The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-25 00:00:00

DRURY-LINE THEATRE. A divertissement produced last ev,ning at this theatre, tinder the title of the Star of the Rhine, met with cotnplete. success. The plot ik not, very intri cate. Mademoiselle Plunkett displays a world of vigour and agility in front of a very pretty Rhenish v iew, and the whole piece is too light and Graceful to be tedious. Indeed, Plunkett danced her best ; and tier best, we all know, is something very beauti ful and winning. In one particular pas she rivalled Fanny Elseler herself in the delivery of close twinkling steps, involving the most elaborate intricacies of the art,, coupled with a steadiness, sharpness, and elegance th 4 t seemed to leave nothing in the way of dexte ?lt, unachieved. The staid and puritanical burgo 'aster (W. H. Payne) might well be overcome by such freaks of foot; and we could not marvel at his infatuation when he lurched to and fro, inspired by the good-humoured face and wonderful ronds de Jambe of the nymph with the pink legs. The worthy functionary having broken his own law, and even atatnped upon it with his own heel, superintends, with a OF w-born zest, a variety of other dances. He is regtiled with a Pas Espagnol by Sunbeam and the akoesaid swain in tights—a Valse Tyrolienne by the !Uses in the village—and a galop general. Sunbeam htt ving thus vindicated the glory of the art of which 81 1 e is the "genius," slides up the slope into the bush • ft ora whence she came, and is seen no more. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. , The most picturesque and effective melodrama ever produced upon the English stage was brought for 'ward at this theatre last evening. It is adapted from ;the Freucb, we believe by Mr. Bourcicault, and en• 'titled the Corsican Brothers. It' the interest be not altogether so enthralling as in Pauline, yet, from the novel nature of its details and the unprecedented excellence of the stage effect, it is rendered more im pressive on the mind of the spectator. As a piece of " breathless interest" it cannot fail to prove supremely ' attractive. Every one will go to see it, and most will repeat tha visit. To say that its success was triumphant conveys a faint notion of the extraordi nary enthusiasm manifested by the house last night, and Mr. Kean may well feel proud of having given to the public one of the most unexceptionably charm ' il; and originally constructed dramas that has ap peared on the boards in any country. 'There are two very singular features in the Cor limn Brothers, the supposed simultaneous occur rence of the, first and second acts (the one being laid in Corsi ca the other in Paris), and the personation of the twirl brothers by one and the same actor. The P l ot is not complex; it is founded on the supernatural, Which is made use of in a way totally free from any nnent of repulsiveness. The first act shows us Fabien d e i Franchi (Mr. C. Kean) in his own cha teau in Corsica, to whom a Frenchman brings a letter .?.f introduction from his twin-brother Lu i gi slei . r anelli, who is in Paris pursuing his studies. Fa men. is in a depressed state of mind, having a secret t re sentiment of some fatal danger impending over his muteat brother, there being not only the most tender affection existing between them, but such a mysteri °ll3 '3'umnatlay, that each is instantly forew a r ned, as ° it were, of an y misfortune which may affect the of After an episode introduced to present a specimen 4 Corsican feud, and the formal reconcilement of a vendetta between two factions of the island, F abien, th an whom his forebodings continue to press increased weight, determines to write off to 318 . Whilst inditicg the letter, shine, and at mid „not, the apparition of Luigi rises with a gliding ti t4 i.oll from the floor, with the mark of blood upon I , l ° breast, and stands by the side of the awe-struck a4 len. The wall of the apartment opens and dis- D clos es a tableau representing a fatal duel in a forest ecle, Luigi stretched at the point of death Ct ii _i t ' ll( ' arms of his friends, and his adversary l uing a little apart calmly: wiping his fatal lid ,e• This scenic effect held the beholders at 11 b0Und ; in the gradual and noiseless e Veltrance of the phantom there was something 4 ( 111 , 4 , i IY real, and when the curtain fell the universal l ', l ' ,ll ag of astonishment found relief i n a t h rice re peated round of vehement plaudits. The se con d ac t o p en s in the Opera at Paris during k l . lll aaked b a ll. L u igi, who had been enamoured of 1 7 (1 ° 111 e de Lesparre (Miss Murray) previous to her (il r ` r iage, falls into a quarrel with Chateau Renard las s LVVigan), who has been casting his lur es around and a c tually makes her the subject o f a artless "eager, engaging to bring her to jo in a I)?! e cc t Party at the house of a bachelor friend , w hich effects under pretence of conducting her to se e a zig lost sister. Discovering at once that she has 'Z en duped, Madame de Lesparre places herself under m e l , Protecti on of Luigi as an honoured friend, brt ic h calls a challenge from Chateau Renard. Again att ics, whilst the fatal tableau, now recognising the actual t ,4 t ":ea, whilst behind, the chamber in Corsica opens 4 , e the view, with Fabien gazing on the scene of Mb, so that the last scene of the first two acts are L' r ea , laely the converse of each other. In the third of ; Chateau Renard, flying from the hands A 1.., justice, is overtaken by Fabien, who , 4 31 hastened to Paris to avenge his brother, Ou the very spot where Luigi had c., 0 1311 a desperate encounter takes place. Renard's i his ° rd is shivered, but Fabien, determined on the t 1 or breaks his own, and with the fragments of the ti ' l kdea the combat is continued till Renard falls be th the hand of the avenger. The spectre of Luigi 4111 rises, and announces to his brother that they meet in heaven. Mr. C. Kean's double per k-;crance is characterised by that ease, correctness, i t i ta knpressive n e s s, the combination of which renders th e d . llll aPproachable in this peculiar department of ralna• The part of Chateau Renar d was admi - N ab i l' sustained by Mr. Wigan. The unscrupulous oti h .' the cold-blooded duellist, yet, as a foreboding b ui fate affects him, bids the friend of his last field ss,,i i h dc the tidings gently to his mother. It was a 44;studied, finished, and fitly-appreciated perform es n s t n : The minor characters were irreproachably perform e, j te d.• Miss Murray, as Madame de Lesparre, •and V ini ng, as the Baron de Montjeron, Mr. Ryder Ilsae lr • Meadows, as the Corsican peasants, the ti le of their respective factions, Miss Leclercq, as principalof the cor hies and Mr. Addison, as wo _ , yp , u g - cutter, did their several subsidiary duties A's t a anher that cannot be too highly commended. Z'he 4, th s Bal Masque, it was a " tremendous hit." of tbelusinu was complete, as the spirit and variety tail h ,volut'on of the " fast and furious" maskers !ItPa t i, 14-11 " f Fl in his t'cle RfLaf greatly to t-e credit oexmore ballet master. He was conspicuous among 11)1 d 4,71 throng, as an indefatigably agile Pierrot, „ I rcielc - ,,.. ea tb their disguises Madlle. Aur iol and Cor - Ilan 'tight be recognised by their dancing. ahe tl tae ttrtai h i saes were capital, grotesque , and rich, a r id t 1 0N -3 % . auch a stage masquerade has ne ve r been be held. The scenery in thi., and the succeed --eue (representing "the Lobby of the Opera , owe) both by Lloyds, was most artistic. Mr. Of " 6 Kean never received a more hearty tribute a pprobationo f than when called for at the conclusion, bo 4 :ever did he more amply merit marks of the yju_alar favour. His skill as manager, and his re ;_laielxcellence as actor, give him a prominent su %elm .. cy in the profession. Mr. Wigan bore off ,, the t he honours of the night. The " mounting of t me Corsican Brothers is perfection ; the spiritual altblance of the te fitly conveyed by d p hantom,et a notion of which cannot the moat striking and P e lP r t f i ", , being, in particular, ''titnessed. It will be repeated' effect we have ever oi: e Thursday evening Flexmore'e benefit), and, v roe times a week for months to eon pr .esume, two or e STATE S_______—, OFTRAD is day.) 1„,,,(Fr0m the Manchester Guardian o f MI of the IAtI7R4I‘,-eIiEsTER, TUESDAL—The resignation the in - 1 1 ( 1 Cabinet, and theep accession of . Protection s l a resent perplexing condition O f both °,ffice, in Icontinental affairs, have had ch© !free ' c -uritish and rations of buyers. w titiv e t c-4 restricting th e f tn o_ _-e activ e ° Per ti ll ," a e ontinuation ° , P k e t , o -da y , but a disposition tatls t e l ;: - ha of last the wee execution of tiny but the t er. - to defer "c'eunot, however, the slightest ab et : Pressing orders. There is st sellers. M _any are of 0 ,„ 1 . 11 ,ht of firmness among tett ff i t T li on that Lord ll;:rby will not venture upon an at rster to re d on every hand, *impose a tax on the people's bread: at any th 4t l , w , Perfect confidence is exprense , th e ", he should enter upon so insane an undertaking, vo cu e i ? l threerci a l and manufacturing towns and districts hh "hiEtantly assume au attitude which would scare D vv. , rem his purpose and speedily drive him from e si c r - The sub j ect has fumed the great topic of c on- Islilti°o on 'Change during the day; but the absence of 11 hr : e ar of ulti mate d anger to th e f ree -trade policy Pre; w hich the country has so successfully entered, q4l'etits that d epress i ng e ff e ct which might otherwise he w tie ; and a s p ro d ucers , especially those of yarns, are 14 , thore extensively under contract than for some time f url ll they show themselves quite at ease about making bee laxer 801 " Such b ing the case, the buyers have 151.1 4 1 (1 • to pay the full prices of the most lively part * fati, 4 , week for any yarns and goods they may have tb tii ; e 4 , ° . This they have done more readily for the former , I littri r ,%. °l. the , latter. Indeed, the highest demand tben heap 'or W s to 24's water-twist and for 40's mulehave rt A cceded to to-day. dull histtc4l).4l.,E, MONDAY.