The Sun. — London, England, 1852-09-14 00:00:00

AC. its eg e ed , of. 0 , e rtl I I ty l a it 1111 S , T . Kir w 0 . s ° Oils li rp 051 of 618 d eh ' j,te pc to tbe of r.kit tfcom s for i t a I" o o d e m• ea " ' re fec e P i ' or der i (I°.. 15 64 .tr ii' siev ed, take up many days. The Government has apublished a large volume, containing most of these ,_ u °cu Zl.tuents, which gen era lly cons i st o f v i rulent at lis upon th e G RAND DUKE during his stay at . a ile ta; and it wou ld seem that the Government a v flhes the sa id volume to be extensively circulated, Ince it has fixed its price at about 5f., a very low sum ecciidering the size of the book. T he Italia e P opolo, the organ of the Mazzinian Party, contains the following and the People.—National Italian Association tiom 108.—Citiz3na,—Iti consequence of the instruc -4124 I have received, I am happy to transmit to you the ....` e jez . ) of the Union of Tuscany with the Roman States. those a a solemn year; it strengthens the opinion of t _Jse Who love and desire republican unity, and it more . , t ' l ,l . ever dissipates the illusions of the federalists; it th l e rs the partisans of the constitutional monarchy to t,„"eart, and falls like a mortal weight upon tyrants. i 4h are t, this day, invested with all the attributions t, ll o t t v at to your mission.—Greeting and traterni y. tT e4 co, Au 20th, 1852.—T0 the citizens e u a l P °B ing the Committee of the Central Interior Three !)f the National Italian Association, for the Tuscan , r,_uvnicca at Florence the Extraordinary Committee of lc Central Interior Direction." Thi i , t is furth er stated that the Commissary of the Com mittee at Rome acknowledges and definitively ac to.tzz the union of the Roman States with Tuscany. il_ ll . o reup ou the Italia e Popolo exclaims . :—" The co!! between Rome and Tuscany is morally ac "9llshed 1" Isia ml • To which the zso g r intent° of Turin, s ow quotes the above, slyly observes, that nothing Pufti remains to be done but a mere trifle, viz., 4g it into execution I. Lettersti,, have been received from Catania of the 30th I s i s i s t , containing details of the eruption of Etna. ik eif c direction of Zaffarona the lava was spreading tiv at P,ith frightful rapidity, covering the most en e ,;! i ands and the richest vineyards. Another torrent bitanta 'greeting its cou rse t owar d s Milo. The inha tefli ; w ore aband on i ng th e coun try, and taki ng tit u : t e lc places of security. Milo and Zaffarona are Th, I V about fifteen miles from the crater of Et ff na. eatin at ex perienced near the places is quite su o- GREECE. G o►er from Athens of the 31st ult. states that the L ae rntaent - has granted an amnesty to all the persons ke A h ° . 131 a,. with the exception of six only, who had ‘;ag is r o lit in the insurrection got up by the monk, PAPOULAKI. titrb Mbitton, DO NCASTER RACES, (THIS DAY.) ( 1 11 ..z. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Alfred The Fit aw illi am H an di cap . Zethe Gre at ... h l li ... 4 Rnea .. , "• ••• ••• ''• • 11 4 ge t f ord 4llB Great York s hire Handicap. A , Alt s ••• • • • ••• •• • • 4 . 4 1 4 4a • ••• ••• ••• ••• ST. LEGER. Songstress in force at 5 to 2 6 to 1 agst Trousseau—taken A tO 1 eget H ar bi nger —ta k en f ree l y u tab r i ;1,4"--I.omgbow, Songstress, Daniel O'Rourke, el ) and Queen. tes•-• eb 1 :8 St k" iIo sPITAL.—On Tuesday, the 21st inst., 01wrIffs, together s a the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and 41 with the governors of the several royal willl. attend Divine service at Christ Church, p it :' , 4l s h o st, et, where a sermon will be preached by the tts i ' 4 th e 't• Airey, late of Pembroke College, Cambridge, tO . atil t rroasters of Merchant Tailors' school, after which e t ifsts t i on ePair to the great hall of Christ's Ho9ital, where tl ive red b ' O rl the benefits of the royal hospitals, will be t ° ) Ye ; Y four of the senior scholars—viz., in Latin, by R. q t :e• ~,English, by H. D. Sweeting ;in Greek, by H. lasNattf e ' re nch, by J. G. Gauntlett. Seven poems will be 0,4 alsc ea recited by others of the senior scholars—viz., bl I tta an on "Naples," by H. T. Armseld ; Latin el es e 8 4. Alfred the Great " b ere H. R. Tevers; Greek btlaiB:SrSteilation from Sh;kse's " Henry V. address tt, ;1111.rs, before th e b a ttl e of Agincourt," by!. W .T . sapphics, on " The return of Ulysses," b Vlg), ; Latin hexameters, a translation es f y ro o m n . e.piekves,ast Day," by C. Parey; Greek . sapphi ektig riv r Thames,,, by H. Ludlow; English poem, on b ts h s Empire in the East Indies," by C.W.P. `Latin heard aweeting will recite a prize composition in Latin ttl ard of rB, for which there has been made to him the first a ti e ,Will of lnedal, henceforth to be given annually, under " sel is the late Rev. G. Richards, D.D., late a governor wltioner of Christ's Hospital_ 111 44 -'ise ob ?' ANOTHER TRUNK OF A TREE IN P ARIL—It cannot be too much impressed on "", e danger which they incur in taking their seats N ti l:ati t, o ld decayed t rees w hi c h too a b un d ant l y ex i s t i n tty t it. they are disposed to rest, they ought most k 111 1 , 14 Y ,eve them. We say hang, for it cannot be denied that S I Nt of in such a dilapidated state that even a heavy litsi s r ain will do the work of the axe at times, and lay m ot pe en s trunks of some of the trees on the ground. This is i - s t s he case with one tree in the south-eastern portion th . 4 this week, a huge trunk having fallen which bore htt 8 t it should have long previously been severed, and k l f i tl itt4 l (l to some useful purpose. We have before called tot t et es ti ° 7 l of the authorities to the subject,. and although ti o ike sn se have been taken in the right direction, yet it has tearried on so speedily as might have been expected, Ig:tier the 480 Much required. Possibly it may be in the // 04 11 th e th oae directing the work to sug , gest some mode in o l te% Public safety may be protected, and unti t l . the csits,ol4ir..e.enabled to y lop the decayed branches, n 9 ices, vs A l e be posted where danger really exists.— ce ry. 4 41 , het- I " PROM BRISTOL.—There bound n fo o r w A s u i , x_ I sti fittl ana c t ss is vess . els lying at our . quiqts.onbotonul,69s pas. N Who estimated that, in addi the y," a ve alre dv left, the number of emigrants of to :tistnvordwasseoni.itt bear will upwards of 4,000. emigrantstyatall,from ales The following (from Customs of. tlesi r fk la the 11114 ) tc, i31 ",° Port nalnber . f ships with emigrants which s the last eight years, ending the 31st leg vg: --1844, 10 ships, 159 passengers; 1845, 10 62 3 lengers 846, 6 ip, 182 passengers; 1847, 2i Passengers; 1848, 2k) ships, 1,473 passen ss ter thiPs 1 le::: 8 ; 185 1 ,893 passengers; 1850, 22 ships, 1,920 l 'tba 2 9 ships, 1,958 passengers ; and for the Reis, s atin the 30th o f J ane , 1852, 14 ships, 1,695 Att s tt tivi ka lattr S TARvATiox.—On Wednesday last an , who eld at been ton on the body of Hannah N tB . (141 h ad been found dead in her room at an early ,1114,141itetl apps morning. The body presented a most f ea n , ara Nes snce• a mere skeleton, beld together loaf sad •°. After her death half of a half-quartern dither room, which she had had in a week_ t ~ain late bonthe exception of four-pennyworth of meat, u tt ght on Saturday, threa-fourths of w wh it s s t a il d l li e s , th e eaten that was all the food she had pure a a Up 'e s t o k • Beeby, with whom she lod e g t e h d o , a h d ght ktiq 8 4te r , „ale pudding and some lamb, and h q,. 4l lto uc l , but since her death he had found it covered t 4 1 . 8 lo e . i , u ed• She had upwards of 200 . out at interest, J e t lte lf stes i ;"‘ coming in regularly. Her age was 67, so tS - ` l lt . ' be .4 1 ° ground for any fear that she might come k/10174 h" j ' e abY stated his opinion to be that she had ; i p 14: s e ar exhan t . She had pined herself to death. A i lby t ' s r e of the s s am i To inion, and returned a verdict of -44,z,e visitation of &id." Deceased was unmarried. Mercury. Itt We are requested to state ‘14,4t, Eder4o wARDED.— • s l 4 tte jui t which appeared in this paper on Saturday i th e above head, is not strictly correct. The lady kts s ° 44 4 ektsfP t ° ,rse was returned thought,. from the dress and „ s Person who returned it, that she might be ai l to "akt an to reward her honesty, and therefore, (1 11 , 1 t4 t 111 uer for the trouble she had taken, allowed i4t 44 th room ; but upon being told by her mother, e i t s 'ea u ent, that the person who had brought the purse m t h sos t , s et ersed as a lady's maid, th . e lady to who 4 5(1 ; °n ged followed her down stairs, and told her 1 ‘ , 4 1 , f\lVll,h.is.Utst desired the crier to offer a reward is b e n r t ep d l i y d :, 44 er she might ask her to accept it.. Th 4, l ell i Ztio it - u, I could not think of such a . thing. —[The a s Ze e s i s the really meant to decline it. The reward ' n teatla n . ,"r was to have offered has been sent to us, t with oss''ees . " we will slip it into a poorbox at one of he \ ! , 1 1!„'4 Tintes. 1 / I s tat tttl 'lZ, lt tn OLD FREE CHURCH AT INVERNESS. 014 tee i r- and that the purchase of this building has been kmtti I t g ee d by p < b believe Cumming, Esq., the African . klikidePosito&c., collected by eil f eve intended to be converted into a the curiosities, kkl A tlt tl s tse ll tt i° t la r e Y cou e r r s of his excursions through the n B o and wilds of Kafraria. The price agreed upon I?i t 0! 