The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-02 00:00:00

ARKLOW, FEB. 28.—The Calypso, Savery, which went on shore on Mizen !lead on the 27th inst., has parttd abaft the mainmast, nearly all her decks are broken up, and she is lying on her side in the surf, with her deck to the sea; about 100 bales and cases are saved, but nearly all the remainder of her cargo has been washed out of her. CORK, FEB. 28.—The report of a vessel being on *lore :)utside the Lighthouse, is unfounded. LuttEßlcH, FEB. 28.—1 t blew a violent gale yester- IlaY, which subsided at eight P.M., but has commenced again today. 29. The Catharine, M'Crhee, for the Cl3de, is reported to be ashore at Kilrush. DUNDALK, FEB. 28.—The Martha, of Dumfries, from Preston, in entering this bar missed stays, and got on the North Buil, where she remained some time beating l bearily, but was got off and ruu on shore at Giles' quay, and must discharge. YARMOUTH, '..Mencx I.—The Francis, of Sunderland, got in contact with the Jane, of London, at anchor in the Roads, and both received damage. BRDENAm, MARCH I.—The Wavatale, Volun, from Londo n t o Sydney, N.S.W., was totally dismasted, and lad decks completely swept on the 25th ult. in lat. 48, lion. 8, W., the master, first officer, boatswain, seven 'seamen, and three boys were at the same time washed overboard; two passengers were taken off the wreck by the Preciosa, Jacobson, which lust two boats in attempt ing to take off the remainder of the crew, but remained by her until noon of the 28th, when she was making io water. MILFORD, FEW 29.—The wind this morning was 8 ,.W., blowing strong; about noon it shifted to S ., S.S.E., and S.E., it blew a violent gale for hours, it is no's', 4 30 pat., blowing a strong gale from S.S.W. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) SAY 21ZAZIEETS. SMITHFIELD.—MeaqOW Hay, 21 108 to 31 13s ; Clover, ditto, 31 13s to 41 158 ; and Straw, 11 3s to 1/ 7s Per lo a d. B o th H a y and Scraw moved off heavily, at barely stationary prices. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 12s to 31 15s ; Clover ditto, 3/ lOs to 41 12s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 8s per load. A moderate supply, and sluggish demand. WIIITECIIAPEL.—Meadorr llay, 21 108 to 31 13s; Clover ditto, Si 12s to 41 15s; and Straw, 1/ 4s to Ti 8s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. 111115'97GATE AND I.IIILDENHAMI. A :light improvement was noticed in the general de mand here, today, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s to 4s ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Veal, 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per Sibs by the carcase. MEAT MARKETS. SOUTHALL, Minclit I.—Prime Mutton was in steady request, at fully last week's quotations ; otherwise the demand was in a very sluggish state. Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4 s to 4 s 8 d; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per 81b3., to sink the offals. ROMFORD, MARCH I.—We had a very slow trade here to-day, on the following terms :—Beef from 3s Gd to 4s 4d; Mutton, 4s to Bs 2d; Veal, 4s 2d to 4s 8d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per Bibs ; Quarter -old Store Pigs, 18s to 245; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 151 to 161 16s each. I.LULSILAII, MARCH I.—Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 45 to is 2d; Veil, 45 to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 6d per 81bs. A moderate supply and a sluggish demand. ARUNDEL, FEB. 29.—We had a slow trade to-day, and Fices were not supported. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 10d to 5s 2d; Veal, 4s to 4s 6d; and Pork, 4s 2d to 45 6d per Sibs. CILICHESTER, MARCH I.—There was a fair supply of fat stock, to-day. Prices lower than on last market day. Beef, from 4s to 4s 8d ; Mutton, 4s 4d to 5s 4d; Veal, 4. to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 4s 2d to 4s 8d per 81bs. quarter-old Store Pigs, 15s to 20s each. COAL MARK.EI Dean's Primrose lB, 9d, Dipton Tanfield l2s 6di Hasting'slHartley l4s 9d Nelson's West Hartley 14s 6d North Percy Hartley l4s Od North Pontop New Tanfield l4s HI New Pelton 13s MI Original Tanfield l2s 9d i South Peareth South Pontop Tanfield Moor Tanfield Moor Butes l3s 6d' 'Walker's Primrose _ _ r.--YrsTEßnia. Brown's Gas _ . _ . Gosforth . 14s 3d Heaton Riddell's l4e 3d Wharncliffe _ _ Eden Main lss 9d __ _ . 1--- Illaswell l7s 9d 17s 9d iHettoa - 1 Lanibten Russell's Hetton Shotten 'Hudson's Hartlepool l6s Od !Thornley Adelaide Tees , Anthracite 2is Od Abercrave Stone Coal 27s Od Ships at market 272 14s 6d West Hartley Wall's End, &o. Ball and Brown l4s 3d CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended March 2, 1848, made up from the Returns tattle Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wale per Imperial Quarter. I WHEAT. FBAILET.I HATS. I I B. BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .. I 50s Sd 30s 9d 20s 8d 30a 8d Od 41s 7d The Duties on Foreign Grain aro now suspended. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) PHILLIPS v. HULL.) This was an action to recover the sum of 71. 2s. 7d., for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff is a whole. sale cheesemonger in Newgate-street, and the defendant is a retailer. A plea of never indebted was put of the record, but the defendant, who was present, said he did not dispute the debt, and never gave any instructions for the plea; all he had requested his attorney to do was to obtain time. He had been charged with having vexatiously defended the action, and he feared the consequences. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said that he could not assist the defendant, for, if the debt was admitted, the jury must give a verdict for the amount. A verdict was accordingly given. SLOMAN I. PARMENTER. This was an action to recover the sum of 31. 135., on a promissory note. The defendant pleaded that she did not sign the note. Mr. Williams was called, and said he was inquiring clerk to a loan society in Tottenham-court-road. He saw the defendant at the office, when she signed the note as security for her son. He never saw her before, but had since, but never at the house said to be where she lived. He had seen her and her son together. The defendant's attorney submitted that this was not sufficient evidence as to identity; any person might have gone with the son and represented as the mother of the borrower. He founded his objections on the cases of Bell v. Gunn, and Jones v. Jones, 11 Law Journal (new series), in which it was laid down as incumbent on the plaintiff to prove the identity, and not the defendant to prove the negative. In fact, in this case there were three Sarah Parmenters, and the person who had actually signed the note was ill in bed, and had not been served with the writ. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFY said the evidence was very bare, and he would take a note of the objection, but the case must go to the jury. The plaintiff must take care that he issued the execution against the right party. The defendant's attorney said the right party had not been sued. Verdict for the plaintiff. CRIMINAL COURT.—( THIS DAY. OLD COURT. (Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Mr. Justice COLT. MAN.) ABDUCTION. — Samuel Brown, a respectable looking man, was brought up, in custody of Allen, the officer of the Court of Chancery, to answer an indictment preferred against him under the Births, Marriages, and Deaths Registration Act, for Making a false statement for the purpose of procuring a registry of marriage to be entered. The Attorney-General, Sir John Bayley, and Mr. Bodkin appeared as Counsel on behalf of the prosecu tion; and Sir F. Thessiger, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bal lantine, were Counsel on behalf of the prisoner. On the prisoner being placed below the bar, Sir F. THESSIGER applied to the Court, on his behalf, that he might be allowed to withdraw his plea with respect to the 3d and 4th counts, and be at liberty to demur to them. The ground on which the teamed Counsel made the application was, that the prisoner at the last sessions pleaded to the counts in the absence of his legal advisers, who were of opinion that the counts were bad in law, and it being arranged before hand that the prisoner was not to be brought up to plead at the last session. The JUDGE, after some considerable . argument on the subject, refused the application. The Jury were then sworn, and the prisoner:given in charge to them. The ATTORNEY GENERAL then proceeded to address them on the part of the prosecution. The case, although a short, was a most important one, it being the first that had been brought to trial with respect to false statements made to procure a marriage register. From the statements of the Learned Counsel it appeared that the present indictment had been preferred at the suggestion of the Vice• Chancellor Wigram. The de fendant Brown lived in 1840 in Wimpole-street, as a butler, and he contracted a marriage in 1847 with a female of the name of Esther Field, a girl only IS years of age. Esther Field was the daughter of a Mr. James Field, of Berkhampstead, both her father and mother were now dead, and she had been left property to the amount of upwards of 1,1001. a year, and the brother of the defendant was appointed her guardian, together with another person. Upon the death of the father.of the young lady an application was made to the Court of Chancery to make her a