The Sun. — London, England, 1856-02-18 00:00:00

of fat et, on Larket MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLoeK. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed at the extreme rates of Friday, but with more activity ; speculators anticipating a better demand next week from a rise of prices in the United States' markets on the peace news. The sales were estimated at between 8,000 and 9,000 bales (2,000 for export and 1,000 on speculation), comprising 230 Pernam and Maranham, 6d. to 6ad. ; 100 Bahia, 6d. to 6 d. ; 400 Egyptian, 6d. to 92d. ; and 2,000 Surats, at 4d. to 42d. The Railway Share Market was quiet, and quotations were rather easier than on Friday. Accounts from Egypt mention that the crops this season are particularly good, in consequence of the abundant flow of water from the Nile upon the agricultural lands. During last season the Government was afraid of a dearth in the country, and prohibted the export of grain for a short time. This caused them, on the subsiding of the waters in November, to encourage the husband men to extend their plantations this season, and now that the crops are far on in ear, it is calculated that there will be 3,000,000 hectolitres of grain and cereals of all kinds over and above the consumption of the country, so that Egypt is likely to export largely during the present year. This circumstance, with the probable opening of the Russian ports in the Black Sea, will tend to keep down the price of grain at Marseilles and other markets on the shores of the Mediterranean, even should the present tendency to rise in the Western continental grain markets continue. Advices from Panama state that the Golden Gate had arrived at that port from California with 1,976,928 dollars of bullion. The most satisfactory accounts have been received from the gold fields. There has been an abundant supply of water, and consequently plenty of work; and a large yield is expected. In the agricultural operations of the States the results are likewise cheering. Not only are the farmers able to grow sufficient wheat for home consumption, but there has been an export to Australia and New York during the past year. The total quantity raised in the State in 1855 was 3,525,444 barrels, and the export was equivalent to 142,566 barrels. The export of gold during the same period was valued at 45,182,631 do!lars ; and of ether exports, including quicksilver, 4,189,611 dollars. By telegraph from Liverpool it is announced that the American steam packet Africa has arrived in the Mersey, with 310,000 doll. in specie, and ad vices from New York to the 6th inst. The English Stock Market has been quiet but steady, at about the closing prices of Saturday. The particulars of the new loan have been awaited with considerable anxiety, and 'the speculators have naturally been undecided how to operate. Consols for money have been 90i 1 to 904 and 904 to 9041 I for account ; but they now rule at 90f to 901 for the former, and 901 to 90i for the latter. The New Three per Cents. are 91i to 91i, and the Reduced Annuities 954 to ; Exchequer-bills are ss. and 2s. discount. Foreign Securities are heavy at the following quotations, with very little business doing. Turk ish 6 per Cents. 93 to Ditto t per Cent. Gua ranteed Stock 1004. Mexican 20g. Spanish 3 per Cents. 424. Venezuela 41 per Cent. 28& 291. The Committee of South American Bondholders have received a further remittance of 2,0151. 18s. 10d. on account of the Equadorian divi dends. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stoeks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 617;#; Mexican, 24j ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 54 56 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 4 per Cents., 92 94 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 42k ; ditto Deferred, 231 f ; ditto Certificates, 41 5 ; ditto Passive, 61 I. Railway Shares are lower than the closing quo tations on Saturday. Great Western, ss. to 10s. less; London and North-Western, 55., and Mid land ss. ; Great Western of Canada continues firm, and Great Luxembourg are inclining Upwards. In Miscellaneous Shares there is scarcely any business doing, and prices are nominal. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.--CLOSING PRICES. ( From the Official List. Tingines , done. Bank Stock 3 per cent. Iledzced Annuities. 3 per Cent Console Annuities 904 y 1 Now 3 per Cent. Annuities ......... 911 3 6 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 36 Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1585... iti 11-16 India Stock 225 6 3 Consols for Account Borchequer Bills, 26d. _ £lO6O . - .... ~. £560 1 %all par Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i por Cent — Ditto, 1859 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cont. — Ditto Small Equatior Bonds Grenada New Active, 1i per Cent. Ditto Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. - __.. Ditto Account . Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St lO5 15 P ,, ish Bowie, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account 42. 1 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. _— _ _ _ . . Ditto Recount Turkit s h Bonds, 6 per cent l)3 Ditto Aeconnt Ditto Small 9 3 3 / 4- Ditto Guaranteed. 4 per Cent lOO .1 k Vonezucla Bonds, 41 per Cent Ditto Deferred, 13 per Cent. .. l2 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Routes, 4k per Cent. - Ditto 3 per Cent 74f 75c ex 25f 30e Dutch Exchange, 2k per Cent., 12 Gull ... 634 THREE O'CLOCK. C meolP money Ditto Account, March 11... ..... The market rather excited. THE LONDON ORNERAL OMNIBUS COMPANY. This new company exhibited on Saturday, for the first time, at its offices, 454, Strand, the designs for warded in competition for a prize of 1001., to be awarded to the best plan of vehicle adapted to its traffic. The judges selected to decide the prize are Mr. Charles Manhy, Mr. George Godwin, and Mr. J. Wright, car riage builder to the London and North-Western Railway. These gentlemen have not yet determined which is the successful design, but their choice seems to rest between two—one sent in by Mr. R. F. Miller, the other by Mr. Wilson. Both present considerable improvements on the best forms of omnibus now in use, but whether they fulfil all the conditions requisite for a esnveyance of the kind can scarcely be ascertained except by practical trial. What is required for the proper accommodation of the public is clearly defined by the company under the following beads :—lncreased height and width in side, improved ventilation, 17 inches straight seat for each passenger, with room for 20-12 inside and 8 out Side; easier means of access to the roof seats, greater Protection there to passengers, reduced noise in motion, the weight of the whole not to exceed one ton, and the present outside width not to be materially ex ceeded: The General Omnibus Company, in directing its attention thus early to the essential point of securing vehicles in which people can travel with a moderate de gree of 'comfort, is unquestionably consulting its own best laterests as well as those of the public ; and not withstanding the difficulties which the narrow streets of London, overburdened with traffic, interpose, we hope to see its efforts in this direction crowned with success. Of the 810 omnibuses running in the metropolis it has now bought up 326, which require some 3,500 horses and upwards of one thousand men to work them. Some time will probably elapse before the system of "correspondence " and the other leading features of the scheme proposed by the company can be introduced. Meanwhile, it publishes,its traffic returns weekly, and boasts that they exceed ih amount those of three-fourths of the railways in the united kingdom. What suits the wants of the French metropolis may not in every detail be found to answer for London, but there seems to be no good reason assignable why, with prudent arrange ments, all parties directly or indirectly affected by this undertaking should not find themselves benefitted by a concentration of management, admitting of plans being eeemomieally carried o ut en a scale suitable to the wants of the modern Babylon. While the omnibuses Wire in the hands of a number of different proprie tere, each having a practical monopoly of some out side district of town, and all fiercely competing for cus , t"ners in the centre, this was obviously impossible. The public, too, will be gainers by having one responsi ble body to deal with, instead of many, when abuses require to be rectified or increased accommodation is demanded. It will be curious and interesting to watch lhe progr ess o f thi s ne w experiment introd uce d from eaece, worked for the most part with French capital, znd - carried on simultaneously as a commercial enter , • P r iee'with that other development of the same principle „Which is embodied in the creation of the Motropolita n . 