it' it were more costly at the outset. On the question of stone block railways, it was urged that on several lines so constructed, where the traffic was considerable, but the velocity did not ex ceed ten or twelve miles per hour, the rails lasted well, and the cost of maintenance of way was light ; but that where the velocity was great the rigidity was objectionable, and caused too much wear and tear of the rolling stock. In the various statements of the cost of mainte nance of way, it was essential to specify what items were included in each, in order to arrive at any com parison. When iron was cheap and timber compara tively dear, the proposed system of cast iron sleepers and of very heavy continuous rails might be advan tageously adopted, but in countries where timber was , abundant and iron must be imported, the system of longitudinal timber sleepers and light rails would of necessity be adopted. With respect to the ca , t-iron sleepers on the South- Eastern Railway, it was stated, in reply to questions, that there was not a greater amount of breakage than with ordinary cast-iron chairs, although the system had been principally tried on a part of the line where the traffic was very heavy and the ballast was very bad, and that the offer of Mr. Taylor, the contractor, to maintain and renew those parts of the line laid with cast-iron sleepers, for 21 years for 1001. per annum, sufficiently proved the fact. It was urged also that it was impossible to draw any accurate deductions from the expenditure in maintaining a wood sleeper line for six mouths, as it might appear in the next half-year that an apparent saving had been made at the expense of increased de terioration. It was urged that the duration of rails must depend on the quality of the iron, the proportion of its weight to the traffic, end the velocity and amount of that traffic. That the question of the cost of main tenance of way was, up to the present time, almost an insoluble problem, the elements being inconstant, no absolutely parrallel cases being in existence, and unless all ehb conditions were distinctly given, no comparison ' between different systems cculd be established. .. The paper announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, Much. 2, when the monthly ballot for members will take place, was "On the Electric elegraph, and the principal improvements in its con struction," by Mr. F. R. Window, Assoc. Inst. C.E. THE FRENCH' GOVERNMENT AND 771 E - • INDIAN MAIL. Th e Semaphore , . of Marseilles has the following on the subject brtfinem o ission f the Indian mail:— . "In the struggle entered into between the two coun tries of which Marseilles and Trieste are the champions, every one is aware that the victory will remain with the one which shall - gain a speed over the other; politics will have bat a very slight influence in the affair, and England will definitely give the preference to the shortest route. The question, therefore, is to asoerteln whether the passage of the English mail through France is effected with the greatest pos only necessary to follow with some attention the march of this service, to see that there is much wanting both in rapidity and regu larity. To quote only one example, we will say that the mail which left Marseilles at the end of January last too k 86 hours to reach London, although the journey might, if n ecessary, have been mide in 48 hours. Every o ne is 'generally agreed in attributing the t requat s delays which the English mail meets with French territory to two p r i nc i pa l ~. on the in the examination and ofclassifi i h!tion -aus es the l tll e iabout wh i c h takes place at the Po s t - office Mar seilles, lo e s, and which occasions a at Mar two hours' t i m e ; the second results from t he ss necessity of waiting for the fast-trains on the rail from one hourwtoaytenwhhieenhrec,aueseeeserdanfoogtheter delay, varying the hour of the arrival of evidently falls . th e packet. The first delay within th e la l xclusive domain of .the Go vernment. If we whichhas t h e interests esmeritts h informed, the Prefect, who of i assuming d e the initiative in all affairs communication to the apartment, has just addressed a that the sorting of Government, in which he suggests made at §I _ the letters from India should be hence forthmail all the site, which would save to the English seille2. That in time which is lost in that operation at Mar this serio us fact is the most rational means of reme dyingtons inconvenience, and it is hoped that this suggestion may be acceded to by, the Post-office is more oomph authorities. The seco n d ca use of delay ' • - cared. In order to remedy it it would suffice that special trains should be placed at Marseilles at the dis posal of the English courier on the arrival of the packet. But here there arises a question of expanse, which must be fi rst solved. There probablY :exifits in the contract which has been entered into between the French Post office and the English Government for the tran sm i ss ion of the India mail, is blank as far as concerns the trans port by railway, and which blank it will be proper to fill up. On the other hand, the dispute which has arisen between the Post-office and the Avignon to Mar seines Railway . Company, relative to the transport of dispatches, is not yet settled, and will doubtless act on the service of the India mail, which is thus reduced to the condition of a private undertaking. In such a state o f things the Eng li s h courier only takes a special traiu under very particular circumstances, a nd never exc e p t by paying the expense of it. The Prefect,An his ap plication to the Government, h a s said nothi n g on too su bject of the expens e; h e has confined himself to pointing out facts, and the ineovenienoes which result from them, an d demanding that they should be remedied by having the necessary arrangeme nts . made -in order that the moment th e English mail is landed, the courier may-find a train, either special or not, b a fast one, always rea3y t o s t a rt with him. The Cha tu ber of Con, mores, to which the Prefect communicated his intended application,. ha.s also supported it by an application. The question thus pu t cannot fail t o receive u speo.ly soln- MU, an d one in con f or mity with the interests of the country. It must not be forgotten thitt i'. is the whole of Franco, and not Marseilles alone, which is itattreattd in preserving the tra nsport of the Indi •- '.hues iiiiculd be neglected to o 'caul l'aitcnox.—LaA evening 3. Mr. John , Villiers Shelley, took place tneefM Covent ard o r. for the purpose of receiv ing of the mends 0.. ( c . hotel, of his political opinions, as a candidate the Piazan eztolilali: the eventual retirement of fitn-wg citYrepresentation upon Lnehington. At a quarter to eight o'clock the chair was taken by Mr. Thomas Front. Mr. Shelley then camo forward, and having expressed himself in terms consistent with the liberal character of his address, declaring himself favourable to vote by ballot, short Parliaments, free tra proceeded to-notice other topics not mentioned in that do cument: He engaged to oppose church-rates as being as mu ch an insult to the Church man as to th e Dissenter ; he was for defending the country by the navy, rather than tor looking to a militia for safety. He wr,elcl l a b o ur for the e ducation of the people, and assert their right; to self-govetr.. went. At the conclusion of his address, Mr. Shelley received a vote of confidence from hi s au dienCe, and a promise of their support when the election should occur. NrwBPLPa3 ST Amp,.., —Yesterday a return to Par liament was printed, showing the Stamps issued to news papers, &c.. from 1837• to 184 inclusive. The return ex. tends to ,47 folio pages. There is no summary given, but the acooOnts issued to each paper are mentioned. U A R . Y . ' 27) 1852.