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Continue to oh i;ige hands for shipment to the Continent ; Whilst the demand for home use is steady, at full prices 1307FLOUGH AND spiTaznELDs. Our rackets c , ntinue to be welt .upplied with Pots toes, coastwise and by railway, in excellent condition. For all kinds we have a fair irquiry, at last week's prices. No imports have taken place from abroad. Per . Yorksh. Regents. 653 to Ton 80s Ditto Shaws —s to s Lincoln. Regents 603 to 70s Scotch Regents 60s to 70s Ditto Cups Ditto Blues Ditto Dahlias Common Whites —s to —8 Newcastle & Ber wick Regents 6os to 70s Kentish Red Kid —s to —3,1 Per Ton. Wisbeach & Cam bridge Kent Regents 6os to 75s Essex Regents 6os to 7:)s Essex Shaws Kent Shaws 6os to 65s Kent & Essx. Mid. —s to —s French —s to s German ditto IDutch Whites —s to —s Chats —s to s TAW. Both on th e s p o t and to o n t o ward delivery, the de mand a:ill rules 4-xzeedingly inactive, and prices have further receded fully 3d per cwt. To-day now P. Y. C. on the spot is quoted at 35s 6.1 to 365, and old 35s to 35 s 3d pk(r cwt. Town Tallow, 36s cwt. net cash ; R oug h Fat, 2s id per Sibs, delivery was 2,355; the import 521 ca.o Sydney. to 36i 6d per . Last week', :d, caikfly from 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. I 1882. Steek this day ...... 12,394 '15,502 42,864 45,527 54,35 Nice of Y e! r 53s 9d 41s Od. . 37s Oct 345 Oct to 35s ocl • •• •• j ito Os Od to Os Od to 37s 9d 388 3d to3ss cd Delivery last Week • • 2,392 2, 67 1,978 2,133 2,355 Ditto from June 1— •. 79,081 74,204 69,351 ;0,157 77,905 Arrivals last week . 1,5'.5 1,097 1,472 130 531 bitto from June 1 ... 83,374 102,233 86,746 90,4 , 6 94,3J7 Price of Town .. —.. 515 Gd 43s Od 33s 6d 39s 62 39s 6d CHANCERY The Lord Chancenor d .—(THIS DAY.) Id not sit to-day. (Before the LORDS JUSTICES.) REYNELL V. SPRYE. The reply in thi — s — lenThened — ca;e was commenced this scorning. The rest of the Courts were occupied with motions of an unimportant character. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Lord CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.) QUEEN V DIELLERSH. This was an indictment for perjury, to which the de fendant bad pleath-d not guilty. Mr. James, Q.C., with whom was:Mr. Strgeant Jones, appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Sir /". Thesizer, with whom was Mr. lluddlestone, con ducted the defence. The inquiry was of a somewhat complicated cha racter, arising out of a Chancery proceeding relating to disputed mortgage deed. Mr. Holland, the real pro secutor, was a brewer, and the defendant was an at torney at Godalming. In 1943 the defendant advanced :14 prosecutor 2,0001. upon the security of a mortgage sod, and the advance was subsequently increased by a nother party to 12,0001., and it was alleged the prose tutor was induced to sign a deed consigning property to friend s of the defendant which the prosecutor had no in tention whatever to mortgage. Immediately after this t ran saction the defendant became the attorney and talker of the prosecutor, and, acting upon his advice, ince prosecutor left Godalming because he was in a state ill health. Ile remained absent from Godalming for Zsome time, and on his return be found the defendant in Fuesessio n of his mortgaged property. The prosecutor, L A he alleged, then discovered that he had signed the mortgage d ee d w i t h out k uow i ng t h e rea l nature o f contents, and he filed a bill in Chancery against the def endant, for t he p ur p ose o f u p s ettin g the deed, and the p er jury assigned in this indictment was alleged to be Contained in th e answers to t h at bill. Th e answer se t forth that so far from the prosecutor being ignorant of L a e Purport and force of the deed, it was in 'point of fact m adover to him, and minutely e xplain e d, and he was Quite Cognizant of the real conditions and provisions of b_e_ deed. Th e prosecutor, however, denied all this, and "ing pronounced the answer to be made up of a tis4ue Of falsehoods, he was induced to prefer various indict rte for perjury against the defendant, as many, in bq REI ten, but the majority of them were thrown out othe grand jury before whom they were taken. H e tti also p re f e rred indictments for perjury against several ow" Persons, including the defendant's clerks, the a n ged perjury arising out of the same transaction, and these indictments are now waiting for trial, but of a 0 their e v entually being brought into court will Pend upon the result of the present trial. m e l ba trial was proceeding when our report left, and N I was every prospect of its engaging the attention of unurt th e whole of the day. EXCHEQUER.-(T HIS DAY.) l A . STANFIELD V. HELLAWELL. Baron PARKE delivered judgment in this case, in Z elch a ru l e h ad been obtained to arrest j u d gmen t, an d reduce the damages to a nominal sum. The C 4l " of opinion th a t th e b on d on w hi c h th e a ction was 4 1 ° Yght was not void un d er th e s t atu t e , an d that the t o : l4 km as to the amount of damages was entirely one Lg tee jury to decide. The rule would, therefore, be ehargdßle discharged. BO W-STREET.—tI'HIS DAY.) tT his morning, nearly an hoer before the time ap rter.dt Feargus O'Connor (who was at large upon the Po l i c e-cou rt ) presented himself at the entrance to 7,1 1 - 0 - I . ° n ' t i r'orrt, which was eloaed until ten o'clock. _mi. was p assed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman in walkig about Covent-garden and the Ltlbbourhood. Immediately efts r Mr. Henry took his Mr. O'Connor c a m e into court an d was s ho w n i n t o the dock. He bowed to the magistrate, and his appear ',n• ee Was perfectly ca l m and unconcerned. a Thomas Norton, police- cons t a hil e A 17, state d t h at on *turday evening, being o n d uty i n t h e L yceum i'llleatre, his attentioe was attra c t e d b y a great tumu l t o f q iughter and cries d " Turn him out" from various t r ...ta of the hous e , b u t p r incip a ll y f rom t h e p i t . G o i ng .. that part he raw Mr. O'Connor in a box of the Di▪ a "d tier dancing a ji g , i m i ta ti n g a v i ol i n • Yer by the motion of his warns, humming loudly e `Lthe music of the overture, and occasionally crying His grotesque behaviour seemed to 1 7 • 116 0 some people, and the audience in the pit laughed _!id cheered and applauded. The ladies in the dress eeolrele seemed much alarmed. The overture was nearly _ heluded, the curtain was just going to rise, and the Ftrformauce on the stage was about to begin. 0 , 4 r. O'Connor—l did not interrupt anything. I was Y doing thi s (i m i tat i ng a v i o li n pl a y er ). Th ere was % t hing going on. Th e y h a d no t b e gun. , aRNRY—The overture had begun, and that was w r t of the p er f ormance . B at you h a d b etter l et t h e ttiesa proceed, and you can ask. him what you think Drz.Per when he has finished. M. O'Con n or—Well, I will. I'll wait, your Worship. t n - " r • HENRY—You had better. Tv itness—l went up to him sand requested him, as I , ti lly as possible. to take a seat, and n o t go on disturb -14,,t , t h e audience. Whilst I was speaking he slapped "joarply in the face, over the mouth. yon, O'Connor—l did not, your Worship. I assure - 11 Pqn my honour, I did not. *Cr. HEN RY —Let the witness go on. You can say YOu please afterwards. he w itness—After he struck me in the mouth I again „, tted of hi m to s it down ; but he went on m a ki ng h erds noise i n th e s ame way, dancing, and moving hi s and arms like a fiddler, and singing out " 800, w"' " We then got him out of the theatre, and on the leal t L o the station-house he offered me a shilling to 2 ;;, 1 e 4 t0 go. When I refused to take it, he said he would r me two shillings, and make me an inspector in Wo months, if I would let him go.—(Laughter.) nM. O'Connor—l occasioned no interruption. I was 011 1 doing this (humming and imitating the bowing rnotions and fingering of a violin player, amidst laughter) and all the people in the pit were laughing. That was ail I was doing when he came and turned me out. . assure your Worship, upon my honour, that was all. Mr. HENRY—But the witness speaks upon his oath. Ile To the swears that you were an annoyance to the h ouse. policeman —Was he excited ? Wit ness —The excited. gentleman was not drunks bat he was v er y much life Mr. O'Connor—l was never tipsy i n , F. W. Holcroft, of No. 15, N ow Bonde-street, ro t r et, one of the principal box-keepers of the that in consequence of the x w u w a p t s r t uproar in thexin t called. He stated, the house, he went into Mr. O'Connor's gentleman did all the y P ol leernan;whose evidence he now corroborated in ever particular." They and another could civilly to persuade Mr. O'Connor to be quiet or to g' ) away. H e (the witness) offered to return his moneyif quietly. But he went on • he would only go away 1 hstruck the policem an ln the same manner, am. at .enr. Il°lently upon the mouth. r. O'C onnor —Upon my honour, our, I did not touch him. ill U ur Worship. Witness—fie struck him with his open hand. It was Licit an accidental blow ; it was delibet ate, and the most 'provoked thing I ever saw its my th tir. O'Connor--I assure sour Worship I did no such in g. kr. HENRY—How did he strike him? How did he ll 'a his arms to satisfy you that the blow was not an ac el4ntal on e ? Witness—He raised his right arm.. and Witb the op en h an d s l a pp e d him s ma rtly on the cheek tand over the mouth. 1 had, on the part of the manager, : si red the p o liceman to ireerfere. Mr. O'Connor's con duet was such as to alarm and annoy the audience, and t t Interrupt the performance. Bt'ckett Wyatt, a gentleman connected with oManagement of the theatre, had interposed with the h er witnesses, whose evidence he corrobated in every Mr. O'Connor struck the policeman pur po3'lY, and without the slightest provocation. The slap o'd be h ear d a ll over t h e h o use, and the con sta bl e ' s ° A t tic and mouth were swelled for two hours afterwards. il - n 7 - t• O'Connor-0 good gracious me! I never struck " an- I only raised me hands is self-defence *on he took me by the collar to pull me out. If your 51'Yorship will s w ear me now I'll take my oath I did not hins at all. his4r- Iltrirtv said he could not put Mr. O'Connor on obliged The law did nut allow him, and the law 'Rtd himto take the sworn testimony of three unim - Peaabed witnesses. th e Al r• O'Connor—lf nny body else but me had done Fame thing Th there would be nothing said about it. the lion. and Learned Gentleman repeatedly pressed magistrate to sw ear hi m , but was met with the same "P l lloarion. At len gt h is fi r'HENR Y sin bound to convict you, and it i t i eoty to protect the public from Such annoyance as Us: Preved you have occasioned. It frequ'odY Occurs s „,t Ql ! am obliged to punish persons in a inure humble d e of life for such :conduct in the theatres, an `here Itoplaces where the publi c r esort fo- peed.