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

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY A. very limited supply of English Wheat hai been re eeive.d up to our Maiket this week, and the show of samples of that grain this morning was small. Fine qualities commanded a ready sale, at very full prices. In the inferior kinds rather more business was doing. With Foreign Wheat we were scantily supplied. On the whole the trade was firm, at previous quotations. Barley, the supply of which was small, met a ready in• quiry, at Monday's prices. There was an improved sale fur Malt. In prices, however, we have no change to report. Scarcely any Oats were on offer, and that graia WAS held for 6d per quarter more money. Beans were very dull ; but Peas supported the late advance in their currencies. All other articles as on Monday. Wheat. English ...... 1,531 qrs. Irish. .....• • • - Foreign ...... -- AAR ITALB. 1 barlsay. 1 420 gra. Oats. I 1' loth 119 qrs. I 1,120 sk, 1.9 1 0 I ____ 101 -- kalt. 510 are. WHITECRAPEL. We had rather an inactive demand, yet price:, Were mostly supported. Beef' front 3s 4i to 43 ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 46 6d ; Veal, 4s to hs 2d ; and Pork, 36 Sd to Is 2d per Sibs. by the carcase. Vbtril Vbition EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LOUD CHIEF B•RON and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. GOOCH AND ANOTHER. This was an information, on the part of her Ma jesty's Customs, to recover from the defendants, Messrs. Gooch, Cousins, and Co., woolstaplers, Steel yard, Dowgate-hill, penalties to the amount of 3,0001. The Attorney-General, Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Wilde, appeared for the Customs; Mr. Martin, M r . S ergean t l'alfourd, and Mr. Jones, appeared on the part of the defendants. The penalties were sought to be recovered on the ground of the defendant having caused considerable quantities of wool to be delivered from the Custom house at a less duty than prescribed by the Act, 3 and 4 William IV., ch. 8, which enacted that wool, under the value of one shilling per pound, should be chargeable with a duty of one halfpenny per pound, and above that with a duty of one penny per pound. It appeared that the wool, which formed the subject of the present information, had been imported from Odessa upon five different occasions, the first of which took place in the month of April, 1841, and the last in February, 1842, and had been passed, upon the statement of the defendant that the value of the wool was under one shilling, upon the payment of one halfpenny per pound duty. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, on the part of the de. fondant, contended that, according to the statute of 8 & 4 Will. IV., ch. 8, sec. 18, which directed how the duties were to be collected, the defendant, if liable at all, was not liable for the payment of the penalties but of the difference in the amount of duty actually paid, and that which was alleged to be due. But, in point of fact, the defendant was not liable to pay any additional amount beyond that which had been paid upon clearing the goods, because the officer at the Customs had himself, according to their usual mode of transacting business, certified that the value of the wool was approved upon the warrant authorising the delivery of the goods to the defendant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL apprehended that the de fendant had not proved whether he was bound to prove, viz., that he had paid the full amount of duty. The LORD CHIRP BARON said that prima facie the defendant had paid the full and proper amount of duty, inasmuch as the delivery of the goods had been ob tained in the usual manner, and the defendant had gone through all the usual forms of obtaining the same. The ATTORNET•GENERAL, in addressing the jury on the part of the Crown, said that it was fortunate for the defendant that the present proceedings had been instituted at this lapse of time, as had the fraud been discovered within three years from the time of the delivery of the goods, he would have been liable not to the paltry amount now sued for, but to pe nalties exceeding half a million. In the present case, from information which the customs had received they had applied to the party sending the wool, who forwarded the pass-book, between himself and the de fendants, which showed that the wool already cleared from the Custom-house by the defendant as being under a shilling in value was charged as being above that value, and charging with a duty of one peney, the "me goods as had been cleared at one halfpenny. If be should be able to prove this case he was sure that the jury w ou ld f ee l no h es it a ti on i n giving their ver dict for the Crown. J. A. Priest, examined by Sir F. LIESIGIR—Said that he was employed by the defendant for several years in his warehouse. He remembered the arrival of a cargo o f fi ne M er i n , woo l f or d e f en d ant i n t h e ship Rambler. At th e same t i me anot h er cargo arr i ve d in a ship called the British Queen of an inferior quality. Both of the cargoes were packed in the warehouse, When the orders came for the delivery of the wool from the Rambler, the bales belonging to the British Queen were shown to the surveyor. The marks upon the bales of the British Queen were cut out by the witness, under the direction of Mr. Oddinott, a per son in the employ of the defendant, and the marks of the Rambler placed on the bales instead. The marks were cut out of the bales after the locker had left the premises. Witness obtained an entrance into the premises after they were locked up, by drawing out the asp to which the padlock was attached. He was in the habit of entering in this manner late at night, or upon Sundays, when they were very busy. He also marked thirty bales belonging to the ship Mar garet with other marks, to represent the cargo of another vessel, which was of coarser wool. Mr. Cousins, one of the defendants, was there at the time, and also when the surveyor passed the bales. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD—it was about a twelvemonth since he first mentioned the circumstance of marking the bales to a Mr. Howe, a gentleman connected with the Customs. He left the employ of the defendant in the year 1845. When the marks were cut out of the bales the hole was either Covered with other pieces of cloth, or some of tke Wool was pulled out, in order to give it the appear ance of having been torn on board the ship. Re-examined by Sir F. TILESIGER—In order to take away the appearance of freshness from the marks which he put on the bales, he was in the habit of throwing dust over them, which gave them the ap pearance of having been made for some time. James Lloyd, examined by Mr. WATSON—Was in the employ of Mr. Byan. Recollected the arrival of the British Queen. It was his duty to mark the bales of wool. Several pieces of cloth produced as cut out of the bales were his marking. Various other witnesses were called by the Crown in support of the case, the purport of whose evi dence went to show that the duty of ld. per lb. had been charged by the defendant for the same parcels of wool as the sum of id. only had been paid upon. (The case was proceeding when our report left.) SOLVENT COURT—(THIS DAY.) COMM ITMENT TO PRISON.-IN RE JAMES FRBNCM. This insolve n t, w h o h ad b een an omn ib us pro prietor at Bexl e y, K ent, was h ear d t hi s morn i ng , a nd obtained a day for the final order. On reaching Chancery -lane he was arrested by an officer of the Palace Court, on a warrant issued under the Small Debts Act, for his commitment to iNtaidstone Gaol for thirty days, for contempt of court. The insolvent produced his pr o t ec ti on from th i s C ourt, an d t h e officer attended the Court at the instance of the in solvent. Mr. Commissioner Phillips examined the documents, and a scer t a i ne d th at th e or d er f o r com mitment by the Palace Court was issued on the 31st of December, a n d th e i nso l ven t fil e d hi s p e titi on in this Court on the Bth of January. It was urged on the part of the insolvent that it was a summons under the Small Debts Act, and net by an order of the County Court. His Holum,. (Mr. Phillips) was clearly of opinion that he had no power to interfere. On reference to the second clause of the Small Debts Act, he found that no protection by this Court, or certificate in bankruptcy, Would set aside an order of commitment under , th a t statute. The insolvent left in custody to be taken to Maid stone gaol, on the warrant of commitment by the Palace Court. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. OLD COURT. _ - - (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) FORGERY ON THE RUSSIAN GOVER NMENT. , Leylb e A ronson, Jacob Frede b urg, R ap h ae l haul= 'ten,. and S o l omon Ill uscov i t , t h e fi rs t d escr ibed as a wlne-mer c h ant, the second as a furr i er, t h e third as p rin ter, and th e f ourt h as a t urne r, w ere indicted for feloniously having in their possession certain pieces of for the paper, being part of a certain foreign note pa 3 ment of money of a foreign state, to wit, of the E mperor of Russia . Another count in the in dictment char ge d the prisoners w i t h f e l on i ous l y having in their possession the lithographic stones from which the spurious notes had been struck. The first and the last named prisoners pleaded Guilty ; the other two Not Guilty. The two prisoners who had pleaded Not Guilty elected to be tried by an Er glish jury. Mr. CLARRSON stated th e 'case for the prosecution, remarking that he had been retained to do so by the Russian Consul, who aeteu on behalf of the Emperor of Russia. No doubt the jury were aware that the Emperor of Russia issued notes within his dominions representing in value from one to twenty-five roubles, and the Emperor made the property of his state, as well as his private property, chargeable for the pay ment of these notes. Within the last few months it had been discovered that a quantity of spurious one rouble notes had got into circulation, and the Russian Government had since been busily engaged in at tempting to discover the guilty parties. From infor- T4t E s UN, LON DON, WEDNESDAY EVEN 1 N FERRU ARY 2, 848, illation which the Russian Consul received it was suspected that the notes first found their way from this country, and Forrester, the well-known officer, was retained to discover the forgers. lie was not long in obtaining some clue to the guilty parties Having ascertained that two foreigners had purchased a press, roller, and stones for lithographing, from Mr. Lea, the lithographer, of High Holborn, he suc ceeded in tracing these parties to their lodgings in Newton-street, Soho, and there he obtained possession of a Bible belonging to one of the prisoners, between the leaves of which a note corresponding to the spu rious ones circulating in Russia was found. Subse quently he traced the prisoners to Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, where he forcibly broke into a room rented by Kauffman, and discovered three of the prisoners sitting round a table in the very act of preparing the spurious notes. The room contained a press, ink, roller, paper, stones, and all materials necessary for lithographing notes, but the tracings upon the stones had been coated with gum so as to conceal the letters, marks, and figures, which had been struck upon them. This coat, however, had been removed, and the tracing exactly corresponded with the impressions on the paper which the prisoners were in the act of cutting up into parts when the room was broken into. A number of witnesses were called to substantiate be case. The prisoners Kauffman and Fredeburg, who had been identified as the parties who purchased the ma terials used in manufacturing the notes, denied all knowledge of the forgery. Kauffman said he ac companied Fredeburg to make the purchases because Fredeburg cculd not speak English ; while Fredeburg, who was a lithographer, protested that in partici pating in the forgeries he was ignorant that he was doing anything wrong, and acted more in the ca pacity of a servant to the principals in the transaction than as an accomplice. The Learned JUDGE summed up with great care and minuteness, and The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty against both the prisoners. Sentence was deferred until the sitting of the Court to-morrow morning. NEW COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Andrew Schepr, a German mason, was charged with stealing a cash- box, value 5g., thirty-three sovereigns, and 355., the property of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company. Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. Huddleston de fended the prisoner. _ The evidence against the prisoner was purely of a circumstantial character. A fellow-countryman of the prisoner, named Hyllier, had been in the habit of loitering about the offices of the General Screw Steam Shipping Company, in Mark-lane, and was well known to the clerks as a porter. It was assumed that the prisoner was in connivance with this man, and on the evening of the 31st of December, while the prisoner engaged Mr. Dickinson, the manager of the company,:in conversation upon the subject of his taking a passage in one of the company's vessels, Hyllier entered another office of the company, on the same landing as the one in which Mr. Dickinson and the prisoner were conversing, and stole the cash-box, with its contents. The robbery was discovered the same evening, and, suspicion falling upon the prisoner, he was traced to a public-house in the Commercial road, where he was found in company with another foreigner, who was supposed to be Hyllier. The prisoner, upon observing the entrance of a police officer, made a desperate but futile attempt to resist his apprehension, and his companion succeeded in making his escape. The cash-box was found near to the public-house, broken to pieces, and it was ascer tained that the prisoner and a man answering Hyllier's description were seen together that evening, near to the spot. Mr. HUDDLESTON having addressed the jury for the defence, The COMMON SERGEANT summed up, and The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The COURT sentenced him to nine months' impri sonment, with hard labour. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) In the absence of Mr. Sergeant Adams the Assis tant Judge, Mr. Walerby, presided. The new arrangement for the trial of all the male prisoners on the first day of the sessions, and of the females on the next, has not in effect been carried out ; for the whole of the morning was occupied with the trials of male prisoners, whose cases were not reached yes terday. James Gardner, being indicted for stealing two ducks, the property of Charles Chowns "and another," was acquitted on the ground of informality, the ducks being the property of Charles Chowns only. EAST INDIA HOUSE-(THIS DAY) THE LATE RAJA OF SATTARA. A special general Court of the proprietors of East India stock was held this day at their house in Leadenhall-street, upon the requisition of nine pro prietors, for the purpose of taking into consideration certain resolutions relating to the case of the late Raja of Sattara, recommending the directors to obtain the sanction of the Board of Control to the instituting of a public and impartial inquiry into the whole case. Mr. Humn, M.P., proposed the resolutions, of which a eopy had been sent to every proprietor of East India stock, in order that Hon. Gentlemen might come fully prepared to decide upon the matter with the least possible loss of time to the Court. The Hon. Gentleman went through the leading points of the late Raja's case. He could bear testimony from his own personal observation to the excellent administration of the Indian Government, and the management of our vast and important empire in that part of the world, under the super intendence of that Court; for it was now fifty-four years since he first went out to India as a servant of the company.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the day would never come when the Government of those possessions would be transferred from that Court to the Colonial-office, although there was a desire to bring that about, and he was convinced it would be, if effected, the ruin of our power in India.—(Hear, hear.) We had hitherto maintained that power more by good faith and justice than by the sword. The only exception to our honourable and wise policy in this respect was the case of the late Raja.--(llear, hear.) It was too late to do justice to that unfor tunate Prince in his own person.—(Hear, hear.) But it was not the less the duty of the proprietors to retrace their steps if they found that they were wrong. It was not to be regarded as the case of the late Raja alone. It was the case of all India. It concerned the reputation of the Indian Government for justice and honour with every de pendency throughout that empire. There was not a prince with whom we had treaties, from Cape Comerin to Lahore, who could henceforth have any reliance upon the fidelity of the British Government if it still persisted, through that Court, in refusing justice in the present case. All that the Raja himself ever demanded—all that his friends and survivors now demanded—was an impartial trial. The Hon. Proprietor dwelt at great length upon those principal topics, and concluded by moving the resolutions. The discussion is expected to occupy the Court to a late hour, if indeed it he not, as on former occasions, adjourned to another day. There were many , ladies in the gallery. SALE OF RAILWAY SHARES BY AUCTION.—(THIS DAY.) At Messrs. Lomond and Co.'s sale to-day a good business was done. The follow ing aro a few of the principal quotations: — Eastern Counties . ........ 16 0 0 Birmingham and Oxford Junction ..... 24 0 0 Aberdeen Madrid and Valencia Caledonian 35 19 0 Lond., Brighton, Si South Coast Edinburgh and Glasgow Reading, Guildford, and Reigate London and Blackwall, Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A) `.4 0 North Staffordshire Buckinghamshire Cornwall 0 16 0 Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston 0 7 6 The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Earl of Aberdeen's second son, the Hon. and Rev. Douglas Gordon, to be one of his Grace's domestic chaplains. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons, accompanied by Mrs. Sh aw L e f e vre and family, arrived in Eaton-square last evening, from Hick field Place, Hants. CHILDREN BURNT TO DEATH. Yesterday four inquests were held at the London Hospital on the bo-. dies of children who haze died in the above institution from injuries which they received by their clothes catching fire. INDIA NEWS.—GOTERNMENT OF BOMBAY.—Yes terday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the Right Hon. Viscount Falkland was appointed Governor of the Presidency of BomuaT : The Count de Trapani, brother of the King of Naples, who was put forth as one of tke candidates for the hand of Queen Isabella of Spain, is shortly expected to arrive at Munich, to be married to the Princess Alex andra, daughter of the King of Bavaria. The formal demand of the hand of the Princess was lately made by the Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Vienna, who went expressly to Munich for that purpose. The Archbishop of Canterbury, although confined to his room, does not keep his bed, nor is his illness con sidered of a sufficiently serious character to confine the members of his family circle to the palace, several of them having taken carriage exercise. The immediate cause of the venerable Primate's illness is said to be an attack of influenza about a month sines, from which he has never perfectly recovered. . GERMAN PAPERS. RUSSIA AND POLAND. -- FROM THE RUSSIAN BOUNDARY, 'JAN. 19.—The lcvy of recruits oreasiol , s much surprise. None are exempt except those who are so by their official situations or incapacity, and even lad 3 of 16 are entitled. In answer to the ques tion whether the sons of such officers of the State whose position accords them the privileges of nobility are exempt from military service, it is stated that only the suns of those who posses the rights of hereditary nobility, as well as of those landowners whose nobility has been acknowledged in regard to the privileges of the Ordinance of 1836, are not subject to be entitled as recruits. THE MAGAZINES. BEA7'LEY'S 311SVELI„4NY. The present number of Bentley opens with an interesting biographical mcmoir of Beethoven from the pen of Miss Thomasina Ross, and is illustrated by an engraving by Cook of a portrait of the great maestro, which is considered by Mr. Charles CzA.ny to be the most correct likeness of this celebrated composer extant. This is followed by an amusing description of a fete champetre at Constantinople (at which the Sultan was present), by Mrs. Percy Sinnott, who thus describes the personal appearance of the Sultan Abd-ul-111eschid— " Abd-ul-Meschid is above the middle height, bror.d shouldered, and finely shaped, with the youthful luxuriance and fulness of form on which the Asiatic e) e is so well pleased to rest; and his natural advantages were further set off by the elegant simplicity of a close fitting dark blue surtout, embroidered on the stares with gold, white pantaloons, and polished European chassure. Notwithstand;ng some traces of the smallpox, his lace has much manly beauty, with its high forehead, finely arched brows, small mouth, and straight, well formed nose. The Sultan has nothing of the look of premature decay so often spoken of in Europe; but in spite of his Caucasian blood by the mother's side, Abd-ul-Meschid has the olive-tinted skin of his Turcoman ancestors. His profile is very handsome; the moustache is short and thick, and his whiskers and beard kept within due bounds. His solitaire was a large diamond as big as a pigeon's egg. Sultan Abd-ul-Meschid is twenty-three years old, and, though not disinclined to pleasure, capable of severe labour, and is undeniably one of the Lest intentioned princes of our time." Professor Creasy continues his commentaries on the six decisive battles of the world, and chooses as the subject of his present paper, the defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse. Dr. W. C. Taylor gives us the fruits of his researches in the provincial literature of France, in a learned, and to antiquaries, most interesting disquisition on the origin of the story of "Blue Beard," and three candidates appear to contest the unenviable distinction of having been the original Blue Beard of the legend. The first is Gilles de Retz, Marshal of France, one of the firmest adherents of Charles VII., and Lord of the Castle of Champtoie, situated on th• banks of the Loire, be tween Angers and Nantes, which is called "Le Chateau de Barbe Bleu" to the present day. Gilles de Retz professed openly to be one of the most reli gious of men, and had the service conducted in the chapel of his castle with all the splendour and forms used in cathedrals, but secretly he indulged in the most debauched excesses. Every day young maidens were taken by force from the cottages of their parents, and carried to the castle, from whence none of them were ever known to return. Broken in fortune, he turned alchemist, and according to the superstitions of the period, he was said to have entered into a compact with Satan, and to have stipulated with the Prince of Darkness to pay for his instruction in the forbidden art, by a tributary sacrifice of Christian children. Dr. Taylor is of opinion that Gilles was in reality the dupe of his own supersti tions, and like the Goomsoors and Thugs of India he believed in the efficacy of human sacrifices. A Floren tine mountebank named Prelati was his assistant or his instructor in these horrible mysteries, and the cries of the tortured children were frequently heard proceeding from the secret chamber of the castle, the approach to which was forbidden to any of the do mestics under pain of death. Gilles was at length arrested, the skeletons of forty children were found in his castle ; and he was executed on the 23d October, 1440, "a date," says the historian, "about which there can be no doubt, for all the people of Anjou and Maine, by common consent, whipped their children on that morning, so as to impress the precise date on their memory." Another prototype of Blue Beard is found in Comorre, Count of Cornouailles, who lived in the country of Vannes, in Brittany, who married seven wives, and murdered them as they were on the point of becoming mothers, and whose guilt was revealed miraculously by the corpse of his last wife. Burgundy sets up a third claimant in the person of the Count of Saulx, who shut up his wife in a den of bears, who, how ever, caressed her as if they had been lap-dogs. Her brothers hearing of her treatment, attacked the castle of the Count, and killed him just as he had raised his sword to murder their sister. We have some pleas ing " Road-sketches of the Inns of France," by J. Marvel, and some pleasant " Reminiscences of Geneva and its Neighbourhood," by Miss Costello. Mr. 'Warren continues the narrative of his "Adven tures on the Amason," and Cooper gives us another chapter of " Captain Spike." Spike is dying in the hospital at Key West, attended by Rose Budd and Jack Tier, the latter of whom turns out to be a woman, and the wife of Spike, whom he had deserted twenty years before, and who, disguised as a sailor, and assuming the name of Jack Tier, had wandered over the world in search of him. " What Tom Pringle did with a Hundred Pound Note," is the title of a Buz-like sketch of the doings of a clerk of an old house in the City. What Tom Pringle did we shall not tell you, reader, for we would not for the world deprive you of the pleasure of reading the paper and guessing as you proceed as to what may be the intentions of Torn Pringle anent the said 1001. note. It is quaintly illustrated by Leech. The lovers of romance will be delighted with the " Heiress of Budowa," and the lovers of horrors with " The Old Alan and his Guests ;" while the laughers at the petty miseries of human life will find ample food for merriment in the " Difficulties in a Tour to Wiesbaden." There is something to suit all tastes in Bentley this month. FRASER. The " Poughkeepsie Seer and his Revelations," is the title of the first article in this number of Fraser. The Poughkeepsie is a " smart" American youth, named Davis, who having been "clairvoyant boy " to an itinerant mesmeriser, set up in business for himself as a quack doctor, and ultimately as the founder of a new religion, in opposition to Christianity. The article is Hell written, although we think the blas phemous absurdities of this impudent impostor ure not worth the time and the attention which the writer has bestowed on them. We are glad to find that the author of the " Orators of the Age " has again resumed his pencil. In this number he gives us sketches of three new Members of the New Par liament—Mr. J. Walter, Mr. F. O'Connor, and Mr. Cornewall Lewis. In his sketch of Mr. J. Walter we are glad to see that he does full justice to the merits of one whom he justly designates as one of the most original and extraordinary men of the age— the late Mr. Walter. He it was who first rendered journalism the power which it has now become. He was the creator of the fourth estate. " He made his journal an exemplar of what is and must be the power of the world in this age. It is a power the most natural in its origin, and the least vi cious in its effects, of any the world has yet seen. The ~‘onsolidated empire of the warrior, though transmitted from generation to generation, never loses the taint of its unjust origin. The institutions