The Sun. — London, England, 1852-02-16 00:00:00

kIARKET NE WS.-(TUTS DAY, CORN EXCHANGE -MONDAY. Nearly the whole of the country tn4rkets h&c] on Sa turday were seasonably well supplied with Wheat, in which only a limited business was tramacted on some what lower terms. Foreio Wheats were held at very low prices. The inquiry fur all kinds of Barley was less active, and, some instances, prices gave, way 18 per quarter. No ch ange was observed in the value of Malt; but damp parcels of oats were somewhat lower to pur chase. Beans and Peas dull; but Indian Corn and Flour were tolerably firm. Letters from New York to the 2d instant state that prices of both Flour and Grain were on the advance, with an increasing export demand. In the Baltic ports the trade has rub d inactive, but firm adviees have Come to hand from the Black Sea. The French markets havo &come rather firmer. The arrivals of English Barley and Malt up to our market last week were somewhat extensive, and we had is full average supply of Oats from Smiand. From abroad we received 4,870 quarters of Wheat; 1,176 Barley; 14,823 Oats; 262 Beans; 1,610 Peas; 223 Tares; 1,806 Linseed; 256 Rapeseed; 110 sundry seeds; 330 sacks and 1,904 buire:s of Flour. The quantity of Wheat received fresh uo to this morning's market, coastwise fro m E ssex and Kent, was very moderate, but we noticed a slight improvement in the general condition of the samples. From Suffolk very little reached us; whilst the arrivals from the mid land counties per railway were not to say large. Not withstanding that the stands were by no means exten sively supplied, and that the attendance of both town and country millers was tolerably good, the amount of business doing in all kinds of Wheat of home produCe was small, at prices barely equal to those obtained on Monday last, yet a good clearance was effected towards the close of tho market. For forward delivery very few transactions took place, although the quotations were considered somewhat easier. Very little foreign Wheat was brought forward, but the show of granaried samples was tolerably good. Selected qualities of Dantzig, Rostock, &c., were in fair request, at full rates of currency. In the middling and inhaler kinds we have very few transactions to notice, yet importers refused to accept lower figures. Floating cargoes, off the coast, were much neglected the demand for Holland having fallen off. We were somewhat extensively supplied with English Barley, but the show of foreign was moderate. The trade was very dull. Fine Chevalier parcels gave way ls, other kinds Is to 2A per quarter, and several large samples remained unsold. The supply of Malt was unusually large, hence the densaud was depressed, at barely stationary prices. The show of Oat samples being larger than for several Weeks past, the demand for that description of produce Was very inactive and, in some instances, the currencies Were a shade in favour of buyers. In Beans very little was doing, at ls. per quarter less money. The sale for Peas was heavy, but no material change Was noticed in prices. Indian Corn, afl.tat, was held at late rates. The Flour trade was slow. In prices, however, no change took place. The quantity of foreign here is small. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier-- —58 s 60s Red •• •• .... 40s to 45s Oats— Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 42s 53s Lincolnsk., Feed. IBs 22$ Norfolk and Lin- Potato .. —21 s coin, Red.• •.. 40$ 45s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, Whitc• ••• .. 42s 49s Black . ...• —18 s Irish, Red.. ••• • .. —8 --s Cork, White . —19 s _ Ditto,White• ••• • • - - 3 —a Scotch, Feed... • • 22s 2 5 s Rye—old ............ 26s 28s Beans—Tick ....• •• .. 24s 29s New............. 265 2ss Pigeons —26 s Barley —Grinding ..... 24s 27s Peas—Grey .... ••• • • • 28s 31s Malting ......... 27s 31s Maple ......• •• • • 29s 32s Chevalier •... ... 328 35s White •• • • 26s 29s 11/Jat—Saffolk and Nor- Boilers ••••• •• —32 s f01k............ 45s 54s Flour—Town-made... 398 43s Brown ........... 43s 48s Suffolk .......• 326 36s Kingston and Ware 51s 565 Stocktis &Norfolk 32s 36s SEEDS. The demand for Clovers(TeTl,both English and foreign, has improved. and prices have an upward tendency. Canary and Trefoil, as well as Cakes, are quite as dear as last week. East India continued slow in sale; 70 qrs. at auction realized 42s to 43s per quarter. Black Sea, ex ship, has changed hands at 425; and Archangel, ex granary. 39s per quarter. East India, reopened dull, a 38a per quarter. Tarnip,White, per bush. 6s to lOs Red and Green.. • • 8s 11s' ; Mustard, Brown ••• • • • 8 ' 95 ' White, new . • • . .. 63 Od 7s od' Tares, Winter.......•336d 43 Odi Carraway .• •• •• 31s 33s Coriander •• •• 9s lls Hempseed, per quarter 32s 356 Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 60s 65s Crushing •• •• •• 46s 528 Baltic •• •• .. •• •• 40s 468 Odessa •• •• • • • • 44s 50s Linseed Cake,pr.l,ooo— . Si lOs 10/ 08 Old ............ —3B 3d Os 0, Canary, per quarter • . 35s 39s Rye grass.. .... • • 24s 30s, Clover, Red Eng . (cwt.) 40s 503 White .......... 40s 50$ Foreign Red ...... 40s 50s White.... 40s 50s Trefoil 18s 22s 8111rmarxELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were on a liberal scale, the total supply having amounted to 3,210 head. During the corresponding period in Issl, we received 2,449; in 1850, 576; in 1849, 2,011; and in 1848, 1,064 head. Foreign, per ton 71 bs 81158 Rape Cakes, pr ton 414 s 41 76 Rapeseed, New, prlst 2110 s 2310 s IMPORTS INTO LONDON IN THE PAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. iiamburgh B6 ... 446 ••• Rarlingen 232 ... 124 .. ... 17 .. 2 Antwerp — ..• ... 39 .•• Rotterdam Ostend • ...MOM • Total The yearly comparison of the weekly arrivals is as tztvler:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1851......... 501 1,678 ... 237 ... 33 1850 ........ 270 ... 201 05 ... 10 1 849......... 806 1,068 ... ... 147 ... 1848... 360 ... 458 ... 46 .. Compared with that exhibited on Monday lost, the sup ply of Beasts on offer in to-day's market was limited, and in very middling condition. The attendance of buyers Was far from numerous, yet the Beef trade ruled steady, at an advance in the quotations of 2d per Blhs. The primest Scots sold at from 3s 6d to 3s 8d per Blhs, and a good clearance was easily effected. From Nor folk, Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,300 Scots, Herefords, and short horns; from the north of England, 600 short horns; from other parts of England, 400 Herefords, Runts, and Devons, &c.; and, from Scot land, 440 horned and polled Scots, chiefly per railway. Not withstanding that the numbers of Sheep were on the decrease, the demand for that description of stock was b Y. no means brisk. However, in some instan ces, th e filmiest old Downs in the wool realised 4s 6d; but no im provement took place in the value of other breeds; end it must be observed that the general top figure for . 011 1 Downs was 4 s 4d p er Blb s . Ab ou t 2 , 000 s h orn Sh eep Pere brought forward, and which sold at 8d per Bibs Under those in the wool. The few Lambs in the market ch anged hands slowly, at from 4s 8d to 5s p e r Blb s . rune small Calves were in moderate request, at full cu rrencies. Otherwise, the Veal trade ruled dull, at late Pat es- We had a very slow inquiry for Pigs; but no material change took place in the quotations. Per 61D8. to sink ttte offal. . s. 'Ate lier Beasts-- a d 2 4 to 2 6 13(1 quality 2 8 3 0 Mme large Oben.. 3 2 3 4 - "Mr e Scots ...... 3 6 3 8 ZrEte coarse Calves 2 10 3 6 I,ll:trae small ditto .. 3 8 3 10 —m y e kllB l6 Calves .. 18 0 21 0 - ‘ . .tabs 0 0 0 0 S. d. to s. d Inferior Sheep • • .2 10 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 2 3 8 Coarse-wool led ditto 3 10 4 0 Southdown Wether 4 2 4 4 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 44 c Largo llog's •••• •• 2 6 3 6 Small Porkers 3 8 alO Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 19 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I Sheep. i Calves. I Pim 3,372 f 20,880 ! 199 340 POKYUGN SUPPLY. llama. I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. 423 660 155 it Statement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of Fat Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, February 17, 1851, and this day, Monday, February 16,1852. - - Per Blbs., to sink the offals. Feb. 17, 1851. Feb.l6, 1852. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beast s .... ... 2 6to 2 8 2 4to 2 6 second quality ditto seats ••• ... Prime large Oxen . ... ... 210 3 0 2 8 3 0 ... ... 3 2 3 4 3 2 3 4 -.Prime Scots, zi c.. . ... 3 4 3 6 3 6 3 8 Luse and infetior Sheep_ . • . .. 3 10 4 3 0 8 3 2 1 2 0 3 3 8 0 .d. i ttO .- . 4 0 4 23 10 4 0 itrim on e d eo qu ar a se lit_y w d oo it i t i o ed Z'rim i . . e SOuthdown ditto .. .4 4 4 6 4 2 4 4 Vembs... ..• •• * 0 0 0 00 . 0 0 0 E ggs coarse Calves ... ... ._ 3 --, 4 3 62 10 3 6 is"'gans small ditto ... ••• ••• . 8 4 0 3 8 310 le Hogs .. ,• 3 0 2 6 3 6 11 Porkers ... ••• 3 8 4 0 3 8 310 Beasts 3,372 ••• ••• ••• Sheep and 3 an — d . Lambs — .. ..... ::: 19, 7 9 9 0 27 20,880 0 7 Calves ... .. 280 199 Pi g s ... FEB ... ' 340 .. .. 18, 1850.—Bessts, 3 ,362 ; beep an lE d Lambs, 17,300; C al ves , 101; Pigs, 201. Inat 1849.—8ea5t5,3, 832 ; Sheep and Lambs, 18,80 0; — Ves, 92 ; Pigs, Be 2gENVGATE AND 36 RAMJE3/1320L1r, Since our last report these market s have been but moderately supplied with town-killed meat; but the arrivals from the provinces have been large, viz., about i n and Pork. 12,000 -. •L. B ee f, Mutton, • . carcases ot, cbieny, Gen t , entity speaking, the demand is in a very sl o u t g ß gi e s e n f ate, at barely stationary prices, Two baskets toe come to hand from Hamburgh. At per stone Dy the Carcase. s . et. to s• 0 . s. d. to a. d. 1 2 6 2.10 'bet; in ferior...• •• 2 0 2 2 1 Mutton, inferior •• 4 ........ fidd ling •:• • 2 4 2 6 1 ---middling•• 3 0 3, 8 ........ _Arita. t largo .. 2 8 210 I prime •••• 3 6 ; 4 v ec Prune mall .• 3 0 8 2 1 Pork, 1ar ge........ •• •• •• • • 210 810 I— small • • ...... 3 6 310 Th 130UOUGME AND SPITALPIELDS. 1 e total arrival of Potatoes, last week, coastwise and ? 