The Sun. — London, England, 1852-07-30 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The opera of ?Tcrezra Borgia, which had been an nounced for last night, with Madame Fiorentini as the heroine, wa s unavoidably postponed in consequence of that lady's illness, and the ever fresh and lively Don Pasquale substituted. While the audience no doubt ne- Rretted the change, and the cause which created it, the vxeellent representation of the comic opera, in which LAblache appeared in all his glory, made no bad amends for the diappointment. After the opera, the new bailgt of Zelie was given. RIMY-LANE THEATRE. Mr. Buchanan's personation of Shylock last evening Was far more satisfactory than his Hamlet. He is an nounced to attempt Lear on Monday. On that evening a ballet cotnnany is to nnnear, and various novelties are stated to be in preparation. COURT CI RC u LA.R. OSBORNE, THURSDAY. II"' Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, rar Pant ed by the Priac2ss Royal, rode out on horse pri yestbrday afternoon. ©h Buyal Highnesses the u ib n b ee uf Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr u p s, a l5 O rode in the neighbourhood of Osborne. le " r noYal I - li;.v,hness the ' Duchess of Gloucester, took Ali:of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince t yesterday morning, and left for Ryde, attended Murray - and the Hon. Colonel Liddell. iov►Y Caroline Barrington had the honour of bein g ,avi t p arrive- to dinner and the Hon. Charles Murra y , who from London on a visit to the Queen. Th e D k o ehsaineettil i o i r e of BuckinghamhadaJinterview. with the ce of otwhneiEn g xyhequer yesterday, at his official Sir street. p.,n,:larces Brooke had an interview with Sir John ' 4l ,ton yesterday, at the Colonial-office. 4 (4 ' ut • sees P anon of the Greet Extramural Cem . etary_lk.sl - 4 `, l ,Gen, consisting of Admiral Sir Welkin 0. 1:e1 , , Lloyd, Mr. William Fairlie, Mr. William M r. W. Lloyd Birkbtck, Mr. George R. Cor h_, s 3 licitor, an d Mr. Freder i c k C or fi e ld, secretary, 4 7 1 _,an intervi ew w i th Mr. Secretary W a lp o le on Wed at the Home-office. john _De Rev. Mr. Bat c h e l or h a d an interview with _Si: L t . ° , akington yesterday, at the Colonial-office. __M on , 1 1 "'ling had a l so an i nterv iew with the Right II • a toner Ear l"Fitzhardin ge had an interview with M r. Secre ttr 4l Poic yesterday. R ee AVAIL I.N TELLIGENCE• Of .4clrairal David Scott, K.T.S., on the retired l ist age. 18444 6 , died a few days since, in the 78th year of his e ft p ta: lle Was a Lieutenant of 1800, Commander, 1811; th e foi T , 1 814; Flag-cfficer, 1850. " Allen's List" gives ""ilag heada of his services:— the" reduction of Geolan, brig, and served on shore at Pediti©u of St. Domingo, 1793, and wounded in the . L P ci ait ! , ott to Tiberoon, 1794. Acting Lieutenant of t r j e rla len when she engaged the Dutch ship-ofthe-line sli g h l s ' 179 7; and Lieutenant of Bellerophon. and n atit l viounded at Trafalgar. Acting Flag-Lieute rend ua ing duty in Venerable and Pallas, until the sur latatie:r of Flushing; and senior of St. Domingo for the kro l a ilder of the Walcheren expedition. Served in e America till the cod of the war." tli e d qa t aaander W. Lowcay, on the retired list of 1830, one o B V, W , Urnouth a few days since, aged 64. He was tAj e - ,`"e heroes of Trafalgar, served on board the iOO 41 Si r R. Calder's action, and also in the expedi- T,against Flushing, and was twice wounded. t4,„'„. e venerable and much respected ex storekeeper of 7tilJl.4.ord Dockyard, Mr. Thomas Irving, died on t at th a insia ". We reported a few days since the death Ivi et : e X•storekeeper of the Royal Arsenal at Wool - Psi' a L Y the - death of Mr. Irving a p e nsion of 5501. ta o -a auln will lapse to the Government. There were .. storekeepers on the superannuaaon list for the Ar de'ai, bat the •of --,. has now lapsed by the p at h pension O., . kip, a Mr. Ch ee th a m. Mr. Coffin is the surviv in g . the caper storekeeper. Mr. Clifton Bai llie, late of li e , !wader, 50, upon application, ha 3 obtained permis ),,o leave the royal naval service. (6 . ' 1 6 , 131 011T11 JULY 29.—Her Majesty's frigate Spartan, (la i' a P'ain Sir William Resta, will probably sail to ,Yp'or 'long Kong. al i t lit ' Cornwallis is ordered to be got ready as a store d P fOr the squadron in China, and will be forthwith oci t , d _ T h and fitted. The stea m block-ship Sanspareil has taken her guns °a board, q b lielue-rigged screw man-of-war, all black,. o. wa to s th e "'N between twelve and one o'clock this morning to st,,, w estward of the Start, going up Channel under t V 33--- V i iilad, easterly. i s ne ship Trafalgar, of London, Captain Richardson,lft off this Port, with guano from llong.Kong; e . on th e, 14th of March, and has passengers Mrs. Morrison, 11 ' .. : Ward, Colonel Almeida, nod Major Cunha. OriEERNESS JULYMajesty's it e _ , . . 29.—Her , paddle-wheel , un.veasel Wildfi • t ender to Waterloo, Mr. B aim : , W i ldfire, rock- IN , second master comraan3ing, was dispatched on t laday afternoon to the Nore, for the purpose of pr0,..-entir ,..-e n tir g, the cargo, &c. of the schooner Renown (bound to .ia)no.rinfrom Allen), which vessel grounded on the Nore f o u o u : n ting the night of Saturday last, and sank on the Waterilogo, day, Lieutenant Christopher, senior of the Wildfire ..and a party of marines, are on board the 80., b y tte Z ns superintend the gettieg up of the cargo, A medical surveyc)d employed for that purpose' seamen of her m was holden on Tuesday on some Several of who jesty's iron screw troop-ship MegrorD, servi ce, m were reported as being unfit for further Some officersships and a p arty of seamen t o h e drafted t o r the in p ort are about to proceed to the Clyde, opurpose Miranda,of navigating her Majesty's screw steam wa z __ ship nt of '250-horse power, to this port, of , k : tie is to ho stationed as one of the first division . 4 steam squadron of reserve. Du R „. IRELAND toui ' 4ll , TEURSDAY.—The curtain has finally dropped , out. last scene of the Irish elections has been played The contest for Do nega l closed yesterday evening thi t ' decisive Ministerial victory. Nevertheless, all ape " considered, the free-traie candidate made a re f, et e • ta ble stand towards rescuing a seat from the Pro lonist party, and, as previously remarked, had Mr. th 111 A 0 , 1 1 Johnston, as well as others, been earlier in ts e i •l'd, the probability is that the Government Irish . z i a ,, j° , 4 tY of four votes would have existed only in pplle'6,natien. The following were the gross numbers Conelly ••• 1,883 Hayes ••• 1,695 Johnston ••• ••• 1,049 it k !‘° 33 l the following list, supplied by the Evening Mad, be seen that the legal profession have obtained a ' 4 s shar e in the representation:-- IRISH BARRISTERS. Th [Thus marked (*) have ceased to practise.] Attorney-General *Wyndham Goold 1'. 1.1 e Solicitor-General *Edward Grogan J aaO Butt, Q.C. Charles G. Daffy Viin George, Q.C. W. H. F. Cogan 4 1 tteent Scully, Q C. *John Ball n, 4 kla D Fitzgerald, Q.C. John F. Maguire TYllijaisi Keogh, Q.C. *Maurice O'Connell Si r George M. Forster *Tristram Kennedy 1, fi ll S. Moore *Right Hon. Visct. Monek b °, tus Bland (for Portsmouth) k alriek O'Brien I RISII SOX— . Davison John Sadleir 4 1'atIr English barristers s' eorge Bowyer. Dundalk; rgeant Shee, KilkennY; [mons (4). ICornetlus O'Brien Robert P•Ater. re Irish M. Y.'s—namely, Mr. Mr. M‘Mahon, Wixford; and Mr. Cairns, Belfast. - To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. moat fully agree with the vie w taken by " A tk tr i B ter" in sour i m pression of yesterday , re s p ecting conduct of the Master of the Rolls for Ireland, 4 1 that to comment on the exoelleeC3 of the ex- Q i Pie which it was his constant habit to set, in 4' , C 'Y , returning fees which ,he had not ear n e d, would B'Y be 4 , to paint the lily, or gild relined gold." 44 4 t without a pretence of that character , I am in tt''cl to add too •expression of my hope, as a l a w l etter (with sundry misgivings, however, that my ,,Eln°;tbr, like many others, will be consigned to the waste - N I Yer basket), that this incident will tend, ad valorem, tescue the legal profession from the very sweeping denunciations hurled against every branch and almost l egal m ember of it in the present age of the cry for reform. b i hope, Sir, it will assist likewise in retaining the high r'tit of honour and the strong love of justice of the bar. Obvious and important as are the reforms : 4 d in the law generally, that honourable profession 4,1 never fear being in danger of languishing so long ~; ` ",e advocate and the judge to pre-eminently distin i l ,l themselves as honourable men. And the legal o -c ' n ; P Pion would be more in favour with the public th,, - „'" they have the satisfaction of reflecting that el th,-"gb, they may Lot nt tho same period possess more of I' l l , "0 Mager of the P.Als, they might co unt, in p oint It o ' ni ettr and fair play, it not in point of talent, many 4111 Y.—1 am Sir, your obedient serva nt, J uly l 29, 1852. JUSTITIA. %A t S i , TERIZANEAN TELMGILAPII BETEEN NAPLES AND t,44,,A.---.The Giornale di Roan of the 20th gives a longac- Nvi l • " of the construction of a subterranean electric telegraph h . The ' , fir e ,. h as been opened between Naples and Gaeta. th ;lte covered with gutta percha, and the writer pa). i longest line ever constructed on the same principle. tt 114, D has ELECTION.