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eady, at price-s fully equ4l to those paid on \ionlay last, I'. Y. C. beif dewed ar, 38s 3i to 35% 61. Fur forward delivery, c,-;y any bu , iness iv doing, at 394 to 393 3il per cwt. Tallow. 375 to 37s 31 per cwt net cash; Rough Fat. 2s ltl tear 811). Our Pvterr, burgh letter ,tat es th,it the (let - land there wag heavy. 1 , 615 1.46. f 847 Stock th's day •• 1 1 .191 Price of Y. C. •• t tons: " 0 4 3°d id .1 875 5,51 t; 10,343 P,4 - 22 42s 0.1 40s 31 o Od to 40, al 7,414 23,115 14s 6d to 38s 3d 418 91 to3Bs 6d Delivery last week Ditto from June I Ar , ivals last week Ditto from June 1 • 457 532 1,44 S j 1,233 2,037 :',687 6,427 4,703 3,765 'll9 '558 I 770 1 1,014 1 859 3,990 I 6,316 2,345 438 Od 53i Od 4gs 6d 39s 6d Pricy of Town . . 43s 3d CRIMINAL COURT (THIS DAI.) OLD COLTR The July ,Sssion o: the Cetor..l Oh:Jinni Court was opened this mornin4 before the L :rd Mayer, the Com mon. Srrjesnt, Aldera:(:n Si': Chapman Marshall and Balonr - ms, act:off:puled by Mr. Sheriff Finnic and Mr. Sheriff Goodh:.rt. The grand jury having bevn imnprnnelled, The COMMON 61:11JEANT proce,ded to &liver the charge. Lie said this, in all probability, would be the last occasion on which a grand jury would be summoned in this court, a Bill having been introduced into Parlia ment for its abolitivn. There was really no c es in the cal,•rdar that regain d any observation. They were principally saes of cutting and wounding, and of Petty )arceny. The grand jury then retired. lIIA R LB/1.0"-ST REET— (THIS DAY.) SHOPLIFTING. — Ann Harris, a dressmaker, who re fused to give her address, was brought before Mr. Hard wick, charged with having stolen from the shop of Messrs. Williams and Hatton, silk mercers, 272, Regent circus, 14 yards of black silk, value 2/. John Breakspeare stated that he was assistant to Messrs. Williams and Hatton, 272, Regent-circus. On Saturday evening, about six o'cicck, the prisoner came into his employers' shop to purchase some goods. There Were several pieces of silk lying on the counter close to where the prisoner was standing ; and whilst the young man, who was serving the prisoner, turned round to get some article which he wanted, he (witness) saw her take a piece of black silk from off the counter, and conceal it under her mantle. The young man having given the prisoner her change, she left the shop; and he im mediately went over to the young man and informed him !hat the prisoner had stolen a piece of silk from his counter. Witness then went out after the prisoner, and took the piece of silk from beneath her mantle. The prisoner said the silk had accidentally hung to her cloak, and begg d of him to let her go, and not give her in charge. A constable at that moment came up and took her into custody. The prisoner, who denied stealing the silk, was com mitted for trial. Ci IN o'!'E S. " Newmarket's flat ! There racing stands unrivalled—scarce a blade Of holder grass exalts its wither'd head, To mar the velvet turf—no stands are seen, To court the crowd—'tis business we mean." THE RING. No 2. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR.—Newcastle laces deiLat,d but little comment. John Cosser, at 7t, has at last come cut *nd rout. d the " knowing oi.es," by wint.ing the Northumb eland Plate in a canter! but clef, acing nothing of consequence, limestone and Distatlina, my unlucky sel , ction, hiving been withd rawn; and Shy iok not running to win, Gret n tinet Co. preferring to do the trick, if they cmild, with Mahon. Lord E4linton's E!thiron won the Hotspur Stakes in - a canter, by tau lengths, heating Pelham, Robert de Eris, awl the Mad, liha colt; at Newcastle, 5 to 2 was laid on the winner, but at the sportinghouses in town, a great deal of money was "got on" at evens; this race cannot affect the Dutchman's position for the St. Leger, although it brings forward the pretensions of Nunnykirk, IJriel, flone)cowb, and Lldy Superior to support, in much clearer light than hitherto has been the case ; it Is cove "on the cards" that the "'Flyer" may be beaten at Doncaster, notwithstanding the bold front put on by his backers at the present time. The Gold Cup was all but a " walk over" for the gallant grey, Camphine being the cnly one bold 'enough to put in an appearance, and she was " polished off" by Chanticleer without an effort. For the Liverpool Cup, it must be borne in mind, that - the following have penalties for winning to carry, viz., EssEdarics,. John Cosser, and Sylvan, lOibs. extra; and Canez,m, Mrs. Taft, Borneo, and Westow, slbs. extra ; of this lot, Sylvan and Canezou will not run, and Mrs. Taft is very doubtful ; the remaining four, I think, will start, and it strikes me very furcibly, the winner's name is included in the quartette. For the July Stakes at Newmarket, a field of ten, or thereabouts will run for this half mile scurry ; probably 'the following :—Sisyphus, Sweetheart, Narbonne, c by St. Francis, Paul, Tordesillas, Impression, Equiris, Retrospect filly, and one of Loid Exeter's; Humphrey's running I consider very dubious. With the exception of Svvectheart and Impression they are all " dark," but my impression is that Sisyphus or Sweetheart will be found to be the " pick of the basket," Narbonne and Tordesillas being well up. For the Marches, I prefer Little Isaac to Nutcracker, Estafette to Scamps Via, Stirabout Co Minto, and Accia to Ellen Middleton. In the last match Accia receives forfeit, Ellen Middleton having died a few days since. The field for the Chests rfield Stakes will be selected from the following:—Scampia Via, one of Lord Exeter's, Narbonne, lole, Rebecca filly, Earl of Strath. snore, Sisyphus, Habet, Sparrowhawk, Little Isaac, 'Cowslip colt, Evelina„ and St. Ives. Not one of the above lots, have as yet run, consequently their merits for the next fifty hours are a " doted volume," but I am in clined to think that the Earl of Strathmore, Little Isaac, and Habet, will be found to be the best. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. July 2, 1849. CRICKLT.—(THIS DAY.) GENTLEMEN OF ENGLAND V GENTLEMEN or KENT. This match was commenced at to day, and the following is the &coro up to two o'clock:— KENT—FIRST INNINGS. M. Norton, Esq.— c Haygarth, b Craven ... J. Traill, Esq.—b Fellowes Hun. E. • Fellow es ••. ••• N. Felix, E,q:—•• ••• not out .. A. Mynn, Fello wes .... •.•.: •::• . C. atrenc, Esq.—ru n out ... Mayne, sq.—c Fello wes , b Craven ... Brenchley, Esq.—b Felluwes Ainslie, E-q. b. Fellowes lion. G. Mills— s Ridding, b Craven ... C. Milli, Esq.— c Havgarth, b Craven ... B, 9 ; w, t ; n b, ••• Total ... 87 Among the many thousands who have visited eisited the Egyptian flail, to view the great geograpaica panorama which of the Mi ss i ss ip p i, t h e sp l end i d and varied scenery skirts its shores, the moving objects floating on its sue face, with tile living works of the Creator, on the banks 'of this gigantic river, to none has the sight been so 'wonderad es to the delighted children of the Burlington Charity School, St. James's parish. They were ad• mitted gratis last Saturday by Mr. Banvard, the painter and generous proprietor of this true representation of a anost interesting part of the western world. While the British Museum end other institutions have been wisely . opened to all classes, it is gratifying to see a citizen of the United States exhibiting his own great work in the City of London, to a class of poor children whose ideas at present, perhaps, do not extend much beyond this me ttepolis which gave them birth. CALEDONIAN ASYLUM,. --The children in this ex cellent institution were examined on the 27th ult., by the Rev. F. C. Cooke, her Majesty's Inspector of Schools. Atter a protracted and searching examination the !reverend gentleman stated, that the boys had answered lin a satisfactory manner ; and that the reading of the girls was very good, fluent, and exive, showing much culti vat i on— press their gener e l rance great credit on M app e a reflecting iss Mackenzie, the school mistress. Mr. Cooke expressed his unqualified approbation of the juvenile hand. ST. JAMES'S TIIEATRE.—The operatic perform `eances, conducted with so much spirit by Mr. Mitchell, h to a ter m i nat i on on Saturday morning, when the eatre was opened for the benefit of M. Hanssens, the musical director. The performances commenced with the first act of the Diamans de la Cour onne, in which the accomplished and agreeable Charten took her leave; ;followed by a vocal and instrumental " intermede," "wherein M. Sabatie exhibited some brilliant pianoforte 'attainments in a fantasia on S ubjects from the Lucia, and M. de Munch a similar degree of practical talent in ri solo on the violonceello, Madile. Le Brun, from the St. Carlos, and M. Octave relieving the proceedings with certain Italian and French vocalitics. The programme closed with Niculo's comic opera Les Rendezvous Sour veois, a pleasant specimen of a voluminous composer who ittourished in Paris at the beginning of the present cen tury, but whose works have sunk into the oblivion which is the inevitable lot of writers of his genre. The sub scribers to the Ancient Concerts occasionally met with the name of this once popular composer in the schemes of that venerable institution, but nowhere else. The ope retta was rep resented in a very lively manner by Cou• derv, Zelger, Buguet, and Guichard, who sang what music there was with their accustomed ability. Although this morning's entertainment brought the Opera Comique to an end, the theatre will not close for a fortnight. Mr. Mitchell originally Promised syseties of dramatic enter %alpine tits, and though a few vaudevilles have been given with the operas, they have not assumed an y Promi n ent char acter . Thi s even i ng the house will re -open, h n it 141. Arnal and Machine Doche, who will during this the forthcoming wet la go through a series and of their b est and most di vert i ng personat i ons. SYMPATHY WITII THE . J. D. WCOLLETT'S ENTERTAIN3LENT.