The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-14 00:00:00

- :, , ..IT ,l :~'~~ r „~ ' IIO ItNIN T is-TATION LITERATURE. SkTCHES t , • IN ERRIS AND TYRAWLY. Th e ,, , p a r e ubl 1841. ti,rou.r.einsKetcnes by the author indeed, a Connaught," of which wore;, . Th e Y nlaY c3nsidered to be the coatinuation. reiele...re replete with amusing information distlreland of wildest and to their rl ets of Ireland, L and, in addition to their other otmntendations, they will serve as an . excel leo ride -book to those Whose inclination may to ) test, t )l em explore the rude tracts of the " far bee,., w hieli, according to our author, should be visited in autumn, for then the rains f th e N's are in high season, and comfort is out . tik„(l,stion. June, it seems, is the tourist's of 'or Connaught, when he has every chance i i t; ,!ear skies, dry . • oTound, and smooth seas. I sent tit , , ; d iscursive character, the pre kon.:Lsollui.tijiereminds us of Mr. Maxwell's . " Wild When l‘Vveessta,;and we pay it a inferior to it is little . to it;', entertaining work. Among the diverting extract; 'legends in which it abounds, we select for sanrt;ac.t whimsical account of an Irish pea- Pheli m with the ghost of his own cow: gettinelin: Barrett, r a man we'll to do in . the . world, was titt,,.beilforiekeihaelml his neighbours, that is, just . their did. He was married, of course . had f or ti , °lll full of children in one end of it, leaving room thi r e cow and two pigs at the other, not to , say any 'g of n „, oat, a dog, and a cat. But Pheliai s course aver a u ,along fated to run smooth, for his con l aot4i a n ' l l.. ee lPine, and her leg was broken, and there was f or him to do but to cut her threat and though_ bar ga l sbe t ,, aaYthing but fat, yet,. making the best of a ba_d Plic,"' and as half a loaf is better' than no bread, salted the carcass, and if he Was short of milk, 4 1 at 71%rate he.and his had plenty. of beef while it lasted, w e n ; , ;, that it was the least taste in life tough. piristinas time was over, and Lent coming on, ' , t(ad d 0 111 1 was very lavish of his meat, seeing that . I°ll ' at't °f , n u use after Shrovetide ; when one evening, j lis hc e er the sun was set, he hears a noise at:the door ;. the r , •,°te Inning of a:coW, so thinking it vas one of e ti, he:01)012re cattle that' had got into his potato gar- f m o _ w ellt out, and sure enough he saw by the light o , ~.:I?east standing at his door, for all the world fo und h i s y in brindl e d cow ; he felt her left horn, _ an d h er "'wn brand, he saw the same round white spot cow. !igl u "'P, and her tail - was short as was his own /Q a t hin, Nanny Voe, my jewel, I'd swear that You t h er, ,,,Your . own self, barring that I've been eating P:ve weeks ;" with this expression of hope and verif, c'ealled on his wife to come out, and help to PullJu LLIQ. Niue " ; and, in the mean time, Phelim begai h i a t d o Ni n ec:ath, to ascertain whether Nanny Voe iku lic ' e. , n her teats, and while doing so, off the a gra sp 'l. Phelira, not liking to part with her,. i made cow ?ovi,,,, at her tail, which catching, and sa l the n _ t a :ltst t co stron g to be stopped, off bota ma . n a d -‘43 " fast as a cow could canter, and hnher to rath she came With Phelim clinging to her h abolit4-4`ow there is a round hole in the centre of thera t t he , eorf 1411, 3 1 :ide as would.adinit a man's body ; to this brie i 4 and down she went, and Phelim would have . „ l itall 2 .i„ 4 4 lll ,ier, only that before he was sucked in, he dis '4llo '" froth the tail, and home lie went very fro k i !V - to -the Virgin, and all the saints, who saved him tired atag taken by "the: gentry," who, no doubt, de to -s h t , l , le- Y had the ghost of his cow, to have his own —v e and to hold till the day of judgment. THE LAIRD OF LOGAN. Ip t Robertson, Glasgow, 1841. Of ail ti; little volume we have a choice variety e h ecl °tes and tales illustrative of the wit and kegutlr,",..l.°f Scotland, introduced by biographical 4 4(1 ir of the late Messrs. Carrick, Motherwill, tti enci°nserson, many of whose lively produe : ett r ! 143 :, be found in the volume. The work is n-g e li r s h au aPted to the tastes of Scottish than of 1 „ 4 1 05 ,' readers, the latter of whom will be apt i. ,t I," Mi sapprehend the point of several o he y' sin e ' from the puzzling dialect in which are Petaled. HOPE OF THE WORLD. e I' ll Bentley, London, 1841. Illi tei rblicati o rir- in a neat duodecimo vo t,i°lle4.;!i% liackay's amiable and. well-inten jeCrTic the " Hope of the World," of well-inten t) ree - Heillave already Spoken in terms of high the present edition, there are two or blark4g ut ional poems, whose versification is re 'Y smooth and chaste. x ~ I 'IT'S PICTORIAL SHAKSPEARE. Knight, London, 1841.. toti,peeatire play of " Troilus and Cressida." is a 111 1)w 13(1 in this Part, wherein also we find h'so enle ntary notice from the pen of the editor, a P:tincipal defect is that it is written i t n as If tili)()t the most exag g erated panegyric, ,just u, : l 'eini,?, l4 Y in question were the most marvello .4 " ( 4 ' human intellect that the world had ea , c Troilus and Cressida" is by no ;; fiti v sle best of Shakspeare's dramas, nor can .4 5€19 1 ",, "e ranked—notwithstanding the deep Zttiu rio : ,aati beauty of some of the. passages— le prodi , ries of genius. The Part is em i `lAtifelt With th e usual number of elegant illus .s. NiGurs MISCELLANIES. W e - , Knight, London,' 1841. h 'ave lien. the first volume of Brand's " OhservatiOns on Popular Antiqui 41,reat115:11'ell have b een arrang ed, revi,led. and enlarged for this edition, by Sir fienr) i , taka Zentleman every way qualified for . T e e d } , , 41 1 f The volume is cheap and neatly printed, 4i sc 1 () I rills one of the numbers of " Knight's , e anie s. ,) ST ‘RATED SHAKSPEA RE, Part XXV. Tyas, T his London, 1841. / / t i• ran contains the two first acts of the 14 4 -e ;:, 8 Tate, to which are prefixed some hare -1,11,5t .l'enutrks b 3 the Editor, exhibiting much 4 4 i;i n ot very ' profound r or original criticism. 4reitist'letnrial Illustrations by Kenny Meadows • - ' 3lB ever artistes happiest manner. 4 11 • : , ` I ZI,4N CONVER.ATIONAL STU DENT. 'X, -Longman and Co., London, 1841. • , w a las the acquisition of the German tongue,. Derso'sPensable accomplishment to every polit . e l r l Arqvell,) Professor Bertinchamp's book will ( loti °oat of service and va!ue. The easy gra . - 4411 ' I:1 of hi s conversational lessons, anti the faindi easantness with which they are eonvey . e , Nu y l ;_t the customary dryness of grammatical 141 to a light and gratifying task. '.7714 ROYAL NAVAL SERVICE. Acke rman , L on d on , 1841. t le tailitieal books, however dry their , details, ge. elisr, Y , a PPear to con s id er th e i r part well dis- Ni v ',, e4 , if th e i nformation they attempt to heE,4l 3r be precise as their chronometers e s. The writer of the above book, however, r r liv s tu scout this school, and with the reed e o t n i_ i NI; r ° l l's pirate, discourses largely and p too thoce fabrics whose " march is o'er - _ o . th i e t na' at).-1 1 , 11 'wave," and of which, suo juo4cl( . , everb'tb drew the first design." His accuracy is r lott Y s.i w here good, but. he has not gone far' ''iet v ' t ,, l •'' Thus when, after having passed in re 'llliscTse periods when our ships, no longer con- ANtil.toernselves in a narrow crook of shore or a a_ k t , co mmerce, gave rise to " the S_e itt l di , 3 ) the Cinqu e Ports, the Norman navarch l y,. enures Eli the vanquishers of the Armada, te tutt ß .i i ltt last to that eventful period whet! the --aLeirlPen cords started into links of solid_ e_ under the third George, STAM vi b o.a. tior i - Tootive power to the purposes til a a total blank occurs upon his page ( . 4 S l it a ‘ rat76 , e l art, 44 (1 b°( )k, treating professedly on the are a tinle when the "Cyclops" and " n 4 . " o a rgu , u" f.,.."°ursing our seas, and our steam-craft r. out as Panama, should have committed gnla r IN- a n oversight. he :vertheless the author Must be allowed to thou Pleasant discourser- and on his subject % . buI N has not heti - Knight him of our lrotn ilt ' fi . a „ rkg l" yet the early artsp of his book trea Ivllo,7`tnat " accient mariner " the Nautilus,. t he " e suPposes to have been the precurAor . of 11 %-i irtit vessel-411 e solitary ship of the Noachian 11,,,i51f-en(.lthe shipping of Tyre—he pleases well. • froM an old ch ron icler of one of • a clues S TI)s, addressed to Queen Emma, forms O picture the stern s of the ships" (the royal fleet), says I,ster "lions of molten gold were to be. seen ; and hilown tnast-heads were either • birds whose turning N I : the changes of the wind, or dragons of :various b e ',' which thteaten e d to breathe out tire : there were . c re i n on the heads and sterns figures looking like • `laiqt b ° ,T hi ns, also, of precious cast metal, and centaurs d ese ' . .),aglit to mind the ancient fables • but :bow, shall . plii n , t 4 l lo ,e the sides of the vessels which were not tn variOlis colours, but swelled out with gold and ornaments ?" the the close of the book the information civil department of the navy and those .th, r (1:4 relative to the personnel and materiel ' bi rv e° '' are, for naval students, amply satisfac- The plates f orm a series of fair-colour:.:d vith'rbaPlls) of the different stands of -vessels 111‘.1."" 1,,,AY executed. %i r flags and signals in use, and are cOm t' Lipz AND CONVERSION OF WILLIAM HONE. NVe took Ward, London, 1841. tha t • uP this pamplet under an impression 1 ,. 