--Major Beresfor— tlim.,`"Y a very curious method of meeting the very specific I t made against the Honourable Gentleman. No doubt ag i , - 7Y common for men when charged with offences t the law, and when they know that they are going to 4e rice °— ' llll ted for trial, to say that they will reserve their de tnky ',TAU that occasion arrives, well knowing that they tlier o r i e naaturely disclose come fact which would tell against "oin•h e 'Y e a• The practice is not only common but allowable lery; ., l n , all such cases. Still it seldom haNens that these t ,"uant persons succeed in convincing juries or the ior„`,"‘at they are innocent men. The prosecutor may fail 41 ( 1;,',,'ng his case; but the wariness and caution of the " old t ort', "° not make a favourable impression upon the audi erequiru„like manner, we conceive, the reservation of Major () ; f C o , t , s defence until he meets the charge in the House ' t illo t ,, lllQ nSt will not tend to strengthen the opinion of his tot Ilis suggestion that perjured evidence might be against him if he were to make a premature dis titteat.e' i a simply a piece of gratuitous insolence. The 1, 11 then at i!4su?.. simply this—Did he write theletter found elate of the . h p riber 'Morgan,or did not? if he t he 0 .4 e it, which he does not veture to eeny, none but Det„`earest and ino.t distinct roof on his part that the par eatim:°' which it was written was lawful and innocent will te oll e: the public, or, we should conceive, the House of Corn • co As the case now stands against hitn, the evidence is ett i ,';'-te, and it is for him to make ifs defence ; not for jpat `: to give further testimony against ' him; and he could eer o " easily have explained_ at Bilaintree as in the House of ter °l ens fhe had any real explanation to give.—Av ie "'than, .eco E ib 0 • for I s for all bil ut coo' It ° all Dot iiag o t to en , 11 THE SUN, LONDON, THE IRISH ELECTIONS. The most painful feature connected with the recent elections is the aspect that Ireland has presented throughout the whole contest. Whenever great masses of people are collected together, we are of course pre pared for a certain amount of riotous conduct and dis turbance. This is the penalty we must pay for a free expression of the popular will. For the sake of the advantage we accept the drawback. Bat ordinary tur bulence is one thing; it is quite another matter when we find a country given up to systematic intimidation and nocturnal brigandage, when peaceful citizens are com pelled to barricade their dwellings in broad daylight, and to fire in self-defence upon a mob of ruffians who are thirsting for their blood. It is not a legitimate exercise of constitutional freedom that the inhabitants of three provinces should be entangled in the meshes of a wide• spread conspiracy which threatens destruction of pro perty and life to all who dare to disobey its behests. Nor does the !cape of the intimidation Overt stop on this side the grave. The superstitious and ignorant men who have been called upon to exercise the electoral franchise are unfortunately persuaded that the power of the leading election agents extends over their souls as well as their bodies. in many cases they believe this to be so; in others they dare not evince the slightest symptom of disbelief, lest they should be doomed to instant and terrible destruction. The Irish Roman Catholic priests, we grieve to say it, have not hesitated before any abuse of the power with which the superstition of their votaries has invested them. It was but the other day in our Irish intelligence we had to re cord, that in the middle of the nineteenth century a Ro man Catholic priest declared to an open-air meeting that he would never marry a man who voted for Hamilton or Taylor—that ho would never administer the rites of bap tism to his child, or impart to him the last consolation of the Church upon his deathbed. Another, at the conclusion of service, called out aloud from the altar the names of as many of his congregation as had votes, and compelled them to walk up in the face of the congregation to that sacred spot, and receive from his hand the voting tickets on which were inscribed the names of the candi dates in whose favour they must register their votes. " Who would vote for Jocelyn Otway?"—writes the author of a Tipperary election manifesto to which we have already had occasion to advert. " The traitor who will do so, never let him enter a chapel door. Let his memory be to you like the memory of Judas. Keep from him, for the devils of hell are his companions, and no saint in heaven will pray for him in his dying hour." Such was the nature of the electoral impulses brought to bear iu favour of Messrs. Scully and Sadleir in the county of Tipperary. It is only by enumerating instances that we can hope to give even a faint idea of the Reign of Terror under which the Roman Catholic peasantry have been held by their priests during the recent election. The subject is one fraught with too much peril to the stability of our representative institutions, or we should shrink from the task of drawing into a focus the various blasphemies of the Irish priests to their deluded flocks. The following extracc is from a speech delivered by the Rev. Mr. Maw, at Tralee:— " Eiectors of Tralee—you, the honest electors—who have always upheld the independence of yottr town, as semble in a body to-morrow; go to those unfortunate wretches, and make them acquainted with the cense quencee cf their guilt. For my part, I'll confess to you what my feelings are with respect to those wretched and corrupt Catholics. Let me suppose one of those wretches prostrated by sickness. Suppose the hand of death heavy upon him, and that a messenger comes to me to attend him in his dying moments. If there were no other priest in the way I would be bound to go. I dare not refuse to attend him; but I confess to you that I would be sorry from my heart to be called upon to at tend the deathbed of such a being.—(Great sensation.) I would go to attend such a wretch with a heavy heart, without much hope, because I would feel that I was going to administer sacraments to one whose conscience was so seared and whose heart was so rotten at the core that I could not have much expectation of effecting a conversion. Overpowered with the im pression that I was about to visit a perjured wretch, who for a miserable bribe had betrayed the dearest in terests of his country and his religion, and borne down with the harrowing reflection that God, in His just an ger, might leave such a wretch to die in his sins— (Scusation)—l would fear that my mission would he fruitless—that I could have no hope of converting a heart so hardened, so lost to every sense of duty and religion, as to vote in support of those who would trample on the Lord of Hosts.--(Sensation,)" Such was the method employed by the reverend touter to canvass the borough of Tralee in favour of Mr. Maurice O'Connell. During the contest of which we have before spoken, in which Messrs. Hamilton and Taylor were concerned, the poorer voters were not only denounced by the priests in the manner we have before stated, but, when it was feared that even this degree of intimidation might prove ineffectual, bodies of men were dispatched through the country, who caught the voters and tied them down in carts, in which situation they were either brought to " reason" or kept out of the way. In Parsonstown the pariah priest paraded the town at the head of a mob, successfully carried on a razzia against the unfortunate voters of Messrs. Bland and O'Brien, and dragged them down to a building, in which they were locked up under the cus tody of a body of priests, who were also charged with the duty of bringing them to " reason!" All the efforts of the landlords, as we are informed by our correspon dent from the spot, to protect their tenantry were un availing. We cannot bring our eases to a conclusion without noticing once more that address of the Rev. Dr. O'Brien to the " Young Men's Society" at Limerick, which had so terriblo an effect in inflaming the passions of the people, and bringing on the subsequent tragedies. The reverend orator took care to inform his audience that Nero, and Henry, and Elizabeth, and Anne, and the Georges, Russell, and Derby, were precisely the same, and then went on to say— "ln many places God's victory has been secured, or at least His resources have been powerfully augmented; the shrieks of the defenceless end the blood of the mur dered here at home proclaim that the battle is at our doors.—(Sensation.) Heaven! this is in England, a civilized country, claiming the rule of a Catholic population and the allegiance of Catholic hearts. (Cheers.) Up, brothers! (Hera the whole meeting rose to their feet, with deafening cheers.) What occurred in England yesterday may be attempted by other means in Dublin to-morrow. We must be pre pared.—(Continued cheering.) Let not this Stockport tragedy rest under the veil of English design and beastly misrepresentation. Our kindred have been slaughtered in this shamble of English butchery, and law and justice have slept while the dark enmities of bigot hate have dealt out ruin.—(Cries of Hear,' and sensation.) I n a place not much larger than Limerick scores of houses have been sacked—churches pillaged and lives lost ; while special and ordinary constables, to the sad sorrow of weakness, could never overtake the perpetrators, or stay one uplifted hand.—(' Oh, oh!') They came to one locality—havoc had made its dwelling upon ruins —but the fiends had fled. They ran to ano ther, and they w ere just in time to be too late.—('Oh, oh!') They flew, with singular alertness and intrepidity, to a third; deco letion sent forth cries of agony, but the wreckers nowhere appeared.