40 oard of Works. I. 4. 4 10 5 4 6 0 4 2 4 10 28 0 28 0 sheer. aalveo, ntinue ement L hope• kinds n ports 2 from v cwt ; by rnil - 7cl ten- 1 0 ., 70a 0 708 70a to roof 1d to 1 0 a 2d to s 2d to 1, is td I prices le d !' are 1 2 8 448 168 3 " $4B 605 --8 7 3 s 805 —8 _; le 13 1 SS )s 13' VA 45 V 56 2.8 s 905 pecula -01 130 s Per 185 6 . 23. 11 1 60d 0 ' ,„__ 6 od 931 83 .947 582 60,522 6cl L ITERATURE. JONATHAN FREKE SLINGSBY. Poems. By John Francis Waller, LL.D. James 111‘Glashan. Have you heard of J. F. Slingsby, Slingsby of the manly chest, How he slays the snapping Turtles, In the regions of the West?- reading, for the "snapping turtles" of Bon Gaultier, all literary impostors, and for " the regions of the West," Ireland. Of course—every body who is anybody has heard of him. Every, body has, of course, heard of Jonathan Freke Slingsby—bas read him—has laughed over his ex hilarating drolleries, and sighed over his amiable sentimentalism. Every one who has an eye for fun and frolic, for the humorous and the poetical, knows almost by heart the " Slingsby Papers"— the contributions of Jonathan Freke to the Maga of Dublin—himself its Christopher North, and Timothy Tickler, and Irish Shepherd, all rolled into one ! Has he not long been its editor ? is he not still its editor ? the best editor the Hiber nian Maga has had since the harum-scarum, rol licking reign of one Captain Harry Lorrequer ! Don't we all count, as upon a thing of course, upon our finding, month after month, in the pages of the clever old Trill. Coll, organ one of those delightful effusions, half pathetic verse, half humorous prose, by the penning of which, Jonathan Freke Slingsby has won for himself his own capital, delightful, pecu liar reputation. Well—here, in this charming little volume of "Poems"—we have him at last in pro prui persona, and no longer in mere masquerade. Ensign Beverley no more, but the veritable Cap tain Absolute. The mask of Mr. Slingsby dropped —we recognise under the hood of the familiar domino, the features of Dr. Waller. The genuine Simon Pure is at length " brought to book" lite rally. It is " out," if in no other way at the end of the work under notice, through the medium of the fly-leaf advertisement. Rice Signum--"By the same Author, THE SLINGSBY PAPERS, &C." All hail ! to Dr. Waller in his own entity therefore, and no longer half hidden by his facetious 113e1G donyin, his fantastic soubriquet, his quaint, queer, odd, ridiculously circumstantial nom de plume— Jonathan Freke Slingsby, eke contributor to, and editor of, the Dublin University Magazine. Dr. Waller, in truth, is to the Dublin University what the famous Dr. Magian, of glorious memory, was, once upon a time, to Eraser's Magazine—a prodigy at once of animal spirits and scholarly accomplish ments. Learned and lively, witty and wise—how shall we say it ? to the height of the ludicrous and the depth of erudition ! Yet forgetting, as we needs must, for awhile, his master-hand in the authorship of the " Papers" by his alter ego J. F. Slingsby—turn we our attention here for a time exclusively to these " Poems" by himself, in his own proper person as J. F. Waller. They aro the natural express of the fruitfulness of his poetic imagination. Not, that is to say, the second and third squeezings of the vat, but the spon taneous running over of the wine of life—poesis —as, in the grape countries, when the vine gatherers collect the first rich streams exuding from the mere weight of the ripe bunches, heaped one upon another in a purple mountain of mellowness ! "Drink deep or taste not the Castalian spring !" It will glide Pleasantly enough we warrant even over the palate of the more fastidious. There is temptation to the quaffing, moreover, even in the very title of one of our author's minor productions c., Bibe Amice de Mu)," suggested by a red clay drinking-cep found at Pompeii, with that alluring inscription around it, and still preserved in the Neapolitan Musee Borbonico. Let us con fess it at once, however —we prefer the sons and the fugitive pieces happily con stituting the bulk of the little volume before us, to semi-Tenny-sonian love tales in verse such as the iirst and longest of the "Poems" in the collection, the one entitled "Ravenscroft Hail." The daintiest, and most delicious, and delectable morsel in which, Dr. Waller must forgive us for saying, is the little fragment quoted in it from the " Talking Oak" of the Lau r e a t e . Quoted, however, in one verse, only to be spoilt (we will believe at once, entirely by a slip of the printer), namely—where it should have been, instead of " A tear-drop trembled from its source And down my surface crept. My sense of touch is somewhat coarse, But I believe she wept." The typographical arrangements of the volume, however, aro here and there by DO means irre proachable. As, for (another) example, where the four lines from the original Italian of Metastasio are given by Dr. Waller as the refrain-motto to his charming translation of the old ecclesiastic's " Hymn to Venus," might surely have been given intact, being (to say the most of it) a quatrain so exceedingly simple and sententious : Scendi propinia, Col tuo splendors, 0 bella Veoere Madre d'Amoro. A. charming translation we repeat this to be, to our thinking, this sweet and dulcifluous version of the melodious and dulcet how a Ven - eie of Metastasio: and yet hardly so much a translation after all as au elaborate paraphrase. Otherwise we should never find developing into such ingenious labyrinths of metaphor and versification, under the anglicising auspices of Dr. Waller, th'at rapid glimpse of the glories of cloudland vouchsafed to us by the Abbate Pietro Metastasio, when he sings A Ventre— Per to le tremule Faci del cielo Dell' ombre squarciatio L'umido Tejo. Or again, where the lovely phantasm of the Pagan goddess is apostrophised by the Christian priest in the courtly phrases of Parnassus— Vien dal tuo spirito Dolce e fecondo CR. the d'arnabile Racchiude it mondo. Enough, however, in the way of what might, if further insisted on, lie at once objected to, not un reasonably, as hypercritical fastidiousness in regard to an English version of Metastasio, which, if not a strictly accurate translation, is at any rate a very graceful paraphrase. Several of the " Songs" given in an earlier portion of the volume we aro not at all surprised to observe have been already set to music by different composers. Harmonious lyrics as they are, for the most part suggestive of melody and instrumental accompani ment. Witness this Dr. Waller's exquisite ditty, entitled, tenderly, Cushle-mo-chrec, otherwise— PULSE or MY HEART. By the green banks of Shannon I wooed thee, dear Mary, When the sweet birds were singin g i n summer ' s ga ; prides From those green banks I turn now, heart-broken and dreary, As the sun sets, to weep o'er the grave of my bride. Idly the sweet birds around me are singing, Summer like winter is cheerless to me ; I heed not if snow falls, or flow'rets are springing, For my heart's light is darkened, my Cushle-mo-eltreel Oh ! bright shone the morning when first as my bride, love, Thy foot, like a sunbeam, my threshold crossed o'er, lanai blest on our hearth fell that soft eventide, love, When first on my bosom thy heart lay, asehore 1 Restlessly now, on my lone pillow turning, Wear the night-watches, still thinking on thee ; And darker than night breaks the light of the morning, For my aching eyes find thee not, Cushle•mo-chree! 