The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-21 00:00:00

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L e )wed to tu,_ u t soon fat successfully ; shed to the r requ iret4 extenawb led by the, ;eorge, A na , n t in ev er / the former Phe damage fling• Et OF !rce was ition, Esq., Vice. tasty for os itiona 0m fitted to F e totally Irl: - e based upol, !s.clusive to the wan" )stentatioul hich impend" isloreiterates )rth, nawelS Ty kind, 0 i uses of freferi; '.OW:d. of other i t i on to th e for presents by her _ an d that ne r its basis sn food.—Man' ) HAS'. 7-A Iwheat tis'-01 . , A 0 , • - seo rtt3 do more _ u ne an ter ti e lo ve ;r:it angttiailachia, w", ; vas t itu a lisgq Y i g 'P as c s lroves u gatY9. 4 but last beas „ these_ by t he „T, , . n o t a o d uched of the wv" lan Robert,Gdoli-,t) o has hig Litt l ? of f :ll', an d r b i s o l i e ftfi the 0 4 5 ,/ Inii biCal ; new of the oda n [ass sh i P 9 oBl; , 9 l. over i ; o n, • f an' St' r di • two fro la st fr°lll Wi th l o • )uoys , ao gland' Engla rlu , to an y rea!,, ° _,..111 a t our y - ca u ; ritn.--0 prinee u . t in the c e :cli NetherA n b e r age, with 0 to a petitiols a o h e Coll o r • of St. Ga . 8319 t he /0' rear the ; 1 0. 7, 9 1'' atie. nore than for u suP e P ° l . a t . he n ob t fis n _ at _ )ei . n g r eceive pa r ;0 to 6: n , o l3u, ip In th e f r ;6 fa_ of in •st o ee i f ii , n etror Co or for tho e , el l ' esdal s i ng er, wil t 11 the ts , vie iss A de ' ti roui A rcrli n g i 6 1 ' .;.otch 5 ;110 tiers 01 : e r il li a t z y . Es STATES OF PRINCE P. i ESTERHAZ Y. whol e the pri nc i pa l seat of the Prince. The colos sa l establishment is truly rega l , an d t h e Palace in its proportions ; while Forchenstein is the very beau ideal of a feudal fortress, the very embodi rnecintr of romantic dreams. In this Castle the ar tnounty w°llld suffice to equip three or four regi at.._. s without any additional outlay, while the men- Prin ce could as easily be found as the weapons. who che Esterhazy is the only individual in the nation el _ as the ." j gladii, the power of life and death, Irelsexercised the present possessor of that title has never ed that privilege. neri:V SCHATZ-KAMNER, OR TREASURE HOUSE. e great lion of Forchenstein is the Schatz-Kam- This b tre as, vaulted gallery contains the immense family tire s golderhand..by ;of which the costly diamonds worn inEngland y tne Princes., form a art. The long gallery is lined on eith glass-cases, and within these . are heaped arid and sliver plates, jewelled vessels of every form gern r s nater ial; rich stuffs, embroidered with pearls and , Masses of opals amethysts, and topaz; weapons, r s tr t ni on o es u r , and horse-gea, r, literally blazing with precious th e i,' a rid, in short, every variety of treasure which of je;ageilination of man could collect. The collection 3 0._ ed weapons, ...0 arnazino.shields, and war-trappings, is rivo r d . , !There to be s is I handled the ruby-lulled th e 41 eided by the unfortunate Louis at Mohais, brat Pocket- knife of the Emperor Sigismund,. the cele • Est Pearl bridal vest of the Palatine Paul da erhazy; upon whose ground of rose-coloured th H e laSk is wrought a pattern of seed pearls, of the of every flower being formed by long links strop precious beads which hang loose, and are f th e ll° closely- as almost to conceal the material o .17 izre - r T r e 2 - the richly studded saddle-cloth of the a hard- ~ --" taPtia, made captive by an Esterhazy on th on ..° ll 3ht field ; the coral rosary of Stephen Ba ke ' ute - g'oid brocaded vest of Mathias Corvinus, he aii t t il if at i or John Soiesky ; also a rich brocade, a teetith 11 s decimen of the needlework' of the seven celitur , Tn t (-, Y. lord', A "'ONSERVATORIES AT EISENSTADT.—The fo rt ," "Mains of Esterhazy, and Eisenstadt, and the frontier a lso of Forchenstein, are all situated near the ?4, 1 1 er, and are the most magnificent of the s e , aree's. possessions. At Eisenstadt the conservato to anoe,tralY splendid. You may walk from one serre tki 'er, amid an acre of flowers of every clime by se c o l ou r; the varieties of camelias are to be counted Or ao °res, and roses and geraniums by hundreds. frui t, g f es and lemons, with their bud, blossom, and t °We 4 ? 1111 a mimic forest. Above these the palms i Jess amine i 111 Oriental pride, and the violet and Cape t aitiC n .,, e L earPet many a spot beside the marbleNfoun gated " - L le heaths and ferns are one mass of - arie- car e beauty. These conservatories are under theto lth ( ;,7r. - Fetish. Th e p l easure - groun d s amoun t q sit e 0 „, 1 - t 1°0 English acres , k ep t i n th e mos t exqu i - p rt ar r 'sito , 111cEexi sts tSTERRAZY'S REVENUE.—Much curi- P ; 41 England with regard to the actual re\enue of the Prince Esterhazy. The iie l j e o et Possesses, in addition to his three palaces at V th e a ' an d his domain in Bohemia, one-thirteenth part estat whole k , e a le of Hungary. He has thirty-six . ja ßes 'e , s ",. e " Containing from ten to twenty-four vil 4fo .: ,'"eh, together with an hundred square miles I N I ll s ' , Make collectively near 1,200 square miles, Lepo s tl i t n i g o a rl l 7 . 3r, covering a Surface of 17,000, proves . Nor is this gigantic and overwhelming revenue. lhe 4 114 1 .'1ueci b e Property his only source of . 4 ,000. e aPital 14 40 1 0 . ° I . his peasants or subjects, amounting to Raq t , with all their habitations, a con l - of 220,000 sheep, producing . near t y he sl i Zt of wool, of superior quality, 1-en:mining , .1 K r tita c kled • and yet, nevertheless, this colossal e 'Aed r ,' - ' exceeding in extent the Grand Duchy of ;tat e e s 4 ', as Well - as several of the petty German LSO,O OO ' res not c y his revenue higl;er than ' a d, --) t hus making the annual proceeds of the btatverage only sixpence an acre. 4 th e I , l ' " THE ESTERHAZY FAMILY.—The debt killi,''sterhazies is calculated to amount to two ealy "'is, sterling. Supposing this to stand B ,i/ty f`l,"~re per cent. interest, that would be til ls ei,'" ll sand pounds a year to deduct, so that 110 rrh,-„°111.1ous territorial mountain produces ultimately ' e ar, 'ear, f ar o f annual worth to its owner than 90,000 hi1 a .. ?ty amarinferior to the income of many of our no ,ItIR 0-3.e?rotnonalty. The present Prince, if not pay 'OA, ; 1 ', 1 ', 8 said not to be adding to this enormous Z a L---iBB'enerally believed to live on his allowance c'en tr t ls goor. There are, in truth, in llungary, ;, °ll S i 'Y 7gnates who are not in fact bankrupts. Ba i,7et 11 -1 / 1 -he great. Greek banker, is the King of Com ' re(Dr,l4l-'ongary, every magnate being his debtor. f lt 14- 11A rt ,,ed that the possessions of the Esterhazy they isaftlr- - th e jealousy of the reigning dynasty, and it i bl el7 tl iat the Austrian Government were by no I }2' et pe scli aleased when t . he . father of the present Prince, b 7Sted .'ing yearly millions in . _ __, _ his 4- Aer, in no mean degree both his foreign countries, ex funds and 0 111 7 , 111 - At.---NCE OF THE SABBATH. , Si r ..,..° THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. itl i 'c h xou have done good service to the cause u eNvi is'. e xposing the unscripturalness of applying . 110 ti ck s ` t notions , and indeed worse than Jewish , n 11 1,4 , ,..,,f the Sabbath, to the Christian day. 'klern e ''''ew Testament knows absolutel l y vi n th ot e h u i t ng fea o r f tlt eohhs 4b batarianism, may be affirmed 4 pree'7allietion, by any passage, whether historical ° lle willitie, which can be quoted from . it. And any „writers.°_,,llas been in the habit of eading the earliest Z l , l ' p..- the Christian church, will . know that . they_ -4.°1 1D , - 1"1- ' t neY advert to the subject, pla s ce h d h i a n th th e e f „ t est r,„,,,_•possible contrast the Jewish „ e t kri - 7 bc ktly labour, and the Christian Sabbath from t 3, ' ; 814 - It never entered their minds for several t _ e -t,'- t,}1 ,,, - ,i any deed, right on the other days of the I will not occupy thlit' - rong on the first day. ~.:10::oehi:ibnitse db yi np roving what every scholar_ .t must L 14111 ow " „ r 'd 'what others must take on credit. There t° el. -v et, one view of the subject which . l ' has been your paper yet—a view tayi°l'l,Plete representation of the matter, and which iudis_ requisite 'ltabi e l' s to disarm opposition to what I deem k, ab hat a e ~;„'r ilti l• I mean the injurious influence which e 11 - pwi i r eis i_isra _has exerted upon Christianity, and . (j mor e l .l e n ngtit 1:3 expected to result from healthier i i i,4 t h ji . vated views : First, then, Sabbatarianism Otie r a ndord for brevity) is a falling back from the it7 h e t 4 4 ,P 11 , ore perfect views of Christianity, to the thekAtips J_Le_rnentary ones of Judaism. Judaism was, q ai ftil lies :'w, a . system of tutelage for minors, " till , took t 'of times should come." In this system s t iWilt to the art s of things as a tribute, teaching his l ite pa Whole Part of the land, part of its pro- 4 t ap ' L ull of the tribes, one spot, and one house, were % 414111 7 1 t° 'ti, to show that all were his. In hke e t n% Par t of their time was set apart from secular it lltknts, to teach them that God might claim ka te 'er:,4 . -Lnder the Christian dispensation all this is 1 , vith• N,,. x e are not your own," "He hath bought i l , ''s blood,"—this is the foundation of New -1,1 event.legislation . 411(leilt Accordingly, , eh ';‘"4,lng belonging to us, are lie l \ s ‘ -c ed o a t e irs G el e % d -e ,e s,. e Ckle 1- ' l ° land holier than the rest—no persons more t u 'a h lit 4 if at i e d than others—( Archbishop W hateley has h 44 Vah - it Shawn this in his "No Priesthood in , -41 ier l i ii i tY but that of Christ")—there is no place th e +l_4l others —no part of our property more N 'ef ," 41 the rest " the earth is the Lord's, and ti°l!euls-:88 threof." ; In like manner there is no time ' lll e • ac ted by appointment ,, than other time—all ke tie l " e quall " Every th d a is e . , y sacred— every . da . y . is alike." t hither a duty or a sin ,if a duty in itself, 1 % 411. - •thl:''. which it is done we are nowhere 4 7, 51 4 i, 'lt a sin• Now , as our Lord testifies, "the lii i.4 /c . th ei3rll ,e when men may ay in every place worship hip cl 14 y,,,el,''''.