The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

- totted thoptisoner Cane in the cellar, and when he ti aßbt eight of we, he tried to escape the back way. was bleeding at the head, but when ho was taken Zt i e custody, he said he had not been out. The con , °le who ass i s ted me in arresting Cane, called upon him turrend er , or he would knock him down. The con it'u ~thle told him that he was taken for an assault, and h e " Oh, I'll go." He was afterwards conveyed to the station-house. Chaplin was then taken to his own p l 5. Bei where I saw him subsequently to the arrest o f the J'auers, but he was quite insensible, and the surgeon pered him to be removed to Guy's Hospital. When • p In drew his staff and struck at Hickey the blow ,'olt effect. I first saw Cane when I attempte d to take 11 % a into custody at the bottom of Salamancstreet, , a ' d he struck me. llis head was not bleeding then. lie Cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL—I have bee n a po tre'eonstabl© about 10 or 11 weeks. lem a t oilor b y tr a d°. This is the first row I have been in. M y beat wLI near to Chaplin's. Mine was on the one side of the E r eet and Chaplin's on the other. The disturb ance, in taint of fact, first occurred on the beat of another con ia-file. I do not know what occurred before I came upon the &pot, but about an hour before I saw Chaplin the appeared to he singing and amusing themseiees; b ut, nevertheless, they made a great noise. The house th N '•49, is a lodging-house, and I belie v e some twelve o r t hirtee n men ledge there. The prisoners, I have since k e4 td, had been working at the gas - works. I was noeked down immediately after I struck Cane, and o,then lost sight of the prisoners; but some minutes be -I,:e brick-bals were flying about in great profusio n. ▪ her were then ten or twelve men arrested together. '4 Mr. Bautemte— When Hickey struck Chaplin , 1 l 2 4te something dark in his hand. It appeared to me to i 7 brick -bat. Chaplet: struck at him with his staff a n d Went close to his head. I could not see whether the t iff struck him, but I heard the sound of the blow. i • Pin must have received blows while I was present. „ 40 not know whether a man named Clarey was there, ‘ l :r do I know such a person. Two men named Burke ! Pe taken into custody, and I was called upon to iden j,'Y them, but I was unable to do so. A man named rrringeon was also arrested, but afterwards discharged Y the magistrate. 8 9 Mr. WOOLLETT—The men had been drinkin g , but a eY were not drunk. I had never seen M'Elltott be 're this occasion. Re -examined—At the time I struck Cane the deceased ra failing on the grod. ©a had struck him. No "tiek-bats were thrown before that occurrence, nor had 1n been thrown before I struck Cane on the head. William Lowney, examined by Mr. RYLAND—I am a Nice-constable, and between one and two o'clock on the m orning of the sth of May I was on duty in Glasshouse 'treet, Vauxhall. I heard the springing of a rattle, the "tied of which appeared to come from the Broad-street 'lid of Vauxhall-wbarf, and I went in that direction. W hen I had got to No. 49, Vauxhall-wharf, I met the t hree n prisoners and another man, who is not in cu s t od y . two went into No. 43, and Hickey into 49 . The other Pa ran on, and I went on to the spot where I found t he !ceased lying on the ground bleeding. He appeared ` 0 be quite unconscious, and I assisted in conveying him to the Queen's Head. I afterwards went with the other c onstables and arrested Hickey and Cane at No. 49. iliekey had blood on his face and hands, and when aske d 0 W it came there, he said his nose had been blee d i n g . „, blood was on his forehead trickling down his cheek. ` 413 went quietly through the house, but resisted lit the d oor . B o th, however, were secured and taken to R 2 O station. W hen Hickey got there he took handkerchief off his neck and gave it to me. I told him !Qat he had better wear it, but he said no, ho did not want He was drunk, but he could both walk and talk. Cross-examined by Mr. PARNELL—I had known them 1 Lame before, but my impression is I had seen them together at the White Lion public-house, Vauxball, a 'eve nights previous. Thomas Streames, another police-constable, gave cor toborative evidence. , Robert Sharp, the landlord of the White Lion public !ouse in Vauxhall, deposed that the prisoners Ca ne and Mickey were at his house from nine o'clock on Sunday evening the 4th ult. until half-past twelve on the morning of the sth of May. They were quite sober when they left. Cross-examined—Hickey was not dressed as he is 110 w, but wore a hat, with cord trolisers and cord coat. 4 man named Gluey wes with the prisoner. He was dressed in a black frock coat. Clarey before this oc currence was a frequent visitor to the White Lion, but since then he had disappeared. The prisoners worked %t the gas-works, and up to the time of being taken into been out of work, and a meeting of his countrymen was field at the White Lion to make a collection for him, as he had been a long time out of work. There were as many as forty men and about twenty women pre seet, but the prisoners being the last in the house he cad more opportunity of observing them. Streamer was recalled, and stated that when Hickey Was arrested he was dressed the same as he was then. Michael Connor, who resides at 49, Vauxhall wharf, Itaa also at the White Lion on the Sunday evening, *here be saw the three prisoners. He left at a quarter past twelve, and the prisoners remained behind. Cross-examined—Hickey wore a dark cord jacket. William Nichol, examined by Mr. RYLAND—I am a DOlice•constable, and I arrested M'Elliott about half- Past one, at the door of No. 49. On the way to the station-house he asked me what I had taken him for. I said when we got to the station-house the inspector Would tell him. Ho replied that he knew nothing of the murder, but I had said nothing to him about any murder. William Gough, another police-constable, stated that %bout 9 o'clock on the morning of the sth, be went to two gardens in Vauxhall-wharf, and found that some of the stones in the surrounding wall were missing. Later to the day he took some clinkers which he received from Streames and examined them with the holes on the top of the wall; they exactly fitted. Streames, being recalled, said be found the clinkers Oa the spot where the deceased fell, opposite Salamanca street. It was about an hour and a half after the de ceased was removed that he picked them up. Mrs. Hans, tee wife of a policeman, residing at 101, * Vauxhall-road, deposed that the clinkers produced were similar to those that surrounded her husband's garden. She saw the wall about half-past 10 on the Sunday, and it was then complete. The next day, when she examined the wall, some of the stones were gone and she found foot marks, as if people had jumped over. Mr. Theodore Edward Lad, a surgeon residing at Walworth-place, Lambeth, examined by Mr. RYLAND— I was called up to see the deceased at his own house. It Was nearly three o'clock, and I found him nearly insen sible. His face was very much bruised, and on his right eyebrow there was a lacerated wound. On the left side of his head there was an extensive wound penetrating to the bone, pressing on the brain. These wounds were bleeding, and he was also bleeding from the nose and ears. I ordered him to be taken to the hospital. I heard afterwards of his death. The cause of death I should imagine would be the fracture on the skull. Mr. Watkins Reece, examined by Mr. CLARKE—I was hospital surgeon to Guy's Hospital when the deceased was brought there on the sth of May. He was quite in sensible' and died in about a quarter of an hour after wards. On a post-mortem examination it was found that there were five lacerated contused wounds, varying in ex tent and size. The-blows must have been numerous. I attribute the death to an extensive fracture on the left aide of the skull. The stones produced would have in flicted the injuries. This closed the evidence for the prosecution. The case was procediez when nor report left. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) William Anderton, a cab-driver, was charged before Mr. Jardine with the following robbery at the Clarence i Hotel, Charing - cross. On Wed nesda y , the 11th nst., one of the porters of the hotel, William Phipps, saw the prisoner come in from the street, and walk deliberately behind the counter. In a fow moments afterwards Phipps saw him go out again with a coat partly con cealed undkr his own; the witness knew that coat to be ono belonging to himself. Ile followed the prisoner into the street and gave him into custody. He was fully committed for trial, and as several men, apparently cab-drivers, bad annoyed Phipps in the streets since the robbery, and threatened him in a savage manner if he should not forego the prosecution, Mr. JARDINE .directed the police to give the prosecu tor every protection in , their power, and to bring before him any person whom I hippy should point out as having molested him. —(THIS DAY.) MARLBRO'-STREE A DauNKEis FAEAS.—Captain Phillips , of the 43d Foot, was charged before Mr. Hardwick, with being drunk, and stealing a cab from the rank in the Hay market. Boyce. 181 C., said he was on duty last night in the Haymarket, when he saw the prisoner, who was very drunk, driving a cab up the street at a furious rate. ca bman was running after biro, calling out that he (pri soner) had stolen his cab. Witness pursued him as far as the circus, and took him into custody. The defendant, who pleaded intoxication as the cause of his stranze conduct, was fined 205., which he imme diately paid. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. (THIS DAY.) A considerable increase in the number of halrcrown visitors was manifest this morning over last At twelve o'clock 1 4 , 088 p ersons had p assed in, of whom 7,199 entered in the first hour. ST. PETER'S COLLEGIATE SCHOOL IN CONNEXION WITH KING'S COLIISGE, LONDON. Yesterday the distribu tion of prizes took place at this highly patronised establish ment, by the Rev. J. H. Hamilton, M.A., and the profi ciency of the scholars in every branch of learning gave strong evidence of the superior system of tuition pursued by its head masters, tLe Rev Dr. Wilson and the Rev. J. Son, M.A. The names . of the successful competitors we ere, Masters B. Webster, W. S. Webster (sons of Mr. B. Web ster), Shipman, Wilson, Hadley, Baillie, Salter, Pass, Had. ley, Jun., Robinson, Imrie, Ince, Covey, Handcock, Power, Boileau, Comrie, Scott, Carey, Fuller, Love, Maples, Jones, Daller, Keith, Ekin, Bedford, Goodban, Maples, Masson, Vines. After the awards of merit, recitations were very a bly given by the pupils , in Hebrew, Greek , Latin, French, German, and English. The exhibition of the drawings, in various styles, in water colours. crayon, and pencil, reflected the highest credit on the pupils for their proficiency, and on Mr. Varley, the master of this department, for the system of tuition pursued. Altogether, we have seldom witnessed a g reater display of intelligence, alike gratifying to both the masters and parents. HOLYHEAD liAaßouß.—The Chester and Holy head Railway Compasy are forming a wharf in the inner harbour at Holyhead, at the terminus of the double line of railway near the quay, for the purpose of meeting the con templated facilities for the Irish traffic in cattle, &c. It is anticipated that in a short time a large amount of Irish cattle will be forwarded to the English markets vici Holy head. The period has arrived for the transfer of the com pany's steamers to the City of Dublin Steam Company, who for the future will perform the mail, passenger, and cargo service between Holyhead and Dublin. No alteration will be MOO 41 Oa tiA4o qf roiling Pf ta9 am, gtmera, THE SUN', _ 2O, 1851. CASA GUIDI WINDOWS. A Poem. By Elizabeth Barrr.tt Browning. Chapman and Hall. Remembering, as we did, so many exquisite effu sions from the hand of our authoress, we welcomed ith all eagerness the verses contained in the present volume, immediately on their first appearance. It was an additional attraction to us that they were poetic blossoms which had bloomed in the midst of the sunshine and the verdure of an Italian landscape. Hence the hook became to us a twofold object of fas cination. We imagined to ourselves in the current of these lucubrations the luscious flavour imparted by the ripening influences of the " warm south, a draught of— "the true, the blushful Hippocrene, With baaded bubbles winking at the brim, And purple-stained mouth!" In no respect have our anticipations been realized. " Casa Guidi Windows," as the work of one who has already given indications of genius, has in fact yielded us only the most painful and vexatious disap pointment. Its argument is incoherent throughout, its diction affected, its style artificial, its whole cha racter that of prose jingling into rhyme without the merit of the smoothness usually found in even com mon-place versification. Yet, miserable failure as the volume iy, containing as it does scarcely three pages in any way worthy of Mrs. Browning, it has been lauded to the skies by her mistaken eulogists, who would cram the veriest balderdash down our throats as poetry simply because it emanated from her pen. Poetry, forsooth ! it this is poetry we never read one line of poetry before, and trust most devoutly we may never again be subjected to a similar infliction. Why, a fifth form boy never perpetrated more me lancholy doggrel than may be encountered in profu fusion by just skimming over the pages haphazard. Take the following as a sample ; it occurs in the 18th page : " This was he, Savonarola, who, while Peter sank, With his whole boat-load, called courageously, ' Wake Christ ! Wake Christ ! '—who having tried the tank (To rhyme, of course with sank.) Ot the church-waters used for baptistry, Ere Luther lived to spill them, said they stank l" Poetry ! The praise lavished upon stuff like this is ignominy scattered over the ashes of the really illustri ous. But it may be argued by those who are infa tuated into the indulgence of a blind admiration that we are unfairly extracting injurious specimens prepense. In testimony of the contrary, take the very opening lines of this much vaunted " Casa Guidi Windows"-- " I heard last night a little child go singing, 'Neath Casa Guidi windows, by the church, 0 Leila iiberta, U belle !' stringing (Another word dragged in neck and crop, in defiance of all euphony, solely and exclusively for the sake of the rhyme.) The same words still on notes he went in