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Tf)TAT, surrix AT T.T.A,.I*-Z7.( 77 .1' Beasts. Rheas. Calves. I c,z. I I 3,977 31,370 42L 1 t 20 ~ ,, G1C.4.1, 1 -UitIPT.Y. Beasts I Sheep. I Calve,. ) Pigs. 670 I 3,660 255 70 A Statement and Comparison. of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, June SO, 1851, and this day, Monday, June 28, 1t52. ELIOT WARBURTON. Snatched from the world by en appelling disaster, Eliot Warburten has left behind aim the cf an amiable and accomplishsd gentleman, the reputa tion of an intelligent annotator, and the fame of tee • most delightful of all our oriental travellers. As a writer of fiction we cannot but reglad his popularity as peculiarly characterised by evanescence. As a biographer he will long be remembered for that col lation of manuscripts relating to one of the most chivalrous, as it was alto one of the most momentous epochs in our history, which has rendered luminous incident: hitherto blackened by prejudice, and which indi°ated the nobler traits of a charecter until then darkened by calumny or ehrouded by misre presentation. As a delineator of life and scenery in the Etet he must. always be recognised as a writer cited e - ith peceliarithis uerivalli d in their combiention. With a keen perception of the, humorous, he united a winning and graceful sensia hikes. lie wandered through tho landscapes of Asia Minor with the heart of a poet, and with the eye of a sportsman. His descriptions were thus eniinenrely, matter-of-fact in their precision and exactitude, tAlr, the driest of their details were colOur6l by tee vivi fying glow of his imagination. The ground traversed by Warburton was marked out like a chart in his narrative with all the minuteness of Mercator, but it ryes sulfated at the same time with all the diaphonous atmosphere and exquisite dyes of Lorraine. It was a peculiarly happy thought, therefore, which an nounced upon the title-page of his earliest composi tion, that Romance and Reality were therein the contrasting themes depicted together. A - better guide-book, or one calculated to prove more practically useful on emergency, was ' :nu doubtedly never penned than the very voluine which surpassed all others in its homage for the sub lime and its love for the beautiful in those lands abounding with sublime and beautiful associations. With the remembrance of his few but estimable con tributions to the literature of our time, there is now blended the recollection of his abrupt and terrible disappearance—deepening interest into curiosity and investing his name with an almost painful fascination. Eliot B. G. Warburton, born in 1811 at Aughrim, County Galway, was the eldest son ef .Major George Warburton, formerly Inspector General of Constabu lary in Ireland, by Anna, sister of Colonel Acton of Westaston, M.P. for the county of .Wicklow. De scended- originally from the old Cheshire house of Warburton of Warburton and Arley, the Warburtons of Aughrina were derived from a branch of the family settled in the Queen's County, and known as the, Warburtons of Gerryhinch. Heir to a considerable property in the sister island, the future novelist and traveller had the path smoothed before him to that career of competence which, as with all men of a genuine nature or an earnest temperament, stimu lated instead of enervating his faculties. His scho lastic education appears to have been completed at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, in the course of his travels, the ambition to describe to others the loveliness of that earth he himself so:pe culiarly and sensitively appreciated, more than any idle solicitude to obtain some momentary repute as a man of letters, induced Warburton to venture, in print, upon the story of his peregrinations. In consequence of this resolution The Crescent and the Cross made its appearance in 1845, in two small volumes, recounting, according to their second title, the "Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel," and extending the scene of their narrative over Egypt and Palestine, into the Grecian sea and the Nubian wilderness, through the ports of the Levant end the streets of Constantinople, The success of the work was almost instantaneous. Its popularity grew up in a night like the bean -stalk of Jack in the nursery tale, but not one solitary axe of criticism has since then been raised to fell it even by the most cap tious of that class regarded by some as nothing better than a group of atrabilious curneud g eo n s—the re viewers upon the different periodicals. What was yet more delightful in this resemblance than even the accordant approbation of the press—the narrative conducted the reader into countries as'strange and marvellous as the giant region of the bean-stalk. It was a Jacob's ladder, leading us up from the floor of our library in England to the ruins, and the tombs, and the deserts, and the consecrated places of Holy land. "Eiithen" has alone, among all the other works descriptive of the oriental wanderings of Englishmen, displayed any comparable vividness in the manner of delineation. Perhaps in some respects "Esthen," in regard to the simple quality of vivid ness, surpasses even the " Crescent and the Cross," in spite of its wonderfully natural an d picturesque luci dity. But in several other particulars the "Crescent and the Cross" has a manifest and marvellous advan tage over the brilliant and ornate pages of " E 5 then." Warburton was no scoffer. Humorous though he is very frequently, his merriment is always " in place" —be never startles you by a jest in Bethlehem, or violates all those em o ti ons y ou a d ore as divine, by a saucy sarcasm or a sardonic drollery uttered in the most sacred localities of Jerusalem--uttered, more over, with the impertinence of a coxcomb and the gravity of a philosopher. Instead of this, Warbur ton seems, in the very manner of his description, on entering Palestine, to " tread lightly," as though conscious in his heart th a t it was "holy ground." Throughout this portion of his narrative he evidences a reverential feeling of awe, if he fails to rice always in tone to the exaltation of religious enthusiasm. Ac • company him where we will, to the moonlit avenues of Cairo, or to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, or to that island of Philce "up the Nile which 'appears to be almost the realization of a day -dream " A little lawny isl e t By anemone and vi'let Like mosaic pay ee ._ orlo the griai and awful heart of the everlasting py ramid—it is alteays the warm heart of a man of genial nature beating in the bosom of your guide, not the`frigid and bloodless organ of the cynic, Out of an insensible appreciation of' this comes the sympathy awakened almost unconsciously between the author and his reader in the course of this bewitching com position—a sympathy so complete that the casual mention of his illness comes like a sorrow to you, as though you had a personal friend in this' unknown traveller. Unlike Kinglake, who is original rather than winning, and surprises you into applause while he fails 'to awaken, fore one instant the more grateful sentiment of admi ration--Varburton charms by his gentleness as much as he enlivens by his vivacity, throwing at the - same time over the whole record of his journey ing the attractive • influence of • his- intelligent animation and of a singularly' 'sweet and companionable temperament. Towards the con clusion of this very testimony Of these amiable traits in his Character, he candidly confesses' his diiitaste for the scoffing spirit pow-a-days unfortunately too pre• valent among our fellow-countrymen, who," whether on the mountain of Pereassus, or in the valley of JeltoSh4liat, seem," aays he (chap.. 31) ,t! to think that everything is unreal except themselves and their sandwiches :" adding—" this is the very triumph of objectivity." With a nervous system, whose every fibre responded to the associations 'of the scenery, Warburton had also a peculiar clearness of per• ception. He comprehended and exulted in the Romance of " eastern travel," but he saw none the less diatinctly, and described none the less accurately, its, Realities. 