The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-08 00:00:00

ttrb SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. FRANCE. The Serviles have thrown off the mask, and Legi timatists, Orleanists, and Bonapartists, openly avow their coalition for producing a c ounter-revolution. They have resolved to form an Electoral Committee in Paris, to be composed of 30 members, to direct the ensuing elections. Count Mole has consented to act as President, and MM. Thiers and Berryer as Vice- Presidents. Five Bonapartists are to be admitted into the Committee ; the remaining "c*s are to be com posed of Legitimists and the friends of the Regency. It has been agreed on by the chiefs of these parties that any candidate approved of by the committee shall obtain all the votes the united parties can influ ence. PRUSSIA. The election of Members of the Second Chamber took place at Berlin on the sth. The result was fa vourable to the Opposition party, six of their candi dates having been chosen ; three of them were each elected in two districts. The names of the Deputies nominated are—M. Waldeck, M. Behrend, M. Rod bertus, M. Jacoby, M. Temme, and M. Philips. The number Gf Deputies for Berlin is nine ; in conse quence of the double election of three of the above names, three new elections will have to be made. _ Several Prussian journals, of the 3d, state that the Ambassadors of Russia and Austria have received instructions to demand their passports in the event of the king of Prussia accepting the Imperial crown ; and a Berlin letter, of the same date, says, on what it represents to be good authority, that the English Ambassador has received orders to protest formally if that eventuality should occur. The German Reform of Berlin, of the 3d, says, that the state of siege will not be raised until after the adoption by the new Chamber of laws on the right of association and the liberty of the press. In consequence of protests made by different elec toral meetings against the expulsion from Berlin of M. Rodbertus, General Wrangel has consented to allow-him to return to that city. BAVARIA. The Address just voted by the second Chamber of the States of Bavaria, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, speaks with great energy in favour of the unity of Germany, and against the separatist tendencies attributed to the Bavarian Government. The Chamber declares that the unity of Germany ought to be founded, not only upon institu tions common to all the States, and which shall guarantee the freedom of all the people, but also on a Constitution, which shall combine in an indissoluble manner all the German tribes, without exception, in one strong and respected Confedera tion. It adds that it is only by conforming freely and unreservedly with the new spirit which exists in all classes of society, and sub mitting implicitly to the resolutions of the Ger man Assembly, and the central Government, that lasting tranquillity and prosperity can be secured to the German people. Finally, it recognises the vali dity of the law on fundamental rights adopted by the National Assembly. As regards Bavaria, the Chamber demands a really responsible Ministry, the carrying out of the representative system in all the branches of the public ssrvice, and a liberal organiza tion of the communes. The First Chamber has adopted an address to the same effect. ITALY. The Alba of Florence announces‘ that the Chamber of Deputies had an extraordinary sitting on the 31st ult., in consequence of a dispatch of the Minister of Finance. A panic had seized the holders of the Bank of Leghorn notes, who had repaired in crowds to the Bank to get them cashed. The Bank had consequently been in the impossibility of meet ing all demands, and of discounting bills for the end of the month. The Chamber of Commerce of Leghorn, alarmed at this state of things, had applied to the Minister of Finance to present a Bank Restriction Bill to the Chambers. The Bill has been accordingly Presented; it limits the restriction to bills exceeding 200 livres, and fixes the time of the restriction to March 10. The Chamber retired to the bureaux to examine the Bill, but, on their resum ing the sitting, the Minister of Finance withdrew the B:11. On the preceding day the Chamber had adopted the Bill for the election of Tuscan representatives to the Constituent Assembly vt Rome. TATTERSALL'S—THIS EVENING Six o'Ciocx. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASE. 10 to 1 agst The Curate 12 to 1 agst Prince George 15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynn() METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Cron zou 10 to 1 agst Lugar 16 Eq . ! agst Clzais.tn. CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 cyst The Tartar 25 to 1 agst Joc o' Sot 50 to 1 agst Peep o' Day Boy 50 to 1 agst Ratbnaines 50 to 1 D i git Lady W ildair 50 to 1 agst Ballinafad DERBY. 50 to 1 sgst Flambeau's dam Betting very flat. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Fiye o'clock. TRANSPORTATION. Lord CAMPBELL introduced a Bill for the abolition of the punishment of transportation for the crime of simple larceny, which was read a first time. The Noble Lord also laid upon the table certain returns showing the recent convictions which had taken place of persons charged with the same crime. ENGROSSING BILLS. The LORI) CHANCELLOR informed the House that the Committee appointed to consider the system of engrossing Bills with a view to its amendment had met and agreed to a report, which ho begged to lay upon their Lordships' table. On the motion of the NOBLE LORD the report was ordered to be printed. REAL ESTATES. Lord BROUGHANI introduced a Bill to facilitate the sale and conveyance of real estates, which was read a first time. HIGHWAYS. Earl ST. GERMANS wished to know from the Noble President of the Council, whether it wos the in tention of her Majesty's Government to introduce any Bill this session tor improving er amending the law re lating to the management of highways? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the subject, although a very complicated one, at present engaged the serious attention of the Home- office, and a Bill was in preparation, if it had not actually been introduced into the other House. EDUCATION. I In reply to a question from Lord STANLEY, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE s a id the cort:espond ence which had been , going on b e t ween t h e Government and the National Society on the subject of the educa tional grants had not IRI: y 4-1 POOR LAW been brought W to a close. . Lord FARNIa.vI presented a petition f r o m t h e grand jury of Roscomm on, praying for an amendment of the Irish Poor-law. The Earl of MOUNTCASIIEL presented a petition to the same effect. RETURNS. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid upon the table returns connected Kith the Marsbalsea and Palace Courts, and papers relating to the expenses of the Dublin police, and of the Ecclesiastical Commission. NAVIGATION-LAWS. In reply to a question from Earl W ALDEGRAVE, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, in consequence of the Earl of Hardwick, who had accepted a command, and other Noble Lords who were members of the Com mittee appointed last session on the navigation-laws, it was not his intention to move for the renewal of that committee, but if any other Noble Lord thought proper to move it he did not think he should feel it to be his duty to oppose the motion. Lord IiitOUGHAM wished io correct an erronious impression which had gone abroad, that Lord Hard wick had obtained his command through his influence in the Government. It was no such thing. This Noble Earl had obtained his promotion entirely through merit, and not by the influence of the Government. The Marquis of LANDSDOWNE begged to confirm what had fallen from the Noble and Learned Lord. The command of his ship had been gieen to Lord Hard wick, because his services and the rules of the profes sion entitled him to the promotion. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. 11. WILLYANS took the oaths and his seat for Truro. THE ADDRESS. Mr. LASCELLES, the Comptroller of the Royal House hold, appeared at the bar, and stated that her Majesty bad been pleased to return the following most gracions answer to the Address :—" I thank you for your loyal and dutiful address, and I rely with con fidence on your co-operation with me in advancing the welfare and h a p p i ness o f m y people, whose interest it is my constant care to promote." EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. Mr. BROTHERTON moved that in the case of the Eastern Counties Railway cowrany and Newmarket Railway Company Amalgamation Bill, the standing order, No. 150, be dispensed with; and that leave be give❑ to present the petition for the Bill,, notwithstand ing the same was not presented within three char days after the first sitting of the House, subsequent to the en dorsement of the said petition by the examiner.— Agreed to. COMMITTEE OF SELECTION. Mr. WILSON PATTEN nominated the Committee of Selection as followa :—Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Greene, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Evelyn Denison, and the Chairman of the Committee on Standing Orders. EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN RAILWAY. Mr. FOX MAULE moved that the Edinburgh and Northern Railways Bills (A, B, and C), and the petition of proprietors of the Halbeath and Townhill Railways, against the same, be referred to the Select Committee on Standing. Orders.—Agreed to. INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. Mr. WARD presented two petitions from a Unitarian body at Sheffield in favour of international arbitration. COMMITTEE OF ELECTIONS. The following Members were sworn at the table to form the general,Committee of Elections : Mr. Fox Maule (Chairman), Mr. Thornely, Sir G. Clerk, Sir J. Yarde 13u11er, Sir Robert Ferguson, and Mr. 