The Sun. — London, England, 1846-05-25 00:00:00

THE DERBY, 1846. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) Day set on old St. Stephen's shrine, Young England, too, was full of wine : Disraeli's speech was wild. Lord George came out to mi,chief prone, And show'd his wild Oats were not sown, Tho' sitting on Protection's throne, - In argument a child ; Forgetting, i❑ the great debate, The Corner—Turf—all but the State, He came it rather strong. With Goodwood's Duke and Stanley bold He did a fearful tale unfold Of miseries great and yet untold — Henry Hill said he was wrong. Napoleon of the Turf was he, A withered object now we see, A would-be statesman low. The Purifier of the Ring To Richmond now has lent his sting; And Stanley will no credit bring— To Bankes he, too, must bow. Lord George, resume your former sphere ; Elis you vann'd to Doncaster, And settled not a few. When Miles's Boy the Pot put on, You prov'd you were not to be done, But nail'd ten thousand pounds to one Before the nag should show. Thou glorious starter of a race, Pray quit St. Stephen's, foolish place, Again your post assume; Away, away, to Epsom hie, You'll welcom'd be by Nat and Lye. As Peel has given you the go-bye, Go calculate with Hume. And then Sir Tatton you must back, For Sting's become a common hack, The' Forth boasts of his might. But Lucifer I never trust, And those who 're on him stand it must ; The Sting is gone and in the dust, And something 's not all right. John Day, in spite of Bentinck's Lord, (His son, too, scared by secret sword) Will make a gallant fight ; Gully and Wreford by him stand, And take the veteran by the hand, They'll boldly meet the Goodwood band, And God defend the right Bill Scott appears, the boisterous boy, As good as gold—with some alloy, But happy as a prince ; He'll prove to-day he's got his wits, And beat Tom Tullock into fits, And make Lord Maidstone wince. The Fancy Boy is fancied much : Sim says he'll give the final touch, But Ramsay says —no, no. The Peri colt must win to-day, And bear the wealthy prize away, Whatever other folks may say, And lay the Dawson low. The northern lads are all but sure, For fourteen pounds he gave The Cure, And stript him to the skin. If this be true, then wo betide; Besides, our Robinson will ride, And floor both Nat and Butler's pride, And must the Derby win. My yarn is spun, my task is done, I cannot have Sir John's Humdrum, The distance tho' he 'll stay. Each will have what his fancy likes, In spite of lameness caused by spikes— The winner is Sir Tatton Sykes, The second is John Day. Bicester, May 23. ESAU. TO TIE EDITOR OF TAE SUN. Sztt,—As the fashion is now-a-days to prophecy, just let an old Yorkshire sporting farmer have a touch in. The Con juror and Brocardo will be first and second, if on the square ; and if Brocardo is rode in a Nutwith bit he will be A 1; if in a Maroon bit, he has not a shad-ow of a chance. Yours, May 24, 1846. FAIRPLAY. • FLANDERS MAIL. VIENNA, MAY 1 1.—Three Poles, who fled from Galicia into Hungary, were brought here the day before yesterday with a strong escort, being accused of having seduced many young men to join seditious proceedings. The day before yesterday Lieutenant Field Marshal Von Hess set out for Belgrade, accompanied b y 12 officers, one of wham is Count Monte N ovo , son o f the Duchess of Parma, and of the late Gaunt Neipperg. General Bisteli'ao, who lately died here at a very advanced age, was buried on the Bth. He became celebrated in the time of Napole'an, and was captain of the guard in the Noble Lombard Gurrd. He distinguished himself in Spain un der Napoler,rt, as commander of the Italian division, especially by taking Saragossa. He was afterwards under the Viceroy of Italy, and when the kingdom of Italy was broken up, en tered ttie Austrian service. He remained devotedly attached to tht Imperial House, and was universally respected. BOHEMIAN FRONTIERS, MAY 4.—The Saxon Government has remonstrated in Vienna against the decree respecting githe German Catholics, in which the regulation that the reli on of travellers should be stated in their passports has been revoked ; that this is the only concession that could be obtained on the Danube; and often was granted in order net to injure the very extensive commercial intercourse along the frontiers of the Erzgebirge, and especially of Lausatia and Bohemia. The Austrian custom house officers are ex cessively strict, and books and newspapers are subject to es- Pedal vigilance. We point out this circumstance at the be ginning of the fine slason to parties visiting the Bohemian W atering-Vitus, since certain writings of a political or reli gious tendency are not allowed to pass, even with the notice bitherto usual. For private use." Such rigour, of course, renders the forbidden fruit the more tempting, and smuggling. of books is carried on to as great an extent as that of sugar Old coffee. VIENNA, MAY 9.—Her Majesty the Empresss of Russia, happily arrived here yesterday. BERLIN, MAY 15.—We are positively informed that a de putation of the citizens of Cracow have - been for some days in this city. Count Henry Wodzicki, and M. Lao Boeheneck, the banker, came to Berlin to solicit, in the name of their fellew-citizens, the mediation of the Prussian Government, at this time, which is so decisive for the future fate ofCracow. We repeat the word "mediation " because the citizens of Cracow think that the Austrian civil and military authori ties would be too adverse to them in these melancholy circum stances, so that they would by no means have them to be the sole arbiters of the future fate of Cracow; they t herefore wish for a direct application to the Emperor of Russia to mediate with the Emperor of Austria, that he may have their situation and conduct during the late events ex an fined by impartial persons, and that to come to the truth. It is certain that they were most graciously received by the ) liinister for Foreign Affairs. They had th e h onour to have several audiences of him, and to present to him a memoir on the subject of their mission. They have already returned to Cracow.—Hamburyh Papers, May 19. There were present at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening, their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchoss of Cambridge, and her Royal Highness the Ducess of Gloucester, attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, the Baron Knesebeck, Major Stevens, and Mr. Edmund 31ildmay ; his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke and Duchess of Bean fan, and Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, and the Ladles R. and B. Somerset, his Excellency the Russian Ambassa:lor, the Marchioness Esterhazy, the Marquis of Normanby, the Ma rqu i s and a larchioness of Aylesbury, the Marchionerot of Westmeath, the Mar chioness of Douro, the Marquis of Titch,lield, the Marquis of Sligo, the Marquis of Huntley, the MarviS of Ely. the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Dinorben, the Countess of Kinnoul, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Shel burne, the Earl et Westmoreland, the Viscount Dupplin, the Viscount a nd Viscountess Hereford, 'itscount CantaluPe, Lord Loftus, Lord '` hu zis, Lord and Lady Trimleston, Lord and Lady Templemore Y Charles Wellesl4, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lord and Lady Vilest Bruce, Lord , H arry V a ne, Lord W. Beresford , Lord Mae. ``irnalcl, Lord Cranst onn an d Lady, Lord Gardner, Lady Jodderell, Lord Torrlagtort, tbt Baron and Baroness de Rothschild. REVERSEOF FoRTIINE.—One of the men now en. Based as conductor to an omnibus plying between the railway station at ligtou and W arwick, was, in 1831, mayor of the borough of Stratf ord-ufiin-Avon. The Marquis of Waterford has recovered from the erects of his recent accident at Eglinton Castle, and has since left th at Place for his seat in Ireland. Tae large organ of St. Benet's Fink Church, Thread tleeine-street,was sold by auction, on Saturday, for 135 guineas. _ The Earl of Ellenborough had a dinner party on Sa tarday last at the Admiralty, 'when among the gallant guests of the Noble Earl were Sir G. Tyler, Captain Wilson, Captain Hall, Captain warren, Commander Lunn, Commander Tindal. Commander w arren, Mr. Monteath, &c. _ The talk here is that Mr. Bramley Moore, and other gentlemen from Liverpool, have been in London as a deputation, the object ct of wiles:. going had reference to the admission of Brazilian W e : l.e r . ; that they had an interview of prolonged duration with Mr. ter, , tar Y Gladstone ; that he was, as us ual, polite, and, for a Minis __ ue ngettlarly explicit; that the talk was interesting, and not unlit• t ;, l- 11 * t _ti N v 4 and l that the inference drawn from what passed is impor• that the that they . are not likely Cabinet tagreed: on the sugar question, are no Liverpool j eur ,.. l, to agree, and that a " sp li t" is Inevitable. — The 11" A .„ _ a Cutler, has ~ e 42 ,1 stership of' the Dorchester Grammar ti • the electio vacant b y the ret•rernent of the Rev. Richard the 39t:, i n3t. n " a BU CCOMOr is to take place next Saturday, WONDERFUL P REn a fine springer dog, the PLO VATION.—A short time ago a at least Leeds, by some means fell I ,I :T Y ' ," a gentleman at Farniey, near little injured Yards, Wood. The depth of the sbaaftt e shaft of o , o d coal pit at Farnley tnarkable that the animal was 4: 4 3 7 and it is re a distance. For some time, it is b e • aer he f 11 by the "' of the shaft, for he wa • heard whining cad, he falling so great r emained at the bottom Some person who was passing lurtlter heard of him until six or seven top. Nothing howe e in by ;nen , weak and emaciated state, with his I y ie s a at t erwa rds, when, was file body and limbs very dirty, he crawled his g w ' e atlY swollen' in a muse. By fhe care tonad attention which were pay to him, Ile s loon,. brought round a state of go d health, end h a e '') -am ' I le was Life as if he had never suffered any privation. Th l e e n "r as full of doubt that this dog wandered about in the old workings aPPea " no 4 TrY until he found his w out a the day-hole at Low about the col ayaeout a mile from the spot whe:e he t first fell in, and that he Without food during the whole of the time — at least ave ad bee n eek—he was a tenant of a subterranean habitation. —Leeds paper. A NOVEL AGRICULTURAL BARGAIN.—A curious sal,. of agricultural stock was effected last week in this cou n t y, not by th e custom ar y m ode of the auctiower s ham ner, but by pound s ' Y etght. Mr. William Byford, cattle-dealer, of Shalford, contracted With Mr. T. Wade, of Orange Hall, Gosfield, to buy his entire live and dead stock—not only his beast. and sheen, and pigs, and other Zstable anials, but waggons, carts, rollers, n fact everyting from ,Is tine cart horses to his grindstone, at 3d. i per lb. The h stock in 'tldes t „,„ .8 or 40 horses, cows, waggons, Plong'ils, harrows, harness, is calculated everything for carrying on tha business oft wo farms, and it 4 - alculated that the purchase-money will amount to 3,0001. or 'V. — Essex Standard. 1 1 , OPERA BY ROSSINL—A letter from Italy, in ,ce Curette du Midi, states that all doubt is now set at rest respecting :P o rt by which the musical world has been agitated. Rossini has 114sented to break his long silence. The celebrated Maestro has lie r t iL iv ely engaged to write the partition of an opera, for which 1 "e will furnish the libretto. Scribe is about to set out for Bo (lesia, whe aborare he will settle the plan of his work with this so long -led conteur. ~..