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SorrraALL, JULY 23 —To-day's market was fairly supplied with each kind of stock, in which a steady bu siness was transacted at full prices :—Beef, from 35 to 3s 8d; Mutton, 38 to 4s; Lamb, 4s to 4s 8d; Veal, as to 3s 6d; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per 81bs, to sink the offal& BoxFonD, JULY 23.—Generully speaking, the de mand ruled steady at full rates of currency. Beef, from 28 10d to 3s 8d; Mutton, 35 to 4s; Lamb, 4s to ss; Veal, 3s to 3s 6,1; Pork, 3s to 3s 6d per Sibs. Suck ling Calves, 15s to 20s. Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 19s each. LEWES, JULY 22.—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s; Mutton, 2s 4d to 4s;Lamb, 4s to ss; Veal, 35 to 35 8d per 81bs, a moderate supply and a 5tP-ady trade. COAL aiARK.ET..YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley.. 13s Od Eletton Carr's Hartley .... ... 13s 6d Haswell l5B 0.1 Davison'sWestHartley 13s 6d Scarborough l3s 3d Howard's W. H. Neth, 13s 6d Latnbton North Percy Hartley.. 13s Od Lumley Recihugh Main ... lis 6d Russell's Hatton Ravensworth'sW, Hart 13s 6d Stewart's 'Canfield Moor .... ..... 12s 9d!Whitwell Townley Jonassohns Hartley ... 12a 9d Hough ILsll West Wylam Windsor's Pontop l2s Od Liclloe l4s 6d Wall's End, &c, South Kelloe l3s 6d Acorn Close ... ......... 13s Ott South Hartlepool Brown ..... ............ 12s 3d West Kelloe Gosforth ..... .......... 13s 3c( Whitworth Hilda N0rthumber1and......'............. 13s Od Adelaide Tees . 12s 9d 'Seymour Tees ...... 12s 9d Original Gibson ...... 12s 9d West Corntorth 198 Od Walker .................. 123 9d Birclig. Graigola Eden Mein ...... ...... 13, 6d, Cowpon Hartley Pensher ................ 13s 3d Sidney% Hartley Braddyll ............. 14s 6dl Ships at market, 165 Sold, 116. OVER AVERAGES. GENERAL GE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended July 17, 1851, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. ?RICE •• I wna4AT. (EMMET I os.'re I BM I Imam I PEAS. 42 7 d I 25 s 6d . 21s 11 . d I 28s 2d I 318 5d 28s 6•1 snakier it DU TIES ON FOREIGN CORN. li o d EY. I I AIL la Od curs ATE. I BEANS. I PEAS. Is od . lis Od is Od Is OdWhQtaITANTITIES OF GRAIN SL IN THE PAST WEEK. 4 51,264; Barley, 1,80750 O D ats, 6,259 ; Rye, 87; Beans, 1,313 ; peas, 340 quarters. SHERIFFS' COURT.—(THIS DAY. (Before lair. Under-Sheriff BIIRCHELL.) DREW V. BORCHARDT. his was an action to met:A-(r the balance of three (Marten' rent of premises in the Grange-road, Ber tiondsey. Defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. On the part of the plaintiff evidence was adduced to show that the defendant had occupied the premises in question from Christmas 1849 to September 1851. When applied t iecit)o for the first quarter's rent, he positively re 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- Pahl were done to the premises, and he left before the thrd quarter was due, but had paid some money on ac. mount, 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 th e l an dl or d , b ut merely an agent; but this was rebutt e d b y ev id ence to 'how that plaintiff was now entitled to the property by Purch ase. The UNDER•SHERIFF said that the only question Was whether there was the relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties. It was quite clear that al• though at first defendant had objected to plaintiff's title, yet afterwards he abandoned that and raised another objection, and actually paid money on account. The jury had nothing to do with th e ti t l e as t h e case atood. The 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 fifty years of age, was charged (upon remand) before Mr. Hall, with stealing a gold ring of the value of 128., two silk hazdkerchiets, and various other arti cles, the property of Anne Dean, of 5, James-street, Covent-garden. The prisoner had lived some time as servant to Mrs. Dean, who is the wife of a salesman in Covent-garden Market. Prisoner was dismissed for inability to do her work, and atter her leaving the gold ring and several cards of address were mis s ed 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 lame 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 discharged her. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Zerlina ; ou la Corbeilled'Oranges, the latest of Auber's Operas, which wag only produced 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 Zarlina, as she had previously done in Paris. Madlle. jNan made her first appearance on the boards of her Ma esty's Theatre in the character of Jemma, also her original character at the Grand Opera. The scene of Zerlin a is laid at Palermo, and when the curtain rises We discover a view of the fruit market of Palermo, With the sea in the distance, with fruit•sellers sitting before their stalls, and Lazzaroni lazily stretched !Pon the groun d , some s l eep i ng, some eat i ng maccaroni. The opera opens with a chorus of Lazzaroni in praise of the dolce fur niente, which is so dear to tho soul of the inhabitants of the south—this is replied to by an Objurgatory chorus of the fruit women. They are in. terrupted by the en t rance o f P r i nce B occanera (Si gnor Scapini) from the palace ; he is is the Prime Minister, and has married the sister of the King, who leads him a Precious life ; the maxim of thi s ' am i a bl e Princess (kladlle. Feler) being " I w ill w h at I w ill, b eca use I !fill," a theory which in practice she carries out to w:i!I utmost extent. The Prince, in the midst of it splendour, sighs for the days when he lived ... !th his dear Zerlina, the companion of his youth, Zuo, although only au orange merchant, made him Z a PPY. and whose daughter Jemma (Madlle. Nau), be 1 _ 4 4 still living with him, passing her off as his niece, !sad e ndeavouring to bring about a match between her Al the P r i nce de Butters, a rich but silly gentleman. i','_ hip approach es . an d t h e P r i nce ret i res into his v! pa- From thi s s hi p Zerlina (Madlle. Alboni) descends eat! regards with silent emotion her native Sicily, from which she had been torn fifteen years before by a Bar l_sery corsair.. The ai r , " 0 P a l ermo, o m i a Sicilia, " WU rendered deliciously by Alboni, and was Mich applauded. Whilst she has been singing Foxes sa il ors h ave been lauding from the ship several iFoxes of oranges, which they arrange for her, when she _ attacked by the fruit women, who refuse' to permit toa establish herselt in the market-place; she is, however, rescued from their fury by Rudolf° (Cs.lzolari), a_ youn g officer, and having secured her station in the qtatket she commences her song, red her . et, .” e yelet fruits, aranci ttt, which is the song of the Opera, and which, as we said yeSterday, will no doubt be heard upon every taki ng in our streets. The melody is one of those and tunes that once heard can never be forgotten, is introduced into haunts one perpetually ; it , 4 0 the overture, and it Plays a Principal Ze r i t in the opera, in which snatches of taci t tiro constantly introduced. The Princess enters bey having received ts note handed to her by a black : this' which. she tears up and throws on the ground. per. tole a an orange of Zerlina, for which she give% her ate the Princess ,hands the orange to the black boy, p ut . quite the scene, while the curious Zerlina, that'ilg:together the fragments of the letter, perceives ree - T w a h n ic a tt ppointreent of is a th re e n s cl ig ez n 7 a u n s d , of the macecnecpets er se an orange Na e ) n g " Dolci frutta." Jemma (Mademoiselle• , enters and ii often sung to her in her infancy. She "4 b ee recognises the song as one which quest own Ga na Zerlina, who recognises in Jemma her eo.,,ritl.ghbct.er, now become a princess, and without dia l', ith 01 . Z, "self obtains permission to serve the palace to bitrodl ea • It is in this scene that the " Dolci frutta" znakeosreed to who is in love with "7 tteetj e d as a duet, and it was exquisitely rendered we find p.p. Alboni and Madlle. Nau. In the second act t h e at f Je e T i V a lus in the palace, when she soon discovers Promi ses on, Rodolfo, is about to to e e — ,arrY the Prince de Buttura, and she Boccanera, to l i t ti cud the lovers ; she joins Beccan rejoiced t o aee her' to him, who, to do him justice, is beebe procul: he will e r. and from him obtains a promise •esodolf o consent to Jemnsa s mrriage with -! r , r l : o v ii t i t d e b e u e ci Lac t t h , e consent of the Princess can Thef iew '' .ureaking off tho match with Buttura. t bel utifull e y " A suoi pie le e una madre," was i e "gnise a i t , theAlboni. P rincess the purchaser of the orange girl, she 1T: 1 5, and having attired Jemma as an orange Pten ges to usr uth her, after presenting a basket of her mania t h e Princess, to ask her consent to with au °rang° with Rodolfo, and presenting her to th e e _ .g B. h, to say " I know all," and the Princess, happy:"LTliehrnent of all, consents to make the lovers is one ag e t " Vittoria oh estremo guibbilo," bravur a aie Fie most marvellous specimens of Alboni exhi O t u d 'g ever heard ; never has and neve r h as t,s ' i - greater brilliancy or flexibility, with a hurricansi more w onderful , 0 marvellous compass of her voice been shown. It brought down the curtain a diverties,c uent, °I applause. In the third act there is a most quaint a n which is introduced a Chinese pas of encored. At the novel character, which was deservedly th ree t i mes Called oloinclusion of the opera Alboni was ____°_._ Th e 1.