The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

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" THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Intelven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... ...365 4 4i B. and E., Plymouth ... 02 6 A Yorkshireman ... ... 5 A L'yal Englishman ... 0 10 0 A Patriot, Chesterfield ... 0 0 6 For the Hungarians, Sunderland ... 0 3 0 " Lord John's Insurrection," Leeds ... 0 5 0 J. G. Marihall, Esq., per Lord Dudley _ _ Stuart, M.P. .. 5 0 0 Pryse Pryse, Esq., additional Member of the Hon. Committee 10 0 0 Savile Ogle, Esq., 31. P.: 1 0 0 hlagyar Sympathy Friends to Hungarian Nationality (add.) ... 0 1 0 A Few Tailors, Friends to the llungarian Cause . 0 12 0 From a Few Brushmakers 0 3 0 George Bransford ... 0 1 0 Collected by a Few Germans in Manchester, at the Cafe of Mr. Lesser, per Manchester Ex aminer ... 0 19 6 Total £390 2 10i TO THE EDI'T'OR OF THE SUN. beg to inclose the first half of a 51. note (Bank of England, No. 09,004) to aid the noble and oppressed Hungarian refugees to return to their native country, accompanied, I hope, with such military stores as are required by their heroic countrymen to repel the Russian hordes of assassins from the free soil of Hun gary. lk --Y means are very limited, but this is a case which calls for some sacrifice from every man whose heart beats with the spirit of freedom, or with sympathy for the oppressed. It is one of the most disgusting, most immoral, in vas i ons u p on a f ree na ti on ' s r i g ht s an % independence recorded in history. Shame to the man, but most of all to the Englishman, who can behold such an unequal struggle between physical force and moral right, and not step forward to help the weaker but most righteous cause! I have been grieved to see, in the list of subscriptions you have published, so few names of the aristocracy and of the wealthy. I may say, also, so few of the middle classes; and such a preponderance of sympathy and of sacrifice from the poor but generous English workmen and artisans. What, Sir! is the sym pathy for constitutional freedom , and the independence of nations, extinct amongst the country gentlemen of England, whose swords were once so nobly drawn in defence of freedom at home? But, if our aristocracy sympathise with the tyrant oppressors rather than with the brave defenders of Hungarian freedom, what pre vents the free, the wealthy, the moral middle classes of England standing boldly forward in so holy a cause? Can it be that they are waiting to see the names of Dukes and Earls decorate the subscription list? Are they deterred by the bought and profligate columns of the Times, a journal whose wide-spread advocacy of tyranny is a stain upon the whole English nation? Let it not be said that we waited for rank and fashion to lead the way, or that we were impeded by a venal print from helping a noble people in their death struggle with ruthless barbarians? Sir, there is no time to lose—we have delayed too much already—in loudly declaring our sympathy, and sending our aid to the devoted defenders of freedom in Eastern Europe. In this, the eleventh hour, let us hasten to cheer them in their gallant efforts to save from Cossack pollution their hearths and altars! Let our money be freely, because righteously, given to furnish them with every means of defence ! And God defend the right ! I am, Sir, your obedient servant, York, July 25th, 18 49. A YORKSUIR, EMAN. P.S.: The remaining half -note shall be sent to you immediately after th e rece i pt of this has been noticed in The Sun. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Along with the extract from Kossuth's procla mation, why should you not print a quotation from Lord Chatham's celebrated speech on the employment of Indians against the Americans? " While a foreign soldier was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms! Never! Never! Never!" The extract is short, and, as the sentiment of a great British statesman ,it may serve to counteract the malicious mi srepresentations of those who dare to insinuate that there is any connexion between resistance to Cossack invasion and the odious cause of anarchy and rebellion. Your obedient servant, A LOYAL ENGLISHMAN. July 26. TO THE .EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—your noble advocacy of the cause of justice and humanity, by your stirring appeal on behalf of the Hun gnians, deserves much commendation, though perhaps it ins) , in the end be more advantageous that tyranny add in might s uccee d i n crush i ng their liberties. Let us not despair, but hope that the evident march of reason and justice will ultimately triumph in establishing principles m ore no bl e and godlike than can be effected oy force of arms, however noble and just the cause may b e . Let then crowned heads ponder the following precepts from the ancients:— HORACE, TRANSLATED BT MILTON. Whom do we count a good mam?—whom but ho Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate, Who judges in great suits and controversies, Whose witness and opinion wins the cause? But his own house and the whole neighbourhood Sees his foul inside through his whited skin. EURIPIDES, TRANSLATED BY MILTON. This is true liberty, when freeborn men Having to advise the public may speak free; Which he who can and will deserves high praise; Who neither can or will may hold his peace; What can be juster in a state than this? SENECA. '1 here can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable Than an unjast and wicked king. Let wicked and unjust kings, emperors, presidents, judges, and generals remember that their foul ways may excite what some would term just revenge—at all ev?,nts, let them remember, that whilst they pursue their vicious course, they will most certainly be punished even in this world, though not corporially, yet mentally, in the loss of peace of mind, by being obliged to sustain a black and corrupted heart and the gnawing of a guilty conscience, and that the time is now come when wise men will no longer be persuaded that the Pope or any other means, except the power of Omnipotence, can save them from the consequences of their rebellion against the laws of God and man. But the French tyrants (I do not mean noble and illustrious Lamartine and his friends) appear to me to have acted a still more base part towards the Romans by destroying their (the Romans') freedom under the mask of liberty, and like the cowardly assass i n a re revel hug in their success. Fur their consideration, also, let tn° give two or th ree more quotat i ons f rom t h e an cients:— DANTE 0 Const an ti ne , o f how much . ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee. Founded in c h as t e an d h um bl e poverty, Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn? ARIOSTO. Then passed he to a fl)wery mountain green Which once smelt sweet, now stinks as odiously. This was the gilt, if you the truth will have, That Constantine to good Sylvester gave. 'Tis y ou that SOPHOCLES. say it, not I,—you do the deed And Your ungodly deeds find me the words. , Si on Of all t yranny, th a t effected under the garb of reli is the m ost detestable, as subverting the truth, and in copse the the p r i nc i ples o f pure C h r i stian i ty, v i z., " do g to others as ye would that others should do." Yours, &c., 'PHILANTHROPY. FROM A CORRESPONDENT. What death so glorious or so sweet, Could e'er Hungarian warrior meet, As, filled with patriotic fire, For Hungary's freedom to expire I Sunderland, July 26. LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION.—At the half-yearly meeting of the court of proprietors yesterday, at the offices in Ring William -street, City, Sir Claudius Bus ter in the chair, the report showed a receipt for the half year ending 30th June last of 189,604/., leaving a balance, after disbursements, of 22,6561. The tangible securitiesti deposited in the names of the trustees in tlO de bentures. of England amounted to 100,0001. of Canada de res. The present value of 5,563,4721. assured on lives of members to J the amount assuredtoon: o l t y 2h el,l lives of w m a e s m 2 b , e 9 r 3 s 4, 6 7 f 4 o 6 c l e . , Julyan d 1, 1848, amounted 1850. The accounts which will be valued in -sho'oeoedol.E reduction of 67 per cent. for the current year ciolin,,st:hedptorenaiums of members, and the directors were re taking assurances to the amounconsider oo t the fnstproprietyead ofo 5,0001. as a maximum. DEATH BY LIGHTNING AT WOODW An awful thunder storm passed over Woolwich sihcurn.tdlyafter four O'clock, P.M., yesterday, at the time the boa bled on the parade ground for their usual afte had assem formance. A number of men of the 7th batt r a n li o o on per told off for duty to keep back the crowd generalli, weren sent from pressing too closely upon the band ; and : w 4 h r i e le employed in that way the lightning descended aninni7st them, killing Gunner Queeny on the spot, and knocking down Gunner Millstead with such force that he remained speechless for some time. Several others were stunned, but soon recovered. On lifting up the body of Gunner Queeny, it was found that the electric fluid had passed through his fatigue cap, which was burnt, and through his skull, coming out below the lower jaw-bone, and running down his body to the lower part of his side, Where it left him. The bodies of both gunners were immediately conveyed to the hospital, that assistance might bo obtained for the gunner still in life. The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of truth.. —Eliza Cook's Journak t THE SUN, LONDON', THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 26, 1849, ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MAN SION-HOUSE. Another of those splendid entertainments which have I rendered the present Mayoralty so conspicuous was given last night by the Lord Mayor and Ludy Mayoress at the Mansion-house. The guests were chiefly Parlia- • mentary, the majority being Irish Members. The dinner, which was supplied by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of Cornhill, was of the most sumptuous character, and the decorations of the table v.