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fore recommend it to the reader entire. There is room only for a few lines of poetry, addressed to an old friend, which paint with melancholy truth the ravages of time:— " Ws will not meet again, old friend of mine! Much of life's beauty bath already past, And now I would not willingly resign The spell thy memory can about me cast. What I have been to thee, and thou to me, Even since those old days wherein we met, We ne'er could be again, if each should see How little of the past remaineth yet. " No,'no! It were not well to learn how strange, How al unliisTa thy heart and mine have grown; To feel and know how sorrowful a change Time and the world have wrought; weeping to own The fairest vision of our lives have fled. I know we are not as we were; I know How much, alas, of my past self is dead! Therefore, old friend, we'll meet no more below! 6‘ How have the depths of bitterness been stirr'd Within my soul since those departed days; I, who could smile at every jesting word, — I, whom thy spirit at its will could raise Up to its own proud heights of dreamy thouglit,— I, from whose sunny hopes, thy nobler mind Fresh energy and inspiration caught, — How little a all this thou now would'st find!" DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Flahault's new turn of the conversation, and so, address ing himself to Talbot, he went on— " We were dining together one day, at the little inn at Trois Rivieres, when a messenger came from Lachegon, for the Pere to administer the last rites to a mourant.' Maurice promised to be there in half-an-hour, but never stirred—and though three other messengers came for him, the answer was all the same—until, at last came word, • C'est trop Lard, it est more " Trop Lard f said Maurice, ' not a bit of it ; give me a pen and ink, and some paper.' With that he folded a piece, note fashion, and wrote— " Mox CHER PIERRE—Fais ton petit possible pour cot pauvre diable, qui s'est glisse hors du monde sans mes soins. Apparement it etait bien press 6 ; mais to l'arrangera pour le mieux. " Ton viel ami, " ' MAURICE DULANG. " St. Pierre, Ala Conciergerie au Paradis.' " Put that in his mouth," said Maurice, " and there's no fear of him." " Twas a blessed gospel he gave him," said Mary, who did not comprehend the French portion of the story, " and sure it's as good as anything." "We all thought so, Mary. Poor Maurice related the story at Lyons, when he was led out to the guillotine—but though the Commissaire laughed heartily, and enjoyed it much, they had found a breviary in his portmanteau, and they couldn't let him off. Pauvre Late ! To travel about the world with the piece de conviction' in his possession." Though every book from the pen of " Harry Lorrequer," is looked forward to with pleasurable anticipations, and read with interest, yet it is ad mitted on all hands, that his style savours less of originality than as an imitation of Maxwell ; and hence the inapplicability of this style, however attrac tive and amusing in itself, to a story, characters, and incidents half a century o.d ; yet it must be admitted that some of the dramatis personce are true to life, particularly the O'Donoghue and Lanty. - The contents of the present Number of this Maga zine are of a very varied and amusing character. It opens with a quaint and amusing tale of "The Train for the Overland," by Tilbury Trump, Queen's Mes senger. We then have a notice of Baron de Bode's Travels in Luristan and Arabistan, and then a student's reminiscences of the "Quartier Latin," from the pen of one who evidently thoroughly understands the French people. We believe that in the following passage the writer has explained the true cause of the instability of all Governments in France, and the secret of that constant yearning for change which is the bane of the French people : " Youth compressed, will burst like the boiler of a steam engine. Youth has no vent in France, it accu mulates an avalanche of despised dimensions—of legiti mite and restless ambitions; it contracts few marriages, families know not what to do with their children. What may be the real storm that shall move these masses I know not; but they will inevitably precipitate themselves upon the existing order of things, and overwhelm it. Louis XIV., Napoeon, England, were and are covetous of intelligent youth. In France, youth is condemned by the new code; by the evil conditions Of the election principle—by the vices of the ministerial constitution. hi examining the construction of the elective chamber, you see there no deputy of thirty; the youth of Riche lieu a-id that of Mazirin, the youth of Turenne and that of Colbert, the youth of Pit and that of Saint Just, that of Napoleon and that of Prince Metternich, would find no place there; Burke, Sheridan, or Fox, could not have taken a seat in it. Political majority should have been fixed at twenty-one years, and eligibility levelled to all conditions, the departments should not have elected any but balm fide deputies, not persons without any political talent, incapable of speaking without maiming gram mar, and amongst whom, during ten years, there has scarcely appeared a single statesman. At this moment the whole body of youth is driven to become republican, because it desires to see in republicanism its emancipa tion. It recals young representatives of the people, and young generals !" THE ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. We have read, with much pleasure, this month's portion of Craven's tale "Father-Land." The writer has thrown more thought into it than usual, and it touches lightly, but effectively, on several points of our social system that might be altered with improve ment—among them, two things that affect the two extremes of society, prison discipline, and the educa tion of our public schools and colleges. As to the first, he points out a difference that ought not to exist, as it gives the balance of advantage to the convicted felon. " How long will it be a fact, credited by civilized Christian people, that in England the treatment of those suspected of crime was once more penal and severe, than after conviction had taken place ? That such is the ear n ing out of the law at the present moment is past per adventure, not alone in remote and ill-cared-for districts, bat in the heart of our great metropolis itself. The New Prison, at Clerkenwell, is the place appointed for the safe-keeping of persons charged upon wholly ex-parte statements, awaiting evidence being adduced against them, the arrival of witnesses, or, in short, anything or everything that shall make such a case as would warrant their committal for trial. Millbank Prison is the recep tacle of the convicted felonry, awaiting conveyance be yond sea ; of the worst of transports—villains of every conceivable grade of atrocity : murderers, who have had the luck to come within the loosest interpetration of manslaughter ; in short, of vagabonds, ninety per cent. of whom would have been hung at the Old Bailey a dozen years ags. And in what relation of comfort and convenience do these two gaols stand towards each other? The board and lodging of convicts under sentence, at Atillbank, bears such comparison with thatlof the accused under suspicion at Clerkenwell, as the ménage of the Cla rendon does to that of Marylebone workhouse. Why does not some Member of Parliament, with bowels, call for a return of all persons remanded, during the past year, from the metropolitan police-offices to the New Prison, and of those subsequently committed for trial and discharged." " Travel and Talk," by Luke Roden, is a little dif fuse but readable ; he gives a fearful instance —the man revenging the suffering of the school boy on his brute of a master, in the portion of his paper in which he treats of the school system of the good old times. " The Philosophy of News papers," by Angus Reach, is well written, but opens no new reflections on the subject ; some space is de voted to a discussion of the practice of anonymous editing. Mr. Reach is a strenuous advocate for the opposite system, attributing to it the higher position held by the political writer in France compared to his status in this country. We question if anything would be gained to the conductors of the press here, by the change. Nor is the prac tice in France so different from our own ; the only contributions to the French daily press that are acknowledged are the feuilletons, and they are often written under feigned names ; the articles in their reviews have the writers names appended to them more frequently than with us ; but did Macaulay, or Sydney Smith, or Brougham, or Wilson ever pen an article that was not at once as well known4to be theirs, as if they had added their signature? Again, the editors of the daily journals are most of them well known, so that the different po sition of the press in the two countries does not arise from the publicity of the names of the conductors of it. There are many other influences at work here to produce the result of which the writer of the article complains. Almost every road to power and emolu ment is commanded here by the aristocracy, with their immense wealth and political influence, and with these, mere talent, if they contend, must do it at fear ful odds. Were public writers to put their names to everything they penned, it would improve their posi tion in no one respect, and make it much worse in many. But the question is too intricate to be discussed here. The liveliest article in the number is " Embalming a House," as practised in Dublin forty . years ago ; the process is ordinary enough, but it is described with much gusto—that relish for mischief which is a main ingredient in Irish fun. We have only space to