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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. - We have received the Paris journals of yesterday. The Constitutionnel has kept its promise to corn talent upon the letters of Generals CHANGARNIER and DE LAMORICIEUE. In the number of yesterday there is nearly a page on the subject from the pen of M. %ZANIER DE CASSAGNAC. The greater part of the article, however, consists of a review of the military career of General CuasGaamait, which is made with a view to show that he is rot the able man that he desires the world to imagine he is. In the concluding portion of the article are some sharp observations. Al. GRA liIER DE CASSAGNAC says : " Ilefortunarely, there are in the political career of the Geaerul threo well-established facts, which it ap pears to us very difficult to reconcile with the terms of his protest. First, in March, 1849, General Changar bier applied to Prince Louis Napoleon for a written au thorization to threw the Constituent Ass. mhly out of the w indow. Secondly, at the perioi of creating the great railitary commands, General Cliangarnier again urged with energy the necessity of a coup d'etat; and, as Prince L uis Napoleon received these overtures with great coolness, the General complained aloud before the Ministfrs, thelarinp; thet then., was nothing to be clone with that Thomas Diafoil ?IS j and thirdly, in No vember, 1850, when the Aiat,'s trial was going on, General Cht,ogarebr assembled at the Tuileritts, in one of the drawing rooms given to him by the President with the command of the army of Paris, a nuna - .)-r of political personages, to wh , m he proposed to arrest Louis Napoleon and to send him to Vincennes ; to shut up the Legi , lative Palace, by prorogutog the Assembly for six months; and to assume hierist It the dictatorship. Amongst the persons thus convoked and present WS Count Moll, who refused to take part in such treason, and who immediately informed the head of the State of what had taken place. These three Lets, perfectly au thentic and absolutely incontestable, show what cre dence is to be given to General Chargarnier's declara tions concerning his mansuetude, his spirit of order, and his profund respect for the law. To have desired to put an end by violence to two Assemblies, or to prorogue them; to have wished to arrest the elect of six millions of men; to have proposed to imprison him from whom he held his position and c , Ahtnat,d ; and all that in order to impose en France lairvelf as dictator—that cer tainly, whatever may be said of ir, neither evinces great respect for legality, nor any great frankness of character, and, in addition, renders somewhat sus picious, it will be admitted, the recital of the various attempts made on the virtue of this new Joseph." These charges are far more serious than military blunders imputed to CHANGAUNIER. Neither he or Count Moan can pass them sub silentio. M. DE CAS SAGNAC winds up with the following apostrophe to the mutant generals : " Do you then suppose that you have carried away with you the good sense and the honour of your country, and that all honest folks disappeared from France the day when you passed the frontier ? Pale imitators of Pichegru and Moreau, you have their pretensions, but not their glory. May God be pleased to stop you in time, that you may not have their destiny. The Pays has an article on the letter of General Da LAMORICIERE. The style is very different from t hat of the Constitutionnel. It says "No one, not even himself, shall cause us to forget the onsiderable services which General de Lamoric e has rendered to France and to society. The army has always reckoned him amongst its most valiant soldiers, and anarchy amongst its most formidabla adversaries. Our heroic combats in Algeria remind us of him, and in the disastrous events of June be gloriously contributed with his person to the safety of the country. Those are merits which no one has a right to deny or depreciate; and, f or our p art , we recognise them the more willingly that we have never seen in M. do Lamoric ere one of those ambitious men of gigantic plans Who dream of the perilous sublimities of power. There is in M. de Lamoric are only one defect which paralyses !hose eminent qualities, and that is, an ardent imagina tion, a precipitation, and a vivacity which some mars !eases his cooler reason to deviate from his object, and 'rem that moderation which is so requisite in a political n- We r emem b er t h e p h rase by w hi c h the illustrious Marshal Bugeaud characterised that impetuous organi zation. 'lt is,' said he, • a hi ad which goes rolling on I V on, until it finds ahle to fall into.' The letter of e netal de Lamoric*e is, hi our opinion, a fresh proof o f his proneness to yield to sudden inspire b ens. His bitterness of tone, his violence even, spring rath er f rom the h ea d t h an f rom t h e h eart , Itom the circle in w hi c h h e l ive s rather than from what his conscience dictates. Is it seriously that M. de j 'anaoricia e can speak of the present Government as znitiroaini ag i tse lf by force in power, when in reality it has f or i ts base universal suffrage, and the strongest Ilaillf,station of the national will. Is it sincerely that he reproaches the Government with not respecting either persons or property, when that Government has consolidated in so efficient a manner, the great principles on which rest the safety of soctel and the future pro gress of civilization ? Let M. do Lamoric a examine 114 conscience and say, it placed between the dangers in Which France was being engulfed, and a patriotic illo• if, having the power like Louis Napoleon to crush anarchy to its very root at the price of some sa crifices called for from liberty, he would have hesitated an instant. These attacks against the national sove reignty, this ingratitude for the benefits which society ones to the present Government, are not worthy of General de Lamer is a e. His heart and his patriotism Will one day regret the errors of his head." The Muniteur contains a note to the effect that the only motive the Government had in view in not authorising the publication of the letter of the Count DE CHAMBORD was respect for the Constitution. The Government could, net authorise the publication of a letter which counsels refusal to take the oath re quired by the Constitution grounded on a principle essentially contrary to that of the national sove reignty. The PRINCE PRESIDENT has ordered that there shall be, from his privy purse, distributed to all the Workmen who suffered by the late fire in the is Fau bour— , St. Antoine the full amount of all their losses by that calamity. It is said that 3,000,000 f. are to be accorded for the execution of the Cherbourg Railway, and 3 1 0 00,000 f, for that of the line from Toulouse to Cette. The management of the Italian Theatre was con fided in 1849 to M. RONCONI for six years, but in September, 1850, it was taken from him by the Mi lliner of the Interior on account of his embarrassed pecuniary situation. M. RONCOM appealed to the Council of State against the Ministerial decision, and in the event of its being confirmed demanded da mages, M. BEE, his partner, joined him in this proceeding. Mr. LUMLEY, his successor, on the contrary, presented a request that RONCONI'S demand should be rejected. The matter was pleaded before and examined by the Council of State, and on Mon day Judgment was given. The Council decided that Mr. LUMLEY had no right to interfere, and his intervention was set aside. A similar decision was given with respect to M. BER. As to 111.Roeicoar, the Council allowed him, as, at a late stage of the proceedings, he had rt quested, to withdraw his ap peal against his dismissal, and with respect to his de mand for damages, it declared that he was not entitled to any. A b ographical notice in the Patrie on Madame O AQuI, who, at the age of 75 years, is now dancing on the tight rope at the Hippodrome, states some curious facts to account for her being compelled at BO advanced a period of life-to contiuue a fatiguing and hazardous performance. It appears that Madame Secant had acquired a handsome fortune many years age, and had resolved to retire, when her brother, who was the manager of the Barren Theatre, was on the point of becoming bankrupt with debts ewount leg to 600,000 f., and, to save his credit, Madame SAQUL paid the whole amount, and reduced herself to poverty. Since that time she has never been enabled to accumulate sufficient wealth to retire, end latterly, according to the Paine, she met with a terrible mis fortune. She was returning from Spain with about 30,000 f., the fruit of great exertions, when she Was stopped by banditti and rolked of the whole of her money. In her youth she was patronized by the Emperor NAPOLEON, who frequently made her pr e .. Bents; and on one occasion, when much in w an t of money to meet some engagements, she applied to the EMPEROR for the large sum of 10,0001., and he sent it to her immediately. There appears to be a cessation of all speculation at the Bour s e for the present. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents, opened at 991. 70c., and closed at the same price for the end of the month; the Three per Cents, closed at 701. 3004 Orleans Railway Shares, 1,170 f .; Rouen, 755 f.; Havre, 2901.; Gratt Northern, 582 f• 50a.; Avigneu, 308 f. 75c ; Vieizon , 577 f. 50,a ; 242 E Soc.; Borde , eli, 612 f. 50e.; Paris and Stras burg, 551 f, 25c ; Tours d Nantes, 3701.; Paris and Lyons, GUI. 25e ea BUSINESS LOND D O O N STNEINO FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE East Indian EXCHANGE. MAY 18. and Liege, , uland Junction of France, 4 amur ear's and Bordeaux, 1514 —Pans and Lyons, 1 0 1 ,a—Paris and Strasbourg, 21%—S atu bre and Metal; 5% West Flanders, 31 i;i—Weatern. of France, 7 Ve• SPAIN. - Our accounts from Madrid ore the 13th. All the Ministers et out thattt of y f for Aranjuez, in order to hold a Council under tbe and the an at tight, Pr.