The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-27 00:00:00

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The Pt esse gives the following as the official state of the French navy :—lt consists of 23 ships of the line, 29 frigati., 379-24ths of ships of the line on the stocks, and r . ,'.2411,. of frigates, 43 steam-vessels, representing a force of 7,340 horse power ; 16 or 17 of these are ready for sea at the shortest notice ; 18 steam-boats in course of construction, le trans• Atlantic steam-packets, 24 etsam packets of from 220 to 250 horse power, em ployed by the Poet-effice in carrying mails in the Levant, t 0 Alexandria, Corsica, and England.—(These vessels Ire not calculated to carry heavy guns.) The class of le amen for 1844 amounts to 122,025 men, but of this ttitee'oer only 62,000 may be regarded as able seamen. The French Government is making great improve ments in the post-office. Since the Ist of the present Month letters of value or importance can be placed under the more immediate care of the post-office functionaries, with the privilege of paying the postage before hand or hot, as may be convenient. The towns on the line of the lineen and Orleans railway have two, and in some places three deliv. ries of letters a day. The malle poste goes from Paris to Geneva in thirty-four hours, and with all this, by a careful and wise economy, the expenses have been reduced more than 320,000 f. within the last six months, without impairing the efficiency of any depart ment. Is the interior arrangement of the General Post-office in Paris some very salutary changes have also been made to insure regular attendance and despatch. The following promotions on the occasion of the battle of Isly are, says one of the I'aris journals, re rertied es certain. General Bedeau is to be made a Isieutenant-General, and is to succeed 11. R. H. the butte d'A umale as Commandant of the province of Con- Mantilla. Colonel Cavaignac, of the 32d, and Colonel Yttstif, of the Spahis, are to be Major-Generals. The Sisiss Vorort has just made a communication to the States ef a note from the French Ambassador, stating that a great number of Swiss who are utterly without the Means of subsistence are continually arriving in Algeria. The French Gavernment again desires to make known that'it does not assign lands to any persons who have not the means of cultivating them. A severe storm of thunder, accompanied with hail, has visited Marseilles, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Bayonne, and several other places in the south of France, where it has done immense damage to the vintage. The vintage this year is very plentiful, and it is said that the wine pro- Ibises to be of excellent quality. The first annual grand prize in architectural design has seen awarded by the Acadimie des Beaux Arta to Desbussons, a pupil of M. Leclerc, and the two Second prizes to M. Ledru, pupil of Messrs. Huyot and Lebas, and to M. Laisn pupil of Messrs. HUT and Lenorinand. Count Cancrin, former Minister of Finance of Russia, had arrived at Paris, where he is to spend the winter. Tho French Government is about to erect a statue of Culbert at Rheims, his native city. The German papers announce the accession of Bohemia to the German Customs' Union fur a period limited to Eve years, and attach great importance to the event, as completing the Zollverein on the east. The sixth scientific congress of Italy is now going on It Milan, and appears to be a very brilliant one. At the first general meeting of the society at the Palace of tirera, which has been set aside by the Austrian Go vernment for its use, the statue of the celebrated Cava lier', the Galileo of Milan, was inaugurated. The Vice e°3' of Italy was present, Count Borromeo presided, and al. Piola pronounced the introductory discourse. The meeting then divided itself into seven sections, which are Presided over respectively by the Chevalier Moris, Count Sainbuy, M. Hasini, Prince Charles Bonaparte, M. ?lobe, M. Taddei, and M. Puccinotti. The celebrated Professor Orioli, against whom the Pontifical Govern ment shut the gates of Padua, has been allowed to attend the meeting at Milan. A letter from Jassy, Sept. 4, says:—" Our country a lso is about to have its railroads. Prince Stourdza, ' , rho has invested capital in almost all the great rail roads of Germany, intends getting one constructed from Zurin, on the frontier of Austrian Gallicia, to Gal 'at; situated at the conflux of the Pruth and the Danube, 50 as to pass through the whole of Moldavia, and to f orm the prolongation of that which the States of Gal licia are getting executed from Oewieczyn (where one of the branches of the northern line of the Emperor y Ferdi . sand is to end) to the frontier of Moldavia. The Cologne Gazette states that the grand deputation appointed by the Senate and burghers of Hamburgh to decide on the question of the treaties for the navigation of the Elbe has recommended their ratification. The Grand Council of the Valais, in its last sitting, adopted the new constitution by a majority of 53 votes ; but the first vote is reserved for the declaration of the primary assemblies, which are convoked for the 20th of next month. The celebrated Professor Hugo, of' Gottingen, died the 16th inst., in the 79th year of his age. LAW AND Poraces. A man named Chanceller had his petition dismissed th e Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday, because he bad not accounte d in his schedule for 12/. which he had t , l ' e ccived ust efore filin his etition. It appeared that had pad his attorney 5/ of the money. An adjourn went was asked to enable him to sell his excepted arti cles and pay the 121. into Court. The application was I r cfused by Mr. Commissioner Evans, who observed these cases are a shameful robbery, sought to be committed under the new Act, which I believe very few people can !xactly comprehend, but, such as it is, its operation would ue atill worse if I granted your application. Mr. William Thompson, a brush-manufacturer, re ?iding at Kentish Town, was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for a certain nuisance, caused by erecting a s ulphur -house for bleaching bristles and dying wood on his premises, at Kentish Town, in the parish of St. Pan eras; and also for manufacturing varnish, fancy soap, and other chemical combinations, thereby endangering the lives o f th e i n h a bitants of that part of the neighbour hood, by inhaling the noxious vapours p r o c eeding from the said premises. The trial lasted several hours, and at half-past eleven o'clock the jury returned a verdict of 'lot Guilty. At Guildhall on Wednesday, a boy, twelve years old • tutrned James Smith, was brought before Sir Peter Laurie. charged with stealing a rabbit. Mrs. Berkley, f rom whom the rabbit had been stolen, said that the pri soner was a poor neglected boy, and that she charged nine with the offence not to get him punished, but to sav e him, because he was a clever, industrious, civil boy, . knout to be lost because he was neglected. If there was an asylum to which poor neglected orphan children could be sent, she was sure no fitter object could be r°,iind. There being a vacancy in the House of Occupa tion near Bedlam, Sir Peter signed an order for his ad- Mission, and the boy was discharged, and taken to his futur e home by his benefactress. Maria Bayliss was fully committed from Clerkenwell charged with stealing a silver spoon and a silver fork, the Proper of Mr. Augustus Ironmonger, a clerk in the house of Messrs. Rothschild, St. Swithin's-lane. At Marlborough-street Abraham Myers, of Off court, in the Strand, was charged with having deliberately stabbed with a large butcher's knife Robert Clayard, the Lropri etor o f th e White Bear livery-stables, Lisle-street, eice s t er - sq b are . The wounded man being unable to attend to give evidence, the prisoner was remanded until Saturday. The affray originated in a public-house luarrel. Mr. George Beck, a solicitor of Lincoln's Inn-fields, andwhose private residence is at No. 19, Elm-tree - road, 13 t. John's-wood, appeared before Mr. Rawlinson, at A larylebone, upon a warrant, which had been placed in the hands of Whipp, the officer, charging him with having committed a violent assault upon Mr. Josiah Clowes, a painter and glazier, residing at No. 28, Tho mee-street, Oxford-street. The defendant had, it ap -I)eared, broken his umbrella over the complainant's h ead, being thereunto provoked by the complainant "wrin g kicked hi, little boy. The co nplainant de nied the kicking, but admitted that he had pushed the ' 4 °Y away because he had daubed some paint, at which the complainant was at work. It also appeared that C otriplainant had, while defendant was plying his um brella, returned the compliment with his paint brush, and Painted defendant's whiskers white. As there was much c onflicting testimony the magistrate left the complainant to go to the session if he thought fit. James Lewis, a journeyman shoemaker, and Sarah !layman, alias Lewis, a young woman with whom he lied cohabited charged with having deserted their male itlfant, six weeks old, which had since died in the ev orklestise attached to the Stepney union, at Wapping, 'were fully committed for Several men belonging to the British Legion, late in the service of the Queen of Spain, applied at Lambeth etreet for assistance. They had huge stints due from the ‘l)anisli Geverninent, but ct mid not get their claims liqui date,], and were starving. Mr. Henry observed that I"lnething must be done in the case, and requested Mr. 