'Wilson Patten. The Committee will meet at three o'clock to-morrow. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1849. PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Mr. E WART gave notice that he would move, that day fortnight, for the appointment of a Select Com mittee to consider the best means of establishing and promoting public libraries throughout the country. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. The HON. MEMBER also gave notice that he would take the earliest opportunity to bring in a Bill for the total abolition of the punishment of death. NAPLES AND SICILY. Mr. URQUHART postponed his motion, to the effect that the interference of her Majesty's servants in the recent affairs of Naples and Sicily was contrary to the law of nations, but intimated that he should take an early opportunity of putting a question with reference to the time when the dispatches would be laid on the table of the House, which hitherto had not been placed in the hands of Hon. Members. TOLERATION ACT. Mr. BOUVERIE gave notice that he would move that day fortnight that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House to consider the Act commonly known as the Toleration Act, with a view to its amendment. IRELAND. Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice that on Monday, the 26th day February, he should submit a formal resolution to the House, that the laws relating to landed property in Ireland, as affecting landlord and tenant, required immediate consideration, with the view to such au alteration of them as would remove the obstacles at presect existing to the improvement of the soil. IRISH I:ISTRESS. Mr. P. SCROPE said, when the House went into Committee upon the Relief (Ireland) Bill, he should withdraw his amendment until the Committee had de termined in favour of the vote of 50,000/. He should then move that the money be advanced as a loan, the pay ment to be secured by a lien upon the land, and that the money be expended,' as tar as practicable, towards the employment of the able-bodied poor. TESTATOR AND INTESTATE DEBTS. Mr. MULLINGS wished to ask the Solicitor General if it is the intention of her Majesty's Government, or the law officers of the Crown, to bring in any Bill during the present session, for the protection of trustees against secret or unknown debts and liabilities of their testator or intestate, after having parted with the assets to be administered prior to notice of such debts and liabilities. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said there was no intention at present to introduce a measure of the kind referred to. BUCKINGHAM ASSIZES. Mr. DU PRE said that, in consequence of an intima tion from her Majesty's Attorney-General, he begged to give notice, that he should postpone the motion which he had intended to move to-night, for repealing tho Act of 21 Geo. 11., cap. 12, for holding the assizes for the county of Buckingham in a more convenient place, till a future period. RANK OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRE. LATES IN THE COLONIES. Sir R. H. INGLIS in the course of the Last session of Parliament had given notice that early in the present session he should move for a copy of the correspondence which had passed between the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire land and Earl Grey, Secretary for the Colonies, respecting the rank of the Roman Catholic Prelates in the colonies of Great Britain. The motion to which he had to call the attention of the House wits that a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that copies of the correspondence which had passed between the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire land and Earl Grey, the Secretary for the Colonies should be laid on the table of that House. Whether the matter deserved regret, or not he wished to speak with the greatest possible respect of the Earl of Clarendon, but regret he could not help for that nobleman having spoken in a way which he, at least, conceived to be most ucadvisable. He wished to speak of the Earl of Clarendon with the utmost respect—a respect which ho had well earned by his conduct in Ireland, but yet not es ithstanding his great respect for that high functionary he could not but say that he was totally at a loss to understand on what principles he had acted in the matter which he had brought under the consideration of the House. It was well under stood that the Roman Catholic prelates in Ireland were, according to the Act of Parliament, to take rank next after the prelates of the same denomination in the Protestant Church. This he could well understand, but on what grounds the Lord-Lieutenant had in terfered on e the subject of persons not at all under his jurisdiction he could not comprehend. So far from that, the word bishop was never mentioned in the course of the whole Act. It was most remarkable that there should be such a stretch of imagination as to assume that there was oue single word in that Act of Parliament in which such an allegation was found.— (Hear, hear.) The fact was, that the Lord-Lieutenant and the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies had never read one word of this Act of Parliament, or had forgot if they had. They assume that the Gazette ' had followed the Act of Parliament. The Gazette did announce that certain persons should be commissioners in a certain order, but it did not imply that the persons so named should take rank according to the order in which their names appeared. These matters must be considered matters which a wise man would not much care about, viz., questions of precedence. In point of tact, a man did not take rank in civil life according to his mere position in the rate-book. The real au thority which a man derived was the rank which he derived from his principles, his talents, end his virtues. His (Sir R. Inglis's) objection was not even to the person recognised as an Archbishop or Bishop of the Church of Rome having such a rank as her own communion might be willing to concede to them ; his complaint was, that the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland had suggested, and the Secretary of the Colonial Department had adopted, the principle of transfer ring from the Queen what property belonged to her Majesty as the fountain of honour, but which had no existence whatever in the dispatch of the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State did not invoke her Majesty's aid on the occasion. He (Sir Robert Inglis) felt in the presence of the Attorney and Solicitor- Goner al, that even between herself, if her sign manual had been prefixed to any order of the kind, he doubted whether the Queen herself could have given the precedence which was now claimed by the Secretary of State. lie believed no rank could be assigned by the Queen to the disparagement of the rank assigned to an individul by an Act of Parlia ment or by long usage. It was beyond the competence of the Crown to create an order, for example, between a Viscount and an Earl. If that was so, it was as much without the competence of the Crown to create an order which should take precedence between a Bishop of our Church and a Viscount. And that which induced him most especially to cell the attention of the House to this subject was, that this recognition of authority at this time was a recognition of autho rity which this country had for three centuries invariably repudiated and disowned. It was the recog nition of authority in the see of Rome of placing in her Majesty's dominions without her Majesty's authority a class of individuals in matters of pre cedence above that of the Queen's own subjects. lie contended that the Imperial Crown of England being held by a communicant of the Protestant Church, that wherever her Majesty exercisied her dominion, that Church must be considered as established.—(Hear, eo hear. Il e contended also that the efforts of all g a h n t d to he be thought a miniature tor thate r ought to be di recte d not for emigration, but for colo nization, hear.) ishco lonell and that those who went out to those Colonies ought ought to enjoy the same privileges with respect to spiritual conso l at i on which they would have done if they had been at home. It appeared s to him to be an u nwarrantable Lieutenant of Irelando makeu t f ie gstion of the Lord proposition done to the Noble Earl th e Colonist SecreaeYlle wished had to know whether the Gov ernment adopted the letter or not; if they did adopt the letter and said it was not the tfct of Lord Grey, but that of the Cabinet, then he wished to know whether they had her Majesty's sanction for it. If, on the other hand, they told him that there was no such dispatch from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to Earl Grey, th en he ventured to think whatever blame might be removed from the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, was cast with double force upon the Noble Earl the Secretary o f State for the Colonies. From the communications be had received he believed great blame attached to the Noble Earl ; he had thrown new elements into the colonies, and especially at Sydney, for there he had carried out his object at th expense of one of the greatest bishops that had ever been sent out to the colonies. The Hon. Baronet concluded by moving an humble address to her Majesty, for a copy of the letter or memorial of the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland to Earl Grey on the subject of the rank of persons mentioned as Prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, to which communication the Earl Grey adverted in his Circular De patch of the 20th day of November, 1847. Mr. BANKS seconded the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to say that there was nothing in the dispatch appertaining to the rank to be held by Roman Catholic archbishops • that, th • therefore, no geed could result from agreeing to such a memorial The Bequest memorial, beca use no return could be made io it. Act certainly did not give title to any to Roman Catholic Prelates, but the Archbishops and s Bishops, w ere generally designated by th e ti t les of " Most Rev eren d," "Ri ght Re vered " and "Your Grace." Lord Grey thought that what was done in Ireland, might very properly be followed in the colonies. The ma tt er , however, did not appear to him to be a question of any great importance, and he could cot conceive that there w a s any neceseity for the House to take any proceedings with reference to it —Uzi ear, hear.) The only reply he could give, therefore, lo the Hon. Member for Ox.tord was, that no such letter existed in the Colcnial-(,ffice. • _ . Mr. GOULBURN said it was complained that the Roman Catholic Church had placed an Arch bishop where the Protestant Church had only a bishop. —(lean) The consequence of the letter referred to was to give a priority to the Roman Catholics, instead of the Protestant Church; and it was further complained that the Legislature had laid down a rule which sanc tioned such aproceeding. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL said that it was surprising that the Hon. Baronet, who evidently recognised the position of the several sects in Scotland, and who had distinctly stated that the Bishops should be addressed by the titles of the several sees, which they held should feel any difficulty in giving to the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland the dignity to which they were especially entitled. Ile would beg to assure the House that the Roman Catholic prelates felt it to be no compliment to be addressed after the name of the sfie over which they preside. Archbishop Murray, like many of his countrymen, looked very lightly, he could assure the House, upon the privilege of being called Archbishop Murray of Dublin, and the claims of the Roman Catholic Bishopi in the Colonies rested on too strong grounds to be denied. He regretted that the Noble Lord at the head of the Treasury bad thrown any slight upon them for according to a bull of Pius IX.; those prelates only asked for precedence according to their appointment, and it did seem strange to him that if the primate of this country had power to appoint bishops in the colonies, the head of the Roman Church should be denied the privilege of appointing his own suffragans in Ireland. The Roman Catholic was the ancient Church, and therefore they who differed from her were the Dissenters. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Hon. Gentleman had quite misunderstood him, for he had said just the reverse. He had always acknowledged the claims of the ancient Roman Catholic Church, and was very far from speaking of its members as Disseaters. Mr. PLUMPTRE wished to ask the Noble Lord whether he was right in the apprehension that the Roman Catholic Bishop at Sidney took precedence of the Bishop who was appointed by the Anglican Church? A complaint had already been made respecting this in fraction of the rights of the Church, especially as it was understood to have taken place with his Lordship's sanction. Lord J. RUSSELL did not think that countenance to any such report had emanated from him. He had in fact never said anything respecting precedence between the Protestant and Roman Catholic Bishops at Sidney. A complaint had been made through the proper officials certainly, and the dress which the Roman Catholic Archbishop wore had been shown him, but the only answer which he could make was that he did not at all know he could interfere with the kind. Of dress which the Roman Catholic Archbishop chose to wear in his own church. Sir R. INGLIS wished, in the first instance, to set himself right with the Hon. Member near him (Mr. J. O'Connell). He had stated that there was no word in the Act of Parliament which justified the application of the word " person" as au enfranchisement from its penalties ; but in speaking of the Roman Catholic hierarchy he never intended to use it in an offensive or degrading sense. He was only anxious, so far as the Bishop of Sydney was concerned that the term " Me tropolitan" should be properly defined. If the answer to the address was " Nil" he should be satisfied. THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. EWART rose to ask the Secretary of State for the Horne Department, whether there was any objection to lay before the House the evidence taken by the Com missioners appointed to inquire into the constitution and management of the British Museum. Sir GEORGE GREY said, in reply, that part of the evidence would be laid on the table of the House. IRISH POOR-LAW COMMITTEE. Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE moved that the Select Committee upon the Irish Poor-law do consist of twenty-one Members, and that the following Members be Members of the said Committee: —Lord John Russell, Sir James Graham, Sir John Young, Colonel Dunne, Mr. George A. Hamilton, Sir William Somerville, Mr. Scrope, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Clements, Mr. Shafto Adair, Mr. Cornewall Lewis, Mr. Monsell, Sir Denham Norreys, Sir John Peking ton, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Sharman CraN. ford, Mr. Fagan, Mr. O'Flaherty, Major Blackall, and Mr. Stafford. Mr. HENRY said, he, for his part, would have no ob jection to the Committee, if the Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Somerville) would withdraw the name of one Hon. Mem ber.—(Loud cries of " Name, name.") He would have no objection to the Committee if the Hon. Baronet would withdraw the name of Mr. Bright, the Hon. Member for Manchester.—(Laughter.) Mr. GRACE said, as the representative of one of the western counties of Ireland, he felt himself called on to express his strong objection to the Committee which had been proposed. He thought it was but just and lair that that part of Ireland ;which was universally acknowledged to be in the worst and most distressing situation in Ireland should be represented in that Committee; but they were not so represented. It was but fair that those who were oppressed and galled by the unfortunate working of that system in that coun try should have an opportunity of making it known to the Committee and have all its errors rectified. Mr. FIT ZSTEPHEN FRENCH also complained of the constitution of the Committee. How was it con stituted? There was a very strong preponderance, on the part of Ministers, of persons officially connected with the Government. He found, in addition to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, the name of Mr. Cornwall Lewis, an ex- Secretary of Poor-laws, and others connected in some way with the Government. That was the sort of Ministerial staff that was to enter into an inquiry of this kind.—(Bear, hear.) But that was not all. There were the names of Sir John Pakington, Mr. Staffbrd, and Mr. Sharman Crawford. One part of Ireland—namely, Ulster—where the system worked nearly as well as in this coun try, was carefully and well represented.—(Heir.) Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. Shafto Adair, and Mr. Sharman Crawford were chosen to represent that part of the country. He found, on the other hand, the county of Limerick almost totally unrepresented He found that two Members had been chosen on the Committee who were absent from the House that night—Sir D. Norreys and Mr. Hamilton. In his opinion, in an inquiry of this description it was not only necessary that the inquiry should be impartial, but it should be so regarded by the people of Ireland. Several of the most im portant parts of Ireland were left unrepresented in the selection of this Committee Cork was left unrepre sented, while Limerick had two Members on the Com mittee. Sir G. GREY said thatevery:one who knew anything of appointing Committees knew the difficulty there was in forming them so as to please every one, and that difficulty had been greatly felt in the present instance ; he thought that some of the representations of the Hon. Member, who had spoken last, were not correct. Every attempt had been made to obtain gentlemen of experience on the Committee, and he thought it would be highly desirable that his Noble Friend at the head of the Government should be one of its Members. He believed that the doubts of the Hon. Member as to the effec tive working of the Committee, and its giving satisfaction or Ireland were totally without foundation. The Gen tlemen that had been chosen f r the Committee had taken great interest in the subject, and were certainly, in his opinion, the best persons for the Committee. Colonel DUNNE admitted that Government must have had considerable difficulties in settling this Com mittee, but he could not help feeling that the landed in terest was not duly represented in it. Sir ROBERT PEEL suggested to the Noble Lord the propriety of re-considering the Committee, and con senting to an extension to the number of its Members, rather than exclude any interest. Mr. SADLIER thought it worth while considering the question of adding to the committee the representa tives of the two large counties of Mayo and Roscommon. He, however, agreed that it was of great importance that the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Northamptonshire should remain on the Committee, for to a knowledge of the defects of the Irish Poor-laws he superadded a knowledge of the working of a similar law in this country. Mr. J. O'CONNELL saw no reason to confine the Committee to 21 Members, and he, therefore, agreed with the Hon. Member who had just addressed them, that it was highly desirable that ;the counties of Mayo and Roscommon should be represented on the committee. