The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-06 00:00:00

THE that on his return not a vestige of property besides ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. the powder I have referred to remained on I On Tuesday evening we visited this theatre, the hand undi-posed of, a circumstance which I performances being for the benefit of Mr. Batty, the believe the most anxious and successful crptain spirited proprietor, and we were happy to see that the in the trade has never befcre met w ith. Th e amount bill of fare he had provided for his friends attracted a I have alluded to as having been improperly withheld host around him. The theatre was crowded in every by Mr. Newman, Messrs. Hutton and Son, require p ar t, an d t h e s t age, as i n d ays gone b y, h a d on t hi s to be paid t o th em i n cas h f ort h w i t h, and they also occasion to be brought into requisition to accommo desire that the piece-book may be immediatoly fur- date those who occupied the ring durins the perform fished, fully entered up, and the furth e r details I i ance of the Battle of Waterloo. The whole of the have enumerated given in the books which have equestrian entertainments went off with the greatest already been handed to them by Mr. Newman. possible at . eciat The clever and agile f e at s o f M r . " Messrs. Hutton would be sorry to be driven to Wheal, the clown, and the burlesque dancing of Mr. adopt harsh measures against Mr. Newman, but the Jackson, with the well known mock electioneering accounts generally arc so incorrect, unsatisfactory , speech of Mr. T. Barry, the old-established favourite, and incomplete, that they will feel themselves excited the risible faculties of the audience; but the obliged to do so, unless the request they now make' gems of the evening were Hernandez, the youthful through me, be immediately complied with. American equestrian, and Mr. Pablo Fanque and, as " I remain, Sir, your obedient humble servant, the bills term ner, his " matchless" mare, Beda. The truly (Signed) " THOMAS JUNES. astonishing performance of this beautiful mare are of " Mr. William Walton." the most wonderful description; the various different It happened (continue:l Mr. Martin) that about steps which she executes with her clever rider can the 171 h, Jones had received certain informa'iun only have been attained by the most arduous and which induced him to obtain, thraigh a friend of persevering energy. Of Hernandez we can only his, a bank director, an order which had been granted say he was as graceful and active as ever, and fully in the hank parlor, to inspect one of the stock sustained in his daring feats his reputation as the first books, and on making that inspection on the 19th. it rider in the world; he was called into the circle three was discovered that on the 18th October, shortly after times after his performance, and greeted with a Newman hil,cl received the 1501. from the defendants, shower of bouquets and a perfect tumult of applause. that gentleman had invested 1,2001. in his own and his wife's name, and that on the following day he had bought in 2001. more; also that on the 14th of November a further sum of 7001. had bsen invested. The defendants were at a loss to conceive by what means Newman could have been in the possession of so large a sum, inasmuch as by the terms of his en gagement with their house he was not permitted to trade on his own account. They therefore in stituted an inquiry in the early part of January, which satisfied them that he had not properly and honestly come into possession of the money which he had invested in the funds. The Learned Counsel entered at length into a great number of details con nected with the transaction, and concluded by de nouncing the case of the plaintiff on the ground that it was sought to be supported by perjury. He then proceeded to call witnesses. THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN. MR. AND NIRS KEAN. (From the Dublin Evening Packet of Dec. 4 ) In consequence of Professor Risley, with whom Mr. Calcraft had effected an engagement for the equestrian wonder, Hernandez, having disappointed our lessee, Mr. and Mrs. Kean, with their wonted kindness, made a voluntary proffer of their services for two nights more. They consequently appeared last night in the Gamester and the Honeymoon, and will perform this evening —positively for the last time —in Strathmore and King Rene's Daughter. 'We cannot permit Mr. and Mrs. Kea❑ to leave our metropolis without once more recording our admira tion of their genius, and of the gratification its dis play has afforded us. To those who look upon the drama not as a gorgeous medley of unmeaning sights and idle sounds, but as a vivid delineation of human nature as it is, when stripped of the mask and lacquer of conventionality, or as a clear illustration of moral truths, the performance of Mr. and Mrs. Kean must have given unmixed pleasure. These accomplished artists have one excellence in common—that of form ing a clear idea of the character which they personate, and that of acting in perfect keeping with it. The images of the poet's conceptions which they express are lifelike, definite, and coherent. But we think that their perception of character and style of acting are remarkably dissimilar. Mr. Kean is the more imaginative, he idealises the personage he has to represent into a form of majesty and grandeur which, perhaps, the vulgar cannot ap preciate, but which is beautifully consistent in its amplification. He expresses the heroic rather than the human. His Hamlet and his Strathmore are beings of noble thought and statelier mould than ordinarily belong to " children of clay." There is an unmistakable appearance of greatness in all that they do and say. Mr. Keen, too, is rather intellec tual than passionate. We know that this is not the common opinion. But in all his tragic bursts, whe ther struggling between duty and affection when he sent mces Sir Rupert Lorn to death, or breaking forth into sorrow over Ophelia's grave, he appears to us ever anxious to show the superiority of mind over in firmity. We think indeed his characteristic is a simple but poetic dignity, which invests his creations with the ornate hues of magnificence rather than with the common lineaments of humanity. And still he does not fail in delineating the more subtile features of Shakspeare's Hamlet—the wondrous play of irony and misanthropy, of passion and self-control, of craft and indignation, of insanity and deep thought, which distinguish this matchless creation. His Hamlet, in truth, is a fine representation of a mind overwrought with horror, and struggling, even to its own disor ganisation, with conflicting emotion. Mr. Kean, in short, seems to us even to prefer the calm and stately ideal to the changeful lineaments of ordinary huma nity. We would like extremely to see him in one of the characters of the old Greek drama—in the (Edipus or the Oresets, for example. Mrs. Kean is quite the reverse of her gifted husband—ea delicate and most just appreciation of nature as it is, and correct impersonation of its phenomena, are her characteristics. She moves and speaks exactly as the character she sustains should move and speak. Her delineation of passion, and especially of the passion of love, is remarkably perfect. She is full of the music of humanity. We feel that her representation of her part is stamped with truth. her Katherine Lorn, her Juliet, and her Ophelia, we confess to be beings whom we hare met before, and who would act on the theatre of life as they act on the mimic stage. Mrs. Kean is less a tragedy queen than a graceful and tender woman, whose genius has bestowed itself upon art. It is, in truth, impossible to eulogise too highly the tenderness, pathos, delicacy, and beauty, marking all Mrs. Kean's exquisitely-fetninine portraitures, whether embodying the high- souled Katherine Lorn or the gentle lolanthe. We are convinced when we state that these gifted performers have it in contemplation to retire from that stage of which they are the brightest ornaments, we snake an announcement that will excite regret through the length and breadth of the land. Macready, too, is about to doff the sock and buskin, and, nathless, that confirmed mannerism which has marred nearly all his representations, his loss to the drama must be severely felt. 'When, then, Charles and Mrs. Kean and Alacready have left the stage, where, we ask, are successors worthy of them to be found ? There is no education now for young actors —no school for them to practice in—no crowning reward, such as an engagement at " Old Drury" or Covent garden, the anticipation of which lightened the early drudgery of the Kerns, the Youngs, the Cookes, and the Kembles. Free• trade in theatres has ruined those provincial schools in which the young actors copied those models critics pronounced the most perfect. Every haberdasher's apprentice with a soul "above buttons," thinks that he can "fret and strut his hour" as ably as those who have spent a life maturing the genius born with them. It will indeed be a dies carbone notardus for the drama when Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean retire from the scene of their triumphs. They are young—fortune is at their feet—Fame's wreath has crowned them, and we know we only echo the universal voice when we declare they must not leave us yet. The case was still proceeding when our report left , SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (More Mr. Uuder-Sherff BURCIIELL ) WESTON V. 3IAYNE. DOING AN ACCOMMODATION BILL FOIL A FRIEND.