The Sun. — London, England, 1845-06-12 00:00:00

O n GRAND CALEDONIAN BALL Iri v si ri n 11 iuday ni4iit the annual fancy dress ball, the fund gt ott f roin which are appropriated to the benefit of the itsii,ll Ilespital and the Caledoniaa Asylum, took place 1 , u'ts's Riionis (Almack'), King-street St. James's. mast ,, have been gratifying to the parties engaged in li t ..2t"g the ob j ects of the eiiterti inment to have wit -4,7 'iiili a very crow d e d and brilliant reuizz'on, f.r although tz: i,lOO vouchers were exchanged, little abort of 1,000 na were present, including a large number of the mem litof the ar i stocracy. to o'clock the company began to arrive in quick suc h ie , 2 and it was after one before the carriages discontinued futsl ae wn- The mains were admirably decorated by a pro lir of the choieest plants, and brilliantly illuminated. At Ite re eaB t end of the ball-roam' a number of raised benches ho tiv !et apart for the ladies patronesses. The " card voted fo and principal refreshment room were both . de iaPpe r t he supvly of the °I dinary refreshments, and in the 'grip.°ern beloi , i tables were pr - ovided with the customary Th nof delicacies. e k ile : re were, two quadrille bands in the ball-room, Jullien Ai' i e . i corps occupying the principal orchestra. li the ' ,even .'clock precisely the Ili ,, hlnd boys educated 144,-41edonian Asylum' were inspected by the Duke of „ iso se , 41 114 , the Duke of Roxburglie, the Marquis of Huntly, lik e , .: Fox Alaule, Messrs. H. Rose, G. Bain, and Cap -4.. .orbes. Directors, after which the whole of the boys Illiistsingle tile, and headed by the pipers of the High 11% -- ",,atY and die Marquis of Breadalbane, and the noble h,tr. gentlemen above mentioned, passed up the stair s. the ball room, and there paraded round the porn I...,itwoas,,,rettiarkei that all the boys were apparently . in the nealth and were particularly clean in their appear tested!raraediately after the boys had retired dancing corn sH :N. stk. Oland reel wa s w ith th e St ra th s p e y da n ced several k al the course of the nirsht and we recognised as taking k rose, those national dance ' s the Ladies Anne and Louisa eli kuris Ladies Lucy and Charlotte Herbert, the Ladies lasi 13 , Lady Elizabeth Duncan, Miss Duff, Miss Baillie, b ose„aPPlua, Hon. C apta i n M urray , t h e Marquis of btriZr L ord Glenlyon Captain Cumming Gordon, Sir H. II!, Zit, Sir A. Macdonald, Mr. J. Dalrymple, Mr. J. Duff, li t 41 44 1 b e1l (of Isl ay ) , & c. Th e b a ll commence d with the ei quadrille. l iritlo r RoYal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam- I titt "ere absent in consequence of the death of a near bitive of the Royal Duchess, and her Royal Highness the ,Ili ~or Gloucester sent an excuse. Lunchess of Norf lk the Duchess of Montrose, the N4Z 3 .1 ct Somer ' set ° the ' Duchess of Roxburghe the sis " ' Vex. o ff -Sutherland, the Countess of Pewis, the Ma r): Ltttl" 'I breadalbane Lady Emily Foley, the Countess r t ,7 ik t °n, the Countess of Kinnoul, the Countess of Rose reeh.e Countess of Camperdown, Lady Willoughby L'ais s " and Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton, were the 1. 1! Patronesses who kindly promoted the interests of the Zlejs r ,s the ir personal attendance. These distinguished - 'O 4 c'ved with their respective parties early, and were S T.ii, ~,, the “ tea- r00m. ,, es,",achess of Buccleuch was alone prevented by her `'Ne 3' s s command to join the royal circle at Windsor 5t444144.1__ being present. T e Nob . le Duke, however, L. "'''', nas the House of Lords adjourned. His Grace 711, ern the full uniform of the Royal Archers, the Queen's li t d for Scotland, of which 'ancient corps the Noble :th '4 caPtain General.' in bokeewb,all costumes were general very superb, but o ;tin,: cannot be expected to particularise the whole. 3, l A e l l fely include those of the Duchess of Sutherland, Wness Itches of Norfolk, the Duchess of Somerset, the kille ugh ; l f Montrose, the Duchess of Roxburghe, Lady Litits s e b'Eresby, the Countess of Rosebery, Mrs. %V. ki. id , i : the Mar c hi oness o f B rea d a lb ane , th e C oun t ess o f sg th a dY Emily F o l ey , th e D uc h es s de Coigny, &c., as „..111 fro Most re c h erc he as regar d s t h e t as t e di s played, as "ssio ' r °rn the value of the rich jewels they wore on the bite ii. i s Oat , s ''''s- Russell appeared in the beautiful dres she is the royal bal costume, and the Countess of Kinnoul Cfes s , o 7 e W illoughby wore tartan dresses. A majority of ` 1 10 % " Portion of the company had scarfs of different 1t1... 41 Alf k_ - ‘O4 4,, r ed Paget, Mr. Russell, Captain G. Cumming, and . P . s ' -ve fifty gentlemen, wore the same dresses and uni hit ' las t b tt 3' c- they appeared at Buckingham Palace . on t i Zied th em °tit there were net above twenty ladies who tlsabl e of that precise costume, as it seems iri kili,,,..'te either to adopt powder or a wig, both of which dr e iZes are now banished from society as a general part The 11 k ts ci a lj Y e c-v dresses were , on th e w h o l e , ex t reme ly successful, at of Li eut. Malcolm, Mr. Hoskins, and several castertha dresses. The Highland garb was more gene ieverY car n bY gentle men' ' and as is always noticed at this ‘Tts.tt.e seemed to be exercised to render the costume t4 e k s tityl ng tb ~, es, p,:-e numerous congregat i on we o b serve d—Prince of IA lii,: i i nce li;ilatzin, Prince Troubetskoi, his Excellency tie t accj e nnsegge, Baron de Lagos, Moliun Lal, the Duke 11, 41 1 :es s "en, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the v 41 of Soinerset the Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Mary likta r tls' the Duke a ' ntl Duchess of Roxburghe, the Duchess %s eda n(' and . Lady Caroline Leyeson Gower, the i 4 ,,e Coigny and Mdlle. de Coigny, the Marquis of of roily' I"_e Marchioness of Breadalbane, the Marquis .., Voisis'ne Marchioness of Conyngliain, the Countess rb S, O4 t.and Ladies Lucy and Charlotte Herbert, tilese,-,sa, of Ros b ry and Ladies Louisa and Anne al, ".' k e Counte e ss e of Haddingten, the Countess of it4B, ",e Countess of Morton and Lady Ellen ila be, th T \ Ln e Countess of Camperdown and Lady IkZsticinnean, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, O w r y / flanlin, Lord Henry Lennox and Lady Caroline 1 1 - "Jrd Cranstoun, Lord Francis and Lady Augusta . VhiCradyburton, Viscount Bury, Lord and .Lady It i stisah 3 / 4 °,,,r(1 William Graham, Lord and Lady Carew, I ki llr o , l . e,, .lisses Carew, Lady Lursan and Honourable ts tr t acl uiew, Lord Alfred Paget, Lady b William Paget,___ ss kb., ,boy Stuart, Lord and Lady Napier aryl . Hon,_A h li_ tia,l,,taßer Lady Rendlesham and Hon. Misses T eld sl'iltr,',' Henry Loftus, Lady Emily Foley, Mr. A. an n'abeth Drummod and Miss Drummond, Lady kik l •ltd,„gl i low, Lady Stopford and Misses Stopford, Sir H. litttliwood- Untie Campbell, Sir Alexander Woodford and \il ts , a r ° rd, Lads , Montfora, Lady Elizabeth Elliott, trO,W land Caroline Charteris, Dowager Lady Abinger, tit e, ''"Fisdale and Miss Dimsdale, Honourable Captain llo.. ) ' Is, Sir Dugald Gilmour, Sir Archibald Macdonald, k i Nah' i s e.Y, Lady Elizabeth Reyneil and Miss Padre, sts,.. - "te Mrs. IL Howard, Honourable Mr. and Mrs. k kta - ares ir John and Lady Rose, Lady Anne Baird and %ft.!, sr, LadysWilloughby D'Eresby, Honourabl_e i D t . !rie s :, Jzarnes and Lady l‘PGregor, Lady Bow , yerSmh ka l 1 I.. 4 ,.' n 'ith, Sir Richard and Lady Jodrell and Miss bg i . 4 keidl l -3 ' Douglas, Lady Abercrombie, Lady Stammers, testss Pen s Jas. Matheson, Esq., M.P., Mrs. Matheson t lsady t hs i pgal , Zez all, Lady . Knox, Sir x. Di r ri a c u si le n , Ai r y., Miss i‘- 71 ( tio C l4r ti s. alLs D e atia n c s , P h t H en o e n , li j o ' n. Mrs. Wyndhar . n, 1 41114 1 „, r al and Miss Sykes, Sir Peter and Lady Laurie r Ptiekla ri :uPbell, Sir De Lacy and Lady Evans, LadyMurras , I , l4 l4,"„Arest and Miss West, Sir Claude NVade, .Lady , , h . Hon" Captain John and Lads- Hensler, Hon. S. Pere 11,;,,`'aPtain James Murray, Hon. Mr. Browne, Hon. „li h; 4 , Si,:"„' P. Chichester, Hon. George Stuart, Hon. C I ‘ , ls, .'''''', Col-- ue lln Brackenbury, Sir H. Dalrymple, Genera it t z e os e i i. 11 G o Everest, Lieutenant-Colonel Malcolm, Att, y k• r "On Cumming Sir Edward Poore, Sir James s i sar . s, Murray, kisses Abercrombie (2), Mrs. F. 4.e_tt.P.-tilnerGibso, Captain Archdall, M.P., Mr. Lock- Ip: a at i' at'd Miss Lockhart, Mr. Campbell, of Islay; Mr. Itil. $ an c ,s 't ' s i t‘LP- Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Russell, Mr. Leslie, s qtildi n - 4 -(rs. iorbes General and Mrs. Kemp, Mr. and Itt.'terli n " and - Miss Auldjo, ' Colonel Wood, M.P., Major %Als-6', M ajor -General Morison, Major-General Gallo ' • brain, M S. Boyd, Mr. C. Pole, Mr. and Mrs. . le,Y_ and a td % s s Grant es d Captain O S% L I IV " ' iterll, Doyley, A b r ian a e, d I Captain in Home Turves, kthbetianr'nfield, Lieutenar t • Col iiel , Luard, General , Evan . , , ( 4 etun 'Colonel Daly Captain Forbes Matheson, Captain 0 n % t144 ., t f'laill Orri ' Captain Reynolds, Captain Preu- N o e l; C C:l"; t :',n n .. H. Watson,ll Y' , Ca ptail; . \ Dalrymple, 4 Captain w`O4 Ist* , ts!, ' . 11. B. Martin, Captain - Taxi. di, ['sprain ‘, ards, ii'Vlani Fraser, Cuptai!i De Bathe, Captain i . ,.. -4`ko, Major Wilkinson,Captain De Butts, Major 'Or Captain PaleY, &c. s -Iz u tt R 4 _,, onA.cco BY TUE EXCISE.—A seizure Tad and extent has, within the last few days, S . ' til e b Y the officers of Excise on the premises of V: t Od thrargest tobacco manufactories at the east end of Lon- f 'l tei„ .l4 Piciw e , aten s serious consequences to the parties concerned . 1 4 4 "ed. te . , "° turn out to be well founded. From information 4 134 1 to th e 'al of the surveying examiners-general of Excise pro th !Par t : Zernibes, and having examined every place in .an k tt: 4 sea r :, t t heY were so completely satis fi ed with the objec t lit y :rb ole "., that they seized upon the whole of the conte nts . t ht)"'d re,:, which included a vast quantity of tobacco, which ki t ook ...°4 to believe was greatly adulterated ; accordingly 04 %I 1 %j et plea of the whole stock, and dispatched a messenger 4 117 , Pr 'w c . t n s ee for o ffi cers to go immediately and take possession N 4 s tsh oh in the Q ueen ' s name. Two officers then took pos -41/44 of th e "e been r e li eve d i n turn b y ot h ers , an d a strict il is titt :44 oe r e olises is kept up both day and night. The samples Ni t; . Undergoing the process of analysation at the Exci se Ni l Chan_ d also at the Museum of Economic Geology, Craig s afw_ill fit ' cr °ss, by Professor R. Phillips, whose report will be the c ourse of a few days. The affair has created the ‘,„, oft:est throughout the trade, as the firm are , in a very °Usiness, and had hitherto been considered as very 41 1 'oft'. 11 04," 0 11 • 44 1: 4 11 rti account of the events which attended N„,. by of the Hibernia are extracted from a letter, •N. We gentle Man who was a passenger on board, to a mer ',N th n t his town :--' Our passage across was replete wi..h : 1 0st t ." n e first place, when out five days, and about 300 kls ot 7d, whi ' et aPe Clear, we had a startling announcement of fire ett k: at half _ 4 Was duly signalised by a general rush from the h es :4 - post eight P. 24 when all the passengers—some of Nt s state of frantic ex citement—pestered the captain with ktp. 4l s , fir: "'ober of suggestions as to the best way of putting teiNthe v i el , ie b was discovered to be in the beam running 444:14 . ‘t• etztih ites.c4.tiarninMediately under the galley. I was very much Ryrie's conduct on this occasion. He stripped ItNittl th e n " , in his shirt sleeves, went into the coal_ it, and ts i , t hO g re st°k eto in shovelling away the coals from the part and after smoking for a couple of hours, it and C ed • In lon. 47 we got into the i ce, w hi c h was Itiq tor two r , la:ger quantities than I ever before saw it. We k tk eZer b re n , l . lgnts, and paddled during the day at half-steam ; Z 4 4 1 , -I °, 4t l a ' i ng au our floats, and doing considerable injury to 'ot, it s , i ove ra r, t got an opening, when we went at full speed, tl~(l'oe , io ebergs of huge dimensions, some of them 200 feet ei of the vide''L Manchester Guardian. ) ,. C ES IN THE PARKS. --During the' past month have • igs ,; the va r i o „ De cn apprehended and convicted for o ff ences com ttrkti'Wo we . 