3 ' l and Carriage, amounted to about 4,000 tons, chiefly ii!l e acellent con di t i on. S e l ecte d samp l es are in steady l e quest at f u l l prices, but low and m i ddl i ng kinds are a ' 4ll sale, lio imports from abroad. Ditto Shawn Per Ton. ro i t r t k osh. Per Ton. Regents. 658 to 80s Wisheach & Cam - 14inuitto°Inullual'wa -. -- sto —a _Re.otech.) —sto s bridge agents.. 60s to 70s Kent Regents 6ss to 80s gents.. 60s to 70s Essex Regents 6ss to 80s Dit to /3 , PS ...... 508 to 6Os Essex Shaws Co itt o 'lles ...... —s to —s Kent Shows .... : I,7Dahlias ... —a to —s Kent &Essx.Mid. —s to —s _ 111131 ° ,1 Whites. —s to —s French —s to —s owestatle &Rev- German ditto lz: ivi e.k Regents.. 60s to 70a Dutch Whites—, —s to —s ' ll t l3 ll. Red Rid. --a to s,Chats Alt,-uOu DOZLOUGEI SOP TEZI.EKET. gh falle n the demand for the b,st colory Hops has o w i n o ff, no decline bas taken place in the quotations, tinft , : . to the limited supply on offer. Yearling and old 4 ,'. l es aro held at late rates. Sussex Pockets,. Si 12s 4 3 4 8 ; Weald of Kent ditto, 61 6s to 71; Mid and i. ent ditto, 71 to 121 10g per cwt. Th e ~ _ WOOL. on 1, next series or 4..%010nial Wool sales will commence d ite29ll,ouotoBdbsllense;t t Theitei I(ll . u n a o et ci it o 3 U ' h a t! the present advertise 17.. f " e l's Progre,s. By private coLLtactbVreri3u,clriterda doing,as i ''' Z i plsea are well supported. balsa from liamburgh, 4n from - - . Lust week's imports were Buenos Ayres, 53 SUN, T II E T72.1.7.0W. The increasing arrivals, addcd to the heavy stock iu w ar e hnuse, cause the trade to ru!e txet;ediogly inactive, ,Lnd prices have further dc•clincd, since our last report, 6d to 9d per cwt. To-day Y.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 35s to 353 3d per cwt. Town Tallow 353 64 per cwt. nut cash; rough fat, 28 per 81b1. For forward delivery, noti\ing doing. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. itQek this day • • 11,373 e 53s 9driee of Y. C. •• O Delivery last week • .• to 1,'730 Ditto from June 1.... 80,811 Arrivals last week • 709 Ditto from June 1 ... 84,053 j !,3,95 41,735 40s Od 37s 3d to Os l'd to 37s Gd 2,442 1,742 76,740 j 71,095 BTh 613 103,108 87,359 433 Od 39s 6d Price of Town ...• 151 s 6d 43,0 1 37s 6tl to Os rd 2,151 72,04 115 90,581 39s 6(.1 102 54,262 35s Od to3is 3d 2,5 . 48 80,433 1,854 98,161 38s Cd D.ESTRUCTION OF THE P.HffNIX PAPER-MILLS. DARTFORD, SITNDAY, I ihIB town has been thrown into the greatest confusion in consequence of the out break of one of the most extensive fires that has occurred i❑ this locality for many years, and which, although nearly twenty-lour hours have elapsed since it was first discovered, is not entirely extinguished at tho present hour. The premises in which this disaster occurred were termed the Phoenix Paper-mills, and were tenanted by Mr. J. H. Saunders, the paper manufacturer, and oc cupied a frontage of nearly 200 feet along Dartford creek, while they extended backwards a considerable distance, and were adjoined on the north extremity by the spacious Oil Crushing-mills belonging to Messrs. Saunders and Harrison. The first discovery was made at a few minutes before seven o'clock on Saturday evening; some persons stand ing on the railway platform had their attention directed to an unusual glare of light in the second floor of the mill. At first it was imagined that th e men were at work in that portion of the building, and no alarm was therefore given. In the course of a few minutes, how ever, the fire told its own tale by rising in an immense bedy and shooting through the windows. Every at tempt was then made to get the flames confined to that portion of the premises, but unfortunately it was stored with rags, which caused the fire to travel with extra ordinary rapidity. At one period there seemed nut the least hope of saving the adjoining The engine belonging to the Royal Exchange Fire office having reached the spot, and having been taken to the brink of the creek, was set to work, but the water thrown upon the fistees made not the least impression. The engine belonging to the Kent Mire-ottico was the next to arrive, followed by another from the Norwich Union-office. These three engines were worked with full vigour, but, in spite of the exertions of the firemen, the flames continued to extend, and at length they as sumed so fearful an aspect that it was deemed prudent to send an electric telegraph message to London tor the aid of the brigade engines. As soon as the news arrived in town two brigade en gines were taken, under the direction of Mr. Henderson, to the London-bridge station, and a special train having been ordered, were speedily conveyed to their destina tion. Mr. Connorton also started to the scene of con flagration with the West ot:England engine and a power fulbody of firemen. Previous to the arrival of the Lon don firemen, the entire mill was on fire from the base to the roof. Owing to the high wind, large flakes of blazing timber and showers of sparks were drifted over „._. the town to a considerable distance, so as to cause grea alarm. The three engines from London were immediately placed alongside of the three that had previously arrived, and the whole were called into operation. They had not, hovvevf.r, been long at work when the roof of the mill gave way, and the centre falling upon the floors below forced them down with a fearful crash. The fire ho is ever, by great perseverance, succeeded in saving the engine -house, and thereby were enabled to cut off the further spread of the flames i❑ that direction, but they still continued to rage furiously in the mill in which they commenced, and hour after hour passed away before they could be got under; and, although all danger of any further extension of mischief was over by 4 o'clock in the morning, a considerable body of fire remained in the ruins at 6 o'clock last evening, and there seemed no chance of getting it out for some hours. We regret to state that Mr. Saunders will not be the only person who will suffer by the misfortune, for the whole of his workpeople, male and female ,must for a considerable period be throw❑ out of employment. The following is a copy of Mr. Superintendent Braid wood's official report:— " Saturday, Feb. 14, 1852, at seven o'clock, p.m., a fire broke out in the premises occupied by Mr. J. 11. Saunders, paper maker, knoen as the Phoenix Paper mills, Dartford, Kent. The cause of fire unknown. The building belongs to Messrs. Thompson and Co., of Sadlers -hall. ' Contents insurekin the Sun, Phenix, Kent, and Union offices. The building insured in the Imperial and other offices. The fire was extinguished by strangers and firemen, with one engine of the Royal Exchange, one of the Kent, one of the Norwich Union, two of the London Brigade, and one of the West of England Fire-office, and 56 hired auxiliaries. The mills are burned down, and engine -house saved. " Messrs. Harrison and Co., oil-mill proprietors.— The building and contents slightly damaged by fire, but considerably by water, and roof by breakage. Insured in the Pbcenix, Kent, Scottish Union, Norwich Union, and West of England Fire-offices." LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAIL WAY. Traffic—Week ending Feb. 14, 1852 ... £7,040 4 6 Traffic—Week ending Feb. 15, 1851 ... 7,516 11 0 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1852 ... 53,663 10 10 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 55,340 '2 4 Total number of Passengers—Week ending Feb. 14, 1852 40,303 ...£),088 16 10 ... 1,951 7 8 Passengers Goods Total ... £7,040 4 6 Total miles open, 1852, 173 1 4 ; ditto, 1851, 1714 . London Terminus, Feb. 16, 1852. CABINET COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign -office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey Earl Granville, Earl G re y, th e Ch ance ll or of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. Fox Maule, the Earl of Carlisle, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Seymour, and the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith. The council sat three hours and a half. ----- ----- THE LATE COLLISION IN THE VICTORIA CHANNEL, Livisaroon.—On Saturday morning, the steam-tug Inde pendence, which had been sent out in search of the Pickwick, after having been in collision with the Chimera, returned to Liverpool without having seen anything of her. The belief that she bad foundered immediately after being struck amid ships was thus apparently confirmed, when, in the middle of the night, to the great surpri se o f everybody connected with the port, the missing ship herself made her appearance in the river. From the hour at which she arrived we were un able to ascertain precise particulars ; but we are happy to state that the two men who were reported to have been lost overboard from the Pickwick, when the latter was struck by the Chimera, were safe on bo ar d th e ir vessel, which they have thus been the means of preserving. NOVEL AND DESTRUCTIVE RIFLE.—An American of the name of Jones has invented a rifle which fires twenty five distinct shots with one loading. The rifle has the ap pearance of the ordinary double barrelled gun, with the ex ception that the barrels are placed one above the other, and the lower barrel is rather shorter than the upper. In the lower barrel are placed twenty-five bullets of a conical shape, each about an inch in length. The upper part of these bul lets is charged with powder, and by a slight movement of a small lever, they are brought into the upper barrel one after the other, as the previous one is discharged from it. In the stock there is a small box for holding a numbe rof detonating pills, quite on the homecopathic principle, which one by one fall under the ham mer o f t h e tr i gger, an d do the duty of the ordinary copper caps. On Monday evening the operator discharged his gun the twenty-four times in about a minute, and said that he could load and reload his gun and fire it 125 times in less than live minutep. The gun is under the con sideration of the Board of Ordnance. MURDER OF A FEMALE IN ST. JOHN'S-WOOD.