0 my loved one ! my lost one ! say, why didet thou leave me • To linger on earth with my heart in thy grave ! ' Oh ! would thy cold a r ms, love, might ope to receive me To my rest neath the dark boughs that over thee wave. Still from my once happy dwelling I roam, love, Evermore seeking, my own bride, for thee ; Ab, Mary ! wherever thou art is my home, love, And I'll soon lie beside thee, my Cush,lemu, chile ! Another charming lyric is "The First Cuckoo of Spring," with its constantly recurring Cuckoo ! Cuckoo ! chiming in softly with the rhythmic ca dence of the stanzas. What, however, can we say of the " Spinning Wheel Song ?" What but that in the daring identity of its theme and in the rash resemblance of its execution, it appears to our wondering observation an act of. poetical audacity after the matchless Chanson, of •Beranger—" La Mere Aveugle." It is evident repeatedly to us, while turning over the pages of his graceful volume of "Poems," that Dr. Waller is endowed with a peculiar aptitude for discovering the poetry lying perdu for the million in old ni s a a y yi b n e g , s—ap some h o o f ri t s h m em s , a i s f t o h ld ey a h s ap th p e en h t i o lls h , av o a r cooldmeer'down to us from our antediluvian progeni tors. Thus at one moment we find him celebrating " Laborare est Orare "—the dictum was it not of the good, and wise, and grand old Tertullian At iA.velintluies_soynoonfdMeraa another we listen to him while he sings a pensive commentary in verse upon " The Remembrance of homet ! Again, Youth is a Sigh"—hthe l sa le yi n n e g t o g f lyrical illustration of "Welcome as Flowers in May," and yonder another to the fanciful thought "There's a lining of silver to every Cloud ?" In his "Song of the Earth," too, has he not given most persuasive voice to the maternal orb addressed so lovingly, and reverently, and wondrously in those divine hexameters of Coleridge-- " Bride and Consort of Heaven that looks down upon thee enamoured ! - Say, mysterious Earth ! 0 say, great mother and goddess, Was it not well with thee, then, when first tby lap was uagirdle Thy lap to the genial Heaven, the day that he wooed thee and won thee THE EON, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRLT ARY 18, 1856, Fair was thy blush, the fairest and first of the blushes of morning ! Deep was thy shudder, 0 Earth ! the throe of thy self-retention : luly thou strnvest to flee, and didt seek thyself at thy centre ! Mightier far was the joy of thy sudden resilience ; and forth with Myriad myriads of lives teemed forth from the mighty embracement." In vary truth—the poetical apotheosis at once of animated nature and of the principle of gravita tion ! And to the Earth, the maternal Earth, thus addressed by Samuel Coleridge, Dr. Waller gives a voice of song, a voice of irresistible and melliflu ous allurement. Conspicuous among his charming and thoroughly national love-ditties, must be in stanced the very beautiful one suggested by the old Irish phrase of tenderness, sweet to the ears of Celtic maiden as the sound of the Cushle-mo-three, or of the familiar asthore, or of the accustomed mavourneen, the poetic adjuration " DANCE LIGHT, for my heart it lies under your feet, love How sings Dr. Waller to the tune of 'that old phrase of the master passion, on the lips time out of mind of his emotional fellow-countrymen—whispered at twilight in the green lane, and by the brook side, and at the meadow-gate ? How singe he to the dear old phrase of tender and honeyed blarney— How does he sing to it ? Listen ! DAYCE I subtle and refined sense of the euphonious ' • where we find him singing, as it were through his teeth— " What dire offence from amorous causes springs, What mighty contests rise from trivial things, I sing, &c." Enough, however—the accuracy of our exception to the frequent misuse of " forgot" by Dr. Mackay in his recent volume we must here insist upon ex plicitly. Pardoned it might be—once—in submis sion to the despotic power accruing to the poet from his vaunted prerogative of unlimited and irresponsible licence in metrical composition. Re curring again and again —it must be heartily pro tested against as a wanton violation of the sanctity of the beautiful and symmetrical code of the gram marians ! Comic writers of verse can alone hope to enjoy the singular privilege of so writing with anything` impunity. Rading their oddities of thought and freaks of syntax, we can, of course, " grin and bear it " complacently enough. As where Cowper sings to us in his diverting ballad of " John Gilpin," in the voice of a rhyming punchi nello— in its lavishness because it has not the defence of poverty—or than the vulgar impertinence of its poor waning satellites, which merely illustrate the say ing of Franklin that it is difficult for an empty sack to stand upright. I only ask them to show the underatrappers of criticism that betterness and pun gency and point, and" the most telling critical dissection, are not inconsistent with good language ; and I should prefer that they would add the further illustration that severity is not incompatible with that courtesy which one gentleman thinks it for his own dignity to observe towards another. And now, having filled my space, "Heigh ! Presto ! Begone ! " I dismiss my critical assemblage. Our contemporaries are quite able to take care of themselves ; and we shall be amused to see how their " north side batteries " will return the fire from the "inside of Sebastopol." THE LOSS OF THE POLYPHEMUS. Safety of the Missing Portion of the Crew. " My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three, Will fill the chaise ; so you must ride On horseback after we." But a poet at once didactic, serious, and senti mental—must expect no mercy at all, either for a false quantity or a flaw in grammatical construc tion. Au unconditional forgiveness upon the score of "poetical licence," may, we repeat, be accorded once—but, demanded again and again, the plea be comes inadmissible, the fault proves unpardonable, the double crime against good taste and good grammar seems absolutely to require a protest in the way of wholesome expiation. For the fervour of this protest the critic is no more responsible than the muscles of his face are responsible for screwing themselves into knots under the acid influence of the sourest of green gooseberries —or his teeth for presuming to be set on edge by the biting of a piece of flannel—or his every sense for being jarred into anguish under the scroop of a rusty nail drawn across a slate perpendicularly. Against the of fender, whoever be may be, we for one must needs cry out agonisedly—oven though we may recog nise in him, through our profound admiration, the glorious genius of a Campbell, or a Burns, or a Byron, or a Shakspere. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 18. The following intelligence has this day been re ceived at this office from H.M. Consul-General at Hamburg : " I have groat satisfaction in reporting that the Quartermaster, Samuel Fletcher, and 15 seamen of the late Polyphemus, who were in the two boats, have been saved by a Danish vessel, and have just arrived from Hgerting. They will go in charge of the chief engineer, Mr. Wood, with the other men to London this evening. " Ah, sweet Kitty Neil, rise up from that wheel— Your neat little foot will he weary from spinning ; Come trip down with me to the sycamore tree, Half the parish is there, and the dance is heginning. The sun is gone down, but the full harvest moon Shines sweetly and cool on the dew-whitened valley; While all the air rings with the soft loving things, Each little bird sings in the green shaded alley. With a blush and a smile, Kitty rose np the while, Her eye in the glass, as he bound her hair, glancing ; 'Tis hard to refuse when a young lover sues— So she couldn't but chows to—ge off to the dancing. And now on the green, the glad groups are seen - Each gay-hearted lad with the lass of his choosing ; And Pat, without fail, leads out sweet Kitty Neil— Somehow, when he asked, she ne'er thought of refusing. Now, Felix Magee puts the pipes to his knee, And with flourish so free sets each couple in motion • With a cheer and a belied, the lads patter the ground— The maids move around just like swans on the ocean. Cheeks bright as the rose—feet light as the doe's, Now coyly retiring, now boldly advancing— Search the world all round, from the sky to the ground, No such. sight can be found as an Irish, lass dancing. Sweet Kate I who could view your eyes of deep blue, Beaming hurriedly through their dark lashes so mildly, - Voir fair-turned arm, heaving breast, rounded form, Nor feel his heart warm, and his pulses throb wildly. Young Pat feels his heart, as he gazes, depart, Subdued by the smart of such painful yet sweet love, The sight leaves his eye, as he cries with a sigh, Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love!'" William Allingliam, one of the most gifted and genuinely poetical among Dr. Waller's fellow countrymen and contemporaries, William Ailing ham, author of "The Music MAster," and of the " Day and Night Songs," has chaunted a lay of Irish Love, wonderfully like this in spirit aid in character. We mean the song sold, far and wide about Ireland, as "a ha'penny ballad," the quaint, charming, delightful song of "Lovely Mary Don nelly !" Who does not remember it that has once read it. With it's— " . . . Mary kept the belt of lova, and 0 bat she was gay ! She danced a jig, she sang a song, that took my heart away." LAW INTELLIGENCE --(This