The Sun. — London, England, 1848-10-03 00:00:00

'nisi, uadis, a the L ae de r, of dight Dil ater -gal rday rhite tone, MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market tor British Plalitation continued firm. Sales 800 hhds, at an advance of 6d per cwt Lince this day weak. The public sales have comprised 3,350 bags Mauritius, 2,380 bags Bengal, and 900 baskets Penang, which went off readily. Mauritius and Penang at steady rates, hut Bengal brought an advance of 6 , 1 per cwt. The prices obtained were for Mauritius low to good brown 29s to 35s 6d, and 36s to 38s for low grpy and y,.110w; Bengal 38s to 435 for low to fine white Benares, and Penang 30s to 38s for low to mid greyish yellow. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,671 hogsheads 398 tierces 651 barrels; there were taken for home consumption 1,629 hogsheads 160 tierces 269 barrels. The stock in the same places is 27,526 hlcis 3,825 tierces 7,379 barrels. COFFEE.-34 casks 35 barrels Jamaica, 600 bags and 23 casks Plantation Ceylon, and 245 bags Rio, at auction, sold without material change, Plantation Ceylon at 32s 6d to 35s 6d for fine ord; Rio at 32s to 33s for fine ord washed kind. The Jamaica was taken in above the value. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at the Eust and West India Docks was 817 puns 191 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 215 puns 29 !Ads, and exported 109 puns 163 hhds. The stock in the same places is 21,637 puns 2,972 hhds. SALTPETRE.-350 bags Bengal at auction brought the previous value, viz., 25s 6d to 27s 6d for 6 to 41 per cent refraction. SPICES.-150 bags Pimento realised 48d to 4id for fair quality, which are steady prices. INDlGO.—During the past month a fair amount of business has been done at fully previous rates, and prices are firm, with an upward tendency. COCHINEAL continues in fair request. TEA.—The market is quiet, and the deliveries last week were not quite so large. TALLow.—P. Y. C. is 47s per cwt. on the spot, ar,d Town 49s 6d. NAY lIALA3LICETS. SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ to 3/ 15s; New ditto, 218 s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 4/ 4s to 51 ss; New ditto, 31 15s to 4/ 15s ; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 lOs per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBEULAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 16s; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 9s ; Old Clover, 41 5s to 51; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 lOs per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 3/ 16s ; New ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 41 lOs to 5110 s; New ditto, 41 4 s to 51 ; and Straw, 11 6s to 1110 s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. COAL MARKE' Bate's West Hartley 16s 3d Charlotte .. ..... 14s Od e Chester Main 135 6d Dean's Primrose Holywell Main ..... 14s 6d New Tanfield l3l 6d Original Tanfield l2s 3d , Walker's Primrose Wall's End, &c Acorn Close Bewicke and Co Brown's Benson Bensh am -is Od Gosforth Hotspur ... • l4s 3d Killingworth l4s 3d Northumberland Riddell's ..... ...... 14s 3d W barn cl ife Eden Main lss 9d Lambton Primrose Belmont l6s Od l Bell ‘..-YISTEADAT. Hetton 16s 9d Haswell l7s 3d Keepier Lambton tlorrison 14s 9d Russell's Hetton Shotten Stewart's 17a ed udson's Hartlepool lss 6d Eleugh Hall Kenos lss 6(1 15s 6d South Hartlepool fhornley 15e 9t, Adelaide Tees Denison ,Richardson's Tees l4s Od _ _ Seymour Tees South Durham l4s 9d 16s 6d Derwentwaterflartley I6s 3d Horgan's Stone Coal 2ss 6d Powell's Duffqn Stm lBs 9d Snapethorpe l4s Od Ships at market 149. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. The engagements entered into on the Cambridgeshire and Derby w ere of so small an accouEt, that we may confine our observations to the event to come off on Tuesday next, viz., the Cesarewitch. The two favourites for it, The Cur and Lanesborough, have been steadily on the rise for some days, and yesterday were backed at an provement of several points on the last odds quoted from Newmarket. Fern and Dacia were backed for a good deal of mosey at 12 and 13 to 1 each, but at the close the prices returned below were currently offered; 30 to 1 was taken to about 3001. about Diplomatist, and 40 to 1 and 1,000 to 30 about Hagley, and the quoted odds, in small sums, about Palma and Meaux.—Closing prices:— CESAREWITCH STAKES. sto 1 agst Mr. Crawfurd's The Cur, 6 yrs, Bst 3lb —taken 11 to 2 agst Mr. M. Clancy's Lanesborough, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 12 to 1 agst Major Pitt's Fern, 3 yrs, sst 91b 13 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dacia, 3 yrs, 4st 13Ib 20 to 1 agat Lord Clifden's Surplice, 3 yrs, Bst 51b 23 to 1 agst Mr. Walsh's Panic, 5 yrs, Est 101 b 25 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Palma, 4 yrs, sst—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Howth's Peep o'Day Boy, 4 yrs, Bst 41b 25 to 1 agat Mr. S. L. Fox's Meaux, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 25 to 1 agst Mr. Verity's Diplomatist, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 30 to 1 agat Mr. Griffith's Hagley, 3 yrs, sst 33 to 1 agst Lord Clifden'a Loadstone,3 yrs, Est 121 b 40 to I agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 4 yrs, Bst 51b 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour, aged, Bst 21b—t CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 13 to 1 agst Mr. M. Clancy's Lanesborough, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b 15 to 1 agat Mr. Pedley's Foreclosure, 4 yrs, 7st 41b 20 to 1 agat Mr. Payne's Glendower, 3 yrs, 7st 71b 30 to 1 agst Mr. J. Thompson's Marianne, 4 yrs, 6st 10Ib 50 to 1 agst Mr. J. Knight's Gaffer Green, aged, 6st 101 b 7,500 to 50 agst Lanesborough winning the Cessrewitcb, Cambridgeshire, and Liverpool Grand Na tio.al Steeplechase—taken DERBY.' 7 to 1 agat Colonel Peel's Tadmor 18 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Osterly—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Tiresome OAKS. 7 to 1 agat Lord Stanley's Escalade THE CHOLERA. Last night a public meeting, convened under the auspices of the Health of London Association, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, for the purpose of considering and recommending the best means to be adopted for preventing the ravages of the cholera, which is reported to have arrived in this country, and to have manifested itself in several instances at the port of Hull. The meeting was very thinly attended, there being not more than from thirty to forty persons present. Sir Charles Aldis, M.D., occupied the chair. Mr. Jour( LIDDLE moved the first resolution, to the following effect :—" That as the cholera has been imported into England, and as there is reason to be lieve it will shortly make its appearance in our large towns, it becomes the duty of all persons to consider and adopt those means which science and experience have shown to be most successful in preventing the fearful ravages of this formidable disease ; and in the opinion of this meeting, it is expedient that the Gene ral Board of Health should issue printed instructions for the guidance of the public in accomplishing the above object." The Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, M.A., incumbent of Ratcliffe parish, seconded the resolution, and Mr. C. LANE having shortly addressed the meeting, the resolution was put and carried unanimously. Dr. E. RIADORE then proposed the next resolution, which was as follows :—" It having been demonstrated by the extensive experience of medical men abroad, that cholera, though eminently mortal in the second stage, is an extremely tractable and manageable disease when attended to in its primary stage; this meet ing recommend that the necessary precautionary measures should at once be adopted to obtain daily information respecting the health of the various dis tricts in the metropolis, in order that, when the dis ease shall have broken out, the cases may be imme diately reported, and efficient medical aid afforded in the first—the curative stage of the disease." He said that his experience of the cholera during its preva lence in 1831 and 1832 led him to the opinion that it was not contagious ; but whether it was so or not appeared to him of little importance. If that disease were to revisit England, the middling and lower classes would suffer incomparably more from its ravages now, in consequence of the existing commercial depression and distress, than was the case when it formerly appeared amongst us. Po verty, destitution, and starvation, were more power ful allies of that powerful scourge , an d i n d ee d o f disease in general, than statesmen might be disposed to believe ; and a course o f p o li cy a d