—This talented gentleman, e perc e i ve, gives his popular entertainments entitled Lyrics of Freedom," at the National Hall, this even ing, on which occasion he will be assisted by Miss Thorn ton, Miss Norman, Mr. Curtain, and Mr. Harper, to• gether with a well selected chorus, who have each given their services aratuitoudy on the occasion. The profits of the evening are to be added to the subscription making for the widows and orphans of the men slain in defence of the Raman Republic. The prograrmae is very at• tra ctive• and we have net the slightest doubt will draw a crowded audience. APPRO tCH!NG .!‘ r .#lt l 3!.krir IN PIGIT T.TFE —The irtittx _ , - ; ) (I J. Pukington, Bart. M.P., will be solemnised in the " ° Urse of a few days. THE sUN L0)* , ' , ,, , 0N MONDAY EVENING, .JIULY 2 1819, CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. (THIS DAY.) The ancient and local cinz ns of London began 10 assemble in and about the Gni'dial) this morning of n, in or& r to elect a I epreentative in the room of Bat on Lionel de Roih,child, who, on account cf the Pal liamen tary Oaths Bill being thrown out by the Peers, 1,4 accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, and again api,eals t o the citizens to re-elect him en the high pi-0 111; th of civil and religious liberty, which, it is conceded, have to be v indicated by the ei , z,-Fis in his pet son. By oleve o'clock King-sireot, which leads rip to the Guildhall, was almost impassable. At the eeriflm ace of Gresham with King-street a number of II cue rgt din the ref eshing brei z-, on which were ernbazont d two gigantic hands clasped in each other, in wh:ch were wa iked the following words — , c Free Trade" (with a ship in full sail) ; •• Equal Electoral Rights ;" " Civil and Religious Liberty ;" •` Rothschild tor London." E very now end then strains of music fell upon the ear as the different companies wound thei r wa y up t h e street to di scharge their ancient duties in the hall. The interior of the hall presented an animated ap pearance, such, indead, as we never taw it present upon the many occasion s in v. hich we have been within its walls. The hall vvas filled with human beina:s, who, in the early portion of the t:ay conducted themselves in a very proper ai,d tempe rate manner. In the galleries, which were also filled, !here were several ladies. JOTIN MANNERS arrived at the hall in a car riaga about half-psi eleven, and immediately. was sworn in as a freeman, before Mr. Brown, the Chamberlain. Baron Rothschild and his friend:: arrived about the same period, and was loudly cheered. Lord John Manners did not appear known to the citz:iins. At twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and other offlcers of the Corporation, entered the hall and tool: their position on the platform. Baron Rothschild and his friends were much cheered. Lord John Manners' entrance was not marked by any expression of opinion worth mentioning. • Among those present we noticed Baron Rothschild, Lord John Manners, Mr. Thomas Baring, Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., Mr. Alderman Salonacns, Lord Mayor, M.P., Mr. Christopher, M.P., Mr. Osborne, M.P., Mr. J. Abel Smith, M.P., Alderman Sidney, M.P., Mr. Bouvi,rie, M.P., Mr. John Williams, M.P., Mr. Edward Ellice, M.P., the Marquis of Granby, Mr. Forbes Mckenzie, M.P., Mr. J. B. Hope, M.P., The ,U' Borman Mahon, M.P., Mr. W. Milues, M.P., Captain Balfour, R.N., Mr. Forster, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. Christopher, Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P., Mr. William Carpenter, Mr. Bannock, Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., Mr. William Hawes, Mr. Wil liam Williams, late M.P., Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Currie, Mr. Adam Smith, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M F., &c. The reporters are much indebted to Mr. Secondary Potter, fur his courtesy in presenting them with pas tickets to the seats, and for enabling them to reach them without inconvenience. Mr. HARKER then came forward and read the precept and tie writ. Mr. Sheriff FINNIS having asked a fair and impartial heering for every individual who chose to address them, arid reminded the electors that, they were called on to exercise an important privilege in the election of a citizen of Loader, to rept.. IA them in Parliament. Mr. RAIKES CURRIE, M.P., stood forwerd to address the assembly. He said—Citizens of London and brother electors, I propose to eou Lionel RothschiM—(Loud cheers, and waving of hats)—as a fisting and proper man to represent you in the C. remons House ut Perna talent.—(Cheers.) In Ott• ring these sentences, I de no` merely propose as a candidate to the greatest city in the world one of its must distinguished and its most in fluential citizens end its most esteemed merchants. No gentlemen, my words, feeble though they be, have a far voider and a tar diff. rent import. This is no contest or pt tonal t xtbi.i n.—(Cheer,.) This is no c nte st of political pities; it was something more than this. Ic tatis us wt 1! to ettosider what e e are called on to do to day, and rightly to understend it. We, as the ;n-ma ntle, industrious, ancl 'natter- ot- feet citizens or Londare meet within our areeeet hail, which has witnessed so rneny triumphs of civil and religious hberty.—(Loud cheers.) We, met together as we are en this occusion, here throw down the gauntlet—(Loud chi ers)—arid ere pledge ourselves all to all, and each to ne another, to contest, try every constitutional means, the great and sacred piiia4le of religious liberty—(Loud cheers) — and never to abandon that contest till we have achieved a vieterv.—(ltenewed cheers.) Who dares to to doubt it?—(" No one.") On this very spot, or 11( ar it, men have been tormented and burnt by those who thought they did God service, because they differed in their moles of worshipping our common Father.— (Hear, hear.) Those dark times rolled on, and at length a voice was heard which said that conscience should be free.—(Loud cheers.) Those men who burnt and per secuted each other were not doing, es they thought, God's work, but the devil's work.—(Cheers.) From that very moment when that voice went forth among the nations, the cause of bigotry was silenced. It is most true, it is most painfully true , t h at s he has fought her groundinch by inch for centuries; but the light is nearly out of her. We are called togeth er by h er last expiring kick.—(Laughter) She was doomed when once that great truth, asserting the freedom of every man to worship God recording to the dictates of his conscience, without the let or hindrance or the in terference of any human being—(hear, hear)—bad been pronounced in the world. And why is this? Because, thank God, when any great truth is once launched into the world it can never die.—(Cheers.) It is inextin guishable and irrepressible. It has immortal life within it; it is truth conquering and to conquer. You may aid it, but it aids you more. It is growing while you are sleeping. It shall encompass and subdue the world— ' (Cheers)—and therefore I see that victory will be ours in what we are about to do, when we are simply asserting this great principle, that man shall never be persecuted for his religious creed.—(Cheers.) And does some shallow sophist, some miserable bigot ask me—" Oh where is your persecution? We have not tortured Baron Rotchs child; we have not fined him; we have not shut up Baron's Rothschild's synagogue." No, you have not — (Laughter)—but you, by your votes, my Lords—you have shut up that honourable ambition which by the esteem and confidence, and the universal respect of his fellow-citizens, was open to Baron Rothschild.— (Cheers.) And is this no persecution? Take an illus tration from facts in the material world. What are chemists and astronomers doing who are Lent on studies the wisest and the best ? They seek in the varied phenomena around them which they investigate some one law which they may di-velope. So do the men who look at politics and at society ; they lot& on legislation for the development of some one principle. I as k t h e common sense of all mar:kind— (Question, questi on )—if on t hi s occasion it is net the principle(ic,,ipe some o o stiflingoe onor; -1 may religious pereecuti o n t h at we soak to e ' s e kto to ask how it is meant carry this qu. sc i on ? I can only Fay this; my poli tical life Lae not been a very short one, sad I am willing t o sta k e my existenc e on the tact that if you go on return nig Baron Rothschild this great question will be carrie d.—(Cheers.) I abstain from any disparaging refl, mien on any branch of the Legislature. I have not one word to s ty ageiroot the H. use of Lords; they have exercised an ultdeubted ti nstitutional right; and I for one do not desire to displace one leetiter of that splendid plumage which waves above them ; but his I do say, that they are thiuking and rt asoning teen, and that the majority will reflect that the pleasures, great as they are, may be purchased at toe dear a price.—(Hear, hear.) Depend upon it no great deliberative assembly ever loog persisted in a course aeainst which a verdict was given by the common sense of mankind.—(Loud and,prolonged cheering.) More over, I have been long enough in Parham, nt to have known minorities of 20 and 30 for all those great measures which have eventually been carried, and who have made the fame of statesmen who founded their former fame on opposing them; therefore I despair of nothing when truth is on our side.