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

CREMORNE GARDENS. Great excit(•ment was on:wed at Cremorne Gar dens, and iLdeici • throughout the marop , ,.lis, la s t ni g ht, by the Extraordinarily daring gymnastic .pr formance of Edward B3nthellier under and wi:h the Cremurne balloon. Bouthellier is one of the two clever artistes performing in Sonillier's Cirque (M -ental, under the title of the Dalian Brothers,. and he W announced to mak e a di sp l ay o f his extraordinary with the balloon • but the public were notpre pared for what actue]ly did take place. At 7 o'clock a BPlendid car, drawn by four b eau tif u l h orses a b reas t, Was driven into the balloon-ground, from which de scended Bouthellier appropriately dressed, and, without ni?.'eaesspreparation, he bowed to the surrounding talstitude, and catching hold of a small rope which and attacheA ‘.l to the car, was immediately borne up h avv „ a3. In an instant threw himself over and aigt F ,, -- "gulg by his heels, without the slightest as inzi3".ro " of the hands, though the balloon was bear likrlg at a very rapid rate, and for fully di Sault an hour did this young man Execute all the f atilt positions for which he and his brother are so realebrated in- the Cirque. Scarcely had the feelings aqouisbraentat this display subsided when hisr.e -1171!11 Was announced. The balloon had descended in b. let tr,is Park, and a gentleman having kindly lent : 111 1 ms horse, he was back in the grounds by nine °Cc. clock, and was literally carried in triumph to the Iln Where he went through his usual performance, t!forn thence to the dancing arena, where he was received With unbounded applause. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, a TONDAT. b Rer Majesty and hi s R oya l Hi g h ness P r i nce Al „ell, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wa!eg, :,"e Princess R o yal, and Princess Alice, attended by " 1 : 8 Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, attended Di • v4O :iervice at Whippingham Church yesterday m orning. The Rev. F. Prothro performed the service and Preached. The Hon. Beatrice Byng has succeeded the Hon. Eleanor Stanlay, as Maid of Honour in waiting. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, mom- P i lluied by t h e i r S erene Hi ghnesses t h e P rincess of •otoh lauen ohe and Prince Charles and Princess Ade e of Hoh9nlohe ' and attended by Lady Augusta r e , ce and Sir George Caliper, left her residence, 4 1 : re nce House, St. James's, yesterday morning, for a , ergeldie. loyal Highness remains ail night i ‘ rlisle, continuing the journey northward the fol tng da S ole Pi(zhardinge, Lord Sondes, and the Earl of ktidwish had interviews with Mr. Secretary Wel. yesterdzy, at the Home-office. Mr. David ..._.addingtoo, M.P. for Htrwich, had also an inter witil the IN B lot S-_cretary. once 1 pitche s were sent off yesterofiy to the Go re of Hong -Kong and Ceylon I - foal the Colonial- by,,T, °PP AGE OF A LDE RSGATE• STREET.— Yesterday, r ," e r of the L or d M ayor, Ald ersga t e - s t ree t, f r om Falcon ds,-: to J ewin-street, was closed for the purpose of layine: str a T n a uew roadway, of square granite blocks, on a sub 4171 -111 ,ot concrete. The great inconvenience of stopping 1 , a lo ng and important line is much felt, as the mail route and other vehicles are obliged to take a circuitous d e, teore than half--a-mile out of the way. On market a: y v e at Smithfield the inconvenience will be more serious, h Smithfield eh of all descriptions ere prohibited passing throng before no'cui.p " as A letter from Eslingen, Bavaria, of the 31st ult.: bets" A dreadful murder was committed here two . days q e on the Person of one of the most learned anatomists of f tZnY, Dr. Rampold, head physician cf the hospital I n d tat e g al l. Oa the day in question the valet of Dr. Ramp t o e ground 1-,. "es master's room, and found him lying on the hi e mud ogle with blood, and having a pitch-plaister over artiet llth • ilia secretary and the drawers of several other w.. e 3 of furniture had been broken open, and two gold attltches, several jewels, 4ery a n d some silver mounted instruments of e ,„ ', a considerable sum of money taken away.. Th d Th e ;,,aurh and purse of the deceased had also tap h p a e d ar p e e: tish e atPaY of the body proved that Dr. in th b r uel the loss of blood, caused by ten stabs of a knife ne...._, e reast. It is thought probable that firs headtheaietierh. Th 70...▪ o,lunt instrument, and then applied the i eh P ti s , 0 ",7,_ clue that has been as yet arrived at is P the declare- De . R"ue porter of the hospital, that on the day on which lio tn . are Pod was discovered lying dead, the doctor returned t ill h:lreonlPanied by a man in a peasant's dr:ess, d a l i lt t h he 1 1 , ":' an hour afterwards the man descended an . e _ - ~,;,Pettacili. jiitherto all the . researches . of the police have on whom sus- Dick ) , f.,..ffuectual, the description of the man _ c Pass rapidlyll eing but vague, the porter having only seed him ~ IV - i NE . accid ent . 111 BOND.— A hogshead of wine having IN, m a llY leaked out in the bonded warehouse, application re ,,, :is. a_de h -3' the owners to the revenue authorities for a tt z (l ie of the . u . y a t on the wine, and also the amount of l aia i Bonn the package. It appeared that the cask had bei n j l ,,,d for some time, and on an official inspection oce4l o c ie, it was found that ' the loss lead evidently been owin ned from the head of the cask having fallen out, through t() te bursting of the hoops, which were quite eaten with rust, and not from abstraction or fraudulent Laterence, and as th et was considered that teheoffie dutyers had certified to that effect, Whole •should be remitted on . the the ,s,q4autltY under the provisions of the 18th section of se rent w. due,ho(uarelic'u'i 8 and 9 Viet., cap. 19, but that the thereon. ,is and would be required to be paid EMIGRATION there FROM SUNDERLAND. -0 U Saturday sd 1, was a considerable amount of excitement . in un , er- i ' II caused by the Lizzie Webber, the first emigrant 'crease isrioni that part to Australia, leaving the docks. Some PLu'ar°t"a"B of persons crowded the decks to witness her d t e- Nmeure, and the was accompanied to sea by a lar e g u e t p e a ix 7, Das had a band of music with them. She takes hereintinlrr 9 Sanderland, and des y - Principally belonging ~,Qr Port Philip. Other vesse t is are engaged to follow anecastle Guardian. Th b.,. ere was a rule in an old debating society which ho'cigilt,st_be advantageonelY!eernmweiend.endgto some of our public in to speak the whole ev e ," " That any genti ~.'"ng Should have a room to himself." -IL !sterday•moruing while a man was ploughing in afiel dD.,.. _ near the Prince . Albert public-house, East Surrey rve, Peckham, he aimed up a gold coin, weighing half an b 4 . 4 ce, and bearing the following inscription :—lonfe , riEs V. ka , q .PORT ET ALG. REX. R. 1747 (John V., King ot Portu f,:: kid Algarves, reigned 1747). The coin had . evidently,. " 411 its appearance, lain a great length of time in the 4r anad. I ' HE NEW SHIP AMERICA.—This fine specimen " C ' • •d• el anadian ship-building, ing, commanded by Captain Andrew Qttwford, arriv e d i n t h e M ersey, on Friday morning, from . 14 ebec., atter a rapid passage. Captain Crawford parted 71thiais pilot in th e Ri ver S t . Lawrence on the morning of L' L LO 16th ult., and took his Liverpool pilot on board on the C orning of the sth instant, thus making the passage in the r e nearkably short space of twenty d a y s , w i t h a heavy cargo /f timbe r and flour, drawing . :22 32L/, r feet water, The America 4 1 ,1 4 - tons register, was built at Quebec, and launched last Ze; ,B3 N eminent shipbuilder, air. G. H. Parke, of e a ,at e ' ci b ty y , under ti'e the special superintendence of Lloyd's sue which can o n: r. Tue constr . uc h tion is of that superior order experienced parties after a personal ih " l .l' be appreciated ,ZsPection ; but the f . or 3 M and finish at once strike the eye of tit beholder, producing the in . stant conviction that the vessel ba s dalof no ordinary merit, and will no doubt prove to ii. claims . - 'Alle satisfaction ot any unprejudiced person that our ,Canad e ships of a model, qualitj, an Aran shipbuilders can pro shish, not to be surpassed . a l c iy those of any other builders, caa r in the colonies oi the Un iS,tates. She had a r ge number of cabin passeng2rs, ited several of whom are rt route for Australia, and whose chief regret was that they could not proceed in the ship.