The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-25 00:00:00

M ernPo, Harding, Swan River; Mary Ilounsett, Baker, St. lie knl; Governor M‘L?an, Mayo, Cape Coast Ca stle; Copy, Williams, Bahia; llopewell, lloseason, Jamaica; Independence, Bra-fish, New York; Enterprise, • Fre eman, Halifax; Matchless, St. Michael's; Alexander . Walker, St. Übe's; Wilsons, Morgan, Oporto; Estrella, ou 1 1 ,0 8, Lisbon. Cr, - • - Sld., Tropic, Sydney, New South milk a.s; Asiel, Ceylon; Victoria. Ito Janeiro; Charles, Tobago; Evcretta, Gren-rda; Zephyr, Bermuda; Clutha, Charleston; Victoria, New York; Sussex, Trieste; Fries, M e di terranean; lona, Marse ill es; Th omas flar , risen, Carthagena; Bourg Queen, Swansea, with the . rest of th e outward bound, except the Roueunais, Gus cleanup. - G uERNsF,Y Nov. 24.—The Sea Witch, Freeman, from Sierra Leone for London struck on the north of the isl and , this morning, and has become a total wreck; ettairgreo strew e d all over the beach; crew drowned, except o (and one man who died en the passage); two small . Packet s said to contain geld rings are saved. . Tr he fallowing was posted at Lloyd's:— T HE TYPHOON IN THE CHINA SEAS. fl'e f;il low i ncr is a copy of a letter, addressed by the 6 v Lt, 47.1 of the Committ' a for I:Lanaging the Affairs of s t ' 2 to Captain Gedney, commanding the United render i . rigate Plymouth, thankiugt, him for his services li %al to the mercantile marine at Cumsingmoon u ritig the typhoon of the 31st td . August last:— " Lloyd's, Nov. 22, 1848. th '` `Sir,--T1 e attention of the Committee for Managing 13l e e Afr 4" (if 1.,1)s having been called by Messrs. It_altin, Rawson, and Co., the agents of the es!.ablish v"t icon Kong to the great ex , Ttions made by ta , f ors o i sg u i i t s ta e en lf ic,e a ly nd mo th u e th t : fficers and erew of the United States under your command, in rendering ' during a severe typhoon, on the Ist of Sept.. of Zsseli in di stress w hi c h were l y i ng a t the anchorage tu asingamon, I am requested to communicate the hi g h b. B(l ue they entertain of the prompt and important 'lces rendered to the shipping at the time in question Ycursof °errant, officers, and crew.—l am, Sir, your obe dient " G. R. ROBINSON, Chairman.' —(THIS DAY.) S . 'ar e e•Y any alteration to(.k place in the prices of er Fruit or Vegetables to-day. Generally speaking, ii`,lo trade ruled •heavy, with large supplies offering. to 3 3 2s 9d to 4s per Ib; Apples, is (3„" .3 ; e ar`, 45 to 6s per half sieve; Black Hambur2,l t o - , a P es, 91 to is 3d, and Muscat of Alexandria, 2s B 'd Per ib; Walnuts, Sil to Is and New Oranges, 8s Ar e L°l per 100; Filberts, 90s to 1003 per 1001bs._ p i 3 i , eta , bi es;—Red Cabbages, is to 33 per dozen; 3s.,,p,_earchou, n l ii s h.i. 4 . 3l T t u o rn 2 i s ps, per junk; Horseradish, 2s to is to is 9,1; Carrots, 2s 6d to p "I and Onions, 2s to 2s 6.1 per dozen bunches; otato b lind , es, 45 to Gs per bushel; Celery, 101 to is 3(1 per 11G 1 , 1c ; Cape Brocoli, 4s to 5s per dozen bundles; 0- t f,"ns, 81 to ls pct. pottle; Spanish Onions, 103 1 " Per box ; Endive, 8.1 to is 21 per score. •ra D ki d `"' 11, •Qf and Mutton sold at full prices. In other t e ri c i f — ` `ln: at eomparatively tittle. business was doing:— to ril 23 21 to 3s 6,1 ; Mutton, 3s 2 1 8 1 4 d ; Veal, 33 4d to 4s 01 ; and Pork 4: -- 45 81 per 81bs, by the carcase.—Geese, to °d to • s; Fowls, is 3d to 33 3d; Capons, 33 6d to 2 4" ; Chickens, is 0(1 to 2s 61; Ducks, is 9 , 1 60 Rabbits, 6(1 to 15 61; Leverets, 2s 6d to " s ; hares3s 61 • Grouse, is to is 91; Par tria, 2s to _ ea D n is to is 61 ; Pheasants, 3s to 3s 61; Wild o - t e4 s, Is 3d to is 6(1; and Pigeons, 5d to 9d each. d4;end Fr es h B utter, lOs 6(1 to Ils 6d, and English te c ," ) . 1 18 to 13 s p er d e w pounds. Irish Eggs, 5s 9d 8 ,,° 5 8d; O sten d ditto, 6s 6,1 to 7s; Honfleur ditto, 7s to anti English ditto, 8s to 8s 6d per 100. Th e EUNGmairOnn. « Ge„ crab ~ _ , supply of most articles on sale to -day were large. .7 speaking, the demand was heavy, at drooping prices. DTI XTZCE3APEL. • V e 13 7 4 , from i 2d to 3s 61; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s , 41, 35 4d to 4s; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs. lie e f NEWPORT, veal, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 4 d; 41, 3 8 4d to 4s; and Pork, 3s 10d to 4s 8d per Blbs. Tue._ BILLINGSGATE. to uots, 4s to 95; Cod Fif,h, 3s to 7s; Whitings, 3c4 Lebsters, 8d to 25; Crabs, 8d to 2s each; Soles, 1 ; 8 ., 2 1 : 1 e d r pt lb r i).1; t t o o 2 : ; )e a r n p a sir; Eels, 4+l to 10d, and Salmon, is to t ( 1 .10 1:1 ; eeks, 3d to 61 each; Crimped Skate, Salt Fish, 2d to 41 per lb; Flounders, Is Oysters, 9s to 225 per bushel; Fresh erill agsi 3d to 61 per dozen. BREAD. f r : T he pric es o f W heaten Bread i n t h e M e t ropo li s are 41'b til s 10 7 a i t.. d to 8d; of Household ditto, sid to 7d per 3 :::ket Hides, 561 b toKIDS M 6 A 4 11. 1b 3 , 1E 17d . to • ditto, 6 a 9i ) to 721 b, 21 to 9 111; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 21d ' to nd; B° lb to 881 b, - 2;l i d to 3d; ditto, 88Ib to 961 b 31t1 to ( . 111 ; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 31d to sfo; Calf Skins teach), 4 s 6d to 5s 6i; Horse Hides, 8s to 8s 6d; Polled 10 d !P,, , is 9d to 2s 4d; Kent and half-breds, 2s to 2s ' "owns, is 10d to 2s 4d. nAY IYILLILKETS. Meadow flay, 218 s to 31 14s; Clover, rtoy . los to 41 16S ; and Straw, lt 4s to 1/ 9s per 1. ' A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. ~..I.",(JMIIERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 15s ; Clover ditto, 3/ 106 to 4/ 14s; and Straw, 11 5s to ths'Per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. Wit ITECTIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 7s to 31 13s ; Clover ditto, Per load. 31 lOs to 5/ ; and Straw, 1/ 2 s to 1 / 9 s Trade dull, at but little variation in prices. COAL MARKE' Ea st Adairs M a i n 13s Ott Iles, ting's Hartl e y l ss Ott d°l 3'vrell Main . a'd's Redheugh T ownley l 3B 9d ‘ 7,Ylaui .. TY est Hartley Wall's End, &c be wicks and Co. Gosforth ••• Hedley hilda l4s 6d, Iledworth ~Aiddell's..... ......... zraddyll's Hettcin lis 3e r.-YESTERDAT. Hetton ... lBs Od Lambton Russell's Iletton 'Stewart's Benson Hudson's Hartlepool lss 9d South Hartlepool rhornley West Iletton l6s Od Adelaide Tees Cowpen Hartley aartley - l4s 3d Howard's W. H.Neth. 15s Od Ships at market, 216. - ts. 44 4 k ttt 4.1,1 4. ISI it rt. Ac w , tr. -41 A CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This Was the last day of Michaelmas Term, and the Lord heard Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, and appeal motions. This WELLESLEY V. MORNINGTON. aial motion, which related to cuttin dwn ember, occu Te pied the Lord Chancellor the whole m g orniong ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) The MASTER of the Rous, after disposing of the case of " The Queen v. Prosser," the facts of which we gave when th e case was argue d f rom th e Petty Bag side the Court, pr ocee d e d to hear motion's, it being the his t day of Michaelmas Term ; but nothing calling for a special report came before his Lordship. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) T he VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took motions 10 day, it being the last day of Michaelmas Term. before doing £O, however, his Mon our disposed of two pe titions that came before him yesterday,viz., " Lady Ross lies Trust," and " Thorner's Charity," but no question was involved in tither of them of any interest, except to the parties concerned. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE. nig iloNotra, after disposing of the case of " Griggs 1 °- Staples," heard motions. (Before the Vico-Chancellor NVlansm.) BR •OKR V. CLARKE. His Horrouit gave judgment in this case to-day, and then proceeded to hear motions, it being the last day of Michaelmas Term. The Equity Courts will not sit again till the Firs Seal after term (4th December.) QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY. (Sittings in Banco.) PERRY V. BLOGG. Lord DENMAN gave the judgment of the Cow t in this esse at the sitting of the Court. The application for a rule for a Lew trial was refused. THE QUEEN V. HADLEY. This was an a ppli ce ction for a rule, calling upon the . defendant, the Editor and Proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal, to s h ow cause w hy a rule should not be issued, callin g upon him to show cause why a criminal informa tion should not be filed against him, for a libel on some ot I, Jench of ma4istrates a t Cheltenham, in a speech the ' reported in that paper. The case was now called on f o r a rgument. l I* * GoDsoN said the defendant was prepared to apo logise for the insertion of the speech: illness alone pre _peresecution The him ik fro In com i ng to London to do so. the L ' T TORNEY-GENERAL was prepared to abandon Th rule way on the defendant making an apology. aut m aking of ca sts . 