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

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New York; Sussex, Trieste; Prides, Mediterranean; lona, Marseilles; Thomas Har rison, Carthagena; Bourg Queen, Swansea, with the rest of the outward bound, except the Rouennais, Gua (talon pe. GUERNSEY, Nov. 24.--The Sea Witch, Freeman, from Sierra Lonna for London, struck on the north of the island this morning, and has become a total wreck; Cargo strewed all over the beach; crew drowned, except three (and one man who dud on the passage); two smaq Packets said to contain g , .ld rugs are saved. The following was posted at Lloyd's:— " THE TYPHOON IN THE CHINA SEAS. " The following is a copy of a letter, addressed by the Chairman of the t.lommitt( e ( or Managing the Affairs of Lloyd's to Captain Cedney, commanding the United States frigate Plymouth, thanking him for Hi services rendered to the meremtile marine at Cumsingmoon during the typhoon of the 3_l st of August last:— " Lloyd ; S, Nov. 22, 1848. " Sir,---The attention of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of LlO3 d's having been caHed by Messrs. Blenkiu, Rawson, and Co., the agents of the establish tent at Hong-Kong, t.) the great exertions made by Yourself and the , fficers and crew of the United States frigate Plymouth, under your command, in rendering assistance during a severe typhoon, on the Ist of Sept., to vessels in distress which were lying at the anchorage of Cuinsingmoon, I am requested to communicate the &ugh sense they entertain of the prompt and important services rendered to the shipping at the time in question by yourself, officers, and crew.—l am, Sir, your obedient aervant, " G. R. ROBINSON, Chairman." MARKET NEWS -(THIS DAY.) COV=I7I7-G.S.F. , DZIZ. Scarcely any alteration took place in the prices of either Fruit or Vegetables to-day. Generally speaking, the tra d e ruled heavy, with large supplies offering. F ruit: —Pine-apples, 23 91 to 4s per lb; Apples, is ,-„ to 33 ; rears, 4s to 6s per half sieve; Black Hamburgr,h Grapes, 9d to Is 3d, and Muscat of Alexandria, 2s to 2s 8d per lb; Walnuts, 8J to is and New Oranges, 83 to 103 per 100; Filberts, 903 to 100 s per 1001bs.— v egetables:—lted Cabbages, is to 3s par dozen; .pintich, is 4d to 2s per junk; Horseradish, 2s to "3 per bundle; Turnips, 13 to is 9d; Carrots, 2s 6J to 1 ,„ 33 3 d; and Onions, 2s to 2s 0.1 per dozen bunches; -uotators, 45 to 6i per bushrl; Celery, 10.1 to Is 31 per bundle; Cape Brocoli, 4s to 5s per dozen bundles; al ushrootos, 8d to is 6d ptr pottle; Spanish Otdons, 10s to 151 p. r box; Endive, SJ to Is 2d per score. NEVIC: - '64I,TE AND 31.73.11.11MME141.3.. 1 1 1 '1;110 Beef a n d Mutton sold at full prices. In other "Inds of m. at comp9ratively little business was doing:-- Beef, from 2s 2d to 33 6i ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4$ 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od ; and Pork 33 8d to 4s 8 4 1 per 811)s, by the carcase.--Geese, 48 o to 7s; Fowls, Is 3d to 3s 3d; Capons, 3s 6d b ., "" 4 3 6d ; Chickens, Is 01 to 2s 6d; Ducks, Is 91 to 28 6 d; IlLibbits, 6d to is 61; Leverets, 2s 6d 33 ; Ilares, 2s 91 to 3s 6,1; Grouse, Is to Is 9d; Par 01;idges, Is to Is 6d; Plteasanti, 3s to 3s 6d; Wild li cks, is 3d to is 6d; and Pi k eons, 5d to 9d each. a .tend Fresh Butter, 103 Cd to Its 6d, and Engli s h Its to 13s per dozen pounds. Irish Eggs, 5s 9d to 63 8 d; Ostend ditto, Cs 6d to 7s; Honfleur ditto, 7s to 8 ; and English ditto, Ss to 8s 6d per 100. lIITEVERrOR.D. The supply of most articles on sale to-day were large. tinerally speaking, the demand was heavy, at dr oo pi ng Prtees, V.THITECHAPET... v i leer, from 2 3 2d t o 3 8 6d ; M u tt on , 3 s 2d t o 4 s 4 d ‘ e al, 3 4d lo 4s; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per 81bs. 11( ser NEWPORT, f 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s 6d to 4 3 4d . v . e al, 3s 4d to 4s; and Pork, 3s 101 to 4s 8d per Bibs BILLINGSGATE. t Turb ots , 4s to 9s; Cod Fist) 3s to 7s; Whitings, 3el s d; Lobst e r s , 8d t o 2s; Crabs , , 8d to 2s each ; S o les, (Id to 2s per pair; Eels, 4d to 10d, and Salmon, is to 3d c o per p- u; Haddocks, 3d to 6d each ; C r i m p e d Sk ate , tto 4d; and Salt Fish, 2d to 4d per lb; Flounders, is o t 18 Gd per dozen; Oysters, 9s to 22s per bushel; Fresh ertings, 3d to 6d per dozen. BREAD. fr The prices of Wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are lid to 8d ; of Household ditto, sid to 7d per 416 'oat HIDE DIALIZIEET. Market Hides, .561 b to 641 b, lid to lid • ditto, " 1 6 to 721 b, to 2 1 4 d; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 2-id to lid; 801 b to 881 b, 21-d to 3d; ditto, 881 b to 961 b 3 4 1 -ti to 7d; ditto, 961 b to 1041 b, 3id to Sid; Calf Skins ' eac h), 4s 6i to 5s 6d ; Horse Hides, 8s to 8s 6d; Polled s 1 ) , Is 9d to 2s 4d; Kent and Half-breds, 2s to 28 sod ' Downs, Is 10d to 2s 4d. Hay AIIALETS. dittoload. A LD.— Nl Meadow Hay, 218 s to 31 14s ; Clo ver , 5/ 10 s to 41 16 3 ; an d St raw, 1/ 4 s to 1 / 9s per fa "TuERLir av erage supp l y, an d a s l uggish demand. Ci o — AND.—Meadow Hay, 21 8 8 t o 31 Is s ; ver ditto, 31 10s to 41 14s; and St raw , 11 5 s t o lOs Per load. Supply but moderate, and trade firm. rIITECII A MU—Meadow Hay, 21 7s to 3/ 13s vlOv er ditto, 31 10 6 to 51 ; and Straw, 11 2s to 11 9 s Per I ° 4 d. Trade dull, at but little variation in prices. COAL MARKE' East Adairs Main 13 8 Od c asting's Hartl e y l 5B Od 4401 Ywell Main ..... .. • 15s 0' ,rd's Redheugh own 1 e v l3s 9d WYlam" West Hartley Wall's End, &c Rewieke and Co. Gosforth • Redley Rilda l4s 6d lledworth Riddell's l4s 6d Braddyll'd Hetton l7s 3J Hetton i I.ambton Russell's Hetton 17s 6(i IStewart's I Benson Hudson's Hartlepool lss 9a South Hartlepool fhorn ley West Hetton 163 Od Adelaide Tees Cowpen Hartley Hartley —........... Hs 3d Howard's W. H. Neth. 15s Od Ships at market, 216. CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) This was the last day of Michaelmas Term, and the ford Chancellor sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, and heard appeal motions. WELLESLEY V. MORNINGTON. This appeal motion, which related to cuttin down timber, occupied the Lord Ch ance ll or t h e whole mo g rning COURT.—(THIS DAY.) *se'he MA STER o f th e ROLLS, after disposing of th e °F " The Queen v. Prosser," the facts of which we ofe when th e case was argue d f rom t h e P etty Bag side 6 1 1 4 Court, proceeded to hear motions, it being the a t d aY of Michaelmas Term ; but nothing calling for special report came before his Lordship. vi f e j-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) Thkeisefore the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) t o da , V ICE CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND took motions bet„,,, " ," i being the l as t d a y o f Mi c haelmas Ter m . ti t i aus ng el:), howeve r , hi s H onou r dispos e d of t w o pe iv.,, that came befor e hi m yest er day,viz., " L a dy Ross i 8 . Tr am : Thoraees Charity but no uestion th 4_3 involved in e i t h er of them of any y interest, except to parties concerned. i iiB (4 ,e,fore the Vic e -Ch ance ll or K NIGHT B RUCE . 10 . g. '` 4aPles," heaoNoutt, after disposing of the case of "Griggs rd motions. (Beror e the Vice-Chancellor WIGRAIII.) Ris DR ORE V. CLARKE. th en °Newt gave judgment in this case to-day, and Ati eh p ae r i o u3 ee a (2 , d T eci e.tno, . hear motions, it being the last day of Th L„ Seal a clultY Courts will not sit again till the First after term (4th December.) QUEEN'S BENCH—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) L or a PERRY V. BLOGG. ea se for a DE NsrAN gave the jud gmen t o f th e C o tin this r e aCoat the bitting of the Court. The application for a i 4 new trial was refused. This . THE QUEEN V. HADLEY. der wag an applic. ction for a rule, calling upon the j _ enant, the Editor and Proprietor of the Cheltenham uUrnal , to show came why a rule should not be issued, t e l a o l n l4l g, uPon him to show cause why a criminal informa of o, B "Puld not be filed against him, for a libel on some " e "neh of naa ristratoi at Cheltenham, in a speech r e e r l ; t e u r tz te e d ja that pallor. The case was now called on for m . tit vloilir; plonthanou said the defendant was prepared to apo '44 e .o.TTORiNn E se y r .. tion of the speech: illness alone pre hlta from coming to London to do so. Prosecution on the ir prepared a k in g a n to a p ab an don logy. G t s e. N d E e ß fe A n L d a w n a t s of 61161:11,171 w as therefore made absolute on the payment defend ant 4 - ur her proceedings to be abandoned on the t r ' t Making' tilt required apology. Pi BAIL COURT —(THIS DAY.) _ diticuttol :p ta groruotiF y AGAlNST MOWATT AND ANOTHER. . - moved for a certiorari to move an in the Central Criminal Court into the 4te?tes Bench. The charge was one of conspiracy for sevA ll , la l in g money by f a l se p r etences, an d i t i nvo l ve d ,tti" of th— at questions at law. The charge arose out of the but e sale of two horses, on a warranty for 651., Irer: aa 'r them tur ne d out to be roarer, and as there circumstances connected with the transaction which t ~,R aye it th e aapect of a conspiracy, the defendants were Ivre a ' -.ollere. ujtuedstifcue rthat o ff ence. PATTESON granted the application. I' v t i `ix V. COMMISUONERS OF W OODS AND FORESTS . , t) r. 110-vm moved fo r a ru l e n i si, calling upon the `-'_ kiraissi oners of Woods and Forests to show cause why i t : mandamus should not issue to compel them to summon to i t i tr,Y to assess the damages and award compensation iT'tr. Payne for the injury which would be done to his r perty by the construction of the new Victoria-park, their9ttersea. The Commissioners had given notice o! ;a intention to take the land so long ago as 1846, but petty, was some dispute about the title to the pro tial, Y. t amely, as to whether a portion did not belong to r_ 11Public as common land, they bad put off the settle oe.,t? and Mr. Payne was cempelled to have recourse 1 lots proceeding. The COURT granted a rule. • r , EX-Ci--r tiEo DAY.) in Bandr4.) Tlag -CEIIRP CASTILL V. P OCOCK . ; BARON gave the ju of "Urt in this case on the Learned dgment Barons tAkin the g • . to NAME OF RAILWAY. NOT• - Aberdeen Amiens and Boulogne . .............. Belfast and Ballymena Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Chester and Holyhead. .......... Cockermouth and Workington. — Dublin and Drogheda• • ......... Dublin and Kingstown ............ •• Dundee, Perth, and A berdeen ... • • East Anglian.... .• • • Edinburgh and Glasgow Edinburgh and Northern Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. East Lancashire .. Eastern Union • • Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ...... Glasgow and Greenock ......... Great Southern and Western •• • . Great Western, &c..... ..... ........ Kendal and Windermere"... Lancashire and Yorkshire . Lancaster and Carlisle ........ Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... Londonderry and r niiiskillen.. • • .... London and North Western, &c. Loudon and London and Brighton London and South We5tern......... Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Maryport and Carlisle • • • Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.... Midland Great Western (Irish) Monklands .•.-•• • • .• .• -••.. • • .... Newcastle and Carlisle • • . • North British .. • • • • • • • • • • Paris and Rouen . • • • • • • • Rouen suld Ilavre .. • • • • • ... Scottish Central • • • Shrewsbury and Chester South Eastern and Branches South Dev0n......................... Ulster . • Waterford and Limerick.. Whitehaven Junction Wishaw and C01tne55...........„ York and Newcastle . • • ••••• • • .. York and North Midland,. 1,531 Cs(' 4,62 U 1,1'25 178 673 654 716 3,402 2,002 13,125 1,522 1,227 2,407 834 3,136 17,625 Ha 10,128 2,179 136 38,216 564 7,682 8,359 '2,739 18,690 1,302 836 019 3,383 614 12,350 '2,423 1,003 1,820 16,808 .8,730 1,364 113 38,209 655 7,469 7,150 2,105 18,489 841 2,065 6,863 2,739 515 7,820 1,822 739 224 10,924 7,142 THE WEST RIDING ELECTION. (From the Liverpool Mercury of yesterday.) The explanations of Mr. Corbett, at the Leeds meet ing, on the occasion of Mr. Fitzwilliam making his pub lic debut as candidate for the West Riding, serve to con - firm the grounds on which we have already ventured to censure the actings of the Liberal Executive Committee in this business. Their grand error consisted in making the admission, which Mr. Carbutt did not hesitate, in their name, to repeat and avow, of the right of th e agricultural party to have the nomination of one representative, and the manufacturing interest that of another." Now, the principle of such concession is essentially false, on the hypothesis either of these interests being identical or of their being op posed. If they are identical, the concession is needless ; and, if opposed, it is prejudicial to the majority, whose suffrage rights are thus bargained away. But, when for " agricultural party," we read the aristocratic or landed section of the Libe rals; and for "manufacturing interest," the great body of middle-class voters, the transaction stands out in still clearer relief. What the Executive Committee should have done, when the Whig aristocracy approached them for the purpose of making terms, was, to let it be dis tinctly understood they would enter into no paction except that the candidate for their suffrages should be a man of tried political virtue, character, and ability. In place of this, however, on a vague and loose under standing with respect to the candidate's orthodoxy on the four points, they consented to delegate the right of initiation to the House of Fitzwilliam. We cannot think that the Executive Committee do well to be angry, now that they have been baulked in their expectations. It is all very fine for Mr. Carbutt to talk of Mr. Fits william having bidden " defiance " to the Normanton meeting. Speaking for the Executive Committee, he ought to have been prepared to say that the landed sec tion of the Liberals had broken faith by starting such a candidate. But this he is unable to do, simply because the Executive Committee were not careful to have the terms of the "compromise" clearly defined and accu rately guarded. In the most favourable view, the "com promise" would have been an error. But things standing as they do, it is an enormous bungle. With the Ex ecutive Committee alone will rest the blame of the West Riding being inefficiently and injuriously repre sented. Since the above was written, we have learned that Mr. Fitzwilliam has retired, and that the delegates at the Normanton meeting, on Wednesday, being divided be tween Mr. Roebuck and Sir Culling Smith, the English Agnew, a bitter and norrow•minded bigot, decided, by a small majority, in favour of the latter personage. This is the doing of Mr. Edward Baines. Pity that that gen tleman should contrive to spoil every pie into which he puts his finger! The electors have only to choose Sir Culling to make themselves the laughing-stock of Europe. FRANCE. We read in the new journal called Le credit : " Numerous deputations are coming from the depart ments to gain information as t 9 the personal charac ters, the guarantees for order, and a good and pros perous administration, presented by each of the candidates for the Presidency of the Republic. We are assured that at several conferences on this subject between these deputations and the President of the Council, the latter has expressed himself in the most categorical manner on the suspicions calumniously propagated lately as to the entrance of MM. Dufaure and Vivien into the Cabinet. M. Cavaignac declared, in language full of candour and energy, that it was ab solutely impossible for any man of heart and sense, after the pledges for order which he bad given in the month of June, and of his respect for majorities by the composition of the Ministry, to become un faithful to the line of politics which these two acts have designated. The persons who were present at these communications retired fully impressed with the truth and frankness of the declarations made to them." Nine representatives of the department of the Vosges have decided, says the Moniteur du lair, upon supporting the eandidateship of General Ca vaignac, and 4 o make public this resolution in the department. AUSTRIA. According to advices from Hungary a great portion of the Imperial army was encamped at Kittsee, about four miles from Presburg; that city itself, as well as most of the strong positions in the country, were occupied by Hungarian garrisons, who are reported to have an abundant supply of artillery and ammunition. It was, however, still asserted that Masseros, the Minister of War, had gone to 011mutz to treat for peace. M. Smolka, the President of the Austrian Diet, was to leave Vienna for Kremser, with.several Deputies, on the 20th inst. FRANKFORT. A second edition of the Cologne Gazette contains he following Address of the Archduke Regent to the ople of Germany:— " TO THE HERMAN PEOPLE. ------- " Germans I address you at a most serious crisis as regards the interest of our Fatherland. Listen to my words with confidence. A lamentable schism has occurred between the crown and the popular representatives of Prussia! The people of Germany have taken part in this controversy to a considerable extent, and they have, in doing so, maintained a peaceable and legal attitude. The voice of passion, however, resounds through the land, and extends with inflammatory fury. A part of the Prussian Depu ties have resolved to withhold the taxes. By so doing, they have loosened the bands of political existence, deeply shaken the foundations of civil society, and brought Prussia, and with it the whole of Germany, to the verge of civil war. "Prussians! the representatives of Germany at Frank fort assembled, have, in this momentous crisis, uttered the soothing , words of peace. The Imperial Assembly has expressed a wish that the King of Prussia should surround himself with advisers who enjoy the confidence of the country. It has solemnly pledged itself to main tain the rights and liberties promised and ensured to you; it has promised you protection against any attempt to violate them. It has, however, at the same time de clared the resolution of the Prussian deputies to withhold he taxes wholly null and void. " Prussians ! the Imperial Assembly at Frankfort •epresents the German nation in the aggregate, and its Ifcisioa is supreme!, law (oberstes gesttz) to all. " Germans ! I will act in full accordance with the mperittl Assembly. I will not allow the resolution which, by preventing the levy of the taxes in Prussia, endangers the prosperity of the whore of Germany, to be carried into effect. THE SUN, their seats. The case was tried, ha said, before his brother Erle. But one point, namely, that the verdict was against the evidence, was much relied upon in the arguments. The Court had consuited the Learned Judge, and ho was of opinion that the evi dence justified the verdict, and that the case was farly put to the jury. His (the Chief Baron's) own impres sion was that the case was properly placed before the jury by his-Learned Brother, nay more, that he took a much too favourable view.