—WO have bad another ., , , t Ar tvi " , with a small amount of bu.Aness transac.su_a his to ri c " Ptie n . Th ere h as b e en a rather better de d - Ati c 7Tr wools, varying from 9d. to Is. per lb., and good t ittl; e B ,"ve been obtained, as these qualities of wools , lA A scarce at present. e4CccLzarIELD, TUESDAY. —The business that has Dor t itlrensacted in our market 6 iric , -) our last s re: l are te ,as not given inerea,t'd stimulus to the inanu t Le , 4re an 1 9 extend operations for the moment; but . 1 2_ Prp, o Ilously looking forward for a considerable i Nath nlerl t in the spring demand; and vie hope the l _fine e thei r ar will to some extent have a tendency to hand-loom 14 s,4 1 Pectations. A large portion of our .0. tn,_,._ r 8 cot.tinue to make complaints of want of Tlsi y ln , ts re. , L-ae,e:i 1- ;., , n ,,f ac .,,., - t•ir,;:: e'inr° l P , er isho44eseriptions oi goods to L-..,i1 themselves of chef,.? , s , -.b: markets in the remote districts. Thrown b"... telacC ()erased is fair, with rather an imroved upward Ot i tt e eY „ t : o r hue China and Bengal throwns. Ital"ns , - htrary, exhibit a little weakneos ill price, the great advance that has taken place in this silk rendering . manufacturers cautious. The deliveries of silk to be thrown continue good; but the prices aro' scarcely remunerative, and are much complained of. Raw Silk—A large business is again reported in China, s ilks, since the past sales, at a slight advance., The. quantity of this silk that has changed hands during the, last four weeks exceeds 5 000 bales; and the tonal ad vance upon the prices of last November is Is. to ls. per lb. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The demand for worstel goods is very limited, both in the piece hall and in the warehouses; and scarcely anything has been done tC day, except in a few fancy goods of low, quality. The depression of the yarn market increases; and, as tie prices aro wholly unremunerative, the spiunors ao greatly curtailing the amount of production. There is not much doing in wool, and the quotations are gene rally maintained, though there are instances where Vie staplers seem more ready to meet the offers of the con sumers. HUDDERSFIELD, TrESDA Y.—There has been very little inquiry for any kind of goods, either plain or fancy, in our market to-day. The manufacturers in the hull cotnplaiu much—not being able to close bargains with the merchants at their prices, on account of the high price of the raw material. Wools continue at about the same rates as last week, though there has not been quite BO u3uch doing. SPORTING INTELLIGEN CE . BETTING AT MANCHESTER7TuEsnA.Y. LII'ERPOOL `SPRING CUP.-2 to 1 agst Surprise (take 5 to 2). 7 to 1 agst True Girl (t), 8 to 1 agst Snowdrop (t). 8 to 1 apt Cardinal Wiseman (t). LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-11. to 1 agst Vic tress (t), 11 to 1 agst La GaZzi Ladra (t), 15 to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (t), 16 to 1 agst Hardwick (t), 20 to I agst Bourton (t), 20 to agst Warner (t) METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-10 to 1 agst :Hesse Homburg (t), 16 to 1 agst Wryneck colt (t), 20 to 1 agst Miss Ann (t), 20 to agst Sally Warfoot colt (t). CHESTER Cur.-18 to 1 agst High Sheriff (t), 20 to 1 opt Confessor (t), 25 to 1 agst Black Doctor Ct), 33 to 1 agst Scarecrow (t), 40 to 1 agst Cockcrow (t), .50 to 1 agst Surprise (t), 1,000 to 15 agst filly out of Sortella's dom (I), 1,000 to 15 agst Mountain Dear (0. DERBY.-5 to 1 agst Hobble Noble (0. SPORTING NOTES. No. CLXXVI. THE SUTTON STEEPLECHASE, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN. SlR,—The first essay that the Sutton people unide at establishing a steeplechase was an uncommonly suc cessful one, which has induced them to try another day's sport on Friday next. It is not my present purpose to touch upon any other than the Grand Open St eeple chase, which closed with thirty-two nominations, of which nineteen have accepted, although one, Rattrap, is by his owner declared a non-starter. The list is h elided by Peter Simple, at llst 81b; I should hardly imelgine, however, that he will go for such a small affair as. this with Liverpool so- close at hand. The General, 11st, will probably be the highest-weighted runner. 'tisane nce would seem to be a very fair one, notwithstanding: the weight he has to give to some very good animals iet the entry. Young Lottery, et 103 t 41b, also reads very •w ell. Bullfincher, at the same weight as the preceding, niay run forward, but is no winner. Mystery, lOst 21 b,, is without a chance, in my opinion. Verax, 10st, if m e ant for this affair, is decidedly the best " in " of any,,and without doubt ought to beat the rest into fits; but as it does not seem very clear whether mischief is meant or no, with respect to his chance I must put in a prolri so, to the effvet that if they intend hint to win, he can! Bus cot, lOst, is held perfectly safe by Verax. Ten. anct-six pence, 9st 121 b, like Bu3cot, it Verax runs, is with out a chance. Boundless and Kossuth, 9st 121 b each, together with Oily Gammon, 9st 101 b, and Charley, 9st 91b, are of no account whenever. Sir Alexander, 9st 81b, may run up into a place, but I hardly imagine he will turn out to be the winner. The Rector, 9st B►b, Susan, 9st 71b, Orange Girl, 9st 71b, and The Abbess, 9st, have their chances fettered by Mis chance at 9st 71b. The race, I opine, will lay with 'THE GENERAL, YOUNG LOTTERY, and VERAX; the lie.st named for choice, if meant. Should there be any p arti cular " moves" between now and to-morrow mor Wing concerning this Steeplechase they will be published • to morrow. A clever little work on the Spring Handicaps, be , my rhyming contemporary'. Priam," of the Racing Tirnes, has just been issued from the press. It contains a table of the acceptances of the five great Spring Handi namely, the Chester Cup, Metropolitan, Northatrepton shire, Newmarket, and Flying Dutchman, by which the comparative weights may be ascertained at a glaiace; also all the performances of all the animals engaged, with some sterling remarks on their present condition, &c. The book altogether to the sporting man is indispens able, and is decidedly the best of the kind that has as yet been published. In the City latterly some curious games have ;been played off with several of the favourites in the spring races; a short time since, for instance, Hesse 11011111 J urg from her position of first favourite for the Metropolitan was sent to forties to one without any reasonable ex use, and within the last few days the Confessor, for the Chester Cup, received the same treatment, being sent from twenties to fifties. Both, however, have recovered their former places, nothing of consequence having oc curred to either, or any change taken place in their owners' intentions. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Feb. 25, 1852. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDA.Y.) Sir,—l told you how things were going, an d that if these men would not come up to the mark of what the House of Commons desired, somebody else 'would. When a patient dies of a long course of what is some times called good living, it is not the last glass of wine that is to be charged with bis overthrow; it is the glasses administered by what styled themselves his hiends, in days when a wiser conduct in all might have en abled him to set at defiance the present risk of death. It is among observable plimuomena, that the same Government which had a majority of 92 v 'lien a charge was brought against it, was in a minor.ity of 11 o n a disputed question of policy. The reasco is plain enough. When a charge is brought, men of integrity will go great lengths with the principle, of viewing it as a question of whether they thiole on that charge the Government ought to be turned out. But they will not do the same when the question is whether a regular or a local militia is best calculated to prevent or repel invasion. Some may go to some event ; but the extent and the number will be vastly reduced, as was shown in the present case. Indeed there would be few things more tinier, aeon able, than to expect that a man with any tof Loh of personal acquaintance with a subject, and conse quently responsible to his own opinion and feat of associates for honest conduct, should deliberately vote worse better on a practical question, out of a theoretic fear that a Government should thereupon imitate the bearing of the proverbially headstrong animals, who in days of old "ran violently dowa a steep place into the see." My own opinion is (to parody the title of an art idle I used when a boy to pursue through the numbers of the "Arminian Magazine") that this is " God's Revenge against Murder and Adultery" committ ail at the Cape ; for Adultery substituting the burning of Mission houses, which happened to be " the sin They had a mind to." An insane Gessler demands t o put his toes upon a black chieftain's neck, and thus rouses a war to the knife between the races. An equally insane department of Government at home, expands three millions in support of the toes, and then s ales it never wanted anything but a naval station. There was some added cant about Christianity and civilisa tion (meaning thereby the burning of the Mis sion houses), which, if my - theory be true, must have helped to turn the scale to the side of retribution. And now you have got it. Every shilling's worth of damage done to a Kafieg bullock, is likely to be titken threefold out of West-Riding looms. You will say,. it hits the wrong men. And so it does. Retx ibu lion always hits the wrong men ; by way of showing to them, that they must lift up their voices and a pare not, and what is more, must do it in time to prevent. You must pay now, because you did not forward your M emor i a l f rom Bradford half a dozen years. ago. The Fre e Tr a d e r s in Parliament have got what they have l ong that of the m Government. been hankering after, a Protecli onist They bad always some theory like who should say, if he could only con trivemen who by this time biaan\hvo:se on fire what a nice new cane he would build. shall see what comes of it. The ought not to have had a leg to stand upon,—whomTil jest to suppose holding should have been a joke and a their heads as statesmen uparetbnow set on horseback, Yo g ur and public men at at, will of you before could open enemies are in your u o r p i e ) veith every chance of having the end of their race. n his mouth the saddle. Every man w h o were "no where," is now in office against you in parliament, w hi le to trywn defenders were upon you. It may all be for the best ; his but t an as the pour Indian princess said that I once told you of, "If I cou ld have had my way, there s hould have been more hats le o urs verft upon y si the ncerely, field." I am, Sir, y AN OLD REFORMER. Blackheath, 25 Feb., 1852. THE SPANIT EGICIDE.