give the names of the remaining articles--they are the "Adventures of a Scamp," the " Past, the Present, and the Possible," a paper on " Whittington," This is succeeded by a continuation of the series of articles on Robert Burns. A pilgrimage to Caldaro is descriptive of a visit to the celebrated Estatica, Frau lein Morl, who exhibits the phenomena of what the writer calls spontaneous clairvoyance. She is re garded by some of the pious and devout Catholics as a prophetess, while, by others, it is considered that she is possessed by a devil. The following is the de soription given of her appearance during her extacy. " Living, yet scarcely breathing ; motionless, as if the directing spirit had already fled from the pale and ema ciated frame ; present in body, yet, to all appearance, absent in spirit, and unconscious of all around her; near me, yet so for, so inaccessibly, unapproachably far from me; like one entranced, caught up to Heaven, seeing and hearing things unutterable; Maria Morl impressed ate, I will confess, as I stood there, alone in her pre. sense, with feelings which I have not words to convey. Her large full eye, so bright, yet so evidently fixed on something beyond the range of sensuous vision, directed upwards as in earnest though submissive entreaty, her bandslgently joined together before her breast; the small rod spot or scar visible on the back of the hand next me; her head thrown slightly back, and turned a little to the right; her hair, of a bright brown, falling in wavy masses over her shoulders, and descending almost to her knees, her white bedgown and petticoat, so clean, so be coming, so sculpturally simple, her position—in a word, her whale appearance, suggested the statue of a wor shipping angel, or of a praying Samuel, chiselled by a master's hand in the marble of Carrara." She was roused from her extacy by her confessor, and welcomed her visitor by a friendly nod, present ing him with a small coloured print, which gave him file opportunity of observing the stigmata on her hands. The writer also visited three other patients who were labouring under the: same disease of Maria Morl, and who are also considered by the peasantry as being sub'ect to supernatural influence. The writer seems perfectly convinced that there is no trick or collusion in the matter, and if there be not, these cases are an additional confirmation of the theory of self hypnotism recently broached by Mr. Braid. " The late Mrs. James Gray," is a kind, feeling, and just teibute to the talents and virtues of one who was a constant contributor to the pages of this Magazine, aed who, as Mary Anne Brown, had acquired a fame as a poetess, which will.be enduring. She died near Cork, the 28th of January last. THE O'DONOGHUE. By Harry Lorrequer. No. 3 'The Number of The °Donoghue for this month is not either as carefully written, or as interesting as the first or second. The author has fixed upon a time distant by fifty years from the present ; but he is continually falling into the mistake of applying phraseology known only in times much more modern to the Irish peasantry ; added to which he falls into Lady Morgan's ridiculous error of putting into the mouths of his best characters an odd jumble of low vulgarisms and polite and polished sentences. On the whole, however, this work promises to be less ob jectionable to the generality of Irish readers than either of the last two. But the author should re member that it is not because the Roman Catholic religion is now held so cheaply in France, that the incident contained in the subjoined extract, as having occurred fifty years ago, is likely to be a whit more acceptable in the sister kingdom than was his libellous portrait in the person of " Father Tom Loftus." In the present Number he introduces a fire, a stranger, and a smuggler. Tho first is a sore perplexer to the victim—a recent settler from England. The second of course has the usual amount of mystery wrapped around him. Aad the third—but he speaks for him self in the following song and dialogue : Thus saying, Flahault pushed back his chair a little from the table, and in a rich deep bass voice, which rung through the high rafters of the cabin, chanted out the following rude verses, to a French vaudeville air— giving the final e of the French words, at the end of each line, that peculiar accentuation of a—which made the word sound contrabands ! Though this information as to Captain Jacques' performance seems of little moment, yet such was the fact, that any spirit the doggrel possessed could only be attributed to the manner of the singer, and the effect F.:sawed by the intonation we have mentioned ; LA CONTRABANDE. A bumper, " meo enfans," to swallow your care, A full bumper, we pledge, " a L'lrlande ;" The land of " belles femmes—le pays do bonne chore, Et toujours de la Contrabande.' Some like to make love, and some like to make war, Some of beauty obey " la commando ;" But what is a glance from aw eye, " bleu," or " noir," Except it be " la Contrabande." When a prince takes the cash that a peasant can't spare, Aad lets him lie down " sur la lande ;" Call it, as you like—but the truth is, I swear, " Cest bien pire que—la Contrabande." Stolen kisses are ever the sweetest, we're told, They sink like a " navire qui fende ;" And what's true of a kiss, is the same, too, of gold, They're both, in their way, " Contraband©'." When kings take your money, they won't even say, " Mon ami le Dieu vous le rende ;" While even the priest for a blessing takes pay. " C'est partoat et toujours, Contrabande." The good things of life are not equal, I'm sure, Then how pleasant to make the " amende ;" To take from the wealthy, and give to the poor, " Voila ! que j'appelle,. Contrabande." Yet, as matters go, one must not deem it strange, That even " La France et L'lrlande," If good wishes and friendship they simply exchange, There are folks who call that " Contrabande." " Vive la Contrabande, ntes antis," shouted out Jacques, a. - he arose, glass in hand, and made the room ring with the toast. And every voice repeated the words, in such imitations as they were able. "'Tis an ele gant song , any way ," sa id L an ty, " if one only understood it all—and the tune's mighty like the . Cruiskeen Lawn.' " " Well, Tlarry," said Flahault, slapping his friend on the shoulder, " will the song persuade you to turn smuggler ? I fear not. You'd rather practise your own Contrabande' amongst the bright eves and the dark lucks of the capital. Well, ther e are worse 'metiers.' ' whether on have had a turn at it these fifteen year s , and o n the waters of Ontario, or Champlin, or scudding along g under the fog - banks of the Scheldt, I never grewweary of it. But now f or a little busin ess talk — where is the Padre? where's Father Luke ? Was he not to have ,en here to-night ?" Mary whispered the answer in the captain's ear. iiEW.• . I , .arbleu," exclai med he aloud— " is it so ? r ~ .i'll,/:_ i little 4 Contrabande' of his own—trying to 4 fsllow safe over the frontier, into the next 414;1 - ------A„, -- s a , - .-, 1 2 . : 7_ 2;.,' - .-_. ... ii i /r / s , a m Captain Jacques," said Mary, with (---- r.,:_-:_,L.:.,,,_.:,,,.„,,,_,,_.,,„.._"Th'at's not the way to talk of the holy ( .71- "-• - oiligie '• : , ."- . 1 ---7 _ ... 4 .1 . 4:' i 4 .ad old Maurice Dulang here, the priest of - 1 ThStilk :"." . --- he's the boy could despatch them without itt,r irouble.'t Neither Lanty nor Mary gave any encouragement to and a review of Grantley Berkeley's pamphlet on the game-laws, of portentous length—indeed, out of all proportion to the merits or importance of the work itself. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1845. %h.„ - DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE—No. I. The time seems fast approaching when not only every political party, but every religious sect will have its organs of the monthly as well as of the weekly press. Dolman's Magazine is evidently intended to be the monthly organ of the British Roman Catholics ; and, judging from this, the first Number, we are of opinion that the task of representing the thoughts and feelings of the Roman Catholics of Great Britain, of defending their faith, and of seeking redress for their grievances, could not have fallen into abler hands. The great purpose of this magazine is evidently the propagation of the Roman Catholic doctrine ; and although its con tents are of the most varied character, there is not one article—nay scarcely one sentence—throughout the Number, which is n't made to subserve to this purpose. We extract the following hit at the pedantic puppyism of the Puseyites with regard to dates, from a very ably written article on the subject of Tractarianism, in the shape of a review of a Pusey ite sermon, by Mr. Browne. " Mr. Browne dates his sermon on the Feast of St. Andrew, Apost. and Mart. 1844-45: This is the style in use among the Oxford Tractarians : and this style their friends amongst the English Catholics have had the weakness to copy. That is to say, they have adopted a system of dates unintelligible to the community at large; so inconvenient to themselves that they are obliged to add to their almanacs explanatory calendars to which they may refer ; and different from the style followed by their co-religionists in every 'part of the world. We have seen as many letters from Popes 'and Cardinals as most Englishmen ; but they all signed their letters like • —like Christians : as if their object wag to be generally understood, not to point themselves out as members of a sect—however pious and learned. We well remember some years ago, the amiable jocularity with which the late lamented. Bishop Baines told:us of a skirmish he had just had with a correspondent. The latter, who, it should