The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-09 00:00:00

- - MARRIAGE OF ONE OF THE -- CJII3BE W - A. -- Y - IN - DI - ANS - . At an early hour this morning St. Martin's Church and its vicinity presented a gay and animated appEar tee, it having b een k nown t h at one o f t h e O j ibb eway at present sojourning in this country, and who is known by the extraordinary appellation of Not-een-a altit, or the Strong Wind, and who acts in the capacity ?I interpret er t o t h e other Indians, was about to enter into the bonds of holy matrimony with a young and beautiful English lady. About half-past nine o'clock 9a coach drawn by four grey horses containing 1 e -Indians, their wives and children; attired in their native costume, followed by two car tiaPs--the first containing the bride, bridegroom, lino bridesmaids, and.the second the father and friends of the bride—drew up at the church, and the whole of the prty entered th e sacre d e difi ce, w hi c h was crow d e d b y faashionably •dressed persons, the majority being ladies. l'fter the solemn ceremony was performed in an impres stie manner by the officiating el, r_linan, the party re turned to their equipages, and drove off amidst' the bbeer e s of th e assemb l ed mult i tude. The name of the rid was Miss Sarah Haines, the second daughter of 311,1 :• ....Plaines, of George-str ee t, E us t on - square ( s h e was elegantly attired, and appeared to be in excellent health Tut spirits)—that of the happy bridegroom, Alexander" uacotte, a native of Upper Canada, but of French ex raction. He was attired in a blue military surtout and Starlet trousers. He is a very handsome man, both in Person and features. • A YOUNG VAGABOND.—JOhnISCOtt, a boy of twelve ' Years, lately sentence d to e i ghteen months i n the Pen i - sears, at Perth, and liberated a few weeks ago, on the his of b a d h ealth, after having undergone the half of .%" 5 sentence, was yesterday sentenced to imprisonment '" the Police court for being " drunk and disorderly."-- Scotsman. beTagli on i i s en rode to Paris . from Italy, having en engaged at th e A ca d em i e R oya l f or a li m i te d num of nights ; after which the celebrated danseuse is ex pected to visit London. . „ ,TuE REVENUE.-- , Some time ago we stated that a tr'iQu'iderab/e falling off would be found in the assessed „,. 3te s department, in comparison with 1842, in conse- Mee of the income-tax. The revenue returns, just t' ll " lis hed, show a deficiency last year of 73,0641., com iaeriesd : f rith the previous year. This loss does not end tide ; by the closing of windows, and reductions in ar establishment (to balance against the income :), tradespeople have sustained serious injury. Had , t ,„ e raeasures of the late Government not been " ob '"eted," and those Ministers continued at the helm of national affai s hould not have had this loss to tred e rs, we p ost " l ien, the inquisitorial and oppressive income im , nor a de e d trade. We predict a further falling °inn thedepressed x .01tVwciiins:pn8diAeSyn8EgeSid E ta N x T e . s_this year. (From a Correspondent.)— tee s the exertions of the various paten pave and the willingness of the public to patronise. wooden m erit, - it is in va i n t o d eny t h e f act t h a t i t i s d ra e Pi itt cl losing ground, whil e it d a ily b ecomes more ev i- •that it is unsuitable as a mode of paving, and wanting 'u the essentials of safety, durability, or economy. By Mtn% furnished by Mr. Harvey, the Commissioner ° l f . t he City Police, it appears that in the leading wt"°roughfares in the City there are 1,237 yards of tha n pavement, and th curved given period no fewer ~..4 11 '297 accidents o from horses falling, while during the same days upon 4,122 yards of stone pav ement only 51 horses fell. Th e Life Guards, during the last winter, showed that di scret i on was t h e better Part of valour, and, avoiding Regent-street,:went down to „ 111 1 , 1 „nt guard by Bond -street and. St. James's-street, re "Roby,' where the roadway " dishes " into St. hanies's-street, has become a receiving-house for the ~"sernen who slip and are picked up at the o l rt let• The durability of the wood-pavement is chi erical : if it is quite smooth it certainly lasts some ti me , i t . a•as no traffic can go over it t o wear it ou t ; b u t if as i In grooved for sa f ety, t h e e d ges wear down d i rectly, t hen th em e stopped reet, and t reparation. for he Ipck is pa But it is red away, and e street the tltnestion of expense which will put an extinguisher upon sn ,. ° °d• It is impossible to lay it down under 2s. pe4 lu t tre yard per annum, while Bond-street is Mac aatni• P 8 4 ed and watered at 7d. per square yard, and the aligranite pavement, like London-bridge, may be laid uo wt , maller anual chage. It is not 8 1i r P r i, Sing a that mat the inhabitants of the n leading streets ti ,_ o Ind prefer the quietness of wood pavement; but when trY find that t hi s qu i et is increased by the avoidance of fa t I ,''. d ehstreets by h orsemen and carriages ; when th e y eir trade leaving them, and their paying-rates in `rea sed five-fold, they will do as Messrs. Swan and d e ' u n gln", and many leading houses in Regent-street, have ke e-- sign a memorial to the Comthissioners of Woods tilea Forests against any more being laid down, or when tb„Yhare the power in their own hands, they will do as G.; a lha.bitants of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St. tu " n r e g e the Martyr, did a short time since—turn out os-"Y-one paving Commissioners who voted for wooden if: e nient, and thereby increased the rates greatly, and *p et t enty-one gentlemen pledged against it. . is e , - `•„ i ll. RN OF P RINCE ALBERT.—His Royal High ,i ' 5 4, rinee, Albert will return to this country on Thurs "4Y, the 11th instant, 'and arrive at Buckingham Palace h ell ee t he evening of the same day. Arrangements have B, s tend Made to enable his Royal Highness to embark at ~.tend at about 10 o'clock, A.M., in the Princess Alice 'ani-vessel, Commander L. Smithett, and as this vessel erally makes the passage from Ostend to Dover in ate hours, his Royal Highness may be expected to land the latter port at about three o'clock, P.M., when a dial train will b e i n rea di ness to convey the illustrious k; nsort of h er M ost Gracious Majesty to London. Pia, El' G RA/ s INN.—Last night great .excite ment, was created in the neighbourhood of Holborn, in eonsedue- Pianie••s issuing of a fire breaking out in Gray's Inn. ettpied b Vi r g out of the windows of the chambers oc- South-a Y • Male ' , law- stationer, and situate No. 12, South-square causeu the unwelcome discovery to be Inthaede arri n ‘a p h o o il s n l s d7 h itehedeiate alarm was raised, but owing to Utterly Nines had attained it was found t a ? I sei assistance as°retthiteirellit4 get them extinguished without the gine& In the course of half an hour Mr. Hatton e y extinguished. produ b 3. h i ' lla wil Cse- opera, Pascal Bruno, has been has Just arrived probable tlisi the lyith such marked success at Vienna, We feenitry in London, from the Continent.. It is Piece will shortly be performed here. en Sir /I inuch gratified by the panegyric passed pOttinger by Sir Robert Peel and by Lord Falinertou, and responded to by the cheers of both sides tif t the ouse. This, Aherd ee added to the eulogium from Lord a n and the Opposition in the House of Lords, pre f-Lieellt•su -rare instance of great merit overcoming all party itli a i r.- We ask is this, however, to be the sole reward for C hina national services of her Majesty's Plenipotentiary in si t ,V! Iler lalajesty conferred the title of Baronet on f;fLAt.eilry Pottinger for his great diplomatic services in t, and when her Majesty again called for Sir Henry ~,,,",Ing er' s - _„ uuuet __ "ability, zeal, firmness, and discretion," to 0b e ,,,,,. affair s in . China, those commands were cheerfully leb e .',.7° The issue of Sir Henry's mission is known . li en i,.eve,! the British flag waves. We. now ask is Sir aihs'.3' r.ottinger to retire from public life without some 11 01 :knual mark of her Majesty's favour? Sir Henry is tr ust v ein man—but he is a proud one. A Peerage, we tie es '' Il lay be the reward of his national services—ser t/TG:unizeetatue.alled within our times. —Naval and Mill of AI vrisTics OF INSOLVENCY. —During the month 43 2 t ar ch there appeared in the Gazette 97 bankrupts; ivhio l l '' °l vents, who have received vesting orders, by a nd 42their persons are protected against their creditors; casea assi gnments to trustees, making a total of 571 1e of insolvency. There is a gradual increase of in fB , r 1"; In March; 1843, th ere were 98 b an k rup t s , ,t. t ?ting orders granted, and'2B noteassinments—a total ease in telt 'nay be assumed that more than one eies f or ‘ t ,lis gazetted ; this would make the insolven of on , 4,-arch, 1844, 5,710, and if there be a deficiency 1,14 2,0 57 0 „., 2 00/. in each, the monthly loss would be 4, Y o es ti e biletith u 3 4 . On these assumed data the loss during the Was 12,000,000 t or Considerably more than ra n t i r o s n ' -al rate, an d 44 1 of the three-sevenths of the inte `l-serious • h a - urd-shootio Russell, t o the 8, accident occurred on Thursday afternoon, *hen bird_ of Lady of Montpellier House, who, .. to e w of 1 ~ as shot in in the neighbourhood of Leek t e gun o f n the leg by the accidental discharge sieconsp a • a Young schoolfellow, by whom he was th e • n ' e d, and b e tim e th a t he 81 ' 0 had approached so near him at Were l o d ged in the rare contents of the fowling-piece waS co nveyed h o ! eg, just above the knee. Mr. Russell 0 the found that tlieabsoz.ieeb me on ..,_ hurdle, and, on the inspection *wcm fill by th "" surgeons,abeu instantly called in, it was a mend c .l l t lntly, w w as perfothraidiesso severely shattered that pensable. This operation, conse -we to add th d Yesterday, and we are glad to be doj o at the & as w e ll , Young gentleman was last evening eas e ..