The Sun. — London, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

CREMORNE GARDENS. dGreat excitement was created at Cremorne Gar ens, end i n d ee d t h roug h out t h e metropolis, last f ght, by t h e extreordiaarily daring gym nas ti c per "nlance of Edward Bouthellier under and with the Crcmorns bwioen. Bouthellier is one of the two clever arti s t es per f orming in Souillier's Cirque Ori entel, tinder the titl e o f t h e I ta li an B rothers, and he Wag announced to make a display of his extraordinary 'leviers With the balloon • but the public were not pre- I:ared for w h at actually did take place. At 7 o'clock a plendid car, drawn by four beatrifal horses abreast, 3 WaB driven into th e b a ll oon - ground, from which de :mended Bouth e lli er appropriately dressed, end, without Multitude., °ln ents prepar a ti on , h e b owe d to the surroun di ng and catching h o ld o f a sma ll rope w hi c h Wanads attached to the car, wa s i mme di a t e ly borne up waa r a y. In an instant he threw himself over and aa h n i ce an g i 4 by his heels, without the slightest as °f the hands , though the balloon was_ bear ingh R - f r , Q l , 4l °ng at a very rapid rate, and for fully ho ur did this young man Execute all the dif i; - ,ult Positi ons for which he and his brother are so !,.ehrated i n the Cirque. Scarcely had the feelings Astonishment at this display subsided when hisre 4toria P I F il Wite announced. The balloon had descended in having kindly lent is P ark, and a gentleman k ," 1 1 "IS horse, he was back in the grounds by nine C i e Zi c, and was literally carried in triumph to the - _,qLet where he went through his usual performance, ''nut from thence to the dancing arena, where he was teeeired with unbounded applause. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. b er Alijesty and his Royal Highness Prince Al t, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, th e P rincess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended by th e Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Di • bs ' l ne servi ce a t Whippingham Church yesterday 'morning. The Rev. F. Prothero performed the service and Preached. The Hon. Beatrice Byng has succeeded the Hon. tleanor Stanlvy, as Maid of Honour in waiting. Xer Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accom panied by their Serene Highnesses the Princess of pohenlohe, and Prince Charles and Princess Ade- A i de of Holmlobe, and attended by Lady Augusta cr i tt e e and Sir George Couper, left her residence, A be re nce House, St. James's, yesterday morning, for at r geldie. Her Royal Highness remains all night t o t ea , continuing the journey northward the fol u3wing • 8, Firzhardinge, Lord Sondes, and the Earl of b :puwich bad interviews with Mr. Secretary Val W e l Yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. David Th . a udington, M.P. for Harwich, had also an inter "l,t,l,l. the Right Hon. Secretary. ver"lBPatches were sent o ff yesterday to the Go nors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon from the Colonial °Mee. b Pt OF ALDERBGATE• STREET.— Yesterday, crd er of the Lord Msyor,Aldersgate-street, from Falcon docreet t o Jewin-street, wa s c lo s ed for the purpose of laying Stra i t ' . ta a new roadway, of square granite blocks, on a sub soeh" of concrete. The great inconvenience of stopping marts lOng and important line is much felt, as the mail 2 . 0 '4 end other vehicles are obliged to take a circuitous et more than half-a-mile out of the way. On market oraithfield days 4, at Smithfield the inconvenience will be more serious, c, .ebicles of all descriptions are prohibited passing through before noon. la A lett er f rom Eslingen, Bavaria, of the 31st u l t. , sock o" A dreadful murder was committed here two days G er " the person of one of the most learned anatomists of Dr. Rampold, head physician of the hospital of t otp a r gen- On the day in question the valet of Dr. Rampold ed Lis trut. -. 8 master's room, and found him lying on the Found his with blood, and having a pitch-plaister over His secretary and the drawers of several other Watchesle " of furniture had . been broken open, and two gold 24 ; several jewels, some silver mounted instruments of gory , sod a considerable sum of money taken away. The Itzeaurtopsy of watch and purse of the deceased had also disappeared. the body proved that Dr. Rampold had Re in the from the loss of blood, caused by ten stabs of a knife me breast. It is thou ht probable that first of all the RLeurderer stunned the deceased by a blow on the head . with n e e blunt instrument, and then applied the pitch-planter. ti on 13' clue that has b een as yet arrived at is the declaTa tir. 4 ) : t he porter of the hospital, that on the day on w hich h on 7ropold w as discovered lying dead, the doctor returned hZ i - lic companied a man in a peasant's dress, and that hour afterwards the man descended and left the ;4 '7'; Hith er t o a ll t h e researc h es of the police have sus picion I neffectual, the description of the man on whom , fella b e i ng but vague, the porter having only s ee n him Pass WI aCei dent -3 E IN BOND.— A hogshead of wine having was rti ally leaked out in the b on d e d war ehouse, application reroi m ,• ad e by the owners to the revenue authorities for a rent n of the duty on the wine, and also the amount of lai n • ` 4 , 6 on the package. It appeared that the cask had b ein it i mend for some time, and on an official inspection g. ntade, it was found that the loss had evidently been th oven toned from the head of the cask having fallen out, interfgh to the bursting of the hoops, which were quite eaten with rust, and not. from abstraction or fraudulent It waserence, and as the officers had certified to that effect, .e considered that the duty should be remitted on the ;a ct ° , ouantity under the provisions of the 18th section of warehouse A.ct, 8 and 9 Viet., cap. 19, but that the thereon,use rent was due, and would be required to be paid there RATION -- . EM IG land was a Co nsiderable amount FROM SONDERLAND. — On Saturday o f excitement in Sunder ezused by the Lizzie W e bber, the first emigrant vessel from t h at hdt part to Australia, leaving the docks. Some Nall ' persons crowded the docks to witness her de and-who ' s of she w as ac companied to sea by a large party, p a h ad a baud of music with them. She takes out sixty ~. "a ngers, principally belonging to Sunderland , and des ad for P ort P hilip. O t h er vessels are engaged to follow r • — Newcastl e Guardian. There was a rule in an old debating society which Light be advantageously recommended to some of our public Z u Lea—" That any gentlem an wishin g t o s p eak the w hole --"lilag should have a room to himself." Yesterday morning while a man was ploughing in a field near the Prince Albert public-house, East Surrey grove, Peckham, he turned up a gold coin, weighing half an ounce, and bearing the following inscription :—loAtorEs V. D• G. Yowl.. ET ALCM. Rim. R. 1747 (John V., King of Portu gal and Algarves, reigned 1747). The coin had evidently, from its appearance, lain a great length of time in the ground. Tim NEW SHIP AMERICA.—This fine specimen of Canadian ship-building, commanded by Captain Andrew Crawford, arrived in the Mersey, on Friday morning, from Quebec, after a rapid passage. Captain Crawford parted with his pilot in the River St. Lawrence on the morning of the 16th ult., and took his Liverpool pilot on board on the morning of the sth instant, thus making the passage in the remarkably short space of twenty days, with a heavy cargo of timber and flour, drawing 22 feet water, The America is 1,183 tons register, was built at Quebec, and launched last May, by the eminent shipbuilder, Mr. G. H. Parke, of that city, under the special superintendence of Lloyd's sur veyor. Tne construction is of that superior order which can only be appreciated by expe rienced parties after a personal inspection ; but the form an d finish at once strike t he eye of the beholder, produci n g the instant conviction that the vessel has claims of no ordinary merit, and will no doubt prove to the satisfaction of any unprejudiced person that our Cana dian shibuilders can produce sh i p s of a model, quality, and nut to be surpass ed b y those of any other builders, either in the colonies or the United States. She had a large number of cabin passengers, several of whom are en route for Australia, and whose chief regret w as that they could not proceed in the ship.— Liverpool Albi on . ALARMING FIRE AT GRAVESEND.-0a Sunday evening, between the hours of nine and ten, the inhab itants of Gravesend were alarmed by t he sudden outbreak of a tremendous conflagration on the farming premises of Mr. Collier, in the vicinity of the waterworks, which burst forth with tremendous fury, and illumined the horizon for many geedthever w ith devour ing several stacks of hay, soon bec ame a p re y to th element, the wind blowi n g stron g from the ao .. uth- west; but suddenly shifting round, the mansion of fora. 9olli er , situated at the north - east extremit y of the and 11'$ premises, entirely escaped destruction. The town overrugd auPPIY of : fi t ?: -house engines having shortly arrived, and a Water being at hand, mastery was obtained between eleven and twelve o'clock. Various • mours as to the cause of the outbreak were in circulation. Mr. Collier arrived from London about midnight, on receiv- Lug a telegraphic communication. IMP°VEMENTS FOR TRH PROTECTIO N OF SURMA. : aide ET ra z LitaltApHs.