The Sun. — London, England, 1848-01-10 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCY.—(THIS D AY.) IMPORT ANT TO B ANKRUPTS. -1 11 a cas e b efore m r. Commissioner Goulburn, " Re Morse," the bankrupt bad carried on business as a woolstapler, at Neithrop, Oxford s hi re , an d h i s cert i f i cate was suspended with out protection for six months. On Saturday an audit meeting was appointed, but the bankrupt not being in attendance, His HONOUR said that the bankrupt was bound to attend all meetings to explain his accounts, and pro bably his certificate would be further suspended for his neglect. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) William Dicks, a well known thief, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with picking the pocket of a lady named Raise, residing at No. 9, Sidmouth- Street. The i prosecutri x was p urc hasing a fowl at a poul terer s shop on S atur d ay n i g ht, w h e n she observed the prisoner standing close by her. She was in the act of turning round, when she felt some person withdraw their hand from her pocket. She immediately put her hand t o h er pocket, and caug h t h o ld o f the priso• ner s hand. A man at that time, who had observed the whole tra nsact i on, p i c k e d up the purse at the prisoner's feet, and gave it t o prosecutrix, who identi fied it as hers. The prisoner was then given into custody. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was committed for trial. Ann Bryant, a wretched looking woman, was charged bef ore M r . Bi ng h am w ith attempting to ob tain from Colonel Angerstein, 72, Jermyn-street, the sum of 35., by fraudulent representations. It appeared that on Saturday evening the defendant went to the gall an t co l one l' s residence, and on seeing him, produced a certificate to the effect that her child was suffering under a severe case of hernia, and that she had an or d er f or a truss f rom the Truss Society, and that the truss would not be ready till Tuesday next. He thought this rather odd, and knowing Mr. Censer Hawkins, the surgeon to the society, he felt it his duty to inquire further into it. He therefore sent his servant with the prisoner to that gentleman, who denied that the woman had ever made application for a truss. The defendant had previously told him that she could get a truss suitable for her child for 35., and requested him to give her the money. On being further questioned, the defendant stated that a gentle man by the name of Gregory gave her the order. His servant went to that gentleman, who said he gave the order to the woman, but she had not made use of it. He (complainant) then felt convinced that though the child was in a dreadful state of suffering, the woman kept the order for the purpose of exciting charity. Mr. BiNonAm committed her for one month, and ordered the child to be kindly looked after in the workhouse. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) James Pench, a 'potrnan in the service of Mr. W. Parker, landlord of the Pewter Platter public-house, White Lion-street, was charged as follows : Mr. Parker said that last night he was in his par lour when he heard the prisoner making use of abuse towards his (prosecutor's) wife. Witness remon strated with the prisoner, and attempted to put him out of the house, when the prisoner struck and kicked him most violently. The police-constable fortunately came to his assistance, and the prisoner was taken into custody. The prisoner made a rambling defence. Mr. HAMMILL said he should convict him in the penalty of 405., or three weeks' imprisonment. As the prisoner was being led out of the office, he turned round to the prosecutor and made use of some threatening language towards him. Mr. 11AmmiLL ordered the prisoner to be brought back, and said that, at the expiration of the sentence, he should in addition thereto order him to find two sureties in 201. each to keep the peace for 12 months. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY. LIVERPOOL CUP.-100 to 6 (ffered on the field; offers to take 100 to 5 each eget Pioneer, St. Leger, and Wolverhampton. CHESTER CUP.-1,000 to 20 offered on the field; 1,000 to 15 agst Clumsy, 1,000 to 15 agst Blaze, and 1,000 to 15 agst Jock o'Sot. DERRY.-250 to 25 and 110 to 10 agst Surplice. 300 to 25 agst Glendower, 2,500 to 100 agst Springy Jack, 300 to 10 agst Beverlac, 1,000 to 15 egst Fiddler. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. EPSOM SPRING MEETING, 1848. Entry for Two Yrs Old Stakes of 10 sous. each, with 25 added. Half a mile. Lord Lonsdale's c by Epirus, d by D'Egville—Mr, Leigh's Cashier—Mr. Yensll's British Consul—Mr. Rolt's c by Gladiator, d by Discount—Mr. Cooper's f by Kremlin, out of Ringworm—Mr. Jackson's Christiana —Mr. Jones's Docility—Mr. Greville's Clarissa—Mr. S. Nevin's by Caesar. out of Emily (h b)—Mr. Gully's Hasta—Mr. Douglas's Margaret—Mr. Gregory's Que rida—Mr. Gratvficke's Cheerful—Duke of Richmond's Syrup—Mr. Drinkald's Tommy—Mr. Drinkald's Thorn hill—Mr. Payne's Farthingale—Mr. W. H. Roberts's Charm. EPSOM SECOND MEETING, 1848. Entry for the Woodoote Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added. T.Y.C. Mr. Leigh's Cashier—Count Bathy any's Lepidas— Mr. Verrall's British Consul—Mr. Critchley 's Sir Henry Hardinge—Mr. Death's Cmsarion—Mr. T. B. Charlton's Kissaway—Mr. Roles The White Lady—Mr. B. Green's Westow—Mr. B. Green's Abbot of Meaux—Mr. Ley's c by Plane, out of Partiality—Mr. Nevin's f by Cmsar, out of Emily—Mr. Irwin's Philippa—. Mr. Herbert's c by Sir Hercules, out of Empress—Mr. Herbert': c by Venison, out of Odessa—Mr. J. Day's Traitress—Duke of Richmond's Syrup—Mr. Osbaldes►on's Ravensborne —Lord Chesterfield's fby Jereed, out of Rhodanther— Mr. Payne's Farthingale—Mr. W. H. Roberts's Brother to Eldon —Mr. Roberts's Charm—Mr. Etwa,l's f by Emilius, out of Soldier's Joy. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The Cheltenham stag-hds., Fri., Prestbury Park -12. The Albrighton hds., Thurs., Seighford; Sat., Chil lington. Mr. Seymeur hds., Tues., Lawrenny—lo; Fri., Walleston Moor-101. The South Berkshire hds., Tues., Jacob's Booth; Fri., Red Lion, Basildon-101. Sir John Cope's hds., Wed., Slade Heath; Fri., White Waltham. The Craven hds., Wed., Henswood; Fri., Cake Wood; Sat., Great Shefford-101. The Carmarthen hds., Tues., Cotleigh Bridge; Fri., Pass By. Mr. Fellowes's Ws., Tues., Drayford Bride.; Wed. Kingsnympton Park; Fri., Newnham Bridge; Sat., Ro mansleigh Beacon—go. The Ayrshire lids., Tues., Dalrymple Village; Thurs. Rosemount; Sat., Loch Brown— 104. The Sherwood harrs., Tues., Rainworth Bar; Fri., Robin Down Hill -11. The Hambledon hds., Wed., Bordean House; Fri., Swanmore House-101. The H. H.. Tues., Tiehborne Park; Thurs., Atkin's Lone Barn; Sat., Rotherfield Park-101 The East Kent hds., Wed., Swingfield Park; Fri., Sib ton Gate-10i. The Monmouthshire hds., Tues., the King of Prussia; Fri., Brynderwen. The N. F. H., Tues., Eyeworth Lodge; Thurs., Pyle well; Sat., Earldoms-101. The Pytchley hds., Wed., Sulby Hall; Fri., Walcot Village; Sat., Ashly, St. Ledger's Village-104. Puckeridge hds., Wed., Widdrington ; Sat., Chipping. Surrey Union hds., Thurs., Aldbury Heath; Sat., Row Barns. The Tredegar hds., Wed., Tredegar Park; Fri., Ebbro Village. The Haydon hds., Wed., Spring Plantation; Sat., Harsondale. The Tindale hds., Thurs., Bywell-101. Sir C. Constable's stag hds., Wed., Lelley-111. The Cambridgeshire hds., Wed., Shearhatch Wood; Fri., Harivicke Arms-101. The Oakley lads., Thurs., Tyringham; Sat., Rissly The F. B. hds., Fri., Croftwest-101. The Linlithgow and Stirlingshire lads., Thurs., Rave brig Gate; Sat., Broxburn-101 The Devon hds., Thurs., Ingadon Mill. Sir Henry Seale's lids., Tues., Morley Toll-bar; Fri., Bow Bridge, Ashbrington-10. Mr. Fursa's hds., Fri., Huntsham Wood. The South Devon burrs., Thurs., Buckland Tout Saint; Sat., Deptford's Court-10. GOVERNMENT GRATUITY TO THE WIDOW or THE LATE MR. WALRER.—Wo have great satisfaction in an nouncing that the Government have determined upon granting a gratuity of 701. to the widow of the late Mr. James Walker, surgeon, of this city, who, it will be re • membered, died in the early part of the last year of fever, taken in the discharge of his duty as medical officer of the London-road district. We understand that Govarnment has also granted similar gratuities in some cases at Liverpool and Chester.—Manchester Guar, dian. We are happy to be able to contradict a report, which would be received with universal regret, that his Royal Highness the Prince Consort labours under a disease of the lungs. Several frivolous and evidently unauthenticated reports have been going the round of the newspapers to the effect that her Majesty had been bitten by a dog, had established a " millinery depart %eat," and engaged a German physician; they all, how fiver, bore a character of unfounded gossip, which Precluded their admission into our columns, The statement, however, with regard to the health of r ine. Albert is of sufficiently serious nature to meri, an im mediate i , and distinct contradiction.