--A fte the execution of Merino for the attempt ther Q t o assassinate Queen of Spain, a "----- ------- ll R cast of his he a d w a s taken by Dr. Didier, copy of thi s cas t h as arr ived in Paris, an d has been placed of the heads of in the M useum o f Anatomy, in the collection of Madrid. A great criminals. We understand that the office of Dean of the Arches, vacant b y th e d eat h o f Si r H er bert Jenner Fust, has been conferred on Si r J o h n D odson, Q ue en's Advocate. Pr. Twiss has been nominated Queen's Advocate. The mercantile letters from Paris mention an ex pectation that the Bank of France is about to take the un usual step of reducing its rate of discount from 4 per cent. to 3 per cent. T" FIFESHIR M URDER..--From a communica tion received yesterday (Sunday) by the 'authorities here from the police-superintendent at Cupar, we learn that the murderers of the uld woman, Margaret Maxwell, who was deprived of life in such a barbarous manner a few days ago, have been apprehended. The watch which was stolen from the house by the wretches has at the same time been re covered. There are three parties implicated in the murder, but the names have not reached u5,..-North Britielt Mail, EARL GREY AND Silt HARRY SMITH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ,Sta,—Whatever may have been the indignation felt by this Gallant General, on the receipt of the Colonial Secretary's dispatch of recall, dated the 14th of January—however great and just may have been his anger upon the occasion, and although strong, no doubt, was his disgust, and bitter. his contempt as ho read that disgraceful document—Sir Harry Smith can now well afford to, and no doubt does by this time, entertain no other feeling towards his Lordship than those of pity and of scorn; but let me nut wrong Sir Harry Smith — the brave are always generous—and the praise he has received from the Noble Duke, will incline him to pardon the injdry attempted by the Earl. I do not, Sir, mean to say that Sir Harry would be displeased to enter heaven, except in the company of Earl Grey, but so long as they are on earth together Sir. Harry Smith can well indeed afford to smile on Earl Grey. In fact , i f we examine the matter more closely, we shall come, I think, to the conclusion that Sir Harry has much even to thank him for, inasmuch as his Lordship has given .the occasion—first, to tall forth tho 'spontaneous, unasked—for support and praise of the Noble Duke, and next, to awaken the attention of the public more particularly to the peculiar and harassing circumstances under which Sir Harry and his gallant companions in arms have had to act: a feel ing, unfortunately, had become very prevalent in this country, that there was some fault at the Cape, and that neither general nor the troops were doing their best. It is too of ten the case, that " gentlemen in England," from being so much accustomed to hear of a handful of their bravo countrymen in arms accomplishing the most extraordinary feate of valour in all parts of the world, and with almost invariable success, become sadly disap pointed at anything like a failure, and hardly give them selves time to reflect on the causes of any reverse; and, therefOre,Until the Noble Duke rose up in the House of Lords on the sth, the idea prevailed that it was, not the activity, position, or strength of the Kafirs, but the want of proper exertion and energy on the part of our own General and his subordinates, that was the true cause of this pro tracted warfare with the barbarians in the Cape; and had the Cabinet, therefore, to save Earl Grey and itself from blame, sacrificed Sir Harry quietly; had the decision been conveyed to that gallant officer in those terms any gentleman of' high and generous feeling would have, on such an occasion, used to another, however unfairly Sir Harry would even then have been treated, the country would hardly have given sufficient attention to the affairs of, to their minds, an unsuccessful general, as to have properly understood the position; and poor Sir Harry Smith might, perhaps, ultimately have gone to his grave, with his bright laurels tarnished, and his heart broken. But, Sir, Earl Grey's evil genius or, rather let us hope, Sir Harry's good one, produced the dispatch of the 14th of January. This, as we have seen, was laid on the table of the House of Commons on the 3d of February, called forth the Duke on the sth, The , Sun, on the 7th, fol lowed by the rest of the press on the 9th, 10th, 11th, &e., and Lord John Russell has not had the temerity to answer the Member for Lambeth, that the dispatch in question was " seen and approved" by him—he has not dared as yet to say that he had read it. Thus, Sir, we have seen that, as under the able directions of the General, volley after volley of musketry mowed down the dangerous foe at Aliwal, so the repeated peals of thunder issuing from a generous press, and fully appre ciated by an indignant public, will show the rulers of this country that the would-be detractors of her hero's merits will inevitably, sooner or later, meet their just reward. Up to the present moment Earl Grey stands alone responsible for the tone and the contents of his dispatch, and he will be a bold man if he dares to appear befor e the tribunal of his country, saying, " Alone I did it." But here, Sir, let us pause for a moment to reflect how painful and serious would have been Sir Harry Smith's position had sickness or any other cause prevented the Noble Duke from appearing in the House of Lords; that he would have been carried there, like Chatham of old, I have no doubt, to defend his country or his man; but alas! Sir, old age creeps on apace; none of us, neither the best nor the: bravest, are immortal, and the fates might have decided against Sir Harry. Is the Duke gone? might have been the question; and the only answer, " Then is your cause gone, too." Thank God, Canar is with us yet; snd Sir Harry's laurels are in sate keeping. It is indeed melancholy to see the inefficiency and un popularity of this Government, and that each individual of it should, as you justly remark, as he is weighed in the balance, be found wanting; but is it not sadder, Sir, to find one of the descendants of our ancient pillars of the State thus prominently brought forward as failing, not only in the qualities of a statesman, but in the common practice of a gentleman? But there is no help for it. Earl Grey must be made to answer to the people of England; he is responsible to them, and to their most Gracious Sovereign, for the advice he has given and for the conduct he has pursued. Earl Grey says to Sir Harry Smith, in his dispatch of the 14th January— " I must remind you that the first error which was committed, and to which, I believe, the failure of a policy otherwise sound, and. the calamity of the war, are mainly attributable, was the premature reduction of the British force under your command. 1 must take upon ~ m ygelf a share of the blame for this mistake, inas much-as :I had probably too often and too strongly pressed upon you the importance of reducing the num ber of troops as soon as this could be done safely." Indeed, Earl Grey I—take part of the blame—but the punishment?—that is all for Sir Harry. Is it—we shall see! I have said this, that but for Earl Grey's dispatch of the 14th January, the public might not have given themselves the time or the trouble to have examined the monstrous blue-books, with which it is the custom now to blind and bully or bamboozle the people. They might never perhaps have read Sir Harry Smith's dispatch written on the 18th December, but received, recollect, after the dispatch of recall, was, alas! for Earl Grey, beyond recall. Read the following extract, Englishmen, and compare Sir Harry's treatment with Sir Harry's services and difficulties :—" The Burghers would not turn out in any force, and thus arose the lamentable evils and the - misery which have attended the depredationa . of the en -DIY—evils which I anticipated in my Koalamation of the 3d ult., and which have, as I then predicted, been accompanied by every act of atrocity." Now, Sir, who caused discontent at the Cape and amongst the Burghers—Earl Grey or Sir Harry Smith? Who sent out ticket-of-leave convicts, or withheld the constitution? --Earl Grey .or Sir Harry Smith? However, Sir Harry continues in his dispatch I enclose a return of her Majesty's troops at the pe riod in question; they had to carry on a desultory war over an extent of country twice the size of Great Britain and Ireland I ! overrun by-a most enterprising horde of savages, and they had also to occupy twelve forts, the maintenance of which was indispensable. Had one re trogade step been made, the whole country would have been in a blaze." Sir, I will not continue the extract further from this highly and interesting dispatcb, but refer your readers to a perusal of it—leaving this painful sub ject for a time.--I am, Sir, &c. YOUR CONSTANT READER. Feb. 19, 1852, BURSTING OF A Boirmt AT OLDIIAM.