The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-01 00:00:00

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Ice as stic tb ° c aring e ll , prt 1-1° 3 (if e o a s 1 1 0 1 .; in fo r C ot t ' from A lbe , 0 lot for tied n or, ease. ' Dr ew vivg cl; la etreeg .111 C , se boo _BURNING EDITION gather with the females of the post, and established a f wi h r 'era to fight or die, should the poa be attacked durin g , li= absence, Lieut. Albertis agai , . issued forth, ace-4n pani..d hi only 17 ItC3, with a determination o cut his way through the Indians, in order to communi cate Riissellth Captain Barnum, the commander of Fort d . Oa arrivin g once more at O range C ree k, the In :" emerged from the hammock, and offered Lieu _mint Albertis b a t t l e , in the broad pine barren. That o ffi cer, a i'h • bravery almost unparal'eied, with Only seventeen men, again fought the ene.ny neatly lh hour, and mace hi s way through the whole force ot 1 "x. Tustenugge to the post of Fort Russell, losing lon g tite gaunllet of the fire only one man. Tl.e Commanding Officer of Fort Russell immediat , .ly left in p ursuit of the enemy. Our waggons hvee already proug into Fort Russell two killed—one corporal and ap e ; six wounded—ore sergeant, one corporal, d four privates, and one misting. VAN BUREN.—This gentleman, uake Colonel "rtzi M Jainson, aid not appear at the inauguration. "e ez-Vice-Pies'dent Johnson, in a most h,ndsome and Pplite manner, escorted Mr. Tyler to the Vice-President's ch air, he ar d hi m swore i nto of fi ce, an d accompan i e d t h e pr esident elect to the cast front of the capitol. Mr. Van B uren k e p t possession of the W h i te H ouse t ill t h e morn i ng the 3d March, when he went to the Capita. where be d e t 4 ined till twelve o'clock to sign the Appropria ion and i" e and then li.fc for the house of Mr. Gilpin, the ,ttor ney-General—tha White House being no longer un ger his contra—Alexandria Gazette. G lovers, CLARION.—This fine ship, owned by Messrs. !'vers, made an experimental trip yesterday, with the h i leson Propellers, and to the astonishment f the be fuera, made seven and a half miles per hour, instead of 2 11 r• which was supposed to be the maximum. The whole mach inery weighs only 21i tons; the cylinders are 28 ; I' a c hes diame ter , p ro p e ll e rs 6 fe c t 6, and the prei vitt° the boilers only five pounds, using anthra dll"'et. Coal. The speed can be increased beyond ,t• Thus commences a new era in steam na- I llation, and, as we think, a termination of steam packets as such, for it is obvious that the economy of the Po: peners—the slight room they occupy, and the certainty :,, o Peration, will induce packet owners to apply them to t " their fine ships. Take for example Collins's line of I: ek e's, each over 1,000 tons, calculate the number of J 2 (4 fair wind when sails can be profitably used, and , t 44 e up the deficiency by the use of the propellers oy Eeyen miles per hour, and a Transatlantic °34 te is performed nearly as expeditiously as by k :teem-ship, without losing any great portion of ti: 111 now used for cargo. Then we have the benefit of d e ;repellers to work off or keep off a lee shore, in long h calms—and various other beneficial objects. Oa ~° rto ward bound voyages, in constant western winds and d ' ut rents, the p a ssage s may be nearly limited to thirty and the outward bound always under twenty. In ado pted, part of the Union we look to see this improvement - ;_ i elmed, particularly for our Charleston, New Orleans, " 4 Southern packets. It is a great and most successful IPer ithent.-- New Yolk Star. 4 DUEL IN PROSPECT.—We learn from several credit able ilouicr.s, that a scene occurred iu the United States m;Mte on Tuesday evening, just before the cars started, lie 44 it is generally Lelieved will result in a duel between Clav, of Kentucky, and Mr. King, of Alabama. The h u bstance of the affair, as related, is that durieg the de -4le on the revolution for the dismissal of Blair and Ri!es, elected prin'ers to the Senate during the late Session, f i t elay made some remarks derogatory to the character t 1 ""'. Blair, and was responded to by Mr. King, who said l i r ' Blair's character was as good as Mr. Clay's. To this rt Clay replied, that any person who would say that, Ili jred a falsehood ; coupling the remark with an impute -441 of cowardice. Mr. King declined a verbal reply, tat d • t , oven, wrote a nrte and sent it to Mr. Clay, who re ,,—„reed an answer, and the Senate then broke up in great C q usion. Whether a duel shal be the result cr not, the - fair looks certainly very warlike. We had some hope at th e day of Congressional brawls was at an end, but it 'n' e roll we are destined to disappointment in this respect. 4 t()Gtli gentlemen have since been put under hinds to keep e Peace. We are it:forme] by a friend direct from tabington, that measures were in progress on Wednes i:7 morning for the adjustment of the unfortunate difficulty f t , w k een Messrs. Clay and King, of Ala, and the fr iends it c ' f r e former gentlemen were very sanguine that the 1 , 44 would be honourably and amicably adjusted.—New (i rk Sun. e I P ROI4 WASHINGTON. —The difficulty between Messrs. 9 and King is said to have been settled amicably. A d m 'respondent of the Baltimore American, writing under 4 4 of the 11th inst., rays—" I am happy to state that oPpreh ens i ons ar i s i ng f rom the unexp e cted difficulty t h t _en Mr. Clay and Mr. King, have been put to rest by at4l satisfactory settlement of the affair. Mr. 9 will leave Washington to-day or to-morrow, and will t i ts* through your city." The Senate, cn Monday, by a o r e of 26 to 18, dismissed Blair and Rives from the o ffi ce 3 2 printers to thbt body. The election of pointer to the Zenate fir the 27th Congress, will not be made until the el t meeting of the two Houses.—Boston Courier. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM SPRING MEETING.—YESTERDAY. Th elt i Weather was anything but favourable to a numerous as ha—,olage on t h e D owns , M arc h, t o k ee p u p the old adage, 1 14 ,g " come in like a lamb and went out like a lion." The ,Se "kg was nevertheless tolerably well attended by the hardier If' among whom we noticed Lord Geore Bentinck, Sir G. w ea theote, Baron de Tessir Geneal Grosvenor, Colonel Yndham, Mr. Hawker, Mr. e Ives, Mr. r Cre , mmelin, &c. The r's , of which there were but two, came off as follow :eepstakes of sovs. each, with 50 a‘lded by Sir G. Heath hire' 3 Yrs, 21b, and 4 yrs, 9st. One mile. Seven subs. „_• Roe's Mobarek, 3 yrs sie Balchin's br h Dromedary, 4 yrs G. Reathcote's Bokhara, 4 yrs The following also started, but were not placed ; Mr. Theo bald s ch c Fearnought, 4 yrs ; Mr. 'Teen's ch c Fitzroy, 4 yrs; r ,_`. l ptain Gardnor's b c, by Camel, out of Cecilia, 3 yrs . , and G. yndham's a b c Fther Matthew, 3 yrs. Betting— necilia to ag st Fitzroy, 2 to 1 agst Bokhara, and 3to I agst the colt. Fitzroy took the lead at a slashing pace, followed by Bokhara , ,`" th e rails near Tattenham Corner, where the latter bolted, illdfllowing his training practice, took the nearest road home, III? defiance of the e xertions of Chapple. At the straight run- Mobarek went in front, with Dromedary second, and won iweverly b y h a lf a l engt h . I t was a d ea d b eat between Father at hew and Cecilia for third place. Fearnought and Fitzroy s ere beaten off. Iv eepstak es of 5 sovs. each, with 25 added, 3 yrs, Est ; 4 yrs, 41b ; 5 yrs, Sst 131 b; 6 yrs and aged, 9st 51b. The t.Nlinner to be sold for 2501. Mile heats. 11 subs. I ; G. Heathcote's b f by Delence out of Nannette, kr - )11ing(Tait) 1 0 1 kr. Kl's b m Dahlia, 4 yrs... ' T .,' Goodman's br c Mungo Park, 4 yrs following also started, but were not placed:—Mr. Theo - AC'S eh c Fearnought, 4 yrs • Mr. Budd's h Adrian, aged; I A de Mosher's ch f Miss Newell, 3 yrs ; Captain Gardnor's St g Dismal J. , mtny, 4 yrs ; Colonel G. Wyndham's b c k e dlnere 3 yrs ; M r . D oc k era y' s b g M unc h a usen, 6 yrs, and r. Stirling's b c by Actaeon, out of Electa, 3 yrs. First t i : r a „ t ' 5 to '2 agst Mungo Park, who made the attuning to the when the mare took it up and won easy. Second heat, 5 to r aa lst the mare, who did not go for the heat. Dismal J•mmy ka ° Play to the distance where he was challenged by Dahlia, c• after a spirited race between them and Dlungo Park, I , ,, at en cleverly. Third heat. The Nannette filly, the fa -1,1.'4e, made all the running and won easy w ere two lengths. 44 the course of the day the following bets - 2,000 Guineas Stakes. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wahab— taken DUEY. 7 to 1 apt Lord Bruce's Rosalie colt—taken 7i to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Joachim—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's Galaor—taken ouo even Rosalie colt agst Van Amburgh—taken MANCHESTER—TUESDAY EVENING. e attendance was decidedly good this forenoon ; several Isi f flntial parties being present, and a strong disposition exhi th,s., .to btok four or five horses for the important cup race of th e ua of May, had the fieldsmen being a little more liberal %If offer s . Commencing with the present premier, viz to I Tot, Bto 1, and then 8/1 was offered, it increased to 9 t +,• An offer was made to lay 500 he beats Queen Bee, who, 4 ,„`" opening, was decidedly second favourite, 11 to I being q;,Pted, with offers to lay 100 she beats any thing bar el e - '"Pot, or any three in the race for a hundred each. It was Arl o to us that Gibraltar had influential friends in the room. %Offer to lay 100 to 7, bar 2, found a willing acceptor. thi„ r allar was named, which places him unquestionably favourite; we did not hear Bloomsbury barked, but te b „ e lnul, out of courtesy, fourth. After 100 to 7 was ae ,ethrs`r on Gibraltar, we heard one 100 to 8 offered, but so aa - "°tts were the capitalists to give a chance away, that 4:111 confined their bids to 1,000 to 100. Previously, an Sit 4 was made to take 600 to 400 he , bets anything in the l as ' Two or three parties were desirous of obtaining 100 • on Retriever, Bedford, Cruiskeen, Tuly, or the Plover ; 4 st the last-named horse it was once laid, but the top offer P• orte our quotation. Ernest the First would have been It oras dat2sto I, five points less was offered. The same ' ai ps ill apply t o Champagne, whose immediate party would, t o i le others, h ave t a k en 500 to 20. I'm-not-aware was offered , erd a backed for 100 against Humming Bird, whose price yes. tal c Y z . Was 1,000 to 35 offered. 