apte d t o a b ate, if it could not altogether extirpate these monster evils, by securing employment, fresh air, and improved abodes, cheap and good water to the industrious poor, would do far more to permanently disarm disease and stay its hecatombs among our dense population than any temporary or spasmodic efforts hastily de vised could possibly achieve to put down so fatal an enemy as cholera or any other similar visitation. Mr. THOMAS ABRAHAM seconded the resolution, which having been supported by Mr. C. COCHRANE, was carried unanimously. Mr. HooGnss, barrister, moved the third resolution, which read thus :—" In order that the recommenda tions contained in the preceding resolutions may be effectually carried out, it is desirable that the me tropolis be divided into districts, to which medical officers of experience and skill should be appointed, a port= of whose duty should be to receive and digest the reports of the local boards of health, and the medical and other officers, and transmit the same to the central board of health. He condemned the conduct of the Government with respect to the Health of Town's Bill, and inveighed loudly against its general neglect of the comforts and wants of the poor. He then passed to the subject of the sale of diseased cattle at Smithfield, and mentioned that from 400 to 600 head of unsound cattle, and from 1,000 to 1,400 diseased sheep were sold weekly at Smithfield-market. The latter were sold at ld. per lb., and the venders made a profit of 400 per cent. upon them. Mr. C. LANE seconded the resoluticn, and it was then passed unanimously. After some further discussion, thanks were voted to the Cluurman, and the meeting broke up. West THE S DEFENCE OF LAMARTINE. (Continued from The Sun of Friday.) ELEVENTH ACCUSATION. I return to the Executive Commission. It wa , , I have already observed, a Government to use and to accuse, a plank of safety employed to cross the tre mendous abyss of difficulties, and to be afterwards cast down the precipice. Its devotion was its only merit: we had each of us a consciousness of sacri fice. Whatever may be said to the contrary, our devotedness was sincere, active, and unanimous. All the members of that Government performed their duties better and more earnestly than was imagined without. Nothing was achieved by them merely with an eye to reprehension or,eulogium ; everything was done with justice and impartiality. It is true that this Government had a, 23d of June—that was its deplorable misfortune; but all the great revolu tions appear to have the destiny of liquidating them selves at the commencement by days of this character. As it was, however, the National Assembly and the Moderate Republic proved triumphant. Behold all that we have in this instance to reply. And with what forces, let us ask—with what forces were the National Assembly and the Moderate Republic en abled to vanquish their assailants ? With the forces prepared by U 3 in the Garde Mobile, in the civic guards, in the troops of the line, directed by the hand of the Republican General whom we ourselves re called from Africa to save the Republic in this pre destined catastrophe. One word upon that 15th of May and that 23d of June, in regard to which the imbecility of hatred and slander has not feared to seek out against me calum nious charges of complicity. The 15th of May was a public accident (une acci dent populaire), a scandal, the irruption of a riotous mob into the Chamber, without any positive intention of crime on the part of the multitude, without any other project in the mind of its leaders than that of insulting and degrading the Assembly, and of render ing the national representation subservient to the clubs. The rioters themselves were, numerically speaking, very insignificant. The chiefs of the prin cipal factions did not participate in their undertaking, and would not consent to afford it the aid of their countenance. They watched the result of this con spiracy as an essay of the smaller factions, which would indicate the extent to which they might without rashness hazard their own larger capacities. I am persuaded that, supposing the details of this melancholy occurrence examined, we should find that amongst the greater number of those who in vaded the National Assembly there was immeasurably more of impulse than of premeditation. Behold, now, however, how far I was their ac complice : At the entrance of the principal vestibule of the hall of sitting I placed myself alone, and with my arms extended, before the head of the co lumn. The deputation from the mob outside spoke in violent terms of threats and of poignards. I did not listen to them; I would not see them ; and an im passioned dialogue ensued between the leaders of the deputation and myself. " I am a member of the Government; my duty is to shelter the National Assembly from all attempts upon its dignity. You shall only pass onwards over my body." They sof tened their tone; they began to discuss . ; they retreated. A little later, the crowd having invaded all the lobbies, entered by the tribunes. I remained upon my bench, witnessing this disorder with consterna- tion and silence, and waiting, as did all the other members of the National Assembly, until the Na tional Guard, informed of what was occurring, should come to cover the representatives with their bayonets. I have been reproached with not having spoken during this tumult. Behold why it was that I pre served silence at the tribune. While I was hurrying a few moments before, through the corridors, the halls, the gardens, and the courts, I was received with two or three cries of Death to Lamartine ! drowned immediately afterwards by shouts of a contrary description. A reflex of popularity still encompassed me. The people seemed to regret the Provisional Go vernment. I reflected. If I ascend the tribune, I said to myself, if I am applauded, I shall appear in the eyes of my colleagues as one not very far removed from complicity with those men who have insulted and invaded the Assembly. I shall have the appear ance of desiring to weigh down the representation under the pressure of the multitude. I quitted my place ; during two hours I harangued the groups which were collected 'together in the neighbouring saloons ; I was surrounded, pressed upon, and was caressed rather than menaced by the disordered but not furious voices of the multitude. Thousands of auditors listened to the words which I uttered. Let them say if there was in any one of the harangues anything except reproaches and adjurations addressed to the people, to induce them to return to their re spect for their real sovereignty ! All the representa tives preserved an attitude worthy of the nation of Boissy d'Anglas. At the moment when the Na tional Assembly was dissolved, and when its Mem bers quitted the hall to go and rally the defenders of order, some brave citizens, whose names I have since learnt, drew me away from the tumult, caused me to traverse the garden, and conducted me, to await the fate of the day, in the Cabinet of the Adminis tration of the President of the Assembly. They were indignant at the attempt, and humiliated at the calamity which had befallen the Government. "If it continues only for a single night," I said to them, " I will go and sleep at Vincennes." They exclaimed to me in reply—" It will not continue two hours." The drums of the National Guard were already audible. They beat the charge. We descended upon the terrace which borders the quay. We re entered the sitting with the first battalion of the Garde Mobile. As they marched forwards, the soldiers carried me to the reconquered tribune. While I was mounting its steps I learnt that the rioters had obtained a forcible entrance into the II0t(1 de Ville. They had established themselves there, said my informer, surrounded by five or six thousand armed men and guarded by four pieces of cannon, which they had discovered in the courtyards. " I am about to march thither !" I cried, " while you here resume the sitting of your sovereignty. We will not allow the promoters of civil war time to organize themselves; we will strangle the incipient rebel lion in its cradle. Let us proceed at once to the combat!" The Minister of the Interior was in the hall ; he departed in my com pany. We mounted on horseback. We pro ceeded to the Place de Greve at the head of a column of the National Guard and of the cavalry of the line. I dispatched persons in search of two pieces of cannon, with which to force open the gates. One column aggregated its strength with the universality of the good citizens who hastened spontaneously from all the legions to avenge France. The factious con spirators did not even attempt to defend the seat of Government of which they had come to