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Sussex ►, 318 s Do s per cwt.. or British OA° sale• llow, apd Lucia has 363 to middling 1 the de'• has been Tl 4 bag an d goo. to 35s 661 for ord to ;3s 6d for ?s for Bo; Sod; and rtes, and e. Cub . ? I to gOeui s realise d to 413 for ght iu s$ Is to 2 24 it to fine tory f ° , l l. mid a" 9s, UP i , i ° fi ne on.- ine or d lantation Mocha ld trine een held I for fine ) 383 for x mid to and fine 1 price' !rats bag )i GJ Pullet at 41d; aspen. 365, ana, realised um, an d id, atia L active lb, sod b ry,ul 5 were leaviVo 39i 34 re in r )ratig o jodra iubJicty ra ptor ], Ind the )roPFr wocb actio o All of rnp 9 i t " e, ty de iDg to to the d tb's aO9 rang' V.) RECEPTION IN IRELAND. 4 sheriffs were bound to hare a jury ready at any time re qui but the judges had limited the time to two hours. Mr. Gory, the Usher of the Court, then went to the plaintiff's attorney, and shortly aft: r wards it was an nounced that the case ITid been settled. BOW-STREET.—(TIIIS DAY.) Mr. George Jones, described as a gkntleraan of fortune, was charged with assaulting poltc?.constable 48 F, and obstructing him in the pet formarco of his duty. It appeared that last evening, at the closing of the Italian Opera, the defendant called his carriage out of the rank in Russell-street, but as his coachman was about to obey the call, and was turning his horses to wards the footway, the complainant ordered him back to his place, directing him to take his turn according to the regulations. The constable put his hands to the horse's bend, to force him back, upon which the defendant Pushed him, and insisted that he should not keep hold of the horse. Upon his continuing to resist the o fficer, and to in s i s t th a t his coachman should be allowed to obey he was taken into custody, but et the station 'louse was released, upon his engagement t..) appear this morning. In his defenck, he stated that he thought the officer had no right to lay hands upon his hcrsev. But it was 0 3tplained to him, that the public convenience, and, in deed, the public safety, required that the regulations f sitting down and taking up at the theatres should be strictly enforced. The MAGISTRATE fined him in the mitigated penalty of ten shillings. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY. TLIE QUEEN'S LETTER ON HER MAJESTY'S We are indebted to the editor of the Dublin Even ing Post for an early copy of the following important communication, addressed by the Home Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant. It was posted at Glasgow on the 14th instant, and was received by his Excel lency yesterday evening:— " Royal Yacht, August 13, 1849. "My Lord,—lt is with sincere pleasure that I per form the duty which devolves upon me, in obedience to her Majesty's command, of expressing to your Excel lency, at the close of her Majesty's visit to Ireland, the heartfelt satisfaction which she has derived from her reception in that portion of the United Kingdom, and from the gratifying evidence which universally presented itself, from the time of her Majesty's arrival at Cork to that of her departure from Belfast, of warm and de voted loyalty as d attachment to her throne and person, and of affection for (very branch of her family. The circumstances which hare attended this ♦isit cannot fail to strengthen the deep interest which, your Excellency is aware, has long been felt by her Majesty iu all that concerns the happiness and welfare of her Irish people. " Her Majesty rejoiced to observe among the multi tudes who enthusiastically greeted her appearance the absence of all distinction of class and party; and s`•e indulges the hope, that the feelings elicited on this cccasion may tend to promote among all her faithful subjects i❑ Ireland that union of heart and affection which is essential to the prosperity of their common country. "I am further commanded to assure you of the sa tisfaction with which her Majesty remarked the general regard and esteem entertained for your Excellency, which have been so justly earned by your able, judi cious, and impartial discharge of the high trust confided to you. " I am, with great truth and regard, my Lord, your Excellency's obedient servant, (Signed) " G. GREY." READING ELECTION. DINNER TO THOMAS NORTON, ESQ. A dinner was yesterday given at the Free Three Club, St. Jame's-square, to Thomas Nc.rten, E,q., late Chief Justice of Newfoundland, as a general tribute to the high Personal and public character and attainments of t _ t gentleman, an d as a spt.cial mark of sympathy with, d congratulation to, him upon his recent contest at the bo rough of Readin , The chair was taken by G. Thompson, Esq., M.P., who, in add it i on to the guest of the evening, was Cup potted b y VV. Wordsworth, Esq, Frank Stone. 16 . erg, ant S hee, W. A. Wilkinson, Esq., R. Hartley Kennedy, Dr. Simpson, J. P. Bull, Esq., J. W. c as of Southampton, G. A. Walker, Esq., J. sul l ", Esq., Dr. Mackenzie, J. Ivimey, Esq., J. Cow d ,eroY, Esq., R ea di ng. R ev. J . S tap l es, M.A., W. Harris, F. L. Rehm, Esq., and a large company of gen tlemen of influence connected with the cause of reform in the metropolis and the provinces. The CHAIRMAN, having proposed " The Queen; may her recent visit to Ireland promote the permanent union of the two kingdoms ;" and " Succes to free-trade ; may universal peace follow in her train ;" then alluded to the pending struggle in Hungary, and regretted that a meeting which was at that moment been held in favour o f the Hungarians, had occasioned the absence of several influential friends of Mr. Norton; but, as an expression of sympathy in the cause which their absent friends were engaged in promoting, and with the efforts of the Heroic band so nobly fighting in the cause of freedom on the banks of the Danube, he would call upon the com pany to drink " Victory to the brave Hungarians over their tyrannical oppressors." The toast was drunk with loud and prolonged ap plause. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health of the guest of the evening, Thomas Norton, Esq., and in so doing stated that they had assembled that night, not merely as the friends of free trade, but of honesty in po lities, even although they might not altogether agree in the political opinions of the particular individual. Be lieving as he (the Chairman) did, in common with many others, that the representation of Reading was likely to ha monopolized by two men, neither of whom had suffi cient claims to be returned as legislators, he had been instrumental in introducing his friend, Mr. Norton, to the electors of that borough, having the fullest confidence in that gentleman's integrity as a politician—(Hear, hear)—as well us the strongest admiration of his high learning and talents, and knowing also that should he be returned then, as no doubt he Would at some future period, to the House of Commons — (Cheers)—he would prove himself pre. eminently worthy of a seat in that assembly. They arrived late in the field at Reading, without any hope of victory; but feeling it a duty to place Mr. Norton in the hands of a large and respectable portion of the constituency, who were desirous of recording their votes in favour of a man who really represented their opinions, and who, if re turned to Parliament, would both intellectually and poli tically do credit to the borough. In the course of 20 years experience of elections in this country, be (the Chairman) bad never seen in the progress of any midi., date so much to cheer and encourage. The great talents and gentlemanly bearing of Mr. Norton had, beyond all doubt, gained for him the attachment, not only of those who voted for him, but of others, who were by circumstances prevented from so doing, as well as the general esteem of that section 01 the constituency to whom be was politically opposed. No man had ever fought a better electioneering battle, or more deserved to ain in a contest; and there was not an individual who stood a better chance of representing the town ot Reading upon any future occasion. —(Cheers.) As members of the Free Trade Club, they had assembled to express their deep in terest in the proet.edings of every member of that body, Whose personal character, high attainments, and political principles, as in the case of Mr. Norton, justly war ranted his to•piring to a seat in the Legislature. The circumstances under which the recent contest was entered neon were certainly most adverse to any hope of im- Mediate success. Within an hour and a half of starting, it had never entered into the thoughts of tither Mr. Norton or himself to go near the borough of Reading. Little time w as therefore lett for preparation; but such had been the result of the contest, unsuccessful although it might have appeared on the face of it, that since the battle their candidate had received from all quarters expres sions of regret at his not having entered the field earlier, and the warmest assurances of future support.