The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

ktly 4 h ea t hat he th ought it necessary to mention to them ; 1 4;2r yere two charges in the calendar of a revolting a...'!othich would require some care and attention, but ii t T would present no features of difficulty and therefore, L uc% d et . • 't to ,Tung them further, he would and them at O'h e " ofiecharge of their duties ara grari ci Jury then retired and proceeded with their ~ A R kjtg (d/oRO'-STREET—(TIIIS DAY.) AtING cl3in,h. WA TCH. —Robert Lexis was brought before I" ch arged with h av i ng sto l en a s il ver watc h, Tye Property of John Clenton, at the House of "°Be-street 8 h Pre secut it a 7, ors deposed that he was . sent to the House of 1.4,...408e- treat, by Judge Coleridge, there to remain . ofapteil—'4c3' occurred in the Hospital for Consumption at 71 al e l* la th "Ale e prisoner was an inmate of the same place, ag o same room with witness. About a fort went ;„tlaese left hi s watc h on his bed while eha e ,; n - "J an adjoini ng room f or t h e purpose 144 e lieut' v a g his crav a t, an d on hi s return Prisoner, th e Minute atter, he missed , his watch, tOO% who was the only person in L'Perter. he n he left hi s watch. had suddenly taken his Picloe,7o:ibd could nowhere be found. This excited . the eoth• ' tees and he gave inf . ormation to the police; l id li %ll4 o lll aoe th g e n2we Was seen of the prisoner Fun! last nigh t t, i i i„! - .mtnate of the house met him in Oxford-stree , lonsear), ittri_r_l charge. fith: l X Ch e r , a servant out of placf, residing _at the k:le o x , q, proved meeting the prisoner on tuaday t t es h e B„,d-street. On taxing him with stealing the A til t vit % it was all right, he " blued" it. Witness on '! et _ cons table gave him in cha rg e. poc ed tor trial. e r ' lr rs AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Thomas with youth. was charged before Mr. ii P°llldre. atte mpting to pick po c k e t s a t the St. James's 12a kfe:el on 46. , Bald about eleven o'clock on Friday night a Ile a ?, in King -street, near the front of the St. /4 et ' 4 l; th e When he saw the prisoner busily employed k b te. hen of several ladies who were leaving the took" ,!?1; him to be an associate of the swell l e , t nati on. 'Lull into custody, and conveyed him to k e and .Witness subsequently returned to the tibbg e ' d ijnquired if any person had lost any kit of, pt;"Y named Blanchard said she had . been ?4,ePentiernrse containing two sovereigns and some silver, 1 44, 11 0iZ e i t heformed him that he had lost his watch as ,faeltleahtlee..Pit. The prisoner and . his confederates erllo ne et Ilene profitably employed during the perform Th e of the property had been found on the le ver Pris ee V Co vet who is well known to the police as one of the il'ectieiif:,!ckets in London, was committed to the House ' e' three months with hard labour. ~.......--- SPORTING NOTES. SPORT AT COVENTRY. _ 814\7'0 Tlit. ----"1"---- SUN. I her,,,rla e „ -',. -EDITOR OF TH E . ktt - r7pt of 114 pre -EDITOR week contains four metings • two oi that/ et cop I4tie note, the third at Oldham Hus day, ' and the % 14 0 thtitrY to-morrow; it is about the last-named leglll t4 tY.t - vw Indite a few lines. The ste!pl chase out ' ' l lls. Wn eni r • • acceptance of sixt e een, which leg e isell the ~ les nes an acceptan the day, except trll °lie 1 , 13 "st across-country nags of e of all, or ithi I lapi et 'l British Yeoman. The appearanc tin,ll.l l . Yof the cracks i the race is not to be expected. CP , e, 'Neal:, • • --n • ' Vain Hope, Peter rstt al iktd 4 1 ,, g division will include . S lt , siptN sn.2el-Xader; Mulligan also is dubious, re t Weteri'vred by mistake. The most probable runners 10 1,'; l i t •-alarie, list 51b; Fugitive, lOst 121 b; Rattrap, lloy"R i lie, pajollingwood, lOst 71b ; Victim, lOst Tipperary 111e,V°4 21h 7,, t 6 b ; T rust -me-Not, lOst 61b; T1.1315V01e %b. s l 91b ; , ruglenaan, lOst ; Subduer, 9st 131 b , two of 4 . 01 4 , and Maurice Daley,9lb 4 FiSlio t e l . ' til aY be " found wanting." The morischiev 4r3lite ~ ,° 1 illy .presumed runners is composed e k ei y , ktattrp. Miss Collingwood, and .0 1 have Sip` st an , dit Ra t tr ap does not stop to Pl 4l . i lll :l l : tjil t s°Y of ece a , sou Cr, s h e ought to be about the mark , propensi . y ver should sit h ltiv e , I Ai- 'llgwood or Tipperary Boy is my reserve. ,) 114,:litja,-Y,but little about, being by no means certain k.llll,,,eoLannuld she d I should by her especially ;01:111-6.1.,?litlelitill.t...hat case °6c good enough to beat Rattrap •,, 14 _‘nd th e i* l• !Rust place my confidence in Rattr!lP, , 11, „sad si ~oy tor the three foremost places, with ,' l er,„gerdi,:,,r reter Laurie fourth and fifth. , At e " 4 ace her 11 ht at Liverpool, is said to be L , ica by , .e,i e t a , L l'ep, w •bp t j 2 , sion in favour of Mr. Oake's Half-and-Half, like that at ter,,rel, j4"libase it Should turn out a hoax, is . 0 the 1 17; n in rillg the Seigtior of Holderae t ?lie eleti c i• 141 11 4 llikl ea r i Plat Race of 5 sous. each, with 25 added,. I, ti' t tlli ji r°l4 bit a-i ;a fi lf, haB . ht ntries and six or seven w_ill, out lisrt•er• gure in g the e spurt ; the finale will be be to.4sit De 4 e ll itdd ea s 4 , 4 , 3 yrs, Gat 41b ;and Hazy, hetic vision, 3 yra,.4st 12 . 1 b ; o h (I b y l , na2e has come o'er my prop __ ,ls will go ZlAZtliti ll ,te doUbt 118 to whether both the H ''qtpll4tllthe'awyuoYu4,think the best plan would be to back 1 1. 31 411 of ou 'l be as safe as mortals can be on this ra. P r dig . I - th I A ~1811. a m, Sir, yours, Soc. I , l4 , l it i.ttl l : l lZ irt 1 I .. lt 2 v ll io E tim SP , I f ß or l t T h O e F THE TURF. Country Steeple tgalo t41:13 to iahga both at the West-End and in the City. l iii t it: ° • llio - ha been booked about him at Beeton's. ruguus t i ,-s,, ja‘rleY, which is alway one of the best P il log• w e' oa % bY, The Victim will be the winner, with 41,., 4.....Lti1d Tipperary Boy in close attendance. k lift#Tl----, : 4111?"4 40 410 Pt.nbif r !r it tel :41!t) INTELLIGENCE.OME RSE T R A ClErfSts Atolbe6stdle9b he B° Enerqetehire Stakes; o qv, e 1 5th instant. V e 4l . ll OY . A g e at lb George *. 4 9 0 Little PM 4: :: ''''' ... 5 8 7tGladiole ....... 6 6 8 9 •• • ••• a 8 31Firog Gout .. ... 5 8 2Scarborough \ ttl ' ............ i ktl :'. .. - . . .... . 4 8 2 Eatafette .... ....... . .. 4 6 7 8 V Won't-you-come -out i ': ...... " ........ 48 2 to-night -- k L . ..: .. 4 6 7 ..... " 5 6 4 - lina ) . 1411414:‘ .......... 5 8 11 ' Larkaway Ni4•' ...... 4 8 1 1A,lis' 4 6 4 l A, . ......... 5 7 12filare-np 4 6 2 4 1; 41.. e . 1 ....... . ... 5 7 12'Elect - r , i a cit . y 5 6 0 N i i t 's ..... 4 7 11 Rogue l r a y n 3 5 6 0 4 6 0 liVi sti lh ieT °l4 l 4.. e .. t . o . r 4 5 7 10Brington .., ............ 5 7 9 Cingari 'Modestina ~.... ......... 47 9i Safe ‘q'.... .... '"•-• 4 7 9Made . 4 5 13 4 5 12 3 5 12 i t : t A t l Yt l ........ • 4 7 8 lec . r to u n it ... 3 5 12 lie4y... .... : ...... .2.; 77 5 7r' c iN . ) )T I Bretby dam by 3 5 12 Y. Blacklock Illey .. •-. 57 51 Epirus, • 1,, , ..„ ••. ..... . 5 7 4,c by .. .......... 47 4 Enterprise 4, .., ......... ... 4 7 4 Aaron Smith ... 1 7 , , 41 -- ...: .. : ...... • 5 7 2 Sunrisetof t 33 5 10 9 7 K he Thistle 3 5 7 y ip 6. ............ 55 2 1 The Ban I C 4 464 '.. 4 7 1f by Pantaloon, out _ 5 .„ iltaiisaa.: .. . 3 5 'S I) ...;. ... 1 1 of Lady .-.-- ... 3 5 5 ) lip ... ".. ••• 4 7 0 Knook Knoll 3 5 4 IliN. ....-'• 5 7 0 Heart of Oak , I l'e lel l . , ... ' ..... 4 6 13Brother to Truth 6°°L 3 5 1 Pki te i....... - ' .. ......... 4 613 teller us ...... , q 1 k „," - 5 6 1 1 2 1 c P t n y d ,J : i iii o ' Gaunt, d 3 _ 0 i i iiq'..... "" ••• 56 1; by the Saddler : 5 3 4 10 ‘lei ) tl ell " "••• 4 611 iWaterlall . ..••• ... 3 4 8 ,'lh.te . r . ..... • ... 4 6 10 Terpsichore 3 4 8 ii111g1;;;; ...... . 4 6 10 Barcelona !ote• ll tli n e liligl y accepting I ‘ ( ' ''' weight be under Bst 71b, it will 1 1 In A ki - ; "1 Eil SPR ' MEETING, 1851 . . t 4 '- °ll - form s ING and Rotherham Stakes.— dt i 4 ?rt4,191(1 C7areheth4lars Maid of Kent (late Jean t, t)lZ4he Deeeittful - Oat; Mr. Merryman), 3 y i rs Q : 134 4 thoi,, a Yra---Slang, yrs- Scarborough. 4 11 y o •- by tbsti4sllellaZ' Yrs--Mi•s Flyaway, 3 ,Y"—c3 rs - 4 P a l Yrs.„_ — ' o 4 aill by Liverpool, out of Ninny,. yrs 4Nt - ' 4 .8 ' 4110 1)e, 4 yrs—The Saxon, 3 3rs Irish '4, ehtt, iirs"--kad ameWharton, 3 yrs—ch f by 541. n YrB--Osbaldwick, 4 yrs—Prince Caradoc, • 4 - ,tiOt i , iPi l Lk l ate el°, for t Free Handicap Hurdle-race:- Lod t'4 (ij!!, 6 yt)riset°,..ne), yrs—John Lawrence, 5 yrs s — • P -- s- N) "), 5 '''ihe killer (late Sir Benjamin), yrs_,._.. ' 4 ' , .1, eq„,3 re--The swift, 5 yrs—Quiz (late UM' 41,Yebt'AennY, aged—Tal -ho, y sgeit—Little Queen, 1 1 . -44 y, '6 -,..32.3--Warsvick,- 4 yrs - Sampler, 4 yrs— "'"-Wharfdale Maid, aged--Wild Hero, Ili t,6", -- -------._ - -----...__________ " I' AND FOUND. . Z'o TE, h-N4h Zliti; U,-..: EXHIBITION. . 41. ' al) 4 DITOR OF THE SUN. "i nob le t o W Ptal i S re ~,Att , t ft hathe de through the abo u v e e 'Pt Ith. °ll l it r ' lllll ong theabo u ndng efforts to resc k.: h „_ !ch i. c.onvenience, that one may :lave been a - i ti r ih'4,4l t,`,lltides the exigency of visitors losing their .th t „he 41kok, erol.ld, and of tile serious and very em vyileipo4lB.-ancea under which persons so placed '4 4 , 4 r let, sit , A flag staff somewhere near the centre Ltsi li t ' 4 ll li te ` t e a d c ti,g to . a small detached spot as the -44,, t ba , in. difficulty, or some,) , 'simple ' 4 4, 4 zry..nrilikely prove highly important, and b —"" P er Plexity.—Yours;&c., i hd 14,, A SUBSCRIBER. i o h "It r , -..............................., th t -, T h ~,p. 8 -___ ° 4 lo lki tt let l Nay tzilt,,j°RN ToniN.—Sir John Tobin i t r,,_he W ti lt gut last, at his residence, Liscard Hall, . 1 yt t ets kilo e, for he Was in his 89th year. Although i t hhqr i ' l but n 4 Y ett to most men, his death was some what i'd, hi.Pil y. ", So sudden as to prevent the presence of 4 11 '44 4 10 olle L ad Tobin survives the deceased. Sir „I lq a titu t hre e 7 1 11, the Rev. J. Tobin, incumbent of Lis ,"Nht,' or 046 aughters—Mrs. James Cockshott, Mrs. I te, h l liqtta,' -1! 1 (1 Mrs. Reddie, wife of the governor of ,1) 0 /,, Nat tiger lay the flag of the Town Hall was %t P t ,t4, lo n ci i . 41 gb, out of respect to the deceased.— d' h N . ; 4 A, bo i to k -141 T P ke l lt etc uNCH• —An admirable article in kl l ° II 410 1 i° l Sat . • hu l l li d t he t t he lii ur!:lay, relating to the " Crystal P . a ..mt -tt. Xbik..? °in gViews of the Exhibition, !titot4 the iiii.:4Lion, songs on the Exhibition, thicken l'ette;aup°A the announcements are mere numerous , :,et t 44 ,. tv e ,..'re to r „ , ‘• Of these , however, some at least are :'11) that w lab f ,,," llo 'which we arefully avoided giving last ot hi (1 4i k p e z to teat its authenticity. We mean thestate- Nt. t haj l t h. 4 . 1/ Punch, illustrated by Doyle, is to appear *g 4 4, thi h " Exhibition.' On inquiry we have disco ,i,l,liftl gastelleihrloh, which has gone the round of the ;NI tid o W 141 ' it 3 origin, entirely foundationless. It ' 4 l? ke N. r ° ur, the product of the vivid imagination LI %o h a 1 el kild , t l act i n ent for a Scotch paper. Then it !as i 1 0: t It hi°14 4 , 4 to the miscellaneous column of a leading ,1141l°, Le„' "a thence, being at once brief and pro- I ' L 'ito k r it ha, trar.isferred and re-transferred from town i;"'A"„q k; oy!. aet?,eyed an almost universal circulation. 