— This was an action brought to recover the sum of 451. 14g. Bd., under the following eircum-tances : The plaintiff had accepted a bill of exchange for the ! L ecommodation of the defendant, who was to provide for It when it became due, but, not baying done so, an action "'” brought against plaintiff for the amount of the bill, With 121 Bs. costs, which he had paid. Defendant did not plead to the action, and a Verdict was given for the amount. STANSFELD AN ANOTHER V. MOTLEY. T 413 Was an action brought by the plaintiffs, as assig neea of a person named Thomas, to recover the sum of 41. 2s. for clothes sold to defendant. Tce ease was very "Pie, but the defendant had com pl a i ne d o f b e i ng put to such heavy expenses by bringing the action in this Son Plaintiffs' attorney said d e f en d an t res id e d i n Courts South Wales, and out of the juri s di c ti on o f t h e County STANSFELD AND OTHERS v. MORRIS. This was an action brought by the same plaintiffs, as assignees of .Thomas, to recover the sum of 61. Is. fer goods s o ld. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. tThe plsintiffs' solicitor said that defendant denied the hee of th e ass i gnees under the bankruptcy to sue, as all bankrupt's debts had been assigned to trustees pre viously to the issuing of the fiat. The UNDER•SHERIFF said that would be a question for the superior court. The bankrupt was then called to prove an admission 'y defendant that the debt was due; an objection, ho wever, was taken th a t h e was no t a compe t en t ivi•ness. Plaintiff's attorney said that th e re was a spec i a l cl ause, making a bankrupt a competent IN itnet,s. Def e nd ant ' s attorney sa i d, b ankrupt was interested in the debt under the assignment. The UNDER -SHERIFF said he would reserve the Point. Bankrupt was then examined, and the jury gave a Verdict for the amount claimed. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before THOMAS PUCKLE, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) Thomas J ones , for stealing at Bermondsey a counter- Pane and a p a i r of sheets, the property of Robert House Savage, was sentenced to six months' hard labour at Brixton. lie had been frequently summarily convicted. JoveFh Bedford was indicted for stealing six music plates, the property of Benjamin Williams. The wife of the prosecutor deposed that the prisoner Was a carman, employed by a bay and corn dealer who supplied her husband with the provender of his horse. wist in the habit of coming to the house occasionally, 41 14 after his leaving a number of music plates had bt en missed, which led witness to sus p ec t hi m . O n t h e 23 d ultimo he came with some corn, and passed through the :at.arehouse to deposit it, %then she watched him, and saw him tak e up the music plates, put them under his jacket, 1 1 1 14 0 leave the premses. Witress informed Hart, 201 f the circumstances , and on being stopped the pro p was found on 1 n def ence the prisoner said he found them lying in the att.( et. Verdi ct, Guilty. Sentence, twenty-one days' solitary Confine B OW -STREET.--('1 HIS DAY ) haAtell woman, n 1 Thompson, wa s charged with "z+Vln aniet Strad g obstructed the bed of St. C y lement Danes, , whil e i n the execution of his dut. The beadle stated that last night he went to a house 4Newcastle-court to serve some summonses, when the Prisoner came up and struck him. M r. I IALL asked what the summonses were for. r T 'e beadle replied that a young woman had died 40 , the effects of a scald, and as the parents, who were -f:elpetable people, believed their daughter had met with th tl e t b P l4 ,Y, they were ' anxious to have an inquest held on c o , The facts of the case had been laid before the sai t T a er, Who considered it to be a proper one for inquiry, su ltol he was attending at the house to serve the Coroner's to th ° 'scs on the parties wbo uld give information as e cause and manner of the d co eath. 4f . "' r • lima, asked what motive the prisoner could have r ,obstr uct i ng him ? The beadle said, the deceased e r k' had left a goo d d ea l o f wear i ng appare l an d pawn ets behind her, which had got into the possession of Itth e . c4br han and no doubt the p r i soner was exas p era t e d th ee another lodger in the same house relate A l l circumstances to him. 4nti r. Rau. said the woman had acted very improperly, ghoul % it w as o f t h e utmost i mports . e t h at beadles rp-h ah s be protected in the discharge of their duties, he k 'd fine her 30s. or fourteen days' imprisonment. ' e fine was paid. 4 4 111 LBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) A 6 11 E ALLEGED CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED FRAUD ON Fes-n°Lb RIFINER.—John Hammond ; an elderly man of oare ecte hle appearance, who was brought to this court 'nesday,- o - n the alleged cbarge of att , emptin h g to sere a co a u d Mr. Jacobson, gold refiner, &m g rotten am litow..road, by offering for sale a quantity of gold to i ngs, and who has been out on bail, again appeared ti s any further charge that might be preferred t him I appeared that on Monday last the defendant went % ingot the prosecutor's shop, and offered for sale what in 13Peared to be a quantity of fine gold, known d 4 tra e as " skewingsThe skewings are what Ito the off by gliders, after applying the gold-leaf to le articles under process of gilding. .The prosecu trrtiewi ho had his doubts as to the genuineness of the t h asked the defendant how he became possessed of b e proprtyfendant repld at e 7fs a The P ro secutor asked him repeatedly if he was sure that they ere k 3 and defendant replied in the affirmative. ;: cs pl s si l n w an in t - e g x ' amined the article, and discovered that it t otHillfaCtlffed so as to resemble skewings, but was sii i r s ee litY nothing more than paint or mineral covered gold l ea f. H av i ng b een prev i ous l y taken i n by a k a ttili litc deception, and knowing that oth e rs in the t ra d e f l.11 i„, (11 ?een imposed upon, he called a constable and gave 1 11 charge. th! I r r *,_ I3 INGHAN asked complainant if be was positive pt i c n tun skewings produced were worthless? Cora he—utits-Yes, your worship, I am; if they were genuine fo r ) ;," 111 (1 fetch 425., but I would not give 40 farthings mew. anT:hc defendant, on the previous examination, in W e in, to the c h arge' protested that the skewings Wa - „m's Property, an d that they were pure gold. He ad i - o " gilder by trade, and could bring forward persons ti could speak as to his respectability. bit eis t * gent then suggested that a portion of the u in i' c rge should be submitted to an assayer, and re. Th: d the defendant until this morning. gistrat Fonstabl e now stated that, according to the ma -ISet e d irections, he took the skewings to Mr. ths 'sour, assayer, St. M a rtia's-lane, who put them in th: t er ecible and melted them down, and the result of T: e st was a lump of pure gold, which he produced. tos,x,se com plainant stated that the skewings when Atred contained on l y one - fourth part gold. staw d On Tuesday last you distinctly krtielotnat the s k ew i ngs did not contain a single Prod u - f gold, whereas a lump of the purest gold was os e . h rt in court, b e i ng t h e result of the assay of only charge th e def end tho skswings I shall, therefore, dis ant.- • ~ Rr road , " HTO N.-IV. 11 . Mason, printseller, King's- Sul e " rt ghtou, w as charged, on Thursday, at the East E 'rl of oriji?u.rripd sessions, held at . Lewes, before the 'nary E,:,enester, with having indecently assaulted Ye ar , "z beth Carr Thacker, a girl of the age of ten h er the parish of Poynings, on the Bth of Septem resdio. Alter a prolonged inquiry the jury returned a of Not Guilty. P ep Guilty. re 'poet. Profoundly stupid are entitled to our sincere one Oho .4 moderately stupid person is insufferable, but ebjee t y ' Sep n in . a colossal degree, becomes instantly an Ab et eration.—Eliza Kook's Journal. tiaroio AIDE.-- Th 3 Royal Sovereign and Childe eta nt hist from Plymouth (Febru - ary 17th), the Incon , also last fr PI 1"1 Fore,G om ymouth (February 15th), Landboro.last from Port Philip (May 29th), the kay o tch sailed from Plymouth on the 4th March, wm art lye, . this week.--Addaide Observer 9f Juue 9. MENSAL-GREEN CEMETERY. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) In these days of desecrated churchyards it requires a visit to Mensal-green, or some other of the suburban cemeteries, to sweeten our imagination with regard to the resting places of the dead; how contrasted is their solemn quiet, their placid tombs, the fresh green turf, the shrubby alleys, the perfume, and the flowers, with the crowded, reeking, never-resting graves of city burial-places. At this season of the year there is something in the aspect of sepulchral places, that harmonizes well with the shade of depression which the falling leaves, the grey sky, and heavy atmosphere of waning autumn insensibly inspire. On a bright summer's morning, when the very sense of motion is delicious, and nature teams with images of life ; when the warm buoyant air affects our spirits as if the atmosphere were laughing gas, and we remain as recklessly defiant of death's- heads and cross bones (if any such offensive trophies are to be met with in these flowery regions), as if we had no per sonal interest in the only hatchment which, indepen dent of the herald's office, each son of Adam is entitled to set up. In winter, too, one feels no voca tion for churchyard visitings ; there is nothing com fortable in the hivernal appearance of these narrow houses, with all their imagery wrapped in snow; the stone and green turf seem as melancholy then as in Ophelia's song, and we would none of them ; 'tis only misery, with brain on fire, can realise relief in " cold obstruction." But at this period, when the sign of change stamps itself upon the fading face of nature, when the chestnut and lime trees grow yellow, and the leaves of the sycamore are spotted brown ; when the hand of the econo mical mother turns to account their falling yes tures, and wraps the seared leaves round the forest roots ; itself when vegetati on , vague and objectless, dissi pates in degenerate blossoms, sickly, and out of season; and a rank over -growth, like children's, for the grave ; there is something to remind us that we are included in those metamorphoses, and that, whatever path we tread, it is, after all, a branch road to the tomb. The re-action of lassitude upon over-vitality, tells as plainly upon our system as on the general signature of surrounding objects, and we feel a complacency towards the flowery bowers wherein mortality takes its deep rest, that seldom occurs to us (except under peculiar circumstances) at other seasons of the year. It was with a mind imbued with some such sentiments that we found ourselv s sauntering along one of the si le paths in Kensal-green Cemetery a few weeks brick; musing, as the light thistle-down (which the winds of autumn had detached from its flowers' disc) floated by us, why man alone should feel such fear and mistrust for the future, which charges itself with the safety of an insignificant seed, and while consigning it to the seemingly accidental guidance of the wandering breeze, provides for its subsequent existence! It was one of those calm, grey, pensive looking days in which the subdued feelings we have spoken of are certain I to predominate. The twirling leaves fell like great tears upon the graves they sheltered, and every image round us whispered the refrain of Felicia Ileums' song, Passing Away." The mignonette, the roses, the heliotrope, and clematis, with many others of their lovely sisterhood, bloomed in all their summer bright ness, and covered up the loathsomeness of death, under to reply. n appeal ellor of dt fend nuitig to eer rgh the is morn ting the theruby plaintiff es to try A Y.) ID.) )tion for ourt the Evans v. nents in I, A hich AY.) to show review ,mit this uld en- 3, either urt, in errone- uestion. was that applied brought rtaining the evi and in .om the es were Ld taxed 'itnesses ion, and l to the the de• cable to le could )t right. veral of ig to do not as luld not .mselves vere not rmed it res from I of the or)re the P.) ling. d Coast that the y in i:s x man"' such -16 he de n of the in the ost de ite Mr• old be nd own t becauFe sintiff s npts to anxious mined, 15, some at every • Up to not had ccuracY rice had eir first na w ith ursorily ewman ccounte• wrote, t of the at theY 'o books Walton ng that lan, in ccounte there t book, mld be .quisite• ks con• o f the itled t° he book in the le 13th 'ote the reet, -atling. the' John the hot ccount , unts of hed to e given " ve with )erbsps n the m ust from sk hole New; i an% UN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6 MO the masque of fragrant flower-beds. Ten years before ( we had stood upon that spot, and colVd then hue counted i's graves of" mark and likelihood;' now they he thick about one, and there is diiii;mlty in recalling not only the most striking of the monuments, but the reanes of the once-important personages who tenant them. Then it was but a sepulchral suburb, sprinkled with ornate tombs, the principal of which were Ducrow's mausoleum, with its shattered garlands and broken pillar, beehive, and sphinxes—then only tenanted by his wife; that of St. John Long, with its temple crowncd summit, and drooping female • figure with the Escullpian serpent round her arm; toe Freeling pillar, with its capital commenced ; the vault of the ilygeist ; the simple grave of the mother of the writer of " Rook wood ;" and a few others of less well-known names. Now it has become a monu mental city; a little knot of aristocracy keep their state in the catacombs, and a prince of the royal blood has his granite palace in the midst; judges, warriors, and merchants, churchmen and simple citizens, w il l a few others, whose epit a ph s are written in the affec (ions of ilpir fellow men, not only of this generation, but cf those that are to come, make up the elenients of which this mixed society is composed, and type themselves in marble after death. TIIE WELSH CHURCH. LETTER V. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—.I have already exhibited various instances of churches in the Principali y which are wholly aban doned as places of worship. Many more might be mentioned at which the attendance is so scanty, that the diffused congregation would be insufficient to afford one individual to each pew. Let any stranger go on a Sunday into almost any rural church in Wales, and he must immediately remark the smallness of the assemblage. On inquiry he will generally find that there is only one service in a day, the clergyman having duty to perform in other churches. Let that stranger next visit the local Welsh meeting-houses, and he will find them inva riably thronged three or four times a day to the very doors. It would be superfluous for me to select instances, for throughout all the rural districts of Wales the churches are empty, and the Welsh Dissenting cha pels are full. Dissent is everywhere alive in energetic activity, while Episcopal Christianity is dying. The cause too is as obvious as the effect: the people love religion, and desire spiritual instruction from men who speak their own language, enter into their feelings, and share their predilection tbr poetry, singing, and music, and elevate their minds with earnest and impassioned oratory. They will not attend upon services which they cannot feel as well as understand. They will not accept a mere form or ceremonial of religion for a living reality. Had the Bishops of the Welsh Church during the last hundred and forty years provided it with native pastors as pious, as zealous, and as diligent as the Dissenting teachers, then would the Welsh people, fond as they are by temperament of all ancient and venerable usages, have been found at this day rejoicing within its precincts, a nation of stedfast Churchmen, instead of a nation of Dissenters. Things have now been urged to an extremity, and the very existence of the Welsh Church apparently depends upon the remodelling of her hierarchy. ENGLISH _Bishops have brought this Church to the crumbling verge of ruin. For nine years, indeed, Bishop Thirlwall has been studiously endeavouring to remedy an irremediable ill, by the palliating expedient of acquiring the native language, yet he remains a dry scholar still, and though an able linguist he is an inefficient Welsh preacher, incapable of carrying out the reforms which he admits to be necessary, unable to fit his visitation charges to the requirements of his clergy, incapable of comprehend ing the full responsibillity of his own position, and unwilling and incompetent to understand the character of the Cy mry. He offers a conspicuous example, a beacon warning to Ministers of State against similar appointments. His whole course of inconsistent Episcopal management in the diocese of St. David's emphatically proves, that if the Church of Wales can even yet be saved, upheld and restored to vigorous usefulness, it cannot be by the efforts of the most learned of the English Prelates. The inference is clear, the earthly hopes of the Welsh Church are all concentrated in a native hierarchy. The whole system of Ecclesiastical government in Wales is so completely disorganized as to require the aid, not merely of conscientious rulers, but of able reformers, which I shall still further demonstrate in my next letter. I am, Sir, &c., GOIIBONIAN. THE TIME 7 AND THE HUNGA- RIAN EXILES. - TO TIIE EDITOR or TITS TIMES. Sir,—Your paper, of which only accumulated numbers occasionally reach us, contains unfounded imputations on the Hungarian refugees, and in par ticular cn the late President-Governor of Hungary. As having been during several months, and up to the present time, attached to and never separated from the person of M. Kossuth, and as being perhaps as cognizant as himself of his private transactions and affairs, I am enabled circumstantially to refute the charges to which you have attempted to give cur rency. Being the only person, beside Count Casimir Batthyany, who accompanied him when he retired from Arad, I consider myself so far implicatA in 3 our general remarks, as to feel entitled to claim the insertion in your columns of the facts which consti tute that refutation. On the 13th of September M. Kossuth, having conditionally delegated the powers of government, with which he had been invested by the Diet, to Gorge -y, quitted Arad. He had then 1,000 ducats (less than 5001.) in his possession. At Mariaradna we were met by M. Duschek, the Finat.ce Minister, who asked his instructions as to the disposal of 90 cwt. of gold and silver ingots, valued at 5,000,000 florins, nearly 500,000/ of your English money. M. Kossuth had then due to him upwards of 33,000 florins, being two months' arrears of the salary awarded to him by the Diet. The state was at the same time indebted to Count Casimir Batthyany in nearly the full amount of his salary since he had been minister, besides 442,000 florins advanced to the Trea sury out of his private purse. 