The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-17 00:00:00

- - sarae price. Ripe steady, at 381 61 to 393 6d per r quart: r. Ceke; are quite as dear, but 11109 t Defer articles are lower to purch 2 araliaWhite, per bash. 83 to lls Carraw ay .... 33s 'Cs Swede 103 12s Coriander .... lis 133 a ;Austere, Brown.. •• .. tis tis Ilempseed, per quarter 32s 85s White, new • ...5s Od 650 d Linseed, Eng. - iowing.• 50s 553 Tares,W , inter ...... —Os 01 Os Od Crushing ........ 45; Vs C Spring ..3s Gd Od Baltic 42s 45- Canary, per quarter •. 37s 39s Odessa .......... 41s 483 Rye grass.. •• , ",8; 315 Linseed Cake, pr. ton— Clover, Red Ens. (cwt.) 40s 50s English .. .elOs 8' ir s White ...• ...... 403 49s Foreign, per ton 71 lOs 8 ' les ` Foreign Red.. •• .. 403 .50s Rape Cakes, pr ton 415 s 41 1 , s White.... 40s SOs Rapeseed, New, prlst 211 Os 24' Cs t Trefoil ...... 213 25s SMITEtrIELD. Fair average time of year supplies of foreign stock arrived in the port of London last week —the total 11 import having amounted to 1,995 head. During the cor. c responding period in 1851, they amounted to 2 899; in n 1850, 1;373; in 1349, 1,363; in 1848, 2,503; and iu 1847. p 1,939 head. At S ou thampton 132 Oxen came to hand 7: from Oporto, in Excellent condition. IMPORTS INTO LONDON 1•1.; THE PAST WEEK. ii From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Piga li Harlingen 132 637 1 ... 31 .. Antwerp Rotterdam Guernsey Hamburgh 35 e 1 g Amsterdam — ..• 3 ••• Dordt 13 ... 246 ... 1 Total The yearly comparison of the weekly arrivals is as Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 3 1851 '34 1,8.0 ... 8 4-12 ... 59 1850 383 ... 731 15 2-10 ... 2 11 1849.... 193 ... 860 -. 5 ... 301 . 4 o 1848. ..... In addition to the imports noticed above, 79 Oxen have o come to hand from Corunna. These beasts have arrived vi 'in wretched condition, and their average value Ens not I] more than 51 each. The show of stock from Holland was very moderate. From our own grezing districts the 11 arrivals of Beasts, owing, iii a great measure, to the 0 more plentiful supply of grass, were considerably less a than those reported on Monday last. - The attendance ft of buyers being on the increase, the Beef trade ruled a somewhat firm, at an advance on the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The primest Scots sold readily, at from 3s 4d o to 3s 6d per 81ha, and a good demand was effected. The sl Inpply from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridge- a: • shire, amounted to 1,750 Scots, short-horns, and home breds; from other parts of England, 450 of various breeds; P and from Scotland, chiefly per railway, 450 horned and r' polled Scots, the remainder chiefly derived from abroad p The supply of Sheep being on the decrease, the demand 13 for that description of stock was firm. In som e in- 'I stances the primest old Downs realised 3s 10d per 81bs, cl but the general top figure for Mutton did not exceed C 3a Bd. However, the currencies were consid ered 2d per 81bs higher than on this day se'nnight. About 450 vi _ Lambs arrived from the Isle of Wight, but the receipts el from other quarters were very moderate. All breeds h moved off freely at the extreme rates o f last week. lc Prime Do wn Lembs realised 5s 4d per 81bs. We had a steady axle for Calves, at Friday's improvement—the b primest Veal having produced 4s 4d par Bibs. The Pork fi trade was very dull, at late figures. to t Per Sibs. to swathe offal. s. d. s. v 11 2 . d i to t Interior &nett. Inferior Sheep • 2 8 210 second quality .: •.: 2 8 3 0 Second qual. Sh ee p 3 0 3 2 h Prime large Oxen.. 3 2 3 4 Coarse-woolledditto3 4 3 6 e Rime Boots •• •• 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wet h e r 3 6 3 8 Large, Coarse Calves 3 2 310 Ditto out of the wool° 0 fl 0 r Prime small ditto .. 4 0 4 4 Large Hogs •. •• 2 6 3 4 /322 klittr, Calves ..19 0 23 0 small Porkers •• 3 6 3 8 Lambs .......... 4 2 5 4 Quarter oil Pigs ..16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET, Beasts. I gh ,, cp. I Calves. I PlOl. 3,714 22,980 207 340 Beasts FOREIGN SUPPLY. I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs. 506 790 149 • A Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of t Fat Stock exhibit e d and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, May 19, 1851, and this day, Monday, May 1 7, 1852. - Per 81bs., to sink the oflals. . . May 19, 1851. May 17,1852. , •s, d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts ... ... 2 6to 2 8 2 4to 2 6 Second quality ditto ... 210 3 0 2 8 3 0 , Prime large Oxen . ... 3 2 34 3 2 3 4 ' Prime Scots, c. 3 3 8 3 4 3 6 ' ~C,earse and inferior Sheep... ._ 210 3 o 2 8 210 I ',l?,econd quality ditto ... ... 3 2 3 4 3 0 3 2 ' Prime coarse-woolled ditto 3 6 3 8 3 4 3 6 Lambs,. Southdown ditto 4 3 1 8 0 4 5 1 0 0 3 4 6 2 3 5 4 8 L , ambs Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 e 3 2 310 P rime small ditto ... ... 3 8 4 0 4 0 4 4 Large Hog s • 2 8 3 4 2 6 3 4 Small Porkers ... 3 6 8 8 3 6 3 3 ,714 8 Beasts " .-• ''' 3 ' 4 • Sheep and Lambs .. ... 22,850 22,980 • Calves ... ••• 2'9 207 Pigs • • • 510 340 • SUPPLIES ON SALE, • MAY 20, 1850. -Beasts , 3,571 ; "Sheep and Lambs, 26,230; Calves, 176; Pigs, 383. MAY 21, 1849 Beasts, 3,350 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,070 ; Calves, 171; Pigs, 310. ENFIGATZI AND 7.E.ADEPTIIALL , ...Since Monday last the arrivals of coun tr y -killed Bleat up to these markets have exhibited a decided falling off. To-day the supplies slaughtered in the metropolis were but moderate, and the general demand ruled steady at very full prices. At per stone by tee Carcase. s. d. to s. d. t N. d. to s. r, . beef, int er i m - 2 0 22 t Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 6 `~ middling .... 2 4 2 6 middling .• 2 8 210 primetarge .. 2 6 2 8 prime •••• 3 0 3 6 prime small- 210 3 2 Pak, largo— •••• • • 2 4 210 ...... a 0 4 2 small .• •••• •• 8 0 3 6 Lamb, 4: 01 to 53 21. 1307LOUGH LiTID SPITILLT2ELDS. The supplies of good Potatoes having become limited, prices have further advanced, with a steady mand. Most other kinds are dearer, although the supplies are seasonably good. Present rates as follow:—York Re gents, 90s to 1255; Scotch ditto, 703 to 955; Essex and - 16 -e'ct, 80s to 105 s; and Cambridge and Wiabeach, 65s to 105 s per ton. 202.017G11C 730 P PALARIEET. We continue to have a fair inquiry for all good and 111 ) Hops, at very full prices. 0;d qualities command but little attention. Sussex pockets, Si 8s to 6165; Weald of Kent 61 to 71 ss; Mid and East Kent, 71 tO 12l 10a; Yearlings 31103 to 5110 s; Old Olds, 112 s to 2/ 103 per owl WOOL. Theimports of Wool last week were 81 bags frr m Ham burgh. 18 from Buenos Ayres, 3 , 127 Irons Geelong, 7 irom Calcutta, and 212 from the Cape. Owing to the. riear approach of the public sales, the private contract demand has become less active. Prices, however, are primly supported. TALLOW. The amount of business doing in our market is very Moderate, yet th e tra d e i s firm, and prices are 3d to 6 d 4, -per cwt h; her than on Monday last. To-d P.Y.C. on he spots selling at 36s 93 to 375, and for forward delivery 37's 9el to 31s per cwt. Town Tallow 35s 6d to ' 361 Per cwt, net cash ; Reugh Fat 2s 0 1, 1 per 81b s. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. I 1812, Stack this day • • 7,652 24,130 24,382 34,974 I 42,311 Price of Y. C. • • 4 , 1 s Od 385 01 3 6 s 91 37s 34 tol 38s 95 to 46561 to 39si'd to 37s0d 37561 'to OsOd Ditto last •• I week .. 1,033 1,2 C 8 1,415 135 1,'i21 4 -d° from June 1— 97,051 95,417 92,158 69,176 101,326 Arrivals last week . 272 1,652 ' 191 791 '283 Ditto from June 1 ... 96,565 112,041 91,0 9 58,632 107,693 Price of Town ...... 48s Gd 39s 6d j 38s Oct 33s 61 37s Od • MARLBRO I -STREET—(T HIS DAY.) DOINGS OF THE POLlCE.—Louisa Aubert, a fashion ably-dressed young French woman, lat.iong ing to the class called unfortunate, was brought before Mr. Hard wick on the following charge:— Smith, 156 C, stated that on Saturday night, about balfpast ten, he saw the defendant loitering about the lower part of Regent-street, for the purpose gentlemen. As witness had repeatedly spoken o t s o l h ic e i r tin on g the subject, and warned her is to the result of a cotivic tiOn, but to no purpose, he took her to the station. Mr. HARDWICK. inflicted a fine of 75., which was at once paid. The interpreter who attended for the defendanti said o Worship. to as the case had now been adjudicated b he (the interpreter) was instructed by the h de s f? defendant justice to language, prefer a charge against the constable, but in the latter, be not understanding the French and the discharged defendant not s p eak ing English, should state the case in English. T h e policeman, h e was instructed to say, had been in the lu.bit for some time past of receiving hush money from the defendant to allow her to follow her avocation. Since she had ceased to satisfy his pecuniary demands, he had made a point of taking her into custody every time he saw her in Regent-street. Be (the interpreter) had witnesses who would come forward and corroborate his statement. Mr. HARDWICK said, if the woman had any charge to prefer against the officer, and could bring evichnee in support thereof, she had only to lay her statement before the Commissioners at Scotland-) ard, and they would C 0 .mumble m itanthe strictest inquiry to be made int o the case. If .should be proved that the officer had acte d in the abominable manner be would most a ssuredl y punished. The severely The interpreter said he should do as his Worship bid suggested, a n d go tospok the Commissioners at once. lie had already en to Mr. S u p er i n t e ndent °twit), on the subject, and h o no doubt would aid him in the matter. Commander Sir William Wiseman, of the Excel lent, we regret to announ ce i s ill in Haslar Hospital with Malt -pox. --- In our notice on Saturday last of the Electro- Medicsd Institute two mistakes occurred —it ought to have and Chevalier been Bentirck Le s Molt for Mott tead of Benton -street, Manchester-square, . n . Milne, the gentMertrainments in the ocornsii Sore G o. —f h T is hi d s el e ig v h e t n ru in l . :vocalist, gives one Assembly Rooins, Eyre Arms, St. John's Wood. His well -- known ability as a mtuician, will no doubt draw the lovers of Scotland's music round him in great force, and we are very, sure they will expetience no com mon treat. The programm e , is both long and well selected. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. —The arrival of ye s . sels at Liverpool from America, and in the port of London, from all parts of the world, is now communicated to all the principal ports and places on the continent of Europe Ly 4aleana of the submarine telegraph within two hours of their appearance in port. The line of electric telegraph between Amiens and Boulogne is completed, and private dispatches to and from the latter place may now be transmitted. GRAND. BANQUET TO ADMIRAL SIR WILLIAM . PARE,EN BART, G.C.B.—On Saturday last the members of the Senior United Service Club, gave a magnificent enter tainment to Admiral Sir William Parker at the London Tavern, on the occasion of his return to England from the Mediterranean. Lord Saltcun took the chair, and was supported by the most distinguished officers of both ser vices. Mr. Bathe did his utmost to do honour to the distin - 4:Med guest. The dinn er an d w i nes were o f th e most per tct descriptiou, allci the milt wits complete ria at' f ctiOn to the party. TIIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY of the lat division, which filed off, sword in comme nd h-ld, before' the Emperor of Ites:ds. The Grand Doebt_.sscs ‘.-I')phia and Alex:1;1(11.1a present in an op.n „Tea; w l l ete p c occediuga were over at trrel7c. Tee crowd of spectators was immense, and the presNee. - of the Celt- caused great enthtniasel. The Emperio.of Russia set offin the mening for Prague, no corapanied by.the_Erep:ror of Austrie." 11:nT Aystrion Lloyd publishes a dicree of the Ec:- p e r r of Auslata, ordering that all persons charged with attempts to induce soldiers to vie-late their oaths, or otherwise abandon their duty, shall bo tried by court-reartial, and if round guilty, be punished with imprisonment of from : EiX months to one year, where the attempt has not succeeded, and with four years' imprisonment if -the attempt has been suc cessful. ..C4-e-o . aqkxr. has recently published a wdrk on the HuThg-aiiati.revoluqon, which is so strictly prohibited in Vienna that some of the first men in the empire have plied for it to the-Governor of the city in vain. It is evidently the intention of Government that the work should disappear Without laving any trace be hind it. The principal reason why the book is "so stricily prohibited is, that-the author round!y asserts that the Hungarians-were. on legal ground up to " the declaration of - independence" at De breczln on the 14 - h of April, 1349. It is said that GLoRGEY does _not attempt to conceal the fact of his having . cemplately broken with the "Pragmatic Sanction, tearera" from that time. The Government has is - sued telegraphic- dispatches to the governors of the provinces, with instructions to prevent the eale or distribution of the Memoirs. A gr&at . ,csaup cf evolution will be formed on the sth of June at Czzled and Keresstur, in Hungary. All the .diapossble cavalry of the 31 Army Corps, and 30 battrie3,' ill menceUvre during 40 days. A tekgraphin dispatch received at Berlin on the 12:1 , , states - that the Emperor of Russia had arrived that day at Dresden. - SWITZERLAND. The Grand Council of Switzerland assembled at Berne on the 12th, and-adopted a proposition for a very extensive political amnesty, extending as far back as the events of 1846. This measure of clemency was regarded at Berne as a clear indication of the force of the Conservative party. The Radical party in the -Grand Council was becoming more and more weak. Some of the members bad given in their re signation. ITALY. The Grand flukes of Russu were remaining at Rome on the Bth. The Russian envoy, M. BOUTE. NIEFF, on --the 7tb, gave a splendid file in their honour, at which the cardinals , th e p relates, and the French officers were present. In the sitting of the 11th of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin, the _ Bill on the tax on per sonal property was passed by 85 votes to 37. The Chamber then proceeded to elect a new president. The contest was obstinate ; Ikl. Ratazzi, the leader of the Left Centre, and candidate of the fusienists of the Ri g ht a.KI Left, Dbtairied at first 56 votes ; Chevalkr c ß e u n n t e r ° es m 2 P 3 ; agnib the , candidate of the non - fusionist Count Revel, the candidate of the ex treme Right, 20 ; and M. Tecchio, supported by the extreme left, 22. No one having obtained the abso lute ror.jority of 65, a new ballot commenced, in which tto numbers were :--Ratazzi 58, Boncompagni 32, Tecchio 23, - Rtvel 13. The ballot between the two candidates who had obtained the largest number of ~tee; last decided in favour of Ratazzi, who ob taiced 74 votes against 52 given to Boncompagni, who nevertheless was afterwards elected vice•president by 77 votes against 36, given to Tecchio. C 11A SSEU RIFLE AN 0 SWORD. NVOOLVICEE, MAY 15.—Messrs. Pritchett and Son, who have for many years supplied the Board of Ord nancearms, attended in the Marshes heri w iiicpnnegrnitnnhtnee early e and the Hon. East India Company with small ,h iple o he r e thearprer: pracf - tice lttiih;cbe:awwteeadeskrrijaituohrf:tahnbe:Cwg'aroajosfidse:;utsriaismedifi!):Vlo t of the firing:-The target flied at was 18 feet b high by 12 broad, and of the first 16 rounds fired 14 hit the target at 700 yards': range, and two only did not hit. The range Was next extended to 800 yards, and of 17 rounds fired at that distance 14 hit the target, and three did not hit. Fifteen rounds' were fired at 900 yards range, and cut of that number 12 hit the target, one entering the bull's eye, and the other three did not hit. Tho trial was completed' by firing the last 15 fot rounds ' thhei. balls n t a . ~11.1000e0et:eif:di the t ag andd i a tn ! en YaO li g tm e, rayabe at that distance 13 o t' and considered on ly two a w o very dd t fair test of the Chasseur rifle,, as the wea ther was bad, with oecasiunally a Scotch mist or driz zling rain. The Chasseur rifle is 2 feet 10 inches long in the barrel, or five inches shorter than the barrel of the itiiine rifle, the latter being 3 feet 3 inches in length. To place the Chasseur rifle in an equally ad vautag. ous position for close quarter defence, a sword of the saute description as these used by the French Chasseurs and artillery is fitted to the muzzle in a strong but similar manner as the bayonet, and the sword being 1 foot 11 inches in length, the Chasseur rifle and sword is exactly equal in length to the Min' c rifle, or common musket and bayonet. The weight of the Chasseur rifla is 81b. 7ez , and the mcde of taking the sight when firing exactly on the wise plan as has been adopted in. the Dlini6 rifle. The Bali used is on . the same princip le as those used in the hild6 and ea ch bill weighs , and the charge si g h h e tct end u. ve of the heir r rifle, of powder is two - dr achms. The C'hasseur sword is a a l t s te p i o n w g e l r h fu a l rp lv o e n aP° on n e w si dhee,nwl.th fixed on a i a n n fl d i c i t t ed m b ay y s it is w o o b u e ld u b s e e d of a with mtohst d p r o el in tr t u ' c t t h iv e e w nature, ffect, the blade being 1 foot 101 inches in length exclusive of the handle. The following com parative statement of the result of the experiments with the Chasseur rifle and the Min 6 lib will exhibit their respective merits. Out of 200 rounds fired from the Mine rifle at 900 yards 28 bit the target 6 feet high and 36 feet long. (hit of 1 5 round s from the Chasseur rifle, at 900 bull's- tul7l'oso nyya e r . d . s , 0 12 n t h i n t` h f e get, r r n g n e t n , d o s nfier fired df froth t ein yards range 37 halls hit t he tar g et, and out of 16 rounds 1s cl t h e e n t h r i g a rifle fired from the Chasseur rifle 14 hit the target. The great majority f the balls from the Chasseur rifle hit the target in,n, straight line with the bull's eye, but mostly above it'. The weight of the Mieie rifle is 91b. 10c z.. and the cherge of powder 2i drachms. The weight of the Chasseitr rifle, is 81b. 7tz and the charge of p owder 2 drachms. Tho weight of the old musket is 111 b. 7cz, end the charge of powder 4i draehra4 SURREY T EATRE. Miss Glyn is performing at this well -managed theatre wtth great eclat, and supported very efFiciently. Te night she is to rippEar as Constance in King John. The pert of Hobart, in wbieh Mr. Ryder has achieved such a signal triumph at the Princess's, will be, we doubt not, o ab!y sustained by Mr. T. Mead, a care f u l, judicious, r.n impre:i%ive actor. On Wednesday the School for Scandal will be played for the hencfit of Mr. Shepherd, who de serves the most cordial support of the public for the ex ellli:Tit management which has signalised his possession of the Surrey Theatre, and enabled it to compete fairly tLe:plost,favottred (.is-Tareisian houses. • ROYAL ITALIXN OPERii.—liiS Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge honoured the performances at the Royal Italian Opet'a with his presence on• Saturday evening. The Queelf3 box was occupied by Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, Lady Caroline Barrington and Miss Barrington, and Lieutenant-Colonel Bidelulph. Among the fashionable com pany.petsent in theibeatre we remarked the Duke and Du chess of Norfolk and Lady,Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the Duchess of Montrose and - the Ladies Graham, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, the Earl of Cardigan, the Marchesa Brancaleo ne and Mdlle. de Branca. caleone, he Count and Countess de Morella, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, Viscountess Villiers and Misa Doyle, 7 VisCOtitit Eitmoutb, Lady William Powlett, Lord and Lady Carington and the Hon. Miss Carington, Lord and Lady Foley and the lion. Adelaide Foley, Lord 10(1,1 Churchl. Viscount Lascelies Lady Jane Repton and Mr. Re p ton, M.P., Lady 'Macfarlane and Miss Macfarlane, Lady Lynd hurst and the lion. Miss Copley, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel and the Misses Bulteel, Lady Virginia Sandars and Mr. Sandars, M.P., Lord John Hay, Lady Peel and Miss Peel, Sir Henry Webb, Sir John Campbell,K.T.S., and Lady Campbell, Sir Thomas Hare, Sir William de Bathe lion. aohn Fortescue, M.P.,,,1i0n E. V. 