The Sun. — London, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

A. North Staffordshire l7 i n l2l/4.. JOINT STOCK BANKS. A ustralasia____ 40 - ..... ••••• 13ritishNorth American 50 Colonial N 25 Commercial of London 20 Loudon Joint 5t0ck...... 10 London & Westminster. 20 National P rov , E nglan d . 35 •• •••••••• Ditto New. ..... -.... 10 Nation a l o f Irelaud ... 22% .....• •••• ...... Provinci a l o f Ireland... 25 Ditto,New ...... .• ..... 10 Australian MINES. 3 United blezicall 28% 2% ........, Ditto (C. & E.) guar. 5 per cent..... 2/4 ... - East Lancashire Ditto, New - • .......- 1 Ditto, New Quarters 6 1 4...•.. - Do., 6 per Cent. Pre ference Quarters - •• •• E Ist Lincolnshire ...... 25 - Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 - •••••• •••• - Ditto, Half Shares ... 20 .. .• - ••• Ed inbargn and Northern 25 - Ditto, Newport l5 .. ... - Exeter,Yeovil, & porch. 2 3 / 8 -•• - Exeter and Exmouth-. 2 1s. - 61 ugow, Dumfries, and Carlisle ....... • -8/.65. 8d.... - ••• Ul asgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50 - ...... D o. P referenc e Consol. - Great Northern - •••... ......... Do., 's., A Deferred ... 121 ••• ••• - ••• •• • ........ Po., 1 / 2 B 6 per Cent- 7 12 • Do. Ext ens i on 2% ...... 1 Great South. and West. (Ireland) - ... - ........ Great North of England 100 ...... - Ditto, New, 401 4O - Ditto, ditto 35 - ••• ..... Ditto, Now, 301 3O - Ditto. New ,15/ l4 .. .. - ....»•....... Great Western 100 Ditto, 1 ,4 Shares 5O - Ditto, k Shares Ditto, Fifth 5............ 25 - •••• ...... ••••• Ditto, New 171_ -.. 15 ... liull and Selby .. ...... 50 - • Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... - Ditto Quarter Shares 121,4 ...... L ancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... - Ditto, Thirds - Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 - Ditto, ditto Ditto, % Shares Do• Quarter Shares l7 l /2 - Do. Fifths... lO - Do. Sixteenths 6/4 - Do. Thirds ..-... ..... .. 15 - ••• Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 10 ...... - ...••• Do. Livern. and Bury 46 ...... - Ditto (lauddersfield end Shoff. Do.(Wakefiel ) d,Ponte tract, and Goole) ... 50 - D o. (W. Riding Union) 9 •• ••• - Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 - Do. % Shares (A)... 9 % - Leeds and Bradfor - ...... .. •••••• Leeds and Thir d sk ...... 50 - •••••••• ...... Ditto, Now . - 45 Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1 4 .- Do., Pref. Quar.,lBlB 8 . - Liverpool, Crosby and Southport S -• ».- London &Blackwell l2 'A - - " London, Brighton, Mt South C0a5t......... 50 ..... 3536 ... .-.... Do. Guarant. 5 per et.. 9 •••••• - Do. Pref.'s per cent.... 50 .. ... - • Ditto, ditto 1852 50 - Ditto, New 51., guar. III• 6 per cent. - 5 - London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d... - - Ditto, Preference .. . 20 London and N. Western 100 12 4 12 124 Ditto, New Quarters.. 7 Ditto, Fifths ..... .. .. 2 ...... Do. 40/.Shares(L. AL ) :.0 - Do. 102. (M. & B.) C. 1 ..... - Lena. &S. Western 5O ...... 31 3412 ......... Do. New 50/. ... Do. New 401. - - Ditto, Thirds 161.135.4d.... - Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. en Calls 5 - Londonderry, &Coleraine 30 . - ~.•••••• ........ - Londonderry and Enns killen 3l I ,i ...... i.-- - k lanchester,Buxton,and Matlock 4% - B lanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo - Do. Quarters (No. 1) 18 - ••• - Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 - - • D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 14 - - - Ditto, New 10/. Prof... 10 - Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 59 - ' Ditto ditto . ... - -... 17 ••••••-• Ditto ditto - . - Ditto Sheffield and Lincolnshire 2O . ... - 1 2 0 ., Grimsby Dock... 25 - 1-10 . Blanchester and Lincoln Union.. .... 41.25. - Midland ..... 100 .... .. 66 66 1 / 2 ... Do. is Co nso lidated Pref.loo - ucle do., 501. Shares .. 25 ... .. 13 12% 13% Do. Birm., and Derby 100 Do.Consol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 - Ditto, Brist. & Glocstr. 40 - Ditto ditto ......18/.125.6d.... ---••• ........ ••• DoeErewashVal.,Pref. 50 - Ditto, Leieest.& Swan ,...nington, 8 per ct.guar.loo - aliddlesbro' and Redcar, 6 Per cent. guar. - Midland Great Western Irish 4 7 1 /2 ...... - ..• ..... ..• ..• Ne wcastle and Carlisle OO ~ - N Do. Qua r t ers 25 ....- - 11 a wmark et' Do. Extension ...... ...2/. 12s - "wrlort, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 ••.••• --- Newand Enniskillen 7 - rI L Wirienpoint, Norfolk Rostrevor 2O - .. ........ ••••• morfolk ....••••..•• 100 Do. New 201- . l5 Do. Guaranteed 5 pct. 20 Do. Guaranteed 5 1 ,pe. 5 Do.Lewestott (4 per ct ) 20 Ditto (6 per et.) ..... 13 - ...... •••••• - Do. do. Wavenay Val. 2 ...... - Northern Counties Union 4 ...... - ......... ...... North British ... .... ... 25 , - ... ..... , Ditto, Halves .• - .. . Ditto, Quarters - Ditto, Thirds .... -.. 8/ 4 .. - ....., Ditto Preference 10IA Its 76 1 - 164 10% 35% _ VA VI 67 I,i - 13,A3 ,-- 13% 1 124 North Wales . ... 3i/ 2 — North-Western ..... ..... 11 1a••• Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton] Reading, Guildford, and ~ 15 Reigate l5 ..... Royston and Hitchin ... 3 12 •• • •'''''' " ' ' ' ' ' Scottish Central Scottish Midland 25 Ditto, New Shrewsbury and Balm- ll Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 Shrewsbury and Herefd. 2 ...... Sarewsbury & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) IS Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ..-.. • Ditto Oswestry •••••• 18 %2 — Ditto New Shr o Do. 8 per Cent. Prof. 10 pshire Union S outh Devon Do. Preference South Staffordshire 7% — South Eastern ... ....... . 33% 2O l /2 Do., No. 1 2B Do., N 0. 2. Do., N o . 3 .....„ „.... 30 •••••• — Do., R eg i stered No. 4 10 Scrip No 4 S 'nth W ales South Yorkshire, Don caster, and Goole 8 Sheffield, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. l2 Do. d o (S ou. Div.) ... 5 •••' $" WanS. & Loughor &Ca meron's Stm. Coal. ... 6 Taw Vale Extension ... 8 Thames Haven Dock and Railway l 7 l / 2...... Vale of Neath ... .. Waterford andKilkenny 2d . .... Waterford and Limerick 47% — ••• Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. Guaranteed ... ... 60 Do. do. d0.' .. . 25 Do. do. d o. ... v , i , '-..... ... ~... W est Cornwall ............ 6 z ..- Whitehaven & Fu mesa 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 12 ...... Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth York, Newcastle,, and _ Berwick. .... ............- 2 , 5 ...... 20 1 9% _ Do. Newcastle ki xten, 20 ...:....... 12p 4 . Do. U.N. .Preference 8 s Do. Hartlepool Doc . ..... —i4 . ....... — l% and Railway .. .... 30 30 .-. .. 31 30 1 , 4 30 York and North Midland 50 Ditte, Preference ...... 10 Do. East and West Rid- 15 ing Extension ...... 25_ RAILWAYS... FOREIO.4 Anglo Italian (late Ita- -- lian and Austrian)...• 5 ...... ,5, ... Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... o /s• ..... .. .. Central of France (Or- Vierz 4)1: ........ ••• Demerara 20 ...... .............. •—__ 1714 - .... ~.. .... •••• Dutch Rhenish ..... .... 3 7 14 % ...... -- .... ............. . East Indian 4% ............... Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... ....... 10s. ..... Louvain a. la Sambre ..• 7 % — ............... -- ...... Luxembo urg Ditt o -.. Madnd and Valentia... 2 N amur and Liege ... 20 ... -• • , ............ — 9 l Northern rn of France--... 1 3 .•• _ Paris and Rouen . 2O ...... Paris and Strasbourg ... 10 Rouen and Havre :...... 20 Sambre and Meuse 2O ••• - Strasbourg and Basle ... 14— Tour s and Nantes .. T ou rnay, 11 • Jurbise, Lan w eat , and Hasse Ditto lt •••••• 2 ° sa n d, rs 834 .. ... ..........___z:._ : 8% 16% 4% 15 2 li 201 , 197fi 12% LLOYD'S SIIIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 29.—Wind this day at noon, S.S.W., light brceza and cloudy. OFF THE START, MAY 24.—Lie t a, Staffotal, Baltimore for Rotterdam. DOVER ROADS, MAY 27.—Sle. Germania, New York, after repairing. SHIELDS, MAY 27.—Wind S.E.; 28th, E.—Sid, 26th, Thomas Metcalfe, Madras. Coax, MAY 26.—Sid. Oriental, Montreal. WRITEHAVEN, MAY 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. British Quk - en, Wise, Antigua. JERSEY, MAY 25.—Sid. Highlander, Jamaica. FALMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind N.—Arrd. 27th, Galga, Olano, Havannah. PLYMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind variable. — S l d. Panama, Adelaide, South Australia. DEAL, MAY 28.—Wind N.N.E: to N.—Arrd. from the River and sailed, America, Hanschildt, San Francisco; Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Lnrey, Moreto - Bay; James, Scott. Shang has; Medium, Fowler, Valparaiso; John Pink, Jones, ,St. Vincent; Cleopatra, Love, Tri nidad; Gibraltar, Goodburn, Dominica; Qucen of Bri tain, Fitzgibon. St. Lucia; Gilbert, Munro, M`Lean, ditto; Horn, Wingate, Baltirrore. POOLE, MAY 26.—Arrd. Frolic, Newfouadiand. DARTMOUTH, MAY 28.—Wind W.—Sld. Hebe, Rio Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, MAY 28.