8 Parks, the total sum of whose fines amount to tig er to re fined for defacing seats, two for indecency, and 14$k W alt r d amaging the iron hurdles and the young trees. at fo nETWE EN BUENOS AYRES AND MONTE Nt4ok t letter has been received by a mercantile ;..'" Buenos Ayres, April 3.—We have to inform YiEla ite `4Jtt, ultisPatclies have been received from General . Oribe, 4 -shed ti;' advi sing the complete defeat of General Riviera, 114Itkitth the lndia Muerta, ' ninety miles north of Monte Ole,' , aft er °S S of all his it tau r ' y artillery, and baggage, on the ta t : l (l44 1,0 0 4 2 . 1 action of two hours ' the division of General k t ,ted kre at ' n en are said to be killed, ;nd 500 prisoners taken, N i p P t ei g i ra , t a nY officers. General Riviera is reported to have y 9re e a b t l rejoicines have it t e ak i, F i n de p o la i c s e i n te o r t e y o e n t y the Fr o ei c l k ei a i d , ? of Mo nte 11 ;41k._. t Mar Wid ged b " I k tor ti c t lc eele C b l z . ll , l , B of Westioinster, it is said, has pur kth, Ponthill estate, formerly the property of Mr. 4 tis• Oka , an d 1 0% d p * Duchess de NernOUTS honoured t,,nnes,:orer_anl_a of 'Nankin with a visit on Tuesday. Their tokl,...,',,reh,tio._woa_aned a considerable time, and expressed their f e : e lltu i °l4, CAT lo r the picture. 411 1 th n ts _ort le or or LEATIIER.—The remission of oat - Uni,:"'er has induced importations of this commodity 114,74 States. The packet-ship Yorkshire, which ar 4t4k,:ith v a ., Yl43 t, brought 2,447 hides and 34 bundles of the Voo/ the leather , b e , ON griety o f er• Yankee notions, and amongst them, as 1,44.4, ? we suppose, ten cubs of shoe-pegs:— N elti x , ENT asii;„ to o, stat,t, GENERAL ictiTT.-- We have much Tie 41 that the ettbseription fin' the erect on of the mono kkZlziC,t f, ;XT . of the late gallant. Genoral Nott, G.C.R., pro" 4 14 11.3 . 4 t Very The total amount is now over ante , n 1 1 1 4 sintl ch 5( /. from Lord Dynevor, and Cla k Vtbil e Colonel Trevor. There is also every prJa- Pi tui g in the metrov, with Lord Ellvuhorough the f und.—eurnsartheit Mw:. NEW SLAVE-TRADE CON VENTION. ought also to prevail between the officers of the two squadrons, of every rank and order. The commander of the English station will receive the same injunction in this respect ; and it will on either side apply not or ly to those cases of co-operation which are explicitly sti pulated by the treaty, but also to every circumstance which may admit of the interchange of mutual civilities, and the reciprocation of moral and physical co-operation between the ships, the officers, and the crews of the two squadrons. The duty of all persons on board the cruisers of the two nations, while upholding t'heir mutual inde pendence, will therefore be constantly to aid each other in the execution of their respective orders, and to com municate to each other every information which may tend to further the measures adopted, in all that relates to the suppression of the slave trade. With regard to merchant vessels and cruisers bearing the flag of other nations whose Governments have suc cessively concluded with France conventions founded upon the principle of the right of search, and conform able to the treaties of 1831 and 1833, no change has taken place in the state of things regulated by those Acts ; and you will have to carry into execution, with regard to them, the general instructions already issued by my department. I need only here remind you that those countries are Sardinia, Tuscany, the Two Sicilies, Sweden, Denmark, and the Hans Towns. It now be comes my duty to call your attention to article 6 of the new convention. LITERATURE. 7'HE WESTIIIINS7'ER REVIEW. The follouing are the annexes to the new slave-trade conventi , :n between England and France, which was laid on the table of the HotFe of Commons on Monday even in,n, The treaty has already appeared in The Sun— The present number possesses greater variety than is usually di,played in this Review, which devotes so much space and labour to subjects of political economy, awl, in our opinion, far too little to literature and the elegant arts. It is therefore much more attractive to general readers, and more adapted also to the principal objects of its conductors—the dissemination of true principles of go vernment amongst the greatest number. Mankind re quire to be led on—to be beguiled, as it were, into such studies ; and this can be more effectually accomplished by famishing an agreeable book of instruction and amusement, occasionally intermixing light articles with others of a more serious and forbidding cast. We have here not fewer than three or four of the former deserip tion—" Old and New London," " The Iliad of Homer," " Life of Voltaire," and Mrs. Norton's new poem, The Child of the Islands." To Homer, however, scarcely fair justice is done. The writer seems too much occupied in minute criticisms, in detecting faults in translations, and in other labours more congenial to the spirit of a German scholiast, than a lively and classical reviewer. At the same time, we must admit, his views in general are very correct ; he blames with truth the tedious and expletive paraphrases of Pope, which have no foundation in the original, and gives due praise to a new translation by the s.m of the Vice Chancellor of England. The following description, by the writer, of what a translation should be, we recommend to the at tention of those engaged in one of the most difficult of classical labours : ANNEX REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE VIII. OF THE CONVEN TION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, SIGNED AT LONDON, MAY 29, 1845. Irritrue;ions for the senior officer of her Majesty's ships and vessels on the west coast of Africa, with ze spect to the convention with France, signed at Loudon, May 29, 1845. By the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, &c. We transmit to you herewith a copy of a convention between her Majesty and the King of the French, dated May 29, 1845, by which it is stipulated that the con tracting parties shall each maintain on the west coast of Africa a naval force of not less than twenty-six vessels, to be employed for the prevention of the slave-trade, by closely watching all the parts of the west coast where the slave-trade ix carried on from Cape Verd to 16 deg. 30 min. south latitude, and by exercising all the powers vested in the Crowns of France and Great Britain fur such purpose ; and we desire that you will take every opportunity, and use your utmost efforts to effeet the objects of this convention. You are to take the earliest opportunity of putting yourself in communication with the senior officer of the French squadron, for the purpose of co operating with him in the execution of this convention, and of concert ing with him as to the best means of closely watching the parts of the African coast before described, by select ing and defining the stations to be established, and by taking the charge thereof, either conjointly with the French cruisers, or separately with the force under your command, or by leaving the same to the French naval force, as may be deemed most expedient. You will understand, however, that in the cave of a sta tion being especially committed to the charge of cruisers of either nation, the cruisers of the other nation may at any time enter the same for the purpose of exercising the rights respectively belonging to them for the sup pression of the slave trade. You will, in concert with the commanderof the French squadron, determine with what native princes and chiefs it may be necessary to negotiate treaties for the suppres sion of the slave trade. And you are authorised to ne gotiate such treaties, either personally, or by an officer specially instructed for such purpose ; such treaties to be framed in accordance with the draught of engage ment forming appendix to Section VII. of the instruc tions issued on the 12th of June, 1844, to her Majesty's naval officers employed in the suppression of the slave trade. Whenever it may be necessary to employ force to compel the due execution of any treaty contracted with any native chief, in virtue of this convention, and to which both her Majesty and the King of the French are parties, you will concert with the commander of the French squadron as to the employment of force for such purpose, and arrange, in concert with 1113, to act con jointly with the French force, or separately, as may be deemed most advisable ; but, with respect to these conjoint treaties, you will not employ force without the consent of the commander of the French squadron. It will be the duty of yourself and of the commanding officers of her Majesty's ships under your orders, upon all occasions, to communicate to the officers of the French squadron any information which may be of service in detecting the frauds of the slave traders, and especially to give notice of any vessel supposed to belong to France, and suspected of being engaged in the slave trade, which may be met with or heard of in the course of a cruise; and you will give directions to the officers un der your orders to pay strict attention to this duty. With respect to the visit, search, and detention of vessels belonging to nations between whom and Great Britain there are existing treaties relating thereto, and for the suppression of the slave trade, and also with respect to vessels not entitled to claim the flag of any nation, you will be guided by the instructions founded upon the Statute passed in the se cond and third year of her Majesty Queen Victoria, chapter 73, and upon the treaties in force with foreign States, and the Acts of Parliament made in furtherance thereof, which have been delivered to you for your go vernmmt ; the present instructions in no respect inter fering therewith. You are not to capture, visit, or in any way interfere with vessels of France ; and you will give strict instruc tions to the commanding officers of cruisers under your orders to abstain therefrom. At the same time, you will remember that the King of the French is far from claiming that the flag of France should give immunity to those who have no right to bear it ; and that Great Britain will not allow vessels of other nations to escape visit and examination by merely hoisting a French flag, or the flag of any other nation with which Great Britain has not, by existing treaty, the right of search. Accord ingly, when from intelligence which the officer com manding her Majesty's cruiser may have received, or from the manceuvres of the vessel, or other sufficient cause, he may have reason to believe that the vessel does not belong to the nation indicated by her colours, he is, if the state of the weather will admit of it, to go ahead of the suspected vessel, after communicating his inten tion by hailing, and to drop a boat on board of her to ascertain her nationality, without causing