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At per stone by tt a Cereate i. d. to .. d. 3 30 3 6 38 4 0 prime :wail .. 2 8 210 L ora, tarp; eki• ' ••••"• • • • • • 3 0 310 - .• •• • • Lamb. 4,6 d to 5s SLi. enGUGH AND SPITAINTIELDS• By land carnage, as well as coastwise, the arrivals of potatoes, last week, r ere on a very moderate rcale, and 43t middling quality. The imports from abroad, were,however, considerably on tne increase —they having comprised 230 bags from Ghent ; 1,224 ba g s from tons, kir k ; 77i Amsterd am , 500 tons, 5,621 bags from Rotterdam, 197 643htimpers from Antwerp; 43 sacks from Dun tow; 620 bags from Hamburgh; 110 sacks, 65 tons f rom &lads; 75 tons, 2 bags, from Harlingen; !2 tons, and 188 bags, from Ostend —forming a total Importation of about 1,600 ton!. The best potatoes, being scsrce, are held at extravagantly hiJhprices These of the middling and inferior kinds are on the advance. Per Ton. Per Ton. York. Regents 160 s to 215 s Essex Regent s ... — s to —s D itto Shaws —s to s Ditto Shaws —s to s Scotch Reds 140 s to 150 s Ditto Kidneys —sto —s Ditto Cups —s to --s French Whites ... 120 s to 130 s D itto Whites IOUs to 120 s Belgian ditto ...... 120 s to 130 s Lincoln. Regents. —s to —s Dutch ditto l2os to 135 s 330320UG8 BOP MaRILET. Ye have no new feature to notice in our market. Pine Hops are scarce, and quite as dear as last week; but all other kinds are a very dull inquiry. Sussex Pockets, 21 4s to 21 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 12s to 31 8e; Mid and East Kent ditto, 31 5s to 61 18s. per cwt. 3710014. Very large supplies of Wool were received in the Port of London last week, viz., 1,209 bales from Port r hillip, 1,769 ditto from Algoa Bay, 575 ditto from Bombay, 41 ditto from the Cape, 22 bags from Ham burgh, 4 bales from Thisted, 452 bales 1 bag from Port Beaufort, 2,193 bales from Adelaide, and 4,767 ditto f rom Sydney, or a total importation of about 11,000 bales. This is one of the largest quantities ever re ceived in one week. The supply of Wool offering in the private market is not to say extensive, yet the dealers, owing to the approaching public sales, which will be de clared immediately after the late arrivals have been sorted, have purchased with extreme caution, at almost nominal currencies. TALLOW. Our market has continued in a very depressed state since Monday last, and prices have declined quite 3d per cwt. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 38s 6d Per cwt. For forward delivery, the quotations are no minal. Town Tallow, 37s 9d to 38s per cwt net cash. Rough Fat has fallen to 2s Id per Blbs. Advices from St. Petersburgh represent the trade heavy. 1845. 1846. 1847. 1848. 1849. Stock this day • • • • Price of Y. C. •• • • Delivery last week: • • Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week • Ditto from June 1 ... Price of Town ••• • • 19,388 38s 6d to 39s Od 1,555 62,833 11,217 9,238 42s 6d 478 6d to Os Od to Os Od 842 401 84,846 78,627 337 662 60,259 75,240 44s Od 49s 6d 7,792 24,818 48s Od to / 38s 6d Os Od to Os Od 1,051 1,258 94,805 93,007 555 929 94,496 110,292 660 83,230 41s Od 50s. 6d 1 393 6d EX CHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) WILLS V. BRIGHT. The Court granted a rule nisi in this case, in which a question arose as to the right of the plaintiff, as secretary to the Neptune Insurance Company, to recover a certain amount of calls from the defendant as a proprietor in the same company. A verdict for 1201. was found for the plaintiff at the trial, and the case turned upon the construction of a memorial of partnership of a private Act of Parliament. No other case of sufficient importance to justify a re port came on during the morning. CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) The May Session was opened this morning before the Recorder and Aldermen Gibbs and Moon. The RECORDER delivered his usual address to the grand jury, and commented upon some of the cases, none of which are of a very unusual or important natare. The total number of prisoners waiting their trials was 131, a great proportion of which, as usual, consisted of petty larcenies, and larcenies from dwelling-houses by servants. The following are some of the principal charges; —Uttering counterfeit coin, 8 ; cutting and Wounding with intent, 6; uttering forged instruments, 2; stealing letters from the Post-office, 1; manslaughter, 1; Misdemeanour, 9 ; rape (by a surgeon), 1 ; receiving stolen goods, 6; sacrilege, 1; &c. The calendar is un usually light, which is accounted for by the short period that has elapsed since the last session. No cases of consequence were tried during the day. MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Mr. Thomas Birks and Mr. Sidney Montague Harnd tan, two well-dressed gentlemen, were placed before Mr. Bingham, charged with being drunk and creating a dis turbance at the Black Horse Tavern, Coventry-street. Mr. John Wood, the landlord, stated that on Saturday night, about ten o'clock, the defendants rushed into his house and inquired who was the landlord. Witness, who was in the bar at the time, asked them what they wanted. They replied that they wanted to know the number of the omnibus that had left at ten o'clock. Witness said he could not inform them, as he had nothing to do with the " busses." Seeing that they were much in liquor, he requested them to leave the house. They refused, told him to be d—d, and called him a sharp of a landlord. Witness then went to the door for the purpose of putting them out, when Mr. Hamilton taxed him with getting up a row for the purpose of robbing him of his gold pin. As they caused an obstruction to his business, he sent for a constable and gave them in charge. The defendants indignantly denied the charge of in toxication, and Hamilton protested that the row was only a ruse to rob him of his pin, which he lost in the scuffle. They would call the inspector who took the charge to prove that they were so ber. Inspector Valentine, C division, on being sworn, proved that the defendants were very much in liquor. Mr. BINGHAM said he did not think the defendants had made out their case as to sobriety, nor did he think they had shown any reason at all to interrupt com plainant in his business. To mark his sense o f their con duct, he should fine them 20s. each, and hold them to bail in their own recognizances to keep the peace for three months. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. On Saturday evening the opera of the Sonnambula was repeated with Jenny Lind as Amine, and Cal zolari as Elvino. Jenny Lind was, if possible, more astonishing than ever, never has even she excited so intense a furore as she did on Saturday; the applause was more than enthu siastic—it was a roar of delight and admiration, and the stage at the close resembled a beautiful parterre, so many were the roseate offerings made to th e Nightingale. Her Majesty, who was present, fre quently applauded in the most marked man ner. Calzolari more than redeemed the pro mise of his first appearance—never has any tenor achieved a success so rapid, so triumphant, so de served. The Caesar of song, Veni, vidi, vici should be his motto—ke has sapg twice, and has taken his rank as the first Italian tenor of the day. OUR TRADE WITH SICILY The following, is a copy of the correspondence on the subject of the war between the King of Naples and the " Egerton Grove, Stretford-road, near Manchester, May 1, 1849. "My Lord,.—Having been requested by the merchants residing in this city who have signed the inclosed peti tion, to forward it to your Lordship, and as there is no time to be lost by presenting it to your Lordship in the usual way, 1 have taken the liberty to forward it to your Lordship direct, trusting that the subject, and your Lordship's usual kindness and condescension, will par don my omitting the usual formalities. I may add, that the whole body of merchants of this city carrying on trade between England and Sicily, with one or two ex ceptions. have signed the petition—l am, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient humble servant, _ " J. W. HOPKINS. "'To the Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston, M.P., her Majesty's Chief Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London." REPLY. "Foreign Office, May 4, 1849. " Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to ac knowledge the receipt of your letter of the Ist inst , con taining a memorial from certain merchants residing in Manchester, on the subject of late events in Sicily ; and. I am to state to you in reply, that her Majesty's Go vernment are led to hope, from accounts recently re ceived, that an arrangement has been made between the Sicilians and the King of Naples, by which further hostilities between the Neapolitan troops and the Sici lians will be prevented.—l am, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, H. W. ADDINOTON. " W. Hopkins, Dq., Egerton Grove, Stretford road, near Manchester." , ------- ( )LD FRIENDS.