`sideney of the QUEEN ; they were to return nouncement of the appointment of new Minister of Marine was expected on the following y Martnraz, of the Royal Navy, was thougeht. to have the best chance. It was said that the Government bad concluded a satisfactory arrangement with the Bank o f S t. Ferdi nand for the paym-:;nt of the next half-year's int e rest of the national d:bt. The conditions obtained by the Government are considered very flvourable, and the interest it is to pay is six per cent. GERMANY. The law relative to the duty on Prussian news papers was passed on the 15th by the Ftrst Chamber without any modification. It is to t!.-lie eff, , ct from the Ist July n^xt. In the Second Chamber the Pre sident of the Council announced that the session would be closed about the s:h of June. The Breslau Gazette states that the marriage of the Emperor of AUSTRIA with the Princess SwoNIA of Sdxony is considered, in well-informed circles, as a matter definNvely agreed on. TURKEY. Si: STRATFORD CANMNG and hia family are making their preparations for quitting Constantinople, the Government steamer Growler being in daily expec tation for conveying them home. The departure of Sir STRATFORD is greatly to he regretted. SUN, LONDON, LITERATURE. NARRATIVE OF A FIVE YEARS' RESI DENCE AT IVEPA.UL. By Captain Thomas Smith. 2 Trois. Co/burn. This is a very interesting and valuable work, con taining accounts of Nepaul, its climate and produc tions, its animals, its inhabitants, and its history. There is a very complete description of the war, which occupies a large share of the volumes, and a sketch of Nepaul since the war. The following ex tract from the preface shows that the author has en deavoured to render the work as entire as possible : ‘. Ltylcing to the friendly character of the relations which exist between England and Nepaul, and consider ing the position which Nepaul already holds in Anglo- Indian history, it has appeared to the author that, in wtiting an account of that country, nothing should be omitted which can throw light on its characteristic tory.. In addition, therefore, to the narrative of his zed denco there, his accouut of the wild sports and the pro ductions of the soil, and the description of the wars of 1814 and 1816, he has deemed it indispensable to append ;a memoir of the late General Sir David Ochterleny, who was not only the conqueror of Nepaul alter all other Generals had failed, but was one of the finest, best, and bravest soldiers the Indian army ever had to boast. " Besides this memoir, it has been considered expe dient to publish an ancount of the formation and ser vices of the Sirmour battalion—a corps of Goorkhalees, tormcd out of the. Nepulese, after the hills bad fallen under the British yoke." The history of the Nepiulese Princes, who visited London in 1850, is very interesting, and the writer takes some pains to show that General Jung Baba door is more worthy of remark from his individual character than from his splendid train and gorgeous jewels. The following description of the Nepaulese may be found interesting : In person the Nepaulese are in general of middle size, all bead, shoulders, and chest, with open and cheerful countenances. The Nepaulese of the plains are peaceable, industrious, and ingenious, greatly attached to the superstitions they profess, and tolerably reconciled to their lot. They are courageous, capable of very great labour, and be sides, being chiefly agriculturists, they almost exclu sively cultivate all the arts and many of the manufac tures • known to India—their powers of imitation in manufactures, especially in that of arms, and all vessels and ornaments of gold, silver, &c., being very superior. "It may not be out of place to say something of the laws of Nepaul and the way in which they are administered. The laws for political offences depend entirely upon the strength or weakness of the party they are enforced against, and his guilt or innocence depends upon the faction in power. I was much amused one day by being seriously informed by one of the high priests of Nepaul and an ex-Minister that it was thus written in a very old Hindoo work in his possession, and of the truth of which, he said, I was aware, That those seeking for learning should go to Bonares—those seeking for justice should go to Nepaul, or rather Goorkha, which is fifty miles further north.' My own impression, although I did not tell the learned priest so, was,' You might seek it —possibly find it—but it would be a very dangerous experiment. GUY'S NEW SPEAKER. CARPENTER'S ARITHMETIC. Arranged by Rutherford. THE ANABASIS OF XENOPHON. With .Enghsh Notes, by Anthon. Revised and cor rected by Dr. Doran. Tegg, Cheapside. These are very excellent works for schools and fa milies, presented in a cheap form, and carefully ar ranged. Guy's Speaker contains selections from the best authors, prepared for the purpose of inducing the 3 oung readers to extend their perusal to the en tire works from which the extracts are taken. It is o f great importance to many to be able to procure such valuable information so easily. THE ODES OF PINDAR. Translated into Prose by 7'urncr, into Verse by Moore.—Bohn's Classical Library. Tuese celebrated compositions are thus given in two forms. They contain the Olympic, the Pythian, the Netnean, and the Isthmian Odes. The translator of the prose declares that he has endeavoured to render the text in the way be should have preferred himself when preparing for the university examination. It is an additional attraction to this volume to meet with the superior verses of the late talented Abraham Moore. THE ORATIONS OF MARCUS TULLIUS CIC ERO. Translated by E . Yonge. Vols. 11. and lll.—Bohn's Classical Library. These volumes contain the three orations on the Agrarian Law, the four against Catiline, the ora tions for bis house, Plaucius Sextius, Milo, &c. It is very desirable to have these important speeches thus rendered into the English language in a form easy of access to all who are eager to obtain a better know ledge of one of the world's greatest orators. ITALY. .11 Risorgimento of Turin states, that the President of the Council, the Minister of Justice, and the Minister of the Interior, have tendertd their resigna tion to the KING in consequence of the election of M. RATAZZI to the. Presidency of the Ctiarriber of Deputiez,. The new Cabinet, according to this journal, will be composed Of Count GIACINTO DI COLLIGNO (at present the Minister at Paris), as Foreign Mini,ter ; M. RATAzzt as Minister of the Interior; the Count CAvOUIt retaining the Finance Department, with the Presidency of the Council. Tae Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th publishes a royal decree, authorising the execution of the conven• tion betwe, n the Sate and the company for the con struction of the Turi n a n d Sevigliano Railway. GREECE. We have received Athens journals to the 7th, in clusively. The L'ourrier d' Athenes asserts that the finances of the state ate in a melancholy condition, and adds that the Minister of Finances, finding himself unequal to the task of Et meliorating the financial position, was about to scud in his resignation. The brigandage in the province?, which has so long exi=ted, continues. In the night of the 27th ult. a band of brigands went to the house of a rich widow at Arachova, and in their fury at not finding the money they had expected, murdered her. On the same night another band went to Courcoura for the purpose of pillage, but fell in with a detachment of soldiery. A conflict ensued, without loss on the part of the brigands, who then retreated in good order. On the 29th ult. VOTIS, the ex-treasurer of Lamia, who had fled to Turkey after robbing the public chest, returned to Lamia with three Alhaniang, and entered the house of the present treasurer, with the intention of murdering him. An alarm was fortu nately raised, and the neighbours rushing in, arrested VOTIS and his followers. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The Asia, with advices to the sth inst. from New York, arrived in the Mersey at six o'clock on Saturday evening. The telegraphic announcement that she was off Holyhead led to some of the speculators, who were expecting accounts of a further rise in America, to purchase freely in the latter part of the day, so as to swell the trans actions to 20,000 bales. It turned out, however, that the tendency to speculation was somewhat ab ted; that the New York and New Orleans markets were less animated; and that the incline- tion of prices was slightly in favour of - buyers. The total receipts to May sth were 2 682,710 bales, against 2,060,931 last year; and in the week, 75,140, against 38,326 in the corresponding week of 1851; and it was anticipated that on the 12th they would show a still in cr., asiog excess. In short, the indications of a crop of 3,000,000 bales were more decided than before. These advice* had the effect of checking the spirit of specula tion in the Liverpool cotton mat kel yesterday. Business was timer; and, it the buyer could secure no concession in price, be bad, at any rate, a larger choice, which comes to much the same thing. Still, the sales amounted to 10,000 bales. To day, there has been an evident attempt to make the best of martere. At noon, it was telegraphed that the sales were 8,000 to 10,000 bales, and the market firm; but the afternoon's an neuncement stated the sales as only 6 000 to 8,000, with a flat market. At the same time, toe reeident merchants in this place eentinue to re ceive descriptions of a state of trade in 'Germany which are as discouraging as ever. And we have letters by the overland mail representing the market for goods and yarns in general as exceedingly dull at Calcutta, with rather lower prices in some descriptions. At Bombay, too, the transactions have been quite inconsiderable, but this wes mainly owing to the ab.euce of fresh sup plies, and the consequent indisposition of holders to realise. Prices were generally steady. Mule twist, however, was slightly lower. In the Canton market but little has been done in our staples, but stocks were light. These accounts, and those from Ame rica, have jointly exercised a rather unfavourable in fluence upon yarns and goods in this day's market; for, although the state of trade in the east does not appear to he worse than before, yet the absence of any stimulant to Wither operations, at present, has a somewhat subduing effect antler existing circumstances. We have, therefore, to report an inanimate market in yarns and goods at large; a marked caution on the side of buyers; and an amount of business altogether inconsiderable. In some few articles, sellers, ' toe, have been found slightly better to deal with, but, as a whole the market remains quite steady. Spinners are, indeed, for the most part so well en gaged as to be indifferent about selling at present, ex cept on their own terms. The extreme dearness of Sea island cotton has led to an advance in the prices of fine yarns, from 100's upwards. The tnekers of domestics complain very much of their trade. They still find the home demand very bad; they have to depend mainly, therefore, upon foreign buyers; and are unable to get any higher prices, though the cost of production hag now risen considerebly. ROCHDALE, inONDAY.