The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-15 00:00:00

On Saturday next, Nov. 17, in 3 vols., PASSACTES in the LIFE OF MRS. MARGARET MAITLA.ND, Of Sunny Side, Written by Herself. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. 1 - - -- ------- NO PERFORMANCE AT THE THEATRES THIS EVENING. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. In. R. Webster, Stile Lessee MO and Manager, Old Brompton. TO-RROW, When will be pmimed MACBETH. 'Macbeth, Mr. Macready ; Ltac luff, Mr. J. Wallaek ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs. Warner. After which a new Farce entitled THE LAUGHING HYENA. To conclude with an original Farce called THE GUARDIAN ANGEL. Mr. Dulcimer, Mr. Keeley; Moggy Snaggs, Mrs. Keeley. Due notice will be given of the appearance of Mr. and Mrs. KEAN. The Boa-office is under the direction of Mr. I. T. Archer. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Under the direction of Madame Celesta. TO-MORROW EVENING, Will be performed THE SONS OF MARS. To be followed by an entirely new Extravaganza, entitled DO MESTIC ECONOMY. John Grumly, Mr. Wright ; Mrs. Grumley. Mrs. F. Matthews. After which a new Farce, entitled A BIRD OF PASSAGE. Mr. Carry Chick. Mr. Wright; Mr. Chaunt Ginger, Mr. Paul Bedford ; Mr. Charles Pusher, Mr. Boyce; Ernest Hopeful, Mr. Worrell; Mrs. Waters Rummer. Mrs. Frank Matthews. To senclude with a new slippery sketch called lIRS.BUNI3ErRY'S SPOONS. Mr. Highbury Barnes, Mr. P. BedfordTwinks, Mr. Wright ; Job Smith, Mr. 0. Smith; Mrs. Bunbury, Mrs. F. Matthews ; Mrs. Llighbury Barnes, Miss Brooks. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. TO-MORROW, Will be performed a new Opera, entitled CHARLES THE SE COND. To be followed by a new Extravaganza, entitled THE FIRST NIGHT. To conclude with a new comic Ballet called DANCING MAD. AB TLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Immense hit 1 Monerieff's New Pedestrian and Equestrian Extra vaganza of Mr. Briggs in the " Pleasures of Housekeeping and Horsekeeping," having been received with roars of laughter and shouts of approbation, will be repeated every evening until further notice. __ _____— TO-MORROW, The performance will commence at a Quarter to Seven, with Fitz magnificent Spectacle of THE PROPHET. After which Batty's SCENES OF THE ARENA, in which those inimitable artistes Mdlle. Amine, J. Bridges, and Mr. T. Barry will appear. To conclude with the new - Extravaganza of Mr. BRIGGS ; or the PLEASURES OF HOUSEKEEPING AND HORSEKEEPING , in which the whole Company and Stud of this Establishment, a long train of moveables, comprising Omnibus, Barouche, Go-Cart, and other vehicles, will appear. Box-office open from Eleven till Fotr. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. BIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts I)AT —Morning, 0 min. after 2 1 Evening, 19 min. after 2 Te-Moanow—v orning, 35 min. after 2 'Evening, 51 Mill. after 2 THE WEATHER.—SuN °JUICE, Nov. 15. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 34; Highest, 50; Noon, 45. BARONETER, 29.68. WIND W.N.W.—cold breeze and fine. „ ~./ ;- n‘ AT • .31. 0 -1117, evtenia_!A nit LONDON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1849. Grievous as the overstock of superior officers in the Royal Navy unquestionably is, it is absolutely nothing in comparison with the understock of non commissioned officers and able-bodied seamen. On Tuesday evening we commented upon the lamentable deficiency of our present system of manning a vessel of war when placed in commission. Our remarks must be regarded upon that occasion as having been merely preliminary. The evils resulting from so much mismanagement are altogether too numerous to be even hinted at with any adequate emphasis in a single article, penned even by the most sententious journalist. To-day, therefore, we would descant upon the miserable consequences of the existing plan with some greater degree of particu larity ; for assuredly the necessity for a speedy removal of the obstacles surrounding the principal instrument of national greatness and national protec tion must be sufficiently manifest to the reflective without any elaborate or very ingenious argument. No one has the folly to gainsay for an instant the assertion that, being the mightest of the insular powers of the earth, the proper maintenance of our maritime force is essential to the continuance of our empire, both home and colonial. Commerce, the very basis of our political importance, could not manifestly be persisted in without due attention to the abilities, the appliances, and the practised efficiency of our navigators. Our numerous and gigantic pos sessions beyond the seas could not be preserved intact without the support of an extensive marine service. While France, as a continental state with an im mense line of frontier, might survive, and has actually survived the destruction of her fleets (as at Trafalgar), England, as an insular state, could not continue to exist after the annihilation of her naval armaments. What, consequently, is a matter of superfluous defence to the former is a matter of exigent necessity to the latter, a matter of necessity both aggressively and defensively. Of this a chart of the seas, of this the history of England, of this reason, prudence, and patriotism alike afford conclusive evidence. There remains no cause whatever for prolonged reflection upon this point of the argument. It may, nevertheless, be advisable to consider briefly the number and the extent of the many evils resulting from so much inattention to the naval force of Great Britain. Statements of this nature, statements wholly beyond the reach of denial, cannot but serve to im press upon public intelligence the want of a perma nent maritime power, just as we have a standing army—a standing army, although the empire of England is an empire at once colonial, commercial, and insular ! In referring to the enormous and almost innume rable grievances arising from the existing scheme for manning the British navy, we may mention in the highest terms of commendation a volume recently produced upon this important subject by a Com mander in the Royal Navy, who has already shown himself the friend and well-wisher of the midshipmen, Captain ARTHUR PARRY EARDLEY-WILMOT. From this excellent little volume* all our arguments upon the wretched system now practised in manning the vessels placed in commission by Government, receive full corroboration ; and to its intelligent pages we gladly direct the attention of the reader, affording as they do a more elaborate exposure of an evil which has long provoked from ourselves the strongest language of condemnation. It will there be seen how utterly demoralizing are the ill consequences flowing from the deplorable in difference of our administrators to the conduct of a gallant and glorious profession. Captain EARDLEY WILMOT there details consecutively some of the more egregiously unendurable of the results of the prevailing mode of raising a requisite complement of seamen. He illustrates his statement by an instance which is unhappily applicable to any and every vessel now placed in commission. Immediately the order comes down from the Admiralty, the ship, until then lying on the mud in some out-of-the-way creek or harbour, with only her three lower masts standing, and with scarcely any of her ordinary furniture, is cobbled and doctered up by the dockyard workmen, and after considerable delay she is declared to be ready for her crew, and the captain, thereupon ap pointed, receives official instructions to hoist his pen dant forthwith. Well, the pendant is hoisted ; the necessary officers are named to the vessel, with orders to join her immediately; and the captain of marines, with his subaltern and party, soon afterwards make . _ their appearance. So far accomplished, there still re mains the vessel with her commander, lieutenants, mid dies, mates, the marines, the gunner, perhaps, the boat swain, and the carpenter, but otherwise " empty"— not a single seaman visible. Thereupon the captain and his subordinates find themselves in what our yankee brother JOR&THAN would very justly term " a pretty considerable fix." The officers see the necessity for instant action—but where are they to go for seamen ? Where are they to man the ship with some hundreds of competent and able-bodied d required complement' ? Wher e is thtevrees,ssetlhetorafibn:d, its No Aye, he shale) ing will do, for orders are peremptory ; per haps, indeed, the service upon which the vessel is v, anted is of the utmost importance with regard to promptitude. Therefore the only method of scraping together a crew is resorted to with as little further 115tontastination as possible. What this method may 7/s67:Csunfortunately but too soon explained. Hear „ vflpiram EARDLEY WILMOT'S account of it : "\lh' rendezvous is opened, after some time, at each pi;ro.nci a lieutenant is generally dispatched to one of thera;j:to exert himself, by promises and persuasion, in making up the desired crew. In addition to these mea sures, hand bills and placards are posted all over the sea -1 '‘‘ Manning the Navy, &e." By A. P. Eardley Wilmot, Commnder, B. N. Yp. 166, 1849. Cleave, .London. NEWS I- z to M, . ic :• : : t i, c-j;i__r_ THE SUN, LONDON THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 15, port towns, on which are stated, in large letters, the name of the ship, the name of her captain, and very often the station to which she is bound. It is added, that 'good petty officers,' and ' smart, able seamen,' are wanted, and that none need apply who cannot produce certificates of good character. " Officers, in this stage of the commission, and often, in fact, until their vessel leaves the port, are obliged to employ their time ii visiting the usual haunts of unem ployed seamen, in exploring pot-houses, and seeking out the wretched abodes of that abandoned class who form one of the greatest curses of a sea-port town, for the purpose of enlisting men in the public service. With all these engines at work, the desired end is not accom plished. Men are not forthcoming, although in all the ports of Great Britain full cry is made after able-bodied subjects. A week —and soon a month passes away, but, still, few have entered.—The work of the ship is delayed; large expenses are incurred ; time is precious ; and but little has been done towards the attainment even of that early stage in a ship's equipment, which a proper number of men, under those officers appointed at the beginning, might have easily accomplished in a tenth part of the time. Under these circumstances is it at all surprising that the work is improperly done? What can a few men do where so much is required of them? It is more than probable that even these few are not sailors! Can they, then, have much interest in the proceedings—and do they, for one moment, consider the value, or heed the loss of the stores under their charge? Articles that have cost the Government time and labour,—to say no thing of money,—in their making, are destroyed with out the slightest compunction, or, at any rate, their value is never the subject of consideration, for the sailor, fitting out his ship in this manner, has no qualms of conscience about his master's property; he has no consideration for any Government claims upon his economy and prudence, but imagines that all is fair play in the disposal of the means placed in his hands, and rather takes a pleasure than otherwise in acts of abuse, destruction, and waste. He knows that his services are only for a time, and has, therefore, no inducement to act with honesty to his employers." Imagine any such disgraceful duty being forced upon military officers invariably when appointed to any regiment ! Fancy the army lieutenant like the navy lieutenant having to go touting through the towns and villages in person, diving into the lowest dens in the most squalid rookeries, having to penetrate into pot-houses and brothels to coax their abandoned frequenters to subject themselves to his jurisdiction, and, after much toil and anxiety, to return to his commanding officer with the satisfactory reflection that he had got together the riffraff of the vilest localities, the offscourings of the most notorious neighbourhoods ! Nor is this all with the unfortu nate officers in the Royal Navy of England. Captain EARDLEY WILMOT continues— " By dint of great exertion, and after months of delay, the ship is reported ready for sea. But the crew is pro bably not even yet complete, and this obliges the Port- Admiral, after having communicated with the Admiralty upon the subject, to order a draught of men from his flag ship, or from wherever they can be spared. A motley herd is thus assembled, composed of all sorts and descriptions of men. Labourers, mechanics, sweeps, grooms, and stable-boys, form a large proportion of the whole number, many, perhaps, having the germs of a disease which tells a fearful tale in alter times, but which present necessity is glad enough to look over. " Orders are now sent down for this gallant ship to proceed to sea, which, after various delays, arising out of a corrupt system, she manages to do. In some cases it has occurred that a certain number of really good sea men have, on application of the captain of the ship to the commander-in-chief, been actually sent on board to lend their assistance in working her safely out of harbour." This latter disgraceful fact is vouched for as a fact by the writer, and is, surely, of itself sufficient to demonstrate the necessity for some sweeping in novation. Well may the indignant pamphleteer exclaim—" Fancy these ships in a gale of wind, or in the presence of the enemy ! Where would be Eng land's pride and England's glory.? Where should we find her boasted tars ? We will not—dare not — think that our foes would triumph ! But the shock would indeed be fearful, and big with the fate of Europe and the world." While a captain in the British navy can talk, and justly talk, in this despon. dent manner, of the inefficiency of the average class of sailors manning her squadrons, there cannot most certainly remain a doubt in any mind that there is room for immediate extensive improvement. But how to remedy this ? The answer is obvious and simple. After educating and testing your mariners during the average number of years in which a vessel remains on a foreign station, namely, three or four, do not, in the name of all that is just, of all that is rational, and of all that is economic and provident, dismiss the whole crew without any care for their future destinies I Do not in the name of humanity abandon the expert and honest to the chances of a precarious existence and grievous temptation. Give JACK lei sure to enjoy the proceeds of his bard labour; let him have breathing space and rest on land for a while; enable him to enjoy a vacation from toil, to toast his " lovely Nan " to her face, and to drink his glass of grog in good fellowship with some old shipmate laid up in ordinary, after the dangers and hardships of long service. But do not squander so much strength, aptitude, and honesty upon the cala mities and: miseries incident to the discharged sea man. Give the noble fellow time to recruit his limbs, his head, and his heart with a few holidays, and then let him have another chance of earning his bread as 'foremastman a-board some vessel in the Royal Navy of England. The disgusting scenes of vice and profligacy which take place on the occasion of public executions, though not exhibiting anything unusually odious at the awful spectacle on Tuesday at Horsemonger-lane prison, were' yet sufficiently marked with levity, in decency, and brutality, to lead us to examine the utility, nay, even the propriety of public executions. We do not, however, on this occasion feel called upon to enter into the consideration of the abstract question of capital punishment further than to say, that its most strenuous opponents are not more anxious than we are to see the period arrive when it can be safely obliterated from our criminal code with a due regard to the inviolability of human life and the public safety. But we greatly fear we have not as yet arrived at that degree of civilization and high moral culture when we could hope that the animal passions and propensities will be so regulated by the intellectual faculties as to enable us to strip our laws altogether of this dread and fearful sanction. We fear our social state still requires that the delibe rate and cold-blooded murderer should pay the forfeit of his life as the most awful lesson of retributive justice which human laws can teach. And we believe the most fastidious will admit that the sword of justice never fell with more merited severity than upon the revolting criminals who on Tuesday expiated their crime upon the scaffold. The most morbid could scarcely award any other punish ment to their fearful guilt. They committed a foul