The Sun. — London, England, 1842-02-03 00:00:00

MORNING SUN VISIT OF THE liING OF PRUSSIA TO COVEN T-GARDEN THEATRE. His Majesty the King of Prussia honoured Covent-garden Theatre with his presence last evening, and the performances were by his Ma jesty's command. . The time of opening the doors s'as postponed to seven o'clock, long before which hour they were besieged by an immense crowd, anxious to gain admittance ; an d w ithi n ten mi ..PatO after they were opened, the theatre was crammed in every part open to the public. The 4 eTfortnance commenced at eight o'clock with 1 ', 11 , 1 e pantomime.; and shortly after its conclu -11011- at a little after ten o'clock, the King ,4. Prnssia entered her Majesty's private box. 111 e audience ie rose to greet him ; he was received pith WaVing of hats and handkerchiefs, and loud deers from every part of the house. His Ma-• segtY seemed_ highly gratified by his reception, d cattle forward to file front of the box, and repeatedly bowed his acknowledgments. When 4 `!'e che er i ng h a d somew h at su b s id e d, a vo i ce r nin the pit ca ll e d f or one c h ee r more, and a i ' l earty cheer was t h e res p onse , w hich his Ma .)eaLY again acknowledged by bowing. The cur in then d rew up, and discovered the whole of 4 t 6 Comp a n y assembled on the stage. The band : A,l'ack up th e P russ i an na ti ona l a ir," per Land es and the Company sang the following tnghsh words, adapted to the air. The solo arts being sustained by Miss Rainforth, Madame estris, and Mr. W. Harrison ./Yelcome, Royal Guest of England ! • Welcome, from ()Ur earts we sin ! Thine own land its Father names thee— ' o urs, with pride, its Friend proclaims thee— 'God guard Prussia and her noble King ! honour to the flag . so bravely - Raised with ours the world to save 1 0 . 11 through that last struggle glorious. Sale by side they flew victorious— v. God gr an t together they may ever wave ! • n'eteum e , Royal Guest of England. 'Welcome, from our hearts we sing!— limy the sacred friendship plighted 4.tAte Font, be never blighted!— A .L-Ig live Britain's Queen, and Prussia's King! 4 4 ' 11 1°1/g the decorations of the scene, the stan dtu of Prussia, with its black eagle, was very 4. B l)icuous. His Majesty was evidently highly to ; 1 0 1 ted with the tasteful compliment thus paid th l tnself and his country. At the conclusion of T 4 Prussian National air, there were loud calls 11 4 ,,,; God Save the. Queen," and our own na iair then *as accordingly sung, the solo ,EVlleing sustained by Miss Rainforth, Madame ':e141, - . T is, and Mr. W. Harrison. While the con keZnk stanza was being sung, Miss Adelaide , 1 8 0 ,'",ule came to the front of the stage, and was `lii," cordially received by Madame Vestris, who 4) ) ,1,ti to her the additional verse " God save . I( e ,"",rince," which was sung by Miss Adelaide 1 4, as she alone can sing it. His Majesty tt i r aoded the performance of the National An , th o ': 4l With the greatest enthusiasm. Among % s e assembled on the stage, we were glad to V ll 've: Mr. Charles Kemble, looking hale, ) t e : r tY,' and in good spirits. - - We fancied can bserved an expression of honest pride r . his features as be contemplated his golliplished and gifted daughter, and we httgitinst envied him his feelings. Some little time ar to w e lapsed between the conclusion of the pan- me and the commencement of the other tee r niandes, but the audience was kept in ex ev.eathimiour-by the showers or papers, which f oi ! and anon fell into. the pit, and the scramble Ti.,, v hich gave . rise to a great deal of fun. ,: e ,PaPers contained thc English words of the • i r ,"sian National Air, and which we have Ji i n ' e a above. -Immediately on the conclu- A ft o f the National Anthem, the play of The King Merry Wives of Windsor commenced. p: King of Prussia was very 'attentive to the , lonnance and frequently referred to the book "di he heldin his hand. He seemed thoroughly tinter into the spirit of the play, laughed - JQart.ylY the witticisms and escapades of "sweet ~,4ck _Falstaff," and was by means sparing of ~.t7aPplause.. His Majesty seemed completely ::.h .a jcrecite the beautiful duet, " I know a :1?: e ") win ch, was exquisitely sung by Madame s.tris and Miss Rainforth, in 'the scoring of • vfilch his Majesty led the way. We never heard !:I'Mame Vest;ris's rich contralto notes in higher )e rfection, and are glad that she exhibited no 111 ees of the se vere illness from which she has , late been suiTering. At the commencement the _fourth act his Majesty and Suite quietly !ft die house. It was evidently his desire to 914 the house unnoticed and. unobserved, and t he audience had the tact to perceive, and the 4°s lsense to gratify, his Majesty's wishes. LhNT ASSIZES. 11,111 e following days and place s have been named by Sir John i4rt.tfti,, Knight, one of her Majesty's Judges of the Court * ---utitttotsixiPF'o: Judeß, ara Cresswell Cresswell, Esq., the newly -141%--'' d e g n e e f the Court of Common Pleas, for holding 11 "\k‘h' — RD CIRCUIT. i.",e , Reading, Wednesday, February 23. l: a ."", 4i re—Oxford, Saturday, February 26. 'utti e :,', 4 4llire—VVorcester, Thursday, March 3. 3 taff A 7, l Yorce s ter—Worcester, Thursday, March 3. __Sit 0 ,,,111ire--Stafford, Wednesday, March 9. *"" kit; e , lu ite—Shrewsbury, Friday, March 18. Ill tayo e ''' ,l 4ire—Heleford, Wednesday, March 23. IlAe --4 " l4l thslzire—Monmouth, Saturday, March 26. Ot- 'tt-leestershire Gloucester, Wednesday, March 30. 11 cif Glouces — et r—Gloueester, Wednesday, March 30. 80 411 , WESTERN CIRCUIT. -441 pt0 W' tehester , Thursday, February 24. i i tsi n-- n. l 're Salisbury, Thursday, March 3. r'ets hire--Dorchesier, Wednesday, March 9. r wall--Rndmin' Ci ty of Monday, March 14. co Exeter —Exeter, Monday, March 14. Monday, March 21. ,rners etshire—Taunton, Monday, March 28. HOME CIRCUIT. 1.1, [Ba ron Ald erson an d Bar o n Gurney.] ts rtfordshire—Hertford, Tuesday, March 1. X " - -Chelmsf or d, Monday, Match 7. s ett- -Maidst one , M on d a y, March 15. „ 4 ""— Le \ves, Saturday, March 19. fb l.re Y — Kingston-upon-Tharnes, Monday, March 2.'3. aat " 'lays for -holn ted. dng several of the ensuing Circuit. have Yet been appoi s. ,PORTING INTELLIGENCE. S ETTING AT ;NCANCHESTER.-TUESDAY. THE CHESTER aft': 10 to 1 agst Lanereost—taken 1 4 to 1 agst Marshal Soult--taken freely 1 5 to 1 agst Jolly Tar—taken 45 to 1 agst the Squire 1 6 to 1 agst Vulcan—taken freely. 1 8 to 1 agst Bellona—taken • 1 8 to I agst Satirist—taken 2 5 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorne 33 to 1 agst Rhodanthe agst Sleight-of-Hand 100 to 1 agst Una : . DERBY. , 4 5 to 2 ags t A tt il a — ta k en '.. .4a, 15 to 1 agst Chatham—taken 'TA) to 45 agst William le Gros —taken. , • it,. ~L,,:tiii4ANGEMENTS OF THE PRUSSIA. KIN ad O dr O es F sesa 01, 0 ' er 'lay his Majesty received severa l . .114 ' , Ace; he • afterwards lunched with his Gr n a d ce n t f h te e r A w r a c r hi s - ` l 4 13 . f Canterbury at Lambeth Palace, t Buc k ing - 6 a the banquet given by the Duke of Ca . of Wellington, N t 'i t rise. To meet his Majesty wer n e k t e n m v ab it r e idg d the Duke CDaunike -11, %,' Duchess of Gloucester, the D I}, %, Minizter, Sir Robert and LadyPenefl, the e e Duke state 4 elleil of Buccleuch, &c. The wh o le ii. 441 •t' \vhich have undergone re-embellishment, Ai.t were l ta 7ti 1444 and thrown open. To-day his Majesty ar_ ai,, - 2 4 4 .! Queen a . the opening h o e f r P m ai ai l e ia s m ty en a t t , a l3 n u d ek w i i tt l gh p arn Iflaz,, 7' f arewell dinner with by his Royal Vi t. °rtioyrow his Majesty, accompan i ed at an early hour to u, -ale P rince Albert, will proceed • and witness the -.,opi..ta. : he garrison, ... ereb t ' : I where he will inspect .sretti "•to h.woolviich the same afternoon h, alt ‘4 , - t s Lo c k e t practi.te by the Royal n f A nr rt o ill s e t r e y n , d, an n d n w ill ~,%:.41ar 0 own dominions. .) r eit sv.it'U.eilison, ill, AM? ief . e l, continues, vt,e 'egret to state, seriously h M.P., the respected Mernberisii i am will . Alt , ' 71 li e ', b r.lte Dowager NlarchOriess Conyng la fourchette whic h 1 aft;:.; 'Vier unless a change for the better takes ',ad \ i'- the dejeuTier a Pl ace place. to • • of Prussia on Sunday * 4 4 lk Y` °l ` and the Lady Mayoress had . the honour of Llat, at t , los :Majesty the King t Tilits le! Mansion house, the La l t e ly . ra,,,,,, la, a. copy of the Bible n M n a i y n o e r e d s i s tre p r r e e i s l t en i a t e n d . be deposited in the rages, e-M requested that it m 04 ;tit `---- Th.; Kingthe present in the most celv ---,-, ratia ,„_7' e lng received upon his Majesty's _return to his donii ed it 7, f i n r and assured her Ladyship that - he should pre with . • a hi h gratification, and . le it with g ' - l ble testimonial. that he re , a - reat care as an invaluable ua t .. CITY itvit,-.' tad e , 4., ROVEM'ENTS, A stir Government t t_ r endeavour to • prevail upon a:e l'nFrovernents in the vicinity of Tower-hill. There a b out o b t to Iv st mne old houses in Postern-row, Tower-hill, the .;°Perty, tlttlirevetly in the It is believed, of Government ; as they stand way of the trade of the docks, the re -....e s t ° +, I of these dilapidated buildings would, beyond mea b,.Th facilitate the requirements of trade in that busy :t(lielgrclihanildris7b(lei:ngd prevent the annoyance now so much 111 41 Plain ed of, arising from carriages laden with heavy . po,r ?ughfares of l o i b u l n ig n e d d :d t it o e rs i e ,e th ad ro e u n g h h an t - h s e tre c e o t i:fine l d e °ll - t rY, and Cheapside. The project, if carried into 4r4ution, would enable commercial houses having busi ness to transact at the clocks cat of London, to send a'el' E ' l lr f Foods through Thaines-street, to the very important e of the crowded thoroughfares above-mentioned. It ls hate tided to get up a memorial to the Court of C.o.m -11:1°11 Gouncil, praying that the Court would petition arlianaent to render assistance to accomplish so neces sary an. improvement, which surveyors are of opinion !euld be .effected at an expense not exceeding 10,0001. It 11 111) 0 sed that SOltle of the first people in the country '4direct their attention immediately- to a plan of Mi . pri)yernent of the most extensive description, and of course the p ur ticular altered= so much reuired will be e mbraced hi that pl an. q On Tuesday Sir P . Lauzie called in at Guild a4..t.q assist in the disposal of any agistrates, Sir Peter being sufficiently recovered from the Oita of .his late accident to - matters that require two left arm is in a sling. On thea& Qanadme°morni busi ness, that Sir Peter n although his Laurie slipped down the steps at his door, Sir g Chaproan Mar all slipped down on the pavement near his residence in Rus inilk-square,-. and he; we are sorry to say, remains confined t o ill 110 use by the injuries he sustained. - curred for the offi ,. ial crowd with was ab9„ T ut other. He lice stati9a, ed, but. had Wart leath cif 3 2 great ff 01: tog othe ca usetil er I. frc nt. cita tb e s rroan the 4f ..