„ as, 'Muer th •f l ' ' sto b e e pain u circumstances of the c rii • expected.— Cheltenham Looker-on. the o ' ''' s R GRATITUDE A E • A aroo of C . •—• nEn merchant, of eao , resided many years at Canton and fr oo , ' where a sudden revers e of fortune reduced him L -I _ lll , ese merchant ence to the greatest necessity. A in"letly rendered s , n!traed, Chinqua, to whom he had for ethate loan or erviee, 'gratefully offered him an im e,e.P.td, and ten thoUsand dollars, which the gentleman yo ulnei - e - have bond for_alier-amount ; this the 11 ' t nY frie , immedi ately threw into the fire sayin " When You t ook au, first cam e to China, i was'apoor man, deav o na e by the hand,and • ' assisting; my honest mi -Ise lit ' s ' made me rich. our destiny is now reversed ; h ‘ ..,,e You poor, while I "'an der shad am blessed with affluence." The Zee his „. , sensibly affected bsuch and' os m , lt lese friend to take pressed they generosity, . re " '" e " enentuall . Ns, behoidi y destroyed it. The disciple of Con !aid he would ding the increased distress it occasioned, Zi3ca raealorial ocfc their tof his watch, or any little valuable, ...: listelY presentecii friendship. The gentleman im aerive bi ra _ „ . 1. is %%etch, and Chinqua, in return, I ° 44 e j b sv :" h r o. ulsoeidi,seal, saying, " Take this seal, it is and possesses no intrinsic value, st sti .:s Yoh are going tolnd• look dui India toafter your out draw g concerns, should fortune further persecute you, ste m . up n erve for an f it • in dof • y it sum of money you may with tills . , sign it with your own hand, and seal Ori enta , ~ . a,:gnet, and I will pay the money."--forbes's Th e , 7 .41 a ners. h ' 'enrage of Ll • y th e re • • annan, Pembrokeshire, vacant given , signation of theßev. . Lo the R Josiah Hess, has been Pari s h . . er• Jacob Hughes, formerly curate of the So Fri i great Was the influx f ~, 'aY last that a ll o visitors at Brighton on h -vera l of •th the hotels were crowded, and at tb ° ln' of four till particularly the Old Ship), from the ~,,,,,. ill eight, parties were eagerly vvaiting in th e -""ee-roorn to sei •R y wer_ ze on the dinner -tables the instant ' v a cated by, others. 4lewAy news.. To IAVISTOCK —We understand that 4 12 . : r es ere Wi lla . ad • re - e T i , s rai lway from'' opted for the purpose of construct tee,"gs have taken Plymouth to Tavistock. Prelimirary 'Devo n the re l e I ,p ace . in Tmistock. It is proposed b°ll journ 1: 1 a re capital in shares of 254 each. — a hick °rl re P °. la, el(11 iemor~:l !eptITO 11 pro° THE THEATRES. DitUR - Y-LANE: - - M. Duprez has obtained an additional eonge of a week from the Academie Royale de Musique, and, conse quently, during the Easter week he will continue ai Drury-lane. He appeared last night as Arnold in Guillaume Tell, and will appear on Wednesday and Friday. Stretton, who was the Tell, was suffering so severely from lameness, the consequence of an accident, that, before the commencement of the opera, Cooper came forward, and bespoke the consideration of the audience on his behalf. The accident, however, as Mr. Cooper most truly stated, had " not affected Mr. Stretton's vocal powers," for we never heard him in better voice. The old drama of the Tale of Mystery, which was very well acted, followed the opera. The manageMent judging, and judging rightly, that the attraction of Duprez would be stifficient,to fill the house, without the addition of the usual Easter spectacle, the house was crowded.. HAYMARKET. Planell6, the indefatigable, has provided the Easter piece for this theatre, in the shape of a new original, oc casional, and local extravaganza, entitled, The Dama at Home; or, an Evening with Puff. This, like all Planche's burlesques, is replete with wit, full of excellent hits at the follies of the day, and abounding with puns that might make Hood himself jealous. In the first scene we find the Drama (Mrs. Glover) in extremis. The scene represents the ancient temple of the Drama, with a miserable prospect and a dissolving view of the company. Puff (Mr. C. Mathews) appears in a critical moment' and straightway - proposes various plans for the re storation of Drama to her former supremacy. It was a dangerous experiment to reproduce Puff on the stage, but it was completely successful. Planche's Puff is the lineal descendant of Sheridan's Puff, and he is worthy of his lineage. Some of his schemes are admirable. He proposes to turn Covent- Garden into a grand National Hydropathic Establish ment—cold water for the million—and to reproduce the farce of Animal. Magnetism, under its new name Mes merism, by mesmerising the whole of the audience, and making them applaud in the proper places, so as to ensure the success of any piece that may be produced. The Drama is thrown into a mesmeric state, and Drury lane and Covent-garden Theatres appear before her in a vision. The latter is under a cloud, to wit, behind one of Jullien's immense bills. The actors, too, have left the temples of the drama. Arid (Miss P. Horton) is engaged to lecture at the Adelaide Gallery and the Polytechnic r Othello is bonded by Warren, and is a walking advertisement for jet-blacking ; while Macbeth, who is up to snuff, takes up his position as the High lander at the shop-door of a tobacconist. The Drama, driven from the patent theatre, takes refuge in the Hay market, which, for the first time, appears on its own stage (by the kind permission of Benjamin Webster, Esq., lessee). Having thus found a refuge, Mr. Puff presents the Minor Theatres on the occasion of their late emancipation, and the piece concludes with a grand ano malous procession of the London exhibitions, including the Ojibbeway Indians and Tom Thumb. The piece was admirably got up, and was completely successful. At the conclusion, Mrs- Glover, Mr. C. Mathews, Miss P. Horton, and Mr. J. Bland, who acted Punch, were called for and received with loud applause. The extraordi nary and classical performance of Professor Risley and his son followed, to the great delight and amusement of a crowded house. PRINCESS'S. Perhaps the principal cause of the crowded state of this beautiful theatre last evening, was the announce ment that it would be the last evening but one of Ma dame Eugenia Garcia's performance here this season. The opera of Otello was repeated, and it is unnecessary for us now to enter into a disquisition of its merits; and we have only to say that it was warmly applauded in every passage. There was a grand Easter entertainment, to which we could not give a name if the bills had not helped us. It is entitled Fair Star, or the Singing Apple and the Dancing Waters. The extrava ganza opens with a view of the interior of the Temple of the Drama, where Melpomene presents a specimen of a case of real destitution, and Thalia is not much better off, while Euterpe, " the Professor of Dancing for the Million," and Terpsichore (" a light character, frequently found tripping, and, al though without ancestors, much attached to her grand pas") are in the ascendant and high favour. They in voke Fancy, as a lady of suggestive mind, to their aid, to invent some mode of amusement for theiliselves and audience.; and forthwith are exhibited some animated cartoons, displaying a few of the earlier passages in the history of " Fair Star." The after scenes continue that history with admirable effect and great interest. King Bigaroon (Paul Bedford), Monarch of Cherry Island, " a merry sovereign, addicted to taxes and tippling, and too careless of the state of his head for the head of the state," has lost his son and neice, Cherry (Mrs. H. P. Grattan) and Fair Star (Miss Fortescue), while they were quite children, through the contrivance of his Queen Marella. (Madame Sala), "an underhanded dowager, trying to get the upper hand of the King," and Lord Stalk (Mr. Oxberry). They have, however, been preserved and reared by Crambo (Mr. Wright), a Greek Corsair, " retired from the Atlantic and become Pacific, self elected governor of the foundlings." They are, ulti mately, restored, and Cherry (after overcoming most wonderful difficulties, to procure the singing apples and dancing waters for his lady love) obtains the Fair Star's hand, and all (as it should do) " ends happily." The extravaganza is written, it is stated, by Mr. Albert Smith and Mr. Oxenford, and the two gentlemen have produced a very amusing Easter-offering. Many of the points told extremely well with the house. Bedford has some very laughable songs and speeches, and he made the most of them. Mr. Wright and Mr. Oxberry also were excellent in their several parts ; indeed, like praise may be awarded to all the characters above-mentioned. The scenery was beautiful and very extensive. The entire extravaganza was very successful, and was received most applaudingly by a full audience. LYCEUM. This amusing little theatre opened last night for the season under the management of Mrs. Keeley. The house was exceedingly well attended, and the per formances, which consisted of three new pieces, ad mirably suited to the tastes of an Easter audience, went off with great applause. The first piece was a come- dietta in two acts, called Hasty Conclusions, and turns upon the ludicrous mistakes made by a General Mowbray (Diddear), who is always too apt to come to decided conclusions upon wrong premises. Mrs. Keeley played the part of an arch servant maid, Nancy, with admi.