—Liverpool Albion. Sunday • • —Oa A LARMING FIRE AT GEAVEbEND. f ,% ve ning, between the hours of nine and ten, the inhabitants ,___-( Gravesend were alarmed by the sudden outhreak of a Lre to , endous conflagration on the farming premises of Mr. k;ollier, in the vicinity of the waterworks, which burst forth 'with tremendous fury, and illumined the horizon for many kiles distant. The barns, sheds, and other out-buildings, together with several stacks of hay, soon became a prey ‘.o the devouring element, the wind blowing strong from the tk , uth-west; but suddenly shifting round, the mansion of kr. Collier, situated at the north-east extremity of the farming premises, entirely escaped destruction. The town and Custom-house engines having shortly arr i ve d , and a Rood supply of water being at hand, mastery was obtained aver the lire between of twelve Various eleven and o'clock. r umours as to the cause the outbreak were in circul a ti on . bhsr. Collier arrived from London about midnight , on receiv -`g a telegraphic communication. , hipRovEAIENTS FOR THE PROTECTION OF SURMA proposed for this 'a rzi : TELEGRAPH3.—An improved plan is . ztaiderated purpose by placing . the copper wires, gutta metallic casing to be se -4.,,are11a and chemical covering, in 1 1 -4 ,,f e ti hi the angular recesses of a a link iro t n n chain one angle insulated wires, and capable of protecting from five t eed ~. A t "Ile chain from thirty to forty. . l o t is e also proposed to t,,, 21 testing apparatus in water-tight t boxes attached to 1)Z! at every one or two miles, hew w ir . es in the testing ires below, so as te ;,",,eing connected with the submarine f eef 'ocate the line of telegraph, and to detect and repair de 'a bY raising the cable to the surface. „ gip b , tile —' LNG SODDURY COUNTY' COURT. —On the keg-set ult., Knightly William Horlock, Esq., one of am th . e . x,ttates of the c unty of Gloucester, passed his ex 1 of t p ll ,_as an insolvent, suppported by Mr. Slack, solicitor, h e i i . nile From the insolvent's statement it appeared that the ~"" been driven to seek the protection of the court by op e ptle B Bure of creditots, who held security for their debts eed`,°,_ig large estates which have been valued ,at 52,0001, tt l that after payment to his creditors of 20s. in the pound, a tip: t ta) if properly managed, would realize a handsome ,S T n kiii i i,,* ' L'EMENT DANES CHURCHYARD.—The ir.- tota, ll e,ta of this extensive parish have made repeated lattiraints to the parochial authorities of the daily inter ,lled3,..tlntt take place in the churchyard, which is literally tiri4-I.with corpses - . Last week there were about fifteen ''.,tis e c' and on the southern s:de, near the railings, opposite nett-"alreet there is a deep grave or fosse, some 20 feet i neiOhieh is made the general receptacle of those whose tt ,noth; ere not able to pay the usual tees, and ro a u s one fi l li t ? gat o4 ,l one is sunk, so that not a space ri o le f taasdr"ed that can receive a cDrpsc.. , g o r v m ers c leer i s s an e „ttri al ft r , l2 3 of the Strand Union are trying to to General `ne ' Co mmittee or Board for the whole of the parishes in kt , i ci tY of W estminster, and to purchase a site p et ground t.t.0%41,e distance but much u • 1 1. opposition is shown by the "kasc-411 a uthorities joti o l f , St. c' i• - - ge'q Hanover-stiwiro, St. .thj,, 4r t et'a and Westminster, '"r'' end other parishes. tt th e is under th l e B Cousideratii of Crie Commissioners ' Hoard of Health. 48 4 iv e a WHALE FtstimY —lnformation vi . as _re: /ti, ck , ?il Saturday by the Dublin whaler arrived at L, , er `.„tla t,,, (4 th p on - rvs of the G. h y T• ' Dublin loft t h e ttic ' the il th r July, and had four fish and forty of oil. 4411 oPitzher en er y ew o s s a t v o e n d. the A ic the 24th ao tm e ; allo had 103 tuns; shoal eo of bottle at lA, Whales, consisting .of 295 fit;h, was driven on shore ki d " eat sue, off Sumbargh, on the 27th •„- the blubber tieh kt 10 per n; and another shoal kit the ' same descrip 1, p_., . skit, ' ti , r. , . Was d en on shore at Queendale, on the '4Bth Aer t ti g e bludder of about 200 realislng from, IW. to 101 - 75. a THE S UN I LONDON, TUES DAY LITERATURE. A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE AWL -I,U7Rizi. Be Mary Roberts, author of " filw Coixholog,•ist's Companion." Reeve and Benham. lo the cooloilation of tnii work Miss Roberts has evidently 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 well-designed and beautifully coloured representations of all the latest discovered molluscs, their habits, &c. To those who do not undertand such things, and who would throw aside a book full of Latin names and scientific terms, the authoress has provide.' much information, which must interest an. Much light has been lately thrown u l x'n the Molluvra Sall which inhabit thcte curious and gigantic snells which adorn our mantelpieces, and at n hick, although many look with attention they little think what cares and privations its owner once underwent to provide for his wants and guard himself from his enemies. Paley was wofully at fault when, in his " Moral Philosophy," he cited the oyster, limpet, and othershelifish assexamples or 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 Pinna marina is a blind slog, surrounded with numerous enemies, and parti cularly obnoxious to the tiepic% or cattle fish, who watches the motion of the Puma, and no sooner does the hitter opcn.his bi7alvz. , shell, which occasionally ex ceeds two feet in length, than he rushes upon him like a lion. "It will naturally be asked how such a blind de faiceless creature can either procure food or protect himself from the attack of his implacable enemies? Nature uniformly redoubles her exertions in favour of the weak; or rather, it may ho sald, that the God of Nature effers, by this nets and affecting compensation, an additional reason for unreserved eanAidenee in Him. A kind of crab-fish, naked like the hermit, andyery quick sighted, is the constant companion of the Pitons, marina. Toey live and lodge together in the shell which belongs to Lite latter. When the:Yinna has occasion to cat he opens his valves, end sends out his faithful purveyor to procure food. If any toe approaches, ttie 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, oh the contrary, the crab loads hinisoll with booty, ha makes genile noise at the opening of the shell, which is closed dozing his ansence, anu when admitted the two friends tent,t, together on the fruits of his industry. This curious Rant, although wall known to the ancients, escaped till lately the observation of the moderns. Aristotle felts us that toe k'inna kept a guard to watch fur him; that there grew to the mouth of the Placa a small parasite, h,,ving claws, and serving as a caterer, resembling a crab, and termed the i'muophylitx. In like manner Vim) , mentions a , singular animal called Pitinoiheres, whin, lie shjs, is liable to injury, and therefore I.ru dandy hides himself in the shell of oysters. He also speaks or t.e Paula as belonging to a genus of shell produced in muddy water, and constantly attended toy a companion." Of the existence of- this &II Pliny wrote some eighteen hundred years ago; but the story was treated as a table. The knowledge of its existence was for gotten, and only lately revived. Such anecdotes are to be met with throughout the volume. Lae 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 smell quantity of wool, is very interesting. The book is rendered still more attractive by the number of beautifully coloured plates representing the various tiihcimens of fish of which it treats. It is also handsomely bound. ANCIENT AND MODERN INDIA. By W. Cooke Taylor. Revised by P. J. iliackenna, Esq. James Madden. This wo:.k cannot but prove a moat useful one to those who desire to know the history of British India from 