— Yesterday, an excitement of a most painful nature was caused in the vicinity of St. John's-word, by the discovery of the murder of a female named Styles, the wife of a horse keeper, living at No. 16, Victoria-mews, Salisbury-street, Portman-market. At half-past two in the morning, as police-constable Hampson, 231) D, was on duty in a street adjacent to the mews alluded to, he was accosted by Styles, who stated to him that his wife had been murdered. lie (the constable) proceeded with him to his room, which was over a stable, and found the deceased lying dead in bed, with nothing on but her shoes and stockings, and observing marks of blood upon the man's clothes, asked him how he could account for them, to which he replied that they were caused by hie leaning over his wife to ascertain whether she was dead or not. The constable immediately took him into custody, and conveyed him to the John-street station-house least of it, w when he was charged with the murder. On Saturday a most mischievous trick, to say the " withdrawn'', by some was g e t Guildhall, ciast perpetrated at the Court of Common Pleas, person who had written the word necessary to withdraw ih ti l i a e t several cases in the list; and the con sequencewtiil.tnesses went away, and it became the conduct of parties in the causes. e records at great expense to the The Lord Chief Justice strongly re probated and punish. 814 o h f fe. directed tnedde that s h , a glazed l o a m z e , dif frames, w discovered, ith he would most severely Mr. Secondary Potter,His Lordship then sent for locks, should be prepared b be protected, and a repetitiyonso that the lists might the offence prevented. to" firueentboeftween London Bridge and all They are ten in GONDOLA STEAMERS ON THE THAMES.—EarIy in gondola steamers" will be p th la e e e e n d su en ing th s e pr ß in i g ver a , c tr li u m e t o i n e d n . , re V sonl _munber, of a new gondolas that ply on the canals of Ve n i ce : I' w . : B t in form the occupies the whole of the after part of th e and t'lie p n i o e v rs el to co ß ns i pendid saloon bove. Most of them are building at with a promenade a mg at Liverpool. R E TIREMENT OF MR. GREEN, THE AERONAUT. The veteran aerial voy a g er retires this season f rom • made 489 ascents, and aerostic pursuits. He has now d intends corn the pleting the number of 500 uring ßo Royal ensuing Gardens, season. Mr. Wardell, the proprietor of the Y. us, Vauxhall for his eleven farewell • has arranged with Mr. Green trip & Each ascent is to be marked by various grand demonstra tions. AN OFFICER SUPPO • B ED OF THE AMAZON.. --.A . man was washed on shore at Bucks, near Bideford, on Mon day last, having gold lace on his cap, and jacket lined with silk, apparently having been a long time in the water, and having au officer-like appearance. He is supposed to be one of the crew of the unfortunate steam-ship Amazon. An inquest was held on the body, and the po or fellow in terred in Parkham Churchyard on Tuesday lest.—North Devon Paper. VALENTINE'S DAs. —Saturday was a very busy day in the Post-office. Up to five o'clock in the evening 200,000 letters above the ordinary daily average had passed through the Post-office in St. Martin's-le -Grand, the total number amounting to nearly 4 00,000, the postage realised being 1,500/. Tne Official Milan, Gazette of the sth states that the number of recruits for Lombardy this year is to be 8,690, taken from two classes, those of 1830 and 1831. In 1849 the number of recruits was 8 ,04 5, and ,in 1850 they were 7,03, row one class each year. from the Cape, 276 from Syday,y, 49 from Havre, and 510 from I.;Anbay. LONDON, SOUTH AMERICA. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. --The Royal COM' pany's stesEn-ship Severn, Captain W. Vincent, with the Brazilian mails, in cha,rge of Lieut. Seriven, Admiralty agent, arrived this morning► at eleven o'clock. On her route home the Severn experienced a continu ance of strong head winds and heavy seas since, leaving the coast of Brazil. iler out voyage was accomplished within the shortest period on rceord, having steamed from Southampton to Rio in 24 days 17 hours, including stoppages for coals and exchange of mails at six different ports. The Severn brings mails from the following places, to which the lat es t d ates arc affixed:—Buenos Ayres, J an. 4; Monte Vid eo , J an. 7; Rio Janeiro. Jan. 14; B a hi a, Jan. 18 ; P ernam b uco, Jan. 21; St. Vincent, Feb. 1; Tenerife, Feb. 6; Madeira, Feb. 8; _Lisbon, Feb. 11. On freight the Severn brings 7,0001. in specie and 5,200/. in diamonds, 18 serons ipecacuanha, 200 bales tobacco, 3 barrels coffee, 5 seroas cochineal, and 60 packages sundries. RIVER PLATE. MONTE VIDEO JAN. 6.—BIIENOS AYRES, JAN. 4 . The war w hi c h Ur quiz s, with his allies, has declared against Roses has commenced. A Brazilian division of 4,000 m en h a d j o i ne d U rqu i z a to co-operate with him. Mancilla, brother-in-law to Roses, tried to oppose the passage of the Brazilian division up the Parana, and fired into the steamers from the batteries of S. Nicolao. There were some killed on both sides, but the Brazilian division forced the passage, and Mancilla retired in haste upon Buenos Ayres. Thus the first tribute of blood (however small it may be),irt the war against Rosas was paid by Brazil. The rest of the Brazilian army was at Colonia. Urquiza crossed the Parana on the 24th of December, and was, with the whole of his army (excepting 4,000 or 5,000 men), on the right bank of the river Parana. Lie was preparing to march upon Buenos Ayres. The Argentine province of Santa F 6, which is of great military importance in the actual war, because its possession cuts off the communication between Buenos Ayres and the other provinces of the Argentine Con federation, pronounced in favour of Urquiza as soon as he landed. The power of Rosas is regarded as at an end. His best officers were abandoning him to join Urquiza with the troops under their command. Rosas finds himself obliged to keep upon the defensive. lie was concen trating all his forces at Santos Lugares, with the inten tion to wait there for the enemy, but ho was still in his house of Palermo, and it was doubtful whether he would join his army, and try the events of a battle, or embark in the Locust, which, it was reported was waiting in the river for him. In Buenos Ayres a strong feeling prevailed against Rosas, and the population was ex pressing its opinion very freely. BRAZIL. 140 DE JANEIRO, JAW.l 7 l.—Brazil has celebrated a treaty of limits and navigation of the Amazon with the of Peru. It was rumoured in Rio that the Ministry wished to retire; Senor Euzebio de Queiroz (Minister of Justice), being the only deputy in the Cabinet (the five other members are senators), did not wish to be alone to meet the debates in the Lower House. Some difficulties seemed also to arise on account of the general elections, which are to take place i❑ the present year. It is well known that general elections in Brazil are almost always accompanied with disturbances. The financial state of the country was prosperous. The revenue of import and export duties for last year was superior to that of 1850 in more than 3,000 contos of reis. Apolices were at 93 ex dividend, and money continued so abundant that the rate of discount was to 4. The energy of the means (spontaneous or not) em ployed by the Brazilian Government have entirely done away with the slave trade. No epidemy of yellow fever. MOViMENTS OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS. —At Buenos Ayres, her Majesty's steamer Locust, Lieutenant Day. At Monte Video. her Majesty's steamer Centaur, Rear. Admiral Reynolds. At Rio de Janeiro, her Majesty's steamer Plumper, Commander Nolloth; and Harpy , tender, Lieut. Williams. Her Majesty's steamer Con flict, Commander Jenner, left Rio on the 12th of January, for the River Plate. At Bahia, her Majesty's steamer Rifleman, Lieut.-Commander Dalton; Bonetta brigantine, Lieut. Wake. At Lisbon, her Majesty's steamer Dragon. Her Majesty's steamer Samson, Captain Jones, from the coast of Africa, pat into Lis bon on the 11th instant for coals, and transferred dis patches and mails to the Severn. She announces the total destruction of Lagos by the boats of the African squadron, who had sixteen mon killed and sixty-ono wounded. The Royal Mail steam-packet Prince left Rio for the River Plate on the 13th of January, and the Teviot left St. Vincent for the Brazils on the 29th of January. FREIGLITS.—Rio: At the close of the year, freights were—for Antwerp, 30 to 47k; Channel, 27k to 37f-; Hamburgh, 30 to 40; London and Liverpool, 30 to 35; Mediterranean, 32k to 40; Havre, 35f.; United States, 400. to 50c. BAHIA, JAN. 18.—Channel, 405.; Stockholm, 455.; Hatnburgh, 355. Exchange, 27k to 27k on London; 635 to 640 on Hamburgh. DESTRUCTION OF LAGOS BY THE BRITISH SQUADRON. LOSS OF LIFE. Tho Admiralty dispatches brought to Southampton yesterday, from the coast of Africa, by the Brazilian mail packet Severn, relative to the affair off Cape Lagos, were considered so important, that Lieutenant Scriven, the Admiralty agent of the Severn, was dispatched to London with them immediately, in order that no time might be lost in placing them in the possession of the Admiralty. It will be seen that Lagos has been destroyed, but not without loss of life on the part of the English. The following is the copy of a letter written on board one of the ships engaged on the coast of Africa, and which gives full particulars of the affair:— " Dear Sir,—You will be sorry to hear that poor Elliot, of the Sampson, is gone, and supposed to be lost company under the followi ng pa i nful circumstance:—We capture d a felucca in O cto b er last and Elliot parted with us, when we took the, ground off Consols, with 12 men, one c ar p enter, and Mr. Wood, midshipman, w i th one month's provisions, with orders to fellow us to Cape Lopez, and in the event of the wind not being favour able to proceed to the Island of St. Thomas and then to Badagang to meet us. Since that time he was met, Oc tober 31st, by the Penelope at St. Thomas, who ordered him on to Badagang, about five days' sail, and neither ho, his men, or boat, have since been heard of. Several vessels have been down there, ourselves twice, and no news. It is feared the heavy tornadoes in the first week of November must have taken them suddenly, and with her enormous sails capsized her, and she must have sunk to rise no more. Poor fellow! Enclosed is a rough sketch I send of the news we have. " On the 16th of December the Penelope