„01 of; Vol" e - Y:9 - 1 11 1, d for ste, 4 13ril eet [p had it , and ci.urivgr he Pr' s° t he ipts , Pr. t Cole b i e valu ! t the i° e 5, tad ;ovher o f n ebe ep ia v e l ir the nd,_„ jt aAl ? ° ; jetl e y „ the , nos t i 97 cOl l •ellde re 'At ,tape' i 1 01 Una'” ig cry ri2C 3 .1 afitnt t' ose 1 being re t be Y 9 °li _ c lior Shan' b, bew' re Le so' roir to hea d It t, 'arlio °c of 1e of the eeived of S S" ith. U h e seit e 111 ,nd fc r , .onCr ° '' °e r the IA Oie T P I , IcCOllll. ro t he retli Ile r' 1 of ara o flo 1 " 31.5 'le P dePtlrod e%c se the 5" • , 0, 'll th e el , )rt h /0 1 ' a remiu o , lEO Ol', 0 -0 0 14 Ole- de ; 0 11 _„ e li tg re prof trito ,0 Esof e ,/ Qo ,fie f il oi 601? re d , oPe fig, 41 o ', 1 1 : for ;9 (DW I ' is. 1" 0 44 o de Th 04° 1 t )0- a s olg / ,et ree 40; if eels 13 ,0 0 0 il l At e e yl ;?. 3.1 , sit e 89, ifsl u 1i 7 0 i ii 1 6 01, i 0 ,e 1 , •sq ricr, ing MAGAZINES.-CONCLUDED. COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE MAGAZINE. An able paper, on " British Arms as they were, and as they are," sets in contrast the rela tive losses of the conflicting powers during the Marlborough and Peninsular campaigns, and, from the showing of the French themselves, evinces the greater loss to be invariably on their side. This has led to an investigation on the part of two of their own authors, to account for this startling fact, who, after due scrutiny, arrive at the conclusion that the predominant cause of the victories of the British over their antagonists, chiefly arises from the superiority of our arms and the aztion of their fire. The " Wreck of the Wager," with the stirring inci dents attached to the insubordination of its crew, and the suflerings undergone by many of them, " till their souls died within them," forms an ex citing nautical narrative. A statistical paper on the " Military Force of Great Britain," concludes with a document which, in illustrating the prevalence of desertion in the army, shows that out of the 10,000 to 12,000 recruits levied for the army in 1812, the desertions in that body amounted to half their total number.. Three sketchy notices of St. Lucia, Martinique, and Dominica, are struck off with a pleasant, but also an instructive pen. A variety of amusing incidents illustrate the "Reminiscences of a Light Dragoon." MONTHLY MAGAZINE. This Magazine is greatly improved under its new management, for the articles are better adapted to the public taste, are inure various in their character, and infinitely less puzzling and metaphysical than they used to be. We can un derstand them now, which is a great point gained. "An English Heart, or . the Female Foscari," is a tale by the late Miss Isabel Hill—au accom plished authoress, who has but recently passed from among us. The tale is illustrative of the stroug passion which some Englishmen feel for their native country ; and is, we are assured, founded on fact. In the criticism on "Paul de Kock's Novels"—which are just now quite the rage at Paris—it is justly remarked that "his greatest defect, and the greatest objection to his being popular here, is his indecency. This can sometimes be avoided iu translation, for it is sometimes merely verbal and accidental ; but there are many of his most ludicrous situations founded on, and entwined with subjects of too Smollettish a nature, either for translation or female perusal." The least offensive against de cency of De Kock's novels is his " fiarber of Paris," which accordingly, we believe, has already appeared in an English dress. The " Memoir of Miss Isabel Hill" is by her brother, the editor, and is penned in a • touching, un affected style. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE. The author of the " Note-Book of an Irish Barrister" resumes his diverting legal sketches this' month, with a biographical memoir of Mr. Justice Crampton—one of the most eminent lawyers that the Irish bar has produced for tnan.y ,years. This gentleman was, it seems, distinguished for his attainments at the Dublin University, " *here his career was remarkably brilliant. In his under-graduate course he bore away every distinction in science. And though less remarkable for his classical attainments, yet his knowledge in that department approached a first-rate character. In mathematics he had no rival, and though many who have since risen to renown were among his competitors, yet he distanced them all, and bore away premiums and certificates almost without the appear ance of an effort. As a lawyer," adds the bio grapher," Mr. Crampton did not hold the high est rank, but he was always considered a safe and steady advocate. In knowledge of Court prac tice, a very intricate and also a very emolumen tary department of the profession, he was mi nutely versed." Of the remaining articles, the one most to our taste is the "Batchelor of Fifty." BRITISH MAGAZINE. A biographic notice of Dr. Lake exhibits but. little of exciting moment, except that he was - one of the ‘.‘ seven bishops" who refused to suc cumb to the vverbe4rance of James I. ; beyond this, he was a.quiet aiithinisitutOye scholar. Thu bulk of the present Number is *fade -up of communications on abstruser points, or questions that lack general interest; indeed, the grey and antiquated church-cowl thrusts itself too promi nently forward in a multitude of places, where, instead, as in the visible church, the fair and modernised surplice had better have appeared, consentaneous with the tastes of the day. NORTH OF ENGLAND MAGAZINE. We have here another first Number of a monthly periodical, which comprises, among other contributions, an intelligent paper on the subject of the "•Manufacturing Population ;" in which the writer observes, " The question of juvenile labour is one that concerns the parents infinitely more than the employers of the children. Ma nufacturers have not created the system; it has been forced on them." Most likely it has; nevertheless, the manufacturers have it in their power greatly to ameliorate the evils of the system, and we hope and trust they will combine to do so. " Our Political Prospects" gives some useful hints to the Reformers as respects their future conduct in Parliament. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. The intelligent countenance of Dr. Robert James Graves, Professor of the Institute of Medicine, adorns the February Number of our Tory Contemporary's Irish Portrait Gallery. A Memoir accompanies it, written in a spirit which must be highly flattering to the living original of so spirited an etching. " Gas par the Pirate" is a clever continuation of a very startling tale, as malike every-day life, even in the Indian seas, as possible. Besides articles, clever in their way, about the Corn laws and the Repeal of the Union, there are some well-written reviews of " Stephens' Ame rican Travels.," and the latest volumes of" Rana blea in the Pyrenees." From the "Anthologia Ger manico.:''llotgaptigthe following extract from Bur ges's ballad of flfe'Ataluctiqh. of Lady Gertrude Von Hochburg—a translation of which was never before attempted in the English language. lady's father, a Baron of the Empire, had deter mined to bestow her hand upon a more powerful suitor than the Knight to whom she gave her heart. On the eve of her nuptials her lover carried her off, was p ursued by her intended spouse, whom he killed in fair fight, but when ready to continue his flight with his fair charge, lie sound himself surrounded by her father's retainers, led on by the Baron in person. What followed will be best told by the poet : Alas, poor Gertrude ! Who can tell Her agony of hope and fear, As, like a knell, each full word fell Upon.her anxious ear ? She cast herself in tears to earth, She wrang her hands till blood gushed forth, — She tried each fond entreaty To move her sire to pity. " 0, father, for the love of Heaven, Have mercy on your child Forgive, Even as you look to be forgiven A guilty fugitive I am not .—lf I fled from one Whcm still I cannot chuse but shun As ruffian-like and hateful, Oh, call me not ungrateful ! 4,1 Think, think how in my childhood's days lrbitt.tisp,d to take me on your knee, And sing iflivekil.fonantic lays, Which yet are dente ! You called me then your hOrgilfgur,44.e ; Oh, father, cast not now aside Those hallowed recollections ! Crush not your child's affections !" Oh, mighty Nature !