Day.) COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Guildhall at Nisi Prius. (Before Lord Chief Baron Pollock, and a Special, Jury. WATEINSON V. RONALD. This was an action brought to recover of the defen dant, one of the directors of the Australian Freehold Gold Mining Company, the amount of the deposit paid by the plaintiff on a number of shares in the above company, on the pleas of alleged fraud and no consi deration. The affairs of this company have already bean the subject of investigation in the Court of Chancery. It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff that, in January, 1852, he was induced, from a perusal of the company's prospectus, to believe that this was a bona fide concern, and that it was a golden opportunity of speedily becoming rich, without the risk, labour, and anxiety of a trip to the gold diggings. He consequently applied to a sharebroker of Halifax for one hundred shares. In due oeurse he received the allotment, paid 301. on account, and received scrip to that amount, purporting to come from the company. The prospectus stated, that the capital of the company was to consist of 100,0001., in shares of 11. each, and the undertaking to be worked on the cost-book principle, and each shareholder to be liable only t• the amount he subscribed for. The mine was stated to be situate on 500 acres of freeholdland, abotinding with quartz. The plaintiff had neither heard anything of the proceedings of the company nor seen any person connected with it from that time till about four months since, when his attention was attracted to it by something which he read in a newspaper. The Attorney-General, who appeared for the defen dant, took objection to the admission of certain letters purporting to be signed by W. Pulsford, secretary of the company, on the ground that the directors of a com pany were not liable for the contents of letters written by their secretary without ho first obtained their autho rity to do so, proof of which ,it was necessary for the plaintiff to give. The case was proceeding when our report left. INSIDE S.EBASTOPOL " AND THE C.RITICS." We noticed this handsome volume some weeks since with a qualified approbation ; and as we then predicted the work has gone to a second edition. The author has taken advantage of this opportunity to run a-muck at all his critics —not very wisely perhaps, but that is his affair. Some people like to read what sharp things can be said in a squabble, so we extract the rejoinder of this " Civilian." " Inside Sebastopol" ought to have been a God-send to the writers instructed to cut it up. It was jotted down in note-books, with a pencil, while I was thinking more of the scenes before me than of the rules of compo sition. More of the Res geetze reguraque, dneutaque, et; 'idle belle than of the Quo scribi pessent flamer°. In reading it over after it had passed through the press, I was shocked at the number and the absurdity of the "slips" it contained. I had called a shark an anthropomorphous fish. I (or the printer) had filled the steam-boats on the Bosphorus with Muscovites in stead of Muesulruans. I had misquoted Shakspeare. I had twice written Dardanelles instead of Bosphorus. I had called Stafford House Sutherland House. I had writ ten " Piazza del Rotondo," for "Piazza del Rotonda," and " Mount Toro" for " Monte Tauri ;" and I had even committed the unpardonable offence of changing the tense of a verb in a historical Joe Miller, and had there by caused George the Third to reign a year before his proper date. I thcnght of confessing these sins in a catalogue of errata. But then it occurred to me that the small fry of criticism would be bound by their alle giance to Albemarle-street, and the exigencies of their advertisement department, to attack me ; for had I not written evil things of pr.ifitable handbooks? It was like speaking lightly in his own village of the church-warden who distributes the weekly eleemosy nary quartern loaves. Would not every struggling thing which just exists by the favour of the Meceenases who dole forth the pabulum of Grub-street be bound to see in me an enemy ? Would not the goose quills of a score of journeymen be dipped in gall? Would not the word go forth to make an example of the reck less mortal who had ventured upon this sacred ;Ellyn ? It was plain that Grub-street would hoot me. Why, then, should I help those candid gentlemen to a telling article ? Without my assistar.ce they would have no more chance of discovering that anthropomorphous should have been written anthrnpophagous, than they would have of understanding the historical aid classical allusions wherewith, as they dismally complain, my book abounds. But had I given them this is ilex of errors, what an air of grand sreerity would the whole troop of dunces have assumed. Even the isiate critic of the Seetator, who instinctively protests against what he is pleased to call the smartness of these pages, would have been expected to be facetious enough to ask whether this "anthropomorphous fish" was not a merman, or at least a sea attorney. The Leda, which loftily rejects the evidence of Christianity, and believes only in Heine, and Rugg, and Mundt, and Gutzkow, and Laube, is now obliged b lecture me upon my incapacity of balancing evidence ; but even Leda, mudiled as her poor skull is with German infidelity, might have done something better for her Albemarle street Jove. She might have superbly referred me to "Guy's Geography," or pertly told me that a ragged school volume upon "Common Things" would have taught me better, bad she only known of that slip of the pencil which wrote " Dardanelles" for " Bosphorus." The Asinceuia, with officious zeal, kicks out viciously on behalf of the "handbooks," and betrays a suspicious knowledge of early copies of new editions. It is a fine simple nature is that of Asinue of the Asiweala. We can't quite say of him -0 prodige ! 0 merveille ! Mono ane panic, et memo it parle bien ; but there is something almost touching in the bumble piety with which he adores what he calls the " magnate of Albemarle-street." One is nearly tempted to respect his faithful defiance of truth and fact when he talks his own nonsense about the monuments of Rome. We see the heroic object of the self-sacrificing creature. He is bent upon proving that it is not true that the absurdities of Murray's hand-books cannot be surpassed. It was a false thing to say or sing of Asinus that With its reminiscence of— " When she stood up for dancing, her steps were so com plete, The music nearly killed itself to listen to her fed:" And its memory, too, of how— " The fiddler rnoan'd his blindness, he heard her so much praised, Rut bless'd himself he wasn't deaf when once her voice she raised !" THE MURDER AT ISLINGTON. Examination of the Prisoners—(This Day). Ah, who, say we, can ever forget it who has once read that dear old ballad of " Lovely Mary Don• nelly," written by the young Irish poet, William Allinghan► ? And to the Mary Donnelly of Ailing ham the Kitty Neil of Waller is " own sister " in nature, if not in name, iu heart, and beauty, and grace, and agile dancing ! Is she not ? Read the lay again ! Hear "Felix Magee put the pipes to his knee and with flourish so free [the rogue !] put the couples in motion !" Watch Pat [poor var let 1] when " the sight loaves his eye," hear him when "he cries with a sigh—' Dance Light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love !' " Dr. Wal ler, after that, it needs no words of ours to aver, can write a love-ballad with the best of them, a genuine Irish love song, full of grace, and drol lery, and humour, and tenderness—such as the world owes much for the possession of, to Moore, and Lover, and Griffin, and let us add also, more re cently, to Waller and Allingham. As such a song writer-Irish to the core—we greet the author of these " Poems " cordially with an earnest greeting —none the less welcome to him, we trust, coming frankly from the hand and heart of an English man. This afternoon the two persons charged with being concerned in the above murder were placed at the bar of the Clerken well Pulice-oourt, and gave the names of Carl Sommers and Celestine Sommers. The first witnesses examined were Inspector Hutton, of the N division, and the sergeant who took the pri soners into custody. Their evidence was to the effect that from circumstances that came to their hearing they proceeded to the house, 18, Linton-street, New North road, Hoxton, and there they found the body of the un fortunate girl in the coal-cellar with her throat cut, and that they then took the two prisoners at the bar into custody. The principal witness examined was the girl who acted