—(' Shame!') In fact, the officers of justice were everywhere but where they were wanted, and the blood of the Irishmen paid the forfeit of their delay." The instances we have given may suffice. The out rages at Cork and Limerick, and the more recent tragedy at Sixraile-bridge, are the best comment upon the success of the orators, and the best evidence of their talents as electioneering agents. Now, is this system of intimidation and violence to be tolerated e ith er now or for the future? All the Ports of Parliament are put forth to set a bound to the unfair influenee and corruption which unhappily obtain in the English counties and boroughs. We acknowledge the evil, and we do our best to seek an adequate remedy. In the present temper of th e Parliament of 1-'bribery and . of wo feel very confident that if th e plagueament and the people the a total e t eor Channelr tip t io an very be wholesale not disfranchi sement stayed on this sir. result. George's rem odelling of our electoral system, will Lif e But, while we are battling with these puny evils, ne ighbouring country to be given upfromim we e of her to a o time to fire and sword, and so many Majesty's Irish subjects as are cursed with the electoral franchise to be periodically tor tured in body and soul, in order that the. Roman Catholic priee.thood of Ireland may return their nominees to Parliament. In a case of this kind we for get all distiuctions of C onservative or Liberal, Derbyite or Russehite, ar any other " ite;" we see nothing but a flagrant violation of the British Constitution, end its probable effects upon the deliberating of Parliament and the general temper of the nation. As usual with our Celtic friends, they are singularly blind to conse quences. They do not see that the blood which has been so freely shed and the intimidation which has been so unsparingly used may produce something like a re rtefatnati an houndedaes enougho n ne in a e Great re action on this sid e o f th e Ch anne l. If fanaticism is to be . Britain,cisro and more of them God knows we have i ti than the most temperate men can well keep in bounds, even in ordinary times. But, with these accounts of the the Irish Reign of Terror fresh before dP ratestant public, what can the friends of pea ce say o which will place a limit to the general indignation? Nay, as statesmen, we cannot escape from the necessity attempt to restrain any further exhibitionof m a king some moralizing and disgraceful scenes. We e of these dc moralizing the prevention of bribery and corruption have bad a Bill England —we must have another for the preventionEllgl intimida tion and violence in Ireland. H OW manynototfheCatholic returns would endure the testof Roman a St. Alban's Commission 2 'fillies. DEATH: TAE CONVICT UNDER SENTENCE OF WORCESTER, TriunsonY EvENING.—The avretchecoa Nary Robins, alias Richards, who was sentenced to nl de . the Assizes here, last Wednesday, for the wilful her child, by throwing it into a coal-pit at Oldswin u fo rd o er in of this county, where it is supposed to have lingered timeson,:-, before death put a period to its sufferings, has since her con demnation conducted herself in a becoming manner, though she does not appear to feel the full weight of the awful 1 sen tence passed upon her. Active efforts are being made to obtain a remision of the sentence, the chief ground being an allegation that the woman is of weak mind; but it is thought that in consequence of the frequency of child murder of late, the full sentence of the law will be carried out by way of exampb. It is said that the day of execution is already fixed, though it has not been made public. It is a long TadAf Reform tebas time since au execution took place here. on the OF SECRETARY TO THE REFORM CLUB. vacancyaving occurred in the secretaryship of the e mClub, a very numerous body of candidates ;appeared, connected with proved invitation of the committee of the club, for the situa tion, the salary being 4.10/ per annum. The successful can- THE R E ,, Es are informed Hon. Itiliarct borough, in the to - be ' Dir. William Norway, a gentleman periodical literature. , on t,,..,hIe7TATION OF PETERDOROUGH. — We watsc authority of a private letter, that the room of the lately elected M.P. for Peter last at lionab ur of Mr. W. Cavendish, died on Satur dayTimes.°l' aft " mi illness of only four days.— THOMAS HOOD. —"OUR FAMILY." (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) " Poor Hood!" Thus does everyone speak of the lamented Thomas Hood, who died just as the world was beginning to appreciate the true genius of tile man, but before he could reap any of its substantial rewards. Hood's reputation through life was that of a humourist, for he wrote for bread, and as the public would not have Hood's deeper thoughts, he gave them his lighter ones; he spun them " comic annuals," and " laughter from year to year;" and thus he managed to live on from day to day. But just before be passed away, there rung to through our island those thrilling stanzas, a ppealing the profoundest sympathies of th e huma n heart, The Song of the Shirt," " The Lay of the Laboursea'' ad "The Bridge of Sighs ;" and then it was the public de creed that Hood was somethi,sg more than a humourist; that he was, in fact, a great ti eigie poet. Thomas Hood was of Scotch parentage, though born in London, where his father was a partner in the Look• selling firm of Ternon end Hood. Poultry. He ',tits first apprenticed as a merchant's clerk, but his health being delicate it was found necessary to take him away fro m his desk, and he was sent to his father's relatives, in Dundee, where he remained some time , a nd made his successful debut, as a writer, iu the pages of the local magazines and journals. Here, doubtless, ho acquired hi s knowledge of the broad Scotch dialect , which we find him re-producing in th e old Scotch housekeeper in " Tylney Hall," a novel , though: not much known , o f the most powerful character, full of highly wrought incident, and situations of the most tre gic kind. With his health somewhat restored, he returned to London, and was apprenticed to his uncle, Robert Sands, ' the engraver, and was afterwe irds transferred to one of the Le Keux. He was a goo, I draughtsman, and might have attained distinction in !tits profession, but that he was soon attracted from it by the more agreeable pur suit of literature. Yet, we of ten afterwards find him at work with the pencil and graver, in furnishing the quaint and comical designs of his own works, his " Bonnie Annuals," "Up the Elaine," " Magazine," Sm. We believe his first published book of poems was his " Plea of the Midsummer Fairies," a little work full of poetic beauty; tender, graceful, and exquisite. But the book was not popular; indeed, rt is not so yet. So, as the public would not take his poetry, ho met them on their own ground, and gave them jokes and facetia, which they would read. Laughter, however, was not Hood's only object in writing. lie amused the multi tude to attract their attention; end he used his wit and humour as the vehicles wherewith to convey his whole some and lasting lessons of morality. Though, as a writer, who lived by his writings, he had to write that which the public would buy, and thus suited his pro ductions to the general taste,ho never wrote down to the lowest taste. His wit was never sullied by impurity nor coarseness; never indelicate nor profane. Nay, his delicacy was extreme; he was as sensitive es a mimosa leaf; and a sort of melatioholy often dashed his merriest writings, which made his jests to " scald like tears." Many ef his quaint and laughter-exciting conceits were steeped in human feeling and passion. As ho himself has so touchingly said— . All things are touch'd with melancholy, Born of the secret soul's mistrust, To feel her fair ethereal wings Weigh'd down with vile degraded dust; Even the bright extremes of joy Bring on conclusions of disgust, Like the sweet blossom of the May, Whose fragrance ends in must. Oh, give her, then, her tribute just, Her sighs and tears, and musings holy ! There is no music in the life That sounds with idiot laughter solely; There's not a string attuned to mirth, Bat has its chord in melancholy." Towards the close of Hood's life, while he was still popularly known as a humourist, there appeared in the colums of Punch that wonderful po©m which instantly thrilled through the hearts of thousands, and produced an effect such as, we believe, no piece of writ in g within the same small compass had ever before done—his agonizing " Song of the Shirt." Parliamentary reports had exposed, in long detail, the hardships i nflicted on a large portion of the industrious community ; volumes had been written about them, eloquent speeches de livered on the subject, the miseries of our female artisans —dressmakers and shirtmakers—had been deplored in all forms, but Hood's little poem effected more than them all. It went straight to its mark; it thrilled the common heart. He hit the nail on the head, and sent it home at a blow. Not less touching, not less full of penetrating truth, was his " Bridge of Sighs," one of the most powerful expositions of a great social evil, a can cerous sore eating away the hearts of multitudes of human beings, which has ever been penned. These pieces, short though they were, revealed the almost Shaksperian genius of Thomas Hood. They were the last thoughts of his great heart, over longing for the emancipation and happiness of the down-trodden and suffering many. And thus footing away towards the deep waters of eternity, did he in these piteous a pp ea l s to human sympathy pour out his soul in song. Notwithstanding the great genius of Hood, an d the large amount of literary labour of various kinds which ha performed, he died very poor; for the literary man has no position in England; ho may be a great genius, but if his books do not sell very largely, and he cannot com mand high prices for his copyrights, he may soon starve. The literary labours of twenty years enabled Hood to do no more than subsist, and the only legacy he left to his family was his fame. We cannot but lament, that the close of the poet's career, hopeful and clear though it was as regarded the beyond of this life, was clouded by this reflection, though the generous letter of Sir Robert Peel, communicating the intelligence, that a pension of 1001. a 3 ear had been granted to his wife, did much to alleviate the pressure of this anxiety. Tho life of the mere literary man is one of great labour and of small gains; it is precarious; and his genius, or literary stock in trade, cannot be bequeathed, like a bookselling or banking business, to his offspring. The literary labourer must always be at the mill-wheel, grinding, whether well or ill; and it is the nature of literary labour to wear into the health, and to stimulate into unhealthy activity the nervous system at the expense of the physical powers. Hood was a victim to the " literary ailment." For many years, towards the close of his life, he was labouring under disease—habitually ill—dying slowly; and yet ho wrote on. In one of the last publications to which ho gave his name as editor, " Hood's Magazine, he thus humorously pointed out the pains of the literary life, in an imaginary