__ lo ot , 44 CROPS.—The agriculturists are beginning to o.2rith some anxiety to the weather, at this critical period of the b..Z.llcropsn. As far as we can learn, no injury whatever has hitherto th - 0 7 1 „n ed from the rain which has fallen so copiously of late, th e 14 here and there the wheat fields look a little yellow. Should sete r°4 dse of fi ne Writin weather which beams from the sky at this pre- Ispe ti ,„ . _ gbe verified, the harvest will he good as well as early, *".r In the bin country,—eloucatershfre Chronic THE CELLAR MARTYR. When the result of tho motion made by Mr. O'Connell in the House of Commons on Friday night was communicated to Mr. S. O'Brien, the hon. representative for Limerick im mediately addressed the following letter to the Speaker, in order that the Members might be put in possession of his sentiments respecting the payment of fees before they voted on the motion of his release from custody, which the Right Hon. and Learned Recorder of Dublin has signified his inten lien of proposing this evening, after the private business 14 disposed of:— BS , Catherine Irene -" Prison, House of Commons, May 23, 1841 L " Sir,---I perceive that a notice has been given by Mr. Shaw, that he will, on Monday next, move that William Smith O'Brien ) Esq , in custody of the Sergeant-at-Arms, be discharged out of custody, paying his fees.' " I have reason to believe that this motion will be carried, if proposed to the House, I feel that a due regard, as well for my own public character as for the rights of those whom I represent, forbids me to allow the House of Com mons to adopt such a resolution in ignorance of my senti- ments respecting it. "I do not dare to complain of the personal injury inflicted upon me by thrusting me into the cell which I now inhabit; but I am desirous, in the most formal and emphatic manner, to record my sense of the wrong which has been done to those whom I represent, by depriving them of my services in Parliament. " I again solemnly protest against my imprisonment, as contrary to reason, contrary to law, and contrary to the constitution. . . . ~ V " y ln order to sustain its own injustice, the House of Com mons, by its decision last night, has set at nought those Par liamentary forms, a technical regard to which so often inter poses to prevent or delay the redress of grievances and the discussion of useful measures. "As the Parliamentary representative of above a quarter of a million of m;• fellow -countrymen, I claim to be entitled to take my seat unconditionally and of right in the House of Commons. " It is now proposed, that after having subjected me to confinement during a period of 25 days, the House of Com mons shall give me leave to purchase my liberty by the payment of a pecuniary fine, under the name of Parliamen tary fees, no longer a perquisite of its officers, but payable to a public fund subject to its disposal. " If the payment of such fees is to be interpreted as an acknowledgment, on my part, of the right of the House of Commons to subject me to fine and imprisonment, for hav ing conscientiously performed my duty to my constituents in the manner most acceptable to them, I prefer to remain in prison rather than make such an acknowledgment. " If, however, after this declaration, the House shall still proceed to vote my conditional release, I shall consider the payment of those fees as a ransom for my personal liberty, ex acted from me by a superior power, acting without legiti mate authority, and shall discharge them under protest, in order that I may be enabled to aid in resisting the bad mea • sures which an English Ministry is now endeavouring to force upon my country by means of English Parliamentary majorities. _ "I shall at the same time reserve to myself the right of seeking redress from the judicial tribunals of the realm. " I do not expect any answer to this letter, but take the liberty of requesting that you will do me tlie favour to sub mit it to the House, in case a motion ;or my release, subject to the payment of fees, should b proposed. " I have the hor, oor to b e, " :iour obedient faithful servant, • " WILLIAM S. O'BRIEN." " To the Right Hon. the Speaker." THE ARMY. CIRCULAR MEMORANDUM. Horse Guards, May 5, 1846. A second Lieut.-Colonel having been appointed to all regiments haying reserved battalions, it has been deemed expedient to modify the regulations under which the com mand of these battalions has hitherto been administered, and to place them on a footing similar in most respects to the regular 2d battalions of particular corps, with a view to rendering them more efficient for separate service. 1. The second Lieut.-Colonel will assume the command of the reserve battalion unless otherwise specially ordered, and on its first f:ormation he will be assisted by the junior Major, but aftrwards the Lieut.-Colonel alone will be liable to be trar,sferral to the Ist battalion, on the removal, by promotion ;)r otherwise, of his superior. 2. All the other officers will contirue to serve in the batta lion to which they shall have been originally posted, until by obtaining a superior rank they may happen to fall into vacancies in the others. 3. The second Lieutenant-Colonel will be held responsible in all respects for the discipline and interior economy of the reserve battalion, which, however, must be conducted ac cording to the system previously established in the regi ment; he is to have the selection and appointment of his own non-commissioned officers, and is not to be interfered with in the administration and exercise of his command by the senior Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, whose authority will henceforth be limited to the battalion under his imme diate command. 4. The subscriptions on appointment or promotion towards defraying the expenses of th., regimental band, will continue uniform throughout the regiment, but the annual contribu tion towards its support will be limited in reserve battalions to six days' pay from each officer. 5. The regimental depot will remain, as hitherto, com mon to both battalions, but in order to secure an equitable distribution of the men, and to provide for the equal effi ciency of the whole corps, the commandant of the depot battalion is not to leave the selection to the Captains in charge of particular depots, but will be careful to send out the drafts as they may be required, according to the date of , enlistment of the recruits, provided they are in all respects fit for service. 6. The same rule will be followed on the arrival of the drafts at a foreign station, where two battalions of the same corps may happen to be serving together, when the men will be posted to battalions from the roster, without selection, and without reference to character, stature, or personal ap pearance. 7. All the other regulations, with respect to the manage ment of these battalions, are to continue in forceasheretofore. By command of Field-Marshal the Duke of WELLINGTON, Commander-in-Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. THE NEW PALACE OF WESTAIINSTER. The second report has just been issued by the Lords' Select Committee to inquire into the progress of the building of the Houses of Parliament, and to report to the House, and to whom leave was given to report from time to time to the House. This report is to the following effect : " That the Committee have again met, and having exa mined Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney as to the best system of ventilation for the new Houses of Parliament, are of opinion, that further inquiries and experiments should be made. under the direction of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, before the final adoption of any plan hitherto proposed for that purpose. " And the Committee have directed the evidence of the said Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney, taken before them, to be laid before your Lordships." (Thi s ev id ence is decidedly against the practicability of Dr. Reid's plans.) F IFTEENTH REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION. Mr. Wilson Patten reported from the Select Committee ap pointed for the Classification of Railway Bills according to the resolutions adopted by the House, that they bad further considered the several matters referred to them, and had agreed to report as follows : Your Committee recommend that the Preston and Wyre Railway Harbour and Dock Company (Longridge Junction), be removed from Group No 41, and be placed in Group No. 44. Your Committee recommend that the Manchester and Leeds Railway (Extensions), now in Groups No. 39 and No. 59, should be removed from Group No. 39, and remain in Group No. 59 only. Your Committee recommend that the Lancaster and Pres ton Junction Railway be referred to Group No. 59. Your Committee recommend that the Chichester, Ports mouth, and Fareham Railway be referred to Group No. 60. 'PUBLIC NURSERY FOR CHILDREN AT GLASGOW. The experiments made at Glasgow of the practicability of establishing a public nursery for the care of children whose parents are prevented by their avocations from taking care of them at home, or of children who are orphans, has proved suc cessful. " Applications for admission," says the annual re port, " are becoming daily more frequent and urgent ; and as the working classes are becoming more sensible of the advantages of the institution, it is obvious that much greater accommodation will soon be required for this large com munity. Indeed, so successful has been the undertaking, and so completely does it answer the object intended, as far as limited means and limited accommodation would permit, that there is no doubt that Glasgow will not long be the only city in this country that can boast of a nursery institution." Healthy children, from eighteen months to six years of age, are admitted at the nominal charge of Is. 6d. per week. Those who wish their children admitted as day-boarders only, are charged Is. per week. " Their food consists of pprridge and milk for breakfast ; a roll at eleven o'clock ; usually broth, with beef and potatoes, for dinner ; and bread and milk or porridge for supper ; and care is taken that they have at all times a sufficient supply. Particular attention is also paid to the cleanness, comfort, and health of the children. Their cribs are kept scrupulously clean ; the rooms in good or d er , well aired, and, in winter, or when necessary, provided with fires."—Seotsman. MRS. GORE'S NEW NOVEL, "THE DEBUTANTE."— We are requested to state that Mr. Bentley, of New Burlington-street, will publish this new work on Tuesday next, the 26th instant, when it may be obtained at all the libraries, in three volumes. Mr. Bentley has just published Lady Blessington's new novel, " Alemoirs of a Femme de Chambre," and " Forest Hill ; a Tale of Social Life in 1830- 31," which may now be had at all the libraries. LEONTINE.—The new novel, entitled " Leontine," from the pen of Mrs. Maberly, the accomplished authoress of " Emily," is to appear immediately. Conjecture has been tiohwowulodulhdarpdulyt an fair r y as prem to at i n ts übj re s lyto ec d t i a v n ui d ge he a roi s n e e o , ro b t u , t wh i i and on t o piquantthe work. surmises rr h u as s prevail muoh, f e as nd hi t o o na s b o le how ever, we may state, that in " Leontine" M rs . M a b er ly h as m c a i n r y cles in amusing relat ventured onatheni popularity in her former production.e entirely diffe r in g f rom th a t w hi c h gained for her so much their deliberations was, i n at. Lansdowne Hous . A meeting of L e ibe T r h a e l r P es elr so of their place on S a t ur d a y and to unite in opposing any amend every respect, what the count e ry to w tt o m ul d d et m erm ost in w at is io h n . 