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IY.) ) show review nit this old en , either irt, in rrone- lestion. vas that applied Tought tainin4 he evi. and in Dm the .s were d taxed itnesnes on, and to the the do• :..able to Le could It right. veral of ig to do not as uld not mselves vere not rmed it res from I of the lore the 7.) Id Coast that the 137 in I • 3 many' ) such $ ,oreet, that on his return not a vestige of properly b: sides the powder I have referred to remained on hand undirposed of, a circumstance which I believe the most anxious and swicessful c:ptain in the trade has never before met with. 'Elie amount I have alluded to as having been improperly withheld by Mr. Newman, Messrs. Hutton and San, require to be paid t o th em in cash forthwith; and they &so desire that the piece-book may be immediatoly fur nished, fully entered up, and the further details 1 have enumerated given in the books which have already been handed to them by Mr. Newman. " Messrs. Hutton would be sorry to be driven to adopt harsh measures against Mr. Newman, but the accounts generally are so incorrect, unsatisfactory, and incomplete, that they will fret themselves obliged to do so, unless the request they now make' through me, be immediately complied with. " I remain, Sir, your obedient humble servant, (Signed) " THOM IS JuNES. 6 ' Mr. William Walton." It happened (continued Mr. Ma tin) that about the 17th, Jones had received certain information which induced him to obtain, through a friend of his, a bank director, an order which had been granted in the bank parlor, to inspect one of the stock books, and on making that inspection on the 19th. it Was discovered that on the 18th October, shortly after Newman hid received the 150/. from the defendants, that gentleman had invested 1,2001. in his own and his wife's name, and that on .the following day he had bought in 2001. more ; also that on the 14th bf November a further sum of 700/. had haen invested. The defendants were at a loss to conceive by what means Newman could have been in the possession of so large a sum, inasmuch as by the terms of his en gagement with their house he was not permitted to trade on his own account. They therefore in stituted an inquiry in the early part of January, which satisfied them that he had not properly and honestly come into possession of the money which he hat invested in the funds. The Learned Counsel enterel at length into a great number of details con nected with the transaction, and concluded by de nouncing the case of the plaintiff on the ground that it was sought to be supported by perjury. lie then proceeded to call witnesses. The case was still proceeding when our report left. _ . SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY. (More Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCIIELL WFSTON V. MAYNE. POING AN ACCOMMODATION EILL FOR A FRIEND. This was an sction brought to recover the sum of 45/.144. 8:1., under the following circum tances : The plaintiff had accepted a bill of exchange for the a ccommodation of the defendant, who was to provide for It when it became due, but, not having done so, au action Was brou g ht aga i nst plaintiff for the amount of the bill, with 121 Bs. costs, which he had paid. Defendant did not plead to the action, and a verdict Was given fur the amount. tees BTANSFELD AN ANOTHER V. MOTLEY. This was an action b roug ht by t h e pl a i nt iff s , as assig nees a perzon named Thomas, to recover the sum of 4!. 2 s. for clothes. sold to defendant. The case was- very "Pie, but the defendant had compl a i ne d o f b e i ng p ut to such heavy expenses by bringing the action in this Court Plaintiffs' attorney said defendant resided in South Wales, and out of the jurisdiction of the County Courts. STANSFELD AND OTHERS V. MORRIS. This was an action brought by the same plaintiffs, as a si4,nees of Thomas, to recover the sum or 61. la. icr toods sold. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. The plaintiff.' solicitor said that.defendant denied the title of the assignees under the bankruptcy to sue, as all the bankrupt's debts had been assigned to trustees pre vieusly to the issuing of tho fiat. The U NDER •S HERIFF sa i d that would bee quest i on fcr the superior court. The b an k rupt was t h en ca ll e d to prove an a d m i ss i on by defendant that the debt was due; an objection, fiewever, was taken that he was not a compet en t w iness. Plaintiff's attorney said that there was a special Clause, making a bankrupt a competent witness. Defendant's attorney said, bankrupt was interested In the debt under the assignment. The UNDER•SHERIFF said he would reserve the Point. Bankrupt was then examined, and the jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Tuomas PCCICLE, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.) Thomas J o n es , for steatitic , at Bormondsey a counter pane anda pair of sheets, ttit's property of Robert House Savage, was sentenced to six months' hard labour at Brixton. He had b:en frequently summarily convicted. Joseph Bedford was indicted for stealing six ramie plates, the property of Benjamin Williams. The wife of the prosecutor deposed that the prisoner was a carman, employed by a hay and corn dealer who !upplied her husband with the provender of his horse. Ile via's is the habit of coming to the house occasionally, and after his leaving a number of music plates had been missed, whi c h l e d w i tness to suspect him. On the 23d _ ul timo he came w i t h some corn, and passed through the llrehouse to deposit it, when she watched him and saw tt take up the music plates, put them unde r h is , jacket, leave the premises. Witness informed Hart, 201 f the circumstances, and on being stopped the pro- P e tty zas found on him. thedefence t h e prisoner said he found them l y i ng i n vae strcc t. -0 fins Ir i r d icfs Guilty. Sentence, tsvanty-one dayb' solitary ment. 130 W-STREET HIS DAY.) ),„ 4 tall woman, named Thompson, was charged with 7ving obstruct e d th e b ea dl e of St. Clement Danes, "Zed, whil e i n t h e execution of his duty. in T he beadl e state d t h at l ast n i g h t h e wen t t o a ho use -. " a wcastle-court to serve some summonses, when the Prisoner came up and struck him. Mr . HA LL as k e d w h at th e summonses were f or . fr 4 t'e beadle r e pl: z _d t h a t a y oung woman h a d di e d re °lll the effects of a scald, and us the parents, who were I. c :ratable p eo pl e , b e li eve d t h e i r d aug h ter h a d mo t w i t h th e b i'lay, they were anxious to have an inquest held on Q d'i• The facts of the case had been laid before the , tuti r ener, wh o cons id ere d i t to b e a proper one f or i nqu i ry , flu h e was attending at the house to serve the Coroner's rt o -I m3ases on the parties who could give information as t he cause and manner of the death. f or r * Ilau. asked what motive the prisoner could have e bilructi ng hi m ? Th e b ea dl e said, the deceased el M arl left a good deal of wearing apparel and pawn balind her, which had got into the possession of althea and no doubt the prisoner was exasperated th:ilig another lodger in the same house relate vse circumstances to him. 411 !' 4 , 1 r. Ha ta . sa i d t h e woman h a d acte d very i mproper l y , b' 42 it was of the utmost importas a that beadles ld bo p rotecte d i n t h e di sc harge of their duties, he "ld fine h er 30 s . or f our t een d ays ' i m p r i sonmen t. - tho fine was paid. 4 itLBRO•-STREET—(THIS DAY.) ,r ' II F. ALLEGED CHARGE OF ATTEMPTED FRAUD ON GO LD REFINER.—John H ammon d, an e ld er ly m a n o f u _retipectabla app earance , w h o was b roug h t to t hi s court n Tuesday, on t h e a ll ege d charge of attempt i ng to mefreud hlr. Jacobson, gold refiner, &e., Tottenham "urt road, by offering for sale a quantity of gold to wings, and who has been out on bail, again appeared answer any further charge that might be preferred a g a inst him. aPpeared that on Monday last the defendant went into the prosecutor's shop, and offered for sale what l l PPeared to b e a qu a ntity of fins g o ld, kn own i n the trade as 10 skewings:' The skewings are what rubbed off by gilders, after - applying the. gold-leaf_ 1 ° the articles under process of gilding. 'The prosecu s ,(4 '. who had his doubts as to the genuineness of the llttiele, asked the defendant how he became possessed of I,'" 114 property? Defendant replied, that he was a gilder Y trade, and the skewinge were his perquisites. The pr osecutor asked him repeatedly if be was sure that they :ere skewings, and defendant replied in the affirmative. v Vinplui nant exam i ne d t h e article, and discovered that it • 42 m anufactured so as to resemble skoaings, but was Z ln i t t h e ' ll itY nothing more than paint or mineral covered i „gold leaf. Having been previously taken in by a h ad Itar deception, and knowing that others in the trade la be tli imposed upon, he called a constable and gave 10 1 in charge. %Mr. BINGHAM asked complainant if he wal positive m a.t the skewings produced were worthless? Com etr"nt—Yes, your worship, I am; if they were genuine f would fetch 425., but I would not give 40 farthings or th em. 41:sre def en d ant, on . the prev i ous exam i na ti on , i n - Ere v 't'` to th e charg , , proteste d t h at t h e skewings w as Pr o per t y , and that they were p ure g old. lie 'eh l a gihnBlder by tr a d e , an d cou ld b r i n g forward persons h 1 Could speak as to his respectability. titsousst then suggested that a portion of the me nded should be submitted to an assayer, and re ,,ted the defendant until this morning. titilrne constable now stmed that, according to the ma ato'd elirectionq, he took the skewings to Mr. th,; %4°ll r, assayer, St. Martie's-lane, who put them in thatertecible and melted them down, and the result of first was a lump of pure gold, which he produced. a 3 , 110 c omplainant stmed that the skewings when 4,!