0 it W as Ilsnel, the wanell autobiographical memoir of Mr. -known parodist, whose trials for iI e IM Y at Guildhall attracted such general .;:;:it' "-e ahout twenty years since ; bet On Perusing : 1 4Ah vr e e- r f( ma.d that it was aa unfinished life of his written by the o'(1 eetlernan himself, not before his death, I:vhereia he details the t r "letilars Of his early life, and his conversion 014 Infidelity to Methodism. The narrative is written pretty much in the fashion of the late Mr. • Hwitingdon, - the celebrated Evangelical preacher, • who, it may be remembered, on one occasion prayed for a pair of breeches, and was immediately rewarded by a celestial present of a pair of corduroy shorts, which had only one defect, - namely, that they were a very indifferent fit. Mr. Hone attributes his con version to the agency of an extraordinary dream, from which he tells us he woke in extreme terror, " having seen himself drop into hell, in the midst of flames." The dream made. a deep impression on him, and he became in consequence 'exceedingly nervous and low-spi rited ; but at length, after twenty-four hours , spiritual tribulation, a great change carne over him, arid he adds, in a highly figurative sen tence, the exact meaning of which we do, not profess to understand, that he bad " beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and the gar ment of praise for the spirit of heaviness!" The rest of Mr. Hone's autobiography is penned in this fanatical style ; and though we gather from it that the writer • was a good man, we can per ceive few or no indications that he was a wise one. He seems to have been a staunch disciple of the Lady Huntingdon school—a sect of ami able fanatics, whose zeal always outran their dis cretion, and who damaged the sacred cause they professed to uphold, by their extravagant antics and declamations. JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION. Part I. Smith, London, 1841. A cheap weekly journal, to be published every Saturday, under the superintendence of the Society for the Advancement of Civilization. By the following extract from its prospectus, " the reader will be able to glean a tolerably correct idea of its character : —" We have nothing to du with any politi cal party. The man of business may, there fbre, glean from_ our, pages lamination as to the state of our colonies annl dependencies, and descry_ commerce as the invariable com panion of Christiajt% and civilization; the man of literatitr: may find sample of modern travels, either to Satisfy or stiinulate his thirst; and the man of science may. trace, in the fullest confi dence, the progress and the results of geo graphical discovery. All will be aided by pie orial illustration, where verbal description fails, or by which it may be made more pleasing and effective. Maps of countries, coasts, and towns, and engravings of localities peculiarly interest ing, of the aspect and usages of the various tribes of men, and of the animal and vegetable products which most nearly concern the human family, will be prepared in the higheSt style of accuracy and beauty." The Par before us contains many of the varieties alluded to in the above extract; and among them is a terse, neatly written ac count of New Zealand, accompanied by a map of that promising colony. THE PLAY-FELLO TV. Knight, London, 1841. Under the agreeable and social title of the " Play-Fellow," ,Miss Martineau proposes to pub lish a series of prose tales, which are to come out quarterly, and of which the volume before us - is the first, and, we may add, a favourabie specimen., It consists of two stories toil in that simple, fami liar manner so attractive to young readers, and each is placed in striking and instructive contrast to the other. The one is illustrative of peasant life, and the other of royal life, in France; and the moral to be drawn from both .maybe summed up in one sentence—all is not gold that.glitters. The last ta . !e is the best, and describes the career of royalty in France during the stormy years of the first Revolution. Fur the materials Miss Martineau is indebted to Tillers, and the enter taining memon.s of Madame Campo'', and she has turned the anecdotical information derived from these sources to exce:lent account. We think she is likely to succeed in this new scheme of fictitious narrative, for she possesses a clear, succinct, and lively style, throws out thoughts and suggestions well calculated to impress them selves on the minds of young .eaders, and fails only in the delineation of character, which, how ever, in slight tales of this - sort will not be much . required. STANDARD NO VELS, No. LXXXIV. Bentley, London, 1841. Miss Ferrier's novel of ‘‘ The Inheritance," which at the time of its first appearance attained a more than average share of p opularity, is re published in this Number, and has received the last finishing touches of the author, who has re vised it expressly for this edition. The volume possesses the additional recommendation of two cleverish engravings, the designs for which have been furnished by Cawse. FINE ARTS. PORTRAIT OF THE QUEEN. . Colnagiti, London, 1941. The engraver of this portrait, which is from an original painting by Ross, has taken evident pains with his tusk, whicii is executed in a skil ful and judicious manner. The por.zrait is a half length, and represents her Majesty ieatcd in an easy, dignified manner, in her Stark chair. The broad riband of the Garter cross her breast, and on her arms are bracelets containing a mini ature likeness of Prince Albert. The resem blanc3 is a very correct one, conveying, not merely the features, but the expression of the Queen's countenance. • Lord Ponsonby's departure from Constantinople, on his return to this country, has, it is said, been de ferred in consequence of the serious state of things in varit,us parts of the Ottoman empire. . _ We are glad to learn, upon tF,e authority of private letters received in town on Sat urday, that the Countess of Coventry is rapidly recovering from the serious effects of the coup de selerl, by which we men tioned her Ladyship had been attacke el, whilst taking an airing in the vicinity of Rothe. La •d Holland had left for Florence, in consequence of the improvement of Lady Coventry's health. Lady Ironic:id continued in attendance on her mother at Rome. A NDOV ER.—Election warfare •h as commenced in Andover with a vigour which some ;hat startled the matter of fact and quiet folks of this quip •t town. In ad dition to the present Members, Ralph El Esq., and Sir John Pollen, a third candidate has piling up in the person of Lord Huntingtower, a young nobleman who has lately taken up his residence near .ndover. DOVER.--ELECTIONEEIUNG 110VEMENTS.-- Contrary to our expectations, it seems th e " peace of the town," which the Tories professed to bi, so desirous of maintaining, is to be " disturbed" by a " contest" at the ensuing election, the Tories having broke n through their professions and brought forward a second man in the shape of Mr. John Holcombe, of Dover electioneering notoriety. Weil,:be it so : we must, it . appears, do our . best in the approaching struggle to "de I.4id the right." —Dover Chronicle. TRE.SENsus.—We are glad to learn, that the census, so far. as regards the Manchester Adult, has been taken in a very satisfactory manner. We understand that, with few exceptions, the enamert,tors completed their work on Monday. We have bean 1 of but one or two instances of any thing like wilful rielject ; and from all we can learn, we doubt not that the return of the. population of this thickly-peopled distri ct will prove to be more fully and carefully made than on any former oc casion. S . she schedulus, &c., are now in :,he Hands of tin several registrars of births, and deaths, - los- the purposes o: examination and verification, and by the Ist July they must be placed in the hands of the superintendent re gistrar for the union, who will have tends:3 - s daring which to examine them further, before they e.rt . officially re turned to the registrar-general for England and tit 'ales. Paper. M R . WI L KINS 'AND THE BUCKINGHAM CREQLE.—We have looked, but looked in vain, for smut denial or explanation on the part of Mr. Wilkins or his friends, in reference to the remittance which he is al leged to have received from the Duke of Buckingham. Afterwards, however, other facts have cane to our know ledge : we found that Mr. Wilkins had betas boasting that " ad his men" would be present at the messing ; and not. knowing of any men ordinarily employed by the learneti gentleman, we presumed that the phrase had reference to parties employed by him to attend that meeting for som: special purpose ; and knowing that a body of men, armed with bludgeons andiron bars, had made an irrup tion upon the meeting, we could not help putting th facts together, and asking what was the particular mis sion of the " men" whom the learn ad gentlemar was sending to the meeting, and whether they wen to be paid out of the Duke of Buckinghat a's remittance. These questions remain, as yet, unanswered ; but w think, and, if we are not mistatten, the public general!.. will think, that they are far from being improper or im pertinent questions, and that some notice ought to lys taken - of them by the party most interested, —Manchester Guardien. . RAILROADS V. TILE METROPOLIS ROADS.-- A eircula4 of which the following is a copy, has jus beets received by the parochial authorities of liensingtoY and other parishes near London :—" Metropolis Road. Office, 22, Whitehall-Once, May 27, 1841. Sir, T 1 traffic by tha various railroads trdas the niatrepolis, ha sojaiportantly reduced the toll revenue of the neetropoW roads, that die Commissioners have Leen obliged to tak' into their serious consideration in what manner they cm best contrast their expenditure, so as not to det norats • the efficiency. of the roads under their charge. The' bave •come to the conclusion that the lighting-of tht roads in truth,. more immediately, for the accom • modaton of parties living by the sides of the roads, that for -the traveller, presents the most apposite source o: reduction. I have been, .therefore, dir:.cted by the Commissioners to .cemmuniente the intention of the Board to. cease lighting the turnpike ros:i within you' parish so soon as you shall have laid tiny - to make an:, arrangements for lighitiqg, which may he ,iceped;teces sarys by the parish.