search, So high tor, (Rather blundering that : a sixpenny . dictionary might have suggested of as more grammatical.) you concluded the upspringing Of such a nimble bird to sky from perch," &c. (Perch, just in the same way to chime with search and church.) Occasionally, moreover, the text runs into the baldest prose, recounting the most obvious matters of course. As, where gazers from the casements are spoken of— By whom, if flower or kerchief were thrown out, From any lattice, then the same would fall Into the river underneath, no doubt.' No doubt I the reader, answers like an echo. How solemn in its arresting awfulness also is that passage in which the writer points out the shade of the buried Buonarrotti, beginning flippantly—" That's Michael Angelo !" Indeed. What shall be said likewise in extenuation of such a fragment as that in which Mrs Browning speaks "Of poets sonneteering in their sleep 'Neath the pale olives, which droop, tickling some On chin and forehead from a dream too deep," &c.? It is because we see a volume crowded with speci mens of this kind of composition panegyriaed as a master-piece of poetic eloquence, and held up as a model of mingled grace and sublimity —it is because we hear it designated by all the most encomiastic words in the phraseology of literary vassalage, and because we see these things, and at the same time love and reverence in our heart of hearts such poems as the " Lycidas" of Milton, or the " Alastor" of Shelley, or the " Lusiad" of Camoens, or the " Colin Clout" of Spenser, or the " Fridoline" of Schiller, and because we regard works like these as poetry, that we must pro test, with all the emphasis of which emotion can render us capable, against those who would compel us to bend the knee in homage before a book like " Casa Guidi Windows." True, no doubt, a woman like Mrs. Browning could not exactly write two or three hundred pages of versification, however indif ferent they might be in the aggregate, without scat tering over them occasionally a clever thought or an ingenious expression. But, simply because at p. 7 we find the dawn described as " haggard like the sleepless," and because at page 22 we find it observed that " happy accident turns holy art," and because at page 2 the national songs of the Roman Peninsula are designated " pangs sheathed into music," therefore we are not bound to accept the mass of wearisome and stilted affectations in which these minute atoms of excellence are almost lost sight of altogether, as a masterpiece of divine eloquence and preternatural inspiration. Yet in these extravagant and hyperbo lical terms of panegyric the volume before us has been mentioned, and our present emphasis of con demnation is attributable to the disgust with which we have noticed this ill-judged servility of criticism to an empty name upon an indifferent title-page. It is this contemptible spirit of subserviency to mere reputation, which tends to cast such a malign and de generating influence over literature—criticism, more over, being thrown into contempt by its indiscriminate regard for cliquerie and its abject attention to mere favouritism. To such an absurdity have we seen this wretched evidence of infatuation carried in the in stance now under consideration, that we have observed italicised such lines as the following—italicised as spe cimens of poetic ability slashed our sleeves like patriots, nor foreswore The true Fepublic in the form of hats. e did Hot fight Exactly, we fired muskets up the void, To show that victory was ours of right. • We proved that Austria was dislodged, or would, Or should be, and that Tuscany in arms. Should, would, dislodge her in high hardihood." And so on inexhaustibly drenching us with the di luted balderdash, and calling it forsooth by that divine appellation which belongs of right only to the sweetest and the wisest utterances of humanity. Gladly do we turn from such trash as makes up the bulk of these vaunted quotations to the subjoined passage, one which stands forth conspicuously as one of nervous and thoughtful beauty. The writer is speaking of violets strewn over the grave of Savonarola. " We, who are the seed Of buried creatures, if we turned and spate Upon our antecedents, we were vile. Bring violets rather! If these had not walked Their furlong, could we hope to walk our mile? Therefore bring violets! Yet if we, self-baulked, Stand still a-strewing violets all the while, These had as well not moved, ourselves not talked Of these. So rise up with a cheerful smile, And, having strewn the violets, reap the corn, And, having reaped and garnered, bring the plough And draw new furrows 'neath the healthy morn, And plant the great Hereafter in this Now." A vigorous outburst like this we can admire, but not those spurious exclamations, which, coming from the lips of our authoress, are mistaken by her worshippers for the blended oracles of a poet and a metaphysician. Two metaphors, and two only out of the whole book, appear to us to be in any way deserving of com mendation : the first where it is prettily said— " I wove these stuffs so subtly that the gold Swims to the surface of the silk like cream, And curdles to fair patterns;" the second where, speaking in a grander mood, and with a voice more powerful in its resonance, it is re marked— " This model of a steam-ship moves your wonder? You should behold it crushing down the brine, ikeablind J ove w h o f ee l s his way with thu nder." Elsewhere we come upon such very dilap idated figures of speech as (at page 4l) that about the lion shaking from his mane the dewdrops. Once, and only once, Mrs. Browing rises from the dead level of her present mediocrity and writes as formerly wrote the vigorous band of Elizabeth Barrett. It is where she pronounces, in numbers not unworthy of her theme, the funeral panegyric of the late hero-king, Ch a rles Albert of Sardinia. She has been lamenting over one grave, and thus continues : "Another is At Genoa, where a king may fitly lie,— Who bursting that heroic heart of his At lost Novara, that ho could not die, Though thrice into the cannon's eyes for this He plunged his shuddering steed, and felt the sky Reel back between the fire-shocks ;—stripped away Th e ancestral ermine ere the smoke had cleared, And naked to the soul, that none might say His kingship covered what was base and bleared With treason, he went out an exile, yea, An exiled patriot! Let him be revered. " Yea, verily, Charles Albert has died well: And if he lived not all so, as one spoke, The sin pass softly with the passing bell. For he was shriven, I think, in cannon smoke, And taking off his crown, made visible A hero's forehead. Shaking Austria's yoke He shattered his own hand and heart. So best,' His last words were upon his lonely bed,— ' I do not end like popes and dukes at least— Thank God for it.' Aud now that he is dead, Admitting it is proved and manifest That he W 144 worthy, with a discrowhed head, To measure heights with patriots, let them stand Beside the man in his Oporto shroud, And each vouchsafe to take him by the hand, And kiss him on the cheek, and say aloud, Thou, too, hest suffered for our native land! My brother, thou art one of us. Be proud.'" Very noble and beautiful is this, and worthy of a woman's heart, and a woman's intellect, and a woman's enthusiasm. Nevertheless, twenty lines even though they be as meritorious as the foregoing, are insufficient to redeem a volume which is other wise worthless as a specimen of tedious and affected versification. Considered, moreover, in regard to its design, the work must be denied all claim—even the faintest—to originality, it being literally neither more nor less than a very hoarse amen, croaked somewhat tardily to the aspirations syllabled in the " Roman" of Sydney Yendys. Altogether the book is calculated in no manner to extend Mrs. Browning's popularity, tending, we believe, on the contrary, very seriously to deteriorate her reputation. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY _ILLUSTRATED GUIDE. James Trmscott. Railway companies generally would do well to emulate the enterprise evinced in the present publi cation. In it are described, in a very lively and graphic manner, the various localities noticeable along the line of the Eastern Counties Railroad, the letter press being agreably interspersed with woodcuts, re presenting the principal features of the double pano rama of landscapes. A species of vignette displays " our starting train" at the commencement of the narrative. Further on we have a sketch of the Bishopsgate Station ; and before quitting the pre cints of the metropolis we catch glimpses of the Victoria Park gates and of Bow-bridge, passing on until we arrive at the Stratford works, and turning on to the main line at the Strat ford Junction. Tottenham Cross is not overlooked, neither are the Waltham Abbey gates, or Waltham Abbey itself, Rye House, or Broxbourne. To the travelled reader it will be interesting after this to note successively Nether Hall and Nell Gwynn's House, Audley End, and the little town of Saffron Weldon. Arrived at Cambridge, we find sprinkled over the descriptive chapters relating to that Uni versity, cuts of King's College, of the view from Castle-hill, of St. Sepulchre's, of King's .College Chapel, of Trinity, of St. John's, and of Clare Hall. Ely is the next engraving, and opposite to this comes one of Ely Cathedral. Several drawings of spots well known at Norwich are given immediately after wards, such as the market. place, the castle, the Nor man tower, Pull's ferry, the bridge, and station, with one or two of the ancient gateways. Thorpe is the next place particularized, and afterwards comes a capital view of the quay side at Yarmouth. Together with these are clever little woodcuts of the column, of the jetty, of the market-place, and of the canal. Sonierley ton, Lake Lothing, and Lowestoft, are de picted both in a literary and pictorial manner with much exactitude. Connected with the engraving of Lowes toft are minor ones of the bridge and harbour, of the beach and pilot station, and of High Light. Romford is then reached, and thence, through Epping Forest, we come upon the pretty little village of Chigwell, renowned as the scene of so many romantic occur rences described in Charles Dickens's " Barnaby Rudge." Chelmsford is represented hard by in two views, and is closely followed by Maldon, with a glimpse of the Maldon railway station. Braintree and Colchestor are next perceived, with a sketch of the railway station at the latter place, and others of St. Botolph's Priory, of Wix Belfry, of Mr. Bag shaw's house (both interior and exterior), of the Landguard Fort, and the Club-house. Then we behold The Brinks, with engravings of the Corn market, and of the outside and inside of Peterborough Cathedral. On reaching Hertford, the excursionist has his attention directed to the castle and college, and so passing pleasantly from terminus to terminus, becomes familiarized with the whole route of the Eastern Counties Railway. As a specimen of the charmingly anecdotal and gossiping style in which the guide has been written throughout, we trans cribe the following note entire, as it occurs at pages 22 and 23, on the occasion of its being observed that Trinity College, Cambridge, has in modern times pro duced two of the greatest geniuses in their respective walks that England, or probably the whole of Europe, possesses : EAST INDIA HOUSE. A quarterly general Court of tl'e East India Com pany was held on Wednesday at their house in Leaden hall-street. Mr. John Shepherd, chairman of the company, was in the chair. The minutes of the last quarterly meeting were read and confirmed. The CHAIRMAN announced th4t the warrants for the half-yearly dividend would be ready for delivery on the 7th of July next. The report of the committee m the bye-laws was then read, and the committee re-Appointed for the en suing year. PUBLIC WAYS IN 43.1ZERAT. Colonel DICKENSON then broight forward the mo ,ion of which he had given nothe,—That a fixed per centage on the revenue of each oellectorate in Guzerat be annually expended for the improvement and ex tension of the public ways throughout that province. The people of that province mere at one time in a state of great prosperity, but ly degrees a great de cadence of that prosperity had taken place, which justified him in asking for a special grant for the amelioration of the condition of the agricultural popu lation of the four collectorat's into which the pro vince was divided. After shiwing hew those col lectorates had been impoverished by fire and inun dation, as well as by the competition to which they were exposed in the marlets of Europe by the introduction of American co Won, the consequence of which had been to take the riots out of the hands of the landlords, who were always considerate in their dealings with them, and to expose them to a set of rapacious money-lenders, the Hon. and Gallant Pro prietor proceeded to describe ;he want of roads or any other means of communication for the conveyance of the cotton produce of those districts to the western seaboard of Bombay. Guzura; was the garden of India, and what New Orleans was lo America Surat was to Guzerat. It was unquestioEably the finest portion of British India. Half the Incian cotton imported into the English market came from Guzerat, and yet there had not been a single public work undertaken during the 50 years since that portirn of India had been in our possession from which the natives could derive any benefit. It was very uipleasant to him to differ from their respected Deputy-Chairman (Sir James Hogg), but he tlmuglie whai that Honourable Baro net said in the House of Commons, in June last, as to the excellent state of the roads of Guzerat was very erroneous. The Honourable Member then read ex tracts from a pamphlet written by a Mr. Williams, who described the roads in Guzerat to be so narrow that only one cart could pass at a time, that they were full of hollows and deep ruts, and that for three months in the year, namely, during the Ronsoon, they were utterly impassable ; so that the cart; were in some of the col lectorates obliged to make detours of several miles. The plea for allowing this state of things to exist was that there were no materials on the spot for making roads ; but it appeared from the reports of officers employed to survey the country, and who were well acquainted with geology, that there were abundant materials for that purpose. If any further delay were allowed before taking steps for the improvement of the public roads in India, the chances