_ed contained on one-fourth part gold. BzeGIELLM —On Tuesday- last you distinctly p4r t t r i that the skewings did not contain a single Pr o :: ? f gold, whereas a lump of the purest gold was oe e . ha e u in Court, being the result of the assay of only 1r of "-, sc the defehe t skowings. I shall, therefore, die ndant. rer Kinp's diSuis~nGrEroN —IV. 11. Mason pilatse • ' --righten. , was cha . rged, - on ' Ttursday, the E4._st 11, 1 .1 1 adjourned sessions, hcld at Lz,wes, before the T?Mar Chich,ster, with having indecently assaulted ,ry Elizlbeth Carr Thacker, a girl of the age of ten her ;ai d 4t the parizh of Poynings, on the 8 -.11 of Septcm vzrlit'L Atter a prolonged inquiry the jury returned a Ptet of Not (' .1 e() I ' jut t Y* re P e pro:oundly stupid are entitled to our sincere PQet • dk moderately stupid person is insufferable, but °°cte who i s so in a coloss.l degree, becomes instantly an .:4ct of aeration.-, Ccok's Journal. 4 " LA1138 • Th 3 Royal Sovereign and Childe 4t „_. last from Plymouth (February 17th), the Ir.con innt,_also last from Plymouth (February 15th), the Gar -IZcri (3.:rove, last from Port Philip (Hay 29th), and the h._ ° ‘ ll Y, Which sailed from Plymouth on the 4th March, " I ° thil 4 rrived this week. -...tideluids Observer of Juao 9. reply. appeal for of lefettd ling to cer h tho morn og the hereby laintiti I to try LY.) ).) ion ler urn the vans v. cuts in which TIIE SON, ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE. On Tuesday evening we visited this theatre, the performances bin for the benefit of Mr. Batty, the spirited proprietor, and se were appy to see that the bill of-fare he hai provided for his f.iCtrds attracted a host around him. The theatre was crowded in every par*, and the star, as in days gone by, had on this occasion to be brought into riqui,ition to accommo date those echo occupied the ring during the perform ance of the Battje of Waterloo. The %thole of the equestrian entertainments went off the greatest posr.ible eclat. The clever and agile feats of Mr: Wheal, the clown, and the burlesque dancing of Mr. Jackson, with the well known mock electioneering speech of Mr. T. Barry, the old-established favourite, excited the risible faculties of the audience; but the gems of the evening were Hernandez, the youthful American equestrian, and Mr. Pablo Fanque and, as the bills term her, his " matchless" mare, Bella. The truly astonishing performance of this beautiful mare are of the most wonderful description; the various different steps which she executes with her clever rider can only have been attained by the most arduou3 and persevering energy. Of Hernandez- we can only say he was as graceful and active as ever, and fully sustained in his daring feats his reputation. as the first rider in the world; he was called into the circle thrze times after his performance, and greeted with a shower of bouquets and a per:"ect tumult of applause. THEATRE ROYAL DUI.LIN. MR. AND MRS. KEAN. (From the Dublin Evening Packet of Dec. 4 ) In consequence of Professor Risley, with whom Mr. Calcraft had effected an engagement for the equestrian wonder, Hernandez, having disappointed our lessee, Mr. and Mrs. Kean, with their wonted kindness, made a voluntary proffer of their services for two nights more. They consequently appeared last night in the Gamester and the Honeymoon, and will perform this evening—positively for the last time —in Strathmore and King Rene's Daughter. We cannot permit Mr, and Mrs. Kean to leave our metropolis without once more recording our admira tion of their genius, and of the gratification - its dis play has afforded us. To those who look upon the drsma not as a gorgeous medley of unmeaning sights and idle sounds, but as a vivid delineation of human nature as it is, when stripped of the rna,k and lacquer of conventionality, or al a clear illustration of moral truths, the performance of Mr. and Mrs. Kean must have given unmixed pleasure. These accomplished artists have one excellence in common—that of form ing a clear idea of the character which they personate, and that of acting in perfect keeping with it. The images of the poet's conceptions which they express are definite, and coherent. But we think that their perception of character and style of acting arc remarkably dissimilar. Mr. Kean is the more imaginative, he idealises the personage he has to represent into a form of majesty and grandeur which, perhaps, the vulgar cannot ap preciate, but which is beautifully consistent in its amplification. He expresses the heroic rather than the human. His Hamlet and his Strathmore are beings of noble thought and statelier mould than ordinarily belong to " children of clay." There is an unmistakable appearance of greatness in all that they do and say. Mr. Kean, too, is rather intellec tual the passionate. We know that this is not the common opinion. But in all his tragic bursts, whe ther struggling between duty and affection when he sentences Sir Rupert Lorn to death, or breaking forth into sorrow over Aphelia's grave, lie appears to us ever anxious tc show the superiority of mind over in firmity. IVe think indeel his characteristic is a simple but poetic dignity, which invests his creations with the ornate hues of mugnilicence rather than with the common lineaments of humanity. And still he does not fail in delineating the mo:e subtile features of Shakspeare's Hamlet—the wondrous play of irony and misanthropy, of paxsion and self-control, of craft aid indignation, of inanity and deep thought, which distinguish this matchless creation. His Hamlet, in truth, is a fine representation of a mind overwrought with horror, and struggling, even to its own disor ,, b anisetion, with cox.flicting emoti o n. Mr. Kean, in short, seems to us even to prefer the calm and stately ideal to the changeful lineaments of ordinary huma nity. We would like extremely to see him in one of the characters of the old Greek drama—in the ad ieus or the Oresets, for example. Alre. Kean is quite the reverse of her gifted husband—a delicate and most just appreciation of nature as it is, and correct impersonation of its phenomena, are her characteristics. She moves and speaks exactly as the character she sustains should move and speak. Her delineation of passion, and especially of the passion of love, is remarkably perfect. She is full of the music of humanity. We feel that her representation of her part is stamped with truth. Tier Katherine Lorn, her Julie', and her Ophelia, we confess to be beings whom we hive met before, and who would act on the theatre of life as they act on the mimic stage. Mrs. Kean is less a tragedy queen than a graceful and tender woman, whose genius has' bestowed itself upon art. It is, in tru!h, impossible to eulogise too highly the tenderness, pathos, delicacy, and beauty, marking all Mrs. Kean's ,exquisitely-ferninine portraitures, whether embodying the high.souled Katherine Lorn or the gentle lolanthe. We are convinced when we state that these gifted performers have it in contemplation to retire from that stage of which they are the brightest ornaments, we make an announcement that will excite regret through the length and breadth of the land. Macready, too, is about to doff the sock and buskin, and, nathless, that confirmed mannerism which has marred nearly all his T 3 presentations, his loss to the drama must be severely felt. When, then, Charles and Mrs. Kean and Macready have left the stage, where, we ask, are successors worthy of them to be found ? There is no education now for young actors —no school for thetn to practice in—no crowning reward, such as sn engagement at "01d Drury" or Covent-garden, the anticipation of which lightened the early drudgery of the Kegns, the Youngs, the Cookes, and the Kembles. Free. trade in theatres has ruined those provincial schools in which the young actors copied those motels critics pronounced the most perfect. Every haberdasher's apprentice with a soul " above buttons," thinks that he can " fret and strut his hour" as ably as those who have spent a life maturing the genius born with them. It will indeed ba a dies c - arbonc vatandus for the drama when Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean retire from the scene of their triumphs. They are . young—fortune is at their feet—Fame's wreath has crowned them, and we know we only echo the univE , rsal voice when we declare they must not leave us yet. K ENSAL-G BEEN CEMETERY. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) In these days of desecrated churchyeris it requires a visit to Mensal-green, or some other of the suburban . cemeteries, to sweeten our imagination with regard to the resting.places of the dead ; how contrasted is their solemn quiet, their placid tombs, the fresh green turf, the shrubby alleys, the perfume, and the flowers, with the crowded, reeking, never•resting graves of city burial-places. .At this season of the year there is something in the aspect of sepulchral places, that harmonizes well wi(h the shade of depression which the falling leaves, the grey sky, and heavy atmotphere of waning autumn insensibly inspire. On a bright summer's morning, when the very sense of motion is delicious, and nature teams with images of life ; when the warm buoyant air affects our spirits as if the atmosphere were laughing gas, and we remain as recklessly defiant of death's•heads and cross bones (if any such offensive trophies are to be met with in these flowery regions), as if we had no per sonal interest in the only hatchruent which, indepen. dent of the herald's office, each son of Adam is entitled to set up. In winter, too, one feels no voca tion for churchyard visiting% ; there is nothing cona• fortable in the hivernal appearance of these narrow houses, with all their imagery wrapped in snow; the stone and green turf seem as melancholy then as in Ophelia's song, aid we would none of them ; 'tis only misery, with brain on fire, can realise relief in " cold obstruction." But at this period, when the sign of change stamps itself upon the fading face of nature, when the chestnut and lime trees grow pllose, and the leaves of the sycamore are spotted brown; when the hand of the econo mical mother turns to account their falling ges tures, and wraps the seared leaves round the forest roots; when vegetation, vague and objectless, dissi sickly, and ou t pates itself in degenerate blossoms, of season ; and a rank over-growth, like children's, for the grave ; there is something to remind us that we are included in those metamorphoses, and that, whatever path we tread, it is, after all, a branch road to the tomb. The re-action of lassitude upon over-vitality, tells as plainly upon our system as on the general signature of surrounding obi acts, and we feel a complacency towards the flowery bowers wherein mortality takes its deep rest, that seldom occurs to us (except under peculiar circumstances) at other seasons of the year. It was with a mind imbued with some such sentiments that we found ourselves sauntering along one of the ti 1e path: in Kensal-green Cemetery a few weeks back; musing, as the light thistle eleven (which the winds of autumn bad detached from its flowers' dise) floated by us, why man alone should feel such fear and mistrust for the future, which charges itself with the sefety of an insignificant seed, and while consigning it to the seemingly accidental guidance of the wandering breeze, provides for iti subsequent existence! It was one of those calm, grey, pensive looking clays m which the subdued feeliegs we have spoken of are certain to predominate. The twirling leaves fell like great tears upon the graves they sheltered, and every image round us whispered the refrain of Felicia Ilemans' song, " Passing Away." The mignonette, the roses, the heliotrope, and' clematis, with many others of their lovely sisterhood, bloomed in all their summer bright ness, and covered up the loathsomeness of deal), under LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, , the masque of fragrant flower beds. Ten years before we had stood upon that spot, and could then have counted is graves of" mat k and likelihood;' now they tie thick about one, and there is difficulty in recalling not only the most striking of the monuments, but the wanes of the once important personats who tenant them. Then it w a s b u t a se p u l c h ra l suburb, sprinkled with ornate tombs, the principal of which were Ducrol,v's mausoleum, with its shattered garlands arid broken pillar, beehive,. and sphinxes—then only tenanted by his wife; that of St. John Long, with its ten:plc crowns d summit, and drooping female figure with the E-culapian serpent round her arm ; Freeling pillar, with its capital commenced ; the vault of the Ilygeist ; the simple grave of the mother of the writer of "Rook wood; ' and a few others of less well-known names. Now it has become a mono mental city; a little knot of aristocracy keep their state in the catacombs, and a prince of the royal blood has his granite place in the midst; judges, warriors, and merchants, churchmen and simple citizens, wi:h few others, whose epitaphs are written in the afl'ec tions of their fellow men, not only of this generation, but of those that are to co:ne, make up the eleniants of which thii mixed society is composed, .and type themselves in marble alter death. THE WELSH CHURCH. LETTER V. TO THE EDIIOR OF TILE SUN. S►n,-1 have already exhibited various instances of churches in the hincipali y which are wholly ahan. doned as places of worship. Many more might Le mentioned at which the attendance is so scanty, that the diffused congregation would be insufficient to afford one individual to each pew. Let any.s.ranger go un a Sunday into almost any rural church in Wales, aad he must immediately reinlrk the smallness of the assemblage. On inquiry he will generally Lind that there is only one service in a day, the clergyman having duty to perform in other churches. Let that stranger next visit the local Welsh meeting houses, and be will find them inva riably thronged three or four times a day to the very doors. It would be superfluous for me to select instances, for throughout all the rural districts of Wales the churches are empty, and the Welsh Dissenting cha pals are full. Dlss.ent is evPryw here alive in energetic activity, while Episcopal Christianity is dying. The cause too is as obvious as the effect: the people love religion, and desire spiritual instruction from men who speak their own language, enter into their fiell rigs. and share their predilection for poetry, singing, and mu ic, and elevate their minds with earnest and impassioned oratory. They will not attend upon services which they cannot feel as well as understand. They will not accept a mere form or ceremonial of religion for a living reality. Had the Bishops of the Welsh Church during the last hundred and forty years provided it with native pastors as pious, as zealous, and as diligent as the Dissenting teachers, then would the Welsh people, fond as they are by temperament of ail ancient and venerable usages, have been found at this day rejoicing within its precincts, a nation of stedfast Churchmen, instead of a nation of Dissenters. Things have now been urged to an extremity, and the very existence of the Welsh Church apparently depends upon the remodelling of her hierarchy. ENGLISII Bishops have brought this Church to the crumbling verge of ruin. For nine years, indeed, Bishop Thirlwall has teen studiously endeavouring to remedy an irremediable ill, by the palliating expe_dient of acquiring the native language, yet he remains a dry scholar still, and though an able linguist he is an intflicient Welsh preacher, incapable of carr3 ing out the reforms which he admits to be necessary, unable to fit his visitation charges to the requirements of his clergy, incapable of comprehend ing the full responsibillity of his own position, and unwilling and incompetent to understand the character of the Cy mry. lie offers a conspicuous example, a beacon warning to Ministers o f St a t e aga i ns t similar appointments. His whole course of inconsistent Episcopal management in the diocese of St. David's emphatically proves, that if the Church of Wales can even yet be saved, upheld and restored to vigorous usefulness, it cannot be by the efforts of the most learned of the English Prelates. The inference is clear, the earthly hopes of the Welsh Church are all concentrated in a native hierarchy. The whole system of Ecclesiastical government in Wales is so completely disorganized as to require the aid, not merely of conscientious rulers, but of able reformers, which I shall still further demonstrate in my next letter. I am, Sir, &c., GORBONIAN. THE « TIME" AND THE HUNGA- RIAN EXILES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—Your paper, of which only accumulated numbers occasionally reach us, contains unfounded imputations on the Hungarian refugees, and in par ticular cn the late President-Governor of Hungary. As baying been during several months, and up to the present time, attached to and never separated from the person of M. Kossuth, and as being perhaps as cognizant as himself of his private transactions and affairs, 1 am enabled circumstantially to refute -the charges to which you have attempted to give cur rency. Being the only person, beside Count Casimir Batthyany, who accompanied him when he retired from Arad, I consider myself so far