'inehes to relieve them in his parish, and he would send an officer with the others to their respective parishes to (10 something for their future relief. ilOtroZir Th e Duke of Wellington is expected to leave Walmer C,tstle early in the week after uext t . or Apsley House, eh route to participate in the approaching splendid fes tivities at Windsor Castle, in honour of the visit of his I\l4 .lesty the King of the French. The Marquis and INI e arehiones s o f D ouro h sv arrived at the Castle from s tour or six wicks in Germany, and shortly come to t ' l wn to att en d t h e nupt i a l s o f h er L a d ys hip' s cous i n , , gss Hope V. Lord Loftus, eldest son of the arquis of Ely, which are fixed to take place the week after [text. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and Lady Au gusts Sornsrset are ixpceted to return to Arlington street from Badminton on Tuesday next, for a day or j; 0 . The alliance between Lady Augusta Somerset and of lcieumaan is expe c t e d to t a ke pl a c e in the course (h the ensuing month. The vox. ages Countess of Pembroke and the Earl • .1 1 1 , 11 (1 Countess of Clanwilliam, who are making a tour in many,are not expected to return home until e a rly in Nov ember. th l s he Count ess o f Gl engall and family are prolonging ' l r sojourn at Brighton. The Noble Earl is in Ireland. y The Earl a n d C ountess of E ldon, an d the youthful • • r_ y les Scott, w h o are on a vis i t to the Dowager Lady :vs eraham, on the West Cliff, at Scarborough, are not 91 Pftted to return to Hamilton-place until the end of the ensuing month, en route to Encombe Hall, Dorset, for the winter. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury have arrived on a visit to the Countess of Newburgh, at Slindon House, Sussex, from the Duke and Duchess of Somerset's villa, at Wimbledon. _ . The Earl of Gosford, who has been on a tour of the German spas, has returned t this country. The Earl of Clare has returned to Mount Shannon, from the seaside. _ _ _ Viscount Morpeth has joined the distinguished party assembled at Inv,rary Castle, on visits to the Duke and Duchess of Argyll, from Castle Howard, Yorkshire. Viscount Clifden has left Lady Dover's residence, at Whitehall, for this Continent. The Noble Viscount inteAs to remain abroad until next summer. z~zxg Some time since an account appeared of an intention on the part of the Government to form a police establish ment at Hong-Kong, and that a superintendent and twelve inspectors would be almost immediately sent out. The salary of the superintendent to be 500/. per annum. The arrangements aro, it is said, now nearly perfected, but instead of twelve inspectors, only three will be sem out at present, and these men have been selected from the K division. The appointment of superintendent has been given to Mr. Charles May, the eldest son of the chief superintendent of the metropolitan police. We understand that Mr. Peto, who recently purchased Somerleyton Hall, and the Blundeston property, has just bought the Norwich and Lowestoft navigation by private contract ; and it is reported that he intends to widen the sea-gates at Lowestoft, so as to admit London steamers ; also to widen the canal to Reedham ; and then to lay down a rail from Lowestoft on th. banks of the cut ; if so, he will prove a formidable opponent to Yarmouth, as vessels and goods coming this way will avoid Yarmouth dues. On Monday week Sir Andrew Corbet, Bart., Mr. Ri chard Corbet, and his keepers, bugged 351 brace of partridges, the whole of which were given away to his friends in Shrewsbury. We understand that the Duke or Wellington has intimated to the authorities of Eton College that it is his Grace's intention to present to that institution a bust of himself. GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. TUESDAY ' SEPT. 24.—Yesterday was devoted to the rehearsal of such parts of the sacred music as were least familiar to the band, especially Mendelssohn's " Hymn of Praise," and the oratorio of Samson, as performed for the first time at the last Norwich festi• val. The orchestra is erected in the nave, and not, as formerly, in the choir of the Cathedral—an ar rangement which facilitates the construction of one which is capable of holding 300 performers. Its chief defects are, that it springs from too great an eleva tion, and rises at too obtuse an angle. The principal singers are too much elevated, and the chorus is onl, partially visible or audible. These defects admit se easy remedy on a future occasion. The band and chorus are strong, and also select. We observe the principal stringed and wind instruments of the Opera band, and the chorus is well balanced and effective. This morning the festival commenced, and about half-past ten the streets began to be thronged with well-dressed groups, bending their way to the Cathe dral. The usual morning service is performed, com mencing always with the overture to Esther. The same Te Deurn is uniformly sung, and the pieces in troduced into the service never vary. Dr. Boyce': anthem, " Blessed is he," and one (and always th( same) of Handel's Coronation anthems. We ven ture to think that it would be advisable to vary this arrangement, if not altogether to change the charac ter of the performance, for such it almost is. The cathedral service of the Church of England is so per fect in all its parts, so incapable of addition or sub traction without injury, and contains such a store of music, unrivalled when regarded with reference to its design, that it needs no orchestral aid. The re sponses, this morning given by 150 voices, and tht chant, were the most impressive part of the entire service. In Catholic countries the assistance of at: orchestra is needed for the performance of most mo dern masses; but into the cathedral service of Pro testant England it is an unwelcome intrusion. This morning the antiphonal character of the chant (its essence and prime attribtee) was not retained. This is a needless sacrifice of propriety. We covet tht cathedral service in all its purity and all its grandeur; once in the year we would make a welcome pil grimage to Gloucester, Worcester, or Hereford, t( hear it so performed, and we believe that a crowd of pilgrims would congregate for a like purpose. Let the responses be those of Tallis, unequalled as the) are for sublimity ; let Clarke, or Blow, or Boyce con tribute the service ; and Purcell and Croft each his anthem. What higher musical treat can be offered to any audience than the anthems—" Who bath be lieved our report," " My heart is inditing," " 0 give thanks," or " 0 God, thou has cast us out," of Pur cell, or Croft's " Sing unto God," " Praise the Lord, omy soul," or " God is gone up." The public at tention is increasingly drawn to the cathedral ser vice; and we believe that such an opportunity as the present one, in which all its glorious musical attri butes would be fully revealed, multitudes would eagerly ssek. What sort of idea, for example, have the inhabitants of this place of these? The dailN service of its cathedral is performed by three malt voices only, in addition to the boys. Its essential fea ture is therefore lost; and for the choral grandeur of Gibbons, Farrant, and Aldrich, we have only a miser able burlesque. Such a performance of the morning service as we have suggested would display all its beauty and majesty, while it would preserve intact and inviolate its sacred character, which is now some thing between a performance and an act of devotion. It would be in strict keeping with the character of the building, and in due accordance with the feeling of the audience—it would be simply a yearly recto ration of the cathedral service—the substance instead of the shadow. On the ground of policy we suggest this alteration. A repetition of the same pieces, year by year, will hardly avail to draw a yearly crowd. In point of fact they tail to do so. But such a perform ance of the morning service as we hare suggested would be indeed a novelty, and how far a probabls attractive one, let the crowds who yearly watch for the return of the Purcell commemoration, and throng the walls of Westminster Abbey, testify. We have assigned the reason why our cathedral music cannot be heard. It was written fur " a full voiced choir," and not for a choir of one voice to a part. The knowledge of the greater and sublimer portion of it, as a necessary consequence, is fading out of sight. The true style of its performance will be lost also. A yearly opportunity is offered in these cathedrals at least of preserving and perpetuating this. The lay clerks and minor canons of the three choirs are all present at these meetings, and is there one of them who would not benefit by hearing Hobbs's admirable reading of Purcell, derived by him, doubt less, from early association with Bartleman ? The dignataries of cathedrals would also learn a salutary lesson. They would learn the musical value of the libraries of their respective churches, they would wit ness the power of their contents in exciting the devo tional feelings, and they would, it is to be hoped, aim at the constant improvement of their choirs, in order to restore to the cathedral service its matchless grans deur and unspeakable value. To return from this vision of the future to the reality of the past. The Cathedral was respectably attended, but the gallery only was filled. The nave was half empty. Any criticism on a work so well known and so often performed as the "Te Deum for the victory at Dettingen" would be altogether super fluous. The performers evinced their familiarity with their work by the correct manner in which they went through it. TUESDAY EVENING.