4 11%: 1 * -- -inverness Courier. h i kl iTi l tritt e Pl'e a CONVICTED OF POACHING. — At 511. 4 k ,„, office, Halifax, Levi Smith, gamekeeper at 4o t) i' e a r B charged by George Syke, gamekeeper of sun Ye, with trespassing upon Rishwortb r4i oe been ursuit of game without leave. As Aos v th e k n . ad previously warned not to trespass la tl te lr erv es, he was adjudged to pay the full penalty 11 / 4 4 11, 1 %v/4 o ' 1148- expenses. James Schofield, of Longwood, f ',lNti,'raitb , 4 d been engaged in " driving" the grouse a,vs t ,' l /. 4 5 vas convicted in the mitigated penalty of % t i, °nets. S ° 0 tl ttnT sts ti Nafors. - - -At the west corner of Berner's iii4fotet toe:, wll(3)tr_eet, the widow and daughters of Ryland to‘Sti) an sae year as executed at T . yburn. kept a print ths ,! after his ignominious death. When 4 , 4 4 ,4, 11! disc:J-4st India Company, for which he was OW 4 ftVressi f . e red, he fled from his home , and thought N 'te Ir .t!li ks _re t on( ltt an inn of an obscure village ' at some ctiotiltlleby pa rer ed ?n, hisand there remained for in some time. had upYat S.kts 4 „ti e N t : : ° ,off, and a paper. na e nse it coming in itt t iNt r mce oPrenended, brought to justice, and suffered 11:4,4 0 1) t he , laW. At the farther extremity of 1?4 se first house in Edgeware-road, imme mohi Lip l tsi te s „ e sor Y urn turnpike, lived for many years e i rt p, s si l laliti a t Paoli, so well known and beloved for ee trb ea and generous hospitality, not only to t a• l tes Ili s ' s n 'en, but to all foreigners of distinction to k` ll 4 '. 40 14, t j a e e ath took place in this house. General ct 41 , 4 8 44.1t1 rto the Emperor Napoleon.—Notts and NiOto,kr TETA. l k rt etlre i s The Danish war I ti ]o ._ at present ia Sunderland Dock taking in „Of ):), 'e'er& Newell d h eraps i to an Co., of Gateshead, for the liark. connect Copenhagen with the main- I ti ‘kt toh,t)t, ';ove re j t —° Q., M.P.—Our HOD. Me mb: r Nt A _ e os as . to , be able to leave his room; and easy.„... will enable him to again mingle with ajirrainglealn Mercury. SUN, COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 12. Her Majesty rode yesterday to Abergeldie to visit her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent. Her Ma jesty was attended by the lion. Mary Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out deer stalking. The dinner party yesterday included her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg, her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohen lobe Langenbourgh, the Right Honourable R. A. Christopher, and Mr. and Mrs. Farquharson, of In vercauld. The Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Shaftesbury, Colonel Wood, Lieutenant-Colonel Nicoll, and Mr. M 1 Haire had interviews with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday at the Home-office. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yesterday from the Governor-General of Canada and the Governors of the other North American pro vinces. SPORTING NOTES. No. CCCVI. THE FIELD FOR THE GREAT ST. LEGER, &c TO THE EDl7'Oll OF THE SUN. SIR,—As the time approaches for the decision of the Great Northern race, all the interest gradually centres in a few animals. Out of the hundred and sixteeen nominations, not more than ten or eleven at the outside will be found at the post; and the names of those form ing the outside division I cannot give with any certainty. Daniel O'Rourke, Stockwell, ilex, Trousseau, Souk. stress, Harbinger, and King of Trumps are the declared starters. The remaining three or four doubtfuls must be selected from the following:—Alfred the Great, Glenluce, Clumsy Jack, the Duke of Leineter, Merry go-round, Longbow, Sackbut, and King Pepin. Lord Exeter's couple have put iu an appearance at Doncaster; and although what betting has been done there prices Stockwell at 5 to 2, yet the general yppearance of both have not elicited any marks of approbation from the cognoscenti. It is singular, but there is a steady deter mination on the part of several clever members of " the talent" to fire away at Stockwell. If this horse does not finish first, I anticipate seeing him in the third po sition. Ilex, of course, will be nowhere; merely start- kg to make play for his stable companion. What I have above termed the outside list contains not an animal that can be expected to attain the third position, much less the second or first. King of Trumps has arrived, and looks much better than was generally supposed he would, but hie very doubtful preparation, I think, must effectually put his chance out. The Duke of Richmond's Harbinger is the picture of perfection, so far as training goes, and will unchpubtedly finish third or fourth. Hew it would astonish the backers of the favourite were be to win? More apparently im possible things than this have been accomplished; and as there must be something in the field to justify the tremendous outlay that has been, and still is, going on by certain knowing ones against Stockwell and Song stress, I cannot conceive who else it can refer to but Harbinger, Trousseau, or Daniel O'Rourke. Mr. Peelley's Trousseau, although in beautiful condi tion, and well suited to such a coarse as that at Don caster, I do not expect to see nearer the front than fourth or fifth. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress will arrive at Don caster to-day. The former has been doing out-and-out work, and the latter but moderate. I cannot get over the fact that Songstress's work has not been by any means first rate since the accident to her foot; and, coupled with some crotchets in my brain concerning her arising from the money cannonading she has received, and some other reasons, I think she will do very well if she manages to save the second money for her owner. As to Daniel, notwithstanding his diminutive size, and the nature of the course being against him only, I consider his chance to be as good as, if not better than, any in the race; and, ridden by Frank Butler, will be about A 1 in the race. The starters for the Municipal Stakes are War Whoop, Vanderdecken, Umbriel, and Incense. As I have placed them so I expect they will come in. V. T. (Barnsley) is informed that there is but one horse of the name of Plaarold, and he is by Alarm, out of Lady Trampoline. Was originally tho property of Captain Dela 6, but sold by him when a yearling to Mr. Mare. He is trained byFrench atNewmarket.—l am,&c., Sept. 14. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER RACES. DONCASTER, MONDAY AFTERNOON, 5 O'CLOCK. The following stakes, which it will be seen have filled remarkably well, closed this afternoon at three o'clock:— TUESDAY. The Fitzwilliam Handicap of 5 sous. each, with 50 added, One mile. Cheroot, 3 yrs—Allred the Great, 3 yrs—Sir Charles, 5 yrs—Lady Agnes, 3 yrs—Sir Charles Napier, 3 yrs— Dividend, 3 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs—c by Theon, out of Rebecca, 3 yrs—Bcss of Hardwick, 3 yrs—f by him riel, darn by The Saddler, 3 yre—Clincher, 3 yrs— Tower, 4 yra. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, &c. _ _ Ono mile and a half. Priam the Third, 3 yrs (400—Cyclops, 4 yrs (400 — Euphony, 3 yrs (400—Florence, 3 yra (400—Lily, 3 yrs (400—Paquetta, 4 yrs (401.) WEDNESDAY. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Cup Course. Wasp, 4 yrs—Cariboo, 5 yrs—Kingston, 3 yrs— Hungerford, 4 yrs—Lerrywhent, 3 yrs—Galvanism, 3 yrs—Newminster, 4 yrs—Sir Charles, 3 yrs—Florence, 3 yrs—Rebecca colr, 3 yrs — Recommendation, 3 yrs— Allegro, 3 yrs—Sir Rowland Trenchard, 4 yrs. Sweepstakes for 2 and 3 yrs old. Red House in. F by Don John, out of .Conspiracy, 2 y rs— L am b ton, 2 yrs—Alfred the Great, 3 )7—P eggy, 2 yrs—f by Melbourne, out of Paddy Bird's darn, 2 yrs—St. Andrew, 2 yrs—Auchiuleek, 2 yrs—Pelion, 2 yrs— Molasses, 2 yrs—Audabon, 2 yrs—Exact, 2 yrs—Little Swift, 2 yrs —n by lago, out cf Daughter of Toscar, 2 yrs—Ann Eliza, 2 yrs—c by the E mperor, out of Begum, 2 yrs. FRIDAY. Doncaster Cnp, value 300 bOVS., &c. Cup C ourse. 3 yrEs—vaLdiutetlepa Alonzo, 5 yrs — Caracara , 3 yrs—Teddington, y Stilton, 3 yrs—King of Trumps, 3 yrs—Songstress,'4rs -3 yrs—Nancy, 4 yrs—Womersley, yrs—Daniel 3 yrs—llex, 3 yrs—Cariboo, 5 yrs— Newminster, 4 yrs—Truth, 4 yrs — Harbinger, 3 Yyrrs -3 Yrs — Kingston 3 y r s s — Allegro, 3 yrs—Scarecrow, Alfred the Great, 3 yrs—Cyclops, ~s 4 O'Rourke, 3 yrs—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs—Trousseau, 3 yrs —Hungerford, 4 yrs. Nursery Plate of 100 soya. for two yrs:old. L est mile Conspiracy filly Cory bent° Lamb ton — Valour--: Rattlecap—Polly—Maid of Golbourne—lncense—P eggy —The Hatchet—Eaton —Nerva—St. AlAndrew--Ace of Trumps, by Assault Romeo —A , uchinleck—L uxury colt—Pelion Moccassin f by Touchstone, out of Gaiety—Lord Lieutenant—Audabon— Little Swift— Ann Eliza—Daughter of Toscar colt—Master Norton —Ada, by Poyeton—Exact—Grapeshot—Begum colt. Horses arrived:—The Alp, Proctor, Lady Agnes, Rachetee, Jaquenetta, Grapeshot, Exact, A u d a b on, Al legro, Incense, Rebecca colt. Little Swift, R uss b orough Polly, King of Trumps , Vanderdecken , Claverhouse , H ung erford, Jack Leeming, Euphony, Kingston, Flo rence, Luxury colt, Alonzo, Bess of Hardwick, Sir C. Napier, Romeo, Verbena colt , Prime Minister, The Tu rin, Nancy, Ada, Stilton, Lerrywhent, Th e H atchet, Galvanism, Recommendation, Charity, Margaret of An jou, Doubt Long, Anterverte, Saxon, View Halloo, Con rad, Lily (by the Sea), Lady of the Grove, Lord Lieu tenant, Newminster, Abbess filly,Croupier, Nerve, Phan tom, Eaton, Evadne, The Reiver, Turnus, War Whoop, Priam the Third, Knight of the Garter, Caracara, Barba colt, Conspiracy f, Little Harry, Stockwell, Ilex, Sabra, Sharman, Dividend, Calorie, Vindex, Gaiety filly, Cariboo, Hirsute, Glenluce, Scarecrow, Harbinger, Womersley, Towton, Trousseau, Paquette, f out of Paddy Bird's dam, f by Ithuriel, d by The Saddler, Cyclops. The following are expected in the course of this even ing or to-morrow:—Teddington, Orinoco, Cory bantes, Clincher, Wasp, Cheroot. Sir Charles Tower, Auchin lech, St. Andrew, The Queen, Pelion, Molasses, Ann Eliza, Begum colt, Brawn, Sir R. Trenchard, Valour, Rattlecap, Hobble Noble, Ace of Trumps, Mocassin, Master Norton, The Maid of Golbourne, &c. Daniel O'Rourke and Songstress come to-morrow. BETTING AT SIX O'CLOCK. ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Stookwell (taken and afterwards offered) 12 to 4 agst Songstress (take 7 to 2) 7 to 2 agst Daniel O'Rourke (offered) Nothing else mentioned. DONCASTER, MONDAY NIGHT, 12 O'CLOCK. The following are the entries for the Fitzwilliam Handicap:—Clincher, 5 yrs, Bst 131b—Florence, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Sir Charles Napier, 3 yrs, Est 41b—Sir Charles, 6 yrs, Bst 61b—The Twin, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Rebecca colt, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Lady Agnes, 3 yrs, Est 121b—Ithuriel filly, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Bess of Hardwick, 3 yrs, sst 81b— Alfred the Great, 3 yrs, Est 101b—Cheroot, 3 yrs, 6st 41b —Dividend, 3 yrs, sst 41b. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CHAMPAGNE STAKES. Even on The Reiver 5 to 2 agst Vindex 4 to 1 agst Orinoco 10 to 1 sgst Barba—taken 20 to 1 agst any other GREAT YORKSHIRE HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agat Knight of the Garter 5 to 1 agst Alonzo 5 to 1 agst Jack Leeming 6 to 1 egst The Twin 8 to 1 agst Alp 9 to 1 agst Lerrywhent 12 to 1 agst Imagination ST. LEGER. 5 to 2 agat Stockwell 5 to 2 agst Songstress 4 to 1 eget Daniel O'Rourke—taken 7 to 1 apt Trousseau—taken Harbinger not mentioned. DONCASTER, TUESDAY, 12 o'CLt;clc. LATEST BETTING. CHAMPAGNE STAKES. G 7 R t E O A I T a 5 to 4 on The Heiver—taken agar s o tsriTl ScarecrowB z t E r G 8 E ANDICAP. The rest as before. R. 5 5 5 tttoooN22loatiooggntaShtt;h:et SongstressoFekiedechange, 7 to 2 agst O'Rourke ... 2 •„ 3 THE LON 00N, TUESDAY 7 to 1 sgst Trousseau—taken 9 to 1 Nerd lisrbing,r—taken INTELLIGENCE EX FR A. EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING, 1852. Mr. B. Crewe's Abdallab, 5 yrs, 83t 71b, against Mr. B. Land's The Greek, 3 yrs, 7st 71b. One mile. 200, h ft. UPTON-UPON-SEVERN, 1852. Handicap for iheUPtCnStakes, 3 fr, if declared on Sa. tui day week. Candlewick, 5 yrs, Sst 51b—Letterpress, 4 yrs, 7st 101b—Odiharn, 4 yrs, Tat 101b—Batwing, 5 yrs. 7st 101 b —Worcester, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Cingari, 5 yrs, 7st 41b— Lady Amyott. 3 yrs, 7st—Ethelwolf, 3 ,yrs, 6st 6113 Surge, 3 yrs, 6st 61b—Winifred, 3 yrs, 6st 41b—Royal George, 3 yrs, 6st—Romulus, 3 yrs, sst 101 b. NEWMARKET SECOND OCTOBER MEETING, 1852.—TIIESDAY. Acceptances for the Cesarewitch Stakes. - Yrs st lb Catiboo 5 8 8 Itustborough ...... 5 8 6 1 Lady Evelyn (including 6lbs extra) Black Doctor 4 8 4 Kingston 3 8 4 Yrs st lb Snowstorm 6 6 7 Coo more Sharavegue 3 6 7 Galvanism Mrs. Birch 'King Pepin 3 6 4 Ariosto Stilton Alonzo Chief Baron Ni- Phlegm Kilquade 4 6 Vermuth 4 6 :3 Hyacinth cholson ... 3 7 10 C!ivan Joe Miller Montague Windischgratz Frantic 3 6 1 Merryman n 5 13 La Gozza Ladra 6 5 12 Harrier Noaiham 4 7 6 Indian Warrior Timid Fawn 4 7 4 Waterfall Liudrick 3 5 11 Bit of Blue 3 5 10 Bird on the Wing 3 7 3 Musician Knight of Gwynne 5 7 1 Le Juif Athense Pallas 3 5 10 Jullien 3 5 9 Mary Ann 3 5 9 Richard Primmer 3 5 Weathergage 3 6 11 Lady Arnyott 3 6 11 Marchioness Knt. of the Garter 6 6 10 'Knight of the Shire 3 5 8 Lerrywhent Lady Harriet 3 5 6 Madeline 3 5 5 King Charming 4 6 9 Candlewick 5 6 9 Proctor c by Melbourne out of Sally War- Little Davie i)angerous 'Babette .. 3 5 5 Termagant Dolload foot - 3 6 9 Butterfly 3 6 7 The others di NEWMARKET HOUGI Acceptances for the C 'Jessica 3 5 3 'Missive Ld not accept. EITON MEETING, 1852. ,ambridgeshire Stakee. Yrs st lb Teddington 4 9 3 TUrnus 6 8 10 , Lady Evelyn (including 6lbs extra) Truth Rus6borough Hernandez G lauca Kingston 3 8 3 Ariosto Officious Ephesus Sir Charles 5 7 11 Stilton 3 7 11 Neasham 4 7 11 Robbie Noble 3 7 11 Alcoran Harbinger Chief Baron Ni cholson Eliza Middleton Longinus Hook'em Snivey 4 7 7 .Grief King of Trumps 3 7 5 Grey Tommy 3 7 5 Hothorpe Indian Warrior Adine 3 7 4 The Cutler 4 7 3 Weathergage 3 7 2 Le Juif Ring leader 4 7 1 Caracara 3 7 1 Hungerford Flirt Yrs st lb Father Thames 3 6 8 Lady Agnes Poodle 3 6 7 Miss Fanny .. 4 6 7 Dulcet a 6 6 Lancaster Bardol ph 3 6 6 King Pepin 3 6 6 Deceitful 4 6 5 Phlegra Evadno Convulsion Sanita ;Scarecrow Kate 3 6 5 Kilquade 4 6 4 English Oak— 3 6 4 I Sackbut Athena Pallas 3 6 3 Butterfly 3 6 3 Koh•i-noor 3 6 3 Vermuth Bit of Blue gerryman Knightof the Shire 3 6 2 Follow-meiads ... 4 6 2 Azael Hyacinth 3 6 1 Ilex Lindrick Sophistry La Gezza Ladra 6 6 0 Cavan 3 6 0 Ammonia Puritan Alfred the Groat 3 5 12 Billy Bar 4 5 12 Sir J. Barleycorn 3 5 10 Plot 3 5 9 Tested 3 5 8 Henrietta Rachet63 3 5 7 Jallien 3 5 7 Varmint 3 5 7 Sister to Singapore 3 5 7 Babette Brawn 3 5 5 'Cotton Lady 3 5 5 Termagant ..... 'Dividend 3 5 4 Pancake Jessica Cornelius Peacock Dollond Sabra Madeline 3 5 2 _,lsabella The rest pay 5 sovs. each. The Italian 5 6 13 Musician High Sheriff Allegro Lady Amyott 3 6 12 Gladiola (including 3lbs extra) Trousseau b f by Faugh-a- Ballagh, out of Miniature Kadidjah 3 6 101 Proctor Herbert o by Melbourne, out of Sally Warfoot Glenluce 3 6 9 Manifold 5 6 9 Candlewick 5 6 8 1 Young Trouble- tome 4 6 81 THE NORTHERN MEETING. INVERNESS, SRPT. 11.-Thi* great annual gather ing of Highland chiefs and proprietors, and of sports.. men from the south, was commenced here on Thurs day and concluded last night. The attendance was more numerous, perhaps, than on any previous oc casion, for owing to the fine weather with which we have been favoured this season, and the absence of any absorbing attraction in the south, there has been an unparalleled influx into the Highlands of sportsmen of every description, of visitors at the houses of the northern nobility, and of tourists from every part of England and the Continent. These have flocked in great numbers to Inverness to witness the festivities at the northern meeting, which is the modern desig nation for the great Highland gathering, known in the famous Duke of Gordon's time as the Northern Hunt. The constitution of the meeting is so far changed that for field-sports and horse-racing have been substituted piping and dancing. The northern meeting, however, is still the most thoroughly Celtic demonstration of thei A At beat the Highland Scottish games in H w e o r l c of the same brawny clwaot h n tested by ) c - h p a w r k e , a m n a a n m b y o a a j o s o f t r . ty High landers who came forward at Inverness and at Brae mar; but then there is neither the noble panorama of mountains which surround this picturesque town, nor the presence of the chivalry of the north, the lineal descendants of the same men who followed the for tunes of Dundee and Prince Charlie. In the large park in which the gameswere persons cel ebrated w d e u re rin as g se t m he . last two days, many thousand bled ; and though clans and clanships are utterly de molished, yet of those present fully three-fourths bear the names of chieftains with whom the readers of his tory are familiar. The Duke of Richmond, the patron of the northern meeting, did not attend; but the vice-president, Lord Saltoun, and Lord Lovat, took an active part in the proceedings. The games which came off here on Thursday were putting the stone, tossing the caber, throwing the hammer, &c. The hammer was thrown 96 feet three inches by Donald Fraser, of Upper Killin ; the best throw ever known to be made at Inverness. Samuel Kennedy, the big-boned, red-headed colt of Bade noch, who regularly appears at the Scottish fête, tossed with ease a huge caber, which baffled the strength and skill of every other competitor. Yester day was set apart for the competition of pipers and dancers. The winner of the gold medal was Alex ander M'Kenzie, piper to the Marquis of Breadalbane, a hale and hearty grey old man. The prizes for dancing called forth a large host of light-footed competitors from the braes of Strathspey. The sword dance and Ghillie Callum were never bet ter performed, and the reels were given with great zest and spirit._ A ball, very brilliantly and numerously attended, concluded the festivities of each day. Amongst those present were Lady Ann M'Kenzie, Lady Carolina Townsley, Lady Lovat, Lady Mostyn, &c. ; Prince Massino, the Earl of Leicester, Hon. F. Dundas, M.P., Hon. L. Grant and Hon. Lewis Grant, of Seafield, Hon. Mr. Abercromby of Birkenbog, Hon. J. Gordon, Sir C. Hope Vere, Sir Henry Wil more, Sir Piers Mostyn, Sir Adam Hay, Sir Robert Menzies, Count Moratt, Mr. Matheson, M.P., &c. COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—A collision took place near Leighton Buzzard yesterday morning, September 13. The 6.30 down trai n , which was a very heavy one, with a powerful engi ne , marked 110, driven by James Pattison, left the Eusto n terminus at its usual time, being