—Application for a new trial refused. IN RE CATHERINE PARKINSON. The CHIEF BARON said a female of this name hod pe titioned the Court. The Court could take no step in the matter to which the petition had reference. It ap peared the late Mr. Swaine had reported that she had a good ground of action, and recommended that the should be permitted to sue in forma pauperis. lie, however, saw reason to change his mind. He (the Chief Baron) merely mentioned the cos& in order that some gentle men of the bar would be pod enough to enter into the matter and make a report upon it. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) The CHIEF JUSTICE intimated that durieg the ad journed sittings the Court would take the new trials paper just in the order in which they stand ; this would not preclude the Court from hearing any special cases in which both sides were ready. DUNCAN V. TOPHAM. This was an action fur a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was against the evidence. Mr. Justice CBESSWELL was not dissatidied with the verdict, but the Court considered there should be a rule on other grounds. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TBAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns arc made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year:— Week ending 0:71 CJ = Last week. LONDON, SATUIRDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 25, 1848, " I will, however, enforce the fulfilment of the pledges given for the security of the rights and liberties of tho Prussian people; they shall remain intact, as well as those of all our German brothers. " Prus.niansf I: rely upon you, that you will stand by me—that you will avoid all acts of illegality and violence, and show yourselves worthy of the blessings of liberty. Ire ep the peace, and I will maintain it also. " Germans I I rely on you who stand by me, and I will stand by you. The long wished for object, for which we are striving, is nearly attained. The labours of the German Constitution will soon be completed, and our beautiful Fatherland will then in unity and freedom be great and powerful. (Signed) " THE ARCHDUKE JOHN, Regent of the Empire. Countersigned by " SCHME RUNG, R. MOM, " BECKE RATH, 1) MEW IT; " PE UCREIZ. " The Imperial Ministers." PRUSSIA. The Cologne Gazette publishes a declaration from M. Grabow, in which, after stating that the Gazettes of Voss and Spener announce that the Prince of Prussia had, among other things, declared to the deputation of the city of Berlin on the 6th inst. : —lst, that even Grabow recognised the crown to be within its rights ; 2d, that even Grabow had acknowledged that the measures taken were the only ones capable of putting a stop to anarchy in Berlin, he declares that the language attributed to him by those journals is not exact, and that the deputation itself only admits that the Prince of Prussia had said that M. Grabow was of opinion that putting doWn anarchy was a duty of Govern- ment. M. Grabow goes on to state, to avoid misap prehensions, that he had left Prenzlau on the 11th notwithstanding his weak state of health, to contri bute by his efforts, to an amicable settlement of the dispute between the Crown and the National As sembly. He says : " In the audience which was granted to me the day after my arrival, and which is the only one that I have had of the King, I &eland openly to his Majesty that the right., of the Crown and,of the Assembly were par fcctly (qua!, and principally as regarded the transfer, prorogation, or dissolution of the Assembly, that I could only recognise as just and kg-. 1 the principle of mutual concert adopted by the Assembly and not respected by the responsible advisers of the Crown." M. Grabow concludes by declaring that he recom mends that the Assembly shall be allowed to sit at Berlin, and that a Ministry shall be formed which could secure a compact majority. COBLENTZ, Nov. 18.—On account of the refusal to pay taxes having been voted by the National Assem bly, a large quantity of flour and some cattle entered our town this morning without paying the customary dues. LITERATURE. ETI ON E . A Romance of the Days of Pericles. 3 Vols.. By Eliza Lynn. Although the writer of this remarkable fiction had, in a great measure, prepar e d us f or t h e d eve l o p men t of an ambition but seldom found in the heart of even the most daring authoress, we must nevertheless ac knowledge that the character of her present effort has filled us with no little astonishment. " Azeth" has been generally reglrded as a bold attempt from the hand of a female, but the Egyptian story is as nothing when contrasted with the Grecian story of " Amy mone." Miss Lynn has evinced so much genius in the conception, if not in the composition, of this classic romance, that we would fain see those blemishes corrected which have glared upon us during the perusal of " Amymone," and which have marred a work that must, otherwise, have been nothing less than a literary phenomenon. With a stricter adherence to historical accuracy; with a more perfected command over an imagination liable when uncurbed to wander into vagaries; with a more vigilant attention to the consistencies of a plot ; with a more subtle appreciation of the mysteries of the human heart, an appreciation which may be cul tivated to almost any ex t ent o f excellence where the mind displays the keen p ercept i ve f acult i es possessed by cur romancist ; with a more exacting system of morality, and a more careful avoidance of that great fault of novelists which may be termed dogmatism of sentiment—Miss Eliza Lynn may become one of the foremost female writers in a literature which already numbers among its brightest ornaments the names of Anne Radcliffe, Letitia Landon, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, Jane Porter, Mary Mitford, Feli cia Ilemans, and Elizabeth Barrett. It is because we have recognised so much genius in the opening chapters of " Ainymone,"and - because we would not see that genius destroyed by the indulgence of ble mishes, such as have ruined the conclusion of the ro mance of the days of Pericles, that we are the more solicitous to enumerate those blemishes, and to point out what appear to us to be the causes of the ill suc cess of " Amymone" as a whole. The first volume is altogether beautiful—the idea of the narrative being exquisitely graceful, the tone elevated, the ar rangement ingenious, and the general treatment mas terly to a degree. With the close of the eleventh chapter, how ever, when Alcamenes is left standing in the garden of the Cerameicos, gazing in rapture on a tress ravished from the perfumed locks of Chrysanthe, the excellence of the story as a work of art terminates. The continuation of the nar rative is as inferior to the commencement as a chain of cockle-shells tagged on to the end of a necklace of diamonds, or as one of the noisiest pot pourris of Roche Albert after a symphony of Beethoven, or as a display of Bengal lights after the glories of the aurora borealis. The key was " pitched " in a lofty and ambitious strain at the outset, but the energies of the authoress evidently failed her in the endeavour to sustain her enthusiasm to the same sublime elevation throughout. Nor is this surprising when we reflect upon the daring of a literary adventure which aimed at the portraiture of Grecian history and Athenian society in the golden age when Pericles reigned in Attica ; when Pheidias laboured amidst the marble splendours of the Parthenon; when Anaxagoras taught philosophy in the Lyceion, and Socrates morality under the porch ; when Euripides and Sophocles vied with each other in the tragic representations of the Dionysiac Theatre ; when Lysias breathed forth his eloquence in the Gymnasium ; when Alcibiades displayed the beauty of his boyhood among the violet sellers in the Agora; when Crates and Hermippos bandied witticisms across the tables of the symposium; when the victors in the pancratium were crowned in the supreme hall of the Pnyx ; when the hetairai flaunted their seductive loveliness in the Cerameicos; and when the genius of Aspasia was paramount in the city of the Acro polis. The principal tendency of the work, as is avowed, indeed, in the " Preface," is a vindication Of the character of Aspasia. Hitherto that extra ordinary woman has been considered solely as one of the Milesian hetairai, as the mistress or concubine of Pericles; and almost every one who has written upon Grecian history, from Plutarch and Quintillian downwards, has reviled the famous daughter of Axicchus as the corrupter of the morals of the Athenians, as the enervater of the councils of Pericles, and as the cause of disgrace to the Violet- Crowned capital through her lasciviousness and dissipation. Whether Aspasia was really the mistress or the wife of the great ruler to whom she was, at least to all appearance, wedded, may remain for ever a matter of uncertainty ; yet we cannot but coincide with Miss Lynn in her estimate of Aspasia's character from a dispassionate consideration of the effects produced by her union with the immortal Pericles. If the following axiom enunciated by our authoress is to be regarded as correct, (and who shall gainsay its accuracy ?) the assertion that Aspasia's influence undermined the sentiments of true religion in Attica falls to the ground:—" Make a nation irre ligious, the poet, and the painter, and the statuary, are no more! "—(Vol. 1., p. 90.) Now it was under the fostering