The Sun. — London, England, 1842-05-26 00:00:00

E 5.. ., ritten 1?)? 'oust 0.1.11 IRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1842. '•-• Tit,N - 7 , !•ri) I- uandnd iie;etieur, the see , ,tai ;et, itei . ttlett iSeabhorse, r Policy, r and b, „ e ot iv of norses k in racing p am. 0- r ) tiL i ritta b, rue•k••), mut then the tail--viz., Defier. v(tigrilatm P: , llaclititn, " u(1 Ioi;t a s:art of ticarty one i . itindreti yards. Iti,eitzrd}:hp:qatiteietiise;kt egitkita,a,rter a mile the pace Was 'lndurate and Lasso imniediateiy vacated the e . I:‘,ut other respects the rare proct•eded as '+("N"iii)vii it, near the turn, when Bel . tohi. 'l...Aettla and Conibermere, and, w•ith the :wo tutir 7 . , s o k•lil Itte•r.., carrier', the running into du- straight ,s,, I IV Mt behind consisting Unttliam, "rsc• Policy, and the Agreeable colt, Robert tit kinriut, who had , ri•dtittil iroved his position, 13 - 11:1; ittirlevaad;otherwise w Il eXi• 'flit front rank cont 3 inue l d intact to the rolid, but it h that bt•hind it. Coldrenick had shown that the distance was too great for him. cult Chatham fell lime ; Seaborse, and the Jigri-eable hod s h ot their bolt, and liobert de Gorham !Passing them in succession, took his ground next •0 Auckland. A few yards friou the distance Coin berrisere g'e up in 1 oto, and fell into the cock, a nt i av mmediat e ly a f ter Attila shot past Belcceur, took a decisive lead, kept it to the end, and won with the most I:):i•feet ease imaginable by two lengths. Robert de tiorlann ran by .:~nd half way up the distance, L' " Ultr ed Leleceur at the stand, and beat hint for the 4,eond money cleverly by a length, Auckland being we:l up with Belcceur at the finish. Ttie Agreeable colt and l 'elicy were fifth and s i x th, Sealturse dividing themfr (4 e . the crowd behind. Jack . and Palladium wt•re a bout the last two. The pace was good, but eel-- tainl Y * not first-rate. Value of the stakes, 4,900/. nc ,t Anson, Lords Ch est erfield and Maidstone, and in are Fact, all th e gentlemen connected with Scott's stt ble, great winners 011 the race ; the Manchester men are ralso en the right side, the balances to be handed over s a Ml. t° ,ptintinZ according to report, to 70,000/. (Where eoule from ?) Considering whet favourable op portunities the Coldt•enick party had of hedging their l' inul l e Y. we tak e i t for granted they have not been hit .;,hurd-; albeit their confidence (in a very bad horse) hA” almost without a parallel in the annals of racing. ol settling will take place on Tuesday next ; it must Th i , e ,,, ev 3 .-- -%e hope it fluty be a good one. Yrs '1 )8( 'In Stakes of 5 Soya. each, with 35 added ; 3 ukL 7 st 10lb ; 4 y rs , B st 111 b ; 5 yrs, 9 st 21b ; 6 . 3 0 7 ' 4 „ all(l'iiaged, 9st 61b. Th e w i nner to b e so ld f or 120/. r net (12 Subs.) Forth's Catnelino, 6 yrs (Bell) 1 14 * • P )l9l 'S t rident, 3 yrs • baY'S br m by Nimrod, Out of Busk 3 b The Ibllowing also started, but were not placed :—Count (iarinnoll Box, 4 yrs, Mr. Bushell's Jenny ch ", ,, i ;7' f , 2 6 Yrs, Mr. S m i t h' s Astronomer, 3rs, Mr. Bat -ug b) 4 yrs, Mr. 'Teen's Haitoc, 3 yrs, , 11 . 1 r ,. listr e l 4 W as Miss Fidget, 4yrs, and Mr. Pryse Pry se s iat 4 rs. 1 „ . Th e race was entirely: between Mr. Forth's two, and T u k s Wk)tt c y • the Waltonleverly. Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 35 added; three Yrs old, 7st 11:11b; four, Bst 11lb; five, 9st 21b; six and , „ B P„tt 9st 61b. The winner to be sold for 100/. One (7 Subs.) • North's Knightsbridge, 4 yrs (Butler) 1 4n.r.-jok, • 1 / ..„ usciu s Frank, 6 yrs 2 3 r• savage's John o' Gaunt, 3 yrs • The following also started but werenot placed:—Mar- Exeter's Patchwork, 37 Exeter's Patchwork, 3 yrs; Mr. Garrard's Thu 5. - :'`'-',3 yrs ; an d Captain Cunningham's Mungo Park, Ti lt's . \Von cleverly by a length; a good race for second. -- 7, 33 urgh Stakes of 5 sovs . eac h, w ith 35 a dded ; three 4;495t• 41b• 11 old, Bst 21b ; four. B s t 11113; five, 9st; six and aged, N\ inner to be sold for 801. One mile. (12 • *lbs.) Pi t • ,CMaul Daintree's b c by Mulatto,. 3 yrs....(Marson) 0 1 aptain Rous's Nicholas 5 yrs The follovv'ngalso started:—Lord G. Bentinck's Bal }1"/Y.' 3 ,3'1'3; I Lbrd Exeter's Patchwork, 3 yrs; Hon. S. t ernert s Teetotaller, 3 yrs; Mr. Lichtwald's b m to 5 yrs ; Mr. Price's Marshal Biron, 3 yrs Greville's Palasmon 4 yrs ; Mr. Lawrence's 7 t ll l 3 edci, 3 yrs ; ;Mr. Williamson's Wiltona, 3 yrs ; Mr. • t 3 cott's fby B ay Midd leton, 3 yrs ; an d M r. T . Wal ters' Miss Whinney, 4 yrs. short, quick run race, and won cleverly by half a ' l egth. T 11 1: O AlM—The only betting we heard after the ; ace s, was 5 t o 2 agst L or d J ersey ' s Ad e l a fill y , an d 3 "° I agst Lord Chesterfield's Dil-bar. 1,-,f4TEST MANCHESTERBETTING AIANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING. h e great event of to-morrow attracted a very good 44,tendatice this forenoon. The engagements made did !°t come up to expectation. The letters received from e South - give little hope but to the front rank. The Wices at the close of the room were as follows: . THE DERBY. 9 NI 4 agst Mr. Trelawney's Coldrenick—t. then off :..•3 18 1 agst Col. Anson's Attila—taken, then offered 6 161 agst Lord Westminster's Auckland—t. then off. 8 61,1: agst Mr. Greville's Canadian—taken 13 to,l agst Lord Chesterfield's Jack—taken 4on Attila and Auckland (t) 4to 1 agst Attila . and Auckland being first and second (t) ; 4 to 1 in ponies : offered that the winner of the Derby does not win the St. .I,e , rer. THE OAKS.—I\o betting. ,'• THE S T . LEGER.—P 2 to I was booked to about a B core on Auckland. We have not seen any important ;f l anges at the room since the morning papers arrived. best intelligence that me can glean is decidedly in . - ,!otly of Day's lot, or of Auckland. ...AAA.. *Or/ 00.•••••••••• 1! JAMES'S T HE A TRE.—FRENC H PLAYS. 4.1-‘,...e.vaudeville of Le Vicomte de Letorieres, was produced theatr e last evening, the part of Le Vico m t e b e i ng sus s?tis dY Madem o i se ll e Dejazet. The plot of this play is the • that of M rs . Gore's popular tale of " Fascination.' , { l °d filth neral being, of course, Mademoiselle Dejazet there one more fitted by nature to fascinate. ifascinating the landlady of the miserable lo C ► ae c % n "a all recollection of the 400 livres due for rent, of sundry protestations of love in exchange, her • • ' c andour with poor old Pomponne the preceptor, "nt ,l 4:9 l npounded of the pedantry of Dominie Sampson, b y it, of Caleb Balderstone, which was excellently dr' t ni G atoard—lier numerous and most laughable the eat fh C EI n .1-43 Of th B ron Tibulle Menelas d Hugeon Lieoa i .rd e ), were all excellent but by . far the pe rri flitti naco ti the piece . was the manner in which Lk , tr ey „. r -general fascinates Le Conseiller Des set th"l. Cartigny) into giving a legal decision favour . moruk...--4'.clairrts of the ;aid fascinator. This learned c s ou_n ; cnoiki; . lies ars extensive law library, to which it . i his P e, 9.lu o i. llls tom, of an afternoon," theeorks of D y g Divers 0 2nlat c h_ Ingjornes are lettered, uessau, itlieeredi'arelomuollienes,b and . as Cicer w o. 'I hese, when ases containing bottles of • lAiritel:t liqueursa the n le e aro c ed gentleman studies the ..tes quie :t the mere letter of the law—and consequently Mon .e6verifthis the his favourite authors. The Vicomte dis :snter e.nature of the contents of" The advocate's library ' n ectii:, / t !hile he is at his studies; joins him in his spiritual ..,tass e i, - : °42 , and at length convinces the worthy Judge of the mkt adeciding the iin his favour by which he becomes . tie , -- eme — r of -- a large r fortune, and is delivered from - Ity of any further attempts at fascina- Vt ' ii'e.letPt en amateur. This was a character ::ein t ,' 7 ,,l it ed to the peculiar genius of Dejazet, the aris, and never did we see her to greater advan dia 1.-at all who wish to see the most fascinating actress of , ,I .tia`lif r t h !stage, in her best character, go to the St. Jame . s s s i e ''and see arm Deja as Le Vicomte de Letorieres. he Crowded by st fashionable audience. 41-1" 1RE ATHAMBURGH. .. , L ,'St' l i „9 TEE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Divi ll ,,, - :ive think it may he of interest fur you to have the fel tltg i4 h P. lt t_tiettlars of the fire ; it appears now that the follow , ' 44.,i,reeted statement. Burnt down .-- . '12.0 "7., reels. • • : -I .9Eri . "•° 4 rts. , - 1,7 16 kttses, and .44W 1 - I , ll ing fl oors (Etages, Sable). • ,:'it ,-eatae es . •11 , ,,,A ,••" I telling cellars. .. i , 4 uaibehitaesn.ts roofless. :• ..„, l inag ogoet , , .. 4 . - - 114 . atermills, with 36 wolves. Otirr • 6 Ptnlthaus and zuehthaus , with their churches (houses of I t t icti°ll ). '-' . le hetentions house. "';!'ll4Sriat house. lilt ',.. u . 11 :1 Excliange.—N.B., The new Exchange, only built ).; ow, it, saved , i i i,d - after a few days repairing, in use 'gain. ,-: 77. E.lobecii-bouie, containing Court of Lommerce, Co urt :1 - • • itcon roes, 'with o ffi ces; the Custom-house_ offi c es, es i ti , ' ' *Area, the Lottery 'saloon, the Citizen tivard uffic i • 7 1.. 'ft V' Piii ic "Asia. ',. ~.- . 04, k , :?,A - , b ,24 • s: l mkerkS many , and all of the largest hotels, and all the '';fl ut....._ "*.•-, ' ll'st n in....." 4 " o square feet is the superficial extent of the burnt 'lsf,..fhe city. ' ',- • . nespectfully, Sir, your most obedient servants, '4 1 .„,,,'2: t . ABIt . \HAM BAUER AND CO. 9 *w, May IS, 1842. ? ' Tt t t . ~ Ir. et - ,,,,` nACEs.—At this period, when the races at- It (1 - I ,_" In, Itch public attention, the following account of races ste o n - r" (given by the late Sir Alexander Burnes) may not •• Pere nte resting. Th ey are certainly races well calculated to r stin " . t he jockeys of Epsom and . Newmarket:—" Horae tre t ! , lll a favourite amusement, and the horses for the purpose atteir rally trained for a fortnight or three weeks preceding ; No i „„7 requite this, for a race here is not a matter of one or twe o - 6 , 11 2 heats. but a regular continued run for twenty or Widi ' .u ve kos (40 or 50 miles !) across the country, sometimes fluently th e morasses and swimming rivers, but more fre- Ithiti:Yerossing their magnificent extended plains; lone of 4reel2ta* level as our b est race-courses , an d wi th a beautiful Li u ; t i erf coveri ng , not unfrequent l y exten d s t h e en ti re dis . mate d b e run. The scene on th ese oc casions is highly am set off . as not only th e racers , genera ll y a b ou t '2O in num ber, .