seem, was a copier of tho Tractarian plan, had dated his letter to the Bishop with the name of the saint on whose festival it was written. In answering the letter, Dr. Baines had dated his reply Marsh Mallows.' This had produced an indignant remonstrance from the corre spondent, with a request to know why the letter bore so strange a date. ' I replied to him,' said the Bishop to us, • that I gathered, from his own style of dating his letters, that the days of the month were to be no longer used as heretofore, and that each one was, therefore, at liberty to follow his own ideas in the matter ; that he, my correspondent, had dated his letter with the name of a saint of whom I had so seldom heard that I WaS obliged to take the trouble of referring to my breviary to see when the festival had occurred : that I then remem bered a little monkish volume which gave, opposite to each day of the year, the name of some flower or matter of horticultural interest : that referring to this when I dated my reply to him, I had found the day marked as that on which Marsh Mallows' blossomed : that I should bo sorry if my new plan put him to any inconve nience ; but that as the old system of dates was to be superseded, I intended, for my own part , to foll ow that of my little book." THE POLYTECHNIC REVIEW. Though the useful in this work prevails over the amusing, yet it generally contains much that may be perused to advantage. For instance, the series of papers (concluded in this number) on "Projectile Veapons and Explosive Compounds," have been the best we have seen on the subject, and do the greatest credit to the research of Mr. Scoffern, the author of them. The feature this month is a paper on Austin's patent for raising sunken vessels, which is to be used 12y a company for the purpose of rescuing from old Neptune some of the many rich morsels he has en ulphed. We heartily w ish the plan success. The following a pa ragrap h f urn i s h es a temp ti ng prece d en t for un the fortunate business o f L e Telem speculatio n , w hi c h may serveue and t o the balance French t he adventurers : " In the year 1683 (about a century aft er th e fi rs t exhibition of the diving - bell in Europe before the Em peror Charles V. of Germany) William Phipps, founder of the noble house eflgrave and Norminby, formed a subscription, to which the famous General Monk, Duke of Albemarle, largely contributed, for searching and unloading a Spanish galleon, sunk about forty-five years previously, on the coast of Hispaniola (St. Do mingo.) After one or two failures, Mr. Phipps suc ceeded, and returned in 1687 to England, with treasure amounting to 300,0001. sterling. The tenth part accrued to the King: the Duke of Albemarle's share was 90,0001. and subscribers of 1001. received 10,0001. each from the adventure." GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S TABLE BOOK. The frontispiece of the present number, entitled " The Folly of Crime," is a work of the very highest order of art, and is alone worth double the price of the book. The letterpress illustration, although good, is scarcely worthy of the picture; but it would re quire the pen of a John Bunyan to do justice to the genius displayed by Cruikshank in this picture. The remaining illustrations are redolent of fun—such sketches as Cruikshank alone can produce—witness his Alexander on Bucephalus, his illustration of the Stage Ladies'-maid, and of the Music-master in China. The best literary articles of the number are the New Edition of Lempriere, by the Editor, and the sketch of the Stage Ladies'-maid. THE INSTITUTIONAL ADVOCATE. This monthly publication is intended to be a common medium of communication between the numerous literary and sicentific institutions now existing throughout the country. The plan and purpose of the work is good, and, if they are well worked out, it will succeed. The present is the third number. WADES LONDON REVIEW. There is some sound information in this Magazine, especially in the articles on the " Rise and Progress of British Industry," and " Scotland a Model for Landlords." The work is evidently improving. FISHER'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. This number opens with a paper intended to prove the " Prosperity and Splendour of England not dis crepant with the Power and Jurisdiction of France." The article is a good one, but the difficulty is to get both nations to be of one opinion on the matter. The other papers are varied, but all bearing on colonial matters, emigration, &c., are not so generally interesting. SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. Lieutenant Thomas Lutter, of the 67th Bengal Regiment, contributes to this Number a paper on the " Colonization of Algeria by France," which is re plete with information of a most valuable character, and is well worthy the study of all who take an interest in the subject of colonization. Mr. M'Combie's " Sketches of an Australian Chief" is interesting, as the portrait of the physical and in tellectual features of a race which is rapidly becom ing extinct. The remainder of the papers are of the average degree of merit. DRURY-LANE. --- The chef d'ceuvre of Meyerbeer, Robert le Diable, was produced here on Saturday evening. This is the first time that Robert le Diable has been presented to an English audience in an unmutilated form, and Mr. Bunn deserves the highest praise for the manner in which this opera has been put upon the stage. The scenery was truly superb, and the costumes gorgeous and appropriate, and the ',groupings picturesque and beautiful. Nothing could exceed the brilliancy of the opening scene. The chorus of knights not only sang but acted, and the stage presented all the life and bustle of a camp. The revivification of the nuns too, was admirably managed, and nothing could be more excellent than were the scenic effects throughout the piece. The following was the cast : Robert Bertram Mr. Stretton. Raimbault Mr. I). W. King. Alberto Alice Miss Romer. The Princess Isabella Miss Rainforth The Robert of Mr. Harrison was wanting in spirit. Even the dicing-song went flatly off. It was evident that he was not at his ease. The part of Robert requires talents, both histrionic and vocal, of the highest order, and it appeared to us as if Mr. Harrison, beautiful as he is as a ballad singer, felt scarcely equal to the task he had undertaken. We have no doubt, however, but that he will improve as he gets more at home in the part. Ho should, however, practice the music assiduously, for we remarked on some occasions a defect of intonation at which we were rather surprised. Stretton's Bertram was very fine—always correct, frequently excellent—at times even sublime. Mr. Stretton has added greatly to his well-earned fame by his performance of this very arduous part, and has shown that he possesses powers of the existence of which, even his warmest admirers had no idea. Miss Romer's Alice too was exceedingly beautiful. We never heard the delicious aria in the second act more exquisitely given. It was perfect, and was of course rapturously applauded. We never saw Miss Romer to greater advantage. The Princess Isabella does not ap pear until towards the conclusion of the opera. She has but two airs to sing, " Idole de ma vie" and " Robert toi que j'aime," but they are the two gems of the opera, and they were given by Miss Rainforth with exquisite expression and pathos, and with a purity of intonation that was delightful. Raimbault has one op portunity, and one opportunity only, of showing • the spirit that is within him," and that is in the second act in the solo, and the duet with Bertram. Mr. King ably availed himself of this, and proved himself an excellent musician and an accomplished artist. Mr. Weiss had but little to do as Alberti, but that little was done well. At the conclusion the principal performers were called for and honoured with the usual ovation. The house was crowded to the ceiling. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended Divine Service yesterday morning, in the private chapel, Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Charles Leslie Courtenay officiated. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Equerries in Waiting, took equestrian exercise in the riding-school, on Saturday. Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen on Saturday. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of Meek lenburgh Strelitz visited Prince Albert on Saturday. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, were taken an airing in a carriage on Saturday. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was taken an airing in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace on Saturday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Ma jesty on Saturday. The royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace on Saturday included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Danish Minister and the Countess Reventlow, the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis and Marchioness of Camden, the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, the Earl and Countess of Listowel, Lady Fanny Howard, the Countess Wratislaw, Lord Ernest Bruce, and Sir George Anson. DIE GRAND DtiCIIESS OF BADEN.