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, feuth, and the different nations that composed that portion of Asia. It will be interesting to those who have read Moore's Lalla Rookh" to find that the originals of Selim and Normahal, in the Feast of Rose, flourished in ilindostan iu the early part of the seventeenth cen tury, and that Moore has rather underdrawn the influence that Normahal exercised over Selim. lie 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. In his autobiographyography the Emperor declares— " At the period in which this is written (about four teen years atter he began to tetn), I may say the whole concerns my hourebold, whether gild or jewels, is under her whole and entire m:magement. Wray tinre sfrved confidence indeed this ptincesz is in complete possession, and I may allege without a ialhicy that the whole fortune of my empire has b--.en consigned to this nighty endowed family. The lathor being my finance minister, the sou my lientenant•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 f*.ir the backnlidings of the various governors and ge nerals during Will eventful history. The accounts of the principal battles and memoirs of the more im portant p e rsonages are interesting and concise. The c,,mpilation or 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 Crocliford. 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. Longman. Tills 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 to find some of them to suit his taste. They consist of a " Treatise on the Mutual Relation of Sciences ;" " An Account of the Discovery of a Mam-. moth Elephant in the North of Siberia, ' with Geologi cal Stutistics ;" " The E ng li s h Language " y . Political land;" " General Principles of Ph ys i ca l Investiga tion ;" "Tae Mechanical Cause s o f T hunder ;" " Pa radoxes of Vision ;'' " The Theory of Witt," Bce. From all these, which are well written, the reader cannot fail to find employment. The account of the di3 overt' of the fossil elephant at the mouth of the ,: Lena, a rivtr in Eastern Bailey as though ha had been a n eyewitness. witness. The T M h r e . chief while hunting, entire monster was first discovered in 1 1 ;199 ' en b c y as a ed Tu i n n guii t a h n e ice. Three years afterwards, the ice haying given way, th e b o dy o f an enormous elephant in perfect preservation, was found lying on taken r sand bank, bank, but b e f ore any a ctive measures were k its removal, it was much mutiliaed by the natives and wild animal s . T he remains were su b sequen tly re moved to St. P e t ers b urg h by Mr. Adams. M r. B a il e y gives a full description of the monster, and gives an able discourse on the various 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. e S :r i e u n T •o l o ' d: S E T sq . OXFORD UN ja l n r e f fi ß STATUTES. By v g o t i h favourecik the public Mr. Heywood has at with the second and final e of this work, the publicition of which has been delayed by the death of Mr. Ward, the Deputy High Hey o w . o m o e d r volume, and personally to Univeri.ity, who translated the former of Oxford whose death compelled Mr. , which ex superintend the translation of the rem been the author's endeavour to uni versity statutes, es tar as practicable, theh compileinda. L has ;ii'Led, since its foundation, whether in to be pt or in a printed fore. The first volume bron g bt ri to the year 1768. Vol. IL carries us up to the of:r s a uP the Royal Commission in 1850. Many iitetutes are to be found in these pages which are not generally found in the printed statutes, as many mcamieript s have been translated and added to those already i n print. A compilation of its statutes is, in fact, the most correct history that is to be found of a university, for they embrace all from the &lance:ler to the under graduate, and an alceraion in th statutes show-3 an alteration in the habits and requiri-inents, of those whom they affect. NOTES ON NOR ivi Am 114 Agricul tural, Economical, antl Social. BY , Sort. Johnston. ‘) vols. W. Blackwoodana tVc congratuLte Mr. on stand which he 11:2s taken as req:irds tie concerning Auieric3, its inhabitants, and pronace viz , has acted up to what be has stated in tne prefa-' , „ O that, although a " he ha 3 endeavoured spaak fairly and with candour of the states and pro vinces through , Nhich he has travelled. It rPcznlrks ge!her an uncommon hook ; for, instead of the tourist who carries his t,i.cetehbo:k with him to depict the banties of scenery, Mr. ji.:tinston has taken his note book with him, in order that he may give his coma . trymon a true aeon inquiry of the account from personal observation and produce of the land in the North American provinces, its market prices, and the profit that the farmer makes on it. 'Die author describes his_ travels throughout New Brunswick, Si:. 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 .melled by prejudice, and open to weigh fairly the ehnoces of profi; from this or that mode of husbandry." This work Mug prove very useful to those about to emigrate to America. JOIN VST OCK AND PRIVATE BANKS DIRE CT 0 RY. Part I. Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster-row. The editor of the Bankers' Magazine has emi nently entitled himself to the thanks and gratitude of the banking community by the publication of this valuable work, which will henceforward form an in dispensable adjunct not only to every bank, but to every great commercial establishment througbout the entire country. The co ll ec ti on o f the li s t s o f 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 then 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 end 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 fur several years a standard book of reference in all matters relating to banks and banking. EXAGGERATION. ByEL beiai COOK. We wonder wha t would thoug ht of a person who deliberately loaded and fired a forty-pounder to kill a bluebottle, or who begged the loan of a sack to carry house a pot tie of strawberries in. What would be 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 et 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 induleing in such are fitting candidates fur 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 general 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 moderate 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 twowf fever is recorded as a " severe and frightful illness." The " superlative" is the reigning mood with them; skim milk becomes Devonshire cream, end small beer Guinness's stout; " superb," " exquisite," " wonderful," ° glorious," " horrible," " tremendous," " delicious," " charming," " beautiful," " terrific," as . tonishing," and such extreme adjectives, hang on th eir lips as plentifully as conjunctions, and we often wonder, while gauging the narrow eslibre of brain whence the big torrent issues, how such large furniture could be found in such a small house. Let these people repeat a story or circumstance, and you can hardy 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-Rsphaelites 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 ence kept account for a lady, dut:ing a three miles' walk through rather 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 gslic 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: thou 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 gotliags. 