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proceeded to the Vine -street police station, and gave in formation of the robbery. The prisoner was taken into custody on Saturday afternoon. Sergeant Gray, 10 C, said in consequence of informa tion he had received, he went to No. 4, Dorset-street, where he saw the prisoner Brown. Witness inforan-d him that he was a police-officer, and must take him into custody for robbing his mistress of a quantity of silver Plate. The prisoner replied that it was so, that he did not intend to steal the plate, and that he had only bor rowed it with the intention of returning it by Monday, (this day), when he should have surrendered himself up. The prisoner added that he had written a letter to Mr. Mansfield, acknowledging his crime, and begging forgive ness. Witness then took him to the station,and on searching him found 1/. 14s. in gold and silver, but no duplicates. W estmoreland, 2; C, said he apprehended the pr soner Jones on Saturday night at the Marquis of Granby Public -house in South Audley-street. He asked the prisoner if he was acquainted with the prisoner Brown, and whether he bad pledged any articles of plate for him. He said he had not, but he had pledged articles Of wearing apparel for him. Witness then said he Must take him (prisoner) to a pawnbroker's at Knight's bridge. The prisoner then admitted that he had pledged plate for Brown once, and that he had re ceived the plate from the prisoner Brown at Mrs. Mansfield's residence. Witness then conveyed him to the station. Mr. Layton Vincent, pawnbroker, 18, Queen's build ings, Brompton, produced a silver teapot, pledged on the 28th of April by the prisoner Brown. Witness had other articles pledged by the prisoner, which he would Produce on a allure day. He also produced some silver s poons, which were pledged on the 7.11 of January 135 the prisoner Jones, who represented himself to be in the service of the other prisoner. Witness did nct suspect the truth of this assertion, as the prisoner Brown used to drive about in a stylish dog-cart, accompanied by the prisoner Jones who was dressed in livery. Samuel Oilitf, assistant to Messrs. Grant, pawnbroker, Knightsbridge, produced two silver spoons pledged by the prisoner Brown on the 12th of January. lie had several other articles of plate which he would produce on the next examination. Mr. Mansfield identified the whole of the plate pro duced as being the property of his mother. The prisoners were then remanded nntil Monday next. TIER MAJESI' 'S THEATRE. The news of the dastardly attempt upon the life of her moat Gracious Majesty, which took place in the course of th e even i ng, was announced to the audience from the stage by Mr. Lee in the following terms : "Ladies and Gentlemen—Under the impression that a portion of the audience may be labouring under thoughts, and a s l oya l ty i s h ere paramount to a ll ot h er oughts, I am commissioned by Mr. Lumley to inioim you, that although her Gracious Majesty and the Royal chil dren were shot at whilst returning to the palace, the hare (thank Heaven !) esc.iped unhurt.. The National Anthem was of course sung, and repeated twice during the evening, producing a series of those emphatic displays of loyalty which spc-cial occasions of this kind can alone draw forth. The audience responded to the prayer of the anthem with heart and soul, and proved by their spontaneous and universal expression of feeling the joy they felt at her Majesty's providential deliverance. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. The opera of Lucretia Borgia was repeated on Satur day night in the presence of a large and distinguished audience. The fact of the attempt upon the Queen's life reached the theatre before the performance began, and the National Anthem was given under circumstances of great interest. It was repeated after the opera, amid tes timonies of the most excited loyalty. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Fidelio was performed here on Saturday, by the Ger man troupe, with all the completeness and ensemble with which a German troupe alone can render it. Mademoiselle Walther, who undertook the arduous part of Leonara (Fidelio), is a singer of considerable eneru ;did an actress of more than ordinary feeling. Her voice is a soprano of considerable power and compass, and of pleasing quality. Mademoiselle Walther enters with enthusiasm into the spirit of her part, and car ries the audience with her throughout her performance. The most successful effort of Mademoiselle Walther was in the celebrated quartet, " Er sterbe" (with Pi zarro, Rucco, and Florestar), in which she rendered the dramatic business of the scene unusually strling. In the beautiful duet with Florestan, "0 namenclose Freude," Mademoiselle Walther also sung with great feeling and animation, and the curtain fell upon this most interesting and exciting scene amidst the loudest manifestations of satisfaction. Mademoiselle Walther's success was decided. Herr Erl was the Florestan, and his performance helped to confirm the opinion we have already. given of his capabilities. It would hardly be fair to criticise Herr Stepan, who undertook the part which was' to have been played by Herr Formes, a basso of great reputation, at a short notice. Herr Stepan has a fine voice, but has yet to learn the secret of using it to advantage. Herr Breuer, who played Rocco, the gaoler, is not inefficient as an actor, but his singing would be much more acceptable if his intonation were less undecided. As on previous occa sions, the chief honours of the evening devolved upon the ladies and gentlemen of the chorus. The magnificent chorus of prisoners, in the second act, one of the profoundest and most pot-6nd inspira tions of Beethoven, was encored with acclamations, and the brilliant and irresistible finale was received with the utmost enthusiasm. Among the ether encores was the pretty round "Mir ist so wunderbar." in the first act, which was effectively rendered by Mademoiselle Walther, Mademoiselle Babnigg, and Herr Brener. The band executed two of the four overtures written by Beethoven fur Fidelio, the first and by far the grandest of which, the Leonora (in C), was played between the second and third acts, and warmly applauded. The opera went off with great spirit, and was received with unanimous favour, Mademoiselle Walther and the prin cipal performers being called before the footlights after every act. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY, MAY 20 —The United States mail steamer Hermann, Captain E. Crabtree, sailed this morning with the American mails for New York, 160 first and second class passengers, a full cargo, and 1,5001. in specie on freight. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Indus, Captain J. Soy, also took her departure for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria with the East India and China Mails, 50 passengers, 230 tons meshurem , .nt goods on freight, and 4,0001. specie. Yesterday (Saturday, the 19th) being the day appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birthday, was kept here as a close holiday at the Custom house, &c. The docks looked very gay, all the mail-packet steamers being handsomely decorated with flags. The platform battery fired a royal salute at noon, and at one P.M. the American frigate St. Lawrence at , , heaviest, Captain Hir a m Paulding, hoist e d th e B r i t i s h ens i gn the fore, and gave a national salute fr om 21 o f h er guns. This ship was moreover most beautifully jdressed with flags during the whole day, and was an ob ect of considerable admiration. THE BRAZILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, M AY 19 . --By the Swedish brig Jenny, Captain Cruse, which arrived off Cowes this morning, in 64 days from Rio de 'Janeiro, we have received files of the Jornal do Comercio of that city down to the 14th of Atirch ; but they bring no political news of importance, Exchange on London was quoted 26; on Paris, nominal; Hamburgh, 680 to 685. Six per Cent. Brazilian Stock was 86} to 87. Freights to Antwerp, 30s. to 405.; British Channel, 35s ; United States, 40s. to 60s. Hamburgh, 30s. to 32i. 6d.; Havre, 401. to 45f.; London or Liverpool, 405.; Marseilles, 30s. to 35a.; Trie•te, 355. HER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY.—The Loyal Highland Society of London h e ld t h eir court dinner at the Free nasona' T avern to c e l e b rate her Majesty ' s birthday. The Chisholm in the chair, supported by many of the nobility in Highland costume or court dress. The royal tradesmen celebrated her Majesty's birthday at the Freemasons' Tavern on Saturday; upwards of 100 gen tlemen attended. The Queen's present of two bucks was much appreciated, and the dinner, which was excellent, went off with great eclat. Mr. %V. Pit rce in the chair. SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR JOHN SMYTII, BART.-- BRISTOL, MAY 1 9. A cont.idkrable and p.inful sensa tion was felt throughout this city this morning by the intelligence of the sudden death of Sir John Smyth, Bart., of Long Ashton Park, which mournful event took place at an early hour this morning, and was dis tressingly sudden. The deceased baronet was born in February, 1776, and was in the 74th yi ar of his age. On Friday he was in his usual health, and in the after noon, having been particularly cheerful throughout the day, proceeded to his Gloucestershire mansion, Stapleton Court, where he dined, and up to the hour of his retiring to rest nothing unusual was observed in his app earance or manners. This morning, upon his valet goin g t o his tc '° 2l : l , he was alarmed to find his master speechless. The household was immediately aroused, and expresses sent for m e di cal assistance. All efforts were, h owever , of l no , a. vail, as in a few minutes Sir John breathed his ast. ihe late baronet was never married, and will be suc ceeded in the estate, by a maternal nephew, we believe, now in his minority. One of our evening contemporaries favoured its . reader s on Saturday with a list of Ministerial changes of a very startling character. Those that we have to an nounceinfe- ITrior as bring really about to take place are sadly infe ...1.... _lnterest, and will excite no surprise whatever. crertlidry-Poefrikheor,,f.who has been with Mr. Tufuell joint Se tar)? of the Ad Treiniralty r!asury, will succ, d Mr. Ward as Secre ker at the Judge-A.dv . Mr. Ilayter will replace Mr. Par oeatasurY. and Sir D. Dundas will become Deaf, The necessary writs will be moved for to-day.