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd• 27th, Madras, Sierra Leone; Gossypium, Lowthar, Callao; Thomas Fielden, Lawsora'ditto; England, Brown, ditto; Juno, Moran, Mobile. Ski. Marquis of Queensberry, Mi ramichi; England, Quebec; Young Captain, Newfound land; 28th, Merchant, Lake, Buenos Ayres; West Lo thian, Jamaica. Off port, Patrick Henry, America, Montezuma, and Dorcas. TRooN, MAY 27.—The Rosalind, hence for Ceylon, has put back here from lot, 51, long. 11, with covering board split and started, decks swept, loss of bulwarks, rails, &c., and boats; four of the crew lost, having been struck by a heavy sea on the 24th inst. HULL, MAY 26.—Sid Minstrel, Quebec. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) EMT rizamtst.rs. SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 2/ 5s to 3l 15s; Clover ditto, 31 03 to 41 16s ; and Straw, 1/ 5s to 11 103 per load. Supply moderately good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND. Meadow Hay, 2/ 8s to 31 183 ; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 41 15s ; and Straw, 11 7s to 1/ 12s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WEITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 5s to 3/ 18s ; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 17s; and Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ lls per load. Trade dull, at drooping prices. THE SUN, COLONIIIM. SUGAR.—The demand for British plantation continues to improve, and the sales are 720 hhds, and prices are fully 6d per cwt dearer than on this day week for all de scriptions under 40s. Mauritius 3,900 bags sold briskly at a general advance of 61; strong chrystalised brought 40s 6d to 41s, mid to fine yellow 39s to 41s 61; grey 383 6d to 40s 6.1, and brown 37s to 38s. A strong de mand prevails for Bengal, and several parcels have changed hands privately at an improvement of 63 to is per cwt, particularly for the grainy sorts. A cargo of 150 and 3,000 bags Pernambuco sold privately at 19s 6d, also 500 boxes brown and yellow Havannah at 21s to 24s per cwt. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 3,723 hhds, 363 tierces, 1,241 barrels; there were taken for home eun§ i umption 1,092 hhds, 223 tierces, 346 barrels. The stock in the same places is 13,273 hhds, 1,938 tierces, 3,501 barrels. Coffee is quiet. lill3l.—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 794 puns 100 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 192 puns 46 hhds, and ex ported 53 puns 140 hhds. The stock in the same places is 20,362 puns 2,585 hhda. lircE.—Of 1,680 bags Bengal offered, only about 200 found buyers at 103 to lls for good mid to good white. SPICES.-1,400 bags Black Pepper were taken in at 2,i to 2k for sifted Sumatra to halt-heavy Malabar. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 38s 91 to 39s per cwt. on the spot, and Town, 39.i63. TEA.—The market is steady, and last week the deli veries increased. ~ NIL DESPERANDUM." (From Eliza Cook's Journal) A word in season, how good it is ! and right good and seasonable are those old maxims, which, with emphatic brevity, give courage to the desponding, and new vigour to the weary, when homilies and exhor tations are powerless. We could readily enumerate a hundred or more such " Jewels five words long, That on the stretched forefinger of old Time Sparkle for ever." Perhaps not one of them, excellent though the others may be, has so much virtue and efficacy as this hopeful ejaculation—Zil desperandum. The lot of man is disappointment, but his worst enemy is de spair. Resolute confidence, when all other means fail, may often avert danger, and overcome difficulty; nay, more, it may convert the bane into a blessing. We learn this in our infancy. What says the Nur- sery Rhyme ? " Tender-handed touch a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains." Bulwer has truthfully observed, that the most valuable characteristic of fame is the laborious and long-continued struggle which it almost invariably imposes upon its votaries. Similarly excellent is the discipline of disappointment. If life were exempt from trial, the sterner virtues—fortitude, patience, courage, and perseverance, would be uncalled for. Sybarite ease might abound, but Roman excellence would be wanting; life might be luxurious, but men would be worthless. It is a bitter truth, perhaps, but sorrow and suffering are a man's best teachers, and to render their teaching efficacious, they must be en countered by steady, enduring resolution. Humbled, but not conquered,—disappointed, but not dismayed, we must bend before the blast, only to rise again with new energy. .Nil desperandum must be the watchword cherished in our hearts, even when its utterance would sound like mockery. Look at history—and history is a teacher second only to experience. Who are the men great in their own generation, and honcured by the homage of pos terity ? Who are the men at whose histories our hearts burn, and our eyes glisten ? The men who were ignorant of the word despair. Was that baleful influence felt by the Genoese, whose untiring faith won a world from the unknown ? Nil desperandum was the motto of Columbus, as with weary feet, but undrooping heart, he travelled from court to court, vainly soliciting aid for the discovery of a new hemisphere ; and in that most anxious hour when defeat seemed imminent in the moment of victory, when the perils of the voyage were surmounted, and the land of America, all hut within sight, the sailors' courage failed, and declaring the prcject a delusion, they insisted upon abandoning the mighty enterprise, desperandum ! exclaimed Columbus. His life was menaced by the mutineers, but hope still urged him on. " Give me three days," he cried ; and be fore three days had passed, he had, with " a grand step," trod the shores of the New World. All ages tell the same tale. When the armed thousands of Xerxes threatened the annihilation of Greece, Nil desperandum ! cried Leonidas, although the cry seemed madness, and with three hundred followers he encountered the Persian hosts. The dead bodies of the Grecian heroes strewed the battle-plain of Thermopylae ; but, the Persian host retreated, and the salvation of Greece was achieved. Volumes might be filled with similar examples of perseverance, and difficulty, and hope, in the jaws of destruction • for the history of the s e virtues is the history of all the great and good that has ever been accomplished. It is easier to say what a man may do than what he may not, if he put his shoulder to the wheel with a hopeful resolution. Who, for example, would not have ridiculed the presumption of that gipsy-tinker who, while repairing the grate at a wealthy painter's house, was captivated by the beauty , of the painter's daughter, and demanded the lady of • her father. Doubtless, the painter thought to con vince the youth of the folly of his suit, by declaring that the lady should only be the bride of a greater painter than her father. Did the gipsy youth hang his h ea d in despair ? Nil desperandum I he cried, as he flun g aside the _pincers and seized the palette. Years aft er , that painter's daughter actually became iiis titlewoif wife, iannglar a still the list of Spanish artists the lario, and perpet uates gi t P h sY) (then attests the genius of So perseverance. Then, faint not, drooping e memory of his triumphant suffer men have alreadyt undergone.hearts ! Tahlel veryyou noo diffi culties which threaten overwhelm you, brave souls Struggle have already surmounted. rn ond flee. while breath turn animates you. Cowards alone and life o To give up is to lose. The battle resembles the stone of Sisyphus; it must be fought up-bill. If we relax for one moment in our exertions, we do not stand still—we fall back. All the past labour avails nothing ; and the despairing man is crushed by the difficulties he should have, and might have sur mounted. There are, it must be admitted (and the admission should cover us all w ith the blush of shame), there are many impediments thrown in the path of the struggling and the poor, by the faulty constitutions of society, and by the sins of individuals. Not in our lauded England is a fair day's wages always the meed of a fair day's work. Nevertheless, to every indi vidual yielding to despa ir, we say " Hope on a little longer, brave heart ! Three days more and land may be in view !" Moreover, the fortitude and the resolution necessary to bear the storm, will go more than half-way towards surmounting it. Corneille says, "To conquer without peril is to triumph without glory." But with all due deference for the opinion of Corneille, we should rather say that, without peril is no triumph at all. " In the sweat of thy face, thou shalt eat bread." Such was the edict which imposed upon man the lot of labour, and promised for that labour a recompense ; and to this hour the promise has been verified. Without labour nothing great can be achieved, while with labour all things may be done. Let every honest heart cry shame on all who infringe the D:vine commandalcnt. Shane 071 the ones, wholly dependant on other's toil, woul I " eat bread," forgetting that "The richest crown-pearls in a natirn Hang from labour's reeking brow." All honour to the earnest-hearted ones who, amid the hard struggles of a toiling life, still put their shoulder to the wheel, and cry Nil desperandum. THE THEATRES. D R Li RY-LANE. Herr Forme, the celebrated bass singer from Vienna, whose appearance here has been from time to time de layed in consequence of ecvere indisposition, made his ("anti last evening in the character of Sarrastro, in the Zuubajlote. It was evident that Herr Fcrmes was still suffering from recent indisposition, nevertheless he went through the character of Sarrastro excellently well. Ilis voice is of great power and of fine quality, and has been cultivated to the highest pitch of artistic excellence. He was encored in the " Qui sdegno." Mademoiselle Veit Romani was the Queen of Night, and in the difficult air which taxes so severely the power awl register of soprano voices, exhibited considerable cleverness, and gained an encore. Mademoiselle Marlow was the 'lamina, Herr Bahrdt the Tamino, and Herr Breuer the Papageno. The opera was well received throughout by a tolerably numerous audience. HAYMARKE7'. Douglas Jerrold's play of the Housekeeper, cast as it was performed before her Majesty and the Court, at Windsor, with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean in the prin cipal characters; the comedy of the Wonder, with Mr. C. Kean as Dun Felix, and Mrs. C. Kean as Donna Violante; and the succ,ssful burlesque of the Sphinx, were the entertainments provided for the holiday folks at the Haymarket ; and while Mr. 