-tnen might not at that time th sll - ‘l4l(llll"6"'tie_re,,with he highest might o g r h sh t i t p h , e l y t In ta i k g e ht an b y e Qr . am es? the temple. Q4 M le lt he e: b- ' l4 air b a y it th il e s l t a e mar di ; contrary, of r 2‘ t r h e e w s , e e v u en t t h h e —it would 4:oizt,ht:iie ark the on any y day, worship is equally acceptable. ' l tee l w as a system of shadows—of beautifully t lN'llt eh flailartifieial worship. Christianity . is the reality b. ls\t tb a. R its shadows forward in Judaism ; but Son of Righteousness has risen, the ) ,,, - ` e lii ;',.,,n,f the Lord's house appears on the top of L e w?. 13rall•h'ins• Shadows are fled, and we know what 34,,' - i l l'." The rest of the old Sabbath beauti viLleithisit-',Ved the rest of all nations when they shall Ch _' l isti," art of war no more,"—the rest of every - i°Jo -'" toind, when, through the powerful grace of YhiZ t til e soul rests from its vain struggles for en 'est no - ill sin, and acquiesces "in his yoke"—the ti tilcise ' w ho " 'l ase from their labours, and If has 1'1,4 follow them. ee " The low Sabbatarian no .:t. it C a : insensibly profaned six days out . of seven. ‘ 5 ,.. be gained anything for one day, which is much dei)t..cluestioneil, it is ata fearful cost to the rest. S' c ays are thought less holy that one day may be t t pl'l3ner. fully agree in the fitness of the 'Alt, 6V for worshi tiered through a risen Saviour; ( l ay; !oir, i t :_ A IN the Pworship which is sacred, not the kik, '''. Christian assembly is no fiction, it is a so- Wo i , air ttali ty . IP P i ng th 4 multitude of minds thinking of— od eir Maker. Here is a true service of voti o ,' a l ndo as there is no incompatibility between d i ts sentiments and ordinary pursuits on other blic , bow can there be any inherent real ineoinpati- Wir,Y)etweell them on the first day. Christianity, oi.aislinmplied over Paganism without a Sabbath. kept alive before and between the hours of business idel a ,I r e the and which ultimately annihilated the Rh, t eq,Europe. But no sooner did the church be cerell° d udaiz e in its priests, its titles, its Sabbaths, its t hali t °lli es, than the living spirit vanished, and for cia.i,rY tyrannised for centuries. The spirit of Ju tlhalt _it a negative, a prohibitory spirit. " Thou Ch t i a ,:.;' ,o l ; i 3. its characteristic preceptive formula. „ . ± 1 ity is all positive all life.. Love, the most h," e of all - • • : k — Menu principles, is its one command; corre ir or ,,Y with this —"Do no thing—abstain from bro_eutia_ry employments," is the command for the ' 44 Nt a single command, to meditate even, __- _ or worship, is to be found in all the Old Testament through. . An additional sacrifice in the Temple was all. Good men, no doubt, used its hours for devotion, and many would feast with their friends—in which our Lord joined; but the only command was, " do no work." How different in the New Testament , not one word of ceasing from work. No, a higher, a more animating injunction is given by him who was the Life of men—" Meet for worship,"—l s a y not when—l say not where—but " meet." If so persecuted that only two or three can assemble; " meet." I will be where but two or three are " ga thered " unto me. Neglect not the "assembling " of yourselves together. Thus legislates the dispen sation of love, the truly social system of redemption. 0, that Christians understood the genius of their own religion ! That they would seek to inspire men with the love of worship, instead of coercing them to a legal bondage ! I am ashamed to have occupied so much of your space, and to ask for more another week, to illustrate the injury done both to the godly and ungodly, and the benefits which might result to both, by rejecting custom for truth, and Judaism for Christianity. I am, Sir, yours, sincerely obliged by both your Anti-Sabbatarian and Anti-Church-rate articles, Bradford, Feb. 8. EVANGELICLTS. FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS The Imperial Academy of St. Petersburgh has just been joined, by order of the Emperor, to the Academy of Sciences of that capital, as a special section of Rus sian language and literature. The Brussels Observateur says that reports are cur rent in the Belgium capital of its being the intention of the Government to make before long some changes in the diplomatic body, and to place at the head of " one of the most important legations" the Duke d'LTrsel, or, according to some, the Prince de Ligne, or else the Prince de Chimay.—The Gazette de France says that the lezation is that of Paris. M. Desrosiers, of Moulins, is at the same time editor of the Revue de Riom, and printer of the Journal du Bour bonnais. In answer to an article concerning the late disturbances at Clermont, and announcing a fuller report, the Gazette d'Au vergne made an attack upon the Revue de Riom. The editor of the Journal du Bourbonnais proposed to reproduce the attack, adding comments greatly aggravating. The printer, who only a few days before had been brought before the Court of Assizes, and had since found himself obliged to refuse printing an article fro:n fear •f a fresh prosecution, conceiving that this new publication would be injurious to his own interests, positively declared he would not put it to press. The editor of the Journal du Bourbonnais has accordingly commenced an action against M. Desrosiers. MARCH Or AN ABYSSINIAN ARMY.—At an early hour, Uhi's army began to climb the hill by the winding footpath' which we bad descended the day before. A part of the disorderly train had reached the summit four miles off, while the hindmost were still in the valley, and yet no gaps were discernible in the long line of march. Here was a troop of women of the lower class laden like beasts of burden, with large dishes, and the most miscellaneous assort ment of all indescribable kinds of property ; there a knot of ladies of quality on their mules, surrounded by their female attendants, most of them young, on foot. In many places were groups of priests— some in leather shirts, others in yellow, mantles. The most remark. able party was a band of four - and- twenty kettle drummers on white mules. They wore red jackets, and caps of the same colour, terminating in two sharp points. They sat quite back on the rumps of their beasts, with a large and a small drum before each. Uhi was distinguished by the suite of distinguished warriors, on their beautiful mules, who clustered round him. • ' l ' 4 1 At the top of the hill we were met by a horde of priests in party-coloured garments, some of whom had velvet canopies held over their heads, whilst others carriel Greek crosses of silver on long sticks. They re ceived Uhi and the females who accompanied him, with a prolonged quavering cry of joy. An ox was killed, and the warm quivering flesh devoured raw. The scene of this barbaric feast had only been a few days clear of snow, and from the want of wood it was impossible to light a fire. No human beilgs but an Abyssinian army would have lingered in such a spot for a small slice of raw flesh; to the beauties of the sublime panorama, splendidly lit up by the sun, which stretched away to the north, all of them were dead.—Rup pelrs Travels. THE INTRODUCER OT TOBACCO.—TaIk of Wellington and Nelson, indeed, while no memorial exists to remind the grateful smoker of his best friend, Sir Walter Ra'eigh, the discoverer of the true philosopher's stone, or rather the regenerator of that discovery—for surely the an cients were well acquainted with " the w red," otherwise how could Homer have invented for Jupiter the epithet " cloud compelling," which clearly demonstrates that the great bard of Greece was not only a smoker himself, but likewise deemed the occupation of smoking as one of heavenly origin ; or what can Horace mean by the line, " Ducere selicitm jucunda ebb via vita ?" If the jucunda oblivia mean not the Lethean odour of " the week," then, as the Yankees say, am I " up a tree." Methinks I spy old Flaccus now, reclining on his back upon the green sward, his arms under his head, his eyes half shut, with a pipe of slender stem and ample beryl in his beak —calamo agresti—graeili avena—and wondering at the ab surdity of human nature, which can never be contented with its lot, and blow a cloud like an honest pagan, but must. ever be envying the occupation of others, and fretting after posses sions which it can never attain.— Sporting Magazine. MODE OF EDUCATING DAUGHTERS.-The desire which many persons feel to give their chil dren a better education than has been bestowed upon themselves, is laudable, because it proceeds from sincere affection ; but how often is the success equal to the mo tive which actuates ? How often is the manner of at tempting at all calculated for attaining the object so ear nestly sought ? An ambition to promote the welfare of children reconciles parents to part with them at that tender age when they ought to command more constant care than they generally need at a more advanced time of life ; and this ambition is so strong, that it will even cause little girls to be consigned to the blighting atmo shere of a crowded school-room, there to bewail the loss of the warm hearth, or the airy room of their own homes, and all the comforts which depend upon a mother's soli citude. With a view to their being educated,—that is to say, fitted for the world, and for the discharge of their respective duties in it,—girls are sent to school, and are there condemned to a dull course of lessons, before their minds have sufficient strength to imbibe any kind of learning that requires mental labour, and before their understandings are equal to any greater exertion than that of receiving the difference between a roasted apple and a sugar plum.—English Housekeeper. A letter from Algiers of the sth instant, says : "Throughout the campaign General Mustapha has shown himself as skilful in general policy as he is experienced in arms. It was supposed by some that he would have taken umbrage at seeing raised to the dignity of Bey a young man who was living in obscu. rity at Mostaganem, and of whom we knew nothing, except by his claims to the Casbah of Oran, which, lie said, belonged to him. This, however, has not been the case, and, on the contrary, Mus. tapha has cordially cooperated in the views of the Governor. Gene. ral. The new Bey is 36 years of age, has a fine countenance, and wears his gold-embroidered dress with ease and dignity. When he appears at the head of 300 or 400 Medjehers, who compose his maqzen, he is preceded by his colours, and a band of native rausi. cians, who are considered by the Arabs to be excellent, follows, playing triumphal marches. The squadron of Mekahlia or fusileers, which was composed of about twenty deserters from the red ca valry of Abdel Kader and of the elite of the horsemen of the tribes, is to be comprised in the new organisation of native troops. The command is given to Capt. Walzin d'Esterhazy of the Artillery. The battalion of tiralleurs raised from the Tusks and Coulouglis of Mostaganem will also be included. It is commanded by Captain Bosquet. These two officers are immediately to be promoted to the grade of chef d'escadron. Their troops, without being under the immediate orders of the Bey, will be at his disposal for the sup port and defence of the tribes who have made their sobrnission. With the contingents of these tribes, and this nucleus of regular troops, the Bey will be at the head of an imposing force, and in a position to attack or resist under all circumstances. The true na.. tive force, however, remains in the hands of General Mustapha. This is composed of the 1.400 cavalry of the Douairs and Smelas, who are all brave, hardened in war, and habituated to contact with the other tribes, either to compel them to pay their taxes or to chas tise them." _ A Swiss journal entertains its readers with the two following singular narrations :—A traveller going towards St. Mau rice, by the Bois Noir, was suddenly surprised by perceiving that his steps were followed by a wolf. He stopped and turned round, tho animal quietly