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said Government would con sent to an increase of the Committee if the House would agree to the names already on the list. Mr. MANSELL in that case would recommend that some Scotch Member should be placed on it. Nr. CHRIS TOPHER, protested that there was no necessity whatever for such a step. The name of Lord J. Russeil was then added to the Committee. Mr. GROGAN praposed the substitution of the name of Sir Lucius O'Brien fsr that of Mr. P. Scrope, and Lord Lincol for Sir James Grabam. Mr. HENRY gave notice that to-morrow he would move that Mr. Bright's name be added to the Com mittee. Mr. GROGAN then moved the omission of Mr. P. Scrope's name; and The gallery was cleared for a division, when the num bers were— Against the motion For it ... ... ... ... 119 ••• ... 44 ••• - Majority ... —75 Mr. P. Scrope's name is therefore retained on the list. The other business on the paper w•as then disposed of, and the House adjourned. DEATH or THE MARCHIO NESS o ) DOWAGER OF DONEGAL.—We are call e d upon announce the demise of the above noble lady, who expir e d r esidence in Chesham-place, after ashort illness. at her rd Her Ladyship was the daughter of the late Si r E Bart., and married George Augustus, second MarquiswaMay, Donegal, father of the present Peer, in August, 1 95 of SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday evening about half past six o'clock, a middle-aged man, named Philip Hughes, suddenly dropped down dead at Castle Bank Grassmarket. He had left his own house in the neigh bourhood about a quarter of an hour previously, and apparently in good health.—Caledonian Mercury.. SALMON FIsHINGs.—The tacksmen of the Stirling fishings, and those of Blairdrummond and Craigforth began their season at twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, and had their boats on the water until six o'clock on Thursday evening, but we are sorry to say without any success—not a single fish having been killed. This may be attributed to the late heavy floods, and we hope may not prove to be a criterion of the success which may y e t a tt en d our fishings for the year.—Stirling Journal, EASTERN ARCHIPELAGO COM- PANY, A comdany has been recently incorporated under this title by Royal chart( r, for acquiring, holding, settling, and cultivating the land and the produce of the island of Labuan, which has been fcrmaily taken possession of by the Crown of Great Britain and lands adjacent (Borneo), for working mines therein, and raising coals, stones, ores, minerals, and metals. The company is to be in every respect a trading com pany; and, by a treaty entered into by the British Go- Government with the Sultan of Borneo, many highly important advantages are permaaently secured to this country. Labuan, now subject to British dominion, forms an essential link in the chain of our eastern set tlements, from Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, to Hong-Kong; and its proximity to Manilla, Siam, CoL hin- China, Hainan, Java, Sumatra, Celebes, &c., renders the discovery of an abundant supply of excellent coal at Labuan, and on the mainland of Borneo, in the immediate vicinity of Labuan, of great importance to steam navigation in the eastern seas. The expense of coaling steamers trading to the east is at present very heavy, the average cost being 335. per ton, while the 'mime cost of Borneo coal put on board vessels in the Borneo river is estimated aticss than 3s. 6d. per ton. It is stated that the directors of the Peninsular elm Oriental Company are now willing to receive at Singapore or Hong Kong supplies of Labuan coal; if at Singapore, at 31s. 3,1 per ton ; and if at Hong Kong, at 365. 3d. ; and there is the strongest ground fur anticipating that the future contracts with the Peninsular and Oriental Company will be very extensive. The annual consumption of Labuan coal, including supplies tor steam-vessels sta in - acre, and for the coal depots at touching distant from Labuan, 707 miles ; Hong Kong, 1,009 ; M an ill a , 650, i s es ti mate d toe s d i n gi o a r op ioigre, , to be, for the steam vessels of her Majesty's navy, 5,000 tons; East India Company, 5,000 tons; Peninsu lar and Oriental Company, 12,000 tons; India and Australia Mail Steam Packet Company, 4,000 tons ; Canton Steam Navigation Company, 4,000 tons ; Philippine Spanish Government, 6,000 tors ; Dutch navy, 5,000 tons ; British and foreign merchant service, 6,000 tons e-atotal, 47,000 tons. Her Majesty's Government have contracted to pay 13s. 6d. per ton (including royalty) for coals supplied at La buan for her Majesty's navy. The offer of the Penin sular and Oriental Company, however, shows that far more advantageous terms are obtainable from other consumers of Labuan coal ; so that, taking the average profit at only 7s, 6d. per ton on the above esti mated supply .(irrespective of any supply for the coal depots at Malacca, Penang, Calcutta, Madras, Ceylon, and Bombay) the promoters of ,the company calculate that the clear annual gain on this portion of the coal operations alone would exceed 17,0004 This working of coal, however, though an essential part of the company's plans, as offering at once a secure and sure return for the capital to be invested, does not appear to be that which is likely ultimately to be the most remunerative ; as, from a work recently published by Mr. Low, formerly pri vate secretary to Sir James Brooke, K.C.8., and now _colonial secretary of Labuan, it appears that Borneo pro duces antimony ore, iron; tin, nickel, quicksilver, and gold, while " the diamonds of Burned have long been celebrated as equal to or from India or Brazel in abund ance and beauty." As " run for gold " seems now to be the motto of a large portion of the cemmu ally in consequence of the recent discoveries in Cafifornia, we may lay before our readers the fol lowing extract relative to the gold mines of Borneo (which will now be easily accessible to our countrymen) from the work of Sir Stamford Raffles on that coun try:—" From a calculation recently made, it appears that the number of Chinese employed in the gold mines at Montrada and other places on the western side of Borneo amounts to not less than 32,000 working men. When a mine affords no more than four bengkals (weighing about two dollars each, or something less than a tahil) per man in the year, it is reckoned a losing concern, and abandoned accordingly. Valuing the bengkal at eighteen Spanish dollars, which is a low rate of estimation, and supposing only four bengkals pro duced in the year by the labour of each man, the total produce is 128,000 beegkals, worth 2,224,000 Spanish dollars, equal to 556,000 L, at the rate et five shillings the dollar. But it is asserted that upon the general run of the mines, seldrm less than six bengkals per head has been obtained, and, in very rainy seasons, seven. Taking the medium at six and a-hal bengkals, the 32,000 Chinese will procure 208,000 bengkals, which, at eighteen Spanish doll a r s the bengkal, is 3,744,000 Spanish dollars, equal to 936,000!. Such is the result of a very moderate calcu lation of the produce of these mines. According to an estimate made in the year 1812, the annual produce of the mines on the west coast of Borneo was esti mated at 4,744,000 Spanish dollars, being an ex cess of a million sterling. The quantity of gold pro cured in Sumatra, the supposed golden Cbersonesns of the ancients, is, according to Mr. Marsden, about 30,800 ounces, which, at 4L sterling the ounce, is worth 123,200/., equal to 492,800 Spanish dollars. It is calculated that, one year with another, at least 500 Chinese ret urn in the junk s t o their native country with a competency. Several have been known to take away 1,000 bongkals of gold, many from 100 to 500 ; but very few return before they have cleared a competency of 2,000 dollars, or from 100 to 120 tahils of gold. This goes partly in gold, though they prefer investing a part of it in tin from Banks, opium, and other articles. Say, however, that they remit one half in gold: 5,000 men, at 1,000 dollars each, will give 500,000 dollars, which, added to small fatuity remittances, accounts for an amount exceeding 1,000,000 dollars, or 250,000/. The cal culation, however, seems to be far within the mark, and gives less by one-half than what is u s ually stated to be remitted to China from the Bornean mines, which has been estimated, at a loose guess, at 2,000,000 dollars, or 500,000/. A further amount of not less than the value of 1,000,000 dollars, or 250,0001., is supposed to find its way annually to 'Western India, and principally to Bengal, via Batavia, Malacca, and Penang, for the purchase of opium and piece-goods. The surplus en riches Java, and some of the other islands, in exchange for salt, tobacco, coarse cloths, &v." Mr. Macgregor, M.P., late Secretary of the Board of Trade, is the chairman, and as it is incorporated under royal charter, it is but fair to presume that every care has been taken for the protection of the shareholders. POLICE 11•41'ELLIUENCE. MARYLEBONE. Robert Frost, a guard on the Great Western Railway, was placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, charged with having stolen a quantity of haberdashery, &c., from a package which was left at the Reading station on the 25th ult., and also with having stolen valuable property belonging to the Earl of Craven from a package which, amongst a number of others, was on the 10th November last sent to the Shrivenham Sta• tion, to be conveyed to his Lordship's seat, Combe Abbey, near Coventry. Mr. Justine, from the office of Maples and Co., solici tors, Old Jewry, and Mr. Collard, superintendent of the railway company's police, attended as before on the part of the prosecution. Mr. Justins called additional witnesses in support of the charge, and addressed the magistrate upon the whole of the facts adduced in the course of the inquiries which had been gone into, and he trusted that enough had been shown aga inst the prisoner t o j ust if y hi s wors hi p i n send ing him before a jury. Mr. Collard remarked that four other trains, of which prisoner was guard, h a d l ate l y b een robbed of property. The prisoner was asked if he had anything to