'Webster can give us such pieces, so cast, he need not look out for novelties. The house was very well attended. ADELPI - 11. The proprietors of this mirthful establishment having been so decidedly successful in their last new end splen did extravagacza of The Revolt of the Flowers and the Devil's Violin, they relied upon it as their great attrac tion for these holidays, and their confidence was fully justified by th 6 condition which the theatre presented last night—had it been half as large again, it might have been filled with those who were compelled to seek their evening's enjoyment elsewhere. The amusements com menced with The Irish Post, in which Mr. Hudson played the bustling character of Terence O'Grady with much spirit. The spectacle followed, and it now runs very smoothly, and was deservedly highly applauded. The audience were sent home in great good humour by the broad acting of Wright and Bedford, and of Miss Chaplin and Mrs. F. Matthews, in the little piece Going to the Derby. LYCEUM. Notwithstanding the absence of novelty at this ele gant theatre, the immense audience gathered here last evening attest strongly to the attractiveness of the pre sent " bill of fare." Long before the rising of the cur tain the house was crowded in every part by a regular •` Lyceum audience." The entertainments on the occasion being the amusing and remarkably comic farce of Kill or Cure Charles Dance's highly successful petite comedy, A Wonderful Woman, in which Madame Vestris and Mr. C. Mathews drew, by their admirable acting, repeated and rapturous applause; and Planche's magnificent burlesque extrava ganza of The Seven Champions of Christendom. The admirable medley overture and all the music of the burlesque was very much applauded, and deservedly so, the overture very narrowly ,escaping an encore. Alto gether the entertainments at this house, although lack ing a Whitsuntide novelty, are highly attractive, and we have not the slightest doubt but that the theatre will be attended by similar delighted crowds as that assem bled within its walls last evening, for many nights to come. S_!DLER'S WELLS. The entertainments provided for the holiday folks of Islington by the enterprising manager of this theatre, last evening, gave very general satisfaction to a crowded and delighted audience. Monk Lewis's dramatic ro mance of The Castle Spectre was very successfully per formed for the first time for some years here. The princi pal parts wt re well sustained by Messrs. G. Bennett, Dick inson, Younge, and F. Marston. Miss Cooper, as Angela, was execedingly effective; her acting of the part was very beautiful, and was loudly applauded. Tobin's Honey moon, in which H. Marston sustained the part of Duke Aranza, Miss Huddart Volante, Miss Murray Zamora, and Mrs. Newbery Juliana, very effectively. The scenery, as usual, at this theatre was exceedingly good. The house was crowded to suffocation. PRINCESS'S. A new opera, the composition of Luigi Ricci, was produced hero last evening with considerable success. It is entitled The Deserter, and the plot, as may be sup posed by the title, is one of those dramatic common-places which have become, by lapse of time, dramatists' common property. The hero, Enrico (Mr. Weiss), is betrothed to Louise (Mdle. Nau), a village maiden, and is the victim of a practical joke. In order to test the strength of his love a sham wedding procession is got up, in which Louise enacts the part of bride, and Giovanins, (Miss Poole) a young country girl seeks Enrico, and informs him that Louise is married to another. Enrico rushes out, endeavours to throw himself from a preci pice, is prevented by a party of soldiers, to whom he gives himself up as a deserter, in order to secure the death which he so ardently desires, and on his own con fession he is condemned to be shot. Then, and not till then, he learns the trick that has been played on him, and is visited by Louise in his prison, and assured of her constancy. She determines to seek the King, in order to endeavour to procure her lover's pardon. The Kicg grants her request, and she rushes in with the pardon just as Enrico is about to be led to execution, when she sinks senseless in a chair, and Enrieo is led forth to die. A drunken soldier (capi tally acted by Mr. Wynn) discovers.the pardon and rouses Louise just in time for her to rush in and take part in the time honoured: tableau of " shooting a deserter," by throwing herself between the musketeers and the con demned, and holding forth the pardon to the pointed muskets selon les regles. The music is like all Ricci's music, pretty, flowing,' graceful, occasionally cha racteristic, but without one spark of origi nality. The singers, however, exerted themselves to the utmost. Mademoiselle Nau sang delightfully, and was greatly applauded. Weiss was excellent as Enrico. It is somewhat of a novelty to see a bass singer enact the part ofa lover. Weiss, however,made a very interesting lover, and exhibited much feeling and pathos iu his render ing of the music of the part; and Miss Poole, who made a great deal of a very small part, obtained the only encore of the evening. Some of the chorus ses are ver y fhwing and graceful. The scenery is very beautiful, and the opera has been most carefully put on the stage. All the principal performers were called before the curtain at the close, and the opera was given out for repetition, amidst the unanimous applause of a crowded house. Stith AND. The Country Squire, with Mr. W. Farren as Squire Broadlands, was performed here last evening, and Far ren was as great as ever in this, one of his best charac ters. He sang the " Old English Gentleman" as he alone can sing it, and was enthusiastically applauded. The comedy was followed by Charles Selby's amusing farce called Taken in and Done For, in which Mr. W. Farren and Mr. 11. Farren again appeared, and kept the house in a continuous state of merriment. Alter this came a new drama of much interest by Mr. E. Stirling, called The Mother's Bequest, in which Mrs. Stirling's exquisite acting extracted many a sympathetic tear from the spectators, which was, however, soon dried up by the representation of the concluding piece, called John Dobbs, which sent the delighted audience home laughing to their beds. TIM SURE LEY. The entertainments at this favourite place of amuse• ment, under the spirited auspices of Mr. Shepherd, the sole lessee, were immensely enhanced yesterday evening by the first appearance of Mrs. Nesbitt and her sister, Miss Jane Mordaunt, under their engagement with the present lessee of this theatre; and by the production, for the first time, of an original romantic drama, called the Lily of the Desert and the Arab Spy, written expressly for this theatre by Mr. Edward Stirling, and brought out under the direction of Mr. Emery, who sustains one of its principal characters. It had been wonderful if exertions so great ou the part of the spirited proprietor in cateting for the public amusement at this holiday season had been but lightly appreciated or esteemed by the community. The result was far otherwise; and whatever may have been the amount of patronage be. stowed on his numerous rivals, Mr. Shepherd, we opine, had no reason to complain of the share awarded to him last night, for, from pit to pigeon-hole, his house was literally crammed. To such a degree was this the case that the piece at the outset was interrupted for some little time by the noise of people struggling and clamouring for places, which brought Mr. Shepherd before the curtain, who, to still the uproar and to consult the convenience of his patrons, intimated that to those who could not find seats he would return their money and cheerfully give them tickets for another night. This had the effect of stilling the commotion to some extent; many availed themselves