The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-26 00:00:00

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" THE ITUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OP EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- D EETy. "— Kossuth ' s Protest against Russian Intel yen lion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers: — Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... ...365 4 4 ; B. and E., Plymouth ,„, ~, 0 2 6 A Yorkshireman 5 0 0 A Loyal Englishman ... ... 010 0 A Patriot, Chesterfield ... 0 0 6 For the Hungarians, Sunderland 0 3 0 " Lord John's Insurrection," Leeds ... 0 5 0 J. G. Marshall, Esq., M.P., per Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P. Pryse Pryse, Esq., additional Member of the Hon. Committee Savile Ogle, Esq., M.P.: 1 0 0 Magyar Sympathy Friends to Hungarian Nationality (add.) • ... 0 1 0 A Few Tailors, Friends to the Hungarian Cause . 0 12 0 5 0 0 From a Few Brushmakers 0 3 0 George Bransford ... ... 0 1 0 Collected by a Few Germans in Manchester, at the Cafe of Mr. Lesser, per Manchester Ex aminer ... ••• ••• ••• ... 0 19 6 ... £390 2 10i TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sit,—l beg to inclose the first half of a 51. note (Bank of England, No. 09,004) to aid the noble and oppressed Hungarian refugees to return to their native country, accompanied, I hope, with such military stores as are required by their heroic countrymen to repel the Russian hordes of assassins from the free soil of Hun gary. My means are very limited, but this is a case which calls for some sacrifice from every man whose heart beats with the spirit of freedom, or with sympathy for the oppressed. It is one of the most disgusting, most immoral, invasions upon a free nation's rights and independence recorded in history. Shame to the man, but most of all to the Englishman, who can behold such an unequal struggle between physical force and moral right, and not step forward to help the weaker but most righteous cause! I have been grieved to see, in the list of subscriptions you have published, so few names of the aristocracy and of the wealthy. I may say, also, so few of the middle classes; and such a preponderance of sympathy and of sacrifice from the poor but generous English workmen and artisans. What, Sir! is the sym pathy for constitutional freedom, and the independence of nations, extinct amongst the country gentlemen of England, whose swords were once so nobly drawn in defence of freedom at home? But, if our aristocracy sympathise with the tyrant oppressors rather than witn the brave defenders of Hungarian freedom, what pre vents the free, the wealthy, the moral middle classes of England standing boldly forward in so holy a cause? Can it be that they are waiting to see the names of Dukes and Earls decorate the subscription list? Are they deterred by the bought and profligate columns of the Times, a journal whose wide-spread advocacy of tyranny is a stain upon the whole English nation? Let it not be said that we waited for rank and fashion to lead the way, or that we were impeded by a venal print from helping a noble people in their death sti uggle with ruthless barbarians? Sir, there is no time to lose—we have delayed too much already—in loudly declaring our sympathy, and sending our aid to the devoted defenders of freedom i n E astern Europe. In this, the eleventh hour, let us hasten to cheer them in their gallant ifforts to save from Cossack pollution their hearths and altars! Let our money be freely, because righteously, given to inraish them with every means of defence ! And God defend the right ! I am, Sir, your obedient servant, _York, July 25th, 1849. A YORKSHIREMAN. remaining half -note shall be sent to you immediately after the receipt of this has been noticed in The Sun. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--Along with the extract from Kossuth's procla mation, why should you not print a quotation from Lord Chatham's celebrated speech on the employment of Indians against the Americans? "While a foreign soldier was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms! Never! Never! Never!" The extract is short, and, as the sentiment of a great British statesman,it may serve to counteract the malicious Misrepresentations of those who dare to insinuate that there i n is any connexion between resist a nc e t o C ossac k invasion and the odious cause of anarchy and rebellion. Your obedient servant, A LOYAL ENGLISHMAN. S IR TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN . —lltaanitY . _ — Your noble advo cac y o f t h e cause of justice and by your stirring appeal on behalf of the Hun garians, deserves much commendation, though perhaps it may . in tte end be more advantageous that tyranny Lin • us ustlce might succeed in crushing their liberties. not despair, but hope that the evident march of reason and justice will ultimately triumph in establishing principles more noble and godlike than can be effected by force of arms, however noble and just the cause may be. Let then crowned heads ponder the following precepts from the ancients:—. BoRACE, TRANSLATED BY MILTON. Whom do we count a good maw? , —whom but he Who keeps the laws and statutes of the senate, Who judges in great suits and controversies, Whose witness and opinion wins the cause? But his own house and the whole neighbourhood Sees his foul inside through his whited skin. El:711111DES, TRANSLATED BY MILTON. This is true liberty, when freeborn men "laving to advise the public may speak free; Which he who can and will deserves high praise; Who neither can or will may hold his peace; What can be juster in a state than this? SENECA. There can be slain No sacrifice to God more acceptable Than an unjust and wicked king. Let wicked and unjust kings, emperors, president s , judges, and generals remember that their foul ways may excite what some would term just revenge—at all events, let them remember, that whilst they pursue their vicious course, they will most certainly be punished even in this world, though not corporially, yet mentally, in the loss of peace of mind, by being obliged to suitain a black and corrupted heart and th , ! gnawing of a guilty conscience, and that the time is now come when wise men will no longer be persuaded that the Pope or any other means, except the power of Omnipotence, can save them from the consequences of their rebellion against the laws of God and man. But the French tyrants (I do not mean noble and i llustrious Lamartine and his friends) appear to me to have acted a still more base part towards the Romans by destroying their (the Romans') freedom under the sk of hbeiiy, and like the cowardly assass i n are revel ling in their success. Fur their consideration, also, let me live two or three more quotations from the an cients:— DANTE. 0 Con s t ant i ne, of how much ill was cause, Not thy conversion, but those rich domains That the first wealthy Pope received of thee. Pounded in chaste and humble poverty, 'Gainst them that raised thee dolt thou lift thy horn? The n ARIOSTO. 's chic passed he to a fhwery mountain green h once smelt sweet , now st i n k s as o di ous l y . was th e g ift , if you the truth will have, T hat Con stantine to good Sylvester gave. 'r ig you that sa SOPHOCLES. y it, not I,—you do the deed, And Your ungodly deeds find me th e words. —f all tyranny, that effected un d er th e garb of reli.. eon is the most detestable, as subverting the truth, and co nsequently t h e principles of pure Otristianity, viz.," do lny to others as ye would that others should do. Yours, &c. PHILANTHROPY. FROM A . What death so gIorious CORRESPONDENT or so sweet, Could e'er Hungarian warrior meet, As, filled with patriotic fire, For Sunderla n d Jul y gary 26. E freedom to e x pi re I LONDON LIFE ASSOCIATION.—At the half-yearly meeting of the court of propriet ors y es t er d ay , at t h e terin the chair, the report showed a receipt fur the half year ending 30th June last of 189,604/., leaving a securities deposited in the names balance,.. after di,barsements of 22,6561. The tangible Bank of England a of .he trustees in the bentures. The prebmconutnted to 100,000/. of Canada dt vailue of 5,563,4721. lives of member s to Jul assured on 1 ' 1848, was 2,934,7461., and the amount assured on Jae 1. 1848, amounted to 202,00 e. lives of members since July which will be valued in 1850. The accounts showed a reductionoaof of 67 per cent. for the current year on the pre the directors were requested to oasis s er the members, roprie t y and t taking assurances to the amount of 7,0001., instead of 5,000/. as a maximum. DEATH BY LIGHTNING AT WOOLWICLI.---An awful thunder storm passed over Woolwich shortly after four o'clock, P.M., yesterday, at the time the baud had assem bled on the parade ground for their usual afternoon per formance. A num b er o f men o f the 7 th battalion were told of for duty to keep back the crowd generally pre sent from pressing too closely upo n th e b and; and while employed in that way the lightning descended amongst them, killing Gunner Queeny on the spot, and knocking down Gunner Milistead with such force that he remained speechless for some time. Several others were stunned, but soon recovered. On lifting up the body of Gunner Queeny, it was found that the electric fluid had passed through his fatigue cap, which was burnt, and through bit skull, coming out below the lower jaw-bone, and running down his body to the lower part of his side, where it left him. The bodies of both gunners were immediately conveyed to the hospital, that assistance blight be obtained for the gunner still in life. _-The most mischievous liars are those who keep on the verge of trutb.