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to the Committee for sin months; but he should in subs( quent stages give the Bill every opposition in his Power. Lerd J. RUSSELL hoped that as the House had already declared its opinion of the merits of the Bill in two divisions, the Committee would he permitted to be proceeded without further delay.—(dear.) The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Colonel SIBTIIORP moved that the chairman report Progress, and ask leave to sit again. Mr. BANKES would be willing to support his Hon. and Gallant Friend in a division against the first clause, but trusted that he would not take the seemingly in vidious course of dividing on a merely formal stage of the Bill. Col. SIBTIIORP persisted in dividing the House, and the gallery was cleared. On our return we were in formed that no division had taken place, the mover of the amendment having been unable to obtain a teller. The Hon. and Gallant Member hastily bundled up his books and papers and walked out of the House. On clause 1, appointing commissioners, Mr. BANKES had an objection to this clause, which, indeed, involved the whole principle of the Bill. lie ob jected generally to commissioners appointed by Govern ment, because—let them act ever so impartially—their decisions never gave satisfaction, being always suspected of bias. It had been so in the case of the commis sioners under the Reform Bill, and also in that of the Municipal commissioners. Besides, they never could get men of much eminence at the bar to serve on these c ommissions, and the holders of the franchise would hardly be satisfied to be deprived of it at the discretion of third or fourth rate legal practitioners.—(Hear.) In addition to this, they could never steer clear of the sus picion of political bias. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—The Lard Chief Justice would nominate.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BANKES feared that under any circumstances it would be impossible to remove suspicion from the public mind. Admitting that the Chief Justice did appoint, he Would not draw on the front ranks of the profession for the commission, and the consequence would be that the barristers chosen must be of interior status even to those Who presided over the county courts, the latter • being Permanent, while the forme: were only transitory ap pointments. Then the duties of these commissioners Were not clearly defined. They were to inquire and report th e i r opinions; that was to say, his opinion, for tinder the Bill one commissioner might constitute a court. It was said that the opinion of the commissioner was not to influence the House. If not, why all this trouble, and the expense to the country of five guineas a day? And here he had another objection. The mod e of remuneration would make it the interest of the barrister employed to d e lay the inquiry for as l ong a time as possible.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The 'louse would then be in this dilemma—either the deci sion would be final, and a borough might be disfran chised on the dictum of a barrister of little or no stand icg, or it was a nullity, and all the expense, trouble, and delay would go for nothing. By the third clause One commissioner might hold a court, and he had powers Riven him greater than had ever been tolerated in this country since the days of thJ star Chamber. The tenth Cl ause gave the commissioner indemnity on all legal Point s , but there were also such things as points of ho nour, from which he could not be indemnified. He was empowered to summon parties before him, and he might compel them to expose and denounce other parties with Whom he had been connected. This was a most invidi ous power. He (Mr. Bankes) had once had occasion to summon a banker before a Committee of that House, but having received a private intimation that the party in question would commit suicide if the summons were per sisted in, he gave up the notion. It might be said that he had shrunk from his duty, but these were points of honour which could not be got over. He entreated the Noble Lord to withdraw his sup port from thisßill,and to adopt the course he had himself originally suggested. Let him in each case appoint a Co:amittee of five, with powers to examine witnesses on oath, and a decision would be ar rived at ca l cu l a t e d t o setisFy both the other House of rarliament and the country. Sir J. HANMER said that the course suggested in this Bill had already been adopted in the case of Sud bury, and had received general approbation. The Hon. and Learned Member for Dorsetshire objected to corn • missioners as likely to be influenced by political bias; but were Committees of that House entirely free from suspicion?—(Oh, oh.) He remembered one notorious ease —the borough of Nottingham.—(Hear, hear, and cries of " Hull," and laughter.) Very well; he . merely mentioned the cases to show that Committees had been accused of political bias. He had watched the proceed ings at the various public meetings throughout the country in support of Mr. Hume's motion, and though he had observed many opinions put forward as to the condition on which the franchise should rest, the mode of taking votes and the duration of Parliaments, he had never seen that the constituencies of any borough in which such meetings had been held had declared that they would commence the work of reform by purifying themselves of corrupt practices. There was no reason to suppose that the just pride of the electors could be offended by a strict in . quiry in every case in which a constituency was now misrepresented, not because of the death or resignation of the late Member, but because bribery and treating had prevailed at the last election. It had been com plained that the commissioners would decide in accord ance with any bias that might obtain in their own minds, but that was impossible; all the commissioners had to do was to collect evidence and embody that evidence in a report, and on that report it would be for Parliament to act. He denied that the inquiry would be as expen sive as some Hon. Gentlemen seemed to suppose. Mr. ANSTEY believed that the reason why many 'Hon. Gentlemen opposite supported this Bill was that they believed it would have the eflict of advancing one of the objects of Mr. Hume's motion to disfranchise the small boroughs. Not only did this Bill take away the right of trial by jury, vesting the whole power in the commissioner without any appeal, but it offered a direct premium to perjury. The whole Bill was open to ob• sections of a similar character. Treating and bribery were dealt with as if equally criminal, although One was opposed to the law both of God and man, and the other comparatively innocent. The conse• quence of putting them in the same category would be to induce the poor man, who could see nothing corrupt in treating, to view bribery in the same light. In accordance with his pledge he should feel it his duty to oppose the further progress of this Bill. Mr. HUDSON contended that no sufficient case of corruption had been made out by the Hon. Baronet to justify this measure, which proceeded entirely upon a Principle of surmise. If treating were to be deemed a corrupt practice, he saw no reason why they should not, With equal reason, legislate against the influence of pro perty, or oven of eloquence, which , by falsif y in g the f act,:, might lead men to a vote which, on calmer reflec tion, they would regret. Its effect would be to intro , 'lice heartburnings in several towns, the effect of which W ould be most prejudicial. The Honourable Member ► goose Montrose was anxious for household suffrage; if the '''aouse wanted that, they had it in the freemen of some .. e kisting boroughs ; but t object of thi s Bill was 1 ° extinguish that class of he electors. Ho was well lquainted with the virtues and merits of freemen, though he was not returned by that class. It was said Chief chi e f comm i ss i oner was t o b e name d by th e L o rd Justice ; but he had actually heard the gentle• 110 0 already named by the promoter of this Bill.— .Lrear, hear.) He understood the appointment was to be, ae given to the late H on . M em b er f or B a th.—(H ear .) I'n. knew wh a t it was t o b e exam i ne d f or th ree d a y s be lore a Committee of that House on election matters, and to have his banking accounts rummaged over and ex -. Posed to individuals of the opposite party. Some such i nquisitorial proceeding might take place under this Bill, Which, though only applicable to 12 or 13 boroughs, • might on a futur e occas i on b e ap pli ca bl e t o 80 or 100. ^ This would be a precedent in the next Parliament, when Hon. Gentlemen opposite might perhaps be in a minority.—(Hear, hear.) The measure would perpetuate ill- blood in half the towns in the kingdom; it would be , com e a perfect nuisance ; parties bankrupt in fortune ued character would busy themselves in getting up these inquiries and fomenting discord, while the respectable classes would hold themselves aloof. Expenses the most ruinous would be i ncurre d ; and this was not the way to purify a constituency.—(He General, as the legal protector of hear.)her The Solicitor s ought to have taken care that no Majesty's subjects, such a heavy penalty.—(Laughter exposed to He hoped that local authorities would mark their . disapp rova l of the measure by refusing the use of th e i r public buildings for the proposed inquiries. He contended that the lover classes were no more open to corrupti on t h an others. Lord J. RUSSELL had hoped, after the. House had consented to go into Committee, that the clauses of the Bill would have been debated in the usual mode of car rying on the business.