of the lessee's offer and retired, making it more comfortable for those that remained, and the per formances were allowed to proceed. The piece selected for the occasion was Mr. Sheridan Knowles's celebrated comedy of the Love Chase, in which Mrs. Nisbett played her original character of Constance with so onderful a degree of spirit and vivacity as to give to her impErsonation all the freshness and liveliness of an original effort of her genius, and to earn for her, ever and anon, the enthusiastic plaudits of a charmtd and admirieg auditory The a n wa s re-echoed piece scene in which she rallied and t w itt e d Master Wildrake by yf the irrepressible anciher (Mr. Shepherd) about the Wid ow J ones and his efforts o a l t a g n e h n e ti a l r it t gentility was laughter was cachinations of her audience; In striking contrast to this piece of coquetry was her fine natural bearing in the scene which immediately followed, wherein, rapt and . strung to the highest pitch of femal e rage sa d jealousy, she exclaims to Master Wildreke, whom she had shortly ago ridiculed and despised—" Send me no bride's cake! send me no wedding gloves!" The imper sonation of Lydia by Miss Jane Mordaunt was given with admirable taste and judgment, and it proved her to be little, if at all, inferior to her accomplished sister. Mr. Shepherd, as Master Wildrake, embodied that creation of the author's fa• cy with singular tact and discrimination; and not less felicitous and spirited was the acting of Mr. Neville as Sir Wiliiam Fondlove. Equally meritorious was the Widow Green o f M rs . M. Brookes. At the fall of the curtain the house reverberated with calls for Mrs. Nisbett and Miss Mor daunt. They immediately appeared, accompanied by Mr. Shepherd, when a loud and prolonged shout of en thusiastic welcome, and a shower of bouquets tbrowufrom LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 29, 1849. the boxes greeted the fair a?tistes. Mr. T. Mead, who , pleycd A'Leiter T:uewerth, was &so cllltd for, anti ap peared before the 'curtain to testify his acknowledgments. A grand pas de deux, from the ballet of Le Las des Fees, by Mdlle. Louise and Mdlle.Therese Cashnie, from the Royal Italian Opera, followed the piece, and gave general delight. The fair ladles were also honotead with a shower of bouquets. The performances were con cluded with the original drama to which we have refer: ed, entitled the Lily of the Dese: t and the Arab Su with the incidretel ballet and characteristic dances being arrangal by Mdlle. Louise, the fair danseuse, whom we hare alrcaiy mentioned. The scene of the drama, which is in three acts, and replete with interest and scenic effect, is laid in Algeria during its occupation by the French General Bonfoire (Mr. Nestle), commandant of the town and forces, ho is greatly' chagrined On discoveting that a wandering tribe of Arabs, of whom Ibrahim Bey (Mr. Emery) is the chief, procure secret in:OrLeation of his projects. The General eventually di€covers, from the confession of Bela (Miss Merds.unt), the " Lily of the Desert," an Arab girl of French extraction, that she has been for some considerable time acting in the capa city of a spy on the movements of the French troops, justifying her conduct by her natu ral desire to rescue her nomacial tribe and people from the hateful domination and oppression of their conquerors, the French. Baia, who had been previously betrothed to Ibrahim Bey, is brought into circumstances, where, heedless of her betrothal to Ibrahim, who had retied her more by fear than love—she conceives an ardent attachment to Victor Larouse (Mr. T. Mead), a young cadet in the French service. This intimacy ex cites the enmity of Lieutenant Camille (Mr. Raymond), a rover and gambler, who seeks to compass the destruc tion of Larouse, his more favoured rival. By and bye an opportunity for accomplishing his purpose presents itself to Camille; he accuses Larouse, before General Bonfoire, of having deserted his post, and exposing the French troops to imminent jeopardy ; the fact being that Larouse had merely quitted his post for a few minutes to save the life of Baila, the idol of his heart, who had been precipitated over a cataract. La rouse is arrested on the spot for this breach of duty, but is afterwards rescued by the intervention of Bails, and after wandering about the desert for some time in com pany with the Arabs, is on the point of being shot by the troops sent in pursuit of him, when General Bon foire unexpectedly appears upon the scene, and having been made acquainted with the victory of Camille, grants a pardon to Larouse. Baila eventually turns out to be the niece of General Bonfoire, by his sister, who had been abducted by a party of Arabs many years before. The denouement exhibits and contrasts the felicitous union of Larouse and Bails and the ignominious death of the infamous and treach erous Camille. The main plot of the piece is agreeably diversified by the odd adventures, vagaries, and hair breadth 'stapes of Mr. Winkins Spinks (Mr. Widdi comb), a railway stag, contractor, and speculator, who having made Capel-court too hot to hold him, emigrates to Algeria, taking with him Mrs. Winkin Spinks (Miss C. Tellet), his better half, " a poor deceived creature," and Mr. Solomon Dumps (Mr. Rogers), his head clerk from the City, and sets up on his own account as civil engi neer. The piece was upon the whole well received, and bids fair to become a favourite. ASTLEY'S EOYAL AMPHITHEATRE. An abundant bill of fare was last night provided for the pleasure-seekers of the metropolis by the spirited proprietor of this agreeable place of entertainment. Long experience had convinced him that he might safely rely upon a fair share of patronage from those anxious to enjoy the holydays to the uttermost, and he was re solved to deserve that success by the quantity and qua lity of the entertainments provided for the public amusement. We are happy to say that none were dis appointed. Every part of the theatre, boxes, pit, and gallery, were crowded to excess. The arena was completely filled during the performances of the gorgeous spectacles which commenced and concluded the evening's entertainment, and the stage was thronged with a densely-packed multitude while the scenes in the circle were exhibiting. All, however, was good humour and contentment. No complaints were, uttered; all were too well satisfied with the exertions made on their behalf, and submitted with a good grace to the trifling inconvenience of the crowd, consoled by the comidera- Lien that that inconvenience carried with it the legitimate reward to the proprietor for his unceasing efforts to pro mote the public amusement. Moultan an 4 Goojerat; or, the Conquest of the Seihhs, the new grand equestrian military spectacle, which, according to a time-honoured custom, was produced for the first time to a Whitsuntide audience, was indeed brought out as truly described by the bills, "on an unprecedented scale of grandeur." All the gigantic resources of the establishment were put in requisition. Nothing was left undone, and perhaps never was there a more successful result. The plot of course was slight, it being intended chiefly as a vehicle for the production of the varied groupings and scenic effects, for which Astley's has ever been so remark able. Good comic parts were, however, provided for those established favourites, Adrian and S. Smith; while Miss Rose henry, as the captive wife of a British offi cer, contributed materially to the interest of the piece. In the first scene, the march of British troops, cavalry, infantry, and even artillery, and their embarkation for India, was admirably managed. The storming of Moultan, the scaling of the walls, and the terrific combats of equestrians , elicited the most rapturous applause; and the final group, " An allegorical representation of the triumph of Great Britain," was also greeted with well-merited cheers from all parts of the house. The scenes in the circle were what was termed a " Ladies' Fete," in which female equestrians only performed, which they did most admir ably. " Marie Macarte," who was styled the " Eques trian Enchantress," made her first appearance, and fully sustained the high reputation she has already achieved in America and on the continent This talented young lady will form a most valuable addition to Mr. Batty's corps. The performances concluded with the Whits Maid of California, which still maintains its attractions. EIRE _ESCARP... TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your frightful details of loss of lif e , through the burning of a paper of late again presented us with house in King William -street. Notwithstanding the frequent recurrence of such dire calamities, the citizens of London and of other towns in England (although compelled to take their nightly re pose on seconds, and troisienies and quatrienzes, and as scending thereto over rnatAwood staircases) do adopt so few individual precaution s against accidents that one might almost suppose the " vo l untar y system" to have re placed that of fire and faggot of olden times, consecrating the modern sacrifices. If otherwise, however, permit me, through the me