patronage of the Milesian that the glory of Alcamenes, of Euripides, of Sophocles, and of Pheidias, were developed! Beyond this Socrates, the noblest of all the Pagan moralists, the philosopher who, like Seneca, recognised, as it were instietively, some of the holiest principles which were subsequently proclaimed by our Saviour, was the friend of Aspasia. Nor is this circumstance without its significance, that that beautiful and most accomplished woman numbered amongst her adherents, all the worth, and virtue, and heroism, and wisdom of Athens; while her enemies eonsisted of the most villannus, the most profligate, and the most unprincipled persons to be found in the rabble of Attica. On these accounts we are satisfied of the correctness of the novel estimate here formed of the intellect and temperament of Aspasia. In having dared to pen this vindication, Miss Lynn has acted nobly, and she will certainly be rewarded by the sympathy of her more educated readers, a sympa thy, full, earnest, and enthusiastic. We have alluded, however, to the occasional evidence of historical in accuracy in the romance of " Amymone." These perversions of the truth, for we cannot regard them as mere blunders, are the more surprising from their being generally of such a palp a bl y f a ll ac i ous ki n d. They consist sometimes of anachronisms so gross as to amaze the student who has read merely half a-dozen of the biographies of the Chce ronean. For example—L ys i as, t h e son o f Cephalos, is described as a young man of twenty-six years of age at the period of his return from Thurium, when his return from that colony did not occur until his forty-seventh year ! if w e are to be lieve the following authorities—Pl u e de Orat.—Cic. de Brut.—Diog. 2 : — Quintil. 3, &c. Again Pheidias is described as having been accused of abstracting a portion of the gold from the chryselephantine statue of Minerva after his return from Ells, when it was in cons equence of that accusation that h e was b an i s h e d to Elis, where he mitigated the sorrows of h i s exile by fabricating his wonderful colo ssa l fi gure o f J up i ter Oly m pius ! according to . the de c l arat i ons of Paus. 9. c. 4.—Strab. B.—Plut. i n Per., & c. I t i s not, how ever, in these direct violations o f hi storical exactitude that the chief blemish of " Amymone "as an historical romance consists. It is the feeble delineation of some of the most g l or i ous b e i ngs of that heroic time. Socrates, accor di ng t o Mi ss Lynn's portraiture of him, is a mere prosaic driveller, wrapped up in a blanket, standing by like the veriest dullard when everybody else is talking, and being the very antithesis of the noble sage, such as he is depicted by his contemporaries. Alcibiades, more over, whether as a child or as an epheboi, is generally described throughout the three volumes as a precocious little voluptuary, chattering about love when he ought to have been thinking about sweetmeats, and acting as a spoilt darling when he ought to have been rising to the dignity of manh ood. Some of the historical characters introduced i nto the fiction are, in fact, mere dummies decked out in appropriate cos tumes, and moved by a power analogous to that o f galvanism—as much resembling the originals as the wax figures at Madame Tussardm'sisbs Lynn h bear the asfailedappearance of vitality. Nevertheless, if in her delineations of Socrates, Alcibiades, Pheidia s , and some others of their contemporaries, she ha s been marvellously happy in her sketch es o f Pericles, Aspasia, Crates, Hermippos, Euripides, Sophocles, Lysias, and historical, rio b a e l t , te o r r , A moreover, are her limnings minor purely fictitious characters—Amymone, the slave born heroine ; Methion, the Persian alien ; Crethon, the old eupatrid; Cleon, the tanners son;Apnhtoisp,htohne, the soothsayer; Eudora, the virgin ; Chrysanthe, the love-sick maiden ; Chelone, the slave ; pam gate-keeper; Zanthippos, the debauchee ; Lysiades, the fop ; Glaphyra, the coquette; Zeuxo, the Ihessa- Han witch ; Pentheus, the demark ; Lysicles, the cattle-dealer; Eucrates, the flax seller; and Hyper bolos, the lamp-maker. They are all inimitable creations, and, with one exception, of peculiar freshness and originality. That exception is the heroine Amymone— the very double of B u l wer Lytton's Lucretia. Although clad i n the robes, and speaking the language of Greece, Amymone has throughout more of the nature of Lucretia than of Clytemnestra. Her very name, like that of Lucretia, smells of blood. T They are alike of distracting beauty, of sublime .intellect, of inordinate ambition, and of preternatural viciousness. Amymone is rendered to the reader doubly repulsive and abhorrent from the circumstance that she is almost invariably spoken vof by the auth oress i n a tone absolutely reverential—as if there were anything noble in her atrocity, dignified in her hypocrisy, or bewitching in her pride ! The story ope ns (I . 93) in "the first year of the eighty-fifth Olympiad, four hundred and forty years: before our era, wh en C r i s _ son of Himeria was, for the third time victor in the foot-race of the Olympia, and when Myrrichides was erehen." The whole plot may he explained in a few sentences. Crethon, the patron of ielethion, invites his client to his farm-house near Athens on the occa sion of his marriage with Amymone. While feasting in the house of the generous eupatrid, Methion, at the instigation of Cleon, forges a will in the name of Crethon, and Amymone poisons the wine-cup of her benefactor. The poison not being sufficiently expe ditious, Amymone strangles Crethon by grasping his throat with her own hands, and the close of this tragic incident, where Amymone ap pears at a window of the farm-house, clad in flowing white, her hair dishevelled, and a ghastly streak of blood across her forehead, is one of the most powerful descriptions in the whole of the romance. Crethon dead, his murderer and her hus band live in luxury for eight years, the idols of Athena and the avowed antagonists of Pericles and Aspasia. The interest of the narrative arises from the antagonism of Amymone to Aspasia ; and the underplots consist of the profligacy of Zanthippos and Glaphyra, the love passages between Lysias and Eudora, the passion of Chrysanthe for Pheidias, and the conspiracy of the comic poets and the demagogues. As specimens of the skill of our authoress in painting the different personages comprised in her narrative, we give the following:— we may afford some notion by transcribing one of those passionate outbursts of emotion by which the first volume is beautified. Aspasia has just spoken. " Pericles ha!d her to his heart; but save the thick breath and panting breast, nothing told how deeply her words had moved him. And nought was needed. ,1 Speech would have been harsh, caresses cold; for earth has no means which ::hall worthily interpret of heaven, none save silence. In worship, love, and joy—that joy which springs from honour and from love—keep silence, stilly, solemnly. Break not the whispered words of heaven by earth's cold voice; dull not its glory by earth's dim shade; let heart breathe out to heart by in fluence, not by speech, and the soul interpret of its love by knowledge, not by word. " Keep silence before the Throne of God; keep silence before the altar of nature; flutter not the wings of love by the rude breath; startle not the reverent soul by the rough voice; keep silence in the s ky ; k eep s il ence i n the grove; still, one instant, the loud echo of the world; still! still! and list what God proclaims through his messenger of love. Keep silence, oh keep silence!" Occasionally thoughts as exquisitely emotional as this, but of a more peculiar brevity, are articulated in the dialogues or descriptive passages. As when it is said —" The Ideal is above the Actual as far as heaven is above earth, the Deity beyond humanity."—l. S 5. Or when the authoress exclaims from the depths of her heart, " God bless that sacred power of love !" 111. .55. Or where Pericles, after asking Panainos if he have sacrificed recently to the Gods, observes —" For thy talents are the offering, their exercise the sacrifice, and their aim Heaven's triumph se t up i n man l" I. 78. Or yet again, when the:eupatrid felicitates the alien on his marriage, saying—" Women, my Methion arelike the flowers round thy brow ; in the spring of life they are beautiful and gladdening, the fairest orna ment that love can used to honour ; in autumn they are still sweet, though withered, and are the herbs which give us health."