00 A i, b i o v u e t u s i e e v c e o n r t n y Peers attended, and they cam Bill their most hearty support, ment whatsoever.—Chronicle. otherwise exposed to the scorching rays and auxiliary to com fort, . EPSOM RACES.—Ladies visi tingof rho ehe sun, I race-course, 1 - c fl o n u d 7 , e n , 0 , o , r_ land's Kalydor" a most refreshing preparation com plexion, allaying all heat and irritability, and . immediately The tored elasticity of the skin. dispelling the cloud of langour and relaxation fromtahffeordingthe pleasing sensation attending res numerous varieties of cutaneous eruptions, sun-burn, • ted by the " Kalydor," and and discoloration,, are pleasingly eradicated . the skin rendered delicately clear and soft. Its purifying and re the Court freming properties have obtained its exclusive selection by freckles, tan, and the Royal Family of Great Britain, and those of the Continent of Europe, together with the eieie of the aristocracy, and Haute volee. Bew are of spurious "Kalydors" for sale, comnosed of the most deleterious ingredients contaiaing mineral astringents, utterly ruinous to the complexion, and by Their repellent action endangering health, an It i K s a i i 3 n . a ip o e r r „ a a t mi n o o n i y i t 1 li e u sQ r n c v h ° a i s o e p r e s ( a to n e s n e g e r a y t t i l n a g t o the . q words others are from rve Efrna Tu a di us steel lE,nnit E pl N s T t e . j b_counterfeits!rrlllE Errs. rs. Perkins, Bacon, and Co.) All street, Piccadilly.' Optical Instruments to ae--na3bl9.l,2Arslob,..lesmaatraled: ranced age to read with ease and stooitscornizinoplubj,:cts withperfect invented distinctness. Messrs. S. and B. 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To prevent mistakes, ha cautious and observe, only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, Picca dilly, ploalte the York Hotel. THE ARISTOCRACY OF ENGLAND. By John Hampden, jun. William Cobbett we would wager a very considerable amount is a name fraught with enthusiasm in the recol lections of the writer of this remarkable volume. So ne of the pages are luminous with the reflex of that leveller's spirit; the thoughts are not unfrequently akin to those which marked his idiosyncrasy; there is a caustic rashness, we might almost term it an audacity of sarcasm in its tone, which cannot fail to remind the reader of the Register and of the " Legacy to Parsons." To some this comparison will seem of a laudatory character ; to others a most unenviable resemblance; the late Member of Parliament for Oldham having left at his demise a memory of " very bad odour," according to his antagonists, while, if we may credit his worshippers, he departed life in "the odour of (political) sanctity." Whatever may be the estimate formed of Cobbett as a legislator, everyone must, however, concede that as a satirist upon the abuses of his contemporaries, as a hater of bigotry whether in Church or State, as a divulger of impositions which had been sanctified by the accordance of our very credulous ancestry, he was a man of infinite daring, consistency, and talent.. He wrote upon marble with an iron pen ; his words found a ready access to, and a staunch abiding place in, the hearts of the people. Even when he appeared the most to evade a dan;erous topic his scorn was hurled at it with the most crushing impetuosity, like the Parthian soldiers of antiquity flying before the enemy, but levelling them in the dust with random arrows. As partaking somewhat of the earnestness of his renowned master, John Hamden, junior (a noble pseudonyme by the way!) excites our interest by his very mannerisms, arouses our kindliness by the extreme bitter with which his lucubrations are tinctured, and stirs up a strange sympathy within• us by the astonishing boldness w hi c h characterises his present undertaking. "Kingcraft" h as repub licans. „ p beenthrieepstectrraaflll again has, tim e out o f mind, ing word of revolutionary formed the favourite text of the free-thinker, and i s about the most showy and trumpery decoy that can well be imagined to lead Ignorance into the bogs and quagmires of Infidelity. "Aristocraft," however, has hithert i o remaned unnoticed, or Fut very indiff erently hinted at, inthese fierce bandyings about of vitupe ration—and what opportunities would it not afford for the utterance of rhetorical indignation Our author has availed himself of the oversight of his predecessors. He has flung his gauntlet down amidst the dust and cobwebs of the herald office, aid snapped his fingers de naively at all the strawberry leaves ever modelled in gold. The oldest family tree in the peerag e is regarded a most uncon scionable titles, and and d d stars, and by him as nothing more than an u.pas grafted u o the dunghills. The their The national stock, and one whose fruits are extortion, • and unnatural sloth. Every attribute attached tOvitche, on enthusiasmdun Right Honourables in the land is to him e n rs th u e p ermine's, soil deceit coronets, ; al l the en d r i b t a n i d n s s , , precious stones with which their Lordships are bedizened h ar a e ve to Moloch, before whom thousands from time immemorial reverence, heis ready to tweak by the nose and roll from its pedestal. Now, in this endeavour, viewed f him prostrated m themselves el yas flolv i there are conSiderable courage, considerable o- itself imperti nence, no little justice, and an extraordinary numbe r o f fallacies. Upon o n e i n f erence we Joinissue den, junior, cordially ; upon another w with Hemp ledge the decid e d di vergence of our u must acknow ledge from each other : h ere , we assent to hisr there wo dissent fr om hi s d eductions. p A remi i : e es u k has yet to be written upon the Aristocracy, tracing their history dispassionately - , with no view to the aggrandize ment or advantage of anylelass whatsoever, even if that class be the people. Dee, justly with the many, but in God's name ! deal justly with the few likewise, no matter what may have been their pecadilloes or their giant offences. Diffuse happiness over the many, but, again, in God's name do not shower m i sery upon the few ; no matter how great may be the alloy of their villainies, they are made, as well as ourselves, of human stuff, and consequently have some grain or so of good at the bottom. For those scanty grains, allay your indignation, modulate your wrath ; do justice; tua4 di2159 ha PO l . 3 B, if possible, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY . EVENING. MAY 25, IMO. the little fishing town. Of "amphibious-lookin g fellows lying as.'leep on the parapet of the rude pier, with their leg.T dangling over the as though earth and water were all one tr them, and if they slipped in they would float away, dozing comfortably among the fishes 1" The account given us by Mr. Dickens, of the ruined Colo: sewn is, to our thinking, about the finest passage in the volume, considered of itself and irrespective o f its relation t o th e general text. " is no f.ction," sap, 809, "but plain, subs S; holiest tie!) to say—so sugges titre and di s ti nct i s i t at this hour—that, for a moment, actually in passing in, they who will, may have the whole groat pile before them, as it used to be, with thousands of eager faces staring down into the arena; and such a whirl of strife. and dust; ata blood, going on there, as co langa .ge can describe. Its solitude, its awful beauty, and its utter desolation, strike upon the stranger, the next moment, like a softened sorrow ; and never in his life, perhaps, will he be so moved and overcome by any sight, not i a n fi r ic e t ll o i n at s e . ly T c o on se n e ec i t t e c d ru iuuribtlhinghitsher7 an affectionsn a afflictions. ; inch its walls and arches overgrown with green ; its year cor ridors open to the day ; the long grass growing in its porches ; young trees of yesterday springing up on its the dpardaprepetsped there ,andbearib, the fru birds it; whochance b produce heir u t ceof seeds nests within its chinks and crannies ; t 9 see its pit of fight filled up with earth, and the peaceful cross planted in tehnercueinet,rree;into; ruin, all upper ab toit e s utit; t h h a e lls,and look trium phal arches of Constantine, Septimas Severus, and Titus ; the Roman Forum ; the palace of the Cmsars ; the temples of the old religion fallen down and gone ; is to see the ghost of old Rome, wicked wonderful old city, haunting the very ground on which its people trod. It is the most impressive, the most stately, the most solemn, grand, majestic, mournful sight conceivable. Never, in its bloodiest prime, can the sight of the gigantic Colos seum, full and running over with the lustiest life, have moved one heart, as it must move all who look upon it now, a ruin. GOD be thanked : a ruin!—The ghostly pillars in the Forum ; the triumphal arches of Old Emperors ; those enormous masses of ruin which were once their palaces ; the grass-grown mounds that mark the graves of ruined temples ; the stones of the Via Sacra, smooth with the tread of feet in ancient Rome ; even these were dimmed, in their transcendent melan choly, by the dark ghost of its bloody holidays, erect and grim, haunting the old scene ; despoiled by pillaging popes, and fighting princes, but not laid, wringing wild hands of weed, and grass, and bramble ; and lamenting to the night in every gap and broken arch—the shadow of its awful self, immovable !" To follow our author through his peregrinations in classic land would be an useless impertinence, seeing that our readers will avail themselves of the first oppor tunityoooebntafr. irctieeehnfeeccesi commenced, men ; moetrmisaeefscoon, volume incitements loosonwletuvdi will oml pl h pte, i bu,h m e eerfirrr themselves. auoyonemewatihNualvtel plel bcreuehagci eh track ntte ooei Surely ves u nmt r itt hn e are elainynnat contained narrativetdh: or e i ctab t hoe r tne dh u s. t epc h ei aw,erAbnuiaei conscience. Nor Nor is this attractive characteristic of the " Pictures from Italy" so much attributable to the zestful mannerisms of Boz," scarcely resistible, as these mannerisms are in alternate drollery, solemnity, and picturesque elegance—as in the unconscionable ad ventures and the grotesque characters with which it is enlivened throughout. As to th e a d ventures, for in stance, we have Mr. Dickens at the theatre of puppets, or Marionetti, watching the comic puppet " with extra joints in his legs, and a practical eye, with which he winks at the pit, in a manner that is absolutely insup portable to a stranger ;" then we have him (Mr. Dickens, not the puppet), in the travelling caravan, boxed up with an old priest "who was troubled with cramps in his legs, so that he had to give a terrible yell every ten minutes or so, and be hoisted out by the united efforts of the company ; the coach always stopping for him with great gravity." Then again we have "Boz" over taken on the frontiers of the Papal States by a hurricane "so terrific thht they were obliged to take his other half out of the carriage, lest she should be blown over, carriage and all, and to hang to it on the windy side (as well as they could for laughing), to prevent its