—OR Tues day morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, a 20-horsepower high-pressure steam-engine boiler burst at the Diamond Cot ton, mill, West-hill, Oldham. The mill belongs to Messrs. Nuttal and Clough, who let off power to cotton waste cleaners, and the boiler was placed outside the premises, so that in ex ploding =it did no mischief to them, except that it destroyed the brickwork extending over a third of one side of the mill, which is only two stories high. It overthrew the chimney, however, forty feet high, which fell upon a row of cottages, and destroyed two of them, besides knocking out the windows and doors of three others. Mary, the wife of Thomas New ton, one of the cottagers, and Sarah Ann, his infant daughter, were severely bruised and scalded, and died within a short time of the accident. Mrs. Wright, who was in Newton's house, - was also struck on the forehead, and so seriously wounded that she is hardly likely to recover. James Howarth, the engineer, and John Gartside, a workman in the factory, are both badly hurt, and it is doubtful if they will recover. The boiler was lifted up in exploding, and carried a distance of forty yards east, while the back end of it was carried over a double row of cottages to the west. The boiler had been re cently purchased, but.was an old patched up one, and pro bably gave way from inequality in the strength of the plates under a high pressure. The Belgian Government has authorised an Eng lish company to lay down an electric telegraph between Ostend and London. The electric telegraph on the Great Western Railway is now completed to Bath, and will reach Bristol in about a week. It will then be immediately proceeded with from Bristol to Exeter, where it will be brought into con nexion with that on the South Devon line, and thus Plymouth will be at last united to Paddington. Mr. Morrison, of the firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co., warehousemen, of Fore-street, City, is in treaty for the splendid estate of Appuldurcombe, in the Isle of Wight, the property of the Earl of Yarborough. Its value is estimated at 150,0001. The Earl's indifference to yachting, the fa vourite amusement of his father, has induced him to wish to part with Appuldurcombe. NOVEL APPLICATION OF WATER-POWER TO BELL BINGIzic,, —The hours of six in the morning and ten in the evening are regularly rung from the spire of St. Peter's Church, Dundee, by a chime of bells, produced by the appli cation of water-power to a complicated piece of machinery. CONVERSIONS FROM THE ERRORS OF ROME.-011 Sunday, the 22d instant, twenty-seven persons renounced the errors of Popery, in the church of St. Paul, Bermondsey, London. THE LATE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN W STREET.—Yesterday Mr. Wakley, M.P., resumed Marylebone workhouse, the adjourned inquest on the body of James J ose ph W e b s t er , th e un f or t u nate man who was put ELE atOs: ik t E i nt o N v possession eib ecko. f s t rethe,et and premises who occupiedperished i n b occurred in th e same h ouse a f ew h ours a f ter h e wen t to bed. Alter addition a l ev id ence, the j ury ret i red, an d h av i ng b e en locked up for nearly half an hour, they returned and stated that twelve ou t of the thirteen were unanimous in returning iedn.ttheavtid wasne evidence just y the M r. fine NN ' e which occurred 47, a verdict t o th e effect, " That the deceased was burned to death in the sa id f i re, but how the fire occurred there was to tehneabvleerdtbicetmhetoshdoeuel Coroner not s ufl i s e a i turned had he been a j uror. The inquiry occupied nearly decide." e." Th e t have r h e .. e six hours. EAST KENT ELEcTiox.--At the declaration on Monday the numbers polled were announced to be—for Sir Brook Bridges, `2,480; Sir Edward I)ering, 2,289 ; majority for Sir Brook Bridges, 191 ; a n d w h o was, therefore, declared duly elected„ - The Hon. Gentleman was afterwards duly " chaired." :There is a talk of Sir Norton linatehbull offer ing bimself for the representation in the event of a future vacancy. Considerable support has already been proffered him. ANTIQUITIES FROM NINEVEIL—The vessel Appren tice, from Bussorah, has brought, besides the antiquities for the British ➢luseum, which have been safely deposited in that national establishment, a considerable quantity of ancient marbles from the same interesting quarter tor Sir John Guest, on w h o se account antiquities of this kind from :Nineveh have before been brought to this country. LITERATURE. THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF BAR THOLD GEORGE NLEBUHR. Chapman and Ball. Those who rejoice in literature of a profound and erudite description will welcome the appearance of these volumes. They contain the accounts of the achievements of the great Roman historian Niebuhr. An important part of these pages is occupied by ex tractarom the letters of the above-named, previously published in German under the direction of his sister in-law. About half of these letters have been trans lated. A most interesting addition is to be met with in essays that are at the conclusion. They are by the Chevalier Bunsen on Niebuhr as a diplomatist in Rome; by Professor Loehell, of Bonn, on him as an historian, and by Profes sor Brandis, of Bonn, on his character. It has been found impossible, we are in formed at the commencement, to form so complete a sketch of his public career as of his private life, al though great assistance was afforded by the distin guished friends before mentioned. It is the utmost 1 advantage to those who wish to have a summary of the great man's labours and successes to peruse these ably written compositions. The impression thus conveyed to the mind by the subtle research and the eloquent epitome is indelibly fixed in the memory, not to be afterwards erased by subsequent studies or the succession of time, and truly it has always been considered as the greatest honour that can distinguish the departed, when he is surrounded by hosts of friends to pay homage to his name and to perpetuate his memory. "To live i n h earts we leave behind i s not to die." The subjoined is extracted from the essay by the Chevalier Bunsen : " I cannot conclude these lines, written in England, without expressing the pleasure I have derived from the appreciation and high esteem with which my ever re vered master and fatherly friend is here regarded by statesmen and scholars, and especially from the pure en thusiasm with which ho has inspired the most earnest and noble portion of the youth of this country. His in fluence, which is apparent to every observer, is not ade quately represented even by the fact th a t a muc h l a rger number of copies of the English transl a ti on o f hi s hi s t o ry of Rome have been sold than of the G erman or i g inal, though many of the latter have also found their way to England. Niebuhr's incomparable superiority to all the critics of modern times — the deep truth o f hi s hi s t or i ca l views and political maxima — the pregnant solidity of his w if o n r o ld t ;—easayll this had long s)oen ac paid to th e R oman histor i an style the elev;aion of party in Church and State. But the -pure human gre atness of hi£ noble heart—his unspotted life — his unwavering courage amid khe b y ani sr: t nw h e e los ert most Onesddt viewdi d ni i g s to t nh i fi n efi g t eh u de 8: homageh e g melt of every ill-health and disappointed or overclouded hopes—the devoted love of such a mind — the elevating a n d child like faith in the divinity of nature and truth—the union of qualities and capacities of heart and intellect so rarely seen in combination—in a word, the i mage presented in the letters before us has raised that esteem to personal attachment, and the seeds of knowledge and nature so richly scattered through them have fallen on a good and fruitful soil. Well may we Germans deem this joy a sorrowful one, when we turn our e yes to the disgrace ful efforts of little-minded men who , humbled beneath the grave and piercing glance o f genius, have fallen a prey to their own mean passions, and conspired with the disciples of impiety and the apostles of everything un-German to spy out the weak points of a great man with malicious joy and use them with Mephistophelian address for their own ends; but it is so ordained that meanness and wickedness must hate nobleness and great ness, and Niebuhr's chief failing, that of yielding in such cases to immoderate vexation, shall not be imitated by his friends." WOMEN of CHRISTIANITY EXEMPLARY Y. for ACTS . o f PIETY and CHARITY. By Julia Ka vanag h. Smith and Elder. A work by the author of , " Women i n F rance, " " Nathalie, ' and " Madeleine, could not fail to be regarded with interest, but when upon a subject so varied in its details, whilb so consistent in its object, extending through all ages, and including all coun tries and races, it is doubly attra c ti v e. It is divided into fou r periods : the first is t he Ro man empire, in which the martyrs of the early Church hold the fore most place. The second, the middle ages, contains, among many Hungary a n d St. Th e resa. The third is entirely de others, the lives of St . Elizabeth of voted to the seventeenth century ; and the fourth, in which the life of Elizabeth Fry is most conspicuous, to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The authoress observes in the preface : "When I first conceived the ides of writing a work on the Women of Christianity, I contemplated including all the women remarkable for character, intellect, and excellence, who had flourished under the fostering influ ence of the Christian faith. I soon perceived that this design, if it were not too vast to be accomplished, would require the labour of years. I resolved, however, to ex ecute at least a part of that great whole—a part com plete in itself, to be followed by similar works or not, as circumstances or time might determine. It was difficult to choose, difficult to decide with whom to begin. How many great and heroic women seemed to rise from the barbaric gloom of feudal ages, or appeared mingling with strange daring in the strife, as deadly and as tierce, of recent generations! How many meditative spirits, living apart from a rude world that knew them not, heralded the dawn of civilization, gave to now forgotten idioms their sweetest strains, and nobly asserted in their day—not, it is true, so completely as they have been asserted in ours—the intellect and genius of women. But, from there women of action and thought, my mind h p ey ati h e a n d t w to he a n ct i o t turned to other women more lowly though not less great. heroici in when t For eighteen centuries I beheld them fervent in their e a i n r d lo l t tofili fait h , pure endure, ure felt that these were essentially the ' women of Chris