implicated in your general remarks, as to feel entitled to claim the insertion in your columns of the facts which consti tute that refutation. con O d n itio t n he all l y 3t d h el o eg f a tpte t tn he bc p r ow M. Kss erso o f uth, having government, with which he had been invested by the Diet, to Gorgey, quitted Arad. He had then 1,000 ducats (less than 5001.) in his posiession. At Mariaradna we were met by M. Dusehek, the Finance Minister, who asked his instructions as to the disposal of 90 cwt. of gold and silver ingots, valued at 5,000,000 florins, nearly 500,0001. of your English money. M. Kossuth had then due to him upwards of 33,000 florins, being two months' arrears of the salary awarded to him by the Diet. The state was at the same time indebted to Count Casimir Batthyany in nearly the full amount of his salary since he had been minister, besides 42,000 florins advanced to the Trea sury out of his private purse. LI. Kossuth sent this treasure back untouched to Arad for public purposes, ordering M. Duschek only to pay over out of the arrears due to him as Pre sident Governor 5,000 florins to the account of his mother. The 1,000 ducats which M. Kossuth took with him from Arad had been diminished by various ex penses, mostly of a public nature, to less than half by the time he reached the Turkish frontier ; and this sum, together with a small travelling bag, was all the property with which the late President- Go vernor of Hungary entered Widdin. As to the crown of Hungary, it was sealed up by a committee of the Diet, and delivered into the charge of the responsible Minister, who duly provided for its safety. I can solemnly aver, to the best of my belief and knowledge, that the President Governor never saw it in his life. These, Sir, are the facts to which, as a gentleman, I pledge my word of honour. They will, I think, dispose of the calumnies by which, wittingly or un wittingly, you have allowed your columns to lx-! so disgraced. To the correspondent or correspondenta —your authority—l cannot even extend the benefit of this alternative indulgence. I cannot believe that their calumnies were forged even at Pesth or Vienna, because Kossuth's Austrian enemies would assuredly have framed some scandal more plausible than a charge of which his whole life had been a glaring refutation. Everybody in llungary knows that M. Kossuth's disregard of his personal interests induced several proprietors and magnates to propose, even before he was yet a limber of the Diet, endowing him with considerable estates. Everybody knows that M. Kossuth refused this honourable testimonial, as well as on all otly.r occasions the frequent offers made by his political admirers and friends to compensate the injury to his private affairs occasioned by tha exclusive dedication of his time and talents to the public interests. The Parliamentary transactions of a snore recent period show with how much difficulty he was induced, as President- Governor of Hungary, to accept the salary of '200,000 florins voted to him by the Diet; and the whole of Hungary is aware how large—how inconsiderately large I may venture to remark—was the proportion of this salary spent in charities. I am a soldier, not a penman, Sir, and can there. fore only call on your anonymous informant or in formants to conic forth, that I may fling by name the falsehood in their teeth. 'At the same time you must understand that, as I am yielding to a purely per. sonal impulse, the publication of this letter can form no impediment to such legal steps as the late Presi dent Governor, on his arrival in England, may think fit, in vindication of his character, to take against yourself', as the responsible circulator of such calum nious aspersions. I an, Sir, your obedient servant, ALEXANDER ASI3OTII, Lieutenant-Colonel, Adjutant General to the x-President-Governor of Hungary. Widdin, Nov. 1. FASHIONS IN MOURNING. —bar. Landells, the eminent artist and wood-engraver, has been enga'ed, du+ing the week, in making elaborate drawings of the mosi recherché examples of the novelties of fashion for the approaching general mourning. These illustrations will horn a large portion of the forthcoming number of the Lady's Newspaper, being intended to serve us un erring guide sin the arrangement of the toilet. The specimens selected are distinguished for unquestionable taste end surpassing elegance, and a i.l prove of the greatest service to those persons who, residing at a distaLco, aro deprivtd of the advantages of seeing the originals which have been chosen by the lead ers o f n tore thnseleeti?Ls made by the Messrs. JayOg o keth the ParLittn and English Mardands de Modes.lM lIA.RRISON AINSWORTH'S WORKS. WINDSOR CASTLE. Pp. 220, Conzplele in One Volume. Following the example of several of his eminent con'emporartes who are endeavouring to popularize sail further their already popular productions, 'Mr. William Harris ;n Ainsworth is now republishing his well known fictions is a form of extraordinary cheap. ness. " Windsor Castle," formerly issued in a costly shape, with illustrations by Cruikibank, is here before us in a compact book, printed on excellent paper and with the clearest type. Within the com pass of 220 pages are coliec:ed together the six books of the famous chronicle of the national palace. These who dt light in the marvellous adventures con nected with Herne, the goblin huntsman ; in the hu morous rencontres between Patch and ill SoinerF, the jesters of Cardinal Wolsey and his royal master; in the fortunes of Mabel, of Tristram, of Surrey, of Wyatt, of Fen wolf, of Geral dine, of Catharine, of Anne Boleyn, and especially of the right high and puissant King Henry thy Eighth, will prize a volume which comprises the whole narrative in rmrtahle ditnensiona. ALhough not one of the most feliAtous of our romancer's his torical tales, this brilliant fiction is nevertheless characterised by considerable power; and is more particularly remarkable fur the vividness with which it pourtrays a remote agt , , blending together moreov e r, without any apptia-nt Hirt, much less any strikiug anomaly, the generally incongruous materials of diablerie and reality. The panorama unfolded to us by Harrison Ainsworth in this (inantfestly his favourite) fiction, is marked by its gorgeous colour ing and its judicious delineation of character. Several of the historical personages, especially Henry himself, are admirably' sketched, tallying in almost every particular with our ideals drawn from the memorials of contemporary scribes Remembning the maudlin outcry raised a few years since against Mr. Ainsworth as a novelist, we shall not be at all surprised if this cheap re issue of his compositions be' the theme of much prudish and preposterous repre hension. Of this, however, we are equally well satisfied, that the jeers ef cint and the sarcasms of a stilted morality, will hive no effect .upon the circulation of works calculated iu no respect to lower the tone of society, or to deprave the public imagination any more than the works of some of the most celebrated and lauded authors in our literature. What is a subject to us of profound indignation—to 'us, tent) and entire strangers to Mr. Harrison Ainsworth—is that most absurd outcry raised against him as the originator of that school of literature in which crime is made the theme of fiction, and in which the hero is the criminal. Harrison Ainsworth, the originator ' of this school of romance ! One might as ' readily accuse the blossom of being the cause of the seed, the roots, the stalk, the b ranc h es , and the bud from which it has emanated. Why, the veriest blockhead in her Majesty's dominions is aware that this species of fictitious composition was in vogue in the days of 2Eschylus and Euripide., in the age of Shakspere, and in the time of Boccaccio ; and that, to come nearer our own era, it was the mode with, some of the noblest and most eulogized intellects. Fielding, we opine, has chosen one of the most vil lanous wretches that ever crawled upon God's earth as the hero of one of his most renowned works, the " History and Adventures of Jonathan Wild." God win, we presume, mutt be regarded as the author of "Caleb Williams,"mnd "Caleb Williams," we believe, is the celebration of the career of a murderer. Nay, nearer still to a contemporary period—Sir Bulwer Lytton had recounted the life and death of Eugene Aram, together with the vicissitudes of the highwayman Paul Clifford, while. Charles Dickens had limned to the very life the brutal ruffian, Mr. William Sykes, i n the narrative of " Oliver Twist," long b e f ore "J ac k Sheppard " Ns as published in the pag es , of the very same magazine which had immortalised the murderer of Nancy. And yet Harrison Ainsworth—not Dickens, or Bulwer, or Godwin, or Fielding, but Harrison Ainsworth—is accused of having been the originator, forsooth, of' this school of romantic litera ture. If to have followed in the wake of half a hun dred novelists, and to be the last in point of time, in stead of the first, be to be the originator of this system of composition, then, but not otherwise, must