going, Heaven knows where." At another time we find him outside the picture-gallery at Mantua, where he observes, " The moment the gate of this re treat was opened, some 500 geese came waddling round us, stretching out their necks, and clamouring in the most hideous manner, as if they were ejaculating, Oh! here's somebody come to see the pictures! Don't go up! Don't go up! While we went up, they waited very quietly about the door, in a crowd, cackling to one another occasionally, in a subdued tone ; but the instant we appeared again, their necks came out like telescopes, and setting up a great noise, which meant, I have no doubt, What, you would go, would you ! What do you think of it ! How do you like it ! They attended us to the outer gate, and cast us forth, derisively, into Mantua." Foremost amongst the characters delineated by our author in his present volume is undoubtedly "The Brave Courier; who figures more or less throughout its pages, and who, be cause of the goodly appearance of his purse, "is doated upon to such an extent by the landlord that he can hardly wait for his coming down from the box, but em braces his very legs and boot-heels as he descends." There is a very jewel of a French Postilion also, who is sure to have a contest with his horses before they have gone very far ; and then he calls him" a Thief, and :a Bri g and, and a Pig, an d w h a t not ; an d b eats him about the head as if he were made of wood." A mob of minor personages, all capital in their way, is scattered over the chapters, such as " a yellow dwarf of a woman (at Valmontone) who stands on tiptoe to arrange the hatchet knives, and takes a flying leap to look into the water-jug ;" or the " heavy gentleman from Naples," who insists upon going up the steepest part of Mount Vesuvius, borne upon a litter, and who in consequence is incessantly horrifying the rest of his companions by presenting to them "a whole length of himself alarmingly foreshortened with his head downwards." The candour and boldness of Mr. Dickens's criticisms, upon many of the most vaunted paintings of the great masters, are agreeable enough for those very qualities, even though they scared away some of our most cherished visions of pictorial beauty. Of the caricatures of religious cere monies with which the volume is replete, we shall only say they possess to us a most painful discordance. We would, however, ask Mr. Dickens if the grotesqueness of those ceremonies consists in their own inherent absur dity, or in his misapprehension of their meaning ? Alto gether as a melange of Italian sketches, pencilled with that keen and humourous familiarity of manner so pe culiar to Boz. these "Pictures from Italy" will amuse hundreds of his countrymen, without militating against his reputation. We wish him a blithesome Godspeed on his visit to Switzerland (which he announces in the pre face), and look forward gladly for a renewal of our literary communion on the first of next October. t ; to every one alike ! That, we take it, is the only righte r ' ous principle upon which a political writer can act, and • that principle we conceive to have been entirely beyond the calculations of John Hampden, junior. His disser ' tation are one-sided to a most glaring ottent ; the Whole history of afistocracy, actording to him, is eona p an o d sed of h the most t e grossest rt efa rio c t i l e s ce n i I t the a i t n io o i s ls t ,ii withouta single avarice, ikleeniing featuie ; no solitary ray glimmers over the bleak and gloomy expanse of its career, from the trio cnirtelenlttythaendCopneqrfiutetitphyroeoe.oropsupoltesolneaurenttted his foot upon the shingles of Albion to the present generation and the present hour. tbriheee:_n a ofi aggressed gi ,Individualraheresisaebd system y;te. merit ea gaThergirseti aggressors, sc or swallowed rasc,y t iaristocracyllleav ea peopler always 1 p 1 vs in the stwh invariablynb e e treoon lim=et tee ncei ei v ac i l ei: so d s, evil-doers, diabolical —like i s If 0 ie t i k h ue e s in the carnival at Rome, superficial historical accord cc u oh nf d a t i ih. r t , e white, as if he had been peeled up the middle !" It is un v‘hesgeoi gentleman, lel n tali n tsh o ma c t llfha e a n int:b t l csz v ec i ekc immaculatent andi m b: sy theoop 7 f i iecotktihiheaenevi other o u n ungenerous, g i e o n ta e r o o i f I c la d n e d n c u e : p h i i v i o e s o m p i b i s i:- cal. Besides picture is so clearly impossible nonemode but the viewing%-e r from its monstrous exaggeration,that b confess we opened this volume with a predisposition to be pleased ; the very name propitiated our good humour I we yearned for an honest English exposure of those many abuses, of that overweening vanity, of that unna tural accumulation of power and wealth which had been acquired by the aristocracy during various periods of our history. We longed for that exposure in its purest, boldest, honestest style : we close the book, however, with chagrin—we acknowledge ourselves disappointed. Not but what a prodigious fund of truth is accumulated in its pages; on the contrary, its substratum is sound, sterling reality, but its superficies, its froth, its scum is what on earth has the condition of those hands to d o a m u e t r h e o r p e m t u e l n a t n i o c n e ,s Henryi ere b v a l d il e lid , s a s , h , . b l o F a t o e r d i h a a s n t a d n s c , , e .... , n t o h w e with the evil genius of aristocracy ? Again, " bloody Mary" is pushed aside as unworthy of more lengthy notice from her " burnings and bigotry"—what have her old hacknied " burnings and bigotry" to do with aristo cracy ?—and so on, incessantly. A much better preli minary would have been the celebration of all the glorious deeds, and all the truly great names connected with the Peerage. The condemnation would have fol lowed this with double energy, and justice would, more over, have been satisfied. We speak thus strongly be cause Hampden, wegohe junior,t and so i u n l t w h i i t n h k P in o g p — e, and his mis-quoter John " What can ennoble sots, or knaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards." And because, believing and feeling this truth, we are desirous of seeing the true history of the aristocracy penned; a history in which their virtues and vices will be alike recorded, a history in which will be seen how many benefits they have conferred upon the nation, and how many and how grievous are the injuries they have entailed upon the people. The author's heart has alone guided his pen, let his judgment assist henceforth in that guidance, and he will prove not altogether unworthy of the mask of Hampden. ANECDOTES OF DOGS. By Edward Jesse, Esq., Author of" Gleanings in Natural History," 6.c. This work, though apparently written to please young children, or persons who can be caught only by light reading, resembles in some respects the." Tales of Peter Parley." It will be read by many others than those for whom it is intended, and afford as much amusement to the old as to the young. The writer, or rather the com piler, of the work, rarely interferes with the labours of the natural historian, for but few details are given of the peculiar breeds and races, or of their habits and pro pensities, and confines himself chiefly to his professed purpose—a collection of the most remarkable instances of the sagacity, faithfulness, and use of the long-tried friend and companion of man. Some of these instances are very amusing and wonderful ; and a few of than would appear incredible, were they not at tested by the best authority. There is one given of an Irish wolf dog, however, or more properly speak ing, an inference from it, which is too much even for the most credulous. A gentleman of ancient family,attended by one of these dogs, entered a coffee-room in Dublin; this dog was supposed to be one of the last of the breed. He was rather of a sour temper and generally repelled the attentions of strangers. On this occasion a gentleman in the room seemed to attract the dog's attention, and was soon as familiar with him as his master. " May I beg the favour of your name," said the gentleman of ancient family. The stranger announced it; he was the last of his race, one of the most ancient and noble in Ireland, and descended from one of its Kings. " I do not wonder," said the owner of the dog, "at the homage this animal has paid to you. lie recognises in you the descendant of one of our most ancient race of gentlemen, to whom this breed of dogs almost exclusively belonged, and the peculiar instinct he possesses has now been shown in a manner which cannot be mistaken." The story being reduced to its proper dimensions, the compli ment paid by one gentleman of ancient family to another of the same class is without exception the highest flight ever yet made in the regions of blarney. We cannot re frain from paying due praise to Mr. Jesse for the beau tiful plates with which the book is ornamented. Two of them cannot be surpassed—" The Scotch Deer Hound," and " The Scotch Lolly." They are both pictures true to life, and finely executed. The anecdotes are illustrated by about twenty of these plates, independent of a great variety of sketches appropriate for the subject. GUIDE to the INVESTMENT of 'CAPITAL ; or, How to Lay out Money with Safety and Profit. By G. M. Bell. To those having capital to invest this little work will prove most useful. They will find in it " a true and particular account" of the relative advantages and dis advantages of in vestments in lands, houses, the public funds, joint-stock banks, railways, shipping, insurance companies, mining companies, discounting bills, bonds and mortgages, and foreign funds. Mrs. Glasse, of " domestic cookery" immortality, commences her receipt for cooking a hare in these words—" First catch your hare." So should Mr. Bell have commenced this book —" First get your capital ;" and if he could teach us an infallible method of getting capital to invest he would be conferring on the majority of mankind a greater obligation far than he has already conferred on the minority by teaching them how to invest it. , RITISII AND FOREIGN INSTITITTE.—A lecture has peels delivered at this institute, by Mr. Zaba, on the Polish system of mnemonics, or a method for so classifying and arranging historical even s, as to greatly facilitate the accurate remembrance of them. This system is so highly approved in France as to be adopted in all the colleges and schools under the direction of the Government in that country. An intelligent youth, only seven years old, illus trated the advantages of the system in a manner the most satisfac tory, and answered the various inquiries of the ladies and gentlemen among the audience, as to the dates of events in almost every cen tury, with extraordinary readiness, though the questions were asked without reference to any consecutive order, and without any pos sible previous communication. OTABEITE.