—(Hear, hear.) He must own his disappointment, after the House had assented to the second reading of the Bill, and after a long debate on the question of going into Committee, the House having de cided on each occasion by a large majority in favour of the Bill, that the whole question should now be argued over again—not as to whether a formal inquiry should be instituted in certain cases, but as to whether any Bill o f this kind should be entertained at all. — ( Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman who began the debate, had argued, I ts he very fairly might have done in a speech on the se cond reading, that the inquiry ought to be before a C ommittee of that House; but the House having ap proved t h e p ii nc i p l e o f t hi s Bill, and decided to go a with it, it was sure ly w rong to recommence this hadof opposition. The Honourable Gentleman wh o 1 1 1 just sat down had certainly added little to the ( else's means of judging of the clauses of the Bill.— aughter.) lie argued that bribery and treating ought de tecting consid ere d ven i a l offences, and ' that a Bill for ...seteeting and p un i s hi ng th em ought to be discouraged. t _Ulear, h ear .) Hi s persona l attac k s on th e H ono urable ftr,onet who h a d b roug ht in this Bill ought not to weigh " 1 1 the House in considering the details of this meti i,4nre: (Hear hear.) He hoped the House would not the discuss the general merits of the Bill. Whether c osts of prosecuting inquiries, but not those of de fer ti : l s,,them, should be allowed, was a very fair question th e c ' Committee, and he hoped that to such questions ommittee would address itself. eets r • BANKES said a few words in justification of the he had pursued. Al r e first G °DSON wished to know, in reference to the ae nte a clause, whether the Lord Chief Justice had cons rilin_.'stoo to acc e pt t h e i r k some d u ty o f appointing the com • Sir ers ? j had e „ • HANMER said that the Lord Chief Justice m r. et!Sented t o d o so. ho w fak-lODSON—That being se, the question arose away its the House of Commons would consent to give jurisdiction. He thought it was bad policy to t ern the Lord Chief Justice interfere in political mat the ' p a z i . h ? was strait' it would shake the confidence of l c their legal tribunals. Besides, the clause 3 centred' °f tih e _ contradictor in itself ; for whilst the appointment s poiat tice ili v iF f T r i s s t i ° u o s er tan s ge w , as given to the Lord Chief Just was lofterwalds given to the The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said the House would not part with its jurisdiction at all, because the commis sioners to be appointed would have no power to die franchise the boroughs. The object of the Bill was to give a convenient mode for ascertaining evidence on which the House was to act. There was an appearance of inconsistency in the Chief Justice appointing the commissioners in the first instance, and afterwards the Speaker ; but that arose from a disinclination to name the commissioners in the Bill itself, lest it might be said that they were selected for their political opinions, and the Speaker did not wish to make the appointment in the first instance.—(Hear.) Mr. HENLEY thought the Bill vicious and ill con trived. He should like to know from the Solicitor- General on what authority it was stated that the Lord Chief Justice would take upon himself the appointment of the commissioners. It was reported also that cer tain persons had been already selected for the office. But the clause provided that if the commissioners did not do the work as they ought, they, the majority, might appoint other commissioners to override them. He should likewise wish to know whether the 'commis sioners to be appointed would cease when the boroughs named in the schedule were disposed of; because it was provided by the last clause that in case of any fresh report the Speaker was to appoint commissioners. Sir G. GREY said that no nomination of commis sioners had taken place, and if the clause were adopted the Lord Chief Justice would be at liberty to choose from the entire bar any persons whom he thought pro per. 'With regard to the last question, the Hon. Gen tleman would see by the 17th clause that in future cases only the appointment of commissioners was to be made by the Speaker. Mr. HENLEY said that the 17th clause merely gave power to the Speaker to appoint an additional commis sioner, but it was by no means clear from that that the commission died. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said what was in tended was that the commissioners to be appointed by the Chief Justice should inquire into the boroughs men tioned in the schedule, and that when they made their final report they should bo f uncti officio. But with re gard to any future boroughs which it might be neces sary to inquire into, the inquiry was to take place under the 17th section.' _ _ Colonel SIBTHORP said the Bill was the most clumsy he ever read, and he would oppose it in every stage. Mr. ANSTEY (amid cries of " Divide ") observed that the 7th clause was so worded that the commis sioners would have to go into questions of usage and custom, and might protract their inquiries indefinitely. Mr. GODSON asked if the commissioners' decision was to be final, and Mr. HENLEY said he should like to know precisely what their powers were to be. Mr. NE WDEGATE expressed his belief that the Government had not decided at all with respect to these commissioners until five minutes before they came down to the House. Mr. BANKES said these commissioners were required to report the names of parties whom they might " find guilty" of bribery. Was it not au abuse to give such an authority power to brand people in such a way? He moved that the Chairman report progress. Lord J. RUSSELL supposed there would be no ob iection to divide on the clause itself, provided progress were then reported. Mr. BANKES assented. The House divided on the clause, when there ap. peared— For the clause lOB Against it 39 Majority...... —69 The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and oh tained leave to sit again. WRIT FOR DERBY, &c. Sir J. PAKINGTON said that in consequence of the appeal which had been made to him in the early part of the evening not to bring on a question of privilege on Tuesday, he should bring forward his motion for the issuing of these writs at the sitting of the house on Monday, or, if that shouli be very inconvenient, OH Thursday next. The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. THURSDAY, JUNE 15. LEICESTER WRIT. Motion made, and Qaestion put, " That Mr. Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a New Writ for the electing of two Burgesses to serve in this present Parliament for the Borough of Leicester, in the room of Sir Joshua Walmsley and Richard Gardner, Esquire, whose Election has been determined to be void.." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 6. Baldock, H. IL O'Connor, Feargus TELLERS. Benbow, John Sibthorp, Colonel Stafford, Augustus Hudson, George Sidney, Alderman Goring, Charles MINORITY-NOES, 129. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL-FURTHER PROCEEDING ON FURTHER CONSIDERATION OF REPORT. Amendment proposed, in page 14, line 23, to leave out from the words " entitled to vote," to the end of line P,3 : Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 46. Anson, Colonel Hayter, W. G. Parker, John Armstrong, R. B. Henley, J. W. Itap!sael, Alexander Arundel, Earl or llobhouse, Sir John Romilly, Sir John Baines, M. T. Howard, C. W. Russell, Lord John Bellew, It. M. Jervis, Sir John Russell, F. C. Bernal, Ralph Labouchere, Henry Shell, R. L. Christy, Samuel •• Lacy, 11. C. Somerville. Sir W. Cowper, W. F. Laseelles, W. S. Spooner, Richard Cuhittt, William Lewis, George C. Turner, Edmund Divett, E. Mackinnon, W. A. Turner, G. J. Drummond, Henry Maher, N. ry Wood, Sir Charles Elliot, J. E. Masterman, John Wyld, James Forster, Matthew Manic, Fox Grey, Ralph W. Mitchell, A. T. TELLERS. Hamner, Sir J. Morpeth, Viscount Tufnell, 11. Hawes, B. Newdegate, N. Hill, Lsrd Marcus Hay, Lord John O'Brien, Joha MINORITY-NOES, 18. Aglionby, 11. A. Clay, Sir W. Clay, James Cobden, R. Crawford, W. S. D'Eyncourt, T. Evans, John Fox, W. J. Stuart, Lord D. Hall, Sir Benjamin Thompson, Colonel Henry, Alexander Thornely, Thomas Pearson, Charles Urquhart, David Perfect, Robert TELLERS. Salwey, Colonel Hume, Joseph Scholeileld,lWilliam Pechell,.Captain BOROUGH ELECTIONS (No. 2) BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) First Clause:—Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Clause, as amended, stand part of the Bill." The Committee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 10S. Adair, R. Shafto Hawes, Benjamin Raphael, Alexander Aglionby, 11. A. Hayter, W. G. Reynolds, Jonh Anson, Colonel Henry, Alexander Ricardo, Osman Armstrong, Sir A. Heywciod, James Rich, Henry Armstrong, R. B. Hill, Lord M. Robartes, T.J. Bagshaw, John llindley, Charles Roche, E. B. Bellew, K. M. Holland, Robort Romilly, Sir John Birch, Sir ThomaS Howard, C. W. Russell, Lord J. Bowling, Dr. Howard, Sir R. Russell, F. C. H. Boyle, Colonel Hume, Joseph Salwey, Colonel Brotherton, Joseph Jervis, Sir John Seholefield, William Buller, Charles King, Peter John Seymer, 11. K. Banbury, E. H. Lewis, 0. C. Simeon, John Campbell, W. F. Littleton, E. R. Somerville, Sir W. Carew,,W. P. M'Gregor, John Stansfield, W. R. Clay, James Maher, N. Strickland, Sir G. Clifford, Henry M. Mahon, O'Gorman Sullivan, Michael Craig, W. 0. Mangles, R. D. Talbot, C. It. Crawford, W. S. Marshall, William TaHoard, Sergeant