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MIN bitto, ditto ...........1852 50 ..... —. Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... to Ditto Preference 2O London & North Western.....loo ......129% to DI. New Quarters.. l2 Do. Fifths Do. 40/. Shares..—.L. &M 30 ...... Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1 Li • ndon and S. Western...—. 50 .. Ditto, New 501:.............. 42 1 r 8 ..... Ditto, New 40/. 34 Ditto, Thirds... .....• 16/. 135. 4d S I•A dis. to Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Ct. on Deposit and $ par Ct on Calls . • 5 • 'Londonderry and Coleraine... 25 Do. Half Shares :Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 Do., Half Shares 5 'Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 5 Nanchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto 1 4 Shares (No. 1) ... 23 Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 121/ 2 ...... Do., New 10/. Preference.. 10 ... .. Ditto, Grimsby & Sheffield 50 Ditto, ditto. 10 5 / .--. Ditto, ditto ... Ditto Sheffield and Line. 20 —...... Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 25 Ditto, Ilan. & Lin.:Union 41. 2s. ... ' Midland..... lOO .. ... 6474.... to 65 Ditto, Consol. Yr et erence 100 Ditto, 50/. Shares .... ...... 30 ...... 16%% to -- 1 lidiand, Birm., and Derby...loo ..... ..... to A lidland, Consol. Bristol and Birmingham, 6 per cent...loo :..... 127 A lidland, Bristol and Glouc. 40 ... .. Ditto ditto 181.2 a. 6d .. Ditto,ErewashVal., Pref... 50 ...... to h lidland, Leices. and Swan nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... . . to A ':cild. Great Westernprish? 47% —. .lilloa. , Di .iddlesbro' and Reclean 6 • per cent. guar. - to rewce stie and Carlisle lOO ...... . Ditto Quarter Shares ..... 25 ... .. 1i 7ewmarket Ditto Extension Scrip... 2/. '2s — to I \ ewport Abergy., and Beret. 6 ...... _to ;1 - - \n( - 1 Enniskillen .3 ewry anca N ew ry, Warrenpoint, and Rostrevor ..... ............. 20 ..... —. ... .. to N ,-I•folh.‘ ICO • Ditto New 201. Ditto Guaranteed 5 per ct. 20 Do. Do. 5% per cei t 5 s• •.• Do. Lowestoft (guar. 1p ct. ) 20 Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 Do. do. Waveney Valley... 2 N nrtliern Counties Union ... 4 11 orth British .. .. ......... .. 25 ...... 13 ... to Ditto i/all Shares-- ..... 12% — to Do. Quarters 61 . 4...... •..... to Ditto Thirds .... •••• 81a-••••• Ditto. Preference ............ 2% ..... ..... to N orth Staffordshire... .. ...... 171,4 .. 12% ex.int to 12 North Wales ..................... 3% ..... North Western ................. 13% 4 xford, Worcester, andWol verhanapton ... .............. 50 to A '•eading, Guildfd., & Reigate 15 li oyston and ilitchin ..... .. 4%...... ex.int to % ottish Central , 4( ottish Midland .. ..... 25 - •••... to --• Ditto, N ew.. • .... 2'21% — to S 2 .rewsbury and Birmingham 11 ... ~. 4% to Diu, ditto. Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 — ...... to SArewsbury and Hereford .. 3 El rewsburi , and Chester ' (Nor. W . Min.) Ditto Halves, Ditto... 9 ... .. to Ditto, oswestry 18%.... Ditto .New ).•• Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10 k hropshire Union 5 l / 2... .. 2%,..... to B outh Devon Ditto, — Preference ... 25 1 1 , )uth Staflordshire B% — ... .. to St ~i th Eastern Ditto, No. 1. Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, No. 3. 3O Ditto, Registered No. 4.... 10 ...,.. ex.d to Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. Rot 'th Wales Bott,`ll Yorkshire, Doncaster ami Goole . lO Eiheai.sld, Rotherham, and Goola (N. D) Gua. 5 perct. 14 1 ,4 ...... ... to ' Do. do. (South Div.) 5 2wans. and Loughor and Ca meron's Stm. Coal ... .... . 7 'Taw Vale Extension' C0a1.......... 8 `Thames Haven Dock and Railway 1 7 1, Vale of Neath Waterford and Kilkenny 2O ...... 3 ' Waterford and Limerick ... .. 47%... .. Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw , and Dublin "Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ...... ........... 50 Do. do. do. Do. do. do. West Cornwall $ vhitehaven and Furness l6 ..... ..... to VS - incisor, Staines, and South Western l2 Wilts, Somerset,&Weymouth 45 .....• to Tor. l / 4 , Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ...... 20 i- ••• to Do. and Newcastle Exten. 20 D„. G. N. E. Fur. or Pref. 8 Do.,T - lartlepool Dk. & Rly. 100 1 ork al; d worth Midland .. 50 Ditto, Preference FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Anglo Italian (late Italian and Austrian Boulogne and Amiens 2O .. ... Central of France ( Orleans • and Vierzon) .... ...... 20 Demerara. ........... 17%. ' Data Rhenish 7% — to East Indian C'-reat Indian Peninsular 5 ...... 3%...... to Do. D 0.... ... 1os. Lo uvain ala Sambre ......... 7% — to Lu..tembourg Ditto .. - lO ...... ex.i to bladr,'d and Valentia Nap- ld Liege 2O •• •• -.amu r an_ ..iege..... Northern of France 14185....•. dis.x.i to - Orleans and Bordeaux ... Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen .. 20 Paris & Strasbourg ..,.. ..... 11 , R 431 - QD. and _ Havre 20 oaMbre and Meuse Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 Tours & Nantes .. . .. 11 Tournay, Jurbise, Landen, and Hasselt .. ... .. 20 ...... West Flanders B 3/. . '.- ...... to 8 Ditto — l / 2 " -- ... .. 4 MINE 3. Anglo Mexican Asturian ........ ..... ... ..... 14 ...... A u stralian . I.larrossa Range....... 285....... 111aenarvon Iron and Coal ... 50 Bo:anos Scrip — British Iron Brazilian Imperial .•... - .•• 24%•••.•• •..•• to Ditto Cocaes and Cuinba... 30 Ditto St. John Del Roy ... 15 Cobre Copper - General ... ....... - :... 28 Real del Monte, Unregistered - Do. Black Debentures — Do. Red Debentures ..... -.. Santiago de Cuba. 'nited Mexican JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia .................. .. 40 . British North American •-• 50 ...... Colonial eommereial of London 2O ...... Londr Jr Stock .... 10 con Joint ..,cock ........ London and Westminster... 20 2 4 14 ex.d to National Provincial of Engld. 85 - Ditt o , New , ............ .... 10 ...... ..... to National of Ireland. 2214 — —• .. to Provincial of Ireland Ditto, New . lO .. ... ...... to Union of Australia 25 Ditto, New Union of London ... 10 Union of Madrid 40 LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY LONDON, AuG. 9.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W. light airs and cloudy. SCILLY, AuG. 7.—The Victor Jules, from Nantes to Newport, was towed into this port yesterday, water logged and abandoned, having been in contact on the sth instant with a lugger, off the Longship; crew saved. WERFoItD, AUG. 7.—The Sybil, M`Cann, from hence to Newport, got on the rocks last night, but came off this morning, after beating heavily, and has put back leaky. LIVERPOOL, AUG. B.—The Elizabeth, Pyle, from Quebec to England, struck on the bar at Briton Island, and remains; cargo and materials to be sold. Arrd. Bth, ope, Bombay; Emma, Gibson. Mauritius; Xarifa, Rossignol, Laguna; E. G. Hartshorn, New York. Sid. 7tb, Conquest, Gaspe. Bth, Leonora, Demerara; Annunciation, Savannah; Narcissa, ditto; Ardington, New Orleans. DEA L , AUG. 7.—Wind S.E. to S.W.—Arrd. sth, Bel. vedere, Robertson, Charleston, for Antwerp. Arrd. from the river Bth, Lochnagar, Dalgarno, Port Philip; Dreadnought, Bidder, Port Natal; Atlantic, Hughes, Honduras; Hymen, Dring, Quebec; Rosahire, Feaster, Quebec. Arrd. from the river and Sld. Bth, Samuel Enderby, Henderson, New Zealand; Olive Brancb, Hud son, Quebec. 017 DARTMOUTH.—Sarah, Higgins, Porto Rico, for Bremen ; Daniel, Port-au-Prince, for Rotterdam; Gen tile, Ledemilo, Matanzas, for St. Petersburgb. BELFAST, AUG. 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. 6th, Urgent, Pollock, Quebec. QuEENsTowN, AUG. s._sid. Albi on , Q ue b ec . Me dusa, ditto. ALNWICII, AUG. 6.—Sld. Thompson, Burton, Quebec. SWANSEA, AUG. S.E.—Arrd. Anne Smith, Adelaide, South Australia. CARDIFF, AU°. s.—Wind s.—Sld. 7th, Eldon, Quebec. BRISTOL, B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Protector, Crouch, Mauritius. OFf PLYMOUTH, AUG. B.—Maitland, Port Philip. FALMOUTH, AUG. B.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. 7th, Ada , Lancaster, Bahia. FLEETW O O D , AUG. 7.—Sld. Alexander , Wise, Quebec. COWES, Ann. B.—Wind S.W.—Sid. Bachelor, Quebec. BRISTOL, AUG. B.—Wind W.S.W.—SId. Bacchus, Prince Edward's Island. STATE OF TRADE IN GALASHIELS—We have great pleasure in stating that our present condition and fu ture prospepts are both good. All hands are employed, Sid orders, we believe, are numerous. Kelso Chro me/v. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1849, LITERATURE. 11UMBOLDT'S COSMOS. Cosmos : Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. By Alexander Von Humboldt. 2 Vols. Translated under the Superintendence of Lieut.