-. top but the wh o l e of the sporting assem bl y, per h aps 100 , or nt. f QM in number, accompany them, at least for the first three tooZtittln)iles A judge ha's lieen sent on in vance, .and the (... e trt.ai : ra seldom return till the next nay ! ad zhe prizes are w as 'llY worth some exertion, and, in one case, when the donor 4 tid ''• Man of fiord substance, they were as follows :—The first : ,ttrillelTirahel"sical' was a Yming nd 5 0 maiden, generally a Huzarah , both prized for their personal attractions; the se &ith), sheep ; the third, a boy ; the fourth, a horse ; the Isth,,, a " ' n et ; the sixth, a cow y ; and the seventh, a water 1,.._ e; the winner of which becomes an object of ridicule and •",, for the rest of the meeting. ,laB : i. Ilt CROPS. —The crops in this vicinity are suffer severely from th et want of ruin. The wheats are getting . .ug );10:nd unhealthy, anSI on s ome st i ff lands the oat-sowing IT completed. Peas have suffered severely from the ', ,-jib.• .. g , which w as never k nown to be more destructive than this It i s • ,4„,r., th e I. = ~,_. west o f K ent, not one-half of the usual breadth of '' , iiN, -- _`7 l st is sown, and also that the produce of that in the ground rlt:• 4 l, ts t• average more than two quarters per acre, and with but , "'" s teavi. The hot weather has bad a good effect on the Plriri e . ` , .i ; g„ • . and the tying , .is to he found, is now nearly completed ; but sonic which, at this time, gives risetoomuch fear. • 11 / l ew . ‘,. t. , ,. Gu ard ian. ?., id • . o .ll, ' F f e tt AlUniCipal . Coun . cil of . Pari s has voted the sum , b , 4 i of. for the immediate widening of a t r h c c h e R a u u e z d e F 1 1 e a li C il i Cite, ' I,l4e4tions on the.right side, from the :- eit •'' -•- —li t dtf Marche Neuf. ' ..i ... : GENERA!, ASSEMBLY. PATII()NAGE. On Monday, Mr. Cunningham, one of the Non-Intrusion Ministers, m..ved the follewirig resolution :—" That the Ge neral Assembly, having considered the overtures anent pa tronage, resolve and declare that' patronage is a grievance, has been attended with much injury to the cause of true religion in this Chu. ch and kingdom, is the main cause of the difficulties in whirls the Church is at present involved, and that it ought to be abolished." 'fht Rev. Gentleman made a long speech in sue port of his motion, and concluded in the following words:— " lt they 1 .oked to the support of the great body of the people of Scorland, which was, after all, next to the Providence of God, their main stay, they must lift up their voice against patrenage in every form. It the Church of ~c otland should now shrink from the way to which she was plainly and manifestly called from fears, doubts, and difficulties, he was persuaded in his conscience, she would give an open and palpable proof of her unworthiness for the position in which God, in his Provident e, had placed her. Whether, therefore, they looked to the blessing of God, or to the support of their people, the plain course was to adopt the motion now before them. If the Church should now be mean enough, or base enough, to refuse to ask for the abolition of patronage, I for one have very little hope that she will ever get out of her troubles. I believe, and the belief has been lately strengthened, that she will perish, and .in a great measure deserve to perish, for she will perish unpitied and disgraced. Mr. Heenan, of Kelloe, seconded the motion, though he could not go along to the full extent of the views of the Rev. mover as to the bearing which Scripture had upon the question. They had heard of many schemes of late, but they had all been abandoned, and the fact was that they had now unlimited pa tronage, and so the Church was driven into a corner. The question was, therefore substantially, whether they would have unlimited patronage, or no patronage at all. Un doubtedly he would say no patronage. lle had from his youth been attached to what was called the Conservative party, but he regretted he could not approve of the conduct of that party, in regard to the Church at the present time. Never were there any statesmen that had entered into power with a greater opportunity of securing a nation's gratitude than had the . present Government: they had the power of healing the divisions in the Church, but he deeply regretted, and it pained him to say, that they had evinced no disposition to that de sired consummation; but he could not forego the hope, that they might yet view these matters in a different light. Otte of the blessings of this country was a free press, but in this particular instance, that freedom had led to much misrepresentation, by disguising from those in the South the real state of feeling in Scotland as to the present position of the Church. The PaocußAToa said it was with great reluctance that he had been prevailed on to undertake the task of proposing the amendment on this occasion. He was well aware that it was the unpopular side of the question, which was a thing that one did hot naturally like, and he was also reluctant in meeting the very able speaker who, he under stood, was to make the motion. But if Mr. Cunni gharn failed to convince even the gentleman who seconded his motion of the soundness of his views, he could not be surprised that he should not have convinced him. He was no out and out admirer t.f patronage—he was not prepared to say that it was the best mode that could be devised ; on the contrary, he had always thought that some method might be devised which would render it safe to abolish patronage. He might say that his view had one advantage, that was, that he was defending that which exi.ted ; and accord. ingly it did appear to him that his Reverend Friend had failed to make out that argument by showing what he would substitute for that which existed. He was now standing up in support of an existing institution—an institution which, except ing an interval of Prelacy, and also the interval from 1649 to 1660, had existed 300 years ; and it also existed during that interval of Prelacy, but of course not along with a Presbyterian Church. Patronage, as stated last year by Dr. Cook, had its origin in the party who built and endowed the Church, reserving the right of presentation to himself. What was more natural and proper than that the State, when it came to establish re ligion, should consider what sect it would adopt ? He was not saying patronage was good in itself; but was it not natural that the State should see that the system of religious doctrine should remain which they intended to endow. lie would assume that patronage was very bad, although he was perfectly satis fied that it was net the worst method in which a minister could be appointed—still he had not imagined until to -day that his Rev. Friend Mr. Cunningham and his party had ever held that popular election was a good thing. The lower classes, giving them the credit for being the best in any country, had not the means of making the choice—they could not know the man until they got him among them, and, in his opinion, to give them the election, would be a worse mode than even the existing mode of patronage. But if they simply brought forward a motion for abolishing the Act of Queen Anne, then it came to popular election. Accordingly the motion merely rested on a vague resolution, and the Mover did not show what was to come in the place of patronage. He might allude to an analogous case which would "be well understood, viz., what would be thought of any Reformer of the Radical party, making in some such instance as they had done lately, a mo tion in the House of Commons that the present system of re presentation was the worst that could be imagined, and there fore that it should be put an end to. Would he find a seconder if he did not propose what was to follow ? Would any man, except those as wild as himself, listen for a moment to a scheme that would throw the conntry into anarchy and confusion by sweeping away the existing Parliament without leaving any in its place? This day he (Mr. C.) had told them six times over that he had established his argument from Scripture. Now, had they heard anything more than that quotation? The question was, what hi s Rev. Friend intended to substitute. He wished Mr. Cunningham would tell them what he wanted—he held they were entitled to know what was wanted. If even the Church and people of Scotland were so decided for the abolition of patronage as had been represented by his Rev. Friend and ethers, he could not help holding it a little singular, that out of the 82 Presbyteries only twenty-five had sent overtures to the Assembly on that question, and out of all the people of the Church there were not above 20,000 in dividual petitioners. He would move as an amendment— " That the General Assembly having considered the overtures, And that it is inexpedient in present circumstances to adopt the motion." A great number of speakers followed, among others Dr. Chalmers, who expressed his determina ion to vote against patrouage, but at the same time gave a strange proof of his con viction, that the people were the best judges of a clergyman's qualifications. We can make no sense of his argument, but possibly some of our readers may. In our opinion, his argu- 1 ment was in favour of patronage , but they are infinitely more mysterious than any of the most absurd speeches of Oliver Cromwell. These are his words, they effectually show the spirit of Non-Intrusion :—He had no faith in the entire in fallibility of the popular voice. The principle on which he, however, contended for the popular element in the matter was, thatby it the Church Courts, if the congregation were honest and sincere, were enabled to collect an amount of opinion which was the best and the surest guide for them in the choice 1 and election of a minister to a parish. When he spoke of the popular conscience, he spoke of the religious character of a people which was ascertained, not the promiscuous multitude who may be congregated within a parish. ,-:e btlieved this system of household or resident election was as bad as high-handed I patronage. A godless and secular democracy over-riding the i Church and the Christian people, would be just as hateful I as the supremacy of a godless and secular aristocracy. To the Church Courts belonged the highest and most important part of this matter. By the exercise of more strictness, and a greater degree of watchfulness, they could so raise the qualifi cations of the students, that the dangers to be apprehended from a perfectly uncontrolled popular election need no longer be entertained. By placing the initiative in the hands of the Church Courts, they would act and react on each other in the most admirably manner, and the people might look with confi dence for a very superior class of clergy under this rule. On the other hand, the history of patronage, receiving as it is undubitable confirmation by what is going on, gees to show that it is not limited, and cannot be limited in