—m or "9 l'l up er . CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. —On Friday last Mr. Joseph Ilazelden, a builder, residing at Brighton, appeared before the bench of istrates at Uckfield, in Sussex, charged ;by mr. Themag trealtiencpiuelty to Animals, with wantonly for the prevention oas. the Secretary of the St,ciety and cruelly ill Read, a postmaster at i',:, l ! mare, the property of Mr. Mr. Thomas called several"? of , the he had hired it. witnesses, who described the conduct ofoothoef dtehfeentdreaanttmeotrutal in the extreme. In consequence mare received, it was unable to work for some (lathe _ The defendant was iiael narrow escapes from drunk at the time, andtohat dhesde s ever serious injury, owing he was wantonly torturing. whenature of the animal defence the defendant admitted havi called op for his but denied using her crnelly, and sanigd ihlonand the mare, lection of being in Uckfield at all on the d ad no recol by the witnesses, who must be rnistaken.ayameentioned witnesses to contradict their evidence. The ben h cr no the case had been tally and satisfactorily proved- said he had been guilty of wanton cruelty towards the mare, for which he must pay 40s. in addition damage to Si,, for the sustained by Mr. Read, the owner, and in defa 1 ofef paying the 71. forthwith he would be sent to the nou ll se t Correction for two months, and kept to hard I The defendant abour. • not being provided with the mosey, wit., teed to custody. THE SUN, LO DON. ELIOT WARBUIITON'S NEW WORK. MEMOIRS OF PRINCE RUPERT AND THE CAVALIERS ; including their Private Correspondence, now first published. from the Ori• ginal Manuscripts. By Eliot Warburton, Author of " The Crescent and the Cross." 3 Vols. To publish a work commemorative of the adher ents of King Charles the First, at a moment when liberalism, merging, in many instances, into extreme democracy, reigns paramount, appears, at first sight, almost an act of auda city. On consideration, however, we find the adventure of Mr. Eliot Warburton singularly well timed. It is because the principle* of democracy are triumphant that we can so well afford to consider the history of the Cavaliers. On the eve of a battle the most generous foeman will be anxious to underrate the strength and talents of his opponents, but after the victory it is otherwise. After the victory, con scious of our dearly bought security, we may, with out scruple, extol the courage and bear witness to the virtues of the fallen. The tree people of England, the inheritors of the dearly-purchased fruits of the civil war— The sons of sires that bathed Crowned and sceptred tyranny ; That defitd the chain and scaffold For their birthright," and gloriously obtained it, can now regard with sym pathetic admifation the daring and disinterested devotion of the loyal Cavaliers. Eyes are now sad dened with sympathy for the sorrows of King Charles which, two hundred years back, would have sparkled with indignation against the tyrant. Hearts now throb with exultant admiration at the records of Rupert's chivalrous gallantry and incredible triumphs, which two centuries since would have throbbed stoutly beneath the buff-doublet of the Roundhead, and stirred up their owners to resist to the death the foreign prince and the abettors of tyranny. Therefore it is we look upon these volumes as being equally well-timed in their appearance as they are interesting in their:contents. Mr. Eliot Warburton himself participates largely in those double ser. ti ments to which we have just referred. As the bio grapher of the Cavaliers, his sympathies (couldit be otherwise ?) are largely enlisted in favour of his heroic heroes individually. Nevertheless, he is no advocate of oppression. He deplores the acts, while he exculpates the actors. The portrait of King Charles, for example, drawn by his courteous and tender, hut, nevertheless, truthful hand, is perhaps as faithful a representation of the character of that unfortunate monarch viewed in the most favourable light as is the picture of Van dyke of his outer man. The following passage de scribes the feelings of very many among us with regard to our early impression of King Charles, it also affords a striking evidence of Mr. WarLurton's loyal prepossessions and liberal convictions (it was with "reluctance," be it observed, that he relinquished his loyal belief). As the King rode towards Nottingham, preparatory to raising his standard, it is said that his countenance was very melancholy ; and here Mr. Warburton eloquently exclaims— " Well might he be very melancholy;' well might the shadow of his soul's misfortune be dark upon that brow—that lofty brow, so familiar to our memory! How many of us can recollect our childish sympathy for the first time touched by the power of art, as we gazed upon the portrait of that mournful face: the itinc,cent boyish enthusiasm thut kindled within-us as we heard from loyal lips of the wrongs and sufferings for which so many of our fathers died. It was only in after years, when re luctantly forced to abandon the once literal creed of kings can do no wrong,' that we detected other characteristics besides those of nobleness and truth in the mar tyr monarch of Vandyke and the Cavaliers. Yet even then, when better read in the dark facts and darker calumnies that history reveals, we trace in those sad features the cha racters of weakness rather than of wiekednk , s*; the un erring signs of a vacillating mind are visible; and that high-arched brow and uncertain lip, the delicate soft hand that drops by his side with all the helpless grace ..f a girl, the very attitude in which he stands—all be sp,iik a spirit ill-calculated to encounter the storms of a state. It is not only after misfortune and disappoint ment had done their work, that these characteristics be- come visible in the portraits of Charles. From the very fin.t, even when he sat to Velasquez during his romantic visit to romantic Spain, buoyed up by lusty youth and a bridegroom's hope—even then his portrait wears a sad, doomed look, as it he felt already destined to expiate the crimes and follies of his tyrant ancestors." Mr. Warburton's narrative is necessarily one-sided, not in an invidious sense, not with regard to the manner of its expression, but to the matter of its details. It does not profess to be a history of the civil war, it is a history of the doings and sufferings of the dauntless Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers. "We must now bid adieu to politics," says the author to his reader at the commencement of the second volume ; "ter good or ill,,like Sir Edmund Varney, we are enlisted with the Cavaliers, and must take the consequences. Henceforward, like the com batants, we shall be too much occupied in the field to think of abstractions. The king's banner is dis played, the trumpets are sounding to the standard, and we have only to march forward with our Cava liers." A dangerous but most attractive invitation. We accept it, and we do march forward; but how ever much, for the time, carried away by the infectious ardour of the gallant body we are accompanying, we run little risk of being induced to enlist under the royal ban ner ; tor, thanks to Mr. Warburton's first volume, the most ignorant student of history is already " tore warned" and consequently " forearmed." We might almost imagine that our author, aware of the fatal fascination of his theme, had conscientiously resolved to give a warning to the unwary, and place the bane and antidote alongside. It is only in the second volume, be it remembered, that he exclaims " We must bid adieu to politics—we are enlisted with the Cavliers !" In the first volume he has given a " summary of everts preceding the war," in which with a masterly hand he exhibits those errors and faults on the part of Charles, which occasioned and excused the rebellion of the people. " Charles I," says Mr. Warburton, "was heartily welcomed to the throne by the people of England. Had he understood their true position and his own he might have been indeed the noblest King in Christendom." Charles was, however, far from possessing that all-important knowledge. His ideas were retrogressive, his people's progressive. From the very first the King and his Parliament were at variance, but as yet the King had, apparently, the upper hand. During the after portion of this history we often have occasion to lament the misfortunes of Charles, but while so lamenting we must not forget what is recorded in the commencement of the first volume. We must not forget, when disposed to censure the severity of the Parliament, how in the beginning of his reign the King had continually exercised his prerogative by dissolving the Parliament almost as soon as it was elected, and at one time had refused to call a Parliament for " eleven long years." During these years "the King ruled at will," we quote Mr. Warburton, "as despotically as any sovereign in Europe." The country was at peace, " but the repose was only such as ensues when mortification has supervened upon some deadly wound ; the disease that inwardly consumed the nation was fast increasing under the hectic mask of