her deten tion, in the event of her really proving to be a vessel of the nation the colours of which she had displayed, and therefore one which he is not authorised to search; but should the strength of the wind, or other circumstance, render such mode of visiting the stranger impracticable, he is to require the suspected vessel to be brought to, in order that her nationality may be ascertained; and he will be justified in enforcing it, if necessary—under standing always, that he is not to resort to any coercive measure until every other shall have failed; and the officer who boards the stranger is to be instructed merely in the first instance to satisfy himself by the vessel's papers, or other proof, of her nationality; and if she prove really to be a vessel of the nation desig nated by her colours, and one which he is not authorised to search, he is to lose no time in quitting her, offering to note on the papers of the vessel the cause of his hav ing suspected her nationality, as well as the number of minutes the vessel was detained (if detained at all) for the object in question ; such notation to be signed by the boarding officer, specifying his rank and the name of her Majesty's cruiser; and whether the commander of the visited vessel consents to such notation on the vessel's papers or not (and it is not to be done without his consent) ; all the said particulars are to be immedi ately inserted in the log-book of her Majesty's cruiser ; and a full and complete statement of the circumstances is to be sent, addressed to the Secretary of the Ad miralty, by the first opportunity, direct to England; and also, a similar statement to you, as senior officer on the station, to be forwarded by you to our Secretary, ac- That article calls attention to a fact well known to all the officers who have been employed during the last 30 years in the suppression of the slave trade. All the vessels which engage in that traffic are fur nished with arms, such as swords, guns, pistols, and some even have on board small cannons or swivels. This pre caution is indispensable to them, if it were merely for maintaining in obedience with a small crew several hun dreds of negroes violently carried off from their families and native land. " A translation is, or ought to be, as much a resemblance of the thoughts and style of a writer, as a portrait of his features. It is not enough to know his height, age, and form,—we must have his air, complexion, and countenance. There is abun dance of gold and silver in the world, it is the head on the medal that gives it its value. The thoughts of the ancients have occurred, and will occur to thousands ; we must have more—we must have the expression in its sharpness of finish, and boldness of outline ; we must have the words that burn, not perhaps with all the brilliant glow they possessed, as they flew off from the anvil of the master, but at least with that portion of heat which may be preserved in a translation. What men want is not Pope's or Dryden's poetry, but Homer's or Virgil's. It is of that they are ignorant, and it is that consequently they want to know. If, instead, we are presented with a beautiful poem, we accept it with pleasure and gratitude—but we still look for our original object. Cromwell, with characteristic force of mind, said to Lely, If you don't paint every wart on my face, I wouldn't give a farthing for your picture.' " But by far the most interesting article in the number is that on Voltaire, founded on a review of Livi s of Men of Letters, &c., by Lord Brougham. Full justice is done both to the illustrious Frenchman, and to his noble biographer. Every reader has heard of the phi losopher of Ferney, of his wit and sarcasm, and poetry and history, and almost every accomplishment which befals a great mind, with, we admit, one important exception, but taking the extracts from Lord Brougham's work, and the additional information furnished by the reviewer into account, we have never read any life which places in such a strong light the versa tile powers, the high genius, and the great abilities of this distinguished writer. His avowed infidelity is justly and strongly condemned, while allowances are at the same time made for the weak nesses of human nature, and the provocation which Voltaire had received from a Church and a State vying with each other in vices which cast such a stigma on France during the middle of the eighteenth century, and paved the way for the great revolution. We give the subjoined extract as a fair specimen of the ability with which the reviewer has accomplished his work : " His life was one long strife with what he deemed error ; to the end of exposing falsehood, he early determined to dedi cate all the energies and faculties of his extraordinary genius : endowed with a pungent and brilliant wit in a measure far surpassing that which is allotted even to the most distinguished among men, he naturally employed this his most formidable weapon of offence against that which he unfortunately be lieved to be the great master-error of his time. In so doing, he unwisely and unfairly wounded the pious feelings of the whole Christian world, and however great was the immediate effect of his assaults, has by the very outrage thus committed upon existing religious opinions, very materially diminished the extent and the permanence of his influence upon the opinions of mankind. But it frequently happens that the commanders and crews of slave vessels make use of their arms for another and no less criminal purpose, by committing acts of de predation and robbery, either upon one another, or upon the inhabitants of the coast, or the Europeans who resort to it. This is proved by the instructions given to your predecessors, and especially by those given by the Go vernor of Senegal, on the 15th of July, 1841, to the officers employed on the African station. It is also a well-known fact, that almost all slave ves sels have on board double sets of papers, papers appa rently issued by several Government,—false muster rolls, which enable them to assume the appearance of belonging to one nation or to another, as they may find occasion. It is generally at St. Thomas and in the Island of Cuba that these false papers are fabricated, and they contain couuti-rfeits of the printed forms and autograph signa tures of the different authorities of each maritime nation, more or less skilfully executed. You are acquainted with the provisions of the law of the 12th of April, 1825, against piracy. You know that this law considers as pirates, not only the crew of armed vessels who commit acts of depredation, but also those who sail without ships' papers, or either with papers which are not sufficient to prove the regularity of their voyage, or with commissions issued by several different powers or states—the word commission being here un derstood not only of letters of marque in time of war, but of papers delivered to merchant vessels in time of peace.* In so doing, the law of 1825 has only restated and confirmed the principles already received, the doctrine which forms the foundaion of our maritime legis lation, of the ordinance of 1554, the ordinance of 1681, recognized as an authority all over Europe,t that of 1718, and of the decree of the Second Prairial, year 11. ; and these principles have always been applied by our tribunals as well to French vessels as to foreign vessels, without having given rise to any complaint. You know, likewise, that in case of suspicion of piracy the law of nations, recognised by all civilized nations, authorizes any ship of war, to whatever Power she may belong, to detain the suspected vessel, whatever may be the flag that she bears ; under condition of delivering her over to the jurisdiction which has the right of de ciding upon the validity of the capture and the prosecu tion of the crime. " There is, however, much that may be adduced in extenua tion of the conduct of Voltaire. It behoves us not to judge of him by the circumstances which now surround us, and which, in so far as they are more happy than than thuse which ex isted in his day, may truly be said to be greatly the result of his indefatigable exertions in the cause of tolerance and free dom. To estimate fairly the course pursued by him, we must place ourselves in the same position ; must form a vivid, as well as an accurate picture of the baneful influences of the religion of his people, and of the many dreadful corruptions which rendered the Catholic Church of his time one of the most active and effective instruments of evil that ever hung like a curve over the destinies of mankind. Let us once pie, ture to ourselves the extent and potency of the bigotry and intolerance which then afflicted Europe, and we shall cease to wonder at the zeal and steadiness with which Voltaire pursued the pernicious superstition of his countrymen ; we shall find ourselves unwilling to rebuke the wit which covered with ever lasting ridicule the miserable pretences of piety and virtue which led to the revocation of the edict of Nantes, and all the many horrors with which that atrocious result of doting im becility was attended. We shall learn to honour the courage, and wonder at the skill and perseverance which rescued the un fortunate family of Calas from the pions fury of the intolerant and bigoted magistrates of Toulouse. We shall involuntarily begin to esteem the intrepid defender of Sirven, and to believe that he who boldly stood between the ferocious assassins of the unfortunate La Barre, and their remaining victims, has many claims upon our love and gratitude, and that his large and generous charity would cover a greater multitude of sins than truth can fairly lay at the door of Voltaire. Living as we now live, safe from the assaults of any such barbarous fanaticism we are by our very safety rendered almost incapable' of properly appreciating the worth of him who, in an age of such terrible and ferecious bigotry, could raise his voice firmly and loudly in defence of outraged humanity. The people of Paris, however, could and did understand the value of the great deeds of which we are speaking. Who is it they are follow ing,' said a stranger at Paris, in the year 1793, to a poor woman—' Who is that old man the people are crowding after?' The poor woman knew him not as the great dramatist or tl.e great poet. She hai never read Zaire,' never heard of the Henriade ;' neither could she tell the inquiring stranger that the patriarch of toleration was tLere—the great philosopher, the greater historian. But she answered, ' Do you not know ? it is the saviour of the family ef Calas.' Il sut cette r6ponse,' says Condorcet, et au milieu de toutes les marques d'admira tion qui lui furent prodiguies, ce fut ce qui le toucha le plus.' " Whenever, therefore, a vessel shall be pointed out to you as suspected of acts which our Legislation considers as piracy, according to the law of nations (in contradis tinction to those which our law merely assimilates to piracy, and which are such only according to our national law), you are authorized to detain the vessel, in order to ascertain whether the suspicion is well-founded. As the exercise of this right may nevertheless give occasion to abuses, if not restrained within proper limits, by the good feeling and discretion of the officers who are invested with it, you will not forget that in such case the causes of suspicion ought to be real and grave ; that the verification of the national character of vessels and of the regularity of their papers, if necessary to be resorte to, should be limited to the measures strictly requisite for accomplishing that object ; and with a display of force and proceedings not justified by