its operation. Like the Grand Turk, it will admit of no rival near its throne. On all these grounds, and for the reasons stated, he had arrived at the conclusion that the question'can only be clearly and con sistently settled by the entire abolition of patronage. Mr. Roamrsors, of Ellon, would not have spoken on this occasion, had it not been for the allusion made by Mr. Cun ningham in the opening address on this subject, to a concession made by him last year upon the question now before the House. He still adhered to the exact terms of that concession, and whenever he saw a modification of patronage embodied in any Act on the principle of that concession he would vote for it, come from what quarter it might. He agreed with Mr. Cunningham that the question must be discussed and dec ded on the ground of principle. We have to do with patronage as it stands, and to deal with it as it exists under the system which we see before us. Mr. Cunningham went on the consideration that no parties except the two he mentioned ought to be con sidered in this matter, and assumed that the power which he insisted belonged to these two parties could belong to no other party whatever, although it might be distributed according to circumstances between these two. But Mr. Cun ningham had neglected to attend to another element in the consideration of it, which could not be omitted unless he went to the legitimate conclusion which its omission implied, and proved that the Christian Church could not be an Established Church at all. Unless such were the effect of his positions, he must admit another element into the question, the introduction of which, as he would endeavour to prove, did not in any re spect deprive the Church Courts or the people of the rights which belong to them. The other element, however, must be attended to. He supposed the case of a corporate body estab lished in the country, invested with the whole wealth of the country ; the power of distributing that wealth exclusively made to belong to it ; and that its acts were not to be brought under the review of the civil pewee. This he conceived only re quired to be applied to the circumstances of the Church.• The difficulty in Ibis este via, found to be that tbe peo ple slid also the Presbytery founded on sal unlimited right of controlling the law, and the latter insisted that th y were not required - to put forward more than a conscientious idea of duty as a reason for what they did. The side of the House to which he belonged considered the Church Courts, in this case, to be acting without defined control ; and they wished, on the principle laid down by Lord Bacon, that these Court should be compelled to give a reason for their decisions. Their epponents forgot the important fact, that it was the danger of the Church to commit error as well as others. The fallibility of the Church was equally . an element in this matter, and de served to be considered in its discassion. He did net attach his faith in all things to the example of tl.e primitive Churches. Ad herence might he proper to the primitive Church in the essential partsof their faith, but he did not know that this Church with its Presbyterian system, rules, and forms, was modelled exactly after the model of the primitive Church. So long, how ever as the Church in its primitive era remained a voluntary Church, its spiritual concerns were not under the power of the Roman Government. But when it secured the sanction of that povrer, what was the consequence? Would it be maintained that while the Church was admitted to retain the property of the State in virtue of the connection then formed, it cught to hare the power of disposing of that property without reference to the law of the State? It had often been said in the course of this agitation, that the Church would be put down by the State; but he considered it equally clear that the Church may put down the State. The experience of past history justified this idea as much as it did the other. The Church did put down the State. It first became the rival, and afterwards the superior power; and were he to draw an inference from the existence of the Church in such circumstances, and in such a position as regards the civil power, he would conclude that an Established Church is not consistent with civil government. Principal Dewar, Dr. Boyce, Dr. Cook, and some other speakers of inferior note followed, when, on a division, the votes were,— For the abolition of patronage Against the motion 147 Majority -69 Mr. CUNNINGHAM then moved that a Committee should be appointed to prepare an Address to the Queen, and potitions to both Houses of Parliament for the abolition of patronage. -------- - The General Steam Navigation Company's British steam-ship Earl of Liverpool, Captain H. Lomax, landed her passengers at London-bridge Whatf, from Ostend, yesterday, at one o'clock. She passed the Bruges at Sea Reach, not withstanding the latter started from Ostend an hour before. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Cantab, Liverpool, to R : o Grande, sth ult., lat. I, lon. 20 ; Eleanor, from Londqp, 14th ult., lat. 6, lon. 23, by the Vulcan, arrived off Hastings. Bolivar, of Bristol, for Africa, 10th inst., lat. 39, ion. 12; Rose, bark, of Guernsey, 15th inst., lat. 39, lon. 13, by the Janet, arrived at Falmouth.• Margaretha, schooner, 7th ult., lat. 1 N., long 22 W. ; Maria, 13th ult., lat. 4, lon. 21, by the Columbine, arrived at Liverpool. Esperance, from Martinique, March 28, leaky, lat. 40, lon. 6, by the Phoenix, arrived at Marseilles. DEATH OF SIR ROBERT KEIt FORTE THE PAINTER AND TRAVELLER. " Trave;ler rest! Thy journey 's o'er; Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Dream of foreign homes no tours, Days of wanifring—nights of waking." Dr. Porter, the phy,iedan, at Bristol, has just received news from St. Peiersburgh, of the untimely death, Ly apoplexy, of his brother, Sir Robert Ker Porter. The lather of Sir Robeit Ker Porter was an officer of Di agoutis, of an Irish family. He was, moreover, a younger brut tier. who, dying in the prime of life, let , his widow with five almost it - tiara children, in very low and slender circum stances ; and who, from time to time, were relieved by the Royal Fatuity and other persons of distinction. Three of the orphans were sons; the two eldest early entered professions, winch they filled in a manner honourable to their name; the th rd was Sir Robert Ker, who was burn in the year 1750, at Dui ham, and who, consequently, at the time of his death, was 62 years of age. The two daughters were ;Hiss Jane and Miss Anna Maria Foi ter, both of them so well known as authoress, s, in the littrary world, and of whose productions , ‘• Th e Hun garian Brothers," " The Scottish Chiefs," " Thadd eus, of Warsaw," the " Village of Mariendorpt,' and other works of a like nature, need only be mentioned to p. esent copious proofs of their wide-spread tame and celebrity. Sir Robert Ker Porter, as regards genealogy and family. sprang from a race of brave and talented ancestors. Amongst the foremost of these are to be numbered Sir William Porter, of the Field of Agincourt.; End} mum I'orter, of classic and loyal memery ; the Lord Chief Justice Sir Charles Porter, who transplanted his father's branch of the tree to Ireland; and another who, adheritig to the cause of James Stuart, Int lowed that Monarch's ruined fortunes to the Continent, after wards settled at Bru g es , and ultimately became the founder of an opulent and highly influential house. On his mother's side, Sir Robert counted the old Anglo- Saxon Barons of Blenkinsopp and Hilton, and the learned Adarnsons, farther north, amongst his forelathers. As one of the modern offsets derived from these venerable progeni tors, the subject of our memoir was ti equently uelighted to mention the name of John Tweddell, the celebrated traveller of Greece, now entombed in the Temple of Theseus, at Athens—a shrine visited by every Englishman who goes to that classic land. Mrs. Porter, the mother of Sir Robert, has long been known to the world, from eotemporary friends, as one of the most exemplary women of the day, dedicating herself entirely to the comfort and education of her children; indeed, from the slender circumstances in which the widows of military men are left, she, Lom prudence no less than from inclination, sought a retired life. Under her care and tuition all her children gave early proofs of mental superiority, which ap peared more particularly alter Anna Mai ia, the youngest, with her sister Jane, and their brother, sir Robert, had been seine time under the tutorship of . George Fulton, who then kept a celebrated day-school in Edinburgh, and is weil known as the compiler of an excellent dictionary. On the removal of Mrs. Porter from Scotland to England, where she, with this her young family, resided fora few years in one of the northern counties, in the near neighbourhood of one of the late Bishops of the Church, young Sir Robert, with his two sisters (Lail formed a group in the Episcopal library, to which they had free access whenever they pleased. The boy, who was then but the embryo artist and traveller, drawing from missals and ilium nated books : the girls, as di ligently reading some of the excellent works they found there, espeerally the otaChronicies, many of them in the black letter. ikOne of Mr. Northcote's choicest paintings was struck off in commemoration of this little group, and their early habits. He was a long-esteemed friend. The subject, as treated by him forms a slight but beautiful sketch of three happy-looking children, in a Gothic sort of chamber. One of the brightei ornaments of the world of letters, having beheld this scene, apostrophized it thus " Lo ! he is there—within that Gothic chamber One of a cherub-group—the book unsealed — The well-spring opened;—they are drinking deep Of knowledge and of beauty ! old Romance And fairy spells are round them. His young eye, Instinct with rapture, hails the witching vision, And straight transmits its glories to his mind, And precious seed-store for the future hour." The residences of Sir Hubert Ker Porter and his family were various on their coming to London. About 1623 they lived at a pretty ivy-mantled spot on the banks of the Thames, at Ditton, and shortly after at another little abode of a similar description, situated on a hill at Esher, where in the June of 1631 his mother died. After this bereavement they sought change of place, and after residing different times at Hyde park and Portland-place, took up their residence at a friend's house on Banner-down, near Bath : they then proceeded to Bristol, to visit their brother, Dr. Porter, who had been fir some years settled in that town as a physician, and where on the 6th of June, Anna Maria Porter died of typhus. On referring to the Catalogues of the Royal ticademy of past years, he appears to have been a constant and attractive exhi bitor. In the exhibition for 1804 he exhibited two paintings, one of a Russian Cuirassier, and another of a British Light Dragoon. 