Davie, Sir Henry Matheson, Colonel Thompson, Colonel Divctt, Edward Islaule, Fox Thornely, T. Duncan, George Me'gond, Viscount: Tollemache, F. J. Bandits, Admiral Milner, W. M. Towucley, Charles Ebrington, Lord Mitchell, T. A. Townshend, Captain Ellice, Edward Monsen, William Trelawny, J. S. Elliot, John E. Morpeth, Viscount Tufnell, 11. Estcourt, J. It. B. Mostyn, E. M. L. Vivian, J. 11. Fordyce, A. D. Malgraxe, Earl Willcox, Brodie Fox, W. J. Ogle, S. C. Wilson, James : Freestun, Colonel Paget, Lord A. Wilson ; Matthew Glyn, George Carr Palmer, Roundel' Wood, Sir Charles Granger, T. C. Parker, John Wood, W. P. Greene, Thomas Pearson, Charles Wyld, James ' Grey, Sir George Peelle'', Captain Wyvill, Marmaduke Grosvenor, Lord R. Perfect, Robort, TELLERS. Hall, Sir B. Pigott, Francis Hanmer, Sir J. II allyburton, Lord Pinney, William Baines, M. T. MINORITY-NOES, 39. Ansley, T. C. Edwards, Henry Newdegate, C. N. Archdall, Captain Godson,lß. Pakington, Sir J. S. Baring, Thomas Goring, C. Palmer, Robert Barrington, Viscount Grogan, E. RoHeston, Colonel Benbow, John Gwyn, Howel Sibthorp, Colonel Berescord, William Hall, Colonel Smyth, J. G. Bourke, Richard S. Heneage, G. 11. Spooner, Richard Bruce, C. L. Henley, J. W. Stuart, Henry Buck, L. W. Ilildyard, R. C. Taylor, Thomas E. Buller, Sir J. Y. Hildyard, T. B. T. Urquhart, David Burrell, Sir C. ilobliouse, T. B. Vivian, J. E. Christy, Samuel Hood, Sir A. TELLERS. Dodd, G. Ingestre, Viset. Rankcs, G. Duueombe, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Hudson, G. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. The following letter from Earl Stanhope has beam received by the Secretary of the West London Anti- Enclosure Association:— " Cheveneny, near Seven Oaks, Kent, Juno 12. "Sir,—ln r e ply to your letter, mustl refer you to the ' Resolutions on the General Principles of Representa tion,' which I prepared several years ago, and recently published in some of the newspapers. They would es tablish trienni a l P ar li aments, the think of voting by ballot when any ele c t ors should t to exercise and an allowance to M em b ers of fit to exorcise ix, and an allowance to Members of Parliam h for their expenses, if any of them ch ose t o rece i ve it. T abolish all property qualifi ca ti ons , b ot h for Membersey would of Parliament and for electors; and would attain a most im portant object, in preventing elections from being expen sive to the candidates or profitable to the voters They would also give a vote to every citizen of the stat e , a n d would secure a full and fair representation of all classes of the community. These resolutions were the result of long and deliberate reflection, but they have received very little support, and, therefore, at present, I have no intention or inducement to propose them in the House of Lords, where I had some years ago an opportunity of stating my opinions upon the subject. " The msde of representation which I recommend is, I that every citizen of the state should irate in the class or classes to which he belongs, each class having its own representatives, and this principle seems to me perfectly safe as well as salutary. I disapprove very much of universal suffrage in the common acceptance of the term, as t the votes would be given collectively, and the numerical majority would thus acquire a prepon derating power which no class of the community could justly claim or could properly exercise. Every class bas a right to be fully rep resented , but no class, n o t even the labouring class, though it is of all others the most valuable and useful, has any right to be exclusively represented. Although every citizen of the state has a right to a vote, he has no right to give it in such a manner as to render of no weight the votes or others. For the same reason I disapprove of household suffrage, which is liable, though in a lesser degree , to the same objection, and would, besides, be very partial. The present representation appears to me very objection able in many respects, and, among others, in excluding the labouring classes, and in giving too great a share oc power to the la voters. Its operation has shown defects, and I am thoroughly couvinz..cd that a Hons.? o . Commons in which all classes of the community war fully represented would not have arloptc(l such an in human meTzsuro as the new pnor-law, or a system o• free trade which is unjust and injurious to the labouring classes.—l am, Sir, yours, &co To 11. D. Griffiths." "STANHOPE. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of business. The Lord Mayor placed the following letter before the Court:— " Whitehall, June 5, 1848. "My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's letter of the 24th ult., trans mitting to me, at the request of the Common Council of the city of London, the declarations of loyalty subscribed by the citizens with reference to the proceedings on Men• day, the 10th of April last. " I have received with much gratification this addi tional proof of the loyalty of the citizens of London, and of their firm attachment to the throne and constitution of this country. " fler Majesty's Government relies with the greatest confidence on their zealous and efficacious co-operation in maintaining the public tranquillity and upholding the supremacy of the law, in which all classes of her Jla• jesty's subjects have so deep an interest. "I have the honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's very obedient servant, " G. GREY." The letter was ordered to be entered upon the minutes of the Court. EXEMPTION FROM ARREST. Mr. ANDERTON said he had cut out of a newspaper a paragraph which he considered it was necessary to read to the Court, as the subject was ono which con cornA the Corporation in no ordinary - degree. The pa ragraph stated that application was made at judges' chambers to Mr. Justice Coleridge, to discharge an officer of the City of London Small Debts Court, whose case, upon an application to the Insolvent Debtors' Court, appeared on the 6th inst., and who was refused the protection of the Court and taken in execution on a writ of fi. fa.; that the arrest was made in the court where the cases were tried; and the defendant, at the time he was arrested, contended that, under the 98th and 99th sections of the City Small Debts Act, he was not only exempted from arrest, but that the mere laying hands on him to effect that arrest was an assault, he being at the time in the execution of his duty; that the officer, however, demurred to that interpretation of the clauses, and conveyed the defendant to Wbitecross-street; and that Mr. Justice Coleridge made an order directing the defendant to be discharged out of the custody of the Sheriff. Now, he was not aware that officers appointed by the Corporation were free from arrest. — (Hear, hear.) He could not see how, when honest creditors felt such difficulty in getting their money, or any part of it, the officers of the Corporation were to be considered entitled to exemption, and he moved that the subject be referred to the Officers and Clerks Committee for inquiry. Mr. R. TAYLOR said, the Corporation owed it to Lord Shaftesbury that the protection was introduced into the Bill. _ _ _ The subject was then referred to the Committee. It is proper to state, that Lord Shaftesbury- required that the City Small Debts Bill should be similar in every respect to the County Courts Bill, and thus a protection is given to some of its officers, without which it is con tended the business of tho court could not be carried on, any more than could that of Parliament without a similar exemption. Mr. SNELLIN - G (the chairman of the City Lands Com mittee) brought up a report recommending the grant of a piece of ground belonging to the Corporation to the parish of St. Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe, in lieu of a piece of ground to . be laid into the public street, near Puddle Dock, for the purpose of widening the same. Agreed to. THE SUN, LOW DON, DDAY EVENING, JUNE l6, 1848. or on one Shelley—" SheHet' , knew little of the art of compoiition ; his poetry lacks repoe . the general reader becomes wearied with a singl nage, &c. ;" or on one Alfred Tennyson—" If Mr. Tennyson aims at readers who have vacated the nursery, he should remember that they will probably require something more than that he should lisp in numbers, &c.'" How terse, how racy, how senten tious, is Mr. Anno Domini Toovey ! y Yet, notwith standing the book before us, we cannot but doubt that the cloak of a Gifford, a Johnson, or a Dacier, has descended upon such shoulders as his. LAYS OF THE DEER FOREST. 2 Vols. By John Sobieski and Charles Edward Stuart. To every one who is acquainted with the publica tion of thi s wor k mere ly through advertisement, we can imagine that the signature of its Tithors must he somewhat enigmatical. Many will regard the names on th e title-pages as mere pseudonyms, as sumed for the nonce, as Mr. Dickens assumed the mask of Boz, Dr. Walcot that of Peter Pindar, Sydney Smith that of Peter Plymly, and Mr. Lever that of Harry L orr i quer. Briefly, however, th e supposition would prove to be erroneous; for the names are writ. ten down in sober earnest, like the names of the merest John Smith in Whitechapel. The fact is, the authors— JohnLays b o o o k f , the b tu Deerfor the Forest," S o bi es ki and Charles Edward Stuart—are two brothers inh a biti ng a l i ttle river-island g i ven to t h em by the good L or d L ovat, and who have penne d t h ese flowingf writing " unaffected not or love th of song and for their simpl e narrat i ve. The assumed rela tionship with the J o l a i r Dh e i rg—the son of Prince Charles Edward an d hi s wife, the Countess D'Al bani?