- Col. E. Sabine, B. A. For. Sec. R. S. The Same. 2 Vols. Translated from the German by E. C. Otte. Out of a very unfortunate rivalry in the world of publication have originated these two remarkable translations of the most: wonderful work of our gene ration. It is quite melancholy to reflect upon the extraordinary amount of labour that must have been lavished upon both English versions of the " Cosmos" of Baron Humboldt, and to think that such labour has been expended in vain. We say "in vain " ad visedly, for no adequate compensation can be expected either by the translators or by the publishers, in con sequence of the simultaneous appearance of Colonel Sabine's version from the establishment of Mr. Murray, and of M. OttCt's from that of Mr. Bohn. We regret this ; for it is but a poor satisfaction to know that the public are benefited at the exceeding loss of its benefactors. Of " Cosmos, " as the perfected production of a great and richly stored intellect, it is scarcely pos sible to speak in terms of too respectful admiration. To say that it is the masterpiece of the genius of Alexander Von Humboldt is to pronounce its noblest panegyric. Penned by that distinguished man, that leviathen of travel (of physical travel and intellectual travail), that man who is to the sciences what Doctor Johnson was to criticism, penned by Humboldt in the sunny autumn of his years, when the fruits of his great labours are still heaped about him in all their bloom and profusion, when his mind has become ripened by a long life of varied and invaluable experiences—" Cosmos " has grown up into one of the miracles of literature. It is not an elegant column erected to perpetuate the me mory of its fabricator and to evidence his ingenuity to posterity. Its structure, like that of the Novum Organuni, is rather pyramidal and colossal—calculated not only to withstand the triturating influences of Time, but to survive a Deluge of Ignorance. No work of such comprehensive scope, relating to the ma terial universe, has ever before been attempted. To do this required the immense researches, the long life, the unconquerable industry, the insatiable curiosity, and the daring ambition of a Humboldt. Here, at length, repose before us the most memorable of all the effusions of his genius—in which he has striven, and not unsuccessfully, to avoid, on the one hand, the te diousness of :interminable detail, and on the other the vagueness of merely mystifying generalization. In acting thus he has obeyed the conviction expressed by him in his introductory Preface, when he says that " a series of general results would be no less weari some than a mere accumulation of detached facts." By following out his gigantic design—" Physical Geo • graphy, the limits of which have been hitherto some what vaguely defined, has been thus expanded, by, perhaps (says he, with a noble diffidence), too bold a plan, into a scheme comprehending the whole material creation, or into that of a Physical Cosmo graphy." In carrying out this intention otphfaartt generaleda c t e h r e t aaitnt knowledge— satisfiedr degree e s of rhe the toric s t r no i o the s a o u e I t iv h un o c n h ati as n i m g scientific accuracy in the treatment of natural facts is not incompatible with animated and picturesque re presentation." In this he has yielded to the same as pirations which first evidenced themselves in the " History of the Girondins," by Lamartine ' and subsequently in the " History of England," by Macaulay; for it is absurd for any critic like the one writing in the Edinburgh Review to claim for Mr. Macaulay the glory of having made the discovery that history might be rendered as enthralling as ro mance, seeing that Lamartine's great annals of the Revolutionists of the last century are, in point of eloquence and dramatic splendour, about five times as fascinating as the work of his English contemporary, and knowing, moreover, that the eight volumes by M. de Lamartine appeared just two years before the publication of the two volumes by Mr. Macaulay. What Lamartine is to the French, and what Macaulay is to the English Revolution, Humboldt has proved himself to the general sciences or to physical cos mography—at once their rhetorician and their histo rian. The great truth laid down by him at the very threshold of the palace of his deductions is that "the aspect of external nature is that of unity in diversity." Hence it is that he speaks further on of our " percep tion of an invisible and spiritual essence manifesting itself whether in unfolding the flower and perfecting the fruit of a food-bearing tree, or in the subterra nean movements which shake the ground, and the tem pests which agitate the atmosphere." That is the most melancholy peculiarity of this great work, that Baron Humboldt, at the very time when all his facts tend to the proof of the existence of a Supreme Being, he seems to be always jealous of acknowledging by name the verity of a God. What marvels are unfolded to the imagination in the perusal of " Cos mos" it is impossible from remembrance to enume rate. Now the author reassures those who tremble lest in the multiplicity and the apparent confusion of the comets whisking through and through the solar system, and threading it with their orbits like a spider's network, our globe and one of these eecentric bodies might come into collision—proving the impos- sibility of such a catastrophe by facts such as that Biela's comet, which completes its course every six years, and does really intersect the earth's path can only approach us when its perihelion coincides with our winter solstice." Again the countless swarms of shooting stars seen about the 12th and 13th of No vember, and the 10th and 13 th of August, are accounted for by him as arising from " a belt of asteroids intersecting the orbit of the earth." As an example of the vivid and beautiful colouring of the descriptions we shall transcribe a brief passage selected almost hap-hazard : "In the Andes of Cundinamarca, of Quito, and of Peru, furrowed by deep barrancas, it is permitted to man to contemplate all the families Of plants and all the stars of the firmament. There, at a single glance, the beholder sees lofty feathered palms, humid forests of bamboos, and all the beautiful family of roes;,Mu and, above these tropic forms, oaks , medlars, wildses and umbelliferous plants, as in our European homes; there, too, both the celestial hemispheres are open to his view, and, when night arrives, he sees displayed t o g ether the con stellation of the Southern Cro ss, the Magellanic clouds, and the guiding stars of the Bear which circle round the Arctic pole. There, the different climates of the earth, and the vegetable forms of which they deter mine the succession, are placed one over another, stage above stage; and the laws of the decrement of beat are indelibly written on the rocky walls and the rapid slopes of the Cordilleras, in characters easily legible to the intelligent observer." As to the precise character of " Cosmos" it may be best comprehended from the subjoined paragraph : " It is not the purpose of this work to attempt to re duce all sensible phsenomena to a small number of ab stract principles, having their foundation in pure reason physical cosmography of which I attempt the exposition does not aspire to the p erilous elevation o o; l a y pure ma th ,perational adventurescience m or e t o su o c th ee e s r s s : who these depths of purely speculative philosophy, my essay on the Cosmos consists of physical geography, joined with the description of the heavenly bodies in space: its aim is to present a view of the material universe, which may rest ou the experimental foundation of the facts registered by science, compared and combined by the operations of the intellect." Such is the profound and remarkable work which has been simultaneously translated into the English language by M. Otti and by the lady of Colonel Sabine —unfortunately for the rival translators, but fortunately for the fame and popularity of the venerable and illustrious author, Alexander Von Humboldt. inkling of the want of all faith on the part of i SPO RTING INTELLIGENCE. the writer in the stability of the Republica n insti- RIPON RACES.—T EsDAYs tutions—where (at page 3) he speaks of the The Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sovs. each, Z ft, and 20 new Constitution as a " fragile performance." added. T. Y. C. A little further on he becomes still more explicit, de- Mr. 13 . Ha w ort h ' s St. Valentine, 2 yrs Keharlton ... . ) 1 daring that the outbreak of February (page 9 ) was Mr. Rickaby's bf by Touchstone , 2 y rs . 2 "the work of a party " — the exquisite absurdity Mr. B. Green's Cigarette, 3 yrs ... ... ... 