—(Cheers.) Now, one word on our noble opponent—(Cheers and hissing)— I think we are deeply indebted to that accomplished no bleman who comes forward to-day.—(Cheers and hisses.) The Noble Lord is an accomplished member of the Young Englund party, or, as it is sometimes called, the white waistcoat party—(Loud laughter, and cries of " 011 oh I)—a party consisting of some eight or ten benevolent individuals, who piously wish in the nine teenth century to bring back to England its primeval in stitutions.—(Continued laughter.) It was the custom of the sages of antiquity to embody in some one pithy or apposite sentence the wisdom of a whole lifetime—a sort of concentrated essence of sagacity to be carried in the waistcoat pocket.—(Great laughter.) Fortunately for us—:he electors of the city of London—the Noble Lord, in imitation of those wise men, has adopted this ex ceedingly excellent coursejand I find his political opinions embodied in a memorable and ever to be remembered couplet, which I am sure must commend your sympathy and apprubation.—(Great uproar.) Listen, I beseech you, listen. The following is the couplet:— " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But save us still our old nobility." (Great laughter and uproar.) 'I am not generally an advocate for an electioneering device, but I do think that sentiment deserves a banner, which might be hung over the door of the Noble Lord's committee-room. — (Loud laughter.) It will do a great deal for him, if it will not do for him altogether. —(Laughter and cheers.) Mr. DILLON then presented himself i n f ron t o f th e platform, and was received with loud cheering. He said—Brother electors, I present myself before you to second the nomination of Mr. Baron Lionel Roths child—(Vociferous cheering)—but in doing so allow me to remiad you that I speak in favour of a principle, and not in favour of a man—(Loud cheers)—that this is not a contest on behalf of an individ ua l ; that this is not a contest as to the religious opinion of tin individual, but that this is a contest upon a large and broad principle—viz., whether the time has not come when we can no longer have religious !Rya made the means of determining a matt's political posi tion.—(Loud cheers.) That is the question, and that is the only question.—(Cheers.) Catholics, gentlemen, have been admitted into Parliament ; Dissenters have been admitted into civil and municipal offices ; and so have also Jews ; and they claim—l beg your pardon— no, it is we that claim that they shall be admittedinto Parliament.—(Prolonged cheering.) The principle you must bear constantly in mind in this contest has no reference to the merits of the individual or to his religion, but is based upon a much broader question—the rights of the citizens , of Lo: don, and the rights of the people of Leg lend, to elect whom they please, and to :end theta to Parliament irrespective of th e ir religious opinions.— (Cheers.) Now you must bear in mind that this is the question at issue fetween these candidates before you etel no otb. , r. Bishopof Oxforci.—(Groans)—;tlieged ti. - ~flu L.)rci J. Ilosi - 4 , 11 had i)ntcri-: , if Into a cootpreraie 1 himself to Baron li;ott,xhilii io order to gain th eiection.—(Cries of "61 me.") I believe he apologised for that slander, but he afterwards repeated it upon a much larger scale, and said that the constituencies of England were about to be sold to Jewish gold.—(Cries of "Shame, shame and " Oh, oh.") Now, the Bishop forgot, the Jewish commandment— " Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neigh bour."—(Cheers.) I am sure he cannot find any law in the New Testament to prevent Jews sitting in the Louse of Commons; but can he find a law in it to allow bisboes to live in palaces and to sit in the House of Lords. The Earl of Viiinchilsea has said that one Jew would unchristianize the House of Commons.—(l e oud cheers.) Now in w hat a pitiable state must the Members of the House ofi Commons be if one Jew is to uncbristianize the whole of them.—(Elear, and uproar.) I hope silence will be observtd—l ask it not only for myself but for those who are opposed to us. I hope you will listen to all parties upon this occasion, for this is one of the most important ques tions which can come before the city of London. I have great respect for the Noble Lord (Lord John Manners) in his personal and private capacity. He says he comes here to defend the rights of the House of Lords—(Hear, and groans)—and to maintain the majesty of the law.—(Groans.) Now, gentlemen, in my humble capacity, I stand here to defend the House of Lords— not to defend their rights or their wrongs, but to de fend their follies and ab-urdities.—(Cheers.) My Hon. Friend, aho proposed Baron Nethschild, read an ex, tract from the works of the Noble Lord, who now stands before you. I admire his talents—l admire his pot try but, like other poetry, it is not founded upon fact.—(Jheers.) I put it to you whether that passage quoted by my Hon. Friend does not dis qualify the Noble Lord to I epresent the city of London in Parliament? " Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die, But save us still our old nobility."—(Cheering.) Are you prepared to forego all the rights you have ac quired, ar;el rush into the embraces of our old nobility? —(Laughter and cheers.) Let it not be supposed that I speak in derogation of the House of Peers—that body have maintained our rights in Parliament; remember that I do not speak insultingly of them, for the Peers of England have raised themselves from the ranks of the people ; that very commerce which the Noble Lord alludes to has established them in that House, and the existence of those very laws has been the foundation, if I may so call it, of some of the most re vered characters which the House of Peers contains. Therefore, I cannot be supposed as deprecating the House of Lords, but let them not for get themselves.—(Cheers.) Let them remember that the people of England have rights as well as themselves. —(Cheers.) Let them not raise that awful question between the people and the aristocracy; let them not raise up an awful bar between castes and distinctions o: society—let them remember their place, and we, the citiz-ns of London, will remember ours—(Cheers)—and hero I claim on the part of the citizens of London our right to return whom we please to represent us in Par ha ment.—(Loud cheers.) The time has now come, whatever may have been the past, when we are prepared to main tain the broad and open principles of free trade, if you please of opinion —(Continued cheering)—that every mart is qualified to sit in Parliament who is sent there by the people, whatever,may be his religious creed —and for that reason he most cordially seconded the norninstion. of Baron Rothschild.—(Loud cheering.) Mr. THOMAS BARING then presenitd himself in front of the hustings to nominate Lord John Manners, and v,.ai greeted vtirh a terrific roar of hisses, hooting, and yells. Of course what he said was perfectly inaudible, although he spoke out lustily, and went through a good deal of pantomime with his arms and hgs. At length he saw how futile it was to struggle against the storm, and retired to the background, followed by renewed which if possible were increased in impetuosity, when Sir PETER LAURIE moved forward to second the 110- ininstwo ut the Noble Lord. The worthy Alderman anti Knight, however, put on a bolder face than his pre decsstor, ard amidst the lulls of the storm, our rc porter's is reit caught the following sentences from his spee ch : Gentle [Pt 0, he said—brother citizens and brother elec tors--Cries of "Go home")—l have been asked within the last ten minutes to second the nomination of Lord John Metnners.—(•t We won't have him—send him back to his poetry.") i was told that I would not be heard.— (Mr. Wire, " You shall;" and continued noise and up roar.") I replied that it would give great sa isfaction to me not to be heard.—(" Then cut it short.") No, ecntlemen, I will not, because I consider this an attack upon the House of Lords.—(" 06, oh 1" and groans.) Gentlemen, we have heard a little of Lord John Man eers's poetry.—(" And pretty stuff it is.") I should like to have some of Baron Rothchild's verses to read to you in answer to it. A Jew's poetry would, in my opi nion, be a curiosity. lam afraid it is not to be found in his library, but in his breeches pocket.—(Yells and cries of " Shut up—go home," &c.) You, gentlemen, have elected a lord—you have get your Lord John, and why should we not have our Lord John? We have as much right to a Duke's son as you have. You have got Lord John Russell, and you ought in return to let us have Lord John Manners. —(Cries of "Sn yox may, but take him home. We won't have him.") The worthy Alderman and Knight . finding it useless to cont en d f ur th er aga i nst the ev id ent feeling of the " Common Hall," abruptly cut short his address and retired, amply seconding the nomination, amidst derisive shouts. Baron Romsournn was then introduced to the elec tors, and was received with the waving of hats, sticks, and caps, and tremendous bursts of applause, which were re newed again and again. When silence was partially ob tained, the Baron proceeded to address the Hall to the following effect:—Fellow citizens, when I had the honour of presenti ng myse lf to you at the last election you unequivocally expressed your opinion in favour of civil and religious liberty, and by your electing me you proved that you were above historical prejudices, while you pronounced that religious sentiments do not debar men from honestly discharging the duties of a Bri tish Legislature. And, gentlemen, it :is with feelings of still greater satisfaction that I again see you are pre pared on this occasion to defend me against bigotry and intolerance, and that this great city and the free and liberal House of Commons of this great country no longer recognize any distinction between men on account of their religious opinions.