The Sun. — London, England, 1846-07-27 00:00:00

th e - .s., s ••' - lit .ter, rot. :1101 "1 p ten eB4 !-taral •Zt, Prince v‘o , e Garter. at 'itorrn, nith the ensigns of the Order of the NiAl n t . t. s a e ayal Highn. • the e • d'tgry Grand Duke of 0 0/1 zitrelitz. Awe the un I •rin 19.. Pr tis? , isi 4 ' 141 , with the Insiatoa,..f An Order of Knighthood. the Highness the Prinee Lciiiingee wore Of the of a Gen, , al or Bavaria, with the Ensigns r e Order of the Garter. ti ll a ° puk e of iNorf,lk appeared for the first time in U hato lluitbri n as Mast er o f t h e H orse , an d carr i e d hi s 1 ., as Earl M arshal of England t hr, 4rl Granville appeared in his uniform as Master of and theeYal Buck Hounds. The great officers of State, ofh • , officers of the household, wore their respective utat eostu Rer It "es. ittaid• pia limes. Prince Albert, and the Royal Family th, A l . n g on one side, the royal sponsors opposite, and rehbishop having advanced from the altar to the tt te 4 nri t6 infant Princess in the arms of the head nurse, P y t ir r ti Loa the Dowager Lady Lvttelton, and conduct. d E ' (t Chamberlain and the Groom of the Stole to .l oan -ce Albert, enter. d the chap 1, and was stasioned gtietto the font, above the sponsors, and } opposite the 4 tol e ll. The Lord Chsmberlain and the room of as ,r6reipained in attendance. 114 0 Primate immediately commenced the service ; the Stte,o°fLundon, the Bishop of Norwich, and the two guatit clergymen remained at the altar. 11,01:1 de mandin g the name of the Princess from the 4 4 „„,, 5°11 , the Duchess of Cambridge named her " Helena the"ta Victoria," and the Venerable Prelate performed ti ti 4aad rit e in a most impressive manner. The first lad pronounced " Helena," with the accent on the sYllable sit e • to ti e r the baptism, the Princess Helena was returned Aut arrns of her nurse. ds et the conclusion of the service the Princess was con the ; t1 Oat of the Chapel by the Lord Chamberlain an the b„ r " 711 of the Stole to Prince Albert, attended by kThe I n fer Lady Lyttelton. ei:ohln,fant Princess .was . dressed in a rich robe of over white satin. iloYal Highness th- Princess Royal and the laid s:2 Wale s stood on e i ther han d o f h er M a j esty , 1 , 4' 10 . 0 (1 with the Queen in the prayers of theservice. Cattbridarincess Alice remained with the Duke of Th e r ge. th 'Val sponsors left the chapel in the same order ReeY entered. t hen i r e f i liestY Prince Albert, and the Royal Family . .as a h e . "te chapel, after most graciously acknowledging .. 1 1!ce s of the Archbishop. 41aJesty's private band attended in the chapel, AUdßaveral additional performers, conducted by Mr, 1 114 "8 ". On the entrance of the royal procession the , eo -- n, tnenced playing the march in Joseph (Handel), 44b-s'illatitrtued Until the Queen had taken her seat. The 411 )e , 0 was composed by his Royal Highness Prince t ter' go t . ?re the Blessing the Hallelujah Chorus (Beet ter-il) was performed, and at the co e n u c s lu w si a o s n p o ls f y t e h l e tip ett ' sll 3' the march in Judas he kl o aeca n b . Ai_eorge Smart presided at t_ • Ma jesty and Prince k A aar leaving the chapel, h tf t ), ll, and their royal visitors, together with the whole ha.' Comp y p sent at the ceremony, passed up the V e s i ttrc a a i s - e o r the Throne-r.mm. o'clock state banquet was served in the kt ure g Ga t ller on one long table extending nearly its Ibikle length, y, and covered with centrepieces, vases, nes, and i ce p a il s , a ll o f s il ver g il t, the vases being h with the choicest exotics and plants in flower; the le brilliantly illuminated with wax lights in gold k lu,d . eleb ri. The Queen was conduct e d to a seat i n the e`ale of th e table on the east side, th e roya l guests aing opposit e an d a dj o i ning seats. et the s out h en d of the Gallery was a splendid buffet tik P e l ate, includ ing s hi e ld s, salvers, tankards, and cups, alo e s of the sma ll er art i cles wrought with precious Celli:. The Armada U rn , t h e Shi el d o f Achilles, the t r ; Cup, and the St. George tankard forming the dinn„ r an nlpartment. A military band performed during h Ile," following is a list of the company present i— t1,141145Yal the Duchess of Kent, her R..yal Highness "ulte llelle sa of Gloucester, their Royal Highnesses . t h e . 4 ati te ti nd Duchess of Cambridge, their Royal Hig ?i R nee George and the Princess Mary. their nease s the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess tt ltienb 4Nle e org Stretlitz, his Ser . e s n i e Highness the 14,3 Exceilteme"en9 his Excell n enc r y m M. Van de Weyer, his Excellency t„a_at t o _n a cY ti Baron de Excellency Baron de Beust, d e l arrn se t ,ge, h i Archbishop of Canterbury, the . (41.1.11falnLeello:",e'the M e arquis of Lansdowne, the Duke 4, the Duchess of Sutherland, .the Duke of *l N's,_ t4 .t t s T l A , the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Nor 141',°1xas Willoughby de Eresby,_ Sir George Grey, Ch At t i lS4 lll rnerston, Earl Grey, Earl of Auckland, Ch. neat t l e ktgle se y, E a rl of B esborough, Marquis of talacelles 'l , ord Campbell, Sir• John Hohhouse, the 1, 4 1 of 6 i al , the Exchequer, the Countess of Desert, or the a tendon Viscount Morpeth, the r (1 1'41 4. 14 e b Y ls i4lt nn, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lad y y Ca e, If a r ro t ay, Baroness de Speth, Lady Augusta Ca labsokl'er "Q" Ahlefeldt,. Lady Caroline Cocks, Hon. h 84 X Lady Caroline Barrington, Right Hon. H. ;tel.kblieti:ceorre: Fortescue, Earl Spencer, the Marquis ey, s , u, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Lord `le1• 111. Granville, Lord Byron, Lord George s 4l° ; r tlFi ‘ ', A M r. George dward Anson, Earl Jermyn, Ol it tle tir l ar Fl e owaid, Lord Marcus Hill, Major-General ' Alfred Paget, Sir James ne t o l t, IV:h a atley, r t , e 'r kjh ries Georg„ Young,_Colonel Bowles, Sir 'end, "nPer. Lion. and Rev. U. Leslie Courtenay, 'end, Henry . Howarth, Colonel Berkeley Drum ) .- 4tati s to ! ) ,'_ain Francis Seymour, Colonel M.Doual , A t tas tld ( ,Kmar, Captain the . Hon. G. A. Liddell, Mr. ) 1 40 (1 0[1 . 1 P. John Mildmay, Captain the Hon. J. h Colonel Arbuthnot, Lieut.-Colonel Francis r. - C. Y):l3° nr, Sir William Martins, Colonel Diggle, At r ic,`,„ a tias, and Colonel Knollys. "torfl et'nolu:* f the repast, the Earl Fortesette, toll ° ta warel Mug toests oL sl9 h n er o Maje ' sty's Household, gave the The Princess Helena." The Queen." " Prince Albert." bThe l et " The Duchess of Cambridge." 14h 8 toast was given in honoar of the Royal Aft -e ses h' - the anniversary of birthday, Saturday being .Afte r Highness's natal day. . %14 ei - r t g r ace, Mr Mackay, her Majesty's piper, made ,Ils r -°l „it of the gallery ' performing on his instrument. e iss te 4ajesty had afterwards an evening party, th ttty ) . 11 . ! which appeared in full court dress, Her Ma- . ka u nee Albert - , and the royal circle were conducted , sti nt Lord Steward and the Lord Chamberlain, soon 11 0ie -11° '° 1 0ek, into the grand saloon ; followed by the • the the company, Her Majesty's private band, uti add' • t performers, con sl awn of several eminent )1 , V Mr. Anderson, was in attendance in the performed the following t ,- „a. Gust über. ''''ott e e nt frotre—A Harpsicord Lessons—Handel. 11 rea, and Wedding March, Midsummer Night's te 1 44. , e " -- Menc e ls s ohn. Robert l e Diable—Meyerbeer. .:31tti.„111Phigenie—Gluck. ilo;us, ,and Chorus, Ruins of Athens—Beethoven. ~ePrin°n Airs ' composed by his Royal Highness the ht r 2 a Albert, ss her_ aßverture—Weber. e O restuneets were served to the company during the ,_iera,, ll ,,g in the green drawing-room, and supper was eateat eleven o'clock in the state dining-room. Her s 4 Y and her Royal Consort enteassd the room, se nt, l' a nied by their illustrious relatives, and preceded by ta,rual Officers of State, and followed by their distan kad guests. "eh"? Principal ornament of the supper table was tsi t t. rl „ 3 , l ,ening cake," made by Mr. Mawditt, her Majes y tta c i ` e "oner. It was encircled with garlands of flowers, tOwas covered with an open circular temple, supported rcud s . the front of each pier having a colnnin with small artificial flowers, while mini . ature butinets were inserted in vases placed in the opening of `° l l arch. The company took their departure shortly before Ggive k. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of eotlemen-at-Arms were on duty at the entrance to the L'aapel, and in the lower suite of rooms. The officers l'ese Standard , ~ns were the Lieutenant Sir Henry Robinsan ; fie _ .I , hearer, Mr. M. Wyatt, and the Adjutant, B. Curling. T he Yeomen Guard lined the grand hall and staircase. 7 officers present were the . Lieutenant, Sir Ge..rge hf tee; the Ensign, Sir George Htulton; the Adjutant, Ellerthorp ; and toe Exon in Waiting, Captain o ots. -h " Queen's Guard of the Coldstream Guards was ,m ended by Colonel Pringle. t o 'b° following had the honour of receiving invitations . %te ge eye i t —His Excellency Cutlet Dietrich- Usislio4ll(l C r' ou tl i g„ e li s a s r lLtrichstein, Madame Van de Weyer, an d Ira de Moncorvo his Excellency Baron de Brun. w -1 -tee it h I taroness de ' Brunow, Mademoiselle 01gs de :". 414 da „'' 4 Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen anti 11 4 . 1 .4 1 Z: ; 1 7 4 Mademoiselle .Bunsen, his Ext.:elle, cy Mr. lasa an • and Miss M Lane, Countess de Jarnac, " . " l lr. Doi " a - ;:" - Ruckinatatm, Leinstor, Sutherland. Bedford, • Rutland, N ,rthumberlan t, Buccle . uch. for d, st o—Leinster. Buckingham, Norfolk, Bed wthumberland, Baccleuch. 14. Rgtrls Es—Breadalbane, Westminster, Granby. tlll 'nla tilo NEssgs—Lansdowne, Clanrica.rde, Westminster. • (",., I* . B-- besart, Lincoln, Jersey, Delawarr , Liverpool , S rot Y, R.seberss, Ab -rdeen. Dalhousie. F wtesene Clarendon, Tinto, ' sas• i ll e t Y Lincoln, Westimireland, Jersey, "i7 t w e r De Grey, Rosebery, Dalhousie. IrtecaatTs—Melbourne, Canning, Jocelyn. _ I he enntarg ssgs--Palmerston, Canning, Jocel) n 1 0 11(4—Oxford. ata,. Stanley, B eauva l e, H eytesbury, .Lyttelton, Leg Rob ert Grosvenor.a~ililE 0 8 ": 4 111 (,hby de Ereshy, Ponsonby, (2) Ma . r" y, John Russell, Grey, Katherine Jer.ny r, Pkily I" ° _ Stratheden, Emily de . Burgh,. Wheatley, ..