— l imes. ZT e r ai li on I RIE LATE ACCIDENT AT THE EUSTON-SQUARE . — lJpou inquiry at the University College nosp T i Saturday evening, as to the state of the ran A injured in the above unfortunate occurrence, on . .nursday l ast, i t was stated that C har l es G age an d James Hickie are still pronounced by Mr. Qusin, the head surgeon of the institution, under whose care they were all placed, to be in a state of great danger. Hickie has sustained a fractured skull, and it is not considered likely that he can recover. The other sufferers are fast recovering. It is confid en tly rumoure d t h at R ear -Ad m i ra l Si r Fthe r a n c i s Augustus Collier, C.B. K.C.11., will suceei.ci late distinguished Commander in-Chief at Cork, Rer Adrairr- SHARPL'S LONDON MAGAZINE. Under its new auspices, or rather its new arrange ments as to illustration, Sharpe proceeds well, and without any sensible abatement in excellence. Besides a very agreeable assortment of letter-press, it con tains some beautiful specimens of wood-engraving — the very best of all being a delineation of " the moated grange of Tennyson." THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. Besides containing two neat engravings of "South down Rams," and " A Cart Stallion," the January num ber is replete with seasonable contributions. After the disastrous seasons from which the country has re• cently suffered so much, the agricultural reports ap pended to the magazine will be watched with pecu liar interest. It is in these reports, moreover, that the care of the entrepreneur is manifested more con spicuously than in any other portion of the pe riodical. TILE FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY. In the number just published there is a perceptible improvement as regards the arrangement of the vari ous papers constituting the review ; arid there seems to be in some measure an extension of the size of the Quarterly. Brother Thomas Pryer continues his lucubrations on " The Study of Masonic Antiqui ties," with an increase of ability and exactitude. The miscellaneous intelligence is varied and compre hensive. CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL. From an entertaining account of the rise and vicissitudes of the newspaper press of France, we quote one excellent sentence:—" Society demands from treatises, science ; frost books, ideas ; from reviews, profound study of the questions discussed, from special collections, to justify their title; from daily journals, the speediest publicity, the most im partial views on all debates, documents, and facts — the most rapid and dispassionate judgment on e vents, institutions, men, and things." The sentence is from the French. Among the articles for the past month [ there are several of a superior character. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. After a superficial reference to the anomalous posr tion of the Presbyterian clergy of Ulster, and their pertinacity in maintaining their regiuntdonuminterests, the Eclectic gives a very lively and agre eable descrip tion of John Duncan's Travels in Western Africa dur ing 1845 and 1846, starting from Whydah, and passing through the territory of Dahomey to Adofoodis in the Interior." The third article is a curiosity, sug gested by a still greater curiosity : it is a paper which asserts the " Credibility of the Evangelists," and is suggested by a book called " An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evi deuce administered in Courts of Justice," and written i by Simon Greenleaf, LL.D., Profe ssor of Law n Harvard University. Clever as it is, we cannot in think that it is battling too much against infidelity with its own weapons—weapons quite inadequate for the settlement of such august and awful mysteries as the mysteries of the Christian religion. This is fol lowed by an historical chapter on King James IL and the acquittal of the Seven Protestant Bishops in 1688 ; by a criticism on Leopold Ranke's " History ?f . Servia ;" by a notice of Hutton's " Five Years in the East ;" and by an additional enforcement of the necessity of national education. The most attractive contribution for January will be, however, the com prehensive article on " English Schools of Art." THE MIRROR. The Mirror appears in a new dress this month. The paper is of better quality, the letter-Pres s is clearer, the double column arrangement has been given up, and the Mirror now has as neat an appearance as any of its monthly contemporaries. The number opens with the first chapter of a work, by Mr. Percy B. St. John, entitled "Maxi milian Robespierre, his Life and Opinions." Mr. St. John undertakes to rescue the character of Robespierre from the aspersions which have been cast upon it, and to prove that he was honest, sincere, humane, and virtuous—a task which, with all his ability, Mr. St. John will find of somewhat difficult performance. lie scarcely enters upon it in this chapter, which may be considered as the bill of indictment, from the charges contained in which he is to defend his client. There is one accusation, however, which Mr. St. John passes over much too lightly, saying it is only worthy of notice as a curious opinion—it is the accusation of M. Delaure "that Robespierre was throughout an agent of the emigration, and was secretly wishing for the counter revolution." The accusation was brought against him long before the days of M. Delaure—it has been often repeated since, and has never been satisfactorily refuted. His personal connexions , his con duct dur ing the early days of the revolution, before the States- General became the National Assembly, and during the early days of the National Assembly, show that his propensities were rather towards royalty than towards republicanism, and it was not until all chat ce of a restoration was gone, that he, to use the words of Camille Desmoulins, " drove liberty mad in order to disgust the world with her." Mr. St. John himself shows that Robespierre was descended from patrician ancestors, and had therefore a fellow feeling with the emigrants—that he was anxious f peace even at the time the armies of rr .. a L ne i i s s c A on u ncientiy rum . oared that Rear-Admiral Sir the late dis g ti u n stu C. 8., aridity of style, they inignt have been termea a, - K..C.11.,. will sueepi.(l lace or an . introduction, or an advmlisement, or from . patrician ancesto . rs, and had therefore a tenlnv-s ei f el h iL . iy _ _ampbell has 4,4 u. 4v• lb . a, utspumul g s ti?.s n Th Uornmander na-C_hie! at Corlc, vember 24 informing the Duke de Broglie that, With I United States of America,brazil, and Australis. collected in the river before.—Ncecastle ironic C. Rear Admiral her. —pe ' rhaps judiciously—have been left out altoget • feeling with the emigrants—that he was anxiou ois colleagues of the Cabinet. L C Gazette, Sir muss TJssher.—United Service Of t t How . far the magazine c for peace even at the time the armies COM 0 an be regarded as a literary , . • , _ . TIIE SUN, LONDON. MAGAZINES—(CONTINUED). TAIT. In a political memorandum of rather unsatisfactory brevity, we observe that Tait expresses a judicious contempt for the Currency Committee, by the ap• pointment of which, towards the close of 1847, Par liament virtually shelved the question of our mone tary difficulties. The tone of the writer is as depre ciative as his remarks are sententious. " Currency Committees," says he, " portend evil—each succes sive Committee has produced something worse than its predecessor." After observing that the science into which they have to examine is plain and comprehen sible even to triteness, he observes— There might be with the same propriety a Parliamentary Com mittee appointed every other year to sit upon the rule of three, or consider vulgar fractions, and extract the cube root of the National Debt." How much truth there is in this may be guessed by those who have glanced through the library of blue books. What shall we say of our cotemporary when, speak ing of the " Irish Coercion Bill," as he calls it, or as the Act itself was entitled, " The Prevention of Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill," he observes— " Our principal objection to this measure is to be found in its companionless origin ?" Has he forgotten the boon of a poor •la w by which that Act had been preceded, during the session which had only then recently expired ? A couple of leading articles are prefixed to the January number —one on " Ragged Churches," the other on " Reme dies for Highland Famine"—both brief but pithy. The first of a bundle of gossiping " Letters from the Channel Islands" follows ; and then a criticism on Mr. Westgarth's historical and topographical account of Australia Felix. George Gallen contributes a rambling estimate of the intellectual character, and moral, mission and literary position of Ralph Waldo Emerson. How far the estimate is penned in a fan tastic manner may be conjectured from the fact of Emerson being at one moment likened to a " flunky," at another to a "melon," at another to "Rip van Winkle," at another to a " grocer," at another to " Simon Stylites," at another to a "tree" with sap running in his veins instead of blood. Still the paper has thoughts that are shrewd, large-hearted, and manly; it will be an agreeable introduction to Scot land for the great essayist from Massachusetts. With all deference to the very oracular opinions of Mr. Gilfillan, we must dissent from him with