The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

T:'," e - • MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL Surcan.—ln th e British Plantation market rather a large business has been transacted, at steady pricks; the sales privately amounting to 850 hhds. The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,822 hhds 95 tierces 490 barrels. There were taken for home consumption 1,383 hhds 103 tierces 606 brls. The stock in the same places is 27,028 hhds 3,890 tierces 6 ,768 barrels. COFFEL—The market has given way to a small ex tent; 1,400 bags Plantation Ceylon offered at auction were only partially realised at rather easier rates; but 1,050 bags good ord native found buyers at 27s 6d, being tbe previous value. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the East :and West India Docks was 929 puncheons 2 hogsheads; there were taken for home consumption 207 puncheons 234 hogsheads, and exported 113 puncheons 97 hogsheads. The stock in the same places is 23,876 puncheons 2;928 hogsheads. RICE.-350 bags at auction sold at 123 for good mid White Bengal, and at 10 6d to 115 6d for Madras. SPICES.-80 bags White Pepper at auction realised Tull prices; ord quality bringing 41 per lb. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is dull at 45s to 45s 3d per cwt on the spot, and Town 478 6d. TEA. —The market is quiet. A good consumption is, however, still to be noted. For the public sales com mencing to-morrow about 17,000 packages are declared. INDIGO.—At the public sales the quotations rule the same as previously, the advance being 3d to 6d per lb, compared with last July. Upwards of 4,600 chests have passed. 73AT 711.A.TOLETS. SMITHFIELD. —Old Meadow Hay, 313 s to 31 12s; New ditto, 21 108 to 3/ 8s; Old Clover, 41 to 4/ 15s; New ditto, 31 105 to 41 8s ; and Straw, 11 4s to 1/ 8s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. —Old Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 31 15s ; New ditto, 2/ lOs to 31 Is ; Old Clover, 4/ to 41 12s; New ditto, 3/ 105 to 4/ 6s, and Straw, 1/ Gs to 1/ 10s per load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. WHITECIIAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 3/ 15s ; New ditto, 2/ 10s to 3/ 106; Old Clover, 41 4s to 51; New ditto, 31 105 to 41 lOs ; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 118 s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. COAL MARKE'I Date's West Hartley 15s 6d Buddle's W. Hartley 16s 3d Chester Main l4s Od Dean's Primrose .Hasting's Hartley l6s 3d Holywell Main lss 6d, New Tanfield 143 Od north Percy Hartley 153 6d Ord's Redheugh Pontop Windsor .... Stewart's Hartley Tanfield Moor Tanfield Moor Butes l4s ed Wylam Wall's End, &c Bewicke and Co. Benshane ...... Heaton Hotspur Billingworth lss 3d! Percy Bensh ern lss 3d B T.—YESTEADAY. Eden Main ...... ...... 16s 9d East Hetton Hetton Haswell lBs Od Lambton Shotten Stewart's Hudson's Hartlepool l5B 6d Heugh Hall Kelloe .... 16s Od South Hartlepool Trimdon ......... 16s 001 Benson Seymour Tees Tees ........... 17s 8(1 Whitworth l4s 9d Derwentwat(rHartley 16s 0,1 Hartley 15s 9d Nixon s Merthyr Skips at market 164. ANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) IN RE COE AND MANN. Those bankrupt s were described as of Adam-street, Adelphi, printers and surveyors, and to-day was ap appointed for them to pass their last examination, but no accounts having yet been filed the meeting was ad journed. WORSHIP -STREET.-(THIS DAY.) John Woofridge and William Bowyer were brought before Mr. Hammill, charged as follows:-- Sergeant Hawkes, 6 N, stated that a number of' de predations had lately been committed upon the property of the trustees of St. Thomas's Hospital, situate in the parish of Hackney, and of which Mr. Norris, builder, of Hackney, is the agent. He (witness) on Wednesday evening last discovered that a quantity of iron palli sading had been taken away. Shortly afterwards he traced and followed the prisoners, whom he perceived go into a marine store shop with a heavy burthen, and from which they came out empty-handed. Witness learnt that they had offered the iron for sale, but that the marine store dealer having refused to purchase, they threw down the property upon the fluor of the shop and left. The prisoners admitted that they were aware wit ness was following them. The prisoners, who made a rambling defence, were committed. TAW VALE RAILWAY. (Tills DAY.) The adjourned half -yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company was advertised to take place to day, at the London Tavern, at twelve o'clock. At that hour very ftw shareholders were present. The chairman, Emanuel Cooper, Esq., and two directors were in attendance, and after waiting for an hour beyond the ti me prescr i bed by the Act of Parliament, and mot a sufficient number of shareholders being present to constitute a meeting, The CHAIRMAN declared the meeting adjourned sine die. TIEGISTRATION.-(THIS DAY.) SOUTH W ARK. Mr. Fist , the barrister, apointed revise list of voters for the borough of Sout p hwark, to held his the court to day at the Town Hall, at eleven o'c!ock. There were no objectioca, and only a few claims, and the proceedings were utterly devoid of the least interest. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, MONDAY. earl The Q ueen and Pr i nce Albert took their usual y morning walk. The Royal Family to o k w a lki ng an d pony exerc i se this forenoon in the Little Park. Her Serene Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenb urg, w i t h the Princess Eliza of Hoh eni oh e, and the Princesses Adelaide and Feodora, rode out this forenoon in a pony carriage arid four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert enjoyed the sport of shooting this morning, accompanied by his Royal Highness the Hereditary Prince of Parma and the Duke of Wellington, and attended by Lord Elphinstone, Colonel th e H on. A.N. Hood, and Colo nel F. H. Seymour. The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will includ e her Royal Highness the Duchess' of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Parma, their Serene Highnesses the Princess of Hohenlohe Langenburg and the Princess Eliza, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Countess Lopez (in attendance on the Hereditary Princess of Parma), Baroness de Speth, the Duke of Wellin of N or f o lk , General Wemyss, and ton Si' the Duke Sir George Couper. The band of the 2d Life attend in the Cas tle. Guards attend d ur i ng dinner. Her Majle. esty's private b an d will afterwards Lord Joh7 ohn Russell has left Howick Hall, Northum berland, the seat of Earl Grey, on his return to town. Dispatch es were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Sierra Leone. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from he Colonial- office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies.. _-- --- TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I trust before long the attention of the Government will be directed to street gullies, and that they will adopt traps to prevent the stench, which I am sure must be very injurious, arising from them. lam perfectly aware sewers require to be ventilated, but there are various ways of doing it Without being injurious to health. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, S. lONIAN ISLANDS. INSURRECTION IN CEPHALONIA. A letter, dated Cephalonia, the 2d of October, on which every reliance may be placed, states that on the 26th ult. an insurrection of the country people against the Government broke out. IThe insurgents had col lected in large numbers, armed, and their first attack was made on Lixuri, a town situated opposite Argos toli, the capital ,of the island. A small number of English troops were sent against the insurgents, when fighting took place, resulting in one soldier and three insurgents being killed, and the retreat of the latter to the mountains. The insurgents had also threatened Argostoli, but up to the 2d instant they had made no further attack on the towns. The object of the insurrection does not appear to have been ac curately known. There can be no doubt that, what ever i t may have been, the Lord High Commissioner has ample forces at his diposal to speedily put it down. A NE W M ODE OF TRAVELLING PER RAIL.--The servants at the General Station at Dundee have much difficulty in getting the cattle put into trucks, particu -3' aighland stock w hi c h h ave never been under "!er• In loadi n shire slot week, g one of th ese last a fine Argyle fin en , after having his fore legs in, wa s s t art l e d b y leap clgino w histle at hi s ear, and making a desperate eared the . truck and d as h e d u p t h e li ne to the General Station His first mark was a pointsman, stoopinr with his back towards the animal, which pitcheellim forwards, but fortunately was untouched by his horns, He then tore onwards to the station, where his approach cat.usd great sensation, and speedily every guard, driver and orter, were on the roof of every available carriage. P The , agility displayed on this occa sion Was much to the satisfaction of tho superintendent, Who purposes an occasional visit of the same kind with a view of p r actising the servants i n celerity of move likement ; and judging from the first lesson he thinks that, new handwriting, in thr ee l it might b e p ro fi c i ent l y acquired p a ssed o lessons On war d s, however, the animal went, n to the Scottish Midland line, which he left about a mil e to the north, and was last seen making for native hills, with foaming mouth and streaming tail, Tor minK no unapt representation of "Taurus" as depicted on the Celestial g l obes.