4 iPt,timiteyVik,z; a : e.l do What Mr. Anstey won't,.. take a tait !Ps hl' haa sot 1 ea which he did not originate. Un- I. „e Na contradicted the fabulous paragraph, (1, g 4 4 8% " had 3 ' be inclined to think the Penny Punch 1,, illtig "Peculati on. ,, 1 , o N 0 't lt t kl' l 'b:•( P PRop L i , iii. t), ) ,. , ~ p,lty: RIETORB OP visa LIVERPOOL ' V oter' l'Ori, t t ittb,„, !it) LIFE I NSURANCE CobtrAltY.— '4 4 1 °l's * --1 : 0- day a special general meeting of tt tr.htNote n t . the Liverpool;he and London Fire and 'll , 8 to P I IY was held in their offices, 1 10 tippi consider the clauses and provisions toed % Olir t , et nelatal d 4. IN •41 1 • Ved b deed the settlement, submitted it ' 44 hal:jilt:Z. 3%ll,,t'hileliaaninntisl'ailchinol,te.Etis• *., 1 4. 4 , nqg., presided.ot The titi-l' 4 4 / 4 11, -,,, u tb s' -tietly stated the object for which the pro kip tif rit f C4lltd to ether, the.supplemental deed was t il Pl hk on e or eiv ~b rds f ko tk tiit 4 , the clauses, the respecting the bear ion! dead whi ch had the resolution approving of the 0r1244 e ti b rnitte e d d been agreed to at the meeting -.414% . The _!o t hanoptr; and unani• 1 utesU n gbroke up, 0 I I. L ' THE MAGAZINES. her instant removal to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On her arrival at the hospital great exertions were made to alle viate her sufferings, but she expired some time after her arrival in the greatest agony. Several persons attended to view the body, but up to seven o'clock last evening it had not been identified. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. BLACKWOOD. Pisistratus Caxton continues his very charming ro mance with unabated, or rather with increasing ability. Trivial as the interests of the story may seem to be. they are rendered memorable and of value by the air of fascination by which they are invested. This, more over, is attributable to the exquisite manner of the novelist, by his (pie t but sunlit humour, by his genial and delicate , by his plastic eloquence and his matchless powers of delineating character. The heroine is at last introduced on the stage. Violante, the young and beautiful, as yet little more than a child—the daughter of our good old friend Doctor, or Signor Iticcubocca. In Jemim a the latter has found, we are rejoiced to observe, an admirable helpmate. Lenny Fairfield becomes an inquiring experimentalist in science, and, what is more, a poet. Albeit but a poor village labourer, Lenny has in the latter capacity become invested with a peculiar interest, and, so to speak, with a certain dignity. For, as Sir Beliver Lytton himself observes—and he ought to know something about it—" be who can view the world. as a poet is always at soul a king." The latter portion of the present instalment of his domestic narrative is coloured with a homely, hut delicious, humour. Parso❑ Dale, " unaccustomed though he is" to riding cn horse back, adventures i❑ this wise to the town of Lansmere. The traveller at the road side inn is capital—just one of those little incident❑l trifles that Bulwer Lytton can make so much of. His calling out later on the highway, '• How's the leather?" when the parson is getting tossed up and down on the saddle rather unmercifully, is the climax of merriment. Scarcely less droll is the landlord of the Lansmere Arms, with his preposterous definition of gumptious—" Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is gumptious : now the town beadle is bumptious, and Mrs. Avenel is gump tious." Gumptious she most unquestionably proves to be when visited a little further on by the good parson. With the commencement of this interview the portion of the novel for the March number terminates. A very beautiful and intelligent criticism of Mrs. Jameson's " Legends of the Monastic Orders" follows this most de lightful contribution. In it the reviewer expresses a profound and generous admiration of some of the moat conspicuous among the saints of the Roman Catholics. St. Theresa in particular he takes to be a most saintly as well as sainted woman. The following account of the origin of the superstition respecting St. Swithin, as given by Mrs. Jameson, may not prove altogether undeserving a perusal:-- "He had ordered that his body should be buried among the poor, outside the church, 'under the feet of the pas sengers, and exposed to the droppings of the eaves from above.' When his clergy attempted to remove the body to a more honourable tomb inside the church, there came on such a storm of rain as effectually stopped the procession ; and this continued for forty days without intermission, till the project was abandoned, and his remains were suffered to rest in the humble grave he had chosen for himself." The subjoined passage relating to St. Thomas 3 Becket, the great Archbishop of Canterbury, we commend to general consideration:— " Lord Campbell, in his recent and admirably-written life of Becket, as Chancellor and Minister of Henry H., tells us that his vituperators are to be found among bigoted Protes tants, and his unqualified eulogists among intolerant Catho lics. After stating, with the perspicuity of a judge in equity, their respective arguments and opinions, Le sums up in fa vour of the eulogists, and decides that, setting as•de exag ge,ation, miracle, and religious prejudice, the most merciful view of the character of Becket is also the most just. And is it not pleasant, wire the imagination has been so excited by strange vicissitude% and picturesque scenes of his various life—the judgment so dazzled by his brilliant and generous qualities, the sympathies so touched by the tragic circum stances of his death—to have our scruples set at rest, and to be allowed to admire and to venerate with a good con. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—This is the eleventh day of a Ministerial crisis. A whole month of the session has been thrown away, and besides all kinds of horrors looming in the horizon, the agreeable arrangement of three months for Parliamentary work, and three months for the Exhibition in Hyde-park, is now utterly hopeless. Though it must he confessed that the public at large endures the suspense with an almost stoical apathy, there are people who feel some anxiety to know the present results, if any, of the crisis, and for their sake we will attempt to state them. All our conclusions, however, must be offered with one important reserve. Since Friday evening the crisis has rested with the invincible and impe netrable Deice, who may, or may not, have some plan of his for extricating the nation from its difficulties. He may suc ceed in reducing the Government apple of discord to a pa latable form, which shall answer al purposes and offend no body. He mar, by the weight of his advice, induce Sir Robert Peel's friends and Lord John Russell's colleagues to forego their differences; and form a joint Cabinet for the good of the public. He may effect reconciliations in other quar ters. At all events he is riot the man to let an occasion slip through his fingers. But, puting him out of the question, and looking only to what is decided and known, what is our present position? In the first place, it is very clear, from the explanations of last Friday night, that the Protectionists have no chance of forming a Government with the present House of Commons. Lord Stanley bas described the utter hopelessness of the attempt with a fidelity which is candour in him, bit would have been im pertinence in an opponent. So anxious was his Lordship to impress on his hearers the poverty of his material., that he scarcely escaped a tinge of satire, and has almost left on re cord a parallel to Sir John FaletatPs narrative of his march through Coventry. Much has been said lately of " candid friends," but the part of a " candid leader" had yet to be illustrated—that omission has been supplied by Lord Stan ley. As his colleagues are some of them incompetent, some of them too busy about their own affairs, and some of them too modest, and as nobody else will come forward to supply brains, tongue, or hands, to the dull carcass of Protection, he is confessedly unable to provide as with a Government at this moment, In the order of events a Russell-Graham Cabinet was the next alternative. Whether any previous differences might have been got over, or not, the speeches of Sir James Graham and Lord Aberdeen on Friday night have interposed an insurmountable obstacle in the way of a union. Both these statesmen have now spoken of the Ecclesiastical Titles pill and the movement out of doors not only with censure, bit with absolute disgust, and declare themselves averse to any legislation of this kind. As there is no other visible alternative, the revolution of the political wheel brings the Whigs once more to the top, and there seems no doubt of their trying it on again. The first thing, however, that strikes one is, that they will be exactly in the same condition as they were a fortnight ago. They will have the same, or rather an increased number of Pro tectionists arrayed against them, and the same number of Irish Raman Catholic M em b ers rea d y to throw themselves into the anti-Ministeri a l sca l e . Th ey w i ll b e liable to the same pressure from th e R a di ca l party, w i t h the same dis position on the part of their own friends, and all the rest of the House, to let them fight their own battles on Parliamen tary reform, and posssbly on some other equally interesting questions. No possible modification of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill will propitiate the frantic Irishmen, though it may alienate some Protestant supporters. As for a mere recon struction of the Cabinet out of the old Whig materials, that will only be another symptom of weakness and another ground of attack. Sir Charles Wood might have devised a more captivating Budget, but we doubt whether any Budget whatever would have escaped a storm of opposition from some quarter, if not from all quarters. As for the colonies, though a good tempered Secretary might give them a chance, we believe that they cannot, and will not, be governed without an occasional disturbance. So we cannot hold out any hope of peace and quiet, if the late Adminis tration should simply resume its performance, with a some what different cast, and with, perhaps, one or two principal parts given to new hands from the same school as the old ones. But, as there must be a Government, and as this case of suspended animation is beginning to look awkward, it is time to look out for suggestions. One proposal has been gaining ground for the last two or three days, that not only promises to meet the difficulty, but seems to be almost un avoidable. It is proposed to refer the whole subject of Papal aggression to a Select Committee. Of course, this looks ominious of delay, of flagging zeal, of growing discretion, and perhaps of final indifference; yet there are not a few circumstances that point in this direction. It is admitted by Lord John Russell, that without modification the pre sent Bill will interfere with that religious liberty which he has no wish to disturb. A large section of the public, among whom we must reckon ourselves, think it mere pedantry to include Ireland in the operation of the Bill. The Protectionist chief, and many others of that body, think that Papal aggression will to much more effec tually met by a series of legislative checks, adapted from time to time to the overt acts of the Roman Catholic com munity. Much deliberation would be necessary to meet all these views, and that deliberation would be given with far less scandal to religion, and far more chance of success. in a Select Committee than in the more public arena of the House. The dignity of the Crown would be not