11 . i therefore made absolute on the payment defend ' 4 ittrther proceedings to be abandoned on the the required apology. BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) " QUEEN AGAINST MOWAT T AND ANOTHER. Mr. PRASIILEY moved for a certiorari to move an in dictment from the Central Criminal Court into the Queen's Bench. The char , e was one of conspiracy for Ob taining money b y false prctcnces, and it involve(, several questions at law. The charge arose out of the !aim) of the sale of two horses, on a warranty for 651, but on e of them turned out to be roarer, and as there were circumstances connected with the transaction which gave it the aspect of a conspiracy, the defendants were prosecuted for that offence. Mr. justice PATTESON granted the application. NE e. COMMIstjuNERS Vl' WOODS AND FORESTS. a r • Bovu. moved for a rule nisi, calling upon the "I.lstnilsioners of Woods and Forests to show cause why toTandamu s s h ou ld not i ssue to compel them to summon fft;ry to assess th e d amr . ges an d awar d compensvion Mr. Pa) ne for the injury which would he done t his Propert y by the construction of the new Victoria-pan k, atll3t.tersea. The Commissioners had given notice of their intenion to tak e th e l an d so l ong ago as 1846, but s ' t here was setae dispute about the title to the pro moo h i c a t n ll d e . r t Lpo . n r , ti4 -, n did niftitb: settle lon t gto . a(i put (, the r. Payne w as compelled to have recourse to this proecediu, The COURT granted a rule. pc,rl ) THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1848. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) CASTILL V. PococK.7 The CIIIEF BARON gave the judgment of the Court in this case on the Learn rd Barons taking their seats. The case was tried, he said, before his brother Erie. But one point, namely, that the verdict was against the evidence, was touch relied upon in the arguments. The Court had consulted the Learned Judge, and he was of opinion that the evi dence justified the verdict, and that the case was fairly put to the jury. his (the Chief Baron's) own impres sion was that the case was properly placed before the jury by his Learned Brother, nay more, that he took a much too favourable view.—Application for a new trial refused. IN RE CATHERINE PARKINSON. The CUIEF BARON said a female of this name had pc- Ltioned the Court. 'The Court could take no step in ,he matter to which the petition had reference. It ap peared the late Mr. Swaipe had reported that she had a good ground of action, and recommended that she should be permitted to sue in forma pauperis. He, however, saw reason to change his mind. Ile (the Chief Baron) merely mentioned the case in order that some gentle men of the bar would be good enough to enter into tke matter and make a report upon it. CRIM. CuN.—I'RATT V. FLETCHER. 'This case will doabtless be fresh in the recollection of our readess. The plaintiff is a clerk in the Custom house, and the defendant a surgeon. The action was brought to recover compensation in damages for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages 8001. Mr. I.luniFnEv this afternoon moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that the wife was not a person of good chttract-r :before her marriage. The Learned Counsel supported his motion by the affidavits of a hairdresser, who set forth certain matters tending to favour that impression. The Court granted the application. MR. BARBER'S CASE.—It is understood that Mr. Barber will not apply to be allowed to practise as an attorney until next term. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings i❑ Banco.) The CHIEF JUSTICE intimated that during the ad journed sittings the Court would take the new trials paper just in the order in which they stand ; this would not preclude the Court from hearing any special cases in which both sides were ready. DUNCAN V. TOPHAM. This was an action for a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Justice CIIESSWELL was not dissatisfied with the verdict, but the Court considered there should be a rule on other grounds. sick list, sent to hospitals, have been subjected either at expense or deprivation from not receiving any hospital supplies. They have either been compelled to go with out food or any kind of nourishment from noon to the next morn;ng, or have been obliged to send cut of the establishment for food most unfit fur them to partake of in their then state of health. WARLICH'S PATENT FUEL—We have heard from good authority that this fuel, which is now so much used in the navy, is being most satisfactorily tested before it is received into store. The company, to keep up the good sample, have lately de tertnined to pay a larger price at the Welsh mines, and to use no coals in manufacturing the patent fuel, which are not examined carefully, and warranted good at the pit's mouth. Mr. Hay, the Admiralty chemist at Portsmouth Dock yard, has submitted to the Admiralty an invention for the protection of iron steam-boilers. Aberdeen .. • • • • .. Amiens and Boulogne . • • •• •• • • •. • • • • Belfast and Ballymena • • • • • • •• • • • • •• Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Caledonian._ ... .• • • • • • • • • • • Chester and Holyhead. • • .. • • .... . • • . Cockermouth and Workington... . • • • • Dublin and Drogheda• .•• .. .• • •• • • • • Dublin and Kingstown • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen .• • • • • • . East Anglian... . • • •. • • . • • • • • • • • • • • • • Edinburgh and Glasgow . •• • ........ Edinburgh and Northern .• • • . • . • • • • • Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire .• • • • • • • • • • • Eastern Union • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • . • • • • • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • Glasgow and Greenock • • • ..... Great Southern and Western ........ Great Western, &e. . Kendal and Windermere• • .... • • • • • • Lancashire and Yorkshire.. • • • • • • • • • • Lancaster and Car1i51e.............. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport— Londonderry and Enniskillen. • • • .. • • London and North Western, &c.... • • London and B lack wall • • • • .. London and Brighton •• • • .......... London and South Western . • • •• •• •• Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle • • ••••• • •• • • Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Monklands . • • • • • • • • • - • • • •• • • • • • • Newcastle and Carlisle •• •• •• • • •• • North British Paris and Bourn •• •• •• •• •• Rouen and Havre .. • • •• • • • • • Scottish Central • L . • •:, • • Shrewsbury and Chester • • .......... South Eastern and Branches •• • • • • •• South Devon...• • .............. Taff Vale • • •• •..... Ulster . • . •• •• • Waterford and Limerick—. ..•• .. Whitchaven Junction ..... •.•.•• •• Wishaw and Coltness .•• • • • • • • • • York and Newcastle York and North Midland. •• •••• •• UNIVERSITY INTELLI 1,534 686 4,629 1,125 178 673 654 716 3,402 2,002 13,125 1,522 1,227 2,407 - S S 4 3,136 17,625 113 10,128 2,179 136 38,216 564 7,682 2,739 19,690 1,302 836 2,576 115,334 2,128 917 1,1c 4 3 7.414 1,325 767 311 204 019 3,383 614 12,350 857 1,191 2,123 1,003 1,820 16,808 S 739 1,364 113 38,203 6t,r, 7,469 7,11,0 2,105 18,489 841 2,065 6,863 2,739 515 7,820 704 1,822 739 224 13,472 7,016 10,224 7,142 GENCE. OXFORD, Nov. 24.—At a meeting of the Vice-Chan cellor, heads of houses, and proctors, in the delegates' room, Nov. 22, 1848, it was resolved that publicity be given to the following:— " Whereas, there is reason to believe that induce ments have been recently held out to some of the junior members of the University, to have dealings with money lenders, whereby they may not only be subjected to great loss through usurious and fraudulent conditions, but incur heavy academical penalties. " Now these are to caution all bachelor and undergra duate members of the University against having deal ings with money-lenders, or their agents, under any pretence whatsoever, as they will answer for the same at their peril. "F. C. PLUMPTRE, Vice Chancellor." Dr. Greenhill proposes (with the permission of the Vice-Chancellor) to deliver, in the Clarendon, early in the ensuing month, a short course of lectures on the diseases mentioned i❑ Holy Scripture, with illustrations from the ancient Greek and Arabic medical writers. Those gentlemen who may be desirous of attending are regnested to call on Dr. Greenhill on Friday or Saturday next, before eleven A.m., when the days and hour of the lectures will be fixed on. CAMBRIDGE.—In the University Intelligence, inserted in this journal on Thursday last, the name of Mr. J. H. Wilson, of Queen's College, was omitted in the list of Bachelors of Arts created on the preceding day. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 24.—About 200 hhds. of West Indian have been disposed of since our list report, at former prices, but the market is very dull. Refined goods are rather easier to buy. Rum still much neglected.—Bristol Mercury. UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—This old .established company for the assurance of life and fire held their an niversary yesterday, at the Albion, Aldersgate-street. William Nuttidge, Esq., the chairman of the company, presided, supported by Mr. Hardcastle, the Member for Colchester; Mr. Disney, the chairman of the quarter sessions in Essex; Mr. Charrington,; the High-bailiff of Southwark; and the treasurers of the Royal Hospitals of Christ, St. Bartholomew, and Bridewell. This was the 134th anniversary of this honourable society, which, since its first year, has been steadily progressing in in fluence, connexion, and wealth; and the occasion was ren dered the more interesting by the circumstance of the 2Egis Life Directorate, who had just established their society upon new principles, appearing for the first time in connexion with the Union. The greatest cordiality and unanimity was exhibited, and the strongest assu rances held out of success and prosperity to the now united companies. CHURCH &TENSION IN ST. PAl4CRlS.—Another beautiful church has been erected in the parish of St. Pancras, and will be ready for consecration in the course of a few weeks. Within the last eighteen months five new ecclesiastical districts have been formed in the parish, comprising an aggregate population of 50,000 souls. Seven clergymen have been appointed, with six scripture readers ; five temporary churches or places of worship have been opened, accommodating 3,000 persons; sites have been obtained for four permanent churches, and the ancient parish church has been rebuilt and en larged to hold 750 persons, instead of 150, as heretofore. Towards the erection of the new church (St. Paul's) the Queen Dowager has subscribed 2001., the Earl of Dart mouth 501., the New River Company 50/., &c., but a sum of 1,000/., is still required before the consecration can take place. RELAXATION OF THE GAME-LAWS.