intense emphasis when he speaks of Emerson as the greatest poet of America. While the Song not only of Longfellow, but of Bryant, resounds in our memory, we cannot coincide in such a pre posterously wide decision. Neither can Mr. Gilfillan monopolise to himself the faculty of appreciating, or the capacity for depicting, the glories of nature. Let him be wary, lest he degenerate from pertness into self-sufficiency. He has one sly and severe blow at the age, where he mentions Emerson as " teaching spiritual truth to those to whom Mam mon—not Moses—has become the lawgiver, and Cant —not Christ—the God." "Furstenruhe" is con tinued, and so also are the chapters of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder on "Scottish Rivers." Elizabeth Youatt contributes a pleasant essay on " Old Songs," and the sanitary question is considered in its imme diate application as a preventive of physical disease. Several literary reviews are comprised in the number, but we miss the tart and sarcastic spirit of De Quincey. DOUGLAS JERROLD. We hail with satisfaction the appearance in this number of the first chapters of the new novel of "'Twiddlethumb Town," by the editor. It promises to surpass in pungency and truth anything that Douglas Jerrold has yet written. What, for instance, can be more bitterly sarcastic than the following, on the magpie crest of the Duke de Bobs ? " For the magpie—the crest of the blood of the De Bobs—was of ancient nest. his ancestress, much put to her wits for materials, hid built and set in the Ark ; her husband, it may be, looking curiously at the sea gulls through the windows, and wishing himself for a short time web-footed, aquatic. The De Bobs' magpie could trace a progenitor to Babel ! a magpie in the pos session of a hod man ; a bird that, flying from his mas ter with his master's confounded tongue, brought Irish to the children of Erin, at that early day seated upon thrones of ivory, and carrying walking-sticks of virgin gold. "It could only be such a magpie, hatched in such a genealogical tree, that could be borne by a Duke de Bobs. The bird had been the crest of his family for many, many ages. An officer of the Herald's college of Twiddletbumb—a pious looking man. with so smooth a cheek that no lie for any money could be made to hang upon it—a herald's officer declared that he had traced the De Bobs' magpie to so early an age, that he fouud Time himself a very little boy, feeding the bird with grubs and caterpillars. Was it not a virtue in the Duke de Bobs to be proud of such a magpie ? " The Duke de Bobs swore by his magpie. " A big, solemn nook has yet to be written on the oaths of the high and mighty swearers of the earth. Oft times, curious and precious oaths. Sometimes, too, cu rious and serviceable as old china, that however cracked and flawed, still serves for customary, household use, as well as the soundest. The oaths of emperors and kings —oaths of old fashion—are instructive, provoking me ditation. We think of them with wonder when unbroken. We consider them with astonishment; even as we should contemplate a silken thread that had tethered rhinoce ros—a trout hook once holding leviathan. " The Duke de Bobs swore by the magpie ; for his oath, inspired by his tutelary bird, ran ever thus, By Black or White.' A good, serviceable, working-day oath, befitting the Dukedom of a De Bobs ; an oath that it was impossible to break. For the Duke de Bobs, though he took the oath sometimes as often as he winked, was never known to be forsworn. By Black or White was, in sooth, an oath made very easy. " Ansi now the reader of his own cunning may under stand wherefore the townsfolk of Twiddlethumb looked uneasily at the Duke's crest—the terrible magpie. The bird was mixed up in their recollections with many wrongs and many sufferings. The Tvriddlethinxiber, spoiled of a cow—robbed of a goose—his hen-roost ra vaged—or his pocket picked of twopence—laid the loss to the thievishness of the magpie. The bird—the Duke's winged Black and White familiar—was accounted the curse of Twiddlethumb. For there ran throughout the town--nay, it was a belief brimming in the hearts of the Twiddlethumbers—that the Duke's crest, though seem ingly a thing of paint, or oak, or stone, according to its place—now smooth and shining OR the Duke's couch — now perched on the Duke's state chair—and now carved over the Duke's windows—was a creature of most mali cious vitality. The magpie crest—swore the Twiddle thurnbers—was a living mischief ; of such cunning and such force, that it could pick the lock of a money-box, or carry off a bullock. The thing was a devil in feathers, that when he liked hopped out from the Duke's shield, or flew down from the Duke's chair, to pillage the 'rwid dlethumbers—t he Duke's unresisting people. "We cannot believe in this black art of heraldry. It is a coward's blow to strike the dead ; and to give our faith to the superstition of Twiddlethumb would be—we profoundly feel as much—to smite the honourable dust of iron mighty men. For should we not tamper with the ignorance of the many, whom we do not refuse to call our fellow-creatures, were we to allow a vital rapa city to the Duke's crest—a carved or painted magpie ? For after such allowance, what man's crest would be safe .. .? Griffins and leopards and tigers, whelped hue dreds of years ago in the bed of glory, and fed on human flesh, were notwithstanding harmless creatures ; of no more ill-will than tame rabbits. They sprawled in shields. and stood upon helmets, and had strong thews of silk and worsted worked for them by female fingers. The lord of the castle looked upon his hangings, and saw therein his griffius, the children of his own sword and his wife's needle. Anil shall we give air to a belief in a possible necromancy that, at any age of the world, could animate the panther of a Baron Fitz.-rmonois, suf fering the beast to prowl out from his tapestry at night among the homesteads of the baron's tenants ; now killing a child, and now sucking the blood of poultry ? " Such superstition once afoot, where would it stop ? Would it respect royal crests ? We think not. No : the audacity of the human mind would, we much fear it, give words of abuse even to imperial eagles. Felon knave !'—some hardy slave might say, glaring on the royal bird ; some biped clod of the soil, his blood of no richer compound than converted black bread felon knave ! dead thing that thou seemest, thou bast accursed life : thou art here, thou hypocrite of honour, to attest to foolish men thy daring and thy might. Thou eanst give look for look with the all-lighting sun, and carry thunderbolts. This is said of thee, but this we know : this the myriad lowly best can tell. Thou fattenest on the poor man's lamb, and devourest the poor man's kid.' And should it chance that the eagle have two heads, tbo malice of the opprobrious boor perchance might add— ' And if thou bast two heads, is it not that thou mayst eat lamb and kid at the same time ?' " " Galleries of Art for the People" is a paper well worthy the consideration of all those who would wish to imbue our people with P. love of art. The proposal I to establish in all o ur l a rge provincial towns' galleries of engravings from the best pictures and of casts from the best specimens of sculpture, is one which, if car riedet h a e p e p n e c o e p , will e. I d n o m h e u c l h i g t h o t w e r a r d d e s out, a n d carr i e d out i t may b e a t a ver y small g of th l e ite ta r s a t t e ur o e f art m p t r n o e v n i t n we have a well• told tale, entitled, " Vanity in Death," giving a most pathetic description of the death-bed scene of a " poor player," and a farcical paper full of dramatic effects, entitled, " Rather too much of a Benefit." This last is from the practised pen of Horace Mayhew. This is the best number of this magazine that has appeared for some time. ,he HOOD'S MAGAZINE. Ovid never depicted a more incomprehensble meta morphosis than that which is exemplified in this magazine. It is no longer the organ of Hood, although it still bears the name of that remarkable and lamented man. It is no longer " The Humourist." It is a literary, scientific, and dramatic jour nal. In the comme ncement of t 1848, the editor begins a serial, which he facetiously terms a novel, but which, as yet, is only a jumble of very serious common-places. It must be acknowledged that we have only got the two first chapters, yet we conceive, from their exc eedin g aridity of style, they might have been termed a pre face, or an introduction, or an advertisement, or -perhaps judiciously—have been left out altogether - organ we may judge from the fact of its favouring us'. with an instalment of a second-hand translation from a cheap edition of Ranke's " History of the Popes." how far it is scientific may be guessed from its containing not one tittle of scientific infor mation ; and how far it is a competent dramatic authority is shown by its statement—in the account of the Shakspere night at Covent-garden—that " the entertainment commenced with a prologue written by Mr. Charles Knight, and spoken by Mr. Phelps," and its sententious judgment upon the said prologue that "it was scarcely worthy of the occasion ;" when the truth is the entertainment