—how at last Thou conquerest all of Adam's race ! The Baron turned away and passed One hand across his face— He felt his eyes grow moist and dim, And tears were such a shame in him, Whese glory lay in steeling His bosom against feeling ! But, all in vain I—a thousand spears Pierce in each I,ord his daughter speaks— In vain !—the pent-up floods of years Roll down the Warrior's cheeks ! And now he raises up his child, And kisses o'er and o'er her mild Pale face of angel-meekness ! With all a father's weakness ! " My child ! I may have seemed severe— Well, GOD forgive me—as I now Forgive thee also freely here All by-past faults I —And thou, My sun, come hither !"—And the knight Obeyed, all wonder and delight— " Since love bears no repressing, Mayest have her,—with my blessing ! " Why carry to a vain excess The enmities of Life's short span ? Forgiveness and Forgetfulness Are what Man owes to Man. What, though thy sire was long my foe, And wrought me Wrong,—since he lies low Where lie the Best and Bravest, Peace to him in his clay-vest " Come I—all shall soon be well once more — For with our feuds, our cares will cease ; And heaven has rich rewards in store e For those who c h er i s h P eace. strife— Clasp—May of life Come, h c a h n i d ld s re llT n !---hre this ! Be - benceforth strewn with roses 1 " And here the ballad dos • • P- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1842. SONGS OF CHARLES DIBDIN. The Fourth Part of this excellent' collection of Mr. Charles Dibdin's love-songs, bacchanalians, and sea-lyrics, continues to form a mingled mis cellany that cannot fail to delight. The music pages at the end evince the felicitous manner in which Dibdin's simple lines always wedded themselves to melody. LITERAT URE. RAMBLING RECOLLECTIONS. Curry, Dublin, 1842. . . . In this volume - We have a collection of tales and military reminiscences, strung together With out order or method, and alternating between the serious and the comic. The - first story, entitled " The Outcast," is the best—or at any rate the most striking—and is the confession of a London street-sweeper, whose career through life had been marked by an unusual multiplicity of strange adventures. He had originally been. in the English army, and was attached one of Sir Thomas Picton's famous fighting 14girnents, but having been flogged severely for some fla grant misconduct, he deserted to the Freneh, and fought for some, time in their ranks. After the battle of Waterloo, he quitted...Europe and turned pirate, in which capacity he accumulated a speedy independence, and was on his way home to enjoy the fruits of hisill-gotten gains, when the pirate-ship in which he was embarked was captured by an English brig, and he was taken to Carthagena, where he was tried, found guilty, and condemned to be executed. On the night previous to his execution, riot among the populace took place in the streets of the tow the mob attacked the. ,prison,,.and liberated all the captives; and the pirate found his way back to England with scarcely a farthing in his pocket. Here he encountered misery and pri vation in their worst forms, and at length, by way of keeping himself from absolute starva tion, he turned resurrection-man, and ended his career by being hocussed and burked by some of his resurrection confederates! The story, in places, is told with power, but is of too much over coloured and melodramatic a character. The other stories contain little or nothing worthy of notice. WAVERLEY NOVELS, Vol. XI. Cadell, Edinburgh, 1842. The present volume comprises the entire tale of the " Abbot," one of the most carefully written of the whole series of Waverley Novels, and which amply compensates for the compara tive failure of its immediate predecessor, the " Monastery." The volume contains the ori ginal introduction, which was prefixed to the celebrated edition of 1830; and an engraving representing the highly-wrought interview be tween Mary Queen of Scots, and the Com missioners who were sent to Lochleven, by order of the Regent Murray. FASHIONABLE 'INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Templetown, in Berkeley-square, from Castle Upton, Antrim; Lord Claude Hamilton, in Argyll-street, &Om Baron's Court, Tyrone ; Count Goltz and Captain Annesley. in the suite of the King of Prussia, at the Burlington Hotel, Cor k-street, from Windsor Castle ; the Earl and Countess of Tankerville, at their new residence, in Maddox-street; Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Russell, in Chapel-street West, Belgrave square, from Woburn Abbey ; Lord Wm. Powlett, in Curzon street, from Shropshire; Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbanke, from Thorpeperrow Hall, Yorkshire ; the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, and the Ladies Primrose, on the Terrace,. Pic, cadilly, from a visit to the Hon. Colonel and Douglas Pen nant, at Penrhyn Castle ; Mr. A. B. Hope, from a visit to Lord and Lady Heresford, at Bedgebury, Kent ; Baron and Baroness Cetto, in Hill-street, from a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle ; Mr. Massey Dawson, from a Continental tour ; Lord and Lady Mahon, in Grosvenor-place, from Brighton ; Gambier Parry, Esq., Mrs. Parry, and family, at. Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; George Gib son, Esq., ar.d Mrs. Gibson, at ditto; Mrs. Pickering, at ditto; the Rev.,i►lr.:.Burket and Miss Burket, at ditto; Hon. Mrs. Eussell Barriitton, at the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn street, from. Stutiiin!,'llectory, Ipswich ; Mrs. and Miss Richardson, at ditto, from Warren Wood, Hatfield. ). DEPARTURES. The Rev. J. Drake, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Ca vendish-square, for Crewkerne, Somersetshire ; Miss Drake, from ditto, for Tunbridge; the Hon. Captain Ainstie, from ditto, for Scotland ; the Doctor and Mrs. Cornish, from ditto, for Exeter ; the Bishop of Oxford, from Grosvenor-square, for Cuddesden Palace ; Viscount Cantilupe, for Paris ; „Vis count Lovaine, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle ; Lady Thomas Hay and the Dow alter Lady Kinloch, for Leamington Spa; Major-General Grey and the Hon. Cap tain G. A. Byron, fir the East Indies ; the Hon. Messrs. Edwardes, from the Burlington Hotel, for Ramsgate ; Lady and Miss Le Poer Trench, on a Continental tpur ; the Mar quis de Sommery, for Brighton ; Sir Charles and Lady Grey and family, for the West Indies ; Colonel Whichcote, for Lea mington Spa ; Colonel Sir John Eustace, on a tour. • CHANGES. The Earl and Countess of Orford and the Ladies Walpole, at Wollerton Hall, Norfolk, from Dersetshire ; Lord and Lady Berehaven, at Dublin, froth Bantry Castle; Admiral Sir Ro bert Stopford, at Greenwich Hospital, from a visit to her Ma jesty, at Windsor Castle ; the Hon. G. H. and Lady L. Ca vendish and family, and Lady Frances Hope, at Ashford Hall, near Chatsworth, from Harewood House ; the Marquis of Dou glas, at Paris, from Hamilton Palace; the Duke of Devonshire, Earl and Countess Granville, Mr. and Lady Georgians Ful larton, and the Hon Richard Cavendish, from Nice for Pau, en route to Paris; Sir John and Lady Shelley, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, from a visiting tour ; Mr. Parker, M.P., from a visit to Sir George and Lady Sitwell, at Rensham Hall, Derbyshire. Sir Robert Peel's first grand Parliamentary ban quet, last evening, was given to the mover and seconder of the Address in the House of Commons, the Earl of March and Mr. Beckett, M.P. for Leeds, and about forty other Members. including the Earl of Lincoln, the Speaker, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Lord Granville Somerset, Mr. Lyall, the Judge Advocate General, Dr. Nicholl, Mr. Manes Gaskell, Colonel Peel, Sir. Hope, and the Hun, Sidney Herbert. The dinner was given at eight o'clock in Sir Robert's picture gallery, overlooking the Thames, which is filled with ancient and mo dern paintings of the first class, including portraits, by Law rence, of the Statesmen who have been the Premier's colleagues in office. After dinner the heads of the Royal Speech, agreed upon at the Council yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, after the Queen's arrival from Windsor, was read to the company, who appeared in full dress. BLENHEIM-STREET FREE DISPENSARY AND INFIRMARY. — The sixth annual ball, in aid of this institu tion, took place on Tuesday night, at the Hanover-square Rooms, and was attended by nearly three hundred persons, who kept up a brilliant series of quadrilles and waltzes to the strains of Adams's hand until six o'clock the following morning. A well served supper formed the interlude. The first toast pro posed was the health of the Prince of Wales, which was re ceived with a true British greeting. The progress of this in s•itution deserves more attention from the public than it has hitherto received. While in the other numerous Dispensaries that exist in the metropolis letters of recommendation are re quired, which too often cause serious delay to the patient, here the usual form of credential is dispensed with, as in the words of the Report " Sickness and poverty constitute the only intro duction that is required." A highly commendable feature in the system of this institution has been 'its special attention to women, suffering under diseases common to their sex, and a'sn arising from the incidents peculiar to the lying-in state, and to patients afflicted with diseases of the skin. These diseases chiefly commit their ravages among the humbler classes, in consequence of the privations they undergo. No less than 12,650 have been cured, or relieved, in the course of seven years, at an expenditure of only 9851. 