18C5, A drawing from the Avenger, or the Wrongs of Lady Hermegeld. 1797, A horseman run down by a lion. Portrait of a gentleman as Hamlet ; and about half-a-dozen various other portraits. He was then living in Newport-street. 1795, A Saracen flying from the enemy', and portraits. Living at 66, St. Martin's-lane. 1793, The defeat of King Stephen at the battle of Lincoln, from Rapti). He was then living at 38. Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Sir Robert became a student at the Royal Academy, under the auspices of Mr. West, and two years after commencing his studies at the Academy, he was employed to paint his picture of Moses and Aaron, for the Communion-table of Shoreditch Church ; in 1794 he presented an altar-piece to the Roman Catholic Chapel at Portsea, representing , Christ suppressing the Storm ; and in 1798 he gave to St. Johns College, Cambridge. the altar-piece of St. John Preaching in the Wilderness. At only 22 years of age he began his large picture of the Storm ing of Seringapatam, whic was succecded by the Battle of Agincourt, and was presented to the City of London. The painting, however, which attracted most attention, and which was exhibited in the year 1801 at the Lyceum, was the fine historical subject tf the "Siege of Acre," relative to the late contest which had then taken place in Syria under Sir Sidney Sunth. This production was a piece of very excellent colour ing, the groupings good, and the whole, from its truth an:i exe cution, drew large numbers to see it. -In 1803 he was appointed a Captain in the Westminster Militia ; in 1804 he was invited to Russia, anti appointed his torical painter to the Emperor. During his residence at St. Petersburgh he gained the affections of the Princess Mary, daughter of Prince Theodore de Shei batorff, of Russia, and was about to marry her, when Ministerial differences com pelled him to leave Russia • in the year, Jail 1, however, this marriage was solemnized, and the Prince's now survives him. Sir Robert accompanied Sir John Moore into Spain, an shared in the hardships and perils of the campaign which ended in the Battle of Corunna. In 1807 he was created a Knight of St. Joachim of Wurtemberg, and on his return to England, 1813, he received the honour of Knighthood from the Prince Regent. Sir Robert's fame, as a traveller and literary man, was first made known to the world by his " Travelling Sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805-6-7-8," and which in the ensuing year were given to the public. he sailed from England on this extensive tour in the August of 1605, and passing the Sound, visited first Elsineur, where he followed Hamlet everywhere, and " measured the shadows on the platform. ) , From Zealand, he next struck across to Cronstadt, and thence to St. Petersburgh. Here his lucubrations grow entertaining and full; the Church dedicated to " the Motner of God at Ratan," the architect of which was formerly a slave of Count Strcgonoff, where, too, were hung up the keys of Johmael, Okzakow, Derbent, and the standards and trophies of Pultowa, Noir, and Alessandria, was not among the least notmeabletif the things there seen by him. From Moscow he journied through Finland and across the Gulf to Stockholm, where he visited the King Gustavus and his Queen, the latter of whom—then a most beautiful woman—he the North." He visited the s e p o o n t si i : n ier p et a l ie th ca e ri . i ` a , F s a v i h r er li e e G le u n st o a l vus Nasa took refuge from the Danish usurper, and was next carried by his military ardour to Gottenburg, where he resolved to enter on immediate service with the hnglish army, then assembled in that port, and ulti mately came to England. Sir Robert Ker Porter's second series of travel was begun in the year 1817, and he was engaged the three consecutive years in following them up. During this period he traversed Georgia, Persia, Armenia, and Ancient Babylon. Having from childhood been an ardent lover and sedulous practicer of the arts, the study of antiquity, daring these travels, shared no small part of his attention, and the plains of Babylon afforded him even ampler scope than those of Per sepolis, while Kurdistan, a county of which little comparatively was known, of whom the people and country too were highly picturesque, was explored by him to a great extent, and he travelled over this latter portion of country with much careful geographical precision, which he rendered more particularly interesting by tracing the march of Xenophon. In It4lB, he enjned the company of Air. Rich, the late Consul, at Bagdad, and in concert with that gentleman made many excellent excursions and antiquarian researches among the old ruins of Babylon: his observations with his sextant were unceasing, and astronomy kept him constantly alive. His much-lamented friend Belino died at this period. Of the great quantity of relics which he collected at Mujelebe, El Kasr, or the palace, Al Hymer, Persepolis, and Mackshi-Roustan, va rious allotments were presented by him to the British Museum, where every clay visitors may inspect them, as also to the Edin burgh and Dublin Museums, in which are the smaller speci mens, while others are deposited in the, Imperial Mtuseum at St. Peteraburg . h. In 1819, he was created a Knight of the Lied and Sun of Persil. In the diplomatic and in the military awaken,' the , State be had much distinguished hinxiself, having served, th, both capacities, in Russia, in the Peninsula; various nava of the.. Continent, in Persia, and in South America. In' the year 1632, he was created a Knight Commander of the' Hanoverian Order by William IV. His most recent appointment was that of Consul at Venezuela, from which place he returned in 1841. DREADFUL SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—.lUesuay evening Mr. Payne held an inquest at Battholomew's Hns. pital, on view of the body of Ann Johnson, aged 35. Susan Hall, of 29, C.;ck-lane, Smithfield, stated that she and de ceased lodged in the same house together. About eight o'clock on Thursday evening last witness's daughter (a child about eight years old) heard a knocking in deceased's room, and thinking she wanted some one, the child went in. On entering the apartment she found deceased lying on the bed. She appeared to be unable to speak, but made a sign to the child to go and fetch her mother, which sho accordingly did. On witness going into the deCeased's room she went up to her bedside, and asked her if she was not well? Deceased, in reply, shook her head, and then significantly drew her right liana across the bed clothes over her throat. Witness said, Good heavens, you have cut your throat ! Deceased replied in the affirmative by nodding her head. Witness rushed out of the room to procure assistance. The bed was soaked with blood, and there was a tub at the end of the bed with a great quantity of blood in it. She had evidently cut her throat with her head hanging over the end of the bed, and then drawn het - self up into the bed. Deceased had been drinking during the previous week, and had subsequently suffeted severely from low spirits. She died on Sunday last. Verdict—" Temporary losantty." TIIE DEANERY OF ST. PATRICE ' S.—It is under stood that Dr. Radcliffe will pronounce judgment to-morrow in the long litigated question arising out of the election to the Deanery of St. Patrick's, vacant by the death of the lamented Dean Dawson. —Dublin Pilot (Monday). The Austrian Observer, of the 16th inst., contain an order from the Emperor of Austria for the opening of sub scriptions in all the provinces of the empire, in favour of Ham burgh. The contemplated improvements in Piccadilly have been postponed until the ensuing autumn, in consequence of on the subj ec t w hi c h h ave ar i s en on the part o s-in-the- basin Fields, whose limits extend to the s in orm S t e l t ; d e i l‘M G lac r ru e tlini e t n Park. The parish of St George, Hanover square, are willing to accede to the proposals of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests to facilitate the widening of the street, and there is no doubt that this desirable improve ment, though now at a stand-Still, will be ultimately carried into effect. An interesting ceremony took place, on Saturday, at the Church of St. Pierre, at Montmartre. It was the c, le bration of the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage between a wot thy couple named Rouselot. The Cure, in giving them the usual benediction, declared that it was the first known instance • of the kind wain the parish. LITERATURE: . , 1 DE VALME Mitchell, 8 7 4 ' 2 R . AGED Y. We learn from the title-page of this remarkable drama, that it is the joint production of two gentle men, rejoicing in the names of William Henry Hos kins, and Horatio Huntley Hoskins, and that it has already been performed at the Norwich and Lynn theatres. In what form it was played there—whether as a tragedy, comedy, or three, the authors do not in form us, but as they style it atragedy, we may reason ably presume that it was perfornied as such ; and truly there is much in it of a deeply tragic character, for common sense is assassinated h the very first act ; grammar put to the most wanton torturers ; and pro bability subjected to such grievous shocks, as might make even stones weep! When we bear in mind that this surprising composition is a sort of Beau mont-and-Fletcher concern, we feel a natural curiosity, in which the public will no doubt share, to ascertain how much of it is due to William Henry Hoskins, and how much to Horatio Huntley Hoskins—who did the funny, and who the pathetic parts—who manufactured the prose, and who the poesy ; unfortunately, however, we are left in the dark, as to the exact share which each gentleman had in the piece ; and we are not a little uneasy, there fore, least while courteously protesting against certain portions of it, we make William Henry wince, when Horatio Huntley should be the object Of our mild ob jurgation. The tragedy opens with a fight between Vitelli, an Italian peer, and Jacquez, a foolish footman, who is interrupted by the entrance of Traversaro, a Judge of Ferrara, and Regent during the Duke's absence, who taunts the combatants with seeking "to untie each other's lives," whereupon Vitelli proceeds to explain the cause of the row, which originated—as most skrimmages do—in a woman. It seems that Eufrania Galeazzo, a wealthy, and high born lady of Ferrara, had some time before been sub jected to the importunate addresses of Vitelli, which so annoyed her sweet-heart, Fernando de Valencourt, apordigal peer, that he ordered hisfootman, Jacques, to pitch into him the first convenient opportunity. Hence the " disturbant riot," to quote our author's phraseo logy. in the next scene, we learn that Eufrania has been clapped in quod for high treason having ven tured to plead for the pardon of her father, who had been unjustly executed by the l a t e D u k e o f Ferrara for a traitor. Feeling, as might be expected, exceedingly uncomfortable in her cell, 'especially as she is -in chains, the disconsolate young woman pours forth her griefs in soliloqUy to a bird, which is in a cage beside her, reminding the feathered warbler how kind she had been to him in happier days, and requesting him as a particular favour to tune up. On his refusing to comply with her strenuous solicitations, she expresses her astonishment at his obstinate silence, but immediately afterwards diseOvers that it is from a delicate regard to her feelings that he declines to sing her 6` requiem," and touchingly adds, "Oh, honest bird ! How like the faithful dog ! How different, , From faithless man !" • Generally speaking, there is unquestionably a great difference between a man and a bird ; though we have known some men who bore a most marvellous semblance to a goose.