arrived in the Bights from Sierra Leone and the Sampson from Ascension, and arrived off Lagos on the 18th, and found there only the Bloodhound and Philomel, to the no small surprise of the commodore, who had ordered every vessel in the Bights to be there for the purpose of at tacking Lagos on the 24th, but, by some excellent ma nagement, they were all dispersed. On the 2361, the Tenzer arriving, as also a party consisting of some 600 of King Atakoi's people, who had marched down from Badagang, it then became necessary to protect these people, and the commodore not knowing when he would get his vessels, it wax judged expedient to attack Lagos with the present force. Accordingly Captain Jones, in the Bloodhound, and the boats of the Sampson, left at four PM., and having safely crossed the bar, anchored off the entrance for the night. The Sampson had pre viously been moored as close opposite the supposed position of the enemy as could be. On the morning of the 24th, two boats in command of Lieut. Saumarez, Ist of Sampson. proceeded up and sounded and were fired into by musketry on the right beach, and which was taken little or no notice of, and having ascertained the required information they returned to the anchorage at two n.m. Several large canoes being seen on the right beach the Bloodhound weighed, and the boats, under her cover, landed and brought off six large canoes capable of bearing the whole of Atakoi's force; having given them to these people at five P.M., being flood tide, she proceeded u p th e r i ver to try the depth of water, the Sampson's boats ahead, and when off the first bat teries the enemy began to fire round and canister with very good precision, which was returned by the boats and Bloodhound. At this time the Teazer, with the Penelope's boats were seen to enter the river, and a signal was made to anchor, and it being dusk the Blood hound weighed and anchored alongside of her, out of the reach of the enemy's fire. The 25th being Christ mas-day, the men remained in their boats, and nothing was done with the exception of reviewing and feeding Atakoi's troops, and placing round each of their necks a white "rag," so that we might know friends from foes. Thus we stood on the evening of the 25th, certai n ly a miserable Christmas. At 4.30 A.M. of the 26th th e fol lowing attack was then made. Theßloodhound, with Capt. Jones, led in; then the port division of boats, consisting of two paddle and pinnace of Sampson under command of Lieutenant Saumarez followed; then the Teaser weighed, with Captain Lyster; and then the starboard division, under command of Command e r Hillyar, of Penelope, which consisted of her two paddle-box boats, pinnace, and the rocket boats, each boat commanded by the Lieu tenants of Penelope, and the rocket party by Lieutenant Corbett, gunnery lieutenant. As the Bloodhound steamed up a terrific fire was opened on her by all the batteries and thousands of musketry, which was returned by her with shot and shell. She got up to her destina tion (with little damage), and then got aground at musket shot from the platform battery. Then followed the port division of boats under a complete storm of mus ketry, grape, round, and canister, which was returned in good style from the boats, who pulled up gallantly and took up their position opposite a two-gun battery, and which they soon silenced. Then came the Teazer with the starboard division, and, in trying to keep away to bring her guns to bear to cover the port division of boats, unfortunately took the ground and could not get off. She was there exposed to the fire of twenty guns. Captain Lyster instantly finding all at tempts to get her off of no avail, took the command of the starboard division of boats, and made for the shore for the purpose of spiking the guns. After firing several rock ets they dashed in, arid effected a landing, and took one battery by storm, spiking its guns. The enemy charged them on each flank, and a retreat was necessary. The enemy got possession of her paddle-box boat, the cowardly Kroomen having jumped overboard. A charge was then made to recapture, but finding so many wounded, and two killed, they retreated to the other boats and emb ar k ed, nut, however, w i thout the planer's mete, who was left in the boat, having re ceived two wounds, igniting the magazine, and jump ing overboard, when he wee picked up in Captain Lys next day's attack no less than ter's gig. In this and the MONDAY EVENING, et cffieers an d men, d se a v r e in n o ty a - t n w d o b w ra e r r e e ry ki o ll n ed tn a e nd pa w rt ounded. The fe a t s o f with the exception of the rascally Krocmeo, is beyond belief. Captain Lyster received two wounds, Colo ne l Iliflyer one, Lieut. Corbett (gallant fellow) seven, Lieut. Williams (in artillery) three, Mr. Fletcher (mid.) killed, Mr. Gilman (master's assistant) mortally wounded and E inco dead, besides several other officers slightly. This left the Teazer quiet, as also the enemy, who took off the heads of the two men dead, and whi c h we have since found i n the king's house. Duri ng t hi s time the Bloodhound had silenced the batteries, but remained still aground, and the boots proceeded round the north point and silenced one or two more batteries by the time it was 11 o'clock, when they were all recalled and went to dinner, being annoyed oc casionally by the musketry opposite. At one the 'Tenzer signall e d h er killed and wounded, an d was sig nalised to close when the tide turned and she could get off. . At two P.x, the bo a t s o f the Sampsou, with a spiking party, u n d er the command of Lieut. Samalarez, with Lieut. M'A r th ur, with all his Majesty's artillery, were ordered t o l and and spike the guns in the batteries under cover of t h e Sampson's boat, in charge of Mr. Bayley (mate). When they opposite looked quite deserted. The boats pushed for the shore, but they had to cut and break through a stockade th tomahawks, the a ha w water, h t e h n e t n e carpentersieenfetll whows h i with la p axes,wtehree lying i tih e g e e in ambush , open e d a terrific fire, and in less than ten minutes, finding th ey could not cut and force this stockade, they h a d to return to the Bloodhound, having Lieutenant Saumarez severely wounded in three places, Mr. Richards (midshipman), mortally (since dead), and 11 men severely wound e d. A t 4.30 t h e T easer got off and anchored in deep water, buried her dead, and sent her wounded out of the river; thus ended the 26th. At daylight on the 27th theTeazer weighed under a terrific fire, which was returned by the Bloodhound and herself, and anchored astern of the' Bloodhound, having had her gunner, Mr. Howard, as also some men, severely wounded. The rocket boat then commenced an opening tire, and the two steamers and boat commenced shelling, as also the Volcano's and Waterwitch's boats, which had then arrived. The rocket boat succeeded in setting fire to Tappi, the second chief's house, an d the place was in a blaze. Commander Cooto then t oo k the boat, with t h e roc k et boat still in command of Lieutenant Marshall (let of Penelope) and attacked the b atter i es towar d s t h e Ki ng ' s house. This, and tattle more skirmishing, lasted till sunset, when the rest of. the wounded were sent out. You and were oblged . to anch or all night off the bar, and i did not imagine r a e g a i c n h e t t h he te i r r shipsrngs, w h en t h ey l e f t at 8 r.m., till next morning at 9.30. On the 28th, at daybreak, the town was found deserted, the enemy having left on the other side of the island in their canoes. The forces then landed and took possession; fifty-seven guns were . taken and destroyed; the paddle raontdh. e m r box boat retaken with gun; and all belonging to the present king, Atakoi, placed on the throne, and all his men with him ; and thus finishes the capture of Lagos, and with it we hope the suppression of the slave trade. A few deaths have since those who fought and bled takes t placethere may y facers and men at last receive that reward for which some of then have served some four years on the coast, and looked for in vain, i e. promotion. re w f i r t o n m " The stockades consisted of green coccsienut trees, then sand, and then cocoa-nut trees; hence they had no th fe eTr er b , splinters. In each stockade was a trench, so that when a shell was fired at them they jumped in the trench, and hence escaped danger. Each stockade had. a ditch to communicate, so that they could reinforce or retreat at leisure. About 15 feet from the shore, in 9 feet water, were a quantity of bamboo stakes, so firmly driven in and so secure, that 1301bs. of gunpowder could not effect a breach, and hence prevented any one from land ing. Our total force was about 400; the enemy from 10,000 to 20,000. " C. P. R. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE MEGZ RA AND THE RIFLES. --The Sampson brought the news of the arrival of the Megovra, screw steam-frigate, Master Commander Barlow, wittt the 60th Rifles, at Madeira, all well on board. It is. not stir passage; but the good s hi p gallantly wee bporiissitnegrofursom the heavy gales that set in on h er d eparture from Plymouth, January 6 , that she had a . l ong an d thered the gale, and left Madeira January 29 for the Cape, intending to touch at Sierra Leone for coals. This intelligence respecting the Megtera will doubtless allay the anxiety raised in the public mind by the wholesale misrepresentations of a certain Rem-Admiral and his journal, confirming . , as it does, the character of the Megwra given in the House of Commons last week by the new senior naval Lord of the Admiralty.