10 to 1 , in ponies , was wanted .t . rt uisk een and Vetriever. laid / lolls to the circle quite dispersing to-day, 10 to 1 was a gainst Gallipot. Ihe average prices ran tnus THE CHESTER CUP, P.?. ' I I ?, to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Gallipot—taken i „„ 44 to 1 agst Mr. Orde's Queen Bee—taken 1 "" to 8 agst Col. Peel's Gibraltar—off 1 30 to 7 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury 4 1 0 to 6 agst Major Hay's Retriever—taken 0 to 6 agst Mr. Flintoff's The Plover—off I ° ,, to 6 agst Mr. Goodman's Bedford—off to 6 agst Mr. Price's Tuly—off 1 00' to 6 ag s t Lord Miltown's Cruiskeen—off 9 to' 5 agst Air. Painter's Ernest the First—off 5 ,7 to agst Mr. Hornby's s CalCh ampsoa —offered gne—'" to loffered f'" to 1 agat Mr. St. Paul' apt Sir T. Stanley's C owboy —offered Var) to 4 agst Mr. Griffith's Lugwardtne—offered to 10 agst Mr. Taylor's Margaret—offered 10 4 t. 5 agst Mr. Collett's The Dean—takers a n „ to 35 apt Mr. Whittle's Humming Bird—offered i l'o oo to 10 agst Mr. Knox's George—offered t 0 3 agst Lord Eglinton's 'I he Young-am—offered sta y _field for 100 v. any six yet offered ; 90 to 20 against tak e ,' offered; 100 to 5, fifty times over, would been 'ay e one of "the Irish divi•ion;" eight fifties to one 'aye 1, %. to be taken the Irish division win. Calypso would it ti - c• a r , hacked v. any of Mr. Dawson's lot. 441 *1Z IY Ewa'f.—Tattersall's betting will show the further 01. Van Apaborgh. He was backed here previously C urt o it' srd aY at 1,200 to 100. Some of the few offers at noon us Bto agst Lo r d Bruce's Rosalie colt—offers to take 9 9 ~ " 0 I a,gst Lord U'sstrainster's Van Amburgh—taken at the close jn ponies . 9 0 t . o o 1 agst Mr. Rawlinso yea Coronat ion—offered 25 I a gst Lord Albemarle's Ralph—o ered too t° 1 agst Lord Chesterfield' offers to take 33 to 1 g Knight of the Whistle -0,1 l c : , 30 agst Colonel Anson's Duke of Wellington—offered I _ 1 0 apt Mr. Goodman's Belgrade—takers ° Frer,..i on ' would lay 4to 1 agst Scott's lot. 500 to 5 as eup , c) be laid against naming the winners of th . e Chester _ 40 ab t , e b r3 erbY. and the Oaks. 40 to 10 is as laid on Van (4- • b• Wellington. Ric , ' betting. THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. The present chapters of " Ten Thousand a Year" are among the best that have yet ap peared of this story. Laying aside the coarse, vulgar buffoonery in which he is too prone to indulge, and which by a singular infatuation he mistakes for humour, the author resumes that earnest tone of sentiment and description in which he is most at home, and developes the ad mirably conceived character of Gammon with great truth and power of analysis. This portrait is beyond a question Mr. Warren's chef d'ceuvre. It is skilfully individualized and discriminated in all its phases, and may claim to be considered one of the most vigorous and original conceptions of which modern fiction can boast. The scenes in which this consummate master of finesse figures with his victims, Titmouse, Kate Aubrey, and her deluded brother, are replete with that stirring, subtle, and natural power which mere talent alone can never supply. Testing him by this conception, we acknowledge the author to be a man of decided genius, though so ill-regulated is his genius, and so little at times under his con trol, that he is constantly hurrying into extra vagances, as in his sketches of Titmouse, and the Dreddlington family, who resemble nothing either "in heaven above, the earth beneath, or the waters under the earth." We bear with these grotesque anomalies, however, and also with the pages of dreary twaddle with which the tale is infested, in consideration of the one striking character of the arch fiend Gammon. " Warren Hastings," is a spirited sketch of the public and private career of this eminent States man, all whose misfortunes the biographer attri butes to his second marriage, though he does not condescend to tell us in what way . it influenced his fortunes, or brought about his impeachment in Westminster Hall. The truth is, the observa tion, though meant to be exceedingly moral and virtuous, is pure fudge. " France versus Eng land," displays more depth and acuteness of thought than are usually to be met within periodi cal essays. We have been struck with the justice of this remark : The writer is alluding to the pre sent Constitution of France :—" Here it shows a patch of royalty ; there a patch of Repub licanism ; here a faint colouring of aristocracy; there, a strong dash of despotism. Some of itsaspects have resulted from revolution, others from the iron rule which repressed revolution. They are all mutually repellant, because they have not originated in growth but in force—the force of anarchy and the force of the sword—pas sion and compulsion." The " Holocaust" is a tale of the Peninsular war. Here is a graphic ac count of the destruction of a French detachment by the famous Cure Merino and his guerilla troops : " Those who attempted to resist, and amongst them was the Colonel, who had been wounded, but not killed, by the first discharge, were instantly despatched. The remainder, nearly seven hundred men, surrendered themselves prisoners ; and their arms, and the horses of the cavalry, having been taken from them, they were marched down to the corral, into which they were driven pell-mell, like a flock of sheep into the slaughter-house, and the entrance of the building was, by Me rino's order, immediately blocked up with bushes branches, and trunks of trees , which the Spaniards brought for the pur pose. The diabolical intention of this proceeding soon be came apparent. A large stack of firewood, which the peasants had built up near the shed, had, by the Cura's orders, been distributed around it. To this had been added branches broken off the trees, and straw, of which a considerable quantity had been brought for the. horses. Torches were then applied in fifty different places, and in an instant the col ral was in flames ! " Then commenced the most horrible scene which was, per haps, ever witnessed or deieribed. The seven hundred unfor tunate Poles and Frenchmen, who if they Thad not expected quarter, had by no means anticipated the frightful nature of the death reserved for them, uttered frantic yells when they became aware of their dreadful situation—when they saw the flames rising, and heard the pine planks, of which the building was composed, crackling and splitting• in every direction around them. 'I hey made desperate efforts to break out of their burning prison ; but even when, aided by the devouring element, they suc ceeded in making a breach, on every side was a wall of fire, and beyond that the naked sabres and fixed bayonets of the guerillas, by which those who rushed out, scorched and black ened by the flames, were thrust back again into the furnace. Fortunate were those amongst the number, who, by hugging the sharp steel, procured themselves a speedy and less painful death than that to which they were otherwise destined. " In a few minutes the roof fell in, and the dry fern and litter which was in great abundance on the floor of the stable, became ignited. The heat was so violent that the Spaniards were obliged to retire to some distance from the conflagra tion. The beams and planks of w hich the shed was built were forced inwards by the faggots piled against them. The flames spread rapidly, and attained those of the wretched victims who had crowded together in the centre of the corral, to avoid as long as possible their inevitable doom. To their agonizing shrieks for mercy, their executioners replied by shouts of— ' Mueren los Polaces !'—Death to the Poles ; remember Ocana ! " At length Merino, either moved by pity, or desirous to hasten his departure, lest a larger force of French might be sent in quest of their comrades, ordered a volley to be fired amongst the survivors. Every shot told on the mass of dark forms that were writhing in the midst of what appeared to be a lake of fire. After one or two piercing cries of agony, and a few heart-rending, groans, a pyramid of bright flame shot up into the air, and all was over.' A " Memoir of Military Life," is a broad, far cical extravaganza, whose humour in places wears too much the appearance of effort. The " World of London" is a passable essay on an exhausted theme. Its common-places, however, are strung together with much adroitness. " Little John Finality" is a sprightly, good-humoured political " Banking and Currency" is as dry as a ship biscuit, though we deny not that there are many readers to wi.om it will be as in:eresting as a fairy tale. NEW MOATIILY MAGAZINE. There is too great a sameness in this Number, and the majority of the articles are too lengthy, though some of them are clever of their kind. Six prose tales, four of which are unfinished, are really too overpowering a dose for one month, even though each be first-rate. Mr. Hood's " Friend in Need," in particular, which professes to be animitation of Sterne, is sadly long-winded, and ought to have been " pretty considerably" curtailed of its proportions. " Fathers and Sons," by the Editor, contains a lively sketch ofa literary lady of fashion, who was apt—to use Foote's polite