seated himself on his haunches, and remained gazing at him as long as he stood still, but when he moved forwards his terrible companion pursued the same track, until the bridge at Mau voisin was reached, when the wolf quietly turned round and gal loped off to the mountain. The second story is:—That, about 11 o'clock one moonlight and clear frosty night, this person, returning from Martigny to his own house in the country, along the St. Mau rice road, he perceived at some distance from him, in the Avenue d'Ottan, by which he was to pass, a wolf seated on its haunches,and watching his approach. The traveller endeavoured to scare away the beast by shouting, but, instead of producing this effect, th e noise brought another wolf over the hedge, which placed itself by the side of the other, and in the same posture. To face two such re. doubtable foeslwould have been foolhardy, and our pedestrian turned and retraced his steps. After walking about a hundred yards he looked back, to see whether the enemies had retired, but found them both trotting a few paces behind him, one a little to the right and the other to the left. Thus they continued to within a short distance of a farm, where the person, who, notwithstanding the ex treme coldness of the air, was streaming with perspiration from fright, met several men going to St. Mzurice. On the arrival of this reinforcement he recovered his courage, but his pursuers it seems lost theirs, for they immediately turned round and ran howl. ing to the mountains. The city of Naples, which had already so many charitable establishments due to the care and philanthropy of King Ferdinand, has now a humane society for the rescue and relief of shiptcrecked mariners and persons in danger of drowning. The Presidents are the Duke de Laurens:ins, Minister of State, and the Neapolitan Ambassador in Paris, the Duke de Serra-Capriola. M. Falcon is appointed grand treasurer. A letter from Naples states that great interest had been exerted there by a sermon in presence of the Court, the diplomatic corps, and the nobility, which was preached by the Abbe Lefebvre, of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in favour of the Infant School. This was the Brat instance of a foreigner being permitted, under such circumstances, to preach in the Royal Church of St. Ferdinand, LIFE OF A MEDICAL MAN.—There is not any career which so rapidly wears away the powers of life, because there is no other which requires a greater activity of mind and body. He has to bear the changes of weather, continued fatigue, irregulariiy in his meals, and broken rest; to live in the midst of miasma and contagion. If in the country, he has to traverse con. siderable distance on horseback, exposed to wind and storm ; to brave all dangers, to go to the relief of suffering humanity. A fearful truth fur medical men has been established by the table of mortality of Dr. Casper, published in the British Review. Of 1,000 members of the medical profession, 600 died before their sixty-second year; whilst of persons leading a quiet life, such as agriculturists or theo logians, the mortality is only 347. If we take 100 individuals of filch of the classes -43 theologians, 40 agriculturists, 85 clerks, and 62 soldiers will reach their seventieth year : of 100 professors of the healing art, 24 only will reach that age. They are the sign posts o health ; they can show the road to old age, but rarely tread it bemselves.—Montreal Cnsrier. 111. H., a gentleman of property, arrived a few days ago, from Lisle, at Tours, and, after dinner, was taking a walk on the Terrace St. Julien, when he was accosted by a man, who made the most disgusting and insulting proposals to him. M.H., in his indignation, seised the fellow, and was dragging him to a more frequented part of the town, in order to get him ar rested; but, in going down some steps, the scoundrel disengaged himself from the grasp in which he was held, drew a poignard, gave M. H. a severe wound in the leg, m a d e o ff , and has not since been discovered. M. H. was soon after found lying senseless on ' the steps, and carried to his hotel, where his wound was found to b• so serious, as to make it apprehensive that amputation will be necessary. Mr. F. S. Murphy, M.P., for the city of Cork, is, we hear, to be raised to the rank 0 Sergeant.atlaw. Mr. Murphy is a rumba of tbi Northern C4Cuit. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21 1842. SPORT Under this title, the Paris Journal La Presse, pub lishes the following amusing article, the original fea tures of which our translation shall endeavour to respect as much as possible : Let me not be accused of singularity, or Anglo manic, for having selected a title which many persons will deem as pretending as it is English. But the word sport has no equivalent in the French language, and fragments of phrases would be required to explain what it explains so well. Sport means horse-races, steeple-chases, coursing, and fowling. Sp or t means a l so p i geon -shooting, dog and cock fighting, losing, and bets of every descrip tion. In short, by the word sport are meant all bodily exercises, all fatiguing and dangerous pleasures, re quiring strength, boldness, and vanity. And now, have we a word of such varied signification—a word so universal ? Is not the borrowing such a term of a foreign language very innocent? Could I have re course to another title, I, who am about to dwell as well as I can on the feats of which horses and dogs, pigeons and men, are the victims or heroes? This country has its own sort of national sport. In Spain the sport is bull-fights—sanguinary • but grand fetes, bequeathed by the Moors to the Spaniards. At Florence and at Rome it is the races of horses without riders. Among the Russians the turf is the frozen water of their river and lakes ; their sport consists in•the art of skating with gracefulness, boldness in driving a swift sledge, the splendour of their equipage, the magnificence and profusion of furs, the noise of the little bells, and, above all, the coquetrie with which the horse in hand casts his head aside as he gallops. In Germany, the waltz, pipe, and beer. In the East, the Djerrid exercise. In Holland, hawking. In Africa, lion hunting. In Bengal, guinea-hen catching, an ingenious ex ploitation of the taste those poor birds have for rum. In other parts of India they have, together with gigantic combats of elephants, tigers, and panthers, pitched battles of thrushes against thruShes, and quails against quails, In France the taste for sport has always been very lively, but it has not been directed to any particular object. We handle the sword, pistol, gun, and car bine, as well as any other nation in the world. We are neither less dexterous, less intelligent, nor less bold than so many others. On horseback our teme rity is sometimes folly. What, then, do we lack to become complete sportsmen ? " Money, and the perse verance of vanity. Our fortunes are too narrow to admit of our in dulging in the way of hunting and racing, a prodi gality which would be ruinous to us, but which the heaps of gold of our neighbours do not even notice. In England there are, certainly, as many as two hundred p ac k s o f hounds ; of that number a hundred, at least, belong to pri vate individuals, who are as ri c h as th e h eroes of the Arabian Night tales. The other hundred belong either to purses which have clubbed toge ther, or to industriels, who get up a hunting associa tion, just as a theatre is got up at Paris; and, almost always, the English speculation, which buys four footed artists, fares better than the theatrical specula tion, which engages biped performers. During three or four of the winter months the cities are deserted and abandoned in England, and towns-people become country-people. The woods and fields ring with the sounds of the horn, the barking of dogs, and the shouts of the sportsmen. With respect to vanity, although nobody has, as yet, reproached us with being in want of it, if there be in the world an undeniable truth, it is that, compared with the English, we were mere myrmidons and Lilliputians. The English are not vain from Englishman to Englishman, they are vain from nation to nation. Whatever be their station, and whatever they do, they always stand champions of their country ; in short, they have a perseverance of vanity which we have not. Let two travelling Englishmen be surprised by a robber who is a country man of theirs, they will not even attempt to defend their purses ; they will suffer themselves to be plun dered without resistance; but if an Englishman be attacked by a band of French robbers, he will fight like a lion, and rather die th an yi e ld, because he will not let Frenchmen boast of having intimidated an Englishman. We Frenchmen have personal vanity and individual gloriole, but not the least national feeling. We care little whether the witness of our rashness be a Russian, Englishman, or Frenchman ; provided we have two eyes fixed upon us, it is all we want ; and a t th a t moment, we are fellows to fight a whole army ; but, as soon as the two eyes cease to look on us, our ardour vanishes, and our passion is extinguished. Such is the nuance between the characters of the two people. Both are proud, and proud to excess ; one of his country, the other of himself ; but the Frenchman has but fits of vanity, and with the Englishman the fever is a permanent one. But let it not be fancied that sport recruits its adepts, only among rich and idle men. The most celebrated statesmen—Lord Palmerston, the Duke of Richmond, Marquis of Normanby, and so many others, Ministers as they have been, are, or will again be, have not the less continued the heroes of sport. English lawyers arrive at their Courts on horseback, duly spurred and whips in hand. Their names daily figure in the racing bets. What would Monsieur le Premier President of our Cour Royale say, if a lawyer presented himself at his sittings to argue a cause, after winning, the day before, the Royal prize • in the Champ de Mars? What jokes have been lavished on M. Thiers's grey horse ? What was. there not said of the equestrian pretensions of M. Cousin, when, in the grand costume of Minister of Public Instruction, he rode in the King's cortege 1' In France a statesman Cannot be a horseman, and a lawyer must move about only on foot, or in a hackney -coach. In England, on the contrary, statesmen and lawyers must be sportsmen, on pain, as regards the former, of being less popular, and, as regards the latter, of having fewer causes to plead. me Derby is a national fete in England. The Derby ! Where is the Englishman who will not sacrifice to it his dearest interests, his most sacred duties, and the presence even of the woman he loves most ? The Derby ! Where are the bright eyes, the delicious smile, that have ever made so many hearts beat, and kindled more passions ? For, see you, the day the Derby Stakes are run for, the rapt ure i s genera l, and one thinks and dreams oinothing but the Derby. That wizard is potent enough to wrest, for a whole day, every Englishman from his lethargic gravity, and to be candid, without sharing , in such fanatical enthusiasm, justice