murder, unparalleled in the annals of crime, planned with the most hellish ingenuity and executed with the most fiendish ferocity, aggravated by the base and atrocious motives of lust, avarice, and jealousy. Ancient or modern times scarcely could supply us with an instance of such accumulated wickedness. Criminals such as these are almost beyond the pale of human sympathy, and we are not surprised to find the spectators of their fatal doom but little impressed with that solemnity which should mark the departure of two human souls to the Judgment-seat of an offended GOD. These remarks lead us to the consideration of the question of the utility or propriety of public execu tions. Those who argue in favour of public execu tions do not pretend to base their opinions upon their moral influence in deterring from crime, which is the chief end and aim of human punishment. An able contemporary argues that it ,appears " a matter of necessity that so tre mendous an act as a national homicide should be publicly as well as solemnly done. That popular jealousy demands it, and that the mass of the people would never be satisfied that great offenders were really executed, or that the humbler class of criminals were not executed in greater numbers than the State chose to confess." This manner of reasoning appears to be based on the presumption that the infliction of capital punishment within the prison walls, or in any way concealed from the public gaze, cannot be surrounded with such guarantees for its sure and proper fulfilment as would satisfy the jealousy and c i t a n m n i cot s t ee justt h a s e cogency b o l y f the curiosity o f th e pu bli c . W e w ill confess we b t h e i s a g d t reasoning. hat e e a l think ou s y of the public w ou ld the W j induce them to be present in our courts of justice, whenever a great criminal was to be tried, to assure themselves judge, and jury bad properly discharged their several duties. Those who advocate the infliction of capital punish.. ment in private argue that familiarity with scenes of death and horror, like familiarity with vice, tends to degrade and demoralize the human mind; that we by degrees lose that repulsive feeling against vice which made us shudder at its contemplation, but which loses its hideousness by familiarity, and that we become hardened and reckless by such horrid spectacles as that of Tuesday, and the greater the crime for which the criminal publicly suffers, the less likely is it to be a solemn and serious warning to the spec tator. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, the eminent novelist, bas given upon this point to a morning contemporary the result of his obser vations on the disgusting scenes in the neighbourhood of Horsemonger-lane the night previous to, and the morning of the execution. He says— "l believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and levity of the immense crowd collected at that execution this morning could be imagined by no man, and could be presented in no heathen land under the sun. The horrors of the gibbet, and of the crime which brought the wretched murderers to it, faded in my mind before the atrocious bearing, looks, and language of the assembled spectators. When I came upon the scene at midnight, the shrillness of the cries and howls that were raised from time to time, denoting that they came from a concourse of boys and girls already assembled in the best places, made my blood run cold. As the night went on screeching, and laughing, and yelling strong chorus of parodies on negro melodies, with substitutions of ' Mrs. Manning' for Susannah,' and the like, were added to these. When the day dawned, thieves, low prostitutes, ruffians, and vagabonds of every kind flocked on to the ground with every variety of offensive and foul behaviour. Fightings, faintings, whistlings, imitations of Punch, brutal jokes, tumultuous demonstrations of indecent delight when swooning women were dragged out of the crowd by the police, with their dresses disordered, gave a new zest to the entertainment. When the sun rose brightly—as it did —it gilded thousands upon thousands of upturned faces, so inexpressibly odious in their brutal mirth or callous ness, that a man had cause to feel ashamed of the shape he wore, and to shrink from himself as fashioned in the image of the Devil. When the two miserable creatures who attracted all this ghastly sight about them were turned quivering . into the air there was no more emotion, no more pity, no more thought that two immortal souls had gone to judgment, no more restraint in any of the previous obscenities than it the name of Christ had never been heard in this world, and there were no belief among men but that they perish like the beasts urn solemnly convinced that nothing that ingenuity could devise to be done in this city, in the same compass of time, could work such ruin as one public execution, and stand astounded and appalled by the wickedness it xhibits." We believe Mr. DICKENS has not exaggerated the disgusting scene, and we would be glad to see the adoption of any measures, consistent with the due execution of the laws and the reasonable satisfaction of the public, which would guard against the recur rence of such horrible and demoralizing influences. THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. It would appear that the great majority, not only of the French people, but of the French politicians, are delighted with the manner in which the PRESI DENT of the Republic has broken through the meshes which those skilful intriguers, DE FALLOUX and TIMERS, and MOLE and BERRYER had woven round him. The new Cabinet has already secured a work ing majority in the Assembly, and although the leaders, TRIERS, MOLE, MONTALAMBERT, and BERRYER, remain aloof, yet they are now powerless ; they stand detected conspirators, and like all detected conspirators, will probably soon be without followers. The publication of the amnesty has added im mensely to the popularity of the PRESIDENT. He promised an amnesty immediately after his election, and the publication of the amnesty (which is known to be his own personal act, and not that of his Ministers) so immediately after the dismissal of the parti•pretre Ministry, which had invariably opposed its publication, is considered as a significant protest on the part of the PRESIDENT against the thraldom in which he was kept by the Judases who accepted him, as they had previously accepted the Republic, solely for the purpose of betraying both. The answer of M. DE ItAYNEVAL to the offer of the Portfolio of Foreign Affairs in the new Ministry has been received. It is vague and undecided. The PRESIDENT has written to him, inviting him to return and take his seat in the Cabinet, and the Department of Foreign Affairs will be administered as at present until the receipt of M. DE RAYNEVAL'S answer. It is said that several changes are contemplated in the diplomatic body; and, among others, the speedy departure of Count FLAHAUT, for London, where he will supersede M. .DROUIN DE L'HUYS, is spoken of confidently. Accounts have been received in Paris of the arrest and detention, by the Pacha of MOGADOR, of M. VALLAT, the Consul of the French Republic in that city, who has been most cruelly treated by the Moorish authorities. The Pomone frigate, of 44 guns, has been sent to bilogador to demand his immediate release. BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT TBE LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE, Nov. 14. Boulogne and Amiens, s%—East Indian, 39 1 / 3 —Northern of France, 21/ g dis. Paris and Orleans, 29—Rouen and Havre, 9 1 .a—Sambre and Meuse, 1%. GERMANY AND FHE NORTHERN STATES. AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. FAREWELL ADDRESS OF KOSSUTH TO HIS COUNTRYMEN. The following is the farewell address of KOSSUTH to his country. It is dated from Orsova. "Farewell, my beloved country ! Farewell, land of the Magyar ! Farewell, thou land of sorrow ! I shall never more behold the summit of thy moun tains. I shall never again give the name of my country to that cherished soil where I drank from my mother's bosom the milks of justice and liberty. Pardon, oh ! pardon him Ntho is henceforth condemned to wander far from thee, because he combated for thy happiness. Pardon one who can only call free that spot of thy soil where he now kneels with a few of the faithful children of conquered Hungary ! My last looks are fixed on my country, and I see thee overwhelmed with anguish. I look into the future, but that future is overshadowed. Thy plains are covered with blood, the redness of which pitiless destruction will change to black, the emblem of mourning for the victories thy sons have gained over the sacrilegious enemies of thy sacred soil. " How many grateful hearts have sent their prayers to the throne of the Almighty ! How many tears have gushed from their very depth to implore pity 1 How much blood has been shed to testify that the Magyar idolizes his country, and that he knows ' how to die for it. And yet, land of my love, thou art in slavery ! From thy very bosom will be forged the chain to bind all that is sacred, and to aid all that is sacrilegious. 