—(Cheers.) The Free Trade Club was able at present to accomplish much good for the country, although its political position might seem inferior in importance to other clubs in the metropolis. He trusted, however, that the meeting of that night would had to the origination of some plan for carrying out the practical purpose of the institution, nut merely socially but politically—(Hear, hear)—and that Mr. Norton would not be the old/ gentleman whom they should have the pleasure of assisting in an election contest, or of exprtssing their sympathy with, in any struggle for the progress of Liberal principles. Mr. Norton had performed the highest judicial functions in One of our colonies in such a manner as to gain for him sell the approbation of the Government, and what was still better, the confidence and esteem of the people among whom he administered justice. - Having returned to this country, with his high qualifications he might lately aspire to any honours which the British people had " in their power to bestow, and he (the Chairman) trusted that the eminent gifts with which that gentleman w as endowed wou ld so on be turned to the advantage of the cause o f R e f orm i n G rea t B i itaie. The toast was drunk with most enthusiastic applause. Mr. NORTON then returned thanks in a most able and el Mr. speech; in the course of which he stated, that '2nti se he been a successful candidate, he could have s u e a m ti b r l tt ci oed why the friends of Reform should have as , jee t t e ed greet his victory ; but the the re* circumstance s `r fact was, he was of N r lea—(Laughter.) Under ordinary hol f s a result would have been a cause e n_ace_tentation. might trap quilise himself f_ustuarueu,n slate of ilitngs, but he (Mr. Norton) having very little philosophy, and some idea of looking to the i a nsttad of considering the result of the election Me had defeat, regarded it as a glorious triumph.—(Cheers.) M had gone to Reading entirely unknown, without any antecedents ; not possessed even of the captivating ap pearance of one of his antagonists, which personal quali fication had been to that gentleman a source of xceed l';l4 great profit.—(Laughter.) Neither was h e (M r . N orton) able, with his other autocratical opponent, to Point to 5,000 acres of land as the ground why the People of Reading shouid choose him ; but he (Mr. Norton) had gone among the constituency believing that the time hed come when all those adven'itious dis tineti.ms should be abolished, when the people would insist that a candid ate f or the representat i on o f a b oroug h s h ou ld he possessed of education enough to understand good prin elPl", of ability sufficient to enunciate, and integrity enou g h to maintain them; so that whether the wan e ere tight or wrong i n hi s v i ews, i t wou ld b e a dmitted by all t hat he could not b e f a l se; an d thoug h t h eoret i ca ll y i e • correct in his views he roved his sincerity by be it:g ready to suffer in 'P support of his principles—(Cheers). Ile (Mr. Norton) was not as his ted him, a foe to • • s it was the opponents had represen tedthat either eapital or labour ; lie knew That it capital were destroyed,rinictlustorfy d u: bm t re among ruined. a t n h d e People phlaerdinonfejoitpliege:odnien,hgt. h ; eref ore, as a Communist wi: and it was a living lie to state that es had the slightest tendency to un- THE SUN, settle the great foundations of society.—(Hear, hear.) Sprung from the humhl, r classes himself, be knee. .that labour was the great founda - ion of English sosiety, which depended mainly upon its capi sled, industrial, and intellectual clarses. Ile had gone to the people of Reading and seated, " Here I am. with the-.e sympathies in favour of your class." How, then, it might be asked, was it that he had not been successfut? He certainly wondered at it himself. —(Laughter.) And if they had seen his two opponents they would have wondered also.— (Renewed laughter.) One paper had represented him (Mr. Norton) as an un disguised Chartist, but the y were mistaken. He was in favour of an extension of the suifrege; for Fleeing the franchise so low, as that a man without any of the appli ances of life, except his osNn industry, might be able to obtain it, and yet at the same time so high, as that it should not be degraded by being within the reach of the worthless and vagabond. He was also an advocate for the shortening of Parliaments, knowing that no good man need fear meeting his constituency, and that the oftener bad men were brought before them the better. —(Hear, hear.) With regard to the ballot, he must con fess that he was not so sanguiee as some as to its bent fical operation, but when he found it adopted in clubs, at the East India 'lune, the Bank, and other important insti tutions, tied when he found, moreover, a general feel ing in its favour, he would give his support to the vote by ballot, because if, without injuring the pure man, it furnished a check to the im pure, it would undoubtedly attain a most valuable result.—(Hear.) Such propositions, stated with the reservations, guards, and cautions with which I e had stated them to the people of Reading, were not the psopositiOns of a mere political trader. His opinion had ..een asked upon other points, such, for instance, as the grave question of the Church of England, which, us he believed to be the Church of the majority, he would not overturn; but for the very same reason that he would refrain from destroying the Church of England, be would interfere with the Established Church in Ireland, because that was the Church of only a very small minority. He was also an advocate for the universal education of the people. What made the dif ference between the gentlemen assembled in that room and the mass of the community in this country but edu cation?—(Hear, hear.) Who could tell what the gem was till it was polished? What vast results might have been produced if the millions which had been spent in war by our Government had been devoted to the purpose of educating the people. The leading thinkers all over the world had sprung from the masses—the influences surrounding aristocracy probably not being so well cal culated to generate or mature the powers of the mind. When it was objected that by the inculcation of such principles as he bad laid before them he was going too last, and would upset everything, it was well to in quire what was or was not fixed in this country ? The British Constitution consisted of King, Lords, and Commons. Su far as that Constitution was fixed, it con sisted of Magna Charm, the Habeas Corpus Act, and trial by jury; none of which would be interfered with by the progress of reform principles. But was the Church a par of the Constitution? Certainly not. Were the navigation-laws a part of the Constitution? By no means, for they originated only in the time of Charles the First. Was the Septennial Act part of the British constitution? It was nothing but an invention of a comparatively modern date. Was the present limited franchise a vortion of the British Constitution? No; for it was declared by writers on the Constitution, that un• less a contrary practice could be proved before a Com mittee of the House of Commons, every borough was entitled to universal suffrage, or what was called a pot walloping franchise. Such were his (Mr. Norton's) views; he was in favour of pecific, orderly, and regular progression, without any sudden change ; and when the aristocracy asked them whether they had any stake in the country, he would reply, why it was noto rious that there were men among the middle classes who, taken together, had a greater stake in the country than all the aristucrscy united.—(Cheers.) If the op portents of lemur were so much opposed to progress, and in favour of fixity, why did they cross the Atlantic in steam-boats, instead of the old sailing vessels; or travel upon railroads instead of coaches or waggons, or countenance the electric telegraph, for those were all but parts of the changes which had proceeded from that flame of universal revolution which was not ye! quenched? The Learned Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud cheers. Mr. NORTON agai❑ rose, and proposed the health of the 107 Electors of Reading who had polled for himself at the recent election. Mr. COWDEROY (of Reading), in responding to the Vast, adverted to the state of the representation in Reading, one of the seats of which borough had long been monopolized by the nomination of a certain lawyer. That nomination had at length been opposed by the con stituency, who had succeeded in returning Mr. Pigot. At the last election, Mr. Gardner was the candidate selected by the Liberal electors, but before that gentleman could arrive in the town, Mr. Bowyer had appeared in the field, and issued an address, which might pass for either Whig or Tory principles. Mr. Bowyer had been invited to a meeting of the electors to determine upon the relative claims of himself and Mr. Gardner, but he had declined to attend, or to give any explanation of his principles, except upon the hustings. Unfortunately Mr. Gardner thought proper to retire, and, at the eleventh hour, on the very day preceding the election, Mr. Norton was induced to allow himself to be put in nomination, having only addressed the electors on one occasion previous to the election, and not having issued his address till the very morning of his election. The result, however, bad been to create such an impres sion in the borough in favour of Mr. Norton, as, no doubt, would ultimately ensure his success.