- able Teem iat„.a„ci it is intolerable they t.boutd be act:loy:ec l : p lu tin h ib i li n ui lv e nz i: it l; &,16„ r „, my d u : :' tOsiti on - rsue ut. pers.d. „i society,n and when that d- daily is forced upon me itoa boand s to ttdminititer th e law with equ al justice, and SUN, without distinction of rank or station. I feel that I should not discharge that duty if I did not impose upon you the punishment of imprisonment. I will not fine you, but sentence you to be impTisoncd seven da)s in the House of Correction. ➢ir. O'Connor inado no observation aloud, but looked somewhat angry, and left the dock, muttering something to himself in a low tone. VIARLBRCY-STREE r --(THIS DAY.) AN IMPOSTOR.—Ann Smith, a notorious vagrant, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being drunk and begging. Gammer,.2l C, stated that at half-past seven on Satur day evening be was on duty in New Bond-street, when he saw the prisoner, who was very 'tipsy, stop two gen tlemen, who called witness's attention to her. He watched her and saw her follow another gentleman, and witness then went up to her and took her into custody. She then threw herself down and refused to move. He then sent for the stretcher, and as soon as he had done so she got up nod walked a short distance apparently in great pain, end he then observed that she appeared to be in the last stage of pregnancy. On arriving at the station she struck him on the head with a stick which she had iu her hand. Inspector W hall said ho was at the station when the prisouer was brought in; she appeared to be in great pain, and from her size be thought she was in an ad vanced stage of pregnancy, and ho therefore sent for the female searcher, hut before she arrived the prisoner be came so violent that witness was obliged to go to the assistance of the constables. He then saw appearances which induced him to cut a string, when to his great surprise down fell is bundle of rags, which the prisoner had suspended in front of her, in order to lead the public to believe that she was pregnant. Mr. Whall added that the prisoner was a well-known impostor. Commited for three months. CRUELTY TO A HORSE.— William Hughes, a young man in the employ of Mr. Saunders, carrier, Sanderton, Bucks, was summoned before Mr. Hardwick by Mr. Thomas, secretary of the Royal Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals, for cuelly ill-treating a horse. Strachan, one of the society's censtabies, stated that about eleven o'clock on the morning of Tuesday, the 20th of January, ho observed the de:endant driving a horse and cart, laden with timber, in Oxford -street. A piece of rag was striking out from under the corner of the saddle, and on looking at the horse, witness found a wound as large as a crown piece, which was bleed ing at the time. He called the defendant's attention to the state of the horse's back, and told him he should report it to their secretary. The prisoner said the wound was occasioned by the saddle getting wet and chafing the horse, the latter was otherwise in good condition. Police-constable E 91 corroborated the above. The defendant's master was present, and said the wound was caused in the manner stated by defendant, bat it was now healed, and the horse was in good work ing condition. The horse having been examined by an officer and found to be as stated, Mr. HARDWICK said the officer had acted very properly in taking up the case, and as the horse was now in good condition he should inflict the minor penalty of 2s. 6d. and costs.—The money was paid. THE GREEN WICH ELECTION. At ten o'clock this morning, notwithstanding the un propitious state of the weather, an immense body of the inhabitants of Greenwich, Deptford, and Woolwich, b , th electors and non-electors, assembled at the hu-tings which were erected at the corner of Lon don-street, in High-street, Greenwich, for the pur pose of nominsiti , ,g a candidate to fill the seat in the House of Commons for this borough made vacant .by the retirement of Admiral Dundas, who has taken the command of the fleet in the Mediter ranean,- and who suds thence on the 17th of the present Month., The candidates were, Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., and Admiral Houston Stewart. The Sheriff having read the writ and Bribery Aer, Mr. Lang proceeded to propose Mr. Montagu Chambers which was se conded by Mr. Nott, and speeches haying been made by those gentlemen in support of the proposi tion, Mr. Pontifex proposed Admiral Stewart. Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., then addressed the assem blage in an hour's speech, during which his sentiments met with the hearty concurrence of the majority of hi, hearers; after which Admiral Stewart made a long, humorous, and seaman-like address. The High Sheriff then came forward an d d e manded a show of hands for the two ca n did a t es which having been gene through, he declared a large majority in favour of Mr. Chambers. The polling commences to-morrow (Tuesday) morning. HAY IVIARKET THEATRE. Mr. Barry Sullivan, a provincial tragedian, made his first London appearance on Saturday night in the character of Hamlet. Mr. Sullivan's performance was highly correct and intelligent. To all the most promi nent speeches he gave t h e ord i nary po i n t. Passion there was none, but there was i nvar i a bl y " goo d emphasis and discretion." He played the whole of the third act, wherein the principal burden of the character lies, with care and smoothness, always refined and reflectant, never manifesting any particular power. His close ad herence to the text of Shakspere may be mentioned to his credit, though in one or two cases he ventured upon readings for which he had no previous autho rity, and but little intelligible motive. 'The quality of this new, or latest, personation of the Danish Prince may be judged from these generalities. It was sensible and scholarlike, dircrimir atm, methodical, and accurate, so far as we have any standard of accuracy to refer to in a case so fraught with doubt and uncertainty. In figure Mr. Sullivan is short, but symmetrically formed; while his deportment denotes all the maturities of professional experience. His voice is sweet and musical, weaker probably than it should be for a large area. The au dience applauded Mr. Sullivan with great zeal at the close of the performance; and that he is destined to become a useful metropolitan actor there is no doubt. Another representation or two in more tangible walks of the art will establish his position more definitively than that which was afforded on Saturday; though we can but feel that the encouragement accorded by the specta tors was fairly and honourably won. Mr. Leigh Mar ray announced the repetition of the tragedy amid rounds of applause. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Earl Granville, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right don. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and Lord Seymour. The Council sat two hours and a half. A few days ago an accident befel W. Marshall, Esq., M.P. for East Cumberland, which will prevent him from attending to his Parliamentary duties. While trying a new horse, which be had bought, to leap over a hedge, the animal swerved and fell. Mr. Marshall was thrown on his side, and his collar bone was fractured in two places, as was also one of his ribs. He is, of course, totally incapacitated from attending to business by this untoward accident, and will for some time be prevented from being in his place in the House of Commons. - Carlisle Journal. THE SALMON SEASON.—On Monday the salmon fishing north of the Tweed commenced for the season. The Ness was so high in flood on that day that not a net could be cast in it, and consequently none were taken. In the Oich Mr. Tait's men caught four fine fish, which were sent on to the Glasgow market. In the BeAuly the Master of Lovat captured one with the rod, and one was taken by the nets, the river very high. None were taken at Fort 44eorge in the early part of the day, at least; but at Rosemarkie the fishermen had better luck. At Speymouth fourteen clean fish were taken. Our Banff contemporary reports that " one hundred fine fish were taken in the Deveron." Surely this is a mistake ; the foul as well as the clean fish, were we suspect, were counted. It is said that there are large numbers of spent fish in the Ness—promising fairly for the sport of this and after seasons. A. P. Gordon Cumming, Esq., and Mr. Dunbar killed on Monday; in the Dunbeath water, two fine clean salmon with the rod—one 7i lbs., the other 1 lbs. ; lost two more, and saw two more, besides landing no less than twelve foul fish, This looks well, not withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather.— Inverness Courier. A NEwsPAPER. — A man eats a pound of sugar and the plea,ure he enjoys is ended; but the informatio❑ he gets from a newspaper is treasured up in his mind, to be enjoyed anew, and to be used whenever occasion or inclina tion calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of one man or two men ; it is also the wisdom of past ages. A family without a newspaper is always halt an age behind the time in general information ; besides, they never think much, or find much to talk about. And then there are little ones growing up, without any taste for reading. Besides all these evils, there is the wife, who, when the work is done, has to A terican sit down with her handsC in her lap, and nothing to amuse Paper. her, or divert her mind from the toils and cares of the do folly me n stie circle. Who, then, would be without a newspaper ? A young man DISAPPOINTED BRIDEGROOM alnfteardavShoOratbwllo al attentive —A proof of the l ove, and but mdisappointmento attending persons not marrying for who gave hirnetYtO go and fetch happy has occurred within the last few days. A , who resides on the southern side of the town, suppose that she was worth a bit of " tin." courtship, won the smiles of one that she would LIP etch her fortune —viz. 0 00/. Off she liaoutrse, in high expectations; at even went, leaving i ta, of tide she returned, but union she told her partner ma 200 shiners, but witli 6. two may easily depicted on the fine prattli g bairns. husband's countenance telligencer. be imagined. —Leeds In- _ .. Django, followed by Madame Plunkett, • " DRURY-LANE THBATRE.