—l 14 7 • , yeitr obd lent orant, Fenton, Seerettity." " • . TilE GENERAL POST-OFFICE. In consequence of Mr. William Howitt having applied to th L.rd - Mayor for a summons - againzt the Post ina3ter-Lieneral, to compel him to show cause why. the General Post-office - should not refund to him (Mr. tovvito the sum of twenty-pence, which he (Mr.Howitt) had paid on a letter addressed to Mrs. Howitt, in Ger niftily, and which letter was never sent, the Lord Mayor despatched a messenger to the Postmaster-General, and on Tuesday, the Bth of May, there appeared on behalf of his Lordship Mr. Peacock; the Solicitor to the Ge neral Post-office, and Mr. Bokenham, the Super- intending President of the Inland Department, ac companied by two receiving clerks. Mr. Howitt ap peared with Mr. Wire, the Solicitor, and Mr. Manning, printer, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row. Mr. Howitt produced a letter addressee' to " Mrs. Howitt, Heidelberg, Geri mane." and having various postmarks upon it. Mr. Howitt said that having just landed in London from Germany, he was anxious that no accident should occur to preveat Mrs. Howitt and his family having the most early intelligence of his safe-arrival. He therefore had taken the letter himself to the General Post-office, paid for it, and received the proper change. That about three weeks afterwards he received a letter from Mrs. Howitt, stating that she and the family had suffered the extremest anxiety in consequence of not having received a letter from him since his departure, but that she had at length received a printed circular from the General Pest-office in London, informing her that a letter addressed to her was then lying at that office. which was detained because the postage of Is. Bd. had not been paid. On the receipt of this letter Mr. Hewitt immediately proceeded to the General Post-office.. He applied to the clerk at the window where he had delivered the letter addressed to Mrs. Howitt. The letter was immediately shown him. He recognised also the young man at the window as the clerk to whom he had given it, and said— " This letter I posted myself and paid for, and you are the person to whom I paid the money." The clerk would not admit that he had made such an error, but expressed regret that such an accident had occurred, and the let ter was handed out to him. On receiving it, Mr. Howitt oh served, " Now, Sir, I will takeehis letter and make you ac count for your conduct." When the clerk heard this, he ex • claimed, "You can't have it ! Stop him ! stop him !" A policeman was about to lay hands on him, when he said —"Don't touch me ! Neither you nor any man shah have this letter till I have seen the Secretary, and I insist on being taken to him." Mr. Howitt was accordingly taken into the office to Mr. Bokenham, the superin tendent of the inland department. He handed the letter to this gentleman, and stated what had taken place. Mr. Bokenham expressed great regret at the circumstance, but endeavoured to persuade Mr. Howitt that he could not have paid the postage. Mr. Howitt then demanded to see Col. Maberly, but being told that he was not there, he assured Mr. Bokenham that he would immediately bring the case before him, and left the office. Mr. Howitt went on to show that, in consequence, a long correspondence took place on the subject between him and the Post-office, and he complained that great apathy had been shown by Colonel Maberly on the sub ject ;- that he had written very plainly to Colonel Ma berly, reminding him that complaints in the days of Sir Francis Freeling received immediate personal attention from that gentleman, and were neither subjected to un necessary delay, nor turned over to subordinates ; that, in consequence, Colonel Maberly assured him that every attention should he . given to the case ; and a report froni the superintendent. of the inland department to Colonel Maberly on the case had been handed to Mr. Howitt, but without the.slightest evidence by any docu ment from Colonel Maberly himself that the case had been laid before either him or the Postmaster-General ; that he had, therefore, informed Colonel Maberly that, as he saw no hope . of redress front the Post-office, he should take the proper steps to recover the postage of the letter, and had now. applied to the Lord Mayor for that purpose. in defence, Mr. Peacock stated that it appeared, on inquiry, that this letter had been posted at a window where both foreign and inland letters were posted, but only till four o'clock in the afternoon, and that, after that hour, the foreign letters were posted at another window ; that this letter had been posted, it appeared, between five and six, and therefore it ought to have been posted at the other side ; that the clerk had taken it in as a penny letter, and when the mistake was discovered the letter had been opened in order to return it to the writer, but that it was found to contain no address, and therefore the circular which had been mentioned had been sent to Mrs. Howitt. Mr. Peacock ,contended that the clerk would not have received that letter at that hour had he been aware that it was a foreign letter, and added that it often occurred that letters were put in, and before the change was given out the person, to whom it belone r' ed was gone away, and somebody else took it up ; and he had uo doubt that this was the case in the present instance; so that, al though Mr. Howitt paid the full Is. Bd., change was given out 7evili , .:ll somebody else got. Mr. Howitt said that this was a string of suppositions, but the simple' fact was this, that he paid the whole !money and received the proper change, and was con vinced that the whole transaction was right. That he posted four or five inland letters at the same time, that he had. placed the letter uppermost, that the clerk might See what it was. Then he demanded what was the postage, which amounted to something more than 25., . and received a few pence out of half-a-crown. That he had stated those particulars to Mr. Bokenham in presence of Mr. Manning, who was here to give evidence of the fact. Mr. Howitt then said that Mr. Bokenham, at his first interview with him and the Post-office authoritieS alto gether, had pleaded that they could not admit that the poetage had been paid to the clerk at the window with out charging him with dishonesty, and that they had no reason whatever to believe him dishonest. Mr. Howitt had no wish, and never had had for a moment, to charge the clerk with dishonesty ; on the contrary, he had 'stated to Mr. Bokenham and to Colonel Maberly, and he stated it there again publicly, that there was a noto rious and most obvious cause fin the accident, which was in the defective arrangements of the'General Post-office. He admitted that lie had taken his letter to the window specified, at the hour after it was customary to receive foreign letters there, and it had occurred thus : when he went to the General Post-office he looked round to find the department " Foreign-office," but to his astonishment no such words could be found. Seeing, therefore, a slide marked " Paid letters received here," he offered it there, in the assurance that if that were not the right place the Clerk would reject the letter. The letter, how ever, was taken in, and the money, received. The error, therefore, on his part arose from no proper external directions being painted up at the General Post-office. There was no such word as " Foreign: office" up at all ; but the foreign letters were actually received with the inland letters at this very window every day till four o'clock, and then at another at some dis tance. Since he had made his strong remonstrances against this disgraceful state of things, some slight at tempt had been made to remedy it by the placing up of a little trumpery board with ForeigreOffice upon it, though on getting to the place you saw on the slide, "Foreign letters not received here until after four o'clock," so that you had again to seek for the spot where foreign letters were received, and find it in the inland department still. Now, he asked whether this was a state of things fit for the General Post-Office of the greatest commercial nation of the world. But this was only a smallepart of the want of arrangement and accommodation, and it was this to which he called the particular attention of the Lord Mayor. In the evening, when the press of posting letters was greatest, there was only one receiving place for general post-paid letters, causing a rush towards that window and a tumult most unseemly and disgraCeful, and it was impossible. for a boy or female servant after five o'clock to approach the window ; this was so noto rious that gentlemen had told him they frequently walked in the hall of an evening to witness it. The gentlemen from the Post-office admitted the ex istence of this riotous scene, and regretted it, but could see no remedy unless the public would use them fairly, and post their letters earlier. The Lord Mayor then reminded them that commer cial men were obliged to answer their letters at the last possible hour, and they had been actually curtailed of one ; besides, merchants did not leave 'Change till five. He must strongly recommend them to give the metropo lis another hour in the evening, and open more receiving places also. Mr. Wire strongly supported that view of the subject. He said that Mr. Howitt had come there solely to bring 4) the knowledge of the public the evils which he, toge ther with vast numbers of persons, had so constantly to complain of. Unckr the circumstances of. the present :.:ase, he considered the Court must order the money to be eAmded to his client. Mr. Howitt having affirmed. the truth of these state ; merits, the Lord Mayor gave judgment that the money mist be repaid, adding that this would have been his .ecisieti had the amount been 20/. instead of twenty I;once. DEAL PuoTs-Tlie Deal pilots are known! Llmost to a man to he Tories ;'and acting up to the prin •iple that a divided body cannot long be prosperous, ley make no exception to the rule, •and have become a ;ye-word and a Pi &Verb ; and the world has read how :Aebrated they are - for the celerity of their movements Nhen under the whip of their Tory leader, and how vadily they run to the poll to record their votes as the ,vistocrata of the 'borough may dictate. It is a great :fence for them to have an opinion. A somewhat whim ,ical scene occurred yesterday. A gentleman came to )eal, on the alleged pretence of waiting for a ship coming ato the Downs ; and, taking from his pocket a letter, ~ . .,ked one of the boatmen (conceiving that a boat- Nian and a pilot were one and the same) the reason Aby the pilots voted as they did against Colonel ox, significantly whispering in his ear that he knew friend willing and able to bribe them to stand loof at the coming election. This soon got wind, and ia a twinkle the whole town was ringing with the joke. rut to be serious ; it was concluded that the person had :.ome down on purpose to test the sincerity of their adhe :.