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal Highness on Saturday, at the residence of the Duke of Hamilton, in Portman-square. The Grand Duchess, attended by Baroness de Strumfeder, and Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, dined with their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on Saturday, at Cambridge House. In addition to their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Meeklenburgh Strelitz, the following were present :—His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichstein, the Marquis of Douglas, Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister, the Earl and Countess of Lincoln, and Lord and Lady Beauvale. In the evening the following joined the illustrious circle, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, the French Ambassador and the Coun tess St. Aulaire, Count and Countess d'Harcourt, the Ba roness Brunnow, the Saxon Minister and Baroness Gera clorff, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, Lord and Lady Mahon, and Lord and Lady Levoson. The Grand Duchess visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. _ _ _ .... The Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley-street. A deputation on window, crown, and sheet glass con sisting of Lord Ingestre, Mr. Ord, Mr. Bell, Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Muntz, Mr. Spooner, Mr. Ross, Mr. Wawn, Lord Sandon, Mr. Liddell, Mr. A. Nichol, Sir Heward Douglas, Mr. Wort ley, Mr. Pilkington, Mr. Wadland , Messrs. R. L. Chance, W. Chance, J. Chance, John Cookson, Shutridge, Christie, Ridley, 0. Crathupe, and C. T. Crathupe, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Colvile and a deputation respecting sugar had an in terview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. A deputation, consisting of Mr. W. Featherstonhaugh, and Mr. Horn, of Sunderland, Mr. Ridley, of Newcastle, Mr. Christie, of Dumba r t on, and the Hon. Henry T. Liddell, M.P., had an interview on Saturday with Sir Robert Peel. Mr. Ralph Price, Mr. John Eccles, and Mr. John Johnson, on behalf of the turpentine manufacturers of London, had an interview with Sir George Clerk on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. Dispatches for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong-Kong were sent off on Saturday from the Colonial-office. Mr. Wallace, M.P., Lord Sandon, M.P., Sir Howard Douglas, M.P., and a deputation, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening, from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Saturday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter view with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. The Duke of Wellington attended the early Service yes terday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated. The Marquises of Anglesea and Salis bury, Ladies Palmerston and Wliarncliffe, Lords Palmerston, Bective, and Ernest Bruce, attended the daily Service. Prayers were read by the Rev. J. Y. Povah, the Lessons by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, the Communion Service by the Bishop of London and the Rev. Dr. Sleath. The Sermon was preached by the Bishop of St. David's. The anthem was— " 0 Lord give ear," (Greene). The Sacrament was admi nistered by the Bishop of London assisted by the Rev. Dr. Sleath. EXPORTATION or VALUABLE HORSES.—A gentle man of the name of Robinson, from Poland, purchased last week the following mares for exportation :—Pantomime, by Pantaloon, out of Souvenir; Lady Sale, by Sheet Anchor; and Ebony, by Muley Moloch; Mortgage, by Bedlamite; and Mineral, by Muley Moloch. The first three from Mr. Kirby, of York ; and the last two from Lord Wenlock, besides some valuable stallions. Mr. Winkworth, now Landing Surveyor at Rams gate, is to be Comptroller at Portsmouth, and Mr. George Gwythir, First Clerk at Milford, to be promoted to the vacancy at Ramsgate. THIRD EDI' " THE SUN." We have received many complaints from Subscribers who are frequently disappointed in not receiving the Third Edition. The fault rests en tirely with the News-agent who serves them, and who thereby not only injures the paper, but does injustice to his customer. This injustice is etgl Atrther aggravated by an extra charge of a halfpenny (the Post offk, fee) being made for NOT supplying the west or Third Edition. 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Respectable Agents wilt always supply the proper paper; but where ant/ inyul neglect is eaperienced, we recommend parties to write to " The Sae jive, 112, Strata, where prompt attention will be paid to their representations. 13, Great Marlborough-street. VOL. 11. of the NELSON LETTERS AND DISPATCHES IS NOW READY AT ALL THE BOOKSELLERS. Henry Colburn, Publisher. MRS. I!OWITT'S NEW WORK. Now readY,. -- all the Libraries, in 2 vols.,'post Bvo., THE IMPROVISATORE; Or, LIFE IN ITALY. From the Danish. • By MRS. lIOWITT. Editor of "The Neighbours," " The President's Daughter," Sae. " A production of singular originality and beauty. It is a tale of intense fteling and deep pathos."—Atlas. "Full of beautifbl pictures and genuine feeling."—Thung England. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. The Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public are respectfnlly informed tat this THEATRE WILL OPEN on SATURDAY, MARCH 8, Wlien will be produced (first time in this sountry), YerdPs new Opera, ERNANI. with new scenery by ➢ir. ➢farshall, Eraani, Signor Moriani; Ruy Gomez, Signor Fernasar Carle Quinto, Signor Botelli ; and Elvira, ➢fadame Rita Borio. To conolnda with an entirely new Ballet, by M. Perrot, entitled EOLINE ; ou, LA DICkAbE. The Music by Signor Pugni. The Scenery by Mr. Marshall. In which will appear Mddia. Lactic Grahn, Mdlle. Louise Weiss, Mdlle. Ferdinand, Mdlle. Demelisse, Mdlle. Casson, Mdlle. Moncelet, &c. M. Toussaint, M. Gosselin, M. Di Mattis, M. Bertrand, M. rerrot. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE. EXTRAORDINARY ATTRACTION FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY, FOR THE BENFEIT OF MR. BUNN. THIS EVENING Will be performed L'ELISIR D'AMORE. Nemorino, Mr, W. llarrison ; I>octor Dulcamara, Mr. Stratton Bolcore, Mr. Burdini ; Adina, Miss Romer. After which, a SOIREE DANSANTE, for the support whereof Monsieur Bullion and Herr Koenig have most obligingly given their valuable services, and with their Private Bands of their Court Balls and Nobilities' Soirees, added to the strength of the Drury-Lane. Band will present an Orchestra of Eighty eminent Artistes. This performance will be followed by a CONCERT, and the even ing's amusements .will terminate with the celebrated ballet of LA GISELLE, which will be produced (first timo on the English stage), with great splendour, for the occasion, and in which Mdlle. Maria, Monsieur H. Vestris, Monsieur and Madame Finart, and the whole corps de ballet will appear. Private boxes, stalls, and tickets, to be had of Mr. Bunn, 11, Fitz roy-square, and of Mr. Parsons, at the box-office of the theatre. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Extraordinary Attraction for One Night Only, FOR TIIE BENEFIT OF MR. BUNN, On which occasion the following Artistes will have the honour to appear: — In the Opera and Concert—Miss Rainforth, Miss Romer, Miss Smith, Mr. W. Harrison, Mr. Stretton, Mr. Burdini, Master Adolphe Simon (an extraordinary Violinist, just arrived from Vienna), Mr. Distill, with his Four Sons, and Mr. Harley. In the Soiree and New Ballet—Mdlle. Maria, M. 11. Vestris, M. and Madame Finart, Mdlle. O'Bryan, and Madame Giubilei ; the numerous and unrivalled Corps do Ballet, with M. Jullien and Herr Koenig. Private Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be had of Mr. Bunn, 11, Fitzroy-square ; and of Mr. Parsons, at the Box-office of the Theatre, where places may be secured. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARK.ET. LESSEE, MR. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING Will be repotted a New and Original Comedy, entitled TEE SIIER/FF OF THE COUNTY. Principal Characters by Messrs. W. Farren, Strickland, Buckstone, Webster, Mrs. Glover, Mrs. W. Clifford, Mrs. Humby, Miss Julia Bennett, &e. In the course of the Evening Mr. John Parry will give his De scriptive Scene, " Cinderella." After which, SPEED THE PLOUGH. Sir Abel Handy, Mr. W. Farren ; Bob Handy, Mr. H. Roll ; Sir Philip Blandford, Mr. Stuart ; Farmer Ashtleld, Mr. Webster;- Miss Blandfbrd, MissJulla Bennett; Susan Ashrield, Mrs. Edwin Turnold ; Lady Handy, Mrs. W. Clif ford ; Dame Ashfleld, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with HOW TO PAY THE RENT. Private Boxes, Two Guineas and One Guinea and a-Halt each. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. I. T. Archer at the Box-ofilce, rem Ten till Five o'oleek. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MADAME CELESTE. THIS EVENING Will be repeated a New and Original Drama, entitled THE GREEN BUSHES ; or, A Hundred Years Ago. Connor O'Kennedy, Ur. Selby q George, Mr. Hudson : Wild Murtogh, Mr. 0. Smith ; Muster Grinnidge, Mr. Wright; Jack Gong, Mr. Paul Bedford; Geraldine, Mrs. Yate. ; Nolly O'Neill, Mrs. Eitzwilliam ; Miami, Madame Celeste. After which, MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING WELL. To be followed by a New Dramatic Anecdote, entitled THE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE ; or, The Irish Settler. The Duke of Anjou, Miss Woolgar ; Captain O'Rorke, Mr. Hudson ; the Baroness Beanpre, Miss Fortescue. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. LESSEE, MR. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING Wlll bo performed Shakepearo's Tragedy Of MACIIBTH. Mao beth, Mr. Forrest ; Maeduff, Dlr. Graham ; Baucino, Mr. Metu7 Wallack ; Lady Macbeth, 3E4 Cushman. To conclude with a New Drama (from the French), entitled THE CARBONARI ; or, The Bride of Parma. In which Mr. Compton. Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Emma Stanley will perform. Stage Manager, Mr. H. I. Wallack 1 Stage Director, Mr. Emdea ; Machinist, Mr. Edmund Bradwell. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Private Boxes to be had at the Theatre, and at all the principal Libraries. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will be performed the celebrated Play of TRENTE ANS ; ou, LA VIE D'UN JOUEUR. George de German', M. Frederick Lemaitte ; Werner, M. Oudinot ; Ainelle, Mdllc. Clarisse. THEATRE ROYAL, LYCEUM. UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OF MRS. KEELEY. Last Week before the Easter Holidays. THIS EVENING _ _ - will be pertbrmod THE PRISONER OF WAR. Captain Chan. mall, Mr. Emery ; Pallmall, Mr. Keeley ; Clarina, Miss Walcott Polly Pallmall, Mrs. Keeley. After which, TILE LEGION OF HONOUR ; or, The Veteran and his Progeny. To be followed by VALENTINE AND ORSON. Principal Cha racters by Messrs. F. Matthews, Meadows, Wigan, Collier, Turner, Kialoch, Yarnold, and Keeley ; 'sr --rs. Wigan, Miss Arden, Miss Fair brother, Miss Grove, Mrs. Woollidge, Miss Junes, Miss Turner, and Mrs. Keeley. To conclude with a New Farce, entitled A MODEL OF A WIFE. Principal Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Matthews, and Mea dows ; Miss Walcott, and Miss Fairbrother. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. (Under the Direction of Miss Davenport.) TIIIS EVENING Will be performed LA DAME DE ST. TROPEZ ; or, The Poisoner. George Maurice, Mr. Waldron; Charles D'Arbel, Mr. Binge; Hortense, Miss Davenport. After which, BEAUTY : or, Cupid and the Satyr. To conclude with THE ROMP. Priscilla Tomboy, Miss Davenport. DAVIDGE'o ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING Will he performed JANE SHORE. Richard, Duke of Gloster, Mr. Dale ; Lord Hastings, Mr. 11. Hughes ; Dumont, Mr. N. T. Hicks ; Jane Shore, Mrs. Honner ; Alicia, Mrs. henry Vining. After which, a New Ballet Divertissement, entitled LA FETE DE TERPSICHORE. To bo followed by SUDDEN THOUGHTS. Impulse, Mr. Seaman ; Jack Cabbage, Mr. Vale. Evening In the course of the a variety of Sieging and Dancing. To conclude with BATTLE ; SLAVERY AND SHIPWRECK ; or, The Poor Little Child of a Tar. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven to Four. THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, MARCII 3. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 33 ; Highest, 38 ; Noon, 40. BAROMETER, 2 9.63.—W1ND, W. Nons.—The figures which follow the words "Lowest" and " Highest" denote the lowest and highest state of the Thermometer during the preceding twenty-four hours. All the other observations are made at noon. I lIIGII WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning .. 21 minutes after 6 Evening ..:48 minutes after 6. • , v 4, , afir T •••S,K *.. 447'4! '„:0 gif • SECOND EDITION.. . y ~ ~ LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1845. The debate in the House of Commons, on Friday night last, elicited by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S motion for calling to the bar certain officers of her MaaEsTy's Post office department, with a view to their examination in reference to the charge of opening letters addressed to that Honourable Member,—terminated as we had anti cipated. A majority of 75, in a House of 301 Members negatived his motion. It results that, to-day —to- mor row—at any time between the present moment and that at which the felony -indemnifying statute of Queen Aar N 1: shall be repealed,—the most private and confidential correspondence of every man who was a constituent element of that majority may have its seals broken, after being forged by remodelling ;—its contents pe rused, transcribed, and communicated to third parties, may be with impunity violated, surreptitiously resealed, and fraudulently forwarded to its original destination, without any intimation or evidence to the parties ad dressed of the fact of its having been so tampered with. Entertaining the strong opinions we have never hesi tated to avow on the criminal nature of the delinquency which her MAJESTY'S Government have, in effect, pleaded guilty to, we cannot help saying that we should be well pleased if every one of their supporters on this memorable question should be placed in the position of having his own letters experimented upon by the Home office and Post-office authorities, after the same fashion by which Mr. DUNCOMBE has been a sufferer. The plea relied upon by Sir ROBEnT PEEL, and other Members for refusing the very reasonable application which Mr' DuiccoMßa's motion, if carried, would have enforced: was, as on former occasions, of a kind the most unworthy and even puerile', to which a public man could be supposed, at this time of day, capable of resorting. In fact, it amounted to little more than the stale clap-trap of throwing himself upon his cha racter—the' course of official precedents—the impos sibility of a Minister, in his position, being so guilty of pandering to the appetite of foreign courts for con traband nova, There was no indignant repudiation-- such•as would have well become the Prime Minister of a constitutional Government—of an odious and detestable espionnage, such as should be tolerated only under the 'most corrupt or the most unmitigated of despotisms. There was no generous expression of confident reliance on the cordial attachment to the institutions of their country of the people which, in its recent cheerful acquiescence in the imposition of extraordinary burdens to meet extraordinary deficiencies of income at an ad- vanced period of a protracted peace ; an attachment that surely supplied the best argument against the necessity of such atrocious inquisitorial powers as those embodied in the Act of ANNE. We have not been slow to bear our testimony to the merits of Sir ROBERT PEa.'S ad vances in the right direction of free-trade and fiscal reform, as a finance Minister. But on all occasions, where there is a great constitutional principle to be vin dicated—a large scheme of national policy with regard to our foreign relations to be discussed—a claim of equity or justice to be determined against suggestions of official convenience or Exchequer expediency—we must own that he is too apt to fall beneath the level of even subaltern mediocrity. His statesmanship is without philosophy ; his philosophy without statesman ship. He argues like a functionary more or less immediately interested in the issue to be tried by the Legislature. He seldom or never rises to the enlarged and comprehensive views of a legislator, whose business it is to devise and prescribe the rules which shall govern the conduct of public func tionaries in the various departments of the public ser vice. On Friday last the feebleness with which he met the flagrant charge established against the Home De partment on a former evening, and evaded the just and reasonable appeal of Mr. DUNCOMBE—was almost piti able. A majority of 75, at the price of such an exhi bition, was dearly purchased. The failure of the Right Honourable Baronet to gainsay the general axiom we have so often contended for, and which we perceive was powerfully enforced both by Mr. DUNCOMBE and by Mr. D'IsRAaLI, was still more signal. That principle was thus put by Mr. D'ISRAELI : " You have a popular government, you have a strong local system ; you may, by not prying into the correspondence of individuals, be subjected to great calamities. You may have Bristol burnt, as Bristol was burnt ; you may have Birming ham assailed, as you had it assailed—but the country strikes the balance. It agrees to suffer these great injuries for the sake of a popular Government, instead of a Government of police; and the country, after all, must decide it.—(Cheers.) Now, Sir, I believe that is the impartial view as regards the general question." In short, the axiom that your Government should possess no such authority for violating the integrity of this important department, was not even touched by the opponents of Mr. DUNCOMBE'S motion. The moral im putation on the conduct of her Majesty's Ministers in this affair, and of the Right Honourable the Home Secretary in particular, remains not only unremoved, but absolutely unnoticed by those whom it most concerns. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, indeed, is brought at last to ac knowledge that a warrant was issued in every case where letters have been opened, whilst he has been in office, so that Mr. DUNCOMBE may conclude that his letters were opened under warrant. But Sir JAMES GRAHAM, on commencing his address, and in dealing with the spirited protest of Mr. D'ISRAELI against the politi cal Ilicartinetism of Sir ROBERT with any of his sup porters who presume, on large questions, to have an opinion of their own, he spoke with the atrgbilious astonishment of an usher astounded at the demonstra tions of a rebellious boy on the upper forms against the aristocratic majesty of the head-master. His reproof was in the very spirit of an angry pedagogue. It was a melan choly specimen of the obsequiousness of political col leagueship, which an apostate from the politi cal creed and associations of the far larger por tion of his existence may be brought to mani fest under ro exacting a master as the Premier. The speech of Mr. D'ISRAELI was, certainly, the hap piest and most successful effort he has yet made in Parliament. It was well calculated to fortify the strongest presumptions of serious divisions in the Ministerial camp, or between the Ministerial staff and the Tory rank and file. Spirited, caustic, and epigramatic, it was received probably by every person in the House, except the two Right Honourable Baronets, Sir ROBERT himself, and Sir JAMES, with visible favour, being more cheered than any other address delivered throughout the evening. If Sir ROBERT can retain, under the excitement of such a castigation, that self-possession to which he is so often indebted for learning prudence from his dangers, and for deriving advantage from his own errors, he will do well to profit by the unpleasant lesson which the Member for Shrews bury has read to him. It does not follow that because he has for some time past managed to lead the Houss, not only without, but in despite, to some extent, of his party, he will always be able to employ the same tactics with the same success. It may be prudent, therefore, for him to pause before he again strains the cord of leadership too tightly, where its stress is to affect those who are among the ablest and most intelligent of his champions whilst they are in the ranks, but are among the most formidable and harassing of his antagonists the moment they have fallen out of them. Mr. D'IsaAELI was very sparkling in touching upon the " sic vos non vobis" sort of fortune that established the present Government in power on the ruins of its predecessor, exactly because (it should seem) the present men were (luckily fortunate) to do that, which the others for merely proposing to do were expelled for. The figure of the spoliatod bathers was capital. The simile of PETRUCHIO scarcely less striking:— " The Right Hon. Gentleman has only exactly to remain where he is. The Right Hon. Gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. (Much cheering and great laughter.) He has left them in: the full enjoyment of their liberal position, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.