-111r. Sims Reeves, in Fro in the new ballet, drew the greatest house . of the season on Saturday. supported is, we hear, in active 's new opera rehearsal. B ee a .i PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.-- W© SLuemaitre IScH per- Il v f' e cit t i tat these fashionable and agreeable entertainments appear at Monday the Op e n n e h x l g t .. D y e r j e a d z e e r t i , e by Laforit, will will succeed, and we are promised al will be commenced and Mdlle. Clarrisse Rose Cheri, whose performances a few ° the services of Mdlle. extraordinarily attractive; Regnier, the seasons ago were so extra_ , 1 avigaiQ, is also engaged. '.`,, a are best actor of the Theatre r many ' engagements of great in given to understand ,that which, when completed, terest and novelty are in progress, will pres en t a com bination of excellence and variety seldom s equalled. M r . Mitchell is now in Paris completing hi ar rangements. SUICIDE BY A PRIt,ONTB.—n--n Saturday an - in quest was held b y th e coroner o f Liverpool on the body of a young man named Jones,Recorder convicted of felony who had been on the previou s d ay, and sentenced by the to 15 years' transport at i on. The prisoner was removed to the Borough gaol, and c l othed in the prison d ress; the turnkey gave him some oak um to pick, and on going to h i s cell about tied an hour after he was f oun d hanging by the nec k, h a ving , his braces to an iron bar pl aced across an air-bo l e i n his cell, and life quite extinct. He had previously many times pro ttsted his innocence of the crime for which he was sentenced to transportation, and from subsequent inquiries, there i 3 reason to believe that one of the w i tnesses who spoke to the prisoner's identity may possibly have been mistaken. The , jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity, iLtynau is reported to be ,I .'"g, and goes about the shadow of his former seif, buppuried by rv,o attendalits. General Melden, also, the late military governor of Vienna. it lying dangerously ill at Gratz. THE LONDON, LITERATURE. LORD GEORGE BENTINCK. A Political Biography. By B. Disraeli, M.P. Third Edition. Colbeirn. Thy, very numerous admirers of Mr. Disraeli's writings have latterly had cause to lament those po litical'avtcations which have induced him to lay aside the novelist's pen—that pen which he wielded with such peculiar grace. The eloquent Parliamentary speeches of the Member for Buckinghamshire, and the zealous labours of the Protectionist chief, have not compensated to the reading multitude for the non appearance of any new " Coningsby," or " or " Wondrous Tale of Alroy," or " Contarini Fleming,". &c., &c. In these regrets we must con fess that we have participated, because, differing widely from Mr. Disraeli as a politician, we have always justly appreci a t e d hi s gen i us an d admired his Nscinatinge powers as an author. The new work recently issued, and which has already reached a third edition, differs materially from his former: productions, but, nevertheless, we are rejoiced; if . not a little surprised, in being enabled to award to it fully the same meed of commen dation which we have, from time to time, be stowed upon the former works of its author. Under the peculiar circumstances iu which it appears we should have been willing to look with an especial leniency upon the partiality to be naturally expected in the record of a friendly biographer, while the total di-similarity between our political opinions and those of Lord George Bentinck could only dispose us to regard with a more impartial admiration his per sonal characteristics, and to sympathise most sincerely with those who sorrowed for a noble life cut short at the moment of its highest promise. That admiration and that sympathy have been amply evoked by a perusal of the biography, but our in tended " allowances " for the partiality of the historian have not been found in any way necessary. The unaffected simplicity with which Mr. Disraeli has penned this record of his " comrade in arms," and the delicacy with which he bas kept him self in the background, scarcely making more than the most casual mention of one who was a principal actor in all the events which he relates, can only be appreciated by those who have read the book, and the most discriminating among them will, we doubt not, be of opinion that nothing in his former works has charmed them more than these graceful characteris tics of this " political biography." Duly aware of the importance of a true record of a competent wit ness, Mr. Disraeli remarks near the very commence ment of his task It should not be forgotten that the most authentic and interesting histories are those which have been composed by actors in the transactions which they record. The con temporary writer, who is personally familiar with his theme, has unquestionably a great advantage; but it is assumed that his pen can scarcely escape the bias of private friendship or political connexion. Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accu racy of the present with the impartiality of the future," a difficult and well-nigh impossible undertaking, but in his endeavour to accomplish it, Mr. Disraeli has been sufficiently successful. Another point which has also afforded us much gratification in this work is the manner in which mention is made of the late Sir Robert Peel. In many of Mr. Disraeli's sentiments respecting that statesman we do not, of course, concur ; for itis not necessary to observe th a t we look upon that great and good Minister in a very different, point of view to that in which be appears to the eye of his former supporter, yet this very cir cumstance induces us to regard with greater pleasure some portion of Mr. Disraeli's elaborate criticism on that Minister. Some extracts from that criticism we subjoin, not because we entirely agree with them, but because they afford an interesting specimen of a very interesting portion of this work : " Nature had combined in Sir Robert Peel many ad mirable parts. In him a physical frame incapable of fatigue was united with an understanding equally vigorous and flexible. He was gifted with the faculty of method in the highest degree, and with great powers of application which were sustained with a prodigious memory; while he could communicate his acquisitions with clear and fluent elocution. Such a man under any circumstances, and in any sphere of life, would probably have 10.-come remarkable. Ordained from his youth to be busied with the affairs of a great empire, such a man, after long years of observation, practice, and perpetual discipline, would have become what Sir Robert Peel was in the latter portion of his life, a transcendent administrator of public business and a matchless master of debate in a popular assembly. In the course of time the method which was natural to Sir Robert Peel had matured into a habit of such expertness, that no one in the dispatch of affairs ever adapted the means more fitly to the end; his original flexibility had ripened into consummate tact; his memory had accumu fated such stores of political information, that he could bring luminously together all that was necessary to establish or to illustrate a subject; while in the House of Commons he was equally eminent in exposition and reply—in the first distinguished by his arrangement, his clearness,•and,his completeness; in the second, ready, in 4enious, and adroit, prompt in detecting the weak points of his adversary, and dexterous in extricating himself from an embarrassing position. "Thus gifted and thus accomplished, Sir R. Peel had a 4reat deficiency; he was without imagination. Wanting imagination, he wanted prescience. No one was more sagacious when dealing with the circumstances before him; no one penetrated the present with more acuteness and accuracy. His judgment was faultless provided he nad not to deal with; the future. Thus it happened, through his long career, that while he was always looked upon as the most prudent and safest of leaders, he ever, atter a protracted display of admirable tactics, concluded his campaigns by surrendering at discretion. He was so adroit that he could prolong resistance even beyond its term, but so little foreseeing that often in the very triumph of his manoeuvres he found himself in an un tenable position. And so it came to pass that Roman Catholic emancipation, Parliamentary reform, and the abrogation of our commercial system, were all carried in haste or in passion and without conditions or mitigatory arrangements. Sir Robert Peel had y peculiarity which is perhaps natural to men of very great talents who have not the creative faculty; he had a dangerous :sympathy with the creations of others. Instead of being cold and wary, as was com monly supposed, he was impulsive and even inclined to rashness. When he was ambiguous, unsatisfactory, re served. tortuous, it was that he was perplexed, he did not see his way, that the routine which he had admir ably administered failed him, and that his own mind was not constructed to create a substitute for the custom that was crumbling away. Then ho was ever on the look out for new ideas, and when he embraced them he aid so with eagerness and often with precipitancy; he always carried these novel plans to an extent which even their projectors or chief promoters had usually not anticipated; as was seen, for example, in the settlement of the currency. * * After a great disaster, it was observable of Sir Robert Peel that his mind seemed always to expand. His life was one of perpetual education. No one ,more clearly detected the mistakes which he had made, or changed his course under such circumstances with more promptness; but it was the past and the present that alone engrossed his mind. * In an ordinary period he would have been a perfect Minister, but he wae.not a