proclaim the installation. We caused them to be arrested ; we ordered them to be transferred during the night to Vincennes to screen them from the indignation of the people, and by that means to avoid the effusion of the first blood of the Revolution. My return to the Assembly, through the midst of a crowd intoxicated with its victory over' anarchy, was one of the most unanimous and prolonged acclamations which has ever made the air vibrate with the name of a citizen. Was this, I ask, the welcome given to the accomplice . . or to the repressor of a sedition ? All Paris can reply. TWELFTH ACCUSATION. But, it is added, you displayed no foresight whatever of the great explosion of rebellion on the 23d of June, that explosion of which the dissolution of the Ateliers Nationaux was the signal, neither did you make any preliminary preparations of force sufficient to struggle against this inevitable movement. You thus allowed it to accumulate its energies, to prolong its existence, and to degenerate into a civil war of four days' duration, covering Paris with blood and consternation, while it decimated the ranks of the National Guard and the army Y Citizens ! If my conscience had told me that I de served these reproaches I should have caused myself to be killed by way of expiation upon the summit cf the first barricade. But I have not one minute of this tardiness (imprevoyance) upon my heart, not ' one drop of this blood upon my hands. You are about to judge whether or not this is the case from the evidence afforded by facts, by date 3, and by the proces-verbal of the Executive Commission. Behold them:— And, first of all, have I flattered. the National LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1848. Assembly with vain promises? have I deceived them by my arguments upon the consequences of a struggle into the rashness of giving their consent on the in stant to the dissolution of the Ateliers Nationaux Judge for yourselves l Towards the end of May the Committee of Labour interrogated M. Gamier Pages and myself as to the plan of the Government in re gard to the dissolution of the agglomeration of autho rised idleness which already began to evidence the fermentation of the spirit of fiction. I explained the best means to the Committee. I detailed those means above all things in the redemption of the railways, a measure, the principle of which had been decreed by the Provisional Government, and the action of which would be that, in reviving that great mechanism of industry under the hand of the State itself, it would impart to all the other secondary interests many mil lion springs of impulsion. " Since the 24th of February," I said to the Committee, " my only thought has been to discover some pacific solution to the extreme difficulties of our situation, to find out the causes of those difficulties, and to avoid all kinds of shocks and all effusion of blood, in the hope of preserving to the Republic its beautiful character of gentleness, and to the people a certain serenity of temperament. I knew better than most persons the urgency, the turbulence, and the anxiety which the Ateliers Nationaux caused to press heavily during many weeks upon Paris and upon France—a load of intimidation and inquietude which no industrial society could sustain for a very long period. But by the redemption of:the railways, by a large display of armed force in Paris, and by the graduated dispersion of the workmen throughout the departments, together with work assured to them and prepared for them in perspective, I still hoped to traverse this last crisis without resorting to the lunar caustic of the Government (sans porter le feu dans la plaie)." " But," observed the President, "if the.Natinnal Assembly does not coincide with you as to the re demption of the railways, how will you then contrive to carry out your plans for a pacific disbandment ?" " Oh ! then I can only see the inevitable alterna tive of a battle," I replied without a moment's hesita tion, " and it is precisely this extremity that I should wish to avoid at all hazards and at all sacrifices." The battle has since taken place. Ought we, after this, to regard Paris and society as_ having been be trayed ? I open again the authentic proces•verbaux of the Government, and I read :- 12th May.—M. De Lamartine proposed that the Ateliers Nationaux should be scrutinized, and that a certain portion of the persons employed in those establishments should be distributed throughout France and Algeria; and that the workmen should be paid one-third in money, and the two other thirds in drafts upon the confiscated property.—(Adopted.) It was decided, moreover, that the lists of inscrip ion to the Ateliers should be closed. And that all the able-bodied men between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, without families in Paris, should be allowed a choice between enrolment and disbandment. May 16.—The Government dissolved the moun taineers, besides authorising and purifying the Re publican Guard. I myself assisted personally at the Hotel of the Prefecture of Police, on the occasion of the dismissal of the old National Guard, who were there assembled together to the number of twenty thousand men. The National Guard there saluted me with their farewell acclamations. At this sitting was also read the law against unnecessary assem- blages. On the 30th of May, the Government decided that the garrison of Paris should be composed— _ _ Ist. Of twenty thousand men of the troops of the 2d. Of five thousand men of the Garde Mobile. 3d. Of two thousand six hundred of the National Guard. 4th. Of two thousand and fifty of the Guardians of Paris. sth. Of five thousand men of the troops of the line in the suburbs and in the garrisons, who could within a few hours concentrate themselves in Paris. In all fifty-four thousand six hundred and fifty bayonets. An order of commission was also passed autho rising the Minister of War, in the event of any serious danger, to take the supreme command of the troops of all arms, infantry, cavalry, artillery, the Garde Mebile, and the resident guard of Paris. During the following days a series of military orders were issued for the purpose of covering the Assembly and repressing all nocturnal assemblages- Eight hundred conspirators were arrested in a single night. 31st May.—An order was dispatched to the Minister of War, instructing him to send in every day to the Executive Commission his reports upon the state of the army. THE MAGAZINES. BLACK WOOD. Augustine Caxton recounts the history of his first love—Lady Elinor Compton—to his wife and the Anachronism. The story is touching from the sim plicity of the narrator. It is the clue to the mys teries of the plot—the main spring of the machinery of the fiction—the very bone and marrow of the story. It is a beautiful revelation of the different characters already introduced—the gallant and haughty Roland ; the generous old Earl of Rsins forth ; the ambitious Lady Elinor; the active and enterprising Trevanion ; and Austin himself, the noble old philosopher. It is quite in keeping with the disposition of the latter when he exclaims that he should have been " crushed" had Lady Elinor, while he was wooing her, become an heiress by the death of her brother Lord Pendarvis. Mr. Tibbets in vain dangles the puddings of emolument (2,0001.) before the eyes of the author of the " History of Human Errors." The great book can find no publisher—like many other great books which have been written only to be destroyed. Besides his project of the " Literary Times" Uncle Jack has another scheme in his head, to wit the " Grand Anti-Publisher Confederate Author's Society." The notion is an exquisite absurdity —especially, as Pisistratus observes, as any one would as lief submit a work to a pub lisher as to a select committee of authors. Part VII., however, of " The Caxtons," is principally delightful for its development of the novel and fasci nating character of Sir Sedley Beaudesert. The de lineation of his temperament is as delicate as that of Will Honeycomb of immortal memory ; and the grace of his home is depicted as voluptuously as that of Pelham. Beyond all these tidbits, nevertheless, com mend us to the twenty-eighth chapter—the chapter of the cr-cr-crrrr l—the earwig, the very large motherly earwig, the earwig far gone in that way in which—cr-cr-er !