say, when a solicitor, by v. horn he was dt fended, said, " lie has nothing to say in exculpation of himself as to what he is charged •with now, but I am instructed by him to state that he means to criminate another of the com pany's officers, who is not present." Mr. BaoucwroN observed that he would have an op portunity of doing so at the Old Bailey, and committed him for trial. We have been requested to state that the prisoner is not Robert Miles Frost, in the service of the Great Western Railway: the latter bears a most excellent character, is respectably connected in Devonshire, and is now at the railway stati(n. WORSHIP-STREET. Anne Mallandine, a squalid and wretched-looking young woman, in an advanced state of pregnancy, was placed at the bar before Mr. Hammill, charged with having attempted to murder her son, a boy seven years of age, by throwing him into the Regent's Canal, and also to destroy herself. Mr. John Stoddart, a clerk in the service of an ex tensive builder, named Palmer, at Haggerstone, stated that he was standing outside his employer's counting house, within a few yards of the canal, at four o'clock on the preceding afternoon, when he observed the pri soner grasping her boy tightly by the hand and forcing him across the towing-path in the direction of the water. The little fellow, who was: evidently muck ter rified, appeared struggling to release himself, and re peatedly called out, " Don't, mother, don't," but the pri soner continued to drag him on till they reached the edge of the bank, when she suddenly caught him up in her arms, and flung him into the canal. The prisoner then rapidly divested herself of her shawl, and was in the act of untying her bonnet, when witness rushed for ward and seized her, and a friend having come up at the moment, he consigned her to his charge. He then hastened to the side of the canal, and finding that the boy was completely exhausted with his struggles, which had carried him some distance from the bank, witness instantly plunged into the water, and having fortunately reached him as he was on the point of sinking, succeeded in getting him out, and directed his instant removal to an adjoining public-house, where he speedily recovered from the effects of the immersion. On questioning the prisoner as to her motive for such an unnatural act, she replied that her son and herself were both starving, and had not broken their fast since the preceding morning. The prisoner was thereupon given into custody, and the poor boy was removed to the workhouse. A lad named John Wilding corroborated the forego ing evidence, and added that the prisoner in the first instance endeavoured to lure the boy to the bank, by showing him some ducks that were swimming in the water; but as be hung back in evident anticipation of her design, she at once resorted to the forcible means described by the last witness to effect her inhuman object. Police-constable Heath, N 428, stated that upon taking her into custody, the prisoner expressed her re gret that the assistance afforded by the witnesses had not arrived a few minutes later, as she wou:d then have been spared the trouble of going before a magistrate or anybody Else. On being asked if she wished to say anything, the prisoner, who was dreadfully agitated, replied in a faint voice in the negative. Mr. HAmme directed the depositions to be at once made out, and after eulogising the intrepid and praise worthy conduct of Mr. Stoddart, which had been the means of saving two lives, ordered the prisoner to be committed to Newsgo le; INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI- VEERS. THURSDAY, FED. 6.---JuAua Field, Esq., President, in the Chair.—The paper read was a " Description of the Abattoirs of Paris," by Mr. R. B. Gn.tritham, M. I❑st. C. E. The subject was treated of chiefly in connexion with the sanitary questio❑, at present occu pying so much attention; the author being of cpinion Ghat much public benefit would be derived from the intro duction of similar establishments into the City of London. The paper commenced by pointing out the adventuges resulting from the method,in which the butcher's trade was carried on in Paris. It was stated that this trade was regulated by a number of restrictive enactments, a❑d conducted under the controul of a Syndicate or Guild, who advised with the Government upon all Ties- Lions relating to the abattoirs and markets. It appeared from the account, that, previous to the opening of the Abattoirs, in .1818, slaughter-houses ex isted in the crowded and populous districts of the city; and that (as at present in London,) the passage ot the cattle through the streets, and the conse quent nuisances, were found to be intolerable. The fire Abattoirs were designed with great care, to obviate these evils, and were generally allowed to have fully accomplished the purposes for which they had been constructed; they had been of great public service, in rendering Paris free from those nuisance, which were still pet mitti d to exist as such blots on the general clean liness of the City of London. The Abattoirs were erected within the Barriers, op pesite Montmartre, Mentl-Montant, Grenelle, Du Boole, and Ville Juif; at an average distance of a mile, and three quarters from the centre of the city. The paper, which was accompanied by detailed plans of each Abattoir, and a general drawing of their arrange ment, described minutely :their construction, as well as the mode of slaughtering the cattle, the melting the tallow, and other details connected with the trade car ried on therein. All the buildings were stated to be abundantly supplied with water, well ventilated, and kept in the highest state of cleanliness. Tables were given of the number of cattle, sheep, and pigs killed, and the amount of tallow melted during the last four years; and a statement was appended, from which it appeared that the revenue (derived from tolls, charged upon all the meat killed, at per kilogramme, amounted during one year to 47,608 L les., that the total expenses were 4,9581. 125., leaving a profit to the city of Paris of 42,6501. 45., or about 6i per cent. upon 680,0001., the original cost of all these establishments. The paper argued that if this revenue was obtained from the tolls, for slaughtering meat for a population not exceeding one million souls, who did not consume anything like the amount of animal food that Englishmen habitually indulge in, how much greater would be the profit of such establishments for London, where there was a population nearly approaching three millions of souls, in whose behalf such strenuous exertions were now making for the increase of sanitary regulations and more ample supplies of water, and everything tending to wards a higher state of cleanliness and health. In the discussion which ensued, and in which Mr. E. Chadwick, Professor Owen, Messrs. Leslie, May, Allen, Ifansome, Elliott, Armstrong, and others, took part, very interesting statistical facts were given, in connexion with the present state of the Smithfield Market, and the evils attendant upon the animals being driven through the streets, and then killed in a state of fever, when the blood was in a condition to induce rapid decomposition of the meat, and render it unfit for food. In proof of this, it was stated that, in the summer, quantities of fine meat were frequently obliged to be thrown by the butchers upon the offal heap, within 30 hours from the time of the animals being slaughtered— putrescence being so rapidly induced by the deleterious atmosphere of the slaughterhouse pervading the place where the meat was kept. Among the numerous advantages of a new and spa cious establishment, like that of Islington Market, to which public slaughter-houses are to be attached, would be the direct contact of the cattle-sellers with the butchers, and, by thus avoiding the intermediate profit of the middle men, the latter would be enabled to en abled to sell their meat in better condition, and at a reorereasonable rate, to the public. The present objectionable system of Smithfield ap peared to be upheld merely as a question of revenue to the city, for which the public not only paid heavily, but suffered severely by common anuo) exec, and by the deleterious effect on public health. Modifications of the Paris system were shown to 'be perfectly adapted even to the actual state of the butcher's trade in London; that the internal arrangements of the slaughter-houses would not, in any way, interfere with the employment of the services of the butchers, nor could any inconvenience arise from their congregating together at such places—nor any loss from theft. All these pre ventive arrangements had been fully explained by Mr. Grantham, in his recent " Treatise on Public Slaughter. , houses." The opinion of the meeting appeared to be pointedly in favour of so desirable a measure as the establishment of Islington Market; and hopes were expressed strongly that, by showing to the trade that their interest was so intimately connected with the measure, their co-operation would be obtained, to their own ultimate profit, as well as for the public good. The Papers announced to be read at the meeting of Tuesday, February 13th, were :—No. 788, " On the Coal Field of South Wales;" and No. 799, " An Account of an Explosion of Fire-Damp, at the Euglesbash Colliery, Neath;" by Mr. J. Richardson, M. Inst. C.E, WONDERFUL, IF TRUE.