The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-15 00:00:00

L LOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS I)AY.) LONDON, MARCH . 15.—Wir.c1 at noon N., breeze an I dull hazy weather. L otiboNnErturr, itIARCH 11,—A.mi. Mary Stewart, Webber, Alexandria ; O u ni, Lsndsome, Ibrail; Fides, Odessa; Jessie, Galatz; Ann, and Aid, Constantinople. ABERDEEN, MARCH 13.—Wind variable.—Sld. Cen taur, Mauritius. ANTWERP, MARCH 12.—The Anna Alidu, from Gro ningen to London, sailed from Yoltkaness 27th Dec., and Las not since been heard of. P4lll B, MARCH 14.—The Jeune Christine, from 5 55 Bianca to Rabatseli and Marseilles, was stranded °U the bar of Lule 12th Feb.,- and condemned; crew saved. JANEIRO, FEB. 13.—The Hopewell, froth Nfonte V ideo to Li ver p oo l, f oun d ere d tat Feb. in lat. 22 S., i ell. 34 W.; crew saved by the Jenny , arrived h er e f ree Newcastle. ST. VINCE NT , CAPE DE VERDS, FEB. 17.—The Martha Shaltvaves, of Liverpool, bound hence for ti e Ri ver Plate, with a cargo of salt, drifted into the (takers off this island when getting under weigh, and is a total loss. - 11 ,. CAPE TOWN CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, FEB. 3.—The from Dundee, in entering Table Bay in the night of 23d Jan., took the ground near the Blue Berg, 811 ( 1 has become a total wreck; crew saved. The Liverpool, from Coquimbo to Queenstown, sprang leak and f oun d ere d 28 t h D ec ., i n l a t. 7 N. long. 32 ~; 18 persona save d by th e El e ment, arrived here from N ew York. DEAL MARCH 13.—Wind E.N.E.; 14 E.N.E.—SId. i lls iatic Sydney, New South Wales; Tallantine, Co- P ' abof James Gibb, Valparaiso; Emily, Mogadore; ;P rosperous, St. Michael's; Chronometer, Leghorn; Pe- Rita, Santander; Eleanor, Mauritius; Queenstown, St. Paul de Loando; Conservative; Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, March 13.—Wind W.S.W.; 14, N.E.— A.rrd. Camilla, Bryan, Newfoundland. Sld. Rafael, Rio Janeiro; Europa steamer, New York; Ensign, Africa; non Pedro IL, Hayti; Tam O'Shanter , Philadelphia; America, New York; Brigand steamer, Beyrout. C 6 WE B . MARCH 14.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Waldemar, Odessa. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 11.—Arrd. Tweeburg, Gro ningen; Arlanso, Buenos Ayes. OFF SALCOMDE, MARCH, 12.—Goan, Fanny, and 14 0yer, St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 14.—Wind E., strong.—Arrd. .?othorus steamer, Hall, Cape of Good Hope; Cto urighf-e, Adelaide, South Australia. '"'/EY, 111Aacu 13.—Wind N.E.—Arrd. Odin, Atendahl; Caroline, Brvig. 6 ,RIELDs MARCH 12.—S1d. Ann Patarson, Aguils. ,IzAL3IOTITH, MARCH 13 AND 14.—Wind E., strong Ocean, Havanuah. Off port, Cmiar, Stepharne, IsT , w Orl- . uns. ePTENza:ticc MARCH 13.—Klio, Bemcarlo. '"PORT, MARCH 13.—V4ind N.E.—Sld. Fernland, "it) rein , V. keikatarr MARCH 13.—Wind N.R—Sld. American, 11: 44 (?); Princess :Sopbia, Hong Kong; General New Orleans. t on .4cH, MARcH 9.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. Hamil- Greenland. 10bT 02 . 14 _ 31 : 13 Y, MARCH 13.—Wind E —Arrd. Ariel , Jen vv....r gam , . Anti gua 111TEHAvicH, MARCH 13.—Wind N.E.—Sld. Anti 133cket, Jamaica. ti ti Ll bE, MARCH 13.—S1d. Affghan, New York; Co ltrtllg Hero, S an Franci..;co; Hudson, New York; Sir ,„,.;rt Campb e ll , N ewfoun dl an d. aliciv° ATE RFORD, MARCH 13.—Wind E.S.E. to S.S.E. y 1. 7 E.—Sid. James, Galatz. 4 NAL, M ARCH 13.—Wind S.S.E.— Arrd. Ann si‘beth, Tangy, Ibraila. 13, e,NEtTowN, MARCH 12.—Wind E., fresh breeze; Arrd. Yen us, Pernambuco; Zephyr, Barbadoea; 44, 0 , • ata ni . ',Gibson, Alexandria; ]Maid of Athens, Con k h in° Ple;:Tullen Park, Odessa; Mali. Marco, Thralls; Patras. Sld. Aria, New Orleans. Er It°°lll.lA, anEN, MARCH 12.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. King Lkst, Startd Ctio, Alexandria. MAR KET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) The EXCHANGE—MONDAY. ck . " e c ountry markets held on Saturday were but mo sL'el_,Y supplied with English Wheat, nevertheless the -tu for kinds ruled heavy, at in some instances a porttieciinein all the quotations of is per quarter. At the . out- P t ; b f° rcign Wheats were generally held at full prices. Adal'arley was scarce, hut the show et other qualities IC tolerably good. Average business was transactTi th, 133 1 e st kinds, at previous currencies. No . change in I , l',"' t , s • Oats, Beans, and Peas, were unaltered in value. klotir trade was dull. s r „,,, h e markets in H o ll an d , as we ll as u p the Baltic, have tti Li zt ued firm for Wheat, at full quotations. In France i e4 leur trade,has,r u l e d dull. The latest advices from bl*York state that the value of Flour was well sup d. arrivals of English Grain up to our market last 4,`' sa ; were very moderate. From abroad we reeeivea quarters of Wheat, 3,559 'Barley, 13,784 Oats, 11;;ti'l T are 5,2,963 Linseed, 22 sundry seeds, 720 sacks barrels of Flour. t0,: 4 4 e supply of Wheat fresh up to our market to-day 1 117, "ii8° from Essex and Kent, was very moderate, but of t - h lc ellent condition. From Suffolk, &c,. the receipts rt.' . -4t grain were: limited; whilst those by land car -4,1•° ;ware trifling. Notwithstanding that the show . of for&Pcf both red and white was small, and that mil- . keneral are short of stock, the demand for all 6e rPt' lees Was in a very inactive state. Selected par tlit,„.` white were mostly disposed of, at prices equal to star obtained on this day se'nnight; but, in some in atm static low and middling kinds gave way Is per quarter, x tt clearance was with difficulty effected. to t idber ous offers came to hand to forward Wheats bti t h Etat coast, as well as from the midland districts; th e transactions were very limited. Alie tb th f oreign Wheat we were but moderately sup for Yet the leading millers purchased all kinds only told tilE"lnediate wants. The trade WAS therefore heavy, 44 43 441 P qualities were offering on somewhat lower ' fl For export, next to nothing was doing. P° l •ted -"t ing cargoes very few transactions were re c,gyptian Wheat was held at 29s to 29s 6d per. r Th 7, freight, cost, and insurance. sra k e k how 43t both English and foreign Barley was tl ki t i t .' 'mad a large po r ti on of the supply was unlit for hip,:k 1/ purposes. Sales progressed slowly; but we i, l" 1 , 0 d ecline IO notice in prices. ttad,, c ame rather freely to hand. On the whole the Wor t - h w as steady at late rates, the best Chevalier being ci 60 3 per qu a rt e r. 1) 11: (1(1 'c l und Oats were in fair demand, at late figures. tut, ti Parcels, the show of which was good, were the favour of buyers. h ad a very doll inquiry for Beans, the prices of T il e We re almost nominal. 1 '44 !ale for Peas was very inactive, and late rates Indi an difficulty support e d. Th La n Corn w as m uc h neg l ec t e d . elAi tu e value of the best English and foreign Flour was atte d • butall other kinds were very dull, and the 411 0 _ 1. , pv, ,° • .„'ITRRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. at - K Malt—Chevalier • • 5Ss to GOs ' 393 to 4 , 5 s Oats— Yorkshire and 4 bite, New 42s 52* Lincolnsh., Feed. 18a 22s Or folk and Lin- Potato bit t. : ol n, Red..... 39s 45s Youghal and Cork, 'White."... 425 48s Black . • ....• 18s 21s Oh, Red.. •• —s -4 ' Cork, White ... • • 19. 22 3 1174,,,,itt0 Whit • Scotch, Feed. • • 22s '26, h • • 325 7 s Beans—Tick .• • • • • 26 s 37 3 ate",,• •• • • •••• •• •• . 28s 34s P i geons , ....... 32s 34 3 Y 24s 27s Pere—Grey.. ~„„ 28s 31 3 41-- ..• ••••• •• • 27a 32s 89s 32 3 It -ChevalierEt - -Safrolk 3" 37' White... 26s 29 3 f01k...... Boilers ••••• •• • • 34 3 B rown ......... 1:1, 54s Flour—Town-made. •• _39 , s 43 Kingston and Ware 48a Suffolk • • .. • O'Z: , •so 513 56, Stocktn & Norfolk 325 36 3 The supply of Lin Seed in warehouse is now very ta tted; hence importers are fi 4t '‘'s; Black Sea, 44s to 465• nn• the k „ ,a , and O L de o s w sa ß , i4g6ash; has sold pPinents from.have realised 41s to 425; '''Ntkh.s.ngel,,Sced L is bold at 345; - 8 are nrm; uut,most other ante' 38s per quarter. .es are a slow sale. are firm; 83 to its Carrawa 1 0 12s Coriander• •• • ••• • 33 369 til Sw e . ••• •• 5 Ilempseed-n.• • 15s 196 ta•rTer xe,l' Brown... •• • • 6 O ' d Linseed. P. ' • er quarter 323 358 lte, new •• • • • • Qi n nter c P ,g Crueihin g i s . °w . in g - 58 s 6 3s .• 4 4a ad 5s Od Baltic t' B 52 s' L 8 1, 15,m, ** •••• • •• 423 Odessa • . • 40 s 463 '93 Per quarter .. 3.1 s sus Linseed Cake,pr.l,oooL 448 48, tis • 245 645 English .. io. lot 0 ,k'' i ted Eng. (cwt.) 4 , 1 4 ' 623 Foreign, per ton 7159 8118: • White.... 4 5 s z:d ...• • 608 Rape Cakes , pr ton 4 , 15 3 4/ 10, Trefoil Fo reign Red .• • • •nes Rape seed, N ew, pr Ist 211 Os 231 es , •••• • 248 28s p ivraimusT. norcouart . qo. —our last report, a moderate business has been i ve lll k g in fine new Hops, at full prices. Inhallooittr,,_k6irseellst to me ti ou lit,C 4 v , t very few transactions, ditto, 1265. to 140 etc 1 12 s to 1265; Weald of Kent, _ a; kid and East Kent ditto, 140 s to 2503 per cat. b tu, W. ; , a h -w eek's imports of Wooer were only 87 bags,. from um ?tr'--, til i: t eh • The shipments to Holland and Belgium, 11 9 1, a portion of the colonial qualities disposed_otoaot. r t lffe t c, , E ' t Public sales, were large. The quantity of Wool in the private contract market is, conipath mountall; yet, owing to the firmness of holders, e ° f business doing is limited. The ; SiViXTUrXELD. ` r nports of foreign stock into Londo . n, last week, r,taiD,.,"°t moderate, viz., 1.678 head. During the cor phq,;44l,ding eri o d,' in 1851, they amounted to 2,233; in ikhe ;, `,6l9 ; P in 18 ' 49, 1,7; and in 1848, 1,351 head. d' otaV le ral condition of this supplies lately received ' "miliand by no means first-rate. Fro 11 PORTs INTO LONDON IN TILE PAST , WEEK. ‘qtE Beasts• Sheep. Lambs. Calves. 