• rable naivite, and by her acting saved the comedy, which would otherwise have gone off somewhat tamely. The Post of Honour, which followed, represented Keeley in one of those parts in which he never fails to make a hit—namely, in the character of a quiet, good-humoured, but somewhat over-timid gardener,who, by some strange ill luck, finds himself metamorphosed into a soldier of the burgher guard in a Dutch frontier town, in which the scene is laid. No sooner has he been persuaded to enlist in this guard, than he is ordered to do duty at a certain post which the French are expected to attack, greatly to the annoyance of his sweetheart, Trudchen (MissWoolgar), who, finding that he must needs go, resolves on accompanying him. The scene wherein the Burgomaster (Turner), endeavours to reconcile him to the dangerous post, by telling him that it is a post of honour, and that if by any miraculous chance he escapes with his life, he will win an immortal name in history, was acted with infinite humour, and nothing could . surpass Keeley's mingled expression of horror, disgust, and apprehension at the idea of his being compelled, against his inclination, to play the part of a hero and a patriot. When told that he ought to rejoice rather than grieve at the thought that he has now an opportunity of " bleeding for his country," he replies, with a world of dry and shrewd humour, that—thanks to the tax-gatherer—he has al ready bled quite enough for his country--a delicate allusion to that upright and lenient impost, the income tax, which was received with shouts of laughter. The piece concludes with Cobus Yerks's (the character played by Keeley) successful maintenance of his post, against a host of fanciful perils, first from the enemy, and, secondly, from the more dreaded ghost of a despe rate miller, and his ultimate marriage with Trudchen. Miss Woolgar performed a secondary part with much archness, and Mr. Turner, as the Burgomaster, exhibited all the phlegm and self-importanse of a heavy Dutch dignitary. The night's performances closed with a whimsical parody in rhyme on the favourite Arabian story of " The Forty Thieves," which was got up with uncommon splendour, as regards scenery and decoration, and bids fair to run through the season. In this piece Keeley appeared in the cha racter of Hassarac, lieutenant of the band of robbers, and sang an admirable parody, with irrisistibly ludicrous attitudinizing, of the famous drinking-song in Der Fvischutz. Mrs. Keeley was the maid-servant, Mor giana, and displayed infinite spirit and self-possession in her performance. Miss Fairbrother made a lively captain of banditti, who entertains the highest possible opinion of his own personal graces, and was called on to repeat the dances, which she went through in a very superior style. The piece was in rhyme throughout, and abounded in puns and smart hits at several passing topics of the day, which , seemed to be particularly acceptable to the Gods. We have rarely seen an Easter spectacle which created so much amuse ment as this quizzical parody on the Forty Thieves, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1644 which *i4_b9.prettfiure to bemne a favourite with the play-going public. We subjoin an opening address, written by Mr. George 11 Beckett, and which Mrs. Keeley delivered with great grace and nairete : " When a new minister assumes the reins, His policy 'tis right that he explains: I, having taken office, don't refuse To make the house acquainted with my views. Some may conceive I owe an explanation For having headed the administration : Upon that point a motion I will make, The opinion of the house at once to take, That ladies can't good managers be reckoned. Is that - a motion any one will second—(Cheers)? I thank the house for its polite decision, The motion is thrown out without division. To look on idly ne'er could be my choice, A woman always likes to have a voice ; Silent indifference could never suit her, The grammar tells us woman can't be neuter. 'Tis true, I might have filled an humble station In our theatrical administration; But female influence soon gains the ascendant— When it begins, no one can see the end on't. Instead of coming to it by degrees I thought at once the Premiership I'd seize. To keep the place I very much incline, Unless this house calls on MC to resign. Now for the measures I shall introduce I mean to do away with one abupe. The scheme on innovation somewhat borders, But I propose to drop the standing orders. My policy may probably be hinted In a short bill I've ordered to be printed ; That bill I see already in your hands— I trust that you will pass it as it stands. 'Tis not the least remarkable of facts, That if you pass that bill, you pass five acts ; If Parliament as fast could use its powers, It would'nt be complaining of late hours. My views with brevity I now will state, Upon the principle legitimate ; The drama call'd legitimate may thrive As well in two or three acts as in five. Were length legitimacy's standard—then What would become &all the little men ? Heirs to a throne. if short, would lose a crown Which must be given up—not handed down. " Man, by his mind, not by the height we rate ; Talent, not length, makes plays legitimate. But here am I don't practice what I teach, Making a long, and perhaps an empty speech ; *So, I'll be brief in coming to a close — We've several measures ready to propose ; But if you deem them wrong they shall be stopp'd— Amendments we are anxious to adopt. The confidence I feel there's one thing clenches, As yet I see no opposition benches. Before I bring my statement to an end One thing most earnestly I recommend— Throw out our bills, object, or criticise— But never think of stopping the supplies." tion, if net oi‘. 'a crowded, certainly ora deligfited 'au dience, may be fairly taken as evidence of the merit: of the lieces themselves. The first is of a mixed melo dramatic and comic character, and is from , the pen of Mr. S. Coyrie, a gentlemen already favourably known in the theatrical world. The drama is called The Signal, and its chief plot turns upon the historical incident of the rising of the Tyrol in resistance to the tyrannic rule of Bavaria. The machinery of this political struggle is found in the domestic incidents of one Rezenvelt (Mr. Laws), the widower of a murdered wife, and the father of an only child, of course, a daughter, and the offspring of his buried love. Stung by his own and his country's wrongs, Rezenvelt becomes. the leader of the Tyrolese confederacy, and has for his bosom confidant an Italian, named Michael .Bernard (Norman). who is deeply enamoured of Dorothea, Rezenveles daughter, whose hand he h opes to ga i n. Bernard has neither personal nor patriotic sympathy in the Tyrolean conspiracy, but has joined in it solely with the hope of being united to Dorothea., in reward for his services. As the plot thickens, and the time for - the rising approaches, Recenvelt draws his dagger, and, in presence of his Italian confederate, swears solemnly never again to sheath it till his own and his country's wrongs are redressed. At sight of the dagger the Italian wildly asks where it was obtained by R6zenvelt, arid, in his confusion, acknowledges that he lost it twenty years before on that very spot. Rezenvelt declares that the dagger then in his hand had been drawn by him from his wife's murdered body at the period alluded to, when, having refused the unmanly overtures of a marauding soldier of fortune, he had plunged it, in disappointed passion and revenge, into his victim's bosom. The Murderer thus stands confessed before Rezenvelt, who (of course) rushes on him to consummate " the wild justice of revenge ;" but the Italian, too quick-for him, commends the dagger to the husband's bosom, in pre ference to his own, and drives it pretty well into him, but not with such instantly-fatal effect as when practis ing, some years previously, upon his wife. Bernard ' now makes for the crag from which the beacon-fire, the signal" of the revolt, is to - be fired, and where he expects to find Dorothea, whose hand is to fire the torch on the arrival of her father and her lover. The Italian determines to seize upon and take her to the first Bavarian post, Where, by giving notice of the intended revolt, he hopes, after all, to secure her as his bride, steeped though his hands are in her father's and her mother's blood, and to have honours and riches heaped upon him. On his ar rival at the appointed rendezvous he feigns to her that Suspicion is rife as to the plot, and that he is commis sioned by her father to stay "the signal." Dorothea, who had never liked or trusted him (and who, of course, had another love of her own, and not her father's selection), demands some token from her father that lie has really commissioned him (the Italian) on this doubtful errand. He produces the dagger which had previously been so very useful to him, and she for a moment is pacified, re s:)llecting it well as having for years been carried by her father. But her eye wanders from the well-known rcndle to the blade, and on it she sees drops of blood, arce yet dried. A horrible thought is now awakened in her mind, and she turns from her companion with horror and shuddering. She wishes to make for the crag to light " the signal," but the wily Italian detains her. With the true quickness of woman she