—We translate from the Ncto Orleans Courier of the 3d of January the article that follows, giving an account of a subterranean canal that has been discovered, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. We believe little or nothing of the whole story ourselves, but publish it for the information of those who may believe, if any such there be, and for the amusement of those who do not. It improbably been got up as a hoax, Here it is :—"A French physician established at Vera Paz. who, besides practising medicine, has the charge of ex • tensile) farming estates, upon making some excavations, undertaken with the view of forming a canal through which to carry his produce to the sea, discovered at the bottom of the Bay of Honduras, the open ing of a monumental canal 75 metres wide (about 240 feet), and running in a straight line towards the south-west, its sides being constructed of enormous stones rudely cut. The two walls, which continued parallel, bad been followed to the distance of several leagues. Having reached the foot of the mountain, where the volcano of Fuego is now in activity, and having cut away huge trees that obstructed the en trance, they passed under a vault of 100 metres in height (about 335 feet), and of the same width as the canal. Nothing among the ancient Cyclopean struc tures in Greece could give an adequate idea of the tre mendous masonry of the walls of this vault. The canal was filled with salt water 20 metres deep. Our intrepid countryman did not hesitate to embark with some In dians in a piregue, which he caused to be brought to the spot, and 18 hours afterwards (if his story is to be believed) he entered the great ocean (the Pacific) be tween Guatemala and San Salvador, through an immense nrtural grotto, called by the fisherman of that coast the Devil's Mouth, which superstition had deterred them from over entering. The whole vaulted part of this super human structure was lighted by shifts, cut through to the sur face above, and through its whole extent it is navigable tor the largest ships. M. Alexander Humboldt had al ready mentioned American edifices whose architectu , indicated a very high antiquity, and revealed a peculiar civilisation; but his learned descriptions give us no idea of the existence of such a monument. What great people, then, has inhabited these regions? Should this news be confirmed, then a maritime com munication is at once established between the two hemisphere, through the centre of the American conti nent, and Europe will have nothing to do but to cut through the Isthmus of Suez. Perhaps England will be equally fortunate in the discovery of a monumental canal and a ' superhuman grotto' through the Isthmus of Suez which will connect the Mediterranean and the Arabian Gulf."— Washiu9ton Union WATERFORD, WEXFORD, AND WICKLOW RAIL WAY —Some blasting operations of an extensive cha ratter took place on Saturday last, at Bray Head, where the works for the formation of this railway are in active progress. It was necessary to remove a huge mass of rock, to do which in detail would oc cupy considerable time. The resident engineer, Mr. Purdon, resolved upon effecting it by one great effort, add accordingly three large drifts were made, 25 feet in depth, 5 inches in diameter, and two supple mental ones of smaller dimensions. They were bored 15 feet from the sea-face of the rock, and about 6 feet apart. About 4501b5. weight of gunpowder were used in charging them, the principal part being of the quality known as Government powder, by many per cent. stronger than the ordinary blasting powder. They were connected with a 10-pair battery of Callan's, and after due precaution had been used to guard against accident, they were fired, and an immense displacement of rock was effected. The explosive noise was not loud but rumbling, and the spells were not driven any distance. It was found, on examination after wards that ten feet to the landside of the drifts were carried away, and fissures extended much further, which will enable the workmen to remove the rock with the crow- bar. The length of the rock displaced was 45 feet, the breadth 25 feet, and depth 25 feet, which gives an idea of the cubic contents. Mr. Copeland, the local en gineer, was the operator. Several minor blasts were made, showing the activity with which obstacles formerly consi dered impracticable to be overcome are disappearing. The long tunnel at the southern end of the head can be passed through walking upright. The scene of these most interesting engineering operations is now most worthy of a visie under favourable circumstances of weather; the public will the better be enabled to appre ciate the indomitable courage the engineer has had to face such a field of operations, and how the iron bound coast is falling into the track for civilization and enterprise. The original intention of crossing the deeply indented ravines made by the sea, by means of bridges, is abandoned, and all will now be filled up at an incredibly less amount of expense, and with equal stability, and safety for this great project. The road along the head over the works affords ready access for any pedestrian. On Saturday several ladies and gentleman enjoyed the excitement which a most glorious spring day presented, without reference to the operations is progress for the furtherance of the work of this gigantic undertaking. FIRE AT SAWTRT, HUNTS.—Upwards of 170 per sons have been rendered homeless by the destructive fire which occurred last week. Out of the twenty-seven houses destroyed only half were insured, and the loss to many of the villagers is completely ruinous. A com mittee met on Tuesday, when a subscription was com menced on behalf of the 'sufferers. Amongst the sub scribers are J. M. Heathcote, Esq., 25/.; Rev. G. Heath cote, 201. ; and Mr. Ballard, a gentleman connected with the Great Northern Railway, 10/. The ladies of the parish and neighbourhood, under the superintendence of Mrs. Birch, the lady of the rector, have distributed clothing to those in need. MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN. BY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN. "Notes, notes, tonooth, , and noting!" SIIAKSPEEE. No. VIII. HANDEL. Would any of our modern Musicians have taken as much trouble, or put themselves to as much incon venience as Handel did, who was too conscientious to compose music to words of which he did not fully com prehend the meaning, as is testified by the tollowin ; a anecdote respecting him? One fine morning in summer Dr. Morell, who supplied Handel with the libretti of most of his oratorios, was awoke from " Soft slumber in the arms of Morpheus, Being, in sooth, well tired with Orpheus," by Handel, who at five o'clock arrived in his chariot from his residence, which was at that time a little dis tance from London. The coachman go; off his seat aid gave a thundering knock at the street-door —anottu r— and another, but without arousing the inmates. Hai.d. 1, in a passion, told his servant to continue knocking till sombody came. At len4th the Doctor, who slept heavily and occupied a room in front of the house, poked his head, clad in a nightcap that, like " quills upon the fret ful porcupine," seemed to expand with horror at so un usual a disturbance, out from the window. "A 1 Toe tor!" exclaimed Handel, looking comfortably out of the carriage, "come down, I want to spheag to you!" " %Vili it not do as well now !" returned the vexe.; author. "Nein, nein! I tell you.!" replied the irascible musician," it you vill not come—." He was interrupted by the Doctor, who hastily shut the window, and in a few moments appeared at the door of the chariot. " Now, Mr. Handel," began the Doctor, " what is it you ss ant to speak to me about?" Handel pulled out a manuscript of the latter's, upon which he was at work, and answered, " Vaat de teufel is de meaning of de vord billow'? at the same time, pointing to the word alluded to in the MS. oratorio which the Doctor had written for him. " 13i1- low!" echoed the latter, at, the same time laughing at so ludicrous a motive for disturbing him at such an un seasonable hour, " why it means a wave!" " A wave!" repeated Handel, as if still in doubt. " Yes, a wave— a wave of the sea!" " Ach! do vave of de saa; daat is it, is it?" concluded Handel, and, leaning back in the carriage, bade the coachman return, without addressing another word to the Doctor, who stood in mute surprise for some minutes, halt amused, halt angered by Handel's visit, and contented himself with returning to his bed partly smiling and partly grumbling. EPITHALAMIUMS, Or nuptial songs, according to Horace, Macrobius, Ser vius, &c. (the term epithalamium, afterwards becoming their generic name), were supposed to have been first in usage among the people of Fescenia, an Etruscan city, and by them were denominated, in honour of its name, Fescennince. The poem, .hich con sisted of three strophes, generally recited the pleasures and advantages derived from marriage, but though authorised by the laxity of the Age and supported by custom, was gross and obscene. It was usually chanted by the assembled party at the door, or sometimt s in the open air, in front of the apartment assigned to the newly wedded bride and groom so soon as they had retired. The nuptial songs of the ancient Russians and the Chansons des IV oces of the north of France in times long past evince a wonderful similarity to those of the Greeks on minute examination and comparison. ROSSINI, During the gran maestro's sojourn at Milan on the production of his La l'ietra di Paragone, a youth of nineteen years, named Pettini, possessed of neither fortune or contpxions, but of considerable genius in painting, was gifted with even yet greater-talents for music, and although he had as yet produced nothing before the Milanese public, he was held in high estima tion by a circle of amateurs and friends who doubted not that by his powerful imagination arid earnest en thusiasm he would some day or another b come a master. With ardour and in secrecy he pursued his studies, though he had heard but little of modern music, and none of Rossini's, to which, however, his own style so very nearly approximated that it became, even to his friends, evident. When the opera I have mentioned was produced at the Scala, Pettini at the urgent request of an acquaintance accompanied him thither to witness its representation. Not a word did he utter during the performsnce, and upon quitting the theatre appeared