The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

MAGAZINE DAY. Rl,l - _ - ‘'Ts WOOD'S MAGAZINE. The r;:cgnt Irish discussions in the House of Com mons form, as might be expected, a prominent subject of consideration in the present Number of this Ma gazine. The article, like most articles of a similar natur e in Blackwood, is full of fallacious statements, and is plenteously endowed with impudence—to a degree indeed that renders it positively amusing. Thus, the writer gravely assures us that the last Government had just the same power to redress the wron gs of Ireland, as is possessed by the present ; thot gh it is notorious that the Whigs could seldom se ' the a majority of even nine on Irish questions, while e Tories boast of one just ten times as numerous . A gain, with equal gravity, he states that " the bias to o th gentry and of the aspi r i ng o f a ll r a n ks i s owar e ds P rotestantism," contemptuously regardless of the well-known fact that the proportion of Ca tholics to Protestants its the sister-country is at this tl rillnent far great er th an it has been for the last s n ared years! O n the subject of the recent State in Dublin this reckless Tory par tisan' is not merely enthusiastic, but breaks out liStto such bunts of rh a p so di ca l f renzy as would just i fy the application o f a strait-waistcpat. He describes _he p rosecution as " the mightiest of spectacles which hu man gr an d eur can unfold !" and adds, " the trial was i made, and with what perfection of success the reader knows, for let us remind him that the perfec tiro'', a we spe a k of lay as m uc h i n t h e manner o f t h e the i ho s l in its result—in th e sanct iti es o f a b st i nence, i n y f o rbearance to use any one of the many decerit advantages in the reverence for the sublime equities of law The holy f orbearance" of the Crown was certainy The in a moat uneqpivocal fashion, by thet_ striking off of the ten Catholic jurors ; and, as for 1 _ he sanctities of abstinence," who does not remember t_h:nsanctimonious "abstinence" which the ti - eral evinced, when, in his official capacity as chief Attorney vindicator and guardian of the law, he sent a chal lenge to Mr. Fitzgibbon ! But the article is scarcely worth the labour of refutation • for, from first to last, it is replete with misstatements and contradictions, Whi ch are put forth with a free-and-easy indifference, soavouring of the most intrepid effrontery. Horace nee spoke of the first navigator as being a man "cased in triple brass ;" had the poet lived in these Sys' :he would have found in the writer of this arti much an i nd i vidual possessed of quite as Vruch brass as th e earliest mariner. The " Pirates of I" is a wild me l o-dramatic tale, whose scene is in Venice, in the earlier part of the seventeenth Century.A The " Sl ave T ra d e " i s a pa i nful document, aurawn up from materials furnished by an Engl is h clergyman, who was himself on board a cruiser that captured a Brazilian slave-ship, where not less than four hundred and seventy negroes, men, women, and children, Were found chained together like dogs, in a cabin ° '4 q thirty-seven f ee t l ong , an d th ree f eet and a half s l B l l- And this occurred under the vertical sun of the tropi cs ! .In I " Moslem Histories of Spain" we find S ame curious particulars respecting the Arabs of Cordova, one of whose most eminent rhetoricians Possessed, it seems, an' "ocean of language." What a treasure this man would have been to the Tories in the-House of Commons, who so often find it neces sary to follow the example of their Chief and talk against time! The " British Fleet" is a biographical Memoir of the late Earl St. Vincent, who, though usually just in his conduct towards the officers under his a command, was not always so, for he once refused and a ppnintment to a "f avouri t e " C apta i n, b ecause h e a teen guilty of the cr i me o f matr i mony, h e him self having Perpetrated the same act not two months before ! The biographer's description of the famous battle off Cape St. Vincent is very spirited and graphic, and will remind the reade r -of some of Southey's sketches of naval actions in his " Life of Nelson." The " Me raciira of a Statesman" fall off in interest this month. We have far too much of the prison of St. Lazare, and the hero's adventures therein. " Two Nights in Seuthern Mexico" impress us with a very vivid notion of the Pleasures of travelling in that paradisaical re gion.. The writer describes himself as forming one of a Party who journied a hundred miles from Mexico through a country rar e ly "trodden b ut b y nat i ve 15 3 , " and in the course of this agreeable expedition, was half su ff oca t e d b y f ogs, bi tten to within an ; 1 of his life by m usqu it oes , cuffed and clawed and Pinched by a d rove of gigantic apes, frightened out of his wits-by a thunder stor m , h ur l e d headlong from ~ cliff which gave way beneath him, and all but Owned in a mountain torrent which took charge of als descendi ng person ! Pleasant variety this for two ni ghts' travelling ! We subjoin the author's account of the attacks made on him by the musquitoes and apes during his bivouac in a low valley : awak." It was somewhere about midnight when I was !rotined by ate indescribable sensation of oppression ta the surrounding atmosphere. The air seemed to be no longer air, but some poisonous exhalation that had suddenly arisen and enveloped us. From the rear of the ravi ne in which we lay, billows of dark mephitic mist were rolling forward, surrounding us with their baleful influence. It was the vomit() prieto, th e f ever itself em bodied in the shape of a fog. At the same moment and while I was gasping for breath, a sort of cloud seemed to settle upon T u na M d a thousand stings, like red-hot needles, were into my hands, face, nee , k e part of my limbs and body that was not tri—pl3i-ngtnuaervdereyd by clothing. I instinctively as rorth my hands and closed them, clutching by th . e action hundreds of , e roning, enormous musquitoes, whose d almost deafened me. The air was literally singints fi n ll o e i d se b now a dense ssvatm tinoseincotsu;s as the agony caused by their water 4d atiltledSeV It Wa S 8, perfect plague of Et stings was indescribable. mock was slung some ten gEIS. _Rowley, whose ham .tongue ; I heard'him kick' Y from mine, soon gave beanodhswerng, with a vigour ogndanedneprlguyngtihnagt, would d te h r a m v g e ludicrous under any other circumstances matters were just then too serious for a laugh. At that moment a scream —but a of such terror and an guish as I never heard beseforereanlorsince—a scream as of w w ( i ) t n l 2 .: n in their hour of agony and extreme peril, sounded and es a few paces of us. I sprang out of my hammock, did so two white and graceful female figures whatdarted or rather fle w by me, shrieking —and oh lin heart-readin tones—for ' Socorro ! Socotro 1 Por Dios! Help t hens s Close upon the heels of the fugitives, bo-undingP a ! nd leaping along with enormous strides and springs, came three or four dark objects, which resembled nothing earthly. The human form . 'n y certainly possessed ; but so hideous and horrible, *0 u n _ , natural a ndspectre-like was their aspect, that their encounter in that gloomy ravine, and in the almost shaken Ishrkness that surrounded us, might well have e strongest nerves. We stood for a second, Reeds these'sYtr and myself, paralysed with astonishment at _e n s, 6 appearances ; but another piercing scream restored to us our presence of mind. One of the women had teither tripp e d or f a ll en f rom f at i gue, and she lay a whi haaPt Clutche ground. 'I he drapery of the other was in the of one of the spectres, or devils, or whatever rush were, w h en R ow l e y, w ith a cry o f horror star with d f rward, and struc k a f ur i ous bl ow at the mon without k • his inuchett o . A t t h e same time, and almost he how, I found myself engaged with I . : ll 4 o e t . lier of the creatures. But the contest was no equal :rain did we stab and strike with our raachettoes ; our brist4ltL 444 1 .',.n3 were covered and defended with a hard Pointed, 1'4% Breach our knives, although keen and v" , had difficulty in penetrating ; and on the other hand we difficulty ourselves clutched in long sinewy arms, termi t . nails were as astng in hands and fingers, of which the ottheie hrrinbaiterpciand strong as an eagle's talons. I creature seized rne, ard s d s r t a r w ik in e g i tn nt e o t m ow y a s r h ds ou b l i d m er , s pr a e s ss th ed e me as in the hugvisage owas bear i while his hideous half-man his long, k een white tr Z ning and snarlin g at me, and within ta x i nc h es of my et fac w e tre snapping and gnashing BENTL R t,'' s 7'''''''ssess.s. In the present ha MISCELLANY. don L'f " e itPters of his " a4tjel e, m r. m urra Physiology of Lon a Auctions, takes while discoursing on the ct justice to the immortal the rnost original genius opportunity of doing a George Robins, by far the tionahly s h ould sof the day, and who unques- Wlr. He me t, have c 'ecoPied a foremost place in laag been familiar S . pirit of the Age." We have descriptive, great master of the with the advertisements of this . we, and have been lost in astonishment °f invention th.nevdesnptFridid imagery and wonderful You cannjot s i ay i s the jell- characterisebtphuratotvGerebo,rg`el Purse ofto a a sow's e . ar e ,'" l them. Scott atiction make of this _ ear, a Waltera silk proof of the utter fallacy he image. By a single flourish of his • ma le pen can manufacture aal g • vent a horse-pond into ace out of a pig-stye Islands and bord d.a translucent lake dotted with ere with fragrant shrubs and flowers ; and conjure of ant. _ .