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!tPlleared to him, that this matter iuvolved a principle of some I mportance —a principle, in what degree, and in what cases, constables were justified in interfering to put down public me etings, and in arresting indiviluals who were taking l'art in them. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") Now, he thought that the constables in this case exceeded the proper line of their duty, and he thought it, especially at that moment, when Parliament was going to se parate for a long time, and when it was possible that many in stances might occur during he recess in which meetings of that kind would assemble--( Cries of " Oh, oh." from the Ministe rial benches, and laughter from the Opposition)—and in which constables, acting under a mistaken impression of their duty , eight interfere in a manner which would be productive of great public inconvenience ; he thought that was a case in which the House would act wisely in instituting an inquiry to ascer tain the real facts of the ca- , e—from au examination of the two Sides ---that if there were no ground of complaint it might be made known; and if there were ground of complaint, the Go • nment might take measures for preventing the recurrence o f allele conduct. On the whole, he thought there was good Found for acceding to the motion of his Hon. Friend. Sir ROBERT PEEL said his Right Honourable Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department, under whose superintendence the metropolitan police generally acted, bad intimated to the Home that in his opinion there was not Sufficient ground for him fo interfere for the punishment of this person, and supposing the House from the information before it was dissatisfied with the judgment he had formed, and there were no mode whatever of conducting aiy inquiry except by a Committee, there might possibly be some plausible ground for acceding to the motion. But were there no means of determining whether this constable had exceeded his d Z ee t ttY, besides the appointment of a Committee ?—( Hear, hear.) 'as his Right Hon. Friend's decision final and conclusive ? A e • a very moderate cost the parties might compel the legal , tribunals of this country to determine whether the police con stable had acted justifiably or not. He might commence en action against him for false imprisonment or for the refusal of bail; and which would be the more Sttisfacto r y .as ruling the law, the decision of a Cou rt of Justice, CI : the Houieof Commons? Suppose the House of Commons • se—not having eiiidence upon oath be it observed—should decide that the constable had acted illegally, that would be no legal rale if a Court of Law came to an opposite conclusion, a Court ° l' Law being a regularly constituted tribunal, and having eridenee upon oath.—(Hear, hear.) He deprecated the Rouse of Commons exercising its judicial functions in such a e ase• He would be the last man in the world to encourage a constable or any other person in a constant annoying enforce !ni.ent of the law, even where the law was upon their side •, n! • thought they would only discredit the' law by too much 11 1:eur in its application; but on the other hand let them r emember the peculiar position of these men, who ire intrusted with the execution of the law , and let them forbear by their censures ' and needless Inquiries from discouraging men who held a responsible trust, Z.ntl acted faithfully and honestly in the discharge of their du . l eS• Let them suppose that in consequence of the non taterference of the policemen there had been a serious riot, and life had been lost, what would they have said of the man then ? any rate, through his conduct there was no riot, and no one 14 cl been injured. What were the facts of the case ? There ,Was a meeting in the chapel an hour before, and a conflict be - °seen Corn-law repealer') and Chartists took place. Was there a mere commotion in the chapel ? On the contrary, -Were not the seats torn up by the contending parties? Were sot blows struck ? They had heat enough in that House some limes; but suppose they proceeded to the length of tearing up their seats. If there were nothing but excitement, loud cries of "Hear, hear," from the Chartist advocates on the one side, and vehement declamation on the - other, that would not approach to a a Vet..Probably the House recollected the story of the man in Ire nd,leho described the rebellion in 1796 as a " hurry ;" when a 8 9 main event took place, he said it took place " in the hurry of ; "--( Laughter.) Another man described the insurrection ' e t ! 180e3 as "a dispute in commerce."—(Renewed laughter.) He could not underteke to say that the conduct of the police tnan in this case was justified. There was a discretionary Pow er vested in men, who were not, perhaps, well qualified by *ale erience to exercise it; but, taking all the facts into con lid, ration, the cries of " Serve out and bludgeon the police," N. the con d uc t o f the persons assembled, he thought the con duct tof the police could hardly be blamed. It was now open '2 'the individual to institute a prosecution against the police 4am- All he asked was, that they would not go out of their sirdinary course to assume functions which properly belonged e e'e Court of Law. Alm T. DUN COBME replied. He believed that the iit'eatest portion of what the Right Hon. Baronet had stated, on ritd e authority of others, was a tissue of misrepresentation. He no hesitation in saying that the seats were not torn up, and t w n_!..t no damage was done to the chapel. With respect to the ectum) Mallalieu, it was not surprising that he had a vindic tive,_e feeling against the Chartists, as he was one of the police ;Le who were sent down to Birmingham. —( Oh, and cheers.) ."5 Right Hon. Baronet was perfectly consistent in refusing r_e fry. It was the principle of Toryism to refuse _ 1( 1 1 :try. If the House read the petition of the 5000 per ;n assembled on Blackh*th, they would find that they e stee' that the meeting wanegally assembled, and they con teterei 1 that they were not bound to submit to such conduct. l ess believed that the people would not submit to it, and if any tilt` .0f s 'ife ensued, th e G overnmen t who refused to inquire into ile as tacte . of this case wou ld be resp o nsible. The Kouse then divided, when there appeared— e;er the inquiry • A gainst it _Majority against the inquiry SUPPLY. Irhe House e then went into Committee of Ways and Means, and the to t ....... itowing votes for the service of the year were • aed 11 47° ' 2137 /• surplus of Consolidated Funds. 1,3a 1 . q. • , our of Ways and Meens • and IJuI JAtOnt to • • of last Ti t , H ouse j h uPply deficiency in Exchequer bills en resumed. .The Bankruptcy Law Amendment Bill went through Com tatttees Report to. morrow. et The Court of Chancery Offices Bill was read a second time. "'neenaiteese to-morrow. TOBACCO REGULATIONS BILL. ,Th e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the Zci er of the Day for the further consideration of the Report '1 he Tobacco Regulations Bill. ir. T. DUNCOM BE said the Bill was a most inquisitorial iZe` --that it interfered with a number of important interests, - ,;:t 1 t whom he had presented many petitions this session, th tal olaining of its provisions. It would require at least ten And new officers to visit all the small dealers in tobacco— afre_▪ in tumstance which would doubtless create very great patron e' the Government, but would entail very great and un .ete ary expense on the country. He moved that the Bill s fealmitted that day three months. - n apta, in PEC HELL seconded the motion. '„'Llie SPEAKER, having put the question, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that nestion was one which considerably affected the revenue 4, 1 2 ed from so important an article of consum p tion as to v4 't in consequence of its being so much adulterated with l i -, ; me ,d• ochre, and other deleterious substances. The practice of eration was carried on to such an extent as to call for an CMG diate remedy. The Bill would give time to parties hold ti se adulterated articles to dispose of th em, and thus the Ldes would be put on a wholesome footing. bs-T • HAWES begged to remind the Hous e th at this Bill f i be en abandoned by the late Government. The Rep ort of .1 1 ! Co, mmissioners was not in favour of the Bill of the Right t Zllour.eble Gentleman. If the survey was appl ied to the i ll attu fact urer and not to the "feeler, it would be merely t 4401 lucing another party, namely, the dealer , who would o _eV to make adulterationa in the article. But whether to were adulterations or not depended on the purc haser of T, rticle. A high price would always ensure a pure a rticle. ; e l 'e Right Hon. Gentleman could not speak with confidence the s Bill, and he therefore hoped he would not press it. The tine iple of it was vicious, and it would not produce any great I .,set it to the revenue. He therefore hoped the Right Hon. - "at :emu' would not persevere with the measure. the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the 4 4 lon the present evils would require a much stronger one. 1 4 4. ' 1 / 4 % BO WRING thought the diminished consumption of to e) was to be attributed to its high price. He hoped, that, lit t here was,. a difference of opinion on the subject , the Rig ht ° „ 0 - Gentleman would postpone the measure till next session. Alt. M. pmit.i PS ',aid that there was a difference of opinion „ ; the .subject of this Bill among the constituency he had the h:tl i ntir to represent, but after having given the .best attention stiower to tine measure, he came to the conclusion of op ;T• ing tale Bill. ,He believed if the Cha ncellor of the Ex regner• would give to the next session to co nsider the ques t°n, it would afford tile greatest satisfaction. t i• Strangers were theft ordered to withdraw , an d the House I Vid ed, when there appeared— For the amendment 9 Against it Majority against the amendment ... —44 Th a Bill was then re-committed; the various clauses were j e cre-0 1 to with some amendments ; and the Hou se resumed, "`eßeir t on Wednesday next. 4 t . : , C , CLESIASTICAL CORPORATIONS LEASING BILL. -59 b! hr GRAHAM having moved that the Report on this should be received, ) 1 1 , Or. V. SMITH rose, pursuant to notice, to move that t h e should be re-committed. He would wish, for his part, often the Bill should not be proceeded with dur in g the p resent 4 l lsilton. The Bill had been first intro duced in the other kokt ie by the Bishop of London ; bat it was found that : h hould have originated in the House of Commons, 0. the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for the Home rp; irtment, had taken charge of it in that House. appeared to him (Mr. V. Smith) that the measure was one th _whtcl t would never attain the;purposes for which it had been sh7i,lae, I. He explained the general purpose of the Act which e% 1 to give to corporations, sole and aggregate, the power 4el i.ig tl •property, and he cited one case, occurring in the 1705, when the corporation of London obtained a lease h ng the Bishop of London, by the terms of which onl y one ii‘,4l of the value of the property went to the Church ; this t o ll ' a system which he wished to chec k, as it would tend leprive the ecclesiastical corporations of that sur p lus hetnue which might be applied to the im p rovement of R Church itself, and the abrogation of Chu rch-rates. had other reasons for wishing to postpone this Bill. Tile Q , gl at Hon. Baronet the Member for Oxford had given up his %; ation of bringing forward a measure f or C hurch Eaten -1;; of on the udderstanding that the Right Hon. Baronet at the of the Government would give it his best consideration, 'I b a prepared to state what course he should adopt in the 11 tt sess ion. He also wanted to follow up the plan proposed tZ, the- late Government, of in troducin g a better s y stem of Wag ement of Church property, with a view of applying the v 1 :1 ) lus so produced to a settlement of the question of 1 4 rch -rates.