did not com mence with the prologue, because Mr. Phelps did not deliver it then, or during any part of the evening, and when every one who has a single fibre of sensibi lity, or who can appreciate two lines of poetry, must have felt that the composition in question was an honour to the intellect and the enthusiasm of Mr. Charles Knight, and, in a peculiar manner, worthy of that memorable and national occasion. There is, on the whole, a terrible falling off in this periodical. THE BELLE ASSEMBLEE. One thing strikes us as an extraordinary omission at the very outset of the number for January. There is a wood-cut as well as a brief description of the beautiful church of St. Mary Radcliffe, Bristol, and in the description there is not even an incidental mention of Chatterton—the tragedy of Hamlet with the Danish prince omitted. For its musical sweetness, its hope fulness, and its simplicity, we have pleasure in trans cribing the verses on •• EIGHTEEN 111.INDRED AND FORTY.EIGHT. " BY CAMILLA TOULMIN. " What is the star of thy birth, New Year? Is any so learned t...) prove a seer? The" Forties" have done pretty well we must own, So You come of a race whose prestige is known; Then pray do not place on their 'scutcheon a blot, By what you may do or what you—do not. They've work'd pretty hard, those brethren of yours —For what once took up weeks is now done in hours. There is not (thank Heaven) a Corn-law for you To be in at the death, or like hunters pursue. And the Factory-child has a thanksgiving said, For the meed of cold justice was poured on her head. But You've plenty of work if you have but the will, And, indeed, I don't think we shall let you stand still! If you could—but you can't; it will take many years, The brightest and best made of hopes, joys, and fears — To raise up the Wretched from Ignorance's slime, And save from the plunge to the Waters of Crime! But I pray you attempt—look forward, not back, Though you leave in your wake a bright silver track. Rouse the souls that are dormant with eloquent words, That are struck from the fire-heart of Genius like swords, To storm all the strongholds of error and wrong, By the right and the might that to Truth must belong. Cast the idol of Self from the hearts where its rule Corrupts the hest natures to fashion a fool! Making blind, making deaf, making dull every sense, To the soul's truest joys, that are lasting, intense. Ah, indeed, if you can but achieve such a feat, All the good will rush in, like waters that meet To form a strong river, and bear on its tide Humanity onward, with Hope for its guide; Till the haven that Worldlings still doubt and deride, Shall be found and be seen by Reality's light, And the Day that is dawning succeed the world's Night!" The publication is graced with its usual diversity of prose and poetical contributions. SPORTING REVIEW. Craven gives a comprehensive and sparkling narra tive of " The Racing Season of 1847," and his coad jutors—Oxonian, Castor, Harry Hieover, Scribble, and Brushwood, add their quota to the number for January. They all begin 1848 in tip-top spirits, and with an unaffected gusto that promises admirably. The engravings are excellent, being a vignette tandem, a portrait of Van Tromp, and " The Fortune of War," the last-mentioned being the trip of a hunter. THE JOURNAL OI AGRICULTURE. There is nothing whatever of a superficial character in the writings contained in this able and practical quarterly. The various papers are the result of re search and experience. A spirit of true benevolence has actuated the contribution of the first article for January—being an examination into the condi tion of " The Labouring Classes," suggested by the eloquent disquisitions of M. Charpentier. The re marks upon the " Influence of Railways," and the necessity of road reform are judicious; and we would particularly direct attention to the admirable paper on " The use of Lime in Agriculture," by Professor Johnston. MONDAY the Duke of Brunswick were invading France, that he was, in fact, always o u posed to war and to those who advocated it, and that one of the allied sovereigns said "that if M Robespierre had lived they would have had peace"—meaning, of course, peace on the terms contained in the Duke of Brunswick's manifesto. Napoleon was, it is well known, con nected with Robespierre ; and it was this connexion which induced Louis XVIII. to write to the First Consul, urging him to hasten on the time of restora tion, for Louis XVIII. no doubt considered that Na poleon, who had taken service under Robespierre, was fully prepared to carry out the views of his former patron ; besides all which, we have heard it remarked, during the days of the restora tion, as a proof of the complicity of Robes pierre with the Bourbons, that the sister of Robespierre was in the regular receipt of a pension from the Government of the Restoration. Mr. St. John quotes a passage from one of his reports to the convention, as a proof that his talents have been much underrated. " The man," says Mr. St. John, " who could write an ironical passage like the follow ing could not be wholly contemptible :" .. The False Revolutionist.—Full of fire for great r esolutions which signify nothing—more than inditierent for those which might honour the cause of the people and save the country—much devoted to patriotic forms, and attached (like the bigots they war against) to exterior forms, they would rather wear out a hundred red caps than do one good action. . . . . Should we act, they talk; should we deliberate, they commence by acting; should we defend the territory, they wish to go in search of tyrants beyond seas and over mountains; should we retake our frontiers, they are for assaulting our churches and scaling heaven! They forget the Austrians to make war on devotees ; should we support ou r cause by the fidelity of our allies, they declaim against Governments, and prepare a decree of accusation against the Great Mogul!" Mrs. Crowe, who has recently joined the Mirror corps, contributes a highly interesting tale, entitled "The Two Women of Nuremberg," and Maxwell, also a new hand here, commences one of his unrivalled pictures of camp life, under the title of "The Revelations of a Mess Table." The letter on "The Choice of a Profession," by C m lius, is full of quiet sarcasm, and "A paper on Pantomimes," by Mor ris Barnett, is quite a propos to the season ; but we are forgetting our old friend " Paul Pevensey," whose adventures are continued in this number. Paul is arrested as a spy by the miners out on strike, and conveyed to their stronghold The account of a strike in the colliery districts is admirable ; there is something very graphic in the description of the murder of the magistrate, and the reflections of the writer on popular tumults are worthy the consideration of the philanthropist and the statesman. 'Would that the gentry of Ireland would ponder over the following passage : " The insurgents had been taught, through no one knew what agency, to believe in the lawfulness of as sassination. Secret societies meeting sometimes in remote and desolate places, as in the beer-shop and ruined windmill above described; sometimes in the ale houses and crowded streets of the towns, drew up the muster-rolls of death, distributed daggers, and coolly inculcated the principle that to assassinate a rich man was to remove a public enemy—consequently, a virtuous rather than a vicious action. Still, to the credit of the educated classes be it spoken, there took place no instance of pusillanimous flight. The gentry firmly stood their ground—confronted the danger—reasoned, when oppor tunity offered, with their misguided neighbours ; and sought to impress them with the belief that their past neglect and oppression ought rather to be attributed to the operation of general laws, acting alike on all classes, for the preservation of barbarism, than to any tyranni cal propensities in the possessors of property. Even the murder of the magistrate, though reports of it spread like wildfire, mixed up with innumerable exaggerations, produced no difference in their conduct. They seemed ready to brave the assassin's dagger, or any other form of peril to which the circumstances of the times might give birth, rather than ignobly abandon the posts, as persons have at various times done in other parts of the empire, where the consciousness of some deserving may possiby inspire mere craven thoughts. An excited po pulace is terrible, but may often be successfully encoun tered by a frank and manly courage, upheld by the consciousness of rectitude—as was proved again and again by incidents which would all deserve to be nar rated, were it my object to give here a complete history of the strike." The Mirror begins the new year well. It is equal to any, superior to most of its contemporaries. FINE ARTS. THE ART-UNION. No. CXV. With the commencement of a new year, the Art- Union enters upon a new career of enterprise and excellence. Both in the beauty of the embellishments and the appositeness of the literary articles, there is already visible a very remarkable and laudable im provement. It is intended, according to the an nouncement contained in the prospectus, to issue every month in the magazine " two full engravings