—Dur.dee Courier. , NORTH BRITISH RAlLWAY.—Yesterday (Wednes aay) a passenger -train arrived at the station here direct from London, being the first that has crossed the bridge at, Berwick. This arrangement saves a great deal of time and is much more convenient for passengers, as " le ): do not require to change carriages. --North British Daglitail, At gainburgh. 103 103 - ri ma 25 3' 113 g • ••• ''. ... 26g •••• ma. a.. ••• 22 1 4 .... 2 2 4 10 1 104 1.." ••• 10.... ••• ... 0 ••• ..., ••• 114 ..... __ 4% 3% DAY.) t breele' Dev on .k. I.—Ar ra. xcbavg, 11, Ev e ' - TsYl °r ' ra Cot" :Ake, ,t, Georg e ' rd. Sell' 410 6 1' fro m )1 1 , ind / I°li c i iver r) • Ne ff • Cosa", ", ditto Wick* 11,0 at Feu° 00, r. „ eu rrea rac ke• Iled 11 P £l. 3013°111 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17, (UR. PRIM CESS'S THEATRE. An adaptation of Flotow's opera Lame en polite, which was produced some short time since at the Academie at Paris, was brought out at this theatre last evening, under the title of Leoline. Not only had we a new opera, but we had two first appear ances, Miss Rafter making her first appearance on these bo ar d s i n t h e c h aracter of Leoline, the heroine, and Mr. Charles Braham, the son and pupil of England's greatest singer, making his first appear ance in a dramatic character as Count Adelmar, the hero of the opera. Miss Rafter has long enjoyed a high provin c i a l repu t a ti on , an d th at reputation will be greatly enhanced by her metropolitan success. Last n i g ht was , we opine, the first o f a ser i es o f successes destined to be achieved by this young lady. Her appearance is youthful, and her features and figure are very attrac tive. Her voice is a soprano of great extent, and of considerable power and o f grea t flexibility ; her cadences are exceedingly soft, and are admirably sustained. It is impossible to listen to her without being convinced that she has received a musical edu cation, and is perfect mistress of her art. Her open ing air, " Me, a poor child of the village," was ex quisitely given, and at once secured her a position with the audience. It was enthusiastically encored. Mr. Charles Braham, it will be recollected, sung at concerts with his father some few seasons ago. Since then he has been devoting himself assi duously to the study of his profession, and he has reaped the reward of assiduity, application, and study. He has comp l etely got rid of all those crudi ties which formerly marred some of his happiest effort s , and is now a fi n i s h e d and highly accomplished dramatic singer. Hi s b eautiful tenor voice has also had t ime to dev e l op i tse l f; full, sweet, and resonant, its rich tones come gushing on the ear in one full tide of melody. On his first appearance he was somewhat nervous, but he soon became reassured by the enthusiastic plaudits of his auditors. In the romance in the first act, " This ring now take, then," he was encored, and, reassured by the encore, he re peated it in even better style than he had given it at first. His great triumph was in the beautiful ballad " My Boyhood's Home," a graceful composition ren dered still more graceful by the exquisite manner in which it was rendered by Mr. Charles Braham. It was honoured with a double encore, and was called for by many of the audience a third time. At the conclusion Mr. C. Braham and Miss Rafter were both called for, and were received with enthusiastic applause. The music of the opera is like all Flotow's music, striking and effective, without great preten sions to originality, but always pleasing, and offering to the artiBteB engaged an opportunity of displayin g their taste by filling up the sketches with which he has furnished them. The original libretto is by M. de St. Georges, and turns upon a romantic legend prevalent in Styria (and which forms the burden of one of the songs) that once a year—namely on the day of St. Irene, the souls of departed lovers have power to return to earth, and to appear before their respective surviving lovers, provided the latter have remained true to their memory. In the first act, Leoline, a peasant girl (Miss Rafter), is wooed by Count Aldemar (Mr. Charles Braham), and returns his love ; but the latter being summoned to join his regiment, going to the wars, the lovers are obliged to part, and the Count gives Leoline a ring, pledging himself to eternal fidelity to her, both in life and after death. Leoline is also in secret beloved by her foster-brother and guar dian Frantz (Mr. Weiss), who is not aware of the passion engendered in his ward's breast by his aris tocratic rival. A tragical incident closes the first act. Leoline hearing martial music in the distance, accom panying her lover's regiment on its way to the frontier, rushes to an old wooden bridge on an eminence, where she can take a last glimpse of all that is so dear to her. The crazy old bridge breaks down with her weight, and she falls down the abyss and is killed. The scene falls upon a picture in which the grief of Frantz and the sympathy of the villagers is displayed. The second act opens after a lapse of two years. Frantz has lost his reason, his thoughts always dwel ling upon the memory of poor Leoline, who he fancies is every day about to return to his humble cottage. Count Adelmar returns from the war, betrothed to Matilda, the rich Countess of the domain (Mrs. Weiss). True he expresses some few passing words of regret at the sad fate of his former mistress, but why should he suffer such reflections to mar the happiness of the living lover on the very d a y i ntended for their mar riage. The spirit of Leoline now moves across his path, but he does not see her, because he is not faith ful to her memory. The Countess enters the scene, and Adelmar is about exchanging rings with her, when the spirit of Leoline again appears, snatches the ring presented by the Countess, and replaces for it, in the hand of Adelmar, the very r i ng h e had given her himself two years ago. On exhibiting the jewel, Adelmar is bewildered, an agitated scene takes place between himself, Frantz, and the spirit of Leoline ; and the end of the drama is, that Frantz dies, and is spirited away to happiness in heaven by Leoline, as Adelmar and the Countess are entering the church for the performance of the marriage ceremony. Mr. Weiss as Frantz was excellent. He gave a drinking song in the first act with infinite spirit, and was deservedly rewarded with an encore. It is by far the best thing that this gen tl eman h as yet done. The piece was admirably put on the stage, the choruses were excellently rendered, an d the music was most efficiently given by the orchestra, under the able direction of Mr. Loder. The opera was an nounced for repetition ev e ry evening amidst the unanimous applause of a crowded house. FAREWELL BENEFIT OF MISS ANNETTE MEARS.— This very talented young lady, whose exertions as Prima Donna at the Royal Grecian Saloon have contributed in no small degree to maintain the popularity of that establishment, has announced her farewell benefit and last appearance at the Royal Grecian Saloon for Thurs day. There can be no doubt but that her friends will rally round her, and give her a bumper at parting. and Mrs. Charles Kean are at Liverpool, playing to crowded houses; from thence they proceed to Birmingham, where they are to perform during the next and following week, after which their engagement at the Haymarket Theatre commences. - THE SELECT COMMITTEE'S REPORT ON THE NAVY ESTIMATES.—The report of the Select Committee ap pointed to revise the navy, army, and ordnance esti mates, and from the evidence appended to which we have already given copious extracts, has been published during the past week. Although referring exclusively to the navy, the report extends to 114 pages, the mi nutes of evidence occupy 690 pages, and 422 pages are devoted to the appendices; so that this " black and blue book of the navy," as it is thus described, contains no less than 1,226 folios of type, a considerable portion of which is tabular matter. The following is a list of the wit nesses:—The Earl of Auckland, First L. ird of the Ad miralty; Mr. Ward, M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty; the Hon. Captain Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., Lord John Hay, C. 8., M.P., Capt. Milne, Lords of the Admiralty; Rear- Admiral Sir F. Beaufort, K.C.8., Hydrogapher to the Admiralty; Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.N., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain Ellice, R.N., Comptroller 01 Steam Machinery ; Rear-Admiral Bowles, C. 8., M.P., ex-Lord of the Admiralty; Right Hon. S. Herbert, M.P., formerly Secretary to the Admiralty, and latterly Secretary-at-War; Captain Sir Thomas Hastings, 8.N., Storekeeper of the Ordnance; Lieutenant Colonel Ir vine, C. 8., Director of Engineering and Architectural Works of the Admiralty; Captains W. IL Hall and Charlewood, RN.; the Hon. R. Dundas, Storekeeper General; Mr. A. Crease, Principal Manager at Lloyd's; Mr. H. Chatfield, Assistant Master Shipwright at Wool wich Dockyard; Mr. T. Lloyd, Chief Engineer at So men:et 11-use; Messrs. Atherton and Murray, Chief Engineers at Woolwich and Portsmouth Dockyard; Mr. Laws, Storekeeper of Pembroke Dockyard; Captain Burgmann, RE., Director of Works at Devonport; Mr. Pretious, Timber Converter at Pembroke; Messrs. J. and W. Edye, Assistants to the Surveyor of the Navy, and Master Shipwright of Devonport Dockyard; Lieut. Brown, R.E., Registrar of Seamen; Messrs. Robertson, A. Gordon, S cott . R usse ll , J . Nash, J. Field, J. James, J. Whiffen, and S. F u ll agar . Th e li st of the paper s Riven given in the appendix occupy eight closely-printed pages. The Venerable Earl of Mayo, now in his 831 year, who was seriously indisposed some months back, is now in the enjoyment of good health. The Noble Earl lately gave a harvest home dinner to his numerous tenantry, on the Palmerston House estate, county of Kildare. The Marquis and Marchioness of Thomond were among the numerous visitors present on the interesting occasion. Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor are about to embark for Madeira, where they intend to pass the winter months. The nuptials of Mr. Richard S. Bourke, M.P. for Kildare, and Miss Blanche Wyndham, second daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Wyndham, have been unavoidably postponed for a fortnight. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Married yesterday, by special license, at the Clarendon Hotel, by the Rev. John Jackson, Rector of St. James's, Piccadilly, Mr. George H. Cavendish, of the Ist Life Guards, youngest son of Major-General the Hon. Henry F. C. Cavendish, to Miss Rumbold, only daughter of the late Sir William Rumbold, and niece of the Baron and Baroness de Del mar. Immediately after the ceremony the happy couple left town in a post-chariot and four for Chiswick House, to spend the honeymoon. Great preparations bad been making for the marriage to take place at Chatsworth, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire's princely residence in Derbyshire, but owing to the lamented demise of his Grace's brother in-law, the Earl of Carlisle, the cere mony was performed in the moat private manner, the nearest relatives only being present on the occasion. LIYERFOOL, TUESDAY, 8.30 A.M.--The British and North American Mail steamer Acadia, from the United States, was off Holyhead at hall-past six this morning. THE OBSERVATORY ON THE Tor or ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL. -- Yesterday morning the Sappers and Miners having completed the outline survey of the me tropolis, commenci d demolishing the observatory or " crow's nest," which has excited so much attention, on the summit of St. Paul's Cathedral. The operation was observed at different points by great numbers of persons, and the almost heedless way the men walked about the unprotected platform was calculated to create feelings of apprehension for their safety. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BETHNAL -GREEN. -- Yes terday morning, shortly after two o'clock, a fire broke out in the residence of Mr. George Rutledge, Bethnal green, and, notwithstanding the prompt arrival of the engines, and a plentiful supply of water, the building was gutted, and the whole of the furniture consumed. The inmates escaped with great difficulty. Mr. Rut ledge is insured. - THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE LONDON AND NoRTII - WESTERN RAILWAY.—Tho remains of Mr. Shuard were removed on Suuday morning from the Queen's Hotel, Birmingham, to Crewe, near to which place they have been interred. A considerable quantity of corn, chiefly oats, is still in the fields to the north west of this town, and a great portion of it, it is feared, will be damaged to such an extent as to be of comparatively little value. The weather continues wet, cold, and ungenial.—Newcastle Journal. ATTEMPT TO HANG A CHlLD.—Hunslet has nearly been the scene of a second tragedy this week. On Sa turday night last Joseph Phillips, who resides in Tay lor's-place, Hunslet Carr, and is by trade a potter, re turned to his home rather the worse for liquor, and im mediately went up stairs to bed. His wife had not re tired to rest, but his child, an only one, was fast asleep. He took the child out of bed, tied a handkerchief round it r neck, and suspended it to the railing of the bedstead. His wife, hearing an unusual noise up-stairs, proceeded thither, when, to her astonishment, she found her infant nearly in the agonies of death, and her husband quietly looking on. She instantly took the child down, and alarmed her neighbour, but whilst she was doing this, the father, who is said t o h ave a penc h ant that way, thought ho would try hanging himself; and " tucked " himself up, but he took special care to rest his feet on the bed, and in this position he was found. The fellow is in custody.—Leeds Intelligencer. DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER. -- On Monday last, old Robert Shore, formerly of the Brown House, Rochdale, died in his 90th year. He had been confined to his bed about nine months, but was not in want of any medical assistance. He has walked to the races at Kersal Moor 78 years successively, and scarcely ever neglected going four days in the week.—Manchester Courier. WAR AMONG Boys.---On Tuesday a boy named Edward M Gregor was brought before the Rev. R. M. Frelden, and J. S. Jackson, Esq., on a charge of assault ing Mason, a constable of Tranmere. The constable stated that a number of boys crossed the Mersey from Liverpool, to fight the Tranmere boys, and on Sunday afternoon about two hundred assembled in battle array in a field behind the Queen's Arms. He interfered, and apprehended four, but was pelted with stones, and was obliged to let them go. With the assistance of some young men he succeeded in apprehending the prisoner. The magistrates ordered him to be bound over to keep the peaces—Liverpool Nail. EATU I 1 TAE LATE FLOOD.—An inquest was held at Aston-le-Walls, on Saturday, before It. Weston, Esq., coroner, on the body of Jonathan Sabin, a labourer, about fifty-eight years of age, in the employ of Mr. Budd, of that place. It appeared that he left the Crown Inn, Chipping Warden, on Saturday evening, the 30 t h ult., somewhat the worse for liquor, and was not s een aga i n until the following Friday night, when his b o dy was found by Mr. Budd, in the bed of a stream running from the Byfieid reservoir, about sixty yards from the road leading from Aston to Boddington. A. Cartwright Esq., of Edgecott House; Mr. Budd, and Mr. W. Wilson: of Chipping Warden, had been indefatigable in their search and inquiries after the poor man up to the very hour when he was found .—Northompton Herald. • COINCIDENCES.—It is very singular that so many of our Princes have died on the Saturday. It would almost seem as though the Revolution had set the ex ample, the throne having been declared vacant On Satur day, Feb. 16, 1688. William 111. died on Saturday, March 8, 1702 ; Queen Anne died on Saturday, August 1, 1714; George I. at two o'clock on Sunday morning, June 11, 1727 (what in common parlance is called Satur day night); George 11. died on Saturday, October 25, 1760; George died on Saturday, Jan. 19, 1820 ; George IV. on Saturday, June 6, 1830. OPENING OF A PAUPER TRAINING SCHOOL AT LEEDS.—Yesterday the newly-erected edifice which has been built by the guardians of the poor of Leeds as a moral and industrial training school for the pauper chil dren of the township, was opened by a religious service in the chapel of the institution. The school is calculated to accommodate 400, say 160 boys, 160 girls, and 80 in fants. It stands at the east aide of the town, 0L a plotof land six acres in extent, purchased at a cost of 1,8201. THE QUARTERLIES. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXVIII. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. CLXVI. THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. No. XCVIII. Our favourites among the periodical publications— the Quarterlies —are again before us, strong in an erudition without pedantry and a smartness without frivolity. Contrasted with the other serial and mis cellaneous effusions of the press, they assume a pecu liar degree of importance; and this because the ma jority of their contemporaries come rather too de cidedly under the category of what is called fugitive literature. Generally speaking, the Quarterlies are characterised by elegance of composition and solidity of knowledge. That article, in any one of the three leading Quarterlies, must be singularly unworthy of j admission which does not in some measure fascinate the reader during the perusal, and mellow his under standing with novel and wholesome information. Such, at least, is the impression which has been pro duced in the public mind from the day when Francis Jeffrey inaugurated this species of periodical in the literary city of Edinburgh. Under the editorship of his successor, the Edinburgh continues to sustain its reputation ; and in the current number we find this fact exemplified, not only by the superficial variety, hut by the intrinsic ability, likewise, of the different contributions. The political papers are three—one on the " State of Europe," being an epitome of the snore surprising events which have transpired in Christendom since the revolution of February; an other on the momentous topic of "Revolution and Reform" —the tremendous alternative of modern Go vernments, and which we shall take an early oppor tunity of referring to in 'our leading columns ; and another on the profound and almost problematical science of " Political Economy," suggested by the new work of Mr. John Stuart Mill. The gossip ping articles are two —one on " Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George III•," in which John, Lord Hervey, th e f r i en d of Walpole and of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, the Sporus of Pope, and the Lord Fanny of Pulteney, is at last, in 1848, declared, by an Edinburgh Reviewer, to be "one of the most acute observers and best (prose) writers of his age :" the other on " Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Os gory," in which there is a noble argument in favour of the press—contrasting the positions awarded by France and England to the respective journalists. Quoting M. Jules Janin's remark about M. Thiers— " The day when that man named himself President of the Council, the French press gained its battle of Austerlitz!"