The Sun. — London, England, 1851-07-24 00:00:00

• • SOUTHALL, JULY 23 —To-day's markcV/M,ly., supplied with each kind of stc, , ek, in which ti!,' shams was transacted at full prices :—Beef,rf4A4-',,* 35 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s to 43 - - 38 to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 814, offals. ' ' • 4 ROMFORD, JULY 23.—G€'nerally speakir.g, the de mand ruled steady at full rates of earn any: Beef, from 2s 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 3s to 4s; Lamb, 4s to ss; Veal, 35 to 3s 6,i; Pork, 3s to 33 6d per Sibs. Suck ling Calves, 18s to 20s. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 193 each. LEWES, JULY 22.—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s; Mutton, Ss 4d to 4s;Lamb, 45 to ss; Veal, 3i to 33 8a per Sibs, a moderate supply and a steady trade. COAL MARY 13 .ET.— i 3 ate's West Hartley.. sOd Hetton YESTERDAY. 14s 93 Carr's Hartley ..... ... 13s 63 Haswell Dayison'sWestllartley 13s 63 Scarborough l3s 3d /toward's W. H. Neth. 13e 63 .I.,„imbton North Percy Hartley.. 13s 03 Lumley l3, 3d Redhugh Main Eavensworth'sW. Hart 13s 6d Stewart's Tanfield Moor ......... 12s 9d Whitwell ..... Townley Jonassohns Hartley ... 12s 9(l!Heugh Hall West Wyl am Windsor's Pontop l 2s Od Kelloe .. I4s 6d Wall's End, &c. i South Kelloe ... 138 6d Acorn Close Brown ... l2s 3d West Kelloe Gosforth .. Hilda ... 13s OriAdelaide Tees Northumberland Original Gibson Walker l2s 9d;Birchg. Graigola Eden Main ...... ...... 13s 6d!Cowpen Hartley Pensher l3s 3d Sidney's Hartley Braddyll Ships at market, 165 .....Sold, 116. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended July 17, 1851, made up from tho Returns of the Inspectors in the different Citiesand Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WI:MAT. 'BARLEY. OATS. I RYE. I BEANS. FEAS• PRICE .. 1 42e 7d 125 u Gdl 2ls lid 28s 2d I 31s 5,1 118 s 6J DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. WHEAT. I BAILEE. I OATS. BYE. I I BEANS. PEAS. Is Od is Od is Od Is Od is Od ls 0:1 QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD IN THE PAST WEEK. Wheat, 51,264 ; Barley, 1,807 ; Oats, 6,259 ; Rye, 87 ; Beans, 1,813 ; Peas, 340 quarters. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BtJRCHELL.) DREW V. BORCHARDT. This was an action to recover the balance of three quarters' rent of premises in the Grange-road, Ber mondsey. Defendant pleaded that ho was not indebted. On the part of the plaintiff evidence was adduced to Show that the defendant had occupied the premises in question from CNristants 1849 to September 1851. When a PPlied to for tto) first quarter's rent, he positively re fused to pay, on the ground that the plaintiff was not the landlord of the premises; and on the second quarter's rent becoming due, he refused to pay unless certain re- Pairs were dune to the premises, and ho left before the thrd quarter was due, but had paid some money on ac count, and subsequently offered 61. to liquidate the arrears. For the defendant a letter was put in with the view of showing that plaintiff was not the landlord, but Merely an agent; but this was rebutted by evidence to °hew that plaintiff was now entitled to the property by purchase. The UNDER•SHERIFF said that the only question tenant whether t h ere was th e re l a ti ons hip o f l an dl or d an d *enant between the parties. It was quite clear that al• though at first defendant had objected to plaintiff's title, let afterwards h e a b a ndoned th a t and raised anothe r objection, and actually paid money on account. The Jury had nothing to do with the title as the case Stood. , 411 0 jury gave a verdict for the amount claimed. The other cases were undefended. BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Mary Cohan, a decent-looking matronly woman, about fif ty years of age, was charged (upon remand) before Mr. Hall, with stealing a gold ring of the value of 125., two silk haulkerchiets, and various other arti cles, the property of Anne Dean, of 5, James-street, Covent-garden. The prisoner had lived soma time as servant to Mrs. Dean ' who is the wife of a salesman in Covent• g ard en Market. Prisoner was dismissed for inability to do her Work, and atter her leaving the gold ring and several Cards of address were missed from a box, in which they Were locked up a few minutes before she left, and missed as soon after, no one else having had access to the room in the mean time. From the same apartment, at the same time, the other property also disappeared. In formation was given to the police, who took her into custody. In her possession were found the address cards taken from the box with the ring, also a pair of stockings belonging to prosecutor, but no other part of the property stolen. It had attracted attention at her departure, that although her own property was not supposed to be bulky, she required a porter to take away her luggage. The prisoner was remanded for further search to be made, but as nothing more was discovered, Mr. HALL deemed the evidence not sufficient, and discharg e d her. lIE _R MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Zerlina; ou la Corbeilled'Oranges, the latent of Anber's o'Peras, which was only produces at the Grand Opera in Paris on the 16th of May, was performed here for the first time on Tuesday evening. The opera was com posed expressly for Alboni, who sustained the part of Zerlina, as she had previously done in Paris. Madlle. N l lan made her first appearance cn the boards of her Ma y's Theatre in the character of Jemma, also her original c h aracter at t h e G ran d O pera . Th e scene o f Zerlina is laid at Palermo, and when the curtain rises I ve discover a view of the fruit market of Palermo, With the sea, in the distance, with fruiasellers sitting before their stalls, and Lazzaroni lazily stretched u pon the groun d , some s l eep i ng, some eat i ng maccaron i. L ,"° Opera op ens w i t h a c h orus o f L azzaron i iu pr a ise Of the dolce far nienle, which is so dear to the soul of Va s •. i nhabitants of the south—this is replied to by an ,°b.inrs;atory chorus of the fruit women. They are ins g r rup - ted by the entrance of Prince Boccanera (Signor ts et /Phii) from the palace ; he is is the Prime Minister, , r ,"ah as married the sister of the King, who leads him a ;Zei,nis life; the maxim of this amiable Princess ~11-!11110. Feller) being ~ I will what I will, because I hi ts " , a theory which in practice she carries out to is utmost extent. The Prince, in the midst of *j a ys uplendour, sighs for the days when he lived I v a" :als dear Zerlina, the companion of his youth, 111110, although only an orange merchant, made him h ~°3', and whose daughter Jemma (Madlle. Neu), he 11 4 ,4 ,1 awl living with him, passing her off as his niece, 44 ` 5 4 ndeavouring to bring about a match between her 4 the Prince do Butters, a rich but silly gentleman. i ss 4 s hi p appro ac h es , an d the Prince ret i res i nto his pa as,;• From this ship Z er li na (Madlle. Alboni) descends ‘.! regards with sil ent emot i on her native Sicily, from h she had been torn fifteen years before by a Bar atta ws Y (;orsair. The sir " 0 Palermo, o mia Sicilia," , a 's e rendered deliciously by Alboni, and was the"m mg eh h applauded. Whilst she has been singing b 8 ailors have been landing from the ship several I.. .xes, o f oran ges, which they arrange for her, when she her asked by the fruit wom, n, who refuse to permit 1 1 : t 0 establish herself in the market-place; she is, ' 4 "we ver, rescued from their fury by Rodollo (Calaolari), Ytotang offier, and having secured her statioa in the "" 1 k Est hh , ences ber song, " Dolci frutta, aranci I, e llltti e ~ svhcicehLimsrathe song of the opera, and which, as one of those 1, 4 1 8 _,Ev id Yesterday, will no doubt be heard upon every 4' l Organ in our streets. The melody is i tts ` r ig tunes that once heard can never be forgotten, itt:, h aunts one perpetually ; it is intr o d uce d p art the overture, and it plays a principal of it in the opera, in which snatches of and In'e constantly introduced. The Princess enters, , laving received a note handed to her by a black n 71 ,9 which she tears up and throws on the ground, pur- Rold, the p • black boy, ea an orange of Zerlina, for which she gives her sad . Princess hands the orange to the 13tttti, -quits the scene, while the curious Zerlina, that i ' t g. together the fragments of the letter, perceives ~ ace of which an appointment of a rendezvous, of the accept her °I W hich an orange is the sign, and recommences 1 , 11 40 8°11 " Dolci frutta " Jemma (Mademoiselle t il 84 .1 b e e r l e Ors sil ls a 11 often sung %atm * ~ ~ to her in her infancy. She ow s , d ._ a-40mila co s „ j'em.gthter, noes beco me a princess, recognises in Jemma he s ° ' lll l h herself , ors_n ice obtains permission to serve the palace , 7 Isl:adlla,eskltaand wivout di . "it rod ue c i It is in this scene that the " Dolci frutta' a duet,' and it was exquisitely rendered ti, e 4,, ad z„ li b °ni and Madlle. Nau. In the second act at Jerr lize n % in the p a l ace , w h en s h e soon d i scovers ."" 