6s. 9d., every guinea subscribed being the means of efficiently relieving thirteen sufferers. Its sphere of usefulness has been found so great, and the calls for relief so pressing, that the Committee, to .whom great praise is due for their unceasing exertions in the cause of humanity and their rigid economy, have thought it neces sary to augment the Medical Staff. The method of electing their officers is also admirable. Talent and experience are the essential qualifications looked for in candidates. The Com mittee, as soon as their funds will permit, intend to open a ward for the continuous reception of aggravated cases, and also to es tablish those baths which in cutaneous diseases are almost in dispensable. On these grounds the Committee, having a num ber of applicants, greatly beyond their inadequate income, while relying on the continued support of their subscribers and friends, also confidently appeal to the sympathies of the hu mane and generous public. SH EPTON MALLET.—On Monday last, a spe cial meeting of the Guardians of the Shepton Mallet Union was held, fur the purpose of considering a motion (of which notice had been given) for granting • out-door relief to able-bodied paupers, on which an amendment was proposed and carried for the adjournment of the question until that day six months. The state of the poor in the town' and country parte( of the Union is truly distressing, particularly those who are ernisteyed in agriculture, whose wages when in full work do not average more than 7s. per week, but, from want of work and the un favourable state of the weather the last two or three months, a large proportion of the labourers have not earned half that sum. Many of them have large families depending upon them for support, who are literally starving for want of food ; the Union-house is quite full, and were it not for the prejudice which exists among the poor against it, and the dread of break ing up their little establishments, out-door relief must be granted, or another workhou se built. I t is deplorable to wit ness the labouring classes :in kin g lower and lower every year, and many of the smaller cl ass of tradesm en sinking with thorn, any price; the p oor rates this year many of whom are becomi n g p au p ers. There are nearly 300 d on a valuation , in many case s , a b ove th e habreoecuoseess.e quitemt h unsaleablece p up o i unoccupied in this a town ; indeed, h ouse property has rental; and in all the rural p arishes the poor -rates are increas ing.— Somerset County Ga zette. We regret to have to announce the sudden de- - eeas o a f t e John High Sheriff or that county. Davidson, ' Esq., o f Ridley H a ll , Northumber land,The lamented gen tleman's death, which took plac e at Ridley Hall, on Saturday last, was caused by disease of t he hea rt. He had been married for some years to the Hon. Miss Jessopp, but had no family. ' DEATH OF Mn. H. ROBERTS, HER MA JESTY'S STATE COACIIMAN. — T h e death of this very old and faithful "servant of the crown " took place on Tuesday, at the Royal Mews, Pimlico. Mr. Roberts has filled the above situ ation upwards of thirty years, and that with the highest credit to himself, and satisfaction both to his noble employers, and to those placed above him in his department. His character for hospitality and charity is well known to a numerous circle, and many will lose a very excellent friend. It is somewhat re markable, that notwithstanding his heavy afflictions (for he has been " a martyr to the gout " for many years) he has always been ready to perform the duties of his office ; and it was not until the late christening of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales that he ceased to perform Isis duty. He will go to the grave much lamented by all who knew him, and per haps his successor will never have it in his power to say that like Roberts, he was State coachman of " four Sovereigns." Mr. Roberts, we believe, was in his 82. d or 83d year. it is our painful duty to record the decease of Holbrook Gaskell, Esq., of Prospect-hill, near Warrington, one of the Magistrates acting for the Warrington division of the county, and for Cheshire. The melancholy event took place on Thursday morning. The deceased sat on the War rington Bench on Monday, and Tuesday attended Daresberry Petty Sessions, apparently in his usual good h ea l t h . O n Wed nesday he complained of indisposition, and on Thursday morn.. ing departed this life. We are informed that the deceased Liverpool Mail, gentleman was in the 72d year of his oge,— B.T. B.T. 1 B.T. that paper, for a seditious article, its own printer, afraid of the action of the law , had refused to print th e j ourna l if an article elititled " Der Action de Dieu sur la France," were to be inserted in it. SIR E. BL A KENEY, K.C.B.—It has been erroneously stated in some of the papers that this gallant officer voted for the Tory candidate at the late election. We dis believed it, from the high character of Sir Edward, and are happy to be assured that there is no foundation for the report. , —Dublin Pilot. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER.—Mr. Bixkett, farmer, of Swineshead, Lincolnshire, had eight children chris tened on the d a y o f th e b ap ti sm o f the Prince. They all walked to and from the Church, two and two, attended by their father, godfather, and godmothers.—The Rev. Mr. Langley, clergyman of St. Mary's, Wallingford, to show his loyalty, on Tuesday last had a public christening free of fees. There were fifty-six, admitted into the Church--five adults, and several families of five antkoix. A Correspondent fuinishes LIS with a copy of a letter written by direction of Lord Stanley, and dated '° Colo -Dial,plitiss, Jan. 28," in which, it' is stated "that the reports which have been Wrelethafthe Government has in contem plation a general scheme of emigration are without founda tion."—Morning Paper. The law-suit between M. Troupenan and M. Schlesinger, the music sellers, concerning the right of pro perty in the Stabat Mater of Rossini, has been decided in fa vour of the former. A person named Becker, a commercial agent, living at 9, Rue du Chaume, was arrested yesterday upon a charge of havingforged and issued scrip of the Haytian Stock. Papers substantiating the accusation are said to have been seized" in his apartment.—Galignani of Wed nesday. THE VICAR OF LEEDS MADE AN ODD FELLOW.-It will be in the recollection of many of our readers, that, in November last, the Rev. Dr. Hook, vicar, was solicited by the members of the IA as dis trict of Independent Order of Odd Fellows to prea.c).-'a sermon in behalf of the G enera l I n fi rmary and Dis en sary. He consented, appropriating the chu4 fkr the admission of Odd Fellows only, when a. collection was made fo r the above object, amounting to nearly NV. So faCotiiably - impressed was the Rev. Doctor with the principles which govern, and the motives which actuate this body, bY perusing the rules, magazines, reports, &c., that on Monday even i ng l ast h e was duly ' initiated a member of the society, at one of the largest lodges in the town, held at the Brown ( Cow Inli, Meadow-lane. The number of members enrolled in this order in England is about two • hundred thousand, amongst which are up wards of. forty Members of Parliament, and numerous clergymen and Dissenting ministers of every persuasion. The order is equally flourishing in America.—Leeds Mercury. Mr. Bucke, •the well-known author of several works, had a serious accident on Monday. He has been long labouring under paralysis, but it had yielded in some degree to judicious medical treatment. On Friday, coming out of a gentleman's house in Berners-street, he fell down upon the steps and injured himself very mate rially. He was taken into his friend's house, whence he was conveyed to his residence, Pulteney-terrace, Pen tonville, whe re h e was visited by a second attack, from which it is feared he may not recover. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.— The Half-yearly . Meeting of the Railway Company, at which the question of Sunday travelling will be brought under consideration, takes place on Feb. 22, and, not withStanding the extraordinary efforts making by the opponents of all railway travelling on the first day of the wcek, there is, we believe, every prospect that they will be defeated by a large majority. Sir Andrew Agnew, and we know not how many others, have purchased shares expressly for the purpose of ,concussing the bottit fide proprietors of the undertaking into an adoption .. of their views. Threats of withholding traffic from the railway have been made to some extent, and, in short, no stone have been left unturned, by the reckless ingenuity of a body of individuals who, not content with support ing, by fair means, their own opinions, seem resolved that they shall, if possible, be thrust forcibly down the throats of their neighbours. .All, however, we are assured, will prove unsuccessful, as the railway pro prietors are .resolved to abide by their own judgment, instead of attending to the dictation of" indi v id ua ls who have exhibited so melancholy a lack of Christian charity throughout the agitation that has been carried on.