—We have had rather more in quiry for goods to-day, and a rather better demand. The merchants have shown a greater disposition to pur chase, if the manufacturers could have submitted to a reduction in price. Wool is firm in price, but with little business doing. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—In our piece hail to-day there has been a very slender attendance of buyers, end but few goods, either plain or fancy, have changed bands. There is rather more doing in yarn, chiefly for the ship ping houses; and the quotations exhibit a little more firmness. Wool continues quiet, without any alteration prices.iu HUDDERSFIELD, TUEDAY.—There is no noticeable change in our market to-day, Except it be that buyers have been rather scarcer than last week. The quantity of goods that have exchanged hands in the hall has net been large; and the purchases have consisted chiefly of crapes of the clouded and shaded patterns, at low figures. A limited amount has been done in wools, at very firm -rates. The anticipated announcement of a reduction in the rate of interest on the Exchequer-bills falling due in June appeared yesterday. The existing rate is DA& per day, or 2/. ss. 7 1 /t d. per annum, and henceforth it is to be 1 1 j, 1 d, per day, or 1/. 18s. 0 1 1 1 d. per annum. The me dium course has, therefore, been taken between Sir Charles Wood's theory that no reductioq of any kind should be made and the principle of adopting at all times the fair market rate. In the latter case the descent would have been to Id. per day, or I/. 103. sd. per annum, at which the preminm would still have been such as to insure their circa , . lation under any conceivable change in the money market; but, &though 33,000/. of the public money has been sacrificed by not resorting to it, and the credit of the British Treasury is made to appear much less high than it actually is, there is a satisfaction in finding that the loss of double that amount, which was incurred in February, and which was threatened to be repeated on the present occasion, has been averted. The lowest quotation of the June bills yesterday was 64e., being consllerably above what has u ually been cons , de - ed the fair average premium that such securities should be made to maintain. At this price the actual interest they will pay (excluding the contingency of a further reduction at any future period) will be l/.65. 10d per annum. - . „,. THE WHALE FISHERY.--1-1 , 1 BALER WRECKED AND Loss or LlFE.—Letters from Fraserburgh, dated last Saturday, announce the arrival at that port of the whaling ship Malmika, Mr. Stephens, master, from Greenland, with a full cargo of oil. Her news of the fishery is most satisfac tory, as she reports the a access of the undermentioned ships up to the 24th of April, the time she parted w al them for England The Agostina, of Peterhead, 140 tons of oil ; the Columbia, of Peterhead, 55 tuns of oil; the Venerable, t f Hull, 80 tuns; the Commerce, of Peterhead, 50 tuns; the Ham lton R 099, of Peterhead, 100 tuns; the Sarah and Eli zabeth, of Hull, 40 tuns; the Pomona, 60 tuns; the Xanthus, of Peterhead, 100 tuns; and the Alarm, of Hull, 50 tuns. She brings, however, melancholy intelligence of the loss of the ship Joseph Green, of Peterhead, which occurred on the 20th of March, as she was making through the ice. Un happily, the event was accompanied with loss of life. The master, Sir. Stew ar t, an d t h ree o f hi s crew, - me t w ith a watery grave. The remainder were rescued by another whaling ship. SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRL'S SCHOOL AND HOME.— The annual general meeting of this society, of which her sq Majesty uare R is oo the ms ; patron, his Gracewas held on Monday, at the Hanover finCfluh and was supported by ote.; Ruke of Manches . er presided, Maude, the Rev. 1) Canon o ampneys, the Rev. Mr. Blood, adstock, the Hon. Captain Noble Chairman having briefly clergy and laity. The meeting, the Rev. Mr. Foy reyadst t tt e ed the object of the it appeared that the stre ngt h which the committee from whi c h gained during the past yea r was to be committ ee h a d attributed to the amalgamation of the institution with the asylum , l last report an appeal was made to the public, which had been nobly responded to. • The disawrous burning of the A m azon, and the wreck of the Birkenhead, s i nce their last meeting had more clearly shown the necessity which existed for their institution. They had admitted three children whose fathers had perished in the Amazon, and they would that day a dmit one whose parent was lost in the Birken head. The balance-sheet showed that thereceipts for the past year amounted to 702/ , and after paying all expe nses, there remained a balance of 4301. The Rev. Canon Champ nays moved the adoption of the report which was seconded by Major Little , and carried. The Rev. Mr. Blood then • d g of is escae gave a very graphic un he interestin proceedingsaccount closed with a vote from the Amazon; and t of thanks to the chairman. ' VCE.—Tbis much THE LATE COLONEL I ORD la mented officer in his last will bequeathed a pension to the widow of every soldier who should fall under his command ; a shilling ea c h p er day to all disabled soldiers of his corp s, commissions for his five and left the means o f purchasing cmmi mot deserving sergeants.— "Laid Aftwaan. COETRADICTI.,NS OF PROVERBS. — " The more the merrier." N o t so ; one hand i s enoug h in a purse •— " No- , . thing hu r t s t h e stomach more than sur f e iting." les , lack of meat.--" Nothing but what has an end." Not so; a ring b a th none, for it is round.—" I‘loney is a great comfart." Not when it brings a thief to the gallows —" Th Net e world is a long journey. , so ; the sun goes over it every d a y. "—,, It is a great way to the bottom of the s ea ." N ot zo tis a stone's cast. 4,A friend is best f oun d h adversity." Not so ; for then there is none to be found...-" The pride of the rich makes the labour of the poor." Not so ; the labour of the poor makes the pride of the rich. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The representation of 11 Flauto Magico, last night, was in every respect excellent. Mario is evidently im proving in voice. Ronconi was superlatively droll as the birdeatcher, and Formes was in particularly splendid voice, and sung the solemn music with imposing effect. Mdlle. Anca Zerr's wonderful vocal and executive powers as the Queen of the Night are now familiar to Her opeuirg air was sung with very great taste and feeling, but it rs not until she gets among the extraordi nary vocal gymuastics, written specially by Mozart for ana xeeptional femaht voice of his own time, that her full capabilities arpeur. She attacked the soaring burst of brilliant fiotittae of the " Gli angui" with extraordinary ease and perfect correctness of intonation, extending her ambition solar as actually to touch, and that soundly and ringingly, A in alt, two clear notes above the highest Mt tart wrote, which was F. For Mme. Cas tellan„ a printed apology was circulated, but there was little need for it. She sang evenly, steadily, and w i t h all her vocal grace and sweetness of organ. Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the performances with their pia Bence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Hon. Mary Seymour, the Hon. Lord Polwortb, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Bou verie. Among the fashionable company present in the theatre we remarked his Excellency the Sardinian Mi ulster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aylesbury, the Marquis of Northampton, the Marchioness of Hastings and the Ladies Edith and Bertha Bastille, and Cap tain Yelverton,R.N.; the Earl of Wilton, the Marquis of Granby, tho Earl of Cardigan, the Countess of Memesbury and the Lady Hermione St. Maur, the Counteaa of Glengall and Lady Margaret Butler, the Earl of Pomfret, Viscountess Newport, and Lady Geer giana Codrington, Viscount and Viscountess Villiers, Viscount Cranbourne, Vi sco unt Exmouth, Viscount Chelsea, Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Carring ton, Lord Colville, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Broughton eret the Hon. Miss Hobhouse, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce and Miss Wentworth, Lady Suffield and .Mrs. Jelin Stanley, Lord and Lady Cranworrh, Lord Harry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Harriet Ellerten and Mr. Merton, Lady Webster and Mr. Webster, Lady Wil liam _Compton, Ludy Mary Beatinck, Lady Thorold, Major the Honourable James Macdold, Hon. Mrs. George Anson, Hon. Mrs. A. Villiers, Captain the Hon. C. Hardinge, M.P., Si: R. Peel, M.P., Sir William and Lady do Bathe, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, Lady Webster and Mr. Webster, Sir David Dundas, Sir Thomas Hare, Mr. George Mitchell, Sir George Armytage, Sir Wilitarn Bail, lion. John Forteseue, M.P., Baron de Steenberg, Baron de Paravacini, Hon. Misses Blake and Miss Ellis, Mo. flobhouse, Colonel Seek, Major Gage, Captain Nicholson, Captain Shearson, Captain Leckie, .M r. Henry Baring, M.P., Mr. and Mrs. Bates and Miss Weston, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Scots, Mr. A. IC. O'em, Captain Carleton, Mr. Fang, Mr. Lloyd Clayton, Mr. St. Leger Glynn, Mr. Walter Ewer, Captain !he Hoe. Claude - Lyon, Mr. Talbot Stanley, Captain Wardlaw, General Niade, Mr. Ricardo, D 11.1)„ Mr. Martineau, Mre and Mrs. Coghlan, Miss Gyles, Major A. Hissers, Mr. Palk, Mr. Wigraro, Captain. and Mrs. Villiers Hatton, Mrs. Baillie Cochrane, Mr. C. H. Mills, Mr. Charles Morgan, &a. THE WEST GRENADA MINING COMPANY.