The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

, L'LOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DA Y . LONDON, FEB. 19.—Wind this day at novu,S. W., moderite brvers and cloudy. DEAL, FEB,lB.—Wind W.N.W.-17, Arrd. frem . the ~River, the Fl ore ntia, Tindall, Adelaide, S.A.; Herald, "stue, Madras; Julia, Lecroix, Cape of Good Hope; Warrior, Th omas . J a maica; Royal Shepherdess, Bill, Aden; Siren; Gilbert, Porto Rico. 18, Mary, Hermes, Pernambuco. 17, Arrd. from the River, and sld., the Dorothy, Moody, Calcutta ; Columbus, Edie, ditto ; Tweed. Catchpole, Cave Coast Castle; Eglint an, Dixo n, Coquimbo ; Janet Willis, Lairg, Demerara; James Cruickshank, Sayers, St. Vincent; James Holmes, Head, Barbadoes. 18, Devonshire, Hovey, New York. Sld. the Whitty, Sydney, N.S.W.; Samuel, Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17.—The Countess of Lonsdale, steam-tug, took fire this morning in her bunkers, but it Was extingished without doing much injury. A consi• derable quantity of (loose) goods, mostly prints, velvets, shovels, rope, &c., have been brought here from the Wreck of the Cookson. The Passenger, from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp, that put into Dingle harbour about two months since, after several ineffectual attempts to get to sea, still remained there on the 12th instant.- 18 . —Wind W.—Sld. 17., Pampero, Lima; Fame, Rio Janeiro ; Spartan. Savannah ; Lehigh, Philadelphia. — Off Port, 18.—Scotia, Baltimore. RINGSTOWN.—SId., James Hunt, Barbadoes. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17.—51 d., Thames steamer, West Indies; Iberia steamer, Gibraltar. COWES, FEB. 17.—Wind W.—Sld., Koophandel, navannah. PLymoiru, FEB. 17.—Wind variable.—Sld., Sove reign, Cadiz and Buenos Ayres; Royal Sovereign, Ade laide, South Australia; Child° Harold, South Australia. NEWPORT, FEB. 17.—Wind W.—Sid., Jewess, Ha vannah. BEAUMABJS, FEB, 17.—Wind S Partenetia, Rio Janeiro. CAIRN RYAN, FEB. 15.—Arrd., Euphrates, Parker, Philadelphia, for Londonderry. HOLYHEAD, FEB. 16.—The Orwell, Liverpool to New castle, has put in leaky.. ISTEOMSAY, SKYE, FEB. 13.—The Ottilie, of Stettin ' from Dublin to Newcastle was driven on the rocks near Arisaig, 10th inst., her bottom is stove in and it is feared she will be a total wreck—sails and materials are being saved. The Mary and Jane of Port Gordon, from Liverpool to Aberdeen has been towed in here having struck on the rocks at Byleakin 11th inst., and it is ex pected must discharge. WHITBY, FEB. 18.--The Tino of Arundel has been towed in very leaky. HULL, FEB. 16.—The Perth (smack) of Aberdeen has been taken into Grimsby a derelict by the schooner Sarah and Ann. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Up to our market last week, coastwise, the arrivals of English Wheat, Barley, Beans, Peas, and Flour were again limited. In those of Malt and Oats a slight in. crease was reported. By land carriage rather a large quantity of English Flour came to hand; but that of Grain was very small, if we except the supply of Malt. From Ireland and Scotland very little Grain reached us. The imports of Foreign Wheat and Flour were season ably large, viz., 21,866 quarters of the former (chiefly from the Black Sea and the near Continental ports), and 3,03 5 sacks of the latter, wholly from France. The other foreign arrivals comprised 5,160 quarters of Barley, . 2 ,.317 ditt o o f O ats , 1,825 ditto of Rye, 195 ditto of Beans, 1,198 ditto of Peas, 170 ditto of Tares, 2,182 ditto of Linseed, 35 ditto of Mustard Seed, and 144 ditto of sundry Seeds. No Indian Corn came to hand f rom any quarter. Since these returns were made up, aa veral cargoes of Wheat, Barley, Oats, and Flour h ave been reported at the Custom-house, and ,which h ave b een mos tly entered free of duty. The quantity of Wheat received fresh up to this morn 4"g s market from Essex, Kent, Suffolk, &c., was very " l an, coastwise as well as by land carriage and sample. The stands were again scantily filled with parcels of both red and white; still, however, owing to the con tinued arrivals from abroad, the demand for all descrip tiuna was in a very sluggish state. The finest samples of white were mostly held at prices about equal to those of Monday last ; but the middling and inferior kinds (which formed the bulk of the supply) sold with diffi culty. at, a decline in the quotations of fully Is. per patter, at which the market closed heavily. With for eign Wheat we were again largely supplied, especially With Russi an qua li t i es . Th e m ill ers o perated with ex treme caution, and where sales took place, the quota tions ruled I s . t o , in some instances , 2 s. per quarter beneath those of this day se'nnig ht. Floating cargoes Were o ff ered f ree l y , at Is. to 2s. per quarter less m oney, at which buyers could not be found. The quantity of Barley on offer, though less than for some ti me past was more than equal to the wants o f the dealers. Fine malting parcels moved off slowly at mostly full p r i ces. Grindin and distilling sorts com manded very little attention, g at barely late rates. The arrivals of Malt having been good, that article was very difficult of sale. All kinds ruled heavy, but we have no actual decline to notice in value. Large parcels might have been had at Is. per quarter less money. From all quarters the supply of Oats has been small since our last ! . epert. Really sound Corn was in moderate request, at last week's quotations. The damp and otherwise out 5-condition sorts had, in some instances, a downward tendency. Large supplies are expected ,t) arrive from the co n ti nent d ur i ng th e ensu i ng mo nth. The show of Beans was not large; nevertheless the de mand for that article was heavy, at barely last week's prices. The best boiling Peas were quite as dear. In all other kinds very little business was transacted. In Indian Corn and Meal we heard of no sales. The quan tity here is small. The top price of the best town-made Flour remained unaltered. Inferior qualities of English and all kinds of foreign were dull in the extreme. The highest figure for the best brands of American was 27s Per barrel. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. 'eat—Essex Ic Kent. i Malt—Chevalier•... •• 59s to 6O Red. ........ , 40s to 4Ss Oats—Yorkshire and Ditto,White, New 44s 56s Lincolnsh., Feed. 17s 20. Norfolk and Lin- Potato coin, Red..... 433 47s Youghal and Cork, Ditto, White ••• • .. 44s 49 s Black . ...... 158 208 Irish, Red .... •• .. —s —e Cork, White ... .. 17s 20s ... Ditto White.. ••.. —5 —s Scotch, Feed..... 218 25s 7 4 . - -Old ............ —s s Beans—Tick ......... 27s 315 • New ban e • Malting . .... 24s 278 Peas—Grey ..•• • • • • 33s 34s .4altin g . ........ 29s 30e Maple. ... • • ....• 348 35s k.,heyalier •. .• ... 318 32s White... •••• • . • • 355 37e 4" Bulfolk and Nor- Boilers ... —•. • • 378 39,4 f01k.... .. .... lt rown ........... 488 54s Suffolk ••••.. .. . • 32s 343 i 'mlitilton and Ware 58s 59s Stockta &Norfolk 32s 34s SMITITTIELD. • AS We anticipated in our report of Monday last, in creased supplies of foreign stock have arrived in the port of London since that day. The total imports have amounted to 2,021 head—the details of which we give be low --. against 1,408 head in the preceding week, and 1,064 at the corresponding period in 1848. That the foreign arrivals will continue to increase we have no doubt whatever, as we have the best authority for stating that immense numbers of Beasts, Sheep, and Calves are ready in Holland for shipment to this country as the epring advances. The fact of the supplies of Beasts in Norfolk, Suffolk, &c., from which quarters Smithfield Will be principally supplied during the next four months, being considerably in excess of many former seasons, renders it very doubtful whether the price of Beef will rise above its present extremely low value for some time. The large arrivals of country-killed Meat up to New gate and Leadenhall Markets, and which are frequently sold at a great sacrifice, have greatly interfered with the trade here. IMPORT.' INTO LONDON. From Beasts. Sheep. Calvet. Pig.. Rotterdam 490 .. 365 ... 88 ~. _ Antwerp "' --•— see Amsterdam ... 9 Ostend 4.. llamburgh ... _ ••• Middleburg liallingen ... „ Total SO6 ... 1 , 068 ... 147 ---- Corresponding Week in 1848... 560 ... 458 46 bifierenee ... 246 more. 610 more. 101 more. 6t outports, and some of the other nort her n about lai"so he a d o f s t o ck have come to hand , chiefly from Hol ld b , in a fair average con dition, and w hich have "a mostly disposed of to the local butchers. A f o rtion of the 400 beasts, to which we alluded in our Mt as having been purchased at Oporto on English a ccount, reached Southampto n on Saturday. The num comprised 111 hea d,her and not a few of the beasts w ere eof fall average quality. Out of the supply thus tee eived 47 oxen were dispose d of at the above p ort, at t°larably good prices ; the remainder, 6 . 