and an engraving from a statue," these engravings being copies from originals lent by the munificence of their distinguished, and, in several instances, illustri ous owners. In the number for January, for example, there is an effective engraving by J. Brown from the picture of R. Thorburn, being a portrait of H.R.H. Prince Albert; and the original painting has been lent by her Most Gracious Majesty. "Landseer's Breakfast Party" is admirably transcribed by Finden ; and the graver of W. Roffe, has given a delicate and exqui site representation of the Psyche of Sir R. West macott. Besides the critical purtion of the Art-Union, which, be it observed, displays as hitherto both matu rity of judgment and refinement of taste, there is a delightful contribution by Mrs. S. C. Hall. Not " Midsummer Eve," that being already completed, but the opening of a new serial called "Pilgrimages to English Shrines." illustrated by foot-notes and woodcuts from the pen and pencil of F. W. Fairholt. , This instalment recounts a pilgrimage no less inte resting than one to "The Burial Place of Hampden" the patriot, not the bishop elect of Hereford. The other departments of this monthly journal are filled with discrimination, and, what is not less important now-a-days, compactness. A SERIES OF MODERN MAPS. Parts and XI V. By John Sharpe and J. Wilson Lowry. This excellent succession of maps progresses in a manner which promises the fulfilment of the various merits predicted in the advertisement. The engraver is as painstaking as the supervisor is intelligent. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, SUNDAY. —Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, walked out yesterday forenoon, and the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice took airings in the afternoon. Prince Albert enjoyed the spert of shooting yes terday morning. His Royal Highness was accom panied by Lord John Russell, and was attended by the Marquis of Ormonde, Mr. G. E. Anson, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Seymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived from Frogutore House at the Castle yesterday after noon, and visited her :Majesty and Prince Albert. Lord John Russell left the Castle yesterday after noon, for his r es id en ce in Richmond Park. This morning her Majesty and Prince Albert took their accustomed early walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise. The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court and the dome . stic househ o ld a ttended Divine servic this morn ing in the private chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. MINISTERIAL MOVE-1-11ENTS His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended a meeting of the Trustees d the British Museum on Saturday. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the prayers were read by the Rev. J. Povah, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Di . Irving. The musical service was Men ' delssohn's. The anthem was "Rejoice in the Lord" (Humphrey). Mr. George Cooper presided at the or gan. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Lord and Lady Ebringt on , Lords Sandwich and Canter bury, were among the nobility present. The Lord President of the Council is expected to arrive at . Lansdowne H ouse to-morrow evening, from B o wood, in order to meet his colleagues at the Council a ppointed for the f o ll ow i ng d a y. Viscount Palmers ton, who is at Broadlands, his seat near Romsey, comes to town either to-morrow evening, or by the express train on Wednesday morning. The Right H on ourable Sir, George Grey, Bart., has returned to London from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire, where the Right Honourable B arone t w as called to attend the obsequies of the Earl of Harrowby, uncle of Lady Grey- The Earl of A uc kl an d returns to his official residence at the Admiralty to-day. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and Lady Mary Wood come to town this afternoon, from visiting the Marquis and i)larchioness of Lansdowne, at Bowood. The Earl Grey, accompanied by the Countess, leaves Howick Ball, Northumberland, to-morrow morning, for Belgrave-ware. The Marquis of Clanricarde is expected to arrive from Portumna Castle, County Galway, to-morrow. The Marchioness and Lady Emily de Burgh have returned from visiting the Du k e and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle. The Right Honourable T. B. Macaulay is in tow n, an d the Right Honourable Henry Labouchere, who is staying with his family at Brighton, will be in tow n for the meeting of the Cabinet. The Right Honourable Sir John CamlHobhouse comes to town f ro m his seat in Wiltshire to-morrow evening. It is uncertain whether the Lord Chancellor will be suffi ciently restored to health to assist in the d e liberations lof his colleagues of the Cabinet. Lord Campbell has come to town. EVENING-, JANUARY , 10 IP-1S 5 OFFICIAL DISPATCHES RELAT ING TO SWITZERLAND. M. Guizot has laid before the Committee on the Address the documents connected with the affair 'of Switzerland. They are twenty-two in number. The most important are the following : No 1 is the treaty of alliance, or federal compact, of the Swiss cantons, entered into on the 16th of August, 1814. No. 2 is the declaration of the 20th March, 1815, by which the Congress of Vienna recognise the in tegrityi and independence of the Helvetic confede ration. No. 3 is the adhesion of the cantons to this declar- ation. No. 4, is the act recognising the neutrality of Switzerland. No. 5 is a dispatch from M. Guizot to the Count de Pontois, dated the 10th February, 1845, by which the Count is desired to invite the Vorort to take measures f . or the suppression of the free corps. No. 6 is a dispatch of a similar tenor, dated the 3d of March, 1845. No. 7 is a dispatch of the 25th March, 1845, in which M. Guiz,.t declares his friendly feeling for Switzerland, and his respect for its independence. No.B is a dispatch, dated June 19, 1845, in which M. Guizot desires M. de Pontois to engage the Diet to discuss in a pacific and conciliatory spirit the questions of internal policy which would be submitted to it. No. 9, dated October 24, 1846, is a dispatch from N:. Guizot to the Count de Flahault, the French Ambas,ador at Vienna. In this dispatch, which may be regarded as the commencement of the project of a congress in the affairs of Switzerland, M. Guizot alludes to a note from PrincelMetternich, recommend ing a council of the great Powers, and wishing to know what view the French Cabinet took of the new revolutionary Government at Geneva. M. Guizot desires M. de Flahault to inform the Prince that he regarded the change in Geneva like others which had taken place in other cantons, and did not intend to interfere then, but would see what was to be done at a later period. As regarded the council of the great Powers, suggested by the Prince, N. Guizot expresses his perfect concurrence, and desires M. de Flahault to make this officially known. No. 10 is another dispatch to M. de Flahault, dated Jan.2s, 1847, in which M. Guizot acknowledges the receipt of a communication from Prince Metter nich, recommending that the great powers, in order to prevent the breaking out of civil war in Switzerland, should declare that they would not permit the sove reignty of the cantons to be violated, and the Diet to have recourse to arms. M. Guizot approves of this suggestion, and says it is the only way that can have any real effect. He recommends that the representa tives of the great Powers should be instructed to make it, as soon as the question of the expulsion of the Jesuits, and the dissolution of the Sonderbund, is brought before the Diet. M. Guizot observes to M. de Flahault, that Prince Metternich does not express any decided opinion as to whether England should be invited to join the continental,Powers in this declara tion. He adds, " I think it is not only proper, but important, to come to an understanding with England also in this delicate affair." In No. 11, which is a dispatch from M. Guizot to the Count de Bois-le-Comte , dated July 2, 1847, the Minister for Foreign Affairs expresses his approba tion of the conduct and language of M. Bois-le-Comte in his relations with M. Ochsenbein, and states that he had taken an opportunity of declaring this in the Chamber of Deputies. Our readers will remember that M. Bois-le-Comte had almost, in direct terms, told M. Ochsenbein that the Diet could not be per mitted to attempt the dissolution of the Sonderbund by force of arms. M. Guizot observes in this letter that he does not approve of an offer of mediation under existing circumstances, as it could be attended with great inconvenience, and involve the mediators in a host of complications. lie thinks the best course would be, according to M. de Metternich, for the Powers to declare to the Federation that they would not suffer the cantonal sovereignty to be violated, and the peace of Switzerland to be disturbed by a recourse to arms on either side. In No 12, to the same Ambassador, dated 2d July, M. Guizot declares that if the Diet should attempt anything against the basis of the federal compact and of treaties, it would be guilty of an interpretation of the federal compact similar