The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-01 00:00:00

tio dl aral quakity was firat.rate. Doalere in general ope rated cauti ous l y, and the Mutton trade was v.ry inac u the at Unaltered currencies. The primest old Downs, in a wool, sold at 4! 21 to 4s 4d; out of the wool. 3e 64 .r.? 3581 per 8163. About 4 . 000 sh e arli ngs wer e on offer. For Lambs we had a very slow inquiry at late rateF, fair 4s 8d to 53 per Sibs. Prime small Calves were in request at last week's prices. 0 Werwise the Veal trade ruled heavy. In Pigs, the supply of which was tolerably good, very little was doing .4t our quotations.; Per Blbs. to strikthe offal. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d Bem lare rlOr Beast S... .2 2 2 4 Inferior G hee, •• 210 3 Pri rn — t d , (llla litY •• :• 2 6 210 . Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8 trge Oxen.. 3 0 8 2 Coarse-NT - soiled ditto 3 10 4 0 Lag eO4l •• ••• 3 4 3 Scuthdown Nether 4 2 4 4 ac coarse Calves 3 4 310 Ditto out of the wool° 0 0 0 I neirnall ditto .. 4 0 4 4 Large dogs •••• •• 2 6 3 6 Baokllnr Calves •.18 0 23 0 Small Porkers •• 3 8 310 ••••• • •• 0 0 0 0 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. I Craves. I Pies. 4.144 20,870 141 I 350 FOREIGN SUrPLY. Beasts. I . Sheep. 1 c Alves. I Pigs. 363 570 115 A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices o Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, March 3, 1851, and this day, Monday, March 1 ,1861. - Per Blbs., to sink the dials. March ;,, 1851. Mar. 1, 1852. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... ... 2 6to 2 8 2 2to 2 4 S econd quality ditto .........2 10 3 0 2 6 210 ,rirne large Oxen .. .:. ... 3 2 34 3 0 3 2 •,,L rime Scots, a c.............. 3 6 3 8 3 4 3 6 C oarse and inferior Sheep... ... 3 6 3 82 10 3 0 P rime quality ditto ... ... ... 3 11) 4 0 3 2 3 8 r rime coarse-woolled ditto ... 4 2 4 43 10 4 0 "'dole Southdown ditto ......4 4 4 6 4 '2 4 4 Lambs... .., ... ... „. ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves ... ... .. 3 4 3 8 3 4 310 rrime small ditto ' ... ... ... 310 4 0 4 0 4 4 Large Hogs .. ,•• .. 3 0 3 6 2 6 3 6 Small ••• Porkers • • •• • 3 8 4 0 3 8 310 ••• ••. ••• Beasts „. ... ... ... ... 3,347 4,144 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 18,780 20,870 Calves ... .. ••• ••• "' 3 11 5 5 0 6 141 Pigs - • • 350 • •• •• - • • SUPPLIES ON SALE, Dimwit 4, 1850. Beasts, 3,352 ; Sheep and Lambs, 19.300 ; Calves, 106 ; Pigs, 192 . MARCH 5, 1849. Beasts, 3,257 ; Sheep and Lambs, 15,¢20; Calves, 178 ; Pigs, 170. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALZ. Since our last report very moderate supplies of Meat bare been on sale here killed in the metropolis ; but th e l irnyttla from the provinces have been large, viz., up• Wards of 10,000 carcasses, chiefly from the NV, stern LILA Midland counties. Generally speaking, the demand is a sluggish state, and last week's prices are barely supported. At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. —•• Inferior...". 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior • • middling ••• • 2 4 2 6 -- middling • • PriMelarge .. 2 8 210 -- prime •• • • Prime small .. 3 0 3 2 , Pork, al •••• • • • • ..."• • ..... ••• • .. 4 4 2 --- sml •••• • • • • ■, d. to s. d. 2 6 2 10 30 3 4 36 3 8 2 4 2 10 30 8 8 BOROUGH AND SPITAXXXELDS. The arrivals of Potatoes, coastwise, since our last re port have amounted to about 2,000 tons. By railway . 50 0 teas h ave reac h e d us. It is a general subject of remark that the supplies never came to hand in better „,, ition than during the past month. A full average 'llees is doing, at about stationary prices. to r k Per Ton. bi t , 8 ". Regents. 60s to 80s Wisbeacb &Cam ' L 'o Shims „ to s bridge - i7 141 - 'Regents 60s to 708 Kent Regents.— 60s to 75s Ditto c h Regents.. 608 to 70s Essex Regents 6os to 75s itto bitt P s ° iiines co to Dahlias ... —s to —s Kent &Essx.Blid. —s to —s ki ninl en Whites. —a to —8 French —s to s ewesstle&Ber- German ditto • Viet, D —„ Lenta.. 55s to 703 Dutch Whites .., —a to —s wall Red o Kid. —a to —s Chats ... —s to s BOROUGH HOP IVLIELXILET. I s Ft u e Hops of last year's growth—the show of which prterY limited—are in steady request, at fully last week's B u ce N All low and middling kinds supported late rates. 12t 5 sX pockets, 112 s to 1265; Weald of Kent ditto, u 8 to 1455; Mid and East Kent ditto, 140 s to 2501. The . WOOL. B it Public sales of Wool were brought to a close on 14, 1 11 „ 41 aY , evening. The quantity of Colonial disposed 41:ting their progress was 17.627 bales, viz., 7,446 L an loYdney, 3,176 Port Philip, 1,676 Van Diemen's 776 Adelaide, and 4,563 Cape. In addition to vr e o 7 quantities, 649 bales East India, and 2,890 Foreign v an r e °ffered, and mostly sold—fine qualities at an ad (); to the prices compared with those obtai n ed last tober of ld per lb; whilst the value of all other kinds spr i ,.. W ell supported. Throughout the biddings were f l rd, and a fair quantity was taken for shipment to 4,1' 443 . In the private contract market the demand is means active, nevertheless holders are very firm as e : te tY instance. Last week's imports into London ere .318 bales from Odessa, 73 from the C =pie, 12 from 4.„ 11°1 . 100 from Alexandria, 43 from Hamburgh, and 8 Antwerp. • Alth TALLOW. th ough the deliveries ut Tallow are very moderate, .etaand bas become somewhat intctive, and prices a re fro 131 T o . d ffd to 9d per cwt higher than on Monday last. De r 11 3 1 P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 36 s to 361 3d ewt. Town Tallow, 36s 3d per cwt nercaah; rough 28 °id per 81bs. Per Ton. 1848. 1849. 1850. lB5l. 1852. kt.a.,.: ~.....---- -- ...11 day ...... 10.243 40,2.3 3R,113 41, 1 245 51,226 s cri beu4.:f y . C. .. f t",s, `',.,', to 4 "0:11dd 4° 3 31 s69dd 3 3 7L9d d to t0 36 3 8 ,5 0 3 d d -,rYlast week d• 1,249 2,278 1,915 1,576 2,G41 A t i,l. , rorn June 1.... 83,244 81,070 74,754 16,025 85,591 pi th : l l l s last week . 1,102 9.3 231 1,122 1 ....' ,1 '01:n June 1 ... 85,366 103,773 87,756 91,692 100,286 -(441 5 Town ...... 50s Od 43s 02 3886 d 39s 61 38s 92 CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) It having' been announced that Lord St. Leonard's o o tdd take his seat as L o rd Ch a nc e llor this morning, the °4ll at Lincoln's Inn presented, very soon alter eleven ek ck, an appearance most unusually bustling. The t t i lQioua hall was crowded in every available corner, and k i? a PProaches to the court were also filed wi th a strug rhlnt crowd, - who were unable to get beyond the "%hold of the court at the farthest. The attendance of th e •f ro gentlemen of the Bar was also numerous, though th a ' 3 ine defect in the ,arrangements, against which .thl loudly exclaimed, many of them were mixed up in Ni:,-getteral crowd, the various swayings to and fro of 13 ,`°Q produ ce d suc h unce r e monious collisions as sent hf: c loud of powder dense enough at times almost to a el lre the gaze. At twelve o'clock his Lordship made ,)4 4 , 4 ,PPearance, accompanied by the Lords Justices, the Ita il V r of the Rolls, and the Vice-Chancellors. The Aad", °l %. th 'was administered by the Master of the Rolls, 11 ° la Lordship, having bowed to the Bar, proceeded e 'd,iately to hear appeals. ot4. business of importance was brought before the Court s . di", • _ _ , trAIC: 4I „, , OF THE DIORAMA. OF THE OVERLAND °Pee . - S hia beautiful piece of work and highly prosperous ter ' l4t hrt was brought to a close on Saturday last. At the 4, dres ati a,_ 11 of the alternoon lecture, Mr. Stocqueler ad. at i ,teta or re, audience, stating briefly the success which had -uee s u - ,tne enterprise, and calling attention to the future. Gri e - ,•e_g that the original intention of the artiste, Messrs. k e 'ee kelbin, and Absolon, was to illustrate some of the pees't Interesting branches of literature-travels, history, 10e.,,7 , romance; that in seeking for a fitting subject, the re tell ared Route to India, associated as it was with so many br a ritle, eommercial, and political interestw, and . ern enee,u,g so many scenes of varied beauty, suggested itself ; beee'ne result has justified its adoption. The diorama had i t z l i i exhibited upwards of 1,600 times, and had been seen by to the millioneoersons, embracing all classes, from theeprinee and n e l f ed to takt up lin e P eua bbiStocqueler added, that it was now -another branch of literature -history ; is the mem-eloTacblso-not• one came so powerfully recommended 1 the Dube of Welrilt l embraced in the military career of soldier, the connexion- subsisting character of the illustrious and the hattoury glory, en between his achievements 'Britain, and the peace of the whole prosperity of Great 'Subject an overpowering interest,e world, imparted to the even,en. illustration of those achievements a diorama upon open a ed lar o g er scale than that of the Overland Route would be Easter Monday, of it was the ardent hope of the artists t ha t their treatment ert:erus ed that the Le the the me would be found cornme n qu e , n i rate with its deep the expirieio -1 t o i r a t h r 13-P n rtance. In conclusion, Mr g To w c bich t r oral, the unexampled patrona lie l te a had enjoyed would be extended to y c uminle bon g e eei if it were found worthy of such countenance, electors, P Itil -TIJEN OF BOROUGH MEMBERS FREE of E. Ex o. 'rea r -On Saturday, at the meeting of th e f or , Y, two separate memorial,, one from inhabitants of 0 2 . 