1.1.. Kossuth sent this treasure back untouched to Arad for public purposes, ordering M. Duschek only to pay over out of the arrears due to him as Pre sident Governor 5,000 florins to the account of his mother. The 1,000 ducats which M. Kossuth took with him from Arad had been diminished by various ex• penses, mostly of a public nature, to less than half by the time he reached the Turkish frontier ; and this sum, together with a small travelling bag, was all the property with which the late President-Go vernor of Hungary entered Widdin. As to the crown of Hungary, it was sealed up by a committee of the Diet, and delivered into the charge of the responsible Minister, who duly provided for its safety. I can solemnly aver, to the best of my belief and knowledge, that the President Governor never saw it in his life. These, Sir, are the facts to which, as a gentleman, I pledge my word of honour. They will, I think, dispose of the calumnies by which, wittingly or un wittingly, you have allowed your columns to be so disgraced. To the correspondent or correspondents —your authority—l cannot even extend the benefit of this alternative indulgence. I cannot believe that their calumnies were forged even a t P es th or Vi enna, because Kossuth's Austrian enemies would assuredly have framed some scandal more plausible than a charge of which his whole life had been a glaring refutation. Everybody in Hungary knows that M. Kossuth's disregard of his personal interests induced several proprietors and magnates to propose, even before he was yet a Member of the Diet, endowing him with considerable estates. Everybody knows that M. Kossuth refused this honourable testimonial, as well as on all other occasions the frequent offers made by his political admirers and friends to compensate the injury to his private affairs occasioned by the exclusive dedication of his time and talents to the public interests.) The Parliamentary transactions of a more recent period show with how much difficulty he was induced, as President- Governor of Hungary, to accept the salary of 200,000 florins voted to him by the Diet ; and the whole of Hungary is aware bow large—how inconsiderately large I may venture to remark—was the proportion of this salary spent in charities. I am a soldier, not a penman, Sir, and can there fore only call on your anonymous informant or in formants to come forth, that I may fling by name the falsehood in their teeth. At the same time you must understand that, as I am yielding to a purely per sonal impulse, the publication of this letter can form no impediment to such legal steps as the late Presi dent Governor, on his arrival in England, may think fit, in vindication of his character, to take against yourself, as the responsible circulator of such calum nious aspersions. - I a►n, Sir, your obedient servant, ALEXANDER ASDOTIf, • Lieutenant-Colonel, Adjutant General to the ex - President-Governor of Hungary. Widdin, Nov. 1. FASHIONS IN MOURNING. -Mr. Landells, the eminent artist and wood-engraver, has been enraged, during the week, • in making elaborate drawings of the most recherché examples of the novelties of fashion for the approaching general mourning. These illustrations will form a large portion of the forthcoming numb er o f the Lady's Newspaper, being intended to serve as un erring &Lit sin the arrangement of the toilet. The specimens selected are distinguished for unquestionable taste and surpassing elegance, and will prove of the greatest service to those persons who, residing at a distance, aro deprived of the advantages of seeing the originals which have been chosen by the leaders of ton from the selectiins made by the Messrs. Jay, of both the Yorisiau and Luglisla Marchands de Nodes. HARRISON AINSWORTH'S WORKS, Complete ih WINDSOR CASTLE. Pp. 220. One Volume. Following the example of several of his eminent contemporaries who are endeavouring to popularize still further their already popular productions, Mr. William Harrison Ainsworth is now republishing his well known fictions in a form of extraordinary cheap ness. " Windsor Castle," formerly issued in a costly shape, with illustrations by Cruikahank, is here before us in a compact book, printed on excellent paper and with the clearest type. Within the com pass .of 220 pages are collected together the six books of the famous chronicle of the national palace. Those who delight in the marvellous adventures con nected with Herne, the goblin huntsman ; in the hu morous rencontres between Patch and Will Somers, the jesters of Cardinal Wolsey and his royal master; in the fortunes of Mabel, of Tristram, of Surrey, of Wyatt, of Fen wolf, of Geral dine, of Catharine, of Anne Boleyn, and especially of the right high and puissant King Henry the Eighth, will prize a volume which comprises the whole narrative in portable dimensions. Although not one of the most felicitous of our romancer's his torical tales, this brilliant fiction is nevertheless characterised by considerable power; and is more particularly remarkable for the vividness with which I it peurtrays a remote age, blending together moreover, without any apparent effsrt, much less any striking anomaly, the generally incongruous materials of diablerie and reality. The panorama unfolded to us by Harrison Ainsworth in this (manifestly his favourite) fiction, is marked by its gorgeous colour ing and its judicious delineation of character. Several of the historical personages, especially Henry himself, are admirably sketched, tallying in almost every particular with our ideals drawn from the memorials of contemporary scribes Remembering the maudlin outcry raised a few years since against Mr. Ainsworth as a novelist, we shall not be at all surprised if this cheap re issue of his compositions be the theme of much prudish and preposterous repre hension. Of this, however, we are equally well satisfied, that the jeers of cant and the sarcasms of a stilted morality, will have no effect upon the circulation of works calculated in no respect to lower the tone of society, or to deprave the public imagination any more than the works of some of the most celebrated and lauded authors in our literature. What is a subject to us of profound indignation —t o us, total and entire strangers to Mr. Harrison Ainsworth—is that most absurd outcry raised against him as the originator of that school of literature in which crime is made the theme of fiction, and in which the hero is the criminal. Harrison Ainsworth, the originator of this school of romance ! One might as readily accuse the blossom of being the cause of the seed, the roots, the stalk, the branches, and the bud from which it has emanated. Why, the veriest blockhead in her Majesty's dominions is aware that this species of fictitious composition was in vogue in the d a y s of' lEschylus and Euripides, in the age of Shakspere, and in the time of Boccacc io ; an d t h at, to come ne a r e r our ow n era, it was the mode with some of the noblest and most eulogized intellects. Fielding, we opine, has chosen one of the most vil lanous wretches that ever crawled upon God's earth as the hero of one of his most renowned works, the " History and Adventures of Jonathan Wild." God win, we presume, must be regarded as the auth or o f "Caleb Willi ams ," an d "Caleb Williams," we believe, is the celebration of the career of a murderer. Nay, nearer still to a contemporary period—Sir Bulwer Lytton had recounted the life and death of Eugene Aram, together with the vicissitudes of the highwayman Paul Clifford, while Charles Dickens had limned to the very life the brutal ruffian, Mr. William Sykes, i n the narrative of " Oliver Twist," long before " Jack Sheppard " was published in the p ages o f the very same magazine which had immortalised the m ur d erer of Nancy. And yet Harrison Ainsw or th-- not Dickens, or B u l wer , o r Godwin, or Fielding, but Harrison Ainsworth—is accused of having been the originator, forsooth, of this school of romantic litera ture. If to have followed in the wake of half a hun dred