The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-09 00:00:00

i T - - - - - -7 .77 -'7 7 -VAT- - tteari le f i kW O V 44-- : Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 .. 414 ...... ..... .. 41'2 Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 Do. lA Shares (A)... 10 ...... Leeds and Bradford 5O lOO% 100—...... 100 Leeds and Thirsk ..... . 50 Ditto. New ...... ....... LO Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3% — Do., Pref. Quar., 1813 9 ...... Liverpool, Crosby and Southport. 10 London &Blackwall l 2 l/i 4 London, Brighton, and South C0a5t........ 50 Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... ... . . Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 Ditto, New Si., guar. _ 6 per cent. .._ 5 LondonandGreenwich 12/1584d... ... ...... . ... Ditto, Preference .. . 20 Ltndon and N. Western 100 129% ... ,% 124 Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifths Do. 404 Shares (L.M. ) :.' 0 Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1 ...,.. Lon A. &S. We t.rn ..... 50 . .. ... Ditto, New LO/. ....« 425(...... lio. New 404 34 Ditto, Thirds 164138.41.... 5 1 4 dis. ...... .. 5 1 4 dis. Do., New Scrip, 1848, I, ef. 7 per Cent, on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls ...... 5 Londonderry&Colerain, 23 . — _...»........ Do. % Shares ... 3 14 Londonderry and Enms kilen 25 ..... Do. % Shares 5 ...... Manche,ter,Bukton,and Matlock 5 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 •• ad - Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 Do. Ili, Shares (No. 3) 12% Do. / New 101. Pref..... 10 .....« Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 — Ditto ditto . ....«... 17 Ditto ditto Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2O . ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 - Do., Manchester and Lincoln Union. .... 41.25. — hiidland ...... ........ ...100 Do. ConsolilatedPref.100 Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 ... .. 16% L/ 5 16% Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do.Consol.Bristol and Birming., 6 per,ct....100 127 Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 40 ...... ..... ...... Ditto ditto .... .18/.125.6d.... Do.,ErevrzshVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo tildland Great Western Irish 47% ..... ............. 111 .ddlesbro' and Redcar, ,6 per cent. truar. I\ ev, casitle and Carhsle.100 Do. Quarters memmarket 1 )o. Extension A ewport, Abergavenny, and ilereford r 6 Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, Warrenpoint, _ - and hostrevor 2O - Norfolk 100 Do. New 201. Do. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20 Do. Guaranteed s%pc. 5 Do. Lowestoft(4 per ct) 20 Ditto (6 per ct.) - ,_ Do. do. Waveney Val. 2 ...... N irthern Counties Union 4 ...... N)rth B, itish ........ ... 25 ..... 13 Ditto, Halves .. Ditto, Quarters Ditto, Thirds ........8 1 4 .. .. ... — Ditto Preference . 2% North Staffordshire ... 17% 12% 12 ex.int. 12 x.i North Wales . 3% North-Western . 13% — ••. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton - Beading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 Royston and Hitchin ... 4%..... ex.int......... x.i Scottish Central Scottish Midland „ Ditto, New Shrewsbury tnd Birm... 11 ...... 4% 4% Ditto ditto, Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 ,Shrev,sbury and lierefd. 3 'hrewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... Ditto Oswestry Ditto New Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10 Shropshire Union South Devon Do. Preference So tth Staffordshire B% — Sbuth Eastern Do., No. 1 D o., N 0.2. Do., Registered No. 4 10 .., Do., Scrip No 4 oouth w ales South Yorkshire, Don- caster, and Goole lO Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 14% — ... Do. do (Sou. Div.) ..• 5 mese .." 0 Swans. lk Loughor & Ca meron's Stm. C0a1.... 7 Law Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway .. 17%...... V.ile of Neath ... .. ...... 8 Waterford and Bilk enny 20 ...... 3 .. Waterford and Limerick 47% Waterid,Wxfrd Wicklw _ aad Dublin - . .....•• •••••• -- Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... .. Do. do. do. ... 25 „ Do, do. . do. ... 15 ...., ..... ... , — West C ornwa ll VY hitehaven & Furness 16 VV indsor, Staines, and _South Western ..... ... 12 ...... Wilts, Somerset,& Wey- Mouth fork, Newcastle, and Berwick. ...... ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 Do. G.N.E.Pref erence 8 ... - 3'4 Do. Hartlepool Dock and Rail% ay York anti Nurtli Midland 50 Ditto, Preference ...... 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYS Anglo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5 •••••• Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of France (Or leans and Vierzou)... 20 Demerara 17% Dutch Rhenish ......... 7%..... _ East Indian ..•••.••• ..... 34 3 7 /8 3% Great Indian Peninsular 5 , ..... _ ... ......... Do. D 0.... . -. 10s. ...... Louvain dla Sambre ... 7% —.... .— Luxembourg • • --- Ditto Madrid and Valentia 2 ....... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... •• „ Northern of France l4l. 85... dis. ex.i dis.z.i Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... Paris and Orleans ...... 