—(Continued cheers and laughter.) I cannot conceive that the Right Hon. Gentle man will ever desert his party ; they seem nevert to desert him. There never was a man yet who had less need to find new friends. I, therefore, hope all these rumours will cease. I look on the Right Hon. Gentleman as a man who has tamed the shrew of Liberalism by her own tactics. He is the political Petruchio, who has outbid you all.—(Cheers and great laughter.) If we could only induce the Right Hon. Gentleman, therefore, to take a larger and more liberal view of his Parliamentary position than he seems to adopt in mo ments too testy for so great a man to indulge in, he would spare us some imputations which, I assure him, are really painful." ' But there is a chapter in the past political life of Sir ROBERT PEEL, to which we think it is well that the public mind should be now and then referred, although with the view of working some abatement of the prestige which a long career of Parliamentary and of Ministerial success has thrown around that Minister's reputation. His deportment to Mr. CANNING in the ascendant—his utter want of generosity and confidence towards his early friend and political comrade,—his ready and somewhat overe-ager adhesion to the most bitter and unscrupulous enemies of that great statesman,—the coincidence of this remarkable estrangement from the companion and fellow partisan of so many political campaigns, with that illustrious individual's attainment to supreme rank in the Councils of the SOVEREIGN ;—these are recollections which we doubt not are not those that are dwelt upon with the greatest degree of complacency by his successor in that supreme position. With the very neat allusion to this epoch in the public history of Sir ROBERT, with which the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury concluded his address, we shall conclude this article : "He never refers to any author who is not great, and sometimes who is not loved—Canning for example.—(Hear, hear.) That is a name never to be mentioned, lam sure, in the House of Commons without emotion. We all admire his genius. We all, at least most of us, deplore his untimely end ; and we all sympathise with him in his fierce struggle with supreme prejudice and sublime mediocrity—(Cheers and a laugh)—with inveterate foes and with candid friends. —(Loud cheering.) The Right Hon. Gentleman may be sure that a quotation from such an authority will always tell. Some lines, for example, upon friendship, written by Mr. Canning, and quoted by the Right Hon. Gentleman The theme, the poet, the speaker—what a felicitous combina tion Its effect in debate must be overwhelming; and lam sure, if it was addressed to me, all that would remain would be for me thus publicly to congratulate the Right Hon. Gentleman, not only on his ready memory, but on his courageous con science."—(The Hon. Gentleman, afterisecondinethe motion, sat down amidst loud cheering.) In the pamphlet embodying Mr. GRANTLEY BERILtLEY'S " Reply to the Press," to which we have adverted, on the game-laws, there is a pervading error which is com mon to the defences set up by the advocates of that offensive branch of class legislation. Country: gen tlemen are prone to assume that the game-laws are ne cessary—expedient--of public utility, and that the case for their existence being thus established and admitted, the only question to be settled is, whether they are the best sort of laws that can be devised for their object, or may not, by remote possibility, be susceptible of some amendments ? On this account it is, we presume, that Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY imagines that in his former enterprise on the character of game-law champion, " he stood forth to the field, net as the first challenger—not as a wilful assailant," but simply in succour of the dis tressed." Both these propositions are false. Every game-preserver (a class with which our author ostenta tiously announces his own identification), is the " chal lenger" in the " first" instance; and betakes him to the oppression, NOT t:) the succour of the distressed." lle challenges the reprobation of public opinion : he assists the action of statutes of grinding tyranny upon the most friendless and impoverished members of society. The public, as a body, is not interested in the secondary question of the degree in which the game-laws may be eL:cused or reformed ; but it is in the general issue, game-laws or no game-laws. All Mr. BERKELEY'S ad vocacy turning upon the apology and defence he thinks he can make for the game-laws as they are, his argu ment is addressed, in fact, to that very small minority in the empire who are for game-laws " at all ;" not to the great bulk of the population, who are clearly in favour of " no game-laws." The real majority of Mr. BERKELEY'S compatriots, therefore, cannot enter into the merits of his personal squabbles with cool-headed magistrates, or game-keepers who deliberate before they "punch people's heads." The whole system of game-laws is on its trial at the tribunal of public opinion, on the great principles of natural, and even of social, law, which we enunciated lately. Mr. BERKELEY does not appear to suspect that his views are all based upon, and referable to, mere local aspects under which the operation of this system has presented itself to his observation in given localities. He must be prepared to learn that there is a world, beyond the topographical circuit of his experiences, as to be rude enough to discard all considerations of the extent and management of game-preserving establish ments, even if they belong to Berkeley Castle—and whether they be found in Gloucestershire, or Sussex, or Hampshire. The public at large is now disposed to consider whether any degree of indulgence with which it might be inclined to regard the sports of coantry gentle men, by throwing a greater or a less degree of protection around the game which is the object of so many of those sports, will not be much too dearly granted ut the cost of leading to so many outrages, offences, crimes, convic tions, and the county expenditure consequent on the legal proceedings thereby occasioned, which our game laws have heretofore entailed in a continuous and fearful succession. It will be a mournful day—a day of agrarian humiliation and quarter-sessions sackcloth, to be sure, when the exclusive rights of property on the game, of preserving, and (dearest of all !) of exterminating it, with all the mysteries and qualifications of certificates, and deputations—informations and convictions—night watches and captions of poachers, with all the incidental luxuries of battues for the exclusive friends of the game owner—shall be put down by the repeal of the statutes we are contemplating. But many calmly-thinking men, of judgment, discretion, and talents, perhaps even of as much experience as Chairmen of Quarter Sessions as Mr. BERKELEY himself, have expressed their conviction that it may be better to repeal the game laws altogether than leave them to reproduce, year after year, their constant cycles of petty oppression and insolent persecu tion on the one hand—of perjury, treachery, violence, crime, and bloodshed, on the other. We cannot flatter Mr. BERKELEY by saying that he has in his last pamphlet approached the true gist of the game-law question. We can as little compliment him on his talent for controversy. His style is the oddest imaginable. A species of private-theatrical, stilted declamation, seems to be the " vein" in which he is most given to indulge. But there is one yet more favourite purpose which he is bent on establishing—namely, the announcing to all whom it may—or may not—concern, that he is of the aristocracy. "If we, the aristocracy, the landed gentry, and the preservers of game" (p. 3)— " that we, the upper classes, make the criminal" (p. 6) —" the class to which I belong" (p. 19)—" we, who are taunted witk calling ourselves the nobility" (p. 22) " I completely repel accusations against my order" (p. 24). The inverted commas and italics, being Mr. BERKELEY'S, not ours, may serve to point the va lue which that gentleman attaches to these im portant hints of his quality. But they are not even satis factory to this extent. The darling sin of being figurative is another of his infelicities. lie rushes into simile s and expatiates in metaphor, the parts of which have no more relation to one another than those of the nonde script suggested by HonAcE, in his epistle, "Ad Pisonem." He writes (page 2), " Not