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bat wh;. n Le boric f•-e taril th.post.d to by the wi,n,:sses, he epuLi not, unti( 1110 . s? circurnstai c s, resist th , :‘ prayer of the husband, and It would be mile ii, hirn to trouble the Court with ilny further observ,tionF. Dr. LUSIIINGTON—L, t this cau , e star,: over. SECONDAMES'.—(THIS DAY.) (BA TO Mr. Seconcl.ir)• IsorrEa.) IVIIITMoRE AND ANOTHER V. FRENCH. The Plaintiff's are win lesale stati,ners, find sought to recover the sum n 61 13s. 21. for good, supplied. The defenthu i t pleaded that be was not indebted. The facts Were these, the defendant 11+d join ,d a person named Noble in businc.ss, and goods were supplied. The busi :l9's Was carriel on in the name of Noble, and plaintiff's f ld not at first know that Outendant was the person who stare the money, but on ai-tertaining he received a , are of th ; ,• b• • ,•'-• action against him profits, t. ey : 1°1 : 1 e; and no plea had been inaffe in abatement, in eon "(tl,llene, of Noble not beirg juin; d in the action. . 4 he Learned SECONDARY held that if the defendant to a Partner, he was of course legally bound, although :as termed as sleeping or dormant. partner. -4 Ltu the jury found for the plaintiffs, for the amount ed. IRELAND. DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING. k Cholera, th oug h not t o any grea t ex t en t, has bro ben out am ong th e t roo p s s t t .ti on ed in Ship street Barracks, adjoining the el;stle-yard. The situation 0 ) „ I the buildi ngs i s c l ose f t n d unw h o lesome. The 2d, bar Queen's RNie innt of Foot, which occupied the narrseks when the disease appeared, were this day Paced under canvass , a ca mp having been formed in lo i'ceilx Park. L The weather has undergone a change today, it g rained heavily since the morning. NO day h as ye t b een name d f u r the interview , De tween Lord Cl aren d on and the deputation in behalf of the state p r i soners . The names of 14 Lieutenants were this day appended to the memorial. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following officers attended the levee of the, First °l 'd cf the Admiralty yesterday :—Vicc-Admiral Jackson, li•ar Adm iral Sir E. C. Strode, Captains 11. Bruce - Bruce (late of the Queen), G. H. Seymour, J. C. 'Ex-Jerald, Sir E. Lyons, Bart., G.C.13., P. Thomp tn. F. S cott, C. Bosanquet, Sir P. Broke, Bart., aeynott, Robb; Commanders lion. J. W. S. Spencer, • Morris, Peter l)uthey, E. S. Sotheby, R. Coote, T Stuart, T. P. Dobree, T. G. Drake, C. J. Balfour, nYcg; Lieutenants C. T. Compton, W. Greet, J. W. D orvillk-, A. Royer, E. 13. Rice, W. Thorpe; Mater E. b unsterville. After the levee Sir Francis Baring proceeded to his country seat in Hampshire. Th e Arrogant, 36, screw-frigate, Captain Robert Pdzrey, having taken on board ber foreign sea-service litotes, was hauled off into the stream at Portsmouth on konday, and yesterday, at three o'clock, proceeded out of harbour to Spithead, steaming out against a strong flood tide, taking a large party of ladies and gentlemen outlin her. She has been fresh painted, and is immersed a ornething deeper in the water than before, by which h er appearance has been much improved. She is de- Fidedly t h e most s pl en did, an d altogether the most h andsome-looking frigate that we have seen. The upper e dge of her copper is now a foot or more out of the water, altho ug h s h e h as t a k en i n 85 Cons of iron ballast. t " think double the quantity would not have been °° much for her. She took her powder and live shells In after her arrival at Spitheal. She will forthwith proceed to Lisbon, and from thence up the Straits to At Tbe Niger and Thsilislasteam•sloops, have now their defects rewired Devonport. and are ready to proceed o t 4 further experimental trials. 'The Salamander, steam-sloop, in charge of Mr. Mills, lailed fr om P ortsmout h f or Ch at h am on S un d ay even ,eg• with th e M ar i nes o f t h a t di v i s i on p a id off from the Late The Salamanderwill go on to Woolwich to aye some alteration made in her en;ines. t,, T he Columbi a , 3, surve ying stelia-vest:el, Command , r ono rtland, was paid advance at Devonport, on Monday, When she sailed for the Bay of Fundy. APPOINTMENTS. Nasers—Samuel Twyford to tile Victory, 104, flag ; IP at P or t smout h ; M r . S. L. P e ile t o the Ocean, 46, 4 g - ship at Sheerness. 13 °stswain—Matthew Newby to the Tortoise, store and guard ship at the bland of Ascension. Dli dshipmen—Nicholas Turnour to the Superb, 80, iVpitheacl; William F. Ruxton to the Superb; Charles t lvoodina n to the Victory; Reginald Purvis to the Vic -437; D. M. Campbell to the Castor, 36, at Chatham; Marescaux to the Castor; E.J. Lawson to the t t t ings, 72, flag-ship in China; A. LI. W. Battiscombe - the Hastings; William Templer to the Impregnable, 104 flag -ship at Devonport; F. Fletcher to the Dragon " e atn•frigate, on the Irish coast: Herry Moore to the r s' a kdonia, 120, flag-ship in the Mediterranean. Naval Cadets—Edmund Smith to the Superb; Noel Osbor ne t o th e C a l e d o nia ; H. Thursby to the Caledonia; W. O. Silverlock, to the Caledonia. rOIITSBIOUTII, MAY 29.—The Nelson, 120, having had her periodical overhaul in dock, is again ready for mud 4 ervice, and will be undocked this evening or to-morrow, stud give place to the Rodney, 92, also to undergo a refit. The Reynard screw-schooner, 11, Commander Cra craft, is ordered to sail on the sth for Madeira, Cape de Verd Islands, Ascension, and Sierra Leone, with the ri mail for th e coas t o f Af r i ca , w hence she proceeds to the '-' 4 Pe and East Indies to join the squadron under the command of Sir Francis Collier. The Mountstuart Elphinstone convict- ship arrived here this morning from Loudon. The Euphrates freight-ship sailed today with detach kents for St. Helena, which she embarked at Cowes. The Sylvia surveying -vessel, Commander Bedford, mailed to day for Cork. Wind, S., light breezes and fine weather. „._IVe.OLWICII, MAY 29.—Letters have been received at Woolwich announcing the arrival of the Atholl troop thiP, Master-Commander Pearn, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, after a fine run of twenty-six days from Ports mouth, and having on board three companies of Royal Artillery, one for service at St. John's, New Brunswick, and two for service in Cenada. The Atholl arrived at n tle bee on the 11th of May, and lacded Captain Tuite's co mpany, 4th battalion, and Major Ilennis's company, 2d battalion, at the station. Captain Sandriam's coin- T I, Ist b a tt a li on , had previously left Quebec for ; t a i la g st " to relieve Captain I'duady's company, 3d bat the latter being under orders to return to Wool "Pi It h i t b at . the Ath o ll, w i t h Captain Crofton's company , , 7th float Montreal; and Captain Ormsby s com '4!!", 6th battalion, from St. John's, New Brunswick. at The Vixen steam sloop, Commander Jeuner, arrived Halifax Nova, Scotia, from Bermuda, on the 29th of t ,r 4 -, and h.:(1 encountered very severe weather , having r ri ,"mpelled t o pea , back viith loss of mainmast, guar at, and ot h er art i c l es. 1.44ne Moultstuart Elphinstone, commanded by Captain ef ltr i° ar , d having 250 convicts cn board, under the Ito b e n t . Dr. Moxey, left her moorings opposite the a l Arsenal on Saturdayi afternoon last, fur Moreton 6, th Wal ate a r T , ll4l n, MAY - ' , S.—The Salamander advanced 4tteas.u°P, in charge of Mr. Mills, assistant master tint, . den t at Devonport-yard, arrived this day, and die m.airited the following Royal Marice:s:-IS7 men of all „ e _k a from the Queen aid off at Devonport, in command el 11,ain P. A. Campbell, wi,h Lieutenaut . W. Masters; 13 0 1 Royal Marines, in command of Lieutenant R. 11th e, paid off from the Alarm, 26, at Devonport, on the the _ i nstant; and on e cor p o ral and one private, from Favourite, 15 guns, raid ',ft' at the same place on the `.ulirrstant. Th e a b ove 205 men joined their head quarters at this division. The Salamanderleft the river the same day. The Cleopatra, 26 guns, Captain H. L. Massie, sails 10 fro m this port to-morrow afternoon for the Nore, where b u . Will be inspected by the Port Admiral, and after ei ng paid advance wages will proceed to sea. (COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MAY 29. The Queen and Prince and the younger branches of the Royal Family, walked and rode in the Park and grounds at Osbot ne at an early hour this morning. terhere was no addition to the Royal dinner party yes day. eler Royal Highness the Du chess of Kent isited her (I cl i Yal High ness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at ouceste r House. vllia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambrid ge dined s ; A tn the members of the Nulli Sec undus Club y esterda y at the Clarendon Hotel. bv — V . Royal Highness the Duch ess of Kent, attended Ji t MY Augusta Bruce, Sir Georg e Coo p er, and Lord ioa ' Murray, honoured the performance of the Royal /i li a Opera House with her presence yesterday eveni ng. . d thc p e ,Royal Ilik;bness the Duchess of Gloucester . vishe th e Hi finesses the Duchess of Cambridge and ). ette ''reditary Grand Duchess of ISlecklenburgh Strelitz -P r i ne r thly at Cambridge House. His Serene Highness 1/i gh _o Lrnest Ilesse Philippsthal visited their R oyal tem:sues thd Duke and Duchess of Cambridge yes i 11 0b. ,,m r ,e service was performed yesterday in the Chapel th e j s ' a t bt. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley administered sern io er ent. The Rev. Dr. Honk will preach the lathe Chapel Royal on Sunday next. „. ROYAL MATERNITY CHARITY.—Yes' y t down oily of the foremost friends of this institt:teirocniasa abouto eto an excellent dinner at the London Tavern, given t o "Innemorate its anniversary• Lord Robert Grosvenor Presided, and in a very feeling manner advocated the . cl aims 01 the charity, which, he said, had now been in existence for nearly 100 years, and had during that period administered relief to more an 400,000 poor married ea ses' theT past year presented an increase of 231 ares, and was clear that the usefulness of the institu tion had not yet reached its limit, though the births at which it assisted now exceeded one in every two hours. The Noble Chairman dwelt upon the hem fits which the charity conferred in attendino• own homes, and in training for that purpose a large destitute women at their number ot' midwives, whose services, under ordinary n u midwives, were more acceptable and beneficial to .he poorer classes than those of surgeons. He concluded by enForcing the claims of distress generally upon the a dvan 4Ymplles of th e wealthy, and by pointing out the tage as well as the propriety of attending to the wants of those w:.om Providence has left exposed to the visitations of poverty and sickness. A number of appro.- iat e toast s were proposed, and duly responded to during the even i ng, among which the services of the cal and other officers connected with the charity Were not forgotten. The amount of subscriptions an zeuneed was about 2501. The musical arrangements were ,u_nder the di rection of Mr. Ransford, and were excellent. a tri •-. 4 * Harker was toastmaster. LITETIA T I:11.E. EVEL EV; or a Journry from Stockholm to Rome in 1847 , 48. By Mess BunLury. 2 Vols. These two very delightful volumes combine the attractions of a book of travels and a novel, and the combination produces a happy effeet. We dwell on the peculiarities of the countries through which we pass ss itheut being condemned to the formal routine of a voyage of discovery, and we become, incidentally as it were, acquainted with the characters an 1 his tories of our companions without for a moment being led to suppose that the relation of their histories is the object of our journey. Truth and fiction are so admirably interwoven, that it is impossible to define where the "actual" ends and the "ideal" begins. These volumes would seem to be a journal of Miss Bunbury's tour in 1847 and 1848, and the de scriptions of many of the scenes and incidents are evidently truthful. But the " journey," as we see from the title-page, is only a secondary conside ration ; the fortunes of Evelyn are our chief subject of interest. Evelyn is in every way fitted for a heroine of romance, she has bright golden hair, she is always dressed in white, and :tie do not remember that her surname is ever cnce mentioned. She is wandering alone throughout the world, in possession of a " secret" which she may reveal to no one. Such is Evelyn when our authoress finds her; she takes pity on her unprotected state, and the authoress and the heroine journey together from Stockholm to Rome. Romantic (in the novel reader's sense of the term) and improbable as is the situation of Evelyn, it is simply described, and her own character is so beautiful and so natural that we forget the unnaturalness of her pc sition, and onlysee and appreciate the tinge of romance which her presence infuses into the narrative. What we like best in this work is the unaffected easy style in which it is written. No matter what the subject may be, and the subjects touched upon are most various, whether a love story—and there are no less than three such interesting episodes in the two volumes ; or a political discussion—and there are not a few such naturally occasioned by the state of Europe, then on the eve of revolution (for the fol lowing sentence might have been applied to a wider field than Venice, which was the spot so apostro phised :—" The strong heel of a vast consolidated power is pressed upon thy heart ; but that heart is now heaving beneath it ; its life is returning, and at this moment who can tell what may not be on the morrow ?")—whether it be some amusing traveller's adventure or a prnphie description of some town or village, or sketches of various conzpognons de voyage, it is all one to Miss Bunbury's pen—it runs on in the same natural and delightful manner that makes the reader quite at home with the authoress and the heroes and heroines, and the scenes which she de scribes. Having said enough of the mysterious Evelyn to enlist for her the sympathy of all lovers of the marvellous, and having spoken of the charming manner in which her story is narrated, we pass over the remainder of the dramatis persona—the good hearted, good-humoured uncle aid aunt Patrick, and their gifted nephew Albert, travelling far cad wide in search of health and life even, while the best elixir is by his side, but withheld from his grasp; the noble baron, Oscar, the hopeless lover of Evelyn, and the gentle Lille, who would fain be in her place. We pass over these and many ether remarkable per sonages, and with a few specimens of the various at tractions we have enumerated, wa will take leave of Miss Bunbury till " next time," which we hope will not be very far distant. Here is a travelling adven ture more amusing, doubtless, to the reader than to the actors. ThPir guide-book had told the travellers that "at Mrs. Todd's hotel, at Gottenburg, all the household speaks English," this being a great desi deratum to persons ueacquaieted with Swedish—to Mrs. Todd's they went. A young woman was sum moned to attend them. " The young woman regarded to with all the quiet gravity of her nation, when in repose; I saw sbe was made over to us, and with a smik, I You speak English, min flika?' " ' Yes.' she answered. " I nodded both to her and Evelyn, and feeling quite at home now, vie entered the inn. " As they all speak English hero, we can get any thing; shall I order cutlets and tea, Eve!yni' " Very ‘vell.' " Can you give us tea?' I asked of the tall ills. " Yes,' she replied, very gravely. And some mutton cutlets?' 6: 6 y es. , ." Be so good as to g,t them directly, with fresh bread acd butter, and some boiled milk.' " Yes.' She stood as if waiting fora more luxuriant order; but as I turned awa:•, she did so too. " Evelyn lay d.)wn on her bed, I took possession of the red sofa. Being accustomed to Austrian, Tyrolese, and German waiters, we were naturally patient, and let our Swedes take their time; but when a whole hour had passed, my longing for tea became irresistible. " ' Will it never come?' I criel " I wish you would call fur it,' said Evelyn's languid voice, from the inner room. Fortunately there was a bell, and a In answer to its summons came a different flika, who was an exception to the English speaking household of Mrs. Todd. She poured forth a flood of soft words, not one of which I understood; and finding I did not respond to her eloquence, the non-English-speaking Swede came nearer, and repeeed the same at my ear. " She means,' said Evelyn, to tell you that the flika who speaks English will come presently.' " Oh, then, we will wait,' 1 answered, thinking she might as well understand my language as I hers; but in addition I nodded my head, and uttered the word, which in Swedish signifies good, but looks irreverent in our eye—'god: " She went away, and we waited. " very ridiculous,' I said, it is to come to a country without understanding the language, though no one thinks of learning that 01 Sweden.' " " ' But, Evelyn, is this " tea and chops " to come at all?' . Pray ring ag'lin; perhaps our good English genius is now at hand.' " < Ent I thought all the household spoke English well;' so with a heavy sigh I rose off the sofa and rang again. " In, to our joy, came the English-speaking flika. " ' Have you gut the tea and cutlets ready ?' " ' Will you bring them, then, directly ?' i 4 " We waited again. " It is necessary to have patience,' said Evelyn; you know in Sweden it is hard to get anything after Lur o'clock.' " Yes; but I would not eat a morsel in the boat to day, because I knew that here, where all the household spoke English, we could have even what they thought were our national whims satisfied.' 