ward of that Court, she being then only 18 years of age. While the matter was under consideration in that Court it appeared that the defendant induced her to go with him to Trinity Church, Diary lebone, where they were married, the banns having been previously published in that church. After the celebration of the marriage the parties separated, Esther Field going to her friends at Berkhampstead. Upon its becoming known that the marriage had taken place, an application was made to the Vice-Chancellor, who ordered the defendant to be committed for a contempt of the court in marrying a ward, and he was still in custody for that contempt. After this the matter was referred to the Attorney- General, upon the desire of the .Vice-Chancellor, and upon his certificate and with the approval of the Vice- Chancellor the present proceedings were instituted. The charge against the prisoner was brought for the purpose of evading any detection, and for the purpose of obtaining the celebration of the marriage. Ho made a false statement to the clergyman, to the effect that Esther Field was of full age ; that ,he (tho de fendant) resided at 31, Wimpole-street, and that Esther Field also resided in the same street, the fact being that Esther Field was then only IS years of age, and the defendant 52. aril that she resided at Tring, and not in Wimp, L.,:arLed Attorney-Geueral having further shortly retel red to the facts, stated that the present proceeding was the first step ill the natter, ictr tho plume of obtaining the dis- THE SUN, LONDON., THURSD ALT EVENING, MARC ti 2,184 S Italy," and represents the reforming Pontiff in the centre of a group of Italians. A cross is in the back ground : a broken manacle lies at the feet of Pius : a soldier stands on his left hand, and a woman on the other side is holding up her child to receive his benediction. Most of the names of the old and most valued contributors are still visible in the table of contents. We observe that one amongst them (Dr. Smiles) has just commenced a delightful series, called ,‘‘ The Poets of the People," beginning : with poor Robert Nicoll. THE BELLE ASSAMBLEE. Essays, stories, sonnets, stanzas, and fragments of every description both in prose and poetry, are here grouped together as usual, by the skilful hand of Ca milla Toulmin. The number is of average ability, and has a graceful but rather insipid beauty as its frontispiece. LITERATURE. 7'HE BACHELOR OF THE ALBANY. 1 Vol. By the Author of the "Falcon Family." A spurious style of composition has long been the principal characteristic of the novelists of both France and England. Since the departure of Sir Walter Scott in the one country, and the exclusive cultiva tion of his dramatic powers by Viscount Victor Hugo in the other, the writers of romantic fiction on both sides of the Channel (with a few illus trious exceptions) have become remarkable rather for exaggeration than truth, for sentimentality than pathos, for caricature than humour, for complication of plot, than for ingenuity of invention. They have frequently degenerated into fustian where they have aspired at eloquence, and have crowded their works with indecencies where they have aimed at originality. Balzac, it is true, has on several occa sions given superb evidences of genius; Marryatt has now and then evinced a delightful appreciation of the ridiculous (as in the famous triangular duel in " Midshipman Easy"); Dumas has, in numerous instances, such as in the opening chapters of his " Memoirs of a Physician," betrayed a marvellous fecundity of imagination; Ainsworth has at times surpassed most of his contemporaries in the vividness of his scenic descriptions (as in the noble account of the great storm of London, which forms the introduction to his " Jack Sheppard ") ; Sue has even at certain moments soared into the regions of the sublime (as where he tells of the sermon of Gabriele to the ruffians who burst into 4,4( . , cathedral, in the " Wandering Jew"); James has at intervals written with the pencil of a Salvator (as where he depicts the earthquake in " Atilla") ; other authors of a nearly equal popularity have, in like manner, emerged for an instant from their habitual mediocrity, or (what is worse), from their systematic viciousness—but on the whole they have not written in a manner worthy of them selves, of the age, or of literature. Amidst these prevailing blemishes there have been, nevertheless, as already observed, a few illustrious exceptions. The " Atala " of Chateaubriand, the " Picciola" of Saintine, the "Notre Dame de Paris" of Hugo, are among the most conspicuous of these exceptions in France. The books penned by Dickens, by Bulwer-Lytton, and by Warren, the " Sartor Re sartus" of Carlyle, " the Broad-stone of Honour" by Kenelm Digby, and the " Vivian Grey" of Dis raeli the younger, are certainly the most con spicuous of these exceptions in England. Otherwise the imaginative literature of both countries has been marred by the praise bestowed on charlatans — charlatans, whose wit has been nothing better than grotesque conceits, whose tenderness has been twa!dle, and whose favourite figure of rhetoric has been that of hyperbole. We do not, of course, pretend to have enumerated all the exceptions to this class, either in the publishing world of Paris or in that of London, but, in the names we have particu larized, we have certainly mentioned those most worthy of remembrance. Cotnp .red with the multitude of novelists who feud our library shelves, and keep our printing-presses in activity, those exceptions form but a select few. We are disposed, therefore, to welcome with double earnestness any young writer who may, to our thinking, give promise of proving an accession to the minority. Such a writer — a writer of this auspicious character, we recog nise in the author of " The Falcon Family ; or Toung Ireland." His new story—" The Bachelor of the Albany"—betrays qualities of an order dee serving very particular commemoration. Those who may have perused his preceding fiction, "Young Ireland," cannot altogether have forgotten the felicity with which, therein, the persons and passions of the day were woven into the texture of its plot; neither will they have entirely lost a recollection of the humorous air which pervades the volume, and especially the grotesque refrain of the dialogues— " Hurrah ! says Hurley O'Bwley." There is evi dence, however, of much larger capacity both as a novelist and a satirist in the twenty-seven chapters of " The Bachelor of the Albany." The purpose of the story is simple enough, namely, the conversion of a crusty old pragmatical bachelor (resident in the Albany) into a generous, cordial, sociable (and a rather delightful than otherwise) Benedict. As to the Albany, everybody, at all acquainted with that por tion of London situated west of Charing-cross, and east of Piccadilly, north of fall-mall, and south of Oxford-street, knows that it is s long avenue of very secluded apartments dedicated especially to bachelors upon town, younger sons who hive got into Parlia ment, and the like genus. As to the bachelor him self, he is one Mr. Peter Barker—the very best drawn character in the book—here is the calotype of his personal appearance : " Imagine a small, well-made msn, with a smart, com pact figure, excessively erect, his action somewhat mar tial, his eye grey, cold, peevish, critical, and contemptuous; a mouth small and sarcastic, a nose long and vulpine; complexion a pale dry red ; hai• stiff and silvery, and evidently under the severest discipline to which brush and comb could subject it, with a view to its impartial distribution on each side of a head, which was carried so high, and with such an air, that it was clear the organs of firmness, combativeness, and self-esteem, were su perbly developed. With the exception of a plain, but rich robe-de-chambre, his morning toilette was complete ; trousers of shepherd's plaid, seemingly made by a military tailor, and tightly strapped down over a pair of manifest Hoby's; a double breasted cashmere waistcoat, of what mercers call the shawl pattern; the shirt-collar severely starched, and a little too exalted above a cravat of dark blue silk, carefully folded, and tied with a simple, but an exact knot." As to the other personages who figure in the story, th© most genial are the Spreads and the most repul sive the Narrowsmiths. Mr. Spread, Augusta Spread, Elizabeth Spread, Mrs. Spread, and Philip Spread —that is the Spread family. Mr. Isaac Narrowsinith, Mrs. Narrowsmith, and Miss Maria Theresa Narrow smith —that is the Narrowsmith family. Among the minor personages are Grace Meddlicott (the heroine), who weds young Spread; the Smyly girls, Adelaide and Laura (afterwards Mrs. Peter Barker); good M rs . Briscoe and her fat maid Letty ; young Mr. St. Leger, who marries Adelaide Smyly; Mrs. Harry Farquhar, who is a decidedly fast lady ; Mrs. Martin, the governess of the young Spreads (Theodore, Ka tharine, and Maria) ; Dean Bedford, the jovial plu ralist, resident at Far Niente ; Mr. Owlet, a Puseyite, who inaries Elizabeth Spread; &c., &c. We may afford a better notion, however, of the many brilliant characteristics of the volume by giving, as quotations, the following—several of them are passages of exuberant wit. SOMETHING LIKE A PIE. I n the centre stood, or rather towered, a vast pie, which was surrounded with minor attractions, such as tongues, fowls, collars, and marmalades, just as a great planet is attended by a body-guard of satellites. Bat