health. The stern Parliamentary physicians watched its pro gress patiently from afar or from prison, biding their time. . . Men did not know at first that they were enslaved, no more than Charles knew that he was become a despot. . . The endurance of the men of England was daily put to a more trying tea ; every successful invasion of their rights was taken as a proof that they would bear still more. Cruel expe dients to raise revenues were put in practice ; odious monopolies invaded the comfort of every man's fire side, and there was no redress or any prospect thereof." We find in a foot note the following quaint quota tion from Sir J( hu Culpepper, upon the universality of taxes :—" These, like the frogs of Egypt, have gotten possession of our dwellings, and we have scarcely a room free from them ; they find i sip in our cup, they dip in our dish, they sit by our p ; a o n w e r d y e fir; i they ng b he x,r n our sery k ea share a 3 u ; e ns vfraotm, with v ‘ th ' haeesandintgo butlerbfoo:itin; andhfie ir his pantry powdering have they will not bate us a pin." At the close of the eleven years it was found necessary to summon " the great paymaster, a Parliament (we again quote Eliot Warburton), for every extra. parliamentary source had been drained dry. They met (on the 13th of April, 1640); the King asked for money, the Com mons for redress ; neither party attained its desires. The SHORT PARLIAMENT was dissolved on the sth of May." On the 3d of November the LONG PARMA. MENT first assembled. Here Charles " encountered an array more awful than ever confronted him on the battle-field. Pyin and Hatnpien had been riding a circuit of all England to collect and to distribute statistics of the people's wrongs; St. John and Holies had digested and arrayed a record of these wrongs ; Fiennes and Vane had dilated on them. Falkland, Hyde, Rudyart , Selden, were also there pleading th e ON people's wrongs ; GS !—that word rang through real rights of the op pressort through all England, and overwhelmed and silenced in were for a time overw the sound." We have given these quotations, and we might give many similar ones as an evidence of T bu rton' s sentiments, not the liberality of Mr. NI withstanding his occasional panegyrics . on the Cava. advocacy of their Tiers, and his (at times) seemi n g cause. In spite of the romantic interest attaching introductory to the exploits of the Cavaliers, the _ ing, hardly chapt ers o f thi s w ork are, to our thinking, less at t rac ti ve . Thi s p o rtion is, in point of style, superi or t o th e res t. It i s w ritten with a simple and energetic eloquence that renders it most effective and most emphati c . The King's ill-timed visit to the Parli ament H ouse to d eman d t h e arres t o f th e " five" Members is an admirable specimen of Mr. Warbur ton's felicitous and highly picturesque style : " By such advice the doomed King committed the crowning error of his whole disastrous reign. lie pro ceeded suddenly to the House at Commons, at:ended by four h u ndr e d c avali e rs and servants.' The tramp I of armed men was for the first time audible in OW ' always revered and now awful assembly; and the royal voice was heard above the it clamour cemmanding, on their lives, his eager followers to stand beck.' And 11. e King entered, lie took cff his hat and bowed in respect to the senate, whose honour ho so outraged, and then he advanced to the Speaker's chair. The Elector Pala tine alone accompanied him through the numbers who had risen, and stood uncovered to receive his Majesty. Thel solemn silence with which he was received con fused the irresolute and wavering King; the Speaker left the chair for him; but he stood hesitating on the step, as he looked round for the five who had so long set his power at defiance, His glance encountered a sight to make a firmer spirit quail; the representatives of England and its wrongs stood there; made strong through the King's former weakness, stronger than ever now! His present accusers, his future jeges, with quiet and stern observance noted down every act end word of their invader and their future victim. It was a trying ordeal: a Cromwell might have braved it, as afterwards he did, with unflinching hardihood; but Charles was unequal to the task. Suddenly his false position became apparent to him; he faltered in his demand for his enemies' arrest, and then broke down into the exclama tion, The birds are flown!' A few hurried word;, de siring that the accused Members' might be sent to him,' was all he added, and then he left the House as ab ruptly as he had entered. Sounds of Privilege! pri vilege!' followed him as he passed from the House; and Cavalier shouts of For a King! for a King,' received him in the street." It is now time, however, that we withdraw our gaze from the calm sad countenance of Charles to con template his impetuous and gallant nephew—the os tensible hero of this book : " There is a loud tame of Prince Rupert in our civil wars," says Mr. Warburton, " yet singularly little of his private history is known. He seems to start into exist ence when the royal standard of England is set up; he advance s that fatal banner through its terrible career with supernatural but ill starred bravery; and when it is finally struck down at Naseby, he vanishes at the same time from our view. Yet even during that memo rable strife, there is a rumour, rather than a knowledge of him; mothers hush their infants with the terror of his name, leaguring armies retire at the first challenge of his trumpets, the stern energy of the Puritans gives way before his resistless charge; Roundhead hatred and Royalist recrimination accuse him as the evil genius of the war. Yet, whence he came, or whither he went, few have inquired or can tell. " The few glimpses by which he is afterwards viewed are equally singular and varied. We find him a veteran in arms and renown while yet a boy; a prisoner for years before he attains to manhood; leader of the Cava liers from the first hour that he meets them; conqueror in every battle, though defeated; maintaining the war on sea when it has been crushed upon the land; buccaneer lag in the name of loyalty on the Spanish main; honest amid corruption, philosophic among triflers in the Court of Restoration; laying aside his impetuosity, but not his gallantry, as admiral of our fleets; returning thence to the chemist's laboratory and the painter's study; and, finally, dying in peace and honour, here in old England, beloved by all the gentlemen of the county,' and gene rally lamented; having maintained such good temper and such happy neutrality in the present unhappy divisions, that he was honoured and respected by men of the most varying interests.' " Cun this be the person whom we have hitherto known, only to neglect or to condemn? Surely there must have been some heroic nature its this man which prejudice alone has darkened or denied: some prejudice more fatal to his fame than the hatred or the obloquy of his contemporaries. Let the generous and candid reader but take the facts of Prince Rupert's life as they are here imperfectly arranged; let him grant to them such credence as their authorities may seem to deserve and such interest as their romantic character may claim; and surely he will admit that the chief of the Cavaliers deserves a higher place in story th a n h e h as hith er t o o b rained."' Such is the romantic hero, whose eventful fortunes we are now invited to follow. Prince Rupert seemed fitted by nature to be the leader of the Cavaliers. He was an impersonation of that chivalry and heroism to which they were devoted, and with which they were filled—" frank, haughty, rash,' ;and irresistible, he role to war, "no vizor on his helm." Hi s ex pl o it s , lik e those f the French Paladin Murat, whota in daunt less gallantry he much resembled, seemed to revive again the days of Charlemegne, and the marvels of the Round Table. While yet in early youth, before his visit to England, he made his stern apprentice ship in war, and that same reckless daring which proved so fatal to the Royal cause on Edgehill, made the young hero a prisoner in the Castle of Lintz be fore he had attained the age of twenty. Here he remained imprisoned three years, " his spirit pining like that of a caged eagle." We quote the following passage, referring to an incident of this captivity as a contrast to the more serious matters which we have just been considering, and as a specimen of that singular gracefulness of style and sentiment which occasionally gives such a charming fascination to the writings of Eliot Warburton : " Among the few recreations permitted to the Prince was an occasional dinner with the governor, and iree access to his gardens It was destined that his impri sonment, as well as his chivalric career, should lack no tbirg el the requirements of romance. Strange as it may read in these matter-of-fact pages, Count Kuffstein had a daughter, an only, cherished child, who lived in his stern old castle, like the delicate Dryad of some gnarled tree. She was one of the brightest beauties of tier age,' and rarely gifted, .no lease excelling in the chorales of her mind° than of her faire budye, The imagination of the reader silt easily supply what the faithful historian is not permitted to record. How the heroism, the misfortunes, and the noble person of her royal captive, touched her imagination: how the impe tuous young Prince, whose thoughts bad ever fed on tales of love and glory, passed his time in that grim castle, hitherto without an object save to watch time and the old Danube rolling by: how this fair girl dawned upon his gloomy lite, charged by her father to cheer her royal prisoner, and, if it might be, to win his soul over to the ancient faith. Does the reader pity him—or even her? Though soon to be forsaken, she never was forgotten in