letter from "A Subscriber:"— " Sir,— By your not coming out on the Fur st, I con clude you are lade up, being notorus for enjoyin bad holtb. Pullmery, of course, like my poor Robert, for I've had a littersy branch in my own fammily, a peri odical one like yourself, only every Sunday, tasted of once a month; and as such, well knew what it was to write long-winded articles with Weekly lungs. Poor fellow ! as I often said, so much head work, and nothin but head work, will make a cherubbim of you; and so it did. Nothing but write, write, write; a nd read, read, read; and as our Doctor says, it's as ad to studdy till al is brows, as to dr ink till all is blow. Mix your cul len. And worry good advice it is, when it can be fol lord, witch is not always the case; for if necessity has no Law, it has a good deal of Literature, and Authors must rite what they must. " As poor Robert used to say about seddontory habits, it's very well, says he, to tell me about, like Mr. Words worth's single man as grew double, sticking to my chair; but if there's no sitting, says he, ther'll bo no hatching ; and if I do brood too much at my desk, ire because there's a brood expected from me once a week. Oh! its very well, says he, to cry Up, up with you, and go fetch a walk, and take a look at the daisies, when you've s o ld your mind to Miffy Stofilis, and there's a devil waiting for your last proofs, as he did for D octor Forster ' s . y know its killin me, says he, but if I die of overwork i ts in the way of my vocation. P oor bo y I I did all could to nurridge him. Meek Turkey soup and st rong slops, and wormy jelly, and island moss; but he couldn' t eat. And no wonder; for mental labour, as the Doctor said, wares out the stummack as well as the branes; an d so he'd been spinning out his inside, like a spider. And a spider ho did look at last, sure enuff; one of that sort with long spindle legs, and only a dot of a body in the " Another bad thing is sittin up all nite, as my sun did, but it's all agin natur. Not but what sum must, lateauthors read very and partickly the writers of politicks for the papers; but they ruin the constitushun. And, besides, even work, nor no month either. And, poetry is apt to get prosy, after twelve or one; and some June, and September, are all short what is one to do, when no day is long enuff for one's nudt months,at as o b o e r s ß buu o rt h e O E, r e t At, s bp a ori April, very ! However, one grate thing is, relaxing, d if you i boy? why, being always in the workhouse, yourthlr the playhouse. So, get out of can, as the Doctor used to say, t o Jack adu and never at things, and andslip pers, says he, and put on your best yourself, like a beau. If you've been atg and unbend ., flights, go and look at the Tems tunnel; I: , n o c r it p oc o t u ic ,;( e ) tired of being witty, go and spend u hour with the Y wax work. The mind requires a change, as well as the merchants. "So take my advice, Sir—a mother's advice—and re lax a little. You want brassing, a change of hair, and more stummuck. And you ought to wear flannel, and take tonicks. Do you over drink Basses pail? It's a s good as camomile tea. Bet above all, there's one thing I recommend to you, steal wine; it's been a savin to some invallids. " Hoping you will excuse this liberty from a stranger, but a well-meaning one, I am, Sir, A SUBSCRIBER." Thus could Hoed play with a subject lull of painful impart, and inculcate severe truths in quaint and hu morous guise. Ile made the eye dance with laughter, at the same time that ho touched the heart to its depths. It was Coams teaching sympathy and human kindness. the laugh passed away, but the stern truth remained. While quoting from Hood's Magazine, we may shortly refer to a tale, commenced by him ia that periodical, en titled " Our Family," which seems to be well worthy of a reprint. It des cut short by the death of its author; but it is full of humour, and is most interesting, so far as it goes. There is some admirable portraiture of character in the tale. Uucle Rumbold is a thorough original; but we can only give here a specimen of Cate chism Jack, being his introduction as apprentice to the village doctor:— "My l a th er was the perish doctor, and w hen ho en teredo the surgery Mr. Postie was making u p a prescrip 11n • A poorr, shabbily-dressed Woman was waiting for the medicine, and a tall, foolish -looking lad was waiting for the poor woman. She was a widow, a s it is called, without an and encumbrance end had a cottage some small means of hershe eked out with the stipend allowed own, which , . charge of some to her by the overseers, for_ tatting witted boy washer infirm or imbecile pauper. The half " It's for Jacobs" said Ward. , said theas my father glanced over the woman," ecription. He e s t houlder of his assistant at the pre " Of course he g does," wasea and w"" ray father, " and will whilst he takes those Opium'sa " So I tell him," pills." said the woman " with his sane, r and in a flat marshy count man , , about to dive any one the like this, with water enough hydraulics." a Ilydroptics." " Well—droptics. You . want stimuluses," says I, " and not tiar—nar—cis—'' liezco Lien." " Well—cotics, But the poor people all take it. Ins their last penny, it goes for a penny-worth of °pie, a s they call it, at Dr. Shackles." "I wonder he sells it," said my father. " And aiking your pardon, Doctor," said the woman, "I wonder you don't. They say h e m a kes a mint of money by it." " Never!" said my father, with unusual emphasis; " never, if I want a shilling." Tho assistant suddenly checked the pestle with which he was pounding, and looked inquisitively at his princi pal, who fixed his eyes on the idiot boy. " Well, my lad, and who are you?" inquired my father; " what's your name?" " M. or N." answered the boy, slowly dragging the wet forefinger, which be bad withdrawn from his mouth, with a long snail-like trail along the counter. ,6 Fiddlestick," exadmed the woman, giving her charge a good shaking by the shoulder •; "you've got another name hesido that." " Yes," drawled the boy, " some call me Catechi 3 m Jack." " that's an odd name!" said my father; who gave it you?" my godfathers and godmothers, in my baptinat said Jack. "No such thing, Sir," said th e woman; " it was t h e idle boys of the village, bec ause he was always repeat ing on it! and, indeed, poor fellow, he can repeat no thing else." " Then how did he get that?" Why, you see, Sir," said the woman, "between our selves it was all along of his godmother."" Ah, indeed!" exclaimed my father. " His god mother, eh?" " Yes; Mrs. Foyer, as was, for she's dead now, as well as his own mother; and that's how he came into WY' care. His mother went first, while ho was in petticoats, and so Mrs. Foyer took charge of him, and sent him to the infant day school. She w as a very strict woman in her religious principles, and so was th e sc h oo l m i stress; and both made it a great point for th e c hild ren to b e t aug ht accordingly, which they was. Well, one daffy there they were all, in the schoolroom, up one pair, arid little Jack amongst the rest, the last of the row, a-set ting on the very end of a long form, close to the op(3n door. 'Well, by-and-bye the childr en were all called up to sa y catechism; so up they all got at once, exce pt Jack, who had been playing instead of ge tti ng his task by rote, which made him backwarder to rise than the and behold! up tilts th e form, like a rest; when, 10, rear i n g horse, and pitches Jack, heel s ever hoed, through the door, and down the whole stone fli g h t, where ho was picked up at the bottom , quite unsensible." Am with a concussion of the brain," said my father. n A contusion of the occiput," added Mr. Pestle; th e spinal vertebrae excoriated of course, and bruises " on both patel.m," n I don't know about that," said the woman; but he had a lump on the back of hi s h ea d as bi g as an egg, tb.e two nubblea of his back were rubbed quite raw, and his two kneepans were as black as a coal. It was thought, too, that his intellex was shook up in a muddle." e N o doubt of it," said my father. " Well, to go on with Jack. At long and at last he came to, sore enough and smarting, as you may suppose, for he had been carried home to his godmother, and she bad rubbed his wounds with spirits of salts, which had got into the cute. And now Jack, says she, mark my words, and let them be a warning. It's a judgment (of God upon you, says she, for not knowing your catu chinn; for if e, o be you had got it by heart, you woul d have ris with the rest, and this would never have hap pened. But its a judgment upon you, said she, and the schoolmistress says it's the same thing; till between both the poor thing was so scared, he set to work, he did , at his chate c hi sm, an d never reste d d a y or night till ht.: got it by heart, as be nes now, so thoroughly, you may dodge him any how, backward and forward, and ho wont miss a syllable. And that's how he came by it, sir, as well as by his nickneme; for except catechism, which his head is too full of, I suppose, to hold anything else., he dont know a thing else in the world." " Poor 'ellow," s l id my father, opening one of the surgery drawers. " Here Jack, will you have . a lozenge?" " Yes, verily, and by God's help, so I will. And I heartily thank -." " There, there, hush! go along with yon," said the woman, giving her protege a push towards the outer door, and then tekieg up the medicine, with a nod of acknowledgment to Mr. Beetle, and a curtsey to my father, sho departed, her forlorn charge clinging to her garments, and muttering scraps of that formula which had procured for him the sobriquet of Catechism Jack. It was Cathechism Jack—who, after a preliminary peep or two from behind the door post, at last crept with sidling gait and a sheepish air, into the surgery, wh ere by ccee:ltric approaches, like those of a sly bird, he , gradually placed himself at the counter. " Well, Jack, said my father, " what do you want?" Jack made no reply, but dropping his head on his right shoulder, with a look askance at my father, plucked his sodden Enger out of his mouth, and pointed with it to one of the drawers. " You