—An improved plan is proposed for t his purpose by placing the copper wires, g utty P e rcha an d d chemical covering, in a metallic casing ur ed th to be se ebe e angular recesses of a link iron chain, one angle nag capable of protecting from five to ten insulated wdiretso, rd one chain from thirty to forty. It is also pro b 4 a testing apparatus in water -tight boxes attached pose to b nn Ys at every one or two miles, the wires in the testing t.::4 be ing cOnnected with the submarine wires below, so d a: ~ indicate th e line of telegraph, and to detect and repair - "ots by raising the cable to the surface. , CHIPPING SUDBURY COUNTY COURT.--On the exami nation _ 144 / 31st Mt, Knightly William Horlock , Esq., one of the ins of the c,,nuty of Gloucester, passed his exarni as an insolvent, suppported by Mr. Slack, solicitor, V Bath. From the insolvent's statement it appeared that the had been driven to seek the protection of the court by everpressure of creditors, who held security for their debts rer his large estates which have been valued at 52,0001, a nd that after pay men t t o hi s cre di tors o f 20 s. in the pound, the &Meta, if properly managed, would realize a handsome eurpias. ST. CLEMENT DANES CHURCHYARD.—The pi rishimers of this extensive parish have made repeated complaints to the parochial authorities of the daily inter clients that take place in the churchyard, which is literally plied with corpses. Last week there were about fifteen burials, and on the southern aide, near the railings, opposite E ssex -street, there is a deep grave or fosse, some 20 feet , (l ecP, which is made the general receptacle of ' those whose 'nendis are not able to pay the usual fees, and as one fills Another one is sunk, so that not a space of grouod is left untouched that can receive a corpse. The overseers and guardians of the Strand Union are trying to form a General nodal Committee or Board for the whole of the parishes in the city of Westminster, and to purchase a site of ground at some distance, but much opposition is shown by the tFochlal authorities of St. George's, Hanover-square, St. Itargarst's and St John's, Westminster, and othe r par i shes. , subject is under the consideration of the Commissioners Of the Board of Health. THE WHALE FisHEßY.—lnformation was re ceived on Saturday by the Dublin whaler, arrived at Ler 'Wick, of the progress of the fishery. The Dublin left the lee on the 15th July, and h a d f ou r fish and forty tuns of oil. 3 The Spitzber gen WB3 totall • lost on tho ice on the 24 th June; she had 108 tuns; crew saved. A shoal of bottle ' nosed w h a l es , consisting' of 295 ash, was driven on shore at West Soe, off Sumburgh, on the 27th tilt, ; the blubber .sold at 10'. per tun; and another shoal of the 314. e descr,iP tiou of fish was drivel' on shore a t Q ue endale, on the `frithnalts . ins from nit., the bludde r o f a b out 200 10'h 10 101. 74 Per tun, THE SUN, LITERATURE. A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE .21.10 - LIJSCA. By Mary Roberts, author of " The Conchologas Companion." Reale and Benham. lii the coinpilaqon of this work Miss Roberts has evidenlly endeavoured to please both the student and the general reader. The former is furnished with a summary of the newest writings and researches of Mr. Reeve and other naturalists, with wal-designed and beautifully coloured representations of all the latest discovered mollusca, their habits, &c. To those who do not understand such things, and who would throw asi , ::e a book full of Latin names and scientific terms, the authoress has provided mach information, which must interest all. Much light has been lately throws' ape n the M011uw.32 the lish which inhabit these curious and gigan!ie srells which adorn our mantelpieces, and at which, although many look with attentkn, they little think what cares and privations its owner once under went to provide fur his wants and guard himself from his enemies. Paley was wofully at fault when, in his " Moral Philosophy," he cited the oyster, limpet, and othershellfish as:exatnples of those whose only happiness was found in peace and quiet. Of the fallacy of that supposition the follow random extract will give a sufficient proof : " The animal inhabitant of the Piuna marina is a blind slug, surrounded with numerous enemies, and parti cularly obnoxious to the' Sepia, or cattle fish, who watches the motion of the Pinna, and no sooner dues the latter open his bivalve shell, which occadonally ex- ceeds two feet in length, than he rushes upon hint like a lion. "It will naturally be asked how such a blind de fsnceless creature can either procure food or protect himself from the attack of his implacable enemies? Nature uniformly redoubles her exertioni in favour of the weak; or rather, it may be said, that the God of Nature offers, by this new and affecting compensation, an additional reason for unreserved confidence in Him. A' kind of crab•fish, naked like the hermit, and very quick sighted, is the constant companion of the Piens marina. Tney live and lodge togethei in the shell which belongs to the latter. When the:Pinna has occasion to cat he opens his valves, and sends out his faithful purveyor to procure food. It any toe approaches, the watchful crab returns with the utmost speed and anxiety to his blind protector, who, being thus warned of danger, shuts his valves and escapes the rage of the enemy; when, on the contrary, the crab loads himself with booty, he makes a gentle noise at the opening of the shell, which is closed during his absence, end when admitted the two friends feast together on the fruits of his industry. This curious fact, although well known to the ancients, escaped till lately the observation of the moderns. Aristotle tells us that the Yinna kept a guard to watch fur him; that there grew to the mouth of the Pinar' a small parasite, having claws, and serving as a caterer, resembling a crap, and termed the Yianophylax. In like manner Pliny mentions a singular animal called Pinnotheres, which, he says, is liable to injury, and therefore t.ru• den tly hides himself in the shell of oysters. He also speaks of tie Pinua as belonging to a genus of, shell fish, produced iu muddy water, and constantly attended by a companion." Of the existence of this fish Pliny wrote some eighteen hundred years ago; but the story was treated as a fable. The knowledge of its existence was for gotten, and only lately revived. . Such anecdotes are to be met with throughout the volume. Tee history of how the ancients concocted their dyes, from the shells of fishes, and the labour and enormous expense that it required to dye but a small quantity of wool, is very interesting. The book is rendered still more attractive by the number of beautifully coloured plates representing the various specimens of fish of which it treats. It is also handsomely bound. ANCIENT AND MODERN INDIA. By W. Cooke Taylor. Revised by P. J. Machenna, Esq. James ?Madden. This wo:k cannot but prove a most useful one to those who desire to know the history of British India f rom the commencement, without going through many volumes and having to read a great deal of matter which is not required for the occasion. Here we have a complete history of Hindostan from the earliest ages, its conquerors, feuds, and the different nations that composed that portion of Asia. It will be interesting to those who have read Moore's " Leila Rookh" to find that the originals of Selim and Normahal, in the Feast of Rose, flourished in Hindostan in the early part of the seventeenth cen tury, and that Moore has rather underdrawn the influence that Normahal exercised over Selim. He became so deeply enamoured of her that he named her Normahal, or " light of the harem," and spent every hour he could spare from the affairs of state in her company. la his autobiography the Emperor declares— " At the period in which this is written (about four teen years atter he began to reign), I may say the whole concerns of my household, whether gold or jewels, is under her whole and entire management. Of my unre served confidence indeed this princess is in complete possession, and I may allege without a fallacy that the whole fortune of my empire has been consigned to this highly endowed family. The father being my finance minister, the son my lieutenant , general, with unlimited powers, and the daughter the inseparable companion of my cares." The author gives graphic and interesting accounts of all the Dutch, French, and native wars in which Great Britain has been engaged since the commence ment of her Indian trade, with strictures or apologies fur the backslidings of the various governors and ge nerals during this eventful history. The accounts of the principal battles and memoirs of the more im portant personages are interesting and concise. The compilation of this work is excellent, for besides a full index of each chapter, by the side of every page are small notes stating what each paragraph contains, so that the reader by glancing his eye down the mar gin may know the contents or where to find the para graph required. THE DUTIES, RIGHTS, and LIABILITIES of JUSTICES of the PEACE. By Thomas William Saunders. John Crochford. In this little volume Mr. Saunders has endeavoured to enable justices of the peace to be independent to to a certain degree of their clerks, who, in nine cases out of ten (where the justice of the peace holds his office solely because he is a landowner) perform all the duties of their superiors. The author of this work has collected all the principal Acts which regu late the conduct of justices, with many useful rules to guide them. DISCOURSES ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, Read before Literary and Philosophical Societies. By Samuel Bailey. Longmans. Tais work consists of nine of Mr. Bailey's dis courses, which he has read at various periods before certain societies. Although, perhaps, the majority of the