--It is not the custom here to throng to the first night's concert, and accordingly the room was not more than half filled. The selec tions at these concerts, it must be confessed, usually exhibit little musical attraction ; that of to-night ought to have had more than the rest, for the first act consisted of the best pieces from Acis and Galatea very well performed. Danvers was the best Acis we have heard for many years. The second act was almost a succession of what we suppose are termed popular ballads, interspersed with a song of Rossini and another of Donizetti. The fa vourites with the audience were a Gipsy duet by the Misses 'Williams, and " Where the bee sucks," by Miss Barrett, both of which were encored. Lindley played one or his concertos in his usual style, and with his accustomed success. VISIT OF TIIE ROYAL FAMILY TO THE ISLE or NIGHT.—CowEs, SEPT. 25.—Lord Lincoln, Chief Com miss►oner of the Woods and Forests, arrived at Osborne House yeterday, and this day workmen are busily em ployed in preparing the house for the Royal visitors. DAtfmA SHOW.—Wednesday one of the best dahlia shows of the season took place at the Bazaar, Baker street, Portman-square. The exhibitors comprised the chief growers in the country, and the flowers were ar ranged in five classes, there being prizes in all. The first prize of 5/. in the first, or nurserymen's class, of 24 bloomm for subscribers of five guineas, was awarded to Mr. Brown, of Slough ; the second to Mr. Keynes, of Salisbury ; the third to Mr. Girling, of Stow-market ; and the fourth to Mr. Bragg, of Slough. BASTARDY ARREARS.--We have already observed that a woman cannot recover more than thirteen weeks' arrears for her bastardy child, if she neglects to make application to a justice beyound that period. When one month is due she can proceed against the father, and it will be advisable not to delay, after a month, making the necessary application. This new law abounds with blu,:ders. DHATII OF LADY ELLEN FAN.—The families o f the Earl and Countess of Macclesfield. the _Ear', and Countess of Antrim, and the Earl and Countes , i o f H ad _ dington Lord and Lady Parker, the Hon. John ThotrAs and L a dy Lavinia Dutton, &c., have been pl ace d in mourning by the death of the above lady,. wh•.., ex pired on Monday last. The deceased lady wr . 6 t hi r d daughter of the Earl of Macclesfield, by his f rst mar riage with Miss Edwards, eldest daughter of ' I Ar. Lewis Edwards. Her Ladyship was married Bth N. ~v 18°9, to Mr. John William Fane, eldest son of Y , i, ohn Fane, of Wormsley, Oxon, and nephew of the 4 ,Itlith Earl of Westmorland. g HER MAJESTY AT BLAIR ATHOL. BLAIR ATHOL, TUESDAY. The life of secluded retirement which her Majesty has led since her arrival at Blair Athol has not been disturbed by any incident worthy of recording. The morning walk or ride in the grounds of the castle with Prince Albert and the Princess Royal, the afternoon drive or scramble up the hill-side on ponies, the dinner party, the being roused by the shrill pibroch on the following morning, and so on from day to day, tou pmra perdrix—to-day the same as yesterday and yes • terday the same as the day before. Were it not for the anxiety which naturally pervades all classes of her Majesty's subjects to hear of the welfare of their Sove reign, and the interest excited by her Majesty's present mode of life, there is so little variety in this tranquil routine, that the daily movements of the Royal party aro scarcely of sufficient importance to be chronicled. The present propitious weather enables her Ma jesty and the Prince to pass a great part of the day in the open air, sub Jove not frigido assuredly, for the heat of the sun is intense, and were it not for the mellow autumnal tint on the rich foliage round the castle, it might be supposed that spring was going to return once more before the coming winter. Yesterday the Prince went out grouse shooting on the moors in front of the Castle, and her Majesty having expressed a desire to witness the sport, the pony was ordered, and her Majesty set forth to ascend the neighbouring hill, which com mands an extensive view of the moors. Her Majesty was accompanied by Lord Glenlyon, who walked by the side of the pony, and the Billy, Sandy Mtwara, who has had the honour of leading her Majesty's pony during her rambles. The Prince shot six brace of grouse, which were immediately forwarded to the castle. His Royal Highness had intended t;) go deer-stalking yesterday in Glen Tilt, but as the wind was unfavourable the projected excursion was deemed impracticable. Lady Glenl y on and Lady Canning drove out in the after noon to visit Mr. Butler, of Fascala. Military law is adhered to most rigidly by her Majesty's guard of Athol Highlanders. Lord Glen lyon's brother, the Hon. Captain Murray, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who has lately arrived here, was refused admittance by the guard, because he was not furnished with the necessary countersign, although he offered to write an order for his own admission. We need scarcely mention that the Hon. Gentleman has since succeeded in gaining access to his noble brother's domain ; but whilst the circumstance has occasioned some amusement, it has also evinced the strictness with which these fine fellows perform their duty.—Pest. • THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 27, 1844. TRIUMPHANT RECEPTION OF T)R. BOWRING, M.P., IN TIIE ISLE OF MAN. (Abridged from Mona's Herald.) Yesterday morning preparations were commenced at an early hour, and the greatest excitement every where prevailed among the inhabitants, in order to receive Dr. Bowring, who, with his ady, was to arrive by the mail steam-packet, King Orry, in the afternoon, with all due respect, honour, and grati tude, and evince to the world that the Manx people are not ungrateful to their benefactors. The day, although a little lowering, continued throughout all that could he desired; and a large portion of the in habitants appeared not to have changed their Sunday attire, except in the immediate vicinity of the places where the triumphal arches were being erected along the line of procession which the Hon. Gentleman would pass on his way from the pier to Castle Mona. The numerous shipping in the harbour displayed a profusion of their choicest flags. Cannons were heard at intervals throughout the afternoon, and after the packet came in sight the firing in all directions was continuous. Shortly after three o'clock the various Friendly Societies began to assemble at the Odd Fellows' Hall, in Athol-street, and shortly after five proceeded to the pier in procession, with banners, bands, &c. All having taken up their position in due order, awaited the arrival of the packet. Meanwhile thousands of spectators, all in holiday attire, crowded to the pier and place of debarkation, animated by one enthusi astic feeling of gratitude to the man who had so suc cessfully pleaded their rights in the British Senate. About half-past five o'clock the mall.packet, King Orry, Captain Gill, with all her colours flying, reached the pier-head; and immediately on coining within hail, the cheering with which the assembled thousands welcomed their honoured visitor was long and loud, and the enthusiasm unbounded. The ordi nary passengers having landed, the Fiscal Committee went on board to welcome Dr. Bowring and his lady. Mrs. Bowring leaning on the arm of Sir W. Hil lary, and the Doctor on the arm of W. Kelly, Esq., as they set foot on Mona's shore were received with renewed cheering, the bands striking up " See the Conquering Hero Comes," escorted by Lieut.- Col. Campbell, with Sir Wm. Hillary, Magistrates, the Fiscal Committee, and many other respectable in dividuals, accompanied with equally enthusiastic de monstations, proceeded along the-pier to the Victoria Hotel, the whole route being lined with many thou sand spectators. Dr. Bowring and his lady, accom panied by Mr. Win. Kelly and Mr. T. Garrett, jun., having entered the carriage, the procession moved on. At length, the procession having reached the Castle, the general cheering was resumed, and the bands striking up their liveliest tunes, the Hon. Gentle man rose in the carriage and attempted to address the crowd; but it was many minutes ere silence could be obtained or his voice heard, and as it was, almost every sentence of his short but excellent address was enthusiastically cheered. The Hon. Gentleman spoke nearly as follows: " My friends, I wish my voice h a d man y times its real compass, that so far as word s wou ld convey to you what I feel, I might express to the thousands here assembled, my deep sense of gratitude for this most unexpected reception—this unexampled demon stration.—(Cheers.) I have done but little to deserve all this kindness. You laboured under a deep wrong. Her Majesty's Ministers lent a willing ear, and were anxious to promote your welfare.—(Cheers.) It has been raid that man is naturally cold and ungrateful, but, my friends, I have never found it so ; my ex perience has been far different. Your kindness, my friends, has been far, very far beyond my deserts or what I had any right to expect.—(lmmense cheering.) This demonstration proves that ingra titude is no charasteristic of the Isle of Man.—(Re newed cheering.) As I came along I heard a cry of Down with the House of Keys.'—(The Hon. Gen tleman's voice was instantly drowned in a burst of loud and long-continued cheering which was repeated unin terruptedly for about five minutes • when silence was in some measure restored he proceeded)—My friends, I am not here to join in that cry. The Keys may be rather rusty and I have no objection to their being polished a little ; they are too little used, and the first thing I would do is to try to snake them open their own doors. They must be improved so as to har monise with the spirit of the age ; but, my friends, I will not lend my aid to overturn any of your vene rable institutions. The Keys may be of im mense service to their country, and especially now when increased intercourse is to be opened up between your island and the surrounding countries.