0 Almighty Creator, if thou lovest thy people to whom thou didst give victory under our heroic ancestor, Arpad,* I implore thee not to sink them into degradation. I speak to thee, my country, thus from the abyss of my despair, and whilst yet lingering on the threshold of thy soil. Pardon me that a great number of thy sons have shed their blood for thee on my account. I pleaded for thee—l hoped for thee, even in the dark moment when on thy brow was written the withering word Despair.' I lifted my voice in thy behalf when men said, thou a slave.' I girt the sword about my loins, and I grasped the bloody plume, even when they said, Thou art no longer a nation on the soil of the Magyar.' " Time has written thy destiny on the pages of thy story in yellow and black letters—Death. The Colossus of the North has set his seal to the sentence. But the glowing iron of the east shall melt that seal. " For thee, my country, that hest shed so much blood, there is no pity ; for does not the tyrant eat his bread on the hills formed of the bones of thy children " The ingrate whom thou hadst fattened with thy abundance, he rose against thee ; he rose against thee, the traitor to his mother, and d e stroyed the e u tt er l y . Thou bast endured fall; thou bast not cursed thine existence, for in thy bosom, and far above all sorrow, hope has built her nest. " Magyars turn not aside your looks from me, for at this moment mine eyes flow with tears for you, for the soil on which my tottering steps still wander is named Hungary. " My country, it is not the iron of the stranger that bath dug thy grave ; it is not the thunder of fourteen nations, all arrayed against thee, that bath destroyed thee ; and it is not the fifteenth nation, traversing the Carpathians, that has forced thee to drop thy arms. No! Thou hast been betrayed ; thou hast been sold, my country ; thy death-sentence bath been written, be loved of my heart, by him whose virtue, whose love for thee I never dared to doubt. Yes ! in the fervour of my boldest thoughts, I should have almost as soon doubted of the existence of the Omnipotent as have believed that he cotild ever be a traitor to his country. Thou bast been betrayed by him in whose hands I had but a little space before deposited the power of our great country, which he swore to defend, even to the last drop of his heart's blood. He bath done treason to his mother ; for the glitter of gold hath been for him more seductive than that of the blood shed to save his country. Base gain * The Arpad alluded to by Kossuth is the celebrated chief or khan of the Hungarians who, when driven with his tribes from the banks of the Volga, towards the end of the ninth century, settled on the Theiss, and as the ally of the Emperor Arnoul beat the Moravians, in the year 895. Under the weak rule of the son of Arnoul, Lewis, surnamed the Child, ho became master of Pan• d k y e n pt as t t h y e , which throne b nonia, which the Hungarians have since then kept pos session of. Arpad gave his name to a Hungarian till e gan th w e ith de S a tt.hSotefpAhenndrienw IH 997, .an in d which l3ol i. ' This race of kings is known as the Arpades. had more value in his eyes than his country, and his God has abandoned him, as he had abandoned his Gcd for his allies of hell. " Magyars ! Beloved companions, blame me not for having cast mine eyes on this man, and for having given to him my place. It was necessary, for the people had bestowed on him their confidence ; the army loved him, and he obtained a power of which I myself would have been proud. And, never theless, this man belied the confidence of the nation, and has repaid the love of the army with hatred. Curse him, people of the Magyars ! Curse the breast which did not first dry up before it gave him its milk. I idolize thee, 0 thou most faithful of the nations of Europe, as I idolize the liberty for which thou hast proudly and bravely combated. The God of liberty will never efface thee from his memory. Mayest thou be for ever blest ! " My principles have not been those of Washing ton ; nor yet my acts those of Tell. I desired a free nation—free as man cannot be made but by God. And thou art fallen ; faded as the lily, but which in another season puts forth its flowers still more lovely than before. Thou art dead—for hath not thy winter come on ? but it will not endure so long as that of thy companion under the frozen sky of Siberia. No ! Fifteen nations have dug thy tomb. But the hosts of the sixteenth will come to save thee. _Be faithful, as thou hast been even to the present. Conform to the holy counsels of the Bible. Lift up thy heart in prayer for the departed; but do not raise thine own hymn until thou hearest the thunder of the liberating people echo along thy mountains, and bellow in the depth of thy valleys. " Farewell, beloved companions ! Farewell, com rades ! countrymen ! May the thought of God, and may the angels of liberty for ever be with you. Do not curse me. You may well be proud ; for have not the lions of Europe risen from their lairs to destroy the rebels ?' I will proclaim you to the civilized world as heroes ; and the cause of an heroic people will be cherished by the freest nation of the earth — the freest of all free people ! " Farewell, thou land dyed with the blood of the brave ! Guard those red marks—they will one day bear testimony on thy behalf. " And thou, farewell, 0 youthful Monarch of the Hungarians ! Forgetnot that my nation is not destined for thee. Heaven inspires me with the confidence that the day will dawn when it shall be proved to thee even on the ruined walls of Buda. " May the Almighty bless thee, my beloved country. " Believe : Hope, and Love !" The German Reform says— " The fate of the Hungarian refugees is now decided, by the mediation of the American Envoy in London. Klapka has obtained in five different parts of the north of the United States a sufficient tract of country for founding a Hungarian colony. The price of the land was very moderate. Ujaza, the civil ex-governor of Comorn, is to quit Hamburgh on the 15th of this month, accompanied by an engineer, for America, by the steamer Hermann, for the purpose of surveying the land, and dividing it into allotments. The other Hun garians are to leave the same day, with Klapka, in the sailing-vessel." BELGIUM. OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS-THE KING'S SPEECH. BaussELs, Nov. 14.—T0-day the legislative ses sion for 1849.50 was opened by the KING in per son, with the accustomed solemnities. Ilis MAJESTY delivered the following Speech from the Throne : " Gentlemen,—The state of the country continues to exhibit a most favourable aspect. The tranquillity which it enjoys attests the excellent spirit which animates it and the value of its institutions. " Belgium, tranquil and free, maintains an honour able position among nations, and foreign Govern ments give us unceasing proofs of confidence and sympathy. " The crops have this year been unusually abun. dant. They have secured to our labouring popula tion the blessings of nourishment at a cheap price, and have, at the same time, enabled our cultivators to export a large proportion of their products. The minds of men are in these days directed with re newed ardour to the progress of agriculture. " The divers measures adopted by my Govern ment, seconded by the efforts of the provincial and commercial administrations, as well as by the com munal committees and private individuals, cannot fail to exercise in future that influence upon agricul ture of which we are already able to see the happy results. " The state of our manufactures in general is satis factory ; our exports to distant markets manifest pro gress sufficiently remarkable to induce us to endeavour to sustain and increase it. " A