--The extraordinary discoveries of gold made of late days in California and Australia, have naturally directed public atten tion to various other localities situated elsewhere which are con sidered likely to pr. , ve fertile in the precious metals. Among others, a rich auriferous district in New Grenada is ascer tained to contain a large amount of metallic wealth, which only needs the employment of requisite machinery to ensure its full development. It is for the purpose of purchasing this valuable and conveniently circumstanced property (for the situation of the mines, notwithstanding their tropical position, is perfectly salubrious, and they can be reached in twenty days from England) that the company has been formed, bearing the title of " The West Grenada or Veraguas Gald and Silver Mining Company." The names which appear on its direc- - tory are of such a substantiality and respectability as to son stitute a satisfactory guarantee of the bona fides of the undertaking, and a perusal of the prospectus, which will be found in our advertising columns, will furnish solid grounds 1 for concluding that its results will prove profitable and of an and thei in most. er increasing value to the shareholders. It appears to us, in a word, to be a safe and sound undertaking, provided the con tract be adopted by the Directors, as there is every reason to expect. 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TIMES.—We entirely concur with a remark made by Lord Malmesbury, in the short discussion on Monday evening with reference to the protection of British suL jeets in Italy, that it is very unworthy of a g reat coun try like this to have nobody through whom it can officially address the Court of Rome, and that Engla nd should only claim by a roundabout course and in a s ort of underhand way the fulfilment of the common obliga tions of international law from the Papal Government. Lord Malmesbury's short experience at the Foreign office has already convinced him of the importance of having at Rome ,a diplomatic agent of sufficient rank aed importance to make himself heard by the Pope's Ministers, though it were only for the protection of British residents in that city, or of British commercial interests at Ancono and elsewhere; for the character of Mr.. Freeborn our Consul, or the still more anomalous position of Mr. Petro, certainly do not enable those gentlemen to produce much effect on the Vatican. But since Lord Malmesbury has at length arrived at this c alclusion, he cannot have forgotten that it was the clause inserted in the Bill of 1848 by the House of Lord', on the proposal of his colleague, the present Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which rendered the Act of the late Government for establishing diplomatic relations with Rome offensive and i no p erat i ve . That clause pro vided that the, diplomati c agen t w h om h e r MejeetY might receive in this couutry fr om t h e C our t of Rome should not be in holy orders i n th e Ch urc h of R.me, or a member of any religiou s or d er . I t w as unfortunately adopted and inserted in th e Bill by a m ajority of 67 to 64. Such a limitation was not unnaturally resented by thq Popo as an affront, for it was an unprecedented mea sure to define by law a Oats of persons to which a di plomatic agent sent and 'accredited by a foreign Govern ment shall not belong. In point of fact, as was stated by Lord Aberdeen in Committee on the Bill, there is no instance of the Court of Rome ever having sent a 'Mi nister to any Proteetant country, and though the Prussian Government has, long had a Minister at Rome, no Romish Nuncio ever made his appear ance at Berlin. Probably tho same course would have been pursued towards this country. But as a Nuncio must necessarily b e an ecc l e siastic by the usage of the Papal Government, it was an absurd con tradiction to profess a desire to promote diplomatic re lations with Rome by a Bill declaring that it is expe dient to remove all doubts on th e su bj ec t, a nd then by the same Bill to prohibit the recepti on by the Queen of the class of persons from whom the Court of Borne is in the habit of selecting all its Ministers both at home and abroad. The consequence was that the Act has re mained inoperative or worse. The Pope has not sent to this country any diplomatic agent; the Pope's Govern ment still thinks itself at liberty to hear as little as it pleases of the remonstrances or demands of an English Secretary of State, transmitted by a r oun d a bout course or in an underhand way; British re s id en t s i n Rome re main without a decent place of worship accor ding to the rites of the Church of England, and B r iti s h subjects may even be cast into prison, or condem ne d to death, as far as we know, without i nqu i r y o r trial. There are two parts of the g l o b e i n w hich our interests are exclusively defend e d by con• aular egents; the one is the Chines e E m pire, the other the Papal dominions. Nay, if the theory of non recognition were fully acted upon, our relations with Rome would be those we maintain with Bokhara or Japan. Yet at this very time, and while the effects of this shortsighted restriction were hardly foreseen by its authors, the Pope took the most peremptory and offensive means of showing that he wanted no Diplo matic Relations Bill to establish his ecclesiastical autho rity in its most direct and arrogant form amongst us. He appointed an emissary of his own, trained in all the subtlety and dogmatism of the Ronsish schools, to be Primate in Ireland; and he appointed a Cardinal, hold ing the rank of a Prince in his own Court, and assuming the spurious title of Archbishop of Westminster in our own country, to reside here in the plenitude of Papal power over the hierarchy he had just called into exist ence. The fear of such a result was the very motive assigced by Lord Aberdeen for objectirg to the pre sence of an arch-priest in England in the character of a diplomatic agent. "It would "be," he said, " to transfer the Vatican to London, so far as the spiritual affairs of Roman Catholics are concerned in this country, and, he added, that he had much rather see that authority, if it must exist, remain at home than be transferred here." On this ground Lord Aberdeen sup ported Lord Eglinton's amendment, and in fact caused it to pass. That was in 1848. In 1850 no diplomatic re lations had indeed been established with Rome, but a Cardinal- Archbishop was residing in Westminster with those very powers of an alter ego to which Lord Aber deen had so justly objected. We do not hesitate to avow our conviction that it t h e Diplomatic Relations Bill had received the sanction of Parliament as it was introduced by the Marquis of Lansdowne, and without Lord Eglinton's clause, and if a discreet and influential Minister of th e Crown of had at once been accre dited to the Papa Court, the disastrous consequences of Lord :pinto's mission might bate been repaired, and the Papal Government might have been so informed and enlightened as to the policy which it was then the ear nest wish of her Majesty's Government to pursue towards the Roman C a th o li c s ubjects of the Crown , that the we have since had to acts of provo ca ti on an d retaliation deplore would laic) been altogether avoided, and we should have had less reason to denounce a course of ag gression and intolerance on the part of Rome that drives us back to the defensive weapons of past ages. Far from increasing the spiritual power of the Pope by a recogni tion of his temporal power as Sovereign of the Roman States, it is precisely by affecting to ignore his existence as a temporal power that we have left his spiritual authority wholly uncontrolled; and a large share of the encroaching and mischievous policy this country has had of late so much reason to complain of is due to the bigotry which refuses to emeloy the only rational and appropriate means of dee. nce. It is more than probable that when Pius IX: took the steps which kindled so strong a feeling of resentment throughout this island, and revived so much hostility against the Rowan Catholic party, ho was very ignorant of what he was doing ; and the objections of a competent representative of the Queen of England would have done far more to prevent this mischief than the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill has done to cure it. •But all these evils, which Lord Malmesbury now regrets, are the direct result of the amendment wh i c h t h e party now in power had the misfortu ne to carry. Th e case of Mr. Murray, which gave rise t o t hi s discussion, is imperfectly known to the world, a n d t h ough some interes t has been excited ie favour, his what i s k nown o f hi m is not very favourable to his character. He is the son of a B ritish officer, but, we believe, he had become an officer