-ere nearly on the same scale of magnificence as when her Majesty's Ministers ho noured the Lord Mayor with their company. The following is a list of the guests:—Viscount Naas, M.P., Captain the Hon. T. V. Dawson, M.P., the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., M.P., Sir R. Price, Bart., M.P., Sir P. Nugent, Bart., M.P., Sir D. Norreys, Bart., M.P., Sir A. Armstrong, Bart., M.P., Colonel Sir W. Verner, Bart., M.P., Sir H. M. Barron, Bart., M.P., Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. A. Matheson, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Colonel Salwey, M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Dunne, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, M.P., Major Blackall, M.P., Captain Archdall, M.P., Captain Pechell, M.P., Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. Callaghan, M.P., Mr. J. A. Hamil ton, M.P., Mr. Bellew, M.P., Mr. Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Devereux, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M.P., Mr. R. M. Fox, M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr. Leslie, M.P., The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Mr. Moore, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. Perfect, M.P., Mr. M'Gregor, M.P., Mr. M. Power, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, M.P., Mr. Ruche, M.P., Mr. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. Scully, M.P., Mr. Tennent, M.P., Mr. Munta, M.P., Mr.Schole field, M.P., Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P., Mr. Abdy, M.P., Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., Mr. Hey Wood, M.P., Mr. Hollond, M.P., Mr. Horsman, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. R. D. Browne, M.P., Mr. Lacy, M.P., Mr. Lushington, M.P., Mr. Lennard, M.P., Mr. Morris, M.P., Mr. Pearson, M.P., Mr. Rice, M.P., Mr. G. Thompson, M.P., Mr. Willcox, M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.P., Mr. Anstey, M.P., Major Ramsay, Aldermen Sir P. Laurie, Sir W. Magnay, and W. Hunter, Mr. sheriff Goodhart, Mr. Sheriff Elect Nicoll, the Vakeel of the Sattara: Raja, Count Teleki, Mr. Francis Pulski, Mr. W. Williams, Mr. J. B. Hume, Mr. John Collett, Mr. J. Chapman, Mr. Hill, Mr. Coles Child, Mr. Roy, Dr. Clanny, Mr. Smart, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Lee Clayton, Mr. I'. Laurie, Mr. Schenck, the Rev. S. R. Cattley, Mr. Col vin Smith, Mr. Carfrae, and other gentlemen and mem bers of the Common Council. Covers were laid for 150. Grace was said before dinner by the Rev. S. R. Cattley, chaplain to the Lord Mayor. After dinner " We praise Thee, 0 Lord," was chanted by Messrs. Ransford and Jolly, Miss Ransford, &c. The cloth having been removed, . . The LORD MAy'O'n rose to propose " The health of her Majesty the Queen." That toast was always most enthusiastically received, not only in that hall, but in every company of Englishmen. On the eve of her Ma jesty's visit to the sister isle, he trusted he should not be considered exceeding his functions if, surrounded as he was on that occasion by so many distinguished Irish re presentatives, he ventured to express a hope, that what ever their differences of opinion upon other matters, they would all unite in giving her Most Gracious Ma jesty the Queen such a welcome, such a hearty spontaneous expression of enthusiastic loyalty, as would do credit to their proverbial gallantry, and show that they appre ciated the great merits of her Majesty, who, it was well known, had long wished to visit Ireland.—(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours, and fol lowed by the National Anthem. The next toast was " the Queen Dowager," which was accompanied by a favourite air. The Lone MAYOR then rose to propose the health of " his Royal highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the other branches of the Royal Family." With respect to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, he would venture to say he deserved the respect universally shown to him by the people of this country, not less fur the interest he had always taken in everything which concerned the well-being of the country, than from the high station he occupied in relation to the Sovereign. He was sure that those who would have the opportunity of witnessing the conduct of his Royal Highness in Ire land would reel that his claims on their attachment were only second to thuse of our gracious Queen.—(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours. The LORD Mayon, in proposing " the Navy and Army," observed that in no part of her Majesty's domi nions were the services of the army and navy more gratefully remembered than in the city of London. But speaking as he did in the presence of some gentlemen belonging to the Peace Society, he feared he could not say all he felt in praise, of such a toast. But he ven tured to say that, till the happy period arrived when na tional arbitration was established, the people of England generally would regard the army and navy as the most efficient arm of their defence.—(Loud cheers.) Captain PECHELL expressed the great satisfaction he felt in returning thanks for the navy in presence of such a company assembled around the table of the First Ma gistrate of the city of London, whom he had the happi , ness to regard as a brother officer, and who, to the high honours he had already attained, would in a few days add another—that of representing the city of London in the Commons House of Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) Colonel DUNNE returned thanks for the army. The Loan MAYOR then rose and said it was the inva riable rule in that Hall, without reference to politics, to pay a mark of respect to her Majesty's Government, and he now proposed to that distinguished company that they should join with him in drinking " the Health of her Majesty's Ministers." 'l:lletoast was drunk with much cheering. Mr. BELLEW, in acknowledging the compliment, said he had no expectation when he entered that hall that he should be called upon to return thanks for such a toast. From the humble position he occupied in the Ministry, he could only say that he believed the great object of her Majesty's Ministers was to promote the interests of the united empire. They all felt how important it was to enjoy the confidence of the citizens of London and its representatives ; and he had no doubt her Majesty's Government looked forward with pleasure to the return of the Lord Mayor as one of the Members for the city. The LORD MAYOR, in proposing the next toast, said, however much gratified he was in giving the toast he was about to announce, he felt very inadequate to do it justice. He had the greater anxiety in proposing it, lest inadvertently some expression should escape his lips, which might by some, present or absent, be miscon strued, which he should indeed regret. The toast he was about to give was—" Prosperity to Ireland."—(Loud and continued cheers.) He felt the greatest satisfaction in being honoured by the company of so many of the representatives of Ireland; and he only regretted that circumstances had occurred to prevent his having the ee l ooshi country.—(Cheers.) uu n lv nl o dhhnht u rgeae r yni r. ro o —ttc l ec(ecec(no nthseuitorneinvitationonratlsvh, entertaining; all the representatives of ,that unavoidably severalt dkh h aia a gbdtl arisengt ohrp t fe r oh u t sitastpce previous from e gratification they lateness.o_e circumstances s c h ri postponed.—(Cheers.) would uhhm tes hhrtlesa..n believe,ee sseason entertainments le ut l h in seeing around him so many gentlemen fromic taandßd diretuisneguoisfhcedorortneponresa_en(tacthiveeesmof that ) It was souwnterlyi knownin the that the Corporation of the city of London had for centuries and a halt been connected with the sister country oountry in a peculiar manner; and circumstances bad recently arisen to beget a hope that they might again be still more intimately connected with that country. Nothing, he felt, was so essential in such circumstances as that a clear explanation should be given of the objects the Corporation of London had in view, in order to pre vent any misconstruction of their motives. He hoped it would not for one moment be supposed that they had any other object in view than that which he knew was entertained by the citizens of London in general— namely, to promote the welfare and happiness of Ire land.—(Cheers.) He felt, however, that whatever their endeavours might be, unless they were met by kindly reciprocal feeling on the part of the Irish people, their efforts might do more harm than good. If it could for a moment be supposed that they wished to dispossess the owners of the soil—to sweep away any of the people of Ireland, or to interfere with the religion of the country, they must of course expect to fail ; he, therefore, was glad of the opportunity, before so many Members of Parlia ment connected with Ireland, to state that the Cor poration of London had no desire whatever, if circumstances should arise to give the opportunity of connecting themselves with Ireland, to do more than endeavour, by showing confidence in the integrity and kindly feeling of the people if properly directed, to in crease the employment and promote the industry of the country.