20 - Paris and Rouen 2O .••••.• Paris and Strasbourg ... 11 ...... ••••••••••••••• „Rouen and Havre ...... 20 ...... ounibre and Meuse ...... 20 ••• .• S trasbourg and Basle ... 14 Tours and Nantes ll ...... Tourney, Jurbise, Lan den, an d Hassell •••••• 20 ...... west Flanders 8 3%.. ••• Ditto •.. .. JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia British North American 50 Colonial Commercial of London 20 LOndon.Joint Stock London & Westminster. 20 ...... 211 1 % ex.div 9 1 1 4 x.d National Prov. England. 35 Ditto New... ..... ...... 10 National of Ireland 22%,..... Provincial of Ireland ... 25 ...... 89 t 4 .... ... 39 I- 1 Ditto, New ... •• ••••• 10 ...... _ Union of Australia ••• •• Ditto,New... ...... •• ••• 2 %...... Union of London,... . ..... 10 ..... ... ex.div — x.d 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. WExFonn, Ana. 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. 8:b, Hope, Bombay; Emma, Gibson. Mauritius; Xarifa, Rossignol, Laguna; E. G. Hartshorn, New York. Sld. 7th, Conquest, Gape. Bth, Leonora, Demerara; Annunciation, Havannah; 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, Delgarno, Port Philip; Dreadnought, Bidder, Port Natal; Atlantic, Hughes, Honduras; Hymen, Dring, Quebec; Rosshire, Feaster, Quebec. Arrd. from the river and Sid. Bth, Samuel Enderby, Henderson, New Zealand; Olive Branch, Hud eon,_FF DARTMOUTH.—Sarah, Quebec. O Higgins, Port o R i co, for Bremen; Daniel, Port-au-Prince, for Rotterdam; Gen tille, Ledemilo Matanzas, for St. Petersburgh. BELFAST, AUG. 7.—Wind W.—Arrd. 6th, Urgent, Pollock, Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, AUG. s.—Sld. Albion, Quebec; M e . dusa, ditto. ALNWICK, Ana. 6.—Sid. Thompson, Burton, Quebec. SWANSEA, AUG. B.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Anne Smith, Adelaide, South Australia. CARDIFF, Aua. s.—Wind S.—Sld. 7th, Eldon, Quebec. BRISTOL, Aug. B.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Protector, - Crouch, Mauritius. k OFF PLYMOUTH, AUG. B.—Maitland, Port Philip. BRISTOL, AUG. 13§ecbus, Edward's 'IU! , ..N ti IC - 1 1 4 41 Nr T.) 0 Ifit; TFt'RS Vs A Y ~.,:-~. MARKET NEWS —(THIS DAY.) NMWGZ-_ 1 7.7. 23 LIZ-P.M.MNI-A.4:-Za... Prim Beef and Mutton commanded a ;:te:v - V sale, r.t full pilafs. Otherwi:e the trade was in a Elu;gi , ;ll state. Beef, from 2s 2 1 to 3s 4d ; Muttc.ll, 2s Sd to 33 101; Lamb, 3s 10d to 4s 10d; Ve:.l, 2s 101 to 3s 6d ; and Polk, 3s to 3s 10d per Sib. by the carcase. EtAy mari=l - ncs. SNITIIFIELD.-01,1 Meadow flay, 31 03 to 31 153; New ditto, 2/ 5s to 3/ Os; Old Clover, 4/ Os to 41 Iss; New ditto, 31 to 4/; and Straw, 11 Os to 1/ 123 per cad. A full average supply, and a heavy de mand. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 3( Os to 31 16;; New ditto, 2/ 5s to 3103; Old Clover, 3/ 183 to 41145; Nevn dittf,, 31 Os to 4/ Os; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 11 12s per load. Supply moderately gocd, and trade dull. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Mea , iow Hay, 3/ Os to 31 153 New ditto, 2/ 5s to 31.; Old Clover, 41 Os to 4/ 15s; New ditto, 3/ Os to 4l Os; and Straw, 1/ Cs to 1/ 12s per load. Trade dull, at the above quotations. NEAT IVILLIZIEMTI3. SOUTHALL, AUG. B.—Our raraket to-day was fairly d with each kind of fat stook, the demand for which was steady, at full prices. Beef, from 33 44 to 4s; Mutton, 33 4d to 43 2d; Lamb, 43 to 43 103; Veal, 33 to 3s 8d; and Pork, 33 4.1 to 3s 10d per 81b3, to rink the offal. — ROMFORD, AuG. 13 , :asts and Sheep moved off steadily, at fully last wetk's quotations. In all other kinds of stock very few sales toA place. Beef; from 3s 4d to 43 Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Lamb, 4s to 4s 103; Veal, 3s 23 to 3s 8 ; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 'Ss to 255; Quarter• old Store Pigs, 16s to 21s; and Mulch Cows with their small Calf, 161. to 181. each. _ - , Lr,wis, AUG. 7.—Berf, from 3s 4d to 4,2 cl; Mutton, 33 4cl to 4s 2d; Lambs, 4s to ss; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 8c1; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 10d per Blbe. A moderate supply, and a steady trade. COAL MARK E' Buddle's W. Hartley 15s Odl Chester Main l4s 3d, Hasting's Hartley lss Odl Holywell Main .... 15s 0,1 North Percy Hartley lss Od' Old Tanfield Canfield Moor ... 13s Od Canfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Townley l4s Odl West Wyl am Wall's End, &c. T.— YESTEIIDAY. IHaswell l7s 9d Lumley l 6s Od 'Morrison lss 6(i Caradoe ..... ....., 166 9d 'llowdon Heugh Hall Heseidea I Kelloe l6s Sd \Vest Hetton l6s 0,1 Adelaide Tees Clavering Tees .. 14s 6d Denison West Pease Seymour Tees Tees Derwentwater Hartley Ir . s Od ilartley —...... Ships at market, 62. • Brown's 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. 1 BARLEY.' 1 OATS. RYE. BEANS. PEAS. 1 PRICE .. 48s Oct 26s 3d 19s 4d I 25s 6d , 31s 10d 323 Id DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I C. 1 BEANS. I PEAS. IS Oct Is Od Is Oct. Is Oct Is Oct 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 Ledbnry-road, Bayswater. There was no defence, and a verdict was given for the amount I claimed. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED). FRASER. Fraser opens this month with a graphic deseription of the new Palm House at Kew-gardens. " Wander ings through the Coeservatories et 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 pelitical articles, we have two, one entitled " The Russians in Hungary," written in au admirable spirit ; the other on " Financial Re form," full of akuse 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 Puffer the Tory aristocracy to regain power, they will deserve all that they may meet ith. 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 Ilutten 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 cn the vices of the Rornish 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 superetitition, 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 car&ul analysis of Cal deron's Los Tres Illayores Prodigies, besides the cur rent history of the month. LITERATURE. BUMBOLDTS COSiTiOS. Cosmos : Sketch of a PI ysicul Description of the Universe. By Alexander Von llumboiJt. 2 Fols. Translated under the Superintendence of Lieut.- Col. E. 'Sabine, B. A. For. Sec. R. S. The Same. 2 Vols. Translated front the German by E. C. Otte. . _ _ Gut 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 ads quate 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 ef Mr. Murray, and of M. Otte'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 intellectnal 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 !Awn and profusion, when his mind has become ripened by a bog 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 , awry of its fabricator and to evidence his ingenuity to posterity. Its structure, like that of the .A'ovum Organum, 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 wean 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 the illustrious author has imparted the attractions of rhetoric to the elucidation of general knowledge— satisfied in his own mind " that a certain degree of 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 to o 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 about Again the th el2 countless th a n d of of shooting No vember, and the 10th and 11th of August, are our winter s ta solstice."rs seen 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 Musacem; and, above these tropic forms, oaks, medlars, wild roses, 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 together the constellation of the Southern Cross, 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 phrenomena t o a sma ll num b er o f ab stract principles, having their foundation in pure reason only. The physical cosmography of which I attempt the exposition does not aspire to the perilous elevation of a pure rational science of nature. Leaving to others, who may perhaps adventure on them with more success, these depths of a 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. Ott‘ 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. HISTORY of the NATIONAL CONSTITU ENT ASSEiIiBL Y. 2 Vols. By. J. F.Corkran. In these two lively and fascinating volumes — volumes lively from their graphic excellence, and fascinating from their romantic interest—Mr. Cork ran has produced a work destined to afford materials of extraordinary value to the future historian. Not the least of the many excellencies 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 remarkable personages who figured the most conspicuously in those occurrences. The hand, moreover, which traced those outlines was that of an Englishman whose 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, accordingly as events transpired, notes put to paper by him 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 on, enthralled scarcely less by the facts recorded than by the manner in which those facts are described. On entering the new-born Parliament of French Re publicanism, under the guidance of Mr. Corkran,lwe are not less struck than he is by the fact that " the order of established Parliaments was reversed," and that " the difficulties were in the way o f repu t a ti on and eminence." All the facilities, as he expr esse s it, were for the unknown ; yet as the history developes itself we recognise the gradual and almost impercep tible approach of the " moral" of those solemn and affecting annals, that the old reputations are by degrees in the ascendant. Following the inevitable order of nature, the scum thrown up to the surface in the perturbation of society subsides, and the great men of the past become once more the influential men in the present. kirora the very outset we obtain tin BRATIAM V. MILES. This was an action to recover the sum of 121. on a bill of exchange, of which defendant was the drawer. The defence was, 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 juttment to go by default, so that the case Came before the Court as a writ of trial on the first count, and an ir.quiry on the second. The jury gave a verdtct tor the plaintiff on both counts. The other cases heard this morning were not of the slightest interest. BRIGHTON, LEWES, AND TIJN 13RI1 AGE WELLS DIRECT RAILWAY COM PA N Y.