— G lasgow Paper. MEETINGS OE •THE UNEMPLOYED,,—In the course of last week large meetings of workmen, out of employment, took place in. the public Green, for the purpose of discussing what ,M4sures they ought to adopt, to obtain either employment or bread, in their present distress. The first meeting consisted of about 500 individuals ; but, an adjournment having taken ~place, on the following day from 1,000, to 1,500 assembled, when the subject of their distress was again taken up and discussed. The poor people having told to each other their heart-rending tales, of famishing wives and children., it was ultimately resolved to send a deputatiOn to wait on the Loid Provost and Magistrates, and confer with them on the matter. Oh Friday, the Lord Pro vost, several of the City Magistrates, the Suburban Magistrates, and members of the Relief Committee, met in the Commissioners' Hall, when the deputation from the unemployed was introduced—they representing a variety of trades, such as iron -moulders, brass-founders, calieo printers, tailors, &c., &c.; and each of the deputies gave aS correct an account as possible of the number of uncut ! ployed in the trade he was understood' to represent. They stated that their sole object was to get employment of some kind, whatever it might be,. in order to provide food for themselves and families ; and, after some deli beration, the Magistrates agreed to comply with their wishes, on its being ascertained how many persons were actually idle. In the meantime a room has been opened in the old pplice buildings, where a person has been placed to receive • the returns of the unemployed, and, with as much despatch as may be, they will set to work at the breaking of stones.—Glasgow Argus. THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—We have been in. formed upon authority, that it is not the intention of the King of Prussia to visit Manchester during his pre sent stay in England. THE CITY POLICE.—The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's have passed a resolution expressive of the high'sense they entertain of the valuable services ren dered by the police force of the City of London, in pre serving order on the occasion of the visit of his Majesty the King of Prussia to the Cathedral, on Sunday last. This resolution was coin m ithicated to Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, the Commissioner, in a letter from the Lord Mayor, in which his Lordship desired at the same time to expresS his unqualified approbation of the conduct of the City Police on the event alluded to. It is proper to state that the Commissioner has, upon every occasion on which it has been considered necessary to call into action the police energies of the City of London, received the warmest acknowledgments of those best qualified to judge of the arrangements made, and the ability dis played by the force for the preservation of order and the protection of the public. DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS.—The Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, in compliance with an application, have requested the Board of Ordnance to give directions that the following articles—viz., 673 blankets, 173 palliasses, 1,000 sheets, 500 bolster-cases, and 471 flannel shirts, may be immediately supplied to the Committee for the relief of the distressed weavers in Spitalfields, to be applied to the purpose intended. A rickety Tory newspaper, the Limerick Standard, has just died from want of support. BRIGHTON, FES. 2.—The greatest exertions are making at the Pavilion to get it ready by the Bth. Mr. Henry Saunders; the Inspector of Palaces, after giving various instructions, left yesterday. Directions have been given to put the Riding-school in perfect order, as well as the Royal stables. The Lord Chamber lain is expected here in the course of the day. Although a private meeting was held on Monday last for the pur pose of taking means to give her Majesty a loyal recep tion, nothing has yet transpired of their proceedings. " An Eglish house of Trieste, largely engaged in the cotton trade, has," says the Presse, " just failed for two millions of florins. A Liverpool house, and one of the first houses in Paris, are said to be amongst the principal creditors." DOWRY OF THE PRINCESS SOPHIA OP ORANGE.—The dowry of. the Princess Sophia of Orange, the future bride of the Hereditary Duke of Saxe Weimar, is said to be 3,000,000 florins in cash, or 300,000/. THE JEW AND THE CHRISTIAN.—A Jew and a Christian were conversing familiarly by the brink of a well, when the former happened to fall in without receiving much hurt, and the Christian flew for a ladder to help him out. As he was eagerly endeavouring to put it into the well, " It is not worth while," says the Jew, "I will make no use of your ladder ; to-day is Saturday." e remained, therefore, up to the chin in water till next morning, when his friend Came to know how he fared during so cool a night. "De lad der, de ladder !" cries the Jew, " for de love of God bring back de ladder !" " Heaven forbid," replies the Christian "to day is Sunday."— Correspondent. POVERTY.--It is not poverty so much as pre tence that harasses a ruined man—the struggle between a proud mind and an , empty purse—the keeping up a hollow show that Must soon come to an end. Have the courage to appear poor, and you disarm poverty of its sharpest sting. THE SNOW STORM IN THE PEAK.—The . excesive ritiantity of snow which fell on the night of Monday week enveloped the kills of the Peak to a most unwonted de gree. Many of the hoary-beaded sons of these hills protest that, in the same space of time, a greater fall never occurred to their recollection. All communication from place to place has therefore been almost wholly intercepted. The sudden thaw of this mass of snow, which commenced on Wed nesday last, has deluged the valleys ; and the hardy sons of the mountains are now plodding knee-deep ia what they' provincially call " snow . broth.' This immense aug. mentation of water has been already attended with unlooked for effects. The lead-mines in this district are in general un der water ; and this conversion of snow to its pristine element has greatly added to the usual impediments. The Water groove mine, near Eyam, just before the down-fall, totally rolled ;" and the workmen had commenced work; but this change, it is feared, will arrest for awhile the progress of the highly commendable speculators. The power:. ful steam-engigc erected at this mine has, through its present limited means, been found incompetent to keep at all times the works sufficiently clear. It is calculated that when the extra pumps are in work, the engine will, as occasion may require, be enabled to lift from the works a continually flowing volume of water, equal to a circular column of five feet in diameter. The outlay has been enormous, but not the least doubt exiits of a satisfactory result.—Sheffield Iris. The Courrier du Havre says that a lady, Mme. An neville, who died a short time since at her chateau at Plessis, near Pont-Audemer, has left all her fortune, valued at 5,000,000 f., to a single legatee. Her will, which was written entirely in her own hand, consisted of only a few lines, and has been attempted to be set aside by some claimants ; but the fortunate legatee is already in possession ,of. the property. The day befOre yesterday, as some masons were lifting up stones in their hands, one above another on a ladder, according to the usual absurd custom in Paris, for building a house, one of the men at the top was seized with a fit of coughing, while he held the stone, and, letting it fall, it came upon the head of a mason at the bottom of the ladder, and killed him upon the spot. The accident occurred in the Rue Villedot. MORNING SUN SPIRIT of the, PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. HERALD.—The rumour of the Duke of Bucking ham's secession trom the - Cabinet, which two of our morning Contemporaries chronicled - yesterday, on no better authority, however, than the gossip of the clubs, is an occurrence which, if it do take place, ought, from his Grace's well known opinion, not only on the prin ciple, but also on the details of the present Corn-law, neither to be matter of surprise nor alarm. His Grace is too honest a man to sacrifice his conscientious opinions, deliberately formed - - laid warmly expreSSed, as to the impolicy of,materially altering the present law, except from the forte of his oWn personal convictions ; and the Noble and warm-hearted Duke is far too sincere a Con servati4 to permit a difference of opinion on a single subject—although it may compel him to spontaneously separate from his colleagues—to erect the smallest obstruction to the success of Conservative Govern ment. Should the Duke of Buckingham retire from Sir Robert Peel's Administration in consequence of his inability to acquiesce in the Corn-law propositions on which the other members bf that Administration have agreed, it will be in the same - frank and generous spirit as has characterised his whole political career ; .his re signation, should it take place, will be a subject of deep regret to his colleagues, and a personal sacrifice to his own deeply-cherished attachment to the most prominent • national interest—domestic agriculture. Unlike every,,' seceding member of the Whig-Radical Cabinets, the Duke of Buckingham will not fall the.victini of a.u'in decent intrigue ; or ,retire into inactive opposition, as did Earl Grey, or into sulky expatriation, as did Lord Glenelg. The conscientious difference which may lead -to-separation will be calmly and firmly reiterated by the Noble. Duko in his legislative capacity, when due oc casion alien call it forth ; but to that expression the Oppoition of his Grace will doubtless be confined ; to any alteration of the Corn-law, which is, in thk Duke's opinion, calculated to injure landoWners or farnloa, his Grace will offer his most determined opposal ; but' on all other topics the Duke of Buckingham will support those former colleagues, whom he respects as sincerely - as he is by them respected, The known repugnance of :the Duke of Buekingham to any