10. reed to who is in love with Rodolfo, is about to tote ;s ea tr , se rearry the Prince do Buttura, and she _ettkes hers !dead the lovers ; she joins Bcccanera, r Joic ed . ts 'lt known to him, who, to do him justice, is t hat h e )..._ See her, and from him obtains a promise ttosi o l f will consent to Jemma a mrriage with be , ° Provided the consent of the Princess can übeill:zulleb,t2thistayet,." Th ei,,,,toured to breaking off th match with Buttura. A suci ' a e ieie e una madre," was seccaa n • J G i ven ItibUn i• In the third act Zerlina is 4,^' isos iu the Princess the purchaser of the orange Rirr: e a ra , ruing, and having attired Jemma as an orange 0r ... _ tve to her, after With. marriage o her 44 gas to the Princess, , presenting a basket of vs ith li,,odolfo, to ask her consent to to all °r ange, to and presenting her 1 thlte astoaishm meta ' I know all," and the Princess, 1 l i lttpsty. The .the of all, consents to make the lovers °lle of the le' " Vittoria oh estremo guibbilo," bravura Alt iiii., _ . moat marvellous specimens of Alt mai ex h it Zi e n d g ever heard ; never lass and never has the greater brilliancy or flexibility, tam, e wonderful' Marvellous compass of her voice been With a hurricaneY shovvn. It brought down the curtain it disle ti of s . r a l i ment in u w P l l l 3l Quse. In the third act there is 4 most quaint and n !eh is introduced a Chinese pas of ~eoved. At the oval character, which was deservedly thre e times called ocnonclusioThe n of the opera Alboui was house was crowded -------______—. • tilos , ._ ERTY-TAX, C 'lnPortant that it sh LsaMS OF EXEMPTION.—It is e_X•eraptien as not ould be known that persons entitled to the htto desire to clai possessing incomes of 1501. a year, and claithree years tomtheetiptahyinfent of property-tax for any of April, 1851, must forward their th e l ' ls to the surveyor) _ Y respectivel r ' s of taxes for the districts in which aext, otherwise y eside on cr before the 10th of October ()RA the claims will not be admitted. A , , U.TER-reOUSE. The Rev Henry Hayman, m asters Fellow of St Joan's College,. of the .. and one of the present ford, has b schools (responsions)in the University of ox aotis, ' been appointed an assistant • l i Charter- School ' to succeed, Christmas, -master in nextthe ead e , ALA_ lately 4raersetshirel THE SUN, Ayi ..- li_isti 1, ` G {7 T. I .* l4 Ns) . 14 (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. Thek'SPEAKER took the Chair, in the New House, Twelve o'clock. The House has been very materially altered and im. proved. The stained-glass windows have been put in, the roof has been lowered and made concave, instead of being flat, and it has bien elegantly ornamented. The hearing has been much improved, and in every resreet the House is now vuited to the purpo,e for which it is intended. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presentee, prayiti_v, for the re tention of the Crystal Palace. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from Birmingham in favour of the continental penny postage. Lord DUDLEY STUART presented a petition from a pariah in the metropolis against th 3 abolition of the office of coroner. _ Mr. CHRISTOPDER presented a petition from Lin colnshire aaainst the Registration of Assurances Bill. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from a solicitor in Durham, complaining of certain provisions of the County Courts Act. NATIONAL GALLERY. In reply to a question from Mr. V. SMITH, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, means had been adopted to secure a site for the future national gallery. He believed every one was agreed that for the preservation of the pictures they ahould be re moved from the present gallery. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL. . . This Bill, with the appropriotien clause, passed through Committee, and the report was ordered to bc read to morrow. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee on this Bill— Mr. BERNAL in the chair. On the 6th clause being moved, Mr. REYNOLDS moved the Hlowing proviso:— Provided always, that in every dispensary, district, and other charity where only one medical officer shall be ap pointed, every such officer shall be required to possess the double qualification of either " physican and sur geon." or of " apothecary and surgeon." Sir W. SOMERVILLE opposed the proviso. Mr. WHITESIDE supported it. After some discussion the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the proviso Against it Majority ... The proviso was accordingly lost. ... 65 ... -59 (LEFT SITTING.) EARLIEST STEAM NA LIGATION. The first laurel, in connexion with steam naviga tion, certainly belongs to Robert Fulton, who formed the most useful and beautiful art of steam navigation, partly on his own discoveries, partly on the abortive or unprofitable experiments of others. Fulton was a na tive of the state of Pennsylvania, and was born in the township of Little Britain, and county of Lancaster. in that great state, in the year 1766. All that his pa rents were able to give him was the rudiments of a com mon English education; his own inventive genius and unweared perseverence did the rest. He cane to Eu rope soon after he had reached manhood, and spent several years either in this country or France, lebourieg amidst every discouragement to carry out a variety of ingenious projects of his own invention. He com menced his experiments in steam navigation as early as tho year 1793, but laid them aside, for objects less worthy of his attention, until about the year 1803 ; when Mr. Livingston, the American ambassa dor at Paris, and afterwards his most liberal patron and firtm st friend, strongly urged him to renew them. After tr 3 ing experiments on a small scale, on models of his own inventicu, it was understood that he had developed the true principle on which steam-boats should be built, and for want of a know ledge of which all previous experiments had faded. But as Le and Mr. Livingston both know that many things which are apparently perfect when tried on a small scale, fail when reduced to practice on a large one, they determined to go to the expense of building an operating boat upon the Seine. This was done in the year 1803, at their joint expense, under the direction of Fulton, and so fully evinced the justice of his prin ciples, that it was immediately determined to enrich their country by their valuable discoveries, as soon as they should meet there, and, in the meantime, to order an engine to be made in England. This engine was accordingly made for them by Bolton and Watt ; and on their arrival in the United States, in the year 1806, they immediately engaged in building a boat, of what was then considered very considerable diruen:. sions. This boat began to navigate the Hudson river, between New York and Albany, in the year 1807: its progress through the water was at the rate of five miles an hour. In the course of the ensuing winter it was enlarged to a boat of 140 feet heel and 16i feet beam. * * * The death of Fulton happened in the year 1815. He lived long enough for fame, but not for fortune. He died before his great discovery had re turned him any profit, and at a time when he was in volved in a troublesome litigation in defence of his rights. It was derided before ho perfected his discovery, and plundered afterwards. Steam navigation was first introduced on the Missis sippi, the great river of the west, in the year 1811, and into Great Britain, on the river Clyde, by Henry Bell, in the year 1812. In October, 1813, there were three vessels of this kind plying on the river Clyde between Glasgow and Greenock, and they were so much used that they had driven four of the eight coaches, which ran before, off the road. The fare was five shillings in the after cabin, and in the fore cabin half a crown. In the year 1813 steam navigation was introduced on the river Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth. The steamer used on that river was built at Leeds by Messrs. Fenton, Murray, and Wood, and was launched in the month of July. In the same month two other steamers were launched, one at Manchester and the other at Bristol. In the month of October, 1814, the first steam-boat was introduced on the Hum ber, and in December, 1814, on the river Thames. In May, 1815, it was first announced that a steamer was about to be introduced on the river Mersey; and in the month of June the first steamer arrived from the Clyde. "On Wednesday last," says the Liver pool Mercury, of the 30th June, " about noon, the public curiosity was considerably excited, by the arrival of the first steam-boat ever seen on our river. She came from the Clyde, and in the passage called at Ram sey, in the Isle of Man, which place she left early in the same morning. We believe that she is intended to ply between this port and Runcorn, or even occasionally as far as Warrington. Her cabin will contain about 100 nassengers."—Baines's .History of Liverpool, Sec. VI., just published. PLYMOUTH, JULY 22.—Yesterday afternoon a man named Robert Hodge, the driver of a fly, entered the house occupied by his sister in Claremont-street, in this town, and after being there a few minutes asked his sister to give him some hot water for him to mix some Epsom salts in. This she did, and the man opened a small paper parcel and mixed what appeared to be about two ounces of salts in the water, and drank off the contents. He then got up and bid his sisters good by, and kissed them. He was about to do the same to his sister- in-law, when she seemed to be struck by the act, and said, " Nonsense ! you are not going out !" She then closed the door, and asked him what it was that he had drunk. , He said it was salts; but on her telling him that she did not believe it, he said, " Well, it's no use now, it is oxalic acid." Upon hearing that, the sisters sent off for a medical man. Meantime Hodge lay down on the floor in great pain, and before the doctor could arrive he ex pired. While he was lying on the floor he said "it was all through her," alludin ,, to his wife, who had lefc, him, and is said to be living witlfanother man in Kent. The poor fel low also added, that the world was nothing to him now. He was about thirty-two years of age, and was a healthy, good looking man. THE MAN WllO STAYED OUT AT NIGHT I .