—On Thursday evening the second . . a nniversary supper of the No, 9 Lodge of the Ancient • ,tier ot_Old F r i en d s was celebrated at the lodge house, ' e Britith Oak, Baltic•street, St. Luke's, on which occasion a hi g hly res p ecta bl e par ty of the member s and their f r i en d s partook of an enterta i nmen t w hich reflected ,great credit to the worthy host. Treasurer Pick in g , and gave great satisfaction. C. Stanbury presided as chair ulat!, as did P. C. Brabbs deputy, and were supported, anieog others, by the following influential members -..,0f the order:—P. S. C. Gaunt, P. S. C. Ward, P. S. C. Clark, P. C. GeeP.C. Shiers, P. C. Butler, P.C. 1-- C G liamson, liaillaeo, P. C. Noel, C. Dawes, C. Davies, and S. Bur fnesas.neAatfster the cloth was withdrawn, the Chairman, _ speech, gave eon to thaemrnemieuch cheering was drank "I - I , r Majesty, the Queen," which with much applause; then followed " Sue nt Order of Old Friends," received Fund," proposed by.as was also " The Friend in Need Secretary Burgess. P. C. Dawes, in a very excellent speech,ieti gave "The Gift Funds of the Order," with "The Secretary Noel," whom he described as a very des t er i 7 o ' f r ' n o g thr officer, and fully de serving the confidence of the lent songs were sung, and the gr T e e i a l s t e 'es , t r harmony r pre- Several excel- Veiled throughout the evening. Treasurer Stewards were severally proposed, and drankaswui demonstration of respect, and suitably acknowledged. THE MONTCALM GALLERY.—The sale of the pit tur- tures forming this gallery was concluded on Saturday by Messrs. Christie and Manson. The sum realised by the collection exceeded 10,0001. BRECON AND ABERGAVENNY RAILWAY. --At the half -yearly meeting of the proprietors of the canal of this name on Th urs d ay, i t r.as resolved on making a survey to ascertain whether it would be practicable' to c onvert the canal into a railway. LITERATURE. BS TIISTORY 0 61.:El.:( Thomax Swinbarne Carr, .2,1 Aft , ti,e compositiot, ..n,: celebrated works recently published by Grote and hirlwall, it may appear rather a matter of superero gation, not to say of temerity and presumption, for any one to attempt a volume of this character. It must be premised at once, however, not merely in extenuation, but in commendation of the labours of Mr. Carr, that his production is an endeavour to make up for the deficiencies of Dr. Goldsmith's abridgement, not to compete with the voluminous pages of his more ambitious predecessors. As the title-page indicates, the volume is intended " for the use of schools and colleges." It recounts the narra tive of the rise and development of those famous classic democracies whose citizens were the authors of the first civilization, and it does so within the com pass of 600 pages, without being either too diffuse or too abbreviated, without encumbering the memory of the youthful student with unnecessary particulars, and, at the i-ame time, without omitting anything which could tend to bring more vividly before the dawning imagination the genius and the valour of the ancient Grecians. Remote as is the age which coin menced with the rise of Codrus and terminated with the fall of Dilithridates, the fact is patent to every educated man that, in regard to the principal incidents of that epoch, there is no lack whatever of authentic materials. From Herodotus, whom Cicero happily designated the Father of History, we learn all the most interesting details of the struggles between the Greeks and Persians, dating from the appearance of Cyrus to that of Xerxes. And in the nine eloquent books written by him, each of which has been elegantly called after one of the Nine Muses, we possess not merely the record of many extraordinary occurrences, but a perfect model of all that is lucid, oratorical, and poetically ornate in his torical composition. Thucydides, again, in his record of the Peloponnesian war has supplied posterity as well with the circumstances of that prolonged struggle as with a noble example of the fidelity, the concise ness, and the vigour which are requisite in an an nalist. The bold and compact beauty of his Attic dialect affords ample compensation for the absence of that rhetorical splendour which characterised the lonic dialect of his great contemporary Herodotus. Xenophon completed the glorious triumvirate of the Greek historians—adding a supplement to Thucydides, under the name of the Hellenica, besides penning the biography of the Great Cyrus, and describing the manner in which he himself conducted the famous Retreat of the Ten Thousand. These narratives he accomplished, moreover, in a style, of which it can never be forgotten that Quinctilian remarked it was formed by the Graces. From such works and from the fragmentary effusions of such men as Poly bins, as Diodorus Siculus, as Dionysius of Halli carnassus, as Appian, as .Arian, as Dion Cassius, and as Herodian, all subsequent authors have derived their authority. Their renowned volumes have been the mines worked by modern scholars, by Heeren and by Muller, by Bisckh and by Hermann, by Wacksmuth and by Schomann. They have called into existence the eminent English annalists of Greece already mentioned—Alitford, Grote, and Thirlwall. They have prompted other gifted minds to delve into the buried treasures of antiquity. And in this way Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was induced to forsake for a time the fascinating regions of romance, and to tell of the glories of old Athens in a strain which causes every intelligent reader to lament that he has left so noble an effusion unfinished. Mr. Carr—with a caution which we cannot sufficiently commend—has availed himself of the labours of all his distingushed predecessors both ancient and modern. He has carefully condensed into one substantial volume the history of classic Greece from the birth of the Pelasgi as a nation, down to the death of Alexander and the destruction of the vast empire conquered by the sword of the wonderful Macedonian. The book is no superficial gleaning from a library. It is the ripened produc tion of a clever and industrious scholar; and the mar ginal notes and references are of themselves a suffi cient indication that his aim has been that of affording the soundest instruction. The whole is written in a style remarkably pure and vigorous ; and it is not difficult to recognise that the learned historian, besides acquiring a perfect familiarity with the records of ancient Greece, has obtained a laudable :mastery over the English language. surprisibg as it 15 `,,IvA ALISOIV'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. Eighth Edition. Illustrated with Portraits. Vol. 11. This remarkable edition of the great historical masterpiece of Archibald Alison is continued—the second volume being embellished with three very striking engravings of three very hideous mortals, Mirabeau, Danton, and Marat. The two latter appear to us to be the most characteristic, the head of Mirabeau scarcely conveying that impression of grandeur which has made Hugo liken him to a Titan, and Cbateaubriand depict him, in one of his sublime figures of speech, as the impersonation of Chaos. Marat, on the contrary, is evidently life-like. In the insolent ugliness of his features, you recognise the ruffian who emerged from the filth of his sub terranean haunts to thrust his loathsome dogmas upon the Legislature. Through all that squalor and de formity, however, it is impossible not to perceive the intellectuality that dazzled the millions in the columns of his famous Ami du Peuple. In the coarse and contorted countenance of Danton, a countenance seamed with the small-pox and illumined by the daring of his undaunted genius, you look, and not in vain, for those evidences of courage, of self-reliance, of capacity, of good nature, and yet of ruthless and inexorable resolution, which made up the incongruous temperament of the man who, after organizing and carrying out with a pitiless will the mas sacres of September, retired to his native place with his young and beautiful bride to smother remorse in the midst of voluptuous pleasures. We are fain to hope that the next volume may— though somewhat after date—contain a portrait of the young, the loving, the eccentric, the witty, the eloquent, the bold, the fanatical, the unhappy author of the Yieux Cordelier, poor Camille Desmoulins. We must not omit to mention that the second volume is accompanied with the second part of the re-issue of the masterly Atlas, illustrative of the history. Every student of the wars of the Revolution and of the Empire will find the plates in this Atlas inestimable treasures. • successful. these Such is the character ea voIuUIP They s , L. za:: gl‘,L',.y BARNABY BUDGE. By Charles Dickens. We have already spoken in terms of eulogium of the cheap edition of tbeworks of "Boz," issued by Messrs. Chapman an d Hall. It is unnecessary, now, that it is so well-known and well appreciated, to speak of the clear typography, or elegant appear ance of this highly valuable work.essen tially, a " people's favourite," and the publication of his works in this cheap and a ttractive form is, indeed, a popular boon; The new volume of the series con tains "Barnaby Budge." THE N EW CHANCERY PRACTICE , with P rac tical Directions, and an A pp endix o f Forms. , Third Edition. A third edition of this practica l work has j ust is- By Thomas Ayckbourne and Her bert A y ckbourne. sued from the press. The acuteness, accuracy and industry of the compilers deserve the encouragement of the profession. The work is divided into four parts. The first comprises all the ordinar y proceed ings in a suit, from the commencem ent to the decree, inclusive ; the second part, various particular pro ceedings, either of an incidental or secondary nature ; the third treats of proceedings in the Masters of fices ; and the fourth part, of proceedings connected with particular parties in a suit. The practical di rections as to the mode of carrying out the several proceedings, after the manner of " Archbold's Prac tice," will be found of incalculable utility to the prac titioner. The present editi on co ntains much new matter, particularly with r es p ec t to restraining and stop orders; the investment o f mo ney, an d the pay ment of trust-funds i n t o cou rt . ; the practice in the Masters' offices upon sales ; the production of documents ; and upon inquiries as to heirs of law and next of kin. Numerous addi tions have been made to the Appendix of Forms, the index has been newly arranged and made more copi ous ; all modern cases of importance bearing upon the recent orders have been carefully collected. It con tains the orders of the several Chancellors, Master of the Rolls, and Vice-Chancellors, from March, 1844, to the present time. Also an account of the Chan cery public offices, their locality and hours of busi ness, both in and out of vacation. This very conve nient treatise is comprehensive in design, though l 4 not swelled to an inconvenient bulk:' It is easy of reference, simple in arrangement, and contains all the necessary forms and principles for the conduct of a suit in equity. The solicitor and Chancery lawyer will find it essentially useful as a book of practice. COURT CIRCULAR. Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lieu Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, went to the Hoe cultural meeting at Chiswick on Saturday. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Mar chioness of Douro, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Ear of Morley, General Wemyss, an d Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, honoured her Majesty's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta . Bruce, also honoured her Majesty's Theatre with her presence on Saturday evening. The Royal children took their usual e xercise on Sa turday. the and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic chapel of Buckingham Palace. The lio n. and house hold, attended Divine service in the privateße C.eslie the ua f r o d l , - A lbert, Ladies Yesterday her Majesty and Prince A lb Courtenay officiated. The band of the Royal Re performed (under the direction of tt lowing pieces during dinner in Buckingham Palace on Regiment m ) t f T H ors Friday evening:— Overture, Domino Noir Selection, Matilde de Schabran Rossini. Waltz, Comte de Esse Labitaky. Quadrille, Fete de Cbasseurs Schubert. Polka, " La Coquette" D'Albert. Her Majesty's private band attended after dinner in Buckingham Palace on Friday evening, and played the following pieces:— Overture, "Les Monsquetaires de la Reine" Halevy. Selection, " Figaro" March," Die Weilae Der Tone" Spohr. Marien Walzer Strauss. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went from their residence at Kew on Satur. day to the Horticultural Show at Chiswick. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Fo reign-office. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Mar quis of Clanricarde. The Council sat two hours and a half. The Duke of Wellington and the Marquis and Mar chioness of Salisbury attended the early service, and re ceived the Sacrament, yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Rev. T, Mills, and the Sacrament was administered by the Rev, Dr. Wesley. At the daily service the prayers were read by the Rev. T. Helmore ; the lessons by the Rev. G. Rep ton; and the communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wes ley. The sermon was preached by the Rev. T. Mills. ,he MARYLEBONE VESTRY.--Saturday, at a very nu merously-attended meeting of the vestry of St. Mary lebone, the rector, the Rev. Dr. Spry, i❑ the chair, on the minute passed on the previous Saturday, declaring the expenditure of the sum of 64, by the Baths and Washhouse Commissioners in refreshments for the work men on the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of the parish baths and washhouses, and calling on the commissioners to refund the same,.being read for confir mation,—Mr. H. C. Wilson rose to move that that minute be non-confirmed. He observed that he felt justified in this course from the fact that, at the time the division was come to the vestry was exhausted by public business, and many members had left the board. Mr. Nicholay seconded the non-confirmation, and de clared his conviction that the feelings of the great ma jority of the parish was adverse to the resolution. After some discussion, on the question being put to a show of hands, the chairman declared the motion carried by a majority of 32 to 19. A division being called for, the numbers were , —For non-confirmation of the minute, 33; for confirmation, 19; majority for retcinding the reso lution, 14. The vestry then broke up. THY, SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1849; idealised; but let him beware-of, confounding the TO THE SECRETARY -.OF THE supcn , atural with the unnatural. It is here that we "METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION. - rdtbor of -Lady _ !;- T . u.1„,11 ' to .i.e n( bigh:y we reverence tpe ideal, we feel more ibterest in cared that tile Governmentgoing to leave what heroes and heroines somewhat idealised, perhaps, yet may be called the giving of the Royal assent to the not altogether " too bright and good for human na- Act of the Canadian Parliament now exciting great ture's daily food." " Lady Alice" happens to Le violence on the part of the minority in that assembly, neither one thing nor the other—neither an ideal ex- to the discretion of the Governor as in ordinary course cellence nor a real woman, as a slight sketch of her mar- of law. yellow adventures will testify. Lady Alice Stuart is This leads to grave reflections. If the plot for the daughter of a Duke and Duchess of the present day, turning out the present Ministers by the Protectionists greatly beloved by her parents, and allowed consider- should succeed, one instant consequence is a struggle able exercise of her own free-will. The first instance in Canada, of the same nature as would have taken in which she displays her charater is in rejecting place in England or in Ireland, if after the Reform her lover Clifford, because he is a Roman Catholic. Bill or the Catholic Emancipation Act had passed This, of course, is an act of principle which no one can both Houses, the Orangemen could have laid tern tehdes dangers no pretence are t o which proph w e e c n y l , dto accompany fores ee how a find fault with, but the difficulty is soon over come p orar y hands on the p owers of g overnment, and in by Clifford's conversion. The marriage -da y is fixed, terposed the refusal of the Royal assent. when Lady Alice, who is a great heiress, iscainrrtoieda grave It ve needs off by some parties desirous of compelling her marriage which shall give them possession of her months possession of power by the Protectionist and fortune. Now the real interest and the egregious Absolutist party. A struggle for the Corn Laws irnpoLsibility of the story commence. The vessel in here, with a general war on the Continent and which the New Una" is captive is shipwrecked, another in Canada for an agreeable e natural diversi results on to the one of the villains escapes and saves the li fe of Alice, public mind, would be among th. on her solemnly swearing to obey his instructions in The opportunity of preventing all this was in the good faith (unless they should be against her hands of the Free Traders in Parliament. But as the conscience). This incident opens a field of proverb says, there are two bad paymasters, Pay legitimate interest, we admit. A master of never, and Pay beforehand. So when the Free his art might here depict the struggles of a Traders had exhausted the glories and advantages of tender cconscience bound by such a vow. Legally, one campaign, they sat down under their laurels and perhaps, the obligation might be dispensed with, but left the enemy to get back as fast as he could to his a " Una" woula be expected scrupulously to adher e old p ositions. to her vow, and Lady Alice fulfils it in a manner that On the same day the Clergy Relief Bill was got is positively ludicrous. Afcer her abduction, a new into Committee. An unadvised attempt was made to " book" leads us to Italy ; a year or two has passed get up a show of resistance on the part of the Dis away, and Clifford, still melancholy at the extraordi- senters, to a Bill which, if there be any substantial nary loss of his promised bride (who is supposed to prospect of its passing, does a century's work at once, have been drowned in the shipwreck), and the parents or sweeps away what the last century might have of Alice and other friends are trying to solace their been spent in struggling for without effect. This troubles by travel. In Italy they meet with a young, having gone over without much damage, a serious English artist, Fitzallan, whose pictures attract their attack was made upon the Clause which on examina notice—they form his acquaintance. This artist, who tion appeared to contain the poison-bag to the sar is a regular fop in his appearance, with his little pent's tooth, and it was summarily ejected by a cane, and his coloured cravat, and his paletot majority of 118 against 57. It