Minister for stormy times; ne wanted depth, and passion and resource for such an occasion. After destroying the Tory party in '46 he tell a thinking again over the past and the present as he did'atter his tall in '3O, and again arrived at a great con clusion. In '3O he said be would act no longer as a su bordinate; in '46 he said he would act no longeras a par tisan. In '3O he visited his position upon the Duke of Wel lington; in '46 on the political ties of '4l; but if he had been a man of genius he would have guided the Duke of Wellington, and in '4l. would have given a creed to his party, always devoted to him, instead of borrowing their worn-out ideas. * * * As an orator, Sir Robert Peel had perhaps the most available talent that has ever been brought to bear in the House of Commons. We have mentioned that both in exposition and in reply he was equally eminent. His statements were perspicuous, complete and dignified; when he combated the objections or criticised the pro positions of an opponent, he was adroit and acute; no speaker ever sustained a process of argumentation in a public assembly more lucidly, and none as debaters have united in so conspicuous a degree prudence with promptness. In the higher efforts of oratory, ho was not successful. His vocabulary was ample and never mean, but it was neither rich nor rare. * * He was gifted with an admirable organ , p erha p s the finest that has been heard in the House in our days, unless we except the thrilling tones of O'Connell. Sir Robert Peel also modulated his voice with great skill. His enunciatiou was very clear, though some what marred by provincialisms. His great deficiency ' was want of nature, which made him often app ear, even with a good cause, more plausible than persuasive, and more specious than convincing. He may be said to have gradually introduced a new style into the House of Commons, which was suited to the age in which he chiefly flourished, and to the novel elements of the As sembly which ho had to guide. He had to deal with greater details thau his predecessors, and he had in many instances to address those who were deficient in previous knowledge.' Something of the lecture, therefore, entered into his displays. This style may be called the didactic. * * Sir Robert Peel made some of his most considerable efforts in the great straggle of '46; t y h e a a u rs his S of peechtchs, either and it m a y b e a question whether his very best speeches life.lsr as M Th in e3 i;te were not tho se w hi ch he made during. the last three Minister or as Leader e more o na f t position,Op there was more earnestness and mote heat about them, and much le bility. * * Ile Ss of the a ff ectat i on of plausi had obteined 1 t a com e e control over hi s t emper, which as fiery. His dispnesition was good by nature some p what there was nothing petty about him; he was very free from not only Lot vi n di ct i ve, hut, part! rb rancour; he was y temp still more, perh a p s , b y o i pii„e, he t ue.a s Pn'ament, and ninwits. * * Par from any coldness eb even mayna between Sir Robert P ee l an d t h e great houses usistieg which had supported him thr oug h hi s l ong career, there never ti ISiinister who was treat e d with such nice homage, a ' s m ay be said, with suc h a ff ect i onate devotion. The Proudest in the land were peskier to be his friends, and he r eturiv2d the* 4 teelieg to its full extent a n d i n all j,,, V. r , clilDa sry of Si r I vsethstaniiing his unrivalled pow ers o f eispeacitieg affairs, that he was the greatest minister that this country ever produced, because twice placed MONDAY EVENING, at the helm, and on the second occasion with the , Court and the Parliament equally devoted to him, he never could maintain himself in power. Nor, notvrithatand ing his consummate Parliamentcry tactics, c.tan be be described as the greatest party leader t that ever flourished among us; for he contrived to e estroy the most compact, powerful, and devoted party that ever followed a British statesman. Certai n ly, not' withstand ing his great se ay in debate, we cannot reco guise him as oar greatest orator, for in many of the sv tpreme re quisites of oratory he was s i ngu l ar l y deficient. But what he really was, and whet p oster i ty w ill ac knowledge him to have been, is the g rea t est M em b er o f P ar liament that ever lived. "Peace to his ashes ! His name will be often ap pealed to in that scene which he loved so well, and never without homage even by his opponents." Many parts of the above come with peculiar force and grace from the hand of one who gained no I ittle cele i as it i t eru h p e ppu o era r t g ese a d n a i very h e e d rey li v niyolpioeounarer: of ipnßotieui:t cele brity by his former attack s on Si r Ro b ert P ee l, an d tt h ih i u s ea denunciationslhand tn ooft,i dt animosity e,utahn o dh f rest to these pages wh en we consider the t the two chief actors in that stormy struggle which they so vividly recal, have both passed away, and both under sudden a l d l e e a a t d h e o r f a L fte o r rd y G eu e r o s r o g fe B i circumstances of a peculiarly afflicting nature. The his almost instantaneo us r i se into public g notice as a n e a n e t t i i n v e e k, p t e o rr e i . it ta t m he e r n wi r t y h life, impart to his name a strange and roma laic inte rest which the record in this volume will ten d greatly ei t s o e ,ak n ne h t a ae n th c ter e da . chtyi T y te h h e eo p uh o ua. r n t r d a Lo i t of the Lord rdhi s George re ioar P ngd r e o andtewetai was Protection ) i ig s n t rdae c pe h hd i gallant leader of a forlorn h ope, and as such , we can not help sympathising with his struggles, e' ten while disapproving of their obj▪ ect and desiring thtiir defeat. Added to this gallantry of bearing an d a c hi va lr ous hopefulness that held nothing to be impolsible, he brought to the struggle also qualities no t less im portant—an energy of will that not hi ng cou ld dis turb, and an application to business that nothing : could weary. His pr edo minant characteristic was leiatrianaelstanaersese.r of T onlyhreputationethreab acquired during a po litical years was c ertainly earned by an amount of labour and application not often condensed into three times that per i o d. Of ten , politi ca l d titles for erval. This sort four, a nd often eighteen without nt told,taking e fowouoatds during e engaged twenty_ in ne of labour, be it remembered, thou g h not always, of course, of the same duration, was not taken up by fits onth. y and vi gorously The nornings were occupied by interviews with individual a of va danayd s a t f a t r a t r s, d b ay ut a a w d a s t a p a u n r t s h u va rious classes and various call ings, capabl e o f :Iffording after month. m information on the topi▪ c under discussion in the House, for Lord George adopted no reatiy-made statement of facts. Every question was subjected to the most searching investigation, and if t h e Protec tionist leader occasionally arrived at wrong conclu sions, a s we cannot but think he did on certai n matters, that can certainly be attributsd to no want of proper cauti▪ on on his part. The minute and elaborat e nature of his research e s into the details of any matter that he " took up" is amply e videnced by some extracts from his corr e sp on d enc e (given in this volume) with parties able to afford him the necessary information. This correspondence gives a very favourable idea of the business-like qualities of Lord George Benti nc k. The earnestness and seal which . he displayed i n mat ters of, appar e ntly, trifling importance, are almost sufficient of themselves to account for the prominent position established by the fallen Protectionist party. . " Ile cam e f orwar d," observes his biograper, "with details in s u pp ort o f his principle and policy which it had been b e f ore b e li eve d that none but a Minister could command. Instead of experiencing the usual and, inevi table doom of private Members of Parliament, and having hi s statements s h a tt e red by official information, Lord George Bentinck was the assailant, and t h e suc cessful assail an t o f an a d m inistration on these verytheads. He often did their work more effectually than all their artificial training enabled them to do it. His acute research, and hi s p ecu li a r sources of information, roused the vigilance of all the public offices of the country. Since his tim e th ere h as been more care in. preparing official returns and i n arranging the public correspon dence placed on the table of the House of Commons." mornings d evo t e d t o these investigations, his days were constantly occupied by attendance on Com mittees, and his e v enings and nights were al ways passed in the H ouse o f C o mmons when it was sitting. He grud ge d even the t i me spen t in a dinner at Bel lamy's ; "h e a l ways t h oug ht that something would be said or done in his absence which would not have occurred had he been there—some mot i on whisked through or som e r e t urn altered. Hi▪ s principle was that a Memb er s h ou ld never be absent from his seat." No one can read this biography without admiring the wonderful energy which it records ; the motto of Lord George, according to what we read of him in this book, might indeed have been "Thorough," for mind and body, heart and soul, did he devote himself to the cause in which he believed. To one sacrifice, however, even his resolute heart was not quite in different, as fa feelingly mentioned in the following passage : " Ii was the day after the Derby, May 25th, the writer met Lord George Bentinck in the library of the House of Commons. He was standing before the book shelves, with a volume in his hand, and his countenance was greatly disturbed. His resolutions in favour of the colonial interest, after all his labours, had been nega tived by the Committee on the 22d, and on the 24th his home Surplice, whom he had parted with among the rest of his stud solely that he might pursue without distraction his labours on behalf of the great interests of the country, had won that paramount and Olympian stake, to gain which had been the object of his life. Ho had nothing to console hi m , and nothing to susta i n hi m except his pride. E ven t h at deserted him be f ore a heart which ho knew a t l east could yield him oy mpathy. He gave a sort of super b groan y All my life I hov e , been trying for this, and fbwhat have I sacr ificed r ifi c ed it! ' be murmured. .. 