____ 22 ,, 8e was crowded. FROpERTY•TAX, C ''' i mportant that it sho 1 ' ,A IMS or .cAEMPTION.—It is ex emption as not ps " , d he k nown that persons entitled to Who desire t o claim r u e. es4in g incomes of 1501. a year, and the three years to the fit P t y na en tof property-tax for any of claims to the surveyors they respectively reside on ) 1. April, 1851, must forward their next, otherwise the claims taxes for the districts in which ~ CHA RTER -HOUSE. -- Th e W c i e ll before the 10th of October not be admitted. *A., Fellow of St. Jh's Colle el'. Hayman, foa.ters of the schools (responsionl: Henry and one of the present s in the University of Ox i, ford ituhas been appointed an assistant -master in Charter asle_S, c m ho . o i. l , to . r , ucceed, next Christmas, th e Rev. William tiOtevelet a i i i rc " i t el Y resented .rectory i f BinegF , v. i Lee IRON HOUSES 1N TIIE FIRE AT SAN FRANCISCO. Nothing excited so much surprise, amid the many surprising things that occurred the night of the great fire, as the little resistance that was ofE•red to the progress of the flames by the splendid and substantial iron buildings that had been constructed i❑ the full conviction that fire could not harm theca at least. Eves when the insatiate flames were career ing wildly elsewhere, laying low the fairest fabrics that man's ingenuity could devise to stay their course, those doing business in these iron houses felt an abiding confidence that they should escape the gene• ral ruin. Others entertained the same idea, and rushed their costliest articles into these warehouses, and when the fire swept out of existence their own combustible houses, consoled themselves with the cell c;ion that a part at least of their property was saved. But never was confidence more misplaced. It is true iron will not burn, but destructio❑ as total fell upon all such buildings as if they had been made of light wood. We watched the fate of two ele gant three-st.iry iron houses —one situated at the corner of WaJiington and Sans-me -streets, and the other occupied by Messrs. Berthelot and Cronise, at the corner of Jackson and Sansowe-streets, and never was there a more complete wreck when the fire had done with them. The zinc roof caught first and burnt as fiercely as if made of piue•knots. The flame was of a deep blur, and looked most singular beside that which rose up from surrounding frame buildings. But little smoke issued at first, but the heat was greater than that of a furnace. The iron pillars and plates glowed brightly; in a little while they warped, curled like crisp leaves, opened, let in the flames to the piles of rich merchandise stored within, and in a few moments all was over. With a tremendous crash they fell in ruins to the ground, and long after the wooden buildings around were reduced to ashes these glowing heaps of iron threw out an intense heat that allowed of no approach. And, indeed, when we consider the fierceness of the heat that arose on that memorable night from hundreds of burning structures and piles of costly goods—a heat that no one can conceive who was not present—it is not to be wondered at that even iron succumbed before its wither ing power. From the nature of the material, however, a less degree of heat would have produced the same effect. Its expansibility will always open the interior of a house constructed of iron to the admission of the flames, and then it is not more secure than if made of wood. In the recent conflagration there were five elegant buildings constructed of plates of cast-iron, three stories high, destroyed, besides a great number of corrugated iron houses. The latter offered no check whatever to the fire. They went down as a matter of course. They have proved equally as insecure as wooden houses, and when burnt more expensive, because in their case it does require some outlay to clear the ground of the wreck, whilst in the other nothing but a heap of ashes remains.—San Francisco Herald. EARLIEST STEAM NAVIGATION. 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 perseverance did the rest. He canoe to Eu rope soon after he had reached manhood, and spent several years either in this country or France, labouring 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 the 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 firmest friend, strongly urged him to renew them. After trying experiments on a small scale, on models of his own invention, it was understood that he bad developed the true principle on which steam-boats should be built, and for want of a know ledge of which all previous experiments had failed. But as he and Mr. Livingston both knew 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 a❑ 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, i❑ the year 1806, they immediately engaged in building a boat, of what was then considered very considerable dimen 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 keel 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 he 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 teat 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 steamboat 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 lett 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 passengers."