„ p a noble mansion fit "for the residence d ote ll r in a spot, where to the dull, unirnagina _ye of matterf-fact nothi • 'amble-4 Ilg is visible lint a s.own cottage •th an imperfectly developed was h - ilk: else attached to . t vf o l * mantic it! Then, mark the necro powers of his language 1 Withwhat exquisite grace and freedom purling streams winding rivers t flow ill SMALL CAPITALS througlthtmitiN and stately palaces rise in all the di a v gni e t rti o s f em ita en lic s: _ O l h nothing wanting to render them absofute perfec ts n, but the smallest possible outlay of mone I I aboundl :markable fact that " hard • and soft ' water" in all the " premises "which tni sai d t • George is corn• one o dispose estat e ar s of; the rents, too, of the el ,_ a. e invariably paid with punctuality ; the 4 __",n to is peculiarly " favourable to longevity;' MI MOO/flight fans there withsoftness a and a beauty such as are.witnessed b ,. w in no other part of Christendom. .e te _ would not wish to alarm the modesty of this I ' l l d bei n _— '4l--but g men of genius are always shy and bash the. Itoh. we would humbly venture to suggest to lish h. ms that he owes it to his own farhe to repub order 141 advertisements in one or more volumes, in 1 _at remote posterity may know of what bril- Was'ant flightof . • . s imagination the nineteenth century capable p a „, • The "Fortunes of the Scattergood t ss uil3r" improve as they proceed, because the author • do ' 1 2 1 4 More to his own resources, and less to an imita tio"._ Of Dickens. The scene of the first representa the" °f Mr . Glenalvon Fogg's melodrame at a minor 4 Matre is a droit! y and humourously touched off. Iss'scditatio , ns at a Kitchen Window by a Hungry °e ' i s a ti lnart, good - humoured poem, whose cha- meter is sufficiently indicated by its title. In " Noctes Nectarw," a dialogue between two thirsty souls, a Cantab and a whiskey-drinker, we detect here and there the jovial, off-hand manner of Father Prout. The " Gaol Chaplain" is somewhat dull and prosy this month. Mr. Bunn'..s " Legend of the Revolution" is a very clever humorous poem of the German school. We quote some remarks on print-shops, from the " Physiology of London Life" : . " Stop here—let us take a lesson in the fine arts at one of these gorgeous print - shops—take care of your pockets and flatten your nose against the middle of the window. No one heedlessly passes the print-shops ; a look at them costs nothing, and there is always something to please. The wealthy and great go inside the shops, pay fior prints, and possess them ; the vulgar and penniless stay outside, criticise the engravings, and enjoy them ; so trivial, after all, is the difference between the man who has money and the man who has it not. The sporting print-shops attract us ; one sees what is going on it the hunting world, without crossing a horseback or going to Melton. There they are—magnates of the chase, in hunting panoply, their dogs, horses, and the whole materiel of the chase. Next the characatures while away ten minutes, not without much risible emo tion ; the inimitable 11. B. puts forth all his powers of humorous ridicule to amuse us wayfarers of the streets; Brougham the Proteus of politicians, is pulled into ludi croifs postures by a string in the hands of the Duke of Wellington ; Palmerston, as Cupid, blows bubbles, that, as he blows them, break into empty air ; Peel, as Phm ton, drives his triumphant chariot, oblivious of the melt ing influence of the sun of public opinion. Our rulers are, by the pencil of this witty artist, made ridiculous, and we laugh contentedly, in the confidence of our own security. At Cockspur. street, the Haymarket, Bond street, and Pall-mall, we have displayed before us the classical engravings of the day. Here Turner's extra ordinary and incomprehensible experiments in colour, resolve themselves into subject, and become legible un der the hand of the translator. The exquisite dogs of Landseer, with their human faces, are dispersed upon the wings of the multiplying press. Raphael and Cor reggio live over again in the soft, luscious, lithographic productions of the German school of engraving ; Fanny Elssler, Dumilatre, Taglioni, in their chosen pas, bound through the sustaining ether; Wellington, in dresses he roic and academic, as like and as unlike himself as it is possible for the same man at one and the same time to be, smiles and scowls upon the admiring spectators; Peel's bland, immoveable, and gentlemanlike features are not wanting. We see in the windows of print-sellers what a nonentity is fame. Here, in the evanescence of a transitory popularity, statesmen have their places in the windowa, as on the Treasury Bench; when they are in Opposition, they are deposed from the post of honour in the centre of the printseller's window, and stowed away, no longer marketable, in the unenviable obscurity of the portfolios in the back-shop. The grave has hardly closed on the remains of a royal duke, or other illus trious personage, than he lives again for the mob of gazers at the print-shops, and continues offered for sale until some other great personage appears, whose linea ments become, in life or death, saleable commodities. Even kings are treated with hardly more ceremony, by those great potentates of Cockspur-street and Pall-mall. His Majesty of Prussia frowns upon us in all the dignity of his huge moustache, for a week or ten days after he has quitted our shores, when he is deposed from his window, and Espartero reigns in his stead. Queen Christina puts the Regent out of countenance, and the window, and Narvaez or Bravo, or whoever is upper most for the day compels her Christian Majesty to re tire into the back-shop, and waste her sweetness in a portfolio. The print-shops, properly regarded, are not mere galleries or the arts, but popular pictorial histories of England, the Continent, and, in a word, the world." NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The character, habits, personal peculiarities, &c., of the Emperor N icholas are minutely described in this Number, by a writer who, it appears, has been some years resident in Russia, and has had many opportu nities of picking up Court gossip. He represents the Czar as one of the handsomest and most symmetrical men of his age, upwards of six feet in height, stately and severe in his demeanour, and greatly addicted to frightening honest people out of their wits by the sternness of his Imperial stare. His acquirements are more than respectable; he speaks French and German with perfect fluency, has a passable know ledge of English literature, but is so little acquainted with our insular character and habits that he is con stantly falling into error, whenever England is the theme of his conversation. His brother, the Grand Duke Michael, is equally uninformed' on this point, so much so that when "he meets the clergyman of the British factory of St. Petersburgh in the streets, he addresses him in English with, Ah, G—d d—n your eyes, how are you ?' " This he means as a courteous salutation, and of course the discreet parson acknowledges it with becoming pride and thankful ness. There appears by all accounts to be much that is melodramatic in the character of Nicholas ; like Louis the Fourteenth, he is a sort of made-up man, and exhibits his warlike propensities to cor siderable advan tage at reviews, though we do not learn that lie has ever found courage enough to head his armies in the field, or that his campaigns have ever extended be yond the parade ground of St. Petersburgh. He has not yet achieved in person even the capture of a pig sty, and must, therefore, be considered as a less expe rienced warrior than the gallant Major Sturgeon, whose daring assault on the old sow at the head of the City Light Horse, has immortalized his memory. " Recreations in Natural History" are devoted this month to an account of the habits and physical pecu liarities of the elephant, of whose sagacity several curious anecdotes are related. " Social Nuisances" 1 is an anathema against lap-dogs, in -the justice of which we cordially concur. "Their selfishness is de testable," observes the author, "they engross the snuggest chairs in the room, secure the best morsels, and drink up all the cream at breakfast, without the least regard to the duties of hospitality, or the com monest principles of politeness. But this is not all ; notwithstanding the aristocratic circles in which they move, they are the most vulgar dogs in the kingdom, and make a point of turning up their noses at such of their brethren as have not had the good fortune to be educated in the drawing-room. In an essay on the "Rights of Dramatic Authors," occur some speculations on the causes of the decline of Comedy among us. The question is one by no means difficult of solution. Our national manners and feelings have been so much toned down of late years by constant intercourse with the Continent, and the steady march of refine ment and intelligence, that those marked distinctive traits of character, which are the aliment of the Comic Muse, are no longer to be found among us. One man is now just fbr all the world like another man ; we have become sophisticated, and present no marks for the shafts of wit and humour. True, our social, literary, and political coteries still furnish ample food for ridicule, but it is the business of Comedy to deal, not with masses, but with individuals. " The Emi grants of St. Thomassor is a passable poem, from the pen cf Mrs. Gore ; and we can extend no higher praise to Horace Smith's "Moral Alchemy," which is a lan guid imitation of Wordsworth's didactic manner. "April Fool's Day all the Year Round" is a sprightly essay, whose execution is as ingenious as its conception. " Lady Londonderry's Journal" is full of entertaining gossip about Athens, Palermo, Naples, and the society to be met with in these cities. " The Wedding Day" is one of Ingoldsby's diverting legends, and exhibits some of his raciest touches of sarcasm and drollery. In hunting about for ex tracts, we can find none better suited to our circum scribed space than this pleasing poetical apostrophe to " The Laurel :" Oh ! the willow may wave o'er the mouldering grave, For a scorner of valour is she, But the type of renown is the evergreen crown, That is form'd of the bright Laurel-tree; His green leaves have shed o'er the brow of the dead, The halo of lasting renown, For the mighty of earth, in their pride and their worth, Were wreathed by the bright laurel crown ! Peerless and changeless—oh ! long flourish he, The pride of the nation—the green Laurel-tree. Then hail to the Laurel—the evergreen King? For a monarch undying is he ; An emblem of fame, from past ages he came, And still sacred his branches shall be : For him lives the warrior, his life of renown, His glory gives nerve to the brave ; There's fame in his breath, and his toughs after death, Are the emblems we carve on his grave ! Peerless and changeless, immortal shall be, The pride of the nation, the green Laurel-tree. Though brave be the Laurel, we love him the most, That he blooms net alone for the strong; That his bright leaves are hung, for the Bards who have sung, Whose voices were mighty in song ! Oh ; a song in his praise, shall be heard when the days Of our warriors and minstrels are o'er, When he yields then the fame of an undying name, Like the Bards and the Heroes of yore ! Peerless and changeless,—oh 1 long flourish he, The evergreen monarch—the green Laurel tree. AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. Mr. Horne, the author of the " New Spirit of the Age," a work just published, is most mercilessly lashed by a critic in this Magazine for presuming to sit in judgment on his contemporaries. He has, it seems, been guilty of the crime of overrating some living writers and underrating others—a heinous atrocity, for which he ought to have known that he would be sure to bring a hornet's nest about his ears. We have not yet read his work, and cannot therefore undertake to say how far the present severe strictures on it are just or otherwise; but if it be really true, as Tait asserts, that he has placed Dickens as a no velist Above Cervantes, Fielding, and Scott, he has shown how utterly unfitted he is for the task of dis criminating and dispassionate criticism. Boz is by many . degrees the first writer of fiction of the day; there is no one who even approaches him in the power of delineating every-day life and character; but, to compare him with the creator of the brave, self denying, high-minded Don Quixote, who even in his wildest flights of eccentricity never once loses his hold on our veneration with Fielding, whose quiet strength and grace of style, various scholarship, and constructive faculties are so remarkable—or with Scott, that unrivalled master of the picturesque, whose rare fancy, humour, invention, learning, are only equalled by his bonhommie, knowledge of the world, and intimate acquaintance with those hidden .. springs which set the puppet man m moti on;--to TRE SUN, LO OW E MON'D.A.Y APRYL I ; compare Dickens with these consummate novelists, for the purpose of setting him above them, is to push the language of panegyric into downright absurdity. Boa can depict all that lies on the surfacc of character with infinite felicity ; he can unmask a common place hypocrite ; place before us with startling truth a vulgar ruffian, or a pert Cockney coxcomb ; and throw wonderful life and exactness into ordinary dia logue; but here his power stops. He cannot pourtray man in the more elevated phases of his nature ; be be longs essentially to the low Dutch school of Int ; and when he attempts a flight above this, he makes as sorry an exhibition as Phaeton did, when he essayed to drive the Chariot of the sun. His archness, humour, and worldliness ' though limited in their range, are admirable ; he has descriptive faculties, too, of no ordinary excellence ; but we must protest against his sentiment, which is too apt to run into flowery mawk ishness, as when he represents the idiot Smike dying to soft music, amid visions of angels and spring (las sies ; attributes to the gin-drinking Miss Nancy the finest and purest sensibilities; and converts a kind• hearted little girl into a paragon of impossible per fection. The " Hermit of Cripplegate" is a tale by Charles Oilier ;it is told with vi g our and simplicity, land turns upon the novel fact of a gentleman' having shut himself up in solitude for forty years, in conse quence of his life having been attempted by his own brother. To make his seclusion more complete he se ' lected London as his residence ; and there was wis dom in his choice, for under circumstances of poverty and affliction, there is no solitude so complete as that of a crowded metropolis. In the present chapters of " St. James's," the trial of political strength between Marlborough and Harley _is represented in Mr. Ainsworth's most effective manner. In the amusing " Elliston Papers," the editor places before us sundry specimens of the poetical addresses that were written for the purpose of being spoken on the opening of Drury-lane in 1812. Among the unsuccessful com petitors we find the name of " Joseph Hume." Surely this cannot be the great financial oracle of St. Stephen's ! We all know that he is a perfect master of numbers, but we never yet heard that they were tuneful ones. The " Suppressed Comedy" gives a pathetic account of Mr. Bell's sufferings and lamenta tions in consequence of the abrupt withdrawal of his Mothers and Daughters. This play being highly successful and much belauded by Mr. Bunn, that high-minded manager, with a magnanimous disre gard to his own interests, " above all Greek, above all Roman fame," withdrew it from the stage after the first night of representation, and it has never since been permitted to tickle the midriffs of a Drury-lane audience ! This conduct on the part of the Lessee is really most inexplicable, but we fear the mystery will never be cleared up till that great day when the secrets of all hearts shall be revealed. A " Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla," is one of Leigh hunt's light, graceful essays. Alluding incidentally to the Sicilian fountain of Arethuse, he tells us that it is now a public wash-tub ! " To, what base uses may we not return, Horatio!" Conceive a set of squat, red-armed washerwomen ducking dirty shirts and collars in the fount beloved of the Muses ! Of course, there is a Mangle close by. The subjoined sketch of the Rape of Proserpine may perhaps amuse our readers : "We have kept the most beautiful of the Sicilian mythic stories to conclude with—for such, doubtless, is the Rape of Proserpine. It is full of the most striking contrasts of grandeur and beauty; both heaven and hell are in it—the freshest vernal airs, and the depths of Tartarus; and the hearts of a mother and 'daughter beat through all. It is a tale at once of the wildest preter naturalism and the most familiar domestic tenderness. The daughter of Ceres is gathering flowers, with other damsels of her own age, in the Vale of Enna, intent upon nothing but seeing who shall get the finest. Sud denly, in the midst of the violets and jonquils, a clang is heard like the noise of a thousand caldrons—the earth bursts open, and a rapid, majestic figure appears, like a swarthy Jupiter, who, sweeping by Proserpine, whirls her with him into his hariot, and prepares to rush down through another opening. The nymph Cyane has alone the courage to bid him stop, and ask him why he dares to take away the daughter of Ceres. He makes no answer, but, knitting his brows like thunderbolts, smites the fountain over which she presided with an iron mace, and dashes down through it with his prey. It is the King of Hell himself, tired of celibacy, and resolved to have the fairest creature on earth for_ his, wife. The cries of Proserpine become fainter as the earth closes over them—but they have been heard by - Ceres, who comes, with all the speed of a divine being, to see what is the matter. She can discern nothing; the tranquillity of the scene is restored—Cyane has melted away in tears. The goddess seeks everywhere in vain—she travels by day and by night, lit by two flaming pines from Mount Atna. At length she learns who has got her daughter, and, by the intervention of Jupiter, Proserpine is allowed to come to earth and see her. The mother and daughter are half drowned in tears, half absorbed in delight, and Jupiter would prevent their separation, but is not able—for Proserpine has eaten of a fatal fruit, compulsory of her continuance with Pluto, and all that can be done is to stipulate for her being half a year with her mother, on condition of her being a good wife during the other half. Ceres makes a virtue of the necessity, seeing that her daughter is married to the brother of Jove--and Proserpine is content to divide the throne of Tartarus, and walk in gardens of her own, splendid, though underground. The ancient poets made these gardens consist of all the flowers which she had been accustomed to gather in Sicily." and a verdict of unqualified condemnation is nouneed upon all of thorn. Poor Lord Ellenborough T He seems doomed to find opponents among Tories as well as Whigs; and, as if he had not quite enemies enough already to contend against, he has contrived, according to Fraser, to render himself obnoxious to the entire Council of Calcutta, by designating them as " old women," and the Lord Bishop as " the greatest old woman of them all!" This, it must he confessed, is black—the Bishop will no doubt think it Atheis tical—still, we hope the Governor-General is not wholly without the pale of pardon, even though he may have presumed to question the absolute wisdom of a Calcutta Prelate. " A Fine Day in the Strand" is a hackneyed subject, dressed up with tact and adroitness. The historical and other associations connected with this great thoroughfare are touched on lightly and pleasantly, and with a gusto that would have gone far to win the h ?art of old Johnson. Other quarters of London possess their local peculiari ties, but the Strand is cosmopolitan. Regent-street is the favourite resort of whiskered dandies, and foreigners who live by their wits—Chan cery-lane, of grave, fox-like lawyers—Cornhill, of shrewd, flinty men of business—Paternoster-row, of publishers, on whose shelves slumber in unmo lested serenity innumerable unsold copies of Mr. Robert Montgomery's poems—but the Strand is the resort equally of all classes. Here may be seen at some hour or other of the day, Peers and pickpockets, authors . and actors, men of fashion and men of busi ness, lawyers and politician s , to say nothing of a stray bishop or two looking as sleek and comfortable as cows in a clover field. To our thinking, the Strand, with its constant bustle, cheerfulness, and endless variety of objects, is the place of all others best suited to the tastes of the genuine Londoner. The " Luck of Barry Lyndon" is the continuation of a tale by , Titmarsh, and is penned in a spirit of acute observa tion and racy humour. In the notice of " Mrs. Grant of