„`'ott,,a,"°Yolour, Gardiner, Caroline Levison Gower, l-uanl, Elizabeth Eliot, Mary Howard, Byron, e s , nn ox , Adeliza Manners,. Jane Firzaerald, pr• iatn Grosvenor, Clementina Villiers, A. Primrose, .tiosl;(l:l„r,°se, Mary Sackville West, Robert Grosvenor, ttu i : neauvale Lyttelton, Portman, Peel, Graham. -I °r HoP M I Sir Rabert Peel, tosberto N oultAßLES—..ox‘u e. 1. 4 0 )10 Legh, and Sir Jaine, Graham. tkint.Es—Mrs. Fox Thuile, Miss Willoughby. Itt re. r, Captain James P. Murray. Miss Campbell, Nas,...sa•Anac'n, Miss Lyttelton, and Misses Pepys. .I„""°`'at Gardiner. gqtt,' skier — Labauchere, Berkeley D rum mond, Blom °Y --and Howley. s'AtilsiZsa...Blornfield, Stanley, Coupon, Wheatley, (2) I{ol4 Gardiner, and Louisa Percy. SADLERS WELLS. The re ep. tohg e , this theatre, under the direction of :qr.lp-, to'.k piece on Saturday night, the play seb tied being the first part of Henry the Fourth, which augurs well of the manager's deter tnieation to pursue the system of playing the Shok-re rim' drama, which has obtained such deserved celebrity- for the house for the last two years. The joint management ot Mrs. Warner and Mr. Phelps heving terminated with the close ot the late season, the theatre has since been greatly improved; the open .space at the back of the boxes has been en closed, and fitted up with comfortable seats, and a dress circle has been formed in front, which were all occupied, as well as every other part of the house. The cast com prised chiefly the members of the old company, with the addition of Mrs. Brougham, Mr. Hoskins, and Mr. Creswick, an actor of merit in the provinces; and from his excellent and masterly performance of Hotspur, he has not disappointed the expectation of his friends. He showed that he had read and studied Shakspere care fully, his personation of the character was marked by decided talent; besides which he possesses many of the requisites for forming a good actor, his action is judi cious, his figure is good, and his voice pleasant; there fore we predict his becoming a favourite and occupying a high position on the London boards v e ry seen. Mr. Phelps acted the part of Sir John Falstaff. His delineation of the character of the fat knight is reelly an astonishing performance. We expected to see a very clever and careful version of the part, but we were both surprised and delighted to find Mr. Phelps entering fully into the " humours" of " fat Jeck." The Falstaff of Mr. Phelps is as surprising and as excellent as was the Sir Pertinax of Young. Mr. G. Ben nett, as King Henry IV., was all that could be desired; and Mr. Scharf, as Francis, was excellent. He is one of the tew low comedians of the present day who can play Shakspere. The play was admirably put upon the stage, and all the eubordinate characters being properly sustained, Henry IV. was better represented on. Satur day at Sadler's Wells, as a wi.ok, than we have ever seen it represented. There was nothing like a blot or a weakness to mar the general effect. Mr. Phelps, Mr. Bennett, and Mr Creswick were called for at the con clusion. The houSe was crowded in every part. FRENCH FLAYS-ST. JAMES'S THE .TRE. Mackmoiselle Rachel appeared on Friday in the character of Virginie, in Latour's tragedy of the same name, which, produced in 1835 at the Theatre Franpais, excited the hopes of the classicists, who hailed in M. Latour "the coming man" whose advent they had so long expected, who was to depose the usurping Romanticists, and to restore Racine to the throne of Poetry. Whether M. Latour is likely to do this, we shall not now stop to inquire. We shall have another opportunity of entering into the literary merits of his production. At present we must confine ourselves to the acting by Rachel in the character of the heroine. The two great characters in the play are Virginie and Appius Claudius ; and in the interview between thee► in the second act, when Claudius ventures to speak to Virginie of love, the outburst of indignant scorn, with which she meets his avowal, was one of the grandest triumphs that Rachel has ever achieved. She well understands the form of contrast. The retiring maiden of the first act had, by the assiduity of Claudius, become transferred into the indignant and insulted woman, who ', ith witheriug sarcasm spurned from her pre sence this insulter, patrician though he might be The villain dares to make a midnight attack upon her, and her description of this attack to her father is one of the finest pieces of acting ever seen. Her utterance is impeded, and she seems choking with mingled anger and fear while describing the scene to her father. This representation of the character of Virginie is, perhaps, the greatest triumph as a whole that Mademoiselle Rachel has as yet achieved during her visit to London. It was in every part perfect. FRENCH PLAYS.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meclenburgh-Strelitz, and at tended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay, honoured the French Plays with her presence on Friday; we observed also the Duke and Duchess of Beau fort, the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Carlisle, Lord Morpeth, Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, the Countess of Chesterfield, Lady Newport, Countess and Ladies Cadogan, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador and the Baroness Brunnow, Earl and Countess Grey, the Belgian Minister, Madame Van de Weyer, and Mr. Bates, Marquis of Titchfield, the Ladies Bentinck, Lady Grenville, Lord Beaumont, Lord Anson, Lord Cranstoun, Baron Koller, the Earl of Scarborough, Lady Suffield, Earl of Clarendon, Mrs. Villiers, Lord Duncannon. Lady Alice Peel, Lady Grenville, Lady Kinnear Macdonald, Count Bellegarde, Sir George and bliss Talbot, Lady and Miss Macdonald, Mrs. Errington, Sir Robert and Lady Newman, Sir William Massey Stanley. Sir C. Vaughan, Lady Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Isaac Goldamid, Hon. R. Dundas, and Mr. and Mrs. Brownrigg, M. Canofari, Mr. Rice Trevor, Mrs. Denistonn, Mr. Dudley, and the Misses Majoribanks, Mrs. and Misses Hammersley, Mr. and the Misses Bligh, and Mr. Lumley. THE CoLOSSEUM. This delightful exhibition is, as might be expected, crowded night and morning with fashionable company. The performani es on the splendid new organ are very fine, and added much to the attractions of this palace of enchantment. During the past week an im mense number of lovers of the science of horticulture have visited the Colosseum to see the large Mexican aloe in blossom, which has recently been purchased by the proprietor. It is one of the finest specimens of the aloe ever seen, and as this plant blossoms but once in a century, the plant is as unique as the other parts of this the most delightful of exhibitions. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. Goonw•ooD STALES.-6 to 1 agst Jonathan Wild (t. freely), 7 to 1 agat tne Hero (t. freely), Bto 1 agat Connaught Ranger ( t. freely), 10 to 1 agst Camera Obscure, 12 to 1 agst Red Robin (t. freely), 13 to 1 agst Lapwing filly (t.). Nothi g else backed. GooDwoon COP.-3 to 1 agst Grimston (t.), 6to 1 agst Lothario (t.), 9 to 1 agst Weatherbit (t.). Nothing done on Derby, &c. NEWTON RACES.—FRIDAY. The St. Helen's Purse of 501., added to a Sweepstakos of 15 soya. each, 10 ft, for 2 yrs old Est 71b, and 3 yrs Bst 101 b ; fillies allowed Ms. The Glborne Course. (10 Subs.) Mr. Worthington's Sharston, 3 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 Lord Stanley's Meeanee, 2 yrs Mr. Cranstoun's Comme-it-faut, 2 yrs Mr. Price's Kismet, 3 yrs Mr. E. Peel's Spithead, 3 yrs 0 The Garswood Cup of 1001., given by Sir John Gerard, added to Sweepstakes. of 15 soya, each, 10 ft. One mile and a half. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Cretchley's Coeur de Lion, 4 yrs (Mr. J. Moore) 1 Mr. Standish's Little Hampton, 5 yrs 2 Sir J. Gerard's Pantasa, 4 yrs 3 The Newton Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added; second to receive 101. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Meikhlam's Alliance, 3 yrs.... (Duncan) 1 1 Mr. Davies's Talleyrand, 5 yrs 2 2 Mr. Tempest's T' Ould Squire, 5 yrs Sweepstakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, winner to be sold for 300/. Two miles. Sir J. Gerard's Parthian, 6 37s walked over Plate of 701. for 3 yrs old, &c. Heats one mile and half. Mr. Owen's Thalia, 3 yrs (Abdale) 2 1 1 Mr. J. Clarke's fby Stockport, out of Columbine . 1 0 2 Mr. Robinson's Josephine, 3 yrs 0 2 0 Mr. Horuby's ch gby Valentine, out of The Lady, 0 0 0 Mr. Dawson's Jane, 4 yrs 0 0 0 Won in a canter. GUILDFORD RACES.—SATURDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Heats, two miles. Mr. Cook's Auld Lang Syne, 6 yrs, lost 21b (Wakefield) 1 1 Mr. Balchin's Sir Edmund, 3 yrs, 7st 51b Won in a canter by two lengths. BRIDGNORTH RACES.