'Russell, M.P., Sir Geo. Armytage, Mr. H. Greville, Mr. St. Leger Glyn, Captain Meyrick, Captain de Bathe, Mr. Lloyd Clayton, Captain Grant, Captain Mey nell, R.N., the Right • lion. Sidney Herbert, M.P., and Mrs. 11 drbert, Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. .W. F. Baring, Captain Stanley, Mrs. Hatton and the Misses Hatton, Major the lion. James Alaedonald, &c. ... . :- INtu.s .LonjSA. PYNE'S Bk.'NFFIT.—The English ' - nightingale tales her benefit at Drury-lane Theatre on Wed . • nesday evening next, and unless taste and appreciation of vocal excellence be utterly departed from the metropolis the house will be crowded to overflowing. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gentlenien, having undergone the necessary examinations for the I diploma, were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 14th in stant :4-MessrS; Richard Clarke, Beccles, Suffolk; William Ashton i Shepherd,--Hon. East India Company's Service; Henry Septimus2Beddome, Hudson's Bay ; Godfrey Bingley YYdswPrth. Warwick7street, Regent-street ; Thomas , e oyferbv, Lc - ugh - borough ; George Prowd Lambert, En field ;lis tio l . l n a r i r N is v o et u t i b i a a ni n n , a E , s sex Belfast ;ja ; rn e G s e p or r g at e ch T e h tt om p a r s in W kw il a li t a e m r, Shrewsbury ; James Graham Hildige, Dublin; Richard An thony F'rederickGurpey, Lilburn, Northamptonshire; and Robert 'Lucas, Battisham, Cambridgeshire At the same inecrinii of the:ourt Messrs. Augustus Richard Richard n aval d Richard 'J J. Squire 3, p , ass 2 e: their iB 6, ail dJuly examinationsi7, for surgeons. ('- 'l' '' he;se gentlemen had previously respectively of the college, their diplomas el)* February tb)eiettLagclanalitteterdeip 1 846. ~ O tt t T s u at tt A.—At about five Saturday aft e rnoon, I r e f r E no C on A B L UE' Cambria, Captain_ ,Stone, left , the e Royal Mail steam-ship o'cl D oc E lr P Boston, with the inails, for the United States, for Halifax and foundland, &c., a fair average freight, States, Canada, New seugers. On leav_ipg the river, theCamalV about 60 pas rut met the Asia, inward.bound, and exchanged salutes on rounding the Rock lighthouse. PoW,DEVMAGaziNEB.--In consequence of the m hulemls, exp l o sions of the magazines at Turin, and the ')aBr roW -ocape front a —similar accident last week at Waltham Abbey, a" p If - lie" seems to have been creatEd at Liverpool , Where ah imrainse-- quantity of gunpowder has been just ordered to be moored within three or four miles of that town, and a co nsiderably shorter distance from t h e densely populated south -suburbs of the town. Llolbree Island, about eight miles from Liverpool, is now strongly recom mended for sofety-.:--Naai and Military Gazette 9f the 15th instant., , - THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. IVe have received I%C:is pi:Urn:II:1 of Saturday and yesterday. Tee statement which the Pairie peremptorily denied of the demand for reimbursement made en the part of the Emperor of RUSSIA, consequent on the con vex sion of the Five per Cents, appears to have been put forward on good and suf f icient grounds by the other ne=wspapers. The fact is now acknowledged by the Constitutionnel. The amount of the turn claimed by Russia was 29 millions, so that there must hirvo been sold out beforehand 21 millions. The - whOle amount of stock held at home and abroad, which has, or will have to be reimbursed, may be set down at 74 millions, a sum which must, as a matter of course, go to swell the floating debt. nel persists in sayin Sill the Constitution te that the Government has no need of a loan, the Treasury having 195 millions to its credit. There is here some error, for in the next line the same journal states thet after paying off the 35 millions amount of the stock to be reimbursed to foreign holders, there will remain a dispOsable sum of 65 millions. As the subject is full of interest, we give the article at length : " The nominal capi al ot Five per Oen!. Rentes, which were bold by foreigners, may be estimated at about 500 millions. V. o do not mean the Rentes belonginK to Frenchmen residing out of the country, and to whom the delay of two mouths was equally a pplicable. Only 35 millions have been demanded to be reimbursed, not withstanding the accidental depreciation which , the pub lic funds latterly underwent. If we are well informed, out of these 35 millions there are about 29 millions by the Russian Government; so that the demands from all other countries united only amount to six which proves the general ci nfideric felt by fort igners in the stability of the present Government, and in progres sive development of our public credit. Is there any thing calculated to cause astoLisliment in the ehmaeds of the Rmaian Goverrenant? Can it be considered as an indication of bed feeling towards us? Not the least in the world. There is nothing political in the affair, and if it be remembered under what circumstances the Russian Government became the holder of the Rentes, ot which it now demands the reimbursement, it will be seen that its conduct explains itself in the most simple and natural manner. " The investment made a few years since by the Em peror of Russia in French Rotates could only be tempo rary. It took place at a moment when the large im portations of corn, in consequence of our had harvests, made us debtors to Russia to a considerable amount. The Cz ut found it advantageous at that period to pur chase from us two millions of Rentes; and the French Government was wrong, in our opinion, to lend itself to that operation without thinking of the embarrassment which the possession of such an amount of the pubic se curities in the hands of a foreign Government might have caused under circumstances which it was possibls to foresee. Every one must have expected to have seen the Emperor of Russia on the first opportunity get out of the singular position of a Government placing its money in foreign stocks. The reason why he did not do it sooner was, because the fall which - affected the French funds after the revolution of February, prevented his telling Rentes which he had purchasecl e at the rate of 118 f. As soon, however, as the consolidation of order and tie strength ening of the Government had raised public credit he took advantage of it to successively ri slice his ca pital, and from the amount of reinforcement now de mended it may be seen that he had already sold a portion of his Rentes Wore the conversion took place. Now, the Emperor of Russia has seized the opportunity of the offer c f reimbursement to definitively close the affair, which, we repeat, was from its nature necessarily tem porary, and would have been terminated sooner if cir cumstances would have allowed it. The Government announces that the reimbursement is to take place to-, day. This is a proof that the demand of 35 millions tines not embarrass it. Did we not yesterday see that the amount of its account current at the Bank was 87 millions? If we mid to this the sum in the Treasury, there is a disposable resource of 195 millions. When the 35 millions for the reimbursements shall have been taken from it, there will still remain 160 millions, much more than sufficient for all the - exigencies of the public service, aud to meet all eventualities. The Government will thus reimburse these 35 millions without having recourse to credit'of any kind, and solely with the resources at its command. The demand for reimbursement both at home and abroad ail! have been 74 millions out of a nominal capital of 3,600 millions, or about 2 per cent. The proportion would have fallen to 1 per coot. but for the demands of Russia, which, as we have already silown, arise from E xceptional circumstances. The operation may be summed up as follows :—An annual economy of 18 millions on the budget; reim bursement and consequent reduction of 74 millions on the public debt; conversion of a capital of Four-and-a- Half Rentes, amounting to 100 millions, into 'I hree per Cards. It is impossiole that a measure of such impor tance could have been more skillfully and fortunately conducted; its success is complete; and it refl- eta the greatest honour on the Government of Louis Napoleon and on she Minister cf Finance, M. Bineau, whose name is iittachpcl to h." The Pays publishes the letter of General CHAN GAENIER to the Minister of War, evidently supposing that the excessive vanity, so characteristic of the man, which breaks out at each line, and the grossness of the personal insults addressed to Louis NAPOLEON, will neutralise any amount of truth it may otherwise possess. It is said that Generals LAMORICIERE, BaneAu, and LEFLO, will equally refuse to take the oath of fidelity. The delegates of the army were reviewed fin Fri day in the court of the Tuileries by the PRESIDENT of the Republic, who distributed several crosses and medals on the occasion. After the inspection, the PRESIDENT directed them to form themselves in a circle around him, and then addressed them as fol lows : "Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, and Soldiers, — I have been desirous of addressing you before your de parture in a few words of felicitation and encouragement. was anxious to tell you how happy I ass at the late solemnity to see myself surrounded by the repre sentatives of