even a rivet of my armour—or an outer defence—has been won by the enemy." The rivet would have been a treasure among the spolia opima of a defeated antagonist. Addressing certain opponents of the game-laws (page 14), he says, " You are at such loss for argument, and so threadbare in your sources of real arrangement." What kind of sources " threadbare" ones may be, has never been deter mined by those who have tracked the Nile or the Ganges, or the Burhmapoota to its fountain head. But this is mere geographical rhetoric. Mr. BERKELEY can call in the aid of chemical illustration :—e. g., " Does this lessen the turpitude of an offender in the one instance, or neu tralize, by a virtuous soda, the filthy acids of the vice so violent in the other ?" Henceforth, on the scale of pharmaceutical morality, let potass take precedence of tarteric salts. But if Mr. BERKELEY sometimes is thus careless, he is at others more guarded ; for at p. 46, when he has a topic to handle with which he is better acquainted than the principles and operation of laws, his caution' and solemnity are edifying. " The present price of cheese (I am speaking advisedly, and of the pre sent year, 1845) does not remunerate the maker in the vale." The present price of absurd pamphlets (we say it " advisedly") will never remunerate Mr. BERKELEY. So we leave him, with his cheese in the " vale," from which he will do well not readily again to ride forth on such adventures as he has undertaken on behalf of the game-laws. Madrid journals of the 23d have been received. Ac cording to accounts from Valencia a serious collision had taken place in the garrison of that place between the infantry and artillerymen, in which one officer and four men were killed. It was said that. General RONCALI had hastened to the spot, and after some inquiry appointed a commission to try the offenders. The Clamor Publico states that QUDEN CHRISTINA. had resigned the pension of 3,000,000 reals granted to her by the Government. The rumour requires confirmation, though, according to the following list of revenues, she can well afford to make the sacrifice. " The Queen-Mother," says that journal, " could not pos sibly continue to receive a pension of three millions wrested from a suffering people, when she is so rich, and the owner of the salt-works of Drenu in the Jura mountains, of the magnificent palace of Malmaison, near Paris, of the fine estate of Vista Alegra, of the lucrative gas-light works at the Havannah, of enormous sums invested in England and France, and above 130,000,000 reals, the sum to which the pension she has hitherto received amounts, not including Sing Ferdinand's legacy." - - - The Three per Cents. left off on the 22d at 331 at 60 days; the Five per Cents. at 24/ for cash, and 244 at 60 days; and the Debt without Interest at 7 for cash, and 7i at 60 days. The Paris papers bring further details of events in Switzerland, which may be considered on the whole as satisfactory. There appears on the part of the public authorities in general a disposition to settle disputes amicably, and make allowances for the excitement caused by the restless spirit of the Jesuits. The Extraordinary Diet which assembled at Zurich on the 24th, as stated in The Sun of Saturday, proceeded to verify the returns of the Deputies from the different cantons. That from Vaud excited some diseussion, but, on a division, the Members elected by the new Council were admitted by a majority of twelve and a half to nine. It may be ne cessary to mention that some of the small cantons have only half a vote. The Deputies from the following can tons voted against the admission of the Deputies from Vaud :—Uri, Unterwald, Zug, St. Gall, Valais, Neufchatel, Fribourg, Schwitz, Red Lucerne. The President of the Diet, M. BoussoN, Burgomaster of Zurich, made a peaceful and judicious address to the Diet. After adverting to the resignation of the consti tutional (Authorities at Lucerne, he said, " It is super fluous to dwell at greater length on the imminent dangers that threaten the federal alliance, if questions of the greatest moment be settled, not by the proper autho rities and after mature examination, but by violent deci sions. To remedy the evils of the country, to restore and consolidate profound peace between the confederacy, such is the principal task of the supreme federal au thority. It behoves the concurring cantons alone to devise suitable measures and to enforce them." Lord ABERDEEN in his dispatch to Mr. MORIER, the English Envoy, to the Swiss Cantons, which we have given in another place, states the view which the British Government takes of the question, and re commends, as the only means of preventing foreign inter , ferenoe, the adjustment of differences without destroying the constitutional compact, and forming a New Switzer land, which would necessarily involve the intervention of the foreign Powers which, in 1815, sanctioned the ori ginal compact. A letter from Zurich, of the the 25th, states that a long discussion arose in the Diet, whether they should proceed first to the question of the Jesuits, which was affirmed by a majority of thirteen States to nine. These papers announce no collisions between the contending parties, but the people through out the federation take a deep interest in the decision of the Diet, and look to it with anxiety. The Jesuits themselves, true to their cautious policy, seem anxious to withdraw from the contest, at present, under the advice of the POPE. " The Swiss journals," says the Journal dee Debas, " announce that, in conse quence of an intervention of the Court of Rome, the company of Jesus has rescinded the compact entered into with the Government of Lucerne, and that the Jesuits have renounced the idea of making an appeal to the canton. We have reason to believe that the statement is correct, but we must confess that we do not think that this wise,and conciliating step will be accepted in the same spirit by the Radical party. The men who wish to revolutionize Switzerland will in all probability try to urge matters to extremities ; they will require that the other cantons which have hitherto been open to the Je suits shall be closed against them." The other Ministerial paper, the says in jest, but there is much wisdom in the advice th e general t 0 general of the Jesuits, we would transport the wit;,.l e order to America, and thus make the charivarists of the Vaud and the Constitutionnel of Pais die of chagrin. Let us add that there, where there is much to correct ,uith and civilise, the Jesuits may do great things. In Eur ° .r" r there is little or nothing left for them to do. The J e by corning to this resolution, would besides render real service to the cause of religion; for it w.,uld be saved from attacks under the pretence of attacking then. This would prevent the whole clergy of France fre ts being confounded with the order, which, whether right" fully or wrongfully, excites mistrust." Affairs in the French Chamber of Deputies g o ott rather unfavourably for M. G UIZOT. On F r iday th e Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Monthly C°lll. mittees were elected, when only five Ministerialists were elected out of nine candidates. At the commen cement of the session Ministers had seven votes and the OW . sition only two. On Saturday the Finance Ministers t" tended the Budget Committee, and stated the intention s of the Government relative to the conversion of tha t° per Ceuts., and it was understood that he was in fa/ of the measure, though at present it would not b e csule into effect. THE BOURSE—SATuIi.DLY, MARCIE I. First Highest Lowest ;Woe. Price. Price. Price. :', l l French Five per Cents.. •• • • 121 60 .. 121 60 .. 121 30 " ""o Three per Cents.• 85 10 • • 85 10 • • 85 "2:0 Rank of France....... 3240 —3240 .. 3240 71 Collin Ban:, I,ooof. Shares lO9O —1093 .. 1090 • • • ~1200 Belgian Bank.. • • . • •.••• • • • 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 •• "",,A Belgian Fives, 1840 .• •••• • • 104% 104% .. HU% " 1842 .... •• 106% .. 186% .. 1064 " 60 9 1 Two-and-a-Half.. • • 62 15 .. 62 20 • • 62 15 . 4 04 Spanish Threes ....... 40% .. 40% .. 48% Portuguese Five per Cents 60% • • 60. X • . 60% • • 1 00 20 Neapolitan.. •••••• •• • . • lOO 20 .. 100 20 .. 100 20 • • 10 0 7. Roman • • • 105% 105 1, 105% " RAILWAY SHAREti. ,111 1 St. Germain Versailles, R.B. • • .. .. 560 • • ../ 0 an L.B.•••••••••••• 381 25 .. 381 25 .• 377 .`" ••ii2l "di Rouen •••••• •• • • •••• ••••••1125 —1127 60 —ll2B "" cr , . 90 ,0 Rouen to Havre 937 50 .. 945 9 37 -- • 1232 "- Orleans .•• ......•• •• •• ••1228 75 —1232 50 —1228 75 •••, .a. . sa. Strasburg to Bale- . Avignon to Marseillea•• •• ••1070 ..1070 ..1070 •• .240 Bordeaux to Testo - RAILWAYS FOR TAB ACCOUNT. Mason 1 6 . , 1 6/ 0 St.lGermain...•. •• •••• •• ••1175 ..1177 50 .. 1167 50 ..Jo° Versailles, R.B 160 .. 560 .. 560 • . 080 L. 8.• . Rouen .1123 7 1 —ll2B 75 ..1 122 50 ." 4 6 Rouen to Havre.• ••••• . . • 940 .. 947 50 •• 940 " i 1 ;32 40 Orleans •......•• .. •• -.••••1132 50 ..1236 50 —1230 • • • i26 Strasburg to Bale•• •••• •• •• 326 25 .. 326 25 .• 325 .1 00 Avignon to Marseilles• ••• ••1063 75 ..1072 50 ..1060 '. 2 32 r , Bordeaux to Tests •• . • ..... 225 232 50 .. 225 • THIS DAY'S NEW?' LATE MURDER AT HAMPST ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUESI. 