•nce to the Lord Warden. A report had got abroad that they were becoming wise, and about to divide their votes half and half. But to indentify the pilots with the boatmen, when their functions are so different, is very amusing. The merchants and shipowners in London do iit. 1:now the distinction; and conclude the pilots to be seafaring en i ;tlemen, though we who live on the coast kiwis, m rich, and adding to their w ea lth r,, alter and house to house, boasting that they ‘i,oyp acre, a csorpe gentlemen, n • rend each from three to four -hundred pounds a y6ar.for the benefit of the tradesmen. Can we wonder, then, that o many turned, and so many refrained from voting at • ;ie late election ? There are in Deal about sixtti , ..pilots being_ the —a rather formidabl e body, certainly.--. Dozer Chronick. were occupied ii hearing motions , none of which contaloed any matter of t Y li e three C (tj C it o T o r S t S - 0 t' S C a l t i a u n r e d er l y Y ~tC d :l , - ) 1 A: t C e E rn t , t olio intcre.4. 'I he Lord Chancellor will continue to sit liter days in the week at Lincoln's inn. lhe Vic„..Chancellor ' , in - sit to the purpose of hearing motions and th e o r di nar y :t l siness of the Court up to the first seal, which is iii Pointed ..r the odinzt. The iNia , ter 1;) the Rolls will. not it after 1 lie remaining petitions are disposed of nivit the 21 . 4 inst, xhieh is the Arst day appointed by his: Lordship for hearing elallts4 r: ! . ~`~ THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1841. SIR - . ROBERT PEEL, AND THE MANCHE - tin:lt CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. 'FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN. - Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 11, 1841. Sir,—When we requested you in your last paper to insert the correspondence between Sir Robert Peel and ourselves, we thought it had closed. Since then, how ever, 'another letter has been received from the Right Hon. Gentleman ; • and we shall be obliged by your in serting this and our reply thereto, in your next publica tion.--We are, Sir, yours respectfully, J. B. SMITH, HOLLAND HOOLE. Whitehall, June Bth, 1841. • 'Gentlemen,—l have received your letter of yesterday, and cannot permit it to close our correspondence. There is no doubt a variation in phrase between the passage to which you refer in the Report of the Morning Chronicle, and another report in which, according to your remark, all the mis-statements which led you to - address me are altogether omitted or corrected. Now, in this latter rep Art are the 'following allegations with respect to the pamphlet of Mr. Greg : That, at my interview with the deputation, a particular wish was expressed that :I would read the pamphlet, — that I was assured I should attach great importance to it, and that I entered on its perusal with no little anxiety after. the assurance I had received from such high au thority, that it was difficult to resist its conclusions. In this latter report also I speak of the author of the pamphlet as the chosen champion of the Chamber of Commerce. The expressions themselves may be different, but there is no such difference in the purport of them, as would justify me in saying that the passage in the report of the Morning Chronicle is an erroneous one. I cannot discuss the subject without observing that the course which has been pursued by the members of the deputation has been a most unfair one. I spoke in the House of Commons on the 18th of May. On the day. following, one of the. members of the depu tation published in the newspapers a letter nominally ad dressed to me, impugning the correctness of my state ments ; but he did not send to me either the original, or a copy of that letter. From you I received no communication whatever until the 2d of. Tune, a fortnight after the debate ' • and then. in a letter which professes to give a simple and true recital of the circumstances of the interview which you had with me, you wish to make it appear that nothing had passed on the subject of Mr. Greg's pamphlet during our conference ; but that, after the members had left their seats, Mr. Ashworth asked whether I had seen some eb servations upon Sir Fowell. Buxton's Schemes, in a pam phlet by Mr. Greg. This is completely at variance with the fact. In your last letter, you write as if I had not at once admitted to yourselves, that there was a mati•rial error in one of the passages in the report of the Morning Chronicle, and you assume, without any foundation, that, independently of that error, there is a substantial diffe rence in the two reports to which you refer, in respect to the importance which was attached to the pamphlet of Mr. Greg at my interview with the deputation. Though I cannot understand the motives for the course which you have pursued, either in respect to the original . delay your communications to me, or to the tenor of them,' and ;mist protest altogether against the fairness of your proceedings, yet I shall abstain from following your example, and decline the interchange of harsh and abusive expressions. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant, ROBERT PEEL. Chamber of Commerce, Manchester, June 10th, 1841. Sir,—We beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the Bth instant. ; in which, after we had supposed the correspondence had closed, we regret to see, for the first time, that you make a charge of unfairness against us, " in respect to the original delay in our communica tions to you." If this charge were at all warrantable, it would in no respect alter the facts of the case : with regard to them it is entirely unimportant. But it has no substan tial foundation : Mr. Ashworth, through the news papers, without a moment's delay, addressed you on the subject ; and, in your reply to .a letter he subse qnently wrote to you, you say, " I make no complaint of discourtesy on your part." For ourselves, we beg to remind you, that in the very first paragraph of our first letter to you, we explicitly stated the reasons which had prevented us from previously writing to you. We dis claim, therefore, your insinuation of any " motive" for the delay. We have complained that, in your speech in the House of . Commons, and in your letters to us, yon have misrepresented the ,real object for which the•deputation sought an interview with you. You do, indeed, in the only sentence relating to it in the published speech corrected by yourself, say, " They (the deputation) called on me to advocate the principles of free trade but you kept out of sight the arguments adduced by them in favour of these principles -- the evidences of the want of employment and distress, as evinced by the 10,000 empty houses in Manchester and five neighbour ing towns, and the fears entertained that if the system of monopolies were persevered in, we should shortly lose the two best customers we hid in the world for our manufactures, viz., the United • States:llnd Brazil, You had not the candour to refer to the. clocuments,in sup port of their views, which- were formally and officially presented to you by the deputation, vii.—" The Report of the Directors on the impolicy of restrictions on trade," and the " resolutions" adopted by the Chamber thereof ; but you represented the object of-the deputation, in call ing upon you, to be "to express 4 particular wish that you would read a:certain pamphlet on the extinc tion -of - slavery," written by Mr. W. R. Greg, and that •they told you "they would abide by the decision you came to upon this pamphlet." We again most explicitly declare this statement to be a misrepresentation of the objects of the deputation, and of the fact, which occurred at the - interview ; and we leave you, after having affirmed its accuracy, to account for the suppression, in the published speech corrected by yourself, of this latter statement, viz., that the deputa tion told you they would abide by the decision you came to upon Mr. Greg's pamphlet. We feel that we were bound, in our own justification to the body whom we had the honour to represent, to call upon you to explain the misrepresentations made by you in the House of Commons, relating to your inter view with the deputation. On a review of our corre spondence with you, we still think that the circumstances of the case justify the comments and language to which we have given utterance, and of which you complain. The whole matter, however, is now before the public ; and we are willing to abide by its decision upon the " fairness," between you and ourselves, of the whole proceedings.—We have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient set vants, (Signed) J. 33. SMITH, HOLLAND HOOLE. P.S.- -Your letter, and this reply, will be published ,hrough the same channel as the . previous correspondence. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., M.P. London. THE CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—As you have ever been a steady advocate for the repeal of the Corn-laws, I trope you will favour with insertion a reason for repeal which is not usually brought forward—and that is, the advantage of this repeal to landed proprietors themselves. I own land in thirteen parishes in the South, and I occupy a considerable farm myself, which leads me to believe the doing away of the Corn-laws would raise my rents, by stimulating our tenants to raise, in 1842; as much grain as in 1836, when wheat averaged 395. sd. •a quarter, at which price the Scotch farmers, examined before the House of Com mons, stated they were making handsome profits ; and Earl Radnor's argument for Arepeal was a strong one, when he said the Corn-laws are proved not to have answtmed, because more grain has been imported in the eleven years previous to 1839, than dur ing any former eleven years ; and the great crops obtained by my little allotment tenants, have shown me how much my great tenants might produce by equal capital and skill. Your readers will say, where do your little allotment tenants obtain their capital ? It is a patrimony which has descended to them from a long line of ancestors, and without which the largest estate would be useless to its possessor, till man can live on the briars and thorns which spring of themselves. The capital I allude to consists of limbs inured 'to the toil requisite for producing such food as man can digest ; and what is capital generally but accu mulated labour, represented by gold, which may glitter but can neither feed, clothe, or lodge us, till again ex changed for labour ? Capital for farming well is all relativeAo.,.the extent of acres occupied ; and the man who has not more land than his own hands can cultivate, really has a larger capital than he who has thousands of poun v ds.sterling, if he cannot purchase with those thou sands as much labour on the land he uses as the man be stows who has only the labour of himself and his wife and children ; nor will he be deficient in manure if as careful of that which is usually thrown away, as the Chinese are, whose dense population has hitherto resisted all foreign encroachments. . . Landlords whose rents have risen with the rise of the price of bread have substantial reasons for supporting the Corn-laws, but I know none whose rents have' risen, and I have found my own rents fall as prices rose. I there fore wish the Corn-laws repealed, which I have no doubt would occasion such increased diligence as would occasion my rents to rise in proportion as the price of corn falls. Tenants who are indolent wish the Corn-laws to continue because fewer loads of wheat paid their rents at 695. per quarter in 1839 than at 395. per quarter in 1836 ; but Sir Robert Peel would not have enjoyed his present fortune if cotton goods . had remained at the prices of fifty years since, and I doubt not his income from land will equally rise as the price of the produce declines. I consider that the tenantry have . been lured .to that ruin by what was called tne legislative protection of agriculture ; for" abundant produce and high prices are incompatible, and whils t abund a nt produce gives certain grain, high prices do no t benefit those w ho have little or nothing to sell ; but no outla y of ca pital or trouble is re quired for growingofweeds, and whil s t la n dl or d s were towilling their rents as weeds i ncrease d; t h e i r llower tenants would not take the trouble of removing them, but if left fairly to compete with fOreigners, they will soon show that England is capable of supporting double its-present population, and cheap bread would increase -the - demand. , for it by inviting, home absentees to spend their incomes on their native soil, to the great gain. of all trades and professions. • Tents • , June 3, 1841. M. G. oriiNGtl;:inGh:ea. tv-hielesuewbnliw:cliotuice in: , az I,oor sad station. made the passage .-- ~ , EXTRAORDINARY I LRFO:bNifehANhaCsE always I N STEAM BOAT been a great f T a v f t o A u N t r t L e L from London • bridge wharf to th e Town Pier, Gravesend, on Monday last, the 7th instant. in the sherteAt ti m e , that has ever been known, I '.-: , :ving thirty-five minutes, altboegh SheLltpmed..", ..• 7 , • • - • .. •- • ~-, 4 1 .4%..9.^. 1 . erl: :Loa:: ' " 1- raupge to take in passengeze. . •- 7 :: , -' 73. - '," :..i. eibqjr) : i ~ . ''''''. 12TIPael 02 be :.-::::. ar. , .. - ...n: ..n!..7 ,•• HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The second ethe three fetes given during the fa shionable season by 'this Society took place on Satur day afternoon at . their grounds at Chiswick. The com pany - amounted, it was- said, to between 9,000 and 10,000. The Marquis of Normanby and many individual members of the beau monde were present, but the general style of the assembly was not quite so fashionable as usual. The collection of roses and pelargoniums was very beau tiful. The band of the Life Guards and Blues played during the course of the afternoon several overtures and airs, and marched the company out with " God save the Queen." We subjoin a list of the competitors for the Society's prizes . AWARD or THE JUDGES, No. 1. Pinks. —Silver Knightian, Mr. C. Knight; Silver Bank.lan, Mr. Bridges; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Forman; Silver Banksian, Mr. Wilmer. _ . Pelargoniums—Large Colection.—Gold Baraksian, Mr. Cock ; Silver Knighuian, Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence ; N. Gold Banbian, Mr. Catleugh; Large Silver, Mr. Gaines. Pelargoniums—Small Collection.—Large Silver, Mr. Cock ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill; N. Large Silver, Mr. Catleugh ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Gaines. Roses in Collections.—ifold Banksian, Mr. Milne ' • Large Silver, Mr. Fleming; Silver Knightian, A Rowland, Esq. ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Weir, gardener to Coulthurst, Esq. ; N. Gold Banksian, Mr Wood and Son, and Mr. Rivers ; N. Large Silver. Mr. Paul and Son, and Mr. Cobbett ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Lane and Son ; N. Silver Banksian, Mr. Hooker and Mr. Wilmer. _ _ Herbaceous Calceolarias.—Large Silver, Mr. Green, gar dener to Sir E. Antrobus; Silver Knightian, Mr. Watson, gardener to J. Wells, Esq. ; N. Large Silver, Mr. Catleugh ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Gaines. Shrubby Calcelarias.—Large Silver, Mr. Green ; Slyer Knightian, Mr. Watson, gardener to J. Welts, Esq. ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Barnes; N. Large Silver, Mr. Gaines ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Catleugh. Miscellaneous Florist F:owers.—Large Silver, Mr. Green ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Porter ; Silver Banksian, Messrs. Mit chell, Watson, jun., Bridges, Norman, and Catleugh. AWARD OF 'f HE JUDGES, No. 11. Store and Greenhoutie Plants, in Colleet . ion• of from Fifty to sixty Plants.—Gold Knighiian., Mr. Green, garderer to Sir E. Autrobus, and Mr. Butcher, gardener to Mrs. Law rence ; Gold Bat.ksian, Mr. - Hunt, gardener to Miss Traill. StoVe and Gr-enhouse Plants, in Collections of from Fif. teen to Twenty Plants.—Gold 13anksian, Mr.:Barnes; gardener to Norman, Esq. ; New Large Silver, Mr. Jackson and Mr. Young. Stove and Greenhouse Plants, in Collections of Six Plants. '—Large Silver, Mr. Falconer ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Bruce ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Barnes. ,'Miscellaneous, not Florist, Flowers.—Silver Knight;an, Mr. Mylam ; Silver Banksians, Mr. Green and Mr. Rivers. AWARD OF THE JUDGES, No. HI. Fruit, Miscellaneous Collections of—Gold Banksian, Mr. Davis, gardener to Sir S. Clarke ; Large Silver, Mr:. Bruin, gardener to Mr. Gunter, and Mr. Davis, gardener to Lord Bo3ton. Grapes—Large Silver, Mr. J. Wilmot; Silver Knightians, Mr. Chapman, and Mr. Dowson, gardener to W. Leaf, Esq. Pine Apples—Large Silver, Mr. Judd, gardener to G. Knott, Esq. ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Flood, gardener to Sir J. J. Gue3t, Bart. ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Dowson. Peaches or Nectarines, in Dishes of Six Specimens—Silver Kuightian, Mr. Feggn, gardener to the Marqu;s of Abercorn ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Tilley, gardener to the Duke of Portland. Miscellaneous Articles—Silver Knightians, Mr. Chapman and Mr. Lister ; Silver Banksians, Messrs. Foggo, Myatt, Snow, Richard Brook, Esq., and Bruce. AWARD OF THE. JUDGES, No. IV. Cape Heaths, Twenty Species.—Gold Knightian, Mr. Barnes ; Large Silver, Mr. Butcher ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. Jackson. Cape Heaths ' Six Species.—Gold Banksian, Mr. May, gardener to E. Goodhart, Esq. ; Large Silver, Mr. Bruce ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Barnes. Tall Cacti, in Flower.—Silver Knightian, Mr. Upright ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Falconer. AWARD OF THE JUDGES, No. V. Collectionsof Six Species of Exotic orchidacew.—Gold Knightian, Mr. Mylam ; Large Silver, Mr. Insiray, gardener to G. Barker, Esq. ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Humes, gardener to G. Norman, Esq. ; N. Gold Knightian, Messrs. lcoliisson. Exotic Orchidacea of 'fl;ree Species.—Gold Banksian, Mr. Mylam ; Large Silver, Mr. Butcher ; N. Silver Knightian, Mr. W. Mastrrs. _ _ . Exotic Orchidacete.—Single Specimens of New and Hand• some Sperics.—Large Silver, Mr. Ingeay: Exot,c Orchidacex, Single Specimens—Large Silver, Mr. Craggy and Mr. Alylam ; Silver Knightian, J. Jarratt, Esq. ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Bruce, gardener to B. Miller, EN. Ornamental Plants, whether Old or New, in Flower.—Large Silver, Mr. Falconer; Silver Knightian, Mr. Dickson; Silver Banksians, Mr. Bruce and Mr. Mountjoy. New Ornamental Plants, Single Specimens.