—(Cheers.) It might be said, as he had heard it said, that the people of Ireland were ignorant; it should at the same time be remembered that little pains had been taken to enlighten them; and if in some in stances they were supposed to be suspicious, it should also be borne in mind how often they had been misled. —(Cheers.) Frankly and fairly, then, be repeated that the corporation had no other desire than to show that reliance might be placed on the people of Ireland, that they would receive with gratitude, and meet in a con fiding. spirit, ever y e ff or t th a t was ma de to assist them in their present state of depression. Providence had been pleased to visit Ireland f or th ree or four years with heavy affliction, and no people had shown more sympathy or come forward with more c h eer f u l ness an d a l ac rity to aid her in her necessities, than the citizens of London. —(Loud cheers.) The same f ee li ng st i ll an i mate d t h e corporation.—(Cheers.) There was no arrangement whatever, nor any concert between the parties ; the present movement only express e d th e spontaneous feel ing of the citizens of London, arising from the sugges tions which had been thrown out by Si r R o b er t P ee l. —(Cheers.) The desire was to lend capital, to promote the employment and welfare of the Irish people.— (Cheers,) He trusted what he had said would not be mis understood; every corporation was but a trustee for the country, and the Corporation of London felt that in its present object it was supported not only by the citizens, but by the public at large.—(Cheers.) Their only de sire was, to whatever extent they might become English or Scoth settlers, to cultivate a good understanding with the people of Ireland, to promote industry, to encourage employment, and on all occasionss contentment, for t to give what in in this e day's cwoourknt and was thus called to secure and happiness of all classes of the community.—(Cheers.) tdhaeyen, a prosper ity,fin Pleased as he had been on a late occa sion to entertain the Lord Mayor of Dublin in that hall, he was not less gratified to be now honoured with the company of a gentleman who had been elected his successor i n office. This also he would say, there was no man in the House of Commons who maintained his opinions with mote ability and kindliness of feeling than the Lord Mayor Elect of the city of Dublin. He, therefore, had great pleasure in proposing " The health of Mr. Reynolds,, the Lord Mayor El ec t, an d Prosperity to Ireland. The - toast was drunk with all the honours. Mr. REYNOLDS, in returning thanks for the compli ment, assured the Lord Mayor and those present of . his most perfect sincerity when he declared his total in ability sufficiently to express his sense of the high honour be had received on that occasion. The Lad Mayor, in announcing the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, in the early part of the evening, expressed the wish that on her Majesty's visit to Ireland the differences of Irish Members might be forgotten : would that wish be realized. His Lordship expressed another desire, namely, that her Majesty should be well received. He thought he might safely answer that that wish also would he realised.—(Cheers) Irishmen had their faults like others; but want of loyalty to the British Crown never could with truth be laid to their charge.—(Loud cheers.) They had been anxious to Pay compliments to former Sovereigns of England in their visits to Ireland; and they were doubly anxious to pay such compliments on the present occasion.—(Cheers.) He thought he might say that the visits of the Sove reigns of Great Britain and Ireland to his country had been " like angels' visits, few and far between." With• out imputing to those Sovereigns who had visited them in former times many of the qualities of angels, he might without hazard of contradiction ascribe many of those attributes to our present gracious Sovereign.— (Loud cheers.) He thought he was safe in saying that in no part of her Majesty's dominions was the Queen more respected, more venerated, more beloved than in Ireland. —(Loud cheers.) The people of that country entertained for her Majesty the most affectionate loyalty; they would rally round her on the occasion of her auspicious visit; and they would give her a right royal welcome.—(Cheers.) They were bound to do so because they looked upon this as a visit of peace—(Cheers)—as a forerunner of better times—(Loud cheers) --and it would not be their fault if it did not achieve the objects her Majesty had in view. —(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had alluded to the intention of the Corporation of London to acquire land in Ireland. He hailed that intention as likely to lay the foundation of better times in that country. It was a happy omen—one likely to draw the bonds of union closer between this country and Ireland; and believing, as he did, that the prosperity of Ireland must depend ultimately on drawing more closely those bonds of con nexion between this great country and Ireland, he was delighted to have that opportunity of expressing the confidence he felt in the result of the experiment about to be made by the Corporation of the city of London.— (Loud cheers.) He repeated the high gratification he derived from being present at the festive board of the Lord Mayor of London; and, proud as he should have been of having his health proposed on any occasion by the First Magistrate of the first city in the world, the compliment was greatly enhanced because his name had been connected with the Corporation of the city of Dublin.—(Loud cheers.) Lord NAAS proposed the next toast, which he was sure all present would receive with the greatest pleasure. He might safely say that in the annals of civic hospi tality the splendid entertainments of the present Lord Mayor of the city of London stood unrivalled. As an Irishman he felt under peculiar obligations to his Lord ship for the interest he had taken in the country to which he belonged. And all Irishmen who had read the speech lately delivered by the Lord Mayor of Lon don, on a subject intimately affecting the welfare of Ire land, must feel that they owed to him and to the corpora tion over which he presided a debt of lasting gratitude. —(Cheers.)—ln common with many of his countrymen, he had that day paid his first visit to the Mansion house; and they must all feel how impossible it was to do justice to the splendid hospitality with which they had been entertained.—(Cheers.) There were many present who, having enjoyed for a longer period the friendship of their distinguished host, were better qualified than he to do justice to his merits in proposing his health; but he nevertheless felt called on to return his most sincere thanks for the kind feelings which the Lord Mayor had exhibited towards Ireland; and he could only say that the name of their present Lord Mayor would be long distinguished among many. in this country who, during a period of great distress, had shown themselves not unwilling to lend a helping hand to Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had referred to a renewed effort on the part of the corporation to benefit that country. He believed it would be carried out in the best spirit; and he could not help adding, he was most sanguine as to the result. He begged to pro pose " Health and long life to the Lord Mayor." The LORD MAYOR expressed the great gratification he derived from the manner in which his health had been proposed and received upon that occasion ; and with reference to the corporation over which he pre sided, he would cnly say that, should the object they had in view succeed, it would add greatly to his happiness. He repeated he was happy to have the opportunity of entertaining so many gentlemen connected with Ireland. He saw before him a Homan Catholic clergyman (the Very Hey. Mr. Bushe), who, coming on a mission to this:country for the promotion of the fisheries in Galway, had honoured him with a call. Ho was most happy to have an opportunity of inviting him to the Mansion house; and he hoped on his return to his native country he might be enabled to bear testimony to the spirit which animated not the Corporation or the citizens of London alone, but all Englishmen, anxiously to cultivate the esteem and regard, and zealously to aid in promoting the happiness of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then rose and - said—He had now to propose a toast which he was sure would be most acceptable to all who were present. He had already observed that they never allowed anything like political allusion to disturb the harmony of social enjoyment in the Mansion- house.—(Cheers.) When he saw around him so many Members of the House of Commons, ho was sure he should meet their cordial approbation in selecting his old, esteemed, and valued friend, Mr. Hume, as the organ of that body to return thanks for the toast he was about to propose. They all knew Mr. Hume, and his long public career of usefulness.—(Cheers.) Few men had laboured so long or with a more zealous desire to promote the interests of the country than Mr. Joseph Ilume.—(Cheers ) Disregarding everything like self interest, he had laboured only in the cause of the people. —(Cheers.) He might speak of him in another capa city, as a friend; and ho was happy to take that occasion of acknowledging how much he had been indebted to his kindness.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure in pro posing the Health of Mr. Hume and the Members of the House of Commons." Mr. HUMS returned thanks, but inaudibly, at one end of the table. The LORD MAYOR then rose and said, that having the honour of seeing present a near relative of the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, he hoped he might be permitted to propose the health of that distinguished nobleman. He would not, on such an occasion, venture to make any observations that might elicit anything like a difference of opinion, but this he would assert, that no man, placed in the difficult position in which Lord Clarendon stood, could have discharged his duties with greater for bearance, greater ability, or greater impartiality. — (Loud cheers.) He was sure those qualities entitled that distinguished nobleman, in the high position ho filled in such responsible circumstances, to the respect and esteem, not only of this country, but of the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure, there fore, in proposing " the Health of Lord Clarendon, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland."—(The toast was drunk amidst much cheering.) Mr. C. P. VILLIERS, as the nearest relative of Lord Clarendon present, rose to offer his acknowledgments for the very gr ea t comp li ment t h ey h ad pa i d to the Lord - Lieutena nt s b u e c e h n a p n len a s s e se d m te bl e y x , p m re u s s s t th b e e ir d o e p em m e ie d n a e h f ig t h he on m e a ; a y nd r_ h i.n e Clarendon datebhe had performed of Ir e l an d. S uc h an h onour, com i ng f rom a w, h as ich su L e rd it d u t l ie h s ne n o ef had is difficult position ; and perhaps there was no place where the anxieties of such a post could be better understood than in that great city, where an exclusive jurisdiction also existed for the protection of the peace, the life, and the property of the community; and to learn from the Lord Mayor that his relative had, in the opinion of that great capital, met the difficulties and discharged the duties of his post with judgment, justice, and ability, was a tribute to his character with which he must feel deeply gratified.—(Cheers.) The Lord Mayor had connected the Lord -Lieutenant with the future welfare of Irelatul, and if an anxious desire to promote that object entitled him to that connexion, he had only done him justice.— (Hear.) He had nothing, he knew, nearer his heart than to improve the condition of that people, and that feeling, he firmly believed, was cordially shared by the whole English community.—(Cheers.) It was now un derstood that the moral and material interests of the people of Ireland were inseparably united, and that peace and contentment could not and ought not to be expected till the physical condition of the labouring class of that country was improved.—(Hear.) The Govern ment of Ireland anxiously desired that object—it had been the purpose of their legislators this session to promote it, and he could not but expect that, at last, a brighter day was dawning on that country. He entirely agreed with thole who had preceded him that it was ominous of a better time coming, because her Majesty had thought this a fitting occasion to make her first visit to that country—(Cheers)—an event that had not occurred for more than a quarter of a century before—(Hear)—and ho hoped that the visit would be received as it was in tended—as a sign that the feeling was as strong in the most exalted personage as in the lowest subject of the realm, that equal favour, equal honour, and equal jus tice should be shown to Ireland and to England.— (Cheers.) He would not despair that, ere long, by means of better legislation and British capital, equal prosperity would prevail in the two countries.—(Cheers.) The LORD Marcia then proposed the " health of the Magistrates of the city of London," which was responded to by Sir P. Laurie. Mr. HustE proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress, which was drunk with all the honours. Several other toasts followed, after which the company separated. PLYMOUTH, JULY 25.—(From a Correspondent.) —The health of this town continues to improve. The fatal illness has been almost entirely confined to Stone house-lane, a local St. Giles's, which was allowed by the authorities to sink into a very wretched condition. This place has been entirely cleaned, and the sick have been removed into a temporary hospital erected in Five Fields, near the town, where there are now about 25 patients, nearly all of whom are in a state of convales cence. The number of cases reported yesterday was— Cholera, 7; choleraic diarrhcei, 5; simple diarrhoea, 7; total, 19; deaths, 3. Dr. Milroy is down here from the Central Board of Health, investigating and inquiring into what has been done, and the local causes of the out break. In Stoaehouse the disease has broken out in some of the dirtiest of the courts, and there have been t from twel ve t o fif teen d ea th s there. In Devoeport, in cluding St o k e an d Monica Town, there have been about twenty d aths, nearly all in the lowest parts of those towns, and amongst the inhabitants of cellars. The town of Devonport, in case of an outbreak, has been divided into districts, and a surgeon assigned to each. A board of health has also been established there. A half-yearly meeting of the United Mexican Min ing Association was held yesterday. The report of the directors was, on the whole, favourable; but no dividend was declared, as the purchase of 1,000 bottles of quick silver for 11,8001, had absorbed the available funds. The progress of the mines was very satisfactory, and a lease 9f a new mine adjoining the old property had been put.- cliisSed, the anew m ex i ec , N 02 9 41 2013 tv 243,0614 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PROMOTION. Assistant-Surgeon—Patrick Digan, of the Hastings, to be Acting Surgeon. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenants—William Swinburne, to the Wellesley, 72, flag-ship in the West Indies; Dennis Mickley, from the Hastings, 72, flag-ship in the East Indies, to the Cambrian, 40, on the same station, vice Moresby; G. E. P. Serocald, from the Hastings to the Columbine sloop, on the same station; Edward Nares from the Hastings to the Arab sloop, on the same station. Surgeon—Patrick .Digan, to the Columbine (acting). Second Master—James Rusden, to tho Queen, 116 guns, at Davonport. Assistant Surgeon—John Murphy, from the Inflexible steam-sloop, on the East India station, to the Fury steam. sloop, ditto. Engineers—James Downey (2d class), and Charles Bidder (3d class), to La Hogue steam guard-ship at Sheerness. Gunner—Charles Ball, to the Phcenix steam-sloop at Portsmouth. Midshipmen—J. Forest, from the Mariner sloop to the Hastings flag-ship; W. H. Malone, to the Queen. Naval Cadets—C. D. Sandars, to the Queen; .Alex ander 0. M'Farlane, to the Victory flag-ship, a t Portsmouth; George Worsfold, to the Persian, 16, at Woolwich. Master's Assistant—G. P. Heather, to the Crane packet, at Falmouth. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, sailed from Sheerness on Monday afternoon for Portsmouth, to augment the flotilla to give eclat to the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Portland Breakwater. She returned to Portsmouth last night. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht went from Cowes to Weymouth yesterday morning, at half-past six , to be in attendance upon Prince Albert. The Fire Queen steam-yacht embarked Sir Bladen Capel, Port-Admiral of Portsmouth, Lady Capel, and suite, on Tuesday, for Weymouth. The Growler steam-sloop, Commander Stoddart, will sail to-day for Tangier direct, weather permitting. The Lords of the Admiralty will commence their annual inspection of the ports and dockyards on Mon day next. Captain Ellice, the controller of steam machinery to the fleet, proceeded to Portsmouth from London on Monday, and in conjunction with Captain Stevens, of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, made a survey of the steam machinery of that port. Amongst other matters which resulted from the survey, m e are informed a suggestion was resolved upon to recommend the reduction of the steam power of the Retribution frigate from 800 to 400 horse, and that she be sent to Woolwich to undergo the alteration. WooLwicrt, JULY 25.—The Flamer steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jones, is to leave this port for Holyhead, to remain at that station, where she will be employed as a mail packet when any of the regular mail steam-packets are laid up for repairs. The Vulcan steam troop-ship had her steam up yes terday, and both she and the Vulture steam-frigate were taken out of the basin to-day preparatory to going down the river on trial. The Hebe and Wye convict ships and the Unite con vict hospital ship have been removed from nearly oppo site the Royal Arsenal to moorings opposite the dock yard. At this date there is only one case of cholera amongst the convicts. One of the riggers, named Butcher, who was em ployed in taking the Dreadnought hospital-ship to Woolwich, died yesterday of cholera. The deceased was very much afraid of the cholera, and was attacked shortly after eating some cold potatoes. ACCIDENT TO THE NASSAU BALLOON. Last evening the feelings of several hundreds, who had, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, assembled iu Vauxhall-gardens to witness the ascent of the Nassau Balloon, as well as those of the vast numbers of persons on the outside of the gardens, who had been on the lookout for the balloon, were for some time kept in a state of painful excitement for the safety of no less than 11 individuals, who had accom panied the imnamse machine. At seven o'clock, the balloon having been sufficiently inflated, Mr. Charles Green, the veteran aeronaut; Mrs. Green, his wife; Mr. and Mrs. Green, his nephew and his wife ; Miss Green, and Miss Gascoyne, of - Vauxhall-gardens; Mr. Crashaw, the iron-master; Mr. Stephens, Mr. Faunce, Captain Ondre, and Mr. Pierce, making altogether 11 individuals, got into the car,;and the word " all right " having been given, the ropes were unfastened, and the balloon mounted into the air in very good style, and the ascent was considered a very beautiful and successful one. The balloon proceeded in a north eastern course, bat it was soon observed that it was descending so rapidly that it was generally thought that a considerable leakage of the gas must have taken place, and that an accident of a serious character was inevitable. Mr. Green, who was seated in the car, per ceiving the extreme danger in which he was placed, commenced emptying