The Sun. — London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

TOTAL AtTYPLY AT MA RKET. Il talts. Sheep.l (.7 , ,ivet, 1 T 3 l. 3 ,141 I 29,000 I 232 I °REIGN SUPPLY. Beasts, I Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. 29. 2,160 136 ^ , il though the weather has been unfavourable for the e sinission of Meat to any distance, nearly 400 ml.- 4 of each kind have been received up to these, mar k: from various parts of the country since M,onday to „' . . The supplies on offer killed in the metropolis have w'tlllued moderate. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Lamb. i: e OOramanded a steady sale, at our quotations. Other ?tie the demand has ruled heavy, and, in some instances, e es have given way 2d per Sibs. . At per stone by the Carcase. , tef s. d. toe. d. I e. a. to S d . 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 21 J 3 0 < reddling 2 6 2 8 middling— 3 2 3 6 Primelarge .. 210 3 0 --prime ••.• 3 8 310 0 41 13 rillie small 3 0 3 2 Pork, large .. • • .... 3 2 3 6 -.**• •• •• .... 3 0 3 8 , TT' 3 8 4 0 Lamb. is Bd to 5081. ZaILOUGLI £1.1139 SPXT.LIZPIELDS. bIII S 151. "otwitl anding that the " t3eUSOII" fur old Potatoes now bc considered closed (respecting which we I P! Offer some observations in our next report), sup continue to reach us from the Continent. In r r e Post week we have received 2,900 baskets 140 bags Rotterdam; 16 tons 6 baskets from Antwerp; tbasket s f r o m O s t e nd ; 7 baskets from Havre; and 14 r( : 18 from Lisbon. The total quantity embraces about tolasing new. Scarcely any old Elglish Po ,°eB are on sale, and it is scurewhat diffimilt to quote th l e 's with accuracy. They may, however, be stated to 4 " i i i e. from 80s to 190 s per ton. Foreign Potatoes are I ng from 40s to 90s, at which several parcels have taken by the cow-keepers. BOUGUGA HOP ItZEIMMEMT. l : r ° 01 nearly all quarters our accounts respecting the ip kr vekrance of the bine are very unfavourable. Holders tat% therefore, firm, and will not 5, , 11 except at fully the dol e advance in the quotations. The amount of business ti tl i ng is small, notwithstandin. that the duty is called bi 4 l4 90 ,000/. to 100,0001. The actual appearance of the t o e warrants no such amounts. Sussex pock4ts, 2/ lOs a „ 3l Weald of Kent ditto, 21 15s to 41 4s; Mid 4 Last Kent ditto, 31 10s to 71 10s per cwt. WOOL. Th e total arrival of Wool into London last week li t , e( mfined to 164 bales from Hamburgh. The quail b•74,l3f Wool offering in the private contract m a r ke t is steadmeans large. Really fine qualities command a kind 4 "Y sale, at lull prices. In the middling and inferior of s compiratively little business is doing. The stocks k eiaL° llial Wool in warehouse are about 45,000 bales. Engiish Wools are quoted as follows:—Lons South t o 0 7, ewes and wedders, Sid to 101; tegs, 10id pf u; long Leicester ewes and wedders, with a portion h o ,. cj ggß, 9d to oii; all hoggc, 10d to 11d; half•bred ltd to llid; ditto ewes and wedders, chicfl:, 44°I k) 9d to 10d per lb, TP—LLOW. Alth fr on ough no arrivals of Tallow . took place last weekllll,F any quarter, our market has rulal exceedingly flAt, ( 1,,, Prices have again had a downfvaid tendency. To ii),?P'Y Hula business is passing, and P.Y.O. on the d e ii,' Ls quoted at 38s 6d to 38s per cwt. For forward Tall e rY so little is doing that prices are nominal. Town 2 3 l b w, 37s to 37s 3d per cwt, net cash; Rough Fat, sibs. 1845. kOtk this day •• • —40 s 14'357 1)t104' . Of Y. C. •• • • to 40s 6d v erY • last week: • • gio 'to (nun June 1.• • lvals lalt week • • 1,123 V t° f rorn June 1. • • 2,404 ri ce Of ...... 42s Od 1846. 1847. I 1818. 1849, 9,873 , 7,357 8,540 23,290 42s Od 50s 9d 44s 6d to 38s €d to Os Od to Os Cd 455 Od t 0385 Od 360 953 1,897 1,035 1,114 2,292 3,951 2,3?8 131 1,535 1,821 574 2,050 4,912 42s Od ! 53s Od 47s Od 39s 60 155 `COURT-(THIS DAY., OLD COURT. (More the RECORDER.) S Re 4 , I BB ‘ 4I ILTING WITH INTENT To ROlL—Dennis Murray, ti t ,i, ' 7 , was placed at the bar charged with having as trited a lad named William Lambert, in the employ of to r. watchmaker, ToJley-street, and attempting r o b him It a • the PPeared from the evidence that, on the 12th June, fr o ,f,,uner observed Lambert receive several watches Ili a ; 'ls master to be delivered to his costumers. Upon are /t iling into the street, the prisoner attacked him, pu,, s 4tt empted to rob him, but was unable to effect his th• Jury immediately found the prisoner Guilty, and pris on RECORDER sentenced him to twelve months' im nen with hard labour. lisb 4 , ll ,, ° ss AND MALICIOUS LlDEL.—Jarnei . Winch, pub • th e Barking, was charged with publishing a libel on T i l l at Robert Liddel, vicar of Barking, Essex. ) 4. e Prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. 1 4 , 1 ;• CLARKSON stated the case to the jury; the pro- Vio a ,; (4. r was a clergyman highly connected, and had been ra ue s h ° ' Barking for some years; he had of late been Pubi; a Pnuyed. by some articles contaionl in a penny ; c ation called " Sam Sly," which had bleu exten -0:1Y circelated in Barking. and sold by the prisoner— tie: , Published on the 29th May, concerning the domes te i n the R ev . G ent l eman ' s household was particularly Pret tlsive : and it was upon this the present charge was s erred,, eo:aluel Barford said he was gardener to the prose ,x,„.!! and purcasad two papers trom the prisoner, who eblbited th em h in his shop window; he had no doubt a rtielos were i n t en d e d to apply to his master. th, a niel Watkins, watc h ma k er , Barking, corroborated li evidence o f, th e l ast w i tness . livßobert Lidd e l—H as b een Vi car o f n ar ki ng , an d f a there f or - t h e l ast t hi rteen years w i t h his wile and thtty? r4 II Y. Re sent his gardener to purchase the papers at thQ Prisone; there was not a shadow of truth in sr. rho ticle in ci r's shop tiestion iury found the prisoner Guilty. fir. iiLaRKSON by de:ire of the prosecutor recom mended the prisoner to mercy, as his wish was not so match punish as to put a stop to the publication. Br RECORDER observing that it was a very dis- Laeful case, sentenced the prisoner to six months' ina.• °llment. beThree men, name d Caffyn, Tredgold, and Cranch, aded guilty to an indictment charging them with apufr t h a publishers of the same paper. Tiedguld being 0{) a PPrentice Cutryn's, was liberated on his own re- sentenced to receive sentence when called upon; Calf) n f s entenced to pay a fine of lot, alai to be imprisoned ur 6 months; wid Cranch to be imprisoned for 6 months. CRICKET.-(THIS DAY.) 84 COUNTY OF SURREY, WITH HILLYER , r , " . AND BOX, AGAINST ENGLAND. ve ? match commenced this morning at L )rd's. It is r ou , r ,) interesti ng match, and, no doubt, will be nume -o,o4:eYkattended. The following is the score up to iwo karth, SURRLY—FIEST LNNINGS. troo, g tll— st Chatterton, b Wisden 4 41 " ell — e Esrom, b Lillywhite •k_Yer--b Dean • • 'ere::-euot out ••• ••• •• 4‘ 1....1M out ... Byes, 4 ;w, 0 ; n b, 0 Total ... . 9 . 57 12 . 0 . 0 . 4 Aliso IJo o " 1- zi FROM DROWNING BY A NEWFOUNDLAND ow Wednesday week, two young men from f or s Theatre, in Ch a dwick Orchard. had hired a boat , t urti %silort excursion on the river Ribble. On their re lark; ‘ 4 3 , commenced the dangerous practice of " sky of when suddenly one of them fell backwards out Pe r i," boat, and immediately sunk. Fortunately, a th e ./ on the shore perceived the accident, and almost at Isi e l'ae moment when hearing the plunge, a powerful th e 8 °Lindland dog sprung into the river, and reached r_ se Pot j ust as the body rose. On the cap of the man nting it se lf to view, it was seized by the dog, but lee 7 l oosely tied it gave way, and the body sunk a hi s 91 time. The dog, howev er , fi n di ng b e had missed " t) , object, aband one d th e ca p, and barking furiously,re tned • • h e arlti l ti n time to seize the drowning man by the arm as rose to the surface. This hold he cautiously "I.l._'n.qutshed, and the collar of the young man's coat was with him, grasped in the dog's powerful jaws, who swam v ll l him, keeping his heed above water till he re ached "e shore. Atr. - Samuel Wild had by this time gone in t o the poor fellow's assistance, but the dog was before 1,7 14 , otherwise he would have inevitably been drowned. •",,e was carried to the nearest public-house, when it was thought life was extinct, but upoa the usuel restoratives ratio n . e'ng resorted to, he began to show symptoms of reani- T ali CLERGY OF CANTON.—In Canton there are one hundred and twenty-three temples, dedicated and e "seerated to the three heathen s e cts , na mely , Taou , li ---ucl( lb, and Ju-kea-sta or Confucius ; to these various tinges belong about 2,000 priests, and 1,000 nuns, re are m a i n t a i ne d out of the funds apperta ini ng to the : e ra' places of worship, the revenues of which ari:e from Z, t es, and money testowed hy the Emperor, and wealthy l e viduals for the maintenauce of these temples of sin And vice. The priests and nuns are a vile, dissolute, c, r f ufli gste, illiterate set, the former frequently seeking th;; I g o in a temple, and becoming priests to avoid paying Penalty of theft or murder; whilst ot hers will ern if,„pr bracei, the prie s tly profession, having no othe r means of e ;,„, tu°o d. and from being too l az y to work. The rpriests, set aside for the maintena nce of temples, and nuns in Canton, exceeds 108,3351. —China and the Chines e.Gothi Gothic exemplars multiply apace, and architects are entured a sate road, though it be a low one, and are ,r.ed the trouble of thinking. Soon there will be no thing left to draw but the nail-holes, and this will pro , 4 ° 1 3 7 be done, so that the mediaeval disposition of these ma y te _ be rigorously followed. Ragardt das evidences of .;-!c spirit in which the Gothic architects proceeded, and illustrations of the principles which guided them,—as m aterials of for us to work with, and suggestions by means which we may proceed onwards, these illustrations are of great value ; but if used only for the purpose of servile imitation, as is too much the case, so far from - ad. vaneing architecture amongst us, they will necessarily tend to stay its progress. Nothing great in art can be _done without progressive efforts; retrogression, except so far as may be necessary to get out of a wrong road into the right one, is not the way for ward.