all the wild vicissitudes of his dangerous and reckless career ; and to woman's foolish heart even this is something. And for hun—how often, when wearied of the doomed yet charmed life he bore, must his thoughts have flown back to that fair girl : back, from the hushed ambush, or raging battle-field, or stormy seas, to those quiet and innocent days, when he listened to her loving controversy, as they stood by the antique battlements, with the old Danube rolling by! " We are not writing romance, but actual biography, gleaned painfully out from crabbed old manuscripts, through which her character still shines fair and purely. For those quaint old letters tell me that thenceforward hee never named her without admiracon, and ex pressinge a devotion to serve her with his lyfe ;' and it requires nothing more to tell me that her honour had been guarded by bis own. "Nevertheless, with war resounding all around him, with so many prizes to be fought for, and so much glory to be won, Mdlle. de Kuffstein must have sometimes found it a hard task to cheer her captive in his cage. How his young spirit must have chafed as he saw glimpses of the war roll by and vanish far away. And to loose himself from this captivity, this living grave, he had but one word to utter; be had but to follow the ex ample of the chivalrous Henry of Navarre, to profess himself a proselyte, and to be true. His Royal uncle, his imperial enemy, his lady-love, his worldly interest, were all in favour of the change; his own conviction, his own brave and manly heart alone against it. Be this remem bered when his many errors are recounted!" When released from his imprisonment, the young Prince joined his uncle, Charles 1., in England (Prince Rupert was the son of King Charles' sister, Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia). He arrived at a very opportune moment. The King was at Nottingham, prepared for the first time to raise the STANDARD and proclaim war. Rupert's presence " at the little court of Nottingham," says Mr. Warburton, "infused new life and confidence among the drooping followers of the King. Charles, harassed by timorous and conflicting counsels, found relief in the prompt, vigorous, and decisive character of his nephew. Prince Rupert not only then, but throughout the war, was most useful to that cause by infusing the confidence that he felt, and by a soldier. like simplicity of purpose more difficult to balk or to cope with than all the wiles of Illachievelli." Decision was a quality much required in the vacillating councils of Charles. Had Prince Rupert been half as prudent as he was brave, and half as skilful in carrying out as he was in achieving a victory, the cause of the Royalists would indeed have been strengthed by his advent. Charles reposed unbounded confidence in his nephew. Rupert received orders " from no one but the King," and the King almost invariably allowed him to take his own course. We have said that the first volume of this work, where it relates to the political history of the time, is better written and more interesting than the succeeding portions, but we are inclined to contradict this assertion when we turn again to the opening of the second volume, where we " march forward with the i s t c , tri h e es exclaimsc o n a morre:,obc:"dnbeTejafhutohodrigeheedaosiosnfsaleys Cavaliers." Eli ot I Varburton paints these martial the hee w rer e h edh o xa oc h s nat withered m e i linhe w nek i rt t eo n odf e f s ot s ahn e n d ee ' o lr f in it Y s . h s i fi g r h st ho l p n e a s r , soldier's genial brotherhood. There is something mysterious in the stirring and irresistible appeal that trumpets and banners make to the heart through ear and eye. The very war-horse feels the spell of that fierce music; myriads of gallant hearts have shed their blood to save that silken rag ; whole troops have flung away their lives that the symbol of their honour might still float in triumph over the bloody remnant of their forces." The Cavalier army presented a gallant appearance on the eve of the battle of Edgehill, but unfortunately for their cruse, the jealous rivalry and the scrupulous etiquette of the-Court, too much predominated in the royal camp. "The jealousies and enmities, inseparable from such volunteer and independent corps, began to exhibit themselves. Prince Rupert himself, I fear," says his biographer, " had not sufficient tact to accommo date himself to his peculiar position ; he was im patient of the military neglect and courtier conven tionalities of his noble associates. Ile was somewhat ~Ba se fu o s r u e a t l h ed ib v a i dt te l d e Lord Lindsay, the G enera l in into two parties." cautious p e a r n t d , o s n t e t a n d e y o t tactics d o f , jealous, I (zdsg, Edgehill too, o a f his council own a u w t ahsor held, ity.' the in- Chief, Low C favouredo untr ;s t c h h e o o c was all for the . bold and rapid tactics of the glorious I . - and their leader ,` , 00; he 'insisted on theexpediency of the he 'scorned the Roundhead forces, S roost wede si ( n :u le sta a v n uf l. ) d ; as,,li.og unpractised hut hig ) -a-r.::ettled army as the King's." movements, with such an Rupert prevailed, ' , Ad certainly had it been followed up with prudence, his plan would, in all likelihood, have been successful, When he comes to describe the King addressing 'his army on the morning of the battle, Eliot Wa.rb urtun very appropriately intro duces ALlcaulay's sr,iriteci lines in the "Battle of the League " " The King .has come to marshal us," &c. _ _ "I do not know," he observes, in a parenthesis, " whether Mr. Macaulay will pardon my application of these noblg lines of his, but most of my readers will." Appropriate as the lines are, most certainly Macaulay would not have applied them to King Charlts— " Ile looked upon'the traitors and his glance was stern and high," &c. Macaulay, as we all. know, is a zealous advocate of the Parliament ; he considers the execution of Charles perfectly justifiable —vide an essay its the Edinlmrgh Review written when, as Mr. Warburton justly defines it, " he was an advocate, and not as now a judge, in the court of' history." Throughout these volumes the annalist and eulogist of the Cavaliers seems to be essay, illustrious s a i ss r a r o n ao g nt.d o n a b out : , eeoastrhgeepeGra:sndas recently passages publishedost good-humoured u r lie e l controvers y continually his in v p o re lu ss i3 . e of T from the is t above-mentioned v t i n s e o n a t u i a n y e , d s history was not published until the first volume ami spilltNana,rsanstrtebol passed h b e o a o r k tily th e a x t p s r v e e ss l e i d k . e s l o l w e e j l e l al a o s us h y is o frank and generous admiration of Mr. Macaulay, so con noble exception au thorswin we proverbial, and all true lovers of lite . ra f tur h " e lj r er Prince nothing had liot arc t o confident, a 1 tooilt e generalour selve s r , u rejoice le. u t t h t e ls s i e s reflections have led us far from Edgehill. We will let Eliot Warburton himself describe the grand and terrible opening valour, and, alas ! his reckless impetuosity, were evi denced in so remarkable a manner : " There is no sound that ever rent the air so terrible as the deep silence of suspense before the battle-word is given; it is the moment when the soul sinks under the awe of something that thrills deeper than any fear. During that dread pause many a fervent prayer was offered up by the true hearts that abounded in both armies, but none was more simpl e and sincere than Sir Jacob Astley's, uttered manfully- aloud— , Oh, Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day; if I forget throughratthenordcs secondth e thee, do not thou forget me!' then rising, he exclaimed, March on boys!' " The Parliamentary army began the fight by three shots from their guns upon the right; the King's artil lery instantly replied. Then the whole line advanced; as the Cavaliers approached, a horseman darted from the enemy's column and rode up to Prince Rupert, flinging from him the orange badge he bore. It was a lieutenant in Sir Faithful Fortescue's troop, to announce the deter- • tion of his commander with all his men, and that the signal would be the firing of a pistol in the ground. The Prince, already on the move, observed the signal ant', forebore to assail the deserters, but Killigrew and Byr n slew several of them before they discovered their pur pose. Rupert now led on the royal horse, commanding them to use their swords alone, and charge!' Before the word was fairly uttered, that brilliant cavalry was on the spur; away in one wild sweep of magnificent con fusion the proud chivalry of Lngland dashed ; in generous rivalry each seeking to strike the first home-stroke for God and for the King!' What could abide that thun dering charge, all spur, no rein, every heart w i t hi n that armour flashing was on fire, every voice a shoutof triumph, every plume bent forward to the charger's mane! The Roundheads seemed swept away by the very wind of that wild charge. No sword was crossed, no sakidle emptied, no trooper waited to abide the shock; they fled w i t h frantic tear, but fell fast under the sabres of their pur suers. The cavalry galloped furiously until they reached such shelter as the town could give them; nor did their infantry fare better. The Cavaliers, meanwhile, seemed as if carried away by the torrent of the fugitives; they had encoun tered no opposition, and they thought the battle won; its prizes were before them: Roundhead waggons laden with spoil, and magazines full of the arms so sought for and desired, choked up the narrow streets, and were soon plundered by the troopers, whilst others pursued the flying enemy as madly as they fled, until Hampden's brigade, coming up from Stratford, checked and turn e d backward the pursuit. " Meanwhile the royal left wing was