4. ste ee asking there to grant the use w ere t, and another signed by a large body of of tu_Presented to the vestry, ee l i nurt-house for a public Meeting, to adopt measures to eeco ems return of Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, on which they represented th e 1 1 _11t of the satisfactory wayAiinr Whitmore moved that the 14 ' r nuelt, free of expense. l et Prayer of the memorialists be gr.anted. He had pleasure r ee „ e k u.ng this opportunity of expressing his hearty concur hte" In the political views and opinions of the Honoui able treedlllbers of this borough ; but, irrespective of his . ilections, he was glad of the opportunity of giving h e unible peli f ti b ea s l suPport to the memorials, tor the simple reason like el_eonceived a great, influential, and important borough ~ ;717Ylebone ought to take the initiative in a proceeding th a t appeared to him the best way of putting an end ! 0 , i Stein of bribery and corruption which so extensively 1 4t . ' b in other places, and of which the country bad of lit e : ,44 such lamentable evidence.-Mr. George Mallalue, eitr. eae Ineu - t George, and Mr. Nicholay supported the mo n, Which was carried unanimously. I,444.LLEGED MURDER BY A PUGILIST.—An inquiry boa d lea on Saturday_ by Mr. Bedford, the coroner, in the fl e . „ . " -r noln of the Westminster Hospital, on the body ,of tl le - Winfield, aged 42, who was reported to have died from by . Y iolenee of " Bill Stebbings," the pugilist. It appeared ethdle testimony of the husband of the deceased, and many heier Wife witnesses, that on Saturday week last Winfield_ and ht Westminster, Stebbins at the end of York-terrace,. York tayV, w estminster, and the former asked him if he could b le gs ' lll a portion of the money that was due to him ? 6 he,,_ r u eplied he would give him a shilling if he would t h e to . 14° se in Castle-lane, e hich is close to Elliot 's brewery.g he le wall objected to by Winfield, and his wife went while beekaited for er return. n about 2 minutes she came hoe-llnd said that Stebbing I s, having taken her beyond t he . e o le, thr ew h er on her back on the ground. The deceas ed d oa eZI became very ill from pain in the head and back, an Pitei , Il daY night she was t a ken to the Westminster Hos e° Where she died on Tuesday night. The surgeon found erre:l l4 : l m of external violence, but there was great or ti4 ; ll on the brain, but whether caused by violence, a fall, t'Pee 'Oral causes, he could not tell. The jury returned an br e i e ' r erdiet. 6' That the deceased died from effu'ion on the ~ . 1 ; 41 , but whether caused by violence they had no evidenc . e. ' 0 ra Retitle L COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following, alt.. I nert were admitted members of the college on the 27th lieei7-tlessrs. J. P. Julian, Little Blakenbam, Suffolk ; E. chi s e t tt e Dorchester J. P. W iltonGleucester ; J. K. Welch, Mee re eu n,reh, Hants; J. Pring, Bristol; E. he Fitz-Henry, 1 1 11411 , i i , °° ,,;,; S. H. Libley, Great Ormond-street ; B. G. leor -wPrke't:wenb Heath, Lancashire; E. J. eliles, Gillingham,. Zah er y• Lumsdaine, Hon. East India Comp* s Service ; 'Nort e "sop, Cheltenham ; .R. Beales, Leicester ; and J. heesern, l ienuiugton. At the same meeting of the Court at e ev s e,li• Gimlete and C. livberts passed their examinations ...4 surge on& \ , +"'t g Tun AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY ._kFTEENOON. By th? Royal Mail veam• ship Europ- C,ptain Lott, which arrived in the Mersey at 1 45 P.M. to day, we have advices from Nt.vv York by telegraph to the 18th inst. She brings 208,000 dolls. on freight. The steam. ship Pacific arrived at New- York on the 12th, and the Canada on the 18th, buth from Liverpool. The steamer Arctic was passed on the 27th inst. The screw-steamer City of Manchester sailed from Philadelphia on the 14th for Liverpool with 40,000 dolls. in specie on freight. Upwards of 1,000,000 dolls. had been received at New York by the steam-ship El Dorado. _ . The steam-ship California left San Francisco on the 17th ult. with 1,400,443 dolls. in specie on freight. A conducts left the city of Mexico: for Vera Cruz on the 20th ult. with 2,000,000 dolly. on freig ht. The New York money-Market was active. The stock market wag depressed• Exchange on London, 110 to 1101. Cotton was in good demand at steady prices. Sales on the 17th, 3,800 bales. Bread-stuffs firm, and in good demand ; Indian corn dull. Provisions without change. Iron dull. Freights to London at firm rates. The failure of Carleton and Co., dry goods jobbers, of N-w York, is announced ; their liabilities are 700,000 dolls., and assets 140 000 dolls. Much indignation was manifested at Mobile while Cneva ier Hulsenian, the Austria❑ Charg(l, was there; he was " charivariee at his hotel by a large crowd, conriging mostly of Germans. From California we have advioes to the 21st of January. The weather was fine, and both miners and farmers were in good spirits. The late rains and high waters had caused a cessation of mining in the riverF, but increased operations had taken place on the high land dry diggings, from which immense quantities of gold were being washed. Quartz mining was progressing favourably. Several valu able silver mines had been discovered on the western boundary of Chihua, and on the eastern boundary of Sonora. Business in San Francisco was generally satisfactory. Exchange on London, 43, at 60 days' sight. Money was plentiful and obtainable on lower terms. No change worthy of notice in dry goods. The stock of all descriptions of hardware heavy, and the demand limited. The market was glutted with French and Malaga wines. Colonel Fremont's title to the Mariposa gold estate was resisted. The United States troops, wbo -created so much disorder at Kingston, had been prevented from landing at Chagres. A difficulty occurred at Leon, on the 29th ult., be tween the Government party and the Pichenginos, which resulted fatally to the latter. The Government were impressing citizens and mariners into their service. One-third of the moat populous section of San Juan de Nicaragua had been destroyed by fire on the 4th inst. ; but assistance was rendered by her Majesty's ship Express. The Calypso left San Juan on the 31st ult., and the Sarance on the 23d ult. The Supreme Government of the State of Hon duras had issued a decree relative to the occupation of the Rio Romano by Sir James Green in her Ma jesty's ship Bermuda. The decree declares such pro ceedings outrageous and unlawful, and authorised the punishment of the aggressors. Jamaica advices to the 10th inst. are unimportant. (LATEST BY TELEGRAPII.) The following cotton statement from New York to the 18th inst. was received by electric telegraph at Halifax on the 19th : "Receipts, 1852, 1.563 565 bales; ditto,lBsl, 1,446,434 bales; increase, 117.131 bales. Receir s to Great Britain, 1852, 525.820 oaks; ditto, 1851, 442,155 bales; in crease, 83.665 bales. Total exports to foreign ports, 1852, 826,718 bales; ditto, 1851, 73 3 , 964 bales; in cr.-at,e, I 2,754 bal es . Stocks on hand and on s hi pboa rd, 1852, 533,731 bales; ditto, 1851, 658,256 bales; de crease, 124,525 bales." Cotton is quoted to-day at 710. to 7ic, for mid dling, and Bic. fur fair. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE . Arrived at New York—The Pacific and Canada steamers from Liverpool, Louisa Bliss from Newport, Statira Morse from Glasgow, Robert A. Lewis from Cardiff, A, Z. Henry Gardner and Isaac Webb from Liverpool. Arrived at New Orleans—The Marion from Glasgow, Arab from Bristol, Parthenon from Newport, Minne sota from Havre, Glen from Cardiff; Rome, Diadem, and Patrick Henry, from London; Hope, from Oregon; Augustus, Arabella, Maria, Hyperion, and Charlotte, from Manchester; Warbler from California, and Henry Gardner and Olive from Liverpool. Arrived at Charlestown—The Haabes and Abraham Young from Liverpool. Arrived at Boston—The Howard from Liverpool. Arrived at Philadelphia—The Saranak, Hero, Venice, and Jamcs Pennell, from Liverpool. Arrived at Mobile—The Lady Milton, Patriarch, Diza Pirie, Washington, Chester, and Rankin, from Liverpool. The British barque Larch, from Liverpool for Charles town, before reported ashore on Stoney breakers near Charlestown -light, was fast breaking up at last advises and would be a total wreck. Arrived at Aptatiebicola—The Raritan from Dublin, and Columbia, Importer, and England from Liverpool. The ship Rome, from London, arrived at New Orleans, reports that on the Ist ult., in lat. 37 20, long. 38 10 fell in with barque Medium, from Newport for City Point, Virginia, wiih railroad iron, in a sinking condition, and took off her officers and crew. The ship Asbaurton sailed from New York on the 131 of February for Liverpool, and got ashore the same night in a snow -storm, but was got off on the 14th, and proceeded apparently without any injury. The ship Carioca, of Boston, from Glasgow for Philadelphia, was fallen in with, abandoned, on the 19th of November, in let. 39, long. 30, with jibboons, foretop mast, and rudder gone, apparently not long in that situation. OVERLAND MAIL (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIESTE, FEB. 29. The Pyroscaphe arrived on the 28:h inst. We learn from Bombay, under date of the 3d of February, that a second Burmese war bad com menced. The new Viceroy arrived at Rangoon on the 4th of January. He had refuved to receive any deputa tions from the British commander, bad forbidden communication between, the shore and-the .vessels, insulted the British flag, and erected batteries and stockades below the town to prevent the departure of any of the 'vessels lying there. The commodore proclaimed a blockade of the mouths of the Ira waddy. On the 9th the Viceroy wrote to the Commodore to allow the passage of the river; . he bad set fire to the batteries mentioned. The Pyroscaplr, Fox, and Hermes, were attacked by the batteries in passing. They replied to the fire, destroyed the fortifications, and killed nearly 300 perAons. Imports weak; exports the same as at our last advices. Government Five per Cents., 105 r.; Debt, Four Per Cent., 94ir. v c e h r a p n oo e i 0 2 ( 1 ) . 