—l. 29. Such are among the most remarkable features of this remarkable romance —a story of fine imaginativeness, although of un equal excellence. It is the augury rather than the perfected emanation of genius, for genius alone could have produced " Amymone." DEATH OF LOltD MELBOURNE. We received at a late hour last night, by electric telegraph, the intelligence of Lord Melbourne's death. For more than seven years the deceased Peer was First Lord of the Treasury—a tenure of office much beyond the average duration of Ministries in the I9th century; for the Addington, the Grenville, the Portland, the Per covet, the Canning, the Goderich, the Wellington, the Grey, and the Peel Governments—though apparently based on broadi foundations —were, in fact. composed of i less durable materials than was that of Viscount Mel bourne. Apart, however, from the fact that he was at the head of the Administration during a certain num ber of years, there are connected with his name and cha racter a vast variety of traits, incidents, and occurrences greatly calculated to diversify that which may be called —without any great violation of propriety—the " life and adventures" of William Lamb—a man who, in spite of grave failings,' will now be remembered with approba tion for many estimable qualities; whose mirthful sallies excited the applause of every circle that he entered, and whose reputed indolence, carelessness, and procrastina tion rendered him one of the most tempting objects of banter that the whole range of political society pre sented. He was born at Melbourne Reuse, London, on the 15th of March, 1779, and was therefore at the time of his death in the 70th year of his age. His university education he received, first, at Trinity College, Cam. bridge, and secondly, at Glasgow, where he studied ju. risprudence and politics in the class of an eminent teacher. Professor Millar. In a debating society at tached to the class, Mr. Lamb was distinguished amongst his contemporaries for historical knowledge, consider able classical attainments, strong common . sense, and great pleasantry. At that period of his , lite he, like most young men brought up among the IN lugs, was a prodigious admirer of Mr. Fox, and an acknowledged disciple of his political school. In return Mr. Fox warmly patrenz?d Mr. Lamb even before he left Cam bridge. He entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn on the 21st of July, 1797, and was called to the bar on the 23d of November, 1804. Within seven months from that time he married the Lady Caroline Pon sonby. This event took place at the house of the third Lord Besborough, in Cavendish-square, on the 3d of June, 1805, the Noble Viscount being in the 28th year of his age, and his consort in her 21st. The Ponsonbys are not only a more ancient, but a more dignified, house than that from which Lord Melbourne was descended, and the history of his family may be set forth within a very narrow compass. Matthew Lamb, of Brocket Hall, in the county of Hertford, was nephew and joint-heir of Peniston Lamb, of Lincoln's Inn, and was created a baronet on the 17th of January, 1755. This worthy personage married Charlotte, daughter of the Right Hon. Thomas Coke, of Melbourne, in Derbyshire; the eldest son springing from this marriage was Sir Peniston Lamb, who married the only daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke; and those were the parents of the Peer to whose memoirs these columns have been assigned. Sir Peniston was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland on the Bth of June, 1770, as Baron Melbourne, and created a Viscount on the 11th of January, 1781. His Lordship received a peerage of the United Kingdom on the 11th of August, 1815, and having died on the 22d of July, 1828, he was suc ceeded in his title and estates by the Noble Lord whose sayings and doings now snore immediately engage our attention. The matrimonial alliance which Mr. Lamb formed with Lady Caroline Ponsonby bore every appearance of an union likely to be crowned with permanent happi ness; but in the course of a few years differences of a very painful kind arose, which ended in a separation. Lady Caroline Lamb died on the 25th of January, 1828; and her son, the lion. G. A. F. Lamb, followed her to the grave on the 27th of November, 1836. In the year 1805 Mr. Lamb entered the House of Commons and joined the Whig party, which then car ried on the trade of Opposition under the leadership of the celebrated Charles Fox. He came into Parlia ment with very little reputation, and ho never acquired much fame in the Lower House. Reputed to be indo lent, he rarely took any trouble to disprove common rumour; the appreciation of his talents was therefore left to " th© discerning few," who when he became Prime Minister, but not until then—proclaimed that he had been a great man from his!youth upwards. In justice to the Whig party, as it existed in 1805, it is only fair to say that they showed no indisposition to bring for ward Mr. Lamb. In 1806 they permitted him to move the address in answer to the King's Speech ; but throughout the quarter of a century that followed that occurrence they never once enjoyed a similar opportunity of obliging any of their young friends. During this time, it may be inquired, what was Mr. Lamb about? He lived a life of fashionable gaiety, yet ho found some time for politics and reading, but the re sults of his labours are not very conspicuous, for he made no remarkable speeches, nor did he display any peculiar aptitude for the business of legislation. He re presented first the borough of Leominster, in 1805, then the llacldington district of burghs in 1806, Portarling ton in the Parliament of 1807, Peterborough in 1816 and 1818, Hertfordshire in 1819, and again in 1820; thus, in the short space of 15 years, he found it neces sary to seek the suffrages of five different electoral bodies. He was a sort of semi•liberal, and showed a decided leaning towards the political views of Mr. Can ning, with the single exception of Parliamentary Reform; theywerelully agreed on free trade, the South Ameri- can Republics, and - the government of Ireland; therefore . Mr. Lamb, though remaining in opposition, frequently gave the benefit of his vote to Lord Liverpool's Ministry. Hence it was to have been expected that when Mr. Canning was commissioned to form a Cabinet, be should have made overtures to Mr. Lamb, and other Whigs of . _ the same stamp. Under Mr. Canning, accordingly, he accepted the office of Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieu tenant of Ireland, and in that country the Roman Ca tholic party hailed the' advent of sueh a man as William Lamb with a degree of triumph which was almost ab surd. The sort of temporary alienation from the ex treme which Mr. Lamb underwent during the years 1827, 1828, and 1829, appears to have reconciled him to a still closer intercourse with the Tories; and be not only accepted office under Mr. Canning, but did not desert Lord Goderich, nay, even remained with the Duke of Wellington himself. Ho had the sagacity to conjec ture that the Duke would soon be under a neces sity of treating the Dissenters with " liberality," and the Roman Catholics with " conciliation ;" Mr. Lamb, therefore, perceived that he might not only retain his office, but act upon his professed principles, thus ac complishing the difficult task of reconciling duty with inclination, and at the same time of securing to himself the negative enjoyment, which he vastly prized, of avoiding trouble. But about this period the movement party both in France and England showed symptoms of approaching insubordination, and the well-remembered proposition for disfranchising East Retford came before the house of Commons. Lord Palmerston, Mr. Grant (now Lord Glenelg), Mr. Huskisson, and Mr. Lamb could not, with any show of consistency, refuse to sup port this first step in Parliamentary reform; and as the military Premier never tolerated mutiny Mr. Lamb is found once more a member of his Majesty's Opposition, and about the same time he ceased to be a Member of the House of Commons. As a speaker, nothing could be more unfortunate than his early efforts. Ho was, therefore, for many years flung aside into the mob of incapables, and pronounced by ordinary observers to be a young man whose case was hopeless. But the few who knew him intimately contended that he was one of those who never task their faculties to the work of dealing with matters of small moment. It, was said by his admirers—" Place the club in his hand, and he will become a Hercules; give him the distaff, and h o ma k es sa d wor k. L et Wiliam Lamb only be called to a great undertaking, and he will be come s. great man." Neither adverse critics nor partial friends appear to have anticipated the true character of his career. But it was not until he bad obtained a beat in the Upper House that he ascended to the rank of a political chieftain. The death of his father and that of his wife occurring in the course of the same year rendered neces sary a more than ordinary degree of attention to his pri vate interests, but a new aspect of public affairs speedily revived his ancient habits, and awoke his sl um b er i ng ambition. The Duke of Wellington having in 1830 de clared war against the Reformers, and having expressed himself unatle to comprehend how the King's Govern ment was to be carried on if the representative branch of the Legislature u:Alerwent any alteration whatever, he threw up office, and Lord Grey reigned in his stead. Thereupon Lord Melbourne accepted the seals of the Home Department, but, fortunately for that department, his administration of its affairs did not continue much beyond three years. During the session of 1834 the King sent for Viscount V ( Melbourne, an d on t h e 14t h of J ni y, 1834, his Lordshili-., ' announced that he had been authbrised to reconstrugt the Ministry. But in the month Ofial - ovenibetilie - Ringl i rather unceremoniously called upoti - Ualfinioitrne io retire from office. Under the advice of the Duke of Wellington, his Majesty summoned Sir Robert Peel from Italy, and a very promising attempt was made to form a Conservative Administration. But " the masses" de manded a movement still further in advance; a new Parliament decided against the sew Government, and Lord Melbourne was restored. A Government was thus formed which, in a certain sort of way, held its ground from April, 1835, till September, 1841, and during that period Viscount Melbourne was First Lord of the Treasury. Lord Melbourne possessed many requisites