The Sun. — London, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

HOLIDAY AMUSEMENTS. SADLERS WELLS. Mr. Phelps and Mrs. Warner, in their laudable en deavours to cater for the amusement of the good folks of Islington and its vicinity, seem to have caught some thing of the mania which has lately to so large an ex tent existed in the metropolis, and which has developed itself in the various forms of American minstrelsy which have been brought before the public. Last night Mr. Henry Phiilips favoured the visitors to this theatre with the first part of his adventures in America ; and, in con junction with Miss Rollo Dickson, interspersed his re marks on the sayings and doings of the land of the West by some very excellent transatlantic melodies. The ac count of his adventures was delivered in a free and pleas • ing manner, and several of his anecdotes, tending to illustrate the unceremonious and inquisitive charac ter of the Kentuckians, caused considerable merriment. His Song of the Ohio was of the most laughable and grotesque nature. On the high pressure steam boats on the Ohio it is a custom with the engineers and stokers to share with themselves the pleasure of a vocal concert. On these occasions the white men take the initiative and lead off, while the blacks content themselves with the choruses. The peculiar nasal sound of their weak and discordant voice, contrasting with the bold and manly style of their leaders, has a most ridiculous effect, and the manner in which Mr. Phillips imitated this pe culiarity was excellent, and was deservedly encored. The "Song of the Fisherman," written by Barry Cornwall, was also sung with his usual sbility. At the conclusion of his adventures he sang several other Anglish and .Irish songs. Among these—" Shall I, svastynge in despair, 1650," G. Withers ; " Down among the dead men," a bacchanalian song of 1660 ; and " The Sea Fight," by Dryden ; all of which were svell'received. Miss Rolla Dickson sang in very pretty styl e " The Bells of New York." It was announced that on Wednesday evening next, Mr. Phillips would give the second part of his adventures. We hope that Upon that occasion he will have a more numerous au dience, a more delighted one he could not possibly have. ADELPHI. At this theatre the Whitsun holydays have caused no variation of the entertainments usually presented to the public Indeed, no alteration was called for, as the pi-ces which have been presented to notice during the last fortnight are of that description that they rarely fail to attract an audience. The merits of The Memoirs of an Umbrella have already been sufficiently canvassed by the public, and it will be sufficient to say that the parts were sustained with unusual spirit, and some passages were so delivered as to cause, not the acclamation which follows a hackneyed sentiment or claptrap, but the genuine and - heartfelt applause which is justly due to good acting. In the drama of the Cabin Boy which followed, Madame Celeste was 'more than usually bril liant; and the extravaganza of Peter Wilkins concluded the evening's amusements. The theatre was not nume rously attended; but this fact may be attributed to the extreme fineness of the weather, which rendered other amusements more attractive. The audience were, how ever, more select than is usual in hodday time, and were Co far satisfied that not one mark of disapprobation was exhibited throughout the evening. SURREY. • Mrs. Davidge - has secured the services of Madame Vestris and her talented husband fOr a limited number of nights. " The Vestris" is as fascinating, and Charles Mathews as versatile, as ever. It may seem paradoxical to say that the latter is the first of light comedians be cause he is the most profound of thinkers, but so we believe it is. He studies laboriously and he acts with ease. He discriminates with judgment, and he never oversteps the modesty of nature. Other favovritee have their popularity, because, as in Dutch paintings, their e namour is exhibited in broader and st ronger lights. Charles Mathews, on the contrary, is chaste to a degree ; be never cour t s appro b at i on b y t h e ex hibi tion of a broad grin ; his acting is legitimate ; the manner of the man, the witticism of the text commands the tri -Imph. Madame Vestris's reputation as an accomplished artiste is too widely diffused to require any eulogium f ro m us. Last night in the popular burletta of the Loan f a Lover, as Gertrude, she sang some of her best songs, I 'M was encored in all of them. This distinction, how ever flattering, is nevertheless painful, and it would be well if our Surrey friends did not so frequently test the 1 , 11 ,11 gs of th e s i ngers. Charles Mathews was, of course, the Peter Spyk. Both were well supported by Messrs. J ohnstone, Heslop, and Lewis, and by Mrs. H. Hughes. The ThP' evening 's performance commenced with the comic .. I ,,ratna Used Up, which was first brought out at the 44 - I tymarket, where it ran fur seventy-seven nights. Sir Charles Coldstream; by Mr. Mathews ; Sir Adonis Leech, Mr. Rodgers ; John Ironbrace, Mr. Johnstone ; and Lady Clutterbuck, Miss Martin. The piece of the night, however, was a new grand tosnantie oriental spectacle, replete with situations, °combats, - and dances, and munificent water effects, entitled the Dark Falcon of the Arruck; or, the Prince giver , and th e Sh a h' s Ott The promise held out in e portion of the bill quoted was amply verified. We are on honour when we affirm that six soldiers, with conical caps, bearing a striking resemblance to Prince Albert's chef d'oeuvre, were killed in each battle, and miraculously resuscitated behind the scenes, in order to take part in the one which followed. The plot itself was of the hybrid order—a cross • between a tale out of the Arabian Nights and Schiller's Diver. It would be impossible to trace it through all its ramifications, and equally impossible to account for the extraordinary situation; in which the principal characters found them selves. We leave the hero who gives the name to the aPeetacle safe in wind and limb in the streets of Tehran, and we find him in the coral caves of Amphitrite, be -. Heath the salt salt sea. We cannot explain why, we can only wonder how the devil he got there. The piece is Wound up with (we quote the bill again) " a tremendous explosion and powerful denouement." Some of the scenes were very beautifully painted. The house was respect ably, if not fully .filled, and the . audience seemed highly delighted with the amusements provided for • gardens to the other, and long before nine, the crush in front of the like was so great that locomotion became impossible—volition was in abeyance, and the unfortu nate wight, who was in " the press," was forced to surrender his free will to the crowd, and to move as they moved. We had the curiosity to make inqui ries as to the number of persons who had been admitted into the gardens, and ascertained that there were upwards of 16,000 persons present at nine o'clock. In addition to the other attractions of the gar dens, there was last night exhibited for the first time, " Calypso's Fairy Grotto," a master-piece of dio ramic effect, from the magic pencil of Danson, who has in this instance completely realised the poetic dream of the author of Telemachus. The grotto, which is approached by the gothic bridge, is illuminated in part brilliantly, whilst in other parts dimmed lamps cast a " pale, religious light," enhancing the poetry of the scene. In the interior wo see Tele machus relating his adventures to Calypso, and the grouping of these figures is admirably arranged. This beautiful grotto will henceforth be a great feature of attraction in these gardens. As a guide to the visitor, it is as well to state that it is immediately behind the gothic bridge, and may be approached by crossing it, and that it opens at eight, and is closed before the eruption begins. The eruption appeared to us to be even grander than on any former occasion, but this perhaps may have been owing to the extreme bril liancy of the evening. The perilous descent of Signor Fannelli in his fiery chariot, from the pagoda to the lake, elicited loud applause, and the immense concourse seemed highly gratified with the whole of the entertainments. After the conclusitn, there was a stream of human beings pouring forth from the gardens continuously for upwards of an hour. Never before babe so many persons been congregated together within the precincts of the Surrey Z, ological Gardens. Even the monster audiences at Juilien's 111.mster Concerts last year, shrink into com parative insignificance. Whitsuntide -1 :VAUXHALL GARDENS. nfhitanntide is the season of holidays, and most un doubtedly.. at this season of the year, when sunshine and ;014f feet Tun people out of doors, it is the most joyous aeel c:ris- et Whitsuntide, how many of them have we thi ngs `,T hi Y ch not one without a Vauxhall—one of those speak of an amalgamation of all the plea :lra:th enlighten and relieve the dull way of all those most Journ e ythis straightforwardly and steadfastly through hall ; but busy world. We have seen many Vaux the to distinguish h ever one that pleased us so much as Vauxhall of last night. There was nothing je l as t night from any other of the 7°lls amusement, s m spent n this most joyous of the halls of public save and except that there were 'rash introductio n s, en4 and new souls in the bodies ,olvfell the variously -co lo ured I promenaders who studded the breathing e lishted walks, like freshly **Med flowers Jeae full t o h f tr in p _Of a moonlight night, of conveying all the attrac tions in the eloquence IlOns of flesh and blood, capab u l s e w, of eonveying all the t - , davexist - sensations that relieve the dulness ° ewe. We went to see Vauxhall by gaslight, most agreeably disappointed to see it not h but (3 ly . we l i a .e the light of the moon, but by the light of e au the y light that ever threw their lustre on dull common-place zees the light of three thousand eyes beaming with the satisfaction of having been well entertained, and capable of expressing tne satisfaction that they were so elevated and social as to be capable of expressing the fact in the sweetest and most amiable manner. Vauxhall ! We write our notice of the various attractions in a kind of bewildered and unintelligible dre im; yet we enjoyed ourselves. We