—Builder. A CHINESE Hoc ARTH.—Upon closely examining these drawings, their manifold beauties became more and more apparent,and the opium smoker's progress would not disgrace Hogarth, either for conception or handling; this series is painfully correct in all its details, as those who have watched the career of art opium devetec can testify; the accuracy and fidelity observed by Chinese artistsgene rally, contrasts strangely, and at times amusingly, with the a # l attempts made by our own artists, to represent Chinese customs and manners. Lutn-qua pointed out these ex traordinary discrepancies in an English work, saying, " Suppose Englis man no plenty know why for talk lie pigeon all some dat ; me tinh he plenty footo: Chinaman no all some foolo, what see can do, what no see no can do;" and in these sentiments we coincide with Lum • qua, the Sir Thomas Lawrence and the Jlogarth of Uhina.—China and the Chinese. F ,1, 4 11" THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN SOIREE.' The second soirée took plsee at the Hanover-square Rooms, on Saturday eta ring, end was very numerously and irilluentielly attended by paeties intelested in the Australian colonies. Amongst thoee-present were—Wm. Hutt, M.P., in the chair; Laid Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord A. Lennox, Sir E. Belcher, Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir J. Carmichael, James Matheson, Eq., M.P.; 11. A. Aglionby, Esq., M.P.; R. M. Milnes, M.P.; C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P.; A. Godly, Req., M.P. • ' E. Divett, Eq., M.P.; J. Anderson, Esq., M.P.; Mark Boyd, Esq., J. Simeon,Esq., M.P.; E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., &c. Sic., and about 300 ladies and gentlemen. The speeches were of considerable interest as regards the Australian colonies, but the address that had imme diate reference to emigration was that of Mr. Mark Boyd, in introducing whom Mr. HUTT said, it afforded him much gratification to call upon his friend Mr. Mark Boyd, a gentleman who must be well known to-them from his extensive connexion with our Australian colonies, and his philanthropic and iefiaential exertions in the cause of emigration. To Mr. Bob d were those colonies deeply indebted as their steady friend and suppot ter, and he regarded his presence tht re that evening with the more pleasure, as giving additional interest to their proceedings. Mr. Mans. BOYD said—After the eloquent speeches we have heard, eseecially that of the Right Honourable Member for the University of Oxford, I confess that I feel some hesitation in addressing this meeting, but being called upon by you, sir, the tried friend to colon!. attion, and v. hose name is identified in grateful teenem brance with our Australian colonies, I shall best show my appreciation of the compliment paid me, by tres passing very briefly on your patience. I had the plea sure of attending the South Australian Soiree last year, and heard your lucid opinions on the important national objects for which we are again met, and although I then looked forward to similar successful reunions, I acknow ledge that, notwithstanding the indefatigable exertions of Mr. Ridgway, the warn friend of our colonies, I did not anticipate the brilliant assembly of to-night. I can only account for my name being brought forward on this occaeion, from having been associated with some friends in the formation of the Colonization Society, who have laboured asiiiuously and anxiously in disseminating in formation, and affording assistance, as far as in our power, to those anxious to serve in our colonies. It would be ungrateful were I to omit ackiiossledging, on this or any other occasion, how much the success of the society is attributable to the powerful assistance ren dered it by the public press of this country, whose columns were liberally devoted to copious accounts of its proceedings, as well as to able commentaries in advocacy of its objects. In the presence of the ladies I may mention that amongst the most gratifying results of the labours of the society have been the formation of kindred asso ciations of ladies in different parts of the country—a measure first originated and matured by my friend and colleague in the Colonization Society, Mr. Logan, from New South Wales, and for which it is but fair to sae we are deeply indebted to that gentleman. I need scarcely point out in this meeting the advantages of such societies, many of the duties devolving on which are without the scope of any committee of gentlemen. For to whom can the poor aed timid female better resort for guidance and assistance in taking such a step, which is always met with more or less difficulty, than to those of her own sex, who can best understand her wants and best employ their sympathies in relieving them? The first of cheap associations was formed at Brighton, where Mr. John Chapman, in that spirit of philanthropy for which he is so distinguished, carried out Mr. Logan's sug gestions, and assembled a committee of ladies, whose services have been beyond all praise in the cause of fe male emigration. It is quite remarkable now to watch the increasing interest in our Australian colonies. In look ing at the " Post-office Shipping L'st," I observe the eumber of vessels fitting out for different distant ports from London to be eighty-seven, of which forty are for our Australian colonies. With pride I state that the shipowners have entered into this measure of emigration in a very liberal spirit, no sordid feeling being shown in carrying out this great national undertaking. The ships are uni formly of the best description, well found and ably commanded, and every readiness maniMeted to fulfil to the letter the intruetions of the Colonial-office and the Commissioners of Emigration. In confirmation of this I may men ion thet, during the twenty months which have elapsed since this active emigration to Aus tralia, commenced, no emigrant ship bound to our Aus tralian culoniee from Great Britain, that we have heard uf, has met with an accident. Ido not, lam sure, re quire to inform the ladies in this new era, when they e, me forward to assist us in so important a national question, that in promoting emigration, and relieving tee distressed at home, they are aiding our commerce by creating a body of most valuable customers for British :manul'actures, as well as attached friends for British connexion, who will be the means of increasing the production of the staples on which our manufac turers depend, and further drawing forth those great mineral treasures which have already constituted so much of the prosperity of South Australia, and indica tions of which are daily presenting themselves in other of the Australian colonies. Nothing so clearly proves the va:t &id there is for the- absorption 'or the surplus labour of England in Australia, and the illimitable extent of her undeveloped re sources, than to find that hitherto, with all the emigration, wages in the colony have as yet but very slightly declined. The ladies will ba sur prised and distressed to learn that, from want of popula tion in New South Wales to cotiuni..! the food of that bounteous laud, not less than 786,000 sheep and cattle were slaughtered in one year for the tallow alone. 'This is a sad reflection when we see the distress that prevails in the mother country, and know that crime in many Instances is committed to gain acituittaLco to our prisons, where food is more bountifully supplied th,lit in our poor-houses. I hail a kiter last weelttrom a magistrate of Yorkshire who takes much interest in the question of em:gratiou, in which he mentions that he hart sent five persons to prison on a charge of incendiarism who had committed the offence to get into prison. What a diffe rent result hail these deluded people emigrated! I beg to offer my apology, especially atter my promise to be brief; for occupying so much of your time; and in agaln thank ing you for the honour you have done me in connecting my name with the cause of emigration, I have only to state that my friends and nayi,ell, in prunatitig this question, have felt it as a duty to the mother country, at ale same time laying the foundation of great and lasting peosperity for her colonies. The company sepaiated at half-past eleven o'clock. TO THE SECRETARY Ot iiETROI'OLITAN REFOR'tI ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 13th the House was engagui on the County Rates and Expenditure Bill; which being a subject connected 'with powerful interests, was discussed inch by inch, till the process came to a natural death by the arrival of six of the clock, when according to rule the Speaker adjourned the House. The question therefore stands as well as ever, for a second crop of prolonged argumentation. On 'Thursday on the motion for agreeing to Supply, the question of the Assent to the Canadian Bill was brought fbrward in .the shape of an amendment. The circumstances are most important. It will be in the recollection of all except the very young, that twelve years ago there was a resistance to the British Government in Canada. Whence it arose and how far it was justifiable, or at all events what was said on these points by different