—Eliza Cvoles Journal THE SUN, ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MAN SION-HOUSE. Another of those splendid entertainments which have rendered the present Mayoralty so conspicuous was given last night by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress at the Mansion-house. The guests were chiefly Parlia mentary, the majority being Irish Members. The dinner, which was supplied by Messrs. Ring and Brymer, of Curnhill, was of the most sumptuous character, and the thcorations of the table were nearly on the same scale of magnificence as when her Majesty 'a Ministers ho noured the Lord Mayor nith their company. The following is a list of the guests:—Viseount Naas, M.P., Captain the Hon. T. V. Dawson, M.P., the Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P. Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart., M.P., Sir R. Price, Bart., M.P., Sir P. Nugent, Bart„ M.P., Sir D. Norreys, Bart., M.P., Sir A. Armstrong, Bart., M.P., Colonel Sir W. Verner, Bart., M.P., Sir H. M. Barron, Bart., M.P., Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P., Mr. Morgan J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. A. Matheson, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Colonel Salwey, M.P., Lieutenant Colonel Dunne, M.P., Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, M.P., Major Blackall, M.P., Captain Archdall, M.P., Captain Pechell, M.P., Mr. Mitchell, M.P., Mr. M. Mines, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. Callaghan, M P., Mr. J. A. Hamil ton, M.P., Mr. Bellew, M.P., Mr. Baldwin, M.P., Mr. Devereux, M.P., Mr. Fagan, M.P., Mr. R. M. Fox, M.P., Mr. F. French, M.P., Mr. Jackson, M.P., Mr. Leslie, M.P., The O'Gorman Mahon, M.P., Mr. Moore, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M P., Mr. Perfect, M.P., Mr. ISl'Gregor, M.P., Mr. M. Power, M.P., Mr. Reynolds, M.P., Mr. Roche, M.P., Mr. Sadleir, M.P., Mr. Scully, M.P., Mr. Tennent, M.P., Mr. Muntz, M.P., Mr.Schole field, M.P., Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P., Mr. Abdy, M.P., Mr. Hardcastle, M.P., Mr. Heywood, M.P., Mr. Hollond, M.P., Mr. Horsman, M.P. Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. R. D. Browne, M.P., Mr. L a cy, M.P., Mr. Lushington, M.P„ Mr. Lennard, M.P., Mr. Morris, M.P., Mr. Pearson, M.P., Mr. Rice, M.P., Mr. G. Thompson, M.P., Mr. Wilcox, M.P., Mr. J. Williams, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.P., Mr. Anstey, M.P., Major Ramsay, Aldermen Sir P. Laurie, Sir W. Magnay, and W. Hunter, Mr. Sheriff Goodhart, Mr. Sheriff Elect Nicoll, the Vakeel of the Sattara: Reja, Count Teleki, Mr. Francis Pulski, W. Williams, Mr. J. B. Hume, Mr. John Collett, Mr. J. Li. Chapman, Mr. Hill, Mr. Coles Child, Mr. Roy, Dr. Clanny, Mr. Smart, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Lee Clayton, Mr. P. Laurie, Mr. Schenck, the Rev. S. R. Cattley, Mr. Col vin Smith Mr. Carfrae, and other gentlemen and mem bers of the Common Council. Covers were laid for 150. Grace was said before dinner by the Rev. S. R. Cattley, chaplain to the Lord Mayor. After dinner " We praise Thee, 0 Lord," was chanted by Messrs. Ransford and Jolly, Miss Ransfurd, &c. The cloth having been removed, The LORD MAYOR rose to propose " The health of her Majesty the Queen." That toast was always most enthusiastically received, not only in that hall, but in every company of Englishmen. On the eve of her Ma jesty's visit to the sister isle, he trusted he should not be considered exceeding his functions if, surrounded as he was on that occasion by so many distinguished Irish re presentatives, he ventured to express a hope, that what ever their differences of opinion upon other matters, they would all unite in giving her Most Gracious Ma jesty the Queen such a welcome, such a hearty spontaneous expression of enthusiastic loyalty, as would do credit to their proverbial gallantry, and show that they appre ciated the great merits of her Majesty, who, it was well known, had long wished to visit Ireland.—(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honours, and fol lowed by the National Anthem. The next toast was " the Queen Dowager," which was accompanied by a favourite air. The LORD MAYOR then rose to propose the health of his Royal "highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the other branches of the Royal Family." With respect to his Royal Highness Prince Alb •rt, he would venture to say he deserved the respect universally shown to him by the people of this country, not less for the interest he had always taken in everything which concerned the well-being of the country, than from the 'nigh station he occupied in relation to the Sovereign. lie was sure that those who would have the opportunity of witnessing the conduct of his Royal Highness in Ire land would reel that his claims on their attachment were only second to those of our gracious Queen.—(Cheers.) The toast was drunk with all the honour.. The LonD MAYOR, in proposing " the Navy and Army," observed that in no part of her Majesty's domi nions were the services of the army and navy more gratefully remembered than in the city of London. But speaking as he did in the presence of some gentlemen belonging to the Peace Society, he feared he could not say all he felt in praise of such a toast. But he ven tured to say that, till the happy period arrived when na tional arbitration was established, the people of England generally would regard the army and navy as the most efficient arm of their defence.--(Loud cheers.) Captain PECEIELL expressed the great satisfaction he felt in returning thanks for the navy in presence of such a company assembled around the table of the First Ma gistrate of the city of London, whom he had the happi nets to regard as a brother officer, and who, to the high honours he had already attained ; would in a few days add another—that of representing the city of London in the Commons House of Parliament.—(Loud cheers.) Colonel DUNNE returned thanks for the army. The LORD MAYOR then rose and said it was the inva riable rule in that Hall, without reference to politics, to pay a mark of respect to her Majesty's Government, and he now proposed to that distinguished company that they should join with him in drinking " the Health of her Majesty's Ministers." The toast was drunk with much cheering. Mr. BELLEW, in acknowledging the compliment, said he had no expectation when he entered that hall that he should be called upon to return thanks for such a toast. From the humble position he occupied in the Ministry, he could only say that he believed the great object of her Majesty's Ministers was to promote the interests of the united empire. They all felt how important it was to enjoy the confidence of the citizens of London and its representatives; and he had no doubt her Majesty's Government looked forward with pleasure to the return of the Lord Mayor as one of the Members for the city. The LORD MAYOR, in proposing the next toast, said, however much gratified he was in giving the toast he was about to announce, he felt very inadequate to do it justice. He had the greater anxiety in proposing it, lest inadvertently some expression should escape his lips, which might by some, present or absent, be miscon strued, which he should indeed regret. The toast he was about to give was—" Prosperity to Ireland."—(Loud and continued cheers.) He felt the greatest satisfaction in being honoured by the company of so many of the representatives of Ireland; and he only regretted that circumstances had occurred to prevent his having the c o o n u n th t r a y t e r u s latenesst e d they w n ou t l h d e believe season. honour of entert a i n i ng a ll t h e representatives of that .— oc ( c C a h si e o E n r , a.) that ile tb t of their invitation had arisen from circumstances he could not ; control, several of his previous ha;iog been unavoidably post p one d. at e er t am m en ts still he repeated th e hi g h gratification which elrise.)hadßlint seeing around him so many gentlemen from Ireland— distinguished representatives of that country in the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) It was well known that the. Corporation of the city of London had for two centuries and a half been connected with the sister country in a peculiar manner; and circumstances had recentiy arisen to beget a hope that they might again be still more intimately connected with that country. Nothing, he felt, was so essential in such circumstances as that a clear explanation should be given of the objects the Corporation of London had in view, in order to pre vent any misconstruction of their motives. He hoped it would not for one moment be supposed that they had any other object in view than that which he knew was entertained by the citizens of London in general— namely, to promote the welfare and happiness of Ire land.—(Cheers.) He felt, however, that whatever their endeavours might be, unless they were met by kindly reciprocal feeling on the part of the Irish people, their efforts migt do more harm than good. If it could for a moment be supposed that they wished to dispossess the owners of the soil—to sweep away any of the people of Ireland, or to interfere with the religion of the country, they must of course expect to fail ; he, therefore, was glad of the opportunity, before so many Members of Parlia ment connected with Ireland, to state that the Cor poration of London had no desire whatever, if circumstances ehouti arise to give the opportunity of connecting themselves with Leland, to do more than endeavour, by showing confidence in the integrity and kindly feeling of The people it' properly directed, to in crease the employment and promote the industry of the couutry.