the less effectually vindicated by a leisurely defence; and mean • while the ordinary legislation of the country might proceed. That is the case of this proposal, and, without having a strong opinion about it one way or another, we must allow that it deserves consideration. This, however, would only re. move a temporary obstruction, and would leave the con stitutional weakness of the Ministry and the rising hopes of the Protectionists without alteration. That weak ness can only be cured by stronger men and stronger measures. If Lord John Russell could attach to himself some of those men who possess the confidence of the more liberal section of the Legislature, he would not find that section acting so independently and so inconveniently—pur suing its objects in season and out of season, and inflicting defeat, as it did last Thursday week, at the most critical mo ment to his fortunes. As to stronger measures, we need only point to one which would both secure the better co-operation of the party just described, and also cut away the last hopes of the Protectionists. They boast that a general election will give them a clear majority of 30 votes, with which they will ride into power, and impose a moderate fixed duty on foreign grain. For their own sake, as well as for the sake of the country, they ought not to be allowed to cherish this delusion. But surely Lord John Russell must now see how nearly he has escaped, if, indeed, he has escaped, a dissolution, and how absolutely necessary it is that the next general election should take place under the safest possible conditions. Without particular re ference to Mr. Locke King's plan, it is evident that a large extension of the county constituencies is necessary to make the House of Commons a proper representation of the intel ligent people of this country. The Irish Roman Catholics reckon on returning sixty members of their communion into our next Parliament, and if the British P ro t es t an t s ga i n e ven a 1 they will so on b e a bl e , w i t h th e i r Irish the Whig Gov ernmen t i n t o a cor respaeucxtialbialeries m , i t o o or p it u 3 s , cor ner. Self-preservation, then, demands that the new Parlia mentary Reform Bill, which Lord John has long had in con templation, and of which he had prepared a draft before the present session, should be introduced forthwith, with as little delay as possible. We are speaking, of course, off the book at the present moment, as no man livi ng can say what adv i ce the Duke of Wellington will tende r to h er M a j esty t hi s morning; but, assuming that he will not a d v i se t h e reject i on of Lord John Russell's services, we beg to suggest the first use he should make of his fresh lease of power. HERALD.—We have no doubt as to the deep disappoint ment and as to the unfeigned grief with which the agricul turists of the empire will have received the unwelcome in telligence that Lord Stanley has failed in forming an admi nistration.allmembers Their regret, iw o mostw e feel sure, important professions, by every independent member of the bar, and brevery honest, and true-hearted British seaman. We can state, without fear of contradiction, that Lord Stanley, in endeavouring to con struct his Cabinet, solicited as Lord Chancellor the most pro found lawyer, and the most deeply-learned equity judge that has graced the bar since the days of Lord Coke. Whether we regard Sir Edward Sugden in his private or in his public capacity, we feel assured that the most virulent opponent cannot substantiate one fair or legitimate charge against him, which can in the slightest degree detract trom his high and unblemished reputation as a lawyer, as a judge, and as a gentleman. His conduct as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, at two distinct periods of holding that office each peculiarly distinguished from the other by the cir cumstances of his party and of his own situation, was, nevertheless, peculiarly marked by his unflinching energy in disposing of the business of hi s coert—an energy only equalled by the justice and the un exampled success of his decisions. The spirit which he displayed in reforming abuses was followed by the fairness with which he exerted it ; while he only looked to the merits and services of those whom he rewarded. He never exercised his patronage to serve party purposes, or to gratify sectarian antagonism. The Court of Chancery, in England, stands in need of speedy and effectual reform, which has been long talked about, which has been even mooted, nay, more than once attempted ; but we despair of seeing it effectually grappled with, much less successfully accomplished, unless the task should fall to such a Lord Chancellor as Sir E. Sugden would make—the only lawyer in the empire capable and willing to carry out such a 'reform effectually, honestly, and triumphantly. The other appointment to which we alluded i s that of First Lord of the Admiralty. We believe we are correct in stating that that high post was offered by Lord St anley to and ac cepted by the Duke of Northumberland. The a d ministration of the office by his Grace, under the peculiar circ umstances of the times, would have been most acceptable to the p ro f ess i on o f which he is a distinguished member, and i n which he has attained the high rank of a flag officer. At the same time the exalted station to which he has succeeded since he left active service in the navy, and the unbounded wealth Whi c h he in herited, place him far above the suspicions.of undue favouritism or unworthy partiality, to which a man of inferior rank, who merely occupied the post of First Lord of the Admiralty from being a naval officer, might be subjected, however unde servedly. As a zealous officer, who for years followed the profession from choice, and from the honest admiration of its high utility and national importance, his Grace has all the knowledge which the head of the department requires, but for which, on a first instalment in office, a First Lo r d is ge nerally obliged to be indebted to the kindness of others while, as Duke of Northumberland, he carries with bite that weight and that authority which high private cha racter and exalted station combined cannot fail to confer. ADVERTISER.—Amid the hourly Ministerial changes which h an t g h e e s which we have witnessed during the last ten days, we have never for a moment relin qu i s h e d the belief, that L ord John Russell is destined to be ag a in the principal advi ser of her Majesty. And however varied may be the as "situation" may yet assume before the final arran gement, we adhere more strongly than ever to the opinion, that L or d John Russell is proximate as well as past Premier. In the prospect of seeing the Noble Lord again at the head of the councils of his Sovereign, it is devoutly to be wished that he would definitively determine on what course of policy he will adopt. The wonderful alacrity which he displays i n abandoning positions which he bad taken LIP, an d changing the policy which he had announ ce d his determination to pursue, have done more to damage his Ministerial character, than even those finality speeches which 'have brought so much obloquy upon him. We invited attention, on Saturday, to the changes which the Noble Lord's views had undergone,within the pre vious day or two, on the question of the Papal aggression. We affirmed on Friday, and now repeat the statement, that after he had been a second time summoned to Buckingham Palace, to receive her Majesty's commands to construct a new Cabinet, it was his full determination either to introduce a new Papal Bill, or to give greater stringency to some of the provisions of the measure which is before the House. Th e Noble Ie rd admits, through his evening organ, that the pre sent Bill was a compromise to conciliate ome of his col leagues, whose Tractarian tendencies are notorious to all who are acquainted with them. And now, that the dissolution of his Ministry has released him from the obligations he had come under, he was to introduce a measure more in accordance with his speech on the introduction of the Bill. But immediately after this resolution had been formed,ithe Noble Lord is brought by some means or other into contact with Popish influences; and because, forsooth, Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop. of Dublin, whom the ex-Premier regards as a very mild and moderate man, thinks the Papal Aggression Dill rather stringent, he not only abandons the idea of ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE c IRES.—Shortly after eight o'clock en Saturday morning a fire of a very se rious character broke out on the premises of Mr. Pezzy, up holsterer and cabinet-maker, Old-street-road, St. Luke's. It originated in the workshop, during the absence of the work people, and the discovery was not made until the whole of the workshop was in flames. A number of the brigade ( ngines were soon on the spot, but although the firemen ob tained a good supply of water, they were unable to check the fire before the workshop was entirely consumed. About two o'clock in the morning a house, in the occupation of Mr. Duncan, No. 3, Melbourne-place, Cambridge road, Hackney, was burned down. The family were awoke by some person in the street, who saw the glare through the shop fanlight. Fortunately the inmates escaped from the premises in safety. About one hour previously, the engines had been required in Cleveland• place, Fitzroy-square, where an alarming fire had broken out on the premises of Mr. Matthews, carpenter and builder. The fire was not extinguished for nearly an hour. Most of the work shops were destroyed. The total loss of pro perty at the fire cannot be far shoat of 2,0001. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—It has at length been decided that the suspension bridge over the river Avon at Clifton shall forthwith be comple ed. This undertaking was commenced many years ago, but was never finished, for want of funds. Arrangements have now been made for the resumption of the works. Mr. Hennett, the engineer, is to finish the work at, his own expense, the subscribers abandon ing any claim that they may have on the ground of former investments, reserving, however, to themselves the right of passing over the erection, and entering into a heavy bond of indemnity to secure the promoter against any legal proceed ings which may be brought against him by the owners of the ferry. In consideration of the outlay incurred, which will amount to many thousands of pounds, the engineer will have the bridge under his control for a length of time, suffi • cient to repay him for his skill and capital embarked. The ironwork has been taken by Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the eminent contractors m connexion with the Crystal Palace. When completed, the bridge will form a most picturesque adjunct to the beauty of the Clifton scenery. A METHOD OF EXPOSING AN OBNOXIOUS TAX.— Dropping into a grocer's shop, our attention was drawn to a ream of brown paper by the words, " Tax on this ream of paper ," in very conspicuous letters. Reading on, we ob tained the information that the tax amounted to 16s. 9d., and this on a single ream of the coarsest paper, the cost of which, exclusive of the duty, would be about 11. 7s. ; so that the duty was, in reality, above 60 per cent. —Preston Guardian. LONDON AND BLACHWALL RAILWAY.