7 L:ndon, at six months' sight, 2e. ld. Freights_ t o London, 2/. ss. to 2/ 104 . per ton ; d itto to 61. per ton.—Chronicle. emirs CquatisslON.—The Tithe Commissioners' 1 report for the year 18'1 tices for awards)? have been issued during the year; 54 cam- In 12,144 tithe districts pulsory awards hay al J , just published, states that 54 no -206 apportionmentse have also been received, and 106 confirmed; been received, an 1 254 confirmed. blished ; 809 altered a year, end rP 6 er l t rent . charges have been finally este mergers of tit',..es or rent char end of the a pportionments, were 'Artie up to the confirmed and 13,160 distinct The commissioners state granting t h e m of the Legis lature the expediency of w or h e ie s h um th m e a y ry affirm will prevent . certain cases of needless expense; for it is impossible to commute and tithes in the present manner without an expense dispropor tionate 'e t s o rn d li e u al am in to the benefit obtained. In ou a nt, m conclusion, theyBtate i t w ill only be by the neglect of the parties concerned, if extinguished before every case has been titles are finally considered. THE METEOP OLITA N POLICE. — It appears f rom t h e accoun ts respecting the Metropolitan Police Force (printed on Saturday), that on January 1 last, the number of persons 5,549 ; consisting of one inspect belonging to the force was 5,549; a . 18 superintendents, front year; inspect in;; superintendent, at 600 cctors, with salaries from 2004 50/ to 00/. a year; 124 insp 587 sergeants, from 1i 9L 4s. to 81/. 18a. a year. There were stables, comprising 1,250 to 63/. 14s. a year; and 4,819 con 2,349 in the second in the first class at 51/. 12s. a year, class aC49I. B s . a year, and 1,17 4 / in the third class at 44/. 4s The a year. sum paid for the police last Yea r amounted to 1 14s. 5d., which 442,299/. ss. 4d leaving a balance of 49,9 57 -* &c., from police were the receipts in the year. The fees, courts were 10,548/. 15s. Bd. The Commissioners of Great Exhibition paid the force 17,426/. 2s. 2d. GUARD Sun. FOIL THE DOWNS.—Oriit.TS have been issued by the Admiralty to fit the London, of 90 guns, Cap tain the Hon. DI. Stoprord, now I ... in _ Y gat Sheerness, in all re spects as a sea-goingship. Aa soon as she is cDmpleted she will proce ed to the Downs, to be there stationed as guard ship unless required for more active service. her duties there will be to enter volunteers either for particular or general service. AFuard OAP at this pla ce is extremely useful, the man of war s anchorage lying so close in to the Goodwin that the lookout kept on board can discover a ship on the sands long before the people at Deal, Kingsdown, or Ramsgate can observe her. Signals are immediately made by blue lights, rockets, and micute guns, when the tuggers a nd foul-weather galleys from the above -named .p aces put to sea and give assistance. There has not been a guard ship stationed there. since .1831, but the Serer., Ramilie9, and Talavera, which were in the Downs fa m 1 815 to itirit„ ren d ere d essential services to merchant ships of all n t itim, 0 . that unfortunately got on these treclierous sands. UN T O N, MAGAZINE DAY. BL ACKW 0 OD. A gfnial and delightful paper on Miss Mary Rus sell Mitford, the celebrated author of " Our Village," is the opening contribution to the present number of Blackwood, having been suggested by her " Recol lections." The reviewer evidences, throughout, his ap preciation of her very charming style, her gentle nature, her briliant descriptive powers, her grace, her benevolence, and her originality. In the course of the article the reader will find quoted some elegant verses from the pen of John Banim, famed as the writer of the " Tales of the O'Hara Family." Another portion of " Struggles for Fame and Fortune," the third, will he welcomed by those who have read the instalments already published, more particularly as there is per ceptible in it a considerable increase of interest, and in several other respects a very general improvement. Mr. Coke's recent work on Kafirland has furnished another critic in Maga with a plea for presenting us with some " Sketches from the Cape," at all times worthy of examination, but at the present moment peculiarly acceptable. The nineteenth part of "My Novel ; or Varieties in English Life," reveals anew the various and remarkable abilities already so frequently and admirably displayed by Sir Bulr wer Lytton as a novelist—as, in fact, one of the most gifted and accomplished writers of fiction who has ever adorned our native literature. The " initial chapter" to the tenth book here commenced is one of the most clever yet published ; and we would observe, by the way, that these initial chapters are quite novelties in their way, having been originated by the author of "The Caxtons"—combining the at tractions of the essay with the fascinations of ro mance, enabling the author and the reader to hold, as it, were, at intervals, a friendly gossip together, and empowering the romancist to pass judgment at pleasure upon his own creation, after the merry man ner of Fadladeen. [Alas 1 that so very recently within the present week we should have lost poor Tom Moore, " the beloved of all circles, the idol of his own," as Lord Byron called him in that brief but eloquent tribute to his friendship.] Randal Leslie even now has the ground trembling under his feet— undermined by his own suicidal craft. We are more than ever in hopes that Lord L'Estrange's ill assorted marriage with Helen may never take place, but that the gentle " child-angel" may be a comfort to the toiling ambition of Leonard, while Harley himself—most beautiful and loveable of characters may have his dormant energies awakened by the influence of the genius and loveliness of Violante. Mention is made again of poor Burley—the noblest of all the creations in the present story—and we await with some anxiety his re-appearance on the scene. As the type of a class, Burley is painted with the hand of a master. Expec tations of good in Beatrice are awakened in the mind of the reader, and we can dream of that good possibly extending itself to the heart and fortunes of Frank Hazledean. Then again—Audley Egerton, the Minister, the strong public man, vigorous in bearing, but with disease gnawing at his vitals—to hear of him as we do in the present instalment is to be filled with dread and compassion. There is a sweet and exquisite pathos in the brief scene between Audley and Harley L'Estrange. A timely article suggested by Mr. W. J. Smith's edition of "The Grenville Papers," and entitled "English Adminis trations," forms the next portion in the March num ber of Blackwood—being fraught with especial in terest at a juncture when the Grey-Russell Cabinet bas been so suddenly succeeded by the Derby- Disraeli Government. Mr. Prinsep's ingenious pro duction, issued from the press last season, and having reference to the religion of Boodh, is selected by another contributor to Maga as a reason for pre senting to the public some disquisitions on " Tibet and the Lamas ;" while another writer has taken Mrs. Moodie's " Roughing it in the Bush," under criticism, describing, while so doing, rather pleasantly, "Forest Life in Canada West," with all its peculiar characteristics. The metre rendered popular by Mr. Tennyson's " Locksley Hall," has been employed as a vehicle for the utterance of a "Farewell to the Rhine," by one penning his adieux at Bonn. After this comes the closing paper for March, an argument relating to "The Reform Measures of 1852," with a " Postscript," expressive of exultation at the recent change of her Mejesty's Government. MR. DICKENS' NEW WORK. BLEAK HOUSE. No. I. By Charles Dickens. Buds are already germinating in the boughs of March ; but, among all the evidences of the approach of spring, none will be more welcome to the hearts; and hearths of England than the " two green leaves" put forth in the new serial by " Boz," those two green leaves to the appearance of which we have been look ing forward ever since the close of " David Copper field." And the best of it is—we shall have them renewed now during very nearly twenty months to come. " Bleak House," as all the world knows now, is the title of it—" a dreary name," according to the opinion (see page 22) even of the Lord High Chan cellor. From all that we can judge by merely a first instalment of a work of such considerable dimen sions, "Bleak House" threatens to be the last terrible, and we trust also overwhelmingly successful, blow directed against the iniquitous court pres Vied over by that august functionary. The citizens of the United. States not long since gave us a noble example of what might be effected in the way of reform there. The evils of the Court of Chancery have, besides this, been long, very long, growing more and more noto rious—crying out for their own destruction trumpet tongued and in a thousand voices both within and without the walls of Parliament. Beyond all which, new hopes are kindled in the bosoms of those who have fallen into the clutches of this monster grievance by the elevation to the woolsack of a legal Reformer like Sir Edward Sugden—perhaps the most profound and astute intellect that has ever shed its light through the gloomy intricacies of his profession. Last, but not least effectual of all the enemies of the Court of Chancery, comes Dickens, to whose gentle but pui,sant genius humanity has already been largely indebted, his story of " Nicholas Nickleby" having led to the suppression of the atrocious Yorkshire schoole, and his tale about " Oliver Twist" having in a great measure conduced to the amelioration of the sufferings of pauperism. Chapter the first, "In Chancery," constitutes of itself a caustic satire upon the evil to which its very title directs attention—" that Court of Chancery,' ex