—TitURSDAY (Concluded.) The Selling Stakes of 3 soy. each, and 30 added, the second to save his stake, twice round, were won in three heats by Mr. Davenport's Chester, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Denman), beating Mr. Pepper's Hector, 7st 91b; Mr. Collins's Brunelle, Sat 101 b ; and two others. FRIDAY. The Gold Cup of 60 sov. Twice round and a distance Mr. Whitworth's Lady Sarah, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (Bond) 1 Mr. Raworth's Idolater, 4 yrs, Bst 31b Mr Bates's Master Downes, 4 yrs, Bst 3 The Wheatland Hurdle Stakes of 3 soy. each, and 15 added, 12st each, once round and a distance, were won in three heats by Mr. Davenport's Victorees, beating six others. GOODWOOD RACES. Up to Saturday night, the following horses had arrived in the neighbourhood of Goodwood, or were stated to be on the road Sir J. Hawley's Humdrum, and A-la-mode • •Mr. Drink - ald's Ohio, F ar thi ng C andle, Vol-att:v and Mongre l * Mr. Crockford's Kit e an d St.. LawrenCe en ; • t ' Mr. Thom Correct Card; Mr. F or d' s G uarracha , Millwood,. and Aul;8 i cuts ; Mr. Ellis's f by. lon, out .of Ranvilette; Mr. Seath's Subduer and Camelia; Sir W. W. Wynn's Stoker; Mr. M,nzi.e.s' Teetotaller; Lord Stradbroke's Idas and Lvaceus ; Mr. Herbert's Ajax, Orion, Petitioner, and c by Hetman Platotf, out of Zebra; Lur. Ramsbottom's Pineapple; Mr. Morris's Wolf-dog ; Mr. S. Stanley's Leaeonfield ; Lord Glasgow's Chainbearer, sister to Conspiracy (Emelia filly ), and f by The Provost, out of Miss Whip ; Mr W. H. Johnston's Jack Cade and Blind Hookey ; Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella, King Charles, Petit ...orceau, Gizelle, Sister to Sorella, f by Lanercost, out of Mountain Sylph, and f by Lanercost, out of Camp Follower; Lord Chesterfield's Arkwright, Snake, Javelin, Lady Wildair, The Maid of Sarago.,a, Morella filly, and New Brighton ; Mr. B. Green's ' The Conjuror; Greville's Alarm and Polka; Mr. Payne's Cobweb filly, Sir Fraticis, and Collingwood; Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp, Nerissa, Thomas, and Bretwalda ; Colonel An son's lago, Kedger, Epirote, and Rowland Hill; SirC. Monck's Glossy, Mowerina, and Vanish ; Mr. Jaques's Headsman ; Mr. Bowes's Ukraine, As-you-like-it, and Forget-me-Not; Mr. Maher's Jeannette ( Perdita f) ; Mr. Jacques's Heads man; Mr. O'Brien's Gritnston and Jonathan Wild; Mr. Meiklam's Duncan ; Mr. Dawson's The Nobbler and Lady Malloire; Mr. Wreford's Wilderness and N. - its-end; Mr. A. Johnstot e's Fair Helen, Bro: her to Sir Henry, Annandale, and Little Nell; Mr. Gully's Winchester, W..atherbit, Tan tivv, Wee Bit, Buckskin, and Mathematician; Sir J. B. Mills' Giantess; Mr. J. Day's The Hero; Mr. Goodwin's Dexterous ; Mr. Treen's . c by Euclid; Lord Lone dale's Jericho and Miss Milner c Lord Exeter's St. Demetri, Phlegon (doubtful), f by Hetman piatoft, "ut of Galata, Sister to Pargularia; Mr. Pratt's Secundus; Mr. Hobson's Chatham; Mr. Boo:h's filly by Liverpool; Mr. Clifton's Wilford, Mr. Robertson's the Cure, Mr. Irwin'. Connate ht Ranger, Mr. Forth's Bourra Tomacha, Mr. Worley's Example, and Wintonian ; Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar, c by Velocipe.le dam, by Emilus, c by Hetman Pla toff, out of Nannette, c by Amato, out of La fille mal gardee, Sutlej, c by Liverpool, out of Caroline; Duke of Beauforts f by Assassin, out of Esmeralda Mr. Banks's Charcoal, Mr. Yarburah's Red Robin, Mr. Legh's Maid of Lyme (Lap wing filly), Mr. Drake's Bold Archer, Lord Milltown's Due an-Durras. Thre will be nothing from Cooper's or Stephenson's. Every box and stall at Singleton, Waterbeach, &c., is engaged. At Chichester the demand for lodgings has been very brisk, and on Saturday scarcely a bed was disengaged. The course, thanks to the heavy rain on Friday, is in very good order. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The Corinthian meeting at Goodwood, un d er the immediate protection of the " protectionist" l ea d ers , this year seems likely to surp ass all its predecess ors i n quantity if not in quality of sport. There are no less han thirty-eight races on the paper for the four days. On Tuesday, nine ; Wednesday, twelve ; Thursday, ten, and Friday, eight ; sport enough to satisfy any reasonable appetite ; and, from the number of lodgings taken at Bognor, Chichester, and elsewhere, with fine THE SUN, I weather, we may reasonably expect to have one of the t mist brilliant meetings on record. The ball opens with the Craven .takes, to name the day before running, which is generally won by the Goodwood stable; and they seem inclined to repeat the doss this year, which they have so often been successful in before. The Li vent Stakes, of 50 sovs. 30 ft, has 25 subs, and the following may be expected to show ; viz.:—Black cock, or Jollity, Van Tromp, Galata filly, Joyful filly, out of Cobweb, Conyngham, Halo, or Vampere, and perhaps Hornet and Golightly ; of these I shall expect to a e the Duke of Richmond's starter (most probably Halo), and the Derby crack (Van Tromp), pass the post first, and should not be at all surprised to see the former beat the latter. The Ham Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, h ft, has 40 subs, and about eleven will start, viz. :—Crozier, or Gabble, Epirote, Corona, Amima filly, or Mecca colt, Chain Bearer, Apricot, Tantivy, Little Nell, The Positive Young Man, The King of Naples, and Red Hart. The Goodwood Stable is in considerable force, both for this and the Levant Stakes, and I shall anticipate its success on this occasion, by naming Red Heart or Crozier for winner. About ten may be expected to go for the Gratwicke Stakes. viz. :—Binnacle, Mowerina, Joinville, A,Draco, Lady Cecilia, Eclat, filly out of Antler's dam ; Vanish, Cuckoo, and one of Mr. Wreford's, probably Wilderness. I select the latter and Joinville to pull me through, which I have no doubt they will. The Drawing Room Stakes will have but a very small field. Paragone, St. Demetri, King Charles, Humdrum, and Sting being the most likely starters. The two first g o for a dead certainty ; the other three are on the doubtful list. Should Sting go, which I hardly think he will, he ought to win ; otherwise Paragone will be first, and St. Demetri second. The 300 sovs. Stakes for four year olds, look well for one or Day's lot—Wea.therbit or Worthless—whichever you please ; the former tot; my money. The Goodwood Club Stakes will be decided by the merits of the jockeys, not of the nags, this stake being fur members of the Goodwood Club. I fancy Naworth, Coal Black Rose, and Petit Mcrceau, with their riders, will manage it between them. The Welter Stakes. Red Deer or Old England will, or ought to win, but it is in this stake as in the last, gentle man jocks up, consequently it is not safe to speculate on these events until you know the mounts. The first day's sport concludes with the Innkeeper's Plate ; ttemorrow, Monday. The bill of fare for Wednesday commences with the " crack race" of the meeting— the Good wood Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., which has sixty acceptances, and twenty-five, or thereabouts, will be brought forth, to show their qualities—such as they are—for a more Wretched lot of trash, with a very few exceptions, cannot 'be found. As this is the case, so much greater is the diffi culty of selecting the winner, that I very much doubt whether there is in existence a " prophet" so au fait at his work as to be able to name the much-envied (though now most probably obscure) nag. At their weights, the best in are—Giantess, bat 71b. ; Marquis of Conyngham, 6st. ; St. Demetri, 6st. ;. Pleni• tude, sst. 131 h ; Jenny Wren, sst. 121 b. ; Brother to Sir Henry, sst. 121 b. ; and Petitioner, sst. 81b. clad the filly b; Tomboy, out of Lapwing, not started for the Cup and St. Leger at Newton, she would have won the Goodwood Stakes in a canter. Her blood and condition are undeniably first-rate, and, like her sire, she is game to the back bone. She may yet, at her favourable weight (sst 7ib), do something prodigious in the forthcoming meeting. In the batch above named, lam inclined to think I have included the winner, and I consider the filly by Tomboy out of Lapwing, Plenitude, Jenny Wren, and St. Demetri, to be as good as any. At any rate I will take them " for better for worse," as my choice for this fashionable betting race. By the bye, as this is considered such a fashionable race, I think they might as well enter something above the grade of plates for it. The following is as correct a list of the starters as can at present be obtained .—*Alamode, Newcourt, Satyr, Orion, *Colleen Bawn, *Marquis of Conyngham, Footstool, The Druid, Lapwing filly, Red Robin, Jonathan Wild, Maynooth, *Polish, The Conjuror, Con naught Ranger, Teetotaller, St. Demetri, Jenny Wren, *Jack Cade, The Hero, Morella filly, Sister to Pergula ria, Glossy, *The Pacha, Mongrel, Giantess, Humdrum, Plenitude, Brother to Sir Henry, *Petitioner, Bold Archer, and Camera Obscure. Those marked with an asterisk are very doubtful. The Orange Prize given by the King of the Nether lands, added to a Sweepstakes of ten sovs. each, has torty-seven subscribers, and from eight to ten may be expected to show, including Wolfdog, Refraction. Jericho, Alarm, Burgundy, and perhaps Grimston. Should the latter make his Goodwood debut for this stake instead of the cup, I should not hesitate in de claring him the winner, hut as he is not likely to go for this prize, Alarm and Jericho will do his work for him. Of the two I consider Jericho the best, and should Alarm win, Mr. Greville may thank Nat, not his horse. Between the two the race will lay, and a close affair it will most assuredly be. The Steward's Cup, Queen's Plate, Stand Plate, County Member's Plate, Cowdray Stakes, and Selling Stakes, clo-e and name on Monday evening. The match between Lord G. Bentinck's Growl and Mr. Herbert's So-Nice will be won easily by the former. On Thursday the Goodwood Cup, with a field of a dozen or thereabouts, will furnish about the best piece of racing in the meeting. For this stake Grimston and Mendicant will run, and to them I leave the race ; Bur gundy, if starting, being close up. The 200 Sovs. Stakes to one of Kent's lot. The 100 Sovs. Stakes to Binnacle or Wilderness. The 200 Sovs. Stakes to the Maid of Saragossa or Wild Doe. The Racing Stakes_ will have a very small field, with lago for winner. For the Molecombe Stakes a good geld, perhaps a dozen, will put in an appearance. Among others Van Tromp, Vampire (Halo not starting), Galata filly, and either Slander or Glentilt, four out of the five goodly animals, as their late racing has proved ; consequently, this will be the most interesting two-year-old race at Goodwood this year. It is not the easiest task imagin able to pick out the winner, but I presume that either Lord G. Bentinck or the Earl of Eglinton will pocket the stakes, their nominations being decidedly the beet. The 50 Sovs. Stakes for three-year-olds to Blackbird. The Sussex Stakes to the Goodwood lot. The Anglesea Stakes to Muscatel or St. George. The Duke of Richmond's Plate, to name the day be fore running. On Friday, the Nassau Stakes to the Princess Alice. The Chesterfield Stakes to Ides, Tour de Force, or Auricula. The Maidstone, Bentiack, and March Stakes, close his truly plethoric meeting. I am, Sir, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Saturday. LATEST BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S. GOODWOOD STAKIS. 