The Sun. — London, England, 1844-03-11 00:00:00

rJL I e ions ro ; the .; to the of tt ; s e ,hich i n the 1)14 rice. our arisse,7o " t ceo ,7°Tll.4reree ( the P bo i — d bt [ell ( b e : -a-n` — )3111,5 [leg° tbe ReP llt—lie 44 reo i hand Iv o ° , cam s 'dol. [30, 0 tof Joe l ' nik con d the to o ntiu ,,A c (We 15. 141t° L c, 251, a took I :,, e o 4 e i d in yr" - Coloooll' inu 35 99 9g4; Cr 2 630 COURT CIRCVLAR. me le Queen and Prince Albert,. the Ladies and Gentle- Divinetile Royal suite, and the Household, attended at Service yesterday morning in the private chapel c uckingham Palace. Ttie Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie officiated. :frdeteniFi yen Majesty and Prince - Albert walked in the Royal on Saturday forenoon. the "le Royal Family were taken airings on Saturday in HReYal Gardens. i:er Royal Hi g h ness t h e Duchess of Kent visited the " and Pri nce Albert on Saturday at Buckingham h i a ce, and p artook of a dejeune with her Majesty and 8 Royal Highness. ba c k . " ( Val Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse- Ere Saturday, a tt en d e d b y Si r Ed war d B owater, 11. 3 , in Waiting. cess 411 e Duch ess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Prin.. Th e •„:arY visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. t' ited her "°Yal Duchess, accompanied by the Princess, Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at brid ge r , House St. James's. The Duchess of Caul k. i i b e and the Princess Mary, also paid a visit yesterday io er )nt Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at he House, and in the afternoon returned to Kew. rellt-"e 'ishup of London had an interview with the licellor of the Exchequer on Saturday, at his official tien ee 13,, Downing - street. basi -61.1 HurPel, Wurtemberg Minister, ransacted b!lesa at the eoreign-office on Saturday. omeol7lltehei were received yesterday at the Colonial sir In the Governor of St. Helena. tour II Raiford expired on Saturday afternoon, at s i °Oock, at his residence in Curzon-street. sid t : I t Peel had a dinner party on Saturday," at his re wards in Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel had after thenskaa assembly, which was numerously attended by T h a LitlitY and gentry. th e j i .' 3ll ke of Wellington attended the early service in ram Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The Rev. ihWesley ofneiated aid preached the sermon. th C,,,ishop of Exeter preached the sermon yesterday, e u aily service in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. G 4er a w ere read by th e R ev . D r . K napp , t h e l essons fiej,;„", by the Rev. Mr. H a den, an d th e S u b-D ean bev e - Tu at the Communion Service. The Earl of 4 4 11 a nd Vis Count an d Vi scoun t ess Palmerston '‘'‘ 'ere 1 ,,g the nobility present . ciiiVe Ma rquis of Anglesey, Lords Haddington, Wham Ye3h a ,ad Ernest Bruce, attended the evening service "V. n the Chapel Royal, St. James's. 3 . ee O ttEßT PEEL ON DUELLING. /t 4t he b ,,- Any of Sir Pobert Peel to a question respecting sioiqPriety of introducing measures for the suppres kobi duelling, lately put to him in the House of. Com. intist have attracted the attention of our readers, 4 tti. e dare say raised in the minds of some persons a , s tu , c ‘ ,.‘o .„ - v t , r ise• "I am determined " said the -Minister, "` othL "", at I can to put doe n this barbarous remnant Pebsi o t itteS, and therefore I have refused to grant the cif 4 a wi t to which she was entitled to the unfortunate widow 151 4ili e - "cer, whose death in a duel has lately attracted the )vona attention." Some people, we say, may have . t r atf ? ,, ted. i ft little at the mode of ' discountenancing this a utOpted by the Right Hon. Baronet. Poor Mrs. t o ' 4 ' We presume, required no extraordinary mea leil! s' e ter her from affording any countenance to ettillst but she is to be deprived, it may be, of the ti of ef m aintaining her own and her children's posi- L th erbn i etY, as a w arn i ng f or th e f uture . O n t h e ;411 38 ,,4u, we b e li eve t h e two secon d s engaged in the "iclowi: 4 ° ll Which en d e d i n M rs. F awcett ' s premature 4 - _, ° °( l , are still in the enjoyment of military rank, and it is not impossible that one or s ii :t th em may again be exposed to hazards to t " th r to those froni which they have recently . escaped. ge lPle -1 , eill • however the - punishment inflicted on the ti: 4/ Nu swi d,,nw is, it would appear, to be a sufficient ght t 4 ,°' k do not mean to say that these gentlemen ue di • d f the army; on the contrary, w sinisse rom 0414 be On the present state of opinion) such a course shone of great injustice. We do, however, wish monstrous inconsistency of punishing, by "fi c 't exampl e one who is not only innocent, but 18 11 0 t • h it of the offence Pes t . -- a position ever to e gut y , t to rrs , J oo• We have received the following letter from "Qiiin;sP°4dent, the inquiry in which we admit our in ezs4 an EDITOR OP THE DUBLIN EVENING MAIL. (Ln., Kenmore March 4;- 1844. c' vrtt attention has been ' directed to some e o talelii t ' ll s .made by • Sir Robert Peel, on the subject 4 t4 So uS in answer to a question in the House of k th : '4llCtChait aweett was my friend and comrade ; he paid st t o b?' his fault ; the seconds appear to me those h„.",/ty f but they escape witheut a p . enalty. 7(iii t f r ,'encl's widow is stated to be the victim for her 'atilt or crime. th' l ,4 3 . l l,the fact ? • • b „! 4 44 aweett, I believe, has an income far beyond r'4.8 . 10 at which the widow of an officer can claim a 4, ! ti e jnssibl e t h at our present liberal Prime Minister, eke U s e of conciliating Hon Gentlemen opposite, has thP "'e of a .?' Pray enlighten us - 44 - sub, rhetorical artifice Ject, for though I am residing here at this Kr % ;1 1 Yours trilly AN OLIYMAJOR. h kr e . IRON STEAMERS. ~lative claims to preference for durability, , i, l i lt f4 a a i ld general efficiency of timber and of iron -1101 her er s — especially as to that class of steanuships, N, IL Y ! Il Ls g destined for the service of her Majesty's th e e 7t.earry guns, with complete war e o equipments, VPilli ori u kPlement of men, &c.—have long divided th' 114 p or t, or professional judges. Every day . increases n ante of a sound and authoritative decision on t :i t i: e tl4l l:4 - 4 ( d it e ttl ti n e t matter, We extract from the private kt t , ob, e _ of the Post, dated Portsmouth, 7th inst., "at.ions that we commend to our readers' 110 ft. W ith regard to the Elberfeldt, lost on our few ago, whilst .on her passage to be over t'l'4ilsll Yard of , her builders, Ravenhill and Co., " -ttt sod e t i ° 4 observe, that she was oue of tho most Fier ,liiteisl4 I ever turned out by our river builders. Her tt t'an' she ell4t h expressly adapted to the service for built —river navigation—(she was a Rhineher Otet s. w c ,s-% no disparagement to the judgment of e . r t fiv e ,, - ?e d She was never intended for the sea; and soehet:lY lamented that she should hare been sent 1 / 4 ",,c4 „`"`listerous a season as that on which she went ptee , 1 1Q 4 °.l t e rif our most dangerous shores : tb to t i e h 4ti On of the naval world has recently been c onstruction of iron steamers, and more ki tt 7 , e j so Since the late lamentable catastrophe in ',.at,he Elberfeldt. It is the opinion of many If''viduals, that similar fatal results may be 414 re th r°lll iron vessels, for little or no warning:is : 3 ; founder, after they once show symptoms iet,t 0 e prom corrosion or other causes. An iron Pt , on Od:kli her passage from England to the L s, nearly collapsed, when off. the t :Otsd Cladaons d which result was only : 1 4% 8 ,,, 3 : 1 th ' e prompt measures resorted to by ''tit,„44llllll,,i-.-‘,er, who caused strengthening pieces 1 1 1 ,0 4 . t 4e - r l ii ,e,. l Y screwed up to the sides, and thus pre -4lt 1,4 Si'!"111g or separating of the fabric. Vessels qty y co ll it4l lar to the six iron steamers now being Dee 1.4, act for the Government as dispatch boats, " 1 4' 11 be usefully and safely adopted,. provided th r It' tria terial w ith which-they are constructed h ,1 4 4 e -o pl et st ren;thand.thickness t but it is a matter .9,3411,N- to co nsideration how far it may be safe or dr de L it construct iron steam-vessels of such a N a of t he Great Britain at Bristol, which is ,O.feet in length, or even of the size o the .4 t10 .44 4 11 . , 111 , cr, now building at Liverpool, which If 'REPEAL' QUESTIO N . h i I , Nit 5, 1 41,,,, (From the Tablet.) t dis,there are many persons in this country 0 3 1 : 0 ,!.W1,", 5 ed to think that the repeal cause is de t,tl4Arr of - I,`ftice Mr. O'Connell's present moderation t „ . ' l ' Liu :8 despair ; ,some .who even wish o % f •el d l t _to . Iy h tly V ,no escapefrom the complication. sup heffi 'kk 11-l eil it is beset, and are .half-inclined to .. ii t1 1 4 4 %) t :ler or later, it must be abandoned. we 11 11 '") )1 ~'l le Tories, when. they talk of their "great i ll ' i , iAikSt are of this Class. They think O'Connell is 1 ,1. 4 - )\ ,14 ) e q - ,„ e lI IY, and they fancy.that if they can Oz . t,,4tt,"'°.(l-;":ation, all else is easy of accomplishnae , ihAtOiev'''rt-sighted politieiansl . sub -41,V 4 nce of Ireland ; the deep, shocking, k iti li .: , Shone embedded as they are, in famine . ; the k lll hlt endu the . memories she has laid up p„ . , d ity . Te e ; Lu . . Ot i ,," . N.,'N ',,,.?1- rec koning—these . things are not mere ct iibts, dream s . that are likely to • pass as ,14,itwiii'.%,.t."alies ; nor are they now lessening and tpSi i ,` A . ,' T oldd O'Connell's death remove any of these %ti,:r)tit'i, trit 3 / 11 41?d lY not. . The truth i . s the very reverse c4, l l%'''t kts ge as it may seem, it is true, that when ti rh l .° - „,. litlk:s away, with him will pass one of . the P A "'l h t ''it a; li t hat bind together the Saxon an4 om t : t kli td , ell i , ois violent as his language has s . . :?4,kii-Vl4,:Connell has more sympay witht e he_ lim.ii rem, r„r. Inorelikirig TOr England, more '‘ to htelljklle,Vt'r Engliatmen than the great flitma jory t y 'rla t(,..,) countrymen. O'Connell' is a strong I c ''lle t tlk tPther lreland and England. 4 h itad o, q' , • - 1 • ulties, we 1 )1 ch 4 cerinell lives, and. has hi,fay Bbdh ' p Net E c t.4e.War pin , ill no ,- erget the upper hand. 4 4 1 k l i r and ' ' 3 w , h sh m . . Po% er are a sure guarantee for peace. il l hit 0 restrwiNgters stand in awe of him on the one t lils % , 111 3 his own followers on the other. .But, 41tkl‘v i t) thi 4^ 4w , " --111 a3; ,God have_ mercy on question be — I , t . t 'f , t , te ll ,his il f ,. he changed, unless the upon Ati 'kth, dogs The Ministers will take i li k r, Th e it the party deprived .of s giganticde 'll tilth, roe b.",Pealrs will want the regulating, mo F t `;t:Al i "„ V het, l o e ll ., his. weight thtowki ihto the popular Jo t %eilmit parties will i le hurb A together with every N: 4 1 .4.1 11 " 111) tt , r ,-, tered; with full scope given on the one side t'tklksslo-.Pt,_4.i.versien,. and on the other to the 4tii h , 1 1 1 1 : 8 of hatred, and a somewhat unruly pa p -. it., - htre n i'', 4 i Oki ` 4 ` l e, g hand will he wanting that . now . `'., 'I It t ? q r ces both. What . must be the 'neva ,triii, _Rl)t,,i_, ! shudder. to think what it may be, un `Lrrilljp4r'll' 141 Interposition the Almighty smoothes t'Viti4lble , 4 "' Let England give way now, and make tiOh i . 