The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-28 00:00:00

ITAL SUPPLY IiATZKET. Shenp. Calves. I ?tae. 31,370 421 1 620 ,CIPPLY. Beasts I Sheep. I Calves. rigs. 670 3,660 283 I 70 A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June 30, 1851, and this day, Monday, June 28, 1852. _ Beasts. 3,977 Per Sibs., to sink the oflals. June 30, 1851. s. d. 0. d. 2 4to 2 6 2 8 210 30 3 2 June 28, 1852 s. d. s. d. 2 Bto 2 10 30 3 2 34 3 6 Coarse and inferior Beasts .., Second quality ditto ... Prime large Oxen .. - Prime Scots, nC. 3 4 3 6 3 8 310 Coarse and inferior Sheep... 2 6 2 8 2 8 210 Second quality ditto ... „. „. 210 3 0 3 0 3 2 Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 2 3 6 3 4 3 6 Prime Southdown ditto ... 3 8 310 3 8 310 Lambs... ••• ••• ••• •• ••• 4 0 5 0 4 0 5 0 Large coarse Calves ... 2 6 3 2 2 8 3 4 Prime small ditto ... ... 3 4 3 6 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs 2 4 3 2 2 8 3 4 Small Porers ... 3 4 3 8 3 6 3 8 Beasts ... ..• ••• 3,156 3,977 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 30,690 31,370 Calves ... ... 332 421 Pigs -. . . . 410 60 SUPPLIES ON SALE, JULY 1, 1850. Beasts, 3,409; Sheep and Lambs, 29,900; Calves, 346 ; Pigs, 295. JULY 2, 1849--Beasts, 3,508 ; Sheep, and Lambs, 27,690 ; Calves, 319; Pigs. 245. NMI/GATE AND 7.,EADMYTNIALM, Theso markets continue to be tolerably well, but not to stay heavily, supplied with each kind of meat, in whit' a fair average business is doing, as lbßows: At por stone by the caroms). a. d. to s. d. . 2 6 2 8 , lAntton,inferior , 2 10 3 0 _ _ E. d. to 1, Beef, inferior...... middling .... 8 210 0 3 6 8 310 8 3 2 4 3 8 primelarge .. 3 0 3 2 ; prime prime small.. 3 4 3 6 I rork,larg,e•• •• Vasl.. •• •• •• 2 8 3 10 sma.ll. • Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d. BOROUGH BOP PAL:I.I;OLET. • Owing to the favourable accounts at hand from the plantations, the demand for all kinds of Hops is heavy, and prices are barely supnorted. The show of samples is very limited. Sussex pockets. 110 s to 1255; Weald of Kent, 120 s to 1455; Mid and East Kent, 130 s to 2405; Yearlings, 70s to 108 s; Old Olds, 228 to 50s. BOROUGH APT D szimax.rizzps, There are still a few old Potatoes oa sale here, but the season for them is now over. New qualities are coming more freely to hand, but their value rules high, English being quoted at from lOs to 303 per cwt, arid Foreign 2s 6d to 4s 6d per basket. Darin , ' ' last week the imports were 4,400 baskets from Dueltirkand 4,000 ditto from Rotterdam. WOOL Since Monday last the imports of Wool have been on an extensive scale, 3,227 bales having arrived from Port Philip, 3,009 from Sydney, 2,023 from Hobart Town, 25 from the Cape, 3,413 from Geelong, 244 trom Hamburgh, 15 from Ostend, 1,309 from Launceston, and 320 from Bombay. These arrivals have increased the stock to nearly 50,000 bales. Privately the demand for Eng lish Wool is steady, bat all other kinds are neglected. T.8.1.1.0W. Our market has become less firm, and in some in stances the quotations have given way 3d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 38s 6d. For forward delivery next to nothing is doing. Town Tallow, 37s net cash; rough Fat, 2s Id per 81bs. 1848 1849. 1850 1851. 182 Steck this day •• . • • Price of Y. C. •• .. Dslivery last week • • Ditto from June 1.. • • Arrivals last week • Ditto from June 1 ... Price of Town • • • • • • I 2,418 44s Gd to 44s 9d 1,418 6,427 770 6,316 46s Gd 23,115 23,971 38s 3d 36s 9d to 33s 6d to 36s 6d 1,223 802 4,703 4;185 1,044 40 2,415 2,633 39s 6d 38s Od 3f,527 37s 9d to Os Od 1,4 5 4,350 244 4,344 33s ed SPORTING NOTES. No. CCLIII. THE CARLISLE MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 41,182 38s tid to OsOd 1,150 4,674 1,525 5,228 39s 6d SIR S Tu-morrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, in the racing almenac are marked for the Carlisle meeting; the majority of the stakes have not yet closed, conse quently I can only touch upon four—the Cumberland Plate, Corby Castle, and Lottery Stakes, and the Free Handicap. Out of twenty-six nominations for the Cumberland Plate eighteen have accepted; little hopes are enter tained, however, that a moiety will go to the post. The field will probably consist of Calculator, Hippolytus, Mary Ann, the Alp, Snowdrop, Jessica, and perhaps Colaterdale and one of Mr. Hesseltine's. The race, I imagine, caa scarcely be doubtful in its issue, as the CALCULATOR, with only 6st 6lb up, must be somewhere about the mark; and I think to him or HiPecnovrus we may look for the occupants of the first and second places, with Mary Ann and the Alp third and fourth. The Corby Castle Stakes of 10 sous. each, h ft, with 43 added, out of an entry of eight, may possibly have at the post one of Osborne's—in all probability Exact—j, Dawson's Anteverta, Gaiety filly, and perhaps Sally and Eaton. The result will probably favour Sir Charles Monck's filly by Melbourne, out of Gaiety; the favou rite, Auteverta, not being good enough, in my opinion, to beat either Sir Charles Monek's or Osborne's fillies. It the Baronet misses the mark, Osborne will secure it, and Anteverta will, I expect, finish third. The Lottery Stakes of 10 a we. each, h ft, with 40 added, over the mile and a quarter course, will be con tested by four or five, and will probably fall to the lot of Bauldie M'Snifter, or Jessica, without Lady Agnes should put their calculations at fault; Bauldir o however, is my choice. The Free Handicap is the only remaining stake I think it worth while commenting on. This stake has obtained an acceptance of a dozen, but the field, I anticipate, sill not exceed a third of that number; and the race will lay entirely between the representatives of Dawson's and Osborne's stables.—l am yours, &e., June 28, 1852. THE SPIRI rOF THE TURF. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Saturday Don Pasquale, that light end lively opera, was pleasingly presented, ull eugaged therein exerting themselves with most praiseworthy zeal. The grard ballet Zelie, ou L' Amour et La Ilicxgie, improves upon re petition. It was warmly and deservedly applauded, for its gorgeousness and ingenuity of scenic arrange ments, no less than for the novelty, piquancy, and grace of its varied steps, groupings, and talented danseuses. MINING IVETVS. [The following extract from a latter, dated San Fran cisco, May 2, 1852, which appeared in the New York Herald, affords strong corroboration of the statements put forward on behalf of the Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company. It also proves that other associations are actively, and, we have no doubt, profitably, engaged, notwithstanding the assertion that no reliance can be placed upon labourers discharging the obligations they have undertaken previous to their arrival in the auri- ferous districts.—ED. Sun.J " Among the many rich leads of which I can speak • from personal observation, is a vein belongicg to the Key ' Stone Quartz Mining Company. I saw over one dollar of the II ,wer of gold washed from a pan of decayed rock, without any quicksilver or other help than pure cold water. The same quartz will yield from forty to fifty cents per pound upon a 'careful assay with quick silver. The lead is said to be one of the richest in Cali fornia. Sir H. V. Huntly, the president of that com pany, is fitting up machinery and preparing to work the lead upon an extensive scale. In the immediate vicinity are several large companies, to wit: the Sutter, Colonel Hagan's, Russell's, &c., with their machinery in readi ness to run. One thing which has heretofore and still is retarding the progress and I.iuccess of quartz opera . tions, is the want of some better mode of amalgamating than ia now in use, and any improvement in this respect would meet a handsome reward in the region I have spoken of.—Yours, " April 27, 1852. " A. A. BOYDEN. " P.S. Since writing the above, I have seen a letter from Mr. William Fitzpatrick, published in your paper of the 25th inst., in which he refers to the same mining region. Having been present and inspected the Key Stone Mining Company's claim, I can speak more confi dently of it, and your readers may rest assured that it will prove one of the best claims in the State. " A. A. B." The Earl and Countess of Derby bad a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in at. James's-square. Tho company consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam and Lady Selina Meade, Viscount and Viscountess Hardioge, Lord and Lady Barrington and the Hon. Miss Barring ton, Lord and Lady Settham, Lord and Lady Lyndhurst, Lord Somerton, Lord Anson, Lord Forester, Vis count Canterbury, Lord Alexander Lennox, and Lord Stanley. THE SPEAKERS DINNER.—The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his official dinner on Saturday. The follow ing gentlemen were present :--Lord Charles Russell, Mr. J. G. Shaw Lefevre, C.B. (Deputy-Clerk Parliamentor), Mr. C. Romilly (Clerk of the Crown), Mr. William Ley, Mr. Henry Ley, Mr. Clemenson, Mr. Gossett, Mr. Do rington, Mr. Vardon, Mr. Gudge, Mr. Dyson , M r. Whitten, Mr. Erskine May, Mr. S. Smith. Mr. Gibbons. Mr. Walde grave, Mr. Arthur Jones, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. G. Grun nell, Mr. Rickards , Mr. Lefroy, and the Rev. Thomas Gamier. Sir D. Le Merchant, Mr. Rowland, and Mr. John Rose were prevented attending. We believe that it is not premlture to state that Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer has been able to bring the Mather affair to something of a more satisfactory conclusion. Sir Henry Bulwer has not stirred again the question of pecu niary compensation. which has been so much mismanaged, and has brought so much discredit upon the British name in that quarter of Italy, where it was, of all others, si reg ul . 