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, during the two years I have enjoyed your confidence, it has been my most anxious desire to fulfil your wishes, and in every way to carry out ,your views. I consulted, on every occasion that I had to act, the opinion of some of your best friends, and all my pro ceedings w ere well considered before they were adopted. But, gentlemen, this is not the time nor the place for tee to enter into the details of my conduct. We have met here to assert and vindicate a great and glorious principle, which you were the first to establish, and we may proudly say now that the city of London was the that to raise its arm and break down the last barrier of intolerance.— (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, give me leave just to ask what ate you called upon to do to day? Why, you are called upon to exercise a cheri,hed and time-honoured privilege in favour of a great principle, and I can assure you, that in once more giving m. acting the . 6 entfit of accordance ,your with the otes and suffrages, spiritd of the you say that yo u are ;consistently d o i ng y our d uty, an d ca constitution fairly ;consistentlyas the house of L or d s were in throwing outet, Bit which had passed the House of Com mons en two consecutive occasions, and had ceivecl the unanimous approbation of the country.— (Cheers.) It is stated that on this question no sym pathy exists between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, Doubtless that is so; but, gentlemen, let us nt t forget that the boast of the latter institution is, that it acts as a check to the hasty adoption of popular movements on the part of the House of Commone.—(Hear, hear.) Well then, gentlemen, you have now an opportunity of saying that this act of the Commons was no hasty adoption of popular opinion), and in supporting me with your votes you will give a practical and irresistible proof that this was a properly and well-considered movement on the part of the House of Commons and the constitu ency of London.—(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I come for ward on this second occasion to solicit your suffrages, believing that your cause, if properly persevered in, must ultimately succeed—l come forward, believing that I and you have acted in a constitutional manner— I come forward believing that both justice and truth are on your side. On these three grounds, gen tlemen, I confidently claim your votes, notwithstanding that th. House of Lords declares I am not qualified to take a seat in the House of Commons.—(Cheers.) Gen tlemen, at the last election you gave me an opportu nity of defending myself against attacks characterised by nothing but bigotry and intolerance, while you after wards asserted and successfully vindicated the principle of civil and religious liberty, and I now come forward to ask you again to join me in another endeavour to carry out that principle to the fullest possible extent. Once more then I call upon you for your suffrages, and in taking leave of you now let me still hope that you will return me with a large majority.—(Cheers.) Lord Joule MANNERS next advanced to the front of the platform hat in hand, ready to explain his political views to the free and enlightened citizens of London, but those of them who were assembled within their ancient Guildhall treated his appearance as a joke, and made his ;person and visage the subject of sarcastic remarks. The Noble Lord, however unpopular his creed may be, evinced no want of pluck, and made repeated efforts to obtain the " ear" of the noisy multitude he was braving. Of course his patience and determination met with no sympathy, and the up roar increasing as time advanced, Mr. Sheriff FINN'S came to the rescue, and ap pealed to the constituency to respect themselves, it it did nut the pretensions of the Noble Lord who stood before them. " Gentlemen," said he, "you will only be doing an act of justice to yourselves by hearing what each candidate has to say; but of this I am convinced, that in doipg so you will be acting more in accordance with the spirit of Englishmen and the principles of the Constitution."—(Cheers.) This pathetic appeal proving of no avail, Baron 110THiCIIILD came forward and said—Fellow citizens, I have to ask from you a personal favour, and being long acquainted with you, and living in the City, I hope you will not refuse it. Gentlemen, I beg and entreat of you to hear nay noble opponent, for whose private character and virtues I entertain the highest respect. Lord JoEIN MANNERS, amid great confusion, said, it after the appeal that had been made by his noble opponent, they would not hear him, he shouid en deavour to appeal to the votes of his fellow-cititzens (Great uproar.) He would not have crossed the path of his Honourable opponent did he not feel that a great principle was at stake. His Honourable opponent had invited the citizens of Lon don to throw themselves into opposition to the Lt gislatuts .—(Great uproar and confusion.) He called new) the mto exercise 'heir franchise in a practical r! , nitlF,ion.) Let thiln:ititol; of the rt the conks, et) which it v. - ‘ !s 1).1 wish of his lion. e t -Joo. et nt to force th ,, in.—(Gre-ti upro2r and conrncion.) they prepared to deny that the House of Lords had toe right of exercising its opinion upon a question of the greatest import? could they doubt that the House of Lords in relecting the Jewish Bill had acted from con ci•,ntious convictions.—(Great noise and confusion.) It was his firm determination to fight this battle to the last. —(Great c tntusiou.) In order to protect, if possible, the Chrtstianil of this country, and its great institu tions, and crehy to maintain the imperial glory of imperial England.—(Great confusion and tremendous uproar, amid which the Noble Lord retired ) Mr. Sheriff FINNIS then came forward, and inquired whether any gentleman bad any other candidate to pro pose, and no one coming forward, the Sheriff proceeded to take a show of hands for each of the candidates. For Baron Rothschild a complete forest of hands were held up, amid the most tumultuous shouts of applause ; and the appearance of the old Hall, at the moment, was picturesque in the extreme. For Lord John Manners but very few hands were held up, and those few were met with hisses and the greatest uproar. „ Mr. Sher if FINN'S then came forward, and, amidst the most tremendous and enthusiastic cheering, declared that in the opinion of the Sheriffs the show of hands was in favour of Baron Rothschild. _ A poll was then demanded on behalf of Lord John Manners. - _ Mr. ATKINSON then came forward and said, as a fellow citizen he considered that it would not be fair, either to their fellow countrymen beyond those walls, if their opinion was not to go forth as to the great matter that was now at issue. —(Cheers.) And, in saying so, he ' wished to address himselt as well to the friends of kis way of thinking as well as to those of the other. The question at issue was not one of party, but one in which the vital interests of the whole community were con cerned.—(Cheers) It was a question between the House of Lords and the Commons of England, in which they were all deeply interested. The House of Lords had chosen to narrow the question to one of difference of religious opinion, and had stcod between the Queen aed her people—(Shame)—for her Majesty, at the com mencement of the present session, stated in her speech to the country that the question of the removal of Jewish disabilities would come early before the atten tion of the House of Commons ; and it was well known that the early associations of her Majesty led her to look favourably upon such a prepo sition. The Reverend Bench of Bishops had also stood between the Queen and her people— (Cries of " Oh, oh !")—and be asked them, his fellow countrymen, the citizens of this great metropolis, if they were to be baited and thrown back by the bench of Bishops—(Cries of" No, no")—who received 207,0001. a year, whilst their curates were starving in the Church —(A voice—" Two pounds a week is enough for them.") Would they allow them to stand in the breach against the granting of the inalienable rights of the people?— (A voice " Turn out the Bishops.") London had already fought the good fight,"and thrown back upon a haughty Court the defiance of a people, and London would hurl it back again.—(Loud cheers.) He had no doubt that they would tell the House of Lords from this place that the middle and working classes had united for the purpose of vindicating their right to elect the men of their choice, but also to urge on those reforms which would open the portals of the Constitution to every man.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Crier (Mr.Haiker) then proclaimed that the poll would corn mi ace at eight to-morrow, and would be finally closed at four. On the motion of Baron ROTHSCHILD, seconded by Lord JOHN MANNERS, a vote of thanks was awarded to the bheriffs, and sir. Sheriff Finnis returned thanks. Mr. D. N. WIRE then came forward and said he wished to remind the eh eters that the poll commenced at eight and closed at four, and that one vote before nine in the morning would be worth two after two o'clock. Let there therefore be " a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull alto gether"—(Cheer:)—and return Baron Rothschild to morrow by a large majority.