The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-20 00:00:00

W%14. TriE SITN, hAILSEIAM, J LILY 19.—Our maraei was steady to-day, and prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s 6d to 4s 2d; Mutton. 4s 2d to Gs; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6d; Veal,; 3s 8d to 4s ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 4d pe03110.; AP.UNDEL, Juts .18.—We 41,..)s*Oailyinquiry to day, on the following terms,,:.--tneef, from 3s 6d to 4s ; Mutton, 4s to ss;• Lamb,- ; Gs to Gs Gd; Veil', 3s 8d to 4s 2d per Sibs. CnicitxrrEtti Jidt.r 19.--There was a good - supply of stock this day, asvel:More. business was done thatvlakt market. Beef, ffom.3s, 8d to .45 6d; Mutton t; 4, ="2d to Sa_; Lamb, 55.4 d to 5s 8d; and Veal , 45 61 to - ii 3d per Sibs. Sucking Calves, 12s to 29 1 .1 0 4,0 7 8iorePigs, 14s to 20s each. COAL SA.ItitT.—YESTERrIAY. Bates West HalleP..i4s Od Killingworth l4s Od Huddle's W. kratrady l :: 14s 6dlEden Main lss 3d Davison'sWeialartley 14s 6dßelmout lss 3d Zest Adairs Main..... 128 Odi Bell 16s 3d Hosting's Hartley l4s Od,Haswell 16s Od Bolywell Main ... l 4s 3d iletton .... New Tanfield ............ 1 2 s 6 d Lambt o n North Percy Hartley.. 14s Od Russell's Hetton 15s 3(1 .....• 1 5 s 6 d Ord's' Redheugh Tanfi e ld Moor .... Tanfield Moor Butes l2s Gd Caradot Townlev l3s 6d Menet Hall ........... 143,6(1 Wall's End, &c ielloe ........... •.......•. 14s 9d Acorn Close Hedworth B ar t on Hotspur Hilda l3s 91 Ships at market...B7. COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. (THIS DAY.) - The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission held a Court of Sewers this morning; Lord Ebrington in the chair. The construction of several works were ordered to be commenced. Summonses were ordered to be issued against 2,040 defaulters in the Tower Hamlets district. It was stated that these defaulters laboured under the delusion that they were not bound to pay the rates. Mr. CHADWICK said he hnd been in communication with a committee of the Corporation of the ci'y of London, relative to their joining the Commissioners, in carrying out the ordnance survey in the City, as well as in other parts of the metropolis. The district under the contra of the Corporation would form about one tenth of the entire an-a included in the survey, and the additional expense of taking in the City would be about 4501. The committee had promised to communicate to the Corporation the information he bad furnished to them oil the subject. Mr. LAMBERT Rads said the matter was now under the consideration of the Corporation, who, he bad no doubt, - would be quite willing to co-operate with the Corn missioners. Thomas Mitchell was fined 501. for the erection of a sewer in Beresford-street, Walworth. Thothas Morris was tined 40s. for constructing an irre gular drain in Pomery-street, Kent-road. The Court then adjourned till the 10th of August. BUILDING BENEVOLENT INSTI- TUTI ON. Yesterday the friends and patrons of this infant institution celebrated its establishment by a public festival, at the Freemasons"ravern, Great Queen street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, when upwards of 150 gentlemen, prominently connected with the build ing profession, sat down to dinner. The wines and viands were of the choicest description, and did great credit to the spirited proprietors of the tavern, who spared no exertion to entitle them to the future favours of the society. The chair was occupied by Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. Mr. Harker acted as toastmaster, and a corps of accomplished vocalists, under. the superintendence of Mr. Hatton, added con aiderably.to the entertainments of the evening. The cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts given and responded to with marked enthusiasm, The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening, "Pros , perb , to the Builders' Benevolent Institu tion.', reproached the builders as a body with baying ,so long delayed' the establishment of an institution like that which they were then assembled to consummate, but hoped they would redouble their exertions so as to make up for the time which they had so scandalously lost..(Hear, hear.) He was glad to find that, notwithstanding the greet duties of the past year, the contribution in aid of the funds of the society were most munificent.—(Cheers.) The tout was then drank With great applause. "Mr. Bums (president of the society) next ad- draped the meeting. Re entered at great length on the objects of the institution, explaining that it was established for the purpose of aiding the aged and decayed Members of the building profession, and although it had only been mooted last year, yet they had already. met with an amount of suc cess almost uprecedented in the history of charitable institutions. For this success they were mainly indebted to the Noble Lord in the chair and the other Members for Middlesex and the metropolitan boroughs, who her given them every assistance in their . power.--(Cheers.) They had been liberally responded to by, the surveyors and official referees, and in fact by. every class in the community on 'Whom they, bad any claim.—(Cheers.) Mr. Biers, then read .a number of letters of apology, and, amongst -others, from Lord Dudley Stuart, Earl -- Grosvenor, Lord Morpeth, - Mr. Osborne, Colonel . Wood; &c. That from Lord Morpeth enclosed 10/. 'He next proceeded to read the list of subscriptions and donations, which included 20/. from the Noble Chairman; and 201. from the Marquis of Westminster, and amounted to upwards of 1,000/. The health of the Chairman, of Mr. Biers, the President, and various other toasts were given .and responded to during the evening, which was one of unalloyed enjoyment.- STATE OF TRADE. AIANCIIESTEL—Daring the last two days there has been a good demand for Italy, the Levant, and Alexico, with a decidedly increasing desire on the part of the German merchants to purchase yarn, and prices have, consequently, been very well sustained. this morning the market opened with increasing firm ness in prices as compared with those prevalent last week. Generally speaking, there were willing buyers of most descriptions of goods and yarn, at the rates of Thursday last; but spinners and manufac turers, having been to a great extent relieved from the pressure of stocks, and in many cases working to order, generally demanded a sight advance upon those rates, which was partially acceded to by purchasers. The general eJect, however, was rather to limit the amuunt of business, which was scarcely so extensive as on last Tuesday. For the lower numbers of yarn, however, and especially of eater twist, which are relatively scarce, an advance O f an eighth to a farthing per lb. over last week'S• P r ices was pi Otty readily obtained, as was also 111 1 advance of lid. per piece on some descriptions of hhirtings, which have been in rather extensive de mand. It is understood that a large order for this description of cloth, intended for the China market, has heen received here from the United States, the Merchants of that country finding that the funds ne cessary for their investments of teas can be more ad vantageously provided by shipments of English than of American manufactures, which of late have not been remunerative. Indeed it has been notorious for some time past that the sales of American domestics, sent to China and other markets, almost invariably left a loss ; though the merchants might eventually be remunerated by the profit on the return cargo. English manufactures, however, or letters of credit enabling the merchants to draw on London, are likely to yield a more advantageous re sult; and we may expect the trade between China and the United States to be carried on in a great measure by one or other of those means. The im proved tone of the market has given a great stimulus to production throughout this district, and that many of the mills which have been stopped are beginning to run, while a large proportion of those which have been working short time are goin g to full time. There is a general disposition to employ only male hands, for the sake of escaping the restriction of the Ten Hours' Bill ; but of course, when employment becomes general, any such at tempts will be futile. The official return, pre pared under the direction of Captain Willis, Made up to yesterday, gives the following re sults :—There are four more cotton mills, one more silk mill, and one more smallware mill at work than there were last week. There are seven More cotton mills on full time, and three fewer on !hart time, than there were last week. Of the hands employed in the cotton mills there are 2,409 °n full time, and 1,760 fewer on short time. Of the total works included in the table, there are six ?nOre on full time, one more on short time, and one less stopped than there were last week. There are, a ltogether, 927 more hands included in the table t han there were last week ; there are 2,280 more a,nlployed on f u ll ti me , and 1,357 less on short time. The return, therefore, indicates a decided improve tnent. hoctinaLu.—We have had some little improve 121ent in the market to-day, and a better demand Tor kerseys and heavy goods. The workpeople are More fully employed than they have been for some time back. HUDDERSFIELD.