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 account, and impugned our veracity by declaring, that cups and saucers were made of ground human bones, and saying that we had 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 hi s de scription of his only Son. The young men, according to his papa's portraying. is an " immense genius,"—t n . deed his " mind is too much for his body;" his abilities are in fact so great that they do not know what he is fit for; he "plays divinely," " sinesessentisitda," and "pos sessions the poet's iitspiration 10 a wonderful degree;" if he lives loeg enough he will "do something very grand;" and withal, he is "so delicate in constitution that ho can hardly bear the wind to blow on hi m! , Thi , tre are the doting sire's own words, but we should, in giving a c a ndid opinion of the youth, use less elevat e d language, and say that ho is nothing more than a spruce fir, entered and labelled in his pa's grand conservatory as a cedar of Lebanon; and as for his "delicate consti tution," it seems to stand pretty well under an . unlimi te d amount of large dissipations und " small hours." Now these people are but 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-and 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, and 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 vergiags on " desperate revolutions," and how many " most serious and fatal consequences to the country," have occurred in the neweeaper columns during our recollection? Yet, St. Paul's stands where it always did, and exiled royal foxes seek old England as the safest cover they can run into. We should like to know how many reviewers have held up the "coming genius of the age," and pointed atten tion to the " most distinguished writer in English lite rature;" how many volumes have been pronounced as "the finest work that has appeared for many years;" and yet we offer come across same of these sterling productions in partnership with the trunk-maker's paste. We should like to have the sum total of domestic hyperboles, such as being " as hot as tire," " as bl ac k as a coal," being "delighted and charmed" to see a tenth rate acquaintance, and being " deeply distressed" to hear that Mrs. Robinson's seventh child has fallen sick of toe much pudding. What a census of illuminated "figures" we should have to wade through, and what outrageous fibs. We have no great objection to a respectable " white lie" now and then, such a judicious bit of colour ing often gives valuable relict to a bit of domestic " R em _ braudt," and dispels the gloom of a household "Salvator Rinse" but we do not admire the silly and sup is euous indul e ence in lies that bear all the tints of the rainbow. Not that we are alvocates for drab-coloured sermons or pale grey philosophy solely. We can enjoy the true blue love-letter, and participate in the deep scarlet burst of eethuids,ain, as much as any Parnassus-climbing idiot ; but we certainly quarrel with the general mode of spelt eh adopted by those who deal so widely in the big " words" of the dictionary, without attars:Atm; to those words the slightest portion el their meanings. The " flowers of rhetoric" ere only acce;,table when stacked by the ever greens of Truth and Settee. The habit of exaggeration in language tihouli be guarded against; it misleads the crednioui and °Wands the perzeprive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moileratelyedzed skull would filt the place much batter; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot prrtirrn, and we have often round the most glossing declarations of intended good service end in mere LiAn vows. Those who, when we ask a favour; isfilrea they will de it, " cost what if may," and though they may have to mere heaven and earth," are never feu " he us to be so likely to confer it as a certain e! "d3' tairson we could name, who says he will "do it if he can." Strove exeegeration iu everyday I;nguugo should be wedded - we thilde as behig mentally utiesaah3h and conversaiionally wearying. A Sirii g ht, far ware intentio n i n speech is as grateful to ats:xiates ass well ordered dress, and we fe e l as much doubt and islike in talking to one who, with very inferior intellect, flings all sorts of loquacious yeast in our ears, as we should in grasPing in unwashed coarse hand, covered , we e paste rings. NoW, kind reads-, we have filled up the "hove before snorts" with our penland•ink dreaming, and if we express an earnest hope that it is for your „ fluseuv llt, pray don't accuse us of Exaggeration, — Eliza Cook's Journal, EVENING, AUGUST lO, 1852. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Mr. Balfe took last night his well-merited benefit, and was greeted by a full and brilliant house. The performance may be considered as the first of the farewell ones, as it was at play-bourn prices, and two evenings' entertainments of a combined character are to be given upon Thuxeday and Saturday on the same terms. Mr. Balre's claims upon the musical public are so perfectly known and appreciated, that there is no need for a single introductory word of panegyric upon the present occasion. The warmth of his reception upon his appearance in the orchestra, and the repeated acknowledgments which he received at the hands of the audience, formed the best and most practical in terpretation of public opinion. The entertainments were long and varied. Tasy 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 t h e Elvira and gave the music with mus i c i an-l i ke appreciation and effect ; , whilst fldlle. Toccani, who is known to concert goers, as Zsrlina, won encores in " Batti, batti,'' and the " Vedrai carin Mare. Fi oren ti n i was e the Donna Anna. The part of the hero was in the hands of Signor de Bassini, who played and sang it with manly straightforwardness. Calzolari, as Ottavio, sang the fam o us " II mio Tes oro " with great finish and tenderness, and, as a matter of course, Lablache was Leporello. The opera went swimmingly. Then came a short concert, in character costume, in which Signor Gardoni, with M me. De la Grange and Mrne. Charton, appeared, the latter singin g th e " Ah non giunge." The entert a i nments of the billet depart ment included a pas by Mdlle. Guy Stephan, and two divertissements, embracing the whole strength of the mute pert of the company Theatre. of her Majesty's THEATRE. HAYMARKET The Adelphi company have moved hither for a month, and opened last evening with a new three act piece from the Mort onian mint, entitled The Writing on the Wall. There is an ancient country family with a murder twenty-fiv e years o l d i n i ts annals. Next there is a grasping, sinister neigh bouring proprietor, who is the mu r d erer, and who, bythe spoil which he carried o ff on the occasion, lays the foundation of a fortune, and ultimately comes to force on a marriage with the shrinking heiress of the house, by taking advantage of his claims upon her spendthrift brother. But there is also a sort of conscientious and comic villain, a village fiddler, who has been an accomplic e i n th e murder, and who is the thorn in the principal criminal's side. It appears that the dying man, to the knowledge of the fiddler, wrote his murderer's name on the wall in his own blood before his death. 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 all, 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 thy 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 1 aisely accused of the crime. The comic element is contributed by Mr. Wright, in the character of 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 g irl. Th e scene i n which the economy of the " m o d e l f arm " i s di sp l aye d is capital. All the labourers, male and female, are dressed , in a s p ec i es of rural unif o rm, w i t h " mo d e l 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 be t r i es t o th res h th e corn himself, he hits his own head—when he goes to quiet the dog, be i s 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 th e au di ence, jumped into the orch es t ra . Finally, afte r h av i ng 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 reappears 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 wits as clever as is her wont, and Miss Chaplin and Mrs. Leigh Murray, in their small parts, were as efficient us need be. The applause at the close was uproarious. ST. JAMES'S' TREATRE. Yesterday those charming little, American prodi gies, Kate and Ellen Bateman, took their farewell benefit at the Sr. James's Theatre l prior to their depdrture for the U n it e d S tates. The event was alto gether very brilliantly successful. The au di enc e was numerous and fashi ona b le, being under th e patronage of her Grac e th e Duchess of Somerse t and of their Excellencie s th e Austrian and Tur ki s h Ambassadors. After th e comedietta of Perfection— delightfuly enac t e d i n t h e principal parts by Miss Rebecca Isaacs and M r . W alter Lacy, the latter always one of our especial f avourites—the real busi ness of the evening commenced. Often as the Bateman children have been applauded in London before, they never met with a more cordial reception than