public will not feel a great interest in the whole of the essay, still, owing to their extreme variety, the reader is sure t o fi n d some o f th em t o su i t hi s jaste. They consist of a " Treatise on the Mutual Relation of moth Elephant in the North o f Siberia,w Sciences ;" " An Account of the Discovery cal Stotistics ;"ithofGaeMoloagmi: " The English Language ; 11 " Political Economy;" " Reformati on o f of Physical Calender of Eng a‘TGheenmereaolhPaoriionacli pl : B uses oPdFsical Investiga tionl a n d ;; : : Pa radoxes of Vision ;" " The Theory hu f nder ;" " From all these, which are well writtoen, Witt," th &c. cannot fail to find employment. The accounet reader cannot discovery of the fossil elephant at the mouth of the e Lena, a river in Eistern Siberia, is told by Mr. Bailey as though he had been an eye-witness. Th e monster was fist discovered in 1799, by a Tangusian chief while bunting, entirely encased in the ice. Three years afterwards, the ice having given way, the body of an enormous elephant in perfect preservation, was found lying on the sand bank, but before any active measures were taken for its removal, it was much mutilated by the natives and wild animals. The remains were subsequently re moved to St. Petersburgh by Mr. Adams. Mr. Bailey gives a full description of the monster, and gives an able discourse on the vari,us surmises which arose as to how it ever got to Siberia. The other two dis courses have equal interest in their way, and are di versified by various anecdotes. OXFORD UNIVERSITY STATUTES. Byl James Heywood, Asq. e y second wood and h finalat l e n publication of which hasblp gt 4 favoured the public wi M th r t . h il evolume of this work, the delayed by the death of University,blrlVard, t w he be D t e r p a u es tir elt ig t H h he S fo te r w m a e r r d vo o lu f m O e, lf t o so r d d the personally to as r as practicable, act compile all It has been the author's en ta d T eav ne ou tri rrsttoicvaolurp whose death compelled superintend the translation of uni versityiinlemaalulutshoeriptorwhich have es foundation, whethe e, ustne brought us up e s n i a e t r u a t l i,ted s ince st st i u t t e es .n up to the era of sautes are store beto itiol athePr;nesterdl;67.l. Vol. II carries m the Royal Commission iu 1850. be found in these pages which ar e es n ta ot a Y e g found in the printed statutes , man uscripts have been translated and added to th y osel print. A compilation of its statutes is, in fnt a a lready in correct history tnat is to be found of a university, for they embrace all from the chamee.lor to the iu-d under graduate, and an alteration in the statutes shows e , alteration in the habits and requirements o f an those whom they affect. -------------- AMERICA, Agricul• and Soma • By James T. W. NOtuTral,SEcOolVioraNicaol,Rl'H l Johnston. 2 Vols. W. B J o hnston We, congratulate Mr. o n the independent regards his remarks Blackwood and Son stand which he has taken as „d produce. lie concerning America, its inhabitants, vinces t endeavoured to be has has acted up to what he has stated in the preface, viz , that, although a " Uriti'ller'" speak fairly and witn candour of the statea and pro is alto gether an uncommon hook ; fur, instead of the tourist va brough which he has travelled. It who carries his sketchbook with bins to depia n bt-34ttes of scenery, Air. Johnston has taken his note. book V" 44 ; 111 / 0 , order that be way give his coun- LONDON, trymen a true account from personal observation and inquiry of the produce of the land in the North American provinces, its market prices, and the profit that the farmer makes on it. The author describes his travels throughout New Brunswick, St. Law rence, &c., in an off hand manner, evidently more in tent upon agricultural pursuits than anything else ; nevertheless he finds time to look into the universi ties, and to describe the timber trade and other institutions of the country. He remarks "that in America, as with us in general, the most zealous im provers are those who retiring from commercial pur suits come fresh to the tilling of the soil, untram- Mslled by prejudice, and open to weigh fairly the chances of profit from this or that mode of husbandry." This work must prove very useful to those about to emigrate to America. JOINT- STOCK AND PRIVATE BANKS DIRECTORY. Part I. Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster-row. The editor of the Bankers' Magazine has emi nently entitled himself to the thank 4 and gratitude of the banking community by th,s publication of this valuable work, which will henceforward form an in dispensable adjunct not only to every bank, but to every great commercial establishment throughout the entire country. The colle c ti o n of the lists of joint stock shareholders, and the description of the several partners in the•private banks, although taken from the official returns', have involved much labour in pro ducing the accuracy without which it would be worse than useless. The present part contains all the requisite information respecting the banks in England and Wales. It also comprises a digest of the Acts of Paliament now in force relating to the constitution and privileges of the Bank of England and joint-stock banks, and a digest and analysis of cases decided under these Acts, and also of the law affecting joint-stock bank shareholders, and of cases decided under the winding-up Acts. There is also a great variety of useful information, all of which exhibits unequivocal evidence of the extraordinary care and attention bestowed in its collection. We trust that the indefatigable author will receive many substantial marks of the gratitude that should be bestowed on the author of that which will, we have no doubt, prove for several years a standard book of reference in all matters relating to banks and banking. EXAGGERATION. BY ELIZA COOK. We wonder what would be thought of a person who l h d h l e ou l m i e b eh e e r st a tp t l eeo! Pottle re loaded and fired a ofheatrhaewggb strawberries eths the loan nl .eaeivehf aht forty-poundersack k tol would k tob e i ll a carry our opinion of any one who employed a sledge hammer to ' drive a tack, or who purchased a quarter of oats to fill a nose-bag; why we should undoubtedly believe him to be in no state to make a will, and question the propriety of his going at large. Yet we find greater innovations of consistency committed every day as regards the purpose and meaning of language, without our conceiving any direct notion that the parties indulging in such are fitting candidates for election at St. Luke's. The habit of exaggeration in language is a charac teristic in many people, which appears to us to afford a truer index of their genera) qualities than is ordinarily observed. A great depth in any faculty, or acute in tensity of any feeling, is seldom possessed by those who invariably use the most imposing words they can find to express their opinions and sentiments. The stereotyped grandiloquence and florid warmth of tone used by them in discussing simple matters, or relating simple incidents, are, to our matter-of-fact organization, little beyond the flourishing of drum and trumpet, which upon close in vestigation is found to be the issue of sheepskin, brass, and common atmosphere. Some people's tongues are eternally emulating the frog in the old table, and always straining into an ox—a state of verbal inflation alike ridiculous and false. There are those who never expe rience a moderato and occasional degree of pain but they speak of it as a " splitting" headache, and " awful" spasm, or "dreadful" torture. If they meet with a slight incision of the skin, they have " cut their finger to the bone;" the application of a mustard poultice for five minutes never fails to "flay them alive;" a common cold is mentioned seriously as a" most violent influenza ; " and a week or two of fever is recorded as a " severe ad frightful illnesa." The " superlative" is the reigning mood with them; skim milk becomes Devonshire cream, and small beer uinness'e stout; " superb," " exquis t i h te ei l " wonderful," "glorious," " horrible," " tremendous," ' " delicious ," " charming," " beautiful," " terrific," " as tonishing," and such extreme adjectives, hang on lips as plentifully as conjunctions, and we often wonder, . while gauging the narrow calibre of brain whence the big torrent issues, how such large furniture could be found in such a small house. Let these people repeata story or circumstance, and you can hardly detect the original, they see everything through a magnifying glass and kaleidoscope blended. Talk of painting in veritable colours, the foreground and outlines, often given in mere words, beat the pre-Raphaelites by notches; a Dutch garden all tulips and peacocks, or a summer sunset all purple and gold, are soft and unimposing compared to the limning power of one of these fluent sign-painters. We once kept account for a lady, during a three miles' . walk through rasher sandy lanes, who declared herself " halt dead" with fatigue every few minutes; and we found that she had died exactly eleven times and a half at the end of the journey, when she swallowed cider and sandwiches in a most vital fashion, considering her mul tiplied state of demise. We met a cottager's child, which she rushed up to and pronounced to be an " an gelic little cherub;" but our near sighted eyes could only perceive about as average a bread-and-butter-devouring little biped as ever plagued a mother: then she informed us that the view to the left was "grandly sublime," though there was nothing to elicit rapture beyond a broad common fringed with a plantation, barely relieved in the foreground with a very yellow pond, and still yel lower goslings. We