see," said any father, in an aside to Postle, " the fellow 7:0 not quito a fool. Ho remembers where the lozenge .:.atno from." " Mere animal instinct," answered Pestle, in the same under tone, " a monkey would do as much, and remem ber the cannister where he got a lump of sugar." " I will him further," said my father, putting his hand in the' Irawer for a lozenge, which he held out be tween his finger and thumb. " Well, Jack, what will you do if I give you this?" Jack eyed the lozenge, grinned, locked at my father, and drawled out his answer. "I'll say ray catechism." " No, no, J'ack I" cried ray father, " we don't want that. But will you be a good boy?" "Yes," arid Jack, his head suddenly drooping again, while a cloud pas se d over hi s face. " Yes, I w ill, and not turn!:ile down stairs." down "Poor feP ow !" said!my father, " they make a f au lt of his misfortui3e. I have a great m i n d to take him. S h ou ld you like, Jack, to get your ow n li v i ng? " "Yes," answered Jack with alacrity, for my fathe r had unconsciously given him a familiar cue, and labour truly to get my o wn li v i ng, and to do ruY p duty in that state of life to whi c h it mayl ea se God to call me."" to learn "Catechism again!" whispered Mr. Pestle. "Yes, but aptly quoted and applied," answered WY father. " 1) 0 you know, Jack, what physic is?" Jack nodded, and pantomimically expressed his ac quaintance with medicine by making a horrible grimace. " Well, but speak out, Jack," said my father, " use your tongue, Let AB hear what you know about it. What's physic?" " Naity stuff," said Jack, " in a spoon. ,, w "orin a ine•glass, Jack, " Yes," s a id m y f a ther, or in a cup. Very good. And do you remember my foot boy, Jak,c waolused to carry out th e p h ysic in a basket?" Jack nodded again. " Should you like to take his place, and carry out the medicine in the same way?" " I—don't—know," drawled Jack, sympathetically sucking his finger, while ho ogled the little oval confee lion' which my father still retained in, its old position. " Do you think you could do it?" Jack was silent. " Would you try to learn?" " I learn two things," mumbled Jack, "my duty to wards God, and my duty towards my neighbour." " Not very appropriate that," muttered Mr. Pestle. " Not much either way," answered my father, and he resumed the examination. " Well, Jack, suppose I was to take you into nay ser vice, and Iced and clothe you; should you like a smart now livers ?" Yes. " 1 " And a new hat?" y es. , " And if I were to Ore you a pair of now shoes, wou ld you take care of them?" " Yes," answered Jack, " and w a lk i n the same all th e "a 33 of my life." hi" There ; " sa id my f a th er , g i v i ng Postlo a nudge with s elbow, " what do you think of th a t?" " A mere random shot," answered Mr. Postle. " Not at a ll , " said my f ather, again turning to his Pr°f6g6. " Well, Ja c k, I have a great m i nd to give ou a tria good bed T 4f I take you into the ho use , an d find clothes an d provid e f or you altoge , and comfortable mea and suit of ther, ls, would you Promise to behave Yourself ?" an " They did promise and vow three things in mY swer ed Jack, and all " first, that I should renou nce the devil his works 44 1, tie Wall Ye," cried my father, hastily, for u ta ke ' ii s` n nthg, "we know ell that. But would Y eu il 7 l , s for , c ,re of the basket, Jack, and leave the med ic your " 1 ° neighbours at the right houses, and attend to • duty?" jack, ::" My duty towards my neighbour," answeredsii Earn nisl utoi_ove tam as w e ll as myself, and to do to 5 the ould they s h ou ld do un t o me. Gi ve u loz , cr,g e ." My fath er gave hi m the lez an e,which the lad eagerly Popped into hi s mouth, oecasiongally tak i n g it out ag aul to lock e d geways at its thinness till all was Pile' "Yes, • . . . • rate, the ,unfortunate mind 18 made up," said my fath er. 'co a little tunfortunate creature shall have a °hand" " s wath .elooking after at first, he will do very we the Much d blu- of the after interest of the tale traw on h u ere of eitlek. But we have not space to fol lowis ... career, or to make more than one other extract. Th e __ paupers of the village became dissatisfied with the push ` 3O , and he speedily becomes unpopular. Here is an instance:_ ft la, s ., .AVMer Hopkins bobbled into the surgery, w ith foul here rather on her face. Her lips were co m P resseu ' and a red angry spot in the middle o f each sallow check, . 12 anger glimmered in her dark black 1 a4nderbox. She eye, like a spark e Como to return the bottles." spoke harshly and abruptly. phial after "very good," said my father, receiving - phial from the cankered woman, with as much courtesy and humility as it he had been honoured and obliged by Haw custom. is Yenr largeness ?" " I hope the medicine has done you good. " As bad , , t, I .4a ever. co am sorry to hear it," said my . father. " But your _ complaint is chronic, and requires time for its treatment. By-bye we shall see an amendment." e shall see no such thing," ar'nt said the shrew; " I going to take any more physic. " Noe " No. It's good for noteing, or you wouldn't give it away gratis." with so much y father's face r flushed slightly—as who se would not? wi all the thrown into it , t hou g h but meta phorically,the drauehts and embrocation s he had L 1 supplied her with f or the last six months? "That's all the bottles," she said "and there," throw. ing a paper bag on the counter, " there's the corks." " Pshaw!" said he to himself," I am as unreasonable as the old woman! Poor creatures, that have hardly daily bread enough to justify a thanksgiving; and to ex pect from them a grace before and after physic! To be sure they might bo more civil; and yet, poor, ragged, infirm' disappointed in life, and diseased, what worldly sugar have they in their cup to.sweeten their dispo sitions?. What cream of comfort, or soothing sytup, to make them mild, affable, and good-limmoureci? And be sides, what do they meet with themselves from society at large but practical rudeness? Scorned and shunned, because penniless and shabby; oppressed, snubbed, and wronged, because weak and powerless; neglected and insulted, because old and ugly; and unceremoniously packed off at last, as no longer ornamental, mstul, or profitable, to that human lumber•hole—the workhouse! Accustomed to endure poverty without pity, age with out reverence, want without succour, pain without sym pathy, what wonder if their minds get warped with their frames, and as sensitive to slights and affronts as their bodies to damps, and cold winds. If their judg ments become as harsh as their voices, or if their tem pers sharpen with their features? What wonder if their prejudices stiffen with their limbs, their v, hims increase with their wrinkles, their repinings with their infirmi tnay, if their very h ear t s h arden w i th their fates, or theiries patience fails utterly under the tedious sufferings of ,• some chronic disease, which Art can only palliate, whilst Hope, perhaps, promised a cure? No, no, we must not expect too mach from human nature under such tri a l s , a nd so many privations. p MIT Of t 1 1E 1 ecohiallnuni::'::3GßFwApiah iEl.cuhCs long been antici paTteldlillEFTTnech Ministry is at length announced by the Moaiteur, and M. Drouyn de Lhue s resumes the office of Minister of Foreign Affairs in place of isl. de Turgot, whilst M. Magni) ie Promoted to the Depart ment of Public Works. M. Drouyn de Lhuys is already boai ,, s ej v Ci ine U D ß AY N : ALs. known both as Foreign Minister and as F renc h Ambas sador in this cou ntr y , to be a man of respectable abilities, who has more than office testified his fidelity to Louie Napoleon by taking wh_e e n no one else wculd ac tin .eepecially with Great cept it. It is probable that his disposed to maintain on the independence the pacific relations o d f the French Government with the Europe, and littßritain, le reliance t r h es o t ugh ef w E e of his character or the ofextenth his influence. But wo are the more ready to view his appointment with satis faction as it has at least ti le the advantage Pt' preventing M. Foreign Department, to be the object of his ambition; which was understood do Persigny from occuPYlag of the utmost importance that h ld of France sou not be conducted the foreign relations identified himself with the and at this moment it is by a man who has ba d been reported that M. de wildest schemes. It . raised from the office of that of Ministre d'Etat—cor- Foreign Minister to Turgot was to be held by the Due do Bassani) respondingthe to E the mp e r r 0 0 s r t Napoleon• but this change is be rewarded for having placed how M. do Target is toe er the Government he has served. not yet officially announced, and: it remains to be seen the name he bears und to s believe that these modifi n t Cloud have taken place at cations of the Cabinet ofi of a more importantteeterexpected, powers Powers will again become a co ntinental ursioo Parßin to s, a en, the ho d triwumphare -1 Strasburg, n int where as matter of anxious consideration. the rapid e xe The late exhibition at entry of Louis Napoles that the army and the clergy calved with all the hom a g e c hief, are probably the pro events and ceremonies morn could pay to a victorious cursors and the foretaste of . exalt his personal dignity and to e w e believe the reel object of the directly calculated to consolidate his power. br i n g to a close by a personal in- Baden journey was to terview the negotiation w hich had for some time been pending for the marriag e o f Louis Napoleon with the Princess of Wasa; and if an y symbolical meaning is to be attributed to the bridg e thrown t o it im over lies the no more ßh than e French army, b we h o p e .it head of the French Govesna closer connexion betweenw : reigns on the opposite shore Napoleon's nearest rola- , ment aad the family which who are already some of LouisDe Duchess Stephanie, of tions. The Dowager family of the E napress Beauharnais, a member of the Baden, was the eldest daughter of the last Count de and adopte d as such by Napo- Josephine's first husband, ence one of the Germ Baden, who became in consequence Napo leon. She was married