—(TII IS DAY.) A meeting of the allottees was convened to-day, pur suant to the following advertisement:— At the request of some of the most respectable al lottees of this company, I beg to call a meeting of the members of that body, for the purpose of considering the most effective means of resisting the claims made against them in their character of allottces and con tributories. " The meeting will take place at my offices on Thurs day next, the 9th inst., at one o'clock precisely. " JOHN HARRISON, 5, New-inn, Strand. " Aug. 6, 1849." It was stated, however, that the proceedings would be confined to the defence of the allottees, and as that was necessarily a private matter, reporters were nut admitted to the meeting. THE MURDER AT BERMONDSEY. + (THIS DAY.) This morning an inquiry was opened by Mr. W. Curter, the cort , ner, at the Coopers' Arms tavern, Has sell-street, Bermondsey, touching the death of a newly born wale child, found in a field. _ _ _ The jury having been scorn, proceeded to view the body, which was 13 ing in the Bermondsey workhouse. Its appearance gave unmistakeable evidence of great violence having been used. Upon the return of the jury, the first witness called was Henry William Seymour, a lad residing at No. 9, Grove bouthvale, who stated that un Tuesday last, about a quarter past twelve o'clock, whilst playing under an arch of the South-Eaitern Railway, he came to a part adjoining a garden, and whilst iu the act of jumping on a low wall he saw the nale,d body of a child lying on the earth. Edwin Lefont, police-constable 159 M, said he was called to the spot 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 violence about the neck. The deceased was lying by the side of the boundary wall of the rail way, and was on the grounds of Mr. Abraham Shep herd, a market-gardener. Witness examined the arches and places adjacent, but could not find any article of clothing. There is a public footpath under the railway, and any person passing by could easily throw the body over the wall. Two females were in custody on suspi cion of having placed 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 examination, and found that the lungs were fully inflated and filled the cavity of the chest. They flaattd upon being placed in water, and the other parts of the body were fully developed. Witness could not state the actual course of death, but he believed the child was born alive. Sergeant Roberts stated that he apprehended two females shortly after the discovery was made, and he thought that if a short time was allowed he should be able to bring home the case to some one. The females had been medically examined, and they were both healthy. The CORONER observed that if there was a chance of getting more decided evidence they must adjourn the ii.quiry. sergeant Roberts added that the females were residing at Limehouse, and most probably the deceased was brought from that district, w here every means would be used to discover the guilty parties. The jury thought an a( journment was absolutely ne cessary, and the proceedings were postponed fur a week. Deaths. 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 nity, 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 Int if our readers will concur in these notions of feminine loveliness : " A woman's tresses should be abundant, as volumin ous as the (ail of a peacock, and as 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, and 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 stem 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 b 3 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 and 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 Vera ; "Fergusson on Fortification,"—all are admirable. Indeed, altogether, we have been much gratified by a perusal of the present number. THE BANKERS' MAGAZINE. The papers composing the number of this useful periodical for August are all of great importance and clearly and ably writ ten. 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 mat 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 Republican. "The present chapters describe the funeral of General Lnmarque, and the preparation for the 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 W hen a Ministry has no resource lett; 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-bole. 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. Paling 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. l'usey ism itself is blundering Carlylisoi. 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 lump—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 th it heroes. But nothing can be hoped from them. With them it is a fashion to be reformers. All such ape like imitators cl 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 moral and independent tone and morality of Mr. Thackeray's fictions. The three words on Mr. Carl) le's banner are Wonder, Sincerity, and Work. He 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 better commendation on him, than a man with God Gt his heart and a spade in his hand." There is another gentleman whose name this writer has omitted to mention, who has been much abused of late by Puseyites, Young Englanders, Bulwerites, Disraelites, et hoc genus oinne, and whose principal dogma is nevertheless pure Carlylism—we mean M. Proudhon , the Communist. "It is not because of his toils that I lament for the poor," says Thomas Carlyle, 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- fatned aphorism, La Propriete c'est le vat? FOTJRIER'S WORKS IN ENGLISH.