—(Cheers.) The health of Mr. Bull, and the electors of Middlesex, was then drank. Mr. BULL returned thanks. Mr. W. HARRIS proposed " The memory of the late Henry Hull, of Uxbridge," which was drank in connex ion with the cause of reform in the metropolis. Several other toasts having been drank, the company retired. PROGRESS OF THE QUEEN PERTH, WEDN ESDA Y AFTERNOON. (From the Times ) The short time that elapsed between the arrival of the Queen here and the dispatch of the last train ne ceEsarily compelled me to give rather a meagre ac count of the arrival and progress through this ci'y of the Royal party, and of the preparations made for the iieeresting occasion. I gave, however, almost every thing worth noticing. I neglected to mention that M. Jullien's fine band were, by special request, stationed at the terminus of the railway when the Queen ar rived. Her Majesty came in, however, so quickly and unexpectedly, that they had only just time to strike up the National Anthem. When her Majesty stepped on the platform she at once recognized Jullien, and exclaimed, "0 ! here's Jullien." The Royal party are accompanied by Sir G. Grey, Sir J. Clark, Colonel Gordon, Lord_Fortescue, Mr. Aesop, and Lady Jocelyn and the Hon. Miss Dawson, Ladies in Waiting. Shortly after reaching the George Hotel, Prince Albert, accompanied by Sir G. Grey, paid a visit to the Penitentiary—one of the Great Government prisons, erected with the view of reforming, as well as punishing, certain classes of criminals. The principle OD w hich it is conducted is that of entire sepa ration and constant. employment. On their return, about six o'clock, her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by Sir G. Grey, Sir G. Clark, Colonel Gordon, and the La dies in Waiting, drove to the bridge of Earn, from which they returned to the George Inn about half past seven o'clock. Her Majesty carried her sketch book along with her. lam glad to record what is highly creditable to the inhabitants of the "fair city," that no rude or impertinent curiosity was exhibited, although no guards or special constables were around the royal carriage. A certain degree of curiosity was of course to be expected, and was manifested, but it was kept within proper bounds. A large crowd was last night collected in front of the George Hotel, but they could obtain no glimpse of her Majesty, the apartments occupied by the royal party having a view towards the river. An incident worth mentioning—a compliment to the citizens of Perth—occurred at Greenhill junction, where, on Lord Duncan expressing a hope that the arrangements on the Edinburgh and Glasgow line were satisfactory, her Majesty intimated her com plete approbation of them. Lord Duncan further expressed his hope that the preparations at Perth would give as much pleasure. Her Majesty replied— " Oh, - my Lord ! I have no fear of Perth ; Perth has always been right." In the course of the evening a message was con veyed from Sir G. Grey, through Lord Duncan, to the magistrates of the city, expressing her Majesty's entire satisfaction with the completeness of the ar rangements that had been made, which Sir George also stated were among the best he had seen any where. In the evening there was no general illumination. Two establishments were, however, lighted up. Mr. Ancell, of George-street, by appointment gun and fishing-tackle maker to Prince Albert, had an illumi nated device, consisting of a crown between the two letters "V. R.," which was brilliantly lighted up with gas, and formed an object of considerable attraction and admiration to the numerous passers-by. Mr. Brown, embroiderer, had also a crown, composed of lighted variegated lamps, in front of his residence in Marshal place, which had a fine effect. It was generally known that her Majesty had ex pressed her intention of leaving at a quarter to 8 o'clock this morning, and accordingly the streets at an early hour began to present symptoms of unusual bustle. Parties were seen moving about in the direction of the George Hotel, and a little after 7 o'clock, a party of the 93d Highlanders ' under Major Rothe, were marched down from the barracks, and speedily took their posts from the Royal George to the east end of the bridge at intervals of ten paces or so. A portion of the troops formed a guard in front of the inn, and the high constables lined the route of procession for some distance from the inn door. The peace officers, who were on duty yesterday, were also employed at the Bridgend side of the river, for the purpose of keeping the route clear for a good way up the bridge of Isla -road. At the hour announced the royal carriages and several others were driven to the door of the inn, and servants were for some time busily employed in bringing out and placing luggage, and making all the other necessary preparations. About five minutes past eight o'clock the call to the military to shoulder arms, and the laying down of the red cloth along the passage and steps of the George Inn, and across the pavement to the carriage, indicated that her Majesty was at hand, and she immediately made her appear. ance, accompanied by her husband and children. The Queen was closely wrapped up in a grey travel ling cloak. Prince Albert was also wrapped up in a close buttoning grey coloured overcoat, and both looked cheerful and in good health and spirits. Three of their children were along with them in the carriage, and the Prince repeatedly took off his hat and politely acknowledged the cheers with which they were greeted. The youngest child was along with the Ladies in Waiting in another carriage. The royal party started amidst the hearty cheering of the assembled throng, and the firing of a ro3 al salute from Bellwood Battery. The magistrates were in waiting inside the barri cade upon the bridge, for the purpose of seeing the Queen beyond the immediate boundaries of the town. A respectful recognition from the Queen and Prince as they drove along amply repaid them for this part ing mark of attention. Sheriff Barclay and the Pro curator-Fiscals for the county were in waiting at the east end of the bridge for the purpose of preserving order. Sheriff Craufurd had left to receive her Majesty at Blairgowrie. Her Majesty proceeded by way of Scone, Cargill, the new bridge of Isla, Meikleour, Blairgowrie, Spittal of Glenshee, and Castleton of Braemar. At Meikleour a fine arch was erected on the estate of Lady Keith, wife of Count Flahault. A banquet, under the patronage of the magistrates, p T. o hg s e e o r. oe wa drinkin g juo t t h u e rlno Q e ; g e eß n n ' a s tille h ime e a e l Dn t b e , pw a ra n ers d e took place i n th e Cit y -h a il a t 12 o ' c l oc k, f or th e pur her in following t oas t s were proposed and enthusia e s n t de ic h a at l hi l r y e. wishingtha responded to :—" Her Majesty," " Prince Albert." " Prince of Wales and the other members of the Royal Family," " Her Majesty's Ministers" (coupled with the name of Sir G. Grey), " Ex-Provost Sidey," &c. BLAIRGOWRIE, WEDNESDAY EVENING. An official notice was received here on Saturday, intimating that her Majesty intended to pass through the village on her way from Perth to Balmoral. Steps were immediately taken by the inhabitants to show their loyalty by giving her Msjesty a welcome reception. When I arrived here all was bustle in making arches, erecting platforms, and decorating the windows of the houses with flowers. Two fine triumphal arches were erected, one in Perth-street, at the entrance to the village, and another at Ericht bridge, where the houses end. That in Perth-street, gaily decorated with heather, evergreens, and flowers, was surmounted by a floral crown and two flags, and bore the motto " Welcome" in gold letters. The arch at the bridge was exactly similar, the motto being " Welcome back." Maclaren's inn, whet e her Majesty changed horses, was tastefully decorated; over the entrance was a fine floral crown. Many windows in the village were also decorated, and se veral platforms were erected along the streets. 