tianity.' and that to them the first b elonged of place right." rwsuasffetrh, Tile volume is illustrated by three portraits, the first of Maria Agnesi, a Milanese lady of the eighteenth century of remarkable t a l ents and learning, who, a ft er many distinctions, gave up science and d evo t e d herself to the afflicted. Th e second of Rosa G ovona , a young work woman o f Sardinia, who founded in stitutions which still ex i s t for young orp h an girls, in which they manufacture stuffs, silks, and cloth of various descriptions. I n two factories wh i c h she established at Turin "three Hundred women without dowry earned an honest and comfortable livelihood, and provided in youth for the wants of their old age." The third portrait is that of Elizabeth Fry, whose life is too well known to nee d description. Th e de tails of the lives of so many whose names h ave so l on g been known a n d revered cannot fail to be inte resting, while the long array of good deeds and ac ti ve c h a rity must be as i ns t ructive as examples as they are attractive as memoirs. We trust the authoress will m and that thi s f asc i na ti n g volume be followed by m any s i milar, co mplete her work, and ALTARS , HE ARTS By Robert Bell. 3 Vols. Colburn. These volumes are divided into tales, of which the chief are entitled `6 phan toms and R ea lities" and ~ The Arrnonrer of Munster." The former, now re vised and enlarged, w as Fraser's Magazine, and the au th or states that, nr , " strange as the circumstan ces related in this confes sion, or autobiography, may aPy de from authentic and well-atteosrte ig d pe in s a o ll u y rc ar, the es. are Le rived that which is open to dis cuss i on in the early part to published av i n in g bedealt with according to the measure of individual s ympathies and opinions, the seq ome practical value. uel it is hoped, will be found to convey a moral of s T rac ing the course of a lif e from its dark beginning in seclusion , and superstition and the neglect of a healthy education of the faculties, to a manhood desti yplwesa,rdnaeasd:, tute of enslaved by cre dulity,the design aims a higher purpose than excitement over a story of at that of merely The second tale is descriptive of the rising of the Anabaptists in the free city of Munster in Germany, in 1534. The details are strictly his torical; some of the principal persons introduced are veritable characters. It shows how severely the fanaticism of the people was punished by the frightful awakening tyranny of their ruler. The remaining passionate fi errors. ad o and ri .p" principles, passingi nweai tales are more attractive from the absence of the tragic scenes which frequently occur in the previous ones. " Love to the Rescue" is of the time of the R estoration, and a of hawking is given. much will be found that is pleasing and fascinating. description.Theof style e le fa i v s oiunrtietreesptiansgti,maend spirited e.affoArdsina: recently been dington. It and admi - ------ -77 I : e p s ad st, Mr. John BUST or RosSUTH. — A very table bust of the greatest of Hungarians executed, by a young and very rising artist, work of art Bailey, of Conduit. place, Praed-street evidences not only considerable skill, o n -• u en g e h r t al to ex be sculptor, but remarkable niceness o f 0 :; 11 8 : Part of the full front," features being singularly accurate, and the rvalion ' the t p h r e e s b s i u o s n t of the ld countenance val u ab le, life - like. t u e t - l i n k s a correct resemblance of the patriot and ora t or , the public some respects, invaluable. The profile an ator, it ts , in the happiest direction in which the head o ught oPearB to us regarded, though the general contour and th e t in like manner, have each merits entitled commen dation. It affords us pleasure, therefore, too eommend this effigy of Louis Kossuth most earne s tl y notice of the general community , bei ng e d , enabl to the of it in terms the mo s t decisively eulogistic. to speak UNUSUALLY HIGH TlDE.—Yesterday afternoon there was an unusually high t ide, caused chiefly bythe wind bl ow ing very fresh during the last two da ys from th e ea t ward. Most of the cel lars in the lower p ar ts of Wapping, s- R o th er hithe, and Bankside w ere com p letel y inundate ai the tide rushed up so quick that considerable damage was done to property belonging to the poor people residing in the basements. At five o'clock the steamers had some difficulty in passing under the bridges, especially the side arches of Westminster and Blackfriars, owing to the extreme height of the tide. We are requested to state, that some letters ' which have been mentioned or referred to for some days past by several English and foreign journals having as been ad dressed to one of the mem bers of the Orleans family by the President of the French Republic, or as having been ad dressed to him by one of the members of the Orleans family, are entirely apocryphal. A notice was issued from the Treasury yesterday of a further postponement of the day for the receipt of the tenders for the loans of 50,0001. and 40,0001. for Demerara and Trinidad. Instead of on Friday, the 27th of February, they are to be presented on Wednesday , the 3d of March. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. HERALD.—We attempted yesterday to prove—and there are not wanting those, composed of men of all parties, who think that we succeeded in provi ng — t hat in exchanging Lord Truro for Sir Edward Sugden the country and the profession will gain enormously. In stead of a man proverbially slow, undecided, and igno rant of the first principles as we di as the practice of equity—the profession and the public have acquired a lawyer of the quicke at and the p romptest faculties—a profound master of his art, active, energetic, and capa ble in the highest degree. At on ee subtle, agile, and quick-witted, Sir Edward Sugde n possesses the legal coup d'ceil which enables him to sa the salient points of a case at a glance. It is not necessary for him to labour every petty fact with sesquipedalian ponderosity—to look over every document, worrying hie melt' and others to no purpose. This drudgery must be :left to meaner minds, to men of the slow apprehension' and torpid facul ties of a Truro. There is scercoly a gentleman of real estate or of largo personal pre iperty in the coun try, that is not obliged to go to 'Chancery for some purpose or other, and these ettitors, whether us private individuals, or members of trading, bank ing, or joint-stock companies, mutt all feel that their Merest.; are safe in the keeping se the au:,hor of the book on "Powers," and on " Vend; ies and Purchasers." To clearness and quickness of apprel ieusioe, Sir Edward Scgden acids, in an eminent degreo, decision. He will not take three months, nor many dal 5, so thoroughly is he master of the subject, to make tip his mind en any suggested improvements in the c?rumon law or equity practice. The; new Chancellor wiA either at once op pose, or approve unreservedly or stei nioske any project that comes before Parliament. His will nut exhibit the pihili syleem of his prede cessor, moving a step onward to--day, to retreat two backward to-morrow. In private vs e wish the ex-legal functionary health and happiness; but we trust never to hear of the Noble Lord again in any public employment whatever. Iu the present conditim of Europe, probably there is no more important appointment than that of First Lord of the Admiralty. This office has been admi rably filled by a notieman of the highest rank, a rear admiral by profession—and one who has an enthusiastic love for the honour and gloiry of his profes sion. Without depreciating the fair character of his predecessor, we think we may say that it were impossible to hit on a more popular ap pointment than that of the Duke of Northumberland. Our contemporary the Times has affected a well-feigned surprise at the nomination of Sir Jolla Pakington to the colonies. Sir John Pakington, foriiooth, is an active Worcestershire magistrate. The fact is undoubtedly true. Like most leading country get itlemen, from the Revolution to the present day, Sir John has taken an active part in the judicial and fiscal business of his county, presiding, for nearly twenty arears, without fee or reward, at the Worcestershire quarter sessions, and doing the business of the country with a zeal and abi lity beyond all praise. We have yet to learn that this is a disqualification for high office or that it unfits a country gentleman for the service of his Sovereign. Our contemporary asks, is Sir John Pakington equal to the task of governing fifty colonies, more or less in a state of disaffection? It is no doubt a difficult and arduous task; but all that the new Minister asks is a fair trial, and that he shall only be held accountable for his own measures. It may be asked, whose rash, intemperate, and senseless official acts—whose insulting and arrogant dispatches have placed the colonies in this state of disaffection? Every voice will answer—"'Tis Earl Grey has done it all." Yet Earl Grey was not an inexperienced man. From the moment he attained his majority he had a seat in Parliament, and before he was eight-and-twenty had obtained office. Twice was this worst of Colonial Minis ters Under-Secretary for the Colonies, once Under-Se cretary for the Home Department, once Secretary at War, and once Principal Secretary for the Colonies. Lord Grey's experience and official habits have then stood him in no stead. On the contrary, the older he got—the more he became inured to office—the more in veterate and ingrained appeared his presumptuous, head long self-willedness, and that insolent arrogance, which has so shocked every gentlemanlike and liberal mind. We do not hesitate positively to aver, and we have had abundant opportunities of observing both men, that the abilities of Sir John Pakington are just as good as those of Lord Grey, while his temper and judgment are far superior. The demeanour of Sir John Pakington is dignified and conciliatory. He may not be able to com pletely retrieve the errors of his predecessor—nor do we believe the younger Pitt, were he to rise from the grave, could fully retrieve them, even in a five or six years' te nure of