— /Jerald. COMMODORE MARTIN'S SQUADRON FOR CORK. When the alarming rumours were set afloat to the effect that the Mediterranean fleet had been ordered to the Channel, and the Lisbon squadron had been recalled, we stated that there was no truth in the first report, but that it was likely that Commodore Martin, who in tended to leave Lisbon about the 11th of January, to test the sailing qualities of the ships, would extend his cruise so far as Cork. Our letters from Lisbon now inform us that Commo dore Martin, with his flag-ship Prince Regent, 90, Capt. Harris; Hague, 60, screw-ship, Captain M'Dougall; Leander, 50, Captain Dacres ; Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds; and Dauntless, 33, screw-frigate, Captain E. P. Halsted, left Lisbon on the 4th instant, on their cruise, and our Devonport correspondent announces the arrival in Plymouth Sound on Saturday afternocm of the Arethusa. The Arethusa parted company with the Com modore on the Bth instant, who, with the remainder of the squadron, proceeded to Cork, to refit ; the defects of the Arethusa being considered such as to require her being bent to Devonport. She had several eases of small-pox and secondary fever, the sufferers from which have, by directions of the admiral, been sent to t he Naval Hospital. She also left many of her crew in the hospital at Lisbon. It is not improbable that tho crew of this ship may, for a time at least, be compelled to be turned over to the hulks, that her holds and the lower portions of her may be thoroughly cleansed and ventilated. It is not always that ships, the crews of which are the most expert in handling sails, and whose decks have a snowy whiteness, are beneath the surface in corresponding order; nor is this always made known until some lurking disease proves a tell-tale. The Dragoon, 6, steam -frigate, Captain H. W. Gif fard, from Gib ra l tar, arrived at Lisbon on the 7th, to join the squad ron, having been detached from th e Medi terranean station. Sh e and the Sampson , 6 at earn-fri gate, Captain J ones, remained at Lisbon. The Archer, 12, screw-sloop, Commander strange, was also expect e d at L isbon from the coast of Africa. The Fury, 6, steam arrived at Lisbon, an d left on the 6th for Gibraltar, and the Mediterranean. 61 °°1 3 , Commander Tat ha m , had W E COMMANDERMEDITERRANEAN. The Britannia, 120 of Rear-Admiral Dundas, C. 8.., RANEAN. Captain Goldsmith, with the flag • waslN-CHIEF spoken 4 0 , t F )2O thusa, off the Lizard, THEAre saluted the gallant admiral's last, when the frigate The Britannia had to flag " eat down . Channel from. Wed nesday against a south- We have intelligenc e r est wind ' says :—,, F our rota Malta to the 9th inst. .A cor respondentreturned to port, viz ur out of five ships cruising have John stone; Superb, 80, ! Cap . ; • Albion, 90, Captain Hope E. Russell; and ain Purcell; Vengeance,. 84, Lord Bellerophon, 78, Trafalgar,Capta 120, Captain Greville. The The vessels parted 4 Lord . G. Panlet, is still fat sea. On the Bth Sir W. company Parker sent in the gale of the lat inst. Captain 0 73 sent out the Terrible steam frigate,had not entered. It Hope,ft p . *, to look for the ships that severely. As the g a l e Pears that all have felt the gale running up to her station, the Trafalgar, in did but little d _ , ran into ‘ the Albion, but for tunatelyjibboom on board, carried away She left a part of her and, it is said, sprung h er fawaY the head of her rudder, a gun; and Bellerophon , it is Vengeance has lost So much for a winter cru ' ise is said, has sprung a mast. will probably .lead to the trial A fatal accident, which has occurred in the Albion a of a man for manslaughter, tops seem to have had u sudden Two men employed in the —viz., Ferneaux and Maine en quarrel on the 31st ult. and fell into the top, an d in r is i ng B: The former was struck as yet unaccounted for, to seems, by some means quarter deck. The poor fellow have fallen out on to the when be died, and was buried lingered till the th, ow ing, Maines is in a dreadful at sea on the day foll o ways been most friendly with his of . mind, having al- Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant victim." ken, left Malta on the 9th ult. Commander Hos brought by the Peninsular and with . the Indian mail steamer Bentinck, from Alexelis d dr priental Company's the heavy gales the Banshee made itt Notwithstanding Mar seilles in fifty- . seven hours. The Be the to the same evening for Southampton with was to leave mail. ith the bulk of the Merlin steam-packet, Lieutenant -0 Turner, on her way to Woolwich f romommander James off, was spoken in the Channel h Malta, to be paid Oriental Company's steamer IbeYriathe Peninsular and coming home under sail. • The Merlin is THE WRECI or THE GER „. I " In a r ecen t l e tter I described the klq[A. of a large barque, and whi ch, as far melancholy wreck as I any information (for the fort was in could gather posed to b e th e A n na, of Konigibunrantine), I sup - this moment nothing really positive is known Although at have certain fact s a lmost amounting t o of her , we unfortunate . ship is the Germania, of li e • proof that the ship left . Alexandria on thelllth ult. willtiligsburgh, which and white wheat. Her figure-head f ri, ?, cargo of red sheathing had first led to the supposition,!t!t) and zinc blocks and other portions of the ah but the strong 'a resemblance to those of the 4 lost - . bear so Germania as to lead to almost certain conviction that ti n • e is the ,ill-fated vessel. s Five bodies, a boy and four men, have been washed up, but most frightfully mutilated. • The men of the 76th Regiment and Artillery at the fort (and of course the otficers) behaved very but well, doing everything they could to save the crew • I T, alas! they seemed to be quite paralysed, and although some of the soldiers rushed into the sea the crew ma g d to fling a rope out, which they, might easily no exertion have done, and thus have been ' saved bad they possess l i of nerve; and it is a lamentable fact that e all portion the ropes and tackle usually in the Fort Ricasoli, were a at the time in use in Fort St. Angelo to haul up guns, carriages, and shot, recently sent from England. So quickly did the vessel go to pi eces Campbell, 76th, commanding at Fort Ricasoli, that Major describes it most pithily as resembling the act of a cooper, who, having got the hoops off his cask, gives it one blow with his mallet, and it falls to pieces. It is indeed a melancholy business, and the public have not yet recovered from the sensation by it. made on them WHAT THE FRENCH NAY DO (?) — The ,Argu e steam- , THE FEBR U AR Y 16, sloop, in charge of Mr. Davey, arrived at Devonport from Portsmouth, on Friday morning, to form one of the steam reserve squadron. She went into the harbour in a thick fog ❑nobserved, and on the mist clearing the signal men at Mount Wise were surprised by the appear ance of a fine steamer moored to one of the buoys uff the batteries; her name, whence she came, how she got to her station a mystery. Of course up went the " demand," and their fears vanished when the facts were known, but the lynx-eyed "look-out men" were aetonished that it was possible for a steam-ship, and a paddle-wheel too, to get into the harbour so easily unobserved. This circum stance will no doubt give a handle to the alarmists to revive once more the fears of invasion, and the case of the Argus will be adduced to show the practicability of any such attempt. It is right, therefore, to state that the temporary commander of the Argus was a gentleman who for many years previously to his appointment at Portsmouth served as assistant master-attendant at De vonport, and, from constant practice, could with the greatest ease feel his way into or out of Hamoeze with any ship.—Herald, Admiral Sir John Ommanney, Commander-in Chief at Devouport, has UGlMinateci Lieutenant James A. Dunbar (1842), to be his flag lieutenant, vice Warren, promoted. Mr. S. W. G. F. May having passed a first-class examination at the Naval College, having gained all the numbers, has been promoted to the rank of lieutenant. A return hes been made, in accordance with a request from the Admiralty, of the detects of the Hyd ra, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Belgra ve, on her arrival as Davenport, on her way to the Cape with General Cathcart. Cormorant, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Chamberlain, having coaled, left Portsmouth Harbour at ten o'cicck o❑ Saturday morning, and proceeded to Woolwich to be paid off. It should have been stated on Saturday that most of the Cormorant's captures on the coast of Brazil were made by her firmer commander, Captain Schoenberg, who was promoted for his services in that ship. Rapid, 8, Commander Blane, was at Madeira Feb. 6, from Devouport, on her way to the East Indies. Devon lighter, Bon master, eailed from Devonport on Thursday morning, with stores for Pembroke. Hatnoaze lighter, Wood master, siiie'd 'from. Devon., port on Friday with stores for Pembroke; and from' thence she is to proceed to Holyhead, to lay down a pair of large moorings. Argils steam-sloop has been taken to her moorings by Mr. Brown, second master attendant, and given in charge of Captain Ramsay, being added to the steam reserve at Devonport. Harbinger screw mail steam-packet arrived at Ply mouth on Friday afternoon, and was to sail with . the mail for the Cape of Good Hope yesterday at noon. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 15.—A further investigation into Goidner's preserved meats is going on at the Royal Clarence-yard, Gcsport. This is a portion of the stock brought back by the Hecla steam-sloop, lately returned from the coast of Africa. About 200 canisters of from 51b. to 61b. each were examined yesterday, 30 of which were bad and condemned; the rest exhibited a better appearance than any we have yet seen. The Cormo rant steam-sloop, which arrived on Friday from Brazils, also brought a number of canisters of the same stuff to return into store; she had thrown a large quantity over board at sea, being unfit for food. We have good authority for stating that a large expe rimental eqnadron will assemble at Spithead towards the summer. The Pilot brig will be paid off on Wednesday next. The American merchant barque Philah, Capt. Hearn, belonging to New York, from London for Cardiff, came in contact, at nine o'clock on Thursday night, off the Start, with a brig. Both vessels were working down Channel on a wind. The barque has a small hole just above water on the starboard bow, and her starboard covering board, rail, and bulwarks are knocked away; she entered the Sound this afternoon. The brig, it is said, was not seen in time, in consequence of having no fore topgallant mast; she was struck in the bluff of the bow, and her bowsprit was carried away. A piece of her jib with the word " Coker" was left on board the Philah. After the collision nothing was seen of the brig, and it is feared that she went down. The barque Emigrant, Captain Kemp, which left this port on Friday with Government spars for Portsmouth, has on board what is supposed to be the largest piece of plank in the world. It is cut from a blue gum tree in Van Diemen's Land, is 148 feet long, 22 inches broad, and 6 inches thick, and was intended for the Great Ex hibition, but no vessel offered capable of conveying it in time for the opening. It is placed on the poop and top gallant forecastle of the Emigrant, and tails out 14 feet over her stern, Some of the spars from New Zealand are 90 feet long by 36 inches girt. Captain Kemp has also several specimens of natural history, including a very rare bird, called the " Parson Bird," which is about the size of an English starling, but has a long beak. It derives its name from its plumage, which is of a perfect jet black, excepting two white feathers under the neck. SUNDAY, 11 A.m.