3 Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs of which assertion is too glaring to require its formal Mr. Humphries's Sister to Swallow, 2 • yrs ... ... 5 te refutation. Without, however, wishing in any re- The Great St. Wilfred Handicap of 10 seers. each, 5 ft, spect to depreciate the judgment of Mr. Corkran in- and 3 only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. dividually, we are satisfied that with the bulk of his Mr. Hale's Ada Mar y , 3 yrs ... -. (Osborne) 1 readers the more valuable and agreeable portion of Mr. S. L. Fox's King Hal, 5 yrs 2 his labours will be that in which he contents himse lf Mr . Drake's Reversion, 3 yrs... ::: ... 3 .. ::: with pencilling down the portraits of remarkab le Mr. Hum p hries's Escape, 4 yrs ... ... .. 4 Frenchmen, leaving the consideration of the tendency The Amateur Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 15 added, of their proceedings to be decided by those who shall one mile, were won in three heats by Mr. Wilkins's b look back upon them from the impartial dista nce of m, by St. Martin, dam by Liverpool , beating five others. the hereafter. Some of these portraits are singularly The City Stakes of 5 soya., and 25 added , two miles , were won in two heats by Reversion, beating Tity and felicitous, all of them are more or less meritorious. Lammermuir. The men pass before us, one by one, like the figures DEBBY ..2........,......,. EDNESDAY. in a magic lantern, as distinct in outline, as vivid in The Chatsworth Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 3 only colouring. We see them before us in imagination if declared, with 50 added. One mile and a half. rather than read of them. Here is "the unprepos- Mr. Fowler's Ribaldry... ... ... (Wells) 1 sessing Cremieux," whose features are stamped with Lord Chesterfield's Chicot " the professional necessity•of adulation." Here again Mr. Sharratt's Egret ... ... ... .„ ... 3 is Louis Blanc, whose voice through the Organization Capsicum and the Probe also ran. du Travail is like "a cry that rises from his The Chesterfield Stakes ofa mile. 10 sovs. each and 50 added. Lord pierced soul against society thrilling through the Half reader : Chesterfield's br f, by Don John, out of Lam poon "Figure to yourself a very small person— Colonel Anson'sthe very .- ... ... ... ... .. (Oates) 1 . smallest you had ever seen above the species of the ch f, by Jereed, out of Muff ... 2 dwarf. With his back turned to you, yon would be in- The following also started : The Recluse , Dick's dined to suppose that the glossy black hair and drooping Hat Band, br fby Gladiator, and Midcote. s h o ulders belonged to a girl in male disguise; the face The Innkeepers' Plate of ? CO sovs. Two mile: , turned round, you were struck by t he p rominent, clear, Mr. Sharratt's Egret ... ..• ... (Denman 1 dark eyes, the o live com p lexion, and the disappearance Mr. Miner's Astley e ..• ••• ... ... ... , 2 Mr. Ha e' of effeminacy in t he stron g j aw and chin. The general Mys Gilnochi Three others started. ex pression was rather melanchol y ." One minute our attention is directed to a fair, pale, Mr. Ellis'e Acomb The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, one mile, were s!on in three heats, by somewhat bald man—it is M. Carnot, the son o (Osborne), beating K —....,..... the Organizer of Victory. Another to a tall, thin, _ Kennett and two others. - WORCESTER RACES—WEDNESDAY. sickly-looking person, wit h somewhat clumsy The Cit y Member's Plate of 501. Heats, , • k two miles. features, a little pert, and yet a l ittle p rim, with sleek Mr. W. Shirley's Novelist, 5 yrs ... (1 as er) 3 1 1 hair falling in curls to the nape o f his neck—it is M. Mr. Griffith's Apple Blossom, 5 yrs ... ... 1 2 2 Gamier Pages. On one hand is the great astronomer : Mr. Whitehouse's Reception, 3 yrs .. .23 dr " Francois Arago is a fine, stalwart old man, tall, Mr. Bluck's Spider, aged ... ..: ". 4 dis dark, and sinewy; his head is magnificent, and when be The Cup Stakes of 7 soya. each 4 ft, &c., with 25 added. is seated by other men, its vast size strikes with asto nishment amounting to awe. Standing alone, this great Mr. Johnson's bm by Lord Stafford out of Birdlime, (Evans) 1 (E development of head is not so remark able, because it isYrs Day's Milliner, 6 yrs ... ... .. 2 ••• ••• ••• ••• ... va symmetrical, for no object of fine symm etr y ever strikes Mr. J. ...added, . one the eye as disproportioned; this noble dome is furnished The Hack Stakes of 2 sovs. ea ch, and 10 mile and a quarter, were won in three heats by Mr. with thin hair, once jetty black, and not yet grey; the large eye is bold and thoughtful; the features massive Palmet's Ferry hill, 4 yrs, beating Empress of Russia, and well shaped, and altogether Arago looks a man of 4 yrs, and two others. iron frame and great intellectual power." On the other is the great poet, historian, orator, states man, diplomatist, patriot, hero—Lamartine : " We have now before us M. de Lamartine going to speak in his own name, or rather to read; and as regards M. de Lamartine, the distinction is worth making. When this gentleman puts on a pair of little black spectacles, and droops his shoulders, with which expres sive action he is forced to read, he is an old man. While delivering an harangue with his shoulders thrown back, his arm extended, his graceful figure like marble set on its socle, his voice of trumpet-like sonorousness vibrating through the ears of his audience, he is ever young." There you see M. Marie, with his high white neckcloth, his neat apparel, and his fringe of curly, sandy hair. There is Beranger, the ballad-maker, in his homely costume, with green goggles before his large, lambent eyes—his fine bald forehead—his glowing, funny little nose—his smiling, gracious mouth beaming with kind liness. Yonder is Barbes, the assassin and conspirator — pallid as death, "gargling" his words in his throat. Cormenin looks as if he could not hurt a fly—he who can crucify a reputation with sarcasm, or chaunt its apotheosis in his eulogiums. Bac is introduced to us as a Girondist who has strayed into a club of Jaco bins. Favre is depicted as one in whose featuress is perceptible the concentrated white heat of malevolent anger. Suddenly we are required to scrutinize the figure of the celebrated Abbe Lacordaire—his thin 1 stature, his handsome countenance, his lustrous eyes, 1 his fine brow, his white robe as a Dominican friar ! 1 Of him, saith the author, " he would be the modern I , Savonarola—he would reconcile Democracy with the Church." The same might be said of the Padre Ventura. M. Odilon Barrot comes before us visibly—with his Hibernian features (indicative of his Irish descent), his fine bald head, his voice like the sonorous tones of a church organ. Flocon is here, with his small, bent, thickset figure, his white swollen visage, and his dull smoked eye. Berryer, too, with language " bubbling on his lip" in a voice singularly beautiful. Here, too, is Napoleon Bonaparte, son of Jerome, ex-King of Westphalia—so like the mighty founder of his family as to resemble a spectral appearance of the Emperor. " Had Louis Napoleon such a head," says Mr. Corkran, " his popularity would be hero worship." Blanqui is sketched as one whose features are spirited and regular, with a long, thin face, high nose, and high but narrow forehead. In mentioning Caussidiere, the historian of the National Assembly remarks, that M. de Lamartine vindicated Caussidiere's conduct. "La martine, the apologist of Caussidiere !" exclaims this eye-witness. "A deep whisper ran from bench to bench : Lamartine had given a stab to his own repu tation." And yet it is this noble, generous, magnani• mous Lamartine whom M. Caussidiere has dared to attack and calumniate in the most dastardly manner in the two volumes of misrepresentation which the fugitive revolutionist has written and published during his sojourn in London. Behold the son of the re nowned Murat—" he is an exceedingly large man, very tall, and very corpulent, and in no other respect, remarkable." M. Dupin, "the Jupiter of the Cham ber of Deputies," is next delineated, and he is said to stand before the National Assembly " stripped of his forked thunderbolts." Yet M. Dupin has so far risen again to his old altitude, that he is the President of the Legislative Assembly. The sketch of Cavaignac, which is introduced subsequently, is a masterpiece —perhaps the finest of the many clever " pencillings by the way" in these ingenious volumes. We would willingly transcribe in our columns this and many other passages in the production of Mr. Corkran, but that our crowded columns forbid. Besides, we would not glean all the merits from a work which is peculiarly entitled to perusal. The estimate formed of Prince Louis Napoleon in particular is so just, so accurate, so nobly-spirited as to deserve a serious and deliberate examination. Altogether we felicitate the author upon the successful accomplishment of a labour of much responsibility. While doing all justice to France and her illustrious citizens, Mr. Corkran has written as an Englishman—for, excepting one or two points, in which he evidences a slight forget fulness of our idiom, as where he inadvertently omits the definite article (saying " for sake of indulging, &c., p. 236, 11., and " for sake of the picture, &c." p. 237, II.) the two volumes are penned in a strain of liberality, fluency, good humour, fine feeling, and occasionally eloquence, eminently befitting a citizen of the United Kingdom. CRICKET. I ZINGARI V. LEAMINGTON. This match, which commenced on Monday at Parr and Wisden's ground, Leamington, was concluded on Tues day. The following is the score:— I ZINGARI-FIRST INNINGS. E. Hartopp, Esq.