office? but surely it ill becomes the backers-up of the mischievous wilfulness and insolent intemperance of Lord Grey to cry down any independent commoner who is patriotic and courageous enough to accept the dread responsibility of succeeding such an official firebrand at the Colonial-office. Sir J. Pakington will do his duty, and do it well. Mr. Henley, like Sir John Pakington (and we may add like many of the greatest statesmen and ministers of England), is also an independent coun try gentleman, and has as much distinguised himself in Oxfordshire as Sir John Pakington in Worcestershire. But does this unfit him for the Board of Trade? The ignorant people who thus talk or write at rrndom, forget that George Canning—no mean statesman, and no bad judge of men and things—selected a chairman of quarter sessions, the late Mr. Sturges Bourne, as his Home Mi nister, at a period when the House of Commons was teeixiing—which is not the case now —with oratorical talent of the very highest order. A more sensible and solid headed man than Mr. Henley sits not in the House of Commons, and though Mr. Labouchere may be his superior in red-tapeism and the mere clerkship of office, we will not insult Mr. Henley by comparing his iiatellect to that of his predecessor. Sir George Grey, the predecessor of Mr. Walpole, the now Home Secre tary,, was, like Mr. Walpole, bred to the bar; but, un like Mr. Walpole, never rose to eminence, or to any busi aess but that to which he was jobbed as one of the counsel of the revenue. That Sir G. Grey is a man of ability we willingly admit, but we maintain that the actual occupant of the Home Office is a much riper scholar and a much more learned lawyer than his pre decessor. Mr. Walpole has not been more than five years in Parliament, but when he has had the long ex perience of Sir George Grey we have no doubt he will be as quick and keen a party debater. In speaking of a high order—in elevation of tone and view, be now sur passes Sir George Grey, who is only great on personal or party questions. Much vehement indignation has been spent, and some silly efforts at banter have been attempted, because of the appointment of Mr. Disraeli to the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is a cherished prejudice of the race of dunces all over the world that a man of genius is unfit for business; but the met; of Bolingbroke, Chatham, Pit t, Burke, Windham, and of Canning may be cited against this delusion of gentle self-satisfied dulness. No man ever accused the late Chan cellor of the Exchequer of being a man of genius, learning, or eloquence. He is as self-sufficient, a s presumptuous, and (lull a baronet as could be well found in all the realms of Whigdom; yet after producing three budgets per tinnum, ho never succeeded in compounding one whit; h did not require further change and recasting. Is it for the men who have had an Althorp, described by Viscount Palmeraton thus— " A was an Althorp, as dull as a hog ;" a superficial-inch Rice, and a Wood for a Chancellor of the Exchequer, to sneer at any man, however unknown, as incompetent, much less at a man of the unmistakeable and unquestioned ability and cleverness of the Member for Bucks? There are no details, however abstruse, which Mr. Disraeli cannot master, as the cookers of Whig statistics have more than a dozen times, to their confusion, discovered. We freely admit that Mr. Herries is neither so loud, so burly, nor so boisterous as Mr. Fox Menlo; but he has five times his experience, and fifty times his official and general knowledge. We are, therefore, unreasonable enough to believe that he may get through the Indian business as well—to say the least—as the ex-" captain bold" of the 79th High landers. We fully admit that in the present state of Europe it is an onerous responsibility, indeed, to enter on the management of Foreign Affairs—more especially so promptly following a statesman of the capacity and experience of Viscount Palmerston; but even the Times admits that Lord Malmesbury is a sensible, clear-headed nobleman, of great good temper and judgment, and these are qualities very much required in dealing with foreign Governments. No one doubted the ability of Viscount Palmerston; but withal the impetuous humour of the Noble Lord sometimes hurried him into the writ ing of dispatches compromising not only his colleagues, but the Sovereign and the country. We have seen the conduct of foreign affairs subsequently transferred to a noblcman young enough to be the son of Viscount Pal merston, and who, in his brief career, exhibited, we are glad to admit, tact, temper, and discretion. We have every reason, from his past career, to believe that Lord Malnaesbury, a few years the senior of Earl Granville, will exhibit as conciliatory and as courteous a bearing, and win golden opinions both at home and abroad. The Minis.h.y of Earl Derby requires but fair play and a fair trial, and this will not be denied it by Englishmen, no matte r. what their shade of opinion. TIMES.—The arrangements of the Derby Adminis tration are now complete, and a new Household has started into existence with the same readiness as the Cabino.t. it is difficult to be particular as to the special aptitude of this or that minor official for his new duties, withou.t exaggerating the importance of the office itself. There are figure parts in the State as well as on the most Stage, for which a very average amount of personal re commendations will suffice. Leaving , t herefore, of this respectable walking gentlemen in the list before us to speak for themselves, we will single out Chore which may call for a passing remark. We have Ro jectio:a at all, then, that our old friend Mr. G. I • Young should take a few lessons at the Board of Trade, and ac quire in that school a better stock of covamerciem loathe - tics, as well as a hotter dispositio n to applyth general good of the public. The best things wo e s c a n h wish for Chaos are order a nd light, and not despair of seeing even the Honourable o urable Member for Scarborough methodical, lucid, and sound. The Household seems very much like other households, and, so long as duo regard is paid to the dignity a nd conv enience of the Crown, a s well as of the privileged few that are admitted to t he p resence of Royalty, the grel t mass of the people has little to do with the matter. Ireland is a more important affair. The Earl of Eglin touri is chiefly known by his tournament, which would have gone off admirably but for the rain. If he c ou ld pen made the Irish to settle their quarrels in the same Wee ,dless fashion, he will considerably eclipse the glories of that mimic chivalry., Chief Justice Blackburn() if he accepts Lor d Derby s offer, will make an excellent Iri:sb. Chancallor. L)rd Stanley, the new Under -Secre tary for Foreign Affair!, has probably en j oyed as much direct preparation for that office as the distinguished excavator of the Assyrian marbles. Sir Frederick Thesiger is Attorney-General, it is said, with a view to the Speakership of the House of Con imens in the new Parliament, should the fates be so far propitious. Lord Lyndhurst declines office, but pport, as als o , promi s es his su it i.y rather superfluously added, does the Duke of Richmond. The note of pre- f paration has already been sounded for the forthcoming ' war. The electors of Marylebone and Finsbury—that ' is the very snug parties of gentlemen who somewhere 1 or other assemble now and then to pass resolutions, pub lish manifestoes, and terrify Ministers—have met as usual to protest against a change which seems from their tone to have come rather suddenly upon them. As they place the Whigs and the Conservatives under a common anathema, and are far more horrified at the ghost of the new Reform Bill than at the presage of Pro tection, we are not prepared to state the particular plan of operations with which they intend to recommence the session. An evening contemporary, which seems as much astounded at these events as the metropolitan po liticians we have mentioned, is " pleased to hear that whatever doubt exists on this subject (that is, the future course of the new Cabinet) will he dissipated immediately after the re-election of the new Ministers by the intro duction of a resolution pledging the House of Commons to tree trade." On tho other hand, the inhabitants of Manchester, who are at least as thorough free-traders as those of Marylebone, or as our energetic contemporary, have resolved not to renew rho League till there shall appear some occasion for it, but simply to empower thr , Council of the last League to watch the proceedings of the new Administration, with :wow very proper hints as to what may be expected :hold() the new Premier ven ture to re-open the greet question. Ou the side of the uew Government, and in its snppo. - ied interest, there is an equal variety of announcemmt, In the familiar columns of one joclicious contemporary we already vie the watchword " Der..th or Pfolection," and the public are as.iured that Lord Derby and his colleagues ere prepared to rkk a:I their nia , .znificent prospects, as well as the satiety of the empire, next week, or to-morrow, if possible, on au express demand for a good duty on corn. To such as are still hesitiring how to greet the new Administration, tbst is, whether with A brief tolerance, or with instant defiance, we beg to re peat the views we have already expressed on this sub ject. There arc two motives for political action, and only two, that apply t o th e present question,—the first, political feeling; the second, a calculation of the public advantage. Now, is there a peremptory call on any man's conscience to drive the new Ministers at once from their places, and, with that view, to compel them to declare themselves in advance of their present con victions, and months, if not years, before they are likely to compromise themselves? It may be a sacred duty to answer a question, but we cannot conceive it a sacred duty to ask one, especially when the object is to make a man belie himself, or hamper himself; to do wrong either in one way or another. We see no " call " in the matter, except that mission which the proverb assigns to fools, of asking questions which the wisest