—The 12 patients from the Arethusa are progressing favourably at the Royal Naval Hospital. WOOLWICH, FEB. 14.—Commander Charles G. Phil lips (1848), who accompanied Sir John Ross in the Felix to the Polar regions in 1850, and returned in 1851, has just finished a course of study of steam at the factory at Woolwich dockyard, and in the course of a day or two will be examined by Mr. Atherton, the chief engineer. The gallant officer had his course of study of steam in terrupted when he proceeded to the Arctic regions, but their Lordships have so appreciated his services and zeal that they have appointed him to command the Poly phemus steam-sloop of 200 horse, which will be com missioned on Monday at Woolwich. The Sulphur sloop, some time ago sent up from Wool wich to Deptford to be broken up, is still so strong in her timbers, having been built principally of teak, that the order to break her up has been countermanded, and on the application of Mr. Masterman, governor of the convict ship here, she will be brought back to Woolwich and be used, instead of the Wye hulk, as a washhouse for the clothes of the convicts. 1852. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFOR NI ASSOCIATION. (PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 11th the principal debate was en an attempt to prejudge the Education question, advanced in the shape of a private Bill from Manchester. So far as can be judged from what passed in the House, the object of the Bill is this,—to levy a rate from the sectaries on the ground of giving education, and then knowingly and advisedly to proffer an education which it is known the sectaries will not accept. As an illus tration, the plan is to make a Jew pay for his ticket to a public dinner, the known intention all the time being to set before him pork. Now if men were honest, which they are not, there would. be two ways to get out of this diffieulty. One would. be, to determine that men should dine together upon the meats on which they all agree, and that there should be an om i ss i o n of the disputed materials the ap pearance of which is the signal for immediate dissen sion. But then, say the dominant party, what a base submission :hat would be! How is it possible, with Christian opinions, to make so disgracetul a sacrifice? Believing, as we do, in certain points disputed by the ()there, now can we give up the spiritual or temporal food aG which our brother takes offence? No, we must have it everywhere and in everything. We cannot ad mit of a mess of pottage which shall not be flavoured with the disputed substance. We are the majority and must have cur way, and it is this. But there is yet another plan, which does not seem to have been canvassed by the public. And that is, that after the tickets have been. paid for, each sect or party should have the privilege of ordering their dinner for themselves ; in short, a kind of dining by the carte. Why should not the Qeakere, the Unitarians, or the Jews, after contributing to the rate according to the general law laid down, draw from the general mass, after deducting expensey, the sum they could prove to be proportion e d to the rates paid ; and so eac h sec t ap ply it to their own educational nourishment, with such sauces as they in their own judgment conceive to be convenient? The only objection which has been heard to this, is that it would be degrading to the orthodox to take money out of the same bag with a sectary. Which it is hoped might with pantie be overcome. There w o u ld b e a demand for provision for. ascertaining theaus tali to paid by different sects, and f or subjecting them the same kind of supervision to ensure the sum being properly aleph. d. The way would seem to be, to re quire that the members of any particular sect claiming to administer their own funds, should dra'v out a state ment of the rates paid and sum claimed, with the names of the claimants if thought necessary, and with the se dition of a declaration of their consent and intention to apply the sum according to the general regulations of the Act. The old Napoleon would have arranged the whole details satisfactorily, in a decree of ten lines long. The only ground stood upon in the debate, was the right of majorities to coerce minorities. It is easy to make a mistake on this point. There are 09825 where a majority must decide; but this does not amount to a tight in the majority to rob the minority. On the con trary (as somebody has said of juries) King, Lords, and Commons exist only that security may be had for the prevention of this very thing. And the reason is, that if not, we might any of us be minority in turn. It-did not appear to me, that those who handled the matter in debate, did any of them go to the bottom of the ques tion. As it was finally put off for a week, perhaps somebody may employ the time in looking further into it. My own notion is, that instead of a cold resistance directed to gaining delay, the sho u ld ers o f everyth i ng non-conforming should be put to the wheel, to throw out the whole with the greatest possible celerity. Oa Thursday came up the question of " Preserved Meats;" in which there has been an extensive failure. Indeed the defence of the Admiralty appeared to a great extent to rest, on the alleged impossibility of knowing that packages of meat quite good this week might not be found bad to-morrow. Which, if so, goes to establish the desirableness of returning es far as possible to the old signals fez. " fresh beef." At the same time, when it is acknowledged that Preserved Meats have been found good after five and-twenty years, it cannot be beyond the reach of modern or futuro chemistry to diminish the danger. The Admiralty strongly intimated, that keen ness was probably given to the inquiry, by the fact that the preserved meats were not English;—in other words, that they bad been bought at your shops in Bradford, instead of being bought of the English beef-growers. I do not think our friends at Bradford above halt under stand this yet. They have a sort of lurking sense of impropriety, in seeing anything bought through the in tervention of their shops from foreigners, when it could be obtained dearer and worse from somebody making the same article at home. If in the present case the beef was cheap and nasty, that is a different question; and there is nothing for the Admiralty to do but give their custom elsewhere, taking the hint, which perhaps you would have given at Bradford before, to agree only to pay for what shall be found good after a certain time. On Friday a Bill to extend the Right of Voting for Members of Parliament, and to amend the Laws relat ing to the Representation of the People, in Scotland, was brought in. And the same for Ireland. It is easier bringing in Reform Bills than it once was. Practice makes perfect. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER, Blackheath, 1G Feb., 1852. COURT CIRCULAR. ----- Her Majesty and his Royal Ilighnuaa Prima° Albert attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Lien. tenant-Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon, visited her Roya Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday after. noon at Gloucester-house. Their Royal Ili;. , ,hnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Princesses Alice. Helena, and Louisa, and Prince Arthur, took their usual exercise on Saturday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. The Royal dinner party at Bucking -ham Palace on Sa turday included the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Countess of Ellesmere, Lord George Lennox, and Lord Marcus Hill. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday in the private chapel of Buckingham Pa lace. The Hon. and Reverend Gerald Wellesley offi ciated. Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, and the younger members of the Royal Family walked yesterday in the garden of the Palace. The Chevalier Bunsen transacted business at the Fo reign -office on Saturday. A deputation from the English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, consisting of Sir Charles Fox, Mr. Harrison, and Mr. Crosbie of Liverpool, accompanied by Sir T. Birch and Mr. Cardwell, had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere at the Board of Trade on Saturday. Colonel Wood had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, accompanied by Mr. R. IV. Grey, M.P. ' had an interview on S a t ur d ay w i t h the General Board of Health, at their effi:...es, Whitehall. A deputation from the Colonial Bank, consisting of Mr. Charles Marryat, Mr. A Colville, and Mr. S. G. Hoare, had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the,,Colonial-office. _ _ Mr. - Baines and a deputation had an interview with Lord Johu Russell on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing -street. A deputation, consisting of Mr. John F. South, Pre sident of the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr. Cse,ar Hawkins, Vice-President of the College, and Mr. Ar nott, had an interview on Saturday with Sir George Grey. The Oxford University Commission bad a meeting Bishop g h o op n Saturday at the official residence of t he First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Present, the of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pem broke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell , M r. J. L. Dampier, th e Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. FNcoeTuicAlrht--Eanl7ol4lB.e.en; Thurs. I :1 ° T I: sh h e e e Y eSau o tff r il k ok an i Ih d i d; HUNTINGAB : i S at. n to s t - y Sm 34.o h arP d dr s owP . to-morrow, Skip -bridge; Thurs. Gilling-lodge; Sat. Skipwith-b ridge-14. Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., W e d ., ?entre Bychan; Thurs. Llany Can; Sat., Green Dragon-10i. The V. W. H. hds:, to-m orrow, Lydiard-plain; Thurs. B u rdrop-park-11i. Sat. Foss -bridge-IQ. The Tiverton hds., Thurs. Rawkridge-10i. Mr. L. Steer's hds., Thurs. Milham-lodge-11. The North Staffordshire hds., Wed. Three Crown s , Stoke, near Stone ; F r i , Betley-10i. Lord Southampton's hds., Wed. Capons Ashby; Fri. Wappenham; Sat. Tiffield-11. The Shropshire hds., Thurs. Cound—ioi. The Pytchley hds., Wed. Crick; Fri. West Haddon; Sat. Sibbertoft-10, Mr. L. Phillips's hds., Thurs. Leher-10. HE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.—Since our last notice of this event, Hesse Homburg, against whom 40 to 1 w as b etted on Wednesday, has been backed freely at 20 to 1. A CHALLENGE TO THE YANKEES.—We understand that Mr. Charles Mare, the eminent ship builder, of Blackwall, has challenged the Americans to run a vessel against any that they can produce for a thousand guineas. The tonnage of the ships to be from fifty to three hundred tone. COLONEL HAWKER'S CARBINE.—The Ordnance Com mittee, on Tuesday last, unanimously approved of Col. Hawker's new double carbine. --- - ---- ------ [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE ROYAL EXHIBITIoN,-- S. and B. Solomons, Opticians, 39, Albermarle-street, Picca dilly, opposite the York Hotel. A valuable, newly-invented, very small p owerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the siz e o f a •walnut, by w hich a person can be seen and known 14 miles distant. They answer every purpose on the race- course, at t h e opera - houses; country scenery , and ships are clearly seen a t 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for Shooting, Deer Stalking, Yachting, to Sportsmen, Gentlemen, Game Keepers, and ' Tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordi nar y powers, that some, 3 inches, with an extra eye pi ece, w ill s h ow dis tinctly Jupiter's moons , Saturn s Ring, and the double stars ; with the same Telescope can be seen a person' s countenance 3 i miles distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles ; they super sede every other kind for the Waistcoat pocket, and are 'of larger, and all sizes with i ncreas i ng powers a ccorthegq• Opera and Race-course glasses, with wonderful powers Newly-invented preserving spectacle Lenses; immediately they are placed before imperfect vision every o bject appears c l ea r and distinct, th e most aged defective sight is br ought to it s youthful, natural an d original state. The Invisible Or ganic Vibrator, and all kinds of Acoustic i us trunrnts for relief of extreme deafn ess . 39 Albemarle-street , Piccad i lly, oppo sit* the York Hotel. ' HAYMAR KE T T 1 2 1 EA TICE. A new five-act play, entitled trentan's Heart, was produced here cm Saturday with to ordinary success. The audience were taken by „ surprise at being inforn when the curtain fell on the last scene, that it was the production of Miss Vanclenhoff. A perfect furore was the immediate result, and a tempest of enthusiasm greeted the authoress and personator of the heroine, as she was led on by her father. The plot of the comedy is not a complicated cne. Isolina (Miss Vandenhoff) a blind girl of unknown parentage, is residin g at the cot tage of an old Italian peasant (Mr. Rogers), whose son Angiolc, (Mr. Barry Sullivan) devotes himself to the art of sculpture, The old man has protected her feom her childhood, and the youth haS beceme enamoured, of her. Nothing stands in the way of an union between the lovers, ti l unluckily the artist's fame reaches the ears of the Prince (Mr. Howo), who is o great patron of art, and he is invited from the ho m e o f hi s childheoei to mingle in the splendour and the seductions of a Court. The invitation be gladly accepts, not without fore bodings of ill on the part of Iselina, and, as might be expected, hie heart is completely changed ; ambition instead of love takes possession of his soul, and he feels thee an anion with Isolina would be a fearful bar to his exalted prospects. Hence, when the poor devoted girt visits him in his family re sidence, she is coldly received, and finally conducted from the door by one of Angiolo's servants. Exhausted with grief and fatigue she falls senseless on the steps of a palace belonging to the proud Marquis Albrizzi (Mr. Vandenhoff), who is struck by her resemblance to his deceased wife, and who, ou conversing with the old pea sant, discovers her to be his own daughter, lost its in fester? at a period of civil discord. Two years elapse. Lana has been restored to sight, and is now the ac knowledged heiress of the Marquis; while Angie 10, con trite, and wishing to repair his fault, has anxiocsly but vainly attemptly to find her. Of her early history Albrizzi has inquired nothing, but the emotions she in be tween her h eart, and he gradeually secret learns h betrays when required to Sit f ur her picture show that si rt t oi e des rela herself and the sc u l ptor. Hence. when Angiolo is sent by the Prince, now a suitor f or Ise lina'a m band, to take her portrait (for he is'a painter as w e ll as a sculptor), he is required by her father not to utter a syllable in her presence. Isolina, it will be remembered, was blind during the whole time of her ecquaintauce with Angiolo, and hence the silence of the exult will, in the belief of A ibrizzi, surely prevent recognition. How ever, when Isolina enters, a sort of instinct, or rattler perhaps, an abnormal acuteness in those organs of sense which do not pertain to vision, causes her to feel strange emotions at the sight of the artist, and she cannot help fancying that Angiolo would have looked just like him. The painter preserves silence till an officer erasers to arrest him on the charge of having painted a seditious picture, when his exclamation, " 'Tis false!" revels the secret to the sensitive Isolina. This scene, which closes the third act, is the great point of the play. The: accu sation has been brought about by the machinations of Count Zellaminu (Mr. Stuart), a dissolute noble., who, jealous of the predilection which a coquettish lady named Giulia (Miss A. Vining) has shown for the artist has prevailed upon one of his pupils to imitate his style and forge his name, while painting the seditious picture, which has afterwards been hung up in the mar ket-place. Angiolo is imprisoned, but Isolina obtains money sufficient for his ransom, and sends it by Giulia, whom she wrongly supposes a faithful friend, arid who in her interview with the artist, makes him believe that she is principal, not agent, in the transaction. How ever, the former love for Isolina has revived in the bosom of Angiolo, and though, to express his grati tude, he throws himself at the feet of Giulia, he rejects together the love and the liberty she proffers. Isolina, on her side, though she has caught a glimpse of the genuflexion from a loophole in the prison, and though she supposes that her own offer is rejected, shows herself unshaken in constancy by her firm refusal of the Prince's hand; and when the sculptor, who has been released on proof of his innocence, reappears, the two lovers are rewarded for their fidelity, the pride of the Marquis being overcome by paternal affec tion and the generous representations of the Prince. A poetical conception is apparent throughout; and, if the bold and vigorous touches which genius alone can give are wanting in this dramatic picture, there is, at least, sufficient sentiment, lofty enthusiasm, and warm sympathy with the pure and beautiful, simply and grace fully expressed, to render it universally interesting. There is great beauty in the language of this play, which demonstrates the authoress to possess sensitive 'less and imagination in a high degree. The fault of Woman's Heart, as it now stands, is undue expansion by means of poetic speeches and sublimated disquisitions, which, however pleasing in the closet, tend to produce weariness when enunciated tram the stage. We are firmly of opinion that the day of five-act pieces is gone by, and that no matter how copious and various the in cidents may be, how sustained the interest, and hese well discriminated and prominent the characters, three acts are fully sufficient to do full justice to the plot and the parts, and quite as much as an English audience of the present period can digest satisfactorily. Had Miss Vaudenhoff's comedy been reduced within those limits, it would have proved far more effective, and, consider ing the simplicity of its plot, it would not be difficult to reduce it forthwith within eligible compass. It ought to be condensed and expurgated to hold pos session of the stage. There is too much " talk," graceful, eloquent, as the language is throughout. As regards the acting, the personation of the heroine, by the accomplished young authoress, was replete with grace and sweetness; and she delieereo her own smooth and neatly-turned sentences with charming tact and de licacy. Her acting in the first and second acts, when labouring under the infirmity of blindness, was charac terised by a repose the tranquillity of which was ea& neatly touching; for it implied a pious and resigned feel jag, even in the midst of doubt, anxiety, and affliction. Ite the latter scenes, when the more tragic sentiment of the play is brought into activity, she was scarcely so successful, though the maiden purity of a gentle nature shrone through all, and created a personal interest which remained undisturbed to the end. The situation to which we have alluded, that in the third set, in which w hile sitting for her portrait she is agitated by new-born hopes, and is enveloped in the memories of the past, could not have been delineated with greater finesse, nor its points both histrionic and senti mental brought more vividly out. Mr. Barry Sullivan declaimed the speeches belonging to the Angiolo with care and discretion, those relating to the triamps and prospects of the artist being delivered with especial vehemence and emphasis. In this second assumption this gentleman, it may be remarked, gave signs of a general ability whi c h c annot fail to be useful to the h. management under which serves. is He painst a ki ng - and intelligent; and w ithout being violent or laborious, is wanted. Mr. gives prominence where prominence_a. . t . na unmet leg character Vandenheff sustained the sine it may be presumed, on his of the marquis, chiefly, daughter's account, f o r such concessions on th e part of but common. Mr. actors of his reputation are an y thing d Stuart, Mr. Parselle, M r . Howe was the prince, a 3 Rogers, and Mira Amelia Vining were his coadjutors in h s of the dramatis peisonce. Th e remaining branc he s e the play, which has been put upon the stage with a ll t h e be:min aids that it requires, was, as we have already in tinaate o, well received; and its ann ouncement for " three times ia arch successive week" by Mr. VandenhofT, was welcomed with reiterated cheers from all parts of the house. ROYAL ARTILLERY. WOOLWICH, FEB. 14.