—Large Silver, M. Wray ; Silver Knightian, Mr. Veiteh ; Silver Banksian, Mr. Young. SUICIDE BY A LADY OF FOR TUNE. On Friday evening a Jury composed of the principal inhabitants of the town was impannelled before Mr. W. Carter,. the Coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, at the Greyhound Inn, Croydon, for the purpose of in quiring into the circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Mary Russell, residing at Croydon, who de stroyed herself by taking a quantity of arsenic and laudanum. _ _ _ The Jury, having been sworn, proceeded to the man sion of the deceased, to view her remains. The de ceased lady appeared to have been a fine handsome wo man, apparently about fifty years of age. This part of their duty having been performed, they returned to the inn, where the following evidence was adduced, Messrs. , J. and W. Drummond, the Solicitors, being present to watcl the proceedings on the part of the family of the deceased lady:— Harriet Giles, the ladies' maid to the family, deposed that she had been in the service of the deceased for some time On Monday morning last•the deceased lady went out, about eleven o'clock in the morning, which was rather an unusual occurance, and returned in about half an hour. • On the Tuesday- morning witness took up some water to her mistress's bed-room, and she told her that she felt unwell, and that she should not get up, but wished to have her breakfast sent up to her. Witness, accordingly, shortly afterwards, took the deceased some chocolate, and she observed that she drank it rather hastily, and in a short time after witness had left the room the bell was. rung, and she went up stairs to her mistress, and she or deral her to send her daughter upstairs immediately, and witness then observed that her mistress had been vomiting in a basin that was by the bed-side. Miss Russell went up to her mother's bed-room end im mediately afterwards the bell was rung violently, and a footman was ordered to be despatched for a surgeon, and Mr. Neville, of Croydon, arrived soon afterwards. The witness then proceeded to detail va rious incoherent acts committed by the•deccased fer some time prior to the melancholy occurrence, and her evidence left very little doubt as to the state of mind of the un happy lady. Mr. Neville, surgeon, of Croydon, deposed, that on Tuesday morning, in consequence of information he re ceived he went to the house of the - deceased and found her in bed, and apparently in an almost exhausted condi tion. Miss Russell, the deceased's daughter, then in formed him that her mother had taken poison. He then addressed the deceased, and said he hoped that what her daughter had said was not true ; and she replied " Yes, it is true." Witness asked her what she had taken, and she replied "arsenic." The deceased at this time did not ap pear to be in any pain, and witness knowing that the character of arsenic was to occasion excruciating pain, doubted, at first, whether she had really taken poison of that description. He administered some stimulants to the deceased, and did all that he could for her, but she gradually sank, and died on the following morning. A paper with the word "poison" on it was afterwards shown to him. Witness, assisted by another medical gentleman, made a post-mortem examination of the body, and then discovered traces of both arsenic and laudanum, and the death of the deceased was no doubt occasioned by those poisons. The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased de stroyed herself by taking poison while in a state of tem porary derangement. On Saturday, at the Kensington Police -court, William Buckmaster, a boy twelve years of age, was re examined on a charge of having stolen 621. from his master, Mr. Todd, a cheesemonger, in the High-street. Mr. Todd missed from his cash-box a bank-note and twelve sovereigns. He suspected the prisoner at the time of being the guilty party, and on afterwards ascer taining that he had been treating other boys and been drunk himself, he informed the police, who took him into custody. He said he had picked up a purse in Portobello lane, Notting-hill, containing a 501. note and twelve sove reigns, which he had given to his father, but when locked up at the station-house he acknowledged he had stolen the money from Mr. Todd's cash-box. On going to the father's house the note and eleven sovereigns were found locked up in a bureau. His father declared the prisoner had told him he had found the money, and he locked it up expecting it would be advertised. Mr. Todd expressed great reluctance to prosecute the prisoner, who was re manded till Monday. LANCASTER ELECTION.—We congratukte the Reformers and Bread-tax Repealers on their having at length obtained a candidate whose principles are sound and liberal. Mr. Dashwood, the gentleman whom our Election Committee has selected, arrived on Satur day last, and the intelligence of his arrival was greeted with acclamation. In his address, which was published on Saturday evening, he announced himself a candidate for the representation of Lancaster, on the Liberal into rest, . and explicitly stated his sentiments on the vital questions now before the country. He openly avowed himself the decided enemy of those great monopolies which are crushing the energies of the country, a pro gressive Reformer, and an advocate of an extended sys tem of national education. He has since declared that he will seek to abolish those obnoxious imposts, Church rates. With such sentiments and principles can we doubt that Mr. Dashwood will succeed ? The electors of Lan caster are now on their trial. Let them not be found wanting.—Lancaster Guardian. Mr. Robert Gordon, who was Secretary to the Treasury, has published a farewell address to his consti tuents, in which he says—" Differing from her Majesty's Ministers on the question of the Corn-laws, I have re tired from office, and it is my intention, for the present, to retire also from Parliament. I will not suffer myself to be brought into conflict with my old political asso ciates ; I will not requite the kindness I have experienced from Lord Melbourne by even partially opposing an ad ministration over which he presides."—Mr. Gordon is succeeded in the office of Secretary to the Treasury by Mr. B. More O'Ferrall, late Secretary of the Admiralty, Mr. John Parker, M.P. for Sheffield, one of the Lords of the Treasury, has been appointed Secretary to the Ad n;iralty, in the room of Mr. O'Ferrall. The Ascot Cup, given by her Majesty, and run for and won on Tuesday last at Ascot by the Marquis of Westminster's Satirist, is nominally of the value of !00 Runt, but cost the manufacturers, Messrs. Storr and Runt, no less than 400/. It is of solid silver, weighing 337 O ith ee s, and standing 26 inches in height. The sub ject r epresents Alexander and his celebrated horse ~2 0et ,balus, whom he is about to count, and whose fiery s pirit ire alone could control. THE kRECTiON OF PALESTINE INTO AN INDEPENDENT CIIRISTIAN STATE. (From the Malta Times of the 15th ult.) The following circular has been published Some four months in Malta. It has also appeared in a Malta journal, the Globo, translated into Italian. We have deemed it proper now to publish the Circular as origi nally written. We are not answerable for all its opinions, though we cordially approve of some : There is a principle equally pervading the philosophy of life as religion, that the countries, and " spots" of countries, where the illustrious of mankind were born and died, should be held in reverential esteem, if not be the objects of a devout pilgrimage. The coldest sneer of the sceptic cannot stitie this spontaneous • feeling of the human heart, nor can the dry calculations of the political economist barter away this instinct of our universal natur. Actuated with this deep and rational feeling, we Chris tians have come forward, but not presumptuously, at the present crisis, to give expression to our sentiments as to the propriety of Christians, of all sects and denomina tions, convening public or private meetings throughout Christendom, for the object of requesting, through their respective Sovereigns or Governments—that the Sublime Porte would grant the cession of Palestine, or that por tion of Syria commonly denominated " The Holy Land," to all Christians, to be erected, under the auspices of the Christian Princes of Europe and Asia, into an inde pendent Christian territory possessing self-government, and subjected to such Prince as the Christian nations may agree to, and with full and unanimous assent confirm in his regal authority, it being a country which has always, from the earliest times, excited the devoutest feelings and desires of the -friends of Christianity, and after which the hearts of all true believers now ardently yearn. In making this request, we disclaim every idea of a political, religiously-proselyting or invidious nature. Our object is common Christian piety ; we are devoutly anxious that the country which was the scene of the labours and miracles of our glorious Redeemer, the theatre of his unparalleled passion and death ; which country also being the depositary of the monuments of those stupendous events that have filled the world with wonder theSe nineteen centuries should be in the pos session of those who believe in them and practise the faith of the Divine Sufferer, and who can alone preserve and venerate. them in a manner suitable to and worthy their mysterious grandeur, and awful importance. It is not for us to attempt to convey within the narrow compass of a circular the crowd of ideas which irresisti bly force themselves upon us ; they will naturally arise in the minds and affections of all those who believe in the mission of the Saviour, or call themselves by the honour able name of Christians, in whose hands this communi cation may fall, and who will likewise easily devise the most prompt and practical mode for bringing about this consummation so devoutly wished. We think it enough to express frankly and humbly our sentiments, to have them responded to by the entire Christian world. We think, likewise, the present moment exceedingly favourable to the attainment of our object (an opportu nity is afforded which may not occur again for centu ries)—whilst diplomatic negotiations- are going on to dispose of the territories of the disorganised empire of the Turks, and to pacify the Levant in a substantial and permanent manner, and equally for the interests of Mus sulmans, Jews.* and Christians. The necessity of promptitude, and yet of the most judicious deliberation of all Christians in a matter of such high importance, have appeared to us so great, that we have put aside the formality of a public meet ing, neither would we, though ardently disposed to for ward the divine cause, with a full heart and a strong hand, be considered to arrogate to ourselves the credit of originating this pious project ; nor would we seem to dictate by affixing our signatures hereto, though we pledge ourselves privately to communicate these our sentiments to those Christians who we think will co operate with us—leaving the subject to,effect the rest. on the public mind of Christian Europe, by its own simple. intrinsic, and superlative excellence. 