4lt was in vain t o o ff er solace. You do not k now what the Derby is I ' he moaned out. ~ . yes, I do ; it is the blue-ribbon of the turf.' ... it is the blue-ribbon of the turf,' he slowly re peated to himself; and sitting down at the table he buried hi ms elf in a folio o f stat i stics. " Very affecting are th e coucluding pages work, in which is simpl y and naturally reco rded the last interview betwee n L ord George B e ntinck and his friend and biographer. The session had closed , and Mr. Disraeli, about t o l eave London, c alled at Har court Howe to bid hi s f r i end farewell. They passed the morning together, " rather indulgin in the g of this con templation of the future than in retrospec. Lord George was serene, cheerful, and happy." They parted at the gate of Harcourt House. .. H e put God bless you ; forth his hand to bid farewell, and his last words were characteristic of the man, of his warm feelings and of his ruling passion —.4 ' work, and the country will Come round us.' ewe In less than a month from that day the lifeless body of Lord George Bentinck was discovered by the way side at a little distance from his native home. Friends and political must opponents lamented together over the sudden departure of that energetic spirit , and, according to the stood by his side in an arduous and unequal struggle ; who often shared his councils and sometimes, perhaps, beautiful concluding passage soothed his cars; who knew well the greatness of his nature, and esteemed his friendship among the ge in this volume, " one who gs, has stepped aside from the strife and passion of public life to draw up this record of his deeds and thoughts, that those who come after us may form some conception of his character and career, and trace in these faithful, thou chief of worldly blessin gh imperfect pages, such, and as a memento of a very stirring period in an English Worthy. ' As tohfe country, this work will be p h o is r t t o ra ry itu o r f e long valued. It will be perused with very general feelings of sympathy and admiration by both friends and opponents, for it appeals not to the narrow pre judices of one class or party, but to those generous sentiments which are common to all —admiration for the polit th ic e al a gallant nature and sympathy for faithful friendship. ______ There SEVERN AND DESTRUCTIVE INUNDATION or m flowing of the Wye and Severn, but particte a serious WYE.--GLOUCESTER, over river.SATURDAY.-- It appears that in the middle of d a llarly the former spout and deluging rains fell in North Wale e week a water and Severn rose, and the result Wa s , tha t when the Wye " fresh" cam down the Wye on Thursd a tremendous all the country along the course of th :Y and yesterday ; laid under water, and at Hereford the w river was soon than it has been known for more than ater, was deeper On either side of the bridge over the W 4alf a century. the traffic between Hereford, Ross, Gin Y n e, across which and South Wales is conveyed, there wcaesster, London, some five or six feet of water • consequently, t h a depth of coaches was rendered impossible, and no public e passage of from Hereford to this city through Ross, arrived conveyance It was reported in Gloucester that thi s bridge yesterday. swept away, but the report, we are told , had been was unfounded The only means of communication between the two * was through Ledbury. An early coach from(;ro cities Hereford, after proceeding as far es Ross, returned ucester to this city, deferring its journey until this day csa a t gain to We understand, too, that a very sudden rise took Pis urday.) mid-day yesterday in the Severn, at Worcester and , c r e e ab k out bury, and the meadows near the _hours submerged oes depth of some IS inches in about an , t h e water rising a rapidly afterwards. A great deal of damage has been done, g but at present the accounts are very confused, ow i n _ g to th difficulties of communication. T HE CALEDONIAN ASYLUM. Of the numerous charitable institutions supported by. voluntary contributions which shed a lustre on the metropolis ofd this kingdom, per haps there is ncne more interestingdaedn for the maintenance and education of the children c S ‘ co hrs and sailors who have served their country, and of tc rnen who are unable from poverty to educate t h e ir children. These are eh to b the special pleaders of this charity. It is mu e the t h at the funds are not iusu flourishing a state as its friends coul I wish, but, with a benevolence that does credit to its members, the Caledonian Society have announced that the proceeds of their annual ball, which takes 1 p ce on Thursday next, will e be devotid entirely to its r plenishment, and "We hope EIC.. cess will crown their efforts. THE SFCEFTABY or BANKRUPTS.—on Saturday a Bill was p r inted, by order of the House of L ords, to abo lish the o ffice of Secretary of bankrupts,.the and to give in present holde co forward by to the Lord Chancellor. r. Bill " 3 brought FEBR U A Y 9 a 185,3. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—As the proceedings in Parliament since the first day have been of inferior interest, on the principle ap parently on which school-boys put off everything to the last, it may be allowable to go back to some of the first day's proceedings and their consequences. To which course I find myself further prompted by the dis cussions in your Bradford Observer, decidedly the bold est and ablest provincial paper within my knowledge, and the one in whose judgement and opinions I feel the most of confidence. It strikes me that the newspapers have not accurately represent e d what th e P rem i er sa id i n th e p or ti on o f hi s speech which is m os t lik e l y to b e b roug h t up at t h e b ar of posterity. As my rep or t may b e as goo d as anot h er ' s, I will describe the facts as accurately as I am able. The whole House was in a very low frame of mind; some thing like that of passen gers i n a steam -b oat when they have got a notion of a hole in the boiler, or a probable rock under foot. Everything that was said in any quar ter was received with a dull silerc , like what might have taken place in an assembly it, France or Algiers, which bed received an intimation fr om t h e reigning Dry, that noisiness would be punished with transportation to Cay enne. But e hen the Premier came to the passage con cerning the good intentions of the Fren c h P res id ent, it was tollewod by a humming noise, mingled with some laughs and cries of " Hear, hear," exactly as takes place in a provincial public meeting when a speaker plunges into something very contrary to what was expected from him, —as if Joseph Stereo, for instance, should declare for the necessity of immediately drilling every male, or Mr. D'lsraeli burst out before his Buckinghemshire consti tuents on the importance of the ballot. The Premier turned round to his supporters with a disappointed air, and said he would repeat what he had said, for he believed it had not been understood. He re peated it, and with the same reception, only in an in creased degree. And after all, it is my belief he was not understood; the reason of which may be, that his mean ing was not easily intelligible. My individual persuasion is, that he meant to lay down a rule, that though the members of a Government may each of them in the tribunal of their inward man be persuaded of the wicked ness of the acts of a foreign Autocrat, yet so long as the Autocrat is an Autocrat, and all the powers of a nation are prostrate at his feet, it is the duty of that,Government in a certain Pickwickian sense to admit that the design of the Autocrat may have been to do everything for the best. This is a claim never extended to Jonathan Wild when he aas uppermost; but there is no knowing what may be come to. But what the newspapers appear to have missed, is the Pickwichian sense. The Premier did not say that either he or any of the Government individually approved of the acts of the President, but that they col lectively tendered him their approbation in a certain hypothetical and conventional sense, of which the term Pickwickian is the only expression familiar to the ap prehension of Englishmen. Surely on this subject it might have been permitted to preserve a sullen silence, like a lady who found herself shut up with loose company in a railway carriage. It might not be prudent to speak all her mind; but the last thing she would think of would be a declaration, that she was in a certain sense bound to admit that her com panions were probably acting according to their own views of life and its enjoyments. I have not seen the article in the Eclectic Review al luded to in your journal of last week; and of course can give no opinion on the authenticity of the informa tion purported to be conveyed. But this lam bound to say, as a man who may be told hereafter he ought to have had an opinion upon the subject and communi cated it to his constituents, that if something like what is there threatened is not done, it will be because the concerned are scant informed in their trade,—Mac heaths who lay their hands upon the pistol, and their heart fails them when they " hear the sound of coaches." Are there not eighteen millions, 3601. or 9,000 francs a-piece for an army of 50,000 men, the most splendid prize-money ever offered on the face of the earth,—collected by a cruel supersti tion within two days' march of an invading army, or per haps no march at all; to say nothing of the Kohi Noor, the natural heir-loom of the last successful robber? The stories of the French auto crat having something else to do, are all " what gods call potter and what men call prose." The precise, par ticular, actual danger is, that he should be forced on it whether he will or no, as a faint-hearted confederate is pushed forward by his bolder fellows. And all the while the professed advocates of the people's cause are doing their best to smooth you down with a " Ye shall not surely die," as a lady who underwent the knout in Russia used to be patted by the executioner to make her put herself into the proper position. I am afraid, from all at present seen, the question is above the calibre of anything collected in the House of Commons, and if the people are to be safe, the people must lead the House and not