must be done to that marvellous spectacle. Thousands of vehicles cover the plain, a whole world intoxicated with joy, elegant and lovely women, the Court, which, on that day, honour the people with the exhibition of its gala equipages —the Queen with her dazzling toilette and beauty the greatest names of England treating as their equals the grooms and jockeys— the bets crossing one another —every vehicle converted into a dining room—the hawkers—the numberless booths styling themselves Frascati Francaise, Rou lette Francais e' where on e may , b e f ore h an d , d ou b le or recover th e loss which one will realise after the race. Oh! the admirable, astonishing sights, even to eyes not English ! The starting signal is given, the horses rush forward ; silence then becomes gene ral, for the moment is a solemn one. The horses fly • they wo u ld no t b e so li ght if they carried all the gold staked upon their swiftness. For some seconds they are lost sight of behind a little eminence, but they soon re-appear. A whole arsenal of opera-glasses and teles copes is directed upon them, seeking to follow the various stages and fluctuations of a drama more rapid than the wind. The green jacket is foremost, but the red cap has the rope ; at the first turning it will have the advan vantage, but the turning is passed, and the green jacket still prevails. The nearer the horses approach the goal, the more animated and desperate is the struggle. Silence has ceased ; some excite by gesture and voice the horse that carries with him, perhaps, their fortune. The cries raised by the others, though more disin terested, are not less violent. Twenty horses have started—only two or three return. - What a dearly bought victory ! But the conqueror has often won. 30,0001. or 40,0001. The race being over, vehicle races begin on the road ; amidst an awful confusion they cross, meet, strike against one another, and break down. The roads are covered with shattered poles and wheels ; no obstacle stops the tipsy drivers ; they pass every where, and overturn every thing ; one would fancy it a debaccle of the Neva, an avalanche of Mont Blanc, a tempest on the ocean ! In the hierarchy of sport, steeple-chases occupy but a second rank, though the riders were at the very least gentlemen, and though the danger is greater. But the steeple-chase horses are not usually of so pure a blood, and of so noble a breed as the race horses, and, before all, respect to blood, respect to lofted ! After steeple-chases, come, ever in compliance with the hierarchic order of sport, greyhound racing. More fortunate than the race-horse, who triumphs only to enrich his master, the winning greyhound finds his reward at the end of his career. In those races which are much in fashion in England, considerable sums are staked, won, and lost. _ _ Next come stag, hare, and fox-hunting, with its fatigues, emotions, and perils. Then comes pigeon-shooting--the other chasse in slippers and robe de chambre, and favourite pastime of folks who reject all that is adventurous and fa tiguing- in sport. In the way of interludes,, we have proposals more or less, singular, and bets more or l ess extraord i nary. - Thus, a Woolwich lieutenant offers to play a game at tennis against anybody for a sum of 50/., a singu lar accomplishment for an artillery officer ! An individual announces that on the lath of Ja nuary, at noon, he will throw himself, dressed, into the Thames, from the top of Waterloo-bridge ; for 5/. h e w ill treat himself to that Cold bath; may it is too cheap to deny ourselves so lively a pleasure, and all hasten to carry their contributions to the appointed place. Another engages not to touch any food for ten days, if a subscription of 101. be filled up, which he opens to his profit at the Crown tavern. The pound ster ling fr everyof fasti ng ! It i s not too muc h. After horses, day greyhounds, foxes, pigeons, and bull-dogs, we at length come to boxers—that last class of sport, which hOlds V brutes V in greater esteem than men ; for do not fancy that this classification is the effect of chance, and of a sense of shame or disgust. Not so; the English do nothing without an intention ; they never blush at what they do, and are enraptured with delight at the hideous sight of two desperate boxers. Thus the last rank allotted in the hierarchy of spoil to those ignoble fights. roves only, that if they tremble when their horse hascaught a cold, they have somewhat less feeling when they behold a man's ribs knocked in. In those com bats every th:ng is opprobrious and repulsive—ay, every thing, from the teethless mouth, and the brutal looks ofthose degraded beings, to the preparations and pre cautions destined to prolong the combat. Each parrain brings his champion a pail of water, a large horse sponge, and a bottle of brandy or wine. The heroes are stripped to the waist, and, at first, toster as much from fear as jrom drunkenness ; but the mur murs of the spectators soon warn them that (they have not come to witness mere childish play. Vanity then prevails over fear, and the combat becomes se rious. At every tooth that drops, at every rib that breaks, at every eye that falls out, there are voices that shout bravo ! and hands that applaud. The struggle has already lasted an hour ; the boxers are exhausted ; they can scarcely stand ; their faces are bruised, and covered with blood ; their bodies present but a huge sore. But they have not yet rested and assailed one another above ,50 times, and a beau combat must be renewed at least 60 or 70. Their parrains apply the sponge to the flowing blood, wash their eyes, noses, and ears, pour wine or brandy down their throats ; and the blows resound again, until one of them, ex hausted, panting, almost dead, falls down to get up no more. And yet the crowd is often dissatisfied; often does it cry that there has been treachery or cowardice—instead of one corpse, it would have two. This is the ugly side of sport in England, for it is not the populace only that is avide of these loath some spectacles ; the most elegant men blush not to witness them, and to speculate upon the fists of a boxer with the same sang . froid as they speculate upon a horse's legs. In this department of sport we shall never be on a level with the English, and we can but congratulate ourselves upon it. The Annals of the Propagation of the Faith:contain a letter to the Pope from the Bishop of Algiers, with a statement of the condition of the Catholic Church in his diocese. At Algiers, the Bishop states, the number of Catholics is 12,000, with two churches and four chapels, besides others getting ready, with several hospitals. In the province of Algiers there are five other churches and four chapels. The priests are twenty.three, and there are several establishments of religious sisters and brethren. At Chercell there is a priest and an hospital, and two mosques consecrated to Christian worship; at Oran 5,000 Catho lics, three priests, an establishment of religious sisters, and an hos pital. At Constantine there are three priests, several religious sisters, a church, a chapel, and several hospitals. At Bugia there is a priest, with a church and an hospital. In all parts of the pro. vinces the military masses have been re-established, and at Constan tina 1,000 soldiers took the sacrament last Easter, out of 3,000 forming the garrison: The Bishop adds several details of his pro. ceedings for the redemption of the prisoners, whieh we have already laid before our readers at the time they occurred. " It appears," says the Courrier Francais, " that Government has decided on corning to an understanding with the Commission which the Chamber of Deputies will appoint to exa. mine the project of law on railroads, in order to begin hnme uiately part of the direct line to Strasburg, and to introduce into the great lines that from Strasburg to Marseilles, via Mul hausen, Dijon, and Lyons. A credit will also be demanded this year for commencing in 1842 the works upon this new great line. It is also stated that the Minister of Public Works will shortly present a project oflaw for conceding to companies (with a subsidy from the State) three important branch lines, viz., from Creil to Compeigne, from Orleans to Viereon, and from Bordeaux to Bayonne." A letter in the Constitutionnel, from the bivouac of User, on the road between Oran and Tlemcen, dated 19th ult., says :—" The following plan of operations, and respecting which no secresy is observed, has been decided upon in the general staff. The army will remain a fortnight at Tlemcen, and means will be taken to organise the country and the relations with our new allies. The Marabout Sidi.Mahommed• ould.el.Chigr, who is with us, will be installed in the mechouar or citadel of Tlemcen, and there will be left with him for his defence two pieces of artillery and a bat tenon of natives, which is to be raised for that purpose. They will be commanded entirely by French officers. All the ar. rangemcnts being terminated, our column will march for Mas. care and Oran, by the valley. The expedition will take up thirty days. We have just learned from the scouts of General Mu& tapha that Abd-el-Kader is following us with all the force that he could raise, and that he hbs with him two renowned chiefs, Ben Salem and Sidi Embarrack. These chiefs, who are natives of the province of Algiers, are accompanied by a pretty strong force of cavalry, and 2,000 infantry. This shows how the power of the Emir has declined in the province of Oran, where he had formerly only to give his orders to raise all the tribes. Abd.el.Kader has executed a razzia among the Beni.Amers, who had attempted to join us, and had even furnished us with 400 cavalry. He came upon them suddenly, and, after raising heavy contributions, made all the chiefs of this rich and powerful tribe prisoners. They are shut up in Tlemcen, and we are informed that we shall find their heads on the gates of the town when we shall arrive there." The Gazette die Midi announces the arrival in France of a Senator of the Venezuelan Republic, who has come from Bordeaux to Marseilles, with a commission to engage in France and Spain thirty missionaries, preferring Spanish Capuchin friars. if they can be obtained, for re-establishing the ancient missions of the Caronis, Rio Negro, and other districts, and also 100 priests, for performing service in the parishes of the three divisions of Ca. racas, Guyana, and Merida. His commission further extends to the engagement of thirty journeymen carpenters, smiths, masons, potters, lime-burners, and weavers for the missions. The gentle• man in question is said to be furnished by his Government with sufficient fluids to defray the expenses of all whom he may engage to the places of their destination. ROMAN REMAINS AT ETRETAT (SEINE IrtrEatimea. )—The lAbbe Cochet made some researches seven years ago among some Roman ruins discovered at Etretat, ?near' Havre, but was at length forced to suspend them. 