very sensible improvement has taken place in the condition of the Flemish districts which have suf fered most. The recent exposition at Ghent has re vealed the capability and energy of their populations so vs orthy of interest. "We have much happiness in confirming the re sults obtained. "The postal regime which you voted in your last session has hitherto responded to the expectations which were entertained of it. " The new postal conventions which we have con cluded with several foreign countries, and those which we are upon the point of concluding, have the advantage of extending the benefit of moderation and a uniform rate of taxation. _ _ " The session which is now about to open will, I have no doubt, gentlemen, be worthy of those which preceded it. The same zeal and the same patriotism will prevail over the works which will come before you, The last session was closed by voting the law on superior instruction. So far as that important law has hitherto been carried out it has been crowned with success. Time will allow us more and more to appreciate the ameliorations which it involves. You will have to complete your work, gentlemen, by this year voting the laws announced on the other branches of instruction. "Thus public instruction, imparted at the expense of the state, will be established on constitutional bases, and be equivalent to free instruction. " Our penal system has for some time called for those modifications which are conformable with the manner and spirit of the age. I hope that during this session you may be able to occupy yourselves in modifying the first book of the penal code. " The punishment of branding ought to be exploded from our code. A project shall be submitted to you to this end. _ . " The approaching expiry of the term assigned to the privileges of the General Society, and the condi tions which now prevail in that establishment, and the obligation imposed by the law of compatibility to organize the service of the state cashier before the Ist of January next, call for measures which now occupy the full attention of my Government. " Laws will be submitted to you relative to the or ganization of savings' banks and seignorial credits. The presentation of the latter renders more urgent the examination of the project on the reform of mort gages, which was submitted to you last session. "I I likewise recommend to your seriou s examination the project of law relative to loan banks for the working classes, whose moral and national welfare so justly claims our interest. " The army continues to show itself worthy of the nation by its discipline, its knowledge, and loyalty. "The civic guard, by its good organization, and by the sentiments which animate it, is a fresh pledge of our safety. " I have this year had occasion to visit several of our provinces. I was everywhere welcomed with demonstrations of loyalty and affection, the remem brance of which will always be dear to me. lam happy to be enabled to proclaim here the intimate union between the Government and the country, and the entire harmony which prevails among all the powers of the Stats. There lies our chief strength, both present and future. " By continuing to lend my Government your loyal concurrence, you will contribute, gentlemen, to uphold a system which guarantees the rights and interests of all, and thereby acquire a fresh title to the gratitude of the nation, and the esteem of foreign Powers." RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Cronstadt Gazette says—" The Turkish-Rus sian affair seems to have taken a new turn. It is said that the Turks have left Moldavia and Lesser Wallachia. OMER PASHA has had all the invalids embarked on the Danube, and his forces consist now of only 8,000 men, who are at Bucharest. It is rumoured that the Porte intends to renounce its claims to the sovereignty of Moldavia and Wal lachia, and that it will demand from Russia that those principalities be placed under the protection of the different European Governments." The Wanderer of Vienna, of the 29th ult., says, —" In contradiction to the above we have a letter from Connstantinople, dated the 29th, to the Wan derer, that Russia has consented to settle the affair of the Hungarian refugees, agreeably to the plea sure of the Porte, on condition that Turkey resign s its claims to the Danubian principalities in favour of Russia." We understand that George Leeman, Esq., has been appointed Chairman of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway Company. DEATH OF WM. ETFY, ESQ., R.A.—We regret to announce this distressing intelligence. Mr. Etty expired at his residence in Coney street, York, on Wednesday evening, the 13th instant, at a quarter before eight o'clock. ABERDEEN RAILWAY.—This line was opened on Thursday to Limpet Mill, within twelve miles of Aber deen. Since then the omnibuses to and from this stational have been well filled, and occasionally extra coaches have been required. The Marquis of Abercorn went south by the railway on Thursday.—Aberdeen Herald. Let a man do his best, and the world may do its worst.—Eliza Cook's Journal. ITALY. We read in the D(bats, with reference to the Cardinal Triumvirate at Rome : " We have unfortunately been more than once cone polled to point out the illiberal tendencies and to blan.e t he retrograde acts of the commission of Cardinals,charge d by the Pope with the govercment of the city of Rome. We have now fresh violences with which to reproach this Triumvirate, and what adds to our regret is to learn that the French authorities have played a part in these distressing scenes which liberal Europa—if there are still in Europe minds which the catastrophes of the last two years have not disgusted with liberty—will learn with a feeling of lively and legitimate reprobation. It is true that, thanks to the remonstrances of the French Ambassador, these deplorable scenes have ceased, but even that does not remove the evil of having participated in it. The question is of the Jewish quarter at Rome,and of the treatment to which its inhabitants have been ex posed for the last two days. The Ghetto, that monu ment of the worst epoch of barbarous times, has been the theatre of an expedition which will remind its un fortunate and timid population of the days when they only appeared to live to be persecuted. Under the pre tence of seeking for the precious articles which had been removed from the public monuments under the reign of Mazzini, this unfortunate quarter was sur rounded, invaded, and occupied militarily for forty eight hours; its inhabitants were by this very fact pointed out as a race of thieves, and receivers of stolen goods. to a population whose prejudices re quired no additional stimulus; the houses were all without distinction ransacked, without there being any legal indication against the probity of those who inhabited them ; the quality of a Jew was sufficient to subject them to the most humiliating examinations ; the mili tary measures were in fact so rigorous that every in habitant was forbidden to open his house—to go out into the street even to purchase provisions, or to seek a me dical man, if such had been required. One old man died, and three women were brought to bed without being able to get medical assistance. It will be quite sufficient for our present purpose to point out these facts to public opinion for them to be judged of as they deserve. Neither will it be forgotten, in judging of them, that neither during the satur nalia of the Roman Republic, nor since its fall, has any fact been established to prove even the moral participation of the Jews in any of the acts of that de plorable drama; and, however entire may be the co operation which French policy has lent to the re establishment of the Pontifical authority; however strict may be the laws of military discipline, it will not be forgotten that in the law of recruitment in France, no exception is made of religions, that in the ranks of the expeditionary army there are doubtless soldiers and officers who performed their duty as nobly as any of their comrades when it was necessary to reconquer his capital for the Pope. As the price of their blood shed in the breaches, they have seen all those who professed the same religion as themselves stigmatised as a race of robbers and receivers of stolen goods." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. The Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Park. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by her Royal Highness's Ladies in Waiting, will dine with the Queen and Prince Albert this evening. The Right lion. Sir Charles Wood is expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, and will have the honour of joining the royal dinner party this evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, and the Princess Mary, honoured the esta blishment of Mr. C. F. Hancock with a visit yesterday. Mr. Higham and Mr. Tidd Pratt had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir William \Vinniett had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday. Mr. W. H. Moore had also an interview with the Noble Earl yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town yester day for Windsor Castle. Mr. Noyes transacted business yesterday with the Commissioners of Railways, at their office in the Board of Trade. _ _ _ Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Canada and of the other North American colonies. Dispatches were also re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Gibraltar. HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER. (From the Court Circular.), " The Priory, Nov. 14. "The Queen Dowager's cough was occasionally troublesome during the night, but her Majesty slept comfortably at intervals, and is much as usual this morning. "DAVID DAVIES, LID." Their Serene Highnesses the Princesses of Saxe Weimar left Bentley Priory yesterday morning for town. Their Serene Highnesses returned to the Priory in the afternoon. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCLIESTER.—TUESDAY. AYLESBURY STEEPLECHASE. 5 to 1 agst Maria Day Even on British Yeoman and Vain llope. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7 to 1 agst The Young-un— taken 8 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne—taken 10 to 1 agst The Oaks—taken DEBBY. 10 to 1 agst Bolingbnlre—taken 11 to 1 agst Ghillie Callum 18 to 1 agst The Italian—taken 20 to 1 agst Sweetheart 30 to 1 agst The Nigger—take 33 to 1 1,000 to 20 agst Yew Tree—taken 1000 to 20 agst The Swede CHESTER CUP. 1000 to 18 agst Whim colt—taken 1000 to 9 agst each of the following—Beehunter, Da mask, and Mark Tapley—taken. AYLESBURY STEEPLECHASES.—WEDNESDAY. The Grand Handicap of 20 sovs. each. h ft, and 100 added; second to save his stake. Four miles. Mr. Vever's Vain Hope, 9st 101 b (Archer) 1 Mr. Elmore's British Yeoman, 12st 61b...(J. Mason) 2 Mr. Tredgold's Maria Day, 10st 51b (Frisby) 3 Mr. Middleton's The Young'un, lOst 21b (W. Taylor) 4 The following also started, but were not placed . Baron Rothschild's Mulatto, lOst 51b (Kelly)—Baron Rothschild's ch h by Irish Birdcatcher, lost 51b (T. Ball)—Mr. Tollitt's Tipperary Boy, lOst 71b (Barker). Betting-5 to 2 agst Vaiu Hope, sto 2 agst British Yeoman, and sto 1 agst Maria Day. Wou cleverly, after a fine race, by halt a length. Free Handicap, of 5 sow. each, with 30 added. Thrce miles. Mr. Butler's Young Lottery, llst (Butler) 1 Baron Rothschild's Mademoiselle, lOst 71b ...(Ball) 2 Safeguard, lOst 71b, and Forester, lOst 71b, also ran. Won easily. _ _ The Scurry Stakes of I soy. each, and 20 added, 12st each, three miles, were won by Mr. Butler's Young Lottery (owner), beating Mr. Price's Legislator (T. Ball), Mr. Mytton's Forester (Land), Mr. Rolfe's Blue Bonnet (owner), and Mr. Lepper's Kate (Reed), by hall a length. SALE or THE LATE MR. TIIEOBALD'S STUD The following thoroughbred horses, the property o the late Mr. Theobald, were sold yesterday at Stockwe by Messrs. Tattersall : Guineas, 26 ... Blackthorn ... B yearling f by Tuley Mullech, cl by Camel ... ••• ... ... ... B filly foal, dby Camel ••• ... Bay mare (1838) by Camel, out of Lou therbourg's dam ... ••• Sorilla ... ... Pocahontas B h by Mulatto or Starch, cut of Young Petuaria ... ... ... ... 1(4 Calmuck .... ... ... ... ... 26 260 Champion Muly Moloch The Baron ... 200 ... 80 ... 1,010 RAILWAYS—TREIR WEEKLY AVERAGE MILEAGE RECEIPTS. —There appears weekly in the public prints a statement of the average mileage receipts on all the English railways, comparing them with those at the same period of last year. Usually the comparison ap pears to be against the present year, but this ought not to be taken as any criterion of the comparative average mileage profits—for instance, say, which is generally assumed to be the case, that the additional mileage opened this year has cost per mile in construction less by one-half than the parent line, so that if the average profits are only one-half upon these extensions compared with what they aro on the parent line, they will yield the same rate of dividend and yet show very adversely as re.pects the comparative average mileage receipts. It is surprising that the railway companies do not take the trouble to set the shareholders and others right upon such points as these, in order to allay as much as possible the panic which so' unwarrantably exists with regard to these immense national undertakings. If the receipts were properly analyzed, it would easily be proved that the average mileage profits are considerably in favour of the returns of the present year on those lines where the affairs have been honestly conducted. LAWLESS PROCEEDINGS IN NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.— For some weeks Upper Boddington and its neighbour hood have been in a lawless state, and serious offences have been rife.. Last week a stack of oats, valued at 251., the property of Mr. John Paine, of Upper Boddington, was destroyed by fire. It is believed to have been the wilful act of an incendiary. On the night of Saturday last Mr. John Boneham, of Byefield, a shopkeeper and carrier, was, when between Boddington and the above village, attacked by two men, who beat him with blud geons, and robbed him of about 41. lle is, from the in juries, in a precarious state. Within a few weeks nearly twenty cases of sheep-stealing, besides other robberies, have occurred. Clarke, the police officer, and Mr. Paine, the constable of Boddington, were recently shot at, and since then two guns were fired at the policeman. In neither case was injury done, but in the first ono the shot hit Clarke. The district is in a state of terrorism and disquietude. The authorities are taking active steps to bring the offenders to justice, and with this view ten additional officers are to be forthwith employed. Self-love is at once the most delicate and the most vigorous of our defects; a nothing wounds it, but nothing kills it,—,Eliza Cook's Journal. 18.9. IRELAND TO TILL RIGHT HON. LORI) JOHN RUSSELL, M.P., &c. &c. &c. My Lord,—l purposely abstained from continuing to address your Lordship on this important sal ject, lest it might by possibility be said that the truthful statements contained in these letters might put capitalists upon their guard, and so injure the sale of the Connemara estates ; but now that the result is known, completely verifying my predictions, I again resume them, in the hope (may it not be a vain one) of inducing the Government to take some steps to avert the calamity. These letters are not addressed to your Lordship solely because you are Premier, but on account of your public declarations (among the most prominent of which was your speech in introducing your measure for the reclamation of waste lands), which incon testably prove that your Lordship looks at the danger with the eye of a statesman, and would desire to adopt large and fitting remedies. _ _ My last letter, after describing some of the different plans which had been proposed to meet the acknow ledged evils, concluded with that of Sir Charles Wood, whom I termed, by the grace of the Greys Chancellor of the Exchequer. I should, however, have said, by the Grace of the Greys and Sir Robert Peel. In judging of his measure of lending money to one Irish railroad company, and refusing similar aid to others, two points must never be forgotten. First, that when his patron, Sir Robert Peel, was opposing your Lordship's measure for the reclamation of waste lands, he was indeccntly cheered by Sir Charles Wood, a member of the Cabinet who had authorised your Lordship to introduce the measure. Without taking into consideration the immense difference between his mind and that of your Lord ship's, I use the term "indecently cheered" advisedly, for this was the first time that a member of a British Cabinet ever presumed to cheer a political opponent, when criticising a measure brought forward by his Premier. And the other point which should not be lost sight of, is the