invented to sustain it are all based en the tradition of force. Religion, which has founded some systems of rule, and cemented more, has, nevertheless, save in some favoured portions of the earth, too often had, as it still has, Superstition for its strongest ally. Throughout three-fourths of the world it has hoped to secure the present and eternal salvation of man only by degrading and enslaving him; and even now, when, seeing what a purer practice has •fleeted during the last four centuries for this island, and for some parts of the Continent, the most elevated in mind and station of Catholic Europe are striving, by other means, to reach the same end, the vices of the system are found almost too strong for the virtuous pur pose of the individuals. But the power of which the most commanding example was created and perfected by the late Mr. Walter, has no such evils, either of origin or in effect. It is instinct with a spirit and life coeval with that of humanity—dormant, but never dead; and being ,itself of that creative and inspiring nature, that it must sustain the moral and intellectual future of man, precluding the recurrence of those intervals of torper which have heretofore furnished history and phi losophy with some of their most striking examples. Of all the influences by which mankind have, from age to age, been ruled, this is the most purely intellectual in it origin. But, perhaps, its greatest claim consists in that, being a substantive and independent power, it can, at will, make itself the ally of those other powers which have preeeded it, holding the balance between them and humanity, and throwing its weight into either scale, according to the demands of a high moral necessity. Deriving its authority from the assent and conviction of mankind, it is subject to a perpetual check upon its possible excesses. There is ever a moral pendulum to moderate pernicious activity. " The late Mr. Walter, by elevating this new agent to the highest point yet attained—sometimes judiciously following the example set him by his brethren, but more often setting that example himself—has earned a very high place among the benefactors of mankind. We must not regard him as a mere fortune-maker, possessed of more skill than his competitors, or as a first-rate practical printer, who could himself a turn to at ease.' or superintend the working of his machines when deprived of the due service from his subordinates,—or as a man of enterprise and capital, running expresses against the Government, and distancing all competitors in the early procuring of news. lie was all this, and a great deal more. We remember once being struck with an ex pression used by one of a class much abused by the journal to which we refer. Scrambling over a mountain side, in one of the wildest and poorest districts of the west of Ireland, with our temporary host, a Roman Catho lic clergyman, the conversation turned upon some of the dainty epithets which had been applied from time to time by the leading journal to the ' surpliced ruffians.' Our companion was a man of considerable attainments, and contradicted, in his manners and habits, the esti mate usually formed of his class. Having incidentally used, as applied to that journal, the word newspaper, he broke out suddenly, Newspaper, sir ! it is a part of the Government of the country !' This magnanimous admission of the much-abused priest was, in fact, the highest tribute to the late Mr. Walter. By the most skilful management, requiring a knowledge of human nature, an acquaintance with the past, and a prescience of the future, for which even the intimates of Mr. Wal ter never gave him sufficient credit, he brought hit. journal to be the most fine and delicate barometer of public opinion. As public opinion more and more su perseded, in this country, other and more ancient but effete forces, statesmen found it to their advantage to consult the barometer. From consulting it, the step was natural to making use of it ; for, by a very simple process, it had equally become to the people a supposed barometer of the designs of statesmen. The alliance thus formed was highly honourable to the younger of the contracting parties ; because it was not an insulting condescension, but was based on the principle of inde pendence. Tho intermediate period, however, between the first small beginning and this grand result (for it was a grand result so to conquer the enshrined pride of aristocracy in office) was one of great trial and difficulty to Mr. Walter, not as a newspaper proprietor, for there his way was clear to him, but as a private individual, taking openly an active personal share in politics." With the greater part of the above we entirely agree, but we do not see the difficulty in which Mr. Walter was involved, as a private individual, by his connec tion with the Times newspaper; on the contrary, we believe that if, at the first outset of his career as a Member of Parliament, Mr. Walter had boldly avowed (that of which every one was perfectly aware) his connection with, and his influence over, the Times, and upon that connection, and that influence had grounded an additional claim for a respectful attention to his views on the part of the Members of the Legis lature, he would have escaped many of the difficulties which he afterwards experienced in the course of his legislative career, and would have given to the mem bers of the fourth estate, which he had created, not only power, but social position also. This disquisi tion on the character of, to use the words of the writer, " the Louis Philippe of Journalism," is the most interesting portion of the most interesting paper of the present number. The " Chronique de Paris" is an amusing resume of Parisian gossip anent the domestic habits of the King of the French and his family, in which we find several characteristic anecdotes of the late Madame Adelaide, who was by far the most talented and the best disposed of the Orleans family. " L'Uscoque" is a review of George Sand's novel bearing that title. Geore Sand, in this novel, has undertaken to condense, combine, illustrate, dcvetail, and continue Lord Byron's poems of the " Corsair" and " Lara," and the writer of this review, in his hatred for Byron, has made him answerable for all the sins of his continuation, and repeats the foul mouthed libels of " turncoat Southey" about " the Satanic school" with evident gusto. This article, we should imagine, must have been admitted into Fraser by some unaccountable oversight. It was evidently intended for " My Grandmother's Review," and we might almost be tempted to surmise that it was a similar production of that worn-out pen of " my dear Robert's" himself. Turn we from this to a review of " The Life and Remains of John Sterling," in which the beautiful, truthful character of that most honest, yet most loving and most tolerant of theologians, is treated of in a kindred spirit. It is a beautiful notice of a beautiful work. " The Guerilla" is concluded, and the description of the unsuccessful attempt of the Saltador to carry off King Joseph to the mountains is most dramatically given. We recommend this story to some of our dramatic adapters. They would find their account in perusing it. The " Chronicle and Commentary on the Current History of the Month" is written in a spirit of great impartiality, and fur nishes an useful record of contemporary history. ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AND ALLEGED MURDER.— Yesterday Mr. G. J. Mills held an inquest at the Hope, John-street, Tottenham-court-road, on the body of Joseph Edge M`Donnell, pianoforte-case•maker, aged 34. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who had been spending the evening of the 13th ult. in Francis-street, Bedford-square, left the house about two o'clock on the following morning, when, as he WAS crossing Tottenbam•court-road, opposite the chapel, he was attacked by three men, who attempted to rob him, but having resisted them, one of the party felled him to the ground with a blow of a bludgeon, which inflicted a dreadful wound on his head. The wound was dressed by Mr. Parke, of the University College Hospital, and deceased was attended at his residence, 78, John-street, by Mr. Weston until he died, on the 26th ult. Both those gentlemen stated the death was the result of erysipelas, produced by the injuries inflicted on the head. Verdict, "Deceased died from erysipelas, caused by a wound on the head, but how the wound was inflicted there was no evidence to prove." COVENTRY AND NUNEATON RAILWAY.—BIRMINW' RAM, MONDAY EVINING.—The third half-yearly meet ing of the proprietors of the above railway was held to day at the Queen's Hotel, in this town, J. Ledsam, Esq., deputy chairman of the London and North-Western Company, in the chair. The secretary, Mr. Watkins, read a brief report from the directors, which stated that the line having been re-surveyed by the engineer, Mr. Gooch, several amendments had been effected. The line had been sold to the London and North-Western Company; but, by the provisions of the Act of Parlia ment the purchase could not be completed until one-half of the capital had been paid up. At present the pro prietors had only paid 104,0001., 57,0001. of which re mained in band. The directors had therefore made a call of 1/. 