—(Cheers.) It might be said, as he had heard it said, that the people of Ireland were ignorant; it should at the same time be remembered that little pains had been taken to enlighten them; and if in some in stances they were supposed to be suspicious, it should also be borne in mind how often they had been misled. —(Cheers.) Frankly and fairly, then, be repeated that the corporation had no other desire than to show that reliance might be placed on the people of Ireland, that they would receive with gratitude, and meet in a con fiding spirit, every effort that was made to assist them in their present state of depression. Providence had been pleased to visit Ireland for three or four years with heavy affliction, and no people had shown more sympathy or come forward with more cheerfulness and alacrity to aid her in her necessities, than the citizens of London. —(Loud cheers.) The same feeling still animated the corporation.—(Cheers.) There was no arrangement whatever, nor any concert between the parties ; the present movement only expressed the spontaneous feel ing of the citizens of London, arising from the sugges tions which bad been thrown out by Sir Robert Peel. --(Cheers.) The desire was to lend capital, to promote the employment and welfare of the Irish people.— (Cheers,) He trusted what he had said would nut be mis understood; every corporation was but a trustee for the country, and the Corporation of London felt that in its present object it was supported not only by the citizens, but by the public at large.—(Cheers.) Their only de sire was, to whatever extent they might become English or Scoth settlers, to cultivate a good understanding with the people of Ireland, to promote industry, to encourage employment, and on all occasions to give what in this country was called " a fair day's wages for a fair day's work," and thus to secure the contentment, prosperity, sad happiness of all classes of the community.—(Cheers.) Pleased as he had been on a late occasion to entertain the Lord Mayor of Dublin in that hall, he was not less gratified to be now honoured with the company of a gentleman who had been elected his successor in office. This also he would say, there was no man in the House of Commons who maintained his opinions with more ability and kindliness of feeling than the Lord Mayor Elect of the city of Dublin. He, therefore, had great pleasure in proposing " The health of Mr. Reynolds, the Lord Mayor Elect, and Prosperity to Ireland." The toast was drunk with all the honours. Mr. REYNOLDS, in returning thanks for the compli ment, assured the Lord Mayor and those present of his most perfect sincerity when he declared his total in ability sufficient! s his sense of the high y to express honour he had received on that occasion. The Lord LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, Mayor, in announcing the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, in the early part of the evening, expressed the wish that on her Majesty's visit to Ireland the differences of Irish Mtnibers might be forgotten : that wish mould be realized. His Lordship expressed another desire, namely, that her Majesty should be well received. Ho thought he might safely answer that that wish also would be realised.—(Cheers) Irishmen had their faults like others; bat went of loyalty to the British Crown never could with truth be laid to their charge.—(Loud cheers.) They had been anxious to pay compliments to former Sovereigns of England in their visits to Ireland; and they were doubly anxious to pay such compliments on the present occasion. —(Cheers.) Be thought he might say that the visits of the Sove- reigns ot: - Great Britain and Ireland to his country had been " like angels' visits, few and far between." ‘Vith• out imputing to those Sovereigns who had visited them in former times many of the qualities of angels, he might without hazard of contradiction ascribe many of those attributes to our present gracious Sovereign.— (Loud cheers.) lie thoug ht he was safe in saying th a t in no part of her Majesty's dominions was the given more respected, more venerated, more beloved than in Ireland. —(Loud cheers.) The people of that country entertained for her Majesty the most affectionate loyalty; they would rally round her on the occasion of her auspicious visit; and they would give her a right royal welcome.— (Cheers.) They were bound to do so because they looked upon this as a visit of peace—(Cheers)—as a forerunner of better times—(Loud cheers)—and it would not be their fault if it did not achieve the objects her Majesty had in view. —(Load cheers.) His Lordship had alluded to the intention of the Corporation of London to acquire land in Ireland. He hailed that intention as likely to lay the foundation of better times in that country. It was a happy omen—one likely to draw the bonds of union closer between this country and Ireland; and believing, as he did, that the prosperity of Ireland must depend ultimately on drawing more closely those bonds of con nexion between this great country and Ireland, he was delighted to have that opportunity of expressing the confidence he felt in the result of the experiment about to be made by the Corporation of the city of London.— (Loud cheers.) He repeated the high gratification he derived from being present at the festive board of the Lord Mayor of London; and, proud as he should have been of having his health proposed on any occasion by the First Magistrate of the first city in the world, the compliment was greatly enhanced because his name had been connected with the Corporation of the city of Dublin.—(Loud cheers.) Lord Ness proposed the next toast, which he was sure all present would receive with the greatest pleasure. He might safely say that' in the annals of civic hospi tality the splendid entertainments of the present Lord Mayor of the city of London stood unrivalled. As an Irishman he felt under peculiar obligations to his Lord ship for the interest he had taken in the country to which he belonged. And all Irishmen who had read the speech lately delivered by the Lord Mayor of Lon don, on a subject intimately affscting the welfare of Ire land, must feel that they owed to him and to the corpora tion over which he presided a debt of lasting gratitude. —(Cheers.)—ln common with many of his countrymen, he had that day paid his first visit to the Mansion house; and they must all feel how impossible it was to do justice to the splendid hospitality with which they had been entertained.—(Cheers.) There were many present who, having enjoyed for a longer period the friendship of their distinguished host, were better qualified than ho to do justice to his merits in proposing his health; but he nevertheless felt called on to return his most sincere thanks for the kind feelings which the Lord Mayor had exhibited towards Ireland; and he could only say that the name of their present Lord Mayor would be long distinguished among many in this country who, during a period of great distress, had shown themselves not unwilling to lend a helping hand to Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) His Lordship had referred to a renewed arid on the part of the corporation to benefit that country. He believed it would be carried out in the best spit it; and he could not help adding, he was most sanguine as to the result. He begged to pro pose " Health and long life to the Lord Mayor." The Loan MAYOR expressed the great gratification he derived from the manner in which his health had been proposed and received upon that occasion ; and with reference to the corporation over which he pre sided, ho would only say that, should the object they had in view succeed, it would add greatly to his happiness. He repeated he was happy to have the opportunity of entertaining so many gentlemen connected with Ireland. He saw before him a Roman Catholic clergyman (the Very Rev. Mr. Bushe), who, coming on a mission to this country for the promotion of the fisheries in Galway, had honoured him with a call. He was most happy to have an opportunity of inviting him to the Mansion house; and he hoped on his return to his native country he might be enabled to bear testimony to the spirit which animated not the Corporation or the citizens of London alone, but all Englishmen, anxiously to cultivate the esteem and regard, and zealously to aid in promoting the happiness of Ireland.—(Loud cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then rose and said—He had now to propose a toast which he was sure would be most acceptable to all who were present. He had already observed that they never allowed anything like political allusion to disturb the harmony of social enjoyment in the Mansion-house.—(Cheers.) When he saw around him so many Members of the House of Commons, he was sure he should meet their cordial approbation in selecting his old, esteemed, and valued friend, Mr. Hume, as the organ of that body to return thanks for the toast he was about to propose. They all knew Mr. Hume ' and his long public career of usefulness.—(Chee rs .) Few men had laboured so long or with a more zealous desire to promote the interests of the country than Mr. Joseph Hume.—(Cheers) Disregarding everything like self interest, he had laboured only in the cause of the people. —(Cheers.) He might speak of him in another capa city, as a friend; and he was happy to take that occasion of acknowledging how much he had been indebted to his kindness.—(Cheers.) Ho had great pleasure in pro posing " the Health of Mr. Hume and the Members of the House of Commons." _ Mr. HUME returned thanks, but inaudibly, at one end of the table. _ _ _ The LORD MAYOR then rose and said, that having the honour of seeing present a near relative of the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, he hoped he might be permitted to propose the health of that distinguished nobleman. He would not, on such an occasion, venture to make any observations that might elicit anything like a difference of opinion, but this he would assert, that no man, placed in the difficult position in which Lord Clarendon stood, could have discharged his duties with greater for bearance, greater ability, or greater impartiality.