parties in the Home of Commons rind elsewhere, it is perhaps better to refer to the same kind of recoilection, than to invite dispute in quarters where it may now be desirable to find accord. The resistance was unsuccessful ; and now the Canadians, acting through the majority of their legal representatives, have come to the exceedingly wise and praiseworthy decision, to bury the hatchet of these ancient animosities, and in aid of this to sub-_ scribe out of their own revenues a sum to be applied to the relief of sufferings arising on all sides out of the transactions of the past. On which stands up the party in Canada, which, like one here, arrogates to itself the title of loyal, and though a minority not only in the general representation of Canada but in the portion of it which would be made by counting exclusively their own countrymen, demands that the relief shall be given only to one side, which of course is their own, and burns the Parliament House in Montreal by way - of demonstrating the justice of their claim. A Tory rebellion in fact is going on in Canada, to resist the effort of the Legislature for the relief of a rebellion caused by Tories. Such is the case in Canada, and in England the corresponding chord vibrates, as in the two harps which asto nished the virtuosi of antiquity. Solemn motions must be made, with the effect of leaving nothing un said which can encourage "the roaring boys, On t'other side th' Atlantic," and show them that if they have burned one House of Parliament, they are backed in another. The Prdne Minister debouched with a concentrated energy which might recal the remark in France on a leading sovereign of the last century—" Then he is well screwed, be has a spring in Lim that is irre sistible." The debate after this was little more than words ; and was adjourned till next day, in order that words might he increased. The idea seemed to have got abroad, that a section which often votes with Ministers was absent ; and each side of the House for some time appeared to he manoeuvring to induce the other to call for the adjournment. On Friday the debate was continued to a late hour, without any marked results except another powerful reply from the Prime Minister, followed by the very convincing division in his favour, of 291 against 150. You will perhaps ask me bow it is, that I who was one of the very small band that stood by the Mem ber for Sheffield in what was designated from the Conservative benches on this night as " the defence of his clients the Canadian rebels," should be the one man whose name does not appear in the debate. I am quite conscious that the same question will he made in other places, with possibly the addi tion of requesting - to be informed by which of the three cardinal defects of mind or character it was that this came about, or what might be the sop or gift which effected so marked and peculiar a holding of the peace. The answer is brief; I rose four times. As a military man must take in his hand not only his life but his reputation, and make up his mind to the danger that one like the other may by fortuitous circumstances be utterly shattered and destroyed ; so a man in the House of Commons, who does not hold the position of one of the recognised babblers and brawlers, must cultivate no squeamishness as to the effect which may be pro. duce(' by his not being &lowed to be heard. If, to quote a saying of the Member for Sheffield, he was " in an agony about a tax'd cart," he would be listened to with reverential attention to any assignable .extent. But if he is not concerned with tax'd carts, he must take the chance of meeting . all inquirers with the de fence, that he rose four times. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN 'OLD REFORMER. London, June 18, 1849. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ROBBING A LUNATIC. At the Central Criminal Court on Saturday, Charles Simpkin and Henry Bond were indicted for a robbery, under the following singular circu msteacee:— The prosecutor was a person named Manuel De Sa Pemantel, a Portuguese, who Lad been for many years in the service of a well known London banker, and by his industry and thrifty can duct had acquired a small indepeadeecy. Unfortunately he wes afflicted witn an aberration of intellect, which rendered it necessary thrit he should become un inmate of Bethlehem iloipitzkl, but, under judicious treatment there, he recovered his reanon and was removed in February last, ostensibly for the purpose of his wife testing whether his cure was permanent, but in reality for the purpose of getting his dividends at the Bank of England, as there was se instrument executed by which any other person could receive tham. A man of the name of Turner was em p!oyed as attendant to Mr. Pemantel, and they went to the Bank together, and received two dividend warrants, one of which Pemantel got cashed, d the other he took home with the cash. His wife had been in the habit of consulting Simpkiu on different matters, and as soon as the money was received, there was a diTosition to get the husband beck to Bethlehem, on the ground that he was again becoming in‘_•ane. Simplrin took the neces sary steps for this, and at his suggestion the assistance of the prisoner Bond, and one B >yd was procured. Mrs. Peinautel heard Sitopk.n say that Turner had done for them by splitting, and telling his mother that they meant to rob Pemantel, and consequently she was on the alert. On the morning when her husband was to be removed to Bethlehem the prisoners and three others wont to Pemantel's house, arid Bond, who was a kind of amateur lawyer, told Pemantel that he had a written authority to remove him back to Bethlehem, and to take possessi o n of all his money, and showing him a straitwaisteoat, thrca'ened to put it on him it he did not instantly give hi., m , vie) , over. Under this threat he did so, and the prisoners then walked off, abusing Mrs. Pemantel shamefully, when she requested them to restore the money. As they r, fu•ed to do so, the police were called into requisition, and it was then • discovered that Bond had appr,,priated the note to his own purposes by paying is as a depo,it on the purcha'e of an interest in some property he had been negotiating for jointly with Simpkin. These facts coming to the knowledge of the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society (upon which some high eulogiums were pronounced in court), they thought it one of such public interest that they came forward and prosecuted. • Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Huddlestone were for the prose cution; Mr. Robinson for Simpkins. Mr. Robinson cross-examined Mr. Pemantel as to the exact position in which he and his wife stood towards each other. The only facts elicited of any material in terest were that up to the period of his going into Beth lehem he had lived happily with her; that he did not considered himself at all deranged in mind; that he did not know where his wife's residence was; and that since the robbery he had been an inmate of Marylebone work house. Several of her Majesty's Yeomen of the Guard said that the prisoner Simpkins had been for seven or eight years in her Majesty's service at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle. Ho was discharged about two yr ars ago from being absent from duty when a fire oc curred. They did not know that he had been charged with stealing a dog belonging to the Queen. The prisoners were found Guilty. A police officer swore that Simpkin bad been in cus tody for stealing a dog belonging to one of the Royal family. They were sentenced each to six months' hard labour. ANOTHER FAILURE OF THE LAND SCHEME.—We notice that the Shepping House and Church Farm estates, situate at Mathou, on the borders of Worcester shire and Herefordshire, are to be publicly offered for sale by Mr. E. Russell -in the course of this present month. These two ,valuable properties were amongst the purchases made some time slime by Mr. Feargus O'Connor for the purpose of his land scheme, but, for reasons best known to himself, the Hon. Member has not completed the purchase of either, but has preferred forfeiting the deposit money. Hence te estates are once more brought into the market.— Worcester Herald. THE DANISH BLOCKADE.— The General Steam Navigation Company's mail-packet Trident, Captain Mortiss, which arrived at Blackwell early yesterday evening from Haruburgh, reports having passed the Danish blockading squadron, consisting of three frigates and a steam-vessel, off the island of Heligoland. They maintained the strictest blockade of the rivers Elbe and Wrser. At the hour of departure of the Trident a great fire was raging in Ilamburgh. Particulars not known. We understand that Wiliam Chambers, E . pci., the eminent Edinburgh pu . blish t e iv r, e h o a o s o b o o tl uoh f t r th ee e b taes l ta l te e of Glenormiston, in his s g lightly great r o diminution exceeding 25 , 00 i 0 n t tl a e svmuaoml value ee g r i oa v ft e el n apt i ir s di c. s e t , a vv t b e . ru d et Ily congratulate our friend on his accession to his new territorial i honours. His talents, be the better for an iufusii,n of literature.o. 11 .11 .1nunck of excellent l) üble s P andrit, and u l a o b v l e e o l laird, e , un countrydth e b willco r i i e c n _ d r:a r i m i l i c a l s i y al w r a i o n i! member the quaint advice given in an id . 