—Captain For dyce, M.P., with the kindness and liberality that charac terises him in all tho private relations of life, is deter mined that the Act for permitting tenants to shoot hares shall not, so far as his property is concerned, remain a dead letter. Without waiting for applications, he has given, or is about to give, notice to the farmers on his estates, both in Aberdeen and Kincardine shires, that they may use the privilege forthwith. And, in the north, where the holdings are small, he grants the per mission without reservation as to amount of rent. His conduct in this matter is highly appreciated by the spirited and independent agriculturists of the Mearns, who have suffered much from the ravages of game, and few of whom have, as yet, much prospect of obtaining the relief which the Gallant Captain's tenantry are about to enjoy.—Aberdeen Herald. A brewer at Llanfachreth, last week, sustained a loss of four valuable milch cows, which died in cense pence of eating too much of fresh grains from the brewery. Ills INDIAN ARMY.—A correspondent states that the Government of India has decided on augmenting the force of the Bengal army by increasing the number of the men without any addition to the number of officers. This can only have been done on the supposition that the amount of officers is more than sufficient for their present duties. Whether this supposition be well founded or not may appear from the fact that the 51st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, now serving before Moultan in the army of General Whish, has not a single captain present with the regiment, and the two senior lieutenants are absent on staff duty. [ADTERTISEMENT.]—MANSION-HOUSE AND CITY TDELTRES.—Captain Ackerley waited this day upon the Lord Mayor to request he would instantly suggest to Government the rescinding of the order at the Horse Guards for allowing the 200 men composing the Guards' Bands of music, being by night employed at Drury-lane Theatre, under flattering unction to their military talents for shilling enticement of 3,000 persons to the pit of that house, and thereby lending themselves for a surreptitious profit of 1,600/+ weekly, to the manifest ruin of our Legitimate Drama, the com mercial lesees, our self-supporting actor, and other em ployees at the minor theatres. CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday, a woman named Waters, wife of the coachman of a gentleman residing at Canterbury, was committed by Mr. Coroner Bedford, charged with the wilful murder of her infant. Prisoner was confined on Tuesday, at her lodgings, in the Com mercial-road; on the following day she went out, taking the child with her. On Wednesday night the lifeless body of the infant was found on a dung-heap in Bel grave-mews West, Grosvenor-place. The woman went home and said she had taken the child out to nurse. The Gazette of last night contains an order in Council for the equalisation of duties payable on wines, &c., admitted into the city, garrison, and territory of Gibraltar. The inequality hitherto existing had the effect of exempting altogether from the payment those classes of the community which are best able to bear such charge; and whereas, moreover, in consequence of such inequality, numerous frauds are committed with the object of evading the payment of the said duties, to the great prejudice of the local revenue, and with detri ment to the lair trading licensed dealers; in order, there fore, that relief may be afforded to the inhabitants of Gibralter generally; that the revenue may bo protected by removal of the temptations to fraud; and that the ex pense attending the present system of partial imposition of duties, may be reduced by establishing a just equality in the payment of the duties on wines to be consumed within this garrison • it is expedient to rescind a certain order of his late garrison; King William IV„ which is consequently rescinded, and in lieu thereof to promul gate the present order. The London line of packet ship, York Town, Captain Sebar, arrived at Gravesend yesterday, from New York, which place she left on the 2d instant. She has brought over a full general cargo. A SMUGGLER'S EPITAPH —A sailor, engaged in the contraband trade, having been shot by an exciseman, his epitaph was thus written : Here I lies, Kilt by the X.l'e.! LITERATURE. AMY MONE. A Romance of the Days of Pericles. 3 Vols. By Eliza Lynn. Although the writer of this remarkable fiction bad, in a great measure, prepared us for the development of an ambition but seldom found in the heart of even the most daring authoress, we must nevertheless ac knowledge that the character of her present effort has filled us with no little astonishment. " Azeth" has been generally regarded as a bold attempt from the hand of a female, but the Egyptian story is as nothing when contrasted with the Grecian story of " Amy mone." Miss Lynn has evinced so much genius in the conception, if not in the composition, of this classic romance, that we would fain see those blemishes corrected which have glared upon us during the perusal of " Amymone,' and which have marred a work that must, otherwise, have been nothing less than a literary phenomenon. With a stricter adherence to historical accuracy; with a more perfected command over an imagination liable when uncurbed to wander into vagaries ; with a more vigilant attention to the consistencies of a plot ; with a more subtle appreciation of the mysteries of the human heart, an appreciation which may be cul tivated to almost any extent of excellence where the mind displays the keen perceptive faculties possessed by cur romancist ; with a more exacting system of morality, and a more careful avoidance of that great fault of novelists which may be termed dogmatism of sentiment—Miss Eliza Lynn may become one of the foremost female writers in a literature which already numbers among its brightest ornaments the names of Anne Radcliffe, Letitia Landon, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter, Mary Mitford, Feli cia Hemans, and Elizabeth Barrett. It is because we have recognised so much genius in the opening chapters of " Amymone,"-and because we would not see that genius destroyed by the indulgence of ble mishes, such as have ruined the conclusion of the ro mance of the days of Pericles, that we are the more solicitous to enumerate those blemishes, and to point out what appear to us to be the causes of the ill suc cess of "Amymone" as a whole. The first volume is altogether beautiful—the idea of the narrative being exquisitely graceful, the tone elevated, the ar rangement ingenious, and the general treatment mas terly to a degree. With the close of the eleventh chapter, however, when Alcamenes is left standing in the garden of the Cerameicos, gazing in rapture on a tress ravished from the perfumed locks of Chrysanthe, the excellence of the story as a work of art terminates. The continuation of the nar rative is as inferior to the commencement as a chain of cockle-shells tagged on to the end of a necklace of diamonds, or as one of the noisiest pot pourris of Roche Albert after a symphony of Beethoven, or as a display of Bengal lights after the glories of the aurora borealis. The key was " pitched " in a lofty and ambitious strain at the outset, but the energies of the authoress evidently failed her in the endeavour to sustain her enthusiasm to the same sublime elevation throughout. Nor is this surprising when we reflect upon the daring of a literary adventure which aimed at the portraiture of Grecian history and Athenian society in the golden age when Pericles reigned in Attica ; when Pheidias laboured amidst the marble splendours of the Parthenon; when Anaxagoras taught philosophy in the Lyceion, and Socrates morality under the porch ; when Euripides and Sophocles vied with each other in the tragic representations of the Dionysiac Theatre ; when Lysias breathed forth his eloquence in the Gymnasium; when Alcibiades displayed the beauty of his boyhood among the violet sellers in the Agora ; when Crates and Hermippos bandied witticisms across the tables of the symposium; when the victors in the pancratium were crowned in the supreme hall of the Pnyx ; when the hetairai flaunted their seductive loveliness in the Cerameicos; and when the genius of Aspasia was paramount in the city of the Acro polis. The principal tendency of the work, as is avowed, indeed, in the " Preface," is a vindication of the character of Aspasia. Hitherto that extra ordinary woman has been considered solely as one of the Milesian hetairai, as the mistress or concubine of Pericles ; and almost every one who has written upon Grecian history, from Plutarch and Quintillian downwards, has reviled the famous daughter of Axiochus as the corrupter of the morals of the Athenians, as the enervater of the councils of Pericles, and as the cause of disgrace to the Violet- Crowned capital through her lasciviousness and dissipation. Whether Aspasia was really the mistress or the wife of the great ruler to whom she was, at least to all appearance, wedded, may remain for ever a matter of uncertainty ; yet we cannot but coincide with Miss Lynn in her estimate of Aspasia's character from a dispassionate consideration of the effects produced by her union with the immortal Pericles. If the following axiom