the sand bags or ballast as quickly as he possibly could, but even this did not prevent the gradual sinking of the balloon. On passing over the St. George's-road, near 'West-square, it was painfully evident to the thousands that were looking on that the balloon must come in contact with some of the buildings, and in an instant it struck the roofs of the houses 94 and 95 on the north sido of the London-road, and only one house removed from the Nunnery which had been formerly the Roman Catholic chapel. The car, in which seven of the aeronauts were seated, struck the front of the house with considerable force, so much so that three of the persons who were standing on the hoop were thrown forward on the roof, which fortu nately happened to be a flat one; but the fourth clung to the net-work of the balloon. The machine being thus relieved from the weight of three of its occupants, and having fortunately escaped damage, instantly rose into the air to a considerable altitude, when a brisk current of air carried it in a southerly direction, ap parently towards Croydon. The three individuals who had thus fortunately escaped descended through the trap-door of an adjoining beer-shop from the roof, reached the street, and having procured a cab drove as fast as they could to the gardens to relieve their friends and the visitors from their painful anxiety. A good deal of injury is done to two houses in the London-road—one of which is occupied by Mr. Cross, who is a marine store dealer, and the other by Mr. Hammond, a hairdresser. The coping -stone, for about ten or twelve feet, has been carried on to the roofs, and the chimneys are much damaged, so that it will take 101. or 12/. to repair. The friends of the parties who had escaped with the balloon continued in a state of much anxiety for their ultimate safety, and the return of Mr. Green or some of the party to the "Royal property" was looked for with much interest. LATEST PARTICULARS—RALF-PAST ONE A.M. A messenger has just arrived at Vauxhall-gardens conveying the information that, after passing over a great portion of the county of Kent, the balloon had safely settled upon terra firma in an open field within half a mile of Erith Church. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.' WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL. Order for Third Reading ;read; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read the third time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day three months :"—Question put, " That the word' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 65. Armstrong, R. B. Gwyn, Howel Rice, E. R. Barrington, Vis. Haggitt, F. It. Richards, Richard Bernal, Ralph Harris, Richard Rumbold, C. E. Brotherton, Joseph Heywood, James Russell, Lord J. Buxton, Sir E. Hill, Lord M. Shell, R. L. Colvile, C. R. Slope, Alexander Sidney, Alderman Cowper, W. F. Howard, Lord E. Simeon, John Cubitt, William Jervis, Sir John Smyth, John G. Divett, Edward Jocelyn, Viscount Stafford, Augustus Dodd, George Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Colonel Duncan, George Meagher, Thomas Townshend, Captain Dandas, Sir D. Mahon, O'Gorman Tufnell, Fleury East, Sir J. Matheson, Colonel Vane, Lord 11. Ellis, John Monsen, William Verner, Sir W. Fortescue, J. W. Mullings, J. R. Watkins, Colonel Fuller, A. E. Newdegate, N. Williams, John Galway, Viscount Nichol!, John Wilson, Matthew Greene, John O'Brien Sir LuciuS Wodehouse, E. Goddard, A. L. I'atten, J. W. Young, Sir John Grenfell, Charles W. Peel, Colonel Grey, Sir G. Perfect, Robert WELLER. Grogan, Edward Pllkington, James Spooner, Richard Grosycnor, Lord It. Pryse. Pryse . Lacy, IL C. MINORITY—NOES, 22. Henley, J. W. Feel, Frederick Hume, Joseph rower, Dr. Lowther, Colonel Roebuck, J. A. Lushington, C. Sturt, H. G. Mackinnon, W. A. Mostyn, E. M. TELLERS. O'Connor, Feargus Anstey, Thomas C. Ogle, S. C. Mowatt, Francis Pechell, Captain Barron, Sir 11. Berkeley, 11. F. Dawson, T. V. Dick, Quintin Dunne, Colon,l Forster, M. Fox, W. J. Graham, Sir James Headlam, T. E. SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS.--DEMON STRATION IN MARYLEBONE. — Yesterday, at a very numerous meeting of the St. Pancras vestry, held at the new Vestry-rooms, King's-road, Camden Town, Mr. Wright in the chair, Mr. Churchwarden Healey said that a deputation from Marylebone, consisting of Mr. Nicholay and other members of the Marylebone vestry, had waited upon him, and requested him to ask the vestry to co-operate with Marylebone in getting up a borough demonstration in favour of the Hungarians. Lord Dudley Stuart had consented to preside over the Marylebone meeting, to be held at Hall's Riding School, denouncing the oppressors of the brave Hungarian nation. He now left it to the vestry to say whether they would co-operate with Marylebone in the matter. A conversa tion then took place respecting the propriety of enter taining the question in the vestry, and much diversity of opinion was manifested. Mr. Turner moved that the orders of the day be proceeded with, and Mr. Dyke pro posed an amendment, " That this vestry resolve to co operate with the parish of Marylebone in calling a public meeting to sympathise with the oppressed Hungarians." Mr. Hockton seconded the amendment, which was ulti mately carried, and the meeting broke up. DARING FEAT.—On Friday last, James Smith, more extensively known by the appropriate soubriquet of Steeple Jack, made the ascent of the gigantic chimney M St. Rollox, Glasgow. lie effected the ascent by means ot a block and tackle, suspended from au iron hook at the top of the chimney—the block and tackle having been previously taken up by means of kites. The object of the ascent was to examine the rents in the chimney, with the view, of filling them up; and this, no doubt from the fearless facility with which Steeple Jack goes about his business, he will be able satisfactorily to ac complish. A large concourse of people witnessed the ascent, and when he reached the top-436 feet—they saluted him with three hearty cheers, which Jack grace tully acknowledged by waving his bonnet in the air.— Edinburgh News, THE QUARTERLIES. THE EDINBURGH RETIETv. No. CLXXXI. A brilliant number of thct Edinburgh has just made its appearance. The least meritorious of the contri butions is not without its own peculiar excellence. Yet, notwithstanding the importance of the question of "Transportation as it now is"—notwithstanding the attraction of the "Reign of Louis XV.," as de scribed by M. De Tocqueville, the father of the dis tinguished Minister under Louis Napoleon—notwith- standing the interest attached to the defence of "Free Trade," a system of commercial government so lately and triumphantly vindicated by the eloquence and the logic of Sir Robert Peel—notwithstanding the scholastic fascination of an inquiry into the merits of the " Corpus Ignatianum," especially at a time when the learning of a Newman and the acumen of a Faber have imparted a new popularity to the writings of the early fathers—and notwithstanding the graphic power and elegant faculty of description displayed by Mr. Tyndale in his historical narrative of " Sardinia" —we are, nevertheless, bold to give the preference at once to the other moiety of the Quarterly. The five articles not yet particularised are, for a variety of reasons, more to our taste, and to them we acknowledge, without any ambiguity whatever, that we have awarded a more careful and appreciative perusal. " Shakspere's Critics : English and Fo reign "—affords another and splendid testimony that the subject is inexhaustible. Though thousands of volumes, whole libraries we might say, have been written by way of annotation, or as commentaries, on the dramas of Shakspere—still the theme on every fresh examination is found to be ever new and varied, unfolding additional beauties never before conjec tured, and suggesting topics for inquiry never dreamt of previously. Here, in proof, the reviewer avers that one broad field of observation in regard to Shakspere has hitherto been entirely overlooked. Thousands of commentators have penned books upon his immortal productions, and published them in all the languages of Europe, considering him as a poet, but not one has treated of the infinite art displayed by him exclusively, or at least pre-eminently, as a dra matist. In the course of his own remarks upon this particular the writer in the Edinburgh pays due consideration to Voltaire, for inasmuch as he in troduced Shakspere to the French (afterwards to abuse him as " an inspired savage"), and to Lessin for inasmuch as he did the same by Shakspere in regard to the Germans. Hitherto it is maintained by the critic, that Shakspere's plays have been com mented upon solely as poetry, never, or at the least, never adequately, as theatrical works. according His according glorious t t to cfiwoci 3wnt scholastic,uhnl nhhqaol charming so r urei tei yeurc s hyi:,:net h r arbitrarytigrct a u v elale e hlihsltvihne b nssodtt been insufficiencyiso. no e ne n n ogottoatrafro s ebg u ftehaaG e hreeoin e wnuannfet e tolnare s eagims s iaosznsit i negvi, v dashocoe e infcsna l oytagefpiloetahitlditrehni antiquarianism. Etruria"eesnont ats—ashtchenotieqatp, plans uhcgi r n a es g v e e on d f y ni , on and, One by inves tigation is demonstrated, and the reviewer closes his as y o r rm e j i a a ap t nb e i il s rsa t ir ntei f.oPno loebutttf is confessed at the very outset, as a curious and incontrovertible fact, " that the last twenty years have contributed more to our knowledge of the arts, the manners, and the customs of ancient Etruria than the three preceding centuries." And the entire gist of the argument contained in the paper appears to be an endeavour to show that whatever evidences a superior degree of elegance and a more flexile mobi lity of style in the urns and painted vases found in the Etrurian tombs, is