abstracted, silent, and sad. A few days afterwards his friend called upon him, and found him busily employed at his easel, with not a trace of music about the apart ment. " How is this?" questioned he with ant prise. " Ah!" returned Pettini in a tone of indescribable me *ancholy, "you see me thus because I have abandoned music!" "Abandoned music?" echoed his friend with astonishment. " Yes, my dear ," replied Pettini, sadly, "there can be only one composer in that style, and he (meaning Rossini) was horn a few years before me"— Pettini—as all do upon whom the Gods look with eyes of love—died young. PAESIELLO Would frequently tell other composers who were, per haps, not so successful as himself, that his golden axiom was, " Manage your public, and humour their caprices." This reminds me of what Rabelais once said, Perform your appointed task but mediocrely well, never speak anything detrimental of your superiors, and let the lunatic world go as it will, fur, depend on it, it will go its own way." PSALM TUNES. The first set of pialui tunes, which were arranged in parts for different voices, was published in England in 1579 by William Damon, arid bore the follown,g page:—" The Psalms of David in English Meter, with Notes of Four Parts set unto them by Guglielmo Dam n, to the use of the Godly Christians, for recreating them selves imtecle of fonde and unsemely ballades." LATILLA. When this master of counterpoint, who was chief of the Conservatorio de•lla Musica oi Napoli, was asked the question, " How is it that Joccelli, Saccbini, Piccini, Cimarosa, and Paesiello, a►l pupils of one common master, Durante, have not each acquired his style, but all of them present different features in their works?" he replied, and his reply is well worthy of note —" The master of counterpoint cannot form the school or style of a dramatic pupil—all the composers named possessed a natural taste, or form of imagination, which, despite the particular and similar form of study, would guide them to a style adapted to the different bents of their genius; and Durante, though the greatest Master of the Neapolitan School, could not possibly boast pf having formed, but o::ly of having instructed them, and shown them the path which they should pursue!" GASPARINI. Francesco Gasparini was born in the Duchy of Lucca early in the seventeenth century, and after pursuing his studies for some years, went to Rome, where ha soon became celebrated as a composer and harpsichord master. So high was the opinion which the elder Scar latti entertained of his abilities that he confided to his tuitio❑ his son Domenico, then quite a youth. This testimony of respect for, and confidence in, his worth and tatents gave rise to a singular species of correspondence between the two musicians. Gasparani, in the fit st in stance, wrote a cantata in a very learned cud scientific style, worthy of the notice and attention of so great a master, and sent it as a present to Scarlatti iu these words:" Cantata inviata dal Signor Francesco Gasparini al Signor Alessandro Scarlatti." To this musical billet dour Scarlatti replied by another cantata of, if possible, still more learned and difficult character, reversing the dedication, however, thus: 6' Cantata in ri,posta al Signor Gasparini dal Signor Ales. Scarlatti." This reply pro duced in a very little time a rejoinder by Gasparini, who sent to Scarlatti another cantata, in which he dis p'ayed the most abstruse modulation and harmony. Scariatti, determined not to be outdone in this novel kind of correspondence, exhausted every effort in order to produce a composition that should prove a climax to everything, and forwarded to Gasparini a cantata to the same words, in which the combinations are the most ex traneous it is possible to conceive, and the notation the most perplexing—and equivocal to say sooth—that was ever, perhaps, jotted down on paper. This was ad dressed, " Seconds cantata al Signor Gasparini dal Signor Ales. Scarlatti in idea umani, ma in regolo cromatico, ed a per ogni professore." Thus ended their correspondence, for " the force of composition could no turther go." It has been related that Sacchini on beholding this last cantata appeared much struck with its intrinsic merit, and was able to discern its manifold beauties despite its affectation and pedantry. It was this same composition, too, that called forth his well remembered remark, that it was sometimes necessary to look at such music "per non essere sorpreso." What a volume of hidden meaning does this quaint and sar castic observation display—it was well that the fiery old Scarlatti heard it not. SARTI. The glow of Inspiration, that subtle emotion whose sweetly•sad unrest falls o'er the heart and on the brain so strangely, never descended on this great musicia❑ unless he was in a dark room, to which the light of a dim lamp suspended from the ceiling gave a sepulchral and gloomy effect. There, while the dark hours of night travelled slowly on till they were banished by the grey finger of Morning as she prepared to unlock the gates of Day, would Sarti compose, while a solemn stillness reigned around, for then and then only could he collect and strengthen the energies of his mind, in order to produce those musical prodigies (for his Time) which were slumbering like an untreated chaos in his prolific brain. SACCHINI Must have led a very domesticated existence, and we must suppose that he entertained an especial affection for his wife and certain friends of the feline race, for of them it is said he was so fond that he found it actually an impossibility to compose unless the " partner of his bosom" was in close proximity to him, and his favourite gattine froleking about him. A project is in contemplation, we . understand, of bringing Glasgow into direct steam communication with the United States of Americo. A contemporary men• lions that the keel of the first vessel of this line has just been laid down by the Messrs. Denny, Brothers, of Dumbarton. The vessel to be of iron, arid about 1,000 tons burthen. She is to be on the screw principle, and to be fully ship-rigged. The screw will be propelled by the Messrs. Caird, of Greenock. This new steam ship - is intended to ply directly from the Broomielaw.—Glas gozo Post. THE SEVERN.—A great stimulus is likely to be given to the trade of the Severn and the city of Wor cester by the application of a new kind of vessel for trading on the Severn and the coast. The principle of the invention is to adopt sliding keels in stead of fixed ones, so that the vesst ls will draw much less water, and consequently the freight may be in creased from seventy tons to nearly double chat weight as the average class of traders.---Aris's ,Birmingham Gazette, THE COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS, FEB. 6. We are well supplied with wheat ;• the market is fir n at Friday's rates. Barley does not vary from last week. Beans steady. Oats and other articles without material alteration. Average prices of grain: wheat, 3,110 qrs, 46s Id ; barley, 1,543 qrs, 293 Id ; oats, 86 qrs, 183 4d ; beans, 125 qrs, 30s 8i ; peas, 2.) qrs, 445. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, FEB. 3. At our market this morning we had a large show of wheat from the growers, and the condition being generally poor, no advance on last week's prices was obtainable ; but foreign, on the contrary, was in improved request, and realised an enhancement of is per qr. For flour we, experienced a heavy demand. Rye unaltered. Choice malting barley commands a fair steady sale, and lot Chevalier, weighing 53 1 / 2 lb per bushel, 32s per quarter wa. obtained. Fireign qualities, on the other hand, meet little attention. Malt dull, though no cheaper. Beans and peas without change. Oats ruled dull, choice qualities sustained previous quotations. WISBELI, FEB. 3.—We continue to he fairly supplied with grain of all kinds. Our growers have been holding back the las: two or ihree weeks in anticipation of higher prices, and to-day they tried hard to effect an advance, which they accom plished, of Is to 2s per quarter on the best dry wheat, and is on other sorts; but the advance was generally, and very wisely, resi-ted by the trade. Other grain as before. GEOUCESTER.-Our market for wheat was more animated on Saturday than it has been for several weeks past. English samples were sought after, and eagerly purchased at former rates; in a few instances good foreign samples sold at an im provement of is per qu.:rter. The sale of barley and oats was dull, at barely last week's rates. Beans are difficult to dispose of, and the turn in favour of buyers. WORCESTER.—We had a short supply cf wheat from the farmers on Saturday. and it met with a free sale at an advance of Is to 2s per quarter. Barley unaltered, with a trifling demand. DUBLIN, FEB. 6.—There was a very lively market in both native wheat and oats, at an advance of 6d to is on the former, and 3d on the latter. Foreign wheat, though in fair demand, obtained no sensible advance. Indian corn dull, but held at full prices. BELFAST, FEB. s.—We had on Friday an advance of 6d to 9d on wheat, and 2d to 3d on oatmeal ; since then the supplies have been small, and yet fully the half of the advance then noted has been lost. There is, however, more firmness in the market generally than for a length of time past, and in store lots there is more doing. Wheat, 8s 6d to lOs 4d; barley, 5s to 6s 6d; oats, 5s 3d to 6s 3d; oatmeal. 9s 9d to lOs 4d per cwt. Indian corn sells at 71 12s 661. to 81 per ton for yellow, and 7i 7s 6d to 7l 103 for white. CORK, FEB. s.