— (Loud cheers.) He was sure those qualities entitled that distinguished nobleman, in the high position he filled in such responsible circumstances, to the respect and esteem, not only of this country, but of the people of Ireland.—(Cheers.) He had great pleasure, there fore, in proposing " the Health of Lord Clarendon, the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland."—(The toast was drunk amidst much cheering.) Mr. C. P. VILLIERS, as the nearest relative of Lord Clarendon present, rose to offer his acknowledg ments for the very gr ea t comp li ment they had paid to e the L d Lieutenant of Ir e l an d. S uc h an honour , coming fr om such au asse m bl y , must b e deemed a high one; and he was sure it would be highly appreciated. They had been pleased to express their opinion of the manner in which Lord Clarendon had performed the duties of his difficult position ; and perhaps there was no place where the anxieties of such a post could be better understood than in that great city, where an exclusive jurisdiction also existed for the protection of the peace, the life, and the property of the community ; and to learn from the Lord Mayor that his relative had, in the opinion of that great capital, met the difficulties and discharged the duties of his post with judgment, justice, and ability, was a tribute to his character with which he must feel deeply gratified.—(Cheers.) The Lurd Mayor had connected the Lord-Lieutenant with the future welfare of Irelanci, and if an anxious desire to promote that object entitled him to that connexion, he had only done him justice.— (Hear.) He had nothing, he know, nearer his heart than to improve the condition of that people, and that feeling, ho firmly believed, was cordially shared by the whole English community.—(Cheers.) It was now un derstood that the moral and material interests of the people of Ireland were inseparably united, and that peace and contentment could not and ought not to bo expected till the physical condition of the labouring class of that country was improved.—(Hear.) The Govern ment of Ireland anxiously desired that object—it had been the purpose of their legislators this session to promote it, and he could not but expect that, at last, a brighter day was dawning on that country. He entirely agreed with those who had preceded him that it was ominous of a better time coming, becaase her Majesty had thought this a fitting occasion to make her first visit to that country—(Cheers) —an event that had not occurred for more than a quarter of a century before—(Hear)—and he hoped that the visit would be received as it was in tended—as a sign that the feeling was as stroeg in the most exalted personage as in the lowest subject of the realm, that equal favour, equal honour, and equal jus tice should be shown to Ireland and to England.— (Cheers.) He would not despair that, ere long, by means of better legislation and British capital, equal prosperity would prevail in the two countries.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR then proposed the " health of the Magistrates of the city of London," which was responded to by Sir P. Laurie. Mr. HUME proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress, which was drunk with all the honours. Several other toasts followed, after which the company separated. PLYMOUTH, JULY 25.—(From a Correspondent.) —The health of this town continues to improve. The fatal illness has been almost entirely confined to Stone house-lane, a local St. Giles's, which was allowed by the authorities to sink into a very wretched condition. This place has been entirely cleaned, and the sick have been removed into a temporary hospital erected in Five Fields, near the town, where there are now about 25 patients, nearly all of whom are in a state of convales cence. The number of cases reported yesterday was— Cholera, 7; choleraic diarrhce I, 5; simple diarrho3a, 7; total, 19; deaths, 3. Dr. Milroy is down here from the into what Bo ar d o f H ea l t h , i nvest i gat i ng an d i n q u iring what has been done, and the local causes of the out break. In Stoaehouse the disease has broken out in some of the dirtiest of the courts, and there have been from twelve t o fif teen d eat h s t h ere . I n D evon p or t, in cluding Stoke and Mortice Town, there have been about twenty deaths, nearly all in the lowest parts of those towns, and amongst the inhabitants of cellars. The town of I)&vonport, i n case o f an out b rea k, h as b een divided into districts, and a surgeon assigned to each. A board of health has also been established there. A half-yearly meeting of the United Mexican Min ing Association was held yesterday. The report of the directors was,tu the whole, favourable; but no dividend was declared, as the purch ase o f 1 ' 000 bottles of quick silver for 11,8001, had a b sor b e d the available funds. The progress of the mines was very sat i s f actor y, an d a lease of a new mine adjoining the old property had been par ' chased. The mete in Mexico amounted to 243,0614 NAVAL IN TELLIG CE. PROMOTION. Assistant - Surgeon—Patrick Digan, M.D., of the Hastings, to be Acting Surgeon. APPOINTNENTd. Lieutenants—William Swinhurne, to the Wellesley, 72, flag-ship in the West Indies; Dennis Hicklay, from the Hastings, 72, flag-ship in the East Indies, to the [ Cambrian, 40, on the same station, vice Moresby; G. E. Serocald, f rom t h e H ast i ngs to the Columbine sloop, on the same station; Edward Nares from the Hastings to the Arab sloop, on the same station. Surgeon—Putrick Digan, M.D., to the Columbine (acting). Second Master —James Rusden, to the Queen, 116 guns, at Davenport. Assistant Surgeon—John Murphy, from the Inflexible steam-sloop, on the East India station, to the Fury steam • sloop, ditto. Engineers—James Downey (?d class), and Charles Bidder (3d class), to La Rogue steam guard-ship at Sheerness. Gunner—Charles Ball, to the Phoenix steam-sloop at Portsmouth. Midshipmen—J. Forest, from the Mariner sloop to the Hastings flag-ship ; W. li. Malone, to the Queen. Naval Cadets—C, D. Sanders, to the Queen; Alex ander 0. M'Fariane, to the Victory flag-ship, at Portsmonth; George Worsfold, to the Persian, 16, at Woolwich. Master's Assistant—G. P. Heather, to the Crane packet, at Falmouth. The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, sailed from Sheerness on Monday afternoon for Portsmouth, to augment the flotilla to give eclat to the ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the Portland Breakwater. She returned to Portsmouth last night. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht went from Cowes to Weymouth yesterday morning, at half-past six, to be in attendance upon Prince Albert. The Fire Queen steam-yacht embarked Sir Bladen Capel, Port-Admiral of Portsmouth, Lady Capel, and suite, on Tuesday, for Weymouth. The Growler steam sloop, Commander Stoddart, will sail tc-dsy for Tangier direct, weather permitting. The Lords of the Admiralty will commence their annual inspection of the ports and dockyards on Mon day next. Captain Ellice, the controller of steam machinery to the fleet, proceeded to Portsmouth from London on Monday, and in conjunction with Captain Stevens, of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, made a survey of the steam machinery of that port. Amongst other matters which resulted from the survey, we are informed a suggestion was resolved upon to recommend the reduction of the steam power of the Retribution frigate from 800 to 400 horse, and that she be sent to Woolwich to undergo the alteration. WOOLWICH. JULY 25.—The Plainer steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Jones, is to leave this port for Holyhead, to remain at that station, where she will be employed as a mail packet when any of the regular mail steam-packets are laid up for repairs. The Vulcan steam troop-ship had her steam up yes terday, and both she and the Vulture steam-frigate were taken out of the basin to-day preparatory to going down the river on trial. The Hobe and Wye convict ships and the Unite con vict hospital ship have been removed from nearly oppo site the Royal Arsenal to moorings opposite the dock yard. At this date there is only one case of cholera amongst the convicts. 011 e of the riggers, named Butcher, who was em ployed in taking the Dr( adnought hospital-ship to Woolwich, died yesterday of cholera. The deceased was very much afraid of the cholera, and was attacked shortly after eating some cold potatoes. ACCIDENT TO THE NASSAU BALLOON. Last evening the feelings of several hundreds, who had, notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, assembled iu Vauxhall-gardens to witness the ascent of the Nca au Balloon, as well as those of the vast numbers of persons on the outside of the gardens, who had been on the lookout for the balloon, were for some time kept in a state of painful excitement for the safety of no less than 11 individuals, who had accom pacied the immense machine. At seven o'clock, the balloon having been sufficiently inflated, Mr. Charles Green, the veteran aeronaut; Mrs. Green, his wife; Mr. and Mrs. Green, his nephew and his wife ; Miss Green, and Miss Gascoyne, of Vauxhall-gardens; Mr. Crashaw, the iron -master; Mr. Stephens, Mr. Feunce, Csptain Ondre, and Mr. Pierce, making altogether 11 individuals, got into the car„and the word "all right" having been given, the ropes were unfastened, and the balloon mounted into the air in very good style, and the ascent was considered a very beautiful and successful one. The balloon proceeded in a north eastern course, but it was soon observed that it was descending so rapidly that it was generally thought that a considerable leakage of the gas must have taken place, and that an accident of a serious character was inevitable. Mr. Green, who was seated in the car, per ceiving the extreme danger in which he was placed, commenced emptying the sand bags or ballast as quickly as he possibly could, but even this did not prevent the