4" Try to sleep,' said Evelyn, still in her dormitory. " I cannot, lam so hungry.' " I got up and rang again; in came the grave tall Swede. " We are tired waiting for this tea and cutlets.' " Yes.' " ycs the only word of English you can say ?' " A heavy burst of laughter, much .as I dislike the words, followed the last ' yes' we extracted from the English speaking member of this English•speaking household. Our tea and cutlets, alas! were somewhere, I suppose, in the kingdom of Utopia." From a very interesting conversation on the relative peculiarities of England and Denmark, we extract one very significant passage " Poor little Denmark, which you have heard Ger mans a hundred times say'ought not to be a separate kingdom, allots twenty thousand two hundred and twenty pounds to the advancement of science and litera ture; and one thousand six hundred and sixty-six pounds to paying the travelling expenses of young artists and men of genius, like Thorwaldsen and Andersen, both of whom were sent to Rome; where you know the former, after a long atruggle, was brought into notice by an Englishman: thus Denmark gives her literary and scientific sons their first push, launches them on the sea of life with an oar to begin the struggle; and if, bite Thorwaldsen, they mount its waves triumphantly, wel comes them back with open arms." To which it is bitterly, but alas ! too truthfully, rejoined--" Denmark gave her lowly son a pension, and lent him wings to climb ; in England it would have been more politic or patriotic to have let him die, and to have pensioned his widow or his child." The following very beautiful definition of the intel lectual happiness of life is given to Albert (the in valid genius of whom we have spoken) on his de parture for his momentous journey " Is such the end, then, 1 said with bitterness, ' for which you would prolong ray life ? ' " 'lt is ; but if it were attained, I do not say I should desire to prolong it no further. Oh nu! I believe that the intellects and faculties, powers or principles, which God has given us, can be trained and cultivated in this life, so us to lead to a proportionate development in that • which is to succeed it ; and that as their measure of their easureis reached here will be the fulness or scantiness mea sure her mifter. Ther . c . to m re a , d a u loneeu i ap i p e neappears rentceship to to m s e a great blessing, whe n it is t h pi i e g u h s trstate of being. o a f s nought,som some most. this t s a th th in i k ag , people do,that wcoarnldnoi that ha resigning it we can fee f ou the p life a boon that is almost better r wit e h a d e r e aw is n m , I f d r e ov v id i e th d R deemer. That God through the atonement o blessed uu r immortalsaer j: e was pe woeffrier,edtutourreeustot r u e . u t s o l' t u h s e the eu t r Exerciseance tto of c l o o s d ed wh ; ibohuttbtheisfatlilmoef-sttnaatue ife'roemulyhitshehi g s h cho e u s l tat o e f had th e spirit,a e n x d ist t e L n i e s e ln ; ° a l t s al i tbg"roatwbsb i u ie t r t e he it germ g o r f uw an im mortal here after ; and I believe that, according to the culture nature of stowed upon it, will be its expansion in a state, the of which is as yet to us unknown. " would wish you to live, Albert, and not only to lenguish out a precarious existence, but, if God's will might so be done, t , ) lire in the full exercise of your in tellectual powers, and in the full enjoyment of those large capacities with which you arc endowed ; to live so that such genius as God hers given you might be raised and purifi, d ,• yet such talents as you possess aspire to more than all that even three-more years and ten,' at their best estate, can achieyo.' " Beatrice ceased, y et I was silent; but even then a new light broke in on a darkened soul," FIGHTEE 2V HUNDRED AND TWELVE. Translated front the G:rthan. By Mary .Norman 3 Vols. At the Literary Fund anniversary dinner, the other day, the historian Alinon very modestly disclaimed any praise on the ground of the popularity of his his tory of Europe, by ohs: ruing that he had been fortu nate in the selection of his theme. He had written, he said, " concereit g a period when truth had become romance, when courage had merged into heroism, and la hen, to be interesting, the historian had only to be faithful." Whethar in all respects the speaker himself possessed that necessary qualification of " fAithfulncss" we will not now stop to consider, but the passage we have just quoted may be indeed applied to the theme of the novel above-mentioned. Wes nut the year eighteen hundred and twelve the year of all others during that momentous period when truth and romance, courage and heroism, hi=storical and interesting became synonymous terms ? In penning any narrative of the events of the Russian campaign it might have been supposed that the ima gination of the romancist would be little taxed, but the author of this, in all respects most interesting work, thought otherwise.; He has endeavoured in this instance to make fiction as strange as truth. The historical and the imaginary contents of " 1812" are both marvellous and enthralling. The only fault we could find with the work as a whole is that it gives us too much an emisarras de richesses. Its heroes and heroines are of all nations, Russian, German, French, &c. Europe is the field of action, and the terrible retreat of the French army one of its most important incidents. To give a resume of such a work would be almost a matter of impossibility. As an evidence of its historical attractions, let us say that the account here given of the retreat is in many re spects a counterpart of the heart-thrilling, but, as Gourgaud has triumphantly proved, the very exag gerated narrative of Count ts 7 egur. The incidents of that terrible journey are many of them too painful to peruse. They are described with a naturalness and minuteness which of course heightens their gloomy interest. The battle scenes are painted in a vivid, dashing manner ; the author is a soldier we are told, and that is enough to assure us they are depicted con amore. One of the heroines of the tale is the daughter, or rather the supposed daughter of a Russian noble of harsh and arbitrary character. The Russian house hold scenes thus introduced give an idea of the hor rors of the serf system. One of the most marvellous fictitious incidents is rendered peculiarly startling from the fact of its being (though the most improbable thing in the world) not actually improbable. A French soldier renders some important service one dark night to two travellers, a young maiden and her father ; in order to know them again he changes rings with the lady, and, to his dismay, finds, after her departure, that he has not changed the rings after all, but in the mansion has put his own back on his finger. So he thinks; but some time after, when his ring is examined (as it is the only clue he possesses to the discovery of a lost sister), it uppshrs that it is not the same—the young stranger was his sister, and they had changed rings without knowing it—the rings being almost alike. This little incident loses much in the abbrevistion. In the novel its e&ct is startling., from the fact, as we have already said, of its being morally, but not actually impossible. With wonderful incidents of all kinds " Eighteen Hundred and Twelve " abounds The boat definition we can give of its character is ex presssd in the word interesting. It is interesting in matter, both fictitious and re if, and it is interesting in manner, for it is well written and full of animation and energy. ROCKINGHAM; or the Younger Brother. 3 Vols. Colburn, 184 9 . The author of "Rockingham" is, we believe, a new candidate for literary honours, and he has no reason to be displeased with the fate of this, his first venture. lle has produced not only the novel of the season, but a book that will outlive the season and become a standard work. We consider "Rockingham" as the new " Waverley" of a series of fictions destined to expose the social evils of which the higher classes of society in this country are the victims, and we look forward to the day when the Rockingham Novels will take their place on the bookshelf by the side of the Waverley series. The object of " Rockingham" is to expose the misery inflicted by the law of primo geniture upon those very . families for whose benefit that most unnatural law is supposed to be enacted ; and after the perusal of this most interesting tale, we believe that the firmest upholder of that law will be inclined to admit that the sacrifices made to maintain it are greater than its maintenance is worth, and that for the sake of the aristocracy themselves it would be well that it should be, if not repealed, at least greatly modified. The hero of the story, Lord Edward Rockingham, is the younger son of the Marquis of Arlingford, and as all the attention of the family is devoted to the nurturing of the eldest son Lord Elmswater, the heir to the title and estates, Rockingham is left to follow the bent of his own inclinations until the time arrives for his being sent to school. And in the description of Rockingham's school life our author exposes another social evil for which it will be more easy to provide a remedy than for the evils arising from the law of pri mogeniture. JIG is sent to a public school, in which (as in all great public schools to this hour) the beastly, the degrading, the shame-destroying punishment of flogging seems to be the only means adopted for preserving discipline. The effects of this punishment are most vividly pour trayed by our author the boy who has never been subjected to it maintains his self-respect, and leaves no effort untried to endeavour to avoid this chastisement ; but once flogged he feels him self degraded, and he invariably becomes subject to the lash again and again until the sense of shame is deadened, that which he had formerly shrunk from he now almost courts as affording him an opportunity of showing his superiority to physical pain, that which had been a degradation has become a martyrdom, and that which had been dreaded as a disgrace is gloried in as a triumph. The effects pro ciaced by this school discipline upon the man in after life are admirably pourtrayed by our author. • " The child is lather to the man," and so long as those classes from whom our army and navy are officered, our legislators taken, our iests ordained, our magistrates appointed, shall be subjected in their boyhood to these disgraceful, debasing, soul-hardening punishments, so long must every attempt to improve the mor.d condition of our soldiers and our sailors, to reform the inmates of our goals, or to give a