were that Ame rica would supplant us in the China trade. Vigorous measures were necessary to meet the evil, and to secure to ourselves the natural advantages which the country possessed. An American merchant having walked over the grounds cf one of the estates at Amedabad, the capital of Guzerat, where the cotton crops were growing, was quite startled, and declared that he had never seen such cotton. It was a curious fact that throughout the whole discussions of the cotton committee no allusion was made to Amedabad, although it was the finest and most productive cotton district in India, and from which 91,000 bales were exported last year. Tramways might be laid down at an expense of not more than 7001. to 8001. a mile. Mr. LEWIN seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN said, the motion was contrary to the usual rule of governing a country, and he did not think his Hon. and Gallant Friend had made out a special case for departing from that rule. He could not allow the statement of the Hon. and Gallant member as to the neglected condition of the roads in Guzerat to pass unnoticed. He (the Chairman) was in possession of a letter from a Mr. Davey, the col lector of one of the collectorates, stating that, with the exception of the three months during the monsoon there was no difficulty in getting from Guzerat to Bombay. The Hon. and Gallant Proprietor had spoken of an American gentleman. He (the Chair man) presumed that Mr. Haigh was the gentleman referred to. Now Mr. Haigh had, within these few days, stated distinctly that the facilities for communi cation from that district with the coast were admi rable ; and that a very little outlay would make those means of transit excellent. The Hon. and Gallant Colonel would no doubt be glad to hear that the ex penditure had been recommended by the Court of Directors. The Government of India were alive to the necessity of maintaining public works in that country. The other day no less than 50 lacs of rupees were appropriated for the construction of such works at Madras and Bengal. Everything was b e ing done for facilitating communication between the dit ferent portions of India, the Government being per fectly aware of the importance of that great object. He therefore hoped the Court would see the propriety of rejecting the present motion. An Hon. PROPRIETOR suggested that after the very satisfactory explanation of the Chairman, it would be becoming on the part of the Hon. and Gallant Mover to withdraw his motion. Mr. SULLIVAN said, the Chairman had it in his power to put his Hon. and Gallant Friend entirely out of court by producing the accounts of the expenditure made for the construction and improvement of roads in India. Sir J. Hocei observed, that every statement made by him in the House of Commons as to the condition of the ways of communication in India was founded upon the reports of collectors in India. Colonel OLIPHANT said, it might seem strange why during three months of the year, when the roads were required to be made, that they were not made ; but the fact was, that during the monsoon the natives did not travel, as their goods would be exposed to the wet. This was the reason why the Government of India did not do what, under other circumstances, they might deem it necessary to do. After some further discussion, the motion was withdrawn. In answer to a question from Mr. LEWIN, The CHAIRMAN stated, that the Bill introduced into Parliament for granting compensation to Mr. J. S. Buckingham had been withdrawn. MR. J. S. BUCKINGHAM'S CASE. Mr. LEWIN wished to make an observation upon the case of Mr. Silk Buckingham, who, in hi s op inion, had really made the press of India free, and to ask what view the Court took. The CHAIRMAN said the Bill brought before Par liament by Mr. Buckingham had been withdrawn. RIGHTS OF NATIVE PRINCES. Colonel DICKENSON then brought forward his mo tion—" That a list be prepared, with as little delay as possible, and laid before the Court of Proprietors, of those native states with which treaties have been entered into by the British Government, the chiefs of which are thereby deprived of any of the rights or privileges of adoption without the consent of the pa ramount power." Lord Ellenborough's proclamation must lead to the ruin and demoralisation of the native princes. He would cite the case of the Nabob of Surat with whom the company entered into a treaty after his dethronement in 1800. If the treatment complained of had taken place after a war, there might have been some excuse for severity. The Hon. Pro prietor then quoted the Calcutta Review in support of his argument, and said that Mr. Duggan had affirmed that the rights of the Nabob's family were secured. The Nabob died in 1842, and 184 G arrived without anything being done for his family, though they were led to hope and expect that there would have been. One of the Nabob's nephews writes afterwards that he had received a small sum, but that it went imme diately to pay creditors, and God only knew when his claims would be settled. The Government, in order to justify their acts, passed a measure through the Legislature which put it out of the power of the native princes to obtain redress. They had shut the door to all possible appeal, and cases of the kind he was citing would be of every-day occurrence with Indian families, owing to Lord Ellenborough's pro clamation. He (Colonel Dickenson) wished that those families should see what would be their fate. There would be endless appeals, but only give the families notice what would be their fate when the time arrived that they were to lose their inde pendence. Mr. LEWIN rather thought the Court would ob ject to give a list of those whose independence bad been forfeited, because it would involve the necessity of giving also a list of those who were not deprived. The case of the Raja of Lahore, which had been cited in Parliament, was in point. Not only his territory and revenue, but even his regalia, had been taken away, and part of it—the Koh-i-noor—was in the Exhi bition. The CHAIRMAN felt it impossible to divine the ob ject of the motion. It was, however, rather remark able that the Lion. and Gallant Colonel should have quoted a case in illustration of bis object which could not by possibility apply, for Surat was a Mahomedan state, where adoption was impossible. The Nawaub died without heirs, leaving daughters, one of whom married, and the property of the deceased Nawaub was given to the son-in-law, with the exception of that portion of it which was necessary for keeping up the dignity of the Nawaub, that title having ceased to exist. He (the Chairman) might however say that there were no treaties of the nature mentioned in the notice of motion. Adoption, it was true, required the sanc tion of the paramount power ; and that was occasion ally withheld, but it was not by virtue of any treaty that such a power existed. The Chairman, in refer ence to the recent occurrences in the Punjaub, said that the public were aware that the procedure of the Indian Government in the l'anjtinb was one of neces. sity. The chiefs of that country having first attacked the British power, Lord llardinge, in subduing them, displayed great moderation in maintaining Lahore es an independent state. taking the young Baja under British