—The next scene introduces us to Francisco, the Duke of F,errara, and Eufrania's sweet-heart, Fernando. Both are in a high state of excitement, for the one is relating, and the other is listening to, the particulars of the lady's imprisonment. " Her arms," observes the indignant Fernando— " Which once lent lustre to fine polished armlets, were manacled with rusty iron to her silver thighs ; round her fair neck, which wore a careanet of unexcelled mag nificence, a brazen band was coarsely gartered, and her pure and vestal temple ingirt with ruffians. In fine, her rank was paid no compliment, but. in the common prison, there—there was she with Ferrara's scum vilely incar cerated." There is a pleasing ambiguity in this passage, which possesses all the charm "of an enigma ; but as we are indifferent guessers at riddles, we sh a ll ma k e no further comment on it, than just to express our in dignation at the wretches who could clap rusty chains onagetltleNo ek mar s ithey possessed silverthi gehse's's,e7 the dtie a garter round her h v eslightest spark of 'sentiment, they would have died rather than have done so, for, mark, how the fair object of their brutality is described by her impassioned lover Fer nando ! _ _ _ " 011 ! her eyes du beggar heaven's brightest stars i❑ lustre—her hair long and luxuriant, dark as the jettest raven's—her fair forehead mild and expressive as 4f:gean Jove's—her mouth a paradise of flowers secured by gates of whitest ivory, made jocund by her nimble tongue, that ever and anon would warble strains of varied and of cadent harmony, which should outdo each feathered songster of the grove ! She is in form the very proto type of grace,—and then her mind ! Oh, it is a glass, whereat Truth and Virtue robe themselves when they would convert a profligate ! " This animated description so works upon the Duke Francisco, that he expresses the strongest sym pathy with Eufrania, and adds, addressing , himself to Fernando, • " As a man, I feel and share your sorrow; but then my mind is so moulded, that I can whistle shallow sighs off to their native element, when action is reqiiired." We would give much to have seen the. Duke of Ferrara engaged in the occupation of whistling a sigh off to its native element; and regret that he did not inform us by what means such a perplexing feat was to be achieved. The result of the confabulation between him and Fernando iS,•that the latter resolves on pleading Eufrania's cause ; in the disguise of a doctor of laws, before Traversaro, the judge, who, happening to be an exceeding rogue, is bent op pro curing the prisoner's conviction, as in that case, he will be put in possesion of her estates. Accordingly, after the case for the prosecution. is closed, he declares Eufrania to be guilty, notwithstanding an energetic protest from Fernando; when, lo.! just as Traversaro is about to put on the black cap, an order comes from Francisco, commanding him to quit the judgment seat, and stand at the bar as a criminal ! Of course he has no alternative, but to' obey ; and evidence being adduced against him, he is found guilty of corrupt practices as a judge, and sentenced to be hanged, while his intended victim is honourably ac quitted. Fernando, still disguised as a lawyer, now thinks himself entitled to his client's lasting gratitude ; and in a long and sentimental dialogue with her, thus alludes to a lady whom he deeply loved : " Her riches were as countless as the gnat Which, summer through, Teazes the reaper as he toils ; her mind Was as a sacred Fame lit up with Truth, With Virile sentinelled, and fretted o'er With silver hieroglyph s of Innocence !" There is infinite pastoral beauty in the image of the gnat teasing the reaper, tho ug h it is by n o means im probable that the reaper him se lf may be of a different opinion. When Fernando has brought his speech to an anchor, Enfrania sets to, and candidly acknowledges that she is in love with him,' upon which be throws off his disguise, and tells her that, if she has no ob jection, he will marry her on the spot, observing, " We'll strait at Church Be confirmed in Ouriiiie;,—aii—dinthe glee And jocund jollity, with which from hence We will demean ourselves, we will inspire Ferrara all afresh !—no dance but we Will mingle in, and track each other's steps All through the giddy maze !—no masquerade But we will there be seen in lover's guise, And thou shalt be my Juliet, and I Thy Romeo ! No tilt, no tournament, But we will be conspicuons in for carriage, And for well governed steeds No theatre but Shall have our patronage !,,- Fernando keeps his promise to the letter. After his marriage with Eufrania, he indulges in all sorts —games—gives splendid play—and soon' runs But mischief Mean • ' ti o .el f ier do T u— n g .7 -- hg oa b e e vs t e s fun- r r to a c op e e s rt ht ye . time: is at work, for we find his rival Vitelli plotting in the second act with a worthy agent, one Cavigni— it horrid scamp—the young Benedict's utter ruin. It seems that the Duke de Ornise and the Mar quis and Marchioness de Brion are shortly ex pected at Ferrara, on leaving which Cavigni w aylays and murders them, and then, with Vitelli, and a lady the b e ll f or th e of easy virtue, by name Cleor a, takes upon himself to personate them, and being introduced to Fernando, plunges him head ove r ears in debts of ho nour . I n th e Sufi a fl n ‘ i o a . rimingrethr to .e hunt Lord i s . O n hi s iu n t with his illus trious trench guests, a nd threatenin g a long speech rft footman, di y ll i a l a i nc g ,t th a t alNi l' ed fi h has E askingias gonem h on the subject, she cuts him short by remarking, " Sir, you are circumlocuttve," And orders him to go to the, book-case in the next room, and writ by " Reach the English book Walton !" are supposed by the authors to have occured in the year 1600, at which is insolvent, and years old, we are puzzled to understand how Eufrania could have had period N oUw r l o z a si a a' the 11 the Walton Aevretnotr A l o v fn lis tghl o iin fl t y '-ra fi g :e ly his work on Angling M her possession ! But to re- sume. The lady is soon roused from her piscatory studies by the abrupt entrance:of her husband, who, e he iiiiao‘t'iluignliaktelbankrupts in the Gazette, flies into a rage ' with his wife—and before company, too, which , make s the matter worse. Having thus disembarrassed himself of a lengthy to o figure discoveredam on among that t il portion of his spleen, Fernando attempts to borrow money of h's aristocratic French friends ; but they, havng a natural objection to lend, except ;in gocd security, politely decline compliance with his request ; which so enrages him, that he tell; them they are anything but gentlemen, and announces his intention of . shortly visiting them NN ith the severest p a ins and penalties. Accordingly, we discover him, in the fifth act, pursuing the voca tion of a money lender, living in an obscure alley, sporting a beard like a he-goat's, growing stingier and stingier every day, and ruining as many noblemen by his usurious practices as lie possibly can. As for his wife, though the authors do not specify the exact extent of her privations, we 'fear that her husband does not allow her more than five shillings a week, on w hi c h h e ev id en tly expOts .. that she • thali keep herself and-household'.. But is not the worst of poor- Eufrania's-Isufferings, for, fallen though she is in fortunes she finds that Vitelli still persecutes her with his odious addresses, and on one remarkable oc casion endeavous to ropse her jealousy, by vomiting the following diabolical calumny on her husband : " But yesternight, as I lay stretched along The river bank, in the breath revelling Of balmy eve, and sunset's 'chanted hour, Approach there did a- foot which broke my dream. As from a trance I startled into life, And viewed (oh, the foul horror, have I words To mention it?) the substance of my dream With a foul wanton I my master saw Kissing and cooing like a new-joined pair." To this malicious insinuation Eufrania makes a very proper and spirited reply,' She knows well that usurer, with a beard like a he-goat's, and who cares for nothing but the blunt, 'is not the man to go kis sing, and cooing, and caterwauling, so expresses her sense of Vitelli's falsehood in this energetic and im passioned style :-- • Most wanton liar ! Now thy soul is grimed • And black as Hell to conceive such a thought!! Fool, do you think I am so great a slave To passion, that I'd let a jealousy Unfounded as a madman's brain, swoop down My rest of life into the dark abyss Of sharp, soul-cankering remorse?—Let not- Your presence again offend mine eyes--begone !" But Vitelli won't go. On the contrary, he sticks like bricks to Eufrania, and when she flatly tells him that his " zeal is lust," the lewd wretch, struck by the apt felicity of her hypothesis, draws a rapier from his kickseys, and is just about to spit her therewith, when in rushes Fernando, and of course defeats his murder ous intentions. The, tragedy now hurries to a close. After one or two more incidents of no great moment, Vitelli succeeds in stabbing Fernando, who dies in the middle of a long speech, but not before he has subjected several inoffensive metaphors to a erious compound fracture. The murderer is immediately seized and' carried off to the nearest station-house; and Eufrania is left, at the fall of the curtain, looking as silly as a - sheep, and expressing her decided convic tion that Fernando is as dead as mutton ! Such is a brief, hasty summary of the leading incidents of this very remarkable tragedy, which, we regret to state, is, in some of its passages, quite as incomprehensible as Sir Robert Peel's Income=tax Bill, and is likely to obtain just the same amount of popularity. As well wishers to the authors, we should strongly advise them to send a copy of their play to the Right lion. Baronet, who, as a dealer in the unintelligible him self, can scarcely fail to appreciate this faculty in others. WEATHER AND CROPS IN SCOTLAND.