our valiant army, and to ensure them that my sentiments of esteem and sympathy wore the same for all the corps of which it is composed. • " Many services and many merits have, without doubt, remained unrewarded; but, be certain that-the day of just reparation will not fail to arrive for each. " Besides, if such recompenses are right, they are neither in your eyes nor in mine the principal motives of action. What constitutes your force and your glory is, that, in speaking to you of honour end of your native country, nothing is impossible with you. That is the real mainspring of the conduct of the army—cne that will never fail—and one on which I count. " Carry back, with pride, to your regiments those standards, the venerated symbols of our national glory, and on which is written this history of each regiment ; I entrust them to your patriotism. Say to your comrades that my thoughts are always in the midst of them, and that .1 am always ready to share their dangers, as I share in their lave and devotedness for the grandeur and pa triceisea of France." This address called forth the loudest acclamations, which lasted until the PRINCE PRESIDENT withdrew. No public fete for a long time past has attracted so many visitors to Paris as the last one. Not only were the furnished hotels in Paris filled, but also there of the baulieue. The crowd eagerly hastened to the review and to the fireworks ; and more than 4,000 carrisges %sere employed in conveying the per sons invited to and from the ball at the Ecole taire. It is really extraordinary that in such an im menfe concourse of people, of troops, and of carriages, not a single serious accident has been heard of, or a single robbery of any consequence. It must be ad mitted that the police regulations were on every point very well organized, and the orders given carried out with intelligence and devotedness. It is by such acts that an Administration acquires real claims to the esteem and gratitude of the public. For the benefit of our gastronomical readers we subjoin the bill of fare of the supper at the grand ball last weak, and which was furnished by Chevet, of the Palais Royal :—Potages of different kinds, 109 dishes of fish, 67 galantines, 114 pates, 16 dishes of roast beef, 98 hams, 60 boars'-head brawn, 22 pates : de foi e g rad, 52 lobsters 1 la Msyonnaiset, 192 roast , fowls, 96 bundlea of asparagus, 12 000 small loaves, 2 14 pieces o f ornamental pastry, of pastr e y le B s b a a n s a ket b s i, a e n u d its 4 , 6o plates of ,frui' a number of dishes l' of strawberries, 9501b5. of small cakes, sweets, sugar plums, &c. ; 3,100 bottles of mods, champagne, of strops of different glasses. sorbets, &e., 26,000 bottles of Bordeaux, 30,000 ices, punch, 17,000 glasses BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGB4;Rk- There were T 3 H 0 4 0 ,, waiters in attendance. -- LONDON STOCK EXCHA . N , , E Aar 15. y a — Great Indian Peninsula 6—Namur East Indian, 22 —Rouenr ea n s and an d Tours and Nantes, and Liege, 6%—Northern of Bordeaux, 15%—Paris and Strasbourg, Havre, 11 %—Sambre and Meuse, 4y B t 1114—Western of France, 7%. SPAIN. a s enc.? Our accounts from Madrid are of the 11th. They state tha t durin g Lord Vi EN'S a bsence from Madrid , the official duties would be disch arge d by Mr. °TWAY, First Secretary of Legation. General AUMEIIO, who has resigned the office of Minister of Marine, will retire to Andalusia. We read in a Madrid letter of the 102 :—" The most contradictory rumours are current respecting the intentions cf the Government as to the projected changes in the constitutio n. Some persons pretend that the Ministry, finding public opinion against its 4 p 3i. i romjeAct;,xitheDhaasj3.tiog e 7 LolL sbandoned the m ; ot h ers declare • that they are merely postponed." on UA Y London, 50 sToh.e Th re e per Cents. GERMANY. A letter from Vienna of the 11th says : ~. hole, ..w_ ".The review which took place to- d:,y ou the 5 in presence of the Emperor's of Russia and Austria, as favoured by. magnificent weather. There were on the ground about 45,0 teen, The Emperor o f Austria arrived at a quarter bef ore ten, and was thus ready to receive the Emperor of Russia, who arrived a fe w minutes after, followed by a brilliant staff.. The Czsr wore the uniform of a General of Au s t r ia n H us sats,,and the Emperor Francis the unife k in o f an A ustr i an Field -0 Marshal, with , the Russian Grand Cordon. The two monarchs passed in front of =the troops, commencing by the right. The Ampercr of Mania then'tools the LITERATURE. ----- - - --- THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM JERDAN. Vol. I. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Company. Autobiography—and we are g l a d t o think that in sayieg this vie ere utterin g w h a t w ill be generally recognised as a truism— au t o bi ograp hy is, perhaps.the most attractive among all the various phases of literature. Through no other channel can we pene trate so thoroughly into the inmost recesses of a man's character. Writing in the third person, that is to say of another, an author, however subtle in discernment, becomes necessarily (in comparison with an auto. biographer) superficial--viewing what ho describer, so to speak, from the outside. Whereas, whenever an author writes in the first person, that is to say, of himself, he writes, as it were, from within—be does not so much narrate as, to use an old familiar phrase, he actually thinks aleud—he lays bare the secrets of his nature, he tell s y ou o f hi s e motions, he relates the developm en t o f hi s f ee li ngs , he opens up, unconsciously it may b e , b u t none the less effectually, th e var i ous myster i es o f humanity, which charm the curiosity while they bsfile the pene tration of the psychologist. One of the principal attractions in the noblest biography that was ever written, namely, " Boswell's Johnson," a charac teristic, by the way, hitherto overlooked even by the searching scrutiny of Carlyle and by the vigilant observation of Macaulay —is the fact, that it par takes so much in its very style and colouring of the autobiographieal. It renders us familiar with the foibles, and the follies, and the prejudices, and the well, almost as intimat e ly as w i th t h e b row n ever-present and all-devouring inqusitiveness of Bos and the grunting, and the t reasure d scra p s of orange peel, and the pet-cat Hodge, and the faithful negro Frank, and quiet old Mr. Levett, and poor, blind , peevish, tea-making Mrs. Willi ams , a nd all the other well-remembered p ecu li ar i t i es and com panions -of the incomparable J o h nson . There are coat, those among the most popular writers of our own age, who appear to be so far impressed with the superior allurements of the autobiographical, eve n when it happens to be fictitous, that they have emulated each other in the very same department of literature. Thackeray has in this manner told th e s tory of " Pen dennis," and Bulwer has related in a similar way the fortunes of the `• Caxtons." Disraeli h as described the viscissitudes of " Contarini Flemi ng ," an d Dickens has depicted the joys and sorrows o f "D av id Cop perfield." Each of them after the fssbien of a verita ble autobiography. Pope tells us that "the proper study of mankind is man," as remembrance assures us that it is about the most delightful : and by no other means can we obtain this knowledge more readily than through either biographies or autobiogra phies. Before us is the commencement of a work of the latter description, "The Autobiography of William Jerdan," a work extending ,in its reminiscences and correspondence over the last fifty years, throwing a ray of light—the light of a clear and faithful me mory—over the state of society, of politics, and of literature during the past half century. The provin cials, or more generally speaking, those who are not acquainted with the literary circles of London (for there are many, and some of them, moreover, cliques), may not know that the author of this volume is a man whose name is thought of only with kindliness by those who have been admitted to his friendship, and whore abilities have, during upwards of thirty four yenre, been evidenced almost without any inter mission in the labours of periodical literature. Al among others, though the author of several volumes enjoying, some 0f,, 1 , h o them, N o a t i l o a o r a g l e rshoarrteraoitf Gallery," Ipopularity,ery,, four vets. 4t0.,i "The Rutland Papers," "The Perth Papers," the " Voyage to the Isle of Elba," and the three vols. of "The Paris Spectator," Mr. Jerdan is more generally known from his position as a critic and a journalist. That position be has maintained during years, having been edit or o f t 7 it h nv e a s rd u s n subse quently, after a brief interval had elapsed, editor, up of frona thirty-sixlBl to 1817 inclusively, and to 1850, of the Literary Gazette. From his con• nexion with this journal —although at a period so remote, namely, at a distance of forty years from the mencement—it will be readily derstood, and assu redly present moment, dating back to the time of its coin redly not less readily pardoned in us, that we acknow ledge to a feeling of kindness towards our predecessor such as might, if the book were more rife with ble mishes than it is, interfere with the serene im partiality of criticism. This sentiment of ours towards a work c on t a i n i ng t h e p e rsonal recollections of Mr. Jerdan may b e more f u lly appreciated and forgiven when it is remembered that throughout the five years during which, thirty-five years ago, Mr. Jerdan occupied our position in the editorship of The Sun, The Sun was then an avowed Tory organ, so resolute in its devotion to Mr. Pitt's party, that (according to a candid admission in the volume before us, see page 161) it was characterized at the time as " a paper peculiarly resorted to by Minis ters for the propagation of their ideas." How entirely The Sun has been transformed