as a public speaker. He was once a very handsome man, and he enjoyed at all times the advantages of a most prepossessieg appearance, a mellow and flexible voice, a cheerful temper, and a cordial frankness of manner, which, notwithstanding that it some times degenerated into coarseness, acquired for him, on the whole, much popularity. But he was an immethodical speaker; the bubbling current of his rhe toric was at best but a turbid stream; his narratives were unskilful, and his expositions obscure; yet for many years he contrived with a certain degree of success to flounder through the business of Ministerial leader in the House of Lords. The admirers of Lord Grey might well address Lord Melbourne, and exclaim—" Our leader carried the Reform Act, abolished negro slavery, and carried the new Poor-law." The followers of the Duke of Wellington might show Lord 'Melbourne's friends the Catholic Relief Act, and reproach his me mory with having done nothing to rival it. Those who admired the Duke's predecessors might point to the commencement of an enlarged commercial policy, and a new colonial system; going still further back, they might boast of cash payments resumed, public credit sustained, and twenty years of warfare ending in triumph. Against these the partisans of the easy-minded Viscount may set off the introduction of a penny postage, a pseudo re form in the Irish corporations, an Irish Poor-law, such as it was, au Irish Tithe Composition Act, the union of the Canadas, and an abortive attempt to repeal those corn-laws which his immediate successor abolished in 1846. On the 22d of June, 1836, an action for crim. con. was tried in the Court of Common Pleas, the deceased Peer having been the defendant. The verdict of the jury was recorded in favour of Lord Melbourne, and with this brief reference to the fact we resume the nar rative of his public life. His Ministerial career naturally divides itself into two parts—that which belongs to the reign of William IV., and that which was passed under the dominion of Queen Victoria. Tbo commencement of the new reign, there fore, imp o s e d upon L ord Melbourne a novel and rather a difficult series of duties. That he accomplished his task with consummate address is attested by the evidence of facts and the concurrent opinion of all observers. But his Lordship is entitled to still higher praise, for he spared no pains to imbue the mind of her Majesty with a deep sense of the responsibilities attaching to the regal office; he availed himself of all fitting opportunities to instruct her in the various duties of her high station; and as far as it was possible for a Whig of his school, he pre sented to her view the leading principles of the British constitution. But, though he stood high in the confidence of the Queen, he was by this time rapidly losing ground in the estimation of Parliament. The proceedings of that ses sion which began in the spring of 1841 decreed the downfall of his Administration, and even brought the public career of Lord Melbourne himself to an unex pected close. It was thought that many years of vigorous existence still remained to him, and that when he re signed office he intended to place himself at the head of a formidable Opposition. But, after a few slight efforts, he ceased to be regular in his Parliamentary attendance; his health declined, and when be reappeared towards the close of the session of 1845, he was only the shadow of his former self, emaciated, feeble, listless, silent ; and, although in the summer of that year he attended a pub lic dinner, where he felicitated his friends on the fact that Sir Robert Peel was obliged to govern the country upon those principles which had wrecked the Melbourne Ministry, he was evidently too indolent or too cautious to create an opportunity for making that assertion in the House of Lords. But his character, and his doctrines, his defeats and his triumphs, have at length become matters of history. His jests have grown stale, his principles of action are exchanged for attractive novelties, his enemies hav e learned to forgiv e —hi s f r i ends to forget him. Every one, however, will acknowledge, that with many faults he combined many good qualities. Although there were features in his character which the most indulgent of mankind must condemn, yet his faults might easily have been carried much further, and aggravated to a far more vicious excess. It is true that he sometimes mis understood and mismanaged important affairs; but he might have applied to them a perverted and dishonest ingenuity. He was indolent—he might have been cor rupt. He was a man of easy virtue—he might have been a reckless profligate. He was lavish of titles, but he did not quite swamp the House of Lords. So, that though a long list of public men might be produced of far superior deserts, yet it must be acknowledged that there have been many worse Ministers and many worse men than the second Viscount Melbourne. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. His Lordship expired at ten minutes after six o'clock on Friday evening, and was conscious up to the last moment, the following relatives being present at his dis solution—Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord and Lady Beauvale, the Hon. Mrs. George Lamb, and Miss Cuyler. The noble deceased had been attacked about three weeks or a month since by what was con sidered a bilious complaint, and was for some days at tended by his ordinary medical adviser, Mr. Thomas, of Hatfield, but symptoms having betrayed themselves of rather an alarming appearance, Dr. Holland was sent for from London on the 10th inst., and after that emi nent physician making two or three professional visits to Brocket, he informed the members of the Noble Vis count's family of his fears that his Lordship's illness would prove fatal, although the noble patient might linger for some weeks. The deceased William Lamb, Viscount and Baron Melbourne, of Kilmore, county Cavan, in the peerage of Ireland; and Baron Melbourne, of Melbourne, county Derby, in the peerage of the United Kingdom, and a Baronet of Great Britain, was second son (his elder bro ther, the Hon. Peniston Lamb, dying in 1805), of Peniston, first Viscount Melbourne, and Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart., of whom Byron (the poet) expresses such warm regard for her talents and beauty, as he writes that Lady Melbourne was " the best friend I ever had in my life, and the cleverest of women;" and in another part of his works, pronounces her to have bee❑ so talented that he had " never met with a woman with half her talent." The wife of the deceased nobleman acquired muck ce lebrity for her literary works, among the best known was her" Glenarvon," and obtained an equal renown in the fashionable world. Viscount Melbourne succeeded to the large estates and title of his father on the death of that noblemau in July, 1828. The deceased was educated at Eton College, and afterwards removed to Trinity College, Cambridge, to complete his studies. He was then highly distinguished for his clasical attain ments, and his cultivated taste for polite literature. At his entrance in life he was favoured with the friend ship of Charles James Fox, who was highly impressed with his abilities, and gave great expectations of his future political career, for he was destined by his father for the senate. Those sanguine anticipations have cer tainly not been borne out by subsequent events, nor have those high opinions been justified from the circumstance of the deceased Viscount having been Premier, for his name can never be placed in the same niche of fame as those of Pitt, Canning, or Peel. _ The late Viscount is succeeded by his brother Lord Beauvale, the late Ambassador at Vienna. Viscountess Palmerston was only sister of the deceased. The families of the Earl and Countess Cowper, Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Ashley, the Earl of Besborough, Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston, Lord de Manley, the Earl Fitzwilliam, the non. Mrs. Lamb, &c. are placed in mourning by the decease of the Noble Viscount. ITALY. It is said that the conferences on the affairs of Italy will take place at Brussels, and that Lord Minto will represent England, and M. de Tocqueville France. The Patria of the 16th instant contains the follow- ing, dated Bologna, 14th : " At midnight the Minister of War, General Zuc chi, ordered the garrison to meet on the Palace-square, without even the knowledge of General Latour. He then sent for the chiefs and directed them to caise barricades to be erected simultaneously in the streets of 13orgo, San Pietro, Lame, and Pratello ; to sta tion men tehind them to prevent the exit of every individual residing in those streets, whilst the remainder should search every house, one after the other. By that means, the Government seized upwards of 1,000 muskets concealed in them. The moment this fact became known all the respectable inhabitants of the city hastened to congratulate General Zucchi. The General was to publish on the following day a proclama tion, enacting that every individual caught in the act of robbing or offering violence to persons should be imme diately shot." The Alba quotes the following letter from Rome, of the 14th inst. : " The conduct of the Rossi Cabinet is anti-national. It intends to inaugurate here the reign of terror. The city is full of troops, reports of conspiracies are art fully circulated, in imitation of Guizot. The police, on an older of the Minister Rossi, sent for M. Vincent Carbonelli, a Neapolitan, and enjoined him to leave Rome in twenty-four hours. Carbonelli protested, in voking the right of every Italian, furnished with a re gular passport, to reside quietly in a constitutional state of Italy, so long as he committed no violation of the laws." THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY, MIDNIGHT.