—b Wisden ... Hon. R. Grimston—b Wisden ... C. Morse, Esq.—b Wisden C. J. Harenc, Esq.—b King ... 11. Vernon, Esq.—b King ... H. Fellows, Esq.—b Wisden Captain Mundy—not out ... Hon. F. Ponsonby—b Wisden ... H. B. Mayne, Esq.—b Wisden H. G. Nethercote, Esq.—b Wisden Rev. H. Pickering—run out ... B 10, w 0 Total ... ... •.• LEANINGTON-- - FIRST INNINGS. Hon. E. Leigh—b Fellows G. E. Baker, Esq —b Fellows ••• ••• Palethorpe—b Fellows ... ... ... Lord Guernsey—b Fellows ... ... R. T. King, Esq.—b Fellows ... Wisden—b Fellows ..• ••• ••• Hon. A. Wrottesley—b Fellows ..• Mr. T. L Rose—not out ... C. M. Caldecott, Etq.—b Fellows ... Rev. Anderson—b Fellows .. ... Rev. 11. Knightley—c Fellows, b Mundy ... B 7, w 3 Total I ZINGA RI-SECOND INNINGS. E. Hartopp, Es q .—c Knightley, b Palethorpe Hon. R. Grimston—b Palethorpe C. Morse, Esq.—c and b Wisden C. J. Harenc, Esq.—not out ... H. Vernon, Esq.—b Wisden H. Fellows, Esq.—b Wisden . . Captain Mundy—c King, b Wisden Hon. F. Ponsonby—b Wisden ... ... H. B. Mayne, Esq.—b Palethorpe H. G. Nethercote, Esq.—absent Rev. H. Pickering—b Wisden B 6, w 3 ... 7 ... 5 ••• 0 ... 0 ... 68 Total ... LEAMINGTON—SECOND INNINGS. Hon. E. Leigh—c Fellows, b Mundy... .. G. E. Baker, Esq,—c Ponsonby, b Harenc Palethorpe—b Fellows ••• ••• Lord Guernsey—b Mundy It. T. King, Esq.—hit wicket, b Mundy Wisden—c Morse, b Mundy ... ..• lion. A. Wrottesley—hit wicket, b Fellows... Mr. T. I. Rose—c Pickering, b Mundy ... C. M. Caldecott, Esq.— b Mundy ... Rev. Anderson—b Fellows ••• ••• Rev. IL Knightley—not out ... B 1, n b 1 Total ••• ••• ••• ••• SHEFFIELD V. YORKSHIRE. This match was commenced on Monday, at Hyde park, Sheffield, and terminated yesterday in favour of Sheffield. The score stood thus:— Hurt, c Wadsworth, b Crossland 35 b Crossland ll B. Wake, Esq., c. Nixon, b Joy 22 cG. Berry b Armit age Coates, c Wadsworth, b Crossland 9 cG. Berry, b Armit age T. R. Barker, Esq., bG. Berry 9 b Joy 0 Sampson, c Armitage, b Joy .. 23 b Joy 7 M. J. Ellison, Esq., c Dawson, b C 4 not out Crossland Wright, b Armitage 2B b Crossland .. .. 0 Chatterton, b Armitage R. F. Skelton, Esq., c G. Berry, bCrossland .... . ...... .. Ellis, cJ. Berry, b Armitage ll cJ. Berry, b Armit age B. Huntsman, Esq., not out .. 6 b Armitage B 10, w 7 n.b l7 B 10, w 3—n.b. 13 177 YORKSHIRE. Barrett, Leeds, b Barker Wright Joy, Knaresbro', c Wake, U Skel ton J. Berry, Dalton, not out 55 leg bfr. Ir. b Barker 10 Armitage, Dalton, b Skelton W. 11. Denison, Esq., Leeds, c Ellis. U Barker C. Nixon, Esq., Leeds, c Coates, b Wright 4 b Barker A. Crosland, Leeds, b Skelton ... 4 leg bfr. w, b Wright 2 G. Berry, Dalton, b Barker Wadsworth, Bradford, b Wright 8 b Wright 2 Dawson, Knaresbro', b Wright 0 b Wake ll C. Smith, Leeds, b Wright B 7, w 8, n.b. 1 MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED) FRASER. Fraser opens this month with a graphic description of the new Palm House at Kew-gardens. " Wander ings through the Conservatories at Kew," will do for Kew gardens what Professor Wilson has done for the Scottish lakes and moors, and will make the study of botany fashionable. Of political articles, we have two, one entitled " The Russians in Hungary," written in an admirable spirit ; the other on " Financial Re form," full of abuse of all who dare to hint a doubt of the perfect right of the aristocracy to plunder the people, and of the absolute duty of the people to submit to be plundered without complaint, and pro posing a union between the Protectionists and Peelites, for the purpose of passing an Act of Parliament de claring the objects sought by the Financial Reformers illegal. It is well that the people should be thus informed beforehand of the objects of the Tory fac tion : having been put in possession of the informa tion, if they ever suffer the Tory aristocracy to regain power, they will deserve all that they may meet with. Morgan Rattler, that most amusing professor of paradox, furnishes an entertaining paper on the subject of "Music in Italy," in which he proves to his own perfect satisfaction, and to the great amusement of his reader, that the Italians are not only not mu sical, but that as a nation they are positively the most unmusical on the face of the earth. Ensign Faunce continues his " Peace Campaigns," and this we are glad to say is the only continuation of the month. The article entitled " Ulrich Van Mitten and his Times" is a biographical account of that celebrated reformer, who, by his writings and his actions, deserves to be considered as one of the principal founders of the Reformation : more energetic than Erasmus, more learned than Luther, he was the friend of both, and by his attacks on the vices of the Romish priesthood, which preceded those of either of them, he first roused the attention of Europe to a sense of the ignorance, the sensuality, and the tyranny of the monks, and thus commenced the glorious movement in favour of the emancipation of the human mind from the thraldom of superstitition, which was perfected by Luther, Me lancthon, and Zuinglius. We have also an admirable drollery entitled " Our New Curate," a well-written paper on Aristophanes, and a careful analysis of Cal deron's Los Tres ilia:yores Prodigios, besides the cur rent history of the month. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The proprietors of this very able periodical have compiled a most agreeable miscellany for the present month. The number for August is less encumbered than usual with merely political matter, and we should be disposed to think the omission by no means dis pleasing to the general reader of periodical literature. The first paper is a commentary on the " Minutes of Evidence taken before the Select Committee on Irish Savings' Banks, appointed in the last Session , " ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 12th of February, 1849. The subject is one of great importance to the industrious portion of the commu • pity, and we trust Parliament will surround these admirable institutions with all the safeguards necessary for their security and encouragement. The next paper is " Scenes and Stories from the Spanish Stage—The Physician of his own Honour," from Calderon. The Spanish scholar will duly appreciate the literal trans lation and close imitation of the form and variety of the versification of the original. " Love Eternal " Is an exquisite little poem, and we regret our space will not allow us to transcribe it. The next paper is a continuation of " Ceylon and the Cinga lese." We know not if our readers will concur in these notions of feminine loveliness : " A woman's tresses should be abundant, as volumin ous as the tail of a peacock, and es long as a palm leaf of ten moons' growth; her eyebrows should be arched like the rainbow, her eyes long as the almond, and the colour dark as midnight when there is no moon. Her nose should be slender as the bill of the hawk; her lips full, ar.d the colour of red coral; her teeth small, even, closely placed together, and the colour of the pearl when it is newly taken from the oyster and cleansed. Her throat should be thick and round, like the stern of a plantain tree in full bearing. Her chest should be wide, her bosom full, and the form of a young cocoa nut, and her waist small, round, and taper, so slender that it could be clasped within two outstretched hands; her hips should be large and round, her limbs slender, and the soles of her feet without any arch or hollow, and the surface of her person should be soft, delicate, smooth, and round, neither bones, sinews, or angles visible. Not a blemish on her skin, the tint of which should be bright aad brown." The other papers are " Italy, an Allegory," " A few Words about Mosquitia and Musquitoes, ' by Major O'Connor, First West Indian Regiment ; "My Uncle Nick's Duel with Major Sabretasch, of the Buffs," by Percy Boyd, Esq.