pretends she has lost her cloak, only a few yards behind, and sends him to 'discover it. No sooner do his receding footsteps die away upon the ear, than she 'mounts rapidly the mountain side to gain the beacon. He returns, and seeing her design, rushes rapidly in pur suit of her. At this moment the wounded parent totters 'in, and, as the Italian is struggling with his intended victim, " the dying patriot" (for so the bills call him, and 'so, therefore, do we) grasps a rifle that some " spirit of health or goblin damn'd" had benevolently left on a hedge hard by, and'at once lodges a bullet in the thorax of his son-in-law that was to have been, who, of course, drops from the crag into the shades below. Do rothea, the heroine of the revolt (and very well that heroine was personated by Ivliss L. Melville) now fires the signal, and the revolt takes place,—that is, we suppose it does, for less of row or riot we never yet saw or read of at a revolt. The "dying patriot" blesses his now liberated country, and having given his daughter in marriage to another young gentleman, in military attire, who was luckily near at hand, gasps out bis latest sigh,- and so brings all to a close. The character of Rezenvelt was very fairly played by Mr. Laws, from the Brighton theatre, a first appearance on these boards, and, by the applause of the house, we may fairly prophesy very far from a last one. In addition to the plot we have thus sketched, there was an under-plot (if we may so term it), of low comedy, in the persons of Sam Nubbles, a London lozenge manufacturer on his travels (Mr. G. Wild), and Rummy Tights, an extemporaneous tiger following the fortunes and misfortunes of Nubbles (Mr: Rogers). Both these characters, redolent of low comedy in speech and action, were admirably acted, and drew forth repeated plaudits and bursts of laughter. The piece, of its kind, is a very creditable one, and we have no doubt - will draw money. '1 here are some sprightly snatches of song m it, which were well given, especially by Miss Lebatt, who, in the after part of heart," with excellent ttahse evening, sang, T T el h l e m s e cen m e y ry in this drama of The Signal, especially the mountain portion of it, deserves praise, and we therefore state that Mr. Beverley is the artist. The other new piece was a burlesque extra vaganza, caned Cinderella, or the Great Fairy and the Little Glass Slipper, a nd really it has been most truthfully c h ristened i n t h e bill s . A b e tt er hit at Italian opera an d French danc i ng we h ave never seen, and, while full of fun, it is alike free from ill nature or low vulgarity. Cinderella, by Mademoiselle Georgiana Wild, is one of the most amusing pieces of act ing we have ever seen. We can conclude as we have begun, by repeating, that the manager has catered hap pily for the season, and that those who wish to " drive dull care away" cannot-more effectually do it than by going to the Olympic theatre. STRAND THEATRE. This snug little theatre was opened for the "summer season last evening, when, among other sources of at traction provided for the audience, they were gratified by the first appearance of a juvenile actress (according to the bills only eight years o!d), Miss Heron, from the Theatre Royal, Dublin, who made her bow to a London audience in the character of Terry O'Rourke, alias Dr. O'Toole, in the Irish Tutor. While the memory of poor Power is.still fresh upon us, it is no trifling matter for another to please in any one of those characters which he made so peculiarly his own ; and in none was he more laughter-excitin g than that of Dr. O'Toole. It must, therefore, be no slight merit that drew down such repeated plaudits* as 'greeted the young aspirant to fam from all parts of the house. In fact, she made a decided hit. Her acting was marked by extraordinary tact, cleverness, and just perception of the part she had to play; and if there was any one matter in which correction might be suggested, it was in her taking too much pains to mark the brogue. This, perhaps, she thought re quisite to suit an English audience. The manner in which she danced an Irish jig was admirable, and drew forth an encore. The entertainments concluded with a mythological burletta, entitled Venus and Mars; or, the Golden Net, 'founded on the not very delicate subject of the loves of those deities. It is'a.'Verldul piece, with moderately good scenery, and was little more than re deemed from failure by the clever acting and singing of Miss Louisa Lyons as Mars, and Miss Fitzjames as Venus. The dialogue was totally devoid of point, and the sentiments were anything but delicate. It did not deserve to succeed. by their rather broad drollery. The brothers Boleno, as Harlequin and Clown; exhibited astonishing agility, and Miss M. R. Fairbrother made a most graceful Co • lumbine. Great credit is due to the manager, Mr. Greenwood, for the manner in which the pantomime was got up; and we have no doubt it will yet draw more crowded houses than on this, the first night of its repre sentation. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Having recently described the alterations which have taken place in the interior of the building, it is quite needless to make any allusion to them at present, espe cially as the season of Easter is likely to make the public acquainted with them by personal observation. The grand attraction yesterday evening, and which is likely to continue so for a considerable time, was a new grand historical spectacle, in three parts and fourteen tableaux, by Mr. J. Courtenay, entitled The In vasion of England by William the Conqueror, or, the Batik of Hastings. A better subject for this species of representation could not possibly have been chosen, and the attempt was, we must say, eminently successful. It is not necessary to say anything as to the plot, further than that it it was so constructed as to fill up all the gaps in the mental picture of the Norman invasion. Nothing was wanting to complete the effect, from the time when William assembled his troops and embarked in the enterprise, up to the time when, having been successful, and established his rule by the slaughter of Harold, he was at length crowned first Norman King. Everything was pourtrayed in a manner which tended to impress the leading features of the history on the minds of the audience. With regard to the scenery, the tableaux, and all the ar rangements of the piece, the utmost praise would fail to convey an accurate or adequate idea of the re ality; and the audience applauded the wonderful tableaux successively presented with the utmost heartiness of manner. As we do not think it desirable to enter into the plot, it is, perhaps, best not to make any lengthened remarks on the performance of the actors in the stirring scenes. William, Duke of Normandy, was •ery ably sustained by Mr. Henry Howard, the Saxon King by • Mr. J. Danville, whilst Algitha, the wife of Harold, was personated by Mrs. Short. Great amusement was caused by the acting of Mr. Hudspeth, as Magnus, in which character he joins the invading force, ane, accompanied by a young lady who shares his adventures, lands with the Norman troops. His per formance elicited roars of laughter. The character of Sweeno, a Saxon, • surnamed Sweeno of the Flail, was cleverly taken by Mr. T. Barry. The Norman Conquest was succeeded by Monsieur Plege's evolutions on the tight rope ; and greater dexterity could not possibly be exhibited than was displayed, on this occasion, by this clever performer. Signor Germani, Monsieur Ziesback, and Monsieur Massotta, successively astonished the audience by their wonderful feats of equestrianism ; and these were followed by a ,very pleasing and elegant per formance of the same description, by Monsieur Tour naire and Mdlle. Annette. A farce called My Next Door IVeighbour, wound up the amusements of the even ing, which throughout appeared to afford the greatest satisfaction to a numerous and highly respectable , company. SURREY. The principal Easter piece at this theatre—for there were two others—was an adaptation from Mr. Towns end's " Whitefriars," under the direction of Mr. R. Homier, to whose skill and judgment it does consider able credit. The scene is laid in a period of our history in which the worst passions of the vilest men were let loose, and it is one, too, which is not without its interest and moral for the times we live in. The main paint in the plot is not unlike that upon which the interest of Richard Savage, not long since produced here, was founded. Mervyn (Mr. E. F. Saville) is the son of Lady Howard (Mrs. H. Vining), by whom he is disowned, and whom he does not know to be his mother. Under the guidance of Titus Oates (Mr. Eleslop) and Colonel Blood (Mr. H. Hughes), a former lover of Lady Howard's, he is unintentionally made a party in the murder of Sir E. B. Godfrey (Mr. Hawkins.) After his return from the war in Scotland, whither he is forced to fiy, and where he is made a eaptain in King Charles's service, he falls in love with Aurora Sydney (Mrs. R. Honner), of whose charms, Charles (Mr. Johnson) also becomes enamoured, and whose honour be tempts by a casket of jewels, sent by Mervyn. The offer, of course, is indignantly rejected, but the Merry Monarch, bent on accomplishing his object, effects a meeting with Aurora Sydney, and endeavours to force her compli ance, but Mervyn rushes in, and an encounter ensues, the King being assisted by Blood, and Mervyn by Claude Duval (Mr. N. T. Hicks). Blood and Mervyn being wounded are taken to the laboratory of Elkanah, a Jew poisoner (Mr. R. Honner), to whom Lady Howard offers a considerable sum of money, upon his undertaking to poison both. Mervyn refuses his remedies, but the Colonel imbibes the poison through his wound. After it begins. to act, he calls upon Elkanah, who informs him that Lady Howard instigated him to infuse the poison. Before his death he procures a meeting with Lady Howard, and just as he gets her to acknowledge that Mervyn is her son, he calls in the latter, who is con cealed in an adjoining room, upon which his mother swoons and dies in despair. The Colonel also dies from the poison, and the curtain drops. The piece possesses some good scenes, and was very well received. The charac ters are very creditably sustained. Mrs. 