The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-08 00:00:00

- _ LITERATURE. PLACE AND POWER. Effingham Wilson, London, 1835. or Pamphlet of no great pretension either to reason eloquence. If the author continue to write pamph 'et% he would do well to endow a Professorship for ex- P.ckoding them. We give the only passage, in a trea the af some twenty-five pages, which is at all within ran ge of our poor comprehension :-- to te ye how poor a thing is the basis of a fortune, the non of a firm, the origin and mould of a capitalist. h . kiellia_bo,ur..er loves his pot of beer ; the peasant desires that his tittle ones should go in hose ; the poor man sweats ea to espot and t o purchase hose, and thus he makes api g-br , kter ts e !" , or a co tt on -l or d. W e wou ld not separate the of producer arid consumer, for so work thehoney- And y et a fear i s put on. The poor man must be a Ilat w o e: - -You would scarcely believe a funeral could cause to b e. ~,e-7-so hardened and disorganized do they describe him . bim"e learned bodies, too, set themselves in array against taci. _they have to learn that lectures and laboratories are at te7 to very many of the larger mills in the Northern cizii!n -tt0!,1414 that many who take degrees at our Universities . has llot class among the first of these mechanic-geometrt tothe But the regions of taste are surely forbidden ground kifLiay-labourer. Not so, thinks Sir John Herschell, him -1,7 Chairman of the Book Society of Windsor; would !eld .47 e other authorities—have they read Burns or Bloom leg tor heard of the Corn Law Rhymes.' If taste and learn greezwe failed to find a place in every hamlet of this Western toit.ee--this island-empire Of arts and arms—let them look k alatl- e ll e e People are not wanting in wit or industry. They lo te tto consider that the commonalty hare shewn in the Na oa riB traas electi ons w h a t are th e i r t as t es , a nd what their ar 'amoral worth. True; in one, two, or may be three N hn l , the R epresentat i ves o f t h e C ommons are not w h at ltli e l Ld wish to s ee th em . B u t an h ones t vo t e f or the people the H ouse of Commons is a thing to be secured at any hazard )e, 41 sufferers from the trust-worthlessness of aristocratical tlitZ, °rB , a nd time-serving politicians. It was not till the Pa gebtii4"ad appropriated the public lands in Rome, that , the orders ca ll e d f or T r ib unes an d an A grar i an L aw . , 41 H ISTORY OF BRITISH FISHES. By WILLIAM Y.ARRELL, F.L. S. The Th Van Voorst, Paternoster-row. t rd Part of this instructive work, which pro so h fill up one of the largest vacuums in the na isad Ist orY of Great Britain, has just appeared. It tetsnlirably conducted, and there is a breadth, a soft- I ngs o f outlin e , an d a di s ti nc t ness a b ou t the en grav- Whi ch greatly enhances its value. As a naturalist, a tor Y r re l possesses every qualification requisite e performance of a labour which, when completed, i Place him among the benefactors of his country. Wili% c°ll° lcing is an extract from the history of that fish, the Mackerel, which we offer as a % „,refirien of the author's manner : he h th e Mackerel spawns in June ; and, according to Bloch, ters a i ttn e t ired and forty thousand ova have been counted in one eUi f I hav e o b ser ved, by the Mackerel sent to the London rom the shallow shores of Worthing and its vicinity, bkt t ab ege a fish mature and deposit their roe earlier on that .ti t c,'Y shore th an th ose ca ught in the deep water off bei r ,,," 44 The young Mackerel, which are called Shiners, 0. four to six inches long by the end of August. They kila t iT.grown by November ; when they retire, says Mr. sett , to deep water, and are seen no more that winter : 4- t he ~alt fishes never wholly quit the Cornish coast; and Ley - Tou to see some taken with lines in every month of qh.""" Their principal food is probably the fry of other ktlq 4 t ad at Hastings the Mackerel follow towards the shore i l t l _Tecies of Clupea, which is there called in consequence kity 4 ekerel mint. I have been unable hitherto to obtain ti o ecir n 1 14,1 ens of this small fish ; but, from various descrip- N et t hink it is probably the young of the sprat. It is de -1/4 'll ' its being about one inch long in July. Mackarel as feeders are voracious, and their growth tetict:„• Their ordinary length varies from fourteen to six they `‘"Ties, gnd their weight is about two pounds each : but top o ; tr e said to attain the length of twenty inches, with a tonate increase in wei ht. The largost fish are not et t considered the best for the table. • • It 's The ty Most common mode of fishing for Mackerel, and the . let s , hich the greatest numbers are taken, is by drift olttest, „ I I le drift-net is twenty feet deep, by one hundred and the Lti n long • we ll corked at the top, but without lead at Ser i ,rn• They are made o_ f small fine twine, which is 'ette ° a reddish brown colour, to preserve it from the Aof le sea-water ; and it is thereby rendered much more e • The size of the mesh about two and a half inches, tether larger. Twelve, fifteen, and sometimes eighteen of n ts,areattached lengthways, by tying along a thick v r.ealled the drift-rope, and at the ends of each net, to each bed When arranged for depositing in the sea, a large buoy rd to the end of the drift rope is thrown overboard, the lf,: l t' is put before the wind, an d, as s h e sa il s a long, the rope kit: th e nets th u s a tt ac h e d is passed over the stern into the ertill the who;e of th e nets are run out. The net thus ) sited hangs suspended in the water perpendicularly twenty V t . deep from the drift-rope, and extending from three quarters 14, mile to a mile, or even a mile and a half, depending on k umber of nets belonging to the party or company engaged dpg together. When the whole of the nets are thus 4 4 d out, the drift-rope is shifted from the stern to the bow tx 14 . 2 vessel, and she rides by it as if at anchor. The benefit Si Iby the boat's hanging at the end of the drift-rope is, kmistat, tilelnuepontis kept strained in a straight line, which, without it, would not be the case. The nets are shot it tt t t eve n i ng, an d sometimes hauled once during the night, Sallowed to remain in the water all night. The fish ,b the dark through the water, hang in the meshes of tit " el t, which are large enough to admit them beyond the t/li e .° O ver 6 _ tie s and pectoral fins, but not large enough to allow the 8 ` Part of the body to pass through. In the morning Pot P r eparations A are made for hauling the nets . A ca p stan or l I 1 1' 4°4 is manned about which two turns of t he drift-ro p e aerk• One man 'stands forward to untie the upper edge ) 7 4 i, net from t h e d r if t - ro p e , which is called, casting off the t 8; other s h an d i n the' net with the fish caught, to 'Pie ~Zne side o f th e vesse l is devoted ; the other side is oc ''Kti " y the drift-rope, which is wound in by the men at the del r• The whole of the net ii, and the fish secured, the 4 1 4 , °ls back into harbour with her fish ; or, depos i t in g lea 1 board some other boat in company, that carries for to the nearest market, the fishing-vessel remains at le next night's operation. 4 Dtki ( RATION.—G A LWAY.—The brig Trafalgar Cristopherson, sailed from this port on Tuesday Nq c og la ttit for St. John's, N. 8., with 60 passengers. The kt k e st r t, Captain Siddles, sailed on Thursday morning , e With 150 passengers. The American brig Ron 'Qt i ie a Pt , tin Clough, sailed on Thursday, with 50 passengers, A ork.— Galway Advertiser. Atti ki ' ll i e l IST Ry .-...When the late Mr. Anson (Lord C //3 *broth er ) was on hi s t rave ls in the East he hired a 91 'Nk 'to visit th e I s l an d of Tenedos. His pilot, an old gtst a ' wl remarked, as they were sailing along with an air of 7t2. '' i on—" There 'twas where our fleet lay." " What OGi demanded Mr. Anson. " What fleet !" replied the toy t'ed vei;lran; " why, our Grecian fleet at the siege of C 0 , MODERN NOVELISTS.