dium of your journal, to suggest a simple and not ex pensive apparatus as a fire cs2ape, and which, in a mul titude of instances, might have been perhaps, and may be, the means of saving life, and would always, if at hand, supersede the cruel necessity of leaping from a window. _ Let the window of every sleeping room be furnished with a strong iron hook firmly planted at the upper part thereof. Let every inmate of the same keep ready at hand a stout, thick rope, with a ring of preportiJnato strength at one end; this rope should be of sufficient length to admit of an open ang l e or l on g line of descent, as much so as the positi on or l oca lity w ill allow. Be sides this will be required a broad belt, or long jacket or waistcoat made of carpeting, with five or six button holes, strongly worked, and doubled with leather or sailcloth; in place of buttons, are to be fixed on with packthread, five or six rings of a size sufficient to allow passage to the ring on the rope. Thus, in a critical moment, a pereon buttons on t h e jacket, passes the ring of the rope through its b ut t ons or rings, beginning with the lower one, hooks on the rope to the window, the people below make fast or hold on to the o ther end thrown out, and dow n th e i n di v idual glides in safety. I remain, Sir, your very obedient servant, JAMES NIOI-10LbOlsi. Brussels, May 19, 1849. - - - DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMENS' SOCIETY. - There was a meeting of this society on Saturday last at the Llanover-square Rooms, at which Alderman Fare brothc r presided. The principal speaker was Mr. J. L. Hansard, who gave a detailed account of the operations of the society from its commence ment in 1844 to the present time; frcm which it appe resultsaredgreatly m a t y h a bi mte confidentlypt h r o e y e circumstancesthat ateofd, still t o e f d , t l : m o s po e n r ce ee iaf d al I l i ? w ui o rf me a bl thene society continnes to be supported in the way that it deserves. Several resolution s were pa_ s s i s l e o d r i l n y accordance with the objects of the me e ti ng , an d t h an k s h av i ng been voted to the chairman the com p an y separate d. con la ag E r ikit a a ti N o u n o L 7 oka C o e u N t rthLiAsGoaßoArTnliOnNg:An t before extensive two o'clock, in Willow-walk, Bermondsey, by which a vast amount of property has been destroyed. The flames commenced on the premises belonging to Mr. Clapham, a tanner and leather -dresser. The moment the discovery was made an alarm was given ; but before assistance could arrive the greater portion of the works were enveloped in flames. The engines of this London, West of England, and parhh, were quickly on the spot, as well as the fire escapes. The flames were then rushing so high as to illuminate the whole of the ME tropolis. As soon as water could be procured the whole of the engines were set to work, but in spite of the endeavo urs of the firemen the flames crossed the carriage road and fired almost simultaneously the extensive works of Mr. Hugman, in the same line of business. The se latter buildings were equally capacious as the former. Mr. Inspector Freud, with a strong mus ter of the police, were on the spot; and were guarding divisionslN ER o s f . the Lond on di s t r i c t of the property removed as well as k ee pi ng a space c l ea r for the firemen to wo rk, but was ultimat ely got und er. --- WOO LWI CH, MAY t 2CBll : e li ls r e HrE a h P e WoolwichC e il n E si L on E e ik rsl)Erwere prevented assembling on Wool wich-common to-day for the inspection of Colonel Tulloh, in consequence of the heavy rain which fell from au early hour in the morning until the afternoon. They have now receiived orders to hold themselves in readi ness to proceed to London, on Thursday next, to be present at an early hour for review in Hyde-park, on Friday, June 1, when the Peninsular war medals will be presented to all those entitled to them. BEATING A CHILD TO DEATH.---A labouring man, named Holloway, living in li:inlanbheimat until him with h place, e ai sed. strong Southamp ton, has been te,ken up for b ea t i ng his child (a boy about ten years old) •to death, on S at urday last. The boy had d- il was dead, the d been guilty of some very trifling offence, and his father strap, and kicked brute took the body to the back of the house and poured When buckle the poor ad child water on it, in the hope of bringing it to life egain. The man is a drunken, bad character, and ha s b e en i n he habit of using his wife and child very cr144,1y. The horse that ran second for the'Derbf, and was .vithin half a length of winning the stakes, is the pro earte o f a, Wiltalire agrioulturist, Mr. Godwin.-- Wilts Gerald. MELVIL LE's W WORK MARDI: AND A VOYAGE THITIIER. By Herman Melville, Author of " g'ypee" and " Omoo." 3 Vols. llavingiust finished reading the whole of this sin gular and fantastic production, we would now endea vour to deal with it exactly as it deserves. Mr. Melville, although the author of merely three works, of which the present is the latest, is no stranger, as an author, to ourselves. His " Ty-pee," indeed, as beau tiful as a chapter by B ernar di n de St. Pierre, as fresh in colouring as a description by Rene, as fascinating es a narrative by Defoe, had, from the first moment of its perusal, rendered its writer one of our dear favourites. We looked, therefore, to the volumes under consideration with peculiar interest, an interest arising from our respect for the abilities of that American sailor w ho, although merely a man before the mast, evinced all the intellectual cultivation of a scholar, all the eloquence of a rhetorician, and all those inherent graces, and that unconscious refine ment which constitute the character of a gentle man. Such, at least, is the position of life claimed for himself by Mr. Melville. If we are to be lieve him, his talents and his tastes, when taken into account with his calling, as an old " salt" familiar with the habits and language of a ship's forecastle, are cause for our highest admi ration. At first it was conjectured that the very name of the writer was an assumption, and that con sequently little more reliance could be placed on the exactitude of his delineation of his own fortunes than in any other "yarn" known to be decidedly fabulous. Here, however, we find him dedicating " Mardi" to his brother Allan Melville ; and reiterat ing his assertions as to the nature of his profession, where he exclaims (Vol. 1., p. 21), " No, no, I was never better than my vocation ; and mine have been many. I showed as brown a chest, and as hard a hand as the tarriest tar of them all." Never theless, while we find our faith in the title and indi viduality of our author, strengthened by his new composition, we have found all credence in the reality even of the most probable incidents described by him slipping away, bit by bit, even to the last rag, during the examination of these three strange and eccentric volumes. So long as the author talked about the South Sea whaler, bight the Arcturion, so long as he told us about old Jarl the Viking, we could swal low everything ; but when, after parting com pany with the skipper and his vessel, the to o adventurers traverse the ocean among its grizzly monsters, the inhabitants sometimes terrible, sometimes beautiful, of the deep sea ; when we fall in with the Parki, stained and almost slippery with blood • when we make the ac quaintance of that vagabond Samoa and his helikite partner Annatoo; when we meet with the canoe full of islanders; when, after the murder of the priest and the capture of Yillah, we sail towards Mardi ; when the writer takes shelter under the disguise of the demigod Taji, and, becoming domesticated in Odo, acquires the friendship of its Sovereign, King Media —then good bye to reason, to common sense, and to credulity ! We are afloat in the cloudy regions of dreamland, impelled onwards this way and that by the breath of every vacillating whim, our sky the mysterious infinitude of metaphysics, our ocean the surges of a boundless and in many respects a very gorgeous imagination. Mardi, to speak as definitively as possible of a work so vapour-like and almost hypo thetical, is more of a romance than a voyage, and more of an allegory than a romance. And yet, while we say thus much— the opening of the production reads like a passage from Basil Hall—and the closing of it rather like a rhapsody than either a romance or an allegory. Unequal as the book is, nevertheless, it is tolerably clear, from the circumstance of our hav ing perused every one of the I,OIQ pages, that it possesses some powerful attraction. Fascination, strictly speaking, it has none. Occasionally its language is stilted to the very proximity of bombast. Sometimes the ideas are mystical to the very verge of nonsense. And yet we are lured on, in spite of these obstacles, chapter after chapter, until we arrive at the "Finis?' The reason of this is that the work is alto gether a curiosity—curious in style, in character, in incident, and rendering- the reader curious also by congeniality. At the moment we are about to throw the volume down from sheer despair of ever discover ing any adequate