—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 sone 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 aot 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," alluding to his wife, who had lefr him, and is said to be living with another 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 WHO STATED OUT AT NIGHT !--A recent number of Chambers's Journal has an amusing sketch illus trative of the groundless imputations so often thrown upon ind viduals by those who judge of the characters of others solely by appearances. It is the case of a gentleman named who stays out every night till late hours, coming bonnere only her The ‘ brute upon of his a pale and haggard, when "daylight doth appear." broose, touchingly laments the condition of "his dear little husbandopposite neighbour, Mrs. Pry, or Mrs. Bray er,gitatt noon, wife, condemned to pass so many tedious hours alone, whilst be ; breakfasting or passing his time in is drinking at the tavern, gambling, me in any company but that where he should however, and dining at night " On expla nation,are more his misfortuneurns out that the offender's late hours other people's ends—i n than his fault—his work begins when Paper ! a word—h e i s th e Edit or o f a Morning a particuelln Na p o leon-Vendee, young lieutenant of TRAGICAL ClRcums, r , x -Vendee, was accustomed a regiment stationed at ti l e al c 'ilop. and he established a f u u g rt h h t te e h r eo moment, o the e n p t e , r a s persons to take his cigar at girl and, seventeen.afte A few days came in a r t some conversation, A sentimental connexion with of who keep the shop, a pretty r, cried that he ago, he found the girl alone, at t n i st marry her. , but consented tthoenly in her gave her a kiss. The mother thinking that the matter had gone , went to to him had dishonoured her daughter, and thatehhee He assured her she was mistaken, and to allow him to continue to see her daughter, girl, one presence. Next morning the two brothers of of whom is a sergeant in an infantry regiment before he was out of bed, and declared that as honoured their sister, he should sign a promise to ad dri:v her. He refused to take such an engagement underina' con straint; whereupon they both discharged their pistolsa him. The ball 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 wounds of the officer are not serious.— G alignani'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 had the honour of being presented to the Duchess, who was attended by Sir George Couper and Lady Augusta Bruce. MANES' WALKING EXPLOlT. — Richard Manks 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-1,000 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.— She, Independent. From c ommun i cat i ons appear i ng i n th e A r b roath GwGuide, it appetrs that the Kirk Sessions there are inflicting discipline " o n persons found guilty of walking on Sun day !—Scotsman. _ LONDON, LITERATURE THE CUP AND THE LIP. A Novel. 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 bad 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 Crospodar 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 the fluctuating times 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 personcv, 'round that dainty little bijou of a Turkish Maiden 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 style 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 writer'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 cap 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 mination with an unsatisfactory premonitioa 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 "Kirkholme 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 l e d to ad m i re i n Mi ss J ewr y' s fiction of " The Cup and the Lip," is the fact 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 villanous 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 of 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 us opens very gracefully in a sum mer's morning on the sea shore near the b eau tif u l little watering-place Hastings. The forms first de picted are those of Edward Nevil, 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 8b e raised so f requen tl y on ly to be dashed away before t o the quaffing—hence the writer has christened her work by its pr esen t d es i gnat i on. Al t h oug h by no means contrives pretty,, Dol