1 14). t dara 1 „ • 1 12 , ... 177 ... A sa r ,_ •• , • irtae7 l . ••18 ... 0s 111) 14 .... te,d •• • • 113 ... 5 ... - ..• ••• 1 11 e e (.9 .. 212 "ez, 4 rlY comparison of the weekly arrivals mat Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pip: lqt s ,„ ........ 4 4 2 1,495 ... 186 ... 13 1,4 9 `' . 7 .. ... 7 25 ... f 765 ••• 189 184, 8 :•• ...... 37 2 1,180 177 ... t t.v, - "• 436 806 .. 109 I) . , itty time ear the supply of beasts on sale here l de a and in Lull average condition, es portion received Portion rfceived from Nurtolk and Soot u'l°a a,:',Ptwithatanding that the attendance of both 0 4 ,4;"country buyers was good, and that the weather c urable for slaughtering, the beef trade was in a Ai st a t e , yet we bavenoactual fall to no 3 tice B in o Isr alb a vatreme value of the best Scots w d as From and, a total clearance was not effected. we re ved 2,9uffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire , 4 , _ Oa 2% 2 COO Scots, short-horns and Herefor d s; et ons" er parts of England, 800 Herefords, -0 0 r uuts, ; „d , f„m Scotland, '44141 and polled Scots, chiefly per railway. THE SUN, , With Sheep we were tolerably well, but not to say heavily .uFplied; and about 4,000 wore cut of the, wool. All breeds met a very dull inquiry, end list week's cur rency was with difficulty - supported. Tile prime“ old Downs in the wool sold at 4s 4d, cut of wool 3s 8d per Sib. About 600 Lambs were brought forward, and which sold heavily, at from 4s 8d to 5s per 81bs. Calves earn° slowly to haud ; nevertheless, the &mend for them was heavy, at late rates. In Pigs very little business was transacted, but we have no change to notice in their value. Per Bibs. to ',lnk the offtl. a. d. to a. d Interior Beasts.— .. 2 4 2 6 Sccondqnality .... 2 R 3 0 Prime largo Oxon.. 3 2 3 4 Primo Scots ...• .. 3 0 3 8 - 1 urge coarse Calves 3 4 310 erimtarnall ditto 4 0 4 6 Sucklin: Calves ..21 0 24 0 Lambs 0 0 0 0 s. d. to s. J Inferior Sheep .• • 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 3 0 3 6 Coarse-woolled ditto 3 8 310 Catthdown Nether 4 0 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 Largo Hogs • 2 6 3 6 5 . .rna1l Porkers ••.. 3 8 310 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 29 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARIIET Shonp. I Calves. rigs. ! 22,700 1 141 I 350 FOREIGN surrLY. Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 800 105 A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, March 17, 1851, and:this day, Monday, March 15, 1852. Reusts. 4,192 387 Per Blbs., to sink the oftals. March 17, 1851. s. d. s. d. . 2 6to 2 8 2 10 3 0 32 3 4 36 3 8 36 3 8 310 4 0 42 4 4 44 4 6 00 0 0 Mar. 15,1852. a. d. S. d. 2 4to 2 6 28 3 0 32 3 4 36 3 8 2 8 310 30 3 6 3 8 410 40 4 4 00 0 0 Coarse and inferior Beasts ... Second quality ditto ... Prime large Oxen .. Prime Scots, & c Coarse and inferior Sheep... ... Second quality ditto ... Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... Prime Southdown ditto . Large coarse Calves ... Prime small ditto ... 34 3 8 310 4 0 4 310 0 4 6 Large Hogs .. ... 3 0 3 6 2 6 3 6 Small Porkers ... 3 8 4 0 3 8 310 Beasts ... ... 3,591 4,129 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 18,820 22,900 Calves ... 120 141 Pigs .. •. . . 280 360 SUPPLIES ON SALE, MARCH 18, 1850. —Beasts, 3,578 ; Sheep and Lambs, 1,984 ; Calves, 102 ; Pigs, 190. MAncti 19, 1849. 8ea5t5,3,720 ; Sheep and Lambs, 22,240 ; Calves, 111 ; Pigs, 260. NEUTGATS AND MEADENHALL. Since Monday- last these markets have been somewhat heavily supplied with meat killed in the provinces, whilst the show of most kinds slaughtered in London have been seasonably good. Generally speaking, the d•'mand has ruled heavy, and prices have been with difficulty support( d. At per stone by the Carcase. a. d. to I. d. s. d. to a.:,. Beef, inferior ••• • .. 2 2 2 4 yi ntton, Interior •. 2 6 2 8 - middling .. •• 2 6 2 8 ' middling.. 210 3 2 primelarge •• 210 3 0 prime ••.• 3 4 3 8 -- prime small 3 2 3 4 ; Pork, large • • •• 2 4 210 3 0 4 0 - small • • 3 0 3 8 BOILOUGN AND SPITALFIELDS. Our markets are still heavily supplied with Potatoes, chiefly by railway. The general quality of the samples is very middling. For all kinds, the demand still rules dull, as follows : Per Ton. 1 Per Ton. Vorksh. Regents. 60s to 80sIKentish Red Kid. —s to —s Ditto Slums .. ... —8 to —siCambridge LinColn. and Wis- Kent Regents tiOs to 75s beach Scotch Regents 6OB to 70slEssex Shaws ... —s to Perth Cups Forfarshire ditto. 55s to 60s1Kent &Essx. Mid. —s to — s Common Whites. —s to —s!French Neweastle & Ber- !Dutch Whites —B to ..... wick Regents.. —s to —sChats .. ......... TAx.i.our. - - - The demand for Tallow en the spot is firm ct 365 3d to 361 6d for P Y C; and we have no sellers for the last three months under 37s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow, 36s per cwt net cash; Rough Fat, 2s Oid per Blbs. Tho stock is now 46,849 casks. The delivery last week amounted to 2.495 ditto. 1849. 1650. 1851. 18x2. Is4s. 3teck this day Price of Y. C. • • • • I Delivery last week • • Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week . Ditto from June 1 ... Price of Town 8,799 508 9G 1,3'84 88,388 4,221 87,648 52s Od 29,220 35,378 403 rid 378 Oct to NU to OsOd 1,507 1 , 65 7 54,1b7 77,929 040 104,0 4 , 87,8 34 43s Od 39s Ed 35,286 ; 46,819 39s Gd to! 3is 3d 40s td to 3686 d 1,536 2,495 19,358 9" , ,249 210 92,126 100,364 404 02 , 38s 92 lILBRO'-STREE T-( T HIS DAY); NoT VERY PROFESSIONAL.—Mr. John Robert, solici tor, of No. 5, Woburn-place, Brunswick-square, was creating a disturba nce at t h e Argyll E'°°l33s' charged bef ore M r . Bi ngham w ith being drunk and Windmill street. Police-constable 85 A said, on Saturday night he was on duty at the eetrance of the Argyll Rooms, when he was called to remove the defendant, who was very tipsy, and creating a great disturbance, to the annoy ance of the visitors. As defendant refused to leave the place, witness conveyed him to the station. Mr. BINGHAM inflicted the usual drunkard's penalty of 55., which was at once paid. RINGING THE CHANGES.—John IVoodstoch was brought before Mr. Bingham charged with uttering a counterfeit half-sovereign. Maria Eiworthy. barmaid at the Black Horse, in Coventry-street, deposed that on Saturday night, about seven o'clock, the defendant came into the house and called for a glass of ale, in payment for which he ten dered a sovereign, and she gavo him in change a half sovereign and the rest in silver. She then left to serve another customer, and on her returning to the bar the defendant asked her to give him all silver, at the same time putting down what appeared to be a half-sovereign. Mr. Surridge, her master, was about to give the pri soner the change, when be immediately detected the coin to be counterfeit. A constable was then sent for and the prisoner given iu charge. Mr. Surridge proved that the coin produced was the same piece he received from the prisoner, and added that on being given in charge he (prisoner) s w a llowed the half-sovereign which he had received from the bar maid. The prisoner was remanded till Thursday. CRUELTY To A HORSE.—George Tray appeared in answer to a summons, granted at the instance of Mr. Thomas, Secretary of the Royal Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, charging him with . ill-treating ' and torturing a horse, David Watson, an officer in the employ of the above society, stated that on the 18th of last month, he was near Ilan way-yard, Tottenham-court-road, when his at tention v, as called to the defendant who was driving a horse and cart. On examining the horse, he found it to be in a very poor condition, and much shot over the fore legs. There were several cuts in the fetlocks, and on the eff side shoulder there was a wound of four inches in length and three in width; the collar was rubbing it, and the wetted we.. quite Yew and Weeding, and the collar wee covered with blood. The horse was in a miserable con dition and totally unfit for work. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said the horse had been laying up for some time, and he bad only taken it into work on the day mentioned by the officar. On defendant's prowising - not to work the horse in future, the MAGISTRATE inflicted the moderate fine of 108. and costs. BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTI- TUTION.—(TITIS DAY.) ' A special general meeting of the mends and sub. scribers to this useful charity, which waa founded for the purpose of giving relief to ug,d and decayed mem bers of the building trade, was held this morning at the offices of the institution, New Oxford-street, for the purpose of taking into consideration a proposed altera tion of Ow rules ; Mr. T. Grissell, president, in the chair. The report, which was highly satisfactory, stated that there are now on the funds of the society eight males and four females, and that, owing to the very large number of pressing applications, it is the intention of the directors to hold another election in May next, when three more will be elected. Owing to a re cent alteration in the bye-laws the benefits of the society are extended to the provinces, and the directors are em powered to appoint district committees for carrying out details. The ( report concluded by observing that the expectations formed of the success of the institution at its formation had !area fully borne out by results, end the directors hoped that the public would come forward and T enable them to still further extend its benefits. The CHAIRMAN having hilt fly addressed the meeting and ~. explained the objects for which they had met, be carried to their bl r• .. 