'Vining and Mrs. Honner performed their respective parts with taste and ability; and Mr. Johnson, Mr. - Hughes, and Mr. Saville, were very effective in theirs. A little comedy, called the Scapegrace of Paris, and a short piece, called Barak Johnson, adapted from a tale in the New Monthly Magazine, followed, and went off very well. The theatre was very well attended, and the pieces were announced for repetition amidst loud ap plause. VICTORIA. A new drama, entitled Leontine, or Sixteen Years Ago, was produced at this theatre last night, and met with considerable success ; the principal characters, being sustained by Mr. Osbaldiston ; Mr. C.J. gird, a premis ing actor, who made his first appearance here last night ; Mr. Coreno, also his first appearance, who played the character of Paul Dupont, a simple hearted portrait painter, very respectably ; Mr. Freer, Miss Vincent, and Mrs. G. Lee, all of whom sustained their parts in a creditable manner. The plot was well arranged, the scenery well painted, and, in short, the piece was produced in a manner highly creditable to the enterprising lessee. The drama was followed by a pretty little ballet, called Ondine, or the Water Spirit, which introduced Mr.' Frampton's talented juvenile ballet company, eleven in number. Some very pretty dances were performed in a mannerwhich called down the applause of the audience. Another drama, bearing the title of the Bridge of Kehl, was also produced, in which Miss Saker, from the New ciistle Theatre, made her first appearance here, as Madelon. After the drama, Mr. Frampton and four of his pupils performed what the play-bills termed a " grand pas de cinque ala Chinoise," which was also well received, and was followed by Buckstone's Ice Witch, a Norwegian tale of enchantment, which con cluded the evening's entertainments. The house was very well attended. OLYMPIC The manager of this theatre has been happy this year in catering for the amusement of his Ea.;ter pa trons. Two entirely new pieces bear testimony to his efforts to deserve support; and the unqualified approba- SADLEI'S TVELLS. The performances of yesterday evening at this theatre were of a somewhat novel character, inasmuch as an ex hibition of wrestling, of single-Stick, and of sparring with the gloves, was included in the bill of fare. The quality of the materiel seemed, however, too recherché for the tastes of the worthy public of St. John's, and a very poor house was the necessary consequence. The first piece of the evening was a drama of Mr. Planche's, entitled Ivan Danildf, or the Sledge Driver, founded, we believe, on an incident in the reign of the madly ca pricious Paul of Russia. The principal personages are the redoubted Ivan himself, and Catherine, the heroine, to whom he is ultimately married, personated by Mr. H. Marston and Miss Caroline Rankley, with their ac customed excellence, and happy appreciation of charge-' ter. This was succeeded by the amusing farce of. Raising the Wind, in which Mr. Marston enacted Jeremy Diddler. Then followed (we copy from the play-bill) ".for the first time in London (pray Heaven it be the last), a new ballet, called Finsbury Fields, or Good Old English Gamei." The 'games we have already .mentioned. and the artistes were, in the wrestling, Dyer and Snell, Truscott and 'Kemp (the latter a Guardsman, noted at 'Chalk Farm. Stacey and Davis exhibited their skill in bout at single-stick, ; and Mason, alias the Bull-dog, and Johnny Walker ; Bill Jones and Torn Maley, asto nished the lieges with .the gloves, which amusements May be useful' in : propagating a taste for manly and honeit modes of self-delence; . but surely th,e stage of a theatre is not the fitting place, and delicate females not cxactly the proper • individuals to witness them. The evening concluded with - a revival of the comic pan tomime of Baton .11fUnchatisen, or the Genii of the En chalyed Isle. The tr;cks and situations, if, not entirely original, were certainly striking, and created much fun ADELPHL At this theatre, the more than celebrated, the re nowned " Wizard of the North," appeared last evening, " re-ascending his mystic throne," to astonish and amuse the public a fourth London season. An entertainment that has commanded so continued a popularity must have great intrinsic merit, and we were glad to see that a crowded attendance last night bore testimony to the 'great skill of the "modern Faustus," for to fill a theatre may, in these days, be almost accounted a supernatural feat. In this the Wizard succeeded to his desire, and the applause that attended his deeds—it were un seemly familiarity to call them mere tricks—gave good promise that their attractive power will endure. His apparatus is most magnificent, and arranged with an eye to eftbct; while he, the won der-worker himself, waves his wand with the air of a perfect master of arts—we say not of what colour. • But, as variety is pleasing to a holiday-making public, the Wizard, though in himself a host, does not trust entirely to his own efforts. Like Prospero in his island, he calls in music to aid his magic, and relieves the eyes of the assembly, which vainly attempt to follow his sleights, by furnishing gratification to their ears. After the first hour of the evening has been rendered pleasingly brief by his necromancy, the Wizard retires, and Mr., Malone Raymond, favourably known as a- successful representative of Irish characters, commences an entertainment called An Hour in Ireland ; it con sists of tales, stories, and jokes—some new, but many of venerable antiquity—mingled with snatches of song, comic and sentimental, liberal use being made of the melodies of Moore. He is as sisted by Mrs. Raymond and Miss Linley, and the trio, during their " hour upon the stage," gave some favou rite airs, harmonised for three voices, in a very effective manner. Mr. Raymond was himself encored in the " Groves of Blarney." Altogether the " Hour_ in Ire land," threw a pleasing variety over the evening, which concluded with the second part of the Wizard's per formances in the " Mystic Temple." Of his separate feats of dexterity we do not speak ; there are some things beyond the powers of description, and these, as the poet says, " are of them." But for a combination of cleverness, neatness, brilliancy, and effect, to say nothing of the total absence of anything painful or ob jectionable, they cannot be surpassed. ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. The proofs of a continued course of good management in a public institution were never more promine qtly ex hibited than they were last evening, in the variety of entertainments produced, and the crowds which assem bled to witness them. To speak first of the portion of the entertainments which many would consider merely popular, we must say that the " Gallery of Practical Science" has fully attained its object, in making the greatest works of the greatest authors in Musical Science not only popular, but appreciated. That mag nificent piece, " The Massacre a St. Bartholomew" (perhaps the chef-d'oeuvre of the master), from Meyerbeer's " Les Hugenots," was executed in a style so masterly, so complete, and so exact, that it left us in doubt whether the maestro or the orchestra deserved the greats t part of the applause, which was rapturously bestowed , by an audience, in our judgment, fully competent to judge. M. Laurent, the conductor, deserves great praise. To turn from the musical department to that -which the drvest of philosopheis will admit to be a fit subject for his study, we may state that the Electrical Eel s have in creased enormously in size and health, and in the vigour of their shock. The lectures of Professor Maugham were worthy of his reputation as a simple, olear, and eloquent professor. The principal novelty was " Bielfield's Aphanascope," an invention from -which im portant results in the science of optics are expected. The experiments of last evening were in the high est degree satisfactory ; but the subject will require a. separate notice. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Yesterday we visited the rooms of this imteresting establishment, and were glad to find that ;there is no lack of energy on the port of the management . An in stitution like the Polytechnic differs from a 1 others, in asmuch as its ulterior object is the dissemitasstion of in struction, blended with that amusement wl kichi is an ex citement to the best moral feeling, and wl Lich induces a train of thought and reasoning, the benefit to be derived from which, probably will not be made vet general un til this generation shall have passed away; however, from this circumstance its range is greatly curt" died. We have here this season another new instrument for the . optical department arranged by Mr. Longbott nn, which pro mises to be one of the most attractive ex hibitions in the metropolis, and is capable of being mad I .e a most useful adjunct to the whole field of flat= ii. philosophy ; investigations may be now mad e on objects which, until the adaptation of fat s instrument, have remained uninvestigated. Zt c is called the Physioscope, and we yesterday saw a human face magnified by 12 feet, and the effect v 'as most extra ordinary—the appearance being that of • a moving giant —and, when a round of applause had b een given, the monster bowed its head in acknowleds meat, and the audience was convulsed with laughter. r: ('here were also several novelties introduced in Longbe atom's Opaque Microscope, and we observed several imiet eant additions to the Scientific Museum, which will mesa: advantageously be noticed at another time. On Thursday Mr. C.E. Horn will commence a series of lectures on the National Music of Different Countries; to be illustratechiv. y vocal and in strumental accompaniments. The Instit cation was crowded in every part. NAPOLEON MUSE OM Among the many exhibitions now o) 3en for the amuse ment of the holiday folks, we know 0. f none more inte 'resting that the Napoleon Museum.: It is indeed an illustration of history. We visited it yesterday, and found it very well attended. 'l Ile reduction of the charge of admittance to a shilling has had the effect of greatly increasing the nm ris ber of visitors. MR. LOVE'S POLYPHONIC ENTI ;TAINMENTS. This celebrated ventriloquist, or as b e, more Grecian like, styles himself, polyphonist, distils yed his marvels and his mirth last evening at the Ctrt )wn and Anchor, Strand, in his usual' talented manner_ The variety of characters he assumes, and the dist it (ct intonation he gives to each person, whether young or old, male or female, certainly excel all we have hear d sinee the days of the immortal Mathews. Although D tr. Love is a perfect master in the art of polyphony., he by no means relies on that alone as the attraction or:his petrformances, but, like those that have gone before him in this very curious and difficult exercitation a -the human voice, he developes his powers through the medium of inge nious and humorous plots, that are veal . cleverly wrought . out in terse and witty dialogue. Bis new monodrame, called The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing; or, the Biter Bitten, affordel much amusement to the al siiience. Mr. Love promises other novelties on Wednesd 'ay and Friday this week, which we have no doubt will ai uply repay in gra tification all who go to see them. BRITISH MUSEU: d. Yesterday the number of visitors to this national establishment was 21,339. On last Ea ter Monday there were 18,342, making an increase of 2. ;907. Out of this large number of persons there was . ti of a single indi vidual rejected on the ground of in t oxication. The police arrangements were under the management of Sergeant Reason, A division, who ha& : 12 officers under his command. The behaviour of the. vi sitors was most orderly, and there was not a single case of damage. A great disappointment was experiencsed 1)1 r persons taking children under eight years of age„ w tto. , by the regula tions. of the Museum, are refused ad, , u! ,ssion. This re stritAion is likely to be removed from a ,suggestion of the trustees. Thousands of persons Burin g the day congre gated round Magna Charta, the ori e ,cri, 'palladium of English liberty, always an object of great attraction. The Museum continues open till Friday inclusive. THE NATIONAL GALL] DRY. Nearly. 10,000 persons inspeca.d thi. a national depo sitory of paintings yesterday ; their co nduct was gene rally unexceptionable. ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRI This grand national edifice had less th an fifty visitors, which may be accounted for -by the cont it trance of the exorbitant chargo of 4s. 2d. to view the wl n ole. WESTMINSTER A131 1 •Ell; There is, it would seem, a general re, rt ;nance to pay ing at all for admission to view public : ouildings, and, consequently, though for some time pt .st the amount charged to view the monuments and oiler interesting o liects in this venerable edifice has be( la reduced to Gd., .the visitors have not been near so nu merous as might have been expected, and yesterday numbers were fewer than usual on holidays ; the exa a number could not, however, be accurately ascertaine( 1, for one attend ant said, "I don't know ;' another, ."1 Pe must not say; the numbers were very insignificant, bu t we don't want 1 to licneticed in the papers." Another said, " You had better'ask Mr. Mune." The last verge' ! (or attendant) applied to said the number of visitors w•as about four hundred, but it is understood *here was n of more than half than number. THE TOWER OF LOND( I I2 - The armoury and the jewel-room at the Tower were honOured with the presence of hunch !eat , who, while visiting the lions of London," could not . refrain from paying a visit to that place, which forn A I 3 o feature in the annals of th e i r country. • among a the new features are several guns of Chinese manufacture, cap tured by the British during the recent campaign in China. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S-PARK. The season for visiting these gardens commenced yes terday, and if one .might judge by the number who flocked to them, they stand .pre-eminent in the exhibi tions of the metropolis. During the past winter great alterations have been made in the' gardens, as well for the biped as the quadruped, and the number of animals has been greatly increased. Among the novelties is a young giraffe, born in this country, and about five or six months old. The time of feeding the animals has been changed—the pelicans at one time and the lions at an other, so as to enable the visitors, who did not feel in clined to stay all day, to see some of the animals fed. The most amusing, to the young folks, is the ouran outang, who likes tea and eats bread and butter in the most accomplished style ; the dress consists of a crimson_ velvet tunic with white trousers. The museum belong ing to the Society is in a great state of forwardness. The Diorama, the Panorama, the Cosmorama, the British Institution, and numerous other institutions in the metropolis, also received a fair share of the patronage of the holiday seekers. In various parts of London and the suburbs amusements of all descriptions were going forward • for those who had not the means of going to Greenwich or any of the foregoing exhibitions. DEATH OF LORD ABINGER. (From the Times.) It is with deep regret we announce the melancholy in telligence that the Noble and Learned Lord, who for the last ten years has filled the office of Chief Baron, has breathed his last at Bury, early on Sunday morning. Lady Abinger and several members of his Lordship's family were present when he expired. He never ap peared to regain consciousness from the first moment that his fatal illness supervened. During the long period of half a century Lord Abin ger had practised or administered the law. His active and distinguished life was passed during the reigns of four Sovereigns. When he 'entered upon the exercise of his profession_ Lord Kenyon presided in the Court of King's Bench, Sir James Eyre was Chief Baron, the first Earl of Rosslyn at the head of the Common Pleas, and the first Earl of Eldon Attorney-General. To climb the heights which these great men had already attained formed the object of his youthful ambition. To contend with the formidable rivalry of their imitators and sue s , cessors became the business of his life; and no, reader now requires to be informed that he prosecuted this great design with an amount of professional learning, moral energy, and intellectual power, such as have been rarely equalled, and never surpassed. He was the descendant of a family which settled in Jamaica as long ago as the first establishment of the colony. In that island they lived long enough to ac quire considerable wealth and distinction, and there Lord Abinger was born, the second and last surviving son of Robert Scarlett, by his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Anglin. His youngest • brother, Sir William Anglin Scarlett, was also a member of the legal profession, and 'eventually became Chief Justice in the island with which he and his relatives had been for so long .a period con nected. As a natural result of the locality in which he had been born, it was necessary for Lord Abinger to leave his home and travel to Europe, in order to secure the benefit of such an education as his early powers seemed entitled to receive, and for this purpose he was consigned to the care of a friend in the north of Eng land, at as early an age as he could venture to travel alone. He was placed for a short time at a public school, but was soon removed to Cambridge, where he entered as a fellow-commoner of Trinity College. In four years he took the degree of B.A. and shortly afterwards quitted the University.. Within one year after his call to the bar—viz., on the 22d of August, 1792, he mar ried the third daughter of Mr. Campbell, of Kilmorey, in Argyleshire, by whom he had three sons and two daughters ; of the latter the eldest is the lady of Lord Campbell, who enjoys a peerage in her own right as Baroness Stratheden. On quitting the University he came to London, and devoted himself to his profession with great ardour, selecting as the chief object of his laborious studies the perusal of modern reports, which he esteemed the spee diest road to success as an advocate. By the Hon. Society of the Inner Temple he was called to the bar in the:year 1791. Although he inherited more than