—(Loud cheers.) Let them not be taken ia. Lots of hills and advertisements would be issued for the purpose of misleading them, but let them take care that the only name they knew, and the only object they bad in view, was •' Baron Roths child and Civil and Religious Liberty."—(Cheers.) Three cheers having been given ior the Qaeen, the vast assemblage Feparatt d. COURT CIRCULAR. At the grand ball given by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucest( r House, on Friday evening, the following Waltzes, Polkas, and Quadrilles were darted; Herr Strauss and his band attending : Waltz,l—Marien, Wanderers Lebewohl, Sophien, Kunstler Ball. Polkas—Alice, Fredericke, Kathinka. Quadrilles—Martha, Carnaval, Jubal. The band also played the Defilier" March, and the " Spanish Nobles" March. The Queen and Prince Albert rode out on horseback on Friday, attended by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Lieut.- Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Buuverie. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians and the Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, visited her Majesty on Satur day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Queen, attended by the Hen. Elizabeth Lennox and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, on Saturday. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the Coun tess of Mount Edgcumbe, 11,,n. Eleanor Stanley, Hon. Ehzabeth Lennox, Lord Waterpark, Lieut.• Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Bouvarie, honoured the Royal Italian Opera-house with their presence on Saturday evening. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg S'relitz also honoured the performance with their presence. Yesterday morning the Queen and the Prince walked in the garden of the Palace, and the Royal Family took their usual exercise. Yesterday m a..:., 5 -hr ar.i..ty and Prince Albert, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service in the private chapri of Buckingham Palace. The service was read by the Rev. Mr. Vane, and the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Norwich. Her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians, and the Duchess of Orleans, accompanied by the Count de Paris and the Duke de Chartres, paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of nt at Clarence House, St. James's, on Saturday afternoon. Their Royal Highne,ses the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Streliiz, and the PrincessiMary attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess,of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Mr. Rutherford, M.P., and a deputation had an inter view with Lord John Russell on Saturday. Colonel W. L. Freestun, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey on Friday, at the Home-office. Lord John Russell received a select circle at dinner on Saturday, at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. The Duke of Wellington and the Marquis and Mar chioness of Salisbury attended the early service yester day in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley preached the sermon, and afterwards adminis tered the holy Sacrament to the Noble Duke and the Marquis and Marchioness. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. PHILL- On Saturday night, alt)Oeil;ThtS.o,clock, a jury wa s em panelled before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, in the board room of St. James's, Workhouse, Poland-street, West minster, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of John Phillpotts, Esq., the late Member for Gloucester, and brother to the Bishop of Exeter, who died very suddenly in an omnibus. Mr. Alexander tire, of No. 24, Bloomsbury-square, surgeon, deposed that the deceased gentleman was seventy-four years of age, and resided at Nu. 14, Pall mall. The deceased was a barrister•at-law, and was Member for Gloucester for upwards of seventeen years. Witness never attended him professionally, but always considered him to be a healthy man. James Roberts, of No. 26, Park-street, Camden-town, said he was conductor to one of the Waterloo omnibuses. On Friday night, about a quarter past ten o'clock, the deceased hailed him at the corner of Devonshire street, in Portland-place. The omnibus stopped and the de ceased got in without usehdaneo perfectly well. On reaching the Regent's-circus, Oxford-street, the omnibus stopped, it being usual to wait several mi nutes to take up passengers at that point. Two minutes had not elapsed, when witness looked in to see how many passengers there were. The deceased was sitting next the door, and there were two ladies and a gentle man in the omnibus. Witness had only just looked in, when the deceased suddenly fell on one side, and lay along the seat. Witness immediately opened the door, and assisted in lifting him up. Ile appeared quite helpless, and in a state of insensibility. Witness, with the as sistance of several persons, carried him to the shop of Mr. Bridge, a chemist, in Regent's-circus, and a sur geon was instantly sent for, who, upon his arrival, pro nounced the deceased to be quite dead. By the Cotten-tun—Only a little saliva came from his mouth, and be never spoke after he fell. By a juror—The omnibus was stationary when be fell. Mr. J. G. French, of No. 41, Great Marlborough street, parish surgeon, said he bad made a post mortem examination of the body of the deceased gentleman that afternoon (Saturday), in the presence of Mr. Ure. There were no outward marks of violence, with the exception of some marks over the region of the beast, which indi cated that the deceased had been cupped. The heart was considerably enlarged, and double the usual size. It weighed about 23 ounces, the usual weight being about 11 ounces. The valve of the left ventricle was ossified. The rest of the organs were quite healthy. Witness opened the head, and found an effusion in the ventricles of the brain. Witness was of opinion the deceased had died of a diseased heart, which was quite sufficient to account for the suddenness of the death. There was no appearance of any deleterious matter in the stomach. Death must have been instantaneous. The CORONER said, after bearing such evidence there was no occasion to proceed further in the inquiry. The death was most awfully sudden, and a most melan choly one. The jury immediately returned a verdict of " Natural death from a diseased heart." The Coroner is , ued his warrant for the burial, and the body of the deemed was placed in a coffin and re moved to Pall-mall. ARMY EXPENDITURE.—I3y a paper, which bears date, " War-office, June 55, 1849," it appears that a sum of 119,950/. Os. ld. is required to be voted in order to de fray the excess of the army expenditure beyond the grants for the year ended on the 31st March, 1848, as shown on the annual account of army receipt and expen ditme for th4t year. St , :;!_lv. NYS' PRON'iDENT ".;1) BEN FVOLENT SO CI Illg.?sti Prince Albert has Lent a donation of 1001. to this estimable institution. Richard Blanchard, Esq., is named as the first Governor of VancouTer's Island.—Observer. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE METROPOLITAN REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 27th, the Member for Lambeth (C. Pearson) renewed the debate on Prison • Discipline; a subject on which there will be an infinite riding of hobbies one against another. Questions of this kind must wear themselves out. The end will pro bably be that it will be discovered, that neither im prisonment in a mask nor imprisonment without, solitary nor in company, with instilment of A B C nor without it, will be competent to cope with the gigantic danger which the progress of population and society is causing to appear above the horizon, the danger of the honest men being run away with by the rogues. Moral lectures will never touch it; the best of exhortations will he like whitewashing the negro to-night, with the certainty that he will be as much a negro to-morrow. Here and there may be a solitary instance where a wondrous cure has been wrought, and the circumstances may be trumpeted about in pamphlets and cheap periodicals, with the zeal applied to the authentic a ti on o f Hol.enlohe's miracles. But the great black fact will be there scowling still, that those who came in thieves, will go out thieves, and will proceed with all alacrity to multiply their kind. The case is one beyond the hands of benevolent old ladies, or insinuating young ones. If the whole female world that are honest, should turn into Mrs t t e y esx, But ti it t L d t o oi u eo s l n d no b of e t tth b he u e rtceafaloardmer calamity in yl thato w tt the h h arte atbuckettheen threatens. . e in edyis towards act not o fsomewhereurn turning o velse.er there is %\Te mnuostt somethinglook which ieh into n INa ture'ssy suit our case. Fifty years ago, if a ship arrived with half its company dead of typhus fever, the first thing thought of was to mew up the survivors in the small est possible space, and there medicate and experiment on them till such as were doomed to survive recovered in spite of all. Modern observation has made an ad vance on this. It eeys, disperse your sick, with such moderate precautions as may not unnecessarily court contagion, and the disease will die out. We do the same with our dirt, perfectly or imperfectly. Lon don alone would require a vessel of a thousand tons to sail daily for the Nore with her accumulated ma nure, if in innumerable ways it were not silently exposed to mingling with the elements through other modes of dispersion. We take advantage of the world being wide. We divide our nuisances into places where for want of concentration they can do no harm. Just so, we shall end by finding out, we must do with our thieves. We must send our pickpockets where there are no pockets to pick, or where at all events the