—The preva lent wind for several weeks has been the east and north-east. We have observed that, of late years, the easterly has been the prevalent wind from about the middle of Aril till towards the end of June • and this circumstance, especially to invalids, has been no slight drawback on the out-of-door enjoyments of the season. For some days the Caithness and Sutherland moun tains have been hid from us by a haze, or but dimly discovered through a long and sweeping veil of mist. During the day, a bank of fog liesalong the verge of the German sea, which, to wards nightfall, sends long strips and filmy trains of dusky vapour trailing along our hills and straths ; and not seldom does this chilling and cheerless visitation overspread the whole coun t' y, giving the vapours to the people who had, but five minutes before, been basking and rejoicing in the sunshine. Notwith standing the bleak east wind, however, vegetation is making visible and rapid progress. The potatoes are beginning to peep out from among the clods ; and the process of capping to facili tate their egress is going on vigorously. The braird is rising _steadily and healthfully—the clover looks fresh and promising, and the farmer is now beginning to prepare his land for turnip seed. More rain is desirable. On the light uplands the sur face soil is asdry as dust. The fruit trees, unless their blossoms be blighted or shaken off by the wind, promise a crop unusually abundant. The price of cattle continues low, but butcher's meat is not cheap in proportion. The tariff panic seems to have subsided in this district, as elsewhere. Ruup are rife.— Wick Paper. _ _ - A:letter from Hamburgh, in a Frankfort paper, states that M. Solomon Heine, .the banker, in addition to his munificent donation of 150,000 f. to the fund for the relief of the persons who had been reduced to poverty by the late fire, ordered a thousand rations of soup to be distributed daily at his expense. MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—A short time since, ten beautiful short-horned Durham heifers were turned into a close belonging to Mrs. Morris, of .Ampthill ; they were then in a thriving condition. On Saturday last one of them mani fested symptoms of disease, and shortly died. Since then three others have been attacked in a similar way, all of which have died ; others are still ill. It is believed that the disease with which they have been attacked is the murrain, which appeared about 130 years ago.—Herts Reformer. Arrangements have been made with the South Eastern Railway Company, for the transmission of newspapers, by which the delivery will be accelerated at Tunbridge Wells and other places between three andfour hours, and the evening papers will be delivered the same day. On Friday last, the Procureur du Roi at Versailles applied to the Tribunal de Premiere Instance of that town, to order the cessation of the proceedings commenced before it in consequence of the late disastrous accident at Meudon, con sidering that they had been taken up by the Tribunal at Paris. But the Judges differing in opinion with the Procureur du refused the application, and directed that the examinations should be continued. The public prosecutor declared his de termination to appeal to the Cour Royale. M. Carteaux, a peace-officer, who distinguished himself in suppressing the political riots of 1832 and 1834, and who subsequently, in a moment of temporary derangement, attempted to drown himself in the canal St. Martin, threw himself, abeut three weeks ago, from the upper story of the house in which he lodged, and was taken from the pavement with a leg and several ribs broken. He was carried -to the hospital, where he lingered in great suffering till the day be tore yesterday, and then died, leaving a widow and several ! children. The Cologne Gazette states that the dervish who has accompanied the Turkish Ambassador to Vienna was lately presented to the Princess de Metternich. At his entrance into the drawing-room he dung a rose in the face of the Princess, which eau.sed some surprise. This was, however, speedily dis sipated, when hh declared that it was the custom of his order to salute ladies of distinction in this manner. The donation of the Duke of Roxburgh to the Ship wrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Benevolent Society this year was erroneously stated in The Sun of Monday to be if. ss. I should have been 25 guineas. The following melancholy suicide has just occur red. Sebastian Massa, an Italian historical painter, living with his wife in humble lodgings, in the Rue Saint Roch, had endeavoured to earn a subsistence by working for dealers, but, finding his gains inadequate to his wants, his mind gave way, and he frequently talked of self-destruction. His wife attempted to soothe and encourage him, and succeeded till two days ago, when, being apprehensive of arrest for debt, he sat down and wrote a letter, and, having finished it., embraced his wife, and bade her adieu in a tone which convinced her that he was resolved to leave her for ever. She endeavoured to detain him, but breaking from her, he threw himself out of the win dow. The poor woman fainted, and before she recovered her senses, her husband was brought back into the room a lifeless corpse. The letter he had written ivas todeclare that it was by his own will and resolution that he committed the suicide. _ Amongst the victims of the late deplorable railroad accident were three nephews and a niece of M. Thenet, who was formerly Sub• Prefect at Civray, in the Vienne, and is now Registrar at Chateau Latour. The first of the young men was so entirely consumed that no relic of him could be found except a knife which was is his pocket. Another was so dreadfully burnt in the face, that though still alive no hopes of his recovery are entertained. The third nephew, who had previously lost an arm, has been obliged to have one of his legs amputated, and may be saved. The young lady was dreadfully burnt in her body, but survived in excruciating pain till Saturday morning, whrn she expired. THE TIDE OF EMlGRATlON.—Emigration is now exciting greater attention among our labouring and middle class population than it has done for a long time past. In some dis tricts it is almost the only subject of conversation. Many have ceased to Jake an interest in the discussion of home politics, and look abroad to other countries for that liberty to labour which their own country now denies to them. No hope of improve ment is anticipated from a Tory Government. It is the most thoughtful, foreseeing, industrious, and skilful of our operatives and mechanics who are leaving their native country—the men who, are really and truly" their country's pride." Great num bers of the middle classes, of the rank of shopkeepers and small capitalists, are also preparing to leave England. They have felt themselves going " downhill " for many years past, and those who have any means left are anxious, for the sake of their families, to make a last effort before being finally crushed. Many families have already left Sheffield, Leeds, Huddersfield, Barnsley, Wakefield, Cleckheaton, &c., for the United States and Australia; and numbers more are preparing to follow their example. It almost seems as if England'sglory were now on the wane, and that she is doomed to suffer a lingering, but eertain decay, under the withering blight oilier blinded and selfish aris tocracy. —Sheffield Iris. At the sitting on the 18th instant of the Court of Assizes for the Lor-et-Cher, a woman was convicted of the murder of her husband, lvian Leloup, of Mouthon-sur - Bievre. They had for several years 'flied upon bad terms, and frequently had desperate quarrels ending . in blows, in which the husband from weakness, caused by having had one of his arms broken, always got the worst. On April 29th one of these do mestic feuds arose, and with such violence that the whole neighbourhood was alarmed, and assembled round the house of strife ; but no one dared' enter, though some of them described the blows as sounding like those of a butcher felling an ox. At length all was silent, and then they called in the garde cham petre and the Mayor, who made their way in and found Leloup lying in a pool of blood on the floor, in the last agonies of death. His wife confessed her crime, but attributed the provocation to Leloup, eau) she said quarrelled with her because she opposed his going out in the night, and beat her with a wooden prang. She then'in het rage took an iron bar from the fire-place, and did the deed. The Mayor, who was examined with the other witnesses, stated the facts which had come to his knowledge, but at the same titre, in all respects, except as to her quarrels with her husband, gave the prisoner an excellent character for her charitable ann kind disposition, "adding that she was the only person of the place who would undertake the nursing of a patient. dismissed from the hospital as incurable. She was found guilty with extenuating circumstances, and eondemned to be imprisoned with hard labour for ten years. The Quotidienne states that, a few days ago, a re bellion broke out in the Polytechnic School, which rose to such a height that some of the refractory youths were sent. to the prison of the Abbaye. On inquiry, we find the circumstances to be as follows :—lt has hitherto been the custom for the po• pits to celebrate the close of the period devoted to lessons in drawing, which ends in May, by a discharge of fireworks. This year, however, the Governor of the school, by an order of the day, prohibited the exhibition. The pupils took no notice of the order, and let off their fireworks as usual,. in consequence s.f which breach of discipline seven of the ringleaders have been sent to the military prison, and the other pupils are confined to the t chool. A Correspondent has furnished us with the testa e-eat of a very singular nucurrence that recently took place in a neighlx)uring county, but which we decliine inserting in its circumstantiarform, at least for the present. It appears that a certain gay Lothario in high life, not duly influenced by the sacred obligation of the tenth commandment, having been smitten by Cupid's darts, glanced from the bright blue eyes of an humble cottager's wife, importuned this Laura of humble life in vain ; but on a luckless occasion last week, he bent his steps to his en slaver's door, on the information that the gudeman was awe', and he essayed to open the door-latch by introducing his finger, when off was cut the offending finger by the knife of the in dignant husband ! Off started poor Don Juan, with but nine . fingers, roaring out that tho Chartists were coming ! We understand the finger was next day found iu a garden.