a com petent independence, he devoted himself to the most laborious of all professions with an earnest perseverance of which there are few examples, and with an industry rarely called into existence lay any stimulus less than the pressure of actual necessity. The practice of the common law was that to which he gave a preference ; and the Northern was the circuit to which he attached himself. Years rolled by ; and, like others, he was compelled to go through the usual proba tion. In due course the leader of his circuit presented him with a bag ; but not until he had business enough to render that species of accommodation quite needful. Not many years elapsed before that bag laboured under a plethora. The opinion entertained of him by attor neys, clients, and jurors, at first favourable, gradually grew into admiration, and at length ripened into un bounded confidence ; until, in the end, men began to think that it would be almost " a tempting of Provi dence" for any one engaged in litigation to omit retain ing Mr. Scarlett. At the time to which we refer, his personal appearance was,. in a remarkable degree, cal culated to win the favour of every beholder. Though born in a tropical climate, his physical strength and animal spirits were indomitable, while his command of temper also presented an exception to the ordinary rules which apply to West Indians. He was as calm as any Englishman, and as discreet as " if bred at Glasgow or at Aberdeen." In the year 1816 Mr. Scarlett was called within the bar, invested with a silk gown, and became, therefore, one of that eminent body known as " his Majesty's Counsel learned in the law." From this time forward a large proportion of the leading business of the Court of King's Bench fell into his hands. To enter the House of Com mons became the next object of his ambition, and he forthwith offered himself as a candidate for the borough of Lewes ; but his opponent, Sir John Shelley, was elected by a majority of 19. The demise.of George 111., however, necessarily led to a general election, and he accepted the oiler of the late Earl Fitzwilliam to come in for Peterborough. Although his professional fame had not even then at tained its highest point of eminence, he entered Parlia ment with the character, of being one of the ablest coun sel at nisi prius that had ever adorned the English bar. Yet there were many amongst his rivals and contem poraries who excelled him in the attributes of an orator. He was no sentence maker; his style was so unadorned and unpretending, that his audience never suspected themselves to be in the presence of a great man; he never abashed a jury or benumbed their faculties by any display of intellectual superiority; but rather sought to comfort. them and mould them to his purpose by in ducing them to conceive a very high opinion of their own wisdom and intelligence; he never made the least at tempt to exercise imagination, and always gave prac tical proof that he had no wish to excite the passions of a tribunal by anything approaching to declamatory appeals. The first subject to which he applied himself in the House of Commons was the financial policy of the Mi nisters who were in power when he first obtained a seat in that assembly. He urged the expediency of apply ing the sinking fund to make good the deficiency in the revenue ; but, as might be expected, these early efforts of his in the way of Parliamentary opposition, produced little effect upon thegeneral policy of the King's Govern ment, and he therefore thought it. expedient to lose no time in applying himself to subjects more congenial to the habits, and probably more agreeable to the natural construction of his mind ; accordingly, we find him giving cordial and efficient assistance to Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir James Mackintosh in their efforts to ameittl the criminal law. In the next stage of his career as a legislator he introduced a proposition for altering the Poor-laws. - That attempt proved abortive, and the practical carrying out of the principles which he then put forth was reserved for a later period and another Parliament. In the year 1822, a vacancy occurring for the Univer sity of Cambridge, he became a candidate, but Mr. Bank es was returned by a majority of 138 ; and Mr. Scarlett continued to sit for Peterborough, still a supporter of the Whig interest, though so quiet, unobtrusive, and discreet, that he could scarcely be called a partisan. On the breaking up of the Liverpool Administration, in 1827, Mr. Canning invoked the assistance of the Whigs, and Mr. Scarlett became Attorney-General.. This was his first approach towards those Conservative principles by the consistent maintenance of which he has been dis tinguished for nearly 20 years. In the office of Attorney-General Mr. (now Sir James) Scarlett was succeeded by that able and very learned, but somewhat eccentric person, Sir Charles Wetherell. Then came the Wellington Ministry, and with their accession to office. came many changes, amongst which was the measure of Roman Catholic relief. To this Sir Charles Wetherell opposed himself with extra ordinary effect and characteristic vehemence, e hem upon the Duke, in his usual way, intimated that the resignation of the worthy and Learned Knight would be very acceptable ; and without loss of time . Sir James Scarlett became once more his Majesty's Attorney- General. This was the period of the 'Brunswick Clubs ; and 'the enthusiasm which characterised those associa tions naturally extended itself to their organs amongst the daily and weekly press. 'Several criminal informa tions were filed against a publication, long since defunct, called the Morning Journal, against the Atlas, and other papers, for libels on the Duke of Wellington and the, Lord Chancellor. These prosecutions, in which Sir Janes gained verdicts, formed the leading features of his official life. He still continued to owe his seat in Parlia ment to Lord Fitzwilliam, whether sitting for Mahon or for Peterborough, and yet he gave his enqualified sup port to those principles which, about that time, ceased to be designated by the term " Tory," and assumed the de• nomination of " Conservative." - As might be'expected, he resigned the office of At-. torney-General when Lord Grey became the head of j the Government, and ze a l o u s ly co - o p era t e d w i t h Si r R. Peel and his supporters in their opposition to the several Reform Bills which, during the years 1830 and 1831, were submitted to the consideration of P:l7 liament. He had, however, for some time ceased to be the nominee of Lord Fitzwilliain, having been returned for Cockermouth in 1831, asd for Norwich in 1832. Lord Lyndhurst filled the office' of Chief Baron in 1834. Towards the latter end of that year Sir Robert Peel was unexpectedly called upon to form a Conserva tive Ministry. Lord Lyndhurst was, therefore, required to withdraw from the Exchequer, in order that he should preside in Chancery; and the office of Chief Baron was conferred upon Sir James Scarlett, who, at the., same time, was called to the House of Peers by the title of Baron Abinger. It has long been proverbial in Westminster Hall that a distinguished advocate, when raised to the bench, does not always become an eminent judge; on the contrary, it has happened in more instances than one, that men who never had enjoyed much fame at the bar have, when placed on the judgment seat, acquired, amongst the sages . 'z:! --:7,_-' . __ , - - _ - __V-:;.• f) • tt4t4;Aritt4Vl tl i...,z.,-,,,,.c.,,/) of the law, the highest and most ends To this rule Lord Abinger formed no fame as an advocate has not been equ ratter as . a judge. The same result havin in similar cases did not prevent conside r in some minds that a man, who for nearlyigg i tniMaft) had been accustomed to influen ce j ur i es w i t h alinost un disputed sway, should suddenly lose some portion of his ascendancy over their minds when he attained to a more elevated position and a weightier responsibility. For some time after his elevation to the bench Lord Abinger did not get his verdicts out of the jury-box with all the facility that long habit at the bar probably led him to expect. As an advocate he had been the wonder of the age in which he lived. Under every variety of circum stance he exerted himself body and soul to present the • facts of his clients case clearly and consistently and in disputably before ti jury. Few men excelled him in the art of cross-examination ; but he outstripped all eompe-__ tition whenever he found it necessary to restore, to coin- fort, and to set up one of his own witnesses whose testi mony might have been damaged by a severe cross examination-from the adverse counsel. Lord Abiriger was for many years a bencher of the Inner Temple, and was for many years Attorney-Gene ral of the County Palatine of Lancaster; and his Lord ship was also a Privy Councillor. His first wife died in the year 1829, and after remain-_ ing a widower for fourteen years he married, in 1843, the daughter of the late Lee Steere Steere, Esq., of Jayes, in Surrey. Lady Abinger had previously been married to the Rev. IL J. Ridley, of Ockley. Lord Abinger retained the full use of his remarkable and vigorous faculties down to the very day on which he was attacked with the fatal disease that terminated his valuable existence. He was one of the judges of the Norfolk Circuit during the present assizes ; and being at Bury St. Edmund's he presided in Court on the se cond of this month up to the late hour of seven o clock in the evening, going through the business of the day with the same clearness, precision, and skill which dis tinguished him in the prime of life. Within two hours from the adjournment of the court he was speechless, and, within the short space of five days, he breathed his last, having reached the advanced age of 76, and having ac quired, as a leading counsel at nisi prius, higher re wards in fame and in wealth than have yet fallen to the lot of the most fortunate amongst his contemporaries. His eldest son, Robert Campbell Scarlett (now Lord Abinger), was born on the sth of September, 1794. On the 19th of July, 1824, he married Sarah, the second daughter of George Smith, Esq., Chief Justice of the Mauritius.