—VoIs. 1 to 5. Z at l'iandsorne garb which Mr. Collourn has given to his ti es of the Modern Novelists, entitles them to take rank 7 of th e ornamented cheap publications of the day ; and e Y the int r i ns i c merits of the works themselves , as far Ott."e opening performances allow us to judge, are suf to to sustain them in the popularity they have acq uired, boaensure them a permanent place in the Library of Fic -14 t a l'hese five volumes (for 255.) we have three complete e gt t kr. Bulwer's celebrated novel of " Pelham" occupies " t ; Laklv Morgan's Irish national tale " O'Donnell," tE,.. tr?. in the gird ; and the fourth and fifth present us e t imirable Tremaine" of Mr. Ward. It t t iTIAL SIGINS.—A political soiree was given 6 °t ,th ~,1 7 on Tuesday, in honour of Captain Spiers, Member b r lrg at in r 4 Ice. The Rev. Mr. Baird, after an admirable speech_ Wrterk l) f liberal principles,. concluded by alluding to the I,„"' s signs of the times.—" The year 1835 (he said) a memorable year in the annals of the country. 1 1,14, * - f e Mnet was to appear this year, which the supersti -1:2 ' titer times always connected with some great event. 011: 1 4 :''', 11 Olt to be wondered at, for it had appeared at the *mitie:" ll itus Caesar, at the birth of Mahomet, and at the (•• mstantinople. Now, my friends , t his comet is tok t In, and it may be said, Here is the comet to mar 'went eve nt—the downfall of Toryism.' "—Scotsman. rapt, li lin Whittaker, of the 28th foot, stationed at fete teb , and Ensign Hoste, of the 45th Light Infantry, irer e :end. / fisting in Ramsey Bay, when the punt they Aa g upset, and they were precipitated into the ooze where onto dec Vwards o f I_l feet deep. Mr. Hoste fortunately got thi ns P Water, an d ,iwam to land, and with great presen ce . seized a net-rep ,- and rushed to the assistance of his Iti leolt )1 4 who h a d but j us :t time to make it fast to himself , 1 1 041 ,. he Was pulled on shore in .st, very exhausted state. —Bury . P I , v ., ~,, 1 110.1 u,„ 4 , : LIVES LOST.—On the 22d ult., as the 4-he light )Oat belongingisland to the of 1 ' l "orry, in the employ of k a i I Pit house lately erected there, the t\k n ' all d th __. _ was croceeding from o f IA • the lighthouse, it was swarn:Ped in crossing the hi e m, e dlynass, and all onboard, consistiOg of a , eyti s t , °l le ssener, and both the lighthousle keepers wives, e prr,( 'ipitated into the deep. Mr. Robinso,:., who was an 146 I\ 2trie vs of the melancholy occurrence, i mm ,ediately re _Ste tl to tl 1,,1 Coast Guard station, and gave informai. ion of !he 41 4 ;,' "10 tilt • boathaving been launched with the least possible f Zit ' l ,' Ailfr, H • Derraugh, commissioned boatman, with two o w . 7 .e- „ e IN au 1 t . v . , volunteers, put off, and, at imminent risk to , 9 :1 114 1 ; \ 14 1 liv e — , ;:: 'scued Bryan and William Doohar, brothers, 1 ,7 il : )r 0 .- 7, 1 , 'o the bottom of the upset boat, from their A‘ et l O of I Atu tl a n t 7l, -- ; 1 1 L fi‘ - e of their unhappy companions, however, !il k: t al a vv; Itery grave. The bodies of Mrs. AP Culloch and lo tti lf Itse Ole n, the pilot, l. .. ave been found ; but Mrs. Kelly, .a the er,nasseny and another V tuna v !Oman, Denis W.L. - , , . 0.1.4., tae still missing.—Des-r,y Senttne , LEITH BURGHS' ELECTION. " EDINBURGH, May 5. The annexed is the result of the first day's poll for the Leith District of Burghs:— Lord Advocate .. Sir David Milne 423 Majority 295 Being 58 more than his majority in May last, when he was op posed by Mr. Aitcheson younger, of Drummond, his Lordship's majority at that time being 237. SOUTH DEVON ELECTION. EXETER, THURSDAY, HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The formal declaration of the poll took place this morn ing in the Nisi Prius Court. Little interest was excited by the ceremony. It was understood that Lord John Russell would not present himself, and few persons in consequence thought it worth while to attend. The poll books were unsealed at ten o'clock, and having been cast up, ... ---- The SHERIFF stepped forward and said— lt is now my duty to declare the state of the poll. The books have been cast up, and I find that the numbers polled were— For Mr. Parker 3755 Lord John Russell 3128 Giving a majority for Mr. Parker of 627 It is, therefore, my duty to declare Montague Edmund Newcombe Parker, Esq., duly elected as a Knight of the Shire to serve in Parliament for the southern division of this county. This announcement was received with three cheers from the friends of Mr. Parker ; none of the opposite party had found their way into the Court. Mr. PARKER then proceeded to the hustings in front of the Court-house, where some few hundred of persons had assembled, and addressed his friends in the following terms ;—Gentlemen, in appearing before you this day as the successful candidate for the honour of representing this division of the county in Parliament, I have to confess my inability to return to you my thanks, in adequate terms, for the great exertions you have made on this occasion. I have not to return thanks so much on my own part, but I have to return thanks for those friends who have asserted the independence of this county—(Cheers, and cries of " No, no !")—and who have shown a determination to pre serve the Constitution of this kingdom, as it exists in a well-balanced Constitution of King, Lords, and Commons. —(Cheers.) And what is of still greater importance, a determination to uphold the religion of their forefathers— the Protestant religion as by law established in this land.— (Cheers.) Your decision of this day has removed those clouds of doubt and apprehension which before existed. You have now given a lesson to the whole country, of your determination not to suffer the institutions of the country to be destroyed.—(Laughter and cheers.) You have consigned to me a great and important trust. I know full well that at any time it is no easy thing to be a good Member of Parliament, but I do feel on the present occa sion the high responsibility which attaches to the person who is made the representative of your feelings and opi nions in Parliament.—( A voice in the crowd—" School boys won't do—go home.") I should say that I almost shrink from that responsibility ; but I know the favourite construction which your kindness will put upon my con duct.—(Cheers.) I know you will give me the fullest credit for the purity of my motives, and the integrity and independence of my conduct, and you may rest assured that the trust you have reposed in me will never be betrayed.— (Cheers.) I beg leave to return you once more my sincere thanks for the great honour you have conferred upon me ; and before I take my leave I beg to say that I think the thanks of the meeting are justly due to the High Sheriff for the high and honourable feeling, and the strict impartiality, which he has exhibited throughout the whole of this great contest.—( Cheers.) A person in the crowd here proposed three cheers for Lord J. Russell. The cheers were given with great spirit. Sir EDMUND PRIDEAUX then came forward and said, that although their Hon. Representative (Mr. Parker) had alluded to the services of the High Sheriff, although he had alluded to that gentleman's distinguished character for integrity and independence on that and on all former occa sions, he (Sir E. Prideaux) could not abstain from doing himself the honour of standing forth to record what he conceived must be the unanimous opinion of all, namely, that the services and conduct of their High Sheriff impera tively demanded that special thanks and every demonstra tion of respect should be manifested towards him, for the manner in which he had conducted the whole of the pro ceedings of the election.—(Cheers.) A most distinguished lesson was that day afforded to the country at large— (laughter)—a lesson from which it might be inferred that the laws, the liberties, and institutions of England would be defended by Englishmen.—(Laughter and cheers.) The eloquent Baronet concluded by proposing that the thanks of the meeting be returned to the High Sheriff for his great ability and unquestionable impartiality in conducting the proceedings of the election.—(Cheers.) Mr. ADAMS had the greatest pleasure in seconding the motion of his Hon. Friend ; and he was quite sure that, although there might be some few in that assembly who might not agree with the supporters of Mr. Parker at that moment, yet a time would arrive, and that speedily, when all would rejoice as he did at the event of the recent elec tion.—(Cries of " No, no !") The struggle had been, not whether Mr. Parker should represent that division of the county, but whether they should have a Representative who would really and truly be the Representative o f the princi pies of the great majority of the people.