—A recent solely , number of Chanzbers's Journal has an amusing sketch illus trative of the groundless imputations so often thrown upon individuals by those who judge of the characters of others by appearances. It is the case of a gentleman named touchingly Thereuponpbai Wiliiams home only ? stays out every night till late hours, coming e and haggard, when " daylight doth appear." wife, condemned to her brute of a husband is opposite neighbour, Mrs. Pry, or Mrs. Bray brooke,laments the condition of " his dear little or passing his time so many tedious hours alone, whilst inand is drinking at the tavern, gambling, be ; breakfasting at any company . but that where he should nation, however, it noon,turns out and dining at night " On expla oaunt.hat the offender's late hours are more his misfortue ath word --he fault—his work begins when other people' sends—inar t withi cu l t a h r e is the Editor of a Morning Paper ! A young lieutenant of - Vendee, was accustomed TRAGICAL stationedALCißcuaAtlS.NTaApNoCkEo.n se i :: ent of the persons a regiment . daughterand he established tao sentimentaltak e his ci who keep the shop, a pretty gill of A few days ago, he found the girl alone, and, after some conversation, gcaorn at connexion n p gave her a kiss. Th e mother came in at the moment, and, thinking that the matter had gone further,cried that he had dishonoured her da u g hter, and that he i ust marry her. w Fie assured her she as mistaken, and she at last consented to allow him to continue to s ee her daughter, but o nly her presence. Next morning the two brothers of the Li' ) of whom is a sergeant in an in fantr y regiment, went to tne him before he was out of bed, and dec lared that as he had dis honoured their sister, he should sign a promise to marry her. He refused to take such an engagement under con straint; whereupon they both disch ar g ed their pistols at him. The hall of one smashed a finger—that of the other entered the breast. The two young men then hurried to their mother, and said, " 'We have killed him, They then gave themselves into custody. The wonnds of the officer are not serious.— Galignani's Messenger. SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived here this after noon by the South-Western Railway, and embarked on board the Fairy for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness was received by Captain Peacock and Mr. John Levy, the principal officers of the docks, and these gentle men bad the honour of being presented to the Duchess, who was attended by Sir George Cooper and Lady Augusta Bruce. MANKS' WALKING EXPLOlT. — Richard Minks still perseveres in his arduous task. He is cheerful and confident. During the past week his appetite is improved. His weight is said to be now about nine stones. During the day his half -mile is often accomplished in 5 min. 12 sec., but in the night he commonly occupies eight to nine minutes. The 1,000 half-miles will be completed on the morning of Friday, the 25th July, when Minks enters upon the third part of his task-1,00,) miles in 1,000 hours. He has even issued a pro posal to make the distance for the last 1,000 hours 2,000 in stead of 1,000 miles.— Sheffield Independent. From communications appearing in the Arbroath Guide, it appe,rs that the Kirk Sessions there are inflicting " discipline " on persons found guilty of walking on Sun day !-6'cotsman. LONDON, LITERAT LIRE THE CUP AND THE LIP. A IV ovel. By Laura Jewry. 3 Vols. T. C. Newby. Remembering, as we do, the charming tales already contributed by Miss Laura Jewry to our imaginative literature, it is impossible not to welcome her present volumes with a very genuine satisfaction. Those who happen to be already familiar with her produc tions need from us, in their regard, no syllable of recommendation. It is to others, therefore, that we should feel disposed to commend that beautiful story of " The Ransom," in which our authoress first re vealed her powers as a romancist, adventuring even into those regions which had already been peopled by the fictitious creations of Sir Walter Scott, and pene trating, not over-rashly as it proved, into the wilder nesses and sanctuaries of Palestine. Subsequently Miss Jewry contented herself with the unravelling of a plot, the principal figures in which were brought forward the more prominently and appreciably from the circumstance of their being surrounded by the green and sunny groundwork of an English land scape. Vindicating her capabilities as a domestic novelist in " Kirkeholme Priory," our authoress re verted in her next effusion to her favourite fields of romance, blending together, in " The Forest and the Fortress," the vitality derived from events which had actually transpired in recent times, and the fasci nation inseparable from a career of astonishing and almost fabulous vicissitudes. In the rugged but chivalric nature of Kara George, the Gospo.dar of Servia, her genius discovered a theme worthy of delineation and congenial to her sensibilities, it was, therefore, with peculiar evidences of vigour in regard to the conception, and of delicacy in regard to the portraiture of character in that fiction, that Miss Jewry recounted in words of mingled pathos and passion the chequered fortunes of her hero, and t he fluctuating time; in which he lived and—perished. HEr fancy appeared to derive a new enthusiasm from the unfrequented scenes selected by her for descrip tion, and you could perceive in the pauses, and some times in the apparently capricious movements of her narrative, the delight with which she now lingered among the plum orchards of the Servian village, or plunged the reader again into the anguish of a campaign, or into the torments of a bombardment. 'Round several of the more fanci ful among her dramatis personw, 'round that dainty little bijou of a Turkish Blaiden Shirine, for example, she seemed to fling all the stores of her invention— at all times abundant—but never more conspicuously displayed than in these instances of fitful predilection. Hence, it was possibly from this sense of unfettered fancy and untrammelled imagination that she suc ceeded in investing her latest romance with a charm kindred in force as well as in description with the interest originally thrown by her delightful sty le and exhilarating earnestness over her first exquisite story of " The Ransom." Another fiction, designated according to the present title-page " The Vassal," owes to her mind its authorship, but never having, to our recol lection, perused it, we cannot, of course, pronounce it either to be worthy or unworthy of its write r ' s re . . putation. Our decision in this regard has fortunately to be expressed upon a work more within the range of our comprehension—namely, upon the three vo lumes whose title, as above intimated, has been sug gested by a venerable proverb. " Many a slip 'twixt the cup and lip," is a phrase which experience has yielded not alone to our mother tongue, but with equal certainty of appreciation to all the various languages of Christendom. Its import we all feel at once to be sorrowful. Prefixed to a narra tive like the present, consequently, it implies that the tale that is told is one marred by a bitter and melancholy termination. Intelligent readers might sententiously remind us, in the words of Hamlet, "It needs no ghost to tell us that ;" but, obvious though the fact is, it nevertheless requires some mention from the reviewer, inasmuch as it in dicates on his part the breaking of no confidence when alluding to the mournful conclusion. If every title page is the housefront of a work, that of the novel here submitted to our criticism bears about it (in its very name) an escutcheon. In this we cannot but think that there is a lack, somewhat of artistic fore thought. Bearing the sombre title of the volumes in his remembrance, the reader sits down to their exa , ruination with an unsatisfactory premonition of disappointment as to the catastrophe. Not that we would hamper any novelist with a rule compelling him to select only names of bewildering obscurity, such as may be seen in "The Scarlet Letter" of Na thaniel Hawthorne. Neither that we would debar him from the privilege of recounting a tale whose close is one not of rejoicing but of lamentation. All that we can possibly object to in the graceful heading of the volumes just published from the manuscripts of our authoress is the circumstance that it removes in a great measure that veil of doubt and mystery which diffuses over " the novel" its indescribable attraction. Not that we enter any protest whatever against the employment of the more tragic materials by the writer of fiction, regarding those materials as the integral substance of many of the chief masterpieces in our so-called light literature. Scott, for example, has penned no more enthralling tale than that " Bride of Lammermooor " which ends in lunacy and blood shed. Dickens has never surpassed in pathos or popu larity that " Old Curiosity Shop," in which the death of Little Nell falls upon the heart of the reader like the pang of some home calamity. Bulwer Lytton again, has never, even in his various manifesta tions of power, excelled