1 Charles the Sscond's time, quoted by Scott, in which the reader is recommended to walk a mile or two every morning before breAfast in the month of June, and if he can possibly so manage it to let his exercise be taken upon his own lend. This very ngreeaLle way of enjoying tcsoohrodbwnieaiant, the country air Mr. Chambers now possesses. Ile may pen 'tracks under the shade of his own trees, and like the happy old Corycian in Virgil, live on the corn and fruits of his own growth and p'antation. liis wonderful little three-halfpenny sheet has fairly beat the large fourpeuce -halfpenny folios; but the brotherhood of the press will ali rejoice in the success of their potent ally, who, with his c .ngenial and fraternal partner, has dune so much fsr the cause 05 intelligence —for Scotland— and (in the best sense of the term) for the people.—ln verness Courier. THE HOTEL PROPRIETORS. A petition, of which the. folio ing is a copy, was pre sented to the House of Commons on Friday last by Ain Masterman:— " The Humble Petition of the undersigned Proprietors of Hotels, Taverns, and Victualling Houses in London and its neighbourhood, "Most humbly sheweth: "That your petitioners are proprietors and keepers of hotels, taverns, and houses licensed and used for the sale of wines and spirituous liquors and the general accom modation of her Majesty's subject?. " That before y our petitioners obtain licenses to em bark in their respective trades, and to enable them to provide accommodation for the public, a considerable outlay is required, frequently at a total sacrifice of capi tal and exertion, and at present, from depression of' trade and concurrent circumstances, with but precarious pros pect of return for their investment. " That the position of your petitioners, as traders, has become of late years more hazardous from the easy tran sit by railway of persons who, when formerly visiting the metropolis, were by their stay the inmates and sup porters in trade of your petitioners; and also by the de parture for country residence of many who used with their families to reside in this great metropolis, and by their dealings with your petitioners, greatly contributed to their success in trade. " That. eotwithS't ending their loss of business from the causes alleged, your petitioners are compelled (in the hope that a respectable appearance may aid them) to keep up their houses and establishments at a great expense. " That, besides the large rents to which your peti tioners are subject, and the expenses contingent upon oc • cupying spacious houses, your petitioners are obliged to retain trustworthy servants for the protection of the property of the public visiting their establishments. " That the Parliamentary and parochial calls upon your petitioners are so frequent and burdensome as to hinder them of A fair change of profit and return for the exertion and anxiety in their respective trades. " That of the heavy and pressing claims upon your pe titioners, the charge uhder the head of assessed taxes is most unequal and unjust, becauseit imposes upon them a tax in respect of their trade premises, trade servants, apprentices, and even labourers, equally with the noble men and gentlemen who use their mansions and keep livery servants for their own individual comfort, whilst your petioners are too frequently obliged to rent large houses and keep servants in the anticipation of profit, which, for the reasons urged, does not accrue. " That your petitioners, in submitting the inequality and hardship of being similarly charged for their trade premises, trade servants, apprentices, and labourer, with noblemen and gentlemen, whose mansions and servants so largely contribute to the luxuries enjoyed, beg leave most humbly to assure your Honourable House that they do not desire to shrink from their fair and equal share of taxation with their fellow-tradesmen, but would cheer fully submit thereto. " That your petitioners beg leave most humbly to draw the attention of your Honourable House to the afore going statement of facts, their present Lability to window tax upon their trade houses, the increasing and h eav y rates of duty charged for their trade servants, appren tices, and labourers, and also to the charges for servants designated waiters'—burdens to which no other trade is liable; and your petitioners most humbly and ear nestly beg that your Honourable House will consider of the hardship of their case, and be pleased to grant them such relief as may peem to your Honourable House to be just and proper." This petition was signed by upwards of 220 of the most respectable proprietors and occupiers of the hotels and victualling houses in London, and deserves the serious attention of the Legislature. CHARGE or ASSAULT.—On Saturday Mr. Claude Lyon, Mr. Pnilip Sydney, and Mr. Frederick Beckford, appeared before the nv.3gistrates at Richmond, on • a charge of having obstrucA the police in the execution of their duty. Mr. Bull, the landlord of the Castle Hotel, Richmond, was implicated in the affair. The defendants had been dining at the Castle, and, previous to leaving, armed themselves by throwing a quantity of oranges, and other thinks, at the two opposite houses. Mr. Abbott and Mr. Brie er took offence at their con duct, and remonstrated, taut without effect. The police were then called, and a regular row ensued; and, ulti mately, the constables were severely beaten. The court, after.hearing the evidence, inflicted a fine of 51. each on, Messrs. Lyon and Sydney; and Meares geckibrd Bull were filled 20s. each. osrlAy• Ily Ait t 4 4 , *1' C4-, 3 - 1:114 1.1 10 1 lte4o, BIISI-1 LINSTiTUTTON. An exlilAtion (of annual recurrence), is now open in the galleries of tli British institution, Pall-mall, consisting of 144 paintings by Italian, Spalli , h, Fit ini.l‘, Dutch, French, and English masters, these pictures being lent for public exhibition from the private collections of the proprietors. If any true lover of art is anxious to obtain a treat of the highest and most intellectual kind, that treat he may obtain by a visit at this time to the British Institution. We regretted to observe that the three noble rooms at that establishment were but scantily attended the other morning when we visited it ; although our regret vv as peculiarly of an unselfish kind, seeing that the small attendance materially facilitated our own inspection of the paintings. Several of these pictures are not only the works of men renowned in every civilized country, but they are works themselves of individual celebrity—works many of them familiar ized to the masses through the medium of innu merable engravings. For example there is No. 30, "John Kemble as Coriolanus," by Sir Thomas Lawrence —standing grandly and gloomily in almost colossal proportions in the dark hall of his enemy, revealed only in the folds of his cloak by the fire smouldering on the hearthstone. There is No. 114, the celebrated portrait of " Cur ran," by the same artist, from the collection of Sir Robert Peel. The half sour, half sad, I.alf droll, quite Irish face of the great wit and orator—humour twinkling in his eyes, and intellect gleamingfrom his forehead,: seen between the black locks of his slovenly but glossy hair. There is also, No. 126, the celebrated " Portrait of Admiral Keppel," from the brush of Sir Joshua Reynolds. No. 140. The portrait, by Guisto Subtermans, of "Starry Galileo;" a portrait well known in this country, through the engraving in the Gallery of Portraits, published by Charles Knight, for the :.-,cciety of Useful knowledge. Besides threse, there is No. 120, Wilkie's famous " Blinclinan's Buff," from the collection belonging to l her Majesty, and his (Nu. 118), if possible, still more famous " Rent Day," to say one word in commendation of which would be frivolous, because superfluous. No. 104. " The llookaba.rdar," by Sir David, not so well known, is for some reasons still more interesting, seeing that it is evidently one of those studies from life with which he had's° richly stored his portfolios ' during that oriental journey from which the Scottish llogarth was destined never to return alive. Nos. 105 and 107 are singularly curious portraits in miniature, Jeanne D'Albert, Reine de Navarre, and Henri D'Albert, Roi de Navarre, by Janet. Hard, cold, and glittering like enamel, they are neverthelass perceptibly vivid likenesss, and for that reason are infinitely estimable. No. 124. " The Towneley Gallery," by Zoffani. The more we look at it the more we feel ourselves carried back bodily to the distance of a century and a half, to the time of lappelled waistcoats and powdered wigs. That old peer, with the red rheum in his eyes, who is turning over a folio on his knees, at the left-band corner, as a student runs over the leaves of his lexicon to find out a word, is all but living and breathing. Let any nervous lady look another.way rather than at No. 83, the " Lion and the Mouse," by Rubens and Snyder. The Lord of the Forest is worthy of the joyous brush of Sir Peter Paul ; the dental efforts of the mouse seem to be superfluous when contrasted with the muscular powers of the rampant lion: The lion is receding, half upright, through the network, his eyes flashing, his jaws opening, revealing the red gums and white teeth, roaring for freedom, with his paws extended and every nail bristling out. Of the other pictures we may refer especially to (No. 86) the " Frost Piece," by J. Ostade ; (No. 18) " A Scene on the ice," by Cuyp ; (No. 9) " A Girl with a Letter," by Greuze ; (No. 40) the im mortal " Virgin and Child, with St. Ann," by Leonardo da Vinci ; (No. 52) " The head of a Man," br Raffaelle,. the divine; (No. 62) an elegabt Venus and Cupid," by Paggi; and, " though last, not least in our dear love," Turner's two extraordi nary pictures (No. 38), " The Wreck of a Transport Ship," and (No. 43) " The Opening of the Vintage of Nicon"—in viewing the latter of which we could not help thinking of the ingratitude received by Lamartine from the people of Macon, a place only illustrious because it had the glory of giving him birth. ----- --- POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. To clothe knowh dge in such a garb as to make it pa latable to