—a story well conceived and humorously written ; " Use and Abuse." The Portrait Gallery is embellished with a well executed etching of Crofton Croker, the well-known, able, amusing, and facetious Irish writer. Some remarks on Mr. Grove's book, " the Calendar of Nature," are appropriate and well merited. " The Love Songs of Horace," by Bon Gaultier, " The Sybil's glass," by Sidney Whiting, " Sonnets on Colonisation," by Aubrey de ti ere ; "Fergusson on Fortification,"—all are admirable. Indeed, altogether, we have been much gratified by a ,erusal of the present number. TEE BANKERS' MAGAZINE. The papers composing the number of this useful periodical for August are all of great importance and clearly and ably written. The article with which it opens, on the " Joint Stock Banks of London," will be read by the trading and commercial interests with pleasure as well as profit. The additional articles upon sub jects of practical importance, not only to the trading world, but to the community at large—Railway In telligence—lnformation with regard to Savings Banks—General Monetary Statistics—will be found accurate and comprehensive, as usual. Altogether the present will be found a very instructive number, and fully sustains the character of preceding ones both in quantity and quality of useful intelligence. THE _MIRROR. The contributions of Mr. Percy St. John, on ma ters relating to the modern history of France, are always welcome. Here we have two of them, the first entitled " The Aristocrat," an interesting tale of the Reign of Terror, and the other a continuation of the " Adventures of a French ofG Republican. en eral L "Lh a e ru present and chapters the preparationt the fo e funeral rh te contest in the Cloister St. Mery. This contest, like the affair of June, 1849, was got up by the Govern ment. Mr. St. John thus explains the motives of each of these treasons against the people : " When a Ministry has no resource left; when its un popularity is flagrant, glaring, evident ; when folly and wickedness have laid it so low in the opinion of the public that it has no hope left, it has one loop-hole. It gets up a conspiracy or a fight, and the timid come back to it for a while; a reaction gives it a new lease of existence. " In June, 1832, the Government pushed on the fight in every way in their power. They knew the Republi cans could not hope to rouse sympathy unless attacked first, and the Government resolved it should be attacked. " In June, 1849, a similar vile and disgraceful trick has saved the Barrot Ministry. Falling before the Ro man crime, it got up the 13th June. Rollin fell a vic tim to a conspiracy got up by the police." There is an admirable paper on " Thomas Carlyle, in this number of the Mirror, in which the writer sets him up as the hero of the present age, and worships him accordingly. According to this writer, Thomas Carlyle is the man of the age par excellence. He says— " It is remarkable how much is due to Mr. Carlyle, by many who influence the age—and do not acknowledge what they owe to him. Puseyism itself is blundering Carlylistn. It is a hero-worship that has chosen the wrong heroes. It is the metempsychosis of the religious principle into an old dead body, instead of a new body altogether. Carlyle held up his lamp—and the Puseyites hailed the light, but took the wrong way. " Then the Young Englanders were set going by Car lyle; but they, unfortunately, in their adoption of hero worship, committed the error of taking themselves to be their heroes. But nothing can be hoped from them. With them it is a fashion to be reformers. All such ape- I like imitators of the divine contortions of the Sybil pro fane the sanctuary. " The influence of Carlyle is seen in Bulwer's philso• phy ; in Mr. Disraeli's best affectations; and in the mora and independent tone and morality of Mr. Thackeray's fictions. The three words on Mr. Carlyle's banner are Wonder, Sincerity, and Work. lie has already learnt much from his writings who looks on Nature with reve rence and awe, man with fearless love ; and there could be no bette7: commendation on him, than a man with God of at his hetret and a spade in his hand." There is another gentleman whose name this writer has om itted to mention, who has been much abuse d late : by Puseyites, Young Englanders, Bulwerites, Di sr aelites, et hoc genus omne , and whose p rincipal a„c7 ma is nevertheless pure Carlylism—vve mean M. oudhon, the Communist. "It is not because of hi s toils that I lament for the poor , " s a y s Thomas , iarlyle, in his " Sartor Resartus," " we must all toil or steal (however we name our stealing), which is worse." What is this but another version of M. Proud hon's far-famed aphorism, La Propriete c'est le col? HISTORY of the NATIONAL C ONSTITU 2 Vols. By. J. F. Corhran. ENT ASSEIIiBLY. In these two lively and fascinating volumes — volumes lively from their graphic excellence, and fascinating from their romantic interesb r —Mr. Cork ran has produced a w ork destined to afford materials of extraordinary value to the future historian. Not the least of the many e xcellencies in the memorials of the National Constituent Assembly is that, besides containing an accurate and sequential narrative of the events which followed upon the first meeting of the Republican represen tatives in May, 1848, they comprise a vivid portrai ture of the many remar kable p ersona g es who fig,red the most conspicuously in those occurrences. The hand, moreover, which traced those outlines was that of an Englishman w hose good fortune it was to be an eye-witness of the extraordinary results of the Revolution of February. From an intimation con tained in the introduction, we obtain a knowledge of the circumstance that the chapters placed before us have originated from hurried notes made day by day by the author, ac cordingly as events transpired , notes put to paper 1;y hisn principally after having attended as an auditor in one of the galleries of the Assembly. As such, we .welcome the composition eagerly, and on perusal we find it evidences several internal proofs of its authenticity. Throughout the style is parti cularly animated; and considering the wonderful character of the subject pourtrayed, there is no lack of excitement during the perusal. We read on and F°URIER'S WORKS IN ENGLISH.--It is now pro- on , en thralled s carcely less by the facts recorded than posed to publish, by subscription,Fourier's Philosophical tile, from La . Phalange Review, "On the Passions by the manner in which those facts are described. Re of cw" Human Soul." The works of this French Socialist On entering the new-born Parliament of French 10 blicanism under the guidance of Mr. Corkran, we ar of great interest to whoever would understand the ` u working of continental Europe, in which the ideas pro- are not less 'struck than he is by the fact that "the order of established Parliaments was reversed," and pounded by this , head of the leading Socialist school mingle us a most important element. No doubt, also,wa y reputation these works contain some practical suggestions that may and eminence." All the as he expressks it, that " the difficulties were in facilities,the of be of use to this c o u ntry in the investigation of the were for the unknown; yet as the history developes questions that are pressing u pon its notice, as colonial itself we recognise the gradual and almost impercep empire, public education, public health, the peace clues - tible approach of the " moral" of those solemn and tion, finance, and many others, of which the fertile affecting annals, that the old ll ow reputathtions inevita are ble by genius of Fourier has treated with great orig inalit y' . degrees in the ascendan. Foing e C HEST ER AND HOL YHEAD RAlLwAY._Traffic for order of nature , the som thrown sides up to and the surface in week ending August 5, - the per t ur bation of ciety ' lls. 11d.; parcels, c., 48/, 16s. ltd.; goods , lB49 : —Coaching traffic, sub, thgreat men of the past become once raore the influential men 2361. 3s. 7d.; steam-boats, 2581. 2s. 10d.---. in the present. rgom the very outset we obtain pa ' 15e, 3c1., exolusive of Moils and Wolf. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS I)AY.) 2%3ENATGATE AND MEADE/VI:EAT-Jr.. Primo Beef and Mutton commanded a steady sale, at full prices. Otherwise the trade was in a sluggish state. Beet, from 2s 2d to 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 10(1; Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Veal, 2s 10d to 3s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 3s 10.1 per 81b. by the carcase. EAT MAMICETS. S MIT HFIELD.