as Jupiter excels his moons, so did that pie surpass collars, fowls, and tongues in magnit u d e an d g l o ry. That was a pie indeed! — a subject for hymn and history, a pie to be held in such reverence as Mohammedans pay the Caaba, or Christians the chapel of Loretto. Evidently the pro duction of a great artist, a Palladio of pastry, or a Wren of cooks. It was more an Acr o p o li s or a tem pl e th an a pie, worthy of being served to a Lord Abbot, amidst anthems; not made to be opened with knife of Sheffield, but carved with blade of Toledo or Damascus. It might have been considered as a Poem, a composition of talent and turkeys, of genius and grouse. I n to such a pie was it that Bion, t h e philosopher, wished himself meta morphosed, that wisdom , in his f orm , m i g ht c apti 7 ate the sons of men. Stubbles had been thrashed, corers ransacked, woods depopulated, and preserves destroyed, to furnish forth its mighty concave. It was a pie urder whose dome you would have washed to live, or been eon• tent to die. Appetite grew by feeding on it; its very sight was better than to eat aught else eatable. It dilated the soul and exalted the character to be in the same room with so noble a creation of gastronomic mind." TIIE MIND of AN ?CP. " The minds of scholars are libraries ; those of those anti quaries, lumber-rooms ; of sportsmen, kennels ; those of epicures, larders and ce ll ars; b u t th e m i n d o f Upton was an office. It had been an attorney's office formerly ; it was a Parliamentary office now. His knowledge was of Hansa rd ; his reading of blue books ; his memory of Totes and standing orders. It was a pigeon -holed, alphabeted mind ; as full of bills and reports as the scrutoire of the Abbe de Sieyes was of constitutions. The common associations of Upton's ideas were of red tape, the finer ones of green ribbon." THE GIRTH or A PLURALIST DEAN. " When he first imparad ised himself at Richmond, he measured not more than a yard and a half in the girth, not by any means an u nreasonable circumference for an ecclesiastic of his rank and fortune; but a life of ease and itlxury, passed between the couch and the table, rapidly increased his bulk: at the end of the third year his tailor raised his prices; at the clo se o f th e fo u rth the buxom dignitary saw . 1,-, ! s knees f or th e l as t ti me; a nd ere a fifth had expired, it was a favourite frolic of his wife's merry nieces (the S . myly girls), to span him with their united arms ; and it was not with ou t c onsiderable effort—at least so they pretended —that the tips of their fingers were brought into contact." BARBERS PET WIND. " The north-easter was still blowing, parching the earth, and chilling the very souls of men. Spread could not help thinking, as he buttoned himself up to his throat, solution of a marriage which the defendant had con tracted with Esther Field for the purpose of obtaining her property. The clerk of Trinity Church, a person of the name of Speller, was then called for the purpose of proving the marriage and what had taken place at that ceremony, and the representations made by the defendant. Tho defendant had put up the banns, and after the marriage had taken place he stated, on being asked, that both parties were of full age, and that they both resided in Wimpole•street. The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who was the curate of Trinity Church, solemnized the marriage upon the 19th of June, 1847, between Samuel Brown, the prisoner, and Esther Field. Upon the question being put, both par ties stated they were of full age. Edward Whitby, who was in service in Wim pole street, and had been so for the last eight years, proved that the defendant had not resided at 31, Winspole- street for the last eight years, though he had sometimes called there. A person of the name of Lake, who resided at Leighton, knew the defendant Brown, who was residing, in June 1847, with his brother, at Tring, Saw the deffnelant in July last, who stated to him that, in consequence of Miss Field being under age, he had, with the advice of the clergyman, put up the banns, and had induced Miss field to believe that he had obtained a marriage license, for the purpose of their getting married. Mr. John Brown, the brother of the defendant, also proved that in June last, the defendant resided with him at Tring, and assisted him in his business. Miss Field also resided with him. Recollected Miss Field going to town early on the 19th of June, and his brother returning with her in the evening. Shortly after this she went to reside with a Mr. Smith. This was the case for the prosecution. Sir F. THEVIGER submitted to the Court that the prosecution had failed, and that there was no case to go to the jury. The Learned Counsel, after having at some length adverted to the provisions of the Act, con tended that the statements made by the defendant to the clergyman were not made, as alleged in the indict ment, for the purpose of the insertion in the registry, inasmuch as the insertion of them had been made by the clerk before the clergyman put the question; added to which the clerk had no right to put the questions he did, and the parties if they chose need not have answered them. He submitted, therefore, that the defendant could not be charged under the 41st sec tion with having made statements for the purpose of their insertion on the registry, and that such being the case the present prosecution had completely failed. Mr. BALLANTINE followed on the same side. The LORD CHIE! BARON thought there was a case to go to the jury. Sir F. THESIGER then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner. He thought the jury would agree with him that there could be no doubt that in all the trans actions that had taken place the lady was a free agent : it might certainly have been better that the lady should have married a person nearer her own age than the defendant, but that in the transaction she was a free agent there could be no doubt. He considered the pre sent prosecution as one of a most harsh description ; the defendant had already suffered sufficiently for what some might term his indiscretion ; he had been attached in the Court of Chancery for the mar riage of one of its wards without the leave of the Court, and he was now suffering imprisonmet for his contempt ; he thought that this was a sufficient punishment for him,;without this prosecution, which was being carried on against him in the most harsh manner. Added to this, it must be recollected that this young lady's property, she being a ward of the Court of Chancery, could not be touched by the defendant, unless he made such settlement upon her as the Lord Chancellor should think right. What, he would ask, was the source from which this prosecution emanated ? Did not the jury think that the origin of it was the disappointment of some individuals who were in hopes of obtaining this young lady's property? He thought that was apparent from the statement of his Learned Friend the Attorney-General, who at the outset of the case observed that the present proceeding was only the initiative of other proceedings to put an end to the mar riage. The Learned Counsel, after going at some length into the facts of the case, concluded by begging of the jury to weigh well before they pronounced their verdict, as it might involve the young lady herself, as well as the defendant, if they found him guilty, because she was as liable as him to have a charge like the present preferred against her. The LORD CLUE, BaJtosr summed up at some length. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of making a false statement to the clergyman. The LORD CHIEF BARON deferred passing sentence, and ordered the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, in whose custody the defendant was, to turn him over to the custody of Mr. Cope, in order to his being im prisoned in the gaol of Newgate until their Lordships should determine what sentence they should pass upon him. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir JAMES DUKE.) Francis Verinder, a labourer, was indicted with steal ing a gallon of rum, value 12s 6d., the property of Henry Hart. The charge against the prisoner having been clearly made out, the jury found a verdict of Guilty, and he was sentenced to one year's imprison ment. The following prisoners were also found guilty of the several charges with which they were indicted: — Robert Westgard, a labourer, for stealing a pair of pistols, value 21., the property of Sarah Blissctt, sentenced to three months' imprisonment; Richard Cordele, also a labourer, for stealing a block bill, belonging to John Kneenes, sentenced to 3 months' imprisonment; Catherine Kelly, a married woman, for stealing a waistcoat, .alue 2us., belonging to Thomas Speken, sentenced to be imprisoned for one month. THAMES.