1 oslitiA H ~ that rule 1 e IGGS mo v ed altered to the f , llowing, viz., for the encouragement of Mr. JOSEPH unsuccessful . candidates, all votes polled by being put to BlRcredit at the ensuing elections." them shall wh m ic r b . , G up E o o n ßc h E e seconded m e e t t h i n o g, was proposed carried u a alteration, ni . BIRD. treasur.er, proposed a vote of mously. bleb. having been briefly separated. thanks to the chairman acknowledged, the meeting PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the Rouse of ) NO TICES GIVEN AT ME PRIVATE . BILL OFFICE - The following Bills, are appointed to be read a second tine on Wednesday, March 17 : Abbey Tintern and Bigswear Roads. Battle and Robertsbridge Road. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 3). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 4). Shields and Morpeth Roads. Sormersetshire Central Railway. Southam to Kineton Road. Thetford Fen District Drainage. Torquay Blarket and Slaughter-houses. TORY PREPARATIONS FOR THE ELECTIONS. —The leaders of the monopolist 'And dear bread party now in power, are, it is understood, making preparations for the forthcom ing dissolution of Parliament, and have already subscribed a very large sum of money at the Cadton Club, for the purpose of " managing', the elections.--Morning Paper• DEATH O 1 THE LION. WILLIAM BOOTH GREY. — This venerable gentleman, whose death took place on Thurs day, in Charles-street, Berkeley -square, at an advanced age, was eldest son of the fifth Earl of Stamtdrd and Warrington, and married first, 1802, the daughter of Thomas Pryce, Esq., of Duffryn, who died 1837 ; and secondly, 1838, he Hon. Frances Somerville, sister to 'Lord Somerville, of neither of whom bad the Hon. Gentleman issue.- ) DARING HIGUWAY ROBBERX.--OH Saturday. In. formation was received by the police that W. Reynolds, Esq., of Thurning House, Norfolk, bad been attacked near his own house by two footpads, who, after ill-using him, tied him to a tree, and - took from his person 831. in notes and gold, and two old guineas, with which they made off. LONDON, LITERATURE MICHA UD'S LIFE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE Translated by .ilons . V. L. Chemery. Hamilton Adams, and Company. Agitated as the public mind has lately been both in France and England by the confiscation of the Orleans' property, it becomes a matter of peculiar in terest to refer to the pages of the brilliant volume in which the history of Louis Philippe has been penned by the master-hand of Michaud, the editor and one of the authors of the celebrated Bio graphic Universelle. Thanks to the industry of Mons. Chemery, the reading public of these islands have been furnished in the book here submitted to our criticism with a very careful and in many respects a very admirable translation. Perhaps no more en thralling narrative could be adventured upon than the account of Louis Philippe and his fortunes, the ac count of an extraordinary man and his extraordinary vicissitudes. That our estimate of the character of that remarkable personage, as a sovereign, is very far indeed from being flattering or even complimentary, we conceive must long since have been to the majo rity of our readers sufficiently apparent. Consider ing him, therefore, in his political capacity, our views may be at once pronounced identical with those ex pressed in the work of M. Michaud. Nevertheles, when we observe the energies of that gifted and ex perienced writer directed in every instance to the de lineation of a sinister mind, of a corrupt heart, of an evil nature, and of a despicable temperament, when we find this g l oomy an d f an t as ti c car i ca t u re put for ward by him as the accurate resemblance of the late ex-King of the French in his private as well as his public: capacity, in his domes tic as well as . his despotic movements, in his aspect as a man as well as a monarch—we shrink from a coincidence of opinions which could not but affect us very speedily with sentiments not dissimilar from those inspired by emotions of re morse. Even the devil, they say, is not so black as he is painted. Admirable as the portraits of Rem brandt are as works of art in themselves, they can not but be regarded in those sombre shadows and irridescent lights as to a very considerable extent most unnatural. Reality but seldom, at least, has such a very strongly defined chiar 'oscuro. As a father and a husband we believe Louis Philippe to have been no less entitled to admiration than he was during the flower of his manhood, when struggling through innumerable miseries, an exile from the land of his ancestors, and a wanderer over the face of Christendom. Such, however, appears not to have been the estimate formed of his character by his present distingUished biographer. Imbued as the mind of the latter is with his predilections in favour of the elder branch of the House of Bourbon, he na turally enough, under the circumstances, regards the son of the infamous Egalite through an atmosphere of unconquerable prejudice. Already the animosity cherished by M. Michaud against the House of Or leans had been conspicuously rendered apparent by his memoir of the Regent, given in the thirty-second volume of the Biographie Universelle. Another his torical fragment from the seine pen—relating, in the same wonderful publication, to the father of L ou i s Philippe, the ever-e xec r a bl e Egalite—had revealed how profound was his hatred, or rather, we should say, his loathing for that wretched man, who hatched in his villanous court at the Palais Royale "all those plots which over turned the throne and led to the scaffold the most virtuous of those sixty kings who have reigned over France"—the meek and martyred Louis XVI. Pre cisely a similar spirit is apparent throughout the whole of the present volume as was manifested in those remarkable and powerfully-written memorials. Having alluded to the uncertainty of Louis Philippe's parentage—an uncertainty which fixed upon him the inuendo of bastardy—M. Michaud insists upon the evil necessarily resulting from his education having been intrusted to Madame de G-enlis, " a hypo critical woman of infamous character," who, he adds was notorious at the time for being his father's con cubine, The biographer insists in addition to this that Louis Philippe was still further corrupted in his youth by being initiated into all the basest plots of that vilest epoch of the Revo lution—enjoying, moreover, the intimate friend ship of the most odious conspirators. His nar rative from that period advances in interest with _ • -- every successive chapter—recounti ng as it does the association of the fortunes of the young Prince with those of General Dumouriez, through the stormy battles of Valmy and Jemappes, until their simul taneous flight from the armies of the Revolution. Sub sequently to that notorious act of desertion, it proves, to the discredit of the ex-Monarch, that ho repeatedly endeavoured to obtain military employment from the enemies of his country, not only feeling no horror whatever at being the pensioner of the foes of France, but seeking eagerly to be enlisted among the forces employed against his fellow-countrymen in Sweden, in Sicily, in Spain, but more especially in the latter instance, when the English were ad vancing triumphantly across the Peninsula under the banners of Lord Wellington. The most interesting periods in the life of the Duke of Orleans here men tioned are of,course, his return to Paris in 1814, his elevation to the throne iu 1830, and his ignominons abdication and flight in 1848, when royalty gave place to that renovated Republic, which has since been happily consolidated under the segis of the glorious name of Napoleon. As appendices we have papers respectively on " The Conspi rac i es of 18 16," an d on "The Assassination of th e D u k e de Bour b on, Prince de Conde"—the writer insisting, in the latter case, that suicide was at once morally and physically impossible. The labours of editor and translator in reference to this enthralling work of M. Michaud have, as the title-page indicates, d evo l ved upon M ons i eur V. L. Chemery, 8.L., o f t h e University of P ar i s, and Professor of Modern Languages, Marlbo rough College —a gentleman whose capabi lities in both respects, as editor of a new edition, and as t rans l ator into the English language, have been alike h ere consp i cuous ly mani fested. Hisindustry in compiling the volume under consideration will be gratefully remembered by those numerous readers wh o cannot fail to be interested in the examination of a career like that of Louis Phi lippe, a career fraught with c h anges not o f ten paral leled in their diversity, a history variously coloured with shame and with splendour, with the most pathetic alternations of fortune and the most romantic vicissitudes. THE BRITISH MUS.EUM. No. I. Another weekly periodical ! And one, too, of a somewhat novel and therefore acceptible character. Apart from one or two original compositions, prose and poetical, the principal portion consists of extracts of either a valuable or entertaining kind—extracts from standard authorities or popular works of a mis cellaneous description—yielding either, as the case may suggest, information or amusement. Its con tents are distributed under a variety of headings, ranging respectively over the departments of art, science, and literature. The peculiarities of the new periodical may be best conjectured from the headings of the several departments, as Anecdotes, the Useful, Odds and Ends, " Nolions" and " Fixins," Incidents of Travel, Incidents of Character, Chit Chat, and besides a large number of others, a Panopticon of Science, including Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Electricity, Meteorology, Mineralogy, Phrenology, and