—By the Grttry whaler, just arrived at Havre, intelligence has been received from the Sandwich Islands to December 16, and from Otaheite to January 13. The roughness of the weather not having allowed the Gretry to reach the harbour of Papeita, she anchored at Borabora, one of the Windward Ishutds, where Queen Pomare has taken refuge. The short stay which the vessel made at this island, distant about fifty leagues from Otaheite, did not permit her to collect very circumstantial details relative to the situation of the Government of Oceania, where M. Bruat is stated still to have to struggle against his former difficulties. Notwith standing the insufficiency of his forces, consisting of a not very nu merous garrison, held in check by an insurgent population, and of a squadron of which the men were reduced by fatigue and a long voyage, he hat resolved to act vigorously against the Windward Islands, which are considered the centre of resistance. The Bran% frigate, which lost sixty men, whom she could not replace, was sent with the Phaeton steamer, to bring tinder subjection the little island of Hualiine ; and was after that expedition to do the same with respect to Borabora, where she was expected every day when the Gretry sailed. At the latter island there was stationed to keep the population in respect only the Sultane schooner. The Genie, cor vette, has not quitted Papeita, where everything had remained un disturbed. Queen Pomare had contrived to get together for her own use four small scooners, which were lying at Borabora. If the island was attacked, it was supposed that these vessels would act in her defence.—Galignani. THE PROGRESS OF FREE-TRADE PRINCIPLES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.—We trust the triumph of our principles at home will shortly bring our labours to a close ; but our joy and rejoicing on that account are not confined to the happy results achieved in our own country. The honest pursuit of truth and justice has attracted the sympathy of the wise and good of ail nations, who see, in the great principles advocated by the League, the dawn of that millen nium of peace and brotherhood of liberty and civilisation, for which they have hitherto sighed in vain. Our communications with our brethren in America, France, Germany, Holland, and Spain, all breathe the same spirit--all are animated by our example, and re joice In our success as the harbinger of their final triumph In the same course. We have already had the pleasure of recording the formation of a Free-trade League In France. Spain has followed the example set by her neighbours, and has established a " Mercantile Confederation' for the same purposes.—League. TRINITY TERM.—PROCESSION OF THE JUDGES TO ST. PAUL'S CATIIEDRAL.—Yesterday being the first Sunday in Trinity Term, the Judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Comn - on Pleas, and Exchequer, as well as those connected with the ecclesiastical law courts, attended, according to ancient custom, divine service at St. Paul's Cathedral. Their Lordships were met by the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Sir Peter Laurie, Gibbs, and others, including the Recorder, and several members of the Common Council, who had come from the Mansion-house, a summons having been issued to the Corporation to assemble at the above place for the purpose. The whole of the Judges, as well as the Recorder, wore their scarlet robes and full bottom wigs on the occasion. The Cathedral service was used, and the Lord Bishop of Llar.daff, as Dean of St. Paul's, preached the sermon, the Right Reverend Prelate taking Ms text from the 10th chapter of St. Luke, and from the following words of the 29th verse :—" Lord, who Is my neighbour ?" The Right Reverend Prelate made a very excellent discourse from the above text, which was listened to by the members of the judicial bench, as well as by a large congregation, with great attention. The ap pearance within the church was exceedingly imposing, tor, besides the members of the Court of Alderman and the Judges being in their state robes, the members of the Court of Common Council wore their rnazarine gowns, and the four City Pleaders attended in their official' costume. The attendance of the judges belonging to the common law courts was much greater than on former occasions. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL OCCURRENCE.—On Satur day the family of Dr. Ogler Ward, Leonard-place, Kensington, was thrown into a state of most painful excitement in consequence of the following occurrence :—lt appears that Mr. George Robert Ward, a barrister-at-law, who had been staying at the house on a visit, with his brother, Dr. Ward, was two or three days since attacked with brain fever, and on the above morning, about half-past seven o'clock, 'ethe unfortunate gentleman precipitated himself from the window of his bed-room floor, and fell on the area railings below. The occur rence was witnessed by several persons, who instantly hastened to his assistance, and were joined by Dr. Ward, when with great diffi culty the sufferer was extricated. The injuries Mr. Ward sustained were or. so serious a character, that death put a period to his suffer ings in about an hour afterwards. The unfortunate gentleman (who was in his fortieth year) must In his descent have struck against the balcony of the first floor, and rebounded on to the area railings, the points of which had penetrated his face. The distressing event has ceated a most painful sensation throughout the neighbourhood. 'THE TRUE CAUSE OF QUARREL.—For the first time in the history of the world we see a man vituperated for the correc tion of a great error. He is not blamed for having been wrong, but for having got right. Ile is reproached for not having adhered to opinions after he had discovered their unsoundness. He is upbraided for the desertion of his party, as if the whole duty of a statesman was to stick to party without regard to truth and public interests. The Protectionists altogether mistake their ground of quarrel with Sir Robert Peel. They have a right to blame him for having mis taught, misguided them. They may fairly reproach him for having made such fools of them during the long period of schooling from 1815 to 1846, that he cannot now unmake what he has made. They may justly arraign him for having stuffed them full of fallacies which, in the minds of grown gentlemen, are not easily removable. In a word, they may reasonably complain of any and every part of the Premier's conduct except the abandonment of his error. But this act of virtue is the single point against which the outcry is raised. It is deemed unpardonable that Sir Robert Peel did not carry on a deception, make false professions of belief in the utility of the corn laws, and maintain a system which in his heart he knew to be unjust and injurious.--Examiner. MIDDLE TEDIPLE.—The undermentioned gentlemen were called to the degree of the Utter Bar on Saturday, and pub lished in the Middle Temple Hall this day:—John Cockerton, Esq., Thomas jams, Esq., Joseph Needham, Esq., Wm. Thomas Fame, Ike 6114 $tT Wa.li9r Esq. LITERATURE. SCRIPTURE HISTORY. Finch. What we partic'alarly adinTr in this work is tbt'd'oject with which it has been undertaken, and th'e singular suc cess with which that obj ee t :;.v? been developed. An accurate knowledge 7' f!:iie book of boobs has hitherto been precluded f" ;in childhood, both by the fragmentary wanner in which its records have been inculted, and by the diffuse style so peculiarly the characteristic of the inspired writings. To obviate this, our authoress has compiled an inductive narrative founded upon the great records of scripture ; and her compilation is so remark able for its simplicity both of diction and arrangement as entirely to dispel those obstacles. Besides adhering to the original purity of the text, wherever it did net interfere with her purpose, she has elaborated the volume with geographical explanaticns, such as must tend very mwerially to facilitate the acquisition of the History in childhood. Availing herself of the labouri of Josepbus, and Calnict, and the Abbe Fleury, the writer has so judiciously interpolated their elucidations upon many obscure points of the narration as not to interfere with the integrity of the original, while they render the details more vivid and appreciable. The lady who has at tempted thus much for the advantage of the young generation, has in an elegantly written preface dilated upon the benefits which must accrue from the successful completion of a task like the present ; nor has she over estimated its importance. Whether we regard an accurate knowledge of Scripture as likely to elevated the more spiritual attributes of the human intellect, or to mellow and strengthen its tone by imbuing it with an account of the occur rences which transpired in the earliest ages of the globe whereon we are sojourners for a time, that knowledge is necessarily most requisite ; arid as far as the embryo powers of a child will permit information of such vastness to be instilled, the attempt is both the human and the divine duty of the parent. Many ob structions have hitherto rendered the fulfilment of this duty most difficult, if not generally impossible ; but the present volume promises to smooth the pathway, and to strew it with flowers—to make these great truths of re vealed religion easy of attainment and doubly attractive in form, as far as the immature and plastic capacities of infancy are concerned. No parents proud of numbering themselves under the insignia of Christianity should dis regard the publication of the book under notice. We say ti,is in all honesty and earnestness of feeling, as we conceive the " Scripture History by Catherine Irene Finch" as a boon to all classes. From the clear and perspicuous arrangemi nt of the facts, they will be readily understood, and lastingly stamped upon the memory. We hope before long to see the continuation of the un dertaking, until it has reached what the authoress pro poses in a postscript, namely, the commencement of the Christian era. It must in time become an elementary book to the Scriptures. IMAGINATIONS AND IJIITATIO.VS. By five. The " Hyperion," printed on tea-paper and stitched up in pasteboard, is, in our estimation, a more costly work, than th e c h o i ces t p i ece o f rhythmical insipidity ever publishei in etnblaz , ned silk, with leaves of vellum and letters of gold. Nevertheless we must not bring a very fastidious taste to the perusal of those annual out scourings of rhyme with which the minds of our poetas ters are relieved every successive year, or they become annihilated. Let them float off with their pretty butter fly decorations upon the waters of Lethe, until they be come happily lost in perspective. Some books are of such a dull and ponderous nature in their stupidity that they drop down plomb! into oblivion; not all the sys tem of good Martinus Scriblerus could teach them the "art of sinking" more inimitably than they do themselves. Others are of such an exceeding flimsiness as scarcely to wrinkle the surface of Lethe while they are being swept off into its abyss—like the " —little wanton boys that swim on bladders." But to be serious, if possible, to be honest, to be good natured—let us turn to the volume upon our table and receive it as it is offered, namely in all simplicity. Among the eastern people, during remote ages, when, accordie to the old legal phrase, " the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," it was (and we believe is) a fine custom among the orientals to tender each other pre sents, habitually. With the wealthy trinkets are usually given, but whenever a man's poverty precludes any gift of a more solid character, a mere handful of barley ears or of fruit are presented, and there are received with a like good grace. The intentions of the donor are looked to—not the emolument of the donee. We reverence this system much. For one thing, it breeds good blood, good fellowship, and good encourage. ment. And revering it, we