protection. The chiefs again rebelled, and then it was found necessary to take possession of the country; but there was no one who knew the charac ter of Lord Dalhousie but would acquit him of any intention to adopt violent or unjust measures under any circumstances whatever. He was very sorry that this subject should have been alluded to on the pre sent occasion. Mr. SULLIVAN said he did not entertain the same opinion of the motion as had been expressed by the Chairman, nor did he think the public would. The motion appeared to him to have a very intelligible and responsible object. His friend, Colonel Dickenson, had said the Governor-General had passed a sentence on every native prince in India, he having proclaimed that henceforward all the possessions of native princes who died without natural heirs should be confiscated to the British Government, and that principle had been recognised by the Chairman. It appeared to him (Mr. Sullivan) that the least they could do to the parties who were so deeply interested in this mat ter was to apprize them of the fate now hanging over them. Up to the present moment they had been spending all their revenues under the confi dent belief that treaties made would be observed, and therefore the least they could do was to tell these native princes that they had only a life interest in their estates and possessions, and ought to begin at once to make adequate provi sion for their families. Perhaps the directors thought it was a reasonshle thing that they should not know their sentence until it would be put into execution. He, however, contended that they were not only bound to tell them to make timely provision for their families, under the sentence thus summarily passed by the Governor-General, but were also bound to induce them to place such provision in the hands of the Governor-General and the British Government ; for, strange and paradoxical though it might seem, it was nevertheless true that the only place of security for the property and possessions of native princes was in the treasury of the East India Company ; for when native princes put their property and possessions in the British treasury they were under the protection of the law. So long as the Governor-General was llinitea to rue Company's Le& itories he was a constitutional monarch, but when be went beyond that he became an auto crat, and seized the property and possessions of native princes, and nobody could call him to account. He would say again, therefore, that they were bound to make the people over whom the sentence was im pending to lay by some adequate provision for their families, and moreover bound in all equity and jus tice to point out to them that their fate would be the same as that which overtook the Raja of Sattara— they were bound to tell them that 26 lass of rupees, the property of the family of Pertaub Sing, if in vested in the company's funds, would amount to a permanent provision of one lao of rupees a year, and that the benevolent Governor-General thought he had made a sufficient and ample provision for his family by giving him a life annuity of 30,000 rupees a year, and that though Appa Sahib had an adopted son, who was formerly recognised as his real heir, and was en titled to all his private property and possessions, they disposed of them as they pleased, and simply gave him in return a life interest. That was the po sition, without any exaggeration whatever, in which the native princes of India were placed at the present moment. The Chairman had said the company had no treaties with these princes, but what was the fact ? There were no less than 150 native princes with whom they had treaties, and his Gallant Friend's motion only amounted to a request that they might be warned that they had only a life interest in their es tates. In the 150 treaties with these native princes and chiefs they had guaranteed to them and their heirs in perpetuity all their estates and possessions ; but the construction now sought to be placed on them was, that they were to have only a life interest. That being so, he would say again, " Warn them ; tell them to begin to make a provision for their families, so that they may not be reduced to the same state as the families of the Raja of Sattara and Pertaub Sing, who first had their property confiscated, and then received an annuity of 30,000 rupees a year." Every person who denounced the proceedings of the Governor-General, or was opposed to him, must ex pect himself to be held up as a factious opponent, as a person who used undue influences, and who possessed no discretion. He found such expressions frequently used in the papers just laid before the House of Com mons. But the Chairman himself was one of the old faction who denounced in the strongest possible terms the taking away of the Raja's property ; so also did Mr. Tucker, one of the directors ; and, speaking of him, he would take the liberty of saying, in parenthesis, that none was more distinguished, none more devoted to the in terests of the country than Mr. Tucker, and yet the Governor-General, in those dispatches, said that all those who really ventured, to express an opinion as to the confiscation of the principality of the Sat tara territory, committed a breach of good faith. He thought the Court could not think there was any thing unreasonable, or in the slightest degree kn. proper, in his Gallant Friend bringing forward this most important subject. lie confessed, on consider ation, that he was sorry the question of Lahore had been introduced inadvertently into the dis cussion, but, as it had been mentioned, the Court would, perhaps, allow him to say that be dissented altogether from the opinions which had been expressed by the Chairman. He believed that Lord Dalhousie's Government would be princi pally remembered for two measures—in the first place, for the confiscation of the principality of Sat tara against all right and treaty ; and in the next, for the confiscation of the dominions and lives of princes with whom we had made war. The Peishwah kindled a rebellion in that province, which was put down at great expense and loss of life, with the loss of his crown, and the first act of the British Go vernment was to seize upon the state of Lahore, to se parate public and private property, and to secure or confiscate the Koh-i-noor, which, according to the ac counts in the papers, seemed ashamed of the country, for they coulernot got it to show its lustre any how. —(A laugh.) He would now confine himself to one more single observation, and that was, that though the principle on which the directors now proceeded was, that no native prince would be allowed to adopt children without the sanction of the paramount power, it had been determined by Lord Auckland and Lord W. Bentinck, and other Governors-General of India, that every Hindoo prince hid a right to adopt a suc cessor, whom we were bound to acknowledge.