Laggan and her Contemporaries," occurs the follow ing remark, which we notice for the purpose of pointing out its inaccuracy :—" The most celebrated authors of our country have been silent and embarrassed in ge neral society." Now the very reverse of this is the fact. Burke was notorious for his colloquial powers —Johnson spent at least one half Of his life in con versation—Coleridge and Scott were unrivalled as talkers—Burns fascinated all who met him in the social circle—Sir James Mackintosh owed half his fame to his conversational abilitieS—Sheridan softened even attorneys by his flow of wit and humour—Moore, ,when in the vein, talks quite as well as he writes —Profesgor Wilson, it is said, even, better—and we all remember the panegyrics lavished by his contem poraries on the free and easy chit-chat of Ben Jon son. The truth is, a full mind must relieve itself in some way or other; this is one of the primary neces sities- of its nature ; and conversation is the easiest and pleasantest means it can adopt of pouring forth its stores. Doubtless " a still tongue maketh a wise head," but such wisdom is of the lowest order, being nothing more than a man's own consciousness that he possesses a dull, dry, unimaginative, and scantily furnished intellect. Be sure that no one maintains a reserved demeanour in company who has ought to say worth listening to, unless, indeed, he has been a re cluse half his life. In nine case's out of ten, the pos session-of a faculty implies its exercise. We subjoin from Military Tableaux" a graphic sketch of Napo leon as he appeared at the battle of Wagram : " As the feeble remnant of our regiment was formed in line, only fifteen yards behind.where he had stationed himself, I was for several hours enabled to observe the man who then wielded the destinies of Europe in lus own grasp. He was surrounded by a numerous staff, and ,at= tended by ten or twelve orderly officers; who, drawn kip in line, stood motionless within reach of his voice. On the right were the guards in close column, and with ordered arms; their artillery was on their right. As we were nearest the Emperor, we looked upon ourselves as his personalguard on this occasion. He wore, as usual, his grey great-coat over the plain uniform of the chasseurs of his guard; rode a small white Arabian, and held a light riding-whip in his hand. His face, while we could ob serve him, betrayed none of the emotions he might be supposed to feel at such a time, but seemed perfectly calm and collected. lie listened quietly and attentively to the reports brought him, and issued all his directions in iK shnilfir . manner. If he had an order to send, he called loudly, O f ficer d'Ordonnande;' when the orderly officer-who lapelled to be on the right of the line, in stantly came forward as first for duty; Having given his order in a slow and deliberate manner, the Em peror added, ,Repetez.' If the officer had not seized the exact meaning of the words, he repeated them over again, add• ing, as before, Repetez :' if satisfied that their import was fully understood, he briefly said, Allez,' and the officer instantly started off at the best speed he could command. • That under the empire French horseman ship was as indifferent as ungraceful is sufficiently well known to all who recollect the French cavalry of the period. " By'clegrees our station ceased to. be secure; from the first, and as long as the battle, though raging fiercely along the whole line, had remained stationary, we had received an occasional shot from the - batteries near Wagram, which lay exactly in our front. The success , of the Austrian right wing, however, brought us shot from.tee,left; and they continued to advance even from the very rear. Several shot struck among the guard and round the ground on which the Emperor was sta -1 tioned; but he never moved from a post whence he hid the whole battle-scene spreadiont like a panorama before him. He was, indeed, as little disturbed by the reports from his marshals as by the shot of the enemy: the news that '.the Austrians had turned the left wing of the army,' that they had defeated the corps stationed to protect the bridges,' seemed to make little impression on him; though it greatly disquieted the officers of his staff. Only once I observed a striking change in his manner. He had desired an orderly offieerotrops;, up the sixty pieces of light artillery o f the guard, and the forty extra pieces attached to th e s ame c as they did not immediately arrive, he rode impatiently along, our front, striking his boot with the riding-whip, and repeatedly taking snuff." THE ARTISTS' GENERAL BENE VOLENT INSTITUTION• The Twenty-ninth Anniversary Dinner of this ex cellent institution took place on Saturday evening, at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, when upwards of 200 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Sir R. H. Inglis., M.P., presided. The dinner was of the most excellent description, and the viands, of which there was no scarcity, vied with all former at tempts of the proprietor of this establishment to give satisfaction. Sir R. Inglis and the members of the Committee entered the spacious hall about half-past six o'clock, immediately upon which the demolition of the good things of this life commenced. The cloth having been withdrawn, the Benedictus was sung in excellent style by Mr. T. Cooke, Master M'Dermott, and Messrs. Hawkins and Broadley. The health of the Queen was then drank with four times four, amid great cheering. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the "Health of the patron of the institution, Prince Albert."—(Cheers.) He believed that his Royal Highness was not only one of the patrons of the arts, but was one of the most enlightened artists of the presentday.—(Cheers.) " Lon)i life to the Queen and the Princes" The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Health of the QueenDowager."--(Cheers.) Her Majesty, from the first to the present moment, had exhibited the proudest specimen of every domestic and social virtue —(Cheers)--and since she had been withdrawn from public life by . a calamity that all must deplore, she had shown herself the most strenuous supporter of every charitable institution throughout the country. —(Cheers.) There was no case of misery ever came before her Majesty that she did not immediately take into consideration, and give relief. The toast was drank amid much cheering, with three times three and one cheer more. _ The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Health of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and all the Royal Family." He trusted that what the Edwards had achieved in war would be an example to his Royal Highness in later times to adopt by the means of peace.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then proposed the " Army and Navy," whioh was most enthusiastically drunk, amid great cheering. The CHAIRMAN then proposed the next toast, which might be considered the toast of the evening—" The prosperity of the Artists' General Benevolent Insti tution."—(Great cheering.) It was perhaps pre sumptuous on the part of one who appeared for the first time among them to attempt to state the merits of the object they had in view; but when he re collected that out of 8,6001. a-year they had relieved 860 cases of distress, he could not but f ee l gra t e f u l and delighted at the course they were pursuing. From the funds they had obtained they had in fact relieved poverty and distress.—(Hear gear.) The present institution was not one of those' whiciff supported by the great body of the people ' but it was, kept up pre-eminently by the artists o f England— (Cheers)—and such being the case, they , had not only a claim on those who were the supporters of the arts in England, but on those who supported them abroad.—(Hear, hear.) While this institution had been enabled to give so much relief, it had considered not only the case of the receiver, but the giver.— (Cheers.) The instances which he had brought before that meeting he hoped were sufficient to prove that the institution ranked high among the institu tions of the country. The Hon. Gentleman con. eluded by proposing the toast, which WAS drunk amid much cheering. Mr. H. S. THORNTON proposed the next toast, which was " The Health of the Chairman." It had been his happiness to know the Hon. Gentleman from his earliest infancy, and, from that time to the pre sent, he had ever found him a supporter of the 1~ hie Arts.—(Cheers.) The toast was then given, and drank amid loud plaudits. Sir R. INous returned thanks, and, in doing so passed a high eulogium upon Sir Martin Archer Shee, whose health he proposed, and which was drank most enthusiastically: The following toasts were also proposed and drank —" The Commissioners for Protecting the Fine Arts;" " The Oritish Institution, aid other Societies established for the Promotion of the Fine Arts ;" " The Artists' Annuity and Benevolent Fund ;" " The Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, Directors, Honorary Se • cretary, and Officers of the Institution ;" The Ladies ;" " The Stewards and the Stewards elect." We cannot conclude this notice of the dinner without expressing our admiration of the manner in which the musical department was conduct - !d. It is only necessary to mention that Mr. T. Cooke, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Hobbs, Mr. Broadley, Miss Alley maine, and Master M'Dermott, were engaged. Sir R. ThQrrs, before quitting the chair, stated that the subscriptions for the institution amounted to upwards of 5001.—(Cheers.) The Chairman having retired, the hilarity of the meeting was kept up to a late hour. The following were some of the most important per sons present : —T. Phillips, R.A. T. Uwins, R.A., P. Hardwick, R.A., C. Barry, R!.A., Charles Land seer, A.R.A., Thomas Webster, A.R.A., Thomas Creswick, A.R.A., Sir W. Ross, R.A., P. M'Dowell, A.R.A.., C. R. Cockerel!, R.A., , W. Tite, Andrew Robertson, W. Brockedon, H. Corbould ; and, among those who may be classed as subscribers, we have been enabled to collect the following : British Institution, fourth donation, 501. Sir George Hayter, fourteenth donation, 10/. Richard Cook, Esq., R.A., eleventh donation, 5L ss. Robert Burtield, Esq., 51. ss. Sir G. T. Staunton, 51. Lord Bexley, third donation, 5/. Sir John Swinburne, thirteenth donation, 10/. Duke of Sutherland, eighth donation, 101. 