'Wherever he moved in the course of his erratic pilgrimage he not merely, like, Goldsmith; " Dragged at each remove a lengthening chain," by adding a new link of interest in himself at every footstep, to the electric bond of sympathy uniting his own with the hearts of those who lingered over the record of his peregrinations—but, with " grey goose-quill "for a brusb, and his ample vocabulary fur a palette, he painted a landscape in a page; and some times a vignette in a sentence. The effect resembled the " Picture-Book without Pictures," though it must be allowed that the style was somewhat less idiomatic and somewhat more gorgeous than the simple but picturesque manner of Andersen. This splendour it, was which imparted that peculiar charm to the writings of Warburton, in the abundance of which he excelled all other travellers, however affluent their imagination. His sitniles were always approptiate; and were squandered about, moreover,in inelhaustible profusion. How acceptable these were none Can pro perly appreciate but those who haVe pondered over the narrative thus sprinkled alternately with dry statis tics and flowering illustrations until it assumed, one might fancy, a fantastic resemblance to an illuminated manuscript. If he strolled away, for example, into the classic plain surrounding the Acropolis, the author was not satisfied: with telling you that ." the I'yssus exists no longer"—conjuring up an exquisite feature in the panorama, indelibly impressing the circumstance upon remembrance by adding (ch. 31.) —that " a torrent-like line of oleanders seems still to fill its course with verdant. waves and rosy "foam." pl e asantry wee, perhaps, however, of all, his most' conspicuous characteristic. It Wes manifest front th e v e ry commenc ment—in that indication of high annuala spirits ll exhilarates because it happens to be neither affected w ecte t ,l nor boisterous. In this, animated strain het talked of the confusion of the luggage; before starting in the Oriental steamer froth Souttiewee, r eminding us that while eaddiery and bullock trunks were quite obtrusive, the little indispensebles for the s v e o a y - a s xa voyage were [ l;e nowhere discernible, and "remedies for reservedi,gthaet a nother moment over themselves for the overland j °Jitney." E m loveliness of the island of Calypso, and the seductive calm of its seclusion, he intirtupts our enthusiasm, like thet of Telemachus, by observing that "a fat gen tlemen in green spectacles informed us that it was the Batelle Biy of Naples," c4ilinz it by is came Penh !lark. Gossiping over the Nilea he illudes to t' e old story 01 the mytholo g is ts te e s t e e heart's blood of a virgin was annually poured into its car- rent, adding nelsely, "not unlikely, in a country where - tiny worshiped - crocodiles end were anxious to' coosult tin ir tastes." Equally extravagant is his grave.enat alsnest eaendiese allusion to the steamboat on the same venersh!e stream; apostrophizing it ass en unhappy River, Which, having, like Dion, ie its Werrn youth•loved the gorgeous islands of Ethioeis, must now "expiate its raptures on the wheel !" Sauntering through ;he streets ,of Cairo, how humorously he mentions the eccentricities of the lean and mangy dogs, " continually running between your legs, which afford a tempting passage in this petticoated place." Delightfullest of all however is his most amus ing particularity as to the still gre;ter eccen tricities of the hens of Egypt, which " seem to consider that they have discharged every duty to society in producing a mere eg g ," caring little or nothing_ after the operation " whether their off spring becomes a fritter or a fowl, an omelette or a game coals The naked fellow entrusted With the' office of hatching the chickeue VTholesalP, by means of gigantic ovens, : is ludicrouely described as ever arid ever tueuipoe the eggs " with most henlike anxiety." A happy-paa , e not = unfrequently proves' sufficient in the vivid delineations of Warburton: 'He describes the mud-coloured beillings tied terraced roofs of Alexandria as being " yari:•el with fat tese;ceiles end lean mioarete." Ile callotypes the black Slinies; as they are in reality, " inagpiad with white napkins round their head and loins." Gibraltar starts before us, from the second page of the second chapter, with a distinctness marvellous almost as the vi Bible, with curtain, and ravelin, and rampart—with " zigz ig lines- from shore to summit, looking like con : ductors for the defenders' electric fire to flash along" the complexity of its stern and impregnable for tificationse - Musing again over that Nile, which he manifestly reverenced in spite of, all the grizzly story of the virgin's blood and the grizzlier appetite of the crocodiles, Warburton in his fourth chapter allows his mind to run riot in exaggeration over the supposition that Egypt is an exotic land, borne down from the torrid remoteness of Abyssinia towards the shores of the sublime and history-glorified Mediter ranean. His fantastic meditations are thus closed, "Those quiet plains have tumbled down the cataracts; those demure gardens have flirted with the Isle of Flowers five hundred miles away ; those very pyra mids have floated down the waves of the Nile ; to speak chemically, that river is a solution of Ethiopia's richest regions, and that vast country is merely a precipitate"-e-evconapanion sketch for that grotesque portraiture of Holland by the incomparable author of " fludibrae," depicting it as a region distinguished by the fishy: peculiarities of the amphibious! In a kindred mood of facetiousness, our traveller; - pausing in the midst of the petrified forests of the wilderness, comments upon the fact of their invariably appearing in places the most arid and shelterless, by observing that they "must have had a hard time of it," being "exposed, like Niobe, to all the arrows of Apollo." As wittily does he pronounce judgment elsewhere upon the summary vengeance wreaked by the jealous husbands among the Egyp tians—remarking that their only "gentlemen of the long robe" are eunuchs, " and the knife and the Nile the only damages." Abounding as the chapters do with these tokens of an innocent and irradiating mer e rithenn they lure the attention onwards, as by an ir resistible fascination, through all the varieties of Asiatic life, sometimes enlivened by perilous adventures and sometimes by romantic vicissitudes. Throughout the whole of this charming narrative of oriental enterprise, moreover, what is especially noticeable, and to us, as coming from an insular wanderer over Christendom, absolute matter for -astonishment, is the fact that, not once, by a syllable or an innuendo, does Warburton become for one in stant dogmatical. In this particular he appears to be little else than a miracle among travellers. Dog matism, indeed, would seem to have had but little kindred with that ingenuous and equable tempera ment. Besides —there was genial intelligence as well as ecleotic taste lurking under that subtle and comprehen‘ive s ens ibili ty: and as La Brueere sap in one of his sear c hi ng apophthegms, "C'est hi pro fonde ignorance que i nsp i re l e ton dogmatique :' Gifted by Nature therefore with the very qualities calculated to win regard from the observant, it was not sur prising to find that his first work almost immediately attracted the attention of the public to the name of Warburton. People liked the freshness of his gentle and unaffected enthusiasm. They were pleased with most elevated the frankness of a ch arac t er wh i ch revea led only the most generous sentim en t s and th e aspirations. They e x ult e d i n the o pportunity of be holding those famous regi ons w here the feet of the holy race had moved down the trail of immemorial generations, toiling in Egypt, roving in Syria, and conquering in Palestine —those regions consecrated, one might almost believe, to everlasting immortality in the annals of the Prophets—and which no other modern writer has ever depicted with a pencil at once so reverent and so picturesque. The vividness of his descriptions, in fact, is only surpassed by the felicity of the variable tone in which he celebrated I their associations. Insomuch was this remarkable in I the earliest of the literary productions of Warburton, that from his lips " twice told tales" were found to be scarcely less acceptable than they have actually proved to be on the opposite shores of the Atlantic, when revivified by the voice of Nathaniel Hawthorne. What, for example, could be more enthralling than Eliot Warburton's account (ch, iv.) of the battle of the Nile ?—a victory, fOr two reasons, unsurpassed in the annals of maritime warfare, being fought at midnight and at anchor. And yet how many had been the records of that memorable action already penned and already familiar, from the elaborate:elu cidation of James to the terse and inspiring pane gyric of Southey ? "'Tis an old story now, that battle of the Nile," said Warburtoe, " but ie brave old story can never die of age ;" and thereupon he re , counted once more the incidents of the conflict from its commencement to its conclusion, from the silent bearing down of Nelson's fleet upon the armament of his antagonists to the capture of the last vessel, the To "'ant, when "" slowly. and reluctantly, like an ex piring hope, her s: pale flag fluttered down from her lofty spars, and the next that floated: there was the banner of old England 1" It was not, however, only in his second-hand narrations that our author was most eminently successful.: The enumeration of his own movements was the 'principal and the happiest theme of his inspiration. Here it was that he re vealed hi s or i g i na li ty 83 a d e pictor of the coast, sce nery of th e L evant, an d th e f e rtility of Egypt, and the sterility o f Nehi a ,'- an d the sacred topography of Syria, and th e mingled squalor and luxury of Con stantinople, and_ _the islands o f t h e Greek archipaelago. Patriotic though his te m p erament was, -he had st ill a ll th e co mprehen e sive sy mpath i es of thecostnopolite. Insular as some of his not i ons Un uestionabl were, the majority of the m were characterized y by a l arg eness that embraced the whole ceCle of humanity and were restricted to neither h em i sp h ere. Domestic as were th os e affections ) to declare in an, effusion of ten derness which pr ompte d h i m in a su b sequen t p ro duction ("Da rien," vol. Rep. 54 that th e sacre d wor d o f H ome ".applies to hearts not h eart h s, " he possesse d w i t h a l a l ove of the true and the beautiful, such as rendered him familiar with regions the most remote and with habits the most outlandish. An agreeable testimony of this is afforded by the incidents accompanying his arrival at, Beyrout,:aod his reluctant resignation to quarantine when living fora fortnightin a little cottage apart from the lazaretto. This cottage-prison he describes as situated in a grove or orchard of