recollect a number of very stirring facts, but we are incapable of giving to them a name and an eXpression, so that they may be recognised by those who - were less wide awake than ourselves. • There . were numbers incalculable of l a di es Well behaved and well dressed ; there were gentlemen who mixed in the throng and did not forget themselves; there were strangers, from far - off pa rts, who gazed and Were satisfied, and did not depart without audibly ex- Pressing the fact. In addition to the brilliancy of the gardens themselves, the proprietors, still maintaining their well-known liberelity, provided an exceedingly full programme of attractive entertai nments, which were Performed in different parts of the ground, and at speci fied periods of the evening. In the firer place, there was the performances of " a celebrated brass bind," who exe cuted a number of Donizetti, Strauss. and Rossiui's best productions ; and then came a vocal concert, in which Messrs. Hodges, Sinclair, J. W. Sharp, Binge, and bareie, and Mesdames Aveling Smith, and J. Roe, took part. The vocalists were accompa nied b y a numerous and efficient orchestra, and won for themselves an oc casional encore . The concert was no sooner over th an there_ was a tremendous s ush to the Rotunda Theatre, and in five minutes afterwards the place was literally crammed from end to end. By dint of some vigorous pushing, cra s h' . crushing, restricted view of '.l ' and s q ueezing, we managed to get a new and capacious the equestrian performances in " the we melted down cir cle 'and although, to speak vulgarly, we never witnessedc' sc a very jelly, we must admit that enjoyed. Madame L e o n u ea in the circle which we more _Tournaire, if possible, ex celled herself in her de r L se g2reetes of horsemanship; while rdinand Tournaire, and Mons. Benedict, Mons. Madame Klatt, exerted themselveso wonderfully, to give would have thought satisfaction to their audience. that, after this, would have terninalineoate i the amusements the thing had yet of the evening, but no, the crea to come, and it is so graphically,destchfraibed in the printed circular of the establishment representa tion than introduce it, and htrwe cannot do Tartar gorgeous procession! introducing a faith e fu it is:—" A tion of the Emperor Teaou Kwang reviewipiL his pavilion, or upon a novel rotechuic troops before the imperial Golden Bells, amidst n display of fireworks P al ace of the and extraordinary scale, by that celebratedu artist Mr. Darby. In the distance, the low g y h p l agopd a s and monstrous Dragon Tower, 120 feet h which Il Joel Diavolo will make a terrific - descent ' Victory !' on a fiery dragon ; and in his descent t will cast the `wreath of victory' at the feet of the successful knight of the tournay that is supposed to have taken place. The whole scene terminating with one of the most imposing and brilliant discharges of fireworks that has ever been attempted in this or any other country.'' This portion of the entertainments, as may be ima : gined, occupied a considerable time in the representation, and while the first part was glittering and gorgeous the latter was terrific and startling. The dancing com menced some short time before we left, and when we • did Ibave the lamps were about to put on their night "Ps, as the dawn of another day began to peep in " between the leaves of the lofty trees that surrounded Vauxhall. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. , Never si nce we rem ember these gardens have they been so crowded, as they were last evening. As early as seven o'clock it was with the greatest difficulty that 'le visitor could make his way from one part of the THE SUN, LONr -:SN, TUESDAY MORNIYG, JUNE 2, 1846, FRENCH QUARANTINE . The committee of the Academie de Medecine have closed their deliberations, and their conclusions tend to a complete reform in the present French quarantine sys tem. The question is one of very great importance, and a revision of the quarantine laws has long been wanted both in England and France. The following are tho recommendations contained in the report of the committee:— PREdAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN ON THE DE PARTURE OF VESSELS FROM A COUNTRY DEEMED DANGEROUS, FOR FRANCE : " 1. The captain of every vessel leaving one of the ports of Egypt, Syria, or Turkey, for France, must be the bearer of a certificate given him by the French Consul of the place on the day or on the eve of his de parture. To this certificate must be annexed a certifi- cate from the French medical man, especially appointed for that purpose, stating the particulars regarding the general health in the country, of the passengers and the crew, as likewise the healthy state of the vessel at her departure. 2. This bill of health is not to be regarded as clean if, at the time of the departure of the vessel, a pestilence existed or was imminent in the country. " 3. The bill is likewise to be deemed unclean (crute) if individual cases of plague (pestes sporadiques) are of a nature, either from their number or their intensity, to en gender fears for the propagation of the disease. " 4. In every other case the bill of health is to be re garded as clean. __ _ " 5. Provisionally, and until experience, which we deem indispensable, as well as regards the public safety as inter national relations, having been resolved in a satisfactory manner evident to all, the question of conveyance, the trunks containing the linen, the clothes and goods of the passengers and the crew, are to undergo fumigation dur• ing the transit, or are to be sealed at the place where they are shipped, to be opened in a French lazaretto ; the passengers and sailors are only to be allowed to retain such clothes as may be actually necessary during the voyage." PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN DURING THE VOYAGE AND AT THE DIFFERENT PORTS STOPPED AT. "6. Every vessel of the royal navy, each postal steamer coming from the East must have a medical man on board ; it were advisable that this medical man be appointed by the French Board of Health. " 7. The duty of these medical men on board would be to see the necessary measures for the preservation of health attended to, principally respecting the airing of the vessels; they are to note down every evening the state of the crew and passengers. " 8. If duing the voyage the vessel puts in at any port, the certificates given at the port of departure are to be viewed by the medical man attached to the board of health of the place, who is to add his remarks on the state of health of the place and of the neighbourhood. This certificate, if deemed requisite, is to be countersigned by the consul. "9. The medical man on board is to keep an exact memorandum of any communications he may hear on board, as well as of any important circumstance relative to the state of health. " 10. As regards those•vesaels which have no medical Man on board, the Minister of Commerce will draw out special instructions f the masters, indicating the symptoms of the pestilence, the remedies to be applied, the measures to he taken to prevent contagion, act' the spreading of the disease. " H. These masters are to note down any remarks or communications they may receive during the passage, or at the intermediate ports, as well as a statement of any illness on board; these notes to be written day by day as the occasion may require." PRECAUTIONS TO BE TAKEN ON THE ARRIVAL IN FRANCE. " 12. The commanders of vessels in the royal navy and of the post-office steamers having a M edical man on board. are to remit to the competent authorities : " 1. The bill of hearth and annexed certificate received at the port they started from. "2. The journal kept by the medical man on board, stating any case of illness which may have occurred dur ing th , passage. " The medical man on duty belonging to the Board of Health of the port where the vessel arrives, to whom the two above certificates are to be given, is to examine them carefully, and to certify the actual state of health of the crew and passengero, as well as the healthy state of the vessel, and is to make know n the result of his investigations, in a report the form of which will be de noted by the administration " 13. On receipt of the bill of health and certificate given at the departure of the vessel, of the journal kept on board, and of the report of the medical man of the port arrived at, the competent authorities are to deter mine the duration of the quarantine, and if needs be, the special measures to be taken to prevent infection. "14. For vessels having a medical man on board, coming from Egypt, Syria, or Turkey, with a clean' bill of health, the quarantine is to be fixed at ten days, dating from the departure of the vessel, if during the passage no symptoms of pestilence have manifested themselves. " 15. The quarantine is to be fixed at fifteen days, dating from the departure of the said vessels, if the bill of health is unclean,' if before the departure and during the passage no evil symptoms broke out. " 16. For merchantmen, not having a medical man on beard, a qu aran ti ne o f ten d ays , d a ti ng f rom t h e i r ar rival, is to be prescribed if- they have a clean' bill of health. " 17. The same vessels arriving with an ' unclean' bill of health, but without having had any symptoms of plague on board, are to undergo a quarantine of fifteen. days, dating from their arrival, and the goods are to be disembarked. " 18. Any vessel, no matter what her bill of health may say, which, during the passage or on her arrival at a French port, has on board a person attacked by the pesti lence or by a suspicious disease, is to be submitted to a strict quarantine, the ddration of which is to be deter mined by the sanitory authorities of the said port. " The passengers and crew are to be sent to the laza retto, and to undergo a quarantine not less than fifteen and not exceeding twenty days. " The goods to be disembarked and ventilated ; the vessel to be thoroughly ventilated, washed, cleaned, and purified, and is to remain empty at least for one month ; persons are to be appointed to guard the vessel at a cer tain di.tance, but they are to be expressly prohibited, under whatsoever pt.