'l.he town council very properly secured the ser vices of a body of special constables, who, with the county police, preserved order. Barricades were also put up in various places, and especially opposite the door of the inn, for the purpose of preventing pressure on the Royal carriage. A large number of persons arrived from the surrounding country, and her Majesty's route through the village was lined with a large multitude, eager to get a glimpse of Royalty. Some of the windows were also well filled. At half-past nine o'clock exactly the Royal carriage appeared, and drove up to the inn amidst loud cheers, which the Royal party graciously acknowledged. The carriage was an open one, and as it remained about five minutes at the door f the inn, those sta tioned there obtained an excellent view of the Royal party. Her Majesty was looking extremely well, and appeared to be quite recovered from the fatigue of the preceding day's journey. Sheriff Craufurd spoke to Prince Albert, and made known that Mr. Collins Wood, of Kettoch, waited to present the Royal chil dren with some fruit and flowers. Her Majesty hav ing intimated her acceptance of them, Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Murray, of Lintrose, appeared, and the carriage door having been opened, handed in some beautiful grapes, apricots, and peaches, and two fine bouquets. Her Majesty, the Prince, and the children repeatedly bowed to the ladies; we observed that her Majesty sent one of the bouquets to the Princess Alice, who was seated in another carriage. The party then drove off, amidst enthusiastic applause. Several other vehicles, part of the Royal suite, came up behind her Majesty. Sir George Grey, Sir James Clark, Colonel Gordon, Mr. Anson, and Mr. Birch, tutor to th e P r i nce of W ales, were sea t e d i n a c h ar - a • confusion bane, th e y a ll d rove off after changing h orses. The utmost order was preserved, and all crushing and ere decorated with flags. All the gentl emen ' s seats around and on t h e rou t e of he r prevented. Majesty w At the bridge of Cally, six miles distant from Blair gowrie, her Majesty was received by a party dressed in the Highland garb. At this bridge there were two triumphal arches. It was intended that only one should have been erected; but there being some dif ference of opinion between the proprietors on each side of the bridge as to the end on which it should be erected, each put up one on his own side. The next stage was the Spittal of Glenshee, where a change of horses took place ; another at Castleton of IMPROMPTU. ON THE DEATH OF JOHN WILSON, THE " SCOTTISH MINSTREL. " Alas, poor Wilson! rest thy soul in peace— Thou sweetest minstrel, death hath bade thee cease; The Muse's potent charm hath pass'd away, Oft breathed by thee, in many a Scottish lay; Soft as the gushing of some wandering stream, Or music 'magined in some fairy dream; Or unseen angels bearing far away The spirit parted from its parent clay! The chain is broke—the spell of life is o'er, And " dust to dust" lies on a foreign shore. No lowly laverock at the creek of morn Shall warble o'er thee from the rising corn; And few the pilgrims, clad in grief and gloom, Shall hang in sorrow o'er thy distant tomb; But Scottish swains shall long thy loss deplore, And mourn their minstel, now, alas: no more. THE CHOLERA. . RETURN OF CASES, AUG. 16. Attacks. Deaths In London and vicinity, viz.:— Lambeth ... 36 Rotherhithe Southwark Shureditch Bethnal-green ... 17 Other localities in London ... 237 In England and Wales, viz.:— Liverpool ... ... 151 Merthyr Tydvil ... 22 Dowlais ... 20 Cardiff Plymouth ... Newcastle-under-Lyme ... Leeds .. Other towns in England . In Scotland, viz.:— Dundee Brechin Greenock Total 160 ... ... 793 THE DUKE OF LEUTCHENBERG.—IRS Imperial Highness the Duke of Leutchenberg left the Russian Le gation shortly before ten o'clock yesterday forenoon for the terminus of the South-Western Railway in the Wa terloo-road, thence to Southampton, to embark on board the Russian war-steamer Kaintschatka, for the Mediter ranean. His Imperial Highness was accompanied by his Excellency Baron Brunnow and M. de Berg, prin cipal secretary of Legation, and attended by a numerous suite, including Chevalie rs R oux d e Di annan i , P r i nce and Princess de Bragation, Count de Ogearoflsky, Madame Mussard, Madame Fiscker, &c. The French Ambassador, General Prince Castelcicala, Prince Lieven, Baron Rehausen, Count Rossi, Chevalier Bunsen, Count Perponcher, Count Rosen, M. Canofari, Count de Montherot, the Marquis of Clanricarde, his Excellency the Brazilian Minister, and many personages of distinction, paid visits to his Imperial Highness at Ash burnham House previous to his departure. DEATH OF THE REV. ALEXANDER MAHONT, P.P., CF BLACKR( CK.—We have just learned, with deep re- , gret, the death of this exemplary clergyman, which took place at his residence, Blackrock, at eleven o'c!ock this day. His death is attributable to cholera. We well know how these melancholy tidings will be received by the citizens of Cork, by whom the modest virtues and ns of Cork unobtrusive character of this good priest were so justly the which took place death this f appreciated.- EzEaßratzvnerTHof.—WTedhneecsditaiyze. another victim to that morning. Dr. Meredith this d dep rived many a will y jo o i u li ng w a it n h d u a s h l i e n p rtr s c ic t i j a i ll s n g , house of its ornament and support. area 37 Fur many years o tant of our local connected u with s one of disease h r use surgeon, Dr. charities, the South Ififirmary, As d b o 11 who witnessed Meredith was univeri ally tespecte iC t h be h m as ost imp the poor, who were the constant objects • sof appreciating his skill, zeal, and unwearied humanity, and bf b b e i l s ov s e o d lie b i y_ solici tude. We have had many opportunities the anal we cha d i o ita b b o l t e i c n h t a he raclteearstofthis overstate aggerate when we exp ress our beliet that the grave seldom closed over a ph3 sician w h o s o truly comm bended the exa lt e d na t ure an d o bj ec ts of his noble prat, slot, Cork Exami n e r o t Wednesday. lamented o r e b xe s gentleman - MASTER B OOT AND S HOENIAKERS ' B E NEVOLENT SOClETY.—Yesterday a meeting of the committee and subscribers to the above society was held at the Free. masons' Tavern, for general business, Mr. H. Taylor in the chair. repot t stated that there are now eight annuitants on the funds, the males receiving 201., and the females 151. per annum. The balance was 121. ss. 9d. Theo annuity fund invested amounts to 2,2001. In the beginning of July last the first stone of an asylum was laid, on tin eligible piece of ground at Mortlake. LONDON FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, 1849. Braemar, and a final change would conduct the QuEen to 134Imoral. The morning was beautiful, and the atmosphere without a cloud. COURT CIRCULAR.. PERTH . , AuG. 1!1. Her 313.!esty arrived at the George Hotel, r t Pech, at four o'clock this afternoon, by railway, frcm Glasyrw. Her Majesty will leave Perth to-morrow morning for Balmoral. tier Majesty and the Prince, attended by VisconWess Jocelyn, the Ilon. Miss Dimson, the Right lion. Sir George Grey, vnd Lieutenant Colonel the lion. A. Gordon, took a drive this evening in the neighbourhood of Perth. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert, accornpatitd by the Right lion. Sir George Grey, and attended by Mr. Anson and Sir James Clark, li,ited the General Prison at Perth, and was shown over the establishment by the Governor. Their Royal Highnestes the Duchess of Cambridge and the Heredit ar y G ran d D uc h ess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz returned to Kew y es t e rday afternoon, from Portsmouth. _ . office, from th e G overnors o f t h e C ape o f Dispatches were r ece i ve d yes t er d a y, at the Colonial and of West Au h t ra li a . Dispatches wer e sen t o ff yester d a y e v t ning from the Good Hope Colonial• office for the Governors of the West India Colonies, and also for the Governors of St. Helena, the Gambia, and Gibraltar. PRESEN TATION of the FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH TO SIR J. DUKE. EDINBIJRGU, WEDNESDAY.—A special meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh was held this day, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of presenting Sir James Duke, the Lord Mayor, and one of the repre- . sentatives of the city o f L on d on , w i t h th e freedom of the city of Edinburgh. The presentation took piece in the Council-chamber, which was crowded to ex cess by an audience who were not less desirous to witness such an interesting ceremonial than anxious to pay their respects to a native of Scotland, who, by his own exertions, has amassed great opulence, as well as raised himself to a position of the highest civic honour in the land. The members of the Town Council were attired in their scarlet robes ; Sir James wDuke,wore a c o r n o s e s n ei is i b ng rea t s h t e h a all, gre w e n a s scarfloudly or e h r e i b e r b e o t s us e. pended to which was the magnificent medal or in signia of the Lord Mayor of London. The proceedings commenced by the Town Clerk reading the minutes of the meeting of council that had been held on the previous day, and which set forth that in testimony of respect for the private worth and public character of Sir James Duke, and in admiration of those qualities which had raised him from the position of a humble native of Montrose to the distinguished one of Lord Mayor of the metropo lis of England, the magistrates and council had re solved to present him with the freedom of the city. The LORD PROVOST then rose, and addressing Sir James Duke, who was seated in an elevated chair at the other side of the table, said : My Lord—You have now heard read the minute of this corporation by which we do ourselves the honour to confer on your Lordship the freedom of this ancient c ity, th e capital of Scotland. I may inform your Lordship, that our proceedings of yesterday are of rare occur rence, and it is now nearly three years since a similar honour was conferred. 