'te that it should stand high. He has p ersuaded th e Duke de Casitiano to agree to a note, not only expressive of the regret of the Tuscan Government in r eference to the past, b u t a l so promising f r the future to recognise the principle of respon sibility for all acts relating to British subjects, committed in the territories of the Grand Duke. —Sunday Paper. DEPARTURE OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM- SHIP CANADA.—On Saturday the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Lang, left the Mersey at half-past three, fur Halifax and Boston, conveying the usual mails for the United States and the B iti sh provinces of North America, with 90 passengers and a fair general cargo. COURT OF THAMES CONSERVANCY. --C:1 Sa'urd,ly the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, &c., went in state to Stratford, where his Lordship opened a Court of Conse rvanc y a t the Town-hall, from thence his Lordship went to Blackwall, where his Lordship also held a court. Several presentations of illegal encroachments on the river boundary by steam boat piers. &c., were made and adjudicated. From Black- Wall his Lordship crossed to Greenwich in the state barges. here his Lordship also held a court. Dispatches were sent on Saturday from the Colonial. office to the Governor of Gibraltar. THE ELIOT WARBURTON. Snatched from the world by en eppallieg disaster," Eliot Warburton has left bellied him the meince4 of an amiable and accomplished gentleman, the reputa tion of an intelligent annotator, and the finse of the most delightful of ail our oriental travellers As a writer of fiction we cannot but regard his e eepularity as peculiarly characterised: by eVantscenee As a biographer he will long be retnembered for. that col lation of manuscripts relating to one of the most chivalrous, as it was also one of the most momentous epochs in our history, which. has rendered luminous incidents hitherto blackened by prejudice, and which indicated the nobler traits of a character until then darkened by calumny or shrouded •by misre presentation. As a deliveator of life and scenery in the East he must alWays be recognised as a writer Ritter/ with peculiarities unrivalled in their combination. With a keen perception: of the humorous, he united a winning and gracefal send bility. He wandered through t . ; land:iccpesof Asia Minor with the heart of a poet, and with the 6 , e of a sportsman. His descriptions were thus 'eniinently matter-of-fact in their precision and exactitude, the driest of their details were coloured by the vivi fying glow cf his imagination. The ground traversed by Warburton was marked out like a chart in his narrative with all the minuteness of Mercator, but it was sulfated at the same time with tali the diaphonous atmosphere and exquisite dyes of Lorraine. It was a peculiarly happy thought, therefore, which an nounced upon the title-passe of his earliest composi tion, that Romance and title-page were therein the contrasting themes depicted together. A better guide-book, or one calculated to prove more practically useful on emergency, was un doubtedly never penned than the very volunia which surpassed all others in. its homage for the sub; lime and its love for the beautiful in those lands abounding with sublime and beautiful associations. With the remembrance of his few but estimable con tributions to the literature of our time, there is now blended the recollection of his abrupt and terrible disappearance—deepening interest into curiosity and investing his name with an almost painful fascination. Eliot E. G. Warburton, born in 1811 at Aughrim, County Galway, was the eldest son of Major George Warburtor ' formerly Inspectors General of Constabu lary in Ireland, by Anna, sister of Colonel Acton of Westaston, M.P. for the county of Wicklow. De scended originally from the old Cheshire house of Warburton of Warburton and Arley, the Warburtons of Aughrim were derived from a branch of the family settled in the Queen's County, and known as the Warburtons of Garryhinch. ir to a considerable property in the sister island,- the future novelist and traveller had the path smoothed before him to that career of competence which, as with all men of a genuine nature or an earnest temperament, stimu lated instead of enervating his faculties. His scho lastic education appears to have been completed at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, in the course of his travels, the ambition to describe to others the loveliness of that earth he himself so pe culiarly and sensitively ci idle solicitude to obtain some app remollinteedn, tamryorreeptuhtlen asan any man of letters, induced Warburton to venture, in print, upon the story of his Peregrinations. In consequence of this resolution The C resce nt and the Cross made its appearance in 1845, in two small volumes, recounting, according to their second title, the " Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel," and extending the scene of thei r na r ra ti ve o v e r Egypt and Palestine, 'into the Grecian sea end the Nubian wilderness, through the ports of the Levant and the streets of Constantinople, The success of the work was almost instantaneous. Its popularity grew up in a night like the bean -stalk of Jack in the nursery tale, but not one solitary axe of criticism has since then been raised to fell it even by the most cap tious of that class regarded by some as nothing better than a group of atrabilious curmudgeons—the re viewers upon the different periodicals. What was yet more delightful in this resemblance than even the accordant approbation of . the press—the narrative conducted the reader into countries as strange and marvellous as the giant region of the beanstalk. It was a Jacob's ladder, leading us up from the floor of our library in England to the ruins, and the tombs, and the deserts, and the consecrate 4 places of Holy land. "Dithen" has alone, among , all --the other works descriptive of the oriental wanderings of Englishmen, displayed any comparable vividness in the manner of delineation. Perhaps in some respects "Bother," in regard to the simpl e quality of vivid ness, surpasses even the " Crescent and the Cross," in spite of its wonderfully natural an d picturesque luci dity. But in several other particulars the " Crescent and the Cross" has a manifest and marvellous advane tage over the brilliant and ornate pages of " Eodim" Warburton was no scoffer. Humorous though he is very frequently, his merriment is always " in place" —he never startles you by a jest in Bethlehem, or violates all those emotions y o u a d ore as divine, by a saucy sarcasm or a sardonic drollery uttered in the most sacred localities of Jerusalem—uttered, more over, with the impertinence of a coxcomb nod - the gravity of a philosopher. Instead of this, Warbur ton seems, in the very manner of his description, on entering . Palestine, to " tread lightly," as though conscious in his heart that it WB3 " holy ground." Throughout this portion of hie narrative he evidences a reverential feeling of awe, if he fails to rise always in tone to the exaltation of religious enthusiasm. Ac company him where we will, to the moonlit avenues of Cairo, or to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, or to that island of Philee up the Nile which appears to be almost the realization of a dayedream— " A little lawny islet By anemone and vi'lst Like mosaic paven"— or to the grim and awful heart cf the everlasting py ramid—it is always the warm heart of a '.man of genial nature beatingein the bosom of your guide, not the frigid and bloodless organ of the cynic. Out of an insensible appreciation of this comes the' s y m pathy . awakened almost unconsciously between the .author and his reader in the course of this bewitching com position—a sympathy so complete that the casual mention of his illness comes like a .sorrow to you, as though you had a personal friend in this unknown traveller. Unlike Kinglake, who is original rather than winning, and surprises -you into applause while he fails to- awaken for one instant the more grateful sentiment of adtni rationWarburton charms by his _gentleness as much as he enlivens by his vivacity; throwing at the same time over the whole record of his journey ing the attractive influence of his intelligent animation and cf a singularly sweet and companionable temperament. Towards the con clusion of this very testimony of these amiable traits in his character, he candidly confesses his distaste for the scoffing spirit now-a-days unfortunately too pre • valent among our fellow-countrymen, who, " whether on the mountain of Parnassus, or in the valley of Jehoshaphat, seem," says he (chap. 31.) "to think that everything is unreal except themselves and their sandwiches :" adding—" this is the very triumph of . objectivity." With a nervous system, whose every fibre responded to the associations of the scenery, Warburton had also a. peculiar clearness of per• ception. He comprehended and .exulted in the -Romance of " eastern travel," but he .saw none the less distinctly, and described none the ,less accurately, its Realities. Wherever he moved in the course .of his erratic pilgrimage he not merely, like, Goldsmith; " Dragg at each• remove a lengthening chain," by adding a new link of interest in himself at every footstep, to the electric bond of sympathy uniting his