—The improvement of last week e ffected bee n ma i nta i ne d, an d some heavy sales have been at a slight advance in price. I : n•ALfrax.—The general tone of the manufacturers " More ch eer f u l and a more hopeful fe elin g is p reva- P,net; but we cannot say that there has bee n, in our ce H a ll t o -d ay , any actual improvement in the amount of bu s i ness d one . A better state of thin g s see ms, however, to be pretty confidently expected, so l d some of the larger firms in this neighbourhood " „ .Ie extending their operations, and giving more em k",,Twient to their hands. 4 .. !'"be. — This day's market showed a good deal of nitnati on and maintained the firmer tone already e stablished. As yet the chief business is done for tre,nome trade ; but the prospects for a good export ari e are much nearer, and more probable to be realised than they were a short time:v.—Manchester - mirdialt of yesterday. -- --- .. ~ . LITERATURE. m rRA BEAU. A Life History. In Four Books. A Zre , tel• name does not occur in the history of the first French Revolution than that of Mirabeau— numberless as are the great names which illumine that exiraordinary epoch. Vergniaud for eloquence, ~I,l,obe;ierre for egotism, Marat for ferocity, Condor cet for thought, Roland for enthusiasm, Danton for daring,,, DeSMOUIiDS for sincerity, Chenier for poetry, Sieyes.for acumen, Fouche for cunning, Carnot fur military defence, Durnouriez for military attack, Lafayette for a kind of coxcombical chivalry, Hebert fora sort of devilish brutality, were each of them , without doubt, in their several ways, wonderful. But Mirabeau towers above them all like a colossus. The grand storm of his voice, as an orator, drowns even the roarings of Danton. His genius renders them all insignificant by comparison—so gigantic were its proportions. In going back among the ruins of that tremendous age we pause be fore the vastness of the memory of Mirabeau, as Eithen paused in the .desert before the giant effigy of theSphyta. Like Eithen, too, we find in that great rugged form—beauty—majesty—immortality : though the beauty is of an unearthly cast, the ma jesty has about it something of the horrible, and the immortality is an immortality half of gloom and half of splendour. The man would be an idiot who would deny that Mirabeau was a Great Man ; and he would he little better than an idiot who would call him a Good one. A Great Bad Man he was, and as such he will be remembered to the end of time. To deny the pre-eminence of his wenius would be to say that the sun never shines. We proclaim this as our opinion at once, and yet we confess at once that a work has just appeared which made us think for a while, in spite of ourselves, that we had been mistaken, and that the fame of Mirabeau was a delu sion, a sham, and a humbug. The work we speak of is this " Life History," by somebody who very wisely conceals his name. We never read a book like it before, and we pray God we may never read one like it again. We denounce it at once as one of the most blasphemous and licentious works pub lished in this century. The writer is Mirabeau-mad, and his madness is stark, staring madness. He speaks of his hero as one would speak only of a God. The six hundred and twenty-five pages, are six hundred and twenty-five pages of passionate and imbecile adoration. The author revels in the remembered lecheries of Mirabeau, those gross and ignomini , ous sins of concupiscence which human charity should have prompted him to leava with the corrupt dust of his idol rotting into oblivion. Car ' lyle is out- Carlyled. Hero-worship is carried to the height 'of an impious exaggeration. Panegyric is swollen 'into apotheosis. So resolutely, so system atically, so fanatically is this done that the author goes out of his way to increase the fetid torrent of his eulogiums—he finds excuses for seduction—he sings the epithalamium of adultery. His only figure of speech is hyperbole, his one unvarying style of composition gradiloquence ; and if 'he diverts the at tention for an instant to a foot-note he stalks down into the margin on stilts. He strives to magnify what was already stupendous, and the effect is, of course, only to produce an appalling and infamous distortion. We are perfectly well aware that the penning of a biography in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every thousand engenders in the mind of the biographer a species of diseased admi ration. From a , mere chronologist he gradually changes into a deliberate apologist. From writing a narrative he is distracted into , the composition of an eulogium. The transformation seems to be in evitable, and for that reason it behoves every man to hesitate for a long time before he adventures upon the 1 memoir of a celebrateciTcharacter. Otherwise he may inadvertently be seduced 'into the extenuation of criminality, and may end in becoming the panegyrist of a villain. Unfortunately we cannot detect the smallest token in the whole of these two volumes of any such inadvertency. The author has evidently written prepense, the impurities of his theme have only induced him to write more intensely and tho roughly con amore. Without, however, plunging bodily into the depraved logic and indecorous apos trophies of this " Life History," we will refresh the minds of our readers with a rapid enumeration of the incidents which constitute the true memoir of Mirabean—the skeleton of facts upon which has been heaped together this unsightly mass of literary ordure and most' putrescence. ''' • • • Honore Gabriel Riquetti, Comte do Mirabeau, was born on the 9th of March, 1749, at Bignon, near Sens. After receiving a preliminary education under M. Poisson, he was, in his fifteenth year removed to a military school at Paris, conducted by the Abbe Choquart; and from that establishment, when he was eighteen, he proceeded to Saintes, on the River Charente, near Rochelle, where he joined a regiment commanded by the Marquis de Lambert. All this while he passed under the assumed name of Peter Buthere, his father, who had since childhood imbibed a bitter antipathy to him, refusing to allow him to take his psternal title, considering it too honourable for such a scapegrace. A lettre de cachet gratified this unnatural hatred by consigning the unfortunate stripling to a dungeon in the Isle of Rhe, from which confinement he was only re leased on the 20th of March, 1769. He imparted a rather questionable eclat to his restoration to freedom by immediately afterwards fighting a duel at Ro chelle. Subsequently to this duel he enlisted as a sub-lieutenant in the Legion of Lorraine, commanded by the Baron Viomenil, and left Toulon for Corsica on the 15th of the following April. On the Bth of May, 1770, he returned to main land from his insular campaigning, and on the 14th of the same month visited his uncle, the Bailli of Mirabeau. 'We next find him as a Captain of Dragoons, meeting his father by appointment at Aigueperse, on the 21st of September, and at last assuming by permission his proper rank and title as Count of Mirabeau. On the 11th of January, 1771, he leaves Limoges, where he has been staying since his temporary reconciliation with his father ; ar rives at Paris on the 14th ; becomes a favourite at Court; on the 14th of June makes a second journey to Aigueperse, and by the next November has re turned to Bignon. On the 2d of December he sets out for Provence, and on the 224 of June, 1772, is married to Marie Emilie de Covet, the only daughter of ;the Marquis of Marignane, near Aix—his cara eposa being described by all biographers as " a little brown woman." To a man of the voluptuous tastes of Mirabeau, an union with a woman so ill adorned by nature couldof course only bring misery. And it did. Not very long after the honeymoon, Mirabeau is persi;ented by his unnatural parent, and is confined at the inetigation of the latter, on a sort of parole, in the town 'of ilanosque. Here Mirabeau breaks his parole and 'horsewhips the Baron of Villeneuve- Moans. He is at once removed to the Castle of If, which he readies on the '23d August, 1774—the cas tle being isolated in the Mediterranean sea within sight of Marseilles, and its commandant being M. Dallegre. The prisoner soon converts his gaoler into his friend, by his irresistible power of fascination, and in consequence of this is conveyed away on the 25th June to the Castle of Jonx, a fortress situated in the jaws of the Jura mountains, near Switzerland. The commandant of this prison, M. de St. Mauls, is a man of a more implacable dis position, and withstands the fascinations of his charge. Only one indulgence is granted to the latter, namely, leave to visit the neighbouring town of Pon tarlier. Here it is that he is introduced to the Mar quis of Monnier, who, then aged seventy-one, had on the Ist July, 1771, married Mademoiselle Sophie de Ruffey, then aged eighteen. The year 1775 wit nesses the adultery of Sophie and Mirabeau at Pon tarlier; and the 16th of January, 1776, sees Mirabeau escape from Pontarlier to Verribres in Switzerland. Sophie, on the other hand, being persecuted and tor tured almost outof her senses,flies on the 25th of the same January to her parents at Dijon, but is induced, on the 24th March, to return from Dijon to Pontarlier, Mirabeau being then imprisoned in the Castle of Dijon. On the 25th May, calling himself Count Beaumont, Mirabeau escapes to Verrieres, on to Ge, neva, to