— Old Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 3 / 153 ; New ditto, 21 5s to 31 Os; Old Clover, 4/ Os to 41 158; New ditto, 31 to 4l; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 12s pm load. A full average supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 3/ 16;; New ditto, 21 5s to 3/ Oa; Old Clover, 3/ 18s to 4114 s ; New ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ Os; and Straw, 11 6s to 11 12s per load. Supply moderately good, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 3/ Os to 3/ 15s New ditto, 2/ 58 to 3/.; Old Clover, 41 Os to 4/ 15s; New ditto, 31 Os to 4/ Os; and Straw, 11 6s to 1/ 12s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. MEAT ramcETs. SOUTHALL, AUG. s.—Our market to-day was fairly supplied with each kind of fat stock, the demand for which was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 48 2J; Lamb, 4s to 4s 10d; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs, to sink the offal. R O MFORD, AUG. B.—Prima Beasts and Sheep moved off steadily, at fully last week's quotations. In all other kinds of stock very few sales took place. Beef, from 3s 4d to 43 Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Lamb, 4s to 4s 10d; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8f; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 255; Quarter -old Store Pigs, 163 to 21s; air.i Milch Cows with their small Calf, 16/. to 181. each. LEWIS, AUG. 7.—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Lambs, 43 to ss; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per 81bs. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. COAL MARKE' Buddle's W. Hartley 15s °di Chester Main l4s MI klasting's Hartley lss OS Holywell Main lss Od North Percy Hartley.. 15s Od. Old Tantield 'Canfield Moor ranfield Moor Butes l2a Oft Townley l4s 0& West Wylam Wall's End, &c. ;T.—YESTERDAY. ,Haswell l7s 9d !Lumley 16s Od Morrison lss 66 learadoc .... .. . _ _ _ . Howdon lss 6d lieugh Hall Hese'den Kelloe l6s 9d West Hetton l6s OJ Adelaide Tees Clavering Tees ...... 14s 6d Denison West Pease Seymour Tees Tees ..... l7s 6d DerwentwaterHartley 15s Od Hartley Ships at market, 62. Brown's l4s 6el Bensham Northumberland Walker Eden Main l6s 9d Bell Belmont l6s 9d Hetton CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Aug. 2, 1849, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I EASLEY.' OATS. RTE. BEANS. I PEAS. PRICE .. 148 s Od I 26s 3d I 193 4d 25s 6d 31s 10d 32s Id DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BAILEY. I OATS. I EYE. BEANS. PEAS. Is Od Is Od is Od is Od lis Od is Od SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) BENNETT V. LIVESEY. This was an action. to recover the sum of 11/. ss. for rent of a house in Ladbnry-road, Bayswater. There was no defence, and a verdict was given for the amount claimed. EI:LUJAN V. NILES. This was an action to recover the sum of 121. on a bill of exchange, of which defendant was the drawer. The defence ware, that defendant did not make the said bill of exchange. The only point in the case was, that on the second count on the account stated de fendant had suffered judgment to go by default, so that the case came nefthre the Court as a writ of trial on the first count, and an inquiry on the second. The jury gave r. verdict for the plaintiff on both counts. The other cases lacard this morning were not of the slightest interest. BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TUN BRII)GE WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY COM PANY.—(TAIL DAY.) A meeting of the -allottecs was convened to-day, pur suant to the following advertisement:— " At the request of some of the most respectable al lottees of this conr2any, I beg to call a meeting of the members of that hady, for the purpose of considering the most effective means of resisting the claims made against them in the it character of allottees and con tributories. " The meeting wild take place at my offices on Thurs day next, the 9th in st. 2 _at one o'clock precisely. 66 JO7O I 11 ARRISON, 5, New-inn, Strand. " Aug. 6, 1.849.'' It was stated, hew ever, that the proceedings would be confined to the def er ce of the allottees, and as that was necessarily a privalo matter, reporters were not admitted to the meeting. THE MURDJER AT BERMONDSEY. (THIS DAY.) This morning a n inquiry was opened by Mr. W. Carter, the coronet;.,, at the Coopers' Arms tavern, Ras sell•street, Bermor ,6L•ey, touching the death of a newly born male child, f mind in a field. The jury havin been been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which was ing in the Bermondsey workhouse. Its appearance g a ,re unmistakeable evidence of great violence having n used. Upon the retu es) . of the jury, the first witness called was Henry William Seymour, a lad residing at No. 9, Grove Southvale, ho stated that on Tuesday last, about a quarter past tvve. lye o'clock, whilst playing under an arch of the South-) ?Astern Railway, he came to a part adjoining a gardeil, and whilst in the act of jumping on a low wall he saw the naked body of a child lying on the earth. Edwin Lefont, dice-constable 159 M, said he was called to the spit on the day in question, and took charge of the body , which was quite fresh and in a state of nudity. There were several scratches on the face, and marks of vio'.ei ice about the neck. The deceased was lying by the '.(3 of the boundary wall of the rail way, and was on the grounds of Zetr. Abraham Shep herd, a market-ga rc ;ever. Witness examined the arches and places adjacm at , but could not find any article of clothing. There hs a public footpath under the railway, and any person p .sing by could easily throw the body over the wall. T• s, o females were in custody on suspi cion of having plc& ed the body in the position it was found. No clue of : a decided nature had been dis• covered. Mr. James Paul,, surgeon, had made a post mortem t and filled examination, t he e ands ri ty o f ?c •o? d t hat theh the e lungs est They were floated fully p inflated ue n being placed in w at er, and the other parts of the body were fully devel or , ed. Witness could not state the actual course of d 3ath, but he believed the child was born alive. Sergeant Robe r is stated that he apprehended two females shortly of 't 3r the discovery was made, and he thought that it a L'hort time was allowed he should be able to bring hoc le the case to some one. The females had been medic ally examined, and they were both healthy. The CORONER o bserved that if there was a chance of getting more dE •ei ded evidence they must adjourn the quiry. Sergeant Reber .s added that the females were residing at Limehouse, sir d most probably the deceased was brought from that district, where every means would be used to discover tl le guilty parties. The jury thong'. at an adjournment was absolutely ne cessary, and the 13 roceedings were postponed fora week. T HE CHOLERA. RET'GRN OF CASES, AUG. 8. Attacks. Deaths. In London and vii cinity, viz.:— Lambeth .... Bermondsey . ... ... Strand Union Whitechapel ... ... Camberwell Other localiti es in London In England and Wales, viz.:— Liverpool ... ... Merthyr Tycl•vil Dowlais Plymouth .... Holy well ... Other towns in England ... In Scotland, viz, : Dundee ... Other, towns in Scotland ... ... 34 ... 30 ... 18 ... 14 ... 99 ... 76 ... 37 ... 50 ... 155 Total 243 THE CHOLERA IN WALES. The following cases have occurred from the 3d k) ten A.M. Aug. 7:— Merthyr Dowlais Aberdare Attacks. Dee ►#.h:Q. ... 79 ... 136 ... 16 231 85 Total of cases in Merthyr, from May 23—At tacks, 1,551 ; deaths, 659. Total in Dowlais, from June 10 to ten A M. Aut ;. Attacks, 798; deaths, 341. Total in Aberdare from June 24 to ten A.M. AIN r 7 Attacks, 247; deaths, 49. Total of the three places—attacks, 2,596; deaths, 't,049. Cases at Brynmawr end Nantyglo from last Tuesday morni.ag—attacks, not known; deaths, 39. .&t Crickhowell, since Thursday last—Attack, I, n ot known; deaths, 2. At Abergavenny, Aug. 7 Deaths, 1. THE PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY. — Yest , ?ra av evening a general meeting of the supporters of this in stitution and the committee of management was h tii 1 at the London Tavern, for the transaction of general ' busi ness. The report stated that since the society's it allies. tion, in 1827, 155 pensio ners h ave b een e lected, a at I th a t 1 55 are now receiving its benefits. The males r eceiv e 14/. and the females 9/, each per annum. Notvvit ,h t s ,ind ing there had been a deficiency of 501. in the ar 0 . year / were) I:sub scriptions during the past year, the increase of • 21/ had been divided among tha pensioners, and t' ne o , - ' intend still further to raugment the pensi ons to Immittee an extent of nearly 1001. per - . fear, to aid which i t is ho will be an increac,ed number of s , :;b scr ib ped there ceipts from all The .e,q sources for the post ers : 1,213/. 