in energy or in eloquence, that luminous and mystic " Zanoni," in which the last scene is the rolling of the tumbril to the guillotine. Our authoress has, doubtless, felt the reality of this secret vigour in the sorrowful, and has availed herself of the truth of which it is suggestive. Her only error appears to us to be the circumstance of her letting her readers at the very outset into the secret, by means of the clue discoverable on the title-page. Instead of wandering discursively among the wild woods of romance, Miss Jewry has, for this while at least, as in "Kirkhohne Priory," sauntered among the trim hedgerows of reality , —a reality so common place in its kind, that to an ordi nary observer it would present no features whatever worthy of delineation. " The Cup and the Lip" is a story of everyday life, developed among everyday people, acted in scenes with which we are all of us familiar, in the streets of London and in' the gardens of a country village. We remember somewhere in a preface to one of his lively little books of pleasantry, Albert Smith likened society to a very shallow stream indeed, remarking that he restricted himself in his writings to floating among the water-lilies on the surface, and not to diving among the drowned cats and potsherds at the bottom. Another moment's reflection is sufficient to remind us in addition to this, that society, though a stream shallow enough in the long run (and we say this without any coxcombical effort at a pun) has in it here and there abysses unfa thomable in their depth, inscrutable in their purpose, and impenetrable in their character. Now, what we are especially led to admire in Miss Jewry's fiction of " The Cup and the Lip," is the tact that she contents herself with no mere surface writing, with no ignoring of the abomi nations hidden from the sight of the merely superficial spectator, but that, viewing all, the good and the bad, alike with the same impartiality, she has the courage in addition to this to point out steadily and strongly some of those dark abysses to which we have alluded, abysses most of them of villauous criminality. Thus it happens that among the imaginary indivi duals pourtrayed in the present volumes we discover the virtuous and the vicious, the generous and the dastardly, the pure and stainless maiden, the-profli gate and degraded adventuress, the villain without a qualm in the midst of his atrocities, and the gentle hearted and noble-minded man to whom honour is as a talisman and probity as a breastplate. From all sections of the community—from the most exemplary and the most detestable—the novelist, with a just estimate cf her responsibilities as an in culcator of morality, has chosen the types of vice and of virtue as they exist among our population. In this she has acted according to the custom rendered popular by all the masters of fiction from the chequered nar ratives of Le Sage to the grim and ghastly revelations of Balzac, from the sentimental love stories of Ri chardson to the sour-visaged satires of Thackeray. The novel before U 3 opens very gracefully in a sum mer's morning on the sea shore near the beautiful little watering place Hastings. The forms first de picted are those of Edward Neill), a young naval lieutenant, and his wife Fanny. Fanny, however, is not the heroine, that dignity being reserved for her daughter Dolores. The last-mentioned character is perhapS the most beautiful Miss Jewry has yet de picted, and around it consequently is con centrated the main interest of the tale. It is to the lip of Dolores that the cup is raised so frequently only to be dashed away before eti, shehoe he t f g ero n u i uve a ne 0 1 t g oat e - sr nts t ri . ience the writer has christened her work by its p resent designation. Although by no means s i pretty, D o l ores, by the sweetness of her temperamen t, all l a u n e Ag n e c ul e voa iii gi e h t yehreorfbsepuheiatrlosfrosnt,hatgeheehsre,eafours.trsce ,may h for e s x c a o n b l e p i , s w t a he rrn fia;caarltleyd but Cecil, w e t a h k e . m g i n o d o c e l d - n aLu a r j ed , the Major Simpson, and the noble souled but ill doomed Walter Livingstone, to say nothi ng o f her enthusiast i c ad mirers, generous t)aronet, sir little tutor,i Henry M h Bernard, to the egay youngmheWinchester. ' frot Walter is the hero around who se s t eps are t h rown an enthralling but painful i n t erest , hi s desti nies btieg the source at once of all the joys and all the sorrows of Dolores. Furth er canno t be said in his regard w i t h out prematurely disclosing I,niecoeot threadtlliol to 'e t o i ' l h i tol a plot,llee r ‘ u ''' ruffianly its princip a l a tt rac ti on. M ark Wood, and ther e by marr i ng i n refer ence fellow enough, and a mur derer to boot, is very far indeed from being the most repulsive individual in the novel, his atrocities being i surpesed,by the wanton profligacy of Mrs. Smith, by the cold-blooded poisonings of the woman in the TIITJRSDAY mill, and by the diabolloal callousness and villany of Cecil, the cousin of Walter Livingstone. E is sa tisfactory to turn from the contemplation of wretches like these to beinas as charmi ng as "d ear A un t K at i e, " saddened though' her history is by her ill-assorted marriage with Richard Kerr; as the fascinating little Mrs. Cloward, darkened as her life is by the tem porary faithlessness of her husband; or as the excellent Mr. March, doomed though he be to see his most cherished hops unrealized until after many severe and poignant disappointments. Pleasant faces are all those grouped together in the ilelme Glen, and ulti mately too within the long-deserted walls of Greenfel. A delightful episode to the main narrative is the ac count of the love passages between " Beauty and the Beast," between the graceful Plosay and her, " great ugly giant," Harry Crawford. Here and there throughout the volumes we come upon dainty little vignettes of English scenery such as the following, where, immediately before the first melancholy cala mity in the work, it is said—" The evening was one of delicate and poetic beauty. There was a balmy freshness in the soft air,•—a shadow, where clouds had melted on the soft sky,--a fading hue of rose where the sun had set between the elms, contrasting exqui sitely with their tender green foliage, not yet fully opened,—a purple haze hung upon the old castle ruins, and the varied shadows of the cliff ; and gloriously majestic rolled the blue sea below, uttering a deep murmur as if secretly troubled, in that low but pecu liar key which reaches the ear at a distance, and in which I have often heard it from that very hill, mourn, as it were, before a coming storm." Sweet though the description is, it is but the prelude to an assassi nation. Elsewhere speaking of the manner in which the sunset is celebrated at sea, the Day God's "nightly abdication of empire" being acknow ledged by the salute of a cannon discharged from the guardships and batteries, and by the universal sinking of the flags, the authoress says, very thought fully, " I think there is something very poetical in life on the sea ; such homage is paid to Nature— such a profound tense of the existence of another and spiritual creation is manifest in those who live thus amongst the variable and mighty elements, that they appear another race from our peasantry, who know few changes but those enacted by the yearly seasons." Throughout the entire of the three volumes we re cognise the graces of a fluent and bewitching style, so that the stcry itself is clothed in the most agreeable adornment. From what we have already observed it must be evident that we regard "The Cup and the Lip" as a seasonable offering to the novel-readers of England, if it does not actually appear to us indica tive of an imp rovemen t i n th e p owers of Miss Jewry, as a writer of imagination. THE QUARTERLIES. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CXCI. Curiosities of literature are again admitted into the pages of the Edinburgh, curiosities gratifying both to the philologist and the topographer. Disraeli the elder might have perused two of the contributions in the current number not without instruction, and cer - tainly not without interest. One relates to various recent editions of " The Greek Text of the New Testament," published severally i n P russ i a , at Leipsic, and at London. An o th e r r e f e r s t o th e re li cs still remaining of the residence of the "Romans in Britain," a study recently illustrated by discoveries of the ancient wall running from the Tyne to the Solway, as well as by the antiquities found at Rich borough, Reculver, Lymme, Caerleon, and Ciren cester. Together with these singular chapters on architecture and bibliography, we perceive in the July quarter of the Edinburgh elucidative comments on the annals of a past race, as suggested Ly " Grote's History of Greece," and others on the achievements of a great nation still living and flourishing, as sug gested by " Johnston's Notes on North America." Besides an enthralling paper on the progress and ex tent of "Modern Chemistry," there are remarks, moreover, of a peculiarly suggestive nature on the subject of railway management, in regard to "Fatal Accidents," and how far they may be regarded as preventible. A foreign politician has contrived to elicit from the critic some allusion to his country 's stores of romance, as may be seen by reference to the review on " Pulsky's Tales and Traditions of Hun gary": and, as may be observed from the notice of " Sir E. L. Bulwer