claims Mr. Dickens, in a burst of noble and wither ing eloquence—" which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire ; which has its worn out lunatic in every madhouse, and its dead in every churchyard ; which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress, borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaint ance; which gives to moneyed might the ineins ribune dantly of wearying out the right; which so exhausts finances, patienceccourage, hope • so overthrows the brain and breaks. _the =heart ; ;lilt there is not an honorable man among ifs e;raptitionere who would not give—who does not often give—the warning,. ' Suffer any wrong that can be done you, rather than come here 1' " It is against this . same, old, wicked greedy, implacable, and insatiate Court of Chancery that "Bleak House" is directed in purpose; it is upon it that the whole weight of its censure through example is destined, we believe, to fall : and that the influence of the censure thus pro nounced will prove triumphant, we are persuaded, through the whole strength and earnestness of our belief in the vitality of its author's genius. For many reasons, therefore, we hail the appearance of ff jaaerrn newyd :ee the present fiotion with peculiar and fervent satisfac tion. Bleak House, if itself not "in Chancery," has its principal inmates there—as may be understood by an inquiry into the great case of Jarndyce and Jarn -1 dyce, the case still giving promise of being ever lastiogly perpetuated. How long it has already con tinued is mentioned by the author with this — se, : , T w h jh e aor n l idwtytalcsee promisedpl a a n i plainti ff droll illustratio sw n ayh : himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the fr.seh°llcotkluailDndgt,lberhsee settled has grown up, possessed Jarndyce and Jarn yce, are—w when tL e great case of led to suppose them to be other world." Two of the wards in dChancery in t h his the story opens (and we are pp rstone nineteen. Perhaps, teen , ay turn out to be Esther h ove , vet, the r th eal heroine m rest iectaivoedlyßitisohhaerrdo aneditheroin,e)—Ada Clare, seven tive ee ith the third chapter , writin g in t e per sonher• Chapter . Surat nerson, who takes up e thread of h h t fi e rs n t arra ai r :er the manner of an autobiograp abrupt ly to certain " high" people, the as eond, " In Fashion, Lei cester introBdiurces my Lady Dedlock, waited upon in their house in savingu an d town by- their lawyer, gr. Tulkinghorn. What they m m a ix y ed ba ua it tn e , to do with the story we cannot conjecture, d witu exce p tin g thatsa mtheatoatshoeyofarjearihndysoo third,a‘ naturalA L dyce. Cbapter th e P r ogress," education of Esther, through her own lips, the birth (not the parentage) and ultimately engaged as the co mpan ion c) ld o em somebody, md describes,Jh manneraordny of Ada, by her t ;uardian a certain Mr. mysterious Jarndyce, ' who i he owner, and, we presume , _ u occupant of Bleak 1 louse. Chapter the fourth reco u nts b 'del by Ada, Esther, and Richard w ith the intercourse Jel l) by, whose mismanagement of her f amily ilMrs. a , : ,(I mock benevolence for strangers abro a dat home, are eggestive of the title " Telescopic Philanthropy ." r i Che drollest scenes in the number are those in th e d yelling of Mrs. Jellyby—and the most remarkable , ai d original of all the characters is that of poor, dear , Da ddy, otherwise Mis% Jellyby; perpetually in such a Ireafiful " stet° of ink." No wonder, after reading he accounts of the freaks of her mamma, no wonder o r child exclaims at last—" I wish Africa was the P°Peepy , brothers, is d _ ad it' Little one of her an i nterestsog scapegrace : and, among the other ,-3.3 introduced may be ment ion e d, ii perSOTleg r . Kengel the solicitor - Mr. Guppy, his clerk ; 1 M i Mr. j e g Mr. yoy, a nonentity ; 'QUR e l 1 an admirer of MONDAY his wife and an enthusiast about Borrioboola-Gha ; Miss Barbary, Esther's aunt ; Mrs. Racbael her ser vant, the twin Miss Donnys, the schoolmistresses at Reading, and The Littl e Old Lady. Such is the first number of "Bleak 'louse," the principal fault of which appears to be its confusion. This, however, may be cleared up or accounte d f or by subsequent instalments. The illu s t rat i ons b y Phiz are, as usual, graceful and characte r i s ti c , t h oug h i n one of them the jug should have had no h an dl e , an d Peepy, we think, should not have ma d e hi s appearance. LITERA.TURE. SCHOOL ATLAS OF GENERAL GEO GRAPHY. By Alexander Keith Johnston. Black wood and Sons. As a geographer, Mr. Johnston has long since acquired a very hi g h an d deserved reputat i on . Hi s rapid ofhisinformation. an dproceeded succession, t throughouti mef b ya the least admirable th e ser i es of charts appende d b y him to the' History of E urope " by Mr... Alison. Those who have ever used th e maps of Mr. Johnston in illus tration of the annal i st ' s account of batt l e or campaign, will b ear the fact in remem brance with grateful sent i ments such as can pnuotblbisehvederbyyetahseilymeosbsirist.erEatleacdi Ino trated, as it were in one focus , all the more conspicuous sv ond the he h vo a l s um co e nc h e e n re . excellences hitherto deemed desirable in a school "atlas of general geography. Every pl ate i s on a larger scale than those heretofore generally employed for purposes of education : 00113 F quently m ore i s capable of being dis played to the student, and that, moreover , with a necessary increase of accuracy. Again—tbe facts recorded on the maps are in every i nstance, accor di ng even to the explicit announcem en t o f th e pre f a ce, ' publication." Added to t at once more vivid and uniform, f colouring p , t o e in the g mechanical process instead of by the fatigued hand ; I broughtiiou bis produced and dazzled eye of a colourist. By an ingenious arrangement the scholar is always enabled to detect what are the possessions of Great Britain—all our territories throughout the globe being painted red in the plates relating to either hemisphere. Various other advantages have been combined in the volume under notice,—such as those of a copious index, of a series of clear and com prehensible scales, and of a difference of aspect between the two elements, land and water—advantages which constitute the present the most complete and valuable " School Atlas " hitherto published, and one which cannot fail, if adopted, to advance very mate rially the progress of popular education. , SCROOL ATLAS OF PHYSICAL GEO GRAPRY. By Alex. Keith Johnston. Blackwood and Sons. Everyone acquainted with the celebrated " Physical Atlas," by Mr. Johnston —one of the most extraordi nary productions of its kind that has ever appeared— will need no assurance from ourselves to be satisfied that the present volume (a so rt of epitome of its predecessor) is one very largely en ti t l e d to admiration. As a preliminary to th e s t u d y of the g eo l og i s t, the cosmogonist, the zoologist, the botanist, the ichthyologist, the entomolo g i st , an d, s w w o ri u t l t d e above all, of the ethnologist —a book so mewhat of this be e nles mapped out utterly character is absolutely indispens a ble. It elucidates more clearly than any description whatsoever, whether , u to ur the youthful oral ' matters intellect, incompre hensible. In this manner, therefore, lka —r. Johnston is a pioneer to some of the great e st philosophers of our age. He prepares the mind o f t he student for the abstru se p ages o f Mrs. Somerville, for the luminous researches of Lyell, for the ana l y tic di scourses of th that Liebig, for the records of Murchison, for the argu ments of Latham, and for the lofty and sublime dis quisitions of Humboldt. Even to the educated adult, to those tolerably well versed in the more consider able among the physical sciences, the diffu sion over the surface of the globe of certain attri butes or aspects of matter is liable to fall into almost inextricable confusion, unless aided by some lucid and reliable guide, such as that furnished by this volume of Mr. Johnston. In its eighteen plates are syste matically arranged all the most valuable statistics re lating to hydrology, to geology, to natural history, and to meteorology. As a frontispiece we have dis played to us the elements of chartography, as well as of physical geography : and immediately afterwards are given charts of the ocean currents of the world— of the comparative sizes of the principal lakes of the globe—and of the various river systems in both he mispheres. Subsequently are ranged in succession, charts of the different valley s, plains, table-lands, and mountains. Three admirable plates afford an accu rate and instantaneous notion of the distribution, if one may so call it, of the winds, the rains, and the temperature. Thereupon follow maps show ing the distribution of vegetable life, the dis tribution of animal life, the distribution of the various races of man, and last, but not by any means the most insignificant of all these subjects, the distribution and extent of th e diff ere nt forms of reli gion. An aggregation of facts so inestimable as these, and an arrangement of those facts as lucid as their variety is apparently bewildering—ip each, a task the ade quate accomplishment of which would of itself be sufficient to confer lasting honour upon any indivi dual. They have both been effected by Mr. Johnston on a grand scale, in his morecostly work entitled " The Physical Atlas," the quintessence the pith the marrow, quintessence of the whole has agai '' n been given to the public by him, i n a regard more or able and, in to the price, a more generally P accessible form, as a access minor atlas, compiled with - particular view to the a .. use of our intelligent • seminaries Upon the perfect realization of all his w i s h ' ct we have