mulberries. Here, from the ; roof top looking over the Syrian, landscape in one direction, and in another over the billows ,of the Mse he tends a 4 ,` little galliPot garden," . whose' 'every weedy- plant he "declares to have contained a Picciola, or watches with an elm- • tion somewhat nobler than that of idle curiosity the movements of the little family in the lower portion of the premises, a family of humble Mare nites. How charmingly he avows at last " Isympa thised with the changes of weather that affected the. operatiOns of the silkworms; I grieved for the illness of the little child; I took as much interest in the at tentions paid by the young Syrian swains to Katarin and Dudu they did themselves; and a baking or ,a *it - stink day'appeereitto ireeTtill of importance : ' his warm andkindly disposition kindling into attachment for beings - who must have regarded him comparatively a-hnost with indifference. And such was Warburton ! Everywhere "at home"—in 'the Nile boat or in the tombs of the Pyramids, under the cedars of Lebanon or among the olives of the holy mount near Jerusalem. Everywhere looking into the visages of those he met, the Jew, the Copt, the Arab, the Nubian, the Turk, the Greek, or the Egyptian, not as into the face of an alien, but as into the face of a fellow -creature. Hence he adapted himself so readily to the customs of those sunny and voluptuous climates—wearing the tarboash or the turban, and the girdling shawl, breathing aromatic tobaccoes through the fumes of the chibouque or the eiargilly, riding that docile Arabian from which he parted at last as from " a tried old friend," and bivouacing under the canvas of his tent, or under the branches of some umbra geous :_ li ,e s i t ;i10 Oam o f or ti, a al io ra descendant. readily' as thoughlie of f lan e either l a(, , dl The:very title of the production in whichebeserovirigs were recounted was en incentive to its-perussl, being at once as poeti ca l as i t was i nd i sputably epigram matic. It : ,c - oostitnteal a tribute to th e gen i us of symbolistnthat royeterions element common to the atmesphere of Paganism and of e Christianity. It celebrated not merely; the Crescent 6j; which Byzantium seems to have commemo rated the greatness of Diana of the Ephe slam, but .that . mere sublime and more awful emblem, the Cross, the emblem which appears to have been propheticullyworahipped by Heathendom in an ticipath'n of the Divine Sacrifice. In inscribing the latter effigy, so to steak, upon the froetispiece of his undertaking, Warburton bad not forgotten the hewil dering circumstance of its antiquity as a symbol of idolatrous as well as of inspired religion. lie a.; , 50.. cured the name of his volumes with that wonderful and enigmatic image which, according to Lafitau, was adored by the Red Indians of America before the discovery of their continent by Europeans, that solemn Cross which Grecian Art had placsel in the hands of Horns Apollo, suspended round ttie neck of the divinity Apis, carved upon the front of Jupiter Ammon, inserted in the thyrsis of Bacchus, engraved upon the vases of libation, and jewelled in the bosom of the ve s t a l v i rg i ns, th e C ross men ti one d wish an inexplicabl e reverence i n th e mos t anc i en t annals of the Chinese and in the memorable records of the Phcenieians. Following upon these really astounding, recollections*, it is beautiful to remember the noblest apostroph e of admiration ever addressed to the Cross as the Symbol of Symbols—the apostrophe of St. Augustine ("Ex Tractetu super Psalmos." Ps. 54, lest. 6.) when he speaks of the Cross as once an object of derision, hut now glittering in gold and , p , r A e ctitoeund e precious " stones iorliim c tipn crux illa fixa est, cut iniinici insultaverunt ' lied the passage occurred t o W arburton we d ou bt no t :h a t upon the ipsius : summit jam of i e n ye f r r y un dtei.ardeegmu— in he would have. _selected it as the motto of his title page. As it is —the wor k in which, by its designation, the author thus evide nces his recognition of the grace and of the mystery of symbolism will—by revealing the country of the Cre,seent in all its Romance and in all its Reality to the venerators of the Cross—long tend,' we believe, to preserve, if it fail to perpetuate, his reputation. Sebsequently to, his retorts homewards, Eliot War burton was united to the daughter of the late Edward GrOve, Esq., of Shenetone Park, County Stafford, neice of Sir Edmund Crad oc k H a rtopp, Bart., and cousin-german of th e fi rst wife of Lord John Russe ll , Adelaide, the Lady Ribb lesdale. Two children were the fruit of that marriage, which an unforeseen and dreadful calamity ha s en prematurely brought to a termination. Encouraged doubtless by the very distinguished success of the " C rescent and the C ross, " our author determi ned to adventure once more upon the^ ha zer d ous but fascinating en terprises of literatur e . In his second wor k , it was found that the t raveller had been transmuted into the collator of manusc r ipts. The Memoirs of Prince Rupert and th e published in scarcely 1849, disclosed, however, Cavaliers, less than its pre decessor the picturesque style and the generous syra- Pathies of Warburton. The l a tt er c haracteristics more perceptible than in the production w hich must always be regarded as his masterpiece. Compri s i ng a selection from the a priiate correspondence b e t ween the Royalist Comman der-in-Chief an d the subordinate of the Sovereign, the work containeddherents 'were, perhaps, therein eve n a variety of curious documents transcribed fro m original MSS., wh i ch had never before been a ff orded the opportunity of publication. So abundant, indeed , and we re the manu script treasures thus arranged revised by Warburton, that he scr upulous' disclaimed . the. authorship .of • more than the y first and se cond volumes, remarking that he could be regarded as nothing more th an simply the editor of a the third, consisting part of authentic papers relatings i to t digested and symmetricall y disthe did fcoirvitihe war, rnos carefully t pos e d in succession. The peculiar interest of this colle c ti o n, it must be observed, arose froth the circum s t anc e of its being derived from Colonel Benett, princ e Rapert's secre tary. It included no less th an chieft a i n b y the chival rous and loyal Cavaliers—lett ers Penned by the hands of those gallant gentlemen who s Pawned ,their plate and mortgaged their estates, and "dropped their to power hearts' blood for drachmas," purchase the safety of a prince and .to vindicate the rower of a dynasty. singular epistles there Besides these a thousand letters, addressed' to their youthful ere were numerous others, which had hitherto been preserved among the family archives of the Earl of Dart mouth, together with copious materials extracted fro m the Diary of Evelyn, from the Royal Letter s of Bromley, as well as from Sir Henry Ellis's Colle c ti on. As additional evidence of the extraordinary i ndustry displayed in this compilation by Eliot Warburton, i t ma y be cur sorily observed that his researches extended through • a multiplicity of celebrated MSS ., among w hi c h ma y R be enumerated the Lansdown e, arleian, Bodleian, Sloane, and A s h mo l ean . Ap art from these laborious investigations moreover, the pr o d uction was in many respects singularly meritorious. I t was not so much the worthiest; as it was literally the first, biography of Prince Rupert that bad appeared. A trivial pam phlet purporting to recount his " Heroi c Hi s t or y" h a d been printed, it 'is true, so far ba c k as 1 683, an d, within th e, memo rial of th e se i ne p ersonage b a d b een contributed to the present century, a mor e elaborated ".Biographie Universelle"—but neithe r were entitled to any high degree of consideration. Warburton must therefore be regarded as the earliest his torian of the Cavaliers. Incidental mention of their proweis and self-sacrifice had been repeatedly made before without question ; but no . deliberate effort had b een a t temp t e d t o c l ear their memory from misconception, or to obliterate those calumnies from the name of Rupert which had dimmed its glory through so many misapprehon.ding generations. There was a congenial gallantry in the resolution with which Warburton ventured to impugn the accuracy of that stern judgment which had been sanctioned with a sort of tacit acquiescence by no less than two centuries. In relating the adventures of the Royalist Leader, he displayed somewhat of his earnestness with rather more than hie circumspection. His narrative, indeed, possesses, in regard to facts, the stubbornness of the Roundheed, while in its occasional bursts of eloquent invective and of impassioned panegyric it claims kindred with the audacity of the Cavalier. Shortly after the first inkling of his popularity bad been obtained, Warburton was induced in 1846 to edit a•couple of volumes descriptive of life in the Canadas--- . -a work written by ." a friend," as he him self announced i n t h e " tcooua conjecturerse of his Preface to Hochslaga. IVhethn, that "friend" was one of his brothers, according prevalent, or simpl y an associate in whose literary , prosperity.his kind f ee li ng was intereste d—i t i s tole rably at one time well known that another bearing that near relationship has secured a moderate share of approval by a composition of a different character—we a ll u d e to "Rollo and his Race,"from the pen of Acton Warburton. Durin g th e course of his i ntro d uctory. remarks to "Hochelaga," its