Lyons, to Avignon, to Nice, to Turin, to Mount St. Bernard, to Geneva again, arriving on the 23d of August at Verrieres, the starting point of his ex cursion. On that same evening Sophie and Mirabeau are united at a trysting spot, and on the 17th of Sep tember they leave Verrieres together surreptitiously. By the 26th of the same month they have reached Rotterdam, and by the 7th of October have I settled in Amsterdam, Mirabeau calling himself Saint Mathieu. Here he remains, supporting himself and his companion by working as a hack to the booksellers. On the 14th of May, 1777, their criminal felicity is inter rupted, both of them being arrested by Brugnieres. Sophie is confined in a house in the Rue de Charonne at Paris, kept by Madlle. Douay. Mirabeau, on the other hand, is incarcerated on the 7th of June in the Donjon of Vincennes, his Governor being M. Boucher. About this period of their double imprison ment Sophie gives birth to a daughter, ss hom she christens. Sophie-Gabrielle : the child, however, is immediately carried away by the De Ruffeys, and the mother is shortly afterwards removed to the con vent of Gien, near M on t a r g i s , not far from Bignon. Two grievous calamities then successively befal Mirabeau ; first his lawful son (the heir to the house) die s on th e B t h o f O c t o b er , 1778 ; an d, secondly, his illegitimate daughter So phie) dies in her second yearghotne r the(the 23d child o of of mar: 1780. For three years and a half Mirabeau on the remains a prisoner in Vincennes, b e i ng 13th of December, 1780. y released lmmediately on his eman cipation be assumes the name of Hon? s re, and takes up his residence i n th e h ouse of h M. good hearted the edgo2veorloor,fßoucher,l7Bl, that in n t he Par obtains Paris. It is g s n o i not n . terview with his hitherto implacable father; and, about the same time, he entertains a feeling of jealousy in mud to Sophie on account of a certain de Rancourt. The two lovers (Sophie and'Alirabeau) have a stolen interview with each other at Gien ,on the 19th of July, when they quarrel and part for ever in hatred. Subsequently, namely, on the Bth of September, 1789, Sophie destroys herself with,the smoke of charcoal. On the 19th of October, 1782, Mirabeau arrived again at the Chateau de Mira been, his celebrated trial respecting Sophie having ter minated in his favour on the 4th of the preceding August. His second trial, that about his wife, termi nated also in his favour on the 24th March, 1783, the verdict being afterwards, however, on the sth of July, 1783, reversed. Mirabeau then fought two duels in succession with Gallifet, and on his return to Paris r seduced Mademoiselle Henrietta Amelia Van Haren. She fled with him to England, assuming to herself the title of Madame Nehra, and arrived in the August of 1784. at Shoreham. From Shoreham they proceeded to Brighton, to Lewes, and on to London, where they took apartments in liatton•gar den, Holborn. The friends of Mirabeau during his stay in London were Sir Samuel Romilly, Lord Peterborough, Sir Gilbert Elliott (afterwards Lord Minto), Hurd (Bishop of Worcester), Major Cart wright, John Wilkes, and Lord Shelbourne (first Marquis of Lansdowne). At intervals, the French Noble made excursions to the suburbs of the English capital, going now to Chis wick, now on to Windsor, and at another time as far as Oxford. On the 10th of January, 1785, he brought an action against his valet Hardi on a charge of theft. After remaining eight months in England, Mirabeau returned to Paris in the March of 1785, and on the 23d of December in the same year left Paris on a half-diplomatic expedition, proceeding through Verdun, Nancy, Frankfort, and Leipzig, to Berlin, where he arrived on the 19th January, 1786. On the 25th of the same January he was honoured with an interview with the old King Frederick the Great, and again on the 19th of April. After staying four months in Prus sia he returned homewards, arriving in Paris on the 22d of May. On the 10th of July he again proceeded to Berlin on a secret mission, and again returned to Paris in the January of 1787. It was on the 9th of April, 1789, that he was elected to sit in the States General as Deputy of Aix, and it was during the twenty-three following months, the last months of his extraordinary career, that the Count of Mirabeau astonished the whole of France and of Europe by a blaze of oratory which was the funeral pyre of this Sardanapalus of genius. During this most memorable interval of his life his residence was divided between his country-house, called Le Marais, near Argenteuil, and his town house in the Chaussia d'Antin, afterwards (on the sth of April, 1791), called the Rue Mirabeau, then at the outskirts of .Paris, not far from the Tuileries, and in the Faubourg St. Honore. His secretaries, M. Pellenc, M. de Bourges, and M. de Comps, were tasked rather severely at this period by his lavish and abundant intellect. At length the thread was cut by the shears of Atropos—Honore Gabriel Riquetti Comte de Mirabeau breathed his last sigh at his city resi dence, No. 42, in the Chaussee d'Anti n, at half p ast eight o'clock on the morning of Saturday, April 2, 1791, having living exactly forty-two years and twenty-four days. * * • Such is the career which this anonymous biogra pher has rendered the theme of his indecorous eulo giums. Without discriminating between the good and the bad of this wonderfully dubious man, he has indulged in language which sometimes sinks into the grovelling and sometimes rises into the impious. There is no affectation in the work, which is a plain, bold panegyric upon the life of perhaps the most vicious man of the eighteenth century ; or, if there is affectation, it is only an affectation in the style of composition, the four books being written in a bom bastic imitation of Thomas Carlyle. Now Carlyle's style is not to be imitated ; it is his own exclusively; and whoever attempts to mimic that style would de serve to be regarded as a coxcomb, did he not force us to look upon him as something less rational and less human. The God before whom the writer of the two volumes now lying at our elbow bawl down and burns the incense of his adoration is no other— be it known henceforth—than the great criminal called (great criminals being mostly called by a va riety of names) Peter Buffiere, alias Count Beau mont, alias St. Mathieu, alias M. Honori, alias Ga briel the Count of Mirabeau. If the reader wants to know at once the strain in which this criminal is mentioned by the author, without having the labour of wading through the 625 pages—from which misery, say we, God defend him !—let him turn to the apostrophe beginning at page 308 of the first volume, and ending at page 311. We proclaim it to be the most stupen dous piece of turgescence and big-word writing in the English language. Far be it from us to give in any manner a yet more extended circulation to th• pernicious arguments and poisonous immoralities of this miserable effusion. Yet in justification of our own words we must particularize a few of the most reprehensible passages in the biography. Take as a proof the gross immorality of the work, the descrip tion of the adulterous crime of Sophie and Mirabeau, where the writer speaks in terms almost amounting to admiration of the chaste moon looking down at Pon tarlier on " a deed of ecstatic and delirious sin." (Vol. I. p. 95 ) Look again, at the pathetic extenu ation of their guilt at page 93, or at the filthy inuendos of the Duc de Nivernois (pages 28 and 29), or at the encomium passed upon the debauched Count (page 147) for not neglecting the pecuniary interests of Sophie, when to have neglected those interests would have proclaimed him a villain as well as a debauchee. Or look most of all at the odious panegyric pro nounced (Vol. 11. p. 275) upon the barren and deistic death of Mirabeau, of which death the author says he " would not have had it otherwise !" As a crowning act of indecorum, the volumes which we here again declare to be both blasphemous and im moral are dedicated by the person who writes them —to ms MOTHER. To his mother ! And yet at page 89 of the first volume he speaks of an adulterous connexion like that of Sophie and Mirabeau as the only true marriage ! Gladly do we bring our comments upon this "Life History" to a close, pro testing against it, again and again, with the last dashes of our pen, as a most indecent and pernicious biography. MUSIC. THE FLAG THAT BRAVED A THOUSAND YEARS. New Nalional Song. The P oi t r y by Jo se ph Oliver, Esq., the Music composed by George J. 0. Allmans. This is an excellent national song, such an one as Dibdin might have composed, and as Charles lade don would have delighted to sing. Mr. Oliver possesses the true spirit of poetry, and Mr. Allman has sot his ode to one of the most spirit-stirring airs we have heard for many a day. Those who have heard Mr. Manvers or Mr. Shoubridge sing this truly national song at festivals and concerts will not easily forget the effect produced by it. The accompani ment is admirable, and proves that Mr. Allman is a most accomplished musician. FINE ARTS. PARIS IIG FEBRUARY. Painted by Pliilippoteaux. A few days since we visited the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, and witnessed the most brilliant of the very many brilliant pictorial achievements of the ce lebrated artist M. Philippoteaux. It is a picture; re• cently exhibited in Paris to the admiration of all those most qualified to decide as to the truth of the repre sentation; the oil painting covers a surface of canvass twenty-two feet wide by twelve feet high, and—if for nothing else—is a marvel for the rapidity with which it has been completed. The work, however, is one which commands our astonishment for many other reasons besides that of the quickness of its composi tion ; in point of grouping, of expression, of chiaro scuro, of the distribution of lights and shades, in faithfulness o f p or t ra it ure , in the admirabl e effect produced by the combination of the colou rin g , and, above all, event reveals itself in a s i ng l e glance—there is amp le in the masterly manner in which the reason for eulogium and surprise—surprise always/ because of the speed with which the whole has been completed. Philippoteaux has chosen the esplanade of the whichm Thend the an Revolution veryi d confusionea o f ao of f great the b spectacle I wasehvm a t te d. e o e in to noble building o f th e H o t e l d e Vill e as the spot b society, law, or d er an d government.