gradual sinking of the balloon. On passing over the St. George's-read, near West-square, it was painfully evident to the thousands that were looking on that the balloon must come in contact with some of the buildings, and in an instant it struck the roofs of the houses 94 and 95 on the north side of the London-road, and 'only one house removed from the Nunnery which had been formerly the Roman Catholic chapel. The car, in which seven of the aeronauts were seated, struck the front of the house with considerable force, so much so that three of the persons who were standing on the hoop were thrown forward on the roof, which fortu nately happened to be a flat one; but the fourth clung to the net-work of the balloon. The machine being thus relieved from the weight of three of its occupants, and having fortunately escaped damage, instantly rose into the air to a considerable altitude, when a brisk current of air carried it in a southerly direction, ap parently towards Croydon. The three individuals who had thus fortunately escaped descended through the trap-door of an adjoining beer-shop from the roof, reached the street, and having procured a cab drove as fast as they could - to the gardens to relieve their friends and the visitors from their painful anxiety. A good deal of injury is done to two houses in the London-road—one of which is occupied by Mr. Cross, who is a marine store dealer, and the other by Mr. Hammond, a hairdresser. The coping -stone, for about ten or twelve feet, has been carried on to the roofs, and the chimneys are much damaged, so that it will take 10/. or 121. to repair. The friends of the parties who had escaped with the balloon continued in a state of much anxiety for their ultimate safety, and the return of Mr. Green or some of the party to the "Royal property" was looked for with much interest. LATEST PARTICULARS-HALF•PAST ONE A.M. A messenger has just arrived at Vauxhall•gardens conveying the information that, after passing over a great portion of the county of Kent, the balloon had safely settled upon terra firma in an open field within half a mile of Erith Church. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Procee dings f _ the House of Commons./ WEDNESDAY, JULY 25. PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL. Order for Third Reading 'read; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, "That the Bill be now read the third time:"— Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day three months :"—Question put, " That the word' now' stand part of the Question." The House divided:— MAJORITY—AYES, 65. Armstrong, R. B. Gwyn, Bowel Rice, E. R. Barrington, Vie. Haggitt, F. R. Richards, Richard Bernal, Ralph Harris, Richard Rumbold, C. E. Brotherton, Joseph Ileywood, James Russell, Lord J. Buxton, Sir E. 11111, Lord M. Shell, It. L. Colvile, C. R. Hope, Alexander Sidney, Alderman Cowper, W. F. Howard, Lord E. Simeon, John Cubitt, William Jervis, Sir John Smyth, John G. Divett, Edward Jocelyn, Viscount Stafford, Augustus Dodd, George Lockhart, A. E. Thompson, Colonel Duncan, George Meagher, Thomas Townshend. Captain Dundas, Sir D. Mahon, O'Gorman Tufnell, Heury East, Sir J. Matheson, Colonel Vane, Lord H. Ellis, John Monsell, William Verner, Sir W. Fortescue, J. W. Mullings, J. It. Watkins, Colonel Fuller, A. E. Newdegate, N. Williams, John Galway, Viscount "Ticholl, John Wilson, Matthew Greene, John O'Brian iiir Lucius Wodehouso, E. Goddard, A. L. Patten, J. w. Young, Sir John Grenfell, Charles W. Peel, Colonel Grey, Sir G. Perfect, Robert • TELLERS. Grogan, Edward Pilkington, James Spooner, Richard Grosvenor, Lord R. Prvse, Pryse Lacy, 11. C. MINORITY-NOBS, 22. Barron, Sir H. Henley, J. W. Peel, Frederick Berkeley, H. F. Hume, Joseph Power, Dr. Dawson,"T. V. Lowther, Colonel Roebuck, J. A. Dick, Quintin Rushing ton, C. Start, H. G. Dunne, Colonel Mackinnon, W. A. Forster, M. Mostyn, E. M. TELLE SS. Foz, W. J. 0 Connor, Feargus Anstey, Thomas C. Graham, Sir James Ogle, S. C. Mowatt, Francis Headlam, T. E. Pechell, Captain SYMPATHY WITH THE HUNGARIANS.—.DEMON STRATION IN MARYLEBONE. —. Yesterday, at a very numerous meeting of the St. Pancras vestry, held at the new Vestry-rooms, King's-road, Camden Town, Mr. Wright in the chair, Mr. Churchwarden Healey said that a deputation from Marylebone, consisting of Mr. Nicholay and other members of the Marylebone vestry, had waited upon him, and requested him to ask the vestry to co-operate with Marylebone in getting up a borough demonstration in favour of the Hungarians. Lord Dudley Stuart had consented to preside over the' Marylebone meeting, to be held at Hall's Riding School, denouncing the oppressors of the brave Hungarian nation. He now left it to the vestry to say whether they would co-operate with Marylebone in the matter. A conversa tion then took place respecting the propriety of enter taining the question in the vestry, and much diversity of opinion was manifested. Mr. Turner moved that the orders of the day be proceeded with, and Mr. Dyke pro posed an amendment, " That this vestry resolve to co operate with the parish of Marylebone in calling a public meeting to sympathise with the oppressed Hun gar i ans ." Mr. Hockton seconded the amendment, which was ulti mately carried, end the meeting broke up. DARING FEAT.—On Friday last, James Smith, more extensively known by the appropriate soubriquet of Steeple Jack, made the ascent of the gigantic chimney at St. Rollox, Glasgow . Ile effected the ascent by means of a block and tackle, suspended from an iron hook at the top of the chimney—the block and tackle having been previously taken up by means of kites. The object of the ascent was to examine the rents in the chimney, with the view , of filling them up; and this, no doubt from the fearless facility with which Steeple Jack goes about his business, he will be able satisfactorily to ac complish. A large concourse of people witnessed*. the ascent, and when he reached the top-436 feet—they saluted him with three hearty cheers, which Jack grace fully acknowledged by waving his bonnet in the air.— , Edinburgh News. JULY 26, 1849. THE QUARTERLIES. 1 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXXI. A brilliant number of the Edinburgh has just made its appearance. The least meritorious of the contri butions is not without its own peculiar excellence. Yet, notwithstanding the importance of the question of " Transportation as it now is"—notwithstanding the attraction of the "Reign of Louis XV.," as de scribed by M. De Tocqueville, the father of the dis tinguished Minister under Louis Napoleon—notwith standing the interest attached to the defence of "Free Trade,' a system of commercial government so lately and triumphantly vindicated by the eloquence and the logic of Sir Robert Peel—notwithstanding the scholastic fascination of an inquiry into the merits of the " Corpus Ignatianum," especially at a time when the learning of a Newman and the acumen of a Faber have imparted a new popularity to the writings of the early fathers —and notwithstanding the graphic power and elegant faculty of description displayed by Mr. Tyndale in his historical narrative of " Sardinia" —we are, nevertheless, bold to give the preference at once to the other moiety of the Quarterly. The five articles not yet particularised are, for a variety of reasons, more to our taste, and to th em we acknowledge, without any ambiguity whatever, that we have awarded a more careful and appreciative perusal. " Shakspere's Critics: English and Fo reign "—affords another and splendid testimony that the subject is inexhaustible. Though thousands of volumes, whole libraries we might say, have been written by way of annotation, or as commentaries, on the dramas of Shakspere—still the theme on every fresh examination is found to be ever new and varied, unfolding additional beauties never before conjec tured, and suggesting topics for inquiry never dreamt of previously. Here, in proof, the reviewer avers that one broad field of observation in regard to Shakspere has hitherto been entirely overlooked. Thousands of commentators have penned books upon his immortal productions, and published them in all the languages of Europe, considering him as a poet, but not one has treated of the infinite art displayed by him exclusively, or at least pre-eminently, as a dra matist. In the course of his own remarks upon this particular the writer in the Edinburgh pays due consideration to Voltaire, for inasmuch as he in troduced Shakspere to the French (afterwards to abuse him as " an inspired savage"), and to Lessing for inasmuch as he did the same by Shakspere in regard to the Germans. Hitherto it is maintained by the critic, that Shakspere's plays have been com mented upon solely as poetry, never, or at the least, never adequately, as theatrical works. His glorious works have been successively treated according to three arbitrary or fantastic codes—" according to classic rules, to the rules of French tragedy, and, finally, to those of German philosophy." One by one the insufficiency of each of these plans of inves tigation is demonstrated, and the reviewer closes his inquiry by hinting again and again that—even now— full justice has not been given to the greatest Poet who ever lived. " Dennis's Etruria" is a brief but charming allusion to that most elegant compilation of scholastic, and arclueological antiquarianism. It is confessed at the very outset, as a curious and incontrovertible fact, "that the last twenty years have contributed more to our knowledge of the arts, the manners, and the customs of ancient Etruria than the three preceding centuries." And the entire gist of the argument contained in the paper appears to be an endeavour to show that whatever evidences a superior degree of elegance and a more flexile mobi lity of style in the urns and painted vases found in the Etrurian tombs, is attributable not to the Etru- rians