11 to 2 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Camera Obscura 9 to 1 agst Mr. O'Brien's Jonathan Wild—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's The Hero—taken 10 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin 's Connaught Ranger—taken 12 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Red Robin—taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Legh's Maid of Lyme (Lapwing filly)— t 25 to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's Alamode 25 to 1 agst Mr. S. Herbert's Petitioner—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Sister to Pergularia—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnston's Brother to Sir Henry. 1,000 to 30 agst Lord Chesterfield's Free Lance—taken. 5,000 to 1,000 was taken on Friday evening about Grim ston for the Orange Prize. INTOLERABLE BIGOTRY.—The following form of a petition, about to be presented to the House of Commons, is a lamentable instance of the folly into which fanaticism sometimes drives its votaries :—" We, the undersigned, being clergymen of the Church of England, humbly petition your Honourable House, and beg to state, that in the National Gallery there are three pictures, representing the First I'erson of the Holy Trinity under the image of an old man ; mid that two of these representations are so grotesque and uncouth that they cannot but shock the feelings of any reli gious per-on. That your petitioners consider such repre sensations blasphemous, and an insult to their holy religion. They are the very representations of the Deity which have been adopted by the most benighted and demoralized hea thens. Your petitioners do not deny that the pictures in question may have great merit as paintings, but this forms no excuse for the great moral evil which arises from such ex hibitions. Your petitioners believe that there has been no previous instance of such pictures being publicly exhibited in this country; and they look upon this circumstance as an indication of the sentiments of the nation at large on this matter; since it must have been from deference to them, and not from mere accident, that a class of pictures, so numerous abroad, have been so long excluded front England. Your petitioners, feeling assured that your Honourable House is desirous of checking the growth as well of superstition, on the one hand, as of infidelity, on the other, look with great confidence for a favourable a.iswer to their prayer. They hope and trust that your Honourable House will interpose your authority and sup press that which publicly dishonours God and violates the religious feelings of the whole country. Although your petitioners have based their prayer on the ground of the insult offered to the Christian faith by grotesque representa tions of its holiest mystery, they would not have it for gotten that the grievance they complain of is a direct breach of the second commandment." Russie.—THE BETROTHAL OF THE GRAND DUCHESS OLGA.—(From an eye-witness.)—The betrothal of the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia with the Prince of Wurtein berg, took place on the 7th instant, in the royal chapel of the palace of Peterhoff, which is situated about four miles from St. Petersburgh, and commands a view of the gulf and plains of Finland. At half past twelve the corps diplomatique, the synod, consisting of the high dignitaries of the church, the ministers, and all the high functionaries, entered the chapel. General Field-Marshal Prince of Warsaw, Count Paskewitch d'Erivan, were also present. The Imperial Family entered shoftly after, surrounded by the Court, and preceded by the Grand Master of the Ceremonies the Gentlemen of the Chain ber, &c., &c., all bearine. the insignia of t heir respective offices. The Emperor, followed by an Aide-de-Camp, led the Empress. The Prince of Wurtemberg followed the Grand Duke Czare witch and the Grand Duchess Czsrewna. The Grand Duchess Olga did not enter till the other members were seated; she was followed by Prince Peter of Oldenburg, the Princess, his consort, and Prince Oscar of Sweden. The Prince Royal of Prussia had not yet arrived. The ladies of the Court in full Court dress, and officers of every grade and distirction, the whole forming a most magnificent coup d'ceil. The wedding rings were blessed by the officiating prelate, and interchanged by the Empress. A rocket sent up announced this first step to the fleet and the army ; a salute of fifty-one guns was fired, which was repeated by the Russian fleet of the Baltic stationed and gaily decorated, between Cronstadt and Peter hoff, and by the artillery of the camp of 60,000 men sta• boned in the neighbourhood. After reading a portion of the scriptures, prayers were offered up for the Prince of Wurtemberg, the promised husband of her Imperial High ness, the Grand Duchess Olga. Prayers for the Imperial Family are one of the main features of the Russian liturgy, and are constantly repeated. On the conclusion of the ceremony a salute of 31 guns was fired, and the usual con gratulations took place. ATe Deem was chanted. In the evening there was a grand ball and illuminations at Peter'noff and St. Petersburgh. The marriage ceremony was to take place in the ensuing week. LONDON, MONDAY „MORNING, JULY 27, 1846. CALEDONIAN CANAL - PARLIA- THE SUGAR DUTIES. GLASGOW PETITION. GLASGOW, TlNlRSDAY.—Yesterday the following petition to the House of Commons was laid down at the bar of the Royal Exchange. It was numerously and respectably signed in the course of a few hours, and transmitted for pre sentation in the evening:— " To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled— " The Petition of the undersigned Merchants, Bankers, Manufacturers, Shipowners, and other Inhabitants of the City of Glasgow. " Sheweth, " That your petitioners hail with the greatest satisfaction, the plan submitted to your Honourable House by her Ma jesty's Government, for the settlement of the sugar duties. " The amount and duration of protection accorded to the colonies are ample and liberal, exceeding in both respects what many of your petitioners had anticipated; and, while they trust it will put an end to everything like unreasonable opposition, they are confident it will confer great benefit on the public, and the trade of the country in general. " May it therefor* please your Honourable House to pass the said Bill, as it is of great consequence it should become the la w as soon as possible." MENTARY PAPER. The forty-first report of the Commissioners for the Caledonian Canal has just been issued. It contains a statement of the progress of the repairs during the year that has elapsed, and which is described as in all respects satisfactory. The following are the most important passages ; " The commissioners are assured that there is every prospect of their being able ti open the navigation at the expiration of the stipulated period of three years, viz., the 25th of September next, although an important addition to the works has been made, at a compara tively recent time, in a now swing bridge at the Muir town Locks. With regard to the execution of the works, the solidity and excellence of the new portion has received the highest approbation, as well of military engineers as of the principal engineers of the board. The superintendence has been strict, as was rendered neces sary by the extent and variety of the works, as well as the distance over which they are spread. In addition to the services of Mr. May, the resident engineer of the canal, and the foremen under him, and the frequent visits of inspection of Messrs Walker and Burges, those gentlemen have kept two, and sometimes three, assistants constantly on the ground. The number of workmen employed has varied from 1,729 to 1,023. " In the last report it was pointed out that the entire restoration of the Banavie culverts, involving an expense of 13,711/., had become indisputable. It has since been found advisable to make further alterations and addi tions, not originally contemplated; but these, though greatly conducive to the public convenience, will but little enhance the ultimate cost. The most important of them is the substitution of an improved lock-sluice ma chinery for emptying and filling the locks, and of im proved capstans for moving the gates. These will diminish the time required for passing each lock by eight or ten minutes, thus effecting a saving of three hours in the lockage of the whole canal. They have in conse• quence very advantageously superseded the necessity of making a passing place in the chain of the Banavie locks, as originally proposed, by which the passage of vessels would have been expedited only in the case of vessels ascending and descending at the same time. " Air-tight cases have been attached under water to some of the lock-gates, to increase their buoyancy, and diminish the friction upon the rollers. " The sanction of the Treasury has been obtained for the placing of a new swing bridge over the canal at Muirtown Locks; the existing bridge has been repre sented by the authorities of the county and burgh of Inverness, and also by the officers of the commissioners for Highland roads and bridges, to have become in , adequate to the increased traffic on the great northern road, but it will suffice for that which may be expected at the Gairlochy Lock, and will, accordingly, be trans ferred thither in lieu of the new bridge stipulated for at that point by the contract. The cost of this substitution will not exceed 1,5001 . KING'S COLLEGE SCHOOL. On Friday the annual distribution of prizes to the boys of the various classes of this institution who have most distin guished themselves in their studies during the past year, and the recitations from ancient and modern authors, took place in the theatre of the College. The chair was taken, at two o'clock, by Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., who was supported byDr. Major, the head master of the school, and the assistant mils. ters. There were also present Lord Radstock, the Rev. Mr. Lake, and many other supporters of the establishment. The seats round the building were filled with ladies and gentle men and with the pupils. On the floor of the room was a raised platform, on which those who recited took their places. The principal, the Rev. Dr. Jelf, was unfortunately not able to attend, his duties at Christ Church, Oxford, detaining him in that University. The business of the morning was commenced by a state ment from the Hon. Baronet who presided, of the occasion and objects of the meeting; after which the recitations were delivered in a very creditable manner by the following gen tlemen from the authors mentioned : Iphigenia Orestes 1 Eur. Iph. T. Pylades Praises of Britain Thomson Cicero pro Plancio . (Liddon. JSvphax ' **** } Addison's Cato IF. Bacon. üba ***** "•• Harpagon Valera ... ........ Maitre Jacques ... De Lisle. Brutus Shakspeare Cassius ... ..... ... j 1 Harrison. Joan of Arc Demosthenes Olynth. I Parker. Peasant's Grave:— Wordsworth - Hannibal 1 Conolly. Scipio I Livy 1 H. Edwards. Death of Marmion Scott Thompson. Le Grondieur / S Bailey. Le Valet ...... Brays 1 Irving. Wallenstein 1110 } Schiller lrving. Tersky Harrison. Cwsar Nussey. Cato Cicero ... Ben Jonson's Ware. Catiline Pomptinius Syllanus Fleay. At the conclusion of this part of the business, the prizes, which consisted of books elegantly bound, were presented by the chairman to the successful competitors ; and a prize was also presented to the best pupil in each of the schools in union with the school of King's College. The head master, The Rev. Dr. Major, then announced the names of the scholars for 1846 : "The ready co-operation of the commissioners for Northern Lighthouses will enable the commissioners at once to place the requisite light at the western entrance of the canal, as recommended by Sir Edward Parry, while the erection by that board of three new light houses on Crotnarty Point, and Craighead, in the Moray Firth, in addition to that already placed at Tarbetness; have left nothing to be done by the Caledonian Canal Commissioners for the further accommodation of lights at the eastern end. " The improvement of the access to the canal by dredging the Mickle Mee Shoal in the Moray Firth, has been pressed upon the attention of the commissioners, as well as the authorities of the royal burgh of Inver ness, and will be kept in view. An excellent chart of the Moray Firth has just been prepared under the autho rity of the Admiralty, and will be forthwith made avail able for the public. " The provision of steam-power for towing vessels through the locks, is the last and most important ele ment of success for the navigation under its peculiar and well known circumstances, and the commissioners are taking measures for accomplishing it with effect and economy. "In respect of the claims for land and damages to land on the line, the Commissioners have to announce, that they have received a full discharge of the long pending demand of Lochiel, to whom they have paid the sum of 4,9511. 165., the amount at which his claims were ascertained in 1835, and 1,9391. 10s. Bd. for inte rest thereon subsequently accrued. Of the other prin cipal claims, that of Glengarry only still remains un settled; not in respect of the amount of the principal sum due to him, but of questions which have arisen upon the discharge and conveyance exigible from him, and which have been lately made the subject of a refer ence to the Solicitor-General for Scotland. Two or three small payments for land taken or temporarily oc cupied or damaged during the last four years (including 2281. for damage to Lochiel's land by the break of the culvert at Banavie, and 1201. for land taken and damaged at Fort- Augustus), probably not exceeding in the whole 6001. or 7001. will, it is believed, finally close this kind of expenditure." First class—Classical, Maurice Day ; mathematical, Ed mund Thompson. Second class—Classical, William Ayerst ; mathematical, Malcolm Currie Ancell. Third class—William Henry Brown; Edward William Meredith. Fourth class—George Moody. Fifth class—Francis Smale Drake. Sixth class—Robert Howard Shepard. The whole of the presentations being concluded, Lord RADSTOCK moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded by the Rev. Mr. LAN=, and carried by acclamation. Sir R. H. Nat.'s immediately returned thanks, and in so doing exhorted the pupils of the school to lose no exertions in their studies and in their religious duties. He would give them for their motto the word " onward," and he would wish to impress upon their minds the necessity of continued pro gression towards excellence. The meeting broke up short The following is a list of the the prizes were awarded : UPPER 6TH CLASS. Hugh Bacon Edmund Thompson Charles Lewis Parker Edward Richard Nussey Alfred Bailey George Robert Chaplin Marmaduke John Conolly Martin H. Irving Frederick Harrison LOWER 6TH CLASS. Francis Charles New Henry Val lings Edward Headland Henry Aughton Maude Hector Cameron William Ayerst ly before five o'clock. names of the pupils to whom Richard James Walker 'Ferdinand Oliver Camroux James Rankin Fergurson James M. Hope Gleig MATHEMATICS. Frederic Gard Fleay Edmund Thompson George Walter de Lisle Henry Ware Burford Wm. Gibsone Eq. Thomas Walker Scott Arthur Cates Alexander Barry I Aq. Martin H. Irving j William Henry Brown Edward Headland Edward Richard Nussey Charles Augustus Ward WRITING AND A RITHMETI C. William Lightly Arthur Kerry Frederick Braby Alfred Braby Samuel Harman William Mandalay Horatio Brandon Richard William May James Harvey STH CLASS. William Henry Leigh Green George Edward Dickson Sidney Biddle William Gerald Frampton Cristall Charles Froom James Walbancke Jones Thomas Walker Scott UPPER 4TH CLASS. Ernest Peake Newman John Turner Hopwood Algernon Borthwick Frederick Evans John C. C. M'Caul LOWER 4TH CLASS. John Craske Webb Francis Edward Thompson John William N. Blackburn Frederick Wright Mortimer New UPPER 3D CLASS. Edward Stanley Heywood George Schrader David Rudolph Chambers George Moody John Whitaker Hulke Charles Joseph Hughes HEBREW. Roland Edwards FRENCH. George Walter de Lisle Charles James Fox Frederick Wright • William James King George Harvey Horatio Brandon Marmaduke John Conolly Lawrence Harrison Alfred Bentley Edward Stanley Heywood Wm. Underwood Gompertz Sands Clayton LOWEit 3D C L ASS. Walter William Skeat Henry Stanley Giffard John Piper Edward Abraham De Grave 2D CLASS. Horatio Brandon Robert Howard Shepard Edward Hall George Winslow John Drake UPPER IST CLASS. Edward Thomas Pate John Wilson Moore Walter Wood Richard Hughes LOWER IST CLASS. Robert Hildyard RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail. ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week In the previous year Week ending Last week. July 18 GERMAIG Thomas Jamieson Dymes Martin H. Irving Charles Henry Hopwood George Winter Price Samuel Harman George Maddox GEOMETRICAL. DRAWING. Selwyn New Emanuel Allen Charles Woodman Eastwood George Arthur Edward Tur nour Charles Ross LANDSCAPI DRAWING. Thomas Jamieson Dymes William Henry Leigh Green John Hossack. BORNEO.—The steamer, which left Singapore in May, brought intelligence of the treacherous murder of the Raja Buda Hassim, and the noble-minded Panjeran Budrudeen, the warm friends of Mr. Brooke and the English, at the ex press command of the Sultan of Borneo Proper. Mr. Brooke forwarded a statement of these atrocities to Colonel Butter worth, C. 8., the Governor of the Singapore States, with a request for immediate assistance, which was promptly granted, and the Honourable Company's steamer Phlegethon, under the command of Captain Ross, left Singapore, and arrived at the British settlement of Sarawak on the 28th of April. Mr. Brooke having embarked on board the steamer, she sailed and visited six large rivers along the north-west coast, up some of which she penetrated for sixty miles, find ing them broad and deep. This demonstration had the most beneficial effect all along the coast, and if followed up by further protection from the British Government to our thriving settlement at Sarawak, will soon put an end to the horrid piracy too frequent in these waters. At all the places they visited, the chiefs, in their large war boats, appeared to pay their respects to Mr. Brooke. CHATHAM, JULY 24.—The Trident steam-packet, Lieutenant Rigge commander, was put out of dock on the 21st instant, and taken alongside the sheer-hulk, when her masts were taken out, and shorter •nes put in, and she was retaken into dock the same day. Every exertion is used by the artificers to complete her for sea by the time specified. The Bulldog steam-sloop, commander G. E. Davis.—The workmen are progressing with this vessel very fast, and she will be ready for sea in the middle of next month. The Co lumbine, 16 guns, Commander Booth, is nearly competed. She has her full complement of men on board, and will be ready for sea next week. The Gazelle arrived on the 22d instant, with a cargo of timber from Leghorn, for the service of the dockyard. Mr. John Dulrig, leading man of ship wrights,is appointed acting inspector at this yard, vice Hogg, appointed acting foreman. OPENING OP THE NEW CUT RAGGED SCHOOL.— ' Friday evening a public meeting, for the purpose of opening the ragged school established for the New Cut district, was held in the school-room, Grove-lane, nearly facing the Vic toria Theatre. The Honourable Arthur Kinnaird was called upon to preside. The Honourable Chairman, in opening the proceedings, said that it gave him great pleasure to take the chair upon so interesting an occasion. The work they were engaged in was one of the greatest importance, inasmuch as it made provision for the wants of that hitherto neglected and he might say almost despised class—the children of the poorest of the poor in the district.—(Hear.) The Honour able Gentleman proceeded at considerable length to urge upon the attention of the meeting the necessity for establish ing and supporting the school. The premises, which have now undergone considerable repairs and alterations, were re cently occupied as a penny theatre. Mr. Austin said that for the present they intended to commence with opening the school on a Sunday evening for the instruction of youths. As soon as they had got more help the place would be opened wo or three times a week on working nights. The Rev. Dr. Alliott, the Rev. J. Branch , W. D. Owen, Esq., and other gentlemen having spoken in support of the charity, a series of resolutions were carried, including one of thanks to the Honourable Chairman, and the meeting se parated. CONSOLIDATED MINES OF COBRE ASSOCIATION.— On Friday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of this company was Theld at the offices in Austin-friars, Russell Ellice, Esq., in the chair. From the report it ap• peared that the quantity of ore raised during the year amounted to 17,468 tons, which sold for 193,4171. 