—may b e b etter understood by consulting their e song sake o previous work, called " Tales of the Century." ALISOIV j c v'S om ii r i os S it T io o n ß h Y as ° c E u m r7 u R I a O t e P d upon E. of thi - sitol:le Gradually, from month t o month, the new edition our bookshelves, until we have now before us eighteen elegant and handsome volumes, together with fourteen parts of the new illustrative " Atlas." We have watched the progress of the republication with some interest, and with no little attention, from the time of its commencement ; and we have great satisfaction in averring, that, with a very few unim• portant tnisprints, we have not detected any diminu tion whatever of the care with which the new edition has been revised. The work is laid before the public in as cheap a form as could, by any reasonable man, be desired ; and, certainly, in as admirable a shape as could be wished even by the most fastidious. Of the "Illustrative Atlas" we shall only remark, that as it contributes an absolutely essential accompaniment to the narrative of European history, from the com mencement of the French Revolution in 1789 down to the treaty of peace in 1815, so it is literally in valuable to every one who remembers the master p;ece of Alison among the classic gems of his library. The edition is altogether one of the most remarkable productions of the British press during the present century. FINE ARTS. THE ART-JOURNAL. No. CXX. Notwithstanding the slight modification in the name of this enterprising periodical, it would be im possible not to recov,nise it at once as our old fa• vourite, the Art- Union Journal—and not so much from the light-brown cover with the disc, the candle sticks and the goddesses, as from the beauty and profusion of the embellishments. " The Golden Age" is an exquisite engraving by Hunter, from the painting by Magnus, copied from the original en graving by Mandel. The " Prince Alfred as Autumn," again, is a continuation of the charming series of statuettes by Mary Thornycroft. And " The Nymph of the Waterfall," taken by F. Bacon from the painting of Daniel Maclise, in the posses sion of Charles Dickens, is a brilliant and elaborate production. Of the curiosities contained in this number the specimen of the compound plate-print ing is decidedly the most remarkable—it sets the forger entirely at defiance. It is quite impossible to praise too highly the original designs given in pages 187, 188, and 189, for our manufactures. There is a poetical gracefulness about some of them (such as the marmalade pot with its circle of oranges, and sprigs of orange leaves and blossoms or the salad bowl, consisting of an opening lettuce, or the butter-dish, composed of a king-cup) that is really admirable. These are the designs which have made the name of Felix Summerley pleasant in the popular ear, and which has lately pr.ovoked the pencil of Doyle to the embellishment of Punch with his droll suggestion for a milk jug. The exhibition of the Royal Academy for 1848 is criticised with considerable care and ability ; and the country abodes of Teniers and Rubens are represented by excellent wood engravings. THE CITY, COURTS OF LAW. Mr. SNELLING brought up the report on the reference to carry into execution the recommendation of the Com mittee for sundry alterations and repairs being performed to the courts of law in Guildhall-yard. It stated that such alterations and repairs had been fully carried into effect according to the plans and specifications of the City architect; that apparatus for ventilating and warming the courts had been affixed, and found well adapted for obtaining the desired object ; and the Committee had great pleasure in reporting that the alterations and re pairs; had not only been completed and finished in a highly judicious and satisfactory manner, but had met with the unqualified approbation of the judges, counsel, attorneys, and others frequenting these courts, and re flected great credit on the architect and the several par ties engaged in carrying out the same.—(Cheers.) The report concludes by stating that the courts had, by the judicious alterations, been made to answer every pur pose for which they were intended, without incurring the expense of taking down and rebuilding, as originally contemplated. The report was unanimously agreed to. ABOLITION OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. R. TAYLOR, in the absence of Mr. D. Wire, moved— " That the Court petition both Houses of Parliament, praying for the abolition of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and thu transfer of their functions to the civil courts of the kingdom." Ile con-sidered that the evils of the ecclesiastical courts were so well known and so tremendous that it was quite unnecessary to wait for any discussion upon the neces sity of petitioning for a change. Mr. WARTON seconded the motion ; Which was carried, and it was submitted to the Gene ral Purposes Committee to prepare the petition. TILE POOR-LAW AS TO VAGRANTS AND CASUAL PAUPERS. Mr. R. TAYLOR moved— " That it be referred to a Committee of which all the Aldermen shall be members, to consider whether any and what measures should be adopted to give increased efficiency to the Poor-law so far as relates to vagrants and casual paupers." He said that much public inconvenience had resulted from the discord which existed between the magistrates of the City and the guardians of the poor on the sub ject of the treatment of the poor. The blame was at tributable not to either of those parties, but to the defects of the law itself.—(Hear, bear.) He wished the question to be taken into consideration by the Police Committee, as it was actually a matter of police. There should be a separation between the casual and vagrant poor and the settled poor. The former ought to be dealt with by the police, to whom they were, from the vagrant and criminal nature of their habits, well known; the latter should be under the care of the guardians.—(llear, hear.) He regretted that the magistrates were too much in the habit of considering the vagrant poor as objects of sympathy, and the guar dians were sabjectod to calumnious accusations because they would not recognize the claims of impostors upon parochial benevolence. In the belief that it was neces sary to render all possible assistance to the present able Poor-law Commission, he moved the resolution. Mr. BARNARD seconded the motion, and declared that the City inagistrat-s had not done justice to the poor law guardians of the West London Union. He hoped that there would be a co-operation between the autho rities as to the treatment of the poor. _ _ Mr. HARRISON said ho had no experience in the management of the poor, but as a ratepayer he com plained of the enormous increase of the expense to the parish to which he belonged. In the parish of St. Mi chael's, Cornhill, the poor-rate had been raised from 800/. per annum to 1,4001. within the period of five yQars. If that increase were the effect of the system of centra lization it appeared to him to be a very bad effect. He hoped the committee would give some information as to the cause of the increase. —(hear, hear.) Mr. BUCKMASTER complained that the guardians of the poor of the West London Union had not received sup port from the magistrates. Mr. CONDER complained of the conduct of the suburban districts in crowding in the vagrant paupers upon the city of London, and expressed a hope that in the new measure the evil would be counteracted. Mr. WILLIAMS and other members supported the motion, which was carried unanimously. GRAND BALL AT GUILDHALL. The use of the Guildhall for the purpose of a ball on Cie 7th of July next, was granted to the committee of the Spitalfields School of Design .—Adjourned. MR. FELEGUS O'CONNOR AT SIIEFEIELD.—At the soirée held on Tuesday at the Old Threatre at Sheffield, Mr. Feargus O'Conner addressed a very large meeting, over which Mr. R. Otley presided. An address was read by Mr. Councillor Ironside, expressive of approval of Mr. O'Connor's conduct in hi's political proceedings, and in connexion with the National Land Company. Mr. O'Connor responded at great length, expressing the pleasure he felt at the address. In France, they had been telling the labourer that ho was entitled to honour and compensation, but had not told hive how he was to get it, but by his (Mr. O'Connor's) plan the rich would become richer and the poor rich. It was heresy and blasphemy' to say that the industrious people of this country were to be transported as sur plus population to another country. The money hoarded in the Bank of England was useless and unprofitable. Place labour on the land ; it was Nature's pap, and was the only thing which could sustain and maintain them. The proud oak should be levelled, the fat war-horse knocked off, and an end put to pleasure horses and dogs, and then if the land were too small, he would go abroad with them (his auditors) in search of another country. The Charter had been spat upon ; their full-length portrait, the little miniature he had carried under his coat fifteen years ago, his crippled bantling, they had laughed at him ; but now behold the master which on the 10th of April frightened the isle from its propriety, and caused the Queen to take refuge in the Isle of Wight.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connor after proceeding in this strain for some time, attacked the " ga;ging" of Lord John Russell, the very name of which was a violation of the constitution, and described the Government as seeking protection under the petti coats of the Queen. They had suborned a corrupt press, and were trying to destroy the French Republic. Nothing had been obtained for the people by the Ca tholic Emancipation Bill, the Parliamentary Reform Bill, or by free trade, but the social plan he wished to put them in possession of would seek a good political system to defend it. Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, who would be in his place in the House of Commons that day week, was his leader, not Mr. Hume, nor Mr. Cobden. They must • suppose they were to mount the ladder above him ; he knew his position, and would make them know theirs. He would tell them that there was a still greater power than that which they might achieve for themselves, and that was by co-oper • sting with the Irish people. After enlarging to some extent on this head, Mr. O'Connor gave a great variety of details connected with the National Land Company, which were received with much approbation. The pro ceedings terminated at 10 o'clock. LITER A T URE. 5 , TILE COURT AND TIMES OF JAMES I. Edited by the Author of " Memoirs of Sophia DCIV • AUL" 2 Vols. TIIE, COURT AND TIMES OF CHARLES I. Edited by the some Author. 2 Vels. These volumes serve to illustrate the Court and Times of James I. and Cintrles 1., in a very effective and interesting manner. They contain a collecti on o f " authentic an d confidential They having refer , ence to many of the most interesting and important events which transpired during the reign of the first Stuart kings. These volumes, as we are informed by the preface to the first volume of the series, were col"- lected by Dr. Thomas Birch, an industrious historical scholar, who died in 1766. ".This Dr. Birch," adds the preface, " havi ng access to a l mos t every i m p or t ant public and p r i va t e co ll ect i on o f manuscript s i n t h e kingdom, entertained the idea of putting together a consecutive series of the most interesting correspon dence of the seventeenth century. With this object he selected the entertaining c orrespondence of the pro fessed writ ers o f news, or intelligencers, as they were then called, whowere employed by ambas sadors in foreign countries and great men at home to furnish them with a continual account of every event that came under their observation. To these he added the private letters of men of eminence, holding distinguished employ men ts abroad, as well as those of a f ew em i nent characters about the Court likely to b e we ll i n f orme d o f w hat was going on around them." Dr. Birch's death prevented the pub lication of this i nterest i ng co ll ec tion. The doctor' s papers, cont a i n i ng transcr i pts o f these letters, copied from the ori g i na l s, were by his bequest transferred to the Briti s h Museum, and to this collection we are indebted f o r the present volumes. These volumes are edited by the author of "Memoirs of Sophia Doro thea," and enriched by numerous interesting and ex planatory, but not lengthy notes. Perhaps the best epitome of th e i r contents i s a qu otation from the editor's introductory remarks. In these epistles, he says, the slightest gossip of the Court mingles with th e i mportant d eta il s of transactions of state ; a piquant anec d ote i s con t r asted with a grave conspiracy, and a momentous discussion in the House of Commons is reli eve d b y an i n teresting recollection of Shakspere's theatre, or a lively account of Ben Jonson's masque. By s o many observers of various . humorous writings of the same time, not only the reader secure against any omission of facts it is de sirable he should know, but he is presented with the minutest details of every occurrence that transpired, at a period wonderfully fruitful in strange events. Here the re a der may hold companionship with the estimable Prince Henry, the worthiest example of regal heirship since the heroic Black Prince; accom pany his unfortunate yet true-hearted sister from her wooing by the Prince Palatine of the Rhine to the end of her fruitless struggle for the Bohemian crown; or share with another royal adventurer, Prince Charles, the dangers of his romantic journey from England to make fruitless love to the Infanta of Spain. If incidents of a more touchi ng c h arac t er are likely to attract him, he will find ample materials for sympathy in the fatal marriage of the Lady Ara bella, or the affecting tragedy of the gallant Raleigh. Should be seek scenes of more terrible interest, they are to be found in the ample details o f th e G unpow d er Plot, in the thrilling memorials of Sir Thomas Overbury's murder in the Tower, or of the myste rious trials in the Star Chamber of Lady Roos and Sir Thomas and Lady Lake. After this enumera tion of its attractions, is it necesrary for us to add one word in recommendation of this work—of a work so admirably well calculated to clear up much that is indistinct, and to fill out much that remains unfinished in the historical records of the period to which it refers ? The " Court and Times of Charles I." may be either regarded as a work per se, or as a conclusion to the series of letters already mentioned. These last published volumes are in some respects more valuable and more interesting than their predecessors, inasmuch as the reign of Charles I. is invested with a higher historical interest than that of James. These letters, many of which tend to throw light on the various incidents of that momentous period, are im portant as matters of history and interesting as mat ters of detail. As an appendix to these revelations of the secret history of the Court of Charles I. is added a translation of the memoirs of the mission of the Capuchin Friars in England, by Father Cyprian de Goinache, the Capuchin preacher to Queen Henrietta Maria. 'This narrative, making due allowance for the strong religious tendencies of its author, is sufficiently attractive. It gives, among other interesting details, some particulars of the escape of the Countess of Morton and the infant daughter of Charles, on the first breaking out of the revolution. The student of history anxious to make himself well acquainted with the chronicles of the past, should not pass over without p:.-r u-al these memoirs of the times of James I. and Cliarles I. ; they constitute a not unimportant chapter of the history of England, while to the lover of romance, or to the diversified taste of the " general reader," their very miscellaneous, and, in some cases, most romantic contents will render these volumes peculiarly attractive. The third volume of the series is embellished with a very beautiful engraving of Vandyke's portrait of Charles I. BRADSHATT'S MONTHLY RAILWAY AND STEAM NAVIGATION GUIDE FOR JUNE. Messrs. Bradshaw and Blacklock have introduced several improvements into the Railway Guide for June, which will b e cont i nue d i n th e future numbers of this very usef u l pu bli cat i on . The index has been considerably extended, a table of the through routes has been added, and a new complete full map of Great Britain is now given, which not only shows the railways in operation and those in progress, or for which Acts have been obtained, but also distinguishes the principal and intermediate stations, the distances of large towns from London, the lines on which the electric telegraph is in operation, the tracks of the steamers, and distance in miles to all the principal ports, &c. Thi s map, w hi c h i s o n a large scale, is beautifully executed, and is not more remarkable for its elegance than for its accuracy. The map with which this edition of the Guide was formerly illus trated, now illustrates the cheaper edition of the work. WAY BRADSHA W'S CONTINENTAL RAIL GUIDE FOR JUNE. This month's Continental Guide is as distinguished as its predecessors for the accuracy and variety of its information, and for the lucid manner in which that information is arranged. The map of Centra l Euro p ?, showing all the lines of railway at present existing in central Europe, is a beautiful specimen of map en • graving. THE POETICAL WOKIVS Up' JO HN MIL. TON. A N ew Edi t i on. O ne Volume, pp. 767. Various and almost innumerable as were the editions already published of the Poetical Works of our sub lime and immortal Milton, there was yet a necessity for precisely s uc h a repr i nt as t h e present. A hand some volume, compact toanbde—yentotcoapiovutsii' ua mass yet portable, of excellent type and substantial paper , book is ca scrupulous in typography and simple in appearance— thelcinvaluable additio n t o any man 's and every man's library. What m a t er i a ll y en h a nces the interest of bl it e s , s but an the volume, beyond the circumstance of its contain. ing all the poetical compositions of the great epic poet of England, whose masterpiece was preferred by Ad. dison to the masterpieces of limner and Virgil—i s, that it is elaborately edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, and lavishly embellished by the pencil of J. M. W. Turner. BRITISH POETS OF THE PR C A NT CEYTURY compass tloftier,hhae s — s h a°p Ne E . of himself, and .. .....E.,., ... because the idea was in By Alfred Dixon Toovey. Oct Volume, pp. 288. Mr. A. D. Toovey is a bit of a poet t has he p h r e e e se n nt do v u ol b u t m les e s , ipnarduticyed to carry out the idea of itself good, and partly because he might enhance his reputation in some sort by associating his own name repute Mr. A. D. with the more memorable names of his contempo raries. In the conjecture, supposing it ever entered his imagination, he has been marvellously mistaken, fToorowvehyatmevaeyr have e le by his "Modern Life and Other Poems" must certainly be for ever extingushed by the blunder of his present brochure. ggaiiinledn3etrilirnegadoyf before. One merit, however, So much