( text, as well as every other per son, from g , king on board the vessel in quarantine. " 19. The bageage and clothes sen t to t h e l azaretto , having been seated at the port of departure, are to be ventilated and purified in the manner deemed most ex pedient for preventing infection. " 20. Persons buffering from the pestilence are to re ceive at the lazaretto all that care and attention given in the best organised hospitals of the country." . The Presse remarks as follows on the above conclu sions : "It is evident that the committee of the Academie de Meiecine go as far as we do in the proposed system of relent), and they limit themselves to the adoption of the conclusions, and to giving their support to the in cesqint appeals of MM. Auber , Ruche , a n d Alexis de Valon. We shall , :nly remar k up on two articles, which we deem altogether inadmiss i ble. Some practical Acadknow ledge was want in g to the de Me lecine. If a Academic had termed part of merchant, or other personidqunalievt er hav a•lmitted Ar the e ominit tee, tih a ey e w t o o u the sealing of the merchandise ti ; u tt r v c t ies 5 and 19, reso this would be a eof needless delay, embarrassment, aid trouble, and would be of the greatest prejudice to cur steamers. Article 17, which specifies a strict quarantine of f the merchan 3 ise, on fif teen days, and the disembarking 0 unclear bill of health, is not any vessel arriving with an Besides which, it . point of view. logic, in a scientific pot would tend to suppress commerce with the east in a ll those p or t s vo id of lazarettos. Would it be just to ndres, &c., to obli ge t h e vesse l s o f C et t e , o f Port V e hav e first to und ergo a ru i n ous quarantine at Marselles, our before returning to the proprietor ? According _to . notion, the academy has not sufficiently weighed this article, which deserves closer investigation. however, the question of quarantine has made a rapid step in advance, and we flatter ourselves not to have lent a powerless hand." meeting THE SP -------- " — = ----21. r 1A ITALFIELD S . : EAVERS ~.,' Weavers' Union of Spitalfield s was 11;d " o f the t; I B S t a r a o t , take d e r d S i a i n y l k t o n L i e g o o o h n m t :. at eight o'clock, a numerous . at the Crown and 0 thenW a Waterloo-town, l r o e o p - r t i o e N t v; ,0 petitioning f ileth Bethnal-green, gr ee Anchor, sid e rati of Lords to atow the weavers to be heard at tfie bar o o f lis t e hellouse in support of their opposition to the proposed reduction duties on foreign wrought silks, as contem p lat edithe o . f. C t u i s le toms' Duties Act, Mr. Gurnell, president of the Union, chair, who briefly alluded to the objects that were ao ln ut th t e come before the meeting, and urged the necessity of some immediate steps being taken. Mr. :Bradly;moved—" That we, the members of the Broad Silk Hand-loom Weavers' Union, do petition the Honourable the House of Lords to allow counsel to be heard at the bar of their Honourable House, in defence of the silk question, feeling that the new tariff will have a ruinous effect on their trade." Mr. Snow observed that he would second the resolution, as he believed it was their last resource. The chairman put the resolution, which was carried unanimously. MEXICO and the UM. 1 ED STATES. The bombastic President Polk has at length had the felicity of Wit in. a ; war !message to. Congress, craving fo: '9 two reeitnents of volunteers, and other levlee of an equally formidable kind, to resist the hostile purposes of the Mexicans." The President , however , makes out but re caeipvoeoarn c A as m e r n e o f ti c s a e s d u s t to other grief is that the Mexicans keep up an army . eric T a h n e en M vo e y x e i63 ' ii r s his it i:s e u era re s fy on the banks of the Rio Bravo. Why, they have had posts there for these number of years. And even sup posing the Americans had a rightful title to Texas, it is not apparent how this should render it a crime for the Mexicans to garrison Matamoras. The territory intervening between the Rio Bravo and the Nueces has been long a disputed territory between Texas and the adjoining provinces. Not vtithstaAing this dispute, the Mexican commander riA not occupy this territory, but kept on his own side of the Rio del Norte. Had the American commander done the same, and kept at the Corpus Christi, on the Nueces, contented with protecting the territory from invesion no collision could have taken place, for the Mex;.cans remained strictly on the defensive. But Ge neral Taylor not only crossed the Nueces and seized the whole of the disputed territory, but, under come idle plea, he proceeded also to blockade Matamoras, and cut it off from the sea. In this, General Taylor wantonly commenced hostilities ; as, indeed, the Whigs and the Senate are prepared to maintain, as they insist that he should not have gone beyond Corpus Christi. Collisions hating taken place, it teas inipo<=sible to re fuse the vote of levies and of money, although the leading members of the Senate, Coltoun amangst others, protested that the country could not consider itself at war. The united bodies of Congress could, indeed, alone de clare that. War, however, it is, if President Polk chooses to make it so. This he seems scarcely prepared to do upon the land frontier of the Rio del Norte. He may, h ever, give orders to the fleet in the Gulf to operate on the coast, or to whatever vessels are on the Pacific, to seize Monterey or the forts of California. And, as compensation for that unlimited store of grievance, which has been amassed on the supposed wrongs done to American citizens by Mexico, Mr. Polk may insist on retaining such provinces or possessions. Federalist movements, too, may be got up at the same time, under American influence, to paralyse the efforts of the Mexican Government and facilitate the work of spoliation. Is Europe prepared to see Mexico thus dis membered, and the autopsy made before her eyes ? It is to be feared that such is the case. A serious means of effective war would alone be likely to make the Americans hesitate. And neither France nor England is prepared to volunteer in such a struggle. We have had little or no thanks from Spain for having fought for and won its independence. We might risk still less profit or gratitude from the Spanish race in Mexico. The age of political, as well as of religious, crusades is past.—Examiner. CANADIAN NEWS. (From the Toronto Herald of May 7.) LOWFR PROVINCES.—Our latest advices from the Lower Provinces inform us that, in New Brunswick, a most destructive freshet had accompanied the breaking up of the ice above Fredericton, on the river St. John s'-id its tributsries ; almost erery bridge of any conse quence between that city and Woodstock has been de st roycd. The great crash is said to have commenced at the French Village, twelve miles above Fredericton, whe:e dwelling houses, barns, horses, cattle, sheep, &c., wvee swept away ; and at Sugar Island, two miles lower, the destruction was stilt more extensive and ap• palling, elm trees, three feet in diameter, being snapt a iunder, or bent like reeds by the irresistible force of the and water, while houses, barns, haystacks, cattle, &I. , were borne down the current, or crushed r.o l'..:T•:,a3ents and piled among the ice upon the shore. e Is of one hundred buildings are said to have been d. „ °yeti ; and such was the feelings of alarm, even in :cricton, that a greal amonnt of property was removed fet w the immediate vicinity of the river, and several cem,iies took up their abode on Maryland Hill, which ote‘leoks the city. No account of the amount of injury 4. , , - ;-4-1 abt)re Woodstock had been received, though it , known that two lives bad been lost. From Fredric . 4.., downwards, the ice still continued strong for several The House of Assembly of the Province has placed 12,..000/. at the disposal of the Executive, to meet any •-oergeroy that may arise out of the dispute between G.;• t Britain and the United States, concerning the p, - -on question. The Assembly closed its session on the 14,h instant, t -4 was fot :rally prorogued to the first Tuesday in June, uy the Lieutenant-Governor in person. The a.kteltion of theAs-7. - mably throughout the session has 1 - -‘• :n devo!: d, &most txclusively, to the ordinary. brs:nc- - -; of the e• - •untey. A general election is expected . 19 .ake t• cly in July. It seems now setied that the New Cathedral is to be built at St. John, in perference to Fredericton. Papers, from Sydney, Cape Breton, of the Ist Aptil, stAte tie ice in the harbour was then impassable, and was expec=ed to disappear altogether in two or three days ; ; 6 . altogether precisely four weeks earlier than the s'erage of the last four years." So early a spring is said to be without precedent in that.region. The accounts from Newfoundland represent the Seal F , hery as hitherto not only unsuccessful but disastrous Ti'-e St. John's Courier states, that upwards of eighty letd been spoken which had caught no seals, nor 'end hey heard of one that had been fortunate enough to take any ; and the Public Ledger gives the names of seven vessels already known to have been lost in the ice. The Governor of Prince Edward's Island has involved 'hi. - netf in a controversy with the Assembly, by dis wit:•s;ng the Spe-tker from the Ex , cntive Council, in con sequence of opinions expressed by him in the Assembly. The following resolution was carried by a vote of 14 to 3. "Resolved, as the opinion of this Committee, that the House of Assembly has no confidence in Sir Henry Vere Huntly, Lieutenant-Governor of this Colony." It was resolved by the Assembly on Friday lost, on the motion of Mr. BaldwLn—That this House are of opinion that such en alteration should be made in the regula • ions in the crown lands office, as will enable parties buying land from the original purchasers of any quantity not less than fifty acres, to have their purchases recocr i.ised, and on production of the proper assignments, and render of the sums due on such portions of land, that transfers to the assignees be made in the hooks of the Depor.ment, and that deeds in due course of time be issued to them. ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN HER MAJESTY'S SLOOP FANTOME AND A BARBARY PIRATE. Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated. May 19 : " In the greatest haste I write you a brief account of a revere chastisement which has been inflicted by her Maje3ty's ship Fantome, 16, Commander Sir F. W. Nicholson, Bart., on the Moorish pirates, who have for some time been committing depredations inthese Straits; but lam sorry to say not without casualties among the ship's company of the Fantome, a midshipman haring been killed, and one of the lieutenants wounded, toge ther with a serjeant of marines and five seamen ano marines. " You have already the intelligence communicated by Lloyd's agent of the seizure of a small British merchant brig, named the Ruth, by the pirates, off the coast of B.:rbary, and the escape of the crew in the boats, and that upon their representation the Fantome had left Gi br-ltar to endeavour to recover the vessel—a portion of the crew proceeding in the sloop of war to point out the locality of the miscreants. " It appears that the Fantome had little difficulty in finding the brig, and, seeing that they would have to fight for her, Captain Nicholson made his dispositions accordingly. Ile dispatched the master and one party to get the vessel off; and, being fired upon by a large flrce collected on the shore, he pushed off in the beats, u-der cover of the guns of the sloop, to occupy their attention. A lengthened engagement then took place, which lasted until the master and his party had got the Ruth off, and had recovered some of her valuable cargo. Captain Nicholson commanded in person, and he and his small party were opposed by very considerable num bers of the Moors, who armed with pistols, guns, an d cutlasses, obstinately disputed his landing, and after wards his advance on the strand, some of them fighting with great bravery. A great many were killed by the crew of the Fantome, and a large number must have suffered from the guns of the sloop covering the launch ing of the ship, for I hear from an eye-witness that nothing could exceed the precision and exactneQs with which the firing was conducted. " From what I can learn the affair was a very gallant one indeed, and was admirably conduced. The pirates had a great advantage over the, Fantome's crew in point of arms ; their muskets carried twice as far as those of the seamen and marines. To this circumstance is to be ascribed the loss of Mr. Bays, the midshipman, who was a gallant and pro mising young officer, and lam informed is a son of a captain in her Majesty's navy. Re was killed on the return of the boats to the sloop wh=n they bad accom plished their task, and under the same circumstances the first lieutenant, Mr. Saunderson, was severely wounded, together with the colour-sergeant and four or five of the ship's company. The action took place on the 12th of May, at a point of the north coast of Barbary called Tre forces. to the eastward of the Tetuan, " The seizure of tie brig was one of the most daring acts of piracy that has been committed in the Mediter rant an for several years, and when it is considered that it was in the strait and narrow passage: of the Mediter ranean by which merchant vessels pass, the importance of the severe chastisement inflicted by Sir F. Nicholson and his gallant officers and crew will be duly estimated, not only in official, but in mercantile quarters." FATAL ACCIDENT FROM THE SPARK OF A RAILWAY ENGlNE.—Durihg the progress of one ofth e trains on the a u g n o c , ti a on ye s r t y ston York and North Midla n d li ne , a few days dis tressing event occurred at the Milford j o wing to the ejection of a burning piece of coal from the chimney of the engine, which alighted upon an interesting girl, about eight years of age, one of the waiters in the re freshment -rooms, and her clothes being set on fire, she was 0 dreadfully burned that death terminated her sufferings the same evening. Amidst all the wonderful improvements of the age connected with railway travelling, there appears to be a great defect in the prevention of accidents of this nature. —Leeds Mercury. REMARKABLE DEATS OF A TIGER.—A magnificent royal tiger, forming part of a travelling menagerie at the with chains ttaoirr of f f 3 i n e . tz , has recently met with its death in a very at unaccustoemnet entering rious way. In consequence of the blows of a whip or stick received in its youth, it bad near the jaw two wens of some operatortc,town pf h has s size,rna which no one had ever thought of removing, till a vete rinary of Metz - proposed to perform this perilous i n s The am r o o ff p e e r s having The iie poor r n a a n C i e m ep a t l ed su b b y m operation. the menagerie, the tiger was securely fastened down ex treme rage, thati of the brain ensued, ng quietness; g an t ce h tt e . yr c e ag w e it w h it m h u h ch isknife, operation, the tiger was seized with such ex unable to burst his bonds, congestion t p ,h ur e chased his itbeeud tito : on attemptingtrtheliei-s and he expired in a few seconds. The histoq.remains for its cabinet of natural THE CORN BILL. We can never sufficiently appreciate the advantages of having. et great soldier in. the Cabinet, and. a Field Marshal in the House of Lords. It immensely facilh tates the -mechanical process of change. Nothing is so desultory—so apt to clog its own movements —so blind to its destiny—so apt to waste its resources—as a legis lative crowd. The moment they are frightened they get into a heap, and be g i n t o trea d o n one another 's toes. They are too great for the drill. For maser more important reasons, therefore, than that particularised by the Roman Emperor, it is desirable that a Senate should have one head. The Duke of Wellington supplies in the Lords that important disideratum. After a due amount of reconnoitering, feeling, d e monstrating, skir mishing, and other preliminaries, he matures his plan in politic silence. Just on the eve of struggle he informs his Generals what they must do. Aides-de-camp fly with his orders. Chiefs listen to his instructions. No matter how little the soldier, or the officer, or even the commander of a division, knows of the general plan. It is theirs to hear and obey. If the Peers threaten to be rather too high and mighty, or if they show indications of jibbing, there is a reserve which will either supply their places or push them on. The Brobdignag Duke pulls out of his pocket fifty mannikin Peers, who count for as much as the best for this kind of warfare. The affair goes off with all the grace and composure of a parade. The word of command is all that they wait for. Attention ! Right about ! And they all are converted by intuition, and turned by instinct. The people are at the same time edified by a revolution and entertained with a spectacle. It is really quite a lesson—whether in the art military or the art politic, is not at first discernible—to hear the Duke addressing his comrades. " I beg leave," he says, " to point out to your Lordships, that it is your duty to consider well the consequences of any vote that you may give upon this subject—to consider well the situation in which you place this House." That is the question for the Lords. There is a delightful, a scientific simplicity in this way of putting the case. We do not find a word here, cr indeed in all the rest of the speech, in the smallest degree allusive to the merits of the ques tion, or even to its subject. The Bill might be one for swallowing Polk's insolence and giving up Ore gon, or the abolition of all duty on tobacco, or a great central railway terminus in Waterloo-place, or the confiscation of half the property of the Peers, for anything that appears in the speech. The corn-laws are as rigorously excluded from it as the Ten Command ments are from a schoolboy's theme. He gives the pure mathematics of the question. " Consider well the consequences." " Comider the situation in which you place this House." His Grace adds an expression which speaks the very soul of military discipline. No member is to consult his own opinion, his own safety, or his own reputation, but to identify himself with the House. A soldier is a unit in the army, a Peer is a unit in the Duke's branch of the Legislature. " Nay," he says, "it is the duty of each to !lace himself in the situation of the House before he determines to give his vote, and to consider what would be, under all circumstances, the consequence if the House were to follow the course he may be about to do on this occasion." We beg most entirely to concur in this advice, and entertain no doubt that it expresses the true theory of a legislative vote, so far as regards the duty of a member to put himself in the situation of the House. There are Peers, we cannot help thinking, who have consulted their party or their pique by giving an adverse vote, though nothing would perplex them so much as to find the Lords placed in collision with the Commons and the people of England. Yet, as the Duke puts it, it does rather merge the man in the army. • His Grace then reminds his bearers that he has once before advised them to beat a retreat, and he implies that they retreated with success. At any rate they saved their lives and their coronets. Like the judicious warrior in " Hudibras," they have lived to fight another day, and, as in the former instance, to run away also. The Duke encourages them to hope that a repetition of this movement will be accompanied with equal ad vantage. This, in fact, is pretty nearly all that he has to say. So he says it again :—" I beg of your Lordships to look a little to the measure upon which you are about to vote." This seems to promise a word or two on " the merits." No such thing. The nature of the inspection is explained by the rest of the sentence :—" and the consequences likely to follow from a rejection of that measure." The Lords are to lock at the measure a little, and pass it, just as you make a shying horse look at a wheelbarrow a little and pass it. The inspection is not to be tediously long, or superfluously inquisitive. But, on the principle, we suppose, that abundans can tela non nocet, the Duke repeats his warning for the fifth or sixth time, without concerning himself much to diversify the langnage : —"I ask your Lordships to look at the manner in which this measure has come before you, and consider what is likely to follow from your re jecting it." What those consequences will be he states clearly enough, but we fancy we can just trace a little tenderness and unsteadiness of touch when he comes to describe the state of things which renders these conse quences inevitable. "My Lords, this