Johnstonsn this respect reason here to proffer Mr. m ost cordial 0 Liston ou r and most earnest congratulations. KING'S HEAD T AVERN, P OULTRY. --The re-open ing of this " ancient hostel r y," under the ausp i ces o f the new proprietors, Messrs. S e ' wood and Neale, was . celebrated on J Saturday by a sumpt uous inaugural dinner, J . Thompson, Esq., in the chair, supp orted by the Sheriffs of Lon d on an d Middlesex, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, Mr. L. Thomp son, &c. Between seventy an d eighty gen tl e men sat down to the banquet. After the usual l oyal toasts had been d ru nk, the c hairman, in proposing success to the King's Head T avern a nd prosperity to Mr. S e ll wood and his partner, adverte d to several historical and int erest i ng events connecte d w ith thi s house as far back as th e time of ion. the Restorat lie next stated that Mr. Sellwood had for fifteen years been connected with the London Tavern, and that fact, he was sure, was a sufficient guarantee fur the most unremitting atten tion to every department connected with the cuisine supply of the establishment. The p r i nciple on which t h e proprie torssupp the best of everything started was, to at the l owes t possible prices, a n d i n the most comfortable style. He congratulated Mr. Sellw oo d on the presence o f the 1, Sh e riffs and so many oth er kind friends, who thus testified th e respect which th ey entertai ne d for him persona lly. Mr. Sellwood, in a very appropriat e and modest speech, returned thanks. The toasts of ~ ' Ile Pr ess " and "The Proprietor of the London Tavern" were severally drank with much cor diality, Mr. Bathe respondin g to the latter Molt. The' greater part of the company remained to the latest moment that propriety would allow on a Saturday night, and the en tertainment went off with great éclat. - Messrs. 'F. Smith, Genge, and others added much to the hilarity of the evening, bv their vocal exertions, ... Messrs. Sellwood and Co. are eminently entitled to the patronage of their friends and of the publunic, dertak ing. and we cordially wish th em every success i n the i r arduous THE SPEAKER'S PARLIAUENTARY DINNER.—The Speaker gave his third Parliamentary dinner on Saturday. The following Members of the House of Commons were pre sent :--The Marquis of Douro I ; ' :.seount Palmerston, Lord -rr erp R o bert Grosvenor, Mr. Sidney ert M --t, r. James Stuart Wortley, Mr. Goulburn, Sir James Graham, Mr. Edward El lice Mr. William E. Gladstone, s ir George Clerk, Mr. Tuf nell, the Master of the Rolls, Capt a i n Fitzroy, Mr. Charteris, Sir R. H. Inglis, Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, Sir Frederic The siger (Attorney-Graneral), Mr. Loftus Wigram, Mr. Crow der, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Pussy, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. .Henry Baring Mr. Henry Drum mond, Mr. • mond, Mr. G. H. • Evelyn Denison was pre vented from attending through indi sposition. Sir Robert Ferguson was also unavoidably absent. The Speaker's vees will be held on Saturday the 20th and Saturday the le 27th instant, at ten o'clock. THE VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON's PARTY.--The Viscountess Palmerston held another fashionable re-union, on Saturday evening last, at her ladyship's residence, Carlton- gardens. ' This soirée, though not so numerously at tended as on previous occasions, wto, n evertheless very recherché and select ; several members of the corps diploma tique and a long list of the aristocratic world graced her Ladyship's saloons, during the evening. Previous to the arrival of the company the noble hostess presided over the following select private dinner party :......The Earl and Coun tess of Shaftesbury, Admiral and Miss Bowles, aar, Hippesly, Henryr. and the Misses Sullivan, Mr. -- HemminMr. Percy Burrell, and the Hon. Mr. William Cowper. g, OFFICIAL APPOINTMENTS.—The Earl of Derby has appointed Lieutenant-Colonel the H on. Edward Wil braham to be his private secretary. Mr. C. W. Stronge, of the Treasury, is also acting as the second private secretary of the Premier. The Right Hon. S. a Walpole has ap pointed as his private secretary _a_t r. the Home Office, Mr. Spencer Perceval, grandson of_.me Perceval, the Prime Minister of George the Third. The Earl Lordship's of Malmesbury has appointed Mr. George Harris as Lordship's private se cretary at the Foreign SirOffice_ iaoey John Paki Pakington, has ap pointed his son, Mr. mu l l Office. Mr. nyton, as his private secretary at the Colonial Cole, of the secretary to the Treasury, is privateappointed e Duke of Northumberland has of the Exchequer. Th P. Pelham to be h. land has ap pointed the Hon. F. S. Mr. S. R. M. Leak©,s private secre tary at the Admiralty. of the Treasury, arincipal clerk assistant to the secretariesMr Leaks is succeeded: s retired after . Mr. W. H. a service of 50 years. . clerks, w h o was by Stephenson, one of seniortr ee 1 when Piime Ministre'rrivarirsertee-- tary to Sir Robert Peel Ste phenson is succeeded by al „,, r. T, P. Courtenay one of the , e e as sistant clerks. TkIENT3.--Tho lion CONSULAR APPoIN . . . Henry Vereker is appointed her, Majesty,s consul at Prendergast Samuel Vines, Esq., is appointed con sulßio Grande du Sol. . „..,_ ,_ .SpinK, ."-`l , L* appointed consul at at Para. Charles _ .„ sq. 8 . 11 Callender, L , i appointed consul at Maranham. Banda St. Catherine's. HORRIBLE DEATH FROM SCALDING . — On Satur day Mr. W. Carter held an inquest at the Cottage of Content Walwortb , upon the body of Alfred Tavern, Lock's-fields, - of ady • k the son e-sin er, residing near Okey, aged three years, , , ea upset a kettle of boiling the above house. The deceiLi the effects of Which he died —Ver water over himself, from diet, "Accidental Death." XVBNINO,_ MAII 11 1; loam TO THE SECRETARY OP THE nrtADFoRD REFORM ASSOCIATION. frONTINITED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAY-F ) Sir',—On Friday the 27th Feb. the House ist4 for the purpose of installing the Bread-Taxers on the Ministerial benches, and doing other things towards the Counter-Revolution which has been accomn!ished here as in France. This comes of tossing up of caps upon partial success, and believing that there is thenceforth never to be a contest or an enemy wain. The same folly, if it had had its way, would have put the. West Riding at this moment under the directions of a French general of division. There were to be no more Protectionists, no more war, no more any thing we did not like ; and to this the interests of you and yours have been sacrificed, and many among you may die of thin porridge before there is a chance of the thing being set right again. There is no saying what. may he in the chapter of accidents ; but the man is a simpleton who trusts to that chapter. The great lesson of human life appears to he, that foie sight, prudence, energy, putting do an a danger twice sooner than leave half of it to get up again, shall be the conditions of safety, and they who act other wise shall be sure to suffer in the end. Like the French in the revolution of 1830, you have trusted to les habiles (the skilled men), and les habiles have let in the enemy again. It was clear, after the very first moves, that this was the course things were taking. It cannot have taken you by surprise, for so far as one pen or voice could go, it has been dinned into you till you were tired of it. And now what will you do ? If you should ask me for counsel, I will give it as fast as I know how. In the mean time, there only occurs to me a sailor's proverb, too rough to be quoted in its original vigour. You must bear the consequences, with such contor tions of countenance as you may be unable to re strain. It is so proverbially easier to keep a bird when you have it, than to recover it after it has been let go, that it would be deceiving you to hold out any pleasing prospect. The same causes which have prevented your keeping Free Trade when you had it, will act against your recovering it. There will be the same cry of " All will go well ; let things alone ; sit down and open your mouth, and see what will drop into it;"—and in the end it will be" Who would have thought it ?" as it was before. It is very likely that at some time or other Free Trade will carry the day ; but in the mean time lam afraid there must be another "siege of Bolton," another Test Hill at Brad• ford, women and children crying in the streets, because the leaders whom public opinion raised to the power of carrying one victory, could not be persuaded to take the means of preventing your enemies' return ; because they were far too eager to divide the stock and go to rest under the shadow of their laurels, to be on their guard against an able adversary, working day and night to recover his lost positions. Human his tory does not produce an instance, of a great cause so wantonly and needlessly thrown back into the hands of its opponents. I love distinctness, and hate insinuations. I there fore repeat with deliberation, what it has been my endeavour to impress upon you over and over while there was still time for action, that this cause has been lost or thrown into the dirt, because its supposed guardians in Parliament threw up their brief and declined defending it against the attacks of its opponents.. They were doing everything except the one thing needful they were sent to do. They were diverging into every scheme remote from this, whiCh however it may agree with future ages of the world, was incompatible with the present. They would have no more war, no more fleets, no more armies, because they did not like them. They might as well have said they would have no more surgery, no more cholera, no more hospitals, for the same rea son. They were thinking of Paper duties, Stamp duties, 'Window duties; anything