—(Laughter and cheers.) He would not detain them at any greater length, because he knew they would be anxious to see that display of good feeling and loyalty which would be exhibited throughout that great and loyal city, when his Hon. Friend, Mr. Parker, should proceed through its streets. He would, therefore, content himself by seconding the motion of the Hon. Baronet. The HIGH SHERIFF, in returning his best and warmest thanks, said, that whether the compliment proceeded from the proudest elector in the county, or from the poorest man, if he (the Sheriff) had discharged his duty, he should re ceive it with the same sincere gratitude.—(Cheers.) Let us wish (he continued to say)—let us wish the Hon. Mem ber who has just been elected, health to show his love to the Constitution, and to defend the liberties of England.— (Loud cheers.) Let us, now we have finished our work, return to our duties in our private stations in life—let us compose our differences—(Cheers) —let us hold out the hand of good fellowship to each other—(great cheering)— and let us always recollect, that although differences of opi nion may sometimes exist between us, we have all only one country, and that country England—the land of our birth. — (Continued cheering.) The crowd then left the Castle-yard, to join with those who took part in the ceremony of chairing. Lord JoHN RUSSELL proceeded to London yesterday, but previous to his departure, published a pointed and spi rited address, of which I forward you a copy : " TO THE ELECTORS OF THE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF THE COUNTY MORI OF DEVON. " GENTLEMEN,—The contest for the Southern Division of the county of Devon has ended with my rejection. " It is a consolation for me to think that I have not in any way swerved from those principles which originally gave me a title to your support. " It is likewise consolatory to acknowledge, which I do with the warmest feelings of gratitude, that I have received the strongest proofs of zeal and regard from those friends on whose undisputed worth and correct understanding I set the highest value. "To the effect of intimidation and undue influence, to the temporary alarm in weak minds caused by the revival of the cry of No Popery,' to the advantages gained by misrepre sentation and slander among the ill-informed, and, lastly, to the great industry displayed by my opponents in registering their friends and dependants, my defeat is to be attributed. " Still when I compare the advantage thus obtained in a single election with the long, powerful, and popular resistance that was made to the Roman Catholic claims, I cannot but feel that the cause of liberality, toleration, and truth, has gained ground; and I clearly perceive the day when the un constitutional threat, the rooted prejudice, and the petty ca lumny which have been successful against me, will shrink before the advance of political freedom, and the diffusion of religious charity. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your faithful servant, "J. RUSSELL." "TO THE ELECTORS OF TIIE SOUTHERN DIVISION OF DEVONSHIRE. " Gentlemen,—After the result of one of the most arduous and important contests ever known in England, it is my plea sant duty to return my warmest thanks to the electors of the Southern Division of the County of Devon, for the high honour they have conferred upon me. Gentlemen—l am fully aware that it could be no personal favour which has raised me to the highest situation to which a Commoner can aspire, the representation of my native county in Parliament. It is a peculiar satisfaction to me to know that it is the cause of which I have been made the humble Representative which has engaged your best feelings and most active exertions, and that it is because you have felt its vital importance to the welfare of the country, that you have come forward with the spirit which must, in a good cause, always ensure a victory. " Gentlemen—lt only remains for me to assure you that, in the honourable post in which you have placed me, I will, to the utmost of my abilities, seek, by an earnest attention to its duties, to justify you in the choice you have made. " I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, " Your obliged and very obedient humble servant, " MONTAGU EDMUND NEWCOMBE PARKER. " Whiteway, May 6, 1835." DEVONSHIRE ELECTION.--The Standard asks— " Has not money been received from France to corrupt the South Devon Electors—from the Jesuits of the Continent as well as from the Jesuits of Ireland—from the Jacobins of Paris as; well us from the Radicals of England?" THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1835. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Cumberland and a select party dined with the Duchess of Cambridge, at Cambridge House, on Wednesday evening. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by Prince George and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt, paid visits yesterday to the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and tc the Princess Sophia, at Kensington Palace. In the evening her Royal Highness, accompanied by the Princess Augusta and Prince George, and attended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt and Captain Hay, honoured the performance of Otello, and the new ballet of Zephir Berger, at the King's Theatre, with her presence. The Duke of Cumberland, attended by Sir Colquhoun Grant, was present yesterday at the anniversary festival of the Sons of the Clergy in St. Paul's Cathedral. The Duchess of Kent has appointed Major-General the Honourable Arthur Upton to be one of her Royal Highness's Equerries. At the King's Levee, on Wednesday, Dr. Holland was pre sented, on his appointment to be Physician Extraordinary to his Majesty, by Sir Henry Halford. The French Ambassador and the Portuguese Minister visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. Earl Amherst had an interview yesterday with Lord Glenelg at the Colonial Office. The Earl of Mulgrave, the Earl of Gosford, Mr. Cutler Fergusson, and the Attorney-General, had interviews yester day with Viscount Melbourne at the Treasury. A deputation (respecting cinnamon) including Messieurs Scott, Bell, Lucas, Jones, Carroll, Groves, and Arroyave, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hons. Poulett Thom son and H. Labouchere, the President and Vice-President, at the office of the Board of Trade. ALMACK'S GRAND BALL. At the Grand Ball at Almack's on Wednesday last, there was a very brilliant assembly. Collinet's band attended. There were present— Prince Esterhazy, the French Minister. MARQUISSES—Douro, Downshire, De Praslin. M ARC HIONESSES —Londonderry, Downshire, De Praslin. E A RLS.--Sandwich, Ilchester, Hillsborough, Clonmell, Li verpool. C O UNTESSES---Sebastiani, Sefton, Euston, Durham, Listo well, De Salis, Antrim, Norbury, Mansfield. Count Esterhazy. Loans—Dorchester, Suffield, Hawarden, Ridley, Decies, W. Hill, Maynard, C. Beauclerk, Cranstoun, F. Beauclerk. LADIES—ToIer, Suffield, Conroy, F. Lambton, Wheatley, Hawarden, Waterpark, F. Strangeways, M. Shepperd, May nard, E. Ker, Willoughby, Trollope, G. Berkeley, C. Hill, Murray, G. S. Stanley, E. Fitzroy, Rivers, Molyneux, E. Balfour, Gage, B. Proctor, E. Smyth, Scott (two), C. Dun das, Quintin, Stuart de Rothesay, E. Palk, B. Codrington, L. Vaughan, St. John, F. Cole, Jenkinson (two), Petre. Baron Rehausen. SIRS--W. De Tuyll, C. Dalbiac, W. Farquhar, G. Berke ley, W. Abdy, W. Geary, G. Anson, C. Grant, W. Boothby, R. Devereux. COLONELS—Webster, Needham, Seymour, Walpole. CAPTAINS—HamiIton, Hill, Spencer. MESSRS.