number is so small, that the trade of a pickpocket shall have as little chance of flourishing as the trade of making coronation robes. Instead of potting out our early thieves in rows, in cells where they shall be seen or not be seen by the eye of imaginative charity, and leaving them to nurse the expectation of the happy day which is to restore them to their old companions dear, we must in simple self-defence picket them out in bleak situations, where th e r e s h a ll be the least possible chance of a seed being brought hack by the winds to keep up the breed of weeds at home. This may be very cruel ; and if so, we must wait till it is more cruel to let it alone. But it is not true that it is cruel. It is the best and kindest thing that could be done for the juniors of the thief family. One of the most striking phenomena of the present day, is the extent to which the march of intellect has progressed among thieves, and the conviction it has produced in them, that anything which should present the chance of making a new start in life, would be an enormous boon to the born plunderer. It may be all very well to look prudish ; but if the first lady in the land, had instead of that, been horn of a mother who called her " clever little girl" for bringing the linen off a hedge, %%here would she have been by this time ? The truth is, the thief is an animal to be put down, but not to be maltreated. We should any of us have been hereditary thieves, as we should have been hereditary sovereigns, if the power that rules all had seen fit to fasten a different ticket to our birth. The inference from this is, that after sufficient sums have been expended on all manner of incarceratory experiments without success, it will be found we must go to the expense of planting out our thieves in the scantily peopled portions of the earth, and there giving them the best chance we can, of living by working either for themselves or others. Give the thief air ; if possible let there be twenty miles be tween him and the breath of rival thiefilom. No mewing men up in hulks, or exposing them in ballast lighters as done upon the Thames, to insult modest society as it passes in steam-boats, and show how nearly human creatures may be trained into the likeness of rib-nosed baboons. An iron discipline may be necessary, so long as it is impossible to get your thieves dispersed. But the very sufferings of this iron discipline should be made the foundation on which to build the expec tation of submission to reform. Only, they must not be reformed here. A man might as well talk of re forming his manure-heap by keeping it in his parlour. It is a process which must go on at the other end of the earth, or at a distance that is equivalent. It is there that the peccant matter, though necessarily con veyed in masses, must be doled out and dispersed, for the chance of being wrought into the soil without any being the worse for the process. At this moment the cry is against transportation. It is very likely it must come back to it; though with amendments to remove the old objections. Captain Maconochie must be Cadmus ; with leave to sow his dragon's teeth in such places as shall be most likely to produce neither armed men nor dragons. This will not be done till the nuisance of preserving the said teeth in close conservatories has become intolerable. But when that time arrives, everything will give way to necessity. Ors Thursday was a slow progress, through an ex traordinary multitude of divisions, with the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill in Committee. On Friday the same continued. One or two points had a little more of general interest than the rest. An attempt was made to lay a portion of the Irish poor-rate on mortgagees. To which the answer seems to be, that a mortgage is a bargain between two free agents; and that it would be as just to buy a horse, and then ask to be allowed to subtract a por tion of the price because there was talk of a new horse-tax, as to do the like in the case of a mortgage. A plea was also advanced for exempting the Irish Church from paying any share of poor-rates on its compositions fur tithes. At first sight this looks as if it came under the head of a bargain, like the other. But on examination it will be seen that there was no bargain, but a direction of the Legislature. And this leads down upon the fact, that the income of the Irish Church altogether is the creature of the Legislature ; and consequently the Legislature, if it sees fit, may direct a poor-rate to be paid in part out of the income of the Irish Church, with no more in fringement of compacts than when it directs it to be paid out of the income of a private landlord. On Saturday the House met at noon to continue the Committee; and some further progress was made with the Bill. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, July 2, 1849. THE MAGAZINES. 111ACKWOOD. The arrival of July at length enables us in some ineaaure to satisfy our curiosity as to the fate of Fanny Trevanion. In the current chapters of the " Caxtons" the whole mystery of her abduction is explained ; and the conjecture we made at the very outset, and which we have since reiterated so fre quently, namely, that Gower or Vivian was no other than the reprobate son of Captain Roland de Caxton, proves to be correct. An expression used by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton in the eighty-first chapter, to the effect that the reader would divine the secret from the very introduction, appears to indicate that that conjecture has not been unobserved by the author. Ills narrative of the chase of the fugitives by Roland and Pisistratus is intensely enthralling throughout, and is told (we cannot resist the employment of the word as the most expressive of the merits of the description, even at the risk of being charged with the crime of punning) in the most racy manner ima ginable. You hurry over the pages breathless with expectation until you came to the capture in the lonely hostel, the recognition of the villain, the saving of his intended victim, the arrival of Lord Castleton in the midst of the confusion, and the resto ration of Fanny Trevanion to Lady Eleanor. There appears to be a glimmering of reprntance in the one whom we may still designate Vivian. That repent ance, however, threatens to be too tardy a consolation for his father, for Roland has been thrown upon a bed of severe sickness in consequence of the mental and bodily excitement caused by the late occurrences. The scene in which the old soldier seeks consolation in the Holy Book is beautiful. It ferns one of those brief but eloquent and touching incidents which have been already scattered so profusely through this ad mirable novel. No one but the author of the " Cax tons " could have conceived that graceful dialogue between Lord Castleton and Pisistratus, or more especially that subsequent interview so simply but so earnestly narrated. With the departure and farewell of Fanny Trevanion, the heart of Pisistratus has lost for ever its " youth and its poet-land." Christopher promises to he greater y than ever (if t h at be possible) " under canvas!. llis wit and his wisdom his animation and his eloquence a pp ear to have this in common with good wine, that by age they a re mel lowed and ripened. Mellow and ripe as they were of yore, to-day they are mellower and riper. The Dies Boreales threaten to rival in excellence, as se are certain they will in popularity, the immortal Soctes Ambrosiance. It does our heart good to hear Buller congratulating the great North upon his being " himself again," declaring that he cannot detect en his face or forehead one single additional wrinkle— " nay, not a wrinkle at all—not one—so fresh of colour, too, sir, that the irradiation is at times ruddy—and without losing an atom of expression, the countenance absolutely plump--yes, sir, plump's the word plump, plump, plump." In a burst of admiration Buller indeed cannot help telling Christopher North to his face that he is " one of the finest looking old men in Britain, in Europe, in the World." In mind as in body he is still the same glorious Christopher. Witness it in his masterly analysis of the beauty of Virgil's famous description, in the Georgics, of a storm cf thunder and lightning; the way in which he controverts the opinions of Karnes, Blair, and Alison ; the vividness with which he paints in language the tempest that has actually overtaken him at Cladich ; his comments on Jemmy Thomson; his account of his having once himself been " in the sulks" in his childhood. We must, perforce, extract the last-mentioned passage, it is so inimitably ex pressed " Once, and once only, durirg ore of the longest and best-spent lives on record, was I in the mood proscribed —and it endured most part of a whole day. The anni versary of that day I observe, in severest solitude, with a salutary horror. And it is my Birthday. Ask me not, my friends, to reveal the Cause. Aloof from con fession before man—we must keep to ourselves—as John Foster says—s corner of our own souls. A black corner it is—and enter it with or without light —you see, here and there, something dismal—hideous—shapeless— nameless—each lying in its own place on the floor. There lies the Cause. It was the morning of my Ninth Year. A I kept sitting high upstairs by myself—one familiar face after another kept ever and anon looking in upon me—all with one expression! And one familiar voice after another—all with one tone—kept muttering st mo—' He's still in the Sulks!' how I hated them with an intenser hatred—and chief them I before had loved beat—at each opening end each shutting of that door ! How I hated myself, as my blubbered face felt hotter and hotter—and I knew