as housemaid to the woman. This person, from ques tions put to her, stated that on Saturday night last she was sleeping in the kitchen of the house, 18, Linton street, when the female prisoner entered the place and asked for the lueifers to light the candle. Having found the matches and procured a light elle than heard her call the deceased downstairs. The girl said she did not like coining down stairs in the dark, as she was a stran ger in the house. The prisoner said, in reply, that she need not be frightened as she had a light. After this conversation she distinctly heard the prisoner go into the back kitchen and get a knife, and from the back kitchen she heard her go to the coal-cellar, under the pavement, and shortly after she heard the girl cry out, "You want to cut my throat," and the female prisoner said, in reply, thatit didn't matter whether sheout it or anybody else. A struggle then seemed to take place, as she hoard the woman say, "Keep your hands down ; you shall not tell any more lies about me or any body else." After a short time all was quiet, and prisoner re-entered the kitchen and came close to her bedside and asked her questions about some money she had bad in the early part of the evening. She looked before she spoke to her to see if she was asleep, and finding her awake and trembling violently, she made`use of the words she had related. After pacing backwards and forwards for a short time in the passage of the kitchen, her mistress bade her good night and went up stairs. Mr. Coward, a surgeon, residing at 6, St. John's-ter race, New North-road, deposed to the nature of the wounds upon the body of Oe unfortunate girl. There was an extensive wound which occasioned death on the left side of the neck. It had been made by a sharp instrument, and it extended from the back of the neck to the front. There must have been some violent struggling, and the person inflicting the wound must have knelt on the girl, as the right side of her person was covered with coal and dirt. It was impossible that a person committing suicide could inflict such a wound. The evidence confirmatory of the above having been given, POETICAL LICENCE IN GRAMMAR. In, re DR. MACKAY'S LUMP OF GILD." We observe that exception has been taken in certain quarters to one of the critical opinions ad vanced by us in our recent review of Dr. Mackay's graceful mid ingenious poem of " The Lump of Gold." During the course of our remarks upon that very charming, but not, as we still venture to conceive, altogether faultless production, we did certainly object, and for that matter do here for mally and most earnestly reiterate our objection to what we may continue to designate, for want of a better phrase, the frequent ellipse of Dr. Mac kay's participles—objecting to this decidedly and peremptorily as ungrammatical. We instanced casually, in the matter of these objections, such lines as the following :—" Tradition itself has forgot them"—"The Pharaohs are forgot" —and " That civil discord might have broke." Whereupon a correspondent of one of our weekly contemporaries questions the validity of our right to reprehend passages like those already adduced as in any way ungrammatical. Suggesting that they are strictly correct in construction by virtue of that very convenient and elastic privilege familiar even to every school-boy votary of the muses, the all-saving and all-potent privilege of Poetical Licence. And instancing in corroborative testimony of the suggestion thus thrown out—not so much in palliation as in distinct justification, if not positively in actual commendation of Dr. Mackay's violation of one of the rudimentary laws of syntax—the second verse in Thomas Campbell's Lines on Waterloo—and the opening one in Robert Burns' glorious bacchanalian of " Auld Lang Syne." The former running thus— " Our plumes have waved in combats that ne'er shall be forgot ;" and the latter thus, as everybody well remem bers— Le diable Premier antenr des emits de la fable, Lui fournissait cos examples frappants Et mettait 1' ane au rang de nos savants. To give the devil his due, the fictions he inspires are al ways clever. The good brute did very well, all things considered ; he lashed his tail, and cocked his ears, and brayed most uncivilly. But if Asinus had only known of the conflict between received chronology and my ver sion of the Joe Miller anecdote concerning Wolfe, what a triumphant bray would have resounded along the Strand ! Another class of critics= , -the poor expiring magazines—must be spoken of tenderly ; for of the dying as of the dead, "nil nisi bonurn. Moreover, I have a money obligation to them. They advertise my book among their articles, and as no living thing of earth ever reads those articles, the advertisements are an un balanced obligation. Even I only guess that lam well abused by them. But this class of literary flunkies not only wear the livery and ape the language of their mas ters, but, like their better-paid brothers of the shoulder knot, assume their patrons' names. When I read the names I know infallibly the tendency of the articles, and am not tempted to change their virgin uncut state AS they lie upon those club-room tables where an old superstition allows them still to linger. Upon the whole I think it was more prudent not to print a list of errata. One thing which detracts from the amusement of an author who is mobbed by the weekly and monthly lit terateurs, is that he feels himself in bad society. There is a great difference between the polite persiifiaye of the bal de l' Opera and the coarse practical jokes of an Dag- Heti masquerade. The temple of Asinus partakes of the latter character. Therein the author is bustled by dunces, slapped on the back or bonnetted by fellows, who, without education or mother wit, are merely rude. A good deal of bad English has been expended upon this bock by the small reviews, but not a thought, or a fact, or a scrap of reading above the capacity of any individual who had taken moderate advantage of the early-closing movement and a mechanic s ' i ns tit u t e . I am told by my servie g man (who made his information the excuse for rather a lengthened absence, and a slight thickness of utterance) that about the smartest things were said by a re spectable vintner, who, in the intervals of leisure im posed by a tyrannical Legislature, does the belles lettres department of the Moming Tusticejuice. My repentant Theodore, who himself writes occasionally in the Jus ticejaice, tells me that "Oar Critic" makes therein huge display of a new nodding acquaintance with rules of syntax, and talks to the author of "inside Sebastopol" as learnedly as Shakspeare's clown holds fdrth in " As You Like It." 'Tis a sad thing that criticism— Migret in obscures humili sermontabernas. Where, 0 where are the Hazlitt s, the Talfourds, the Charles Lambs, the Fonblanques , the Leigh Hunts, the asW j i l t s o w n e s r , et,heM brought agi learning o ns, th F oasutedr s g enius to the ungentle , who only y es t er d a y, task l—who knew how to pierce deeply with a graoeful thrust, and who fought with a rapier, and not with sticks and stones. A. few still linger upon the staff of the morning and evening papers, and often a flash of the old light streams along the columns of the Press or the Examiner. But the race is grown as rare as bustards, and perhaps for the same reason—it pays better to keep geese. There was a dignity in the suffering such men inflicted : there is no dignity, but much abasement, in holding up one's coat-tails and running through a pack of half-starved curs. The magistrate ordered the man to be discharged, and fully committed the woman to take her trial for wilful murder. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) " Should auld acquaintance be forgot." laormuriT, Feb. 18.—Wind this clac noon, N.E. ; fresh breeze and hazy. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 1 7 .—Wind E.S.E.— Sailed—Royal Charter and Kent, for Port• Philip. PILL, Feb. 17.—Wind S.E., strong.—Sailed—English man, for Africa; British Averican, Crimea. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 17.—The Don Antonio, hence to Car diff and Surinam, and the brig Success are ashore on Burbo. BELFAST, Feb. 16.—The Queen from Troon to Belfast, struck on the South Macedon Rock on the 13th inst., and sunk—crew saved. GRIMSBY, Feb. 17.—The masts and yards (apparently new) of a ship of about 500 tons were passed on the Bth instant, by the Winscales, from Sunderland to Monte Video. CADIZ, Feb. 7.—The Edith (screw), of Dartmouth, from Seville to London, was wrecked on the coast near Cartaya, during the late severe gale on the 10th instant—vessel and cargo lost. RAMSGATE, Feb. 17.