Electro-Biology. WHO'S TO WIN THE DERBY? By the Wizard of the North. Vickers. Under this quaint title a p am phl e t h as j us t ma d e its appearance, containing some extraordinary disclo sures about the turf, and professing to give a solution of the Derby problem. It deals first with the odds, and if the author's statements are true, but slight reli ance should be placed upon the Derby betting at this period of the year. He says, "it is of essential import ance, that the returns of the odds should be made with accuracy, as well as checked by a strict and vigi• lant impartiality, as indeed they are in the majority of cases. Of late years, however, the amount of busi ness transacted at Tattersall's has very materially fallen off; et one time there was no other medium but Tattersall's through which money could be in vested on horse racing, but since the abolition of ' Derby Sweeps,' Lists,' as they are termed, have sprung up not only in every part of the m etropolis, but also in most of our large provincial towns, such as Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingha m, Leeds, York, and Hull, where the public money is put on to an almost fabulous extent. Parties who formerly sent their commissions to the ' Corner,' now prefer to lay out their money with some of the great list proprietors but nevertheless the returns from Tatter sail's are still recognised as the onl authority for re• gulating betting t ra nsactions upon y racing we therefore wi sh in undertakin g "ups and downs " to draw attention the onset of our to theob I te concludes with tend to e to the , views which these events , returns and goes on to encourage." The pamphlet then in favour o e the odds for the last fifty years, ‘, what the writer calls the and the first chapterin chapter introduces us Noble." . The second a recommen dationtold that " of all the abuses tha t degrade the Press, the practice of indisc rimin a t e l y admitting advertisements into its column sriminately admitting tip The ruin and misery which it i h s a t s he most pernicious. occasioned is be yond calculation:' The subsequent part ter, which is writt en i n a strong, energetic of the c h a p style, en deavours to prove this ; an d certainly the_ author,l seems to 119, has performed th e tas k well of the tipsters generally._" An old proverb i e $ s u it:" tell s that ' a little learning is a dangerous thin g ; th . ' but a little success in betting is not only dangerous, but too often leads to destruction, and many a tip sub scriber knows th is , to his cos t. W e h appen to have seen someth ing of .the romancing fraternity, and without making a s ingle exception, we unhesi tatingly denounce them as but one d egree remo , red from begging-letter impostors. They are no less in deed than hangers-on at love List Houses or dis carded cab-drivers or flash men upon town, and none of them have more means of obtaining racing informa tion than the ignoramuses upon whom they live and fatten." If they are supported after this exposure those who are thus warned against speculating in horse-racing, deserve to lose their money, say we. The third chapter deals with " The Prophets," whom the author appears disposed to rather compliment than to censure ; but he makes one exception, and that one is no less than th e great Yates, w h o, according to the Wizard, is "a wiry and obscure writer, fond of long-windedand tortuously entangled sentences, re lieved now and then by involutions of thought, that forcibly recal the two lines of Pope : Such laboured nothings in so strange a style, Amaze the unlearned —and make the learned smile.'" After tracing the opinion of the prophets upon the forthcoming Derby, as disclosed in their published effusions, the pamphlet proceeds to give " a solution of the problem;' and here we must be allowed to take leave of this racy production, for it would neither suit the author's purpose nor our own t o wa d e through his premises and conc l us i ons. S u ffi ce it to say, that the subject is j u di c i ously, though smart l y , handled, and since the brochure is replete with useful and interesting information, we strongly recommend it to the perusal of the sp or ti ng world, whose name, now-a-days, is Legion. DRUR -LANE THEATRE. The Sicilian Bride promises to be established as one of the most favourite operas ever produced in this rent & Reeves, Mr. Whitworth, country. A certain degree o f h eaviness, by which i t was, in some measure, marred on i ts f i rst representat i on, now ceases to exist. Judi c i ous curtailments and g night, and Balfe's beautiful music, with the o ad mirable Mr. Drayton, Miss Chrichton, and Mi ss Isaacs, cannot fail to attract a series of equally f u ll and fashiona bl e audiences as have attended each r e p resentation o f t h e iihin exertions gs r. sina Sicilian Bride. S aturday vocal te n were o f pleasurably m ASSOCIATIO N. TifEBRADFORD TO THE SECRETARY OF (CONTINUED D WEDNESDAYS.) REFOON MONDAYSRM ASSOACNI Sir,—On Friday the 12th the H ouse of Commons es assembled, with an understanding th at nothing con nectedwould be brought forward till Monday. An Electric Tel egrap h Bill, i n with the Ministerial changes which there are signs of the commerce of Bradford reading by the largebeing m i a n j t e e r r i e t y s t e e d f , 21 w 0 e t n o t 6 t cl o . a second You will see in all the newspapers detailed accounts of what passed at the meeting at Lord J o h n Russe ll' s on Thursday. You will readily collect, that the trial of dis pmoesei ttiiennge andsetve f d e e l rather m t h e n e g p fr u i ;p n o d s s e 0 f a I than of deter mining any distinct line o f action to b e i mmediately assumed. The representatives of the Leagu e were evi dently conciliatory and mild, as befitted their position. The representatives of what . take to themselves the title of the party of Parliamentary R eform, were impracticable and repulsive, in a . way which suggests that they have something lodging in their minds, invite, which it would !r - , hazardous to say the public sill treat with respect when it appears. Iwo propositions ri th o e t y ß n an broad bottomed administration; on which. subject they in vited to irreverent mirth by the delicacy with which g ad li e sh p , rominent. One, that they . d emand a they substituted a "broad" administration, which is Cobbett's descriptions of verbal affectations. and only reminds the hearers of som e o f t all trouble in that direction is only throw n he other, that Free Trade is in no danger, and, in ference,byAnd is that if any good is practically wrought in the Way away. The conclusion to which they strongly of Parliament ar y Reform, it will be neither with them, nor without them, but in spite of them. A common friend who had possessed the ear of th e meeting, might h av e improved the occasion to the 1 offering a salutary counse l to each and every of th e parties severally presen t by their representatives. T o the Free Traders he might have said, that bef ore independe n t men an d po liticians will take an active part with them again , t h e re must be security given that th e thi ng shall not en d in the lame and impotent way it did before; and the reasonable pledges for this, are that the Free Traders shall announce their resolu tion to carry the success which shall ultimately attend them, t o th e reasona bl e l en gth of doing away with what goes by the name of the " one•sh illing duty,' and furth er , so far at least as in them lies,. place the representati ve of their cause in the office of President of the Board of Trade when the time comes. When a man has eaten a certain quantity of the public salt, he ceases to belong to himself, and is bound to be at all calls. There might once have been a delicacy about Placing an extreme man in office. But after what has taken place, it is only a proper assurance to the public, that victory is not to be made a shuttle cock. I believe was ment i one d i n a f orme r letter, a friend not unk nown i n t h e A nt i-C orn -l aw con t es t, and On this subj ec t o f th e " one - s hilling duty," which pro fessional in the immediate line concerned, has pointed out some facts which had escaped my innocence. He has demonstrated to me, that when this duty of ls. per quarter fell upon Oats which during a large part of last year ranged at about 15a. a quarter, it was not a duty of 21 per cent. but of more than 7 per cent.; and in the cases of Barley, Rye, Peas, and Beans, if they are taken as ranging between 21s. and 318. a quarter, it was from 5 to 3 and one third per cent. If it is imperatively necessary to know the quan tities of grain imported, surely it might be done otherwise than by this " shilling duty. No man would pay a shilling on going through a turnpike, on the pretence that it was desirable to possess stat i st i ca l information on th e num b er of passers through, when a simple tell-tale wou ld d o as well. Is it worth pay ing 2,3, 4,5, 6, an d 7 per cent on every quarter of grain that comes i n t o the country, for the sa k e o f knowing, that there was a q uarter o f gra i n t Why not put a tax of fr om 2 to 7 per cent. on gra i n i n the shear, " merely for inf ormation " ? To the friends of P ar li amentary Reform, the sup posed friend might h ave pointed out, how closely the circumstances of the new contest connect other interests with the question of Parliamen tary Reform. For instance, the grotesque absurdity of the trick of unequal Electoral Divisions, never stood out in such strong relief, as now that a Prime Minister has said there shall be no Corn law, unless his men voting by hundreds beat your men voting by thousands. Th e question never was in such a position before ; it i s lik e the flea, o r baser compa nion, lodged between tw o p i eces of glass for a micro scope ; we never had such a chance to see the suc k er and the claws, and the wonderful peristaltic motion by which the blood of tho se who find it, is assimilated to the substance of the devourer. To the statesman who formed the centre of the meeting, he might have recalled the example of the great Corsican, who w hen he assembled a council of war, heard everybody, and then steered his way through conflicting opinions with the certainty of being supported by the mass. The responsibility of doing, in such circumstance s i s great ; but the re sponsibility of not doing, i s at least equal. Nothing is plainer than that, without the 'machine will not move. It is a problem to be solved, bow and by what road, an individual promoted to the exercise of such a duty shall out of the nettle discord pluck the flower safety. I sin, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN eat -- 4 1) REFORMER. Blackheath, 15th March, 1852. burglary was perpetrated in the cou BURGLARY AT MR. Az Dn • It MAN CARTER'S.