—F. Gower, Shiffner, G. Cadogan, Law, C. Forester, A. Powys, B. Primrose, Harbord, D. Murray, C. West, C. Canning, F. Molyneux, B. Sheridan. MISTRESSES—Webster, Pellew, Gage, Norton, Blackwood, Morier. MlSSES—Berkeley, Law (two), Maude, Gage, Shepperd, Willoughby, Ridley, Dundas, Dalbiac, Smyth, Cavendish, Palk, St. John, Beauclerk, Conroy, Vaughan, Grant, Anson, Codrington, Stuart, Kenyon, Quintin, Stanley, Proctor, Dun das, Maynard, Trollope, Morier, Balfour, Cole, Beauclerk, Bushe, Beresford, and Pitt. FESTIVAL of the SONS of the CLERGY The Anniversary Festival of the Sons of the Clergy, which takes plape under the auspices of the highest authorities in Church and State, was celebrated yesterday morning at St. Paul's Cathedral. The sermon was preached by the Dean of Norwich. The orchestra, consisting of the Members of the Royal Society of Musicians and Gentlemen of his Majesty's Chapels Royal, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, performed the various compositions alluded to in our notice of Tuesday's rehearsal. Boyce's anthem " Lord I thou hast been our refuge," is the most beautiful of his compositions, and next to Purcel he was the greatest Cathedral writer of this country. We had deceived ourselves in the expectation of hearing from Sir George Smart, who conducted on this oc casion, and is one of the organists of his Majesty's Chapels Royal, one of those pieces of florid and learned counterpoint, of which the German school of organ writers is so prolific ; and we more especially looked for this great gratification as we saw Mr. Attwood in the body of the Church. St. Paul's Ca thedral is eminently suited to display and enhance the charac teristic beauties of the organ, _ Where music dwells Lingering and wandering on, as loth to die ; Like thoughts whose very sweetness yieldeth proof That they were born for immortality." The voluntary after the service consisted of Sebastian Bach's pedal fugue in D minor (No. 9), performed by the son of the deputy Organist. The composition was played too slowly. Dr. Forkel observes that Bach, " in the execution of his own pieces, generally took the time very brisk ;" and indeed by deviating from this example, many of his harmonies have an appearance of harshness which do not belong to them, and the exquisite and brilliant melody of the sequence is destroyed. To show the difference between our Chapel Royal organists and their Continental brethren, we extract from an amus ing little volume (ascribed to Dr. Crotch) an account of John Schneider, the leviathan of organists in Germany " In one of the morning feasts of Sebastian Bach, in which though privately concerted with M. Schneider we never failed of participators, that inimitable artist indulged us with some of those organ fugues which I had not before heard. Let me in stance those in C and F sharp minor, and in A flat major, of all of which the bass parts were entirely executed by the pe dals. Had I not been an eye-witness of the rolling passages that were thus given by the feet with the greatest smoothness and certainty, I should still have been sceptical as to its possi bility." And again the writer says—" One morning on which we visited the church, happening to be rather sultry before be ginning to play, he whipped off his coat, saying to his company, " Verzeihen sie, mean Herrn" (your pardon, gentlemen), and in that pleasant state of unformality plunged into the thick of the Kyries of Sebastian Bach, playing the whole of six andseven parts with such a towering skill in the pedals as to make o ne think the old author returned from his grave." We have only to observe with regret that there is nothing of this kind to be heard in our Chapel Royals at present : probably organ play ing is less studied by his Majesty's servants than any other branch of the fine arts. We regret to have to announce the death of Mrs. Blaxland, eldest daughter of the Hon. James Dowling, Judge of the Supreme Court, Sydney, New South Wales. Mrs. Blaxland died at the early age of nineteen, on the 15th De cember last, having been married only eight months to a gen tleman of the highest respectability in the colony. The blow is rendered doubly severe to the Learned Judge, her father, from the circumstance of his wife having died only in the month of August preceding. n Lfi , POPERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—To what are Catholics indebted for all that deadly hatred, and still persevering antipathy, on the part of Pro testants, which has unceasingly attended them, from the very birth of Protestantism to the present period,—if not to the groundless imputation of what our protesting brethren are pleased to term Popery ?—groundless, I say, and perfectly gratuitous—for, in no part of the Christian world has there ever existed, or ever will exist, a single individual professing the strange and horrid creed ascribed by Protestants to each individual member of the Catholic Church ; that is, to the immense majority of Christians spread over every part of the universe where Christianity has ever been introduced in each revolving age. Adoring wooden gods, worshipping the Vir gin Mary with divine honour, paying the grossest idolatry to the bread in the Eucharist (whereas Catholics do not believe any bread at all to remain after the consecration, but merely 'the outward species of bread and wine), with an infinite num ber of other false and equally groundless aspersions and most slanderous charges, any one of which would prove the hitherto nominal Catholic no Catholic at all, could it be substantiated against him—all, notwithstanding, included in the charge of Popery, Romanism, Papistry, and other elegant misnomers of the Catholic religion, and imputed by the very terms, in the ordinary Protestant acceptation, to every individual professor of the Catholic creed. Catholics, then, have still sufficient reason to complain of the uncharitable feeling, yet so prevalent in the breasts of their Protestant fellow Christians, against them. But all this, it would seem, is not deemed sufficient by the Tory and High Church party. In all appearance, they would (if they had it at their option) re-adopt in practice, if not all the corporal inflictions, at least the mental thraldom and degradation from which they are just emerging, against their brethren of the Catholic faith. Their unseemly rage against their own dear bantling—Popery, is, in my opinion, Sir, any thing but natural. Pontefract, May 6, 1835. A TRUE RADICAL. THE FOUL INFLUENCES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—There are few features in your admirable paper more to be commended than your able advocacy of the Ballot. To that improvement in our representative system, recent events are haply hastening us. Would Mr. Parker have obtained a numerical majority yesterday, if the voter had been protected by the ballot ? The foul influences were never more vigorously worked than at the Devon election. The Corporation of Exeter, only one degree less infamous than Liverpool and Lincoln, and many times more powerful than either, in an al most unlimited command over the means of corruption and bribery, were naturally found on the side of the candidate whose political profession it is to protect all abuses, municipal as well as national. Birds of a feather—they have a commu nity of companionship, and of interests—they conspire against the public welfare, and band themselves to prolong their pos session of public plunder. The days of the Corporators are numbered—the condemnation—the curse of the country is upon them, and Exeter will find that the advocate whom they have just purchased at so high a pi ice, will not be able to arrest the heavy judgment which awaits their iniquities. What is Mr. Parker ? An unit. Nay less—his influence in the assembly of the people will b. a quantity less than nothing. When he raises his little thin voice in the House—if, indeed, he venture on such an undertaking—his Tory twaddle will be as inaudible, as his attempts to perpetuate the Corporation abuses will prove abortive. For Devon, which has done so much for him, he can do nothing. I wish both parties joy from their bargain. The parsons, as usual, have been at their dirty work. They have succeeded in seducing the shopkeepers and other depen dents on custom for a livelihood, into a surrender of their electoral virtue. They, too, stimulated both by the Bishop and the two seignorial personages, Lord Rolle and the Courtenay, have industriously preached sermons in every parish, the text of which has always been—" If you vote not for him whom we declare unto you, ejection shall be your portion." Is it, then, much to be wondered at, that the poor ignorant dependent farmers should have been frightened into a compliance with the lust of power. They had to make their election between prostitution and beggary—they fell as many before have fallen, poverty and not their will consenting. Let us draw a veil over their errors. Their's is not a solitary ex ample of electoral