—The Penin sular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Ripon, Capt. R. Moresby, 1.N., arrived ] off this port at 9 P.M., with the heavy portion of the East India, China, and Mediterranean mails, in charge of Lieut. Brady, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates of sailing were—Alexan dria, Nov. 8; Malta, 13; and Gibraltar, 18. The Ripon has experienced fair but boisterous weather in crossing the Bay of Biscay. She has this voyage arrived earlier ttan any of the company's ships have hitherto done, and her run has been r ,rformed in an extraordinarily short time. The freight list comprises 185 packages of specie, value 100,000/. sterling; 40 bales of silk, 140 barrels of dates, and 200 packages of general merchandise, principally valuable goods from India.. There are 55 first-class and 20 second-class passengers, amongst whom we notice Mr. James Allan, the secretary of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company, who has been out to India on a mission connected with an extension of the company's steam operations in the In dian Seas. The news from India and China, brought by the Ripon, has been anticipated by the overland expres3 via Marseilles, but we have ten days later from Gibraltar than has been hitherto received. The Board of Health in Tangier, imitating the absurd regulations at Gibraltar, had promulgated a decree, or dering a quarantine of 15 days to be imposed on all ships arriving from ports of Great Britain. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's agent at Gib raltar had fitted up the hulk Santa Anna for the recep ception of goods and passengers arriving from England. in which to perform the necessary quarantine. O❑ an examination of the cargo of the brig Three Sisters that had been recaptured .from Moorish pirates by her Majesty's steamer Polyphemus, it had been found that 850 barrels of gunpowder and a considerable quan tity of Manchester goods had been abstracted by the Moore; the remainder of the cargo, consisting of cocoa, tobacco, and coals was untouched. The Peninsular steamer Madrid, Capt. John Weeks, 'eft Gibraltar for Southampton on the 16th instant, Ind would touch at Cadiz, Lisbon, Oporto, and Vigo for ho mails. She may be expected to arrive to-morrow, he 24th instant. A t Gibraltar the rate of exchange on London, at 90 days, 49; on Paris, sf. 29c.; Madrid, 8 days' sight, 3 discount. 'The United States frigate United States, Commodore Reed, last from the Gulf of Spezzia, was at Gibraltar. The steamer, Polyphemus, Commander M'Cleverty, ar rived from Malaga, on the 18th instant. The Ripon sioke the following ships :—Nov. 17th, 100 miles E. of Gibraltar, the barque Flower, steering W., desired to be reported ; Nov. 18th, in the Straits of Gibraltar, the brig Duchess of Leicester, bound to Malta; on the 19th, off Cape St. Vincent, the brig Wish, homeward bound; on the 21st exchanged colours with the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Iberia, 50 miles N.E. of Cape Fini sterre, steering S. W. THE INDIAN ARMY.—A correspondent states that the Government of India has decided on augmenting the force of the Bengal army by increasing the number of the men without any addition to the number of officers. This can only have been done on the supposition that the amount of officers is more than sufficient for their present duties. Whether this supposition be well founded or not may appear from the fact that the 51st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, now serving before Moultan in the army of General Whish, has not a single captain present with the regiment, and the two senior lieutenants are absent on staff duty. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—MANSION-HOUSE AND CITY THEATRES.—Captain Ackerley waited this day upon the Lerd Mayor to request ho would instantly suggest to Government the rescinding of the order at the Horse Guards for allowing the 200 men composing the Guards' Bands of music, being by night employed at Drury-lane Theatre, under flattering unction to their military talents for shilling enticement of 3,000 persons to the pit of that house, and thereby lending themselves for a surreptitious profit of 1,600x= weekly, to the manifest ruin of our Legitimate Drama, the com mercial lesees, our self-supporting actor, and other em ployees at the minor theatres. CHILD MllNDER.—Yesterday, a woman named Waters, wife of the coachman of a gentleman residing at Canterbury, was committed by Mr. Coroner Bedford, charged with the wilful murder of her infant. Prisoner was confined on Tuesday, at her lodgings, in the Com mercial-road; on the following day she went out, taking the child with her. On Wednesday night the lifeless body of the infant was found on a dung-heap in Bel grave-mews West, Grosvenor-place. The woman went home and said she had taken the child out to nurse. The Gazette of last night contains an order in Council for the equalisation of duties payable on wines, &c., admitted into the city, garrison, and territory of Gibraltar. The inequality hitherto existing had the effect of exempting altogether from the payment those classes of the community which are best able to bear such charge; and whereas, moreover, in consequence of such inequality, numerous frauds are committed with the object of evading the payment of the said duties, to the great prejudice of the local revenue, and with detri ment to the fair trading licensed dealers; in order, there fore, that relief may be afforded to the inhabitants of Gibraltar generally; that the revenue may bo protected by removal of the temptations to fraud; and that the ex pense attending the present system of partial imposition of duties, may be reduced by establishing a just equality in the payment of the duties on wines to be consumed within this garrison; it is expedient to rescind a certain order of his late Majesty King William IV„ which is consequently rescinded, and in lieu thereof to promul gatethe present order. - The London line of packet ship, York Town, Captain Sebar, arrived at Gravesend yesterday, from New York, which place she left on the 2d instant. She has brought over a full general cargo. A SMUGGLER'S EPITAPH.--A sailor, engaged in the contraband trade, having been shot by an xri,r n,qn, his epitaph was thus written:— , Here I lies, Kilt by the X.l's.l PERICLES. " He was tall, of noble and lofty mien, but, above all, bearing about him that peculiar stamp of gentle birth which circumstance bestows to strengthen nature's claim. His features, small and delicate, were expressive of immense power both of will and intellect; yet of power refined into beauty by the influence of its religion. Passionate and keenly sensitive, a pure philosophy had elevated these into sentiments, not losing in intensity but gaining in dignity. His chief characteristic was a calm self-controlled majesty, a repose, not of apathy or idleness, but of philosophy. Every passion was sub jected, every thought crdered, every ideal reduced to practicability: and, added to this repose, this majestic calmness, were the evidences of energy, decision, manli ness, and strength ; a n a t u t e which united th e character istics of the two beings, the man's power and the woman's gentleness; and beauty was the result. " And this is the perfection of manhood; not the irre gular energy of an Alcides, but the calm still power of the Zeus Sotcr, the moral dignity of the Atheno Polias. And it was this influence which had made of the friend of Pheidias, the pupil of Anaxagoras, the companion of Zeno, Damon, and Prodicos, the autocrat of Athens by influence not by force, of Pericles, the husband of Aspa sia, the most perfect man of his own time and of the ages that sl:ould come. The truth-seeking deist rejecting the public gods of hisday, because lower than the Word in his own soul, the bold philosopher who laughed to scorn the conventional moralities which had no life or substance in them, because his own heart gave out a truer codo than the city's assembled voice; well deserves he of posterity, well deserves he of his time; for nature never gave to man a nobler pattern than in the godlike sou of Min thippos,_ _ _ 6- . And all this might be read in the clear, penetrating. dark blue eyes deeply set beneath the sharp cut bro ws; the small lips, delicately but powerfully defined; the rounded chin and high forehead, arched rather than squared, with the muscular throat strong and firm; all were physical indications of his mental endowments, all showed the delicacy, refinement, and artistic nature, which had so ennobled the animal force and tempered the animal passions." AMYMONE. " The men were all clothed in white, none having more admixture of colours than their festive wreaths and garlands; while the,women's shawls and kitons were bordered and spotted with purple or gold or the deep crimson of the dying vine -leaf, or the pale tint of the crocus, or the peculiar hue of the green grape, or the Jeep dark blue of the lazule-stone. Amymone was clad in a long robe or kiton of the fine white linen of Am or gos, sleeveless, and fastened on her shoulders by l arge clasps of pearl. The short diploidion, or second robe, was she white, edged with a broad band of shining tex ture, and the veil which covered her face, and fell below her knee, was of the finest transparency and most grace ful disposition. Her feet were covered with small white Persian sandals, which allowed their perfect shape and beauty to be seen. Her only jewels were the pearl clasps and buttons mentioned before, and one small narrow armlet, an ancient relic of her mother, which circled her arm just above the elbow. Her dark hair was confined beneath a chaplet of spring flowers, bought, oh fatal omen!