measure was re commended by a speech from the Throne ;"—written, his Grace might have added, " by my Right Honourable Friend in the other Housei"—" it has been passed by a majority of the House of Commons, consisting of more than half the House of Commons. My Noble Friend has said in the course of this debate, this vote of the House of Commons is inconsistent with the original vote given by the House of Commons on this same question, and inconsistent with the supposed views of the constituents by whom they were elected. My Lords, I do not think that is a subject which this House "can take into its consideration; for, first, we can have no accurate knowledge of the fact; and, in the next place, whether it was a fact or not, this, my Lords, we know— that it is the House of Commons that has passed this Bill. . . . That we know by the votes of the House of Commons." Now, this is much ado about nothing, for the purpose of disguising something. The Duke insists on the measure being recommended by the Crown and passed by the Commons ; both of which are by no means extraordinary occurrencesi and. neither of which is usually considered to bind the hands of the Lords. He parades the " facts " of the case, the votes of the House of Commons, -and all that,- and then pretends that :the Lords have nothing to do with the. supposed views of the constituency. Have they not ? On the contrary, in the clear still depth of his Grace's own sound understanding the views of the constituency —of. the great and enlight ened majority of the people-e-are the reason why his Grace gives way, and recommends the same course to the Lords. He knows that the people are not against, but for the measure. He knows also, better than we could tell him, that the formidable " consequences " which he mentions a dozen times over, viz., the collision of the two Houses, the introduction of another Bill, the forcible passage of that other Bill through the Lords, and the irremediable damage done thereby to the Upper [louse, would not arise from - the, mere accident, of a temporary agreement between a speech from the Crown and a re corded vote to the House, but from the fact that that speech and that vote were backed by an irresistible power of public opinion and public determination. His Grace contrives to elude this fact. The views of the constitu ency cannot be ascertained, he sayseitad whatever they are to have teething to do with them/. He has more to do with them than he chooses to confess. If there were no other votes in the case than a Royal speech and a vote of the Commons, he might safely recommend the Lords to do what was right in their own eyes without far of the consequences. _ His 3-race's discussion of the " consequence" is so thoroughly en militaire that it deserves at least a place in his dispatches, whatever its propriety in his legisla tive compositions. " I beg to remind you, my Lords, that you ought not to take a position on which you cannot stand, on which you can do nothing." Most excellent advice 1 Would that it were more generally followed. Nine-tenths of the follies and miseries that surround us would have been avoided if people had only considered how they were to get out of the scraz_before they got into it. Will his Grace allow us to -suggest a trifling addition to this golden rule that you ought not to make an advance in which you cannot persevere, and every step of which von will have to re trace. The Duke, and his friend in the Commons, have now for three or font. times, completed very long, difficult, costly, and fatal political marches, in spite of the re monstrances of the wisest advisers, with no other result than an uncommonly quick and disastrous retreat. For thirty years, with some slight changes of plan, the nation has been marching under the Duke and his party against free trade, and now we have to get back all that distance as well as we can in a less number of weeks. But we will go on with the Duke's dispatch. " You have great influence on public opinion ; men have great confidence in your judgment ; but, sepa rately from the Crown and the House of Commons, you can do nothing: if you break your connexion with the Crown and the House of Commons, you will then put an end to the functions of the House of Lords.. My Lords, I ask you to reflect what must be the immediate consequence of your rejecting this Bill." Now, we must say that we think the Lords do not owe much to his Grace for the peculiar and very gratuitous footing on which he has placed their acquiescence. He has made it a mere capitulation for fear of "the conse quences." They might be supposed accessible to reason. tie has not vouchsafed them one argument about the corn-laws. They might value his own opinion. He has assigned no other ground for his own conversion than the very irrelevant and dangerous one, that he was bound to his Sovereigns wwwith tt hh s so ob marvellous y muchp ec f u o i c a e rm inioa o qin t g i ud v eh motives eoh o b f i gratitude, veearec om which obliged him to do all the mischief that his Sove reigns, present or future, might possibly ask at his hands. lie might have suggested to the Lords(ithisa4trtehtieorne, was some authority in the voice of the people, that an peace ableness,o a Pnidn,anba above all, not d be far p wrong. tleh. o ugH het 0 n vy the i, ich nia contrary, kes he s m tu en d d io e u d sly th b a l t in m ke o d de t s h t e y p o e t ? humble and the sensible distrust their own judgasent when they find themselves alone in their opinion, which is the supposed foundation of that unanimity required in our juries, and without which society must soon be dis solved. lie might have urgel that the cause was not sacred, that the sliding scale was not an article of faith, that in a matter of mere commercial opinion it was right for comparatively uninformed men to submit to sound practical authorities. For these and all other possible topics. he substituted one—only one—one stated about a score times over with hardly a change of ex pression ; and that was simply a dread' of the con sequences.-7 imes. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has consented to accept the office of Patroness to the Adult Deaf and Dumb Institution, Red Lion-square, and, according to her accus • toured liberality, has presented the funds with 451. s T HE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH -Th e di v i s i on i n t h e clock, the new way (reachi ng t o House of Lords on Thursd a y night was received here having yester daythe Midland station at Norrnanton) by th e electric tele graph. When the tel e g ra ph is com p let ed between Leeds e ( d F a r i d considerableay ) about nine part : f ' ct and London, which we u nderstand will. be in the course ofnt the summer, information m a y be conve yed fro either ex tremity to the other in the cours e o f about seven minutes.— be en I 1 i c o o r a n ‘ i ' l eT - Leeds'lntollipencer, ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION (CONTINUED). 100. Pandora—G. Patten, A.—is a picture of great pretension, and also of considerable merit. From its immense size, it attracts the attention of every visitor. The figure of Pandora is a nude of ; the Rubens rather than of the Titian school of art, and albeit hypercriti cism might have something to say on the subject of the anatomy of the figure, yet " Ifaud ego paucis offendar maculis," the picture is, in more senses of the word than one, a great picture, and proves that Mr. Patten has been no inattentive or unworthy student in the school of the Fl aiish masters. 103. The Supplicant —R. Redgra ve , A.— " Please to g i ve two single knocks." Ode of those pictures in the painting of which Red grave delights. The motto explains the subject. A beautiful little girl standing at a door, and endeavouring in vain to reach the knocker. 117. Cupid and Psyche—Painted for his Royal High ness Prince Albert.—T. Uwius, R.A, Psyche, returning from the infernal regions with the vase of celestial beauty (obtained from k'roserpine, at the com mand of Venus), is tempted by vanity and curiosity to lift the lid of the mysterious treasure. Why should I be so silly as to carry all this beauty to Venus without stealing a little for myself ?' Alas ! instead of beauty there issues from the vase a nox i ous vapour, which throws poor Psyche into a deep sleep—and she must fall from the rocks, but that Cupid, always hoverin,g round the object of his love, flies to her protection, re vives her from her trance, and restores her to animation' and enjoyment.—See the Fable of Apuleius." This is a small cabinet picture beautifully finished. It is an ex quisite illustration of the fable. 134. The Departure—Scene in . Circassia Sir W. Allen, R.A. A Circassian chieftain taking leave of h i is fa mily and hastening to the wars. The landscape n the background is beautiful exceedingly, and the warriors a m r o n u f n u t i e l d n , f a fi n u d e a a n p d p 184. Early Morning—W. Collins, R.A.—ls a beau a:nenertglyy.about to charge down a glen, beau tiful landscape. The struggle between day and night, the darkness gradually melting into dawn, is very fine. Collins - has three other pictures in the exhibition-90. Hill Sands, Devon ; 106. Shrimpers ' hastening home ; and 529. Meadford Bay, Torquay, all beautiful, but scarcely equal to Early Morning. 