phrase—to be "somewhat poetical in her prose ;" in other words, to tell lies like a Munchausen ; and whose details "of every thing connected with herself and her daughter, Seraphine, were full of descriptions of the sensations they created ; of the eclat which glorified them ; and of the devoted attentions which were paid them wherever they went." " Loose Thoughts on the Choice of a Profession," mixes up sound common sense with satire in a very piquant fashion. There is much truth in this remark :—" Your regular prig labours harder in his vocations, and gets more kicks from the world in the practice of this art, than the hardest working artizan, to say nothing of the jail and the gibbet at the end of the perspective. Inde pendently of this last chance of abbreviating life, the honest people sleep soundest, and attain to a greater age than the rogues, with all their cun ning and perverse ingenuity." . A tale of the Tyrolese war, entitled, " Might against Right," introduces us to the acquaintance of the celebrated Swiss patriots, Hofer and Spechbacher, the former of whom—to the eter nal disgrace of Napoleon—was shot in the year 1809, for no worse crime than attempting to maintain, by an appeal to arms, the liberties of his native land. The tale is not amiss, but Mr. Phipps should have thrown more spirit into it. The " Life and Adventures of Charles Chester field" is a caricature, rather than a copy, of real life. In the " Poacher's Progress"—which will greatly delight country sportsmen—the awful con sequences of poaching are descanted on with a staid, impressive solemnity worthy of the pulpit. The story concludes with this pious exhortation— " Peasants of England, avoid poaching, as you value your temporal and eternal happiness." Sound doctrine this, in the estimation of those who are proprietors of large preserves! " The French Chamber of Deputies in the year 1841 "is the most entertaining article in the Number. The briefsketch of Marshal Soult who " would rather fight ahundredbattles than make one speech," is excellent; and equally graphic are the details of the manners and personal appearance of Odillon Barrot, and Lafitte. But we must content our selves with a description of the Chamber, while Thiers is haranguing it, for just now he is one of the fussy little great men on whom the eyes of Europe are fixed with no slight interest : And now M. Thiers is the orator, for the noise has again terminated, the hubbub is once more at an end, the Deputies have regained their seats. Mark how he turns to the left, then looks up and smiles at the tribune of the newspaper re porters; then sneers at the centres; then bows to the Presi dent ; and then look, at himself ! There is one eye he never seems anxious to meet, but rather seems to avoid—it is that of Guizot. The pale, studious, calm, contemplative face of M. Guizot is seldom lighted up with a smile ; but it was so just now, when Thiers talked of his own patriotism and self-denial. When Thiers said this. he looked up at the newspaper re porters that they might catch and record his words. But there he stands : he has been talking away for an hour—and has said all sorts of things in the most amusing manner ; and no one is fatigued. Ho has the knack of "palavering," better than any public speaker we ever heard in any public assembly ; his speech is a fine-spun conversation, de omnibus rebus—and would serve for a lecture, &romance, a history, a piece of auto biography, or a sermon. Now again comes confusion !—because a member of the centres contradicted a statement of the orator at the tribune, by a sneer. Thiers is indignant. The extreme gauche pretends to be lieve him : the gauche, and a portion of the centre gauche rise for him. " Oui ! oui ! c'est vrai 1" cries Arago, with the voice of Vulcan. " Vice la France " shrieks a voice in the public tribune. " Ring--ting—ting," goes the bell of the President; whilst his eyes are raised towards the scene of such disrespect to the majority of the Chamber ; but the offender is not discovered. " Silence ! silence!" cry the huissiers of the Assembly, whilst the secretaries and qusestors aid these of f icial admonishe :in securing peace and order. Berryer laughs aloud ; the Duke de Valmy smiles his little smile of half-suppressed merriment. augoin satirically exclaims, " Nous verrons," (he is of no party but his own). Oui, c'est vrai," repeats Thiers, as he reassures the House that if his present plan had been adopted by the empire, the Bourbons would never have returned to France ! The centres do not believe their antagonist, and the mur murs which assail him drown his voice. But he is not to be defeated : he is not speaking to the Chamber, but to the press. He cares not for the power of the House, but for the, fourth power in the State—the newspapers, which to-night and to-morrow are to repeat his allegations to " listening and attentive France." There he stands in the midst of the storm now raging around him, wholly indifferent to the cries and exclamations of those who differ from him amongst the Deputies, for he knows that when he shall be master, he shall be able to command a majority. Still he goes on : nothing intimidates—nothing daunts him. The hands of the clock move not so rapidly as his tongue, and Berryer ex claims, " ?est admirable As Thiers is approaching the close of his harangue he is pungent, nervous, astounding. He has concluded. There he is—master of the House. He looks through his spectacles on his auditory ; and now all is again commotion. His friends press around him. His admi rers in the public tribunes are vehement in his favour. " Vice niers " is a shout which proceeds from the gal lei y of the journalists, and Thiers is in his glory. What a scene. Bears in china-shops would be orderly and mathematical in their movements when compared to these De puties. Oh, what a collection of men ! How badly they are dressed ! One never shaves; another never washes ; a third never combs his hair; a fourth never brushes his coat ; and a fifth wears, one would think, the same boots from one year's end to the other without ever having them blacked. The name of Warren has evidently never reached his ears. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1841 BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. We would strongly recommend the author of London Assurance—the best comedy we have had since Colman's days—to have as little to do with serious and imaginative poetry as possible: In the light, sparkling, rapier play of wit and humour he is at home, but in earnest and impassioned verse, where fancy attempts a high and bold flight, he is sadly abroad. In his poem entitled " Light," which appears in the present Miscel lany, the ideas are in general so crude, the versi fication so rugged and uncouth, the imagery so perplexed and far-fetched, that we should have some difficulty in believing that the author meant anything but a solemn quiz, were it not, that here and there, a passage occurs which shows that he is not destitute of the imaginative faculty, though he is wholly without the power of turning it to account. In order that our readers may judge for themselves, we subjoin a passage which —though it is by no means barren of ideas—is, in point of versification, as harsh and discordant as the bray of the animal that chews the thistle : God said, let there be light, and there was light, The murky vault was split : Darkness was rent : A golden orb sprung from the smile of God, Stood, created. Width oped her mighty jaws To gape at this new wonder, for space now Had eyes to see her own immensity. The Universe awoke, and dressed in regal Purple, stood in all the silent majesty Of the interminable arch.—The infant Globe smiling Stretched forth its cheek towards its novel nurse, That sung, and soothed it with a gentle breeze. All this has been said, and well said, by Pollok, and without any of that uneasy straining after effect so evident in the above ext.act. "Guy Fawkes" is apparently. verging towards a termi nation, for the plot is now discovered ; the chief conspirator is in the Tower, and nothing remains, we suppose, but for Mr. Ainsworth to put him to death after the most approved melodramatic fashion. The interview between Guy Fawkes and the King is very tame and common-place, and there is nothing in the dialogue by which we can get the slightest clue to the charac ter of the Royal pedant. " Hyson and Bohea" is a lively allegory in the good old heroic measure of Pope. " The Sailor" is a graphic nautical sketch, with the true smack of the salt water. The passing allusion to his polygamous propensities is a striking touch of character, ap plying, however, to past rather than to present times, .for, thanks to Admiral Gambier and Boatswain Smith, Jack is now becoming devout; shirks Portsmouth Point; sticks like pitch to one Poll, instead of distributing his favours among half-a-dozen ; substitutes Wesley's hymns for Dibdin's songs; tea for grog; and a close crop for the old-fashioned pig-tail. Now and then a sturdy relic of the days of old makes his bow before Sir Frederick Roe at the Police-office, but, generally speaking, the sailor is wholly changed from what he was in the times of Nel son and Collingwood. " A Rencontre with the Brigands" will not realize the romantic expecta tions excited by the title, for, instead of a pic turesque murder or two, we are put off with a mere vulgar picking of pockets. The Italian bandits seem to be sadly degenerated in their professional habits, for they contented them selves with disembarrassing the writer and his party of their purses and watches, when they might have "created a sensation" by carrying them all off to the mountains, and assassinating them at leisure. We are willing to believe, however, that the travelers did not take their disappointment very seriously to heart. " Nights at- Offiey's" are continued, and will amuse by their piquant sketches of character. " Merrie England in the Olden Time" treats lightly and pleasantly of home themes that we all love to read about. The snatches of humourous verse that are interspersed through the article add greatly to its interest and variety. " Rumfuskin, King of the North Pole," is a mock tragedy from the practised pen of Mr. Poole. It is in the bom bastic style of Fielding's "Tom Thumb," and Ca rey's " Chrononhotonthologos," and is not much inferior to those burlesque dramas. Our readers may perhaps be amused by the following dialogue between King Rumfuskin and a hackney-coach man,who enters the royal presence to detail the par ticulars of a conspiracy against the royal pei 50.1 : (Enter JEM FLOGGEM. _ What art thou? FLOG. Driver of a hackney coach. Rum. What number driv'st thou? FLOG. Sire, as I'm alive, I drive no number—t'is a coach I drive. The number of my coach is four-sixteen. Rum. Equivocating slave ! 