in 1806 to the Grand Duke of f m nr a h tr e i r m e o ld nial a granddaughter the Confederation of the Rhine. It is to , of Princes most devoted to the influence of Franca in an Princeand the issue of the Grand Duchess Stephanie views of Louis Napoleon have been of Fri ass, son e ol daughter married Gustavus, Gustavus IV., ex-King of Sweden, of Wasa, a this young marriage is now the Princess Caroline th t a u t rn t e h d e ; favourahl d lady of whom report speaks most on r.l y, en the ..'" August who will complete her 19th year _ related to Louis Napoleon next. She is consequently descended by her - by the Beauharnais family, andte though now father's side from the le g itinia in t o Prince of NV de throned, royal family of Sweden. t . n the Austrian asa ' her father, commands a regimeni its ser vice; but the family is connected by of Europe.inter-marriages. houses with several of the reigning alliance would seem, therefore, to be both politic and suitable to the present position and the future views of the Prince President, and we understand that the inter view which recently took place at Baden between the high contracting parties was so encouraging that the Princess immediately applied herselito master the tenets of the Roman Catholic faith, having hitherto professed the Lutheran creed, in order that she may be received into the bosom of that church of which Louis Napoleon is so exemplary a member. It is, therefore, not im probable that among the ceremonies which will contri bute during this present summer to the diversion of the French people, a wedding will take place; and the world may speculate on the effect of such a marriage upon the proclamation of the Empire, and the revival of all the pretensions of the Bonapartist dynasty. Certain it is that no internal obstacle or impediment will interfere with the assumption of any title or rank Louis Napoleon may think fit to adopt, and, as to his power, that is already entire and absolute. For ourselves, speaking w ith a view to the general interests of this country and of Europe, such it change would appear to be a matter o f indifference; for what signifies a now fashion in the trappings of a Court after the dismal change from free dom to servitude has been accomplished and endured by the nation? Neither is it material whether the mar rive precedes the Empire, or the Empire the marriage, or mar riage what road Louis Napoleon and his adherents atta in the transcendant honours of a Papal coronation. gut i t is by no means equally clear that this series of events will be looked upon with indifference by the con tinental Powers. The marriage of Lnuis Napoleon would obviously be the most important step to the esta blishment of an hereditary Power in France, and such a p o wer would ere long, and perhaps immediately, place itself on an Imperial throne. To recognise such a power, with all its hereditary claims, is to sur render the principles of legitimate monarchy still professed by the northern Courts of Europa; to re fuse to recognise it is at once to afford to that Power a pretext for any undertaking it may meditate ag ainst the security of the continent. We place but little reliance upon a document published by one of our ee ntemperaries, cud purporting to be an abstract of a treaty, concluded on the 20th of May last, between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, for the purpose of 'deter mining the line of conduct they are resolved to pursue i n presence of these doubtful and delicate contingencies. Until the existence of such a treaty, in the terms here e mployed, be more positively coufirmed, we must enter tain strong doubts of the existence of such a compact; for it would be an act of rashness and extravagant impolicy inconsistent with the course heretofore pursued by Eu rope towards Louis Napoleon. We know cf no suffi cient grounds for the premature and exclusive recogni tion of the rights of the Count do Chambord to the Crown of France, by foreign Powers, before a single effort has been made by any party among the French themselves to recal him. We can conceive nothing so likely to accelerate the assumption of absolute and hereditary Imperial power by the heir of Bonaparte as the attempt of foreign States to define and limit rights which ho affects to hold by the will of the people. And lastly, if the Empire be proclaimed, as it probably will be, this officious stroke of policy would at once serve as a pretence for the interruption of the pa cific relations of Europe, and might land to the most serious consequences. On these grounds we are led to distrust the accuracy •of our Contemporary's in formation; for although the correspondence be tween Russia and Austria which we ourselves published in the spring undoubtedly led to the same conclusion, and might produce the same effects, yet we can hardly imagine that the Sovereigns and statesmen of the Northern Courts are deliberately pre pared to renew by a solemn treaty not only the terms of the Rely Alliance but the coalition of Pillnitz. We do not doubt that explanations have been exchanged be tween the three Northern Courts on the subject of the fu ture policy of France, and that they are perfectly united and agreed upon the course to be adopted by them in the event of any aggressive movement on the part of Louis Napoleon; but eve have strong reason to doubt that any positive terms have born adopted beforehand to regulate and confine their future conduct, and still more do we question the existeace of a convention which might provoke the very dangers it is designed to obviate. FESTIVAL OF THE THREE CHOIRS OF WORCESTER, IZ HEEFORD, AND GLOUCESTER.—HEREFOR.D, It has been fixed to hold the next festival of the three ch o i rs at Hereford, in the week commencing Monda y , September 13, and the arrangements are now in a forward state, under the able management of the conductor, Mr. Townsend Smith. The festival will occupy up to Friday night, the 17th Sep tember, and is likely to prove more attractiv c et er h eav a e n N: a v n Heue yo ror f , its predecessors. The following engagements have already been Mrs. E nde completed rsh o Missthe vocallrilli 'Williams,a department sm : -la Sims R Formes, Mr. Lockey, and Mr. Phillips. Madame Novelle goes direct from Hereford to Madrid, where she has an en gagement at the Opera, commencing on the 24th September. The following are the stewards who have accepted office for the festival ;—The Right Rev. Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Here ford •, Rev. W. S. N. Penoyre, Lord Rodney, Mr. Money Kyrie ; Mr. D. D. Peploe, of Gemstone ; Mr. J. P. Corbett, of Salop ; and Mr. T. Evans, of Sutton Court. The pro gramme is - not yet completed. THE CARD CHEATING CASE.—There is no truth in the report of the capture of Johnny Broome, which has " gone the round of the papers." The paragraph might have been an " artful dodge " to throw the police off the scent. Superintendent Flanagan, of the East Sussex constabulary, received received a letter from Inspector Morton (the °Tel" bur made himself so active in the capture of the bur glars on Saturday last from Dover, to the effectUi cttthaet p h o e r a t two other police constables had "blocked up al so that it would be impossible for Broome ge had been France, whither it was ascertained that his 1 ga 6 1 hid himself convoyed. Morton believed that Broome h in the fleighhourheed."—krightort Gaeta. t o get over to SPORTING INTELLIGENCE GOODWOOD RACES.—TwurISDAY. The "glories" of the Cup Day at Goodwood never passed mere brilliantly than yesterday; the e x t reme fineness of the weather, the number and rank of th e visitor s , an d t h e excellence of the racing, combined to render it one of the most successful we remember to have witnessed. The early special trains from London, Brighton, Portsmouth, &c., brought an immense con course of spectators, many hundreds of whom, unable to obtain conveyances from the station, did not reach the course until after the two first races were decided. The " House party" at Goodwood was increased by the presence of hi s Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, and besides many et h ers i n t h e " privileged corner of the Stud," we remarked his Imperial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenbur g h, hi s S erene Highness Duke Bernhard cf Saxe Weimar, his Royal Highness the Duke cf Cambridge, their Serene Hi e zhness , s Prince end PiILIMPS3 Ed and of Saxe Wcitna,r, his Eecel teecy Baren Biannow, the Duke and Ducheaa of Beaufort tend Lady Henrietta Semerset, the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the D u k e and Duchess ni Richmond aed Lady Cecilia G or d on L ennox . th e Mee chionoss of Ailesbury, the Marquis of N o r r eanhy, the Marquis of Exact', the Marquis of Wateriere, the Marquis of . Winchester, the Maequis cf Bath, th° Marquis of .Drogheda, the Islerepie of G ran by, ALP., ofth the s a l r t an , Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess of March, the Earl the C E nu ar n l tc o s f s w oi iitou, Derby, the E ar l an d Countess the Ea r l an d C ountess o f Bruce, the Countess Flahault and Madile. Elphinstone de Fiahaula the Earl of Anneeley, the Earl of Zettex,d, the Earl ot Jersey, the Earl of Uxbridge, Viscount, Enfield, Viscount Clifilen, Viscount Maidstone Lord George Manners, Lord Ribblesdalc , Lord and Lady Alexander Lc nnox, Lord George Leeinee, Lord William Lennox, Lord Henry Gordon Lenn ox, Lor d George Gordon Lennox ' General the Honourable George Anson. and Mrs. Anion, Colcnel the Honourable Cecil Forester, Honourable F. Lewley, Honourable F. Vil liers, Mr. and Lady Sophia Des VtillX, Mr. and Mrs. John Stanle 3', Colonel Peel, Captain the Honourable G. Rous, Mr. Percy Williams, Capt. Pettat, Air. Urevillo, Ms. Payne, Hon, P. W. Talbot, Major the Hoeourable Horace Pitt, Colonel Newton, Colonel Cox, and Mr. Milner. Among other fashionable company in the stand, there were also Viscount Tcrrington, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Andover, Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence, Lord Stanhope, Lard Robert Pelham Clinton, Lord Paget, Lord Frederick Fitzroy, Lord Fo rester, the Ladies Anun and