equally broke n and routed by success. Sir Arthur Aston's stout dra goons had cleared the way for I Vilmot, who found riot, so also the left lost all control over itself, and the field in pursuit of Meldrum's flying spread over head horse. As the right wing of thep Cavaliers had run troopers. Byron and Lord Digby, who command e d th e reserve, Nor did the contagion stop here, Sir John led forward their eager horse to share in the pursuit. and the King's infantry was left exposed and unpro tected. . • • • • • " And now the fortunes of th e day seemed whelly changed; the royal cavalry was all scattered as if de. feated, and for the most part wandering beyond the enemy; the artillery harness was cut away and rendered useless; the Royal Guards in total rout, and only a few battalions under ituthven and Astley still showing an unbroken front. The whole field of fight was so be wilderingly confused that none knew where to seek his officer or troop, and many were slain or made prisoners by those whom they mistook for their own then." . . " When Prince Rupert returned with such troops as he could rally from the chase, he found a great alteration in the field; his Majesty, with only a few noblemen about him, and the hope of so glorious a day quite vanished.' The Prince vainly attempted to gather his broken troops again, for one last charge, which would probably have been final for that war. But it was impos sible to get together effective men enough even to at tempt it. Evening was set in; the few horses that could be mustered were exhausted by want of food, and their long and furious chase. Wilmot's, indeed, on the far left were comparatively fresh, and Lord Falkland, whose blood was now up, and whose oft repeated cry of Peace, peace, peace,' was forgotten, conjured the Com missary to charge Sir William Baltour's dragoons, who alone remained unbroken, and protected their exhausted infantry. Wilmot made a most unsoldierlike reply— 'My Lord, we have got the day, let us live to en joy the frit thereof.' The King thought, and with better reason, that he had lost it; and what is stranger still, Lord Essex also thought himself defeated; so much so, that in one of the last attacks made by Ruthven and Astley's brigade, he took his stand in the front of his pikemen, resolved to take no quarter, and to die. For him, indeed, there would have been no alterna tive, if defeated. "' In this doubt of all sides,' says Lord Clarendon, who was an anxious spectator of the battle, Night, the common friend to wearied and dismayed armies, parted them; and in dismal anxiety and doubt the Cavaliers and their King prepared to bivouack on the fiercely contested and undecided field." Such was the battle of Edgehill, "one of the bloodiest fights on record ; scarcely thirty thousand men were engaged, and of that uumber nearly six thousand were buried on the field." Both sides suffered grievously. " Victor uterque fuit, victus uterque fuit, is the truthful and candid verdict of Sir Richard Bulstrode, who bravely fought the battle he describes." But we have followed the Cavaliers far enough on their ad venturous march. We have quoted sufficiently from Mr. Warburton's eloquent narrative to corroborate our assertion that it is as attractive in manner as it is romantic in material. And yet we have not ana lyzed one-h a lf o f th e t h ree vo l umes. The history o f Rupert is as vari ous i n c h aracter as it is startli ng. Not only does his adventurous career display the prowess of the soldier ; we meet with him again on the blue waters, bearing the name of an admiral, and following the course of a buccaneer. The perils and glories of his sea exploits form another very interesting episode in this work. We have, however, dwelt so long upon the first portion that we must content ourselves with this brief reference to the mar ve ll ous chapter entitled " Rupert at Sea." Yet anoth er v i c i ssitude, another and a more marvellous transform a ti on ! On sea or on land, in the Court or the camp, R upert has hitherto appeared the same, "Il etait toujours sold a t," as Sir Philip Warwick said of him ; n ow , h owever, an appears In long after incredible, we b e h o ld him d t a he nphirotsaomphoerrphounsis anartist.d King Charles's stormy life was over, we find his sol dier-nephew thus occupied : " In the first leisure of his manhood, his mind re vel ted with a sense of luxury to the p hi losophical pur suits in which even his youth had taken pleasure. He now found new sources of unexhansted interest in the forge, the laboratory, and the painter's studio. " It was during this lull in the stormy life of Rupert, that he discovered or improved upon his art of mezzo tinto. So long ago as 1637, when immured in the Castle of Lintz, he had exercised his active genius in some etchings that still remain, and bear that date. He now returned, in his voluntary retirement, to the objects that had then charmed his enforced leisure. His varied biography presents no more striking period than this, when his name was hidden from the world that had been busied with it for so many years. The plumed helmet, the cuirass, and gallant war-horse are laid aside; the good sword that so often hewed his fearless way through fiercest danger hangs idly on the wall; the stout ship that so long stemmtd the storm, and explored strange seas, lies rotting on the banks of Loire, The beauties of Paris are forgotten, calumny itself i s s il ent. The Young philosopher, royal, warlike, and renowned, has retired from the world, and adopted the student's bravely ascetic life; the same energies that once led hgion s along the battle-field, and fleets across the ocean, are now devoted to the discoveries of science and the creations of art. " Among the former, the Prince turned his first atten tion to those that related to his own profession—of arms. He laboured heartily at his own forge , and applied him self to th e practical as well as the theoretical details of science. The writer of his funeral ode, which is quoted from in the first chapter of this work , describes hi m as forgi ng ' the thunderbolts of war, his hands so well could throw.' The transactions of the Royal S oc i et y record his mode of fabricating a gunpowder of ten times the ordinary strength at that time used; likewise a mode of blowing up rocks in mines, or under water, an in strument to cast platforms into perspective, an hydraulic engine, a mode of making hail-shot, an improvement in I ‘ lo rrAY EVENING, MA Y Ifi49, the naval quadrant. Amongst his mechanical labours are also to be reckoned his improv , ,ments in the licks ot' fire-arms, and his guns for discharging several bullets very r a pidl y . Amongst his chemical discoveries were the composition now called Prince's metal, and a mode of ren d er i ng black lead rusiblo, and re-changing it into its original state. Perhaps to him is also to be at tributed the toy that bears his name as ' Rupert's drop; tha; curious bubble of .lass which has long amused children, and puzzled philosophers.' " After the Restoration Rupert visited England, and still continued these favourite pursuits. " Often," we are told, "would Charles and his silken favourite lounge into the workshop of the Prince,where girt with an apron and begrimed with soot, the hero of a hundred fights was wielding his hammer as if the anvil was a Roundhead." After this we again find him on the sea, sharing with Albemarle the command of the British fleet in those sea fights, one of which Dryden has commemorated in a poem, concluding with the truthful exclamation— _ " whoure fou2ht well Whom Rupert led and were British born." It is hardly necessary after what we have said to com mend this very interesting work to the attention of our readers. It contains a inultitude of original letters, and a diary and other memoranda of Prince Rupert's. It is, moreover, adorn( d with engraved portraits of Rupert, Falkland, and other celebrated characters of that time, but these pictorial etnbellishments are but a secondary consideration by the side of Eliot Warbur ton's effective pen and ink portraits and picturesque narrative. GENERAL THE HON. SIR ED WARD PAGET, G.C.8., GOVERNOR OF CHELSEA HOSPITAL. This gallant officer and veteran warrior, whose death we recorded last week, was the fourth sou of the late Earl of Uxbridge, and was born on 3d November, 1775, and was consequently in the 74th year of his age. He commenced his military career at the age of 17, being appointed Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant in the Ist Life Guards on the 23d March, 1792, Captain in the 54th Foot the Ist December, 1792, and Major the 14th No vember, 1793. Ile accompanied this regiment to Ostend, under the orders of Sir Charles Grey, and subsequently off Cherbourg and the French Coast under those of Lord Moira. The 30th April, 1794, he obtained a Litaite nant•Colonelcy in the 28 , :a Foot, and in June, 1794, he embarked with Lord Wire, and landed at Ostend. lie served the campaie:;iis in Flanders and Holland, and was present at the sortie from Mirraquen, and the action of 'Gueldermalson. In March, 1795, he returned with 'ais regiment to Ireland, and in June fol lowing, embterked and sailed in the expedition for Quiberon, 'hut was recalled. In September, 1795, he sailed for the West Indies, under the orders of Sir Ralph Abercroraby, but was twice driven back; and finally, in January, 1796, landed at Portsmouth. In July, 1796, he went to Gibraltar, and from this period to the end of 1801. he was stationed in the Mediterranean. He was Dre%ent in the naval action off Cape St. Vincent on the 14th February, 1797. The Ist January, 1798, he re. , ceived the rank of colonel, and was appoint e d aide-de camp to George 111. He was at the capture of Minorca in 1798, under Sir Charles Stuart. Served the campaign in Egypt under Sir Ralph Aber cromby