own with the hearts of those who lingered over the record of his peregrinations—butt, with his " grey goose-quill" for a brush, and his ample vocabulary for a palette, he painted a landscape in a page, and some times a vignette in a sentence. The effect resembl e d th e " Picture-Book without Pictures," though it must be allowed that the style was somewhat less idiomatic and somewhat more gorgeous than the simple but picturesque manner of Andersen. This splendour it was which imparted that peculiar charm to thet writings of Warburton, in the abundance of which- - be excelled all other travellers, however effluent their imagination. His similes were always appropriate, e and 'were squandered about, moreover,in inexhaustible profusion. How acceptable these were none can pro perly appreciate but those who have pondered over the narrative thus sprinkled alternately 'with dry statis tics and flowering illustrations until it assumed, one might fancy, a fantastic resemblance to an illuminated manuscript. If he strolled away, for example, into the classic plain surrounding the Acropolis,: the a uthor was not satisfied with telling you that " the Iyisus exists no longer"—conjuring up an exquisite feature in the panorama, indslibly impressing the circumstance upon remembrance by adding (c . h.:31.) _te a t " a torrent-like line of oleanders seems still to fig its course with verdant waves and rosy foinn." however, of all, his most was, perhaps, It was manifest from the that indication of high very commencement —in. conspicuous v e Pleasantry c _ animal spirits which exhilarates becetisnetihtishapPens animated to be neith e r aff-2c!ed nor boisterous. strain be talked of the confusion f the luggage' before starting in the Oriental steamer from Southampton, reminding us that while sndet!ery and bullock trunks were' quite obtrusive, the little indispentables for the voyage were nowhere discernible, end." remedies for sea-sickness reserved themselves for the overland joltue.)h" Expatiating, at another inoinent over the loveliness of the island of Calypso, and the seductive calm of its seclusion, be interrupts our entbuijasm , like tit 4t of Telema c h us , b y observing that " a fat gen tleman in green spectacles informed us that it was' the 13°trcrq Bey of Naples," calling it by its name Pentellaria. Gossiping over the Nile, he nllncies to the old story of the mythologists that the heart's. blood of a virgin was annually poured into its cur=' LONDON, MONDAY S N, rent, adding namely, "not unlikely, in a country where they worshipped crocodiles end were anxion3 to consult their tesie3." Equally extravagant is his grave and almost orandiose a Hmion to the steamboat cn the same venerable stream, apostrophizing it as an unhappy River, which, having, like Ixion, in its worm youth loved the gorgeous islands of Ethiopia, roust now" expiate its raptures en th e w h ee l !" S aun t er i ng through the steeeto of Cairo, how huinoroueln he mentions the encenfricities of the lean and mangy dogs, !continually running between your legs, which afford a tempting passage'in this petticoated place." Delightfullest of all however is his most amus ing particularity as to the still greater eccen tricities of the hens of Egypt; whi c h " seem 'to :cenahler that they have discharged every duty to stociety in . 'producing a. mere egg," caring little or nothing After the operation " whether their off spring becomes a fritter or a fawl, an omelette or a game cock !" The naked fellow enteusted with the office of hatching the chickens wholesale, by means o'i gigantic ovens, i 3 ludicrously detcnbed es ever nod ever turning- the . eggs " w ith most h en Fink( anxiety. " A happy ph;se not: unfrequently proves sufficient in .that'Vinid delineso:ons 'of Warburton. Ho describes the mud-coloured buildings and terraced rode of Alexandria as " variad with fat mosques and lean, minarets." Ho calloiv pes the black slaves, as th'y ere reality, " rnagpied with white napkins round their head cud loins." Gibraltar starts before tie. from the second page of the second chapter, with a distinctness marvelloas almost as the vi. sible, with curtain, and ravelin, and rampart—with " zigzag lines from shore to suntrait, looking like con ductors for the defendera' electric fire to flash along" —in the complexity of its stern and impregnable for tifications. Musing again over that Nile, which he manifestly reverenced in spite of all the grizzly story, of the yirgin's blood and the grizzlier appetite of the crocodiles, Warburton in his fourth chapter allows his mind to run riot in exaggeration over the auppoSition that Egypt is an exotic land, borne down from the torrid remoteness of Abyssinia towards the theres of the sublime and history-glorified Mediter ranean. His fantastic meditations are thus closed, " Those quiet plains have tumbled down the cataracts ; those demure gardens have flirted with the Isle of Flowers five hundred miles away; those very pyra mids have - floated down the waves of the Nile; to , speak Chemically, that river is a solution of Ethiopies richest regions, - and that vast country is merely a precipitate"—a companion sketch for that - grotesque portraiture of Holland by the incomparable author of " Hudibras," depicting it as a region distinguished by the fishy peculiarities of the amphibious! In a kindred mood of facetiousness, our traveller, pausing in the midst of the petrified forests of the Wilderness, comments upon the fact of their . invariably appearing in places the most arid and shelterless, by observing that they "must have had a hard time of it," being "exposed, like Niobe, to all the arrows of Apollo." As wittily does he pronounce judgment elsewhere upon the summary vengeance wreaked by the jealous husbands among the Egyp tians—remarking that their only "gentlemen of the long robe" are eunuchs, " and the knife and the Nile the only damages." Abounding as the chapters do with these tokens of an innocent and irradiating mer riment, they lure the attention onwards, as by an it resiatible fascinatian, through all the varieties of Asiatic life, sometimes enlivened by perilous adventures and sometimes by romantic vicissitudes. Throughout the whole of this charming narrative of oriental enterprise, moreover, what is especially noticeable, and to us, as coming from an insular wanderer over Christendom, absolute matter for astonishment, is the fact that, not once, by a syllable or aninnuendo, does Warburton become for one in stant dogmatical. In this particular he appears to be little else than a miracle among travellers. Dog matism, indeed, would seem to have had but little kindred with that ingenuous and equable tempera ment, Besides--there was genial intelligence as well as eclectic taste lurking under that subtle and comprehensive sensibility : and as La Bruy ere says in one of his searching apophthegms, " C'est 13 pro- ! fonde ignorance quo inspir e l e ton d ogmat i que :' Gifted by Nature therefore w ith the very qualities ca l cu l a ted to win regard from th e observant, it wa s not sur prising to find that hi s fi rst work almost i mme diately attracted the attention o f the public to the name of Warburton. People lik e d the freshness o f his gentle and unaffected e n th us i asm . They were pleased with the frankness of a char ac t er which reve aled only the most generous sentiments and the most elevated aspirations. They exulted i n the opportunity of be holding those famous region s where the feet of the holy race had moved down the trail of immemorial generations, toiling in Egypt, roving in Syria, and conquering in Palestine—th ose reg ions consecrated, one might almost believe, to everlasting immortality in the annals of the Prophets—and which no other modern writer has ever depicted with a pencil at once so reverent and so picturesque. The vividness ef his descriptions, in fact, is only surpassed by the felicity of the variable tone in which he celebrated their associations. Insomuch was this remarkable in the earliest of the literary productions of Warburton, that from his lips " twice told tales" were found to be scarcely less acceptable than they have actually proved to be on the opposite shores of the Atlantic, when revivified by the voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne. What, for example, could be more enthralling than Eliot Warburton's account (ch. iv.) of the battle of the Nile ?