—the reviewer asks "When will the English press gain its Waterloo ?" In the criticism on Lord Hervey's posthumous work, the reviewer gives a deplorable sketch of the age of the first Georges. Speaking of that base, and in many respects infamous epoch, he says— " We can only remind our readers of what we said at a gross first, that th e age was and a vicious age. The readers of Tom Jones' and Joseph Andrews' need not he told what were the manners of the squirearchy and the farmers of that day. The readers of Miss Bellenden's and Miss Howe's letters need not be told how elegant and high-born dames occasionally talked and wrote. The Court, in short, was not a whit grosser than one half of English society; or all German society, of the same epoch; and whatever vice it had, must be allowed to have lacked the allurements which grace, refinement, and Kit threw over the contemporary Court of the Re gent of Orleans. At all events, there was one vice fro m which that age was free—the vice. of hypocrisy. All was open and avowed. George 11. lived openly with Lady Suffolk and Countess Walmoden. Sir R. Walpole lived openly with Miss Skerritt; and was Rot one jot the less intimate, for all that, with Bishops Gibson and Hoadley. An Archbishop of Canterbury was the envoy notoriously selected by the unreluctant cuckold Mr. Howard, to disengage his wife from the service of the Queen and the caresses of the King. An Archbishop of York had lived openly with a succession of mistresses; and one of his 'natural sons sat on the Episcopal Bench. Walpole and Pulteney, intriguers against the honour of other husbands, were careless of their own. Lady Bath was as gallant as she was beautiful. Lady Walpole was no less an intriguante. It is now thought tolerably certain that the father of Horace Walpole was Lord Hervey's elder brother, Carr." Two other contributions to the Edinburgh we have not yet mentioned; one of a horticultural character, being a criticism upon "Fortune's China" in regard to that traveller's revelations of the mysteries of Chi nese gardening; and another on " Ethnology, or the Science of Races." The latter article we have re served till the last, because to our thinking it is in every respect the most remarkable. The writer has evidently imbued his mind with the philosophic truths which have been industriously compacted together by James Cowles Prichard in his " Natural History of Man," and first diffused by him through the five volumes of his "Researches into the Physical History of Mankind." There is this satisfaction which remains ever present to the mind while reading the long and laborious, but by no means tedious or ponderous, paper on "Ethnology" (spreading over fifty-seven pages), namely, that the reviewer has something more than a superficial acquaintance with the new science, that he is no mere smatterer, but that he has delved deeply into the stubborn ground which contains so many and such priceless treasures. The article is one mass of facts—facts well selected and scrupu lously digested. It traces Ethnology to its foun tain-head, and then follows it down deliberately through all its devious meanderings until its arrival I at the present epoch of its history. After all, we are compelled to coincide in the opinion that Ethnology is still in its infancy, and that in spite of the labours of so many profound thinkers—anatomists, philolo gists, physiologists, psychologists, historians, gram marians, etymologists, and physical geographers— its votaries must at present rest contented to see it ranked in the lowest grade among the sciences. The singular analogy which is traceable between the kin- I dred studies of geology and ethnology is thus alluded to :—" They are both histories of the past, and de pend. for their successful cultivation on the uncon scious co - operation of many minds, often ignorant of each other's labours." In testimony of the correct ness of this assertion the names of the principal origi nators of Ethnology are enumerated. Camper, the famous anatomist, for example, first began to place , 1 the matter upon a scientific basis by propounding the theorem of the " facial angle." Blu men b ac h f o ll owed in his footst eps by accumulating a vast number of details; and his plan of arrangement was soon after wards adopted by the renowned Cuvier. The plan had reference to the peculiar conformation of the human skull, and was partitioned in the f o ll ow i ng 10 e divisions :—] . The Cau p easian ; 2. The Mongolian • 3. The Ethiopean • 4. Th e A mer i can; and 5. Th e Malayan. It hasi ultimately, howe ver , b een determined by Pri c h ard that there are, in reality, only three leading types of cranial conforma tion ; namely,a Ist. The oval or elliptical , The 2d. The am ; an d ad. The prognathous. P being the most symmetrical and corre sponding with Blumenbach's term of the Caucasian ; the pyramidal being that conformation which arises from the great lateral prominence of the cheek bones and zygomatic arches as is seen in the skulls of the Esquimaux, a form corresponding with Blumenbach's idea of the Mongolian ; and the prognathous, so called in indication of the forward protuberance of the jaws, as is visible among the negroes of the Guinea coast, and also among the Australian and Polynesian races. R e t z ius, acting upon a principle quite the antithesis of the foregoing, originated a classification much more elaborate. Facts indicative of the variable nature of the cranial conformation have, nevertheless, been col lected by Mr. (now Sir) Charles Lyell, proving that this peculiarity, therefore, cannot be adopted as an infalliable criterion. In regard to the criterion of languages, Chevalier Bunsen en conceives that th e Hot tentot dialect is a degrade d Kafir, as the Bu s h man tongue is a degraded Hottentot, which Humb o ldt appears to have determined, from "the remarkable conformity , in the fundamental characters of their Malayan, Polynesian, and Aus languages, that the tralian races have a com mon ori gin. Thus showing that the criterion of " languages " is also anything but infallible. The Professorsttht Weber, of Bonn, have likewise demonstrated that of a thethe "real facts regarding the configuration i pelvis are those relating to . the precisely analogous cranium ;" j.demonstrating conformation of the that those who have argued_ that a valid distinction between two races can be drawnfrom the peculiari ties of the pelvis have argued erroneously. whatever time may have been said at one by M. di Abbadie, at another by Professor Newman, and at another by Mr. Hodgson, in respect of the distinction tra cea bl e through the differences of complexion, it is certain, as the reviewer very forcibly observ es , , that it is im possible to regard the hue of the skin as a suff ic i en t test of the Caucasian race (or_ of other ra ces ) ; s i nce whatever we may assume to be its typical comp l ex i on, that type is subject to every. kind and . degree of modi fication. And this notwithstanding and ing that we have the plain differences, in the abstract, o f the fair and ruddy Caucasian, the jet black Neg ro , t h e swarthy Malay, the olive Mongolian, and the copper -coloured American Indian. For example, we fi n d the Cinghalese, according to Dr. Davy , varying from light brown to black ; we find the d arciuesans with black, brown, auburn, red, and flaxen h air ;and so on in instances almost i n numerable. A mong t h e causes of this diversity of complexion_. are me n ti one d , b y M. D'Orbigny, and by Sir R. Schomburgh, the differences of climate, the solar heat in some coun tries, and the humidity of others. After enume• remarkable fact s , th e rev i ewer rating the foregoing comparisons instituted by Dr. Prichard—the_ considers the physiological physical characters—and th e philological investigations _of several phil osop h ers. Among the last mentioned are Adelungs, Vater, Klaproth, Fred. Schlege l, Bopp, Jacob Grimm, Humboldt, Bunsen, Latham , but, above all, theim mortal Leibnitz. These philological investigations-- termed by the Germans Sprac_henkun de, and by our selves Glottology—have afforded additional proof that the various nations have not a number of' different origins. Beyond this, and beyond the circumstance that the anatomical investigations have led to a similar conclusion, it is an extraordinary and beautiful coin- The building and play yards, with the laundry drying ground, cover nearly two acres, and the co s t o f t h e erection will be under 14,0001. The edifice is efficiently warmed and ventilated, and neatly but plainly furnished. TESTIMONIAL FOR MEDICAL SERVICES.—The London and North-Western Railway Company have presented, through Captain finish, at the suggestion of J. P. Westhead, Esq., M.P., to their medical officer in the Manchester district, a set of rich cut glass castors in a splendid silver frame, as a testimonial of his ser vices at the late accident at Crewe. THE VACANT COLONELCIES --The Colonelcies of the 80th Foot and the 3d West India Regiments, vacant by the deaths of Sir Maurice O'Connell and Sir Charles Maxwell, have not yet been filled up. Major- General Sir Guy Campbell, commander of the Athlone district, is mentioned as the probable successor to one of them. ELECTION OF OFFICER OF HEALTH FOR THE CITY OF LONDON.