will endeavour to follow it as a pattern, wherever injury can be inflicted upon no body by the imitation. Looking at the effusions of Hope then in this pleasant spirit, we can cordially admire the binding, the satin paper, and the symetrical manner in which " the rivulet of rhyme " runs through its " meadow of margin," to quote the famous sarcasm and alliteration of Sheridan not for the first time within this half century. Of the compositions contained in the volume we cannot, however, bring ourselves to speak in a similar strain of panegyric. If all the albums of our fair countrywomen had been filtered down into a book, leaving out everything of vigour, of nerve, or of novelty, and if the residue had been diluted very care fully afterwards, the result would, undoubtedly, have been some such a work as these " Imaginations and Imi tations." What shall we say, for instance, of a poem, ostentatiously commencing and terminating thus— " Bright genius hover round me, Association ; How oft thy spell hath bound me, Association !" We cannot, however, induce ourselves to imagine that this collection of metrical effusions is seriously issued from the press with any ambitious views : we are inclined, on the contrary, to regard it as a rich joke level led at Parnassus. And if such really be the case, though we cannot precisely discover the point of the thing, we are impressed with a conviction that the joke is emi nently succeFsful. One little syllable of advice we would, however, whisper to the writer, if the compositions are dictated in all earnestness; and our advice is, to abstain henceforth from committing to public criticism verses only fit to be crow-quilled upon gilt-edged note paper, delicately tinged with pink, and delicately perfumed with flour d'orange. PICTURES FROM ITALY. By Charles Dickens. Ever welcome, no matter under 'what appearance, whether as transatla n ti c no t es , or goblin stories, or seri a l novels, or even casual letters upon jurisprudence, are the writings of Mr. Dickens to us ! He has cast such gleams of sunlight upon our pathway, he has so glad dened our heart with his wit, and moved it with his pathos, he has spoken out with so much eloquence and daring in the cause of those who most required an ad vocate, and has done all this with such unaffected kindli ness and power that the mere superscription of his name upon a titlepage becomes a guarantee that there is excellence of some sort in the after pages. We must acknowlege ourselves as not numbering amongst those captious individuals who expressed their disappointment at the character of his "American Notes." We anti cipated none of that impertinent gossip in which travel ling authors too frequently indulge ; nor were our ex pectations aroused in favour of philosophical commenta ries or political disquisitions upon the government, or the scientific progression of the United States. The book was precisely the description of book one might rationally have looked for from "Boz." It was a trans parent medium through which we might gaze across the intervening ocean upon scenes, and characters, and land scapes, such as are actu a lly v i s ibl e i n t h at quarter of the New odd ; there was a healthiness, moreover, in the tone, a simplicity .in the diction, a truth fulness about the descriptions, and an alterna tion of facetious details and solemn supplications for the greater diffusion of liberality and brotherly -love among mankind, which accorded well with the peculiar kind of celebrity which Dickens had already acquired. In speaking thus, however, it must not be supposed that we are ready to regard any thing and everything which this author may issue from the press as faultless, or as deserving of unconditional com mendation. Not so. We could enumerate a diversity of blemishes in the fictions of Charles Dickens, faults of composition, faults of grouping, and especially the most glaring and intolerable faults of punctuation. But, perceiving the infinite preponderance of his excellencies, recognising his extraordinaryoriginality,and loving from our heart the noble spirit by which •his works are ac tuated, we should deem such an enumeration as ungrateful, and invidious, and hypercritical to the very last degree. Just, to a proportionate extent, as we should consider any indiscriminating censure of the " Winter's Tale," for its anachronisms, or Shelley for the occasional halt ing of his metre, or Byron, for plagiarism, or the " Seasons" for grandiloquence. Looking in each of these instances at the immeasurable predominance of the beauty over the flaw, we confess our selves ready to lose all recollection of those subor dinate failings, and to accord praise and honour, in their different ways, to Shakspere, Shelly, Byron, Thomson, and Dickens. Any carping at the eccentri cities (for such in reality the major :portion of these blemishes may be termed), for which those who adorn our literature are remarkable, we conceive to be a petty and contemptibl e di s pl a y of fastidiousness: it is quarrelling with the nightingale for its russet hue, and the peacock for its discordant voice. In this manner, whenever there is a manifestation of genius in a writer, our literary taste is cosmopolite. We admire the amber none the less because of the fly imbedded in it. And that our author has, of a truth, a certain genius, and that of a very unusual order, his pen has sufficiently demonstrated of itself for the fact to require any elaborate exposition. Of this, however, enough. Our attention must confine itself for the pre sent to a consideration of the "Pictures from Italy" —a blue book, somewhat less dry, somewhat less monotonous, and somewhat less unpalatable than those produced by our parliamentary wisdom. The pictures contained in it are necessarily Cabinet representation of Italian life, ful though miniature pictures ; "nevertheless, they afford the reader a faith ful is, it is the faith fulness of exaggeration ; no one paints a scene more Ita lian scenery, Italian character, .and Italian customs. Faithful, however, as the portraiture some preposterously which possible distortion—some wimsical conceit — vividly, more accurately, or more minutely than " Bo . a m ;': but it is always accompanied by h con veys to the mind the most piquante sense of the umourous, while, at the same time, it tends to imprint the description upon the memory. Take as an example of this the account of the Colos seum at Rome, which, as viewed from above, re minded Dickens of a gigantic straw hat, the circular during rows of benches being the plaits, and the arena the crown. Or again, his mention of the vines by the road sidepro which,!pectwhdeo spring "so many walking sticks;" or the then to di ce;" ic er p or st the w white houses of Naples, "dwindling, in the great extent of m ld o in v g ed i ,n and St. P a c u t e ther's, framework left, "looked le li r " exploded c an . cracker;" o r . lastly, and especially,that scaffolding ff re ° description ot the !lotion In COURT CiIiCULAR, Yesterday was the anniversary of the Queen's natal day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, arrived early at Buckingham Palace, and remained to breakfast with her Majesty and her Royal Consort. The Queen also received visits of congratulation, in the course of the day, from her Majesty the Queen Dowager, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cam bridge and Prince George. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domes tic household, attended Divine service yesterday morn ing, in the private Chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C Leslie Courtenay officiated. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their usual airings yesterday in the garden of the Palace. Her Majesty, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, took an airing on Satur day in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert ac companied her Majesty on horseback, and the Equerries in Waiting, Colonel Buckley and the Hon. Captain Gor dor, were in attendance on horseback. Prince Alfred took an airing in the pleasure grounds of the Palace on Saturday. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Westmoreland, the Earl and Countess of Dalhousie, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. the Speaker, and Sir Heary Wheatley. The band of the First Life Guards was in attendance during dinner, and performed the following pieces:— March—Zulchner Potpourri, "Linda di Chamouni,"—Donizetti Walter—Carol us—Player Selection from the Ballet of "Alma"—Costa Polka, Almacks—Labitzk , y Cori—La Carita—Rossini Cavatina—Lombardi—Verdi. Her Majesty the Cueen " Dowager attended Divine service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard, Sub-dean of Lincoln, who took his text f rom th e A cts, chap. 1, verse 9. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. V. Povah, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the Communion service by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The anthem was, " Ascribe unto the Lord" (Travers).—Mr. Tune presided at the organ. The Queen Dowager was attended by the Marchioness of Ormonde and Earl Howe. Among the nobility pre sent were the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquises of Win chester, Salisbury, Northampton, and Ormonde; Ladies De La Warr, Wilton, St. Germans, Somerset, and Pal merston ; Lords Bessborough, Cawdor, St. Germans, Zetland, Cantalupe, and Palmerston. The Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Rutland, Lord G. Paulet, and Sir F. Trench, attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Goddard. - Her Majesty the Queen Dowager visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Her Majesty also visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday ; and the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty yesterday, at Marlborough House. The Duchess of Kent left town on Saturday morning, for her residence, Fro; ®ore House, Windsor. Her Royal Highness returned to Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yes terday morning, in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley. street. Baron Knesebeck was in waiting on his Royal Highness. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre sence on Saturday evening. A deputation from the Scotch Banks had an inter view with Sir Robert Peel and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The Ministers were accom panied by the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Mr. Divett, M.P., had an interview with Mr. Secre tary Gladstone on Saturday at the Colonial-office. _ The Chairman of the Excise had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief had also an interview with the Right Honourable Gentleman. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England held a Committee Meeting on Saturday. There were present the Bishops of Winchester, Hereford, Ripon, and Wor cester, the Earl of Devon, the Right Hon. H. Hobbonse, and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey. Mr. llume, M.P., h a d an interview with Mr. Secretary Gladstone on Saturday. Mr. Hampton had also an in terview with the Right Hon. Gentleman. Sir Robert and Lady Peel had a dinner party on Saturday, at their residence in Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel had afterwards an evening party. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colonial-office for the Governor of the Mauritius. NEWS FOR THE AMERICANS TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Siß,—The late accounts from America give us the pleasing prospect of a speedy settlement of all differences with the United States on fair and honourable terms. This is devoutly to be wished by every person who wishes well to both coun tries ; but it will still be prudent for us to be prepared for a different result, in the event of the faction who now rule the destinies of America being resolved on war, and exposing their own country and ours to all its calamities. I trust I shall be able to show that in this case we possess the means of meeting them with an overwhelming force, and that we far surpass them in power and resources, and this from a quarter from which they never expected to be assailed. As by our treaty of peace with the Seikhs we obliged them to disband their army and give up all their guns that were opened against us, and as a great proportion of their army have brothers and relations in our Bengal army, we have now an excellent opportunity of taking a large number of them into our service and of having them disciplined and commanded by British officers, on the express condition of their agreeing to proceed along with our Sepoys to North America, should the Government require their services in that quarter. The pay of these troops is moderate and they are easily fed, and they are proverbially brave, disciplined by French officers, and will attack their opponents hand to hand. Their artillery is also of the first order, and their gunners excellent marksmen, and in our late battles stood defending their guns until bayoneted by our troops. A force of 20,000 men of these troops, with an equal force of Sepoys, and a proportionate number of British troops, would be sufficiently powerful to retain possession of the south-eastern slave states of America, until such time as the British authorities should proclaim liberty to the slaves in those states ; binding them strictly, on granting them their liberty, to remain as servants for five years, on fair and equitable wages, with such of their former masters as should remain peaceably on their estates after the country had been taken military possession of by our army, and guaranteeing to the negroes the full liberty of serving in the British army as soldiers, to be raised for service in America and the West Indies during this period, if they should prefer it, to serving their former masters. These corps could be organised and commanded by officers from the half-pay list of the British army, and might con sist of a major-commandant, a second in command, and five lieutenants and five ensigns for the ten battalion companies. The filling up the superior ranks would give a fine opening for promoting and placing upon full pay meritorious officers, who are now wearing out their lives in listless inactivity, and the forming of the junior ranks of lieutenants and ensigns would give a noble opportunity to the Commander-in-Chief of promoting deserving sergeants to the rank of commissioned officers, who, when called upon service, would, it may con fidently be expected, prove themselves worthy of the new rank conferred on them. This promotion of 'so many ser geants would also prove highly beneficial to the service generally, and would induce numbers of men of the very best description,to enter into our battalions; and the emancipated slaves themselves would prove a much more formidable force than might at first be imagined, as they would see the necessity of acting with determined resolution as soldiers under their new masters, well knowing the fate that would await them if again brought under the American yoke. At the same time that we were granting liberty to the slave we could form a treaty with the yet free State of Mexico, by which we would engage to send British officers to organise their troops, who make excellent soldiers,dccaunmdvleaend them against the Americans, who, by fraud an encroachmentsti circumven tion, deprix u -e p d on the i m he o ir f Texas territory.and makingAarnedalong this with we could semi a force of Europeans and Sepoys from India, who would chase the American squatters from the Orego n and place it entirely under British rule ; and our forces in Canada could make a demonstration, and attack the Ame rican frontier in that quarter, whilst the whole sea coast of the Atlantic would be placed under a strict blockade, which would prevent all commercial intercourse between the United States and other nations, while the southern states, under British protection, would have free intercourse with every part of the world. These are the consequences -which the Americans would quickly feel if they should plunge into a war with Great Britain. Without commerce, and unable to raise a dollar on credit in Europe on account of their having forfeited all claim to character by their having repudiated their own bonds, they would be unable under the heaviest taxations to pay one-half of their national expenditure, and with a daily increasing debt they would be under the necessity of resort ing to a paper currency, which would be immediately depre ciated within their own territories and of no value whatever beyond it. I observe that the question of peace or war is left by the American Government to the discretion of Mr. Polk. When settling this momentous question which will decide the destiny of millions of the human race, it is to be hoped that he will seriously consider the heavy responsibility attached to his conduct before hel, publishes his ultimatum. If it be for peace the two Governments, of a kindred race, might easily now conclude a treaty of amity which would ensure to each country the advantages of a free and unrestricted commerce on the principle of perfect reciprocity. As he has deter mined on war, I will take the liberty of telling him that his decision may shake the institutions of his country to their foundation. - A " SPAHI SIRDAR." DISSECTION IN THE EAST.—The Grand Seignior has Just promulgated an eider that the bodies of female slaves who die in the markets shall be given up by the owners to the students in medi cine for dissection. JOSEPH MASON.—The following letter has been re ceived from Lord Morpeth, by Mr. Isaac Wood, brother-in law to Joseph Mason, who has lately returned from Norfolk Island, to which place he had been unjustly trap sported : " London, May 16th, 1846. " Sir,—Sir James -Graham informs me that he cannot direct any commission to be instituted in the matter com plained of with respect to the case of Joseph Mason. The complaint should more properly be addressed to the visiting justices of York Castle; but now that Mason has been re turned to his home with his character completely cleared and acknowledged, I cannot advise any proceedings which now might bear the appearance of a vindictive character. " Sir James, at the same time, authorised myth state that he will confer a gratuity of twenty-five pounds upon Mason, as a small token of the unfortunate misapprehension under which he suffered. I cannot help thinking that Mason would do well to avail himself of Mr. Hudson's offer. "Your humble servant, " Mr. Isaac Wood." " MORPETFI. We understand that Mason is now employed at the York R a ilway station, a situation having been provided for him there, through the kindness of G. Hudson, Esq., M r Leeds Merocrst, Total... ........... Millions 43, Miles 1,600 Few can look on this. enormous sum we should think, without wonder and aston i shment ; and ' strong indeed must i be the nerves of that sh are h older who can contemplate t without shuddering. It is not a question whether our cor respondent's figures are right to a million or two, or to half a-dozen millions, nor to half-a -dozen hundred miles, for the liabilities are of that vast extent, and the number of miles so great, as to make a sum equal to the entire cost of such a line as the London and Birmingham, or the much-abused London and York, and a distance from Liverpool to London and then to F.... 4 inimirght an insignificant fraction--a mere drop in the huge bth...' ket of Great Western speculation and risk. Heaven forbid ti,.:!' we should do or say ought to damage the true interests of the Great Western Railway; but can any one look on this mighty mass of liability with out being appalled at its magnitude? We will venture to pledge our word that there is not one Li the Company—cer tainly none of the shareholders— aware of the extent of Ha. bilities to which his property stands pledged an: is sought to be further pledged. The original capital of the Great Western Company i been swelled under their engineer, with the addition of twel branches of 1 1 / 4 millions, from 2 1 4 to 9 1 4 millions, which has materially reduced their legitimate dividends far below the expected amount, and to less than one-fourth of what they would fairly have been. So great are the liabilities and en gagements, that if trade received a check we are unable to understand how and where the Great Western could find funds to meet the demands on them for rent, in terest, &c., &c., without calling on their shareholders for contributions. Some of the lines, it is morally certain, never can pay, and the consequence will be a constant drain on the parent line. Very kindly to the Great Western the Par liament last week threw the wet blanket over five of the projects, and it would be fortunate indeed if most of the rest could share the same fate. • In this mass of engagements it should not be overlooked that, of the si expended, only 41 are actually paid up ; the remaining 4 millions are 2i millions in debenture& and lin loan notes. So that the actual paid-up capital to meet and bear the brunt of the engagements, and proposed engagements, of nearly 43 millions, are really only 4- mil lions, or not a tenth of the amount. Some of the debentures also bear an interest of 5 per cent. The summary that we have given by no means shows the probable state of affairs. Most of the lines proposed to be leased and amalgardated are not yet made, but are to be made under the Great Western engineer, the same gentleman who estimated the Great Western at 2 1 i millions, and. has already contrived to spend upwards of seven or eight. Now we believe, there are at least 25 millions of these proposed liabilities not yet begun. Supposing, therefore, instead of nearly quadrupling the estimates, he is fortunate enough this time only to about double them, the Great Western liabilities will then amount to 70 millions ! We have long complained of the very great and perilouz. engagements of the Great Western Company; but, we can didly confess, until the facts were brought before us in detail,. we never dreamt of their fearful extent. We did not ima gine that at the utmost they exceeded a half of the amount they reach. We Lad, indeed, heard talk of near 30 millions, but the probability that the directors and shareholders should have committed themselves to this extent, appeared to us to be so small, that we regarded it rather as a wild guess than. an approximation to facts. We looked upon it to be some. thing like Mr. Brunel's bridge over the Severn—a creation of the imagination never to be clothed with reality ; or like his South-Devon Atmospheric Railway, a thing to excite our wonder by the greatness of its absurdity. It is but an act of justice to say, that we strongly doubt whether any of the managers of the Great Western have been aware of the monstrous large liabilities they have been incurring. Far too much engaged to compute the " sum tottle of the whole," as Mr. Joseph Hume would call it, they have gone on step by step, adding item to item, without once looking back on the insufficiency of the fulcrum to bear so mighty a load. Like many men in their worldly affairs, they have been dealing in those dangerous little items, called " 'tis buts," without counting their number, or regarding their ac cumulated weight; and, we have no doubt, when we now call their attention to the fact, they will be as much surprised at the amount as we were when it was laid before us. In our next, we shall give the details of the foregoing street, with probably a few more observations. DEATH AT THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY STATION.