Catherine Loftus, Lord Foley and Lady Adeliza, Fitzalan Howard, Lord Adol phus Vane, Baron do Sternberg, Hon. E. Petre, Hon. G. W. Wiles, Hon. Leopold Ellie, Hon. S'range Jocelyn, Lord John Fitzroy, Lord John Scott, Hon. Henry Fo rester, Hon. Charles Lyon, Major the Hon. R. Need ham, Hon. W. Scarlett, Hoe. F. Stoner, Hon. John Fortescue, Sir Robert and Lady Pigott, Sir Willism Fraser, Mrs. Sir George Armytage, Mr. Knightley, Mrs. W. Heathcote, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, l Cap fa *n Clifford and Miss F ann y Cliff or d , Colonel II ;ruby, Lumley, August us L um l ey , Webster, Wigrain, Sloane Stanley, Gratwicke, Norman Macdonald, Mills, Meiklam, H. Fitzroy, G. Fitzroy, C. Sanson, Fitzjambe, &c. Tee racing, which appeared to give the highest sa tisfaction to the illustrious foreigners, came off as follows: The Sussex Stakes of 25 sovs. each; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 41b; 31b allowed, &c.; a winner before starting to car r y 51b extra; the winner of the Levant or Molcombe Stakes 7lbof e both bib extra. T.Y.C. Mr. H. Drew's Defiance, Sat 91b (Rogers) 1 Sir R. Pigot's Belle Sauvage f, Bst 41b (Flatman) 2 Betting-7 to 2on Defiance, who won in a canter Ly five lengths. First Year of the Bentinck Memorial Stakes, a triennial stake of 10 soya, each for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Sst 41b. T.Y.C. Duke of Richmond's Pharos (Fiatman) I Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne (F. Butler) 2 Mr. Bowes's Auld Acquaintance (Holmes) 3 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Belgravia (A. Day) 4 Duke of Richmond's William Rufus ~.(Terealeman.) 5 Colonel Peel's Talfourd (Rogers) 6 Betting-6 to 5 agst Pharos, and sto 2 agst Sitting bourne. William Rufus, taking the lead at starting, and having Belgravia and Pharos in waiting, made play until half way within the distance, when he gave way to Sit tingbourne, who was challenged by Pharos fifty yards from home and defeated by half a length, Sittingbourne beating Auld Acquaintance by two lengths. Ran in 1 min. 18 sec. Tho Racing Stakes of 50 sow. each, for three years old; colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Sit 41h; winners extra. One mile. Lord Exeter's Stockwell, Bst 131 b (Norman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Maidstone, Bst 71b (F. Butler) 2 Sir R. Pigot's Father Thames, Bst 71b ...... (A. Day) 3 Lord Eglintoe's Lucie, Bst 711 (Marlow) 4 Betting-5 to 4on Stockwell. Father Thames took a strong lead at starting and made the running to the distance, where it was taken up by Stockwell, who went on with it to the end, and won in a canter by a length. Run in 1 min. 44 sec. Sweepstakes of 200 toys. each, for two yrs old fillies, Bst 71b each, 31b and 51b allowed, &e. T.Y.C. Mr. Greville's Exhibition, and Mr. W. 11. Brook's In- Una) divided the stakes, and Incense walked over. The Molecomb Stakes ot 50 sovs. each, for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and fillies Set 41b; winners extra; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. Mr. Howard's Elmathorpe, Bst 7lb (A. Day) 1 Mr. Payne's Estrella, Sst 41b (Flatman) 2 Lord Exeter's Margaret of Anjou, Bst 41b (Norman) 3 Betting-9 to 2on Elmathorpe, and 25 to 1 against his winning this and the Derby. The race was never in doubt, the favourite waiting on Margaret of Anjou to the distance, and winning in a canter by two lengths. Run in 1 min. 18 sec. The Goodwood Cup, value 300 sovs., the rest in specie, by subscription of 20 soya. each, with 100 added, the second horse to receive 100 sow. out of the stakes, and the third 50 sm., the winner to pay 10 soya. to the Judge. Two miles and a half. Mr. Morris's Kingston (carried 7st 61b).- (Flatman) 1 Mr. Lloward's Little Harry, 3 yrs, fist 131b(A.Cowley) 2 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Teddington, 9st 31b (F. Butler) 3 Mr. Merry's Hobbie Noble, 3 yrs, ist 41h ... (Knott) 4 Mr. A. Nicholl's Newminster, 4 yrs, est 31b (A. Day) 0 Mr. Greville's Frantic, 3 yrs, Tat 41b..•... (Charlton) 0 Mr. Meikiam's Stilton, 3 yrs, 7 s t 41b ........... , (Lye) 0 Lord Palmerston's Buckhound, 3 7s t 41b (MotOn) 0 M. Aunaont's Hervine, 4 yrs, Est Illb ..... .. . . (Wells) 0 Mr. Osborne's All egro ( ca r. 6st 121 b) j. Osborne) 0 , Betting -7 t o 4 ags t Stilt on , sto 1 as st 6 to 1 agst King s t on , 6 to 1 agst:Hobbie Noble, 10 to Little Harry, 6 agst Teddington, 12 t o 1 a gst Newminster, and 20 to 1 each agat any other. a ll settled into Hobbie Noble, as soon as they ha'' tee ne xt to the places, took the lead, f o llowed by ger' ' Hera an dcz, Fran latter being Buckthorn, Allegro, and c l os e array. tic last, but the wh o l e lot lying in very f the course , They ran in this order to the turn out O where Buckthorn went three or four lengths in advance _ eybefore of Hobbie Noble, the latter being twice as in e t an Allegro, who was in the van of the rucl. They w ent round the extreme turn in this order; on re-eppearing Little Harry was third, Allegro, who waa then fourth, nster, and directly after giving way to Hervine , Ne desssrai being the Kingston, Stilton and Frantic and Hernan into the It last three, Buckthorn carried the rnning nobbie Noble half-mile post, and there gave way, pad the di stance leading' Kings again obtained the lead, which ho hel d te . where he was passed by Little Harry, me with the ton, and Teddington, &c,; a fine race ho trio ended in favour of Kingston by half a l e ngth. Little" of length; Harry heating Teddington by three partsahothers beaten Noble bad fourth, Frantic fifth, a nd t beaten off. Ran in five minutes. The second year of the First Bontinck l aiemorial Stakes of 10 sews. each, for three yrs old; colts, Sat 71b; fillies, Bst 41b. Gratwick Stakes Course. Duke of Richmond's Harbinger (Flatman) 1 Lord Ribblesdale's The Nabob ............... (Rogers) 2 Lord Derhy's Longbow (F. Butler) 0 Betting—Even on Harbinger, and 5 to 4 agat Long bow. Harbinger took the load, made all the running, and won very easily by a length. Longbow jumped round the moment the flag was lowered, went on the wrong side of the post, and there not being time to get into the course again, was not persevered with. Time, 2 r e i n . 46 sec. The Duke of Richmond's Plato of 100 sovs. New Mile. Mr. Jac i nes's Vivandiere, 4 yrs, 6st 101b...„,(tv e 110 1 Mr. E. Parr's Sanita, 3 yrs, Est 71b ............ (Hiett) 2 Mr. W. Hale's Merry Peal, 4 yrs, 7st 411) (T. Smith) The following also started, but were not placed:— Landgrave, 6 yrs, Sat 131 b (F.Butler); Radnlphns abed, 7st loib (G. Oates); Catalpa, 4 y rs, 7st 51b (Flat' magen)• Newport, 6 yrs, 7st 21b (G. E. Sh arp ) ; Miss Hayes,a yrs, 7st (Doyle); Timid F awn, 4 yrs, let (Charlton); No Chance, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b (J. Goeterl; Alfred the Great, 3 yrs, Est 31b (A. C ow l ey); The Bishop 3 yrs, Est (Kendall); Sagacit y , age d , sst 131 b (Toovey ' ); I); Venison, out of Passion, 3 yrs, sst 101 b (s. Staggles); Coral, 3 yrs, sst 416 (Palmer); eh c by Birdcatcher, out of Hecate, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Rickards); Plinnstead, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Carroll); and Knavery, 2 yrs, 4st 121 b (Bundy) Bettiag-6 tel 1 each against Alfred the Great, Catalpa, Radulphus, and Plumstead-9 to 1 eget Timid Faw n ' and 10 to 1 each against Sanaa and Miss Hayes. d Won by a h ea d ; a length and a half between secoun, and third, Timid Fawn a bad fourth. Ran in I gni 49 'tee. old. Al i!e Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, for three yrs and a half. .. walked over. Mr. Moreis's Kingston .................. ...... . o __ . C raven Tho Anglesey Plate of 50/. Gentlemen hi Course. ..... ~,(Owner) 1 Captain Lane's Agis, aged, list , , a l t ane (Capt. Pena° 2 Ld. Waterford's Roller, 4 yrs, : 1 3 3 „,, 1 b (Capt. Little) 3 Mr, Magenis's Caloric, 3 Yr! , 1.1 , 1 (Capt. Weelys) 4 Count Batthy rataack, any's St. __ ckt s yr:3, 1-st (Owner) 5 Mr. H. Elwes's Jahn of 13 , : 1 17 7 an d 2 to 1 agst Betting-5 to 1 ag st .:ll% o lead, which she kept ter Caloric jumped and,,e_ gave way to Aeis, who was about half a mile, b an d won by a healneck between never never after head ed, s econd and thilf. t oo sovs. each, for three yrs old; colts, Bst sweepstakesnd Sst 21b. One mile. (3 Subs.) 71b; a Duke of Rio . • haiona s Harbinger walked over. ST. LEGER, 5 to 1 agst Stockwell (take 6 to 1.) CRICKET. TOE PUBLIC SCHOOL MATC FL—HARROW v. WIN CUBSTEB,.-ThIS match was resumed yesterday, at Lord's. An immense concourse of spectators attended. &ore—Winchester, first innings, 111; second innings, 236; Harrow, first innings, 167. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-TWO OF HUNGER FORD-PARK CLuu.—This match was concluded on Wed nesday at Hungerford, and although England scored 117 in their second innings, they . were unable to make up for the unusually smatl score in the first, in spite of which, how ever , they were defeated by one only, , .\ • - •=-• COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL Yesterday a court was held fur the dispatch of bis . d., DC99. It was attended by a grea t n umb e r of the mom - c 1 bars, and the galleries were crowded. The LORD MAYOR statea that Le had received a letter from tho scan of the late Mr. Secondary James, an nouncing the death of that most able and highly re• spected officer. The letter was ordered to be entered in the minutes of the court. DISFIGUREMENT O TIIE ROYAL EXCHANGE, Mr. Nonrus gave the following no ti ce o f mot i on u p on the subject:--"That it'is the opinion of this court that it is unciosirablo to proceed further with the alterations of the shop fronts of the New Royal Exchange, and that the city side of the jo!mt Grand Gresham committee, constiAlting With a portion of the court of the Meteera' Compm:y, the trustees under the will of Sir Thomas Gr, .ham, he requested to convey to that body the opi- Mel of thisecurt."