—(Cheers.) You may, my friends, feel assured that on all future occasions no single indivi dual in your island shall want the aid of my assist ance in redressing their wrongs.—(Cheers.) I grate fully and most cordially thank you for this most flattering reception."—(lmmense cheering.) The immense multitude who crowded the Castle grounds remained for some time after the Hon. Gen tleman and his lady had retired to their apartments ; the fiscal committee remained for some time at the Castle, and the bands enlivened the scene with many of their very spirited strains. It is supposed that al together during the procession no fewer than 10,000 persons were assembled. During the evening bonfires were kindled on Douglas Head, Banks How, and an immense fire blazed from the apex of the landmark on the Head, and in various other localities. There was a splendid display of fireworks on the Castle Mona grounds. BRIGHTON, WEDNESDAY. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice, ac companied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton and Miss Lyttelton, who arrived yesterday at the Palace, took a carriage airing on the cliffs this morning, and, on reaching Kemp Town, the Prince and his illustrious sister were taken by Lady Lyttelton down to the esplanade, near the sea, where they promenaded for about half an hour. Their Royal Highnesses were afterwards taken out in the carriage on the Rotting dean road, and returned to the Palace about eleven o'clock. Crowds of persons daily assemble at the Palace gates, to get a sight of the Royal children. According to present arrangements, their Royal Highnesses will leave Brighton next Tuesday, for Windsor Castle. _ _ _ Earl Delawarr arrived at the Palace yesterday morning, from 13uckhurst, his seat in Sussex. His Lordship visited Sir Robert Peel and Mrs. G. Daw son, and returned to Buckhurst in the afternoon. Sir Robert and Lady Peel arrived on Monday evening. The Right Hon. Baronet has taken one of those splendid houses in Eastern-terrace, which have become so much the resort of the aristocracy. Sir Robert visited his sister, Mrs. G. Dawson, yesterday, it the Clarence mansion. We understand that the Duke and Duchess of Somerset are in treaty for a house here, intending to winter at Brighton. The presence of the Duke and Duchess for so many months last season had a very beneficial influence upon the trade of the town. Lord and Lady Petre have taken the splendid mansion which their Graces occupied last year, and which we understand they were desirous of securing for this season. The Duke of St. Alban's is expected in Lewes crescent early in October, his Grace having taken a house there for a considerable period. Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, and Colonel Rowley, Ifter a stay of three weeks at the Norfolk Hotel, re turned to Portsmouth on Monday in the Fanny tender. The Countess of Beauchamp, Viscount Lake, Lord Miltown, Lady Harriet Hamilton, Major-General Sir William Fremantle, Lady Henley, the Countess of Glengall, Lady IV. Paulet, Lord Lurgan, Sir J. Bathurst, Countess Cadogan, Mr. Marsland, Lady and Miss Bathurst, Mr. Orby Hunter, the Dean of Win chester, Mrs. Garnier, Hon, L. Parsons, Hon. Mrs. North, Lady Lucy North, and Lady Harriet Gamier, are among our fashionable visitors, most of whom are drinking the spa waters at our German Spa. A grand concert was given here last night, which was attended by upwards of SOO persons, Grisi, Mario, and F. Lablache being the attraction. It is scarcely necessary to add that the company were enraptured. Mr. J. Wrallack concluded an engagement at the theatre on Monday evening. This evening Miss Rainforth, Harrison, and Stretton are engaged to sing in the opera of Sonnambu/a.: THE ALBION BALLOON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—The Albion Balloon having passed near the metropolis last evening, it has struck me that a brief history of her may not be altogether uninteresting, espe cially as many of the voyages she hap made are charac terised by extraordinary daring and intrepidity. This balloon was constructed by Mr. Hampton, the bold and enterpri'ing aeronaut, but is now the property of the celebrated Mr. Charles Green, The Albion was made for the purpose of taking up Mr. Hampton's parachute, with which he made three descents. It may be remem bered that shortly after the death of the lamented Mr. Cocking, Mr. Hampton announced his intention of de monstrating the practibility of a safe and gradual descent with his improved parachute. The result of Mr. Cocking's experiment having satisfied him that it would be highly dangerous to permit a second peesoti to dO-OVrtlit, he determined to undertake and complete a parachute de scent with his own hands, and subsequently exhaust the balloon without the assistance of another person. This he effected with consummate skill, and the exploit created as much astonishment as it afforded delight and satisfaction to those who Witnessed it, at Cheitttnham. It was only by stratagem that Mr. Hampton was enabled to ascend from the Montpellier-gardens. Poor Mr. Cocking's death so operated upon the public mind that a second parachute tteseent Whs no sootier announced than it was prohibited by influential parties:, As the 1 aeronaut, however, was allowed on this oedailoli to et hibit his parachute in connexion with the balloon, and point out its peculiarities, he considered this a suitable time to sever the rope that held the whole machinery, and away he went in excellent stele. When about tWo miles high, the parachute wo,s seciak*ted 'end the Albion speedily eellaunted of gas by an original contrivance of- Mr. Hampton's. The parachute was ten minutes and twelve seconds descending, and the daring occupant of the car reached the earth without injury. Mr: Hampton also made two parachute descents in London, and the Albion each time was called into requisition ; her name is els° associated with a perilous trip to sea, which was the result of a boisterous wind. The aeronaut would have lost his life in this adventure but for the timely arrival of a brig, and with the humane ttssiattinet of her sailors, together with help from Lieutenant King and his boat's crew, Mr. Hampton was landed in safety at South end. After two busy seasons, during which Mr. Hamp ton attempted and completed three parachute descents; and about thirty balloon trips, he was unfortunatt enough to lose the Albion, and during a praiseworthy but un successful struegle to regain possession of her, she was purchased by Mr. Charles Green, who uses her as ocra; sion may require. The successful veteran hat More than once made private asceats with the Albion, and not long since he attempted to cross the English channel with her, but was prevented by an adverse wind. It is not unlikely that the ascent of last evening was for experi mental purposes. The trip must have been as pleasant as it was majestic.--I remain, Sir, your obliged servant, HENRY WELLS. Claremont-row, Pentonville. ETON COLLEGE, WRDNBSDAT.—PRINCE ALBERT'S PRIZE FOR MODERN LANG ['AGE consequrnre of the second extra week which her Majesty has been pleased to add to the holidays, the examinations are postponed to the 7th of October and three following days- - Monday ar.d Tuesday, French, Wednesday and Thursday, Italian. The examiners are M. R. de vi ricour and Signor Pauizzi. _ MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--The Rev. Lord Wm, Somerset, canon of Bristol, eldest surviving son of Henry fifth Duke of Beaufort, and uncle of the present - Duke, was married on Tuesday last, at Filton Chrrch, Glouces tershire, by special license, to Franes!;s widow of th e l a t e Mr. Cornelius O'Callaghan, of B a ll ynahineh, county Clare. The Bishop of Glor,a es t er an d Bristol officiated marriageiage was very p r i va t e . Hi s L a t o t r h d e sh c i e p re h m ax o l n b y e . The been . previ ':usly married to a daughter of Lieut. General Sir rr --`iiontas Molyneux, Bart who died 1 in August, last ye fi r , •9 FOOT RACE NEAR WINDSOR.—A foot race for 51. a side, can off on Wednesday, near the re s id ence o f ,Vi ' ur :., Ashbrook, at Old Windsor, between Mullet, the :uniting tailor of Staines, and Dunkley, of Wink fi".;tel, known in sporting circles as the Antelope. Both were ranked high for speed amongst their respective backers ; but the odds, on the eve of starting, were three to two on the tailor. An immense number of persons were presunt to witness the race. The distance, which was one hundred yards, was performed in ten seconds, the tailor beating the Antelope by only six inches. In deed, it was near a tie, that it was doubtful even to those who were close to the spot which of the two touched the handkerchief first. Mr. Lawrence, of the Two Brewers, Windsor, who was the referee, gave it in favour of Mullet, and the stakes were immediately paid over to him. A good deal of money changed hands lupon the result, between' the betting men of Wi n d sor , SUtiaes, and Eton. NIGHT POACHING PIZUVENTION ACT.