novelists, and to be the last in point of time, in stead of the first, be to be the originator of this system of composition, then, but not otherwise, must we regard Mr. Ainsworth as the originator of this species of romance. The logic of his assailants is amusing, —he is the predecessor because he is the successor. It reminds us of Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's comedy, " Come, sir, you're our envoy, lead the way and we'll precede !" What we maintain in regard to the cause-ot our indignation in this matter is simply as follows :—lt strikes us as being rather too bad to have applauded Fielding first, and then Godwin, and then Bulwer-Lytton, and then Dickens, and at last to have come down unexpectedly, pen men, harum-scar um , upon Har r i son A i nsworth for following exactly in the same track. First of all the public foster the germs of a certain style, and then, when those germs have blossomed, become outrage ous. Nay —every one had already lauded to the very skies Mr. Ainsworth's previous romance of " Rook wood," in which Dick Turpin, the highwayman, figures very conspicuously. But to I and behold, after swallowing with a relish Fielding's Jona than Wild," and Godwin's " Caleb Williams," and Bulwer's " Eugene Aram," (a work which elicited the panegyric of Sir Walter Scott), and his Paul Clifford," and Dickens's " Oliver Twist," and even Mr. Ains worth's own work of " Rook wood," the public suddenly became squeamish on the appearance of "Jack Sheppard," and visit the whole of the bile of their spurious and pretended morality on the unfortunate head of William Har rison Ainsworth. Ps:haw ! we have no patience with such wretched exhibitions of sanctimoniousness on the part of those who have tolerated so much deserving real reprehension. They call to our recollection the diTusting assumption of sanctity visible on the part of Joseph Surface at the very time when the screen conceals the object of his adulte rous i n t r i gue . If "Jack Sheppard merits condemnation, then most certainly does every one of the kindred works already enumerated; and yet the vial of popular wrath is poured out exclusively over the former. In spite of the abuse of an ungenerous hypocrisy, the principal among the fictions of Harrison Ainsworth have still preserved their popularity, for the intelli gent public of readers cannot fail to recognize their peculiar, and in their way, their consummate ability. Dick Turpin's Ride to York—one of the most brilliant, and altogether one of the most remarkable descriptive passages in the language—is still fresh in the popular recollection. It cannot, moreover, be forgotten how many bygone personages have been resuscitated by the magic wand of the novelist _round the ancient buildings of Old Saint Paul's, Saint James's, the Tower of London, and Windsor Castle. 'Versatility delineated in " Crichton," fanaticism in " Guy Fawkes," a long past age in the " Miser's Daughter," and another remote period in the " Lancashire Witches," are still retained in remembrance. Hence we can understand the rapid sale of the first edition of this cheap re-issue— that sale having been completed on the first day of publication. Tawdry and meretricious decorations there undoubtedly are in the writings of Mr. Ains worth, but there are also blended with those others of a genuine excellence—vigorous por traitures of the passions (chiefly, it is trite, the darker passions,) of humanity, enthralling succe sions of incident, ingenious complications of plot, and through all a delicate and subtle analysis of character. Those are bis titles—and they are high ones—to our consideration. His position as a no velist is very far indeed from being unimportant, for he occupies the place in the present, which Mrs Radcliffe occupied in the past generation. NEOTYPOSCLIESSMEN. An entirely novel and in some respects a peculiarly ingenious set of chessmen has just appeared--adapt able on occasions to the games of chess, draughts, and backgammon. They are flat and circular, with an embossed effigy representing the different men in the game of games. To amateurs we doubt not they will prove acceptable, though we are equally certain they would have been discarded by a Staunton, a Phillidor, or a Do la Bourdonoec. SONNET TO WOMAN. BY ROBERT GILFILLAN. -•• Bright stars of earth!—not ye, fast-fading flowers, That bloom a while, then vanish in decay; But ye, fair beauties, form'd in Love's fond bowers, Who give to Man what sunbeams give to day! What were this world were Woman's smiles away ! An arid waste—a desert of the wild— A lonely rock, with ever-dashing spray, On whose rude summit Nature never smiled, But stood in ocean grandeur all forlorn; — So Man's frail bark, by every tempest torn, Oft foundered but for Woman's guiding ray, Who o'er the gloom makes night appear the day! Her worth, her heart, her love to Man is given, To show on earth . a Pisgah view of heaven! East Hermitage, Leith, 3d Dec., (842. —From the Scotsman. TILE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER.—We have reason to believe that the usual ceremony of " lying in state" will be dispensed with, for the first time during many centu ries, in the case of her late Majesty the Queen Dowager. It appears that an objection exists in the ceremony taking place at Bentley Priory in consequence of that mansion not being royal property. The removal of the late Queen's remains to London for the purpose is also thought undesirable on many accounts, not the least of which is said to be the great risk of accident from the rush of spectators who would inevitably endeavour to obtain ad.nission to the ceremony. Another deviation from the usual custom with deceased members of the royal family is the omission of the process of embalming the body,which has been dispensed with by express desire of her late lamented Majesty. The second coffin, which is lined throughout with lead, was sent down to Stan more yesterday. The funeral, it is generally supposed, will take place at Windsor on Saturday, th 9 15th inst., in a most private manner. LITERATURE THE ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE; or, Curiosities of Family History. Vol. 111. By G. Lillie Craik. The readers of the two preceding volumes of this romantic history will require little recommendation to induce them to take up the third and recently issued volume, It combines the interest of the novel with the graver attractions of history. The subject of duelling occupies a prominent place in this last volume, the Wharton and Stuart duel, and the Bruce and Sackvi!le duel being the topics of two of the historical romances which it contains. " Charles Brandon's Widow and her Second Marriage," "Bess of Hardwick and the Talbots," " The Cavendishes and the Stanhopes," " Lord Pembroke and Sir George Wharton," "Lord Crichton of Sanqubar," and "The Earldom of Menteith," are the subjects of the re inaining historiettes. In some respects the most in teresting article in the volume is the first, entitled " The Hereditary Principle." Its appearance is certainly well-timed, now that so many hereditary rights have been set aside, and the fact of their being rights at all is called in question. We cannot say that we entirely agree with the opinions of Mr. Craik, but the following arguments are eminently truthful in practice, whatever they may be in theory : " The thing that is of chief moment with regard to the place of highest dignity in a well-ordered common wealth is, that it be By whom it is filled is com paratively unimportant. It is impossible that any considerable power of independent or self originating action can be left to the individual occupying it. An ex•raordiaary crisis will call forth a 1-3ader, who shall seize and wield all the authority of the State as it by a divine right ; but there aro no means of securing an unbroken succession of such heaven commissioned autocrat t In the normal condi tion of national affairs a principal part of the function to be performed by the official head of the State is merely to occupy his position. The first necessity of that position is, that if cannot be left empty. So left, it would be a gash •i n t h e b ody politic. It will not re main empty. If there be no regular way of filling it pro vided, the thing will be done by some irregular process. The principle of hereditary succession, operating with the constancy of a law of nature, seems to offer at once a pertectly sufficient, and by far the most convenient and least objectionable age ney for meeting all the difficulties of the case. " One of the most beautiful among the simplifications of science is that by which, in the Arabic system of arithmetical notation, the figure is made to derive the greater part of its value from the plane in which it stands. An analogous contrivance is equally available in a social or political system. Much of the force by which any such system is to be sustained and kept in motion, may be advantageously made to reside more in the place than in the person. M a tt ers may b e so arranged that it shall be not so much the individual as his posi tion that rules and influences. This force of the position is an incident of social efficiency