—Flour—Firsts 14s 6d to 15s 6d; extra 16s; sceonds 13s6d to 14s 6d ; households 1 Is to 13s ; thirds 8s to lOs per cwt. Meal—Oatmeal lls to lls 6tl; Indian meal 8s; wheat meal 11 s per cwt. Indian corn 7. to 7/ 10s per ton. Bran 5, per ton. Hay Farmers 16s Od to 40s Od ; average 36s ; dealers 36s to 445; average 00s Od per ton. Straw— Farmers 18s Od to 265 Od; average 20s; dealers 30s Od to 35s Od; average 005 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten flour 7d to 7}d; household loaf 6d to bid per 41b. Coals—Newport 17s; Lydney 18s • Landore 17s • best Neath Culm 16s per ton. Tallow 46s dcl per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per impe rial gallon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to tiid ; veal sid to 7d; pork 4d to 5/rd ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per lb. Hops 6/ lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 31 55 per ton. Bark—Barbary 6/ to 71; Valonia 11l to 131; French 6!; English 6/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone. Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to OOs; red ditto 25s to 27s per barrel • Newfoundland-, 11/ to 12/ lOs per ton. Timber—New Memel 4! lOs; old scakce ; red pine 31 153 ; yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 20 ; second quality 171 per 120. Hides—Market Its to'l6s ; salted Ils to 16s per cwt ; calf skins 26c1 to 2id ; market 2id to 2id per lb. Guano—Peruvian 10/ lOs ; Ichabos 9 per ton. Potatoes.-- White 10d to 12d; Minions 18d to 00d. Tar—Archangel 18s per brl. % -YESTERDAY. Lambton Stewart's Whitwell Hudson's Hartlepool l4s Od Thornley Trimdon ... 13s 6d Adelaide Tees Seymour Tees South Durham l4s 3d Tees West Cornforth Cowpen Hartley aartley ...... 142 6d Howard's W. H. Neth lss Od Sidne3 's Hartley Ships at market, 193. COAL MARKET Carr's Hartley Hasting's Hartley The Od Original Tanfield lls Od Ord's Redheugh South Peareth anfield Moor .... l2s 6d Penfield Moor Butes l2s 6d Walker's Primrose Wall's End, &c Hedworth Hedley Northumberland Wharncliffe Lyons l4s 6d Hetton Haswell R. A a YJ i b Li, At ,n.ARKETS. BRISTOL, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market was both firmer and better. Great Western, 171. Shares, dis.- 7 Taff Vale, Quarters, 27 dis. LiVEICPOOL, STOCK Excnewoi.—The sales are—Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe. and West Yorkshire, No. 1,5% —Ditto, Preference, guaranteed 6 per cent (B), 16%—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 311 . Shares, 9/. Ss. 9d. dis.—Caledonian, Prefer ence , 7 p er cent., 1% IL-- Great Northern, 91. 6s. 3d. dis.—Ditto (B Shares), 6 per cent., 3ls• 3d. dis.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, Quarters, 3% dis.—Dittoi Flints, 2/. ls. 3d. dis.—Dl to,' 321. Shares (late Extension), 5% die. —Ditto, Fifths (late West Riding Union), 3% dis.—London and North-Western, 139—Ditto, Fifths, 7% p.—Ditto, New Q uar ters, 51. 135. 9d. p.— Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 6% —Ditto, 101. Preference, 11%—Ditto, Quarters, 6% dis.—Midland Rock, 95% Ditto, New Half Shares, 3% dis.—borth Stafford shire, 2% dis.—Shrews ury and Birmingham, 9/. 12s. 3d. Shard (B), dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (late N. W. M.), 1% P. -- South-Eastern and Dover, 25% —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7% c.—York. Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension, No. 1), 2% p.—Ditto (N. and B. Extension), No. 2,2% p.- Ditto (U. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. guaranteed, I% p.—Dutch Rhenish, 6/. 6s. 3d. dis. MANCHESTER, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 7%—Great Northern (A), 4% n.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C), 3 13-16 p.—West Riding Union, 3% dis.—North Staffordshire, 2 11-16 dis.—Huddersfieid and Manchester, 27%- -- Caledonian, Preference, 1% p.—Manchester and Birmingham (A and B), 3 9-18 p. --Shrewsbury and Birmingham, Preference, Leeds, Fifths, dis.—London. New Quarters, 5% p.—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1, 6 dis.—D.tto, Preference, 11%—Great Northern , dls.—Cheshire Junction, 9% c. dis. BIRAII.NZHAIII. FEB. 7. ' STOCK EXCHANGE.—AIthough there was little business done t 0 day prices were fully maintained. The only quotations wore-- North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A)• 3 dis.--south Staffordshire, 2% dis. YOLK, FEB. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The busine•a transacted to-day was as fol. lows :—Great Northern, 91. 7s. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick tension), No. 1, 215 —Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 21% (G. N. E. Purchase), 91. Bs. 95. lIULL, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—East Anglian (L. and Ely, and Drin.), 4.- North British, Quarters, 775. 6d.—Ditto, Estensior i (Scrip), Gs.—Ditto, Thirds, 4%—North Staffordsbire, 12%. GLASGOW, FEB. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following - are to-day's transactions: Caledonian, Preference, 81 181.—Edinburgli and Northern, 1 2 "" Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Air , 50!,—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, G/. 9s.—Glasguw and Greenock, Prefer' ence, 7 , 4—Glasgow Barbour Mineral, I . ls. 6d. THE WILTS AND DORSET BANKING COMPAI4I . * —The thirteenth annual general meeting of the share' holders of this company was held at Salisbury, on Monday last, Alex. Lucas, Esq., in the chair. The attendance was unusually large. From the report tt appeared that the business and profits of the company had increased during the past year ; latter amounted to 8,1651. Bs. Bd., out of which a dividend at the rate of 51 per cent. per annum had been paid to the proprietors. The report then alluded to losses s$ two of the brunches of the company—at Christchurch , by the frauds of their late manager, and at Ckir, penharn, by robbery— and pr ocee d e d to state tha t these losses had been met from the reserved fund. The, directors had thought it prudent to r e d uce the dividen d for the last half-year to 5 per cent. per annum, but the/ confidently hoped that this reduction would pro's only temporary. The report concluded by informing the shareholders that the oank had taken the business of the old and respectable private banking-house of Tice and Company, of Christchurch. The usual routine business was then transacted, and confidence in the late oirectors testified by their re-election. A vote of thanks to the general manager and officers of the company, for their efficient services, was accorded 'unanimously; and thanks having been voted to the chair the meeting separated. HELP ONE ANOTHER.—It was said that when the Emperor Augustus was passing through the baths at Hume on one (ccasion, he saw a veteran who had fought with him rubbi n g hi mse lf , a f ter b athing, against on*, °`e the columns. '1 he emperor inquired why he had not * boy to do this? And being told that he was too poor* ordered him the means of paying one. On his next visit he saw at every column an old man rubbing himself; and on making the same inquiry he received the ssela reply. His r 4 joinder, however, was not what they ex* peered; for he said, " Well, gentlemen, as there are 0 „ many of you, I should advise you to rub one another. Augustus here taught them [sound wisdom; be taught them not to depend on the caprice of a patron, but t° help one another.—Builder. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Cure of a Liver and Stomach Complaint by Holloway's I'ills.—Sergeant Wilton Ist ° of the Hun. East India Company's service and for neat): 25 years employed on the Bengal establishment, suffered most intensely from an affection of the liver, indigestio n ' and sickness of the stomach, which appeared to be rir pidly undermining his constitution, notwithstanding till treatment of sonic of the most emine n t o f t he medica l profession. On his return to this country he was scl: ,vised to take Holloway's Pills, ,and this superior pied' . tine has effected such a perfect cure that it has Agn: nished all that were awar e of hi s f ormer a p par ently hopeless csse.—Sold by all Vendors of medicine, throughout the civilized world and at Professor 110 11 °' way's Establishment, 244, Strand. London. BIRTHS. On the 3d inst., at Calbourne Rectory, Isle of Wight, t he wife of the Rev. R. Snmner, of a daughter. At Peterafield, Hants, on the ad inst., the wife of the Bev F. M. Cunningham, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, the wife of Hambrough, Esq., of a son. On the sth inst., at Brook-street, the lady of T. Thornhill' Esq., of a daughter. h • On the sth inst., the wife of F. M ay h ew , E sq ., of Chat cote-villas, Adelaide-road, of a daughter. On the sth inst., at the Palteney Hotel, Albemarle-str eet' the Lady Anna Gore Langton, of a daughter. illis l3l On the 6th inst, in Old B on d- street, t h e w if e o f W B. Call, Esc , ., of a son and hei r . On the 6th inst., at Stockwell-place, Clapham-road, '— Crofts, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Ist i ns t., a t Ch r i stc h urc h , Warminster, w" — to D. Thomas, E q., of Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorganshir e ' of Mary, youngest daughter of the late J. Trehearne, E sc l" the same place. On the 6th inst., at Mitcham Church the Rev. Gel Robinson, rector o f Ri s l ey, S urrey, to Jane Eleanor , 1)* daughter of B. Miller, Esq., of Collier's-wood, SurreT..... DIED. On the 24th ult., at Bi c este r Vi c a rage , O x on, fronl t he ir bursting of his gun, Charles James John, third son ° I William F. Elliott, Bart., of Stobs and Wells, aged 16. . d 79, On the 31st ult.. at Brunswick-terrace, Hackney, o g.' o ry, the Rev. Louis Amedius Anspack for many years most° at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. for At Monmouth, on the 3d inst., Joseph Price, .nsq" nearly half a century a magistrate for the county. An ne, At North-end, Hampstead, on the 4th inst., Mary eldest daughter of On the sth inst., the at the Fen-office, Ely, M aged 69, Sa muel Wells, E. the O l n io t a h . e sq w s i t il h iam ins iL t. e , es a o t n. Methley, Yorkshire, Mary, relict of On he sth inst., at the Vicarage,Cripplegate, M aria , r of the late F. W. Blomberg, D. D., aged 92. 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