self-sufficiency, so much pertness, and It is a merit, neverthe such incorrigible coxcombry in the way of criticism we never saw crammed into so l t small e h s e s b n o o a o t k than might be claimed by Poor Richard's Almanac, or by the annual posters in the shape.pf illuminated calendars given away periodically two laconic dates—the alpha to the !subscribers to the illustrated newspapers. We mean the abreviated biographies of the different poets of the present century given at the heading of each Born 1792—Died 1822." and omega of each career. As thus:—" George division in Crabbe. Born 1754. Died 1832." Or thus— " Percy Bysshe Shelley. Thomas llood. Born 1798 Or thus—" —Died 1845." This solitary mer it in a volume otherwise so abor tively pretentious, appears to be wo r thy o f some dis tinquishing m ,memento in connexion with the signature of Mr. Toovey, whom we shall therefore call, not Mr. A. D. Toovey, but—in commemoration of hi. success as a chronologist—Mr. Ann° Domini with m r . Anno Toovey. Domini Toovey, however, we must in fairness be somewhat more explicit by explaining the direct tendency of our re marks as to his self-sufficiency, his! pertness, and his literary coxcombry• What we quarrel with him for is this, that he is such an egregioui and gratuitous dogmatist in criticism, without proving hi mse lf by a single circumstance to be capable of expressing an authoritative opinion in literature. Listen to him discoursing, for instance, upon one Thomas Babing ton Macaulay—" Mr. Macaulay is one of the best prose writers of the present century, but his imagi nation appears to be in, fetters wh en h e writes in verse. • • • • . The Lays of Ancient Rome' have but few attractions for the lovers of poetry, Sm.,' LYCEUM THEATRE. Last night Gay's Beggar's Opera, originally pro duced in 1728, was revived here with an admirable cast, and came out after the pale platitudes recently adapted from the French with the freshness of a new gathered bouquet. Though the circumstances which gave this work se much " local colour" at the time of its production are passed, the pungency of the wit in the dialogue, and the truthful touches of frail humanity. survive the occasion, and were received and understood with all the zest which truthful illus tration invariably commands. The music is of a character which can never fail to engage and gratify the sense. We shall give the cast, comprising so many distinguished names, in full, paying a passing compliment to all and every one in it for the good taste and sound judgment they displayed in readily co-operating in so good a work. A little more of this sort of feeling on the part of actors and mana• gers would do more to restore their cause, and secure the reward so justly their due, than all their petitions for patronage in high quarters. The Player Mr. Parselle. The Beggar . Captain Macheath Peachum Lockit Filch Mat o' the Mint . . Mr. S. Smith. Drawer Mrs. Peachum ... Mrs. C. Jones. Polly Peachum Miss K. Fitzwilliam. Lucy Lockit Mrs. Coaxer jenny Diver .. Miss J. Coleman. It will be seen from the above that on this occasion the characters of the Player and the Beggar, who con coct, and who are the chorus of the extravaganza, hive been restored, and with good effect, depriving the abrupt conclusion of much of its absurdity. Mr. Harrison, who made his first appearance here, acquitt e d himself with great success as Macheath. His voice, in the interval which has occurred since his appear ance at Drury-lane, if not ;improved in quality, dis plays greater taste and skill in its management. It is also of a calibre much better adapted to this little house, than the larger arena of Old Drury. His upper notes are of exquisite sweetness, and they were those most frequently used in the music he had to sing. He was received with great enthusiasm on his first entrance, and loudly applauded in all his songs. He was honoured with encores in " My heart was so free," " If the heart of a man is oppressed with care," and " How happy could I be with either," which last he gave with considerable spirit. Miss Kathleen Fitzwilliam made a most graceful and in teresting Polly ; and we have never heard the deli cious melodies allotted to the part given with greater purity of intonation and feeling expression than she displayed. She was rapturously applauded in that touching air, ." Oh I ponder well !" and in " When my hero in court appears," and again in " Cease your funning," which she closed with some scientific adornments, given with equal taste and ability. Madame Vestris, we need hardly say, was an inimitable Lucy. Frank Matthews made a hit as Peachum. And Harley, in the little part of Filch, showed how an old hand, zealously determined upon it, may steal a round of applause, however slight the materials he has to deal with. The Mrs. Peachum of Mrs. C. Jones was admirable, who is there on the stage at the present day can ever approach her in the delineation of such parts as Mrs. Peachum. It is one of the richest bits of acting we have seen for many a day. Miss J. Coleman sustained the little part of Jenny Diver excellently. Miss Charlton was the Airs. Coaxer. The opera concluded with a gene ral dance by the characters, which was encored. The audience, who had been most lavish of their applause throughout the performance, then called for Polly, Lucy, and the gallant Captain, whom they welcomed with distinct and hearty rounds of cheering. The piece was well dressed in the costume of the period. CONVOCATION OF THE CLERGY.— ADDRESS TO TIER MAJESTY.-11er Majesty having appointed to morrow (Saturday) for the reception of the address agreed upon by the Convocation, the Upper and Lower Houses will meet at the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster, at two o'clock, and at half-past two the procession will set out, proceeding through the Dean's-yard, across the Broad Sanctuary, through Prince's-erect into Great Georg e _ street, and thence into the Park by Storey's -gate, al ong Bird-cage-walk to Buckingham Palace, where they will be received by the Lord Chamberlain, who will conduct them to the Throne-room. HOLYHEAD ROUTE.—:The steatn•ship Anglia, 700 tons measurement, 350. horse power, built by Mare and Co., engines by Maudsley and Field, intended for the Holyhead station, to run between Holyhead and Kings town in conjunction with the Chester and Holyhead Railway trains, was tried yesterday between Gravesend and the Mouse light, and performed as follows;._ Gravesend to the Mouse, with tide, 90 minutes, equal to 19.574 statute mile miles per hour; Mouse to Gravesend, against tide, 120 1.6 minutes, equal to 14.690 statute miles per hour. Measured nautical miles, slack tide, 4 min. 111 see, equal to 16.489 statute miles per hour ; against tide, 4 min. 39 sec., equal to 14.86 statute miles per hour; two miles, 8 min. 50k, equal to 15.635 statute miles per hour. LOSS OF THE STEAI4:SHIP ARIEL. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, JozzE 14. We have received advices to the 6th inst. from Leg horn relative to the unfortunate loss of the Peninsular aid Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Ariel. These accounts are more explanatory of the disaster than those previously published. It appears that on the 2d of June, at 6 30 in the morning, the Ariel, from Malta and Civita Vecchia es route to Leghorn, struck the dangerous rocky shoal of Mal di Vetro, four miles distant, W. S., from the seaport of Vado in Tuscany, 13 miles southward of Leghorn lighthouse. The ship was going full speed, nearly ten knots, and from the force with which she struck, the fore-hold and engine room immediately filled with water ; the fires of course being extinguished, the engines were rendered unser viceable. Captain Caldbeck, therefore, hoisted out the ship's boats, and sent them to Leghorn under com mand of Mr. Neill Cook, the first officer, with the passengers, stewardess, and the youngest ship's boys, where they all arrived in safety. A boat was also dispatched to the company's agent at Leghorn for as sistance which was promptly rendered, and a steamer of war and a merchant steamer sent to the wreck, with a view, if possible, to get off the vessel, or to endeavour to save the cargo, &c. Captain Caldbeck, with the crew and officers, remained on board till 11 A.M. of the 3d, when, in consequence of the weather being unfavourable, and a gale of wind blowing, with very high sea, the whole ship's company were obliged to leave the ship. This they did with great difficulty, having to drop from the bows of the Ariel into a large boat sent off by the company's agent. 'Fortunately, the whole party suc ceeded in leaving the ship without accident, although the danger was very great. The Ariel is an iron vessel, and built in water-tight compartments; this may account for her surviving the gale of wind on the 3d. Although the fore-hold and engine-room were full of water, the after-hold was quite sound and dry. Up to the 6th every exertion had been made by Cap tain Caldbeck, the officers, and crew, to save the mate. Hills of the ship. Two large boats and a bomb-vessel of 80 tons were employed in this service, and all the passen gers' baggage, specie, and that part of the cargo in the after-hold, had been secured and landed at Vado. The passengers were accommodated in the lazaretto at Leg horn. The Tuscan Government rendered all the assist ance in its power. On the 6th instant Captain Caldbeck wrote to the company that lie entertained some hopes of floating the vessel, and was then actually engaged in making p re p arat i ons to e ff ec t that object; on that day there were ten feet of water under the port paddle box, nine feet under the starboard one, nine feet two inches under the forefoot, and nineteen feet under the rudder, the main -hold being still perfectly tight, and the vessel not much injured by the breaking of the sea. Every movable articl e h ad been landed , including the plate, furniture, &c,, of the s hi p , an d t h ere on l y re mained on board the c0a15,. 