material alteration of the present Corn-law, as being a step towards the aban donment of protection to agriculture, and an experiment. unwarranted by . the present condition and future pros pects of the agriculturists, and his anticipated resigna tion on that ground, are not, however, to be regarded as decisive indications that the Cabinet measure will be hostile to the landed interest. The anxiety of that inte rest will; most undoubtedly, be greatly excited should the Duke of Buckingham have actually resigned the Privy Seal, and a greater degree of watchfulness over the proceedings of Ministers—by no means unnecessarr„ though certainly not adverse—will be , thereby stimu lated. But that resignation will not, in itself, be deci sive as to the expediency or inexpediency of the forth coming measure. The Duke of Buckingham is, we apprehend, more deeply pledged to the details of the present C4rn-law than the agricultural interest generally approve of, and therefore it is not improbable that the Ministerial scheme will conciliate the general support of landowners and farmers, even though it have been dis approved of by his Grace. The landed interest will at all times most cordially acknowledge the great and hoe portant services which the Duke of Buckingham has conferred on it ; they will see in any separation that may have taken place another example of the Noble Duke's deep devotion to what he considers their tree policy; their gratitude is ever due to his Grace, but they owe to the Noble Duke—what, indeed; he 'would be the last man in the empire to anticipate—no fealty, and they can afford to give no prostration of judgment. The Corn law to be proposed by Sir Robert Peel's Administration, must be judged of by its own merits. CIIRONICLE.—We abstained from all remark yes terday in noticing the resignation of the Duke of Buck ingham. Why he entered the Cabinet at all, and why he has quitted'it, outhe eve bf the assembling of Parlia ment, are questions which we leaVe for the solution of' the Tories. ,Yet we should suppose there are parties to. whom the diSappearance from the Cabinet of the farmers' friend, the individual who was considered by the agriciti turists as giving, by his presence, a guarantee to the country, for the Cabinet, that agriculture would be quite safe from its determinations—cannot be without its significancy. Will the Members who have of late regarded the puke as their leader, view his ejectment as. a mere matter of moonshine ? What, on this occasion, is the tone of the new Conservative Club established by his Grtice ?, What will be thought by the various agri cultural societies of which he is the recognised patron ? Many rumours are afloat on the subject. Some will. have it that his Grace outwitted the Premier in obtain ing the blue ribbon before striking. Others assume, from his having obtained this honour, that the difference between the Premier and his Grace is what in vulgar parlance is termed a sham—got up to save appearances. Time will soon throw light on these dark subjects. • The. value of the Premier's plan will enable us to estimate the: value of his Grace's resignation. TIMES.—The Whig-Radical papers are in a sta'„e of no small exultation at the secession of the Duke of A3uck ingham from Sir R. Feel's Ministry.. We lumens it our selves—though we cannot lament what is presumed to be its cause. We lament that the Cabinet. should have 'lost a member, we believe, opposed. to - that op pressive mode of dealing with the poor, Whether, em ployed or unemployed, in factories or in workhouses, which' we have always denounced. At th e same t i me, even at the price of • losing the services of that Noble fi Duke, we are ready to rejoice that Sir 11: Peel is pre-.. pared to bring forward an effectual • modification of the restrictions imposed by the existing Corn-laws. Nor can we at all agree with some of our Contempo raries in considering it inconsistent in that Nobleman, while relinquishing the duties of a Cabinet Minister, to accept the merely honorary distinction of to.. Garter. A difference of Opinion as to a single matter. or State policy may well make it impossible for two states men to carry out one uniform system of government, yet the same difference need not interfere with the gene ral support which one may be ready to give to the other's measures, or, by consequence, with his acceptance of those honours by which such support, according to the usages of the political world, is acknowledged. A man may well be treated as a friend, who would find it impos , sible to act with us as a fellow-labourer. For the one an agreement in practical details, for the other only a gene ral approval, is necessary. We see at every turn in history or in private life that it is most easy for those to act as allies who would yet, from difference of principle or of' temperament, find it absolutely impossible to concert toge ther any common plan of action, much more to carry it oue harmoniously through all the minutia" which practice re quires. • One may have a very decided opinion on the question which is at present at issue, who shall govern the country—Sir R. Peel or the Whigs ; without being prepared either to share the responsibility of all his measures, or to co-operate unreservedly in their execu tion—necessities from which a Cabinet Minister cannot, but a Knight of the Garter may, be allowed without much difficulty to escape. In the choice of a Minister to succeed to the honourable position in the Cabinet which, the Duke of Buckingham has vacated, Sir It. Peel hrAs been guided by the suggestions of a sound discreti‘..m, and we entertain no doubt that his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, who has accepted the vacant office, AS tify, by his public career, the high expectations which his demeanour in a less prominent station and in pdvate life has already - raised. GLOBE..—There is no sure ground for infer ring more from the Duke of Buckingham's re signation than that the most extreme and obsti nate adherence to monopoly is abautloned. So much, we think, may clearly 'be inferred from the incident—whether anything more; a day or two will now disclose to us. We are. not fond of gratuitous imputations of trickery to poli tical leaders; and Nye shall not say that a trick is intended in the very act of this resignation. But if the resignation is not a trick, as we will. not suppose it is—must not the appointment have been one? Have not the " Farmers" Friends" , been bamboozled? Have not the county elections been gained on pretexts which were never meant to be acted on? Has not the Duke of Buckingham's " following" (whether the Duke, himself or not) been intentionally blinded by his admission into the Peel Cabinet?. If the Prime Minister always intended, as we have no doubt he.did, to alter the Corn4awaiii a manner which it was certain, at all th'ent - g, - tlie - Duke of .13uckingham could not subscribe to., was, there not something of unworthj , artifice m his Grace joining the hfinistry at all? We do not stop to ask whose was the artifice—whether his. Grace was imposed upon, or whether, which As more likely, he allowed himself to he utilized with his eYes open. In that case, the Corn-law party in the counties have been the dupes just .as the Malt-tax party in the counties was duped. about seven years alto. It has been ;otnoured that the Duke of 'Wellington, with that sense of justice, the strength of which has survived. the full vigour of his other faculties, remon strated against deserting that party, which he said, have stuck by us." Deserted, however; it is now perfectly clear that party will be— and the effect of this desertion on Tory union; is yet to be seen. 'With us, however, party objects. sink into absolute insignificance,'com pared with the question—ls Sir Robert Peel prepared to do anything effectual for placing' the trade in corn on a safe and regular footing with Europe and America? Having kicked ois Corn-law ladder from under him—having cut his Corn-law colleague adrift—is he prepared boldly to throw himself on the support of the enlightened of all parties ? If he had strength of will and judgment to do so, be might be sure ofet . rich reward—whether in long duration of power or no—in the esteem, and restored prosperity, of his country. Sir R. Peel calls himsei' a friend to free trade in principle. From its enemies lie now stands separate, at least by out step, in ac . Jinn. Will he now 'prove to the world that what ever artifice—whatever complaisance—whatever make-believe he may have employed to concili ate cla.Ss•interests in hiS favour, he had worthier ends in view than to rule but just better than their worst dictates? Will he prove to the world the truth of his assertion, that he had no other motive in seeking power but to use it forthe weal and the safety of his country ? This is in his power! It is in his power to conquer oblivion for rn tbisy all that has been questionable, for all that has been egotistical in his past course. Duke the STAoNf STAN DARD. —thaTnilleani d )l ehace a; d° occupied h and affection of the country naturally from the On the Ministry to be th e occasion of great anxiety . One s id e , scauses esteems Grape's retirement • DUBLIN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The most entertaining article in this Number is a biographical sketch of Lord Brougham, which is more minute and copious in its details than any we have yet met with. The Memoir is to be continued in future numbers, as the present portion comes down only to the death of Pitt in 1806. "Clandestine Marriage" is a prose tale, which is of the average run of periodical fictions. BRITISH FRIEND OF INDIA MAGAZINE A new monthly Magazine