editor observed very, truthfully and sent ent i ously, after an allusion to Ata lantis—" The theories of old Greece and Roman Spain became stories; stories became tradition; tradi tion became faith, and W hen Columbus assumed his mission, in him th e old t Westering' instinct amounted to an. inspiration." Alas! with Warbur atering' instinct" Warbur ton. himself that "old I we amounted —if we may speak without profanity—more to a lamentable fatality than to any such golden as piration. The re ce p t i on accorded to ",Elochelaga," f in tlee first instance f or the manner of its introduc tion, but eventually .from the appreciation of its intrinsic excellence, encouraged its author to issue from the press in 1849 a record of the " Conquest of Canada," dating as far back as 1534-5, the period when its soil was first trodden by Jacques Cartier, its discoverer. Later on, asr ecently indeed as 1851, another work was edited by the bi ogra ph er o f Ra pert, the circumstance b e i ng indicated in the form of an Introduction to the Are • 'nozrs of Horace Walpole. Here, however, Warburton only share in the undertakinf is explicitly avows that his is that of affixing his name " freeffered and freel y to the title page—ex cep i n ._ a few occasional cor rectionsly o of the " voluptuous virtuoso" O f Strawberry Hill had already appeared, but these Were chiefly accepted." Sketches restricted to by Pinkerton. mere . summaries, such a s those penned by Lord Dover, by Sir Walter S co t t, . and Even the ' feeling and eloq uent .. Berry was little better (as Warburton here intimated) than an avowed apology, dictated by the posthumous generosity of friendship. WI, '''at contributed, more over, rather considerably to memoir of Miss enhance the value of the biography introduced to the world by Warburton, was the circumstance that the volumes comprised a variety of original letters by the most fascnating, voluble, of correspondents. Apparently almost as inartificial because the most elegantly as the letters of Byron, those of Walpole are s' as f astidiously delicate as the epistles of Chesterfield, occasion a ll y com bining with these peculiarities, the idi omatic diction of Cow per, and the effervescent ,and sometimes almost bois terous vivacity of Sevignd. Speaking of them in de served terms of admiration, our author wittily observes in his Introduction (p. 10.) that "they leave nothing but trutlfulness t o b e desired, " an ac- Cusation rather painfnlly.corroborated t h e ot h er d a y by the publication of " The Garland" in the pages of the Quarterly a garland of not the loveliest of -the flowers of rhetoric, woven i n t o metre at the very " " period the courtier's lips were secretly dropping poison on the name of his Sovereign, and laid at the foot of the throne by a hand yet blackened in the task of scurrility, with an air of consummate and refined adulation. Meanwhile—amusing his leisure with the respon sibilities of editorship—Eliot Warburton was not altogether indifferent himself to the manifold seduc tions of literature. Influenced by his examination of the Royalist manuscripts, he determined to recount a tale of the troubles of 164—, by writing the confer sions ' of a Cavalier, as a fictitious autobiogra phy. Such were _the int en ti ons which, in 1850, led to the appearance of hi s romanee, entitled Reginald Ilastilo• It revealed but little evidence of the authoi's capacity as a novelist, and was . 'consequently regarded by his many ad mirers as, a matter of disappointm ent. The story displayed, of course, that familiarity With the epoch which was only to have been expected from the histo rian of Rupert, but which in another might have been a subject at once of surprise and of admiration. It was otherwise unattractive. The masquerade of the romancer seemed to sit but awkwardly on the shoulders of the traveller. He could have donned the maNk of the novelist appesred to hi m a s unnatural , a burnoosefeathers v' to with h l e t o h p e a r r d e . : d It readiness e swass of f askew Arab but the in the first chapter. Upwards of a year elapsed b e f ore b e yen- tured once more upon the delineation cf the ault o y f tha nari its after predeces imaginary. It w as late in the winter -of 1851 that Darien wag published, a n arra tive partially hi o o "character the te r'a tid great recounting f who Sir II solom Marlborough of su c h enormous ernbezz:ement. The predeces sor d : ü b c u t i t was considered scarcely in the less glare f occur rence very terrible in its character, it will b e found to possess an enthralling and, we believe, also an en during interest. " D ar i en ," t o b e estimated at its intrinsic value, must be read by the lUrid light of the Amazon, by the light of that maritime conflagration which seems throughout the fiction to be foreseen by a sort of wierd presentiment. Viewed thus, the work cannot fail to excite the awe, as well as the be wilderment, of the psychologist. Its conspi cuous purport enlivened by the romantic adventures of Alvarez was to record the rise and failure, the propitious rise and the melancholy failure, of the celebrated Darien Expedi tion. That expedition, it will be remembered, was originated by the founder of the Bank of England. William Patterson is, therefore, the real hero of :he romance--strangest of all heroes of romance 'ever selected, a Puritan enthusiast, and a mercantile day dreamer, unselfish and el eva t e d i n hi a am bi t i on, b ut weak and vascillating in its development ! Associated with Patterson towards the conclusioreof the story, is 'Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun, a man almost OF specu lative and still more impracticable. Yet more re markable among the real characters introduced, must likewise be particularized John Law (as his latest celebrant designates him, "the Napoleon of the gambling world"), the originator of that famous Mis sissippi scheme which as far surpassed the. South Sea Bubble, as the South Sea Bubble sur passed M. Cabet's project of founding a new Arcadia by an Icarian colonization. A sort of morganetic admiration for the old Buccaneers, betrays itself throughout the narrative—due reference being made to Alexander of the Iron Arm, to the wily Rock, the daring Pierre, the ruthless Olonois, and the redoubt able Montbara, otherwise called the Exterminator. Another, and not the least formidable among those ferocious " water rats," Sir Henry Morgan, is ac tually involved be the imaginary incidents conjured up by the novelist. There is an indescribable gusto in his allusion to the spoils gathered in by the auda city of the Buccaneers—gold from Mexico, silver from Peru, pearls fr om th e G u lf , cinnamon from the Carracas, ambergris from the Baltic, fish from Newfoundland, nutmegs from the Mo luccas, ivory from Ceylon, diamonds from Gol conda—the involuntary tributes paid by the industrious to the lawless navigator. Fascinated by the prowess of the Buccaneers, Warburton's gentle nature revolted at their cruelty, but still more at the systematic inhumanity revealed by the con querors of Spanish America. From " the complaints of Las Casas, the confessions of Cortes, the apologies of Herrera, and the summing up o f P rescott, "h e here adduced the most damning evidence .of their almost preternatural atrocity. While absorbed in these ter rible investigations, however, he lost no portion of his engaging vivacity ; and thus, even when depicting an outrage by the troopers of Claverhouse, he quietly remarks—that " in toasting the health of fair Alice the topers made considerable inroads upon their own." It was a curious circumstance, more over, that - although actually a total stranger to the Transatlantic scenery he depicted it almost with the colouring of Cooper and the minuteness of Audubon. He appeared to be familiar with every feature in the landscape, with all the winged and creeping denizens of the woods, and with the varieties of the luxuriant vegetation. He beheld, as if in reality, the branches of the cedar and the balsam, gorgeous with their living blossoms—the brilliant plumage of the beret and the tulcan. He watched every movement of the scorpion under the cassia -tree, and knew the haunts of the lizard and the serpent near the roots of the fruit-dropping tamarind. "There" he exclaims in one portion (11. 299.) " under the in fluence of an eternal summer, Nature runs riot ; like a glorious and fantastic bacchanal, drunk with the rich juices of' a virgin soil, and the warm fellowship of a meridian sun : there she makes for herself arborial bowers whose lofty colonnades and flower roofed aisles mock the dimensions of our stateliest palaces." And with every leaf and fibre he seemed to have rendered himself acquainted—from the bamboos and bananas to the interwoven parasites " all a-bloom with purple flowers," from the pineapple " burning like a topaz on its green calyx," to the mangroves drooping into the water heavily laden at every bough with oysters! The tenacity of his memory, the voracity of his re searches, and the vividness of his imagination trans formed Warburton into a Mexican while be wrote, as the same influence changed Moore for the time being into a native of Cashmere, and Burke into a Bengalee. Whether it was that he yearned to com pare his own fancies with the realities of nature across the ocean, whether he wished to ex amine such creatures as the "demoniac cat fish and the cruel remora," or to re-discover that " one rocky ridge" in the isthmus of Darien (11. 