chanced to tell this lady of a visit we had paid to the Porcelain Works at Worcester, and mentioned among other things, that a part of the materials used was ground animal bones; shortly afterwards we were told that we must have made a mistake in our recital, for Mrs. H. had repeated our acceunt, and impugned our veracity by declaring, that cups and saucers wore made of ground human bones, and saying that we h a d assured her of the fact. We informed her one day that a marble figure just put up in a friend's hall was three hundred weight, and were laughed at soon after for hav ing told Mrs. H. that it was three tons. We have never talked much to Mrs. H. since these florid mistakes. An elderly gentleman amuses us very often by his de scription of his only son. The young man, according to his ' i p s ay , a mn papa's portraying, is too much for his body; his abilitiesortraying, is an " immense genius,"—i n . deed are in fact so great that they do not know what he is fit fur; he "plays divinely," " sings exquisitely," and .4 pos sessions the poet's inspiration in a wonderful degree;" if h e li ves long enough he will "do something; very grand;" and withal, he is "so delicate in constitution that he can hardly boar the wind to blow on him." These are the doting sire's own words, but we should, in giving a candid opinion of the youth, use less elevated language, and say that he is nothing more than a sp ruce fir, entered and labelled in his pa's grand conservatory as a cedar of Lebauon; and as for his "delicate 0 0051 j, tution," it seems to stand pretty well under an unlimited amount of large dissipations and " small hours." Now those people aro hut types of a class. We met with these inflated exaggerations in manifold shapes—from the Prime Minister to the potboy, from the political leader writer to the last-dying -speech-a n d s confession inditer, from the continentally-educated duchess to the A-B-C-less scullery-maid; there seems a natural tendency in many to verbal apoplexy, a n d we wonder some imaginations are not found dead in their beds. Our public press teems with this exaggeration as much as our private parties. We should like to know how many " great national crises," how many " awful and eventful epochs," how many verg,ings on " de4perate revolutions," and how many " most serious and fatal sPaul'sllreek oh iosdut stands consequences ndndrsi like whereaetno E ngland a the ks nitt (h., country," have occurred in the newspaper columns during our recollect iw i l o eeed n ras ? nrohyar Y uavlen e i t ieh , nx S etleo t dai a w e i ws howat y e s s t 1 h d id, c a o h cover and reviewers v e i they x e to ec h t ear up tee "coming genius of the age," and pointed attea• lion to the " most distinguished writer in English ate. rature;" how many volumes have been pronounced as "the finest work that' has appeared for many years ; " and yet we otter come across some of these sterlin g productions in partnership with the trhnle-maker' paste. We should like to have the sum total of domestics hyperboles, such as being " as hot as fire," " as black a coal," being " delighted and charmed" to see a tenth rate acquaintance, and being " deeply distressed" i'lltSalvator that M.rs. Robinson's seventh child has fallen s wade ea through, census e f a il u l d um w in h a a t t ed eettigterouties. "figures" we to W w h touch wesheuidia pudding . av fibs. We have no great objection to a respectable e white lie" now and then, such a judicious bit of colour ing oaten gives valuable relief to a bit of domestic " R em _ breath," and dispels the gloom of a household Rosa;" but we do not admire the silly and superfluous indulgence in lies that bear all the tints of the rainbow. Not that we are a ivoestes for dratecoloured 'Pro l o ng blue love-letter, and participate in the deep scarlet burst or pale grey philosophy solely. We can enjoy of eethuiissm, as much as any Parnasses.climbing idiot; but we certainly quarrel ,with the general mode of spay e h adopted by those who de it so widely i n the big " words" of the dictionary, without attaching, to those words the slightest portion of their meanings. Tao "flowers of rhetoric" are only acceptable when backed by the ever. greens of Truth and Sense. the habit of exa ggeration in language should be guard ed a g ainst ; it m isleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in prOmising what it cannot perf em, and we have often tound the moss gluv , ,ing declarations of intended good service end in mere Irish vows. Those who, when we ask a-favour, affirm they will do it, " cost what it may," and though they may have to " move heaven and earth," are never found by us to be so likely to confer it a s , certain steady person we could name, who says ho will "do it if he can." Strong exi ggeracion iu everyday language should be avoided, we think, as being mentally unhealthy, end conversationally weerying. A straight forward intention in speech is as grateful to associates as well ordered dress, and we feel as much doubt an d nislike in talkin to one who, w ith very inferior intellect, fltres,s all sort of 1 ' • tin our ears, as we a t o yeas should in g r asping un unwashed, coarse hand, covered with paste rin g s . - • i we have filled Now ki n d render , • up . the "beer before morn" With our ' eu , sn alnk dreaming, and if We e UlArt ' isa an eaiti,,t, our that it is for your 1 " "M „,, ent ' pray don't acc us e us of Exaggeratiotnee. Eliza eseek's Journal, E'VENUNTG, AUGUST 10 1852. Mr. Balto took last night his well.meritcd benefit, and 'was greeted by a full and brilliant house. The performance may be considered as the first of the taro well ones, as it was at play. house prices, and two evenings' entertainments of a combined charactcr are to be given upon Thursday and Saturday on the . same terms. Mr. Balfe's claims up on th e mus i ca l pu bl ic are so perfectly known and appreciated, that there i 4 Po need for a single introductory word of panegyric upon the present occasion. Th e warmth of his reception upon his appearance in the orchestra, and the repeatsd acknowledgments which he • received at the hands of the audience, formed th e b est and most practicalin terpretation of public opinion. The entertainments were long and varied. They opened with the ever fresh Don Giovanni—its first performance this season—and introduced two ladies new to the boards of her Majesty's Theatre. Mme. Emeline Garcia, the late prima donna at Drury-lane, was the Eivira, end gave the music with musician.like appreciation and e ffect ; whilst Mdlle. Toccani, who is known to concert goers, as Zerlina, won encores in " Batti, batti," end the " Vedrai carino." Mine. Fi oren ti n i yr 3 the Donna Anna. The part.of the hero was in the hands of Signor de Eassini, who played and sang it with manly straightforwardness. 'Calzolari, as Ottavio, sang the famous " II mio Tesoro" with great finish and tenderness, rind, as a matter of course, Lablache was Leporello. The opera went swimmingly. Teen came a short concert, in character costume, in which Signor Gardoni, with Mme. De la Grange and Mme. Charton, appeared, the latter s i ng i ng t h e " Ah non giunge." The entertainments of the ballet depart ment included a pas by Mdlle. Guy Stephan, and two divertissements, embracing the whole strength of the mute part of the company of her Majesty's Theatre. HAYMARKET THEATRE. The Adelphi company have moved hither for a month, and opened last evening with a new three act piece from the Mort on i an mint, entitled The Writing on the Wall. There i s an ancient country family with a murder twenty-fi ve years o ld i n it s annals. Neat there is a grasping, sinister neigh bouring proprietor, who is the murderer, and who, by the spoil which he carried off on the occasion, lays the sh r i n ki ng h e i ress o f of hi s c l a i ms upon forcet t h h e e foundation horse, a m se, b by taking marriage ka a gi n f e o g r w t nitnhe and ultimately c om e s to advantage , her spendthrift brother. But there is also a sort of conscientious and comic villain, a village fiddler, who has been an accomplice in the murder, and who is the thorn in the principal criminal's side. It appears that the dying man, to the kn ow l e d ge o f t h e fiddler, wrote his murd erer ' s name on the wall in 'his own blood before hi s d eath. This terrible piece of evidence the fiddler concealed, by pushing a screen against it, and the room has since been closed up, and of course haunted. Now, however, the musical acces sory before the fact threatens to disclose al!, in case his demands for money are not complied with; and so the murderer determines, as he has access to the house, to break into the room where the crime was committed, and efface the implicating lines. He ac cordingly forces the door, when he is confronted with his intended bride, who had taken refuge in the de serted room, and who denounces the bridegroom— pointing to the terrible " writing on the wall." The bride elect is restored to her real lover, and finds a father in the sudden re-appearance of the murdered gentleman's brother, who has been falsely accused of the crime. The comic element is contribut e d b y M r. Wright, in th e c h arac t er o f a cockney who comes down to the country to establish a " model farm," and who falls in love with the fiddler's sister, who has been an equestrian lady in the hippodrome, but who captivates the model farmer as an unsophisti cated country girl. The scene in which the economy of the " model farm" is displayed is capital. All the labourers, male and female, are dressed in a species of rural uniform, with " model farm" inscribed upon their smockfrocks and pinafores. The former are discovered asleep, each man on a truss of straw. When