we regard Mr. Ainsworth as the originator of this species of romance. The logic of his assailants is amusing, —he is the predecessor because he is the successor. It reminds us of Mrs. Malaprop in Sheridan's comedy, " Come, sir, you're our envoy, lead the way and will precede I" What we maintain in regard to the cause of our indignation in this matter is simply as follows :—lt strikes us as being rather too bad to have applauded Fielding first, and then Godwin, and then Bulwer-Lytton, and then Dickens, and at last to have come down unexpectedly, pelf harutn-scarum, upon Harrison Ainsworth for following exactly in the same track. First of all the public foster the germs of a certain style, and then, when those germs have blossomed, become outrage ous. Nay—every one had already lauded to the very skies Mr. Ainsworth's previous romance of " Rook wood," in which Dick Turpin, the highwayman, figures very conspicuously. But lo ! and behold, after swallowing with a relish Fielding's " Jona. than Wild," and Godwin's " Caleb Williams," tied Bulwer's " Eugene Aram," (a work which elicited the panegyric of Sir Walter Scott), and his "Paul Clifford," and Dickens's " Oliver Twist," and even Mr. Ainsworth's own work of " Rookwood," the public suddenly became squeamish on the appearance of "Jack Sheppard," and visit the who!e of the bile of their spurious and pretended morality on the unfortunate head of William llar rison Ainsworth. Pshaw we have no patience with such wretched exhibitions of sanctimoniousness on the part of those who have tolerated so much deserving real reprehension. They call to our recollection the disgusting assumption of sanctity visible on the part of Joseph Surface at the very time when the screen conceals the object of his adulterous intrigue. If "Jack Sheppard' merits condemnation, then most certainly does every one of the kindred works already enumerated; and yet the vial of popular wrath is poured out exclusively over the, former. In spite of the abuse of an ungenerous hypocrisy, the principal among the fictions of Harrison Ainsworth have ;till preserved their popularity, for the intelli gent public of readers cannot fail to recognize their peculiar, and in their way, their consummate ability. Dick Turpin's Ride to York—one of the most brilliant, and altogether one of the most remarkable descriptive passages in the language—is still fresh in the popular recollection. It cannot, moreover, be forgotten how trany bygone personages have been resuscitated by the magic wand of the novelist :round the ancient buildings of o.d Saint Paul's, Saint James's, the Tower of London, and Windsor Castle. Versatility delineated in ‘• Crichton," fanaticism in " Guy Fawkes," a long past age in the " Miser's Daughter," and a no th er remo t e period in the " Lancashire Witches," are still retained in remembrance. Hence we can understand the rapid sale of the first edition of this cheap re-iesue— that sale having been completed on the first day of publication. Tawdry and meretricious decorations there undoubtedly are in the writings of Mr. Aina worth, but there are also blended v<ith these others of a genuine excellence—vigorous por traitures of the passions (chiefly, it is true, the darker passions,). of humanity, enthralling succe sions of incident, ingenious complications of plot, and through all a delicate and subt:e analysis of' character. Those are bis titles—and they ore high Ones—to our consideration. Ills position 'as a no velist is very far indeed from being unimportant, for he occupies the place in the present, which Mrs Radcliffe occupied in the past generation. NEOTYPOS CHESSMEN. An entirely novel and in some respects a peculiar]. j ingenious set of chessmen 11:.s just appeared--adapt able on occasions to the games of chess, draughtr, and backgammon. They are flit and circular, with r.n embossed effigy representing the different men in the game of games. To amateurs we doubt not they will prove acceptable, though we are equally certain they w•culd have been ditcarded by a Statlitoa, a Phillidor, or a De la Bourdon: 6 . SONNEI I TO WOMAN. BY ROBERT GILFILLAN. Bright stars of eartl. l —not ye, fast-fadingfl)wers, That bloom a while, then vanish in decay ; But ye, fair beautioe, fortn'd in Luve's fond bowers, Who give to Man what sunbeams give to day! What were this world were Woman's smiles away I An arid waste—a desert of the wild— A lonely rock, with ever dashing •pray, On whose rode summit Nature never smiled, But stood in ocean grandeur all forlorn; — So Man's frail balk, by every tempest torn, Oft foundered but fur Woman's guiding ray, Who o'er the gloom makes night appear the day! Her worth, her heart, her love to Man is given, To show Un earth a Pisgah vi.w of Heaven! East Hermitage, Leith, 3d Dec., 1842. Film the Scotarnan. THE LATE QUEEN DOWAGER.—We have reason to believe that th:i usual ceremony of " lying in state" will be dispensed with, for the first time during many centu ries, in the case of her late M.jesty the Queen Dowager. It appears that an objection exists iu the ceremony taking place at Bentley Priory iu consequence of that mansion not being royal property. The rea;oval of the late Queen's remains to London for the purpose h also thought undesirable on many accounts, not the least of which is said to be the great risk of accident from the rush of spectators who would inevitably endeavour to obtain adrnissiou to the ceremony. Another deviation from the usual custom with deceased members of the ro) al family is the omisiion of the process of embalming the body,which bus been dispensed with by express desire of her late lamented Majesty. Thl second coffin, which is lined throughout with lead, was sent down to Stan more yesterday. The funeral, it is generally suppim4l, will take place at Windeor on Saturday, the 15th inst , in a most private paella. DECEMBER 6 1819 LITERATURE. !THE ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE; or, Curiosities of Family History. Vol. 111. By G. Lillie Craik. The readers of the two preceding volumes of this romantic history w ill require little recommendation to induce them to take up th e thi r d an d recen tl y - Lsued volume. it combines the interest of the novel Vi it h the graver attractions of history. The subject of duelling occupies a iyoininent place in this last volume, the Wharton and Stuart duel, and the Bruce and Saukville duel being the topics of two of the historical romances which it contains. "Charles Brandon's Widow and her Second Alan-Lige," "Bess of Hardwick and the Talbots," " Thc Cavendislies and the Stenhopes," " Lord Pembroke and Sir George Wharton," "Lord Crichton of Sinqubar," and "The Earldom of Menteith," are the subjects of the re maining historielles. In some respects the most in teres:ing article in the volume is the first, entitled " The Ilireditary Principle." Its appearance is certainly well-timed, now that so ma n y hereditary rights have been set aside, and the fact o f their being rights at all is called in question. We cannot :.ay that we entirely agree with the opinions of Mr. Craik, but the following arguments are eminently truthful in practice, whatever they may be in theory : " Thy thing that is of chief mome L t wi t h r gard to the place of high: at dignity in a well-old:40d common ' wealth is, that it be fhl d. By whom it is fiat(' is eons p4rwivoly unimportant. It is impossible that any considerable power of independent or self originating c:inn can he lift to the individual occupying it. An rx'raordivary crisis will cull forth a Luder, who shall still) and wield all thet!authority of the State LS if by a divine right ; but th4=re are no means of s. curing an unbroken succeision of such heaven ci.mmissioned autocrats. - h the normal condi tion of national affairs a principal part of the tutted:li to be performed by the cfliJial head of the State is merely to occupy,hii position. The first necessity of that prsition is, that it cannot be left empty. So 10E, it would b,3 a gaih in the body politic. It will not re main empty. If there be no regular way of fling it pro vided, the thing will be - done by some &regular preces 4 'f ho principle of hereditary succession, operating with tl.e constancy of a law of n tare, seems to offer at once a p-rtectly sufficient, and by far the most convenient and least objectionable ago ney for meeting all the difficulties of the case. 6 ' One of the most beautiful among the simplifications of science is that by which. in the Arabic system of arithmetical notatiou, the figure is made ;o derive the greater part of its value from the place in with hit stands. An analogous contrivance is (cruelly availalle in a social or political system. Much of the force by which any such system is to be sustained and kept is motion, may be advantageously made to reside more in the place than in the pers3n. Matters may ba so arranged that it shall be not so much the individual as his posi tion that rules and influences. This force of the positioa is an incident of social efficiency which discriminates it from many other kinds of efficiency. A man cannot be made a sounder mathematician by being appointed a professor of mathematics. If his mathematical knowledge o: genius ho hat small, his professorship will not m -ke it more. But the sort of power that is required in the members of a social or political system is often only a power of weight or pressure. It is derived from their position much more than from themselves. It Int Ates itself felt not in directing or even in impelling the machine of government, so much as in I.eeping its centre ofgravily in the right place. It is neither the sail nor the rudder of the veas‘l, but rather the ballast or the keel. All that you have to do, therefore, to maintain in the machine a force of any desired amount, which shall continue to act in a direction that may be assigned, is to create certain positions or circumstances in which a certain number of individuals shall always stand. The fixed potitious will correct any irregulatity of action that might when% is,: be produced by the more variable or less determinable ciaan:ity of the individual minds and characters." The efficacy of this system is happily — exemplified by the British Constitution. FORBES' GUIDE TO THE FOXHOUNDS AND STAGLIOUN DS OF ENGLAND. By Gelert. .