—( Hear, hear.) He wanted to get at what t o it k t surplus might be. .He therefore wished this Bi ll withdrawn for the present, in order that it might re the best consideration of the Government during the re- • They were now giving away the power by which the lus he had alluded to might be produced. The calcula ti?4 aof Mr. Finlayson had by no means been o verturned, on I ,;'*' contrary they had rather been augm ented, and it might ti . ° , ll i , be stated that the surplus would be 306,8601. He thought *.rt could be no possible necessity for t he m e asure p assing ih lb ession. He quoted the effect of the Ac t p assed for the Pr.A 'ement of the Bishop of London's estate, to show what 1 3 Vht , be expected from a ve gener theal meaower sure ofrant the kind. 11,, ~4 0 er 1 • that Act, which ga pof in the le lit g /eases, the Bishop received an improvement g of the re tea, le to the amount of one.third of the ground tents. It did t ,PPI sar to him that they were throwing away a direct source of anus. He believed the question might be so settled as to 4 ! e satisfaction to all 'parties, and the publi c would b y no -;_ ins by satisfied if the Right Hen. Baronet shou ld in an ,t lu er session come forward and ask for a grant of mone y for 4h arch extension, when he had by this measure thrown a wa y e. opportunity of raining a revenue that might be applie d with V . ) , justice to this purpose. He therefore moved that the ..1 0 . be committed this day three months. Sir J. GRAHAM said it was impossible not to allow that alight Hen. Gentleman had argued an intricate and dif :Colt question with very great ability and fairness. He could • i 'Lot bu,t fallow the example he had set in contending that zny " tprovement of Church revenue thus obtained should be t i s plied to no other purpose than the maintenance of the Church by law established. There was nothing in this Bill incon wm dent with that object, but even on this principle the Bill as a large step in the right direction. The Bill was intro ;e d by th e Bi s hop of London in the other House , and had e sanction of the Ecclesiastical Commission, nor did contain anything inconsistent with the five re commendations of the Report of that Commission. , lie Bill got rid of leases on lives and fines upon renewals; 1 you say He t the proper Gentleman ) be relied to evidence laker, who , connected )n, Baronet ippeared in to character that this present et in August , us meeting, ster Cast l e , .woof ON. re-pect to ates. After Alagistrate , ified to biro as it gtood, as sat Stir , " 'legal meet' od tts. i sore' r fret ti Or . ceded to it: vas se tisf►rd Ceal Int: 9 ° ouall red hit 3 661 rate. The couve bed begg,:fd to ' yeni 4 J i)'th nmittebby licate an Wee! g e st.. 1 edy anal' cL - r their ti""" i of ji U tine , ; and peru' ould be d i !' nn, to :Join But be (ll' iport; um! to . case w 1, 1 0:. ton, or t "" The go . y Vise 41 r. Gra! sol i / of the 11 0 1 lowing hare thei r benetlit farts c tia ! b cen '.d ese 13". ttiPP °9l wait et S r ' tbst. i , Lnd t inj os '" d th• ir pr. efon e pc ppl A , o 111 thr ir" .4 of tosPT„, of p I've L. I lartA he ,itti►as t Kid enter, t • d , ed to u ". • rrest 3 0 th d an u Au i inqui • ries of tra ordinary e unusual 3gly lois ! 'Whether iK in of the soropson , In ouncedi h the truc e police to de' ed o t o w hat , P W e ry I the- por,, as .2, tll,/ ite r 1 ereir h e ve,t by for preS e- r , nab bul" / nist ~e r d ° t r tt t erfe re, t Jar y• e in: , tant s d i s trate 0 ' hd b e !. tg) ;e a a° ed of ', a wise P, a king t lls s rd a n man O n e C ouaiis at' cll be A rot ildle'" Flan. Gen t aAO I ; I a, proc: - : the Rio g 0 m perSti e oonst ai ca •ty to 0 ,14 iat he 11° - 'Via the isc` ; , prait! ee. ite I°' q Even sta— ,.h ea r ; „,i s trate", The tiff s teed th at slot 01 01 thi9pa Y eac • tD tnt Woe he pe heft man t ae, public o re wai that ti I ° 9e wl rea pa 9 ' neral been . fe/ Eons( • an ° a t was t° at en , mot , f ada s the °die t al id O r at ilic i./' a s such I 'that ti cation milder( groundie 0 mate that tb _41-kw . 0 , n eral of )De• h d that U s st on that dace., in g tb at Dr. ,nence of :tionable , e Maps conduct >und bit" confesed bad done va , e d to ,und 11 0- red him • holdinF that was to say, it did not, get rid of them by any special enactment, but it bets! out a strong probability of their abo. lition, by their being the inducement of a rem-in - non interest to substitute leases for ninety-nine years, instead of leases on lives and fines upon renewals. Nor was there anything in it inconsistent with the public interest, as there was a strong disposition to prefer a lease of ninety-nine years, which was almost a certainty, to a lease on lives, which was subject to uncer tainty. The public had the deepest interest in the most advanta geous management of this property. There was no public interest militating against this measure. With respect to the Eeccle siastical portion of the question, there were four sources of re ' venue to which they could look. First, there was the Bishop's fund. The incomes of the Bishops were fixed prospectively, and as the Bishops fell iii—a maximum income having been fixed—under this Bill any surplus revenue that mi&lit arise after the deaths of the present incumbents would be applicable to ecclesiastical purposes, subject only to the rent-charge of the succeeding Bishops. Then with regard to the diaconal and capitular property; there were four Chapters at present in this respect in precisely the same category as the Bishops, and these were the Chapters of Westminster, of St. Paul's, of Manchester, _and of Durham. Any future augmentation in the value of the property of those Chapters would be available to ecclesiastical purposes; that was to say, to the augmentation of small livings, or to the endowment of new churches, subject to the rent-charge of the incumbents. He I.ropnsed, by the present Bill, to ex tend that rule to the other Chapters, and he would introduce a clause to that effect.—( Hear, hear.) He thcught the prin ciple ought to be extended to all. Having disposed of the episcopal and the diaconal and capitular fund, he now came to the corporations sole, the rectories, and Vicarages. He was told that many of these incumbents were vicars in large towns, having cures ill-endowed ; but considering that a con siderable portion of the property rendered improvable by this Bill might be budding ground of great value in the neighbour hood of large towns ;. and fearing lest, by the operation of this Bill, he aught be creating in the midst of a large town, having a dense population, where there was a great deficiency of spiritual instruction, a cure that should be over.endowed, he had taken what he trusted would be found be an effectual pre caution against the occurrence of such an event. He had, for that purpose, introduced a proviso, that where the population exceeded 2,000 the income should not be more than 6001. a year; that where the population did not exceed 1,000, the income should not exceed SW/. a year; and that where the population was below 1,000, the income should not exeeed 3001. a year ; and that any surplus should go to the general fund for im proving small livings, or for endowing additional churches, the immediate neighbourhood of the property to have the pre ference over districts in the distribution of the surplus. He thought that this Bill was calculated to carry out the principle advocated by the Right Hon. Gentleman in common with himself, namely, that the Church herself should devote the whole surplus of her property to ecclesiastical purposes con • fleeted with the pastoral care of the people before she applied to the State for that purpose. The Right Hon. Gentleman himself admitted that that was the best purpose to which this surplus could be appropriated, with the exception of one which he (Mr. Vernon Smith) thought perfectly legitimate, but which he (Sir J. Graham) could not think so, and which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. V. Smith) candidly confessed he at present did not think it prudent to press. He (Sir J. Graham), therefore, earnestly recommended the Bill to the at tention of the House, as a measure calculated to place at the disposal of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, to be used for strictly ecclesiastical purposes, the largest possible amount of revenue. Mr. HAWES said that undoubtedly the Right Hon. Gen tleman had made some considerable and moat important changes in the Bill, which he (Mr. Hawes) looked upon as great concessions. There was one point, however, on which he wished to be satisfied. Was any portion of that fund thus created to be diverted into the hands of any private parties, either lay or ecclesiastical, after the present incumbents should have fallen in ? If it were, the Bill would not have his con sent; if it were not, he would no longer oppose the measure. The House ought to have a clear assurance on that head. Sir JAMES GRAHAM explained, that although in his speech he had stated there were four sources from which this in crease of revenue was to be derived, he had yet omitted to men tion the fourth source, which was the sinecure rectories; and the whole of the increased revenue derivable from these four sources, subject to the charges to which he had already alluded, would under the provisions of this Bill be available for eccle siastical purposes, and go to the augmentation of the general fund. Mr. HENLEY said that the holders of Church Leases had no idea that, under this Bill, an end was to be put to their leases. They were in p.rfect ighorance of what was preparing for them, and he did not think a measure of that importance should be pressed forward at such a late period of the session. If it were pressed to a division he should vote against the Bill being committed this session. Mr BROTHERTON thought the Bill ought to be post poned. It was professedly for the advantage of the Church, but it was really for the advantage of the holders of Church property. Mr. VERNON SMITH would not, after the ample con cessions which had been made by the Right Hon. Baronet, and the explanations which he had given, press his motion to a division. The motion was then withdrawn, the Report was brought up, and the Bill ordered to he read a third time on Friday. CANADA LOAN BILL. This Bill was read a second time. The Slavery ( East Indies) Bill was read a second time. COUNTY COURTS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Mr. HENLEY said he did not wish to offer any objection to the second reading of the Bill, but he objected to the novel principle which was proposed to be introduced into the Bid, of taking the verdict upon the majority of the jury, instead of the unanimous verdict of the jury. Captain PECH ELL hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would give consideration to the claims fur compensation of the Judges of Small Debts Courts. The Bill was then read a second time and ordered to be committed on Friday. LAW OF EVIDENCE BILL. The committal of this Bill was postponed till Friday next, BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS (No. 2) BILL. On the motion for the further consideration of the Report on this 13111, _ Mr. HANVES proposed a clause for the purpose of providing against treating and head-money. Mr. HARDY said he thought the elause was unnecessary, as the common law, as it at present stood, provided that any treating given to voters after the test of the writ and before its return voided the election. He would appeal to the Learned Solicitor-General to know if this was not a correct view of the law as it at present stood. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that under the present law any treating whatever after the test of the writ rendered the election void, and would unseat the Member. But he ap proved of this clause, as he thought it a valuable improvement to the Bill. Mr.' - AGLIONBY said that there was one principle recog nised in this Bill to which he had great objection, and that was supplying out-voters with refreshments. He did not know whether it was possible to get rid of this practice, but he thouhgt that a candidate ought no more to give such refreshments to out-voters than he ought to ply for ribands and colours. Mr. CURTEIS thought that those candidates who paid for the refreshments were sure to get the votes.—(Laughter.) Mr. HENLEY thought the House ought to decide what was legal treating and what was not. It was now a mere matter of chance as to what would be decided by a Committee to be treating. He thought the House ought to look the par ties boldly in the face, and say what was legal and what was not.—( Hear, hear.) In county elections, where electors came from a distance, lie thought they ought to have moderate re freshment supplied to them. Mr. STRUTT thought the Hon. Gentleman ought to state what moderate refreshment was, and whether it was porter, or gin and water, or roast beef, or bread and cheese. After a few words from the SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in explanation, the clause was agreed to. On the next clause bei , ig brought up, the object of which was to prevent the payment of head-money before, during, or after any election, Mr. HARDY objected to the words "before, during, or after," and suggested that the words " before and after " should be struck out, and that the clause should stand " the payment of any valuable sum of money, &c.," after any election. Sir R. I'EEL did not think it would be advisable to leave out the words " before and after," though he could not tee the use of inserting all the words "before, during, and after." They included all time. It was impo.sible to conceive any time that was not either before, during, or after an election.— ( Hear, hear.) Would it not be better to let it stand, " the payment of any valuable sum of money, &c., shall be deemed bribery ?" Mr. AGLIONBY hoped that the Right Hon. Baronet would not object to the words, " before, during, or after." After some further conversation the clause was agreed to. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved a proviso at the end of the 4th clause, to the effect that any alleged act of bribery must be shown to be committed within three months of the presentation of the petition, previous to its becoming subject of inquiry bef re the Committee.—Agreed to. Some verbal amendments were made in the other 'clauses, ) and the House resumed. The Report was brought up and agreed to.—Third reading this day. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. Sir J. GRAHAM moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of better defining the boundaries of the borough of Co ventry, rendered necessary by a recent judgment in the Court of Exchequer, which leaves the borough with one actual and two possible boundaries, inducing much confusion and difficulty in the administration of justice between the county and city. He stated that the town council of the borough had agreed to the arrangements of the Bill. Leave was given to bring in the Bill. EXCHEQUER BILLS. Mr. MASTERMAN asked whether the Chancellor of the. Exchequer had received any Report from the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Exchequer Bills fraud, and when it would be laid before the House ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had not as yet received the Report, but was led to expect it in the course of the ensuing week, and as soon as it came into his hands it should be laid before the House. He understood that the evidence was very voluminous. The Howe adjourned at One o'Clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY. The settling for Goodwood drew a full attendance, and oc• cupied nearly the whole of the afternoon. To all appearances it went off smoothly —that it did not do so in reality may be doubted, as several persons obtruded themselves into the ring during the races, whose means and reputations are, to say the least of them, very questionable : that they should have been encouraged, or even tolerated, is unaccountable. At intervals a St. Leger book or two was brought out, and a few engage ments noted down, at the following quotations:— ST. LEGER. 7 to 4 agst Colonel Anson's Attila—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsay's Cabrera—taken, and after. arils offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Policy—ta., and after. offered 12 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Fireaway—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. King's Cattonite—taken freely 20 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Seahorse—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Combe's Rosalind—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam'r Agreeable colt—taken 10 to 1 agst Rosalind and Cattonite—taken DERBY, 1843. 33 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Parthian—taken. The members of a Russian family, of fifty-three ! persons (twenty-seven men and twenty-six women), called the Kantrowuz family, have been training their voices, confining each to two or three notes, nn the principle of their famous national horn bands. These performers are about to sing at the Grand Opera of Berlin, a series of instrumental compositions. The Steam-ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, left the St. Katherine's-wharf, Tower, as usual, on Sunday last. The numerous passengers who took their departure by her in cluded the following persons of rank and fashion :—Lord and Lady Colville, Sir James and Lady Hamilton, Sir John and Lady Burgoyne and family, Mr. and Mrs. C. Tennant, &c., &c. The same C,mpany's steamer Princess Victoria, Captain Minter, arrived at the wharf on Sunday morning, from Antwerp. T HE WATER COMPANIES.—Mr. flawkes gave notice on Saturday, that he ~ triul,d move, early next session, for a Select Committee to inquire whether the various Companies supplying Water to the metropolis have effectually filtered and purified the same, according to their engagements to Parlia ment and the public, and whether the water supplied may not ' be and ou . slit not to be improved. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY - MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1842. ! THE MAGAZINES, WOOD'S MAGAZINE. The fierce and uncompromising 'Toryism for which Maga was so long resnarka,le, has of late assumed a very so b b e a re o d u t and d ter '' staniing on the ancient ways," &c. ; for it is now discovered that those " ways" cannot be stood On with safety, unless they be subjected to considerable re pairs. " The Conservative majority," we are now told, " of the present and of every future Parliament, must have its root in the principle of Reform, and must par take more or less of the nature of the soil from which it springs." So says the writer of the article on the "Ses sion of Parliament," adding in a plaintive mood, " we cannot annul the Reform Act ; we can at bsst restrain and regulate it ; but restrain ur regulate it as we may, a change has c o me over the spirit of our policy." A change, indeed, when even Blackwood bears testimony to the irresistible power of Returns, and Sir Robert I'cel sanctions the anti-Tory doctrine of Free Trade ! We can feel for the situation of a Tory of the " good old" Eldon breed. How completely out of his element he must be in public lite, when the political prejudices in which he was reared, and which have furnished him with themes for his eloquence for nearly half a century, are treated with sovereign contempt ; and things are become absolute matters-of -feat, which, in his earlier days, were the wildest impossibilities ! What humiliation must such a man experience at finding. himself dragged a captive at the triumphant chariot-wheels of Reform ; and forced, by the conjurations of his necromantic Pre mier, to vote with Whigs and Radicals—the Devil's spawn, as he has been for years in the habit of calling them—in favour of an anti-monopoly tariff ! In speak ing cursorily of the Income-tax, the writer confidently anticipates that it will be 'productive of " blessed fruits." This will be a great consolation to those who have to pay it, and we trust will reconcile John Bull to the vex atious and inquisitorial nature of the impost. "Why not Colonise Cabul ? " advocates our taking possession of this fine kingdom as a convenient country residence for the citizens of Calcutta. We have no need to murder the natives, says Mr. Gilbert Young, to whom we are indebted for the suggestion, " there has been enough of bloodshed," so We will merely kick them out of house and home, and coolly and comfortably domiciliate our selves in the vacated territory. This idea is not amiss, but we had better first ascertain how the Affghans may be disposed towards it. We fear they will not much relish a summary process of ejection being served ou them, in order that the Calcutta cockneys may be pro vided with country houses, but will be apt to make the same sort of resistance that the Circas sians are now making to Russia, who is playing precisely the same game with those heroic moun taineers. " Sketches of Italy " are rough and vigorous bits of colouring, clashed off hastily. We should be glad to see the author's descriptive powers occupied with a more novel and exciting theme. "Human Sacrifices iu India " is a singular account of a populous native Indian tribe—sof whom till lately little or nothing has been known—who are in the constant habit of offering up human victims to their chief deity, Bard Pannu, or the Earth God. This tribe, the Khonds, inhabit a tract of country two hundred miles long, and about one hundred and seventy broad, and lying between the valley of the Ganges and that of the Godavery. From the statements respecting them recently published by Capt. Macpher son, of the Madras army, they would seem to be as su perstitious and remorseless, though not quite so merce nary a set of scamps, as the Thugs. Our readers will, doubtless, thank us for the following extract : " The earth," say the Khonds, " was originally a crude and unstable mass, unfit for cultivation and for the c o nvenient habitation of man. The Earth God said " Let human blood be spilt before me !" and a child was sacrificed. The soil be came forthwith firm and productive. And the deity ordained "that man should repeat the rite and live." The disposition of this god is malevolent; and it is only on condition of de precating his malignity by the ceaseless effusion of human blood, that the Khond enjoys the ordinary bounty of nature. The rite of human sacrifice is the very foundation of the Khond