the House the people. If every man bad had a taste of the Austrian stick with which somebody taunted the Italians, there could not have been a more prudent absence of the energy which might offend a conqueror. And here begins to loom in the distance another danger, which threatens you in your commercial capacity. The Tories in the other House have poliucly laid the ground, without incurring any responsibility at present, fur declaring hereafter that they announced their disapproval when the Whigs quailed. Now if two or three French officers in disguise, with a clerical aide de-camp from the French general's instrument at Rome, should be found in Ireland,—or the officers of a French battalion in their cups should drink to the plun der of London as off aers in India did to the plunder of Lahore,—a fear-born courage will take possession of the nation, and it will be declared that everything must give way to the necessity of self-preservation. And then will step forward the Tories and insist, that they are the men who never bent nor bowed, and to them only the salvation of the country can be committed. And the nation will believe them; and, so believ ing, what will become of you and your Free Trade? The first not thoroughgoing despot who takes the English side,—end some such there may be,—will intimate that nothing would tend so much to strengthen him in his position, as ceasing to bring on his back the " protectors of his native industry." And so this bone will be thrown to him as a very little thing. And then the country will be appealed to if need be, to say whether the Free-Traders were not found allied with everything that could prevent the preparation aga i nst a fore i gn foe, and whether if their advice had been taken the Chasseurs de Vincennes would not have kept their New Year's Day at Charing-Cross. I do not ask how far all this would be literally true, but whether it is not what to a certainty will be said, and act against you. Nobody is more con vinced of the impossibility of altering the past; but i tere is often a future, which is capable of a better and a worse. Think of your being invited to trust to a Member ' s re port that he believes the sentiments of the present ruler of France are perfectly amicable towards England, when. so far as reports of that kind are of a ny value, it is as well known as anything else which is matter of common conversation, that when the individual in question was in England, he declared to parties who are named, that though he had great esteem for England and for English men, yet if he ever came to power he should think it a duty to his uncle and to France, to attempt the invasion of England. It is hard, on such foundations, to desire you to leave your door open, in confidence that the steed will not be stolen. The speech of the leader of the Conservative Opposi tion, in the debate on the Address, was of the composi tion for which I believe you have a name in the manu facturing districts, where cloth that has been worn out is torn to pieces and made up into new. The sufferin gs of the farmers and the necessity of taxing yru for their relief, Mr. McCulloch and the Pope, and all the rest of the materials of last session, did service over again as if they had never served before. Some of the Opposition of the other end, did their best to set up the nephew of his uncle, by calling him Napoleon. Possibly they have persuaded themselves there has been a transmigration of souls. It is very hard upon the old one. It rained hard in the House of Commons during all Thursday's sitting. One Member put up an umbrella. A Roman would have been as much alarmed by such a portent in the Senate-house, as when an ox spoke in the Forum. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, 9 Feb. 1852. SINKING OF A STEAM-BOAT.--Yesterday (Sunday) shortly after twelve o'clock at noon, the Ant steam-boat, which plies from the Adelphi-pier to London-bridge, left the first-named place with a number of passengers. It was what is technically termed dead low water. The vessel proceeded as far as Blackfriars-bridge without meeting any accident, but as she was passing under one of the arches another steam-packet came along, and caused the water to turn off in the opposite direction to that taken by the Ant. The con sequence was that she was dragged over a heap of ston placed on the bed of the river to strengthen the piers. The speed at which the boat was going caused a portion of the bottom to give way, and the passengers experienced a most unusual sensation; for as the water entered through the aperture in the steamer, it caused it to rock to and fro with amaziug rapidity. The captain, knowing what had taken place, refrained from telling the passengers, and the vessel proceeded towards its destination without any one but the crew being aware of what had occurred. Shortly after pass ing under Southwark-bridge the cabin passengers became tearfully excited, owing to the water gushing in in a tremen dous body, and there is no doubt but many would have jumped overboard had the steamer been far away from the landing pier, and thereby have perished. As it was, the boat was run alongside of the dummy at the London -bridge pier, and the passengers were all enabled to land in safety. The water in the hold of the steamer accumulated so fa st as the tide rose that the vessel sunk, and la st evening the ves sel still remained under water. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--TIIE ROYAL EZIIIBITION.-- S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albermarle-street, Pic ca the - dilly, opposite the York Hotel. A valuable, newl y- size of ainvented, very small powerful waistcoat -pocket glass, walnut, by which a person can be seen and known miles distant. They answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera-houses ; country scenery , an d shi p s are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. 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The I Or ganic for relief Vibrator, and all kinds of Acous tic instrumentsnvisible o f extreme deafne ss. 39, Albe marle - street, • etit the York HoteL oppo- LORD BROUGRAM'S NEW CoLIN —On Saturday Lord Brou g h am's Bill TY COURTS BILL. o was printed by order of the Ilousen the County Courts pre sent shape it contains twenty-eight of Lords. In its o f the judges may be increased toi sections. The salaries is to lie in case either party is di ,5001. a year. An appeal where the came "4 issatisfied in point of law 44' er without a jury. RAIL WAY IN TELLIGEN GREAT WESTERN. It appears from the general statement of this com pany's receipts and payments to the 31st of December last that the receipts on capital account amounted to 14,582,1351., including 702,287/. on account of the fixed 4/ per cent. stock, 126,6451. advances on shares, and 5,618,753/. on debentures, loan-notes, loans, &c. The payments amount to 14,698,8271., of which 10,641,9231. was expended in respect of the Great Western, Oxford, Berks, and Hants, Windsor, and other lines, and for lo comotive stock, including 234,150/. expended during the half-year; 1,048,1931. expended on the Oxford and Rugby line (opened to Banbury); 12 5,466/. on the Wilts, Somerset, an d Weymouth (opened to F rome and Warminster); 873,943/. subscribed to tho Birmi ng h am and Oxford ; 224,693/. to the Birmingham, Wolver hampton, and Dudley; 603,975/. to the South Wal es Railway ; 38,645/. to the Gloucester and Forest of Dean ; 545,0004 to the Wilts, Somen et, andWeymouth ; 230,414/ to the South Dev,n; 185,1031. to the Oxferd, Worcester, and Welverbempton; 68,158/ to the Chel• tenhana and Oxford; 1 9 ,013/. to the Cornwall, and 9.5001. subscr i b e d t o th e Plymouth and Great N't. estern Duck; on now locomotive stock, 44,0221.; on new sta tion at Paddington, 33,2991.; and ca the hotel, 14,0751.; making the total expenditure, as above, 14,698,827/, leaving a balance against the conapsny 01 116,6914 The liubiiities iu respect of the rarailways completed, abandoned, cr not in p rog ress, wereest imated on the 31st of December, 1849, at 350,000/.; of this sum 2.34,1501. h as b een pa id , leaving 115,849 / . st ill outstand ing for liquidation. The expenditure for new works on the railways completed, and addition to works in 1851, is charged in tho general revenue eccount. Tee inte rest on 1,693 2091., subscribed to other companies. is borne by revenue. Out of the 65,0001. voted by the pro prietors f or new locomotive stock, 44,0 9 24 has been ex ianded; out of 50,00 W voted for the new station at Pad dington, 33,2994 h as b een expended • and on' of 50 0001. for Tthhee revenue accounthot e , f .0 1 r 4 t , o he 75h4ahl half-year e been n e d ' x i n p g 3 e ndle, 31st of of December, 1851, shows that 5 91,5744 has been received; viz., 571,6814 for traffic, 7,0504 for rent, & c., fr om the Bristol and Birmingham Railway, 4,4514 for use of plant on the South Wales Railway, 5,995/. interest on cash balances during the half-year, 2,1881. rent of pro perty, cottages, &c., and 206/. for registration fees. The expenditure on revenue account amounted to 1 75,0841., including 14,9454 for Government duty, and 10,685(. for rates and taxes, leaving a balance of 416,489/. The working expenses amounted to 29.59 per cent. of the receipts, being 6.24 per (tent less than those at the corresponding period of 1850. The general revenue account states that a balance of 49,9401. was brought from the preceding half-year, which, added to the balance of 416,498/, for the half-year ending on the 31st of December last, makes the balance to the credit of revenue 466,430/. Out of this sum 153,130/, is deducted for interest on loans and preference shares, leaving a disposable balance of 313,300/. A dividend at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum for the half-year, or 5 per cent. per annum, on 8,219.4404, being the total amount of stock and shares on which dividend is payable, would amount to 205,4864, and leave a balance over of 107,8141. The 153,1301. deducted from the 466,430/., balance of revenue, consisted of 1,848/. paid during the half-year for new works and additions to works on lines opened; 15,318/. annuities of 4 per cent. per annum, guaranteed to shareholders of the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth Railway; 1,3691. interest on the Berks and Hants ex tension shares; 12,7181. interest on fixed 4i per cent. stock; 3,225/. rent of the Gloucester and Dean Forest Railway; 1,286/, rentcbarge on Paddington estate; 107,336/. interest on loans; and 10,0004 on account of interest previously charged on the South Wales sub scription. The number of miles travelled by locomotive engines during the half-year ending the 31st of De cember, 1851, was 1,135 , 799 ; corresponding period of 1850, 944,839 miles; and of 1849, 906,844 miles.