but the defence of Free Trade, which was what they were sent to look after. And while they were snatching at these, they were letting fall out of their mouths the sub stantial mutton of your Free Trade, which it was their first business to hold. I repeat it yet again, that if the Protectionists had been stuck to and answered in Parliament, as they might have been if those who had the freedom of the House bad attended to their business, there would have been as little chance of seeing what we now see, as of the little boys in your factories undertaking to call themselves the owners, and presenting themselves in that capa city in the Piece Hall. On the meeting of the House on Friday, Sir James Graham took his seat on the front bench of the Oppo sition side. One of the first proceedings was calling for new writs for the boroughs vacated by the ac ceptors of office; some of which excited laughter. There is in truth something wonderful about the construction of the thing called government. If you were to proceed in the same manner with a single one of your West Riding commercial establishments, certain ruin would be the result; what a wonderful instance therefore of the powers of nature, that directly the contrary should be the rule for the commerce of a nation I For example, an individual of whom it is known that be has written novels, but not that he ever did a sum in rule of three inverse or found a mean proportional, is invested with the charge of the Exchequer, and pro posing the taxes which are to fill it. A Tory country magistrate, and they say a good one, is charged with the superintendence of all matters relating to your trade and foreign plantations ; on which probably the only point he has ever had fairly brought under his consideration, is that by putting an end to the foreign orders of the West Riding manufacturers he might raise the price of corn. And an active Chairman of Quarter Sessions is suddenly endowed with the care and ma nagement of fifty fractious Colonies. There is no thing in the story-books half so ridiculous. And viewing it on the serious side,—for there is a very serious one to you, whose bread this is all to take away,—it can be paralleled only by the event of the last attempt in France, where a party whose success would have been everywhere treated as a jest a few months before, was by the fact of everybody being found asleep who ought to have resisted it, enabled to start in a course of retrogradation towards the bar. barons ages, of which heaven' only knows the termi nation. It was the English 2nd of December and counter-revolution; with the difference that the tactic in one case was audacity, and in the other pro crastination. One result, however, is clearly made out ; there can be no mouths made hereafter, on the score of giving Office to extreme men. The member for the West Riding needs have no scruples about being made President of the Board of Trade when his turn comes. March upon that from this moment, and you will have done some good. The two first movements of the restored Govern ment were wonderfully characteristic ; a motion to issue a writ for Harwich, and a trumpet sounded for an attack on the Catholics through Maynootb. On the first of these, if a division had been gone to, there seemed no reason why there should not have been a majority against the Ministry. But the timid and those who were for avoiding a Dissolution made a great noise, and so it was turned into a drawn battle by the withdrawal both of the amendment and the original motion. The attack upon Maynooth was -conducted by those appeals to Heaven which are equally at the command of well-meaning men of all sects, and declarations of the impossibility that a con scientious man should see a religious opponent taking any shaie of what is contributed by all. There are plainly two movements going on ; a House of Com mons movement which is the real and substantial one, and a movement in another place, which may turn out the moat perilous to you of the two. The declaration of the Prime Minister in that other place, is probably the most dangerous to you that could have been devised. It is precisely the . thing to produce to you the maximum of peri l. It is just the thing to rally against you all the elements of inactivity, delay, and compromise. In all contests it is an excellent quality to be able to judge of t he talent displayed in the op posite ranks; and it is quite of the school, which has just lost you the game for the present, to shut the eyes to an adversary's knowledg e of his weapons. The Prima Minister talks of article s which , admit or do not admit the expenditure of British labour. is The point he means to maintain, that West Riding labour is not British labour ; or at least so much of it as goes for foreign orders. He avows his theory to be the American one; and the American one is, to P ut down such foreign exports as go in return_ for anything which a man at home offer s to make dearer o f the C 011.• and worse, taking the difference out other quer sumer's pocket without balance h in maker ot the ters, and calling the gain dearer and worse, the " inciden o t f al' t ' gain to the com munity. This was the word of the Am ainst the repub and is in itself an argument g lican form of government, where This is his Lord ship's notions can be thrown up into the seat of power.does not see why it ship's theory; and he spe ciall y you r s hould not be applied to cornD • o ls this p eenou cegiv h the e that for you ; or do you wait for more ? ou again; or will you Corn-laws are let in upon 9 you meet it in your postpone the knowledge Providence to reverse streets ? It would be asking to till mankind, to suppose that this res. all its dealings with h a ppened_ . Itell you once .. again, suit should not have i s one . of certain and illimitable that your position kept out. He is let in because ebneeemnyislet in upon you who mi g ht peril, and that the Just as easily have so, and because no reasonable care men would have contrary. He has been nursed was token to th and now, he is the and dandled, American boy who at wonder and ears old hadsul Il be ln at e e r n hi s father. Something, . 1 as Mr. t Micawber ha s it, ma y " t urn up trust t to to relieve t you ; but only Mr. Micawbers "turn up." The probability ' may that you must go through a long course of bitter suffering be f o r e the Publics nerves are strung to such an extent as removed the Corn-laws once, and wanted nothing but care to keep them out. I doubt whether our West Riding frierds are yet above half conscious of the fact, that the plan is to stop all that p or ti on o f t h e i r tra d e and manu factures which now goe s abroad to foreigners for corn, in ordar to set up the growers of dear corn at home, be 0 rer and charge the consumers gratuitously, ns. after all other gains and losses are balanced, with the difference cl price. This is the intent in band, and it is put fin ward gently, cautiously, tenderly, as a veteriorry Br est deals with a horse whop? tail be is going to am putate,—as your tail, which is your trade, is going to be docked, for the service of your enemies. Alas ! alas !—tbat with so fine a chance before you, you could not hinder it from coming to this. Man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward; but he was no t born to the necessity of seeing his own house take fire, when he could as easily have hindered it. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, March 1, 1852. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH. SUNDAY.-A Lord of the Admiralty, or souse candidate in the Government interest, is anxiously looked for here to contest the borough at the approtohing election. The candidates at present in the field are the ex-First Lo,d of the Admiralty, Mr. Sergeant Gaselae, and Lord Frederick Foulamer, all Whigs. It is rumoured among the electors that the Hon. Captain Rous contemplate 4 coming forward. The Sprightly steam- vessel, Mr. George Allen, acting-master commanding, returned to this port yes terday morning, from Dublin, whither she had borne the remains of the Right Hon. R. L. Sheil for inter ment. She brought from Plymouth some men from the gunnery -ship Hotspur as volunteers to join the Arctic expedition. The Lightning, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master-Com mander Allen, left yesterday afternoon for the eastward, taking supernumeraries and the men brought by the Sprightly for the Arctic ships. The Fairlie, hired convict transport, arrived at Spit head to-day, to embark prisoners from the hulks in this harbour for Van Diemen's Land. The Essex ludiaman arrived at Spithead this morn ing, to embark passengers and stock for Madras and Calcutta. The Devonshire, New York line-of-packet ship, ar rived at Spithead this morning from the river to em bark passengers for America. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 29.