Lytton's Letters to John Bull," an illustrious novelist of our own land has provoked an argument from the chief of the quarterlies upon a political quarrel of no less interest than that carried on between the Free-traders and Protectionists. Be sides these articles there are t w o oth ers o f a bio graphical character, possessing very considerable though very opposite attractions, one recounting the career of " William Penn," and the other that of " Hartley Coleridge." The last-mentioned we can not but view as somewhat melancholy in its tone, 'lnd as one calculated to leave a regretful feeling on the remembrance. Born at Clevedon on the 19th of September, 1796, the son of that gifted poet who had chaunted the lay of the " Ancient Mariner," told the weird story of " Christabel," and sung the exquisite love ditty of " Genevieve," Hartley was nurtured as the pet of his uncle Southey, and of his father's companion Wordsworth, besides enjoying the friendship in his early years of such men as Sir George Beaumont, of Professor Wilson, of Basil Montague, of Lloyd, and of De Quincey. Underthe survey of Intel lects like those he passed from childhood to boyhood, from boyhood to manhood, and from manhood on to that period when, in the same familiar haunts of his in fancy, be still up to the last paced irregularly about, " with a vague grace caught in some stream of thought, with feet that seemed almost unable to keep their hold of th e g r oun d, ex t en ded arms, a glowi▪ ng cheek, and an eye still youthful, flashing beneath long white locks that fl oa t e d on th e a ir." The description is apparently as f a ithf u l as it i s unquestionably pic▪ • turesque. In the cou r se o f ce rtain disquisitions on the theme that day-dreaming is injurious to poetry, the reviewer says very ingeniously "the knowledge of what is and of what ought to be are the two opposed wings upon which the poetic mind rises; and the breadth of pinion at each side must be equal if the flight is to be sustained." These remarks, we may observe, are elicited by refer en c e t o Hartley Coleridge's wondrous and fantastic day-dreams anent " Ejuxria. The poet, and the son of a poet, here celebrated, breathed his last on the 6th of January, 1849, his departure being thus beautifully recorded by the re viewer "Ills death, like his life, was an evil conquered by good. Falling upon him as it were accidentally, it seems not more suddenly to have brought to nought his intellectual designs than it brought to bear the fruits of the spirit. It was also attended by the external conso lations, which neither high station nor intellectual pros perity can command. Among the anecdotes of states men few are more interesting than that which records the death of Pitt. The hand, which had so long sus tained the sceptre of his country, found no hand to clasp it in death. By friends and by servants he was alike deserted; and a stranger wandering oa from room to room of a deserted house, came at last by chance to a chamber, untended but not unquiet, in which the great minister lay, alone and dead. It was otherwise with the ' luckless,' but' well-loved, man of genius. For miles round in the valleys, as he lay dying, there was not one who had not time to think of him. Four physicians sat round a poor man's bed; and strangers contended with kinsfolk for the privilege of nursing him." Among the admirable powers of Hartley Coleridge the curiosa felicitas verborum is shown to be conspi cuous by quoting his inimitable definition of Donne's poetry, where he says— " Thus Donne, not first, but greatest of the line," Of stubborn thoughts a garland thought to twine; To his fair maid brought cabalistic posies, And sung quaint ditties of metempsychosis, Twists iron pokers into true-love knots, Coining hard words not found in polyglots." Speaking of the unquestionable disappointment which the hope of Ilartley's friends experienced, the Edin burgh remarks very truthfully, "He would have doubtless been a greater poet if he had been less ex• elusively a poet; for the stronger, and therefore the loftier the stem, the higher will its blossom and fruit age wave in the air." Commenting upon the Pro tectionist arguments recently advanced by Sir Ed ward Bulwer Lytton, another of the Edinburgh re viewers observes rather strangely as follows. He has spoken already uf certain candidates for the suffrages of the electors belonging to the country party, and thus continues : _ _ " Among these anglers for agriculturel votes is to be found one who was once counted on the side of th e F rce- Traders. Sir Edward Balwer Lytton is a g ent l eman who has undeniable pretensions to take his seat among our legislators. Since he last enjoyed that honour, he has become a considerable landowner, and it is under stood to be his present ambition—a very natural one-- to represent in Parliament the county in which his pro perty is situated, comprising a constituency whose inte rests are thought to be bound up with those of the order to which he now belongs. The conversion to their ranks of a man of note, such as Sir Edward Lytton, is an event of some importance to the advocates of Pro tection, who may fairly expect that it will be followed by further accessions to their numbers." The fact is here altogether overlooked, that the Pro tectionists have no reason whatever to entertain these very illusory and extravagant hopes, seeing that Sir Edward BuiWer Lytton is, in truth, no convert at all to their ideaa!of political economy, having throughout the whole of )iis political career entertained the same notion in regard to native agriculture as those re cently expressed by him in his " Letters to John Bull." Of this the votes of the House of Com mons, during the time he continued to e n j oy t h e pri vileges of a representative of the pe o pl e, may be regarded as affording sufficient and conclusive testi mony. The review of "Dixon's Lif e o f P enn " is worth turning to, andwill amply repay curiosity, seeing that in it the critic steps forwa r d as the advo cate of the views advancedin regard to this same so called mythical personage . by Mr. Macaulay, in the second volume of his "History of England." Upon this subject the arguments of the Edihbu rg h appear to us to be somewhat tinged with a colour of special pleading.. Altogether, nevertheless, the current number of this chieftain among the Quarterlies is _ _, s..:r J L Y 24, 1851. eminently varied aud• interesting, being in I; , :: , LiJi.t re, specs not unworthy of its extended and ripEnec celebrity. FINE ARTS. THE ARCTIC COIIIVCIL I An Ristorical Pic tare, painted by Stephen Pearce. Having ourselves inspected this interestin g wor k of art, now on view in the gallery of Mes srs . G raves and Company, near the Opera Colonnade, we have a satisfaction in directing public attention to the paint ing as a production cf really remarkable excellence. A more attractive subject could scarcely have been selected by any artist, or one more singularly calcu lated to excite the sympathies of the population. It represents " The Arctic Council" as the members ap peared when diecuesing a plan of search for Sir John Franklin, previously to submitting it to the Lords of the Admiralty. Among the group are recognised the forms of severa l w h ose names w ill ever b e illustrious among the glorious band of English navigators, the features of many a salt water captain the records of whose travels have long been as " household words" in the homesteads of the United Kingdom. As faithful portraitures of these extraordinary men, the heroes some of them, maybe, of our readers' boy hood, the figures comprised within this canvas are more peculiarly interesting to examine than those de picted of late years in any other production. Sus pended as portraits introduced upon the wall in the background are likenesses—of Sir John Franklin, the " gallant and intrepid seaman," whose situation at the present moment has awakened, according to the emphatic words of the descriptive key by Mr. O'Byrne, author of " The Naval Biography," a feel ing of interest " throughout the civilized world, as sincere and deep as it is painful and unparalleled"— of Captain James Fitzjames, the officer second in command of the Erebus in the missing expedi tion—and of the late Sir John Barrow, the distinguished promoter of the science of navigation. Among the remarkable personages constituting the Arctic Council will be especially noticed the stalwart form of Sir George Back, the fine and intelligent countenance of Sir William Edward Parry, and the handsome though prematurely grizzled head of Sir James Clark Ross. Besides these there are distin guishable the companion of the last mentioned navi gator in his latest expedition (that made in 1848 and 1849, in search of Sir John Franklin), Captain Edward Joseph Bird, together with Sir Francis Beau fort, well known as the hydrographer to the Admiralty, John Barrow, Esq., the Keeper of the Records, Lieut.