due at Leighton at 7.48, where it arrived in due course, carrying a large number of second and third-class passengers. The pilot engine came up to the Leighton station, and having been attached to the down train, proceeded with it over the single line to that point where the relaying of the up line at this point termi. nated. The pilot was then unhooked from the engine of the 6.30 A 3r. down train, and proceeded at a rapid speed on to the crossing, in order to pass on to the up line to allow the down train to pass. The pilot engine had nearly reached the crossing, and was partially crossing on to the up line, when the down train, the engine of which had been kept by Pattison the driver following at a great speed, caught the left-hand hind buffer of the tender, dashing it across the line down the embankment, and throwing the pilot engine round across the up line. The passenger down train had its front stove in, and was also, together with its tenuer, thrown over across the down line, and four and five of the carriages of the down train also being thrown off the down line, the road was perfectly blocked. With the exception of one gentle man, who had his face severely cut with the glass of one of the carriage windows, and injury to one of the heels of the policeman who was on the pilot engine, we understand that uo one received really serious injury. - MANSLAUGHTER AT LIVERPOOL. -- On Sunday morning last, about one o'clock, a widow, named Grace Jones, was killed by her son-•in-law, Thomas Yates, under the following melancholy circumstances :—About midnight he went home and found his wife in a state of intoxication. Being irritated, he commenced beating her, when her mother interfered, and Yates struck her on the throat, knocking her down the steps into the yard, and causing a compound frac ture of the skull, from which the deceased immediately ex pired. A post niortem examination has been ordered, and Yates is iu custody. ANECDOTES OF CRITICISM. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) If, in criticism, there were less brilliance and more charity, better justice would be distributed between the authors who write and th e pu bli c who rea d. When I, as a reviewer, take up my ivory knife, and set down to cut open the leaves of a new book, what do I invoke,. as l the genius, to attend upon my chair? think of anything but the un'ortunate writer , of theif work. My object is to flavour my " article, ' and he shall . " our author" can supply spices, well and good; supply relish to my periods; but if unhappily not,. he is then the mere ground of the dish, and I serve him up transmogrified from his original shape—with. onions of ne seer I am afraid satire, cloves of sarcasm, ginger of vituperation — thinking of him, but of making a " stinging review." My pen is no quill from the wing of a pacific goo se, my ink no odorous di st ill at i on from an Indian woo d ; th e one is tsuipered steel— t h e proper material to sta b with —the other is undiluted ga ll to pour into t h e woun d. All around my table are t h e busts of brill i ant critics , famous in their day, whose trophies are built upon a pyramid of epics, essus,l3-ric s , hi stor i es, rom ances, and disquisitions, amalgamated into solid bricks, by thr , pestle fire', and pr essure next, of " first-rate reviews. One I see mangling some "half-fledged poet;" a nother "crushing a young sieging-bird in its nest;" another clasnehinss ihe lamp of Bonne ambitious student's inspi ration. Then I ring my own hammer on the rock, that an echo may come to me of similar fame, and that nsY vanity may be plumed by the idea that some poetaster, or prosaic dullard has been "extin gu i s h e d" by a blot of the terrible liquid, lyin g , bl ac k as Phlegethon, before me. Lately, however, I n ave b een reflecting on the cr i t i ca l art and the critic's respo ns ibili ty; but lam not g oing to write a. disquisition on e i t h er. I have, f ur 'i v own edi fication, collected some anecdotes to illustrate phut I is have been saying, and t o s h ow that infallibility 00 more an attribute of the editorial table than it is of Peter's chair. The victims of great reviews have mounted to high fame in spite of their reviewers. Men have fallen into ridiculous errors through their refusal to acknowledge, or their in a bili ty to appreciate genius when its work is piesented tangibly to their o bservation. There are some episodes i n t h e history of criticism which are universally known—how, the living fire of Keats's inspiration was " snuffed out " by an artic l e in the Quarterly; how Byron was hunted by the Scotch their turn with a vengeance; how S w if t cut to p i eces a w re h vi o e le we a r r s m u y n o ti la f l sc e ri s b t e o s od by at m b e a3', and renewed them in means of how Pope, with a single feather fro m the goose ' s w i ng , wrote a sacrificial song for a hecat om b of detractors. there have Other episodes,one satirical essay; however, been, less known, but no less remarkable than these. There never was, for instance, amore extraordinary, a more absurd, a more impudent criticisire, than that of Rymer upon the tragedy of Othello. Ile said it was "a bloody farce, without salt or savour, that fillsthe head with vanity, confusion, tintamarre, and jingle-jangle." Now Rymer, in his time, was thought a judicious man; reviewed a good many books—perhaps deeided the lite rary fate of several authors. .Yet, if th e public accepted his opinion, how much injustice was there not com mitted. Nearly equal in impertinence was the observa tion of Gifford, that Shakspero was, a s a poet, inferior to Pope. This remark, h owever , f rom such a man, though it startles, do es no t as t onis h us. He was utt e rly incompetent to appreciate the richness, sweetness, and beauty of that poetic nectar which flowed from the lips of him who was our noblest muse. Ile said, t h at the only excellence of th e dramatic minstrel, whose melo dies gushed as though "Ilyssus were in hi s t h roat, " was his wit, and that among hi s merits rhythmical modulation was by no means to be included. After this, I do not so g r e atly wonder that a dull, dry, and dusty mathematician once told us that Milton'. Paradise Lost is " worth nothing, because it proves nothing." This scientific pedant would have valued mere highly the solution of an algebraical problem,' or an ingenious disposition of straight lines, curves, and cones. Figures arithmefical be loved, but figures of speech, or flowers of tho ug ht, he cou l d by no possi bility understand. Perhaps he w ou ld equally have whichscorned a contemporary c a ritic COu s naita , with th e most Country Churchyard, of amusing condescension,—" This little p oem, how ever humble its pretensions, is not without ele gance or merit !" What, however, can surprise us, when Goldsmith's reviewer in the Monthly sot down his Traveller as a " flimsy production;" when Wordsworth has been described as the " verbose, dry, drab-coated proser of the lakes;" when Scott has been compared to Homer; when Rogers h as b een eu l ogised as " superior to Coleridge, Shelley, or Moore;" when Shakspere has been sneered at by Ben Jenson as an ignoramus, be cause he makes Bohemia a maritime country ; and when beenit has iha than pronounced of of S hell ya poet ry, as it was by characteristic s " its total want of meaning." The truth is, that th ere can b e no a b surdity imagined which has not been perpetr a t e d by cr i t i cs, at one time or another. Time, however, cures the lit t l e stings inflicted Gifford, by the feeble. The day has gone . by when readers of the Literary Gazette would submit to be told by that journal that " Queen Mab" was " a mer e mass o f b loate d words," or that " Ad on allu" exhibited nothing but " in curable absurdity." Fortunately also the day has long gone by when that periodical would open its columns for any critic to effuse through them such spleen of a malignant soul. The " late remorse of love" has made amends to the fame of the poet, and if the cheap flatteries of poste rity atone anything for the wrongs endured in life, they have been amply yielded in the " immortals" which now grace the Roman tomb of Keats, and have made another Lycidas of Shelley, who does not " float upon his watery bed without the awed of some melodious tear." are surprising when, in, opposition to this, we find Warton declaring that yQur opinion of Lycidas decides whether you have a " true taste for poetry or not." Bat Boswell's bear could not appreciate Milton. As he con fessed to Beattie, he n ever read him through till he wanted to get words for his dictionary. Of Shakspere's sonnet' he also wrote—" Of the best it can only be said that they ar© not bad." Pope condemned the author of Hamlet as writing in "a is: style of a bad age," and re gretted that he had not 3opied Sackville more! "Rare Ben," too, was indifferent as a critic. Spenser's stanzas "pleased him not, nor biz manner." Shakapere" wanted art, and sometimes sense. Waller saw nothing in Milton but " an old blind school maaster, who had written a dull poem, remarkable for not hing but its length." Milton preferred Cowley to Drydu a. Dryden esteemed Catherine Philips above Sappho; an asked p.ermission from the bard of Paradise Lost to turn that poem into rhyme? It was he, too, who eulogised Lord Halifax as " the greatest genius," and Lo rd Rosccnamon as equal to Ho race or Virgil. But that te were flatteries which should have made the receivers .of them blush. What, how ever, could be expected fx o m a critic who admired that Rymer who tells us that :Le character of Desdemona is below that of any kictien -snaid. Gray thought Voltaire had no genius but for writ ing plays, and scorned the most exquisite productions o f Rousseau. " David El :Lime , " he said, Was an i nfant all his lite, though unhal i pily he was taught to read and write." Obviously, therefore, w 6 en poets begin predicting, and announcing the distributic it of renown, fur their contem poraries, it is not always us that— The name Of poet and the p: rophet is the same. On the contrary, iho most lauded writers 'lava frequently had the In ost short-lived reputatio ns . Pegs Pinder. though trs n slated into many lan g uages, is now decaying in the eut st; and after the eph emeral brilliance of a few seas ,ons' popularity, thousands of names vanish and dissi pate like vapours from the hill. Maccabe gives a g .c , od satirical imitation of one of these exuberant panegyrics, supposed to be a friendly criticism from the Mu, Ord Chronicle:—"Ferdinand Count Schwellinbach.