-(THIS DAY.) This morning information was given to this Court that Mr. Edward Hughes, a gentleman residing at No. 31, John-street, Commercial-road East, had been found dead in a cab, under very mysterious circumstances. It appeared that last night about eleven o'clock, a cabman wearing the badge 4,911, called the attention of Police-constable Curtis, No. 345 K, to a gentleman in his cab, which was then standing opposite the George Inn, and eaid his fare was either drunk or dead. The policeman looked in the cab and saw a well-dressed man in a state of insensibility. Curtis ordered the cabman to drive as speedily as possible to th© station house in Arbour• square, adjoining to this court, where it was ascertained the gentleman was quite dead. Dr. Falconer, of the Commercial-road, attended imme diately, and said the gentleman had only just expired. The cabman stated that he took up the gentleman at a house in York-terrace, Regent's Park, and a person who assisted him into his vehicle ordered him to drive to No. 31, John. street, Commercial-road. On arriving there he was unknown, and on speaking to his passen ger, discovered he was insensible. He then gave infor mation to the first police-constable he met with. It appears that the deceased actually resided at No. 31, Johnson-street, Commercial-road, and was formerly a clerk in a mercantile establishment. The body now lies in a cell in the station-house of this court, awaiting a coroner's inquest. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE BELL SCTIOLARSIIIPS. CAMBRIDGE. FEB. 29.—The Vice-Chancellor has given notice, that an election of two scholarships upon this foundation will take place on Friday, the 7th of April, 1848. That the members of any College (except King's Col lege and Trinity Hall), sons or orphans of clergymen, who were admitted between the commencements of 1846 and 1847, may be candidates. The candidates are required to signify their intention of offering themselves on or before Monday, the 13th of March, in a Latin epistle, to be presented to each of the electors, who are— The Vice Chancellor. Dr. 011ivant, Regius Professor of Divinity. Dr. Maine, Regius Professor of the Civil Law. Dr. King, Lucasian Professor. Mr. Field, Deputy Public Orator. The examination will commence on Monday, the 20th of March, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, in the Senate house. THE BURNEY PRIZE. The late Mr. Richard Burney, M.A., of Christ's Col lege, having signified his intention of founding an annual pride, not exceeding 1051., for the best English essay "on some moral or metaphysical subject, on the existence, nature and attributes of God, or on the truth and evi dence of the Christian religion," and his intention having been carried into effect by his sister and executrix Miss Jane Caroline Burney, the Vice-Chancellor has given notice, that the subject for the present year is, " The doctrine of a Divine Providence is inseparable from the belief in the existence of an absolutely perfect Creator." The candidates for the prize are to be Bachelors of Arts in their first year of standing; and the essays are to be sent in to the Vice-Chaccetior on or before the 12th of November, 1848, with the names of the respec tive authors sealed up. THE CHURCH, The Rev. Henry Owen, M.A. (B.A. 1817), of Mag dalen College, has been appointed by the Right llon. Lord Huntingfield, High Sheriff of Suffolk, to be his Lordship's chaplain. The Rev. Edward Cridgc, 8.A., of St. Peter's Col lege, has been appointed to the second mastership of Sir W. Paston's Gram►rar-school, North Walsham. The Rev. William Stow, B.A. (1846), St. Peter's College, has bees appointed domestic chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Argyle. PRINCESS'S TEMA TRE.—The following distin guished personages have visited this theatre during the last few days :—His Excellency the Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunnow, the Countess of Ellesmere and party, the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and party, his Excellery the Austrian Ambassador and party, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the American Minister, the Countess Dowager of Essex, the Marchioness of Downshire, the Lady Georgiana Fallarton and party, the Count Potocki, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Suffield, the Earl of Minister, the Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord Blantyre, Sir William and Lady Georgiana Codrington, Sir George Wombwell, Sir Henry Raiford, Sir Archi bald Macdonald, Lady Bulteel, Hon. Colonel Anson and party, &c. TIM LATE LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSETo--ahe mortal remains of this respected nobleman were con signed to their last resting place, in one of tho cata combs of Kensal-green Cemetery, on Tuesday fore noon. The solemn ceremony was attended by the Duke of Beaufort, the Marquis of Worcester, the Marquis of Clioiniclitiehy, the 1:w:1 of St. Germans, Sir Waltn Farquhar, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. Granville So merset (son to the deceased), Mr. Finch, M.P., the Hon. F. Uwe], 6r,c, THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. Several of the articles for March are very happily timed—not excepting the one on " Greenwich Time." Those, however, to which, without joking, we would make especial allusion, are, first, the on slaught upon the Apostle of Peace and Free-trade with all mankind, entitled (the paper, not the Apostle) " Mr. Cobden on the National Defences ;" secondly, the repetition of the same theme, with different argu ments, enforcing the exigency of the question in a perfectly different manner, being, in fact, " A Military Discussion touching our Coast Defences ;" thirdly, the political pasquinade upon the existing Government in the shape of a review of the Budget of Lord John Russell and Sir Charles Wood ; fourthly, a sparkling series of chapters on " Roteanisra in Rome," a series peculiarly appropriate now, when the liberal innovations of the illustrious Pius are attracting the eyes and the sympathy of all Christen dom to the inhabitants of the Eternal City ; fifthly, a sketch of Hudson's Bay, possessing an interest both geographical and commercial ; and, sixthly, an agreeable reminiscence headed "My Route into Canada," a subject especially worthy of considera tion just now, from its intimate relationship with our colonial embarrassments. In the ridicule which our venerable contemporary endeavours to cast upon Mr. Cobden, because, without exactly believing in our approximation to the Millennium, he neverthe less anticipates the ultimate pacification of the human race, Blackwood, we observe, does not forget a sly hit at what it calls sarcastically Mr. Cobden 's " elegant language." Does not Ebony —(as the Ettrick Shepherd, we think it was, used to christen our well-beloved Maga)—recollect that at the very last free-trade demonstration in Covent-garden Theatre, this same Mr. Cobden prophesied in this same language of elegance that before long the aris tocracy—the protectionist, monopolising, industry taxing aristocracy—would be " bamboozled." And does it not recollect that before long, nay, within a a very few weeks, the aristocracy were " bam boozled," by the introduction of Sir Robert Peel's great measure for the abolition of the corn laws, and its triumphant passage through the Upper House, under the particular guardianship of F. M. his Grace the Duke of Wellington ? The language may be very inelegant ; but, at the least, it is very potent into the bargain—at the least it is telling with the million— at the least it is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We do think that in stirring times like these it is injudicious to potter over the grammatical niceness befitting a legislator, and, when principles are at stake, to become sticklers for the dictionary. Mr. Cobden is not only the representa tive of the largest constituency in England, he is the representative of a vast majority of the thinking por tion of the population of the United Kingdom. We regret, therefore, that Blackwood should act towards Mr. Cobden as Sir Lucius O'Trigger acted to Mrs. Malaprop—cast reflections on his " parts of speech," on the " parts of speech" of one so remarkable for " the nice derangement of his epitaphs !" Incidentally another of the contributors to the March number makes reference to the miserable disposition of our naval armaments—one of the principal causes of our present insecurity as an insular and maritime power. The passage occurs in the clever biographic outline of the adventurous career of Sir Sydney Smith. The writer says— " We have now two fleets on service, one in the Tagus, and another at Malta ; but both are weak in point of numbers, though in a high state of equipment. A few rasee guardships are scattered round the coast. Some large steamers 'remain at Portsmouth and Plymouth ready for service; but, from all accounts, there is nothing of that active and vigorous preparation which ought to be the essential object of the country, while Franee is menacing us from day to day, while she has an immense naval conscription, is building powerful ships, is talking of invasion, and hates us with all the hatred of French men." The fact is happily expressed in this brief sentence. We are clamouring at once for a reduction in our expenditure, and for an extension of our defensive armaments on the sea—and yet we are winking at a system which squanders a splendid fleet in the vicinity of Lisbon, for the purpose of awing a nation into obedience to a Sovereign they despise, and of prevent ing two-thirds of the population of Portugal from fulfill ing their own wishes by re-elevating to the throne that Prince (Dom Miguel) whom they consider to be their best security for rational liberty and national happiness ! Another paragraph in the same article is worth extracting, if only as a foot-note to the famous simile of Mr. Canning : The unrivalled triumph of human invention is the instrument by which all those powerful qualities are brought into play : a ship of the line, with all its stores, its crew, and its guns on board, is the wonder of the world. What must be the dexterity of the arrangement by