—It is now pro p'sett to publish, by subscription, Fourier's Philosophical Treatise, from La Phalange Review, "On the Passions of the Human Soui." The works of this French Socialist are of great interest to whoever would understand the working of continental Europe, in which the ideas pro pounded by this head of the leading Socialist school mingle as a most important element. No doubt, also, these works contain some practical suggestions that may be of use to this country i n t h e i nvest i gat i on o f t h e questions that Lre pies Aug upon its notice, as colonial mpire, public education, public health, the peace ques tion, finance, and many others, of which the fertile genius of Fourier has treated with great originality. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending August 5, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 2 4621. I ls. 1 1 d.; parcels, &c., 481, 16s. Ild.; goods, , cattle, &c., 236/. 3s. 7d.; steamboats, 2581. 2s. 10d.-- Total, 3,0954 155.3 d., exclugy9 of m o u s and won. THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES, AUG. 8. Attacks: In London and vicinity, viz.:— Lambeth ... ..• ••• Bermondsey ••• ••• Strand Union ... Whitechapel Camberwell ••• ••• Other localities in London In England and Wales, viz.:— Liverpool ... ~„ Merthyr Tydvil Dowlais Ply mouth ... • • Holy well ... •.. Other towns in England ... In Scotland, viz.:— Dundee ••• ..• Other towns in Scotland ... ... 99 ... 76 19 ••• 17 5 ... 37 14 ... 13 8 ... 50 10 ... 155 99 ... 22 ... 7 Total ... 578 THE CHOLERA IN WALES. The followi❑g cases have occurred from the 3d to ten A.M. Aug. 7:— Merthyr Dowlais Aberdaro Attacks. Deaths. .. • 79 28 .. 136 53 .. 16 4 231 85 Total of cases in Merthyr, from May 23—Attacks, 1,551 ; deaths, 659. Total in Dowlais, from June 10 to ten A Si. Aug. 7 Attacks, 798; deaths, 341. Total in Aberdare from June 24 to ten A M. Aug. 7 Attacks, 247; deaths, 49. Total of the three places—attacks, 2,596; deaths, 1,049. Cases at Brynmawr and Nuntmlo from last Tuesday morning —attacks, not known; deaths, 39. At Crickhowell, since Thursday last—Attacks, not known; deaths, 2. At Abergavenny, Aug. 7 Deaths, 1. ,I THE PRINTERS' PENSION SOClETY. — Yesteru a y evening a general meeting of the supporters of this in stitution and the committee of management was held at the London Tavern, for the transaction of general busi ness. The report stated that since the society's forma• lion, in 1827, 155 pensioners have been elected, and that 55 are now receiving its benefits. The males receive 141. and the females 9/. each per annum. Notwithstand ing there had been a deficiency of 501. in the annual sub scriptions during the past year, the increase of 281. had been divided among the pensioners, and the committee intend still further to augment the pensi,,ns to an extent of nearly 1001. per year, to aid which it is hoped there will be an increased number of subscribers. The re ceipts from all sources for the past year were 1,2131. 16s. I Id. The expenditure was 1,147/. Is. 7,1., leaving a balance of 66/. 15s. 4d. The funded property amounts to 5,2091. ss. 7d., the interest of Which produces an imeme of 1994 12s, 3d. Ats tr 0, 1640. inkling of the W:ant of all faith on the part of the writer in the Etehility of the Republican insti tutions—where (at page 3) be speaks of the new Constitution as a " fregile performance." A little further on he becomes still more explicit, de clarieg fleet the cutbreek of February (page 9) was " the work of a party "—the exquisite absurdity of which assertion is too glaring to require its formal refutation. Without, however, wishing in any re spEct to depreciate the judgment of Mr. Corkran in dividually, we are satisfied that with the bulk of his readers the more valuable and agreeable portion of his labours will be that in which he contents himself with pencilling down the portraits of remarkable Frenchmen, leaving the consideration of the tendency of their proceedings to be decided by those who shall look back upon them from the impartial distance of the hereafter. Some of these portraits are singularly felicitous, all of them are more or less meritorious. The men pass before us, one by one, like the figures in a magic lantern, as distinct in outline, as vivid in colouring. We see them before us in imagination rether than read rf them. Here is "the unprepos sessing Cremieux," whose features ara stamped with " the professional necessity of adulation." Here again is Louis Blanc, whole voice through the Organization du Travail is like "a cry that rises from his pierced soul against society thrilling through the reader : "Figure to yourself a very small person—the very smalh st you had ever seen above the species of the dwarf. With his back turned to