frailty, nor is the vice confined to England. In Ireland, Mr. O'Connell, in his forcible speech which I have just read, informs us that in that unhappy country to the Tory landlords the poor electors dare refuse nothing—unless with the dreadful alternative of immediate ejectment, and the other appliances of a persecution as immediate as it is always bitter, cruel, and unrelenting. With such a mass of evidence as comes before us every day, showing the frightful extent to which intimidation is carried by the enemies of the people, who will say that the protection of the Ballot is not imperatively called for ? It has been proved here in Devon, only a day or two ago, that no real represen tation can be obtained without it. Does not Lord John Rus sell owe his defeat entirely to the defective state of our elec toral system ? Hear what Lord John Russell himself says in his last Address to the electors of South Devon To the effect of intimidation and undue influence—to the temporary alarm on weak minds, caused by the revival of the cry of No Popery'—to the advantages gained by misrepresentation and slander among the ill-informed ; and, lastly, to the great in dustry displayed by my opponents in registering their friends and dependents, my defeat is to be attributed." There are few—nay n•n© with honesty and truth, can deny that, but for the foul influences, such a person as Parker could have been returned when opposed to a man of the splendid talents, large views, and enlightened principles, of a Russell. From his defeat at Devon, however, I look for the redemption of the pledge he gave during the progress of the Reform Bill, in which measure he took so distinguished a part ._-.that if experience should show that the elector demanded protection, he would consent to the introduction of the Ballot. At the period which I have just referred to it was urged that a place in parliament would, after the passing of the Reform Bill, be of so little worth, that no one would take the trouble either to bribe or intimidate. Have results justified the pre diction? No sir, the foul influences still exist, and by the Ballot only can they be remedied. " How should we stand now ?"—asked Mr. Charles Buller at a dinner of Lord John Russell's friends at Exeter—" in this county, if we had the Ballot ? Should we have to be nicely examining returns, weighing the consequences of such a squire's ratting, or counting the number influenced by fear of the tithe proctor ? No ; we should rely on the ballot-box exhibit ing the same result as that we saw in the Castle-yard to-day—and giving the Noble Lord a majority of three to one. I saw the supporters of Mr. Parker enter the town to -day—l know the look of the Devonshire farmer when goina about a business of which his conscience approves. am sure such was not the look of those who came in to-day, under the guidance of the parsons, to vote for Lord Rolle and the Bishop.—(Loud cheers.) These men came to vote against their inclinations, and I would not have feared, with the ballot, to stake the result of the election on the votes of those very men." In conclusion, I entreat Lord John Russell to introduce the Ballot. He has the power, backed as he will be by the whole body of the people. " I beg him to recollect the situation of those who sacrifice their personal interests in order to vote for him, and of those who, at the expense of their feelings and consciences, are compelled to vote against him," and, so re collecting, he will not hesitate to give them the protection prayed for. PLEBS. THE CHURCH IN DANGER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. It must, Sir, I think, be apparent to the least reflecting, that there has long existed in the public mind a suspicion that in the Church (so called) every thing was not so pure and per fect as it ought to be. This feeling has grown into a convic tion, founded on an examination of facts, and therefore inde structible, that in the system of administration the greatest abuses exist. Although the number of dissenters from the doctrines established by law are numerous, and their character, conduct, and intelligence give them a deservedly prominent place in the country's religion, yet perhaps it may be affirmed that the national condemnation is directed rather against the administration, than the doctrine of the Church of England, —rather against its temporalities than its spiritualities. Nor can we suppose that the large and enlightened body of seced ers from the establishment were not influenced in their separa tion by the undeniable abuses of the system, to the full as much as by the debateable dogmas of its doctrine. It appears its offending. to me, that the abuses of the Church are the front o f offending. Let these be removed, and probably the Church may still be saved. Its danger is from within, and, if it fall, its friends will be the agents. Were she wise, and saw her imminent peril, she would beseech God to save her from her friends—friends indiscreet, misjudging, and intemperate — friends who precipitate, by their acts, the event they deprecate by their words. The Church of Ireland may be regarded as on the road to reform ; the fiat has gone forth, and the hap piest results may be anticipated. Would it not be politic to bring in immediately, on the meeting of Parliament, a mea sure having for its object the reform of the Church Establish ment in this country ? On an efficient reform, contemplating the correction of all those notoi ions vices which have so long been denounced by the good and wise, depends the preserva tion of the present tottering fabric. Need I enumerate the reforms that are called for—non-residence and pluralities should have a remedy at once applied ; the tithe question should be boldly dealt with, the working Clergy better paid, and the bench of Bishops have incomes more in keeping with their apostolic pretensions. These points carried at once into effect, would be the salvation of the establishment. If the denial of such justice be much longer delayed, the cry will not then be the Church is in danger—but men will say the Church was in danger—it lay as it were on its death-bed, and yet repented not of its sins—now look at its end Of course every body knows that there are difficulties, many and gre a t diffi cu lti es , i n t he way of effecting a legislative reform of the Church ; but do not the dangers that at present stare us in the face, by continuing a system so little in har mony with the r.ational opinion—do not these vast and immi nent dangers greatly out-number them ? After all, we per. haps magnify the difficulties, and were they once fairly grappled with. we should perhaps find that they required for their re moval only a vigorous hand, earnest in purpose, and true of intent. The Bishops, supposing them to be no worse than other men, would of course set up their backs against any in terference, either with their benches or their bishoprics ; but truth and justice would prevail even against them—they alto gether are weaker than either by itself, and would be con• strained to fall into a line where the sphere of their utility and the compass of their true respectability would be enlarged in a ratio to the reduction of their unmerited riches; for none but the revilers of our prelacy—none but those infidels to whom all religious establishments are hateful—would assert that the true dignity of the Church consisted in sinecures, .7" . ...,0 1, pluralities, or exceeding great riches. The Bishops then may easily learn by such a lesson, as a bold and enlightened statesman might read to them, that acquiescence in a just and large measure of Church reform, is a course dictated alike by wisdom and policy. For myself, I will not wrong the right reverend Prelates by supposing their preference of the golden calf to the Liturgy, the rites, the ceremonies, and the ordinances of our Holy Church. Assuredly, the beauties of holiness, if exhibited to them in a strong light, so that they may see its divine perfections, will prevail over Mammon — over the pomps and vanities that render the entrance of a rich man into the kingdom of God an occurrence, scripturally, of the greatest conceivable difficulty. The Bishop's bench, then, is not likely to offer an insuperable barrier. Who then will hold out against the just demands of the people ? Not the expectants of preferment—not