- Colonel Edward Sabine, among other things, dis tinguished by no less than twenty-nine memoirs con tributed by him to the " Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society," Sir John Richardson, Inspec tor of Fleets and Hospitals, and Captain Frederick William Beechy, not the least among our noble band of navigators. One omission we regret, though, perhaps, for reasons unknown to ourselves it may have been unavoidable, that of Captain Crozier, the distinguished comrade of Sir John Franklin. It will be learnt with very general satisfaction that this splendid historical painting, by Stephen Pearce, Esq., will before long be issued in the form of an engraving, THE GRAND HIGHLAND AND FANCY BALL IN GUILDHALL. The deputation of the Scottish charities in London, who petitioned the corporation for the use of their Hall for a ball in aid of the inetitutfon, having been successful in their application, th e assem bly t oo k place yesterday evening under the patronage of the elite of the Scottish nobility, a list of whom has been from day to day ad vertised. The Hall and Crypt, with their decorations, were exactly in the same state as they were on the 9th of July, when her Majesty honoured the citizens with her presence. There was a good gathering of Highland dresses, but those in fancy were but few. Among the earliest arrivals we observed the Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of Somerset, and many of the ladies patron. eases, who were received at the entrance bye body of the stewards, preceded by the band of the Caledonian Asylum, in whom the Commander-in-Chief seemed much interested, particularly with their singing of the well known national ballad of" Auld LangSyne." We un derstood that there were about 1,400 present, among others several of the foreign commissioners and other continental officials, the variety of whose costumes, mingled with that of the gallant Gael, gave the scene a gay and animated appearance. The pro gramme contained all the favourite dances, to which music of an excellent quality was discoursed by Adams and his band, while in the Council Chamber another band, led by Mackenzie, of Edinburgh, played admirable strathspeys and reels to those who preferred that grace ful dance to the lackadaisical quadrille, but those appear ing in the former last night, with the smallest exception, could never have been taught reel dancing in Scotland, otherwise they would not have accompanied their flings with such hideous yells, certainly more closely allied to an Ojibbeway canter, than Highland dancing. It is true they were in Guildhall, where the liberty of the isubject has always had the boast of having the greatest sway; but when they stand up to join a strathspey again we beg them to listen to the band or pipes that are playing, and leave their own exclamations for a domestic step. Captain Charles Forbes, Sir J. Mackenzie, Brodie of Brodie, Cluny M'Pherson, and Sir John Heron Max well, assisted by the stewards, were very attentive to the distinguished visitors present. The festivities were kept up with unflagging vigour to an early hour. The absence of the gallant Sir Duncan Mucdougal was much and sincerely regretted, which was on account of severe indisposition. We trust the funds of both charities interested in the result of last night's entertainment will be benefited; at any rate the patriotic gentlemen engaged in its manage , ment and carrying out deserve the highest credit. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The usual annual fancy dress ball, in aid of the funds of the Scottish Hospital and the Royal Caledonian Asylum, took place last night, at the Guildhall, the de corations of which remained in the same state as they were on the occasion of her Majesty's state visit a fort night previously. Most of the company were in High land costume, or in naval, military, or fancy dress, and between eleven and twelve o'clock, when the large hall was crowded, the effect was extremely brilliant and animated. The children of the Caledonian Asylum, numbering 51 girls and 63 boys, were stationed on either side of the vestibule, in Highland costume. His Grace the Duke of Wellington arrived shortly after ten o'clock, and was received in the hall with loud and en thusiastic cheering. At eleven o'clock the children were marched round the hall, preceded by the stewards and the military band of the asylum, and on arriving at the dais played the National Anthem. They were after wards conducted to the Common Council-room, where a substantial supper was provided for them. There were about a thousand persons present, and among them se veral of the lady patronesses, Lord James Stuart, Cap tain C. Stuart, Sir J. H. and Lady Maxwell, the Lord Mayor, &c. Adams's efficient quadrille band of thirty performers was stationed in the gallery over the entrance, and Mackenzie's band in the Aldermen's chamber, and in both the hall and the adjoining apart ments dancing was kept up with great animation till the clock at the west end had indicated many of the wee small hours ayoist the twal." Tea, coffee, and other re freshments were provided during the evening by the Messrs. Staples, of the Albion Tavern, and there was an elegant and substantial supper at a later hour of the night. The ball was eminently successful, and judging from the numbers present, we have no doubt the result will prove highly beneficial to the funds of this valuable benevolent institution, in whose aid this festive enter tainment was set on foot.—Herald. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—The inquest on the bodies of the two children, supposed to be murdered by their mother, who afterwards attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the Mersey, from the landing -stage, has been again adjourned, owing to the illness of two of the jurors. At the police-court, the man charged with shooting the deceased Irishman, Malley, during the Orange riots, was remanded till to-morrow (Thursday). A witness de posed to seeing him place the cap on the pistol and fire the shot; but the prisoner's master (a brickmaker) stated that the man was at work at the time the shot was said to have been fired. Just as this account was leaving, a report reached us, on authority upon which relianoe may be placed, that another case of stabbing had occurred in the London road. A man walked up to a police-constable and stabbed him in the back, :And though immediately pursued, the as sassin escaped. A VOLCANIC ISLAND.— It will be remembered that an island, about 120 feet high and 2,000 feet in circum ference, suddenly sprang up in 1831 between Sicily and La Pantellaria. It disappeared about a month after, and at a later period even the sounding lead could give no indication of its existence; but vessels passing over the place it had formerly occupied would sometimes feel a sort of shock, which showed that it was of volcanic origin. In March last, how ever, the French vessel Eole, which was taking soundings in the vicinity, discovered some traces of its existence ; and we now learn from Naples that in the course of last month her Majesty's ship Scourge, Captain Kerr, verified the truth of the preceding observation, and further discovered that the island, which has been christened " Isola Giulia," was only nine feet under water. Captain Kerr had a pole with a streamer and an inscription set up on the spot..—Journal des Debats. ETON COLLEGE.—On Friday next, the 25th inst., the Reverend Dr. Okes, provost of King's College, Cam bridge, with his two posers, will arrive at Eton College in state, where they will be met by the Rev. Dr. Hodgson, provost of Eton, Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, head master, and all the authorities of the college. The body will at once proceed to the Cloisters, where the customary cloister speech will be delivered by the captain of the next year. On Saturday the speeches will be delivered in the upper school, commencing at twenty minutes before eleven o'clock. The grand ban quet, heretofore given on the Monday, will take place in the College-hall, at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. This arrangement has been made in order that the electors of the two colleges should proceed on Monday with the trials without interruption after the indentures of the previous year have !men cancelled. The regatta will take place at half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening, and the crews will dine at Surley-hall. A display of fireworks on a larger and more splendid scale, by the celebrated Mr. Darby, of Vauxhall, will conclude the day's proceedings. On Mond a y the school will break up, and a special train on the Great Western Railway will leave Slough for London, as early as seven o'clock in the morning, for the conveyance of the oppidans. The collegers, except those on trials, will leave in the afternoon. A NEW READING OF THE MYSTICAL NUMBER. — In tho course of a lecture recently delivered by th e perve rt Newman the following novel interpretation of the apocalyptic number 666 was propounded : — Astonishing to say, Queen Victoria is distinctly pointed out in the Book of Revelation as Paving the number of the beast ! The number is 666. Now she came to the throne in the yea r 37, at which date she was 18 years old. Multiply, then, 37 by 18, and you have the very number 666, which is the mystical emblem. [But why not multiply the true figura-1837 by 18?-1 PROVIDENT CLERKS' ASSOCIATION. A special general meeting of the members of the Benevolent Department of this association was held on Tuesday evening, at the London Tavern, in order to ob tain the sanction of the members to certain alterations in the rules, which Lad been adopted by the managers. IL. H. JONES, Esq., the chairman of the board of management, presided, and he was supported by nearly all the directors of the association. The requisition calling the meeting having been read, The CHAIRMAN said he very much regretted to have just received a letter from Mr. John Abel Smith, who was to have taken the chair on that occasion, intimating that unavoidable circumstances compelled him to be absent. He (Mr. Jones) deplored this the more, because Par. John A. Smith had taken a very earnest and active part in the proceedings with reference to which they had assembled. The absence of the Honourable Member was owing to his attendance being required in the House of Commons in regard to the case of Mr. Salomons, but he intimated that if he could get away before the meeting concluded he would come and say the few words which he was very anxious to address to the members.