all classes is a tack of the utmost difficulty, and since the establishment of the Polytechnic Institution it has ever been the study of its managers to overcome this step in the advancement of learning. There will be found ample food for thinking minds in the models and specimens deposited in the museum of. the institution; for the searchers after deeper information will be found lectures replete with elementary and natural philosophy. A lecture on botany, by Mr. Graham, is at present of that beauWul science. In experimental and natural delivered in a form quite comprehensiv e t o the be g inner philosophy Doctor Baelihoffner is expatiating on the method of ventilating mines by the steam - jet , a su b j ect just on the eve of forming a discussion in the House of Commons, and also on the public subject, light, in which the most brilliant luminaries, the electric, the lime, and the bode lights are exhibited together, enabling the speciwor to form comparisons in his own mind of the value , of each, either as an object of commerce or cu riosity. For those who are desirous of spending an hour of pleasantry blended with much sterling informa tion, Mr. James Russell, late of lirury-lane Theatre, is givinga lecture on character, illustrated with his usual deli3httul comic style of singing, which compels those who ari, his auditors to laugh almost aga inst their will. The flee tore has been attended by large and highly re spectable audiences, who testified their spprobation by loud and continued applause. DRIIIrg-LANE THEATRE.--ME. BUNN'S BENEFIT. tivnual ceremony is fixed for Monday next, the 25th inst., when a series of entertainments are offered to the pub tic, in themselves of the most attractive kind and rend er ed doubly so from the fact of their being sup ported bj - some of the first talent with which the metro polis is n aw• so rich. We are to have genuine comedy and farce,, a sprinkling of ballet, and the choicest of musical m oreeaux, in the execution of which native and foreign tat ec t struggle fur pre - eminence. Useful as all this deligh OA entertainment must be to the beneficiaire, Mr. Bunn slight fairly rest his claims to public pa tronage on the exertions he has made for so many years, on this his famous scene of action, to gratify and amuse the town. It is to him alone that we owe the present advanced stt tte of our musical drama, who has not only given every el Icouragement to our composers, but esta blished the t 'el ?utation of most of our first singers. There can be no el( mccbt of Mr. Bunn having, as usual, as full an audience t is Drury-lane can hold. _ LEAMINGT ore SPA, JUNE 16.—The late festival, to inaugurate H. Ltins's statue of Dr. Jcphson, passed off in a manner a , o.rthy of the fame of that celc brated medi cal practitione T. As one amongst the most attractive features of the niumrner season, it proved highly success ful, as regal d the influx of visitors, a considerable portion of wh or a still remain at the Spa, to partake cf the medicinal. springs and participate in its unceasing round of publi amusements. The Tyler family con tinue their pe tformances daily, and we are on the mot a visit from M r Macready, whose reception at our new and elegant t 4eatre, so speedily after. his treetment at the hands of 11. low and brutal section of the Trans- Atlantic den rocracy, wili no doub: be one of the most enthusiastic] :intl. The " great event," however, of the ensuing west will be the celebration of the Queen's ac cession, whe n the Jephson's Gardens will be the scene of festivities upon a large scale—the leading attraction to the denize us of the neighbourhood being Lieutenant Gale's mons tee balloon, " The Royal Cremorne." The latest urriva'A include the names of Lord Elphinstone, Visec,unt c'renterbury, the B:sliop of Victoria, Lord Ridedese' ,a2,e .ctdmiral Sir George and Lady Cockburn , Lord an d Laily John Scott, Sir James.Ritchlieti, Vene rable Ar •chdiz. , aeon Croft, Mr. Algernon Percy, &a. TJEsTErt( ;TIVE FIRE.—On Saturday night, shortly aft ,er ten o' clock, a fire involving a considerable destruc ti on of property, broke out in a long range of prem'ses , rr acupieck conjointly by Mr. Jonathan, Clark, biscait t alter, and Mr. Thomas Smith Gordon, a cabinet-maker and ship-;gainer, situate in Orange-court, Great Her mitstge-st.reet, St. George-in-the , liast. The flames corn uier.ced in the lower floor, in the tenure of the first "tam ed party, and although assistance was promptly at :and every endeavour made to arrest the progress 'of the :ire, the flames continued to mount most fearfully until Wr. Clark's property presen ted one immense sheet ,of fl cum a.. So great was the light caused by the colifla grati on ; . that inflormation of the disaster was almost :airault 'an eously forwarded to the whole of the fire stations in tow n, and forthwith the engines of the London and West e '1 England establishments started to the scene, on reachi %.1g which the firemen found not merely the pro perty- alaave•named enveloped in flames, but the adjoining prenst, was, on either side, were also burning. Plenty of water being at hand, the whole force was brought to remain i bear u ; aon the flames, by which means their further ex tension . was cut off, but it was nearly tw elv e o'clock before they to?d be cc n Mr. c extinguished, drdnn,w o a r n ks d h n n o p t s c un o t n i s l u t m h ed, e w nothing e in o g g of Mr. C lark'sn of either premises building d w d i e n r g e b totally d u e: er w t roya. e ns. Several d, and the nt e of the adjoining premises were ~also materially damaged by the action of the fire. DE PAETURE OF TUE ITIBERNIA.—LIVERPOOL, SA. TURD. KY EVENING.---The North American Royal Mail stem ,•ship Hibernia, under the command of Captain Lain a, took her departure for N ew York, via H alifax , this i s fterriodff. She had a large number of passengers on b card, and the usual weekly mails for Canada and the Uni te d States, in charge o f Lieutenan t Raymond, R.N. , AEI iniratty agent. The Caledonia may be ex pect(d in the course cf Mo nda y . F , Pain; of TUE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, SA .TeRDAV .—The iron trade remains in much the same st ate as rei ,orted last week. In ma n y instances sales ' .re effect e d at much lower p rices than those a g reed u p on three weeks ago. N ail roads, which last quarter day nd at los. now tit brough t 8/. 'r ton, are now at 61. 104. to 6 3/. 156. ; bars, /. in April 8/. 1G 's., now 6/. 15 5.; a p , g , 91. 15 F ., „ r eve ,. 21. los. There has been a further re *goo lit the pt ice of coal. LITE'V,A.T URE. TII.E ENCHANTED DOLL ; a Fairy Tale. By itfurh Lemon. 'roe " little people," for whom this little bbok is d signed, have much cauFe to be grateful to Mark Lemon and Richard Doyle, who have written and illustrated one of the most delightful children's books that have appeared for a considerable period. Neither should printer or publisher (Messrs. Bradbury and Evans) he forgotten ; for seldom has a volume, whether for children or grown persons, appeared in more attractire guise. The printing is beautifully clear, every page is surrounded with a coloured mar gin, illustrations are plentifully scattered throughout the volume, and the binding is of the palest pink, lined with the brightest blue. The hero of the story is one Jacob Pouts, whose name is a fair, indication of his dissatisfied character. This Jacob is by trade a doll. maker, but instead of labouring for his living, he passes his time in idleness and in envying of the good fortune of his very industrious opposite neighbour. Far be it from us to reveal the mysteries of the tale— we will do no more than mention the name of the Fairy Malice, we will pass over the marvellous pro perties of the enchanted doll, and the history of Tony Stubbs (the industrious workman), and " Pretty Dorothy Kersey," the alderman's daughter. We will say nothing of the bear-baiting (illustrated by the pencil of Doyle)—we leave the romance of the Fairy Tale, and the interest of a Tale of London in Old '.rimers unspoiled, the better to repay the curiosity of the little readers of the " Enchanted Doll." One fact, however, is too important to pass over—Jacob, the doll-maker, cured of his malice, was commis sioned by the Lord Mayor to manufacture two of the largest dolls in the kingdom. The narrator of his history does not vouch for the fact, but he tells us that it is more than suspected that those two identical dolls are Gog and Magog. Yacht. SYBIL ; a Soul's History. By J. Innis Minchin, Author of " Trafford." On the title-page of this volume we find the fol lowing beautiful sentence from Savage Lander : " The poet must take man from God's hands, must look; into every fibre of his heart and brain, must be able to take the magnificent work to pieces, and to reconstruct it." Mr. Minchin, in accordance with this advice, has endeavoured to make his characters natural and his delineations truthful. Sybil is a tale of mingled passion and pathos, related in pleasing verses. It is preceded by " the romaunt of Lord Roland," an intended companion-pieCe to Miss Barratt's " Courtship of Lady Geraldine." In " Lord Roland," as in " Sybil," we occasiona'ly meet with some beautiful line or happy expression, and also not unfriquently with some common-place idea, which converts the sublime into the ridiculous, as, for ex ample, in the following stanzas : " Su at last the secret left me, I could bear the weight no longer; I must tell it ;11, despite the throbs and tightening at my chest— I must know my fate, although that knowledge prove an anguish stronger Than the nev,r-ceasing burden of a passion un contest." The last line is good, but the " tightening at the chest" gives to the whole passage, in our mind, an air of the ludicrous. The story of " Sybil" is