attributable not to the Etru rians themselves, but to their Ilellenic contempora ries. Many of the reasons given by the reviewer fur arriving at this conclusion are undoubtedly ingenious. Yet, in defiance of their ingenuity, we are satisfied that he will find very few indeed who will entirely coincide with him in opinion. We are not ashamed to acknowledge ourselves to be on this point some thing more than sceptical. In the course of this very agreeable and classic contribution one striking blunder occurs, which could only have slipped in through inadvertence. Quoting a famous passage from Propertius, in which the poet delineates the aspect of Veii, the reviewer observes of the lines that " they so accurately apply to its pre sent position." Now two of the verses are— " Nunc intra muros pastoris buccina lenti Cantat et in vestris ossibus arva metunt." The writer in the Edinburgh himself declares that the walls of Veii have long since disappeared—and yet, almost in the same breath, he insists that the description of the ruined city as given by Propertius "so accurately applies to its present condition." At length one of the quarterlies has noticed that splendid epic by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, which on its first publication was hailed with such genuine and spontaneous admiration. The criticism on " King Arthur," in the Edinburgh, is conceived, in a ge nerous and manly spirit—apart from all conven tional rules and predilections, and wholly without a tinge of any splenetic sentiment having the smallest or faintest approximation to jealousy. [he outset is honest and cordial—it is this :—"Avery remarkable poem, written by a man of celebrity and genius, cannot well be overlooked in the chronicles of literature." While, however, the strain is genial enough, the mode of analysis appears to us to be par ticularly harsh and uncongenial. Before many para graphs are perused the commentator becomes some what tedious and irksome. We feel that we could profitably dispense with his eternal periphrases and his everlasting circumlocution. It is a miracle to us how so dry a comment could possibly have been penned on so noble and engaging an original. Scarcely a dozen quotations are made by the re viewer, and none of them selected so as to display to advantagehumou histhe varied path excellences os,hissweetnes o s, f e t l h e e minstrel—his g an ce, dignity, and sublimity. Here and there a happy passage of his hands over the chords is particularised discrimi natively, as where it is remarked that the identifica tion of the dove and Genevieve is "a singularly fine poetic thought." Altogether the Edinburgh pro nounces " King Arthur" to be " a work designed in a lofty spirit, and executed with a fine sense of the noblest functions of poetry." Further on the writer expresses himself thus emphatically : " In looking back on the manner in which we have introduced this elaborate poem to our readers, we find that we have, almost unconsciously, handled it as if it had been a work which had already been acknowledged as worthy of a permanent place in literature, and the study of - which ive desired - merely to recommend and facilitate. A mode of treatment like this implies a high estimate of the value of the work; and such an estimate we have no hesitation in expressing. The author is, we think, right in believing this to be the least perish able monument of his genius. Not only do we confi dently pronounce it to be the most vigorous and original poem that has lately appeared among us; but, while feeling the uncertainty of all critical vaticiaations, we regard it as not only worthy, but likely, to take its place among those fine though not faultless performances, which will hereafter represent the poetical literature of England in the first half of the nineteenth century" We are gratified to observe that the deliberate esti mate of the .Edinlnirgh Review in regard to the merits of this splendid production are entirely coin cident with the opinions expressed by ourselves im mediately after its publication. Equally rejoiced are we to find that our views in reference to Hungary are in no essential particular different from those now avouched by our distinguished quarterly contem porary. In the politico-historical article on " Austria and Hungary," the wrongs suffered by the latter glorious country from the perfidy, faithlessness, tyranny, and ultimate invasion perpetrated on it by the former, are clearly and explicitly unfolded, and that too in a comparatively brief but admirably se quential narrative. It is asserted at the very outset that " the first and most prevalent error is that of regarding Hungary as a province of Austria." Only a day or two since in our leading columns we quoted from this able paper the felicitous expression, that " the pedigree of the immunities of the Hungarians during the long space of three centuries (1526-1848) continued unimpaired." Upon one point we cannot at all agree with our con temporary, namely, where he declares that the late successes of the Magyars " are not more owing to their own valour than to the returning decrepitude of the Viennese war-office." In this the reviewer greatly overrates the abilities of Latour•-•that Minister by his career in administration having never done enough to deserve any such encomium. Remarking upon the noble and even chivalrous disposition of the Hungarians, it is truly said of them that, " On the approach of foreign invasion they were as devoted to the Kaiser as the cavaliers to Charles Stuart, in asserting their rights they: were as keen vigilant and unflinching as Pyna, Hampden, and Somers." In one sentence it is shown very clearly that the Magyars have long before this, and frequently, evinced their determination not to submit to oppres sion, the people having risen, indeed, five times in the course of a single century (1606-1711) in de fence of their constitution. In another paragraph it is explained, beyond all contradiction, that Francis Joseph is neither de jure nor de facto King of Hungary, but that he is positively, in the language of the Hun garian law, " a foreigner." As to the charge that the present rising of the Magyars in defence of their independence is sudden and unconstitutional, it is finally and forcefully replied : " Tho reforms of 1818 may have been imperative in their tone • but the results of sixty years' endurance can scarcely be termed ridden ; nor the assertion of rights b —sanctioned for centuries, and as often invaded — be justly designated as unseasonable or un cons h titut o to n t. at " We believe," says the Edinburgh turt re e a r n its ancestral rights sympathy But with a H bo u v n e ga a r l y l, w is e r a a r pi e dlyttP confident that overh e spectacle of a and enlarged liberties, must be deeply interesting Stuarts in to that nation which con people defendingtended against the take it, is a very powerful and not we This,l6 , lo and threw off the ir y oke in 1688. irrational encouragement to our own continued argu ments., respecting the sympathy of Englishmen for the Hungarians. When we remember that Hungary contains an area of no less than 110,000 English square miles, with a population of at least 14,000,000, I it is sufficiently clear that such a territory and such a population cannot be very readily subjugated, especially when it is notorious that the country is, as the reviewer observes, "adapted to every species of warfare from the guerilla to the dense battalion.' The devotion of the people and the genius of their leaders are warmly and deservedly eulogised. Alto gether the article is penned in a wise and generous spirit, and deserves a very wide and very attentive perusal. The number terminates with a criticism on Macaulay's magnificent " History of England." Nor does it need our assurance that the tone of the Edinburgh is other than eulogistic. To act otherwise would have been impossible, not only from taking into consideration the masterly eloquence of the production itself, but the relation in which the organ stands in regard to its distinguished author. One of the most illustrious of its intellectual children, Macaulay could not be regarded otherwise than with peculiar complacency by the Edinburgh. Upon one of the cardinal merits of the history the re viewer speaks as follows : " He (Mr. Macaulay) is the first who has succeeded in giving to the realities of history (which is generally supposed to demand and require a certain austerity of style) the lightness, variety, and attraction of a work designed only to amuse. All historians we have ever read —not excepting Gibbon and Hume, and including all others in our language—are open to this remark. To read them is a study, an effort of the in tellect—well repaid indeed by the result, but still necessarily intent and laborious. Mr. Macaulay has, with an instinctive sense, both of truth and of the power to realise it, perceived that a true story may be, and should be, as agreeably told as a ficti tious one; that the incidents of real life, whether poli tical or domestic, admit of being so arranged as, without detriment to accuracy, to command all the interest of an artificial series of facts; that the chain of circumstances which constitutes history may be as finely and gracefully woven as in any tale of fancy, and be as much more in teresting as the human countenance, with all its glowing reality of life, and structure, and breathing beauty, excels the m os t enc h ant i ng portrait that ever passed from the pencil of Kneller or of Lawrence." And reverting subsequently to th e s i ngu l ar attrac tions of the historian's style, it is emphatically (we opine rather too emphatically) remarked, that " Mr. Macaulay's tediousness, if it can be so called, is less fatiguing than the liveliness of most other writers." After speaking very happily of Cromwell as one " who ruled with