—A tale of the Sclavonic We welcome with delight this new proof of the genius of the author of Baptista, or the Traitor's Grave. It is indeed, an unlooked-for ai :cession to the stores of ro mantic fiction, with wl Lich our literature happily abounds. In it we find th e broad and genial humour of Fielding; the cutting Bare asm of Smollett; and the deep tone of feeling and sentin tent which pervades the works of Sterne; the whole wor [zed up with a power which is only displayed at inters 'his in the splendid fictions of Scott; and a sunny gleami mess which is only seen stream inz over the page or Avon 'a bard!" Exaggerated this may si WM, but I have read as un diluted encomiastics on the i most squalid performances in our own day. Criticism, however, is far more honest than it was fifty years ago, and far more judicious. Good writers may be "cut up, or, which is worse, they may , be neglected, while quacks :may be puffed into an evanes cent renown; but on the w hole, there is a temperate and candid tono in the critical Iterature of the day. After all, however, time is the great judge. Mighty floats of folios, and sb .ning hot-pressed " twelves," qareua quartos, octavos, perpetually , drifting in to oblivion; but the stars cf real light shine with an eternal lustre. Dr. Howard, during t he reign of Georg the Second, collected copies of more than four hundred, editions of Horace. That is the true monument of an author's fame. Meanwhile, however, the critics have g :mat power; they are improv ing their use of it, and it i 3 to be hoped that this branch of literature will rise to tl elevation it deserves to oc cupy. I, for one, since .E began these remarks, have mingled some honey with iny ink, and taken the quill of a dove instead of the stela I pen, so that with this soft quivering pinion, dipped li=t a phial of sweeter solution, use books I review in futuve , shall with more charity be treated ! THE CRITIC REPENTANT. Byron and Wordsworth were harshly used by their reviewers ; but th e y could themselves criticise harshly, end lot us add, unjustly. The latter spent hours with Thomas Roscoe, railing at Campbell, and de scribed the most magnificent lay of Burns as " over rated stuff—miserable insanity, without a thought, with out an image." We all remember how bitterly he was himself assailed by the roaming poet of Newstead Ab bey, who seldom missed the opportunity to aim a blow at the— Clumsy, frowsy poem, called the "Excursion," Writ in a wanner that is my aversion. Or at " the warbling waggoner,' whose rhymes he com pared to the cracking of a ploughman's whip. From the same pen also descended those reckless lashes which galled " Bob Southey,"—" turncoat Southey, that incar nate lie," —epithets with which a poet should never soil his page. Nor did Byron ever display himself more unworthy of his genius than when he spoke of the beau tiful writings of Dean Miltnan, as effusions from " the ox of verse, who ploughs for every line," though he was, perhaps, more correct when he likened the stanzas of Tasso's biographer to " gilded icicles." When, however, the author of Child e H aro ld was in the humour to ut t er a sarcastic thi ng , h e lit t l e cared on whom or what hi s arrows fell, wh e th er on C amp b ell ' s " drouth h i p p o crene," or Wordsw o rth' s " crazed beyond ally hope ;" cr "drunken C o l er i dge, " or " quaint and mouthy Southey ;' or Walter Sava ge L an d or, that " deep-mouthed Bo"' Liam" Byron, also, if he could spit venom on an enem y, was capable of sup er b laudation on a friend—as on Moore— To whom azifiven He won them well an d may he ll wea s r o t n li ' m The lyre and lau re l s of trium long! This miscalled criticism, however aids little the , victory of solid liter a t ure over the concoct i ons o f quackery. It is no le ss r idi culous than that o f the Irishman, who once rev i ewed a poem in word hey was rhymed with sea. lie seriously declared it was a barbarous blunder, or at learnt poet's license a carried beyond the limits of the most extended tolera tion. "For," he concluded, "to justify the rhyme, hay must be supposed to be pronounced kee I" This Milesian critic was probably as wise in nature uninspired, untaught by art," But his gene ration as his brother of the same craft, who tells us that which the Churchill, as a poet, is " drivelling and dull,"—" b Y most offensive instance of criticalwas afforded vulgarity many years ago by the Dublin University Review, which little resembled then the mild and equitable censor now reigning under a similar title in the Irish capital. The reviewer had exhausted his acidulous ink from the book he turned to the author,upon one of Campbell's poems ; he had not another fierce word to say; he had not a point left to attack; a line remaining to dissect. But his yet satisfied. So rancour was not -- cdiently gross to tell his readers that there was no won der Campbell should write ill, since he had " eyes oold tahne_ glassy, like those of a dead haddock." This, never ,es though more directly expressed, was perhaps less malicious than the in sin ' - of a famous London sinnation reviewer,when,after added speaking of Thalaba, he this ungracious sentence •-." Of Mr. Southey himself we know nothing, and we desire to know nothing.' Philosophers pretend to be careless of opinion; but poets, whatever they affect, very seldom are indifferent. Wordsworth professed never to read a criticism on his own works; but Keats, as I have said, perished under the hand of Gifford; Kirk White was blasted by one critique; wounded Racine a single stroke of raillery almost to death; Hawkesworth is said to have died un der the assaults of reviewers, who s warmed like wasps and stung into the sunshine him just as he was emerging of Popularity; Pope writhed under the tortures inflicted by Dennis; and even Newton cut short a friendship of twenty years' duration with one who had uttered an un favourable criticism on some of his works' If, however, some authors have been injured by their reviewers, most owe their reputation to their critics. It re was the Literary Gazette which won a laurel wreath for L. E L, ; it White a name; E. it was Leigh Hunt who rescued John Keats from the as persions of those who wished to tie their heavy reviews to his genius, and sink it into oblivion. And in proportion as . the reviewer is great, does the e xultation of the au thor he praises rise. Sheridan broke into tears of joy when he learned that Byron bad uttered a laudation of his powers. I n s ome i ns t a nces, indeed, the panegyric of the a miably -disposed has been as absurd, though not so contemptible as the detraction of the envious or un kind.d Haelitt, for example, declared that the " Lao -8113in" w as a poem fit only to be read in Elysium. I t i s not easy to determine which i s most injurious to the author,—this unscrupulous rancour, or that inconsi derate partiality ; whether Turner lost more when it was said that his pictures were " mere daubs of yoke of egg," or Rogers, when his compositions were described as superior to those of Coleridge and Shelley. Good poets are often bad critics, and sometimes false, because ' jealous. Anna Seward, —who was herself vain enough to boast that she could translate au ode of Horace while curling her hair,..