4 ,ir !T ender to tbe claims of justice with such l ' i '. li. s o i fitting, and-the matter may be arranged L i llt .l o 4t. if ti ( 1 )11 g as O'Connell lives this Will be pos °!kl. r it, bu,7.ltiestion be deferred longer, we see A ......,........_‘ the the question must have an ending `1 t - IN 4 11 t - -----,...................... 1,,, , jtl qtti ki,, C od ----______________ kr,isttirOrk I,Vler•--George Madden, who was 'i t ,el ..stt• -iareb i • f the elegy, l i , R 4 ssizes, 1831, for the robbery o, , t l `lii 1 4) 1 „ 4 I,nities fr om Ha ift living at a place called Austen 's itiiktkt:thirty,_(e!titl.l\l,,,ihril°tlllhielle.biefiqrity:riic,,wiiort,harondll.isa married to a year, having 4y,-iNt:til ) ta ,,; 'ow: two years in the country, for find 1, ` ti ki 6a r -1- Vq; Nis_ WI .4TriAM 404 'a Pai r ' al et et f r° ll l 'Wide Bray River, dated 29th - HER - MAJESTY'S THEATRE Her Majesty's Theatre opened on Saturday evening with Donizetti's opera of " Adelia," and a new ballet of Perrot's, entitled "La Esmeralda." Mr. Lumley's in tention had been originally to have opened with Herold's che-d'ceuvre, " Zampa," but in consequence of the un avoidable absence of Fornasari„ who did not arrive until Saturday night, "Adelia," with which the season opened last year, was substituted, and " Zampa, " will, we un derstand, be produced on Saturday next, on which occa sion Fornasari will make his. first appearance this season. Madame Persianiand Signor Corelli, the new tenor, ap peared in " Adelia;" and arrangements have been made for the appearance of Mademoiselle Favanti be fore Easter. The new ballet is supported by Carlotta Grisi, Adelaide Frasi, St. Leon, and Perrot ; so that Mr. Lumley commences this season in the same spirited manner in which he commenced the last, and does not wait until after Easter, as his pre decessors have usually done, before he commences the season in earnest. This spirited, and, let us add, honour able conduct, was, last year, amply rewarded by the public patronage. Crowded houses every evening proved that, not only on the part of the manager, but on the part of the . public also, the .real as well as the nominal opera season commenced at the beginning of March, and we doubt not but that similar satisfactory results will follow on the present occasion —that Mr.Lumley's exer tions will meet with their well-deserved reward—and that, as he has proved himself to be the most spirited, his patrons will prove to him that it is their determina tion he shall be the most successful impresario that has ever held sway over the destinies of her Majesty's Theatre. The engagements for the opera included Grisi, Persiani, Fornasari, the two Lablaches, and Mario; and in addi tion, Mademoiselle Favanti, Signor Corelli, who made a successful debut on Saturday evening, and Signor Felice, are engaged. The ballet will be more strongly sup ported than it was even last season, eminent as that season must ever be in the annals of her Majesty's theatre. Fanny Elssler, Cerito, Carlotta Grist, Guy .Stephan, Adelaide Frasi, St, Leon, Coulon, and Perrot, are already engaged, and we are delighted to hear that " arrangements are pending with Taglioni, and that there is every probability that the services of this eminent artiste will be secured ler a limited number of represen tations." Signor Costa has resumed the baton of con ductor and -director of the music, and Perrot is the director of the ballet. The opera of " Adelia" was pro duced at the commencement of last season, and was frequently repeated. Madame Persiani sustained on Saturday her original character of Adelia, and we never remember to have seen her look better, or to have heard her in better voice. . Never has she exe cuted anything more brilliantly than she gave her opening scene on Saturday evening. It was a chef d'ueuvre of brilliancy of execution and graceful expres siveness and tenderness. The great triumph of the evening, however, was the finale. Driven to madness in consequence of the condemnation of her lover, she re covers her senses on finding that he has been pardoned, and in giving expression to the joy with which her heart overflows, she exhibits a power and energy, a bril liancy of execution, and truthfulness and tenderness of expression, that has never been surpassed. Her acting throughout was beautifully pathetic, and never before has she appeared to such advantage in the character of Adelia as she did on Saturday evening. She was rapturously applauded throughout, and at the fall of the curtain, was led on by Corelli and F. Lablache, who sustained the characters of Oliviero and Arnoldo, and was again most enthusiastically greeted by the audience. Signor Corelli, who made his debut en this occasion, is a tenor singer of great promise. His voice, which is a mixed voice, is firm and good, and of a very agreeable quality. His style is very agreeable, and he is the best second tenor that we have had at the Opera for years. The new ballet " La Esmeralda," is founded on Victor Hugo's celebrated romance " Notre Dame de Paris." Perrot, hdwever, in composing his ballet, has taken considerable liberties with his original, particularly in the denouement, as' will appear from the following outline of the plot. It should be premised that the ballet is in five tableaux: The first tableau is the Cours des Miracles, the haunt of the beggars of. -Paris in the days of -Louis-XI. The Truands are assembled there under Clopin (Gourret), their king. The lame throw - aside their crutches, the Wind remove the patch es f rom th e i r eyes and recover their sight ; all is confusion 'and revelry, and a charac teristic valse is danced by the coryihees. Pierre Grin goire (Perrot),_ . an unfortunate pennyless poet, who has lost his waY, wanders into the Cours des Miracles... He is seized, plundered of his hat and wallet, brought before Clopin, and sentenced to be hanged, unless•some one of the womenwill respite him by marrying him. • -He-be seeches each of the females present to take pity on . him, but after having examined•him, they unanimously reject his addresses. - The pantomime of Perrot throughout this scene was admirable,' his grotesque exhibition of terror was extremely ludicrous, and his expression, of joy on recovering his poem from the fellow who had stolen his wallet, was a genuine touch of nature. Poor Gringoire has the rope round hisneek when the attention of all is directed to Esmeralda, who comes bounding in, a thing of life and light. . She is Gringoire's better angel, and at once consente-to save his life-by marrying him. Then came La 7:uiandaisi, acharacteristic pas, most gracefully executed by Carlotta Grisi and Perrot. • She was loudly applauded, and a bolero movement which she executed with the utmost' precision and elegance, was rapturously encored. The Truands retire, and Claude Frollo (Gosselin), attended by Quasimodo, the hunch back (Coulon), enter, and attempt to. carry off Esme ralda. She is_rescued by Phoebus de Chatennpes (St. Leon)who enters at the head of his archers. Frollo escapes, but Quasimodo is taken, Esmeralda looks at her de liverer, the -handsome Plicebits,.• and is at once in 'love with him. At her intercession-he releases Quasimodo, who retires. slowly, with .- his gaze still rivetted on his young benefactress. The Captain now makes Estneialda understand that he requires a recompense for acceding to her wishes i but she recoils frOm him, and .flies„ casting on him a tender glance. The se - pond tableau is a -small vaulted chamber, with a little couch, a table, and a chair, the ,only furniture. Esmeralda.. enters, sad-and-melan- choly, and shortly after Gringoire, who presses his arm round her waist. She flies • -him, and he pursues - her, but when on the point of• securing her, th e blade- of a poignard glitters before his eyes. Esmeralda informs him that pity alone had induced' her to take him for a husband, that he may become her companion, and accompany her 'in her street dances, -if ,he wishes, but no mote, life_- consents ,; .they_. prac tice a dance, and he retires ..with an air of re signation. Esmeralda • throws herself upon her couch, and Frollo enters the chamber. Quasimodo stays on the threshold, Frollo kneels ' and implores her to listen to his passion, b u t s h e t e ll s him that she loves Phcebui. In his jealous rage, Frolio rushes on her; she shrinks at his feet, and implores his pity. Frollo turns for a mo ment, when Esmeralda escapes through a secret en trance The third tabl ea u . i s i n th e gar d en o f t h e H ote l Gondelaurier, with the preparations for: the marriage of Fleur de. Lys and 'nimbus. Fleur de..Lys (Made moiselle Adelaide Frasi) enters, accompanied .by her bridesmaids; and in this scene is introduced the-Pas des Flears by Mademoiselle. Frasi, -supported- by Mdll e s. Ferdinand and-Barvill e .- • • Mademoiselle Adelaide Frasi possesses beautiful], and expressive features, and a fault less form—her - style of dancing is exceedingly graceful and elegant; she aims "at uniting the beauti . 6 . of the Taglioni and the Elssler school. In this she succeeded wonderfully, and Ter transitions . from theone style to the other were adMirable. She was rapturously applauded, and her debut was most successful. This was' followed by a pas .de •trois by Mdlles. Scheffre, Plankett, and M. St. Leon, .in which St. Leon exhibited some of those- astonishing .tours 'de face which he , alone can execute. Esmeralda.- •who- has come -to dance, in honour of the - Wedding; recognises Phosbus ;' he ap- proaches, she extends her hand to him, he . presses it with fervour, - and, forgetting in her beauty, the pcdasion of the presence of his bride, he prays her to dance with him. Then follows the . P.'qs dc Esmeralda, exquisitely danced by carl9tta Grisi.and Perrot. Flew de Lys re proaches him with his conduct,. and is borne away fainting. Gringoire protects E4meralda from the fury of the guests, and leads 'her off, followed by Phcebus,' The fourth tableau is an apartment in a cabaret, with a window opening upon the river. Clopin now - enters with a torclrin - his hand, followed - by whd draws from his breast - the poignard Of Esmeralda, ;he hears a noise upon the stairs, and immediately` conceals . himself. Phoebus ancrEsineralda appear. He tells her_of his. pas sion and his leVe ; but,, apiecetaking of down from .his plume, she breathes upon it, and, as it floats away, tells him, that such_are his oaths. At last she allows him to draw her towards a 'bench ; she kneels at his feet,- and contemplates him with -passionate admiration. Frollo springs forward with the poignard in his hand, and . as Phoebus draws the young Bohemian into a neighbour ing chamber; a blow and groans are heard, then thelall of a body, and - Frollo , rushes" out madly. :followed by Esmeralda, who sinks fainting' with terror .on the floor. A crowd enters the cabaret,. among them Clopin. . A murder has been _committed, and Esmeralda is denounced.. as ; They then seize and Parry her aw.ay, in spite-of-her pro testations and her tears. The fifth and last-tableau is on the banks of-the Seine ; a prison to the right; the tower of Notre Dame-in the distance. 