a just, though an iron rod," the critic has a sarcastic but well tempered sneer at the financial reformers. It may be found about the middle of page 269. One allusion made to the reign of the good Queen Victoria is so strikingly just and beautiful that we make no apology for its quotation : " Although this spirit of jealousy (the reviewer is speaking of the constitutional jealousy of the preroga tive) has, since the revolution, been dormant at intervals, it has always been ready to be aroused from its lethargy, and has never been aroused in vain; till, at last, the practical as well as the abstract limits of the prerogative have been so securely and precisely fixed, that under the reign of one who wears her constitutional crown with ao much true knowledge of the laws, and love of the people of her country, whose virtues have given the throne a stability, and whose accomplishments have shed over it a grace it never, in the best of former days, could boast, we may safely hope that this long contest, the hottest fire of which it has been our author's task to record, is at last sinking in its embers." In the course of an excoriating flagellation ad ministered to the anonymous assailant of Mr. Macaulay in the Quarterly, the Edinburgh quotes the witty remark made upon it, that " the writer of it, in attempting murder, had committed suicide." The exposure of the ignorance of the writer of that article in the Quarterly is altogether frightful; and yet (to an indifferent spectator like ourselves), amusing withal, eminently amusing. Due and eulogisie mention is made of the scholarly and generous hearted review of Macaulay's history, penned by Archibald Alison, in Blackwood's Magazine. After our foregoing analysis of the contents it is unneces• sary to say that the Edinburgh, for the July quarter, displays more than usual ability. FINE ARTS. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. As the last of the popular series of sporting prints known as " Moore's Celebrated Winners," the Flying Dutchman is, of course, above all others, the most attractive. Nor is the engraving as a work of art unentitled to a large share of approbation. Painted by T. W. Hillyard, it has been excellently copied by the graver of C. N. Smith, and coloured " to the life." The renowned winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom, 1849 ; the property of the Earl of Eglinton ; valued at 6,320/. ; by Bay Middleton, out of Barbelle, dam also to Van Tromp; trained by J. Fobert ; ridden by Charles Marlow—looks a brother in blood to his more celebrated predecessors, Harkaway, Eclipse, and Flying Childers. PORTRAIT of 111ADEMOISELLE ALBONI. A graceful little memento of this admirable song stress has just been issued from tho photographic es tablishment of M. Claudet—being a clever profile sketch in lithography by W. Bosley from an original Daguerreotype. MR. OT WAY'S LECTURES ON SIIAKSPEItE. All our actors are loud in their complaints of the neglect of Shakspere, and of the national drama, by the aristocracy and upper classes, but none of them appear to have adopted means so effectual to remedy the evil as Mr. Otway. He has undertaken the gigantic task of creating a taste for Shakspere among the aristocracy, by delivering lectures on his plays at the various public schools at which the elite of the aristocracy and gentry of Great Britain receive their education. This certainly is the most effectual method that could be adopted for attaining the de sired end. To what are we to attribute the present rage for foreign plays and operas, but to the fact that the greater number of the existing aristocracy have re ceived their real education on the continent ? Trans ferred from Eton and Harrow, from Oxford and Cambridge (where no English dramatic per formances are allowed), at once to Paris, or Milan, or Vienna, their first acquaintance with the drama has been in a foreign language, their dramatic taste is formed on foreign models, and they, as a natural consequence, prefer the foreign to the English drama. By his lectures, however, which he has delivered at the principal schools and colleges in the kingdom, and which have been every where received both by Principals and Pupils with the most enthusiastic delight, as the numerous testimonials which Mr. Otway has received bear witness, he has indoctrinated the minds of our young aristocracy with a National and Shaksperian taste before they have been exposed to the meretricious fascinations of the continental theatres, and thus is preparing a store of future patrons for our national drama. In this good work he has been most successful. An excellent actor, a sound critic, a ripe scholar, and a polished gentleman, Mr. Otway seems by nature designed for the enterprize he has undertaken. _~,..~.. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The doors of Old Drury were opened last night for the benefit of Mr. Kenney, the author of Sweethearts and Wives and many other successful pieces, The en tertainments, which were of a very attractive nature, ed and supported by the elite of the pr o f essi co n m w en hi c ch with the popular vaudeville of A Curios Case, Mr. C. Mathews sustained his original part of Mr. Twiggleton in his usual clever manner. Gay's Beggar's Opera followed, the cast of which was immensely strong; it comprehended the name of Mr. Sims Reeves (who appeared last night fur the first time as the gallant Captain Macheath), Mr. Webster, Mr. F. Matthews, Madame Vestris, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Miss J. Coleman, and Mrs. Tayleure. To particularise the performance of the Beggar's Opera, supported as above, would in deed be a work of supererogation; suffice it to say that Mr. Sims Reeves was as successful as his most ardent admirers could have wished. A concert followed, in which the Lablaches, Gardoni, Ernst, Mille. Corbari, and several other most talented artistes took part. The evening's entertainments concluded with Mr. Kenney's farce of Love, Law, and Pkysic, in which Mr. Wright, Mr. IL Roll, and Miss Woolgar appeared. The even ing's performance, which was under the patronage of the Queen and Prince Albert, was eminently successful. And now we have to announce, with deep regret, the demise of Mr. Kenney, who expired early yesterday morning. Well may we exclaim— Alas! poor Kenney! Mr. Kenney's first farce was produced in 1803, and the most celebrated of his pieces are full forty years old, but his name is still fresh in the memory of the theatrical public of London. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Yesterday the re hearsal presented to,us once more Bossini's chef dauvre, Otello. Revived, after so many years' neglect, it re appears with all the charms of novelty, and its pure melodic richness and its distinct lyrical elaboration, and returns to us with all the freshness of the brightest days of musical inspiration. In this opera Madame Sontsg finds a heroic part adequate to her genius; and how ever high was the opinion wo previously ent2rtained,,her dramatic rendering of " So . il padre m'abandona,'' and her pathetic sing in g of " ombra d'un salice," con veyed to us the full reach ci her lyrical gifts. She is admirably supported by Moriani, Belletti, Calaolari, and Lablache. A LAD DROWNED AT WATERLOO -BRIDGE.—Last n i g ht a lad about ten yews of ao.e named John L ea d er , w hose parents are poor people residing in New Church court, Strand, went with some older lads to bathe in the Thames, near Waterloo -bridge, on the u pp er Middl esex side, but havin g b een wash e d into the curren t, disap peared. Ti s d a l e , a waterman at the pier, put off from the shore to save the deceased, but he sunk in deep water, and before b roug h t to the surface by the drags life wee extinct. Notice has been sent to Mr. Riggs, the coroner, for an inquest. Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to etrangle the child, the child will not rest till it has poisoned (lie Parent.—Zi" Cooke Journal. THE NEW JUDGE. The announcement that the le:deroftheOxford cir cult, Mr. Sergeant T a lf our d, h a d b een appo i nte d to t h e ' vacant judgeship, created a feeling of satisfaction I amongst th e b ar w hi c h i t wou ld b e i mposs ib le to descr ib e. From th e new leader to the junior there was not a single i member wh o di d not seem to rejoice as if the promotion his o f th h e e arr. We Learned h r hadat e b e e en othertheleaner uppermost was everwis h s o o f b tr r u e l t y hr l e o n. ved, A a l d i m l oivreedd , himandf respected his g genuine i h ee i s eed e professionaless of heart and kindness o f manner. Lie never said g an unkind or ungenerous thing of or to anybody. Even to a witness he could not have retorted unkindly Or harshly; and so never had recourse to what is commonlycalled the brow beating system. He so overflo we d w i th the milk of human kindness that even if he would he could not do such a thing. He was admired for his thorough knowledge of his profession (for that he possessed beyond all doubt, notwithstanding the common cant of plodding dolts that genius is unfit for drudgery), for his general literary acquirements, ready fancy, and great eloquence, and was respected for his honesty, purity of thought, love of justice , and, in short, all those cognate qualities that contribute to com pose the character of an advocate of the highest order, his freedom from and dislike of those characteristics which would have qualified him for doing the general business of such great city firms as that of " Quirk, Gammon, and Snap." In fact, it was well known at the bar (and these things may be mentioned now, as he is beyond the reach of attorneys), that the slightest suspicion that his case had a tincture of fraud or dishonesty rendered his advocacy less efficient than his clients expected, and adversaries frequently took advantage of this failing, whieh, like all his others, " leaned to virtue's side." By the juniors he was deservedly looked upon as the model of a circuit leader. We should be disposed to enter into an enume ration of the qualities which so endeared him to them, but that we really fear any attempt of the kind would bo regarded as inadequate to his merits. One peculiarity of his advocacy ought to be mentioned, as it was tho common topic of observation with all the circuit bar, that whatever subject he handled, no matter how dull, dry, or insipid it was, he invested it with singular grace, charm, and interest. W e recor d th ese o pi n i o ns of his circuit brethren respecting him as facts which cannot be devoid of interest to the public at the present moment. The Learned Gentleman having received official notice at Stafford, on Tuesday, of his appointment, immediately returned all his briefs except one, which was in a spe cial-jury cause that had been part heard. He addressed the jury for the defendant, and then, confiding the management of the evidence to his juniors, left the court, all the bar rising en masse on his retirement. The verdict was for his client.