10s. Duke of Northumberland, twelfth donation, 10L 10s. Benjamin B. Cabbell, Esq., nineteenth donation, 5L ss. Lady Chantrey, third donation, 20L T. Phillips, Esq., R.A., twenty-sixth donation, 5L ss. J. H. Mann, Esq., sixteenth donation. 51. ss. Sir W. Ross, R.A., fourteenth donation, 5/. ss. Geo. Jones, Esq., 8.A., twenty-second donation, 51.55. C. R. Cockerell, Esq., R.A., twentieth donation, Si. ss. Sir M. A. Shee, P.R.A., nineteenth donation, 5/. ss. S. Jones Loyd, Esq., third donation, 101. W. Wyon, Esq., R.A., sixth donation, 51. ss. H. S. Thornton, Esq., 10/. Charles Barry, Esq., R.A., sixth donation, 51. SS. Henry Graves, Esq., seventh donation, Si. ss. In this list we have doubttess omitted many valu able contributors. The meeting then adjourned, after spending a most delightful evening. We must not forget to say that the arrangements on behalf of All parties were ex cellent. RAILWAY BUSINESS IN PARMA- M ENT. FRIDAY, MARCH 29. Guildford Junction Railway Bill; read a third time and passed. Norwich and Brandon Railway Bill, read a third time and passed. Midland Railways Consolidation Bill, report considered, amendments agreed to, and Bill to be engrossed. York and Scarborough Railway . Bill, read a third time (Queen's consent signified), and Bill passed. Delabole and Rock Railway Bill, •rder for reading the Bill a second time read and discharged, and Bill withdrawn. Delabole and Rock Railway, No. 2, reports from Select Committees on petitions for private Bills and on Standing Orders read, and another Bill ordered to be brought in by Sir John Yarde Buller, Mr. Pendarves, and Mr. Trelawny.. Newquay Harbour ind Railway Bill reported, and re-com mitted to the former Committee. Taff Vale Railway Bill, read a second time, and committed and referred to the Committee of Selection. South-Eastern, Canterbury, Ramsgate, and Margate Rail way Bill, reported, and report to lie on the table and to be printed. FATAL ACCIDENT at CAMBRIDGE. Every one who. recollects the chief circumstance which caused the death of his Royal Highness the lite Duke of Or leans will be struck with the -similar nervousness displayed in a melancholy accident which has just occurred at Cam bridge, and which had an equally fatal .termination. On Thursday Mr. Edward Jones Fox, of St. John's College, and a son of Dr. Fox, of Rristol, was driving a phaeton and pair along the Trumpington-road, in which were three of his friends, when on coming near the stone bridge the horses began to pull too strong for him. He attempted, instead of pulling them in gradually, to stop them by a sudden and powerful check, for which purpose he put his leg across the reins; whilst he was in the act of doing so the reins broke, and the horses made off at full speed. Mr. Fox leaped unfortunately from his seat, and fell to the ground. The other gentlemen kept to the carriage and managed by degrees to stop the horses. Colonel Glover and his son were walking on the road at the time of the accident, and came up to Mr. Fox, who they thought had landed safely on his feet at first, although he instantly fell to the ground. They raised him up, and - perceived there was 'a profusion of blood where his head had lain for the mo ment. He walked for a few paces, and declared he could not go on any further, and they laid him down by the bank on the way side until further assistance arrived. Mr. Bailey Turner, a surgeon, coming up at this time in his gig, the - Unfortunate gentleman was placed alongside of him, and con veyed towards Cambridge, with th e i n t en ti on o f stopping at the hospital. He became, however, unmanageable, from the strong convulsions into which he fell, and he succeeded in throwing, himself over the wheel. He was then taken into the house of Mr. Walters, architect, where he was put to bed and attended to. Dr. Haviland and Messrs. Sudbury and Johnson, surgeons, afforded every medical as sistance, but in vain ; he expired at eleven o'clock the same night. An inquest was held on Friday, before Mr. Cooper, the Coroner of the town, when it appeared that the names of the gentlemen who had been in the phaeton on the occasion, and who luckily escaped unhurt, were Watson, Dobson, and Gordon. The first-mentioned had endeavoured, but in vain, to assist Mr. Fox in restraining the horses in the first instance, by pulling the rein next himself. It was then that Mr. Fox, determining to pull in at any risk, and put his leg across the reins, met with the melancholy accident which occurred. Mr. Charles Davis, landlord of the King's Head, the owner of the horses, as well as his ostler, George Trace, were examined, and from their evi dence, it appeared that the harness was good and service able, and that the horses had been constantly driven, both is single and double harness, without any accident ever having taken place with them. The dreadful occurrence took place between three and four o'clock, and it appears by Mr. Sudbury, the surgeon's, evidence, who saw deceased about a quarter of an hour after he fell, that a collapse of a Couple of hours took place, when a re-action followed, and, with the 'consent of all the medical men present, he was bled. Mr. Sudbury, in continuation, stated that, for the next hour, he seemed to improve —his breathing was better, but there was no return of consciousness. He remained in much the same state till about half-past ten, becoming gradually worse du r i ng th a t tim e . Th ere was afterwards a great hemorrage from the nose; the discharge continued from the ears. Death was caused by a fracture at the base of the skull, producing compression of the brain. Witness attended him some time ago, and . he fancied that he had a disease of the heart, which was, in witness's opinion, ima ginary. The deceased was of a nervous temperament. The coroner was of opinion, with respect to the amount of a deodand, that no blame whatever, was attached to Mr. Davis, or to any one in his employment; in fact, he was not pre pared to say, that there should be any deodand, as the acci dent resulted, not from the horses becoming affrighted, but fright of the deceased, and his having jumped out. In ac cordance with this opinion the jury returned a verdict, " That the deceased, being frightened at the breaking of the reins, threw himself from the phmton, and falling on the ground, received a concussion of the brain, from which injury he died." The inquest was attended by a great many mem bers of the University, friends of the deceased, who was an exceedingly promising, generous -hearted, and amiable young than, and universally beloved and esteemed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. It might have been deemed a strange circumstance that one of the best drivers of his age in England should have evinced such want of tact and pre sence of mind on such a trying occasion, had not Mr. Sud bury, his medical attendant, testified to the fact of his nervous temperament. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BLACKBURN STEEPLE CHASES—TxtrasDAv. Sweepstakes of 15 sous. each, 5 ft, with 100 added; 12st each Three miles. Mr. Ward's Commodore (Mr. Loft) 1 Captain Bradley's The Romp 2 Four others were not placed. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, h ft,, 70 added. Heats, one mile and a half. Mr. Bretherton's Marengo, aged (Owner) 2 1 1 Mr. Hollinshead's Little Peter 1 0 4 Mr. Hornby's Paul Pry, 5 yrs 3 2 2 Mr. Loft's Ovid, 5 yrs 0 3 3 A Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, p.p., with 15 added, llst each, one inile and a half, was won by Mr. Crofton's Fair Penitent. MALTA, MARCH 17.—MELANCHOLY AFFAIR.-011 Thursday week last the English brig Chieftain, Captain Reay, arrived here from Spalatro, bound to Hull, with a cargo of bones. The object of her putting in here was to be enabled to change her crew, by the advice of her Majesty's Consul at Fiume, they being in a high state of insubordination, as also to obtain a legal opinion as to the consequences of a fatal circumstance which recently occurred, in Which the captain is the actor, and of which the following is a narrative : Whilst loading at Spalatro the crew, which had been on shoie, returned in a state of intoxication. Between ten and eleven P.M., the master was aroused by the carpenter (a man byithe bye of very questionable respectability, who requested his immediate attendance on deck to silence the people who were in a state of mutiny. Reay put a pair of loaded pistols into his pocket and went on deck. Here the circumstance, which cost a man his life, becomes involved in obscurity. The carpenter, the only person who appears to have the slightest knowledge of the fact, himself one of the principal rioters, swears that the captain levelled his pistol at the cook, and shot him. The captain was arrested and tried, and though not positively acquitted, the proceedings were, ac cording to the law of Austria, suspended, for want of suffi cient evidence, and the man released from durance. The ,question is, will the criminal courts at home take cognizance pf this offence? Of ourselves we are unable to answer the quistiofi, but should lean to the opinion that the nnhappy man has nothing to fear, even if they should do so; for it is a remarkable fact, that the whole crew, although mutinously disposed, declared, when on their oaths, that the treatment experieaced by them from Reay on every occasion was kind and indulgent—thus leading to the conclusion that the unfortunate tragedy was purely accidental. The vessel has sailed for Hull. NAVAL INTELLItrENC:. Poncswoum, 11.Lincit 30.