—the hornet, the Labidoura, the Forficulida auriculana—crawl, crawl, crawling over the nape of the author's neck while he is writing, re • minding him, in a breath, of Mrs. Primmins, and her horrid nursery story,:of Mr. Payne Knight and his " Inquiry into Symbolical Languages," of the Zebub of Baal and antenna with thirty joints ! Laurence Sterne might have written it in one of his broken chapters on Shandeau philosophy. Robert Southey might have written it in the scholarly fun of his Doctor. Charles Lamb might have written it and revelled over the writing of it, in his fantastic, odd, capital Essays. The close, too, of the instalment of " The Caxtons " for October is perfectly and charmingly Shandean. If Sterne exercises any occult influence over the literature of his coun try, he is certainly the inspiration of this con tributor. After a sober criticism upon Mr. Mill's "Pi in - ciples of Political Economy"—there is the continua tion of the late Lieutenant Ruxton's jovial chapters, entitled, "Life in the Far West." " A Legend from Antwerp," purporting to be a translation from a tale in the Flemish, tells us in rapid and earnest words of the career of the " Doomster's Firstborn." We rather suspect that Lina, beautiful as her devotion is for the scn of the headsmen, must come under the category of strong-minded women, when we find that devotion carrying her to the foot of the scaffold to see her lover enact the part of an executioner. " A Word about Novels," being a dialogue contained in a letter addressed to Eusebius by Aquilius is worth reading, if only for its sensible argument in favour of novels and romances. The Curate reasons most logically against all those prudes and Puritans who scout fictions as " Satan's books," fraught with everything pernicious. From the dialogue, moreover, the memory is "jogged" pleasantly enough in regard to the whole catalogue of novels and novel-writers, from the gorgeous and magical phantasmagoria of the "One Thousand and One Nights," to the sickly and puling crudities of the " Hymns in Prose," from the " Pilgrim's Progress" to " Modern Philosophers ;" from " Coslebs".to " Clarissa ;" from " Pamela" to " Joseph Andrews ;" from the " Vicar of Wake field" to the " Vicar of Wrexhill ;" from " Tom Jones" to " Waverley ;" from the " Canterbury Tales" to Miss Edgeworth ; from " Don Quixote" to " Pickwick ;" from "Dombey and Son" to " Gil Blas ;" from " Tristram Shandy" to " Sir Roger de Coverley ;" from " Mount Sorrel" to the " Juif Er rant ;" from " Ten Thousand a Year" to " Emilia Wyndham ;" from the " Diary of a Physician" to the " Doctor ;" from " Daphne and Chloe" to the "Mysteries of Udolpho," &c., &c., &c., &c., &c., down to two of the most remarkable of recent fictions, " Jane Eyre" and " Madame de Malquet." Coin ciding, as we do right heartily, with the contributor in his eulogistic estimate of Mr. Warren, we differ from him not the less heartily in his depreciatory estimate of Mr. Dickens. The former is as much above the philsophic Godwin in genius as a novelist, as the latter is to our thinking beyond Fielding, both in humour and pathos. And we say this with all reverence both for the intellects of Godwin and of Fielding—with a full appreciation of the extraordi nary powers betrayed in " Caleb Williams" and the " History of a Foundling." Granted that the close of " Dombey and Son " is in many respects faulty, but we are, in spite of all this, bold to say that in no one of the immortal fictions of Fielding can be found anything comparable to the life- scenes and the death scene of little Paul Dombey. As to Dickens being wanting in Simpletonianism—is there no simple tonianisn2_ &Us sisresp.w.. plaearyble, in Tim Linklnwater, in Tom Pinch, in Mr. Pickwick, in Captain Cuttle, in Mrs. Mayley, in Abel Garland, and in glorious old John Willet ? Is there none ? To our mind there are simpletonians among the creations of Dickens comparable to those enumerated by the reviewer,—to Uncle Toby and Parson Adams, to Gil Blas and Sancho Panza, to Dr. Prim rose, to Moses, to Sir Roger de Coverley, and to their companions. Howbeit the literary gossip of the paper is agreeable and wholesome. The concluding contribution a critical analysis of " Byron Address to the Ocean "—those magnificent stanzas which are familiar as household thoughts to every one who can appreciate the noble poem of " Childe Harold "—the concluding contribution, we say, upon this Address deserves our severest reprehension. And why ? Because the writer labours hard, through fifteen mortal pages, to prove that the, stanzas in question are little better than fustian and hyperbole, sometimes sinking into a maudlin affectation, and sometimes rising into a preposterous rant. We remember reading once an elaborate essay proving —yes, proving—by all the laws of grammar, poetry, and rhetoric, Gray's " Elegy 17. a Count ry Ch urchyar d" t o b e s h eer non sense. 11 e read this essay, and we acknowledge that the arguments were cogent enough and forcible enough—so cogent and so forcible, indeed, that we would not readily have u n d er t a ken their refutation, s eeing that it would have required more time and exer tion on our part than we would have deemed the subject to be worthy of. A n d yet we love d G ray ' s " El egy " not a h _ whit the l ess — the more, in truth, if that be possible with us after, the Present criticism. And if oar ! so, TAte:9l - tbe iinet. be; enhanced,. we need not say 'valet are our thoughts of the critic ! Of the article upon the " Continental Revolutions," w e may speak elsewhere. Blackwood seems to ripen in merit with the advancing autumn—its outpourings this month are, on the average, as generous as the nut-brown ale of October. BENTLEY. Again we have three articles on the events in Paris, and the last (entitled Parisian Silhouettes) evidently from the pen of son-se " waiting gentlewo man." We have already had de trop of Parisian re miniscences in all the magazines. Our old friend the Flaneur, leaving Paris to th e am ate ur w r it ers , has w i se ly shifted his quarters t o Fra n kf or t, an d has given us some delightful sketches of the members of the German Parliament. Take the following por trait of Von Gagers, the President, as an example : " That tall commanding figure in the President's tri bune is the Preside nt himself, Von Gagers. He is the true type of the revolutionary Moder a t e o f th e d a y. Long one of the most firm,. conscientious, and energetic deputies upon the o pposite side, in the Darmstadt Chamber, he retired wit h dis g ust fro m public life when he found that he could not carry out his theories of con titutional liberty, and, like another Cincinnatus, lived until, when the apart ' in the farm,' and ' at the plough,' stormy wind of revolut ion be g an to blow, a n d th rea t ene d to sweep down every bulwark of th e li tt l e state, he was suddenly called upon b y his Prince to take the helm, and direct the vessel through the angry waves in that track which he had as yet so vainly attempted to follow. the National As- One of the chosen repr esentatives i n the new sembly, he has since throw n up place and power, and refused a post of weig ht Cabinet of the in order to di rect the movements new German Empire, of that new vessel in which the destinies of all Germany are embarked, the General Assembly. He is in truth the ' man of the day ;' and, perhaps, he is, among all the numerous deputies, the only one capabl e o f di rect i ng the tempest of Parliamentary violence an d d om i nat i ng the storm. He has energy, presence of mi n d, goo d sense, and the commanding manner, that does so much towards imposing and directing. lie is tall and stout ; his face is intelligent and dign ified without being handsome ; his brows, more especially, are stron g l y marked, and are s full of the essence of calm, elf-con sc i ous energy. There is a dignified boldness in his appearance, manner, atti tude, voice, language, all. Again, he is th e ' man o f t h e day ;' and, perhaps, as the Presid ent of the National Assembly, he may be said, alone, to have grasped the convu lsed materials of w hich i t was composed, and moulded them with powerful hand from the first chaotic state into a whole, which bears a more dignified, impres sive, and practical form.' George Hodder and Leech , f , urnish a d ro ll ery ent i tied the " Golden Fleece, and William Henry Maxwell, under the title of " Queen's Bench Sketches," gives us some powerful, but most sombre, portraits of the inmates of that wretched abode of mis fortune and vice. They are as true to the stern realities of life as the charac ters that Crabbe was wont to draw, and this paper furnishes arguments irresistible in favour of a reform of our whole system of imprisonment for debt. It is rotten from the foundation, and while it ruins the honest man, affords impunity COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert left town yesterday morning for her Majesty's marine residence, Osborne, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Royal, took their departure from Buckingham Palace, at twenty minutes before ten o'clock, in a carriage and four. The Countess of Gainsborough, Miss Hillyard, Major-General Bowles, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Sey mour, followed in two carriages and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert were conducted to their carriage by the Vice-Chamberlain. l a ‘ r r t e y 6t t e r r a n ve ß ll a e i d lw to ay G . osport by the Lon don T and h eau S g o u u s t t ph- Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office trom the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, the Mauritius, and Malta. The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch arrived in town on Saturday night from Scotland. ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT OSBQRNE. PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Her Majesty the queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal, Prince of Wales, and Prince Alfred, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, arrived at noon, this day, at the South-Western terminus in the Royal Clarence-yard. The royal party were received on alighting from the state carriages by the naval Commander-in-Chief, Admiral the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Rear-Admiral Superintendent Prescott, C. 8., the Lieutenant-Governor, Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, and staff, the usual cortege of other military and naval officers, and by a Guard of Honour, furnished by the Royal Marine Artillery, under Colonel Gibson. The royal party immediately proceeded on board the Fairy, Captain Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, and were quickly en route for Osborne. The usual :compliments were paid her Majesty. The Victory, the Illustrious, the Cyclops, the Driver, the Rolla, and various other vessels, were dressed in colours, manned yards, and cheered ; the Powerful and Virago, at Spithead, also paid the royal standard similar marks of respect—the Victory, the Garrison Battery, and the Powerful, firing ro, al salutes. Her Majesty and Court, landed at Osborne, about one o'clock, under a salute from Cowes Castle. It is said the Court will only remain a few days at Osborne. The royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord A. Fitzclarence, and the Black Eagle, Admiralty steam (yacht, Master-Commander Cook, came up to Portsmouth Harbour, from Cowes, this afternoon, at four o'clock. The Lightning, steam tender, Master-Commander Petley, will carry her Majesty's letters and dispatches to Cowes, this evening. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The following is an extract from a letter, dated July 11, written by Sir James Ross, on board the Investigator, off the Vrow Islands:—" We have been stopped here by the ice, but make the attempt to get through in a couple of days. We had rather a rough passage across the Atlantic, but managed to rough it, and are at present all well and happy. No news as yet of Sir John Eranklin. All the whalers have gone to the south to find an opening through the ice, having been unsuccessful on this side of the Strait. We are at present fast to an iceberg, and I assure you they are very unpleasant customers to deal with, great pieces breaking off very often, which is rather dangerous if they strike the ship. This is the last place we shall have an opportunity of writing from, so that you will not hear of us again until our return." PORT OF LONDON REGULATIONS. — It is the intention of the Corporation of London to revise and alter the whole of the by-laws and regulations which affect the shipping interest in the port of London. The great in crease of the number of colliers and steamers frequent ing the port, has, in a great measure, rendered such revision and alteration necessary. CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 2.-TRINITY COLLEGE.—The annual examination of candidates for fellowships at this college commenced this morning in the College-hall, and will be continued daily up to and including Friday next. There are five vacancies. The papers will be examined before, and the names of the successful competitors de clared upon the 10th inst. to the swindler and holds out a premium for the com mission of perjury. "The Demon of the Steppes," by Mrs. Sinnett, is a legend of the Cossacks oi the Don. It is well told, and conveys much curious information as to the manners, customs, and super stitions of the Cossack tribes. The delightful sketches of French scenery, architectural and rural, entitled " Wayside Pictures," are continued. Caen, the Vaux de Vire, and Ville Dieu, are the subjects of the sketches in this number ; their author, moreover, gives us some delightful peeps into fairy land—(the belief in the existence of the fairies still forms a por tion of the creed of the Norman peasant), and takes us on a visit to the Mill of Olivier Basselin, the Beranger of the fifteenth century, and who is im mortalised as the inventor of the vaudeville. One of the most interesting papers of the present number is by Charles Whitehead, and is entitled the "Carica tures of the Eighteenth Century." It is, in fact, a biography of James Gillray, and is illustrated by a portrait of that far-famed caricaturist and by wood cuts from some of his most celebrated caricatures. With the exception of " Parisian Silhouettes," all the papers in this number of Bentley are much above the average. FRASER. We rejoice to find Fraser coming forward to vin dicate the much-abused Provisional Government of the French Republic of February from the accu sations which the reactionaires in the Assembly, headed by Thiers and Odilon Barrot, have brought against it, with the double object of ruining their political opponents, and of producing such a state of anarchy and distrust as to render a republic impos sible. In an elaborate review of the " Report on the French Insurrection in June"—a report which tres passed far beyond the bounds of the inquiry confided to the committee ; Fraser boldly declares that the real objects of the attack of the reactionary and monarchi cal party—the men of the Provisional Government— stand on higher ground than they did before. He thus sums up the marvels which the Provisional Government, or rather M. de Lamartine, who was the soul of the Provisional Government, accomplished by moral means alone : " Without an army, with no other force than their moral influence, these men succeeded in creating some kind of order out of such complete disorder ; and with out shedding a drop of blood, or infringing on the liberties of one of their fellow-citizens, by their well timed concessions, kept hostile factions in comparative repose, until a more legal authority could be substituted for theirs. For these services they are entitled to the gratitude of their country, whatever may have been their legislative acts. Most of their decrees have been re voked one by one, and almost the only remaining vestige of their administration is the abolition of the pain of death for political offences : but this is of itself a title of glory, when we consider under what circumstance it was pronounced. It is, thanks to them, that France can point with pride to the bloodless annals of the first days of the Republic. We may also safely affirm that the triumph of order over anarchy in the late insurrection was mainly owing to an admirable measure of the Pro visional Government,—the establishment of the Garde Mobile, whereby twenty thousand deserters from the cause of the Barricades were enlisted in the defence of order. The toleration accorded to certain men, the sup port given to certain clubs, are in vain brought forward as proofs of guilty connivance, when, by the very docu ments before us, we see how impossible it would have been to oppose them. The Provisional Government could as easily have replaced Louis Philippe on his throne, as have closed one of those clubs, whose armed bands could dictate laws to the seeming dictators. The Republican cause, during eighteen years of conspiracies and hazardous attempts, had recruited adherents, whose demands, it was evident, would become a source of in conceivable danger whenever the day of triumph arrived. These desperate allies could not be discarded with impunity on the morrow of victory ; and had the im prudent experiment been tried, there can be now little doubt as to what would have been the result." This is excellent, and it is true ; and the suffrage of Fraser more than counterbalances the pigmy assaults of those who in the English reactionary press, in obedience to the inspirations of the Tory aristocracy, write as if cet excellent Aberdeen were still in office and could reward them for doing the dirty work of the clique at Claremont. The other political article in the Fraser .of this month is entitled " United States' Aggrandisements and Projects on the side of Mexico." The writer