since that period, our readers have long since learnt, our earnest endeavour having been to render this a journal upon which might, with accuracy, be inscribed those noble words of Junius—" Ours is not the cause of faction, or of party, or of prejudice, but the public interest of every man in Britain." I t is, to employ the phrase of Mr. Guppy borro we d f rom the l a w, " without prejudice," as it is with ou t su b serv i enc y, to either party or faction, that we woul d spea k as we have already spok en — greeting w i th a ll since rity and cordiality th e memorial pages of William Jerdan, some time e dit or of The Sun newsp aper. Fortunately there is b u t small room f or l e niency towards a volume whi c h embraces with i n it s co mpass such ample store of li ve l y and agreeable i n f or mation, and written, moreover, throughout, in a style of such fascinating vivacity. Continued in a similar spir it, and sustained by the same unflagging liveliness, the work must, when completed, constitute one of the most charming of literary autobiographies. The author possessed peculiar opportunities for the trea suring up of facts worthy of ultimate narration, hav ing been brought either into personal contact, as an active man of letters in the metropolis of England, or into correspondence with almost all the celebrities of his age, front Lord Byron to Lord Brougham, from Sir Walter Scott to Sir Balwer Lytton, from George Colman to Charles Dickens, and so on through a long catalogue of brilliant names, includ ing very many of the renowned in art, science, and literature. Mr. Jerdan evidently delights in dragging the r ea di ng w orld still further on into what , Mr. Ro gers once facetious l y ca lled its " antedotage '—for hi s chapters abound with those PhluemaslisttZ Severalein°ntoe s ofof thesedeartoehdap or tn estriilsle surviving huniourists. Several of these chapters rise consider ably above the level o f ordinary interest—one, in particular, being absolutely enthralling in its charac ter. It relates to the murder of Mr. Perceval, when Prime Minister of Engl an d , b y the wre t c hed crimi nal Bellingham. The w h o l e scene is d ep i c t e d with a ma sterly hand—its v i v id ness, as a descript i on, b e i n g worthy indeed of an eye. witness—for Mr. Jerdan was standing close by the unfortunate Minister when he was assassinated I ilp, - - by "-s pas, in fact, the last perso n g reeted in this world Spencer pencer Perceval—the last upon whom he had smiled the smile of recognition. The subjoined passage, des cr ibi ng t h e mo ment of the catastrophe, oind e will be read, we f e el assured, with me lancholy interest and breathl ess curiosity : " On ascending the broad flight of steps which led to the folding door of the lobby, I perceived the Minister, with whom I had the honour of _ a slight acquaintance, bj immediately behind me, with his light and lithesome step following in the same direction. I saluted him, and was saluted in return, with that benevolent smile which I was su instantly destined to sec effaced fur ever ,and pushing open and holding back the half door, to allow the precedence of entering, I of course made way for him to go in. e H e did enter, and there was an instant noise, but as a physical fact it is very remarkable to state that, though I was all but touching him anti if the ball had passed through his b od y it m ust have lodged in mine, I did not hear the report of the pistol. It is true it was tired in the inside of the lobby, and T - was just out of it; hut, considering our close proximity, I have always found it difficult to account for the phenomenon I have noticed. I saw a small curling wreath of smoke rise above his head, as if the breath o f a cigar; I saw him reel back against the ledge n the insid e of the door; I heard him exclaim, ' Oh Go o d!' or . as re Oh my God!' and nothing mote or longer ( necses), for even that exclamation was faint; and then making an impulsive rush, as it were, to reach the an trance to the house on for safety, I saw him totter forward , not a way, drop dead be tween the four pillat s which stood ther e in the centre of the space, with a slight tra ce of blood issuing fro m hi s lips. a All this took place ere with moderate speed you could count fiver the confusio n i n t h e lobby Thereupon, of course, lamented • • victi became fearful. The m of thi s mos t diabolical atrocity a minute before crossin g w ith hi s " light and lithesom e step the very same spot la w ere by the bullet of he fell struck down f the murderer, into the office was carried, 7 d " ing' in in meanwhila othe Speaker's Secretary. Bellingha a bench having fired the shot moved slowly to near the fireplace, • tly seated when pointed out as the where he was elute assassin by Mr. E qu ie tly and seized by M as' thwith stripped to r. Jerdan.. The criminal was for d_ the waist in the discharged • order to be searelie taken n pi f stol (wits was tak another loaded and. primed ) apers, and other romhim, besides an opera - 1 ! g fa."'" payers, hubbub the ne articles— and in the midst of all that the Prime Minister had from• exclaimedthe person who expired. " Villain !" brought this intellq, ' rence, addressing himself to Bel lingham,could you destroy good " Villain 1 1. how w farnily of twelve so children a man ' and me a Mr Jerdan' orphans ?" According to e . s account the agonies of mind endured by the miserable e miserable criminal during the whole of these proceedings must have been something appalling to w itness. , e says :-- , "I have alluded to Bolliugham s `frightful agitation' as he sat on the bench, and a ll Ibis dreadful work was going on; and I return to it to describ e it as f ar as wor d s can convey an idea of the shocki ng spectac l e . I could onlyimagine something like it i n t h e overweaeght painting of a powerful roman ce writer, but never - bfor could conceive the phastical suffering o f a steorinaulscul hr man, under the tort u r es o f a distracted - mind. Whilst his language was cool, th e agon i es wh i ch shook his frame were actually terrible. Ms countenance wore the hue of the grave, blue aed cadaverous; hugo drop of sweat ran down from his forehead, lik e rain cnthe window-pace in a heavy storm, and, cours i ng his pallid cheeks, fell upon his person where th e i r mo i sture was distinctly visible; and from the bottom of his chest to his gorge, rose and receded, with almost every breath' a spasmodic action, as if a body, as large or l a r ge r than a billiard ball, were choking him. The miserable wretch repeatedly struck his chest with the palm of his hand to abate this sensation, but it refused to be repressed." It will be seen from the subsequent narrative of Mr. Jerdan, that the papers found on the murderer where handed on the spot to Mr. Hume, who ithntified them by his initials, J. H. "For myself," says the author, " I was so shaken by the awfulness of the event, that I was leaning on the stair-hedluster for support, and believe I should have fainted but for the kindness of Mr. (now Sir Charles) Burrell, who procured a draught of water for me, and himself administered it to my parched lips. I have a grateful remembrance of this relief of forty years ago !" He describes the excitement created by the event in all parts of Lon don as extraordinary—the alarm it caused was, says he, "as if a revolution had broken out and been com menced with a foul murder, unparalleled for national concern since Felton's aesassinution of the Duke of . Buckingham." The murder of Mr. Perceval cc curred on Monday, the 11th, and the execution of Bellingham on Monday, the 18th of May, 1812 (exactly forty years ago to day, calculating by the week, and to-morrow calculating by the month), so ihat, to quote the final remark made upon the crime by this important eye-witaesF, seven days had " suf ficed to fulfil this memorable tragedy." At the close of a very long "Appendix," including many interest ing documents, and among other things the entire romance of " Lamia ;" a plan of the lobby is traced by a wood. cut, so that the whole of the letter-press de scription is rendered at a glance comprehensible. We are fain to believe that to our owri readers not the least attractive portions of this initial volume to Mr. Jerdan's autobiography will he the chapters headed one " The Sun Newspaper" and the other " Sun Anecdotes." From the latter we ere tempted to extract the fol lowing sketch of the appearance and peculiarities of Mr. Proby, forty years since a frequenter of The Sun office, with other "characters," such, for in stance, as John Kemble and Sir Francis Freeling. The quotation will prove, from its delightful humour, an admirable contrast to the solemn passages pre viously excerpted from the " Autobiography :" " Proby (says the author) had never been out of London, never in a boat, never on the back of a horse. To the end of bag-wigs he wore a bag; he was the last man that walked with a cane as long as himself, ulti mately exchanged for an u mbrella, which he was never seen without in wet weather or dry; yet he usually re ported the whole debates in the Peers from memory, without a note, for the Morning Chronicle, and wrote two cr three novels, depicting t he social manners of the times! lie was a strange feeder , and ruined himself in eating pastry at the confectioners' shops (far one of whose scores Taylor and I bailed him as related); he was always in a perspiration, whence George Colman christened him ' King Porus;' and he was . always so punctual to a minute, that when he arrived in sight of tle office window, the hurry used to be , ' There's Proby —it is half past two,' and yet he never set his watch. if If ever it came to right time I cannot tel l ; but you asked him what o'clock it was, he would lock at it, and calculate something in this sort — ' I a m twent y -six minutes past seven—four, twenty-one from twelve, forty —it is just three minutes past three!" , Speaking of Madame de Stael, with whom he became acquainted, Mr. Jerdan describes her as "far from incessant talker." or attractive, and an almo s t talker." After that, we forgive Napoleon for her ex patriation, for she must have proved a most intolerable bore. Having been present at the grand banquet given at Vauxhall Gardens, in honour of the battle of Vittoria gained by Wellington, the writer mentions that the illuminated V.'s and W.'s were very brilliant, and that the jest was then made of one Cockney ask ing another what the letters meant, and receiving for answer, " Vy, the V.'s stand for Vellington, and the IV.'s for Wictory, to be sure!" Various literary curiosities, scarcely less remarkable in their way than many enshrined in his popular miscellany by Disraeli the Elder, are scattered through the volume, and in this manner, at page 172, we meet with the love sick rhapsody of verses addressed to Miss Stephens, now `Countess Dowager of Essex, by—Mr. Adding ton ! Altogether, we conceive that it would be un necessary, after the comments already passed upon the work, and after the brief but suggestive extracts made from its contents, to say more in addition than that the autobiography gives ample promise of prov ing, on its completion, a valuable as well as an amus ing contribution to our anecdotal literature. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, the attempts to obtain the removal of the duties on Paper, Newspaper Stamps, and Advertisements, were negatived by majorities which may be roughly described as being of 2to 1. The time is not arrived, when a Chancellor of the Enchcquer can be expected to have reached the pitch of wisdom which would lead one of your masters of machinery not to try to turn a penny by cutting abort the supply of oil. Any man can see half-a crown when it is before him ; but it is not every man who can see when the half-crown is raised by the stoppsge of seven and sixpence by half pennies at a time in other /Aces. On Thursday the House did not meet. Oe Friday the Militia Bat was proceeded with in Committee. I can profess no great admiration of the mode in which the opposition to it is conducted; but having no charge, there is nothing to be done but try to keep my own horse out of a ditch. For example, what was the use of dividing against raising men by voluntary enlistment "in any county immediately ad joining,'—when the only effect of it if carried mast be, to increase the number of men to be forcibly raised by ballot? But what was a man to do? There was no likelihood of the thing being carried; as was proved by the votes against it being finally more then 2 to 1. To have voted against it, therefore, would only have given the appearance of the opponents of the Bill being two less than they were. Ido not know whether any of your friends will call this sinful casuistry. But it is a kind of difficulty in which a man often finds him self, and in which ho can only act to the best of his judgment at the time. The same kind of objection may be made to tho divi sion with the view of striking out the bounty. If the bounty were struck out, the immediate prac ticsl consequence would apparently be, that all or the greater proportion of the men must be raised by ballot ; and who would be the hotter for that ? " Oh," but it will be replied, " what a nice thing to get rid of the bounty !" Is it ? Not, I suspect, if the men are to be taken from you and yours, at an expense of practical suffering which ten or twenty times your payments to the bounty would not compensate to you. Here, then, is the same difficulty again. There appears no alternative, but leaving it to be said " The Mem bers for Bradford voted with the Government on the Militia Bill." lam amused with a petition noted in Friday's Pro ceedings of the House, which is from the "Proprietors and drivers of Omnibuses and Cabs, for removal of the obligation to wear a metal badge upon their person; to lie on the Table." They are quite right. It is part of a system of insult to the middle classes who ride in om nibuses and cabs. It Coes not proceed from the real aristocracy, but from that would-be eriseecracy who think they rise in the social scale by intimating that the people who ride in omnibuses can never be too much put under the control of the police. It is not the driver alone that is hedged; the badge may be considered as split in fragments, and divided among the twelve inside and ten out, who are base enough to take the benefit of his conveyance. There is no war between the real aristocracy and the people; but there is a root of bitterness in the class which has been alluded to. It may be wo r t h notin g , that the cab and om nibus drivers in London , wit h of course individual exceptions, exceptions, are very we ll-behaved men. The drivers have sometimes been charged with rudeness to young ladies who insist on bein g driven ta ll round the metropolis in a somewhat excited state at morning. But every tra de has its temptaton wosi.natnhe i , . otherwise, their bands are clean. I am informed the Leed; Mercury of last we sta n ek makes ce some searching examinations into the circumstances th e proposed division of the West Riding. ly lection is, that the number of electors in the two pro posed divisions was stated by the arch projector to be not vary different. But behind this, ration; and an inti may be an interest ing inquiry into the numbers of popu me to believe that mation from a political friend leads the leading article of t he Mercury is the place to look for it. I am, Sir, yours eery sincerely, AN OW REFORMER. Ilackheath, May 17,1852. Captain Cuddy arrived in Great ltyder-street, St. James's, on Thursday last, from Ireland. Royal Eghibition. •- A [ADVERTISEMENT.] va l u able, newly sm all powerful waistcoat -invented, very pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known lh miles distant ; they answer every purpose on the Race-course, at the Opera-houses ; country scenery and ships are deercleeen at 12 to 14 miles ; they are invaluable for shooting, stalking, yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentlemen, Gamekeepers, and Tourists .— To be had at Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Picca dilly, opposite the York-hotel. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in Telescopes, possessing such extra ordinary powers, that some, 3/1 inches, with an extra eye piece, w ill show distinctly, Jupiter's Moons, Saturn's Ring, onlynd th e Double g' three Double Stars. With the same Telescope, weighing ounces , can be see n a person's countenance 3 miles distant, and an objec t from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and Race course glasses, with wonderful powers ; an object can be clearly seen from 14 to 16 miles distant. hlessrs. S. and 11. Solomons, Opticians, have invented invaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before most feet vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the age d defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. The Invisible Or game Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic instruments for relief o f e xtreme deafness. -39 , Albermarle-street, Piccadill y, posits the York Rotel. op- 17, AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 15. By the royal mail steamship Asia, Captain J. Juclkin, which was telegraphed cff Holyhead at half-past cloven o'clock this morning, and arrived in the Mersey about five o'clock, after a remarkably fast passage of 10 days 45 m;nurc , s mean tinv, we have advices from New York to the .5;1 instant. Shc brings 130,000 dolls. in specie on freipht. Tho Unitcd States' mail §t. - am ship Pacific arrived at New York on the 2d. On the 6 - h instant the Asil spoke the royal mail steam-;hip Europa. The steam-ship Crescent City, with the California mails of the sth ult., 1 ; 840,000 dolls. on freight, and 600 ; 000 dolls, in the hands of passengers, arrived at New York on the 2d instant.. The mails had a narrow escape in coming down the Chagres river. The boat in which they were conveyed struck a sang and senk, with the mails on board. Bad the accident occurred a few rods further down the stream they woulil have been irre coverably lost. The passengers be the Crescent City came over th e Panama r , ilway from Buena Vista. Tile r,:ed v'es about to be opened to Frijr)la, and in a few weeks would be completed to San Pablo, six miles from Gorgona. In Congress no particular business had been trans acted. The Currency Bill, the passage of which was considered expedient by the Administration, was about to be taken up. In our advices we find littl e po li tical news. Six w to ns in Erie county had elected 18 Fillmore delegates to the Convention, and at Rome the Whigs, assisted bv a portion of the Democrats, had carried the Charter election there by a majority of 50 over the regular De mecrats, had carried the Charter election there by a majority of 50 over the regular De mocrats. ,At Rich mond, Virginia, nearly all the Democratic candidates were in favour of Buchanan for the Presidency. Our miscellaneous telvices mention the; lio&utb, find ing himself in comfortable quarters, still remained at Boeton. In the %Vest a severe hurricane had been ex perienced, by which the town of Leavenworth, Indiana, had been nearly destroyed. The officers of the Dutch man-of.war Prince of Orange had been received with much attention at Washington. The lake navigation was completely free from ice. The health of Mr. Henry Clay, one of the United States' most able statesmen, which has for some time been precarious, was pronounced hopeless. Accorclieg to a telegraphic dispatoh of the 4th, from Washington, he was staking fast,uad it was feared would not survive the night. Though much reduced in strength, he was perfectly conscious of his awful position, and seemed (ally prepared to meet d'ath. President Fillmore had visited him, and the interview is said to have been of a most solemn and touching character. Chevalier Bulseman, the Austrian Chargé