122. A Canaidate for a Portrait—C. Landseer, R.A; " Paint me so." Such was the request of this lovely child to the artist, and admirably has he executed the commission. It is a little gem. 152. The Wounded Smuggler, by the same artist, is too melodramatic for our taste ; but _ _ _ 337. Mary Avenel showing her trinkets to Mysie Flapper, the only other contribution of this artist to the exhibition, is an admirable illustration of Sir Walter Scott's description of the scene ; the good humoured as tonishment of the lively Mysie Flapper contrasts ad mirably with the composed, dignified, melancholy pla cidity of Mary Avenel. F. Goodall contributes two pictures-84, Spanish Pea sants retreating from the French Army ; and 239, Going to Vespers. There is some clever grouping in the first of these pictures ; but the Going to Vespers as a piece of colouring, is quite Rembrantesque. The cloisters, up which the figures are hastening to the chapel, are illuminated by a lamp, the lights from which are distributed in a most Nonderful manner. REVIEW of the MONEY MARKET FOR THE MONTH OF MAY, 1846. This has been a somewhat extraordinary month in matters affecting the value of capital and the condition of trade. The progress of the American negotiation, and the passage of the Corn Bill through the Com mons, have been calculated to restore confidence and ac tivity ; but on the other hand, the unaccountable vagaries of the railway people, and the serious apprehensions which have lately arisen as to the intentions of the Up per House towards the Corn Bill, have more than neu tralised these good influences. The departure of everything like prudence and com mon sense from all the classes of persons concerned in our uufortunate railway difficulties, appears to be com plete. At the date of our last review, there was a general feeling of satisfaction at the prospect of nineteen twentieths of the railway schemes before the public being " wound up" under the Ministerial measure. As far as our own observation went, we met with nobody who did not ! express a hope and desire that an effectual clearance would be brought about by the Bill. During the present month, probably one hundred meetings have been held, and certainly, at not more than one fourth of them have resolutions to " wind up," re ceived the assent of the majority. In the greater num ber of instances there has been an unanimous deter mination to proceed. We have observed, that in hardly any instance are the directors and promoters of the schemes disposed to " wind up." These parties are generally the most clamorous in favour of proceeding. There can be no doubt, that this sudden and radical change in' the disposition of holders of scrip, was very largely encouraged by an unlooked for rise in the price of railway sharesi, which occurred at the beginning of the present month. The improvement was so decided, that for a few days the bustle bore a strong resem blance to the delirium of the.dog days of last summer ; but the fit was altogether transcient and factitious. There is, indeed, good reason to belive, that it was the result of a deep laid trick of a few leading capitalists, who deal - in property of this description. The Com mittees of the Houses of Parliament on the various groupes of schemes, appear to be quite as careless of eonsequencep as the directors themselves. Preambles are passed with the greatest coolness, and the only con siderations which' appear to prevail are the merits of each individual line, viewed totally apart from the ge neral question.of railway expenditure. We have omitted no proper opportunity of warning our readers of the danger attending this state of things. We are at this moment as strongly convinced as ever, that if the present course is . to be followed without check, within some very short time we shall find ourselves in such a sea of troubles as we have not experienced for many years. The first people to suffer, and to suffer 'also-for the longest time, and with the greatest severity, will be the directors of the several schemes which obtain their Bills ; next in order will be the shareholders, and !after them all that portion of the public who happen to have railway speculators . for debtors or creditors. It is the purest folly to suppose for a moment that the disposable capital of the country can at all afford to carry on, not the whole, but even one tenth part of- the mass of railways likely to pass, in addition to those already in course of construction. We have seen too much of the incapacity of railway direc ! tors to believe, that any greater discretion will be exer cised after the Act is obtained than has been displayed in the preliminary steps. Every scheme will feel sure that its peculiar merits justifies a " vigorous prosecu tion" of the works, and there will be a general steeple 'chase after recusant shareholders who cannot, and wealthy shareholders who can, and who must furnish the money. Before the issue of this number, the decision of the House of Peers On the second reading of the Corn Bill will have taken place. We fully expect that that stage of the measure will pass by a majority of thirty or forty, but we have great doubts of its success in Committee. We think it highly probable that the party who will act trader Lord Stanley will be able to effect such altera tions as will be fatal to the Bill. In the occurrence of such an event, the country will be placed in a situation of great diffieulty. The alternatives under such a state of things appear to be three. (1.) Sir R. Peel may retain office, and forthwith dissolve Parlia ment. (2.) He may quit office, and the . Queen may authorise Lord Stanley to form a Cabinet; Lord Stanley would doubtless be able to do that. The question would then become, will Lord Stanley attempt to carry out his views with the present House of Commons, or will he dissolve Parliament ? We think decidedly' he would dissolve. (3.) Lord Stanley may decline or be unable to take office, and Lord John Russell may be sent for; and there can be little 'doubt that Lord John would immediately appeal to the constituencies. Our own opinion is, that in the. event of the failure of the Bill in the Lords, Sir Robert Peel will remain in office, and Call a new Parliament, and submit his mea sures to them as a final effort in their behalf. In this place, we express no opinion as to the merits either of Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, or Lord John Russell, but in a monetary point of view, it is our duty to calcu late beforehand, as far as we can, the probable effect of these political disturbances. The fate of the Bill will be decided by the end of the first week in June. If it be lost, we consider a general election inevitable about the opening of July. Parliament would then meet in August or September, and the fate of the new measure could not be fully settled before the middle of October. The rejec tion of the Bill will, therefore, certainly entail upon. the Money Market a state of uncertainty for not less than four months, probably much longer.—Banker's Magazine. THE LATE MRS. FRY. During the last few weeks several meetings have taken place at the Mansion House, over which the Lord Mayor presided, connected with the memory of the late Mrs. Fry. By a,resolution, proposed by Lord MORPETR, and seconded by TROYLAS FARMER, Esq., it was agreed that a subscription should be set on foot for the purpose of establishing an institution which, while it transmitted to posterity the name and character of Mrs. Elizabeth Fry, so .long and so usefully engaged in the important work of reforming the discipline of prisons, would assist in can.) ing into execution one of the cherished designs of her life—the establishment of a temporary refuge, in which female prisoners, anxious to reform their lives, might, upon their discharge, obtain food and shelter for a few days or weeks, until, under the discreet advice and assistance of the Committee of Ladies, who during Mrs. Fry's life had been her associates, these unfortunate persons ,inight be placed in asylums or penitentiaries, or be passed to their parishes, or, in the case of young and petty transgressions; might be restared to their parents or friends, when,. after due probation, they gave evidence of rvper,t tree and amendment of life. The lion. W. COWPER, M.P., moved, and Lord HENRY CHOIZIONFIAY sec on d e d a resolution, appointing a committee noblemen and gentlemen to carry the design into maitintion, Ate, committee, on Thursday last, was numerously attended, when several chaplains of the metropolitan prisons, and alio several members of the Society of Friends present at their annual meeting, delivered their sentiments in approbation of the measure ; and some large subscriptions were announced. Ills Excellency the Chevalier Bunsen informed the meeting that he had secured the commands of his Majesty the King of Prussia to testify his regard to the memory of the de ceac.ed, and his approbation of the objects of the insti tution, by becoming a contributor; a nd the Hon. Mr.W. Cowper signified her Majesty's most gracious pleasure to become its patroness, and a subscriber of 50 guineas in aid of the funds. Prince Albert had likewise conde scended to honour the establishment with his patronage and a donation of 251. NAVAL COURT MARTIAL. (From the Bermudian of April 29.) A court martial was held on board the flag-ship Vin dictive, on Thursday last, and continued by adjourn ment, on - Friday, - fur investigating charges preferred against James Chimmo, Esq., purser of H.M.S. Alarm, by Captain Frankland, of same ship. The' charges were : 1. For accusing Captain Frank land of tyranny, injustice, and oppression, and fur for warding the &tine otherwise than through his command ingofecer ; and 2, For accusing Captain Fra n kl an d o f inviting his (Mr. C.'s) messmates to hear what idle and malicious persons on shore had to say. The Court was composed of—Vice-Admiral Sir F. Austen, President ; Captains Lambert and Seymour, Commanders Scott and Coryton ; Mr. Jeans, the Ad miral's secretary, officiated as Judge Advocate. At the opening of the Court, at nine o'clock, the de fendant made a few observations. He said, he claimed the just consideration of the Court on account of the un heard of circumstances of there having been but fifteen hours between the time when a copy of the charges were delivered to him and the hour appointed for opening the Court. Up to 45 minutes past 5 on the evening previ ous, he was altogether ignorant of what the charges were. He had been up all night in order to prepare for trial, while, by the Queen's regulations, he should have been allowed - not less than twenty-four hours. Should he be guilty of any informality in addressing the Court, or in putting questions, he hoped due allowance would be made, as this was the only instance, during his whole term of actual service, now embracing a period of thirty years, of his having been before, or even in attendence on a Court Martial. The President observed that Mr. Chimmo was at liberty to move, ifhe pleased, a post ponement. sp ect rul ly declined of h e b sitting y jsfr. of the heCo . u h r o t. wished This wtoastarkee no step which mi g ht d e l ay her M ' ajesty's s erv i ce , and put the Court to much inconvenience. The examination of the respective witnesses on both sides bore upon the demeanour and conduct of the ac cuser and the accused. But the