—from a foreign hand; and the violet buds and myrtle leaves strayed among her tresses, twining through the shining braids as if they loved the dainty pressure that they made." CLEON. " Crethon turned, and his eyes fell upon a coarse burly man, who, though young, bore the strong marks of sensuality and debauchery in his face. And even worse than these! Of every low mean vice, of every blustering tyranny, of every coarse vulgarity, of every craven cowardice, such the nature which that sodden face displayed. He was dressed expensively, but with ,,ut elegance, without even the least of that symmetry end beauty so seldom failing the lonian race. Ilis kiton bung in ill-arranged plaits; his chaplet was awry; the chlamys, which fell round him, was inharmonious in colour, and hung like a string about his body; and the jewels with which he had bedecked himself, so contrary to Attic taste and custom, were badly assorted in their hues and settings. He was Cleon, the son of Clmenetos, the Athenian tanner, the demagogue, flatterer, and in former, the friend of Methion, come to-day to be the paranymph at his bridal." METHION. " A young man, extremely beautiful and superbly dressed, came forward to greet him, as, uttering a bless ing for good omen, the old Eupatrid crossed the thres aold. His dark hair was bound with a chaplet of myrtles And violets; his pale crocus coloured kiton was starred and embroidered with gold; his sandals were profusely ornamented; and the scarf or chlamys negligently thrown over one shoulder, was bordered with purple, the centre of fine white wool being embroidered with gold in the manner of the kiton. The flush of happiness upon his race made him appear still more beautiful, and the fire of passion gave him an air of greater energy and decision than usually belonged to him, while it overlaid the ex pression of that weakness and ii resolution which proved at once the bane of his life and the ruin of his moral character. Sixteen years ago Herodotus of Halicarnas ►us, when as a youth he read the sketch of his immortal history to the assembled Greeks at Olympia, said of the Persians that they were more inclined than any men to change in their own, and to adopt foreign customs; and Methion's character, in its vanity and weakness, did not contradict this national peculiarity." CRETHON. " His dress was plain and of antiquated fashion. He w)re a long kiton of white linen, in spite of the example of Pericles, who had introduced, as more convenient and manly, the short woollen Doric shirt, using it merely as an under garment, whereas with Crethon it was his only robe, except when travelling. It was bordered with a purp!e stripe, and had but one sleeve; his left arm was bare, brawny and muscular as it still was. It was fas tened round his loins by a girdle concealed in the over lapping of the cloth. Over this kiton was now flung his himation, or blanket, as he was about to commence a journey. He wore simple wooden sandals, fastened with two leathern straps; his hair fell to his shoulders, con fined by a small fillet or head-band, and his waving beard descended low upon his breast. " As he stood there in the morning light, his eye bright and keen, his air full of the noble vigour of age, his countenance clear, with a fresh glow of health upon it, his whole hearing showing what had been the manly heartiness of his prime; he looked one of the best of that class which had raised Athens to her moral and physical greatness; men who were the forerunners, though not the authors of art and luxury; great as giant fathers, living once in themselves, and once again in the glory of their sons." ANTIPHON. "It was more than the dusk evening, it was early night, when Antiphon sat in his chamber, with all its professional accompaniments around him, intently stu dying an astronomic chart. A small table, on which was placed a tray fill e d w i t h f ru i ts , sweetmeats, f l owers, and wine, stood near; and ever at some more difficult question the student would pause from his labour, and turn his handsome manly face towards the light, refresh ing himself with some of the luxuries beside him. Ho was net one to neglect the physical comforts in intellec tual joys; else that ripe and pleasure-loving underlip, that bright, full, humid eye, those smooth and marked brows, and that voluptuous gloss' upon his skin, told sad falsehoods to the physiognomist. His attire too bespoke the sensuousness and luxury of his character. It was partly copied from that of the sophist, Georgias of Le ontium, who made all Athens, nay all Hellas, ring with tales of his magnificence and splendour, and of how ho would come to the Olympic games crowned with gold, and clothed in all the insignia of a monarch. A purple robe, bordered and starred with gold, reaching midway to his leg, a saffron coloured scarf, or chlamvs, thrown negligently over it; his black and scented locks combed smoothly round his head and fastened with a broad golden fillet; the sweet essences with which he had per fumed his person and his garments; the flowers which decorated his ears ; the massive rings that studded his fingers; the large luxury of his couch and chair and footstools; the wealth and gorgeous elegance scattered about him, all told to which of the two natures hisincli nation led him; all evidenced the superiority of the human over the divine, of earth over spirit. Everything about him was beautiful. His water-cups were of the finest porcelain made of the earth of Colias, of the most graceful forms, and of bright yet harmonious colours; his chairs and tables, couches and footstools, were cf elaborate workmanship, costly materials , and draperied with rich Milesian cloths; his pictures were as limtcus as the chaste style of the day admitted; his statues as voluptuous as Ctesilaos and Agoracreitos could or dared produce. In all things around him might be seen that one prevailing feeling of delight in sensuous, visible, :la i fie y, not because of its idea, but because of ts/or/a." As affording a vivid and picturesque view of Grecian manners " Amymone" is valuable. It depicts the ceremonies of the marriage feast, the burial rites, the symposiums, and the other domestic events of daily recurrence with the Athenians. It carries us in ima gination to the fans of the Delphic Oracle ; to the Olympic games; to the struggling of the athletes at the pancratium, or boxing with the cestus. It con veys us at one moment along the path of the Pana• thenaic procession, and, at another, initiates us into the mysteries of the household games—astragals, artiasmos, cuboi, and cottabos. No w we are j ostl i ng against the hetairai in the opson market, now we meet the ephehoi in the Cerameicos, now we listen to the flute-players in the ()Lion, now we hear the philosophers in the Lyceion, and now, again we wan der through the house of the eupatrid--travers ing the anthronitis or men's part of the dwelling, and on through the passage called the mesaulos until we have penetrated into those apartments dedicated exclusively to the female portion of every household. Of the eloquence with which all these classic materials are grouped together and adorned COURT CIitCULAR. OSBORNE, ISLE OF WIGHT, FRIDAY. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert walked this morning in the grounds at Osborne. Admiral Sir T. Bladen Capel called at Osborne this morning to receive ber Majesty's commands. The High Sheriff of Glamorganshire had an inter view with Sir G. Grey yesterday, at the Home-office. Dispatches were received yesterdayy at the Colonial office, from the Governors of Hong-Kong, New Zea land, the Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, Malta, and Gibraltar, and the Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong. Sir William Eustace, Admiral Sir Charles Adam, and Dr. Browning, had interviews yesterday with Sir George Grey. Earl Grey had a dinner party, on Thursday, at bis residence, in Be lgrave-square. The company, included the American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, Mr. and Lady Anne Tufnell, Mr. and Mrs. Hawes, Colonel Tulloch, Mr. Gregory, &c. Mr. W. Parish Robertson, Consul- General for the Republic of Equador, transacted business at the Fo- reign-office yesterday. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag hds., Mon., Maidenhead Station; Wed., Woodcocks Hill; Fri., The Golden Ball, Breck-- nell-11. Worcestershire hds., Tues., Witley; Fri., Radford Gate. Mr. Giles's hds., Mon., Bromesberrow•heath; Fri., Newent Wood. Wheatland hds., Tues., Spoonhill ; Fri., Wiley Park. Herefordshire hds., Mon., St. Weonard's; Fri., Byford. Brighton harrs., Mon., Patcham; Wed., Thunder's Barrow; Fri., Dyke-104. Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill ; Thurs., Telscombe Tye-10i. Southdown hds., Mon., King's Head, Hailsham ; Fri., Seaford-101. Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon., Rowfant House; Wed., Bolney Common; Fri., Held Common-11. East Essex hds., Tues., Belebamp Bells ; Thum., Chalkney Wood; Sat., Moor Gardens-10i. 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