ores , b y t h e swee t ness o f h er t em p e rament, influence Among in her her bseuhiatlofr suitors, therefore, e h r e e a f r o t r s e , o fa may l l be found a encounters.strange fo r example, variety of personages, such, example, as the Scobell, the warm-hearted Cecil, the good-natured e b a l rted but weak-minded . Major Simpson, and the ;io n e tb s . ouled but ill doomed 'Walter Livingstone, to say from the gene o re ing of her enthusiastic ad mirers, is little s tutor, M. Bernard, to the gay young b aronet,Henry Winchester. Walter is the hero aroud r h an enthralling but painfulw whose steps are . thrown . nuc e e rest, his desti nies being the source at of all the joys and all the sorrows of Dolores. Further cannot be said in his regard without prematurely disclosing the thread of the plot, and thereby marring in refer ence to the whole work its principal attraction. Mark Wood, though a ruffianly fellow enough, and a mur derer to boot, is very far indeed from being the most repulsive individual in the novel, his atrocities being surpassed,by the wanton profligacy of Mrs. Smith, by the cold-blooded poisonings of the woman in the ir Rlf t. THURSDAY EVENING, mill, and by the diabolieal callousness and villany of Cecil, the cousin of Walter Livingstone. It is sa tisfactory to turn from the contemplation of wretches like these to beings as charming as "dear Aunt Katie," saddened though her history is by her ill-assorted marriage with Richard Kerr; as the fascinating little ' Mrs. Howard, darkened as her life is by Vie tem porary faithlessness of her husband; or as the excellent . Mr. March, doomed though he be to see his most cherished hopes unrealized until after many severe and poignant disappointments. Pleasant faces are all those grouped together in the Holme 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 Flossy 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 th e i r t en d er green foliage, not yet fully opened,— a p urp l e h aze h ung 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 hey which reaches the ear at a distance, end 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 th e p re l u de t o an asses: 4- 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 guardshipa 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 sense 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 story 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 improvement in the powers 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 in Prussia, at Leipsic, and at London. Another refers to the relics 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, lie perceive in the July quarter of the Edinburgh elucidative comments on the annals of a past race, as suggested by" 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 two others of a bio graphical character, possessing Tay 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, and 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. Under the 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 the ground, extended arms, a glowing cheek, and an eye still youthful, flashing beneath long white locks that floated on the air." The description is apparently as faithful as it is unquestionably pic • turesque. In the course of certain 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 ofpinion at each side must be equal if the flight is to be sustained." These remarks, we may observe, are elicited by reference to 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 : "His 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 design s th an it brought to boar the fruits of the spirit. It was also attended by the external conso lations, which neither high station or 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 ho was alike deserted; and a stranger wandering on 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 haril words not found in polyglots." Speaking of the unquestionable disappointment which the hope of Hartley 's friends experienced, the Edin burgh remarks very truthfully, "He would have doubtless been a greater poet if he had been less ex clusively 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. li e h as spoken already of certain candidates for the suffrages of the electors belonging to the country party, and thus continues : " Among these anglers for agricultural votes is to be found one who was once counted on the side of th e F ree- Traders. Sir Edward Bulw er Lytton is a gentleman who has undeniable pretensions to take his seat am ong 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 . conversi on 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' folio wed 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 Bulwer Lytton is, in truth, no convert at all to their ideas of political