real origin of the rupture was not looked into, neither could it be ; it having been investigated and finally settled by the Admiralty long since. The Court, therefore, exhibited the anomalous position of a tribunal assembled to investigate the truth or falsity of charges, while the matters which lay at the bottom of the whole affair were beyond its reach, having been conclusively set at rest several years since. It was proved during the trial, upon the testimony of Captain Frankland himself, that he had recommended the gun-room officers to go ashore and learn for them selves of the defendant's conduct while he was at Ber muda some years ago. As to Mr. Chimmo's character being in accordance with that of an officer and a gentle man while serving in the Alarm, Captain Frankland admitted in open court that it was perfect, and as to his position at the Admiralty, Captain Frankland stated that Mr. Chimmo's character stands high at the Admi ralty Board. On Friday Mr. Chimmo made his defence. He said, he was appointed to the Alarm in Novvember last, and from that time he had observed, in many trifling cases, a prejudice against him on the part of. Captain Frank land. Captain F. wrote to the Admiralty to inquire into his (Mr. C's) conduct touching certain circumstances at Bermuda in 1838, to which he received no answer. On applying personally he found, as he himself stated, every thing favourable. The day after the ship arrived at Bermuda, he was sent for by Captain F. who said that having heard un favourable things of him here, he should insist on Mr. C. leaving the ship. He was refused all opportunity to explain. lle was told by Captain F. that he must not expect to be happy in that ship--that out of her either he or the Captain must go—and that while he remained he (Captain F.) would make his position most unhappy. His first impulse was to seek to be superseded, but subsequent circumstances promped him to remain to vin dicate his character. He respectfully wrote Capt. F. requesting a statement of the malicious reports against his character; this letter the Captain threw overboard in presence of the officers and several of the crew. Finding his situation becoming more and more painful, he wrote the Commander-in- Chief, and represented the whole state of affairs. The fate his former latter met with at the hands of Capt. F. prevented him from transmitting the representation of his case through that official channel. If he had erred herein, he begged to express contrition, and trusted the Court would take all the circumstances into con sideration. With reference to charge Ist, he would observe that in the copy officially furnished him, the first is stated to be for accusing Capt. F. of "tyranny, injustice, and oppression," whilst the charge brought against him on the trial was for accusing the captain of "cruelty, op pression, and injustice." The discrepancy, he conceived, vitiated the charge ; besides, in view of this charge, he would press the fact of his public letter having been thrown overboard. Whatever might have been his con duct at Bermuda formerly, the matter had been adjudi cated by the Lords of the Admiralty, and the fact of his having been appointed, quite unsolicited, to the Alarm, is a proof of their Lordships' approbation. To try a man twice for the same offence was contrary to the just and humane laws of our country ; yet, in defiance of this, old and settled affairs had been raked up against Regarding 2d charge, he would observe that there might be a difference in the acceptation of the words invite and recommend; yet Captain F. admitted, in evi dence, that he recommended the officers to do what has been already stated. Under all the circumstances, he hoped for the favour able consideration of the Court ; and in submitting numerous testimonials of thirty years' highly creditable service, he fully and confidently relied on the justice and good feeling of the Court to absolve him from the un merited charges with which he had been most violently assailed. The Court was cleared for a short time; on being re opened, its decision was pronounced " That Mr. Chimmo be dismissed the ship." MESMERISM-LAUGHABLE SCENE. Professor Barnett lectured on Monday evening, at the Court House, Neuagh, which was more than usually crowded. It was evident that Professor Barnett did not appear like a man at home with himself on Monday night. He commenced the proceedings by mesmerising a few urchins, who during the process engaged them selves in indulging in fits of suppressed laughter at the expense of the wondrous Professor, who with the gravest face imaginable went through sundry manipu lations and passes, much to the wonderment of many present. - The Learned Gentleman here said he had heard his pupils had been tampered with—that they had been very severely beaten with a cat-o'nine-tails by the master of the school at which they were—that they bad been frightened away from him, and would not come near him till that evening, when they all went in a body, and said they were willing to be mesmerised. The Rev. Mr. Power, C. C., one of the Catholic cler gymen of Nenagh, said that as such he had attended there that evening. After some conversation between the Professor and the Rev. Gentleman, the Professor proceeded to throw certain patients into a mesmeric sleep. After they lay in apparent somniferous unconsciousness for some time, one of the boys who he had thrown into the mes meric sleep suddenly started up, and exclaimed, amid the laughter of the audience, " I am not asleep at all, neighbours !"—(Uproar and confusion.) Professor Barnett—Ladies and gentlemen, you will bear in mind the statement I first made as to the pecu liar and suspicious circumstances under which these patients came to me to-day. Mr. Power—Now, before you proceed further, I take it for granted that the boys before us aro fast asleep. Professor Barnett—But I do not take it for granted at all. Mr. Power—Would you permit me to try whether they are asleep or , not ? Professor Barnett—l will. _ Mr. Power—l will just speak to them. (Here the Rev. Gentleman moved near the platform on which the three bcys lay with straw pillows under their heads, who appeared to many of the audience t o be in a profound torpor.) Mr. Power (to one of the patients)—What's your name ? Boy—Bryan O'Bryan, your raverinee.— (Sensation and laughter.) Professor I3arnett (with the utmost composure)— There is nothing proved to you yet. A voice in the gallery—You're mesmerised Professor. —O . ro agh w te e r r (to another of the patients)—Do you know who I am ? Boy—l do, your raverence ; you are Father Power. Can you open your eyes ? I can, Sir. (Here the boy opened hi s eyes, sm il ed, and gaze d on the audience.) Can you stand up ? I can, Sir. Were you asleep at any time since you laid down ? I was not. What is yonr name ? Johnny Cleary, your raverince. The boys then descended from the platform amid the most indescribable confusion, laughter, clapping of hands, beating of sticks, roaring, jumping, yelling, and a babel 3sr of nois Power, noise. Mr. great confusion, cheering, cries of "bravo," &c., said— was really under the impression this day that those I boys were set asleep—but now is it not q u it e evident to be nothing less than a humbug? —(Loud cheering from all parts of the house, in the midst of which the Rev. Gentleman w ithdrew.) Professor Barnett (with a most lau ghable solemnity of face)—Before I attempted to put these boys in the sleep I told you distinctly that I could scarcely do so from the peculiar circumstances under which the boys came to me. If these boys had not been tampered with I could proceed with the lecture as I did in various other place'. I could mesmerise them.—(Loud cries of " You could not.") I have no more doubt of it than I have now of my existence.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") (Hero the Professor stretched forth his arms). I have no more doubt of the truth of mesmerism than I have o f my own existence, which I would sacrifice, if necessary, for a proof.—(Cries of "You are a humbug.") If ten thousand persons with the eloquence of Demos thenes and the reasoning of Cicero opposed me, I will preach and practice the truth of mesmerism—and only smile with pity at their ignorance, at least of this science. Dr. Langley—l think we have got more information from our worthy Friend Father Power, to-night than you could give us for three nights.—(Cheers.) Mr. Willy Gleeson—Mr. Professor, you have a great deal to contend with.—(Great laughter.) Professor Barnett—l know that, sir, very well. Dr. Langley—Give up mesmerism and go to the bar, my friend.—(Loud laughter.) Professor Barnett—No, sir ; I shall never give up me smerism--(Hear, hear)—till I die.—(Laughter.) Mr. Gleeson—Professor, it is impossible for you to stand the firing from front and rear, from rank and file . —(Laughter.)— Tipperary Vindicator. NEWEST LONDON AND PARIS FASHIONS FOR JUNE, 1846. (Extracted from the World of Fashion, Monthly Maga zine of the Courts of London and Paris.) Neglige dresses are now worn, composed of foulard quadrillee, iii'foulard ecru; these are embroidered with braid, or silks a petits rayures, white upon dark coloured grounds, baitges, and mousselines de soie, are also in preparation. DRESSES.—PIaided silks are now much worn, trimmed with flounces cut on the cross, the sleeves and corsage being likewise on the biais ; the prevailing colours are green and lilac, skyblue and brown, cerise and white. EVENING DRESSES.—Lace is universally adopted for this description of costume, the form of them generally resembling those named i la Fontagnes, and i la Pompadour. Redingotes are at present much worn, made of silk ; they are embroidered en tablier, in silk braid ; when buttons are used, they must be of the richest descrip tion. The sleeves of the pelisses are made tight, but s a l n ee d v w e. rist s , o a m n e d d o i f mi t n h i e sh se so d a re s s t s o es sh a o r w e t o h p e en u a n t de th r e w e i l i b it o o w trimmed with narrow frillinga Etagei, and of two shades. TRIMMINGS FOR DRESSES.—La pas.ementerie is Row as much used for the decorating of dresses as for the ornamenting of the pardessus. These fringes are put on in several rows round the lower part of the dress, whilst those which are used for the ornamenting of pelisses have a flat appearance, and form a kind of brandebourg trimming, such as upon an orange silk material I larges rubans satinies white. Le tablier is made of an opea mate of the same colour, forming spirales, intermixed at distances with pearl tassels. CAPS.