the circumstances, would be on your part a reprehensible act, and would give rise to well-founded complaint. The law of the 12th April, 1825, does not view as an act of piracy the mere fact of a vessel's hoisting a flag which she is not entitled to bear ; it is nevertheless an act contrary to the law of nations—a fraudulent act, which, if tolerated, would render it impossible to exer cise any police on the sea, or any observation of mer chant vessels by ships of war, even such as it is the duty of a cruiser to exercise over vessels of her own nation. If, in order to enable a French vessel laden with slaves to escape your vigilance, it were only necessary that she should hoist the flag of another nation; if this fact alone were to render her inviolable, even when you were cer tain of her being French—that she was carrying on the slave-trade, and that the flag which she bore was usurped—every cruising 'station would become useless ; you could neither repress prohibited, nor protect lawful, commerce. Whenever, therefore, you may have reason to suspect any fraud of this nature, you are at liberty to verify the national character of the suspected vessel. If your suspicions should turn out to be well founded, if the suspected vessel prove to be either French, or one sub ject to your observation in virtue of treaties actually in force, and if such vessel be actually engaged in the slave trade, you will not hesitate to detain her. No nation can be entitled to claim for its flag the right of protect ing crime, and of withdrawing criminals of other na tions from the punishment which is their due. If, on the contrary, your suspicions should be groundless, if the suspected vessel belongs bond fide to the nation whose flag she bears, yo u w ill not hesitate to release herim mediately ; giving, however, notice of the fact to those cruisers who have the right to detain her. In these operations you will never lose sight of the fact, that y ou are act i ng at your own riskand peril ; and that if, through any act of yours, the suspected vessel should sustain any damages, she will be intitled to indemnification. In dealing with her, therefore, you cannot act with too much circumspection. Signed by the Minister of Marine. companied by any remarks you may have reason to make thereon. The commanding officers of her Majesty's vessels must be it- in mind that the duty of executing the instruction immediately preceding must be discharged with great care an l circumspection. F. if any injury be occa sioneil by exlminatio:i without sufficient cause. or by the examination being improperly conducted, compensation must be made to the party aggrieved ; and the officer who may cause an examination to be made without suf ficient cause, or who may conduct it improperly, will incur the displeasure of her Majesty's Government. Of course, in cases when the suspicion of the com mander turns out to be well founded, and the vessel boarded proves, notwithstanding her colours, not to be long to the nation designated by those colours, the com mander of her Majesty's cruiser will deal with her as he would have been authorised and required to do had she not hoisted a false flag. Given under our hands, &c. " Report to the Chamber of Peers upon the Law of the 12th of April, 1825, by the Baron Portal. (" Moniteur" of 1825, vol. 1, p. 199.) + Speech of the Keeper of the Seals. Speech of M. Par• dessus. (Session of the Chamber of Deputies, April 25, 1825.) ANNEX REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE VIII. OF THE CON VENTION BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND FRANCE FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE, SIGNED AT LONDON THE 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1845. (Translation.) Monsieur le Commandant,—A convention concluded on the 29th of May, 1845, between his Majesty the King of the French and her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, a copy of which is hereto annexed, regulates upon a new basis the vigilance and repression which the two countries have engaged to exercise in concert with regard to ;he slave trade. The two Governments being perfectly unanimous as to the object to be pursued, and firmly resolved to obtain by the promptest means the ex tinction of this criminal traffic, have recognised the ne cessity of adopting m• asuros entirely distinct from those laid down in tha treaties of 1831 and 1833. In the execution of this new treaty, the African sta tion will have to take the most active and important pert. It will, therefore, be your daty to make yourself fully master of the spirit of this document, and of the meaning of each of its stipulations. You will never forget that your chief obligation, as commander of this station, is to secure to this convention every result which the two contracting Powers have a right to expect from it. The basis of those arrangements—the principle of the work to be carried out in common on the part of France and England—consists in a complete and continued ac cord bet -seen that of the French squadron and that of Great Britain. Immediately on your arrival upon the coast of Africa you will place yourself in communication with the officer commanding the English forces, in order to esta blish fro:n the very beginning that concert which ought to govern the whole and every part of your operation. You will examine in common, pith a view to the ar rangeMent of the service, those points of the cc ast which are already known to be the seats of the traffic, and which are to be closely watched by the two squadrons ; you will make arrangements for being subsequently in rormed of, and f,r watching, as may be necessary. those places also to which the traffic might be removed ; and you will then make a distributien of the cruisers placed under your command on all those parts of the coast to which the system of co-operation should be applied, either simultaneously or separately. You will devote particular attention to the means to be employed in order to obtain the relinquishment of the slave-trade on the parts of the kings or chiefs of the tii-es which inhabit the coast. Some of them have already been induced to abandon it; others appear dis p sed to take the same course; the larger number have still to be persuaded to it by means of negotiations and promises of indemnification. To keep the former to the observance of their engagements—to reduce as much as possible, by means of treaties freely negotiated, the number of those who still serve as auxiliaries or asso ciates of the slave trade,—such are the results which, in this respect, it is proposed to attain by the system o f eu-operation. Unity of intention and action for this purpose is an essential point to be arranged between the commanders of the two squadrons. I therefore recom mend you t') consult with the comma nd e r of the British squadron, in order to •letermine the measures which each of you should undertake, with a view to secure the suc cess of this important part of th e convention. Th e concert which will be established between you TAR S ITN, LONDON, THURSDAY _MORNING, JUNE 12, 1845. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juue 11. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEWCASTLE AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY. on the order of the day for the report on the Newcastle and Darlington (Brandling Branch) Railway being read, ,51r. LIDDELL moved that the Bill be recommitted. Mr. H. HINDE opposed the motion, which was negatived without a division, and the report was agreed to. NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY. On the motion for the third reading of the Newcastle and Berwick Railway Bill, Mr. H. HINDE moved that the Directors appointed by the Duke of Northumberland shall be shareholders in the company ; and that the standing order requiring such amend ment to be referred to the Standing Order Committee, be sus pended. The amendment was agreed to, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. The report on the Manchester and Birmingham Railway (Ashton Branch) was agreed to. ASHTON, LIVERPOOL, AND STALEYBRIDGE SWEDEN. We give from the Stockholm journals the following speech of the King of Sweden on closing the Diet " Gentlemen, when you arrived at this Diet I greeted you with an entire confidence in your patriotic intentions and your attachment to me and my family. It is with the same sentiments, the cordiality of which has been increased by gra tude, that I to-day bid you farewell, restoring you to your private occupations, which have for so long a time given way to the duties of the public good. Several resolutions of supe rior importance have been adopted during the time that we have laboured together for the glory and happiness of our be loved country. If your conscientious deliberations have not always succeeded in conciliating opposing opinions, we ought not to lose sight of the fact, that rarely has an assembly of the States, restricted to the same duration of time, embraced quetiens so grave in themselves, and possessing so strong an influence on all the relations of social right. The complicated affairs that you have had to examine scarcely allowed a com plete solution to be given to all; but what the present has re fused us, will, with the aid of the Almighty, be soon effected in the future. Whilst each of you is going to fulfil in your pri vate circle the duties which Providence has confided to you, I shall devote all my solicitude to the ameliorations which our social condition may demand, in the firm conviction, that when I shall convoke you again you will continue on your ride to proceed in the path leading to the public good, and which, in order to be the means of producing a calm and en lightened improvement, ought also to be marked by union and mutual confidence. The question of a modification of the re presentative system has given birth to serious discussions. The importance and gravity of the matter explain satisfac torily the difficulty of conciliating opinions divided, not as to the necessity, but as to the nature of the change. le order to resolve, in the interest of the country, this grand problem, it becomes necessary to make reciprocal concessions. The States-General, I am persuaded, will be able to discover, in the patriotism with which they are animated, the means of satisfying the wishes of the nation in this respect. In the course of the session I presented you with a Bill for a new penal code, and another relative to pris.ms. Although you have not had time to complete a profound examination of these matters in detail, you have, however, adopted principles of a penal system, uni ting to the severity which public safety demands the consideration which the elevated precepts of religion and humanity call for in favour of the dignity of man. You have by this decision laid th e b as i s o f t h e ulterior labour which you will have to discuss at your next coming together, and on which I shall then present to you a new proposition. In placing before you the budget of receipts and expenses, I thought it my duty, Gentlemen, to call your attention to the necessity of employing the means that could be disposed of in grants for public instruction, science, and the fine arts, for regularising our system of defence, and executing public works to further agriculture and manufactures. Your deci sions prove in a satisfactory manner how you have appreciated the constant object of my solicitude —the glory and pros perity of my country. 