I of police under the Pap a l G overnment at A nc ona, and whilst in this post he is sa id to have forme d a c onnexion with a gang of criminals. The weightiest charge against him is that Count Severido, and another parti san of the Pope, who had been imprisoned by the Re publican faction, were murd ere d i n prison while they were in the custody of Murray, and this at the very time when an order had b een given b y t h e Governor of that place that they s h ould be release d. We know nothing of the truth or f a l sehood of th i s c h arge , and the British Government has certainly no induce ment to rescue men of bad character from the fate they may have incurred by their crimes. But we have some right to require that, even i n a coun try where justice is ad m i n i stered with as much tar di ne ss and corruption as un h appily prevail in the Roman States, a British subject s h ould have a feir tr i a l ; an d to that extent the protecti on of the Crown is due to a man in this cad position. Th e appeal made to the P ope by the English residents in R ome is, h o wever, merely, a supplication for mercy i n f avour of Mr. Murray; and we observe that no attempt is mide in that document to dispute his guilt, though t h e sufferings he h as a l rea dy undergone in the Roma n prisons may perhaps plead in his favour and deter . the P apa l G overnment from in flicting the last penalty of the law. Whether that law subject has been justly administer e d i s a for inquiry by the Foreign Secretary,and for our Minister at Rome, if we bad one; but this occurrence forcibly reminds us of the inconvenient and unworthy position in which we stand towards that Court, without the usual means of protecting either private or public interests in the very country where snob protection is for several reasons most required. llKRA.feD.—Considerable doubt seems to be enter, with his himself as a cansidate for the tained. al'to whether Lord J o b e representation of the City Russell will again offer of London, • This doubt is f want of confidence' felt in him by on the undisguised threedestine of this confidence party have never been satisfied sbuspspboarateirtssionritgbienCibitytw. two Theo by his former political re en that question, be sin testion. They have be lievedduct in reference to the Jewish it a Radical would have shown much greater that if he were really Lordship's irhe tion in pushing it forward. Their last energy and determine of it was to pass a resolution, cam!) movement in respect Rus sell to introduce some substantive measure upon Lord J. Rus eutive. Government, which should b by the Exe forward'with the whole weight of theing the question To • this requision Lord Joha repli,ci Administration. it into his Reform Bill—a Bill -by introducing well aware would never pass the which he was rtisens. Further, this Reform .„, Rouse of Corn ish' itself h bon looked upon with f avour by the as never party in the City. Then Lord Joh n it ussell's Whig-Radicduot al on the Customs questi on, there can be con withdrawn from him a large body of City no doubt, has was found supporting his Chancellor of Y th eupport. He —the most;. unpopular occupant of that of t Exchequer for a long time been seen—throughout thate that has graceful contest with the dock companies. most dis on that occasion was compared with that f His conduct Loid of the Treasury, Lord Liverpool, c:be f ore a Tory First somewhat similar occurrence (but wholly f whom a offensive violence of these latter doing) h ad from the place some thirty-five years ago, and who, . taken treating the dock directors with the 1 ?, Instead of difference which they -"experienced in haughtyl in tered into Personal conference with them, stoppedso,en law proceedings, and brought the matter to ll'll cable termination by a course of friendly, han cm'.- cable inquiry. The: Radical party, a w l ough strongut effec their own political convictions, ;could not but make in make the contrast between the conduct of these two Ministers; and feeling, moreover , that in the list of our social social grievaeces, there is not one more need ing reform thn that of the mal-administr ation of the Custom th a n could not help say in g , in the disa pp oin tment of their hind rance to a most necessary reform than we find in our Whig Government? Should we really be worse off ° ' .ll h Lord - Derby ?" Such, we believe, is a pretty accurate wit statement of the condition of public opinion in the ee ".eta it Stood previously to the time when Lord John Rue II resigned the administration of affairs. Since then 'so say it with tegret, for there is nothing gained to —w° the nation by the lowering the standard of the personal Position of. our leading"statesmen — the course Lard John Russell h a s thought it becoming in him which pursue, as the leader of the Oppo sition, has damaged his to position thr o ug h o u t length and Om* Q f ug 011 th 0 the land. EVENING, MAY 19, 1852. carry them six hundred miles up the river was vain—the boatmen proved their devotion to the King by removing every boat like'y to be useful to the invaders, and such was the unpleasant and hazardous position of the British at the commencement of the rainy season, the longest, perhaps, in any part of India, and during which no troops could keep the field. About the end of May, as the Burmese troops swarmed in, they gradually became more daring, approached the British position, and commenced stockading themselves in the jungle, within hearing of the advanced posts. At i length Sir A. Campbell ordered out a recon noitering party, and the stockade, being in complete, was abandoned, the Burmese slowly retiring through the jangle 'before the British troops until they reached a village protected by two stockades. A heavy fire was opened from the=se on the British, which they were unable to return, the rain having com pletely wetted their muskets. The order was given to charge with the bayonet, and three companies rushed forward, and soon forced their way into the interior. and as the Burmese would neither give nor take quarter, a fearful hatchery ensued, the only mode of exit being a small aperture at the back of the stockades, in which the defenders were heaped in inex tricable confusion. This was the first engagement which had taken place between the hostile forces, and while it impressed the Burmese with respect for British valour, the victory having been won with such disproportionate galla ntry o w t s o f t e lt i t e theirßurm ese , h ß e a i r r mpe post s e t , means, it t aug h t t h e English to respect the obst i nate r w a h t 11 e r a ltlhoeweedflyt.hemltsewlvaessohto. served that among the combatants were some female warriors, who fought with extraordinary courage, and one of them, th e y oung wife of the Governor of Ran goon, was found mortally wounded after the action. The next struggle was the attack upon the fortified village of Kemmendine, higher ao the river. This was made on the 10th of June, but at the entrance of the jungle the advancing column found its by a formidable stockad e , p rotected on three sides the jungle, and the vi s ibl e f ron t b e i ng 14 feet high, forti fiedesls7 by piles, branches, and p a li sa d es, driven di ag onally into the ground. Two 18-po un d ers were brought u p to breach the work—a lar ge gap was soo n made, and the troops rushed forward. The usual work of slaughter commenced in the interior, and upwards of 200 Burmese were left dead in it. The Burmese commander was killed by a shower of grape, and the emblems of his authority, the state umbrella, sword and spear, found near the body. Next morning the great Kemmendine stockades were bombarded, the effect of the shells in the crowded stockade being so terrific, that when the columns of attack moved forward the Burmese evacuated the works. Towards the end of June, reinforce menu having arrived to the Burmese, a formidable as sault was made on the British lines, but the fire of some field pieces loaded with grape and shrapnel turned the fate of the day in favour of the British. Meantime the troops suffered severely from the want of fresh provision and vegetables; multitudes sickened every day, the mor tality became alarming, and out of nearly 40,000 men not one-fourth were fit for field duty. The next great action was fought at Kemmeroot, about ten miles from Rangoon, and ended in the capture of ten formidable stockades, thirty pieces of artillery, and a serious loss in men to the Burmese; but the British general was unable to take advantage of the panic he had created, and could not advance a days' march into the country. A mari time expedition two or three hundred miles down the coast to the province of Tenasserim was, however, com pletely successful. The principal cities were reduced without difficulty, several excellent harbours were ob tained, and the climate being salubrious, those who had been prostrated by the pestilential climate of Rangoon, soon recovered their health and efficiency. Towards the end of July the King of Ava not being able to account for the continued successes of a mete handful of British troops, sent two of his brothers to superintend the operations of the war, accompanied by numerous astrologees, to point out the most favourable moment of attack. The British commander resolved to anticipate them, and made a most successful attack upon some stockade positions in the river, capturing eight pieces of cannon end a considerable quantity of ammu nition. At midnight, on the 30th of August, the Bri tish position was attacked in turn by a considerable force, but the Burmese were repulsed with great slaughter. An attempt was made to follow up this success, but owing to want of good feeling between Col. Smyth and General Campbell, the latter having re fused to send a European detachment to cheer and support the Sepoys, the British were compelled to re treat, with a serious loss in killed and wounded, and Colonel Smyth never held