—This election is exciting very great interest in the City. Out of nineteen canditates two have been selected, by a great majority of votes—Mr. Childs, an officer of the Corporation, and a gentleman with the highest scientific attainments ; and Mr. Simon, a gentleman of talent, and a member of the committee of the Health of Towns Association. The selection rests with the Aldermen and Common Council, and is looked forward to with great anxiety. DONKEY DRIVERS' ANNUAL DINNER.--MOSt visitors to Malvern have been of late under some obliga tions to the donkey drivers, of whose numbers rather an imposing idea is conveyed by the fact that last Thurs day no less than fifty of the fraternity and sisterhood sat down to dinner at the Unicorn Hotel, Great Mal vern, to celebrate the annual festival held by them towards the wane of the season. The chair was filled most admirably by a respectable son of Vulcan, who enjoys the profits of re-ironing and repairing the hoof gear of the cattle, and Mrs. Sarah Baker ably performed the duties of the table. The first toast was more cha racteristic than loyal, viz., " Success to the mule and donkey trade." Song by Mrs. Baker, "If I had a donkey what vould'nt go." Next followed, " The town and trade of Jerusalem," a toast which being rather enigmatic, furnished the chairman with an opportunity of explaining the connexion between the meeting and Jerusalem ponies, which he interlarded by remarks on asses in general. The festivities ended at the rational hour of ten. THE BUCKINGHAM ESTATES.—The Buckingham and Chandos estates, in the county of Westmeath, will be brought to the hammer on the 24th instant, in Dublin. They comprise 6,700 acres, producing a rental of about 3,3701. per annum. The remaining portion of the Vil hers estate, in the Queen's County, comprising 238 acres, will also be disposed of. Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., of Grondon Hall, near Atheratone, has given permission to his tenants to kill the game on their respective farms. MOUNT St. BERNARD HOSPICE, BCC.--HIS Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has consented to patronise the ball to be given next month in aid of this institution. EXTINCTION OF THE OLD FREEMEN. —This once ruling body is now almost extinct. By this year's list, published by the town clerk of Plymouth, only 54 re main, after striking out four who have died since the last registration. In 1831, the last contested election for the borough under the old regime, there were 173 free men polled—there were residents and non-residents ; the latter coming from different parts of the kingdom ; while the wealthy, trading, and other classes of inhabi tants paying the national and local taxes in the town, were doomed to sit supine and look on at some eight or ten persons ruling the old corporate body. Now, by the present year's publication of the lists, a very differ( nt picture is presented. The electoral lists for the two parishes give about 2,400 electors to vote for Members of Parliament for the borough ; but the old freemen are reduced through deaths since 1831, and the non-residence of others within seven miles of the borough, according to the clause of the Reform Act, to an insignificant number. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT -COLONEL SIR ROBERT MOWER AY, K.H.—This distinguished officer died on the 10th instant, at his seat in Fifeshire, in the 74th year of his age. The deceased, though latterly living in a very private manner, was some years since a public officer of considerable eminence. He was the eldest son of Robert Mowbray, Esq., of Cockairne, and was the lineal de scendant of William Mowbray, of Fifeshire, who lived in 1511. Sir William was a magistrate and deputy lieu tenant for the county of Fite, in which he possessed some considerable influence. At an early age he en tered the army, and served for ten years in India. He was subsequently in the Mediterranean for eight years. witnessing during both periods the occurrence of some important events. In 1779, he was appointed aide-de camp to the Earl of Guilford, when Governor of Ceylon. He was afterwards on the staff of General Sir Josiah Champagnee, a relative of the Marquis of Anglesey. In August, 1796, he marched with the troops under Sir James Craig from Cape Town to Saldanah Bay. He was next present at the surrender of the Dutch fleet to Admiral Lucas. He subsequently acted as Deputy Adjutant General under Major-General Hay Macdonald, during the campain in Ceylon in 1803; and while a Captain in the 80th F oot i n 1801 he served in Egypt with the British force seat against the French. ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —As the ten o'clock up-train from Exeter, on Saturday morning last, was proceeding on its destination, about a mile beyond the Bridgewater station, the passengers felt a slight jerk of the carriages, and directly after wards the driver of the engine gave a signal whistle, whereupon the train stopped, and some of the officials and a portion of the male passengers ran back to ascer tain the cause, when they discovered that a man, with two horses and a waggon (supposed to belong to a farmer named Flower or Fowler), had, most incau tiously, attempted to cross the line in the very face of the train. Both horses were cut to pieces and killed in stantaneously, and, such was the force of the shock, that the horses, together with the shafts of the waggon, ware knocked a distance of thirty or forty yards from the body of the waggon. The man, who had hold of the front horse at the time, most providentially escaped injury, but his garments were much torn, and he was too much frightened then to give any explanation. The horses were stated to be valuable, and one of them was in foal. No blame whatever attaches to the driver of the engine. The line at this spot is on a perfect level with the adjoin ing lands, and the approach of the train could be ob served upwards of a mile distant. The train was de tained about a quarter of an hour by the occurrence. The accident happened at about a quarter to twelve, at which period the train was nearly halt an hour beyond its proper time. cidence, as the Edinburgh itself remarks, that " when glottological evidence is the weakest anatomical evidence is the strongest, and vice versa." From these strange and most surprising facts, it is abso lutely impossible for any sensible man to arrive at any other conclusion than that proclaimed by the reviewer that, notwithstanding the diversities of ap pearance in the human race, mankind have sprung from a sing'e stock—thus corresponding entirely with the account furnished in Revelation. As to the impossibility of the diversities we have alluded to having occurred within the comparatively brief interval of six thousand years, it is admirably ob served (page 485) that " there is no more reason to suppose that the book of Genesis was intended to give us an exact chronology than that it was designed to teach us geology or astronomy." Powerful, however, as the anatomical, physiological, and psychological arguments are, the strongest proof of all, in our estimation, is that afforded by the glottological inquiries of the learned and industrious Chevalier Bunsen. We dismiss this enthralling and erudite article with the strongest expression of our admiration. Although we have already commented upon the criticism upon " Hervey's Memoirs of the Reign of George 11.,' we cannot refrain from alluding to the famous satire in which Pope would infallibly " have crucified Hervey's name to all posterity—but for the recent appearance of these and other contem porary memoirs. For the amusement of our readers we turn to that old favourite book of Pope which we have thumbed so often; we open it at that satire which is " the bitterest in the language ;" an I we quote from it some of its most vitriolic fragments : " Let Sporus tremble. Whatl that thing of silk, Sporus that mere white curd of asses milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel, Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel? Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings, This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stings ; Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys, Yet wit ne'er tastes, and beauty ne'er enjoys: Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. Whether in florid impotence he speaks, And as the prompter breathes the puppet squeaks; Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad, Half froth half venom spits himself abroad, In puns, or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. Amphibious thing! that, acting either part, The trifling head, or the corrupted heart; Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord!" It is well that the posthumous memoirs of Lord Hervey have not only preserved him from this satiric pillory,but have entitled him, moreover, to the respectful remem brance of posterity. In the forthcoming history of Eng land, by Thomas Babington Macaulay, we anticipate a just estimate of Hervey from the pen of our Eng lish Thucydides. Ten articles compose the current number of the Quarterly, articles principally of a politico•geographie character, as for example, those on " Ireland,' on " Whiteside's Italy," on the "Germanic States," on "Physical Geography," and on "Borneo and Celebus." Beyond these, we must mention a delightful criticism on " Dyce's Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher"—those twin stars, " the Dioscuri of our Zodiac." Speaking of them as con trasted with Shakspere, the reviewer says, " they are to the Prince of Poets as a young sister, buxom, gay, and debonnair, to a noble brother : their great con temporary (meaning Ben Jonson) is a robust, well made, but rather hard and dry cousin : he is of t'se stronger gender, but they are nearer akin" (that is to say, nearer akin to their common contemporary, "Immortal 'Willy"). This is beautifully and justly spoken. Beyond the papers already enumerated, there is a clever article on the " Education of Mili tary Officers"—a subject of profound importance to the well-being of our army, and one which is happily beginning to excite some attention. The review of M. Louis Reybsud's new political romance, called "Jerome Paturot a la Recherche de la meilleure des Republiques," is amusing, but somewhat empty and profitless in its results. The paper on " Female Penitentiaries" is penned in a noble spirit of philan thropy : as the writer observes, it is time to get rid of our prudery and pseudo-delicacy, and to take boldly into consideration not only the reclamation of the juvenile offenders, but the reclamation, also, of that still more numerous and still more deplorable class of unfortunates who systematise the abomina tions of sin in our great cities, and are a wretchedness to themselves and to the general community; for as Duchatelet forcibly remarks, "dies soot a elles-memes un sujet d'horreur.' Last of all, because first of all in the beauty of its composition, we would call at tention to the admirable chapter on the glorious art and science (for it is both) of " Music." The article betrays the hand of a master, and its eloquence the fervour of a poetic taste and a brilliant imagination. The subjoined passage will be perused with gusto by all those who, like ourselves, rejoice with a sense of indescribable testacy in that noblest and sublimest of all the fine arts—Music : " Voltaire is commonly stated to have been a hater and despiser of the art of sweet sounds; but there is perhaps as much evidence against the assertion, as for it, in his works. Gr4try says of him that he would sit with a discontented face whilst music was going on— which, considering what French music was in his time, might argue not a worse ear than his neighbours', but a better. But granting 'Voltaire had no musical sympa thies in him, and it goes against our consciences tfi thinkihe had, his friend and fellow-thinker, Frederick of Prussia, had them in a great degree; and a man as unlike both as this world could offer, the late Dr. Chal mers, had none at all—except of course, that he liked a Scotch air, us all Scotchmen, by some merciful provision of nature, appear to do. Then it may seem natural to our preconceived ideas that such a mind as Horace Wal polo s should have no capacity for musical pleasure; but by what possible analogy was it that Charles Lamb's should have just as little? How came it to pass that Rousseau, the worthless ancestor of all Radicals, was an enthusiastic and profound mus Lian—while Dr. Johnson, the type of old Toryism, did not know one tune from another; or that Luther pronounced music to be one of the best gifts of Heaven, and encouraged the study of it by precept and example, white Calvin and Knox perse cuted it as a snare of the Evil One, and conscientiously condemned it to perpetual degradation in their ehurches? All we can say is, that the nrijority pay her homage—. that it is one of her heavenly attributes :o link those na tures together whom nothing elselcan unite. Men of the most opposite characters and lives that history can pro duce fraternize in music. If Alfrad loved her, so did Nero; if Ceeur de Lion was a sweet musician, so was Charles IX.; if George 111. delighted in all music, espe cially in that of a sacred character, so did Henry VIII.; if the hero of our own times, the motto of whose life has been duty, is musical both by nature and inheritance, his antagonist Napoleon at least hummed opera tunes. Oliver Cromwell bade a musician ask of him what fa vour ho pleased. John Wesley remonstrated against leaving all the good tunes to the Devil. Every private family could quote some domestic torment and some do mestic treasure, alike in nothing else but in the love for music. There is no forming any system of judgment. There is no looking round in a concert room and saying in one's heart, these people are all of one way of think ing —they are all intelligent, or all humane, or all poeti cal. There is no broad mark: young and old, high and low—passionate and meek—wise and foolish—babies, idiots, insane people—all, more or less, like music. At most there are some who are indifferent, or fancy them selves so, as much from want of opportunity as of taste —some who don't care for bad music, and never hear good—if so hard a lot can be imagined—but there is only one class of men who condemn it, and those are fanatics; and there is only one order of beings, word ing to Luther, who hate it, and those are devils.. In answer to those unfortunate persons who are in capable of appreciating the joys derivable from the sense of hearing, and who inquire with such a pig headed pertinacity, What it is that music can do? Whether the result is proportioned to her means Whether she enlightens our views or enlarges our understandings ? Whether she makes us more prudent, more intelligent, more practical, or more moral ?—the reviewer says, " No, but she can make us more romantic, and that is what we want now-a days more than anything else." So far we go with him heartily; but the reviewer does not, in this, do his noble theme justice. Music can effect more than the mere evoking of romance in our natures, im measurably, indescribably, infinitely more ! Music not only makes us romantic, it ameliorates the sorrows of this rough world of briars and dust, it laps "in soft Lydian measures" the anguish of the heart and of the memory; it enunciates thoughts beyond the utterance of language ; it conveys emotions too subtle and profound for expression by the tongue ; it is the voice of the soul, as verbal sounds are the voice of the body ; it can, under the touch of a Timotheus, "lift a mortal to the skies, or draw an angel down." We, who have listened to the grand Gregorian Mass of Bach until the tones of the organ and the choris ters have in truth seemed " to rise up from the vast profound of the past like solemn heralds of a dawning world of sound ;" we, who have hearkened to the dainty quartet.ts of Haydn and the ravishing melo dies of Mozart until every pulse has tingled with an unutterable sense of happiness ; w e , who have heard the sweet wailing of the " La crymosa," till our eyes have swu m w i t h the pathos of the "qua re-sur-get, and our hearts have melted "as we have been told how ' the Children of Israel sighed !—sighed !—sighed!--by reason of their bond age ;' " we ,who have thrilled at that most superb, because most sublime, chorus in the Messiah, till (at the roaring of "those stupendous words" "I.llllion at derful! Counsellor ! The P r i nce of Peace the " thunder- clap of those more than magical notes"— " That all flesh—shall see—it, toge titer ! '') we have literally yearned for " wings that we might rise spon taneous with the sounds ; we, moreover, who have listened to the Tempest in Beethoven's Pastoral Si in phony—that tempest w hi c h , as the reviewer beauti fully expresses it, " is like Thomson's 'Seasons' set to 1111181 C," that tempest which, according to M. Oulibiehef, is " the grandest and most fearful of all storms that ever thundered in the basses, whistled in the flutes, bellowed and blustered in the trumpets, and lightened and bailed in the violins," till we have almost wept with pleasure at " the sweet enchant ment of those modulations, when the thunder Vols. 12 Taking these eight very miscellaneous works as the theme of his disquisition, the reviewer writes upon them a crushing, mashing criticism—a criticism such as might drive a weak-minded, vain, and reli gionless man to s u i c id e . W e d o no t think, however, but that the vanity of the First Lord of the Trea sury will be proof against fifty or fifty thousand assailants equally powerful. And, supposing the Noble Lord had any such inclination, we doubt not but that he would afford an additional testimony of the truth of Sidney Smith's celebrated assertion, by composing another biography, another history, an other tragedy, and other essays, the Westminster reviewer to the contrary, nevertheless, notwithstand ing. In that case, however, we would be very care ful, indeed, before we undertook to read the bio grapher, historian, dramatist, or pamphleteer, if the opinions of the reviewer are to be regarded as decisive. One thing we must assert at once, namely, that the opinions in the Westminster are not mere idle opinions —they are opinions enforced by many deplorable quotations from the mixed metaphors of Mr. Joseph Skillet down to the "noodle and doodle" dialogue between Carlos and ()sari°. Yet enough of this biting and sarcastic criticism. It is, as we have already observed, one of a most painful character— too painful, is fact, for us to have any pleasure in retailing. The next contribution—on " Indian Epic Poetry"—is an elegant curiosity; followed by clever articles on "Causes of P over ty" an d " I ron Manufac- I tures of South Wales." The chapter on " Entomo• logy" is delightful, crowd e d, as it i s, w i t h anecdotes of the insect kingdom. It reminds us of some charm ing articles published a year or so back in the Westminster, called " Revelations of the Microscope," and " Revelations of the Telescope." The little circumstance mentioned in a footnote to the effect that the Greek word Tux 7) signifies both soul and butterfly, may have been dimly remembered by the verse-maker, and may have faintly suggested the idea to him, when he describes the soul, in death, as— " Leaving its chrysalis of clay To bask its gorgeous, painted wings In everlasting day!" After a review of the " Schleswig and Holstein Question," there is an earnest and labouriously written article by Poulett Scrope, on "Irish Clearances, and Improvement of Waste Lands." We ssy, written by Poulett Scrope, though the authorship is only indicated by that gentleman's initials, G. P. S. It is impossible, however, to do otherwise than recognise the intelligent and active mind of the Hon. Member for Stroud in almost every para graph of this admirable disquisition. From the luminous pages upon " The French Republic," re counting most of the extraordinary occurrences which have taken place in Paris since the Revolution of February, we quote the following emphatic and nobly merited eulogium "The National Assembly met on the 24th in conster nation. The members of the Provisional Commission,— Lamartine and Arago, especially, were doing all that men could do to restore order, in co-operation a ith General Cavaignac, whom they had invested with the military command of all the forces in Paris, including the trcops of the line, the Garde Mobile, and the National Guards, but so many of the Assembly believed that the insurrection had the countenance of Ledru Rollin, and, to all, the importance of unity, energy, and decision on the part of Government was so obvious, that a vote was passed by an overwhelmnin g majority, placing in the hands of General Cavaignac the entire executive powers of the state, and declaring Paris in a state of siege. To this vote the members of the Provisional Commission promptly responded by a formal resigna tion of their trust; and thus summarily ended the three months of power,' which have made for a poet-philoso pher a name in history; and a name which, after all that can be alleged against Lamartine for errors of judgment in a most difficult position, will, for moral courage, moderation, generous impulse, and rectitude of purpose, ever be received by posterity with respect." It is a conviction of this elevation of the mind, this purity in the conscience, and this patriotism in the unselfish ambition of M. de Lamartine, which has now rendered him the cynosure not only of neigh bouring eyes but of. the eyes of all Christendom. The absence of all personal ambition in General Cavaignac, his anxiety to relieve himself from the unaccustomed labours of administration and to return to his military post in Algeria, together with his opposition to the election of President by universal suffrage, exclude his powerful name from the candi datesbip. The mad speech delivered in the Chalet has destroyed all the hopes of Ledru Rollin. The miserable failure of Louis Bonaparte as an orator in the tribune, during a recent sitting, has scattered all his chances to the winds of heaven. Alphonse de Lamartine is now without a competitor—worthy of the title. If the French people are not blind, or mad, or both, they will unanimously name Lamartine the first President of the Republic which he founded, and especially when it is remembered that, in so doing, they will be rewarding with the exercise of universal suffrage the poet. orator whose eloquence has secured to them that great and glorious prerogative. Reviews of Foreign Literature, Correspondence, and a nu m b er of miscellane ous not i ces complete the Westminster and Foreign Quarterly for October. Our opinion of the Quarterlies generally is decidedly favourable, from the variety and excellence of their different criticisms. ./ 3 AY Up YOUR SU B SCRIPTIONS.--The following notice appears in the Manx Liberal :—However re Inctant we may b e i n exposing the weakness of our sub scribers and advertising friends, yet justice to ourselves Prompts us to have recourse to the blue cover; all, there fore, whose sub scr i pt i ons are not paid up within a fort night must be prepared to receive there copy of the Liberal disguised in the livery of a blue wrapper. Do the people imagine that we steal our materials?—for in order to give them credit for three or four years we must do so." Copied into the Shropshire Conservative with the following introduction:--" The Patrons of Newspapers —We find amongst the ' Notices to Cor respondents' in the Manx Liberal, the following pithy announcement. The idea is a good one, and we think we shall adopt the same system. People appear to con sider there is no expense attached to a newspaper, and that we pay no stamp duty, advertisement duty, wages, paper, rent, &c. Let those who are in our books con sider the justness of the Manx Liberal's remarks." EAST SURREY REGISTRATION.--The Reform Re gistration Society gives the following summary of the registration:—The number on the register of 1847-48, 6,291; the number expunged incidentally, and through objections by overseers, 456; also, through objections made by agents, 17; deduct the total number expunged, 473, the residue of the electors of 1847-48, 5,818. Add reclaims allowed, 174; ditto new claims allowed, 342; the number of electors for 1848-49, 6,334; increase on the year, 43. Of the 473 electors expunged, 174 will bo on the new register; 135 are deceased, and 194 are dis franchised, mostly through change of abode. is heard retreating in the distance, and timid sounds ! THE CORN TRADE. of inquiry rise up from l ea f and flower, ands The weather ha v i ng b een very fi ne up to F r i day, 'tis„ beauty all, and grateful song ar oun d,"— we birds answer, and steps emer ge , an d i n a moment 1 so favourable a n o pp or t un it y f or gett i ng i n t h e grain can sympathize without the most shadow ,w . not p rev i ous l y secured has not been neglected by y reserve-e farmers, and we are inclined to think that little now tion in the enthusiasm of the Quarterly reviewer for remains abroad the noblest, the holiest, the divinest of th e fi ne ar t s -- , even in mountainous di s t r i c t s. Potatote most backward and lifting has also pro nobler than sculpture, holier than painting, diviner hat rapidly, and we are happy to state than poetry I In the brief compass of a single paper i that the accounts from Scotland as to the the reviewer gives a complete history of the art of produce and quality continue satisfactory. music from the first idea of the monody, or single ac- The disease has certainly been much less ge companied song, started originally in 1590, by - Yin- neral in the northern than in the southern parts cenzo Galileo, the father of the immortal o astronomer, of the kingdom, and there is reason to expect that the throughout the following list of composers, down to metropolitan market will continue to be well sup -1 the ages of Beethoven and Meyerbeer : plied with this useful root from quarters where "Monteverde, Carissimi, and st ra d e li a , i n Italy, the disorder has not prevailed so extensively as in opened fresh veins of treasure in dramatic art; Alessan- this neighbourhood. The trade in grain has remained dro, Scarlatti, and Lotti impr ove d on their steps; Gas- in much the same position as previously ; all parties have acted with a great de a l o f caution, and there has pirini and th e p a t r i c i an M arce ll o added softer graces to church composition ; F resco b a ldi exa l te d the organ; Co- not been the slightest disposition to enter into specu relli endowed th e v i o li n; Lulli, Rarneau, and Gtitry, lative investments; the ar r i va l s f rom abroad whiel: have with their ballet-like melodies, successively seized upon on the whole been liberal, have therefore proved mere the national characteristics of French taste; Domenico Scarlatti a n d S e b ast i an Bach, with their stern gymnastic than importers have found it e as y t o p l ace; and at exercises, strengthened ev er y joint and muscle of musical most of the ports on the coast, as well as i n L ondon, invention. The G erman H asse was a d opted b y the stocks of foreign wheat have, within the l as t f ew Italians —th e G erman Gl uc k was adored by the rani.