4, w ere . here to day ; but they experienced a very dull inqu iry, com paratively low figures. From an accident having oc :tilted, tett of the beasts were slaughtered on the pas -1,47• Th e supply of stock from Holland and other se go __ . "11 of the near Continent on o ff er this morning was tot `unably large. Not the slightest improvement was It e L ee4 in its quality, yet we understand that both the cor o — e ts ,mid Steep continue to "die" extremely well. A fr om w - r uat extensive arrival of Beasts has taken place fro m 0 -re land in the week-119 Oxen having come to h and W ill b; l4 , about 60 of which were brought forward to day. p 1 3 , 61 ,re to report the arrival of a somewhat large v ar i o u s z - 4; Be asts fresh up this morning from our variot!s (1 4 11 v "R districts, and it exceeded that received on this thf " ' noight babout 300 head. At least:two-thirds of l a des • • b e . cription o f stock were above the middle quality; sea the butchers generally had a most excellent tesortraent to purchase from. The continued heavy re the 48 of slaughtered meat up to the dead markets, and 4 " " T oParatively thin attendance of both town and u a ntry buy ers, pro d uce d unu sual h eav i ness i n t h e B ee f of •°. All breeds of Beasts were with difficulty disposed 14„," a further decline in the prices paid on Monday b,, — ,af quite 2d per 81bs., the extreme currencies for the and ` B , , Soots not excee di ng from 3s 6d to 3 s 8d per 8 1 b s , i s a. large number were turned out unsold. Beef ki n " selling at 8d to ls; Mutton, 6cl to 10d; Veal, 1) ,. to 1 0d, and Pork, 4d to 8d per 8 1 bs, beneath the Fro m obtained at the corresponding period in 1848. receiv ed Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we as-ceived about 1,600 Scots and short-horns; from the itorthern districts, 350 shorthorns; from the western 4 Z I LI Midland countieq, 700 Herefords, runts, Devons, 4 , -e r i;,,froin other parts of England, 400 of various breeds; e;" `r° l3 l Scotland, 190 horned and polled Scots. The tf u lainder of the Bullock supply was derived from abroad, rel ao th and the neighbourhood of London. Although ece were about 1,000 Sheep less in the market than on o r, n i clay last, its supply was quite adequate to the wants v __loc trade. On the whole, the mutton trade was in a in sluggish state, at prices barely equal to those quoted b o °ar last report. The hi g h est fi gure f or t h e b e st Old . wh Z i ns was 48. Bd. per Blb s . Calves—The supply of lue ' .. c . o . was very mo d erate —were in very moderate re " in the quotations we hare no material alteration to notice. There was seareel, Ln some instances, prices wer TFIE y any demand. for Pigs, and, .e almost nominal. !nk the offal. Per Sibs. to s'. s, d, to s. d. 5. d. to e. d. se lnferior con d quality B casts .:.. .. 2 8 2 3 02 10 2 c S o e Second n.w q o u o a l l i . S e d Sheep Prime large Oxen.• 3 4 3 6 Southdown 6 l e t e t p o 4 3 8 6 . 4 4 4 Wether 4 4 3 Prime Scots Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 2 Large 1 ; logs •.•• • • 3 4 4 2 Prime small ditto .•4 4 4 8 Small 1 orkers ••. • 4 4 4 8 Quarter old Pigs .. .. ..16 .. 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 0 Lambs . 1 18 3 0 2 2:"; 0 4 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pi". Lf uc e ldi rio n :S C h tedevpes. , I 18,800 52 220 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 676 1,200 39 _.... 101EIWGELTE arm MEADE NEL Ala.. The supplies of London-killed meat on offer in our markets are seasonably extensive, and of very superior quality. The pact week's arrivals from the provinces have consisted of 600 carcasses of Beef, 1,500 ditto of Mutton, 250 ditto of Veal, and 3,100 ditto of Pork—the latter chiefly by railway from the West of England. A few baskets of meat have arrived from the continent. Although the butchers have purchased largely, the trade, owing to the immense quantities of meat brought forward, and the heaviness in the demand at Smithfield, has ruled dull. Veal has mostly found buyers, at full prices; but the value of all other kinds of meat has not been supported. Nearly 800 carcasses of foreign meat have been on sale. Beasts. 3,832 At per stone by the Carcase. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to R. d Beef ,inferior.... •. 2 4 2 6 Mutton, inferior .. 2 6 21. - middling .... 2 8 210 middling.. 3 0 3 0 - primelarge .. 210 2 0 prime ••.. 3 10 4 8 - prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, large ••••• • • • 30 9 3 8 4 8 - BOROUGH BOP ATARICET. Since our last report there has been a slight improve ment in the demand for the best samples of Hops of last year's growth. In prices, however, we have no advance to notice. Old and inferior new Hops command very little attention at low rates of currency. The supply of the latter qualities still exceeds the wants of the brewers. On speculation nothing doing. New Hops—Sussex pockets, 214 s to 2/ 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 21 10s to 3165; Mid old East Kent ditto, 31 3s to 61 per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Rather an increased supply of Potatoes, in but middling condition, has been received at the water-side, coastwise, since Monday last. The foreign importations have been heavy, they having comprised 925 bags 36 baskets from Rotterdam; 488 sacks, 443 baskets, 299 tons from Calais; 44 tons from Dunkirk; 266 bags from Antwerp; 4 casks from Hamburgh; 394 tons from Rouen; 42 ditto from Gravelines; 289 ditto from Havre; and 80 ditto from Jersey. 'Further large supplies are close at hand from the Continent. The best qualities are in moderate request, at full prices; but most other kinds may be had on somewhat lower terms. Present rates as under:—Yorkshire Regents, 100 s to 150 s per ton; Newcastle, 100 s to 120 s; Scotch, 1003 to 130 s; ditto Cups, 90s to 1005; French Whites, 80s to 955; Bel gian, 808 to 100 s; Dutch, 80s to 955. WOOL. The public sales of colonial Wool held in the metro polis since our last have continued to be extremely well attended both by English and foreign buyers. Up to the present time about 15,000 bales have been disposed of, the best qualities at a rise in the quotations paid at the preceding auctions of from 2id to 3d per lb. The middling and inferior kinds must be quoted lid to quite 2d per pound higher. There is very little doubt but that the whole of the remaining parcels will find pur chasers. Judging from the accounts which continue to reach us from the manufacturing districts—where the stocks of wool are unusually low—it is tolerably evident that a decided impetus will be shortly given to the value of home grown Wool, which could scarcely be checked eve❑ by the declaration of additional public sales of colonial. The imports during the week have amounted to 13 bales from Hamburgh, 130 ditto from the Cape, 2 ditto from Marseilles, 1,780 ditto from South America, and 737 ditto, from Algoa Bay. An improved business is doing privately, and prices have an upward tendency. The following are the nearest prices of English:— South Down hogged, 10id to 134 d; half-bred ditto, lid to 12id; ewes' clothing, 10d to I lid; Kent fleeces, 101 d to I Id; combing skins, lid to I Id; flannel ditto, 9d to 13}d; blanket ditto, 6d to 12d. TALLOW. Since this day se'nnight our market has been far from active; yet the deliveries have amounted to 2,482 casks. Today, P. Y. C. on the spot is selling at 40s, being a decline of is per cwt. The imports last week were confined to 875 casks. Town Tallow 41s per cwt. net cash ; rough fat 2s 3id per Blbs. Letters from St. Petersburgh state that only a limited business was doing there in Tallow on English account. Prices, however, were not lower. HOUSE OF LORDS. : --(THIS DAY.) The House sat again today to hear Scotch appeals. The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. BAIN V. BLACK. The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from the decision of the Court of Session occupied their Lord ships the whole morning. We gave a short statement of the facts of the case when the matter came before their Lordships on Thursday last. The chief question in the case, as we then stated, was between the Free and the Regular Church of Scotland, whether the former had any interest in the churches which had been erected prior to the separation that had taken place between them. The Court of Session decided that they had not, and the party composing the Free Church appealed from that decision. The' arguments of Mr. J. Stuart Wortley in favour of the decision of the Court below occupied their Lord ships the whole morning. ROLLS COURT.—(THIS DAY.) Causes of no general interest occupied his Lordshi p the Master of the Rolls the whole morning. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) The further arguments in the case of "Dreyer v. Maudsley " were resumed this morning, and occupied the Court the whole day. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) Bankrupt petitions of no general interest occupied the Court the whole morning. (Before the Vice-Chancellor W.. IGRADL) NEWMAN V. HUTTON. The further arguments in this .part-heard case occu pied his Honour the whole morning. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief-Justice WILDE and a Special Jury.) EWBANL V. NUTTING. This was on action on a charter party. The name of the vessel in question was the Triton, and she was char tered by the plaintiff in the year 1845, to carry a cargo of salt from Liverpool to Calcutta. Instead, however, of proceeding to Calcutta, the vessel was put into Bahia, an intermediate port, where the cargo was sold, at a considerable loss, as was alleged, to recover this loss the present action was brought. Mr, Sergeant Channel!, Mr. Montague Smith, and Mr. Atkinson were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd appeared for the defendant; and Mr. Sergeant Byles for Mr. Orde, the captain of the vessel. A man named Benham, the first mate of the vessel, deposed that the Triton sailed from Liverpool in October, 1845, on her voyage to Calcutta. About five hours after leaving the Mersey, it was found that the vessel leaked, and the crew were ordered to the pumps. Shortly after that the water which the vessel had made decreased; afterwards it increased 'again. At first the crew had to pump every two hours, and then every hour, and then every half hour. The vessel made about fifteen or six teen inches of water in an hour. He did not receive any directions from the captain to look at the leak. Three days after they left the Mersey the crew went " aft " to the master, and asked him to return with the ship, alleging that it was quite unsafe to proceed on the voyage, owing to her being in so leaky a state. The master laughed, and told them the ship was a first-rate one, A. 1. He said that she would take up in a day or two, and that the leak was only caused by the sun, by the vessel having been in the African trade, and by her having been exposed to a burning sun while lying in the Liverpool docks. They had very fine weather for three days after they left the Mersey. In his (the mate's) judgment it was quite unsafe to proceed on the voyage at that time. They could have thou put bank to Liyer pool; but the captain, in spite of the wishes and remon strances of the crew, continued his course. The leak kept increasing as the wind increased. They had been at sea three or four days before they met with any severe weather. The wind then increased until it rose to a gale on the fourth day. On the sixth day the crew went to the captain again, and asked him to return. He replied, after a little consideration, that he would think seriously about the matter. At twelve o'clock on that day the captain bore up for Falmouth, and continued making tor that port about five hours; at the end of which time the gale from the westward was over. The wind then shifted to the eastward, which was not fair for Falmouth. The captain then steered for the Brazils, directly before the wind. The wind was then blowing hard. The leak then increased, and further re presentation was made to the captain about it. The crew told him of the danger of proceeding any further. Just at that time there was no possibility of returning to England; but with reference to the sea and the state of the wind the captain could have made either for Brest or for Lisbon. At this time the crew were very nearly exhausted with pumping. The captain did not make either for Brest or Lisbon. The crew asked him why he did not go down to Lisbon; but he said he would not run his ship down on an iron-bound shore. That was somewhere about nine or ten days after leaving Liver pool. On the 14th of December the captain put the vessel into Bahis. The leak ceased a little before they got to Bahia. They pumped all the voyage, about twelveLitvimerepsoionl she was thetwenty-fouirna ver y hours. Whenbad state. eship left She was an old vessel, about fifty or sixty years old. When they got to Bahia the crew were placed under arrest, three days after they arrived. They were taken before the British Consul there, and com mitted to prison, witness for four days, and the crew for three days. In cross-examination witness said the vessel happened with an accident as she was being towed down the Mersey. Witness did not draw his knife on the captain during the voyage, but was accused of having done so before the Consul. Gave up his knife in the course of the voyage. The captain asked him for his knife, when wit ness said before he would give up his knife, he would see him d-d first. It was a s h eath knife, not one that shut in a handle, and the blade was about four or five inches long. That was long after they left Liver pool. They had got through the Bay of Biscay, and through the trade-winds when the captain one day called witness aft and charged him with the crime of mutiny, having on this day, as stated in the log-book, drawn on me a deadly weapon, called a sheath knife, with intent to take away my life." The captain LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, S U N, read that charge, but it was false.--(L7.ughter.) Witness then gave up his knife. Would s wear positively that he had never drawn his knife on the captain. With( ss had his knife in his hand, drawn, when two of the crew came, by the captain's directions, and took it from him. He was called on twice to give up his knife before he gave it up. The ship was declared in a state of mutiny, One hour was allowed the witness by the captain to con sider whether he wouldigive up his knife, at the expira tion of which witness agreed to give it up. The case was proceeding.. and Mr. John Whately, the British Vice-Consul at Bahia, was under : examination when we went to press. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.) PROTECTION TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.-IN RE IRVING. This bankrupt is described as late of Prince Edwards' Island, and to-day was appointed for him to pass his last examination. Mr. DUNCAN supported the application. His HONOUR, however, said that he did not see how he could allow the bankrupt to pass without the produc tion of books. Mr. DUNCAN said that the bankrupt had come over to this country to settle certain affairs, but was unable to do so, and the present fiat was issued. A power of at torney, however, had been sent out for the sale of the property, and to settle affairs in the Island, and the books sent over. He therefore had to apply to his Ho nour for protection to enable the bankrupt to go over, as the sale was of timber and land. His HONOUR did not think he could grant protection to enable the bankrupt to quit this country. Mr. DUNCAN thought there could be no difficulty, as the bankrupt would not be out of the realm or jurisdic tion of the Court. His HONOUR, having consulted the other Commis sioner, said ho would grant the protection, on Mr. Ir ving making a declaratfon that his presence would be of advantage to the creditors. He would grant protection for three or four months. Mr. DUNCAN pressed for a longer time, as •he said if any delay occurred, and the protection ran out, no fur ther protection could be got from his Honour, and bank rupt might be arrested on the Island. His HONOUR then granted the protection for six months. The balance-sheet showed Dr. to creditors, 2,4001.; ditto holding securities, 2,9551. ss. 9d. Cr. good debts, 3111. 12s. 4d.; doubtful, 79/. 3s. 9d.; property, 9211.; ditto held by creditors, 1,3321. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert,. the Ladies and Gen tlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, at tended Divine service yesterday in the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, walked in the Royal Gardens yesterday. Her Majesty, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, and attended by the Countess of Charlemont, took an airing on Satur day in an open carriage and four. Her Majesty visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House. Lord Alfred Paget was in attendance on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Albert attended a meeting of the Special Commissioners for the management of the affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall on Saturday morning. Mr. G. E. Anson was in waiting on the Prince. Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Saturday af ternoon, attended by Colonel Seymour. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, on. Saturday, included Mehmed Paths (Turkish Ambassa dor), Admiral Cecille (French Ambassador), M. Van de Weyer (the Belgian Minister) and Madame Van de Weyer, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, and Lady Emily de Burgh, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, Lord Marcus Hill, and Lord G. Lennox. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance in the Palace during dinner, and per formed the following pieces:---- Overture, " Fidelio" Beethoven. Waltzes, " Vichy" • Strauss. Selection ... ClapidSon. Andante, " Symphony, No. 5" Beethoven. Chorus, " Armida" Gluck. Polka, " Phmnix" • Jolly. The Queen's private band a▪ fterwards attended and played the following pieces:— Overture (M.S.) Mendelssohn. Quintetto, "Ah guardate" (II T• urco in Italia) 111 Sinfonia (No. 4) A Cabinet Council vras held on S a t ur d a y a fternoon at 17. Rossini. Beethoven. the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exche quer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Earl of Carlisle. The Council sat two hours and a half. A deputation on the question of rating the Liverpool Docks, consisting of Mr. Ferguson (churchwarden), Messrs. Poole, Urquhart, Dover, Biskett, Hart, and Lowndes (on the part of the parish), Mr. Littledale and Mr. Parker (on the part of the Town Council of Liver pool), accompanied by Sir Thomas Birch, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. A deputation to oppose the Liverpool Dock Rating Bill, consisting of the Mayor of Manchester, Sir Elkanah, Armitage, Mr. Alderman Hopkins, Mr. Councillor Gibb, and the Town-clerk of Manchester, the Mayor of Salford, and Mr. Alderman Jenkinson, with the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, M.P.; Messrs. Bright, M.P. ; Brown, M.P., Henry, M.P., Kershaw, M.P., Macgregor, 51. P., Pilkington, M.P., Armstrong, M.P., Sir P. Nugent, M.P., Mr. Duncuft, M.P., Mr. Thornely, M.P., Mr. Hey worth, ALP., Mr. Hornby, M.P., Mr. Hindley, M.P., Mr. Blair, M.P.; and a Liverpool deputation, Mr. Wil liam Nicol (deputy-chairman), and Messrs. Charles Saunders, Thomas Bold, and William Mann (members of the Dock Committee), had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. H. Labouchero (President), Earl Granville (Vice-President of the Board of Trade), and Mr. Baines (Chief Commissioner of the Poor-laws) at the office of the Board of Trade._ _ —.—. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Ferguson (church warden), Mr. Poole, Mr. Urquhart, Mr. Biskett, Mr. Dover, Mr. Hart, and Mr. Lowndes (solicitor), from the parish of Liverpool; Messrs. Littledale and Parker, from the.. Town Council of Liverpool; accompanied by Sir T. Birch, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Henry, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere on Saturday. The Lord Mayor, Lord Ashley, and Mr. D'Eyncourt had interviews with Sir George Grey on Saturday. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Mary Wood had a dinner party on Saturday, at their resi dence in Dowhing-street. The company included his Serene Highness Prince Loewenstein, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel, Lady Georgians Grey, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mr. and Lady Theresa Lewis, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Greville, and Mr. Rogers. At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday, the prayers were read by the Rev. W. Hall, the lessons by the Rev. G. Repton, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The sermon was preached by the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Phipps. The Right Rev. Dr. Hampden, Bishop of Hereford, will preach the sermon in the Chapel Royal on Sunday next. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—Mr. William Penfold, one of the first-class clerks in the Storekeeper's-office in this dockyard, has been selected by Rear-Admiral Superin tendent Prescott, C. 8., to check the accounts and pre pare them for the Rear-Admiral's weekly audit, in con formity with the Admiralty minute. A more competent selection could not have been made. The Driver steam-sloop, Commander C. R. Johnson, was ordered yesterday by telegraph to prepare for fo reign service, and this morning she has received her destination officially from the Admiralty. She will go to the Pacific, but not quite so quickly as a local paper has announced. The Juno, 26, Captain Blake, just from the Pacific, hoisted the pennant at Sheerness on the 6th of Septem ber, 1845, and left England on the 11th November fol lowing. She has traversed the Pacific in almost every direction, visiting Chili, Peru, California, Mexico, the Sandwich Islands, the Society's Islands, Navigators' Islands, &c. She has been at sea during her commission 679 days, and has run the amazing distance of 106,750 miles, which is more than any other ship in her Ma jesty's serviee has done in the same time. She is a vessel of Sir Wm. Symonds's construction, and has made some of the quickest passages ever made on the Pacific station. She left Valparaiso for Rio de Janeiro on the Ist of November, six hours after the United States fri gate Congress, 60 guns, had sailed, and was baffled by head winds between the Main and Juan Fernandez for several days. During the night of the 9th, whilst the Juno was in stays, John Smith (A. B.) was knocked , overboard from the bowsprit cap by the jib pennant'; being a good swimmer, although encumbered by a monkey-jacket and other heavy clothing, he succeeded in keeping himself up until picked up by tire•: cutter, which was lowered for that purpose. Mr. E. W. Shaw, mate, who voluntarily jumped into the cutter, acted with great presence of mind. When he left the•ship he was ordered to pull for the port bow, where it was reported the man had been heard; the ship being in stays and paying off to starboard, Mr. Shaw considered if he pulled for the port bow by the time that he would have arrived there he would have formed a curve, and actually be where the ship's starboard bow had been when he left the ship; he, therefore, pulled out abeam and was fortunate enough to fall in with the man at the very moment he was sinking; and the bowman in the cutter had to thrust his arm under the water to catch hold of him. It being a cold and windy night, Smith was brought on board ap parentiy insensible, but recovered in a few days. The Juno passed Cape Horn on the 17th, scudding under double-reefed topsails. On the 28th she made out the American frigate. Congress astern, coming down under a heavy press of canvass, and the Juno allowed her to pass her. On the 30th of November, during the first watch, it came on to blow hard from the S.S.E., when the Juno scudded under close-reefed topsails with per fect ease, On the let of December the wind moderated, when the Juno proceeded, and kept the lead of the American frigate into Rio, where she arrived on the 3d of December. The Congress brought to in Rio de Janeiro harbour during the night of the 3d December. She had waited in the bay of Valparaiso several days in order to sail with the Juno. She lost a man overboard during the night of 30th of November. He was a good swimmer, and was heard calling for assistance, but the skipper kept his craft on her course, as she was making such bad weather of it, that her captain was afraid to heave her to, as he said he thought she would pitch her bows out. American men•of war are more buoyant than English men-of war, being built of lighter materials, which, although it gives them a greater height from the water line to the port, causes them to make worse weather of a gale of wind than our men-of-war. On the 4th, whilst the Congress was firing a salute, she had a man blown to pieces in the act of loading a gun, which accidentally went off. DEATHS. On the 16th of May", 1846, Lieutenant Smyth died, and was buried at sea with the usual honours. On the 6th of May, a barge belonging to the ship was swamped at Mazatlan, in attempting to push through the surf with a load of water. The accident was seen from the ship, and all boats pushed off to the assis tance of the men who were struggling in the surf. Lieu tenant Smyth, in Captain Blake's galley, was the first to enter the surf, but the galley being long and ill-adapted to so perilous a service, upset. Lieutenant Smyth was picked up by another boat, apparently uninjured, but he died a few days afterwards. May 6—Drowned T. Lynch, A. 8., from the above accident ; remains not recovered. Bth September—T. Smith, aged 10, son of Sergeant Smith, Royal Marines, killed at Honululu, in the Sand wich Islands, by being thrown from a horse. The ship's company erected a headstone and railings in memory of the deceased, by subscription. 24th July, 1847—Died from dysentery, Mr. F. Wyndham, midshipman ; buried at sea with the usual honours. September 2—Died from decline, John Freos, gun room cook; buried at Honululu. Headstone and rail ings raised by the ship's company. August 27, 1848—Died of consumption, Mr. J. Why te, boatswain; buried at sea with the usual honours. December 13—Killed, by falling from aloft, John Stacey (A. 8.); buried at Rio. The ship's company unanimously subscribed each one day's pay, to erect a marble headstone, &c., in memory of the deceased. Seven deaths in three years and five months, out of about 230 men, give an average of 1 in 112, whilst the average mortality in London is 1 in 40. During her commission the Juno had six men fall from aloft, all of whom recovered except Stacey. Eight men fell overboard at sea; all saved. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Dear Sir,—ln your leading article of yesterday's date you spell numskull without the "p." Who is the numpskull? ONE OF YOUR CONSTANT READERS AND SUPPORTERS. Norwich, Feb. 18, 1849. [Our Correspondent has unwittingly answered him self. Any copy of Dr. Johnson's English Dictionary, from the quarto to the ninepenny pocket edition, will inform him that NUMSKULL is a noun substantive, mean ing " a dunce and a blockhead."—Editor of The Sun.] GLASGOW, MONDAY, 10 A.M. - (By Electric Telegraph.) —A meeting has been convoked, to be held in the Clyde street Hospital, at ten o'clock this morning, at which Sheriff Harrison, the Lord Provost, the City Fiscal, and the magistrates will take cognisance of the circumstances which led to the lamentable accident at the Theatre Royal (an account of which appears in another column). From depositions taken before the magistrate on Saturday night we understand that little blame can be attached to any individual, the whole arising from a sudden panic. _ POLITICAL RE - UNIONS.—The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his second Parliamentary dinner this ses sion, on Saturday evening, at his official mansion in Eaton-square, when the guests of the Right Hon. gen tleman included the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, Bart., the Right Hon. Sir James Graham, the Earl of Lincoln, the Earl Jermyn, Viscount Villiers, Viscount Mahon, Vis count Jocelyn, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lord Ernest Bruce, the Hon. G. S. Smythe, the Hon. Rear-Admiral W. Gordon, the Right lion. H. Goulburn, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, the Right Hon. Sir George Clerk, the Right Hon. Sir Thomas F. Lewis, the Right Hon. Henry Lowry Corry, the Right lion. James Stuart Wortley, Sir Charles E. Douglas, Bart., Sir John Young, Bart., Sir Frederick Thesiger, Rear-Admiral Bowles, Mr. Thomas Greene, Mr. Frederick Peel, Mr. E. Cardwell, Mr. H. Baring, &c. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert and Colonel keel were unavoidably pre vented from dining with the Right lion. gentleman. Lord Stanley gave a grand Parliamentary entertainment on Saturday last at his residence in St. James's-square, when the following noblemen and gentlemen, members of the House of Commons, dined with his Lordship— the Marquis of Granby, Viscount Mandeville, the Right lion. C. E. Law, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Sir Henry Hal ford, Colonel Rolleston, Captain Jones, Mr. Benjamin Disraeli, Mr. G. Bankes, Mr. R. A. Christopher, Mr. R. S. Bourke, Mr. C. L. Cumming Bruce, Mr. George Hudson, Mr. James Milnes Gaskell, Mr. R. Spooner, Mr. John Stuart, the lion. F. Scott, Mr. C. W. Packe, Mr. J. Napier, Mr. J. Neeld, Mr. Miles, and Mr. Wad dington. The Noble Lord has large Parliamentary din ners on Wednesday and Saturday next. At the concert at Exeter Hall next Wednesday even ing, Mr. Braham, Mr. C. Braham, and Sims Reeve, three of the greatest English tenors, will appear. This will be indeed a treat fur the musical public. THE LINCOLNITES. The Lincolnites! the Lincolnites! how silently they sit, Taking no part in the debate, tho' slyly watching it; But they whisper to each other all thro' the live long nights. Members wonder what they whisper of—the stealthy Lincolnites. Do they whisper of the past? interchanging many a sigh For all they once believed in, for-all they now deny— The party faith, the public trust, the manly stand-up fights With those who fought for principlo?—tho neuter Lin colnites. Do they whisper of the present? are witticisms small' Muttered against Protectionist, or Whig, or Radical? And in the absence of a creed is it a sneer unites Some who were meant for better things—the fallen Lin colnites? Do they whisper of the future? does it more and more reveal How the Lincoln bells are dumb bells since they cannot ring their peal ? Or own they how its muffled tone their inmost heart affrights, Tolling a horrid curfew to the darkened Lincolnites? Ah! Lincolites! Rh! Lincolnites! men ask, who long have watched You hens who sit so broodingly—When will their eggs be hatched? Or were they always addled ones, with neither yolks nor whites, Fit only for the pillory, or for the Lincolnites? And there are those among you who aught else must soon prefer To wasting life in sacrifice to your deaf Jupiter:* Apt scholars, plainly seeing, 'mid elaborated slights, No Tamworth great endowment scheme for the poor Lincolnites. Then, lost in morbid cautiousness why let your talents lie? You have Canterbury brilliance and Oxford sublety, While Ripon from the mountain, as the adage old recites, Looks, if not over Lincoln, yet over the Lincolnites. You've relics at the Carlton, and of Peers claim ono or two; You have bought the old Whig paper, and have made it rat like you; Let some one speak at evening what one each morning writes; Take courage in your carping, ye chronicled Lincolnites. At all events be something, do something any bow; You can't be worse committed than you are committed now. Office and principles are lost, the red box yet invites, And it may, like Pandora's, hold Hope for the Lincolnites. A. S. * Jupiter oranti si surdas przebeat cures Victima Tarpeios cur cadet ictu focos. m. —Post. —O IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 17.—The Court sat yesterday morning, at eh:yen o'clock, and the jury having answered to their names, evidence was given on the part of the Crown, after whi3h the jury were escorte d to the Shelbourne Hotel. This day (Saturday, July 16) the presiding Judges entered Court at eleven o'clock. Several other witnesses were pxcllniiied, including the policemen employed in the defence of Ballingarry, but as the evidence was in substance and effect precisely similar to that given at the trial of Mr. Smith O'Brien, it is unnecessary hore, if there were time, to go over it, anew. Mr. Williams, a police-inspector, was under exami nation at post hour. A good deal of sensation, if not surprise, wus excited by the course taken by one of the jury, in the cross-examination of a witness, one of the police. . - SATURDAY NiouT.—The Counsel for the prisoner, in this unusually protracted trial, have not yet entered on their defence, the Crown having only ended the case for the prosecution this evening. The day was almost entirely occupied in the examination and cross-exami nation of witnesses, and this produced but littlo excite ment. It was expected that the Court would have given judgment as to the admissibility of the letter writter by Mr. Duffy to Mr. O'Brien, but no decision was given, nor had anything escaped which could lead to what it would likely be. The Jury were again removed to Mr. Burke's Hotel, in Stephen's-green, where they will be locked up until Monday morning. It is not likely any verdict will be given until Tuesday, if there be unanimity amongst them, which is not expected. His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, accompanied by M. Sieveking, arrived at the Prussian Legaticn, on Saturday forenoon, from Berlin and Frankfort. M. Sieveking, it is understood, is to be attached to the Le gation. His Serene Highness Prince Lowenstein re tains his position of Secretary until a higher post be comes vacant, when he will leave this country. SOUTHAMPTON, Fan. 17.—The West India Com pany's mail steam-ship Thames, commanded by Captain Abbott, with the usual West India mails, left this after noon at three o'clock. The freight taken out by the Thames was both large and valuable, with specie and jewellery to the amount of 5,122/. She took out 67 pas sengers, about one-third of whom were for Chagres, en route to California. Amongst the names of those pas sengers going out by the Thames, were Captain and Mrs. Smith, Captain Gainsford, the Consul of Jacmel, Dr. Stuart, Lieutenant Hooke, Mr. and Mrs. Wheel wright, Mr. and Mrs. Hornsby, Ensigns Cox and Hal bron, scc. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam. ship Iberia, Captain Burney, with the mails for Spain, Portugal, and Gibraltar, left this day at two o'clock. She had a full cargo of general merchendize, amounting to 90 tons, and a small number of paste ngers. The Archbishop of Canterbury has appointed the Rev. G. C. Irving, M.A., to the vicurage of Goud.hurst, near Cranbrook, Kent, rendered vacant by the de• th of the, Rey. W. D. Harrison, ILA. FEBRUARY 19, 1849. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Tuesday I omitted to notice a movement of an unusual nature, directed towards the exclusion of the Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) from the Poor-Laws Ireland Committee. It must have been consolatory to opponents to witness such stra tegy, as running the head against an adverse division of 129 to 74. The only comment to be made, is by asking what the public would have thought of a Com mittee, where the first necessity was that the Mem ber for Manchester should be excluded. On Wednesday the 14th the Navigation-Laws were considered in Committee. The plan of the Govern ment appears to be the same as in last session, except that it omits a portion of the changes proposed in the coasting trade. The nature of the omission may ba gathered from the question put forward by some of the Protectionists, who were in an agony (as Mr. Roebuck phrased it) to ascertain that a French steamer going from London to Boulogne, was not to be allowed to take up a passenger at Ramsgate. How and why the country is to be benefited by the disappointment of the passenger at Ramsgate, when it was permitted to his cousin whom he wants to join, to embark for the whole voyage at London, it is not easy to perceive. But Protectionists in these days must he thankful for scraps and cheese-parings. The men have a boat of their own, and like other rival watermen, they are irritable and loquacious ; for which they must be excused by the personal nature of the case. After hearing the debate, it did not look as if the Government had any occasion to have reduced their proposals. But if the particular in question was a rallying point for prejudice and ignorance, they were right to cut it away. One limb of a folly cannot stand by itself, any more than one leg of a stool. Knowledge is improving by practice, in the art of doing away with mischiefs. It is not true, as used to be held some years ago and is still held by some, that you must do nothing that does not turn all the Hivites and Perizzites out of the land. It is not true, that if you cut away three-fourths, you thereby strengthen the other fourth into a perpetuity of existence, and therefore should carefully preserve the three. There is a cer tain tendency in this direction, but there is also a tendency in the contrary, founded on the general de bility produced by an amputation of three•fourths ; and of these two tendencies the last is strongest. In fact so clear has this become, that the argument for doing nothing but the whole, has become the stock resource of enemies. No thing can be done, without somebody finding out there is a better, and begging that for this better we may wait. Not that this is always with ill intent. There are well-meaning men, who have not sufficiently attended to the pheno mena of nature to perceive, that the process of re moval is generally like that of clearing away a forest; here a little and there a little, so that the innocent wood is hardly conscious of the operation except by comparisons at distant periods of time. From the course the question is taking, it would not be surprising, if the Protectionists were found