up his head afterwards, but sunk into an early grave. The health of the troops be gan to improve in the month of November, and a promise of an early movement in advance had a great effect upon the hospitals. A re inforcement of two British regiments, some battalions of native infantry, a squadron of cavalry, a troop of horse artillery, and a recket corps, with 500 Mingh boatmenfrom Chittagong, reached Rangoon about this period, and transports with draft cattle were beginning to arrive, when it was announced that Maha Bandoola, the best general in the Burmese service; and one of the most formidable the Court of Ava had yet sent into the field, was advancing at the head of a powerful army, in order to capture or expel the Bri tish from Rangoon. On the 30th of November the whole forest in front of the Great Dagon Pagoda was filled with Burmese troops, and all night the wood re sounded with the strokes of axe and hatchet, and the crash of falling trees. The Burmese lines extended iii a semi-circular direction from the river bank above Kern mendine to the village of Pczendoun. Next morning a fierce attack was made upon Kemmendine, the reduction of that place being a necessary preliminary to an attach on the whole of the British position—the contest was long and obstinate, but the Burmese were ultimately re pulsed with great loss, the gun-boats and vessels in the river having brought their guns to boar upon the enor mous masses. In the course of the day several dense columns of the Burmese defiled in front of the Great Pagoda ' and in a few hours the British were completely surrounded by the swarming lasses, nothing but the narrow channel of the river being unoccupied in their rear. As soon as this extraordinary and presumptuous forma tion was completed the Burmese threw aside their spears and muskets, and commenced operations with their en trenching tools with such activity that in the course of a couple of hours the whole line had dissppearetl, and could only be traced by a parapet of new earth gradually increasing in height, and assuming such forms as the skill and science of the engineers suggested. The mov ing masses which bad so lately attracted the anxious at tention of the British had sunk into the ground, and to any one who had not witnessed the whole scene the ex istence of these subterranean columns could not be cre dited, and to the invaders, who bad watched the whole of the strange proceeding, it seemed like the work of magic or enchantment. In the afternoon a strong Eng lish detachment made a sortie to discover how the hostile force was arranged. The movement was wholly unexpected by the Burmese, and being unprepared for resistance they were takeri in flank and driven from their cover with considerable loss, leaving large quanti ties of arms and tools behind them. Information was thus obtained by the British of the Burmese mode of warfare, and the manner in which they push forward their approaches. The trenches were found to be a succession of holes, capable of containing two men each, and excavated so as to obtain shelter both from the weather and the fire of the enemys--even a ehcll exploding in the trenches could only kill two men. As the troops are not relieved, each hole contained a supply of rice, water, and even fuel, and a bed of straw under the bank, in which one man slept while his comrade watched. When one line of this trench is completed, its occupiers, taking advantage of the night, push forward to where the second line of trenches is to be opened, their place being immediately taken up by fresh troops_ from the rear, and so on progressively, the number of trenches occupied varying according to the nature.ans off the ground, the force of the besiegers, or the I lar p ee and the general. At the same time a number of river to set fire formidable fire rafts were sent down th e kill and intrepidity. to the shipping at Rangoon; but the n e . For three or of the British seamen averted the d t a o g forward their four days the enemy were allowed had push arrived within half undergrond approaches till th e y A furious onslaught w as musket-shot of the British lines. 1 after an obstinate conflict, thy then made upon them , and fled artillery, their fled into the Jungle, leaving behind them th • holy, and a vast quantity o f small arms. The following day Great the troops stationed at the eat Pagoda followed u p this success, while another division attacked the e n emy ' s camp at Della. In both cases the British were trium phant—the Burmese were driven from t h eir entire posi tion, with the loss dell their artillery and the naatetial of the army. The Burmese army of reserve, amounting to 25,000 men, was attacked on the 15th December, and the trenches carried with an appalling slaughter of the fugitives. It was estimated that, in the series of actions between the Ist and 15th December, upwards of 10,000 Burmese bad fallen, and their army had been completely disorganized. Thi s may be said to have been the turning point of th e fortunes of the British —th e population of Rangoon began to return to their homes, and supp li es of fresh pro visions and vegetables b ecame plentitul. Much expe rience and information h a d b een obtained, although at considerable cost, of the character and mode of of the Burmese and th e nature of the country. The year closed without any renewal of aggressions on the part of the Burme se , or w i thout any decided advant age on the part of the British. Theiry ha zardous and inconvenient; the climatep was esttion was un healthy—they h a d neve r been able to advance ten y e miles from Rangoon, a lth oug h the had a larger force than France had sent to Algiers or than Nap o l eon had taken to Egypt. Te e army had landed on the 11th of May, and tho 11th of February, n found them still a t Rangoon 'iandne months afterwards!. nearly provisions. that time they had li ve d upon salt the whole :d their supplies were obtained Irons India , All at an enormous cost, and every bullock landed cost at least 101. Serious re verses had also taken place in Arracan , force, where a destined to co-op era t e w i th that at Rangoon, was ac tually attacked by the Burmese, end di iven back with great loss. The army fell back upon Chittagong —a most extraordinary alu was created throng 6 m bout .13en- gal, the peasant r y on the frontiers fled from the 61'4 reports were spread that the Burmese were invincible, and it was with difficulty that the na tive mer chants at Calc u tt a could be dissuaded from removing their families and property. Th e effect of t his p anic, together with a very ill-judged curtailm ent of their extra field allowanc e t o t h e Sepoy re invents, led to very pore lamentable r esu l ts. In the ca n of Barrac k pore 10th Regiments were quartered the 26th, 47th, 62d, of Bengal lalantry. They were all under orders . for to service, some to embark for Rangoon , and h.ishorrs parade r march upon Arracan. When ordered to seelv in spection- on the 30th of October, the 47th positdlo loth ' , a - hied fused to tarn out. Portions of the 62(14nBriti,h, jo ined fused to turn out. PortionS of the 62d British, which the mutineere, and the Royals and 49' moved to ' the bar bed not yet quitted Calcutta. \ were racks. A brigade of artillery twos planted maud the rear of the so as to cem ents on the esplanade. m alcontents them into submission, Another effort was made to __ imam jitoy opened, but they rejected it, and the gu" pouring a storm of grape and canister upon the utt• happy men. Two hundred men were in a few minutes cut to pieces —the men were then disarmed, the ring leaders put to death, and the 47th Regiment erased from the "Army List." This ect of terrible severity, did not appear to have heft any bad impression, and the troops, Native and British, marched off readily to their destinations.—Sunday Paper. SPORTING NOTES. CCXXIX. THE DERBY. TO THE EDITOR OF TETE SUN. Sift,—The racing yesterday on the Lansdowne, al though first-rate in quality, at least for that part of the world, putting Newmarket altogether to the blush —differed somewhat in its result from the anticipative view I took of it. The Lansdowne Trial Stakes— booked by ir.me of the talent as a certainty for Bordeaux, on whom they laid 7 to 4 freely, and 10 to 1 against my selection, Lemartine, was won by the latter in the most off-hand st;le imaginable by three lengths; Bordeaux and Old Rowley finding their way home in the exact positions I awarded them—that is, second and third. Old Rowley will, of course, Lot go for the Derby after such a thrashing as he sus tained yesterday. Lamartine must make a capital trial horse for Little Harry; and if the latter can come any where near him at even weights, his Derby chance would seem to be a very good one. The victory of Chief Justice for the Somersetahire Stakes would have taken me completely by surprise, had I not the previous night seen with what avidity the odds were snapped up by two or three of the commis sioners. What can such cattle be worth as were com pletely beaten off by Chief Justice, carrying, for him, the stiffish weight of Bst 31b? Echo answers, what! Day brought out for the Biennial Stakes a promising youngster in Cineas, who disposed of Stella (another cer tainty) in a very easy style. The Detby betting on the course was of a very light referred to Hobbie Noble, who nwasatuqr nature, and ted aptr Littleprincipally p ay l Harry at 9, and King of Trumps at 20 to 1, taken several times, but in small sums. The following Derby horses are doing excellent work, several of them having sweated to the satisfaction of their owners on Monday and yesterday, Chief Baron Nicholson, Alfred the Great, Clever house, Augur, Buckthorn, Harbinger Kingston, Nabob, Joe Miller, Little Harry, King of Trumps, Convulsion, Young Hammond, Treasurer, T N h o e bl h e Marinella colt, Barbarian, and Missive. Of Robbie Noble's condition speculators he obtain m e tt s any y p a sr u