purpose in the narrative, we light upon such a passage as the following—being a description of a sudden hurricane in the midst of a tropical calm A long calm in the 'boat, and now, God help us, another in the brigantine. It was airless and profound. "In that hot calm, we lay fixed and fr( zai in like Parry at the Pole. The sun played upon the glassy sea like the sun upon the glaciers. " At the end of two days we lifted up our eyes and beheld a low, creeping, hungry cloud expanding like an army, wing and wing, along the eastern horizon. In stantly Jarl bade me take heed. " Here be it said, that though for weeks and weeks reign over the equatorial latitudes of the Pacific, the mildest and sunniest of days ; that nevertheless, when storms do come, they come in their strength, spending in a few, brief blasts their concentrated rage. They come like the Mamelukes : they charge, and away. " It wanted full an hour to sunset ; but the sun was well nigh obscured. It seemed toiling among bleak Scythian steeps in tho hazy back.,ground. Above the storm-cloud flitted ominous patches of scud, rapidly ad vancing and receding : Attila's skirmishers thrown forward in the van of his Huns. Beneath, a fitful sha dow slid along the surface. As we gazed, the cloud came nearer; accelerating its approach. " With all haste we proceeded to furl the sails, which, owing to the calm, had been hanging loose in the brails; and by help of a spire boom, used on the forecastle deck ES a sweep or great oar, we endeavoured to cast the brigantine's head before the foe. " The storm seemed about to overtake us ; but we felt no breeze. The noiseless cloud stole on ; its advancing shadow lowering over a distinct and prominent milk white crest upon the surface of the ocean. But now this line of surging foam came rolling down upon us like a white charge of cavalry, mad Hotspur and plumed Murat at its head; pouring right forward in a continuous frothy cascade, which curled over, and fell upon the glassy sea before it. " Still, no breath of air. But of a sudden, like a blow from a man's hand, and before our canvas could be secured, tha stunned craft, giving one lurch to port, was stricken down on her beam-ends ; the roaring tide dashed high up against her windward side, and drops of brine fell upon the deck, heavy as drops of gore. " Is was all a din and a mist ; a crashing of spars and of ropes ; a horrible blending of sights and of sounds ; as for an instant we seemed in the hot heart of the gale ; our cordage, like harp-strings, shrieking above the fury of the blast. The masts rose, and swayed, and dipped their trucks in the sea. And like unto some stricken buffalo brought luw to the plain, the brigantine's black hull, shaggy with sea-weed, lay panting on its flank in the foam. " Frantically we clung to the uppermost bulwarks. And now, loud above the roar of the sea, was suddenly heard a sharp, splintering sound , a s of a Norway wood- man felling a pine in the forest. It was brave Jarl, who foremost of all had snatched from its rack against the mainmast, the axe, always there kept. "' Cut the lanyards to windward 1' he cilad ; and again buried his axe into the mast. He was quickly obeyed. And upon cutting the third lanyard of the five, he shoutcd for us to pause. Dropping his axe, he climbed up to windward. As he clutched the rail, the wounded mast snapped in twain with a report like a cannon. A slight smoke was perceptible where it broke. The remaining lanyards parted. From the violent strain upon them, the two shrouds flaw madly into the air, and one of the great blocks ht their ends, striking Anna too upon the forehead, she let go her hold upon a stan chion. and sliding across the aslant deck, was swallowed up in the whirlpool under our lea. Samoa shrieked. But there was no time to mourn ; no hand could reach to save. By the connecting stays, the mainmast carried over with it the foremast ; when we instantly righted, and for the limo were saved ; my own royal Viking our sa- viour. " The first fury of the gale was gone. But far to leeward was seen the even, white line of its onset, paw ing the ocean into foam. All round us, the sea boiled like ten thousand cauldrons ; and through eddy, wave, and surge, our almost water-logged craft waded heavily; every dead dash ringing hollow against her hull, like blows upon a coffin. " We floated a wreck. With every pitch we lifted our dangling jib.boom into the air ; and beating against the side were the shattered fragments of the masts. From these we made a ll haste t o be fr ee , by cutting the rigging that held them. " Soon, the worst of the gale was blown over. But the sea ran high. Yet the rack and scud of the tem pest, its mad, tearing foam, was subdued into immense, long-extended, and long-rolling on the hillows; the white cream .o n their crests like snow Ande s. Ever and anon we hung poised on their g rows; IN hen the furrowed ocean all round locked like a panorama from Chirn bores). " A few hours more. and the surget went down. There was a moderate sea, a steady breeze, and a clear, starry sky. " Such was the storm that came after our calm." Encouraged by the striking vigour of the narrative we resume—and again our attention is attenuated to the limits of exhaustion, when We are once more induced to persevere by a similar excellence. This has occurred with ourselves repeatedly during the perusal of " Mardi," and this it is which assures us that the production is neither wholly good nor wholly bad. The author has trifled with his un disputed cowers ; and, if he had not already secured Typee," he would iniubit it by the charm of his ably have ruined his reputation by " Mardi." In Typee," and, in a measure, also in " Omoo," every thing was con s i s tent. In " Mardi" everything is not only inconsistent but incoherent, mad, extravagant. Still " Mardi" is no book to be cast aside contemp tuously. It reveals too surprising an imagination to be scorned. While it bids open defiance to all criti cism, it unwittingly propitiates criticism by its novelty, its fantastic exuberance in the impossible. Among other merits, Mr. Melville betrays that of drollery, and even at rare intervals that of wit. Speaking. of Annatoo, that redoubtable beldame, he tells tiS in so many words (Vol. 1. p. 116), her voice was a perk of ertilleey ; her talons a charge of beyotiets." and yet, on reflection, Shakspere has been beforehand in the idea (as he Las in so many thousand others) where he says " She speaks poigeards, and every word stabs." And, describing his spouse, and lamenting that so frequently the eyes of the " human face divine" are " mere lenses in serted into the socket as glasses in spectacle rims," he exclaims (Vol. I. p. 151), " But my Islander had a soul in his eye, looking out upon you there, like soinebody in hint 1' Neither is burlesque beyond his reach, when it suits him, even in the paroxysms of his sublimity. Hear him talk of the nose of Oh-Oh, in a strain that would have tickled the ribs of Slawkenburgius ! " The old man was a sight to see-; especially his nose; a remarkable one. And all Mardi over, a remarkable nose is a prominent feature: an ever obvious passport to distinction. Fur, after all, this gaining a name, is but the individualising of a man; as well achieved by an extraordinary nose, as by an extraordinary epic. Far better, indeed; for you may pass poets without knowing them. Even a hero, is no hero without his sword; nor Beelzebub himself a lion, minus that lasso-tail of his, wherewith he catches his prey. Whereas, he who is famous through his nose, it is impossible to overlook. He is a celebrity without toiling for a name. snugly ensconced behind his proboscis, he revels in its shadow, receiving tributes of attention wherever he goes." There is an impertinence in the manner of our author that at first provokes us to indignation, but at last only to merriment by its repetition. Seemingly a pretence at the outset, it proves ulti mately to be an eccentric mannerism. It is where he speaks in this wise of dead and living celebrities (Vol. I, p. 191)—" My scientific friend Faraday ;" (Vol. 1.,p. 159)—" My Peloponnesian friend Thucy aides ;" (Vol. 1., p. 120)—" My glorious old gossiping ancestor Froissart ;" (ibid)—"My late eloquent and prophetic friend and correspondent, Edmund Burke." One feature of the romance or allegory must not be overlooked, 'tamely, its mixture of the prose and the poetic. In this concoction of his literary repast, however, Mr. Melville when he least wishes it makes the intended prose poetical, and the intended poetry prose. his bard Yoomy is too often, like many sentimental persons, rather a bit of a bore. The verses most to oar liking are those which most excite the enthusiasm of his Majesty King Media—we mean the warlike song (Vol. 111., p. 3) of, the clubs, the bows, the spears, and the slings. As to the chorus, evidently suggested by the discovery of the gold-dust in California (Vol. 111., p. 173), we,wonder if the writer ever heard of Thomas Hood's memorable chaunt about the leg of Miss Kilmansegge ! It looks marvellously like a plagiarism. On the whole we scarcely feel disposed to remind Mr. Melville of the advice given