Mr. Wright awakens them, they go to din ner—when he tries to thresh the corn himself, be hits his own head—when he goes to quiet the dog, he is chased round and round the stage by a fine New foundland, capitally trained ; and when he goes to feed the pigs, he lets them out ; when two of the young porkers, to the vast delight of the au di ence, jumped into the orchestra. Finally, after having been most outrageously swindled on all hands, and ill-treated by his model labourers, who get drunk and disorderly, the model farmer gives up agriculture, and his rural sweetheart re-appears as his bride, in a fascinating riding habit. Mr. Emery, as the villain of the piece, played with great care in the rugged and earnest style which characterises him; and Mr. Paul Bedford was admirable in the passages in which he recalls the circumstances of the murder to the perpe trator. Mr. Wright was as droll as usual, and created just as much merriment. Miss Woolgar's assumption was as clever as is her wont, and Miss Chaplin and Mrs. Leigh Murray, in their small parts, were as efficient as need be. The applause at the close was uproarious. Sr. JAMES'S THEATRE. Yesterday those charming little American prodi gies, Kate and Ell en B ateman, took their farewe ll benefit at the St. J ames ' s Theatre prior to t h e i r departure for the U n it e d S tates. The event was alto gether very brilli an tly successful. The a udience was numerous and fa s hi onable, being un d er th e patronage of her Gra ce t h e Duchess of Somerset and of their Excellenci es t h e Austrian and Turkish Ambassadors. After th e comedietta of Pe ction— deliglatfuly enacted in the principal parts bylatter Miss Rebecca Isaacs and M r . W alter Lacy, the always one of our especi a l favourites—the rea l busi ness of the evening comm enced. Often as the Bateman children have been appla u d e d i n London before, they never met with a more c or di al reception than gree t e d them on their last ni g ht' s appearance. We acknow ledge ourse l ves a t once to b e among those who enter tain a fe e li ng of parti cu l ar dislike to the generality o f stage-struck precocities. We have as in stinctive a horror o f thi s ki n d o f lucis naturce as Nicholas Niekl e by h a d w h en h e fi rst witnessed the equeak i ngs and c on t or ti ons o f th at aborninable little a The Crummel3 called on Mrs. Grundy's playbills Phenomenon." To this day we are not quite sure that there was anything very wonderful after all in the Young Roicius as a juvenile tragedian — though we are ready to admit that Mr. per- William Henry Betty as a grown -up sonage is a very respectable and intelligent g en ; tleman. But the little Batemans stand entirely a p a c r k from the mass of these premature wearers of the° and the buskin. They are as unequalled i n the Cbatter to.n his trionic art, as children, almost as the boy was in poetry, or as the infant Mozart was as a m d u" ; brat of a cian. Their abilities appear to .be as unfn reee under any circumstances could be expected. 't heir .s spontaneous merriment is one of the most contagion ebullitions of fun imaginable. tures laugh the whole audience laughs with the m , d and this laughter often becomes a roar of w hich able approbation. We don't precisely know - as When the to prefer of the two—perhaps little Kate Bateman' the most childlike, and, therefore, the most natural — ~e 1 but then little Ellen Bateman sometimes bears away tTo palm triumphantly by her astonishing cleverne!Saw— see these children in The Old School and the D i t boy e 0. Kate as Frank Mountain, the scapegrace (a rashest the Old School), always in mischief, with th e cu of little flaxen pate and the prettiest little featuresjoint childhood —Ellen, in a dapper little suit, the with production one might fancy of Stults and lio'DY bit, the an eyeglass about the size of a fourpennY the shirt trousers well strapped down over the boots, little crea fitting half, in to a nicety, in stature seemingly a f°°t a -an in manners collar unexceptionably starched and the crda..vaat. voice shrill, in bearing self-posseaseu, -. t h e Hon. drawli ng, specimen of George Augustus Walme-ley, a perfect Batem the rising generation ! To hear little Ellen (aged wo m esley (9 --we beg her pardon—Mr. ' o f seven-and not to say a ff ected, in characte r seven years, but with the carriage . n his valet John• negligent way conceivable to thirty) appealing for corroboration 1 to his exquisite eon, or J-a-n-s- e .n according „ y_e_a, a-n-d p r onunciation—to hear him isliY °' P—b-u-t the most J-a-n•s-e •ri g-o -t h•i-s h-e-t" o- u- t i.n i-t—w-a-s t-h-e-r-e vf-a• s n-o- t-h-i-n-g. t-h-e-r•e, J-a•n•s-e.n ?" To lis ten co ountes and nance, watch th e lit t l e creature ' s i mper turba h 'lhe mere con while w as someth i ng d e li c ious. ol d school and the tract of th e b oys represent i ng the new was w or th y o f admiration. After this dramati c sket c h came The Young Couple, in which the Bate -1 thi man children have rendered thems elves ; and thus, upwards of two hundred representations"ben efit was brought with other amusements, the The house - to celebrated by a most successful conclusion. was crowded, and the audience — w hat they ought t o have been —enthusiastic. m w p it e h ria t l he H ir i p g r h e : Russia and his Royal HER MAJETY'II TIIEATRE."— ::e:assputteehhrifleeofirAAamnrr attendance. ehhn performances e t u l s c cH h ha ietesssHssE was Excellency Catherine Majesty , of f Minister, the Highness the Duke George of lllecklenberg Strelitz honoured High ness s t s r:e a 11 sence yesterday (Monday) evening. Her Imperial High maid of honour in waiting, and M. Kroutichiet, gentleman laistneteuyded by NI adlle. Strandmann, party, the Baroness Brunnow, and Madlle. de 13runnow had the honour of accompanying her Imperial Highness and his Royal Highness the Duke. The first Secretary' of the Russian Em bassy (Ar. de Berg) was in attendance upon her Imperial highness and the Duke George• aAndm3oinrgs.sLt otehkeyefrasFhrieoensatublue c " n PanY also present at the theatre were the following the : B ee n : Viscount Clitden, the Viscount Ranelagh, Sir George Armi tageitiritappWe ai,rcdolaonndelpFarretyLLld:.llll,a. :1 Bentinek and and Lady Armitage, Colonel Knox, M.P., Lady Sarah L a dy. 4aue Cole, General the Hon. 11. Cavendish, Mr.' 11,tiethwaite Captain a nd the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Bur ton, ,s, c ' Mr.. Daniel Webster, who is named for the Ameri can Presidency, being recen tly visited at midnight by a cr9Wd of his admirers, and serenaded, threw up his hed-reorn 1Y41149 W) and wake them a speech in his shirt! THE FISHERIES QUESTION WITH THE UNITED STATES. New(FF___eni the Corr es p on d en t o f the Times.) YORK, Moesa • y Eyre:ins - G.-I'ms sxciternent on the tulject of the eastern fisheries has been greatly increased by the speech which Mr. Webster delivered last Saturday ' on ehe occasion of his public reception by the of Marshfia!d, where he has for twenty years resided, and to which place he has resorn - ei at every interval '' of leisure for the practice of viral amusements and agricultural pursuits. A 5 yen will, doubtless, transfer the entire speech to your columns, it is not necessary in my letter ; but y ou ray to make an y q' letaticni l a_ . judge from the language the Seeretery uses l i l l o o w w ( ir ecieted his own opinions are on the subject, and ho pledgedre f v l ocably the Government et Washington is fisharinen awl fisheriea I should the protection of our in my last com munication have surveyedtlife oti w ld hole question, had I not supposed that strange policy eiven in Engl and to tpublicity Government had already been Lord Derby's subject, policy of and it could hardly he doubted on The Times would take in a nl,:t ., here hot course mater of , such great im portance. No rightminded or cause intelligent !nail can suppose that any sufficient ought to exist, for hostilities between has existed, or And yet there seems to be a fixed d the two nationa. the part of :he Govereme.nt, thee Co determination on ngress, a:111 the press of the country to repel ar - aggression ule ari our citizens, who have been suddenly interrupt e d pursu its which they have followed peacefully in tho se with impunity for a year period of 30 peacefully an d of the Inspector- General of Masa s. Th e re p ort what interest th at State has in the fisheries. M a e_ husetts shows sachu 4 s etts alone has 858 vessels of 5 ,040 tons in the aggregate, navigated by 9,174 men and boys. The is value of those vess els and their outfits 3,532,000 dolls., while th e annual value of the fish they take amounts to a sum nearly a, great. The inspector estimates the value for the rest New England a t nearly the same as that of of Mass achusetts, and remark s that with all the pains he ilas taken ho has only a pp roximated to the true figure, since many vessels are employed in the cod and mac kerel fisheries, of which no proper register or reports a re preserved. It app ears that the ma ckerel - men Massachusetts caught, in 1851, 188339 barrels in American waters , a nd 141,000 barrels is th ose waters now claimed as t he exclusive British ri g ht by Earl Derby. The Boston Times, which is considered, par ticularly in this matter, as expressing the popular feel ing of New England men, says " One half of the mackerelmen are now in the waters, where Earl Derby proposes to oust them by an armed force. The successful voyage of each vessel depends on her ability to fish out the season by following the fish till they are full. Probably 2,000 vessels and 30,000 men and boys are now exposed to the cannon of a Bri tish fleet and the cruelties and horrors of British prisons, for doing just what they have for 