greeted them on their last night's appearance. We acknow ledge ourselves at once to be amo ng those who enter tain a f ee li ng o f part i cu l ar dislike to the generality of stage-stru c k precoc iti es . W e have as instinctive a horror of thi s ki n d o f l ucis nature as NicholasNickleby h a d w h en h e fi rst witnessed the squeaking' and cont o rti ons o f th a t a b ominable little brat of a CrummeL call e d on Mrs. Grundy'' play bill s " The Phenomenon." To this day w e are not quite sure that there was an ythi ng very wonderful after all in the Young Reacius as 3 juvenile tragedian — though we are ready to admit that Ur' William Henry Betty a sonage is a very respectables a n a d g i u r t o e v l i l n i g ". e u u p t ,g p e e n r : tleman. But the little Batemans stand entirely apart from the mass of these premature wearers of the s eek and the buskin. They are as une be walled in the his trionic art, as c hild ren , a l most as the boy Chatterto? was in po e try, or as th e infant Mozart was as a reusi clan. Th e i r a biliti es appear to as unforced as under any circumstances cou ld be expected. Their spont aneous merr i ment i s one of the most contagi ous q ebulliti ons of fun imaginable. When the little crea tures laugh the whole audience laughs with the m, and thi s l aughter often becomes a roar of unmistak able able approbation. We don ' t precisely know which_ to pref er o f the two.—perhaps little Kate atteraan!: the m ost childlike, and, therefore, the most natu ral he then lit t l e Ellen Bateman sometimes bears. away the Palm triumphantly by her tstonishicg cleverness. see i., _ these children in The Old School and the New-0, ( a box _ s i t Old School), always in mischief, l 'e_ate as Prank Mountain, the scapegrace little w ith the curliest fl - -Izen pate and the prettiest little features of childhood —Ellen in a dapper little suit, the i ith production one might fancy ea Stultz and Hobh it I, ,the a t a e yeglass aboat the size of a fourpenni shirt eousers well strapped down over the boots, t h e efitting .Collar u nexceptionably starched and the cravat fitting in voice nicety, in stature seemingly a foot-and-11:nannees dome shrill, in bearing self-possessed, in spanners Hon. d' aw ling, not to say afficted, in character the en of , -Te01, ,, e 6 Augustus Walmetle a etfect specimen of Y 7 „e lle , Bateman, the rising generation . ! To hear paleh .e• lcaebleY (aged —. We __ be g .her pardon—Mr. Wra of seven-and seven years, but with the carriage - . the most tntrty) , llPPealiag for corroboration 13 „l e t John negligent way conceivable to his -- exquisite Y i son, or J- a - n-s-e-n according to , Y-e-s, a i n" ( Pronunciation —to hear him sag ' . e a—b-u-t J-a-n.s-e •el g-o -t h. i-s h-e-a-d c-u-t 0-13 i_t_w-a-s t-h te - ree w-a.s n-o-t-h-i-n - g " this and t-h-e -r-e, J -a-n-s-e-n ?" To listen tountenance, .watch the little creature's imperturbable, "' mere COll-• the while was soul If dl'' et ing elc ous The the w • Idschool and treat of the boys representing the 0 .- - After this dramatic east wha worthy of admiration. which the Bate sketch cam e The Young Couple, in l brated man children - have rendered themselves celebrated and hby tion3 t us, upwards of two hundred representa ' - brow ht with other " benefit" WO,g amusements, the The houso was to a most successful conclusion. crowded, an d the audience—what they ought to b have been—enthresiastic. ne Hi s g s il t n li , e ss A t performances at . of honour i k n ' -. A.AJETY'S TtIFAT . RE. rhoeh.driiichess Catherine of , ,_, 1, . essas anal Drnuekel in attendance. 11is Lscellency th e of accom - HET. 4 ~ Imperial High- Hi Russia and his Royal the perfo with their Theatre pre n.rice yesterd iy (Mond. 1, j ' • g• Her Imperial High (i'ill.eo,rragAserua.feMstie,sik.le:broergwiSchtricelfi,tzghenontloeum-raend ) evenin . _ maid sdthe Archduchess l.: attended by Aladlle. Strandmenn, waniag, and Russian Minister, tt pt the fashionable 3 . .ss aul his nanru,nnow, and Madlle. de I3,unnow had the . honour e li a , i )Ing her Imperial liighnc - .Royal * juke George! - , assv ( m he firs' cue Moi l •de Berg) was in attendance upon her Imperial companyLoril7 41' a t tn a o r3 , n - of the Russian E,,,_ present at the theatre were the following:_ ~.1 3 Ward and party, Lady Mary Bentinct and party, the takecount Clifden, the Viscount Ranelagh, Sir George Arrni _.,l,ge and L atlY ArraitagP Colonel liThox,Lady Sarah LidaPD, Colonel FreestUn . M.P., and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Thi,ii Jane Cole • General the lion. H. Cavendish, Mr. ethwaite, Ca the lion Mrs. Ryder Bur ton, &c. ' Captain and • C. Daniel Webs' who is named for the Ameri can Prof being recently visited at midnight by a crow°- his admirers, and serenaded, threw up his bed-room I window , and wade them a speech in hie shirt! THE FISHEMES QUESTION WITH THE UNI l'Efe STATES. (From the Correspondent of the Ti;;:es.) NEW YOER, MONDAY EVENING —The excitement on the suirject of the easteen fisheries has been greatly increased by the speech which Mr. Webster delivered last Saturday on the occasion of his public reception by the people cf . Marshfield ' where he has for twenty y ears res id ed, and to which place he has resorted at every interval of leisure for the practice of run' amusements and agricultural pursuits. As you will, doubtless, transfer the entire speech to your columns, it is not necessary to make any creetaticns in my letter ; but you may judge from the language the Secretary uses how decided his own opinions are on the subject, and how irrevocably the Government et Washington is pledged fur the protection of our fishermen and fisheries. I should in my last com munication have surveyed the whole question, had I not supposed that publicity had already been g i ven in England to the strange policy of Lord Derby's Government on this subject, an d it could hardly be doubted here what course The Times would take in a matter of such great im portance. No rightminded or intelligent man can suppose that any sufficient cause has existed, or ought to exist, for hoatilities between the two nations. And yet there seems to be a fixed determination on ' the part of the Government, the Congress, and the press of the country to repel any aggression upon cur c i t i zens , who have been suddenly interrupted in those pursuits which they have followed peacefully and with impunity for a period of 30 years. The report of the Inspector- General of Massachusetts shows what interest that State has in the fisheries. Alas sachusetts alone has 858 vessels of 54,040 tons in the l nav igated by 9,174 men end boys. The 'gnegate, value 6 of those vessels and their outfits is 3 532,000 dolls., while the annu al value of the fish they t a k e amounts to a sum nearly as great. The inspector estimat es the value f or the rest of New England at nearly the same as that of Mass achusetts,marks that with all the pains he has and re taken he has only approximated to th e t rue fi gure, since many vessels are employed in the cod and mac kerel fisheries, of which no proper reg a is e tkeerroeri.men of Massachusettscaught, reports a re preserved. It appearsthat the m in 1851, 188,336 b arre l s i n A mer i ca n waterst,aend 141,000 barrels in th ose waters no w claimed as h e xclusive British r i g ht b y E arl Derby. The Btua w y le s i : c_h is consider e d, par ticularly in thisosmali Times , ter, e a n s expressing s the popular feel ing of New England m .. One half of the mackerelmen are now in the waters, where B l a i r: csu Derby oe e,,Proposes to oust them by an armed the e yago of each vessel depends on force. season by following the fish . nor ability to 5 1. 11 °Probably 2,000 vessels and 30,000 till they are fu fi l now exposed to the cannon of a Bri men and boys are e y s and horrors of British prisons, ash fleet and the crue th lt! have for 30 years been anus for doing just . what , e o s lestation. The, anxiety and dis tresstomed to do with . ou. i m l of all cur seaboard people can among the conceived tam2 ;heir traditionary recollections of easily be n_ d courts not being very happy:" British risons k a of Mr. 