themselves, but to their Hellenic contempora ries. Many of the reasons given by the reviewer for arriving at this conclusion are undoubtedly ingenious. Yet, in defiance of their ingenuity, we are satisfied that he will find very few indeed who will entirely coincide with him in opinion. We are not ashamed to acknowledge ourselves to be on this point some thing more than sceptical. In the course of this very agreeable and classic contribution one striking blunder occurs, which could only have slipped in through inadvertence. Quoting a famous passage from Propertius, in which the poet delineates the aspect of Veii, the reviewer observes of the lines that " they so accurately apply to its pre sent position." Now two of the verses are— " Nunc intra mutes pastoris buceina lenti Cantat et in vestiis ossibus arva metunt." The writer in the Edinburgh himself declares that the walls of Veii have long since disappeared—and yet, almost in the same breath, he insists that the description of the ruined city as giveia by Propertius "so accurately applies to its present condition." At length one of the quarterlies has noticed that splendid epic by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, which on its first publication was hailed with such genuine and spontaneous admiration. The criticism on " King Arthur," in the Edinburgh, is conceived, in a ge nerous and manly spirit—apart from all conven tional rules and predilections, and wholly without a tinge of any splenetic sentiment having the smallest or faintest approximation to jealousy. The outset is honest and cordial—it is this :—"A very remarkable poem, written by a man of celebrity and genius, cannot well be overlooked in the chronicles of literature." While, however, the strain is genial enough, the mode of analysis appears to us to be par ticularly harsh and uncongenial. Before many para graphs are perused the commentator becomes some what tedious and irksome. We feel that we could profitably dispense with his eternal periphrases and his everlasting circumlocution. It is a miracle to us how so dry a comment could possibly have been penned on so noble and engaging an original. Scarcely a dozen quotations are made by the re viewer, and none of them selected so as to display to ad vantage the varied excellences of the minstrel—his humour: his pathos, his sweetness, elegance, dignity, and sublimity. Here and there a happy passage of his hands over the chords is particularised discrimi natively, as where it is remarked that the identifica tion of the dove and Genevieve is "a singularly fine poetic thought." Altogether the Edinburgh pro nounces " King Arthur" to be " a work designed in a lofty spirit, and executed with a fine sense of the noblest functions of poetry." Further on the writer expresses himself thus emphatically : " In looking back on the manner in which we have introduced this elaborate poem to our readers, we find that, we have, almost unconsciously, handled it as if it had been a work which had already been acknowledged as worthy of a permanent place in literature, and the study of which we desired merely to recommend and facilitate. A mode of treatment like this implies a high estimate of the value of the work; and such an estimate we have no hesitation in expressing. The author is, we think, right in believing this to bo the least perish able monument of his genius. Not only do we confi dently pronounce it to be the most vigorous and original poem that has lately appeared among us; but, while feeling the uncertainty of all critical vaticinations, we regard it as not only worthy, but likely, to take its place among those fin e t h oug h not f au l t l ess performances, which will hereafter represent the poetical literature of England in the first half of the nineteenth century" We are gratified to observe that the deliberate esti mate of the Edinburgh R ev i ew i n regar d to t h e merits of this splendid production are entirely coin cident with the opinions expressed by ourselves im mediately after its publication. Equally rejoiced are we to find that our views in reference to Hungary are in no essential particular different from those now avouched by our distinguished quarterly contem porary. In the politico-historical article on "Austr ia and Hungary," the wrongs suffered by . the latter glorious country from the perfidy, faithless ness, tyranny, and ultimate invasion perpetrated on i t by the former, are clearly and explicitly unfolded, and that too in a comparatively brief but admirably se quential narrative. It is asserted at the very outset that " the first and most prevalent error is that of regarding Hungary as a provincc of Austria." Only a day or two since in our leading columns we quoted from this able paper the felicitous expression, that " the pedigree of the immunities of the Hungarians during the long space of three centuries (1526-1848) continued unimpaired." Upon one point we cannot at all agree with our con temporary, namely, where he declares that the late successes of the Magyars "are not more owing to their own valour than to the returning decrepitude of the Viennese war-office." In this the reviewer greatly overrates the abilities of Latour—that Minister by his career in administration having never done enough to deserve any such encomium. Remarking upon the noble and even chivalrous disposition of the Hungarians, it is truly said of them that, " On the approach of foreign invasion they were as devoted to the Kaisar as the cavaliers to Charles Stuart, in asserting their rights they: were as keen vigilant and unflinching as Pyna, Hampden, and Somers." In one sentence it is shown very clearly that the Magyars have long before this, and frequently, evinced their determination not to submit to oppres sion, the people having risen, indeed, five times in the course of a single century (1606-1711) in de fence of their constitution. In another paragraph it is explained, beyond all contradiction, that Francis Joseph is neither dejure nor defacto King of Hungary, but that he is positively, in the language of the Hun garian law, " a foreigner." As to the charge that the present rising of the Magyars in defence of t he i r independence is sudden and unconstitutional, it is finally and forcefully replied : their tone; but the results of sixty years' enduran ce " The reforms of 1848 may bare been impera n t e iv e o c l: scarcely be termed sudden ; nor the ri g hts a s sertionofteno invaded— be fi l: " that —sanctioned for centuries, justly Webdesignatedbelieve," e, , y is rapidly spreading over sympathy with assayusastehaseonadrdbuorra Edinburgh further we . are itsconfident that the Europe.ancestral ;fending spectacle must be deeply interesting and enlarged liberties , that nation which contended against the Stuarts in ofnul a b ovepl leoupnlge Hung ary 1640, and threw off their yoke in 1688:' This, we take it, is a very powerful and not irrational encouragement to our own continued argu naeuts, respecting the sympathy of Englishmen ior the Hungarians. When we remember that Hungary contains an area of no less than 110,000 English square miles, with a population of at least 14,000,000, it is sufficiently clear that such a territory and such a population cannot be very readily subjugated, especially when it is notorious that the country is, as the reviewer observes, "adapted to every species of, warfare from the guerilla to the dense battalion.', The devotion of the people and the genius of their leaders are warmly and deservedly eulogised. Alto• gether the article is penned in a wise and generous spirit, and deserves a very wide and very attentive perusal. The number terminates with a criticism on Macaulay's magnificent "History of England." Nor does it need our assurance that the tone of the Edinburgh is other than eulogistic. To act otherwise would have been impossible, not only from taking into consideration the masterly eloquence of the production itself; but the relation in which the organ stands in regard to its distinguished author. One of the most illustrious of its intellectual children, Macaulay could not be regarded otherwise than with peculiar complacency by the Edinburgh. Upon one of the cardinal merits of the history the re viewer speaks as follows : " lie (Mr. Macaulay) is the first who has succeeded in giving to the realities of history (which is generally supposed to demand and require a certain austerity of style) the lightness, variety, and attraction of a work designed only to amuse. All historians we have ever read —not excepting Gibbon and Hume, and including all others in our language —are open to this remark. To read them is a study, an effort of the in tellect—well repaid indeed by the result, but still necessarily intent and laborious. Mr. Macaulay has, with an instinctiye sense, both of truth and of the power to realise it, pfarceived that a true story may be, and should be, as agreeably told as a ficti tious one; that the incidents of real life, whether poli tical or domestic, admit of being so arranged as, without detriment to accuracy, to command all the interest of an artificial series of facts; that the chain of circumstances which constitutes history may be as finely and gracefully woven as in any tale of fancy, and be as much more in teresting as the human countenance, with all its glowing reality of life, and structure, and breathing beauty, excels themost encha n ti ng portra i t that ever passed from, the pencil of Kneller or of Lawrence." And reverting subsequently to the singular attrac tions of the historian's style, it is emphatically (we opine rather too emphatically) remarked, that " Mr. Macaulay's tediousness, if it can be so called, is less fatiguing than the liveliness of most other writers." After speaking very happily of Cromwell as one " who ruled with a just, though an iron rod," the critic has a sarcastic but well tempered sneer at the