° The moree c n m n e n s n v u l e t s of dis tinguished m em b ers o f th e Provisional Gov ' ernment— Arago, Ledru R o lli n , L ou i s Blanc, Dupont de l'Eure, and Marrast—are grouped together as the central point of attraction, and the greatest man among them all, the only GREAT MAN, strictly speaking, yet produced by the Third Revolution, the m on the an whose voice alone saved France f rom being plunged, night of the 24th of February, 184,into b an i a b yss of blood, terror, and anarchy, conc en t ra t es (as he ought to do) all the power, majesty, ty unse and himself moral of that grand epoch in French history. The eye instantly turns to him — instinctively turns to him he is standing among his companions of the Provil sional Government, elevated on a velvet chair, or fauteuil, his head uncovered and thrown back, his arm raised, his eye lambent, his lips apart, so that to the imagination the air seems actually vibrating with his eloquence— he is uttering his immortal apostrophe to the tricolour, and his whole figure is marked by the grandeur of a great orator. The effect of the atttiude, the man, the speech, and the occasion has in it an indescribable beauty ; and the courage, nay, the absolute heroism of that one unarmed citizen repelling the demands of an infuriated rabble is powerfully expressed by the form of a beautiful girl galloping towards him on a white horse, bearing aloft the red banner—that stan dard of cruelty and sedition. In one corner is the gold and silver spoil of the palaces, heaped to gether on the ground and carried in a hand truck ; in another is the dead body of a workman with a paper lying upon his boom marked LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 2O , 1848. with the words mort aria veleurs ; in another again is a wounded man; a subscription-box for the wounded, and a number of the brave enfants de Paris. Altogether the picture is the greatest effort of Philippoteaux—it is a noble historical painting—a painting which impresses the mind with a sense of the dignity of the Revolution of February, and of the glory of ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE. France has shown herself unworthy of that glory—may she not experience by calamities the danger of her indiscre tion and her ingratitude ! IRELAND. DUBLY.N, JULY 18. IMPORTANT PROCLAMATIONS. FOUR O'CLOCK. - The Privy Council has just risen. Dublin city and county—the town of Drog heda portions of the counties of Waterford and Cork—have be( n proclaimed under the late Act for the better security of life in Ireland. The possession of unregistered fire-arms, or other deadly weapons, in these districts will subject the holders to the severe punishment provided by the Act. The following are the districts proclaimed at the Privy Council this day : County of Dublin. City of Dublin. City of Waterford. County of Waterford—Barony of Gaultiere, barony of Middlethird, barony of Kiliculliheen. City of Cork. County of Cork—Barony of Cork, barony of Fer moy, barony of Condone and Clongibbons. County of the town of Drogheda. The following is the proclamation respecting the county of the city of Waterford : `' DT THE LORD-LIEUTENANT AND COUNCIL OF IRELAND. " A PROCLAMATION. CLABENDON. " Whereas, by an Act passed in the prevent session of Parliament, in the llth year of her Majesty's reign, in tituled An Act for the better Prevention of Crime and Outrage in certain parts of Ireland, until the Ist day of December, 1349, and to the end of the then next session of Parliament,' it is, amongst other things, enacted, ' That whenever, in the judgment of the Lord Lieute nant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, by and with the advice of the Privy Council of Ireland, it shall be necessary for the prevention of crime and outrage that the said Act should apply to any county, county of a city, or county of a town, or any barony or baronies, half barony or half baronies, in any county at large, or any district of less extent than any barony or half barony in Ireland, it shall be lawful to and for the Lord-Lieutenant or other chief governor or governors of Ireland, by and with the advice of the Privy Council of Ireland, to declare by proclamation, to be published in the Dublin Gazette, that from and after a day, to be named in such proclamation, the said Act shall apply to any county, county of a city, or county of a town, or any barony or baronies, half barony or half baronies, in any county at large, or any district of less extent than any barony or half barony in Ireland:' " Now we, the Lord-Lieutenant, do, by this our pro clamation, in pursuance and execution of the said Act, and by and with the advice of her Majesty's Privy Coun cil in Ireland, declare, that from and after Saturday, the 22d day of this present month of July, 1848, the said Act shall apply to and be in force in and for the county and city of Waterford. 44 And of this our proclamation all justices of the peace of the said county of the city of Waterford, constables, peace-officers, and all others whom it may concern, are to take notice. " Given at the Council Chamber, in Dublin, this 13th day of July, 1843. " Maziere Brady, C. ; E. Blakeney, Fred. Shaw, Richard W. Greene, James Henry Monahan. " God save the Queen." Similar proclamations have been issued for— The county of the city of Dublin; to take effect from Thursday, the 20th inst. The county of Dublin, from the same date. The baronies of Kileulliheen, Middlethird, and Gaul tiere, in the county of Waterford, from the 22d inst. The county of the city of Cork, from the 22d. The baronies of Cork, Fermoy, and Condone and Clon gibbons, in the county of Cork, from the 22d. And the county of the town of Drogheda, from the 221 The following is an extract of a letter from Water ford, dated July 17:— " The state of this city is seriously alarming—more so than the public are at all aware of. The affair of Meagher's arrest has given an impetus to disaffection. Meagher entt red the town between two and three o'clock this morning, at the head of at least 2,000 men, who accon3p_mied him from the meeting at Slievenamon. The enrolment in the clubs and sale of arms has in creased since Meagher's arrest. It is said he stated last night that on the next occasion he would not surrender without a struggle, and asked if they would be ready to assist him, The powers that be' here are most in efficient. The influence of the clergy is every day dimi nishing. We shall soon le at the mercy of a reckless mob of desperadoes, not inferior to those of Paris, unless decided measures should be at once adopted against the CHANGE IN THE ENGLISH MAILS. An erroneous announcement relating to the approach ing change in the English mails is going the round of the papers. The exact arrangement is this— On the 31st of July instant the night mail will leave London at eight o'clock as usual, and come by Holyhead to Dublin, when it will be due at twelve o'clock the fol lowing day. After some time it is expected this mail will reach Dublin much earlier. On the morning of the sumo day the London mail, which is at present dispatched from the Dublin Post office at twenty minutes after six o'clock, and forwarded via Liverpool, will be dutnitied till twenty minutes after nine o'clock, and then sent off via Holyhead, where it will be conAdered due at two o'clock on the same day, and in London at five o'clock the following morning. So far there is a decided advantage afforded to the London evening journals and the Loudon correspondence with Dublin. The veiling mail from Dublin to Liverpool remains as at present. MR. SMITH O'BRIEN IN DROGHEDA. The I%i-wain's Jou, nal contains a glowing account of a meeting hell in D,oglieda ) esterday in honour of the visit of Mr. W.:. O'Brien. One Mr. Fitzpatrick pre sided. A resolution, approving of the Irish League, and an address to the descendant of the Boroo were a dopted—whereupon this antique Young Irelander rose and delivered a speech of which the following is an abridgement: — Mr. Smith O'Brien, M.P.—Mr. Chairman and gen- tlemcn, I did not come here to-day for the purpose of making a speech. It is not very safe to make speeches iu Ireland just now.