enunciated by our authoress is to be regarded as correct, (and who shall gainsay its accuracy ?) the assertion that Aspasia's influence undermined the sentiments of true religion in Attica falls to the ground:—" Make a nation irre ligious, the poet, and the painter, and the statuary, are no more 1 "—(Vol. 1., p. 90.) Now it was under the fostering patronage of the Milesian that the glory of Alcamenes, of Euripides, of Sophocles, and of Pheidias, were developed! Beyond this Socrates, the noblest of all the Pagan moralists, the philosopher who, like Seneca, recognised, as it were instictively, some of the holiest principles which were subsequently proclaimed by our Saviour, was the friend of Aspasia. Nor is this circumstance without its significance, that that beautiful and most accomplished woman numbered amongst her adherents, all the worth, and virtue, and heroism, and wisdom of Athens ; while her enemies consisted of the most villanous, the most profligate, and the most unprincipled persons to be found in the rabble of Attica. On these accounts we are satisfied of the correctness of the novel estimate here formed of the intellect and temperament of Aspasia. In having dared to pen this vindication, Miss Lynn has acted nobly, and she will certainly be rewarded by the sympathy of her more educated readers, a sympa thy, full, earnest ; and enthusiastic. We have alluded, however, to the occasional evidence of historical in accuracy in the romance of " Amymone." These perversions of the truth, for we cannot regard them as mere blunders, are the more surprising from their being generally of such a palpably fallacious kind. They consist sometimes of anachronisms so gross as to amaze the student who has read merely half a-dozen of the biographies of the Chce ronean. For example—Ly s i as, the son of Cephalos, is described as a young man of twenty-six years of age at the period of his return from Thurium, when his return from that colony did not occur until his forty-seventh year ! if we are to be lieve the following authorities—Plut. de Orat.—Cic. do Brut.—Diog. 2. Quintil. 3, &c. Again Pheidias is described as having been accused of abstracting a portion of the gold from the chryselephantine statue of Minerva after his return from Ells ' when it was in conse quence of that accusation that he was banished to Ells, where he mitigated the sorrows of his exile by fabricating his wonderful colossal figure of Jupiter Olympius ! according to the declarations of Paus. 9. c. B.—Plut. in Per., &C. It is not, how ever, in these direct violations of historical exactitude that the chief blemish of Amymone "as an historical romance consists. It is the feeble delineation of some of the most glorious beings of that heroic time. Socrates, according to Miss Lynn's portraiture of him, is a mere prosaic driveller, wrapped up in a blanket, standin g by like the veriest dullard when everybody else is talking, and being the very antithesis of the noble sage, such as he is depicted by his contemporaries. Alcibiades, more over, whether as a child or as an epheboi, is generally described th rou ghout the three volumes as a precocious little voluptuary, chattering about love when he ought to have been thinking about sweetmeats, and acting as a spoilt darli n g when tie ought to have been rising to the dignity o f manhood. Some of the historical characters intro duced into the fiction are, in fact, mere dummies decked out in_ appropriate cos a power analogous to that of turves, and moved by he originals as the galvanism—as much resembling, wax figures at Madame Tussard sbear_ the appearance if Miss . L . ynn has failed of vitality. Nevertheless, in her delineations of Socrates, Alcibiades, Pheidias, and some others of their c ontemporaries, she has been marvellously happy in her sketches of Pericles, Aspasia, Crates, Hermippos, Euripides, Sophocles, Lysias, and Alcamenes. Still better, moreover, are her limnings o f the minor historical, or purely fictitious characters—Arnymone, the slave born heroine ; Methion, the Persian alien ; Crethon, the old eupatrid; Clem), the tanners son ; Antiphon, the soothsayer; Eudora , th e virgin ; Chrysanthe, th e love-sick maiden ; Che lone, the slave ; Pamphos, the the debauchee ; Lysiades, gate-keeper; Zanthipp os, the fop ; Glaphyra, the coquette; Zeuxo, the Thessa lien witch ; Pentheus , the dnark ; Lysicles, th e cattle-dealer; Eucrates, the flax-seller; and Hyper bolos, the lamp-maker. They are all inimitable creations, and, with one exception, of peculiar freshness and originality. That exception is the heroine Amymone the very double of Bulwer Lytton's Lucretia. Although clad in the robes, and speaking the language of Greece, Amymone has throughout more of the nature of Lucretia than of Clytemnestra. Her very name, like that of Lucretia, smells of blood. The are alike of distracting beauty, of sublime intellect, of reternatural viciousness. inordinate ambition , an d of p Amymone is rendered to the reader doubly repulsive and abhorrent from the circumstance that she is almost invariably spoken ref by the authoress in a tone absolutely reverential —as if there were anything noble in her atrocity, dignified in her hypocrisy, or bewitching in her pride ! The story opens (I. 93) in "the first year of the eighty-fifth Olympiad, four hundred and forty years' before our era, when Cris son of Himeria was, for the third time victor in the foot-race of the Olympia, and when Myrrichides was archon." The whole p lot may be explai ne d in a few sentences. Crethon, the patron of Methion, invites his client to his farm - hous e near Athe ns on he occa sion of his marriage with Amymone. While feasting in the house of the generous eupatrid, Methion, at the instigation of Cleon, forges a will in the name of Crethon, and Amymone poisons the wine•cup of her benefactor. The poison not being sufficiently expe ditious, Amymone strangles Crethon by grasping his throat with her own hands, and the close of this tragic incident, where Amymone ap pears at a window of the farm-house, clad in flowing white, her hair dishevelled, and a ghastly streak of blood across her forehead, is one of the most powerful descriptions in the whole of the romance. Crethon dead, his murderer and her hus band live in luxury for eight years, the idols of Athens and the avowed antagonists of Pericles and Aspasia. The interest of the narrative arises from the antagonism of Amymone to Aspasia ; and the underplots consist of the profligacy of Zanthippos and Glaphyra, the love passages between Lysias and Eudora, the passion of Chrysanthe for Pheidias, and the conspiracy of the comic poets and the demagogues. As specimens of the skill of our authoress in painting the different personages comprised in her narrative, we give the following:— we may afford some notion by transcribing one of , those passionate outbursts of emotion by which the first volume is beautified. Aspasia has just spoken. " Pericles held her to his heart; but save the thick breath and panting breast, nothing:told how deeply her words had moved him. And nought was needed. Speech would have been harsh, caresses cold; for earth has no meals which shall worthily interpret of heaven, none save silence. In worship, love, and joy—that joy which springs from honour and from love—keep silence, stilly, solemnly. Break not the whispered words of heaven by earth's cold voice; dull not its glory . by earth's dim shade; let heart breathe out to heart by in fluence, not by speech, and the soul interpret of its love by knowledge, not by word. " Keep silence before the Throne of God; keep silence before the altar of nature; flutter not the wings of love by the rud breath; startle not the reverent soul by the rough voice; keep silence in the sky; keep silence in the grove; still, for one instant, the loud echo of the world; still! still! and list what God proclaims through his messenger of love. Keep silence, oh keep silence!" Occasionally thoughts as exquisitely emotional as this, but of a more peculiar brevity, are articulated in the dialogues or descriptive passages. As when it is said —" The Ideal is above the Actual as far as heaven is above earth, the Deity beyond humanity."—l. 85. Or when the authoress exclaims from the depths of her heart, " God bless that sacred power of love Vi— la. 55. Or where Pericles, after asking Panainos if he have sacrificed recently to the Gods, observes —" For thy talents are the offering, their exercise the sacrifice, and their aim Heaven's triumph set up i n man !"—I. 78. Or yet again, when th e:eupatrid feli c it a t es th e a li e n on his marriage, saying—" Women, my Methion are like the flowers round thy brow ; in the spring of life they are beautiful and gladdening, the fairest orna ment that love can wed to honour ; in autumn they are still sweet, though withered, and are the herbs which give us health."