• The tons of coke consumed were, respectively, 16,370, 13,735, and 13,680; and the price 18 , . 7d., 20s. ld., and 19s. 10d LONDON AND bOLVILL-WESTERN. The statements of accounts of this company, to be submitted to the proprietors at the half-yearly meeting on Thursday next, are on the same plan as those sub mitted at the last half-yearly meeting, and which state ments were so much complained of by the shareholders as not giving an account of the total expenditure on the main and branch lines separately, being contrary to the usual practice of railway companies. On one side of the capital account to the 31st of December last, appears the item of total receipts per last report, 8,593,404/. 16s. 10d., to which is added 41/. Is. 4d. as the difference between calls paid and bonds paid off, making the total receipts 8,593,445/. 18s. 2d. The total expenditure on the main line and thirteen branch lines is lumped in one sum of 1,493,121/. ISs. under the head of " total pay ments as per last report." The sums since paid on ac count are given separately for each line and branch, amounting to 80,814/. I ls. Id., which, with other items of expenditure during the halt-year, amount to 84,7141.; from this sum is deducted 10,169/. for the sale of surplus land and sundries formerly purchased for those lines, thns reducing the expenditure for the half year to 74,545/., making the total expenditure 8,567,6661.85., and leaving a balance of 25,7791. 103. The sum of 80,814/. consists of 2,205/. expended on the main line, 161/, on the Bishopstoke and Salisbury, 6,0741. on the Southampton and Dorchester, 54/, on the Weybridge and Chertsey branch, 5861. on the Hampton Court branch, 6,5031. on the Metropolitan Extension, 1,425/. on the Richmond branch, 30,507/. on the Windsor and Brent ford loop line, 1,1151 on the Guildford and Gedaiming, 2,2e71. on the Guildiord and Farnham, 681. on the Guild ford extension, 14,500/, on the Farnham and Alton, in course of construction; 12,1791. in respect of the Lon don-bridge extension, and 3,1491. on the Basingstoke and Salisbury line. The amount expended on plant, as per last report, was 569,3921., to which is added 7681., to make it up to the estimate of February, 1850-570,160/. The total share capital. irrespective of preference stock, is stated to be 7,434,0501,, of which 6.698,1281., includ ing 400,000/. di count on the shares, is entitled to divi dend, 438,815/. shares in the hands of the company 287,706. not called up, and 14,4001. non-converted Gos port shares. The debenture account shows that 1,115,083/. had been borrowed up to the 31st of December last, of which sum 773,3781. was borrowed at 5 per cent.,133,010/. at 4 per cent., 12,000/. at 4f per cent., 1,111,6001, at 4 per cent., 6 3,7001. at 34 per coot., and 21,400/. at 31- per cent. Of the amounts borrowed at 5 and 41 per cent., about 240,000/. has since been borrowed at 4 per cent. The re venue account for the half-year ending the 31st of Dec., 1851, shows that the receipts amounted to 377,5501:, and the expenditure to 138,0281., including 20,110/. Go vernment duty, rates, and taxes, and 1,300/. gratuity to staff on account of Exhibition traffic, leaving 239,5212 net revenue from the line. From this sum is deducted 47,5441. interest on loans and preference shares, and 10,000/. towards reserve account for plant, leaving 181,9761., to which is added 2,3211., the balance from the last account, making the sum applicable to dividend 184,297/. The proposed dividend for the half-year, at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum, will absorb 175,749/., leaving to be carried to the next half year 8,548/. The arrears of calls on the 50/. and 40/. shares amount to 957/., and on the third shares to 74,1144, together 75,0721., of which the payment of 73,4181. is optional with the holders. The report of Messrs. Hues and Close, the auditors, states that the accounts have been carefully examined and audited by them, and that they are correct. During the half-year an expenditure was incurred of 11,128/. for additional plant. Of this sum 767/, has been charged to capital account, and brings the entire outlay under this head to 570,160/., an amount which it was proposed in the report of February, 1850, not to exceed. It states that the balance of 10,360/. ought, in accordance with the same report, to have been liquidated out of revenue by half yearly instalments, spread over five years, but it has been considered more advisable to write 10,0001, from the revenue of the past half-year. The further balance of 360/. appears at the debit of " reserve account for plant," and which account will in the first instance be also charged with any further outlay under this it h d The steamboat accounts have been incorporatedt with h m e t i h y e , general accounts of the company since the e ls t 1851, and the packet service is now tr i e t a h t other department. It has been charged w exhibit any great re sults hitherto do not of themselves on the loan of 50,000/. for the year 185ts1h,tdh elike interest an) amount of profit, the auditors s f tat n e that and, there be no efficient communica tion that the keeping up South ampton, o lion between f the France,the ntmne t importanceCha o nn a el Islands, to t h e andin interests re sts of the railway. LEEDS AND BRADFORD. The half-yearly meeting of this company was held at Leeds on Friday. Mr. J. Waddingham presided. Mr. BEST, the secretary, read the statement of capital account up to December 36, 1851, from which it ap; geared that the expenditure had been 1,481,4731.• and The CuAIRDIAN explained that on l y 24,0001 . had ' been expended between June and Decemb er last. h e accounts wdierreectpoarss;edm. r.iiistv..illGiaemorgweaiGurnoomdlimaapn. wa ' s nt r e e d -e a le n e d t i e t d or, a in the room of Mr. Illingworth, is qualified; a dividend of 2/. 10s. per share, less income pol qua tax , was declared for the half-year; and the usual power • en to the directors to oppose any Bills, &c in givPar liament. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the business. YORK, NEWCASTLE. AND the directors o f t hi s mend a divide n d f or B . —R appears that ERWICK company have determined to therecom mpany past half-year at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum. YORK AND NORTH I MIDLAND ,—The directors of this company have decided . on recommending to the proprie tor at the ensuing meeting, a dividend for the past h ii-year at the rate of 2 per cent. per annum. CALEDONIAN.—It is stated that the directors of this company performed the gratifying duty of paying the hall-year's interest due to the guaranteed companies on the 2d instant, being the day after it was due, amount ing to 4 1,200/. The guaranteed dividend for the halt year Oil the Garnkirk amounted to 6,2501. ; On the kAydesdale, to 9,4501.; on the Green ock, to 11,500/.; o n the Wishaw to 8,800/,; a nd on the Barrhead. to 5,200/. The dividend on the p re f e rence shares is to be dccidt d • en at the half iearly meeting, which will be h e ld next I month. RAILWAY BILLS ON STANDING ORDERS. —GREAT WESTERN.—On Saturday the standing orders were de clared not complied with in the case of this company's Bill, for additional powers for construction of the Ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway; for ex tension of powers to purchase lanes and construct the Birmingham and Oxford Junction, and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railways; alico for new lines and powers to lay broad gauge rails on the S , uch Staffordshire Railway, between Wednesbury and Dudlty. BASINGSTOKE AND SALISBURY.—On Saturday the standing orders were declared not complied w ith in the case of this company's Bill for making a railway from..,a B a singstoke to Salisbury, ury, at a cost of 280,0001. The non-compliances were only with reference to the point as to whether the subscription contract, signed for 212,2001., and with 21,220/. paid up, wa3 .a copy o th• EYORBITANT SALVAGE CLAIMS. The :acts of the case of "Lord Francis Russell v. Dillon and others," decided in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Friday last, afford a very t i mely illustration of the notion the royal navy entertains of its duty to our merchant service, nuder pretence of protect ing and aiding which such persons as Lord Francis Russell are appointed to command the Tweed, and Lord Edward Russell the Vengeance. The Jane, of Liverpool, three years ago ran aground .dangerous spot, where many Francis o nur n ac dcrthe Friday asyl o . sr a g ,,, l offa i rti B eira } i sosu 3sfiso b i it,be a sididt: k .Dostan , l rpic a o.htpl very vessels are lost, at the mou.th of the Plate. Her Ma t jesty's ship Tweed being in the river, for that and other such purposes, was dispatched by the British Commo dore to the Jane's assistance. Before, however, the Tweed reached the merchantman, all the crew (except the captain) and passengers were got amt.' by the Harpy steamer, the skipper remaining—half drunk, as is said by the salvors, but more likely from the law of derelict Without 2.71 y pereenal risk, or to save his ship nod cargo I much trouble, the Tweed shipped pert of the Jane's cargo, and carried it to MonteVideo,where it was sold lot 1,805/. 