was quite clear, from of the finest black cloth, is no other than the the naive admissions of Members on the other " New Una"—Alice herself ! The young lady side, that the plot and plan was, though carefully had always displayed a talent and a taste for drawing, kept under in the wording of the Clause, to put the and now her persecutors having ordered her, in com- seceding clergyman into the position of one excom pliance with her vow, to remain incognita and to municate, which, as was said in the House, was the keep her family unaware of her existence, she next thing to putting him into a white sheet. Well has set up for an artist. It is not 'so much the matter meaning gentlemen on the other side, could not see as the manner of this incident that positively revolts any difference between this, and the natural enjoy us. The conscientious girl might have consented to merit of the power of an established church. a disguise and concealment of her existence from On Thursday was moved the second reading of the those who loved her, but is it probable, to say the Bill for legalizing marriage with a deceased wife's least of it, that she would have gone to such an sister. Without wishing to trench on the right of extreme, assumed such a costume, and adopted such private judgment, it may be stated that to those who an air and manner ? Her conduct seems rather in- took a view favourable to the Bill, the case seemed spired by a carnival frolic than a conscie n ti ous own - little more than a repetition of the same claims to pulsion. But the wonder increases. She actually ecclesiastical tyranny as in the preceding. Loud joins her own domestic circle, talks carelessly with were the complaints uttered in the name of the poor her mother and father, and still scrupulously persecuted Church of England, if it should be refused preserves her secret. It is true that on the liberty—not of taking its own course with respect the first meeting with Clifford, who Is ishes to purchase to what it would direct or prohibit to its own mem a picture, Fitzallan (we do not then know it is Alice) bers—but of seizing on the law of the land and turns away abruptly, but after the first interview her making it the organ of its dictation on the whole woman's nature is quite annihilated by her con- community. The opposition was ably replied to, by science. When Clifford calls at her lodgings to pay the Member for Southampton (Mr. Cockburn, Q.C.). for the picture she talks with him gaily, and takes him The Catholics took different sides, one being repre to the restaurant to b reakfast with her, where we sented b y Lord Arundel, and the other by Mr. are led to believe that Alice does full justice to the O'Connell; of whom, none seemed to doubt, that the skill of the cuisinier. What do you think of this, first was strongest. After a rather heavy debate dainty ladies ? If her vow steeled the heart of Alice, upon the whole, the question was adjourned t o the and she forbore discovering herself to her lover—if a morrow. forced gaiety was, perhaps, less difficult than a quiet As proof of public interest, the strangers' gallery conversation—could her conscience, think you, go so was crowded; and it was the report of the House, far as to rule her appetite, and enable the loving that it had been collected in a quarter best calculated woman, in one of the most cruel trials to which her for information, that there never were so many ap heart could be exposed, to carry out to the very letter plications for places in the pigeon-holes through the character of beau garcon and bon vivant ? Are we which ladies are allowed to peer into the proceed very wrong in saying that the author of " Lady Alice" ings of their legislators. i has mistaken the unnat ural for the ideal ? On Friday it was resolved in Committee wit hout a division, to grant " 300 , 000 /. out of the Consoli dated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the purposes and under the provi sions of any Act in force to facilitate the improve ment of landed property in Ireland by owners thereof;" and" 200,0001. out of the said Consolidated Fund, to be applied by the Commissioners of Public Works in Ireland, for making loans under the provi sions of any Acts authorising the said Commissioners to make advances for the extension and promotion of 'drainage and other works. of public utility in Ireland." In return for this there will be no end of violent language on English cruelty, and augmenta tion rather than the contrary, of half-threatening demands for more. Of course the Government has acted on the principle so long impressed with regard to Ireland, that statesmen must exercise their talent if they have it, and do the needful irrespectively of how it may be met. After some further speeches, the Marriage question was adjourned to Tuesday. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, May 7, 1849. THE DANISH. BLOCKADE, The following letter has been uddressed by Lord Ed disbury, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to Mr. Sanders, M.F. : " Foreign-office, May 4 " Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to no knowlesige the receipt of your letter of the Ist instant, requesting his Lordship to take the opinion of her Ma jesty's Advocate-General upon certain points connected with the Danish blockade of the German ports. " The first question put by you is to this effect : " Supposing an English or neutral ship laden with grain at one of the blockaded ports (Stettin for in stance), finding no obstruction, leave that port, but on arriving at the Sound it is discovered by her papers she has left one of the (nominally) blockaded ports after the time she had a right to do so, according to the terms of such blockade, then is it lawful for the blockading country to seize such vessel and cargo, as if she had cap tured her in the very act of breaking the blockade? " In reply, I am directed to inform you that the nature of the answer to be given to that question would very much depend upon the fact of the existence or non existeace of a legal blockade of the port in question. The formal notification by the Danish Government fur. niches a strong presumption that an adequate force would be applied for the maintenance of the blockade; and if this were the case—that is to say, if an adequate force was applied to that purpose—an English or other neutral vessel coming out of a blockaded port with a cargo after the end of the time during which she had a right to do so would be liable to seizure at tho Sound, or anywhere else during her voyage, until her arrival at her port of destination. The circumstance of her hav ing succeeded in leaving the port without obstruction is no conclusive evidence of the non-existence of a legal blockade. It is not an accidental absence of the block ading force, nor the circumstance of its being blown off e lil s l l be s o f the night or to a fog , or to other accidental circum stances, escape of more n e f m a v o ov vessels ueraaob bl,nowgc e k a ta t od h e e t , en t o h dra a that darkness Enylnw one lan or wds sufficientby stor s tances, have that effect. On the other hand, if there was no legal blockade existing—if there was no Danish force sent to form and maintain the blockade, or if the same, after having been so sent, was driven off by a superior force of the enemy, then an English or other neutral ship leaving a port that was thus only nominally and not really blockaded, ought not to be seized at the Sound or elsewhere; and if wrong - . fully so seized, the owners would be entitled to claim, and it is to be presumed will receive restitution of their property, and not improbably with costs and damages. "I am further directed to inform you that her Majesty's Minister at Copenhagen has already been in structed to demand explanations from the Danish Government with respect to the alleged inefficiency of the Danish blockade of the Baltic ports, and that her Majesty's Government will take other measures for ascertaining the accuracy or inaccuracy of the state ments made by the Stettin merchants. " Your second question is to the following effect : "If it be not according to international law that a nation proclaiming any port or ports blockaded is bound, as far as weather will permit, to keep au efficient power at all times present to enforce the observance of such blockade? " In reply, I am to inform you that, subject to the observation before made, it is undoubtedly the duty of a blockading power so to do. A declaration of blockade unsupported by fact will not be sufficient to constitute a legal and valid blockade; and any person whose vessel or cargo has been seized for a breach of blockade when in fact there was no, blockade, would be entitled to a 'decree of restitution.—l am, Sir,. your moats obedient h u mble servant, " EDDBUBY. " George Sandars, Esq., M.P., Sze." ELECTION OF VESTRYMEN FOR ST. PANCRAS.