interesting and narrated in an interesting manner. Towards the close of the narration, in allusion to the IrTeless love of Vivian for Sybil, we find the following contradic tion to the old adage that love cannot live without hope. The expression in the second line, " keeps the spirit sure," we cannot pretend to understand, but the fourth line is most beautiful; it is the best line and the best thought in the volume. "Even without hope, Love lives on its own being, Its holy influence keeps the spirit sure, I It purifies the soul, the world unseeing, Hope's very absence makes the passion pure." Yacht. Parts CON. CREGAIV; the Irish Gil Bias. V. and VI. These parts are as full of fun, frolic, and adventure as any of their predecessors. In the course of the adventures Con. runs through the whole civilized part of North America from Quebec to New Orleans, and we leave him in Part VI. on the eve of acting on Colonel Crockett's maxim— " When things go wrong, and tease and vex us, Cut stick, and go ahead in Texas." KING DOBBS : Sketches in Ultra-Marine. By James Hannay. Parts V. and VI. These parts complete this most amusing of nautical tales. The illustrations are by Alfred Ashley, and are full of spirit. As a marine painter Alfred Ash ley approaches nearer to Nicholas Pocock than does any living artist. We hope shortly to have the plea sure of again meeting Messrs. Hannay and Ashley, and in the meantime we recommend all those who are in search of amusement to take a cruise under the flag of his Mjeaty King Dobbs. ROYAL THAMES YitCHT CLUB MATCH. The adjourned railing match of 3 achts belonging to this club, for two prizes of a silver cop with SO sove reigns, and a silver cup arid 40 sovcrzigns, took place on Saturday last, between Erith and the Nore. The beau tiful new steam-packet Jupiter, by Miller, Ravenhill, and Co., was engaged by the club to take the members and its friends to witness the trials of railings, and ac cordingly embarked both at London-bridge and Black wall a very large party, which included the Noble Com modore, Lord Allred Paget, Vice• Commodore Captain Barwell, the Hon. Captain Devereux, 8.N., Major Bingham, Captain Ellis, I{.N., Mr. Williams, M.P., Mr. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Miller, Lieut. Freestun,R.N., Captain Maude, the Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., Captain Newton, Captain Cumberland, Captain Barker, and very many ladies. Messrs. Mare and Rolt, with a small party on board, were present in the former gentlealan steam-vessel, and the Dryad, Woolwich steam packet, and a Water man's steamer were also there, with crowded decks. There was likewise numerous squadron of vessels under sail, bt.sides those engaged in tt:e trial, among which was the Marquis of Anglesey's yacht Pearl, with the Noble Marquis, the Duke of 13eaut'ort and party, the Bianca, the Alarm, the Enchantress, the Belvidere, Sic. Tile morning was dull, but the weather bii . ,..,hteried as the day advanced, allough the wind fell lighter every hour as it approached towards noon, and than the Jupiter reached the starting pl.acc, there was some little appre hension that it would be another drihing match. ll , !re, however , were the foliowiriect,mpetitors, on board of each of which the commodore proceeded to give his instructions. FIRST CLASS. From 50 to 20 tons, both inclusive. Tons. o.vcer's Name. Mu:quito 5O William Flamm:tic, Esq. Cynthia 5O Jahn Wicks, Elq. Secret 25 George Whitehead, Esq. Cygnet ... ... 35 li. Lit - album, Esq. SECOND CLASS, Under 20 tons to 10 tons, inclusive. Tons. 0 xner'a Name. Pearl l2 T. aT,d J. M. Wanhill, Lip. Frolic 12 Allred Cox, Esq. Foam 19i Richard Antrem, Esq. Se.i. N 3 mph lO C. Wheeler, jun., Eiq. Whisper 15 Thomas Eve Leigh, Esq. The Hilda and Daring, tirst class boats, were entered but did not start. The Mosquito (iron boat, built by Mare) was evidently the favourite, as she best every thing in, and most yachts out of the Thames during last season; but there were those who took some fancy, and some odds, too, in favour of the Cynthia, purposely built by Messrs. Wanhill, of Poole, to contend with the for mer. The only other new boat was the Pearl, of Poole. At one minute past twelve o'clock the starting gun was fired from the Commodore's steamer, and the two little fleets were quickly under canvas, the very li.zht wind being a little to the eastward of N. The Pearl was the first to slip off, followed by the Frolic and Foam, the two latter being the fir , t to set their gafftopsail:. The Cynthia, Secret, and Mosquito were nfxt in order, but the start was so even that all may be said to have got away at the same time. All the yachts, with the exception of the Mosquito, passed as much to windward as they could, but this vessel made the short cut direct to the Long Reach Point ; the longest way round, however, proved to be the quickest, for what the Mosquito gained in distance sae not only lost in not having the force of t he current to assist her; but she had to contend against the eddy. This was a fatal mistake at first starting, and one which the Mos quito never recovered, although her ultimate defeat must be ascribed to other causes. In Long Reach the wind had so lulled that it was nothing but draft and drift, and some idea of the progress of the vessels may be formed when we state that the fleetest of the squadron was nearly 17 minutes in going over the measured mile. At length, by fits and starts, they reached Greadothe, when a little breeze sprang up, which drew the Mos quito into the Worth place, with the Secret close up. The Mosquito continued to gain on the leaders while the breeze lasted, and when off Gravesend was second, the Cynthia still maintaining a good lead; the Foam, \1 hisper, Cygnet, Stcret, Frolic, and Sea Nymph bring ing up the rear. In the lower end of Gravesend Reach, the wind freshened, and the second-class boats shifted their balloan jibs for second jibs. The Cynthia be haved admirably, working to windward through Sea Reach, and lost nothing of the advantage she had previously gained, but we observed that she was not near so stiff as the Musquito. A slight squall, ac companied with rain, came down in Sea Reach, out it did not alter the position of the boats. Immediately after this little brush the wind lulled again, and the Cygnet crept up to the second place. The yachts, however, did little more than drift until the tide was spent, whin the Commodore ordered the steamer to be brought to about a mile below Chapman's Head. A signal was made for the boats to round the steamer, which they did in the following order:— H. M. S H. M. S. Cynthia 3 4 48 Pearl .. Cygnet Musquito Foam 3 28 5L sea Nymph 3 47 50 Secret A very interesting contest took place between the Foam and the Secret in going round. The latter, having made a short board, tried to cross the Secret's bow, and weather on her. The latter, however, foiled their intention, by luffing up close, and keeping to wind ward of the Foam, threw the wind out of her sails, and succeeded in rounding the steamer five secs before her antagonist, amidst the cheers of the company on deck. The wind being now light, the Cynthia set au immense topsail, and continued to increase the distance between her and the Cygnet. No change of moment took place in the run back to Erith, where the winning buoy was placed, which was reached as follows : H. M. S. H. M. s. Cynthia Cygnet... Muquito 6 33 18 Frolic Foam Secret The Cynthia was accordingly declared ,the winner, beating the Cygnet (with an allowance of 71 m. for dif ference of tonnage) by 10 m. 45 a. The Foam was the Brat round the buoy of the second-class boats. Immediately after the conclusion of the match Mr. Wicks, the owner of the Cynthia, came on board the steamer, and was presented by the Commodore with the cup and eighty sovereigns, his Lordship saying that he had great pleasure in presenting him with some reward for his pluck in building a boat at the cost of 2,0001. to beat the Musquito. With reference to the second prize, his Lordship stated that a protest had been entered against the Foam, and that ho could not then give it away, as it must be referred to the sailing Committee. We understood that the protest was made the owner of the Frolic, on the ground that the Foam by her measurement should have sailed as a first-class boat. This terminated the business of the day, and the steamer very quickly conveyed the company homewards, after an exceedingly pleasant day. The splendid band or the Royal Artillery were on board, and played a variety of airs and pieces of music during the day, but it would have been quite as agreeable if 25 only, instead of 50, had been present. The refectory was, as usual,] under the management of Mr. Gore, the steward, who, notwith standing the great demand upon his exertions and his viands, gave the utmost satisfaction to the company. A great deal of money must have changed hands on the result of this match, as the Musquito, «e understand, was heavily backed by her friends. It was evict.nt to every one that there was something amiss with her ; for instead of beirg at her graceful trim by the stern she ap peared to be down Ly the head, mad was as sluggish as the Belvidere, although the former has much more lively lines. The next match, however, to cJme off on Satur day week next, will probably restore to her the victory. MANCHESTER.—DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Satur day evening, a little before seven o'clock, the extensive silk-manufactory of Messrs. Williams and Gardom was discovered to be on fire. The flames spread with amazing rapidity, and though the engines were promptly on the spot, in a short time the vast range of buildings was one mass of mouldering ruins. The stock of silk was very large, and was wholly consumed. More than 600 hands by this calamity - will be thrown out of employ. It is impossible at present to estimate the loss, but in build ings, machinery, and materials, it must be very heavy indeed. Onefireman was seriously injured by an mei- dent with the fire engine. TNE CITY OF LONDON NATIONAL SCIIOOLS.