—Herald. HAMB U.R.GH FUNDS. LIABIBURGII FUNDS, JULY 17. Bills. Money. Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent.' 105 105 Ditto, 3% per Cent. Prussian 5 per Cent.......... 102 Russian Certificate •• .• •• •• •• •• 9.5% Anglo-Russian Loan ••• • • • •••• • • • • 102 Hamburgh Certificate, 5 per Cent — Russian 4 per Cent......... •• ...• 34 and 4th Series, Hope and Co. Ditto Sticglitz • • .• .• •• . • • • 62% Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent.. ••••• • . • • • -- Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent •. • 67 Ditto,s per cent. ...........• 92 Anglo-Swodish Loan .. • • .... . . Ditto, Transport Loan — Norwegian •• Loan, 1848 .• • • • • •.. 99N Spanish New 5 per Cent .• •• • • • • 11 1 4 Ditto, 3 per Cents. .. • • •• • • 25% East India Loan, 4 per Cent ...• ••• • • • Ditto, 1846.. • ..... ••..•••• • • • • • • • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent.. Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. •.• .• Ditto 3 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • National Bank Shares ••••••• • • • • • • • American, 6 per Cent. • • • .. • • • • 109% RAILWAYS. Ilamb. B ergd. • • • • • • Ditto, Priority Shares •• • • . Berlin and Hamburg ••• • • ...... • 71% Ditto, Priority Shares .. Cologne and Minden .. ••..• • •• ••• • • 88N Ditto, Priority Shares .. •••• • • • Mecklenburg.. ...... • Altona and Kiel ..... • ..... Gluckstadt .............. •••• • • • • Rend5burg.............. •• • • ••• • • • 110 Hanseatic Steam Company ...... 80i 102% 95 101% 90,i 82% 66;G 9114 98 101 REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.—BOSTON, JULY' 25. —Last evening a meeting of the freemen and electors of Boston was held at the theatre for the purpose of hear ing from Mr. D. W. Wire, one of the candidates for the representation of the borough, a declaration of his political principles. Mr. Wire, on presenting himself to the meeting, was greeted with loud applause. He said he had been induced to become a candidate at the re quest of a large number of the most infuential electors. The political opinions he held were not mere names, but principles, neither to be changed fcr the convenience of parties, nor compromised to suit the purposes of fac tion. He believed that the stability of England's insti tutions was based upon their devotion to the people, for whom they were designed. He was an advocate for such an extension of the suffrage as would make the counsels of the nation the true reflex and voice of public opinion, and for such a se curity for the independence of electors as the ballot could alone effect. The application of the economical doctrine of free trade to our industry and commerce rendered it essential to our capacity for sus taining a mercantile competition with highly taxed nations that our burdens should be equalised, and re duced to the low e-t amount which was compatible with the efil iency of the public service. He would, there fore, if elected, vigilantly guard the issues of the Ex chequer, enforce a wise economy, and every practicable retrenchment. He would strenuously contend for order at horn , and peace abroad. He held that religious opi nions should form no test of civil qualification er politi cal exclusion, and he would support the rights of all sects irrespective of creed. While he was desirous of improving the laws which regulate the relief of the poor, he was of opinion that it was essential to remove the causes of pauperism by the encouragement of industry, and the removal of all obstructions to the free develop ment of commerce. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, and a resolution, acknowledging Mr. Wire's claims, and pledging the meeting to support him in the forthcoming contest, was agreed to. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a distin guished circle to dinner on Tuesday, at the Noble and Learned Lord's residence in Grafton -street. The Noble Lord and Lady leave town next week for Broug ham THE COTTON CROP OF 1849.—As much impor tance is attached to the growing crop of American cot ton in the present buoyant state of the cotton market, we have much pleasure in stating that, from private in formation received by the last packet, there are good grounds for anticipating something more than a fair average yield. It is true that many of the newspapers in the southern states speak in very desponding terms re garding the new crop, but that is easily accounted for, without supposing that the plant has sustained any ma terial injury. The following statement on the subject is from a gentleman who has excellent means of acquiring information, and who has no interest in misrepresenting the real state of affairs. In a letter, dated July 3, he says, " We saw yesterday a large cotton-dealer who has just returned from New Orleans, passing through the cotton-growing country. The cotton plant never ap-• reared better, being very strong and healthy, and only about ten days behind the usual time. If the frost should be late, the crop will be very large. It now de pends entirely on the time the cold begins in the autumn. It appears, then, that the main depenence of those who calculate upon being able to maintain a speculative ad vance in cotton lies in the chance of au early winter in the cotton-growing states. Under these circumstances, and taking into account the large stocks in this country, the spinners in this district will scarcely be induced to purchase very largely beyond their pres e nt rate of con sumption.—Manchester Erandner and Times. LEWES WooL Fain.—The annual Sussex wool fair was held at Lewes after a dinner at the White Hart hotel, at which Sir Henry Shiffner presided, in the absence of the Earl of Chichester, who was at tending tno grand meeting at Norwich of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. With a rising mar ket the sellers expected higher prices than the buyers felt inclined to give ; and the consequence was that little business was transacted. Mr. J. Ellman offered his hogget wool at 15d., and his ewe and wether at 13d. per lb.; 1,500 fleeces half hogget, but oould obtain no purchaser. Mr. Thos. Ellman offered 240 hoggets and 440 ewes at 365. per tod, and after wards at 355. Mr. Legg offered is. a pound, or 325. per tod; but no deal took place. Mr. Colegate offered 120 wether fleeces at 323. lle was offered 30s. ; but no sale was effected. Mr. Cane, of Berwick, offered 800 fleeces, one-fourth hogget, at 335, and sold to Mr. Adams at 325. Mr. Gates, of Steyn ing, obtained the same price for 180 ewes and 140 tegs. The only sale at a higher rate was a small lot of 84 fleeces, one-fourth hogget, belonging to Sir Henry Shiffner, which Mr. Chatfield, of Lewes, purchased ato 121-d. This was the first sale of the day , and astwas_ai h air case at Croydon last week, it w as the highe,t a t f The Countess of Dartmouth is gras soon a duall he ysher reco vering from her late serious s i t y e n n e g a t s b, and as ae Noble Ear Ladhi has regained and Countess and family will go to their seat in Staf fordshire. s vzus a or 1 tCONTRABANDboAon.a:tItm.h, their wnir.,,h commander, in the o tm n hGea A ne c odcreogr.— preventivepO a n re S e Sunday n service,fla anyd night,. abu to ut the Shamrock, in obedience wiwthhitlhstepoartdreorls. f,:gir"es Lieutenant Jeremiah lg e t E ao n h r e Cg d hl guard, ard, near Blue Bell-hill, about half way between Maidstone and Rochester, they fell in with four-wheeloane h orse! ocart, seizingcoveredth with canvass, jumped off the cart, and made horse's h head issses , pe th i e nt d o r : i t v h e e r neighbouring wood, it bei ng very dark at the time. The vehicle was found to contain sixteen bales of tobacco, each weighing 501b5., two empty hogsheads, and two empty ( to g g g et P he a r ck N a V g it e h s. a good The van, horse, the werea rt i t c a l k e e s nit to con tained,Custom-house, a t R oc h ester . The seizure is valued th a e t about 1201. DREADFUL DIURDER.--A convict, named Pearcr, was murdered by four other convicts, in Carrickfergus gaol, on Monday morning. THE WESLEYAN CONFERENCE. MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.— f he election of President took place tc day, when the Rev. Thomas Jackson was chosen. The business of conference is likely to occupy the attention of the assemble _1 preachcrs for the next rortmght. _ 1 3,,,„ 8 .—W - e have seen a THE PARISH OF ST. letter from the Lord Mayor, swing that a number of additional hands were put on yesterdayit is st expected that d al o l ek th , eanodiretnhsaitveinratahtetcourwrirl b o e f t r o em da o y ved. The Turks have a proverb which says that " the devil tempts all other men, but Ow Amy ;Ai„ %, ~„1 4 teuit the d ev il."—,El4 . 4 Coo* Journal! •