—An Act. came into operation on the 4th of July last to extend the Act of the 9th of Geo. IV., c. 69, which was passed to prevent persons going armed at night for the destruc tion of game. It appears that the recited Act has been of late years evaded by the destruction, by armed persons at night, of game or rabbits, not upon "open or enclosed lands," as described in the said Act, but upon public roads and highways, and other roads and paths, leading hlands, and also at the gates , outlets, and t openingsrouh gsuch between such. lands, Ere, so that not only has the destruction of game or rabbits not been prevented, but the risk of murder and other grievous offences in creased, and great danger and alarm occasioned to per sets utiltig such roads, highways, and paths. It is now declared that the punishments and forfeitures imposed by the recited Act shall extend to persons unlawfully taking or destroying any game or rabbits on a road, highway, or tiny path, end they may be seized without a warrant, and dealt with according to the provisions in the statue mentioned. An alarming accident happened on Thursday last to the second son of Earl Jermyn, a fine spirited youth about seven years of age. He was riding a Shetland pony in the park at Ickworth, in company with his noble pa rents, and had adeauced a little before them, when the animal suddenly'ran away and threw him with great force against the trunk of a tree. The Earl and Lady Katherine hastened forward and found him in a sense lege state from A Tiolimt blow on the bead, and her Lad yship remained with him on the grass whilst his Lordship hastened for the carriage, in which he was conveyed to the hall, still insensible. The attendance of Dr. Probart and Charles Smith, Esq., was procured as quickly as as possible; and the latter gentleman was with the little sufferer all night, gent apprehetisione being entertained for tdhaey,reasnualt,wbeutnhieoireaelltioediArthoetw he is likely to do urse of the follow ing • erell..Httre Peet; stpt; DESPERATE Aktitir tit rOAdittfig.---in conse quence of a stispieitin that tine of the, plantations on the Selteim property h a d beefi diettfela t~ itA mite by poachers, a watch was set, and on Friday night ilet poachers were met with, and a severe conflict ensued. Otte of the tintke ltepeea; named George Saunders, who first met With t. ell'etedeft, ftes lietieitsiy injured ;he was beaten most unmercifully, and then gagged to pre■ vent his making any alarm which might bring him help, The petechers no* fled, end hating crossed a field, were Oimbitig a butt that they might escape into the turn pike road, when they were surprised by an attack from the head gamekeeper and two of his assistants, who had been lying in ambush: Here another fearful struggle tbei Ade. i4hlcii ended in the eipLilre bt Mee of the poachers, the fourth having escape d . These were taken to Saltram House, and confined there until the next day, when they were taken to Itidgway before a bench of magistrates, who fhlly committed them for trial at the coming assize. The names of the captured poachers don. The fourth party h e hoty, aying escaped his fellow poachers decline giving his name. A hare and two the are—James Saunders , Cleorg snaring nets were found upon and John Lang person of James Saunders, who is it) nO Way related to George Saunders, his Lordship 'd keeper. Several of the parties, as may be supposed, are very severely bruised and wounded.-- Devonshire paper. RAILWAY THAvsmarivi.—The man who travels by a railroad sees nothing, learns nothing, and is nothing, from the commencement of his J ourney to its termina don. Speed saves; or, it may e Raid, annihilates time and dietatiteb but itt what cost ? We are not putting a tnnney question. At what loss? should be the word. He who reclines in a locomotive machine, going at the rate of thirty miles an hour, is as insensible to the beau passing th roug h, to its legen daryorigin of its hamlets and its sa eengine itself. I n suc h a traveller the poetic impulse must be chilled. If he be aged he tcireesd of attractions, temples, the country as tn the h th e is must feel that old times have passed away; that father land, dear to his early affections, does not exist on the line of railway; and that what h e once s aw with rap ture, and cherised in his memory, is now all blank—a long line of cold iron, burning cinders, dirty smoke, suffo cating vapour, and eternal dreariness. On the other hand, if the traveller be young, he has little to regret, in asmuch as he is deprived, by the modern process of fly ing over the land, of any opportunities of being conscious of what is worth being seen, studied, and admired in the rural retreats of England. This is a change which few people think of. It is all very well to take a steam flight from London to Liverpool. or Manchester, from London to Bath, Bristol, and Exeter, or from London, or from any one place to any other, by steam power ; but it is quite another thing to consider of what vast ad vantages the rapid tourist is deprived, by not being en abled to see the beauties of the country, the gems of an old land, the hoary ruins, and the temples gray, and the historic spots, and the classic ground, and the once noble castle, and the dismantled abbey and monastery, and all tbat venerable time and tradition have sanctified in an Ancient kingdom.—Liverpool paper. LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Colburn, London, 1844. This is the second volume of the Memoirs of the House of Commons from the period of the Convention Parliament of 1688, down to the passing of the Whig Reform Bill in the memorable year 1832. The author is Mr. Townsend, Recorder of Macclesfield, who has executed a difficult and somewhat com plicated task with uniform diligence—not to say, im partiality—and enlivened his historical account with several cursory sketches of the most eminent indi viduals who have figured in St. Stephen's within the period of which he treats. Among the various curious matters referred to in his Memoirs, is that ceremony of kneeling, which offenders against the majesty of the House of Commons were compelled to practise in the presence of the Imperial Senate. This degrading ceremony was insisted on with the utmost rigidness by Parliament, and continued to be acquiesced in for a long term of years without the slightest re monstrance on the part of the public. At length the peremptory refusal of Mr. A. Murray, brother of Lord Elibank, to kneel humbly and submissively at the bar while his sentence was pronounced on him, had the effect of putting an end to the ignominious practice, as we find by the following entertaining extract : " After the interval of a century, during which all offenders, real or supposed, against the majesty of Par liament, had continued to kneel without open resistance, a similar scene of rage was re-enacted in February, 17.51, on the peremptory refusal of Mr. Alexander Murray, brother of Lord Elibank, to kneel at the bar to receive his sentence. He was charged with having, during the late Westminster election, incited the High Bailiff, say ing, Will nobody knock the dog down?' but the words were not satisfactorily proved, and Mr. Murray per sisted in denying that he had ever uttered them. The House, however, acted on the complaint of the returning officer, and resolved that he should be committed to Newgate, and receive his sentence on his knees—an in dignity to which he peremptorily declared nothing on earth should ever induce him to submit. In vain did Mr. Pelham explain that kneeling was no acknowledgment of guilt, but only a testimony of respect : in vain did the Speaker, horrified at his insubordination, exclaim in his deepest tones of displeasure, ' On your knees, Sir! you must kneel down.' Mr. Murray persisted in standing, and the sentence could not be spoken. The House, in a tumult of indignation at such contumacy, resolved, That Mr. Murray, having in a most insolent and audacious manner, at the bar, absolutely refused to be upon his knees, is guilty•of a high and most dangerous contempt of the authority and privilege of this House.' "If bitter words and strong epithets could have availed ' to whip the rebellious Adam out of him,' these resolutions might perhaps have sufficed. The Speaker strongly urged ulterior measures, insisting that, if insub ordination of this alarming character were to pass with out exemplary chastisement, all respect to his authority was at an end. It was therefore ordered that Mr. Mur • ray should be committed close prisoner to Newgate, and that no one should have access to him without leave— that he should not have the use of pen, ink, or paper, and that a Committee should consider and report what further methods might be taken. As the rack and thumb-screws were abolished, and the power of inquisi tors ' before torture, between torture, in torture, and after torture,' had passed away for ever; as the House could no longer impoverish by tine, or add hard labour to imprisonment, no further or more effectual remedy than duress could be devised. The prisoner lingered in Newgate four months, till the prorogation in June, with spirit unbroken. " As soon as the gates of his prisou were thrown open by the rising of Parliament, he made a triumphant caval cade along the streets of the metropolis, amid the cheers and huzzas of the populace. As the natural effect of persecution, a lately despised Jacobite became the idol of the hour. This popularity was remembered to his pre judice by a vindictive House of Commons, who, as soon as they met in November, on the motion of Lord Coke, voted that he should be re-committed to Newgate, and receive the sentence of re-committal on his knees. But the bird was flown. Mr. Murray had prudently with• drawn to the Continent. A reward of 5001. was pro claimed by the Privy Council, at the instigation of the time m o e u e s ia e os , he f o an ee h do i s fo a ft p ht hi se rprehension. intolerance, persecution; as : feeling enemies Murray becamerevolted h ai a had the consolation of learning that, by his firmness and sFf- 1 ferings, an end was silently put to a practice which, with reptile tenacity of life, had lingered for centuries. The name of the wag ought to be known, who had previously expressed his indignation by rubbing his knees, after rising from the bar, and exclaiming with an excusable double-entendre, This is the dirtiest house I was ever in