—l. 29. Such are among the most remarkable features of this remarkable romance —a story of fine imaginativeness, although of un equal excellence. It is th'e augury rather than the perfected emanation of genius, for genius alone could have produced " Amymone." DEATH OF LORD MELI3OURNE. We received at a late hour last night, by electric telegraph, the intelligence of Lord Melbourne's deatb. For more than seven years the deceased Peer was First Lord of the Treasury—a tenure of office much beyond the average duration of Ministries in the 19th century; for the Addington, the Grenville, the Portland, the Per- ceval, the Canning, the Goderich, the Wellington, the Grey, and the i"e;il Government—though ap — parently based on broad] foundations—were, in fact, composed of has durable materials than was that of Viscount Mel- b )urne. Apart, , however, from the fact that he was at the head of the- Administration• during a certain num ber of years, there are connected-with his name and cha racter a vast variety of traitsiincidents, and occurrences greatly calculated to diversify that which may be called —without any great violation of propriety—the " life and adventures" of William Lamb—a man who, in spite of grave failings, will now be remembered with approba tion for many estimable qualities; whose mirthful sallies excited the applause of every circle that he entered, and whose reputed indolence, carelessness, and procrastit,a tion rendered him one of the most tempting objects of banter that the whole range of political society pre- sented. Ile was born at Melbourne House, London, on the 15th of March, 1779, and was therefore at the time of his death in the 70th year of his age. His university education he received, first, at Trinity College, Cam bridge, and secondly, at Glasgow, where he studied ju risprudence and politics in the class of an eminent teacher. Professor Millar. In a debating society at tached to the class, Mr. Lamb was distinguished amongst his contemporaries for historical knowledge, consider able classical attainments, strong common sense, and great pleasantry. At that period of his life he, like most young men brought up among the Whigs, was a prodigious admirer of Mr. Fox, and an acknowledged disciple of his political school. In return Mr. Fox warmly patronized Mr. Lamb even before he left Cam bridge. He entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn on the 21st of July, 1797, and was called to the bar on the 23d of November, 1604. Within seven months from that time he married the Lady Caroline Pon sonby. This event took place at the house of the third Lord Bosborough, in Cavendish-square, on the 3d of June, 1805, the Noble Viscount being in the 28th year of his age, and his consort in her 21st. The Ponsonbys are not only a more ancient, but a more dignified, house than that from which Lord Melbourne was descended, and the history of his family may be set forth within a very narrow compass. Matthew Lamb, of Brocket Hall, in the county of Hertford, was nephew and joint-heir of Peniston Lamb, of Lincoln's Inn, and was created a baronet on the 17th of January, 1755. This worthy personage married Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon. Thomas Cuke, of Melbourne, in Derbyshire; the eldest son springing from this marriage was Sir Peniston Lamb, who married the only daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke; and those were the parents of the Peer to whose memoirs these columns have been assigned. Sir Peniston was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland' on the Bth of June, 1770, as Baron Melbourne, and created a Viscount on the 11th of January, 1781. His Lordship received a peerage of the United Kingdom on the 11th of August, 1813, and having died on the 22d of July, 1828, he was suc ceeded in his title and estates by the Noble Lord whose sayings and doings now more immediately engage our attention. The matrimcniel alliance which Mr. Lamb formed with Lady Caroline Ponsonby bore every appearance of an union likely to be crowned with permanent happi ness; but in the course of a few years differences of a very painful kind arose, which ended in a separation. Lady Carolina Lamb died on the 25th of January, 1828; and her son, the lion. G. A. F. Lamb, followed her to the grave on the 27th of November, 1836. In the year 1805 Mr. Lamb entered the House of Commons and joined the Whig party, which then car ried on the trade of Opposition under the leadership of the celebrated Charles Fox. He came into Parlia meat with very little reputation, and ho never acquired much fame in the Lower House. Reputed to be indo- lot, he rarely took any trouble to disprove common rumour; the appreciation of his talents was therefore left to " the discerning few," who when he became Prime Minister, but not until then—proclaimed that he had been a great man from his,youth upwards. In justice to the Whig party, as it existed in 1805, it is only fair to say that they showed no indisposition to bring for ward Mr. Lamb. In 1806 they permitted him to move the address in answer to the King's Speech ; but throughout the quarter of a century that followed that occurrence they never once enjoyed a similar opportunity of obliging any of their young friends. During this thee, it may be inquired, what was Mr. Lamb about? He lived a life of fashionable gaiety, yet he found some time for politics and reading, but the re sults of his labours are not very conspicuous, for he made no remarkable speeches, nor did he display any peculiar aptitude for the business of legislation. He re presented first the borough of Leominster, in 1805, then the Haddingion district of burghs in 1806, Portarling ton in the Parliament of 1807, Peterborough in 1816 and 1818, Hertfordshire in 1819, and again in 1820; thus, in the short space of 15 years, he found it neces sary to seek the suffrages of five different electoral bodies. He was a sort of semi-liberal, and showed a decided leaning towards the political views of Mr. Can ning, with the single exception of Parliamentary Reform; they were fully agreed on free trade, the South Ameri can Republics, and the government of Ireland; therefore Mr. Lamb, though remaining in opposition, frequently gave the benefit of his vote to Lord Liverpool's Ministry. Hence it was to have been expected that when Mr. Canning was commissioned to form a Cabinet, be should have made overtures to Mr. Lamb, and other Whigs of the same stamp. Under Mr. Canning, accordingly, he accepted the office of Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland, and in that country the Roman Ca tholic party hailed the' advent of sueh a man as William Lamb with a degree of triumph which was almost ab surd. The sort of temporary alienation from the ex treme which Mr. Lamb underwent during the years 1827, 1828, and 1829, appears to have reconciled him to a still closer intercourse with the Tories; and ho not only accepted office under Mr. Canning, but did not desert Lord Goderich, nay, even remained with the Duke of Wellington himself. He had the sagacity to conjec ture that the Duke would soon be under a neces sity of treating the Dissenters with " liberality," and the Roman li Catholics with " conciliation ;" Mr. Lamb, therefore, perceived that he might not only retain his office, but act upon his professed principles, thus ac complishing the difficult task of reconciling duty with inclination, and at the same time of securing to himself the negative enjoyment, which he vastly prized, of avoiding trouble. But about this period the movement party both in France and England showed symptoms of approaching insubordination, and the well-remembered proposition for disfranchising East Retford came before the House of Commons. Lord Palmerston, Mr. Grant (now Lord Glenelg), Mr. lluskisson, and Mr. Lamb could not, with any show of consistency, refuse to sup port this first step in Parliamentary reform; and as the military Premier never tolerated mutiny Mr. Lamb is found once more a member of his Majesty's Opposition, and about the same time he ceased to b e a Member of the House of Commons. As a speaker, nothing could be more unfortunate than his early efforts. He was, therefore, formany years P flung aside into the m o b o f inea ables, and pronounced by ordinary observers t o b e a young man whose case was hopeless. But th e f ew who knew him intimately contended that he was one of those who never task their faculties to the work of dealing with matters of small moment. It was said by his admirers—" Place the club in his hand, and he will become a Hercules; give him the distaff, and he makes sad work. Let William Lamb only be called to a great undertaking, and he will be come a great man.' Neither adverse critics ncr partial friends appear to have anticipated the true character of his career. But it was not until he had obtained a beat in the Upper House that lie ascended to the runk of a polities.] chieftain. The death of his father and that of his wife occurring in the course of the same year rendered neces sary a more than ordinary degree of attention to his pri vate interests, but a new aspect of public affats speedily revived his ancient habits, and awoke his slumbering ambition. The Duke of Wellington having in 1830 de clared war against the Reformers, and having expressed himself unable to comprehend how the King's Govern ment was to be carried on if the representative branch of the Legislature titul, , rwent any alteration whatever, he threw up offiee, ar d Lord Grey reigned in his stead. Thereupon Lord Melbourne accepted the seals of the Home Departmcnt, but, fortunately for that department, Isis a dministration of its affairs did not continue much beyond three years. During the session of 1834 the King sent for Viscount PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Nov. 23.