- The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday preached n the church of St. Dunstan-in-the• East, Tower•street, on behalt of the City of Loudon National Schools. The instituion consists of four City schools, in which 1,150 children, for whom there is no room in the ward schools, are instructed according to the principles of the Church of England. The annual income ,derived from subscriptions does not exceed 3001., and the charity depends greatly fur its support on occasional collections. The sum contributed after his Grace's Sheriff's sermon were pe ; yester day amounted to 1011. 14s. SO. l sent. The Lord Mayor wasprevented by indisposition from attending. ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND.—The annual din ner in aid of this fund took place on Saturday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, where an excellent enter tainment was provided for a party of about 70 gentle men. In the absence of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the state of whose health prevented him d from presiding, Sir Walter Stirling filled the chair, an in a very effective manner proposed during the evening, among a variety of other toasts, " Prosperity to the Artists' Benevolent Fund." The secretary anncninced a list of subscriptions amounting to 340/. The charity consists of two separate branches, the Artists' Annuity Fund and the Artists' Benevolent Fund—the former w holly raised and supported by the contributions of its members, at present amounting to 300 in number ; the latter raised and supported by the donations end subscriptions of the patrons ot the fine arts, for the relief of the w idows and orphans of members of the Annuity Fund. FIRE AT HAMBURG a.—The General SteamNaviga don Company's mail packet Trident arrived at Blackwell last evening, after a very quick passage from Hamburgh, which place she left on Friday night. At the time the Trident sailed a large fire was raging at the eastern end of Hamburgh, but no particulars could be then obtained. RUGBY ScuooL.—Mr. Edward Parry, son of Cap tain Sir Edward Parry, R.N., hcad• boy of the school, and who last year obtained the First Queen's Medal for the Historical Essay, has just been awarded the prize for the Latin Essay. TRAINING INSTITUTION FOR NURSES.—The annual meeting was held on Friday, in Pall-mall, when the Bishops of London and Salisbury, as well as several clergymen and gentlemen attended, all of whom spoke in favour of the institution. The income for the year was 1,4654 out of which there remained a balance of 7581, COURT CIRCULAR. - - - The Queen end Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales. Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, honoured the performance of the French Plays, at the St. James's Theatre, on Saturday afternoon, with their presence. The Royal suite con• sisted of the Countess of Desart, Lion. Luey Kerr, Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Bouverie. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, att' nded by Ludy Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, also honoured the performance with their pre sence. - • His Royal Highness Prince Albcrt rode out on horse back on Saturday, attended by Col. Bouverie. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Lathes and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of• Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. Thu•ir Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg btrelitz attended Divine service yesterday morning in St. Paul's, Kniehtsbridge. Lady Augusta Cadoaan and Mr. Edmond Mildmay were in waiting on their Royal Highnesses. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar left town on Saturday for Germany. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. It was attended by Lord John Rus sell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Ear 1 of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Right lion. H. Labouchere. The Council sat two hours and a half. Senor Molina, the Costa Rican Minister, transacted business at the Foreign-office cu Saturday, on behalf of the Republic of Guatemala. The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an in terview with Lord John Russell on Saturday, at his official residerce in Downing-street. His Excellency also transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign-office. M. Van de Weyer,•tho Belgian Minister, had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Satur day, at his official residence in Downing-street. A deputation on Ithe subject of the harbour of Port patrick, consisting of the Marquis of Londonderry, the Earl of Galloway, Lord Castlereagh, Lord Drumlanrig, Lord Newry, Lord Seaham, Lord Dufferiu, General Hunter Blair, Mr. John Dalrymple, M.P., Sir John Rennie, Colonel Al‘Deuall, Sir John M•Taggart, M.P., Admiral Sharp, Ll'_utenant Colonel Stopford Blair, Mr. A. Neil Caird, and Mr. John C. Moore, had an interview with Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir Francis Baring, and the Marquis Clanricarde, on Saturday, at the official residence of Lord John Rus sell, in Downing street. Lord Monteagle transacted business at the office of the Commissioner of Railways, in the Board of Trade, on Saturday. Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office, on Saturday evening, for the Governor of the West India colonies. Lord and Lady John Russell dined with the Arch bishop of Canterbury and Miss Sumner, on Saturday, at Lambeth Palace; and in the evening went to their re sidence at Richmond Park. Lord and Lady Jahn Russell will receive a distinguished tarty at dinner, at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park, on Saturday, the 23d June. The Dukes of Wellington and Leeds, the Duchess of St. Albans, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Salis bury, attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The service was read by the Rev. 1)r. Wesley, and the sermon . was preached by the Rev, J. S. Anderson. PosT-orricn NOTICE.—On and after Tuesday, the 19th inst., a bag of letters for Ireland will be made up at this office to be dispatched by the express train, which leaves the Euston-square station (Sundays excepted). Letters for thisdisp a a t tch fi m ve us P t .s h r. be posted at the receiving. offices in London before ßr two P.M. ; at the branch offices in Lombard -street, ring-cross, and Old Cavendiat.street, to t o e o ti tr i g rc h e , p ch ala . and M at the General Post-office, St. Mar:Ws-le- Grand, before 3.30 P.., and they will arrive in Dublin e arl y the following morning. Newspapers will not be forwarded by this afternoon mail. SERIOUS ATTACK AND GALLANT STRUGGLE. —AS one of the apprentices of Messrs. Maltby an d Richard son, drapers, Mansfield, was retur ning from Berry Hill, between nine and ten o'clock in the evening o Friday last, he was furiously attacked by two dogs, e bell seized o nging, it is said, to one of the gamekeepers; one of thm him by his leg, and the other at the same moment sprang at his throat. The young hero, however, with almost unprecedented courage and self-possession, seized the latter assailant by his throat, and a determined struggle on both sides ensued, which might he the ter minattd very seriously to the young man but for lucky thought of a draper's never -failing companion, a pair of scissors, which he used most manfully, and ff:sc tually succeeded at last in killing the sava brute by actually piercing his heart with the scissors. They oung man has been compelled to discontinue his duties in con sequence of the severe bite in one of his legs. It is not only disgraceful, but illegal, to permit such savage dogs to be at large, and it is to be hoped the commissioners (who have the power) will intertere and prevent the poss ibility of a similar occurrence happening again.- IVottingliam Guardian, :-~ ,-~~= • • • -7 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURI(ALS. TIMES.—The polio, pursued. towards Austria by several of the great Powfrs of Europe has undoubt , dly aggravated the triple difficulties which assail the empire in Hungary, Italy, and the Germanic Conft-deration. But these embarrassments are the natural cons,,quences of the torpid and improvident Government which was overthrown by the' revolution; and they have been in created by the abortive eft'orts made since that event to extricate the empire from its most critical position. A. series of disasters, which seem not yet exhausted, have baffled the most hopeful combinations, rendered sterile the most energetic efforts, and destroyed or removed the men who might have grappled with the dangers of the State. Latour and Lumberg• were murdered in the tu multuous insurrections at - Vienna and Pesth; Win dischgratz proved not to have military abilities or practical experience equa to the patriotism and firmness which he had displayed eh.ewbere. Stadion, who bad long hsen rcgarded by the Liberal party in Austria as the most eminent of the civil servants of the Crown, sank into ill-health from the intense anxiety attending the execution of his great projects, and from despondency at the ..ascendancy whi:ia views oppcsed to his own had obtainOd in the Cabinet of Oiniu!z. Weld.n, Rho enjoy ed the Nighest military renutation in the army, wa inadt quately sup ported at Vienna whilst he held the command in Hiul• gary, and has now tethed trom that position under cir%• cumstarices equally unfortunate. With the-exception of old Marshal itadetzky and the gatiunt army of Italy, we have seen