— , Monmouth Merlin. TiiE HAWARDEN COLLIERS. TO THE EDITOR' OF THE SUN. SIB,—My attention having been, for the first time to-day, directed by a friend to aletter which appeared in your paper on the 7th inst., purporting to come from a workman, in which if, is stated " that the col tiers," as far as the writer is able to know, " by no means wish to dictate to their employers who shall; or shall not_ conduct their business, but that •Mr. Staley is supposed by the workman to have suggested, and carried into practice a scheme for reducing the colliers' wages from 18s. to about 12s. per week, by enlarging the meshes of the screens that screen the coals, so as to admit one-third of the coals, for which they were used to be paid, to pass through them as slack ; the strike is, in fact, to prevent an actual re duction of 33 per cent." I beg to state, in reply to. this gross misrepresen tation, that the riddles in .use by the colliers, before the turn-out, had meshes of one inch and a half square, and that the size of the meshes in the new riddles were one inch and three quarters only, being an in crease of one quarter of an inch. It is, therefore, Manifest that the loss to the workmen by the new riddles, could not possibly be anything like one-third of. the. coals ; it could only be. equal to the difference .between the large and small meshes, which differ only one quarter of an inch in size. I also beg to add, that the Ewloe Colliery Com pany are now paying more for the cutting of their coals than they were at any time during the war, when wheat was selling at 20s. a bushel, and coals at that time were selling at 10s. per ton on the bank ; they are now selling coals at from ss. to 6s. &l. per ton. This fact shows most clearly that Messrs. Rigby's have no disposition to oppress the men, and it is my determination, wherever I may be concerned, to see the workman fairly remunerated. To prove that the attack wasTersonal towards my self, I have only to state that the dispute, in reference to the riddles, had been settled to the satisfaction of the men before the assault was committed ; and I have since discovered that reports to my prejudice, en tirely false, were industriously circulated amongst them. Although in this instance I have replied to an anonymous Correspondent, in order to correct a most barefaced falSehood, it is not my intention in future to notice any letter to which the writer is ashamed of affixing his own name. Your insertion of this letter in your very excellent Paper will much oblige your very obedient servant, BENJAMIN STALEY. Ilawarden, May 18, 1842. P.S.—I beg to add that our men are now all at work, and perfectly quiet. TAXES ON SOLICITORS AND ATTORNEYS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. wish to call the attention of the public, through the instrumentality of your paper, to a tax imposed of late years upon a particular class of men, who, if they perform their duties well, cannot be considered as enemies to the commonwealth, and should not be made the objects of speCial taxation. The celebrated Magna Charta was supposed to secure various privileges to the English people, and amongst others, that of appointing confidential agents to represent them in the king's Courts, to sue for and defend their just property and rights. Since that statute was enacted these agents have existed under the denomination of attorneys and solicitors. For five hundred years they had been enrolled ; and after this long lapse of time the Legislature considers them fit objects of special taxation : they are to be taxed specially every year before they can enter upon duties necessary for the execution of the laWs If there be a class of men who are taxed without mercy, it surely must be those who are called to the ancient and honourable degree of an attorney at-law. They are taxed in their clerkship, 1201. being levied on their articles ; taxed on admission as Attorneys to the amount of 501. more, before they are duly qualified for All the duties of their office • taxed annually either Si. or 121., in fine, taxed for life. Against this last life-tax, Mr. Editor, I protest, and if it is continued with the Income-tax, which is about to receive the sanction of the Legislature, the lawyers are indeed a proscribed race. The tax is partial, confined to one profession, and to one branch of that profession ; it is unjust, because confined to those who are frequently employed in pro tecting the rights of other professions ; and the amount of duty imposed is perhaps for some time more than is actually earned. It is of little benefit to the Exchequer, disgraceful to the solicitor, and indi- , rectly injurious to his clients. It is commonly objected to the removal of this im post that attorneys are by no means immaculate characters—that their emoluments are great, and the tax itself popular. If a just and equitable tax were not generally the reverse of one that is popular—if the professional earnings of solicitors and attorneys were really lucrative—if they, as a body of men, were more reprehensible than members of other professions, or their offences less open to speedy punishment, there might be some ground for these. objections; but all this remains yet to be proved. The fact is, they are officers of the Courts .at minster, subject to the arbitrary jurisdiction of the Judges who there preside : they may be fined, im prisoned, struck off the rolls, and effectually controlled within the bounds of justice. Their emoluments are limited by statute. They alone are !liable to have their bills taxed by functionaries specially appointed for the purpose, and this duty is rigorously and punctually discharged. To many supporters of the tax the members of the legal profession are obnoxious on account of the severity of the laws, or the hardship with which they press on particular interests ; yet these do not reflect that by such a tax they make men accountable for effects, over which they can have no controul. It sel dom happens that a solicitor is a legislator. Others owe them a grudge, who have sUffered from the unjust decision of a suit at law or in equity ; yet, these matters are determined by a judge or a jury, and of the latter, a solicitor cannot be a member. Others again complain of trivial vexatious law-suits, whilst they utterly forget that no solicitor can be engaged in legal proceedings, without the retainer of a client; and, it is seldom that an honest claim can be sup ported and enforced by dishonest means. But should a suitor have engaged on his side an unprincipled practitioner, he ought not to bestow promiscuously on the whole profession the blame which attaches to his own selection. _ _ . This tax is a stigma upon the profession ; it oppresses them, it degrades them, and is calculated to bring the law itself into comtempt. To degrade men in their own eyes and before the public, is sometimes bad policy, though they may offend in something. Teach them to respect themselves, and they will frequently amend their faults, exalt themselves in the social scale, and do honour to their fellow citizens. This good the tax will never effect ; its results will be of au opposite nature, and thus the public suitors and clients will eventually be injured by it. May 19th, 1842. MANCU MEN SIS. ELECTION PROCEEDINGS 1N 1646. The following account of the mode of obtainining an election to Parliament in 1646 is taken from a memo randum MS. of J. Harrington,. Esq., of Kelston, in Somersetshire " A' Note of my Bathe Business about the Parlia ment.' —Saturday, Dec. 26, 1646, went to Bathe, and dined with the I%iaior and citizens l'emiferred-about. my election to serve in Parliament; as my father was help and ill-able to go any morn: , went to the Georg e Inn at night, met the bailiffs , and desired to be dismissed from the service ; drank strong beer and - metheglin ; expended about (three shillings ;.- went 'home late,' but could not get excuse, as they entertained a good opinion of my father. " Monday, Dec. *2B, went to Bathe, met Sir John Horner ; we were chosen by the citizens to serve for the city ; the maior and citizens conferred about Parliament • business ; the maior promised Sir John Horner and myself a horse a piece, when we went to London to the Parliament, which we accepted of, and we talked about the Synod and the ecclesiastical dismissions. lam to go again on Thursday, and meet the citizens about all such matters, and take advice thereon. " Thursday, 31, went to Bathe ; Mr. Ashe preached. Dined at the George Inn with the major and bailiff's and four citizens ; spent at dinner 6s. in wine. " Laid out in victuals at the George Inn 11 s. 4d. " Laid out in drinking 7 2 " Laid out in tobacco and drinking vessels 4 4 " January I.—My father gave me 41. to bear my ex penses to Bathe ; Mr. Chapman, the maior, came to Kelston, and returned thanks, for my being chosen to serve in Parliament, to my father, in the name of all the citizens. My father gave the good advice, touching my speaking in Parliament as the city should direct me ; came late at night, much troubled hereat, concerning my proceeding truly for men's good report and my own safety. " NOTE,—I gave the city me§sengers two shillings, for bearing the Major's letter to me ; laid out in all 7s. for victuals, drink, and horse hire, together with divers gifts." [N.B.—It is not quite certain that this election was in 1646, as the date is obscure in the MS. ; but it is within a year or two of that time.] . • SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—The following tragical occurrence has thrown the quiet village of liana orth, Middle sex, into a state of great excitement. On Sunday night last a fight ensued between two men, named Thomas and_ John Stores, brothers, whilst under the influence of liquor, in the Bear public-house, in that place. From the statement of par ties present, the affray seems to have originated with John Stores, who gained the fight and left the house. He had reached the 6' Green," when Thomas Stores ran up to him, and stabbed him in the back and stomach with a pocket-knife. The poor inan fell to the ground, exclaiming " I'm killed, I'm killed !" The perpetrat or of the attem p te d fratricide made his escape. The wounded.man was taken back to the Bear public house, and quickly attended upon by a medical roan, who, up to yezt er day, Dive no hcpes of his recovery. On Monday after noon'Thomas Stores Was apprehended by a constable of the 'V IPSWICH COMPROW.SE. TO THE EDITOR OF TILE' EN - PRESS.. • Wason having, in a letter to. Mr. Sto phens, of Ipswich, published in the Su f folk Chronide of ,this day's date, given his opinion as to ;the pro priety of a compromise between. thr Whig azicl party in the event of a new election for your borougk and also alluded to the proposal -which 'Was tii,ade to him (Mr. Wason) to resign his seat, during the pro , ceedings of the late Committee, 11 . 