—A shop of Mr. Alderman Carter, ehro r" and jeweller, at the corner of es:el:meter and watchmaker street, when property to theof Friday night at the rtill and Bishopsgate pounds was carried off. It app eal i amountt;i of several hundred tamed through the back of the shop, Wheret an entry was ob leading to a printing-office. A slight w there is a passage only division, and it would seem that b ooden partition is the bit an entrance was effected. The thieZ:emeans of a centre ters of rings, brooches, and other articles o s f a:wept the coun jewellery abstracted is estimated at betweenewelery. The No watches were removed. A reward of 4 00/. and 500/. 100/. has been offered for the apprehension of the burglars, ATTEMPT OF THE MURDERER li ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—The Italian, 'Caleb AllEaGo TO convicted at the last assizes of the wilful ranrclaerrg o, who was a jeweller, at Banbury, and is now awaiting execution,°f his uncle, a most determined attempt on Friday "no made from Oxford Castle, the prison in whi c h rag to escape Since his condemnation he has been permitted Is confined. yard belonging to the prison, accompanied b to walk in a was taking his usual airing on Friday morni n g , a guard. He the attendant was looking another way, he made and while leap; and succeeded in scaling the wall lik e a e a desperate top of the wall some stout iron railings ar i 'cat. ,At the contrived to run along the wall, and succeedeed) L !'eed. but he some distance to the top of another wall, whi c h in springing to be the boundary of the prison, but in this he!ie imagined was mis taken, for there was still another beyond, and, from the con further.struction of the building, he was - unable t o His movements were soon perceived , any alarum bell being rung, several of the turnkey s w .' and, the diately on the look out. The prisoner, fi n di a e i r i ! imme i impossible, waited patiently till a ladder Was setgfo la escape descend. He was then conveyed to his cell, and r him to manacled. This is the second attempt made b___aETcurely to escape. On a previous occasion he jumped ' Y fro t la a hig for bergh o w indow, and broke his leg. Hisie xecuti on is fixed eight o'clock on Monday'morning next. MARRIAGE IN. HIGH LIF E . --Upon t he 10th inst at Gort Church, by the Hon, and Rev. William O'Grady, uncle to the bride, C. M ' R — on t e ith Hamilton, Es q., Captain in the 92d Highlanders, eldest son of J.. G. H amilton, E st , , of Glasgow, to the lion. Ma ria Corinna Terker, , daughter' of Viscount and Viscountess Gort. The bride was attired in a rich white brochee silk, with a veil and polka of Limerick lace, and crowned with a wreath of orange fl owers and honeysuckle. She was at tended by six bridesmaids, dressed in white tarlatan, with bonnets to match, ornamented with jasmine, and' each wore over her dress a rose-coloured par dessus. The church was densely crowded, and the appear ance of this lovely group attracted universal admiration. After the ceremony the company adjourned, amidst the heartfelt congratulations of a happy tenantry, to Loughcooter Castle, where a sumptuous repast was provided, and where they were welcomed by a large family party. At five o'clock the happy pair left in their travelling chariot for Fortfergus, where they will pass the honeymoon- The Duchess de Leuchtenberg, daughter of the Emperor of Russia, was safely delivered on the 11 instant of a son, who received the name of George. COMFORT versus MUDDLE. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) We English folks love Comfort dearly. The word Comfort is said to be peculiarly English; and untrans latable, in its full weaning, into any foreign language. It might almost be said of many families—they worship Comfort. That it is their Household god, is not saying too much. Comfort is closely identified with the idea of Hame. At least, we English never dissociate the one notion from the other. Abroad, the people can contrive to live out.of doors. They find pleasure in public gardens or casinos, listening to music and sipping coffee. In warmer climes they sun themselves in the streets. Half their life is in public. The genial air woos them forth, and keeps them out of doors. They enter their houses merely to eat and sleep. They scarcely can be said to live there. How different it is with us! The raw air without, during,so many months in the year, drives us within doors. Hence we cultivate all manner of home plea sures. Hence the host of delightful associations which rise up in the mind at the very mention of the word. Hence our household god—Comfort. We are not satisfied merely with a home. It must be comfortable. The most wretched are indeed those who have no homes—the homeless! But not less wretched are those whose homes are without comfort—those of whom Charles Lamb once said—" the homes of the very poor are no homes." And why not? Because they are without comfort. It is Comfort, then, that is the very soul of the home—its essential principle—its vital element. Comfort does not mean merely warmth, good furni- ture, and good eating and drinking. It means some thing far more than this. It includes cleanliness, pure [ air, order, frugality—in a word, housethrift and domestic government. Comfort is the soil in which' the human being grows —not only physically, but morally also. It lies, indeed, at the root of many virtues. Do not think that wealth is necessary for comfort. Luxury requires wealth, bat not comfort. A poor man's home, moderately supplied with the necessaries of life, presided over by a cleanly, frugal housewife, may contain all the elements of comfortable living. Of course, there must be a sufficiency of the temporal means to supply these necessaries, without leaving any " aching void" to be filled up. But our conviction is, that comfortlessness is caused, in the great majority of cases, not so much by the absence of the sufficient means, as by the want of the requisite knowledge of housethrift and domestic management. And this is a matter which women should look to. Comfort, it must be admitted, is in a great measure a relative term. What is comfort to one man -would be deemed wretchedness by another accustomed to nicer habits of living. Even the commonest mechanic of this day would consider it misery to have to live after the style of nobles a few centuries back; to sleep on straw beds, and live in rooms littered with rashes; without glazed win dows to their apartments, and these lit up in the even ings by a pine torch, the wind careering through the dreary. chamber. In respect of the elements of sub stantial comfort, there can be no question that the'Eng lish people have made extraordinary progress during the last few centuries. See the working man's cottage now—what it is, or what it ought to be. All tight and snug, dry and clean; the floor swept and sanded; a bright fire blazing in the chimeey; a clean, warm bed to lie in; books on the shelf, and flowers in the window; a home of contentment, taste, and comfort. That is what every house, even the poorest man's, ought to be. But that is not all. Where there is comfort there is contentment and absence of fidget. Comfort depends as much on persons as on " things." And it is out of the character and temper of those who govern households, that the feeling of comfort arises, much more than out of handsome furniture, warm rooms, or any sort of home luxuries and conveniences. Comfortable people are kindlyte►pered. That may be set down as an invariable condition of comfort. There must be peace, mutual forbearance, mutual help, and a disposition to make the best of everything. " Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith." --- Comfortable people are persons of sound common sense, discretion, prudence, and economy. They have a natural affinity for honesty and justice, goodness, and truth. They do not run into debt, for that is a species of dishonesty. They live within their means, and lay by something for a rainy day. They provide for the things of their own household, yet they are not wanting either in a proper hospitality, and benevolence on fitting occasions. And what they do in the latter direction is done without ostentation or loud talking. Comfortable people do everything in order. They are systematic, steady, sober, industrious.. You will never find them in a bustle of tidying-up. As they do everything at the right time, so nothing is done in a hurry, or " slobbered over." . Take, for instance, the Quakers— as a class t h e most comforta b le in Eng land; really an embodiment of the highest ideas of domestic comfort. Soma think they are even too ,comfortable; and that