to Yoomy by the philosophic Babbalanja, namely, (Vol. 11., p. 86) " that his business is to make the metal in him jingle in tags not ring in the ingot." Our author is but seldom inclined to be sententious. Whenever he is, however, he is welcome. We turn with a sense of relief from such prolonged rhapsodies —very labyrinths of language—as the chapter upon Dreams (Vol. 11., ch. 49), to sentences like the sub joined :—Speaking of beauty (Vol. 1., p. 152), " But the only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face; and though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible." Or when he says thus much of fame and the famous, the truth of his saying is perceptible (Vol. 11. p. 270)—" Whence it comes, as old Bardiana has it, that for years a man may move unnoticed among his fellows ; but all at once, by some chance attitude, foreign to his habit, become a trumpet-full for fools, though in himself the same as ever. Nor has he shown himself yet ; for the entire merit of a man can never be made known ; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions." But plea santest of all is he when revelling in the description of the scenes of Nature or of Dreamland. In the latter he dilates upon the vegetable exuberance of the acclivities of Willamilla where (Vol. 11., p. 15,) " the topmast crags poured over with vines, which, undulating, seemed leafy cascades ; their sources the upland groves." In the former he rejoices in the enumeration of the chondropterygh and other uncouth hordes infesting the South Seas ; such as the Devil Fish, the Brown Shark, the Blue Shark, the Tiger Shark, the White Shark, the Por poise, the Albicore, the Black Fish, the Al gerines, the Killers, and the Thrashers; prefacing his account of them with the ejaculation (Vol. 1., p.:58)--a-" It's famous botanizing, they say, in Arkansas' boundless prairies; I com mend the student of Ichthyology to an open boat, and the ocean moors of the Pacific." A suggestive hint that ! say we, without any intention of punning. Not always, however, is our author's hilarity of such a very scientific tendency. When he lists he can talk like a boost comrade without a dash of pedantry. Hearken to him, ye lovers of the soothing weed, when he descants upon the virtues of Pigtail and Oronoco, of York-river and Cavendish, of Shag and Nail-rod, of Negro.head and Plug, of Lady's Twist and Gold-leaf, of Returns and Cimaroza, of Bird's-eye and Smyrna, of James-river and Sweet scented, of Honeydew and Chaster, of Persian and Turkish, of Shiraz and Kentucky, in fact of all the aromatic kinds and qualities of that plant popularly known as Tobacco I Hear him when he grows gar rulous over the Regalia and the Principe, over the she root and the cigarette, over the Dutch porcelain and the hookah, over the narghil and the chibouquel—talking in a strain that would be grateful to the ears of his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, when, on entertaining her Majesty's Ministers the other night at a grand banquet, he conducted them to a superb divan and offered them—pipes. In the very impe tuosity of his most humorous scenes, Mr. Melville, we must not fail to observe, breaks off suddenly with the utterance of a grand thought expressed in thrilling language. Talking of kings and toadstools, Babba lanja pauses and, quoting from his old favourite Bardiana, says (Vol. 111. p. 162)—" Who put together this marvellous mechanism of mine, and wound it up to go for three score years and ten; when it runs out and strikes Time's hours no more ? And what is it, that daily and hourly renews, and by a miracle, creates in me my flesh and blood ? What keeps up a perpetual telegraphic com munication between my outpost toes and digits, and that domed grandee up aloft, my brain ? It is not 1; nor you ; nor he ; nor it. No ; when I place my hand to that king muscle my heart, I am appalled. I feel the great God himself at work within me. Oro is life." To us that is noble writing : and scarcely less so is this.—Speaking of the lapse of time that is required to produce anything great, he has observed that the bower of Artaxerxes took a whole Persian summer to grow, and that the Czar's ice palace took a long Muscovite winter to congt al ; continuing, he exclaims— " No, no; nor was the Pyramid of Cheops masoned in a month; though, once built, the sands left by the Deluge might not have submerged such a pile. Nor were the broad learglis of Charles' Oak grown in a spring; though they outlived the royal dynasties of Tudor and Stuart. Nor were the parts of the great Iliad put together iu haste- though old Homer's teteple shall lift up its dome, when St. Peter's is a legend. Even man himself lives months ere his Maker deems him fit to be born; and ere his proud shaft gains its full stature, twenty-one long Julian years must elapse. And his whole mortal life brings not his immortal soul to ma turity; nor will all eternity perfect him. Yea, with uttermost reverence, as to human understanding, in crease of dominion seems increase of power; and day by day new planets are being added to elder-born Saturns, even as six thousand years ago our own earth made one more in this system; so, in incident, not in essence, may the Infinite himself be not less than more infinite now, than when old Aldebaran rolled forth from his hand. And if time waQ, when this round earth, which to innu merable mortal 3 has seemed an empire never to be wholly explored; which, in its seas, concealed all the Indies over four thousand five hundred years; if time was, when this great quarry of Assyrias and Homes was not extant; then, time may have been, when the whole material universe lived its Dark Ages; yea, when the Ineffable Silence, proceeding from its unimaginable re moteness, espied it as an isle in the sea. And herein is no derogation. For the Immeasurable's altitude is not heightened by the arches of Mahomet's heavens; and were all space a vacuum, yet would it be a fulness; for to Himself his own universe is He. " Thus, deeper and deeper into Time's endless tunnel, does the winged soul, like a night hawk, wend her wild way; and finds eternities before and behind; and her last limit is her everlasting beginning. " But sent over the broad flooded sphere, even Noah's dove came back, and perched on his hand. So comes back my spirit to me, and folds up her wing?. " Thug, then, though Time be the mightiest of Ala' rics, yet is he the mightiest mason of all. And a and a counsellor, and a physic ian, and a scribe, poet, and a sage, and a king. reverently bor- True eloquence that lan e lo q uence atuudtors, tides. Without in any way revealing p rowed from the golden verse of the P who may not In" ImthaetuCraenly the interest of the volumes to those abode Yillah. the r the disguise and title mark that the author, under yet have examined them themselves,. w . e may re the archipelago, having espoused . . P e beautiful ilis of the demigod Taji, takes the Suddenly, however, Yillah is missing : and the host of Taji, King Media, pitying his guest for the calamity that has befallen him, and anxious himself to circum navigate Mardi, consents to join him in a search for the lost Yillah. They Enter upon.their expedition in three gorgeous barges, attended, besides paddlers, by Mold or Braidbeard, a rather prosy old gentleman calling himself a philosopher ; by Babbalanja, a capital fellow, first of all a sceptic and almost a blas phemer, being possessed indeed by a devil known as Azzageddi, but ultimately a believer in God and Reve lation ; Yoomy the royal poet, a somewhat lackadai sical personage not much to our taste, except once when he becomes ferocious ; and Vee-vee, a little shrimp of a boy, who is Trumpeter and Ganymede all in one. With the commencement of this voyage the author begins to lose his senses, or, to say the least, his judgment, for involuntarily he grows in coherent. Yet, scrap by scrap, the reader gleans amusement and sometimes, through satirical alle gories, instruction—when be hears of little King Feepi ~) —of the luxurious recluse (a double or Bassein, called Donjalolo—of those scamps the Plujii—of Nora barnma —of King Uhia—of that jolly old lord, BorbbJlla—of Mondoldo—of Maramma—of Ilivo• hitee—of lake Yammc—of Alma—of Ravoo, and of H . evaneva. Still better, as f a r as th e i r comprehen the p i T k a a p a p n a d r i l a I n e s ll ; 0 ( of a sibility is co nce r ne d, are t h e d escr i pt i ons of Elivohitee ; of chapter Pimm i t n a ee w ; hic o h f w D e ir c a ain nda m ; e commend Lords all the members of the Peace Association); of Dominnra (otherwise England), an d B e ll o : ( ot h erwise the British Sovereign); of Vivenza (or the United States) ; of Porpheero (or Europe); and so on till we come to Doxodox and Ilooloomooloo. The three avengers and the three spectral messengers from :Hautia, who corresponds orientally with flowers, impart a fan tastic embellishment to the general narrative, without rendering it much clearer to the understanding. The end, we can scarcely call it the catastrophe, is dim, dreamy, vague, suffused with a mist by no means Ossiauic. On closing our criticism, as cn closing the third volume, our opinion remains unaltered —that Mr. Herman Melville has in " Mardi" displayed very remarkable powers, and, above all, a rich and almost Arabic imagination ; but those powers, that imagina tion, his eloquence, his observation, his wit, his senti ment have all been squandered to no avail upon a wild conceit, as though d'Urbino bad drawn cartoons upon the dust, or Watteau had painted landscapes upon gelatine. COME, 1849. STE. Presteign l9 Bibury 2O Stockbridge 2l Newcastle Winchester 2B , Salisbury . 