‘ Fox-hunting," says the compiler cf this guide, " has been the glory of England for the last century ; no other nation of the earth comprehends either the intensity of sport or manliness of character induced by this noble pastime." To the devotees of this " glory of England" Forbes' Guide will b.; an in valuable acquisition. Its character will be best exhibited by a Ppecimen of its contents. All the " foxhounds and staghounds of England" are arranged according to the following plan : " BUCKS.—bTAGIIOUNDS. " Name of county or hounds—The Barons Rothschild; Masters—Barons Meyer and Lionel Rothschild; Hunts man—Tom Balls; Days of Hunting—Monday, Thurs day. (These details are arranged in separate columns, in order to be easily referred to.) Favourite fixtures— Hardwick, Adstock, Aston Abbott's, Winslow, Little Iharwood, Liscombe Park, Oving, Rowsham, Broughton Farm, Aston Clinton, Denham Hills, Hockliffe Grange. " The Barons are doing the thing as they have always done it, in tip-top form. They have thirty- one couple of hounds in kennel, and after ten seasons ure beginning to get them tolerably level. Their entry of puppies for the coming season is magnificent—ten ancl a half couples, three couples of which, in one litter, aro worth going too miles to see. They have about fifteen hunt rs, averaging 2501. each. Two deer aro always taken to the meet ; and if they do not get twelve miles out of the first, the second is uncarted. The gentlemen of the hunt are generally hard goers, especially the Honourable Robert Grimston ; and Tom Balls, as ho need be, is in vincible. The Barons rejoice in, the Vale of Aylesbury." till lave until ti:ue shall bo no more. May sueh be yet the policy, and such the reward of Imperial Englal d ! FORBES' HUNTING DIARY. A useful accompaniment to the above is Forbes Hunting Diary, arranged so as to record the sport of the season for the followers of foxhounds, stag hounds, and barriers. It is a blank book, ruled in columns intended to contain memoranda, under the following; heads :—" Hounds, Huntsmen, the Meet, Horses, Stag, Fox, Harriers, Covers Drawn, Found or Uncarted, Wind, Weather, Scent, Check, Killed or Taken, Observations." A book of this kind when filled up would afford an interesting summary of a season's sport. CLASSICAL SOURCES OF BRITISH TOR Y. A Colonial Warning. By S Bannister, formerly Attorney- General of New South Wales. The object' of this work, which, when completed, will prove in the highest degree interesting to every reader who can appreciate the production of a philan thropist and a scholar, rich in illustration, accurate in research, and lucid in style, is to show, more especially from the disasters of the Romans in Britain, that conquests are adverse, and that a sy s tem o f humane policy is indispensable to the lasting progress of civilization, but that British influence and terri tory may be securely and justly extended by the steady introduction of good government, furnished with means to civiliz3 the savage and to protect ail. The published portion of the book comprises the introduction, and a large collection of extracts from the works of those classical authors who have made allusion to ancient Britain. Tne idea of colh ctiog from classical writers the passages concerning Britain was conceived three centuries ago. In 1.530 the Earl of Worcester published a little pamphlet of this character, but only containing ex tracts from Cws.sr. Eichere s work applies the same idea to the whole ancient world, but he limits his extracts, as to Britain, to Cwiar and Ta citus. Petric's important vvo; k is perplexing, from the arrangement adopted of the early known materials of the history of this island, and the present work bids fait to be an improvement upon these similar productions. The range of authors quoted is very extensive. Among the Greeks the principal are Streik), iDiolorua Siculus, Polybius, Aristotls, and the unknown composer of the Argonautics of Or pheus. Among the Latins, Cmsar, Cicero, Pliny ; numerous peas of the Augustan age—Tacitus, Juvenal, and Rufus Avienus. The heart of Mr. - Bannister is set on the working out of one of the great problems of humanity, namely—What system will the more satisfactorily secure the safety and civilization of the barbarous tribes with which we have intercourse ? In other words,—How civilized ',miens can be best relieved from the dishonour of, year after year, inflicting wrong, when, by due care, they might confer benefits upon those tribes ? Tnii problem, he conceives, is to be resolved by the im proved study of history, which, if studied to its true spirit, as "philosophy teaching by example," should, from the consideration ef the rela- fi . rms of the eivilizcd iinciews with our rude and earlier forefathers, aftbrd some lessons for our guid ance in the conduct of the like relations subsisting between ourselves and the less civilized races of the present day. The illustration of the maxim, that little presprity can be enjoyed by the most success ful conquerors—as were the Romans in the British isles, whose domination eri4el in a frightful ruin, from their contemptuous disregard of justice and conciliation towards the natives—is principally taken from our calamitous ill-policy in Southern Africa. Our limits preclude us from entering upon the several inapir:arit considerations which a study of these pages naturally cause to arise, and it would be injustice to the erudite and clear-sighted author to give a meagre outline of the topics which he adduces with such high ability. To the completion 'of his labours in this field we look forward with the gre4est interest. in common wi h all who love to pay its meed to literary merit, employed in the development and elucidation of sound and comprehensive views of A:des:unship. Would that our rulers were thoroughly imbued with the noble and politic sentiments of which the author of this volume—no mawkish philanthropist, or inexperienced theorist—is the energetic advocate. Tt.e brightest sword will rust, and the greenest laurels fade, save in the rare instance of a Washington, a Kossuth, and the deathless brother-band of pure-souled patriots— the blcol•cementel triumphs ! of the ancient Quen of nations, and of many a conquering dynasty, are crumbled into dust, but the extension of empire by the pure and peaceful weapons of civilization and conciliatory government, will rcdound to the uLdying glory of its authors, and ensure solidity and .reVeren- CUMBERLAND'S BRITISH TIIEJTRE N 03.. 363-3 GB In continuation of this voluminous and most in teresting i . )ublication we have here before us the ver,ions of John Banjul's tragedy of .Dainon auk Pythias ; Gilbert a s ßeckett's farce of A Clear Case; his farce of Fiq•aro in London; the f;zce of his First Peeea dilo Leman Rede'i dr,.ma of The Decd and Dr. Faustus; and Richard Jon.i.s's comedy of The Green Mao. Eqch nuiriba- iu, of coune az usual, accom a iicd by al he stg.re directions and by the oritizl.l remarks of the inimitable and interminable One or two plays and farce's, long since out of print, we . shuuld b e g l a d t o see repu bli shed i n th i s excellent se , n-s, such fur example as the capital farce of Too Late for Dinner, by Richard Jones, the celebratLd come Tian. TTIE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS of Wiliam Cullen Bryant. Condensed, so to speak, into a %whams 01355 pages WO have here before us an English reprint of the entire pc in 3 of \William Bryant, the American. Con sidetiog that he has been be'bre the public upwards of tl.i:ty years, namely, since 1816, we cannot but feel somewhat surprised at the intellectual poverty which marks the effusions. Almost all of them are of the briefest possible description—the longest of ell, "The Ages," consisting only of thirty five stanzas. Yet it is through these few and fragmentary productions . that Mr. Bryant has aeTaired a very large amount cal celebrity, both American End European. The secret of his otherwise inexplicable success is thi s , that he has in one or two pieces described the aspect cf American scenery:with a pencil of miraculous delicacy and tvth a touch capable of producing an inimitable vet Limilitude. Here is one of his charming pictures, copied from a poem entitled "Autumn Woods :" " . But 'Leath yon crimson tree, Llver to listening maid might breathe his filme, Nor mark, within its roseate canopy, Her blush of maiden shame." Such fragments as those of " The Crowded Street " and "The Yellow Violet" are among the more feli citous contents of a volume which cannot fail to com mand a large circulation. POEMS. Pp. 62. By Boothroyd Fairclough. A little unpretending pamphlet of versification, penned, as the writer informs us in his modtst little Preface, by a " young man totally unknown in the paths of literature." Neither from the " Outlaw's Confession," nor from the " Heir of Aloa," nor from any of the minor pieces, c.in we prophecy that he has the capacity to make his voice audible in precincts which echo only to the cries of genius. At the least his maiden effort is not marred by affectations. SPORTING IN TELLIGENCE. LEAMINGTON DECEIiBER MEETING. All the horse% are hero for both Steeplechase and Hurdle-race. We subjoin the latest betting:— THE OPEN CHASE. 