—tells us that when Darwin had published his " Botanic Garden," in couplets, he never would read blank verse again. Samuel Johnson, ends his review of " Paradise Lost" by -' Saying, that its perusal is rather a duty than a pleasure; he also said that the diction of Lycidas was harsh, and its rythm unpleasing: " he would hang a dog that should read that poem twice." " What then," asked a lady, "must become of me, who can say it by heart?" " Die," replied the Goth, "of a and P e ria, Is suffi ciently ffih e _ surfeit of bad taste." Now the contradictions of genius EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14 5 i 852. THE INCOME-TAX. Those of our contemporaries who must loudly clamour for a graduated income-tax, judiciously evade the trouble of investigating the theory of taxa tion by an incessant appeal to common sense —or, in other words, to the uninstructed popular judgment on a purely scientific question. On the other hand, the actuaries who were examined before the Committee display abundant ingenuity and arithmetical skill, as well as a general indifference to the practical difficul ties. which might result from the adoption of their proposals. Their calculations are unassailable, and their conclusions infallible, on the assumption that they have stated the question correctly. One of the most judicious of their number observes, with con siderable acuteness, that the present impost is unjust so far as it falls partly on income, and partly on pro perty. But the whole of the arguments in favour of graduation are based on the assumption that no distinction whatever ought to be nude between income and capital. The scheme for converting every income into a perpetuity, by taxing only the interest on its assumed marketable worth, is founded on a most arbitrary fiction. As an ordinary rule, men live on their annual receipts, and not on 3 per cent. of their saleable value. There are, of course, exceptions, but all the actuaries in England will fail to persuade any reasonable person that the rare operation of capitalizing a professional income forms the rule of private economy. If, in point of fact, a lawyer, aged 40, with an income of 1,0001. as, year—which would be worth, as Mr. Williams in forms us, seven years' purchase—were considered by himself and his neighbours as the owner of 2001. a year, the State might safely assess him at that suin,in the expectation that it would descend to his children. But, in reality, the income is transitory, and so is the per tentage levied by the tax-gatherer ; nor would the asse ssment be stri c tl y just, even on the assumption which we have suggested. Professional incomes have been a dj usted• with some reference to the wants of the recipi ent, as proportioned t o his education and position ; and assuredly the foundation of au heredi tary estate was never indispen sable necessaries of considered one of the undue greediness when.the century were professional existence. The Popes of thei7th ages or principalities nephewsforthYeir. sons. In England, however, it of created p e perpetual a l a l a c e l c g u i a tspiempaaanot of undue seem, accord . 0 is to ecclesiastical incomes are principally ing to the judgment of some ali the witnesses, that patrimoniesassumption bishop o r that a f for prebendary h t e ll e w d l l e l s e c a e vo n ef d h a4:s i p t s each incumbent.intended tofo un d be fixed on the the full value l for his whichof the own of hislifeprefer ment, interest. Some o t o the a present day would, according to the schpermeeatiens all the actuaries concur, be assessed at not more one-fifteenth or on e -t wen ti et h part of their actual th re venues. venues. It is surpri s i ng th a t gent l emen so competent to calculate individual chances, should have forgotten that a large number of casualties virtually amount to a certainty. The entire income of the Church is a perpetuity, though all existing incumbents may possibly die to-morrow ; yet the witnesses deem it demonstrably just—and some of our contemporaries echo the assertion—that the revenues of the Church, as compared with hereditary property, should be at once increased by a definite and calculable per ten tage. The incomes of the legal profession, being held by a more insecure tenure, will doubtless receive a still larger advantage. The landlord will not find that, on an average of years, he pays less to his soli citor than formerly; but he will have the satisfaction of knowing that he also pays income-tax for the purpose of ensuring the lives both of attorney and counsel. Nor will his steward fail to derive a similar benefit. In former days, two or three per cent. on the rental may, perhaps, have been considered a sufficient remuneration for agency. But new lights have arisen. The rental, being hereditary, is subjected to income-tax; but service, prover bially, is no inheritance, and the steward's place may not be worth three years' purchase. The tax, therefore, is levied, ,in his case, on the interest of three times the annual value, while the employer pays on thirty-four times his yearly revenue. After the expiration of the three years, he must still pay the same or another steward; but he will not the less continue liable to the same disproportionate as sessment. Under such circumstances, one of two results must ensue. Either a general readjustment of salaries and of professional remuneration must take place—or the entire sum paid by the community, in the form of fees and wages, must be proportionally increased by the exact amount which the actuaries and their friends propose to deduct from the tax on precarious incomes. Until this obvious consequence has been explained and justified, theoretical reasoners will concur in that disinclination to change which practical politicians entertain on grounds of fiscal convenience. It is scarcely necessary to add that any diminution of salaries to meet a graduated in come-tax would itself prove that the new-fangled system introduced an anomaly. While the scientific advocates of fiscal inequality are considering this difficulty, we may conveniently turn to the so-cAod olljectione of common sense— one of which is urged by a correspondent of our own, under the appropriate signature of " Ignoramus," aho prefaces his remarks with the candid admission, "I am very ignorant." We have no doubt that " Ignoramus" at least understands his own affairs too well to have engaged in the ruinous transaction which he has thought fit to convert from an hypothesis into a narrative. It will be observed that the bargain which he describes was made "a short time since " at a period, therefore, when the income-tax had ex isted for ten years, and was likely to continue for ten years m ore . We can assure " Ignoramus " that, although eminent actuaries may have forgotten so trifling a consideration, no purchaser of any security can be affected by an impost, however unjust origi nally, which existed at the time of the contract. Our correspondent, on his own showing, deliberately incurred the loss of which he complains. If there were an income-tax of 50 per cent. on short annuities, a purchaser, with notice of the burden , could be in "Ignoramus" states no way injured o r aggrieved. his case thus : " 90/. per annum, dividend on 3,0001. Three per Cent. Consols,jias been my income hitherto, exempt from tax. A short time since a friend, on the eve of his departure from England, had immediate occasion for 3,0001. I sold my stock ; lent him the money at the same rate of interest that it yielded in Consols (3 per cent.), he giving me a charge upon his estate. I was to be repaid in three years,l,oool. in each year. In the ordinary way the money would have come back to me thus :—End of Ist year 1,0001., with interest on 3,000/..... 1,0901. 2d „ 1,0001., ~ 2,000/..... 1,060/. 31 „ 1,000/. 5 1,0001..... 1,0301. In all 3,1801. By re-investing in Consols 1,0001. of the first receipt, the dividend thereon, added to 601. of the second, retained as income, would leave 1,0001. again to re invest; and the dividend on the 2,0001., added to 301. of the third, would leave another 1,0001., which, re invested, would replace me as I was before ; I i n eac h year having had the same income, 90/. " But, to meet the convenience of my friend, I agreed to take a charge on his estate entitli ng me to receive 1,0601. in each of the three ye ars , amounting in the aggregate to the same sum of 3,180/. A nd I now find myself in this position :---If the income tax is continued at its present ra t e, and is ma de to apply, as it now doesa,orateo of fmporary as to your t h perpetual annuities, as corres pondents contend that it ought, have now an annuity f or threeyears eonf, 1,0601.1 per annum, not exempt from tax. I shall be taxed on 3,1801., in the three years—viz., 921. 155., besides on the dividends on the first two investments, making . i more than 90/.—M thsre l e all more than 95/. ; and o this tax of 95/. f a ll s ycaenarnsot27toar_oasnin in comewhich with a weight exceeding 35 per cent., I mu s t, th erefore, either li mit my expenditu re to 551. p er annum, or I must cutinto the P lace That such a transactio n should have taken P during the existence ~ _we of the income-taxis, is, as have inconve nience practical) • *bl The utmost y impossi e. first impos which could arise, except a t the ent of bar tion of the tax, would be the d iscouragem ent of indeed, gains in the particular form suPPose a principal." ac tual law, if pro be doubted whether, even under t h ewould have been perly enforced, the capital i:luainced. But if the law liable to duty to it Was r r e s ' inas " were interpreted as g assumes, the in convenienceould only be attributable to the unavoidable of the res ult"lgweneral terms. When Par liamentctuahsxe on annuities, it is not on the incomes are mere instalments of supposition im ptohsaets such of an estate is paid a debt. it is • of in one, evidently in three annual sums, instead impost.The case suggested by our not liable to the . . If the pu rchase - money is of a similar kind ; and a puzzle will to the precise boundary line between a lwa y s Thirty or twenty years ago income and p roperty. correspondent nr as the Government Long Annuities were universally treated as income ; and when the income-tax was im posed in 1842, by far the greater part of that Stock was held under the same character. No holder who has purchased since that year has a right to complain of a tax which must have been taken into accou n t i n his bargain. But, in 1852, the Long A nnu i t i es which will expire in 1860 have naturally come to be treated only as a matter of speculation, or, in other words, as capital. The purchaser at the present time intends to re-invest his re ceipts, after deducting the ordinary rate of interest— in other words, he is practically acquiring a per petuity ; and so long as a belief in the permanence of the present income-tax prevails in the market, he may , effect this object on as advantageous terms as if the impost had never been devised. A respected cor respondent, who signed himself " A C ap i talist, " will, we are convinced, not dispute this qualification of the conclusions at which he arrived on the assumption of a new tax being about to be imposed. A s a general THE EMPIR=E IN FRANCE The following petition of the fathers of families and labourers, for the re-estnblishment of the Empire, is now being circulated for signature among the lowest classes in Paris : " Messieurs les &matters,— " 1. Considering that in. a country like ours—that in France (no matter what thi3 constitution may be) all in terests are necessarily plsesd under the influence, and, moreover, under the truly' sovereign influence, of the person who is the Chief of the State; " Considering, c onsequetitly, that as to who is or is not Chief of the State ought not to be made a periodi cal question—no matter w.hether there be 10, 15, or 20 years between such periocla.