tthheanrtei set acc theirount. dead him, he being hi faces against • but fit; on the other hand, s partisans, though shaken in their confidence to somereported to be anything taken his exercise and sweatlmee slang phrase of one of the sweated extent, itn theem still n i s ine a a t m i i s s o:n e t g t o io them, everybody connected with him,tLsuensdeis' that there is " still life in a were egh increasedweek E ei p th se e m r o s f tr t u h g e g l l ) e u . tc A h u m g e u n r, notwithstthaendineagri inCalasvfiernheotoweighasas ow pr b ec a e ck din wa g r tei d their size since last year, h very little in having y avin par t t of the was in his work in spring, is once more himself again, ed on very satisfactorily. Lord Exeter's chancegwith.nS Stock well is all UP, as the horse is doing very little tcic ort - Orelio is said to be not quite the thing. Day's couple,w Buckthorn and Little Harry, will be brought to the post perfect pictures, without a superfluous ounce of flesh about them. King of Trumps is " coming" fast, and I have but little doubt he will see 10 to 1 or under before he runs; his owner considers him to be almost as good as anything of his year, and Dawson fancies that some thing good may be made of him. Barbarian is a second edition of the Brother to Chanticleer of last year, and of course, will be nowhere in the race; though, by the bye, his running at the Curragh last month was all " bosh." Eicot is reported to be falling off again. It is said we shall be sure to have one of Sir R. Pigott's, the colt by Hotman Platoff, and the Kingfisher, in ad dition to those horses that I gave as starters yesterday. The market to-day is uneommmonly firm, at least with respect to the favourites, the following being the latest prices :-6 to 1 agst Hobbie Noble, take 7 to 1; 8 to 1 agst Alcoran; 9 to 1 agat Little Harry; 10 to 1 each agst Clavcrhouse and Harbinger; 14 to 1 agst Al fred the Great; 16 to 1 agst Kingston; 18 to 1 eget King of Trumps; 20 to 1 agat Augur; 25 to 1 each eget Orelio, Chief Baron Nicholson, and Joe Miller; 1,000 to 30 each agat Stockwell and Elcot; 40 to 1 agst Maidstone; 50 to 1 each nest Missive, the Nabob, and Buckthorn; 66 to 1 agst the Marinella colt; 100 to 1 each mist Barbarian, Young Hammond, Homebrewed, Ambrose, Kingfisher, colt by Hetman Platoff, Convul sion, and either of Sir R. Pigott's. I am, Sir, yours, &c. , THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 19, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BATII RACES.—TUESDAY. The Lansdowne Trial Stakes of 15 sous., 10 ft, with 50 added for three yrs old and upwards. One mile. (9 Subs.) Mr. Powney's Lamartine, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (A. Day) 1 Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, Sat nib ...(F. Butler) 2 Mr. Triennes's Old Rowley, 3 yrs, 7st (Hiett) 3 Betting-2 to lon Bordeaux-7 to 2 agst Old Rowley —and 10 to 1 agst Lamartine. Won by three lengths; Old Rowley beaten off. Run in 1 min. 50 secs. The Biennial Stakes of 10 Boys. each, and 50 added, for two yrs old; second to save his stake. Half a mile. (12 Subs.) Mr. Howard na Cineas, Bst 71b (A. Day) 1 Duke of Richmond's Stella, 836 9lb (Flatman) 2 Mr. Soutbby's Contentment, Bst 71b (Knight) 3 Betting-7 to 4on Cineas, and sto 2 agst Stella. Won easy by a length. Run in 53 secs. The Somersetshiro Stakes of 25 soya. each, 15 ft, and 6 only if declared, with 100 sous. added; the second to receive 501., and the third to save his stake. Two miles and a dig. (62 Subs., 41 of whom declared.) Mr. William's Chief Justice, 5 yrs, Bst 31b ...(Lye) 1 Mr. Br) er's Young England, 5 yrs, 6st 91b ...(Hiett) 2 Mr. Isaac Day's Waterfall, 4 yrs, sst 1 llb (Goater) 3 The following also ran:—Russborough, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (Keegen)—Ephesus, 4 yrs, 7st llb (Wakefield)—Ballet Girl, 5 yrs, 6.t 11lb (Charlton) —Madam Wharton, 4 yrs, bat Sib (Cowley)—Bacton, 5 yrs, 6st 71b (Preeoe) —Yugo, 3 yrs, 4st 81b (Steggles)—Grand Duchess, 3 yrs, 4st 71b (Fordham)—Miss Bundy, 3 yrs, 4st (J. Bun d y ) — F err et, 3 yrs, 4st 51b, si c t,ti a o9 r ib ie o. d .f : 4 jsot.l7ns e lh r b s a( e re t p . )li ll ft) e 3. ate 2 , Betting-5 to 2 agst Hugo; 7to 1 agst Ballet Girl; Mr. IA 1M srrro:: Liolpecsvcmeashbrarbait Isaac :Lea r r Igh s c cLeol d a f luoTy. iornitst:::::v ch i s , e,. S r. E r leD k o t\a a ßc b , 0 , p s or : r E t uirn,bi T. blyrTy) b , I aeNt length. n g 8 to 1 each agst Russborougb, Chief Justice, Waterfall, and Grand Duchess. Won by two lengths, Waterfall a very bad third. Run in 4 minutes. The Selling Stakes of 3 soya. each, and 25 added. On ce round. (6 Subs.) Mr. st i ntoe , , Letterpress (sot.), 7st 11 b...(Cbarlton yse i rlin l 3n, Mr. T. Parr's Snowdrift (501.), 7st 71b. .(Wakefield) 2 Mr. Hewitt's Merlin, 3 yrs e third. ( ht e s i rr o pd / . r. ) e , sst ssß, u 511 10 : 1 in 23 ( 1 ta C gi o sn w t . lx Merlin, Phantom, ist 71b (fell), Thrush, sst 101 b, and b g by Stackpole, sst 101 b, also ran.• 3 tßueltainggs—t S2lsinto:wrildiuraift, and 4 to 1 agst Thrush. W o sbywellelpesntgaktbe's o f 1 0 agst 51 3 o tb v as.::.dr6nci yrs, s h i 7:, 9w,ititch.hlbs.o..l(.oawddneedr)by::h•ei 11, 7st slb • .(Wakefield) 2 dr AT BATH. ) hI b e ERB I Y S . to sgst Kingston 9 5 to to 1 1 i t l ig gs s t t A lh lc ti o b r i ts ° ll :s ( o t 9 to B E l a u g T a t t N L G iLle .1.141 r t llobb 6s. 1lDtoER1B:t C 6 lu t :e l rlto r u g t b e:( W I : agst , K King of Trumps to 1 agst Orelio (t) AT MAN) taIESTER.—TOESDAY. „8 Alt tte Ilarryle(t)°--b9te—to7l ceran-9 to I ro t T = Young, lianiniond agst Harbin ger-11 to 1 agst Clay ton (t)-20 to I 11,75 t _erhense (t)-18 to 1 aget .n..t gs- Augur (t) , K nof r, 1 g Trumps (t) — ou to 1 abet —25 to 1 apt tot ag_st.nAl -0 k • - 10.-6 to 1 agst Red Hind--7 to 1 agst Songstress (1). Ambrose (0-50 to 1 Sget ( t ) -9 to 1 agst Attack-12 to 1 agst Gossamer. - Ellison, Esq., CRICKET. ENGLAND r. FOURTEEN OF YORKSHIRE. ' Monday and Tuesday, May l7 and 18. YORKSHIRE. First Innings. Second Innings. Crossland, a Box, b Clarke ...... 28 a Box, b Clarke 1 J. Berry, b Clar ke ................. 8 b Bickley b Clarke ... ........ 2 Anderson, c Bickley, b Blynn... 30 Chatterton, c Parr, b Mynn ..... 0 Sampson, c Guy, b Bickley ...... 24 G. Berry, s Box, b Clarke ... 40 not out 2 Armitage, c Box, b Clarke ...... 0 b Clarke... 3 Wright, b Bickley... ............... 3 c Box, b Bickley 2 Coates, not out ~.: ............... ... 14 b Clarke Skelton, Esq., s Do' , 7 Dakin, c Ciesar, b Clarke 0 not out 5 Barber, ruu out 0 n b Clarke yes Caffy, Hodgson ß , c Byes ........ 6 2 - _ Total 162 Total .......•' 32 ENGLAND. N. Esq, c Berry, b Crossland 30 A. g y m Esq , b Crossland 0 Bickley, b Wright . Box, c Sampson, b Crossland J. tsar, cJ. Berry, b Skelton 9 W. Caffyn, b Wright. Parr, c Armitage, b Crossland 0 8 A. Clarke, b W right W. Clarke, bJ. Berry ............ 7 Guy, not out c Chatterton,.. 4 Wright .. Byes 3, Ib3, w 2 ...... 8 Total 73 SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT .-0n their annual eight d ays ' itnr thepo min g a m elan c h oly Tue s d ay epciaosnsemb prlied in the to hepark of the E ar l o f duty. During and singular ac c id en t occurred. M r . Templeman, of Middle Chinnock, dis mounted from his mare, and gave the animal in charge of a boy, who was on the saddle, when the mare started off and ran under a tree, one of the boughs of which struck the boy with such violence on the head as to cause instantaneous death. It is a singular additional fact in this unhappy affair that the horse which caused the accident was the same that caused the death of another person not long since, and the the transportation of his accomplice—the mare having, as our , , readers will remembe r , b een stolen from Mr. T e mpleman, and conveyed up into Berkshire where where the man charged with the robbery comm i tted suicide. The unfortunate lad's name was Job L a k e, and his age 1 6. Lord Ilchester at ones sent for medical ass i stance, b ut un f or tunately it Rae found a of no !wail.— Sherborm tounigi• THE The probability seems to be that his Lordship will either I seek to represent some other constituency, or take his seat in the Upper House of Parliament. TIDE BURMESE EMPIRE AND THE LAST WAR. At the present moment, when hostilities with the Burmese on a large scale h ave actually commenced, some account of a country and a p eop l e less knowntt us than probably any part of the glube, if the interior of China and the em pi re of Japan,w eexcept will doubtless be interesting and instr uct i ve to our readers. Lying between the great peninsula of Hi n d ostan in India,er and the Chinese Empire, is another peninsula nearly in ne m ar o l u y n e t q a ua s l in extent, running down from the Himalaya almost to the equator, for a distance of about 2,000 miles. The greater part of this peninsula has an average breadth of 800 miles, but the southern portion ends in a narrow neck of land, 800 or 900 miles long, the average width of which does not exceed 150 miles, th e extremity forming the kingdom of Malaya or Ma lacca, and terminating at the straits of Sincapore, the high road from the west to Chins. Of this vast penin sula, which has an area of upwards of a million square miles, the Burmese Empire comprises more than a fourth. Neither the area nor the geographical limits of the Burmese Empire have been determined with accu racy, bat it is known that a long series of successes had rendered the King of Ava the hautiest, the most intole rant, and the most powerful in Asia. Their power over the countries east of the Bay of Bengal took its rise nearly at the same time that the English began to ac quire supremacy in India, and the progress of both was equally rapid.. Conquests on each side brought the two powers into Bearer contact, until at length the acquisi tion by the East India Company ef the provinces of Assam, Cachar, and Arracan, placed the Burmese as our neighbours on the north-west