which a thousand men can be victualled, at the rate of three meals a clay, for four months; a thousand men housed, bedded, clothed, and accoutred; a battery of a hundred and twenty guns—the complement of an army of fifty thousand men, and two or three times the weight of field guns—fought; this mighty vessel navigated through every weather, and the profoundest practical science'applied to her management, through night and clay, for years together? No combination of human force and intellectual power can contest the palm with one of those floating castles, of all fortresses the most magnificent, the most effective, and the most astonishing." Altogether the contribution from which this is tran scribed is one of the most agreeable in the current number; it presents us with a rapid but tolerably complete epitome of the life and adventures of the distinguished sea-captain, Sir Sydney Smith. One blemish the article has, and a singular, unaccountable, preposterous one it is. The writer suddenly inter rupts the thread of his narrative to retail all over again the thrice three-hundred-thousand times told tale of Gustavus. Simply becanse that rash but heroic king had written an affectionate letter to Sir Sydney Smith, offering him a command in the Swedish service—off flies the imagination of the contributor at a tangent to the :masqued ball on the 16th of March, 1792, to the pistol of Ankerstrom, and to all the details of that dramatic assassination which the genius of Auber has associated with im perishable melodies. That Sir Sydney Smith was an adventurer of ecprit, daring, and perseverance, is suffi ciently shown by the astonishing raßidity of his rise in his profession —being first rated on the books of the Admiralty in June, 1777, obtaining his appointment as Lieutenant in 1779, and becoming a captain in the October of 17 82 , when only eighteen! With all this Sir. Sidney was incontestably mad—as mad (as the saying goes) as a March hare. Even Blackwood unwillingly acknowledges as much when the writer says that Sir Sidney " had his oddities and phantasies." His most brilliant feats were certainly his burning the French vessels in the harbour of Toulon, and his courageous defence of the fortifications of St. Jean d'Acre. There is visible in the contribution whick here recounts the incidents of his career a hatred of Napoleon almost as venomous as that of Walter Savage Landor, and almost as uncompromising as that of Nelson, who, in a letter, dated August, 20, 1799, speaks of the " army of French villains, headed by that arch-villian Bonaparte." Howbeit, as a biographic sketch the article is thoroughly good. " Crimes and Remarkable Trials in Scotland" forms one :of those odd and striking effusions which are always devoured with interest and avidity. Perhaps the only really light article in the magazine is the tale of the bivouac called " Intercepted Letters ;" it, however, is by no means too light, for it will be perused with irelish. If Blackwood has often been more witty and wise, it has seldom been more varied and appropriate. DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. A contribution called "Reformation not Tolera tion," and penned by Mr. Jerningham, is pithy and bitter. Very different, indeed, are " The Adventures of a Schoolboy," written, we conjecture, by one whose animal spirits are as restless and hilarious as those of Albert Smith. The general purpose of the series appears to have been suggested by Mr. Dickens' in imitable revelations of Dr. Blimber and his establish ment at Brighton. The " Lines," in answer to some verses of Mrs. Norton's on a Nun, are pretty—and nothing more. A continuation of a clever narrative, entitled " The Mixed Marriage," follows, and then comes a brief but capital " Apology for Pleasant Wine," which is inspired 'in some measure by the fervour of Anacreon. " The Union of Charity" is in parts almost too horrible ; and the very best contri bution in the March number is one on "The Spirit of Christian Art." It is the production of one who has descended in imagination, if not in body—reverently —into the catacombs. SHARPE'S LONDON MAGAZINE, After commencing the new year with singular ability as an illustrated periodical, Sharpe is be ginning to relax its energies, and to degenerate into a cheap publication, sprinkled (we cannot say " em bellished ") with very coarse and indifferent wood engravings. There is no abatement, however, in the excellence of the letter-press, and the editorial super vision seems to be continued with undiminished dili gence. CHAMBERS'S EDINBURG.H.JOURNAL, Amongst the cheap periodicals this still remains the foremost. Every article in the February part has been selected with discrimination. Some of the papers are peculiarly graceful, such, for instance, as " The Highway of Thought," or another headed " The Night Side of Nature." One of the most happily timed and interesting contributions is un questionably " The Memoir of the House of Roths child "—a history which forms a splendid illustration of the advantages of probity and industry. .--:-_-___ HOWITT'S JOURNAL. Scarcely anything can we say in commendation of the wood-cuts in Howitt's Journal during the past month. One of them has been happily conceived by the artist, but his idea has been wretchedly conveyed by the epgraver, It is called " The Awakening of of Barker's perverse fancy for the rascalliest wind that blows. Boreas is a ruffian and a bully, but the north east is a rascal. ./Eolus has not such a vicious, ill-con ditioned blast in his puffy bags. It withers like an evil eye ; it blights like a parent's curse ; unkinder than in gratitude; more biting than forgotten benefits. It comes with sickness on its wings, and rejoices only the doctor and the sexton. When Charon hoists a sail, it is the north-east that swells it; purveys for Famine and caters for Pestilence. From the savage realms of the Czar it comes with desolating sweep, laden with moans from Si berian mines, and sounding like echoes of the knout; but not a fragrant breath brings it from all the rosaries of Persia, so destitute is it of grace and charity. While it reigns, no fire heats, no raiment comforts, no wails pro tect,—cold without bracing, scorching without warmth. It deflowers the earth, and it wans the sky. The ghast liest of hues overspreads the face of things, and collapsing Nature seems expiring of cholera." AN ENGLISH bILECHANT. " Mr. Spread was one of the freshest and handsomest men of fifty its England. His complexion was florid, his nose aquiline, his chin double, nay, triple; a perpetual pleasantry seemed to be playing about his mouth, and he had that kind of an eye that seems to be always looking out for somebody to do a service to, or something to say a gay or good-natured thing of. In person, he was of considerable volume, but the protuberance was not a parte ante, as in the aldermanic and episcopal con formations; he carried his head erect, and at the same time somewhat advanced, so that his figure had a slight resemblance to a crescent, with the convexity behind, and this perhaps was the reason that he began to carry a cane long before his limbs were conscious of any diminution of their vigour and elasticity. •The manners of Mr. Spread were a little formal, slightly Grandisonian and Sir Rog,erish. For a moment you thought him pompous, hut directly he smiled or talked, the amenity of his eye, or the hilarity of his voice, entirely removed the impres sion. He dressed well, with a tendency to the fashions gone by, rather than to the modes of the day. For instance, he always appeared in a white cravat, and never wore a frock -coat, or carried his watch in his waistcoat pocket. To these few personal details we have only to add that he was short-sighted, and wore a ponderous double eye-glass, resolvable into a pair of spectacles, and pendant from his neck by a gold chain of corresponding massiveness. " Mr. Spread was the model of a man of business; activity without bustle, dispatch without hurry, form without punctilio, order without rigidness, dexterity without craft, vigilance without suspicion. Business inundated without overwhelming him, and care neither corroded his mind, nor sat on his brow. It was wonder ' tul with what perfect serenity and ease he managed the multiplicity of affairs, private and public, in which he either was involved of necessity, or spontaneously engaged himself. lie felt as every man ought to feel, that he had duties outside his counting-house, and obligations to society, as well as to his wife and children. lie never shrank from any of the responsibilities of life; he was a magistrate, a juror, an elector, and at one time had, at a great personal inconvenience, even consented to go into Parliament, because the constituency of a large manufacturing town insisted upon having him to repre sent them, and his refusal to gratify their wishes would have endangered the success of the liberal interest. Then, if a relation or an old school-fellow desired to name him his executor, or was anxious that, after his decease, Mr. Spread should be the legal guardian, as well as the hereditary friend of his children, to refuse to act in either capacity would have been utterly foreign to his character. Nor was this all; he was (perhaps Mrs. Spread had helped to make him so), a lover of literature and art, for ever ready to aid with his purse, and, what was to him still more valuable, his time, in the establish ment or direction of any society or institution calculated to advance science, or