—Wind E. by S. to E.N.E.—Sailed —Magnet, for West Indies ; Arethusa, Cape de Verd. DEAL, Fob. 18.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrived from the river and sailed.—Deane, for Cape of Good Hope. CONVES.—Sailed—Peterhof, for Havana. Very well—so far, everything yet said upon the matter only goes to prove that Thomas Campbell and Robert Burns could be, no less glaringly than Charles Mackay, decidedly ungrammatical. By a poetical licence if you please—but still ungram matical. Greater poets than either Burns or Campbell have been so before now. We could help the correspondent of our contemporary to plenty of yet more extraordinary violations of syntax for the sake of rhythm, or of euphony, or of both together—instances much more notable in their way than those adduced by him from Burns and Campbell. Let us say at once from writers no less classic and authoritative than Byron and Shakspere. For example have we not from the hand of the first mentioned the opening of that lovely song of his—. "There be none of beauty's daughters," &o. And in one of the daintiest ditties in Cymbeline, in perhaps the most exquisite and dulcet serenade ever penned by man, do we not listen (for the sake of the rhyme) to— (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Mottling. Arrived—Hopewell, from Sawanage ; LA Poule, Cher bourg; Cicely, Effort, aid Taut 111, Sunderland. Sailed—Unity, for Sunderland; Vectis, Elfreda, and Dangothland, Newport ; Devonshire (etr.), London ; Argyll (Far.), Carentan ; Johanna Elie (str.), Cardiff. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. IG. hark, hark the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies. —Shakspe re , B y - Precisely as here recorded , Shakspere wrote, Byron wrote, Burns wrote, Campbell wrote—by poetical licence of course but still , ungrammatically. ron, Always,Bur Berne, c however,ampbreeilmembr wrote thus most l ex ceptionally, most rarely, just once in a w a y, in obedience to the exigences, as we have said, of rhyme, or of metre, or of euphony. Instances like those are but sparsely sprinkled up and down, here and there, in the grander treasures of our poetical literature—not scattered broadcast, hither and thither, as these fore-shortened participles of Dr. Mackay are so lavishly in his charming little book of " The Lump of Gold." The authority of mere poetical licence, we take it, is only admissible oc casionally—as we have already expressed it just once in a way—dying out, and lapsing into no au thority at all, whenever it is allowed by a loose style, or a callous taste to harden into a habit! The " poetical licence" of the lopped participles of Dr. Mackay we never denied—but we objected to them earnestly, as we do here again object to them, if possi ble, yet more earnestly, as, beyond all manner of doubt,—to our agonised ears—decidedly and pain fully ungrammatical. The sensitive and exquisitive taste of Pope led him in the very first couplet of his immortal "Rape of the Lock" to sacrifice to the venerated awa of grammar, even thus cruelly, 414 Wind S. Arrived —Queen and Pandora, from Marseilles; Charlotte of Derby and Princess Victoria, Alexandria ; Baldoz, Ra gusa ; Mary, Marseilles ; Swift and Martha, Alexandria ; Conqueror, Larache ; Azof, St. John's, N.B. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.59 a.m. Wind Bast, cloudy and fresh; tide three hour's ebb. Arrived, Feb. 17.—Lark, from Gijon ; Blessing, Brus sels; Olive Von Wood and Sutliff, Rotterdam • Acadia, Antwerp; Maria, Lntken ; Alma, Christiania; Elizabeth, Gottenburg ; Diana, Marstrand ; Laura, Odense; E u g enia Sophie, Aarhus; Warwe, Medeniblick. DEAL, Monday, 9.41 a.m. Wind F.S.E., moderate. Passed, Feb. 17.—Ada ' from London, for Mogador: Queen of Freedom, Shields, Coustautinople. Passed ;18th—Deane, from London, for Cape of Good Hope. There are some weekly, and monthly, and quarterly critics who must yet attack me. The book bas sold largely and is quoted in all societies ; it cannot be ignored. The Squeeze, for instance, is bound by its party allegiance to cut me up, and, among others, I hold the Saturday Parade, and the only magazine which has any vitality in it, my debtors for an onslaught. All the favour I ask of them is—not to do their spiriting gently —but to do it cleverly. Let them, for the honour of their order, show that there is something better left among t— us than the dull f acu lt y o f ignorant contradiction pos weed by the dreary deinteun which ii more wretched The mortal remains of the late Bishop of Carlisle were interred on Tuesday last, in the village church of Dal ston, adjoining the episcopal residence of the see. Mr. Behnes has received a commission to execute a statute of the late Edward Baines, of Leeds. The figure isle be .8 feet high, and the price is 700 guineas. The farewell seance given by Count Buol, at Vienna, on the 10th, was numerously attended. Prince Gortsela koff, Sir H. Seymour, anal Colonel de Mantouffel, were &Ogg Ur guests. j 4, ~. -= Spirit of the Public Journals. (Front the Times of this clay.) What is that road which you can walk over in a quarter of an hour, but which you cannot drive over in less than three-quarters ? Let no one who reads this.question fancy that we are perplexing his soul with a conundrum, and that to answer it lie must rack his brains and ransack his memory as if he were asked by some angelic being—what is that word of one syllable front which if you take a couple of letters it becomes a word of two syllables? Nothing of the kind ; the question is a plain and honest one, which is to be answered by no puzzling of the intellect, but only by a little vexatious ex perience. The road extends from Blackfriars to Loudon-bridge, on the Surrey side of the river, and is about the most disgusting and disgraceful thoroughfare that even this metropolis need be ashamed of. To ride through it or to walk through it is simply a choice of evils. It is one of the nar rowest, smokiest, muddiest, filthiest, ugliest, sick liest, most malodorous, battered, patched-up, dis agreeable localities in all London. But ono living pen can do justice to its superlative hideousness. The Bankside is a kind of marine parade; but those to whom that title suggests a broad road with a good pavement, brilliant equipages bowling along, the sea rolling in with its sullen roar and its plea sant breezes, ecstacy in the eyes of the little ones who scamper about on the donkeys, bashful plea sure in those dimples under the great round hats, and health returning to the cheeks of the poor souls who go about in Bath chairs, must imagine the very opposite. Instead of the musical dash of billows on the beach, there is the plash of the Thames sliding lazily along, like an overgrown gut ter, through the heart of the city ; great barges drifting clumsily ou its surface, like the bits of wood which boys, in the days when they delight in dirt-pies, take a plearSure in navigating through the currents of the common-sewer ; and the water is so decidedly opaque that one is a little astonished to read the police admonition by which the inhabi tants are particularly requested, for the sake of decency, not to bathe too near the houses, as if anybody but Yahoos would bathe in such a stream! It is the least fault of the road, however, that it happens to be on the bank of an enormous gutter ; it is itself a consolidated glitter, and the passenger who travels that way has literally to "run a muck." There is not a sense which is not offended, and it is difficult to say which is offended the most. The road is nearly as narrow as the pavement for foot passengers in Regent-street, apparently for the purpose of bringing the unhappy pilgrim who is seduced into that byway into closer contact with the impurities of the place, and of precipitating him more certainly into the sloughs of despond and pools of disgust that at proper intervals vary the abomi nations of the walk, Barges lie along the Bank side, and the wayfarer inevitably rubs shoulders with a dozen coalheavers before he has completed his journey ; or; if ho has a passion for old iron, he can gratify it by gazing on a perpetuity of rusty hoops, broken pots, and old lamp -pests ; while, if he wishes to indulge his nasal sense, he can at any time approach one o f th ose b arges which are satiri cally named after some cherished flower. The " Forget-me-Not" is being laden with all the con centrated refuse of the place from dustholes and stables innumerable, and the way is blocked up by carts heavy with manure, as if some Southwark Hercules were for ever endeavouring to clean out Augean