their prim ways do not at all accord with the notions of old George Fox, and his " hull of leather." But we live in other times, and have different notions; and Quakers must " progress" like other people. Comfortable .people dress comfortable. They adapt themselves to the season, neither shivering in winter, nor perspiring in summer, in their efforts to toil after a " fashionable appearance." You will find they', expend more on warm stockings than on gold rings; and prefer healthy, good bedding to gaudy window-curtains. They do not so much care about dressing " youthful," as to dress comfortably. Their chairs aro solid, not gim crack. They will bear sitting upon, though they may not be ornamental. Th e y d o no t s p ort " b r i g h t pokers." Their pokers are meant for use, to stir up tho fire; and you may see how bright the blaze is. Every thing they have is convenient, snug, comfortable, and you have pleasure in feeling yourself in the midst of them. • ' Bet look for amoment on the other side of the pic ture. What is the state of the muddlers—the discom fortable? You know of such—everybedy knows more or less of them. Have you never entered a house in a muddle? Where the smell of washing is constant? Where the sitting room is in a heap of litter with " things" mending, getting-up, or taking to pieces? Where dirty children 41re running about, falling and equalling alternately, at all hours of the day? Where there is petting and dand ling one moment, ancl scolding and beating the next? Where nothtng is clean, nothing mended, nothing ready, nothing done? And in the midst of all, there is the un tidy, worn-out, distressed housewife herself, bitter against servants, wroth against children, -astonished at husband's complaints, not pleased at untimely visitors (who, by the" way, are always untimely at such houses), and in a constant pucker from morn till night, because things don't go right, because things won't go right. 414ad.the oddest thing of all in such houses is, that the more work the more dirt, the bigger the washings the greater the stock of dirty clothes, the more etrainings at comfort the less comfort there is. A curious feature of the House of Muddle is, that there inanimate, and elsewhere motionless, objects, be dtime endowed with the most wonderful powers of loco motion ; and an agency, or power, or person, called " Nobody," whose very existence is denied in better regulated houses, seems to become invested with almost supernatural powers of evil. A chair-leg has " got broken," or a dish has "fallen down'and been smashed, or the table has " got scratched," or a dress has " got tore." It is always " Nobody" that did it; or, if not, then the " things" have fallen, or broken, or torn, or scratched themselves,—altogother of their own accord, and out of sheer spite and mischief. A clever writer on this subject has recently produced a book entitled " Home Truths for. Home Peace," which ought to be read and pondered by every housewife. It is full of golden truths, set off by a rich and pregnant humour. Here is her description of the peculiar cha racteristics of the households of Muddle,".which we have above noted :—Cups, so long as there have been Cups, have slipped out of the maid's hands; and this, not when she has let them go, but whilst holing them asttight as ever she could. Glasses, &c., are constantly falling off the edges of dressers and of *tables, although_ declared by competent judges to have been far removed from such a dangerous position, so that they have evidently moved back again for the purpose of dashing themselves into a thousand shivers. Other articles of fragile materials, but less daring resolution s vary the monotony of their existence, and assert their right to tender consideration, by • getting' such chips, cracks . , and contusions, as no rational person could aver venture to inflict. Nor are the harder and less sensitive portions of our household furniture innocent of similar offences; the locks, which, us fixtures, are secure from injury by falling, will never theless 'get hampered,' stools 'come unlegged,' nails work themselves out,' paint, varnish, &a, 'rub off,' the best made chairs will dislocate their arms, the strongest tables break or distort their legs; whilst other objects, too cowardly for pelf-infliotions, but equally perverse in spirit, will choose the very moment when their presence would be most desirable to 'get lost ;' that is to say,_ to bide in some out-of-the-way corner, to which no living soul has ever had access, and in which consequently no member of the family would ever think °Clinking. . • In the same spirit,. useless, lumbering' articles, always kept at the very top of the house, will get don any number of stairs, or flights of stairs, in order to seek out low company in the kitchen, or to endanger _the life or limb of every inmate of the dwelli n g , by placing themselves, with unblushing effrontery in a passage. Keys will shake off their rings, and get out of one's very pockets to crawl beneath thd bearthrtig or leap into •the dust-bin. Pitchers, notoriously dry whenever you had approached them to obtain,' only a drop of water,' will find out the nearest pump, and there get filled too full'—rather than lose en opportunity of watering the bed-room floors, as if mustard andnress salads were to epring up from the carpets. ' Cruets, salt-cellars, and decanters mock the housewife, who is continually chargigh re plenishing them,' by as perseveringlY contents; while shirts and other garments, ' put away on Saturday night without a single stitch or fastening want ing,' and naturally expected to be fit for wear on Sunday morning, will actually get up again in the dead silence of the night, and proceed to distant drawers and v•ard robes, that they may enjoy. the malignant satisfaetiun of Pulling off each others' ,etringe and but.tons . That .such are the common contrivances and perversities Of Which most thing's are found guilty, under a dome-Aic anarchy, is asserted by all the miscalled heads'of th ese comfort- less establishments!" Visit the Hous e of Muddle, and you find it e c h aracter wr itt e n outside— , on the door-ste p , on the on the windows --throu g h which y ou may dl e, et discern muddle that rei gns so mething of the within. Knock or ring, or knock and ring —it is so me time before your can is answered, and then, not until after sundry shuf now near, n ow remote—the flogs and whisperings -- noise of ru shing up and th en down sta . irs---.the hasty oening and shutt i ng of drawers, where things to be •P pu t by" are suddenly shoved, until m atlast, perhaps, a ma id fresh from " the wash," Or from_ the work of grate cleaning, with the brush in her hand, or the draggled- , Jui looking mistress herself, stands before you. You enter, stumble over th broom or a dust-pan, surrounded by ; clump of dusters, Of course you are told, " We are so ; busy with the cleaning," or " the wash," or something else. But it always was so, at whatever time you called at that house. We need not proceed much further with the House of Muddle. Its rooms are comfortless, even though the furniture be good. The spirit of ord er i s a b sent, and the spirit of cleanliness is absent with it. Domestic confusion pervades the parlour, the kitchen, and the sleeping-chamber; and when these are coi . nbified in o ne , as in the houses of the poor, the case is still worse. The " head" of the house has the look of a eare-worn drudge. A visit there gives you not an atom of plea sure, but only seems to throw thinks into worse confu sion, from th e d es p era te, but unavailing attempts made to put them i n or d er . Of c ourse, where there are child ren matters are worse ; but, as an Irish lady once ob served-Lthere was no denying that the meddle where there were young children was much worse; but yet, as far us she could perceive, a muddle where there were no children was never any better! We must conclude by giving the genealogies of the two heroines of our brief sketch—Comfort and Muddle. Comfort is the daughter of Order, and has descended in a right line from Wisdom. She is closely allied to Carefulness, Thrift, Honeity, and Religion. Shp has been educated by Good S ense , B enevo l ence , Observa t i on, and Experience ; a n d s h e i s t h e mot h er o f Cl ean liness, Economy, Provident Forethought, Virtue, Prosperity, add Domestic Happiness. On the oth er b an d, M uddle belongs to the ancient and dishono ura bl e family of Chaos; she is The child of In difference and Want of Principle; has been educated alternately by Dawdling, Hurry, Stupidity, Obstinacy, and Extravagance; is sec ret l y un i ted to Self-Conceit; and i s the parent of Procrastination, Falsehood , Dirt, Waste, Disorder, Distraction, and Desolation. It would not be easy t o d etai l in all its bone the misery which is caused by the early neglect of orderly habits on the part of young women. - It is a source, not only of frightful unhadpiness in families, but of great public vice; for after all, the world is made up of those whose characters have been formed for good or evil by the early training and example of mothers. This is a subject, indeed, of great impertance, which those who have the education of children committed to them ought never to lose sight of. SPORTING NOTES. No. CLXXXVII. THE WARWICK SPRING MEETING, &c. TO• THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The present week by its excess of sport fairly inaugurates the season of 1852; all the meetings that have preceded that of Warwick having been of the hy brid kind. The flat races and steeplechases of the pre sent week are fairly divided, two days for each. Besides the sport at Warwick, Charlbury puts forth a small bill of fare for decision