with drawing their support of the Navigation-Laws on any ground of commercial advantage to the community, and representing them purely in the light of an expenditure and pecuniary sacrifice, incurred for the sake of purchasing a greater number of sailors for the military marine. A wonderful simplification, and ease to all concerned in the dispute. On Thursday the House was counted out, a few minutes after it had met. The proceeding was un usual at the time of private business; and as such, of the nature of a surprise. It is not easy to perceive what could have been the object of the mover. Friday again was a night of divisions. The amend ment for declaring that the Habeas Corpus Suspen sion Ireland should not be applied to the re striction of the right to petition Parliament, was justly objected to, on the ground that its tendency was to prompt the possibility of so applying it, rather than to prevent any practical danger existing; and the amendment was negatived by 94 against 12. The simple state of the case seems to be as follows. A rebellion of pots de chambre has been got up in Ireland. There would hare been mischief if there could; but the Government succeeded in putting it down, with what may be called no shedding of blood, by the use, among other things, of the considerably questionable power of suspending the Habeas Corpus Act. But if the case authorised it then, it may rea sonably authorise it a little longer on the representa tion of the Government that they want it; Just as a patient who has been subjected to some dangerous and intrinsically undesirable remedy, does not resist the representation of his medical attendant, that the exhibition had better not cease the moment the ur gent symptoms have been repressed. There may be reason in the thing, or there may be unreason ; as there may in everything. If the counsel was, that the man should for ever teed upon the baneful drug, it would be unreason. The Irish Members declare a total want of sym pathy with the rebellion ; and would blaze out with all the energy of their country, against any who should charge them with it. But they overshoot their mark when they maintain, that so total has been the process of conversion or of repentance (change of mind, as the Greek has it,) among their countrymen, that no man could be found now to take a pike or think of one, though all extraordinary powers of the Government were ostentatiously given up. The thing is too good to trust to ; and they will be wrong if they quarrel with everybody who does not at once come over to their argument. At the same time it is very desirable that unmis takeable intimations should be conveyed to the Government, that the perilous prescription must be used with caution, and to the least possible extent. And ono way in which this will be effected, will be by a number of English Members voting for Lord Nugent's amendment to reduce the time, and in the event of failure, a portion of them voting against the suspension at all. _ The question of the 50,000/. to Irish distress, ap pears to have been in an analogous position. Amend ments were moved, for making the amount recoverable from the Unions that had it, and what seemed more reasonable, from the Unions that had not it, inas much as the case of the others was that they could neither pay for themselves nor anybody else. The last only was carried to a division; and on its being negatived, its supporters, few indeed but sufficient to show the animus, for the most part voted against the grant altogether. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, - AN OLD REFORMER. London, Feb. 19, 1849. THE RECENT ROBBERY OF JEWELLERT.--It Will be recollected that a short time ago some person dressed as a clergyman obtained a quantity of jewellery, valued at 500/., from Messrs. Lambert and Co., of Coventry street, by the ingenious " ruse" of ordering the property to be sent to the Bishop of Winchester's residence, in St. James's-square, for the inspection of the Right Rev. Prelate. It was presumed, from the cleverness and completeness of the robbery, that it had been accom plished by some dexterous thief who had assumed the clerical garb as the surest means of disarming suspicion. Since• the period of the robbery the police have been in search of the successful thief. After much trouble, it is understood that the police have obtained a clue to the perpetrator of the robbery, and ascertained that he is actually a clergyman in orders, and rather noted for some considerable railway speculations. The presumed thief is at present in Wales, and though the police are prepared with evidence, yet it is believed that no further steps will be taken at present. About 4001. worth of the property, it is said, has been recovered.—Observer. EirrLostosr or GUNPOWDER IN SPITALFIELDS. A MOTHER AND THREE CHILDREN INJURED.—On Saturday afternoon considerable alarm was created, in Booth-street, Spitalfields, by an explosion of a fearful character taking place in the premises belonging to Mrs. Newman, situate at No. 3, in that street, by which the unfortunate mother and three of her children were seriously, if not fatally, injured. It appears that Mrs. Newman was sitting in front of the grate with her children around her, amusing themselves by dropping some gunpowder into the fire. While thus engaged a spark fill out of the grate, and, alighting upon the vessel containing a quantity of gunpowder, the whole ex ploded with a noise resembling the discharge of a piece of ordnance, at the same time knocking down Mrs. Newman and her three children. The noise occasioned by the explosion caused several of the neighbours and police constable Hudson, 78 11, to enter the house, when a pitiable scene presented itself. Mrs. Newman and the children were lying in the room, blackened and severely scorched about the faces and lower portion of their bodies. Seeing the terrible state of suffering the poor parties were in the police constable at once procured a cab and conveyed Mrs. Newman and her children to the London Hospital, where they were instantly admitted, and every attention paid to them. Upon making in quiries last evening it was ascertained the four suf ferers were going on as favourably as could be expected, considering the nature of the injuries they had received. FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—A corre spondent at Tunbridge 'Wells states:—An individual, who arrived from the metropolis by the South-Eastern Railway on Friday, has inundated this town with forged Bank of England notes. He took up his residence at Mrs. Ames's boarding-house, engaging apartments for a month certain, saying he had come down for the benefit of the waters. Shortly after he entered the house, he got change for a 101. Rote from Mrs. Ames. He after wards went round the town, and succeeded chiefly , with the butchers, in passing eight 101. and 51. notes. He did not return to his lodgings, which aroused suspicion : t In quiries were instituted this morning (Saturday), w h en was found that all the notes were forge ries, and that h e had left the preceding evening. The 10/. note:. ar t e _d e 51 d , ' London, 4th of Oct., 1848, No. V i4,s h o e h who passed them is a man abou t th asthma. ma. A person Newcastle-on-Tyne, 28th of Aug., 184457. fair, T d ressed d e i a n l black, and apparently afflicted wi th t g notes of the same date, of this description to a large amount, The paragraph which we MDLLE JENNY Lirip.Mercury is, we understand, copied from the paatsGeudilfdolo-red on Thursday. Leedsnot altogether c orrec t. The Dldlle. Lind is to be mar r i e d (accord i ng .gentleman to t r o e p o w r h o o m i s not the son of ee Ir.,osnldadoyn,baanndkear,rebluatttiyhee onfepthheewiliosfhoMprosi Grote, tke bank Norwich LITERATURE. CORRESPO N - DE.NCE OF SCHILLER WITH KORNER. Edited by Leonard Simp son. 3 Vols. In the summer of 1784, Schiller, at a moment when (to use his own words) " his heart was suffer ing, from sadness," received a packet of letters which " afforded him one of the brightest hours of his ex istence." These letters came from four unknown admirers—Korner, his friend Huber, Minna, the betrothed of honer, and her sister Dora. having read and appreciated Schiller's works, " they feel the wish," writes Korner, " to press the hand of their benefactor, to show him their tears of joy and enthu siasm, in order that he may also find strength, should he ever Ise harassed by the doubt whether the men of his generation were worthy of his la bours." They solicit the friendship of the poet. Seven months after, Schiller replies to these complimentary letters. He excuses his long silence in a manner which could not fail to sa tisfy his would-be correspondents. He tells them that " sorrow and vexation had crowded upon him, till the fountains of his heart became dry to feelings of friendship and of joy." He had postponed his answer to them until a more congenial hour. In his second letter to his new friends he throws off all reserve, and unburdens to them the sorrows of a heart yearning for sympathy rather than admiration. "If," he writes, " you will make allowances for a man who cherishes great ideas, and has performed but small acts; who as yet can only surmise from his follies that Nature has destined him for something; who demands unbounded love, and yet is ignorant of what he can offer in retutn; but who can love something beyond himself, and has no greater torment than the thought that he is very far from being what he desires to be; if