may find it difficult to answer. A just suspicion always attaches to gratuitous measures, and nothing can be so gratuitous as to ask a question simply because it will be disagreeable to answer it, and to hasten a decision which will require time to make it as it ought to be made. The second motive applioable to the subject is the public convenience. Bat where is the possible uzl.atntage to the community at large of driving the new Government from power, without reason able notice, by a species of forcible ejectment? Why should we grudge twenty or thirty new hands a little taste of office? The nation surely is not specially interested in conferring a perpetual monopoly of power on a small clique, consisting of a few noble families, respectable as they are, and valuable as their services have undoubtedly been. On the contrary, it is an advantage to all parties, to the nation at large, to th e w h o l e of the Legislature, and particularly to those who have something like political prospects of their own, that all monopolies should be broken up, and that all sections of the political world should have a fair chance. If Mr. Bright would like to be Chancellor of the Exche quer, be is far more likely to have it after a year or two of Mr. Disraeli than after a long and exclusive high Whig or high Tory prescription. Some one has observed that there are only four men in the new Cabinet who have been in a Cabinet before. Why not? There is all the more chance now for those who have not been in a Cabinet. If nobody is to be in a Cabinet who has not already been in a Cabinet, or if new Ministers are only to be made at the rate of one in five years, political promotions, and, we will add, political progress, will be very slow. Give the Conservatives a chance, for the sake of the public, if not for their own. But does the convenience of the public peremptorily demand a dissolution? Should Lord Derby be thrown into a minority by a factious vote, he would have no alternative but to dissolve the Parliament at once, in order to pick up the Government seats, and the gain which there would inevitably be in several counties and open boroughs. But it would be to the advan tage, we will not say the security, of the nation, that at this juncture it should be plunged into the animosities of a general election, and the great cause of agriculture versus manufacture once more re-opened with increased bitterness? Most certainly it would not. The best thing that can happen to us just now is, that the new Government should have a fair trial, and we do not know any law of political morality that should make a little wise forbearance a positive sin. COURT CIRCULAR. The Earl of Derby had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attonded by Lady Anna, Maria Dawson, arrived in town at half past eleven o'clock, yesterday morning, from her resi dence, Frogmore, near Windsor. Her Royal Highness visited the Queen, at Buckingham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. At three o'clock in the afodrnoon the Royal Duchess left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, on her return to Frogmore._ The Duke of Wellington had an audience yesterday afternoon, of the Queen, at Buckingham Palace. The Royal Family took their accustomed exercise yesterday, in they garden of the Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday, at Buck ingham Palace. The company included the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Wellington, his Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess Buol Shauen stein, his Excellency the Sicilian Minister and the Princess Carini, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Earl end Countess of Albemarle. The band of the Ist Life Guards was in attendance during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Overture " Jnbel," com p ose d f or th e In auguration of the Statue of Frederick the Second Conradi. Waizer " Narragansett " Gungl. Fantasia on the Scotch air " Wandering Willie " Spaeth. Frederioh Wilhelm's Quadrille ... Bilse. Galop Militaire Fohrbach. Her Majesty's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Monday evening, and performed the following selection:— Overture, Op. 44 ... ... ... ... Kalliwoda. Selection, "La Fille du Regiment" ... Donizetti. Coro, " Nel Sileuzio" ... ... .. Meyerbeer. . Air, "Le Cheval do Bronze" ... ... Huber. Mr. Entwisle and Mr. Peel (of Manchester) had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home- Office. Mr. Bellow, M.P., had also an interview with the Right Hon. Baronet. Dispatches were sent yesterday from the:Colonial office to the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and Malta. Dispatches were also sent to the Governor of the Mauritius. Dispatches were received yesterday from the Go vernors of the North American Provinces, and from the Governor of Bermuda, at the Colonial-office. THE REFORM CONFERENCE. The following letter has been addressed to the Presi dent of the National Reform Association:— TO SIR JOSHUA WALMSLEY, N.P. Sir,—Would you permit one who has had some experience in conferences, and who takes great interest in the one announced for March 2, convened by the association of which you are president , t o su g gest that it would be a great advantage if each delegate could, if possible, present his report in writing ? By th is plan all essential facts are told in the shortest time, and the matter communicated ready for reference and use at once. Yours, in political respect, ONE WHO HAS ATTENDED MANY CONFERENCES. NUNNERIES. aite ofethe e e freha inhabitants nee A petition to the Queen from the women of Cumber land upon this subject is now in course ofsnigsh signat ure, and many hundreds of names have alreadyb n subscribedher to it. The petition sets forth that theteraa of the county of Cumberland , deeply se b m le s s i s e i s n ty gs ,s o G f o c v iv e i r l h a ei n e d u r t e , l o ig h i s o e utvsewithlibertyre enjoyedgretithate s system, a class of their fellow - subjects those blessings arelto holy r gw etherith- character of our held, in consequence of the conventual as p rac - tis e d in tGreato the p ßritain ure an dand benevolentlrela lad a eiiopposed gi on, and by which young and i s li t e r x ip p p e e r d ien o e f ed th f e e i m r a p l r e o s : arerestraint, w pe h r e ty n , it p n i t a n e u e r d ed he i d n er n u un n n n e a r tu ie r s a , l ends, and of the plea intercourse with relatives and friends deprived of free to concealed dangers, and fsruormeswolificshoc,iifthliefye'sehxopuuldserdlhent of vows taken in igno persons, escape is nearly igno rance or rashness, or under therefore humbly and respectfully beseechT he fair o her petitionerser designing Majesty to take such steps as are consistent with the constitution shrouds these dissipating of these lands, for to the full inspection conventualof missed from of the institutions ; ti civiltut t i h o m e n a s g r i y s f o t s r r t g e troeyr whicheo n t g ha t ht en shrouds these may be received into, or detained in, or dis missed them them, without his knowledge; and for de that character of constraint, and con cealment, and and which c compulsion, which they at present po ss e ss, otrasts so painfully with the precept s of the Christian r all other claelussigesionin, and d r wit hthe liberty e na uj i o n y io e n d s. b — Carli s l e P aper, y Majesty's happydo COOKING WITIIOUT FIRE.—We have partaken to day of a beefsteak, cooked without the aid of fire, by a new invention of our ingenious townsman, Mr. John Macdoug a ll, cabinetmaker. It consists of a tin vessel, the under part of which is a c l ose c h a mber, over which is the receptacle for the meat, or other material to be cooked, and this again is covered by a lid to confine the heat. A quant i ty of cold water is then conveyed, by means of a pip e , to t h e chamber beneath, and heat is generated sufficient to cook a chop or steak in five or six minutes. Mr. Macdougall did not show us the laboratory of his cold water stewpan, and he keeps as a secret the chemical agent which, by its combination with the water, generates the heat, until his invention shall have been registered; but he says the expense is so trifling as not to be worth considering. The contrivance is susceptible of being er a d a pted to a variety of f orms and sizes, an d m ust be very use ful and convenient t o travellers, sportsm en, and y o thers. It will pack in the k napsac k o f t h e pe d e strian or the creel of the angler; and when lonely bachelors come home to their cold grates it will prevent much profane swearing.— NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW BOARD OF ADMIRALTY. We have reason to believe that the Duke of Nor thumberland has formed his Board of Admiralty,. most of the nominated members of which had interviews w ith the Gallant Duke at Northumberland -house yesteradriy„ As the public, unacquainted with the career , )f his Grace, may imagine that the Duke of Northumb, irland is merely a Duke, and no sailor, we have great asure in publishing from O'Byrne's Naval Biography the fol lowing epitome of the First Lord's services in the na v y, by which it will be seen he has "roughed" it early, an d must necessarily be well acquainted with those detail s and duties which cannot fail to constitute a good and just distributor of patronage for merit:— " This officer (then Lord Algernon Percy, but who was raised to the peerage as Lord Prudhoe in 1816) en tered the navy in March, 1805, as first-class volunteer, On board the Tribune frigate, Captain R. Henry Alex. under Barnett, whom he followed as midshipman in the heie,s nerved iS e oiut ia tenstectrinidito, i the Faire, 74.tu(1 ad Clntiz‘ and in bos ,, ships various parts of the Mediterranean, until 1810. H e then joioea the Hydra, 38, Captain G. Mundy, and titter e , Atiniand:d a gunboat in co-cpern ton with the patriots on the c oas t o f Andalusia, he becameat,aclied, io January, 1811, to the Christian VII., 80, bearing the ILitt, off the Scheldt, of Sir Edward Pellew, uud ' r 1 • 1 1 , 11 egmiu ;•eriting iic th,Mediterrattesu on b.pArd the Caledenis. 