—The second-lieutenants who wore appointed to commissions on passing their exa mi. nations in December l ast , h av i ng joined t h e garrison after six weeks' leave of absence, have been attached to, and will do duty with, t h e following companies until further orders:— Second Lieutenant T. B. Strange to Captain Dal ton's company, Ist battalion. Second Lieutenant Francis Lyon to Captain Bores ford's company, Ist battalion. Second Lieutenant A. P. Joy to Captain Lefroy's company, 4th battalion. Second Lieutenant T. W. Blakiston to Captain Fitz gerald% company, sth battalion. Second Lieutenant A. L. Kaye to Captain Marston's company, sth battalion. Second Lieutenant Edward Keate to Captain Cock's company, 6th battalion. Second Lieutenant W. F. Walker to Captain Ellis's company, Bth battalion. Second Lieutenant J. Smith to Captain Maude's com pany, 9th battalion. Second Lieutenant A. T. G. Pearse to Captain liar. rison's company, 11th battalion. Second Lieutenant John L. Clarke to Captain Hen derson's company, 10th battalion. Second Lieutenant C. E. Torriano to Captain Tay , [or's company, 4th battalion. ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY. When the last examination of gentlemen cadets took place at the Royal Arsenal, and 21 of those in the Prac tical Class passed satisfactorily and obtained commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers, an exami nation also took place of the gentlemen cadets of the Theoretical Class at the Royal Military Academy, on Woolwich-common, and 22 passed as qualified for study in the practical class. The names of 18 of the latter were only given at that time, but arrangements having subsequently been made by order of the Master-Ge neral, the whole 22 have joined the practical class, on their return on the 29th of January, after the Christmas vacation, and the names of those in the practical class at the Royal Arsenal are now as follow : First Division.—Practical Class—William Bailey, Frederick E. B. Beaumont, Charles G. Gordon, Geoffrey G. Shakerloy, Oliver H. Stokes, Francis Temple, Alexander H. Hutchinson, Henry J. Alderson, John E. R. Keene, Frederick G. Ravenhill, George W. Holmes, Thomas H. Pitt, Henry A. Doyne, Frederick L. H. Lyon, Charles L. Tedcroft, Ernest C. Vaughan, Robert Hudson, John T. Daubuz, Frederick S. Maude. Second Division.—Practical Class—Francis J. A. Law, William F. Gilley, John H. S. Carter Major F. Downes, James B. Edwards, Albert C. H. Light, Falk land G. Warren, William F. Moore, Francis W. E. Savage, Henry C. S. Dyer, Francis H. W. Nisbett, Henry Cardew, John K. Holdsworth, Arthur R. Robin son, Charles G. Johnson, Wilbraham D. Milman, Joseph Hanwell, Joshua F. Betty, Maurice H. Fitzomurice,. Henry R. Martin, William A. P. Wylie. On the 3d and 4th of February four candidates applied for admission as gentlemen cadets, and having p assed l: satisfactorily, and been approved by the Master-Ge n e ra l, their names, which are as follow, have been ad ded to those in the Theoretical Class, w hich they have now joined:— ' William J. Smith Neill, William A. Frankland, John William Campbell, William Henry Ind. • RIFLE CLUBS.—Her Majesty's Government, ac cording to a recent official announcement, are prepared in certain cases to advise her Majesty to accept the services of volunteer rifle corps, provided that the proposed formation of such corps is recommended by,the Lord-Lieutenant of the county, and that the members o f the corps undertake t o provide their own arms and equipments ' and to defray all .fide application the expenses attending it, except in the event of the corps being assembled for actual service. Messrs. Nicoll, a rm clothiers, are prepared to forward, on bond rules adopted by several'eh the Act of Parliament, viz., 44th George 111., c. th s e 4., r b i y am which they will be governed; a copy of 1 corps already forming; also sketches and estimate s r forms and accoutrements, with or without o volun sword-bayonet, improved on the French prinoi e and clothing they propose to supply for a superior orde ref ordinary The outfitgentleman teers shall not exceed the ties of plain dr a es s s a r clothes, and shall in every pect be such application may wear with satisfaction. Samples for the , or at the ware scribing club may be viewed on of a sub at the City rooms, 114, 116, 118, and 120, Regent-street depot, ‘A, Cornhill. Eight and five guineas are quoted for these samples, but t he tastes and wis hes of any body of gen tlemen will be re adily adopted and estimat e d f or b y Messrs. Nicoll, w ho will send competent persons for inst ruc ti ons t o any part of the country, where a fair amount of business will be insured. The Coast Guard here a fishi BRIGHTON, SATURDAY.--. Were apprised last evening o f up in the Channel, about thirty ng-boat having picked Shoreham, a boat. They .m i les off the coast, abreast of feet took i t m . of Friday landed it at that port. tow, and in the course new boat, about twentylt appeared to be quite a long, marked Amazon, of Lon don. There is little doubt but that it is one of the boats that belonged to the unfortun a t e steam-ship. It remains in the c h a rge of the Customs. ST. JAIVILS'S THEATRE. EN r ell in ) L i 4 Y In addition to the larg mentionedSi by us last week as bein g h e l d out bye prol Mr Mitchell's program me o f rnmences the season, whi c h co * at this charming theatre to-night, we are enabled liberel now to add, that this able and manager has succeeded arrange ments for the p ro duction of many new and br l i a lliantwrks by a com- P anY of very gr ea t completeness. During the engage ment Of M. LPmaitre and Madlle. Cl ar i sse we h ear t h a t the popular play of Palliasse, which has had an uninter rupted run of nearly twelve months in Paris, will be produced for the first time here. Those admirable artists, M. Regnier and M. Lafont, with Mdlle. Denali), Mdlle. Marquet, and M. Paul Labs, will appear in Jules Sandesu's clever play Mademoiselle de la Seigliere, The two last-named performers make their first appearance in London. Beaumarchais famous Barber de Seville will also be produced for the first time in this country in its legiti mate form during the engagement of M. Regnier and Madlle. Denain. The Theatre du Gymnase is to lend us the brilliant and versatile talent of Rose Ch‘ri, and the rich natural humour of M. N uma. This gentleman's repertoire is, in a great measure, new to a London au dience, and many of the little pieces in which he shakes the sides of the Parisians bear the name of Scribe as guarantee of their excellence. Among the novelties in which Mdlle. Rose Cheri is .to appear, we observe George Sand's Mariame de Victerine, now in fall success in Paris. Le Collier de Perl e ,, and Les Vacances de Pandolfe will also afford scope for this lady's well known and charming talent. Last and most important in this pleasant catalogue comes a hope o f RacbeL The season will probably be carried on to the end of May by the arrangements which we h ave d e t a iled, and on their termination the great tragedian may be expected once more to visit us. FIRE AT THE HOUSES OF p. ied in the vicinity o f the ABL IAMENT.--On Sa turday last much ex c it eme nt P - reve nuence of the su dd en outbreak Houses of Parliament, ineq-ese The buildings are of a fi re i n N o . 8 Committee -room. Pipes, and in the r oom refer are heated by m eans o f hot-8' P i r On the usher connected with . ace d on the top of the one through red to the gas pipe is placed which the steam is conveye d. e uence of the fog that prevailed, 6 usual with a lighted candle to w b a u s ck r e e ta nd o er f e w d entering the room gas-burners,earli an immediate explosion took place, abierthcoepnionusniley apply to the as instantaneously in a blaze. An alarm that department, in consequence and the apartment w being raised, prompt.y rous officials, v l-° ' • tinguishing the fl • in ex tunes without any cceeded upplied, eu .f or damage having been sustained. On a serious Misohle ection it was ascertained that the gas had subsequent insP , - a fissure in the pipe, which bad been escaped from hasjesatnansceof h the hot-air pipe with Which it • 13, no c aused Y was in such doubt, c l ose pro ximity. DEPARTURE or ENGLISH ENGINEERS TO BEL-. Ouring the last week several agents from the lead ingGlUM' i ro n foundries and steam-engine factories of Lie Ver - Charteron, Miens, and other o f Belgiu m have viers, parts been over in this country, for the purpose of engaging some of our best engineers and machinists for their establishments at high wages. In consequence of the strike among English working men and their masters, they have received con siderable orders for machinery (steam-boats, &c.) On Sa turday 180 to 200 left on board a steamer especially engaged for Ostend. Others are to follow. REPRESENTATION Or CLARE.- - Sir Burton Mat - ;- narnara, R.N , has been solicited by his friends to stand for the representation of the county Clare on the retirement of his brother, Major Illacnamara, one of the present members, whose delicate state of health obliges him to forego the fatigues of Parliamentary duty. 30 6 ;$5. 9 7 A 95., 994 1 on ro wie" I t ° wiSil