superstition, and all must contribute, according to their means, to its support. It is cothidered essential that every farm should share the blood of a human victim at seed-time and harvest, and also on various occasions, according to the promise of the year, between those seasons. General suffering from disease or the ravages of wild beasts, and any calamity affecting the fortunes of the Abbaya, or Patriarch, equally call for public ex piations to the Earth God. Private atonements are deemed necessary when any extraordinary misfortune marks the anger of the deity towards a particular house, as when a child watch ing a fleck perishes by a tiger, the form which is assumed by the Earth God for purposes of wrath. Tne priest is always consulted, and generally demands an immediate victim. The Khonds do not sacrifice victims of their own Feople, for such offerings are unacceptable , o the divinity. The victims or " Merles," are procured by a clasa of inhabitants of the hill country who are not Khonds ; and these miscreants pur chase Cleat upon false pretences, or kidnap them. from the poorer Hindus in the low country, to the order of the abbayas or of the priests, or upon speculation; when in difficulty they sell their own hildren for sacrifice, and for sacrifice under a religious system which is not their own ! A few Meria3 are always, if possible, kept in reserve in es cry district, to meet sudden demands for atonement. Every victim must be bought by the Khonds with a price, an unbought life being an abomi nation to the deity. Victims of either sex are equally accept able to the Earth God ; children, whose age precludes a knowledge of their situation, being for convenience sake pre ferred. The Meria is brought blindfolded to the village by the procurer, and is lodged in the house of the abbaya ; in festers, if grown up; at perfect liberty, if a child. He is regarded during life as a consecrated being; and if at large is eagerly welcomed at every threshold. Sometimes he is suffered to grow up in ignorance of his situation, and he is presented with farm-stock and land, and with a wife of one of the castes upon the mountains, not of Khond race. Should a family be the result, it is held to be born to the fearful condition of the sire; and should the deity require atonements not easy to i be afforded, the father and his children are sacrificed without 1 hesitation. " Chapters of Turkish History" give a brief narrative of the career of the famous Barbarossa of Algiers—a successful Corsair-King , to whom Robertson has alluded in his " Charles the Fifth." " Sonnets" are by Mr. Prior, author of the " Life of Burke. The one entitled " A Remonstrance to Time" contains a sentiment, the truth and force of which all must feel, who have reached middle ago. Time does indeed fly swiftly when a man has once rounded his fortieth year. Up to that period the flight of the hours is scarcely marked ; sometimes they even seem to flag ; but after forty they hurry on at railroad pace, and fly the swifter in exact proportion to the value we set on them. Hence the frequent disincli nation among elderly people to keep birth-days, which, like mile-stones, remind them of the number of miles they have travelled along the road of life. " Recollec tions of a Ramble through the Basque Provinces" is a spirited biographical memoir of Martin Zurbano, one of the most celebrated of the Christine Chiefs in Spain. " Poeras on Palestine" is a quizzical review of a recently published Pastoral, entitled " Pan," the scene of which, strange to say, is laid in the country round Bethlehem ! The author might have located " Pan" in the Regent's park with quite as much propriety. Mr. Moir's poem " The Norman Conscript," is in his happiest manner ; and of " Caleb Stukely" we may say, that it exhibits no falling off in point of interest. The " Song on the In come-tax" is an amusing poetical squib. coop, was about half as large again as an English rat, of a mottled colour, with small red eyes, and would have been a ' very ugly animal had it net been for its tail, which was long, and bushy in circumference near the centre, almost as large as the 1 :tie body to which it was attached. For a time the men goos ran about without going direct up to the snake, which, howe. - er, having perceived its tormentor on its first entrance, had p •eeared to give him battle. Suddenly the tiny creature, which s ,erred to be little m ore t h an a s i ng le mouthful to its adver ary, saw the snake, and with ou t hesitation ran at. So apparently unequal a contest I never beheld. The cobra cabella had reared itself, and spread out its hoed, a sort of fleshy cape it inflates when irritated, and which has given rise to its desig nation. The marks round its eyes resembled a pair of spec tacles. Its marble-stained scales seemed all alive, as it raised itself some three feef high to meet the attack of the little savage, whose fiery eyes seemed suddenly to glow like red-hot cinders as it rushed towards its mighty enemy, and bit it. The snake darted at it, squeezed it, inflicted its dreadful wound, and then threw itself back. The mungooze was evidently disabled. Faint and almost dying, it retreated. Many of us fancied the battle over, and regretted the untimely end of the courageous little beast. After limping about for some time, and even lying down with exhaustion, the mungoote began to poke its nose oa the grass. What it swallowed none have ever been able to trace, though large rewards have been offered for the discovery. What the herb is which this little animal partakes of, none can tell, but certainly its effects are miraculous ; for, no sooner did the creature im bibe the sought-for antidote, than it suddenly recovered its pristine strength, and again attacked the serpent. This scene was re-enacted no less than seven times ; each time the cobra appearing weaker and weaker, till actually tired out. The mungooze at length succeeded in catching the monster by the throat, and destroying it, to the surprise and admiration of all present. " Adventure of a Blue Jacket " is a true story of a sailor, of the tough old school, who took a garrisoned fort near Calcutta, by mistake, when he was drunk, having swam off from his vessel, scaled the walls at mid night by way of a frolic, frightened the Dutch garrison, who thought that the English had effected a breach, and set them scampering out at the gates as fast as their short, squat legs would carry them. The old tar then composed himself for a nap on the ramparts, and having slept off his drunkenness, began wondering how he had got into the fort, what had become of the garrison, and how it was that ho was absent from his ship, which was lying in the river hard by. The rest of the story shall be told in the writer's own words : Jim rubbed his eyes. He pinched his legs, and 'walking up to a tank, actually drank three mouthfuls of water before he could believe that he was awake. He then strutted up to the ramparts ; and convinced himself he was in his proper senses, for there lay the two frigates, and there floated the union-jack, for which he bad often risked his life. 4 , Shiver my timbers ! with that he twitched up pigtail—which then hung d The vessels, perceiving a man thus expose himself, began to fire at him. " Avast there !" shouted Jim ; but, as they did not hear him, or attend to him, he ran to the principal battery, and, climbing up the flag staff, pulled down the Dutch colours, and hoisted up a ragged old turban, he found lying in one of the streets. The commanders of the vessel thought this extremely odd. Something strange had evidently happened ; so they sent a boat on shore, bearing a flag of truce, carried by the First Lieutenant of one of the frigates. Unmolested the party marched up to the fort ; and, as the gates were open, un.. molested t; ey marched into it. Not a soul did they meet till Jim strutted up to them. " Holloa, you sir, what's the meaning of this ?" said the First Lieutenant to Bunting, in a voice of anger ; for it was sadly infra dig. for an officer of his rank to have been thus sent off to parley with a common sailor. " What's the meaning of this ?" " Please your honour, I hope you won't be angry, Leeftenant, but, somehow or other, I've taken this place. The enemy have cut the painter, and sheered off." " What 1" cried the superior, " You tool• the fort !" J m nonded. " And pray who the devil gave you leave to do so, I should like to know Z Get on board, Sir, directly." " Ay, ay, Sir," relied Jim respectfully, instantly doing as be was desired. In the meantime the Lieutenant went, and formally took pos cession of the place by running up the British colours; then writing a most pompous despatch, in which-he recommended the real captor to be tried for leaving his ship without per mission, he sent it back by a young midshipman, remaining be hind himself, with half-a-dozen sailors, in order as he expressed it, to garrison the fort. . . Strange to say, his recommendation was attended to, and Jim Bunting brought to a court-martial, who most reluctantly were compelled to find him guilty, adjudging him, however, tu, undergo the least possible punishment that could be inflicted for so glaring a breach of discipline. Jim felt highly indig nant at the turn things had taken. He could not help thinking limself an ill-used man ; but he bore it stoically. When, however, ho heard the verdict delivered ; when he heard him self pronounced guilty, he once more hitched up his nether garments, and exclaimed in an audible voice as he left the cabin, " Damn my eyes if ever I take another fort as long as I live." _ _ _ _ Richard Savage " exhibits, as usual, some spirited incidents. The " Philosophy of Oratory " is poor, com mon-place stuff, in which humour is constantly aimed at, and as constantly missed. The illustrations, however, are excellent, and tend in a great degree to redeem the deficiencies of the letter-press. We close with an ex pression of thanks to Thomas Ingoldsby for his quaint, comical legend of " Netley Abbey." brions ; his Speech ie [prophetic ; and hie Touch is mortal. Nevertheless he hath one Merit, and in this our World, and in these our Times, it is a main one; namely, that nhatever he Undertakes he Performs. BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. Mrs. Butler, like Mrs. Trollope, is by no means ena moured of the manners and customs of Yankee-land, as her present narrative of " A Winter's Journey to Georgia" shows in every page. And, indeed, we do not wonder at her disrelish, for, according to her account, nothing could supass the dirt, discomfort, and rudeness she encountered in the course of her journey. The rail roads were rough, tumble-down affairs—the steam boats leaky and ill-ventilated—the inns the very perfec tion of uncomfortableness. A clean towel was a God send—a clean bed a phenomenon—and when our tra vellers, hungry and way-worn, asked for breakfast, they were told they must wait till " the public hour !" Truly, it seems scarcely worth while to take the wings of the Great Western, and steam across the Atlantic, in order to encounter so much personal inconvenience. A traveller may be annoyed to his heart's content much nearer home. Let him take a trip to Connemara in the rainy season, or to Marseilles and Avignon, when the fleas and musquitos are in full vigour, and he may de pend on it he will be quite as much inconvenienced as if he had voyaged three thousand miles to Georgia. Of Charleston, the capital of North Carolina, Mrs. Butler says :—" This city is the oldest I have yet seen in America ; I should think it must be the oldest in it. It abounds in rickety, dark, dirty, tumble-down streets and warehouses, with every now and then a mansion of loftier pretensions, but equally neglected and ruinous in its appearance." We congratulate Jonathan on his possessing a city which bears such undeniable tokens of a venerable antiquity. Washington Irving, in his " Sketch Book," hinted that he envied us our majestic and picturesque ruins ; but he need do so no longer, since in Charleston his coun try may boast that she possesses, not a baronial edifice or abbey merely, but a whole capital, in ruins ! " Don't be too Sure" recounts the disasters experienced by an elderly Bonedick on his wedding-day. At ten o'clock, A.M., he was married—at noon he lost his wife—in the evening . he was thrashed by a tremendous Irishman, whose sister he had mistaken for his own spouse—and at night he was taken up on suspicion of forgery ! These incidents —we say nothing of their probability — are dexterously put together, arid told with much drol lery of manner. In the " Visit to Malta" occurs a gr aphic sketch of the chief town of Valetta, and its cathedral church of St. John. " Pope Joan" is a tale by Peake, founded on the old apochtyphal legend, that a clever, aspiring female once disguised herself as a monk, gained high reputation for learning and sanctity in that character, and ultimately obtained the Papal chair. W e see no great reason to doubt this " legend, fon Hinn yr ma ostan " o f th e Popes have been old wo men. Hours id are an entertaining series of anecdotal reminiscences. We subjoin a description of a fight between a mungooze and that dreadful serpent the cobra capello, which the writer himself witnessed, in the presence of a snake charmer : Being desirous of seeing a combat between a snake and its eoir4-1,! compound —, l inveterate enemy, the mungooze (an animal similar to the ich neumon of Egypt), I requested the charmer to exhibit a fight o mu f se tnohuceta carry • attached not t.°htivt every y o t h o e: m e )o°, almost f t andtli every e le s led house in cantonments. Having expressed our fears lest any of the party illight be injured by the reptile, lie proposed that the exhibition should take place under an enormous pheasant coop of worked wire, which was lying unused in the court yard. This arrangement was acceded to, and, at our suggestion, I the snake first taken in the morning was selected fn- the en counter. The mouth of the vessel in which he was enclosed was placed under the edge of the coop, and the coveri •ng sud denly withdrawn. In a moment after the cobra capella darted out. The kedgeree-pot was then taken away, and the edges of the pheasantry let down. During two or three minutes the monster Coked his nose all round the enclosure, evidently I wishing to escape ; hut, finding this impossible, he quietly coiled himself up, freeing, however, hi s magnificent head from the folds, and remained in a sort of listening attitude. Presently the man produced the mungooze, and let him in to his adversary. Never was I more surprised. This was the first time I had seen one. I had expected to behold a some what powerful opponent. Never could I shave fancied that so small an animal would have dared to cope with serpents of the largest and deadliest kind; such, however, was the case. 'ihe little creature which now sniffed round the edge of the AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. More than half this number is taken up with Mr. Ains worth's tale of the " Miser's Daughter," which figures in all the glory of large type. in order that its merits may be set off to the best advantage. This is a fashion of recent date among the monthly periodicals, and is one more honoured in the breach than the observance. Let each article stand on its own deserts, and be left to make its own way with the public, instead of being indirectly puffed, through the artful medium of large, showy print.. Mr. Ainswortlee story needs no such help to popularity, for it is really very clever, and would be read with inte rest, even were it not printed in a more conspicuous type than the rest of the articles. The scene where the Miser is discovered burying his treasure in the earth, is power fully written ; and we like it the more, that there is no visible effort made to produce effect. The sketch of Rene high, as it existed in the year 1740, is not less striking ; and the account of the duel in Tothill•fields, between Randulph and Beau Villiers, reminds us, in some of its minute, characteristic touches, of the free and easy play of Steele in the Tatler. This is high praise, but it is not unmerited. The " Songs of Italy" is a very so-so paper. A much abler essay on the same subject appeared in Bentley's Miscellany some months since. " Mary O'Brien" is from the pen of Lady Harriette D'Orsay, and will please, by reason of its touching and unaffected sim plicity. The " Angel of the Flowers" displays more botanical knowledge than _poetical ability. The " Co quette's Week" is a whimsical journal of seven days' conquests, supposed to be penned by a fashionable flirt. Some of the hits are very pointed, and will be appre ciated at the West-end--that paradise of coquettes. " A Viiion of Coventry" is an ingenious idea, ingeniously wrought out. The " General Cemetery at Kensal green" is ian exceedingly interesting article, wherein a minute description is given of the different tombs and mausoleums in this picturesque place of interment. We have long projected a summer afternoon's visit to this cemetery, if only to see the last resting-place of Doctor Valpy—one of the most liberal and enlightened of men. and sincerest of Christians. Besides, there is nothing like a quiet evening's stroll through such a scene, to calm the spirit, and teach us to set a just value—and no more—on existence. Do we toil after wealth and ela tion ? Here, about us—each tomb speaking eloquently and directly to the heart—lie the results of all 'worldly toil I- Nut a heap of ashes in this newly-erected cemetery but, ten years since, was informed by a living spirit, alternately elated or depressed by fortune's smiles or frowns. But their day is past—their sun is set—and oven while we stand musing beside the graves of the '•departed, our sun, too, is verging on its decline. Thoughts like these are useful, not as inducing melancholy, but as tending to trim the mental balance, and impart an equable tone to the spirits. To appreciate Life pro perly, it is necessary at times to keep Death in view ; and where can he assume a more cheerful and benign aspect, than in this sylvan field of sepulture, where no sound strikes the ear—no sight meets the eye, but such as conduce to peace and con tentment ? The Report of the " Twelfth Meeting of the British Association at Manchester" is as dry as a ship biscuit. "A Gossip about England's Helicon" is a tasteful critical paper by Mr. Robert Bell. This gentle man—if we may judge from the tenor of his criticism— is an ardent admirer of the writers of the Elizabethan age ; a race of giants, certainly, but, with the exception of Shakspeare, Jonson, and one or two other luminaries, rule, clumsy, and of very ogre-like proportions. Who can read the vigorous, saturnine Webster, without find ing something to shock his taste and judgment in every page ? Ford's "Broken Heart" is deservedly admired for its frequent bursts of passion and tenderness e but Was there ever such a preposterous denouement? Cyril Tourneur's " Revenger's Tragedy," where a lover is represented making a long complimentary address to the skull of his dead lady—what an object for love to linger on with admiration I--is, if possible, still more ridicu lous and revolting. We admire the E izabethan writers, but ours is a qualified admiration ; we protest against enthusiasm in such a cause: The " Shrift on the Raft" is an impressive story. The hero, Count de Burigny, has been wrecked off Norway, in the ship Drontheim. Unknown to himself, his daughter was in the same vessel when she foundered, and the Count is almost the only one of the crew who escapes. After swimming about for some hours, he encounters a raft whereon a priest is sitting, who had also managed to effect his escape, and assists the Count to climb up the sides of the raft. The following scene then takes place, from which it would seem that the priest was no other than the Devil himself disguised in the decorous attire of a cler gyman I— ' The Priest made no reply, but pointed to the water. A sudden and wondrous change had taken place upon its surface. In lieu of the foaming and dashing billows, the sea had become ca'm as a mountain lake. The roar of the waves was hushed, but in its stead, had arisen a low, droning, and distant sound, which brought with it a fear the wind owned, but could not explain. The raft had hitherto been carried swiftly along, but its speed was now increasing tenfold. The consternation of the Count became evident, but to all his exclamations the Priest gave no answer. That strange droning sound grew gradually louder, but the ear struggled in vain to discover how it was composed. Still the raft hurried on with lightning speed. Darkness was all around it, save the bright red gleam of the Priest's lamp. Suddenly the thought of his daughter recrossed the Count's brain. He gasped—for the swiftness of their course now ren dered speaking difficult— " Father I I implore you, what know you of Eugenia?" Once more the Priest pointed silently to the water, and as the Count's eye followed the motion, he beheld a form whirling by his side in a current, the intense fierceness of which ren dered its surface smooth as glass. There was the corpse of a pale and beautiful girl, lovely even in death. Long and golden •locks clustered around her neck and shoulders, but the locks were wet and tangled, and the alabaster skin was becoming blue with exposure to the water. The eyes were elosed—it was well they were so. That form was following the rift, but the increasing velocity of the latter left the corpse behind in moment;—that moment had sufficed for a father to recog nise his daughter. He uttered no word, but gazed steadily at the Priest. The terrible and indescribable sound had now increased to a' roar, which would have rendered the voice inaudible at the shortest distance. The speed of the raft was now terrific ; yet it neither swerved nor swayed, and the Priest sat unmoved, re turning the stupified gaze of the Count I Suddenly one side of the raft became depressed, and in that position it continued its furious career. The roar had now become more hideous than any noise which can he conceived, and yet it was of a Rat ure that bailed the ear. The Priest rose slowly to hie feet, and preserving his balance, apparently unconscious of the frightful slope of the hurrying raft, he leaned to De Burigny, and in a low tone, which, in spite of the horrible noise around, earrivd the full meaning of its words to the Count's under standing, said— " We are in the Maelstrom !" They were indeed in that dreadful whirlpool—the most awful abyss which disfigures the face of creation. That hideous roar, so strange and so appalling, was the sound of the waters which whirl and rage in the unfathomable gulf. Louder and louder still it waxed, until the ear could bear no addition to the noise, and faster and faster flew the raft, but every instant it went deeper down the vertex. The wretched be Burigny struggled with die cord which held him to the raft, and sought to break from it in vain; The link - which he had demanded when exertion