'Esmeralda' is . conducted to the prison by an escort of archers, precededby Pion°. Gringoire enters ; he pauses before one of the ' &Meg of the prison, ferrorsstrieken at 'tearing judgment pro nounced upon her. . lie then addresses the' people, who . are about to break out iniii . tuninle, when the procession of the Roi des Fous appears. Quasimodo enters, borne upon the shoulders of the..Truands, The doors -of •the prison open, and the archers appear, conducting-I:me -rah:la to execution. The cortege pauses, that- she may bid Gringoire adieu. Phiebus is seen amongst the crowd, and Esmeralda faints atlthe- sight. Flinging himself - on his knees beside her; he' eclares her innocent,'andpbints out Frollo anhe assassin. " By* 'ft-yees Esmeralda 're-' covers her senses.'She seeS'Phifebusat her feet„Offering her his hand and heart.l Biif:die . :happineas ef.the two lovers drives Frolle to niidness. He rushes on .Esme ralda with the intentionit - S stabbing her ; but his arm i s arrested by Quasimodo, who . tears -the dagger.from • his hand, and plunges it into his breast. Thus ends-the ballet. At the close of the ballet Carlotta Grisi was called for and received with the most enthusiastic plaudits, which she had well earned, not only by her excellent daiicirig, but by the beautifully expressivepantomime of herapting. Her acting in tte;last seene was perfection. The music, by Signor Puigni, was pretty*Mid appropriate, and the mise en scene was perfect. The dioramic effect introduced in the opening scene was exceedingly beautiful, and the gar dens of the Hotel Gondela ur i e ex hibited a perfect Para dise. Nothing could exceed the- brilliant splendour of , this scene, or the elegance of. the.costumes of the white robed houris, who danced -.the pas des •fieurs. . • The last scene, t 00,.: was exceedingly -picturesque,. The success of the ballet was complete, and " La Esmeralda" is one more to be added to the list of triumphs achieved 'by Perrot as a composer of ballet: • The House was very fashionably attended, and waS"crowded—circumstancest neither of which 'arc of frequent occurrence on aii_opea ing night. Dr. Turner and 31.1.Iddeitreyratinterv; . ews 'with Lord Stanley on Saturday, at the Colehi4l-office. LITERATURE. THE WHITE MASK. Ben*, London, 1844. The twenty years of bustle and intrigue imme diately following the . Revolution of 1688, have long been a faiourite period with our modern novelists, and accordingly we are not surprised that Mrs. Thompson has pressed them into the service of her present work of fiction. The incidents, related in the "White Mask" are supposed to have occurred during the reigns of William and Anne, and though they are numerous and exciting enou?h, yet we are not aware that they outrage probability in any one case. As regards the personages of the story, the author's canvas—to borrow a phrase from the palette—is quite crowded 'with them,. and they elbow and jostle each other so as to produce a scene or constant confusion. All the wits and beauties of the time—authors, actors, statesmen, and soldiers—Mrs. Thompson brings be fore us in her teeming pages, as if the excellence of a novel consisted in the number,.rather than in the nice individuality, of its characters. Of Dryden, then old and worn down with repeated disappoint ments, of Prior, Colley Cibber, Castlemain, and Hea ven knows how many other notorious personages of the day, we get frequent but not very vivid glimpses; Farquhar, however—that ill-starred dramatist, who was cut off in the fulness of his promise, and who, if not so brilliant, is a thousand times more easy and natural than Congreve—this gifted young dramatist is drawn at dill length; and by far, the most inter esting incidents in the narrative are those with which he is connected. His first interview -with the cele brated actress, Mrs. Oldfield, , then an obscure girl officiating at the Mitre tavern is very skilf u lly an d pleasingly described, and the dialogue is lively with out being too pointed or elaborated. The " White Mask" will probably be liked for its bustle, and the incessant action of its plot, which is always on the more; but we certainly cannot compliment the authoress on the adroitness with which she has de lineated her various characters. 'HATSWORTH. 3 Vols. album, London, 1844. If we except some descriptive passages which, occur here and there in the course of a long and somewhat prosy introduction, there is not • much in this work that is calculated to attract public attention, notwith standing that it is ushered into the world under the auspices of the author of " Tremaine," who is an nounced in the title-page as its editor. The wor k i s called " Chatsworth" simply from the circumstance that, it consists of a collection of short tales which are supposed to be written by a party of talented—to quote one of the favourite cant terms of the day—and aristocratic guests assembled beneath the root of this princely palace, by way of passing away a few hours agreeably. The writing of these tales may possibly have proved a very agreeable occupation to their authors, but the perusal of them by their readers will prove, we fear, quite 'a different matter, for they contain little that is novel in conception, and the execution scarcely, if ever, rises above common place. Their chief recommendations are their brevity, and the easy, unpretending spirit in which they are penned. The first, which is entitled "The Three Vows," is the best of the series, and one or two of the incidents connected with the heroine Lady Dorigen, excite a lively interest. On the whole; however, the introduction is the best part of the work, for despite its length and the frequent languor of its sketches of character, we find in it some graphic and life-like descriptions of the romantic scenery in the immediate neighbourhood of Chats worth. The following, in our judgment, is the most effective passage in the whole three volumes. It is a sketch of a picturesque landscape about a stone's throw , from Mattock-bath ; and the author, with some show of justice, prefers it to all the vaunted scenery of the Rhine and the still more bepraised• German Spas : " Every step we advance up the valley of the Derwent .grows more and more redolent of the atmosphere of that spot which is now evidently near at hand—like the fabled tree, within a certain distance of whose shadow no unclean thing would harbour. Chatsworth spreads its beatifying influence on all things within that circle, at the extremity of one o f whoSe an approach to it has commenced. On the southern side of Mattock-bath, the scenery, with infinite natural lovelinessjisdeformed every here and there by one of those enormities with which the pestilent demon of commerce has desecrated a land that had otherwise rivalled la, befility the most beautiful of those in fable. Here stands midway up the side of some fair forest-clothed hill, everlastingly overlooking the vale for miles around with its innumerable eyes—a vast cotton mill. There, down by the soft sweet margin of the river, just where a gentle declivity in its course , has broken its serene face into sparkling dimples—lo ! a never ceasing noise of innumerable hammers issue from low blackened walls, that day and night, in sunshine and in moonlight, vomit forth volleys of poisoncius smoke, that blast the trees all around till no bird will sing in i them. Not much less offensive to the eye of taste—see the bepillared and bepedimented castle of some cotton lord or iron master hangingheavily against the brow of yonder upland, like a loath Some goitre on the neck of some mountain maid that were else fair as her own hills. Once passed the threshold of that circle of which Chats worth is the centre, we have not only no more of these painful and offensive anomalies, but every thing seems to take a tone and colour from those of the presiding di vinity of the district Every dwelling bespeaks the precise station of its• owner, and that he is content with station; neither shrinking painfully from the one below him, nor straining awkwardly towards that which is above him. The pleasant homestead of the substan tial yeoman stands soberly in the midst of its subject fields, aiming at nothing higher than to mark the dwell ing -place of their simple-minded owner. The modest domicile of the village pastor looks blandly from out its sheltering trees--the emblem of that holy and happy calm, which it is the blessed office of its inmate to spread around him, but which never yet emanated from the paltry prettiness of a dandy parsonage." SEL. ECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH. Burns, London, 1844. With one or two exceptions, these selections from ;he poetical works of Mr. Wordsworth are made with taste and judgment. We miss, however, his noble pop* on the Ruins of Kilchoran Castle," one of the most characteristic he e ve r p enne d, and could readily have dispensed with the "Pet Lamb" and " Foresight," in which not his strength, but his weakness; is made manifest. In a brief introductory notice the editor of this neat little duodecimo, after commenting on the thoughtful' and elevated nature of Wordswerth's genius, goes on to observe—" In his works the English tongue is seen almost in its' perfection ; its powers of delicate expression, its flexible idioms, its vast compass, the rich variety of its rhythms, being all displayed, in the attrac tive garb of verse, and yet with a most rigorous conformity to the laws of its own syntax." This is justly said. To say nothing of his other re commendations, Mr. Wordsworth is perhaps the most' scrupulously grammatical writer of his age; while Pope, whom it has so long been the fashion to praise for his invariable correctness, abounds in instances of slovenly and defective grammar. Those who would desire to see Mr. Wordsworth's genius and power of felicitous expression in their full force, cannot & better than peruse attentively the poem of -" Laodamia"—a poem which is as polished as Parian marble, and is informed by a philosophic' Spirit, austere even to absolute stoicism in its cha racter. The "Banks of the Wye" is another remark able production, bearing in every line the impress of its 'author's genius ; and both these striking poems the one cold, and pure, and passionless - , as One of Canova's sculptures, the other full of fervent emotion —are included in the selection before us. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK SPRING MEETING, 1844. Acceptances for the Warwick Handicap. Vibration, 5 yrs, Bst 131b—Mosque, 6 yrs, Bst 81b—Aj ax , 6 yrs. Bst Ila—lsaac, aged, 7st 81b—Naworth, aged, 7st 51b —Jack, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—Nylghau, 4 yrs, 7st 41b—Irony, 5 yrs, 7st 41b—The Curate, 4 yrs, 7--Pickwick(h b), aged, 7st—Aurungzebe, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Mechanic, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Father Mathew, 3 yrs, sst 71b. The rest pay 5 soya. each. The Trial Stakes. Beaumont, 3 yrs—Freystrop, 3 yrs—Molecatcher, 3 yrs : — The Elbe, 3 yrs=Ninety one, 3 yrs—Queen of the Gipsies, 4 yrs—The Mole, 3 yrs•— : -Brunel, 3 yrs—Seafowl, 3 yrs--- 'Celeste, 3 yrs. NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT, 1844. Acceptances for the Northamptonshire Stakes. Knight of the Whisk, 6 yrs, Bst 121b—Robert de Gorham, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Mosque, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Venus, 4 yrs, Bst • - Bellissima, aged, 7st 101b—Ajax, 6 yrs, 7st 91b—Mania, 4 yrs, 7st 71b--Captain Flathooker, 5 yrs, 7st 71b—Lady 6 yrs, 7st 51b—Blackdrop, 4 yrs, 7st 51b--Arcanus, 5 yrs, 7st 41b —Hooton, 4 yrs, 7st 2 1b—Wiverton, aged, 7st—Naworth, aged, , 7st—Vitellius, 4 yrs, 7st--President (h b) 6 yrs, 6st 111b— 'Irony, 5 yrs, 6st 111b—Czar, 4 yrs, 6st 101b--Grace Darling, 4 vrs, Est 91b—Nylghau 2 4 yrs, Est Olb—Antidote, 4 yrs, Est 81b—Roderick, 5 yrs, Bst 81 b--Pdussin, 4 yrs, Est 81b— Fathew Mathew, 2 yrs, sst 21b. WORCESTER STEEPLE CHASE ENTRY. Acceptances for the Royal Birthday Stakes. - Gaylad, 12st 101b—Vanguard, - 12 st51b—Regalia, 11St 81b Robin Adair, list 71b—Discount, list 51b—Creeper, Marengo, 1 Ist—King Cole, Ilst—Culverthorpe, 10st 10113-- Roulette, lOst 101b--Cora, 10st 81b- t -Brilliant, lOst 41b—For- get-me-Not, lOst 41b—Charity, lOst Harkaway, lost—Josephine, 10st. PEMBROKESHIRE STEEPLE CHASE—THURSDAY.. Sweepstakes of 5 sous; each, 2 ft, with 20 added. (12 sous. each.) -Mr. Lewis's Tallv-ho, aged, 12st Sib Mr.' Hughes's Gipsy Girl, aged, llst 1 llb Mr.-Jones's br g by Dr. Faustus, aged, list Mr. L.-Phillips Kitty, aged, list Kitty won six or seven lengths; having made all the run ning, but going outside a post was declared distanced, and the race given to Tally-ho. _ . COURSING. OVERTON (WILTS,, MARCU 6.—The Overton Cup . (8 dogs), was won -by. Mr. Palmer's Pale Stine ; Mr. Beaver's Fides ran up. The Totterdown Cup (4 dogs), was won by Mr: Beaver's Ty ran t, and the Averbury Stakes by M i . Church's Sally., . _ . . . ----- DRURY.LANE THEATRE.--The second appearance of Monsieur Duprez took plac e h ere on Saturday evening, when the house was again crowded with all the rank and fashion of London, m twithstanding it was the first night of the Italian - Opera ieason. Duprez infused, if possible, even greater sweetness and energy into the cha rac t er of .Arnold than on the etening . of his debut, commanding at intervals the tears and enthusiasm of his auditors. Although his terms ar e un -" derstood to be 100/. a night, yet such is his attraction, that after raakingthii liberal payment, a handsome profit remains. LOC K ' 16 in S 1 36V/0 14' ; 14 15 .; . %4 io ) 4 5630 564 31% tO to POI s 4 0 s s iile ; 11/ a.% 0 1; toy' r ..... , .... ! ..... il , ..... , .... 0 ;i: ~, ...r. ~c. .....r. bi e 1011 9 Y f T HE --I''SV-i-;r. 4, r;lr cr G-N-D N 9 M THE LATE SIR HENRY HALFORD. Sir Henry Halford, Bart., whose decease on Saturday last is recorded in this day's paper, so long occupied a dis tinguished position in society, that some few particulars of his life will probably be acceptable to our-readers. He was born on the 2d-of October, 1766, and received his early education at Rugby School, and at Christchurch, Oxford. He afterwards studied medicine at Edinburgh; and com menced practice,, in conjunction with his father, Dr, Vaughan, el physician of high reputation, at Leicester. In 1792 or 1793 he settled in London, and rose with wonderfully rapid steps to the very first practice. After the death of Dr. Baillie ' in 1823, he was left absolut e ly w ith out a r i va l : I n 1820 he was elected President -of the College of Physicians,' and re mained in that offite until his death, 'having been re-elected every year for nearly a quarter of a century: Sir Henry Halford was Physician to four successive Sove reigns, three of whom he attended "in their last, illnesses, as well as many other branches of the Royal Family, for he waaheld in the highest regard by every member of the family of George 111. So great was his celebrity, that it occurred to him, in the course of his practice, to be consulted by several Sovereigns of other States, as well as by a great many foreigners Of the very first distinction. As a physician Sir Henry Halford was a favourite with classes, and enjoyed in a remarkable degree the confidence of his patients. In consultation he was much regarded by his professional brethren on account of the quickness of his per ception, the soundness of his judgment, and the readiness and abundance of his resources. In society he was prized, for to Wong natural sagacity and good sense he added the charm of a highly classical taste, an d cons id era bl e li terary attain ments. In temper and disposition he was remarkably socia ble and kind-hearted ; and his enemies (for a man so success ful could not but have enemies) will not deny that no man on earth was more placable or forgiving. Sir Henry Halford was created a Baronet by George 111., and changed his name from ;Vaughan to Halford, in compli ance with the will of his maternal great uncle, the last Sir Charles Halford, of Wistow, in Leicestershire, whose estates he inherited. He was Knight Grand Cross of Hanover, a member of the Royal Society, and of several other literary and scientific bodies, trustee of. Rugby school, &c. Re mar ried a daughter ofJohn, eleve.44,Lord St. John, of Bletsoe, by whom he has left,4me soilllnd one daughter. His son, who succeeds to hi title and estates, has been for some years member for South Leicestershire. Of his brothers (many of whom have earned distinction by their talents, amongst them the late Right Hon. Sir John Vaughan, the late Warden of Merton and Dean Of Chester), one only survives him—viz., the Right Hon. Sir Charles Richard Vaughan, formerly our, , hig ly popular Minister in the United States. THE KING OF SWEDEN. Extract of a private letter received on Saturday from Stockholm : " I shall send you a co p y o f an interesting letter which the King dictated himself f rom hi s b e d t o t h e D u k e o f Welling ton, in answer to one his Gr ace h a d a dd resse d to hi s Ma jesty. The King, in this letter, expresses his profound es teem for your great hero, and his gratitude for the sympathy and solicitude his Grace has constantly evinced during the severe malady of the august patient. Since I last wrote the King has undergone a severe ordeal. On the 18th a tendency to suppuration showed itself in the discoloured part of the foot; the King had a good night's rest, and his strength on waking was manifest'y increased. On the 22d the black gangrenous spot became enlarged, the suppuration ceased, and the strength of the patient declined. On the 22d and 23d another favourable crisis occurred, the King slept soundly, his appetite returned, and the suppuration, a re storative process of nature, began once more. This improve ment lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th hi s wea k ness .in creased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more. This improvement lasted until the 24th ; but on the 25th his weakness increased, his appetite and his strength failed him once more. He experienced no fever, but was a prey to mor bid jactitation, and was sleepless during the nights of the 26th and 27th. On the latter day the leg on the gangrenous side became discoloured, showing that the mortification was extending, although the suppuration had not ceased. " On the 26th, the King commanded that aTnew proclama tion to the subjects of his two kingdoms should be drawn out for him to sign; saying that he could not foresee in what state he shoUld be on the Ist of March, the day on which the former proclaMation, and the duration of the Regency which it established, would expire. He had the dispatches of the dayread to him as in general, likened with profound atten tion and interest to their tenor, and had read over to him again those passages which he deemed most interesting. It was on the 27th he wrote to. the Duke of. Wellington, and on that day he ordered a distribution of wood to the poor suffer ing from the inclemency of the season. He still preserved all his faculties, the goodness of his heart and the elevation of his thoughts and views_; .whilst his kindness betrayed itself in a thousand minute details. " His grandson, the Prince Charles, the eldest born of his son, • the Prince Oscar, has recently keen labouring under a most serious attack of illness ; but all danger is over at this moment, when the post is on'the point of leaving."—Post. THE RIGHT HON. THE SPEAKER'S LEVEB.-011 Saturday night the Speaker of the House of Commons -held his second sessional levee, at his residence, in Eaton-square. The reception of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rather nu merous, and the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Lowther, and Sir Augustus Clifford, were among the visitors. The following Members of . the House of Commons paid their respects to the Right Hon. Cr entleman :—The Marquis of Douro, Lord Stanley ' the Right H on . W. E . Gladstone, the Jud ge Advocate-Cleneral, the Lord Advocate, Lord Charles Wellesley, Viscount Duncan, Viscount Jocelyn, Earl Jermyn, Lord Eliot, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir John Walsh, Colonel. Wood, Colonel Thomas Wood, the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, Captain Boldero, Mr. Maunsell, Mr. Prothereb, Mr. Lindsey, , Mr. John Round, Mr. Botfield, Mr, Forger, Mr. Divett, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. John Young, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Dunn Gardener, Mr. John Lowther, Mr. Bailey (He re f or d s hi re ), Mr. Tollemache (Cheshire), Sir George Staunton, Mr. Antrobus, Lord James Stuart, • Mr. Mice, Mr. Scholefield, Dr. Bowring, the Hoh. Octavius Duncombe, Mr. Collett (Athlone), Mr. Hindle y, Mr. Blackstone, Captain Taylor, Mr. B. Wilbra ham, Mr. Pakington, Mr. James (Cumberland), Mr. Elphin stone, Sir Charles Burrell, Sir John Cain Hobhouse, Mr, Wyse, Mr. Waddington, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. L. Fox, Mr. Villiers Stuart, Sir Edward, Colebrook°, Mr. Kemble, Sir Stephen Glynne, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Gill, Mr. Stanton, Right Hon. B. Macaulay, Mr. B. Hughes, Mr. C. Leigh, Mr. W. Collett, Colonel Powell, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Allix , Hon. E. Yorke, Mr. Trelawney, Mr. S. Davis, Mr. Ross (Rosstrevor), Mr. G. Craig,' Mr. J. 11. Vivian, Viscount Ebrington, Mr. Tufnell, Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Wawn, Mr. C. Douglas, Mr. Estcourt, Mr. Shirley (Warwickshire), Mr. Ward, Mr. thistle, Lord Wortley, Lord Acheson, Hon. Colonel D. Dainer, Viscount Howick, Mr. Martin, Colonel Fox, Sir G.' Grey, Mr. Rashleigh; Mr. Stewart (Lymington), Mr. Ald ham, Hon, J. B. Wortley, Mr. Hawes, Hon. W. B. Baring, Lord . }reward, Sir John Mordaunt, Mr. Acland, Sir William 'lleathcote, Mr. Thornely, Mr. Greene, Mr. W. 0. Stanley, Mr. A. Chapman, Mr. Lyall, Mr. • Beresford, Sir Charles Lemon, Mr. Grogan, Lord Harry Vane, the Hon. W. Cowper, COlneel Rawdon, Mr. Bellew, Mr, Raikes Currie, and Mr. Wilshire. Previous to the levee the Right Hon. Gentletnan entertained Viscount GriniSton, Viscount NeWport, Lord Alfred Hervey, Sir T. Dyke Acland, Bart-, 'Mr. Beckett Denison, Sir Charles Knig.htley, - the Hon. - Colonel Rice Trevor, Mr. Darby, the Hon. Captain Maxwell, Mr. A. Hodgson, the Hon. Francis Charteris, Mr. W. Beckett, Captain Jones, Mr. B. Estcourt, Mr. Neeld (Chippenham), Mr, J. A. Smith, Mr. Thesi ger , M r. G . A. Ham . ilton, Mr. Motickton Milnes, Mr. W. Hamilton, Mr. Henley, Mr. Mundy, Mr. Hope Johnstone, Mr. C. Round, and Mr. J. Bailey (Worcester), at dinner. Sir Robert - and Lady Peel received the Duches - s of Excellency ßight Ma hon, Lord Meadowbank, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Ben- I B i u um eci m eu e c la h u ' e i r l , is the Mr. Everett,• M. and Madame Hon. H. H o bh ouse , Viscount jamm Brodie, -Professor &Wen, Sir him Pelly, Mr. Sydney Smirk, the Right Hon: John Wilson Croker, harry, Mr. Eastlake, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. W.