7s. 11d., leaving a profit to the company of 10,3251. 3s. 9d. This amount, with the balance brought forward from last year, made the sum of 14,7311. 13s. 2d., out of which sum a divi dend was paid to the proprietors in February last, leaving only 2,731/. 13s. 2d. to the credit of the account. With re spect to the workings of the mines for the present year, the quantity of ore raised to the Ist of June was 7,254 tons, but it having been found necessary to send out a large steam-en gine, this, with some other unavoidable expenses, had deprived the directors of the mines of paying a dividend. It was stated that an experiment was going on at Swansea for smelting the dust ores, which would be, if successful, an immense saving to the company. The report having been adopted, a vote of thanks was passed to the directors and the officers abroad, when the meeting adjourned. BRIDPORT ELECTION PETITION. The following is the report issued by order of the Home of Commons, from the Select Committee to whom the petition of William Rockett was referred, and who were appointed to inquire into all the circumstances under which Joseph Welsh gave evidence before the Select Committee on the Bridport election petition, that William Rockett voted for Mr. Romilly : Your Committee are satisfied that William Rockett, the transfer of whose rote by the Bridport Election Committee, on the evidence of Joseph Welsh, from Mr. Cochrane's to Mr. Romilly's poll, was the means of seat ing Mr. Romilly, voted at the last Bridport election for Mr. Cochrane, and that there is no ground for supposing that he voted for Mr. Romilly. It appears that Rockett went twice to the polling-booth to vote; that at the time of his first going there was a great crowd and noise in the booth; that Rockett, who is sixty-four years of age, and afflicted with asthma, was, from exhaustion and confusion, almost unable to speak when he had got through the crowd to the poll-clerk, and that, having gone away on this occasion without giving his name and address, which were, however, known to the pc 11-clerk, ho was considered not to have completed his vote; and that he afterwards returned and duly voted for Mr. Cochrane. On the first occasion Welch, the witness, who appeared before the Bridport Election Committee, and other respectable and intelli gent witnesses, who have been examined by yo u r Com mittee, declared that they heard Rockett say Romilly," after he had got within the bar of the polling-booth for the purpose of voting. The poll-clerk and the two check-clerks (one of whom of course acted in Mr. Romilly's interest) agree in stating that Rockett did not say " Hominy," while tendering his vote, either on the first or the second occasion; and the poll-clerk further confirms Rockett's own statement, that the first time he came, though he did not give his own name and address, he said several times he wjed for Mr. Cochrane. Under these circumstances, the Committee cannot doubt that Rockett's vote was eiven for Mr. Cochrane; but they see no reason to impute falsehood to the witness Welch. Rockett, in his confusion, may have said " Romilly" without knowing it, after he got within the bar, the first time of his going up to vote, and this might have been heard by persons standing out side the bar, though not heard by the poll clerk and the check-clerks ; or, in the noise and confu sion, which all the witnesses agree in saying prevailed at the time in the booth, a cry of " Romilly may have been mistakenly supposed to come from Rockett. Under these circumstances, the question naturally arises, how is it th a t the evidence by which Welch's statement could have been contradicted was not brought before the committee ? The following extracts from Mr. Coppock's evidence will show that an arrangement was made between the parties, in the committee room, that Rockett's vote should be transferred from Mr. Coch rane's to Mr. Ronsilly's poll without opposition from Mr. Cochrane. Can you give us any information, and if you can, have you any objection to give it, which may show the Committee how it was that evidence which might have been produced on the other side to rebut Welch's evi dence, was not brought before that committee. Before you answer that question, the Committee wish you to know, that not only they will not require you, but they do not want you to tell them anything that you may have learned from the agent on the other side confi dentially ?—I can. Will you do so ?—Yes • it was by agreement that this rote of William Rockett was brought before the Committee. By agreement with whom ?—By agreement between counsel. now do you know that ? I was present and heard it. You heard that agreement made ?—I was asked whether it should be made before it was made. Who asked you that ?—My own counsel. What did they ask you ?—I was asked whether I could take the seat easily ; whether I could transfer the majority of one without much trouble, and without in volving anything more than the mere question of the vote, and I said I could ; and I had that vote of Rockett, and by agreement that vote was taken off one poll, and put on the other. Is that all that you were asked by your counsel ; are those the exact words in which the question was put to you by him ?—I cannot say that they are the exact words, but that is the exact import, as far as I can state. Ycu say, " Without much trouble ?"—Whether I could do it without involving any other question than the question of the vote. Was any further explanation given by counsel of those words which you refer to, " without raising any other question than the question of the vote ;" was any further explanation given of that 7—There was ; I per fectly understood what was meant. You must not tell us what you understood, unless you can tell us what was said to you.—lt was arranged that Mr. Cochrane should give up the seat, and I was then asked that question, that Mr. Romilly should take it. I had those witnesses at hand, and as that opened no question but the mere question of a vote, that was the vote that was agreed to be taken. Mr. Cripps—Was Rockett's the first vote that yen meant to go into ? No, possibly the last. Chairman—What cases did you intend to take first ? I meant to take the case of a voter who had been dis qualified by receiving 10/. not to vote, and on a subse quent part of the day had received 101. to vote. I meant to have called that identical man before the Com mittee. Will you explain to the Committee what you mean by the words, "Cases involving no other qaestion than the question of the vote ?"—Cases that would raise no point at all, but the mere question of the propriety of its being recorded ; the question of the vote itself. Will you explain to the committee what you mean by " Cases that could raise other questions ?" A common scrutiny only involves the one simple question of the right to vote ; a bribery scrutiny would involve many other circumstances besides the right to vote. Do you mean that those were cases that Would not involve a bribery scrutiny ?—Certainly. The following is the evidence of Mr. Templer, the agent for Mr. Cochrane, on the same subject : Can you give us any information which may show the Committee how it is that evidence, which might have rebutted Welch's, was not brought before that Com mittee ?—Yes, I can give this reason for it ; we were not in a situation to have rebutted the evidence, for we were not aware that Rockett's vote would be called in question ; they furnished us with a certain list, and we came here under the impression in the morning that they would have opened their bribery cases, and would have gone into the general allegations of the petition. It was Mr. Cochrane s firm determination, at a consulta tion, that he would not go into a scrutiny, and the con sequence was what has occurred. I remember Mr. Cock burn opening the case of a scrutiny, and Mr. Austin in terrupting him, and saying that he would not be dragged, at that period of the Parliament, into a scrutiny, and if that was the course which his Learned Friend intended to pursue, he would advise his client not to proceed further with the inquiry. That was said by Mr. Austin openly ?—Yes. Did you hear any private conversation between Mr. Austin and Mr. Cockburn ?—No, I did not; none what ever. The first intimation that I had of Rockett's vote being put up, was by Mr. Sergeat Kinglake, in the Committee-room. Mr. Sergeant Kiaglake, told the Chairman that there was a vote which had been impro perly recorded for Mr. Cochrane, the sitting Member, which vote, if properly recorded, would have given the petitioner a majority ; and that, by transferring that vote from the poll of Mr. Cochrane to the poll of Mr. Romilly, that would leave the majority in Mr. Romilly's favour ; and that, as it was not the intention of Mr. Austin, on the part of the sitting Member, to go into a scrutiny,"that would determine the matter on the part of the sitting Member. Was any application made to the Committee for time to be allowed to bring up evidence to rebut Welch's statement ?—Not in the least. I should not have inter fered if half the votes had been struck off. I considered that when Mr. Cochrane determined not to open the re gister, or to go into a scrutiny, I was hors de combat ; that my professional labours were at an end. This was on the Saturday, and we could not, if we had wished it, have got up evidence until the early part of the week, which would also have led us into great expenses, which Mr. Cochrane dreaded. Lord A. HERVEY—You stated that you were agent for Mr. Cochrane, and that your client was determined not to enter into a scrutiny f—Precisely ; it was Mr. Cochrane's firm determination not to do so ; and I con• sidered my professional duty at an end when that deter mination was come to. When you stated that you understood that the other side meant to go into the question of bribery, did you mean a scrutiny of bribery votes ?—From the allega tion of the petition, it was my opinion that it was en tirely a bribery question ; a generally case of bribery and not of scrutiny upon the registry at all ; and so I advised Mr. Cochrane. I thought it was so, and I was in ignorance upon that subject until a very late consul tation ; within two or three days I thought that the po tion would have been entirely confined to that point, from the language of the petition. If it had been confined to bribery, should you have defended the seat 7—Certainly. Chairman—l thought you said that six days before the Committee met, you had seen a list of the objec tions?