—(Laughter.) I make that obser vation without any disparagement to the Hon. Gentle man who is here taking notes for the Government, Mr. llodgeF, who executes his duties as a gentleman. What ever may be the demerits of the Government that resorts to such agencies for the purpose of crushing the free e xpressio❑ of public opinion, at least he does not share those demerits, and therefore I have to request that you will pay him every courtesy. But, gentlemen, these are net times for speech muking—l came here because I have been frequently told that the inhabitants of Drog heda score anxious that I should come amongst them fur the purpose of promoting that great obj--ct which has been set forth in our address as the paramount policy of this country--the union of Irishmen.—(Cheers.) And I came here with the more pleasure, because this town has already distinguished itself by being amongst the foremost in the kingdom to set the example of that blessed union. I have seen enough of the proceedings of the town of Drogheda to make me believe that you are disposed to cast into perpetual oblivion all those futile distinctions between Old and Young Ireland which have for two years broken up the national party of this coun try, and greatly damaged the interests of Ireland. I have also had even still more satisfaction in finding that in this town there has commenced that happy concord between men possessing different creeds—wetehipping at different altars; and you have set, as I am informed, a noble example to the north of Ireland, which adjoins you, of uniting the Protestants with the Catholics in the great struggle,—(Loud cheering.) I aua told that many of our must respected Protestant citizens have become members of the Protestant Repeal Association for the purp ,ac of working out through that agency, in companionship with their fellow-Protestants, and iu parallel co-operation with you, the great object of Ire land's legislative independence.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I confess, too, I was anxious to ascertain by what spirit you are animated under the existing circumstances of the times ; for no man who contemplates the present position of Ireland can tell for a single day what may be the requirements demanded for every one amongst us. You will understand that I do not intend to place myself within the operation of that law which would subject me to transportation to Bermuda. I am told that it is the desire of my fellow•country'men that I should avoid committing myself in any way which would place me without the sphere of being able to be useful to them in Ireland.—(Cheers.) And, therefore, I shall not on the present occasion say anything ft-lo nious.—(Laughter.) I shall not gratify Lord Clarendon by enabling him to put me into the gaol of Newgate or Drogheda.—(A Voice —" A cheer for Mitchel." But I have no objection that the Government should know that, ever since I have come to this town, I have hoard some very fighting cheers—l have heard sundry ex pressions, which intimated to me that the vast con course which I now behold with so much pleasure have fully determined on obtaining their nationality. But undoubtedly there is much to tempt you to consider how soon it may be necessary for us all to have recourse to the last means of justifying a great nation.—(Loud cheers.) For what do I find at the present moment? Within the last four•and- twenty hours I have visited, in prison, four of the most respected end virtuous men in this country. —(A ♦oice—" Three cheers for thum." Another voice—" A groan for Clarendon.") Don't mind groaning anybody—that is a very poor way of showing your feelings. If the Government were desirous to pick out of the whole population of Ireland four men whose private and public character was such as to claim tor them the sympathy of the whole nation, they could not have found four men more distinguished for every; pa triotic virtue than the four men now lying in gaol in Dublin. I need not speak to you of your neighbour — for such I may call him—Mr. John Martin. lam told he is a Presbyterian Protestant of Ulster.—(A voice—" A cheer for him.") Mr. John Martin, I would take upon myself to say, from all I have heard respecting him, that there is not in Ulster a man more deservei r 3 respected, and that man is about to be sent to a settlement. For what ? For loving this countmy.P:s(l,llfe, is not an agitator by position or disposition. Like e, sat ) tsfied he would most willingly have remained at with his position—satisfied with the enjoy ment duty could c,,mmand, if he did not feel it a paramoun t rest national to his country to throw himself into the great a system of movement for the purpose of eueuring s as on %%hid' he government and legislation as shall secure —insomuch And legislation — they can be attained by government given community. —(Cheers.) l o c f even the o t e t w p h o e o t r h e e s r t m he a n in i a n )_ this hay c e om pressiori to septimentii with which l . do nt 1p 511 respects concur. lie is entitled to his opinions, as well as you are to yours, or lam to mine ; but this I know, that he is the victim of Engl;sh power—that he is about to suffer the extreme penalties of the law fur loving Ire land. I am glad to ,ee a policeman in the crowd taking a note of what I say.—(Groans.) Upon all these occasions I hope you will encourage the attendance of the police, and take care that they hear good doctrines. I do not consider policemen as spies, when they appear upon there occasions. They may take down those words and communicate them to Lord Clarendon. And now, gentlemen, let me invite your attention to the cha racter of another of those men who are now lying in a dungeon for your sake. I now speak of Mr. Williams. I know not whether any of yon have read the beautiful poetry of which he is the author. I know not whether you have not had the opportunity of admiring his com mand of language in prose; but this I can tell you, and I believe I shall be confirmed in what I say by every 1 Catholic clergyman in Dublin, that a more devoted and pious Roma❑ Catholic does not exist in this country. I am told that he has for a lung time eminently distin guished himself, not only by every work of charity, but by the bedsides of the sick and the dying, there Mr. Wilhatus has been found, and 'hi: is the man who is to be a victim to English power, and who is to be transported from his native land—(A voice, " Never, never")—for loving his country, and endeavouring to raise it. Gentlemen, another of the four is a young man of the name of O'Doherty. I appre hend there are none among you will think the worse of him because ho is one of the old Duhertys, of Innis howen—a finer young fellow I never saw in my lite, possessing every quality which could distinguish a man —personal appearance, au extraordinary power of in tellect. And this is another of the victims of English power, that is about to be transported to a penal settle ment for loving you and loving his country. I have reserved until the last; the mention of my friend Mr. Charles Gavan Duffy—(Loud cheers)—and I asill take on myself to say that there is no public man to whom the Irish nation owes more than to Charles Gavan Duffy. He has been the proprietor of a journal which, during the last five years, has advocated the cause of Ireland with a fidelity almost unmatched, and during the whole course of that time I challenge the enemies of cur cause to point to one tingle paragraph that has a tendency to bring into disrepute the principles which he advocated. I challenge them to show one single paragraph that indicates a desire to make the conduct of a popular journal subsidiary to any private purpose whatsover, or any mercenary con sideration, or to the gratification of any paltry or ma lignant passion.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, these are men— this is the man—a man of whom, if this country were free, we should have reason to boast, aud whom we should crown with our highest honours—these are the men, there is the man, selected by the British Govern ment for persecution, because he loves you. But let me tell you that there is no mode more efficacious than that you should do all in your power to concentrate in powerful and energeti• action the will of the whole of the people of this country. And how is that to be done? By continuing the great organization which has been formed by the voice, almost unanimous, of the whole population of Ireland.—(f - Tear.) I hope to have the pleasure to-morrow of ♦isiting the old town of Trim. I shall probably sleep there to-morrow evening; and I intend, if there be any gentlemen here from Navan, I shall probably arrive at Navan to morrow about mid-day; so that, if any of them should be desirous to consult me upon any sub ject that is interesting to them, I shall be very happy to meet them upon that occasion. I know not whether you will fortify me upon leaving this meeting by an assu rance which I shall be proud to convey, or to have it in my power of carrying to the people of Dublin, the people of Cork, the people of Limerick, the people of Waterford—(Load cheers)—that the men of Drogheda are resolved to stand by their fellow countrymen in any effort which may be made to achieve the liberties of Ire land.