economy, having throughout the whole of his 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 t o en j oy t h e pri vileges of a representative of the people, may be regarded as affording sufficient a n d conclusive testi mony. The review of ~Dixon,, Life of Pe nn " i s worth turning to, and will amply r epay curiosity, seeing that in it the critic steps forward as t h e advo cate of the views advancedin regard to this same so called mythical pers . onage . by Mr. M acau l ay, in the second volume of his "History of England." Upon this subject the arguments of the Edi n b urg h appear tq us to be somewhat tinged with a colour of special pleading. Altogether, nevertheless, th e curren t number of this chieftain among the Quarterlies is V EV ri I. JULY 24, 1851 eminently varied and interesting, being in some re specs not unworthy of its extended and ripenec celebrity. FINE ARTS. THE ARCTIC COUNCIL. An Historical Pic, titre, painted by Stephen Pearce. Having ourselves inspected this interestin g work of art, now on view in the gallery of Messrs. Graves and Company, near the Opera Colonnade, we have a satisfaction in directing public attention to the paint ing as a production of 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 discussing a plan of search for Sir John Franklin, previously to submitting it to the Lords of the Admir a lty. A mong th e group are recognised the forms of several whose names will ever be 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 jog 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 HIGHLAIVD 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 Institution, having been successful in their application, the assembly took 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. esses, who were received at the entrance by a 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 Lang Syne." 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 anti 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, I 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 subject 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 distinguit-hed visitors present. The festivities were kept up with unflagging vigour to an early hour. The absence of the gallant Sir Duncan Macdougal was much and sincerely regretted, which was o n accoun t o f severe i n disposition, 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 Roy al 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 M girls and 63 boys, were stationed on either aide 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 .L H. and Lady Maxwell, the Lord Mayor, ase. 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 ayont the twat." 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 instit u ti on , i n 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 reliance 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 cours e o f 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 Deitats. ETON COLLEGE.-011 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 been 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 Monday 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 the course of a lecture recently delivered by th e p erve rt N ew man the following novel interpretation of the apocalyptic number 666 was propounded :—Ast on i s hi ng to say, Q uee n Vi c toria is distinctly pointed out in the Book of Revelation as having the number of the beast ! The number is 666. Now she came to the throne in the year 37, at which date she was 18 years old. Multiply, then, 37 by 18, and you have the very number 666, which is the nayatical emblem. [But why not multiply the true figures-1837 by 18?] 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 had been adopted by the managers. R. 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 Mr. 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 Common s 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.) E very one present was in possession of the main features of the alterations contemplated by the board of management. It ever there was an occasion on which he felt grea t er 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 i n t hi s 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.—(Hear.) He 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 RULE. Rule lll.—Clerks insuring for fifty pounds or up wards, subscribing one guinea per annum, or giving ten guineas to the Benevolent Fund, become members. Clerks who had 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 on a hundred pounds or upwards, and subscribing five shillings per annum, or 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 age 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 et twenty-one pounds to the Benevolent Fund. Clerks above fifty years of age, insuring one 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 fund. OLD RULE. Rule IV.