would have saved him, was now the means of dragging him more surely to destruction. For one instant he looked upwards, and, to his horror, beheld the red light of the lamp, reflected on a sloping wall of raging waters, rising a hundred yards above him, down the side of which he was hurrying to an abyss on which he dared give no glance. Then his eye turned to the raft—there was no one upon it ; but in the maddening agony of that moment De Burigny heard, ac companied by a hellish laugh, the words—" The Priest's dues for thy shrift, arc paid I" The next instant, the cords gave ways, the raft shot violently forwards, and De Burigny was alone—in the Maelstrom. FILISER'S MAGAZINE. The author of an essay on the ",Characters of celebrated Authors, Ancient and Modern," which stands first in the present Number, while discussing the qualities of Poly bius as a historian, alludes incidentally to Xenophon, of whom he remarks that "we always seem to taste the honey of the Attic bee in his flowery page. Vehemence and passion are unsuited to his gentle nature ; there is sweetness even in his fire. It is the lightning tin the aromatic shade ; perfume and flame intermingled." We do not exactly understand the meaning of this last sen tence, or how it applies to the style of the " A nabasis" and " Cyroixedia," but we suppose the essayist means to say that Xenophon is deficient in strength, and that his man ner is uniformly placid and equable. Vigour is certainly not his chief characteristic ; but he has occasional pas • sages of uncommon spirit, as all must acknowledge who have the slightest recollection of his episode of I'anthea, which is quite as remarkable for its vigorous, as for its pathetic qualities. There are some spirited touches, too, in his account of the death of Cyrus ; and his well known allegory of the " Choice of Hercules," is as manly in its style as in its sentiment. With young scholars Xenophon is always a favourite, for the ease, the clear ness, and the unaffected simplicity of his style, which, as Quintilian justly observes, " seems as though it had been fashioned by the Graces themselves." Of Polvbius, whom the Essayist praises with much animation, ne can say nothing, for we do not happen to be acquainted with his history. In the " Illustrations of Alirabeau," there is a eulogistic memoir of the father of the famous leader of the French Revolution. The author makes out his case with great ingenuity, and dis creetly deals in generalities, when alluding to the elder Mirabeau's persecution of his scape-grace son, being well aware, apparently, that thw subject will not admit of a close investigation. The lett. e•de•eachet which the father caused - to be issued against the son, is a proof of his vindictive nature, the force of which no special plead- ing can diminish. The " Two Victories" is a tale founded on the first civil war in La Vendee, of which Madame de ' . la Roche jaquelin has written! such an inte resting account. The writer has not made so much of his theme as might have been expected, considering the materials he had to work with. " British Popular Vaga ries" describes in an arch, sarcastic manner, some of the recent follies of which John Bull has been guilty—such for iaitance, as his sudden admiration of the late _Rev. Mr. Irving, without a why or a wherefore ; and his pre sent patronage of the hydropathic system and its pro fessors. Honest John generally makes an ass of him self, once every four or five years. Sometimes his folly takes a moral turn, and then a Byron must be sacri ficed to it ; another time, nothing will catch his atten tion but some astounding quackery, and then a St. John Long must be his idol. Now he is a Methodist, and now a Pusepte ; to-day a Whig, to morrow a Tory; but it is remarkable that he never fails, in his lucid inter vi,ls, to abuse all whom he has petted during his halluci nation. We quote front Nimrod's " Life and Times" a graphic portrait of the late Bishop Butler, Head -master of Shrewsbury School, and who was a contemporary with Nimrod at Rugby : ‘‘ But a word touching Bishop Butler. I slept four years in the same room with this learned man, when he was in the upper school and I in the lower; but how he became so learned I am unable to say, unless it were that he was what is called a heaven-born genius at Rugby ; and, which I believe was the case, read very hard at Cambridge, where he carried all before him. I can only vay this, that as far as school -reading or studying was concerned, an apparently idler fellow wino _ . scarcely be found at Rugby. In the first place he was a great fisherman, in the season, which lasted three parts of the year in the Avon, and a great reader of novels and plays. Hew then did he acquire the reputation of being the best scholar in the school; and how was it that ' Play for Butler' (1. e. a whole holiday for the be-t exercise of the week) was oftener proclaimed for him than for any other boy? I cannot answer the question; but this I know, that awaking in the morning, he bid me or sonic other boy fetch him half a sheet of paper; and, taking a novel or book of plays—often Shakspeare, of course—from under his pillow, he would write his exercise off hand; and which, whether in prose or in verse, Greek, Latin, or English, was almost certain to be the best of the day. Then I was given to understand that his proceedings at lesson were mull after this form :—He would ask the place, say a portion of a Greek play ; look out a few words - in the lexicon, shut the book, take a novel out of his pocket, and await the chance of his being called up. If he were called up, his author was beauti fully displayed by him ; and when others were up,' James would often appeal to him for his interpretation of a passage. In fact James was proud of his scholar, which he well might have been. " Alas ! there are no pictures without shades. Butler was most unpopular in the school. In fact, partly because he was the son of a small shopkeeper in the small but beautiful village of Kenilworth, and at Rugby as a foundation boy; and partly on account of his churlish temper, we of the same boarding hcuse voted him nothing better than a snob, and tT meanness of his personal appearance gave a colour to our proceedings. Never would he offer to do us a verse or two, or construe us over; but be would sit with his elbow on his knee, and his face resting on one hand and a book in the other, for hours to gether, and never open his mouth. My brother was near him in the school, but I seldom heard them exchange a word ; and, it will be remembered, a good deal of the boy appeared in the man. When he first commenced schoolmaster, he thrashed his boys so much as to injure the school, and indeed nothing but his high literary reputation would have re-established its good name.' He, however, wisely profited by the hint given him by parents, that their children were not to be made vic tims of his spleen. The quern Jupiter odit pedagogum facit was at this time verified ; for the master of Shrewsbury school was then hated as much as he was afterwards liked by the ge nerality of his scholars, his conduct towards them having under gone a great change." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. In a diverting tale, with the ad captandarn title of the " Grimsby Ghost," Mr. Hood thus whimsically discus ses the theory of apparitions. " Ghosts be hanged ! No such things in nature; all laid long ago, before the wood pavement. What should they come for ? The colliers may rise for higher wages, and the Chartists may rise for Reform, and Joseph Sturge may rise for his health, and bread may rise, and the rising generation may rise; but that the dead should rise only to make one's hair rise, is more than I can credit. Suppose yourself a ghost. Well, if you come out of your.grave to serve a friend, how are you to help him ? And if its an enemy, what's the use of appearing to him, if you can't pitch into him ?" This is excellent logic, as far as male goblins are concerned, but Mr. Hood forgets that nothing is more likely than tb.at female apparitions should rise and visit their old acquaintance, if only for the purpose of showing off their new dress ! One of the best authenticated ghost stories on record, is that of the wooden Highlander at a tobacconist's in ILA born, who walked up stairs into his owner's bed-room one night, and assured him, on the honour of a gentleman, that he had just had his head knocked oft' by the Marquis of Waterford ! The tobacconist rose in a fright, rushed down stairs, and there, sure enough, was the Highlander, standing at the shop door without his head, which is a proof—as all the old women in the neighbourhood asserted—that the story must have been true ! Mr. Hood relates an anecdote quite as authentic as this—namely, that the figure-head of the ship Bri tannia appeared early one morning to a drunken boat swain, and informed him that the vessel of which she formed a portion, had been wrecked the previous night elf Cape Cod ! Capital stories these to relate by a Christmas fire-side, when. the clock is striking twelve, the wind is howling down the chimney, and coffins are bouncing out of the grate. " Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus" is a series of brief aphoristical remarks, some of which evince much worldly sagacity. The uuthor is Mr. Horace Smith, who, unlike Swift and Rouchefoucault, adopts the most favourable views of humanity in all his observations. Indeed he plainly tells us he is an Opti mist, though not of the Doctor Pangloss school. "Remi niscences of a Medical Student" is a thrilling narrative of a two-fold murder, perpetrated under the most mys terious circumstances. The story exhibits much of that truthful, earnest, matter-of-fact air which arrested the reader's attention so forcibly in Mr. Warren s " Physi cian's Diary." The "Five Incumbents" is an amusing series of sketches of character, in the course of which an anecdote is told of the late Lord Eldon, which—if true, and we see no reason to doubt it—redounds greatly to his credit as a man of feeling and generosity. The pre sent chapters of the " Barnabys in America" are heavy and wire -drawn, with the sole exception of the scene wherein the clever, intriguing widow is represented as reading her manuscript Journal of Travels in the United states, to a party of American slave-owners at New Orleans. This scene, though somewhat caricatured, is full of rich humour. We quote Mr. Hood's quaint sketch of the "Undertaker," which is in the punning, pointed, obsolete manner of old South or Butler : As a Neighbour he is to be shunned. To live opposite to him is to fall under the Evil Eye. Like the Witch that forespeaks other Cattle, he would rot you as soon as look at you if it could be done at a Glance ; but that Magic being out of Date, he con tents himself with choosing the very Spot on the House Front that shall serve for a Hatchment. Thenceforward he watches your going out and your coming in : your rising up and your lying down, and all your Domestic Imports of Drink and Vic tual, so that the Veriest She Gossip in the Perla' is not more familiar with your Modes and Means of Living, nor knurs so certainly , whether the Visiter that calls daily in his Chariot is a mere Friend or a Physician. Also he knows your Age to a Year, and your Height to an Inch, for he hath measured you n ith his Eye for a Coffin, and your Ponderosity to a Pound, erefer of a Church yard for he hath an Interest in th e Dead Wei g ht, and hath so far in quired into your Fortune as to g uess with what Equipage