which discriminates it from many other kinds of efficiency. A man cannot be made a sounder mathematician by being appointed a professor of mathematics. If his mathematical knowledge or genius be but small, his professorship will not make it more. But the sort of power that is required in the members of a social or political system is often only a power of weight or pressure. It is derived from their position much more than from themselves. It makes itself felt not in directing or even in impelling the machine of government, so much as in keeping its centre ofgravity in the right place. It is neither the sail nor the rudder of the vessel, but rather the ballast or the keel. All that you have to do, therefore, to maintain in the machine a force of any desired amount, which shall continue to act in a direction that may be assigned, is to create certain positions or circumstances in which a certain number of individuals shall always stand. The fixed positions will correct any irregularity of action that might otherwise be produced by the more variable or less determinable quantity of the individual minds and characters." The efficacy of this system is happily exemplified by the British Constitution. FORBES' GUIDE TO THE FOXHOUNDS AND STAGHOUNDS OF ENGLAND. By Gelert. " Fox-huuting," says the compiler of this guide, " has been the glory of England for the last century ; no other nation of the earth comprehends either the intensity of sport or manliness of character induced by this noble pastime." To the devotees of this " glory of England" Forbes' Guide will be an in valuable acquisition. Its character will be best exhibited by a specimen of its contents. All the " foxhounds and staghounds.of England" are arranged according to the following plan : " BUCKS.—STAGUOUNDS. " Name of county or hounds—The Barons Rothschild; Masters—Barons Meyer and Lionel Rothschild; Hunts man—Tom Balls; Days of Hunting—Monday, Thurs day. (These details are arranged in separate columns, in order to be easily referred to.) Favourite fixtures Hardwick, Adstock, Aston Abbotts, Winslow, Little Harwood, Liscotnbe Park, Oving, Rowaham, Broughton Firm, Aston Clinton, Denham Hills, Hockliffe Grange. "The Barons are doing the thing'as they have always done it, in tip-top form. They have thirty-one couple of hounds in kennel, and after ten seasons aro beginning to get them tolerably level. Their entry of puppies for the coming season is magnificent —ten and a half couples, three couples of which, in one litter, are worth going 100 miles to see. They have about fifteen hunt. rs, ,t a hh v ee e r fim a r g se i te n ,t g t h; . 2 . .. 3 5 . 0 edc Z 0 ni e fd a a t i h t . 0 yu n T ed : r o tne d e erodt. getT The gentlemenalwaysl twelve m les taken oo fu tt ho t , o ,f hunt are generally hard goers, especially the Honourable Hobert Grimston ; and Tom Balls, as he need be, is in vincible. The Barons r' juice in the Vale of Aylesbury." FORBES' HUNTING DIARY. A ucetul accompaniment to the above is Forbes' Hunting Diary, arranged so as to record the sport of the season fur the followers of foxhounds, stag hounds, and harriers. It is a blank book, ruled in columns intended to contain memoranda, under the following: heads :—" hounds, Huntsmen, the Nett, Horses, Stag, Fox, Harriers, Covers Drawn, Found or Uncarted, Wind, Weather, Scent, Check, Killed or Taken, Observations." A book of this kind when filled up would afford a❑ interesting summary of a season's sport. CLASSICAL SOURCES OF BRITISH HISTORY. A Colonial Warning. By S. Bannister, formerly Attorney-General qf New South Wales. The object of this work, which, when completed, will prove in the highest degree interesting to every reader who can appreciate the production of a philan thropist and a scholar, rich in illustration, accurate in research, and lucid in style, is to show, more especially from the disasters of the Romans in Britain, that conquests are ad verse, an d th at a system of humane policy is indispensabl e to the lasting progress of civilization, but that British influence and terri tory may be securely and j us tl y extended by the steady introduction of good government, furnished with means to civilize the savage and to protect all. The published portion of the book comprises the introduction, and a large collection of extracts from the works of those classical authors who have made allusion to ancient Britain. The idea of collecting from classical writers the passages concerning Britain was conceived three centuries ago. In 1530 the Earl of Worcester published a little pamphlet of this character, but only containing ex tracts from Caesar. Eichorn's work applies the same idea to the whole ancient world, but he limits his extracts, as to Britain, to Caesar and Ta citus. Petrie's important work is perplexing, from the arrangement adopted of the early known materials of the history of this island, and the present work bids fair to be an improvement upon these similar productions. The range of authors quoted is very extensive. Among the Greeks the principal are Strabo, IDiodorus Sioulus, Polybius, Aristotle, and the unknown composer of the Argonautics of Or pheus. Among the Latins, Caesar, Cicero, Pliny ; numerous poets of the Augustan age—Tacitus, Juvenal, and Rufus Avienus. The heart of Mr. Bannister is set on the working out of one of the great problems of humanity, namely—What system will the more satisfactorily secure the safety and civilization of the barbarous tribes with which we have intercourse ? In other words,—How civilized nations can be best relieved from the dishonour of, year after year, inflicting wrong, when, by due care, they might confer benefits upon those tribes ? This problem, he conceives, is to be re so l ve d b y t h e im proved study of history, which, if studied in its true spirit, as " philosophy teaching by example," should, from the consideration of the rela tions of the civilized ancients with our rude and earlier forefathers, afford some lessons for our guid ance in the conduct of the like relations subsisting between ourselves and the less civilized races of the present day. The illustration of the maxim, that little prosperity can be enjoyed by the most success ful conquerors—as were the Romans in the British isles, whose domination ended in a frightful ruin, from their contemptuous disregard of justice and conciliation towards the natives—is principally taken from our calamitous ill-policy in Southern Africa. Our limits preclude us from entering upon the several important considerations which a study of these pages naturally cause to arise, and it would be injustice to the erudite and clear-sighted author to give a meagre outline of the topics which he adduces with such high ability. To the completion of his Ilhours in this field we look forward with the greatest interest, in common with all who love to pay its meed to literary merit, employed in the development and elucidation of sound and comprehensive views of statesmanship. Would that our rulers were thoroughly imbued with the noble and politic sentiments of which the author of this volume—no mawkish philanthropist, or inexperienced theorist—is the energetic advocate. The brightest sword will rust, and the greenest laurels fade, save in the rare instance of a Washington, a Kossuth, and the deathless brother-band of pure •souled patriots— the blood-cemented triumphs ! of the ancient Queen of nations, and of many a conquering dynasty, are crumbled into dust, but the extension of empire by the pure and peaceful weapons of civilization and conciliatory government, will redound to the undying glory of its authors, and ensgre tolidity and reyeren. THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS of William Cullen Bryant. Condensed, so to speak, into a vutunrt of 355 pages we . have here b e f ore us an English' reprint of t h e entire poems o f Willi am Bryant, 'the Americal. Con sidering that he has been before the public upwards of 0 irty years, namely, since 1816, we cannot but feel somewhat surprised at the intellectual poverty which marks the effusions. Almost all of them are of the briefest possible description—the longest of all, " The Ages," consisting only of thirty five stanzas. Yet it is through these few and fragmentary productions that Mr. Bryant has acquired a very large amount of celebrity, both American and European. The secret of his otherwise inexplicable success is thl4, that he has in one or two pieces described the aspect of American sceneryjwith a pencil of miraculous delicacy and with a touch capable of producing an inimitable vet isimilitude. Here is one of his charming pictures, copied from a poem entitled "Autumn Woods :" "But 'neath yon crimson tree, Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame, Nor mai k, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame." Such fragments as those of " The Crowded Street " and " The Yellow - Violet " are among the more feli citous contents of a volume which cannot fail to com mand a large circulation. POEMS. Pp. G. By Boothroyd Fairclough. A little unpretending pamphlet of versification, penned, as the writer informs us in his modest little Preface, by a "young man totally unknown in the paths of literature." Neither from the " Outlaw's Confession," nor from the " Heir of Aloa," nor from any of the minor pieces, can we prophecy that he has the capacity to make his voice audible in precincts which echo only to the cries of genius. At the least his maiden effort is not marred by affectations. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LEAMINGTON DECEMBER MEETING. All the horses are here for both Steeplechase and Hurdle-race. We subjoin the latest betting:— ÜBE OPEN CHASE. 4 to 1 agst British Yeoman 10 to 1 agst Little Fanny (t) (taken) 10 to 1 agst Agitation 1 agst Chandler (t) 12 to 1 agst Little Houghton 1 agst Peter Simple (t) (taken) 1 agst lint. of Gwynne 12 to 1 agst Kader (taken) 12 to 1 agst Maria Day 1 agst The Doctor (t) 20 to 1 agst Bold Davy LTRDLE-RACE. 4 to 1 agst Miss Burns 6 to 1 nit Bedf or d sto 1 agst Vaut-rien I 6to 1 agst any other. ASHDO %%TN PARK COURSING MEETING. The Cup was won by Sir St. George Gore's Florence. Mr. Bowles's William Rufus ran up. The Oaks Stakes were won by Mr. Biggs's Energy. Mr. Etwall's Ebb ran up. The All-aged Craven Stakes were won by Mr. Law rence's Landgravine. Sir St. George Gore's Jeannette ran up. Lsll,h Rookh and Hernia divided the Craven Puppy Stakes. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. THE PUPPY STASES. Mr. Rend e ll' s R enown beat Sir St. George Gore's Gwendoline. Mr. Reticlell's Sincerity beat Mr. Frykon's Fig. Mr. Dubede's Damian beat Mr. Lawrence's Leoline. Mr. Round's Littlego beat Sir St. George Gore's Hermion-. Mr. Round's Longwaist best Mr. Gillett's Gaslight. Mr. R. Bagge's Tinto boat T. L. Brewster's Mystery. Mr. Fyson's Forerunner beat Mr. Fowles's Fire. Mr. Osbaldeston's Ophelia beat Mr. Miller's Minstrel. Mr. Inskip's Pathdnder beat Mr. R. 13.1gg,e's Titus. Mr. Richardson's Vivid beat Mr. Moody's Fabian. Mr. T. Le Brewer's Barney beat Lord Stradbroke'a Manto. Mr. Collins's Lord of the Manor beat Mr. Dobede's 1)o v, berry. First Ties.—Renown bt Damian—Littleg3 bt Birney —Tints ht Lord of the Manor—Pathfinder ht Fore rumm—Sincerity bt Ophelia—Longwai at bt Vivid. _ . THE ALL AGED STATUS. Mr. Longa:ma's L . ,la Montt z b et Sir St. Gorge Mr. Fya in's F.eld-Marshal bt 11r. Riuhardswi's Irt rity. • Mr. Buckworth's Bridesmaid beat Mr. Lawrence's Lee way. Mr. li,ndell's lied Rumblican beat Sir St. George Gore's Horatio. Mr. Osbildebton's o.inda beat Mr. 0. Edwards's Amy this% Mr. Round's Liberty bt Mr. Helmes'. llizhlHnd Laddir. Mr. R. Iligge's rout b.•at Mr. 131(,;,,5's Fan. Mr. I'3-son's Faithf u l b eat Mr. d ' endtil's Rocket. Mr. D Mede's D...sperate beat Mr. ltendell's Ricer. Mr. Dubedc's Demon beat Mr. Collins's Confidence. Mr. illines's littler Lt Sir St. George Gore's Glencoe. Mr. Edward's Approbation beat Mr. King's Rex. Mr. Fowles's Pliable beat Mr. R. .13.kgge'a Tulip. Mr. Inskip's rerseTeranee beat Mr. Hound's Louis Mr:Gillett's Girl of Ktnt bt Mr. Inslcip's Jenny Lind. Mr. Guruey's Agnes beat Mr. Gil!ett's Graceful. First Ties.—Girl of Kent beat Apjobation—R‘tt ler beat Dorun—Tout beat Lola Moutez—Field- Marshal beat Pliable—Perseyerance beat Faith!ul—Agnes beat Olinda—Desperato beat Red Republican—Bridesmaid beat Liberty. TILE EXXING STAKES FOR AGED DOGS. Mr. Randel.l's Rocket beat Mr. Fyson'a Fanny. Mr. Holmes's Morat beat Mr. Dubede's Diamond. Mr. Inskip's Pilot beat Mr. Buck worth's Blucher. Mr. Eichardson's Vsq ity beat Lord Stradbroko's Mary INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GEN- TLEWOMEN. The first public meeting in connexion with this deserving institution was held yesterday at the Home, 5, Ilarpur-street, Red Lion-square. The meeting was numerously attended by ladies of high station in life, clergymen, and gentlemen. The Honourable ARTHUR, KINNAIRD, who oc cupied the chair, said, they could not exaggerate the necessity and importance of such a society in a commercial community like that of London. As one well acquainted with business men, and himself connected with business, as a banker who knew the affairs of many, he assured them it was not unusual for the affluent, acting in the spirit of enterprise and competition which entered into commerce, to be very rapidly brought to the utmost want, perhaps from their own imprudence; but on the other hand also from circumstances over which they could not possibly have exercised any control. Probably there was no one in that room but knew some such case, and felt perplexed how best to assist the individual without wounding a sensitive mind, and augmenting in stead of relieving its pain. But many of the most distressing cases were, he feared, never heard or, and many of those which were known were accidental discoveries. Individuals born and reared in better circumstances were more keenly alive to the ills of poverty, and sensitively shrank from giving publicity to distress which yet they were often unable by their own exertions to ameliorate. But this institution he hoped would do something for the alleviation of such distress. He could not help adverting to the opportune moment which they had chosen to begin their benevolent work—when the death of a distinguished personage, the Queen Dow ager, distinguished for her rank and more dis tinguished for her benevolenc e , deprived many de serving cases of the assistance which she was in the habit of giving out of her ample means. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the friends of the institution contemplated the relief of gentlewomen reduced to poverty, and that their object was to secure to such inmates, irrespective of employment, a comfortable home for 7s. 6d. a week, and to provide suitable employment for those whose resources were inadequate to meet the weekly charge. The committee appointed in April last to carry this object unto effect, continued to exert themselves on its behalf; and when in the month of August, tho house in Harpur-street was offered them at a rent of 85/., and the furniture in it for 21:21, although they had then gut no more than about 2001., they deemed it advisable to accept the offer. There were now thirty inmates in the Home, one half of whom paid half their expenses. By dint of great economy they had hitherto been able to proceed, but they hoped the liberality of the public would enable them to progress more efficiently in future. The accounts presented to the meeting stated that the revenue from subscriptions and donations, up to the 4th of December had atnouted to 8551. 16s. ; th a t tin exp z.diture was 3201. 19s. 7d., including 2121. for the furniture, and 331. for repairs in the house, leavin g a balance in hand of 341. 16s. 5d., against which the Secretary stated there were still several outstanding debts. The meeting was then addressed by the Rev. W. Lessignan, M.A.; Rev. James Hamilton, D.D ; Joseph Williams, AID. ; Rev. Mr. Belany, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr. Futvoye, Dr. Aldis, and the Rev. Mr. Short. The report was adopted, and resolutions were car ried, recognising the progress the society had already made, and according thanks to the committee of ladies in whose hands the whole had been left. The Rey. Ur, Short, the clergyman of the parish, tial love until time shall be no more. May such be yet the policy, and such the r e wa r d of Imperial Englar.d! CUMBF,IILAND'S BRITISH THEATRE. Nos. 363-368. In continuation of this voluminou s and most in t teresting publication we have here before us the ver,,ions of John Banim's tragedy of Damon and Pythias ; Gilbert a'Beckett's farce of A Clear Case ; his farce of Frl;raro in London; the farce of His First Pecca dillo; Leman Rede's drama of The Devil and Dr. Faustus; and Richard Jones's comedy of The Green . Man. Each number is, of course as usual, accom panied by al the stage directions and by the critical remarks of the inimitable and interminable D—G. One or two plays and farces, long since out of print, we should be glad to see republished in this excellent cries, such for example as the capital farce of Too! Late for Dinner, by Richard Jones, the celebrated come Jim]. 5 to 7 to 7 to consented to visit the Hotne as often as his other dutif , s would allow him. A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded th© b _siness of the meeting.: DANIEL WEBSTER on HUNGARY. The f , Ilowing is an extract from a speech delivered I.llr. Daniel Webster at the New Hampshire Fes tival " Then, gentlemen, there is another aspect. We have all had our sympathies much enlisted by the Hungarian effort for liberty. We thought we saw a more favourable chance for establishing independence in Hungary than in any other part of Europe where the question has been in agitation within the last 12 months. But despotic power from abroad intervened to suppress it. And, gentlemen, what will come of it Ido not knew. For my part, at this moment, I feel more indignant at recent events connected with Hun gary than at all those which pissed in her struggle for liberty.—(Tremendous cheering.) I see that the Emperor of Russia demands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth and his companions should be given up.