—The magistrates of Berlin have issued a very long proclamation to their fellow citizens, stating that it was their duty in this eventful crisis to come to a deliberate understanding respect ing the actual state of events, and then to act de cidedly according to the dictates of conscience and duty towards the Crown and the country. They greatly deprecated the proceedings of a fraction of the National Assembly, as calculated to fling a brand of discord into the country, and to prepare the way for a most blooly civil war. This road, however, the magi strates are persuaded the Berliners will not follow ; and, in conclusion, call upon them to gather round the constitutional throne of their :King, that peace and unity may be re-established in the country—for that peace with the royal house, law, and confidence, will prove mightier than violence, and make Prussia great, free, and happy in a higher degree than she has yet been, or ever can be by any other measures. The Brussels papers of the 24th ray—" Much un certainty prevails at this moment respecting the state of Prussia and the determination of the King." A telegraphic dispatch, published by the Aim-la. Chapelle Gazette, announces that the King Las re signed. We consider that it is not improbable The :King was at Bellevue on the 21st, where he. worked with his Ministers, and received the Com missioner of the Empire, Simpson, the President of the National Assembly, and the Deputy Hergenpahn. The greatest tranquillity continues to prevail at Berlin. The number of arms given in amounts to 22 ; 000. The Landwehr of the March of Branden burg and of Pomerania, is almost all gathered be neath the standard. Count Brandenburg, as Minis terial President, has addressed a note to the com mercial councils of Coblentz, Cologne, and Treves, informing them that his Majesty cannot receive their deputations, as he has not received any other depu tations, including those of the larger cities. He adds, that if the commercial councils will address their request in writing, he will do his duty by placing it in the hands of the King. The demarcation in the duchy of Posen is a sub- . ject of much deliberation, although the National As sembly has pronounced against this measure. The Parliament of Frankfort insists that it shall take place. The fortress of Posen is to be declared an im perial fortress A letter from Dusseldorf, of the 23d, gives the fol., lowing particulars of the recent emeute :-- " This atternoon a conflict took place between the inhabitants and the military. One of the democrats and a Hussar have been grievously wounded. Several persons have been arrested. The General command ing the 14th division, Von Dugal,ki, and the Go vernment President, Von Spiegel, have published a proclamation, by which the whole province of Dussel dorff is declared in a state of siege." Nov. 23.—The first day of our state of siege has passed. With it tranquillity has been restored. A good many wounds have been given and received in the emeute, but nothing further of a serious character has taken place. Lapalle, one of the principal agitators, was arrested yesterday afternoon by order of the Judge of Instruction. The inhabitants have not yet given up their arms as indispensable, and this has caused great anxiety. The troops bivouac at night by their watch-fires, and no person is seen in the streets after one o'clock at night. THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this day.) THE MASTER. GENERAL OF THE ORDNANCE.—WO are sorry to hear that the Marquis of Anglesey is Buffering from illness. GOVERNOR OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL.—We regret to hear that General the Hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C.8., has been again attacked with serious illness. This amiable officer has been confined to his bed for many months, and is also afflicted with loss of sight. He is with his family at Cowes, in the Isle of Wigbt. THE COMM - ODORESHIP OF THE COAST OF AFRICA. — We have heard that Captain W. F. Martin, now in command of the Prince Regent, has been offered the appointment of the Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa, to succeed Sir C. Hotham, and has declined the appointment. We trust that the Admiralty will send out to the coast no offi cer who has not some experience in the sup pression of the slave trade. The evils that have resulted from the appointment of inexperienced officers to command the squadron on the coast ought to teach the Government a better appreciation of those officers' services and abilities who have been promoted for their success in capturing slavers. The appointment of either Captain Denman, Butterfield, Adams, or some others that we cou" —ne, would soon raise the price of slaves, or entirely put a stop to the traffic if they had half the latitude allowed to them that has been given to Sir Charles Hotham. The latter Gallant Officer was never on the coast of Africa before he pro• ceeded there as Commodore, and now that he has just acquired some knowledge of the service he is about to leave the station. From all that we have heard, we heartily say the sooner the better, for the comfort of the squadron. NORTH AMERICAN STATION.—V ice-Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., in his flag ship the Wellesley, was at Halifax on the 10th inst., and with the Scourge steam sloop intended to leave for Bermuda on the 20th instant. The Helena, 14, Commander De Courcy, arrived on the sth at Halifax from Cork. Rear-Admiral Sir Francis A. Collier, C.B. , K.C.11. , the Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has de lighted his home friends with the assurance that his health has very much improved since his arrival on his station. Sir Francis had his flag flying on board the Meander's steam launch at Singapore on the Bth October. Commander Young, who, during the old Packet Ser vice, has been in charge of the coal depot Pembroke at Dunmore, has been ordered to be discharged, the services of the depot, and consequently his own, being no longer required. ROLLING MOTION OF SHIPS. —The Admiralty have ordered Mr. Unchain, Master Shtpyright of Ports mouth Dockyard, to call to hislassistance the Head Master of the Central Apprentice School at Portsmouth, and to carry out a course of experiments relative to the rolling motion of ships, with the view to its modifica tion if practicable. PROTECTION OF OUR COAST FISUERIES. — Last week we called attention to the absence for many weeks past of a man-ot war cruiser on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, for the protection of our fishermen and fisheries, and we pointed out the injury which had been done to the English fishermen by the neglect with which they had been treated by the Govern ment. It appears now that the Admiralty have dispatched the Myrtle steam-vessel to Folkestone, for the purpose of inquiring into the corn pisints of the fishermen that their nets had been de stroyed or stolen by the French ; and to protect our industrious countryinem against the aggree.sion of our neighbours. The Mayor of Folkestone, who is the owner of two fishing boats, we understand, first applied to the Admiralty for the protection which has been afforded, and which protection—that is, the sence of a man-of-war cruiser or two—the coasts of Kent and Sussex should never have been without. The greediness of a French crew was so great a few days since, that they loaded the boat up to the gunwale with fish'on the English side, but on their way across to Bou logne a sea struck the boat so heavily as to capsize her, when every one on board, eight in all, perished. HOSPITAL STAFF. —On the reFresentation of Dr. Armstrong, the chief of the medical department of the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and on the recom mendation of Certain Superintendent Toup Nicolas, C.B , the Admiralty hive most humanely, as well as judiciously, ordercd that in future when patient:: arrive at ihte different hospitals to be treat - 0, they shall be allowed a supply of provisions for that day, notwith , standing that they have their rations served on board - the ship to which they belong. hitherto men on the RAIL WA Y RETURNS RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of 'tell: ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Week ending Last week. NAME OF RAILWAY. t ." l. C PERICLES. " He was tall, of noble and lofty mien, but, above all, bearing about him that peculiar stamp of gentle birth which circumstance bestows to strengthen nature's claim. His features, small and delicate, were expressive of immense power both of will and intellect; yet of power refined into beauty by the influence of its religion. Passionate and keenly sensitive, a pure philosophy had elevated these into sentiments, not losing in intensity but gaining in dignity. His chief characteristic was a calm self-Centrolled , majesty, a repose, not of apathy or idleness, but of philosophy. Every passion was sub- jected, every thought ordered, every ideal reduced to practicability: arid, added to this repose, this majestic calmness, were the evidences of energy, decision,_ manli ness, and strength; a nature which united the character istios of the two beings, the man's power and . the woman's gentleness; and beauty was the result. And this is the perfection of manhood; not the irre gular energy of an Alcides, but the calm still power of the Zeus Soter, the mo-al dignity of the Athene Polias. And it was this influence which had made of the friend of Pheidias, the pupil of Anaxagotas, the companion of Zeno, Damon, and Predicos, the autocrat of Athens by influence not by force, of Pericles, the husband or Aspa sia, the most perfect man of his own time and of the ages that stould come. The truth-seeking deist rejecting the public gods of hisday, because lower than the Word in his own soul, the bold philosopher who laughed to scorn the conventional moralities which had no life or substance in them, because his own heart gave out a truer code than the city's assembled voice; well deserves he of posterity, well deserves he of his time; for nature never gave to man a nobler pattern than in the godlike son of Xan thippos. " And all this might be read in the clear, penetrating, dark blue eyes deeply set beneath the sharp cut brows; the small lips, delicately but powerfully defined; the rounded chin and high forehead, arched rather than squared, with the muscular throat strong and firm; all were physical indications of his mental endowments, all showed the delicacy, refinement, and artistic nature, which had so ennobled the animal force and tempered the animal passions." ANYMONE. " The men were all clothed in white, none having more admixture of colours than their festive wreaths and garlands; while the,women'sshawls and kitons were bordered and spol,ted with purple or gold or the deep crimson of the dying vine -leaf, or the pale tint of the crocus, or the peculiar hue of the green grape, or the deep dark blue of the lazule-stone. Amymone was clad in a long robe or kiton of the fine white linen of Amor gos, sleeveless, and fastened on her shoulders by large clasps of pearl. The short diploidion, or second robe, was also white, edged with a broad band of shining tex ture, and the veil which covered her face, and fell below her knee, was of the finest transparency and most grace ful disposition. Her feet were covered with small white Persian sandals, which allowed their perfect shape and beauty to be seen. Her only jewels were the pearl clasps and buttons mentioned before, and one small narrow armlet, an ancient relic of her mother, which circled her arm just above the elbow. Her dark hair was confined beneath a chaplet of spring flowers, bought, oh fatal omen?