to that of the Ministers of Charles X. on article 14 of the Charter, and would risk the loss of the neutrality of Switzerland, guaranteed by the Congress of Vienna. M. Bois-le- C mute is ordered to state this to the Vorort. No. 13 is a note dated Nov. 4, addressed by M. Guizot to the French ambassadors at London, Vienna, Berlin, and St. Petersburgh, inclosing the project of a note to be transmitted to the belligerent parties in Switzerland, in which the arbitrage of the Pope in the religious question is approved of, and an offer of mediation is made by the great Powers to assemble in congress at Baden, and there to receive a delegation from each of the 22 cantons. /Co. 14 is the note alluded to, but as its contents have been published and are well known, it is unne cessary for us to go into details. No. 15 is a dispatch from the Marquis de Dalmatie to M. Guizot, dated Berlin, November 10, informing the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the project of the note had been communicated to the Prussian Cabinet, and received its entire assent. The Marquis de Dalmatie adds that the Prussian Minister for Fo reign Affairs had written to the Courts of London, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh to announce this fact. No. 16 is a dispatch from the French Ambassador at Vienna, dated November 11, stating that the Prince de Metternich approved of the note intended for the belligerent parties in Switzerland, but desired that it might be distinctly laid down that the 'great Powers were unanimous in their determination. No. 17 is a letter from Lord Palmerston to Lord Normality, dated Nov. 16, and communicated to M. Guizot two days after, in which his Lordship replies to the proposition of mediation made by the French Cabinet. This dispatch declares that the English Government would be well pleased to contribute in any way to put an end to the dissensions existing in Switzerland, but that it conceives that the five Powers ought first to come to some understanding as to the course to be pursued to effect that object. The dis patch then declares, that as the neutrality of Switzer land is a matter of importance for the general in terests of Europe, very grave, and, up to that time. unanticipated events would alone warrant an armed interference on the part of the five Powers ; also the refusal of a certain number of cantons to conform to the decisions of the Diet must not be considered sufficient to deprive the Diet of the character of being the official organ of the Con federation in its relations with foreign Powers ; and hence, if a mediation was to be agreed on, it should be based on such motives as would fully comprise these two points. Before, there fore, entering on any attempt to arrange the differ erences in Switzerland, the first thing to be done was to decide what were the matters in dispute ; there appeared to be, on the one hand, the establishment of the Jesuits in Switzerland, and the separate union of the seven cantons, under the name of the Sonderbund; and; on the other hand, the measures determined on by the Diet relative to that separated body. As to the Jesuits, the Britannic Government thought that the objection made to their continuance in Swit zerland by the Diet could be most fully justified, and that, consequently, the Five Powers ought to apply to the Pope to recal them ; this being done, the Diet ought not to have any objection to give up all further proceedings against the Sonder bund, but ought to declare that it was fully deter mined to maintain the principle of a separate m ove - reignty of each of the conf ederated cantons—a principle universally recognised as the very foundation of the federal compact. On ce that the Diet had made this declaration, the Sonderbund, the British Cabinet thought, could not have any pretext for continuing its separate association. Such were tite points to be regulated, should the opposing parties in Switzer land consent to a mediation of the five great Powers ; but should they not, such refusal could not be considered as any sufficient cause for an armed intervention. If the offer, however, were accepted, it would be necessary to establish a conference, com posed of seven representatives, one from each of the five Powers, one from the Diet, and one from !,he Sonderbund. The dispatc h concludes by naming London as the most suitable place for the conference. —Annexed to this dispatch is a note to be presenttish cl, on the subjects alluded to above, b . y the Bri the Charge d'Affaires at Berne, t o the Diet, and to official organ of the Sonderbund. M. Gu . z B O t is t o a t d h i e s p D a t u c k h e , d d e a t ß e d r Ng Ilie , n B w , h a d i c d h r e the ssed byfor mer announces that the King's Government, taking into consideration the counter project proposed by Lord Palmerston, insists on its being well understood that, in case of a refu sal of mediation , all the rights which may belong t o each of the 1 owers shall remain entire and thoroughly reserved; as to the place where the conferences were to take place, , !bat could be de cided at a later oa p c e c r e i od p t the Frenchwhatever p l(axcoev mighter nme n t b appeareing convenient to the several Courts engaged with it quite most ready t in the mediation. No. 19 is a dispatch from the Duke de Broglie, of Nov. 20, in answer to the foregoing. It announces Lord Palmerston s consent to the pro v iso contained in M. Guizot 's dispatch, as well as his Lordship's acqui escence in a suggestion made by the Duke, that the seven cantons of the Sonderbund should be induced to apply to the Holy See, to learn if it was not ad visable for the Pope to interdict the order of the Jesuits from forming or occupying any establishment on the territory of the Helvetic confederation. It also contains some changes, of no great moment, in the text of the circular note to be submitted to the five powers. No. 20. is a dispatch from M. Guizot, dated No , vember 24, informing the Duke de Broglie that, with the modifications contained in the preceding dispatch, the circular note containing the offer and bases of a mediation in Switzerland had been agreed to by the Ambassador of Austria, and the Minister of Prussia, who had engaged to transmit it to their representatives in Switzerland, in order that these latter gentlemen might hand it in simultaneously with the Ambassador of France and the Charge d'Affaires of England, to the President of the Diet and to the President of the Council of War of the Sonderbund. The dispatch adds that the Charge d'Affaires of Russia, not having as yet re ceived any instructions from his Court, could not enter into any engagement to take immediately a similar step, but that be was of opinion that his Court would adhere to the line of conduct pursued by those of Vienna and B erlin. No. 21, dated Novem ber 28, is addressed by Ni. Guizot to M. de Bois-le-Comte, enclosing the circular note to be presented to the President of the Diet and to the President of the Council of War of the Son derbund. No. 22, dated Dec. 2, is from the Duke de Broglie to M. Guizot, informing him that Lord Palmerston had that morning, in the course of an official conver sation, observed that the proposed mediation would in all probability be rendered unnecessary by the rapid progress of events. "If the Sonderbund still exists," observed his Lordship, " it will receive from Sir S. Canning, on his arrival at Berne, in concert with the envoys of the other four Powers, the note agreed on ; but if that body no longer exists, the mediation falls to the ground." The dispatch further contains the rest of the conversation which took place between his Lordship and the Ambassador, chiefly on the precise meaning of the words " perpetual neutra lity" and " inviolability of territory," as applied to Switzerland. The N'ble Duke maintained, he states, that though an intervention was to be consi dered highly objectionable, and to be justified only by very extraordinary circumstances, still it might be rendered necessary by the relations existing be tween the Swiss cantons and the Powers contiguous to their frontiers. TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. The greatest consternation was occasioned in Wandsworth on Friday afternoon, by a sudden report of such violence as to shake many of the hovses to their foundations. It was soon ascertained that the scene of the catastrophe was a baker's shop, situated near the swing-bridge, and not more than one hun dred yards from the railway station, and which had been blown up_with its occupants, the baker (Mr. Cupit), his wife, and child. The scene that pre sented itself to the beholders was heart-rending. the interior of the shop was a heterogeneous mass of ruin, under and amongst which lay the insensible bodies of Mr. Cupit, his wife, and child. These un fortunate beings were, with praiseworthy diligence , soon released from the mass of rubbish in which they had been buried, and upon being exposed to the fresh air showed signs of animation; but all of them had been most frightfully injured, Mrs. Cupi more particularly so; indeed so serious are her inju ries that, if life is spared, she will probably be a cripple for life. The house is the corner one of a number recently built