during the whole course of my life.'" PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the PRE. VENTION, CAUSES, and TREATMENT of CURVATURE of the SPINE. By Samuel Hare, Surgeon. London, Churchill, 1844. It appears that Mr. Hare has for many years past devoted considerable attention to the subject of dis eases of the spine, and the results of his experience are contained in the work now under review, which is certainly one of the most understandable books on the subject we have ever read. His treatment seems to have been most successful. The apparatus which he uses is thus described : " It consists of an inclined plane two feet in breadth and six and a half in length, furnished with feet or made to rest securely on a proper framework. At the upper end are three pulleys, of which the two outer are about four inches, and the middle one six inches in height above the plane, the former ones being about eight inches asunder. Two pulleys are also attached to the lower end of the plane, and about one-third from its upper end, and six or eight inches from the sides, two openings are made, into which also pulleys are intro duced. A very thin and firm mattress may be placed upon the apparatus, and on this the patient reclines. It is also furnished with weights for extension and with springs, and compresses, according to the circumstances of the case ; a support for the head, made of soft leather, stuffed with curled hair or cotton wool and in tended to pass under the chin and occiput, is attached to a cord, which passes over the centre pulley, to which a weight is suspended ; shoulder-straps composed of the same materials, and attached in a similar manner, pass under the axilke of each arm and over the outer pulleys, having weights also adjusted to them ; similar means of extension are also applied round the ankles, and occa sionally in the male sex above the pelvis ; these are passed over the pulleys at the lower end of the plane. The openings in the upper part of the plane are for the purpose of admitting a cord, to one end of which is attached a shoulder-strap, and to the other a weight ; this is very useful when the shoulder projects, as also in cases of excurvation. In instances of projection of the sternum, when the patient is said to be pigeon-breasted, a piece of padded leather or other similarly firm sub stance, is used with great advantage, being made for the purpose of passing over the projecting part, and the pressure is gradually increased or diminished as may be found necessary." Patients are placed on this inclined plane in a re clining position, and the weights are properly ad justed, and by observing this reclining posture, and attending to other remedial measures some months, the distorted spine is gradually restored to its natural shape and form. The progress of the cure is de noted by the increased quantity of air the patient is able to expire after taking a full inspiration, which, of oourse, shows the increased capacity of the chest, which, in cases of distorted spine, is invariably con tracted. The quantity of air thus expired is ascer tained by a very ingenious contrivance, which may be " called a pulmometer—that is a glass vessel, marked with cubic inches, from ten to two hundred ; this is filled with water and inverted in a pneumatic trough ; the patient then fills his or her chest, and breathes through a glass tube into the meter—the additional quantity of water displaced, showing, of course, the '-'creased capacity of the lungs." elaborate introduction, the author treats Ich tend to produce distortion of the of i t n h causes l, s . 4 4-lacing, of course, holds a t(pine—..among these ttg.... ^rtion of the work prominent place. From this p,,_ . •,• • would we extract the following passage, to wine.- . particut titly draw the attention oiparents, denonne.._ - as it does a practice which has grown into fashion of late years, but of the injurious tendency of which we presume few are aware : " A custom at present prevails to a very considerable extent, of using a leather belt buckled round the waist of' boys, when they commence wearing their clothes of woollen cloth ; this practice, unless adopted with great care, has a direct tendency to produce a contracted state of the chest and upper part of the abdomen, similar in effect, though not in degree, to that produced by corsets in growing girls . it is hoped, that it is only necessary to point out the evil, and that parents will at once see the necessity of avoiding it." The book is copiously illustrated by plates, and the cases recorded, in which Mr. Hare has succeeded in restoring to comparative health those who had been suffering for years from the most severe forms of spinal distortion, are very numerous, and exceed ingly interesting. KNIGHT'S WEEKLY VOLUME. C. Knight, London, 1844. We have here lying on our table the eighth and ninth Numbers of " Knight's Weekly Volume"—a miscellany which is incomparably the cheapest of the day, containing as much matter for one shilling as " Murray's Family Library" used to contain for the more aristocratic sum of half-a-crown. The Num bers in question comprise republications—each in one small neat duodecimo—of Miss Martineau's tale, entitled " Feats on the Fiord ;" and Mr. Davis's " History of China." The last work is, we under - stand, considered by those who are conversant with the subject, as the best history of the Celestial Empire that has yet appeared in print, being singu larly minute and circumstantial in its details, and not less scrupulously impartial in its statement of facts, or sagacious in the inferences which it deduces from them. One of its most curious chapters is devoted to a consideration of the prevailing Chinese religion of I3udhism—an interesting theme on which the author descants at great length, and with an eager wish to throw as much light on a . mysterious question as possible. The volume is embellished with several passably executed wood-cuts. As reards Miss Mar tineau's tale of " Feasts on the Fiord' —as we noticed it in The Sun on its first appearance, a short while since , —we shall here content ourselves with observing that it is written in the author's most careful and spirited I manner ; is remarkable for its familiar acquaintance and exact sketches of Norwegian manners and cus toms; and more especially for the beauty and rich ness of its description of Norwegian scenery. Miss Martineau excels most novelists of the day in descrip tive power, as she showed in her story of the " Hour and the Man," in which she placed before her readers most vivid and gorgeous pictures of the landscape scenery of St. Domingo. IVe quote her opening sketch of a Norwegian Fiord : "Every one who has looked at the map of Norway must have been struck with the singular character of its coast. On the map it looks so jagged, such a mixture of land and sea, that it appears as if there must be a per petual struggle between the two—the sea striving to inundate the land, and the land pushing itself out into the sea, till it ends in their dividing the region between them. On the spot, however, this coast is very sublime. The long straggling promontories are mountainous, ' towering ridges of rock, springing up in precipices from the water ; while the b a y s b etween t h em , i nstea d o f being rouned with shelving- sandy shores, on which the sea tumbles its waves, as in bays of our coast, are, in fact, long narrow valleys, filled with sea, instead of being laid out in fields and meadows. The high rocky banks shelter these deep bays (called fiords) from almost every wind ; so that their waters are usually as still as those of a lake. For days and weeks together, they reflect each separate tree-top of the pine -forests which clothe the mountain sides, the mirror being broken only by the leap of some sportive fish, or the oars of the boat man as lie goes to inspect the sea-fowl from islet to islet of the fiord, or carries out his nets or his rod to catch the sea-trout or char, or cod, or herrings, which abound, in their seasons, on the coast of Norway. It is difficult to say whether these fiords are the most beautiful in summer or in winter. In summer they glitter with golden sunshine ; and purple and green shadows from the mountain and forest lie on them ; and these may be more lovely than the faint light of the winter noons of those latitudes, and the snowy pictures of frozen peaks which then show themselves on the surface ; but before the day is half over, out come the stars—the glorious stars which shine like nothing that we have ever seen. There the planets cast a faint shadow, as the young moon does with us ; and these planets and the constellations of the sky, as they silently glide over from peak to peak of these rocky passes, are imaged on the waters so clearly that the fisherman, as he unmoors his boat for his even ing task, feels as if he were about to shoot forth his vessel into another heaven, and to cleave his way among the stars. Still as everything is to the eye, sometimes for a hundred miles together along these deep sea-val leys, there is rarely silence. The ear is kept awake by a thousand voices. In the summer, there are cata racts leaping from ledge to ledge of the rocks ; and there is the bleating of the kids that browse there, and the flap of the great eagle's wings, as it dashes abroad from its eyrie, and the cries of the whole clouds of sea birds which inhabit the islets ; and all these sounds are mingled and multiplied by the strong echoes, till they become a din as loud as that of a city. Even at night, when the flocks are in the fold, and the birds at roost, and the echoes themselves seem to be asleep, there is occasionally a sweet music heard, too soft for even the listening ear to catch by