—(fiear, hear). TILE 'METROPOLITAN RIARKLT. far. A. He HALL ele chairman of the Improvement Committee) brought upethe report, on having agreed with the Union Bank of London for the advance of 40,0001, and • for creating bonds for the repayment thereof. A Bill was brought in, in conformity with the second, eud thi r d ti me , an d passe d ; report; read a first, end the City Seal was attached to he bend. The Cet enet AN informed the Celan that the demands upon the corporation for .improvements were really enormous. They were paying et the present moment tor the most extensive improvements, at all sides of the metropolis, from the duty on coals. TILE SDRIETALTr, Mr. ANDERTON presented a memorial on the mode of electing sh e riffs, from 114 . r. Hal:try, who was e l ecte d i n June, 1851, to the office. The joint petition cf Mr. Grissell and Mr. Moore, who were nominated by the Lord Meyor last June, as parties to be publicly put in nomination to the Livery for the office of sheriff, .tred who paid the fine of 4001. each, inflicted in consequence of their refusal to servo, was also reed. It stated the inconvenience to which they wou:d have been subjected if they had served, and that feeling that the fine was unreasonable, arbitrary. and excessive, they prayed thatthe same might be repaid to them. Mr. lIENRY 13L/VXE rose to more that it be referred to the Freedom Committee to inquire into the duties, expenses, and emoluments of the office of sheriff, and to consider the expediency of preparing a Bill to amend the Act of Common Council of April, 1748, touching the said office, by reducing the fines imposed.by such Act from the several sums of 400/. and 600/. to 1001.; and further, to consider the expediency of providing a fund for maintaining the dignity of the office; and to report forthwith to the Court. Mr. BENIsrOCII seconded the motion. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR could not fcr a momen t t hi n k o f taring his fellow c i t i zens to defray the expenses of the sheriff:, and he accordingly moved the exclusion of the part of Mr. Blake's motion which he considered to be calculated to have that effect. Mr. Deputy LOTT advocated the original motion. After considerable discussion, in which several other members joined, the proposition for inquiry, with the omission of the words signifying the plan for reli ev i ng the sheriffs from the expenses attending the office, was agreed to by a large majority. Mr. Hartley's petition was then ordered to lie on the table. THE NEW CATTLE MARKET. Mr. Deputy LOTT presented a petition, numerously signed, from owners, lessees, inhabitants, and occupiers of property in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen-fields, complaining of the selection of that locality as the site of the new cattle market, and alleging various evils to which they would be subjected thereby. The petitioners concluded by saying that the arrangement was not even likely to be permanent, inasmuch as the dissatis faction which would be created would lead to further legislation. The petition was read at length from the table. The petitioners, who were in attendance, were called to the bar. Mr. DE JERSEY asked Mr. Streeten, by whom th e de putation was heeded, whether ho was prepared to point out eny better site than Copenhagen-Gelds? Mr. Streeten said that, when before the Home Se cretary, he had mentioned Bow-common. Another member of the deputation said Wanstead-fiats had also been suggested. Mr. DE JERSEY wished to know whether in their in terview with the Llorac, Secretary the deputation said anything on the subject of compensation? Mr. Streeten replied that, being spokesman at the Home-office, he represented to Mr. Walpole the hard ship to the parties of their being to means of obtaining compensation. After some conversation the Right Hon. Gentleman said the Act was a very arbitrary ono indeed, and expressed his regret that the petitioners had not an opportunity of being heard before the matter was de cided. What he said amounted to the expression of a wish that the corporation of London would yet give them an opportunity to be heard; and he added that, though he considered him morally bound, he was quite ready to go into the question again. Ile (Mr. Streeten) felt certain that the Right Hon. Gentleman wished the question to be re-opened. Mr. DE JERSEY asked Mr. Streeten whether, in speaking of compensation before the Home Secretary, he referred to the case of lands, of houses, or of shops. Mr. Streeten said he pointed out that a portion of the property in the neighbourhood of the intended market was let upon long leases, and he observed that that case was altogether one of great hardship; especi ally as the buildings could only be occupied as residences. Mr. BENNOCII asked whether, before the decision of the Secretary of State was given, the petitioners had any opportunity of learning that the market was likely to come into their neighbourhood. Mr. Streeten replied that they had no means of knowing; the Act of Parliament did not provide for any notice. It was true that they saw in the newspapers a rumour on the subject, but they did not know whether or not there was any truth in it. The Home Secretary said he considered himself morally bound—the Right Hen. Gentleman used the word " morally" emphatically —to approve the cite which had been selected if he should be called upon to do so: that was all he said on the subject. Mr. C. YOUNG asked Mr. Streeten if he was not aware that the Smithfield Market Bill was brought in by her Majesty's late Government. Mr. Streeten —The Bill.itself shows that it was. Mr C. Youso reminded Mr. Streeten that the corpo ration opposed the Bill to the utmost of their power. The petitioners then withdrew. Mr. Deputy LOTT said he regretted that a question of such groat importance should have been brought on at so late an hour, when the court was nearly exhaneted by previous discussions.—(Hear.) Now, how stood this ques tion? The petitioners, who were most respectable indivi duals, would be cruelly damnified by the confirmation of the selection of Copenhagen.fields as the site of the new market. It appeared that negotiations were going forward when the late Government retired from office; and the pre sent Government having acceded to office, Mr. 'Walpole, never having been in his life in Copenhagen-fields, and scarcely knowing whee they were—(A voice—" That is a very strong assertion")—gave his assent to the site se lected by the corporation. Mr. Walpole said he had already given his consent, in consequence of the repre sentations made to him by the corporation, and in the belief that nothing more than his nominal consent was required. Was it not fearful to think that a mere no minal consent should have the effect of ruining num bers of individuals? A great deal was said about the difficulty of obtaining sites. Why there were a dozen available. He could name one at that moment which would be exceedingly convenient---the Isle of (Laughter.) The selection of that site would not ruin property, or crush individuals. —(Hear, hear.) The Secretary of State had been entrapped.—(Orden) 110 had been induced to give his consent without seeing or knowing anything of the place. It must appear Market, tremely ridiculous to the public that S which was now in town, should be removed into town, d to a Smithfield (Laughter.) It was to be reraoe hence locality almost as thickly populated as that if the it came, and it would really citizens of Loudon who bad removed s e e eh e t m es of town had lth that ther found Smithfield so beneficial to their (Laughtr.) The were determined to bring sTiCeless cry.—(Hear.) whole change was based it to them °n era a oved to a plce where it The market was now to b e s s I a :o mead. b ut s minus to would not only.be prejudicita the whole matter would property; and he did bl e e d. h The tocsin of alarm bad be seriously re•considdearn a ngst the purchasers of pro already been r sale had to be withdrawn for perty; houses () Oa had already been laid out in want of a bidder; 1 5 0, and was the property to be left for that neighbourhobeeilers slaughterers, butchers, and gra knaettenr% c b rl - uded by moving that the petition should z.ers , -- " t h e pdatke!s Improvement Committee. be referred Lor , to m a yea said he wished to state that he had from the Marquis Camden. to the effect r t ee l e '11 ;"11 - i i : - 9i i n e e tC s e s r uad . not interfered he ineuld have ace . that if d the petitioners. cOMPanie Ti Bate said the difficulty was to find a site air. - wh i c h w ould not be inconvenient to somebody. Mr . BENNOCTI hoped the matter would not be decided withou t ample time being afforded to urge objections. The petition having been presented, it would be un courteous to the petitioners not to give it due conside ration. Mr. BE JERSEY protested against the statement of Mr. Deputy Lott, that the Secretary ot State had been entrapped into giving his consent. He was surprised that his friend should have made such a remark. The Right Hon. Gentleman might never have been at a tea-party at, Copenhagen-fields like his friend. — (Laughter.) But he had, nevertheless, sent people there to make inquiyieF. As regarded the solution of a site, it was well known that Bow-common, Wansteadsfl Its, the Lie of D and many other places had ell been con sidered; but Copenhagen-fields were publicly spoken ot months ago as the probable site. As to Bow-com mon, land there was offered them for nothing. The , corporation had no int eres t i n th e se l ec tion; the .se question for them to cons id er was w h a t site would bea w, suit the buyer and seller. Having been told that st t e h d e , property near Copenhagen-fields would be deprec i ated, he could not help remarking that when the c orporation extra per more laud, three or four hundred P per acre was demanded in consequence 0 the o purchase already made. the fact of Mr. BLAK E said be could bear witness to depreciation. The residences were of A very valuable character, and it was impossible that they should not be injured. Mr. Deputy LOTT w ishe d ; to observe that Mr. Secre tarydeputation that he had neve never oe Walpole nn th d e is ntienicgthlybotuorldho the d%od carried b The motion was then puts y a show of hands. an COLONEL M.P.—The latest accoun t s re ceived to the effect that C o l one l B ree n is progressing f A Yourably. f°roNmEl B Carlow ll vis areN' ~~~; - ;~ - -•J