has just been started under this somewhat quaint title. The first Number is now lying before us, and contains an interesting account of the " Working of the Pre sent Charter" in India, from which it would ap pear.that the Charter has not been so successful in its results as was anticipated. " The Court of Directors," adds the writer of the article in ques tion, '► are like the deposed Rajahs and Nabobs, still invested with the trappings of Royalty, though relieved from the cares of government, and like them, when deprived of all power, and reduced to mere pageantry, they console them selves with their pensions and allowances, and the perquisites of office." " Slavery in India" is the substance of a minute made by the Governor- General. It embraces some curious and inte resting facts. THE FARMERS' MAGAZINE—(OId Series.) This number gives the " dead weights" of some of the animals exhibited at the last Smith field Cattle Show, which will be interesting to breeders. The Hereford ox, four years and eight months old, exhibited by Mr. Chamber lain, and which gained a 201. prize, was the heaviest of all, weighing not less than 189 st. 61b. and the next, an ox of the same age and breed, belonging to the same gentleman, weighing 187 st. 61b., making a difference of only 2 stone. The heaviest sheep exhibited was a South Down we ther, by Mr. Whittingstail, weighing 20st. 41b., though less than 22 months old. The present number is accompanied by a beautiful sketch of Mercury, a celebrated hunter, the property of Mr. Shaw, of Brantingham, near Hull. It is drawn by Davis, and exhibits a perfect model of this fine breed f animals. SPORTING REVIEW. There are several smart sporting articles in this Number; and among them is one entitled " Re collections of a Sportsman's Life," which abounds in incident; and another, under the head of Cam bridge and Cambridge Men," which is mani festly the production of one who is no stranger to the amusements of that University. His cursory remarks on Newmarket are true to the letter, especially where he alludes to the " per fect air of business which universally prevails, and the absence of all that gaiety and glitter which to many form the charm of a race-course." The engravings are neither better nor worse than usual. SPORTING MAGAZINE. We have here two engravings —one, the " Lost Shoe," whose foreground exhibits some effective grouping ; and the other, the " Miller," which is a very spirited plate, full of animation, with a well-defined, picturesque mountain distance. Of the literary contributions the most enter taining is the " Weed," which is an essay in praise of tobacco, which would have horrified the nerves of that determined enemy to the weed— King Jaines the First. THE SPORTSMAN. " Sporting Adventures" in Southern Africa, and the description of the Bhaloo, a species of bear, found in all the central parts of India, are well written short articles. The latter is by Lieutenant Tickell, who traversed those parts, and seems well acquainted with the habits of the animal and the most approved mode of hunting them. The Number is accompanied by two plates, one of which, " Going to cover to meet the difficulty," gives an excellent view, by Allan, of three spirited horses, with their riders, starting for the chace. THE CASTLES AND ABBEYS OF ENGLAND. Part I. Mortimer, London, 1842. Hitherto, the grand objection to works of this description, observes Dr. Beattie, the compiler, in his prefatory address, has been their great expense, which has confined the circulation of picturesque antiquarian works to the opulent classes of society. The great recommendation of the present work is its unprecedented cheap ness, being illustrated by original views taken on the spot, and not amounting in general to more than a twentieth of the price at which its predecessors in the same field have been pub lished. The part before us—which is the first, of this truly national undertaking—is confined to a description of Arundel Castle, which for many ages was in the family of the Duke of Norfolk, but which has since, we understand, passed into other hands. By way of frontispiece, we have a view of this truly baronial edifice, in which its superb proportions and the unrivalled beauty of its site are exhibited to great advantage. The Castle crowns the summit of a richly wooded hill ; and behind it towers the keep—an imposing pile, but fast hastening to decay. At the foot of the eminence on which it is erected, is an ex panse of thick, luxuriant wood, right in front of which we see the river Arun meandering in ninny winding Channels, through a fore ground of flowery meadows. In the distance are the blue undulating hills of Sussex; and imme diately behind the Castle a splendid park, studded with the noblest forest trees, stretches away and right and left, as if to infinity. The landscape is one of a peculiarly cheerful English character, and in its varied sylvan beauty is scarcely exceeded, even by Windsor Castle and its forest. There are several other illustrations of Arundel Castle in this Part, and the letter press portion of the work contains some vivid and accurate descriptions of the majestic edifice. From the handsome manner in which the work is got up, as well as from its interesting-nature, we think it very likely to become popular. Parsons,LALDon. I P B 4 a 2 r . t X T 7 1. MRS. R l o l w A a L n .L; Mrs. Hall devotes the present Part of this ad mirable work exclusively to a description of Dublin, which, she tells us, in population and gent b .,is,the second city of the British empire, and ianksWthe seventh of Europe; it is some what above three miles long in a direct line from east to west, 'llnd of fitArly,,equal breadth from north to south. Mrs. Hall enters at considerable length into a description of the .Irish metropolis, but omits to take notice of its conventual establishments, and its numerous fine Roman Catholic Chapels—especially that of Marlborough-street. These omissions will, we suppose, be rectified in the next Part. The view of Sackville-street forms a very striking picture; and not less so, in its way, is the pic turesque sketch, representing the Boyne Obelisk, near Louth. ENGLAND in the NINETEENTH CENTURY. Now and Parsons, London, 1842. Two Parts of this monthly periodical are now lying before us—one of which contains an ac count of Lancashire, its manufactures, antiquities, scenery, chief towns, and the other, of Corn- Wall, of whose chief peculiarities an equally par ticular account is given. Both Parts are got up with exceeding neatness, and furnish us with pleasing, carefully engraved views. of Liverpool, and the precipitous rocks of Tintagal, with a ruinous-looking castle perched, like an eagle's eyrie, on their summits. There are several minor embellishments which lend elegance and variety to the work. SIR WALTER SCOTT'S NOVELS.—(People's Edition.)— Cadell, Edinburgh, 1842. Mr. Cadell has acted wisely in republishing these immortal fictions at a price that renders them accessible to all classes. As for the " People's Edition" we have little doubt that it will be eminently successful, for, considering its cheapness—twopence a number!—it is brought out in a style of remarkable neatness, not to say, beauty. _ LONDON JOURNAL AND REPERTORY OF INVENTIONS. In evidence of the great demand for improve ments called for at this moment by the present unsatisfactory state of our manufacturing fur naces, no less than three patents appear f o r th e purpose of remedying existing defects, and one of them by Dr. Molina proposes an artificial fuel fbr their consumption, composed of certain sub stances specified. A series of scientific notices closes the Number,together with a communication from Mr. Perring, many years a resident in Egypt, who states the singular fact, and supports it by authorities, that anciently the whole of Egypt was, like China, surrounded by a wall to shelter the interior from the incursions of the De sert tribes : remains of it are Still met with in the Fyoom, and it was built of small crude bricks, the total length being probably about 1,400 miles, averaging 15 feet high and five feet thick. TITUS ANDRONICUS.— Charles Knight. With the usual ornamental vignettes and pic torial additarnents, Mr. Knight, in pursuance of his Shaksperian series, advances "Titus Andrc nicus" this month, which is promised to be fol " Pericles." Append e d i s a di ssertat i ve l e o s l s v a e y d , 1 14 hich endeavours to prove, loth from direct and indirect testimony, the authenticity of this contested play • • CONTROVERTED ELECTION PETITIONS. The following table, drawn up from Parliamentary documents, exhibits the petitions which have been pre sented against the returns Specified, and stand for con sideration on the meeting of Parliament ; showing also the grounds and nature of each petition. B. denotes Bribery ; 1., Intimidation, Undue Influence, or Rioting ; Q., Qualification ; R., Returning Officer ; S., Scrutiny ; T., Treating. CONSERVATIVES. Name of Place, Weymouth and Melcoinbeßegis trr, BelfList . Harwich Wigan Rutland Waterford City Cardigan Dudley Rochester Athlone Dublin (City) Blackburne Southampton 7 Newry Newport Reading Carlow(County) Shrewsbury Do wnpatrick Barnstaple Stafford (Boro') St. Ives New Windsor Great Marlow Nottingham Thetford Clitleroe Lewes Longford Wakefield Sudbury Bridport Ipswich Cork (County) Kerry (County) Wigtown Gloucester City Louth.. Tipperary Lichfield Flint Kinsale Elgin Burghs Bewdley FalmoUth • Wareham Newcastle under Lyme Lyme Regis Merthyr Tydvil StaCrd (Boro') New Windsor Carnarvon Sitting; Members. Viscount Villiers ... lg. W. Hope, Esq. E. Tennant, Esq. W. G. Johnson, Esq. J. Attwood, E5q....,., W. Beresford, Esq. - 