9 irondre ballast, and a few packages of cargo which were under of this favourable water in the forehold. In conse quenceo rep or t as to t h e h o pes that were entertain e d Compan their y yesterda surve y dispatched the vessel, the Peninsular Bayly, (ot t o L eg h orn M r . G eorge or at Lloyd's), to sup erinteng known from his connexion the ship. nd the operations for floating A list of the passengers has not yet b een rece i ve d, nor is there any account of board; the cargo was not a very largeamount of specie on principally of goods from Malta and "e' it consisted Civita 'Vecchia. The value of the ship was about 30,0a01/ total loss ensue (which is most probable" and announce that, in consequence of instil?' we effar•ec't..--4-,,-n -the vessel, the company will not be losers to ei-te-za-t of more than 14,000 L or 15,000/. The cause of the Ariel' s s t r iki ng the Mal di Vet o reef has yet to be satisfactorily explained. The reef properly laid down in the M e dit erranean charts, anedfiist position and bearings accurat e ly d escr ib ed in the sail" rss directions. The accident occurred at broad dayt; when the coast must have been discernible, i n fine weather, and the ship at full speed. It was evident that the Ariel's course was too near the shore, or that the officers in charge could not have been aware of the ship's position at the time of the accident. The proper course from Civita Vecchia to Leghorn would appear to be northward from the island of Elba and to the east ward of Capraja and Gorgona, between which island s and the mainland there are 50 to 80 fathoms of water. The fault which has caused the Peninsular Company the loss of one of their finest ships is a fault, unfortu nately, too common to commanders of packet steamers, who are frequently too fond of hugging a dangerous shore, when there exists a safe and wide sea way in which to steer. By letters of the 7th inst., received from Leghorn since the above, we learn that every effort was to be made to save the Ariel. The after-hold still remaining water-tight, it was hoped and expected that by filling the fore-hold with casks, and securing casks to the paddle boxes, the ship would float. To assist these opera tions, the boilers were to be pumped out, 50 tons of ballast and 100 tons of coals discharged, the paddle wheels taken off, and the shaft and heavy portions of the machinery removed; thus 200 tons dead weight would be removed from the vessel. The weather con tinued very fine. Some very serious disagreements had occurred with the Livornese boatmen employed on the wreck. The captain and company's agent employed 50 of them to assist, as labourers, in saving the goods and cargo. On the evening of the 6th the men so employed made a demand of 3,3001. for salvage; and on the cap tain refusing to guarantee so enormous a claim, they threatened his life, and made a demonstration to seize all the property landed at Vado. The captain and crew immediately armed themselves with the ship 4 s mus kets, and remained under arms all night. The Tuscan Government appeared quite powerless, and it is stated that, in the present revolutionary state of the country, the class of men referred to are quite masters of it. The life of the British Vice-Consul had also been threatened, and a number of Maltese sailors, part of the crew of the Ariel, had sided with the Livornese, and refused to exert themselves in saving the ship. A British vessel of-war was much wanted, and letters had been sent to every port in the vicinity in the hopes of getting assist ance. In the extremity to which the captain of the Ariel was reduced he proceeded to Leghorn, to obtain a num ber of seamen from the British merchant-ships in that port, and 30 volunteered to proceed to the wreck. Tho Livornese, however, angry at being dismissed, announced their intention of preventing the operations, and Captain Caldbeck was accordingly about to go to Florence to claim the intervention of Sir George Hamilton, the British Mini s t er at t h e T uscan Court. To prevent dis turbances, the company's agent had offered 0 6 000 livres (8601.) to the bo a t men , w h ich they agreed to , receive, in satisfaction of their claim for merely landing the bag gage, cargo, and stores. N AVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Earl of Auckland, and the other members . of the board, have returned to the Admiralty. The Hon. Cap tain M. F. F. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., arrived in town last night. • The Earl oF Auckland, G.C.8., was entertained last night it the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, by the members of the Navy Club. Reports have been circulated to the effect that Sir William Parker had' arrived at Trieste with the fleet under his command, and had declared that a shot fired at Trieste by the Neapolitan and Sardinian squadron would be regarded as a declaration of war against Eng land, There is no truth in this statement, nor is there the slightest foundation for these reports. Sir William Parker,and his line-of-battle ships were at Malta on the 3d instant, and was likely to remain there; and we be lieve that he has orders to remain in Malta Harbour until he receives further instructions from home, and that he is not on any account to cruise in the vicinity of Naples. The Admiralty have appointed the Rev. J. Wooley to be head master of the Central Mathematical School at Portsmouth. It is reported that the Firefly, 3, steam-vessel, on the coast of Africa, is to be commanded by a commander, and that Lieutenant Ponsonby will be succeeded by Com mander Tudor (1842). Lieutenant —Robert A PPOINTMENTS. _ Assistant Surgeon 16, at Portsmouth. M. Sandom (1843), to the Helena, S tx, Master stew ,s ra - Surgeon -- Julian W. Slight, late of the sloop, confirmed seniority January, 1846. Assi stants—William Hobbs, acting second I,:p fi e Y t v t a t i ot h :i l t o. aort.t3j;D.w ic b . _ . M. master, iti to the San Josef, flag-ship, at Devonport; W. c l o B ast of e S v u o t n t p on or , t t . o the Penelope, steam-frigate, Africa; Charles L. Waddilove, to the Tweed, Midhipmen--John C. James, to the Bellerophon, 78, ‘ .Clerk's As s istant —F. Wright, to the Fisgard, flag astn Euginee'r—J. Hetherington, third class, to the Blenheim. . class the the 'Ceyloßn.urre' __ . tants—M. Carpenters —Thomas RT. Feetor first cl as s ,to the Fisgard; C. Icily, third second class, to the Medusa ; advanced tors—Thomas Penfound, of the Vindictive, 50, to the first class ; S. Warn, to the Illus trious. Boatswain --T. Harris, acting, to the Illustrious. Royea. MARINES.--Commissions have been received at Portsmouth for Captain John 0. Travers and First Lieutenant 11. J. Tribe, Charles M•Arthur, F. B. Grit ton, and Edward M'Arthar. The Trafalgar, 120, Captain C. Hope, on her way from Spithead to Sheerness, to be paid off; has only a crew of 700 officers and men on board. The Bellerophon, 78, Captain Baynes, ' C. 8., in Ply mouth Sound, is daily filling up her vacancies. read The Tw ee d, 18, Commander Lord Russell, will be y for sea, at Devonport, by the 20th of next month. ham Tee Ranger, 8. Commander Newland, fitting at Chat will be ready for sea on the 19th. ordered The Athol, t roop - s hi p, M aster Commander Pearn, is to have her defects made good, at Woolwich, immediat e l Th e nyx, V e su vius, 6, steam-sloop, C omman d er A us t en , arrived at Halifax, May 27th, from Bermuda. The` o at iron Dover steam-pack e t, w hi c h h a s been iWoolwich repairing machinery for the last three weeks, will not be ready for six weeks longer. These Dover packets, what with strengthenng teir weakly built hulls, and the extensive repairs of i their h machinery, have been very costly. WooLlvica, JUNE 15.—Several of the members of the Co mmittee appoi n t e d b y t h e H ouse o f C om mons t o examine the Navy Estimates, arrived at Woolwich dock yard to-day, accompanied by Captain Ellice, comptroller of s.tearn machinery, and were joined by Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer of the steam department at the Admiralty. The Committee examined the storehouses and works of the factory department. inlestAatriornog, The Flam er steam. vessel, Commander Lavie, arrived at W oo l w i ch on Tuesday evening from the Mediterra nea Arrogant, will be paid off on Monday next. uns , fourth- ra t e , built for a frigate of 46 g, 14 hourly expect e d at 'Woolwich from Portsmouth, 3 r ~. "~~~ having been sent round to be fitted with engines and screw propeller. The Styx steam-sloop, recently paid , off 'at this port, has been taken into the basin to be refitted, and made ready fer further service. The iEncounter steam-frigate is under the Shears, having the masts of the Prometheus pitit -in to serve as jury masts to take her round to Portsmouth, where she will be completed and commissioned. The Rifleman steam-vessel went down the river to day on trial, and was found to answer well. 'The Onyx, Dover mail steam-packet, has been taken into the inner basin to have some repairs effected in her machinery. e. The transport-ship Bombay embarked the 77'th Regi ment, with detachments of invalids, at Quebec, and left' that place on the 23d of May, for Portsmouth. The Resistance troop-ship is expected at Quebec, by the first week in July, with the 79th Highlanders, and will take home the 93d Highlanders, under orders to embark for England. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER RACES—THURSDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 10 sovs each, h ft with 50 added, the second to save his stake. One-mile-aud-three quarters. 7 subs. Mr. Green's Swiss Boy, Bst ... (Winteringham) 1 Mr. Meiklam's Otterburn, Bst 21b 2 Sir J. Gerrard's Jest, 7st 111 b Mr. Thompson's br cby Morning Star ... • 4 A fine race. Won by half a length. Time 3 min 34 secs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 40 added. One mile and a dis. 32 subs. Mr. Skerratt's Romance, 5 yrs, Est 121 b (Tasker) 1 Mr. Price's Gaffer Green, aged, sst 121 b • 2 Lord Warwick's Yialley, aged, 7st 71b „,, Mr. Manning's Betty Swipes, 4 yrs, Est ... 4 The following also ran:—Philosopher, 4 yrs, Est 81b; Cheapside, 4 yrs, 6st 21b; Brown Fly, 5 yrs, sst 21b; and Lecomte, 3 yrs, sst 31b. A. fine race. Won by half a neck. The Welter Cup, of 100 soya, by subs of 10 sovs with 30 added; three-year-olds, 9st 71b; four years, lOst 121 b; five years, 1 Ist 61b; 6 years and aged, llst 1010. Mares, &c., allowed 31b. Winners in 1848, 51b. extra. Gentlemen riders. Ono mile and a dis. 7 subs. Mr. Merry's Chanticleer, 5 yrs (Mr. Osbaldiston) I Sir G . .'Gerard's Blackie, 5 yrs ... . 2 Mr. Boynton's Lucaria, 3 yrs Won by 100 yards in 2 min 15 secs. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas. Three miles and a dis. Lord Chesterfield's Alpheia, 3 yrs, 7st 21b (G. Oates) 1 Mr. Hawke's Miss Harrison, 3 yrs. 7st 21b,.. .. 2 The following also started, but were not placed:— Mr. Meeson's Dart, 6 yrs, 10st 51b ••• ... 0 Mr. Bell's Fiddlestring, 5 yrs, lost ... ..• ... 0 Mr. Lillie's Great W estern , 3 yrs, 7st 21b Mr. Meiklam's Spaniard, 3 yrs, 7st 21b The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added; the second to receive 101, Heats, ono mile and a half. (5 Subs.) Mr. Westerby's Ellen Loraine, 3 yrs Mr. Parr's Lethargy, 4 yrs Mr. Jones's Smuggler Bill, 5 yrs Mr. Meiklam's Best of Three, aged HAMPTON RAC ES.—THURSDAY. The Claremont Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft. with 25 added, for two-year-old colts, Bst"7lb; fillies, Bst 41b. Half a mile. Mr. Dyson's Christians (Wakefield) 1 Mr. DAewitt's cby Venison out of Polley ... 2 Mr. G. Hobson's First of May _ _ ~ . (Fenn) 1 1 ... 3 2 ... 2 3 ... dis. - Mr. E. Jones's fby Kremlin -. ... ••• ... 4 Betting.-6 to 4 agst Christiana, and 3to 1 agst Folly colt. The favourite made all the running. and won easily by a length and a half. Run in 59 secs. Handicap Sweepstakes of 1 sov. each (5 sovs. in case of acceptance), with 30 added. Heats, one mile. Sir G. Heatheote's Miss Wilfred filly,3 yrs, sstl2lb 1 1 Mr. G. R. Clarke's Sir Tatton Sykes, 5 yrs, 95t... 3 2 Mr. Nevin's Patriot, aged, Bst 71b .. ••• 0 3 Sir H. Fl eetwood ' s Forest Flower, 5 yrs, 7st ... 0 0 Mr. B a l c hi n ' s Sir Edmund, 5 yrs, 6st 10lb ... 0 0 Mr. Elwes's Mountain Dew, 4 yrs, 7st ... ... 2dr Betting—First heat: 6 to 4 agst Patriot, and 3 to 1 agst Mountain Dew. Wou in a canter. Second heat: 11 to 10 agst Patriot, and 5 to 4 agst Miss Wilfred filly. Won easy. The S.airry Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft. Gentlemen riders. Professionals allowed to ride, car rying 51b extra. One mile. Mr. Hobson's Ipecacuanha 5 yrs, llst ... (Owner) 1 Mr. Waller's Cavendish (h b), aged, Ilst, 51b extra 2 Mr. 13( vine's Kimblesworth, 4 yrs, lOst 21b ... Mr. Clifton's V a li ant, 5 yrs, llst 101 b ••• 3 Lord Suffield na Guaracha, 5 yrs, lOst 71b ... "'0 Major Pitt's Holl oa , 3 y rs, 9st 71b .. ... ... 0 Betting-2 to 1 agst Kimblesworth,. sto 2 agst Caven dish and 3to 1 each agst Guaracha and Valiant. Gua racha, followed by Cavendish, cut out the work to the two yrs old post, when Ipecacuanito took a decided lead, was never headed, and wou very easily by three lengths. Run in 2 min. 5 sec. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas; three yrs old, 7st 51b; four, 9st llb; five, 9st 11Ib; six and aged, lOst 21b. The winner to be sold for 500, it demanded, &c. Heats, two miles. • Mr. Shelley's Tarella, 4 yrs (Crouch) 0 0 0 1 1 Mr. Robertson's Tom Tough, aged ... 0 0 1 4 2 yr. Nevin's Patriot, aged ... ... 0 1 0 3dr Mr. J. Day's Premier, 4 yrs ... ... 0 0 2 2dr Mr. E. R. Clarke's Self-Defence, 3 yrs 0 0 0 dr Mr. J. Edward's New Forest Deer (h b) 0 2 dr Sir G. Heathcote's Sis. to Valentissimo 0 0 dr Betting—First heat: 7 to 4 agst Sister to Valentissimo, and 7 to 4 agst Self-Defence. The race was between Sister to Valentissimo and New Forest Deer, and ended in a dead heat; Self-Defence a good third; the others did not go for the heat. Run in 2 min. 52 secs. Second heat-2 to 1 agst Sister to Valentissimo, 3to 1 agst Tom Tough, and 4 to 1 agst New Forest Deer. Won in a canter by two lengths; Self-Defence a bad third. Patriot kicked Sir G. Heathcote's mare after passing the chair, and hurt her so much that it was not considered prudent to run her for another heat. R un i n 3 min. 55 se cs . Third heat-7 to 4 agst Patriot, and 2to 1 agst Torn Tough. Toni Tough made all the running, and won easily by two lengths. Patriot and Tarella did not go for the heat. Fourth heat -3 to lon Tom Tough, and sto 1 agst Tarella. Won by a length and a half; Patriot a bad third. Run in 3 min. 59 sec. Fifth heat-3 to lon Tarella, who made all the run ning, and won easily by three lengths. Run in 3 min. 7 secs. The Innkeepers' Plate of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each; three yrs old, 7st 51b; four, Bst 51b; five and upwards, Bst 121 b. The winner to be sold for 1001. Heats, one mile and a quarter. Mr. Drewitt's Blind Hookey, aged ... 0 0 1 1 Mr. J. Day's Mignon, 4 yrs ... ... 01 2 2 Mr. Russell's Campanile, 6 yrs ... •• 1 0 odr Mr. Hodgson's Johnny, 3 yrs . . ... 0 2 dis Mr. Death's Urania, 5 yrs ..• ... 0 0 die Mr. Sherrard's Catherine, 4 yrs .'.. ... 0 0 dr Mr. G. Hobsou's Passion Flower, 3 yrs ... 2 dr Mr. T. Lyne's tby Lanereost, out of Zarifa 0 fell BETTING ON THE COURSE. GOODWOOD STAKES. 7 to 1 agst Crozier—take ' 14 to 1 agst Chat 10 to 1 agst Diplomatist It was reported when we left the Course, that 200/. collected at the gates, had been abstracted from the booth in which it had been placed for safety. THE NEWLY ARRIVED IMMIGRANTS. (From the Australian Journal of Feb. 25.) That fatal defect in the existing regulations of the Bounty System of Immigration namely, the disem barking the people in Sydney, where, surrounded by more than the usual blandishments of a town, they will not (without the greatest reluctance) engage for the country—has been strongly illustrated during the past week on board the Hyderabad. A ridiculously high rate of wages ; a proportionate scale of rations ; and the most absurd allowances and privileges, have been boldly demanded by the new corners. Town life and its enjoyments, not country labour and rural occupation, are aspired to by broth the male and female immi grants, whose passage hither has been paid by the country residents. And by the time they have ►all con descended to be hired, it will be found, that to the drones of the city, and not to the producing bees of the hive, will the labour, imported at the expense of the latter, be consigned. We have so repeatedly urged upon the authorities the expediency as well as the justice of landing the whole of the imported labour at the outports along the sea board, that we almost despairingly again submit a point which has been so often pressed in vain. Nevertheless. we are not without hopes that the disappointment and disgust which have been loudly . expressed by the agents of those country gentlemen whose applications for ser vants have been useless on board the Hyderabad, may not be without effect on the local Government. REFORM MOVEMBRT, Bow,--On Wednesday evening there was a meeting of inhabitant householders at the vestry-room. The senior churchwarden, Mr. Patterson, presided; Mr. Taylor moved, and Mr. Hunt seconded, the first resolution :—" That insolvency among traders, and desperate destitution among the industrious classes, are making rapid strides; that the whole system of taxation must be changed, the hosts of overpaid func tionaries and sinecurists must be cut down, &c." —Car ried unanimously. Mr. Blamire moved, that Lord John Russell's assertion, that the people of this country are not desirous of any great measure of reform, is a total misrepresentation and want of sympathy with the poli tical and social wants of the people, &c.—Carried unani mously. Mr. Murray moved, that the meeting hereby pledged itself to use all constitutional means in support of Mr. Hume's motion. That a petition be drawn up and signed by the inhabitant householders of this parish in support of such motion, &e.—Carried unani mously. Other resolutions having been put and caned the meeting separated. SHEFFlELD.—yesterday Mr. Hume's proposed plan for Parliamentary reform was discussed in the town council at Sheffield, on a motion that a petition from the council praying for amendments in accordance with Mr. Hume's motion be transmitted to Mr. Cobden, M.P.. to be presented to the House of Commons. The motion, after a long discussion, was rejected by a majority of 28 votes, over a minority of 12 ; 17 members who were pre sent remained neutral. FALL IN THE PRICE or BREAD.—The bakers throughout the metropolis yesterday morning reduced the price of the 41h. loaf fd. Those at the West-end now charge 7d. and 64d. for the best bread; in other districts 6d. and sfd. ; some, in populous neighbour hoods, only charge sd. the loaf, weighed on delivery. Good brown and rye bread can be obtained at Ofd. and 4d. 'I he best bread in Paris is 6d., second quality, sd. the 2 kilos. (4ilbr. English). \