97.) from the summit of which can be seen the opposing shores of the Pacific and Atlantic—shortly after the publication of his novel, relating to the " Merchant Prince," Warburton resolved upon at once proceeding to Panama. Possibly he was actuated in this instance by that love of travel, which he himself termed " the most unquenchable of loves" (I. 162.) — that love which had already carried him to Damietta and • the Dardanelles. Howbeit his excursion to Central America was resolved upon : at first under taken simply with an eye to pleasure, but ultimately also with an eye to business—Warburton being de puted to negotiate 'friendly relations between the In dian tribes of Darien and the Atlantic and Pacific Junction Company. In pursuance of this enterprise, he left England in the Amazon steam-ship, of 2,250 tons burden, on Friday, the 2d of January, 1852, under the command of Captain Symons, with 163 on board, crew and passengers. The fate of that unfor tunate and magnificent vessel can never, in the annals of misfortune, be altogether lost to remembrance. I n its aggregation of horrors it exceeded even the dubi ous fate of, the President and the celebrated loss of the Kent East Indiaman. In many particulars it eclipsed the fearful destruction (which took place a month afterwards) of her Majesty's ship the Birken head. Early on Sunday morning the 4th of January, but very little indeed after midnight, almost every soul on board the Amazon being hushed in' slumber, the pealing of the alarm-bell, and the cries of " Fire, woke those who were sleeping' to the frightful knowledge that the ship was in flames. Twenty minutes more proved enough to complete the conflagration ; but within that brief interval how much agony was compressed those who have survived have enabled us to con jecture. An ineffectual effort to set the fire-engine going was followed by the abandonment. of the hose and the desperate resort to the buckets. Everything speedily revealed, however, that the attempt to extin guish the conflagration must prove futile, but, during the loss of time resulting from the endeavour four out of the nine boats received irreparable injury. Meanwhile the engines, not having been stopped at the outbreak of the catastrophe, carried the Amazon with terrible velocity through a heavy sea and a wind blowing with considerable violence. Fifty nine persons alone escaped in two of the life boats, the dingy, the cutter, and the pinnace—the two best life-boats being burnt on the sponsons, while the mail boat, and in all probability the gig, were swamped alongside. The last individual recognised on board by those who were saved was Eliot War burton—standing by the captain at the wheel, fully dressed,' and quite collected. Shortly afterwards the vessel was involved in a sheet of flame from the bow sprit to the taffrail, the magazine soon exploded, the funnels, red-hot, fell over with a hissing sound into the waves, and the wreck thereupon almost instantly foundered. Remembering the suddenness of this appalling calamity, coming so speedily after the ap pearance of the romance of " Darien," we shudder at the mysterious recurrence of allusions to precisely similar disasters by the almost prophetic band of the gifted and lamented traveller. Already in the opening page of the third volume of "Reginald Hastings" he bad quoted those passionate lines of Shakspere— e 0 Lord!' methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of water in mine ears; What sights of ugly deaths within mine eyes!" In "Darien" his expressions became still more l am entably appropriate, and still more painfully dis tinct in their explicitness. Almost at the commence ment of the romance the author dedicates an entire chapter (I. ch. iv.) to a minute description of the torments of death by burning, transcribing at the outset those verses of Shelley— " The thirsty fire crept round his manly limbs— His resolute eyes were scorched to blindness soon: His death paugs rent my heart:' Further on Warburton writes (I. 206.) "We struck; all hands took to the boats; I only left; boats s wamped ; crew lost ; I, thanks to your gallantry and kindness—only saved." Elsewhere, be says (11.16 ) " Startled by the sudden sense of drowning, he awoke to find himself in the angry sea, with wreck and ruin and destruction all around." Another of his mournfully apposite extracts is from Uhland— " The winds and the waves of ocean, Th , l rested quietly ; But I heard on the gale a sound of wail, There was danger on the sea." Everywhere he seemed to behold round him mys tically, as Longfellow did in "Evangeline," the glory of a conflagration, where— . Columns of shining smoke uprose, and flashes of flames were Thrust thro' the folds and withdrawn, like the quivering hands of a martyr." His similes were tinctured with the same sombre hue of premonition. He thus illustrated the imper• ceptible diminution of sorrow for a deceased com panion (111. 211.)—" as when a ship founders at sea, the water forms a distracted vortex for a few minutes, an l the waves - are tossed about un naturally ; but they gradually subside, until the surface •of ocean is as calm over the buried wreck as over the srnobthest send that ever formed a drowned seaman's pillow." His thoughts appeared to recur perpetually to the same theme with a mis boding iteration. He talked (I. 68.) of " mariners making preparations on a quiet shore for a long and stormy voyage." He seemed by a preternatural an ticipation to recognise the forms of those who would •so soon be lamenting his own calamitous disappear ance. He described (I. 58.) one whose eyes " were regardless of all except the sea in which her hope now as ever her fear was rested :" and at another time wrote of one of his heroines (111. 82.) " she was like those who have lost dear relations at sea, and who love t o soot h e t h e i r sorrows by s itti ng on the shore and watching the waves as they come end go; in some dreemy expectation that somehow they may bring tiding s of those who have gone down among their -fellows." Sometimes, even, the thin veil of futurity "became altnort sufficiently transparent to reveal the horrors of the 'approlehing datestrophe. In one volume he wrote (I. 74.) " Nothing but some columns of smoke curling quietly up in the evening air, ,he gave tok en (111. 25.) remainingo any disaster;". in another "Tg - forwArd, and her dry s burned up rapidly into Spaniard was now on fire three pillars of thole :" more minutely the misfortune h another he depicted yet es so spdly to experience (11. 224-225.)_« Aeofficer came the King's came forward in hi s turn, his Sp eech by the cry of o fueg V g e u c s a i s ) Was interrupted volume of smoke at the from the f same timeor t i le; a thick f the hold diffused a su l p h urous stench. Thng„uhpiprioiamd been set on fire by on e o f th e quenchless fireballs- that the buccaneers were accustome d to make use of in extremity. It had fallen among hales of silk, whi r l, for some time sm o th ere d th e fi erceness of the Homes . ; but it had the more ex t ens i ve l y an d su b tly done its work, and the fire was proportionately destructive. Toe boats were immediately lowered, and those on board had barely time to put off when the galleon was in flames froth. stem to stern. Even the wounded buccaneer and the sick English sailor had been saved. The boats rowed fast towards Alvaro's ship, and almost immediately after they had reached her the galleon blew up, and no trace was left of the gallant ship• but a few seething planks, and some bubbles on the calm water in which she bad gone down." Literature does not contain any more startling indications of a presentiment. They remind one of those exquisite verses in which Lord Byron celebrated the thirty-seventh anniversary of his birth, at Missolonghi—the fabulous notes of the swan sing ing its own requiem, as Mozart is said to have com posed his on the eve of dissolution. That Warburton preserved his self-possession even under the terrors of an occurrence that might have palsied the most cou rageous cannot but be matter for our admiration. His collected behaviour even under such circumstances can be readily comprehended, however, by those in any way acquainted with the serene bravery of his character. Several instances of this bravery occurred in the course of his eastern peregrinations, sot the least remarkable of which were (" Crescent," &c., ch. xii.) the coolness displayed by him when nearly half a mile from his boat at midnight, and almost alone in the midst of a couple of hundred angry Nubian savages (ditto, cb. xvi.); and his refusal of backsheesh to the ex tortionate Bedouins in one of the Pyramids, a refusal enforced by an extended pistol and a threat of the bastinado; but especially (ditto, ch. xxix.) the cou rage disclosed in riding on horseback, without a single attendant, along the sea shore, from Lebanon to Beyrout—a feat which nearly led to his assassina tion. Bravely, therefore, as became him, he passed away in what seemed to be the meridian of his life, in the midst of that awful conflagration. Peace be with him ! wherever may have flown his gentle but heroic spirit. He should have died in different scenes and under less dreadful auspices— upon the banks of the holy Jordan, or under the boughs of the whispering palm, or in the ripeness of a good old age, reposing on his bed, surrounded by those who loved him, and by the fields sacred with the tender recollections of his childhood. Instead of this—the deck of the burning Amazon, far away, at midnight, among th e raging waters of the Atlantic ! Prematurely, though his career has terminated, his