—Yes, I had. Did not the list show you that it was likely to be a scrutiny case as well ?—Yes ; but it does not follow that, because they reserve to themselves the power, they will use it. Indeed, I thought that the language of the peti tion had precluded them ; and I went to a consultation, I think, only two days, a day or two days, before the meeting of the Committee, for the express purpose of taking Mr. Austin's and Mr. Sergeant Murphy's opinion on that point. I thought that they would have been precluded, and I said I thought the fight would take place upon the bribery ; but Mr. Austin was strongly of opinion that the prayer alone of the petition would enable them to go into the scrutiny. Your Committee have felt themselves precluded by the decision of the House, which negatived that part of the original motion which suggested inquiry, "whether any compromise or arrangement was entered in'o by the parties to the petition, their counsel or agents, to pre vent the disclosure of bribery and treating; and also whether, and to what extent, bribery and treating were practised at the last election for the borough of Brid port," from pursuing any further examination into the circumstances of the arrangement spoken of by Mr. Coppock and Mr. Templer. It is clear that the effect was to prevent the extensive allegations of bribery in this case from being gone into; and your Committee cannot help expressing their very great regret that these allegations have not been thoroughly investigated. Your Committee think it right to direct attention to the practice, adopted in this case, of altering a vote by arrangement between the contending parties without the knowledge of the voter, and without full investigation. Mr. Coppock's evidence shows that votes have often been extensively struck off a poll by similar arrangements. In this instance, Rockett's vote was transferred from one poll to another. Your Committee venture to suggest that it would be expedient, in order to meet such cases? to make legislative provision, requiring notices of sac objections to votes to be served on the voters themselves• ' s LITERATURE. THE WORKS OF WALTER SAVAGE LAIVDOR. 2 Vas. Without enjoying one tittle of their immediate popu larly, the writings of Walter Savage Landor will sur vive those of many hundreds of his contemporary authors. Convinced of this fact, and regarding hina as one of our old familiar favourites, it is with an unusual feeling of satisfaction that we observe the productions of this extraordinary man collected together in such a goodly shape, and of such substantial dimensions. The intellect of Landor is altogether without a parallel; it is a combination of subtleties and solidities; it is at once peculiarly imaginative and peculiarly matter-of fact. From the circumstance, however, of his never struggling to propitiate the multitude, either in so flavouring his compositions as to consort with their palere, or in modifying his own particular views upon the bias of their opinions, he never has obtained, and poeeibly never will obtain, any remarkable degree of popularity. Landor has net gone out of his way one jot to seek the sympathies of others; he has nut followed the common track; he ha. proceeded along his own peculiar pathway apparently indifferent to, or careless of. any enthusiastic approbation. Those who hare sympathised with him have gone expressly out of their ordinary course for the purpose of doing so. Nevertheless, in despite of this enormous disadvantage, the writings of Mr. Landor have gained him many earnest admirers. The produc tions with which his name has become peculiarly asso ciated, and which are in truth among the most remark able literary performances of this half century, are the Inviginary Conversations. In these he has adventured much; their very conception was an audacity, but they have proved to an eminent degree successful. They dis play in the writer a very extraordinary appreciation of character, a keen perception, and an astute identifica tion of the idiosyncrasies of the most remarkable personages mentioned in history. And though occa sionally the masquerade costume slips off the shoulder, N eating Landor under the cowl of Fra Fillippo, or the surcoat of Henry VIII., or the toga of Lucian, or the (I.•tiblet of Cromwell, the illusion is on the average coin plete, and the simple gentleman of the nineteenth cen tury is forgotten in the heroes and heroines of antiquity. Occasionally, we have said, the deception is overlooked. and the author speaks instead of the character he is en deavouring to delineate ; and hence it is, possibly, that we conceive those Conversations to be the most brilliant and unflavoured in which Mr. Landor himself takes an avowed part. Ile is then no longer .cramped by the consciousness that he is merely " acting" ; the. ima gination is unfettered by conventionalities; then,' indeed, he will talk—" Ye. Gods I how he will talk!" As these effusions are already tolerably familiar to most people, from their periodical appearance in Blackwood's Magazine and elsewhere, it would be superfluous to particularise all those excellencies with which they are so unquestionably and so acknowledgedly exuberant. If they have one characteristic more strongly developed than another it is wit—real, genuine, golden wit. From them we could cull a superb volume of epigrammatic sentences, witty sayings, novel and startling truths, clothed in the dain tiest diction, and perfect jewels of poetical thought and fanciful illustration. Here is one, taken literally hap , hazzard : it is a definition of the eloquence of Plato— ' vide vol. ii p. 25—" Certainly there was never so much eloquence with so little animation. When he has heated his oven he forgets to put the bread into it ; instead of which he throws in another bundle of faggots. His words and sentences are often too large for the place they occupy. If a water-mellon is not to be placed in an oyster-shell, neither is a grain of millet in a golden salver. At high festi vats a full band may enter : ordinary conversation goes en better without it ' In writing after the fashion he has herein adopted, Landor reminds us of one of those great men he makes Michael-Angelo Buonarroti describe as " coming spontaneously forward, and moving with the multitude from the front, stilling the voice of the cryer, and scattering the plumes of the imposter." The in tellect of our author retains, however, one grievous and monstrous blemish—one that obtrudes its obnoxious presence even in his choicest passages, jarring in amongst the music of his tongue, and poisoning the most gorgeous flowers of his fancy. That blemish is prejudice. There are personages, circumstances, prin. ciples, and occurrences which Landor cannot behold except through a curtain of prejudice ; his view of them is blurred, and smutehed, and clouded by partiality. He thinks strongly and independently, in some instances clearly, but in others he won't listen to arything but the dictates of his blind preconceptions. I:tery nook mid crevice and inlet of his mind are at these moments ettiffed up against the pleadings of reason and ciimmon sense. In Lord Brougham he altogether denies the existence of genius, likening him to a bag pipe " followed by vile animals in fantastical dresses and antic gestures, and surrounded by the clamorous and di ,, ,ord, rlv :" In Napoleon he sees only " what you , vould ridicule in a gipsy on the road-side," and figura tively considers that he " was pushed into a menagerie of monkeys, and fainted at their grimaces!" What on earth does Mr. Landor mean by those senseless anti thesis, where he says that in Napoleon's latter years of power "he fought without aim, vans quish ed without glory, and perished without defeat ?" What on earth is their meaning He . fought without aim ;" was the pi enervation greatest empire man ever crested nothing to 'Alm for ? ass the annihilation of legitimacy nothing to aim for ? v. as the destruction of those foreign armies who were ftuggling to fisree a king on the French people against. their will nothing to aim for ?' " He was vanquished without glory" ; were Lutzen, Bautzen, Champ-Aubert, Montmirail. Chattcuu-Thit rry, Vauchatups, and Ligny inglorious ? was the triumphal passage from Elba to the Teileries inglorious ? was the Champ de Mai, where h o virtually proclai me d hi mse lf arepublican emperor, in glorious ? "He perished without defeat”—that, at least, le true ; we grant that, but with a different inference from that intended. Such are the stolid and wilful pre judices of Walter Savage Lander ; but, even thus tarnished, his Imaginary Conversations will. live ; they are animated with an abundance of senti ments, sarcasm, drollery, reflectiveness, wisdom, and (as we have said before) wit. Besides all this they have the nerve of originality. Amongst his other compositions, the " Citation and Examination of William Shakspere" is the most ingenious and the most venturesome. In the characters of Sir Thomas Lucy and Sir Silas Gough, before whom young 'Willy is examined for deer-stealing, we recognise the pre figuring of Justice Shallow and Sir Hugh Evans, The scene is pourtrayed with admirable finesse, and the shrewd, pert, adroit, and sarcastic retorts of Shakspere are scarcely unworthy of having really proceeded from his lips on that occasion. " The Pentarneron," again, is a marvellous performance : it is the communion of such souls as those of Boccaccio and Petrareh. There is an idealism and an indistinctness about the tone of their converse which imparts to the whole an elevation and a pathos wholly indefinable, but no less manifest to the reader. In the " Pericles and Aspasia" on the contrary, there is a blithesomeness and a bloom which is utterly irresistible ; it is a combination of the beautiful and the pure, and yet without any diminution of human interest. It revives to us the days of classic Greece, when Alci biades was a boy, when the death of Clytenmestra was shuddered at in the amphitheatres, when those bascivious old dieties of Olympus were believed in and worshipped, and when Cleone bent over her tablets of wax to trace a letter to Aspasia. As a poet we do not, under correc tion, conceive that Walter Savage Landor will stand upon any very exalted pedestal. Yet are the Hellettics of exquisite music, and the Gebi of most choice and beautiful conception. We might also, if such were our object, collate many delicious frag ments of verse from the " Acts and Scenes" which are grouped together towards the conclusion of the second volume. But there is no one poem which can be classed with the masterpieces in our language, and hence we consider Lander as destined to obtain no very extra ordinary fame as a bard. Here is a charming conceit, worthy of Herrick:- 4 ' Often have I heard it said That her lips were ruby-red. Little heed I what they say, I have seen as red as they. Ere she smiled on other men, Real rubies were they then. " When she kist me once in play, Rubies were less bright than they, And less bright were those which shone In the palace of the sun. Will they be as bright again Not if kist by other men! 