higher moral tone to social legislation be abortive. The men to whom the carrying out of these reformatory measures is entrusted are incompetent to do so; they were in their younger days slaves governed solely by the lash, they can appeal to no higher motive of conduct than fear, they know of no other. Can we he surprised that the slave emancipated becomes a tyrant ? Talk to him of exciting feelings of shame in the mind of an evildoer as a means of reformation, he understands you not, the feeling of shame is dead within him—he has acquired at school a habit of degradation. " I was devilishly w ell flogged at school tn 3 self," said Colonel 'White, at the inquest on the soldier who was flogged to death at Hounslow. The Colonel was evidently not aware at the time of the importance of the admission. From school Rockingham enters the navy, and is at the battle of St. Vincent, end at the attack on Teneriffe with Nelson, and nothing can exceed the vigour and spirit of the descriptions of those actions, they are quite equal to the be,t of the nau tical descriptions of Cooper. lie is wounded at Teneriffe, end is nursed and tendered by Donna Dolores, a young and lovely Spaniard, who possesses all the warmth of affection and romance which are so characteristic of her countrywomen. The character of Dolores is admirably drawn. From Teneriffe he takes passage in a merchant ship for Lisbon, is wrecked, escapes alone on a reek, forms a raft, puts to sea, and is picked up by a French frigate. Ulti metely he returns to England, when all had considered him dead, save and except his cousin, Sopl,ia Waldcgrave, between whom and himself the most tender affection had subsisted from childhood. During his absence the Mar quistl familyhade dibecomedignity, tue e yln m d, tey b s: a tx r ap r n a es sdnosodeedd, his L h eo e srtda h t a ei d , enormousto maintain sums i n contestingsuorting th h e i s 2 . ci lm ee s p ee l r y ate m r, nr i t n . gaged before, becomes still more heavily incuin bered. In order to relieve the estate, the Mar quis and his son had previously to the return of Rockingham endeavoured to bring about a marriage between Elmswater and Sophia Waldegrave, whose fortune would pay off all the incumbrences. Not withstanding the cordial affection subsistineig.rieribdceeitnat,i•alueidnr theit oc lovers kingh a n are l and separatelySoph i t hes appealedc h em e i t s o p t e n r s s e s s, n • affections in order to maintain the dignity of the an cient house of Arlingford. They agree to wait for two years, which Rockingham is to spend at sea. We will not detail his adventures in the Mediterranean, which constitute one of the most interesting portions of the book, but hasten to the conclusion. His letters to Sophia are in:ercepted—reports reach England of his misconduct, of his arrest, amid of his being about to ne tried by court-martial; and Sophia at length, wearied out by the importunities of her relations, consents to become the wife of Elmswater. Rock ingham, wearied of life, seeks danger where ever it is to be found, and is killed at the battle of Trafalgar, and Sophia lives a life of misery.eh of We have merely in this outlin e given so til;utale as is necessary to point out the moral iesl the which the author seeks to inculcate, but the novel is replete with portraits, each of which is so individualised that w e at once become acquainted with the individual, with a ll his idos y ncracies. " Th ey ar e sketcheser h e reve, lu ag o n f an c classes ! s s p u o n r h tra n i r t e s • high-souled Charles Thornton, o f Mrs. Went tohfeinpdeirvitrdeuiatels,efnotthme THE STIN LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1849. worth, the seheolmns'er's wifo, a woman, wVh all her fauits, and Ley are neither few nor light, to be admired and loved ; of the di , gusting and brutll par tyrant, Captain i\Pßoss, of the gl,rious sailor Richands, a. perfect specimen of the " honest jack tar," whose virtues have keen celebrated by Dibdin in immortal verse ; and of that purest incarnaticn of the self' sacrificing love of woman, Bianca Salvi. We cannot conclude without drawing the author's attention to an inad verten.-e which he will no doubt correct in the sub sequent editions. Ile makes his characters frequently spak of giving a7.-ay sovereigns and half-sovereigns ; the battle of Trafalgar, in which Rockingham was killed, *as fought in l 805. The sovereign was not a current coin of the realm at that time. The first coinage of sovereigns for the lost two centuries took place iu 1816. Non ego paucis offendar macula, but from a work which so nearly approaches perfection, we would wish that even the smallest spots should disappear. THE HISTORY OF SAMUEL TI T 1 AND TILE GREAT ROGGARTY MOND. By W. M. Thackeray. This is a reprint of a tale which originally ap peared in FM" Ser ' S Magazine, in 1841, the moral of which is to warn persons against joining Great Did dles.ex Companies of any description, which promise enormous dividends, and to mind them " that the great shrewd capitalists of this country would not be content with four per cent. for their money, if they could securely get more; above all, never to embark in any speculation, of which the conduct is not perrectly clear to them, and of which the agents are not perfectly open and loyal." We remember reading the tale in Fraser, and being much delighted with it, although the author says in his preface— " Tire tale, which was always a favourite with its writer, was not particularly well received at the time of its tint appearance; or noticed, except by one or two person , ?, one of them the late John Sterling, who wrote me a letter concerning it, which gave me at that time a great comfort and pleasure. Other literary aspirants may be consoled for their own failures by hearing that this s'ory was refused by one magazine before it found a place in Fraser; nor was it until the success of Vanity Fair,' (which work was refused by a magazlne too), that found, or perhaps sought, publishers [odd .enough to venture upon producing the Hoggarty Diamond' in its present connected shape." The rejection of " Vanity Fair " is another instance of the incoinpetency of booksellers to judge of the merits of literary productions, and will henceforth rank with the rejection of " Paradise Lost," "Robin son Crusoe," and " Thompson's Seasons." The present edition of the " Great Hoggarty Diamond " is enricl;:ed with several quaint illustrations by the author, and is beautifully printed and admirably got up. THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS, 1847-1848 ; being Facts and Figures Illustr a ti ve of the Events of that Important Period , considered in Relation to the Three Epochs of the Railway Mania, the Food and Money Panic, and the French Revolution. To which is added an Appendix. containing an Alpha • betical List of the English and Foreign Mercantile Failures, with the Balance Sheets and Statements of the most important Houses. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. By D. Morier Evans. We are not surprised at finding that a second edition of this most valuable work should have been called fur within less than six months of its original publication. It is a work which all parties who are interested in commercial or financial affairs ought to possess as a book of reference, fel' nowhere will they find one en this subject of such general utility and completeness. The table of dividends at the end of the volume exhibi!s a fearful picture of the effects of the late crisis, and cannot but be regarded as most in teresting, however painful the contents may be for contemplation. The work is d.dicated to Charles Barker, &q., a well deserved tribute of respect to the high standing of that gentleman in the commer cial world. RELIEF OF SIR JAMES ROSS'S EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN. Last week we briefly noticed the arrival of the North Star store-ship, Master Commander Saunders, in tow of the Stromboli steam•sloop, at Stromness, on her way to relieve Sir James 11,,,ss's ships Investigator and Ent& prise, with stores and provisions of all kinds, so as to enable both ships to pursue their philanthropic search, for Sir John Franklin and his brave, gallant, and de voted companions in the Arctic regions. It appears that the North Star and Stromboli arrived off Aberdeen at 3 30 on Sunday morning, the 20 th instant , but the wind blowing strong from the E.S.E., with a heavy sea on the bar, and, moreover, being neap tides, it was thought ad visable not to put into that port, but to proce: d to Stromnns Harbour, in the Orkneys, where both ships anchored at eleven o'clock the same night. So far everything had gone on well, and was likely to continue so. The Stromboli had performed her towing work well, but the North Star steered rather wild in consequence of being so deeply laden. With a fair wind and fresh breeze, the engines at full speed, and making 16 revolutions, the Stromboli towed her consort nine knots; working expansively, on the second step making 15 revolutions, the breeze fresh and fair, with a mo derate sea, the rate of towing was eight knots; with fair wind and moderate weather, working expansively on the third step 14i revolutions, the rate was seven knots; with engines at full speed, making 13 revolu tions, towing head to wind, with moderate breeze and sea, from five and a half to six knots; and going at one third speed, and making from 10i to 11 revolutions, towing dead against a strong breeze with a heavy pitch ing sea, the Stromboli towed the North Star from three and a half to four knots an hour. By a fortunate chance, a leaky collier had put into Stromness, and from her the Stromboli was enabled to fill up with about 130 tuns of the best steaming coals at a comparately low rate per ton. Both ships had also replenished water, and intended to leave Stromness for Cape Farewell on the afternoon of the 22d instant. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. The tlvetors of this company have concluded an ar rangement with the Chancellor of the Exchequer as to the terms on which 500.000/. are to be advanced for the construction of the lane from Mullingar to Galway. That sum is to be advanced by way of loan, and the company are to proceed with the line as speedily as possible. The rate of interest on the loan is to be 3i per cent. per annum. At the expiration of ten years the principal to be repayable by i nta l ments o f 11 per cent. per annum, independently of the interest, 3i per cent. per annum, which it is calculated will liquidate the debt in about thirty-five years. Should the net profits of the railway from Athlone to Galway not prove sufficient to pay the interest of the loan, the deficiency is to be made good by the county of Gah - vay, and by two baronies of Roscommon. These terms arc considered to be very favourable to the railway company. A meeting of pro prietors will shortly be held to confirm the arrangement. FBENCII RAILWAYS. It appears from a return of French railways that the estimated cost of construction of 18 lines amounted to 927,410,000'. ( 3 7,096,4001.), of which 13 were esti mated to cost 624,110,000. (24,964,4001.), and it has since been ascertained th a t t h ey will cost 849,422,000 f. (33,976,880/0, being on the atqrscre 36 per cent. above the es:innate& Some of the lines cost between GO and 75 per cent. above the estimates, whilst others cost . no mere than 21 to 16 per cunt. a b ove the stem specified. Two of tt.e lines were completed within the estimates —namely, the Paris and Rotten, and the Boulogne and Ainions. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.--14.'e have accounts from all quarters of a great accession of vermin. A Specimen was brought to our office yetterday, completely black with fly. lIOLLINGBOURNE, REARSTED, OTF/AM, &C.—The Hops have come out evenly and well, growing very fast and looking rfmaikably kindly ; a little fly h3s been sit n. YAWING, WA lERINGBURY, AND ADJOINING PARISI/ES. —ILI this district there is a general increase of fly. In other rcipeeti the gardens lock well. STAPLEHURST, MARDEN, &c.—We have • a great deal of fly here, which is rapidly increasing.—Mtsidstoae Journal. STATE OF THE CROPS IN MID KE-VT. Bars—The hop bine is growing fast, and l ooking wtll, but there is a gradual increase of fly. Cosa.-TheConN.The wheat plant is looking well ; an d t h e same remark, we are happy to say, applies to barley, oats, and beans. Peas have suffered much from the effects of the slug. the ranges of which have exceeded anything almost ever before known, leaving the plant very thin 'on the ground. Fnum.—Cherries are very much blighted, but there will be some black hearts and Kentish reds. The goose berries are entirely destroyed. Currants and apples promise a good crop. There is every appearance of an abundant crop of grass. Clover and seeds generally look well.—Muid stone Journul. CONSECRATION OF THE NEW BISHOPS OF VICTORIA AND PRINCE RUPERT'S LAND.--CANTERBURY, TUES DAY EVENING.-1118 Grace the Archbishop of Canter bury having appointed this day for the consecration of the Bishops of Victoria and Prince Rupert's Land, a large number of prelates and other dignitaries of the Church assembled in the cathedral, shortly before ten o'clock. The Archbishop of Canterbury occupied the throne. Fad choral service was performed, and at its close the Right Rev. George Smith, D.D., cf St. Mary Hall, Oxford, Bishop elect of Victoria (Hong Kong), and the Right Rev. David Anderson, D.D., of Exeter Colleg e Oxford, Bishop elect ( S Pritlee Rupert's Land, were then introduced to the Archbishop, and the con secration service, as se t out in the Book of Common Prayer Was per;ormed. Dr. Smith and Dr. Anderson Purpo.o starting for their distal t CPSeI; in the course f a few weeks. Both the Right Rev. Prelates will be accompani w i by clergymen, ichoolinasters, and catechists. SCOTTIAI BENCH.- - Lord Med wyn, we are informed, is ab , ut to retire from that bench which he has so long adorned. The Solicitor General, Mr. Mait land, will, it is surpo!ed, be called on to supply the Ira c3ncy in the civil court, while we observe from the Lon don Guzette that Lord liory has been proMoted to the Justiciary, an appointment which we have no eoubt will be Imilt.d with great satisfuction by the bar and the public.—North .B:itisle Mail. , '4 FRANCE. Ile National Legislative Assembly met yesterday. M. Keratry in the chair. M. Kcenig observed that the President had ordered a copy of the regulations of the late Assembly to be distributed to alt the Members of the new Assembly. M. Kconig wondered that the President had not thought pro;,er to order the Censtitution to ha larly distributed.—(Cries here arose from all sides that the President had done so, and several Members held up the book which contained it.) M. Kceaig apologised, and said that his object in snaking that demand was to convince the Assembly that the 5.h article formally prohibited the intervention of foreign powers in the internal affairs of other nations.—(Cries of "Enough.") M. Laudolphe said that he deemed it his duty to protest against the manner in which the first sittieg of the Assembly had been conducted. Every former Assembly began by saluting with its acclamations the Governmett of the country, and his friends would have taken the initiative, if they did not expect the signal from their President. What, he added, was passing out of doors at that moment ? The people, full of confidence in :the Assembly, crowded round the palace. crying, " Vive la Republique !" (" Yes:, to the tune of the Lampions," exclaimed voices from the Right.) Well, that crowd was driven from the palace by charges of cavalry. Had the people, under the Monarchy, presented themselves on the passages of the Sovereign, and rent the air with expressions of their love and respect, would the Monarch have ordered them to be charged by his escort ? Certainly not. Well ! The Legislative Assembly allowed that indignity to be perpetrated on Monday ! All the members of the Montagne here stood up, and ;cried " Vive la Republique !" The Right re mained immovable, in spite of the taunts and threats of the Left. M. Segur d'Aguesseau then ran up to the tribune, and :said that he felt a want to protest against the abuse made of the word " people," which they all represented. The French nation should not be con founded with a fraction of the people. It was the policy of a fraction to divide the Assembly into two parts, in order to have it to print in their journals that one side of the Assembly had cried " Vive la Republique," and that the other had remained silent. 1 - Jere all the .Montagnards rose, and cried " Vive la Republique Democratique et Sociale," amidst the murmurs of the Right. M. Pierre Bonaparte exclaimed, "The Democratic Republic as much as you please, but down with the Social !"—(Bravos and applause.) M. D'Aguesseau added that he had abstained from joining in the cry, because he did not desire that Re public, whose main principle, to judge from the con duct of its voters in the Assembly, seemed to be to impede the first of liberties, that of the tribune. Here the President, turning towards the Left, called to order one of the Members who had first raised the seditious cry. All his colleagues then rose and repeated the cry, asking to be also called to order. When silence was restored, M. Segur d'Aguesseau declared that he knew no other Republic than that voted by the universality of the French people, and founded on the Constitution of 1848. It such was the Republic it was intended to salute, he would heartily and sincerely join in the cry. The entire Assembly here rose in a mass, and cried, " Vive he Republique ! " Alter a few words from M. Beaune, the President invited the reporters of the different bureaux to submit to the Assembly the result of their investigations re lative to the qualifications of the representatives. The elections of a nuaiber of departmente were found per• fectly legal, and the Members proclaimed. The eke • tien of the Arriege alone gave rise to an incident—M. llovin Tranchere asked if a M. Pilhes, returned in that department, was not the individual of that name who, with a Captain Laviron, had fired on the French troops at Rome ? li. Pilhes, a Montagnard, having ascended the tribure, said, I have only two words to say. 111. Pilhes, who is now at Rome, is my youngest brother. He is animated with the same sentiments which beat in my breast for the cause of liberty.—(Murmurs on the Right.) The person who addresses you is Victor Pilhes, former commissioner of Ledru Rollin, who has been shamefully calumniated.