'Having, %however, received a small grant of money from Government, he-"has lately resumed his labours, and cc villa. It is about thirty yard s i n length, formed o f small squared re e d ded stone,in Blearingfaced a wall,. ev id ent l y part . o f an anc i ent with flint. At the end towards the succeeded sea, is a small cell below the building, the floor and wa ll s o f which are composed of stone, carefully ce mented. In the wall are th e traces of stone pipes, intended to bring down water into the cell from the upper parts of the building. Immediately above, and in advance of this basin, which appears to have been used for washing, was a spacious apartment, paved in compartments. The di mensions of the ruins are about 24 feet at their greatest breadth, and the walls rise from 3 to 6 feet. The lower part was demolished in the earliest ages of Christianity, and the materials used for building the old chapel of St. Valery, one wall of which is still standing. The only remains of art hitherto discovered are a small child's sarcophagus, in good preservation, two coins of the Upper Empire, very much de faced, a bone pin, an urn of grey stone, and numerous frag ments of coloured coatings of walls, some tiles, and irrdesecnt glass. At a short. distance wer e f ound severa l s k e l etons , w ith the heads laid indifferently as t o t h e po i nts o f th e compass, showing that the bodies were i n t erred i n the t i mes o f P agan i sm. Another steam-boat blew up, near Nantes, a few days since. It ran between Nantes and Pellerin. Fortunately nobody was injured, and the passengers, being landed, finished their route on foot. The amount paid by the Cirque Olympique, for the year 1841, to the hospices, Was 92,127 f. being a tenth part of its gross receipts, as fixed by law f or places of publ i c amusement. ENGLISH CARDINAL. --Five new Cardinals were proclaimed at Rome on the 24th ult. One of the new appointments of his Holiness is an Englishman, Cardinal Acton. Cardinal Acton is a younger son of the late Ambas sador at Naples, and is related to one of the oldest families in Shropshire. His Eminence was educated at Magdalen Col lege, Cambridge, where, though he much distinguished him self by close application to study, his religious tenets prevented him from proceeding to his degree. He is the youngest mem ber of the Sacred College, and has long lived at Rome, with his mother, Lady Acton. The Commission appointed by the Municipal Coun cil of Paris for examining the questions as to the regulation of the butcher trade, having heard the representations of the feeders, butchers, and different agents of the administration, has proposed an ordonnance to the following effect No butcher shall have more than one shop or stall. There shall be one butcher for every 2,200 inhabitants. All shops and stalls exceeding this number shall be repurchased by the syndicate. A shop or stall msy be sold by a butcher to one of his - relations. In case of - death, the widow or children may succeed. Every btitcher must make a deposit of eau.. tion.money. The members of the syndicate are to be elected by a majority of the votes of the butchers. Every shop or stall which shall remain three days without a supply of meat, shall , be closed for six months. No sales or purchases shall be made, except in markets duly licensed fur this species of provisions. The trade called als cheeille (carcase-butchers), in which rich butchers kill cattle anu sell the meat to others of the trade, is suppressed after the tolerance of four years. Country dealers, as well as the butchers of Paris, are authorised to sell meat in the markets." ed those of 1840 by nearly 2,000,000 f. of amount Augu of tfi thens,during sales the in last year, the e Poultryxc market of exceeded 1840 The e a The Correctional Tribunal L yons has been en gaged three days on the trial of forty-five men, accused of belong. ing to an illegal association at Lyons, assuming the title of Chariots. eerie Reformee. The existence of this Society became known to the Magistracy soon after its formation, and it was ascertained that a journeyman currier, named Briquemont, was one of its members. He was arrested, and his lodgings searched. Two regulation mus kets, a poignard, a sash of red, blue, and black colours, a quantity of powder and cartridges, and the catechism of the Society, were found in the privy, where it had been attempted to conceal them.' Other papers relating to the A s sociation were afterwards discovered, and among them a list of persens designated by such names as Brutus, Publicola, Cato, Alibaud 1., Alibaud II ; but, from the ex amination of Briquemont, t he real persons to whom these appella tives were given were soon disclosed, and the number of persons stated above were included in the prosecution, although twelve of theni contrived to escape the grasP of the officers of justice. Two parts of the documents read in Court excited particular attention. The first, which was part of the catechism, consisted of the follow ing question and answer :—;; Q. Who are the parasites of society?— A. Their number is infinite. They are-1. Capitalists and owners of houses and lands ; 2. The advocates ; 3. The avoues and huts. siers ; 4. The judges, and generally all those who are charged with te s respected causing the laws to be executed and ; 5- All builders of walls or other inclosures betweep different propessiew,_The second paper ran thus :—" We have seen thousands of martyrs in the streets, in the prisons, on the scaffolds, who, for the death of the King, would give twenty louis, if they had them, We admire them, we sing their praise, but we dare not.-imitate them. We may, therefore, be justly called Egotists. We expect to see others shed their blood, that we may take the benefit." On Friday last judg ment was delivered. Thirty-three were found guilty, and sentenced to various penalties, varying from five months to ten days' imprison ment, down to a simple fine of 50f. Twelve were acquitted. A N TI-CORN-L A W CONFERENCE. --Mr. Ash worth, in his speech on Saturclat, stated th a t i n seven of the principal branches of trade, there had been a falling off in wages to the amount of 170,000 i. (not 1,7001.) a-year, and that the amount altogether might be reckoned at diminu tion32o,o of comfort equal to 1,000/. for every worki ng d ay. Th e W/. ; a wool trade of Westmoreland alone was estimated to be 10,0001. a-year worse than In 11/138, as wool had fallen from 17s. to 125. par itene. THE NEW SCALE. A Parliamentary friend well acquainted with foreign trade says— " The best part of Peel's plan is that which governs the im port of Oats, Barley, and the inferior sorts of grain. They will undoubtedly come in upon much better terms than at pre sent. I think very ill of the plan relating to Wheat, whim, with the new averages, will always be liable to as oppressive. a duty as it could possibly pay. It is almost a monopoly to the landlords, and will quite cut off American supplies. " The Irish Tories (the greatest jobbers we have) are alarmed about the duty on Oats being so low, but they must submit. Last year they threw out a Bill brought in by Mr. Labouchere to admit foreign flour into Ireland, but this year they submit vo ithout a murmur because Peel is the propsser. " The accounts are very bad from America. You will have a very bad trade with that country ; but, take their corn and flour, and you will have a very good one."--- Leeds Mercury. CORONER'S INQUEST. An inquest was held at the sign of the Swan, Kingsland road, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, on ♦iew of the body of Mr. John Henry Watson, - :a remarkably fine young man, a sur geon, who committed suicide under the following extraordinary circumstances. The first witness called was Mr. George Henry Gould, a surgeon, residing at No. 19, Kingsland-crescent, who stated that between the hours of one and two o'clock on Thursday morning last he was called on to attend the deceased, whom heY found in the kitchen of the house No. 21, Kingsland-road. The deceased, on his making his appearance, said he had taken three ounces of laudanum, but did not state what was the cause of his doing so. He, witness, from his appearance, ha v i ng much doubt whether his statement was correct, ordered him to go home, and he accordingly walked home. The smell from his breath did Rot indicate that he had taken laudanum, and this was in a great measure the cause of witness's suspecting that he had not taken opium. CORONER-If he had taken prussic acid would not the smell have been somewhat the same as laudanum ? Witness : It might, but it would hive a much more powerful effect, as the deceassd did not even appear drowsy, though he had pointed to the bottle from which he had taken the poison. On his way home from the house of Mr. Webster to that of his brother, a short distance off, the deceased appeared perfectly rational, and on reaching his brother's he (witness) used the stomach pump, but could not perceive anything of a delete rious kind, though it might have partook of some spirituous liquor. On Friday morning he (witness) called agreeable to the wish of the coroner. He called to make a post mortem ex amination of the body, but he then ascertained that the t bro ther of the deceased had called in another surgeon to assist him in the post mortem examination, which was done without him. The Coroner and jury expressed their surprise that the post mortem examination should not have been performed by the witness, but by a second party. Police Constable Walton, 8 N. deposed that, on Thursday day morning last, he saw a crowd of perions about the area of the house of Mr. Webster, No. 21, Kingsland-crescent, and on going there he found the deceased inside the railing, and in the area, a depth of nine feet. His (witness's) first impression was that he was a thief, and he asked him what he was doing there The deceased replied, " I'm after a d—d girl in this house." He appeared to be in liquor at the time, and he (wit ness) called for the assistance of a brother constable, and on his coming up he knew the decea.ed, and asked him what he was doing there ? when he repeated he was'after a d—d girl, and said he had taken poison ; and Mr. Gould, the last witness, who was present, replied, " Serve you right." Mr. Gould denied the statement of the constable, but that officer declared it was perfectly true. The brother of the deceased, who said he had been merely assistant to him for the last twelve months, was next examined, but nothing particular was elicited from him. He, however, admitted that the deceased had latterly, from several causes, been in a very excited state of mind, and had frequently ex pressed his determination to destroy himself by swallowing laudanum. Mr. Hatton, a surgeon, who had examined the body after death, gave it as his opinion that the deceased had died of collapse, and admitted that he might have taken laudanum, which might be absorbed into the system, as there was no indi cation of its presence in the stomach. The Coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased had died of collapse, caused by excitement, and which might have been accelerated by laudanum, but of the fact of his doing so no evidence appeared before the jury " The deceased had, it appeared, paid his addresses for some time to Miss Webster, a young lady of property, but who, as well as her friends, had latterly discarded him on account of his irregular habits. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE J. SYDNEY TAYLOR, (THIS DAY.) A public meeting was held at one o'clock at Exeter Hall, for the purpose of raising a fund for erectinr , a monument to the memory of the late Mr. J. S. Taylor, and for the publication of his works. The meeting was most respectably attended by gentlemen connected with the Bar, and others who have admired the principles of the deceased, and the able manner in which he advocated them. The chair was taken by Sir JOHN CHETWODE, Bart, M.P., who briefly introduced the subject to the meeting. The Secretary, M. PRENDERGAST, Esq., read several letters from Mr. Thos. Clarkson, Mr. Wm. Allen, and Mr. Moore, of Dublin, expressive of the high admiration of the writers for the talent of the deceased, and the phi lantrophic objects, to the promotion of which those talents were directed. Mr. EWART, M.P., moved the first resolution, to the effect that the distinguished public services of the late John Sydney Taylor demand some testimonial of public respect to his memory. That for the promotion of this object a fund be raised, to be applied under the direction of a Committee, to provide a tomb and inscription to the memory of the deceased,: and that a separate fund be raised for the publication of Mr. Taylor's valuable works. Mr. Ewart said he con sidered himself honoured by its being proposed to him to move a resolution on the present occasion. A resolu tion connected with the memory of a man so distin guished for his public services, for the inflexibility with which he pursued them, and for the ability with which he carried them into effect. The resolution combined in it three propositions, all relating to the character of the late Mr. Taylor. His situation as an advocate ; his relations to the public as a writer ; and last, and most worthy of their attention, his efforts as a distinguished philanthro pist in the general cause of humanity. As an advo cate, Mr. Taylor gave early promise of excellence, and was rising to distinction in his profession, when the hopes of his friends were frustrated by his death. As a writer, he was distinguished both by the cause he undertook, and the effect he produced on the public. Even in the more humble, but more useful, path of a periodical writer, he daily worked on the public mind and advanced great public causes. Through a'. period of many years he strongly advocated the total repeal of the punishment of death. Of that cause he was a most zealous and most effective advocate. Mr. Ewart proceeded to describe the untiring energies and labours of the deceased in the cause to which he had devoted himself; concluding by saying, that whoever added to a general knowledge of the deceased the happiness of knowing him more in timately, he was convinced would all combine, in their public and private capacities, to pour the mingled tribute of sorrow and respect upon his urn. JOHN T. BA It Esq., seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. Sergeant GLOVER, in moving the next resolution, passed a high eulogy on the attainments of Mr. Taylor as a scholar, he having been a fellow-student with him at Trinity College, where Mr. Taylor obtained the last gold medal given by the .Historical Society for eloquence, and honour which he participated with Plunkett, Chief Justice Bushe, and other most eminent men of their day. He referred to the exertions of Mr. Taylor in the case of Mr. Dillon, whom he restored to the peerage, and to his pamphlet entitled " Anti-Draco," written in advocacy of the repeal of the punishment of death in cases of. forgery. Mr. ETTY, R.A., said it had been asserted that Mr. Sydney Taylor had not been sufficiently known as a public man to justify the attempt to raise a public monument to his memory, but, for his own part, he could not conceive any better title to the character of a public man than having done emi nent public services. —(Hear, hear.) Among the Ro mans it was the highest honour to save the life of a citi zen. This was not the only claim which Mr. Taylor had to their admiration. He was also an ardent lover of the beautiful, and a most zealous - defender of it, when it was attacked either by the daring hand of pre-' sumptuous taste, or the more cold-blooded calculations of Mammon. He then alluded to the exertions of the deceased in saving from destruction those beautiful relics of church architecture, St.:Alban's Abbey, the Ladie Chapel of St. Saviour's, Southwark, and one of the finest portions of York Cathedral. These were standing evidences of the power of the segis which had interposed between them and the ,barbarism of mischie vous men. As it was with one of the first philospher3 of the old world, as it was with very well-organised mind, a love of the beautiful and the good were with him synonymous terms ; and of him might be said in the words of a poet he admired— " Fame is the spur which the clear spirit cloth raise, That last infirmity of noble minds, To scorn delight and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon, when we hope to find, Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin spun life," but he trusted " not the praise," which the deceased so justly merited. It is said that the Mahometans have a feeling amounting almost to superstition, which prevents them from destroying any piece of paper that has manuscript on it, for fear it may contain a verse of the Koran. With re gard to those who had charge of Mr. Taylor's manu scripts he was assured they would have the same feeling, for he was convinced that every one of them contained some impress of his eloquent mind, and some mark of the inspirations which the Muses gave him. He would conclude by addressing to them some words from the poet of whom was Mr. Taylor was so fond : " Oh guard the relics to your care consigned, And bear the merits of the dead in mind ; How skilled he was in each obliging art, The mildest manners and the gentlest heart, For these were his, till fate decreed his end — In death a hero, as in life a friend." THOS. SATMDEITS, Esq., F.S.A., moved a resolution for providing a fund for the publication of the works of Mr. Taylor, which fund is to be made distinct and sepa rate from that for raising a monument. Dr. BARRY seconded the resolution. Resolutions for fixing a day for a public meeting, for appointing a Treasurer and Secretary, and for printing, advertising, and distributing the resolutions passed on the present occasion, were then moved and seconded by Mr. Power, J. Tarte, Esq., the Rev. Mr. Hewson, and M. Prendergast, Esq. M. WELLS, jun.; Esq., then moved the thanks of the' meeting to Sir John Chetwode, .a.r,t...,,f0r his - conduct in the Chair, which was briefly acknowledged by the Chairman, and the meeting separated. A list of contributions already made to the fund was read by the Secretary before the meeting broke up. • On the 28th ult., a female named Paula Ullastres died, at Barcelona, leaving by her will instructions that she should be attended to her grave by twelve poor persons in new clothing, and a band of music playing hymns and marches. Her wish was complied with, and the procession pass e d t h roug h t h e pr i n cipal greets of the Olt, Air the wa74otbe burial place, NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH. FEB. 18.—The Erebus and Terror, survey ing ships, Capt. Ro s s, l e ft S y d ney a b out t h e 12 t h o f S ep t., t o continue his search in the Southern high latitudes; the ships will call at New Zealand and Chatham Island. SYDNEY, SEPT. 12.—The United Kingdom, a vessel of up wards of 1,200 tons had] arrived from England, having left the 25th of May, bringing 482 emigrants. The China had also arrived the same day with 270 emigrants. A cargo of Chilian wheat was shipped at the low price of 2s. per bushel. Cattle were extremely low, 50s. per head. An excellent milch cow and her calf had been sold for 41. Land nearl town was still selling at unprecedented rates; some lately disposed of by auction at Parametta, sold at the rate of 10,0001. per acre. Arrived this morning from the Downs, the Formidable, 84 guns, Captain Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., and the Alfred, 50 Commodore, J. B. Purvis. The Malabar, 72, went from Gibraltar to Cadiz on the 2d instant. The Vernon, 50, returned to Gibraltar on the 30th ultimo. The Rapid, 10, put into Fdlmouth on Saturday last, on ac count of strong westerly gales, and sailed again on Monday for the coast of Africa. The Wolverine, 10, Commander Johnson, will sail on Tues day next for the East Indies a n d China, taking out despatches for the Commander-in-Chief, and some supernumeraries for the squadron. The Curysfort, 28, Captain Lord George Paulet, was taken out of the basin on Tuesday last. The Kite steamer, has been commissioned at Woolwich, by Lieut. T. L. Gooch. The Ganges, 84, and Benbow, 72, arc ordered from the Mediterranean to England, to be paid off. The Warspite, 52, Captain Lord Johd Hay, passed through Spithead on Tuesday, from Yarmouth Roads (with Lord Ash burton on board), on her way to New York. Whilst lying in Yarmouth Roads she lost an anchor and chain cable, and was supplied with others on the following day by the Avon steamer which preceeded to Yarmouth for that purpose. The Volcano steam-vessel, at Woolwich, will be ready for sea on 'Monday. The Emerald returned on Monday from Plymouth; the Cracker sailed the same day for Jersey ; the former sailed again to-day with supernumeraries, for Sheerness. The Echo, steamer, has been employed this week in bring ing. the wreck of the Vindictive's mizen-mast from Selsea. She brought the rigging and the light spars on Thursday, and the mast, top, and top-mast, this morning. Part of the main and false keels have been brought to the dock-yard this week, by a fishing vessel, which bad dragged them up. The Speedy, cutter, and Lightning, steamer, arrived to-day froM Plymouth, with men ; the latter afterwards proceeded to the eastward. The Caledonia, Halifax and Boston steam packet, returned yesterday to Liverpool damaged; she had made 1,00 miles of her passage, but it was deemed advisable to run back before the wind. The Acadia sails to-day with her mail, and an ad ditional mail in charge of Lieut. Amb rose . The Driver steam frigate is to proceed to China ; she is at Woolwich fitting an apparatus for consuming smoke, which will occupy a few days, arid will then touch at this port. In other respects she is ready to start. The African steamer has been newly fitted with a powerful machinery, and is to be sent to this port as a tirboat. The Vindictive, 50, Captain J. T. Ni c h o l as, is f ast f i tt i ng in the Basin. Sh e has got her guns and water on board, and the topmast rigging is now being set up. She will soon be ready to proceed to sea. Her crew has been again increased in number to. day. The Pilot, with 700,000 dollars, arrived at Jamaica for Vera Cruz, January 4. The Comus, 16, sailed the same day for Carthagena. The Illustrious, 72, and Spartan, 26, had reached Bermuda for England. It is understood that two additional 50 gun frigates are imme diately to he put in commission. The Hon. Captain Byng is appointed Commodore on the Jamaica station, with his pennant in the Nlagnificent. Upwards of 250 stout young seamen and boys have been raised at Glasgow and Greenock, for the general service of the Navy, during the last five months.