1 may mention, that amongst the latest names inscribed in our burgess roll are those of Dickens, Prince Albert, the Duke of Buc clench, Sir Robert Peel, Mr. Joseph Hume, the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Talbot, Lord John Russell, Professor Liebig, Sir Henry Pottinger, and Sir Charles Napier, and I am most delighted to have this opportunity of adding to this honourable list the distinguished name of Sir James Duke, the Lord May or of London. --(Applause.) Your honourable conduct has placed you amongst the nobles of the land; and it is a bright page in the history of Scotland to find a Scotchman—the s on o f a humble merchant, of one of its humble burghs— the Lord Mayor of the greatest city of the ear th._ (Great applause.) I am delighted to inform my fellow- citizens (who, as you have . seen from th e ir anxious attendance here today, highly appreciate the honour you intend to do us) that your labours have not been for yourself alone. I know that, whilst one of the :heriffs of London, you had your a tt en ti on , your anxiety, and your care directed to the best means for rendering comfortable the unhappy inmat es o f Newgate. I know that your exertions in this matter must have been great; for I know something of the anxiety connected with devising any plan for success fully carrying out this great object ; and I am delighted to say that your services were not only recognised by the corporation of which you were a member, and who voted you a piece of plate of the value of 150 guineas, but that your Sovereign conferred on you the honour of knighthood on account of them. —(Applause.) This I think, and the country thinks, was well bestowed.—(Hear.) I find that in the next period of your history you became a Member of Par liament for the borough of Boston, and that you have honourably fulfilled your duties in the British Senate, in connexion with that borough; for a period of twelve years. I am aware of their unwillingness to have parted with your services; but yielding—as we ought always to do on such occasions—yielding to the preference of the great metropolis—they relin quished their claims to you ; and hence we now re cognise in you not only the Lord Mayor of London, but one of the Members of Parliament for that great city.— (Applause.) In your Lordship's history, allow me to say that we trace one of the brightest examples of the liberty of the institutions under which we live. We see that the path to honour and eminence is open to individuals of every class, that there is no royal road here to eminence—for we find that a humble Scotch man, leaving his native shores, and settling in the great city of London, may have, not only a seat in the British Senate, but be placed at the head of the greatest corporation in this country. Your history offers a bright example, and should act as an inducement to all to follow in your footsteps. I shall not detain you longer, but shall now present you with the freedom of this ancient city, and in placing it in your hands (which the Lord Provost here did, the burgess ticket being enclosed in a neat case), I trust you will long be spared to enjoy the honour which you have so well earned; and I am sure that, amongst the many eminent men who grace our bur gess roll, there will be none we shall have more oc casion to be proud of than your Lordship.—(Great applause.) Sir JAMES DUKE said—My Lord Provost and magistrates of Edinburgh and gentlemen of the Town Council, there are occasions and times when it is very difficult to convey the feelings of one's heart; and I fear this is one of those occasions on which I shall be ill able to express the grateful feelings which I enter tain of the honour which I have nos had so unex pectedly conferred on me. Had I been aware of the honour which the municipal authorities of this great and ancient city have been pleased to confer on me, it would not only have been gratifying to my own feelings, but respectful to your Lordship, your brother magistrates, and the members of the Town Council, to have appeared here in my official costume, in order to show the respect which I owe to you.—(Hear, hear.) But you will ascribe this neglect, I have no doubt, to the accidental circum stance that I happened to be passing through your town, when I received notice of the distinguished honour that was about to be conferred on me. I am sure you will believe, however, as I believe, that no costume that I can appear in will add to the gratitude which I feel for the honour you have conferred on me.—(Applause.) I cannot be ignorant, my Lord, that Edinburgh has long been, and is, renowned as a seat of learning and science. It has produced many men eminent in the various walks of science and lite rature; and 'when I consider that you ha v e been pleased to take this opportunity of enrolling my name on the burgess list of this great city, I confess to you that it is one of those honours of which I have reason to feel proud, and which I shall value to the latest hour of my life.—(Cheers.) You have, my Lord Provost, been pleased to refer to the names of many eminent individuals who have had th e p r i v il ege o f receiving that honour ; and while I feel myself highly honoured at being associated with such m en , I mus t take leave to mention that in one of th em I recog nize a townsman of my own, with whom I thi n k it a ['Tide to be associated; for it adds very much, in my estimation, to the honour conferred on me, that I find on the roll of your citizens the name of Joseph Hume. I cannot forget, either, m y Lord, that amongst the list of names I see enrolled on the b urgess li s t o f this ancient and distinguished city, there is the name of a distinguished nobleman (Lord John Russell) whom I have now the privilege to call my colleague in Parliament, who is ably conducting the affairs of this great empire, and who has preserved to us the blessings of peace, of order, and of tranquillity, at a time when almost every country on the continent of Europe is convulsed by anarchy.—(Applause.) can well feel, my Lord, that I ought to be grateful when I think of my name being associated with s uc h men, many of whom have greatly distinguished them selves in various ways ; some whose brows have been crowned with laurels for their heroic deeds by sea an d land—some who have distinguished themselves in the Senate—and some who have adorned the bench of justice. Although I feel that I have no claim to have my humble name placed where others so noble are enrolled, yet I trust I shall do nothing th a t s h a ll bring discredit on the partiality and willingness which you have shown to encourage an humble Scotchman in the difficult and onerous position in which he is placed.—(Applause.) My Lord, you have been pleased to refer to my early entrance upon life, and I am never, I can assure you, asha me d t o con fess, in the most distinguished company, that I sprung from the humblest condition of life—that I received but a good name when I l e ft m y na ti ve town.—(Great applause.) Sir James was here evi dently much affected.) If I referred, my Lord, at ell to the circumstance to which you adverted of my early I cervices in the navy, it would not be from any feeling of pride on account of any such services, hut rather as an encournement to oung men to think that there is no difficulty to which they may be exposed that they may not, by industry and perseverance, sur mount.—(Cheers.) When I tell you that the circum stance of my having been in the navy militated greatly against my entrance into commercial lite, from the prejudice entertained to gentlemen who have been in the navy undertaking the laborious duti- a of the counting house, you will readily understand that I experienced no small difficulty in my early com• mercial career. But having been initiated in the commerce of the city of London, I have been blessed by Providence in a most eminent degree; and I feel that whilst I acknoA ledge my gratitude to Providence for having blessed me with the means of maintaining the position which I have subsequently filled, I hope I have secured the independence by a course of untarnished honour.— (Great applause.) You have referred to the circumstance of my being totally unacquainted in London ; and as you have already said, I was not only tot..lly unacquainted, but I went there exposed to difficulties which nothing but the greatest perseverance could surmount. I continued, from 1819 up to the period of my taking office as chief magistrate, to carry on one of the largest businesses of that particular branch of trade with which I am connected that was ever carried on by any house in the world ; and I have to tell you that, in regard to that particular branch of business with which I was associated, I was an entire stranger, while I had to contend with those whose local influence was great. Yet, notwithstanding all this, I ultimately gained the esteem and confidence of those who placed in my bands, for many years, the most extensive mercantile system ever carried on by any house in the same branch of business.—(Hear, hear.) I mention this, as I said before, to show tint, in this happy country, whatever differences of opinion integrity, of mayo aometimes irritate perseveres in a course and, let me add, economy, cannot fail to make himself respected and encouraged.