1 have been informed of your delibe rations to guarantee the solidity of the national bank, and the maintenance of the value of the monetary tokens of the kingdom. I shall follow with all the attention that the gravity of the subject merits the results of your measures in this re spect. The successive augmentation of the indirect revenues of the State, testifying an extension in the commercial move ment and a progressive improvement in the interior, has enabled the present Diet to effect a reduction in the personal taxes. By employing these unforseen resources in favour of primary instruction, you have again proved your zeal for all that can contribute to the progress of enlightenment and morality. At the opening of this session, I informed you, gentlemen, of the resolution which I had come to, in concert with a neighbouring monarch and ally, not to pay any longer the annual tribute which for upwards of a century the king doms at present united had given for the protection of their commerce and their navigation, to one of the states on the northern coast of Africa. Negotiations entered in for this object, and which have found a powerful support in the friendly mediation of England and France, have just been crowned with success. An arrangement with the Emperor of Morocco con cluded on the sth of last April, by plenipotentiaries recipro cally appointed for the purpose, has established, from the date of the convention being signed, the abolition of that annuity. In virtue of paragraph IC9 of the Constitution, I declare your present session closed. In imploring the Divine goodness to pour over our country his heavenly blessing, I renew to you, Gentlemen, the assurance of my royal benevolence:" HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE.—Owing partly to the late fine weather, and partly to the admirable management which the planters have been encouraged to adept by the remunerating prices of last season, the hop gardens in this neighbourhood present a most pleasing aspect. The bine is luxurious, the ground in most cases clean, and more attention has been paid to poling and tying than is usual. On the other hand there is a great in crease of fly—say six to ten on a leaf, which in Mid Kent is generally considered a rather formidable blight. There has, however, during the last week, been a great improvement in the colour of the bine, which in some instances is nearly at the top of the poles. Duty is called 160,0001. BOXLEY, AYLESFORD, AND BURMAI6I.—The hop bine has made considerable progress during the past week, still the bine is backward, and some few grounds not very healthy. Some fly, from two to six on a leaf. OTHAII.—The hops in this parish and neighbourhood are of a good countenance, and quite clean, growing rapidly, al though there has been considerable wind within the last few days. Warm and still weather would cause them to grow still faster. There is a promising appearance of abundance of bine. __ THE FARLEIG s.—There is a good deal of fly here. Yes terday morning our correspondent found in his own hops as many as ten on a joint. BKENCHLEY.--The hops are growing here, with a few fly in the sheltered situations. . SEVENOAKS.—The hops during the past week have made much progress, particularly on the bill portion of the parish, the bine strong and healthy, with scarcely an indication of vermin. The high winds of the last few days have been cer tainly detrimental to the plant, but the gardens in the hill district being (although much larger than p revious y ears ) tolerably well sheltered, the bine has in a great measure escaped injury. CHEVENING.--In this favoured hop parish the bine is ex ceedingly luxuriant, healthy, and clean. Su Nn RIDGE.—The hops in the northern part of the parish (the gravel and rich alluvial soil) are looking well, exempt from the insect, and argue well for a crop. In exposed situa tions the bine has been much knocked about by the late gales, but still is rapidly progressing. In the southern parts of the parish the bine is " not so gay," probably owing to the coldness of the soil (a stiff clay) and the absence of draining ; wherever that has taken place may be observed a manifest improvement. There is a slight indication of vermin, but not sufficient to realise fears even of the most tremulous grower, and the ap pearance of the plant, at present, justifies the hope of a fair crop. BRASTED, WESTERHAM (KENT), LYMPSFIELD, OXTED, BLETCHINGLY, GODSTONE, NUTFIELD, AND REIGATE ( SURREY ).—The foregoing observations will also apply to these parishes, but that the bine in these poorer soils seems suffering more in proportion to the late cold weather, and naturally so ; as the greater the capability of the soil, -the stronger and better theplant will be, and more able to contend with its numerous enemies. THE UNDERRIVERS.—The bops are looking generally well —very little appearance of vermin except in isolated places. The bine is fast losing its yellow colour, and has assumed a strong position. The high wind has rather battered the upper part of the Underrivers, but still the plant maintains a healthy state. SEAL —Looking healthy and well, little indication of vermin. hEJlSlNo.—Although a small parish, a very large plantation, managed very scientifically by those eminent judges, Mr. Bur gess&c.—The bine much and Mr. Morphew. The bine generally looking well. THE CRAYS, and neighb ourhood.— The same observation improved during riSngHOthßeEptiaAs3ttw, eEersFonn, applies to these parishas. CANTERBURY.—The genial weather of the past week has greatly helped the young hops; and nothing is observable at present to prevent a fair crop being obtained. .—Maidstone Journal, June 10. VISIT OF A DUTCH PRINCE TO SCOTLAND.—Prince Henry, third son of the King of Holland, arrived In Leith Roads yes terday morning, in a frigate of sixty-eight guns, containing the usual complement of crew. At eight o'clock the frigate fi re d a salute of ten guns. At one o'clock, the Lord Provost received from Captain Arrow, of the Royal Navy, the unexpected notice of his Royal High ness's arrival, when he immediately drove to Leith, and sailed out bid to the frigate in one of the boats belonging to the Custom-house, to to Scotland. c h o i t s la r n e s d p . e e o ts n to the t Lordhe Prince, Provost'sancl Fort of Leith returned the royal sa l ute of 21 guns. His Royal High ness was born on the 13 th of Jun e, 1820 . We understand his visit to this city will not exceed three or f our days. --Edinburgh Obserrer return,lii s of Friday. _This highly respected Baron e t exp i re d on S atur d a y ... _ .._ . D E ATH OF SiR GEORGE H. WILL OUGHBY BEAU at Coleorton Hall, his seat in Lei ces t ers hi re. The de ceased was gß w lA a an s stT ildest son of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Bucklaud, Surrey, and was born 1 -, 1799, so that he was only in his 46th year. He married, in 1325, Miss Mary Anne Howley, eldest daughter of the Archbishop of Canterbury—that amiable lady dying in 1835. Sir George succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his cousin in 1827, and his son, Mr. George Howland Beaumont, born In 1828, now succeeds to the family honours and estates. STATE or TEADE. — The yarn market yesterday continued buoyant. There was a good demand ; and for export an advance of d. to id. a lb. was pretty generally obtained. In goods a moderate extent of business was done. The best qualities of 27-inch printing cloth, 66's and '72 may be considered a sha de higher ; while for 7.9th'S printers the demand remained lan g uid. -The R OCHDAL E FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 9.--We have had a very busy market to - day, the merchan ts having bought freely at advanced prices. The wool market has not been so brisk, chiefly owing to higher prices being asked for the middling and lower kinds of wool.—ManOester Gtorfliffri RAILWAY. The report on the Ashton, Staleybridge, and Liverpool Junction Railway Bill was brought up. The Newcastle-upon-Tyne Coal Iron Bill was read a third time and passed. PONTYPOOL RAILWAY. Mr. BECKETT brought up the report on the Pontypool Railway Bill. 'MANCHESTER IMPROVENIENT BILL. The Manchester Improvement Bill, and the Manchester Courts Bill were respectively read a third time. GREAT WESTERN (IRELAND) RAILWAY. Sir W. SOMERVILLE moved that certain reports on the subject of inland navigation (Ireland), should be referred to the Committee on the Great Western Railway (Ireland) Bill. Lord HARRY VANE, moved that certain persons should be summoned to give evidence before the Committee on the Nuneaton Railway Bill.—Agreed to. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. The report on the Chester and Birkenhead Railway Bill was brought up. Ali. BRIGHT presented a petition from Durham in favour of the Hartlepool Railway Bill, and another from Heywood in favour of the Liverpool and Birmingham Railway Bill. ACCIDENT TO SIR B. HALL. Lord SANDON reported from the Committee of which he he was Chairman, that Sir Benjamin Hall had not at tended in consequence of an accident which had befallen the Honourable Baronet, by which he had sustained serious injury. He moved that Sir B. Hall be discharged from further at tendance on the Committee.—Agreed to. LYNN AND DEREHANI RAILWAY. The report on the Lynn and Dereham Railway Bill was brought up. WATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY BILL. The report on the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Bill was brought up. POOR.LAWS (SCOTLAND). Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented a petition from Perth against the Scotch Poor-laws. DISTRESS. Sir H. HALFORD presented a petition from the operatives of Leicester, complaining of distress, praying for relief, and more particularly for an alteration of the poor-laws. The Hon. Member gave notice that he should to-morrow move that the petition be printed. Mr. M. PHILLIPS presented a petition from the beer sellers of Salford, praying to be placed on the same footing as the licensed victuallers. Mr. F. KELLY presented a petition from Cambridge against the Parochial Settlement Bill. - Mr. COWPER presented two petitions from Yorkshire in favour of a Ten Hours' Bill for young persons and females. Mr. BRIGHT presented three petitions from Rochdale to the same effect. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition in favour of the Smoke Prohibition Bill. ARRESTMENT OF WAGES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE brought in this Bill, which was read a first time. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION (IRELAND). Mr. LAW gave notice that, on the motion for the third reading of the Irish Colleges Bill, he should move an amendment to the effect, that the inculcation of religion was an essential element in a system of national education, and that no measure brought in by her Majesty's Government on the subject of education ought to receive the sanction of the House unless it contained provisions for religious instruction. RAILWAY CONSOLIDATION CLAUSES (SCOT sound in principle and deficient in detail. He hoped the mea sure would be, therefore, taken out of the hands of amateurs and that the Government would ere long introduce another more comprehensive and satisfactery. Lord EBRINGTON conjured the House not to be led away by the arguments of the last speaker. No new principle was introduced by the Bill, which merely proposed a more efficient mode of levying rates at a similar proportion, let the nature of the property be what it might. Cottages were now almost wholly exempt from assessment, and the present system of levying county rates was objectionable and unfair, and the measure before the House was calculated to prove highly ad vantageous. Mr. DARBY, while objecting to neither the second reading of the Bill pro forma, nor the system of valuation and rating adopted in it, disapproved of the mode of assessment, and the power given to magistrates of deciding the amount of valuation. Mr. BROTHERTON suggested that more mature con sideration should be given to the defects already pointed out in the measure, before a second reading should be given it. Mr. HENLEY regarded the principle of the Bill as sound, and its details efficient, and supported its second reading. Mr. HUNIE objected to the Bill, as he thought it would create a second mode of valuation, which would only entail confusion and increased expense in every department of its working. Strange to tell, there was no mode of auditing the county accounts but by the magistrates who assessed them, and he thought this fact alone sufficiently evinced the necessity of some change being introduced into the system. lie would suggest that auditors should be appointed to every . county in the same way that auditors were appointed to joint-stock companies. Sir J. GRAHAM said the measure did not deal with the whole question of the county rate, but merely established a more uniform and regular mode of valuing and rating property to the fund. With regard to the objections of the Honourable Member who had last addressed the House, that there were no auditors of the county accounts, he thought there was a sufficient check upon the accounts, in the circumstance of their being published every half year in the various newspapers of the country. He quite agreed with the Noble Lord, the Mem ber for Plymouth, that it was important that some steps sh.,u!,l be taken for carrying into effect the suggestions of the Po,,r law Commissioners, and he could assure the Noble Lord that the report of that body was now under the consideratioa of Go vernment, and he looked forward to the early introduction uf a more large and comprehensive measure, for placing the sul j .ct of county rates upon a more firm and settled footing. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Smoke Prohi bition Bill. Mr. HAWES objected to the first clause, which related to the appointment of surveyors under the Bill, and urged the Committee either to postpone or expunge it. Mr. M'KINNON could not consent to allow the clause to be struck out or postponed, because it would destroy the 13111 altogether. Lord LINCOLN objected to the clause, because his own Bill for improving the sanatory regulations of large towns would establish a body of inspectors, and in them ought to be vested the power of seeing the provisions of the present Bill properly and fairly carried out. Mr. AGLIONBY supported the clause, and urged the ne cessity for having a separate body of inspectors under this Bill. An HoN. MEMBER here called the attention of the Chair man to the fact that there were not forty Members present. Strangers were therefore ordered to withdraw, and the Chairman, having ascertained that there were only twenty nine Members in attendance, the House resumed, when the Chairman reported accordingly. The House then, at a Quarter•past Seven, adjourned till to-morrow. LAND) BILL. IR answer to a question froni Mr. LABOUCHERE, The LORD ADVOCATE said he should bring on this Bill on Tuesday next. STATUTE LABOUR (SCOTLAND) BILL. The House then went into Committee upon this Bill. Clauses 1 to 10 inclusive were agreed to. The LORD ADVOCATE moved the insertion, at the end of clause 10, of the following words : —" Provided always that nothing herein contained shall be held to preclude the imposing and levying of any assessment which by any local Act applicable to any county or district in which there are no tolls, is authorised to be imposed upon and levied from any person, by reason of his keeping a korse or horses, although such Ferson may not be the proprietor or occupier of lands, buildings, or other heritable subjects as aforesaid." Mr. HUAIE thought the provisions of the measure required some amendment, though he agreed generally in its principle. The amendment was then agreed to. The House then resumed. The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again. DOG-STEALING BILL. Mr. LIDDELL proposed the second reading of the above named Bill, which would have the effect of imposing a punish ment of seven years' transportation for dog-stealing, on con viction. Mr. HUME considered the Bill was very badly drawn up, for the effect of clause the third proposed, that if a dog followed a man he would be liable to be transported, and besides, the Bill would expose any person to much inconvenience in case a dog strayed by accident into his house, or was designedly left there. The Bill provided, that any person in whose house a strayed or stolen dog was supposed to be, would be liable to be served with a search-warrant, and to appear before a ma gistrate to account for the presence of the dog on his premises. Those who kept dogs ought to look after them, and no Act of Parliament, in his opinion, was needed. Supposing he had a good natured cook in his house, who was in the habit of giving a strange dog a bone now and then, which was very frequently the case, and as the dog would most likely be in the kitchen, a search-warrant might be issued, and he would be exposed to great inconvenience entirely through the good nature of his cook. There existed a system of smuggling on the bounda ries of France and Belgium, which was carrie d on entirely by means of dogs trained for the purpose. These dogs are kept and fed within the French territories, and whenever they are taken within the environs of Belgium they are flogged most un mercifully. At the sight ef a douanier, or Custom-house officer, and having parcels of tobacco, silks, and other articles tied round their necks, they are immediately let loose, and o ff they scamper safe with their smuggled goods beyond the reach of the agent s o f the law. It was owing to the possessors of dogs letting them go astray from home, that they were lost. — ( Laughter.) Every man should lock up his dog until he wanted him.—(Laughter.) If this Bill be wanted, let the Government bring it in. He begged to move that it be read a second time that day six months. Captain BERKELEY said that dog-stealing had become an intolerable nuisance in London, and therefore he hoped the Hon. Member would persevere with his Bill. Major BERESFORD said that if the Hon. Member for Montrose had read the evidence, he wouot have spoken upon this subject as he had. Dogs were ' , Valuable property, and had a right to be protected. Mr. WARBURTON conceived that the punishment con tained in the Bill was disproportioned to the offence, when he recollected the small offences for which people were punished with transportation. What would the Secretary of State for the Home Department say of transportation, which had been lately substituted for capital punishment, being made the punishment also for the second offence of dog-stealing ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM could not remain silent after the appeal made to him by the Honourable Member for Kendal, especially as such silence would probably be misinterpreted. As to the graduation of punishment, a few years ago sheep stealing was punished by death, and he never could understand why the common law of this country should regard the posses sion of dogs as base property. He considered such a distinc tion insupportable and anomalous, and as the provisions of the present Bill did not contemplate the removal of such objections, and the recognising these domestic animals among the rights of property, he should give his support to the second reading, reserving for himself the right of examining more closely into its details, previous to the Bill going into Committee. Mr. WATSON said that the law had very wisely stated that dogs, being of wandering habits, could not be the subject of larceny. The words of the Act at present in force were, that if any person should be found in possession of a stolen dog, or the skin thereof, he should be li a bl e to h eavy penalties. Surely that was enough.—(Hear, hear.) Before the Committee of Inquiry up stairs several witnesses were brought forward who had lost dogs, and the most distressing case amongst them was that of a man who had lost a pug dog. —( A laugh.) He opposed the Bill. Mr. RICARDO also opposed the Bill. Mr. ESTCOURT said that the Bill was monstrous and un just, and he would oppose it to the utmost of his power. Sir G. STRICKLAND opposed the Bill. Was a poor man to be punished for being found in possession of a dog which he had perhaps found starving in the streets, and which from motives of kindness he had taken to his home. Mr. LIDDELL said the attacks were as foolish and igno rant as any provision in the Bill. A Commissioner of Police, who was examined before the Committee, said he thought the present law was in a most unsatisfactory condition. It was also proved before the Committee that 1,0001. had been levied on the London public in one year by these artful dog-stealers. Mr. FOSTER thought that it was a mere waste of the pub lic time to legislate on such a frivolous and absurd subject, and he begged the House to observe the gravity of the Right Hon. Baronet opposite (Sir J. Graham) as an evidence of the serious light in which that Gentleman treated the subject. (Laughter.) Mr. BRIGHT said that dogs were running about the streets so numerously, that it was impossible to know whose dogs they were. He considered that there was at present a sufficient protection for that kind of property, and if this Bill passed there would be an undue and an unnecessary protection given, which would increase, rather than abate, the nuisance. He thought, that if they adopted the principle with respect to dogs, they should also apply it to another species of property equally as valuable—he meant the domestic cat.—( Laughter. ) He had no doubt there were many ladies who would cordially sanction the introduction of such a measure. He objected, however, to that House legislating on such frivolous Bills, and would vote, with great pleasure, against the clause. After a few words from Mr. Liddell, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Darby, Mr. AGLIONBY said he could see no reason why dogs should not be protected from the robber as well as any other property. 'I he House then divided, when there appeared For the second reading 23 Against it Majority for the second reading COUNTY RATES BILL Sir J. Y. BULLER moved the second reading of the County rates Bill, the principle of which was to enable the County Magistrates to appoint a Committee, selected from their own body, who-in their turn should appoint a valuator and collector of rates; from these officers they could ascertain the several particulars which waultl enable them to determine and fix a rate. Such being the main feature of the Bill, he would not then enter into its details. Improvements or amendments could be made on it when in Committee, and he therefore trusted no opposition would be given to its second reading pro forma. Mr. M. GIBSON thought the question of local taxation was in a most complicated and unintelligible state, and a n y measure which would place it upon a more satisfactory footing, would not only be satisfactory, but invaluable. But regarding as he did the present measure as one neither calculated to re move nor diminish the objections at present existing, he called upon lion. Members to pause before they passed it into a law. It gave the adjudication of apportionment into the hands of in terested parties, and as to rating, it made the mode of assess ment, according to the annual, instead of the intrinaig, value of the property, and thus house property would be rated at double the value of land, and according to the net annual value. But such was 4 most unfair criteriott i and i litte the till itself ! %sq. - • - PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons.) TUESDAY, JUNE 10. CORN IMPORTATION. Motion made, and Question put, " That this House resolve itself into a Committee, for the purpose of considering the following ReBo - " That the Corn-law restricts the supply of food, and prevents the free exchange of the products of labour ; " That it is therefore prejudicial to the welfare of the Country, especially to that of the working classes, and has proved delusive to those for whose benefit the Law was designed ; " That it is expedient that all restrictions on Corn should be now abolished." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 122. Aglionby, H. A. Ellice, Edward Osborne, Ralph Aldam, William Ellis, Wynn Paget, Lord A. Baine, Walter Elphinstone, H. Parker, John Baanerman, A. Etwall, Ralph Pattison, James Barclay, David Ewart, William Philips, G. R. Barnard, E. G. Fielden, John Philips, Mark Berkeley, Captain Ferguson, Colonel Phunridge, Captain Berkeley, H. F. Fitzroy, Lord C. Ponsouby, C. F. A. Bernal, Ralph Forster, Matthew Wotheroe, Edward Blewitt, R. J. Gibson, T. M. Rawdon, Colonel Bouverie, E. P. Gore, Robert Ricardo, J. L. Bowring, Dr. Granger, T. C. Rice, E. R. Bright, John Grey, Sir George Russell, Lord J. Brotherton, Joseph Guest, Sir J. Russell, Lord E. Buller, Edward Hustle, Archibald Scott, Robert Busfeild, William Hawes, Benjamin Scrope G. P. • Byng, G. S. Hayter, W. G. Seymour, Lord Cavendish, C. C. Hindley, Charles Shelburne, Earl Cavendish G. H. Holland, Robert Stansfleld, W. R. C. Chapman, B. Howard, C. W. Stuart, Lord J. Christie, W. D. Howard, J. K. Stuart, W. V. Cobden, Richard Howard, E. G. Strickland, Sir 0. Colborne, W. R. Howick, Viscount Strutt, Edward Colebrooke, Sir T. Hume, Joseph Tattered, H. W. Collett, John Hutt, William Trelawny, J. S. Collins, William Johnson, General Troubridge, Sir E. Cowper, W. P. Langston, J. 11. Tunicll, Henry Craig, W. G. Lascelles, W. S. Turner, Edmund Crawford, W. S. Listowel, Earl Vivian, J. Ennis Dalmeny, Lord Macaulay, T. B. Wakley, T. Dennistoun, J. Mamjoribanks, S. Walker, Richard D'Eyncourt, C. T. Martin, John Warburton, Henry Hutt James Matheson, James Ward, 11. Si. Duncan, Viscount Mauls, Fox Watson, W. H. Duncan, George Mitcalfe, henry Wawn, J. T.I Duncannon, Viscount Mitchell, T. A. Williams, W. Duncombe, Thomas Morison, General Wrightson, W. B. Dundas, Frederick Muntz, Si. F. Yorke, H. R. Dundas, David Murray, Alexander Easthope, Sir J. Napier, Sir C. TELLERS. Ebrington, Viscount O'Connell, M. J. Oswald, James Ellice, itt. Hon. E. Ord, William Villiers, Charlei MAJORITY-NOES, 254. Acland, Sir T. D. Egerton, W. T. Maxwell, J. P. Acland, T. D. Egerton, Sir P. Meyuell, Captain A'Court, Captain Emlyn, Viscount Mildmay, H. St. John Acton, Colonel Entwisle, William Miles, P W. S. Adare, Viscoaat Escott, Bickham Miles, William Adderley, C. B. Farnham, E. B. Milnes, R. Monckton Alford, Viscount Felimes, Edward Mordaunt, Sir J. Affix, J. P. Filmer, Sir E. Morgan, 0. Antrobus, Edmund Fitzroy, Henry Mundy, E. M. Arbuthnott, H. Flower, Sir James Neel', Joseph Archdall, Captain Fox, S. L. Neeld, John Arkwright, George Fremantle, Sir T. Newdegate, C. N Ashley, Lord Fuller, A. E. Nicholl, John Astell, William Gardner, John Dunn Norreys, Lord Austen, Colonel Gaskell, J. M. Northland, Viscount Begot, William tllynne, Sir S. O'Brien, A. S. Bailey, J., jun. Gordon, Captain Ogle, S. C. Balfour, J. M. Gore, Montague Packe, C. W. Bankes, George , Gore, W. 0. Palmer, Robert • Starkly, Henry Goulburn, Henry Palmer, George Barrington, Viscount Graham, Sir J. Patten, J. W. Baskerville, T. B. Granby, Marquis Peel, Sir Robert Beckett, William Greenall, Peter Peel, Jonathan Bell, Matthew Greene, Thomas Pennant, Colonel Beresford, Major Grimaditch, T. Plumptre, J. P. Bernard, Viscount Crimston, Viscount PoHinton, Viscount Blackstone, W. S. Hale, R. B. Praed, W. T. Bodkin, W. H. Milford, Sir H. Pringle, Alexander Boldero, H. G. Hamilton, C. J. B. Rashle gh, W. Borthwick, Peter Hamilton, J. H. Redington, T. N. Botfleld, Beriah Hamilton, G. A. Reid, Sir John Bowes, John Hamilton, W. J. Repton, G. W. . 1. Bowles, Admiral Hamilton, Lord C. Rolleston, Colonel Boyd,John Hampden, Rena Round, C. G. Bramston, T. W. Harmer, Sir J. Russell, J. D. W. Brisco, M. Harcourt, G. G. Ryder, G. D. Broadley, H. Harris, Captain Sanderson, Richard Broadwood, Henry Hayes, Sir Edmund Sandon, Viscount Bruce, Lord E. Ileathcote, G. J. Scott, Frances Bruce, C. L. C. Heneage, G. 11. Seymour, Sir H. Bruges, W. 11. L. Heneage, Edward Sheridan, It. It. Buck, L. W. Henley, J. W. Sibthorp, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. Henniker, Lord Smith, Abel Bunbury, Thomas Hepburn, Sir T. Smith, T. B. C. Burrell, Sir C. Herbert, Sidney Smyth, Sir 11. Burroughs, H. N. Hervey, Lord A. Smollett, Alexander Campbell, J. 11, Hogg, James W. Spooner, Richard Cardwell, Edwa - rd Holmes, W. A'Court Spry, Sir S. T. Carew, W. H. P. Hope, Charles Stewart, John Chelsea, Viscount Hope, G. W. 'su Stuart, Henry Chetwode, Sir J. Hornby, John Sutton, li. M. Christopher, R. A. Howard, Philip H. Taylor, Edward Clayton, R. R. Hughes, W. B. Taylor, J. A. Clements, Viscount Hussey, Ambrose Tennent, J. E. Clerk, Sir George Hussey, Thomas Thesiger, Sir F. Clifton, J. T. Ingestrie, Viscount Thompson, Alderman Clive, Viscount J ermyn, Earl Thornhill, George Clive, R. H. Jocelyn, Viscount Tollemache, John Cockburn, Sir G. Johnstone, Sir J. Tower, Christopher Codrington, Sir W. Johnstone, Hope Trench, Sir F. W. Cole, H. A. .Jones, Captain Trevor, 0. R. Colvile, C. R. Kemble, Henry Trollope, Sir J. Compton, M. C. Kirk, Peter Trotter, John Connolly, Colonel Kni;ht, F. W. Tumor, Christopher Coote, Sir (7. Knightley, Sir C. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Corry, Henry Lawson, Andrew Vane, Lord 11. Courtenay, Lord Lefroy, Anthony Verner, Colonel Cripps, William Legit, G. C. Vernon, G. H. Cartels, 11. B. Lemon, Sir C. Villiers, Viscount 1 Damer, Colonel Liddell, 11. T. Vivian, J. Ennis Darby, George Lincoln, Earl of Waddington, M. S. Davies, D. A. S. Lockhart, W. Walsh, Sir J. B. Hammy, IV. H. Loftus, Viscount Welby, G. E, Deedes, William Lopes, Sir It. Wellesley, Lord C. Denison, W. J. Lowther, Sir J. Whitmore, I'. C. Denison, E. B. Lygon, General Williams, T. P. Dick, Quintin Mackenzie, T. Winnington, Sir T. Dickinaon, F. H. Mackenzie, W. F. Wodehouse, Edmond Douglas, Sir H. M`Geachy, F. A. Wood, Colonel Douglas, Sir C. APNelll, Duncan Wonsley, Lord Douglas, J. D. S. Mahon, Viscount Wortley, James S. Dowdeswell, W. Manners, Lord C. S. Wortley, John S. Drummond, H. H. March, Earl Du Pre, C. G. Martin, C. W. TELLERS. East, J. B. Martin, T. B. Young, John Eaton, R. J. Maunsell, T. P. Baring, Henry Osborne House, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, her Majesty's marine villa, where various embellishments and altera tions are In progress, is expected to be ready for the reception of bar Majesty and the Royal Family by Saturday next. The Lord Chamberlain has caused to be issued carts of levitation to request the company of a distinguished circle of the nobility at Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty, from this day to the following Friday, to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours. A STEAMER FOUNDERED IN THE RIVER.—On Sun day morning, the Waterman steamer, No. 3, which had just taken in several passengers at the Westminster-bridge floating pier, was rounding from the landing-place, and had just arrived opposite the Duke of Buccleuch's mansion, about 200 yards distant, when she struck violently upon a sunken barge laden with 50 tens of gravel, sunk be n o i n bu La oy m to be n t i h a ' r k w t h h ic e h st i 3O a t d , belonging duringto th M e r. n A ig fa h l t l , e t a t . , d the there e l if . : t b e e r i m n a the barge was concealed from view. The iron plates on the lar board side of the Waterman were driven in by the violence of the shock, and the water rushed into the fore cabin and soon tilled it ; but the vessel being divided into compartments by water-tight bulk-heads, it could not penetrate farther, and the vessel kept afloat, and after some difficulty brought up to the Watcrmw s Abeiphi Pier, at the termination of George-street, Adelphi, where the passengers were landed, and they proceeded 1111 their voyage by the next vessel, Waterman No. 1. The Waterman No. 3 was brought up below the Adelphi Pier, and the leak hating been stopped when the tide receded, she was afterwards towed down to Woolwich for repairs. The accident was entirely owing to the Neglect of the people belonging to the barge, who ought to have placed a buoy over it to denote the obstruction after it went down. THE PRIVILEGE QUESTION. -LEVYING OF TIIE ExEcuTloN.—On Saturday last the plaintiff having procee.ted to sign ilualjudgment, and tax his costs, according to the usual Drab of the Court, took out a writ offieri facias into Middlesex, to him also to issue a writ of testatttm into Ke nt in whit ' lt county the defendant, Sir William Gossett, the Sergeatit-at-Alm, at the ]douse of Commons, resided. At a late hour en Saturday, the writ was lodged in the office of the Sheriff of Kent, indorsed to levy 422/. 55., besides, &c., upon which a warrant was granted, directed to the officer in the district of Sir 'William Gossett's resiiletne, Charlton-grove, Blackheath. Soon after the receipt of the wilrrant, Mr. Morris, the officer, proceeded with Mr. Howard, Jon., the e it of the plaintiff, to execute it. On arriving at the mansiiin of Sir William, the officer intimated the object of his v isit, jkad wa lot he must pursue his usual outs? ; lie then RAU the levi, t o y a piece of furniture, spon which a (rind illiaui Goss„„,s hande4 lint Oyer. tlie amount Of thQ nands of the SherUf 011: 11101, 0 - • t ' "n -grin. which he duly paid into the Able forthwith, Tb. ig the writ of exeeution being t. aun tnot was paid over to Mr. Howard by the ^ If ofthe matter. thus relieves ise l CIE MAYNOOTH GRANT. The following protest against the second reading of the Maynooth hill in the House of Lords has been matte by Lords Farnha'i and Kenyon. PROTEST AGAINST THI?. SECOND READING OF THE MAYNOOTH BILL. Dissentient I.—Because I have always viewed the establish ment of the Roman Catholic College of Maynooth as a mea sure bad in principle, and not productive of any of those advan tages which (as an experiment and a mere measure of political expediency) might possibly have, on those grounds, justified its original adoption. 2. Because I have always entertained the strongest convic tion, that the annual grant to the College of Maynooth was a measure to which, as a Protestant, I could not assent; as edu cating, for the spiritual instruction of the Roman Catholic population of Ireland ; an inferior class of persons taken, in most instances, from the lower orders of the people ; and, therefore, not likely to use, for the general advantage of the country, the immense power which they must possess as the spiritual guides of a naturally intelligent, sensitive, and easily excited people. 3. Because n►y sentiments as to the character of the educa tion adopted in the College of Maynooth have been fully cor roborated by the evidence taken before the Commissioners of Irish Education in their Bth report ; and the admis-ions cf the professors of that Institution prove, to my complete satis faction, that the authorised class-books of .Maynootl► (which every student is obliged to purchase), and the standards to which they are referred, contain doctrines, the innoculation of which upon the youth, who are to he the spiritual guides and directors of the great body of the Irish people, must be fraught with the greatest danger to the peace and well- being of the united empire. 