• R. Hamilton, &c., at dinner, on Saturday last, at the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens. - Lady Peel had a soiree after the enter tainment, when the splendid picture • gallery and connecting saloons were thrown - open for the reception of a brilliant circle, including his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire; the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langs dorfF, Earl, and Countess of - Jeriey, Marquis and Mar chioneSs of BlanclFord, Ladv Louisa Churchill, Sir Henry and 'Lady Emily and Miss - liardinge, Countess of Verulam and Lady Jane Griniston, Viscount Griinston, the Earl of Aberdeen, his. Excellency 'Baron 'Hugel, the lion. Captain Maxwell, M.P., Mr. Temline, M.P. M a d em oiselle D'Este, Vis Count .Castlereagh, Baron Iljornstjerna, Earl Jermyn, Lord Alfred Hervey, -Viscount and Viscountess • Canning, Sir James' and Lady Graham, his Excelleridy the Ball!. rian. Minister and Baroness de • Cetto, Sir George" And Lady Seymour and I.liis Seymour, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, M.P., Mr. G. Hope, . the Hon.. Francis and Lady Anne Charteris, Captain Peel, Captain A'Court, M.P., Mr. R. Ne ville, M.P., Mr. M. Milnes, M P., his Excellency the Vene zuelan Minister,' Mr, Stafford O'Brien, M.P„ the Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson, his Excellency the Turkish Am bassador, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, Mr. Benjamin D'l srae li, M.P., and Mrs. D'lsraeli, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, Lady Fuller, his Excellency the Russian Minister and • Baroness Brunnow, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Mrs. and Misses Smith, Mr. Stephenson, Mr A'Court, Viscountess Beresford, Mr. A. and Lady Mildred Hope, his -Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Sir George Murray, Lord Redesdale and Hon. Miss Mitford, Ladies Murray, -Sir George and Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk, Baron Koller, .Earl of Lincoln, Mr. W. Beckett, M P., Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, paron Lehzeltern, Lord and Lady Brougham, Mr. T.- Egerton, M.P., Colonel Thomas Wood, Lord Charles Wellesley, his ; Excellency the .Brazilian. Mi nister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency Count Pol lon, 11Ir. Cochrane, M.P., Lord- and Lady Granville Somer set and Hon. Miss Somerset, Lord Byron, Lord Ernest Bruce, liOn. Charles-Murray, -Mr. and . Mrs.,Anson, his 'Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van der Weyer. NATIONAL. ANIMALS' FRIEND SOCIETY. —This So ciety has - been -particularly active during the-past week. Its officers have prosecuted upwards- of thirty cases •of heart rending cruelty in London; Dab's?, Nottingham, She ffi eld, Leeds, Worcester, Birmingham, C oventry, Brighton, Rich mond, &c. Radcliffe and 138 F took into custody 'the driver of Starkie's dust-cart for ill-treating and torturing a horse which was overladen, and severe wounds under the harness—fined 20s. by Mr. Twyford. Also John Wall, for a similar offenee ; the horse- had a wound on its back, eight inches in circumference--fined lOs by Mr. Greenwood, at Clerkenwell. They also-charged Thomas Wilde, a cab-driver, 'with ill-treating and torturing a horse atnight—fined 20s. and costs by Mr. Bond, at Queen-square ; he was alsci fined 20s. for working with a false badge. Mr. Thomas G. Plume and Mr. 11. M. May Charged John Walters, before Alderman Hughes, for cruelly torturing a horse, and working, without a badge— he was fined 10s. Mr. Thomas Plume and Mr. H. M. May, i in ssu st ed thi a e gainst his m as t er (Sj r also charged Samuel Hardwick (groomto Sir Si mon Cl arke, Bart.), for cruelty, in wh pping a horse whi gr ch o li o a m d , se b v u e t re d wounds under the collar. Mr. Rawlinson did not think th at a case - of tchruaetlttwo summonsesyhadbeenmadsehoolfttltdabgea Simon), who; at the time, was driving the horse, but resisted the officer, and escaped. Bailey, assisted by Sergeant Goss, 1 F, took into custody a man in the employ of Mr. Jones, of Walworth, for driving a horse in an - unfit condition to work-- he was fined 40s. and costs.; and Mr. Twyford ordered the horse to be taken care of until it was well.—(From a Cor respondent.) - • . EXPORTS TO BRAzir..—The following return of the declared value of British and Irish produce and manufac tures, exported from the United Kingdom to Brazil in . the years 1841, 1842, and 1843, has just b een .pr i nted. The gross total declared value of our exports to • the em pire of - Brazil was, in 1841, 2,556,554/. ; in 1842, 1,756,805/. ; and in 1843, 2,140,1271. ; showing a decisiye revival of our trade 'with' Brazil during the past year. ' In the latter Period (1843) cotton manufactures figured fbi 1 ,096,669/. (or one-half of the total. eXports).- ' haidwares and • Cutlefy, for 80,070/. ; linen manufactures, for 154,323/. ; iron and steel for . 54,996/. ; butter, for 64,294/. ; brassand copper ma nu factures, • for 36,815/. ; arms. and ammunition, for 18,155/. ; apparel, slops, and haberdashery, for 20,2821. coals, &c., for 9,396/ . ; , earthenware, for 46,461 /.; glass, for 27,4 , 371.:; leather, w roug ht mid unwrought, r , for 23,39pL ; machinery and m ill work, for r y,-„342/. • BQap 40;.4ridIts, fir . F„Bl2l. ; silk manufactures, Ide - 30,4b3f. ; ' tifF-And 'll ' Wter iyare; &C., 'far 11; 1 118/ . - - and woollen manufactures, for 278,171/. The exports of cotton manufactures increased last year by 27771391. , •r "T- •T+ Gi- MARC. - 11 - 41, 1844, THREE-AND-A-lIALF PER CENTS. REDUCTION. --- - - - (From the Times Money Market Article, Saturday.) Mr. Gottlbnrn's plan for the redaction of the Three-and-a- Half per Cents., announced in the House of Commons last night, has had the singular good fortune of encountering little or nothing in the 4hape of objection in the City. There were very many who anticipated that he would be tempted to a less liberal course—that, through the desire of a larger immediate saving, he would have adopted from sonie of his predecessors, the bad principle of saddling posterity with a larger amount of debt; or that, in his eagerness to make as good a bargain as possible, he would have limited the term of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent.. Stock to five instead of ten years. Both of these he has judiciously avoided, and thus has been able to put forward a scheme of the success of which no doubt is felt in any quarter. Political agitation in any part of the world might, it is true, interpose difficulties; but as the time for giving notice of dissent, as regards this country, is so extrem e ly s h ort, only extending over the next fortnight, the risk on that score is very small indeed. Resi dents abroad, to whom a longer time for dissent is necessarily allowed, constitute so small a proportion of the whole, that they need hardly be taken into the account. There is ne circumstance connected with the project of the Chancellor of the Exchequer that has given more satisfac tion than his intimation that it has not been thought neces- , sary to make any arrangement with the Barik to provide•for possible dissentients to a large amount. ' Unlike the last Adininistration, who were perfectly helpless in financial matters, because they never took their measures wisely, and had no funds to support them, the Treasury have now a large balance in hand, and need be dependent on no external aid. At all times this is a most material power to possess, but it is especially so at a period when the Bank is to be called before the public to treat for a renewal of its exclusive privileges. As a practical commentary upon Mr. Goulburn's measure, it may be stated that as he offers in exchange for the present Three-and-a-Half per Cents.,- and from October next, a Stock bearing interest at 3i per tent. for ten years, and 3 per cent. afterwards, with guarantee against further reduction for twenty years more, this may be considered the same as giving 3 per cent. at once, with guarantee for thirty years agains/ further reduction, and a bonus of per cent. for ten yeark Estimating, theli, the rate of interest on Government Secu rities at 3 per cent., the present value of ss. per annum, for ten years, is 2/. 2s. Bd., which is the equivalent in money offered as a bonus ; in addition to- which must be considered the value of the guarantee for thirty years, which cannot be precisely calculated, though evidently worth something when the Three per Cent. Consols are at 98k. To illustrate this matter further, a person who assents, therefore, will receive 100/. in a Three per Cent. Stock, 'with an annuity. of ss. for ten years. Thus— 4E. 3. d. His Consols are now worth 9B 10 0 His Annuity Making 100 12 8 To compare this with the case of a dissentient to the con version, the latter will receive 1001. in money, with which he can buy 101/. 10s. 6d. in Three per Cent. Consols, the value of which is, of course, 100/. only; and the gain in money by assenting is, therefore, 12s. Bd. per cent. at present prices, without reference to the value of the guarantee for thirty years. As the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 stand in a somewhat different position, the terms of the original con tract with Government requiring that they- rhould be paid off in sums of 500,0001. at a time, and that upon six months' notice previously given, a different market value will pro bably be created for that Stock. The extent of the advan tages which it possesses over the other descriptions of Three and- a-Half per Cent. Stock consists in the longer period in which the 3i per cent. may be received, but at the expira-' tion of the ten years fixed for the duration of the Three-and a-Quarter per Cents., or probably much earlier, all will be in the same situation. A broker of experience has stated to us that the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. of 1818 may be worth under these circumstances about 1 per cent. more than the others. It is not easy to comprehend exactly the mode by which a reduction of 500,0001. at a time, and by a notice of six months for each, is to be effected. If one notice is to expire before a new one is given, the whole operation, as the stock is 10,000,000/., will extend over ten years ; but means may probably be found of accelerating the process without any breach of the original contract. The proposal of Mr. Goulburn to equalise the amount of dividends payable in each quarter of the year is one which has also given entire satisfaction, and will have consequences, apart from the present question of a mere reduction of in terest, full of future benefit to the country. If there should be, in connexion with this arrangement, a sound and judi cious course pursued in regard to the privileges of the Bank of England—a question which must closely follow this now under consideration—the term " panic" may fall into disuse and be forgotten, and the trade of the country subside into a permanently safe and healthy state. It is understood that notices of dissent may be given, as in all former cases, at the chief cashier's-office at the Bank, but no official intimation of it has up to this time been made. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. TIMES.—The remittances from Mexico by the Forth on account of the dividend gmount to 90,500 dolls. from Vera Cruz, and 40,000 dolls. from Tampico, making together 130,500 dolls. This is the largest amount hitherto sent at one time, and shows an improvement in the receipts at the Custom-houses. Messrs. Lizardi, in pursuance of the pro mise made some time ago to the Spanish American Commit tee, have formally announced that they are prepared to pay the remaining half of the dividend due last October. The accounts to the Committee further state, that a balance of 193,000 dolls. remains still to be paid to the dividend fund in Mexico by the merchants. The United Mexican Mining Company have received re mittances amounting to 11,000 dolls., and also an intimation that the contract with the Sardaneta family is renewed for eight years. This has improved the value of their shares to 4a to Real del Monte, unregistered, are flatter at sto A dividend of four-and-a-half per cent. has been declared for the half-year on the shares of the Sheffield and Rother ham Coinpany, the balance of profits divisible among the shareholders being 3,694/. 6s. 7d., the receipts having amounted to 8,938/. 13s. 9d., and the expenditure to 5,241/. 75. 2d. The jobbing of the Directors in this Company creates rather an angry feeling between themselves and the shareholders, the latter of whom do not hesitate to speak out boldly on the subject. At the meeting of the Dublin and Drogheda Railway, the announcement was made that the line will be opened for traffic next May. The works are proceeding rapidly to com pletion, and from the tenor of the Report and speeches made, it appears low fares and superior accommodation are the in ducements which the Directors hold out to secure the patron age of the public. The Report of M. Mallet, the Inspector-General of Public Works in France, has just appeared on the subject of the At mospheric Railway, and it strongly recommends the French Government to select a line to adopt the system and fully test the practical utility of the invention. Concluding his inquiry on the subject, he says— " I am, doubtless, far from having carried conviction into the minds of my readers that the atmospheric system can be applied to lines whatever their length. The question is not yet in so advanced a state, but it is sufficient that the suc cess of the application of it to such cases appears probable to render the system worthy of peculiar attention on the part of the ,Administration. Admitting the equality of the two sys tems in the expense of construction, the atmospheric has an incontrovertible advantage over the locomotive system in that of working. I have sought to estimate that advantage, but its existence was self-evident, from the absence of those enormous monsters, 'the locomotive and tender, Which fre quently form the third part—sometimes half—the weight to be moved, and in the movement of which an inclination com paratively slight absorbs the whole power produced. Another advantage which could not be taken into consideration in the preceding calculation is that of speed. On the present system its cost is well kithwn. On atmospheric railways it would be (so to speak) created beforehand, by the pneumatic apparatus. lam aware that in France time has not the value which it possesses in England, but the very use of rapid means of transit will teach us to appreciate it. How can, we now compare the diligence with railways ? I shall not recur to the other advantages of the atmospheric system. I think I have dwelt on it sufficiently to induce the requisite trial, which I ask in concluding this report. The method of exe cution, the localities, are for the choice of the Administra tion. If a decision conformable to my preposition be arrived at, it will remain to draw up a programme of the conditions to be satisfied." The atmospheric principle is attracting much attention at the present time, and it should be mentioned that during the debate at the Croydon meeting very satisfactory testimony was given of its utility, and of the assistance it would afford to a reduction of expenditure on that line if it could be brought into operation. THE SPITALFIELDS WEAVERS. THE TRICKS OF THE ANTI-LEAGUE .ASSOCIATION.—OR Saturday night, at nine o'clock, a numerous meeting of the Broad-silk Hand-loom Weavers' Union was held at the Crown and Ascher, Waterloo-town, to agree to a memorial to the Board of Trade for the purpoSe of ascertaining if the silk trade was to be included in the Commission appointed to in- quire into the . state of the cotton-spinners, and also to receive communications in reference to the late proceedings of the Anti-League Association. Mr. Le May in the chair. Mr. BURROUGHS, the Secretary, having stated that at the previous meeting it was agreed that a memorial should be presented to the Board of Trade, said that one had been pre pared, which he read, and which it was unanimously resolved should be forthwith communicated, the purport of it being to know if the Spitalfields weavers were to be included in the Commission of Inquiry into the State of the Cotton-spinners, lately appointed by her Majesty's Government. The CHAIRMAN then called upon the Secretary to give the meeting information relative to the Anti-League Association, to which he and a weaver named Sherrardhad been appointed delegates, when the Secretary, having stated that . his col league would giire an account of the - proteedings, as far as they were concerned with the League, - Mr. SIIERRARD said, that according to an arrangement with Mr. N. Doran Maillard, who attended the last meeting of the weavers, he and the secretary met the committee of the Anti-League Association on the Monday evening, about five o'clock. Mr. N. D. Maillard and a few gentlemen were there. After speaking upon the business about to come before the meeting, - he mentioned to him that he and the secretary had been requested' to appear there to support the resolutions, that they had lost nearly two days, and that it was but just they should be• paid for their time. Mr. D. Maillard then took a half-sovereign from his pocket, which he gave to him, and remarked that he had no money in his pocket to remunerate the secretary, but that he should hea from him on Tuesday morning. The secretary, however, has never heard anything of his half-sovereign.—(Loud laughter.) He then stated that while in the committee-room - a lette was put in his hand by Mr. Maillard, who at the same tint charged him with having been instrumental in getting th Chartists to attend the meeting. [The speaker read the letter, which was written by a person named Mentz, one of the members of the council of the ChartistS, and was ad dressed to Mr..Mailltird. The purport of it was that it was the intention of the Chartists to be early at the meeting, and to appoint their own chairman, and that the 'class leaders had obtained a large quantity of tickets, which were dis tributed very extensively. A committee of three persons had been' appointed to draw up resolutions to oppose the Anti- League Association, and to propose an amendment in favour of the principles : of the Charter.] They were all aw are w h a t sort of chairman was appointe , and what was the result of the meeting.—(Hear, and laughter.) Mr. BURROUGHS observed that it would be remembered by' the meeting, when Mr. N. Doran Maillard appeared.ainong them, he stated that Mr; Oastler had promised to be at the meeting of the Anti-League Association held last Monday. He wrote, in consequence, to Mr. Oastler,. for information about a fortnight-ago, but that gentleman did not receive his letter till last. Saturday. He sent an answer to it, and in, that letter he denied that, he had promised to be present at . the meeting, observing " that whoever told you that I had. been asked to take the chair at the meeting about to be held, that I declined; but that r promised to be present—l say, w/ ,0- • ever told you so, told you that which is untrue." Seecralweavers' observed that Mt. Mallard stated that , .Mr. Oastler Would he:AC:the meeting, a nd that Ile was ask , II to lako4hovehitii. -• ti 9 " 2 ' • Mr. BURROUGIIS then proceeded to state that Mr. Oastler had forwarded copies of two communications, whiOh were ._ sent to hiM fromtht Anti-League Associatiory,Ad which had the signature of Mr. Maillard, in which it was 'alleged that great success had attended the exertions-of thrl:eague ; that shoemakers, cork cutters, silk weavers, and other trades, had given their support, and'that branch associations:were in the course of formation, and Mr. (*tier was invited to attend. [He read the letter from Mr. Oastler; in which he remarked, "My Weak.'statelof body and excited state of mind 'render it guite.impOssible to accent your kind invitation."] He con cluded. b saying, that had thiletter from Mr. Oastler and the cornmrunications of the Anti-League Association to him been received in time, they , wouldhave exposed the attempt to impose upon the working. classes, by ; that body.—(Hear.) Mr .HMIRY said that the weavers ought to show their opi nion of the cOndrict of the Anti-League Aiiociation. He proposed that copies of the letters from Mr. Oastler be sent to Mr. Maillard, with some severe remarks upon his conduct, and that the weavers pay the Secretary his expenses for at tending on theAriti:League Association. Mr. MAtelys, in 'seconding the resolution, observed that the only object of the Anti-League Association was to get the assistance of. the working classes to put down the Anti- Corn-law League.• Mr. Maillard had intimated to that effect. Ile also believed that, when the agitation had ac complished what the Anti-League Association wanted, that nothing would be done for them.—(Hear, hear.) 'He thought the meeting on Monday night was got up by the landed in terest; but as he believed the interests of the working classes were not considered, he was glad of the failure.