financial reformers. It may be found about the middle of page 269. One allusion made to the reign of the good Queen Victoria is so strikingly just and beautiful that we make no apology for its quotation : " Although this spirit of jealousy (the reviewer is speaking of the constitutional jealousy of the preroga tive) has, since the revolution, been dormant at intervals, it has always been ready to be aroused from its lethargy, and has never been aroused in vain; till, at last, the practical as well as the abstract limits of the prerogative have been so securely and precisely fixed, that under the reign of one who wears her constitutional crown with so much true knowledge of the laws, and love of the people of her country, whose virtues have given the throne a stability, and whose accomplishments have shed over it a grace it never, in the best of former days, could boast, we may safely hope that this long contest, the hottest fire of which it has been our author's task to record, is at last sinking in its embers." In the course of an excoriating. flagellation ad ministered to the anonymous assailant of Mr. Macaulay in the Quarterly, the Edinburgh quotes the witty remark made upon it, that "the writer of it, in attempting murder, had committed suicide." The exposure of the ignorance of the writer of that article in the Quarterly is altogether frightful ; and yet (to an indifferent spectator like ourselves), amusing withal, eminently amusing. Due and eulogisic mention is made of the scholarly and generous hearted review of Macaulay's history, penned by Archibald Alison, in Blachwood's Magazine. After our foregoing analysis of the contents it is unneces• sary to say that the Edinburgh, for the July quarter, displays more than usual ability. FINE ARTS. THE FLYING DUTCHMAN. As the last of the popular series of sporting prints known as "Moore's Celebrated Winners," the Flying Dutchman is, of course, above all others, the most attractive. Nor is the engraving as a work of art unentitled to a large share of approbation. Painted by T. W. Ilillyard, it has been excellently copied by the graver of C. N. Smith, and coloured " to the life." The renowned winner of the Derby Stakes at Epsom, 1849 ; the property of the Earl of Eglinton ; valued at 6,320/. ; by Bay Middleton, out of Barbelle, dam also to Van 'froinp ; trained by J. Fobert ; ridde❑ by Charles Marlow—looks a brother in blood to his more celebrated predecessors, Harkaway, Eclipse, and Flying Childers. PORTRAIT of .111ADE11IOISELLE ALBONI. A graceful little memento of this admirable song stress has just been issued from the photographic es tablishment of M. Claudet—being a clever profile sketch in lithography by W. Bosley from an original Daguerreotype. MR. ()TWAY 'S LECTURES ON SHAKSPERE. All our actors are loud in their complaints of the neglect of Shakspere, and of the national drama, by the aristocracy and upper classes, but none of them appear to have adopted means so effectual to remedy the evil as Mr. Otway. He has undertaken the gigantic task of creating a taste for Shakspere among the aristocracy, by delivering lectures on his plays at the various public schools at which the dite of the aristocracy and gentry of Great Britain receive their education. This certainly is the most effectual method that could be adopted for attaining the de sired end. To what are we to attribute the present rage for foreign plays and operas, but to the fact that the greater number of the existing aristocracy have re ceived their real education on the continent ? Trans ferred from Eton and Harrow, from Oxford and Cambridge (where no English dramatic per formances are allowed), at once to Paris, or Milan, or Vienna, their first acquaintance with the drama has been in a foreign language, their dramatic taste is formed on foreign models, and they, as a natural consequence, prefer the foreign to the English drama. By his lectures, however, which he has delivered at the principal schools and colleges in the kingdom, and which have been every where received both by Principals and Pupils with the most enthusiastic delight, as the numerous testimonials which Mr. Otway has received bear witness, he has indoctrinated the minds of our young aristocracy with a National and Shaksperian taste before they have been exposed to the meretricious fascinations of the continental theatres, and thus is preparing a store of future patrons for our national drama. In this good work he has been most successful. An excellent actor, a sound critic, a ripe scholar, and a polished gentleman, Mr. Otway seems by nature designed for the enterprize he has undertaken. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. The doors of Old Drury were opened last night for the benefit of Mr. Kenney, the author of Sweethear t s and Wives and many other successful pieces. T he en tertainments, which were of a very attractive nature, and supported by the elite of the profession, commenced with the popular vaudeville of A Curious Case, in which Mr. C. Mathews sustained his original part a Mr. Twiggleton in bis usual clever manner. Gay's Beggar's Opera followed, the cast of which was immensely strung; it comprehended the name of Mr. Sims Reeves (who appeared last night fer the first time as the gallant Captain Macheath), Mr. Webster, Mr. F. Matthews, Madame Vestris, Miss K. Fitzwilliam, Miss J. Coleman, and Mrs. Tayleure. Tu particularise the performance of the Beggar's Opera, supported as above, would in deed be a work of supererogation; suffice it to say that Mr. Sims Reeves was as successful as his most ardent admirers could have wished. A concert followed, in which the Lablaches, Garduni, Ernst, Mdlle. Corbari, and several other most talented artistes took part. The evening's entertainments concluded with Mr. Kenney's farce of Love, Law,' and Physic, in which Mr. Wright, Mr. 11. Roll, and Miss Woulgar appeared. The even ing's performance, which was under the patronage of the Queen and Prince Albert, was eminently successful. And now we have to announce, with deep regret, the demise of Mr. Kenney, who expired early yesterday morning. Well may we exclaim— Alas! poor Kenney! Mr. Kenney's first farce was produced in 1803, and the most celebrated of his pieces are full forty years yld, but his name is still fresh in the memory of the theatrical public of London. HER MAJLSTY'S THEATRE. —Yesterday the re hearsal presented to;us once more Rossini's chef d'auvre, Otello. Revived, after so many years' neglect, it re• appears with all the charms of novelty, and its pure melodic richness and its distinct lyrical elaboration, and returns to us with all the freshness of the brightest days of musical inspiration. In this opera Madame So n t, ff finds a heroic part adequate to her genius; a nd how ever high was the opinion we previously entertained ; her dramatic rendering of Se it padre m'abandona," and of " ornbra d'uu salic e ," con her pathetic singing veyed to us the full reach cf her lyrical g if ts adm blac irably supported by Moriani, Belletti, Calzo . She lari, is and Lahe. A LAD DROWNED AT WATERLOO -BRIDGE.—Last night a lad about ten years of age, named John Leader, whose parents are poor people residing in New Church court, Strand, went with some older lads to bathe in the Thames, near Waterloo-bridge, on the upper Middlesex side, but having been washed into the current, disap peared. Tisdale, a Waterman at the pier, put off from the shore to save tha deceased, but he sunk in deep water, and before brought to the surface by the drags life was extinct. Notice has been sent to Mr. Higgs, the coroner, for an inquest. Jealousy is said to be the offspring of Love. Yet, unless the parent makes haste to strangle the child, the child will not r es t till it h as po i sone d t h e parent.—Eliza 1 Cook's Journal. S V /4 THE NEW J The anno uncemen t t h at the lead cu,t, Ur. Sergeant Talfourf, had va:ant judgeship, created a feeling of satisfaction amongst the bar which it would be impossible to describe. From the new leader to the junior there was not a single member who did not seem to rejoice as if the pronce.tion of the Learned S ergeant had been the uppermost wish of his heart. We believe that no other leader was ever so truly loved, admired, and respected by his professional brethren. All loved him for his genuine geedre ss of heart and kindness of mann er . I le never said an unkind or ungenerous thing of or to anybody. Even to a witness he could not have retorted unkindly or harshly ; and so never had recourse to whet is commonlycalled the brow beating system. He so overflowed with the milk of human kindness that even if he would he could not do such a thing. He was admired for his thorough knowledge of his profession (for that he possessed beyond all doubt, notwithstanding the common cant of plodding dolts that genius is unfit for drudgery), for his general literary acquirements, ready fancy, and great eloquence, and was respected for his honesty, purity of thought, love of justice, and, in short, all those cognate qualities that contribute to com pose the character of an advocate of the highest order, his freedom from and dislike of those characteristics which would have qualified him for doing the general business of such great city firms as that of " Quirk, Gammon, and Snap." In fact, it was well known at the bar (and these things may be mentioned now, as ho is beyond the reach of attorneys), that the slightest suspicion that his case had a tincture of fraud or dishonesty rendered his advocacy less efficient than his clients expected, and adversaries frequently took advantage of this failing, which, like all his others, " leaned to virtue's side." By the juniors he was deservedly looked upon as the model of a circuit leader. We should be disposed to enter into an enume ration of the qualities which so endeared him to them, but that we really fear any attempt of the kind would be regard e d as i na d equate to hi s mer i ts. O ne peculiarity of his advocacy ought to be mentioned, as it was the common topic of observation with all the circuit bar, that whatever subject he handled, no matter how dull, dry, or insipid it was, he invested it with singular grace, charm, and interest. We record these opinions of his circuit brethren respecting him as facts which cannot be devoid of interest to the public at the present moment. The Learned Gentleman having received official notice at Stafford, on Tuesday, of his appointment, immediately returned all his briefs except one, which was in a spe cial-jury cau se t h at h a d b een part heard. He addressed the Jury for the defendant, and then, confiding the management of the evidence to his jun!ors, left the court, all the bar rising en masse on his retirement. The verdict was for his client.