you shall travel, on your last J ourne y . Far, in Professional Curi ositys,shemielsatnruchsly, ly a Pallas to live in view y o Pry. , to dwell near him yard ; but to be within S ound of his Hammerings is to hear the Knocking at Death's D oor. To be Friends with an Undertaker is as i mpossible at to be the Crony of a Crocodile. lie is by Trade a Hypocrite, isWhcrite, and deals of Necessity in Menta l Reservatio ns and uivoques. Thus he drinks to your good Health, but hopes, secretly it will , not endure. lie is glad to find you aro so hearty as t o b e Ap o - I pectic ; and rejoices to see you so stout,—with a short Neck. He bids you beware of your old Gout —and recommends a Quack Doctor. He laments the malignant Fever so prevalent —and wishes you may get it. t Hecompliments y our Com plexion—when it is Blue o Yellow .0 ; admi res your upright Carriage,—and hopes it will break ,. down. -?lshes you Good Day, but means everlasting Night ; and commends his Re spects to your Father and Mother—but hope s you do not honour them. In short, his good Wishes are treacherous ; his Ineui and his Civilities are dangerous; Inqui ries are suspicious; as w en he troffereth the Use of his Coach—or to see you Home. For the rest. he is still at odds with Humanity ; at corstant issue with its Naturalists, and its Philanthi °pins, its Sous, its Counsellors, and its Legislators. For example, he praises the Weather—with the Wind at East ; and rejoices in a wet Spring and Fall, for Death and he reap with one Sickle, and have a good or bad Harvest in common. He objects not to Bones in Bread (being as it were his own Diet), nor to ill Drugs in Beer, nor to Sugar of Lead or arsenical Finings in Wine, nor to ardent Spirits, nor to Interme n t i n Ch urc h es . Neither doth he disco untenance the Sitting on I n f ants; nor the swallowing of Plum S tones ; nor of cold Ices at hot Balls—nor the drinking cf . Embrocations, nay la,;.hath been known to con tend that the wrong Dose was dampshl;ed right one. He approves, con tra the Physicians, of a lends, 1 ; 4 . wet Feet—of a hot Head and cold Extre mities, and his own Countenance to encourage the Natural Small Pox, rather than enc,rage Vaccination— which he calls a fly in g in the Face of Providence. Add to these, a free Trade in Poisons, whereby the Oxalic Crystals may currently become Proxy for the Epso m ones ; and the Salt in cor rosive Sublimate as c ommon as Porridge. To the same • give unto every Cockney a Priv . ] ere to shoot, End he would Taxed e • within ten miles round London, without a Licence, and would never concur in a Fine or Deodand for Fast Driving, except the Vehicle were a Hearse. Thus, whatever the To ' Cry, he runs counter a Heretic in Opinion, and a Hy pinar poerite in Praetiee, as s vhen he pretends to he sorrowful at a Funeral • or, what is wo rse, affects to pity the ill-paid Poor , set I yet lielpeth to screw them down. To conclude, he is a Personage of ill Presage to the House of Life : a Raven on the Chimney Pot—a Deathwatch in the Wainscot—a Winding Sheet in the Candle. To meet with him is ominous, His Looks are sinister; his Dress is lugu- TAIT S MAGAZINE. In the present chapters of Mrs. Gore's " Abednego, the Money-lender," we find many of those light, satirical touches for which this lady's novels have ever been remarkable. Thus, speaking of a West-end Ex- • quisite, she says that he was one "whose notions of the world might have been geographically defined, as bounded on the north by Marylebone—on the south by Lambeth—on the east by St. Martin's-lane—and on the west by Kensington-gardens ;" and observes, of a dull, respectable dinner-party, that "all was as decorous as in the House of Lords, with the bench of Bishops and the Woolsack acting as dead weights on the buoyancy of human nature!" Mrs. Gore should try her hand at comedy. Her fertile invention, and her airy, sparkling, epigrammatic style are happily suited to this department of literat u r e . " T enn y son a Poems" is a favourable—but by no means uncle servedly so—notice of the works of a young and fervid writer, whose genius is not yet sufficiently appreciated. His " Locksley Hall," which we hap pened by chance to meet with a few weeks since, and read through at a sitting with the deepest interest, exhibits vigour—we might almost add—originality of thought, sincere pathos, and alert and vivid fancy. In " Bentham's Table-talk" occurs the following just remark on duelling :—" The man who values himself on his personal courage, independently of the applica tion made of it, values himself on that which is pos sessed in a higher degree by a dog, especially when it is mad." In his earlier years Bentham, it seems, formed an attachment to a lively young girl, to whom he was introduced at the late Marquis of Lansdowne's. The attachment was not returned by the fair object of it; but he retained it through life; and thus addresses her in the eightieth year of his age, nearly sixty years from the period when he first met her at Bowood! There is something exceedingly touching in his language, and in the tenacity with which, through all the changes of time and circumstance, he clung to his first affection :—" I am alive, more than two months advanced in my eightieth year, yet more lively than when you presented me (nearly sixty years ago !) with the flower in the green lane. Since that day not a single one has passed, not to speak of nights, in which you have not engrossed more of my thoughts than I could have wished. I have still the piano forte on which you used to play at Bowood; as an instrument, though no longer useful, it is still curious ; as an article of furniture, not unhandsome ; as a legacy, will you accept it ? I have a ring, with some of my snow-white hair in it, and my profile, which everybody says is like. At my death you will have such another." We quote from the fourth Number of the " Lays of Scottish History" the first portion of a spirited poem on the invasion of Scotland by the Norwegian King Haco, in the year 1263 : From the ancient warrior land Haco, lord of Norway came, Proud of heart; and strong of hand, Scotland's Isles in arms to claim. England, on thy western shore Be not now the 'larum dumb ! Where the Norsemen raged before, Thither Norsemen still may come. Ostmen of Hibernia's Isle, — Ye that Henry's liegemen hate, Bid your mourning widows smile, — Bid your swords for vengeance whet! Late, from Norway's crowded coast, Haco steered his ships afar : Shouted loud his mighty host O'er the deeps of Breydeyar. O'er his ship of oak the gale Stirred the banner's gorgeous fold : Round the prow and snowy sail Mythic dragons shone in gold. Men and ships—how great a baud Through the Hebrid Isles bath gone Crested warriors crowded stand ; • Mail-clad rowers ply them on. 'Gainst him conies no foeman there, But, with aiding ship and sword, Homage paying, quick repair Mona's prince and Isla ' s lord. Who shall meet his vast array ? Hark, the storm is answering ! Will the winds allegiance pay, Or the tempest homage bring ? Wandering in the stormy gloom, Darkling moved the ships, and slow, While the lightning's dart of doom Paled the golden dragon's glow. Vain to Cumray's rocks repair Holy priests with beaded knee ; Vainly rose their chant of prayer— " Miserere, Domine !" Still the waters louder woke, Sweeping o'er each woeful deck ; And the billows, as they broke, Downward crushed the shrieking wreck ; Till the nearer shores of Clyde Saw the mighty navy sail, Rising o'er the surging tide, Stoutly struggling with the gale. ' Soon to land the Norsemen spring, Gathering fast and gathering aye : ' Alexander Scotland's king. Met at Largs the foe's array ! Near and far, with warning horn, Swift the signal beacons flew Hurrying there, from eve to morn, Many a stalwart Scot, and true. Clad in mail from head to heel, Hasted thither knight and lord, But the foremost foeman's steel Rattled on a peasant's sword. SPORTING REVIEW. There are two engravings in the present Sporting Review —one, a portrait of Attila, the winner of the last Derby—a fine, strong, symmetrically formed ani mal ; and the other a cabin sketch on board a steam boat. This last is a highly humourous illustration. As the wind is brisk, and the swell of the sea is con siderable, the passengers are all more or less affected by sea sickness. Some are lying in their berths, others are stretched fall length on the floor in the most desperate stage of the malady ; and to add to their afflictions, the captain, accompanied by the mate, has just entered the cabin to demand each sunerer's pas sage-money ! We can conceive no more pitiable situation than to be called on to draw one's purse-strings, at the very moment when one is labouring under the horrors of sea sickness. it is like heaping calamity on calamity. The letter press department of the Review exhibits a more than ordinary variety. We have some graphic sketches, entitled—" Wild Sports among the Hima layas," a lively account of a " Shark limit," off Curacoa, and some interesting "Recollections of Hungary," by Lord William Lennox. SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT After the most severe and prolonged distress which this country has known in modern times, it gives us heartfelt satisfaction to see a few rays of light break in upon the gloom. It is certain that the fearful stagnation of the last three or four months has been in sorve degree owing to the suspense about the tariff, and to the consequent locking up of some conside rable classes of foreign commodities in bond till the reduced duties came into operation. That event having taken place, sales of goods aro resumed, and the seaports begin to display greater activity. The very favourable weather, also, not only cheers the spirits, but affords substantial ground for hoping that food may become cheaper and more abundant, in which ca,e manufactures and trade cannot fail to receive a stimulus. We wish it were in our power to state that an improvement was already obvious in the condition of the manufacturing dis tricts of Yorkshire, but there appear to be no grounds for such an assertion. All we hear would lead to an opposite conclusion, and this is borne out by the reports of the state of trade during the week at the seats of our staple manufactures —except, perhaps, at Bradford.—Leeds Mercury. 'ell's Life in London of Sunday contained four of their long folio co l umns o f t h e G oo d woo d R ac es, with an Engraving of the Goodwood Cup, designed by Mr. Cotterill, drawn by Mr. Herring, and engraved by Mr. Orrin Small. Bell's Life also gave nearly two folio columns of the Grand Cricket Matches between the Eleven Gentlemen and the Eleven ; the Eton, Harrow, and Winchester Contests; Tile Eight -oared Match of Eton and Westminster; and a full re port of the Pugilistic Affair at Woodstock ketween Maley and Cross. Bel! s Life of July 31 will be kept on sale all the week, at the Office, 170, Strand; the price. 5d3 E FATHR iNIATIIEW.--It is now positively fixed that the celebrated philanthropist, Father Mathew, will visit Glas gow on Monday, the 15th of August. A BAD SUDJECT FOB. MESMERISM.—The boy from the Union-house, ou whom Mr. Taylor failed to produce any mesmeric effect while lecturing in Boston on Wed nesday evening, being asked why he didn't go to slesp, shrewdly answered, " Because I hadn't got my supper." —Stamford Mercury. FRANCE. CHAMBER OF PEERS.