—(Hear.) Sir J. Hoed, the Deputy-Chairman, thought that from the tone adopted by the last speaker he took upon him to chide the proprietors, and that he had been betrayed into invective as unbounded as it was uncalled for. The cause, however, soon appeared. It was the old question of Sattara which haunted the lion. Gentleman's imagination. Had it never oc curred to the Hon. Proprietor that other people were capable of forming an opinion as well as himself, and that he did not concentrate all the honour, and all the intellect, and all the knowledge of the Court of Pro prietors, or that the majority might be right and the minority wrong? Had ho forgotten the discussions and decision in Parliament? His indignation about the Sattara affair could afford the only excuse for such warmth. It was ever Sattara, Sattara, Sat tara, and fur twelve years past the cry had been Sattara. Mr. Sullivan had selected the case of the Mahotnedan states, although such a case as that in Colonel Dickenson's motion could never arise there. He asked them to give a list of those native princes who had been sacrificed for some ten,thirty, or fifty years by some iniquitous Governor-General, and a list of those whom it is intended to sacrifice.—(Hear, bear.) Was it not monstrous that such a propositiion should be made to an intelligent assembly that they were to anticipate such gross injustice ?—(Hear.) Mr. Sul livan bad gone the length of asserting that the con quest of the Punjaub was a black spot in the history of India ; but he (the Deputy-Chairman) would tell the Hon. Proprietor that the people did not think so, and that, in his opinion and that of the world, the story of the Punjaub would be a bright star in that history.—(Cheers.) Those who had given judgment in the matter had said that Lord Hardinge was too forbearing.—(Hear, bear.) With a degree of moderation which must redound to the honour of that nobleman, he had taken but a small territory from the vanquished. It bad been asserted that we entered into a treaty wit h a minor. Why, the whole treaty was with the chiefs. It .was country was at our disposal(Heari;evbeerara.u)ppoTahede .eGneti3ereriiirwoisahetrdeatotytrwyitthheaenffeeintfoaf.nta. treTahtye w ee e ove c go ld r chiefs, be (the Deputy wchitahirtmheanc)hiehfeslibeuvetdt,hohsaed: ewryithout exception, taken part had the chargedsubsequent ai,rHrn La rebellion.dm,afrsi Dalhousie Thewth Hon. fomenting prietor or ,, sorry irt.oSbnelalrivtahna.)t (the ne th is ;beep] Deputy-Chairman) affir mation. Lord Dalhousie ha adopted measures for the interest, not only of British India, but of all those people committed to his rule. The treaty could not be impunged.—Gear.) Mr. SULLIVAN said he had charged Lord Dalhousie with fomenting the rebellion in the Punjaub by his agents. lie (Mr. Sullivan) had put his opinions in day it. with the Therer Court hee print, and shou ld be g lad to have a fielddorrid the ee H on .Deputy-Chairman,t , y;C fr h : i tn rm t a h n e , w qu h e o sti h o a n d had entirely away not been one word said upon the matter of Colo nel Dickenson 's motion. He denied that lie bad re vived the case of the Raja of Sattara. He merely named it. Colonel DICKENSON said he simply required a list of those native princes who needed the adoption of the Government. The motion was then put and negatived. THE MADRAS LIGHT CAVALRY. Ur. Lava then made the icilloWiPg motion ;.-7 "That the Court of Directors be requested to take such measures as may be necessary to instruct the local Governments of India to insert in the articles of war for the native army a clause conveying the same privi lege to the native army of demanding copies of the record of trial as is now enjoyed by the European soldi-r under the articles of war framed by the British Legislature." The motion not being seconded, it fell to the ground. The Court then adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings Qt. the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, JU' 19. SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL. Order for Committee read ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair :" Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " this House will, upon this day six mouths, resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Question :" The House divided:— liIAJORITY—AYES, 64. E Adair, R. A. Barrington, Viscount E ED l bu l r i n c ind e ga , Baldock, E. . Patten, J. W. Beckett, William E vans , William Philips, Sir G. R. H iu Lord. 1 181 1 o o s i g t y 'i nn , . o, E M. ar l of Bernal, Ralph F errer , James Pilki ng ten, James Birch, Sir T. to r . S i , , jun. David n Ferguson, Sir r.. Prime, Richard Bouverie, E. P. Forster, Matthew Ricardo, Osman Brotherton, Joseph Freestun, Colonel Salwey, Colonel Brown, W. Grey, Sir G. Slaney, R. A. Buck, Lewis W. Grey, Ralph W. Smith, Vernon Buller, Sir Y. Grosvenor, Lord R. Somerville. Sir W. Campbell, W. F. Hall, gir B. Tancred, H. W. Cardwell, Edward Hamner, Sir John Thicknesse, R. A. Childers, J. W. Batchell, John Thompson, Colonel Christopher, R. Heywood, James Verney, Sir H. Cliflord, Henry M. Ileyworth, L. Villiers, Viscount Corry, H. L. Jermyn, Earl Wawn, J. T. Cowper, W. F. Langston, J. 11. Wood, Sir W. P. Craig, Sir W.G. Lewis, G. C. Dalrymple, Captain Lockhart, A. E. TELLIES. Davie, Sir II Mackinnon, W. A. Hayter, w. G. Mai.heson, Colonel Hill, Lard Marcus Dawes, Edward Miles, William Duman, George MINORITY—NOES, 23. Baird, J tmes Lacy, Ir C. Stafford, Augustus Burroughes, 11. N. Ly-gon, General Thornhill, G. Cubitt, William Mackie, John Waddington, H. S. Davies, D.A. Macnaghten, Sir E. Wall, C. B. Duncan, Viscount M•Gregor , J ohn Williams, W. H. Duudas, George Isl a sterman, John Willoughby, Sir Frewen, C. 11. Mullings, J. B. Ileneage, G. IL Reid, Colonel Henley, J. W. Rice, E. R. nu ro p hpry. Aid,, Sotheron, T. H. TELLIES. Duke, Sir James siuuey, Alderman (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 10 (Commissioners to report to Secretary of State when Markets provided, who is to publish notice thereof, and of closing of Smithfield, to be published in London Gazette) :—Amendment proposed, in page 4, line 43, to leave out from the word •' opened" to the words " Public Markets," in page 5, line s: —Question put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 48. Baring, Sir F. T. Fitzroy, Henry Parker, John Beckett, William Forster, Matthew Plumptre, J. P. Bellew, R. M. Freestun, Colonel Ricardo, Osman Birch, Sir Thomas Fuller, A. E. Rich, Henry Blair, Stephen Glyn, George Carr Russell, F. C. H. Bouverie, B. P. Grace, 0. D. J. Stanton, W 11. Boyle, Colone, Grey, Sir George Strickland, Sir G. Brotherton, J. Glyn, G. C. Tancred,.H. W. Childers, J. W. Hallyburton, Lord Tennent, I. J. Cardwell, Edward Hastie, Alexander Ihicknesse, It. A. Christopher. It. Hatchell, John Thompson, Colonel Clifford, H. M. Hepworth, Lawrence Verney, Sir H. Dawes, Edward Legh, G. C. Westhead, J. P. Douglas, Sir C. Lewis, G. C. Wood, Sir W. P. Duncan, George Mackinnon, W. A. TELLERS. Ebrington, Viscount Miles, William Hayter, W. G. Fergus, John Mostyn, E. Hill, Lord Marcus LITERATURE. SPORTING NOTES. No. LXX. NEWCASTLE MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Snt,—The success which attended my prognostications 013 the Bibury Club races of Wednesday was vette nearly equalled by that which confirmed my judgment in two instances out of three in the contests for the Stockbridg e Triennials yesterday. Concerning the First and Second Triennials, I observed, in Note 68, that Cariboo would win the former, and Bee Hunter be second ; and that Lamartine would win the latter, Phlegethon or Glenhawk being second. Cariboo, with odds on him, gave Bee