—unless, indeed, the interests of the country are at such epochs to be periodically and fatally affected, simply by the doubt and uncertai n ty which weigh upon them, since they cannot foresee what kind of a future the new Chief of the State will prepare for them; "2. Considering that a father of a family, under a presidency of 10, 15, or 2 0 years, cannot possibly know ender what political conjo :natures will provide for the marriage of the son or the daughter that just now he fondles on his knee; " Considering, conseqtw.ntly, that a presidency of 10, 15, or 20 years cannot possibly altogether and justly satisfy the loftiest and sweetest sentiments of paternal snd conjugal love; " And that, were it otherwise, the births ought in a very peculiar manner to evrespond to the peculiar exi gencies of this periodical renovation of the executive power; " 3. Considering, likewise, that under a presidency 01 10, 15, or 20 years the industrious and provident work• man is equally troubled ia his prudence, in his love 01 labour. by the unpsrtaintv in Which, under au unstable Government, he finds the, political conditions which ought at some future day to promote him from the po sitton of a labourer to that of an employer; " Considering that uude;r such institutions the savings of the workman, for the purpose of at a future time em ploying labour, can only commence at certain stated pe riods in which the sovereigu power changes hands—who, then, could think of founding an establishment, or un dertaking any other responsibility within the period of the two or three years which precede the election of the Chief of the State? " 4. Considering, then, that to stake the person of the Chief of the State upon the chances of a periodical eke tion is as much as to say that a father of a family shall never be happy and safe, and looking at, and providing for, the future of that family; that he shall not enjoy the love of his children; and that the provident labourer shall not be confident and .happy in his love of labour and his legitimate ambition to become an employer of labour; " But, considering, above all things, that our genera tion would violate all the duties it owes to succeeding generations, it, enamoured of anarchy in its comer's, it were not, with all dispatch, to create an established state of things for the future—if it allowed our political in stitutions to tend to individualise the principle of re sistance—since there is no length of life of individuals or generations—and, least of all, ours, which can succeed in drying up to its source the principle of evil and of evil passions; " 5. Listly, Messieurs les Senateurs, considering, on the other hand, that experience has already proved that the generous self-denial of tho Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, who desired to remain President for ten years in order the more fully to propitiate the reconciliation of parties, has produced exactly the reverse of the effect which the heir of the Emperor in his ardent love for the country desired; " Considering that the old parties do all they can to trouble all existing interests with their hopes, because under the present institutions these hopes may indeed, at certain periods, make a legal appearance before the country; " Considering that these hopes would not, of course, dare to cling to institutions which would not allow them to persuade the people of their future legality; " And to believe the contrary is to overlook altogether the economical position, and the state of the finances of the chiefs of the old parties, as well as their well-known prudence; " Considering that, by a strange mixture of ingrati tude and blindness, the old parties, abusing the great and noble disinterestedness of the Prince Louis Napo leon, turn the same into weapons of discord and con fusion ; _ _ "6. Considering, in one word, that the present can not be tranquil, which means that it cannot be fit for business, labour, and trade, so long as the political future remains doubtful, and that the political future must always remain doubtful so long as the person of the Chief of the State, under whose interest are, necessarily, all the great moral and material interests of the conntry, remains exposed, though merely in theory, to the chances of an election; " 7. Considering, moreover, that hereditary power in France will, for the future, have no other support than the people's love and its twice, and so grandly within fifty years, merited gratitude to the family of the Emperor; " Messieurs les Ssnateurs, " That the father of a family may be at ease as to the future of his children, and remain untroubled by the uncertainties of our political future; that industrious and intelligent labourers may not suffer from the same un certainty in the legitimate hops of providing for their old days, for themselves and their families, the just re ward of their labour and their frugality; " For this purpose have the undersigned, confiding in your high wisdom and Providence, the honour most re spectfully to pray that you will make use of the right which tho existing Constitution confers upon you, for the interest of the future of the country, in order to re establish political authority on its truly national end popular basis—the only one which suits our age—viz., hereditary tenure of Sovereign power in the family of Bonaparte. GREAT CALIFORNIAN LINE OF TELEGRAPH.--The route selected for this telegraph, extending over 2,400 miles, t as stated by the committee on th e measure in their report o t the Senate of the United St a t es, w i ll commence at becityof Natchez. in the state of Mississippi,_junction of running through n orthern Texas to El Paso on th e Rio Grande, thence to the unction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, crossing at the bead of the Gulf of California to San Diego on the Pacific, and then skirt ing the coast to Monterey and San Francisco. The committee report, that if this line of wires be established, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans will, for commercial communications, become as it were as one ; and that intelligence will be conveyed from London to California and India in ashorter time than was re quired ten years since to transmit a letter from Liverpool to New Y or k, DEATH OF THE LAST SURVIVOR OF KEPPEL'S Acrum—Mr. D. F. Hainsselin, father o f Mr. D. Hainsselin, auctioneer of Devonport, died on t he 3d instant, aged 92 years. Air. Hainsselin was supposed to be the last survivor of lieppel's action. He was also at the celebrated relief of Gibraltar at the taking of St. Ens t atia a nd other We :.t In dia islands, in the Monarch, which led the van in Rodney's action ; in the skirmish with the French fleet off Plymouth ; and in the Royal George, on the 29th of May and Ist of June, for the two latter of which he had the medal with two bara......4mouth Journal. ! rule, it may be said that the tax on income ought not to be levied on property. Short annuities, pur chased Without notice of the tax, may perhaps belong rather to the bead of capital than to that of revenue ; but life annuities, on the other hand, and those whic h may be exp ec t e d to last during the life of the snout tent, belong to the bead of income. If the Legisla ture has failed to distinguish between these different forms of investment, it is at least satisfactory to know that the lapse of ten or eleven years, during which purchases and sales have been made with reference to the income-tax, has gone far to correct the anomaly. —Chronicle. TENANT RIGHT" QUESTION: The Irish malcontents having wound up the ques tion of " tenant-right" with a dinner, and Mr. G. H. Moore having gulped down his scruples with his wine, they have now addressed themselves to the twin subject, " religious equality." The dozen P. P.'s who rendered such energetic assistance at the meet ings of the " League " have their own purpose to answer, and, as one good turn deserves another, they appear to be very well supported by their Par liamentery aliies. The two agitations are to proceed together, and doubtless the same office, the same staff, the same newspapers, the same materiel, and the same figurehead, in the person of Mr. G. H Moore, will do equally well for both of them. For the