—(Loud and prolonged cheering.) At this stage of the proceedings the Mayor, Michael Rogers, Esq., the mayor elect, Alderman Simcocks, and a large number of the town council, were enabled to get on the platform, having been previously obliged, from the dense pressure of the crowd, to stand in the body of the meeting. Mr. Smrrn O' BRIEN said he would take that oppor tunity of stating that he intended to be present at a meeting of the Irish League in Dublin, on Wednesday next; and he was invited by the committee to express their desire,d,hat as many of the townspeople of Drogheda as could could conveniently to do so, would attend on that occasion .—(Cheers ) Mr. P. SMITH moved the next resolution, which was adopted :—" Resolved—That we t arnestly recommend our fellow-townsmen to forward the organization of the people by promptly forming additional clubs in the town and neighbourhood." Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN again came forward, and ob serving the pressure of the crowd, and the great incon venience which many iu the meeting were suffering thereby, said—l am anxious, from what I see here, to persuade you that it is of the utmost importance that ' you should observe the most perfect order at all your public meetings. I met in Cork the other day above 10,000 people, of whom 2,000 belonged to the clubs. The 8,000 were pressing on each other, while the 2,000 took up their places in regular order, and really looked more numerous and imposing than the mass who were so irregular, and they walked—for we must not say " marched" in these times—(Laughter)—in a manner th.it commanded the highest admiration. Let me tell you what occurred to me in the county of Cork last week. A member of a club in' Bantry rode forty links in one night, for the purpose of conveying a letter to me. It would appear to me that the time is coining, or has perhaps arrived, when communication by post may be come unsafe. I am not sure that my own letters are not (Tyne]. I believe the letters of others are. Therefore, if I wanted to send a letter from Dublin to Donegal. I should wish to see such an establishment of clubs through the country that it could be passed from hand to hand, without giving any man the trouble of going ten miles with it, or causing him any inconvenience or expense.--(hear, and cheers.) The Mayor was then called to the chair, and the thanks of the meeting having ben voted to the previous chairman, the immense multitude dispersed in the most orderly manner, cheering loudly for Smith O'Brien and repeal. . MR. JOHN O'CONNELL IN COVE. Mr. John O'Connell, accompanied by his brother Maurice, arrived in Cove, on Saturday, from London. will remain till Wednesday. A deputation from a portion of the people of Cove waited on him yesteiday, on board his brother's yacht, and presented him with nu address expressive of confidence in his policy. We un derstand he was invited to a public dinner. THE CONFEDERATES AT BLARNEY. . . _ Sunday last the membersof the "John Mitchel Club," about thirty persons, most snip-carp enters, visited the Groves of Blarney, their object being to sow sedition ; but the priest of the parish, the Rev. Mat. Horgan, of round-tower notoriety, having previously exhorted his parishioners against such bad company, the mission of these fomenters of discord proved abortive. Two sol diers were present whom the police paid some attention to, they having repeatedly shouted for repeal, and an nounced that similar opituons were held by the majority of the army. Before and after the meeting immense quantities of porter were drank and given away by the confederates, and in some cases the "shebeen" houses were emptied of their contents. It was rumoured that a "detective " was present in the chapel yard, and this would appear to have had considerable restraint on the orators, who went into a peaceable district to foment re bellion amongst the peasantry. Cloghroe, also, was not without a visit from these worthies. In this case the object was to frighten the parish priest (Mr. Cahill), who had addressed his con gregation from the altar on the previous Sabbath, strongly condemning the pernicious doctrines of the Young Ireland party, and advising his parishioners, as they valued peace and their own security, to give no countenance to such persons. CONFEDERATES IN CARRIGALINE; On Sunday after last mass a meeting was held in the chapel yard of Carrigaline, for the purpose of establish. ing a Confederate club. Vie meeting was attended by a deputation of four from ffie city, the prominent parties being Mr. Varian, the brush maker, and Mr. Hayes, the coffin maker. When the meeting was about being held, the deputation and a crowd followed Father Ryan, the parish priest, as he was leaving the chapel, and re quested him to take the chair, but he peremptorily re fused, stating that he was not a fighting man, and that he was much grieved to find his hitherto peaceable parish invaded by parties whose anxiety was to drive the couu try to outrage. QUARTER TO SIX O'CLOCK. The Government have chartered a steamer from the the City of Dublin Company, to convey troops from Belfast to Cork, where the aspect of affairs is alarming. The Lord-Lieutenant, we understand, has no intention at present of visiting England. The city is quite tranquil (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Dublin Evening Mail of yesterday (Wednes day) contains the following extract from the Cork Constitution of the 18th : " ARRESTS OF MESSRS. ISAAC S. VARIAN, J. W. BOURKE, AND JOHN O'BRIEN. " We have only Lesttim o announce that the above gentlemen have been ard this d a y at half•past two o'clock, upon a charge of sedition, u ttered at Cross Barry on the 2d of July. They have been admitted to bail. The greatest excitement prevails. - -------=------ , -, THE IRISH MO) EMI:NT IN . A MERICA. PHILADELPH IA, JULY s . —Another Irish s y m p ath y voecting was held a few evenings since in this city. it was called to order by Robert Tyler—Francis 'fiernan' chairman; W. H. Dunn and J. B. Colahan, secretaries . But few speeches were insde, as the object of the g a th t r ing was simply to receive contributions. On Monday there was a second meeting on. Berg Hill, South Brook!) ri, the " Irish Brigade" rate l -e : Mr. Develin. of Montreal, Canada, presided. 11 nc.11.-. " in Canada, our (Irish) argument henceforth ni€l'isluibiC , and the cannon, the musket, and the pike."—((;beersAlrm cries of " The pike," " The pike.") Mr. O'Connor spoke. A number onfi:dchildoroenneywaerlr'tl. brought forward, who contributed, l' w ont in procession to the Astor H t ou e se m , el' N ti e% :, brother h ero f York, where, it was understood, the to Mitchel, who had been o transported r) Ber mudas, had arrived, inthe Britannia. On the same evening a meeting.allmail steamer, of th e Brook lyn Republican Society of the Frienr., of Ireland met at e. An addr ess an d Freeman's Hall; but it was no;la resolutions of condolence were voted rg to Mrs. Mitchel, and a resolution tendering support and protection to `fire, Mitchel, " in the event of any emerg e n c y (Irian that should induce her to quit her native land." On the following night another meeting of the same body took place at Brooklyn. Mr. Develin, of Montreal, said th a t the Irish in Canada were determined to throw off British tyranny as well as to succour Ireland. Mr. O'Conti;Pr said that some of the Irish Brigade had gone to Ire_ land already, and that more ivonld follow. " Thee were ready to go and fight the battles of Ireland.' He was himself about to start through the Union and also to Canada, to see what could . be done for Ireland. It was stated at this rneetink that M r . Mitchel's brother (now at the Astor-house, New Y or k ) would not make his appearance in pub lic fr seine dap. There was also a meeting at the same time, in tie upper part of the:city of New York. We observe that at a recent Irish meeting in New Orleans, 540 dollars were collected. With regard to the Irish brigade, we presume that the following brief paragraph from the Any York San of Wednesday last, alludes to the leaving of some of t' 4o " New York Irish Brigade" for Ireland, as mentionrd in the speech of Mr. O'Connor. But really, the extreme smallness of the number appears rather farcical : THE IRISH BRIGADE. - A delegation of fifteen members of the Irish Brigade sailed a few days since for Irehtml, and will be followed on Friday next by titt,ett others, who are to leave in the ship John R. Skiddv.' We clip the following extract from the New York cor respondence of the Philadelphia Public Ledgcr, of Thurs day, the 29th ult.:— "An Irish sympathy meeting was held at the Shaks pere Hotel last evening, and more money collected. By the way, it is as great a mystery what becomes of this money, as it is what becomes of the flies. For what .hject is it collected ? Is it to rescue Mr. Mitchel from the Gibraltar of the western hemisphere—Bermuda ? I much fear there is roguery as well as sympathy in these meetings, and that our honest, warm-heartaci. Irish popu lution are the dupes of demagogues and swindlers—lrish and American. "Mr. William Mitchel, brother of the exiled patriot, is at the Astor House, and, if I am not mistaken, hears a great many tine promises, which will never be realized, from gentlemen, who every time they go to the bar to liquor take Bermuda—in a horn." A meeting of the Now York Irish Republicans assem bled at the Shakspere, on Wednesday evening last► but the Sun says, that as the weather was unfavourable, the