to-morrow; the principal event being the Snowball Stak es , which the Screw, or Tough Tom will win, with The Parson's Daughter, and the Re jected handy. The good people of St. Ives considering their essay at steeplechasing in December last, when Outcast won, a successful effort, have determined on trying another day's amusement on Wednesday. The principal event is a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 soya, each, with 20 added, over about four mile 3 of good hunting country. Atalanta, Chapelgorie, and Advance will, in my opinion, be the foremost horses in the race; and if Advance does not win, one of the other two I think will. On the 18th, we have the Grand Military Steeple chases at Leamington, and on the following day War wick and Leamington Grand Annuals, which I shall defer commenting on until to-morrow or the next day. Also, on Friday, the Weatherby Steeplechases are announced to come off. The Handicap Steeplechase of 10 sovs, each, h ft, will be run at half-past two, and con tested by the majority of the acceptances; among whom the names of the following well-known hunters appear: —Wild Hero, Blue Bonnet, Barrister, Heroine, Sailor, Screw, Falcon, and Susannah. There seems to be no thing at the weight (10at 21b) likely to touch Barrister, whom I select ea the winner. Should he, however, be destined to be beaten, the Screw or Susannah will pro bably be the animals to do it. Falcon will run very for ward. The Farmers' Stakes, out of about a dozen run ners, will fall to the lot of the Queen of the Wiske, A. V., or Sailor. Having glanced at the cross-country sport set down on the list for this week at the little meetings, I shall turn my attention to to-morrow's bill of fare at Warwick, where the sport, I understand, is to commence at half past one, with the Trial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 50 added, the mile course. In the hurry of the moment, when much pressed by time last Friday, I stated that the Trial, and o ne or t w o other stakes that have been entered for some t i me , h a d not then closed ; to rectify this blunder I shall now touch upon those that I missed on that occa sion. For the last three or four years the favourite or favourites have not in any one instance turned up the trump card: this year I think will be an exception to the rule. As far as an imperfect account will allow me to judge, this stake Rill be contested by the follow ing:—The Prime Minister, My Fancy, Koh-i-noor, Aphrodite, Black Audrey, Olessus, and perhaps Maria Day colt and Le Juif. PRIME MINISTER, over a course that but little exceeds his own fancy distance, ought to bo perfectly at home ; and as h e i s i n tolerable fettle, I shall take my Derby fancy of last year to pull my judg ment through. Should fate, however, have a slip in store for him, to Aphrodite or My Fancy, whom I should otherwise place second and third, I must look for first and second. The Woodcote Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 5 ft, five furlongs, will probably have a field consisting of the following:—Huff, Start, Filly by Epirus, Hannah, Filly by Oakley, Molasses, and perhaps Whalebone and Youthful-days, about which last-named two I kridw nothing. If Colonel Wyndham's filly was not runningi oomparatively with the majority of her competitors, at a disadvantage of Sibs, I should say his start on the turf with her would be very likely to realize her dam's name and surprise the ring; as it is ' I am given to understand that the filli es by E p i rus and Oakley may possibly be anything but bad specs. Since dotting down my remarks last week on ;the Willoughby handicap I have been informed that, in all probability, Selina will be sent instead of Clothworker; in which case I shall take Mr. Parr's animal and Agis, to occupy the first and second places. The Free Handicap will be contested by Miss Julia, Ribaldry, Grief, Woodlark, the Reaper, First Fruits, Robert, Iracundus, and perhaps another. The race must of necessity be between Ribaldry, Grief, First Fruits, and Iracanaus; and if GRIEF does not win, I shall look to the couple of four years old for the winner. The Five Says. Stakes brings to-morrow's sport to a conclusion. For the last day or two a retrograde movement has been gradually taking place with respect to Cariboo for the Northamptonshire Stakes; he has fallen from 6• to 15 to 1, and but little doing about him. This is not owing to any supposed illness or accident on the part of the horse, who is doing atreng work, but to the serious indisposition of Mr. Greville, who, however, has happily not, as was reported on Saturday, yet reached `hat final bourne from which there is no return. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. March 15,1852, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING ON SATURDAY. WARWICK TWO YRS OLD STAKES. 2 to 1 as Catherine Hayes—taken freely WARWICK HANDICAP. 5 to 1 agst Ethelwolf—t 10 to 1 agst Selina—t G to 1 agst Cnteus—taken 1 NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 8 to 1 agst Chief Justice—taken METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 20 to 1 offered agst Hesse Hamburg CHESTER CUP. 18 to 1 agst High Sheriff 40 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg 20 to 1 agst Scarecrow , I taken 40 to '1 agst Neasham—t 50 to 1 agst Unity—taken CLOUDS AND THEIR SILVER LININGS. ----- By E. E. M. S. (From the British Museum.) Dead leaves, but yesterday, along the lane Were rustling drearily, or sodden'd lay In drifted heaps around; as if in pain, The earth's old face grew furrowed with decay. The orchard boughs with brittle moss were wrapped, The ruby berries withered on the thorn, With clogging snows the village roofs were capped, The mill-wheels fast in ice were pester-morn. But since the magic of soft show'rs to-day, What vernal glimpses feast our dazzled eyes! As through the perils that beset his way, The Indian, wond'ring, hailed Potosi's prize.' A beam of sunlight, and the wh ee l i s free! A gentle show 'r has smo o th e d earth's rugged f ace; Among the dead leaves, violet blooms we e Beneath the brittle m oss b r i ght bud& The snows have nurt ure d on the cottage s r S oo e f s t:race Green tints to glad us with the n ews of Spring ; The gloom that hid y on s k y ' s Ceru lean woof, Bore heating rains non its sable wing. Await ye, then, World-weary ones! albeit A wintry de art h , each The mine may li e at your ray of Success may blo sso n p a r c o io m u i s se fe s e hrouds, m in the very clouds! * The Spanish discovery of the nes of Potosi. An Indian pursuing a d eer, to save himself m i from sliPping overa rock, seized a b ush with his hand; the violence of t he wrench loosened th e earth round the root, an d a pi ece o f silver attracted his eye. THE 1-2 -.ECENT ELOPEMENT IN HIGH LIFE.—The Marqui s of Londonderry, having come to a right frame of In:ud, has agreed to present the Rev. Mr. Law, who recently eloped with his daughter, Lady Adelaide Vane, to a living of about 600/. per annum.—Carlisle Journal. FAMILY LIICLNESSES.—TO trace a family likint'ts for a century is not at all uncommon. Any one who knows the face of the present Duke of Manchester will see a strong likeness to his great ances tor, throu g h s i x generations, the Earl of Manchester of the Co mmo nwealth, as engraved in Lodge's Portraits. The following instance is more remark able:- Elizabeth Hervey was Abbess of Elstow in 1501. From her brother Thomas is descended, in a direct line, the will the present Marquis of . B ristol . if any one p ortra it of Lord Bristol, in Mr. Gage Rukewodt's Aingoe Hrodred, by the side of the sepulchral brass of the uates, they cannot b ut Abbess ef-Elstow, figured in tl ) e Fisher's Bedjordsl • • Antiq • • b e struck by the strong likeness b etween t h e two faces. This is valuable evidence on the disputed point whether_por traits were attempted in sepulchral brasses.—From Notes The mortal remains of the late L a dy M a rgaret Milbank will be removed to-day from Eaton - Pla ce, in terment in the family vault of the Milb a nk familYr at Thorpe Penne, Yorkshire. for EVENING; MARCH 15;1:7 1852. MONDAY THE ELECTIONS . LINCOLN. On Sethrday the .Right Honourable Robert A. Christopher, Chancell9r of the Duchy of Lancaster, presented hinisalt ut the Castle, at licooln, for re-elec tion. He tva supported on the bench by several of the magistrates of the county, but the body of the court was filled with citizens, the majority of whom were Free traders. T. G. CORBETT, Esq., of Elsham, proposed the re. ' election of Mr. Christopher; and Sir „sae. 4NDERSON WO - laded the foniatilon. The Seteerkthavirk put the" quest on whbaher any other elector had a candidate to nominate, Mr. JOHN NORTON rose amid loud cheers to address the ptotbrk. --(Meal= wv,8,1100 . 0 - Yet; taken tO his right to Ap - ily, 1 . 61 , 1 a t it treitt aßbiLialimigll ha.-was_ a frae border, he' was not a registered elector. Hereupon, Mr. C. SEELEY, Free-trafie candidate for the city of LineOln, rose and said that he would put , the questions to Mr. Christopher whi c h M r . N or t o n would ha ve d one; and he would go further tha n that, and propose a can didiate in opp os i t i on to Mr - . Christopher—one not infe rior in a bili t i es, o hi o s f to h ry is aso e_ sse t s h s e in g .as the Right Hon. Gentleman himself would admit — one . whose name would go down the pages min Right the l ionors.t S. eTe ihe brilliantyomt then, se mind a Ba bi ngtonany ag p Macaulay.