—(Cheers.) Several other weavers addressed the chair, when the reso lution was agreed to unanimously, and at twelve o'clock the meeting-separated. , CENTRAL CRI4INAL COURT. SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS. Subjoined is given all the principal sentences, as passed at the session - which terminated on Saturday. For Life—Jeremiah Murray. For Fifteen Years—T. Smith. For Ten Years—J. Foxeroft, T. Dearlove, 11. Stack, F. Murray, Esther Borastor, J. Cohen, T. Wilks, T. Punn, T. Smith, W. Batten, T. Edwards, A. Beavis, and C. F. Bruce. For Seven Years—Jane Curtis, May Stewart, W. Green, B. M'Carty, J. English, F. Mason, W. Jones, T. Bailey, G. Martin, J. Coning, T. Murray, and C. Laws. . The undernamed were ordered to los imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the houses of correction for the counties where their offences were committed, for the following terms : For Two Years—T. Brown. " For Eighteen Months—Daniel may and T. Smith. For One Year—Ellen Wood, Ann Ward, Elizabeth White, Elizabeth Trussett, Sarah Young, Charlotte Collins, T. Walkinshaw, T. Battings, B. Hill, T. Beard, T. Bening, J. Smith, E. Crundell, H. Axums, W. Brown, J. Bartlett, B. Law, and T. White. For Nine Months—T. White, W. Lawler, T. Brown, and T. Smith. For Six MOnths—Mary Smith, Louisa Smith, E. M'Carty, Ann Tedder, Elizabeth Fenkins, Mary A. llefferen, :7.1. Adams, Eli za b e th Williams, ane Wood gate, E. Smith, Mary Ann Briant, E. Dipnell, 'Mary Ann Wood, Christiana Robinson, Esther Tye, T. Bar nett, C. Powell, J. Collins, G. Johnson, J. Parsons, J. Watkins, T. Murphy, T. M'Carty, C. Wright, D. Tur ner, G. Ward, C. Ellis, T. Newman, T. Darke, W. Davis, W. Long, C. Carr, T. S m ith, W. S m ith, E. Freeth, J. Long, J. Brown, G. Hull, M. Gimorgham, T. Johnson, J. Cundy, J. Muggeridge, and H. Hale. For Four Months—H. Atkins, Elizabeth Death, T. Felstead, Jane Mary W a lt er , Mary Ann Hill, Ann Walter, Ann Williams, J. Warren, G. Smith, S. Furr, F. Glossett, T. Bassett, 3. G. Reynolds, Ball, T. Doyle, and W. Holt. For Three Months—Mary C. Smith, Mary A. Smith, Mary V. Creed, Eliza Murphy, Amelia Lemon, Jane Wright, Mary Ann Nokes, Mary Adams, Mary Jenkins, Catherine Keleher, Mary Jenkins, Hannah Lennan, Eliza T. Riley, P. Wallace, W. Jackson, J o h n F e l stea d , J. Atkinson, J. Robertson Frost, C. Brown, G. Bird, W. Coffee, and to.be twice whipped; F. Dodson, J. Parrott, J. Nicholls, J. Keeley, C. W. Taylor, J. Reggie, J. Ed wards, W. Jennings, J. Green, J. French, J. Dart, J. Geary, W. Ford, J. Smith, J. Tulk, R. Jones, C. Hayes, and W. Drake. For Two Months—Elizabeth Johnson, Maria Perce val, Mary Buckley, Sarah Jones, Jane Nash, J. Horton, 11. Flynn, Esther Potter, Elizabeth Gabriel, G. Thomp son, W. Noble, J. Foster, J. Ward, and J. Horcup. The following are Minor Judgments and Recapitula tion of the Calendar :—Transportation for the term of natural life, 1 ; ditto, fifteen years, 1 ; ditto, ten years,, 14 ; ditto, seven years, 12 ; imprisonment and hard labour for two years, 1 ; ditto, eighteen months, 2 ; ditto, one year, 17 ; ditto, nine months, 4 ; ditto, six months, 43 ; ditto, four months, 15 ; ditto, three months, 38 ; ditto, two months, 14 ; ditto, six weeks, 1 ; ditto, one month, 11 ; ditto, three weeks, 2 ; imprisonment without labour, under fourteen days, 7 ; discharged by proclamation, 8 ; acquitted, 49 ; judgment respited upon , 6 • fined and dischar ge d, 2 ; p r i vate l y whipped, 3 • traversed and remanded 5 ; ac qui tt e d on t h e ground dinsanity, 1; ',discharged by consent, 2; pleaded guilty, 28 • surrendered, 5 ; bailed, 3. The Court at its rising adjourned to Monday, the Bth of April next. FLANDERS MAIL. 311TIRRELS, MARCH B.—The Senne rose yesterday to its greatest height. The causeway of Lacken, that is the new royal road, was again under water. We do not remember to have seen so many successive inunda tions as this year. This is the sixth time this winter that the Senne has overflowed its banks. Most of the manu factories on the banks'of this river have ceased work for more than six successive weeks. The Chamber entered yesterdy on the discussion of the project oflaw relative to the repayment and the conversion of the loan of 100,800,000 francs. The Minister of Fi nance begun by showing that the remonstrances of some French capitalists were unfounded. He afterwards gave the formal assurance that it was not correct that the nego tiations with Holland for the reimbursement of a capital of eighty millions of florins were already much advanced. After some observations of M. Corswarren, whe' pro posed the conversion should be into Four per Cent. Stock ; and of Messrs. Hoffschmidt and Cogels, who defended thelproject of the Central Section, CoUnt Meeus spoke, and was listened to with great attention. He approved of the principle of the proposed measure, and thought that the Government had perhaps shown excessive caution in contenting itself with a conversion into Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock, when the state of our credit would have allowed it to attempt a conversion into Four per Cent- Stock. After some. further remarks by different Mem bers, the general discussion was closed, and the first article, authorising the reimbursement, was unanimously agreed to by the seventy-two members present. The second article, fixing the conversion into Four and-a-Half per Cent. Stock was agreed • to, M. Cors • warren's amendment Of Four per Cent. stock being re jected. The debate was then adjourned. The King gave a private audience two days , ago to the English engineers, Messrs. Cubitt and Topwith, who gave his Majesty a most satisfactory account of the result of the then examinaten of the country between the Sambre and the Meuse, .and received from his Ma jesty fresh assurances Of the interest he takes in the un dertaking which is the object of.their mission. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Biusscts, MARCU a Actual Debt, 234 per Cent., . " .... 59 Rotlischild's Loan, Five per ..... lO3 Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 99 Three per Thirty-seien Millic ns , ditto 77 (1840) lO5 Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent. 1843. 000000000 ••••••••=•••••. ••••••••••••••= 103% Society of Commerce, Four and a Ralf per Cent. Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent. ... . ...... . 61 I•sue of 1841....... ......... •••• .......... 0000000000 •••• •••• National Society Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, March 8 A USTRI AN FUNDS..—VIENNs, FEB. 28. Fire er Cents. Metalliques Four per Cent 5............... Three er Cents. 0000000000 0000000 ••••••••••••••••••• 77 Bank Shares .... •••••• 1639 4111gemeine • i...47l;ag, ' March 44 DUTCH Yu N1.).5.--AmSTERDAst, Msacu 7. None. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent 54% MI, Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.: 00000 0000000 100 100 U Amon Syndic,4% per 00000000 SAM 94, 3 4 Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent '79% tI4 , Y, Corgmercial Company, 5!,, per cent 141% 142 Loan 1837, 5 per cent. Xxchange on Londom, Onemonth.."... 00000 12 10 Two months Hamburgh, One in*rith 35 37 Two months 35 18!i Dutch Papers, March 8. lIAMBTJRGH MAIL. HAMBURGH, MARCH s.—The steamers, which left Cuxhaven yesterday morning, got up to Altoua in the afternoon, and broke . its far as possible, the ice on the river ; but about five o'clock four of them gave up the attempt, only the Darlay, Captain Draper, perse vered, when the ice stopped her passage ; he only gave way a' little, and then repeated his efforts to break through ; before he had succeeded the Hamburgh, Cap tain Brown, came up, and, by the exertions of both ves sels, the ice at Altona was broken through, and both arrived in this harbour nearly at the same time. In consequence the ice is now set afloat, and the channel here intolerably clear. The Nepean passed Blankenese at half-pait one o'clock this afternoon. PRUSSIAN, FUNDS._BZALIN, Maacn 5. Bills. Money St, Schuld Sch., 4 per cent. lOl% 101% P r ussian English Ponds, P 330, 1 per cent. 10114 Exchange on lindon - 6 24% Prussian State Gazette. March 6 HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, MARCH 5. Austrian 5 per Cents. . 113 112% Rank Shares Anglo-Russian Loan 16C5 1 Russian 5 per Cent., I s t ser i es, Certificate 105% 12 % 105 Inscription, Ist series lO5 • Russian a per Cent. H ope and Co., 3d and 9th Series —99 K, Ditto in Certificates qg New 4 per Cent. (1840) 1)1 91 1 4 Dutch Actual Debt, ' 2% per Cent. 54% Ditto 5 per Cent.....,.. Polish Bonds A. ‘•••••;••• ..... •••• New Tickets. ...... . ............. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cop t...».«....»..... 81 ' Spanish, New 5 per Cents. IBN 18% PosT-orricE.—The following notice was issued on Saturday at St. Martin's-le-Grand :—" The Postmaster- General having nove ascertained that an overland post exists between Sydney, New South Wales, and Port Philip, all letters and newspapers pOsted hereafter addressed to any of the towns in the settlement of Port Philip will he sent by packet to Sydney, unless specially mentioned 'by private ship.' Letters not so marked will be charged with the pack e t rate of a nd newspapers. will be sent free Of postage. This regulation does not apply to letters and newsp a p ers addressed to'the other British colonies in Australia, Van Dieman's Land, South Australia, Western Australia, nor to New Zea land.-.—By command, W. L. htaberly, Secretary." ENdLISH OPERA HousE.--The Keuleys, Wil mot (late of Drury-lane - Theatre), 'and Mr. Strutt, a lawyer, 'are the parties who have taken the English - Opera House: Following the example of Madame Vestris, -whose -theatrical nianagemilt:s4as always been so popular, Mrs. Keeley will, it. is said, be the ostensible manager. Mr. Wilmot undertakes the duties of stage ‘diretpi.... Some. engagements have been already made witqi i'aVourite perfotmers,, 4nd.4thers are istkokeia of, which show that the new - feA6t4s - tti'e 4h : tithed CV commence their undertaking with a spirit of liberality which, if persevered in, must unquestionably command success.-- Sunday Times. IRELAND. THE PR,ESBYTERIANS,—Ve:IVIDABLE 'AGITATIOA:" •- • 9 - DUBLIN Banc: itrt:y:n.,roloiniYcptii held formidableettioend if a o, n arr o l t mi li am e ee r character., ' The Belfast News Letter Bm tt teoorngsba e is aliTsitie‘tl u ta t s.g ed ee'sn f eo o rf r lE h tl i l th egm , e an liofc d asl w illin b ui e si n : s t e a n n t e e o r us s i c i o t - h o e p co-operation p ti the power and influence of the Methodists, the Independents, the Baptists, and the Presbyterians of England are considered, to say Malting of the Free and V o l untary Churches of Scot land, and a similar system of co-operative agency goin g for ward in Ireland, it is impossible to overlook the tremendous results Which a combination so extensive may bring about. We look with deep regret to the causes which have produced this terrible alienation amongst Protestants; but our hope is,. that, out of the mass of threatened evils ultim a t e goo d w il l be educed. Much will depend upon the liberal spirit in which the question shall be dealt with by the Government." In the progress of the Presbyterian agitation the Esta blished Church of Ireland will not be forgotten. "It is very likely," says the Banner of Ulster, " that the impolicv and the outrageous extravagance of endowing one man with an income of • 23,0001. .annually may be asserted before large audiences, at many meetings in Ireland during the present month. The 'system that permits it may be styled impolitic and anti-Chtistlaii." THli PRESBYTERIAN MARRIAGE QUESTION. MEETING OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Yesterday,'att;elveo ; c 7 loci, a s Y pecial meeting of the Irish General Assembly was held in the Presbyterian Meeting house, May-street, Belfast. The Moderator, the Rev. Dr. Stewart, took the chair. The Moderator stated that the previous special meeting of Assembly had been adjourned till the present time, in order that they might know the decision of the Lords in the mar riage case. It appeared that three of the great law Lords had declared in favour of them (the Presbyterians), and three against them. In this state of affairs, the Presbyterians were virtually defeated-4hey might consider the verdict against them. lie stated that he had sent forward, to Lord Lynd hur.it, the reselutions agreed to at the former special meeting of Assembly ; and he read