stables, and couldn't manage it. These are a few of the delights which assail the foot passenger as he traverses the only possible communication parallel with the river between, Blackfriars and London-bridge. The delights of this kind which the carriage passenger enjoys are certainly not less, and if he drives in an open carriage they are very much greater, from the fact that they must be endured infinitely longer. For a great part of the way it is impossible for more than one vehicle at a time to pass along ; if two meet each other, one of them must back out, and the unfortunate individual whose coachman has been so deluded as to think the Bankside the shortest cut to London-bridge has the satisfaction of waiting five minutes behind an immense dung cart while the road in front is being cleared, and while the guard of the Brighton train is giving his last whistle. The traffic that passes over London bridge has now become so great that it is an obje c t of some importa nce to reieve it as much as pos sible. At all times it was the most used of the bridges, but now that the railway station absorbs a greater amount of traffic than any other in Lon don, with the exception of Euston- square, the delay alai disappointment to which travellers aro sub jected by the dead lock of carts, cabs, and omni buses, have become an evil of metropolitan magni tude, and call for such immediate attention, that we are not surprised to find the Board of Works commencing their labours by discussing the ques tion of an improved communication between Blackfriars and London-bridge. There is not a more important subject for the Board to consider than the improvement of the thoroughfare, not only from the High-street to Blackfriars-road, which is its worst part, but also to Waterloo bridge, and still further to Westminster-bridge. In a great metropolis, where time is everything, it is a disgrace that carriages crossing Waterloo bridge, or passing from the South-Western station to theSouth-Eastern ; should have to make a long circuit in order to have any chance of reaching their destination unimpeded. The short cuts are so narrow that they turn out the longest routes ; and, in order to save time, we must go miles out oF our way. The improvements which in this respect have been suggested to the Board of Works regard the ordinary comfort and expeditious travelling of the inhabitants, and in this point of view alone are ab solutely essential. The object is utility, and that is, of cours,e, the first thing to be considered ; but we are disposed also to regard beauty of construction as an object of far more essential import than our public bodies are generally inclined to treat it. We do not work better by working in the midst of dirt and slovenliness, in buildings that are dark dens within and ugly blotches without. There still seems to linger a feeling that success is greatest in the dingy warehouses and most miserable counting rooms ; that, in fact, the wealth of London is built on the ruins of every sense of beauty. Hence the Thames, which ought to' be the noblest thorough fare in London, which we ought to be glad to ap proach, which we ought to be proud to point to, is one of the ugliest and hatefullest ; few of us wil lingly traverse it, and there is very little of the river frontage that we care to show to a stranger. When the sewage of the metropolis is diverted from this channel, it will certainly be more pleasant to pass along this highway; there is one thiii; we can always enjoy in its fresh waters, and we can point with pride to the immense riches that float on its waves—to the argosies of every nation that congregate to our shores. But it is impossible to impress on our merchants that they might be wealthy without disfiguring the banks of a noble river with the most hideous constructions, hud dled together in indescribable confusion ? Who that looks upon either bank of the river, and sees how it is lined with buildings which look little better than colossal pigsties and exaggerated cow sheds—exactly such architecture as on a sinaler scale we devote to rabbit-hutches and dog-kennels, but must feel indignant at the degradation of so splendid a site ? The nuisance is not the less real because we are used to it, and because we can avoid it by the simple expedient of shutting our eyes. (From the Examiner.) " On m'assassine !" cried the French culprit under the gripe of justice. " They slander me," cries Lord Cardigan, under the censure of the Crimean Commissioners' report. Lord Lucan echoes the complaint. It is curious enough to see these two noblemen, who have been so freely fling ing dirt on each other, now making common cause against the report, or rather the evidence, which inculpates both. Each talks big of his defence, the word being that of the witch in Macbeth, "I'll do, I'll do, I'll do." Such noble wrath was of course to be appeased, and Lord Paninure " was sure there was no intention on the part of the commis sioners to attack the noble earl (Cardigan) in his capacity of an officer, but only to express their opi nion as regarded other matters." _Phis is the esta blished Pickwickian explanation ; but surely th e question of a cavalry general's care of her Majsty's horses involves his capacity as an officer most ma terially. If Lord Panmure's coachman let his horses die of starvation rather than demean him self to fetch their forage from the corn chandler, would his Lordship consent to give the man a good character on the ground that his skill in driving redeemed the fault throu g h w hi c he had cnosac h h o m r s a e n s t drive, r w o a s i v n e a , fre a c n t c e l d t at his nd u n m capacity peac he d a s a by 3, his destruction of his cattle ? A. cavalry officer's loss of his horses is analogous to a naval offi cer's loss of his ship, for which in cases of blame so severe a punishment is awarded. A dismounted trooper is, as the Times happily says, like a swan footing it ou a turnpike road. All but the parties concerned will believe, with Lord Panmure, that there was no intentieri on the part of the commis sioners to attack Lords Cardigan and Lucan, or any one else. Their intention was obviously, sim ply, and solely to discover and make known the truth, and their report bears the unmistakeable stamp of the principle—" nothing extenuate, nor aught set down in malice." We trust it will be as honestly supported as it has been honestly written, and that there will be no running with the h*unds and holding with the hare. Lord Hardwicke hav ing observed with good spirit that if he had been .., honoured with public decorations and afterwards reflected on as some officers had been, he would have torn the badges from his breast and flung them at the feet of the donors. Lord Panmure answered that the honours had been bestowed for bravery in the field, and any charge which wasmade against the possessors as to any dereliction of a secondary nature could in no way detract from the lustre of the actions for which the decoration weregiven. And what were those actions with a lustre? What was the pas sage of arms in which Lord Lucan distinguished him self pre-eminently-? What was Sir Richard Airey's brilliant exploit, what Colonel Gordon's ? As they say in the house, we pause for a reply. Lord Lucan, indeed, sent the Light Brigade headlong to destruc tion, but he did not go with them. It was not his place. Had his duty required him to head the charge, he would doubtless have done so with the spirit to be expected of every Englishman from the lowest to the highest. But the fact is that he did not distinguish himself in any extraordinary way, for want, no doubt, of opportunity. He neither took a part in the successful charge of the Heavy Brigade, nor the glorious disaster of the Light. Lord Cardigaa acquitted himself as o th ers did , where all acquitted themselves gallantly. He neither did more nor less than any other man in that devoted band. Perhaps, however, in sayin g this we are saying too much, for it is reported that there was an officer in the charge who rallied the broken remnant of the brigade, and gave order to their retreat, and that officer was not the General Lord Cardigan. It should be the pride of the coun try to consider the high bravery displayed on this oc casion as common, and to callfor something morefor distinction. That something more used to be express ed in the old-fashioned word "conduct in the field," which comprehended with courage, presence of mind, resource, judgment, and the seizure of opportunity. For example, among the thousands and thousands here and is every part of the civilised world who are full of admiration of General Williams, how