—This rendezvous is now discontinued. PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY, FEB. 17.—The Delight packet, 6, Liet. W. Lory, was paid off last Saturday. The Implacable, 74, Captain H. W. Bruce, was taken into dock on Sa turday, and is found to be in a defective state, and as it will take a much longer time to get her ready for the ser vices she was intended for, it is reported the Agincourt, 72, will be commissioned to supply her place.—The Lightning steamer, Lieut. Pearce, arrived from Woolwich, on Monday, with a detachment of Marines, which have been transferred to the Minden, for service in China; the Avon, Steamer, Lieut. C. Jenkins, arrived with volunteers from Liverpool; and the Speedy, cutter, Lieutenant G. Beaufoy, from Ports mouth, with supernumeraries. The General Palmer, transport, Lieut. Sanderson, arrived from the River, with stores to be shipped on board the Minden, for China. It is expected the Resistance, 42, (troop-ship,) will shortly be commissioned ; she has been masted, and the artificers are working extra hours to get her ready. - Iu liarboUr—Caledonia, San Josef, Implacable, Minden, Fly, Scylla, Bramble, Speedy, Avon, Lightning, and General Palmer transport. APPOINTMENTS. —Lieutenants—F. P. Egerton, to the Im pla •able ; Arthur Mellersh, to the Minden ; A. J. Grfeme, to the Queen, vice Boyle, promoted ; David Elliott (in Queen), to the Ringdove ; T. L. Gooch, to command the Kite; F. A. Campbell, to Cornwallis, and to take passage in the D r i ver . Master—Richard Hodges (1812) to the Vindictive. Second Master—Robert Fuller, to the Kite. Surgeon—J. W. Reid, to the Implacable. Purser—Samuel Wadland, to the Implacable. Chaplains—Rev. W. S. Parish, to the Implacable ; Rev. John Edwards, to the Vernon. Assistant Surgeons—Robert Anderson, and R. M. Isabell, to the Implacable ; C. G. Campbell, to the Scylla; J. W. Mustard, to the Minden; J. Brown, to the St. Vincent ; G. Sizey, to the Ringdove. Mates—Chas. Bromley and James Simpson, to the Driver. Midshipman—Edward Nicholls, to Lightning, vice Collier, promoted. _ _ Secretary—W. Dyer, Esq, to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy. Clerks in Charge—G. A. Stewart, to the Kite ; Charles Saunders, to the Fearless, vice Robertson. Clerk—Mr. F. H. Spry (late Powerful), to be additional Clerk in Implacable. Volunteers Ist Class—Henry Hawkes, to the Ringdove. COAST GUARD.—Commander Thomas Holloway Holman (1841), to be Inspecting Commander; Lieutenant John Brown (1829), to be Chief Officer ; Lieut. A. Carroll, from Greenore to blillisle , vice C. J. Postle, resigned, and ap pointed afloat. Commanders Hay and Bingham, recently promoted in the China squadron, are arrived in England, overland from India; Captains Eyres and Anson are now returning by the same route. The Modeste was left in charge of Commander Watson ; Co lumbine, Commander Tindal ; • and Pylades, Commander Moor.head. Lieut. John Cheere has been directed to take charge of the regulating eitablishment at Bristol for raising Seamen for the Navy. WOOLWICH-FRIDAY. THE ROYAL ARTILLERY. Garrison Order, Feb. 4, 1842. It is the Commandant's very gratifying duty to announce to the garrison the King of Prussia's satisfaction, not only with its appearance, but with every branch of the establishment that came ander his notice. The Commandant is anxious to convey his best thanks to the officers and men employed in the several duties of the day. THE ROYAL NAVY. The Kite steam-vessel was commissioned on Saturday last, and the fallowing officers have been appointed to her :-,,Lieut. T. J. Gooch, Mr. Robert Fowler, Second Master ; and Mr. G. A. Stewart, Clerk in Charge. . The Fearless and Comet steam-vessels were on Monday towed by the African to Deptford, for the purpose of being docked, as the caisson of the new dock here has not yet been completed. The Driver steam-vessel, Commander Samuel Harmer, is fitting with Mr. Dagleish's smoke-consuming apparatus, and when completed, which she is expected to be in the course of next week, will leave for foreign service. Mr. Charles Brom. ley and Mr. James Simpson have been appointed Mates to serve in her ; and as Lieutenant Frederick A. Campbell pro ceeds in the Driver to join the Cornwallis, 74, at present serv ing in China, the destination of the former fine steam-vessel maybe surmised with some degree of certainty. The African steam-vessel has been fitted with powerful engines, and now forms a superior tug-boat. It is said she will, when fully completed, be sent round to Portsmouth for service on that station, the want of a vessel of her description being much required to tow large ships whoa their services are ordered at short notice. A few days ago, some robbers got into the Chateau of Mme. de Bagneris, at Vidou, near Tarbes, which was under the ctrtrge at the time of a servant-girl. The thieves seized, blinded, and bound her on a bed, covering her with the clothes, but doing her no injury. They left her thus, and went to •earch the house for valuables. While they were thus engaged, the girl contrived to loosen her bonds, and make her escape to the Mayor, who hastened to the chateau with a sufficient force. The invaders, however, had decamped vi ith no small booty. The police, two or three days afterwards, arrested a Spaniard at Tarbes, on whom they found a pistol, a powder-flask, and some other articles belong ing to the Chateau de Vidou, and it is supposed that this will lead to the arrest of the other parties. AND HE DIED.—It is reported of one, thit, hearing the fifth chapter of Genesis read, so long lives, and yet the burden still, they died—Seth lived nine hundred and twelve years, and he died ; Enos lived nine hundred and fire years, and , he died; Methuselah, nine hundred and slaty nine years, and he died—he took an deeply the thought of death and eternity, that It changed his whole frame, and turned him from a volup tuous, to a most strict and pious course of life. How small a word will do much, when God sets it into the heart! But surely this one thing would make the soul calm and sober in the pursuit of present things if it were truly computed and considered. How soon shall youth and health, mid carnal delights, be at an end! The Clermont papers state that much bad will exists on the part , of the lower classes in that town towards the soldieri of the garrison, - and especially of the 16th regiment of the lino. Acts of violence have been committed against them ; but the autho a ies bays taken measures to preserve order. Tit FORCE OF 1 - lAurr.-,.—01d Charles, as he is familiarly called, had driven a coach from Teignmouth to Exeter for sevent&n years, and never had a holiday. He began to fancy that 'he wanted something of the kind, and the request was so reasonable that he had only to ask and have it instantly granted, another driver, on a particular day, but a few weeks since, being directed to perform the journey for him. In the morning, however, Charles arose as usual, and nothing would do but he must go and have a look at the coach and horses These underwent the accus tomed examination, and when the coachman pro tem. mounted the box, Charles, apparently unconscious what he was about, mounted also, and deliberately took his seat by the side of his deputy.— Wes/ England Conservative Journal. " Since the departure of the King of Prussia for England," says a Berlin correspondent of the Wurtzburg Gazette, " the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh seems to be drawing nearer than Wore to the Court of France, while it becomes more and more cold towards that of Prussia. Some surprise has been felt at seeing the Prussian papers publish articles against Russia, and in favour of Poland ; manifestations which have not been impeded by the police. —The Kawigaberg Gazette has gone so far as to say that it is ne. cessary to maintain a spirit of nationality in the Polish provinces, instead of annihilating it, as the Rursian Government is doing." A Berlin letter says—" The railroad between this city and Stettin is going on with great rapidity, the works being continued by night as well as by day, lighted by lanterns and torches. The first section, reaching to Neustadt.Eberswalde, will be Completed in June next ; and the second portion, running on to Aniersmunde, by October. .The whole line will be finished in March, 1543." - The. Gazette de -Liege states that there are not less than twelie divorce suits at this moment before the Civil Tribunal of that place, and that most of the parties belong lo the educated and wealthy classes of society. A barbarous murder was committed, on•,the Ist inst., in the district of Olmiccia (Corsica), by an uncle on the per son of. his nephew, against whom he entertained a grudge on ac count of a disputed inheritance. He - Isla in wait for his victim, and shot him in bioad daylight with a double-barrelled gun, cans. ing his instantaneous death. The murderer then made his escape to the forest, and has not yet been apprehended. The Furet of Havre published its last number with a column in blank in consequence of the refloat of •its printer to insert a political article., ...„ . . COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS. io c n o m fo m r t t t h e e e e l - v a h p o p s o e i n i t n m t e e r n e t s t n f g t h a e n d " C u soeptyulli g _ It will b e :seen that Mr. Emerson Tennent has carried I h ) i e s si n g l i o is t bt in vestigation of the Petition of the Calico Printers, for the extension of Copyright, was last year frustrated by the dissolution of Parliament and its abridged proceedings. The facts of the grievance of the calico printers may be substantially divided into two heads, viz.: firstly, the patterns of the calico-printer s are plundered, after a great outlay of capital, just at the time they ought to re munerate the proprietor ; and, secondly, that they are got up by the pirates in a cheaper and deteriorated form, to the injury of national taste and the detriment of the public purchaser. A free trade opposition has been united against this claim, on the same principle as against the better pro tected and more extended copyright of books, just pro posed by Mr. Godson, and is liable to the same ob jections. Among the cogent arguments, adduced by numerous respectable witnesses, in favour of extended protection to calico printers, it was stated, that we are greatly inferior to French artists in design, in con sequence of our comparative deficiency, and that our foreign trade is proportionately restricted. Mr. Ten nent's measure contemplates, we believe, nine months' protection, in conformity with the view expressed by Sir Robert Peel last year in Committee. The opponents of protection examined before the Com mittee, among whom were several who had largely profited, on their own admission, by this kind of in vasion of property, and justified, on the plea of being within the law, and, therefore, as not a breach of the law, rested their chief repugnance to the extension of protection to copyright on the very ground of monopoly. This is natural to all plunderers, including plunderers of author's copyrights, to protest against monopoly, in other words, against all exclusive property. France furnishes a sufficient answer to the charge that pro tection creates monopoly. We have the proof that it breeds emulation, and promotes competition, by which eventually cost is decreased, and consumption encouraged. In no other country is the same protection afforded, and nowhere else do those arts flourish, or are they culti vated to an equal extent. N ow h ere e l se are their pro fessors equally respected and respectable, and, therefore; nowhere else is ambition stimulated to excellence as means of elevation in the social scale. There is an absurd, prejudice that the artistical designers of France have .niore taste than the English. This is a fallacy. Give pattern copyright protection, as in France; give the English artist pattern-drawers similar encourage ment, and they need not be afraid of French competition. —British Queen. REAT ANTI-MINISTERIAL MEETING. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT LEICESTER, THURSDAY EVENING, ]'EB. 17, 1842. This afternoon a must numerous and spirited meeting of the inhabitants has been held in the Market-place, to repudiate the Ministerial measure on the Corn-laws. The meeting was called by the Mayor, on the requisition of several hundreds of the most respectable manufacturers and shopkeepers of the town. It was fixed for one o'clock, and shortly after that hour there could not be less than 4,000 persons present. Amongst them were Chartists, Tories, and Whigs, but the utmost una nimity reigned throughout. One feeling seemed alone to ac tuate thorn. Sympathy for the distresses of the people, and detestation of the news iding scale. The Mayor, T. STOKES, Esq., opened the proceedings by stating, that he had convened them together at the request of many of his fellow-townsmen, and upon one of the most vital questions that can belong to a manufacturing community. To interpose obstacles to the freedom of commerce, and especially in the commodity of corn, was acting in direct hostility to the social and political rights of man, and the benign intentions of Heaven. On such a subject he could only expect one opinion in the vast meeting before him. At all events, he should claim a calm and impartial hearing for any gentlemen who might choose to address the meeting, whatever his opinions might be. Those who would oppose freedom of discussion would, if they had the power, carry their principles to the in vasion of the dearest and most sacred privileges of man. THOMAS PAGET, Esq , a great landed proprietor, was called upon to move the first resolution—" That this meeting views with indignation and disappointment the Ministerial measure for the continuance of the Corn 'laws; and denounces it as an insult to tho patient, starving, and unemployed population of these realms." Mr. Paget took a rapid survey of the state of the repeal question up to the present moment, For twenty-seven years had they been petitioning against these unjust laws. Amongst the people the cause of repeal had made considerable progress, though he re gretted to say, that with respect to her Majesty's present Mi nisters, very little light had penetra'ed their understandings. Still, certain steps of advance had been gained, and important ones too; and as the people had now got in the wedge, he hoped they would not fail to drive it harder and deeper, until their legitimate demands were conceded. The steps he alluded to were that even a Tory Government admits that the Corn law needs mitigation ; that the Queen, from the Throne, re commended an alteration ; and that the privations of the people, which had been contemptuously styled doleful ditties in Parliament and on the hustings, were now admitted by the same parties to be awful and deplorable facts. Sir Robert Peel asked for a period of five months in which to devise a re medy for the misery of the people, and he had spent it in taxing his ingenuity to the utmost to invent a scheme to delude the people, and secure the support of the aristocracy. Alderman HARRIS then came forward to second the resolu tion, which was put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. When the cheering had subsided, Dr. NOBLE, of Dinet's-hall, was called upon by the Mayor to move the second resolution—" That the Corn-laws are instrumen tal in spreading destitution, ruin, and misery among all the com mercial classes of the country; and that this meeting pledges itself never to relax its exertions until these unjust and iniquitous laws are abolished." He called upon the meeting to act upon the latter part of the resolution, and never cease agitating until they were expunged from the statute-book. J. PARKER, a working man, in a good speech, seconded the resolution, which was unanimously adopted. JOHN Mons, Esq., moved the next resolution—" That a petition be presented to Parliament, praying that Sir R. Peel's Bill be not passed into a law." The petition, founded on these resolutions, was then read. Mr. NVINKS seconded the motion, and in doing so he urged upon the meeting the consideration that the power of removing these laws was in their own hands, and that it only wanted to be systematically and unitedly wielded to become triumphant. Rotten boroughs, rotten corporations, and black slavery had been destroyed and entombed by the popular voice, and so may the death-dispensing and depopulating Corn-laws. The petition was submitted by the Mayer to the meeting. and carried by acclamation. Mr. COOPER, one of the Chartist leaders, now mounted the platform, and moved on behalf of that party the following reso lution :—" That this meeting is of opinion that the Corn laws, and all other monopolies which oppress the people, are the result of class legislation, and hereby affirms its full con. viction that the People's Charter is the grand remedy for all such abuses, and ought' to be made the law of the land." Mr. Cooper declared his wish for conciliation and union, and had therefore refrained from opposing the previous resolutions, and enforced the necessity of the Charter, on the ground of the futility of expecting any redress from the present' House of Commons. Mr. BAIRSTOW, a Chartistleader frem Birmingham, seconded the resolution in a speech of great power and eloquence. This resolution was carried by an immense majority, there being only two or three hands held up against it. After a vote of thanks and three cheers to the Mayor, moved by Mr. WINKS, and seconded by Mr. COOPER, the Chartist, the meeting separated. REVOLUTION AT LISBON. - - We have just received letters from our Lisbon Cor resdondent to the 14th instant, brought by the Lady Mary Wood steamer. A revolution broke out at Lisbon on the night of the 7th , which had terminated in favour of the Charter of Don Pedro. The immediate cause of the movement was the entrance of Viscount Sada Bandeira, as Minis ter of War, into the Cabinet, formed on that evening by the Duke of Palmella, and the measures resorted to by Viscount Sa to put down the Oporto movement in favour of the Charter. The troops at Lisbon were commanded by Chartists, and Viscount Sa, immediately on entering into office, dismissed most of the colonels of the garrison, as well as the Governor of the Castle of St. George, which brought on the explosion. The garrison of the castle, headed by the old governor, immediately declared for the Charter, and the regiments quartered at Belem declared almost simultaneously in the same sense, and marched to the Necessidades Palace. The new Ministry took all measures in their power to crush this movement. The populace and Arsenal workmen were supplied with arms, and with all the%emaining troops marched to a central position, with the apparent object of attacking the Castle. But it was soon apparent that the troops of the Government could not be depended upon to fight in the cause in which they were engaged, and on the night of the Bth, the Ministers unanimously resolved to hive in their resignations, and signed a written decla ' ration at the Palace of their inability to put down the Chartists. The Queen then sent for the Duke of Ter ceira, and a new Ministry, friendly to the re-esta blishment of the Charter, was formed. On the 10th, in accordance with their report, a Royal decree was issued, putting the Charter again in vigour. Three days' re joicings were ordered in consequence, and the Queen had been to the Cathedral to give thanks for. the same. The Junta of Oporto had been dissolved, and everything appeared quiet at Lisbon. Costa Cabral was daily expected, and the difficulty seemed to be to recon cile the various pretensions of the leaders of the success ful side. The Cortes are convoked under the Charter for the 10th 6f June. Very satisfactory communications had been received from the Spanish Government, which declares it will not interfere unless at the request of the Queen, when it offers every assistance in its power. Chronicle. COURT-MARTIAL ON CAPT. NICHOLAS. THIRD DAY. PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY ECENIN•.—The Court assembled at twelve o'clock. It was more than usually crowded, and among the distinguished personages present were G enera l Si r Ilercules and Lads Pakenham. After some preliminary proceedings, Captain Nicholas road his defence. It was well drawn up, and entered minutely into all the particulars of the accident given by the witnesses for the Crown. From the following paragraph at the commencement, it will be seen that he has had a long and unblemished career in the navy :—" After forty-three years' services, tbirty-three years as Captain, and after having actually commanded one of her Majesty s ships fourteen years, some of which were chitin , ' the late War ' I appear for the first time before a Court Martial. During this tong period, few events have afforded me so much satisfaction, as that of having to answer before a Court, com posed of so large a number of old and distinguished - officers, for.. my conduct on the occasion which is the subject of the present inquiry." Towards the conclusion, he adds—" I do not think it neces sary to trouble the Con, t with many witnesses for my justifica tion, because the evidence for the prosecution appears to me to have established that I slid all that was necessary or proper for me to do. B'On will, however, hear from the First Lieutenant, who, filo4li sick, came on deck when the ship got into danger, what his opinion was of my conduct., and I shall show, e by ex perienced pilots, that it was expedient to shift my b,_ , r f' l I_°„n the n. morning of the 26th, and that the course proved to steered, and the sail set, were judicious." lesl He st ews then a i was do ubtful proofou ca l led L btf uol f‘ t L his whether h . t aet.r e e 7 a t ly e: , et F ; e r s w t o L u i e l d u t c a l n o a s n e t before, and other this ty Great numbers numbers of journeymen tailors in Paris are at the presetif moment out of work, and groups of them may be seen every day loitertvg about the Fatale Royal, the COMMOII refuge for the Ws and the destitute.