the volo episcopari—albeit they are numerous, for they are comparatively powerless—are known to be obedient to their spiritual superiors, and are, in common with the great body of the clergy, always found on the stronger side. All a minister has to do is to demonstrate the sufficiency of his power, and these pious men will regard his law as the law of God. The aristocracy have a ♦ested interest in the temporal abuses of the Church, since its doors have always been open, and its high places occupied by their connexions, forming a handsome provision for all such of their families as may like to enter therein, and enjoy those good things which the first-born has monopolized, or the ancestor squandered. Yet, looking at the signs of the times, these Noble Lords will see clearly enough that to take care of their own house, to prop up the Peers is their first duty—that will be their primary care. To set their house in order, they know as well as we do, is far better than to aid in its destruction. East Retford offers them a lesson by which they will profit. They are not mad ; nor are the events of 1831 and 1832 epochs in history beyond their recollection. I fear no opposition they will offer but to their organs. I would just observe, that to set up any claim to religion would damage them still more in public opi nion, than the notorious profligacy of their lives has yet ac complished. Every body knows that the zeal for religion, on the exhibition of which some of them at times have ventured, is mere hypocrisy ; and to pretend to a religious virtue, which they are known not to have, is only to add hypocrisy to the already numerous catalogue of their vices, and thus plunge themselves still deeper into irrevocable contempt. The true breed of bigots is not quite extinct in England, although few or none perhaps are to be found amongst the Peers--but the battle of the bigots would be but short. The time when, at the blast of bigotry, masses of men might be called into the field, has passed away. Thank God, a George Gordon could not gather a hundred strong now, nor aro there any men in Birmingham now who could be incited to the out rages that banished Priestly the town—outrages fomented by fanatics—fostered by the hypocritical, and supported not less by the superstitious than by the sordid, who, under the cloak of religion, seek only to plunder the public. I have perhaps, Sir, said enough to show that the Church is in danger from its friends, its sordid and foolish friends; that Church Reform is loudly called for—that it cannot be much longer witheld—that all opposition would be powerless to stay the march of a great Minister, determined to carry this great measure—that the battle is already half won by Lord John Russell's resolution, and that Lord Melbourne should now buckle on his armour, and go forth in the spirit of Christ to fight the good fight, his followers being the whole people in Great Britain. I am, Sir, A COUNTRY CURATE. 1,0 ._ PARIS COURT of PEERS, PALACE of the LUXEMBOURG. TRIAL OF THE ACCUSED OF THE PLOT AND INSURRECTIONS OF APRIL, 1834. SECOND DAY—WEDNESDAY, MAY 6. The agitation which had manifested itself towards the close of the sitting of yesterday, after the Court had de cided that the prisoners should not be authorised to choose Counsel for their defence from among persons not members of the legal profession, still continued after their return to prison. Nothing precise transpired respecting the nature of the scenes that occurred within doors ; but at seven o'clock in the evening three hackney-coaches were seen to leave the prison, escorted by horse Municipal Guards, and which were said to convey several of the prisoners to the Conciergerie. Immediately after the sitting the Counsel of the accused, who had held a general meeting in the vicinity of the Lux embourg on hearing of the order made by the Court of Peers, determined on drawing up a protest against it, and appointed a Committee to that effect. But before they prepared it, they deemed it advisable to confer with the ac cused, and proceeded to the prison in which they were con fined. M. Berryer, who had undertaken the defence of M. Genez was among the Counsel, and gave his unre stricted assent to the resolutions adopted by his Repub lican colleagues. But on arriving at the prison they were refused admission, and told that they could not communi cate with the accused before morning. As early as six o'clock this morning the avenues leading, to the galleries assigned to the public were occupied by per sons anxious to procure a seat. Yet it was only at eleven that the gates were opened, when a frightful rush, like that of yesterday, took place, which the Municipal Guards, aided by a detachment of troops of the line, were unable to withstand. Fortunately, a strong palissaded gallery, through which the people had to pass, prevented the invas►on of the Palace, and only about s►xty could obtain seats in the tri bune raised for the public. The other galleries were occu pied (as yesterday) by the Ministers, the Corps Diploma tique, the sons of Peers, Deputies, and other privileged persons. At half-past 12 o'clock, the prisoners were brought in, accompanied by the same cortege of Municipal Guards as on the preceding day. Their appearance and deportment were, as on Tuesday, decent and calm. One of them (an accused of Paris) wore a Phrygian cap. The others were coiffed as yesterday. Shortly afterwards Baron Pasquier, the President, took his seat ; the Members of the Court entered in the usual order ; and M. Martin du Nord, the Attorney-General, followed by his four assistants, dressed in red gowns, placed himself at the bureau, laid out for the prosecuting officers of the Crown. The President having announced that the sitting was open, a secretary called over the names of the Members of the Court. None of them were absent. . After this operation was over, the accused rose in a mass, and declared that they protested against the decision taken by the Court on Tuesday. The President in vain at tempted to prevent the accused from speaking. Martin (one of the accused of Lyons) protested warmly, in the name of his colleagues, and was proceeding to read a written statement, when the President imposed silence on him. A general cry of " Let Cavaignac speak !" arose from among the accused of Paris, and M. Martin having declared that he would call for the infliction of penalties against those who should disturb . order, all the accused rose, and, in one voice, cried, "We are all answerable!" Here the utmost tumult ensued. All the prisoners, with the exception of a very few from Lyons, with their hands lifted, exclaimed that they " insisted on all being included in the sentence about to be pronounced against Cavaignac." Nothing could equal the imposing scene presented at this moment by the ac cused. In vain did the President call on the Municipal Guards and officers of the Court to impose silence. The soldiers remained still as statues, and refrained from com mitting any violence to execute the orders of the Court. After the tumult had somewhat subsided, M. Martin du Nord again rose and read an article of a law of 1822, which enacted a penalty of from 15 days to two years' imprisonment against any prisoner who should be guilty of disrespect to the Court, and demanded that it should be made to apply to M. Cavaignac for contempt of Court. All the accused again protested that they were " unani mously of the same opinion as M. Cavaignac, * and de manded that the law invoked by the Attorney-General should be applied to them all. Cavaignac, in a loud voice which o'ertopped the whole, cried " Let me be condemned to two years 1" " Let us all be condemned to the same penalty," exclaimed the whole of the accused. The tumult was here indescribable. The Peers seemed detrified, remaining immovable on their benches. The President was consternated. At last he made a sign to the Court to retire, and the Members hastily withdrew to the Council-room, to deliberate on the steps to be taken in respect of the demand of the Attorney-General against Cavaignac. Whilst the Court was deliberating, the accused became calm by degrees, sat down, and awaited in silence the re turn of the Court. M. Cavaignac was the object of the particular attention of his co-accused and the entire audi tory, who, with the exception of the few individuals seated in the privileged tribunes, sympathised evidently with him and his comrades. The soldiers, seated on either side of them, composed mostly of combatants of July and some Royal Guards, seemed actuated with the best feelings towards them, and engaged in friendly conversation with them. The young sub-officers of cuirassiers, by their manly deportment, also received marks of the liveliest interest. The Court had been for upwards of an hour in delibera tion, when the accused formed into several knots round M. Cavaignac, the sub-officer Thomas, M. Lagrange, of Lyons, M. Marrast, and others. After consulting toge ther, and taking the opinion of M. Fabre, an Advocate of Lyons, several of them were seen to leave the hall, escorted by soldiers, and return shortly after with a written paper, which was handed round for signature to all the prisoners. The nature of that paper was not known, but it was sup posed to be a protest against the decision about to be taken by the Court against M. Cavaignac, in whose fate they solicited a right to be associated. At half-past three the Court was still deliberating in the Council-room, which they had entered at a quarter to one. PORTUGAL. LISBON, APRIL 21.