1.)0, It, Was confirmed in the rank of lioutenan' by a comiLission bearing date the 16th of tkceinlnr, 1811. Prior to the rtceipt of the intelli- Ko uoe cf hi ( ffi Ll advano_rneut to the t ank of conitnsu dcr, which took pi , ce Ln the 81h ot March. 1814, his w hi c h ship neoitozgiattikt,dinfoarpsaornatical macotinotnhswaisth Lordship .WeasiJnady ac'.ed as captain o:' the 'Scout ut,d '" id 6 t . th, Caledonia herself, in 22, on the coast of North America, fl eet off Toulon, and witnessed the fall of Genoa. He his elevation to post rank, the 19th a tt. : ing Frenchca oatL'aunfibdnAsa2outqfg:uthiesienet,tpClYelorBisols(saic,olwcias serving at Portsmouth on board the Driver sloop." The second Lord will be Rear-Admiral of the Red, Hyde Parker, C.B. The third will be Rear-Admiral Phipps llornby, C. 8., if he will accept the post. The gallant Admi ra l , we are sorry to hear, is labouring under an affection of the eyes; but it is to be hoped that it will not prevent him from becoming one of the new board, and that in, the meanwhile,,by the aid of skilful medical treatment, he will speedily be rendered convalescent. The fourth will be Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, K.C.B. The fifth is Captain Milne, the junior member of the present board. The civil member has not yet been appointed, but The Secretary will be Mr. August Stafford, M.P. for North Northamptonshire. Two or three persons have been named as First Lord's private secretary, and among them Captains the Hon. F. T. C. Pelham (1840), and John Washington (1842); but we may state that the post will be occupied by a naval captain; and we have the best reasons for believing that it will be the first named—the Hon. Cap tain Pelham, whose last service was in command of the Odin steam-frigate, in the Mediterranean. It must bo agreed on all hands that the new board formed by the above members is a 'most promising one. The position, services, and character of the individuals meet every objection, civil or professional. In his Grace the Duke of Northumberland we have again an Admiralty authority in the Upper House. By profession a sailor, and by service a senior officer, he has just that experience which qualifies him beyond all others who have filled the office for an age, to recom mend him as most fit and most eligible for the great and responsible station he is called upon by his Sovereign to occupy; whilst from the fact that he has not served actively for a very long period, but has nevertheless in terested himself generally in all our national institutions, the Noble Duke is free from the objection urged against the appointment of a naval officer to be First Lord of the Admiralty on account of the numerous followers for whom he would be first bound to provide. In Admiral Hyde Parker (the second senior Rear- Admiral) we have one of the ablest and most expe. rienced officers in the navy. He is the son of the late Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, and grandson of Vice -Ad miral Sir Hyde Parker, Bart. He has served on full pay for 31 years, his last service having been as superin tendent of Portsmouth Dockyard and Commander-in- Chief of the Channel Squadron. It is well known that his manners are most frank and his habits most prompt; and whilst carrying on his duty with the utmost strict. ness, he has been often considered rather a tart officer. It is universally admitted that he has had the whole service, as it were, at his fingers' ends, and he has ever proved himself to be most upright, just, and fair. A better third could not be found than Admiral Hornby, also a rear-admiral of the red. He has served actively more than most men on the list, for he has been on full pay no less than 37 years. As we stated yes. terday, ho is one of the heroes of Lissa, having, under Sir James Gordon, commanded the Volage, 22, in that celebrated action, he has served as Commissioner of the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehonse, Superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard, Comptroller-General of the Coast Guard, and Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific station. He is universally respected in the service. Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert is a good fourth. He has seen 22 years' service afloat. Ho won his steps by his gallantry and wounds, and his, honours in the Chins war. His last service was as Commander-in-Chief of the south-east coast of America station. The filth, as we have above stated, is a member of the present: boatel. He is the sou of the late gallant and distinguished Admiral Sir David Milne, G.C.8., and although a young man, has served afloat some 22 years. The Secretary, Mr. Augustus Stafford, is well known as an able and skilful House of Commons debater, and, we doubt not, will make one of the most efficient poli tical Secretaries to the Admiralty after he has mastered the routine duties of his new office. From his Parlia mentary experience, no doubt Mr. Stafford will well re present the board in the House of Commons. At .pre sent he is the only member of the new board who is in Parliament, but Sir Thomas Herbert is sure to be re turned for Dartmouth, and it can scarcely he doubted that if Admiral Hornby were to offer himself for the borough of Greenwich, that that constituency would give Admiral Stewart for his colleague a worthy brother officer.—Herald. PROMOTION OF COMMANDER QUlN.—Three vacancies having taken place in the list of captains, the First Lord of the Admiralty has promoted Commander Richard R. Q u in (1846) to the rank of captain. This officer entered the navy in 1834, passed his examination in 1840, and 1 for his services on the coast of China in the Conway, 28, was promoted to be lieutenant; he served in the Belvi raas, and Collingwood, 80 , was promoted in No vember, de, 1846, and commanded the Waterwitch, 8, on the coast of Africa for two years and a half, darin g which time be made several captures. Th e commander's commission it is reported, will be given to Lieut. James Ho ward Turner (1825 ) , who has brought home, and has paid off at Woolwich, the Merlin, steam-packet, after three years and a half's service in the Mediterranean. This old officer entered the navy i n 1807, passed his examination in 1814, but served eleven, years as mate before he was promoted. As a lieutenant , he was employed in the Romne y tro op - ship; then is the pir. S. Ralph, to the Rodney, 92, P i Ganges, 84; from 1835 to 1843 in command of th ortsmouth. e i n o l l li c e , e rntd t and o h f e ilWi otheri : the W. Ranger, Falmouth and Brazil u p sb ac a k n e d t s ; , command of small steamers. g. Dunkin, Engineers—J. he Torch, steam-tender to the Herald, gineers—J. H R. Richards, to the Fisgard thsg for South Seas surveying-service. Masters' Assistants—J. F. to the Victory ship, Woolwich ; and J. gag-ship, Portsmouth. Antelope steam -packet, it - sieved in a day or two by Lieutenantis reported, will be commis- PRIZE MONEY FOR TH P J. H. Young. 1849, will be registered in thell ja i n. g has given notice that the PANTALOON.—Dar. Woodhead Vesuvius, 6, arising from the capture account sale of the proceeds Pantaloon, of the slaver Revoama, by the t r the sth day of March next. ber, Commander H. Parker, on the 18th Ad miraltyNoma- on or after into Channel on Monday, Commander Barnard, went her rigging into to try her engines and shake place, returning to Plymouth Sound in ordnance the s and embarking her powderdhßCs The Asia i 84 1 , n dock here, is being coated over her copper with the composition of Messrs. Peacock and Buchan, of Southampton. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY,—Her Majesty's steam-frigate Vesuvius, Captain Barnard, went from Hamoaze into the Sound to-day to try her engines, and returned into Barn Pool, where her compasses are to be adjusted. It is intended that the steam block ship Sanspareil shall be ready by Friday, the 6th of March, to get up her steam for the purpose of trying her engines. WOOLWICH, FEB. 24.—The Undine Dover mail steam-packet, Second Master John 'Warman (acting), was taken out of the basin here to - s ay, and the Violet Dover mail steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander H. P. Jones, taken in to be repaired. The paying-off of the Cormorant steam -sloop, Com mander W. C. Chamberlain, from the coast of Africa, which was intended to take place to-morrow, is post poned to Friday next. Captain Henry Mangles Denham, F.R.S., Commander of the Herald, 28, and the Torch steam-tender, visited Woolwich dockyard to-day to witness the progress of the latter vessel fitting at this port to assist in surveying the South Seas, the ga ll ant off i cer b e i n g anxious to proceed to the station for his surveying duties as early as possible. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Captain Sir Edw ar d Belcher, C. 8., Commander-in- Chief of th e A rct i c E xpe dition of 1852, has been en . gaged at the Ad m i ra lty during the la st four days, where rooms have been allotted to him for the reception of i R P L il vi a l r l d officers, and transacting busi ness connected wi th the expeditio n . Th e vessels commit 4ioned will be supplied with officers fully compet ent to take the charge of searching parties when th e y arrive in the Ar ctic regions. Edward a'he Assistance Belcher, (the m f 1a one master, and on e clerk in charge. 9, have two lieutenants, Captain Si r The Resolute , Captain Kellot, 0.13 ., (3omtingd- e s h r will l:ave three lieutenants, une mastor, and one clerk in charge. The North Star, Commander Pullen • , one lieutenant, one m aster, and anti ch rk in charge. The Intrepid, screw-steamer, Commander M'Clintock, tender to the Assistance, one master, and two assistant engineers. The Pioneer, screw - steamer, Lieu t S h era rd Unborn, tender to th e R Lieutenant-Commander two assistant engineers. Resolute, one master, and The Assistance and Resolute have taken on board a large supply of coals instead of ballast, and the hands are now busily employed in taking on board the iron water-tanks. The bows of both vessels have been sharpened by attaching strong pieces of timber, which will be covered tith iron, and they will be much easier to tow during their next than they were during their last voyage to the Anti° regtenb. THE SUN, LONDON, wEDN ESDA E VENING, FEBRUAIt'Y 2n 1852.