--A Bill is about to be introduced into Parliament for making a branch railway from the London and Blackwall Railway to Ilaydon square, Whitechapel, and for granting certain powers to the London and North-Western Company with reference thereto, and another Bill at the same time for extending the time limited for widening the London and Blackwall Railway, and for making the branches to the London and St. Katherine's Docks, for erecting a station and other works at Rodeswell, in the parish of St. Anne, and for amending the Acts relating to the said railway. The first-mentioned Bill contains 22 sections or clauses, and the latter Bill 15 clauses, on the vari ous points contained in the said enactments. ROCHESTER, MARCH I.—As several labourers were engaged yesterday morning in pulling down some houses, in order to clear the ground for making the approaches for the new bridge in course of construction at Rochester, one of the walls suddenly gave way, burying two of the men in the ruins. No time was lost in extricating them, but when found one was dead, and the other so severely injured that his life is despaired of. We have reason to repose every confidence in the accuracy of our information, when we state, that the imme diate termination of the crisis will be the return of the late ➢linistry, with possibly one or two exceptions, to oflice—it being distinctly understood between Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham, Mr. Cardwell, ➢lr. Sydney Herbert, and one or two others of the leading men among the Peel party, science; and this, too, on the authority of one accustomed to balance evidence, and not swerved by any bias to extreme religious opinions? But it is not as statesman, chancellor, or prelate that Becket takes his place in sacred art. It is in his character of canonised saint and martyr that I have to speak of him here. He was murdered or martyred because he pertinaciously defended the spiritual against the royal au thority; and we must remember, in the eleventh century, the cause of the Church was, in fact, the cause of the weak against the strong, the cause of civilization and of the people against barbarism and tyranny ; and that by his contempo raries he was regarded as the champion of the oppressed Saxon race against the Norman nobility." " Lavengro, ' tue presumed autobiography of Mr. George Barrow, is subk,cted to a somewhat severe, du-ugh, at the same time, a very judicious castigation. In the estimation of the critic in Blackwood it will not tend very far to exalt the repute of the author. Another paper of an artistic nature will be found among the con . that when the Papal Aggression Bill has become the law of the land, they will join the Russell Ministry, which will then become a Coalition Cabinet. The Papal Bill is the only im pediment to the chiefs of the Peel party accepting office at once. It is a curious fact, that they are, to a man, more or less deeply tainted with Tractarianism. Some of them, in deed, are actual Romanists, though still retaining the Pro testant name.—Advertiser. The Earl of Clarendon is hourly expected in Lon don, from Dublin. THE REPRESENTATION OF GREENWICH.—We un derstand that during the past week two private meetings have been held at the offices of a legal gentleman in Green wich to secure the return of Admiral Duedes, our present Member, and another gentleman. The latter is an inhabit ant of the borough, but we refrain from further remark until another opportunity.—Kentish Mercury. THE SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.—The anni• versary festival of this valuable institution took plate on Saturday evening, at the Freemason's Tavern, and, as from the strong nationality which Welshmen still cherish might have been expected, the natives of the principality in London mustered in great strength upon the occasion. The festivi ties of the evening were presided over by Colonel Rice Trevor, and were greatly prumoted by the excellent enter tainment provided, and by the efforts of a well-selected party of vocalists. From the secretary's report for the past year we collect, that since the establishment of the schools sup ported by the society, '2,045 boys and 590 girls have been clothed, educated, maintaine 1, and permanently provided for thereby. The number of children now supported by the charity is 200. They made their appearance in the dining hall, and their healthy looks, combined with the effective manner in which they sung, no doubt acted as a powerful stimulant to the benevolent feelings of the company. DEATH OF A \YELL-KNOWN CHARACTER AT SEL EISK.—AIex ander Ross, better known by the familiar soubri quet of Highland Sandy, the itinerant piper, died on the 13th inst., in the 99th year of his age. He was originally. from Ross-shire--his parents having been many years under Ross of Balnagcwan. He left his native highland home at the age of 35, when he entered the marine service, in which he continued 13 years. During the next six years we find him labouring as a farm servant; but this mode of life seems to have ill suited his roving propensities—for from this period wandering a n s other up to the closing scene at S elkirk his life was no longer of a borde o r f , private but publi c c h aracter, b eing well known over all the an old strains rem nant ins as tha ." t re de counties minstrel band of Sco, Scotland, a h n o d s thrilling as used to resound through the halls of our forefathers, and to which we ourselves never listen without calling forth remi niscences of the olden times. In the land of the Sassanach, far from the • Highland mountains, and the scenes of his youth ful days, this son of the Gael slumbers in the churchyard of Selkirk.—Kelso Chronicle. tents of the March number, namely, one relating to " The Arts in Portugal," and considering the unfamiliar character of the topic we doubt not it will be generally acceptable. Southey suggests to one of the contribu tors an able and pleasing series of biographic articles— the first of which is here published. Besides the pal ers already particularized, we must call to the notice of the public the first, relating to the " Internal Dangers of the Country," and the last, referring to the important question of the " Ministry and the Agricultural In terest." Altogether the number of Blackwood for March is really admirable. APPALLING SUICIDE AT CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL. —Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, about half-past one, a most appalling act of suicide was committed at Charing-cross Hospital, under the following melancholy circumstances:— The unfortunate individual was a person by the name of Samuel Bridges, aged about 30, and was well known in the sporting world as a jockey. Mr. H. Lingham, the house surgeon, states that he had been a patient for the last six months, but had nearly recovered, and, in point of fact, was about being discharged. Alt hough he showed considerable despondency of late, be exhibited no symptoms of derange ment, such as to induce the least suspicion that he might destroy himself. At the usual hour he declined taking dinner with the other patients, and was observed to go to the window (on the third dear). He then took off his coat, looked out into the street for a minute or two; in another moment they saw him precipitate himself from the window, lodging for a few seconds on the abutment of the second floor, and then falling on his face into the area. The de ceased had previously destroyed all his letters and documents. When picked up there were symptoms of life, but ere his re moval to the ward he gasped and expired. THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY - LANE.—The splendid spectacle of Azael ; or, The Prodigal, still continues its bril liant career. Amongst the numerous tashionables who visited the theatre on Saturday evening were the Marquis of Done gal, Duke of Devonshire, Duchess of Cleveland, Viscount Canning, Lord De Tabley, Baron Parke, Earl of Glengall, his loyal Highness tke Duke of Cambridge, Marquis of Nor manby, Viscount Canterbury, Sir B. Graham, Captain Fre mantle, &c. MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday morning a sermon in aid of the above hospital was preached by the Rev. J. H. Gurney, M.A., before several members of the late Government and a very crowded congregation, at St. Mary's Church, Brvanston-square. The Rev. Preacher, taking for his text "The rich and the poor shall meet together," de livered a very impressive discourse, and eloquently pleaded in behalf of the Institution. Having adverted to the length ened existence of the Middlesex Hospital, the high repute which it held for medical and surgical skill, the fact of 2,559 indoor and 11,38:' outpatients having been treated during the last year, and the consequent claim the charity had upon the sympathy of the benevolent, a collection was made arnoucting to between 901. and 100/. . The Right Hon. the Spesker entertained at dinner, on Saturday, the following Members of the House of Com mons :—Lord Kildare, Lord Ashley, Lord Jocelyn, Lord Clarence Paget, Mr. Sydney Herbert, Mr. Henry iir•oulburn, Sir James Graham, Mr. T. d'r,ynceurt, Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir George Clerk, Mr. James Stuart Wortley, Mr. Henry Tuffnell, Mr. Henry Fitzrcy, Sir Charles Lemon Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir J o h n Y oung , S ir R o b ert Price, Lemon, Romilly, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Harcourt. The Marquis of Douro and Lord Ernest Bruce were prevented from attending. REPRESENTATION OF MARYLERONE.—DETERMINA TION TO RETURN THE BOROUGH MEMBERS FREE OF Ex pitNSE.—Ors Saturday evening a numerous meeting of the East Pancras Parochial Association was held at the Globe Tavern, Derby-street, King's-cross, for the purpose of con sidering the present representation of the borough, and the propriety of according in the resolution passed at the great meeting of the rate-payers held on Tuesday evening at the vestry rooms, determining on returning the present Mem bers for the borough, Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, free of expense. The following resolution was unanimously carried :—" That this meeting having the most perfect con fidence in the conduct of our much-respected representatives, Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, pledges itself to use their utmost exertions to secure their return, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, free of expense." It wasresolved to forward copieslto the secretary of the St. Marylebone Ratepayers' Protection Association and the Parochial .Com mittee of Marylebone , as also to Mr. E. W. Gooch, the se. cretary of the Paddington Association, asking their concur rencead and co-operation. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—The profes sor of chemistry to this institution, Mr. J. 11. Pepper, has just commenced his second lecture on the curious principle fire, which, although it did not display so many brilliant and astonishing experiments, yet is more adapted to interest the various classes who visit this place, by the philosophical spirit with which it abounds. The professor entered at great length into the examination of ignition and combus tion, and after d emons t rat ing the hidden source of fire, and obtainin g , or rat h er evo ki ng , beat from solids, fluids, and gases by c on d ensat i on , by squ eezing or contracting matter like Water from a sponge , the term ignition came under consideration; its de r i va ti o n, heat or fire, was shown to be correct by various experiments. Some gun cotton p la c ed in a jar of car b on i c acid gas could not be ignited by a l i g httd taper, th e l ecturer in vain endeavoured to bring th e fire in contact With it, b ecause the gas directly extinguished the flame, but a re d-h ot the explosive g merely ig n i ted matter was not affected by• the noxious gas and immediately forced p o ker b e i n g compound. M an y highly amusing and bril liant experime n t s were exhibited during the course of the lecture, which a p peared to be greatly relished by a numer ous audience. Ca!lain Rolles, of the ship New Liverpool, against whom a warrant of manslaughter was issued some months since, in consequence of the death of some Lascars on board his slip, was apprehended on Friday at Southampton. THE StrN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING) MARCH 3, 1851. giving greater stringency to the measure, but consents to make certain modifications in it. We witness—according to the Noble Lord's own confessions—similar vacillation and change, in his conduct with regard to the extension of the franchise. Many of our readers, we are sure, will remember, that about three months ago, we announced in the most posi tive terms, that Ministers had determined, immediately on the re-assembling of Parliament, to introduce a measure for the extension of the franchise. We expressed our doubts as to the adequacy of the intended measure to meet the exi gencies of the case, but still we attached importance to it, as a distinct and deliberate recognition on the part of Government of the principle, that an enlargement of the electoral circle was necessary. Our information we knew to come from the very best source. The paragraph in which we made the announcement, was copied into scores of the public journals. Parliament re-assembles, and there is not only no intimation iu the Queen's Speech of any intended measure for an extension of the franchise, but Lord John Russell takes the earliest opportunity which is afforded him to apprise Parliament and the public, that he has no such measure in contemplation. The natural conclusion to which the country must have come, on hearing the announcement from the N v oble Lord, must have been, that we had been mis informed respecting the Ministerial intentions as to the ex tension of the electoral qualification. And yet it is now proved by the lips of the Noble Lord himself, that we were per fectly right. In his speech en Friday, Lord John Rus sell explicitly stated, that not only had he and his colleagues made up their minds to introduce a measure for the extens sion of the franchise immeliately on the meeting of Parlia ment, but that he himself, with his own hand, had actually drawn up the heads of the Bill. For some reason or other, however, a change afterwards came over the spirit of the Noble Lord, and there is, after all, to be no measure this session for the extension of the franchise. Now, is not this infirmity of purpose in the Prime Minister of a great country like England, without his being able to assign any reason fur the change, truly deplorable? Nothing can b 3 more damaging to the character of a public man, than to witness, in his conduct on important questions, changes for which no reason is given, but which, on the contrary, appear to be the result of mere caprice. If Lord John Russell, in the anticipated contingency of his re turn to power, would wish to prolong his tenure of official life, —if he would win the esteem, and command the confidence of the country, he will at once take the ground of high principle, with a firm deter mination neither to be seduced by the blandishments of one class of persons, nor diverted by the menaces of another, from the course of policy which he has chalked out for him • self. If the existing perplexities should be productive of no other beneficial result, than that of demonstrating the utter impossibility of the Conservative party to construct a Minis try, much less carry on the government of the country, the price which we have paid will scarcely be too high for so great a good. Lord John Russell must now see his way much more clearly than before. He will no longer stand in daily dread of being overthrown by Lord Stanley in the one House, or Mr. Disraeli in the other. He cannot, therefore, have any excuse for vacillation or indecision. Let him but ' act in accordance with his convictions of what is right; let him take high ground, and keep it, regardless of all opposi tion, and the new Russell Administration will be one of the strongest Governments which has existed during the present century. DAILY NEWS.—Very considerable light has been thrown upon the nature and the working of constitutional go vernment amongst us by the speeches of Lord Stanley and of other Lords and Honourable Gentlemen in explanation of their conduct during the present Ministerial crisis. Lord Stanley, in enumerating the difficulties which prevented his forming a Government, put forward as the greatest, the cir cumstance that although he numbered so very large a pro portion of the House of Commons as his adherents, amongst them was but one who had official experience. In conse quence Lord Stanley could not fill the Ministerial bench in the House of Commons with members of his Cabinet capable of decorously and efficiently opposing, even for a short time, a hostile majority. We may here observe, that of all the men upon Lord Stanley's list, the most incapable was pre cisely the individual with official experience. It follows, from what Lord Stanley said, that no one is thought worthy of being a Minister save a man who has served his poli tical apprenticeship in some of the great parties. But Whigs and Tories confining their patronage to the aristocracy, it is a mere chance if one or two capable men of inferior rank are allowed to be ini tiated in the mysteries of office. These are easily interested and bound up with the great parties that have advanced them, and the consequence is that British statesmanship is as much a monopoly as any of the old guilds or corporations which existed centuries ago, which perpetuated their nar rowness and their imbecility by self-election. We have striking examples in the Cabinet just defunct of the kind of politicians which this system has saddled on the nation. We do not want to assail men who have fallen, or single out in dividuals as objects of attack. But it is quite evident, that very many of the departments of Government were in the hands of worn-out or incapable men, who would never have held such places but for their connexions, and in whom that connexion has supplied the place of capacity and youth. It is in this way, indeed, that the old aristocratic parties have always fallen. When some time in possession of office, all advancement, even the boon of apprenticeship, has been given to a young generation, ill chosen and unable to sup port the weight of the office. Whilst the party in opposition recruited talent with more facility and surety. Peel was perhaps the only leading stateaman who turned the time and the patronage of ascendancy and office to recruit a party; and this he did so effectually that the party whom he formed and left behind, is powerful of itself and of its very capacity, though almost without principle, or without any clear connexion with either coun try or commercial interests. But of what use would these members be, had not Peel favoured them with office? No- thing save Peel's choice and favour, then, has made states ' men of them. For we cannot consider Messrs. Sidney Her bert and Cardwell any cleverer men than thousands who have not chanced to have those advantages. The fact, then, is, upwards of twenty years after the Reform Bill, that mere patronage and connexion, though somewhat more restricted than of old in the fabrication of legislators, forms a greater monopoly than ever of the manufacture of Ministers. The people have evidently no choice in the matter. Nor has talent any power. Men like those who set on foot the league agitation, and carried the abrogation of the corn-laws, they have died in the breach they stormed, and have been un serviceable since. Why- because by the very act they dis pleased the magnates who dispense power, and who deem and avow that men thus raised to eminence by the popular voice would prove troublesome Members of a Cabinet, would disturb its unanimity, and offend its gentility. Now, we say at once that' the country swill not muoh longer stand this system. It will not look on and see for years Sir John Hubhouse entrusted with the affairs of our Indian empire, and Sir Charles Wood lord of our finances, their sole claim being their connexion or their ap prenticeship, whilst such men as Hume, Cobden, Charles Villiers, Roebuck, Bright, and Gibson are scouted as the Pariah of official life. If it is the principle of the unanimity and friendly binding together of a Cabinet that is the cause or this—and we believe this, rather than any mean jealousy, to be the real cause—it will be for the country to consider whether the whole system of governing by a Cabinet may not be wrong, and whether se parate responsibility might not be established for the chiefs of the different departments of Government. Of what use is the voice of a subordinate Minister on the question of finance for example, which he never studies? Why should a Home Secretary be displaced by a blunder in foreign poli tics, and so on? But above all things it is neces sary that the public and the Sovereign should have a large field of choice. There are but two or three men in the empire to whom at present it would be thought wise to entrust the management of the Foreign- oflice. We will be bound to say that such was the prevailing maxim in France up to 1830. But since then the most successful ministers of foreign affairs were men who never entered the office, till they entered it as Ministers. M. Guizot and M. Triers were supposed to be sufficiently fitted for it by historic studies and some Parliamentary expe rience. General Lahitte proved no unsuccessful or inapt Minister; yet he left the head of a regiment to guide the legions of diplomacy. Seeing these examples, we cannot but look upon Lord Stanley's declaration that he saw no one in his party to whom he could give foreign affairs as a very great insult, especially to such a man as Mr. Disraeli. What in the world is the British empire to do, when in a few years Lord Aberdeen and Lord Palmerston are past the age of hold ing office? The rising or risen generaticn are evidently considered incapable of bearing the burdens of these men. Those of the present day are pigmies compared with the great of the past. And it is not one party that utters, but all who echo this twaddle of aristocratic and official mo nopoly, which will neither itself raise and educate fit candi dates for power, uor allow the popular voice to discover and provide them. Lord Aberdeen and Sir James Graham made long speeches the other day to say, that although they would adopt an extension of suffrage, they would still not sanction any such extension as would weaken lordly influence, or disturb the present balance of the constitution. In the same breath with this declaration they gave their assent to the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy, with car dinals, and legates, and synods, out-topping and over-ruling the Protestant Church. - Why, that is a more serious abroga tion of the constitution than any extension of the suffrage. Allowing the Pope to nominate dignitaries, independent of the Sovereign, rivals of the Peers, enforcing tem poral obsequiousness by spiritual authority, this is a greater breach of our territorial constitution than universal suffrage itself can be. But these men would grant to the Pope of Rome what they would not cede to the people of England. They will have no extension of suffrage which will prevent a few lordly houses and a corporation of official pundits from monopolising Ministerial power, and perpetua ting it in their caste, but they will allow a foreigner to establish an absolute and uncontrolled dominion over one third of the population of England. They will look on, see this done, declare the powerless►;ees of the law to resist it, and then call this toleration. And this forsooth is the Liberal party of the day. Verily, it is time for the people to tell us what they consider a popular policy. It is time for them to declare in what direction they would have Liberalism move; time for them to have a voice not merely in the men who pay for their beer at elections, but the men who actually govern, who impose taxes, and who can let loose or restrict the public liberties. in Chesham-place. The Noble Lord was summoned from the dinner table to Lansdowne-house. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Wellington bad an audience of the Queen at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Later in the afternoon the Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience cf her Majesty. Yesterday morning the Marquis of Lansdowne bad an audience of the Queen. Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent visited the Queen on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her Ma jesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty's private band attended at the Palace after dinner on Saturday, and performed the following selection:— Overture, " Bohemian Girl" ............ Balfe. Terzetto, " Cruda Sorte" Duetto, " Die Lustigen Welber von Windsor" Otto Nicolai. Triumphal March Ries. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Priece,s Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, took their accustomed exercise yesterday in the garden of the Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales and the Princess loyal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Conrt, and the do mestic household, attended divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) has relieved Lord Charles Fitzroy in his dnties as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Bouverie has relieved Lieutenant-Colon e l the Hon. Alexander Gordon in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Mr. Ker Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada, at tended the Queen's Levee on Wednesday last. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent left Frogmore on Saturday morning for Kew, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal' Highness afterwards proceeded to town. In the afternoon the Royal Duchess left Clarence-house, St. James's, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Sir George Couper, on her return to Frogmore Tae Duke of Wellington arrived in town on Saturday from his seat Strathfieldsaye, Hants. The Noble Duke attended the early service yesterday in the Royal Chapel, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended the daily service in the Chapel Royal. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. Thomas. the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem was, " I will sing of Thy power." Mr. G. Cooper presided at the organ. Sir Thomas Redington had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home-office. Mr. Spooner, M.P., had also an interview-With the Right Hon. Baronet. Dispatches were sent of on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the West India Islands. The name of Major-General D'Aguilar was omitted in the list of presentations at the Queen's Levee, on the occasion of the Major-General's appointment to the Colonelcy of the 23d Regiment of Royal Welsh Fusiliers. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COQ ss, MAECH 2. THE EXHIBITION. MoDELs or FRIGATES, YACHTS, AND STEAMERS.—We last week noticed the launch of a splendid steamer for the Turkish Government, constructed by the Messrs. White, of this town. The public will be glad to learn in these ex citing times of the race between England and America, that that talented family is on the gui vice, and are preparing a series of models, China clippers and others, to form a new class of merchant ships, and which are destined to be exhi bited at the Crystal Palace at the ensuing exhibition of the world's industry. There can be no mistake that our little Island hears the palm in ship-building, both in her Majesty's navy and mercantile marine, as it does of, her phantom ships, which may be found in every Royal Yacht Club. Mr. Joseph White is also preparing models of all the ships he has built and altered for the Government, including the renowned Phaeton, the Waterwitch, the Daring, the Contest, and Ter magant, with those of the altered bows of the Amphion and Fox frigates; also a few specimens of his schooner and cutter yachts. The Queen Victoria schooner, built for the Emperor of Russia, the schooner Constance for the Marquis of Conyngham, and the cutter Lavrock, now building in his yard for Captain C. Hamlyn Williams, R.N.; also a model of a schooner, designed to compete with the Yankee clipper yacht which is to astonish " the Britishers." We understand that Mr. Thomas White, of Gosport, is also " up and doing," so that the talents of a whole family will be exhibited for the honour of their country. Independent of this branch of service, the island will not be backward in sending forth specimens of her industry and manufactures. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Admiralty have ordered the Comet steam-vessel, in charge of Mr. Yule, master, to proceed from Tobermory to Edinburgh, to be at the disposal of Sir John M 4 Neilo, con nected with the administration of the poor-law. RECOMMISSIONING TIIE PRINCE REGENT AT PORTSMOUTH. —The new appointments for this ship, recommissioned for the red pendant of Commodore Martin, have been is.ned. Captain Harris has been selected as flag-captain. The selec tion of so able an officer and experienced sailor reflects great credit on the nominator. The other appointments are:— Commander—Henry Caldwell (1847), who has served in the Powerful, 84, during her commission, vice Fead, who, it is said, will be appointed to the command of a sloop. Lieutenants— G. W. Preedy (1841), late additional, to be fir-t lieutenant, vice Bernard, promoted; Thomas Brandreth (1845), for gunnery duties, a new appointment as second, vice Egenon, appointed flag-lieutenant to the commodore; John B. Scott (1846), new appointment; Robert B. Beale (1816), new appointment; C. S. Waddilove (1849), late additional. Master—Richard Stokes, re-appointed. Surgeon—James Salmon (1840), vice Dr. G. Burn. Paymaster—A. Sugdeu (1822), vice Cotteril, to be secre. tare to the commodore. Assistant-Surgeon—Dr. William Macleod, re-appointed. Second Master—Robert L. Cleveland, re-appointed. Captain Alexander Murray (1829) has been appointed to study steam at Woolwich. Commander George Lavie, who was promoted in No vember, 1846, from command of the Flamer, steam-vessel, in the Mediterranean, has been appointed to the command of the Alccto, steam-vessel, fitting at Woolwich for th e coast of Africa, Commanderßowlett having declined the appoint ment. Commander William Ellis has been appointed from the Greenhithe coast-guard station to the Exmouth district as inspecting commander, vice Thomas Edmond Symons, re moved to the Dublin district, vice William Neame, removed to Greenhithe, vice Ellis. Lieutenants . --R.l7.biiller (1837) to the Impregnable, 78, flag-ship, Devonport; Alexander Charles Birtwhistle to command the St. Alban's Head coast-guard station, vice Mr. Gibbon, pr ev i ous l y remov ed. blasters—Frederick John Kent to command No. 2 Battery coast-guard station, Dungeness, vice Mr. J. K. White, re moved ; Richard A. Burstall to be in command of a station. Captain William Maclean (1841), died last week. He was ninth son of Colonel Alexander Maclean, of Ardgour, by the Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of the second Earl of Hope toun. He entered the navy in 1823, in the Briton, obtained his lieutenant's commission in 1830; served in the Success, 28; Calcutta, 84; Blonde, 46; Britannia, 120; and was promoted for flag-lieutenant to Sir E. Mason, in the Mediter • ranean, Nov. 1811. He commanded the Apollo troop-ship for about eghteeu months, and then was appointed to the command of the Cruiser, 15, in the East Indies, from which ship lie was promoted. He married, August 30, 1838, Eliza beth, only daughter of the late T. Melet Charter, Esq., of Lynchfield House, Somerset. Lieutenant James John Harrington Groves, late of Brad ford, NVilts, and eldest son of the late Captain Groves, RN., died Nov. 27, on board the Salamander steam-sloop, whilst on her voyage to China. He was appointed as cadet to the Agincourt, 72, in 1841 ; was in China at the close of the war, and afterwards engaged in New Zealand at the taking of Koweti's pall, under a severe fire of the natives. He also assisted in taking surveys of the coast, which have since been transmitted to the Admiralty. He was a young and promising officer, and his less is deeply and sincerely la mented by his numerous friends and relatives. Mr. Samuel Paramore, a clerk of half a century's service in Devonport Dockyard, and who had recently retired, died last week. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour's flag-ship, Cumber land, 70, Captain Seymour, arrived at Portmouth yesterday at noon, and anchored at Spithead, where she will be paid advanced wages, and receive the flag of the Vice-Admiral. previous to her sailing for the West Indies. As the Earl of Dundonald is to be at Bermuda by the end of this month, to give up the command to Sir George Seymour, the Cumber land, we presume, will not be many days at Spithead. We regret to say the boatswain, Mr. Turnbull, who was injured by a man falling from the rigging on his head, at Gillingham Reach, died at Melville Hospital. The Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, was towed into harbour from Spithead, this day at n o on, by the Echo steam- tug, to alongside the dockyard, to be paid off. As she was coming to the mouth of the harbour, close off Southsea beach, the troops of the garrison happened to be returning, on the esplanade on the beasts, from their usual Saturday morning's march into the country, and in passing the bands of the military appropriately struck up " A life on the ocean wave," after which the band on board the Power ful played " Home, sweet home." The effect of the whole, with the troops and the majestic 84-gun ship, just returned from a three years' absence, passing each other at only a few yards distance, being very striking. Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, arrived at Devonport from the coast of Africa at 6 30 P.M. on Wednesday evening, and is to proceed eastward to be paid off. She has brought no news. Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur, steam-frigate, with the Cygnet, 6, Commander Robertson, and the Harlequin, 12, Commander R. Wilmont, were at Sierra Leone, Jan. 28. The Harlequin sailed the 26th for the Bights, to join Cnptain Adam's division. The Kingfisher has brought home some invalids. She has not been par ticularly fortunate in making prizes. The coast was generally healthy. The Kingfisher confirms our previous accounts of the decline of the slave trade. The Kingfisher is ordered to be paid off at Devonport. Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, arrived e at Queenstown, on Thursday, to embark troops for th e M d i teranean, the West Indies, North America, &c. o Pandora, 6, Commander Drury, touched at Q ueenstown, n Thursday, on her way from Devonport to New Zealand. _ ,Fi %5 ooLwicir, MARC!! a I.