—Honorary member;, 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.—made to correspond with rule XIV. of the benefit department, regarding special meetings of members, by giving the same power to members to call meetings as is invested in the board. OLD RULE. Rules XVII. and XVlll.—Temporary relief to mem• bers, without reference to date of membership, loans o ten pounds, without interest, permanent relief' to mem• bers of thrco years' standing. NEW RULE. Rules XVI. and XVll.—Temporary relief to mombers 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 Ciinl; - ;l7ered by board of ma. nagement, subject to confirmation by members. NEW RULE. Rule XXll.—Rules can Ire - a Tiered by the board of management, as before, or, by a special meeting of mem bers on requisition of not lees 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 make 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 to tax 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 h e con fessed it was much against his feeli ngs 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 CHAIRMAN said it was the object of the direc tors to have, if 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 agreed to 0 _ " That all persons formerly enrolled as members the Benevolent Department, in virtue of an 1 " 8 : ow and whose policies have lapsed, mayi on taking tobst :c: from policies for not less than 1001., within six and after the alteration of the rules, have the benefit of their original assurances, so far as relates to length of membership." " That all persons formerly unrolled• as members of the Benevolent Deportment, in their subscripti ons, of an annual sub scription, and who have discontinued of the association u p may bo reinstated as member s on farolltnanond after the alteration of' rules,have renewing their subscription w ber itliin six and such persons shall the benefit of alt their previous subscription s , so far as relates to length of membership," A special general meeting of the as surance depart ment was held immediately after the conclusion of the above proc eedin g s ; Mr. R. H. Jones still pre 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 nominees; declares that all porsons enrolled as clerks are entitled to advantages of Nuevo lent fund, which they retain, notwithstanding any sub. sequent change in their occupation. NEW RULE. Object to be as in old rule, but defines the parties to be benefited, viz., in case of assurers before 15th Au gust, 1850, their wives, 'children, executors, administra tors or assigns, or nominees ; in case of assurers after that date, the same parties except the nominees —states persons entitled to advantages of Benevolent Fund must be enrolled as clerks, and pay in addition to premium of assurance a contribution — From all existing members ......... Future members— Up to 40 years of age .................. 55. r . : .............. 20s. From 40 to 50 years of age ............ 10s. Above 50 years of age As in old rule, advantages will be retained notwith. standing change of occupation. INVESTMENTS. CLD RULE. Rule IX. states investments are 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 Ragland 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 August, 1850, may 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 assigns. PAYMENT OF CLAIMS. OLD RULE. Rule XXXIL states amount of assurances shall b e paid within three months of death, and if the amount is only 204 , it may be paid to representative of member, or his nominee, without letter s of administration. N EW RULE. Rule Same as old rule, except that the sum of 20/. is increased to So/. 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 ho divided every five years, one-third to the Benevolent Fund and two thirds to the assurers. NEW RULE. Rule XXXIV. states profits shall be di v id ed evory five years, one tenth to the Benevolent Fund, nine -t enths 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 th en passe d t o M r. 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. He 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 a n d increase the usefulness of the association.—(Cheers.) Tho meeting did not terminate until a late hour. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS, Jinx 22. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. Majority on the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Title* Assumption Bill . PRESENT. H. R. li. the Duke of Harrowby Cambridge Hardwicke Lord Chancellor Ilchester St. Asaph St. David's Salisbuiy DUKES. Argyll Buckinghanl Cleveland Grafton Manchester Montrose Norfolk Wellington stanctursze. Breadalbane Cholmondeley Clanricarde Donegal Ely Lansdowne Ormonde Salisbury Waterford Westminster Winchester EARLS. Aylesford Abergavenny Airlie ltesborough Bathurst Beverley Bandon Cowper Craven Chichester Cot tenham Carlisle Cardigan Dartmouth Darnley Digby Effingham Egaiont Enniskillen Fitzhardinge Fitzwilliam Gosford Gray Granville Glengall Galloway Harrington Jersey BARONS. Kingston Alvanley Kianoull Abinger Longford Broughton Lucan Beaumont Lanesborough Byron Miato Ilaynlng Morley Bolton Morton Berncrs Mountcashell Churchill Malmesbary Crewe Macclesfield Carrington Manvers Cranworth Mansfield Campbell Pomfret Colborne I'owis Crofton Romney Colchester Rosse Castlemaino Strafford Clarina Shaftesbury Dinorben Scarborough De Manley Selkirk Dufferin Talbot Delarnere Verulain De Ros Westmorland Dunsaney Waldegrave Erskine Warwick Elphinstone Wilton Feversham Zetland Foley VISCOUNTS. Forester Clifden Gough Combermero Harris Hardinge Keane Hereford Kilmaine Ponsonby Lilford Sydney Leigh BISIIOFS. Overstone Chester Portman Cork Redesdale Chichester Stanley of Alderley Carlisle Seaton Hereford Sondes Killaloe Templemore Lichfield Tenterden London Vivian Manchester Wodehouse Norwich Walsingham Oxford Willoughby ds Eresby Ossory Rutland, Duke of Lyndhurst, Lord PAIRS. Conyngham, Marquis of Ellesmere, Earl of PROXIES FOR. ARCHBISHOP. Falmouth Durham Canterbury Gain s borongh Ely DUKES. Guilford Gloucester Brandon Harewood Lincoln Devonshire Kintore Peterborough Leinster Leicester Ripon Marlborough Lovelace Winchester Roxburgh Lindsay Worcester Richmond Lonsdale BARONS. Somerset Leven Abercromby Sutherland Oxford Begot . MARQUISBS. Orford Berwick Ailsa Onslow Bateman Anglesey Poulett Boston Abercorn Radnor Cowley Downshire Ranfurly Clonbrook Exeter Rosebery Clinton Huntley Roden Douglas Normanby Ripon De Lisle Westmeath Rosslyn Downes EARLS. Shannon Farnham Albemarle Somers Glenelg Buckinghamshire Scofield Hawke Burlin gton Stamford Flowden Beaucham p Sheffield Heytesbury Brownlow Spencer Ilatherton Clarendon Lefton H owar d d e. W a ld en Clare Sandwich Kenyan rourtoun Wigan LondesbOrOugh Caledon Yarborough Monson Cork VISCOUNTS. Methuen Clanwilliam Beresford Milford Dude Bolingbroke Mostyn De Grey Doneraile Northwick Desart Falkland Polwarth Derby Melville Rodney Eldon O'Neill Rolle Erroll St. Vincent Sherburne Essex Sidmouth Teynhsual Eglinton rumors. Vernon Ferrers Bangor Fortescue Bath and Wells wWwlynfocxord ;From the Votes and Proceedings of the Souse of C6471°1"..) WEDNESDAY, JULY 2 3 . VALUATION (IRELAND) B ILL. (IN THE COMMITT EE.) Clause 1 (Repealing io much of 9 and 10 Vic., c. 110, as relates to valuation of counties he reafter to be valued, and aortionment of poor-law rating, gra nd j ur y cess, an d city and town rating) :—Page 2, li ne 9, Amendment propoßed to leave out the word " and, ' in order to insert the word 0; . 7, —Question put, " That t he word and' stand p art • 01 the Clause." The Committ ee divided:— MAJO RITY —AYES, 65. ',TY NOES Ml..rnß_ --_ _ ___, 8. ,N ,-' m.cuilagh, W. T. withnsiey, Sir J. Crawford, W. S. Norreys, Sir D , D e vereox, J. T. Roche, E. B. TELLER/. Greene, John Reynolds, Jonh Keating, 1:0° ___. '" - fecully, Francis ____ di va yi t_h tthh ae dfatality appointed h i tank f a o p fr p ett Horticultural n FILTH AT TILE BOTANIC SOCIETY'S GROUNDS.— Wit provokingly to attend i e c c u t l e t d ur w al it S h o t c h ie e t the the of the B and r c intS onversazione to distin guished foreigners and otherso wet. 6 state of the weather, hibition, at the gardens Botanic Society —was dull y Gth , ree y at es E e x r . N otwithstanding, however, the unfa vourabletwhebreemwwasag a a and miserably amongst large tolerablyprup proportion attendance of visitors, of foreigners, who the appeared to grounds. Th e Vi et be exceedingly pleased with attraction Victoria Regis House was a point of con siderableflower. I n the Winter one Garden the beautiful plants being in full of the "Neiumb was shown a beautiful speci menSpeciosum Album," a smaller species of the 'Victoria rnni Regia lily, sent by the Duke of N orthumberland, which is the first that has flowered in this country. The flower was greatly admired, and the ex tremely cellular nat ure o f th e stem o f the ' plant attracted considerable no ti ce . Th e refreshments supplied by Mr. Masters, of the east and wes t refre ' shment-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 arr i v ed in this country from Turkey, left Southampton for Havre on Tuesday night. The expense to the Engle: '►h Government of thos e Hun g ari ans and Poles who have been recently released from captivity i n. Turkey, through the interference of Sir Stratford C ann i no , is about 2,0004 This expense has been incurred in 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 probablybe oesu I th ia4 WS 41114 , 93 DO - 41 0 ; a 03; w per t