— On Saturday night a crowded meeting of the ratepayers of St. Pancras was held at the Victoria Tavern, Morn ington-road, for the purpose of adopting measures to se cure the return of a list of vestrysnen proposed by the Colville-place Parochial Committee. Donald Fraser, Esq., churchwarden, presided, and having explained the objects of .the meeting, observed that they were all agreed upon one point, namely, that the infliction. of church rates was an injustice upon all men who conscientiously differed from the doctrines of the Church. The next point was, that there ought to be a more e q ual assess ment made for the benefit of the ratepayers generally; end that the strictest economy ought to be enforced in every department. The gentlemen selected -by this Com ame m ittee to be the vestrymen we re actuated by the s motives as Mr. Brettingham, and were determine andd wa n e troduce and maintain the strictest economy, well deservieg of the support of the " ate ave r s. meet- Mr. Dyke proposed the first resolution — That t ing most cordially approves of the fair and open measures taken to secure good and prop6r Dam an {r every lo cality in this parish; and, believing that they fairly re present the feelings of the ratepayers at large, pledge themselves to support such, list not only at the nomina tion on Monday, but at the poll." Mr. Batterbury se conded the resolution, which was carried. LIVERPOOL, SATERDAY.—The steam. ship Canada, p C a p ta in Judkins , sail ed from the Mersey this afternoon, for Halifax and New York, taking out thea p a ssengers. usual gers m ails, . 23,00 01 . speci e on frei g ht; and about 90 en mails and dispatches are in charge of Lieutenant R a y_ mond, Bast,-.4dmiralty agent. manlier, FRANK FORBSTER AND HIS FRIENDS. By TV. IL Herbert. 3 Vols. The author of " Cromwell" and of " Field Sports in the United States," two very dissimilar works to be written by the same pen, has now united the sportsman with the novelist, and produced a book which possesses equal attractions for the lovers of field sports, and for the general reader. Mr. Herbert is evidently an enthusiastic votary of the " noble science of Wood craft," as he terms it. According to the revelations of Frank Forester, it would seem that a thorough sportsman is something of an admirable Crichton. He can turn his hand to anything. The stern ap prenticeship, which an American sportsman must go through, endues him (according to Mr. Herbert, and very probably he is right to a certain extent,) with almost universal knowledge, or at least it obliges him to make use of all his powers of observation, and all his reasoning faculties, and consequently he is (naturally enough) the very man for an emergency. b N r o i n m g a a t t m e r u r what der e r tthoe justice,difficulty oor to t m ay "makebe, twhethertwo lovers to happy," tne sportsman's ready ingenuity and in stinctive quickness of perception ig on n overcomess•alt v e it triumphantly. In proof of this peculiar t may cite two instances in which Frank Forester's nle sporting friend, Harry, greatly distinguished himself. Frank and Harry, and an old huntsman, were out shooting in the forest when, hearing a shot fired at a little distance u from se; them, em his , H oum ar p ry aniu r n a s n o o n ver t t o akiug in quiretheya knownfound him to contemplating the corpse b of im a n m evi dently 1 bullet et been had p k i i e l r le c d ed his brain, the shot just fired. th b ern all, who had evi rain, and was found in a tree at a little distance his lay by his side, it seemed ordinarygun,thatthehadhuntsman,committed suicide. spectator would Surprise and g ri e f keen have thought; but not so Harry. tbe observation. b bullet in no wise diminished his powers of than t h t a e He bade his friends notice that d e scended in traversing the skull, the aperture back of the dead man's head being lower front. Had he s hot himself the g un would have t a b t e in been pointed upwa rds, and the bullet would conse quently have ascended. Then making Fran stand at the corpse's feet, in the very place where the victim had stood when receiving the shot, he bade the old huntsman go to the tree where the bullet had lodged, and, looking at Frank, take the direction from whence the shot must have come. These pre liminaries being concluded, and it being evient twos m urder had been committed, Harry's next d care was to discover and trace the footsteps of the criminal. This was accomplished with some difficulty, the murderer having made use of the In and leaves dian's dodge but of co vering his footsteps with branches Harry was acquainted with this trick also, and with a little trouble got upon the fugitive's traces. We will not follow him in his perilous'pursuit ; from what we have said it may be seen that Frank Forester's ad• ventures are in no way deficient in interest, but that interest is not always of such an appalling character ; for example, on the other occasion to which we alluded above, when one of Frank Forester's friends found it necessary to " run away " with his promise;,d bride, in consequence of her brother's invincible objection to her wedding an Englishman, Harry conducted the elopement with his usual skill. We will not, by abbreviating it, spoil the very excitiny description of how Harry drove the runaways in his sledge at full speed through field and forest, with the angry brother close upon their heel s.. The denouementis SHAKSPERE QUOTATIONS. By E. J. Walbran. The title-page of this little volume describes it as a "dictionary of Shakspere quotations; being a collec tion of the maxims, proverbs, and most remarkable passages i❑ the plays and poems of Shakspere, ar ranged in alphabetical order." As a work of refe rence this compilation will be useful to those who possess a copy of Shakspere's works, while to persons not possessed of such a. treasure, or not well ac qutlintecl with the great dramatist, this epitome of the wit and wisdom scattered throughout his pages will prove an inestimable advantage. It is beautifully printed, and " well got up," and well adapted to the drawing-room table, where it would serve as an admirable source of profitable employment for an idle minute, or as a topic of conversation when the changes of the weather are exhausted. " A word in season, how good is it," and many a word in season meets the eye of the casual turner over of these pages —words of comfort to the afflicted, of hope to the despairing, of reproof to the erring, vide a few ex amples chosen almost at random. "Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all"—" Men shut their doors against a setting sun"—" 0 that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains"— " 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich, And as the sun breaks through the darkest cloud, So honour peereth in the meanest habit." " 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall" —"Tell truth and shame the devil "—" Talkers are no good doers"—" Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow" " It is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perk'd up in a glistering grief And wear a golden sorrow. ' But our columns would soon be full to the exclusion of more important (?) matter if we attempted to quote all the wise sayings of Shakspere. We will ingly refer our readers to Mr. Walbran. He is well-qualified to perform the office of cicerone through this labyrinth of treasures. LOFODEN ; or the Exiles of Norway. By E. W. Landor, Author of " The Bushman." 2 Vols. In the preface of " Lofodeu" we find the following startling anecdote, related as an illustration that truth is stranger than fiction ever dares to be : " Early in the summer of 1846, two Englishmen were travelling in an open carriage in the south-east of France. Whilst descending a mountain of terrific steep ness, down the side of which the road wound in a zig zag fashion, the wheel got jerked out of the skid-pan or drag, and the horses gradually increasing their pace, flew at full speed down the almost precipitous road. The travellers, perceiving the awful danger to which they were exposed, threw themselves down at the bottom of the carriage. Suddenly the leading horses shied at some object before them, and instantly dashed over the low wall at the side of the road, followed by the others, while the postilion threw himself on the ground. Down below was almost a sheer precipice of two or three hun dred feet. Over went the horses and carriage. One of the travellers afterwards described to me (Mr. Landor) his sensations. He said there was scarcely time to think, but he was perfectly conscious they were going down the precipice, and expected to be instantly dashed to pieces, when suddenly there was a violent jerk which almost shook them out of the carriage, their descent was arrested, and they seemed to be almost hanging in mid air. They both raised themselves cautiously to recon noitre their position. Looking down the precipitous slope of the mountain, they saw far below them the horses lying together in a heap in the lower road, apparently dead. Looking upwards they saw above them the broken wall ; in a few moments the blank and terror-stricken visage of the postilion was seen peering hopelessly over. On perceiving them it was illuminated with delight, which, the next instant, gave way to horror. The dreg of the carriage bad become jammed in a crevice of the rock, and now sustained the whole weight of the vehicle as it hung upon the slope of the precipice. Ropes were procured, and the travellers were rescued." " This," observes the author of "Lofoden," " is an incident of real life, such as the most daring romance writer would not venture to introduce into a work of fiction." He has, apparently, cited it at the very commencement of his work in order to protect him self against the charge of improbability, for the pages of " Lofoden " abound with startling adxen tures. The first