8 P. Greenall, E sq . ... IT. B. Crosse, Esq. Hon. H. Dawnay IW. Christmas, Esq. W. M. Reade, Esq. r J. S. Harford, Esq. T. Hawkes, Esq 5 J. S. Douglas, Esq. W. H. Bodkin, Esq. G. P. Beresford, Esq. E. Grogan, Esq J. HornbY, Esq S Lord Bruce C. C. Marty n, Esq. } Lord Newiy - W. J. Hamilton, Esq C. W. Martyn, Esq. 8 IC. Russell, Esq Lord Chelsea C H. Bruen, Esq. T. Bunbury, Esq 18. D'lsraeli, Esq. : 1 G. Tomline, Esq. , D. Ker, Esq. cF. Hodgson, Esq. ... M. Gore, Esq. .5 S. T. Carnegie, Esq W. T. Praed, Esq R. Neville, Esq. WHIGS. Sir W. R. Clayton. • f Sir G. G. De Larpent Sir J. C. Hobhouse.. Earl of Euston M. Wilson, Esq SS. Harford, Esq H. Elphinstone, Esq L. White, Esq. J. Holdsworth, Esq, SR Villiers, Esq D. 0. Sombre, Esq. T. A. Mitchell, Esq. S R. Wason, Esq. G. Rennie, Esq. 5 D. O'Connell, Esq..l. Z E. B. Roche, Esq W. Browne, Esq I M. O'Connell , Esq S- J, Dalrymple Esq, J. Phillpotts, Esq M. F. Berkeley, Esq j R. M. Bellew, Esq 1 Hon. T. V. Dawson 5 - IV. Maher, Esq.' R. 0. Cave, Esq Lord A. 11. Paget E. M. blostyn, Esq W. H. Watson, Esq Sir A. L. Hay Sir T. Winnington J. H. Plumridge, Esq. . J. S.W. S. Drax, Esq. } J. Q. Harris, Esq W. Pinney, Esq Sir J. J. Guest, Bart E. Buller, Esq... J. Ramsbottom, Esq. Lord G Paget. Under the head of " Intimidation," in this petition, are embraced allegations—that placards were posted in all direc tions denouncing all who should vote for petitioners ; that all such persons were also denounced by the priests in their cha pels ; that their hotel was in a state of siege from an armed mob; that multitudes of men lay in ambush to attack said voters on their way to! the poll ; that their progress to the poll was interrupted by stone walls and carts and waggons placed across the road ; that they were attacked with guns, scythes, and pitchforks, and the drivers of the carriages beat, and also the electors, in the most frightful manner, broke their carriages into pieces, which they carried off and burned ; that the electors were compelled to call upon the military to protect their lives against the fury of an armed mob, &c. APPREHENSION OF THE CREW OF THE BRISK SCHOONER, ON A CHARGE OF PIRACY. BiosToL, Fax. I.—l have to inform you of the arrival here, this morning, of the schooner Brisk, Captain Mansfield, for whose fate considerable anxiety had been felt for the last five or six days. You will remember that the Brisk had put into Falmouth harbour, while on her voyage from London, and that on the night of the 25th, while the Captain was on shore on the ship's business, the mate and crew got her under weigh and sailed off with her ; and, notwithstanding.the most diligent inquiries, nothing could be learnt of her till her arrival here. At the sitting of the Magistrates this morning, the Captain, who had arrived hire by coach, applied for warrants to appre hend the mate and crew, on a charge of piracy; and their Worships having granted him the assistance of a body of the police, they went on board, and captured the mate, John Mar shall, and five men, named Jahn Gower, James Hamager, David Gravel, Michael Berry, and John Isaacs, who were straightway conveyed to the justice-room, and placed at the bar on a charge of piratically and feloniously running away with the vessel. The captain, -- Mansfield, having been sworn, deposed that on the 25th ult., the Brisk schooner, of which he was com mander, was lying in Falmouth harbour. Witness had occa sion to go on shore on the ship's business; he sent some fish and other things on board ; and at length, seeing that a heavy gale was coming on, he and the masters of some other vessels agreed that it would not be prudent to leave the harbour that evening. At about ten o'clock he went to look for his vessel, and she was gone. He had never given any permission to the prisoners, or any of them, to sail without him, and, by so doing, they had revolted against his authority. Upon being called on for their defence, the mate, Jahn Mar shall, said the Captain went on shore under pretence of buying half a yard of canvass, and remained on shore all day. There were a great many of the vessels in the - harbour getting under weigh, and he said to the men, " I suppose Ave shill have the Captain on board presently," and told thenk to set the foresail and make ready. At ten o'clock;-,finding that the Captain did not come on board, he got the vessel . under weigh, and sailed, as the vessel would have drowad in half an hour. Mr. George (magistrate) said, if he had weighed anchor for safety, he ought to have beat about for awhile, and then returned. The Mate said it was ebb tide ; besides, they (the men) were paid by the run, and they were not going to be kept there while the Captain was taking his pleasure on shore. Besides, the owner told him, if the Captain was incompetent, to take the command. The Captain denied this, and the owner, Mr. Williams, having been afterwards sent for, denied it also. He said the Mate told him the Captain was not competent, to which he replied, " But you are, and you can sugg est, to him ; and surely both of you can bring the vessel round'?" Mr. Burges, Magistrate's clerk, said if the vessel had been lost the matter might have been serious to the owners, as the Captain not being on board the insurance would not have been payable. Mr. George said it was a case of piracy, for which they were all liable to be hanged. They must be taken round to Fal mouth, to take their trial for that offence. The owner, Mr. Williams, said he should not press the charge against them. The Captain said he most certainly should. Indeed, he was satisfied that Lloyd's would prosecute. The Magistrate said the police should assist him in taking them round to Falmouth on his paying the expenses. The prisoners were then removed in custody, with the ex ception of the boy Isaacs, who was discharged. S►LVAGE OF THE PROSPEROUS.-.-.A question of salvage was also heard before our Magistrates to-day, which excited a good deal of interest in the mercantile world. The vessel saved was the Prosperous sloop, from Bristol to Bridgewater. She was the property of a shipowner named Stevens, and had on board a cargo of timber, belonging to Mr. Ennett, a con tractor on the Bristol and Exeter Railway, and a small quan tity of wine. The salvage was claimed, on the one part, by seven men, named Henry, Charles, John, Edt:vard, and Robert Bacon, Wm. Fry, and Wm. Loseombe ; and-en theother part by the owners of a steam-tug boat called the Tiger: Previously, however, to its being brought into Court, some arrangement was made with the latter parties, and the case was onlly heard with reference to the men. Mr. Wasbrough, of the fir:n of Wasbrough and Stanley, ap peared for them; Mr. King for the owner of the cargo; and Mr. B. Smith for the shipowner. It appeared from the evidence of Henry Bacon, that seeing the vessel beating against the rocks in Walton Bay, be and his brother boarded her. They then got a line out, and having made her fast, sent for the Lioness steam-tug. The Captain of the Lioness thought she had not sufficient power, and the Tiger was sent round. She hauled the vessel off, subsequently took her up to the basin, Henry Bacon and his brotherrearing her, and afterwards taking charge of her. The cargo was admitted to be worth 250/., but' the sloop - was so much damaged as not to be worth more than 50/. It was also stated that 301. had been promised to the owner of the steam-tug. The Magistrates directed 201. to be paid to the men-51. by the shipowner, and lbl. by Mr. Ennett. BOLTON AND PRESTON RAILWAY.—The half-yearly meeting of the Proprietors of the above Railway was held at the Swan Hotel; John Hargreaves, Esq , in the chair. The Report was read, by-which it appeared that the passenger traffic had gone on satisfactorily during the past half year, the total number carried having been 47,157, of whom 41,445 were railway passengers, and the amount received for passengers and parcels was 3,6321. 17s. 7d. The coal busi ness is gradually getting into existence, for during the last month upwards of 1,000 tons had been sent down to Bolton. With regard to the line, about two miles only remain for com pletion to the junction with the North Union Railway at Eux ton. It appeared that the receipts had been 264,0841. 15s. &1., and the disbursements 262,2271. 18s. 10d., leaving a balance in the banker's hands of 1,1561. 16s. 10d.—Bolton Chronicle. The Earl of Seftoli has given 1,0001. toward; laying out the plantations, &c., for a park for the use and re creation of the public in Torteth Park, near Liverpool. Forty- . three acres of land were bought of the Noble Earl for the site of the new park. A CHALLENGE.—A dancing master at St. Petersburgh, by origin a Dutchman, has given notice that be will give a ball in the snow, and intends to take advantage of the first snow which falls for that purpose. He proposes to bet with any lady or gentleman that he will dance ont in the snow their names at full, in legible characters, that he will not once miss time, and that each of his steps shall form a regular dance. Several persons of distinction have accepted the bet. The Journal du Bourbonnais in its number of the 22d inst., leaves one of its columns in blank, and states that, in consequence of the late condemnation of the printer of the Chativccri, together with the editor of T.B. Grounds of Petition. R.S.B.T. 1.8. T. S.B.T. S.B.T. R.(Lost Poll Books.) Q.S. 5.8.T.1. S. B.S.R.T. 5.8.T.1. 8.1.T.5.R. 8.1.Q.T. B.T. B.T.R. ILI. B.T.S. B.T. 5.1.8. T. , B.T.S. B.S.T. 1.8.5. T. R.S. T.B.S. 8.T.1.5.R. S.R.I. R.Q. S.B.T. B.T. 1.5.8. T. 5.8.1. 8.1. T. S.B.T. 1.*8.T.5. 5.R.1.8.T. 5.8.T.1. Q. 8.1.5. S.B.T.L B.T.S. 1.8. T. B. Q.T.8.1. B.T. B.T.