—(Hear.) Every one present was in possession of the main features of the alterations contemplated by the board of management. If ever there was an occasion on which he felt greater anxiety in addressing the members than on another, it was on the present, because he was quite aware that they were now about to alter the principles on which the society was originally founded. At the same time, however, necessity compelled them to take so important a step, and they were not single in this respect, for many institutions of a similar character had thought it advisable to adopt the course which they now suggested.—(Hear, hear.) The main features of the alterations he might mention were— continuous membership--limitation as to age in re gard to future members—more lengthened period of membership to render a member eligible for tempo rary or permanent relief—interest on all loans — and a contribution of ss. to render an assurer eligible for the benefit of the benevolent department. It might be in the, recollection of members that at the last benefit meeting certain insinuations were thrown out as to the discontent which existed in regard to the large amount of profits contributed by the assurers to the benevolent department, and broad hints were made that unless the directors entertained the subject some step would be taken by the members themselves. On that occasion he (Mr. Jones) evaded the question, but assured all present that the subject should have their anxious consideration. That consideration had now been given to the subject, they had devoted the most persevering and laborious attention to it, and had come to the determination of proposing the alterations now before the meeting,(H ear ) H e hoped that for the good of the institution their pro positions would be acceded to, believing firmly that if carried they would place the managers in a situa tion to do an additional amount of good to many of the claimants who now come upon the association.— (Hear.) He should have occasion to introduce each rule separately to their notice, and he would take the opportunity of making some observations on each, in order to put members in possession of all the facts within his knowledge. At present, therefore, he would say no more except to claim their earnest attention and kind co-operation, in the confident hope that what they proposed would meet with their una nimous approval.—(Cheers.) After a prolonged and anxious discussion, in which a considerable number of members and directors took part, the following important alterations of the rules were agreed to by a large majority : OLD RIIIE. - Rule lll.—Clerks insuring for fifty pounds or up wards, subscribing one guinea per annum, or giving ten gull:lmi to the Benevolent Fund, become member& Clerks who bad once been admitted as members were eligible for the advantages of the Benevolent Fund, although their premiums or subscriptions might have ceased. NEW RULE. Rule lll.—Clerks insuring one hundred pounds or upwards, and subscribing five, shillings per annum, cr giving a subscription of one guinea per annum, or a donation of ten guineas to the Benevolent Fund. After the date of the alteration, clerks not exceeding forty years of ago insuring one hundred pounds or up wards, and subscribing five shillings per annum, or giving an annual subscription of one guinea, or a do nation of ten guineas to the Benevolent Fund. Clerks between forty and fifty years of age, insuring one hundred pounds or upwards, and subscribing ten shillings per annum; or giving an annual subscription of two guineas, or a donation of twenty-one pounds to the Benevolent Fund. Clerks above fifty years of age, insuring ono hundred pounds or upwards, and giving an annual subscription of twenty shillings. Continuous membership is required; clerks who have allowed their policies to lapse, or who have discontinued their annual subscriptions, will cease to be members, and thereby become excluded from all advantages of this fond. OLD R lILE. Rule IV.—Honorary members, by a subscription of ono guinea, or a donation of ten guineas to the Benevo lent Fund, can vote at the election of annuitants. NEW RULE. Rule IV.—Honorary members by insuring one hun dred pounds or upwards, as well as by a subscription of one guinea, or a donation of ten guineas to the Benevo lent Fund, can vote at the election of annuitants. Rule XllL—mnde to correspond with rule XIV. of the benefit department, regarding special meetings of members, by 4 giving the same power to members to call meetings as is invested in the board. OLD R lILE. Rules XVIL and porary relief to mere hers, without reference to date of membership, loans of ten pounds, without interest, permanent relief to mem bers of three years' standing. NEW RULE. Rules XVI. and XVlL—Temporary relief to members of three years' standing. Permanent relief to members of five years' standing. Interest to be paid on all loans. For gratuities or allowances the board have a discretion as to widows or children of members not of three years' standing. OLD RULE. Rule XXlL—Rules can be altered by board of ma nagement, subject to confirmation by members. NEW RULE. Rule XXlL—Rules can be altered by the board of management, as before, or, by a special meeting of mem bers on requisition of not less than thirty members of three years' standing. The CHAIRMAN, in allusion to the second rule, observed that the object of altering the sum contri buted to the benevolent department out of the profits of the assurance department, from one-third to one tenth, was to snake the association more palatable to those who wished to assure their lives. He knew instances in which meny respectable persons were prevented joining as members, because they believed it was unfair t o t ax them to the extent required by the former rules for charitable purposes, when no such deductions were made at other assurance offices. No one had more serious objections, in the first in stance, to any alterations than himself, and he con fessed it was much against his feelings t o part with some of the leading principles with which they originally started, but experience had satisfied them that the new rules would prove in the end to be a great benefit to the benevolent fund as well as to the assurance branch.—(Hear.) In reply to the suggestions and remarks of several members, The CHAIR i MAN said it w as th e o bj ect of the direc tors to have, f possible, the annual meetings of both departments held on the same day, in order to avoid expense. The members would have the power of calling a meeting, without the sanction or approval of the board, provided they delivered to the secretary a requisition signed by 30 members. Only members of three years standing would be entitled to relief, but discretion was left to the board to afford assistance to widows and children of deceased mem bers, though they had not contributed to the funds for a period of three years. A MEMBER expressed his regret that they were obliged to go to a ballot every year, which involved an expense of 501. to the society—a sum sufficient to provide two widows with annuities of 251. each ; and, in addition to this loss, great expense was entailed upon the applicants.—(Hear.) He also suggested the expediency of carrying the votes of unsuccessful candidates to future elections, and thus shield them against the annoyance of repeated defeats. The CHAIRMAN hoped the alteration of the rules would have the effect of placing the association in a position to meet all the claims of applicants for relief, and in that case the ballot would become almost un necessary.—(Hear.) The following resolutions were then agree d to : " That all persons form er ly enro ll e d as mem bers 01 the Benevolent Departme n t, i n v i rtue o f an "s ßranca, and whose policies hav e l a p se d , may, on takingtnac flaw policies for not less th an 1 00 1 ., w i t hi n six "ho from s and after the alterati on o f t h e ru l es , have the benefit of their original as surances, so f ar as relates to length of membership." " That all persons formerly enrolled as members of of an annual sub scription,the Benevolent Department, n virtuen o ie t d their subscriptions, upon ' and who have discontinued may be reinstated as member?. in sixhe renewing their subscription within months from and a w n i d such persons shall have after the alteration of rules, the benefit of all their previ o us, . subscriptions, so far as relates to length of membership, A special general meeting of the assurance depart ment was held im . mediately after the conclusion of }-1. Jones still pre. the above proceedings ; Mr. R. siding. The following alterations and additions of the rules were agreed to also after much discussion : OBJECT. OLD RULE. Rule 11. states object of the association to be—to pro vide funds for mutual benefit of members, their wives, children, relations, or nomineea ; declares that all persons enrolled as clerks aro entitled to advantages of benevo. - knt fund, which they retain, notvvithVanding any aub vegirnt change in thoir occupation. NEW nULE. Olject to be as in old rule, but defines the parties to he beneficed, viz in case of assurers before 15th All'. gust, 1850, their wives, children, executors, administra tors or assigns, or nominees ; in case of assurers after that date, the same raties except the nominees—stat©a persons entitled to advantages of Benevolent Fund must be enrolled as clerks, Lnd pay in addition to premium of assurance a contribution— From all existing members .. ss. Future members—. Up to 40 years of age From 40 to 50 years of age Above 50 years of ago As in old rule, advantages will be retained notwith standing change of occupation. INVESTMENTS. OLD RULE. Rule IX. states inveentsaTo to be made in names of trustees in real securities, or in Public Stock or Funds, or in Government Securities. NEW RULE. Rule IX. The funds to be invested in names of trus tees, the mode of investment as stated in old rule, or on security of leasehold or copyhold property, or of county or borough rates, Bank of England or East India Stock, or on loans to members on security of their policies to extent or value of such policies. NOTE.