12s. per share, in order to complete the sale of the line. The report was received and adopted without a word of comment. Mr. John Ellis, Mr. J. L. Prevost, and Mr. Smith were then elected directors, and the meeting terminated. NIGHTLY SWELTER FOR THE HOFSELESS.—Yes. terday the committee of the above institution made a report of the poor persons who had availed themselves of its benefits since the opening of the asylums (three in number), on Saturday, the 22ed ult. In the central ' asylum, Playhouse yard, St. Luke's, 1,295 were ad mitted; in the eastern asylum, Glasshouse-yard, East Smithfield, 1,067; and in the western asylum, Ogle street, Marylebone, 598; making a total of 2,960 men, women, and children, amongst whom 16,739 rations of bread were distributed. During the last four nights upwards of 1,100 have been admitted. LITERATURE. LETTERS Fiq)M ThE DAAUBE. By the Author of" Gisella" and" Second Love." 2 Vol.•. By far the most interesting of these interesting letters are those which relate to Hungary, and tell of the dawning of the spirit of Hungarian nationality. The theme is one of peculiar fascination—a similar feeling to that which bade the poet pour forth, in strains of alternate tenderness and indignation, his sublime lamt4t over the fallen glories of Greece— " Greece! but living Greece no more!" A similar feeling, a feeling of sympathetic patriotism prompts us to regard with extreme interest, and with profound exultation, the early efforts of a people struggling to achieve their independence and to assert their nationality ; a similar feeling, but perhaps a stronger one, for much as we may treasure the re miniscences of the past, we are naturally prone to think more of the future ; we may bestow a sigh on the faded leaves of autumn, but we always turn joy fully to welcome the buds of spring; we may sorrow over the infirmities of age, but our warmest sympa thies are elicited by the aspirations of youth ; the in terest with which we peruse the glorious chronicles of ancient Item• is far inferior to the eager anxiety with which we watch the progress of •vents in modern Italy. Some such sentiments stirred the heart of the author of "Gisella" as he steamed along the Danube, and gave utterance to such hopeful aspirations as the following : " But even in the vast tracts of wilderness there is a charm, as I have said ; and if there be, in all this, but little evidence of life, and less of cultivation, there is still the augury of what is yet to come, may come, and, I should say, must come; and that thought is full of its poetic feeling. The question, which the traveller who teanis down this part of the Danube cannot fail of ask ing himself—the question, namely, what may be the future destinies, in the progress of civilisation, of the wastes and solitudes of this bold and abounding river— is the same which mealy an inquiring mind may formerly have made, when floating d own t h e great w i l d erness rivers of America, that are now t eem i ng w i t h lif e an d commerce, where villages, and towns, and manufactories, and dock-yards have thrust back the aboriginal woods, as the European has driven away the savage. It is the question that the man who keeps a daily journal of his life naturally puts to himself, when he sees the many white pages in the book before him, and wonders how they may be filled—what the events, good or bad, for weal or woe, that may be inscribed upon them. The pages of the book of man's life, however, may remain blank and unwritten,—death may stay the heed that proposed to fill them. But the book of the . future fortunes of the great river must and will be written as the world rolls on. The how' is a riddle, the solution of which is yet in the hands of fate. " But Hungary is a rising and progressing country; and, sooner or later, in th e ad va nc e of that civilisation which the Turk so long has hemmed, but can now hem no longer, and under the influence of the present national spirit that pervades the country, there can be little doubt that the banks of the Danube will tell another tale of progress and prosperity than they have been able to tell as yet. " How beautifully, how sublimely has our poet Mar ' lowe said, The use of time is fate I' How will that time be used, how that fate accomplished, by the Hun garian? Not only as a well-wisher to the country, but with the strongest conviction in the future results of its energies, I have drawn for the Danube, in my mind, the brightest, grandest horoscope." In another place he speaks of the national spirit of Hungary as of a " feeling which now throbs, as its very life's blood, in every vein of the land, so long asleep in lethargy, and but lately awakened to new life and strength." And after disclaiming any intention of entering on a political dissertation, he goes on— " It is impossible, however, for a foreigner to mix, even in a slight degree, and for a very short time, with the Hungarians of the present day, without being struck by the national spirit which pervades almost every thought, as well as action, of their lives; and the letters I address you, although only intended to vindicate my predilection for this country in its picturesque aspect, would exclude one of the brightest lights that gleam across it, did they not contain a word or two about the colouring with which this spirit tinges the whole moral being of the country. " This feeling of nationality, avant tout, has sprung up, at least in its present flourishing luxuriance, only within the last few years ; but after progressing with a marvellous rapidity of growth among men of all ages fur the spirit of 'Young Hungary,' if so it may be called, is by no means confined to the young, hot-headed, and inexperienced,—it has evidently taken a deep, firm, and widely-spreading root. It appears so woven into every part of the Hungarian existence, like some brightly-coloured thread into a tissue, that, turn the stuff which way you will—examine it in its whole breadth, or in every little portion—the colour is ♦isible, indelible, never to be mistaken. It may be compared, perhaps, to that universal peculiar smell of Russia leather, that seems to the traveller to pervade the whole empire of the Czar : go where you will iu Hungary, your every sense must be struck with the penetrating odour of this spirit. Every detail of daily life among the Hungarians, however insignificant it may be, seems, somehow or other, stamped with the impress of this national feeling ; and nothing can be done, no word spoken, that is not in some degree marked with it. Among the better results of this patriotic impulse, little nessos and affectations, to be sure, spring up like weeds in a crop of rich grain. " Some of these thorough-going nationality-sup porters, for instance, although well setuainted with the German language, which under the rule of the House of Austria is indispensable to every young man of any edu cation, will affect a foreign accent in speaking German, and an ignorance, now and then, of German words, in order to evince their complete attachment to their renovated native tongue, which only latterly has become of constant use." He adds that the " little affectations of exclusive na- tional pride" have sometimes excited him to smile, but certainly, if they be akin to the ridiculous, it is the ridiculous which borders on the sublime, and, like straws on the surface, they are valuable, as showing the direction of the current—the strong current of national feeling. The details about Hungary, brief though they be, form about the most interesting portion of this work, butt he remaining contents are not deficient in attrac tion. The letters form a sort of descriptive diorama of the Danube, and its banks, and the cities and villages situated thereon, extending from Ratisbon to the southern boundary of Hungary. The noble river has certainly found a most enthusiastic eulogist in the writer of these letters, who discards all-matter-et fact rules, and avows his strong predilection for the poetical and romantic. He invariably speaks of the Danube with the utmost admiration, and even ten derness, constantly styling it "my beautiful Danube"—" my beloved Danube," and even "my love." Yet the romance of his affection for his river love is considerably diminished by his inform ing us that it holds the same place in his heart that the Rhine once occupied; it seems he has a predilection for " second love." Be this as it may be, he was certainly " off with the old love" before he began with " the new," as is evidenced by his animated and almost indignant comparison between the Danube and the Rhine. " Can a comparison exist," he asks, " between the stiff physiognomy and melodramatic airs which characterise the celebrated stream of the middle ages, and all that there is of grandeur and simplicity, of magnificence and kindliness, condpined in the varied course of the Danube ?" After pro ceeding in the same strain, he sums all up by declar ing, that " where all is dry and harsh on the Rhine, on the Danube all is living, vigorous, abounding." All is dry and harsh on the Rhine Yet Byron, who perhaps could appreciate the beautiful as correctly as can the author of " Gisella," found only one fault with the " exulting and abounding river," namely, that it was not Lethe. Hence it was that he apos trophised the abounding luxuriance of Nature : " Maternal Nature! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties I streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells, From gray but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells." And when bidding a reluctant farewell to the " lovely Rhine," he beautifully enumerates its attractions : " More mighty spots may rise, more glaring shine, But none unite in one attaching maze The brilliant, fair, and soft—the glories of old days, The negligently grand, the fruitful bloom Of coming ripeness, the white city's sheen, The rolling stream, the precipice s gloom, The forest's growth." And yet, says the author of " Gisella" "all is dry and harsh on the Rhine." His most sev e re and unjust remarks respecting his former favourite is only an other proof of how often estranged love turns to hatred — How hard to reconcile the foes whe once were friends." On this head we are inclined to find fault with our author. Granted that he wished to eulogise one river, was that only to be effected by disparaging an other? The world is large enough to contain many glorious streams, and there is room in our hearts for admiration for them all. We may apply to him his own sentiment when, speaking of magnificent cities, he exclaims, " Naples, Constantinople, Prague, Edinburgh, Pest : who shall say which shall bear off the palm of beauty ? You will be tempted to give the preference to each in turn, as you look on each ; and is it not: the true philosophy of life to prefer that which for the moment you possess ?" As some sort of justification fbr his exceeding love for the Danube he thus describes what he terms the " arti fices" by which it gained his affection : "The Danube—or as least the Danube, as it is sub divided by cities, and, consequently, by the day's voyages of the steamers—is the most treacherously coquettish of rivers. At first it always . looks so still mis- i and dull, and sleepy and demure , a s if it had chief in its mind, and never had the slightest nontention of laying siege to your heart : but gradually it com mences to put forward one allurement atter another; and you begin to feel some commotion in the region attacked: it bursts forth at last in the ;plenitude of its mighty charms—the spell of the enchantress is woven— your heart is woe. So it attacks the voyager from Ratisbon to Linz; it performs the same manceuvre from Linz to Vienna, and with like success. In leaving Vienna, on the day's voyage to Pest, the arch coquette begins playing the same tricks over again, and is just as sure o! its eff, et; but now, having appareidly grown 100 5 ardent of conquest, as it grows older and et 'Wier in its progress, it exercises its arts in a more listless, careless fashion. At first it appears only in the huwble and un pretending garb of the rugged willowed islands, that split it iato numerous branches,—the bare sand. banks, that are like sun-burnt freckles on its face,—and the low villages, that possess no other attrac:ion than histories of innumerable battles fought on the neigh , bouring plains, from the times of Rudolph of Hapsburg, through those of Turkish invasion, to the more modern days of the French empire—an attraction which may seduce a military heart, but which, in spite of some romance, exercises but a very transient sway over mine. At Prosburg it begins to give a smile, and then, as if to watch the effect of this glimpse of seduction, languidly falls back into its monotony. At Gran, however, it again raises its head with the adornment of mountain, and valley, and tributary stream, and proud cathedral. At Vissegrad it crowns itself with a haughty diadem of imperial ruin, and lays on its most brilliant robes of wood-woven rock and precipice. At Pest and Buda the fulness of its beauty is put forth in one wondrous panorama; and its work is again done. Ido not know of what stuff other men are made, but I am invariably a lost man." The description of Pest and Buda, the twin capitals of Hungary, as seen from the Danube is sufficiently effectiTe— " But before long, the rough precipitous outline of the Blocksberg on the right bank, but lying before you on the horizon, begins to announce to you that you are ap proaching the Hungarian capital : and now, the long line of the far-stretching suburbs of Old Buda begin to rise to your sight on the same side ; and green wooded islands stud the stream ; and innumerable anchored water-mills tell you that a great town is near: and then the Margarethen-Insel is passed with its archducal gardens and woods : and then, all at ()ace, what a won derful panorama is before your eyes! On the right is Buda, with its terraced garden and stately hanging palaces, rising above each other up the mountain-side, its palatinate palace, and its citadel—Buda, the old capital of the Hungarian monarchy, the city of middle-age souvenirs and great historical deeds. Beyond, rises still higher, the huge, uncouth mass of the Blocksberg, with the observatory on its summit, and suburbs clinging to its side. On the left are the new palace-like houses which line the quays of Pest, spreading along the flat banks of the plain on that side. Pest is the representa tive of modern reforms, modern ideas, modern architec ture, as Buds, on its height, of old aristocratic state liness and ancient times. The two form a panoramic whole, which will scarcely find its match in the world. The sun is setting ; but its last glow yet sheds a beautiful tint over this grand scene. Lights begin to gleam along the heights of Buda and the quay of Pest, and add live liness to the general effect. And now, the great piles of the mighty suspension bridge across the Danube, which, when finished, is to be one of the wonders of Europe, are shot past with rapidity: the steamer cannon is fired ; and the steam-boat sweeps up to the quay of Pest." Pest, however, we are told, in its wide streets and neglected squares, has a vague resemblance to " that dreariest and most soul-deadening of all would-be grand cities—that showy but dull, magnificent but shabby, new and yet seemingly half-ruined capital— that still-born creation, galvanised into a false and spectral life—St. Petersburg." These volumes, like all reminiscences of travels, are naturally of a very rambling and discursive character; and, besides, their author is a professed "frineur," or lounger—and, as he himself very truly says, " a confirmed ficineur might be as easily bear-led from sight to sight, as a butterfly dragged by a chain from flower to flower.'' Consequently he wanders hither and thither as his fancy leads him, and if his letters are not free from the imperfections to be met with in most works of their class, they also contain sundry pieces of infor mation, and much matter of interest and amusement. Following the course of the Danube, he gives us some pictures of Turkey and Turkish life, as seen "by the walls of high Belgrade." There is a very interesting account of the vintage in Syrmia, and the manufacture of Syrmian wines. Here is a description of the manufacture of one almost unknown in this country : " The Syrmian ausbruch, the choicest and most valued of all these wines—that which often obtains the prefer ence over the more generally celelsrated wine of Tokay —is not to be produced every season; its fabrication can only be expected in a very favourable year. It is made then by a process peculiar to the richer Hungarian wines. When the weather is especially dry and advan tageous, the fuller and richer grapes are allowed to re main upon the stalks until they are dried to raisins in the sun; under less favourable circumstances they would rot, not dry ; they are then only gathered in the late season. These raisins are picked very carefully and heaped together in tubs, bored below like sieves; and heir oily juice is allowed to run off, pressed out by their own weight alone. It would appear almost impossible, at first, that any drinkable liquid should be extracted from the thick liquor thus expressed from this sweet, dry grape. By degrees, however, the particles settle to the bottom of the tub into which it is conveyed; and the pure wine is run off clear from the top. " The wine thus obtained is never in a state to be drunk until it has stood several years, some thirty or more, I was told; and at that period the second deposit made by this purified liquor is said to be sometimes so great, on the sides as well as the bottom of its receptacle, that, if the cask be broken, the wine will stand alone in an inward-formed cask of its own leather. Whether this story be apochryphal or not, the fact remains the same, that after many years preservation, the result produces that nectar of nectars, as it is called, the Syr mian ausbruch. This superior sort is called, par excel ' lexce, the ' essence.' " After quoting one most beautiful sentiment, we must take leave of these instructive and interesting volumes : " Elevated views have always the effect of elevating the spirits; at least I find it so. Generally speaking, let those who are accustomed to clamour loudly over their woes, go out into the great temple of Nature, and into what insignificance will they feel their [sorrows shrink : surrounded