=--a victory, for two reasons, unsurpassed in the annals of maritime warfare, being fought at midnight and; at anchor. And yet how many had been the records of that memorable action already penned and already familiar, from the elaborate elu cidation' of Jaines to the terse and 'inspiring pane gyric of Southey ? " 'Tis an old story now, that battle of the Nile," said Warburtor, " but a brave old story can never die of age ;" and thereupon he re counted! once 'mare the incidents of the conflict froda its. commencement to its conclusion, from the silent bearing down of Nelson's fleet upon the armament of his antagoniSts to tbe capture of the last vessel, the Tonnant, when "slowly and reluctantly, like an ex piring banner hope, her pale flag fluttered down from her py spars, and the next that floated there was the in his secondhand narrations that our author was of old England !" It was not, however , only moat eminently successful. The enumeration of his own movements was the principal and the happiest theme of hi s i nsp i ra ti on . Here it was that he re vealed his o r i g i na lity as a depictor of the coast sce nery of ;the Levent and the fertility of Egypt , a nd the sterility o f Nubia, and the sacred topography of Syria, and the mi ng led squalor and luxury of Con stantinople, a n d th e sapphire waves and emerald islands ; of the Greek archipmlago. Patriotic though his temp erament waa, he had still all the comprehen sive sympathie s o f t h e cosmo p o lite. Insular as some of hie noti ons un ques ti o nably were, the majority of them were characteriz e d by a largeness that embraced the whole cy c l e of human i ty an d we re restricted to neither hemisphere. Domestic as were those affections which prompt e d hi m in a su b sequen t p ro duction ("Da rien," vol. u., p. 54.) t o d ec l are i n an effusion of ten derness that th e sacre d wor d o f H o me " applies to hearts not hearths," he possessed withal a love of the true and the beautif u l, such as rendered him familiar with regions the most remote and with habits the most outlandish. An agreeable testimony of this is afforded by the incidents accompanying his arrival at Beyrout, and his reluctant resignation to quarantine when living fora fortnight in a little cottage apart from the; lazaretto. This cottage-prison he describes as situated in a grove or orchard of mulberries. Here, froth' the rooftop looking over the Syrian landscape in one direction, and, in another over the billows of the Mediterranean, he tends a " little gallipot garden," whose every weedy plant he declares to have contained a Picciola, or watches with an emo tion sonievahat nobler than that of idle curiosity the movements of the little family in the lower portion of the premises, a family of bumble Maro nites. How charmingly be avows at last " I sympa thised with the changes of weather that affected the operations of the silkworms; I grieved fur the illness of the little child; I took as much interest in the at tentions ;paid by the young Syrian swains to Katarin and Dudu as they did themselves; and a baking or a .washing day appeared. to me full of itnportance: ' his warm and kindly disposition kindling into attachment for, beings who must have regarded him comparatively ahno - st withindifference. And such was Warburton ! Ey,erywhere - " at home"—in the Nile boat or in the totilbs of thelPyramids, under the cedars of Lebanon or among the olives of the holy mount near Jerusalem. EVeryWhere looking into the visages of those he met, the Jew, the Copt, the Arab, the Nubian, the Turk, the Greek, or the Egyptian, not as into the face of analien, but as into the face of a fellow-creature. Hence he adapted himself so readily to the customs of !those sunny and voluptuous climates—wearing the tarboosh or the turban, and the girdling shawl, breathing aromatic tobaccoes through the fumes of thEi chibouque or the nargilly, riding that docile Arabian from which he parted at lest as from " a tried old friend," and bivouacing under the canvas of this tent, or under the branches of some umbra geous sycauaore, as readily as though he were either a :disciple of Islam or a descendant of Ishmael! The very title of the production in which these rovings were recounted was an incentive to its perusal, being at 'once as poetical as it was indisputably epigram matic. It constituted a tribute to the genius of symbolism—that mysterious element common to the atmosphere, of Paganism and of Christianity. It celebrated not merely the Crescent by which Byzantium seems to have commemo rated the greutnees of Diana of the Ephe , sians, bun 'that more sublime and more awful ' emblem, the_Cross, the emblem which appears to have been prophetically worshipped by Heathendom in an ticipation of the Divine Sacrifice. In inscribing the latter effigy, so to speak, upon the frontispiece of his undertaking, Warburton had not forgotten the bewil dering circumstance of its antiquity as aat mbol of idOlatrous as well as of inspired religion. He asso ciated the name of his volumes with that wonderful EVENING, JUNE 28, 1852, rind enigmatic image which, according to Lafiteu, was adored by th e R e d I ndians o f A mer i ca b e f ore the discovery of their continent by Europeans, that solemn Cross which Grecian Art had placed in the hands of Horns Apollo, suspended round the neck of the divinity Apis, carved upon the front of Jupiter Ammon, inserted in the thyrsis of Bacchus, engraved upon the vases of libation, and jewelled in the bosom of the vestal virgins, the Cross mentioned with an inexplicable reverence in the most ancient -annals 'of the Chinese and in the memorable records of the Phoenicians. Following upon these really astounding recollections, it is beautiful to remember the noblest apostrophe of admiration ever addressed to the Cross es the Symbol of Sy ctatu super Psalino." mbels—the apostrophe of. St. Augustine ("Ex Tra Ps. 54, lect. 6.) w h en he speaks of the Cross as once an object of derisi on , b ut now glittering i n gold and precious stones up on t h e summit of every diadem— " Allende gloriam CMC I S i pSiUS : jam its. fronts regum crux illa.fixa ert, cu i i n i mici insultaverunt " H a d the passage occurr e d t o W arburton we donbt not that be would have se l ec t e d it as the motto of his title page. As i t is —the work in which, by its deeigcatic , n, the author thus evidences his recognition of the grace and of tho mystery of ettnab o li sna w ill—by reveling the country of ti le C rescent In all its Romance and in all Ls Reality to th e venerators of the Cross—long teni, we belie ve , t o preserve, if it fail to perpetuale, his reputation. Subsequoitly to his re t urn homewards, Eliot War burton was united t o th e daughter of the late Edward Grove, Esq., of Sh enetone Park, County Stafford, neice of Sir Edm un d C radock Hartopo, Bart., end cousin-german of the first wife of Lord John B t utsell, Adelaide, the Lady Ribblesiale. Two children were the fruit of th a t marriage, Which an unforeseen and dreadful calamity h as so prematurely brought to a termination. Encouraged doubtl ess by the very distinguished success of the " C rescent and the Cross, " our author determined to adventure once more upon the hazardous but fascinating en terprises of literature. In his second work, it was found that the traveller bad been transmuted into the collator of manuscripts. The Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, published in 1849, disclosed, however, scarcely less than its pre decessor the picturesque style and the genero us Byrn. pathies of Warburton. The .latter characteristics were, perhaps, therein even • more perceptible than in the production which must alway s b e r e garded as his masterpiece. Comp r i s i ng a from the private correspondence between the '''' Royalist Comman der-in-Chief and th e subordin te a adherents of the Sovereign, the work contained a variety of curious documents transcribed from original MSS., which had never before been afforded the opportunitY of publication. So abundant, indeed, were the manu script treasures thus arranged and revised by Warburton, that he scrupulously disclaimed the authorship of more than the first and se cond volumes, remarking that he could be regarded as nothing more than simply th e editor of the third, consisting as it did for the most part of authentic papers relating to the c i vil war, care f u lly digested and symmetrically ; d —s posed in succession. The peculiar interest of this collection, it must be observed, arose from the circumstance of its being derivedTrom Colonel Benett, tary. It included no less than a thousand letters, addressed to their youthful chieftai n b y the chival rous and loyal Cavaliers—letters Penned by the hands of those gallant gentlemen who paw ne d their plate and mortgaged their estates, and o dropped their hearts' blood for drachmas," to purchase the s afety of a prince and to vindicate the pow er o f a dynasty. Besides these singular epistles there were numerous others, which bad hitherto been preserved among the family archives of the Earl of Dartmouth, together with copious materials extracted fro m t h e Di a ry of Evelyn, from the Royal Letters of 14 r omi ,ey, as well -- as from Sir Henry Ellis's Collectio n . As additional evidence of the extraordinary industry displayed in this compilation by Eliot Warburton, it may be cur sorily observed that his researches extended through a multiplicity of celebrated MSS., among which may be enumerated the Lansdowne, liarleian, Bodleian, Sloane, and Ashmolean. Apart fronts 44. 1k these laborious investigations, moreover, the production wa s in many respects singularly meritorious. It w as not so much the worthiest, as it was literally the first, biography of Prince Rupert that had appeared. A trivial pam phlet purporting to recount his " Heroi c History" had been printed, it is true, so far back as 1683, and, within the present century, a more elaborated memo rill of the same personage had been contributed to the " Biographie Universelle"—but neithe r were entitled to any high degree of consideratio n . Warburton must therefore be regarded as the earliest his torian of the Cavaliers. Incidental mention of their prowess and self-sacrifice had been repeatedly made before without question ; but no deliberate effort had been attempted to clear their memory from misconception, or to obliterate those calumnies from the name of Rupert which had dimmed its glory through so many misapprehending generations. There was it congenial gallantry in the resolution with which Warburton ventured to impugn the accuracy of that stern judgment which bad been sanctioned with a sort of tacit acquiescence by no less than two centuries. In relating the adventures of the Royalis . t Leader, he displ a y e d somewhat o f hi s earnes t ness w it h rather more than his circumspection. His narrative, indeed, possesses, in regard to facts, the stubbornness of the Roundhead, 'whil e i n its occasional bursts of eloquent invective and of impassioned panegyric it claims kindred with the audacity of the Cavalier. Shortly after the first inkling of his popularity had been obtained, Warburton was induced in 1846 to edit a couple of volumes descriptive of life in the Canadas—a work written by d a friend," as he him self announced in the course of his Preface to Hochelaga. 