—(Laughter.) M. Lacave Laplagne, elected in the department of the Gers, having died during the election, several members demanded that the next candidate on the list should be proclaimed representative for that de partment. The committee, however, considering that M. Lacave Laplagne had died in Paris, at seven o'clock in the evening of the 14th, that is, after the close of the poll, and that, when he was proclaimed on the 16th, it was impossible the account of his death could have reached the Gers, was of opinion that a new election should take place, which was agreed to by the Assembly. Left sitting. FRANKFORT. The German Journal of Frankfort of the 26th says:—" To-day the Archduke John received a cate gorical note, calling upon him to resign his authority into the hands of Prussia, on the ground that P russ i a no longer recogni ze d th e Central Government. Some citizens of Frankfort, learning that the Archduke John intended to make his resignation, have signed a petition, entreating him to retain the Central Govern ment until the dangers of the country shall have passed away." HUNGARY, POLAND, and RUSSIA. BRESLAU, Mar 24.—The stay of the Emperor of Austria was very brief at Warsaw. His Majesty, who arrived there on the 22d, took his departure on the 23d, and arrived at Mystowitz by a special train this morning, at four o'clock, and soon alter conti nued his journey by Cassel and Odelburg. The Commandant, ad interim, at Silesia, was at Mystowitz to receive his Majesty. The sup position that the Emperor Nicholas would accompany the young Emperor to Vienna, has, therefore, not been realised. We learn from another source that the corps of Russian Generals has pro nounced against the intervention of Russia in Hun gary, and has advised the Emperor to act merely on the defensive in regard to the Hungarian in surrection. Notwithstanding this, the inter ventien took place by the express orders i o m f p t r l e )e ssi li o : n m o p n er t o i r ie , c w o l rp ich produced u sotgenerals. an Thenvo fa Ln u lp r e a r b o le r is not ignorant of this circumstance, and it is supposed that this is the reason why he remains close to his army. This Hungarian campaign will be attended with groat expense to Russia. This is clearly proved by the fact that an army of 175,000 men have entered or are entering the country. ITALY. Tll6 'Venice Gazette, of :the 15th, contains a bul letin from the garrison of Malghera, stating that the Austrians unable to continue their works on the front of attack, were trying to extend their right wing as far as the soil would permit. The inundation of the esplanade continued satisfactory. Another bulletin, in the same paper of the 16th, states that the Austrians had hitherto tried in vain to render the soil more firm, in consequence of the con tinued fire from the fort. The fire of the besiegers was uninterrupted, but did little damage. Letters from Bologna of the 22d inst. state that the Austrian Governer had ordered all foreigners residing in that city to quit it within three days. The Posilivo of Rome, of the 20th, states, that as soon as the Neapolitans had left Albano the colours of the Republic were again hoisted, amidst the cheers of the population, and that many subalterns from the Neapolitan camp had gone over to the Rom , ns."' The Contemporaneo of Rome , of the 19th, an nounces the arrival at Civita Vecchia of the Infernal French steamer, with 850 troops on board. An officer immediately lauded before the rest, and sent an esta fette in great haste to General Oudinot. The Contemporaneo of Rome, of the 20th instant, publishes the following instruction given to General Oudinot "You are aware that an internal reaction and foreign i intervention menace the existence of the tepullicAn Government of Rome, which we have not recognised. That Government,..advancing to a crisis now unavoidable, it is our duty to maintain in the_peninsula the legitimate influence of France, and to obtain the re-establish ment of . a regular ord er of the interes t s and right s of thet thing conformable to people. Although you ate not to int er f ere i n the definitive negotia tions which will secure that result, you' are autho rized to recei ve any propos i t i on t h at Y may prepare it, avoiding,. however, i n .th e f or m of the agreement, any thing that sho u ld imply the recognition of the au t otities now ruling at Rome. You .will find here inclosed the 'draft of a letter, which you , 'ill address on your artiv' sl to the Governor of Civita Vecchia, to demand admission. The entrance of the harbour will not certainly b: denied you. According to every probability, you will be received, on the contrary, with alacrity as a liberator by some'and as a useful mediator by others. B u t if, contrary to all dxp e et at i ons, you were denied admission to Civita Vecchia 1- . you must not be deterr ed trem occupying the town by a resistance, made in the name of a Govern m,nt which nobody in Europe has recognised, at.d which maintains itselt at Rome ill opposition to the ‘li , fies of the immense m&i o, itY of the population. Once landed on the territory of the dominions of the Church, you will hasten to commuLicato with IYI. D'Harcourr, who is charged with settling, at Gaeta, the interests of ti:e mission cot tided to you. Y ou w i ll send to Rome one cf your officers, to explain to the chiefs of t h e ,Government the nature Ifyaoruer not come Y o u will uxpressly in iorm them-that you :) "to supiort the order of things, of which they are the re presentatives, and invite them to co-operate in an ar rangement calculated to bring about the desired solution. Your advance on Rome at the head of the troops may, no &Wet, facilitate an accommoda tion by ene.ur,i,, , ir.r t ti a le.nost part of the population. Yoi will judge if circumstances be suet, drat you may repair to Rime with a cer tainty not o.dy f not encountering any serious re sistance, but 540 of being sufficiently well -re ceived to induce a belief, that by entering Rome you ro• spond to the appeal of the porulation. Until this mo ment, when a regular Government shall have replaced this one, which now presses on the States of the Church, you may if you deem it expedient maintain in ffice the existing authorities, provild they con fine themselves to exercise their municital funs Lions and nowise impede your mission, or re establish the previous authorities, avoiding as much as possible to interfere directly in those changes, and limiting your action to the encouragement and the eliciting of the wishes of the honest part of the population. You may, if' you think proper, claim the medium of the Consul of France, established at Civita Vecchia, whom I place at your disposal. Such are the. instructions lam now able to give you. Your excellent judgment will suggest what I have emitted, and, on my side, I will not tail to forward you the suggestions which circumstances may render necessary. 1 here annex the draft of a proclarnaticn, which you will publish immedi ately after your arrivd." STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MAISCIIESTRR,' TUESDAY.-- Taking into account that this is cur great annual holiday-week, and that the attendance on 'Change to-day has, in consequence been a good deal thinned, we have bad a better busi ness than was generally expected. In yarns, the operations on continental account have been of fair amount, and sellers have maintained their prices with decided firmness ; it has been evident that a slight concession on their part would have led to some increase of purchases. The same remarks apply to qualities suitable for India. Both the better and commoner kinds of 40's, 50's, and 60's mule have been marked by a steadiness which was wanting last week. There has been some business for other foreign markets. In spinnings for home manufacture no change is observable. Tae transactions in goods have been on a rather moderate scale. The India and China merchants have made limited purchases of 40-inch shirtings, mostly in 60 to 64 reeds, and lighter 66's. The lower reeds are in less request than they were only a short time ago ; and the makers ketray symptoms of a growing desire to enter into contracts; buyers are now, however, restricting themselves very much to orders for prompt delivery. The operations for other quar ters do not tell much upon the general market. The Greeks are still doing little ; indeed, their advises since our last publication show rather a- further deterioration in the markets of the Levant. We are glad to find, however, that some purchases are being made in cloth (as well as yarns) for Italy. While 7-Bths printers of the finer sorts are less called for, and somewhat more easy of purchase than they were, the lower fabrics continue scarce and perfectly firm. Heavy domestics and fustians, adapted to the home trade, are still extremely depressed. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—We have had very little change in the flannel market to day ; business still continues slack, and prices extremely low. In the wool marke there has not been much doing : prices, except in skin wool, are rather in favour of the buyer. The creditors of Mr. I humus Bamfurd, of Wardle, held their second meeting this (Monday) night, at the Public Hall, when he agreed to assign over his effects for the equal benefit o his creditors. HuDDERSFIELD, TULSDAY.—This being Whit Tuesday, it is kept as a holiday, and but little has been done either is Cloth Hall or warehouses. The general trade of the town and district is considered good for the season. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—There were but few mer chants in our Piece Hall to day, and the amount of business dune was very limited. Prices are little more than nominal. In yarns we have no material change to report. Prices are necessarily drooping, as old orders run out, and no new ones are received. But little wool is changing hands, and prices are gone down to pretty near what they were before the late mischievous and uncalled for advance. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market for woollens is rather better in the halls, but still exhibits a want ol energy on the part of the buyers. Business in the warehouses extremely dull. THE ARMY. WAR MEDALS. By the General Order 592, issued from the Horse Guards, it appears that out of the 20,369 qualified claimants for war medals, a large number have not yet sent in their claims. The period allowed for the out• standing applications extends to the Ist of May, 1850, after which no claim will be taken into consideration. The following circular for regulating the distribution of medals - awarded to out-pensioners now deceased has been issued to the stair officers of pensioners for their guid ance, and is being acted on:— " Sir—With reference to a circular from the Com mander-in- Chief 's Department, transmitting the Infan try medals which hare been awarded under the General Order of the Ist of June, 1847, and in which circular you are ordered to retain, pending the instructions of the Secretary at War, any of them which belong to men who have died since the date of that order, I am directed to inform you that, with a view of facilitating the issue of these medals to near rela tives who may be clearly entitled thereto, the Secre• tury at War has authorised their being granted to such applicants in the following order, viz.:-1. Widow-2. Eldest son livirg-3. Eldest daughter living-4. Father —5. Mother-6. Eldest brother living-7. Eldest sister living—whenever the requisite relationship to the de ceased has been established to your satisfaction. It is, therefore, only iu cases where that relationship may be doubtful, or where the degree of popinquity is beyond what has been here provided for, that it will be necessary for the parties to address their claims to this department. " I am desired to add, that, as the local companies of pensioners will probably be celled out for exercise in the end of next mouth, the Secretary at War considers this will be a good opportunity for delivering the medals publicly to such of the men as choose to assemble for that purpose. To the rest they can be delivered at the first payments after being received; and you will notify to the claimants that they are in your hands for this purpose, as soon as they arrive.—l am, Sir , your most obedient servant. " L. SULIVAN. " War-office, May, 1849," CHATHAM, MAY 28.—A detachment of the 75th Regi ment arrived at Chatham barracks On Sunday afternoon, the 27th, from Gravesend, at which place they disem barked from the Prussian Ergle steam boat from Cork. This detachment joins the Provisional Battalion as a depot for the regiment recently sailed for India. Its strength consists of 1 sergeant-major, 6 sergeants, 1 drummer, and 43 rank and tile, with 28 women and 49 children, under command of Captain A. T. Hotham, with Lieutenant E. W. J. Knox and Lieutenant Amurie. Detachments of invalids from Corfu and Melts arrived at the invalid depot, Fort Pitt, on Saturday night last. from Gravesend. They consisted of the 16th Foot, 1 sergeant, 8 rank and file, with one woman; 36th Regi ment, 3 sergeants, 31 rank and file, with 8 women, and 15th children, 44th Foot, 5 privates; 69th Foot, 2 ser geants. 1 drummer, 13 privates, with 4 women ar.d 9 children; 76th Regiment, 4 sergeants, 36 privates, with 3 women and 3 children; under command of Lieutenant J. 0. Chicheste r, 161 Foot, with Staff-Surgeon Burton; these troops came home by the. Apollo, 8-gun troopship, Commander Rawstorne, and, after being medically in spected by the chief medical officer, Dr. Henry, 45 men were taken into hospital, and nearly all young men, with a complication ot disease:; two other staff surgeons came home in the ship, viz , Dr. Smith and Dr. Russell, the latter gentlemen lost his wife, who died on the pas sage, on the 24th April , leaving one son, three years old, who was n board. Sergeant Richard Brown, cf the 16:11 Foot, previous to his leaving the regiment in Corfu, after 23 years service, and who has arrived at the invalid depot, was presented on the sth of April last, by the sergeants of the regiment, with a very handsome silver snuff-box, us a token cf their esteem for him during his long service in the corps. NEWRY.—An accident,. which might have been of a serious character, occurred on Saturday evening to Major Carpenter of the 41st Regiment. Two privates of the 71st Regiment were firing at a mark, from a case ot pistols belonging to _Lieutenant Fortescue of the same regiment, when the ball from one of the pistols lodged in the leg of the gallant gentleman. Major Carpenter was walkin g between Dillon's-cr oss an d B an d u ff po li ce barrack, and the soldiers were iu the fields at a con. sithrable distance f roar the place at which the accident occur red. The soldiers were taken into custody in order that an inquiry may:, be made . into the circumstance. Cork Examiner, RAILWAY GUARDS' UNIVERSAL FRIENDLY SOCIETY. g il i ;f i, promoters t t , he atthe star, of G o t i h d i i s v on A n in in e d e a t y in the tlbles St. Paneras-rcad„ for the purpose of ree; i gs society c o !I:2 r lv e :Its, heldCl d with the eminent actuary, Mr. Nava!), in ' complianceot' Parliament. of monthly contlibutione, prepared . and'ainpgproved by an Act introduced in the present aes,lo . n By the Act referred to no societyF•i ndly Societies Act, en rolled in conformity with the e upon which the without the tables of contribu d tio o n f s can in future be defrred annuities amount of relief in sickness an are calculated, d t he probable duration anhealthiness a s well as other benefits in expectancy contingent upon lf human life, shall have been approved lay the Govern ent scivaries tnerein named, of whom Mr. Nelson is one. The intervention of the Legislature on this subject has arisen from the feet that the past experience o f many who belong t.i friendly soci e ti es has proved th a t through the want of scientific knowledge in fixing the rates of contribution, the expectation of mutual assist ance at the time of sickness and in the hour of death has, in too many instances, proved delusive, and has, moreover, opened a wide door fur fraud on the industri ous and the provident. The spirit of competition has, in such cases, run the rates too low to enable the society to provide the benefits promised. We believe the Rail way Guards' Universal Friendly Society is the first whose tables of contribution have been prepared in con formity with the new Ac ; and although upon a cursory glance the rates appear higher than usual, a more mature consideration of the chiet elements involved in the cal culations induces us to approve these tables, in compiling which. if Mr. Neison errs; it is certainly on the safe aide, and - the rates are capable of revision and amendment, under the powers of the same Act. The subject is an interesting one, and the office of Mr. Nelson one of very critical administration. The Railway Guards' Society, at their meeting of Monday, approved the tab'es we have refetrod to, and p:c.h,e( chd toe feet such members of the g€nerai cothrxii;tee to carrying out tl.e obj. , .cts a the society as time and a somewhat scanty attendance of guards from the country ro:itted. Mr. Bishop, fo . .- the Birmingham distric ; Mr. Henry Boots, for London; Mr. Fow:er, for Liver vot; Mr. Hargraves, for Manchester; Mr. Cooper, for Peterborough, guards; and Mr. Davis, of London; and Mr. Smith, of Manchester, breaksmen ; were appointed members of the general committee as representing the London and North-Western Company. The election of the representatives of the other - lines was deferred to a future meeting, out of consic:eration to the absent members. The meeting then separated._ We are happy to hear that the society has the hearty concurrence of all parties interested. The very best feeling prevailed at the meeting. THE FREEMEN'S LANDS BILL. It is generally conceded that though the Act for the " Reform of Municipal Corporations in England and Wales" brought about a radical reform in these cor porations, by introducing a new and wholesome system, and which previously were mere hotbeds of corruption, yet that that important Act made no provision for the management of " strays," waste, and common lands, and for the protection of the interests of all having au interest in them. To obviate this glaring defect the 'above -named Bill has been introduced into the House of Lords by the Earl of Carlisle with every prospect of success. 