in a very substantial manner, and was only opened a week since. At the time of the explosion there were upwards of five bushels of bread in it, which Mr. Cupit and his wife were placing ready to take out, both being behind the counter, and the child in the centre of the shop ; it was broad daylight, and therefore no necessity for the gas or any other arti ficial light, and the circumstance makes the occurrence the more extraordinary, inasmuch as it was a gas explosion, and a vast body, to judge from the damage done. The entire flooring, under which there is no cellar, was blown up, some of the boards forcing their way partly into the first floor; several joists of this floor were snapped in two, and the boards forced up. Both shop windows were blown out, the two heavy folding doors torn from the jamb-posts, and the destruction continued in an unabated form to the bakehouse, a distance of eighteen yards from the shop. The opposite house had all the windows broken, and the damage altogether will amount to several hundred pounds. The gas was only laid on from the main on Monday last, and various opinions are afloat as to the efficiency of the work ; the matter will, however, be investigated by the company (a local one), and no doubt sifted to the bottom. On Saturday Mrs. Cupit was declared out of danger, but she will be a deplor able sufferer for months. HAYMARKET TREATRE. We are requested to give insertion to the following communications : _ _ ..... _ " Mr. Webster regrets to inform the patrons of the Haymarket Theatre that, in consequence of the severe indisposition of Mrs. Kean, the appearance of herself and Mr. Kean in the new play of The Wife's Secret is unavoidably postponed until Monday next." Mr. Webster has received the following certificate from Mrs. Kean's medical adviser : " Percy. street, Jan. 8, 1848. " Sir,—For several days past I have heen attending Mrs. Charles Kean with slight influenza, from which she was gradually recovering, but, unfortunately, this evening I find her attacked with inflammation of the trachea and glottis, which renders her quite hoarse, and as I hear she is t 6 perform at the Haymarket Theatre on Monday nest, I have given it as my decided opinion that she will be incapab le of articu lating distinctly by that day, and I may add, that in all probability she will not be able to appear for a week, and that not without care and attention on her part, the weather at present being so unfavourable to her recovery. " This account of Mrs. C. Kean's health is commu nicated at the request of Mr. Kean.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "B. Webster, Esq." "JAMES CLAYTON." Lord John Russell left Windsor Castle on Satur day for Richmond Park. Lady John Russell and family are expected to remain there for some weeks. Lord John Russell will come to town each day to attend his official duties at the Treasury, returning to Rich mond in the evening. DR. HAMPDEN AND THE SEE OF HEREFORD. Dr. Hampden will be confirmed Bishop of Hereford to morrow, at eleven o'clock, at Bow Church. We believe 1 that the day on which the consecration will take place is not yet fixed. THE COURT, &C.-WINDSOR, SUNDAY EVENING. —The death of Madame Adelaide has thrown consider able gloom over the celebration of the holidays at the Castle. It was in consequence of this melancholy event that the royal party arranged for Twelfth Night was put aside, and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge , th e Princess Mary, Prince George, and Prince Frederic of Hesse so suddenly left the Castle on Thursday. There were no fresh arrivals at the Castle yesterday ; nor were there any invitations to the royal table last even ing ; but her Majesty and the Prince dined alone, and, in consequence of the calamity which has befallen the family of his Majesty the King of the French, the usual attendance of the musical band was forbidden. It was finally arranged last night that the Court will leave for Claremont between two and three o'clock to-morrow afternoon, at which time the Marquis of Ormonde will g o out of office as Lord in Waiting on the Queen, and the Earl of Morten will meet the Royal Family at Claremont to succeed him. DETERMINED AND MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Saturday Mr. Mills held an inquest in the Middlesex Hospital, on Henry Lamount, aged 45, a faithful ser vent, who had lived as porter twenty-three years w Mr. Solomons, glass - dea ler, Poland-street. The deceased had the misfortune to be married to a woman w h o ra ther indulged in dr ink, and who died on Thursday. After her death dec eased went to a drawer in his room where he expected to find 141 . and his watch, both were gone. He then rushed franticall y from his lod g in g , in Broad-street, to Mr. Solomons, exclaiming " I am a ruined man I will never recover it; I will be compelled to apply to the parish to bury my wife." Mr. Solomons in vain endeavoured to soothe the poor fellow. After sometime he left his master's house, and having bought h a lf-a-pint of vitriol dran k i t o ff in the street. He was remo ved in the greatest agony to the hospital, were death quickly ter minated his suff erings. Mr. Solomons, affectedeased ecould d tearswhile nothe he gave evidence, deposed surpassed for honesty, so briety, industry , and attention to his employer's interest. H e (Mr. Solomons) was cert a i n t h at h e never cou ld get suc h another servant. Verdi c t—'l nsan i ty ." DEPLORABLE ACCIDEN T IN B ISHOPSGATE -STREET. On Saturday, at eight o'cl oc k, M r . J ose ph Payne, the deputy coroner, held an i nquest a t th e w orkhouse, who that was dec Bishopsgate-street, on the body of James Hall, aged 38. John Morgan, the proprietor of the Green Dragon, Bishopsgate-street, said, that in the gateway of witness's house a sewer was at the present time in course of con struction. On Friday night an alarm was raised that the cutting had fallen in, and that the men were buried alive. Witness immediately went to the spot, when he saw two men standing upright in the earth. The mould was removed as soon as possible, and the men were extricated. It took about 20 minutes to clear away the earth, when the deceased was found in a stooping posi tion. He was quite black in the face, and life was totally extinct. Upon the alarm being given a surgeon was sent for, who was present when the deceased WAS got out. Witness had heard the deceased's master order the men to shore up the sewer, but they had neglected to do so. By the Coroner—" There were three or four feet of earth on the deceased." John Thumpling said, that he was at work wit h the decease d when the occurrence took place. Whilst deceas e e d called H stooping down he perceived the ear th crack. h out to him, and made a jump to wards the lad _d er, w en the earth fell in and buried the deceased. Ho had frequently stated to the witness that the ground was solid enough without being shored up. Mr. Mile s Beale, surgeon, 41, Bishopsgate-street, said, that he saw the deceased when he was got out. The face was black and swollen, and life was extinct. He tried to bleed him but could not. Verdict—" Accidental Death." LIVREtOOL, JAN. 7. —The Shenandoah, Captain West, arrived from New York, brings 20,000/. specie on • fr e ig ht; the Charles Brownell, from Valparaiso, also, has brought a number of caaea of gold and silver bars. A letter from 13,reraen states that in the course of the last year, 63,682 emigrants left that port for the United States of America, Brazil, and Australis. IRELAND. DEATH OF REAR-ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS USSHER. DUBLIN, JAN. 7.—The death of this veteran officer, who had just assumed the command of the Irish k craval station at Cove, is thus announced by the Cor B porter of Thursday : " We regret to have to announce the demise of this distinguished officer, which melancholy event took place at the Admiralty House, Cove, this morning, at three o'clock. Ile had attained to the age of nearly seventy, and was universally esteemed for bis thee mable qualities. He was s elected to convey Emperor Napoleon to Elba, and remained on that station in command of her Majesty's ship Undaunted, until the royal captive had made his escape from it and returned to France. The following is an emi• meration of Admiral Ussher's services :—Midshipman of the Invincible in Howe's action in 1794. Acting Lieutenant of the Minotaur, serving on shore with a division of seamen at the reduction of St. Lucia. Acting Lieutenant of the Pelican in the action with the French frigate Medea in 1796. Acting Lieutenant of the Pelican at the sinking of the French 16-gun privateer, Trompeaur, in 1797, and at the capture of Trinidad. Commanded the boats:of the Pelican in twenty. five actions, in which he was twice badly wounded. Lieutenant commanding the Colpoys destroyed several batteries and signal stations on the French coast. Commander of the Redwing, 1806 and 1807, in which period he drove or, shore a Spanish flotilla at Tariffs, again at Calassel Valencia, and subsequently destroyed three priva teers, and attacked a flotilla off Cape Trafalgar, sink• ing four and capturing eight of the number. Cap tain of the Lewden in the expedition to Walcheren, and of the Hi acinth in 1811, and in command of the boats of the latter ship, in conjunction with those of the Goshawk and the Resolute, entered the harbour of Malaga, spiked the guns on the Mole•head batte ries, and boarded and brought out two privateers. 