'Whether that "friend" was one of his brothers, according t o a conjecture at one time prevalent, or simply an associate in whose literary prosperity his kind feeling was interested —it is tole rably well known that an o th e r bearing that near relationship has secured a moderate share of approval by a composition of a differe n t character — we allud e l'e," from the to "Rollo and his R pen of Acton t Warburton. Daring the course of his introductory remarks to " limbelsga," its editor observed ver y truthfully and sententiously, after an allusion to Ata lantis—" The theories of old Greece and Roman Spain became stories; storie s became tradition; tradi tion became faith, and when Columbus assumed his mission, in him the old 4 Westering' instinct amounted to an inspiration.,, Alas ! with Warbur ton himself that old ' w estering' instinct" amounted —if we may speak without profanity—more to a lamentable fatality than to a n - such golden as piration. The reception accorded y to " Hochelaga," in the first instance for the manner of its introduc tion, but eventually from the appreciation of its intrinsic excellence, encouraged its author to issue from the press in 1849 a record of the "Conquest of Canada," dating as far b ac k as 1534-5, the period when its soil was first trodden by Jacques Cartier, its discoverer. Later on, as recently indeed as 1851, another work was edited by the - biographer of Ru pert, the circumstance bein g • . . indicated in the form of an Introduction to the M em • rs of Horace Walpole. Here, however, W oz arburton e xplicitly avows that his only share in the undertaki ng is that of affixing his name to the title page—ex cept i ng a e ew t occasional cor rections "freely offered and freely accepted." Sketches of the " voluptuous virtuoso" of Strawberry Hill had already appeared, but these 1, were chiefly restricted to mere summaries, sue.' tn a s , ' , ose penned by Lord Dover, by Sir Walter :Scott, and by Pinkerton. Even the " feeling and eloquent„ memoir of Miss Berry was little better (as Warburton here intimated) than an avowed apology, dictated by the posthumous generosity' of friendship. Wk ."at contributed, more over, rather considerably to enhance the value of the biography introduced to the wod by Warburton, was the circumstance that the volenaes comprised a variety of original letters by te, — 43 most fascinating, because the most elegantly voluble, o f corres p on dents. Apparently almost as inartificial Its the letters of Byron, those of Walpole are as f astidiously delicate as the epistles of Chesterfield, occasionally combining with these peculiarities, the idiomatic diction of Cow per, and the effervescent and sometimes almost bois terous vivacity of Sevigne. Speaking of them in de served terms of admiration, our author wittily observes in his Introduction (p. 10.) that " they leave nothing but truthfulness to be desired," a n ac cusation rather painfully corroborated the other day by the publication of "The Garland" i n t h e page s of the " Quarterly ii garland of not the loveliest of the flowers of rhetoric, woven into metre at the very period the courtier's lips were secretly dropping poison on the name of his Sovereign, and laid at the foot of the throne by a hand yet blackened in the task of scurrility, with an air of consummate and refined adulation. Meanwhile —amusing his leisure with the respon sibilities of editorthip—Eliot Warburton was not altogether indifferent himself to the manifold seduc tions of literature. Influenced by his examination of the Royalist manuscripts, be determined to recount a tale of the troubles of 164—, by writi ng the confes sions of a Cavalier, as a fictitious autobiogra phy. Such were the intentions which, in 1850, l e d to the appearance of his romance, entitled Reginald Hastings. It revealed but little evidence of the author's capacit y as a nove list, and was consequently regarded by bi 3 many ad mirers as a matter of disappointment. Th e s tory displayed, of course, that familiarity with the epoch which was only to have been expected from the histc ritn o f Rupert, but which in another might have been a subject at once of surprise and of admiration. It was otherwise unattractive. The masquerade of the romancer seemed to sit hut awkwardly o n the shoulders of the traveller. He could have donned the burnoose with the readiness of an Arab, but the mask of the novelist appeared to him as unnatural las feathers to a leopard. It was ask ew i n the - fi rs t # chapter. Upwards of a year elapsed before be yea- tured once more upon the delineation of the imaginary. It was late i n 1851 that Darien was published, a narrative partially historical in its character, and recounting under the title of " The Merchant Prince" the for tunes of the memorable Alvarez, better known as that Sir Solomon Medina who accused the great Duke of Marlborough of such enormous embezzlement. The production was scarcely less faulty than its predeces ser : but, considered in the glare of an after occur rence very terrible in its character, it will be found to possessam enthralling and, we believe, also an en daring interest. " Darien," to be estimat e d at its intrinsic val ue , mus t b e read by the lurid light of the 1 Amazon, by the li g ht o f th a t mar i t i me conflagration which seems throughout the fiction to be foreseen by a sort of wierd presentiment. Viewed thus, the work cannot fail to excite the awe, as well as the be wilderment, of the psychologist. Its conspi cuous purport enlivened by the roman' ic adventures of Alvarez was to record the rise and failure; the propitious rise and the melancholy feilure, of the celebrated Darien Expedi tion. That expedition, will be remembered, was originated by the founder of the Bank of England. William Patterson is, therefore, the real hero of the romance—stracgest, of all heroes of romance ever selected, a Puritan enthusiast, and a mercantile day dreamer unselfish and e l eva t e d i n . hi s am bi t i on, b ut weak and vasciflating in its development ! Associated with Patterson towards the conclusion of the story, is Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, a man almost as specu lative and still more impracticable. Yet more re markable among the real characters introduced, must likewise be particularized John Lew (as his latest celebrant designates bins, "the Napoleon of the gambling world"), the originator of that famous Mis sissippi scheme which as far surpassed the South Sea Bv.bble, as the South Sea Bubble sur passed M. Cabet's project of founding a new Arcadia by an Icarian colonization. A sort of morganetic admiration for the old Buccaneers, betrays itself throughout the narrative—due reference being made to Alexander of the Iron Arm, to the wily Rock, the daring Pierre, the ruthless Olonois, and the redoubt able Montbara, otherwise called the Exterminator. Another, and not the least formidable among those ferocious " water rats," Sir Henry Morgan, is ac tually involved in the imaginary incidents conjured up by the novelist. There is an indescribable gusto in his allusion to the spoils gathered in by the auda city of the Buccaneers—gold from Mexico, silver from Peru, pearls fr om th e G u lf, cinnamon from the Carracas, ambergris from the Baltic, fish from Newfoundland, nutmegs from the Mo luccas, ivory from Ceylon, diamonds from Gol conda—the involuntary tributes paid by the industrious to the lawless navigator. Fascinated by the prowess of the Buccaneers, Warburton's gentle nature revolted at their cruelty, but still more at the systematic inhumanity revealed by the con querors c, Spanish America. From " the complaints of Las Cases, the confessions of Cortes, the apologies of Herrera, and the summing up of Prescott,"he here adduced the most damning evidence of their almost preternatural atrocity. While absorbed in these ter rible investigations, however, he lost no portion of his engaging vivacity ; and thus, even when depicting an outrage by the troopers of Claverhouse, he quietly remarks—that " in toasting the health of fair Alice the topers made considerable inroads upon their own." It was a curious circumstance, more over, that although actually a total stranger to the Transatlantic scenery he depicted it almost with the colouring of Cooper and the minuteness of Audubon. He appeared to be familiar with every feature in the landscape, with all the winged and creeping denizens of the woods, and with the varieties of the luxuriant vegetation. He beheld, as if in reality, the branches of the cedar and the balsam, gorgeous with their living blossoms—the brilliant plumage of the barat and the tulcan. He watched every movement of the scorpion under the cassia -tree, and knew the haunts of the lizard and the serpent near '.he roots of the fruit-dropping tamarind. " There " he exclaims in one portion (11. 