—from a foreign hand; and the violet buds and myrtle leaves strayed ameng her tresses, twining through the shining braids as if they loved the dainty pressure that they made." CLEON. " Crethon turned, and his eyes fell upon a coarse burly man, who, though young, bore the strong marks of sensuality and debauchery in his face. And even worse than these! Of every low mean vice, of every blustering tyranny, of every coarse vulgarity, of every craven cowardice, such the nature which that sodden face displayed. He was dressed expensively, but with out elegance, without even the least of that symmetry and beauty so seldom failing the lonian race. His kiton hung in ill-arranged plaits; his chaplet was awry; the chlamys, which fell round him, was inharmonious in colour, and hung like a string about his body; and the jewels with which he had bedecked himself, so contrary to Attic taste and custom, were badly assorted in their hues and settings. He was Cleon, the son of Clxenetos, the Athenian tanner, the demagogue, flatterer, and in former, the friend of Methion, come to-day to be the paranymph at his bridal." METHION. " A young man, extrc nely beautiful and superbly dreAsed, came forward to greet him, as, uttering a bless ing for good omen, the old Eupatrid crossed the thres hold. His dark hair was bound with a chaplet of myrtles and violets; his pale crocus-coloured kiton was starred and embroidered with gold; his sandals wore profusely ornamented; and the scarf or chlamys negligently thrown over one shoulder, was bordered with purple, the centre of fine white wool being embroidered with gold in the manner of the kiton. The flush of happiness upon his face made him appear still more beautiful, and the fire of passirm gave him an air of greater energy and decision than usually belonged to him, while it overlaid the ex pression of that weakness and irresolution which proved at once the bane of his life and the ruin of his moral character. Sixteen years ago Herodotus of Halicarnas sus, when as a youth he read the sketch of his immortal history to the aLsembled Greeks at Olympia, said of the Persians that they were more inclined than any men to change in the it own, and to adopt foreign customs; and Methion's character, in its vanity and weakness, did not contradict this national peculiarity." CRETHON. " His dress was plain and of antiquated fashion. lie wore a long kiton of white linen, in spite of the example of Pericles, who had introduced, as more convenient and manly, the short woollen Doric shirt, using it merely as an under garment, whereas with Crethon it was his only robe, except when travelling. It was bordered with a purple stripe, and had but one sleeve; his left arm was barr, brawny and muscular as it still was. It was fas tened round his loins by a girdle concealed in the over lapping of the cloth. Over this kiton was now flung his himation, or blanket, as he was about to commence a journey. He wore simple wooden sandals, fastened with two leathern straps; his hair fell to his shoulders, con fined by a small fillet or head-band, and his waving beard descended low upon his breast. " As he stood there in the morning light, his eye bright and keen, his air full of the noble vigour of age, his countenance clear, with a fresk glow of health upon it, his whole bearing showing what had been the manly heartiness of his prime; be looked one of the best of that class which had raised Athens to her moral and physical greatness; men who were the forerunners, though not the authors of art and luxury; great as giant fathers, living once in themselves, and once again in the glory of their sons." ANTIPHON. " It was more than the dusk evening, it was early night, when Antiphon sat in his chamber, with all its professional accompaniments around him, intently stu dying an astronomic chart. A small table, on which was placed a tray filled with fruits, sweetmeats, flowers, and wine, stood near; and ever at some more difficult question the student would pause from his labour, and turn his handsome manly face towards the light, refresh ing himself with some of the luxuries beside him. He was nct one to neglect the physical comforts in intellec tual joys; else that ripe and pleasure-losing underlie, that bright, full, humid eye, those smooth and marked brows, and that voluptuous gloss' upon his skin, told sad falsehoods to the physiognomist. His attire too bespoke the sensuousness and luxury of his character. It was partly copied from that of the sophist, Georgias of Le ontium, who made all Athens, nay all Hellas, ring with tales of his magnificence and splendour, and of how he would come to the Olympic games crowned with gold, and clothed in all the insignia of a monarch. A purple robe, bordered and starred with gold, reaching midway to his leg, a saffron coloured scarf, or chlamvs, thrown negligently over it; his black and scented loc - ks combed smoothly round his head and fastened with a broad golden fillet; the sweet essences with which he had per fumed his person and his garments; the flowers which decorated his ears; the massive rings that studth d his fingers; the large luxury of his couch and chair and footstools; the wealth and gorgeous elegance Fca t tered about him, all told to which of the two natures his incli nation led him; all evidenced the superiority of the human over the divine, of earth over spirit. Everything about him was beautiful. His water-cups were of the finest porcelain made of the earth of Colias, of the most graceful forms, and of bright yet harmonious colours; his chairs and tables, couches and footstools, were of elaborate workmanship, costly materials, and draperied with rich Milesian cloths; his pictures were as luscious as the chaste style of the day admitted his statues as voluptuous as Ctesi laos and Agoracreitcs could or dared produce. In all things around him might be seen that one prevailing feeling of delight in sensuous, visible, beauty, not because of its idea, but because of its form." As affording a vivid and picturesque view of Grecian manners " Amymone" is valuable. It depicts the ceremonies of the marriage feast, the burial rites, the symposiums, and the other domestic events of daily recurrence with the Athenians. It carries us in ima gination to the fane of the Delphic Oracle ; to the Olympic games; to the struggling of the athletes at the pancratiurn, or boxing with the cestus. It con veys us at one moment along the path of the Pans thenaic procession, and, at another, initiates us into the mysteries of the household games —astragals, artiasmos, cuboi, and cottabos. Now we are jostling against the hetairai in the opson market, now we meet the epheboi in the Curameicos, now we listen to the flute-players in the Odeion, now we hear the philosophers in the Lyceion, and now, again we V an der through the house of the eupatrid—travers ing the anthronitis or men's part of the dwelling, and on through the passage called the inesaulos until we have penetrated into those apartments dedicated exclusively to the female portion of every household. Of the eloquence with which all these classic materials are grouped together and adorned Melbourne, and on the 14th of July, 1834, his Lordship announced that he had been authorised to reconstruct the Ministry. But in the month of November the King rather unceremoniously called upon Lord Melbourne to retire from office. Under the advice of the Duke of Wellington, his Majesty summoned Sir Robert Peel from Italy, and a very promising attempt was made to form a Conservative Administration. But " the masses" de manded a movement still further in advance; a new Parliament decided against the new Government, and Lord Melbourne was restored. A Government was thus formed which, in a certain sort of way, held its ground from April. 