'Thus, then. we leave the subject to produce a simultaneous result, so that if this result be favourable it may develope itself in meetings, end addresses or petitions to the respective Christian Governments of Europe—to obtain this great concession for the Christian world. We are not able to anticipate any objections from the nature of the object, or its cession by the Sublime Porte: The Christian sovereigns cannot refuse to make the request, inasmuch as they are both backed b y what must be the desire of all Christians, though that desire be not expressed, as well as the interests of the Sublime Porte, who has never been able to profit by the posses sion of this portion of Syria, whilst it would form an impassable barrier to the ambitious projects of the Vice roy. of Egypt, and keep the capital of the Turkish em pire in a state of uninterrupted tranquillity. But if the Porte should complain that her revenue would suffer by this cession of territory, the Christians of Europe, through the representative of their faith in Palestine, would with the greatest willingness make up the defici ency in the most ample way. -A common interest and common request cannot in volve any individual compromise of principle or feeling amongst Christian's ; nor can such a request, collectively made, have any other effect than redounding to the ho nour of those personages of high diplomatic rank, who make it to.the Sublime Porte, and the Sultan who gra ciously condescends to gratify the Christian nations by its cession. Nor, finally, do we see any ground for jea lousy amongst Christians and their Governments,, for we would suggest that some one of the native Princes of Syria should assume the Government, and in such an in dependent manner as to be uncontrolled by any of the Christian Governments of Europe. Let then the Christian world, at this most.favourable juncture, arouse itself—that all true Christians may see the .land dyed with the passion-blood of the Redeemer of mankind, under the gentle and Christian sway of the followers of the Cross. * We think, however, the Jews would see it to be their ad vantage, that the Holy Land should be rather in Christians' hands, who retard them, according to the Apostle St. Paul (Rom. xi. 17, 15, 19, 20, 21.), as the stock on whichthe Gen tiles have been engrafted, who believe the Old Testament to be divinely inspired,—and (wiih the exception of the judicial and ceremonial portion of it) to be, as far as relates to the ful filment of the prophecies in the person of Christ in part the foundation of Christianity—who venerate the Holy Land for the sake of the Patriarchs and Prophets that inhabited and decorated it, and who think that although the Jews cannot enter tain a hope of obtaining it for the establishment of the Jewish re ligion, by reason of the signal judgment of Heaven, as recorded even by one of their own historians, by which they have been banished from it now nearly nineteen centuries past, it may yet serve, by being in the Christians possession, for the ga thering together of the remnant ( Nom. ix. 27, Js. x. 22.) of that once favoured people, predicted to be called in and saved; not (as they themselves must admit) by the profession of the Jewish religion, which was but a type and figure of the reli gion of th promised Messiah, but by the profession of the re ligion of that Messiah, who upon that sacred spot would be more efficaciously proved to have already come and to have established His Holy Religion, which being embraced by some, the announcement may go forth to their brethren dis persed all over the world, and thus the expression of the Pro phet Isaiah (Is. ii. 3.) may be verified—" The law shall come forth from Sion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." AN INFERNAL MACHINE. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) BOULOGNE, JUNE 4.—A discovery which is still en veloped in mystery has seriously disturbed our city these two days. The day before yest2rday. June 2, the packet from London came ihto port about nine o'clock at night, having on board eighty passengers, whQ successively were searched, as customary, at the Custoin-hpuSe: .The last carried a kind of straw hand-basket, the inside, of which, having been cautiously examined, was found to contain, envelopei with much care, a sort of infernal machine, a six-barrelled pistol, the model of a fort, some powder, some balls, and a few detonating caps adapted to the use of these fire-arms. In consequence of this discovery, the forenamed articles were seized and forwarded to the Procureur du Roi, and the individual in whose possession they were found was apprehended and incarcerated. The Procureur du Roi and his deputy immediately com menced an investigation of the affair, and the passenger was subjected to a long and minute examination, in the course of which only this transpired :—The prisoner says his name is Israel Levy Lillycrass, armourer, at Bridgwater. He invented the machine and the pistol, and completed them last February ; was now on his road to Paris, with the intention of offering the deadly weapons for sale to the French Government. He appears aged about twenty-five or twenty-six, and is dressed like, and has the gait of, a working man. Only two shillings were found upon his person. This a description of the machine and the pistol. The . former is composed of an iron plate, from eight to nine centimetres long by six wide. One side is bound with wood, and upon the other, opposite, are fixed fifteen bar rels, five in a row, which are discharged by means of vethreer3, nice.deto detonating gpiltante whichhammers, s t i l i i p e ro tr r i t g s g t e h r e o t r anel wbi s ch is is little hollowed, and, to fire it, it m us t b e placed against the The breast, barrels a arefte r very suspendingsbort, andi it about mN, t h h e e neck easily y a n t)eb race. under a loose dress. They are so:.pointed as e to o f c or a n l i et : l l circle of fire. The six b arre l s o f the pistol are placed one above the other, in pairs, and are fired by means of two hammers, being pla ce d so that. the fire may' cross. The New toution of 44 BGREE'S PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE," is just published. It is universally ac, knowledged to be one of the most. splendid voumes ever issued from the press. The extent of its information is indeed sur prising. ' The lineage of each distinguished House it records is deduced through all the various ramifications, every collateral branch, however remotely connected, is introduced, and the al liances are so carefully inserted as to show, in all instances, the connexion which so intimately exists between the tiled and untitled aristocracy. We have also much most entertaining historical matter, and many very cut ious and interesting family traditions. The work is, in fact,e complete Cyclopoedia of the whole titled classes of the Empire ; supplying ° all the informa tion that can possibly be desired en the subject. Among the new features of the present edition may be mentioned—" 'I he Royal Chronicler" (descriptive of the Crowned Heads of Europe) ; " Particulars of Foreign Noblemen, Subject., by birth of the British Crown ;" full details of " Toe Peerages claimed and now under discussion ;" perfect Lists of toe Knights of the different Orders of Knighthood, the Knights Bachelors, &c., &c. THE WEATHER.—During the whole of the present week we hale had northerly winds with cold and raw weather, considering tlitit we are now so nearly approaching Mid summer. Great quantities of very fine mackerel have been brought ashore dunng the week. and vended in the town at the rate of six and eight for a shilling. In consequence of the pre valence of northerly winds - our Bay has been crowded with homeward-bound vessels during the present week. Yesterday they amounted to tbove.l3o sail, and embraced some very fine ships. It i 4 to be hoped the wind will:soon shift round and waft them to their respective destinations. On Wedre slay a lady "pa gentleman resident on the Marine Parade, who were exploring the reeks which shelve out into the sea, at the base of Shakspeare's Cliff, to gather thence such fossil treasures as they might find, got surrounded by the unobserved marches of Davy Jones ; and, but for the timely approach of a boat en. gaged at the works of the South-Eastern Railway, which was _passing at the time and rescued them from their perilous situa tion, the conseournces might have been rather' serious to the adventurous psir. —Dover Chronicle. MORNING EDITION. THE CORN-LAWS MAX BE CHANGED FOR THE WORSE ! When we noticed, a few numbers back, a pamphlet on the policy and probable consequences of the proposed repeal of the existing Corn-laws, we justified our dissent from some of the opinions expressed iii it by reference to the auth -wily of Mr. M`Culloch. The - third 'edition of the pamphlet, now before us, bearing the came of Mr. M‘Culloch on its title-page, informs us that in doing so. we have been arraying his own authority against himself. A similar accident once happened to an emi nent legal authority in Scotland, at the bar of the Cour . of Session. Perhaps Mr. M`Culloch may reply as the advoCate did when his own treatise on the Bankrupt-laws was quoted against him—" I have not read that part of the work lately." We advert to Mr. M`Culloch's present line of argu- . ment for the purpose of noting two points. First, he , 'shows by a tabular statement, that, under " the scale pro posed by Lord John Russell, the duties would be higher than they have proved to be under the present law"; and that, under the duties proposed, "it is clear that such wheat cannot be sold in England under 565. a quarter, which is only llid. less than the average price of English wheat during the ten years ending with 1840." Does Mr. M`Culloch make this statement with a view to create a national