- weeks, accumulated. The deliveries from the farmers, sians—in England Purcell entered through the door without being large, have not fallen short of what is which the Restoration had opened, and Handel's mighty usually brought forward at the corresponding period tread took up where his lighter step left off—while, for o f th e ye ar , an d there have certainly, up to the pre the whole musical world at large, the coming of Haydn announced that o f M ozart , as the song of the redstart I sent time, been no signs of scarcity. The preparation of the land for autumn sowing . has shows that the nightingale is near" Altogether the paper is the jewel of this number of been pretty !:generally commenced, but this has not prevented thrashing; indeed, our farmers ar.:Fesa ":: the Quarterly. Decidedly the most conspicuous con- t o the Westminster Review for Octob e r i s :t o have come to the conc l us i on th a t th ey are no t lik e ly profit much by holding, the cessation of the the one which occupies the first position—the consi deration of Lord John Russell's character as a literary I present corn-laws, and the substitution of only a. statesman. Without any exception, it is the most ! nominal duty after the expiration of January next, 1 being viewed with considerable mistrust. Mean painful article we have ever perused—painful as the exposure of a sh a ll owness which seems absolutely s the deficiency in the yield of wheat, or the extent of ultimately risen t o th e o ffi ce of Prime Minister of I the loss of the potato crop in conse quence o f th e di seas e, England. Th ose w h o era unacquainted with the have been over-rated; and the downward movement literary produ c ti ons o f t h e ruling Premier —and their in prices must, therefore, be attributed wholly to the name we suspect is " million"--will be surprised to , liberal character of the supplies already received fr o m find that Lord J o h n h as wr i tten drama, history, bio- 1 abroad, and the expectation of still larger receipts graphy, essays, quarks, octavos, duodecimos, and 1 when all restrictions on importation shall have been pamphlets, amounting altog e th er t o t we l ve volumes. removed. As a curiosity we w ill g i ve the titles of these Hitherto, the arrivals from America have not been pro ductions :—important ; but by the latest advices from the ether side of the Atlantic, it appears that shipments on I. Essays and Sketches of Life and Character, rather a liberal scale were being made for Great Bri by a Gentleman, who has left his Lodg- tain, particularly of Indian corn ; and it is not im- Pp. ings 248. 1820 de guerre,—Joseph Skillet probable th a t (hiring the ti me th e B a l t i c i s c l ose d by IL The Life of L or d Wi l li am Russell. 1820 ,ice, supplies may reac h us from the United States, • 111. Essays on the Hi s t ory o f t h e English Go- the Medit erranean, &c. vernment and Constitution, from the Reign At Liverpool some quantity of American produce of Henry VII. to the present time. Bvo has lately come to hand, which has had the effect of 1821 IV. Don Carlos ;or Persecution, a Tragedy, in 2d. to 3d. per 701b5., flour Is. per sack and barrel, and Five Acts. 1822 ... V. Memoirs of Europe, from the Peace of , that day week. Subsequently, rather more firmness Utrecht. 4to. 1824 VI. The Establishment of the Turks in Europe. Friday than on the previous market day. The ac- Pp. 128. 12mo. 1828. VIL The Causes of the French Revolution. Pp towns in the north represent the trade as exceedingly 274. Bvo. 1832 VIII. Correspondence of John, Fourth Duke of Bedford, 1842, 1843, 1846 millers could be induced to buy, and this was also the case at Wakefield on Friday. From Bristol and Birmingham the reports are of a similar character ; and even in the agricultural districts, where the effect of the foreign importations is not so directly felt, prices have tended downwards. The quality and condition of the new wheat con tinue to be much complained of; and there can be no doubt that a very large quantity of old foreign will be required for mixing. The reports from Scotland are (as we have alr ea d y intimated) of a favourable nature, and the dull ac counts from the south appear to have produced a corresponding depression at the leading markets there. At Edinburgh, on Wednesday, most kinds of spring corn, as well as wheat, were decidedly lower; and at Glasgow the turn was also in favour of the buyer. In Ireland the produce of wheat and potatoes is unquestionably short, but the oat crop is described as good in quality and large in quantity. The trade seems to have been as dull there as on this side of the Channel, and quotations have receded for most articles. The arrivals of wheat coastwise into London have been fair, having consisted of 6,205 qrs. The quan tity exhibited at Mark-lane by land carriage samples from the neighbouring counties has meanwhile been very small ; but unimportant as have been the supplies of home-grown wheat, they have proved more than sufficient to satisfy the demand. The extreme reluc tance with which millers have purchased may, however, be in some measure attributed to the wretchedly bad quality of and ill condition in which the samples have come to hand. The transactions have throughout the week been on a very restricted scale ; indeed, so little business has been done, as scarcely to warrant alteration in quotations ; but that factors would have accepted somewhat lower rates on Ftiday than in the begin ning of the week, if sales could thereby have been facilitated, cannot be questioned. The arrivals of wheat from abroad have been larger than expected. Up to Wednesday the re ceipts were comparatively small, and holders were consequently on that occasion firm ; the supplies having, however, subsequently increased, upwards of 45,000 quarters having been reported up to this (Saturday) even;ng, importers became rather more anxious to effect sales, and on Friday the tendency of prices was decidedly downwards. The local demand was of the same retail character as for some time past, and there was less country inquiry than before. Fair qualities of Baltic red were obtainable at 505. to 523., and good at 533. to 555., but for superior Rostock upwards of 60s. per quarter continued to be asked. The general weekly average price for the kingdom, published on Thursday (62s 5d ), is fully as high as could have been expected ; but the London average of Friday shows a considerable fall; it is therefore rather doubtful whether the duty will rise on the 18th, or remain at 4s. till the 25th instant, but on the latter day an advance is sure to take place. The sale of flour has been particularly slow, and most of the metropolitan bakers complain of the smallness of the consumption of bread, which is rather surprising, considering the present price of potatoes. Quotations of town-made flour have re mained nominally unaltered, and no material change has occurred in prices of other sorts. The imports from France have been liberal, and our millers feel the ill effects of this competition with the foreign manufacturer. Paris whites have brought 435. to 455. per sack, duty paid ; but the common runs of French flour may be quoted 88s. to 40s. per sack. Barley of home growth has not come. forward freely, nor have the receipts from abroad been parti cularly large ; this grain has nevertheless been very difficult of disposal, and only choice malting samples have been taken off freely, at former terms, the sale of the ordinary sorts having been exceedingly difficult and in some cases rather less money was accepted for the latter descriptions on Friday. The dull state of the barley trade has had more or less influence on business in malt; but sellers have not submitted to any decline. The arrivals of Oats coastwise and from Ireland have been very small ; but towards the close of the week a good many vessels laden with this grain, prin cipally from the near continental ports, came to hand. On Wednesday the dealers appeared rather more dis posed to buy, and the trade, on the whole, exhibited symptoms of improvement ; but the subsequent ar rival of foreign Oats (87,000 quarters having been received) acted as a check, and on Friday business was as dull as at any former period. The actual change in prices has been very slight, and not of suffi cient consequence to render alterations in quotations necessary. Beans have met with hardly any attention, and previous rates have barely been maintained. Egyp tians and French have become very unsaleable, and in the absence of sales prices have remained nomi nally as before. A . Peas have been more pressingly offered, and fair qualities of white foreign might easily have been bought at 38s. to 40s. per qr., duty paid, on Friday. Indian corn has been neglected, but there have been very few offers of floating cargoes, and cer tainly no pressure on the market. We doubt, therefore, whether the article could have been bought cheaper. _ _ The only alteration in the duties on Thursday was a rise of Gd. per quarter on oats, previous to which all at this port was cleared in for home consumption. —Marh-lans .Esprem. • DARING ROBBERY.—STATPORDSHIE,E. --- A very singular and daring robbery was effected on the night of Saturday, at the house of Mr. Joseph Harvey, inn keeper, of Oakamoor, near Cheadle. A number of " navvies " employed on the Churnet Valley branch of the North Staffordshire Railway assembled at Mr. Harvey's house on the night mentioned, and having drunk rather freely, they commenced a distur bance, and were obliged to be displaced by the plice. During these proceedings k is supposed that one of the party gained admission unperceived into a bedroom, where, inside a chest, was deposited 1001. in crownpieces in a bag. The bus was broken open, and the thief, in jumping through the window, let the bag drop, when a number of the silver coins rolled out. The inmates hearing the noise, ran out to discover the cause, and found upon the ground 211. 10s. in crown pieces. Infor mation was immediately given to the police, end bills offering a reward circulated; and on Monday night two men were apprehended by Air. Field and Mr Brinsley, constables, of Ashbourne, at the Tiger Inn, in that tow& and about 701. in crown pieces and other coin was fouria . in a bag and upon their persons. The two men, who gave their names as James Clayton and William Letts, were committed on Tuesday to take their trial at the ensuing sessions at Stafford. PAILIIRE.—The failure of an extensive and very respectable house in the power loom manufacturing trade was announced in Glasgow on Thursday. 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