little any one thinks of his bravery, how much more the mind dwells on his inexhaustible energy, his all-pervading vigilance and care. The conduct for which an officer merits praise, honour, and ad vancement is not only the conduct in the face of the .enemy, but the conduct which enables him to. face the enemy with his forces made the most of in every way. His men, his arms, his horses will be in the most perfect condition that circumstances improved to the utmost may permit of. He will not be chargeable with any of those derelictions which the Minister of War classes of a secondary nature, for he will regard the care of his men and horses primary duties, not secondary, and he would consider himself disgraced if he could not take a part in operations against the enemy because he had allowed his horses to perish, and thereby re duced himself to the condition of a non-com.; batant, and a mere encumbrance on the army. But, assuming that a decoration was due to the gallantry of Lord Cardigan in the Ba,laklava charge, the question remains why the inspectorship of cavalry was given to an officer who, however brave, had signally and disastrously proved his unfitness for the care of horses. assum ing also that Sir Richard Airey had on some occa . sion distinguished himself gloriously, and earned the order with which he is decorated, yet it is to be asked, why is he made Quartermaster-General at home, when almost all the great disasters are refer. able to his a,dministratian of that office in the Crimea? What General' Airey's exploits against the enemy may have been we know not, but they have been great indeed if they have made a tithe of the havoc with the Russians that his adminis- tration made with the British army, perishing for want of what he had the means of affording, and neglected to afford. In the common phrase to ex press disorder, things were " here and there"— that is to say, starvation here, and the supplies that should have furnished plenty, there ; want in the camp, abundance at Balaklava. THE .NEW MEDICAL PROFESSION BILL. The new bill brought in by Mr. Headlam, Mr.' Brady, and Mr. Craufurd is to take effect, if passed, on the Ist of August next. A "Medical Council of the United Kingdom" is to be established, to consist of one person chosen by each of the follow ing bodies—viz., the three Universities of England, the four of Scotland, the two of Ireland, the three colleges cf surgeons and physicians of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Faculty of Glas gow ; and also of eight persons to be elected as hereafter shown. Every person so chosen must be qualified to be registered under the act, and the first election is to be made. within three months. The tenure of office by members of the council is to be triennial. The eight other members of the council will first be named by the Secretary of State ; four of them are to be appointed for Eng land, two for Ireland, and two for Scotland ; these eight members will 5r old office till June .1, 1857, after which period they will be elected trienni illy —four by those recorded in the last printed medical --gister for England, two by taros. rog,ioimatniiA Scotland, and two by those registereain Ire] eau. The Medical Council will hold their first meeting at such time and place as the Secretary of State may be pleased to name, and , afterwards where and when they themselves may determine. They are empowered to appoint a treasurer, secretary, and servants ; and the Secretary of State will appoint a registrar, to be called the "Medical Registrar,' This officer will, np to the Ist of December nest, register persons already in practice and duly quali. fled, on payment of a fee of 20s. ; and, after that period, he will register practitioners qualified as hereafter shown, for a fee of 10s. After the Ist of December next parties applying to, be registered as physicians must be 26 years of age, be graduates in medicine, and furnished with letters testimonial from one of the Royal Colleges of Physicians. Sur geons must be 22 years of Age, and have been ex amined and passed by the Royal College of Physi cians, assisted by five surgeons (in medicine and phar macy), and by the Royal College of Surgeons (in sur gery and midwifery). Scotch and Irish surgeons must have been examined by the two Colleges of Physi cians and Surgeons (or, in the case of Scetchmen, by the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow). Persons registered after the Ist of December must cause themselves to be admitted as members of the college from which they received their letters tes timonial, but no person offering himself for admis sion will be obliged to pass any further examina tion. Names struck off the college lists for mis conduct will be erased from the register,—a penalty tantamount to professional extinction. The exa minations of the various colleges will be supervised by the medical council, who will have the power of compelling the amendment of any faulty system of examination or the neglect of regulations in the medical colleges. A " British Pharmacopoeia" will be published by the council. Registered practitioners, and none else, will be able to sue for and recover " reasonable" charges for medicine and attendance. Unregistered persons are disqua lified from holding public appointments. The council is empowered to make regulations for per sons practising in the colonies and students. This act will in no wise affect the lawful occupation of chemists and druggists, or interfere with the pri vileges of duly licensed apothecaries in Ireland. THE CONDEMNED CORRIGAN. It has been definitely arranged that the execution of the wretched convict, Time. Wm. John Corrigan, for the murder of his wife, in Church-street, Minories, on,th Boxing day last, shall Win place on Monday next , the 2a in front of the gaol at Newgate. Vario us e rro neous re ports have been circulated, to the effect that the last Bee. fence of the law would be carried out this morning, by order of the sheriff.; of the City of London. It was very generally believed that Corrigan would have been re prieved, but on Saturday afternoon all doubts as to his fate were set at rest by official orders being received by the governor of the prison for the execution of the un fortunate man, who has been in a low desponding state his our children, that he for several days. The wretch e d conv i ct on F r id ay morn ingvimhi o were e e aacclloorwdeindglany introduced iuterview wi requested th to him in the condemned cell. They were accompanied by Mr. Burton, of Church -street, at whose residence the late tragedy took place. The father and brother of the convict were likewise present. The prisoner was much af f ected, and the interview was one of a most painful description. The governor and the Rev. Wm. Davis, the chaplain of the prison, were in attendance. The latter gentleman has been a. , ,da.ily visitor to the cell, and the convict has more than once attributed his dreadful crime to excessive drinking of ardent spirits after his duties were over at the East India warehouse, in Leadenhall-street, where he was respected for his general behaviour. The unfortunate man writer, and was formerly educated for the Church . was formerly an excellent scholar and clever shorthand He was a member of the ancient Order of Forreaters, who have recently made a provision for his family by granting a sum of money from their funds towards their support. Various rumours have been circulated daring the past week to the effect that the friends of the condemned were busily engaged in getting a memorial signed by the jury, and a great number of influential persons, for pre sentation to the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, with a view of o btainin g a commu tation of the sentence, but nothing of the kind has transpired. The execution of Corrigan is folly expected by his aged and the whole of his relatives, wh o • d parents intend taking their feet farewell of hint in the course of the present week. The convict has been engaged (luring the last few days in writing letters to his most intimate friends. Yesterday morning the prisoner attended Divine worship in the chapel of the gaol. The condemned sermon w ill be preached on Sunday morning next. THE LATE MURDER OF A 'MOTHER AND CHILD NEAR inci w il i e d s o Peacock which was lately discovered , has be en h e ld u p on th e body et t ß h l e cH in m fa o n N t u.A c — hild n of discovered in the Tham es , an d a verdict of "Found drowned: waA retarnei. 5 9 9 7 300 gate sate Lunn OOTO &on uced ;am• Ither 200 num hem. itton noies ,n the drad e lions. ; full . 600 50 . 11 N. 4. 2 10 3 4 4 2 5 0 4 10