—Yesterday the Queen closed the ordinary Session of the Cortes for this year, with a Speech. but it is supposed an extraordinary Session will be called during the summer or autumn. Her Majesty was accompanied by the Empress, who took her seat in the Royal box over the throne. Their Majesties were met by a deputation of twelve Members of each of the Chambers, who afterwards re-conducted them with the usual ceremony to their carriage. The Queen was dressed in deep mourning. She did not wear one of those frightful widow's caps, the indication of grief in some countries. Her beautiful flaxen hair was gathered into a knot behind, with a black veil over it, that in front falling in large curls over her brow and cheeks. An expression of soft melan choly was spread over her whole countenance, and amply compensated for the absence of the unsightly widow's weeds which English taste might have expected. The speech ex cited the deepest sympathy of a crowded house, the gal leries being filled to overflowing several hours before her her Majesty's arrival ; and several ladies of rank even could not find accommodation, though the Chamber of De- puties, where the Royal Session was held, is much more spacious than the Throne-room of the Ajuda Palace, where it was first intended to take place. The Foreign Ministers and Rear-Admiral Sir NV m. Gage were in the Diplomatic box. The Peers' box was crowded with Peeresses. The gallery reserved for the families of the Deputies was occu pied by the Court, and in the Ladies' Gallery the fair occu pants stood on the benches, with tears glistening in their dark eyes, evincing the deepest sympathy for the youthful Royal widow of their adored Sovereign. The following is the Royal Speech : THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. " NOBLE PEERS OF THE KINGDOM, AND GENTLEMEN DE , PUTIES OF THR PORTUGUESE NATION :-- " It is deeply afflicting to me to remind you that a sad event has lately renewed the grief of my heart, and deprived our country of a magnanimous Prince, who was a model of every virtue, and who in all things answered to the high opinion conceived of him by my august father of glorious memory. But in spite of my sorrow, as deep as it is fresh, to-day, which closes the Session of the present year, after so many and such weighty affairs as have been submitted to your consideration, I owe you a great effort to come and express personally the satisfaction which I have in congratulating you on the proofs which you have given of your care in consolidating the Con stitutional Throne, by adopting measures of the most salutary and surpassing utility. The progress which you have made in the adoption of principles necessary for the extension to the whole kingdom of the new reform of justice, as well as the steps which you have taken with respect to decimal money, from which the most important results may be expected ; the new form of issue of this decimal money, and the annexed im posts, and finally your resolutions upon many other objects requiring your consideration, are so many proofs of your wis dom and patriotism. " I ought, however, particularly to mention not only the law of indemnities, in which you have combined justice to each individual with peace and assurance to all, but also that capital measure, the sale of the national property, which, fertile in vast advantages, by opening the primary sources of wealth, and cementing the institutions which produced such copious fruits, would, of themselv,:s, be sufficient to eternize the famous epoch of the restoration of these kingdoms. " My especial acknowledgments are no less due for the powers intrusted to my Government for realizing important improvements ; the delays in judicial and administrative orga nization, the collisions between ancient and modern laws, and the conflicts of the authorities of Ordinances and of the Char ter, could net but cause serious injury to the credit of Consti tutional principles, and to the well-being of my people. It was not possible in a few months to remedy the evils of years and centuries ; but you having in your wisdom appreciated the difficulties of this position, supplied the Government with powers and means to proceed to a new valuation of the real property of the kingdom, to open and facilitate the internal comm unications, to improve public instruction, make territo rial divisions, and finally establish the Administration under all its various relations. " I hope that nothing will arise to destroy your confidence, and that before long you will see verified the benefits of the Charter, and that the Portuguese people will practically re cognise that our fundamental law is not a mere theory. " On the sad occasion which we all deplore, some misguided or unruly persons attempted, under the semblance of zeal, to disturb the peace of the capital ; but the rectitude of public spirit rendered almost unnecessary the interference of the authorities, as good order was immediately restored. The whole of the kingdom, and our possessions beyond seas, enjoy perfect tranquillity, and I have reason to believe that the time is fast approaching when the whole of my subjects, having lost sight of the illusions of party spirit, will have for their sole devise the Monarchy of the Charter, and will show them selves in all things worthy of the generosity and last efforts of the immortal Liberator. The perfect intelligence and har mony of our country with friendly and allied nations still con tinues, and let all be assiduous in rendering practicable those endeavours which may be consistent with the national dignity, to re-establish useful relations with all countries, and princi pally with those from which we may derive the greatest com mercial advantages. " GENTLEMEN DEPUTIES OF THE PORTUGUESE NATION, " The multiplicity of affairs has not permitted you to exa mine the Budget for the present year ; the present taxes con tinue, therefore, in full force, according to the forms of the Constitutional Charter, article 137 ; and I pledge myself that my Government, in the constitutional limits assigned to it, will employ all its care in augmenting the receipts and diminishing the expenses of the State. " Our credit at home and abroad is in that high state of prosperity which might be expected from the good faith with which we respect all the legitimate agreements and rights as from ability with which we administer our undoubted resources. "NOBLE PEERS OF THE KINGDOM AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PORTUGUESE NATION, " In returning to your ordinary occupations, say to the peo ple, that by my own voice you have heard these truths • instruct them by your example in the faithful obedience to ihe laws, and in the proper veneration to the authorities ; inspire them all with the horror of license and anarchy, fatal enemies to liberty, and infallible precursors of the ruin of States ; com municate to them the fruits of your wisdom and patriotism, and closely reflect upon all public - and local wants and improve ments, in order that at the proper period for resuming your high functions, you may co-operate, with your actions and ex perience, in completing the great work of Portuguese restora tion. You will thus acquire the blessings of the present and of future generations." When the Queen had done reading, she rose with mo dest grace, and extending her beautifully-formed bare arm to return the paper to an attendant, slowly descended the steps of the Throne, supported by the Mayor-Domo-Mayor, Count Sampaio, who had the appearance of her great grandfather, and retired, surrounded by the Peers, Depu ties, Courtiers, and Officers, every eye being fixed on her with an expression of veneration mingled with sorrow. To judge from appearance, the amiable young Queen's late bereavement has, if possible, knitted more closely the ties of attachment which bound the nation to her and her cause. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. Newmarket, Wednesday. The following is a list of the arrivals up to the present time : The Duke of Rutland, Duke of Grafton, Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, Marquis of Granby, Earl and Countess Wilton, Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Earl and Countess of Ches terfield, Earl Jersey, Earl Verulam, Earl Stradbroke, Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Earl Orford, Lord Godolphin, Lord Portar lington, Lord C. Manners, Lord Villiers, Lord Stanley, Lord W. and Lady Caroline Paulett, Lord John Fitzroy, Lord G. Bentinck, Lord Berners, Lord S. Osborne, Sir David and Lady Baird, Sir John Shelley, Sir S. and Lady Graham, Sir M. Wood, Hon. Mr. and Lady Emmeline Wortley, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Anson (who left yesterday for town), Colonel and Lady Alice Peel, Colonel Udney, Messrs. C. Greville, S. Stonehewer (and Lady), C. Wilson (and Lady), J. Mills, Buller, Worrall G. Walker, Payne, Newton, Roberts, Elives, Hawker, Batson, 0: Hunter, J. Hunter, Sowerby, S. Stanley, Bowes, Irby, Thornhill, Thornhill, jun., &c. Thursday. The 1,000 Guineas Stakes, by a subscription of 100 rove. each, h. ft. ; three yas old fillies, Bst. 41b. each. D.M. 19 subs. Mr. Greville's Preserve, by Emilius—Mustard Nat 1 Sir M. Wood's b. f. by Bustard—Clare Lord Exeter's ch. f. by Emilius—Augusta's dais. Betting-8 to lon Preserve, who made all the running, and won in a canter by three lengths. The King's Plate of 100 gs. ; for five yrs old, llst. ; six, list. 91b. ; and aged, 12st. R. C. Mr. Walkers Consol, aged, 9st. 41b Scott 1 Lord Exeter's Datura, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b Mr. Harvey's c. by Phantom, 4 yrs Betting-3 to lon Consol, who woitby two lengths. (In ovr list of the Oaks betting yesterday we omitted 16 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Quadroon. ) Amongst the departures are—The Duke of Grafton, Lord and Lady Wilton, Lord Stanley, Colonel and Mrs. Anson, &c. Kingston-house Rooms, Thursday night. !SAES. 7 to 4 agst Lord Jersey's Ibrahim 11 to 2 agst 5Jr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus 11 to 2 agst Lord Orford's Ascot 14 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mundig (taken) 14 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Silenus /5 to 1 agst Silenus and Pucelle 15 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Leopoldine 22 to 1 agst Mr. Grant's Knobstiek 40 to 1 agst Cameleopard 100 to 1 agst Sir J. Heatheote's Valentissimo SAKS. 7 to 4 agst Preserve 5 to 1 apt Lord Chesterfield's Eva 18 to 1 agst Quaderoon There is every prospect of a fine day's sport to-morrow, four new Stakes having filled very respectably. CHESTER RACES, WED.vEspir. The Dee Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft., for three yrs old ; Derby weights. Once round and a distance. The owner of the second horse to receive back his stake. _ _ Sir T. Stanley's Peter Simple Templeman 1 Marquis of Westminster's br. c. by Conductor Sir R.W. Bulkeley's Borghese 3 6t04 on Peter Simple. Borghese took the lead, c. by Con ductor laying second ; at the Castle-Pole Peter Simple challenged, and, aftvr a beautiful race, won cleverly by a length. The pace was slow from the beginning. The Stand Cup, value 100 sovs., the gift of the Stand Committee, adddd to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, for all ages. Twice round and a distance ; three yrs old, 6st. 101 b. ; four, Bst. 21b. ; five, Bst. 101 b. ; six ands ged, 9st. ; mares and geldings allowed 21b. Marquis of Westminster's Touchstone, 4,yrs, walked over. The Annual City Plate of 60 guineas, given by the Corporation ; three yrs old, 6st. Mb. ; four yrs, Bst. ; five yrs, Bst. 121 b. ; six yrs and aged, 9st. 21b. ; mares and geldings allowed 21b. Heats, twice round. Mr. Nanney's Ratcatcher, 5 yrs E. Wright 3 1 1 Sir R. Bulkeley's Jemima, 6 yrs Mr. F. R. Price's Buccaneer, 4 yrs ..... 2 3 Mr. Newman's Sacharina, 6 yrs Ratcatcher the favourite. In the first heat Ratcatcher took the lead, but was shortly headed by Sacharina ; at the Castle Pole, Jemima was let out, and won by a bare head. Second heat, Rat catcher made all the running, was headed by about 50 yards from home by the mare, but won the heat, with difficulty, by a head. The exertions of the Reformers in Lyme-Regis in in favour of the re-election of Lord John Russell have been unabating. A subscription in aid of his expenses has been entered into. The "No Popery" cry has had an effect on some of our ignorant neighbours, over whom the clergy had an influence. EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTAKING.-Mr. Geo. Pettis, of Wymering, undertook, for a wager with an agricul turist of Sussex, to draw the ewes with their own lambs se parately from a flock consisting of 280 ewes and 300 lambs, out of which were 25 pair of twins, which task be accomplished in the short space of two hours and a half, winning his wager in a most masterly style.—Cheltenham Chronicle. A MAD ELEPIIANT.—(From the Madras Ga zette, Dec. 17.) —One of the Nabob's servants met a most shocking and horrible death yesterday. An elephant belong ing to the Chepauk Palace became suddenly attacked with a paroxysm of furious madness, broke loose and seized the first person that came in his way by his trunk, twirled him round over his head with tremendous violence, dashed him to the ground, and kept striking the lifeless body to the earth, till having exhausted his fury upon this one victim he abandoned the corpse. He then chased such others as dared to approach him, but these were fortunate enough to keep out of his reach. The animal afterwards fairly knocked down two other ele phants sent to overcome him. The gates of the Palace corn- pound were immediately shut, and the keepers endeavoured to go up and coax him. He walked gently off from them till they were emboldened to walk up to him, when he suddenly turned round and pelted after them at the top of his speed. He did this several times, and a trooper went off express to the Nabob to know what was to be done. Upon his arrival the guards turned out and were ordered to fire upon the elephant. The animal was eventually taken, but not till he had received 20 balls. He is now in safe custody. MURDER.--On Thursday last a man named Pat Duggan was murdered in the town of Tipperary by an opposing party, called the Hickey party. Some time before the mur der was committed a brother-in-law of the deceased had a contradiction in a public-house in the town with the Hickeys, who, after this, collected in a public-house in the suburbs, leading to Doniskea, where they waited for the deceased and his brother-in-law ; when the unfortunate man came up, the Hickeys rushed out, with their coats off, armed with weapons of iron, and attacking the deceased, deprived him in a few se conds of life. As soon as the bloody deed was perpetrated, the murderers ran towards home. The police authorities having received intelligence of the murder and the route of the assailants, Mr. C. C. Gannon so hotly pursued them, that about the distance of two miles he succeeded in apprehending eight of the party, some of whom were without their coats, with their shirts stained with the blood of the deceased. One of this murderous party, named William Hickey, has been identified as having struck the first blow which deprived his fellow-creature of life. The deceased was a tenant of Mr. Low, of Spring-house, and was a respectable farmer and a man of excellent character ; he has left a wife and nine chil dren to deplore his loss.—Clonmel Herald ;411