—(Applause). I feel, • youngman who sobriety, an pub o ll i c men, however, that it is not to any services of my own that I owe this honour which you have now conferred on me, but to the circumstance that the city of London, to which I owe so much, has always appreciated what humble services I could render to uphold the privileges of my fellow-citizens, and to render myself useful on all occasions. I owe much to the city of London ; and I feel that, amongst other things, I owe the additional honour of being enrolled amongst the burgesses of the capital of my native country. I beg your Lordship to believe that, in my future course of public as well as of private life, it will be a stimulus to me to bear in mind the address which you have now given ; and that in placing in my hands this valuable testimony of the approbation of the city of Edinburgh, I feel that you have imposed on me an injunction not to tarnish the illustrious name of this city in my future life, or to do anything that will bring discredit on the capital of my native country.—(Applause.) I again beg to return you my heartfelt thanks for the honour which you have conferred on me by enrolling me on the list of your citizens. Sir James resumed his seat amidst great applause. In retiring from the Council-chamber Sir James Duke cordially shook hands with all the gentlemen present. AN ENGLISHMAN'S FIRST VIEW OF NEW YORK. The following paragraphs are taken from a private letter, received by the last packet from America. As the expressions of an English gentleman on the occa sion of his first visit to the United States, they may be found interesting. The letter is dated New York, July 29, and the remarks upon the engineering achievements of Brother Jonathan are the more worthy of attention as coming from one who has long since acquired a high scientific reputation : "I arrived in this magnificent port by the Europa, Captain Lott, on Friday morning the 27th instant, in a passage of 12i days, the first six days rough and bois terous, the rest of the period most agreeable. We ex perienced of the captain and the officers of that gallant ship all that could be desired, and had a very pleasant party (117 cabin passengers), who enjoyed the voyage, and all the excellent fare and accommodation with which that excellent ship abounds. "I acknowledge I have been completely taken by sur prise on entering this beautiful harbour, ard steaming up between four cities, New York, Brooklin, Jersey City, and Williamsburg, in the magnificent waters of the Hudson River and East River, forming several pictu• resque islands—Statin, Long Island, &e.—well wooded and studded with very pretty and tastefully erected villas. On the bosom of these inviting waters are seen numerous shipping, steam-boats, and coasters, and such a busy scene of constant interchange of ferries, plying with teeming multitudes, New York in the bsek ground, like Venice seated on her waters. I went 3 es terday to see and inspect the New World, a most stu pendous steam-ship, which plies daily on the Hudson between New York and Albiny, distant 145 miles. This majestic ship is 368 feet long, 36 feet wide. Her engines aro the largest ever yet made, 15 feet stroke ; her paddle-boxes, 40 feet diameter, 18 strokes to the minute, equal to 2,160 feet or 720 yards.'" This floating palace is fitted up in the most gorgeous style, her nu merous saloons carpotted with extraordinary beauty, with highly-painted ceilings, chandeliers, sofas, arm chairs, pianos, harps, &c., exquisitely arranged ; awn ings on deck, and every luxurious accommodation for 1,000 passengers. She is a little town afloat. I never saw any thing so brilliant, so sumptuous, and so cheap. I am much pleased with New York, and shall endeavour to give you an idea of its hotels, by an account of the one that lam at. The " Irving House," situated in the Broadway, corner of Meade street, is kept by D. D. Howard, Esq., cost about six hundred thousand dollars, and about one hundred and ten thousand dollars to fur nish it. It is five stories high, and built of granite. Its frontage is one hundred and five feet on Broadway, one hundred and twenty-five feet on Reade-street, and two hundred and twenty-five feet on Chamber-street, con tains three hundred and fifty rooms, and can accomo date four hundred and fifty persons There are 40 white and 100 black servants, the latter dressed in the occi dental costume; and the precision and regularity of the waiters, with their polite manners and attentions, are surprising and gratifying, they anticipate your wants." * The following are the dimensions of the four great steam-ships built by Mr. Collins:— Steamer Empire Sta Us. 1,000 Tons. Length 330 feet. Breadth ••• ••• ••• 31 feet. Depth ... 10 feet. Two cylinders 48 inches each, 12 feet stroke. Steamer Hendrick Hudson. 1,200 tons. Length ••• ... 340 feet. Breadth ... 36 feet. Depth ... 10 feet. Cylinder 72 inches, 11 feet stroke. Steamer Lan Newton. 1,400 tons. Length ... 335 feet. Breadth ••• ... 41 feet. Depth ... 10 feet. Cylinder 80 inches, 12 feet stroke. Steamboat New World. 1,600 tons. Length 367 feet. Bres.:lth 36 feet. ••• ••• • • Depth ... ... 10 feet. Cylinder 76 inches, 15 feet stroke. The measure of these four boats in length is a quarter of a mile, and will carry from 1,500 to 2,000 passengers. Certified by W. 11. Brown, Esq. COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS' SCHOOLS. By the liberality of the council of the Zoological Society, the scholars of the Commercial Travellers' Schools for orphan and necessitous children, were admitted on Wednesday afternoon to an inspection of the extensive collection of animals in the Regent's Park. After the children were within the gardens they were divided into several knots, each of V 6 hich was confided to a separate guardian, whose task it was to impart instruction, and preserve from a too near approach to the savage animals, as occasion might require. The almost countless variety of specimens of living objects, from the great to the minute, in cluding the mo,t docile with the most ferocious, the most beauteous with the most forbidding, afforded untiring gratification, and elicited continuous exc'a mations of wonder and delight. To children the study of natural history is of all pursuits the most attractive, and this most pleasing page of the great book of nature was thus agreeably laid open to the children's contemplation. After the gardens had been explored, the different bands and groups were congregated on the lawn, where they were put through their drill ; they also sang several pieces of music, after which they were marched to their vehicles, and were driven to the warehouse of the treasurer in Bow Church-yard City, where a feast of a different character was pre pared for them; less intellectual, it is true, but, if we may judge by the alacrity with which it was com menced, not less welcome. For a while there was a struggle between the keenness of the children's ap petites on the one side, and the celerity of the numerous servitors on the other, but all things human are finite, and the issue of the contest proved that even children's appetites have an end. Several ladies and gentlemen were present to see the children enjoy themselves. Mr. Moore and his partners busied themselves in giving directions to ensure the cosofbrt of the scholars. Several pieces of music were sung in parts with great effect, and, after a good hearty " God save the Queen," the children were again got under weigh, and were driven home to Wanstesd right full of glee. The weather was mos t delightf i , v One, corn and the jaunt altogether was a very haPP-instrction with relaxation, and furnishing bining, as it did, health with recr eation, y theme for m future thought, and supplying lessons u ment and elucidation hereafter. a" f il o r enlarge . our our s p a r r a aa ), : 1 (13 ,s: e ou ' r 'bi pi e ty ls an ('f d never tail to curb the crectituft we way fct.l ut the foibles ofothera. We shall have learnt the difficulty of correct. A deep end profound knowledge of ourselves will ing our own habits too wi to suppose it easy in thew; themots ofth —Eliza Cook's Journal. tahnedyirw"itlelabdbconfmrneatihd:gabje TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kosaities Protest against Russian Intelnen lion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Clutts and Co. Mz-ssrs. Drummond. Isies&rs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of th.committeo recently formed to carry cut the Tegimonin I. 4 * *All further Post-office orders to he made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received . 817 9 8i Subscription raised at the Duke of York, Upper Rathbone-place, per Thomas Rogers 1 1 10 Death to the Enemies of Freedom, Hull 0 1 6 A Few Friends to the Cause, in Frome, Somerset 1 2 0 Bern the Younger —• • ••• 017 0 Proceeds of a Raffle fora small Painting (the Gift of A Daughter of Britannia), held at the Bell Tavern, Gracechurch-street 2 7 6 Subscriptions Collected at a Meeting at Carlisle (not yet received) ... • ... 4 3 9 A Few Friends of Freedom, third subscription, per F. R. B. 0 14 0 John Adams Joseph Parfait ... •.. 0 1 6 An English Republican ... 0 3 0 J. 11. H u t c hi nson, Little Pulteney• street, ▪ fourth =collection J. 