volume opens with a , little incident that powerfully excites the reader's interest, a great thing for the first chapter of a novel, which is generally a most hum-drum affair. A wanderer is pursuing his way through a desolate tract of country, and his footsteps are closely fol lowed by a wolf, which is patiently waiting till dark ness and fatigue have rendered the lonely traveller his prey. A violent snow-storm obliges the fugitive to take shelter in a small cavern, where the wolf fol lows him, but is kept at a distance from his destined prey by a light which is kindled by the traveller. The wretched man seas the protecting fire gradually expiring, and his enemy grimly watching him. He endeavours, while a spark of light yet remains, to frighten the wolf from the cave. At his loud shout the cowardly animal rushes to the entrance—it is blocked up by the newly-fallen snow. This incident, which would have seemed to be the stranger's destruction, proves his safeguard. The wolf, no longer seeking to molest the man, rolls upon the ground in an agony of terror. A foot note reminds the reader of a fact in natural history, on which this incident is founded. " The most ferocious wolf, when it falls into a pit from which there is no escape, becomes overwhelmed with terror, and offers no resistance to the hunter, who descends and leisurely dispatches him. When this animal finds his retreat cut off, he displays the most abject cowardice." This adventure is narrated with a minuteness and simplicity that gives it an ap pearance of reality, we almost see the wolf's eye glaring upon his companion as he stands at the en trance to the cave. The author of " Lofoden" possesses a power of description which gives a peculiar force and interest to the ter rible and exciting scenes of which he tells. The catastrophe, notwithstanding the adventure of the English travellers, we cannot but think somewhat improbable, and the character of Lofoden himself in no wise excites our interest or sympathy. Such a character, nevertheless, is a likely result of the cruel treatment which embittered the life of the exile ; we do not like him nevertheless. Beyond these two re servations we have no fault to find with "Lofoden." The old pastor and his daughters, the gentle Grace and the excellent Ellinor, interest us in their behalf, while the unhappy prisoners in the mines, virtuous men condemned from political causes to a punishment never awarded to the most heinous guilt, alternately excite our indignant horror and our heartfelt commis seration. These scenes and characters Mr. Landor has described with a masterly hand, for example, the picture of the captive father and son—the stern baron, too proud to exhibit the tenderness and sorrow which overpower him, and the gentle Orla, a victim of filial love fading away by his father's side, both re fusing to make any attempt at escape, because the punishment of such an attempt will be separation, is most admirable and truly pathetic. If Lofoden indi vidually do not very greatly excite our sympathy, the volumes which bear his name contain a variety of very interesting and attractive characters—the most attractive of which is.the wronged peasant-girl Olga. The baron's welcome home forms a worthy pendant to the harrowing scene of his captivity, but, alas! the gentle Orla is then beyond the reach of par don. We have spoken only of the scenes and charac ters of " Lofoden," but before taking leave of it we must not omit to remark that the principles which it enforces, and the thoughts to which it gives expres sion, are as excellent and beautiful as its incidents are startling. It is as good as it is interesting, and that is saying a great deal. LADY ALICE; or, the New Una. 3 Vols. We sympathise deeply with the anxiety naturally felt by the novel-writer to find some new subject for his pen. Now-a days, when there are almost as many novel-writers as novel-readers, the difficulty must be almost insurmountable. The author of " Lady Alice" has, however, hit upon a rather unusual expe dient. He tells us boldly in his preface that he does not aim at beings natural—a very unnecessary piece of information to any one who may peruse his pages. We will not proceed to discuss the various interesting or uninteresting scenes and characters of "Lady Alice," the tout ensemble of the novel is brilliant and amusing, we admit, but on this point we take our stand :—Should or should not a work of fiction bear the sem blance of reality ? Here we beg to differ from the author of " Lady Alice." To give a literal narrative of common-place events v'vould, we allow, be a some what low aim for a man of genius ; on the contrary, we agree with this writer in his high estimate of the ideal excellence which should be the object of t' true artist. But, his error lies in the notion tha, the real and the ideal are contradictory terms. There is a chapter in " Zanoni" (if we mistake not) which treats of the nice distinction between these terms, and we recommend its perusal to the author of "Lady Alice." Let him bear in mind that the ideal is not a contradiction to, but an improvement on, the real ; for example, how did the artists of Greece produce those ideal perfections which posterity still contem plates with " admiring despair ?" It is well known that they made use of real models—they copied the excellences of a hundred different beauties—the brow of one, the lip of another, the smile of a third. When the statue was completed, its lorious beauty hno earthly prototype, yet who should dare to call it ad un natural? It was reality idealised. And so it should Let he in the worl d of fiction.the poet or the novel ist present u s, if he will, with someimaginary crea fections, that we may admire and t ur e of ideal pe r let him give u s, if he will, super strive to imit ate — h um an nature purified and natura l excellence, SPORTI GENCE. " My election Is led on in the conduct of my wil! ; My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twiat the dangerous shores Of will and judgment."—SHAICSPERI. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUE. SIA,—My anticipations of the Chester Meeting were realised in all but two instances, the Chesterfield Stakes, and " The Cup;" for the latter, my selection, Blucher, was scratched on the morning of the race, being, as his trainer asserted, " dead amiss;" he had suddenly be come so in a most mysterious manner. In the opinion of that clever veterinary surgeon, Mr. Ferguson, he had been dosed, of this I think there is but little doubt, his dull eye and sluggish pulse, telling tales of woe, must unmistakeable to his too confiding backers.• In September last I announced the entry and accept ance of Blucher for the Cup, which, provided he was weighted under 7st 121 b, was sure; from that time to last Tuesday night, I stuck to him as the certain winner of the greatest handicap in the world, when I had my ears saluted with the disagreeable intelligence that it was all U. P. with him; this was too late to give your readers the benefit of an alteration in my judgment; had he run, from the position of certain horses in the race, he must have been either first or second, at least I think so. _ During the past week Stebbing's stable 'has been in immense force, winning eight races out. of seventeen; of these, seven are to Mr. Green's account, the eighth, the Cup, to Mr. Stebbings, with Mallon ) , a well-bred horse by Sheet Anchor, out of Fair Helen, by Priam. Flatcatcher won both his races, the Grosvenor Stakes and her Majesty's Plate, in the easiest of canters•, and Jelly Fish repeated the Bath - dose winning the Palatine Stakes cleverly, beating Mystical , Cigarette, Cingari, and Priestess. For the Mostyn Stakes, my fancies, the Countess of Albemarle and Harriott, ran first and second; in the ring neither were backed, yet, strange to say, both found admirers at the sporting houses at as little as 3 to I. The Dee Stakes brought four to the post, Stanton by Colwick, Garrick, Abbot ot. Meaux i . and -ElthiKon,, the latter waited on Garrick to the . distance, then went to the front and won in a canter by. three lengths.; it for cibly reminded me of Flatcatcher's victory ter-the , Port Stakes, both races being won in the most. ridiculous of canters. This victory of Elthiron's gave him a lift. in the Derby betting, from 40 to 17 to 1, and advanced " the crack" to 9' to 4; Elthiron will see a still- better price before the 23d instant, and will obtain a good place in the great Surrey struggle. Cossack's position at the conclusion of the race for the Tradesman's Plate, warrants the confidence placed' in him for the Emperor's Vase, but should Van Tromp come " fit " to the post, I should take him in preference to the representative of Day's stable ; Surplice, Flat catcher, and Chanticleer, look the next best on paper. The Newmarket Second Spring Meeting commences on Tuesday, with the usual 50 soya. Plate for three years old, this, with several ethersstakes close and n ame the evening before running. - The match between 'La Beau and La Belle for 200 sovs. over the first half of the Ab. mile, will be 'a close affair, ending probably in favour of the former. In the other matches I prefer Seraph, Sit 71b to Re tail, Bst 21b, over the T.Y.C.; and Rose Pompon, 7st 51b to First Chance, Bst 71b, over the first half of the Ab.M. For the Suffolk Stakes, most of the following will