4 to 1 egst British Yeoman 10 to 1 agst Little Fanny (t) (taken) 10 to 1 agst Agitation sto I agst Chandler (t) 12 to 1 agst Little Houghton 7 to 1 agst Peter Simple (t) (taken) 7 to 1 agst Kut. of Gwyune 12 to 1 egtit Abd-tl•Kader (taken) 12 to 1 agst Maria Day 7 to 1 agst The Doctor (t) 120 to 1 agst Bold Davy 4to 1 agst Miss Burns I6to 1 agut Bedford 5 to 1 ag,t Vaut-rien 6 to 1 apt any other. ASIIDO `,I I N PARK COURSINCi MEETING. The Cup was won by Sir S. George Guru's Florence. Mr. Bowles's William Rufu: r...n up. The Oaks Stakes were won by Mr. Biggs's Energy. Mr. Etwall's Ebb ran up. The All-aged Craven Stakes were won by Mr. Law renct's Lai:dgravine. Sir St. George Gore's Jeannette ran up. 141.11. h RJolch and Hernia divided the Craven Puppy Stl:kes. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. THE PUPPY STAKES. Mr. nendell's Renown teat Sir St. George Gore's Gwendohne. Mr. Rend()ll's Sincerity beat Mr. Fryson's Fig. Mr. Dobede's Damian beat Mr. Lawrence's Leoline. Mr. Round's Littlfgo beat Sir St. George Gore's Herinkar. Mr. Round's Longwaist beat Mr. Gillett's Gaslight. Mr. R. Bagge's Ttetu beat T. L. Brewster's Mystery. Mr. Fysou's Forerunner beat Mr. Fowles's Fire. Mr. Osbeldeston's Ophelia beat Mr. Miller's Minstrel. Mr. Inskip's Pathfinder beat Mr. R. Bigge's Titus. Mr. Riehardson's Vivid beat Mr. Moody's Fabian. Mr. T. Le Brewer's Barney beat Lord Stradbroke's Mento. Mr. Collins's Lord of the Manor beat Mr. Dobt.dt's Dewberry. First Ties.—Renown bt Dunian—Littlego bt Btrney —Tints bt Lord of the Manor—Pathfinder bt Fore runner—Sincerity bt Opheliu—Longwaist bt Vivid. THE ALL•AGED STAKES. Mr. Longman's Lola Alontcz 13, at Sir St. Gtorge Gore's Helens. Mr. Fps mc.Field-Marshal bt Mr. Richardson's Vcrity. Mr. Buck worth's Bridesmaid beat Mr. Lawrence's Leeway. Mr. Ri ndell's Red Republican beat Sir St. George Gore's Horatio. Mr. Osbaldeston's 01111 beat Mr. 0. Edwardi's Amytbist. Mr. Round's Liberty bt Mr. Holmes's HiAland Laddie. Mr. R. Bigge's Tout beat Mr. Biggs's Fan. Mr. Fysou's Faithful beat Mr. Rendell's Rocket. Mr. Dobede's D_sperate beat Mr. Rendell's Racer. Mr. Dobede's Doron beat Mr. Collins's Confidence. Mr. II _lmes's Rattler IA Sir St. George Gore's Glencoe. Mr. Edward's Approbation beat Mr. King's Rex. Mr. Fowles's Pliable beat Mr. R. Bigge's Tulip. Mr. Inskip's Perseverance beat Mr. Round's Louis Phillipe. Mr. Gillett's Girl of heat bt Mr. Inskip's Jenny Lind. Mr. Guruey's Agnes beat Mr. Gillett's Graceful. First Ties.—Girl of Kent beat Approbation—Ratt ler beat Doron—Tout beat Lola Montez—Field-Idarshal beat Pliable—Perseverance beat Faithful—Agnes beat Olinda—Desperate beat Red Republican—Bridesmaid bnt Liberty. THE EXXING STAKE'S Ut ACED DDGS Mr. Rand,..ll's Rocket beat Mr. Fyaon's Fanny. Mr. flolmet's Moral beat Mr. Dobede's Diamond. Mr. Inskip's Pilot beat Mr. Buckworth's Metier. Mr. Eichardson's \Tin ity beat Lord Stradbroke's Mary INDUSTRIAL HOME FOR GEN- TLEWOMEN. The first public meeting in connexion with this deserving institution was held yesterday at the Home, 5, llarpur-street, Red Lion-square. The meeting was numerously attended by ladies of high station in life, clergymen, and gentlemen. The Honourable AI Tuca KINNAIRD, who oc cupied the chair, said, they could not exaggerate the necessity and importance of such a society in a commercial community like that of London. As one well acquainted with business men, and himself connected with businesi , , as a banker who knew the affairs of many, he assured them it was not unusual for the diluent, acting in the spirit of enterprise and competition which entered into commerce, to be very rapidly brought to the utmost want, perhaps from their own imprudence; but on the other hand also from circumstances over which they could not possibly have exercised any con!rol. Probably there was no one in that room but knew some such case, and felt perplexed how best to assist the individual without wounding a sensitive mind, and augmenting in stead of relieving its pain. But many of the most distrosing cases were, he feared, never heard of, and many of those were known were accidental dit , c.Jveries. individua'.% born and reared in hater circumstances were more I;euly alive to the ills of poverty, and sensitively shrank ffoin giving•lJublicity to distress which yet they were often u..able by their own exertions to ameliorate. But this institution he hop: d would do something for tha al!eviation of such distress. He cL;uld not help adverting to the opportune moment which they had chosen to begin their benevolent work—when the death of a distinguished personage, the Queen Dow ager, distinguished for her ran k an d more dis . . _ br her benevolence, deprived many de serving cases of the a s s i s t ance which she was in the habit of giving out of her ample means. The SECRETAILY read the report, w hi c h s t a t e d th at the friends of' the institution contemplated the relief of gentlewomen reduced to poverty, and that their object was to secure to such inmates, irrespective of employment, a comforLble home for 7s. 6d. a week, and to provide suitable employment for those whose resources were inade.qu Ice to meet the weekly charge. The committee appointed in April last to carry this object ;into effect, continued to exert them=e Ives on its behalf ; and when in the month of A uguq, the houle in 11 , irpur street was offered them at a rent of 85/., and the furniture in it for 212/, although they had then g .t no more than about 2001., they deemed it advisable to accept the off.r. There were now thirty inmates in the Home, one half of whom paid half their exp;:nses. By dint of great economy they had hitherto been able to proceed, but they hoped the liberality of the public would enaMe them to progress more efficiently in future. The accounts presented to the meeting stated that the revenue from subscriptions and donations, up to the 4th of December had amoute d to 855/. 165.; that th cap i.diture NWS 3201. 19i. 7d., including 2121. for the furniture, and 33/. for repairs in the house, leaving a balance in hand of 31/ 163. 51, against which the Secretary stated there were still several outstanding debts. The meeting wss then addressed by the Rev. W. Lesslgnan, M.A ; Rev. James Hamilton, D.D ; Joseph Williams, NI D. ; 11.2 r. Mr. Belau, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr. Futvoye, Dr. Adis, and the Rev. Mr. Short. The report was adopted, and resolutions were car ried, recognizing the progress the society had already made, and according thanks to the committee of ladies in %%hose hands the whole had been lilt. The Rev. Mr. Short, the•clergvman of the parish consented to visit the Home as often as his other duties would allow hint. A vote of thanks to the Cluirznan concluded the b sines of the meeting•. DANIEL, WEBSTER on lIUNGAILV. The f illowing is an extract flout a speech dh by Al.r. Daniel Webster at the New Hampshire FLs tival : " Then, gentlemen, there is another aspect. We have all had ou r sympat hi es much enlisted by the Hungarian effort for liberty. We thought we saw a more f%vourable chanc e for esteblishieg independ e n ce . llungt!ry then in any other part of Eurooe where toe question has bet n in agitation within the Inst 12 months. But despotic power front abroad intervened to suppress it. And, gentlemen, what will come of it Ide not know. For my part, at this moment, I feel more indignant at recent events connected with Hun gary than at all those which passed in her struggle for liberty.—(Tremendous cheering ) I see that the Emperor of Russia demands of Turkey that the noble Kossuth and his companions should be given up.