and Lord Hutchinson, the 28th Regiment being in the reserve, which was commanded by the late Sir John Moore. He was in the actions of the Bth,l3th, and 21st of March, and in the latter was severely wounded; also present at the investment of Cairo and Alexandria, and a hostage with the French army at Cairo till their embarkation at Aboukir. In October, 1801, he was appointed Brigadier-General of the staff in Ireland, and stationed at Fermoy. The 2d of July, 1805, be was removed to the staff in England, and sta. tioned at Brabourne Lees. The Ist of January, 1805, he received the rank of Major-General. From April to October, 1805, he commanded a brigade of infantry at Eastbourne, and in the latter month embarked with it, under the orders of General Don, landed at Cux haven, and advanced to Bremen. He returned with the army to England in February, 1806. In June fol lowing, he was appointed to the staff of the army in the Mediterranean, and was placed by the late General Fox on the command of the reserve of the army in Sicily. In January, 1808, he returned to England from Sicily, with a part of the army under Sir John Moore, and on the 23d February received the Colonelcy of the 80th Foot. In April, 1808, he accompanied Sir John Moore to Sweden, and was appointed by that officer to the reserve of his army. In June he returned with the I army to England, and was immediately sent to Portugal. Was appointed by Sir Hugh Dalrymple to the command of the advanced taarps of his army. He served the cam paign in Spain under Sir John Moore, and commanded the reserve of that officer's army, and was at the battle of Corunna on the 16th of Jan., 1809. He was next appointed to the staff of the army in the peninsula under Sir Arthur Wellesley, with the local rank of Lieut.-General, and commanded she left wing of the army. He conducted the advance from Coimbra to Oporto. On the 12th May, 1809, he lost his right arm and returned to England. Lord Wel lington, in his dispatch, observed, in allusion to this accident :—" In Lieut. General Paget I have lost the assistance of a friend who had been most useful to me in the few days which had elapsed since he had joined the army. lie had rendered a most important service at the moment he received his wound, in the taking up the position which the troops afterwards maintained, and in bearing the first brunt of' the enemy's attack." His Lordship also remarked in a private letter, dated Oporto, May 13, 1809, upon the same subject:—"l cannot express to you how much I regret the loss of his assistance; or bow much the joy of the whole.army, on account of their success, has been damped by the misfortune of him who has been the principal promoter of it." The 4th of June, 1811, he received the rank of Lieutenant-General in the army. He subsequently served as second in command to Lord Wellington, and was taken prisoner in the retreat of the army from Burgos, in 1813. From the 80th Foot, be was removed the 26th of December, 1815, to the Colonelcy of the 28th Foot, and on the 31st of October, 1818, was appointed Captain of Cowes Castle, in the Isle of Wight. In 1821, Captain Paget was appointed Governor of Ceylon, and in 1822, Commander-in-Chief of H. M. Forces in India. In 1824, he quelled the formidable mutiny at Barrackpore, which had threatened the most serious results to the ranks of the Hon. E LC .'s service. Sir Edward planned and completed the whole of the operations connected with the Burmese .war, but being succeeded in his command in 1825, he received none of the prize money which was subsequently awarded In 1826 he was appointed Governor of the Royal Mili tary College at Sandhurst, and finally, in 1837, Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, by King William IV. Sir Edward received a medal for the battle of Corunna, and was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, and of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword. He was also a member of the Consolidated Board of General Officers. The opinion Sir John Moore bad of this officer may be collected from his dying words. In the act of expiring he observed to Colonel Paul Anderson—" Is Paget iu the room ;" and being answered in the negative, he said —"Remember me to him—remember me to him. It's General Paget I mean. He's a fine fellow." The body was removed from his residence, Oakfield Lodge, East Cowes Park, on Saturday afternoon, and placed on board the Queen, Southampton and Isle of Wight steam packet, to be forwarded by the South- Western Railway (six o'clock train) to the Waterloo Station, from whence it was taken to Chelsea Hospital, where it reposed under the charge of the veterans. The funeral took place this morning at Chelsea with military honours, the corpse being deposited among the heroes in that establishment. The late Sir Edward was twice married; first to the Hon. Frances Begot, 22d of May, 1805, who died in childbed May, 1806; and secondly, on the 22d February, 1815, to Lady Ilarriet Legge, fourth daughter of George, third Earl of Dartmouth. By the former he had one son, the Rev. Francis Edward Paget, Rector of Elford, Staffordshire; and by the latter, who still survives, he had three sons, Major Henry William Paget, Captain Patrick Paget, Grenadier Guards, and Edward Heneage Paget, and five daughters, the eldest of whom is the present Marchiones3 of Ormonde. GREAT FIRE AT ROTTERDAM.—THREE HUN DRED THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH OF PROPERTY DE STROYED.—Ou Saturday information was received at the principal fire offices in town of a very devastating con flagration having occurred at Rotterdam, by which pro perty valued at upwards of 300,0001. had been destroyed. It appear that the flames broke out on Saturday morning in the sugar refinery of Messrs. Tromp, Sairmondt, and Co., situated in that part of the town called the Leaven haven, near to the river side, and nearly opposite the shore where the Sea Gull (Hull and Rotterdam steamer) lies. The fire, in the space of a few minutes, assumed a fearful aspect ; for, on the sugar becoming ignited, it ran out like liquid fire from the various windows and other outlets, whence it extended to about thirty other warehouses, offices, and dwellings, including the house and warehouse of Ringrose. The flame, could nut be extinguished until Sunday at midnight. It is said that Rotterdam was never visited by such a calamity in the shape of fire before. The total loss in merchandise, &c., is estimated at about 3,600,000 f. o r 300,000/. A g reat proportion of the property uninsured. FALSE ALARM OF FIRE.-011 Thursday evening, between nine and eleven o'clock, considerable confu sion occurred in consequence of a report having been raised that an extensive conflagration was raging in Regent-street, which, however, fortunately proved to be untrue, but not till the principal fire engines in tha me tropolis had hastened towards the supposed scene of dis aster. The alarm was occasioned by an experimental trial of the apparatu . s and devices to be used at the gene ral illumination in honour of Her Majesty's birthday, by the Messrs. Nicoll, paletin makers to the Prince, and as the premises of this firm extend over four of the largest houses in Regent street, the blaze of light was most intense. Sufficient notice ought certainly to have been given of the intention :of lighting up upon the oc casion in question. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The North American mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, departed froni York, carrying Mersey this afternoon for Halifax and New carrying out the usual mails, a fair complementl,he steam ship of pas sengers, and about 2,0001. specie onfrc, freight. The Cambria, Captain Shannon, with the S &c., will be due here on Monday (this day). e would leave Boston on the 9th Halifax on the 11th inst. SHIELDS, MAY 18.—The John Grey, from Girgenti, in entering the harbour this morning, struck on the Middle Ground, ai;cl re mains. The Asia, of Scarborough, for London, in proceeding to sea this morning, struck on the Middle Ground, but got off with assistance and proceeded. OFF CORK, MAY 18.—Limena, Le Mesturier, Pcrto Rico tor Liverpool; Libra, Moir, ditto; Lockwood, Errington, New Orleans for Liverpool. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION. See,—On Wednesday the 16th, enormous dull de bate on " articles of food for cattle, sheep, or pigs," and the agreements between landlords and tenants thereanent. When such a cognate subject gets before the House, there is no wonder that Affirmation, Mar riage, and Parliatnentary Oaths Bills fly, tossed by adverse winds into the limbo of futurity. On the 17th, a petition was presented from " John Sparke and others," complaining of the conduct of a well-known Member connected with Railway Com panies, "praying for inquiry, and that he may be ex pelled from being a Member of the House." It might have been as well if John Sparke and others had for decency left a gap between the inquiry and punishment demanded, to contain the possib/e event of the inquiry's not ending in the precise manner John Sparke and others have assigned. The petition was read by the clerk, and then the Member petitioned against rose in his place. it is not likely that within the compass of a speech by the party incriminated, there should be included what should determine the opinion of the House or the public, either in one direction or the other. But one point which could not fail to impress itself on view of the proceeding, was that inasmuch as there exists "an apparatus of considerable complexity, and what ought therefore to be considerable efficiency, for the redress. ing of all pecuniary wrongs, some decision of the law courts ought to have been produced, before Parliament was called upon by John Sparke and others to exer cise a summary jurisdiction