'Throughout his writings, Lander ktetrays little affeeta ;ions, such as the peculiar spelling of sovranty, and the • splitting asunder of the word can not ; but such trivial eccentricities we are almost 'inclined to welcome in the shape, as it were, of authentications. His verses to Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, Barry Cornwall, • Macaulay, and John Forster, indicate his readiness, to lavish generous applause upon contemporary bookmea— , no mean sign that his heart is pure and sound. These+ two volumes by Walter Savage Landor are infinitely above the ordinary stamp ; they will live in the libraries, end be read by the students of posterity. I A HISTORY OF INVENTIONS, DISCOVE RIES, AND ORIGINS. By John Beckmann, Professor of Economy in the University qf Gottingen. This, the first volume of a reprint of Johnston's trans lation of Becknaann'a celebrated work " the History of Inventions," a work which may be classed as a nom pound of learned research and light reading, suitable both to the popular reader and the scholar, forms one of the numbers of Bohn's Standard Library a series in every way worthy of its title. The revision of this edition has been confided to the care of Drs. Francis and Griffith, who, by the alteration of names, characters, descriptions, and opinions which have become obsolete, or have beets discovered to be erroneous, and by numerous additions where such were required, have rendered the work coal pletely au niveuu des connaissances aduelles. HANOVER, JULY 17.—Ilis Majesty has been sufferitr g for about a week from indisposition, which a report that:.,„, would willingly believe to be unauthenticated, repreSOUtak as having taken a more serious character since yesterdP: y, fix _ counts of the 18th are more favourable. • ALARM OF FIRE IN A Snow.—On Mon day evening, s between five and six o'clock, whilst the crow a at and adj acen t - -, to the scene of the fair was at its f.,:reate A densit a cry was raised of " Calvert's show on fire ! "file alarm, y a it speed through the crowd, and along tb'e Salt-market, where the concourse was so great that the r , eople seemed almost wed Ed together, created an immense hubb u b , and thousands floc d to the scene of the supposed disaste r , the confusion being' at the same time vastly increased~ y the city and West of Eitig land engines dashing throw-;ti the mass towards theshoii. in question. Fortunately * i:ne occurrence proved of less goe,se quence than wasSP:pPosed. It seems that an escape of gas had taken place in the course of the performance, e ttr A fte .r uze , of which btu communicated with a portion of t i tr e Li t ce i; which w' d believe was damaged to some extent • _ b rre t st t ing .th e people by their own efforts fin d snueeredWV see Y 0404 ted progress of the flames, and all 2GtagoeapqPer• without the aid of the engines. 19,456 695 44,238 1,550 5,801 1,857 10,644 1,008 4,014 7,005 16,869 2,842 1,668 517 432 6,011 6,114 823 1,241 6,401 1,169 591 5,247 LAUNCH OF THE ODIN STEAM FRIGATE. This fine steam-vessel, built at Deptford Dockyard from a design by Mr. Fincham, master shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard, was launched on Friday in the presence of a num ber of spectators, although the weather was very unfavour able. It was expected that Lady Monteagle would perform the office of naming the vessel, b u t h er L a d ys hi p was pre vented attending owing to the state of the weather. The company — beganio arrive ZOrtiy after one o'clock, and on the arrival of the Hon. Miss Spring Rice, accompanied by her brother, she was conducted by Captain-Superintendent Sir John Hill, Knight, to the gallery erected at the bow of the vessel. At twenty minutes past two o'clock a bottle of wine was opened, and the usual toast having been drunk, the bottle was broken on the bows of the Odin, and the vessel in a few minutes afterwards glided slowly and majestically into her future element amidst the prolonged cheers of the spectators. Captain Johnson and Captain Davis, R.N. ; Dr. Nesbitt, Greenwich Hospital; Mr. Ward, jun., son of the Hon. Secre tary to the Admiralty, were present to witness the launch. The following are the dimensions of the Odin, placed on the blocks on the 29th of February, 1845 :—Length between perpendiculars, 208 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 183 ft. 8i in. ; breadth extreme, 37 ft. ; breadth for tonnage, 36 ft. 6 in. ; breadth moulded, 35 ft. 10 in.; depth in hold, 24 lt. 2 in. ; burthen in tons, 1,326 4-94; horse power, 500. To carry 400 tons of coals. The Leopard, a sister vessel in every respect, designed also by Mr. Fincham, will be immediately commenced on the same blocks. Mr. Lumley entertained on Friday at dinner General Sir Andrew Barnard, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Lonadale, his Excellency General Count Bjornstjerner, the Marquis of Sligo, Baron Augustus Rothschild, Mr. Broad woed, M.P., Mr. Eaton, M.P., Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Frank Mills, Baron Oscar, &c., &c. The Right Honourable H. Labouchere has appointed as his private secretary, Mr. W. Torrens . M'Cullagh, the author of the " Industrial History of Free Nations." We read in a Berlin letter of the 15th:—" Two brothers, who bad established here a gambling-house, have just become bankrupts. Their debts are said to exceed a million of francs." public MEETING IN SOUTHWARS.--On Friday a Town-hall, in compliance with a meet ingre- of the inhabitant householders of the borough of South wark was held a the quisition to the Hign Bailiff, ' for the purpose of considering he has performed in the propriety of presenting an address of thanks to Sir Robt. Peel, Bart., for the great seryice carry ing the Corn-law Bill, and similar addresses to those Mem bers of the House of Commons who have most prominently assisted in the passing of free-tra e measures, as well as to Bailiff was signed such other advocates of freetrade as he meeting may consi der proper."—(The requisition to the High, by upwards of 300 persons of influence in the Borough.)— OF A. DUTCH WAR S CHOONER BY W. Pritchard, Esq. , th e High Bailiff of South war k , presided. DESTRUCTION PlRATrS.—Letters from Singapore have been re ce i ve d , d ated the 28th of May. communicating the_ partic u l ars o f the cap ture of the Dutch war schooner Chameleon, on the B un k e coast, and the massacre of the officers and crew by the horde of pirates that infest tha t part of the globe. She was on gun, ancl manned tiy silty men" her way to Minton, when she was attacked by forty boats, each aimed with a long all on board, they plundering the schooner and__ destroyi ng they sunk her. They then landed on the Island of Bunk; sacked the village, and killed all wh? offered any resistance. ' with them a number as slaves, and a quantity of The pirates then re-embarked, carrying of men, women, and children treasure. It is stated that they are under the command of a circumstances of Dutch renegade officer, who was . .dismissed from his own ser vices some years ago under peculiar dis grace. He fled to Illanoon, and married the daughter of one of the chiefs, and has since been active in training the pirates for service against the country and trade. On the receipt of the intelligence the Merapi steamer, after landing her mails, went in pursuit of the murderers. ROBBING 4 MAN AND LOCKING HIM OUT OF HIS HOUSE.—On the return of 11Ir. Vauderpump and family from Vauxhall-gardens, on Friday morning, between one and two o'clock, to his residence in Sloane- s t ree t , Ch e l sea, lie was unable to obtain admission. After knocking for nearly two hours, he got over the garden -wall of the adjoining house, and in at the first-floor window of his own house, when he discovered that the servant had decamped, carrying off a quantity of plate, jewellery, and wearing apparel ; also 241. in cash, that the had broken open a desk to got at. NAME OF RAILWAY. Arbroath and Forfar • ••••••• • • • • • Bristol and Birmingham . • Chester and Birkenhead . • • .......... Dublin and Drogheda• • • • • • ..... . • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • Dundee and Arbroath . .............. Durham and Sunderland ..... • • Edinburgh and Glasgow ........ Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • Glasgow and Greenock Gravesend and Rochester.. Great North of England. Great Western . ..............., Hartlepool ...... • London and North Western, &c. ..... London and Blackwall.... ..... London and Brighton London and Croydon London and Greenwich ........ London and South Western . • • • • • • • • Manchester, Bolton, and Bury . • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham.. • • • • • • Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc• • Midland Counties . • Newcastle and Darlington Newcastle and Carlisle...... Newcastle and North Shields.• • • • • • • North British North Union and Bolton and • Preston Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans.- .... Paris and Rouen . . ........ ......... Preston and Sheffield and Manchester.. South Eastern Taff Vale .. Yarmouth and Norwich York and North Midland . .......... OAI : .Q , w w o w .- 0. 20,706 .902 42,279 1,598 7,870 2,053 8,779 1,181 4,511 7,175 18,178 4,434 3,032 715 1,836 1,750 6,597 1,237 2,054 9,700 1,278 740 7,252 0