how ugly I must be, with my fixed fiery eyes. It was painful to sit on such a chair fur hours in one posture, and to have so chained a child would have been great cruelty—but I was resolved to die, rather than change it; and had I been told by any one under an angel to get up and go to play, I would have spat in his face. It was a lonesome attic, and I had the fear of ghosts. But nut then—my superstitious fancy was qm lied by my troubled heart. Had I not deserved to be allowed to go? Did they not all know that all my happiness in this life depended on my being allowed to go? Could any one of them give a reason for not al lowing me to go? What right had they to say that if I did go, I should never be able to find my way, by myself; back? What right had they to say that Roundy was a blackguard, and that he would lead me to the gallows? Never before, in all the world, had a good boy been used so on his birthday. They pretend to be sorry when I am sick—and when I say my prayers, they say theirs coo ; Out I am sicker , ma , —and they are not sorry, but angry—there's no use in prayers —and I won't read one verse in the Bible this night, should my aunt go down on her knees. And in the midst of such unwordtd soliloquies did the youug blasphemer fall asleep. I know riot how long I slept; but on awaking, I saw an angel with a most beautiful face and most beautiful hair —a little young angel—about the same size es myself— sitting on a stool by my feet. Are you quite well now, Christopher? Let us go to the meadows and gathe-r flowers?' Shame, sorrow, remorse, contriticn, came to me with those innocent words—we wept together, and I was comforted. have been sinful'—' but you are for given.' Down all the stairs hand in hand we glided; and there was no longer anger in any eyes—the whole house was happy. All voices were kinder—if that were pos sible—than they had been when I rose in the morning —a Boy in his Ninth Year. Parental hands smoothed my hair—parental lips kissed it—and parental greetings only a little more cheerful than prayers, restored me to the Love I had never lost, and which I felt now had animated that brief and just displeasure. I had never heard then of Elysian fields; but I had often heard, and often had dreamt happy, happy dreams of fields of light in heaven. And such looked the fields to be, where fairest Mary Gordon and I gathered flowers, and spoke to the birds, and to one another, all day long—and again, when the day was gone, and the evening going, on till moontirae, below and among the soft-burning stars." Talboys makes his appearance and promises to be no small acquisition. Hear him tell of the adventures of his umbrella with a gusto Mr. Rod s ell would envy ! And hear his sonnet read by the musical voice of Cnristopher ! "(On reading Dies Boreales.—No. I.') A friend returned! spring bursting forth again! The song of other years! which, when we roam, Brings up all sweet and common things of home, And sinks into the thirsty heart like rain! Such the strong influence of the thrilling strain By human love made sad and musical, Yet full of high philosophy withal, Poured from thy wizard harp o'er land and main! A thousand hearts will waken at its et], And breathe the prayer they breathed in earlier youth— May o'er thy brow no envious shadow fall! Bleat , in thine eye the eloquence of truth! Thy righteous wrath the soul of guilt appal, As lion's streaming hair or dragon's fiery tooth! One or two of the facetious repartees are capital—as where North, on being called a Laker, and having answered thereto that he is a Locher, not a Laker, 13uller hums to himself ironically " Tweedledum— tweedledee." "That means," says North, "the Tweed and the Dee ? Content." When dinner is served up the four comrades discourse again on a variety of topics, Christopher being especially elo quent in his definition of the " Classical," in his pane gyric on the ancients, in his remarks on the meaning of words, and, above all, in his impassioned oration as to the existence of a God. As the conversation turns on a hereafter, they all move out into the open air to look at the stars. And there the second por tion of the Dies terminates. Blackwood contains an ingenious paper on Sardinia, suggested by Mr. Tyn dale's recent historical description of that island. "Pestalozziana" is the sketch of an educational esta blishment worthy of sketching. "The Game Laws in Scotland" afford a subject for grave discussion in a well -written and well-digested article. " Dominique" presents a very powerful attraction—being an enter taining magazine story, such as will more than ° s repay perusal. Poetical as is the title of thelast contribution in Maga—" The Crowning t the Column and Crushing of the Pedesta l"—it very sober character, beingnothing less tan an in i of a I t . ? itam now th a t quiry into the prospects o f Great 13 tree trade has been completed by the abolition of the laws relating to navigation. It is scar ce l y pus , sible not to recognise throughout the argument the hand of the historian Alison. BENTLEY. 'The "Note Book of a Coroner's Clerk, with which this number of Bentley commences, gives us the tra gical conclusion of the comical adventure recorded in the preceding number. It should be read attentively by those witless but not in general evil-intending per sons who indulge in what are called practical jokes. The consequences of a " practical joke," played in the travellers' room of a commercial inn, were, in this in stance, the deaths of two persons, and the ruin—the irretrievable ruin of many more, including the perpe trator of the joke. The author of " Wayside Pictures " takes us a pleasant trip to Ghent, Cour rai, and lYaterloo. Courtrai has been, as our author says, shabbily treated in the guide•books, and as it lies out of the tract of ordinary tour ists, is, comparatively speaking, unknown. Our author, however, has made a discovery which will henceforth secure for Courtrai a visit from alt artists and lovers of art. He shall describe it in his own words— " But the one grand thing which has altogether es caped notice, and which has thus tempted me to invite the render to an excursion of two minutes to remo'e Courtrai, is a Vandyk in one of the churches. A stranger would as soon think of looking for a Michael Angelo under a paving -stone as fur a Vandyk in Courtrai; yet hero is an unmistakeable, veritable' Cruci fixion' by that master. His hand is so clearly in it, that you may detect him at a singl e glance. The figure of the Christ is fine, and the head, and the heads of the figures all about; but, for Vandyk, in whose great pic tures there is always an epic sense of repose, a solemn purity of treatment, and lofty grandeur of expression, the composition is more elaborate and crowded than might have been anticipated. For this reason, p er h a p s , people may have passed by this Vandyk, and thought it a capital picture by some obscure artist, and so left it. But expend a little time over it, and by degrees you will find the figures coming alive out of the canvas, and the various characteristics and modifications of the emotion in each palpably individualized. Still, there is too much effort in it, too many arms straining upwards, too much physical movement; and one cannot help regretting, eotwithstandirg the melancholy beauty with which the principal figure is invested, that Vandyk slid not more strictly follow the suggestions of his eon chaste judg ment in a picture which he appears to have entered upon with a bold conception and more than ordinary euthu siasm. No doubt the greatest of his Crucifixions is that at St. Michael's in Ghent, which, defaced and retouched and injured as it is, still retains, like the ' Last Supper' of Leonardo da Vinci at Milan, vivid traces of the force, invention, and originality of the master. His genius seems to have reached its happiest achievement in that famous picture, which, spoiled as it has been by bung. ling- attempts at restoration, is not so much spoiled, after all, as Sir Joshua has represented it to be. The ama teur of high art will be better able to appreciate its merits by a peep at this other Crucifixion,' in which the subject is treated in a different manner, and with greater variety. After he has seen this picture, he will not think that he has thrown away an hour or two in the little excursion by railroad from Ghent to Courtrai." Mrs. William Kirkland furnishes an excellently , written and admirably intentioned paper, en titled, " What Strikes an American in Eng land." The aim of the authoress is to smooth down those a'perities which too often prevent a cordial social intercourse taking place between the subjects of her Majesty Queen Victoria and the citizens of the United States, who visit this " our tight little island ;" a worthy object, and one which Mrs. NV. Kirkland is admirably adapted to carry out. Sylvanus con ti nues hi s "B ye L anes and Downs of England," and Warren his " Adventures on the Banks of the Amazon." An ela• borate review of Eliot iiryrburton's re cently published memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, is illustrated by a finely engraved portrait of the Prince, from the original painting of Honthorst, in the Earl of Pembroke s collection, at Wilton. The illustration of the month is by Leech, to the Note-book of a Coroner'sCleik. We have, in addition to these, a classical tale, entitled Cleomenes, a fourth instalment of the memoirs of Chauteaubriand, some pleasant gos sip anent Boulogne, by Maxwell, besides more than the usual quantity of verse contributions, DAVID COPPERFIELD. No. 111. By Charles Dickens.. It is not possible to read this number of David Copperfield without weeping. Those, at least, who can peruse the last chapter in it, the