30 years been accus tomed to do without molestation. The, anxiety and dis tress among the families of all our seaboard people can easily be conceived —their traditionary recollections of British prisons and courts not being very happy," The remarks of Mr. Webster are a singularly striking confirmation of the statements and opinions of the Boston Times, while it is most earnestly to be hoped, as Mr. Webster says, that the subjsct of the late dispatches front the Colonial-office had not at tracted a sufficient degree of attention from the prin cipal Minister of the Crown; yet he sees matter in them quite inconsistent with the arrangement made in 1845 by the Earl of Aberdeen and Edward Everett. Mr. Webster lays the greater stress upon tbe fact that the Earl of Derby was at that time Colonial Secretary under the Government of Sir H. Peel, and consequently the definitive arrangement with Mr. Everett could not well have taken place without Earl Derby's knowledge, and, in feet, without his concurrence or sanction. Our Secretary, therefore, could not but think that this arrangement had been overlooked as an inadvertence. It is generally sup.. posed in this country that the elections in England will have terminated fatally for the Protectionists, and that, consequently, Lord Derby will be obliged to give up the Government; in which case his suc cessor may, with great propriety, give a different in terpretation to the question of the fisheries, and take occasion, in doing it, to throw the onus of this contre temps upon his predecessor. The more wise and judicious among us anticipate this mode of relief from the present embarrassment that British and American statesmen are labouring under; because it is not to be supposed that any American whatever, much less any American states man or journalist, would attempt to arrest the torrent of popular indignation that would burst out from every bill-side on the continent, if the news should come that the smacks of our New England fishermen had been sunk in the Bay of Fundy by British can• non. The course of Lord Derby in this respect may have got him and the two countries into more diffi culties than he anticipated. Another subject of excitement at the moment is the extradition of Keine. If Raine had been an Englishman, or a Scotchman, or a Welchman, there would have been very little trouble about it, be cause in this case England is so manifestly in the right that it is preposterous, • after reading the Ash burton Treaty, to dispute it. But the cause of all the "fuss" that is be ing made lies upon the very lairface of our party politics. It is well known that the Irish vote in this country sways a complete balance of power b e t ween th e t wo political consequentl y the leaders and ' uemagogues of these parties resort to every . Irish • s.) nVeth hi trick and deception to win the Y-hence a numerous and tumultuous anti-extraditionin Ttirninlny_bal m i tweeting was held a few evenings ago the head-quarters of the democrats of Nest York Tammany-hall, siderable number of Speeches were wade by a con well-known public characters. but the two principal those of Mr. Brady , a speeches of the evening were lawyer of New York , , a o rpular stump speaker, and Irish extraction, and a dis tingniabed memb er of the Heditor of orace Greeley, the Mr. Greeley gives us , in the New York Tribune. the report o f hi s s p eec h, the ((allowing clause, which we He (Kein e ) i s not an cut from hi s own j ou rnal : Sense criminal, bat a man impelled to vi o l ence L y a vidual hard s hip mere l y, bus of nse of wrong —not of indivi political inju s tice. His is one act in a long draws of * violence, having origin . its in the conquest of Ireland and the confiscation of its suit to guilty of the act chlirero i rs. Admitting that Keine is but partr.ke s of the his is not purely a moral of fence,nature of a political wee." The New York Heral d , tendency ofexposes the revolutionary such - doctrines in the following lan guage : According to this precio us d oc t r i ne every man who feels himself ' h ave n : d to violence by a s e ns e of wrong' isjustified in committing murder, and ought not to be brought even to trial! Wo scarcely ever knew an in stance of murder that the perpetrator was not driven to it by some sense of wrong.' Following up this princi ple, wad applying it to the United States, lot us see how it would work. According to Greeley, the coloured po pulation of the south suffer greater wrongs at the hands of their masters than the white serfs of Ireland ova suffered at the hands of their landlords. Impelled, there fore, to violence by c sense of wrong, a black slave is justified in committing one act in the long drama of vio lence having its origin in the introduction of slavery into this country by the British—ho is justified in perform 113g his part in the play by the murder of bis master, and when ho flies to New York ho is not to be surren dered fur trial. In his case killing is no murder—it is not a moral, but a political offence. And, to follow up the idea, suppose the blacks of a whole state conspire and murder every white man in it, not leaving so much as one to tell the tale, all this would be no crimo against human or divine laws—it would be a mere political offence. Such is the atrocious, murderous higher law doctrine proclaimed by Greeley, and if some of the co loured race do not better the instruction' the fault does not lie with him." When the first judicial decision in the case of Kline was given some days ago, by which the Judge of the District Court of the United States decided that, under the Ashburton Treaty, the prisoner was to be delivered up to the British Government, another issue was made, and to-day the case was brought before Judge Bosworth, of the bench of the State of New York, on a writ of habeas corpus. The Hon. J. Prescott Hall, United States District Attorney, appeared for the Marshal, by direction of the Go vernment, and, in compliance with the order of the Judge of the State of New York, produced the pri soner. Mr. Busteed, counsel for Kaine, and Mr. lid ward 3, counsel for the British Government, were both heard at length by the Court, when Mr. Brady, the popular orator before alluded to and the principal counsel for the prisoner, stated that application had been made to Judge Nelson, of the Suprem e C ourt of the United States at Washington, for the purpose of bringing the matter before the highe s t tribunal of the nation for a final decision . He al so stated that Judge Nelson had replied to the effect that the case in issue presented a novel ques tion, and some days would be required for the deliberation. Judge Bosworth remarked, that where ttie liberty of the subject, and t h e reputat i on of the Government in the exec u ti on of the laws were at stake, it was imperatively necessary to proceed with all due deliberation ; be therefore ad journed the Court until n ex t W e d nesday, an d re manded the prisoner again to the custody of the United States ' Marshal. W e s h a ll see what the result will be ; but thus far we can congratulate ourselves. Mr. Greeley rind some other editors had done what they could to inflame the the Irish population, and things had gone so far that of Marshal expressed some alarm lest, in the passions o t f tn tra r n t- s room , the prisoner from. his confinement to the co o t! .„_ stice a rescue would 'ea attempted. The rialt r.s ! 1 1 : pub ,. was surround' by a large crowd of the: n 113teYer was tion during the day, but no attempt the court made until the prisoner was takenfrncn ßut it soon room, when the mob attacked the police.ncipal rioters, who ended in the arrest of 15 or the r Pr±,...,. aro now in prison awaiting th 2 o B Lrin' 10 0 - kJ...MK A.M. WEDNESDAY, Ju!,,bri v athering took place and supposed, that Yesterday, the great iat Niagara Falls. It was\ said, there would he at least 50,000 or 100,000 persons pre6ent on the, anniversary of the first victory (as it califid) of General Scott ; but up to last evening less than 10,000 had assembled. Few distinguished mmi of the Whig party were there, and the whole tiring was likely to prove a failure. The fact can no ledger b e concea l e d t h a t th e Whigs wade a very uriortunate nomination, and nJ enthusiasm can be got up anywhere for Gaieral Scott. On the other hand, the mass meetings for Pierce and King are characterized by unprecedented enthusiasm and numbers. Tue fishery excitement is extending, and the nece.• Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Kennedy, of of Baltimore, has started all our navy-yards and arsenals into activity. A powerful force is pre paring for the north -Eastern coast, and in a short time several of our largest and most efficient steamers Lc on their way. There is no stilj.?ct on which the Americans are so sensitive as their fisheries. confess that, with a knowledge of the exasperated ista',o of feeling along the Canada frontier and through out the British provinces, and a knowledge also of the n:liev which the President and Lis Cabinet are deter mined to carry out,—l. confess that I entertain the most serious apprehensions of the final result. Oar Government expects a collision. Of this fact there is no doubt. This morning Judge Bosworth was to have given his decision in the Kaine case, but a telegraphic di,pat e b has just been received of the sudden death of Judge Sanford, at Toledo, and all the courts will moat only to pass resolutions of respect to his memory and adjourn. I rejoice in the delay, for it will secure the hearing of the extradition case before the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, where we know that wisdom and moderation and learning and justice will prevail. THE NORTH A7liatICAN FISHERIES QUESTION, TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN. SIR,--I believe that no wise or sagacious man will deny that, if there are in the world two great coun tries who, in a moral, physical, social, and com mercial point of view, are in a position to do each other the utmost possible good or the greatest pos sible mischi e f, th ese countries are the Anglo-Saxon nations. On the day before General Wolfe gained the bat tle on the Plains of Abraham, no British subject, no Anglo-Saxon, possessed a single rood of land within the countries bordering on the rivers, lakes, or the Gulf of St. Lawrence, or north of two small settle ments in Nova Scotia, or s oon vastrudgt e h i ar o tr f hoe the Colonel sovereignty o3,ess extend ing the l e h l o i r e t p go ' h a et hn s ey m c fi no c tlaoi w nn ys e ' r e t Tn h h e n oGs ee u ac l o of the Bourbons of France and Spain. The Anglo- Americans, altho ug h hi ghly prosperous, did not ex ceed 2,000,000 of inhabitants, who were all settled to the eastward of the Alleghanies, chiefly in small towns on the shores of the Atlantic. At the present day the population subject to the Queen of England and the citizens of the United States possess all the vast dominions extending from the islands and shores of the Atlantic to the coast of the Pacific, from Hud son's Bay to the coast of Mexico, from the Bay of Chesapeake to the Bay of San Francisco, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Co. lumbia. Since that period they have increased from two millions to thirty millions. Awful, indeed, in prospect would be the consequence ofKainnygdon andpoliicyw thehich might possibly involve the Uri „ United States of America in the certain calamities of a war. Civilization in America and Europe would, for a time, be paralysed ; and not only the present generation, but future generations, would experience the disastrous results of any interruption of peace and social and commercial intercourse between the mem bers of the great Anglo-Saxon family, who, although they have different governments, are, nevertheless, bound together by hi s t or i ca l b on d s and common asso ciations and customs as one people. Not only are they bound together by the benefits of mutual navi gation and commerce, but by the inseparable bond of language, education, and traditionary usages; they speak the same language, are educated at schools where they are taught the same lessons, trained at firesides where the mothers instil into their children similar morals. They read the same literature, pro fess generally the same religion, and study and obey the same laws. Until a very late period both nations have had a common history. Therefore, if there be one course of policy more than another which British statesmen or British subjects should advocate, it should be a policy best calculated to maintain peace and friendship between the United Kingdom and the United States of America. It is no wonder, then, that reflecting men should look with alarm upon the recent measure of the pre sent Government in sending a naval squadron to drive American fishermen from the fishing-grounds of British America. I concluded that when the North- Eastern and Oregon boundary questions had been settled, the true policy of the British Government ought to have been to place the relations of the British Empire and the United States of America as nearly as possible on the *tune commercial and mari time arrangements as if they were still under one great federation. If the United States had remained under British dominion until the present day, the ships and their fishing crafts would freely enjoy our home and colonial and coasting trade, and exactly the same freedom of fl king along the shoals of New foundland and the Gulf of S:. Lswrence, as British vessels, while all British shipping would partake of rhe coasting trade and fisheries of the United States. "hat both nations would derive great benefit from such freedom of trading and fishi n g cannot be deeied. Instead, th ere f ore , of sending ships of war, which will inevitably come into collision with the vessels of the United States, ought not such a free commercial and maritime arrangement be at once negotiated with the American Government? Before the late Lord Ashburton sailed to America, for the purp ose o f se ttling the nort h-eastern boundary I dispute, which he so satisfactorily executed, he sub mitted to Sir Robert Peel some very liberal observa tions on the maritime and commercial intercourse honour be tween her Majesty's subjects an d the citizens of the United S t at es . Sir Robert Peel did me the of requesting my opinion on L ord Ashburton 'a sug gestions, and I find (having a copy of the same now before me) that the above were the conclusions to which I arrived respecting them. But at that time inetters were not sufficiently ripe for Sir Robert Peel carrying out what he considered sound interna tional policy. It was necessary for him first to repeal the corn-laws, the taxes on the essential food of man, before he could venture to meddle with the navigation laws. It was the early wish of the American Go vernment and Mr. Pitt, who entertained the pro posal, that the commercial and maritime inter course between all the dominions of the British Crown and the United States of America, should be placed exactly on the same footing. Under such a system, Great Britain might have enjoyed every possible trading advantage with the United States which it would have been just to pos sess, had they continued under British domination. The trade, navigation, and fisheries of the United States ought, in like manner, to hare derived every commercial and maritime advantage, which could have been on the most liberal understanding obtained from 1 the mother country, without being subject to the in capacities of the Colonial-office, or the maladininistra tion of colonial Governors, to the interference o f t h e British Parliament, or to the absolute exerci se o f the sovereign prerogative. But the liberal commercial policy proposed by Mr. Pitt as Chancellor of the Exchequer, under the Shelburne Administration, and of Mr. Adams,defeated an o a n dv t e h r e se p p ar a t rty of in the Great Britain, which adoption ofa counterpart to the finally led to the hisenowr:be°3thui British United States, was which until lately British navigation law b was in n n7o th rced with regard to all the United States, and all the relaxations British vessels arriving laws have been met made with recently in our navigation laws United States. But ing trade and fisheries wer e e f can vessels, the coasting United States. Now, if the perfect ß reciprocity by the United coloni d al aon d A c hi o e a r ef . tradeatr o and enfiesherties of the to United ß States would be at once thrown open Majesty's vessels, and which is so much desired by • her ajesty's subjects in Canada and There would be no necessity for negNotie: Bran'sthwitehe do: United States. Why not at once adopt the the profitable course, instead of hazardi n g n e hips of war irritating and insulting presence :rh o laws of the trobafidtiessniafbE n among the American tisherm r by and entever privileges Atne the vessels of United States provide that rican vessels enjoy in American ports and seas. those countries will enjoy Scotland, nor the latter Eng. England does not rui c n o ting trade and fisheries are d 0 m i i f n i t o h n e s ,tbiiend British subjects, so far from land, comm L lth to ou b g o h th 0 , w la id be greatly benefited, ' being injure d ' rendered d St a t e s werefreely common and the thl4 e 1 coasting ts of both countries. We England to enforce the to the inha admit at , i a s b t e w or e l te dread the fatal consequences once the right o 181 S g the provisions of the treaty of sen di n g a naval armament to enforc e the strict ob servance of that treaty. I orn , Sir, very respectfully, yourd' b o e lent servant, J. MACGREGOR. 1, Prince's-terrace, Hyde-park, Aug. 7, 1852. TUB CHAIRMANSHIP OF COMMITTEES IN THE IrovoL Commows.-1t is commonly rumoured that the Government will have no inconsiderable difficulty iu award ing the vacant office of Chairman of Committees. The re are, it is said, a host of clamorous applicants for the place, amongst others, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Floyer, Mr. 11. K. Seymer, Captain Boldero, and Mr. T. Mackenzie. EAST INDIA.—It 15 stated, in a Parliamentary paper just issued, containing the annual report (pursuant to Act of Parliament) of the Acts of Government in India, pa e.i by the President of the Council of India in Coun cil, with . the assent of the G overnor-General, for public and other purposes, that the number amounted to 45 in the year 1650. SPORTING NOTES. COLXXX. READING LIEEEING, ac. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Weatlwrgage, by his ‘'euhle performacce at Goods.; ood and Wolverhampton, has proved satisfactorily enoug h now that his quality is not of that stamp which Captain Roes imagined is was when he transferred it from the Duke's stable into Armstrong's for the trilling sum of forty pounds, from whence it went to Mr. Parr's for an advance of twenty pounds on that sum. He won his race yosf9rd3.y very cleverly, beatinF DDubt r.t s eif fere:cc:4 of 20!b for the three years; Lindrieb, who was strongly fancied, finisbine; a very fair third, with Alonzo, everweighted and on a course beyond his distance, a bad fourth and last. The It'ading meeting rill come off to-morrow and Thursday, beginning st a quarter-past.. two with the Abbey S:ukes, which VAULTRESS, I presume, will win; in her absence Defiance wfinfil be my seleciion. The Berkshire Stakes, two miles, wid be contested by five or six, LAMARTINE, with Bst 51b on his hack, Fmk icg by far the best; after him Dulcet and Stamford are as well in r,s any, the former havirg to carry Est 11Ib and the latter a pound less. 3 The Reading Stakes, a_ by V ULTRE,s, t Iphine, I halt' mile sp ur t , pena l ty and ou„:,ht to be carried oft believe, being a non-starter. Defiance and Mi c h ae l mas A Dlaid look well for the secod and third places. The Innkeepers' Stakes, iu the absence of Musician, WI. pre 'll • bably tall to the lot of lIILMEXEY or I ILEOREM ; Eurus finishing well up. The remaining stakes have not as yet closed. The latest betting on the Reading eventsis as f9l - Sakes—Even on Vauttress. Berkshir e Stakes-6 to 4 agst Lamartine,_ t'' 4 t ks Oel artoStaltnofOnrclih: Sto 1 rgst an y o t her. Reading field. I n nk ee p e r s ' Stakes-5 to 2 agst Kdmeney, 4to 1 apt any other.