'tis that I mean. (Aside.) The very number !—then our dream is out. (To FLoG.) 'Tis plot and treason that thou com'st about. FLOG. It is my liege. But how carn'st thou to know it— Rum. Is not thy business. FLOG. Thou'rt a rum-un—go it. Rum. 0, insolence ! Now, guided by my rage, I'd fain condemn the varlet to the cage ; Thence to the Poultry Counter ; thence—But hold ; He comes a tale of treason to unfold, And anger must a while to interest bow. (To FLOG.) Now tell me all—each when, each where, each how. FLOG. I will be candid, sire. I come to serve thee; Thou'rt in a pickle, but t'is I'll preserve thee. Rum. Let truth, not puns, o'er what thou say'st prevail. Proceed. Be that thy cue. FLOG. And this my tale. - E'en now, as I was waiting for a fare, Just at the end of Lisle-street, Leicester-square, Raseallo call'd me. Big with rage and malice, Frowning, he bade me drive him to the palace ; When, stepping in, this paper, thee to save meant, Fell, from his pocket, smack upon the pavement. I hid it in the boot ; then set him down. " Your fare ?" said he ; said I, "'Tis half-a-crown." To pay so much the spooney was not willing ; " Jarvey," said he, " I'll give thee but a shilling."— " You won't ?" says I ; says he, " Most surely not." Thinks I," Then I'll expose your honour's plot." Rum. Right loyal Coachee ! (Aside.) How shall I re quite him ? I'll go the cheapest way to work ; I'll knight him.— Thy name? FLOG.' Jem Floggem. Rum. (drawing his sword.) Kneel. FLOG. Don't go to trim me. Rum. Kr eel down, Jem Floggem, and arise—Sir Jemmy. FLOG. I'd rather touch the ready. R u at. Thankless beast ! FLOG. I thought you'd give me one pound-one, at least. What good to me with titles to be crammed? Rum. Art not a knight? FLOG. Your Majesty be—spiflicated! RUM. Take this, bold traitor. (Stabs him. ) FLOG. Ha ! I'm summon'd strait— The grave, the Bow-street —Death, the ma g istrate. Cut—cut behind—my fare 's—gee-up—jeh u— Coach to the City—hired—drive on—adieu ! (Dies.) Rum. There fled the spirit of a saucy whip Thus be each jarvey taken on the hip.— Now for the traitors. Let's peruse their scheme : It answers point for point our royal dream ! We'll place Sir Jemmy's body on the throne. Rascallo will mistake it for our own. (Places the body on the throne. ) Thus we'll out-scheme our deadly-scheming foes.— Hang him, he's coming. (RumFusKix goes off hastily with long strides, RASCALLO, dagger in hand, enters, and in. stantly follows him in the same way, saying) RAsc. Hang him, there he goes ! FRASER'S MAGAZINE. " We pronounce the Poor-law Amendment Act impolitic, unjust, oppressive , and anti christian." Such are the terms which this high- Tory periodical applies, in its opening article, to a great remedial measure which has received the approbation even of Sir Robert Peel, the Corypimus of the Tory party. I n a ccor d ance with this sweeping censure, the writer of the article in question urges the rejection of the Bill in toto by Parliament , and predicts a ll sor t s o f h or rors should his remonstrances not be com plied with. He even attacks his politi ca l id o l, Sir Robert Inglis, for his recent qualified sup port of the measure; and by so doing pays a high compliment to the Hon. Baronet's sagacity. The article is an exceedingly noisy one, full of sophistry and swagger. " Ode to the. Duke of Wellington" is suggested by his Grace's late in disposition in the House of Lords. The spirit that pervades this lyric is more to be commended than its fancy. " The Greater and Lesser Stars of Old Pall Mall" teem with anecdotes of remark able characters, who formerly dwelt in this neighbourhood. Among them we,find one Jem Spitler, a popular comedian and contemporary of Hogarth, who in his day was, it seems, consi dered quite " a theatrical prodigy." At twenty personated wrinkled old three years of age Jem men so inimitably that even his most intimate friends had considerable difficulty in detecting the disguise. He was an inveterate toper, fond of a joke, and about as intellectual as the majority of actors are apt to be, which by no means im plies that he was a miracle of wit or wisdom. Quin is also casually alluded to as having been a resident in Pall-mall; ,and a criticism by George the Third on his Falstaff is quoted, which we subjoin, for it is more lively and discriminating than we should have expected:—" Garrick was great in every character; but Quin's Falstaff was unique. His chuchling laugh, his fat in the throat surpassed all I ever heard; his arch manner is at this moment in my eye, and his merry chuckle equally present to my ear." In "- Some Remarks on the Latest Biographer. of our Poets," Mr. Bell is taken to task for his memoirs of Young and Akenside in one of the latest volumes of Lardner's Cyclopmdia. The strictures are in the usual caustic, slashing strain of Oliver Yorke. The " Confessions of a Swind ler" point a useful moral. This is their chief re commendation. " Specimen Leaders of a Would be Editor" is a series of quizzical imitations of the style of some of the principal Journals of the day. The Morning Advertiser, the Herald, and the Times are fairly enough imitated, but the others are failures. " Lin the Commissioner" is another essay at the facetious, after the manner of Sir Morgan O'Doherty. " Norway and the Norwegians" is an unjust attack on an intelligent volume of travels published some months since by Mr. Latham. A Memoir of " Marshal Saxe" is tersely written. " War 'with America a Bless ing to Mankind," adopts this view of the ques tion chiefly with reference to the slave system in the Southern States, .of which the writer justly speaks in terms of unmitigated abhorrence. Even at the present day, and in the boasted land of freedom and equality, an American planter deems the roasting of a slave alive a mere act of just retribution 1 And this atrocity —as the writer shOws on unquestionable au thority—is perpetrated in open day, and in the presence of hundreds of witnesses ! Could a war with America put down this accursed system of slavery, we could almost find it in our hearts to pray for its speedy advent. From the Memoir of Marshal Saxe, we quote a sketch of this re nowned Commander—the hero of Fontenoy : Marshal Saxe was certainly one of the most distinguished men of the century to which he belonged. His faults—and they were not few—resulted in a great measure from his neglected education and peculiar position in life ; whereas, his merits and virtues were his own. In person he was tall, ele gant, and well' formed ; his face, also, was handsome, anti he had dark hair and eyebrows, and blue eyes In disposition he was kind, generous, and humane. In his Reveries he accounts a mild and gentle disposition, free from all asperity of temper, as one of the most essential qualities of a General. He himself certainly possessed these advantages; but what the consequence ould have been had the doctrine ever found favour at the Horse Guards, it is really difficult to say ; for the time has hardly yet gone by when to be in a towering rage on every ordinary parade and drill ground, to stamp and swear till novices trembled again, and to overwhelm officers and men with coarse and vulgar abuse, was looked upon as a proof of great soldiership.—the only proof, indeed, which some of our rapidly promoted Generals ever gave. In humanity towards tne vanquished, whether soldiers of the enemy or inhabitants of conquered provinces, no one ever surpassed Marshal Saxe. He was a strict disciplinarian, and had, as he himself related, been brought up in a strict school. A French General having attempted to excuse some disorders inhis corps, on the grounds of not wishing to exercise severity towards the officers, Maurice said, " You are a young soldier, Monsieur le General, and do not yet know that forbearance towards the officers may some times be severity towards the soldiers, by rendering punish ments necessary that attention on their part might have averted. Even I, when Colonel of cavalry, was ordered by old General Seckendorff, to follow for three days on foot in rear of my own regiment, in consequence of some disorders committed by the men ; and yet I was the son of a king, and a favourite son, too." This was, no doubt, sharp practice. TAIT'S MAGAZINE. From the pointed and sententious style of the article on " Protestantism," that stands the first in this number, we are inclined to ascribe it to the ready pen of the Editor of the Examiner. At any rate it is not unworthy of him, for the reasoning is clear, close, and forcible, and the spirit that breathes through it, is free from the slightest alloy of intolerance. We subjoin the writer's account of the leading tenets of the Pu seyites, which conveys much stringent meaning in a few emphatic sentences :—" If the Puseyites mean anything at all, they mean that the exer cise of private judgment is a crime ; and that the men who exercise it—the people commonly called