'Webster are a singularly The remarks striking confirnasation of the statements and opinions while , it is most earnestly to be of the Boston Times , Webster saes, that the subject of the hoped, as Mr- from the Colonial-office had not tape late dispatches degree_ of attention from the prin cipaltracted a sufficient oftheurown ; yet be sees matter in Minister with the arrangement made them quite inconsistent_ Earl of Aberdeen and Edward in 1845 by Everett. Mr. Webster lays the greater stress upon the fact that the Earl of Derby was at that time C o l o ni a l Secretary under the Government of Sir R. Pe e l, an d consequently the definitive arrangement with Mr. not well have taken place without Everett could , and, in fact, without his Earl Derby's knowle.og this arrangement Secretary, therefore, concurrence or sanction. y, arrangement had been could not but think 0 t the elections in England overlooked as an inadvertence.e It is generally sup. posed in this country w P i r il ot h e a ct o io h n li i;t e s d , will have terminated fatally forne Derby y e and that, consequently, to give up the Government; in whichio acadrffehreisntsuine-- suc cessor may, with great propriety, give this ta terpretation to the question of thethe n oiit of fisheries, , and k occasion, in doing it, to,tow h contre temps upon his predecessor. The more wise and judicious among us anticipate this mode of relief from the present embarra s s men t that British and American statesmen are labouri ng under; because it is not to be supposed that any American whatever, much less any American states wan or journalist, would attempt to arrest the torrent of popular indignation that would burst out from every hill-side on the continent, if the news should come that the smacks of our New England fishermen h ad been sunk in the Bay of Fundy by British can non. The course of Lord Derby in this respect may nave 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 Koine had been an Englishman, or a Scotchman, or a Welchcaan, 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 being made lies upon the very surface of our party politics. It is well known that the Irish vote in this country sways a complete balance of power between the two political parties, and consequently the leaders and demagogues of these parties resort to every trick and deception to win the Irish sympathy. Hence a numerous and tumultuous anti-extradition meeting was held a few evenings ago in Tammany-hall, the head-quarters of the democrats of New York city. Speeche§ were made by a con siderable number of well.known public characters, but the two principal speeches of the evening were those of Mr. Brady, a popular stump speaker, and lawyer of New York, of Irish extraction, and a dis tinguished member of the democratic party, and Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune. Mr. Greeley gives us, in the report of his speech, the following clause, which we cut from his owu journal : He (Maine) is not an ordinary criminal, bat a man impelled to violence by a sense of wrong —not of indivi vidual hardship merely, but of political injustice. His is one act in a long drama of violence, having its origin in t he conquest of Ireland and the confi,cation of its soil to the use of the conquerors. Admitting that Maine is guilty of the act charged, his is not purely a moral of fence, but part ekes of the nature of a political one." The New York Herald exposes the revolutionary , tendency of such doctrines in the following lan guage According to this precious doctrine every man who feels himself impelled to violence by a sense of wrong' is justified in committing murder, and ought not to be brought even to trial! We scarcely ever knew an in str.ece of murder that the perpetrator was not driven to it by some ' sense of wrong.' Following up this princi ple, and applying it to the United Stales, let 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 ever suffered at the hands of their landlords. Impelled, there fore, to violence by a 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—he is justified in perform ing his part in the play by the murder of his master, and when he flies to New York he is not to be surren dered for trial. In his case killing is no murder—it is not is 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 crime 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' batter the instruction' the fault does not lie with him." When the first judicial decision in the case of Keine 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 Bcitish 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 Maine, and Mr. Edwards, counsel for the British Government, wer e both heard at length by the Court, when Mr. Brady, the popular orator before alluded to and the principal coup el for the prisoner, stated that application h a d been made to Judge Nelson, of the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, for the purpose of bringing the matter before the highest tribunal of the nation for a final decision. He also 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 the liberty of the subject, and the eputation of the Government in the executionof the laws were at stake,it was imp erat i vely necessary to proccA with all due deliberation ; he therefore ad journed the Court until next Wednesday, and re mauded the prisoner again to th e custo dy o f the United States' Marshal. We shall see what the result will be but thus far we can congratulat? ourselvee. Mr. Greeley and some other editors,.h.,_ac_l done what grey could to inflame the pagsi°":: Irish popuhttion, and things h a d gone so far the Manibal expr.ssed somo alarm lest, in the transferutrtl Cf room, the prisoner from his confinement to a rescue would be attempted. The I t : l' ll r c i ou s f Irish Justice was surrounded by a large crowd of th: sv hatever was popula tion during the day, but no attemp.roin the court made until the prisoner was taken . l But it soon room, when the mob attacked the police 'cipal rioters, who ended in the arrest of 15 of the principal are now in prison awaiting thg ' 5l 10 O'CLOCK A.M. WEDNESDAY, JULY Yesterday, the great %vb i g gathering took place at Niagarasupposed, that Falls. It was and there wou!d be at least 50,000 or 100,000 persons present on the anniversary of the first victory (as it is called) of General Scott ; but up to last evening less than 10.000 had assembled. Few distinguished men of the Whig party were there, and the whole thing was likely to prove a failure. The fact can , longer b e concea l e d t h a t th e Whigs made a very unfortunate nomination, and no enthusiasm can be got up anywhere for General Scott. On the other hand, the mass meetings for Pierce and King are characterized by unprecedented enthusiasm and numbers. The fishery excitement is extending, and the new Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Kennedy, of of Baltimore, has started all cur navy-yards and arsenals into activity. A powerful force is pre paring fur the north-c astern coast, and in a short time several of our largest and most efficient steamers will be on their way. There is no subject on which the Americans are so sensitive as their fisheries. I confess that, with a knowledge of the exasperated state of feeling along the Canada frontier and through out the British provinces, and a knowledge also of the policy which the President and his Cabinet are deter mined to carry out,—l confess that _I entertain the most serious apprehensions of the final result. Our Government expects a collision. Of this fact there is no doubt. This morning Judge Bosworth was to have given his decision in the Kaice case, but a telegraphic dispatch has just been received of the sudden death of Judge Sanford, at Toledo, and all the courts will meet only to pass resolutions of respect to his memory itwd adjourn. I re j o i ce i n the delay, for it will secure the bearing of the extradition case before the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington, where we know that wisdom an d mo deration and learning and justice will prevail. THE NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES QUESTION, TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. i —l bfel thereieveth ar a e t nino the e is w e o o r r ld sa s man will deny that, tries who, i n a