16s. 11.1 The expenditure was 1,14' leaving a valance of 661. 15s. , 4d. The fur "7 ~ Is. 70., the 61 / 2 ° ; 111:11. 4 - to 5,2091. ss. 7d., the interest of ded property 2,462 t. 125, Bd . which produces cattle, &C., a n ‘ 4 . 091219 of 1994 Wotul, 3,005 i, --- THE BURGER AND BRIGHTON LEO NORA; or Romance versus Railway. Parodies are little to our taste ; and travesties of anything sublime or pathetic are our utter abomina tion. It cannot, therefore, be surprising that neither the pen of J. W. Warre Tyndale nor the pencil of K. A. Drake can obtain from us any commendation. The noble and solemn beauty of Burger's " Leonora," one of the finest ballads in any language, is of all things the least adapted to the exigencies of burlesque. Hence, in regard to the present volume, what may, perhaps, be very facetious in itself, appears to us to be a nonsensical desecration of a splendid original. NEW MUSIC. "OF WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, JENNY ?" and "I'M THINKING NOW OF THEE, JAMIE." Sung by Miss Birch. Published by Dalmaine and Co. These companion songs, we predict, will become immediate favourites with the lovers of the cantabile style. The melodies of each are easy and flowinq, and adapted with admirable skill to the pathetic strain of the words. There is a touching tenderness of character about them which cannot fail to arrest the attention, and, if well executed, by either a mezzo 'soprano or the sonorous tones of a contralto (especially if the voice be entirely "di petto") they do more than attract —they stir the heart, as well as enchain the ear. The symphonies are peculiarly graceful, and the embellishments throughout introluced with unexcep tionable taste. - - JEANIE AND DONALD. The Poetry by Stuart Farquharson, D.C.L. The Music by G. A. Ilodson. Here we have a ballad which, with an appropriate illustration, speaks to us of conjugal felicity, even in the autumn of life, when the locks are "touched with silver," and the lines of beauty become as a dream, shadowy and indistinct. The charm of this song lies in its artistic simplicity. Both poet and composer appear to have travelled hand in hand to the fount of inspiration, there to quaff simultaneously the same draught of sentiment. There is also a freshness and originality in the composition which renders it scarcely I less attractive than its admired predecessors. FINE ARTS. THE ART JOURNAL. Turner's wonderful painting of " Ve nice," copied i by n llmore from the original in the Vernon Gal lery, is the principal feature in the Art Journal for August; and exquisitely has the graver imitated the miraculous production of the brush. Etty's charm ingly coloured " Penitent,"engraved by Bacon, and WT e stmacott's graceful statue of " Ephrosple, engraved by Roffe, are the companion illustratrn. One of the most striking contributions to the periodi cal this month is the article on " The National Exposition at Paris," profusely embellished with woodcuts. Mrs. S. C. Hall makes her pilgrimage this time to the tomb of Sir Richard Lovelace. The rest of the is peculiarly interesting. GALWAY AND ENNIS JUNCTION order in Chancery .has been issued for this COPPADY'a Offgro. POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTIO A novelty of a highly interesting character was in troduced to the notice of the numerous visitors to this excellent institution yesterday. It consisted of a new series of dissolving views illustrative of various points in the "eternal city "—Rome—accompanied by an interesting descriptive discourse, delivered by Mr. J. Russell ; thus, as it were, at once combining in the mos t acceptable form two great q ualities, amusemein and instruction. A more able lecturer than r. Russell could not 'well have been selected, his classic reading and knowledge enabling him to present a fund of useful information at the same time that his abilities as a lecturer give him the power of rendering his dis (*.use as it were familiar to all his hearers. The views are twelve in number, artistically and correctly painted, and are exhibited in the large theatre recently constructed in the Institution. The lecturer introduced his subject by alluding to the improved method of present travelling, which served, he said, almost to bring the continent to us. For merly it was thought a journey of several days to Dover, now it could be reached in two hours and a half. The first view was of Toulon, which the de scriber, said was, doubtless, from its peculiar structure and other causes, of Roman origin ; it contained an arsenal, in which every requisite for the building and fitting-out cf ships for the navy was to be found. Civita Vecchia, which followed, was, said the lecturer a surprising proof of the popularity and notice which steam navigation had been the means of bring into of towns and places which would otherwise have been disregarded, and comparatively unknown ; this place, too, was also remarkable, as the port of debarkation of the French army after their late "friendly visit. The villa of Monte Maria was then shown, followed by the famous Tiber. This river was described as still over flowing its banks as it did in the days of the poe Virgil. Many of the little streets which were these con tiguous to its banks were inundante overflows took place. The Bridge a Angelo, with the effect of the Girandola, were shown. ddCawstle of St. lecturer said its sylvan heights had Mount Aventine was also i n t ro duced, heen of p w e ' o h p i l c e h a t b h y e fauns, nympbhst, to m m ,er a e ny nu o w f been convents.erected, p on u te which moiie superseded the early poets with el i sl ' a i b a dy z z a del Popolo, then follow in rapid Of Ferrara, which terminates the series, inA whomnne Ancona, ay , pandl tombsae succession. Mr. Russell remarked, that it appeared to be a fated city, for, owing to the humidity of the atmosphere, no living things save frogs could thrive in it. Here it was that Tasso was - imprisoned by Alfonso, chained with madmen ; and here, too, stood the tomb of Ariosto, the orna men t s o f w hi c h were on one occasion struck by lightning, which fact gave rise to Lord Byron's beautiful stanza— " The lightning rent from Ariosto's bust— The iron crown of laurel's mimick'd leaves, Nor was the ominous element unjust, RAILWAY.—An For the true laurel-wreath which glory weaves, the winding-up of Is of the tree no bolt of thunder cleaves, &c." The exhibition W applauded. he even. ing a clever lecture on " Ancient Minstrelsy" was delivered by Mr. G. Soane; the wanderings of the Troubadours and their adventures and tongs forming the subject•matter of the lecture. Mr. Soane is ably assisted by Misses Clara and Rose Soane. The music, both to this and to the dissolving views, has been arranged with great taste and care by Dr. Wallis, the Musical Professor to the institution. THE QUEEN IN DUBLIN. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH .) DUBLIN, WEDNES D A Y N IGHT . • Thi3 morning, at nine o'clock, an inspe c ti on o f th e regiments of cavalry quartered in D u bli n took place in Phenix park, in presence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who appeared on horseback, and was much cheered by the admiring crowds. At 1 o'clock her Majesty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the royal suite, left the Vice- Regal Lodge to hold a levee at the Castle. The entrance to the park and the whole carriage drive were lined by well-dressed groups, who most cor dially saluted her Majesty as the royal carriage passed. The bridges and quays on both banks of the Liffey were crowded from twelve o'clock with ex pectant spectators of the cortege, and every street in Dublin through which it had to pass presented an animated throng, who vociferously applauded her Majesty and the Prince. Carriages commenced setting down gentlemen who had the entrée before noon,. 'and a long succession continued to pour fotth Their gaily attired occupants till half-past one, when the loud shouts of loyal acclamations from those assembled without announced to those within the Castle walls that her Majesty approached. The military immediately presented arms ; the band of the Enniskilleners struck up the National Anthem; the drlploia_.,escort rode into the quadrangle at a dishing pace, and the royal carriage drove to the state entrance amidst repeated bursts of enthusiastic applause. Her Majesty, attended by the Prince Consort, Sir George Grey, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl For tescue, the Marquis of Breadalbane, end the other officers of state, then held a Court. Seven addresses were presented to her Majesty and answers returned, which, with the presentations , to the number of 1,981 names, we must reserve till to-morrow. Nothing could exceed the rejoicing enthusiasm of her Majesty's reception everywhere this day. The review and drawing•room _take place to morrow. - er Majesty will lunch on Friday with the Duke of Leinster, at Carton, about 14 miles from Dublin, and return to Pbcanix Park i❑ the afternoon, and proceed thence on board the Royal yacht for Belfast and Scotland the same evening. REPRESENTATION OF KIDDER- MINSTER. 