—Her Majesty's steam-ship Vesuvius, Captain Barnard, sailed on Thursday to cruise in the Channel and relieve the homeward-bound. Thesteam-vessel Sprightly sailed on Thursday for Portsmouth. _ The steam block•ship Sanspareil, lying alongside the Master attendant's jetty, had a narrow escape from being destroyed by fire on Thursday. Previous to leav ing, the people observed a quantity of smoke issuing from the engine-room, and immediately resorting to the full supply of water which is constantly kept on deck, the shipwrights, engineers, and others, amounting to sixty, engaged on the vessel, soon extinguished the fire, which occurred in the engine-room, where there is a forge, from which it is supposed a spark must have been sent among some carpenter's shavings or oakum. The only injury done was the partial burning of a temporary plerform used by the artisans in the engine -room. The Sanspareil has been valued at 103,000/. A very careful inquiry was instituted on Friday by Commodore Super intendent Sir Michael Seymour, before himself and the principal officers of the department. The minutes were treoismitted to the Lords of the Admiralty. The Government hired merchant-ship Woodbridge, Captain Coppell, which arrived here on Thursday from Singapore, sailed this morning for London. She left Singapore on the Ist of October with a cargo of anti monian ore, Gambia sago, nutmegs, allspice, &c., and block tin from the East India Company's mines at Bence, and brought passengers—Lieutenant Hickley, Dr. Pottinger, Mr. M'Causland, master; Mr. Goldsack, second engineer; Mr. Smith, clerk; the gunner, boat swain, and 61 men belonging to her Majesty's steamer Reynard, Captain Cracroft, lost on the Patras shoals on the 21st of May; also Mr. Edwards, mate; Mr. May, master's assistant; and Mr. Hisham, cadet, lately be longing to the China fleet. On the 29th of October, while the hands were aloft sending down yards and top masts, the maintopmast and two topgallantmasts were carried away; Charles Hotchkings and Philip Playle were killed, and six others of the Wood bridge's crew disabled. On this occasion the Reynard's hands rendered valuable assistance in clearing away the wreck. On the sth of November she sprung her main mast, which was fished, and when near the Cape, wearing the ship, the m a i n t o p ga ll antmast f e ll an d took the main topmast head with it. O n arr i v i ng a t the Cape an al teration was made in th e s t owage o f t he cargo, which at Singapore was arranged for the accommodation of pas sengers. This alteration prevented much of her rolling afterwards. Yesterday Captain Cracroft mustered the Reynard's crew on board the Woodbridge, expressed his approval of their conduct on the passage home, and stated that the Lords of the Admiralty had determined to give them full pay up to the present period. Cheers and counter cheers were heartily exchanged on their leaving the Woodbridge, the commander of which received from 180 passengers whom he landed at Adelaide on his outward voyage a written acknowledgment of their approval of his conduct as a skilful navigator and careful master. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, FEB. 28 —Master John F. Loney (1845), appointed to the Assistance, flag-ship of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C. 8., fitting for the Arctic Expedition, has taken up his commission, and joined the vessel at Woolwich yesterday. Assistant-Engineers James Morris, William J. Brown, and William S. Crook, to the Antelope steam vessel, at Woolwich. Gunners—John Joliet; to the Simoom steam troop ship, at Portsmouth, and Henry Blyth to the Antelope. The new Board of Admiralty has been definitively formed, but the now Lords have not as yet taken their scats at Whitehall. Their Lordships will take prece dence as under-mentioned:— Rear-Admiral his Grace Algernon, Duke of Nor thumberland, First Lord of the Admiralty, vice Sir Francis T. Baring. Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., vice Rear-Admiral M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P.—Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker is second in seniority of Rear-Admirals of the Red for promotion to the rank of Vice-Admiral. Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby, C. 8., vice Rear-Ad miral Houston Stewart, C. 8., M.P.—Rear-Admiral Phipps Hornby is also a Rear-Admiral of the Red, and, it is said, contemplates becoming a candidate for the re presentation of the borough of Greenwich when a disso lution of Parliament takes place. Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.8., vice Rear- Admiral Sir James Stirling. Captain Hon. Arthur Duncombe, M.A,. vice the Hon. William Cowper, M.P. Captain Alexander Milne, Junior Lord of the old and new Boards of Admiralty. Mr. Augustus Stafford, M.P., First Secretary, vice Mr. John Parker. Captain William A. B. Hamilton, Second Secretary ;o the old and new Boards of Admiralty. Captain Hon. Frederick T. Pelham, Private Secretary ;0 the First Lord. The reappintment of Captain Alexander Milne and Captain W. A. B. Hamilton to the new Borrd of Admi ralty has given great satisfaction in naval circles, these officers having always been found most attentive and efficient in the performance of their duties in connexion with the old Board of Admiralty. It is also a source of much gratification to the service that the whole of the members of the new board are naval officers who have soon considerable actual service, as it will enable them the more readily to appreciate the services of others. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, FEB. 28.—Brevet-Major John APArthur, of the Woolwich division, to be Lieutenant-Colone l, 25th inst., and appointed to the Chatham division, vice Clarke, retired. First-Lieutenant Henry William Brooker, o f the Portsmouth division, to be Captain, appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Arthur, promoted. 25th inst., and BP Second-Lieutenant Charles William Carrington, of the Chatham division, to be First-Lieutonsnt, 23d inst., vice Lewis Scott Reeves, placed on half pay. First- Lieutenant Carrington is appointed to the Chatham division. Second-Lieutenant John James Douglas, of the Ply mouth division, to be First-Lieutenant, 25th inst., vi ce Brooker promoted. First-Lieutenant Douglas is ap pointed to the Plymouth division. First-Lieutenant R. G. Halliday has three mo n th,' leave of absence for the benefit of his health, having returned invalided from her Majesty's ship Hastings, 72, last, flag-ship on the East India station. o ~a,,w ODDS AND ENDS 3'liflAT uvEnroor, 4 ,era,—My remarks on rl . e Settee Steei:leehseze were reeith verified to the letter, Pti YoUlify, Lottery, wh , ,131 took to wit), cleared the Judge's chair firm; ;midi the greatest ease. by three lengths. The General, wh o m 1 placed second, would have obtained that position had be ' nut come in contact with a tree, by which Laud was ma k horsed, and his chance of victory, cmplctely annihilated. Buse ot, whom I placed third, was fourth. My latest acivic,s from Liverpool state, that notwith standing the aqueous condition of the elements, the course in most parts is in capital condi tion. The running ground is over the usual course, and, consequently, it must not be forgotten that the winner of the steeplechase will have to traverse four miles and three furlongs of ground beret's, ho will be declared as each. Boxes have beau engaged for between forty and fifty hories, of whom the following have already arrived, or will be there in the coulee of th. 7 day, namely :—La than Doliv's Brae, Sir jowl, Chieftain, Bourton, Agig, Pesielion, :Silent Friend, Ifictress, Cogia, and Hardwick. for the Steeplechase ; Abbess of Jervaur True Girl, ZAtuyrit filly, Snowdrop, and Surprise, for the Spring Cup; Barrister, Widow Machree, and several others for the Scramble Handicap; filly by Charles Xllth, filly by The Libel, Allan-a-dale, filly by Jereed, end two or three others For the Trial and Optional Selling Stakes. These two last close to• atm on s c e e v a n t o'clo half-past ck. one with the Trial na T or h r e ow n e e v e e s n c i o u m g Stakes, and the Steeplechase will be run at half-psat three. Able ss of Jervaux, True Girl, and Surprise' are in first rate form, considering the frosty nature of the At mosphere during the last week. Snowdrop also looks well; the race for the Spring Cup lies for a certainty among this lot. Chieftain, VictresP, Cogia, La Gazza Ladra, and Dolly's Brae are in great force with their several owners and the public, and their condition warrant such being the case. Nothing scratched as yet for either Steeple chase or Spring Cup. Cup-6Bett to ingv 4 er a y gs l t ive s l u y r t p h r i i s se, m 7 orn to ing 4 . ta L k i e v n e ; rpo 6 ol Spring to agst Snowdrop, taken; 7 to 1 agst Abbess of Jervaux, 8 to 1 taken very freely; 7 to 1 agst True Girl; 20 to 1 agst Hungerford. Liverpool Steeplechase-8 to 1 agst Chief tain, and 9 to 1 taken to 2501.; 10 to 1 agst Victress; 10 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray; 15 to 1 agst La Gums Ladra; 16 to 1 each agst Maria thy and Cogia; 20 to 1 eget Sir John; 20 to 1 agst Bedford (6 yrs); 30 to 1 agst Bed ford (5 yrs). Bourton at 20, and Abd-el-Rader at 1,000 to 30, were only nominally in the betting. The field it is expected will amount to twenty-five or twenty-six. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. March 1, 1852. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING. The following horses had reached Liverpool on Satur day night:—Dolly's Brae, Toy, f by Harkawsy out of Zelmyra, Abbess of Jerveaux, Allanadale, Jereed filly, Queen of the Vale, f by Charles XII., Labyrinth, Silent Friend, Widow Machree, Barrister, La Gam Laths, Crabbs, f by the Libel. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. The following horses have arrived here since our last:—Sir John, Warner, Farnham, Bourton,_ Maurice Daly, Agia , Dame T a ttl e , L am i enne , C og ia , Sir Peter Laurie, and Chieftain. Hardwick broke down yesterday morning. LATEST BETTING IN TOWN. L 4 lN a r g E s e t PooL Surprise sP 2 R o l ( N t t a G o k (take r lt . 7 to agato 1 s ) i John. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. Sir 10 to 1 agst Chieftain 11 to 1 agat Miss Mowbray 20 to 1 eget Cogia 12 to 1 agst Victress 25 to 1 agst Warner, t 15 to 1 agst Maria Day 25 to I agat Bedford, 6 yrs 100 to 6 agst La Gazza 30 to 1 agst Bedford, 5 yrs Ladra Handicap for the St. Albans Steeplechase. Peter, list 61b—The Drag. 1 Ist 31b—Black Prince, list 31b—The General, I Ist 3!b—Young Lottery, lost 131b—Voyager, lost 12i19—Maria Monk, lOst 91b— Frank, lOst 91b—Unicorn, lOst 7119—Mystery, lOat 41b —Teddington, lOst 2;b—Breach of Promise, lOst—No vice, lost—Ten and Sixpence, 9at 121b—Forest L a d, 9st 1 21b—Harkover, 9st 121b—Janus, 9st 101b—Kos suth, 9,1 101b—Mischance, 9st 101b—Little Charl e y, 9st 10I 19 —Governess, 9st 91b—Orange Girl, 9st 91b— Buscot, 9st 91b. Acceptances to be declared to-morrow. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. COVENTRY MEETING, 1852. Acceptances for the Coventry Handicap. Merry Peal, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Warwick, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b —Ribaldry, aged, 7st 1 Ilb—The Clown, 5 yrs, 7st 71b— Avis, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—b cby Simoom, out of the Queen, by Sir Hercules, 3 yrs, sst 1 31b—Proudfoot, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Butterfly, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Queen of Spain (h b), 3 yrs, sst 9119. The highest weight left in being ist 101 b, it has been raised to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion. Acceptances for the Craven Steeplechase. Lord Waterford's b g Sir John, list 91b—Mr. T. F. Mason's b g British Yeoman, 1 Ist 41b—Mr. Osborne's b g Abd-el-Kader, Ilst 21b—Mr. Hutton's gr m Lucy Neale, list 21b—Mr. W. Barnett's br h Sir Peter Lau rie, list—Mr. W. Vevers's b g Vainhope, lOst 121 b Mr. Liunell's bk g Peter, lost 101b—Mr. Darling, jun. b g Bourton, lOst 91b—Mr. Higgins's b m Maria Day, lOst 61b—Lord Waterford's b g Postilion, lost 51b— Lord Waterford's b g Warner, lost 41b—Mr. Daven port na b g Half and-Half, lOst 41b—Mr. Cunningham's b m Little Queen, lOst 131b—Mr. Mangan's ch h Farn ham, lOst 31b—Captain Foster's br g Oscar, lOst 21b— Mr. G. Bourke's br g Carrig, lOst 21b—Captain Smith's b m Joan of Arc, lOst 21b—Mr. Thompson's b g Hard wick, lOst 31b—Mr. G. 0. Newton's ch m Kissaway, lOst 21b—Mr. T. F. Mason's b m Miss Mowbray, 10st 1 lb—Mr. Goodwin's b m La Gazza Ladra (h b), 6 yrs, lost lib—Lord Lurgan's b g St. Helier, 9st 121b—Mr. Osborne's b g Venture, 9st 7 1 b—Mr. Palmer's br m Vie tress, 9st 61b—Mr. Oliver's b g Maurice Daley, 9st 41b— Mr. W. Barnett's b h Jack-of-all-Trades, 9st 41b —Mr. G. IL Littledale na br g Seaman, 5 yrs, 9st. Acceptances for the Free Handicap Hurdle Race. Mr. G. Drewe'a b g Combatant (h b), 6 yrs, I l at 31b— Mr. Sargent's b m Cogia, 5 yrs, list 21b—Mr. Linnell's bk g Peter, aged, 1 Ist—Mr. Choice's ch h Bedford, 5 yrs, lOst 101b—Mr. Land's b m Cosachia, aged, lOst 81b Mr. Braithwaite 's b g The Drag, 5 yrs, lOst 71b-- Mr. Land's b g The General, aged, 10st 61b—Mr. Da venport na b g Ha lf-and-Half, a g ed, lOst 51b—Mr. Gul liver s c oh g Oramby, 6 yr s, 1 oat—Mr. Sait's br g Sir Alexa nder, 5 yrs, lOst — Mr. G. Osborne's b g Venture, aged, 9 st Mariaa r A e on , k ' a aged, ' 9 9 s s t l ch nmKateKe y Mr. Clayton's b g J ames, 6 y rs, 9st 91b—Mr. C . Walker's Mr. bk m Lalla Rookh ( h b), a g ed, 9st 81b—Mr . B. Austin's F M r i s r . 1) y l ggs yrs, 9st 7 1 b. ET WA RWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING, Acceptances for the Willoughby Handicap. Clothworker, 6 yrs, list 81b—Doubt, 6 yrs, flat 21b aged, 1 Ist—Hard Labour (late Ebor), 5 yrs, lOst 61b—Cogia, 6 yrs, lOst 61 b--Selina, 6 yrs, 10st 51b N ew Forest Deer, aged, 9st 1 11b—Fo t res Lad, age d, 9st 41b. Acceptances for the Free Handicap. Miss Julia, 6 yrs, BNt 71b—W hitston 71b— Ribaldry, aged, Bst 71b—Grief 6 e, aged, Bst y, Sat 51b—Master 6 rs Friday, 5 yrs, Sat 31b—W oodlark, Reaper, 4 yrs, 7st 1 lib—First Fruits , 4 Bst 31b—The Irecundus, 4 yrs, 7st 91 b—Captain Flute, 4 yrs, ist 101b -The Brahmin, 3 Parry, 6 yrs, 7al 71b yrs, E s t 131 b—Robert, 3 yrs, Est 91b Queen of Spain, 3 yrs, Est 31b. The highest weigt left in b raised to Bst 71b , and the otherseing Est 81b, it has been in proportion. Acceptances for the Great Warwickshire Handicap. King The Kin.. of Oude, 5 71b—Doubt, yrs, Bst 6 pie 7st 71b—Herbert, 6 • rs, 7st 4119—The Italian, 5 pa, 7st 41b Ch is, aged, 7st 21b—C nseas, 4 yrs, Est 1 21b—King arming, yrs, Est 111b—Hard Labour (late Ebor), 5 yrs, Est 1 llb—Cogia (h b), 6 yrs, Est Nib—Selina, 6 yrs, Est 101b—Knook Knoll, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Letterpress, 4 yrs, 6st 51 b—Harpsichord, 4 yrs, Est 21b—Waterfall, 4 yrs, sst 1 Ilb—The Battler, 3 yrs, 4st 1 21b—Ethelwolf, 3 yrs, 4st 101b—Cleveland, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b—f by Laner cost, out of Jemima ' 3 yrs, 4st 61b. The high e st we i g ht left in being Sat 51b, it has been raised to Bst 71b, and the others in proportion. WHO IS TO WIN THE DERBY?.—We are requested by Mr. Vickers to state, that the Wizard of the North's pamphlet will • be published to-night, and ready for to morrow's delivery. G. Vickers, Strand, London, and all News Agents and Booksellers. Price Is.; by poet, Is. 4d. , s li t stag-s. h_HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her MethaieeaSrYre. g 4 I Tues. Knaphill; Fri. Bed font Tollgate — L d /sT s. evvton Underwood; Fri. Stan nington-10i. Ti n dale hds., Mon. B ywe ll ; Th urs . Hartburn; Bat. H a llington-10i. Isforpb Saydon hds., Wed. Bardon Mill; Sat. Staley-9. Durham County hds. , Mon. A ld en Grange; Wed. Twizel; Fri. Tunstall-10f. Tees. Wolviston; Stockton and Billingham harm, Fri. Brieton, 10i. ---- - - DRURY- LANE THEATRE.—miss Helen Fauna is ,_ playing Juliet f or the last time dari ng her engagement at . ' ng to a close. The character this theatre, which is now ' finest , of her_ performance& is universally allowed tosbied:tahwje FRENCH PLArs— u. JAMES ' 8 THEATRE. —Her h ne ss Prince Albert, attended by Majesty and his Royal . 4 g Edgcumbe , the Hon. Miss Murray, the Countess of Mount n Colonel Grey, and the lion. Alex ander Gordon, honoured no the French Plays with their pre sence on Friday. FEES IN THE COURT OF CHAACERT.— ENORMOUS accounts relating to f e the Court of Chancery bayeo en 0 ou o ancery. The suitors were p 9 d and in stock On Saturday ted 1 the •- " 17/ Bs. Id. n year stock was purchased with f3uBn3d2.atcco!int shows in cash 126,120/. 9s suitors cash to 205,8401 . IGs. The following fees in the year ' e ;;Ai n g the 24th November last amounted to about 134,000. w e give some of the items as fees :—ln the Masters' offices the lees were 36,2124 3s. 7d. ; in the Registrar's office , 15,1861. 17s. ; in the Report (Alice, 3,613/. 6s. 5d.; in the Affidavit office, 11,993/. Bs. 7d ; in the Examiner's offic e, 9851. ss. 4d. ; in the Suhrcena office, 2151. The fees by the secretary of lunati cs were 3,992/. Is. 2d. ; by clerks to masters in lunacy, 3,085/. 11s. 10d, ; by taxing .masters, 29,5801. 1 0 s• ld• ; by the clerk of enrolments, 7,152/. 2s. 10d. ; by record an d writ clerks, 16,7821. 16.5. 4cl. ; by Ole petty bag office, 717 /. ss. Gd and the fees received uncial . the Winding -up A cts were 2. ; 56/. Bs. At the levee on Thursday her Maje s ty wa s p l ease& to confer the hon our of knighthood on the esteemed chid magistrate of Leeds, Mr., now Sir George , Goodman. Sir George, who has filled s present office noless e t ar han ie.., Ifour i times, was introd uced at t h e levee by the Earl o f lia Leeds Mercury, SMALL TALK. We do not despise what is called " small talk" an more y for it, w hen be We are v ery thankful better is not to be h a d . One cannot always be do small change. ta lki n g philosophy, or di scuss i ng heavy matters of . Light conversation—what w e ca ll graceful chat than we staits e really an art—the gay, ornamental art of intellect. Society is nothing without it. You may call it trifling, b u t it is verye agreeable, and it i s very useful. The w orld is ma y s of trifles, and he who can trifle elegantly and gracefully is a valuable acquisition to society. Don't think that a man or woman who chats gracefully about trifles can do nothing else. those light sallies of wit and humour, you may often discern qualities of penetrating sagacity, and a learn! spirit of observation, such as may be looked for va inly wa in persons of more solemn pretensions. Even the is g now-a-days draws his illustrations from book s, Under well up with the current literature of the n o he runs as he reads, but read he does. Ph ' they are out all very well in their way, but sometimes would convert the of place—especially when they Philoso phers are It J. s o me times amusing to parlour into a lecture-room. I. —ll way of small talk see their condescending efforts in . t ue : is nothing to it. —an elephant attempting a m in uet is him in that field, advantage of we look for. The Tho lesser wit has the and gives us the small oha r ng t e hin a g 7 philosopher cannot be e with the fascinationhe cannot be gifted o f ve lig } ht and heavy talk. It is Dhilosopher • let him leave sharp enough that he is.,,,: rs. A genial wit is indeed a great shooting to the tiralu treasure, and is his sayings are cheerfulness, q en . oTment. tiplies harmles s j H. is a generela constant source of happiness to others. favourite; his words arc watched, and a epeated. He lightens care, diffuses quickens the thoughts of others, and mul tiplies Cook's Journal. TESTIMONIAL TO LIETJT. CHARLE S SZULCZBWSKI On Saturday last a number of the Polish exiles invited their gallant friend, Lieutenant Szulczewski, to a dinner at the Freemasons"ravern, and presented him with a handsome s ring, in testimony of the high estimation in which his character is held, and of the valuable services him to the cease of Poland, in connexion with the honour able office which he has for the list ten year" F ri e nds as rendered by secretary of the Liters Association • • f the of ry Association o Poland, to the great satisfaction of his own . co untrymen and the members of the association. The q,:lag, madewhic by a which ia a beautiful specimen o f wor k mans hip , 'and Pole, has on it engraved the family arms of Lieutenant Szulczewski, with a su it a ble inscription in the Polish language. 7 1 4. , a \ ~