'BO' (THIS Y. a This morning the Coroner, the Deputy Coroner , t o tllei jurymen impanelled to inquire into the atrocious I °7 TO James Delarue, met at the Yorkshire Grey, Hampsteau crowd, which had been gradually increasing fro a aei early hour, was, at half-past nine, the time of nieet i _ n kosr dense, and the confusion was worse confounded, intot D o quence of the mode in which the Coroner's order,si, e o fee . , strangers should be admitted until the Court had:deraes° mally opened, had been carried into effect. C en- sdie lr chagrin was excited in the unsuccessful applicants f0r:1001i' sion, by observing that to the few, favoured by pith the ance, an aristocratic name, or an acquaintance Vlit specter, the door was at once opened. The prisoners were both in attendance, and the P . ,, ri e d 6ci e j ° prisoner, in whom the interest is concentrated, se,,,,,eboe'm most cool person present. The elite of the TAW' _ A we Joseph as usual, in attendance. Shackell sworn—l am inspector, sta_itilty Scotland-yard. I have taken no person into etist uu „ ) ; We d ' murder, but I saw two in custody for that crime nesday, the 26th. The circumstances having b ee ,, u ths „t i municated to me, I went to the place, and fonou t e ltai r murder and robbery had been committed. I I ° , 10,„, wards with Inspectors Haynes and Partridge, to bled w f tlebury-street, Euston-square, on Sunday. I 415133 0 % 0 , 6° 0 6 premises, the drawers, &c., and in a drawer, altl e „ e g ty. t , obscene prints and books, found a roll of paper; at n ." oo of found the " bill" for a watch, giving a descriPtl It ran Jno.s t h 11 144 " Curtis, Esq., .s m a y 28- , " To H. Finer, 48, High Holborn, " 1 watch, &c .£7 71N ° " May 28, by cash rtea- o c- I took the necessary steps, and oa Wednesday „ItisPoe shown the watch. The watch was shown rae,"„J r til e r& Partridge, at the Police-court, Marylebone. J'""„ " 0 " 0, II ' mination had been finished before Mr. Ra iy " trid6"'o, ceeded in company with inspectors Haynes and r a b r er e No. 11, Victoria-terrace, Portland-town, to a sin„eL l Ile_l;ce which was the lodging of Thomas Henry and t be Yror I did know either of the prisoners. I exandiler„oble.des and found an old flock bed, and the room in A 11 :7; f0 OuT o dition ; a quantity of letters and papers, and " foo le,olo, prints. Saw Mr. Partridge find in the salne, i o ertOe cupboard, the wristband of the right arm atl ie fes e e sleeve of a shirt covered with blood. Saw to be t oe a button, which he took charge of. It appease d 00,00 coat, and was a silk button. The roor° rosiukoo locked, and I proceeded to the father's the y situate at No. 17, Charles-street, Portland-tonooV room, first floor. That was on Wednesday .1";f110',04, told him who and what I was I then asked bu n ; lie pa the position in which his son Thomas was placed, , , , e h PIO Alas ! I do. I asked him to give me the clothes n e e l° had had left. But, before that, I asked if he ha d ' James? and he said he had just left. ef t The CORONER—What time was that? Witojes4o three o'clock. I asked for the clothes, at the e 0 0 , 9 picking up a macintosh. I said, is this y o a r B° oo ° id" macintosh? He said " yes." Seeing that it w oe es with blood and mud, both back and front, I as k pr e he had worn this last? He said he had gone 0 :0 00 Friday night last, at seven o'clock. (The maol„ nt d49 11 ,, ‘ duced, and was in the state described by witn ess et . The CORONER-.Did you ask when he returria" He did not again see him till Saturday morning. lfint- A , B intosh was passed round to the jury.) It mornings. sofa quite openly. No attempt was made t° t he t v i O r a then asked for the body clothes. There werej° te icl'o father, Inspectors Haynes, Partridge, and ell' - e ;( l ,,r4S ° asked for his linen, which the mother gave ive , or ate? had worn the shirt on Saturday morning. Th e part of the sleeve was torn off, as it is now. Este The DEPUTY CORONER—Off which arra ( the IP' fe e d the right arm. I examined it, and found ola . 10 ,01 4 ,0 0 0 band blood, and comparing the shirt with theAesheog, a mending in the sleeve exactly correspond. (c l i r t yo wristband were passed up the table.) Th e e 6 lie•a° p° t, out of a cupboard. It was lying with oth01;04 mother herself selected it, and said this V°, „. t 011,0 ; off by him. I asked for the stockings. ' l "' : r ed leler t ) , and found to be stained with blood. I COMP . yof 1 to ev e • r the drawers and trousers, and found the ins, io eo (3 , 0 0 0 j correspond in all. I told the father I 511 . 1 9: 1 p0C t :TAffA things away, and he said, " It is only what e,41 0 "8. - I was going down he called me back, and t°', Y e tti e llo Thomas told me that he had borrowed 121. ° A ' it is r i e fia, No. 6, I tßah-place, New-road, but lam afre l `' truth ple He said had better go there to ascertain be ive itt l o yed had got a sovereign, and he would in that case gti h ad 0 0 0 , I inquired of him before I left whether ble, °° o 17 0 ,,051, i ° stick with him on Friday night. He ewiefra the stick he took with him," producing a . ,'", lea a teu (The stick was produced). It was stenc il , foile e ssi,',o the room. I then went to Mrs. Edwards a° o f le„, was not true that she had lent the prisop er tbe jettir - 1 10 told her the circumstances and she gave me a, "f I produce. t th e be t!. qfr The CortoxErt—This stick is cracked a yes. 1,0 1 •0 11 you mention that to the father ? Witnees-"vibicketo at e nothing about it. I received two letters ere d tu irbe L oi s wards received from the prisoner, and Gray. tier s the letter in the possession of Inspector 43 0 le; it t the signed " J. H. docker, Hampstead-road." verithioegs, ' 001 shown to the Coroner.) The paper arid 0 A o3 ..fi a a sponds with the letter signed papers and letters found at prisoner's lodg'_ o ° . • v iitaKo ;. , from Mrs. Edwards in answer to one of them ettee . _de The CORONER—That is of no eurltegriei it That is the whole of my evidence. then °t o; 0100 " Caroline," but there is allusion to Ig o , dti Jane Phipps, under the pretection of J , whom the prisoner kept company. 0 )--P r , a ~ e 6 4 le o The CORONER (to the prisoner Thot°, oo e, fo f question to ask the witness ? T e oilef e , ' Inspector Partridge was next examen the p o oleori' formation from Sergeant Scotney, apptard a l t , brought to me by him on the night or f itb Berel t i went from Gardener's-lane in compel*" n u the k e titueo! ne,s , and Bickerston to the father's house_it wit h t!i i That was on the Tuesday night. I wr en . to ld tkl o de e ref o ; geants in a cab to Portland-town. I we"d that see D ' e a 'charier ° e a ie , 0 d i ; wife could give important information to go to Watson's house first, at 17, ,__ had deavoured to see Watson's wife, but of oher.'s two hours. I knocked at the glass 7 f eo fthd i pei i eo pe dow. lam now speaking of the resid soe „f' man Watson gave information to Sego sit or :, ;4d. first instance. At last Mrs. Weitson yv he I st. k lel e e; voured to make her open the door, bll's;,ebr:'loo)s;jl3r ing, "Tell mewbat you have got to eaY•L the r th''''; a ted ffr, and went up to Rocker's room. The ' h a at lfr ees egayit of the window, and asked me what a in I had to say ? I told him I _ee her. f e v Watson to his wife, an d w i s hed to o tio bo ae: I then replied „e) to say what I wanted. . t he ni be ote ietee p Watson a letter, but I'll call again tea to t o f, ing that an alarm might be communise ari d MYorle in Victoria-terrace, we, that is Bicke al_ e “ the cieo, is, sr, the house. Soon after I went tow The oesv, and met Scotney coming towards nivre•_„:'"one.tffibiielpe,' 100 yards. I met Scotney at t,„_!_elg tr ais bet he tie/ James 'locker, the brother, was e te f,r, fo T r h a e p p a r i i r s oonfebrohoatsa. 0_ n ip (,),I to : t not to in change cu t t e h d e Y M did, toria.terrace with the others. es 'l o cker ep sti_ e t ConoNEß—Who knocked? andto 1 the f athe' l footutehrsayperagdoutraddowbny about eayi.catchedtuurned tharion Witness —Hockey knocked, rcdsoul,di spoke.ssi teeedßu swe aitl tb e key e n r a e b i e ll t sary the d ti 'r. oa t ( : Pi t ei: j r, that hoow i nla n l etee d ruc o ltt w . tut . fhtae sr afterwa rds tlbaeaisr Alight wits; Scotney !ri d the ° .e ii- er ithY Shackell. d the be d otild one room , e n t I tell P er jol t w o a t s h the father rzio Id them 'aft is 030 of 111 f 8 vteool4 for which he was in custody o l u s t ai o d f tboedtiaielsfoa. tbTerh,e,r,elitsiolianntyroas on d e e t r rrc ul k be one. I vi I via° 61° o alk byreacollect that anY- --ri- ao time there. Ido not ar , fe anu o e b i, y n oou Delarue.rema sTi k w bn e a was fua m stthed a e de sfernl Thomas Hockey—No rem ; lc w alalasnriniP ictoria;umbet of letters locked 00,01,01 I looked not ed s for THII examine d weapons e r a nh p i an ° cig u . s -boaere l3 : . td a k b : e ji e nri r v ' t ri o i cit t db o h niedt: s hele l o i ii su o o ' i ;el t ° ll tl3 l t tl er p , T e:1; ac t : l rifi t4 I ; Scotney. I found there a of I T letters do tit le ofthe, j, then di d ret u r ned up, and came away. the oom, tbe n re i e te 1, 4 0; Stooeakrchthede prisoner r t p T a h r o ts rehaay panied us a part of the .. . w if he liked, i?d,titod be tioevo saying that " he reigh.t brother if he cony ° fi ght 0 0 1 :( to this inquiry. I have e.,as.tamtoi:eildahttlifis"ilelauod.reeiJeliootini'°'eidocihieldtooi communication with s . H f o, e r then onel 1 was d 300 on n s oa y i dd 00 f ps, T: tio o. d panladcethbeetwoteheeur t o b n em r t g h ; e e aon ie t it- eincdeu ff e on o ,„ c otl 3 _r ct igler noco rn e Rocker.uex t restraint, and we vireo' e re P r. ' ify" tors Shackell and 'Jaynes, in slot to coot, race. We searched the roo wu the It e. 5 aot ° ,l the rear close to him.S On the same a f l. er d r st In the right-hand cu t a n r i a n t g ta t c h b e e d eu t ;ho;t o i r . be d• er i d di ri l e f o ° S vr _ lt ° 4 n other c n "o.) tee• it (a. nincers. (They ivere ope 03. w fo i u t n h d a t hone fini portionrisntu minutely occasion. s h e e ixo alert In a h landed :II shoemaker . They vrere blood are on them. -mod tO we effort At cmcluiluM - I 4 _ .• • • • -AN examinetbe cupeidivt -.~` _..~ w ~.r' L ~ i~ i t 0 S S SE • Is ,111