—OiI Thursday evening, a little before nine o'clock, a man, who, was sitting on a form in the second-class waiting rcom of the Victoria Railway station, Hunt's Bank, was found dead: and a surgeon, having been promptly called thither, was unable to restore animation. The deceased had been sitting there a short time previously, without exhibiting any signs of indisposition. He was apparently about sixty-live years of age, respectably attired in black.. He wore a pla n neckcloth, white stockings, shoes with four button holes, and a cap upon his head. He had not paid for his fare for any place, and no money except Is. 3d. was found upon him.—Manchester Guardian. THE RIFLE BRIGADE. On Saturday evening the officers at present connected with the Rifle Brigade, and several whc formerly held commissions in that distinguished corps, held their an nual festival at Grillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street. Sir Andrew Bar , nerd, G.C.8., Colonel-Commandant, presided. The list of attendants compriied—Major-General Sir Alexander Cameron, G.C.8., Major- General Brown, Deputy-Adjutant-General Sir T. Monro, Viscount Jocelyn, M.P., Colonel Peel, Captains Groves, Walpole, &c. Upwards of 25 sat down. FATAL ACCIDENTS ON THE RIVER.—Two LivE9 LOST.—On Sunday morning, between six and seven o'clock, a num ber of persons hired a boat at Blackfriars-bridge for the purposeof proceeding up the river. When they had got nearly facing the new Houses of Parliament, a young woman named Ellen Morney, whc resided in Fulwood's-rents, Holborn, by a sudden jerk of the boot was thrown from her seat into the river. A young man named Beagley instantly jumped in after the female, but he was unable tG save her, and up to ten o'clock last night the body had not been re covered. The same afternoon as the Matrimony iron steam-boat was proceeding up the river to Chelsea, with a cargo of passengers. the foremost mate, a young man, named Charles Pusey, was stand ing on the paddle-box, when he was accosted by a friend, and whilst shaking hands with his acquaintance he overbalanced himself asiC fell into the river. The bd'at was stopped as quickly as possible, a waterman put off from the shore, and rowed to the spot, and every endeavour was made to save the young man's life but without suc cess. It is supposed that the deceased must have been washed on: some distance by the swell caused by the passage pf the steamer. As in the previous case the body had not been found at ten o'clock last night. • The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor and Lady have issued cards to the foreign Ambassadors and their ladies, the i ttl with them on Friday, th great number of the nobility, to dine • Egyptian of June. It is supposed that about 160 will sit down in t hee Mayoress of Cambr'dge, and I Egyptian hall, and their Royacl l l n i c g e htLes e, s ,r es ge ti a te re D Man sion-house on the occasion with their presence. THE STEAM-SHIP CAMBRIA.—By letters received per `j:tp e fcC e ed am to br h i o d n g on' t r h t e la l e )uehesS , h w er e o le u a t rn T. t r l d la p t au blic ig s e t . eam-ship Cambria had met w arrived safely on the Ist • ... Gre at Wdeensttern insinnt at Timm. ; but half•an-hour before midnight on Saturday, the 2d instant, while en the passage from Halifax to Boston, she rar on shore in Truro, Cape Cod. The weather at the time was foggy, and the boat running at halt-speed. The engines were reversed, and an anchor and stern-cable carried out. At the time she Went ashore it was about half tide ; as the tide rose her stein swung round ; and at high water (about four o'clock on the Sunday morning) she lay broadside on. On the follow ing day her coal and supplies of water having been discharged, she was got off by the aid of a steamer, and on Tuesday morning leached Boston in perfect safety, not having suit. tained the slightest dalna•.;e from her mishap. She would leave Boa- , ton on her return on tie 16th instant, and may therefore be expected t 3 arrive here about nree o'clock on Thursday montirg next. ELOPEMENT.—The clandestine flight of Miss Fanny Wilkinson, of Gledhow Mount, near Leeds, with Mr. Joshua Barton. jun. ' on Monday night last, has been a su bj ect upon which a great deal has been said and conjectured in Leeds and the neighbourhood during the last few days. The young lady is highly respectable, being the daughter of John Wilkinson, Eaq., one of our most exten sive and opulent flax spinners. The connexions of Mr. Burten arc also of a very high standing, his father being a wool merchant doing a large business, and a bank director. They travelled rapidly to York, where they arrived sufficiently in time to proceed northwards by a train to Newcastle, which leaves the York station about five o'clock in the morning. On the same day they were married at Gretna-green.—Leeds latelliOneer. ADDRESSES FROM SCOTLAND TO MR. WILLIAM SMITH 011ares.—Last Saturday addresses front such of the inhabitants Of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Greenock, Aberdeen, and Dundee as are favour ably disposed towards the agitation of the Irish repealer., a aited on Mr. William Swint O'Brien in the prison of the House of Commons, and presented him with addresses of sympathy and unqualified approval. • PEDESTRIANISM.—On Saturday Harris, who last week lost his snatch: in undertaking to cover the five bridges in ene hour. made another attempt, and succeeded in accomplishing the feat. His wager was for 101., and the time occupied was fifty-nine minutes. RE .OPENING OF NEW OXFORD -STREET.—This itripOr• tant thoroughfare, from Oxford-street to Holborn, near Little Queen street, has been re-opened, with the exception of a very small por tion, avoided by going round Hart-street, Illoomsbnry. THE FOREIGN MAILS.—P . OST following notice relative is the foreign ma h3eledncieteorn to the chief office, St. Martin's-le•Grand :—Tire Peninsular -° lll FF wa rC s E on N s O pt T urd E ay atlixed Mails— The neat and China, wilib n e tal ' due on the 26th inst. the morning of the 27th inst. The next 1, Indian Mails:--The m n ai ,p ls t, f l b ii r d l ia. 'igo, Oporto, Lisbon, d Ca, p h it , z G hod ibral fro tar m , eniusular mails on the morning of the Mediterranean, Egypt, India, and China, via Mar seilles,amipliteonowi,eirtihant,iie next mails tor t a ri r id a la je, & t c h .., The Queen will sail 11, 2... T h 8 1 74h I be dispatched from hence this evening, the 2htb i nst. kilt Southampton:—The next mails for Gibraltar, Malta, I na o . nian Islands, Egypt, Ind a, China, Ike., via SoUthaMp ton, will be dispatched from hence on the morning of the 3d ofJune. West Indies, Ste.:—The next mails 14 the British Colonies in the west Indies (except Honduras and Bermuda), the foreign colonies in the West Indies, Mexico, Venezuela, and Madeira, will be dis patched from hence on the morning of the 2d of June. The Alton, with the mails from the above, due ou the 7th of June. Sydney, New South Wales : —The next mail from Sydney, New South Wales. will be dispatched from home on the evening of the' 31st inst., and will be conveyed by the Trafalgar. Madeira, Brazils, and Buenos Ayres :—The next mails will be dispatched from hence on the even ing of the 2d of June. From August to July inclusive the packet touches at Pernambuco and Bahia on her outward o sssage to Rio Janeiro, and the oth er s i x months on her homeward. Her Majesty's brig Penguin due with the above mails oh the 29th lust. America:. —The next mails for orth Amerlce, Bermuda. and United States, will he dispatched from hence on the evening of the 3d June. The Caledonian, with the above mails, due on the 29th inst. net terdarn :—A mail bag will be made up to be forwarded by the Ba tavia on Saturday next, the 30th inst., and every succeeding Satur day during the season. A WOMAN CHOKED Di 7 A PIECE OF BREAD. --On Saturday an inquest was add at the William the Fourth, Wands worth-road, before Mr. Carter, on the body of Mary Anne Cooke, the wife of a sweep, living in Howard-street. A few days Prev i ously the deceased was at tea, when a piec4 of crust of bread lodged in the larynx, and before a surgeon could be rTOctged, he WOE yer, diet, "Died troll suroca,ttez! FINANCIAL POSITION AND LIA- N BLLITIES OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL- ItTi 44, WAY COMPANY. (From Herapath's Journal.) The discussion on the gauge question, and the presentPar-- - '. liamentary contest between the Great Western Cod!pany and the South Western, have brought the former so prominently 3 -- before the public as to cause any information respecting it to `, be of more than ordinary interest. So numerous and extensive are the engagementWithikaSAajd Great Western Company, that it has long been a source of anxiety to know what are their actual position and liabili ties. It has been said, they are so multifarious that it is doubtful whether anyone member of the Company—director, shareholder, or officer—could state them, if called on to do so. Certain it is, that none of our usual portfolios of railway in formation are competent to furnish all the cases of their pur chases, leases, and amalgamations, made and proposed. The defect of this information oacksioned a gentleman to undertake the very laborious and difficult task of collecting the facts connected with the Great Western engagements.. Whether he has embraced all the schemes taken and pro posed to be taken under the wing of the Great Western, or whether there may be any trifling oversights, it is next to impossible, in such a mass of projects, to decide. If, how ever, there should be a few slips, there is scope enough for them in this mountain range of projects. In this Andrean, or rather Himalayan group of under takings, the Great Western Railway, which was originally designed to be simply a railway to Bristol of 113 1 4 miles long, and 2% millions capital, has swelled its own capital proper to above 9 1 4 millions (including t wo branches), of which 8 1 4 have actually been spent. Its effected and pro posed amalgamations exceed 11 millions more, and it has under lease above 64 millions, which, with different matters, make a grand total of 43 millions sterling! If we regard the mileage, it stands thus :—The 118( miles of original line have got annexed to them 170% miles by amalgamation, and 295 1 ,4 miles by lease, to which it is proposed to add 329 miles more by amalgamation, and another 686 N miles by lease, making in all 1,600 miles of railway!! or nearly as much as all the railways at this time in opera tion in the United Kingdom. The following is the abstract : Capital and Shares. Length. Millions. miles. Great Western proper, including half, &c., shares Amalgamations Proposed ditto g 329 Leased Proposed to be leased -i':7lllV ) b R • • t -E-