you, you would be in clined to suppose that the glossy black hair and drooping shoulders belonged to a girl in male disguise; the face twit: d round, you were struck by the prominent, clear, dark eyes, the olive complexion, and the disappearance of effeminacy in the strong jaw and chin. The general expression was rather melancholy." One minute our attention is directed to a fair, pale, somewhat bald man—it is M. Carnot, the son of the Organizer of Victory. Another to a tall, thin, sickly-looking person, . with somewhat clumsy features, a little pert, and yet a little prim, with sleek hair falling in curls to the nape of his neck—it is M. Garnier Pages. On one hand is the great astronomer : " Francois Arago is a fine, stalwart old man, tall, dark, and sinewy; his head is magnificent, and when be is seated by other men, its vast size strikes with asto nishmr-nt amounting to awe. Standing alone, this great development of head is not so remarkable, because it is symmetrical, for no object of fine symmetry ever strikes the eye as disproportioned; this noble dome is furnished with thin hair, once jetty black, and not yet grey; the large eye is bold and thoughtful; the features massive and well shaped, and altogether Arago looks a man of 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. do 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 lake marble set on its sccle, 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 be 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 stature, his handsome countenance, his lustrous eyes, his fine brow, his white robe as a Dominican friar ! Of him, saith the author, " he would be the modern Savonarola—he would reconcile Democracy with the Church." The same might be said of the Pad reVen tura. 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 he 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 stub to his own repu• teflon." Arid yet it is this noble, generous, magneni• 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 forgetfulness 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. 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, i❑ 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 flowing, 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 introduced with unexcep tionable taste. JEANIE AND DONALD. The Poetry by Stuart Farquharson, D. C.L. The Music by G. A. Hodson. ilere 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 less attractive than its admired predecessors. FINE ARTS. THE ART JOURNAL. Turner's wonderful painting of " Venice," copied by Willmore 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 'Vestmacott's graceful statue of " Euphrosyne," engraved by Roffe, are the companion illustration?. 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 publication is peculiarly interesting. ----- GALWAY AND ENNIS JUNCTION RAILWAY.—ATI order in Chancery has been issued for the winding-up of this company's Affairs. SPOitTING INTELLIGENCE. T? I POW RACES.—MESDAY. Toe Grand Stand Stakes of 5 sous. cach, 3 ft, and 20 added. T. Y. C. Mr. P. Haworth's St. Valentine, 2 3r3 (Charlton) 1 Mr. R:ckaby's bf by Touchstone, 2 yrs ... • • 2 Mr. B. Green's Cigarette, 3 yrs ... ... .•• 3 Sir C. Monck's Gulliver, 3 yrs ... ... ..• 4 Mr. Humphries's Sister to Swallow, 2 yrs ... ... 5 The Great St. Wilfred Handicap of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 3 only if declared, with 50 added. Two miles. Mr. Halo's Ada Mary, 3 yrs ... (Osborne) 1 Mr. S. L. Fox's King Hal, 5 yrs 2 Mr. Drake's Reversion, 3 yrs... ... 3 Mr. Humphries's Escape, 4 yrs ... ... 4 The Amateur Stakes of 5 sm. each, and 15 added, one mile, were won in three heats by Mr. Wilkins's b m, by St. Martin, dam by Liverpool, beating five others. The City Stakes of 5 sovs., and 25 added, two miles, were won in two heats by Reversion, beating Ti'y and La mmermuir. DERBY RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Chatsworth Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, and 3 only it declared, with 50 added. One mile and a half. Mr. Fowlor's Ribaldry... (W‘lls) 1 Lord Chester ficl.i's Chicot ... 2 Mr. Sharrati's Egret ... . . ... 3 Capsicum and the Probe also ran. The Chesterfield Stakes of 10 sows. each and 50 added. Half a mile. Lord Chesterfield's br f, by Don John, out of Lam poon .. . . ...(oates) 1 Colonel Ansor.'s ch f, by Jereed, out of Muff ... 2 The following also started : The Recluse, Dick's Hat Band, hr fby Gladiator, and Midcute. The In: keepers' Plate of 60 sovs. Two miles. Mr. Sharratt's Egret ... ... (Denman 1 Mr. Miner's Astley ... 2 Mr. Hat'e's Gilnochie Three others started. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added, ono mile, were won is three heats, by Mr. Ellis's Acomb (Osborne), beating Kennett and two others. WORCESTER RA CES—WEDNESDA Y. The City Member's Plate of 50/. Heats, two miles. Mr. W. Shirley's Novelist, 5 yrs ... (Tasker) 3 1 1 Mr. Griffith's Apple Blossom, 5 yrs 1 2 2 Mr. Whitebouse's Reception, 3 yrs 2 3 dr Mr. Bluck's Spider, aged ... 4 dis The Cup Stakes of 7 sovs. each 4 ft, &e., with 25 added. Two miles. Mr. Johnson's b m by Lord Stafford out of Birdlime, 4 )rs_ ... ... ... (Evans) 1 Mr. J. Day's Milliner, 6 yrs ... 