d'Affairs, left Washington on the 3d. Previously to his departure he addressed an official note to the Secretary of State, and communicated copies of it to the members of the diplomatic corps; the contents had not, however, trans pired. Since the departure of our last advices the New York stock market had experienced but little change. Foreign exchanges had become rather heavy, and buyers ap peared unwilling to meet the views of drawers. London, 109 to 1101; Paris, 515t0 5 171; Frankfort, 401 to 40, 1 1 ; Bremen, 78-a- to 78i; Hemburgh, 36 to 36k. The Cotton-market ou the 4th closed tamely, a necessary consequefice of the previous excitement. The sale; of foreign dry goods had been fair for the season of the year. The demand for tobacco and iron was firm. Breadstuffs had undergone no material change. In freights engagements had been made at an advent*. The California news contains little in addition to that published last week. The Vigilance Committee, which was recently resuscitated, had hung a Mexican for murder. A duel was to take place at San Francisco on the evening of the sth, between a member of the Assem bly and a naval officer. The population of the State was increasing at a rate truly astonishing,. From the mines the most encouraging accounts are published. All prac tical men concurred in the opinion that the yield of gold for 1852 will be enormous. The San Francisco Herald gives the following statement: — Export of gold dust for the quarter terminating March 31, 1852 (as per ships' manifests). January. February. March. Total Where to Dolls. Dolls. Dods. Dolls. Panama.. .. 3,050,000 1,6 6 7, 500 2,6 5 0,030 1,277,500 San Juan del S. 88,620 10,012 54,071 332,703 Hong-Kong .. 26,330 2 , i,330 Manilla .. .. 49,850 49,150 Valparaiso Costa Rica 20,549 20,519 4,000 4,000 Total .. .• .. 7,710,932 Add to the above the amount shipped in the Golan Gate, and the estimated quantity taken by passengcrp, and we have an aggregate, from January to April 5, of nearly 14,000,000. A lump of gold, valued at 1,200 dolls., and another massive piece weighing 261 b., are reported to have been found at San Andreas and Valecit. The value of a puce, of gold picked up at KAsey's dry dig vines was estimated at 4,000 dolls. Numerous instances arc given of the discovery of lumps of gold weighing from lib. to 21b. Tunnelling was being extensively carricd out by the mixers. At Duggan's Flat a party of 30 men were engaged in tunnelling through the solid rock. They had bored 100 feet, End expated to go 50 Let further before finding gold. h the Sail Francisco markets great zedvity continuul to prevail. Difficuliies again broken out in the Indian districts, and a war of extermination had been declared by the whites. The intelligence from New Mexico is devoid of in terest. The party that went to the Gila for gold had returned unsuccessful. The settlers had petitioned Con- gross for protection from the Indians. From Mexico we have telegraphic advices to the 19th ult. Great excitement continued to prevail with regard to the tariff. The Fcreign Minister had addressed another letter to the G0981110201 2 t, demanding the estab lishment of the tariff drawn up by General Avaios. The reported rejection of the Tehuantepec treaty by Congress is confirmed. It was proposed to extirpate all foreigners who were found conspiring to disturb the peace. We have intelligence from Havannah to the 29th ult. The sugar market continued active, and exchange had slightly improved. In the news from Bogota we find an announcement of the retirement of General Herrera, Governor of Panama, and his departure for Paste, an extreme southern province, where he had gone to command the national forces for the suppression of the revolution which still existed in that district. From Valparaiso we have advices to the 26th March, and from Guayaquil to-the 13th of April. The British mail steamer Santiago arrived at Panama on the 19th April from Valparaiso. This steamer left Guayaquil on the 13th, and reported that General Flores' expedition was still at the mouth of the river, and that ho had not made any further advances towards taking the city. When the Santiago went up the river a gun was fired over her from one of Flores' vessels. The captain die not return it, but patting on more steam pasEed up to the city. It was supposed Guayaquil mail. ail. I that t was the reportedobje ctor that this was to obtain the Guayqthaes British Admiral of the Pacific squadron, with his entire force, was at Callao, and had determined to run up to Guayaquil. The success of Flores was highly probable. According to the Diario de Valparaiso his force amounted to 5385 men, as infantry, cavalry, and artil lery, with twelve cannon. His squadron consisted of two steamers, two eqaare-rigged voesels, and twelve small craft, Of this force, embracing Europeans, North Americans, Chilians, and Peruvians, is a corps of ninety American rifLmen, under the command of Captain Jackson. The fair of Flores' friends was that the Swedish frigate at Guayaquil would i n terfere and prevent the landing of the expedition , but it appears that the Captain intended only to protest. Oar New Granada advices do not contain any particu lar news. The reported assassination of General Car mona at Cieneja is confirmed. THE NICARAGUAN QUESTION. PHILADELPHIA, MAY s.—lt is understood at Wiashng ton that the British Consul-General will shortly repair with an American agent, and in au American vessel of war, to Nicaragua, there to arrange all the San J uan difficulties, as between Great Britain and the United the Isthmus at States. Nicaragua and Costa Rica have settled their boundaries —mostly, it is said, to the advantage oefstNeridealy hefeeroeeincpeautoy the for treaty confirming positively rejected je greatcte d Flores is likely to be to an Afe i r t i h ca r Tehuantepec, the Southern telegraph of He has 5300 men ti h r y o t u h g e ht m in e t x e i l o l a ig n e s nc e e na t t h e a . t A it ls h e ad al b et een in m i Il a c n i u d e 'l r i Il o g f t 9 h o e A Pa la rifi ri c ea s n g' successful in his invasion of Ecuador. under rifle men. The hg British command, co is reported to have sailed for Gaye u'lthe town is expected to attack. Commodoreq i , town which Swedish man-of-war, has -- Virgin, of a t%otested to Flores egainst his pro ceedings. Paels.ma.—A line of American established between Paueoa steamers is soon to ho at all the ports, large and asmall,and Callao ; and to touch Ecua dor, and New Granada. The steamer in Peru, Bolivia, California, the pioneerof the line,steamer Quickstep, of for the purpose, and by this time . has been purchased to . Panama . from San Francisco. is Probably on her way facilitate the early reception s of. This enterprise will Pacific coast, and the interior ° . news from the lower on that seaboard. cities of South America SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived at New York—The Colonist, from Liverpool; Lesmahagon, from Tralee; Western World, from Havre; Rebecca, from Bremen; John, from Plymouth; Ganges' from Dublin; Graf von Brandenburg, from Newcastle; Heinrich, and Nancy and Emma, f rom B remen; Pacific (steamer), fr om Li verpool, 2d inst.; Ashburton, from Liverpool; Howard, from liamburgh• New Hampshire' from Antwerp; Centurion, from Antwerp; Ne w William Hitchcock, and Indian Ocean, from Liverpool; Urgent, from Belfast; Middleton, from Liverpool; 11 ; . mine. Magdalene, and Data Gruner, from BremeAlert, D. Sewell, Malabar, and Persian, from Liverpool; . • if. Bluiss, from Waterford; Charles Tottle, from Car , from Palermo; Minna, from Bremen. Shields; Arrived at Boston—Tho Ambassador, from Worlp Sabine, from Liverpool. A rrived.at Cha r l eston— Th e F ra nchise, from Liver pool. Arrived at Cit y Poito, Virginia—Th e Yorkshire , from Newport. Arrived at New Haven—Tho Vicla, Sunderland: Curl Joba:.n, from Newcastle. from Li- Arrived at Portsmouth—The J enn y verpc6l. Brunswick —The Sir ale. Dalston, from Arrived at St. John's, vf Harry Smith, from London Facide, from London; Ant, -- A n n, from Londonderry ; from Grangemouth; 'Marl bria, from Liverpool. y Li p ve o r r p oh oo e l r ; , Alfred, from Shields; CaTfne Wil s on, from Liverpool. Arrived at Savannah— ;NfroAerniciltell;frHomenr f Arrived at Wilmington—The Muskingum and Mecca, from Liverpool. The British barque Opyx, from Grangemouth, for Boston, was abandoned en the 14th tilt., and the crew taken off, and arrived at Halifax on the 20th. Ber cargo consisted of 100 tons of pig iron and 100 tons of coals. NASSAU, N.P., APRIL 21. The British ship Duke, for Liverpool, w as l ost on the 14A2 on the west end of thel Graad Bahamas. She had 3,912 bales of cotton on board, about 2,090 of which had bun caved. A British ship from Jamaica, for London or Liverpool, was also ashore near the same place. 1852. STEAM TO AUSTRALIA. SGUTIIAMPTON, MAY 15.