0 it incinnben t on me to make a plain statement of the facts which Jed to that proposition to Mr. Wason;. l Before doing so, however, it is but proper for me to sa,v . , that I offer no opinion as to whether a compromise :now is :desirable or not, further than to assuLe ;he electors that if any vindictive feeling shout lead the Tory party to institute legal pre ceedings against any of our friendS, whose zeal mow have induced them to commit indiscreet acts at the , . last election, I shall feel called on to prosecute those. witnesses whose perjuries and misstatements—l have before alluded to—misled the Committee to a very considerable extent, but who must be well aware that although they.could not be puniAled before an Elec tion Committee, from the impossibility of Mr. Wason or myself convicting them, that there is no difficulty in a court of Law, in bringing them to the punish ment which they so well deserve ;: and in exposing them, let those who instigated them beware. 1 have said thus much to remove any impression which might influence a compromise in itself not otherwise desirable. I come now to the proposition of compromise of fered •to Mr. Wason himself; and, • perhaps, a simple narrative of what took place will hest convey to the electors the real circumstances.' When Mr. Wason returned from Ipswich, about the:end of March. he told me that it was - currently reported that the Tory party were desirous of compromising, rather . than risk the chances of a trial before an Elec tion Committee. That at first he was given to under stand that they required his seat, but that subse quently they would accept of mine. At that time, from the rotation of Chairmen who had - served on Election Committees, we supposed that the chances were in favour of our getting. a. Whig, and in addition to this Mr. Wason was so confident of our case being a good one, -that neither of us reverted to the subject until after the Committee was chosen. Indeed if a proof of. Mr. Wasilm's confidence was wanting, I might refer to his 'speech at the Admiral's Head, whilst he .was at Ipswich. - • After the first day's proceedings in Committee it. was obvious to me that to Pro4cute the case could only end in losing both seats—exposing many of our most zealous, but least prudent, friends to painful in terrogations—and lead to a denunciation of that bo rough, which IMt persuadedqt merited much less than nine out of ten of the English constituencies. With these iMpressions,•l consulted Mr. Ashurst, our solicitor, who fully coincided with Inc - as to the hopelessness of the contest, with a Committee consti tuted as ours was ; and afterwards I agreed, in the presence of Mr. W. May and Ali.. ‘Vason, to put my seat at the disposal of our friends to compromise the proceedings, and, if possible, to arrest the consequences which have since ensued. This offer was met by the petitioners with the answer, that they were ready to make terms, but that the seat- to be relinquished must be Mr. Wason's. This answer was received on the morning of the 15th, the Committee having com menced its sittings on the 13th. • Wason declined to entertain the proposition of his retirement, giving as a reason that a charge of personal bribery against himself having been preferred, he could not do so, and trusting to the petitioners, in• the Course of that, or next day, agreeing to accept,: of my resignation. No communication having been received to that abet, at a consultation held on the)7th I again re ' Dewed the subject, and feelling that no circumstances had occurred which could inditce-bit to believe that our ;seats could be maintained, and it having been • intimated to us that the personal charge against Mr. Wason of bribery would be entirely abandoned, I urged him, as the petitioners declined to accept my seat, that he should resign. This he positively, de clined to accede to, and was, 1 believe, counselled -to that effect by Mr. IEII. how •tnr that was a wise counsel, I will offer no opinion, but I felt justified in the proposition I made to 'l4r. Wason, from the fact that a few days previously, in the Lewes Election Committee, where a similar per sonal charge was brought against Mr. Summers Harkin!, one of the sitting Members, it was not felt by hint, nor by his Counsel, Mr. Austin, as any impediment, on the charge being Withdrawn. to Mr. llarford's retirement, to avoid the paintill conse quences of prosecuting the contesri nor has there, during Mr. Ilarford's late canvass and unsuccessful election at Brighton, been any alltiSion to the with drawing under . those circumstances, as implying any thing unworthy or dishonourable. hiding that Mr. Wason was determined to persist • in the prosecution of what seemed to - me, and, to every person on whose judgment 1 - had any reliance, a hopeless and indeed .a disastrous contest, 1 gave notice to Mr. Wason, and to Mr.A.l.lmrst, that 1 re tired' frOm it, and would not hold myself responsible any farther for the consequences. It may not be unnecessary to state, that had the compromise above alluded to been aocepte,pither by \lr. Wason or myself, ,the niininer in Which it would have been carried tut would have been that the petitioners would have withdrawn the petition. and at a specified time one of us Nkoold have accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. I feel persuaded that the votes I have given, while in Parliament, cannot lay me open to the charge of being a compromiserut I hold the doe.. trine that discretion is the better part of valour, and having, from the ready offer to sacrifice my own seat, exonerated myself from all responsibility, or charge of selfishness, in this unfortunate affair, it is for the electors of Ipswich to judge whether, under the circumstances, that compromise which I endeavoured to promote would have been more for the interests of the borough, whether present or future, or whether the prosecution of - that contest, terminating as it has done with all its painful accompaniments, public as well as private, has been the wisest and most prudent course—whether,if a compromise ,were desirable , the Letter time was iefore the Committee, or when a new writ shall be issuedan event of very doubtful date I I have now stated, to the best • of my recollection, • all the material facts of the proposition to which Mr. Wason has alluded to in his letter to Mr. Stephens, and whether the course recommended was right or wrong I leave to the consideratitm Oithe constituency, May 14. • G. RENNIE. LIGHTNING: A few evenings ago a paper on lightning-con ductors, in connexion with the acof,dent at Brixton church, wa's read at the meetink of the London Eke trical Society. - Its author, Mr. Waller, the Secretary of the Society, had made a survey of the damage done to the tower of Brixtot•ehurai, and found in it so practical an illustration . of • Dr. Faradays opinion on the "literal disehare," as to induce him . to investigate the subject more closely. It seems that no arrangement .of.metals could have been better adapted than that met with in this steeple to invite a. flash of lightning to do mischief. There was a regular series of stepping-stones, as it were— first, an insulated metallic cross, then 20 feet of stone work : in passing this interval the roof of the lantern • was shattered. Then came 20 or 30 feet of conductor in the form of the clock wire, and a water pipe; and then a break of twelve feet. ;Here, again, was an explosion, and an immense mass of masonry Was shattered away from the base of a column interven ing between the termination of the'lvater pipe and the commencement of the next series of conductors. Within the belfry "a lateral discharge" took place; the fluid passed from one conductor to a victual one for no other reason than to obtain a wider path. The author showed that electricity not only chooses a short but also a wider path ; and that the " lateral spark" arises from the latter property. lie then Pxplamed that it is not enough to have a continuous or an insulated lightning rod ; but it is most important to have it far away from other metalic bodies ; for however -capaciOus the rod may be, and however adapted to convey, not only what passes down it, but ten thousand tunes more, yet, if another conductor is near, a flash will pass between the two, and ignition of neighbotiring combustibleo will be the result. Fortunately, in the case in question, only a small part of the whole fluid passed within the tower, consequently the lateral explosion was not se vere. As it is nut always possible to place lightning rods entirely out of the neighbiinrhood of other con ductors, Mr. Walker showed that the possibility of the fluid's passing between them should then be con- • verted into a certainty by making :metallic commu nication between them, and thus tracing out a path along which the fluid might • pass without the developement of light and heat. 'lie spoke of the peculiar property of the points of leaves, twigs, & c ., in drawing off quietly charges of. electricity, an d stated his conviction that tall trees 4 would always found valuable. if not in entireli- averting, at least in greatly mitigating the force of a lightning sh oc k. The theoretical opinions given in this communication were based upon the expernnents of the. Royal insti• t r g rand scale gene rally e tution, the object of the author being to show how closely they f uatnrc, and c t l o v e d r i e r e c i l t it t i h s te n (f r a a t te e d tlte . ti en to a closer study of the properties of lightnin..- rods, a subject on which, perhaps more than on any other practical point, more ,norance p reva il s than can be well conceived. A letter from Antwerp, May 20, states that the English steamer, the Rainbow, arrived . that morning from London, having GO passengers on board, Comprising those Of the Soho, whi c h had gone aground at the Caloot. It was at first supposed that she would float with the tide, but. a letter from Flushing states that at four o'cloil on the morning of Saturday she was still aground. The St. Petersburg journals announce that the fan' peror of R uss i a has appointed Duke Maximilian of Leitiaisten-_ berg to th e comman d of the first brigade of the k i t division of j the light Cavalry of the Guard.