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One by one the large towns of Eng land are declaring their sympathies for the brave people surrounded by foes on every side, their scorn of the meanness of Austria, their hatred and fear of the ambition of Russia. We should have been sur prised as well as grieved if Derby had not lent its voice to swell the general tide of opinion ; and the meeting of which we give a report in our columns proves that we did nut misjudge our townsmen. We are all united, without much respect to party feelings, in wishing tyranny may meet with ill luck. For a time those organs of public opinion which' seek every safe occasion of inculcating servile prin ciples, and of reprobating the noblest efforts of the oppressed while lauding every ignominious subterfuge or inhuman barbarism in the oppressor, denounced the ilungarians as rebels, and traduced them as the stupid opponents of an advanced civilization. But if a proof were wanting that the press has little power to in fluence the nation against the common feelings of our nature and the dictates of good sense, that proof has been given within the last three months. Half the press were determined that the public should think one way ; but the public persisted in thinking—or rather gradually formed its opinion —the other; and as Mahomet would go to the mountain when the mountain rejected his mandate to move from its primeval base, so the Times and other journals began to approach in opinion to the public when the latter would not move whither its blind self constituted guides would have led it. The per fidy of the Austrian Empsror, led by the cama rilla against his own weak but honest nature —his oath to preserve the ancient right of Hungary in the spring of 1848, and his faithless withdrawal of it in the autumn—the stirring up one section of Hungarians against another (all his own subjects) by what the Roman Catholic clergy in their address to him call " infernal intrigues,"—the marching of armies to coerce an independent people from the exercise of rights himself had guaranteed them— the cruelties perpetrated in the conduct of the war —the cold-blooded murder of the men who de fended, and the scourging of women whose only crime was to weep for their native land; —all this was disregarded by a part of the free press of a free and just country. But a change has now come over the Times; it is overshadowed by the form of public opinion while deluding itself with the belief that itself was that form, and the public opinion its ob sequious shadow. And that public opinion has power to conquer mightier foes than daily journals. Lord Palmerston rightly said it was of snore force than the bayonet's thrust, and louder voiced than the thunder of cannon ; and Dr. Vaughan, in his admi rable speech at the Manchester meeting, claimed for it the power to make afraid the barbarism of Russia, to quell the pride of Austria, and to cut deeply into the vanity of the recreant professors of generous principles—the French. It certainly has such power that no deed can prosper long which has the contempt and execration of the good and the ju't. Every nation is jealous of its estimation in the world ; and the nobles, the generals, the public men of France, of Russia and Austria, will feel the reproaches of Englishmen, and armies will lose heart and relax exertion in a cause which is not sanctioned by the voice of Europe. Could we give the Hungarians therefore nothing but our sympathy, and the aid of our reprobation of their enemies, it would avail them much. But that is not all we give when we meet together and declare our sentiments. We are a peaceful people. We are well aware of the cost and the calamity of war. But we are aware, too, that there are evils worse than war, and that to surrender any of our just rights, is to invite those evils—for as Lord Palmerston said, " the events which in their immediate consequences affect only other countries come back on us with disastrous effect in those consequences which are more remote but equally certain." When we say, therefore, to our Minister that we would have him protest against the unjust invasion of a nation's rights by Russia, we indirectly say that should the dread ful duty of war be cast upon us we are ready to abide it. If there be a situation more painful than another, it is to stand helpless while the bad agents of the world do their permitted work on those who are struggling onwards towards what is good. To feel within us the power of help, but to be constrained by the sense of duty and by the commands of reason to withhold it, is only less pitiful because the feeling of energy strives against the dejection of . sorro sorrow. But we may not claim the privilege f assisting g of cause our hearts approve, until that only warrant the war—the duty of defending ours Ivesl l s either di- i, rec tly or indirectly involved i it. i . ar must be a voided until it is imp osed on us by necessity. Until that n e time, whatever evils happen in the world, it is our part to do no more than encourage the struggles of those who are wronged, and to discourage the insolence of ill-used power. Who, however, can doubt that our Government sees reason to distrust the motives of Russia, and to fear that they have their origin in schemes which may hereafter embroil us with her? The peace and integrity of the Austrian dominions are not objects of such paramount regard to Russia that she would spend her treasure or risk her armies to obtain them. Nor is the quarrel between Austria and Hungary one which of itself would awaken her anxieties or repay her service. Hungary is in her way to the East ' • to secure possession of that way she believes to be her interest, and her whole policy is and has been to weaken the power of both Hungary and Austria. It was no doubt with the liveliest interest she watched the progress of the dissension between the two kingdoms, and held out the promise of assistance to Austria lest peradventure the doubt of her own ability to contend successfully with the roused spirit of Hungary might have tempted that power to settle the difference on a basis of mutual compromise. That forms one reason for the inter ference of Russia; but there is another which con cerns the wellbeing of Europe as much as does the prevention of her progress to Constantinopl e. fro! from g the line of boundary which separates Eastern Europe, meet the two been at work for many ant West e rn a gonistic moral principles which are and have or barbarous centuries. Nations entirely feudal must needs retain so me portion of liberty, because, there is as yet no constant central power capable of controlling i the freedom of one district or people by brining o n it the force of the others. But as civi lizatton sdranced the practice of keeping up large standing armies grew up, and a controlling po wer was thus given. But in most of the Western States of Europe there grew up, too, a stronger civil sys tem. As nations became more thickly peopled and the light of intelligence and science was more diff fused, the ci v il b ecame more able to contend with the military power, and indeed the spirit of the for mer was caught by and diffused among the latter. But in Russia there exists, along with the utmost ignorance and weakness of the civil system and re• lations, the utmost strength of the military element. That indeed is the only civilization, rightly consi dered, which exists there ; and Russia may be re garded in the same aspect as the ancient Republics present themselves to our view—as containing a su perior order of soldiers and civilians among a horde of slaves. The question fOr this age is, whether from the West shall flow onward to the East the great tide -- of intelligence, and with it the doctrines and practice el self gev , rnment ; or whether the hoof of the Cos • suck horse shell tread out the ve,tiges ef a 1 etta r civ:lization along the border of Russie's vast do minions, and a larger Poland be made of the countries which stretch from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Whoever has read the report presented to the Em peror of Russia by one of the statesmen of that ceuntry —part of which was published in a masterly article on the Hungarian question in Blackwood's Magazine for June—will attain some insight into the designs of Russia, nor will doubt that she believes herself to have a mission to recon struct Europe on a new political basis. Austria weak ened—France bereft of her moral force by her dis reputable conduct at Rome, and deaf to all calls of honour and prudence through poor and mean conten tions of political parties—only England left to threaten with her arm or remonstrate with her voice the opportunity is favourable to Russia. But men who will die for their country, as the Hungarians are wiling, are not easily conquered; and it is only for a time, let us hope, that France is mute under the sense of conscious disgrace. A better time is coming when she will prefer her honour and her interests to the schemes of a Thiers, or the rivalries of Louis Napoleon or Henri the Fifth. Meanwhi'e, in the words of the patriot and states man Louis Kossuth, we say—" To the Magyars freedom, renown, well-being, and happiness !" SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE HUNGARIANS. Since the public meeting on Monday evening the fol lowing sums have been put down on the subscription list now lying at the Reporter office:— X. a. d. Robert Forman, Esq. (Mayor) ... 