fact that this same Sir Charles Wood, only the preceding year, vehemently opposed the measure of Lord George Bentinck to lend money to complete all Irish railroads. That was an honest proposal, to which it was not possible to apply the terms of jobbing or favouritism. In the debate upon Lord George Bentinck's motion it was conclusively shown—in fact it hardly admitted of doubt—that however wise it might be to assist Irish railroads as a general measure, that the money so employed could not possibly give so much employ ment to the people as the reclamation of waste lands ; for in making railroads able-bodied men are alone employed, and even that employment ceases when the railroad is completed, whereas the reclamation of waste land would give permanent employment to all persons, men, women, and children, at different oc cupations suited to their respective strength and abilities. But Sir Charles Wood, in defiance of what he had before said, cared not for that which should have been the first object of a statesman, viz., to advance the money for that purpose which would best alleviate the distress of the Irish, destitute of employment, and therefore perishing for want of food, but looked only at the security offered, as if the principal duty of - a Chancellor of the Exchequer in this great empire was similar to that of the head clerk of a pawn brcker's establishment. Then came the proposal of Sir George Grey, a far abler man, who introduced the measure for fixing the present valuation of land for seven years, con trary to my proposal, which was, that the present valuation of land should be permanent, and that the rate only should fluctuate according to the wants of the poor. Sir George Grey, in opposing my proposal, said "it would be an act of injustice to others.' Now I entertain the most sincere respect for the personal and political character of the Right Hon. Baronet, and believe him to be perfectly incapable of saying that which he did not believe to be true. Yet it is as clear as the sun at noon day, that the sentence I have quoted is totally destitute of any thing approaching to truth, and as this question is of paramount importance in relation to the chief want in Ireland—the employment of the people—l will closely analyze it. To say that a proposed measure would be an act of ' injustice, necessarily implies that some party will be injured, and I do think such a man as Sir George Grey should not have reposed such implicit reliance upon his Irish adviser ; but desired to know whom it could injure, and how it could injure them—for an honest answer to those two questions would have shown the utter worthlessness of the assertion. On the contrary, the adoption of my proposal could not possibly have injured man, woman, or child, landlord or tenant, but must have benefited every one, both those who took advantage of it and those who did not. One case will, " mutatis mutandis," serve for all, and place beyond a doubt the fallacy of Sir George Grey's assertion. Suppose a locality where the poor rates are ss. in the pound, on the present valuation —that a landlord and tenant owing and occupying 500 acres of waste land, the present valuation of which is 3s. per acre, or 751. per annum, resolve to spend 101. an acre, or 5,0001. in reclaiming it—his present poor-rate, at ss. in the pound, or 751., is 181. 15s. Suppose that, after the expenditure of 5,0001., the land is worth 20s. per acre, or 5001. per annum. My proposal was that, supposing the wants of the poor to be the same as at present, the rate should be that which he now pays, or 181. 15s. No, says Sir George Grey, that would be unjust; his rate at ss. in the pound must, after the first seven years, be 125/. per annum. Splendid encouragement, forsooth, to a man who should wish to spend 5,0001. in em ploying the people ! Now, take the case of a neighbouring landlord and tenant owning and occupying land of precisely similar quality and value, he now pays 181. 155., and if my proposal had been carried, when his neighbour's land had been improved, he would still pay the same. What injustice has been inflicted upon him I But let me exhaust the subject, which I should indeed be ashamed of doing were it not the law of the land of the most pernicious tendency. Suppose that, notwithstanding such Legislative discouragement, so many properties have been improved that a rate of 4s. in the pound was sufficient to maintain the same number of poor. Then, according to Sir George Grey's plan and the law of the land, the enterprising and industrious landlord and tenant who had employed the people, would, after the next seven years, pay a rate of 1001 . per annum, or 811. ss. more than they would have paid had they done nothing, while his idle neighbour, who had done nothing, would pay only 151. per annum, or 31. 15s. less than the present rate. What a sample of the manner in which Irish affairs are managed! The great want of Ireland, that without which she must continue to remain a heavy burden upon the resources of this country, is employment. Behold how Sir George Grey and the Imperial Parliament think it right to reward those who will not employ the people, at the expense of those who are desirous of doing so ; and yet surprise is either felt or affected when Irishmen tell you that your Irish laws are a happy compound of ignorance and prejudice. And in this instance you had no excuse, for many months previous to the passing of the law I had stated my proposal in writing, which in truth con tained all the advantage of the maximum rate which the Government: proposed, without its absurdities ; hut of this maximum rate and its twin brother, the rate-in-aid, in my next. I have the honour to be, Your Lordship's very faithful servant, ItIGBY WASON. Corwar, Nov. 13, 1849. LET THEM GO ! Let them go!—the meanly humble — Go to look for better friends — Those who discontented grumble At the fate that fortune sends. Know you better than to heed them, They are seekers after woe ! A❑d be nobly self-reliant, Virtue•conscious, sin defiant; Let them go! Let them go!—all those who're preaching That the principles are wrong, Which are striving for the teaching Of the meanest in the throng. Tell them that the brightest flowers From the poorest clod may grow, And in noble self•reliance Bid their stony hearts defiance; Let them gol Let them go!—the proud and lordly— Those despising lowly worth; Tell them that the greatest riches Have been dug from out the earth; And never heed their puny scorning, But with evil for a foe, Battle onward, self-reliant, A noble, mighty-thoughted giant; Let them go! Let them go!—with all the splendour That their pride and pomp reveal, Show them you've as proud a spirit Tho' you're shouldering the wheel; And contented in your working Live to learn a❑d learn to knew That with noble self-reliance You may bid the world defiance; Let them go! JOHNSON BARKER Hull. SIGHT-SEEING.—A very respectable old man, who hod spent all his life (sixty-four years) in Morpeth, had lately occasion to visit a neighbouring town. In detail ing on his return the wonders he had seen, he men tioned, as a remarkable tact, .that he had ac t ua lly seen several men employed in sweeping the streets! This was something perfectly novel,—Newcastle Journal. ARTISTS' AMICABLE SOCIETY The members of this excellent society dined to gethe.r yesterday at the George Inn, Aldermanbury. The attendance, though tolerably numerous, was not quite so full as the utility of the society deserves, but doubtless this was owing to the fact of its existence not being generally known, since it has not been established more than two years. Mr. W. Williams occupied the chair, supported by Messrs. Wagstaff, Landells, Sergeant, and Gorway. Messrs. Wall and Force officiated as stewards. The cloth having been drawn, and the usual loyal and patriotic toasts disposed of; The CUAIRMAN proposed "Prosperity to the Artists' Amicable Society," explaining that it had been founded for the purpose of promoting feelings of amity and friendship amongst professors of art, and raising a fund to support indigent members in times of suffering and distress. The idea had met with a warm response from the profession generally, and he was convinced, if its originators would continue the same persevering efforts in thoroughly establishing it that they used in bringing it into existence, it would succeed beyond their most sanguine expectations. The toast was drank in bumpers. Mr. WAGSTAFF, in