diffuse exalted tastes and sterling information through the country. Of giving his coun tenance to benevolent undertakings, he was more chary; he hated the false philanthropy that creates distress with one hand, while it relieves it with the other; he objected to paying Paul out of the robbery of Peter; held that there was no more difficult problem than to help the poor without sowing the seeds of pauperism; but of all things what he most deprecated in disposing of the funds at our command for charitable uses, was their investment in sentimental speculations or romantic schemes, to make bad Christians of gipsies or Jews, confer the blessings of episcopacy upon the South Sea islanders, or discover the lost tribes of Israel in the tents or the Calinuck Tartars. He thought that there was ignorance and irreligion enough at our owa doors, to employ both our purses and our piety ; and that the home department in England and Ireland ought to be tolerably well administered, both in civil and ecclesiastical affairs, before it could be our duty to interfere either in the secular or the spiritual concerns of Madagascar or Otaheite." When depicting the timidity and lowliness of Grace, the author says, " She looked like a poor girl found guilty of the crime of poverty and sentenced to shirt making for life, a seven years' term, at most, of neces sity and needlework." In another chapter he observes, that " to combine the lot of poverty with the state of enjoyment, is as difficult a problem as to square the circle or ascertain the longitude at sea." In a de scription (a capital description by the way) of the sitting-room at the Spreads there occurs this sen tence :—" You sometimes desired to have the Riot Act read to disperse a little monster meeting of stools, and now and then wished a devotion chair at the deuce." Christmas, again, he mentions as a season when " the ivy and miseltoe have superseded the birch." Of Mrs. harry Farquhar he says, " she had a pert, expert, and malapert tongue, that could libel or scold one in a leash of languages." Several of the conceits and incidents in the volume verge beyond the limits of extravagance, but altogether the " Bachelor of the Albany" is a genuine book, a bank redolent of the humour, the domesticity, and the sarcastic suavity of England. THE PEASANT AND HIS LANDLORD. Translated from the Swedish, by Mary Howitt. 3 Vols. If we are not mistaken it is to Mary Howitt that we were indebted for our first introduction to the literature of the North. It was she who, by her admirable translations of the admirable works of Frederika Bremer and Christian Andersen, first made English readers acquainted with the attractive nature of northern fictions, and the high merit of Danish and Swedish novelists. The names and writings of Miss Bremer and Christian Andersen are now familiar to us as those of our native authors, and the ',domestic narratives and fanciful imaginings of Sweden and Denmark are almost as well known in England as are the brilliant romans of Paris, or the mysterious legends of Germany. And this is ,a fact in which we heartily rejoice, not only becouse we hail with pleasure every event which facilitates inter national intercourse ; but also because the light lite rature of the North, judging from the specimens we have met with, seem to be generally pervaded by a healthy and lofty spirit, and forms a strong and fa vourable contrast to some of the recent fictions of other nations. The translation of " The Peasant and his Landlord" introduces to us an authoress as yet unknown in this country— the Baroness Knorring, who Mrs. Howitt assures us is quali fied to take a place beside Miss Bremer and Andersen. After reading the " Peasant and his Landlord," there are few who will dissent from this assertion. Of a place beside the authors of " Home " and " The Improvisatore," Baroness Knorring is most assuredly right worthy—her place would perhaps be between them, for in some respects she resembles both the one and the other, while,in very many she surpasses both. Miss Bremer chiefly excells in the vraisentblance of her portraiture. Her "interiors" have all an air of reality and her various characters a strongly marked individuality. This is effected not only by a truthfulness of conception in the first instance, but by a minute attention to details in the filling up, like the thousand touches a careful artist may bestow upon an apparently finished picture, invisible in themselves, but most visible in their effect. Andersen, on the contrary, though he has given us some accurate sketches of Danish life, is generally remarkable for the playful vagaries of his fancy, and the poetic flights of an imagination which can invest the meanest object with a beautiful ideality. Madame Knorring, in a certain degree, combines both these attractive characteristics ; her domestic scenes and incidents are invested with as complete an air of actuality as any of those detailed to us in the " Home," while her pages abound with as much true poetry as may be met with in the " Poet's Bazaar." The theme of this tale, "The Peasant and his Landlord," is a somewhat novel one. It is essentially a tale of peasant life, its heroes and heroines are all of the lower orders ; but it is a tale very different from ordinary peasant histories, and its humble dramatis persona are depicted in a manner very different from that in which such classes are usually described. Madame Knorring tells us in her introduc tion that she has passed nearly all her life amid rural scenes, and has consequently had a constant oppor tunity of marking the various peculiarities of peasant life and peasant character. And these peculiarities she affirms are very striking ones, she finds fault, and very justly, with the generality of authors who, in speaking of the poorer classes dilate chiefly upon their poverty, and seem to bring them forward merely for the sake of contrasting their condition with that of their richer brethren. Madame Knorring, how ever, regards them as a class per se, interesting ill themselves without regard to their relation to others. The author of the "Princess" has solved the difficult questions regarding the superior rights of men and women, by declaring that " woman is not U of The man, but diverrse," and in like manner , the aut horess Peasant and his Landlord," without entering into political dissertations on the rights of man, seems to look on the two great divisions of rich and poor not as upper and lower orders, but as different ranks, equally important and worthy of interest in their different ways. Taking a group of peasants for her heroes, and, their passions and sufferings for her theme, she pourtrays to us as lofty sentiments, as tender and pure affections, as noble self-sacrifice, and as un affected devotion, as if her characters had been taken from among the educated and refined,or her plot selected from the records of ancient chivalry ; and in so doing she has not been led away by a warm imagination, she has consulted the observations of experience. She assures us that among the unlettered and igno rant peasantry by whom she is constantly sur rounded she has remarked the existence of many most striking qualities, and the frequent exercise of acts of " Roman " chivalry and devotion. Her peasant tale has then the great merit of being truth ful, and the equal attraction, to novel readers at least, of relating to a theme as yet fresh and un hacknied. As regards the subject of the tale itself, we must confess that, at first, we viewed it with little satisfaction. When we found that the chief interest of the plot turned upon its hero's affection for the sister of his wife, we were in clined to forget all the attractions of its style and sentiments, and condemn a work which related to a theme so repugnant to our tastes and feelings. But after concluding the last volume (although we still find fault with the authoress for choosing such a sub ject for her story) we must own that our disagreeable anticipations were far from being realised. The general tenor of the work is not only strictly moral, but most ennobling. The character of Gunnor, the peasant hero, is one which could only find a parallel among the most virtuous of heroes, and most heroic of martyrs, while Ellin, the sister of his wife, and the object of his unhappy lore, seems to be a combination of all that is most holy and enthusiastic in the saint, and all that is most tender and devoted in the woman. Some of her feelings and actions are most heartily and naturally pourtrayed. In the closing scene, for example, where she learns that Gunnor, her lover, has committed a crime for which another is condemned to die, and she—she who loves him—moved by the very strength of her affection, loving his eternal better than his earthly welfare, bids him go and die in that other's stead ; but yet, when he obeys and leaves her, all the woman revives in her heart—she calls vainly upon him to return, and gives way to the most terrible The whole narrative is full of interest, and the character of Ellin is delicately and beautifully pour trayed. Madame Knorring will, without doubt, be come a favourite with English readers. Her very felicitous translation of this beautiful work, and introduction of this gifted authoress, adds to the many obligations which have been conferred on the reading public by Mrs. Howitt. DUTY OF THE ARISTOCRACY. " He ruleth in the heavens above, and among the in habitants of the earth beneath." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Srn,—These are not moments to occupy your pages with unnecessary words. 'Tis one great idea alone that I want to inscribe. All are struck with the fact that the late great events in Italy, Switzer land, Naples, France, have been marvellously accom plished by an almost unseen hand ; that all human, natural, intermediate causes are lost in the gigantic, instantaneous, omnipotent results ; and that the whole has been one great moral advance. What voice then has gone out throughout the world ; and what does it proclaim ? That the time is come, whether men like it or not, that whatever is not based on MORAL JUSTICE will be swept away. That no schemes of legislation can prolong it when Heaven has doomed it ; that not even the roar of cannon can drown the whisper of truth. That "every man's work shall be be tried of what sort it is," and the wood, hay, and stubble of nations shall be cast into the fire. That the time is come when political expediency, diplomatic proprieties, State justice, statute right, and the morality of nececessity and convenience will deceive men no longer, or, if they deceive men, will no longer be tolerated by God. What lesson then ought our legislators and aristocracy to learn ? Shall the ark be delayed when the rain is already descending ? Pray, Mr. Editor, apply the above idea in your own more able manner.-1 am Sir, yours, Cheltenham, March 1, 1845. DALETH. THE INCOME-TAX. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The great injustice of the income-tax will, I hope, be considered sufficient apology for troubling you with the following statement of the operation of ,he law as it affects me:— have for many years held an appointment as chie clerk in a public establishment. My income is 2501. per annum, out of which sum I have six children of my own to maintain, educate, and provide for, in addition to which I have three orphan relatives, left in a state of destitution, who look to me for succour and partial support, and who, when houseless and friendless, found an asylum under my roof, and still continue to be a heavy charge upon my income. When the income-tax was first imposed I felt it to be a heavy burden, requiring the greatest economy to meet, but relying on Sir Robert Peel's statement that it was for three years only, I did not complain. It was re-imposed for three years more, yet it was borne in silence ; but now that it is proposed to perpetuate the tax and increase the amount, I am constrained to pour forth the voice of complaint and discontent. The annually increasing cost of educating my children so greatly diminishes my resources, that I have but little left for other purposes ; yet the Prime Minister of England stands forth prepared (if Par liament will allow) to charge me 121. 10s. per annum asa tax upon my income, whereas the self-same Minister, when on the Opposition benches, declared in Parliament that the income-tax ought not to be exacted from income derived from industry, and that real:estate ought:no longer to be exempt from pay ment of its proper share of legacy and probate duty. In common with the class to which I belong, I am firmly attached to the Throne and Constitution, and am williag cheerfully to pay my fair proportion of the required revenue; but I cannot feel that that law is just which charges upon my industry the same sum per cent. as upon land or accumulated property. Should the proposition pass into law (which God forbid !} it will place me in a position the most pain.. ful to be conceived. I have a policy/of assurance on my life, upon which I have for several years paid 211. 10s. per annum, to secure for my family 1,0001. at my death. I have also an orphan girl dependent entirely upon me, a relative whom I once knew pos sessed of parents and a happy home, but now bereaved and forlorn, but dear to me—yes, most dear to me, because she is forlorn. If the tax collector, armed with the authority of law, shall demand of me annually the payment of 12/. 10s. as the tax upon my income, what can I do, to what resource can I fly ? Am I to allow one or more of my children to go uneducated, my policy of assur ance to be forfeited, or what is more painful still, am I to thrust forth from my house a poor orphan girl, to be a wretched outcast or become a pauper in a union house ? Away, away, with the idea. The orphan girl shall still find a friend, s he shall still share my home ; and my children, so far as I can secure it, shall be educated : but what must become of my policy of assurance, the only provision for my dear wife and children I have it in my power to make ? Sad thought, painful indeed the alternative, the policy must be forfeited. Should this statement meet the eye of any Member of Parliament, let him endeavour to realise my posi tion, let him imagine what my feelings must be when I look upon my family, and reflect that at my death— it may be even before another year shall have passed away—my wife may be a widow, my children fatherless, without a penny in the world, dependent upon the :cold hand of charity—when but for the passing into law of a measure, admitted by its propounders to be most unjust, my widow would have become possessed of a thousand pounds, and my family been preserved from poverty and pauperism. Let it not be said that mine is an isolated case—the exception and not the rule. Look, I say, to all classes of professional men, and you will find the sum exacted as the tax upon their income must in almost every case render them unable to make ade quate provision for their famili es at their death. I trust these observations may be read by some of the many honest and good men having seats in Par liament ; if so, let me entreat, supplicate, implore them to use every effort to reject the measure, which must, from its glaring injustice, cause great dis content, and array class against class. It may be necessary to increase the army, navy, and ordnance; it may also be necessary to erect fortifications o n our coast ; but I humbly submit that nothing is more necessary, more important, more conducive__ to the peace and well-being of the empire, than that the Parliament should en act [ri g hteous and just laws, that shall command the respect and willing obedience of the people. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. W. W. Southampton, Fe b. 24, 1848. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Seeing:the:interest you have taken in the op• position to the Government plan of increasing the income-tax, and having given us daily information of the general feeling of the country, I beg to ac g: - ua , it you with the sentiments evinced in this bo rough on the subject. As soon as the daily press furnished us with !the budget of Lord John Russell, nothing could exceed the universal disgust, indignation, and astonishment which it excited from persons of every shade of po litics, but more particularly from those who were well disposed to the present Administration, believing as they now do that he has deceived and betrayed them. Accordingly, a public meeting of the inhabitants was convened on Friday evening last, and a nume rous attendance took place, when a petition against the measure was resolved on, which, in the course of the same evening and a part of the next day, received the signatures of the principal inhabitants. It was then forwarded to the Honourable Colonel Boyle, Member for the borough, for presentation. —I remain, Sir, yours faithfully, A CONSTANT READER. From, Feb. 26, 1848. GLASGOW COTTON M A RKET.—In the early part of the week, on account of the slightness of the demand, it was necessary to reduce prices about id. per lb., and since, even at the reduction, the business done has been ve ry unsatisfactory ,-scotch Reorrners Gazette. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LIVEIIPOOL NATIONAL STEEPLECHASES. WEDNESDAY. Fifty Sovs., given by the Earl of Sefton to a Sweep stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft; three yrs old, 6st 71b; four, Bst 31b ; five, Bst 10lb ; six and aged, 9st. The second to save his stake. One mile. (10 Subs.) Mr. M. Dawson's br c Liston, 3 yrs ... (J. Hay) I Lord Chesterfield's b h Sampson, 3 yrs ... 2 Mr. Pedley's b g Administrator, 4 yrs ... ••• 3 The Grand National Handicap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, with 100 added. Captain Little's br g Chandler, list 121 b (Owner) 1 Mr. Brettle's ch g The Curate, list 121 b (T. Oliver) 2 The following also started, but were not placed:. Mr. R. E. Warburton na The British Yeoman, 11st 411 Mr. Storey na Standard Guard, lOst 121 b (Taylor' Mr. R. H. Jones's b g Wolverhampton (Brotherton Mr. W. Strickland na b g Saucepan ... (T. Abbot' Mr. Courtnay's br g Mathew ... (Wynn' Mr. Moseley's br g Jerry ... (Saunders' Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Father Mathew (h b)... Mr. 0. Higgins's b g Pioneer ... (Captain W. Peel' Lord Strathmore's ch c The Switcher ... (Owner' Mr. J. W. Hawarth's ch m Ashbury Lass (Collis' Mr. Davies na ch g Cheroot (M'Ghee' Mr. G. Brettle's b g Aristides ... (Mr. Rowlands: Mr. Barry's hr h Sir Arthur ... (Murphy, Mr. F. Wilson's h Khondooz ... (H. Rackley; Sir R. De Burgh's bin Sophia ... (Ford: Mr. Arthur na b h The Irish Bard ... (Frize) Mr. C. C. Brooke's ch g Eagle ... ...(j. Broome) Mr. T. Harrison na Pioneer, by Pioneer (h b) (Neale) Mr. J. H. Burke's b g Pieton (h b) (Burke) Mr. W. 11. Court's ch c Counsellor ... (Frisby) Mr. Kennedy's ch g Fortune-teller (Stagg: Mr. Mason's ch g The Sailor, 6 yrs (Holman: Lord Anson na ro m The Gipsy Queen (W. Whitfield; Mr. C. Townley na b m Variety ... (Powell: Mr. E. Carey's Blue ... (Allansby: Mr. R. Brooke na Sparta... ... (Turner' Lord Strathmore's Naworth ..