Protestants—use the weapons of the devil. There can be no mistake here—no compromise. The alternative is plain : stand upon your own legs, if you can; if not, take the crutch which the Clergy provide. There can be no doubt that an honest man can get to heaven both ways; only it cer tainly does seem more honourable to march up stoutly on one's own legs, than to be carried in on the back of an old woman. We admire the chivalrous candour of the Puseyites ; we despise the puerile imbecility of their intellects—as if Cod's whole creation, and man, his noblest creature, were doomed to trip continually behind the petticoats of a nurse, and be fed with spoon meat! Fie ! fie ! If, indeed, God had stereo typed visibly among men a council of angels and archangels, and creatures all eyes, as Ezekiel saw them in a vision; then we might have rejoiced to sit upon the knees of the gods, and from the lips of the wise know an end of all mysteries. But when we see creatures with the stature of full-grown men, with solemn display of Greek and Hebrew, mumbling and maunder ing the sheerest puerilities; were it not better to have been born altogether without reason, than to have it only that we may hand it over to the safe keeping of these men ? Nature rebels against such base betrayal—such stupid prostrations of her noblest functions; and in this rebellion pro perly consists." The writer has here hit the right nail on the head. His definition of Pusey ism is just to the letter, but he might have been even still more explicit, and told us that it is neither more nor less than Popery, with scarcely an attempt at disguise. As for its favourite doc trine of apostolical succession, we shall say nothing more than that succession is some what equivocal in the person of the slum bering Philpotts, who, to our thinking, bears the remotest possible resemblance to the pr!- mitive apostles of the Church. " Illustra tions of the Thieves' Literature" is a ca pital quiz upon those gross, ill judged fictions which have been so'much in vogue lately. We hope the writer will continue his satirical ex posures, for it is high time that thieves, mur derers, burglars, and blackguards of all descrip tions, should be viewed in their proper light, and not put forward as sentimental heroes. " A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe" furnishes us with some curious details respecting the austerities to which these gloomy fanatics volun tarily subject themselves. " Notes of an Over- land Journey through France and Egypt to Bom bay," is a clever critical notice of a work re cently published by Miss Roberts. From the review of " Mr. Combe's Notes on the United States," we quote an interesting passage descrip tive of the quickening effects produced on an idiot's mind, by his habits of daily intercourse with a beautiful young girl. Moore would turn this anecdote to admirable account in a poem := ,‘ In the course of conversation, a case was mentioned to me as having occurred in the experience of a highly respectable physician, and which was so fully authenticated, that I enter tain no doubt of its truth. The physician alluded to had a pa tient, a young man, who was almost idiotic from the suppres sion of all his faculties. He never spoke, and never moved vo luntarily, but sat habitually with his hand shading his eyes. The physician sent him to walk as a remedial measure. In the neighbourhood a beautiful young girl of sixteen lived with her parents, and used to see the young man in his walks, and speak kindly to him. For some time he took no notice of her ; but after meet,ng her for several months, he began to look for her, and to feel disappointed if she did not appear. He be came so much interested, that he directed his steps voluntarily to her father's cottage, and gave her bouquets of flowers. By degrees he conversed with her through the window. His men • tal faculties were roused ; the dawn of convalescence appeared. The girl was virtuous, intelligent, and lovely, and encouraged his visits when she was told that she was benefiting his mental health. She asked him if he could read and write ? He an swered, No. She wrote some lines to him to induce him to learn. This had the desired effect. He applied himself to study, and soon wrote good and sensible letters to her. He recoverecnis reason. She was married to a young man from the neighbouring city. Great fears were entertained that this event would undo the good which she had accomplished. The young i atient sustained a severe shock, but his mind did not sink under it. He acquiesced in the propriety of her choice ; continued to improve, and at last was restored to his family cured. She had a child, and was soon after brought to the same hospital perfectly insane. The young man heard of this event, and was exceedingly anxious to see her, but an inter view was denied to him, both on her account and his own. She died. He continued well, and became an active member of so ciety. What a beautiful romance might be founded on this narrative !" MONTILLY CHRONICLE. The " Scottish C hur ch Question" which for mo deration thepre and present " Mo n thl y Chronicle," dispassionateness the last year and a h alf h as been the all-absorb ing topic throughout, Scotland, is discussed at andsom e vvth le i ngth in a worthy of all praise. The writer insists on the expediency of the Legislature promptly and ac tively interfering i n the matter, observing that . 4 it is absurd to delay till the present agitation ceases, for if that is resolved on, the delay must be till doomsday." 111, the article headed " Bio graphical Recreations" we have th e t rans l at i on of a strange, mystical fragment by the German visionary, J ean Paul. Richter, which is so mys tical that we honestly co nf ess our inability to comprehend it. By way of mendin g matters , the translator has adopted the German idiom in his version, so that the whole thing is as pretty a puzzle as a reader could desire to e perplexed with. What, for instance, is to be und erstoo d b y this sentence, which is only one out o f a d ozen that we could select ?—" How much greater would be the enjoyment, if each were not so squeezed by. his neighbour, and so ham pered by something which he considers his duty ; so squeezed that in the chamber of his heart, he cannot find space for a new flower ; to say nothing of an entire evening sun, or an in pressing venal world, much less for a starry fir mament; and the obligatory something is, as far as we can judge, that alligator-eye to the least moral gap or nakedness either of a prince or of his servants ; it being evident that into the former, the sucking-sting, and into the latter, the poison-sting, may be inserted !" Doubtless there are some readers to whom all this farrago of words will appear uncommonly fine, but to us it seems sheer undiluted nonsense. The best writers are always the clearest, and wherever there is ob scurity, as in the foregoing extract, it may safely be taken for granted that a muddy, imperfect intellect is at work. " First Love of Lady Anne Nevyl " is a pleasing tale, referring to the period of the fifteenth century. " Fugitive Verses" is a criticism on a volume of poems lately published, whose author is Joanna Baillie. ln his intro ductory remarks, the Reviewer alluding inci dentily to Milton, says that " the degree of popularity which his " Paradise Lost" appears to obtain, is more to be ascribed to its peculiar theo logical tenets than to its stupendous poetical merits." Now this is not the case. No man cares a straw for the theology of Milton's great epic, but restricts his admiration to the lofty, imaginative spirit that pervades it. If otherwise, how happens it that his prose Tracts are not equally popular with his poems? There we have religious controversy enough, and to spare. " Cora" is a fanciful legend gracefully versified. " Sketches of Spanish General s" is a continuation, from the last Number, of the memoirs of the famous Guerilla Chief, Mina, whose whole career was one scene of romantic adventure. The " Gathering of Israel" is a poem by a lady named Tinsley. As it is just a fitting length, and not defi cient in animation, we subjoin it for the reader's amusement : A sound bath pass'd through the nations, heard I3v the heart alone, when its depths are stirr'd ; Illightier than that of storm-lifted seas, Than the tempest's rush amid forest trees ; Alightier than sorrow's earth-born cry, Than the shout of kings to victory : And still, where its tale bath gone, A voice to the breeze is cast— " On to Jerusalem, brothers on ! We have gain'd our home at last ! " Lift up thine head, 0 Israel ! yet From the depths of the darkness round thee set ; Rejoice, for the chosen of the Lord Have listened once more to His living word; Calving them forth from the nations round, To the hallow'd rest of their father's ground : And still, as the goal is won, Let the thrilling shout be past— On to Jerusalem, brothers on ! We ha , e gain'd our home at last ! " Was the scoffer strong in the days of old, Fenced by his idols of dust-won gold, Mocking their hope, while his footsteps trod With the prophet-gsther'd hosts of God ? Heed him not now in the times that be, For ours is no common destiny ; But, with true armour, won From the stores of the mighty past, On to Jerusalem—boldly on ! We have gain'd our home at last ! " Did the desert of old yield its gushing wave, For the pilgrim-fathers their thirst to lave; Did the vision of God before them stand, Guiding their steps to the promis'd land ; And shall we, their children, all forget That His mighty arm is our refuge yet? No ! by the hope whereon We have lean'd throuo the stormy past ! On to Jerusalem, brothers on ! We have gain'd our home at last ! " There flow the waters that flow'd of yore, Washing no truce from the hallow'd shore ; There rise the hills where our fathers how'd When the voice of God shook the riven cloud ; And the boughs of the stately cedar thrill With that holy breath, for it stirs them still : And we—are we call'd upon By a voice to the desert cast ? On to Jerusalem, Israel on ! We have gain'd our home at last !" COURT CIRCULAR. Viscount Melbourne had an audience yesterday of the Queen. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, Marquis of Headfort, Sir Robert Otway, Lord Alfred Pagtl, and Sir Edward Bowater, ho noured the German Opera with their presence last evening. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent last evening at Ingestrie House. Her Majesty was attended by Lady Barham, Hon. Miss Pitt, Hon. Miss Devereux, and the Marquis of Hcadfort. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Daw son, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager yesterday at Marlborough House. Her Royal Highness inspected Cla rence House, St. James's, yesterday. The Duke of Cambridge honoured Viscount Sidmouth with a visit yesterday, at his residence in Richmond Park, The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duchess of Kent yes terday at Ingestre House. A Deputation of Directors of the New Brunswick Land Company, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel Moody, R.E., Governor, Mr. John Moxon, Deputy-Governor, Messrs. Am brose Humphrys, Newman Smith, William A. Ilankey, ac companied by Mr. N. Hooper, Solicitor to the Company, and Mr. W. Aggas, Secretary, had an interview with Lord John Ru , sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. A Deputation from the British and Foreign Society for the Suppression of Intemperance, consisting of Mr. Buckingham, Dr. Oxley, Rev. Mr. Stove], and Mr. M'Curdy, had an in terview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home office. A Deputation, including Mr. Hume, Mr. Gisborne, Mr. Ashton Yates, and the Hon. Mr. Butler, had an interview with Lord John Russell at the Colonial-office yesterday. The Earl of Mountcashel and Mr. Nicholls had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Home-office. The Cabinet Ministers dined with the Marquis of Lansdowne last evening, at Lansdowne house. The Marquis of Breadalbane and Mr. Pigot had interviews yesterday with the Marquis of Normanby, at the Home-office. Despatches from the Governors of the West India Colonies were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The lion. Miss Kerr left town on Tuesday for Scotland. 'I he marriage of the Right Hon. Francis Thornhill Baring, M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer, with the Lady Arabella Howard, seco:id daughter of the Earl of Effingham, was so lemnised yesterday morning in St. George's Church. The Earl of Effingham, Sir Thomas Baring, Earl of Rosebery, Lord Ashburton, Lord Howard, and the Right Hon. H. La b were present at the ceremony. The party afterwards proceeded to the Hanover Hotel, where a dejeunc was given en the occasion by the Earl of Effingham. The Right Hon. F. T. and Lady Arabella Baring left town for Stratton Park, Whitehurch, Hants. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland and Misses Percy, at Northumberland House, tram Alnwick Castle, Nor thumberland; Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the lion. Miss Copley, in George-street, Hanover square, from their seat in Bucks ; the Marquis of Ormonde and Lord James Butler, in Weymouth-street, from Kilkenny Castle, Ireland; the Earl and Countess of Delawarr and Lady Elizabeth West, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from Buckhurst Park, Sussex ; the Earl of Radnor, in Grosvenor-street, from Longford Castle, Wilts; the Marchioness of Normanby, in Hill-street, from a visit to Lord and Lady Barrington, at Bechett House, Berks ; the Right lion. Frankland and Mrs. Lewis, in Hertfordshire, from their seat, Harpton Court, Radnorshire ; the lion. George Rice Trevor, M.P., in Stratton-street, from \Vales ; Lord Gardner, in Dover-street, from Melton Mowbray ; the Earl of March, in Portland-place, from Goodwood Park, Sussex ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, in Park-lane, from Taymouth Castle, Perthshire ; Lord Carew, from his seat in Ireland ; Lord Camoys, in Park-street, from Stoner Park, Oxfordshire ; the Marquis of Douro, in Belgrave-street, from Leamington Spa ; the Dowager Countess of Clarendon, at Clarendon House; Mrs. Lace Fox, in Curzon-street, from a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire; Lord and Lady Haddo, at Argyll House, the Earl of Aberdeen's town re sidence, from Taymouth Castle, the seat of the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, in Perthshire ; Sir Charles Douglas, Bart., M.P., in Barley-street, from Warwick Castle, the seat of the Earl and Countess of Warwick ; Lord William Fitzgerald, from Ireland ; the Earl of Orkney, in George street, Hanover-square, from Taplow Court, Bucks ; the Earl of Cardigan, in Portman-square, from Sussex ; the Duke of Norfolk, in St. James's-square, from Arundel Castle, Sussex, the Hon. Sir W. and Lady Lumley, in Green-street, from Hastings ; Lord Seaton, from Lyneham Park, Devon ; Lord Byron, in Eaton-place, from Park Hall, his seat near Ches terfield ; the Earl and Countess of Lovelace, in St. James s-square, from Ockham Park, Surrey ; Yiscount Sydney, in Cleveland-square, from Frognal Lodge, near Foots cray, tient ; the lion. Capt. and Mrs. Kepp,l, from Leaming ton Spa; the lion. and Rev. Gerald W e ll es l ey , f rom Bishops wearmouth, Durham; Sir J. Crosbie, and - Miss Crosbie, from Leamington, Warwickshire ; the Earl of Maas field, iu Langham-place, from Scone Palace, Perthshire ; the Earl of Hopetoun, in Bond-street, from Hopetoun House, South Queensbury, N. B. ; the Dowager Marchioness of Northampton, in Piccadilly, from Coolhurat, Surrey; the Hon. Chas. C. Cavendish, M. P., at Burlington House, from Sussex ; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth, Baroness Le De Spencer, and Lord Boseawen, in St. James's-square, from Tregothnan, Cornwall ; Lord and Lady Ravensworth and the Hon. Miss Liddell, at Percy's-cross, Fulham, from Ravensworth Castle, Northumberland; Sir Robert, Lady Fitzwygram, and family, from Torquay, at Connaught-place. DEPA KT URES. The Duke of Buckingham, from Pall-mall, for Stowe, Bucks; the Duke of Richmond, from Portland-place, for Goodwood Park, Sussex ; Lord Liltord, from Grosvenor-place, for his seat in Northamptonshire ; the Marquis of Tweeddale, for Yes ter House, Hatidingtonshire; Viscount and Viscountess Beres ford, from Cavendish-square, for Bidgebury Park, near Gould hurst, Kent ; Lady Charlotte Greville, from Lord Francis Egerton's, in Belgrave-square, on a visit to Sir Lowry Cole, at Big - Wield Park, near Hartford-bridge, Hants ; Mr. and Mrs. Dcring, from Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square, to Ayott St. Lawrence, Herts. LACtIitYMA CHRISTI:—A ridiculous I,ii.take was once committed by a good honest country squire of my acquaintance, who had received a present of some cf this wine, and neither understood its name, nor whence it came. " What say you to a glass of wine ?" said he one day to me at dinner ? I bowed, and he continued, " What shall it be ?" " Anything." 't Come, then, let us try some of wine, that he bought at Claitie's."— Swinburne's Courts of Europe. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Beatrice dl Fenda was again on Tuesday given to a full house. The opera is no great favourite with the public, but at its close Peniani came forward and received the acknowledgments justly due to one of her brightest achievements. Among the company present was his Grace the Duke of Welling ton, who witnessed the opera front its commencement. MANCHESTER AND LEEDS MAIL.—WC un derstand that this fait mail is to cease running on the 30th of April. How Huddersfield is to be supplied with Lon don letters is not yet determined ; but there is little doubt but the arrangement will bring them so as to bo ready for delivery aeon after eight in the morning.._ Leeds Mercury. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, 3.l4Acir 31. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour. Sir A. DALRYMPLE moved that it should be an instruction to the Committee on the Bury inclosure Bill to receive the petition from Mr. Upperton, pray ing to be heard by Counsel against the Bill. Mr. DARBY supported the motion. Captain PECHELL said if the motion was acceded to he should ask the same indulgence for a petition he held in his band with respect to the Brighton and Shoreham Railway Bill. The Earl of SURREY thought the question ought to be decided by adhering to the strict rules of the House. After a few observations from Mr. Freshfield, Sir G. Strickland, Mr. Bernal, and Lord Sandon, The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 43 Alajor;ty Mr. BROTHEKTON moved the third reading of the Birkenhead Gas and Waterworks Bill. Mr. SHILL objected to the motion, on the ground that the Bill did not contain a clause, the object of which would be to limit the profits to 10 per cent. on the capital, and in the event of the profits exceeding 10 per cent., the surplus to be applied to the reduction of the rates. The Right Hon. Gentleman suggested to the Hon. Member to withdraw his mot on. Mr. BROTHERTON said that he would postpone his motion to to-morrow. The third reading of the Derby Gas Bill wai also postponed until to-morrow. The Eccleshill Inclosure (No. 2) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Reports of the Committees on the Metropolis Improvements Bill and the Chelsea Poor Bill were brought up, and the Bills (as we understood) ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. The Bradford (Wilts) . Road Bill was read a second Ime, and ordered to be committed. Lord SANDON presented a petition from Birken head, praying to be heard by Counsel against the Birkenhead Gas and Waterworks Bill. Mr BAINES presented a petition from an indivi dual named Samuel Collins, against the Deptford Dock and Pier Bill. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from merchants and traders of Manchester, against certain provisions in the Manchester and Liverpool Duck Bill. CANTERBURY ELECTION. Mr. CLIVE appeared at the bar with the Report of the Canterbury Election Committee, which was to the effect that the Hon. George Piercy Sydney Smythe was duly elected to serve in Parliament for the city of Canterbury, and that neither the petition nor the op position thereto were frivolous or vexatious. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the Manchester and Bolton Railway Company, against the Bill for the regulation of Railways. DitAINAGE OF -TOWNS. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from that dis trict of St. G,les's known by the name of the Rookery, in favour of the Drainage of Towns (Hear.) The petitioners stated that. in the district there were upwards of 1,000 inhabitants, and there were 33 lodging houses, in eiich of which upwards of 40 persons slept every night.—( Hear, hear.) In that populous district there was no drainege and no sewers —( Hear, hear.) Mr. SLANEY wished to ask his noble friend the Secretary for the Colonies, whether it was not pos sible for the local authorities to do their duty by providing fur the cleansing and draining of the district in question.—(Loud cries of Order, order.) Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL thought that Hon. Members ought to reserve that question fo the usual time for asking questions.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SLANEY said that question related to the sub ject of the petition, and was proceeding to repeat it, when he was interrupted by loud cries of " Order, or der," to which at length he gave way. Mr. EASTHOPE presented a petition complaining of the manner of appointing chaplains in workhouses as unjust towards Dissenters. Colonel SALWEY presented a petition from the clergy and inhabitants of Egliam against any further grant to the College of Maynooth ; and a petition from the same place in favour of Church Extension. He did not concur in the prayer of either. Mr. HERRIES presented a petition from the Great W'Vester❑ Railway Company against the Railway Bil'. Dr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from the Presidents and students of Stepney College praying for the abolition of Church -rates; and n petition from St. Leonard's Shoreditch, in favour of the County Courts' all. Mr. HUME presentel a petition from Newcastle upon-Tyne praying for the liberation of Henry Hether ington, as they considered that his imprisonment was an interference with the liberty of the subject and with the liberty of the pres., and complaining that there was such uncertainty as to what constituted blasphemy that th v considered it impossible any Jury could take upo themselves to decide the question. Also another petition to the same effect from the Society of Free Inquirers at, Paddington, and also praying the House to introduce a law defining what . blasphemy was. Also a petition from certain individuals residing at Bethnal-green, praying for Extension of Suffrage, Vote by Ballot, and a division of the country into Electoral Districts ; alsci a petition from a gentleman namel Bannister, who had held the office of Attorney- General in New South Wales, praying for the introduc tion of some measures regulating appeals from the Colonies to the Queen in Council ; also, on behalf of his Honourable Friend the Member for Greenock, a petition from the Medical Practitioners of Greenock, in favour of Medical Reform ; also from the Chamber of Commerce of Greenock, complaining of the present mode of taxing railways as pressing with peculiar severity upon the poorer classes. Mr. RICH presented a petition from Nottingham, praying that Chemists and Druggists may be examined as to their competency. On the motion of Sir E. NATCHBULL the Parish Constables Bill was read a second time. Colonel RAWD ON gave notice that in Committee on the Drainage Bid he would move certain amendments. On the motion of Mr. EMERSON TEN NENT, the Committee on the Copyright Designs Bill was post poned till the 12th of May. THE NEW TARIFF. Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was his intention to introduce certain modifications in the new schedule of duties which he would bring forward in the Customs' resolutions on Monday next. When he had originally proposed these resolutions he stated that he was not only ready but that it would be his duty, if anything arose in the course of his conferences with the various branches of trade which might be affected, to make certrain modifications in these duties before they were finally discussed and decided upon in the House. The modifications he now proposed would be, that instead of a differential duty of 10 per cent. ad valorem upon all foreign goods imported into the co lonies, he proposed a duty of 7 per cent. ad valorem. With regard to shingles, instead of a duty of 3s. 61 per thousand, he proposed a duty of 2s. Bd. per thousand and instead of a duty of 10s. 6d. the thousand feet upon pitch pine and other timber, he proposed a duty of 75. He should take care that these modifications should be printed in an amended schedule, and circulated among the Members of the, Hous e as soon as possible,in order that they might have them in a proper form, be fore he moved the resolutions in the House. Mr. GOULBURN said it was important that not only the Members of the House, but persons engaged in trade, should be apprised of these resolutions before they were brought forward. Mr. EWART regretted that sugar and coffee tad not been included, and gave notice of his intention to renew his motion for a reduction of the duty on sugar and coffee immediately after the recess. Mr. SLANEY said a petition had been laid on the table of the House relative to the destitute condition of persons in a populous district of the mct!opolis. He had that morning visited that district and it was lament able to see the wretched and filthy state in which the majority of its inhabitants were. He wished to ask tlie lion. Gentleman, the Under-Secretary for the Home Department, whether or not the Home-office was possessed of any power to enforce the discharge of their duty by the local authorities, with respect to cleansing the district to which lie alluded. In consequence of the proposed improvement to take place in that quarter nothing had been done by the parochial authorities with respect to cleansing it. He alluded to the district of St. Giles. Mr. FOX MAULE was not aware that the Home office was compelled to attend to the cleansing of such places as his Hon. Friend alluded to. He (Mr. Fox Manic) apprehended that it was a matter for the parochial authorities, and for them alone to a ttend to. He presumed that the Bill which his Noble Friend introduced in the other House, would give f?c' - lity for making improvements in that quarter of the city. On the motion of Mr. F. MAULE, the Report on the Population Bill was brought up. After a few words from Sir E. the Bill was ordered to be read a t hird timid o-mor of the Mr. w. BAINES postponed KNATCHBULL, the second reAling, Enrolment of Burgesses' Bill to then e ath o Bill was com a). The Copyhold and Customary 're mitted pro forma. ne lL o L Jf this Bill. Mr. DI E VE W I S 'i' moved the Mr. E. W. GLADSTONE rose to oppo se t h e RATI ON thir re reading third reading. If it w er e possible to draw a b roa d li ne of principle between a 13111 to admit Jews t o corporate offices, and ore to permit them to enjoy seats in that House, and every o ther office, the subject would be dif ferent. But h e felt convinced that such a broad line of principle could not be drawn, and that allowing a Bill like the present to pass that House they must expect that one would follow to extend to the Jews s eats in Parliament, and the holding of every other o ffice to which Christi ans were now en titled. On that point, lie took it, there was no difference of o pinion between them, an d i t wou ld, t h ere f ore , be a loss of time to argue the question. 'With regard to his reasons for objectioF to the present Bill, he should en- S U fitif;47 M ORS ING EDITION: deavour, without bewildering the House with a multi- .1 - a plicity of considerations, without leading their \ ,7 --# minds to any of those theological topics which :41,04 . were introduced on a former occasion, to state that reason which most imperatively weighed with himseK and which seemed most likely to be made intelligible to the House. His reason for rejecting the present Bill was this ; It appeared to him that the profession of the Jewish religion was in the nature of a disqualifi cation for legislative office in this country, where the Christian religion was interwoven with the institu tions of the country. First of all he placed that on general grounds. It had been said on high authority that" Christianity was part and parcel of the law of Eng land." He knew not bow far in rigorous trutli such a dictum was tenable. It was not necessary for him to undertake to defend it ; but this he said, it was assumed in our practice, our laws were modelled on the principles with which Christianity supplied us, and they had a fur- , ther and most solemn recognition of those prin ciples in a praefce to which he could not hut allude on this occasion ; he meant The practice, which he trusted would be never discontinued, of com mencing the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament with the solemn worship of Almighty Go.'.