— (Shatee, shame.) And I see that this demand is in derision of the established law of nations. Gen tlemen, there is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning Las its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the earthquake has its power. But there is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightning, whirlwind, or earth quake—(Overpowering outbursts of applause)— that is the threatened indignation of the whole civi lized world.—(Renwed cheers.) Gentlemen, ttie Emperor of Russia holds himself to be bound by the law of nations, from the fact that he treats with nations—that he forms alliances; he professes, in fact, to live in a civilized .age, and to govern an en lightened nation. I say that if under these circum stances he shall perpetrate co gross a violation) of natural law as to seize these Hungarians and to exe• cute them, he will stand as a criminal and m.defactor in the view of the law.—(Laud huzz is continued for • some minutes.) The whole world will be the tribu nal to try him, and he must appear before it, and hold up his hand and plead and abide its judgment.— The Emperor of Russia is the supreme lawgiver in his own country, and for aught I know, the exe cutor of it also. But, thanks to God, he is not the supreme lawgiver or executor of the national law, and every offence against this is an offence against the rights of the civilized world—(Hear, bear)—and if he breaks that law in the case of Turkey, or in any other case, the whole world has a right to call him out and to demand punishment.—(Right.) Our rights as a nation are held under the sanction of national law—a law which hscumes more impor tant from day to day—a law which none who profess to agree with it, are at liberty to violate. Nor let him imagine, nor let any one imagine, that mere force can subdue the general sentiment of men kind. It is much more likely to extend that senti ment, and to destroy that power which he most de sires to establish and secure. Gentlemen, the bones of poor John Wickliffa were dug out of his grave seventy years after his death, and burnt for his heresy, and his ashes were thrown upon a river in War wickshire. Some prophet of that day said— " The Avon to tho Severn runs The Severn to the S7s, And Wickliffe's dust shell spread abroad, Wide es the waters be." Gentlemen, if the blood of Kossuth is taken by an absolute, urqualified, unjustifi a bl e v i o l a ti on of national law, what will it appease—what will it pacify? It will mingle with the earth—it will mix with the waters of the ocean—the whole civilized world will snuff it in the air, and it w ill return with awful retribution on the heads of those violators of national law and justice.—(Great en'.husiasm ) I cannot say when, or in what form, but depend upon it that if such an act take place. thrones and princi palities and powers must look cut for the conse quences.—(Overpowering apdlause.) INSTITUTION OF CLVIL ENGINEERS. JosituA FIELD Etq. President, in the ehilir. discussion was continuo I on Mr. Paten's description of the Southend Pier, and the ravages of the " Teredo Navali," and other marine worms, and was extended to such a length as to preclude the reading of any original communication. Numerous specimens were exhibited, and com mented cn, of timber thoroughly perforated by worms; Nyhilst beside them, under the same circum stances, the " Jarrow wood," from Aus!mlis, was shown to have remained completely free from injury. The reference to the ego of Homer, as an instance of the ancient ravaging habits of the " Teredo," in duced a return to geological questions ; and it was shown, that in the Louden clay, remains had repeatedly been found, of timber perforated by sea • worms. The °elite and greeniand formations also exhibited petrified wood, filled with boring moitnett... This led to the consideratien of the formation most likely to withstand the attack of the "Pholas ;" and it was shown, that the Portland stone was, from the quantity of silica it contained, least liable to be attacked. The "Pholas" was shown to have been in active operation ucon certain rocks from the earliest periods, but never upon Portland stone. Hence it was argued tbak kind of stone should be used' for break waters and other works exposed to the action of the sea. The early state of the " Teredo" was noticed ; when escaping from the egg, in the shape of a free swimmer, it was drifted about with the tide until it met with a leg, a pile, or the side of a ship, to which it attached itself, and making an inroad into it, be came a non•locomotive animal of different form and habits, never again to leave the habitation it had burrowed for itself in the body of the timber. The question of whether the boring operation of the marine worms was carried on by chemical or by mechanical means, was lengthily diEcussed. The thin shell, covered by its delicate membrane, was in stanced as not possessing strength enough to cut away timber ; but it s , . as on the other hand shown that the shape of the two shells, forming the extremity of the animal, admirably adapted them for powerful cutting, or rasping tools, when moved rapidly in a circular direction, es was evidently the case, from the uni formly cylindrical character of the holes. The shells of the " Pholas" were also shown•; o be used in that manner, and the opinion ap[eared gene rally to lean to a mechanical cause, for the effects observ(d. Thii bearing of the discwsion naturally induced remarks upon the ravages of the white ant of India, which, however, appeared to have been little studied, and less understood, as far as attempting to arrest or to prevent its inroads. The various materials, such as Ryan's corrcsive sublimate of mercury, Sir W. 13arnett's chloride of zinc, Margary's salts of metals, Payne's combination of tnutiate of lime and sulphate of iron, forming in the timber an insoluble compound, and Bethell's creosote, or cil of coal tar, were discussed. All had their partisans, and were stated to have suc ceeded and failed under certain circumstances. Spe• cimens of piles from Lowestoft harbour, w hose waters were notoriously full of worm, showed that timber in a natural state was in a few months thoroughly perforated by " Teredetin the centre, find " Limn°. ria" on the surface ; but that piles, which had been properly saturated according. to .13:.thelfs system, in exhausted receivers, and .Tubjected.to such pressure as insured the absorption of about ten pounds' weight of the creosote, or oil of coal:tar, by each cubic foot of the time., were perfectly preset ved ficni atta , lis of marine animals of any kiLd. In one instance a partially " creosoted" pile had a net: h cut into it, dt eper than tile impregnation k.d extended ; a " Terede made its entry, and was fund to have worked in every direction, until it arrived within the reach of the creosote, 'hen the animal turned away and eventually left the pile. Bethell's system was admitted, by all the speakers, to be that which hitherto, after many years' experience, had afforded the most satisfactory results. Some most conclusive experiments, institute d by Mr.-Rendel at Southanipm, were stattcl to have pro. duced the same results ; and at Leith ail the piles were weighed before and after their saturation, to insure their absorbing the full allowance of at !cast ten pounds per cubic foot. The discussion was interrupted by the monthly bal lot, when the following candidates were elected :—M. Jones and T. C. Gunn, as members ; T. A. Heelev, J. Allan, H. 0. BridgemAn, and Captain J. Estridge, .13. E., as associates. _ The paper anncuoced to be r( ail at the meeting f Tuesday, Deconber the 111 h, was No. 818, " Oil the facilities for Ship or Can;►l communication, lwtivaen the Atlantic and P,lcific ()Jeans through the Isthmus of Panama." By Lieutenant. Colonel Lloy ct, Assoc. Inst. C.E. LOSS OF TWENTY LivEs.—A melancholy accident, which resulted in the sudden th.etructioa of twenty lives, occurred at the entrance of the Tyne on Tu7sday morn ing last. It appears that the Battey, of Little liampten, timber laden, from the adtie, %as proetediee, ncrth ward, when Ave was ccmi.ell‘d by stress of weather to make for Tynemouth lIaI b ur. On entci leg the harhour she struck upon the Herd scud, which iretAes a consider able dishnce aloog the south side of the river. A life boat, with a crew of tvventy-four re - rsons, proceeded to the stranded ship for the rurposeut saving h. r crew . O n reaching the ship it is the pt . :settee to lath the life-boat alongside the dittressed vessel by w et as o f a rope, b oth from the stem and stern. In this it:stance, ly, on ly one en d the life boat had been so secured, when she t•wung roued vith th.a Cale, and u heavy sea taking her iu midship 3 she was in:ate:lily upset, and the VI hole of her crew, with the exception of tour iersa:tis, met with a watery grave. o.ily toe of the bodies, that'uf a person named Lancelot It has as yet been discovered. The disaster IVZS observed from the shore, end two boats put off to render assi.tance. They arrived in time to save the four survivors, three of whom were pit letd off the life-boat, and they also succeeded in saving the crew of the Betsey. Tha vessA is enectod to be got off without serious (Lmae. i