2B LY. Lancaster Goodwood .. 24 Ludlow RACES TO Hungerford 1 Ascot Hampton l3 I3everley, Hull, & E. H l3 New ton Knighton l5 Carlisle Newmarket 3 Liverpool ll Oxford lB AUG Brighton 1 Ripon Chelmsford. .. Derby Lincoln .. 9 Wolverhampton l3 Canterbury l6 Warwick 4 Lichfield Weymouth 7 Doncaster Leicester l9 Newmarket Sec. 0ct.... 8 Newmarket Houghton.. 22 UST. Huntingdon. York Great Yarmouth 2B Radcliffe Egham Lothians Club 3O :MUER. SEPTE: Bedford Manchester 2O Newmarket First Oct 25 Wrexham Walsall BEIS.. I Worcester OCTO: ... 31 NOVEMBER. Yorkshire Union Hunt 5 IRISH RACES TO COME, 1849. Bellewstown May 29 Down Royal Corpo. Carragit June 26 ration July st' The Heath July 3 Curragh Sept. 4 Curragh Oct. 16 SPECIE FROM CALIFORNIA.—The accounts from California come down to the 6th of March, by way of Mazatlan, and we have seen letters from San Fran cisco, which state that a very profitable business was being done in several articles of import. Her Ma jesty's ship Calypso, which left Mazatlan in March, for England, has a piece of gold on board, weighing half a pound, consigned to a Liverpool house, and on the ship's arrival those who are sceptical of anything but small grains being discovered in California will have the correctness of their opinions tested, as there will be no difficulty in ascertaining whether it be in its native state or not. We have also si en bills of lading by this mailfor about 80,000 dollars of gold, and, though on ac count of s Liverpool house, it is distributed to various and distant places, part to China, part to New South Wales, part to Valparaiso, and remainder to England. We mention the circumstance in support of remarks which previously appeared in this article, that England could not expect to be the first recipient of the treasure, as she bad not sent the means of purchasing it, and did not offer the same inducements as the nearer markets for its investment in goods, produce, &0., for consumption in California.—Liverpool Albion. ROYAL MARINES.--WOOLWICH, MAY 28.—The unfavourable state of the weather prevented the Wool wick division of Royal Marines being inspected until the afternoon, when they assembled on the parade ground in front of their spacious barracks, and submitted their kits to Lieutenant -General Sir Thomas Downman, C. 8., K.C.H., Commandant of the Garrison, Colonel Parke, C. 8., and Colonel Owen, C. 8., Deputy- Adjutant-General, and Captain Wesley, Assistant- Adjutant-General. There were ten companies on the parade ground, including one of the Royal Marine Ar tillery. LONGEVITY.-Mr. John Moon, a venerable pa triarch, residing at Norton, near Stockton-upon-Tees, was last week busily engaged in hoeing his potato garden. He is now in his 101st year, in full bodily and mental vigour.—Yorkshire Gazette. SAVINGS' BANKS AND EMlGRATlON.—Notwith standing the present depressed state of the country, it is not a little gratifying to learn that on Tuesday, the Ist instant, more than 1,0001. were deposited in the Lincoln Savings' Bank, chiefly by farmers' servants. There were likewise 650/. drawn out on the same day; and it is a curious fact that out of the latter sum no less than 4001. were drawn out by parties on the point of emigrat ing.—Birmingham Gazette. DEATH OF A JOCKEY FROM " SWEATING."--An inquest was held on Thursday, at Horndean, Hants, on the body of George Davis, aged 23, a groom in the em ploy of J. Burrill, jun., Esq., who died that morning. The deceased had in training at Horndean a mare which was to run at the ensuing races on Portsdown,hill; de ceased was to have been the jockey, and being desirous to decrease his weight, resorted to a practice, we believe not uncommon in such cases, of putting on a great quan tity of additional apparel, and then taking walking ex ercise; thus attired, and in perfect good health, he set out from Horndean, at a quick pace, and returned in two hours, but so completely exhausted as to render it ne cessary that he should be placed in bed; he did not rally, however, but soon after was a corpse. Verdict—" Died from exhaustion." HOODLESS, THE HORSE" SWIMMER OF LINCOLN.. SHIRE.—Some months ago, it will be remembered, we gave in our supplement a very interesting account of Richard lloodless ' a farmer on the Lincolnshire coast, having saved the lives of several shipwrecked persons by acts of almost unparalleled daring. The account was copied from Chambers' Journal. A few days ago Hoodless called upon us with the information that the British and Foreign Sailors' Society had presented him, through Messrs. W. aid R. Chambers, with a 101. note, as a mark of their especial estimation of his brave phi lanthropy. Since the account Ke copied from Chamfers' Journal was inserted, we understand Hoodless has been ,nstrumental in saving several more lives.—Hull Packet. The Opera Comiqu' e, St. James's Theatre, was last evening attended by the Turkish Ambassador and suite, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Leeds, the Marchioness of Downshire ' the Countess of Lichfield, the Marquis of Douro, the Count and Lady Cecil do la Feld, the Earl of Portarlington, Viscount Clifden, Sir John Lester live, Lady Quentin, Lady Jodrell, Mrs. CraA shay and party, Sir Henry Meux. A BEGGAR IN MASQUERADE.—A native of Wales writes to the Liverpool Mercury that he, a few days ago, discovered that a pretended Hindoo, who entered a tavern near Clayton-square, was a fellow-countryman, who had coloured his face and dressed himself in chintz, the better to obtain alms. DREAMING OF GOLD.--Wednesday week, a young man, formerly an inhabitant of Nottingham, but who has recently resided in Lincolnshire, accompanied by an elderly man, called on Mr. Winter, the Duke of New castle's agent, and showed him a note he had obtained from the Duke's steward, giving him permission to dig in a certain place in the castle-yard, where the man, in accordance with the dream twice repeated, was to find a very valuable " crock o' goold." On Friday morning the dreamer borrowed the necessary tools, and, attended by his companion, went to the place. Ile then took off his coat and went to work with the zeal of a Californian emigrant, cheered with the grave expectation of finding a treasure that would make him a rich man for the rest of his life. Head at work ho continued in the rocky sandy soil for upwards of an hour without the slightest success—nothing bearing any resemblance to the wished for " crock" having met his gaze. When he had dug all ever the spot he was forced to admit t h e truth of the old saying, that " dreams go by contraries," and so he and his companion disconsolately left the place. The s i g ns of this industry may be seen b y any one passing the castle-yard on the road to Lenten.—Nottingham Journal. OPENING OF THE NEW STATION, EUSTON SQUARE. —The new station of the Ncrth-Western R a il way, at E us t o n-square, which has been for several months in progress, was, on Saturday, opened for business. The building (externally very plain) is in the Roman style; the interior decorated with Corinthian and Doric columns. The length of its south and north fronts is 168 feet; the east and west f ronts, 221 feet. In addi tion to the handsome waiting-rooms, booking and other offices, compactly arranged within the building, are two v . estlbules ; the outer, for gen era l traffic, measuring 64 feet by 21,is paved with patent metallic lava, resembling tesselated pavement, an article impervious to damp. The inner vestibule is a magnificent apartment, 140 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 61 feet high; around it tuns an elegant light iron gallery communicating with the upper offices : it will be used as a general waiting and refresh ment room. At the east end is a bold flight of steps, leading to the general meeting room, which is calculated to hold 4,000 persons. Over the entrance is a piece of sculpture in Caen stone, representing Britannia sup ported by Mercury and Science, executed by John Thomas ; and contiguous (by the same artist) are has relief devices symbolical of London, Birmingham, Man chester, Chester, Northampton, and Carlisle. The deco rations of the principal apartments are profuse,. chaste, and elegant; the general offices are neat,convement, and spacious: the whole in fact, as a railway station, i s without equal. It has been executed by Messrs. Cubitt, from a design by P. Hardwicke, aq., the architect, at an expense of nearly 140,0001. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY blonNucc.—The acti vity which took place in sales of cotton at Havre on Saturday last was again displayed yesterday. The sales amounted up to two o'clock to 1,500 bales. Prices very firm.—la other articles little or no business transacted.