ninth, without shedding tears, can never have known what real sor row is, or must have had their natural feelings blunted by misfortune, or can never have experienced the bitterness of losing those they love, in death. A more simple, true, or more touching piece of compo sition even Dickens himself has never before written. It is another and most exquisite testimony of the genius of this great writer; another and most re markable proof that the golden wand of the very highest order; of genius has been confided to his hand—that wand which can evoke at will either tears or laughter, and which constitutes the sceptre exclu sively of the " bright particular stars" of literature. Much as it has become the fashion of late to decry Charles Dickens, and to depreciate his extraordinary intellect, such an incident as this of the death of little David's mother shows in a sudden gush of emotion the absurdity of his assailants. When the last number of the:last work of "Boa" contains such passages as the one to which we are alluding, our illustrious author may well afford to laugh at those who are envious of his immense reputation. He knows the way, not merely to the admiration, but to the affection of his reader. He can command at pleasure those overflowings of the heart through the eyes which are expressive of a nobler homage to his great gifts as an author than the most impassioned panegyric. Chapter VII., "My First Half at Salem House," gives an amusing por traiture of the life of a schoolboy in one of those suburban academies in the neighbourhood of the metropolis where " the system" is excessive cruelty, and where " the Principal " is an ignorant, " inca pable brute," with " no more right to be possessed of the great trust he held than to be Lord High Admiral or Commander-in-Chief." Mr. Creakle is just such a character. Many as are the evils and atrocities which have already been " put down" in such places by the writings of Dickens, especially by his account of the diabolical Yorkshire schools, through the esta blishment of Mr. Squeers, and especially again by his sketch of the ruinous "forcing system" as evinced in the House of Dr. Blimber, he is here em ploying hii powers generously for the suppression of not the least miserable of all the grievances yet surviving in such regions for the tuition of young gentlemen. In describing the ill-treatment of him self and his comrades, David mentions the habit this fellow Creakle has of " cutting" at the boys with hi s cane or his ruler, thereupon observing very naively— " I am confident that he couldn't resist a chubby boy especially ; that there was a fascination in such a subject which made him restless in his mind, until he had scored and marked him for the day." Un luckiest of all the unlucky little dogs at the school is poor Traddles—who is described as being dressed in such a very tight ekyblue suit that it made his arms and legs look " like German sausages or roly-poly puddings." His career proves him to have been in truth " the merriest and most miserable of all the boys." By way of comforting himself after being caned or ruler'd, Traddles bas a habit of drawing skeletons all over his slate. Little David at first seems to have wondered what possible comfort Traddles could have derived from this operation; but after various surmises he comes to the conclusion that Traddles only drew skeletons " because they were easy and didn't want any features." On one day he is described as having been imprisoned so many hours (after a severe castigation) " that he came forth with a whole churchyard full of skeletons swarming all over his Latin dictionary." This was after the occasion when Steerforth laughed in church, and Tommy Traddles, wrongfully mistaken for the offender, was walked out in custody of the beadle, " despised by the congregation." Mr. Mell is dis charged through the medium of a quarrel with James Steerforth, when Traddles is moved to tears by the circumstance, and " relieves himself as usual by a burst of skeletons." Mr. Peggotty and Ham pay David a visit at the academy, and at the end of six months the latter goes home for the holidays. Chapter VIII. depicts those holidays, " especially one happy afternoon." The description of the meet ing between little David and his mother is exquisitely beautiful—" I spoke to her and she stared, and cried out. But seeing me, she called me her dear Davy, her own boy ! and coming half across the room to meet me kneeled down upon the ground and kissed me, and laid my head down on har bosom near the little crea ture that was nestling there, and put its hand up to my lips. I wish I had died. I wish I had died then, with that feeling in my heart! I should have been more fit for heaven than I ever have been since." Soon afterwards, he says, poor Peggotty " comes running in, bounces down upon the floor, and goes mad about us for a quarter of an hour." On the close of the holidays which have been effectually made miserable by Dlr. and Miss Murdstone, the poor child is bundled off again to Salem House. Chapter IX., " I have a memorable Birthday," is as yet the gem of all the chapters of Copperfield. It is written not from the head, but from the hear t. All of it is touchingly beautiful—from the moment Davidwhenthat his Mrs. Creakle breaks the new s to littl e l mother is dead, and h e bursts into " a desolate cry," and feels an orp han in the wide w h en he reaches the Rookery andw o rdto the beholds y— eseolemn windows, lookin g bli n dl y on him, like those o ti me c l ose d eyes once bright." How wonderfully natural that m inute account of the child's grief—where it is sa id "If ever child was stricken with sincere grief I was." And yet Lis thoughts " were idle; not intent on the calamity that weighed upon his heart, but idly loitering near it." He thought of his home, of the little baby, of his father's grave, and of a hundred other things. Then—" I stood upon a chair when I was left alone, and looked into the glass to see how red my eyes were, and how sorrouful my face. I considered, after some hours were gone, if my tears were really hard to flow now as they seemed to be, what in connexion with my loss it would affect me most to think of when I drew near home—tor I was going home to the funeral." The account of the mother's death, and of her little baby's, and of their funeral, and of David's wretchedness, is, to us, eminently pathetic, and, from its marvellous truth to nature, singularly sad and beautiful. MAKING HAY ON A RAILWAY.—We have heard of grass growing in the streets of decayed towns, but never till now on ra ilways—such, however, is the fact, on the line from Exeter to Crediton, where during the present week haymaking has been in full operation. This ine, which was constructed three years since, is, owing to a dispute between the broad gaugers and nar row gaugers, still unopened fur traffic, though there is, ve ib L .ps, scarcely another in the kingdom better situated tor it. General Lahubaudiere died suddenly a few days since at Quimper, at the moment when he was getting into a carriage to proceed to join hie family at Brost. THE COAL TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SU_ Sxn, May I beg the favour of yo misleading uto correc t amg f"o n u d nd place undjci statement, which has un n the Leeds Intelli g e nces ' of fortunately to-day. Under the bead " Barnsley" we have as follows : " The Coal Trade.—On Tuesday a numerous meeting of the coal owners was held at Mrs. Hawkesworth's, the Royal Hotel, when it was agrecd to reduce the water sale of coal 64. per ton, on the Ist day of July next." Now, Sir, no coal owners' meeting was held at the Royal Royal on " Tuesday" last, and no such resolu tion has been passed at any meeting of which I have any knowledge. The alleged reduction is, therefore, as baseless as it is mischievous; it is calculated to produce consternation and alarm in other colliery districts, and beguile coal-dealers into premature and embarrassing contracts which may prove only a mockery and a de lusion. As you wield a six-day power, while the Leeds In telligencer is merely a one-day-power, and as your circu lation is so much in excess over that of a weekly paper, your obliging insertion of the above will cause the truth to prove more than a sufficient counterpoise to the error, and obviate no little confusion and loss. I remain, Si:, yours, &c. JOHN TWIBELL, Chairman of the Yorkshire Coal-trade Meetings. Barnsley, June 30, 1849. SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY, JUNE 30.—The Pe ninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's ship Euxine, Captain R. W. Evans, sailed to-day for Gibraltar, Malta, and Constantinople. She had on freight 380 tons measurement of cotton and woollen goods, seven packages of specie, value 6,0001, and 28 passengers. The Iberia, Captain Burney, sailed on the 27th with the Spanish and Portuguese mails and 2,000/. specie on freight; and the homeward mails from Gibral tar, Cadiz, Lisbon, Vigo, and Oporto, will be brought by the Jupiter, Captain Meehan, expected on the 4th of July. The Sultan, Captain George Brooks, may be ex pected from Constantinople, Smyrna, and Malta, about the sth or 6th of July. The Royal mail s teamer Trent will leave on Monday with the West India and Pacific mails. TUE IRON TRADE.—BIRMINGHAM, SATURDAY.-- At the usual meeting preliminary to the present meetings reduce the o 1,8 hethe.r even this o tt hh f ee ti pN i e rei icirveo Inn,n o m f i a r t ir r n r ai s no o ds . f s v vp S eo o rr u tt t bo h ,n S tm t a aw ff ka o i sn r d gr s et h 6sh i o ; : e vrh , ea,d j iz u gp s tes t : h6frieeli pr icesos. ; witl d; preision a fi r ir edi m :cl s : 7 a t 7l ! 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