-SITTING OF JULY 27. The PRESIDENT took the chair at half-past one o'clock, in the presence of an exceedingly numerous attendances of Noble Peers, who for the most part wore crape on flits left arm. All the officers of the Chamber were in mourn-. ing. The only members of the Cabinet present were thee President of the Council and the Minister of Public lad struc:ion. The President, on taking his seat, called ent Count D'Alton Shee, Count de Beaumont; Count Cholet, and M. Cambaceres, the youngest members present, too act as provisional Secretaries. The first business en-• tered on was the reading of the minutes of the Royal sitting, by M. Cauchy, the Secretary of the Archives oh the Chamber. When the part where the Royal speech. was spoken was arrived at, the Chancellor rose up,. and read the document amidst profound silence. The. reading of the remainder of the minutes. of the. sitting was concluded by the Secretary,. and the. whole was adopted. Letters of excuse were read from several Noble Peers for non-attendance in. consequence of ill health, and a communication. was presented by Marshal Gerard, announcing that. the usual guard of honour, composed of the National. Guard, would do duty at the Chamber during the entire of the session. A Committee was then appointed to verify the claims of Count de Latour-Manbourg, who demanded to be admitted to take his seat in the Chamber. The nomination of the Standing Committees then took. place by ballot, and afterwards the election of the four Secretaries of the Chamber was decided also by ballot. for which office the Duke de Coig,ny, Count Baudrand, Count Simeon, and Franck-Carre were duly appointed.. The President informed the Chamber that ;‘ two grand deputations were to be appointed for the funeral ob sequies of the Duke of Orleans, one- to join the procession from Neuilly on Saturday, and the other to attend the funeral ceremony on the Wednesday following. In place of fourteen, the number generally appointed to be present at the funeral of a Noble Peer, he should recommend that twenty members should be nominated on the present occasion." This was una nimously agreed to, and the two grand deputations were then ballotted for. The Chamber next withdrew to name the members of the Committee of petitions, and those who were to compose the Committee on the ad dress in reply to the speech from the throne. At four o'clock the public sitting was resumed, and the Chancel lor read the names of the Presidents and Vice-Presi dents, Secretaries and Vice-Secretaries of the Statidinr Committees, as well as the names of the Committee on the• address. The latter is composed of the Duke de Broglie„ Count d'Argout, Count Portalis, Count Mole, Baron de' Barante, M. Laplagne-Barris, and M. Viennet. Count Portalts, reporter of the Committee appointed to examine the claims of Count de Latour-Maubourg, declared that the Noble Peer was fully entitled to take his seat in the Chamber. The Chamber adjourned at four o'clock. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.-SITTING OF JULY 27.. M. Lafitte, the senior Member cf the Chamber, took. the chair at twelve o'clock, a great number of Deputies being present. After the nomination of the Standing. Committees and other preliminary business, the Depu ties retired to organise their Standing Committees. The public sitting was resumed at a quarter past three, and letters were read from M. Desjosbert and M. Duvergier de Hauranne, excusing themselves fr.= attendance at present, in consequence of illness. A letter was read from Marshal Gerard to the same effect us that presented to the other Chamber. The President then informed the Chamber that he had received the following official notification :- " Monsieur le President,-I have the honour to in form you, by the King's command, that the removal of the body of the Duke of Orleans, Prince Royal, from: the chapel of Neuilly to the metropolitan church of Paris, will take place on Saturday, July 30, at ten o'clock in the morning. His Majesty desires that a grand Deputation of the Chamber shall accompany the procession. The King also desires that a grand Depu tation of the Chamber shall be present at the funeral service, which is to be celebrated at Notre Dame on Wednesday, August 3, at eleven in the morning. Places: will be reserved in the church for all the Members of the: Chamber. Receive, Monsieur le President, the assuratim of my distinguished consideration. DUCHATEL, Minister of the Interior." The President then was proceeding to appoint, by ballot, the two grand deputationS, when several Mein berS cried out " No, no-the whole Chamber." The. Presid nt informed them that the whole of the Members: might attend, if they pleased, at the funeral ceremony ; but it would in every case be necessary to nominate the deputations as specially charged to represent the Cham ber. The two deputations were then appointed by ballot. The swearing in of members next took place, and upwards of 200 took the oath and their seats. The only incident of this part of the sitting was the report of: M. Dufaure on the election of M. Berryer, for the First Electoral College of tne Bouches du Rhone, wiii.ch document stated that " the election was perfectly re gular, but that . a circumstance occurred at it which, though it had no influence on the election, appeared to be an infraction of the law. An elector, properly in scribed, presented himself in order to vote, and the provi sional bureau refused to permit him, because it believed that he was not a naturalised Frenchman. On the next: day the elector brought forward proofs of his being se, mid his vote was received. The refusal in the first in stance was an abuse of power, and it was now alluded to in order that the Chamber should so express its disap probation as to prevent such an act being renewed." M. Berryer then took the oath. A communication was received by the President from. the Chamber of Peers, informing him that the Upper Chamber hail been definitively constituted in its sitting of that day.-The Chamber adjourned at a quarter past five. The result of the ballot for the monthly bureaux in the Chamber of Deputies, says the Debats, sufficiently proves that the Conservative party has lost nothing of iti strength. In all the bureaux the Conservatives and? the Opposition have proposed their respective candi dates fin. the functions of President and Secretary. The following has been the result :-Ist Bureau 39 votes : M. Dufaure, Conservative, was appointed Presi dent by 34 votes, the other 5 being divided amongst several members of the Oppositiou.-M. Saglio was named Secretary by a majority of 21 votes to 18, given. to' M. Berville.-2d Bureau 43 votes : General Thiars; President, 23, against General Bonnemains, 20 ; M. Etienne, Secretary, 23, against M. Persil, 20.-3 d Bureau 4Q votes : M. Amilhau President, 22, against M. Laffitte, 14, andM.Perrier (de l'Ain) 2, lost 2.-M.de Montesquiou, Secretary, 24, against M. Come, 12, Messrs. Luneau and Lherbette 2, lost 1.-4th Bureau, 40 votes: M. Remusat,. President, '23, against General Brunet 17, M. de Valor), 36, lost 4.-sth Bureau 37 votes : M. Hartmann 23 i against M. ])ucos 12, lost 2.-M. Paul Daru, Secretary„ 26, against M. de Grammont 10, lost 1.--6th Bureaus 43( votes : M. de Salvandy, President, 26, against M. Lepelletier-d'Aunay 12, and M. Sauzet d'Haus sonville, Secretary, 85, against M. Jules de Lesteyrie 13,, K Cremieux 1, and General Oudinot 1.-7th Bureau: 40 votes : M. Croissant, President, 26, against M. Gan neron 13, and M. 'Tiers 1.-M. Chesles, Secretary, 24, against M. Ayhis 12.-Bth Bureau 43 votes : M. Cle ment, President, 26, against M. Odilon Barrot 14 ; three votes were lost.-M. de Sainte Aulaire, Secretary, 26, ' against M. Leon de Malleville 15, and M. de Tocque ville 2.-91 h Bureau 36 votes : M. Vergues, President,. 26, against M. Jaubert 26, lost.-M. Nisard, Secretary,. 28, against M. F. de Lasteyre 4 ; two votes were lost.- The Debats adds-" Of 18 appointments the Conserva tives obtained 14, viz., Messrs. Dufaure, Amilhau, Hart mann, de Salvandy, Croissant, Clement, and Vergues. Presidents ; Messrs. Saglio, de Montsquiou, Dare, d'Haussonville, Chesles, de St. Aulaire, an Nisard, Se cretaries. The Opposition had four appointments, viz.. M. de Remusat and General Thiars, Presidents ; andt Messrs. Etienne and de Valone, Secretaries. The total number of voters was about 362. Taking for basis the nomination of the Presidents and the lost votes, it results that the Conservatives had 229, and the Opposition 129. According to this estimate, the Conservatives had a ma jority of 75, which agrees with what we gave as the re sults of the elections which had reached us." PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON. We have received an autograph letter from Prince Louis Napoleon, dated from the prison at Ilam. Ia justice to the illustrious prisoner we feel bound to lay it• before our readers : TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—l have read in the Morning Post of the 20th of July an extract of a work written by Miss Louisa Cos. tello, in which I remarked these words :—" Prince Louis Napoleon now expiates in that mournful retreat (the Castle of Ham) his breach of honour and mad impru dence." For the last two years that I have been n cap tive I have never noticed the many absurdities advanced respecting my descent at Boulogne. It is useless for the vanquished to submit to discussion the caprice of for tune ; but when my honour as a man is attacked, Ido what lies in my power to defend it ; a pure conscience is all that is left . me. Being convinced that the inten tion of insulting misfortune cannot enter a woman's heart, I beg to subjoin the copy of a letter I wrote on the subject to the Jtntrnal du Peuple on the 9th of De cember last : I never contracted any engagement whatever with the French Government. Five years ago I was set at liberty against my will and without conditions. During nby trial at the Court of Peers, the Attorney-General was obliged to acknowledge it. I never failed in my word, and never will." I have no doubt that the nuthor of " A Pilgrimage to Picardie and Auvergne" •ill regret having added the pain of calumny to the sorrows of captivity. 1 take this opportnnity, Sir, of expressing my thanks for the interest you have often manifested in my behalf, and remain, Sc., NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE. Citadel of Ilam, July 26, 1842. TO CHRISTIAN MINISTERS—A NOBLE EXAMPLB. —We learn from a Correspondent, that the Rev. Dr. Andrew Reed, of Wycliffe Chapel, has gone down on a mission of true philanthropy, to one of the most dis tressed of our manufacturing districts. His intention was made known to his people on Sabbath morning last, and on the Monday he received from the members of his church and congregation the sum of about 1501., which he intends to distribute with his OW n hand. This is not the sympathy of feeling only of which we hear so much, but the generosity of effort worthy of such a people. To the congregations of London we say, go and do likewise. His Excellency Earl de Grey, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and suite; Mr. Justice Pennefather, Captain Acorn*, Captain Osborn, and Sir John Becket took their departure onSustlay alernoon, from the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall,in the General Steam Navigation Company'. steam-skip, fir Antwerp. The G enera l S team N av i gat i on C om p any ' s steam ship Soho arrived at the Brunswick Wharf, on Sunday, from Antwerp, and the Rainbow at seven this morning, from the same place. The Columbine mail packet, from Rotterdam, landed her passengers, Sce., at the same wharf. She brought Over a Lumber of oxen. '1 1