—Herald. HAMBURGH FUNDS. LIAIkIBURGII FUNDS, JULY 17. Bills. Money. Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent;.• • • 105 105 Ditto, 3% per Cent. ............., .._ _ Bank Shares.... ••.. • ............... ._... _ Prussian 5 per Cent. ........ •• . • ... 102 % 102% Russian Certificate .................. 9554 95 Anglo-Russian Loan .... Ilainburgh Certificate, 5 per Cant .... Russian 4 per Cent................... 34 and 4th Series, Hops and Co. .... 90% Ditto Stieglitz .. ••—•• • • • • ........ 82% 82% Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent.......... • • -- Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••.• • • 67 665( Ditto,s per cent. .......... •• • • .... 92 91% Anglo-Swodish Loan ................ 98 98 Ditto, Transport Loan ••••••. . • • .• • • Norwegian Loan, 1848 .• •••• • • • •• • • 99% 9934 Spanish New 5 per Cent.............. 11 Ditto, 3 per Cents. ...• ........ .. 253, 25% East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••••• . • • . • '— Ditto, 1846.. ...... — • Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent .• Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. ••• Ditto 3 per Cent.... •—•-•. . • • • • • National Bank Shares ••—••• • .• American, 6 per Cent. ........ ...... 1094 1(9 RAILWAYS. Hamb. Bergd. ••.•••••..•• • • • • • • •• • • 891 4 80 Ditto, Priority Shares ... ........ 101% Berlin and Hamburg ........ ..... .. • 71 ' 71 Ditto, Priority Shares .. ... ••• • • • 91% 94% Cologne and Minden .. • ..... ... •. • . 883, 83% Ditto, Priority Shares ...... ...... 94 Mecklenburg ....... . .... ............ 35 Altona and Kiel ......... ••••• • • • .. 96 98 Gluckstadt .............. • • ...... _ Rendsburg.. •. . . .. ...... • • •• • • • • • • • . 110 Hanseatic Steam Company .......... REPRESENTATION OF BOSTON.—BOSTON, JULY 25. —Last evening a meeting of the freemen and electors of Boston was held at the theatre for the purpose of hear ing from Mr. D. W. Wire, one of the candidates for the repres: ntation of the borough, a declaration of his political principles. Mr. Wire, on presenting himself to the meeting, was greeted with loud applause. He said he had been induced to become a candidate at the re quest of a large number of the most influential electors. The political opinions he held were not mere names, but principles, neither to be changed fcr the convenience of parties, nor compromised to suit the purposes of fac tion. lie believed that the stability of England's insti- Lotio❑s was based upon their devotion to the people, for whom they were designed. He was an advocate for such an extension of the suffrage as would make the counsels of the nation the true reflex and voice of public opinion, and for such a se curity for the independence of electors as the ballot could alone effect. The application of the economical doctrine of free trade to our industry and commerce rendered it essential to our capacity for sus taining a mercantile competition with highly taxed nations that our burdens should be equalised, and re duced to the lowe,t amount which was compatible with the effiLiency of the public service. He would, there fore, if elected, vigilantly guard the issues of the Ex chequer, enforce a wise economy, and every practicable retrenchment. He would strenuously contend for order at home and peace abroad. Ho held that religious opi nions should form no test of civil qualification or politi cal exclusion, and he would support the rights of all sects irrespective of creed. 'While he was desirous of improving the laws which regulate the relief of the poor, he was of opinion that it was essential to remove the causes of pauperism by the encouragement of industry, and the removal of all obstructions to the free develop ment of commerce. Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, and a resolution, acknowledging Mr. Wire's claims, and pledging the meeting to support him in the forthcoming contest, was agreed to. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a distin guished circle to dinner on Tuesday, at tho Noble and Learned Lord's residence in Grafton-street. The Noble Lord and Lady leave town next week for Broug ham Hall. THE COTTON CROP OF 1849.—As much impor tance is attached to the growing crop of American cot ton in the present buoyant state of the cotton market, we have much pleasure in stating that, from private in formation received by the last packet, there are good grounds for anticipating something more than a fair average yield. It is true that many of the newspapers in the southern states speak in very desponding terms re garding the new crop, but that is easily accounted for, without supposing that the plant has sustained any ma terial injury. The following statement on the subject is from a gentleman v,ho has excellent means of acquiring information, and who has no interest in misrepresenting the real state of affairs. In a letter, dated July 3, he says, " We saw yesterday a large cotton-dealer who has just returned from New Orleans, passing through the cotton-growing country. The cotton plant never ap.. peared better, being very strong and healthy, and only about ten days behind the usual time. If the frost should be late, the crop will be very large. It now de pends entirely on the time the cold begins in the autumn." It appears, then, that the main dependence of those who calculate upon being able to maintain a speculative ad vance in cotton lies in the chance of a❑ early winter in the cotton-growing states. Under these circumstances, and taking into account the large stocks in this country, the spinners in this district will scarcely be induced to purchase very largaly beyond their present rate of con sumption.—Mane/rester Eratniner and Times. LEWES Wool. FAIL—The annual Sussex wool fair was held at Lewes, after a dinner at the White Hart Hotel, at which Sir Henry Shiffner presided, in the absence of the Earl of Chic Lester, who was at tendinc, tne grand meeting at Norwich of the Royal Agricultural Society of' England. With a rising mar ket the sellers expected higher prices than the buyers felt inclined to give ; and the consequence was that little business was transacted. Mr. J. Elliman .ffered his hogget wool at 15d., and his ewe and wether at 131 per lb.; 1,500 fleeces half hogget, but could obtain no purchaser. Mr. Thos. Eliman off a-cd 210 hoggets and 440 ewes at 365. per tod, and after wards at 355. Mr. Legg offered ls. a pound, or 325. per tod; but no deal took place. Mr. Colegato_ offered 120 wether fleeces at 325. He was eflEre o a! 30s. ; but no sale was effected. Mr. Cane, at f Berwick, offered 800 fleeces, one-fourth hogget, 3 35, of Steyn and sold to Mr. Adams at 325. Mr. Ga s "' an d 140 togs. ewes lot of 84 ing, obtained the same price for 180 9 The only sale at a higher rate: wa s to Sir Henry fleeces, one-fourth hogget, id b e longing of Lewes, purchased at Shiffner, which Mr. Chatfield , 'of the day, and as was the 12d. This was the first sa le lt was the highest at the fair CaSe at Croydon of rv Dartmouth is gradually reco veringserious illness, and as soon as her the Noble Earl L-dvAhii) has will go to their seat in Stu& tess and Family g ,„ i cnua rrhe from Countess iierilaatesi d strength, lOF CaNTEABAND TOBACCO. —On Sunday t 1 15 A.M., whilst George Darcey and ight, boatmen, in the preventiie service, Jeremiahf night,r g ; z i r au e ba . Enr belonging to the Shamrock, in obedience with the orders of Li, utenant Clayton, their commander, whilst patrol ling as detached guard, near Blue Bell-hill, about half way between 'Maidstone and Rochester, they fell in with a four-wheel cart, covered with canvass, and drawn by one horse. On seizing the horse's head, the driver jumped off the cart, and made his escape into: the neighbouring wood, it being very dark at the time. The vehicle was found to contain sixteen bales of tobacco, each weighing 501b5., two empty hogsheads, and two empty egg packages. The van, the articles it con tained, together with a good horse, were taken to the Custom-house, at R oc h ester . Th e se i zure is Ta l us d at about 1201. FADREADFUL MURDER.—A convict, named Pearce, was murdered by four other convicts, M Carrickfergus gaol, on Monday morning. THE WESLEYAN Co N FEERNCE. --- MANCHESTER, WEDNESDAY.—The election of Pre sident took Hate day, when the Rev. Thomas Jackson was chosen. The likely to occupy th e a tt ent i on the next tort n i g h t. o b f u s t i h n e e s a s s s e e f m c b o l e n p r e r n e a c i s r c e h , THE PARIS!' of ST. BRIDE.—We have seen a letter from the Lord Mayor, stating that a number of additional hands were put on yesterday at Whitet'riars dock, amd that in the course of to day it is expected that all the offensive matter will be removed. The Turks have a proverb which says that " the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil."—Eliza Cook's Journal. ( 1 1 k•ki' ; ' ; 7:` ' , l `.-?1 Y: i— t 4 U kr itittitqAtgAtLg tt 9 been apporntid tothe g res s Rhin de' tbst tiovs ttiCv pro" first hely aer 'ter did Sir mp, tie' die