—(Loud cheers.) great length, combatted the arguments formerly adduced by Mr. Christopher in favonr of protection of agriculture, and also the arguments advanced by Mr. Disraeli, in his speeph at Aylestinry. Mr. COOLEY, a builder, seconded Mr. MaCaulay. the nomination of Mr. WILKINSON, merch an t, p r oposed ' John Norton, Esq., as a candidate: Mr. WILSON, butcher, second e d th e nomination. of Oaa p s e ll o o p in h show of oth t an e Co dsb u e r, intgtaken, more th an two-thirds the which had become crowded, held up their hands for Mr. Norton, and the Sheriff declared, amid vociferous cheering, that the choioe had fallen upon that gentleman. Mr. NORTON (who is at the head of a large drapery firm in the city. of Lincoln) then addressed the electors. He said he little expected the honour that had b een conferred upon him; and he believed he should not have received it but for the obstruction offered to his speaking by the lawyers, who declared he was not privileged to address the court. He then made an excellent speech in favour of free trade, and predicted that not only would the present Government not be in power three months, but that Mr. Christ,opher himself, who was the " pilot balloon" for Sir R. Peel, would probably be the pilot balloon for the final abandonment of protection by the Earl of Derby's Cabinet. Mr. CHRISTOPHER on presenting himself was received with cheers, mingled with groans. He deelared that the principles he had ever advocated as a repre sentative:he still entertained, and should continue to do so, though if, after an ;appeal to the country by the Earl of Derby, the majority of the next House of Com mons should be against a return to protection, he thought the agitation on the subject should be for ever abandoned. Mr. NORTON then withdrew from position in which the electors had temporarily placed him, and Mr. Chris topher was declared to be elected. Three cheers for free trade, three cheers for Cobden, and three groans for protection finished the proceedings. KILDARE. On Saturday Mr. Cogan was returned for the county of,Kildare. He was proposed by Mr. Nangle, 3.P., and seconded by Mr. Penthony O'Kelly, J.P.; and no other candidate appearing he was declared duly elected. Mr. Cogan briefly addressed the electors. Of course he had not words to express his feelings of pride and gratifica tion at the position in which• they bad placed him. He denied that he was the nominee of the Whigs —a party in which he had no confidence, as he believed the policy of that party to be michievous and anti-Irish. He was for free trade—vote by ballot—tenant-right --and against the Established Church. The meeting shouted lustily, and separated. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SATURDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert walked early yesterday morning. The itoyal Children also took their usual exercise. Admiral Sir Thomas Briggs, Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, arrived yesterday on a visit to her Majesty, and he had the honour of being included in the royal dinner party. SUNDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this forenoon in the gardens. Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning by the Rev. Mr. Protlieroe, before her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal. The Ladies and Gentlemen in attendance, and the Royal Household, were also present. A Cabinet Council was held Cu Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were the Earl of Derby, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Lons dnle, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr. Secretary Walpole, the Earl of Malmesbury, Sir J. Pakington, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Northumberland, the Right Hon. J. W. Henley, the Earl of Hardwicke, the Right Hen. J. C. Harries, and Lord John Manners. The Council sat two hours and a half. A deputation upon the subject of the Manchester Local Education Bill had an interview with Mr. Secre tary Walpole on Saturday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of Sir Elkanah Armitage, Mr. Alderman Bancroft, Mr. Councillor Adshead, and the Town Clerk of Manchester. The deputation were ac companied by the Right Hon. T. M. Gibson, M.P. The Earl of LUC= had an interview with the Earl of Derby, on Saturday, at his official residence in Down ing-street. 'The Belgian Minister had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley at the Board of Trade. Mr. Jacob Bell had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, on Saturday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office on Saturday from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. . The Duke,of Wellington attended the: early :service yesterday at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rm.. Dr. Wesley officiated. At the daily service the sermon was preeched by the Bishop of Worcester. POLITICAL REUNIONS. The Duchess of Northumberland gave a large party on Saturday evening. It was preceded by a grand banquet, at which thirty guests sat down, the company including the Earl and Countess of Desert, the Earl of Powis, the Earl Cadogan, Viscount Exmouth, Lord De Ros, Lord Colville, Lord and Lsdy John Manners, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford, Lady Agnes Buller, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., the Attorney-General and Lady Thesiger, Captain the Hon. F. T. i'eALam, Hon. Charles Bertie Percy, Mrs. and Miss Percy, Captain the Hon. A. Dancombe, Sir Thomas Herbert, Captain Hamilton, Sumner,wi t with his u R.N.. and Lady Harriett Hamilton, and Rear-Admiral honoured the Du m ch is e s ss the Hon. William. Gordon, M.P. The Duchess subse quently had an evening party, which,was attended by brilliant circle of the aristocracy anda His rpGsradciep ltohmeoaltiro-cchke l a a c t c e o hour. mpab i e d by presence. His Grace arrived shortly after ten ' l , The Duke of Wellington was amongst the early arrivals. b an is d hep of remained .untilCanterbury.a Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston dinner on Saturday evening the Earl on entertained at Shaftesbury, Viscount and Vien and Countess of Benjamin Hall, M.P., and Lad ..._ unteFs Ebrington, Sir W. Cowper, M.P,, and Mr y Hall, Lady 13altver, Hon. M.P., Mr. Bothmann Hollis , 8. Cowper, Mr. Roebuck, bert (of Llanarth). The e and Mr. and Mrs. Her • was as usual attended by a • Noble Viscountess's reception' corps diplomatique and `7y numerous circle of the tocracy. A mong the leadingdiplomatists members of the aria- Excel the Minister fP ornatists present were—His the Neapolitan _or . the Netherlands, his Erect lency Swedish Minister, his itl ;M i nister his Excel Bear le Minis i ter Excellency the Turkish and Madame Musurus..the Baroness Brnnnow. his Ex cellency the Persian Minister and Major Ibrahim Mal colm, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excel lency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, his Excellency the Prussian Minister and Madame Thinsen and Miss Bunsen, the Charg‘ d'Affaires for the French Republic, Prince A.. Vogorides, Count Perponcher, Chevalier Ribiero, Count Louis Corti, Chevalier and Madame Pinto do Soveral, Count Bentevoglio, Baron de Geer, M. Veillat, &e. Lord and Lady John Russell were among the earliest arrivals. The Marquis of Lansdowne came at half-past ten o'clock. THE NEW P _ unrAcATloNs.—Th e following inte resting works are just published by Messrs. Colburn and Co ~'and may be had of all booksellers :-1. The Right Hon. B.. Disraeli's Political Biogaaphv of Lord George Bentinck. Fourtha edition, l v01.,R 15Bonnycastle. B. Europe. vols., 218.- 3 . Canada as it Was, I s , a n d May be. By Lien tenant-Colonel 3353.-- William 2 r L a it n e d rat m ur a e ry and Romance Howitt. With an Account of Recent Transactions by Si r J ames Al ex ander. 2 v 015.,. with tio % : Sir ) of Northern m aps, 245.-4. Lord P a l merston ' s O p inions and Pohs2- as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman. 125.-5. Mr. War ' Se cond burton's Darien; or, The Merchant Prince. Seco e d ition, 3 vols.-6. Lieutenant Jervis' History of andGor 6 fg .- 7K the lonian Islands. 1 vol., with illustrationsq o s- Second mud toum and the Niles. By George lirtirY , A q. 2. Sam ~ • 8 Suck a revised edition, 2 vole., with plates, 21s.— . 3 vols.-9. Captain Spencer's Traits of American Humour, t r i o ., and Hungary. 2 Travels in European Turkey, R Aus Also just • needy, Five vols., with maps and plates, g•-s- C . -- . ' D - W ay, Esq. 2 vols, Years in the West Indies. By u wi'h illustrations, 215. SEARCH FOR Ste J. FRAINELIN.-012 Saturday the small screw steamer , fitted out by Captain B eatton, to Arctic proceed in beard]. of the missing n -as declared ready Expedition by the way of Behrinoi Straits, . for sailin t ; h.is east of the meridian -• geld of seam . of Belt- The proposed towards Keller's discoveries in 1849, Herald ring's Straits , Siberia. Captain Beats ,on t akes Island, and New out auto /him the Emperor of sia, rerand' graph letters to the commanders of the R ' mmen ing the expoditionßussian outposts Muscovite settlements, at Siberia and other and desiring to promote the object in view to the utmost of their them power. DEPARTURE OF THE RUROPA.--On Saturday, at half-past twelve, the British and North-American Royal .mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, left the Mersey with sixty passengers, a moderate cargo, and the usual mails for Now York. The next incoming steamer is the Calabria, from Boston and Halifax ; she is expected every lion* FIRE AT LEICESTER. --Oil. Thursday night a most destructive fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Wheeler and Co., patent India rubber web manufacturers, Southgate. street, Leicester. Owing to the large stock of combustible materials on the premises the conflagration was rapid and in., tense. Some damage Was done to adjoining houses, b the fire was got under on Friday. The loss is estimated at 16,0004 against which we are informed the parties are insured.