1835, till September, 1841, and during that period Viscount Melbourne was First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Melbourne possessed many r equ i s it es as a public speaker. Ho was once a very handsome man, and he enjoyed at all times the advantages of a most prepossessing appearance, a mellow and flexible voice, a cheerful temper, and a cordial frankness of manner, whieb, notwithstanding that it some times degenerated into coarseness, acquired for him, on the whole, much popularity. But he was an immethodical speaker; the bubbling current of his rhe toric was at best but a turbid stream; his narratives were unskilful, and his expositions obscure; yet for many years he contrived with a certain degree of suceess to flounder through the business of Ministerial leader in the House of Lords. The admirers of Lord Grey might well address Lord Melbourne, and exclaim—" Our leader carried the Reform Act, abolished negro slavery, and carried the new Poor-law." The followers of the Duke of Wellington might show Lord _Melbourne's friends the Catholic Relief Act, and reproach his me mory with having done nothing to rival it. Those who admired the Duke's predecessors might point to the commencement of an enlarged commercial policy, and a new colonial system; going still further back, they might boast of cash payments resumed, public credit sustained, and tweaty years of warfare ending in triumph. Against these the partisans of the easy-minded Viscount may (let off the introduction of a penny postage, a pseudo re form in the Irish corporations, an Irish Poor-law, such as it was, an Irish Tithe Composition Act, the union of the Canadas, and an abortive attempt to repeal those corn-laws which his immediate successor abolished in 1846. On the 22d of June, 1836, an action for crim. con. was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, the deceased Peer having been the defendant. The verdict of the jury was recorded in favour of Lord Melbourne, and with this brief reference to the fact we resume the nar rative of his public life. His Ministerial career naturally divides itself into two parts—that which belongs to the reign of William IV., and that which was passed ander the dominion of Queen Victoria. The commencement of the new reign, there fore, imposed upon Lord Melbourne a novel and rather a difficutt series of duties. That he accomplished his task with consummate address is attested by the evidence of facts and the concurrent opinion of all observers. But his Lordship is entitled to still higher praise, for he spared no pains to imbue the mind of her Majesty with a deep sense of the responsibilities attaching to the regal office; he availed himself of all fitting opportunities to instruct her in the various duties of her high station; and as far as it was possible for a Whig of his school, he pre sented to her view the leading principles of the British constitution. But, though he stood high in the confidence of the Queen, he was by this time rapidly losing ground in the estimation of Parliament. The proceedings of that ses sion which began in the spring of 1841 decreed the downfall of his Administration, and even brought the public career of Lord Melbourne himself to an unex pected close. It was thought that many years of vigorous existence still remained to him, and that when he re signed office he intended to place himself at the head of a formidable Opposition. But, after a few slight efforts, he ceased to be regular in his Parliamentary attendance; his health declined, and when be re- appeared towards the close of the session of 1845, he was only the shadow of his former self, emaciated, feeble, listless, silent ; and although in the summer of that year he attended a pub lic dinner, where he felicitated his friends on the fact that Sir Robert Peel was obliged to govern the country upon those principles which had wrecked the Melbourne Ministry, he was evidently too indolent or too cautious to create an opportunity for making that assertion in the House of Lords. But his character and his doctrines, his defeats and his triumphs, have at length become matters of history. His jests have grown stale, his principles of action are exchanged for attractive novelties, his enemies have learned to forgive—his friends to forget him. Every one, however, will acknowledge, that with many faults he combined many good qualities. Although there were features in his character which the most indulgent of mankind must condemn, yet his faults might easily have been carried much further, and aggravated to a far more vicious excess. It is true that he sometimes mis understood and mismanaged important affairs; but he might have applied to them a perverted and dishonest ingenuity. He was indolent—he might have been cor rupt. He was a man of easy virtue—he might have been a reckless profligate. He was lavish of titles, but he did not quite swamp the House of Lords. So, that though a long list of public men might be produced of far superior deserts, yet it must be acknowledged that there have been many worse Ministers and many worse men than the second Viscount Melbourne.—Times. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. His Lordship expired at ten minutes after six o'clock on Friday evening, and was conscious up to the last moment, the following relatives being present at his dis solution—Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Beauvale, the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb, and Miss Cuyler. The noble deceased had been attacked about three weeks or a month since by what was con sidered a bilious complaint, and was for some days at tended by his ordinary medical adviser, Mr. Thomas, of Hatfield, but symptoms having betrayed themselves of rather an alarming appearance, Dr. Holland was sent for from London on the 10th inst., and after that emi nent physician making two or three professional visits to Brocket, he informed the members of the Noble Vis count's family of his fears that his Lordship's illness would prove fatal, although the noble patient might linger for some weeks. The deceased William Lamb, Viscount and Baron Melbourne, of Kilmore, county Cavan, in the peerag e of Ireland; and Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne, county Derby, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet of Great Britain, was second son (his elder bro ther, the Hon. PenistonLamb, d) lug in 1805), of Peniston. first Viscount Melbourne, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart., of whom Byron (the poet) expresses such warm regard for her talents and beauty, as he writes that Lady Melbourne was " the best friend I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women;" and in another part of his works, pronounces her to have been so talented that he had " never met with a woman with half her talent." The wife of the deceased nobleman acquired muck ce lebrity for her literary works, among the best known was her " Glenarvon, ' and obtained an equal renown in the fashionable world. Viscount Melbourne succeeded to the large estates and title of his father on the death of that noblemau in July, 1828. The deceased was educated at Eton College, and afterwards removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, to complete his studies. He was then highly distinguished for his clasical attain ments, and his cultivated taste for polite literature. At his entrance in life he was favoured with the friend ship of Charles James Fox, who was highly impressed with his abilities, and gave great expectations of his future political career, for he was destined by his father for the senate. Those sanguine anticipations have cer tainly not been borne out by subsequent events, nor have those high opinions been justified from the circumstance of the deceased Viscount having been Premier, for his name can never be placed in the same niche of fame as those of Pitt, Canning, or Peel. The late Viscount is succeeded by his brother Lord Beauvale, the late Ambassador at Vienna. Viscountess Palmerston was only sister of the deceased. The families of the Earl and Countess Cowper, Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Ashley, the Earl of Besborough, Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston, Lord de Manley, the Earl Fitzwilliam, the Hon. I Mrs. Lamb, &e. are placed in mourning by the decease of the Noble Viscount. COURTCIKUULAR. OSBORNE, ISLE OF WIGHT, FRIDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds at Osborne. Admiral Sir T. Bladen Capel called at Osborne this morning to receive her Majesty's commands. The High Sheriff of Glamorganshire had an inter view with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governors of Hong-Kong, New Zee lend, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Gibraltar, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Coloni a l- o ffice, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong. Sir William Eustace, Admiral Sir Charles Adam, and Dr. Browning, had interviews yesterday with Sir George Grey. Earl Grey had a dinner party, on Thursday, at his residence, in Belgrave-square. The company included the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, Mr. and Lady Anne Tufnell, Mr. and Mrs. iiawes, Colonel Tulloch, Mr. Gregory, &c. Mr. W. Parish Robertson, Consul-General for the Republic of Eivador, transacted business at the Fo• reign-office yesterday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. IIUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag lids., Mon., Maidenhead Station; Wed., Woodcocks Hill; Fri., The Golden Ball, Brock nell-11. Worcestershire hds , Tues., Witley ; Fri., Radford Gate. Mr. Giles's lids., Mon., Bromesberrow-heath; Fri., Newent Wood. B.Wheutland lids., Tues., Spoonhill ; Fri., Willey Park. Herefordshire lids., Mon., S' Weonard's; Fri., Byford. Brighton lasers., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Thunder's Barrow; Fri., Dyke-101. Brookside harry., Mor., Newmarket 11;11 ; Thurs., Telscombe Tye-10. Southdown lids., Mon., King's Head, Hailsham; Fri., Seaford —1 oi. Crawley and Horsham lids., Mon., 11 wfant House; Wed., Bolney Common; Fri., Meld Common- 11 . East Essex l i d s ., Tues., Belchamp Bells ; Thnrs., Chalkney Wood; Sat., Moor Gardens—lui. Money having for some time been getting more plentiful, the banks in Edinburgh have reduced the rate of iaterest to 3 per cent. on deposit, and 2i on current accounts. 1 ~~~ a