—The additional modes of investment are those authorised by the Act of last session. APPOINTMENT OF NOMINEES. OLD RULE. Rule XXV. declares that members may nominate any party to receive the amount of their policies, but that they cannot be assigned or conveyed in any other way. NEW RULE. Rule XXV. declares that assurers before 15th A ugust, 1850, m ay nominate as before, or the amount assured may be made payable to their executors, administrators, or assigns. Assurers after 15th August, 1850, may have amount made payable to wives or children, executors, administrators,_ or as s i gns . PAYMENT OF CLAIMS. LD RULE. Rule XXXII. states O amount of assurances shall be paid within three months of death, and if the amount is only 201., it may be paid to representative of member, or his nominee, without letters of administration. NEW RULE. Rule XXXII. Same as old rule, except that the sum of 201. is increased to 501. under the power given by Act of last session, and also extends to the assigns of the assurer. - - DIVISION OF PROFITS, OLD RULE. Rule XXXIV. states profits shall be divided every five years, one-third to the Benevolent Fund and two thirds to the assurers. EVP,NING, NEW RULE. Rule XXXIV. states profits shall be divided every five years, one-tenth to the Benevolent Fund, nine-tenths to the assurer. As an accompaniment to the above rules, it was re solved-- " That a subscription of ss. shall be paid by all clerks, assurers claiming to continue members of the Benevo lent Department, in respect of policies of assurance, the premiums of which were paid during the year 1851, be fore the alteration of the rules, such subscriptions to be paid on or before the 29th September. A vote of thanks was then passed to Mr. R. H. Jones for his able, impartial, and courteous conduct in the chair. The CHAIRMAN expressed his 'gratification at find ing that the proceedings of the evening had arrived at so happy a termination. lie felt strongly that what had been done would be of essential benefit to the association, whose success and welfare it should ever be his anxious desire to promote to the best of his ability. When they met again next year, he hoped they would be enabled to show that the course they had adopted had tended to augment the funds and increase the usefulness of the association.—(Cheers.) The meeting did not terminate until a late hour. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 22. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. Majority on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill PRESENT. 11. E. 11. the Duke of Harrowby St. Asaph Carabridg,e Hardwieke St. David's Lord Chancellor Ilehester Salisbury DUKES. Jersey BARONS. Argyll Kingston Alvanley Buckingham Kinnoull Abinger Cleveland Longford Broughton Grafton Lucan Beaumont Manchester Lanesborough Byron Montrose Miato Bayning Norfolk Morley Bolton Wellington Morton Berners MARQUISES. Mountcashell Churchill Breadalbane Malmesbury Crewe Cholmondeley Macclesfield Carrington Clanricarde Planers Cranworth Donegal Mansfield Campbell Ely Pomfret Colborne Lansdowne Fowls Crofton Ormonde Romney Colchester Salisbury Rosse Castlemaine Waterford Strafford Clarina Westminster Shaftesbury Dinorben Winchester Scarborough De Manley EARLS. Selkirk Dufferin Aylesford Talbot Delamer° Abergavenny Vernlam De Hos Airlie Westmorland Druisaney Besborough Waldegravo Erskine Bathurst Warwick Elphinstone Beverley Wilton Feversham Bandon Zetland Foley Cowper visconnis. Forester Craven Clifden Gough Chichester Combermere Harris Cottenham Hardlnge Keane Carlisle Hereford Kilmaine Cardigan l'onsouby Lilford Dartmouth Sydney Leigh Darnley BISUOTS. Overstone Digby Chester Portman Effingham Cork Redesdale Egmont Chichester Stanley of Alderley Enniskillen Carlisle Seaton Fitzhardinge Hereford Sondes Fitzwilliam Killaloe Templemore Gosford Lichfield Tenterden Grey London Vivian Granville Manchester Wodehouse Glengall Norwich Walsingham Galloway Oxford Willoughby de Eresby Harrington Ossory Rutland, Duke of Lyndhurst, Lord PAIRS. Conyngharn, Marquis of Ellesmere, Earl of PROXIES FOR. ARCITBISUOP. Falmouth Durham Canterbury Gainsborough Ely DUKES. Guilford Gloucester Brandon Harewood Lincoln Devonshire Klntore Peterborough Leinster Leicester Ripon Marlborough . Lovelace Winchester Roxburgh Lindsay Worcester Richmond Lonsdale BARONS. Somerset Leven ' Abercromby Sutherland Oxford Bagot MARQUISES. Orford Berwick Alisa Onslow Bateman Anglesey Poulett Boston Abercorn Radnor . Cowley Downshire Ranfurl7 ClonbroOk Exeter Rosebery Clinton Huntley Roden Douglas Nonnanby Ripon -, • De Lisle Westmeath Rosslyn Downes EARLS. Shannon Farnham Albemarle Somers Glenelg Buckinghamshire Seafield Hawke Burlington Stamford Bowden Beaucham p Sheffield Heytesbury lirownlow Spencer Hatherton Clarendon Sefton Clare Sandwich Howard do Walden ' Kenyon Courtoun Wigan Londesborough Caledon Yarborough Monson Cork VISCOUNTS. Methuen Clanwilllam Beresford Milford Dude Bolingbroke Mostyn De Grey Doneraile Northwick Desart Falkland Polwarth Derby Melville Rodney Eldon O'Neill Rolle Erroll St. Vincent Sherborne ... _ Essex Eglinton Ferrets Fortescuo Sidmouth BISHOPS. Teynhon _ _ _ Vernon Bangor Bath and Wells Wynford leniocx 1 (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House if Com mons ') WEDNESDAY, JULY 23. VALUATION (IRELAND) BILL' (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 1 (Repealing so much of 9 an d 10 Vic., c. 110, as relates to valuation of counties her eafter to be valued, and apportionment of poor-law rating , grand jtry cess, and city and town rating) :— Page 2, line 9, A mend ment i proposed, to leave out the word " and," in order to insert the Word or —Question put, " That the word and' stand p art of the Clause." The Committee divided MAJORITY —AYES, 65. M IN ---- GTRITY—NOES, 8. WCU orre lliigh ,W. T. w a h iagey, sir J. Crawford, W. S. NyS, Sir D. Devereux, J. T. Roche, E. B. TUMID- Greene, John Reynolds, Jonh _ Scully, Francis Keating, Bob('' FETE AT THE BOTANIC SOCIETY'S GROUNDS.-- tdfNit appears most provokingly to attend s i h i t_fibetdithebsiodfltitt;gh i n e a l t ep ß Y rps o a w t ai a h an n i ta c e i cdo others er d r s the connected o t ic n u a l e t r u s ra I . t Y y a N z v zo it n h e th to e diet o th r e eatEx n : hgiubition3e,easrttaabttiheyeovefgeatr.denwsaof _the Botanic Society —was dull the weattwhettrhstthane attendance v°uramhli of visitors, amongst ding, however, the unfa vourable whomrew: as aa large tolerably proportion good of foreigners, wh o the ground s . The alpeared to be exceedingly pl ease d w ith Victoria Regia House was a point of con siderable attraction, one of the beautiful plants being •in full flower. In the Winter Garden was shown a beautiful speci men of th e " Nelumbrum Speciosum Album," a smaller sent by the Duke species of the Vi c t or i a Regia lily, of N orthumberland, which is the first that has flowered in this country. The flower was greatly admired, and the ex tremely cellular nature of the stem of the plant attracted considerable notice. The refreshments, supplied by Mr. Masters, of the east and west refreshment-room, Great Ex hibition, were of excellent quality, and the rooms were crowded throughout the day. The bands of the Ist Life Guards and 17th Lancers were in attendance, and performed in excellent style selections from Donizetti, Labitzky, Ros sini, Weber, Verdi, Strauss, Jullien, and other eminent composers. The company separated about five o'clock. A number of Poles engaged in the Hungarian re volution, and who have recently arrived in this countr y fr om Turkey, left Southampton for Havre on Tuesday night. The Hungarians and expense to the English Government of those__ Poles who have been recently released from captivity i n i n terference of Sir Stratford Ca nn i n g Turkey, through the 1 . i is about 2,000/. This expen se has been ncurred i n pre _ serving the refugees from starvation while in this country, and in shipping them to America. Many of the refugee officers have not been under the necessity of receiving assist ance from the British Government. Two more batches of Hungarian refugees are shortly expected from Constanti nople. Amongst the last party will probably be li °south and his family, z, d. r, a 4 vs. I. 7d. r. oa f ,r 0 000 pro f th e took 9 )fiber lo ge we 4001 spie. 11 be 1 th e 06' on , 23u' I 13434 'that t o be COO' tp to (.) rly , 400 . u t• 'diet 11 38, 'red