2 The Hack Stakes of 2 sous. each, and 10 added, one mile and a quarter, were won in three heats by Mr. Palmer's Ferry bill, 4 yrs, beating Empress of Russia, 4 yrs, and two others. CRICKLT. I ZINGARI V. LEANINGToN. 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. llartopp, Esq.—b Wisden Hon. R. Gricaston—b Wisden ..• ••• ••• 3 C. Morse, Esq.—b Wisden 0 C. J. Harenc, Esq.—b King 20 11. Vernon, Esq.—b King 42 H. Fellows, Esq.—b ... 6 Captain Mundy—not out ... 23 Hon. F. Ponsonby—b Wisden H. B. Mayne, Esq.—b Wisden 0 H. G. Nethercote, Ezq.—b Wisden ... 7 Rev. H. Pickering —run out ... ... 2 810, w 0 ... ... 10 Total —. ... —.135 LEAMINGTON.--FIRST INNINGS. Hon. E. Leigh—b Fellows ... 10 G. E. Baker, E-q.—b Fellows Palethorpe—b Fellows Lord Guernsey—b Fellows .'.. 21 R. T. King, Esq.-1) Fellows 0 Wisden—b Fellov; s ... 0 Hon. A. Wrottesley—b Fellows 0 Mr. T. I. Rose—not out ... ... 9 C. M. Caldecott, Esq.—b Fellows ... Bev. Anderson—a Fellows Rev. H. Knightley—c Fellows, b Mundy 1 13 7, w 3 ... 10 Total ... ... ... 57 I ZINGARI-SECOND INNINGS. E. Flartopp, Esq .—c Knightley, b Palethorpe 1 Hon. H. Grimston—b Palethorpe 2 C. Morse, Esq.—c and b Wisden ... 10 C. J. Harenc, Esq.—not out ... 28 H. Vernon, Esq.--b Wisden 3 H. Fellows, Esq.—b Wisden • . ... 2 Captain Mundy—c King, b Wisden ... 1 Hon. F. Ponsonby—b Wisden ... 7 H. B. Mayne, Esq . .—b Palethorpe ... 5 H. G. Nethercole, Esq.—absent ... 0 Rev. H. Pickering—b Wisden ... ••• ... 0 B 6, w 3 Total ... LEAMINGTON-..-SECOND INNINGS. ... 68 Hon. E. Leigh—c Fellows, b Mundy... ... 9 G. E. Baker, Esq,—c Ponsonby, b Hareao ... 6 Paletborpe—b Fellows Lord Guernsey—b Mundy 0 11. T. King, Esq.—hit wicket, b undy ... 9 WLden—c Morse, b Mundy ... 23 lion. A. Wrottesley—hit wicket, b Fellows... ... 4 Mr. I'. I. Rose—c Pickering, b Mundy ... 0 C. M. Caldecott, 17.5 q.—b Mundy ... 1 Rev. Anderson—b Fellows Rwr. 11. Knig,htley—not out ... . . 0 B I, nb 1 ... 4 Total ... 84 SHEFFIELD V. YORKSHIRE. This match was commenced on Monday, at Hyde park, Sheffield, and terminated yesterday in favour of Sheffield. The score stood thus:— SHEFFIELD. Hurt, c Wadsworth, b Crossland 35 b Crossland 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 Crossland Wright, b Armitage 2B b Crossland .. ...... 0 Chatterton, b Armitage R. F. Skelton, Esq., c G. Berry, b Crossland ..... ...... ..... .1 b Armitage ... ..... 0 Ellis, cJ. Berry, b Armitage ... 31 cJ. Berry, bArmit•• age . 12 B. Huntsman, Esq., not out .. 6 b Armitage B 10, w 7—n.b 177 83 YORKSHIRE. Barrett, Leeds, b Barker Wright 0 _ Joy, Knaresbro', c Wake, b Skel- ton J. Berry, Dalton, not out 55 leg bfr. w. b Barker 10 Armitage, Dalton, b Skelton W. B. Denison, Esq., Leeds, c Ellis. b Barker C. Nixon, Esq., Leeds, c Coates, b Wright 4 b Barker ... ...... ... 18 A. Crosland, Leeds, b Skelton G. Berry, Dalton, b Barker 7 b Wright .... ....... 9 Wadsworth, Bradford, b Wright 8 b Wright 2 Dawson, Knaresbro', b Wright 0 b Wake ll C. Smith, Leeds, b Wright 4 not out B 7, w 8, n.b. 1 l6 B 7, w 7, n.b... 14 POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. 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. n J. Russell ; thus, as it were, at o most acceptable form two great and instruction. A more a ble lecturer than Mr. q e ua combining l it es,amuse i ine th n e t Russell could not well have bee n 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 c•arse 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 con structed 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 of ships for the navy was to ba 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 poet Virgil. Many of the little streets which were con tiguous to its banks were inundated when th ese overflows took place. The Bridge and Castle h o o t Angelo, with the effect of the Girandola , w Mount Aventine was also introduced , " lecturer said its sylvan heights of er •h e i s ch the . the early poets with fauna, y m hpand s' been i peopled &c., itoppled by i many of whom tombs had been erec ted. but whichmo p e suerseded were now in many places by con vents. terminates the • Ancona, and Piazza del ropolo,then follow in rapid succession. Of Ferrara, which series, Mr. Russell remarked, that A appeared t o b e a f ated city, t s ot e frogsh e could humidity of the atmosphere, livingno for, thrive in it. Here owingthi ngs save it was that Tasso was imprisoned by Alfonso, chained with madmen ; and here, ost o , b t 3 h , e lightning, ornaments too, stood the tomb of struckAr of which were on one occasion which fact gave rise to Lord Byron's beautiful stanza— " The lightni ng rent from Ariosto's bust — The iron crown of laurel's mimick'd leaves, Nor was the ominous element unjust, For the true laurel-wreath which glory weaves, Is of the tree no bolt of thunder cleaves, &c." The exhibition was loudly applauded. In Out even ing a clever lecture on " Ancient Minstrelsy" W 64 delivered by Mr. G. Soane; the wanderings of the' Troubadours and their adventures and songs forming the , übject-matter of the lecture. Mr. Soane is ably assis!ed by Misses Clara and Rose Suane. 