nam e cannot easily be forgotten. It will be ranked among the catalogue of those " keen-eyed travellers " o f whom Kinglake speaks in the most eloquent pa ssage of " Eothen " (chap. xx.) as " Warb urton to-d a y and Herodotus yes terday "—and will long be associated in the mind of every English pilgrim to the Holy Land with the Hill of Zion and Mount Moriah, with the babbling Kedron and the gloomy Jehoshaphat, with every stone in the Via Dolorosa and every olive in Geth semane. And assuredly that alone is an achievement. It is something to have one's name remembered in connexion with the ruins of Jerusalem ! I❑ appearance Warburton was frank and prepos sessing. About the middle height, he was erect in hearing, and occasionally, in the carriage of his head, almost military. Amiability tempered the reselution expressed in his mouth. Along the edge of the lower lip was traceable the faintest vestige of an imperial. His fresh complexion and light-brown hair be trayed the Saxon origin, which was rendered yet more apparent by his blueish eyes—spurred at the outer corners with crows' feet imprinted less by time than by a merrituent wrinkling into laughter. His voice, clear and rather high, was peculiar fur its pensive cadence, imparting to almost every sentence a pleasing but melancholy inflwction. His memory is with us, as that of the gallant and the gifted—the memory o f an observant traveller with the sympathies of a poet, and the soul of a gentleman. KETT. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir, —On Wednesday the 23rd of June, a Committee was moved for considering of making compensation oat o f t h e Consolidated Fund, to persons interested in Burial Grounds in the Metropolis, for any loss they may sustain in consequence of any Act passed in the present session. There appears to be a good deal of mal arrangement in this. Bradford and Edinburgh pay to the Consolidated Fund, but why should Bradford and Edinburgh pay for improvements in Metropolitan fune"- rats. If it is on account of the share Bradford and Edinburgh men may have in the health of the metro polis during the time they are there on business, it Is evidently a very meagre reason for making them and others so situated pay for the whole. It there was a prospect that Bradford and Edinburgh would have any thing of the same kind done for them out of the Conso lidated Fund in turn, the case might be altered. But till that is ascertained, the question ought to lie over. On the same day motion was made by Viscount Jocelyn, for Copies of Evidence and Reports on the transactions in Scinde. The facts with respect to Scinde may have partially gone out of public memory to make room for others; bat the leading features were these, — that a race of Native Princes in India had been useful and steady allies of the British in times of urgency, and when the urgency was over, the British, true to Anglo-Saxon policy, were found dispossessing their late allies of their territories, seizing their revenues and pri vate property, end reducing them to the condition of state prisoners in various fortresses. The facts are im pressed upon me, because I remember that at the time they were taking place, I had communications from persons of mark -in India, made under the impres sion that I had a seat in Parliament and could conse quently have aided by a vote. I remember also to have seen in some public paper, a statement that British officers in India had refused to accept their share of the prize-money, because they said it was made by the pillage of ladies' jewel-boxes. So you see that we do not all of us leave our consciences behind on passing the Line, whatever may be the effect upon the average of the mass. The world will cease to wonder that this country, in which the democratic element is decidedly so strong, should still present a spectacle of comparative peace and harmony to surrounding nations,—when it has duly meditated on the fact, that no tale of wrong and shame can arise in any quarter of the earth, without a British noble being found in the van of the resistance. I have seldom seen so much of enthusiasm in the House was excited on this occasi on; an d men of different ,as par ties seemed to enjoy the opp ortun i ty f or a momentary fusion, like soldiers meeting at the under advanced-posts the liberty of a flag of tr uce . Th e M inistry in answer reduced itself to the pl ea of autrefais acquit; w hi ch might have been well if the contrivera and authors of these harms had been waiting for the judgment Parliament, but the object o f t h e present motion o f • get some tardy reparatio n f or t h e degradation the ri °ll t Vi o as to British character. We are in horrible servitude to any men who have command over gunpowder, judge, no jury, to take up our cause at th utmost that is left for us is, the chance timTeh;ersendisethneo attempt at reversal after the flesh isofgeseoeinedolicewinnpbtinhuget wolt's throat. The thing does not t perpetually. It is a trade; and we, either malt, are destined to pay for the exertions of t he piper. On Thursday the txovernment th e e ' : liancenoenal ;r in evinced a yielding spirit on the subject of the captive and there is a probability of b e extreme wrong being Johnstardil givenme small p portion Anie e ra o fS o c f i Scinde, On Friday Lord Itu ss u i.. ro ught before the House of Cutnrouns the ulter " in the Cori upt Practices at Eleactii°ounas mßaddle. One of the by the Lords principal, is the taking away from t the House of Com mons the right of proeendin Y ag ainst boroughs in cases of notorious bribery, Will the Lards agree to the interference of the '''-•i!houtgtheagreement of the Lords. Com mons, in cases where the introduction to the House of Lords is COLOCTDP(I? I ri this; but with out success. get somebody to ask A M em ber spoke loudly of ted to his intention to go to a division on the subject; and it is impossible to say what harm could have been done, if a in score or two of M embers b a d recorded their names consequence. But in a popular assembly the feeblest proposal al __ways carries the day, end his resolution railed hi m . The H ouse was adjourned till Tuesday. I am, Sir, yours eery sincerely, AN OLD IREr OBMER. Blackheath, Juice 28. 1852. A deputation , cons i st ing of Alderman Sir P. Laurie, Mr. J. Woodward, Mr. G. Stacy (Deputy), Mr. E. Lane, and Mr. A. Vines had an interview with Mr. *eorgary Walpole, at the Home-Ace, on patwdoy. Per Blbs., to sink the Oats. - _ June — 30, 1851. 'June 28, 1852 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... ... 2 4to 2 6 2 Bto 2 10 Second quality ditto ... ... 2 8 210 3 0 3 2 Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 2 3 4 3 6 Prime Scots, c. ..„ 3 4 3 0 3 8 310 Coarse and inferior Sheep... 2 6 2 8 2 8 210 Second quality ditto ... 210 3 0 3 0 3 2 Prime coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 2 3 6 3 4 3 6 Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 3 8 310 3 8 310 Lambs... ... 4 0 5 0 4 0 5 0 Large coarse CalVes .., 2 6 3 2 2 8 3 4 Prime small ditto ... ... 3 4 3 0 3 6 4 0 Large Hogs ... 2 4 3 22 8 3 4 Sinai! Porkers ... ... 3 4 3 8 3 6 3 8 Beasts ... ..• ... 3,156 3,977 Sheep and Lambs .. ... 30,690 31,370 Calves ... ... 332 421 Pigs •.. . . 410 6:0 SUPPLIF.S ON SALE, JULY 1, 1850.—Beasts, 3,409; ShetT and Lambs, 29,900 ; Calves, 346 ; Pigs, 295. JULY 2, 1849. Beasts, 3,508 ; Sheep, and Lakubs,27,69o ; Calves. 319; Pigs, 245. xv - MVIG.a.TI.I AND Z.MAZIMIXII.D.LT,.. These markets continue to be tolerably wcll, but not, to say heavily, supplied .with each kind of niea, in whip a fair average business is doing, as follows: At 'er stone by tau Carcass. s. d. to f. d. Pee, inferior .. 2 6 2 8 Mutton,iaforior .-•—• 210 3 0' priroolargo •• 3 0 3 2 ( primo .• • • prime small .. 3 4 3 6 Pork, Veal.... •......... 2 8 310 , small Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d. 801ZOITOPI nOP Owing to the favourable accounts at hand from the plantations, the demand for all kinds of Hops is heavy, and prices are barely supoorted. The show of samples is very limited. Sussex pockets, 110 s to 1255; Weald of Kent, 120 s to 1455; Mid and East Kent, 130 s to 2405; Yearlings, 70s to 1083; Old Olds, 22s to 50s. 7303LOUGE 4arraa SPITAX.FIELDS. R. d. to e. ' 2 8 210 30 3 6 3 8 410 28 3 2 34 3 8 There are still a few old Potatoes on sale here, but the season for them is now ovcr. New qualities are coming more freely to hand, but their value rules high, English being quoted at from lOs to 30s per cwt, and Foreig❑ 2s 6d to 4s 6d per basket. During last week the imports were 4,400 baskets from Dunkirk and 4,000 ditto from Rotterdam. WOOL. Since Monday last thejaiPetis of Wool have been on. an extensive scale, 3,227 bales having arrived from Port Philip, 3.009 from Sydney, 2,023 from Hobart Town, 25 from the Cape, 3,413 from Geelong, 244 from Hamburgh, 15 from Ostend, 1,309 from Launceston, and 320 from Bombay. These arrivals have increased the stock to nearly 50,000 bales. Privately the demand for Eng lish Wool is steady, but all other kinds are neglected. TAMMOV7, Oar market has become less firm, and in some in stances the quotations have given way 3d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 38s 6d. For forward. delivery next to nothing is doing. Town !Tallow; 37s net cash; rough Fat, 2s Id per Blbs. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. Stick this day .... Price of Y. C. •• .. Delivery last week •• IJitto from June 1. • • • Arrivals last week • Ditto from June 1 ... Price of Town . • •• • . 