299.) " under the in fluence of an eternal summer, Nature runs riot ; like a glorious and fantastic bacchanal, drunk with the rich juices of a virgin soil, and the warm fellowship of a meridian sun : there she makes for herself arborial bowers whose lofty colonnades and flower-roofed aisles mock the dimension s of our stateliest palaces." And with every leaf and fibre he seemed to have rendered himself acquainted—from the bamboos and bananas to the interwoven parasites " all a-bloom with purple flowers," from the pineapple "burning like a topaz on its green calyx," to the mangroves drooping into the water heavily laden at every bough with oysters! The tenacity of his memory, the voracity of his re searches, and the vividness of his imagination trans formed Warburton into a Mexican while he wrote, as the same influence changed Moore for the time being into a native of Cashmere, and Burke into a Bengelee. Whether it was that he yearned to com pare his own fancies with the realities of nature across the ocean, whether he wished to ex• amine such creatures as the " demoniac cat fish and the cruel remora," or to re-discover that " one rocky ridge" in the isthmus of Darien (11. 97.) from the summit of which can be seen the opposing shores of the Pacific and Atlantic—shortly after the publication of his novel, relating to the " Merchant Prince," Warburton resolved upon at once proceeding to Panama. Possibly he was actuated in this instance by that love of travel, which he himself termed "the most unquenchable of loves" (I. 162.) — that love which had already carried him to Damietta and the Dardanelles. Howbeit his excursion to Central America was resolved upon : at first under taken simply with an eye to pleasure, but ultimately also with an eye to business—Warburton being de puted to negotiate friendly relations between the In dian tribes of Darien and the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company. In pursuance of this enterprise, he left England in the Amazon steam-ship, of 2,250 tons burden, on Friday, the 2d of January, 1852, under the command of Captain Symons, with 163 on board, crew and passengers. The fate of that unfor tunate and magnificent vessel can never, in the annal s of misfortune, be altogether lost to remembrance. In its aggregation of horrors it exceeded even the dubi ous fate of the President and the celebrated loss of the Kent East Indiaman. In many particulars it eclipsed the fearful destruction (which took place a month afterwards) of her Majesty's ship the Birken head. Early on Sunday morning the 4th of January, but very little indeed after midnight, almost every soul on board the Amazon being hushed in slumber, the pealing of the alarm-bell, and the cries of " Fire," woke those who were sleeping to the frightful knowledge that the ship was in flames. Twenty minutes more proved enough to complete the conflagration; but within that brief interval how much agony was compressed those who have survived have enabled us to con jecture. An ineffectual effort to set the fire-engine going was followed by the abandonment of the hose and the desperate resort to the buckets. Everything speedily revealed, however, that the attempt to extin guish the conflagration must prove futile, but, during the loss of time resulting from the endeavour four out of the nine boats received irreparable injury.l Meanwhile the engines, not having been stopped at the outbreak of the catastrophe, carried the Amazon with terrible velocity through a heavy sea and a wind blowing with considerable violence. Fifty nine persons alone escaped in two of the_ life boats, - boats, the dingy, the cutter, and the pinnace—the two best life-boats being burnt on the sponsons, while the mail boat, and in all probability the gig, were swamped alongside. The last individual recognised on board by those who were saved was Eliot War burton—standing by the captain at the wheel, fully dressed, and quite collected. Shortly afterwards the vessel was involved in a sheet of flame from the bow sprit to the taffrail, the magazine soon exploded, the into the red-hot, fell over with a hissing sound the waves, and the wreck thereupon almost instantly foundered. Remembering the suddenness of this appalling calamity, coming so speedily after the ap pearance of the romance of " Darien," we shudder at the mysterious recurrence of allusions to precisely similar disasters by the - almost prophetic hand of the gifted and lamented traveller. Already in the opening page of the third volume of "Reginald Hastings" he had quoted those passionate lines of Shakspere— " 0 Lord! metbought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears; What sights of ugly deaths within mine eyes!" In "Darien" his expressions became still more lamentably appropriate, and still more painfully dis tinct in their explicitness. Almost at the commence ment of the romance the author dedicates an entire chapter (I. ch. iv.) to a minute description of the torments of death by burning, transcribing at the outset those verses of Shelley— " The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs— His resolute eyes were scotched to blindness soon: His death pangs rent my heart." Further on Warburton writes (I. 206.) "We struck; all hands took to the boats; I only left; boats sw amped; crew lost; I, thanks to your gallantry and kindness—only saved." Elsewhere, he says (11.16 ) " S-artled by the sudden sense of drowning, he awoke to find himself in the angry sea, with wreck and ruin and destruction all around." Another of his mournfully apposite extracts is from Uhland— " The winds and the waves of Ocean, They rested quietly; Bu I heard on the gale is sound of wail, There was danger on the sea." Everywhere he seemed to behold round him mys tically, as Longfellow did in "Evangeline," the glory of a conflagration, where— " Columns of shining smoke uprose, and flashes of flames were Thrust thro' the folds and withdrawn, like the quivering hands of a martyr." His similes were tinctured with the same sombre hue of premonition. He thus illustrated the imper ceptible diminution of sorrow for a deceased com. panion (111. 211)- 6 as when a ship founders at sea, the water forms a distracted vortex for a few minutes, and the waves are tossed about un naturally ; but they gradually subside, until the surface of ocean is as calm over the buried wreck as over the smoothest sand that ever formed a drowned seaman's pillow." His thoughts appeared to recur perpetually to the same theme with a mis boding iteration. He talked (I. 68.) of " mariners making preparation's on a quiet shore for a long and stormy voyage? He seemed by a preternatural an ticipation to recognise the Forms of those who would so soon be lamenting his own calamitous disappear ance. He described (I. 53.) one whose eyes " were regardless of all except the sea in which her hope now as ever her fear was rested :" and at another time wrote of one of his heroines (111. 82.) " she was like th ose w h o have l ost d ear re l a ti ons a t sea , an d who love t o soothe their sorrows by sitting on the shore and watchi ng tidings of tho se who the waves as they come and go ; in some dreamy expectation that somehow they may bring fe llows." Someti have then veil of futurity .becethe alma aleS ' eV"' tae gone down among their :: , nos* to trans the „horrors of the I catwrophe. In one volume - he a ' • rriae )1 "- e 'ee but pareut to reveal wrote (1. 74) leg "me eelumes of, smok e o‘g quietly up in the Cur 11. evening air, gave token of (111. 25.) "The "3 , dirlster;" in another remaining S-panie4 WPS now on fire forward, and - her dry sails in another he depicted yet burned up ' ripply into three pillars of flame :" more minutely the misfortune be was so speedily to experience (11. 224-225 )--" As the winessofficer by forward in his turn, Lis speech w ee pe a by the cry of fug° from the forecastle"terra . E le volume of smoke at the same time gushing : p the hold diffused a sulphurous stench. The Shit, lied been set on-fire by one o f th e quenchless fireballs that the buccaneers were accustomed to make use of i n extremity. It had fallen among bales of silk, Whea l for some time smothered the fierceness of' the flames but it had the more extensively and subtly done its work, and the fire was proportionately destructive. Tne boats were immediately lowered, and those on board had barely time to put off when the galleon was in flames from stem to stern. Even the wouuded buccaneer and the sick English sailor had been saved. The boats rowed fast towards Alvaro's ship, and almost immediately after they had reached her the galleon blew up, and no trace was left of the gallant ship but a few seething planks, and some bubbles on the calm water in which she had gone down." Literature does not contain any more startling indications of a presentiment. They remind one of those exquisite verses in which Lord Byron celebrated the thirty-seventh anniversary of his birth, at Missolonghi—the fabulous notes of the swan sing ing its own requiem, as Mozart is said to have com posed his on the eve of dissolution. That Warburton preserved his self-possession even under the terrors of an occurrence that might have palsied the most cou rageous cannot but be matter for our admiration. His collected behaviour even under such circumstances can be readily comprehended, however, by those in any way acquainted with the serene bravery of his character. several instances of this bravery occurred in the course of his eastern peregrinations, sot the least remarkable of which w e r e (" C rescen t," &c., ch. xii.) the coolness di sp l aye d b y hi m when nearly half a mile from his boat at midnight, and almost alone in the midst of a couple of