165 . N. For this service Lord Francis Russell claimed by ;say of salvage, twu-thirds of the proceeds sales, cr 1,2001. After two years' litigation, ,he Admiralty re haae, eizamst chances sshaht respondentsta,orane gee eetd r i os e Ln itfr:hfei judgment, tdA , In o epr r l ap:3 ,a 3 eenobni s cide O ati es: / t . eer ; Rw rof Courta:Ll iTtstoosereruredlra f t u he se y d d t e o ei k a ;i e v d e . will lose money end the Tweed rendered them. They will, however, have the satisfaction of buying checked the ranaciey of the Royal Navy in this matter of salvage; —a rapacity which now constitutes ono of the grievaeces of our mar chant ervice. We say the rapacity, because thereisr really no more have correct term for the exactions the Queen's been levying en merchantmen for such assistance. Let us repeat a few specimens. The Sappho, of Liverpool, was stranded on the same bank as the Jane a few months previously. Th e mu _ chant brig Arno, with two launches, and her At e i„ ty , s steamer Lizard came off to her. By the aid of the mer chantman the Sappho was lightened, and was thee towed off the bank by the Lizard, a task which alto gether occupied five days. Fur this service Lieutenant Pearse gravely stated he was entitled by law to one half of the value of the ship and cargo, but would take one-third; and he was actually paid 15 per cent. of th e value, or 2,5001., besides 651. for fuel. On tho same bank, the William Peel subsequently got ashore in fine weather. The consignees at Monte Video sent a schooner. the Pio Nono, and a launch to her aid; into them part of her cargo had been tran shipped, when H.M. steam-tender Harpy arrived; and in three-quarters of an hour got the William Peel into deep water, thence towing her to Monte Video. For this service the enormous sum of 3,1461. was claimed by, and, on the precedent of the Sappho, paid to the Com mander of the Harpy, Three years before, the John Dalton, bound for Sydney, was wrecked off Rio. The Queen's ship Alfred came to her aid, but the Brazilian authorities interfering , she withdrew, having done nothing. The Alfred, how ever, claimed of the John Dalton 4001., and compromised the claim for 100/. The case of the Anna Robertson is still worse. That ship, being in China, was there deprived of half her crew by H.M.6. Royalist, and being incompetently manned, encountered a severe gale off the Cape of Good Hope. After th e s t ern was over , H.M. steamer Hermes volunteered assistance, and towed the merchantman into Algoa Bay, being occupied twenty hours in doing so. For this assistance the skipper offered 500/. The captain of the Hermes claimed 3,0001., arrested the Anna Robertson, and prosecuted her in the Vice-Admiralty Court. That tribunal awarded the Hermes 1,5001.; but, as the master had no credit in Algoa Bay, he was (at a great loss) obliged to ssll part of his cargo, and, being detained four months, had to draw fur 5004 on hie owners for current expenses. So that altogether the twenty hours' assistance of the Hermes in getting the Anna Robertson into Algoa Bay cost not less than 3,0001. In the case of the Charles Forbes, which struck on the pyramid shoal in the Straits of Malacca, H.M.S. Amazon and Pluto got two-fifths of her cargo, or 5,100 dollars, for their salvage services; and in that of the Anne, which got on the reef at the eastern entrance of the same straits, the East India Company's steamer Semiramis received one-eighth, with costs of the suit at Singapore. This, we repeat—without any desire to undervalue the services performed—is mere rapacity. By no other country in the world, save by England, is salvage al lowed the royal or national navy. In other states such services are considered part of their public duty; and it is no uncommon thing for British merchantmen to receive assistance in distress from foreign ships of war, for which no claim or payment is ever made. And even amongst us the grievance is of modern growth; for merly no such claims were made; the evil has grown out of salvage paid to merchantmen. But now a Queen's ship cannot throw a tow line or a hawser to a mercan tile vessel without making it the groundwork of au ex orbitant demand for salvage; and, if resisted, they throw the owners or underwriters into that den of iniquity, the Admiralty Court; or, if abroad, into what is even worse, one of the Vice-Admiralty Courts, presided over pro bably by a coloniel secretary, surgeon, or attorney acting es judge for the nouce, by whom the most extravagant sums are awarded. Yet when any Member complains of these extortions in the HOLI6O of Commons, up jump 4 a Lord of the Ad miralty to bully 'it'd to ►bluster. —Daily News. DISMISSAL OF LORD PALMERSTON. Looking with perfect impartiality at the transaction, as exphined in the House of Commons, we are bound to confess that we Co think Lord John has made out a clear case against his colleague, and that, if he were so minded, be was perfectly justified in dismissing him. When we say this, we wish our readers well to mark our q ualification, if he were so minded, because if he were not so minded, there certainly was no obligation, either of duty or necessity, at once to take irrevocable and no ve ry courteous measures for the r emova l o f an o ld col league, who had held the seals of th e F ore i gn Depart ment some years before Lord John him se lf h a d atta i ned to a seat in the Cabinet. L or d Palmerston, doubtless, acted a great deal too cat:die/1y to his Sovereign, and too independently to wards his colleagues; but some little allowance surely oug ht to have been made in the one case for " the pres hi s known co to n. duct. The offence was c ertainl y a venial on e; by an acknowledgment of error, sad a promise to be ' more pres sure of business" in so laborious an office; and s ome gent l ene ss ought to have been shown in the other case for an act of insubordination , muc h more for one of what was to him one of customary ind e p endence. Fairness and courtesy required that before an y decisive steps him,were t a a n k d en an t the opportunity i s ty he g a i l v d en ha h v i e m b t e o en exla m p ad i e n careful in future, it wou ld bav e been fully exp i ated. And if Lord John had not been minded to rid himself of his colleague for other causes than those Which he has on this occasion proclaimed to the world, assuredly Lord Palmerston would never have been dismissed, and this little episode would never have been magnified into its present dimensions. The public may depend upon it that no , half the story. L or d they only k John wanted to get rid of his colleague; he caught him tripping, .and greedily he seized the opportunity to throw him over. I n what this desire has originated later become manifest.•,-... may, perhaps, sooner or not because Lord John disapproves of h . or the principles on which it was d is foreign policy that Lord Palmerston's Con acted. It may be sions in this country was antipathy to the Papal preten- Premier, who .deeplthe real inconvenience to the y committed against them by his their words, indicates - their fulfilment. by his actions his desir e t o escape f rom longings, is ev id ently Lord Granville, with hi s P op i s h b e - Lord John Russell tha n Lord Palmerston ever c o uld or accordingly we see what we see.—Herald. s' CICIDE Saturday Mr.BYW Hotel, Fleet -street, on ay t n h e e E. Payne OIL OF ...A," - AIONDS.—On India Comp any hbeolddyanofinzaqurse.stAnaatstasthiear Mayor,unch's a ged 39 , who destroyed herself under the following circum stances :—The deceased was the wife of an officer in the Last action • s service, who some time ago had brought an against a brother officer for criminal conversation with his wife, and had recovered 7501. damages. The husband had at one time allowed the deceased 11. per week, which was paid by Mr. Peachy, his solicitor. The allowance, how ever, after the first payment, was refused by the deceased, who wrote an insulting letter to her husband, and went to reside with her paramour, until he went to India, when she was left in great distress, and was again forced to apply to Mr. Peachy to obtain some allowance for her from her hus band. On Friday last she called at Mr. Peachy's of f ice, but not finding him at home, she asked leave to write a letter to him, and was shown into a room by herself. When the clerk afterwards went into the room, he found her lying upon the floor. A medical gentleman was called in, but life was ex tinct. In her pocket was f o un d a small bottle which had contained the essential oil of bitter almonds, with which it is supposed she must have poisoned herself, but there was no The jury smell of the poison• expressed a wish that a post mortal: examination should take place, and the inquest was consequently adjourned. Tux ARCTIC SEARCHING EIPEDITION.--A C113(3i• sive step towards the renewed search for Sir John Franklin and his companions has at length been taken, by the ap pointment of Sir Edward Belcher to the command of the Arctic expadition. It is understood that the nominations have included Captain Kellett as the second in command, and Captain M'Clintock, and Lieut. Sherard Osborn, late of the Pioneer, t o one of the steam-ten d er s. There has been already sufficient proo f of the a bili t y, i n t r epidity, and perse verance of all these gallant officers , an d w 0 have, therefor e , every reas on to regard their appointment with satisfaction. It is to be h ope d a l so t h at C a ptain Penny , to whom it is owing that the c o urse Sir John Franklin must have tak en i s 1 at last di scovere d , w ill a lso have his allotted portion o f t h e great work to be done; since it will appear a lamentable omission, as regards the object in view, it experi ence such as his be dispensed with, and the exclusion would be most un just to a man whose service 3 can receive no other reward. h .a o s u rs en o ni f n o His two vessels, unfit for any other serviiccelf,,arse AnTouwßDlyAinirg. Useless.— Chronicle. CON VICT.—WOOLW -I- AE convict, C A sniff escaped, at Hackney, Gr 'A d William Fox, reet Police-office to the Central Worship-s he was in Criminalni committed t eaCdno and fromrf ti n ' October, 130, where_ of gm ty of housebraking and larceny, bar ber, who as bc?rn, _ and sentenced to seven years' transportation, on Friday o'clock, r.m., The convict had clothes he were found th e same aft ernoon cnunder a coal sack in ono of the coal cellars near the blacksmith's • d some at his former shop, and it is sup , p ?se . . . London associates have supplied 1 bun with their clothing, which they might easily carry in I w ith them by wearing them A over their other clothes when they visited the docky ar d . sentry, consisting of one ser geant, two corporals, and thirty one privates, were put on duty on Friday and Sat -•- light the next', morni urday nig , , hts from dark until day_ that morning, under the supposition .. the con , vict may be still hiding in the yard. The general impression, I however, is that he has gone out amongst the workmen in i the afternoon without being recegnited under the disguise he 1 lad aniunod.