Ratnan Catholic tenantry it will be very delightful to reflect that by a moderate subscription, equivalent to an insurance, they are' delivering their land from rent, tithes, and Protestantism at the same time; so the double object will be likely enough to extract some of those sovereigns which have lately stuck with such an invincible attraction of gravity to the bottom of the Irish farmer's pocket. Really, too, if the Peasantry can be persuaded that both objects are feasible, and that landlords and parsons can both be banished from the Emerald Isle, the fearful drain of emigration, which la playing such sad work with chapel fees, may possibly be stopped. Something, it is evident, must be done. The Roman Catholic clergy, and, indeed, their lay colleagues in agitation, have no taste for accompanying their flocks across the Atlantic to a land of real religious as well as civil equality. Excepting by a few young men from Maynootb, the Church is hardly represented in an Exodus amounting now to near a thousand a day, and the clergy that remain, it is evident, must find themselves reduced to shorter commons day by day. So what is to be done? Necessity suggests dire ex pedients, . and disagreeable alliances. I t w i ll even overcome the sense of decency, and what is more, common sense. _ _ Religious equality ? That is the fair pretence as sumed by seventeen devoted Parliamentary adherents of the Ch urc h o f Rome, and a crowd of its clergy. The word is positive treason and heresy in every R there ever b e b e t ween th e m i n ister, the parson, and the p r i est, between the Methodist preac h er, the Arch bishop an o f ome isf Canterbury, ound the e a d n o d n th Pope. ecl aim of exclusive minion. T hat claim is never dropped, and nowhere is it advanced w i th so little modesty or reserve as in the le m ry missives or f wa r r o ac m hn yd . S Rt t h . eel J ni g a di r oi l s a uc t sh b e , agrug a a n e id d i t fromy o i t s h t e h r teh v fl e e e cr r ye y l l s e lastpo tf i s h t it l nh e ge s The h e whole sys temo- of Rome these men desire. Religious equality is an equality cf other things besides privilege and pay. It would involve the same checks, generally wholesome, but in some respects painfully oppressive, that reduce the Church of England t o it a present harmless and even tenour ; unless, indeed, which we do not yet bear, these agitators would ask to release the Established Church from its present political restraints. If it be the religious equality of America which is asked for, by all means let it be stated. Then we shall know what we have to deal with ; but we shall wonder all the more that the Roman Catholic clergy manifest so decided a repugnance to America, and prefer starvation and empty chapels at home, to large and well-fed flocks, with religious equality, across the Atlantic. There is many an object, however, which it answers to follow, though it is worthless when caught. Among the many thousands who daily hunt foxes in this island, there are few who would either swallow a mouthful of their prey, or wish thei.e to be one less fox in the land. Religious equality is the rank, worthless vermin, which these political sports men hunt for the pleasure of hunting, with the inten tion of throwing it to the dogs, should they ever be so fortunate as to catch it. If Roman Catholics really like religious equality, why do they not show theirprinciple at work, where they have all their own way ? There can be no doubt that at Rome they might exhibit a spectacle that would edify the whole Christian world, by allowing to every other communion, including the Latter-Day Saints, a perfect equality of privilege. As it is, we all know that if the Archbishop of Can terbury went to Rome, when Sunday morning came he would have to go out of the city gates, and ascend a loft over a large pigsty, in order to worship God after the light of his conscience and the manner of his fathers. Now, what religious equality is there between St. Peter's protected by ten thousand French soldier:, and the upper floor of a building of which the principal floor is occupied, as we believe, by pigs ? Give the English permission, and they will raise 20,0001. tomorrow to build a suitable church for themselves in a city to the resources of which they contribute so greatly. But no. Religious equality is Absolutely inconsistent with Papal pretensions. In Ireland, however, that hunting•ground of party, it may be convenient to pursue this game for a time, particularly if a few English Dissenters can he found simpletons enough to join in the cry. If they do, they will certainly deserve what they will never:get,— to experience the tender mercies of a Church which bas never tolerated a rival a moment longer than it was obliged to do so. That the demand of "religious equality" is quite unnecessary is evident from a glance at any of our large populations. The rival commu nions of the country stand on level ground in such places as Manchester, Liverpool, Belfast, or Cork. Nay, with regard to the mass of the population, they c h i a p v l e e . n o I r n e a l thisre g s o r u e r a c t e m except l s i n t h t e h r e e a v r o e l u h n u t a n r a y r e p d r s i n o - f thousands who never enter a church, and who r. at tached to it by no tie o f a ff ection or circumstances eSqoufaalrityasbtehtewyeeanreacllonthceerenoenid ni th u e no re it is p fr s e u a l religious i n o e u s: Cardinal Wiseman, Mr. Baptist Noel, and the last new fanatic have an equa l chance with , them ; except, indeed, that the p oorest and the least educated mis sionary will probably find some prejudice in his favour in the hearts of th e ignorant andpoor.—Times. AUG. 2C6._ANsinAceDA..as wrote, ____ Par liament of Canada has been oec i up l ied t QUEBEC, l to the Governor's address. There is little in it which _ affords food for either cavil or oratory; but leaders of parties must throw nistry apropos of . tie "reply" has at and something, least immemorial usage in its favour. w i th thet.h errpz Thus we have had Mr. M‘lienzi e , Mr. Brown , Mr. Bo ulton, Sir Allan M`Nab, and o thers pouring floods of eloquence, by his own ac signs. Mr. ilincks who,inister of the Crown as Earl and enlightening the country a s to their future de count, is " as much a k proper to allude to the failure Derby," has thought of the Halifax E D limentary to the British railroad negotiation in terms by no means . approving the Inspector-General, have indulged in a loyal indignation. The reply will, however, Cabinet; at th i s Tories, though at heart burst of worth noticing, except, perhaps, Mr. the speec hes t that, whatever difference might be carrie d without a division. There is nothing in Mori's hereafter exist in the respecti ve populations of the t w o provinces ( and the last census tells how rapidl y Upper Canada is gaining on its eastern sister), the that F ren ch Canadians would never consent to a ch ange in the law which allots to each province an eq ua l n umber of representatives in Parliament. The supporters of the Mi n i s t r y b e li eve they have more H ou than se a co w nt o a r i k n in s agbmouatjo3rsityilin ia It isestimated at the Eng lish Conservatives, 7 French Conservatives, 5 Rouges, or Annexationists, and 14 Clear Grits. But the dis tinctions of parties have been so altered of late,th I should not place much reliance on this classifica tio n. a Besides the subjects of legislation Wh.h have l to alluded in my recent letter as being likely whic h the attention of the House, the Cora- . to occupy Rail roads, will have its hands full. __ Committee on No less than twenty applications for charters have been received ; th e strife of rival interests and r Ines will doubtless give birth to much angry debate. The Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway is to be opened to Sherbrooke on the 11th instant. Lord Elgin has consented to be present at the inauguration. Your American correspondents will have furnished you with full accounts of the loss of the Atlantic steamer on Lake Erie, on the 19th instant. Upwards of two hundred poor fellows, N o rwegian emigrants, whose cleanliness and robust appearance when they left our wharfs, had contrasted favourably with the destitute haggard aspect of the Irish and Highland settlers, perished in the waves. The recklessness of the Captains of steamers and conductors of railways i n the States is becoming proverbial. Notwithstanding the gloomy prophecies of the agricultural sages, the crops in Lower Canada a re promising. The fly has spared a portion of the wheat, and the potato-rot is far from being ge neral. Ir y will be plentiful and cheap. The oats and barley look well ; the orchards never ing wore a more encourag aspect.— Chronicle. PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE PEEBLES LIMP — We understand that measures are in progress to carry out the Peebles branch so far as In_ 1\ uerleithen. This portion of rail way was surveyed by the orth British Company in 1845, as a continuation to the westward of their Hawick branch. W e believe that the Innerleithen branch will be a single line, like the Peebles, and will be formed upon the principle of econo mical construction now so generally approved. We under* s tand that the costis not likely to exceed 4,5L0/. Ails, ScottiA,Railway GRette. be to er ito a tit 03e' ° o ;we ° 11 3 ot I boa, 16,/6 le 01 6 0 ' 1 oo lbo t 'lra; a det 0 b e Od d°, rat& rir gi' OW Teal P er• o 0 ; sea tber e of r of t to 0 iv the to risi tl lB Pr