5 (1 0 M. T. Bass, Esq., M.P. ... 5 0 0 William Taylor ... 1 0 0 James Peet 1 0 0 Charles Topham 1 0 0 W. and W. Piko 1 0 0 Robert Pegg ... 1 0 0 Thomas Madeley 1 0 - 0 Thomas Nicholls Roberts 0 5 0 Joseph Leech... 0 2 6 W. A. ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 1 0 James Thorp... ... 0 2 6 Rustic... ... 0 0 6 Joseph Moor—. 0 0 9 N. Neal Newbold ... ••• .. 0 1 0 William Sewily •.. 0 I 6 Swift 0 2 6 John Smith ... 0 2 6 Collected by Messrs. Skevington and Green 1 0 0 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAL The subjoined quotations are nom:nal, not half a dozen bets having been laid. EBOR HANDICAP. 6 to 1 agst Mr. E. It Clark's Giselle, 6 yrs, 6st 91b 8 to 1 agst Captain Harcourt's Ellerdale, 5 yrs, Bst 51b 9 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Glen Saddel, 4 yrs, 6st 71b 14 to 1 agst Mr. S. L. Fox's Executor, 5 yrs, 7st 131 b ST. LEGER. 200 to 100 laid on Lord Eglinton's Flying Dutchman DERBY ' 1850. 14 to 1 laid and afterwards offered agst Duke of Rich mond's Ghillie Callum. READING RACES—THURSDAY. The Town Plate of 30 soya, added to a Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each; three yrs old, 7st 41b; 4 yrs, Bst 41b; 5 yrs, Bst 11lb; 6 yrs and aged, 9st; mares, &c. al lowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 1001., &c. Heats, one mile. (11 Subs.) Mr. Gregory's Skudar, 3 yrs (Treen, jun.) 1 0 1 Mr. Parr's Baronet, 6 yrs (Rolph) 0 1 2 Mr. Wt-bb's My Mary, aged (Cr amen-) 00 3 Mr. Walker's Capt. Parry, 3 yrs (Wakefield) 0 2 dr Capt. Pettut's Eagle's Plume, 4y rs (Abdale) 2 odr Mr. G. Ashman na Marquis of Coninghsm... 3 dr Mr. Smith's Hallos, 4 yrs (Bensk en) 0 dr The first heat was won by a neck, the second by two lengths, and the third easily. The Caversham Handicap of 5 sot's. each, 2 ft, and 25 added. Three-quarters of a mile. (10 Subs.) Mr, Cowley's Second Sight, 3 yrs, 7st 131 b (Sabine) 1 Mr. Waller 's Pottinger, 5 yrs, 9st llb ...(Wakefield) 2 Mr. Drinkald's Dark Lady, 3 yrs, 6st 10;1) (Rodney) 3 The following also started but were not placed:—Mr. J. R. Grey's Lancaster, 4 yrs, Bit 21b (Flatman)—Mr. Death's Nectar, 4 yrs, 7st 12:b (W. Abdale)—Mr. Drinkald's Good Boy, 4 yrs, 7st 71b—and Mr. Tubb's Piccinino, 5 yrs, 7st 51b (Abrahams). Betting-2 to 1 agst Lancaster-7 to 2 agst Dark Lady. Won on the post by a neck, Dark Lady a good third. The Reading Stakes of 15 soya. each, 9 ft, uith 50 added; for two yrs old; colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, Bat 31b. Winners of 2001. once, 31b extra; twice, rilb extra. Straight half mile. (17 Subs.) Mr. Greville's Estarette (Flatman) 1 Mr. 11. Robinson's b c by The Saddler, out of Sister to Morpeth The following also started, b u t w e r e notp laced :—Sir J. llawley's Slang (Templeman)—Mr. Griffith's Miss Spring (Marlow)—Mr. T. King's Birthday (Benskit)— Mr. Driukald's Remnant (Ford)—Major Martin's Biota. dette (NV. Abdale)—Mr. V. Jenkins 's Miss Larkaway (A. Day)—Capt. Archdall's Rose Pompon (S. Mann) — and Lorth Strathmore's Teeswater (Williams). Betting-7 to 4 agst Miss Larkaway-7 to 2 agst The Saddler colt-4 to 1 agst Estafette—and 6 to 1 agst Blondette. A fine race from the distance, was won on the post by a head; Teeswater a good third, MiFs Larkaway fourth, Rose Pompon fifth, and Slang sixth; all well up. The Innkeepers' Plate of 251., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sous. eac h; winner to be so ld f or 200 1 ., &c. Heats, once roun d and a distance. (8 Subs.) Mr. Southby's The Streamer, 4 yrs 6st 131 b (Wakefield, jun.) 0 1 4 1 Mr. Walker's Dimancha, 4 yrs, Est 131 b... 0 0 1 2 Mr. S. L. Fox's Plebeia, 3 yrs, 5.t 101 b ... 1 2 3dr Mr. Gulliver's Fazelly, aged, 7st 101 b 2 0 2 dr Mr. G. E. Pearce's Merry Andrew, 5 yrs 7st 61b ..... . Mr. G. Drewe's Minimum, 3 yrs, sst 131 b odr • Won easily. CANTERBURY RACES—THURSDAY. The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, oue mile and a half. Mr. Spilsbury's be by Voltaire, 3 yrs (G. Sharp) 1 1 Mr. E. Farrnnce's The Old Fox, 3 yrs ... ... 2 2 Mr. H. King's bf by Muley Moloch, 3 yrs ... 3dr Mr. Rowe's Manchester, 4 yrs ... odr Mr. Cook's Damson, 3 yrs ... 0 dr A Sweepstakes of 2 Sews. each, with the Ladies Purse added, two miles, was won in two heats by Mr. Sim woricis's Dan Tucker, aged, beating two others by . head. The East Kent Handicap of 15 Sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 1001. added. The second to receive 20 B,vs., and the third 101. About two miles. Mr. Smith's bl fby Velocipede, 3 yrs (It, Sherwood) I Mr. Grc vine's Puffy, 3y rs ... 2 Mr. Webster's Pillage, 5 yrs ... Mr. Dockeray's Lady Charlotte, aged ••• kV on by a length. INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. WARWICK, 1849. Acceptances for the Leamington Stakes. The Hero, 6 yrs, 9st 41b—Collingwood, 6 yrs, Bst 121 b —Ellerdale, 5 yrs, Bst—Executor, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Wa nom, .5 yrs, Tat 51b—Ferobill, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Talton, 4 yrs, 7st 51b—Sotterley, 4 yrs, 734 51b—Rat-trap, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—Grimston, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—The Dart, aged, 7st —SBhs Boy, 4 yrs, 6st 1310—Fugleman, 4 3 rs, 6ss 131 b —Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Deceptive, 4 yrs, Gat 21b— liagley, 4 yrs, bat 21b—Eagle's Plume, 4 yrs, Est 11b— Loup•garou, 3 yrs, 6st—Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, 5:.t 131 b Westow, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Ribaldry, 4 yrs, sst 101 b Egret, 4 yrs, sst 101b—Bird of Paradise, 4 yrs, sst 81b— Measham, 4 yrs, sst 71b—Eva, 3 yrs, sst 2113—Miss Ann, 3 yrs, sst 21b—Grief, 3 yrs, sst—Di...na, 4 yrs, 4st 121 b —Rodney, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b—f by Velocipede, out of Miss Wilfred, 3 yrs, 4st 91b—Sylvia, 3 yrs, Oat 9!b. The County Stakes Handicap of 20 soya. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before the 22d August. Chanticleer, 6 yrs, 9st 101b—Collingwoud, 6 yrs, 9.t 41b—Ellerdale, 5 yrs, Bst 61b—Iulieritret,s, aged, ist 1 llb —Tuft-hunter, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Eugleman, 4 yrs, 7st— Sylvan, 4 yrs, Cat 121b—Athelstane, 4 yrs, Cat 121b— ltomunce, 6 yrs, Est 121b—Keleshea, 5 yrs, bit 91b— Cosachia, 5 yrs, Est 91b—Elthiron, 3 yrs, 6sL 61t,—De ctptive, 4 yrs, 6st 31b—Defaulter, 4 yrs, 6st 2J)-I'ius IX, 4 yrs, 6st 21b—Repletion, 3 yrs, 6st—Ritaldry, 4 yrs, 6st—Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, 55t 12 ib—S!roLgbow, 3 yrs, sst 101b—Egret, 4 yrs, sst Sib—Tuscan, 4 yrs, sst 71b—Eva, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Bird of Paradise, 4 . y r s , 3 sst 61b—Miss Ann, 3 yrs, sst 61b—Second Sight, yrs,s sst 61b—Midia, 3 yrs, sst 51b—Snowstorm! . 3 3:r' , 5 Ss : 51b—Lucy Ashton, 4 yrs, sst 41b—Conquest, y rs, 21b La. Satndlor 21b—Missyr yrs, B 5 a u t n 2 n 3 Or y va ris s , , b .,4 y s ( t d ui T b_ e s g k r u ap da h r ), 3 yrs, 3 yrs, 4st 31b. ... 4 Bst 31L—An- Acceptancesfor tEhoGSlTuArr3eyr-'slnBd49M. idd!e s e x Stakes. tagonist, 5 yrs , Bat 21b—Gardenia, 4 y rs, 7st 61b—Re -6 yrs, Bst 81 b — Hornp i p e, 4 y rs, Giselle, membranes, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Quiver, 3 yrs, bet 131 b Buckstone, 4 yrs, Est 121b—Z4clipus, 3 yrs, Est 91b— Landgrave, 3 yrs, Est 71b—b1 fby Velocipede, out of alll2lb—Atabassa dress,lointieVssil,fr3ed, yrs , 3 6 y s r t s — , s 6; r t u 2 p l , b — 3 b yr e s, by s sLt. freest, tut of 3 yrs, sst 121 b. MANCHESTER, 1849. Acceptances for the Chesterfield Handicap of 100 sous, &c. Fernbill, 4 yrs, Bst 71 b — Psalmsinger, aged, Bst 51b— Shylock, 4 yrs, Bst 31 b—Smuggler Bill, 6 yre, 83t 11b— Mrs. Taft, 4 yrs, 7st 1 21b—King Hal, 5 yra, 7st 91b— Horn of Chase, 5 yrs, 7st 31b—Bacchanalian; 4 yrs, 7st 11 b — Gilnochie, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Ada Mary, 3 yrs, 6sl 81b—Snowst orm, 3 yrs, Est 51b—Pity the Blind, 3 yrs, 6st lib—The Knout, 3 yrs, sst 111b—General Sale, 3 yrs, sst 31b. WINNERS PROPHECIED.—A gentleman of long expe rience in matters connected with the turf, and who has opportunities of knowing the secrets of several stables, will be hippy to give his best advice to any person cor responding with him, on the Ebor, Chesterfield, or York Handicap; Leamington or Great Yorkshire Stakes; Sr. Lager, Derby, Cosarewitch, or any future events. A Post-office order for 53. must be sent, and he Kill return an immediate answer as to the most likely winners of any two eveuts that may be named. (H e congratulates his friends en their su ccess at Wolv er h ampton.) Ad dress Mr. George Williams, 14, Niaiden-lane, Strand, London. T HE LIVERPOOL PANC Y FAIR.—We learn that the amount realised by the recent lair has now reached the large sum of 11,0001. It is anticipated that from 3,0001. to 4,0001. will be presented to each of the three great hospitals of the town. juri et,e U' ca so, ante°. Lt be v ihe -