frontier. The inhabitants are evidently of Tartar origin, and have many peculiarities of character, feature, and phys sical conformation in common with their Eastern neigh bours, the Chinese. They are short and robust, the face is wide at the cheek-bones, and pointed at the forehead and chin like a lozenge, with a small nose, narrow eyes, placed slanting, and black coarse hair— their colour is lighter than the Hindoos. Their worship is that of the Buddhu. There is no standing army, but as the sovereign is lord of the lives and pro perties of his subjects, every male adult is obliged to be come a soldier, and fight when called upon. The crush ing despotism of the Burmese princes had taught the people to believe that their rulers were irresistible, and throughout tbo whole of our operations in that country, no inducements could win them from an allegiance strengthened by the unchecked conquests on every side of more than half a century. The chief cities and towns of the kingdom are situate on either bank of the great river, the Irrawaddi. Among them is Rangoon, of which we have already spoken. Amarapoora, the former capital, is placed about 500 miles up the stream of the Irrawaddi. In 1819, the chief seat of the Government was removed to Ave, a few miles lower down the stream on the opposite bank. The southern district of Burmuh is called Pegu, and the capital is a large city of the same name. In the sixteenth century the Peguans were the rulers of the Burmese empire, but were ultimately put down by the Burmans. In the middle of the eighteenth century the Peguans were again masters, but the Burmese rose and put them down. The causes which brought us ,into collision with the Burmese in the years 1825 and 1826 originated so far back as the beginning of the present century. In 1798 or 1799 the Minghs, an agricultural race, settled in Arraean, whO had been for a long period subjected to the most cruel oppression and tyranny by their Burmese masters, emigrated, to the number of several thousand, into the neighbouring district of Chittagong, having learned to appreciate the superior mildness and equity of the British rule. Tens of thousands continued to pour over, declaring that they would die rather than return to Arracan; and vast numbers actually perished of want, famine, and fatigue, the road to the Naaf river, which forms the boundary between the Burmese province of Arracan and the Bri tish district of Chittagong being strewed for miles with the bodies of the aged and decrepid, and of mothers with infants at their breasts. Four thousand Burmese troops were sent after the Minghs, and they entrenched themselves so firmly with stockades in the dense woods of Chittagong, that they repulsed a body of Sepoys sent to drive them away. At this time there were about 40,000 or 50,000 refugees in the province of Chittagong, and the Burmese monarch sent an ambassador to Cal cutta to the Marquis of Wellesley, the then Governor-General, to remonstrate against the encouragement given to them. The only result of this mission was the issuing of a proclamation by the Governor. General declaring that any subjects of the Burmese King who should thereafter emigrate would not be received within the British territories. Towards the close of 1800 an unconditional surrender of all the Minghs was again demanded, and Lieutenant-Colonel Symes was sent in 1802 as ambassador on a friendly ' mission to the Court of Ave, while a conside rable detachment, under Lieutenant-Colonel Barnett was marched to the frontier of Chittagong. Mat ters remained in abeyance for some years, but in 1811 some of the Minghs began to make predatory incursions into the province of Arracan, and the Burmese troops retaliated by incursions into the company's ter ritories. Petty complaints, recriminations, and hostili ties continued up to 1815, when the Rajah of Ramer°, governor of the Burmese frontier province, wrote in a style of more than ordinary bombast, demanding a surrender of all the Mingh emigrants, with a plaiu menace that a refusal to comply with this demand must produce immediate hostilities. Explanations were sent in answer. In 1818 another more imperative demand was made, and a conciliatory answer sent back, and thus matters went on for some years further, the tone of the communications, and the letters of the high officers of the Burmese provinces becoming every day more arrogant and insolent, while the desire of the British authorities to avoid a rupture seemed only to inflame their proneness to hostilities—they had evidently formed plans of con quest, which rendered war at length inevitable. It will be seen from the foregoing sketch that the history of the Mingh emigration and its consequences forms not only in itself an interesting episode in the anbals of British India, but is also a necessary prelimi nary to an account of the Burmese war, the first waged by the Company beyond the proper limits of India. In 1823 the Earl of Amherst became Governor-Ge neral of India, and in the following year the long threatening storm burst without any attempt at explana tion or negociation. A night attack was made upon a small island situate in an arm of the sea, which divides the province of Chittagong from Arracan, and the small body of sepoys by whom it was defended were either killed or compelled to retreat. Hostilities were also com menced further to the north on the frontiers of Assam and Minipore, and the few Sepoys brought against the in vaders defeated, and at length increasing in confi dence, the Burmese advanced into the province of Sylhet, nearly 100 miles from their own fron tier, and only 226 from Calcutta. Hero they attacked by Colonel Brown with a very inadequate force, when the British were repulsed with the loss of four officers and upwards of 100 men. Great alarm was excited at this intelligence, and a proclamation an nouncing war against the Burmese was issued by the Governor-General. Up to this time the most extraordinary want of information prevailed among the authorities of Calcutta regarding the Burmese nation and people. The Government wavered as to whether the war should be commenced by sea or by land. At one time it was intended to have marched upon Ave, the capital, through Arracan, while a sub sidiary force, acting simultaneously, was to cross the frontier more to the north at Culler, but further in quiries showed that Arracan would be too unhealthy, and the expedition was abandoned. The plan of campaign finally arranger), and somewhat hastily adopted, was to send an army, under the convoy of a considerable squadron, to take possession of Rangoon, the chief sea port of the Burmese empire, under the impression that the seizure of this great emporium would terrify the King of Ave, and induce him to sue for peace. In case of refusal, it was resolved to make Rangoon a depot for ammunition and military stores, seize the boats by which the navigation was carried on, and ascend to the capital of the empire. six hundred miles up the river. A second army was to co-operate by an overland march in the same direction. The sea and land forces destined for Rangoon were placed under the command of Sir Archibald Campbell. On the 10th of May the squadrons and transports arrived at the mouth of the Irrawaddi, and its arrival being wholly unexpected, the Burmese au thorities were thrown into the greatest alarm and con sternation. It was hoped that by pushing on at once, the , town would surrender in terms of protection, and that cattle, boats, boatmen, and drivers, with all of which the expedition was totally unprovided, would have been placed at their disposal. The Burmese authoriti es . however, adopted a much more tyrannical and relentless policy as regarded their own subjects, and a much more harassing and se riously embarrassing policy as rega rded the invaders. Knowing the town could not be defended, the authori tiesd assembled the whole of the inhabitants, an t co mpelled them to proceed in a mass into th . e i n nm t o h s e s rece sses of the jungle, o that nex days a when squa d r on arrived opposite the town, t after e few shots were exchanged, they landed and found inhabitants t sorted. The pit by the British for th l expelled from their homes during the kilo e e enty season soon gave way to anxiety for their theo wn oposition ountry, —they were deserted by the people of from whom alone they could expect rusuuprpinliges7-the either were unprovided with the means le found in the by land or water —nothing was to " or ric surroun ding district but som e "pa d t d h y' Burmese in the husk, the policy of e rulers being to remove b e yond reach everything likely to prove usefu l to an i nva ding army; and through out - the entire history of the war the followe h d o u o p o w id ith ha th e e e grea test vigilance the only system whic renderedrusly the situation and pros i P io ects of tho nvaders se embarrassing, and afford themselves any reason. able hope of success. The evacuation of Rangoon was only the commencement of a e system of well-conin cefrontrted o perations for laying wast the country of tie British army, in the hope that famine would drive them f rom the shores. To this conduct the Bur mese adhered long and steadily. In furtherance of their policy they endeavoured to avoid a pitched battle, and merely blockade the British by forming with their troops a cordon round the camp calculated to harrass and wear out the enemy. The first operation of Sir Archibald Campbell was to take the possession of the Golden Dagen pagoda--a vast and maguificent structure adorned with statues and decorated with gilding—about two and a pagoda, which was half miles from Rangoon. This capable of being strongly fortified and defended, was during the whole of the time the British remained in the neighbourhood of Rangoon ; the key of their position, and was the object of frequent and furious assaults from the 13tuniese. gat the hope of finding native boats tQ