hundred angry Nubian savages (ditto, ch. xvi.) ; and his refusal of backsheesh to the ex tortionate Bedouins in one of the Pyramids, a refusal enforced by an extended pistol and a threat of the bastinado ; but especially (ditto, ch. xxix.) the cou rage disclosed in riding on horseback, without a single attendant, along the sea shore, from Lebanon to Beyrout—a feat which nearly led to his assassina tion. Bravely, therefore, as became him, he passed away in what seemed to be the meridian of his life, in the midst of that awful conflagration. Peace be with him ! wherever may have flown his gentle but heroic spirit. He should have di e d in different scenes and under less dreadful auspices— upon the banks of the holy Jordan, or under the boughs of the whispering palm, or in the ripeness of a good old age, reposing on his bed, surrounded by those who loved him, and by the fields sacred with the tender recollections of his childhood. Instead of this—the deck of the burning Amazon, far away, at midnight, among the raging waters of the Atlantic ! Prematurely though his career has terminated, his n ame c annot easily be forgotten. It will b e ran k ed among the catalogue of those "keen-eyed travellers" of whom Kinglake speaks in the most eloque n t p a ssage of " Eothen " (chap. xx.) as " Warburton to-day and Herodotus yes terday "—and will long be associated in the mind of every English pilgrim to the Holy Land with the Hill of Zion and Mount Moriah, with the babbling Kedron and the gloomy Jehoshaphat, with every stone in the Via Dolorosa and every olive in Geth semane. And assuredly that alone is an achievement. It is something to have one's name remembered in connexion with the ruins of Jerusalem ! In appearance Warburton was frank and prepos sessing. About the middle height, he was erect in bearing, and occasionally, in the carriage of his head, almost military. Amiability tempered the resolution expressed in his mouth. Along the edge of the lower lip was traceable the faintest vestige of an imperial. His fresh complexion laud light-brown hair be trayed the Saxon origin, which was 'rendered yet more apparent by his blueish eyes—spurred at the outer corners with crows' feet imprinted less by time than by a merriment wrinkling into laughter. His voice, clear and rather high, was peculiar for its pensive cadence, imparting to almost every sentence a pleasing but melancholy inth ction. His memory is with us, as that of the gallant and th e g i fted—the memory :fan observant traveller with the sympathies of a poet, and the soul of a gentleman. Keen. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 23rd of June, a Committee was moved for considering of making compensation out of the Consolidated Fund, to persons interested in Burial Grounds in the Metropolis, for any loss they may sustain in consequence of any Act passed in the present session. There appears to be a good deal of mal arrangement in this. Bradford and Edinburgh pay to the Consolidated Fund, but why should Bradford and Edinburgh pay for improvements in Metropolitan fune rals. If it is on account of the share Bradford and Edinburgh men may have in the health of the metro polis during the time they are there on business, it Is evidently a very meagre reason for making them and others so situated pay for the whole. It there was a prospect that Bradford and Edinburgh would have any thing of the same kind done for them out of the Conso lidated Fund in turn, the case might be altered. Bat till that is ascertained, the question ought to lie over. On the same day motion was made by Viscount Jocelyn, for Copies of Evidence and Reports on the transactions in Scinde. The facts with respect to Scinde may have partially gone out of public memory to make room for others; but the leading features were these, — that a race of Native Princes in India had been useful and steady allies of the British in times of urgency, and when the urgency was over, the British, true to Anglo-Saxon policy, were found dispossessing their late allies of their territories, adreducing them their m to r e the v en conditionueit an d of pri vate properly , and s t a te prisoners in various fortresses. The facts are im pressed upon me, because I remember that at the time they were taking place, I had communications from persons of mark in India, made under the impres sion that I had a seat in Parliament and could conse quently have aided by a vote. I remember also to have seen in some public paper, a statement that British officers in India had refused to accept their share of the priza-money, because they said it was made by the pillage of ladies' jewel-boxes. So you see that we do not all of us leave our consciences behind on passing the Line, whatever may be the effect upon the average of the mass. • • The world will cease to wonder that this country, in which the democratic element is decidedly so strong, should still present a spectacle of comparative peace and harmony to surrounding nations,—when it has duly meditated on the fact, that no tale of wrong and shame can arise in any quarter of the earth, without a British noble being found in the van of the resistance. I hav e seldom seen so much of enthusiasm in the House, a s was excited on this occasion; and men of different par ties seemed to enjoy the opportunity for a momentary fusion, like soldiers meeti ng at t h e advanced-posts under the liberty of a flag of truce. The Ministry i n answer reduced itself to the plea of autrefois acquit; Which might have been well if the contrivers; and authors of these harms had been waiting for the judgment of Parliament, but the object of the present moti on was to get some tardy reparation for the degradation to the British character. We are in horrible servitude to 04 men who have command over gunpowder. judge, no jury, to take up our cause at the time; There is t he utmost the utmost that is left for us is, the chance of some limp in g attempt at reversal after the flesh has gone down the wolf's throat. The thing does not take pla c e once, but perpetually. It is a trade; and wea l or in malt, are destined to pay fO rtie w e e L e r i t i t o h n ei s . O i l' the ; P i r d e i r ng captive A On Thursday the Government evinced a js'eciade, spirit on the subject of the and there is a probability of s ome sma ll portion extreme wrong bting tardily given up. ht before the On FricLy Lord John Ituseell broug-- Lords House of Curt:mobs tilt alterations m ade t he byqseof thi , in the Corrupt Preeticea at Eleeti,ins BM. ufi Reuse of Com priLcipal, is the takibe,. a wa y from th© li boroughs in cases meers of of the of notorious bribery, Without tilt) agreement Com mons the right of Plijeceding °gait's' Will the Lords agree to the interferenceto the House of 1110116, in eases ivn tle , th e introduction to ask get somebody Lords is collet:rued? I tried of the Com toMember- spoke loudly of this; but althout success. A n the subject; and it is ilia :mention to go to a impossible to say what harm could recorded their names in Setae or two of Members popular assembly the feeblest division n ou o id have been done, if a proposal always carries was adjourned till Tuesday. tailed him. The House . "useclueneP. But i°* the day, and his resolution Sir, yours eery sincerely, I am, -it ' AN OLD REEORMER. Blackheath, June 28.1852. A deputation, consisting of Alderman Sir P. Laurie, Mr. J. Woodward, Mr. G. Stacy (Deputy), Mr. E. Lane, and Mr. A. Vines had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole, at the klome-office, on Saturday. NAVAL 1N T. Commander Archibald al tired list, died a few days si tered the navy in 1798; va. Helder; was wounded in the was at the capture of Le Dut was made a lieutenant in 1, tinction under Sir R. Keats, when, in 1810, she beat off Ile was for 24 years superia.. Liverpool. Edinburgh, 58, screw-gunnery tender, Captain Hew /eta has completed h er f ue l, an d has h auled ' off to the moorings off Gosport. Fairy royal yacht screw-tender, Master-Commander Welch, was taken on the graving slip at Portsmouth on Saturday morning, and again shipped the flexible screw. -The screw was slightly altered, having a greater pitch than when last tried. Captain Criepin took the Fairy out in the afternoon, and it was found that she had a little more spsed then when tried with the flexible screw Issatime; however, ehe aid net go so fast by a knot an hour as who aid with Smith's screw. although dee spade fife revole ions more per minute. We understand that the flexible set( w °cos-dons More tremulous motion in tiao ers( I then the of i scree , . _ Ferret, 8, Commander M•Donuld, is nearly ready for son. -ewe will o into the Sound in the early part or this week. Tee Ferret goes to the Coast. Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W. lloste—Forty seamen .and boys of the Queen have been allowed to volunteer for the Sparta°, 26, fitting at this nort. Trincteeelee ' 24, Captain W. H ous t on , was maste d on v r ietri, end taken alongside the jetty at Devonport. Her marines were embarked on Sate: dey, under the command of Filet Lieutenant Heverfield. Triton ideate-packet, Lit uteeent-Commander Lloyd, arrived at Devonport on Saturday afternoon from Wool of marines for the Q aeen , 11 6 , to n oin wil t l h b e e paid proceed TheT t r o ito j advance wag he wi eh ' recommissionedbringing es ItP there, a a r t l Yt andha t t pt h r n t in the Mediterranean. Medusa, from Alexandria, With homeward India mails, h ,. ; :a b e o a t e h ,: i ti v a ed 2 . 2.