-- The issue of this marriage was two sons and two daughters. The present Lord Abinger was called to the bar, and practised for a short time. He was returned to Parliament for Norwich in 1835, and for Horsham in 1841 ; and his elevation to the peerage will therefore occasion a vacancy in the representation of that borough. The second child of the deceased reer is Lady- Stratheden, the third is the widow of Sir Ed ward Currey, the fourth Colonel Scarlett, of the sth Dragoon Guards ; and his youngest son, who had been marshal and associate of the Noble and Learned Chief Baron in the Court of Exchequer, has been recently , ap pointed her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Tuscany. . THE HIGH PRICES of the FUNDS. It appears that for the first time for nearly a cen tury, the Three per Cent. Consols are at par, or 1001. money for 1001. stock. The last time they were at 1001. was in 1749, the year after the peace of Aix-la- Chapelle; at which period the amount of the public debt was rather more than 78,000,0001. The highest price . the Three per Cents. ever rose to was in .) . une, 1737, and again in May, 1739, when they attained the high price of 1071. Between the years 1729 and the year of the Rebellion, 1745, the ' Three per Cents. were Lever lower than 89, and for a consider able portion of that period they were above par. Again, in March, 1792, they rose to 97k, when the amount of the national debt was 239,350,0001. During the period between the peace 'of Paris, in 1763 (when the amount of the debt was 138,774,0000, and the breaking out of the American war, they fluctuated between eighty and ninety per cent. Towards the close of the Ame rican war—namely, in February, 1782, they were as low as 541. At the termination of the American war the debt was 249,851,6281. In the years 1797-8, in consequence of the great success of the French armies on the Continent, and of the mutiny at the Nore,. and of the rebellion in Ireland, together with the failure of the attempt to negotiate with the French Republic, the price of stock became less than it has been before or since that time. -In May, and again in June, 1797, the Three per Cents. Reduced were as low as 464, In the September of that year the Three per Cent. Consols fell to 478, being the lowest price to which they have ever fallen. Dr. Hamilton, in his valuable work on the national debt, states that they were also at that price in January, 1798. The Three per Cent. Consols have not been under 68 since the latter part of the year 1820, when they were 67i. The highest price the Five per Cents. ever attained was 1078, in August, 1791 ; and the lowest price was 59,1, in January, 1798. The highest price the Five per Cents. ever attained was in August, 1791, when they were 1221, and the lowest price was in August, 1798, whin they were only 691. STATE TRIALS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It may be of use to call the attention of those who are intrusted with the defence of Mr. , )'Connell to the following passage in page 383 of the last Quarterly Review : Speaking cf the French Revolution, it is said—" The first and most effective abuse of the forms of law 'was this :—The Convention had decreed that ' all conspira cies and plots, tending to disturb the State by a civil war, by arming citizens against each other, or against the exercise of any lawful authority' should b© punished with death. Under the vague and comprehensive terms of ' conspiracy,' and plots,' and Lending,' words, writings, and even thoughts, might be included ; and the first question, therefore, generally submitted to the jury was, whether there had existed a counter-revolu tionary conspiracy?" In what f.:llows, there are remarks which appear to me to bear on the late Irish trials, but if any one legally employed thinks such remarks of any value, lie will, of course, turn to the Review itself. AN ENGLISH MECHANIC. Liverpool, April 8, 1844. ' COLLISION ON THE Baylia.—Last night, at a late hour, a collision of a most serious character, and which it is much feared involved loss of life, happened on the river, between Greenwich and Blackwall, by the Coquette steamer, the property of the Blackwall Railway Com pany, running into the schooner Hibernia, belonging to Guernsey, lying at anchor in Blackwall Reach. The following particulars are furnished by a reporter, who was•on board the Coquette at the time. The steamer, which is iron -built, plies between the Greenwich and Blackwall piers, under the charge of Captain Batchelor. She left the former at a quarter before. 9 o'clock, with about 150 passengers, the chief of whom consisted of women and children. The night being very hazy, to the surprise of many she proceeded at full speed. The master, Mr. Batchelor, was on the paddle-box, and part of the crew were placed forward, to keep a look out. The first thing that attracted the attention of the pas sengers was those forward shouting out to the captain, "There is something ahead, sir." The vessel's course was not, however, altered. The vessel had then arrived about half-way, and the watch again repeated, " There's a vessel a head, sir." The master made no reply for several seconds, but suddenly cried out, " Port, stop her, turn a-stern." All eyes were now directed forward, when they saw a schooner, which proved to be the one above named, moored to the southward of mid-channel, the tide at the time running down fast. In an instant a collision took place, the bow of the Hibernia striking amidships the Coquette, carrying away part of the lar board paddle-box and the platform on which the captain was standing, and throwing the steamer almost on her beam ends. The scene that followed the dreadful crash was one of a most agonising description ; the shrieks of the women and the loud cries, for assistance could be heard on each side of the shore. Many of the crew being seen to rush to the schooner and clambering up the rigging, apparently for the purpose of saving them selvcs, and the loud hissing of the steam, impressed upon the minds of the passengers the idea that the steamer was g they ultmanoemouenslty itm aids this easaserstiemdilbary of those on board that some going movement.do‘vn, A an t d several persons, amidst the confusion, had fallen overboard, and it is not at all im probable that such is the fact. The captain manifested much presence of mind, and implored the passengers to remain quiet, but for full ten minutes he was.unable to pacify them. At length the vessels were disentangled; and it having been ascertained that the bull of the steamer was not materially injured, she proceeded, leaving many of her passengers on board the schooner, to Blackwall, where she arrived about half-past nine. EASTER MQNDAY.—It may with truth be said that yesterday " London was out of town." From all its outlets, north, south, east, and west, colossal Londoa. commenced at an early hour, and continued, the whole day to pour forth its immense population. Hampstead, Highgate, and their neighbourimoods; were covered with holiday folks. Greenwich, its park, and its fair, pre sented ono living mass of human beings, devoted for the day to all those ihdulgencies which, in their proper season, and when characterised by moderation, are rational and wholesome. Everything appeared to be carried on with as much propriety as (considering the season and cireum•Aances) could be expected.' Roinford, Ilford, Bow, and Stratford on the eastern, and IliiMiner smith, Kew, llieltaiond, and Moi flake on the western side, were likewise crowded with visiters, who indulged in relaxation and amusement. While multitudes._ thus enjoyed physical recreation, a large number ev . inceif their taste for intellectual enjoynients by visiting the British Museum. the Nazional Gallery, St. Pattis Cathedral. and Westminster Abbey, and other peblic structures vehere • art and science, as u cites virtue aid valour, are henanra THE O'CONNELL DINNER AT CORIC.—Thi 4irtis tical arrangement, will be completed at the LancaStetian building ,early to-morrow. The tables, of. which there are eight, each accommodating about ninety persons, ex clusive of theehead table, will be laid by twelve o'clock, .when the curious may have an opportunity of inspecting the arrangements, at a small charge, the- receipts to be handed to the Sisters of Mercy. The galleries are con structed so as to accommodate nearly 250, —Cork _ Exa miner of Friday. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.-7-The marriage awn liam Mordaunt Edward, eldest son of Sir William. Mor daunt Milner, .Bart., of Nunappleton I'ark, Yorkshire, and Georgina Anne, youngest daughter of tae late Frederick LuMjey, Esq., of Tickhill Castle, nice fe; of the late and cousin of the present Earl of Scarboropgb, will take ?lace on Tuesday, the 16th inst it; !si as .5"" 16. 434 5414 . c: 70c.:. .! 3 ) ) •••••• ' I ••••• ft! br" )ub heofe r titer' . !l ob ...:_. v, li:'•:"t 1:', 4 0 .4