—( Hear.) He did not wish to travel into a region seldom en tered in that House with advactge ; but the practice of this worship implied what he had stated—namely, that they were to set before them, as the ob ject of all their measures, in the words of the Ser vice, ' the promotion of true religion, and the glory of God." if such was the case, he said that in thus seeking to promote true religion they were not at liberty, according to the 'ease of the Constitutior, to include every religion. On this occasion the question before the House was whether they would destroy the di s ti nct i ve Chris- tianity of the Constitution.---(He a r, hear.) He had heard much sneering on a former occasion at nn expression that had been used by his Hon. Friend the Member for the University of Oxford (Sir R. Inglis), that " they were about to unchristianizo, England by this 1311." He (Mr. Gladstone) thought it was not diffiault to conceive what tle meaning of that expression war.—(llcar, hear.) His Hop. Friend couhtless used it, as was his habit, without being very anxious to weigh whether the phrase emplo}ed was open to the mis construction of an adversary ; but he (Mr. G.) must say, he could not conceive a proposition more approximate to the nature of a truism with regard to this subject, because at present the Constitution imposed upon all who held legislative office the test of declaring that the person about to enter upon it prole,scd "on the faith of a Chris , tian," and by removing that test from the present Bill, and from any future Bill, it was doubt less intended to remove that profession of Chri tianity as the condition of filling the civil office. Now, he did not know whether he rendered himself liable to those severe censures which had been delivered on a former occasion by the Noble Lord oppo site end by others, who did not scruple to to impute to sheer intolcration all opposition to the ad mission of the Jews to civil and legislative of But the ground which he occupied was the same upon which lie should stand if he were arguing against the claims of any other class. He did not intend to speak w.th disrespect of the Jews as a class, or of any individual Jew.--( Hear, hear, hear.) He did net say that they were net honest and conscientious, but unfortunately that increased his objection, for the more conscientious a Jew was, the less qualified was he to apply his mind to the promotion of Christian objects.—( Hear, hear.) He did not say that there were not individual Jews who might discharge the duties of tie legislative cfficc better than semi Christians ; but his ob jection was that the class was disqualified. Now if it were proposed in that Hou e to substitute a .5/. or an 8/. franchise for the existing franchise of la it would be competent for any person in opposition to that proposition, to sty that he thought the 10/, householders as a class, were competent to make choice of Members of Parliament, but that if you went any lower, you would reach a class which was not competent, although there might be individual 8/. house holders who were more con patent than some 10/. householders. It was with the distinc tion analogous to that he said that if Chris tianity was part and parcel of the law of this coon try, it was impossible that the Jews, as a class, should be competent to discharge the duty of legislators But it he descended from the general principle to parti cular questions he would ask the House to consider bow tire whole course of their history—even of their recent history—proved that it is on qu.stions connected with Christianity that our national fortunes chiefly turned. 11 7 fiiiii the last ten years there had been a sufficient number • of questions before them, most intimately and essentially concocted with the his torical considerations of Christianity.—(Hear, ir.) What were the questions which had most interested the feelings of the people of this country during the I period which had elapsed since the Reform Bill ? What a ere the questions which had exercised the most determined influence on the state of parties in this country, and in their place in the estimation of the people, since the passing of the Reform Bill ? What were the most difficult and perplexing questions relating to every one of the three kingdoms now before Parliament ? Were they not questions relating to the Christian reli gion ? and unhp.ppily, if there were many questions, offering unusual difficulty, on which peculiar animosities prevailed, and on which, whatever might be their desire, they found it impossible to agree were they not ques tions which, though not of a directly religious nature in themselves, were yet mixed up and blended whit religious associations ? If he looked to England, had they not had the question of Church-rats, and had they not that question still ? Had they not had the question of national education, and had they not that question still? Had they not the question of Church extension, and was it not unsettled even now ? If he looked to Scotland, what did he find was the greatest difficulty at this moment con nected with the social position of that country ? Was it not the question which related to the appointment of ministers of the Establishment there ? And what question could there possibly be in which the feelings of all parties concerned more impera tive required a tolerable comprehension of the claims of religion than those he had mentioned? He did not allude to the case of Ireland, where it was unhappily but too notorious how widely they were separated by religious differences, and what immense difficulties and perplexities had beset the course of legislation in the House in consequence of those difference. If this was the case, if Christianity but a i only generally pervaded the principle of o ur l aws , if t h e glory cf God, in relation to the Christian religion, be not which and guaran tee it onlywas of a p ro l f i e: ) s u e r d inc acts, if d a a l i y theworship questions as a guideo mos t difficult to legislate were intima te l y associated with the train principles of Christianity, he would say that it was perfectly competent to argue that those who must nece ssarily, as conscientious men, regard Christianity as a fable and an imposture, could not be calculated to enter into the consideration of such questions. It was said, however, that they had admitted Dissenters and Roman Cath-ilics to office, and that having done so, either it was not wise to exclude the members of the Jewish persuasion, or that they ought not in common consistency to refuse them such a privilege. That, however, he denied. Such pro fessions were very different from those which had been made when the claims of the Roman Catholics and th© Dissenters were under consideration. Parliament was Oren told o f the bond of a common Christianity uniting all the three. He remembered havil,,r , heard of a passage in the speech of an lion. and Gallant Officer ( Sir G. Murray), now no longer a member of that House, which had produced a greet effect. That Hon. and Gallant Officer bad his Roman al ludedCatho- to the sympathy existing between lic fellow-soldiers and himself- by the bond of one common belief in one Redeemer, and by their eec posse ss i ng h 4 d produced but they were totally man hope cf salvation. . }rat speech such sentiments acre a great impression at the f ;r „ "cnat'e ß ir e e t et tl ; iere were other consi beellicieuti‘attheed p to res prods ent. e a Dissenters front that of the Jews, the Ro. man Catholics and four-fifths of the population of ono part the first place, whi J d RCatholics, no derations which dbrKeuaiired:lytdwodmi:teinognusiisstlciedothe colaTsiaenof ef the Unite . this VI d 3 ~ The Roman Catholi a Protestant cowlJ . ° CS formed a f the popu a.tor, alet It could not be ex large porti3n o r long period it could nut be said a ril anything like truth that they would consent f admission to civil offices to be excluded r..). considered the fact that the Roman Catholics 3 the bulk a the people of forn.e,lreland, they to expect petted r t c h a : 2, t e n fo c r o uallyblesyhown f ur exclusion '. front the certainly hadthat they should be ad t r mitted to their share in the Constitution , unless some special f administrivion ethe affairs of the country. The Roman Catholics and Dissenters had also their feelings embittered wbyeirformer r t isnot under the prcs:ion.—(Loud che ers f rom the Minister i a l benche'.) rr li r e l , c a t i n o LlCatholicsat centuriesp a particularly c o u f l a o r p l He would repeat the phrase, and the only qualifiection he would give to it was that that oppression bad En en endured by them partly as Roman Catholics acrd}a - tly as liish men—pa tly as men possessing a different religion from that established —and partly as men belonging to a country which had been unjustly invaded arid conquered.—( Loud cheers ) U n d er those circumstances they certainly had ; a t) ! tuhto they ye were literally e an equitable claim to a participation in the Constitution, might le very well to say to them future cppresssion. on the ground of Lein.. enabled to defend themselves from thatsufferings should they were not suffering those t itled speaking, toh a c , v e e son C would security inflicted on them. Now, let this case be net again be at no t t h b e e t tt e e , compared with t hat of the Jaws. The one adher e d t o the other did The Catho lics test of Christianity ;. not. Catho lics were a large body, formil2g . a vast . majority of the po pulation of ono part of the United Kingdom. Now what Jews ? Jews were hardly perceptible upon were t the face o f British society, of whi c h th ey f orme d an ex tremely small and fractional element. Therefore it was not w orth while so strictly to contest the point of their ad mission to office. They were asked to surrender the prin ciple el the Constitution for the sake of these persons, and as this was one of those questions which must be deter mined by an equitable balance of confiic.irg considerations. and the deviation sought Ras one of which there Lad been hitherto no example, Le had a nigh. t. - ) consider who were those that made the demand, and what was the moral