1812, Captain of the Undaunted at the destruction of a five-gun battery at Carai, and cutting out a French brig. Captured the town of Cassis, destroyed the batteries, and brought out or sunk all the vessels. Conveyed Napoleon to Elba. Sir Thomas lissher :received the appointment of Rear-Admiral of the White and hoisted his flag as such on board the Crocodile, at Cove, only two days ago. He has left Three sons and two daughters. His eldest son is pos-captain in the navy, the second Captain of Ma rinas, I :nd the youngest is, we believe, in the Com missary department, serving at Canada." THE LORD CuaNcEaLoit.—We are happy to state that his Lordsh;o is so far recovered that he was able to come down 'to the drawing-room on Wednesday and Thursday, and renained several hours. THE IRON TRADE. BIRMINGHAM, S ATU RDAY.--'l he colliers in the iron district still continue out, and front the further sus pension of forges, in all probability, in the course of a few weeks the number of men unemployed will be considerably increased. From a statistical account published in the Birmingham Journal this morning, it appears that the Staffordshire mining diArict, which six months ago presented a scene of busy and profitable industry unequalled in any other part of England, wears just now a changed and cheerless aspect. There are altogether 137 blast furnaces in the dis trict. Of these, 58 are out of blast and 79 in, and so lately as since December, 38 of the 58 named as blown out have been stopped in consequence of the depressed state of trade. The number of furnaces in blast in the depressed state of trade in June, 1843, was 72, and out of blast 69—total, 141. The ironmasters' meeting next week will be looked forward to with considerable anxiety, both by sellers and buyers, to know what will be done. If the men remain out, several of the ironmasters now working short time will close their works altogether until the crisis has passed over. The accident in the tunnel, near Leek, mentioned in last Saturday's Mercury, was not so disastrous in its results as was at first feared. David Smith was the only workman killed; three others were seriously in jured, but are in a fair way of recovery; the other three men who were in the works at the time of the accident escaped unhurt. An inquest was held on the body of Smith, on Saturday last, before W. Harding, Esq., co roner. From the evidence then adduced it appears that all the workmen got safely out of the way of the blast, and were returning to their work when, without the least notice, about twenty tons of red sandstone fell, striking Smith, and the three others, who were injured. Some hours strenuous exertions were necessary before the pour fellows were extricated from the fallen mass. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."— Staijordshire Mercury. The Earl of Carlisle, we are happy to state, has rallied, and his medical attendants have hopes of his ultimate recovery. Viscount Morpeth has returned to Castle Howard, from Hull, where his Lordship was stay ing on official business, when intelligence of his noble parent's sudden and serious indisposition reached him. A body of more than 4,500 students waited yester day on M. Michelet with an address, expressing their re gret at the suspension of his lectures at the College of France. Not the slightest disturbance of public order took place.—Galignani of Friday. STRANGE OCCURRENCE.—A very strange occur rence happened last week in the neighbourhood of Llan geitho. A poor weman—who occupied a part of a small cottage, in one end of which, separated only by a par tition, lived other people—was taken ill, and after a short time died. The corpse having been laid out in the usual manner, the neighbours left the house and locked the door. They were, however, soon aroused by a very strange noise in deceased's apartment, similar to hard coughing, which, as might be supposed, frightened them not a little, but no notice was taken of it; but, on enter ing the apartment the next morning, they found the corpse turned on one side, the eyes wide open, and the bands that tied the hands together were loose, and the sheet that covered the body thrown off. It is presumed that the deceased must have been in a kind of trance when laid out, and afterwards in the agonies of death struggled violently. The neighbours are greatly to blame for not entericg the house when they heard the coughing.—Observer. SNUFFERS.—A gentleman travelling in the interior of Brazil put up for a night at a farmhouse, furnished in the primitive style of the country; but on the table, in company with a long tallow candle, :were placed a handsome pair of plated snuffers and its stand, which he had received as a present from Rio Janeiro. " What conveniences you invent in Europe!" said the Brazilian to his guest. " Before Treceived this present, I used, after taking off the candle snuff, to throw it about the floor, or perchance on the bench where I was sitting, or over my clothes—but now, mark the difference." So saying, he pinched off the lung snuff between his thumb and finger, put it carefully into the snuffers, and put them up with a look of triumph at his highly amused spectator. REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.—A recent work of science gives the following novel experiment, which settles questions of some importance in philosophy: — " Two hundred pounds weight of earth were dried in an oven, and afterwards put into an earthen vessel. The earth was then moistened with rain water, and a willow tree, weighing five pounds, was planted therein. During the space of five years the earth was carefully watered with rain r bz il n l g o willow mixed dw withan d flourished; water, and t o or p r p e u v r e e n t w t a h te e earth fresh earth or du st blown in it by the winds, it was the covered with a metal plate perforated with a great number of small boles, suitable for the free admission of air only. After growing in the air for five years, the tree was removed, and found to weigh 169 pounds and about three ounces ; the leaves which fell from the tree every autumn were not included in this weight. The earth was then removed from the vessel, again dried in the oven, and afterwards weighed ; it was discovered to have lost only about two ounces of its original weight; thus 160 pounds of woody fibre, bark, or roots were certainly produced ; but from what source? The air has been discovered to be the source of the solid element at least. This statement may at first appear incredible, but, on slight reflection, its truth is proved, because the atmosphere contains carbonic acid, and is a compound of 714 parts by weight of oxygen, and 338 parts by weight of carbon." A LIBERAL LANDLORD.—That excellent and truly liberal nobleman, the Lord Dinorben, has intimated to his numerous tenantry, that in future they may consider the hares and rabbits on their farms entirely at their own disposal.—Carnarvon Herald. HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER. — On Saturday the police received information that on Thursday last, about six o'clock in the evening, whilst a man named Joseph King, a travelling tradesman, was passing through a lonely part of Exminster-lane to Kenford, near Exeter, he was attacked by_two men, who first demanded his money or his life. The poor fellow having refused, they threw him ,upon the ground and his ri aud s treated him with brutal violenc e. One of the men gave him a kick in the side whi ch severely injured him in other pa br rts ok of e the bod bs, c y, that he brought up a considerabl e quantity of blood. Whilst in an insensible state they robbed him of three 5/. notes and 41. in gold and si ears of age, remains it lver. The unfortuna . te man, who ca upwards is a a very pra upwards of sixty y rious state. The Earl of Durham is at present at Lambton Castle, near Chester-le street, in the, county of Durham. His Lordship has also staying with him another young noble, Lord Bruce, we believe. They both appear ardent admirers of the sports of the field. The Earl of Dur ham is in his 20th year.—Nerocastk Guardian. GLASGOW COTTON MAUSItT, JAN. 7.--Holders still demand rather higher rates than those current lately, which has in man.y instances been acceded to, though the demand has been very slightly improved. — Scotch Reformers Gazette. ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—At the meeting of this society on Tuesday evening, January 11, a paper will be communicated by Professor Owen, on some remains of the large extinct birds of New Zealand, which have lately been transmitted to him by Mr. Mantel!, and which include nearly perfect crania of Dinornis and Palapteryx. A temporary change of wind in the latter part of last week enabled a number of vessels to leave this port, where they had been windbound for several weeks. Indeed so great had been the detention, that it wits estimated that there were not less than 1,700 ships in the' harbour, a greater number probably than were ever collected in the river before.—Newcastle Chronicle.