20 ~ 42 ~ 23 10 ...135 ... 10 ... o ... 21 ... 0 ... 0 ... 0 ... 9 ... 1 ... 0 ... 1 ... 10 ... 51 ... 10 ... 28 ~ 19 23 84 KIDDERMINSTER, WEDNESDAY. -- A host of persons have been named in various quarters as candidates for the representation of this borough, vacated by the unexpected decease of the late lamented Member, Mr. Godson. The event has caused considerable ex citement here, and speculation is very busy as to his successor. In all probability there will be a strong contest for the vacant seat, seeing that it has been very closely contested at every election except the last, since it was created a borough on the passing of the Reform Act. Sir W. Winnington, Bart., late M. P. for Bewdley, Thomas Gisborne, Esq., late M.P. for Nottingham, the Hon. Spencer Lyt.tleton, Mr. Samson Ricardo (who contested the borough with Mr. Godson in 1841), Mr. J. H. Palmer, of the Chancery Bar, and in all likelihood others, whose names have escaped notice, have been named as can didates on the Liberal interest. In the Conservative interest rumour has been equally busy with the following:—Mr. John 13isst, son of Mr. W. B. Best, of the Oxford Circuit ; dr. W. IL Cooke, of the same circuit • Mr. J. S. Lea, the Hon. Captain Carnegie, formerly M.P. for Stafford; the Hon. Dudley Ward, and " though last, not least," Mr. James Quin, a resident umbrella maker or mender, who, in an address, denounces " deceptive Whiggery—the political curse of the nation, who are but wolves in sheeps' clothing." Notwithstanding this imposing array of rumoured candidates, Mr. John Best is the only one who has as yet announced himself; and he is to address the electors this evening, but it is doubted whether the terms upon which he will allow himself to be put in nomination will be acceptable to a majority of the electors. It is understood that Mr. Best has been presented with a requisition soliciting him to become a candidate. At a preliminary meeting of the Liberal electors, held at the Black Horse Inn, yesterday evening, it was resolved unanimously—" That Thomas Gisborne, Esq., from his long Parliamentary experience, and from his well-known and proved opinions on the sub jects of free trade and financial reform, is a fit and proper person to represent this borough in Parlia ment." In accordance with the resolution, a requi sition to that gentleman was drawn up and signed by the electors present. Mr. Gisborne formerly sat for Derbyshire ; he is a Reformer of the Hume and Cobden school. The constituency of Kidderminster numbers up wards of 500, and is pretty equally divided between Whig and Conservative. EMIGRATION TO NATAL. On Tuesday the Dreadnought sailed from Gravesend with 120 cabin, intermediate, and steerage passengers for Port Natal, being the third vessel dispatched this season _ _ for that rising colony, by Mr. J. C. 113-roe, since he ob tained those concessions from the Emigration Commis sioners that have enabled him to confer land in . the ratio of passage money, a steerage passenger acquiring twenty acres for 101., priority of choice being se cured according to the date of entrance on each ship's books. Originally Mr. Byrne was restricted by Government to the location of five hundred settlers; but the manner in which he sent out his first two ships, 1 the respectability, intelligence, and comparative afiluence of the passengers, and their general eligibility for the colony, so favourably impressed the Commissioners, that they have extended the concession so as to embrace 2,000 adults; and there is little question that the same liberality on the part of the home executive will ac company the reception here of each succesive report from the authorities in the colony, similar to those that have reached us since the publication of Governor Sir P. Maitland's communication to Lord Stanley, in March, 1846. The Dreadnought is au entirely new vessel, never having been at sea before, and is expressly built and fitted up to ply between London and Natal. She more resembles a private yacht than an ordinary emigrant vessel; and space is so economised by the in troduction of all the most modern improvement in the shape of patent ventilating, cooking, and other appoint ments, that the passengers enjoy a degree of accommo dation attainable only in the largest and most expensive sailing packets. The classification is most complete. Each compartment has an infirmary, and all domestic requirements to itself, adapted to either sex; and hot and cold baths are available at the discretion of the doctor, whose surgery is on a scale seldom observable in a mode rate sized vessel, though there is little apparent present necessity for such unusal precaution, as a more healthy set of emigrants, whether men, women, or children, could not be seen. They are of a very superior . class, in their respective stations, the humblest being possessed Rise with Within it h pre cedent the of capital, in goods or money, that would bo regarded as considerable in a corresponding rank of American very or even Australian emigrants. They were in the best possible spirits on their departure at the prospect. before them, animated by the expectancy of equalling in pros perity those that had preceded them, and stimulated by the assurance that large numbers of their countrymen are about to follow in regular and rapid succession; for already the next vessel on the station is, to a consider able extent, engaged for passage and freight, the latter chiefly consisting of agricultural implements, of which the Dreadnought on Tuesday took out a great deal, as well as mechanics' tools, and general merchandise. Pre vious to sailing, Mr. Byrne, according to the excellent custom he has adopted, entertained the passengers at Pallister's Falcon Hotel, Gravesend, and having given them a résumé of the latest information from Natal, in cluding the actual condition of the emigrants whose pro ceedings had been reported upon, he addressed some admirable instructions and advice as to their conduct. during their voyage and on their arrival, inculcating obedience to the captain and the surgeon, as the e rc fi i r n t essentials to their ow* safety and comfort, the observance of morality and decency de portment, both on their own account, an ntrary course of the females and children, whom stareydm fo a words r nd th e e enforcing the andak sake o g f p . :s s e ed much gratitude action would scandalise. for the co-operation h awl a e)s,tyear assisted resultsa h o ef superabundance purposed u t the r o p a G o n t sh d e e re dmblidereeceirved from Government, whereby l a d to a realise a far greater degree ' whereby he ' °P the fact that those , and mutu allyh have gone buted most of it !o. _ o f giving way to the dissensions and jea o of possiblyp Fosp ebieletynwfbaosr e t e h d a a b f s o e e r t t l i e n r s t h i ne timea 1 b t u h t a h n e c a o l u s l o d out, instead lousier observable elsewhere,community encouraged each dh adopted oth er a t hn individuals.ed the colony hinself, and on his return he felt persuaded that he should be armed o v f is a it d in d g itional facts in support of what he 114(1 been so long asserting in his books, in public lectures, or by private correspondence, that Natal was le best colony for emigration in the British dominions. aagnaianndDutch emigrants REPRESENTATION OF WEST SURREY.—GUILD. FORD, WEDNESDAY.—A , new candidate for the repro sentation of the western division of the county of Surrey, has appeared in the person of Mr. Thurlow, a gentleman who previously was the unsuccessful candidate for Guild ford. Mr. Thurlow entertains liberal opinions, similar to those held by Mr. J. J. Briscoe, whose address is already belore the electors. There appears to be a very consi derable doubt on the subject o f Mr. Freshfield's be coming a candidate. The Protectionists are canvassing in his behalf with great zeal, but A. Ir. Freshfield has made no official announcem ent of his intentions. Mr. Shaw, of the Murk-lane Express, has been spoken of, but it is quite uncertain at present whether ho will start. Both parties arc resolve d to put cut their whole strength, in member Belgium, where of the so that t a keen co ntest may be anticipated. he haßomansrecTeiryieud% Trium virate, to reside. wife is a Belgian. I\l. itaks;n:lerlrliivneiA