enthusiasm in favour of the Government scheme ? Does he expect " the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny" in favour of an increased duty upon im ported grain, and a saving of in every quarter of wheat—a quarter of wheat being the quantity which, by the calculations of economists, a healthy adult male con sumes in the course of a year ? - The second point in Mr. M`Culloch's pamphlet to which we direct attention, is his entoosioloosy in favour of a "drawback," as he terms it, of ss. per quarter on the exportation of home-grown grain. It is rather a violent stretch of figurative language to speak of a " drawback" on the exportation of a commodity upon which no duty has been paid : a bounty would be the more intelligible denomination but let that pass. "We regret," says Mr. M'Culloch, " that Lord John Russell gave no inti mation of the intentions of Goverment as to the grant- . ing of a drawback on the exportation of corn." The granting of this drawback or bounty is thus vindicated —" The proposed duty on foreign corn is to be imposed, partly because the land has to .sustain peculiar burdens not laid on other departments of industry, and partly to prevent any sudden or injurious ,shock being given to agriculture by excessive importations of foreign corn. But in so far as the duty is to be regarded as au indemnification to the agriculturists for peculiar burdens affecting them, its imposition is not a matter of grace or favour, but of justice ; and, being so, the agriculturists are entitled to demand, and if they correctly appreciate their own interests will not fail to insist upon receiving, an equal drawback." The. " peculiar burdens not laid upon other departments.of industry," which Mr. M`Cul loch represents as sustained by the land, are pure matter of assumption : he offers no explanation of their nature or proof of their existence. Looking to the heavy Probate and Legacy duty, contrasted with the absence of any cor responding tax upon inherited property in land, and to the exemptions in favour of vehicles laden with agricultural produce inscribed on every toll-board, men are apt to po sceptical'when it is alleged that the landowners are more heavily taxed than other classes of tre community: - But, ' admitting for the sake of argument that the landed in terest may be more heavily taxed than other classes, it might have been expected -that an economist of Mr. M`Culloch's eminence would have advocated doing justice to the land by relieving it from this excess of taxation, instead of bolstering up the unwise and extravagant system of drawbacks—being at the ex pense and trouble of collecting taxes merely to pay them back again. Surely he cannot have considered maturely the effect that must be produced in years of abundance by his drawback. The effect of a plentiful harvest will be a large addition to . our, annual expendi ture, for the purpose of enabling the landed interest to export corn lest corn should become cheap. Will this be, to vulgar eyes, a seemly item in the year's account ? Does Mr. M`Culloch expect that people will submit to pay a million or two of additional taxes, and to pa;e higher price for their bread in consequence of having paid these taxes ? Mr.. M`Culloch is anxious to inti mate that "he is alone responsible for the contents " of his pamphlet,—in other words; that he writes without consulting anybody, and must not be understood to express the wishes or intentions of Government or any section of its partisans. We have no doubt of this ; but men are quick in comprehending what seems to be for their own interest, and it will be necessary for• constituencies at the coming election to insist upon explicit statements from Anti-Corn-law candidates, as to what kind of modi fication of the system they really contemplate. We shall be finely helped if the change effected should turn out to be—an increased rate of duty on imported corn, and a bounty on the exportation of home-grown corn ! Spectator. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE _. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTII. JUNE 12.—The Electra sloop of war. Commander Mainwaring, arrived this morning from the western coast of Mexico, and Rio Janeiro, with about one million of dollars on board. She left Valparaiso on the 4th of March, and Rio Janeiro on the lath of April. The Orestes, sloop of war, was collecting specie on the coast, and it was understood would be the next ship sent to England. The Edinburgh, 72, is °raved from Plymouth to Spit head, 'to refit ; she wants men, having discharged such of her men as had served four years. • The Dublin, Captain Tucker, is taken out of dock, and has been masted ; nearly ttll her crew have entered - for her from the Bellerophon, who. of course are gone on three weeks' leave. The Bittern, 16, is nearly manned. She *ants only a few petty officers, and will shortly be ready .for sea. 'The Fair Rosamond, schooner, for the coast of Africa, will go out of harbour on Monday. She was mustered and inspected this morning by the Flag Captain. The Scout, 18, at Sheerness, and Champion, 18. at Plymouth, are commissioned. • Report sends Rear-Admiral Fred. Warren to the Ad miralty as one of the Junior Lords, and Rear-Admiral the Hon. George. Elliot to Plymouth, as Superintendent of the Dockyard there. Ir Harbour.—Queen,Vietory, Excellent, Dublin, Royal George, Bittern, Fair Rosamond, Raven, Echo, Alban, - steamers, and Adventure, naval transport. At Spithead.—Monarch, Indus, and Electra, Vernon, Mariner, timber ship, Owen Glendywer, East Indiaman. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. PROMOTlONS.—Lieutenant B. J. - Sulivan to the rank of Commander. Mates.—John Borlase (1832) of the Excellent, W. F. Robinson (1831), R. R. Western (1834), and E. M. Lyons (1838), to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.—Commanders — J. P. 1). Larcom, to the Scout ; W. Lewis, to the Stromboli ; and Richard Byron, to the Champion. Lieutenants—Zaccheus Andrews to the Vernon, vice Sinclair ; E. Bullen, to the Cornwallis ; Charles J. Tal ton,.to the Princess Charlotte. Purser—Mr. Thomas Woodward, from Wasp to Daphne. • • Assistant Surgeon—F. M. Rayner to the Queen ; Wm. B. Fegen, to the Vernon ; W. J. Gruggen, to Haslar Hospital. Mates—C. J. Austen, to Excellent ; 11. F. N. Rolfe, to Excellent ; H. J. Giles, to Caledonia ; R. Hall, to Dublin.. Midshipmen—Messrs. E. H. H. D'Aeth, to Queen. Masters' Assistants—Mr. G. S. Hodges, to Victory ; . G. Goman, to Vernon. Second Masters—J. M. Willis to Fair Rosamond ; J. Whiting to Calcutta. Volunteers of First Class—Messrs. S. Woldridge, to Dublin ; H. B. B. Bennett, to Dublin. Clerk's Assistant—Joseph Martin, to Dublin. Chaplains—Rev. P. Somerville, to Edinburgh ; Her. R. Wilson, to Dublin. Gunner—James Seymour, to Bittern. The following gentlemen have been appointed to the Excellent as Cadets for the Royal Marines :—Messrs G. E. 0. Jackson, Charles .M 4 Arthur. F. W. Hall, F. A. P. Wood, T. V. Cooke, H. Cottle, and 11. W. GwYn. The following Mid s hip m en passed the Royal . Naval College, on the 7th and Bth instant :—Messrs. Lacon Ussher Hammett, Charles John Austen, John Moore, EdWard Hill, Fred. John Hornby, Fred. Agar Boyce, Gerard Kingsley, Thomas Cuppsge Bruce, George Dar bin, Arthur Doyle, and John Francis Ross. The following candidates passed for Commissions in the Royal Marine Corps at the Naval College, on the Bth instant :—Messrs. E. T. T. Jones, J. H. Jolliffe, J. W. A. Kennedy, Rob er t B o yle, Simon. R. Little, T. A. M. De Feber Pennington; John Elliott, and S. L. Wilson. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 11.—The Savage, 10, Lieut. J. H. Bowker, was undocked on Friday ;, it is reported that she will he paid oft; and re-coinmis sioned.-•—The Nightingale, 6, Lit.tti.ll `W. Southey, ordered 16 to aseur, . arrived, from .Leith On Saturday ; ~she,is , J Bristol, to enter men for.. the navy'_ Com. F. M. Boulthee,. Was utilloylaa on Saturday, and will shortly he ready for:.sca.—Tl ie S p itfire, steamer, Lieut. Tringharn, arrived from Portsmouth • on Sunday, and sailed for the West Indies , on Wednesd,aY'—The Alert, packet, Lieutenant E. Je nnin g s, was uncooked on to Falmonth on,Saturday, to Tuesday; -and will proceed take the next mail to the West Indtes.-1 he Wolf, 'lB, has been. taken into. Deck . to _he repaired.—The Corn walls, 7 ; ), Captain Peter Richards, was towed into the Sound, on • Thursday, by the Avon and Carron steamers; —The Acorn , 16, Corn. J. Adams, was paid wages on Thursday , and will sail for the Coast of Africa in a day or two. THE REDBREAST. —This bird has frequently been noted for the singular situations it selects for build ing its nest. Amongst the many instances which have been recorded, none probably have been more curiously placed than one which now may be seen within a few miles of Leeds. In a cleft in an upright post or spindle, which supports a large wheel or drum, round which the te•cending and descending ropes are wound for a coal-pit, a redbreast has built its nest : there arc now four eggs in it ; and though the pit is in full work. and the horse which turns the upright post with the drum above, each time the motion is reversed passes with its head within a few inches of the bird—still it sits upon its nest, un mindful of the horse, or the more dangerous urchin its driver ; and for hours together is turned round and back again with all imaginable composure.—Leeds Mercury.• We learn that Earl Granville, the present British. Ambassador at the Court of the King of the French, has sacited permission to relinquish his high and im portant diplomatic functions in the French capital, by reason of the delicate state of the Noble Earl's health. No change, however, is at present contemplated ; but in Sey tember the Noble Earl is expected in this country on a visit to his Noble relative, the Duke of Devonshire. A STANZA FOR THE TORIES.--(From Blackwood's .111cgaziote.) 0 Tories, dear Tories, who stilt are as true-- In spite of defeat—and as trusty as btetl. An apo, - Aate, a trimmer, a. rat is in view ;1 So after him boys, paid spit open Peel :.