his Lordship's answer, acknow ledging the receipt of the same. A Committee was then appointed to prepare resolutions, and the Assembly adjourned till seven in the evening. The Assembly resumed at seven o'clock, when the clerk read the following resolutions : " 1, That, it being the duty and privilege of the Church, inall time of peril and perplexity, to take counsel of God, this Assembly, in consequence of the attempt Which is being mode to denude her ministers of the privileges they have hitherto enjoyed, in the solemnization of marriage, thereby denying their pastoral character, appoint the last Wednes day in March instant a day -of special religious exercise, in all her-congregations, when our ministers are recommended to preach sermons suitable to the occasion. " 2. That, inasmuch as it has been declared, by judges and eminent lawyers, that marriages solemnized between Ppiseo palians mid Presbyterians, by Presbyterian ministers, are invalid. in consequence of Presbyterian ministers not being prelatically ordained=-an adjudication which conveys a stigma upon the Presbyterian bodY, constituting one-half of the Protestants of the world, and which deprives the Presbyte rians of Ireland of a privilege enjoyed upwards of two hun dred years—this Assembly petition the Legislature for an Act removing this stigma, and securing to the ministers Of this Church the privileges which they have hitherto exercised in the solemnisation of marriage. "3. That public meetings be held in all the towns of Ire. land, where it is practicable ; to which Protestants, of all de nominations, shall be invited, and from which petitions shall be forwarded to both Houses of Parliament. "4. That a similar petition be sent from all our congre gations. 5. That a Committee be appointed too pen a correspond ence with Evangelical Dissenters throughout the empire ; and, more especially, with the Free Church of Scotland, soli citing their sympathy and support, in a cause which involves, not only the rights of the Church, but the interests generally of Christian truth and freedom ; and that this Committee hold its first meeting to-morrow. "6. That a deputation, consisting of the Moderator, Doctor Browne, Doct or Cooke, Doctor Henry, Messrs. H. J. Dobbin, with Counsellor Gibson, John Boyd, M.P., George Matthews, and A. J. 11facrory, Esqrs., be appointed to proceed to London, to wait upon the leading Members of the (Jovern ment and the Legislature." The resolutions having been read, the Moderator called upon Dr. BnowNE,- who delivered a powerful and eloquent dis course, in the course of•which lie stated that the time for speech-making was over, and the time for action had ar rived. After a lengthened speech, during which he expressed his opinions very clearly and forcibly of the stigma cast upon the ministers of the Presbyterian Church, he called upon his brethren to come forward, to join in the struggle that was now going on, and adopt, as their motto, the cry raised in the city of Derry, on a certain memorable occasion—" No surrender." Dr. DILL, of Dublin, followed. Ile stated that they (the Presbyterians) had shown what they could suffer; but lie (Dr. bill) cautioned those who were now opposed to them, not to reckon too largely , on their capabilities of endurance. He said, that. were the Presbyterians of the north to combine with the Catholics of the south, the Government of the country could not long resist a demand that had been lately made upon it, by which it was sought to separate the two countries. He brought this forward merely as an instance why the Legislature should not look lightly on so important a body as the Presbyterians. Mr. Molyneux, Mr: Johnson, and Dr. Stewart next ad dressed the meeting, the last of whom, at the conclusion of his speech, submitted a draft of a petition to the house, which he had drawn up in the course of the day, for presentation to the House of Commons. It was unanimously adopted.—The Assembly then adjourned till the following day (Thursday). ..____ SUFFERINGS OF BLEACHERS. (From the Glasgow Saturday Evening Post and Renfrewslilre Reformer, of Saturday.) It is understood • that Mr. Wallace's motion, to have the bleaching works Scotland brought within the Factory Bill, now in progress through the House of Commons, will be brought forward by him on Monday next, and that k will have the support of Lord Ashley. Mr. P. M. Stewart, who had promised his aid to the operatives, is now in cor respondence with the master bleachers, and will support a petition to be presented by them, praying that, before le gislation,- a Government Commissioner may be appointed to inquire into the system of labour in the bleaching works The masters postponed their opposition until they saw that, through the exertions of Mr. "Wallace, the operatives were about to gain their object, and the demand at the eleventh hour for inquiry, is considered by the operatives as altogether a sham, and used merely for the purpose of delay, and thereby preventing them from obtaining an immediate redress of theirgrievance,s. The operatives made the same allegations of cruelty and oppression in their petitions to Par liament last session, and prayed for inquiry by Government, but the masters were then silent—they acquiesced in, or at least never contradicted, these allegations, and certainly they did not then invite inquiry; and it is only when the operatives are seemingly about to attain their object that their employers interfere, and, on pretence that the operatives' petitions contain somewhat exaggerated state ments of their wrongs, and that inquiry ought there. fore to be made into them before legislation, pray that the operatives' claims to legislative protection may be postponed. The delay and, the inquiry sought for by th e masters will however be useful to the operatives, and we trust they will snake out such a case as will not only secure for them public sympathy, but also a full measure of justice from the Legisla ture. We have no wish at present to enter into any detail of the evils of the system of labour in the bleaching works, but we cannot refrain from stating what has just been communi cated to us, that in a bleaching work not a great many miles from this city, and conducted by a gentleman as respectable as any in the trade, the workers were.employed for three days sue cessively last week, from 6 in the morning till 12 at night, in dryinghouses heated to 120 degrees of Fahrenheit; the ave rage hours for the whole week being sixteen per day—a length of hours and severity of labour, more than sufficient to exhaust their strength, and seriously to affect their health. This is not a solitary example of the system, and its effect upon the physical and moral condition of the workers ; and yet the masters require farther inquiry before it be interfered with. We have been amused to hear of the salutary effects produced in certain bleaching works by our public advocacy of the right of the operatives to protection from the Legislature. There has been an active setting of the works in order, preparatory, no doubt, to the visit of the Government Commissioner. Bells have been hung up to ring at meal hours—clocks set up to regulate the hours of labour—the wearing of watches by the men is not, prohibited—and, except in cases of urgency, the hours of la bour have been limited to 13, hours per day; while the kind est expressions of sympathy have been used towards the workers. This is all very well, and as it should be; and we trust that, now the reformation has begun, it will go on, and that before the "Bleachers' Protection Bill" shall have come into operation, the masters will have brought the entire system into accordance with the principles of humanity and justice. THE RACER.,---A new sporting work has just made its appearance under this title. It seems to contain all im portant matter connected with the Turf on great events about to come off; as well as those that have already done so ; it is a sort of book that has long been wanted as a safe and convenient reference, and is worthy of support on that account alone, independent of the original remarks on rac i ng i n gene ral. The Proprietor of this little work dedicates it to the " Pa trons of the Turf" in these words :—" This little work is in scribed to you. There are other publications which supply the same information as the present; but there is none in which that information is conveyed in so compact and useful a form, for constant and ready reference. It may be slipped into the waistcoat pocket, or carried in a pocket-book. It is a mere nutshell, not feather weight ; a tnultum in parro; a bijou—in plain English a gem, and may it prove one of the first water ! Measure not its utility by its miniature size ; great matters often lie in a small compass, like a pearl in an Oyster. Your patronage of this attempt to consult your con venience will proportionately stimulate the zeal of its pro prietor to make it still more worthy of your acceptance. Should it fail to deserve yo ur su pp or t, let it be consigned to its merited fate—oblivion. Some of the readers of this may recognize the hand that pens it; those who do-nbt will per haps recollect the name of LIONEL 13F,N.1A311N DARING ROBBERY AT W T il l l l ia r t l3 -B A tr N e Ks et, — Ci O ty ll , I‘ T .a h s u p s y n y g , as in o g n e enytl man from the l(i r n e g ceivers of the Drawing-office, at the Bank of England, some daring thief contrived to abstract his pocket-book from the counter, and which contained a Bank of England note. for 50/., one for 101., one for 5/. ; in gold, 2/.10:3. and in silver, 10s. 6d., with which the scoundrel got. clear off: _ SivOri is expected in town almost immediaWy. Since he left England he has been engaged in a professional tour in Holland, where he has met with great success. M. Ernst is also expected to visit London,early in the season. THE SIEGE OF JELLALARAD.—SiIver medals are at present being struck off at the Mint, for the purpose of being presented to those who were present at the siege of Jellalabad. HEROIC CONDUCT OF LIEUTENANTS CATWELL AND VAxsrrr.trtz, R.N.—On Wednesday, the 13th of December, as the men of her lifajesty's ship Agincourt were exercising aloft, one of them, unfortunately, lost his hold, and fell from the maift-yard-arm, and striking against the rigging, bounded with frightful force from the spare-topsail-yard, and fell insensible into the sea. Lieutenants Catwell and Vansittart instantly dashed overboard after him ; the former officer was, however,.from his poSition, unable to him make way against the tide and reach the sinking man ; Mr. Vansittart was nearer to him, and with almost superhuman exertions (being burdened with the whole of his uniform), saved the, poor fellow's life, supporting h • a con siderable time until boat could be lowered.—Hong-Ing Gazette. It is an interesting fact that the 39th Regiment, foremost in the late glorious victory under Sir Hugh Gough, was the first British regiment that landed in India; and that, among the mans ' distinctions which, it bears upon its colours, is Primus in • We undexstand, that Ilia "land Highness Prince Al. bert is going, during the Easter re cess , t o ma k e a short ex• cursion to the Continent, in order to visit his gild e d re l it . tions at Cobourg.—Times, , 9S, LOC I ' 81;4 . 14 ' go 17° i ~Y 19~~