day. Every breath of summer wind that steals through the pine-forests wakes this music as it goes. The stiff spiny leaves of the fir and pine vibrate with the breeze, like the strings of a musical instrument, so that every breath of the night-wind, in a Norwegian forest, wakens a myriad of tiny harps ; and this gentle and mournful music may be heard in gushes the whole night through. This music, of course, ceases when each tree becomes laden with snow ; but yet there is sound, in the midst of the longest winter night. There is the rumble of some avalanche, as, after a drifting storm, a mass of snow too heavy to keep its place slides and tumbles from the mountain peak. There is also, now and then, a loud crack of the ice in the nearest glacier ; and, as many declare, there is a crackling to be heard by those who listen when the northern lights are shooting and blazing across the sky. Nor is this all. Whereever there is a nook between the rocks on the shore, where a man may build a house, and clear a field or two ; wherever there is a platform beside the cataract where the sawyer may plant his mill, and make a path from it to join some great road, there is a human habitation, and the sounds that belong to it. Thence, in winter nights, come music and laughter, and the tread of dancers, and the hum of many voices. The Norwegians are a social and hospitable people ; and they hold their gay meetings, in defiance of their arctic climate, through every season of the year." THE STANLEY MAUSOLEUM.—Died, last month, universally condemned, the political career of Lord Stanley. The remains have been interred in the House of Lords.—Punch. INCENDIARY FIRE.—A few nights ago a de.,truc tive fire (which is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary) broke out upon the premises of Mr. Parsons, a farmer, at Bromley, near Basingstoke. In the course of less than an hour a barn, filled with barley, a stack of wheat, and a barn-rick, were totally consumed. • GRACE DARLING.—A monument, the gift of the Yen. Archdeacon Thorp, in honour of the late Grace Horsley- Darling (to which we have previously called at tention), has been placed inside the chapel at the Fern Islands. The Rev. Gentleman has also sent off a very handsome flag, which was flying for the first time on the day her Most Gracious Majesty passed the islands. A NOCTURNAL DISTURBER —An incident, laugh able enough (except to the party who was damaged in purse by it), occurred on Sunday night in Harmer-street, Gravesend. At about half-past twelve o'clock on that night, as Penman, the policeman, who was then on duty in Harmer-street, was pass ing the shop of Mr. Brown, upholsterer, in that street, he heard a heavy tramping in the house, and drawing close to the shop window a strange noise which he, much ter rified, believed to be supernatural, issued from within. Suddenly a mighty crash, as of shivered glass, caused him in great alarm to withdraw from his listening position close to the window shutters, and before he could well clear the kerb of the footway in his retreat, another crash and a dash through the window of what ap peared to his appalled sight a monster of unearthly shape compelled him to cry aloud for aid. The in mates of Mr. Brown's house, as well as those of the adjacent houses, being by this time alarmed, rushed into the street, and there they found the terrified " guardian of the night" gazing with horror at an animal not far from him, which, upon 'Mr. Brown's approach, he discovered to be his own horse. It soon appeared that the poor animal had done his master con siderable damage, without any intention of burglariously breaking into his house, having, in fact, broken out of it. Tho horse had been put into an apartment in the rear of the house, as a temporary stable, from which there was a passage leading to another passage, which opened into the shop. The door of the stable having been, through inad vertence, left open, the animal wandered into the passage, and thence entered the shop, when coming in contact with a pier glass of considerable size and value, he with a kick (it is assumed) demolished it, and by the crash was so terrified, that after plunging and kicking amid the articles of furniture in the shop, he bolted through the shop window, the policeman having narrowly escaped coming in contact with the animal in his violent egress. The damage done to Mr. Brown by this nocturnal freak of the horse is estimated at 501. or 60/. ScirooLuor FOLLIES.—The Ile-Denis (says the Constitutionnel) is to take the name of the island of Mo gadore, at the request of M. Pagel, the mayor, addressed to the Minister of the Interior. The new bridge is to be opened by a mock fight imitating the siege of Mega dore. A number of boats will be arranged as a squadron of bombardment. The garrison of the island will de fend Mogadore, and it will have amongst its troops an enormous parasol of command. The principal street is to be called the Rue Joinville. The fete is to termi nate by a banquet of fish, contributed by the lovers of angling of the neighbourhood, the mayor giving as his share some casks of wine. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN 11.10 ROCCO.—An ava ricious butcher, who had enriched himself by selling " kohlia" (friend meat), was determined to increase his gains by the more simple method of receipts without expenditure. With this view he nightly inveigled into his house a woman of exceptionable character, who was immediately assassinated, cooked, and disposed of the following day as " kehlia." his wife who witnessed these nightly murders, apprehending a similar fate, wont to the Paella and denounced her husband. lie was soon judged and condemned ; a boiler full of water vas placed over a fierce fire, before the shop-door, which soon a cached - boiling temperature. Th e execu ti oner then draggeri the crimanal to his own block, still stained with the tel,2d of his numerous vi c ti ms , an d, them into the cauldron, chopping off his hands, - Le breN Y gtv o to the numerous bands and when boiled, they were of hungry dogs who had been assene::'ed for that pur pose. In the same way his feet and legs Yvere , disposed of, until loss of blood terminated his life, ana with it. this appalling and barbarous justice. °"'TREATIES FOR THE APPREHENSION OF OFFENDERS —ln The Sun of Tuesday appeared the first case of an alleged French fraudulent bankrupt being committed in order to be conveyed to France for trial. The commit ment took place tinder the Act 6th and 7th Victoria, c. 75, which came into operation on the 22d of August, 1843, on which day another Act was passed in respect to persons charged with offences committed in America, or who had absconded into that country : These acts were framed to carry out two conventions between the high contracting parties " for the apprehensionor certain offenders." There is a difference . n in the offences mentioned, and t he p oint which arose e au l dul th en e t case reported was on the designationin effect to mean of a bankrupt," which the Lord Mayor held a England and France the felonious bankrupt under the English law. With re gardcrimes specified for which to the treaty between fugitives can be apprehended consist of murder, attempt to murder, forgery, or frau dulent bankruptcy. After a commitment of two months, if the offender is not conveyed to the place where the alleged offence w as committed to be tried, he is to be discharged. In the treaty between England and America the crimes mentioned are murder, assault with intent to murder, piracy, arson, robbery, for gery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either of the high contracting par ties. After two months' confinement, if the party is not removed, he is to be discharged. Only two cases have occurred during these treaties, one in which the Ameri can Government claimed an alleged offender in a British colony, where he was refused because the parties had no evidence of the alleged offence, and the case which was brought. before the Lord la.yor Monday last. By the preamble in th e t wo acts it is declared that parties are to be given up " only when the commission of the crime should be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or person so accused should be found would justify his apprehension and courr it meut for trial, if the crime had been there committed." Copies of depositions may, however, be given iu evidence of the criAtinality of the person apprehended. THE ISLAND OF JERSEY. (From the League.) Amongst the most useful as well as the most agree able results of the railway system, are the excursions to considerable distances at cheap rates, and with the allowance of sufficient time for the travellers to look about them. The operatives of Manchester and Birmingham have thus had, and availed themselves of, the opportunity for becoming acquainted with the sights of the metropolis; and many a Londoner who would scarcely have found it practicable, a few years ago, to get beyond th e soun d of Bow bells, has lounged amongst the beauties of our coast scenery, or had a wholesome wonder excited by the inspection of some grand specimen of manufacturing machinery. Besides the actual amount of enjoyment thus affigded, there is great good in the information obtained, the stimulus given to observation and thought, the abatement of local prejudices, and the raising the general mental qualification of those whose voices tell in the expression of public opinion, and very often their votes in the selection of representative legislators. - During the present week the South-Western Rail way has offered to a cargo of Londoners conveyance to and from the Isle of Jersey, at the cheap fare of 28s. there and back, railway carriage and steam voyage both included, and