attendance was small. The Irish Brigade visited the meeting, and were loudly cheered. We have thus briefly condensed all the leading meetings and incidents that have transpired in relation to Ireland, since thy. last steamer sailed, and would remark that, "as the " Irish brigade " is now represented ns leaving for Ire• land in small parties, it may be fairly inferred that there is no longer any intention of getting up an expedition against the Bermudas. Tho New Yorkers describe Mr. Mitchel's brother as an amiable young man, and some of the papers say that he visits this country on important business connected with Ireland, the promulgation of which is not at present advisable." But others say, and declare that they say so on good authority, that he means to buy a farm for his brother John Mitchel, whom (they add) the British Government will release from Bermuda. on condition that he will remain permanently in the United States, and agree not to return to Irelaad. Loch are the on rids of the day. We merely give them u uch, and no more. " A Society of the Friends of Ireland" was formed at Reading, Pennsylvania, a few evenings since. Most of the speakers ut the meeting, convened for the purpose, were from Philadelphia. The New York Express. of Thursday, copies the paragraph from the New York Sae, in relation to the sailing of a portion of the Irish Brigade for Ireland, and appends the following : " The delegation first mentioned did not sail as above statt d, in consequence of certain pecuniary difficulties relation to a draft for 200/. which they had received; but will soon go. It may be possible that each fifteen cull priat s an officer, two non-commissioned officers, and twelve privates, to which twelve undrilled Irishmen being added, as chance may dictate, in Ireland, the number is then raised to twenty-seven, just a good-sized platoon, three of which will make a company of eighty-one men. Thus, thirty of these platoons of fifteen, making a ske leton regiment of 450 men, sent all in small detachments to Ireland, can be increased there to 810 men. At all (vents, whether they go thither as a military body or not, they run the risk of arrest by the British Govern ment the instant of their arrival there. The British Consul, beyond all doubt, has his eye upon these move ments. and keeps his Government well informed. What fools:" One of the New York papers " states that a deputation from the Irish Republican Union of New York sailed from Boston for Ireland in the steam ship," on Wed nesday last. Doubtful! A portrait of John Mitchel is about to be published under the supervision of a com mittee. On Friday last the New York Express published an editorial article, nearly a column in length, on the sub ject of the " Irish Brigade," in which it is stated that portions of the Irish Brigade are going forward, and the interposition of the United States Government is called for, as being actually necessary under the circumstances- This article has excited much attention, especially as it points to the danger and humiliation of becoming in volved in difficulty and war with England, on a question not American; and not by Americans, but by foreigners. The writer strongly denounces the making of mischief between ourselves and a nation with whom we are now on the closest terms of friendship;" end adverts also to the national honour in observing treaties. The Ezpren, k eta p,,lkically and commercially, is a journal o f the nigne3t. respectability, vial doubtless foresees the peril of these otovementr to peace and commercial cortidence. stit , . e cannot help thinking that trio entire matter (nit. tings and brigade included) had been magnified into till 11111iLlt. truportanc.. A meeting of quite a different character was held in this city on Saturasy eVLIIIDL*, at the Chinese Museum; hcing convened (or the- purpose of encouraging the Cline Lists of Great Britain to achieve the liberties of the Britii.h pt opl.. Robert Tyler iVas called to the chair. "i he tvtendance was t ut very large, and the speakers and ffirr ers were mostly Americans. Various resolu. auto; were agreed to in conformity with the object of the meeting. It was then resolved to publish the proceed ings, and forward them to the Chartist Executive Cow tnutec" in England. POSTCRIPT. Anothe .. Irish meeting was held at the large apace near Broadway, New York, which was formerly Niblo'• garden. PHILADELPHIA, JCILT 5. The meeting was very numerously attended—all rishmen, or nearly bo. Robert Emmett was chairman, and the speakers were Liaiself, Mr. Mitchel (brother of John Mitchel, now at Bermuda), Mr. Robinson, Mr. Mooney, and others. The only points of novelty were in the speech of Mr. Mitchel. Ile said, " the freedom of Ireland is as inevitable as the next equinox." Also, "the freedom of Ireland will be obtained soon after the next harvrst !" .And he added, that although parties in Ireland were divided between moral and physical force men, yet that both were agreed and unanimous in their intentions to strike a blow for Ireland. The object stated in the " "for the meeting was to collect a fund for 1111. Mitchel, but the staging and platform for the speakers gave way twice, which, having created some contusion. the contributions were postponed to a suture occasion. Happily, no one was hurt by tho crash, or rather crashes of the staging. The attendance of A,nericans was but small, the astemblago being chiefly natives of Ireland.—Chronicle. HANOVER-SQURE ROOMS. • We understand that the INlntinie Musicale, which takes place to-morrow at the above-named Rooms, and at which the elite of the musical talent at present in London (including Mesdames Dorus Gras and Anna and Signori Gardoni, Belletti, Colletti, and Sims Reeves); will have the honour of appearing, is under the direction of a distinguished amateur well known in musical circles, whose knowledge and love of art are only equalled by his kindness to artistes. In,the course of the morning two new ballads, from the elegant pen of Mrs. IL J. St. Leger, are to be sung for the first time, one by Madame Anna Thillon, the other by Mr. Sims Reaves. n"---"---AFIrMR.—A very JULY PERTH, 15.—FAT AL g or murder, toot seri , us case, either or In'ilsi au .li• hter h -street here ; but place on Wednesdly last, in the 'g as the matter is stilt under in vestigationto say much regarding the premature The circum it would be party inculpated. probable result to ' by the authori ties,th,e A wom an of the name of ,tanees are strictly these w : as a short time ago confined Simpson, whose husband his imprisonment with n during upon a charge of having hr s h ei o had been residing till the i . n ub t b h (i g h e e n r e , ral too p k ris u o h n r . another man, bo_syraywhich she had been deprived of night the man and she quer- WedneeOurse of the quarrel she received o h e t e r u l r i r fe e . nce o t n oi 7 k i p ti l lacwo : d which rendered it necessary that she died the she should bo t 8 ;f n es to the infirmary, where r s e o l m le e d s ; e a ri n o d us il The m an y was immediately taken into custody, next a n • and the b d v f the woman was yesterday submitted to a post mo i r 'i t ',: e xamination, in order t o ascerta i n the nature an d ex tent of the injuries she had recei ve d. g e may naturally be supposed, under all the cir cumstances, an bore was not o f the *lost irre proachable character' description. the ATTEMPTED MURDER AT ROTHERILITHB.--• On Tuesday evening a young man, named James Scott, aged nineteen years, went into the Red Lion for the pur pose of taking some refreshment, and whilst sitting in the tap-room he got into conversation with a labouring man named Greenhill. Shortly afterwards high words ensued, and subsequently a desperate fight was the re sult. A few rounds only took place, when the landlord interfered, and they were separated. However, a few minutes had scarcely elapsed, when Scott had occasion to leave the room, and while he was standing outside the house the fellow Greenhill made a rush at him with a large clasp knife, inflicting a most serious wound in the abdomen. A stream of blood immediately followed the injury, and the poor man fell to the ground apparently litelesF. In the meantime, Greenhill had effected his escape, but an alarm being made the police were soon on the spot, and in a short space of time succeeded in arrest ing him. The injured man was at once carried to the nearest surgeon's, where the wound was dressed, and he p irtially recovered his senses ; but the medical gentle twin, on examination, finding that the injury was great, a cab was procured, and he was carried to accidenttlo te ward of Guy's Hospital, where he was placed i under h eat e of Mr. Hodgson, the assistant-surgeon, who yester day gave but very faint hopes of his recovery. DUTCH FRUIT AND V E GETABLES. The Dutch steam-ship Batavier, from Rotterdam, has less than 49 hampers of peaches, and 51 1 hampers of brought no cucumbers, being the largest quantities af t tliohave a en on anythose destetkip tions of fruit and vegetables we r emembera place occas ion from abroad. The vessel has like wise brought the large quantity of 50 baskets of apricots, ii 4 and also lsaskets of currents, 10 baskets of melons, and 60 baskets of other descriptions of fruit, the produce of Holland. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the Bank premises, Lothbury, yesterday, David Salomons, Esq., Alderman, in the chair. The attendance of shareholders on the occa sion was good. The notice summoning the meeting having been read, the following report was submit ted to the proprietors : " In consequence of the resolution passed at the last general meeting of proprietors, recommending that there should be a halt-yearly meeting of the company, end that the general meeting now held in March should take place at an earlier period of th e y e ar, :the diren tors have called thi special meeting for the purpose of making a half.yearly report, and for the additional pur pose of altering the deed of settlement, so that the annual meeting of the proprietors shall, in future, be held on the third Wednesday in January. The directors have accordingly to report that, after defraying the total ex pense of management, making allowance for all bid and doubtful debts, and paying the income-tax, the nett profits of the half-year amount to 24,838/. 16s. 1 I d., which added to 1 00,647/. 16s. I ld., the balance of unappropriated profits at the commencement of the year, make a total of 1 25,4Q61. 13s. 10d. Out of this sum, the directors now declare a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, upon the paid-up capital of one million. After the payment of this dividend, amounting to 30,0001., there will remain a balance of unappropriated profit of 95,486/. 13s. 10d. The dividend now declared will be payable on Monday next, the 24th instant, instead of as heretofore on the 10th of September, and in future the half-yearly dividends will be payable in January and July. The directors now beg to call the attention of the proprietors to the alteration of the time for holding the annual meeting. The legal adviser of the bank has prepared for consideration a resolution making such an altera tion in the deed of settlement as will enable the an nual general meeting of pr o p r i etors to b e h e ld on the third Wednesday in January, instead of the first Wed nesday in March. As it will be necessary that this re. solution, if passed, he confirmed at another meeting of the proprietors, the directors will duly convene such meeting on Wednesday, the 16th of August next. The result of this resolution will be that the manual general meeting of the bank will in future be held under the deed on the third Wednesday in January, and a half yearly meeting may be called specially by the directors either on the third Wednesday in July, or on any other day whenever it shall he deemed necessary or expe dient. The directors have the satisfaction of closing this report by stating that the business of the bank has con tinued to increase, and they doubt not that when a re vival shall take place in the commerce of the country, :he company will reap the benefit of its large capital and extended connexions." The following was the statement of the accounts made up to the 30th of June lasit:— Dr: To proprietors for paid-up capital £998,179 0 0 To amount due by bank for deposits, circular notes, &c. To rest, or surplus fund. To the profits of the past half-year £4,293,784 1 8 Cr. By Government securities By other securities 2,409,864 19 10 By cash in hand £4,293,784 1 8 Dr. PROFIT AND LOSS. 'Po - payment of the dividend now de clared at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, on a capital of 1,000,0001. for the half-year ending 30th June, 1848 30,000 0 0 To balance of unappropriated profits 95,48 G 13 10 Cr. By balance of unappropriated pro fits on 31st December, 1847 By net profits of the past half-year after defraying the total expense £125,486 13 10 £100,647 16 11 of management, paying the in come tax, and making provision for all bad and doubtful debts ... 24,838 16 11 £125,486 13 10 By balance of unappropriated profits 495,486 13 10 In commenting upon the above statements. The CHAIRMAN said it was perhaps his duty to .call their attention to a circumstance which might be inferred from the report, namely, that 5,0001. had been taken from the balance of unappropriated profits of last year, to make up the dividend for the half-year just ended. The half-yearly meetings might operate as a salutary check upon the directors, but he thought a yearly statemeNt of the accounts ;old balances would be more convenient to all parti( ; and if the accounts just rendered had been deferred till the end of the year, the affairs of the bank, would have doubtless be:oe a much more favourable aspect. They were aware the interest of money was exceedinOY low, and also of the great desire the directors evinced not to force the business of the establishment. They had a very large capital, a w:althy proprietary, an l a goof connexion ; and the figures showed that they possessed a high credit of which they alight be justly proud (Applause.) Therefore, with all these sources of strength and power, they might rely upon it when they put all their foice to work at the proper time — when they put on their full steam under the safest cir cumstances, that the prosperity of the establishment and their dividends would largely increase. Another point to which he would call attention was the alter ation of the deed of settlement, so as to enable the annual meetings to be held, and likewise the dividends to be paid, at an earlier period than heretofore. There was now no longer any reason why the pro prietors should not enjoy the fruits of their under taking in January instead of March, although at an earlier period of the bank's history, it might have been thought wisest to he on the safe side, and adopt the latter month for the payment of dividends. The Chairman concluded by moving that the report be received and adopted. Mr. LEVI thought, as they were about to alter the deed of settlement, at any rate they. ought so to amend the system of electing the directors as to enable the proprietors to have a voice in the appoint ment of those who were to be entrusted with the management of their property. Under the present system a man might have 800 or 400 shares in the c, , mpany, and yet he could not vote for a director. This was altogether unreasonable and unconstitu tional, and ought to be changed. Mr. MauusLuv had every confidence in the Direc tors ; but he wished to know how the deficit had arisen upon the past half-year. Last March they had up wards of 100,0001. of accumulated fund ; and to-day that fund was only 436,0001. He confessed that he did not approve of half-yearly statements, as the one-half of the year would often he found to balance with the other. If the deficiency arose upon the branch backs it ought to be stated ; and if any particular branch did not answer, let it be taken into consideration whether it would not lie advisable to abandon it altogether. He (Mr. Maudsley) highly disapproved of the unlimited advances which had been made upon the security of colonial produce, and hoped they would be discontinued ; for a warrant upon colonial produce, in his opinion, was nothing more than a bit of mere waste paper. He wished also to know the circumstances under which Mr. Rennie had retired from the direction last year. He (Mr. Maudsley) also observed, that he cordially approved of Mr. Levi's suggestion for giving the proprietors greats/ power in the election of directors. Mr. TITE wished to state that the wl,icesl, thatesecrettheoyf the deficit alluded to by Mr. Maudsley was, could not invest their money so well during the past half-year as in the preceding year ; there had Leen no loss. Mr. Rennie was not there to def en d him self, and it would, therefor e, be unjust to go into questions affecting his character in his absence. It might, however, be a fair question to ask if Mr. Rennie left the bank in its debt. As t:gtnee,elierctainon of the direct ors, under the existing e proprietor wi s h ed to nominate a saclidate, he might g ive notice of' his intention to do so, and th e pro prietors had t he o p tion of preferring such a can di date thetebn replied to a variety board The eC u A n ominee m °r of quo tions put by vari ous proprietors.lie said th at if a Ati ' h better mode of ena blin g the directors to express their recommended dissent to the candid ates for selection could be found, the board would be happy t o g i ve it effect. As regarded colonial warrants, a bill represented charact er, and it was only when character was exhausted that bank ers f e ll back upon warrants. The b ank had now 3,200,000/ . of public money in its han ds, and he believed it would soon be doubled. He was confident the main ground of public confid e nce in the establish ment was, that it had so large a proportion .ortion of 'i • is capital in vested in the funds. The branch banks were very prosperous ; and it was not to any one of them, but to the principal establishment, that the present defi ciency was attributable. That deficiency was ex clusively owing to the large amount of losses which had to be deducted during the past half year ; for the profits had been undiminished in amount, 14.0001. bad debts had been wri tten off during the past half-y ear , 9,000/. of which proper l y appertained to the preceding year's transactions. The losses had now all come to a close, so far as they could be cal culated. The report was then adopted nem. con., as were also the formal resolutions supplementary to it, and a vote of thanks to the Chairman and directors wound up the day's proceedings. U