moral, physical,asocial,sagacious and u corn, mercial mercial point of v i ew , two l greatc c o other the utmost possible good in a p o sition to do each goodor atihtegriatestpos sible mischief, these countries are the Anglo-Saxon nations. On the day before General Wolfe gained h the bat tle Angolno-Saxon P lai axoo n p s o s of e s A s e b d r anham single, n o r 0 8 0 r d i tis f a s n u d bj e as c i f t ' h n i n the countries r :b a o w rd re e n ri o n ef o o r n no t r h t e h o r f ivers, lakes, or th e Gulf of St. tmheonrpts% insinNalolvaeolSecnoytiai, or south two of Caoalloanlllsoettlle n Georgia, est or west o f t h e Alleghany Mo un t a i ns . Those e ge v v the e gions extend ing to the Pacifi c were t h en under h of the Bourbons of F rance and Spain. Tsolae sovereignty e Anglo- Americans, although hi g hl y prosperous, didn ex ceed 2,000,000 of inhabit an t s , who were allsoetttl2:ld-1 to the eastward of the Allegb an i es , c hi efly towns on the shores of the Atlanti c . At in small townsthe 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 of any policy which might possibly involve the United Kingdom and the United States of America in the certain calamities of a war. Civilization in America and Europe would, for a time, Se 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 bonds 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, edacatioo, and traditionary usages; they speak the same language, are educated at schools where they are taught th e same l es sons, 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 shou!d 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 Empiie and the United States of America as nearly as possible on the same 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 fishing along the shoals of New foundland and.the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as British vessels, while all British shipping would partake of 1 the coasting trade and fisheries of the United States. That both nations would derive great benefit from such freedom of trading and fishing cannot be denied. Instead, th ere f ore , o f sen ding ships of war , which will inevitably come into collision with the vessels of the United Stat es , oug ht n ot such a free commerc i al and maritime American Government ? arrangement be at once n e g otiated with the Before th e lat e L o rd Ashburton sa iled to America, for the purpos e o f settling the north - ea stern boundary dispute, which he so satisfactorily exe cuted, he sub 'flitted to Sir Robert Peel some very liberal observe.- Lions on the maritime and commercial intercourse be tween her Majesty's subjects and the citizens of the United States. Sir Robert Peel did me the honour of requesting my opinion on Lord Ashieueton's 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 matters were not sufficiently ripe for Sir Robert Peel carrying out what he considered sound interne- Qabrte! Il'e 'of the interna tional policy. It was necessary for him first to repeal the corn-laws, the taxes on the essential food of inao, 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 end 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 p as _ sess, had they continued under British domination. The trade, navigation, and fisheries of the United States ought, in like manner, to have derived efvre:rly:. commercial and maritime advantage, which could have been on the most liberal understandine: the mother country, without being subject l i t t t le te in capacities of the Colonial-office, or the tai ledinini e et e a exercise of the t ß io r n itis o h f colonial Governors, Genot:eorrnotros,thteo athbesolivatt:rf Mr. Pitt as Chancellor of the sovereign prerogative. Bat the liberal commercial Exchequer, under the Shelburne policy proposed by the United States, was defeated by an acive4rasoeppti? of Mr. Adams, on the part Administration, and f in Great Britain, which law by ° th a e British navigation finally led to the uu i counterpart ted s t a t e s t ,o andthe which until lately British vessels arr' was enforced with regard to all vi. re laws have been met ug:' United States. Now, all the relaxations madein the United States. But cently in our navigation; iog trade and with . perfect reciprocity bya: if the British colonial and_ Ameri can were f=irl opened to , .e... can vessels, the coasting trade - Yand fisheries or 1 "` United States would be at once tbroven open he tc l ! British vessels, and which is so much desirea n g fick. Majesty's subjects in Canada There would be no necessity foraundegNote l e at the wise and United States. Why not at once ad P a' t ' is. a war by the profitable course, instead of bezer 0 1 0 f ships of war irritating and iosulting presence wil3onruwith the p The laws of the among the American nSherta b e a n eever privileges Ame- United States provide thato ; tberwcountries, the vessels of rican vessels enjoy a` - a American ports and saes. those countries evill u eg °lco'tland, nor the latter E British subjects, so far from England does no: r e han;oasting trade and fisheries are commoncommon t h to o ü b g do h t h , w ould be greatly benefited, if the being 'and fisheries of the British dominions coasting trs . , e d States were rendered freely . common an d the ' Unblteents of bosh countries. to the inba. i We admit at being injure o nce the right of England to enforce the provisions of o f 1818, hut we dreed the fatal consequences a naval armament to enforce the strict ob ofservance of that treaty. I a m, air, very respectfully, your obedient servant th the treats 1, Prince's-terrace, Hyde -park, Aug.J. MA.CGREGOR. ' -pane, 7, 1852. THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF COMMITTEES IN THE ITousv or Commons.—.lt is commonly rumoured that the Government will have no inconsiderable difficulty in award ing the vacant office of Chairman of Committees. Th ere are, it is said, a h os t of clamorous applicants for the place, amongst others, Mr. Newdegate, T. Floy er, Mr, K. Seymer, Captain Bolduc, and ulr. EAST INDIA.—It is stated, in a Parliamentary paper just issued, containing the annual report (pursuant to Act of Parliament) of the Acts at Government in India, passed 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 1850. SPORTING NOTEF, Ne. CCLXXX. READING hILETING, &c. TO TEE EDITOR OF -THE SUN. SlR,—Viret.thcrgAge, by his double performance at Goodwood and Wolverhampton, has proved satisfactorily enough now that his quality is not of that stamp which Captain ions imtgined it was when he transferred it from th,) Duke's stable into Armstrong's for the trifling 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 yesterday very cleverly, boating Doubt at a dif ference of 201 b f or the three years; Lindrick, Who was strongly fancied, finishing a very fair third, with Alonzo, ovhted and on a course beyond his distance, a ba e d r i7L i r S th and lust. The Reading meeting will come cif to-morrow and Thursday, beginning a quarter-past two with the Abbey Stakes, which VAULTRESS, I presume, will win; in her absence Defiance would be my selection. The Berkshire States, two miles, will be contested by five or six, LAMARTINE, with Bst 51b on his back, look ing by far the best; after him Dulcet and Stamford are as woll in as any, the former having to carry 6st 111 b and the latter a pound leas. The Readine , Stakes, a half mil e spurt, penalty and all, ought to be carried off by VAULTRESS, Sylphine, I believe, being a non-starter. Defiance and Michaelmas Maid lock well for the .second and third places. The Innkeepers' Stakes, in, the absence of Musician, fallw a il r l u p s re n a is b h ly ing well p. tot u belot of _____KtnmENEY or THEO REM; E T T h h e e reining have yetn ß ot es a d s ingu closed. The is as fol lows:—Abbey Stakes—Even on Vanitress. Berkshire Stakes-6 to 4 asst o to 1 sgst a n y o th er . a s t field. Innk ee p ers ' S ta k es -5 to 2 agst hilmene y, 4 to 1 L Readinga m a r tin e , s 4 ta t k o e l Stakes-2 toStamford, 1 on the s agst any other,—l am, &e. Aug, 10. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. Business was o n a very l i m i te d sca l e , w ith scarcely any influence on the- quotat i ons, short " price current.' - EROR. HANDICAP. and admitting of only a 7 to 1 egst Mr. Howard's Little Harry 8 to 1 agst Mr. T. Parr's Weathergage 8 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Voltigear 12 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Frantic 20 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Hippoly tus—t tOlOO l . ST. LEG ER . 3 to 1 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 agst Duke of Richmond's Harbinger —taken to 2001. 17 to 1 agst Lord Zetland's Augur—take 20 to 1 20 to 1 apt Lord:Derby's Longbow—taken to 1001. READING RACES.—We are authorised to state that these races will not commence until a quarter past two to-morrow. A special train will start from Paddington at a quarter p as t eight in the morning, and return in the evening at a quarter past seven. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—MONDAY. The Trial S ta k es o f 5 so y a. ea ch, and 30 added; for three yrs old, 7 s t 51b ; f our, B st 711); five, 9st lib; six and aged, 9 s t 51b ; winners extra, &c. Once round and a distance. ( 3 Subs.)mares and geldings allowed 31 b; The Produce Stakes of Yr l s o soya, each, and (C Mr. F. Eglinton's b g Carrier, 3 r, yrs Mr. Phillips's Le Juif, 4 hir r . o p un o d w . (Marlow) 2 Mri.lFeliwnitnonfie'sr. was s s let's Parser **** a . added; for colts, Bat 61b; (9 Subs.o)bjected and fillies, sat ii 0w ... ,d ..... .............(We115) 1 t io f 80113) 31 a b r 2. r: 1 0 ) 5 on‘c l se. The Wolverhampton Stakes of 2r.searrYing rrsroevds. each, 15 ft, and esreen's Purse of 5 only if declared, with the short weight. 100 soya, added, and the winner - to pay s 20 soy a. to ws omstak e T a w r i d o e e r x o p u e o n d s e a s o , d a n n d d i s t . h e (secondd 3 . t , o 22 a v o e f de clared.) Mr. T. Parr's Weethergage, 3 yrs, sst 121 b(Cowley) 1 Mr. W. Palmer's Doubt, aged, ist 101 b... (Charlton) 2 Mr. J. Dawson's na Lindrick, 3yrs, sst 21b (Carrol) 3 Mr. W. Moseley's Alonzo, 5 yrs, Bst 71b... (Marlow) 4 The Welter Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft, and 25 added. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half (4 Subs.) Mr. J. Saxon's Catlike, 6 yrs, list 21b...(Mr. Shaw) 1 Mr. Shirley's na The Dreg, 5 yrs, lOst7lb (Davenport) 2 Thu Ladies' Purse of 50 soya., for three yrs old, 7st 31b; ...., four, Bst 71b; five, 9st lib; six and aged, 9st 31b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; half-bred horses 61b. Beats, once round and a dis. Mr. E. Buckley's Royal George, 3 yrs(Sharpe) 1 3 1 Mr. Taft's gr gby Don John, 3 yrs (Ashmal) 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 na the Alderman (Crouoh) 0 dr Mr. F. Eglinton's br f by Faugh-a-bellagh ... 0 dr Mr. Sherratt's Miss Ellen, 4 yrs...(Charlton) 0 dr Several nominations for the north country meetings become void by the death of Major Yarburgh. AQUATICS. WESTMINSTER (6OLLOLARS') BOAT RACES. THE ISILVER CUPS ISiiTCH. Six members contended for a pair o silver cups, an oars' weger, yesterday. The distance was from Batter sea to Putney, and Mr. Wright officiated as umpire on the College eight. Messrs. Bearings and Madden Vincent and Freeman Upperton and Williams ... o With very little loss of time the above got to their stations, a fourth pair from some unavoidable cause not appearing. A very even and beautiful start was effected, and the whole went off oar and oar at a fine p a ce. In this position they remained for upwards of two minutes, the work in all the boats being beautiful. The winners drew a slight lead then and gallantly main tained it throughout, alzhough pressed to the end by the second beat. Won by two lengths. SILVER CHALLENGE SCULLS. pre T v h io l u s s i l n y t , ere w st a i s ng el a s n o uti m al os m t a g tc a h, which had taken llantlyeentested. place The Westminster sculli, the symbols of aquatic superiority, we re presented in 1844, by M essrs . E. B. Burton and E. P. Colquhoun (old Westminsters), for yearly competi tion as an encouragement to honourable emulation in the seiencn of sculling. Mr. Wright, T. 8., was the suc cessful candidate in both '49 and '5O, and as his superi ority was so well established, no race took place last year, and, consequently, being thrice the holder, he re signed the trophies of victory this season for competition amongst the challengers, three in number, the Hon. E. Bourke, T. 8., W. Maddon, Q S., a n d B. Hammond, T.B. The distance contested Was from Putney-bridge to Vauxhall. gr. Burton, one of the spirited donors— himself one of the most distinguished scullers and oars men in many a spirit-stirring conflict—officiating as umpire. Mostra. C. Hammond (LB.") 1 Mr. Maddon.) ... 2 Hun. E. Bourke (T. 13 ) ..• 0 The 1 - I , M. Mr. Bourke got a tiliqht lea], maintained gunr•nri:,7 for a q uar t er of a mile, then they . spurt, were almost all s cu ll and seull o.traia. Bourke again pu t ; on a u, and kept a slight I.ni a d a little longer, " Wandsworth was i,as3crd by Mr. Hammond, and almost hat o immediately a f terwards by Meddon, who made a saart race with the rdnner till n ear l y th o en d. which be 011,,DWELL REGATTA. Q A the shore )lace atermen contended yesterday. fit . 13 d g ro fr u o n m d °' rew skiff and sundry other prlxas subsoil e the residiAats, and formed a very excellent regatta. :r. t s o it t i h fi o ve ß l; g ea o t a s t , , :h e e adnialstanßcasXttcwnidei: ifei.:lBo:hi:ricalfeerrtioaetz. First Heat. J. Robinson, Stone-stairs ............ (Green) 1 S. Dunbar, Riteliff-cross •• •. ..(Yellow) 0 A very even start, green J. Dickerson, Bell Wharf •••••• •• (Pink) 0 win ning by a do zen lengths. Second Hest. three soon ooerk . f i : o .h u :D r W l ea e rd n k g ni i t I b l s ilf . er e: '.41 T T : B K pv c r i e l l i og l n a N a:a siSi yh (Jame a b d y v s ; s i e bri stairs s i r ( e 0 (Red) 0 Third Heat, C. Fox, King (Light Blue) 1 (Yellow) 2 S. Dunbar (Red) 0 C. FOX. ' ll:74B . iPeeki t g h erhst eLi Gn (Pink) (;) t, the two first lma.s winning at their A veil fIA leioure. Fourth float. j. Robinson (Green) 1 T. Kirkland (Dark Blue) 2 s. Dunbar (Fellow) 0 T. Speig t (Light Blue) 0 Similar to the last. Fifth Heat. T. Kirkland (rinuer) (Dark Blue) 1 J. Robinson ......... (Green) 0 Dark bl ue got the btart and Was leading by twa lengths, the first round, ultimately Winning by three lengths, notwithstanding the most determined efforts of the other to lessen the gap bptween them. MARRIAGE IN HIGU LIE -E.-011 Saturday morning, the 7th instant, a marriage was solemnised at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, between the Ron. Frederick Chi chester and the lovely and accomplished Miss Tighe, eldest daughter of Mr. and the Ron. Mrs. 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 more was prevented by indisposition, from attend ng at three ceremony. The bride and bridegroonaleft London, and Hon. Mrs. Charles Peel, the o'clock, for Butler's Green, the residence of Af a r. pass the honeymoon. NT.—Tbe ap pointment they intend CARII':BROoRE CASTLE ArpoiNTML of keeper of Carisbrooke Castle , te d inventor of the the demise of Mr. Dennett, the celebrated shipwrecked, has rockete, for preserving the lives of persons__r. Ai H. D. Cole, well been presented by Lord Heytesbury r t ary u secretary to the Isle known forma ny ears as the bontehe Race Committee, and lately vacant by of W i girt Agricultural Society, other public matters. AC cinENT ON THE LONDON AND TUE LATE FATAL en y. The inquest upon th e b o d y of William Floyd, the IsToran-WEsTERN RAzewegentleman who lost hi s lif e b y an A which--°goccurred at the BeekNvell cutting, untweerd accident r o etion, upon the 3d instant, was re sumednear the Hampton e J d u . )... e . ster day , at the King's Head, Coven- Seymour, the coroner. After a examination, the coroner proceeded to sum up the lengthened exan at haft-past eleven o'clock PsAl., the jury . returned t case, and beforea n d c 2, o i n r e . lli c rl y . ii op in i on that the following the iminediate straps of the ash-box, thereby causing the death stale of the v c e avise of the accident was from the defective o f William Floyd t inspection of those • their decidedopinion that the mspe pressing minutely and more • and the jury cannot separate. without ex tracted engines should be made more bile o f the public:' c fr o e n gueutly , so as to insure the safety 4