one week allowed for re turning. This excursion was well thought of. The remarkable peculiarities of the Channel Islands, both physical and social, cannot fail to make the tour a most interesting one. It has all the advantages of a visit to a foreign country, combined with a sufficient prevalence of the English language to secure the un educated traveller from any embarrassment. The first sensations of the citizen at the deep blue sky above, and the deep blue sea below, the grotesque rocks and the beautiful bays, will scarcely have sub sided before he becomes equally astonished at the cheapness of every thing. At the best hotels in St. Helier's he may have every accommodation of bed, board, and sitting-room, at 245. the week. He will find good bread from five farthings to three halfpence the pound. Ducks, Is. 6d. the pair. Fine poultry turkeys, 2s. to 3s. each. Gunpowder tea, bs. per lb. Double refined sugar, 4,(1. to 61,d. per lb. ; and Bra ail, 3d. Port wine, 15s. the dozen ; very good sherry at from Is. to 2s. the bottle. If a brandy-drinker, he will get it good at 3s. 6d. a gallon ; and finer than is to be had in England at 7s. the bottle for that same a gallon. Hollands, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 4d. the gallon. If he inquire the rent of a house, he will usually find it below even the cheap out-of-the-way country-houses in England ; little more than one half of those in villages near London ; and with this important circumstance, that the rent is all that has to be paid for the house ; there are no taxes. To be rated, and so have a vote for the local authorities, is a favour which English residents obtain with difficulty, and which, when obtained, is in its amount little more than nominal. The total cost of the island government, which includes all that corresponds with the parish as well as the state expenditure in England, is defrayed by a small import duty on wines and spirits. By this means the whole expenditure is met, even to that of mending the roads. There is no such thing as a toll-bar on the island. The roads and the port are alike free, with the trifling but sufficient exception just mentioned. hence the striking contrast with the price of similar articles in England. A hundred pounds per annum there is worth at least one hun dred and fifty on the island ; more rather than► less ; for the difference of currency must be added to that already made apparent in our list, and this alone is considerable. The English shilling goes for thirteen pence in Jersey, so that after all the cheapness, when the Londoner comes to the payment, he will be yet more delighted to find, on proffering the account, that he may " take his change out of that." Why is all this ? Not because Jersey is a little island, and Great Britain a large one. No : it is simply because Jersey has, by ancient charter, and for the political purpose of conciliating a people whose natural connexion would rather seem to be with France, the privilege of free trade.. There is the whole secret and mystery of the matter. The diffe rence as to bread, sugar, &c., is what we in England have to pay for monopoly. The bread in Jersey is very good. It is generally made from foreign wheat. There is plenty of home grown corn. The soil is exuberantly fertile. But the Jersians eat bread made from Prussian or Danish corn, and send their own wheat to England : thus buying at the cheap market of free trade, and selling in the dear market of monopoly. For persons of limited incomes, Jersey is a para dise, especially if they like a warm climate. It offers little attraction to the working classes. Whatever perversion may be made of the fact, it is right to mention that wages are low. We see no evidence that the freedom of trade causes this evil ; on the contrary, it mitigates the mischief which it has not prevented. Two reasons for the fact offer themselves to notice ; first, a large influx of poor Irish, those colonists and missionaries of pauperism attracted chiefly by the low price of spirituous liquors. Even the pledged Irish are here out of Father Muthew's sight. And secondly, the prevailing cha racter of the island. The natives do not know what a factory means. Agriculture alone always debases the labourers to serfdom. It is so here. The little tenant-farmers are farmers, labourers, carriers, fisher men, &c., all in one. There must be manufactures to keep up wages. Except shoemaking, for British North America, whither from 10,000 to 20,000 pairs are annually exported, scarcely anything is made in Jersey. And yet the natural produce (especially. of apples for cider), and the foreign trade, render it rich and thriving; the landowners and shipowners being the principal recipients. MADAME TUSSAUD'S. — ThiS delightful exhibition, with its rich and tasteful embellishments, attracted our editorial presence within its gorgeous saloon on Satur day last. The varied objects of interest, including the Napoleon room, in which several well authenticated and interesting relics are deposited, combine to make this one of the most popular and entertaining resorts in Lon don. The great expense lavished upon it, to render its principal features worthy of public patronage, ensures a, full attendance at all times ; and no marvel, for the room in which the figure of George IV. in his corona tion robes is located, may be ranked among the best speci mens of rnochern decoration. The " natural monstrosity," Tom Thumb, is far more agreeable in wax than in propria persona ; and having seen the original, we can pronounce it an excellent representation, while the visitor to this exhibition is not obliged to witness the ri diculous and monkey tricks of the poor little General. An excellent hand, which performs popular quadrilles and waltzes, not forgetting the Polka, is also provided. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—OR Monday, the 9th instant, as a married woman named Davies, from Govi- A l o c p ) .i n e) , enri;; % i ' ag a y s fern p oi r li u3 o , c , on t e ah e ne d d i fi n el g rdis n passinge h ar e r en . through ag way from vk' l r l o o that d ul t o h n e t o w i t wicket elbta bridge, an an adder, which was lying coiled up by the sido of the pathway, sprang at her and fastened on her arm. The terrified woman succeeded in shaking it off, and ran on• wards as fast as she could, but what was her horror to find, when she paused to take breath, that the reptile was in swift pursuit of her, and had well nigh reached her, when fortunately a man came up and succeeded in destroying it. Afterwards, the nest of the adder was found, containing 18 young ones ; the woman, Rho was in a delicate state when the accident occurred, has not yet recovered, and now lies in a dangerous condition.— Hereford Times. The Lancaster archers had their gala day on Thursday. The cup and Sir 11. Fleetwood's gold arrow were won by M. J. Bond ; the bow, won by Mr. E. D. the 1 arrow, won by Mr. Kirkes ; the Salisbury ; ar,,e small arrow, won by Mr. llowitt ; the gold medal, won by Mr. Dodson. The will of the late William lleathcote, Esq , wa s proved in the Prerogative Court, Doctors Commons, on the 19th instant, by John Gregson, Esq., of Bedford row, the sole surviving executor, and the personal estate is sworn to be under 9e0,000/.—Britannia. A TORTOISE CAUG LIT STRATING.—As a fume . ? was proceeding towards his harvest field near lloughton, on Monday last, his attention was attracted to a dark. looking substance on the rota], which seemed to have the power of locomotion. On a closer examination he discovered a freckled head and neck peering out from beneath the shelly substance, which was being moved along by dark little feet, having the appear ance of India-rubber. The farmer naturally stared on seeing so strange a thing, but after some little compunction, timorously seized hold of it, when hie knowledge of natural history informed him that it was a real live tortoise I And a very beautiful and lively little creature it is. It was brought to our office, and on being placed on our editorial desk, manifested an irresistible desire to pry into our inkstand. How it came into the neighbourhood of Iloughton is a mystery ; but as we found, on inquiry, that a quantity of guano had recently been used in a field from which it was " tracked," it is not improbable that it has been imported in a guano laden vessel, and lain hid until the sack in which it was confined was opened.—Carlisle Paper. PROFESSION OF A NUN.—One of those interesting ceremonies, so frequently to be witnessed in this emi nently Catholic country, took place yesterday in the Presentation Convent , Midleton. Thisyoung lady who was there professed is Miss Louisa Daly, daughter of our fellow-citizen, Maurice Daly, Esq., Waterloo-place. The Rev. Dr. Keane, the exemplary pastor of Midleton, officiated in the absence of the venerated Bishop of th* diocese, the Right Rev. 1)r. Crotty. The whole core. mony was conducted with the most if npressive dignity, the professed repeating all the answers in a firm tone of voice, and with remarkable distinctness. A beautiful sermon approprite to the solemn ceremony, was preached by the Rev. John Browne, of this city, who took his texts from the 115th Psalm. A great number of the friends of the young nun, together with many of the clergy of' the su rrounding parishes, were present, and at the ee1.... mony, partook of a splendid breakfast which had beem laid out in the largest apartment of the building.—Cerk Erawilier. MESMERISM.—The Leiesier Journal says :—Oa Friday last the Duke of Rutland, Earl Howe, mid C. W. Parke, Esq, M.P., visited Mary Anne Lakin, the young woman whose thigh was amputated while under mein merle influence. They were also accompanied by Dr. Shaw, - - --, s