acknowledging the toast, re marked, that in their moments of conviviality they ought not to forget the source whence they derived their profit and fame. He re membered the day when artists and engravers, so far from lending it any encouragement, looked upon the illustrated press with feelings of contempt, but time—the great test of all human words—bad hap pily convinced them of their error. The merits of cheap publications, embellished with the pencil of the artist as well as the pen of the author, were now ac knowledged on all hands, though at one period it was thought such works would degrade art, and men of taste and eminence shunned it as they would a pes tilence. Now, however, that prejudice was rapidly disappearing, and if they might judge by the popular names attached to the illustrated publications of the day, instead of debasing art, it would seem that they had done much to promote it. Indeed, if he was not ❑iistaken, they had led to the discovery of a new style of art, namely, the mezotint system, which had proved highly successful in this country. Formerly artists and engravers were dependent upon aristo cratic patrons, but now they looked to the universal public for their support. Latterly the sale of their works had somewhat diminished, hut he attributed the falling off to the commercial depression. The state of trade had now become alike the barometer of the success of art as of other pursuits and professions, and he viewed that circumstance as an incontestable proof of an improvement in the public taste of the country. He gave them " The Illustrated Press." The toast was heartily responded to. Mr. SERGEANT returned thanks on behalf of the artists, and observed that he had never entertained a doubt of the utility or success of cheap illustrated literature, nor did he believe there was an artist or engineer who would dispute with him the good it had accomplished in encouraging and extending a taste for the fine arts. From the gilded saloon of the aristocrat down to the domicile of the :.rtizan a change was perceptible, and, equally in the necessaries as the luxuries of life, there was a craving for improvement animating all ranks and grades of society. The very shop windows of the metropolis betrayed a striking mani festation of this feeling; and look to the east or west of London, the line of beauty could be discovered in the show rooms and warehouses of tradesmen. Trust- ing, then, that every member of the profession, be he never so humble or so high, would persevere in the glorious struggle of accomplishing the mission of art —namely, to make their fellow-men worthy of the greatness of their country—he again thanked them for the hearty manner in which they had drunk the toast, and begged leave to propose to them "Success to Wood-engraving." The toast was drank with honours. Mr. LANDELLS was deeply sensible of the compli ment they had paid the body to which he belonged, and, like Mr. Sergeant, he was rejoiced in being able to bear testimony to the success of the union which of late years had subsisted between the pen and the pencil. There were three flourishing works in existence that placed the utility of the combination, if he might be allowed the term, beyond a doubt. 'lle success of the Pickwick Papers, which gave birth to one style of illustration, was in the first instance due more to the artist's pencil than the author's pen. It was not generally known that poor Seymour conceived the characters of Pickwick and Sam Weller before even a line of the work was written, and it was ever to be regretted that the success which attended the conception resulted in the death of the author. Then, again, there was the immortal Punch, which owed its popularity to artists : for several months after it was brought out it was a losing concern, but a happy idea of Harry Mayhew, of bringing out an illustrated Punch's Almanack profusely illustrated, placed Punch in a position which he had never receded from. The last instance of the success of the union was the Illus trated News. We remember the day when that also was a losing affair, but it was suggested to the pro prietors, on the occasion of the Queen's first visit to Scotland, that they should send artists to follow her as the daily papers did reporters. They adopted the suggestion, and the success of it could be seen in the immense number of papers sold during the recent visit of her Majesty to Ireland. The fact was the system of illus trating newspapers, and such like publications, was as yet only in its infancy. As the public taste in• creased illustrated works would multiply, and it was therefore for the interest of both high and low art to encourage and promote such periodicals. Several other toasts were given and responded to and the festivities were kept up till a late hour. The dinner was well placed upon the table, while the wines were of the best quality. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY OF ETERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Li- PERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following laankers:—. Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee formed to carry out the Testimonial. * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable toMurdo Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... .„. £1,153 12 71 A. Levy 0 2 6 Total ... ... £1,153 15 1i THE LAW COURTS.—(THIS DAY.) This being the Thanksgiving-day, the Law Courts both at Westminster Hall and Lincoln's Inn were closed. A single Judge appeared in some of the Courts at the accustomed hour of ten, but it was only for the purpose of going through the formality of adjourning them until to-morrow. MARKET NEWS. MEAT MAILIEETS. SOUTHALL, Nov. 'l4.—Our market to-day was heavy for each kind of fat stock, the prices of which had a downward tendency. Beef, from 258 d to 3s 10d; Mutton, "'s led to 4s; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s per 81bs, to sink the offal. ROMFORD, Nov. 14.—Prime Beasts and Sheep com manded a steady sale, at fully last week's prices. Other wise the market was in a sluggish state. Beef, from 28 10d to 4s; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 2d to 35 8d; fork, 3s 4d to 3s led per Blbs. Suckling Calves, les to 255; Quarter old Store Pigs, 16s to 225; and Much Cows with their small Cult, 16/ to 19/ each. LEWES, Nov. 13.—The general demand was steady at full prices. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 6cl; and Pork„ 3s 6d to 3s 8d per Sibs. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN or the Week ended NoY. 8, 1849, made ap from Ike RetArns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Eigland. and Wake per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT. I BARLEY.' OATS. RTE. I BEANS. I PEAS. I PRICE .. 40s 7d 1 28s 8d I 16811 d I 22s ad I 39S 4el I 30s lid DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. ,% HEAT. I BARLEY.OATS. I I RTE. BEANS. PEAS. IS 0(1 IS Od l ls Od Is Od lls Od ls Od Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and ac" quired politeness. The first consists in a willing abne gation of self; the second is a compelled recollection of others.—Eliza Cook's Journal. CLOSE OF THE TWEED . FISHINGS.—SaImon fishing in the Tweed c l ose d for nafishing on the 15th October, find fir rod fishing on Wednesday, the 7th November , fur the annual close time. The commencement of the season was not favourable for the fisheries above 15, here the tide reaches, and the number of clean fish taken was below an average. The grilse season, however, WO, better than f o r s ome years, and very large numbers 0 1 excellent large grilse were taken at many of the fish ( ries, both near the mouth of the river and higher up, with the net. Many of the salmon caught latterly were much above the general weight. Mr. Prescott killed one salmon, a little above Kelso Cauld, of the unusual weight if 36 lbs., the largest fish that any of the fishermen re member to have been killed with tie rod iu these waters. ( rwo years ago Mr. Dennistoun killed one in Carbon water 32 lbs. weight, which was considered extraordi nary.) The Duke of Roxburgh killed a salmon 26 lbs., Lord John Scott, in Rutherford wa er, a salmon 28 lbs., i,nd Colonel Sullivan, at Sprouston, a salmon 25 lbs.-- - Edinburgh Advertiser. As bees can breed no poison though they suck the deadliest juices, so the noble mind, though forced to drain the cup of misery, can yield but generous thoughts and noble deeds.—Eliza Cook's Journal. ..