— (Shan.e, s'mtne.) And I see that this demand is in derision of the established law of nations. Gen tle men, there is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind bas its power, and the earthquake has its power. But there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earth quake—(Overpowering outbursts of applause)-- that is the threatened indignation of the whole civi lized world.—(Renwed cheers.) Gentlemen, V - e Emperor of Russia holds himself to be bound by Ole law of nations, from the fact that he treats with nations—that he forms alliances ;he professes, in fact, to live in a civilized age, and to govern an en lightened nation. I say that if under these circum stances he shall perpetrate so gross a violation of natural law as to seize these Hungarians and to exe cute them, he will stand as a criminal and malefactor in the view of the law.—(Loud huzzas continued for some minutes.) The whole world will be the tribu nal to try him, and he must appear before it, and hold up his hand and plead and abide its judgment.— The Emperor of Russia is the supreme lawgiver in his own country, and for aught I know, the exe cutor of it also. But, thanks to God, he is not the supreme lawgiver or executor of the national law, and every offence against this is an offence against the rights of the civilized world—(Hear, hear)—and if be breaks that law in the case of Turkey, or in any other case, the whole world has a right to call him out and to demand punishment.—(Right.) Our rights as a nation are held under the sanction of national law—a law which becomes more impor tant from day to day —a law which none who profess to agree with it, are at liberty to violate. Nor let him imagine, nor let any one imagine, that mere force can subdue the general sentiment of man kind. It is much more likely to extend that senti ment, and to destroy that power which he most de sires to establish and secure. Gentlemen, the bones of poor John Wickliffe were dug out of his grave seventy years after his death, and burnt for his heresy, and his ashes were thrown upon a river in War wickshire. Some prophet of that day . said — "The Avon to the Severn runs The Severn to the Sea, And Wickliffe's dust shell spread abroad, Wide as the waters be." Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth is taken by an absolute, unqualified, unjustifiable violation of national law, what will it appease—what will it pacify ? It will mingle with the earth—it will mix with the waters of the ocean—the whole civilized world will snuff it in the air, and it will return with awful retribution on the heads of those violators of national law and justice.—(Great enthusiasm.) I cannot say when, or in what form, but depend upon it that if such an act take place, thrones and princi palities and powers must look out for the conse quences.—(Overpowering applause.) INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. JOSHUA FIELD, Esq., President, in the chair. Dtc. 4.—1 he discussion was continued on Mr. Paton's description of the Southend Pier, and the ravages of the " Teredo Navalis," and other marine worms, and was extended to such a length as to preclude the reading of any original communication. Numerous specimens were exhibited, and com mented on, of timber thoroughly perforated by worms ; whilst beside them, under the same circum stances, the " Jarrow wood," from Australia, was shown to have remained completely free from injury. The reference to the age of Homer, as an instance of the ancient ravaging habits of the "Teredo," in duced a return to geological questions ; and it was shown, that in the London clay, remains had repeatedly been found, of timber perforated by sea worms. The oolite and greensand formations also exhibited petrified wood, filled with boring moluscm. This led to the consideratien of the formation most likely to withstand the attack of the " Pholps;" and it was ;hown, that the Portland stone was, from the quantity of silica it contained, least liable to be attacke 1. The "Pholas" was shown to have been in active operati o n upon certain rocks from the earliest periods, but never upon Portland stone. Hence it was argued this' kind of stone should bo used for break waters and other works exposed to the action of the sea. The early state of the " Teredo" was noticed • when escaping from the egg, in the shape of a free swimmer, it was drifted about with the tide until it met w i:h a log, a pile, or the side of a ship, to which it attached itself, and making an inroad into it, be came a non locomotive animal of different form and habits, never again to leave the habitation it had burrowed for itself in the body of the timber. The question of as hether the boring operation of the marine worms was carried on by chemical or by mechanical means, was lengthily discussed. The thin shell, covered by its delicate membrane, was in stanced as not possessing strength enough to cut away timber; but it was on the other hand shown that the shape of the two shells, forming the extremity of the animal, admirably adapted them for powerful cutting, or rasping tools, when moored rapidly in a circular direction, as was evidently the case, from the uni formly cylindrical character of the holes. The shells of the " Pholas" were also showat o be used in that manner, and the opinion appeared gene rally to lean to a mechanical cause, for the effects observed. This bearing of the discussion naturally induced remarks upon the ravages of the white ant of India, which, however, appeared to have been little studied, and less understood, as far as atta•mp!ing to arrest or to prevent its inroads. The various materials, such as Ryan's corrosive sublimate of mercury, Sir W. Barnett's chloride of zinc, Margary's salts of metals, Payne's combination of muriate of lime and sulphate of iron, forming in the timber an insoluble compound, and Bethell's creosote, or oil of coal tar, were discussed. All had their partisans, and were stated to have suc ceeded and failed under certain circumstances. Spe cimens of piles from Lowestoft harbour, whose waters were notoriously full of worm, showed that timber in a natural state was in a few months thoroughly perforated by " Teredulin the centre, and " Litnno ria" on the surface ; but that piles, which had been properly saturated according to Bethell's system, in exhausted receivers, and subjected.to such pressure as insured the absorption of about ten pounds' weight of the creosote, or oil of coal _tar, by each cubi c f oo t o f the tin iser, were p e rf ec tly preserved from attacks of marine animals of any kind. In one instance a partially " creosoted" pile had a notch cut into it, deeper than the impregnation had extended ; a " Teredo ' made its entry, and was found to have worked in every direction, until it arrived within the reach of the creosote, when the animal turned away and eventually left the pile. Bethell's system was admitted, by all the speakers, to be that which hitherto, after many years' experience, had afforded the most satisfactory results. Some most conclusive experiments, instituted by Mr. Bendel at Southampton, were stated to have pro duced the same results ; and at Leith all the piles were weighed before and after their saturation, to insure their absorbing the full allowance of at least ten pounds per cubic foot. The discussion was interrupted by the monthly bal lot, when the following candidates were elected :—M. Jones and T. C. Gunn, as members ; T. A. Iledley, J. Allan, 11. 0. Bridgeman, and Captain J. Estridge, 8.E., as associates. The paper announced to be read at the meeting f Tuesday, December the 11th, was No. 818, " On the facilities for Ship or . Canal commu nicat i on, between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, th roug h the Isthmus of Panama." By Lieutenant-Col one l Lloyd, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Loss OF 1 TR'ETT 7 ts. metancnoty accident, which resulted in the sudden destruction of twenty lives, occurred at the entrance of the Tyne on Tuesday morn lng last. It appears that the Betsey, of Little Hampton, timber laden, trom the adtic, v as proceeding northward, when she was compelled by stress of weather to mike for Tynemouth Ilarb ur. On entering the harbour she struck upon the Herd Sand, which stretches a consider able distance along the south side of the river. A life boat, with a crew of twenty-four persons, proceeded to the stranded ship for the purpose of saving her crew. On reaching the ship it is the practice to lash the life-boat alongside the distressed vessel by means of a rope, both from the stem and stern. In this instance, unfortunately, only one end of the life boat had been so secured, when she swung round with the tale, and a heavy sea taking her in midships she was instantly upset, and the whole of her crew, with the exception of !our persons, met with a watery grave. Oily one of the bodies, that of a person named Lancelot Robson, has as yet been discovered. The disaster was observed from the shore, and two boats put off to render assistance. They arrived in time to save the four survivors, three of whom were picked off the life-boat, and they also succeeded in saving the crew of the Betsey. The vessA :4 vxpected to tic got off without serious damage. IL , iild . _