—Those now in fashion are of the most charm ing description, and of an infinite variety. We see them, for instance, made in French tulle, blonde tulle, and tulle-builloei, and all chiffonies, or arranged in a thou sand different forms, s la vielle, i la Charlotte Corday, it la Marie Stuart, I la Sevinge, a la Maintenon, &c. The favourite forms are those which are rounded at the ears and trim me d w ith roses . Th os e for morning cos tumeatognr edtabt open,e aggrrre: cbaoAn, resemblingpzAux in appearance those worn by our th . n a d l t s n o o e a rs r . ound shape, and made in lace and rib fwa which i — vceht L t e e i e g n r i dT s e f rh e se u s t te r h e he i ma s t s c evar. very re a y i o n f l d y f f m se o hr r me nll p to r w e t foe formr r e t h d e, Pamela shape. They are mostly decorated with spotted plumes, ribbons, or clouds of gauze, throwing a softened shadow over the countenance. Those in sky-blue poult de soie are very elegant when covered with British Mechlin lace, or made in gauze lisle, white upon pink, an i decorated with a drooping flower or feather. NOVELTIES.—We have remarked some very charming white canezouts, which are worn upon low dresses, made of muslin embroidered au point d'arm es , and encircled with two or three rows of lace. Les fichus Maintenon are also in great favour; they are simply a half-handker chief of lace guipur, fastened over the chest with a nceud of ribbon. FLOWERS.—Spring has at last ushered in a perfect shower of the most splendid flowers which the garden • or hothouse can produce, foliage of every description, branches of the lilac tree, and clusters of violets, the beautiful bluet flowers, and red poppies, thirties, and the eglantine, as well as the globba, encircled with its long leaves, branches of the filbert tree, the tiger flower, with its large pink petals spotted with black points, water flowers sprinkled with dew, leaves of the water-cress, the elegant iris flower of the violet colour, with its long lanceole leaf, the fleurs de glayeuls. and numberless others, too numerous to mention. Paille de Riz, which are now out of number. This paille, so white, so light, and so becoming is generally in great request at this season of the year. Some we see ornamented with laces, attached with pretty bunches of the anemone, or fruits, whilst others hare simply a wreath which encircles the crown, drooping upon each side en grappe over the front ; they are also extremely elegant when decorated with feathers nouces marabouts: most of them are trimmed very much under the brim, which is rather open. SHAWLS.—OIt one side we see the most charming white China crepes aux broderies Chinoises ; then the splendid black ones, in the same material, richly brodes in colours, les crepres de Chine, of a sparkling red, si milarly embroidered, shawls of lace, which serve so gracefully to envelope the figure, anZlastly, those deli cate looking embroidered muslin shawls, lined with a pretty light hue the same as the pelisse, or with num berless rows of 'fringe, put on on tablier. MATERIALS.—A charming novelty has just appeared which is called La Grenadine de laine, and is destined to eclipse these nankins and foulards which have lately been so much in vogue ; it is embroidered au crochet, and forms a delicious costume for the country or sea side. We have seen it made up in the pelisse style, and trimmed, with rich fancy ornaments, which have a very pretty effect. THE CHANNEL FISHERIES. The following Bill has lately been passed by the French Chamber of Deputies : Art. 1 declares that "all infractions of the regulations of Jute 23, 1843, relative to the Channel Fisheries, committed by a French subject, or any other individual on board 'a French vessel, shall be tried by the correc tional police of the arrondissement, in which is situated the port to which the boat of the offending party be longs. Art. 2 states that " the proceedings can only take place on the complaint of the Commissary of the . French maritime inscription, or of the English consular agent acting for his countrymen, without prejudice to the right of the civil party to bring forward the matter by direct summons." Art. 3. " All acts and proceedings shall be on un stamped paper, and the assignations and acts shall be delivered free of cod." Art. 4. "The employment of nets or other imple ments of fishing, the dimen-ions, weight, or meshes of which shall be in contravention to the regulations esta blished fur each kind of fishing, shall warrant the seizure of such articles, and render the offending party liable to a fine of from 10f. to 751., and an imprisonment of from two to ten days." Art. 5. " All persons contravening the measures of precaution and interdiction expressed in the general re gulations, relative to the numbers and names to be painted on each boat, the distances to be observed in fishing, the casting of spillers or nets, the lights dis played, &c., shall te liable to a fine of from 101. to 125 f., or to an imprisonment of from five to fifteen days." Art. 6. " Other infractions shall be punished:-1. By the seizure and destruction of the nets and fishing implements, improperly used. 2. By a tine of from 10f. to 250 f., and an imprisonment of two days to a month." Art. 7. "In case of recidive, the punishment shall be doubled. The case will be considered one of recidive. when the person so offending shall have been condemned within the preceding two years." . _ Art. 8. ;‘ Whenc — ver fishermen shall have committed at sea acts of violence against other firshermen, or shall have wilfully caused them damage or loss, the tribunal can condemn such offenders to an imprisonment not ex ceeding twenty days, or a fine not going beyond 125 f. Should there be, at the same time, contravention to the rgulations respecting fi shing, the fine or imprisonment inflicted for such oflence may be cumulated on the punishment of the other offence." - Art. 9. " When the case is brought before the correc ih tional police, the amount of d amages c i v ill y claimed' must also be stated." Art. 10. " All civil actions for damages brought on account of contravention of the general regulations not proceeded with in virtue of Art. 2, or for acts relative to fishing between French fishermen, or between French e an m d ee E et, bef o renglislifisthheermen juge fishermen, de pairof be c t a h r e ri ed residence ivha t whatever voefr theth e defendant." Art. 11. " Every natio n, whether relatin g to the shall offences provided for by the regulations, or to civil dis putes t relative to fishing, shall be prescribed after the lapse of three months, dating fro m t he da y wh en the act , shall have taken place." Art. 12. "Every individual on board a French fishing boat, accused of having committed, against an English man or a Frenchman, in the seas lying between the coast of France and those of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, an act qualified as crime by the French law, shall be tried in the ordinary forms by the c ' shall be arrest e d Court of Assizes of the department i n w hi c h i s s i tuated theport m. to "Whenw hichth a e n ve E s n s g el lih bselosunbg subject se.' Art. and taken to a French port in execution of Arts. 64, 65, and 66 of the general regulations, the infraction shall be ascertained by the juge de paix of the canton ; this magistrate shall proceed, in conformity with the pro visions of Art. 49 of the Code of Criminal Instruc tion." Art. 14. " When an English subject shall be arrested and carried into a French port, in conformity with Art. 89 of the general regulations, for contravention of Art. 76 and the following of the said regulations, he shall be tried by the Tribunal of the Correctional Police, within the jurisdiction of which is situated the port to which he has been carried, and shall be punished, if found guilty, by a fine not exceeding 250 f. In case of non payment, or in place of this fine, the Court can order the vessel to be detained for a space of time not exceeding three months. The forms of proceeding in this case, shall be the same as in an respect a pp e t al o toFrenchstheiCourttlhbe redu c edsubjects,e Co d e of of t and the dispositions of Arts. q 2,3, 9, and 11 of t h e present ll hsbgai sh all be Itte fine Art. b m e‘ o ‘ a u r n np t fixed al toiceabsbeelom. f' b a y r k A e d r t 4 d . ow l n 9 of the In struction. REPRESZNTATION OF HERTFORDSHIRE.—The Hert ford papers announce that Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., m n e f r ch a has consented to beco me a can did a te for the representation of the county of H er tf or d on the next vacancy. in AN p s l e t E i n N g I b uS il TEST. - ng A to f u e r w in da3 il s te ag :hu a rbs Edin burgh, found, as he walked along, a purse containing a con siderable sum of money. He observed a lady at a distance, who he thought would be the owner and loser. Determined to be correct in the party to whom he delivered it, he fell upon a strange vet ingenious plan to effect thi s . H e resolved to act the part of a " poor distressed tradesman:' and boldly went forward, hat in hand, and asked alms. This was an swered with a polite "Go away—l have nothing to give you." The poor man, however, persisted in his entreati es, would not go until he had relief for his famishing wife and children. The lady, from reasons, no doubt, similar to Mrs. Maclarty's, at last condesceded, but; to her dismay, found that the werewith was gone. The merchant, now satisfied that he was correct, with a polite bow returned the purse, with an advice that in future she would be more generous to the distressed and destitute.—Edinburgh paper. APOTHECARIES' HALL. The following gentleman were admitted licentiates of this institution at the last meet ing of the Court of Assistants, viz., Messrs. R. S. Jells, R. Nichol, P. T. Gunning, Bristol; F. Collins and John Gather, good, St. John's Lynn. ' A Berlin letter informs us th at the King of Prussia. Prince of Prussia to has charged his Royal Highness the t s to the Empress of Russia, and express the regret proceed to Prague, to pay his res p ects of the King at her not visit- - ing Berlin. • )i, I