—The Admiralty yacht Black Eagle, Mr. S. B. Cook master-commanding, has been in the harbour all the week, and rumours have been industriously circulated, and generally believed, that her Majesty and Prince Albert were coming on a visit to Cowes on Wednes • Flay list. The rumour, of course, died with the day. It was then reported that the Black Eagle Would remain iu this harbour until the Lords of the Admiralty paid their usual periodical visit of inspection to. this and. Plymouth Dock yard. All such reports, however, were put an end to this evening by the Black Eagle ailing out .of harbour about five o'clock a' having on board. the Right Hon. R. L. Corry, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and the rieti. S. Herbert, Secretary to the Admiralty, with Captain Brandreth. They proceeded from this part to Cowes, for the purpose of select ing a spot for the erection of a pier for the accommodation of her Majesty on the beach at Osborne; from Cowes they will proceed to Llevonport on a visit of inspection to that dock yard, and ultimately to Holyhead, to facilitate the accelera tion of the Irish mails. By the new naval regulations masters in the Royal navy, prior to being appointed to situations in the Royal dock yards, are to be promoted to the rank of commanders. Sir Joseph Douglas, master, will be among the first 'promoted, and appointed Master-Attendant of Deptford Dockyard, as a reward for his distinguished services whilst in command of-a merchant-ship at the commencement of the war with China, and for which the honour of knighthood was conferred upon him by her Majesty. - The Collingwood, 80, sister to the Vanguard, was docked on Tuesday to have her copper cleaned and be got ready for her pendant. ,She has discharged some of her ballast. and Is already fitted as an advanced ship; her cabins, &c., are all fitted, and she will be commissioned in the early part of May. Captain Henry Eden is appointed to the command of her.. Captain Eden was flag-captain of the Impregnable, 104, under Sir Graham Moore, when . Commander-in-Chief at Devonport. The Pestonjee Bomanjee, transpoit, Lieutenant W. Still, agent, arrived on Tuesday from .the West Indies with the re maining companies of the 59th Regiment (six officers, 267 men, 23 women, and 38 children), under the command of Captain Boughty. The Pestonjeeßomanjee left Spithead on the 21st of January, and made the voyage to l3arbadoes and back in somewhat less than two months. She came into this harbour on Wednesday, and landed her troops at the Royal Dockyard, whence they immediately marched to Fort Cumberland, there being insufficient accommodation for them in this garrison. Five of the soldiers died on their passage home from dysentery, and several are still suffering from the same complaint. The Apollo troop-frigate, Commander William Maclean, arrived at Jamaica on the 22d of February, in 30 days from Gibraltar, haVing on board the 48th Regiment. After land ing them at Kingston, she was to embark the 2d battalion of the Rifle Brigade for Quebec, whence she would bring home the 68th Light Infantry to this port. The West India squa dron were lying at Port Royal on the 23d of February, and consisted of the Illustrious, 72, Captain Erskine, flag of Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Adams, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief; the Imaum, 72, Commodore Sharpe, C.B. ; the Spartan, 26, Captain the Hon. C. Elliott; the Eurydice, 26, Captain El liott; the Hermes, 3, steamer, Lieutenant-Commander W. Carr ; and the Helena, 16, Commander Sir Cornwallis Rickets. The Helena was to proceed to Rio Janeiro, and thence to the Cape of Good Hope. The British Sovereign transport is ordered to the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, and Ceylon, with detachments of the 12th, 27th, 90th, and 91st Regiments. The Hecate steam-vessel, Commander Bower, will shortly leave the river Shannon for the African coast. The steam squadron consisted of the Stromboli, the Tartarus, the Comet, and the Dwarf. Lieutenant Chamberlain has assumed ,the command of the Dwarf, vice Nicholls, drowned. The Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, 111‘Lean master, may daily be expected on her way to Woolwich from Cork. The Firefly steam-vessel is commissioned by Capt. F. W. Beechy, for surveying service. The Philomel, 10, Commander Sullivan, -on the 15th of January was surveying near the Falkland Islands, crew all well. It was expected she would remain there till June. The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote, is ordered home from Ascension. The Thames convict-ship, 42, is daily looked for at Spit head, on her way to Bermuda as a depot. The Emerald tender returned on Wednesday from Woolwich. The Drake lighter arrived from Devonport on Thursday, with stores. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander Tringham, sailed on Tuesday, to protect the fishery on the coast of Sussex. The Vestal sloop, Captain Talbot, sailed from New York on the 27th of February, destination unknown, supposed to be Canton. The Belleisle and the Rattlesnake troop-ships are on their passage to England from China. The Winchester, 50 ; the Cleopatra, 28 ; and the Pilot, 16, were in Simon's Bay on the 18th of January, the latter going t o China. The Vindictive, 50, was at Callao on the 7th December. The North Star,.2B, Capt. Sir E. Home, was gt Port Wel lington, New Zealand, on the 20th September. ' The Vernon, Capt. W. Walpole, came out of the Mediter ranean for England on the 15th inst. The Iris, 26, Capt. Mundy, called at Madeira on the 19th of February, on her way to China. The City of Poonah, for Madras, is at Spithead, and will sail on Monday. In Harbour—The St. Vincent, the Victory, the Victoria and Albert, the Pestonjee Bomanjee, and.the Echo and Fear less steam-vessels. In Dock—The Prince Regent, the Rodney, the Athol, and the Lily. At Spithead—The City of Poonah. DEVONPORT, MARCH 29.—Vice -Admiral Sir D. Milne, Commander-in Chief at this port, has returned from leave, and re-hoisted his flag on board the Caledonia, 120, on Thursday morning. The Tortoise store-ship, Commander Finlaison, was paid advance on Thursday week, and sailed on Thursday for Ascension, where she will remain. First-Lieutenant Stewart, Royal Marines, has taken his passage in her for duty at that island. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, sails on Thursday for the coast of Africa. The Devon lighter sailed on Saturday, with stores, for Holyhead. The Pluto steam-vessel, Commander Crozier, arrived on Tuesday, to have her defects made good. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, America, Pluto, and Confiance steamers, and Adventure transport. In the Sound—None. SHEERNESS, MARCH 29.—The Ganges; 84, is completed, with the exception of coppering. She will go out of dock in about a fortnight. The Amazon, 42, was docked on Wednesday. She will have her topsides cut down, and receive traversing guns fore and aft. The Speedy cutter, Commander George Beaufoy, has re ceived orders to refit, to relieve the Skylark on the northern coast of Scotland. The St. Lawrence (late Shannon), 46, was undocked on Saturday, having been sized with the marine glue as an ex periment. The Emerald tender arrived on the 22d, and sailed on the 25th instant. The Raven cutter, Lieutenant-Commander John Stephen, sailed yesterday for Plymouth. The Fantome, 16, has been undocked at Chatham and masted, and will be commissioned is a few days. The Dtedalus, 42, was towed to Woolwich on the 22d, where she is rapidly being cut down to a corvette ; numerous hands are employed upon her ; she is ordered to be completed with all dispatch, and is expected to be ready in about six weeks. The Cygnet brig is repairing in the North Dock. The Vulture is not 'yet ready for commissioning. Captain Superintendent Fisher is still confined to his resi dence, though sufficiently recovered to be enabled to carry on the duties of the dockyard. _ _ In HarbourLEamPeTdown, Ocean, Raven and Speedy cutters, and African steamer. In Dock—Ganges, iEolus, Amazon, and Cygnet. At the Nore—None. ILLUMINATED MAGAZINE. Mr. Jerrold's allegorical " Chronicles of Clover nook" are -here resumed ; it is impossible not to ad mire the vigorous power of fancy that - pervades them, but we fear that they do not possess sufficient direct ness and obviousness of meaning to please the genera lity of periodical readers, who are apt to turn with impatience from whatever taxes thought. Yet the author has written few cleverer things, and certainly none whose moral tone is so sound and elevated. The " Orphan Milliners, a Tale of the West End" is by Miss Camilla Toulmin ; it is forcibly and unaffec tedly written ; and is illustrated by an engraving, which represents a groupe of emaciated girls toiling like slaves at their needle by midnight in order to meet the demands of fashion—that smooth but inex orable tyrant who laughs to scorn all the claims of humanity. " Sketches of Parisian Life" convey a livily idea of the dandy of that over-refined capital. In the essay on the " Belles of England" we find a brief biographical notice of the famous Duchess of Marlborough—the conqueror of the conqueror of France, and who ruled her terrified sovereign with a rod of iron. " Levy Papers" is a whimsical exposure of some of the trickeries of legal pettifoggers. The theme is a tempting one, and the lash cannot be laid on in too severe a spirit. The " Chaunt of Death" contains a striking image or two, and we subjoin it accordingly : "I am not of earth, but spirit born, . Yet the wide world owns my sway; Its pomp and its might I laugh to scorn, Fur all must my will obey. I visit the halls of dazzling light, Enter the loftiest domes, And all anguish, and all is night, Where the King of Terror comes. " I reign o'er the waves of the mighty deep— I ride on the stormy wind— On every shore where breakers sweep, My ruthless track you find. I soar on the wings of the pestilence— Am heard in the tempest's crash— And when earth is veiled in gloom intense, I sail in the lightning's flash. " Yet oft in loveliest guise I dwell, — On the light of the clear blue eye, On the blooming cheek, set I my spell,— They wither—decay—aad die. And often I lurk in the night-wind's sigh, And steal in the youthful breast, — And gently, calmly, and silently, Doth that spirit sink to rest. " And I smile as I mark the youthful brow Bent over the midnight page, And list the fond enthusiast's vow At the shrine of Bard and Sage, When I have doomed him to sure decay, And know, while his bays are green, That his toil-worn frame shall pass away From earth, and "no more be seen." " I care not for pomp or glittering crown, Serf and Lord are alike to me— For the mightiest king must bow him down To a mightier king than he. I speak! and the loftiest head must bend. From creation's earliest dawn I have reigned, and