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,- 'WEDNESDAY NNIG HT. This morning, at nine o'clock, an inspecti on o f the regiments of cavalry quartered is Dublin took place in Phenix park, in presence of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who appeared on horseback, and was much ch ered by the admiring crowds. At 1 o'clock her Maj , sty, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert and the royal suite, left the Vice- Regal Lodge to hold a levee at ie Castle. The entrance to the park and the whole carriage drive were lined by well dressed groups, who most con. 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 bad the entree before noon, and a long succession continued to pour forth their gaily attired occupants till half-past on', when the loud shouts of loyal acclamations from those assembled without aneounced to those within the Castle walls that her Mi.jesty approached. The military immediately presented arms; the band of the Enniskilleners struck up the National Anthem; the dragoon escort rode into the quadrangle at si dashing 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, and 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. Her Majesty will lunch on Friday with the Duke of Leinster, at Carton, about 14 miles from Dublin, and return to Phoenix Park in the afternoon, and proceed thence on board the Royal yacht for Belfast and Scotland the same evening. REPRESENTATION OF KIDDER- DIIN STEM. 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 Lyttletoe, 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 bas been. equally busy with the following:—Mr. John. Bre, son of Mr. W. B. Best, of the Oxford Circuit ; Mr. W. H. Cooke, of the same circuit ; Mr. J. S. Lea, the Hon. Captain Carnagie, 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 cheeps' 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. Air. Gisborne formerly sat for Derbyshire ; he is a Reformer of the Hume and Cobden school. The constituency cf 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 !or Port Natal, being the third vessel dispatched this season for that rising colony, by Mr. J. C. Byrne, 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 acq u i r i ng 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, the respectability, intelligence, and comparative affluence 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 so. 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, is March, 1846. The Dreadnought is an 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 domestie 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 unused precaution, as a more healthy set of emigrants, whether men, women, or children, could not be seen. They are of a very superior class, of capital, in goods or money , that would be regarded as very considerable in a corr es p ondin g rank of American in their respective stations, the hu mblest being possessed even Australian emigrants. They were in the best or 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 fur p assage an d f re i g ht, t h e l atter chiefly consisting of agricultural implements, of which . the Dreadnought en 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, be 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 first essentials to their own safety and comfort, and enforcing the observance of morality and decency in words and de portment, both on their own account, and for te ase sa e es! the females and children, whom a contrary of action would scandalise. He expressed mu ch_g ratitude Government, far g r eater degree fro whereby he was enabled torealise for the co-operation he had recfived ivat a al than could have of prosperity for the settlers p 2 time; but he also attri. possibly been hoped for in he t that those who have gone buted most of it to the fee way to the dissensions and jea lousiesout, instead of giving here had adopted the • wise pre. observable elsewhere, Dutch cedent of the an d Grman emi grants, and muta. each th ' ally assisted an d _ e n c ourag ed .0 .er . , and with the t results to the community and individuals. Withia b e at a year he purposed again visiting the colony himself, and on his return he felt persuaded that he should be armed with a superabundance of additional facts in support of what he had been so long asserting in his books, in publics lectures, or by private correspondence, that Natal WU the best colony for emigration in the British dominions. REPRESENTATION OF WEST SURREY.—GiILD• FORD, W EDNESDAY.—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 before the electors. There appears to be a very cons'• derable doubt on the subject of Mr. Freshfield's be. coming a candidate. The Protectionists are canvassing in his behalf with great zeal, but Mr. Freahfield hag made no official announcement of his intentions. Shaw, of the dlark•lane Express, has been spoken of, but it is quite uncertain at present whether he will start . Both parties are resolved to put out their whole strength, so that a keen contest may be anticipated. M. Armellini, a member of the Roman Trium virate, has arrived in Belgium, where he has received ail pthoriaation to reside. His wife is a Belgian.