—The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's screw steamship Mutate Captain Down, took her departure to day for Sydney, with 28 passengers and specie in gold value 139,0001. sterling on freight, the latter shipped prin cipally by the Australian banks and on merchants' ac count. The Chusan will call at Teneriffe and the Cape of Good Hope for cealn and then proceed to her desti nation, touehirg only at Port Philip en route, after which she it destined to teke up the station between Australia and Singapore, thus corepleeing a chain of steam pos!al communication with the Australian colo nies by way of the Isthmus of Suez, Co; lon, and the passage '.f the Eistern seas, as stipulated by the con tracts recently concluded between the Lords Commis sioners of the Admiralty and the Peninsular and Oriental Company. These new arrangements with the Go vernment do not come into operation (according to agreement) till the let of January neat; but it is in tended, immediately on arrival of the Cbusan at Sydney, thet she shall make one or two experimental voyages between Austral la and Singapore, with a view not only of at once opening up the communication, tut also for the pipes(' of visiting and perfecting the preliminary arrangements at the several intermediate ports' of call and coaling stations, in order that when the service is formally commenced at the beginning of the new year it may ba conducted with that regularity, efficiency, and precision which distinguish the extensive operations of this great steam company. Several other screw steam shies are being prepared with tee greatest dispatch in the' Clyde, and will as soon as possible follow the Chu san to take part in this important service, which is to be perf orme d each way once every two mon ths between Singapore and Syd ney; t h us , i n con junction with the Australian R oya l c s e c ox vicer ap : i iceds t i b that between e n e et n ha re are to proceed via' the Cape, effecting a monthly mail Mail Steam Company, whose vessels lyei: England ourstayn 8 bags, run ns d ttoh for e s Australian. Fidonret r willhi i occupy d s Sydney and the Londonj about 65 to 68 days. Sheo journals r o n o a li out s of t h a y i s very d a y y. h . e rr e vhye Cape mail, f there rom sios Southampton chance ham p to n o s f h a e sequen ce Plymouth this morning, and screw -steamer wa s t o l eave racy to advantag e o f one day's d of the . Cape between the two vessels, but in con later dates from L on d on than Eke b C e li t u a s k a e n n ' s f d r der r p t departure . mouth, m bothhcaos vessels communication ic their wd r a es h p t ecti o ve f ahteieoun leaving between severe . ly felt, Englandenite, gold, together the re ports about the same hour ` and a cent et t e l Australia s a tounding discoveries of the complete revolution both in mercantile ndhyafrena%itlh tural affairs, which is imminent in the colony of the displacement of labour, caused by ten almost gene ralson migration to the gold fields, has rendered this facility of intercourse more and more indispensable for the wel fare of the colony itself, and for the extension and conso lidation of its trade and rapidly increasing commerce with the mother country. It is not to be wondered at, there fore, that the departure of the Chum for the distant scene of her future operations as the pioneer of the Australian mail service was considered en event of some importance, not only in Southampton, but by nanny gentlemen who are deeply interested in Austra • lien affairs. Accordingly, a large party of ladies and gentlemen, at the imitation of the directors of the Pe ninsular and Oriental Company, left London by express train at eleven A.M. this morning, arriving here at one o'clock. Among them were the Duke of Augustenburg, the Earl and Countess of Morley, Earl Talbot, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Sir W. Verner, M.P., Sir R. Booth, M.P., Sir W. Galway, M.P.,Mr. J. M‘Gregor, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, M.P., Mr. W. donsell, M.P., Mr. Wyndham G °old, M.P., Mr. Lowe, Capt. War ner, Colonel Mundy, besides many gentlemen connected, I either politically or commercially, with the Australian colonies. Several managing directors of the company also attended, including Mr. Anderson, M.P., Captain Thornton, Messrs. do Sethi, James Hartley, and James Allan, and Captain Engledue (the company's super intendent), Mr. A. Lamb (engineer iu chief), &o. The Chusan moved from the dock-head precisely at the time appointed for her sailing, amid load cheers from a great number of persons assembled to witness her departure, the excellent brass band of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Bentinck playing the National Anthem. While steaming down the river in splendid style, an elegant dejeziner was served on board the Chusan to the distinguished guests, at the conclusion of which the usual loyal toasts were drunk, and received with the greatest enthusiasm, after which, " Prosperity to the Chusan, to the Australian colonies, to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, to Captain Down and the officers," having been given and suitably acknowledged, it was announced to the company that the Chusan having passed Cowes and entered the Solent a final parting was necessary, and the steam tender having taken on board all the visitore the Chusan stood gallantly oat to sea, to enter upon her long and arduous voyage, with the best wishes of and amid hearty cheers from the large party i, of ladies and gentleman who enjoyed the pleasure of this aereeable trip. A special train left Southampton at five o'clock, with the directors end their friends, and the whole party reached the metropolis about seven o'clock, having been absent but eight hours. SPORTING NOTES. No. CCXXVIL BATH AND SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. sitt,—l am enabled this morning to be rather more particular in my observations on the Bath races than I was on Friday last. In the first place, the Lansdowne Trial Stakes, it appears, will only be contested by Pits ford, Bordeaux, and Old Rowley; and I expect they will pass the post in the order I have placed them. Should Lamartine at the last moment supersede Pitsford as Day's horse, I expect, in that case, he will occupy the position I have awarded to Pitsford. For the Biennial Soskes, I believe I may calculate open seeing Stella, Amazon, Oakleaf, colt by Mathematician, and perhaps Massava, at the post. Of course Stella and Amazon will be the first two past the post. The runners for the Somersetshire Stakes I am not so positive about . , but I expect they will comprise the fol lowing:—Chief Justice, Exeter or Hugo (the last-named in all probability), Ballet Girl, Young England, Madame Wharton, Becton Darkness, Waterfall, Grand Duchess, has been Ise BRIT.LN.. Miss Bundy, and perhaps Ferret. As Exeter is The Soiling Stakes closes tonight at nine re ported to be out of the fray, I must look to WiTEue FALL, HUGO, and GRAND DUCHESS for the occupant of the three first places; HUGO, if I take any for choice..s awarded l by in CLAVEER The Sweepstakes of 10 SOS's, each, t o b e ru . o'clock. shall not be sur will tall to BENITA, if they run her, otherwise n in heats, NIA and WATERFALL will fight the ese • the rac e affair ou t. e C o a : l e; d t o h: r h . e a T u b p r.2 ,l Q On Wednesday the City Cup the public generally to the Ban, b i e, I --- prised to see the winner °usE, or KATE, if a filly to run well up as any i n c2n °t Spain is us likely th e l y h p a l v ea e s a e lr t my opinion rem.tins unal:e-- d e the Weston Stakes, and The Aristocratic handic a p 'e. wil l AGIS or WEATEERGLG them over. E) without MONTAGUE bowls Hugo will, I fame ' e n iles. rn out anything but a bad spa , . for the Dyrh am s t .f The Sweepstakes f 5 heats of half a • 1 ° - Enve e - h be off in e t to run o con clusion. - mile, will b• • ' ring the meeting to a con- The betting since ' Saturday, in respect to several animals, has ' • ayt Nobl e i s Oran undergone considerable change. Hobbit, Saturday at 12 more in force, having shown boldly on ihirg yesterday, to 1, was -- us good a favourite as any sterday end is • morning undoubt edly Premier en this in latest quotations are as folios% :—_ the odds. . The— s-6 to 4 agat Pit-fail 3 Lansdowne Trial Stake . 1 - to - I agat Bordeaux. Biennial Stakes-2 to Stakes - 7 ta c i ac c h agst Stella and the Amazon filly. Soniersetshire K 7to 2 agst Hugo, take 4t01;6 to 1 each agst Waterfall and the Grand Duchess, 7 to 1 eget Miss Bundy, 8 to 1 egst Chief Justice, 8 to 1 agst Ballet Girl. City Cup-2 to 1 agst th e Bate Western Stakes —2 to 1 cyst Placid. Derby -7 to 1 u g st Robbie Noble (taken freely), 8 to 1 agst Alcorn, 9 to 1 each agst Little Harry and Harbinger , 12 to 1 a g st Claverhouse, 100 to 7 nest Alfred the Great, 20 to 1 eget Stockwell (reported to be doing no work), 20 to 1 egst Kingston, 25 to 1 each agst Augur, Orelio, and King of Trumps (the lest-named each agat gettin g into first-rate f e ttl e ), 30 to 1 mot s '7o Chief Baron Nicholson, 40 to 1 agst Missive, 50 to 1 agst Nabob. Oa end after to-morrow, up to the Tuesd a y preceding the "day of dos ," in cider tS make these Sporting Notes L as true a guide as may be to the Derby victor, there will appear, f ro m day to day, all the moves upon the metro politan board, tcgethar with all =raps of information concerning the animals engaged in the great event that ma y come to hand, the morning's betting, Bose &O. To-morrow I shall lay before my readers the probable starters, with their riders. I am, Sir, yours, &C., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 17, 1852. - ---- - SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LATEST BETTING AT THE WEST END. DEBBY. Oislonagnaott liimainidtsitone 7 to 1 agst Hobble Noble 2 2 5 0 t t o o 1 I agst ogst li jo in e g m ato a n ier 8 fo 1 agst Harbinger 8 to 1 agst Alcoran 25 to 1 agst Orelio 9to 1 agst Little Harry 25 to 1 agst Augur med. 12 to 1 agst Daverhouse 33 to 1 agst Elcot 14 to 1 apt Alfred the Gt. 50 to 1 agst Misaive 16 to 1 agst Stockwell (Julio and Chief Baron N s ich t o BATU R ACES. SuNDiY EVENING, TEN CLOCK.--The fol . lonßiAil'o ng horses hove arrived :-I)l..ford, Lumartine, c, L -e l s, Ferret, Vaultress, A tnr 'n, Yz Charon, Content ment, C ..... lothworktr, Runnymede, Young Ecgland, Ma dame Wharton, Darknt s 3 colt, Bdtannia, Mies Talbot. - - CHE:TER AM) 1- 101.111EA D RAILWAY.—This corn pang have made &Anis extensive arrangements for enabling the public, during th e cnsuing summer, at a moderate cost, of between 5/. and 61 ., to make tours of a month's duration throughout the whole of Ireland. One of th e l ast official acts of the Whi g Board of Admiralty was to best ow th e s ituation of librarian to the Admiralty on Mr. O'B yrne , th e naval biographer. NV e re gret, howe ver, to f i nd that the mem bers of the present board have chosen to dispense with Mr. O'Byrne's services in this ' capacity ; but we trust only to avil themselves of his talents in some paler department— United Service Gazette.