my reign shall only end With the last of woman born. " All things of earth—of air—of sky— Must yield them unto the, And the vast and glittering worlds on high Shall my parting conquest be; For the heavens shall melt and pass away • Ere the work of death be done, And the Sun himself shall see decay Ere my earthly race be run. " The universe with my fame•hath rung Since my banner I unfurled, And my parting requiem shall be sung 'Mid the ruins of a world. Lord over all with life and breath; The same triumphant chime That sounds the dirge of the monarch, Death, Must sound the knell of Time." FRASER'S MAGAZINE. Not withstanding its Toryism, which is notoriously of an inveterate character, this Magazine speaks out on the subject of " Lord Ellenborough and the Affairs of India" with a boldness, and even fierceness, that could scarcely be exceeded by the sourest member; of that unhappy party whose hard lot it is to sit shivering on the Opposition side of the House, •uncheered in this, their v-ason of gloom, by the slightest prospect of again basking in the sunny paradise of office. Not only is his Lordship accused of a " bad temper," " haughty disposition," and " insufferable self-con ceit," but Fraser deliberately adds that, " by the pe culiar constitution of his mind, he is quite unfit to be entrusted with the chief management of the affairs of India !" His proceedings in Sinde and elsewhere are then canvassed in a strict, minute spirit of inittiri, i/~ PROMOTIONS. Captain—W. A. Willis, for meritorious service in command of the Frolic. Retired Captains—C. T. Thurston, C. Tyler, W. Holman, and John Forbes (1812). Lieutenant—F. Robinson, APPOINTMENTS. Captains—H. Eden, to the Collingwood ;F. W. Beechy, to the Firefly. Lieutenants—A. J. Woodlev (1840), from the Growler to the Gorgon ; E. A. T. Lloyd (1842), of the Vernon (addi tional), to the Geyser; R. Lowcay (1815), of the Poictiers, to the Bonetta. Masters—R. Fuller, to the Stromboli ;F.F. F. Taylor (acting), to the Alert. Surgeon—L. T. Cunningham, to the Tortoise. Mates—C. Shipley, to the Excellent; C. B/PGregor, of the Caledonia, to the America ; J. Cartwright, of the Caledonia, to the Cyclops. Assistant-Surgeons --C ;D. A. Newman (1829) reappointed to the Lucifer ; J. M'Craith, M.D. (1836), to the Bonetta ; C. C. Easton, late of the Atna, to the Sparrow ; H. H. 3Pl(enzie (additional), to the Penelope. Master's Assistant—T. B. Reed, to the Victory. Clerk in Charge—M. S. Winter, to the Firefly. Clerk—J. T. Jennings (additional), to the America. Naval Cadet—C. Bullock, to the Lucifer. Gunner—T. Rooke (gunner'il mate of the Illustrious), to be gunner of the Imaum. COAST GUARD. Appointment-Lieutenant 6:W . :Poynter, R.N., to com mand the Sylvia revenue cutter, vice Lieutenant T. Brewer, R.N., whose period of service has expired, and re-appointed to a station. COWES,IISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUA OWN CORRISFONDANT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADkON INTELLIGENCE. At the annual general meeting of the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, which is fixed for the 11th of May, at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's, there are seven can didates to be ballotted for; and it is expected that, at the least, twelve vessels will be added to the squadron this season. The Black Eagle was at Cowes on Saturday, and landed Lord Louvain, Catitain Corry, Mr. Corry, 'the Hon. Sydney Herbert, and two other gentlemen. They proceeded, to-day, for Plymouth. OSBORNE, A ROYAL RESIDENCE.--The arrange ments for the taking of Osborne for her Majesty, were finally closed on Friday, and the agreement signed. It is only taken for one year, with an option of purchasing, at a certain fixed price, at the end of that period, if approved; in fact, on the same terms as we originally stated as agreed on, the details only requiring settling. It is rumoured that her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent intends takiitg a house in the neigOsiarhood. THE ISLE or WIGUT JOINT-STOCK BANK:This establishment, which was formed on that of Roe and Blash ford's of Newport (better known as Sir Richard Bassett's), it appears has suffered severely by the conduct of their ma naging directors, having, in less than two years, lost the whole of their paid-up capital. The shareholders have (find ing themselves such considerable losers, involved in law suits and their issues contracted) resolved on closing the. concern on Saturday next, the 6th April, in favour of the National and Provincial Bank of England, which will open on the same premises on that day. The losses in the Island by the last three banking establishments, have been im mense. PRINCE ALBERT.—The Princess Alice returned to Dover yesterday morning, bringing back Captain Seymour, Sir Edward Bowater and Colonel Bouverie only accompany ing the Prince to Germany. The Prince was received at Ostend by the King of the Belgians. His Royal Highness, after passing the night at Ostend, left yesterday morning at half-past six A.M., for Brussels, by special train, and it is ex pected he will reach Gotha by to-morrow (Sunday), where The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of he will remain a few days with his brother and the other Commons gave his last Parliamentary dinner this season, on members of his family, and thence proceed to Cob urg f or th e Saturday, at his residence. in Eaton-square. The Earl of arrangement, it is said, of some important business. The Arundel and Surrey, Lord Howard, Lord James Stuart, Hon. Prince will return to England on the 11th of April; and the R. Colborne, Colonel Paget, Mr. Jo'an A. Smith, Sir George Princess Alice is ordered to be at Ostend on the 10th, to bring Btrickland, Bart., Mr. Trelawny, ;qr. Ainsworth, Mr. Wynn him across. The King of the Belgians is expected to land at Ellis, Mr. Vesey Dawson, Mr. ~;vans, Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Woolwich on Monday.—Doimr Chronicle of Saturday. Gisborne, Sir C. Napier, Mr. Hiime, Mr. Towneley, Captain • GOOD OLD AGE.—Since the 16th December, 1843, Pecliell, Mr. Pulsford, Mr. Miantz, Mr. Stanton, and Mr. to the 25th March, 1844, twelve individuals have been in- Hindley, constituted the party: terred at Ripon, and one at Kirkby M a l zear d , w h ose un i te d T HE LATE ACCIDENT TO LORD CANTALLIPE.—His ages amount to 1,125 years, viz.—Widow Brown 82, Mary Lordship, who is cimfined in the mansion of the Lord Cham- Tuting 83, Widow 'Whittaker 84, George Wharton 112, Ben- berlain, Upper Grosvenor-st feet, front the effects of the amin Dearnley 84, Widow Pickersgili 90, J o h n R u dd 70, recent accident, while hunti n g a t M e lton, by which he in- Isabella Brown 84, Widow Smith 90, Miss Clough 95, Wm. jured one of his eyes, is going ozi favourably, and his medical Myers 90, Riohard Johnson 85, Lawrence Nelson 76.—Total , attendants consider the sight will lie soon restored, but for 1 1 124. the present tloe Noble Lord is kepi in darkness. DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL: BRUSSELS, MARCH i.s;—The Chamber of Represen tatives continued the dismission of the project of law rela tive to the examining jury. M. Lebeaudelared that he would support the plan of the Government. He observed that it was the Catholic party that, in 1835, obtained the nomination of the members of the juries for the Royal preroga tive. He then proceeded to show that the Chamber of, Representative, had always shown a partiality in favour of the Catholic - University, and against the University . of Brussels. At the close of his speech, M. Lebeitu hating made an observation on an opinion of M. Dumortier, that Honourable Member retorted with such warmth, that he was called to order by the President. M. Dumortier, instead of attending to this call, declared the conduct of the President to be arbi trary, which excited a tumult that it would be difficult to describe, at length on the repeated desire of the whole assembly, and a declaration of M. Lebeau that he had the highest esteem for the character of M. Dumortier, the latter retracted the offensive expressions which had fallen him. The Chambers soon afterwards adjourned. AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.—The Ilandebblad to-day has another long article earnestly recommending to its readers not to let the day pass without subscribing to the voluntary loan, and quotes from another journal a Very impressive address to the same effect. THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—1 t is thought that his Im perial Highness tbe Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, who is now at Weimar, may very probably pay a visit some weeks hence to the Hague. THg HAGUE, MARCH 29.— Courant con tains, Staats in the Dutch and French language, the boundary treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium. ROTTERDAM, MARCH 27.—We learn that in the last few days very considerable sums have been subscribed in this city to the voluntary loan. The different journals contain articles from several towns respecting the readiness of the inhabitants to sub scribe to the loan,. but the official joarned does not state the total result of the spbscription, which was finally dosed on the 28th March BRUSSELS, MARCH 29.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert did not land at Ostend the day before yesterday till nine o'clock in the evening. He was received and conducted to the Palace by General D'Hane. Yesterday morning, at seven o'clock,.. the Prince left Ostend, and arrived at Maline at half-past ten. His Majesty King Leopold received him at the station, and set out with him, intending to accompany him to the Prussian frontier, or at least to Verviers. The Chamber of Representatives fixed its sitting to-mor row at ten o'clock, because it means to conclude the debate on the examining jury in that sitting, and then adjourned till after Easter. The question of the intervention of the Chambers in the formation of the jury will be put, and it is believed that it will be carried in the affirmative by a majority of about ten votes. The discussion will be ended by a compromise with out any Ministerial crisis. A letter from Maestricht says :—" The Government ap pears to have some apprehensions for the tranquillity of the province of Limburg. It has withdrawn the troops of the contingent from Ruremonde and Venloo, and placed them in the fortress of Maestricht. These troops have been succeeded in thew twa cities by the garrison of Maestricht, composed entirely of Dutch soldiers.' The 3foniteur publishes the text of a draft of a project of law, relative - to the establishment of free entrepots at Ant werp and Ostend, of which we spoke two days ago. This '• dratt has been submitted to the opinion of the Governor of that province, of the Chamber of Commerce, and. of the Di rectors of the Customs. THE KING OF SwnDEN.