trcops, generals, statesmen, and resources, melt away, until the destinies of the empire are xclu sivtly abandoned to men who have already given more proos of presumption and incapacity than of wise= and power. Prince Schwarz-nberg has shown spirit and boldness in dealing with the hostile claims made against his Sovereign ; but his pride has not deterred him from placing the empire in a most dangerous and humid•sting position towards Russia, whilst he bas ben induced to center the most im portant office of the State, at this moment—that of War Minister—upon Count Gyulay, who displayed signal incapacity us Governor of Trieste, and has no re• commendation but that of a near connexion with the Prime Minister. Had the Austrian Government offered and promulgated terms to the people of Hungary based on the recognition of the real constitutional rights of that kingdom, which have been established fur ages, there is strong reason to believe that a lasting peace might have been concluded. But the Hungarians are both able and resolved to defend those ancient rights, and no moment could have been Norse chosen than the past year to dis pute them, when, both in Italy and Geaniany, the sup port of - Hungary is of vital importance to the House of Austria. If the Cabinet of Ohnutz seriously entertained the design of availing itself of this crisis to execute the schemes of the Emperor Joseph If , and to convert the kingdom of Hungary into an hereditary province, the difficulties it has already encountered ought to furnish a sufficient lesson ; and a legal acknow 1‘ dgment of the positive obligations of the Hungarian Constitution is no extravagant price to pay fur the services and the loyalty of twelve millions of subjects. There is reason to believe that a concession of this nature would even now disarm the more democratic party in the kingdom. The policy of violence towards Hungary has proved in all respects a dangerous policy; but the necessity it has involved of applying for Russian assistance stamps it with a more fatal character. It can never have been supposed that the Emperor Nicholas was to be summoned to the fiald in the character of a mere auxiliary. The immense magnitude of the forces he has put in motion, and the 'position claimed by the Russian Generals in the scheme of the campaign, clearly indi cate that from the moment at which the Russian opera tions commence they will absorb the whole interest of the war. The reports which have already been circulated of the advance of Russian divisions into Hungary are exceedingly incorrect; properly speaking the campaign has not yet opened, and great doubt prevails as to the intentions of the Russian Emperor. The de lay which has already occurred will materially increase the difficulties of the - campaign in the hottesi; and most inconvenient mouths of the year; and since the struggle will aFsume the character of a foreign war with a detested enemy, we are by no means convinced that the result will be us speedy as has been anticipated at Warsaw, or as satisfactory as has been anticipated at Vienna. Bieenwhile, although the debility of Austria has thus reduced her to open the inner frame-work of the Empire to foreign armies, her own military operations in ether parts of Europe have been inordinately extended. The Imperial threes in Italy have occupied Florence, taken Bologna, and laid siege to Ancona, in their anxiety to share with the French Republic in the suppresaiou of Italian insurree• tions; and Marshal Radneey reeens in Milan in semi independence of the ordinary Ministers of the Crown. in Gernsany the policy of Austria is less active, but not less resolute. She has her troops in the Vorarlberg and in the garrison of Mayence; she supports Bavaria ii. her repug nance to join the Prussian Sonderbund; and she awaits the course of events without apparently the emullest inten tion of waving the rights else has so lung enjoyed iu the Germanic body. To sustain the military and political influence of a state over so vast an extent of territory— not confined even by the frontiers of Austria, but reach ing from Wallachia to the Rhine, and descending be yond the Appenines to the south—would appear to de mand either boundless resources, or a very close alliance with the other countries engaged in these transactions. But it is notorious that the tinuticial resources of Austria are reduced to a low ebb, and that her resources in. men ate seriously curtailed by the Hungatian war, which not only stops the reinforcements ordinarily derived from that warlike people, but demands other troops to oppose the Magyar combatants. In Italy the arrange ment with France is one which en accident on the theatre of war, or a change of rule in Paris, might at any time convert into direct hostility, and the conclu sion of a definitive peace with Sardinia is as remote as ever. In Germany the policy of Austria evidently requires the firm adherence cf the Court of Munich, to which that of Wurtemberg may perhaps be added. But tall these circumstances tend to render the Cabinet of Vienna more dependent on Russia, and to give Russia a decisive influence, through the Court of Vienna, upon the principal questions now agitated in Europe. That is a result deeply to be deplored, not only for the welfare and dignity of Austria, but tor the tran quillity and progress of the continent. We have done Justice to the firmness with which the Emperor Nicholas has maintained his position during this general tempest, even in the most uesettled portions of his own domi nions, and we have applauded the moderation ho has more than once expressed towards other states more agitated than his own empire; but, as the Russian armies, with their immense stores and materials of war, have gathered on the eastern frontier of Europe, it is impossible not to remark a more enthusiastic and less guarded tone in the language attributed to the Autocrat. His acts, however, have not yet corre sponded to this language. The postponement of the operations in provinces so contiguous to his own terri tories has been thought to imply hesitation; and cer tainly the disposition of the Austrian Generals and troops towards their northern allies is not encouraging. The campaign is unpopular in both armies, and it were well if circumstances were even now to arise which might prevent it The events of the last few days in Paris, and the consolidation of the present Government upon the failure of the last and most dating enterprise of the Red Republic, are highly favourable to the maintenance of peace, and it is extremely to be desired that Austria, which has so much cause to desire the removal of the burdens of war, should adopt the policy best calculated to terminate these contentions. On the other hand, the various insurgents of Italy, Germany, and Hungary have less reason than ever to count on the active support of the revolutionary faction is France which has just been so signally defeated. CRICKET. OLD lIARROVIANS v. PRESENT lIARRO- VIANS. We can call to mind but few causes of pleasure which so strongly act upon the feelings as that created by a visit to the place at which a man has spent the earlier days of his scholastic existence. IL nee it is that in this and the matches between the Old and Present Etonians," or between the Old Oxford and Cambridge men and present Oxonians acid Curitiba, there is always a marked exhibition of gratification, of zeal, and interest, which may in vain be looked for iu ordinary matches. One of these matches was played last week at Harrow, and it afforded the spectators no small amount of delight at witnessing the revelment in joy which our " Old Harrovian" friends ran on the occssiou. Some of the " more modern" of the old 'uns it will be found took vast liberties with the "present" bowling, but, then, on the other hand, the latter were not at ail backward in re-• turning the compliment. On the one side there were scores of 110 (Blayds), 12 (Eaten.), W. Nicholson 10, Currer 13, while; on the other there were an 85 (YeVe non), a 62 (Longe),l and a 10 (Capeli). The final were, it having been arranged for a iallo tiay match, was— OLD HADROVIANS. E. Blayds, Esq.—b Vernon •• ••• ••• C. Eaton, Esq.—c Torrens, b Hankey ••• C. Harenc, Esq .—c and b Vernon ••• H. Hoare, Esq.—c Putnam, b -Mackenzie . W. Nicholson, Esq.—b Vernon N. Millbanke, Esq.—b Hankey R. En ug hton, Esq. b Hankey •.• Hon. R. eirimston—b Torrens C. S. Currer, Esq.-1 b w b Putnam •„ F. Corrance, Esq.—run out N. Jones, Esq.—not out Byes, 3; wide (llankey 2, Putnam 4, Mackenzie . 4, Vernon 2, Torrens 3, Longe 1), 16; no balls (Han key 2, Mackenzie 1), 3 . 1 ... 9 ... 10 192 PRESENT ITAIROVIANS. H. Southwell, Esq.—c Currer, b Jones ... P. E. Miles, Esq.--c Currer, b Jones .. Hon. H. Capell— b Jones ... ••• H. Vernon, EFq.—c Currer, b Harenc H. Hankey, Esq.—run out.. ••• H. Mackenzie, Esq.—b Jones ... •• • J. Longo, Esq.—not out ... ••• A. Torrens, Esq.--c Currer, b Jones ... Hon. E. Leigh— b Jones ... G. Crawley, Esq.—c Grimston, b Harenc J. Putnam, Esq.-1 b w b Harenc Byes, 10 ; wide (Harenc 3, Jones 3, Corrance 3, Nicholson 2), 11; no balls (Jones 1, Harenc 1), 2 23 10 ... 85 200 LYCEIIM THEATRE.---Sheridan' s Critic, w e per ceive, is announced to bf: performed her e to-morrow rapidity evening, i n which Mr. C. )dathews sustain s the two prin cip!lparts—Putr an d Sir Frettul—to admiratiir Fretful on. The to the vol a tile Puff is wond& rful. of the change from the ol d unhappy S CHESTER, AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending Julie 9, 1849 :—Coaching traffic, 1.2211. 17s. 2d.; parcels, 341. 18s. OJ.; goods and cattle, 1501. Gs. 10d.; steam-boats , 175/. 4s. 2d.—T0ta1,1,562/. 6s. 2d., exclusive of toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Com pany, 4nd payment for conveyance of maile. . 110