a ma❑ of this stamp may aspire to your friendship, ours will be eternal, for I eta that man. Perhaps you will love Schiller, even should your esteem for the poet have been diminished. " After this confession, are you prepared for another? Oh, my best friends! your voluntary advances of friend ship have had a wonderful effect upon the present state of my mind. I have so unfortunate a propensity to magnify everything, that: thej simplest cause often ap pears to me as the seed of something great. This is the case now with your friendship. Your assurances of es teem came at a moment when I felt more than ever the want of a friend. " My soul thirsts for new food—for better men—for friendship, affection and love. I must be near you, and by your conversation and company freshness will be breathed into my wounded spirit. My poetical pulse hiss ceased to beat, and my heart's blood is congealed towards all around me. You must give me new life, and I shall become more than I ever was before. I shall be happy—l never yet was happy. Weep for me that I should make such a confession. I never yet felt happiness; fame and admiration weigh not a fea ther in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. " Will you welcome me? " The friendship commenced under these romantic cir cumstances, continued till Schiller's death. In Korner he found the friend for whom his heart had yearned ; to him he freely confesses his secret thoughts, doubts, and perplexities. Schiller's letters to Korner are a perfect revelation of the his. tory of a poet's intellect and heart. "The brother hood of minds is the surest key to knowledge," exclaims Schiller in one of his letters. " Alone we are powerless. The great Creator was aware of this, and he formed a link between rational beings by the magnetic power of mind." Korner was not unworthy of the friendship of his illustrious cor respondent. Less imaginative, but far wiser than his enthusiastic friend, KOrner gently tempers the impetuosity of the wayward poet, encourages him in his labours, consoles him in his doubts, cheers him onward in his difficult and often thorny path. How encouraging, for example, are the words of Korner: when Schiller writes to him that he is dissatisfied in the presence of Goethe. (This was soon after Schiller's first introduction to Goethe) " He has roused within me," he writes, " a most curious mixture of hatred and love, a feeling not unlike that which Brutus and Cassius must have entertained for Caesar. I could murder his spirit and then love him from my heart.' This feeling is not occasioned by jealousy, on the part of Schiller, but by the egotism (as he calls it) of Goethe's charac ter. In reply to this letter, KOrner writes, GOethe's character, as you describe it, has truly something oppres sive in it. It is necessary to call up all one's pride not to feel put down in the presence of such a man ; but it were a pity if this prevented you from all intercourse with him. You also can boldly say, Auch'io son pit tore!' Though he may have the advantage of you in age, and experience, and in self command." Another time Korner writes in words of truest wisdom, " Occupations of high interest are never wanting to an energetic mind, and to leave the mental energies unemployed is a theft com mitted on the age we live in." In this correspon dence we hardly know 'which to prefer, the warm hearted frankness of the imaginative but often de sponding poet, or the thoughtful counsels of his high-souled friend. Perhaps, after reading through the correspondence, we love Schiller better, but we admire Korner more. On the death of his friend, Korner cherished this memento of their past friend. ship. The letters were to him sacred, be would not consent to their publication. They have now, however, passed into the hands of one who, " feeling what is due to his country," says the preface has given them to the world. Seldom have we met with a more attractive work. These letters cannot fail to interest and benefit all who peruse them. They oc cupy three volumes, and contain reference to the various incidents in the lives of their writers, and comments upon their several friends Goethe, Wieland, llumboldt, and other distinguished men. As eloquent mementos of friendship and genius, as affording an admirable picture of the secret life of Schiller, these volumes are every way interesting. They are embel lished with portraits of Schiller, Goethe, Humboldt, and Dannecker. MORDA UNT HALL. A Novel. By the Author of " Emilia Wyndham." 3 Vols. The author or rather the authoress of " Norman's Bridge," " Emilia Wyndham," and" Angela," is one of the most interesting novel writers of the day. The great charm of her writings is their truthfulness. The sorrows and the sufferings, the passion and the pathos of her histories are all real. Brief and sketchy as is the manner of her painting, the glimpses which she gives us are often more effective than the most elaborate details. In point of style " Mordaunt Hall" is superior to its predecessors. We are glad to find in this work fewer of those breaks and frag mentary passages which on former occasions we have noticed as giving an appearance of affectation to the works of a most natural writer. " Mordaunt Hall" is without doubt one of the most beautiful tales yet written by its author—it is beau tiful, but is inexpressibly sad. " Mordaunt Hall" is a story of that mournful kind which, above all others, fascinates the attention of the reader and inseperably fixes itself in the memory. Of such a nature is Scott's most beautiful story, the never-to be-forgotten story of " Lucy Ashton,"—of such a nature are those legends of unhappy love which con tinue from age to age, the most popular pages of history. While a risible tale is read and laughed at, and thrown aside, one that calls forth the tears of the reader establishes a claim on his sympathy for ever after. As Bulwer has recently so exquisitely said, " Three truths unite the children of the sod, All love, all suffer, and all feel a God." Hence it is that tales of love and sorrow are in variably universal favourites, and accordingly , " Mordaunt Hall," a story of love and sor row, powerfully told, and fraught throughout with an exquisite, because natural pathos, cannot fail to interest and delight the reader, even though its perusal may occasion more pain than pleasure. The first volume is a history in itself—the history of the parents of the unfortunate hero. This story, perhaps because of its peculiar character, is written with more passion and energy than is that of Gideon (the hero), but the latter is in a different way inimitable. The,unhappy story of Ridley and Miriam is in its main incidents similar to a hundred others—it tells of " an intensity of misery" which, according to the authoress—for here and there the authoress peeps out beneath her disguise—" only women are born to feel or men to inflict." Miriam, in some respects, resembles Bulwer's Alice, more especially in her childish ignorance of the conventions of society. Unlike Alice, however, she is the pride and delight of her father, a man of great learning an d _ d c hild. abilities, who lives a hermit's life with this o The domestic scenes which occur when thne,lyfather first begins to suspect the existence of , agony when some , secret" of which she is ignorant ; and M her filial affection tempts her toirviliomlstsea p her lover's o werfully solemn injunctions to secrecy, are mo st exa mple of the and naturally depicted. Heret san na tural manner in which th ese h Miriam has confessed all to her foanie scenes are drawn. the as told hi that she is, as she believes, married, and Mr. Fever m sham bas written to Ridley : don . ' t cat l —you a Morse " My dearest father , y ou and you were gone to bed when I came in last night ; were gone out before breakfast this morning. You should not do co. Papa, you look se ill ; do try to tske something. You had no breakfast before you went out. Do try. N o , my child, don't ask me; I would rather not, indeed." Papa, papa, you frighten me very much. You are very ill, or else—is your letter come? and, oh! was it unkind? lle couldn't—he wouldn't write so to you; I am sure he would not." "Eat your dinner, child, and don't think about me. Nay, eat your dinner, Miriam." " How can I, when you look so ill?" There were tears in her eyes; his eyes were full of tears as he looked at her. lie had walked to the town the evening before, scarcely expecting a letter by return of post ; but a letter was put into his hand. lie had, during the last eight-and-forty hours, in some way buoyed himself up with the hope, that:to an appeal so direct there could be but one answer. " The Grecian painter drew a veil over the .. nance of the father in th e well-known story--:.I find myself utterly incapable of describing the storm that passed over the father's head when he read the insolent and unfeeling letter . But hi s strongest impulse, after 4 4 the first agonies of his feelings had subsided, was to" . : 11 conceal this barbarous cruelty from his daughter. rt " Ile did not come back home, but hurried into; the mountains behind, seeking the most savage and secluded glen; and there, among the bare and black ene d roc k s, he paced to and fro, endeavouring to quiet the storm within, and to meet his daughter without betraying him. self. It was a long and fatal struggle; resentment and indignation were such strangers to his gentle • nature, that the violent passion of rage, the hungry cry for