start— Collingwood, Diplomatist, Wanota, Beauclere, Keraun, St. Antonio, Cigarrette, Essedarius, Retail, Legerde main, and Midia. Those that will most probably be missing at the post are—Wanota, or St. Antonio, Ci garette, Diplomatist, and, perhaps, Retail. The three year olds are literally turned loose to this division. I shall look for the winner, and expect to find him or her in Legerdemain, 4st 71b, Retail, 4st 131 b, or Essa darias, sst 101 b, taking the first for choice. On Wednesday St. Rosolia, Sir Launcelot, Sidney, and the Valance colt, will run for the Champion Stakes; the race will be between the Duke's mare and Sidney— the latter having to give the former 71bs. may' perhaps just turn the scale in St. Rosolia's favour. A Sweepstakes of 50 soya. each, over the last three miles of the 8.C., must end in favour of Sotterley. A Match for 200 each, over the T.Y.C., between the Bishop of Romford's Cob, Bst 21b, and Saddle, Bst 81b — if in his old form will be won by the former. On Thursday a sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each for two yrs old, will bring together a good field, to be selected from the following : —lmpression, La Belle, Harding stone, Virtue, Sic) on, Le Beau, Catalan, Michael Brunton, Bastinado, filly by Nutwith, out of Agnes; filly by Birdcatcher out of Retrospect, Outline, Gosling, and the sistbr to Pet of the Fancy ; of the above fifteen three only have as yet appeared in public ; the winner, I expect, will spring from the " dark division," in fact will be Le Beau, Michael Brunton, La Belle, or the Retrospect filly; Mr. Green's nag, with a start for choice. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 7. RACES TO COME, 1849. MAY. Newmarket Sec. Spring 8 I Epsom 22 Shrewsbury 9 I Manchester 3O JUNE. Hungerford 1 Ascot Hampton l3 Beverley, Hull, & E. R. 13 Newton Knighton l5 Presteign l9 1 Bibury 2O Stockbridge 2l 1 Newcastle 25 Winchester 2B 5 Salisbury 2B ITLY. Carlisle Lancaster Goodwood Ludlow Newmarket 3 Liverpool ll Oxford lB Brighton 1 Ripon Chelmsford . .. Derby Lincoln Wolverhampton Canterbury Huntingdon 2l York Great Yarmouth 2B Radcliffe 29 Egham 29 Lothians Club 3O Warwick 4 Lichfield Weymouth 7 Doncaster Leicester l9 Bedford Manchester Newmarket First Oct 25 Wrexham Walsall 13 ER. Worcester Newmarket Sec. 0ct.... 8 Newmarket Houghton.. 22 NOVE TIER. Hunt 5 Yorkshire Unio: IRISH RACES TO COME, 1849. Curragh April 24 Down Royal Corp°. Bellewatown ......... May 29 ration July 24 Curragh June 26 Curragh Sept. 4 The Heath July 3 Curragh Oct. 16 The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Lady Wilde received a distinguished party to dinner on Friday, at their residence in Stanhope-street. LORD ADOLPHUS FITZCLARENCE.—It affords us much pleasure to announce that the noble and gallant Lord is considerably improved since Tuesday last, on which day the fever left him. Although he has re gained much strength he is still compelled to keep his room from the continuance of gout. ASYLUM FOR AGED GOVERNESSES.—ThiS asylum, now building at Kentish Town, will be opened by the Duke of Cambridge on the 12th June. A fancy sale is to be held on that day and 13th, to augment the fund's of this laudable institution. The patronage is distinl guished, and consists of the elite of the aristocracy. OPENING or ST. GEORGE'S BARRACKS.—On Fri day the new barracks, called St. George ' s, situate within the Tower of London, and erected on the site of the Tower Armoury, burnt on the 30th of October, 1841, was occupied by the Ist battalion of the Grenadier Guards. The building, which is very capacious, will, when complete, accommodate several thousand troops. It is in the Norman style of architecture, harmonizing with the White Tower, the materials being Kentish rag stone. The Old 111 int, the most interesting part of the fortress, is to be entirely removed. THE HORTICULTURAL Socurrr.--The May exhi• bition of the floricultural specimens produced by the competitors for the prizes given by the Horticultural Society, took place at the grounds of the society, at Chiswick, cn Saturday. It was understood that a vast number of tickets of admission had been issued, and preparations were made for the reception of a very large company. The storm which came on at two o'clock, and which continued at intervals till five o'clock, prevented the expectation of a numerous attendance from being fulfilled. There was, however, a great number of visitors assembled, and it was fortunate for many of them that a very splendid marquee, newly ereced by Mr. Benjamin Edgington, of the Borough, resisted the pelting of the hail and the rain, and furnished the protection which some of the old tents failed to do. The " show " of flowers was good, but not equal to some former ones. There was only a small display of fruit, as, no medals are distributed in May for fruits, unless, of the very highest order of excellence. Amongst the company were his Royal Highness Pri nce Albert, .his _Roroyna. Highness the Duke of Cambridge,,the Dukes of Besso, shire, Sutherland, and Northumberland, the Fluratvl Northumberland, the Earl and Countess of ar by, Lord and &c. The T Grey, a nLdosrdoafutdhßeLlat Lady BAsensghditiofernttothnofe, CLLoolirdfed. Guards and the horse Guards ue)oe, mstroesaforninGtuhaer intervalsds, per b o o f e w d ? A untry carter called'a A PAINTED SrAItILOW.--,.... CO of ;lisainthee raexis.llently arranged fteowwndnaoyusnangdoar! rthoet• perihvoautedrrodesidmeinfeese from a gentleman, Bl bear a . appceared •to be a fin_e looking in a g n a i r n y . . higThheanbdirdw,.hhaetTsahiids,thhaedowesncearpeodf tfhroommtahnenihonouse and he bad caught it. de nied, as ho bad no such bird; but, at the earnest entreaty of the ns an, the canary was accepted in order to preserve its life, as the carter alleged it would soon die in his hands. Some Jilver was given in exchange, and' • the !man de parted. But a more skilful ornithologist, whose opinion was roared. soon found that instead of the pretty warbler, the alleged canary was a painted sparrow! The fellow who indulged in this clever trick makes, it is said, no inconsiderable sum by similar hoaxes. The "painted canary" continues to be a standing joke in the hands of the worthy councillor's personal friends.—Liverpool Chronicle. A SECESSION FROM ROME.—The Rev. Pierre Con nolly, chaplain to the Earl of Shrewsbury, who was last year sent on a mission to the Pope, has renounced the Romi.sh faith.—Hereford Journal. Mr. Hume, who has been somewhat indisposed, is now, we are glad to hear, somewhat better. TiE GREAT COLLIERY EirLosloN.—The sub scription for the widows and children of the sufferers in the tlalarDity at Barley Main amounts .to upwards of 2,00 C SOUTHAMPTON, MAY s.—The Peninsular and Oriental Compe,o-y2-a- ;eam- p coin-to waded-. by-Captain C. F. Burney, R.N., with the, ueual l'eninsularigails, in ch ergo of Lieut. W. P. Newnhain,k.lV, AdinirftftY agent, has arrived. The homeward voyage orihe Iberia was fine, but head winds the greater part of Her dates of sailing were—Gibraltar, April 20, Cadiz 27: Dibfhl l29 7 Oporto 30, Vigo lst instant. She brought home foray five passengers, amongst whom were--Lord ' and - Dady Aberdour, Dr. Wells, Sir William Don, Bart., 'Lieute nant Blakeney, Dr. Cowper, Lieutenanth Cafittead and Sykes, Mr. Stanhoie, Mr. and Mrs. 'GaSkiirt,' Mr. and Mrs. Melto and son, and Miss Roberts. The freight by the Iberia consisted of 11 ptiCkages•'of , spenii; 390 boxes of oranges 60 cases of almonds, 5 Caliks -find. 3 cases of wine, 11 tubs of leeches, 2,6Bo'quies'of fliehis; and about 20 packages of sundries. ' . . STATIONS OF HER MAJESTY'S Sffins.-••-jApril'itlit Lisbon, her Majesty's brig Harlequin (12); April 26; at Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Queen (110); Aprll:29, at Lisbon, Harlequin (12), reported to leave for ...gag:-. land shortly. • •. STATIONS OF VESSELS OF WAR OF FOREICHCISTAION. —April 22, at Vigo, Martin Alves (3), Spanishlsehnoirlit of war; April 24, at Lisbon, St. Lawrenee,(so); Anier ican frigate; May 1, at Vigo, Martin' Alters (3): SHIPS OBSERVED ON THE VOYADE. April 21;4.az. changed colours with Company's stem-paeket homeward bound, off Cissargos, coast of Spain; off (gape Finisterre, exchanged colours with - company's - 10111- packet Jupiter, homeward bound; April 20, at Gibraltbz, arrived same evening, Company's steam-petkei gigtr. outward bound to Malta; May I, at' Vigo; ' . Cottiptiny!" steam-packet Montrose, outward houiA, At Gibraltar all was progressing. 4vell-nndet.the net' Governor, who is very popular , and hifspitablet . At Cadiz all -quiet; a large Manilla-4hiiithidlitet arrived when the packet left. . 1 • , •• - fi.-I0 At Lisbon everything polities! was'Orerveicingluisnd confused by intrigues as -usual.' Cohsnierae: . kliall.and spiritless. -More stringent-laws a i rabeingleklanted".in the law courts. The crops are said" tivlywiery libaikdant ;.. -401..Z-NIZSL2I:.fr. 4 0 this year. ..'~:.; FOREIGN FUNDS:' t 4 J L:A9I ;EY ,- ; BELGIAN FUNDS.—SII7II3*LiI, *Alt '2. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••t••• •• •• '''‘•• 7 7 f _ !id.;: i-, Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • 6 . e• ,oan of Thirty Millions,FourpatCent• - • •• .-(' • Ditto Threeper .) t . Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto . . Ditto,dltte,lB4o • 00% Ditto,ditto,lB42.• • . • • 907 •"•i• • Ditt0,1844.. ... ..............- ... 82 Ditto, 1836.