—Rear-Admira l M. F. tz - h ar d n ET eeh d Berkeley, to C - . B aand ac one o fthe o accompanied d o f b t y h Admiralty,e Commodore visitedv henry Eden and several of the heads of the departments, inspected the Banshee, Lieutenant-Commander Hosken, and the Caradoc steam-vessels, fitting for the Mediterranean station. The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Tumour, arrived at Woolwich to-day, from the coast of Ire land, where she was employed on the surveying service since March, 1848, and is to be paid off at this port. The Vulcan steam-frigate, Master-Commander J oot o r h net sluoonPenn, uinmoorings will leave Sheerness on Monday, la, M ht aharescnh arrived vefeeo proceed where iie she is toembark re(l itroops,et.sahni opposite the Royal Arsenal, to takreweenebfoaird m ua s sn l r e dd c s%N o . n iel v fl i t c rie t ie s . for the Swan River settlement. on Warrior convict-ship g o out with the convicts, and main at Swan River. The convicts are to receive tickets of leave on arriving at their destination. The Governollo Sardinian steam-frigate, Captain Count Persano, when she discharges the packages of articles brought over to this country for the Exhibition in Hyde park, intends taking a cruise to the coast of Scotland, that h w e i r l officers afterwards v may visitisit the the m capitalost interesting of that country; and they t n h g e asfar p a l s aces the atnh4e, eld 450-h orse power, went matters of her en to-day to inspect them, and much pleased w i t h their excellent condition, and the s- good working ord er i n w hi ch everything connected with them is kept. gine s e e, n r t od h i Messrs. Maud s l ay and on board THE NEW MONTHLY. A gloriou3 old legend of Hungary has been taken by Mr. John Oxenford as the subject of a contribution to the March number of the beta Monthly. It is founded o❑ the myth of the Iron Laci, and is bight " The Three Dragons." The curious in such matters will find it read wonnerfully like a story out of the " Arabian Nights' Entertainments;" the only difference, in fact,l being a most unseemly incredulity apparent throughout on the part of the narrator. '• All the World and his Wife; or, What brought Every body to London in 1851"—we cannot help fancying is the effusion of the facetious Mr. Jolly Green. Only three chapters having as yet appeared, but little can be conjectured as to the probable merits of the contribution. " Clarissa do blaulevrier" is altogether about the most disgusting paper we ever remember to have seen in any magazine whatever; in parts it is nothing short of being abso lutely indecent. We regret to see any thing of the kind in a publication like the New Monthly, in whose pages religious fervour should never be pros tituted to the cause of irreligious malevolence. " Soapey Sponge's Sporting 1 1 011 n" rattles on ward right gallantly, the writer being as hila rious in style at irs close as at its commencement. • The Money banks Field," a Isle founded on fact, will be relished by the majority of magazine rexclers—and so also, in its way, the continuation of "Hester Somerset." The contribution relating to "The Literature of the Troubadours" has the evidences of a very agreeable re search, and the paper on Russia and the Danube" will be found as authentic in tone as its predecessors. Oilier papers of a miscellaneous kind make up the residue of the number—the magazine being excellent in every re gret saving the one detestable indecorum already parti cularized. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The Royal Motil steam ship Asia, Captain Harrison, sailed to-day tor New York with the usual mails and a large number of passengers, among whom was Mr. Martin F. Tupper, the author. DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. —The Elrl and Countess of Clarendon, family, and suite, have made arrange. ments for leaving this country on Tuesday next, per the Eblana steamer. The Prince of Wales packet arrived at Kingstown on Thursday evening, will supply the place of the Eblana until her return after landing the present viceregal household. YV LADY PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.—Vi9.count and Viscountess Palmerston entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday evening at their mansion in Carlton gardens. The guests included his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, Frances Countess Waldegrave, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lady Ashley, the French Chargd d'Affaires, M. Narescalchi, Count Pahlen, Hon. W. Cowper. M.P., Sir John and Lady Milbanke, Mr. Henry Greville, &c. In the evening the goble Viscountess received a very numerous circle of the fashiohable world. His Grace the Duke of Wellington honoured her Ladyship th his company. Mn. BAINES, M.P.—The notified retirement of Mr. Baines from the representation of Hull, at the close of the present Parliament, will excite more regret than sur prise among the friends of that Right Honourable Gentle man. Mr. Baines must have found the onerous duties de vdving upon him as the representative of. such a trouble ,ome place as Hull, an overwhelming addition to his daily official labours as President of the Poor-law Board. In deed, only a very short time after his triumphant return for Hull, he expressed great uncertainty as to his again ap pearing on the hustings in this town; while, at the same time, he warmly professed that the uniform kindness which he had experienced from all classes of the inhabitants would ever be remembered by him with feelings of deep gratitude. There is, therefore, nothing sudd en , o r of any political significance, in the notified retirement of Mr. Barnes from the representation of Hull. In taking such a step, the Right Honourable Gentleman has not been influenced by an intimation of declining influence in this borough. On the contrary, the great bulk of the electors are proud of having returned a gentleman t o P ar li ament, w h o se poor-law administration has won for him golden opinions from all classes, and who is now the only member of the Whig Ministry, whose retirement from office would be sincerely regretted by the best men of all parties.—Hull Advertiser. REPORTED ROBBERY 0 . 1. A corre spondent states that a report i s current in the City that several clerks in a well-known bank have been detected in perpetrating robberies on the establishment to the amount of 10,000/., and that one of the supposed delinquents has been apprehended. We have no knowledge of th e a ff a i r beyond what has been so communicated.—Advertiser. SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN.—On Saturday, Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at the Wrestlers' Arms, Highgate, on view of the body of Mr. Perkins, pork butcher, aged 45, lately carrying on business at No. 15, Eversholt-street, Somers Town. Deceased left home la s t Wednesday, and in the evening his wife received a letter from him dated Highgate, in which he observed, " By the time you receive this I shall be no more. Igo from this to a place of death. There were many I should like to send my love to. Give my love to Henry, and let him f o ll ow George's exampl e . G c d bless you.—T. Perkins." In the afternoon he was found suspended from a tree by a silk handkerchief, n ear th e W res tl e rs, by a man named Kempton, who went to the police-station, a distance of above a quarter of a mile, for a policeman, who cut the deceased down. In his po c k e t was a p i ece o f p a per on which he had written :—" Since I have last gone down the lanes, and seen the beautiful things Nature sends, and not gruel (meaning spirits), I thought how happy He could be.—T. Perkins."- - Verdict Found Dead. SUICIDE FROM LONDON-BRIDGE.—On Saturday evening a respectably-dressed female,apparently about thirty years of age. was observed by constable Ball (Thames po lice) to precipitate herself from the third arch on the Mid dlesex side f the above bridge into the river. The constable was proceeding down the river in his galley, and had just emerged from under . the arch, wh en t h e un f ortuna t e female fell within a few inches of the boat which he was rowing. He immediately endeavoured to catch her, but the tide run ning down strongly it was some time before she could be got out of the water. She was then alive, but presented a fright ful spectacle, her head (having caught the buttress of the bridge in falling) being completely battered in. With all possible speed she was conveyed to the Old Swan Tavern, Thames-street. Dr. Groves was then sent for, who, having ad ministered all the aid in hie power Walnut effect, adyised THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Lord John Russell has been again sent for by her Majesty. The Noble Lord had an interview,with the Sovereign yester day afternoon. On Saturday, at half-past two o'clock, the Duke of Wellingtcu arrived at Buckingham Palace, in obedience to the command of the Sovereign. His Grace came from Strathfieldsaye, where he had entertained the Judges and the bar of the Western Circuit on the previous evening. The Noble Duke had a lengthened conference with the Queen. _ _ _ At five o'clock on Saturday the Queen summoned the Marquis of Lansdowne to the Palace. The Noble Marquis was not at home when the Royal summons arrived at:Lans downe House, but immediately upon his return his Lord ship proceeded to the Palace. The Noble Marquis was ad mitted to an audience by the Queen, and remained in con sultation with her Majesty for Dearly an hour. Lord John Russell arrived at Lansdowne House shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday evening, and had an interview with the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Duke of Newcastle received a visit from the Marquis of Lansdowne on Saturday. Yesterday morning the Marquis of Lansdowne waited upon the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and had an audience of her Majesty. The Noble Marquis afterwards called upon Lord John Russell, at his private residence in Cheshain-place. At four o'clock Lord John Russell proceeded to the Palace and had an audience of the Sovereign. The Noble Lord re mained in conference with her Majesty more than an hour. Sir George Grey and Sir Charles Wood paid visits to Lord John Russell yesterday. A com to m L u o n r i d ca j t o io h n n f i r z o u m ss h el e l r la D s i t a j s e s s , e ty n n t g h . The the Qucen was for wardedr'he " Peer party were very busy yesterday. The Duke of Newcastle and the Ri g ht lion. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and other leading members of this section of politicians, met at the residence of Sir James Graham, in Grosvenor -place, and had a long conference. . _ _ Sir James Graham subsequently visited the Earl of Aber deep, at Argyll-holuie. Lord John ausaell entertained a large party of members of the lieue C9mancoe 9n Saturday eye g, at 114 xe§idence Captain J o h nson, of the compass department, attended on board the Fisgard, flag-ship at thi s p or t,' i u th e afterno on o f to-day, to superintend a series of experiments which are to be carried on with five different descriptions of binnacle lights. The lights were to be lighted at 6 o'clock,r.m., and continue all night. Lieutenant Robertson attended during the first watch, Lieutenant Gore during the middle watch, and the Second Master of the Fisgard during the third watch. Captain Johnson remained during the evening, and was to go on board at 5 A.M. on Sunday to see the state of the different lights at that hour, and receive the reports of the manner in which they continued to give light during the latter part of the experiment. The testing of the lights will occupy several days before the final report as to the best binnacle light. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—l write to you under the disadvantage of your being likely when you receive this to he in possession of new information which may make all I can now report comparatively obsolete and unimportant. But there may still be a certain value attaching to the past. What is clear is, that for the present you are saved. The attempt to advance your interests by bringing back a Protectionist Ministry and a five-shilling duty on fo reign corn, has for the present entirely failed. No stone has been left unturned to obtain it for you; but for this time you must be resigned to going without. If the wind will only hold as it now blows, the poor man among you may fulfil his promise to his daughter of a new gown at Easter, and the rich no longer hesitate about gentling his second son to the University. But as the wind is notoriously uncertain, I weu:d still recom mend in major matters a degree of caution. Do not go on with your Music-hall, till you see a fir al end of the project for securing Free Trade by bringing in a Pro tectionist Ministry. If you do, depend urea it you will never pay for it, or pay for it out of the assets to your creditors. And it • your leading firms are unwise enough to continue their present speculations before this principal point is settled, take care that you of the middling and operative etaases look the danger more wisely iu the face, and view all this as what must be checked by bankruptcy and the Gazettg , securing your temporary gains in S av i ngs B anks or dlierwise, against the want and misery which nothing could prevent your friends from bringing upon your heads. Do not believe I am making a fictitious case. The Member for Montrose on Friday night avowed in his speech that his desire was to bring in a Protectionist Ministry. So it was for this that a hundred of us were brought up to join in a vote intended and calculated with that object, —a very good vote in its way, but not good when interposed with a purposed design to shut up Bradford work-shops and send their inmates to the poor house. I hope we all feel the extent of our obligation, and shall be the better for the feeling another time. There are things to be borne, and things not to be borne. I tell you plainly, that your leaders are insane. Not with that insanity, which as it is the heaviest of heaven's inflictions, removes responsibility and sinks all ideas of retribution in commiseration for the sufferer. But with that more dangerous malady, which is en gendered out of superfluity of activeness and scantiness of caution, leading men to desert their just spheres of action, and display the misplaced energy which makes a little boy put a hot poker to his Papa's powder-flask, by way of seeing whether gunpowder will burn. Those who ought to be defending you, have got other views and other ambitions. They have discovered that they are called to be statesmen, publicists, determiners of nations quarrels, setters-up and pullers-down of Minis terial dynasties; and the vulgar office of keeping open a trade in corn and cambrics is grown mean in their eyes, unless as it may be played as a card in this their more interesting game. If any man wants to 'put down the Church, put up the Pope, dismantle the Navy, reduce the Army, remove the Squadron from the Coast of Africa, drink slave-grown Sugar, if he objects to a Window tax, House tax, Malt tax, Paper tax, Coffee tax, Chicory tax, Income tax, any tax, they are there to enter into partnership. They have souls above corn, and to atop your Bradford trade with a five-shillings duty is like the sufferings of the frog in an air-pump when in the way of these bril liant operators. Or they consider it at most, as a step backwards to be recovered with grace and vigour, in the grand galope they are bent on exhibiting before the public gaze. All this may be sport to them, but it is death to you. Turn it over in the society of your quiet Reading-Room by the Sun Bridge, and sit ting there with your temperance drinks before you, ask all steady and intelligent men of whatever grade or standing in your industrious community, whether while the trade [of Bradford consists in mak ing the goods which go abroad for foreign corn, the one thing desirable for keeping thin porridge from the working man's table, was not that Free Trade should by any means within human attainment be made to go on smoothly silently while we bad it, because every day and every hour was di minishing the interests in favour of stopping Bradford trade, and increasing the interests in favour of maintain ing it. Ask them, whether this is not as plain to man and boy, as that when a patient is passing through the crisis of an illness, it is policy to encourage the rest which is allowing his strength to collect and the causes f danger to subside. And just at this moment it is, that up jumps a medical practitioner, and cries out, "No! Bring beck the delirium and the struggle; and when you have biatea them, you will have beaten all. This is the way our school goes about to save life." Bring back a five-shilling duty. Stop Bradford trade, that Bradford men may have time to attend Anti• Corn-law lectures. Rouse up all the dis honest interests in the country, and collect them into one general run upon the trade of Bradford. Men at Bradford are getting fat and pursy; you have no notion how good it would ba for their healtils to be put on low diet for a few years while we were fighting the Corn law question over again. Good is no good, but es it is contrasted with evil. The man is miserable who has enough for Us family to eat seven days in the week; and here we offer to do cur best to cat them down to four. If you wish to prolong the conversation because your hour for reparation is not come, collect about the tire such of your friends ef the Working Ceasses as are most anxious for the Extension of the Suffrage, and put be fore them the following case. Their hundred supporters in the House of Commons ate called together for one of the annual motions on that subject. The Minister re plies that he has prepared a proposal for next session; and a subordinate member of the Government gees and intimates to the mover, that after that declaration, he will probably not insist on pressing his motion. The moveri a willing, but the leader who avows his desire to introduce a Protectionist Ministry, resists, and the motion is persisted in. There were not ten out of the hundred misguided gentlemen (of whom I was one) who voted on that occasion, who would have done it if they had known the object with which they had been marshalled. We have been like common soldiers, with our names on a regimental list, and then brought out to fire upon our friends and cousins; as we did on you, when we voted for what was intended to turn out the Ministry that engaged to give Extension to the f the tistohSh through r 00uf ga hn Suffrage, and bring in a Protectionist one instead. Mr. Wilberforce used to relate, that a beggar once came to the door and asked fur food. Some remnant victual was given him, which happened to be vermicelli soup. The poor man returned it meekly and said, " In deed I am very hungry, but I cannot eat broth with mag gots in it." Now I am precisely in that position; I cannot eat broth with maggots in it. It may turn out that I am all wrong, as the poor man was with his vermicelli, and that the true way to benefit Bradford trade would be to bring in a Protectionist Ministry and a five-shilling duty on foreign corn. But till I "know the reason why," I will not go along with what I believe to be insanity of one or other of the kinds attempted to be described. You will expect to receive some statement of what we heard on Friday. Lord J. Russell's account of what had taken place, was minutely accordant with what had been stated by the public journals. He threw out an inti mation, that he was ready to reconsider the Anti-Papal hs Suffrage, e o al .Agr s gte v e.. e , Bill on some points; which may be supposed re been directed as an invitation to Sir James Graham. He further signified his conviction upon reconsideration, that the majority of 14 on the Pro tection question, and his minority on Mr. Locke King's motion, had net so seriously affected his posi tion as he bad thought. And he concluded with the information, that the Duke of Wellington had undertaken the office of Queen's Counsel till a further settlement. At first I thought this meant that the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister; but nobody else seemed to think so. The Duke of NV w el i. l t i h ng a t n on yb k o n d o y w , s f_o a : civil position when he sees it, as well as he does a mili tary; so that there is not much danger in his hands. Sir James Graham afterwards rose, and avowed ment with Lord John Russell's Government on the questions of Free Trade and Extension hut declared the impossibility,ofhis joiningovoca in Lion had hee l- Papal Bill, though he admittee the pr e the pa p s r s e i s n e g nt of pos a ition of affairs ethareeßudipi he the presents gr e at If n i o t w o a b s s obstacle to thatt h opinion Parliament, everybody obuolddyagree i n consulted, what thatap p this is to be, that the Anti-Papal Bill is to pass, an , then the present , Government is to be strengthened by 'hSalvre Jamesn oProtectionist G r aham a and (I his Ministry f rie ld after s there h h h o( a: r : e a Y w c : c ha i s s c ashbiroeelne begntooni o youato stone not leftto be unturnedangry which could have favoured you with that bletsteg. I am, Sir, your o b e di ent servant, London, 3d Marcl,,lBsl. AN OLD REFORMER. F- -0 ..1 n E RslaOt Saturday, ay IRE at a few minutes very alarming nature broke Messrs. Hughes and before midnight, a fire of a IN KING W raging with great violence th ; i e n Co., the out in the premises belonging to ILLIAM-STREET, CITY. unable to get the e army y warehouse,and navy 0 n o outfitters, te rs, No. premises l al y a s stock in trade w 76, King William-street. When discovered the flames were the fire is ground floor. In spite of exertions of the firemen, they were mastery over the flames until the valuable• NARROW thewasnearly o a e. destroyed, severely damaged by fire. The cause of ou no n t .x kn_o7n. The firm, it is understood, was insured in the ESCAPE FROM DESTRUCTION OF WILSON'S PANORAMA OF TILE CAM' AND PORT NATAL BY FIRE.— The whole exhibition had a very narrow (=ape from de struction by fire in the course of the representation on Saturday evening. During the change of one of the scenes the light curtain on one side of the room became enveloped in flame, and bad it not been for the presence of mind of one or two gentlemen near the spot, who quickly extinguished the blaze, the chances are that the first would also have been th e last exhibition of the panorama. A cry of fi re was raised and many of the spectators made a rush at th e door, and it was some minutes before their fears were sufficiently . allayed to allow of the continuation of the entertainment however at length brought to a conclusion • ' ll 'eh was, faction to all present. D i p ho lN ni G a ll s UDRrsoTry,MwUhßoDEstßa , With great sa:is- The trial of the . n7s charged with the wilful murder of Jael Denny, Will take place in the of course you T n il g E m n an ? this week, before Lord Campbell. The assizes will be opened to-day. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. I lawkins are, we un.. derstand.retained to defend. The calendar for the assizes is exceedingly heavy, there being us fewer than Ova prisoners ~~