4 Because, objecting so strongly to the annual grant to the College of Maynooth, those objections are infinitely increased, when it is proposed to give to that institution a permanent en. dowment, unaccompanied by any check or control on the part of the Legislature. 5. Because, it is my firm conviction, that the effect of the present measure fir the permanent endowment of Maynooth will be to increase the number of the Roman Catholic priest hood, without improving the quality of that body. 6. Because, considering this measure to be bad in itself, and dangerous in its consequences, I cannot but view it as the pre. cursor of other measures which, in the march of cvents, it must carry with it—involving (perhaps at no distant period) the ile struct ion of our Protestant Established Church. FA RN HAM. KENYON. • DEATH BY FIRE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sia—ln reference to a letter headed as above, and signed " II.," which appeared in the Times of the sth instant, I beg to offer the following Acheloos to the ex cellent suggestions of the writer, to pryvent the loss qt life by fire. The writer states that the proposed tire escapes cante obtained at the small outlay of 30s. each, and that two or three ought to be placed in long streets, whilst one will be sufficient in short streets. But he has omitted to advise the necessary amount to defray the expense; I therefore beg to suggest— lst. Thz'it the amount required be raised by subscrip tion among the inhabitants of the respective streets from ls. and upwards, the surplus, if any, be deposited as a reward for acknowledged services rendered at any cala mity that may happen ; such reward to be adjudged by the housekeepers. 2. That those inhabitants in each street, who have pacious ground premises, should be waited on by their neighbours, and requested to allow the tire escapes to be deposited in their yard or outhouses, so as to be readily accessible in ease of need, and surely no reasonable objection can be made if they consider that the machines may be required for their personal security as well as their neighbours ; and the machines can be constructed so as to be doubled up and occupy but very little space. Nor can it be pleaded as an excuse that the keeping of the escape on the premises might render themselves and their families liable to be disturbed on any fire hap pening in the street (luring the night. I think it an advaiaage thus to have early notice of danger. Lastly, 3. To effectuate these propositions, I must readily beg to offer my own premises as a deposit for the tire escapes in this street, which is one of the shortest, and my house is in its centre, provided no hater locality can be selected ; and I trust that other housekeepers will follow me, and not mind a trifling inconvenience, whilst they contribute their share to the general security against loss of life by fire.—l am, Sir, your mo s t obedient servant, J. M. JOHNSON. 10, Castle-street, Holborn, June 10, 18.15. THE SrANISH NAVY. At the breaking out of the war with France, in 1793. the navy of Spain consisted of 204 vessels of all classes, including 76 line-ot-battle ships, 56 being in commission. At the pre sent moment this power possesses only three line-of-battle ships—the Soberane, 74 grins, which has undergone a thorough repair, is now at Cadiz ; she will be sta tioned at Barcelona during the Queen's stay there. The other two, the Heroe, tit) guns, and the Guerrero, 74, are at Ferrol, in a very dilapidated statt, and would cost up wards of 100,000/. to be put into a serviceable condition. Of the six frigates in the Spanish navy, there are in com mission, the Isabel Segunda, and Cones, 44's, stationed at Havannah, and the Esperanza, of the same force, on her passage home from Manilla. Another frigate, the Pella, his undergone a complete overhaul at Ferrol, and is about to s.il for Monte Video. The Villa de Bilbao and Maria Christina, 50 guns each, are lying at Ferrol, and will almost require to be rebuilt before they can go to sea. Besides these vessels, there are 30-gun small frigates, or corvettes— the Venus, the Liberal, and Luisa r ernanda. The first named is shortly to proceed to Fernando Po and Sierra Leone, the second is at Cuba, and the Luisa Fenian& is ex pected to be launched next month. There arc likewise =even 20-gun brigs in the Spanish navy. The Jason. the Patriota, the Habn• ro, and the Marte, at Ha vannah ; the Manzanares. at Ferrol ; the N(mvi ul i, on th e soull coast of Spain ; and the Herne, at Ferrol. This ves s•l is to accompany the Perla to Monte:Video. Six smaHer brig=, carrying from six to ten guns each, are stationed in the Havannah ; the Phillippine at home. The Alvaro de Bastan and the Congreso, 169 horse-power each, the Isa bel Segunda, of 190 horse-power, and the Peninsula and the Andaluz, are the only steamers possessed bOthe Spanish Go vernment. The Alvaro de Bastan, the L Segunda, anti the Congreso, are stationed at Cuba. T. eninsula and the Andaluz, originally passage-bogs, wer • ur ••• .in mercial company, and very bad bar - proved. The engineers of the three firs - • eis are Png ltshmen. It is the intention* rich Government to augment this very in'u' •rce, by building several frigates and steamers abroad cat home. A 36-gun frigate and two steamers of 450 and 220-horse power, the last of iron, are now upon the stocks in England. The two steamers will eost 120,000/., and will be completed towards the end of June. Another steamer of 220-horse power is in the course of con struction at Passages; and it is contemplated building a frigate, some brigs, and a small steamer at Ferrol, Carthagt-na, and Carraca. Malta Herald, May 26. MR. DISRAELI S SYBIL; OR, TllE 'VIVO NATIONS." —The '• Two Nations" are the rich and th e poor —a charm ivgly told love-tale connects them together. " Sybil," the daughter of the lowly, yet proud of her birth, know irg nothing of the world except its sufferings—replete with fascinating simplicity and unbounded sympathy— profoundly imbued with a pure and solemn piety, and bi)wailing in mournful majesty the degradation of her race—is a creation of the highest order ; whether drawn from any resemblance in real life, or purely from a series of brilliant images suggested by a luxurious ima gination, it stands apart not the less as a superb sketch, fall of fi►rce and discrimination. " Sybil" forms a figure, around which the author is enabled to gather his elta racters, and frame his subject, and to scatter with pro fusion the riches of his fancy, and the maxims of his sagacity; and as the impersonation of sympathy for the poor and degraded, "Sybil" stands out in bold relief as a lovely yet passionate Egeria, from which the Lords and Commons may hear, not unmoved, whispers of sorrow and sufferings, uttered with the fervid eloquence of truth , and yet adorned with all the graces of a poet's fancy.— Ainswo. els Magazine. Colonel Gore Langton was prevented by indispo sition from voting for 31r. Villiers s proposition on Tuesday night. COURT OF ALDERMEN. O❑ Tuesday Alderman Wood brought up a report from the Gaol Committee, which re. commended that a third Court should be provided at the Centro Criminal Court, and that ground should he forthwith purchased for that purpose. The Court agreed to the report, and proceeded immediately afterwards to the consideration of a report recont. mending that measures should be taken to purchase ground adjoining Newgate, for the erection of a new Compter. This report, which detailed all the proceedings adopted since the year 1837, for the purpose of effecting a sepa. ration of the prisoners and a classification of them in the prison, has the following 'paragraph at the conclusion :—" We find that there is a space between Newgate and Warwick -lane and the Ses. sions-house, consisting of 54,200 square superficial feet, which can be obtained. We therefore recommend that, without delay, steps be taken to obtain this site, under power and provisions of the Act 4th Geo. IV., before alluded to." On the motion of Alderman Wood, this report was also agreed to, and sent back to be carried into execution, FERMOY, Su SDAY.---MR. O'CONNELL'g jouRNEY TO Cott[.—Mr, O'Connell, accompanied by his eldest son, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, his kinsman, Captain Primrose, Mr. Steele, and Captain Broderick, arrived here yesterday evening from Kil kenny, where he breakfasted. The Mayor and some members of the corporation of that city paid their respects to Mr. O'Connell before his departure. All through his route, and the towns along the line, Mr. O'Connell was hailed as he passed with manifests_ lions of popular attachment, especially at Clonmel and Kilrusb. From Clogheen to this town was one scene of popular rejoieing. Last night this place was all festivity, but perfectly tranquil at the same time. An enormous bonfire was lighted opposite the hotel where Mr. O'Connell and his friends passed the night. Triumphal arches were placed at the extremities of the great bridge over the Blackwater, and In various parts of the town. Bands of music played during the evening, and multitudes paraded the streets. This morning, after attending mass in the chapel here, Mr. O'Con nell proceeded to Glanmire, to meet the procession which is to accompany him into Cork. EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. —Mon day afternoon, about two or three, some children, whilst at play in a retired place, called Willow-walk, Bermondsey, were astonished to find something floating about in the mud of a ditch, which was by the side of it. They gave an alarm, and it was then discovered to he a woman who bad been attempting to make away with herself. The police were called, and she was convo)ed on a stretcher in a very had state to the Bermondsey workhouse. She refuses to say why she made the attempt on her life. It is unaccountable why she should have chosen such a place, at so short a distarce from the canal and river. PLOUGHING THE STREETS.—Strange as the cir cumstances may appear, the streets of a royal burgh in Scotland have during the past week been submitted to the action of the plugh. The burgh is Peebles, which is in course of receiving im. provements. The streets having required to he lowered and re• paved, a strong plough has been employed to tear up the old cause. way and subsoil ; and so effectually has this been performed, that by one or two days' operations of a man and a pair of horses, the labour of many men for a week or more has been spared. The hint is worthy of the notice of railway e.xesivators.—Cakdeniass Meirtry. 'I'111; GRANT TO I .AI AYNOOTH• —On Frilly the visi4 tattoo of the Venerable the Archdeacon of Nottingliate was held at New:l7l,, when Dr. Wilkin. delivered his annual charge. A incetiut 1 the ,•lergy subsequently took place to petition the Queen and the Douse of Lords against the intended grant to 3licynooth. The Venerabl e the Archdeacon took the chair, but resigned it sooner than petition the Queen to do what he considered " an improper act in itt tertering with her Parliament." Reporters were excluded from the meeting. 1im,17, 4 .1. SOCIETY.—On Sunday the Bishop of WoreQ,ler 'Tv:wiled at Trinity Chapel a very excellent sermon. from the text of the 14th Matthew, verse 30—" Lord save me, or 1 tlivour of the objects of the Royal Humane Society, and seemed to gratify exceedingly the very select congregation assembled there. His Lordship appears to have been himself, in one ease, the happy instrument qf preserving life, by being enabled timely to re commend the Society's means of reeuscitatien where a Child With• drawn from a public well was COusidere4 iv >» dead. a,