- .• - • • •• • • • • • • • • ...• • • • • • Ditto, 1838 Ditto of the City, 1832 .• • Ditto, 1843 ........... ..... fib Bank of Belgium. • •• • • .• • . • • —s• • • ,• 70 Issue of 1841 .. Exchange on London, 25 45. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 27. 4 per Cent... ...... , • 3 per Cent... • . 2% per Cent. ....... • Loan, 1834.. • • •• :..•... . Ditto, 1839.. Bank Shares— • • • • • • •• • • • • .... • • 1,130 Estarhasv's Loan .....• ............ SAELWASB. .......... 69 69% The Northern - ..... Gloggnitz . • Milan • • • • • ..... Leghorn • • • • • • • • • • • • SERIOUS FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock,a fire of a serious character,in which,One person was most seriously, if not fatally burnt, b roke out in the premises belonging to George Gossett Hill, Esq., No. 24 Portland-place, Regent's park. The flames commenced, from some unexplained cause, in the stab ling and coach- house in William's mews, at the rear of the private mansion, and although an in instant alarm was given, and assistance promptly arrived, yet before the coachman and his family had time to get up, the whole of the lower part of the building became enveloped in flames. By great exertion the man succeeded in res cuing his wife and children, when he returned to the stables for the purpose of saving, if possible, his master's horses and carriages. Although the flames were mounting most terrifically, the man succeeded in bringing .two horses out uninjured; but whilst in the act of leading the third out, the heat became so great, as to overpower both man and horse, and they fell in the midst of the flames. A police constable of the A division, who was on duty there, at the risk of losing his own life, rushed through the fire, and suc ceeded in pulling the unfortunate man out, but not until he was so seriously burned as to be' obliged to be re moved to the hospital, where he at present remains. Without a moment's delay .the engines of the London brigade attended. Plenty of water baying been ob tained, the engines were set to work, but the firemen were unable to get the mastery over the flames until the stabling, coach-house, three valuable carriages, Isn4 a horse_worth 109 guineas, were burned; besides which, the rooms occupied by the coachman and - his inmj„ly were destroyed, and their contents consumed. ,One of the carriages burned was nearly new, and cost 300 gui neas. Three other fires occurred; namely, at Bermond sey, Southwark. and Hoxton, but the damage at each was inconsiderable. . HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.— I. „„ ReQueen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the perform ances at her Majesty's . Theatre on Saturday evening with their presence. The suite in attendance upon her Majesty and his Roy al'llighness included the Marchio ness of Douro, the Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morley, General Wemyss, and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Bent also honoured the theatre with her presence. In attendance upon her Royal Highness was Lady Augusta Bruce. Her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box was occupied by his Serene Highness Prince William of Hesse ,Philipsthall, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of SaxeWeimar_ . the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, Lady Jansgrield ing, the Earl of Denbigh, and Captain Taylor. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold of Naples (Countof Syracuse), attended by the Chevalier Colonna, alsq visited the theatre. Amongst the audience' were his, Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duchess of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Alicia Powlett, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, Prince Schimberg, his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness de Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de:Lechaer, his Excel lency the Swedish Minister and the Baraness•Rehausen, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassadox and the Countess Coloredo, his Excellency the, Neapolitan Am bassador, his Excellency the Peruvian Minister, his Ex cellency the Danish Minister, the Countess Reventlow and the . Countess Hilda Reventlow, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of Clatirieardc. the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis of Granby, the Marquis of Stafford, the Mar quis and Marchioness of Abercorn, the Earl anc4Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Bradford, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Cardigan, the Countess Dowager of Essex, the Countess of Cardigan,' the-Earl and Countess of Malmesbury, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Clifden, Viscount Enfield, Viscount Somerton. Viscount Anson, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount and Viscounteas Alford, Miss Burdett Ocintts and party, Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., and Mrs,-Dis raeli, Lord and Lady Francis Gordon, Lord Sandys, Lurd Harry Vane, Lord Ward, Lady Graham, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Lady Fitzroy Somerset and Miss Somerset, Lord W. Lennox, Lord G. Paget, Lord Foley, Lord G. Lennox, Lady Frances Bentinek, &c. , ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT GanDeive=lier Majesty's box was occupied on Saturday evening by Mr. George Edward Anson and the Hon. Mrs. Amon; Lady Louisa Primrose, and Miss Herbert. Among the visi tors were—the Conde de Montemolin, Le Marquis de Sauli, the Marchioness of Westmeath ; ,Le Marquis d'Azeglio, the Earl of Cardigan and Mr. Hubert de Burgh, the Earl of Besborough, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Count de Jarnac, the Countess of Kinnoul and Lady Frances Hay, the Earl of March, Viscount Dupplin and Lady Blanche Dupplin, Viscount Templetown, Lord Forester. the Hon. Cecil Forester, M.P., Lord Saltoun, Lady and the Hon. Miss Vernon and Miss Lambton, the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord George Manners, Lord Henry Lennox, the Hon. John Forteseue, the Hon. Spencer.: Cowper, the Hon. Henry Coke, the Hon. Sidney Piorrepoint, the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Fitzgibbon, the Hon. G. Mills,e the Hon. H. Liddell, the Hon. Mrs. Murray, Sir William de Bathe, Bart., Sir John and Lady Harrington, Sir George and Lady Armytage, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir F. Booth, Bart., Sir George Clerk, Bart., and Lady and Miss Clerk, Sir Augustus Clifford, the Misses Clifford, and Captain Clifford, Sir Richard ansl,Lady Joddrell, Sir Atchibald and Lady Ma claine, Sir Charles Marshall, &c. On Saturday the members of the Royal .Academy of Arts gave their . anniversary dinner et. their- apart ments in Tra'algar-square, which. was attehded, , bye! numerous assemblage of guests of e i.fh . e . Ors , o t rack a nd f ter. talent, among whom were the e q . : o bb tf rd li glideat ,af the bury, the Lord Chancell h o e r, pr h Cseocurenctailr,iFesirosisLtaotredfoofr t t he latoemair Fo yi re t ig e n r_d oi ß nd ri c r3t od -S ton eel ia l the Forces, First Lord o :t h e Speaker, Treasurer of this Departments; the Secretfarysh.aetAWdarnrira, thiter.C.:oA3Lormdan.cheramo. ner of the Land Revenues,: Pre sident Trade, . Chancellor , of ,the Ex bN ;Cham berlain, a y i , n 0 , Ff L irth o st r e d cßo S mo te am w rdi a s rd soifo ; chequer, the French and Turkish A.mbaasaclors; the Danish, Swedish, Belgian, Sicilian, American,: and Prussian Ministers; the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Master of the_Rolls, the Lord,chief Baron, the Vice-Chancellor of England,Abe Attorney and Solicitor General, the Lord Mayor, Governor of the Bank, Chairman of the East,lndia Company,.Chair man of the Board of Customs, .Master :and Warden' of Dulwich College, President of the Society efAntitinatiess Presidents of the Colleges of Physicians-ittid,Silrgeolliss Dukes of Northumberland, Bedford, Itutlandi_lslawaastle, Argyll, Beaufort; Marquises of Anglesey, Westwinster, Northampton, Granby, .Waterferd, .Worcester;.: Earls De Grey, Cawdor, Lincoln, Arundel and. Surrey ;-.Vis count Hardinge ; Bishops of. Llandaff and Oxford; Lords Charles Townshend, Ashburton, ,Stanley, Brougham and Vaux, Colborne, M-ontAitgO, Holland; Right Honourables Sir Robert Peel , Sir. G. C l erk, Sir J. Wigrim, Sir J. Graham , T. B. Macaulay, W. B. Gladstone, Sydney Herbert; the Hon. F. Charter* Ilarone . la Justice Coleridge, Colonel Douglas Pennant; R. H. Inglis, G. Staunton, H. Ellis, H. De le 116 e-P_ e _I: J. Mut chisson ; Messrs. S. Rogers, H. Munro, ou ß- as c A. Milne, Sergeants Taltourd . IL G.lemnietice. limo .: bn , s Lloyd, T. Baring, J. E. Ano , s _ ti . o _ . ,-, __ __, nandrrlo'bceoootrape t.,,,w , 441 407 n j ed . Arden, J. Bell, G. Young, D. Salome! , , In_ j _5 . 4.l_4!ngLat J• Creasinghatni A.M. Fox, C. Hampden Turn!!, - 1 3- ! .. 4 - 3tv - a Lc : _ 3 . -P luelf " 4/- N*lll' W. Russell, B. Disraeli, J., .51. • Thackeray. E. Majoriban 4 ks, S. Cartwrignt, Messrs. SACRED HARMONIC _ SOCIETY. , , G , E ui l z i j o a t h , , S ; w it h u i c c k h e Rucker, was H. announcedifall , otwc .fez „parfoiruxsnea next bas been pospoe4 until -Nxiday, the last performance of Shat • 1 N f a vourite d i ns ' w Y 1 s o 't . r 9 k 1 wh this h i iDc shstew'asiloi be , . - • -.t n. ~IIs~.;j A+,llkY 4 I , UST. AUG' ... 16 SEPTE OCTO: THE PENINSULAR MAILS. I