instead. Parliament is bound to exercise discreet vigilance for the preserva tion of its own reputation ; but it is not bound to set up a sentimental standard of purity extending to cases which the law of the country has not touched, and in which the privileges of the House are not distinctly concerned. If a Member should use reproachful speeches or gestures to the Speaker or to the House, the House might justly take pro ceedings thereon, though no verdict or damages could be obtained by common process of l aw . B ut the House w ou ld hardly think of proceeding against a Member for having incurred debts, until some come mon process of law had fixed the fact of their ex istence. Another point, put forward to a certain extent by the incriminated Member himself, but of which he did not appear to be conscious of the whole force and efficacy, is that great allowance must be made for the acts of individuals under circumstances of danger and difficulty, • grasping at the prospect of deliverance through what will be met by no disapprobation in the event ofultimatesuccess. Many a man under the appre hension of being obliged to retire from business, has not taken precisely the same view of the case and his duties thereupon, as will be taken by his creditors in cold blood afterwards, who may regret that he tried the chance of what a further tempting of fortune might produce. But nobody ever dreamt of insti tuting rigid proceedings upon a difference of judg ment of this nature. Every , man who was ever able to exercise a pros pective judgment upon railway matters at all, must have at all times felt a conviction that the facts would be, that at a certain period there would be twice as many railways as were wanted, and these at a certain subsequent period would be only half. There was therefore sure to be the strongest inducement for railway managers, at the first of these periods, to stretch a point for the chance of rubbing on into the other. And within certain limits, it is difficult to deny, that this might fall within the duty of an able and conscientious railway director. Put the case, that the concern in general by an operation of this kind had thumped over the sands without any serious detriment, and beaten into deep water on the other side. What appellation would the proprietors have had for their leader and guide, but " The Pilot that weather'd the storm ?" This reasoning may not be conclusive ; neither is it meant that anything should be concluded, except that the House was right in not giving itself airs of outraged virtue, and in maintaining a countenance of kindness towards the incriminated Member rather than the contrary. Ancther petition from railway proprietors com plained of the conduct of two other Members con nected with railways, and prayed for inquiry. Both petitions were ordered to " lie on the table.' On Friday, by a remarkable coincidence, motion was made and carried without division, for issuing a new writ in the c :se of a Member " adjudged guilty of high treason." So in the other case, proceedings ought to have waited till somebody was " adjudged guilty." In the latter part of the evening, an extraordinary scene was exhibited, to such as were there to see. On going into Committee on the Parliamentary Oaths Bill, a Catholic Member moved the exclusion of the reporters. It would be unfair to infer that his object was connected with the Bill in hand; because he stated that he did it in return for the reporters' nut having reported the whole of his speeches ;—a curious principle if carried out by every Member in the louse. This, however, did not hinder an ultra- Protestant leader from broadly throwing out the imputation of desiring secresy, on those who took the different side from himself. As an instance of the effect of one hour's exclusion of the public, it was impossible to avoid perceiving how much the tone and conduct of the debate were influenced by the fact. A leader of the Church Monopoly party, with an air of confident benevolence recalling the traditions of the Wolf in Red Riding• hood, descanted on the desirableness of uniformity and singleness in the matter of oath 3, and coolly pro posed that the oath so bitterly complained of by the Catholics as intended to involve them in a declaration of allegiance to a Church they disapprove, should be extended to the Protestant Dissenters of the realm Pathetically did he urge the impossibility that Dis senters who had no scruple in swearing allegiance to the Queen, could have any more in swearing elle• giance to the Church, which everybody knew was part and parcel of the state as much as the Queen ; and confidently did he look forward to the agreeable sense of harmonious equality which would arise from the Dis senters putting their necks into the same noose with the Catholics. And the amusing thing was—as Pepys would have said—to see how quietly the Dissenters did take it, and how long they were before they com prehended the nature of the bed preparing for them. Substantial pillars of the Dissenting interest were seen settling themselves in their seats, and smiling assent to the blessings of uniformity. At last some of the more active spirits began to fidget, and to look in each other's faces like Massaniellu s friends upon the stage, in the way of saying " Are we going to stand this ?" And so by degrees the opposition began to collect, and men to find out that all was not gospel which came from the High Church side. At this moment Lord John Russell rose, and in the most cool, able, and masterly manner, turned over all the accidents and concomitants of the proposal, as completely as it would have been done in a conclave of Dissenters after a six weeks' sitting. But the Dis senters had an escape. It was certainly not their own arm, nor voice either, that saved them. With the smallest connivance or lack of will on the part of the Government, they might have been turned over into the abyss of praying to be saddled with swearing al legiance to the Church as by law established. And a pretty abyss it would have been. The first man who ever mentioned Church-rates, would have been put down with cries of perjury. There probably never was an instance, in which a cool political effrontery of proposal, advanced so far with so little opposition. Upon the Minister's pronunciamento, men's eyes were opened, and the High Church proposal met with no quarter afterwards, being finally withdrawn with out putting to the vote. The Member for Northarnp ton (Mr. Vernon Smith) in the course of the debate, put forward what everybody in his heart knows to be the true point to move on if it were possible to come there; which is, that everybody should take the same oath or declaration, and that this should be confined to a declaration of allegiance to the existing occupant of the crown. A notice was finally placed upon the table, for inviting the attention of the House to the reconsideration of the Standing Order by which strangers are excluded on the motion of a single Member ; out of which it is scarcely possible that some good effect should not arise. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. 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TBE HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY. —Accord ing to a previous order, the Honourable Artillery Com pany held a field muster on Saturday to commemorate the birthday of her Majesty the Queen. The Regiment formed in battalion on the Artillery -ground, in front of the Armory-house, under command of ex-Lieutenant- Colonel the Hon. Henry Fitzroy, M.P. About two hun dred men, rank and file, were under arms at roll call. The battalions saluted, marched in slow and quick time, and went through several other manceuvres. The Artil lery division of the Regiment, under command of Cap tain Parker, then took up a position on the right flank of the battalion, with two of their field-pieces, and tired a double royal salute. The Regiment then re-formed in battalion, and left the ground in companies. There was a large attendance of spectators, the majority being ladies. TIER MAJESTY'S BIRTHDAY. THE DRAWING-ROOM. The Queen held a Drae:ing•roote in St. James's Palace on Saturday afternoon in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. Her Majesty a n d P r i nce Albert arrived from Bucking ham Palace shortly before two o'clock, attended by the Royal suite, and escorted by a detachment of the Life Guards. Her Royal Higness the Duchess or Kent was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Colonel Sir George Conger, Bart., and Lord James P. Murray. Their Royal Hignesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge arrived, accompanied by their Royal High nesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and attended by Lady Aueusta Cadogan, Baron Knesebeek, and Mr. Edmond Mildmay. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ar rived at the Palace to pay a visit of congratulation to her Majesty. His Ho) el Highness Prince George was al-o present. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Count of Syra cuse, ens attended by General Prince Casteleica'a, the Neapolitan Minister, and the Chevalier de Colonna. Their Serene flight. sses Prince Ernest and l'rince William of Hesse Philipsthal, and Prince Edward of Sate Weimar. also attended. The Vice Chamberlain received the Royal Family on their arrival, and conducted them to the presence of her Msjesty. Before the Drawing-room the Queen received an ad dress of congratulation in the royal eleset from the Are bishops and Bishops. The Archbishop of Canterbury delivered the address. His Grace was accompanied by (he Archbishop of York, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the Bishop of Durham. the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Nor wich, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Peterborough, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Wor cester, the Bishop of Carlisle, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of St. Aeaph, the Bishop of Chichester, the Bishop of Hereford, and the Bishop of Manchester. After delivering the address the Right Rev. Prelates retired from the royal presence. The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne room, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and Prince George, the Heriditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strehtz, and the Count of Syracuse, and their Serene Highnesses Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and Prince Ernest and Prince William (if Hesse Philipsthal. The royal suite consisted of the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Norfolk, the Countess of Desert (in waiting), the Countess of Gains borough, Lady Portman, the Marchioness of Douro, the Countess of Charletnont, the Viscountess Canning, Ladies of the Beeclitnber, the Hon. Miss Murray (in waiting), Hon. Miss Macdonald (in waiting), Hoe. Miss Cavendish, Hon. Miss Stanley, and the Hon. Miss Kerr, Maids of Honour; Lady Charlotte Copley, Hon. Mrs. Brand, Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, and Lady Theresa Dighy, Women of the Bedchamber; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert; Mr. George Edward An son, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse ; the Earl of Morton, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Clifden, Lord in Waiting on the Prince ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Private Secretary to the Prince ; General Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in Waiting ; Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting ou his Royal Highness ; General Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting ; Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon, Equerry iu Waiting on the Prince; and Messrs. Forbes ants Gor don, Pages of Honour in Waiting. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentleman-at- Arms were on duty at the entrance to the State Rooms, and also lined the Presence Chamber. The officers of the corps present were—the Lieutenant, Sir Matthew Wyatt; the Standardbearer, Mr. David Harmer; and the Adju tant, Captain Curling. The Lord Chancellor arrived a few minutes before two o'clock, attended by his Secretaries, Deputy Sergeant at-Arms, and Pursebearer. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com mons arrived in state, attended by the Chaplain and the Sergeant at-Arms (Lord Charles Russell) attending the House of Commons. The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and the Chief Baron of the Exchequer appeared in their _old collars of SS, with the portcullis. The Equity Judges wore their gold robes. The Queen wore a train of green and silver silk, trim med with red roses and violets, and tulle crillusion in sil ver. The petticoat was white satin, trimmed with tulle end bouquets of red roses to correspond to the train. Her :Majesty's heed-dross was composed of diamonds and teathers, with roses and violets. The dress was of Spitalfields manufacture. The Queen wore the collars of the Most Noble Order of the Garter and of the Most Ancient Order of the Thistle. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent wore a train of white watered silk covered with Nottingham lace, trimmed with lace and white ribands. The petticoat was white watered silk, also covered with Nottingham lace; the front of the petticoat was decorated with ornaments termed of brilliants, and the stomacher was of diamonds. Her Royal highness ss ore a white head-dress with fea thers and diamonds and a necklace of diamonds and ame thysts. The dress was of British manufacture. Being a collar day, the principal knights of the seve ral orders of knighthood wore the collars of their respec dve orders. his Royal highness Prince Albert was habited in the uniform of a Field-Marshal, and wore the collars of the Garter and the Bath, together with the stars of those orders, and also the stars of the most Illustrious Orders of St. Patrick and the Thistle. The Prince also wore the ensigns of the Golden Fleece. The general circle was numerously attended. The Duke of Wellington wore a Field-Marshall's uniform and the Ensigns of the Garter and the Golden Fleece. The Duke of Devonshire wore the Collars of the Gar :er and of a Russian Order of Knighthood. Viscount Combereiere wore the Collars and Stars of the Orders of the Bath, the Guelphic, and the Tower and Sword. About 1,700 of the nobility and gentry were present at the Drewieg-roorn. The diplomatic circle were first introduced, when the following presentations to her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince took place:— The Countess de Reventlow presented her second daughter, the Countess Malvina Reventlow. The Belgian Minister pie sented the Baron Edouard Mertens. charged with a mission from the Belgian Go vernment ihe Huytian Minister presented M. E. Seguy Ville. valeix, Secretary of the Haytian Legation. The diplomatic circle was attended by Mahomed Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador ; M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de. Weyer; M. Charles Drouet, Coutiseiller tie Legation; M. Eugene de Gerlache, Attache to the Legation; le Comte le La laing; Baron de Cetto, Bavarian Minister, and Baroness de Cetto; Viscount de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister, and Viscountess de Moncorvo; the Chevalier de Ri beiro, Secretary; le Chevalier Pinto de Several and Baron de Moncorvo, Attachiel to the Legation; the Chevalier and Madame de Herta; Baron de Brunnow, Russian Minister, and Baroness de Brunnow; Made moiselle Olga de Lechner; M. Alexandre de Berg and \I. C. de Koudriaff,ky, Secretaries of Legation; Gene ral Prince Castelcicala, Neapolitan Minister; and M. G. Canofari, Secretary of Legation; Count de Kiehinan segge, Hanoverian Minister; le Chevalier Bunsen, Prus sian Minister; Madame and Mademoiselle Marie Bun sen, Count Perpoucher, First Secretary, M. Charles Bunsen, Attache, and Baron Ernest Stockmar, Attach, 6 to the Legation ; le Comm andeur Mar ques Lisboa, Brazilian Minister, and Madame Lis boa; le Chevalier Pinto Peixoto and M. J. T. de Amara!, Attaches to the Legation; Count de Revent low, Danish Minister, and Countess do Reventlow; Baron Bertouch, Secretary of Legation ; Mr. George Bancroft, American Minister, and Mrs. Bancroft, and Mr. Brodhead, Secretary of Legation; Count Schimmel eennick, Netherlands Minister, and Mademoiselle Scbitn (uelpennick ; Baron de Stratenus, Conseiller de Legation; Baron de Rehauzen, Swedish Minister, and Baroness do fiehausen ; M. de Sibbern, Secretary of Legation ; le Comte de Rosen ' Aide-de-amp General; Senor J. J. do Osma, Peruvian Minister; le Colonel Beltran, Secretary; le Major J. F. de Elizalde, and M. Henry Curavodo, Attach(2s to the Legation ; Senor Felipe Molina, Costs Rica Minister; le Marquis de Sauli, Sardinian Minister; le Marquis Victor Emmanuel d'Azeglio, Conseiller ; Baron Isola and Count Corti, Secretaries of Legation ; Count Colloredo, Austrian Minister, and Countess Col loredo; Baron Koller and Baron Wydenbruck, Secre taries of Legation ; M. D. Delve, (Senateur), Harlan Minister ; M. de Montherot, French awl d'Affaires, ,ind Madame de Montherot ; Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., the Queen's Principal Secretary of State fur Foreign Affairs, and the Viscountess Palmcrstona.e s ; and Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cust, Litz. M sty Master of the Ceremonies. THE MINISTERIAL BANQUETS, &c. The First Lord of the Treasury and the other mem bers of the Ministry gave full dress entertainments in honour of Her Majesty's birthday. We subjoin a list of the guests at the:seversil banquets ; Lord John Russell entertained a t di nner at his pri vate residence in Chesham-pla ce t h e f ollowing nonle 'nen and gentlemen,in celebration of her Majesty's birthday :—Earl Fitzwilliam, Earl Duck, Earl Fitzhar dinge, Earl of Leicester, Lord Portman, Lord de Manley, Lord Effingham, Lord Harry Vane, M.P.; Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P.; Sir Charles Lemon, M.P.• Sir R. Fergu son, M.P. ; M r . Chi chester Fortescue, 'M.P.; Mr. Ro barte, M.P.; Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P.; and the Hon. Colonel Rappel, M.P. Viscount Paltnerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Afairs, entertained the following members of the corps diploniatigue at his mansion in Carlton-gardens:—Dis Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, Mahomed Pasha, his Excellency the Russian Minister, Baron Brunnow; his Excellency the Austrian Minister, Count Colloredo; his Excellency the Prussian Minister, Chevalier Bunsen; his Excellency the Swedish Minister, Baron Behausen; his Excellency the Minister for the United States, Mr. Bancroft; his Excellency the Danish Minister, Count Reventlow; his Exc e ll enc y t h e P ortuguese Minister, Viscount de Moncorvo ; hi s E xce ll ency t h e H ano verian Minister, Count Kielmansegge; his Excellency the Ba varian Minister, Baron de Cetto; his Excellency the Minister for the Two Sicilies, Prince Caste!. cicalo; his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, Marquis de Sauli; his Excellency the Minister forßuenos Ayres, M. Moreno; his Excellency the Minister for Costa Rica, M. Molino; his Excellency the Minister for the Re public of Hayti, General Dalba; his Excellency the Peruvian Minister, M. Osma; his Excellency the Charge d'Affaires for the French Republic, Baroa de Month e rot; and the following British diplomatists:—Viscount Pon.r. sonby, Lord BloomEeld, Lord Howden, Lord Eddisburyo Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer, Sir Henry Ellis, Sir Edmund Lyon, Sir R. Pakenham, Sir Robert Sh a ft () Adair, Sir