by the magncence of heaven and earth, the wailing over every petty misfortune of life must appear like the pain, cry of a child, amidst the choral organs and devout aspirations of the pious in an immense cathedral." TAI T. The first article in the present number of our excellent contemporary refers to the much disputed question of our national defences. A moderate view is taken of the subject, the writer neither agreeing with those who assert that there is not the slightest necessity for any interference—that the improved state of feeling throughout the chief nations of the world, and the soothing influence of the free-trade doctrines which have recently been recognised, and which ere long must become universal, will prevent the possibility of such an invasion, and preserve a long continuance of peace and tranquillity; nor with the more timid class, who hold that there is every prospect of war, that we should be utterly unpre pared to resist any sudden aggression, and that we should yield an immediate and unconditional surrender to the attacks of 50,000 Frenchmen, who could, without any great difficulty, be landed on the coasts of Kent or Sussex, and march to the metropolis without any formidable opposition. The real feeling of Frenchmen, still smarting under the recollections of the late Peninsular war and its triumphant termi nation on the plain s of Waterloo, is clearly explained, and it is shown that that feeling is . fostered and ex cited by the leading Parisian journals, who exercise an immense influence over the public mind in all parts of the country. It is, therefore, essential that we should not place too implicit reliance on the i m possibility, or even the improbability, of any sus pension of our amicable relations, but that we should be at all times fully prepared to encounter any sudden and unexpected attack that might be made. We are not, however, so wholly defenceless as the alarmists would wish us to believe. 50,000 French soldiers, with the proper accompaniments of 8,000 horses and a park of artillery, could not so very easily be landed on our shores without a timely warning that would enable us to give them a warm reception. Even, with all the facilities which the railways now constructed, or in progress of construction, would afford, it would take a c onsiderable time to bring such a force even from Paris to the ports from which they were intended to set out on their expedition. The transports for to numerous a body could not easily be assembled to gether, and the embarkation would take a consider able time, even if the troops and the flotilla were in readiness. All the French harbours within reason• able distance of the English coasts are " tidal," and even if the number of vessels necessary for such a service were actually laden, it would be impossible that one-half the number could leave the port in any single tide. A very few British war-steamers would make sad havoc among so heavily laden and encum• bered a fleet. It would not be a naval combat, but an immolation. Even if landed, the French forces would not have it so entirely their own way as has been represented. It is, however, obvious that such an invasion must be the result of long and energetic preparations, to be met by equally energetic prepa rations here, and therefore it is not the kind of thing we should have to fear. The great danger, then, —according to our contemporary—against which immediate measures should be adopted, are the inroads of a few armed steamers, by which the greatest mischief could be done to certain parts of our coasts, which are wholly unprotected, and the temptation to any such inroads should lee forth with removed. It also considers it probable that a re-organization of the militia force is contemplated by the Government, and will be speedily submitted to Parliament. There is an excellent paper on the sanitary question, continued from the January number, and which is not 3et concluded. There are reviews on the second volume of Dr. Chalmers' " florae Biblica e Q uo tidianae," and Mr. Warren's admirable novel of " Now and Then," to which we have already directed the atten tion of our readers. De Quincy continues his article on Protestantism, which is to be concluded in the next number, nod Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, in his third number of " Scottish Rivers," takes the Tyne for his subject. " Furstenruhe" is concluded, the amiable Helena obtains the love of her husband, so long withheld, and a fresh round dozen of names are inscribed in the " Saxe Gotha , " to the great delight of the Duke and Duchess. Percy B. St. John con tinues " Miranda" with unabated interest, and there are several detached pieces of poetry well worthy of attention. We bad almost passed over " The Govern ment and the Parochial Schools of Scotland," on which our contemporary expatiates with his usual acuteness. On the whole the number is an excellent one, fully maintaining the character already attained ' by this talented periodical. • • CHLOROFORM. The Augsburg Gazetteofthe 26th ult. gives the order issued by the Bavarian Government on the 25th respecting the use of chloroform during surgical operations. The application of this drug is hence forth to be confided solely to scientific and duly au thorised physicians and surgeons, but cuppers, coun try practitioners, surgeons, and dentists, who have not taken their degree, as well as all mediciners and unlicensed accoucheurs, are strictly prohibited from using it. The sale and purchase of chloroform shall be subject to the prescribed restrictions which apply to poisons and other injurious drugs. PRAGUE, JAN. 22.—Charles Prince of Sch:;ar zenburg Hannibal Frederick, Prince of Thurn and Faxes, and Edward Count Clam Gallas have received orders to repair with all speed to the Austrian Italian army, the two first in the capacity of Lieut.-Field Marshals.—Allgemeine Zeitung, Jan. 27. THE ABOLITION OF JEWISH DISABILITIES. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 1.- A meeting, convened by requisition, was holden yesterday evening in the Town-hall, the Mayor in the chair, "to consider the propriety of petitioning the Houses of Parliament to pass a Bill for the relief of the Jews from the civil disabilities under which they labour. The Mayor presided. Mr. W. ASHTON (Clerk of the Peace), in moving the first resolution, said that he considered the re moval of the Jewish disabilities a measure of justice to the only portion of his fellow-countrymen who were excluded from a seat in Parliament. This was not a time to contend that the Jews were not as respectable a class of society as any other. The matter had been treated as a religious question, but in his idea wrong fully. Mr. P. BEALES seconded the resolution. Mr. R. M. FAWCETT considered himself entitled to move an amendment. He should do so, that it might be known not only to the inhabitants of Cambridge but to the world at large, that they were not unani mous; also to strengthen the hands of their respected member, Mr. Shaft() Adair, who had promised his consistent opposition to this innovation upon a Chris tian people.—(Hisses, and cries of " We'll vote for Adair no more.") He had attended to propose an amendment as a matter of duty, and not with any idea that it would be carried. He merely meant to enter his protest. The measure had not been desired by the Jews as a people, no agitation had been raised by them like that which preceded the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, Catholic Emancipation, or the Reform Bill, and it was his firm belief that the honest and straightforward Jews did net want it.— (Laughter.) He would move— " That this meeting views with dissatisfaction a Bill now before Parliament to relieve the Jews from the disabilities under which they now labour." Colonel GLOVER seconded the amendment. Mr. T. MORTLOCK declared his unqualified opposi tion to the object of the meeting. After some few observations from Messrs. W. Ekin, H. S. Foster, R. Foster, J. D. Fetch, and R. Newby, in speaking to some minor resolutions, having for their object the obtaining of signatures to the petition, and its presentation in the House of Lords by the Duke of Bedford, and in the Commons by Mr. Shafto Adair and the Hon. Mr. Campbell, the petition was read. From its brevity it is somewhat a curiosity : " To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled. " The petition, &c., showeth,—That your peti tioners have observed with satisfaction the introduc tion of a Bill into the Legislature for the removal of the Jewish disabilities, and do most earnestly pray your Right Honourable House to pass the same into a law." .._ The meeting then broke up, Mr. Fawcett having retired some time previously. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, INTELLIG ENCE EXTRA. MANCHESTER, 1848 —WEDNESDAY JUNE 14. Handicap for the Manchester Trades' Cup, 16 ft if declared on or before February 1C Burgundy, 5 yrs, Bst 121b—Chanticleer, 5 yrs, Bst 101b—Inheritress, aged, Bst 81b—Cawroush, 5 yrs, 8$ 61b—Lif i ghtning, aged, Bst 41b—Pantasa, 6 yrs, Est 41b— Conjurer, 5 yrs, Bst 21b—Lady Wildair, 6 yrs, Bst Grimston , 5 yrs, Bst=-Rowena, 6 yrs, ist 131b—Morpeth, aged, 7st 121b—Sharston, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Mathemati cian, 5 yrs, 7st 101b—Giselle, 5 yrs, 7st 91b—Fora closure, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Newcourt, aged, 7st 91b—The Widow, aged, 7st 81b—Vanish, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Sheraton, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Plaudit, 6 yrs, 7$ 61b—Fitzwilliam, 5 yrs, 7st 51b—Ennui, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Joc o' Sot, 4 yrs, ist 31b—Peop o'Day Boy, 4 yrs, 7$ 31b—Tom Tough, aged, 7st 21b—Woodpecker, 5 yrs, 7$ 21b—Reminis cence, 4 yrs, 7st 21b—Administrator, 4 yrs, 7$ 61b — Best of Three, aged, ist—Gannat, 6 yrs, 7st—Blue Light, 5 yrs, 7st—lntrepid, aged, Get 121b—Marquis of Conyngham, 5 yrs, 6$ 121b—Marietta, 5 yrs, 6st 121 b Bingham, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Montpensier, 4 yrs, Est 121 b Keleshes, 4 yrs, 6st 121b—Gaiety, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Sut lej, 6 yrs, Est 1 lib—Little Mary, 6 yrs, 6st 111b—Louisa Newell, 4 yrs, Est 111b—Magnet, 4 yrs, 6st 111 b Maid of Motherwell, 4 yrs, Est 111b--Execu tor, 4 yrs, Est 111b—Black Dwarf, 4 yrs, 5$ 111 b Geraldine, 5 yrs, 6$ 101b—Maid of Lyme, 5 yrs, 6st 101b—Mermillo, 4 yrs, Get 101b—Riesthorp, 4 yrs, 6st 101b—Malt, 5 yrs, 6st 91b—Henry, 5 yrs, 6$ 91b— All'sWell, aged, Get 81b—Erin-go-bragh, 5 yrs, Est 81b— Meaux, 4 yrs, Est 81b—Comme-it-taut, 4 yrs, Get 61b — Pantomime, 4 yrs, Get 51b—Chemisetts, 5 yrs, Est 41b King of the Forest, 5 yrs, 6$ 41b—Sally Maggs, 4 yrs, Get 21b—Milliner, 5 yrs, 6st—lona, 4 yrs, 6st Infringe, 4 yrs, 6$ Sultana, 4 yrs, Est —Lady Hy Ida, 4 yrs, 6st Brandyface, 4 yrs, 6st—Deloraine, 4 yrs, 6st—Enchanter, 4 yrs, 6st— Smuggler Bill, 5 yrs, sst 131b—Marlow, 4 yrs, Set 131 b —Squire of Malton, 5 yrs, 5$ Sib—Mrs. Taft, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Shylock, 3 yrs, sst 714—King of Kildare, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Tuscan, 3 yrs, sst 71b—Snuffbox, 3 yrs, at 71b —b. c. by the Saddler out of Campfollower, 3yrs, sst 71b Prince Charley, 3 vas, sst 71b—Marine, 3 yrs. 5$ 71b — Good Boy, 3 yrs, sst 31b—Miss Harrison, 3 yrs, sst 31b —Otterburn, 3yrs, sst—Swiss Boy, 3 yrs, Set—The Idol, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b—b. f. by Tory Boy, out of Maid of Monton, 3 yrs, 4st 121b—Glen Saddell, 3 yrs, 4$ 81b —Referee, 3 yrs 4$ 41b, THURSDAY. Handicap for the St. Leger Stakes. Mr. Harrison's Benincol, Bst 71b— Mr. Merry's Jock o' Hazledean, Bst 71b—Mr. Merry's Mariner, Bst 71b — Mr. Meiklum's Bellendar, Bst 41b—Sir J. Gerard's Matadore, Bst 21b—Mr. Moiklam's Otterburn, Bst 21b— Mr. Green's Swiss Boy, Bst—Mr. Jaques's Landrost,Bst —Sir J. Gerard's Rockley, itt—Mr. Arrovvsmith's gr c by Robin Gray, out of Queen of Carthage, 7st 131b — Sir J. Gerard's Jest, 7st 1 lib—Mr. Conway's Snowball, ist 1016—Mr. T. Parr's Mr. Caudle, 7st 101b—Mr. Jones's R.chantress, 7st 51b—Mr. Jaques's Referee, 7st 51b—Mr. Thompson's c by Morning Star, out of Lady France! , , ist. CIIEVTER CUP.- In addition to those published yes terday, Oxonian and Brandyface have paid. LEAMINGTON STEEPLE•CIIASES.—TUESDAY —The steeple-chases have been again postponed till to morrow (Wednesday), when, if the frost continues, they will be further postponed to Friday and Saturday next. TO THE COMMERCIAL TRA VELLERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. Dear Sirs,—l was sanguine in believing that the unparalleled demonstration made at our inaugural dinner, on the 27th December last, would have aroused you to a sense of your duty—that is, to make the success of the Commercial Travellers' Orphan Schools a part of your distinct business To a few of our friends the committee feel most grateful for their noble endeavours during the past month, but it is to the body of thirty thousand that I respectfully and most urgently appeal to become annual sub scribers themselves first, and then they will have a metal confidence in appealing to charitable and gene rous employers, to firms and individuals not imme diately connected with commercial men. Our worthy Lord Mayor, who so ably presided, told you we required three thousand five hundred pounds as a building fund, to purchase the property at Wanstead, by June next. Pardon me for urging upon you the absolute necessity of raising this amount by the 25th June, or we lose the opportunity to pur chase. Show the distinguished visitors who honoured us with their company at dinner, that you are men of deeds as well as words ; and, above all things, pray enable me, as your treasurer, to gratify my most anxious ambition—that is, to recommend the committee to elect twenty children every six months, until you have the largest school in the kingdom. I know you will pardon this intrusion, I have had so many proofs of your kind indulgence and sup port.-1 remain, dear Sirs, your faithful servant, GEORGE MOORE, Treasurer to the Commercial Travellers' Orphan Schools. 5, Bow Church-yard, Feb. 1, 1848. Mr. Forster, Mr. Gurney, and a deputation, had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, at his residence in Chesham-place. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of South Australia and the Mauritius. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India colonies. It is the ixtention of her Majesty to hold two levees, at St. James's Palace, in the course of the present month; and it is rumoured in the court circles that the Sovereign will have a drawing-room towards the close of he month. ---'r COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAT.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, and his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, took leave this morning of the Queen and Prince Albert, and their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians. The Royal Duchess, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan (Lady in Waiting) and his Serene Highness, took their de parture from the Lancaster Tower in a carriage and four, at half-past ten o'clock, for Kew. General Wemyss and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore attended her Royal Highness and Prince Frederick to their car riage. _ Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived early this forenoon at the Castle, from her residence, Frog more House, to pay a visit to her Majesty - , and to take leave of their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians. The Earl of Aberdeen left the Castle early. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne took their departure this forenoon—the Marquis for town, and the Marchioness to proceed on a visit to the Earl of Ilchester, at his seat in Dorsetshire. At twelve o'clock their Majesties the King and Queen of the Belgians took their departure for the continent. The Queen and Prince Albert acconi- panied their august visitors to the royal entrance. The royal children also accompanied her Majesty vied her Royal Consort. The Ladies and Gentlemen of the Royal Household, including the Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting ; Lady Caroline Cocks and the Ilan. Miss Paget, Maids of Honour; the Master of the Household, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Wait ing ; and General Wemyss, Equerry to the Quotn, attended their Majesties to the royal entrance, whwere they were handed into one of the Queen's carri:tges and four by Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting - to the Queen, and Captain the Hon. A. H. Gcrdion, Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. In another royal carriage and four were La Mar quise de Traneynies, Lady in Waiting of the Queen of the Belgians ; his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, Lord Byron, Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; tied Major de Moerkerke, in Waiting on the King of the Belgians. Their Majesties and suite proceeded to the Slouly.:a station of the Great Western Railway, and travelled to town by a special train. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday' in the Castle pleasure. grounds both morning and After noon. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice took airings in the forenoon. The Princess Helena was also taken an airing. The Royal Children walked and rode out in the afternoon. Madame Van de Weyer left the Castle to-day. Colonel Buckley arrived at the Castle thi s moi.si ing, and has relieved General IN , ernyss in the d ut cp s of Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. The Queen's private Band attended in the Castie on Monday evening, and performed the followii pieces : Overture, Op. 101 Selection, " ............... Kalliwoda. 11 Seragli o " .... Mozart. Cradsoudza. Fantasia on Airs, composed by H. It. H. Primes Albert. A Cabinet Council was held at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at the residence of Lord John Russell, in `Chesham-place. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the M arquis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, the Earl of Auckland, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Sir J. Hobhouse, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town. to attend the Council, from Windsor Castle. The American Minister had an interview with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson yestparday, at the m dice kof the Board of Trade. ' I