—The Medina, from Corfu, and the haying repaired h r defects, left port this morning for herengines,W T , h e e h P av u e ry no st l e oc m a e l r, n w wa i s t n h the Governor and suite, Goz -, , tr e d to-morrow will go out to join the Adyruiral. of the slightest interest to foreign readers. PORTSMOUTII, sear, tion at the R oyal ay * —The half-yearly examine when Mr. Hugh Pearson , as recommended for the lieutenant's commissar) mate ' w R Petman, Naval C o ll e ge concluded yesterday, a, and Cadets ( • The Rolla, 6, apprentices' tart' Harrison, Rybot, and ren al', for commissions in the Royal Marine corps. Commander Fenwick, has left i d ' t is port for Leith to enter Scotch boys for the navy. The Vulcan iron troop-ship, Colanmander Von Donop, Ireland, to embark troops for Australia. The is under orders to leave this port on brig, Lieutenant- The Simoom iron troop-frigate, Captain et; disembarked the Ri fl e Brigade at this dockyardad_p.rnoy:ce.os tinfeorer: day morning, and they lett immediately by Coast atailway for quarters at Canterbury. The Statesman, 900 tons, Captain Godfrey, r e Spithead from the Thames on Friday night, bound for at or the South Australia. Upwards of 50 persons arrived by t ra i n that day from Brighton, to t a k e p assage i n the ship ic)01,! Port Philip, many of whom aro most amply fitted out with stock, implements, &0., for the di gg i ngs. The Statesman is famed for her rapid passages, her captain being reported the person who introduced the system of circle sailing. She has on board between 240 and 2.50 passengers, among whom are persons of the better classes, many of them old and eminently respectable colonists. She put in at this port owing to the number of pas sengers who had engaged berths in her belonging to Brighton, but the result showed the facilities of Ports mouth for victualling, ice. No ship ever left Spithead better stocked with every necessary to make a voyage co mfortable than the Statesman. She sailed this evening for her destination. PLYMOUTH, 'Town 27.—Her Majesty's brig Philomel is ordered to be fitted for commission. A general muster of artisans and labourers took place in the Devonport dockyard yesterday, in the presence of Commodore Seymour and the principal officers. Seven labourers were entered on the establieliment. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail packet Hellespont, Captain W. Wutts, which arrived from the Cape on the 6th inst., sailed again for that colony yesterday. Besides her general cargo she em bathed here a quantity of stores on Government ac count. The Hellespont will only touch at St. Vincent on the passage out. She ,is appointed to bring home the Ist of August Cape letters, in place of the Qaeen of the South, which left here on the 21st for the Cape and Calcutta. . SHEERNESS, SIINDAY.--Iler Majesty's ship Vestal, 26, Captain Cospatriek Baillie Hamilton, was undocked on Thursday, and warped t'.:b the south aide of the fitting bzsin. Her bottom has been stripped, re - caulked, and newly coppered, the lower rigging is set up, caps lizted, and topmasts pointed. Her Majesty's iron paddlewheel steam-vessel Triton, 3. Lieutenant Henry Lloyd commanding, made her number on Friday forenoon, and proceeded on her voy age to the westward. She was built at Blackwell in 1847, from designs of the late Surveyor of the Navy, Captain Sir W. Symord:, is of 650, tons burden, and fitted with engines of the nominal power c f 260 horses. She is to proceed to the Mediterrneam forthwith, to be employed fcr the conveyance of her .151:-.ictty's mail be twf,,,n Malta and the lonian Islands. Her Mjesty's ptd , Ae.wheel sterim-veFsEl Mr. Buckman, scenr.d roast , T, commanding, is completed in the repairs of her hull by the dockyard artificers. So soon as she is paint d, &c., in the itadtte, she will resume her duties us tender ;o the Waterloo, 120, flag ship at this port. Her Majesty's ,crew .team•fcigate, 30, building on the north-slip, is progrcs: , ,ing rapidly. Sevei al gauge of the dockyard men are at work on ht r, and eke wit! be ready for launching towards the ewl of the present year. Her Majesty's snip Piledud-r, 44, fitting at Chatham for the broad pendant of Captain Chalice Talbot, as successor to Commodore Wyvill at the Cape of Gocd Hope, will bo ready to ba undooked the latter part of next week. Her equipment is rapidly progressing. The Goodwill lighter, Patrick master, arrived on Friday from Chatham, and is loading with stores for the we3ternsyards. Second-Lieutenant W. H. H. West, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, and serving as junior subal tern in her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, has proceeded on leave of absence for two months, for the benefit of his health. The crews of the whole of her Majesty's ships in ordi nary were inspected on Friday by Captain C. Rope, Superintendent of the Dockyard, and Commander Pryee, of the Monarch, 84. was Vice -Admiral on the A portion of the Coast-guard men were pra c ti sed yesterday in firing shot and shell from the old garrison battery, at a target placed near the Nore middleh-garsotuieaet Tne portion of the parade-ground which gsg•captain, attendedurable prepared for the trial of the anchors of all nations, as also the machinery erected thereon, afternoon of Friday, in presence of the Vice -Admiral the Honourable Jobceline Percy, C„B , Chief at the Nore, Captain the Efor;o ommander-in- Stopford, his flag lieutenant the Hon. 0. W. M. La t. 6 y the flag- Tonkin, Master of the Waterloo, Mto .ert, Mr- James mar weighing 25 cwt. 2 qrs. Attendant, and several of the port Montagu i L J. Aylen, Master r, oTniutls ler:le:njaarn: Two Admi ralty anchors, designated the quickly u7ilcbk.,lyweermebaetdtdacehdeidtsteolfthteo ti, old °Lue"s * he heave tight. The Admiralgear, and the order given to feet, while the other on — 211 b., athiledlialZro2nsees,wtt• qrs• Propertie s , and the latter as regards nochnPLueaneh continuing its holding entire o length of t he erre ' the started 13 feet thus showing the very great old plan star , e superiority of the former . over trial was made ' qualities under the able direction of the Master- Freeing only 3 Attendant, M e . j A" . ' 4 ,...yi . en. to whom is intrusted the su perintendence of th a rr a ng ements for the general trial which e whole of the arrang the ' will commence on Thursday, Ist proximo. APPOINTMEN TS. Robertslellt JUNE 26. --Assistant brs, seco n d Fisgard, flag-ship at Wool- Georgeclass, to t Risk Wi lson ( acting ) n g ' a ) second class, to the Assistant Engineers—John Vulcan H B o lak wa e rne screw steam troop Reuben p. a dw . a noint, the Elorati stea m guard-ship, at Sheerness; Francis T. Elliott, third class, to Thomas Wilson, third class, to the Robert J. Bl enheim sc a l y vw steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth; Henry W. Elgar and Joseph J. Lovell, third class, to gar the Pis d, flag -ship at Woolwich. Second Master Frederick B. Youel (1846) t o t h e , 24, at Davenport. Mr. Josep h Triocomidea K. Hawkes is appointed first ti m b er con verter a t t Woolwich do c k ya rd, vice Mr. Stewart Barr, died su ddenly here on Tuesday morn i ng last. Mr . whoWl-11l'a m Carr to be second timb er converter, v i ce Saw Mr. kes. Cbarlas Morgan and Mr. Benjamin Lee have been appointed extra clerks a Woolwich dockyard, in the sto rekeepers ' department , to a ss i s t i n t a ki ng s t oc k during the general survey about to take place. The committee, consisting of Commodore Henry Eden, Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard; Captain Warden, of the steam department at Somerset House; and Captain Mundy, of the Loudon, 90, at Sheerness, sa t again yesterday and to-day, on board the Fisgard flag-ship at this port, to inquire into the cause of the length of the voyage of the Megmra steam troop-frigate to and from the Cape of Good Hope. The result of the icquiry is not yet known, but we have ascertained from a party who noted the time occupied by the following vessels in their voyages to the Cape the following results : ' Horse Time to the Tons. power. Cape. The Birkenhead The Vulcan 1,764 350 56 days. The Megmra The Retribution 1.641 800 63 de,) H. The Sidon .560 64 days. The Cyclops On referring to the dt.tes •of sailing, * slopping, and reaching home, the actual time occu p ied by the Me- Lwra in sailing and steaming flu i rit g,ber last voyage home from the Capo was fort) -nine . dey ' asnag in that time 6,300 miles, the dista- ofthe Cape - 1 - Go o d 4,ce Hope from Plynvotb„ lA. A.DvEßTisrmENT.i—p, Life Guardsman, one of de Heroes of Wat er l oo, cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Yill s . — A lr. Thomas Brunton, landlord of the Waterloo Tavern, Coatharn, Yorkshire, was afflicted for many months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout. His legs were dreadfully painful, and disfigured with colours of every hue, frightful to behold. For ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk, the treatment he received from several medical men not only failing to do him any good, but leaving him in fact in a considerably worse condition. At this juncture Holloway's Pills and Ointment were resorted to, an d b y t h e i r so l e means h e h as been resto re d to health and strengt h. — S o ld b y a ll D rugg i sts and at P ro f essor Hollor a y's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. „-,7 ; ,,,,4 re ° axe -1 . -1 , ,,:i541• : .„,,.X'5'i1".7 ~ flek: e ex ..-,.. • . j _. \:.s-..” " ' * 6O ,;.. ..; toque ~, ~.. ~,rjr-z en. ?^Aii i 1807 . "-:- :'•l7trillk; - 7 ts, a ~. . r . 0 ,44,... , 5i . e four , Jo '".' ;' al.. • .., inten, •, t i .' ' ' . e at