2,418 44s 6C to 44s 9d 1,448 6,427 23,115 23,971 38s 3d 36s 9d to 38s 6d to 36861 1,923 t. 02 4,703 t 4,786 1,044 40 2,415 2,633 39s 6d i 38s Od 710 6,316 46s 6cl 3,527 37s 9d toi Os 0(1 1,4 5 4,350 244 4,344 3Ss Od SPORTING NOTES. No. CCLIII. 41,182 338 6d to OsOd 1,150 4,674 1,525 5,128 39s 6d THE CARLISLE MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—To-morrow, Wednesday, and Thursday, in the racing almanac are marked for the Carlisle meeting; the majority of the stakes have not yet closed, oonse , quently I can only touch upon four—the Cumberland Plate. Corby Castle, and Lottery Stakes, and the Free Handicap. .• Out of twenty-six nominations for the Cumberland Plate eighteen have accepted; little hopes are enter tained, however, that a moiety will go to the post. The field will probably consist of Calculator, Hippolytus, Mary Ann, the Alp, Snowdrop, J ess i ca, and perhaps Coleterdale and one of Mr. Hesseltine's. The race, I imagine, can scarcely .be doubtful in its issue, as the CALCULATOR, with only 6st 61b up, must be somewhere about the mark; and I think to him or lIIPPOLYTUS we may look for the occupants of the first and second pieces, with Mary Ann and the Alp third and fourth. The Corby Castle Stakes of 10 sovs, each, h ft, with 43 added, out of an entry of eight, may possibly have at the post one of Osborne's—in all probability Exact—J. Dawson's Anteverta, Gaiety filly, and perhaps Sally and Eaton. The result will probably favour Sir Charles Monck's filly by Melbourne, out of Gaiety; the favou rite, Anteverta. not being good enough, in my opinion, to beat either Sir Charles Monck's or Osborne's filliee. It the Baronet misses the mark, Osborne will secure it, and Anteverta, will, I expect, finish third. The Lottery Stakes of 10 sm. each, h ft, with 40 added, over the mile and a quarter course, will be con tested by four or five, and will probably fall to the lot of Ba oldie M'Snifter, or Jessica, without Lady Agnes ' should put their calculations at fault; Bauldie, however, is my choice. The Free Handicap is the only remaining stake I think it worth while commenting on. This stake has obtained an acceptance of a dozen, but the field, I anticipate, bill not exceed a third of that number; and the race will lay entirely between the representatives of DAwsOU'd and Osborne'a stables.—l am yours, &0., June 28, 1852. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Saturday Don Pasquale, that light and lively opera, was pleasingly presented, all engaged therein exerting themselves wi!h most praiseworthy zeal. The grand ballet Zelie, ou L'Amour et La Magic, improves upon re petition. It was warmly and deservedly applauded, for its gorgeousness and ingenuity of scenic arrange ment;, no Jess than for the novelty, piquancy, and grace of its varied stepe, groupings, and talented danseuses. MINING NEWS. [The following extract from a letter, dated San Fran cisco, May 2, 1852, which appeared in the New York Herald, affords strong corroboration of the statements put forward on behalf of the Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company. It also proves that other associations are actively, and, we have no doubt, profitably, engaged, notwithstanding the assertion that no reliance can be placed upon labourers discharging the obligations they have undertaken previous to their arrival in the auri ferous districts —ED. Sun. J " Among the many rich leads of which I can speak from personal observation, is a vein belonging to the Key Stone Quartz Mining Company. I saw over one dollar of the 11 carer of gold washed from a pan of decayed rock, without any quicksilver or other help than pure cold water. Thu same quartz will yield from forty to fifty cents per pound upon a careful assay with quick silver. The lead is said to be one of the richest in Cali fornia. Sir H. V. Eluntly, the president of that com pany, is fitting up machinery and preparing to work the lead upon an extensive scale. In the immediate vicinity are several large c o mpanies, to wit: the Sutter, Colonel Hagan's, Russell's, &c., with their machinery in readi ness to run. Oae thing which has heretofore and still is retarding the progress and 3,uccoss of quartz opera-' tions, is the want of sot better mode of amalgamating than is now in use, and any improvement in this respect would meet a handsome reward in the region I have spoken of.—Yours, &c., " April 27, 1852. " A. A. BOYDEN. " P.S. Since writing the above, I have seen a letter from Mr. William Fitzpatrick, published in your paper of the 25th inst., in which ho refers to the same mining region. Having been present and inspected the Key Stone Mining Company's claim, I can speak more confi dently of it, and your readers may rest assured that it will prove one of the best claims in the State. " A. A. B." The Earl and Countess of Derby had a dinner party on Saturday at their residence in St. James's-square. The company consisted of the Duke and Duchess of Buceleuch, the Earl and Countess of Clanwilliam and Lady Selina Meade, Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge, Lord and Lady Barrington and the Hon. Miss Barring ton, Lord and Lady Seaham, Lord and Lady Ly ndhurst, Lord Somerton, Lord Anson Lord Forester, Vis count Canterbury, Lord Alexander Lennox, and Lord Stanley. THE &BAILER'S DINNRE.—The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his officials inner on Saturday. The follow ing gentlemen were pent :—Lord Charles Russell, Mr. J. G. Shaw Lefevre, C.B. (Deputy-Clerk Parliamentor), Mr. C. itomilly (Clerk of the Crown), Mr. William Ley, Mr. Henry Ley, Mr. r. Goss Clemenson, Mett, Mr. Do rington Mr. Vardon, Mr. nudge, Mr. Dyson, Mr. Whitten, Mr. Erskine May, Mr. S. Smith. Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Weide grave, Mr. Arthur Jones, Mr. Postlethwaite, Mr. G. nail, Mr. Mr. Rickards, Mr. Lefroy, and the Rev. Thomas Gamier. Sir D: Le Merchant, bin Rowland, and Mr. John Rose were prevented attending. 'We belif•ve that it is not premature to state that Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer has been able to bring the Mather affair to something of a more satisfactory conclusion. Sir Henry Bulwer has not stirred again the question of pecu niary compensation. which has been so much mismanaged, andles brought so mach discredit upon the British name in that quarter of Italy, where it was, of all ot h ers, requ i s it e that it should stand high. He has perstrided the Duke de Casiiiano to agree to a note, not only expressive of the regret of the Tuscan Government in r eference to t he past, but also promising isr the future to recognise the principle of respon sibility for all acts relating io British subjects, committed in the territories of the Grand Duke. —Sunday Paper. DEPARTURE, OF THE ROYAL MAIL STEAM SIIIP CANADA.—On Saturday the British and North American royal mail steam-ship Canada, Captain Lang, , left the Me rsey at half-past three, f , r Halifax and Boston, conveying the usual mails for the United States and the B iti,ll provinces of North America, with DO passengers and a fair general cargo. COURT OF THAMES CONSERVANCY. — On Saturday the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, &c., went in state to Stratford, where his Lordship opened a Court of Conservancy at the Town -hall, from thence his Lordship went to Blackwell, where his Lordship also held a court. Several presentations of illegal encroachments on the river boundary by steam boat piers. &c., were made and adjudicated. From Black wall his Lordship crossed to Greenwich in the state barges. I - fere his Lordship also held a court. Dispatches were'itent on Saturday from the ColoBi 3 i• ottee to the Governor of Gibraltar. THE SUN, EON DON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1852, NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE. Commander Archibald 2lucdonald (1842), on the re tired list, died a iew days since at . Rock Ferry. He en tered the navy i n 1798; was in th e expedition to the Helder; was wounded in the expedition to Copenhagen; was at the capture of Le Duequene, 74, and Creole, 44; was made a lieutenant in 1807; served with great dis tinction under Sir R. Keats, ,ancl . was in the Tribune when, in 1810, she beat off-four Danish brigs of war. He was for 24 years superintendent of quarantine at Liverpool. Edinburgh, 58, screw-gunnery tender, Captain Hew lett, has compl e t e d h er fue l , and has hauled off to the moorings off Gesport. Fairy royal yacht terew-tender, Master-Commander Welch, was taken on the graving slip at Portsmouth on Saturday morning, and again shipped the flexible screw. The screw was slightly , altered, having a greater pitch than when last tried. Captain Crispin took the Fairy out in the afternoon, and it was found that she had a little more speed than when tried with tho flexible crew last time; howeier, she did not go so fast by a knot an hour as she did well Smith's screw, although she made five revolutions more per minute. We understand that th© flexible screw occasions more tremulous motion in the vessel than the of .i screw. Ferret, 8, Commander M . Donald, is nearly ready for sea, and will go into the Sound in the early part of this week. The Ferret goes to the Coast. Spartan, 26, Captain Sir W. Rome—Forty seamen and boys of the Queen have seen akowed to volunteer for the Spartan, 26, fitting at this port. Trincomalee ' 24, Captain W. H ous t on, was masted on Friday, and taken alongside the jetty at Davenport. Her marines were embarked on Saturday, under the commapd of First Lieutenant Havetfleld: Triton -steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Lloyd, arrived at Devonport on Seturday afternoon from Wool wich, bringing a party of mariues for the Qaeen, 116, to be recommissioned at teat port. The Triton will be paid a d vance wages there, and then proceed to join the fleet in the Mediterranean. MALTA, JUNE 22.