of this paper shows, by the most irrefragable documentary evidence that the designs of the United States on Mexico have been of long standing; that, as far back as 1805, a project was broached for the conquest of Mexico, and that the different Governments of the United States have steadily kept the object in view ever since. " The Convent Witch" is an elaborate review of Meinhold's recently published work, " Sidonia von Borcke, die Klosterhexe." We have also reviews of Harold and of Amymone, and biographies of Major-General Sir John Hunter Littler, and of Hector Berlioz, the great French composer. " The Inundation of Pest" is a Hungarian romance, of which we have the two first chapters; and " Yeast" is continued. One of the pleasantest articles in this number of Fraser is en titled " Publishers and Authors," and is full of amusing gossip about Dryden and Tonson, Lintot and Pope, Cave and Johnson, and in fact about all the celebrated publishers and authors who flourished in the first half of the last century. SUICIDE by a REJECTED LOVER. On Wednesday an inuest was held before Mr. Chapman, th e borough Coroner, at the Royal In• firmary, on the body of a young man named John Ashmore, stripper, Butler-street, Newton- lane, aged 21 years, who poisoned himself under the following circumstances : It appeared that the deceased resided with his pa rents in Gegg's•buildings, near Butler's-street, and for the last two or three years worked in a factory with a young woman named Isabella Hudson. An intimacy sprung up between the parties and they were about being married, but some dispute having arisen the match was broken off, and Miss Hudson refused to receive the deceased on the same terms of intimacy which she bad previously done, though she spoke civilly to him. This seems to have preyed upon the mind of the deceased, who became gloomy and low spirited, devoting all his leisure time to reading and letter writing. On Thursday, the 21st, deceased called his former sweatheart to his frame in the factory, and told her that he would destroy himself unless she again restored bim to her favour, at the same time telling her that he blamed her parents for the estrangement which existed between them. He also added she would soon receive a letter, written in blue ink, with three black seals. The girl chided deceased for his foolishness, and returned to her work, taking no further notice of what he had said. On the following morning Hudson re ceived a letter written in blue ink, having three black seals, in which he intimated that he would poison himself beneath an arch in Rochdale-road, where his body would be found. The father of cleceased ptated, that deceased left home on Fiiday night, for , the • purpose of-taking-a bath, aid' returned again. He then sat down and wrote a letter, and the rest of the family having gone to bed, deceased again left the house, and did not re turn matil about five o'clock next morning, when he came in a miserable plight. He was without shoes, hat, or waistcoat, and appeared to be very ill. He was in stantly put to bed, and then admitted that he had taken a quantity of arsenic, which he had purchased at the shop of Mr. Rae, druggist, Oldham-road. Mr. Storey, a druggist, was then sent for, but deceased refused to take what he had ordered, and as the day advanced he became very ill. He was removed in the course of the same evening to the Infirmary, where he died on Tuesday morning last. A verdict of " Self-poisoning with arsenic, whilst labouring under temporary insanity," was returned.—Manchester Times. THE ARMY IN IRELAND.—The following is an official return of the troops in Ireland for the present month:-Ist Dragoon Guards Cahir, 6th ditto Dundalk, 2d Dragoons Athlone, 4th Light Dragoons Newbridge, 6th ditto Dublin, 7th Hussars Dublin, Bth Hussars, New bridge, 12th Lancers Cork, 13th Light Dragoons Long ford, 17th Lancers Cork, Ist Foot (2nd battalion) Par sonstown, 2d Foot Dublin, 3d Buffs Limerick, 6th Foot (2d battalion) Fermoy, 9th Dublin, 13th Belfast, 26th Cork, 31st Athlone, 35th Mullingar, 40th Dublin, 41st Buttevant, 42d Templemore, 47th Limerick, 48th Dub lin, 49th Dublin, 55th Dublin, 57th Enniskillen, 59th Templemore, 64th Clonmel, 68th Galway, 70th Cork, 71st Naas, 74th Dublin„ 75th Kilkenny, 82d Fermoy, 85th Waterford, 89th Parsonstown, 92d Limerick. In addition to these there are the depot companies of the 7th Foot Youghal, the 19th Castlebar, 34th Nenagh, 38th Boyle, 66th Kinsale, 73d Fermoy, 79th Mullingar, 88th Tralee, 95th Londonderry. None of the new military stations formed in Ireland will remain perma nent, but they will nevertheless be maintained for some time longer. The whole of the force now in the country, including those already recounted, Artillery, Marines, Sappers and Miners, armed police, &c.,amounts to about 48,000 men. It is expected that ex-Quarter master Hannahan, of the 13th Prince Albert's Own, who stands charged with having embezzled the funds of the regiment, as well as with having joined the rebels, will be tried by general court-martial. The prisoner was by virtue of his responsible situation a full com missioned officer in ber Majesty's service. The unfor tunate man rose from the ranks, and also served for a long period in India. ALTRINCHAM.—A CHILD KILLED BY DRINKING HOT TEA..—On Thursday last an inquest was held at the Wool Pack public• house, before Mr. Roscoe, on the body of Henry, aged two years, son of Mr. Peter Drink water, gardener. It appeared that on Wednesday last, whilst his mother and father were sitting at the tea table, the child came into the house, got hold of the tea pot, and drank a small quantity of scalding tea from it. He lingered until Thursday morning, when he died. A verdict of Accidental death was returned.—Manchester Guardian. _ SAVINGS BANKS IN IRELAND.—By an Act of the last session (11th and 12th Victoria, cap. 133), from and after the 20th day of next month, trustees and managers of Savings Banks in Ireland may limit their responsi bility to 1001.; but are to be personally liable for all sums received by them and not paid over. LYCEUM THEATRE. This, the drawing-room of theatres, opened for the winter season last evening, and if the opening night may be considered as in any degree prophetic of the fate of the season, then will the next season till to repletion the coffers of the treasury, for long before the commencement of the performances the house was crowded. The performances consisted of the farce of Anything for a Change, which, with Charles Mathews as the hero and Kathleen Fitzwilliam as the heroine, was so successful last season ; a revival of Planche's chef d'csuvre the Court Beauties, and the Critic. The Courtßeauties will be recollected by all old playgoers as perhaps the prettiest comedy that was produced at the Olympic under the management of Madame Vestris. The scene is laid at the Court of Charles 11., and Mr. Planche has given us all the sparkle, the wit, the repartee of the Court conversa tion of that period without any of its grossness. The piece was much more strongly cast last evening than when originally produced at the Olympic—Charles Mathews, for instance, was Buckingham, and made quite a character of that part which in the hands of his predecessor was little better than a walking gen tleman. The raise en scene was the perfection of elegance and goad taste. All the minutiae of costume, decorations, and properties were attended to, even to the "King Charles spaniels," which attended his Majesty in his walks in the park. The last scene —a tableau vivant of the portraits of the Court Beau ties, as they now appear at Hampton Court—was one of the most beautiful ever represented. The National Anthem was sung at the conclusion of the Court Beauties, the solo parts being taken by Madame Vestris and Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam. Ma dame Vestris, who looked exceedingly well, and who sung divinely, was received with the most enthu siastic welcome, and her charming manner of render ing the last verse of the National Anthem secured for it an encore. The Critic followed, Charles Mat thews acting, as is his wont, both Sir Fretful and Puff, and Harley Don Ferolo. The great event of this part of the performance, however, was the first appearance at this theatre of Mrs. Yates, who took the character of Tilburina. When, on her first appearance, Charles Mathews, as Puff, greeted her with, " Ah ! Mrs. Yates, who would have thought of seeing you here ?" the applause was un bounded—to make use of a phrase familiar to those who study the reports of the debates, it was " loud and long-continued cheering, which lasted several minutes." She was called for at the conclusion, and was again rapturously greeted. Madame Vestris was called on at the conclusion of the National Anthem, and there were divers other calls for old favourites in the course of the evening, all of whc... received the most enthusiastic welcome. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. Maddox has taken advantage of the recess to reburnish and redecorate this gorgeous little theatre, that it looks now "as good as new." The panels of the boxes have been redecorated and regilded ; the boxes themselves have been newly lined and hung with new curtains of rich red damask and white muslin, the effect produced by which is very beauti ful, and exceedingly becoming to the fair occupants of the boxes aforesaid, whose charms are thus set off a merveille. The ceiling has been ornamented by an allegorical painting of the four sea sons, and there is a new and elegant chandelier. The performances last night were an English version of the Daughter of the Regiment, with Miss Poole as the heroine ; the last new farce of Pay Me; or If You Don't; and the divertissement, La Rosiere, which introduced to us three new aspirants for Terp sichorean fame, viz., Signor Ferranti, from Madrid ; Mademoiselle Thierry, from La Scala; and Made moiselle Ferranti, who were all completely success ful. Mr. Maddox, it is said, intends to confine him self to the performance of operas, giving ballet and farce as afterpieces. His operatic corps is very strong. It includes Mademoiselle Nau and Mademoiselle de Rossi, from the Grand Opera, Paris ; Miss Poole, Miss Rafter, of whom report speaks highly; Miss Julia Harland, and several debutantes; Mr. Allen, Mr. Charles Braham, Mr. Rafter, and Mr. Weiss. Flotow's new opera of Leoline will be among the earliest productions. CREMORNE GARDENS. These delightful and favourite gardens closed for the season last night. Notwithstanding the threaten ing aspect of the weather upwards of 3,000 persons assembled on this occasion as a mark of respect to the indefatigable and worthy proprietor, Mr. Ellis, whose benefit it :was. The farce of The Bath Road ; or the Intrigue, was very well acted throughout, especially the Tom of Mr. Van Bure,n. The National Anthem followed, Mr. Ellis, Mr. Van Buren, and Miss Prescot, singing the prin cipal verses, assisted by the entire company. Mr. Ellis (the proprietor) was much cheered at the conclusion of his verse, which he gave with spirit, and in delivering the following address, the applause was so great, and his feelings so overcome, that he was only faintly heard by the greater portion of the audience : Ladies and Gentlemen—On the present occasion I feel it a duty I owe both you and myself, to submit to your notice a few observations, and as this is my first appearance on any stage, I trust you will afford me your indulgence. I beg to offer you my moat sincere and grateful thanks for the very liberal and distinguished patronage with which you have been pleased to honour Cremorne Gardens during the three seasons it has been under my direction, and to assure you that no effort shall be wanting, no expense spared, in ,rendering it worthy your future approbation and support. During each vacation alterations, enlargements, and I trust, improvements, have been made, and while encouraged by your approval, rest assured I will not relax in my endeavours to render this place of amusement worthy of your patronage. I regret that the present season, owing to the unfavour able state of the weather, has not been equal to our anticipations ; still lam not discouraged, and pledge myself that during the approaching recess every improvement shall be made which may add to your comforts, and every novelty and attraction sought for which may contribute to your amusement. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, I beg to offer you my most profound and grateful acknowledgments, with an assurance that your approbation shall be the best stimulus to my future exertions." TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In reply to the observations which have appeared in several journals, on the omission in my programme of the names of any soi-disant professors of the legitimate drama, permit me to state, through the medium of your important columns, that however I might feel myself warranted, by an experience of their utter want of attraction, in declining engage. ments with such artistes, I have nevertheless mani fested every desire to include them in my arrangements. I offered to Miss Helen Faucit the highest salary (25L For week) given to that delightful actress Miss O'Neill, when she was drawing all the world after her, but Miss Faucit demanded 151. per night, which is 901. per week. I sliould have been ready to have given Mrs. Nisbett the salary of such actresses as Mrs. Jordan, Mrs. Davison, &c., viz., 251. per week, but I was scared by her intimation that she had recently been in the receipt of 601.! and was exempt from playing in afterpieces, in which class of entertainments both those actresses so enchanted the town. I was prepared to give Mr. Anderson 201. per week (higher terms than he had with Mr. 111 acready at Drury-lane), but he required 101. per night (GU per week !! with certain other drolleries, quite bijoux in their way !)—and recollecting that the K ean had 25/. per week in the plenitude of his attraction, I felt called upon to decline the difference. I am old-fashioned enough to think that the his trionic talent we possess is by no mea ns equa l to what we have lost—that English perf ormers ne i t h er improve nor attract by emigrating to America—that the public are not to be blamed for confi n i ng th e i r patronage to first-rate instead of second-rate artistes, and, that a director cannot justly b e con d emne d f or refusing to give the latter about three times the sala ries, on an average, that were given to the former. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your much obliged servant, A. BUNN. Theatre Royal Covent-garden, Oct. 2,1848. THE DISTINS' FAREWELL TO ENGLAND.--This talented family will give their farewell concert at Drury lane Theatre on Monday next, and from the talent en gaged it cannot fail to rove successful. GATHERING AT FORT WILLIAM.—The Highland Society at Lockaber had their annual competition on the 21st current, for the encouragement of the per manent wearing of the Highland garb, as well as for games. The meeting took place under the ramparts of Fort William, thus affording amphitheatrical seats for the spectators, and a flat arena for the competitors. Probably in the whole Highlands so excellent a site for the purpose could not have been selected ; and cer tainly no district could have produced a better display of Celtic beauty or Celtic strength or agility. The company amounted to nearly 3,000 persons (all ad mitted tree). It must be apparent to all spectators that in competitions of this nature the judges are placed in a most embarrassing situation, and probably never to a greater extent than the gentlemen were on this occasion ; for where all the competitors were worthy it was with great difficulty any decision could be made. It may be pointed out that the result of giving prizes to boys for competing has been emi nently successful. The boys of Fort William and vicinity, under twelve years of age, will run, leap, swim, or put the stone, in a manner that would astonish their seniors. The long race, 1,200 yards, up a steep hill and back, was run in four and a half minutes, and it was keenly contested—the winner being about two yards be fore the second competitor. The ball, which took place in the Freemasons' Hall, was most numerously attended by the nobility and gentry of the district, as well as by numerous friends from a distance The music, refresh ments, &c., &c., were provided by Mr. Melrose, of the George Inn, and gave perfect satisfaction.—lnverness • Courier. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. The Cork Constitution has a letter from Clonmel, containing some curious gossip connected with the State trials and the prisoners. The correspondent of that journal says : " During the last few days Smith O'Brian has amused himself writing poetry, distributing the scrape amongst his friends. To one gentleman he gave the following • Whether on the gallows high, Or in the battle's van The only place for man to die, Is where he dies for man. " WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN.' " The Limerick Examiner is literally crammed with details of the progress of the extermination system in Clare and Limerick. In speaking of the most recent evictions in the parish of Kilmealy, county' Clare, it says : " On my reaching these districts I was forcibly struck with the few human abodes which were left standing in a country where, I am credibly informed, a happy population, some two years since, cultivated ' a soil abundant in fertility. There is scarcely a small tenant-farmer to be met with for miles together ; the lands of the evicted being in great part possessed by graziers, who reside at a distance, or by some few local occupiers who have cultivated the regards of the agent. It would be impossible to describe the wretch edness and privations of these poor people when the house levellers commenced to demolish their dwell ings. Some of them were obliged, it is said, to sleep out for several nights together, without shelter or food, whilst others went through the world friendless and pennyless. Those who were put on the relief list of the electoral division still hovered about like ghosts in the vicinity of their former dwellings, until the relief ceased, and then they, too, were obliged to become wanderers through the country. I have heard that a good many now ' sleep the sleep that knows no waking.' " The country in every district through which you travel abounds in resources that, if turned into proper account by the landlords, would maintain at least four times its present population. The parish of Kilmealy comprises some twenty thousand acres capable of well rewarding the exertions of the tiller, and in many places suited for green crops. I could not learn that Lord Clarendon 's green crop lecturer ever visited this or the adjoining parishes, although he sought the little gentry of the west. Probably he conjectured the inutility of advice in a region where the exterminator was busy in his heartless vocation. But I must dismiss this part of the subject, and call your attention to the following catalogue:— "EVICTED FROM KNOCKATOUNI..-- James Griffin, 6 ; Tim 5 ; Thomas Kennedy, 13 ; James Griffin, 6; P. O'Brien , ennedy, 9; Robert Hadlock, 9; William Lucas, 7; Michael Heber, 8 ; Michael Sheedy, 4. In all 67 persons turned out of Knock atouna. " EVICTED FROM CRAGROB.—Thomas Creagh, Widow Spellesy, Widow Hehir, Widow Nealin, P. M'Mahon, Widow Sexton, Widow Kelly, J o h n Pine, Pat Kerby, Pat O'Neil, Widow Malone, Dan Mo riarty, Pat Davin, James Fitzgibbon, Batt. Shea, Thomas Mungavan, Thomas Darty, and several others with their families, who are either dead or left the country. In all 18 occupiers. Average the fami lies at five, arid you have 90 human beings extermi nated from Cragroe. "EVICTED FROM TULLANA.—OVer 100 human beings have been expelled from this place. "EVICTED FROM MAGOWNA.—Over 40 persons have been turned out of their holdings in this division. "EVICTED FROM GURTAGNIFF.—Over 30 occupiers have been expelled from this denomination. In short, on the two properties of the Marquis of Conyngham and Mr. Westby, to whom Marcus Keane is agent, I am informed that nearly four hundred souls have been deprived of land and dwelling. " I leave the public to make their own comments. I need not animadvert upon the foregoing catalogue." MR. RICHARD O ' GORMAN.—Three different per sons in different parts of Limerick and Clare were arrested last week by the police, " on suspicion of being Mr. Richard O'Gorman, jun." Of the suspected was the Rev. P. Moran, Catholic curate of Kilrush. The second was a Dublin attorney, and the third an English commercial traveller. MR. DOHENEY.—A correspondent of the Freeman gives another version of Mr. Doheney's escape to France, still more romantic than the previous ac counts, and the Limerick Chronicle of yesterday states that " the insurgent chief" has been polite enough to announce his safety to the Lord Chief Justice Black burne. Mr. Doheny, according to the Hue and Cry, is everything but an " arbiter elegan tiarum," but in the case of the Lord Chief Justice, it must be admitted that he has carried politeness to an extreme. Perhaps the miracle is to be attributed to the climate of France. THE STATE TRIALS. Under this head the Clonmel correspondent of the Freeman states that among the parties summoned to give evidence-on the part of the prisoner, is Major- General Napier, who is expected in Clonmel this day; Mr. Joseph Parker, and the private secretary of Lord Melbourne, at the period of the passing of the Reform Bill. These gentlemen are expected, it appears, to prove the circumstances on which Lord John Russell was to have given evidence, or, in other words, they are expected to show that the leaders of the 'Whig party were not at all times so opposed to physical force as they are at present. THE WRIT OF ERROR. The Freeman's diurnal of thi s morning states, that arrangements are a l rea d y i n progress for the issue of a writ of error, in case of an adverse verdict. Some of your readers may probably not be aware that in cases of felony and high treason, it is in the power of the Attorney-General to prevent the issue of a writ of error, while in the misdemeanour cases the writ issues as a matter of right. It has been whis pered here that the Government will give directions to Mr. Monaghan not to consent to the process in case a verdict against Smith O'Brien should render it necessary. But we cannot believe that, even were the Government to issue such a command, Mr. Monaghan would assume the responsibility of a course so unprecedented, and morally involving the guilt of murder. If there be ' nothing' in the point, the writ can only have the effect of delaying the vengeance of-the law. If the point be good, Smith O'Brien has not had a legal trial; and an illegal trial not being a trial at all, the execution of capital sentence so procured would be legally, as well as morally, murder." THE STATE TRIALS. [A summary of Saturday's proceedings appeared in our paper of yesterday. We now give them at length.] CLONMEL, SEPT. 30.—The court opened this morn ing at nine o'clock, but the interest excited the pre vious day to hear the Attorney-General's statement was considerably abated. The court was crowded as usual, and Mr. O'Brien, the unhappy prisoner, was placed at the bar a few minutes after the Learned Judges took their seats on the bench. The jury, who were in charge of the Sheriff all night, in a room prepared for them, within the precincts of the court, then took their places, and the trial com menced. Captain Emaas, of the 41st Regiment, was the first witness examined. He deposed to having re ceived a parcel, containing, he believed, the articles ta ken from Mr. Smith O'B r i en, and delivered them in Dublin to the Under-Secretary of State at the Vice-regal Lodge. John Gore Jones examined by the SOLICITOR GENERAL—He was a resident in the county of Tip perary, and stationed at Thurle3. He did not re member the day of the month on which Mr. O'Brien was arrested, but he saw him a short time after in Thurles. After you saw Mr. O'Brien, did you say anything to him ? Mr. WHITESIDE objected to any evidence from a stipendiary magistrate as to what occurred after the prisoner was arrested. _ Examination resumed—His appearance was that of a man wearied and tired, and he got two letters from him, one of which was for Mrs. O'Brien, and the other for Mrs. Doheny. Mr. \V HITESIDE—And you had no right, 'sir, to state what the letters were. Examination continued—Mr. O'Brien desired him to forward the letters, and he did so. That for Mrs. Doheny he transmitted to Mr. Cox, the Sub-Inspector of Constabulary at Cashel. With regard to the portmanteau, he seemed very anxious about it. He asked him (Mr. Jones) if he could get it for him, that it was in the keeping of Mrs. Doheny, and he replied that he would with the greatest pleasure. lle added that his messengers must of necessity be police, and that consequently she would not give it up uulees he wrote for it. Mr. O'Brien then wrote the letter, which he transmitted to Mr. Cox, having been first told that no communication could be sent until read by him. The letter was forwarded on Sunday morn ing at a very early hour, and he received the port manteau about three o'clock the same day. As soon us he received it he gave it to Mr. Bagnell, an en gineer on the Great Southern and Western Railway. Mr. O'Brien was transmitted to Dublin cn Sunday morning about one o'clock. Cross•examined by Mr. WHITESIDE—Did you as a man of honour tell Mr. O'Brien that you would prosecute him, and that you would send him bis portmanteau ?—I did. And instead of doing so, and keeping the pledge you gave him, on the faith of which you got the letter, you after% ards sent it to Dublin ?—Yes, I did, because it was my duty. Mr. Cox, a sub-inspector of police, next deposed that he received the letter written by Mr. O'Brien on the morning of the 6th of August, which he sent to Mrs. Doheny, the wife of Michael Doheny. Before doing so, however, he got the portmanteau from a Mr. John Norton, a builder in Cashel, which he Y•) I fine from crow 1, in t the h, of Is of loin, to at total Ed- lia- from II ILS` A \ 4