• (W. Archer; The Spring Cap of 1001., added to a handicap of 15 1 each, 10 ft, 5 ft, &c. One mile and a half. Mr. M. Blake's Ballinafad, 4 yrs, ist 71b (Murphy) 1 Lord Chesterfield's Lady Lurewell, 4 yrs, 7st llb ... 2 The following also ran:—King Fisher, 6 yrs, Bst 71b —Spectator, aged, 7st 121b—Sir Martin, 4 yrs, 7st lib-- Brown Fly, 5 yrs, Est 101b—Diphthong, 4 yrs, 6st 91b, and Liston, 3 yrs, Est 31b. Won by a length; King Fisher a good third. ATERLOO COURSING MEETING.—TuEsDAY• The Waterloo Cup. Mr. Webb's Flirt beat Mr. J. Blackburne's Blueskin Mr. Hope's May Queen beat Mr. Deakin's Distiller Mr. J. Robinson's Miller beat Mr. Webb's Havoc Mr. Bake ! na General Chasse beat Mr. A. Graham's British Lion Mr. Jepson na Merry Lad beat Lord Sefton's Senate Sir St. :George Gore's Shado beat Mr. Edleston's Tiny Trip Mr. Rushton 's Shadow beat Mr. Samuel's Sea Serpent Mr. Slater's Moselle beat Mr. S. Hind's Chester Mr. Ridgway's Comus beat Mr. Jebb's Mediocrity Mr. Taylor's Rufus beat Mr. Sutcliffe's Bendigo Mr. B. B. Robinson's Smut beat Sir J. Boswell's Jasper Mr. P. Taylor's Kite beat Mr. Temple's Tricksy Sir J. Boswell's Vraye Foy beat Mr. Sampson's Clown Mr. Corbet's Clarion beat Mr. Cruso's Cricket Mr. Douglas's Calum Darrig beat Mr. Barnet's Fireaway Mr. Sutcliffe's Bellona beat Mr. Craven's Cadmus First Ties. Flirt beat May Queen General beat Miller Shade beat Merry Lad Shadow beat Moselle Rufus boat Comus Smut beat Kite Vraye Foy beat Clarion Belions beat Callum Darrig The Waterloo Purse. Mr. Jebb's Sidrophel beat Mr. Douglas's Tariff Mr. Ridgway's Rose Cheri beat Mr. Deakin's Major Mr. Webb's Hylas beat Mr. J. Cruso's Craft Mr. A. Graham's Credit beat Mr. Jepson's Princess Mr. J. Robinson's Bugle beat Mr. Slater na Harriet Mr. Edleston's Beauty beat Mr. Sampson's Black Sarah Mr. B. B. Robinson's Sybil beat Sir J. Boswell's Pestal Mr. Temple's Tom Bowling beat Mr. Bake na Nimble. The Marchioness of Douglas arrived at the Duke of Hamilton's mansion, in Portman-square, last evening, from Arley-house, near Nantwich. The Earl of Auckland, First Lord of the Admi ralty, received at dinner last evening, at his official re sidence in the Admiralty, the Earl and Countess Grey, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, &c. Viscountess Dungannon and the Misses D'Arcy Irvine have left Grafton-street, for Brinkinhalt, Den- bighshire. Lord Brougham, according to letters received yes terday at the Noble and Learned Lord's residence, in Grafton-street, intended to leave his chateau, near Cannes, early in the present week, for London. Lord Foley, Captain of the Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms, received at dinner last evening, at his mansion, in Grosvenor•square, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl Spencer, Viscount Canterbury, the Duchess Dow ager of Bedford and Lady Rachael Russell, Viscount Goderich, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Cadogan, Mr. Matthew Wyatt, her Majesty's Lieutenant of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemenat-Arms, enter tained the Officers and Gentlemen of the Corps, at dinner yesterday, at his mansion in Hyde Park -square. THE REPRESENTATION OF YARMOUTH.—Two can didates are in the field soliciting the suffrages of the electors—Mr. Goldsmid, a Liberal, and Mr. Lacon, a Tory banker. The local paper says, "It is very doubtful in well-informed circles, whether Yarmouth will have two Members when the freemen are disfranchised." REFORM THE TAXES.—Our Liverpool correspon dent says, " A petition is being got up here praying the Legislature to rednce the income-tax to 2i per cent., to levy a to x of 4 per cent. on real property for twelve months, and to impose a probate and property tax." FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE CASHEL RAILWAY.--- A melancholy accident occurred on Sunday between Ballybrophy and Knocknahaugh. In the latter place an immense abyss has for some months baffled the utmost efforts of the engineers, and the labourers are employed every day in the week in an attempt to fill it up. A number of " lorreys," or timber warns, were on the rail yesterday, and the timber being unfastened, the beams upset, and two brothers, who had been sitting on them, were cast with terrific force upon the line and instantly killed. THE MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.—The total num ber of the establishment of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery during the year 1847, is stated to have been 10,281, being 1,220 beyond the strength of those services in the year 1846. It was the largest establishment of artillery in this country since the year 1829, when the number was only 7,015. The total number of the establishment of the corps of Royal En gineers and Royal Sappers and Miners in 1847, is stated to have been 1,798, being an increase of 500 over the numerical strength of the same force in 1846. CUSTOMS.—Mr. H. H. Sutton, searcher of the senior class at the port of Liverpool, has been appointed to the situation of landing surveyor at that port, ren dered vacant by the nomination of Mr. W. Barber to a landing surveyorship at the port of London. THE NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.—The amount of all sums annually paid from July 1, 1843, to July 1, 1847, under the Order in Council of June 1843, creating a re tired list and increasing the half-pay ls. a day to part of the Paymasters and Pursers, is officially stated to have amounted in the aggregate to 25,3031. 12s. 3d.1 The aggregate amount of all sums that have been annually paid under the Order in Council of April, 1834, for increasing the half-pay of the Paymasters and Pursers Is. a day from July 1, 1836, to June, 1847, is stated at 73,0761. 13s. 6d. A BURGLARY PRITENTED BY A. DOG.--A young fellow, named Charles Foley, who is already well known to the police, was on Monday brought up at the Borough Court, charged under the following sin gular circumstances :—About half-past one o'clock on Sunday morning, Mr. Jones, ta ilor and draper, of Lower Mosley-street, was awoke by the loud and furious barking of a dog which he keeps inside his house, when, suspecting that thieves were about the premises, he got up hurriedly and dressed himself , and proceeded to call up his apprentice. Arming himself with a stout stick and a watchman's rattle, he then proceeded to examine his premises, when, satisfied by the continued barking of his dog that some one was concealed about the place, he sprang his rattle for a policeman. This signal, it is almost unnecessary to state, soon brought him the aid of a constable, when it was discovered that the iron grid leading (into the cellar had been forced, and an entrance thus gained into the house. On visiting the cellar the supposition proved true, for there, sure enough, lay ensconced the prisoner, look ing about as cheerful as can well be imagined on find ing the sort of trap he had fallen into. He was of course taken in charge by the obliging policeman, who gratuitously provided him with lodgings ; and, being unable on Monday to persuade Mr. Maude that he had been drunk and had tumbled into the cellar, he was com mitted for trial at the assizes.—Mancliester Courier. BANK ROBBERY AT WORTHING.—Between Sa turday evening and Monday morning the premises of the Worthing branch of the Joint Stock Company's Bank were entered (by means of skeleton keys, it is supposed) by thieves, who carried off fourteen 10/. and fifty-six SI. notes, besides gold and silver, to the amount altogether of between 600/. and 7001. Several trifling articles were also taken, and a ledger weighing about 251bs. It seems probable that this might have been taken on the supposition that it contained the numbers of the notes, and that all clue to them would be thus removed. The number, however, of every note is known and has already been made public. The person who has charge of the premises, whose name is Philips, and who lives within two or three doors of the bank, went to the premises as usual on Monday morning, and found everything externally in the same state as when he left on Saturday even ing. Ho proceeded t o open the large iron chest which contains the safe, Sze., and is fastened with a very strong padlock. This he also opened without per ceiving any difference ; but when he endeavoured to open the safe, he found the key would not go in. He gave the lock a shake, and it fell off. He then discovered that all the money had been taken as well as the ledger. Two men were seen by two or three persons coming out of the bank on Sunday evening between seven and eight o'clock; one is described as a tall man dressed in a light coat, and the other rather short. Jenkins, our head-constable, is gone to London to communicate with the police ; and at present all is mystery.—Brighton Guardian. QWEENBOBOUGH.—The monotony and quiet of this little town is about to be agreeably broken by the intro duction of soldiers into it. A large house, formerly the residence of G. Baker, Esq., but which has been unoc cupied many years, has been taken by the Government and converted into barracks for the reception of fifty men, who are expected here in a few days. A barge load of barrack stores was unloaded hero on Wednesday last, and deposited in the above-named building.— Kentish (Aserver. I OVE . t- - A' ~~ ~al l . ~ti~