—The Medina, from Corfu, and the Medusa, from Alexandria, with homeward India mails, have both arrived. .• The Fury steamer, with the Governor and suite, havi ng repaired her defects, left port this morning for Gee), to try her engines, and to-morrow will go out to j0i. 7 1, the Admiral. o a n t Ts t ee he ott it,,, Tee o;, ` ,13 have no local news of the slightest interest to foreign readers. examina tionl3 when Mr. .Flugn Pearso va , ate,was recommended a S I u zi N a DAY l . C — o T ll h eg e e h c a o i n f e Y lu e d a e r d lY yesterday, for the lieutenant's commission , - m and Cadets (R.M.) Petman, nun, for com missions Harrison, Ryb ot , and se in the re Royal Marine corps. The Rolla, 6, apprentices' training brig, Lieutenant- Commander Fenwick h left . Leith to enter this port for Scotch boys for the navy. The Vulcan iron troop-ship, Commander Von Donop, is under orders to leave this p oet On th e 2d rox. for Ireland, to embark tro o p s f or AustraliP The Simoom iron troop - frigate Cap t a ina° Kingcome, disembarked the Rifle Brigade at th • 14 deter day morning, and they left immediatel y byy theouth Coast Railway for quarters at Canterbury. - Ss The Statesman, 900 tons, Captain Godfrey, arrived at Spithead from the Thames on Friday night bound for Australia. Upwards of 50 persons arrived by train on that day from Brighton, to take passage in the ship f or Port Philip, many of whom are most amply fitted out with stock, implements, &c., for the diggings. The Statesman is famed for her rapid passages, her captain being reported the person who introduced the system of circle sailing. She has on board between 240 and 250 passengers, among whom are persons of the better classes, many of them old and eminently respectable colonists. She put in at this port owing to the number of pa s _ sengers who had engeged berths in her belonging to Brighton, but the result showed the facilities of Ports mouth for victualling, &c. No ship ever left Spithead better stocked with every necessary to make a voyage co mfortable than the Statesman. She sailed this evening for her destination. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 27.—Her Majesty's brig Philomel is ordered to be fitted for commission. A general muster of artisans and labourers took place in the Devonport dockyard yesterday, in the presence of Commodore Seymour and the principal officers. Seven labourers were entered on the establishment. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail packet Hellespont, Captain W. Watts, which arrived from the Cape on the 6th inst., sailed again for that colony yesterday. Besides her general cargo she em barked here a quantity of stores on Government ac count. The Hellespont will only touch at St. Vincent on the passage out. She is appointed to bring home the Ist of August Cape letters, in place of the Qaeen of the South, which left here on the 21st for the Cape and Calcutta. bHEERNESS, SIINDAY.—Her Majesty's ship Vestal, 26, Captain Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, was undocked on Thursday, and warped to the south side of the fitting basin , . Her bottom has been stripped, re-caulked, and newly coppered, the lower rigging is - set up, caps fi tte d, and topmasts pointed. Her Majesty's iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel Triton, 3. Lieutenant Henry Lloyd commanding, made her number on Friday forenoon, and proceeded on ber voy age to the westvard. She was built at Blackwell is 1847, from designs of the late Surveyor of the Navy, Captain Sir W. Symonds, is of 650 tons burden, and fitted with engines of the nominal power of 260 horses. She is to proceed to the Meciiterrnean forthwith, to be employed Lir the conveyance of her Mojestfb mail be tween Malta and the landau Islands. Her Mejcsty's paddle-wheel steam-me,t , sel Wildfire, Mr. Buckman, second master, commanding, is completed in the repairs of her hull by the dockyard artificers. So soon as she is painted, &c., in the inside, she will resume her duties as tender to the Waterloo, 120, flag ship at this port. Her Majesty's screw Ettam.frigate, 30, bui!ding on the norta-slip, is progressing rapidly. Several gangs of the dockyard men are at work on her, and she will be ready for launching towards the end of the pre,ent )ear. Her Majosty'a snip Meader, 44, fitting at Cihattiem for the broad pendant of Captain Charles Talbot, as successor to Commodore Wyvill at the Cape of Good Hope, will ba ready to ba undocked the latter part of next week. Her equipment is rapidly progressing. The Goodwill lighter, Patrick master, arrived on Friday from Chatham, and is loading with stores for the western yards. Second•Lieutenisnt W. H. H. West, of the Chatham division of Royal Marines, and serving as junior subal tern in her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, has proceeded on leave of absence for two months, for the benefit of his health. The crews of the whole of her Majesty's ships inerdi nary were inspected on Friday by Captain C. Hope, Superintendent of the Dockyard, and Commander Pryce, of the Monarch, 84. A portion of the Coast-guard tam were practised yesterday in firing shot end shell from the old garri son battery, at a target placed n-ar th e Nore middle -ground. Tne portion of th,3 parade -ground which has b een prepared for the trial of the anchors cf all nations, as also the machinery erected. thereon, was tepted on' the afternoon of Friday, presence of the Vice-Adtniral the Honourable Josceline Percy, C. 8., Commander•in- Cnief at the . Nore, Captain the Honourable Montagu Stopford, his flag-capt4in, attended lieutenant the Hon. 0. W. M. Lambert, MtrheJafiniegs- Tonkio, Master of the Waterloo, Mr. J ylen * Master- Attendant, and several . of the port officeigi Tw ' o Admi ralty anchors, designated the old and nt r ones, the for mer weighing 25 cwt. 2 qrs.. 211 b, the latter 25 cwt.2' clrs -171b., were attached to .the gear, and the order given to heave tight. The Admiralty anchor, on the new plan, quickly embedded itselt to the entire , length of the arm, continuing its holding p r operties, rd siarting only 3 feet, while the other on the old plan end 15 feet, thus showing the very great superi the latter as regards holding qualities. This preliminary trial was made und er the able direction of the former over Master- Attendant, Mr. J. Ay 01 ! to whom is intrusted the su perintendence cf thc whole of the arrangements t y of s the . general trial, which for the will commence on Thursday, the Ist proximo. WOOLWICH, jtril I ta s r...t Engineers—John ArponiT a s s E si st s Roberts, second el ass, the 26. Fisgard, flag-ship at Wool wich; George Reube __a i j ss, to c jug . , ) second class, to the W sun Ca t . Vulcan , ate, at Portsmouth; - berevr w ain troop-frig the ISloraaio screw seam guard-ship, at Sheerness; a P. Blake and Francis T. Elliott, third class, to Robert J. Hay and Thomas Wilson, third class, to the Blenheim screw steam guard-ship, at Portsmouth; Henry W. Eiger and Joseph J. Lovell, third class, to the I;i,gar , Frederick 13. Youel (1846) t o th e Second Master d flagship at Woolwich. Trincc,malee, 24, at Devonport. . , R Hawkes is appointed first timber con- Mr. Joseph R.. at Woolwich dockyard, vice Mr. Stewart Barr, vuehroteried d s uddenly here on Tuesday morning last. M r . William Carr to be second timber converter, vice Hawkes. Mr. Charles Morgan and Mr. Benjamin Lee have been eappointed extra clerks at Woolwic h d oc k yar d , i n t h e o i e epers' department, to ass i st in taking stock storekeepers the general survey about to take place. The committee, consisting of Commodore Henry Eden, Superintendent of Wo o l w i c h D oc ky ar d ; C aptain wavier), of the steam department at Somerset House; and Captain Mundy, of the London, 90, at Sheerness, sa t again yesterday and to-day, on board the Fisgard gag-ship at this port, to inquire into the cause of the length of the voyage of the Megmra steam troop-frigate to and from the Cape of Good Hope. The result of the inquiry is not yet known, but we have ascertained from A party who noted the time occupied by the following vessels in their voyages to the Cape the following results : Horse Time to the Tons, power. Cape. The Birkenhead The Vulcan 1,764 350 56 days. The Megmra 5 6 5 6 3 , d d d a a a j y s s s . .. The Retritivion 1 :641 800 The Sidon The Cyclops Oa referring to the dates of sailing, stoppin g an d reaching home, the actual time occup i e d by the Me gaera in iailing and ste.aming durlr?g her last voyage borne from the Cape was forty-nine days, going in that time 6,300 miles, the distance of the Cape of Good Hope from Plymouth. [ADVERTISEMENT.i—A Life Guardsman, one of the Heroes of Waterloo, cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Thomas Brunton, landlord of the Waterloo Tavern, Coatham, Yorkshire, was afflicted for many months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout. His legs were dreadfully painful, arid disfigured with colours of every hue, frightful to behold. For ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk, the treatment he received from several medical men not only failing to do hi m any good, but leaving him in fact in a considerably worse condition. 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