—l am, Bc.-. Aug. 10. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. Bt?sme s s was on a very limited scale, with scarcely any influemn on the quotations, and admitting of only a short " price current." Eliolt HANDICAP. 7 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Little Harry 8 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage 8 to 1 not Lord Zetland's Voltigeur 12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Frantic 20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippolytus—t to 1001. sT. LEGF.R. 3 to I agst Mr. John Scott's Songstress—take 7 to 2 7 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Stockwell—take 4 to 1 15 to 1 eget Duke of Richmond's Harbinger—taken to 2001. 17 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 sgst I.3rd:Derby's Longbow—taken to 1001. READING RACES.—We are authorised to state that these races will not commence until a qudarrteetrurpnasttwo in the to-morrow. A special train will start from Paddingt on e a v t e a ng quarter inata past quarter eight past it seven.themorning, and The Trial WO Stakes of three yrs old, 7 s t 51b ; four, gat 71b; five, 9st llb; six S PT sous. sacs, B A C E 3 IMo°Nl)AY.for added; and aged, 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 311 s; winners extra, &c. Once round and a distance. (3 ) M added; for colts, Mr. F. Eglinton's g Carrier, 3 yrs is,uurnsseorBs(talsloibw;edan3dlh)filliess Sat 31b. Once (Marlow) 2 The Produce Stak es of to boys. each, and 20 sove. Mr. Flintoit's Ibis rrr S .o. u lui b ,)no : :w . (Wells) 1 The win (Sharpe) 2 winner was o jected to r 0 carry ing short weight. The Wolverhampton Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and 100 sQvs. added, and the the Tradesmen's Purse of winner to pay 20 sovs. to wards expenses, and the secondto save his stake. dared.) (35 Subs., 22 of whom de clared.) T. Parr's Weathergage, 3 yrs, sst 1 9 1 Mr. W. Palmer's Doubt, aged, 7stlolb..- b (Cowley) 1 Mr. J. Dawson's na Lindrick, 3yrs, sst ,;il()Charlton) 2 Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 71b.„ (Carrol) 3 The Welter Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft, (Marlow) 4 added. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. 2 (: Subs.) Mr. J. Saxon's Caurire, 6 yrs, Ilst 21b...(Mr. Shaw) 1 Pi(„38: Le Juif, 4 yis Mr. Shirley's na The Drag, 5 yrs, lOst 7lb (Davenport) 2 The Ladies' Purse of 50 sovs., for three yrs old, 7st 31b; four, Bst 71b; five, 9st 1lb; six and aged, gat 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; half-bred horses Glb. Bests, once round and a dis. Mr. E. Buekhy's Royal George, 3 yrs(Sharpe) 1 3 1 Mr. Tait's gr gby Don John, 3 yrs (Aihmal) 3 1 2 Mr. T. Parr's Carinetta, 3 yrs (Cowley) 2 2 dr Mr. Shelmerdine's Morning Star ...... (Knott) 4 dr Mr. J. Adey La the Alderman (Crouch) 0 dr Mr. F. Eglinton's br fby Faugh-u-ballsgh ... 0 dr Mr. Sherrutt's Miss Ellen, 4 yrs...(Charlton) 0 dr Several nominations for the north country meetings become void by the death of Major Yarburgh. TUESDAY HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. AQUATICS. WESTMINSTER (SCHOLARS') BOAT RACES. THE SILVER CUPS MATCH. Six membars contended for a pair of silver cups, an oars' wager, yesterday. The distance was from Batter sea to Putney, and Mr. Wright officiated us umpire on the Calico eight. Messrs. Bearings and Madden ... 1 Vincent and Freeman ... 2 Upperton and Williams ... With very little loss of time tho above got to their stations, a fourth pair from some unavoidable eause not appearing. A very even and beautiful start was affected, and the whole went cff oar and oar at a fine pace. In this position they remained for upwards of two minntes, the work in all the boats being beautiful. The winuars drew a alight lead then and gallantly main tained it throughout, although pressed to the end by the seccud boat. Won by two lengths. SILVER CHALLENGE SCCLLEL This interesting annual match, which had taken place previously, was also most gallantly contest e d. Th e V es twinster sculls, the symbols of aquatic superiority, we re presented in 1844, by Messrs. E. B. B urton an d E . p. Colquhoun (old Westtninsters), for yearly competi tion as an encouragement to honourable em u l a ti on i n tho science of sculling. Mr. Wri g h t , T. 8 ., was the suc cessful candidate in both '49 and 'SO, and as hi s superi ority the well establish e d, no race too k place last year, was so and, consequently, b e i ng th r i ce t h e h o l der, he re signed the tropbies of victo r y t hi s season f or competition amongst challengers, th ree i n num b er, the Hon. E. Bourke, T. 8., W. M a dd on, Q S., and E. Hammond, T.B. The distance cont este d was from Putney-bridge t) Vuuxhall. Mr. Burton, one of the spirited donors— himself one of the most distinguished scullers and oars men in many a spirit-stirring conflict—officiating u umpire. Messrs. C. Hammond (T. 8.) Mr. Maddon Hon. E. Bourk e (L B.) ••• ••• 2 , •• The Hon. Mr. •• ..• Bourke got a • slight • lea], which he maintained gallantly for a quarter of a mile, then they were almost all scull an d scull again. ourke aain ut on a spurt, and kept a sl i ght lead little longer, g tutoff passed by M r. Hammond, and almost iWina ; us" h w n ' edia 'u tt r lLyafte l rwards by Madden, who made a smart race with tho winner till nearly the end. er coEntLeLndelliTesitTl yesterday e t al the abov! , Six free a ateSUritA plats ter u new skid' find sundry by r the tc•iidtiats, end s unne d a Tory excellent regatta. The race was i n five heats the distance extending hots New C rane to the Regent's Canal Buoy, Mo o rou nd each heat. other prize subaorLbed ,s,rbts.arstetirdHesife(74, Ston E o ..(Light 1 A J. MickereoS• vunbar ln,lßteelilffl -cross ********************************** I.(ePlirk)) A eery a edvoeznenstlaerntg,thgsr.een so on showed in trout, win ning by Second Heat. T. Ki,kland, Shad well Doc k...(Dark g(B ß tuhl lu use.de e) : 01 1 T. Spelght, Cole-stairs ... ...... (Ligh t Blue) 0 Won easily • ..• . .............. ........... T. SpeiCht .......... (Yellow) 2 J C . . 3I F c x k . e . ............ (Pink) . h . . ...... . e. .. brat ... .. ...... ...... ... w 1 . 11 ( 11 1 tn 0 atotheir leiAsurr 11" Fourth Heat. (Green) 1 J. Robinson (Dark Blue) '2 T. Kirkland S . Dunbar (Yellow) 0 T. Speight (Light Blue) 0 Similar (Dark Blu e ) 1 J.i (Green) 0 Dark blue got the s t art an d was leading by two thebtasl Fifth Heat. T. Ktir oklin onna sat. (winner) lengths, the first round, ultimately winning by dire° lengths, notwithstanding the most determined efforts of the other to lessen the gap between them. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE. —On Saturday morning, the 7th instant, a marriage was solemnised at St. George's Church, lianover-square, between the Hon. Frederick Chi chester and the lovely and accomplished Miss Tighe, eldest daughter of Mr. and the lion. Dirs. Tighe, and niece to Lord Crofton. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Edward Stewart. We regret to add that the Dowager Lady Temple more was prevented by indisposition, from attending the ceremony. The b r id e and bridegroom left London, at three the Hon. for Butl er ' s Green, the residence of Mr. an d Hon. Mrs. Ch ar l es P eel, where they intend to pass." honeymoon. CAEISEROORE CASTLE APPOINTMENT. ap pointment of keepe r o f Carisbrooke Castle, lately vacant by the demise of Mr Dennett, the celebrated in ventor of the rockets for preserving the lives of persons sh i p wrecked, has been presented by L o rd Heytesbury to Mr. H . D. Cole, we le ll known for many years as the honourari secr etary to the Is of Wight Agricultural Society, the j ` The Commi -"co ttee, and other public matters. THE LATE F A TAL ACCIDENT O N THE LONDON SI M NORTH-WEsTERN RAILWAY. --The inquest upon the body o f Seymour, the coroner. After a William Floyd, the young gentleman who lost his lite by an untoward accident which occurred at the Beckwell cutting, th coroner proceeded to sum up the near the Hampton junction, upon the 31 instant, was re sumed and concluded yesterday, at the King's Head, Coven lengthenedr y, before case, and at halt-pst eleven o'clock r.m.., the jury returned the following veroct :---! W e, the jury, are of opinion that the immediate cause of the accident was from the defective examination, 111;2%1,601ln: state of the straps of the ash-box, thereby causing the death of William Floyd; and the jury cannot separate without ex pressing their decided opinion that the inspection of those constructed engines should be made more m inutely , and more freque ntly, SQ itil to itifittre the way of the public." e c , Ri- from fuly, Stet - reee- woo Per- ,Bid; Ann, xis, akil l ‘ 1 0 °I d t he 10 1 0 , 0 3 0 , 0 °ell o .ds9P p lo ts' Doc k : tsV rrel.' oerce• tend Never, ed., f i r rsl3°- 00 , op litt° to ~ril, c... t o •00 ' . 4400 r IP 6 lipds ot ive e,.-'' it* )14 .0 g 0 . g 1 0 # 0 01, 01 4 pi 0 , se ,s , 0