vengeance and redress that filled his heart, seemed tearing up the very foundations of his being. How long these hot and fiery feelings lasted I know not; they were drowned at last by floods of tears, as he thought of his daughter's fate." Much as the unhappy Miriam is to be deplored, our deepest comm i serat i on during the conclusion of the narrative is excited by the sufferings and tender ness of her devoted father. Such is the introduction to "Mordaunt Hall." Mr. Feversham being dead, and " Another unfortunate, Rashly importunate, Gone to her rest." —the disowned child—left by his wretched mother at the gate of Mordaunt Hall, is adopted and brought up by some charitable members of the .Mordaunt family. Gideon's life is, however, far from a happy one, the object of the tale being to show the misery inevitably occasioned by vibe. The sorrows of Gideon and his mother are represented as the inevi. table consequences of the sins of his father—that father who, in the midst of worldly prosperity and political triumph, is continually haunted by •re morse. Gideon, a high-souled, gentle-spirited youth endures much misery from his false position. He is educated as a gentleman, and his natural abilities places him far above his com peers, while he is treated as a dependent, and con tinually exposed to insult. Mr. Chandos, the gentle man to whose bounty Gilson is indebted for his college education, is proud and haughty to an MOSS which renders his kindness painful to his proteg&, while Celia, his daughter, is • a sweet and gentle character, delicately drawn, an exquisite compound of tenderness and filial submission. She has from her infancy been the darling of her father, who has exhibited towards her a warmth of affection greatly at variance with his austere deportment towards Gideon. As may be easily surmised, Celia differs from her father in her estimate of Gideon ; however, hardly conscious of her own feelings towards hits, she prepares to accept the husband her father has chosen for her. Gideon, on his part, fully aware of the insuperable obstacles between them, conceals from every one his hopeless affection for the gentle Celia. At this part of the narrative the following scene occurs. Mrs. Chandos, a good-hearted-self-sufficient woman, whose character is admirably depicted, has taken a box at a theatre to witness a rrench play, " Ruy Blas." She and some of her visitors occupy the front of the box. Celia and Gideon are side by side on a back seat. The following scene, brief as it is, is, perhaps, one of the most affectionate in the three volumes; it is, more over, a happy specimen of the peculiar but very affectionate style of this writer As Ruy Bias describes, with the wildest violence of passion to his friend, all the. agonies of his mind, the heart of Gideon began to beat thick and fast; but at his exclamation made with mingled horror and exultation, Je suis jaloux du Roi d'Espagne 1' he started and looked wildly round. She sat there, her eyes fixed upon the scene, trembling in every limb. " The lovely, lonely Queen appeared—the very pic ture, in her [gentle grace, her unparalleled delicacy and softness, of the creature by his side—and the piece proceeds. " And feeling answered to feeling, as there they sit together—he shuddering, she trembling, with emotion. " One wild, terrified, hurried, distracted glance ! Their eyes meet—and the tale is told ! " Neither then, nor afterwards, nor ever did this pas sion find a voice. " Words would have been useless, vain, powerless. " lle sat there perfectly bewildered with his emotions. " She never lifted her eyes from the stage again. Sh• was deadly pale, and kept trembling excessively. • " As for him, it is vain to attempt to paint his sensa tions, or the wild rush of exultation which sumeded to his long endured misery. " Observe, that there was rapture, but there was no joy; bliss beyond hope, but not' hope; • a present 'of ecstacy almost beyond his power to support, but the future a blank—not a dreary desert, but a positive. absolute blank—he expected nothing. Her love 'had elated him in his own opinion to a place higher than princes; but he knew still ho was but Ruy Blas, and she the Queen of Spain." It is not fair to disclose the densuement of a tale. We will, therefore, say no more of the history of Gideon. We have already hinted that it is sad, ex quisitely sad, yet so truthful is the passion, and so natural the pathos of the concluding chapters of " Mordaunt Hall," that, notwithstanding, the melon• choly with which it is pervaded, the admirers of the author of " Emilia IV yndham " will consider this the most beautiful of her many beautiful tales. HA YIVIARKET THEATRE. The legitimate drama, thanks to the exertions of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, and to the well-timed patronage of her Majesty, continues to reign trium. phant. Crowded houses are assembled every night to see the "Masterpieces" of Shakspere and of mu dramatic poets performed " as they were performed before her Majesty at Windsor Castle." It behoved all those,' however, who desire to participate as it were in the amusements of royalty, to lose no time. This is, we believe, the last week that the Roxel performances ca n b e re p ea t e d a t th e Haymarket Theatre. U LYCEUM THEATRE. The King of the Peacocks 'continues to attract crowds—a circumstance not to be wondered at when we consider the manifold attractions of this most magnificent " spectacle"—when we call to mind the admirable impersonation of the " King" by Madame Vestris ; the sweet singing of Miss Kathleen Fitz william ; the inimitable "Nay Fly" of Mr. John Reeve—a May-fly " such as may fly in fairy land-- quite a butts nature" as the play-bill tells us ; the dog enacted by Mr. 11. Marshall—the green dog, one of the " stars" of the piece, as is testified by the unanimous " call before the curtain which nightly greets the canine performance; it is ungallant, to say the least of it, to place the dog before his mistress, and we have said nothing of the charming Princess Rosetta of Miss Louisa Howard, whose attractions are enhanced by the rivalship of Miss Fright, who most appropriately enacts the part of Rumfizina. When we call to mind these varipue characters and the gorgeous scenery of the King of the Peacocks, we are no way surprised at the realisation of the capital parody on "There's a good time coin• ing," sung by Madame Vestri s a t th e conclusion— " The Golden Branch ran long; This will run a _little longer!" THEATRICALS AND MUSIC. It is rumoured in well-informed circles that Bunn and Jullien intend in October to open Covent Garden Theatre, for the production of English Opera, and that all the available native talent will be engaged. If such be the fact, we trust the experimeat will be more successful than the last. Mr. Mitchell, the enterprising lessee of the Frani ll Theatre, has, it is said, concluded the necessary arrange' ments with Mr. Lumley for the lesseeship of her MI V. jesty's Theatre in 1850. Costa, we understand, is already engaged as conductor. . - ' Used Up is t o be peifOrmed this craning "si a s : Lyceum Theatre with t h e royal oast. A n Shave you Directly, i s t o b e produced.herea Twbursday evening next. s i n g for Jenny Lind has generously volunteer ed to the benefit of the sufferers and survivors o f the late ter• rible explosion at Barnsley. theexpected in nefit at the Gnild sis Carlotta Grisi took her fare well Opera, Berlin, a few evenings ago. London very shortly. t c h om e ma v n e d lti s e n s ccess at Sad. already an• ler's Wells. Phelps seems determined In addition , , of .. .... tai m ass i n ger a pIAY the t v a Dowry is nounced, we dee inedtot° shortly to bo produced._ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. IL Ingrains hds., Thurs., Bretby Park; SOp Wed., Sta un t on Harold Park; Sit., B W enj ich soonnniegver Pk i it loaan hds., Village -10 s. e 0. 0 I . Rufford hds., Thurs., Norwood Park; Sat., Tsribell'i Inn-10 . Sir B. Sutton's hds., Tues., Roeoliffe Hall; Wed. , Bunny Park ; Th urs., Stanton Wyville ; Sat., Kirby Gate—H. Lord 11. Bentinek's Tues., Panton; Thurs., Hack.. thorn; Fri., Skellingthorpe; Sat., Elardney-11. Mr. A. Smith's hds. , Tues., at Oare Hill; Wed., Whet. well Wood; Thurs., Hurtsbourn Tarrant; Fri., Ever- leigh ; Sat., Tytherley--11. Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Catworth Guidepost; Fri., Elton New Close-10. Duke of Rutland's hds.. Tues., Weaver's Lodge; Fri., Aneaster—i 0 Mr. Hellier's hds., Tnes., Mareham•ou-the.Hill; Thurs., Legsby ; Sat., Welton Wood-11. Bramham Moor hds., Tues., Bishop Woods; Fri., Wigs hill Park; Sat., Hook Moor-10i. CHRIST'S HOSPITAL. —Pt RUC SUPPERS.... T' first of these annual ceremonials took place last evening* The hall was very numerously . filled, far beyond : usual attendance on th e fi rs t evening of the B erl" suppers commence from year to year on Quiabegt.lure ht Sunday, and terminate on Laster Sunday, in number. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—As Mr. Nevin were driving home in a small Ponl. chaise from Dor sind Lady Dorothy days since, the pony be , chester, to their own house, a fevr upsetting the chaise, and came restive, and ran up a bank. throwing out Mr. Nevill and ber Ladyship. Although ,the received several contusionig chaise was broken to pieces, Mr. Nevill escaped with his ancle dislocated; her LadysbiP but, WO are happy to SSD Doth aro Coin 911 fayourably. I! il he ,a of BS. 'or be 'he an per i to 0. o r• olv