1E owes its origin to Mr. Leeman, the well known solicitor of York, who for some time past has carried on a correspondence with the authorities of the principal towns in the kingdom, with the view o f ex hibiting the nett ssity for t sucli a measure, and the framing of suitable provisions. At a numerous meeting of the freemen of York, presided over by the Lord Mayor, the Bill was approved of. The enthusiasm of Mr. Leeman is most commendable, because he had pledged himself that if the freemen did not approve of the Bill that it should not cost them one single farthing. Every one who has paid the slightest attention to the management of these Important lands must admit that the present system is defective in the extreme, and be glad to see the probability of a panacea being applied to the existing evils. The York Herald thus defines the leading principles of the Bill and urges upon freemen the necessity to bestir themselves to promote its success:— " The Billie so perfectly unobjectionable in its nature, that no person can possibly offer any opposition to it, ex cept for the sake of factious annoyance. The freemen, not oni of York, but also those of England at large, are deeply indebted to Mr. Leeman, for the great amount of trouble he has thus voluntarily taken for their welfare, and for the care which he has bestowed to secure them all their rights and privileges by an Act of Parliament. The provisions of the Bill enact that the town clerk shall make out a list of freemen, who shall elect tteir own land wardens, or pasture masters, but that the treasurer of the borough shall also be the treasurer of the freemen. It likewise contains powers to authorise the exchange or sale of any lands which a majority' of the freemen may d.-cide upon, but only provided such exchange or sale shall meet with the sanction of the town council, and the Lords of the Treasury. The bye-laws for the govern ment of the strays, are left to be drawn up by the free men themselves; and thus, it will be evident to all, that !hey will pas...ss full and unrestricted power. As we know there will be some opposition offered by interested and designing parties, whose only object is to serve their own mean purposes, we call upon the freemen of every town who are interested in strays, to be up and doing— to hold public imetings to discuss the Bill—to petition in its favour, and, by every means in their power, to assist the Noble Earl in his kind and disinterested exer tions to serve a numerous olvs of individuals, whose in terests, we regret to ray, have not hitherto had that at tention which, in our option, they have fully deserved." POST-OFFICE NOTlCE.—Windermere, in West moreland, hiving been constituted a post town, the Pvst office there vtia be opened for the issue and payment of money orders ou and after the ht of June next. Mount Bellew, county Gahiay, Inland, is now called Mount Bellew Bridge._ We are enabled to state that a marriage of more than common interest t vcn in a political point of view has been agreed upon between a fair country vroman of our own and one of the Royal personages who have had occasion to seek refuge in Great Britain. The Count de Alontemolin has offured his hand to Miss de Horsey, the aecompli.hed daaghter of Spencer de Horsey, Esq., and the marriage will shortly be solemnized in this country. It is understood that a negotiation has been opened by the Prince with the Government of the Queen of Spain, which has crnsented to make an adequate provision for his Royal Highness and his bride, in consideration of the renunciation of the claims to the throne of the male line, of which the Count de Montemolin is the repr‘sen tative.—Tirnes. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN RAILWAY.—II appears from a return to the House of Lords respecting the allotment of 5,800 shares of the above company among members of either House of Par liament, that 372 shares were allotted to three mem bers of the House of Lords, of which 202 shares were taken up, and the deposits paid upon them; and of 5,489 shares allotted to 47 Members of the House of Commons, 4,467 were taken up, and the deposits paid thereon, leaving 1,022 not taken up. The shares were first issued on the Ist of July, 1845, and appeared in the official list of the Stock Exchange on the 231 of July; on the 24th of July they w.re marked as done at * premium, and on the 25th of July at premium. DINNER TO MR. AUSTEN, OF WALTHAM ABBEY. — On Thursday last a dinner was given to this gentlemen, at the Hotel, Waltham, on the occasion of his retire ment from the charge of the Government powder-mills, which important duty he had filled for many years. John Griffiths, Esq , J. Colville, Esq., ard other magis trates and gentlemen presented to Mr. Austen at the same time a very costly silver snuff-box, as a testimony of their high esteem fur his character, and their sense of the very efficient manner in which his important duties have been performed, by which life and property in the neighbourhood have been preserved from the disastrous effects of the explosions so fro quent in former days. WILFUL DAMAGE TO THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —The first instance of malicious injury being dune to the electric telegraph has just occurred on the London and North Western Railway, between Clifton-bridge and Ruby, by the twisting of the wires, and by which the communication was broken off between London and Rugby down, and Liverpool, Manchester, and Birming ham up. A reward has been offend for the discovery of the perpetrators of the mischief; and it may be perhaps usefully mentioned, that by law the act is a misde meanour, and renders the party on conviction liable to transportation. THE FIRE IN BLENITEIM-STREET.—The firemen having eventually succeeded in extinguishing the fire which broko out on Monday night upon the premises belonging to Mr. George Freeman (late Alderson and Co.) in Blenheim street, Oxford -street, a strange dis covery was made. On the men entering, by means of a small window, a kind of lumber room parallel with the first floor leads, their attention was directed to what sppeared to be the remains of two or three persons who had been burned to death. Upon making a closer inspection it was ascertained that the substances found were the remains of two, it not three human beings, which bad not been divested of the flesh, and which was so hard and dry, from long exposure to the air, as not to bo easily removed. The head of. each party was off, and there is every reason fur supposing that the bodies had been used by the celebrated Dr. Brookes, who formerly had possession of the premises for anatomical purposes. Although every irquiry has been mado for the purpose of learning how the disaster occurred, nothing satisfac tory could be gleaned; the prevailing opinion, however, is, that it arose from the spontaneous ignition of some greasy rags. Had it not been for the exertion cf the firemen, there is no doubt that the premises of Mr. Colhurn, the well-known bookseller in Marlborough street, would also have been destroyed, as the warehouse of that gentleman adjoined those burned down. THE WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSION Tamas.—Yes terdsy and since Saturday the holiday excursion trains iu and out of London, and throughout the country, were on an extraordinary scale. The influx at the Euston station of the London and Noith-Westeru, brought up from the manufacturing districts by several special trains, rendered additional arra ngements necessary; antatt:l excursion trains coming in from Liverpool, Birmingham, and other places, allowing passengers 10 and 16 days in London, at 255. and 20s. the trip. In the much talked of Paris excursion-train there were only 21 passengers; and as the net receipt would not amount to more than 50/., insufficient to .pay for the engine, they were taken by the ordinary trains. Among other excursion curiosities and novelties was a train from Birming t a ki ng passengers at H t u w n o guineas each ; another train from Dublin to London and back, Hospital; "school trains" on the La - cash ire and Vie surplus pro fi ts to be devote d to the Birmingham York shire, conveying Sunday school children, witty their tutors, at sixpence a head, frcm the mills and manufac tories to the outskirts, and upwards of three thousand c hildren, in 100 carriages went in one day. A. large n umber of persons availed themsel ves o f single'fares for the double journey on the Chester and H o l y he ad to see the stupendous tube-bridges now erecting offer the Illenai Straits. Yesterday the trains on the Greenwich Railway ran every 5 minutes each way until 12 o'cicck, and carried sev e r a l th ousand persons. ST. Al ARTIN• IN- THE-FIELDS Pu Llr mo nths The total nu m b er o f bathers fur the fßou the opening o f t h e establishment, ending May 24, was nts s--- from 51 752. 01 the there were 20,172 first-class bathers, 18,472 being men and 1,650 women; and 31,610 eeeiond class bathers, 28,957 being men and 2,653 women. The cold baths taken were 429 first class, 422 by men tied 7 by women; and 729 second-class, 722 by men and 7 by women. The greatest number of bathers in any one day was on Saturday, May 5, when there were .were 1,297. The gr.( retest number on any Sunday (the baths being %an Ire m 6 till helf pact 8 a.m.) was on Sunday, May 6, when there were 585. The tmallest number on any one day was on the 19th a April, when there were only 103. The total receipts for the four months have been 772/. Bs. 10d. The bathers last week were 5,597, and the receipts 811. Bs. D EATII OF 'WILLIAM NICHOLSON, TAR GALLO.. WAY POET.—This eccentric, but still remarkable. man. under many disadvantages, died at Kildarroch, Borgue, .on the 16th inst., aged sixty-seven. At the time the I'4! t rick Shepherd was engegtd in the composition ef the " Queen's Wake," the deceased bard appeared in Edin burgh, armed with manuscripts for publication, which the author of " Kilmeny," and other deathless lays, ex hibited hii usual good:fature in revising with the . greatest scruitukaity. The 'volume was Well received, and about twenty years afterwards ran to a second edi tion, published in Dumfries, to which was prefixed a me mo r of the author.—DentirreA Courier. It is reported that Lord Wallscourt died yesterday morning in Paris of cholera.