—Oscar 11., lately - Crown Prince and now King of Sweden, was born at Paris, on the 4th-of July, 1799, and is, therefore, now' in his 45th year. He accompanied his father to Sweden in 1810, . where the title of Duke of Sodermanland was conferred on tini—a title borne by Charles XIII. -previously to , his accession to the throne. Count Cederstrom was-ap pointed governor to the young Prince, and a private tutor at the University of Lund, Mr. of Tatinstrom, was charged with the immediate superintendence of his studies. The poet - Atterbom was entrusted with the task of making him familiar with the Swedish language, which Oscar was soon able to speak like a native. On his father's accession to the throne ' the Chancellorship of the University of Upsuls, previously held by Charles John, was conferred on Oscar, who shortly afterwards was entered there as a student, and has, at various periods of his life, by munificent donations, and in many other ways, given .unquestionable. proofs of the interest he feels in the welfare of that venerable insti tdtion. His military education, meanwhile, was not neglected, and his musical taste has shown itself in the composition of an opera, besides a great number of songs, dances, marches, &e; ; we are not, however, aware whether in these works he has manifested much more than the average genius of Royal composers. His military career commenced in 1811, when he was nomi nated Lieutenant-Colonel in the Svea Lifeguards. 'He followed hig father to Germany in 1814, and had there, . for the first time, an opportunity of seeing something of active service. In consequence of the fineness of the weather yes terday, the steamers were unusually. crowded, and the iron steam-boats above bridge, and the watermen-'s steamers below bridge, carried upwards of, 50,000 persons, •during the day, to . Chelsea. Greenwich, WoOlwich, and other places. The people were flocking to the steam-boat piers in great numbers, until sunset. Greenwich Park was very fall of visitors ; and Richmond, Gravesend, and other places to which the Londoners resort on fine Sundays, presented a very busy appearance. There . were .not less than fifty steamers engaged in carrying passengers.. At the Adelphi pier, Strand, which has been lately enlarged and improved, 11,000 persons landed and embarked during the day. FREAKS OF A HORSE.—A circumstance, of an unusually strange character occurred at Bromley, Kent, on 'Thursday afternoon, which happily terminated without serious injury. A horse, while being cleaned in the stables of Mr. Pawley, of the White Hart Hotel, became restive, and started into the street, proceeding through the village at a furious pace. • Being • suddenly checked, he returned, and rushed into the front entrance of the hotel, and, after plunging and .kicking for some time, bolted through a long passage, ascended two flights of stairs, and finally made his way into the assembly-room, where the door was imme diately closed on him. After breaking a few tables, chairs, &c., he was finally secured, and with great difficulty con veyed down stairs to his old quarters. Mu..O'Co,mELL.—ln consequence of Mr.O`Con nell'a-pre-engagements in Ireland, his visit to Nottingham, which had been fixed for Easter Tuesday, is postponed. to • future day. The Marquis of Bute, who has been slightly in disposed at Cardiff Castle, is now convalescent. We hear thOt a marriage' is on the tapis between the Dowager Countess of Essex, the once charming song stress, and Mr. Henry Greville, lately attached to the British Embassy at Paris.--Court Journal. Viscount _and Viscountess Palmerston entertained his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Marquis of,Normanby, Earl of Besborough, Earl of Auck land and Hon. Misses Eden, Viscount and Viscountess Pon sonby, Lord Elphinstone, Sir Augustus and Lady Albinia Foster, Mrs. Lamb, and a distinguished circle at dinner, on S a turday last, on Carlton-house-terrace. Her Ladyship had an assembly afterwards, when among the visitors were the French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, Duke de Gluc'ksburg, the Turkish Ambassador, Duke of Leeds, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Marquis of Head fort and Ladies Mary and Olivia Taylour, M.archioness of Sligo and Ladies Browne, his Excellency Count Pollon, Baron Hugel, Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viseount Mahon, Viscountess Pollington, Lord Beaumont, besides many other persons of rank and distinction. HORRID CASE OF CHILD•MURPER.—On Saturday an inquest was held at the Marquis of Westminster, Bel grave-road, Pimlico, before Mr. ,Higgs, on view of the body of a fine new-born male infant, which was discovered brutally murdered in some waste ground in the above neighbourh ood. Thomas Thornsett, a man in the employ of Mr. Cubist, the builder, proved finding the body of the unfortunate little innocent, about ten o'clock on Tuesday. It was wrapped up in a piece of calico and a part of an old shawl. The head and face were dreadfully disfigured by violence. The spot where the body was found is about four w ards within a high wall in the Belgrave-road. Mr. David 'Wilson, surgeon, of Eccleston-square, Pimlico, deposed that he had examined the body of the child ; it was full grown. There was a violent blow on the forehead between the eyes, and other bruises about the head and face. The umbilical cord was not tied, proving that the mother was not professionally attended at the birth. Witness has no doubt the infant was born alive, and bad been destroyed by violence. The jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown," and recommended that a reward should be offered by the parish for the discovery of the inhuman murderer. ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—..AbOIIt nine o'clock, last night, an alarm was given by some individuals, on Black friars-bridge, that a woman had leaped from the parapet into the river. Some policemen on duty immediately proceeded to the place, and after great exertion succeeded in rescuing the unfortunate woman from her perilous position. She was conveyed to a public-house in the vicinity of the bridge,' where efforts were made for her recovery, which proved suc cessful. Her circumstances in life, if we may judge from the clothes she had on, were very distressing, and we have. little doubt that povertylad been the cause of her infatuation. Too great praise cannot be assigned to the police, by whose praiseworthy exertions she was rescued from a watery grave. SHOCKING. CASE OF BURNlNG.—Yesterday after noon, between four and five o'clock, an accident of a most serious nature occurred to a little girl named Reed, residing with her parents at 55, Battesland-street, East-road, Hor ton. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Reed had been induced by the fineness of the weather to spend a day at Greenwich, and for that purpose had entrusted the care of their children to a neighbour's servant, who most .incautiously left the child amusing itself by tossing up an orange. In a fair minutes afterwards she was attracted by the screams of the child, and, on entering the kitchen, she met the child screaming most piteously with her clothes all in flames. The servant, fortunately, had the presence of mind to roll the hearth-rug round the child, and extinguished the flames, but not before she was burnt in a most shocking manner. The general Supposition is, that the orange must have fallen is the fire, and the poor little girl, in endeavouring to regain it, must have set her clothes on fire. The little sufferer was immediately taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she now lies in a most precarious state, with slight, if any . hopes of her recovery. The feelings of the parents on hearing of the accident may be better imagined than described. THE LATE EXTENSIVE COACH ROMMEL—OXFORD, FRmAY,--The examination of Richard Elliott, who was re • mended from • last Saturday on suspicion of being concerned in the late coach robbery of 1,500 sovereigns, was resumed private.trates of the co unty. . this morning at the county gaol (where he has b een in cus tody since yesterday week), before For. Marsham arid Mr. T Sh h e e p e p x a a rd m , i o n f a D tio e n nt , ovnas -ho attilt two st ric m tl a y gls Denton-hous e, g The pr isoner was provided with an eminent co un sel (Mr. Ballantine, from London), but he, as well as t he prisoner's solicitor (Dir. Ro binson, also of London), were refused admittance. In conse quence of the strictly private manner in which this business is conducted, it is very difficult to obtain the information we could desire to lay before our readers. We are, however, in formed that in the examination to-day nothing new has transpired, and that the prisoner.. is again remanded to Thursdary . next. T he magistrates intimated to him that pre vious to his being committed, he might avail himself of the services of his counsel and solicitor, as at the last etarnina tion they would be allowed to be present. Although only a few witnesses gave their evidence, the examination lasted from ten o'clock to four in the afternoon. . - --------- • DEATH OF MR. JOHN BURN.—We regret to an nounce the death of Mr. John Burn, a worthy and excellent man, who expired, in his 68th year, at Manchester, on Wed nesday: Most of our commercial readers are acquainted with a practical work of the highest value, which he published periodically, called ` Burn's Glance." It gives, in a tlibttlir form, a coup d'cril of the annual imports and exports, Of the country, and has often been quoted in Parlignent as i!,,,t,tuad ird autliority.— . -Liverpool Journal. 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