hunter 21bs and beat him in a common canter ! Sweetheart was third. The Second Triennial Lamartine won very cleverly by nearly a length, beating Glenhawk (second), Phlegethon (third), and two others. Concerning the Third Triennial, in the note named above, I remarked that "Kingston, lately known as the Queen Anne colt, is reported to be a certainty ; I am not of that opinion; the Goodwood horse shall have my loose cash on theday." This opinion was founded on the idea that Kingston's not very game finishing qualities would allow one of the Goodwood horses, or, as I observed yesterday, any re spectable " fielder," to give him the go-by on,the post, if it was a close affair within the distance. The race to some slight extent justified my calculations, for, no Goodwood horse starting, a " fielder," bearing the name of the Chief Baron Nicholson, did all but accomplish the task of beating Kingston on the post ; one of th e moa t extraordinary races ever seen resulting in a coup l e of dead heats ; after which the stakes were di vided. Joe Miller was a bad third, and The Chase a worse fourth. Newcastle now puts forth its claina to my consideration. This crack northern meeting com mences on Monday, and extends over four day s, and sports an uncommonly good bill of fare. The first Triennal Stakes, out of an entry of twenty-six, including the names of Pitsford, The Knight of Avenel and The Italian, will probably have some four or five starters, and The Knight or The Italian, latter for choice, as the winner. Should Songstress be up to the mark again, she will win the Tyne Stakes ; in her absence Lady Bird or Pelopidas may compass the winning trick. The Second Triennial will, probably, fall to the lot of Azeth, without (?) Bonnie Dundee should be sent to the scene of action, in which case I should support the latter. The Tyro Stakes has two names enrolled in the entry, which puts all others into the shade. I allude to Paddy Bird and The King of Trumps. For the Nor thumberland Plate, out ef seventy nominations and thirty-eight acceptances, not more than fifteen or sixteen will be screwed up to the sticking point—the starting post ; the remaining twenty two or three having been put hors de combat combat by various circumstances since the forfeits were declared. The field, as near as I can tell at the present moment, will consist of the following:—Elthiron, 5 yrs, Bst 41b; Uriel, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b; Knight of Gwynne, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Testator, 5 yrs, Est 121 b; Mulgrave, 4 yrs, Est 81b; The Ebor, 4 yrs, Est 61b; Jen ny Li n d , 5 yrs , 6st 41b; Abdallah, 4 yrs , 6 st; emus, 3 yrs, Sat 10Ib; England's Glory, 3 yrs, sst 61b; Louis Napoleon, 3 yrs, sst 61b; Neasham, 3 yrs, s st 41 b (d); Knock Knoll, 3 yrs, sst; Jack Leeming, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b; and Cyclops, 3 yrs, 4st 81b. Elthiron carr ies a little to o much weight for his chance to be a first-rate. Uriel, I have some doubts about his getting the distance. The distance and weight is very favourable to Testator. Mulgrave and The Ebor, I think, are held quite safe by Jenny Lind, who, with the feather-weight of 6st 41b on her back, ought to be close in the track of the winner, if not the absolute A 1; but I'm afraid she is scarcely fast enough for some of her competitors. Abdallah at 6st, looks dangerous. Cnatus will run home in front, as will England's Glory, and Neasham also, if he starts. The three feathers at the bottom ef the handicap have a chance of distinguishing themselves now if they never had before. The final struggle, I imagine, will lay be tween Testr.tor and England's Glory, with Neasham (if he runs), Uriel, Jenny Lind, Elthiron, and areas well up; passing the post, perhaps, in the following order: — TESTATOR . 1 ENGLAND'S GLORY 2 ORIEL 3 JENNY LIND 4 Wednesday's and Thursday's races I will touch upon on Monday. Communications from W. B. B. and R. H. will be an swered on Monday. I am, Sir, yours, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Juno 20,1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S.—Tianasper. A blank day. BIBURY CLUB MEETING AT STOCKBRIDGE. THURSDAY. Handicap of 401., with 101. for the second. T.Y.C. Lord Clifden's Sagacity, 1 lst 21b...(Mr. P Williams) 1 Mr. Herbert's cby Sir Hercules, 9st 31b (Mr. Henry) 2 Mr. Waller na New Forest Deer, 1 fat 21b (Mr. Bevil!) 3 Betting-5 to 2on Sagacity. Won by three parts!of a length. Run in 1 min. 31 sees. S'IOCKBRIDGE RACES.—THURSDAY. The First Stockbridge Triennial Stakes of 10 soya. each, for four yrs old colts, Sat 101 n; and fillies, Bst 51b; un tried stallions and mares allowed 31b; the winner of the Newmarket Stakes Sib extra, Two miles and a half. (35 Subs.) Mr. Greville's Cariboo (51bs extra) (Flatman) 1 Lord Enfield's The Beehunter (A. Day) 2 Mr. Pedley's Sweetheart (Rogers) 0 Betting-5 to 2on Cariboo, who won in a common canter. Run in 4 min. 55 secs. The Second Triennial Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 101 b, and fillies, Bst 51b; untried al lowed 31bs, &c. One mile and a half. (36 Subs.) Mr. J. Powney's Larnartine (A. Day) 1 Mr. R. Clark's Glenhawk (Dockeray) 2 Lord Exeter's nalegethon (Norman) 3 Duke of Richmond's Hurry Scurry (Kitchener) 4 Mr. R. Etwall's Iracundus (Rogers) 5 Betting-7 to 2on Lam artine. Won by three parts of a length. Run in 2 min. 51 .secs. The Third Triennial Stakes of 10 sovs. each; for two years old colts, Bst 101 b, and fillies, Bst 51b. T.Y.C. (43 Subs.) Colonel Peel's Kingston, Set 71b. (Flatman) 0 0 Mr. Dorrien's br c Chief Baron Nicholson, Est 71b _.(Dockeray 0 0 Mr. llayter's Joe Miller, Bst 71b (W. Day) 0 Lord Dorchester's f The Chase, Bst 21b (A. Day 0 Mr. W. Etwall's cby Venison, Bst 101 b (Rogers) Mr. C. Wyndham's Sir John, Bst 71b (Sly) 0 Betting-5 to 4on Kingston, and 9to 4 agat Joe Mil ler. A dead heat between Kingston and Chief Baron Nicholson; Joe Miller a bad third. Run in 1 min. 29 secs. Second Heat-6 to son Chief Baron Nicholson. A splendid race ended in another deed heat. Alfred Day rode Chief Baron Nicholson in this beat. The stakes were divided. The Stockbridge Plate of 50 sovs. for all ages, T.Y.C. 4 , was won in three heats by Mr. Stollard's Woodsprite, yrs (')51.), beating Mr. Hughes's f by Cowl , ou t of Celan dine, 3 yv (1001), Mr. Payne's Guardsman, 3 yrs, and several others. NEWTON RACES —THURSDAY. Handicap Sweepstakes of 5 Bova. each, and 30 added. One mile and a quarter. Captain Scott's Administrator, aged 1 Mr. Saxon's Blister, 4 yrs The Borough Cup of 100 sous., added to a handicap o f 15 sovs. eacb, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared. Ono mil e and a half. (8 Subs., three of whom declared.) Mr. Lawson na Caurire, 5 yrs, 6st 91b Walked over. The Newton St. Leger Stakes of 10 soya. each, for three years old; colts, Bst 71b ; and fillies, Bst 31b. One mile and a half. (7 Subs.) Lord Caledou's Sister to Wanota Walked over . Th e Optional Selling Stakes of 5 says. each, and 30 added, for three years old and upwards, one mile and quarter, were won cleverly, in four heists, by Mr. Saxon's Blister, 4 yrs. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. her Majesty's Theatre was yesteTdaTyh(eTh4u occupied by Captain the Hon's box at n Amongst ng h e tthhee noblere N N:i Dallas. ho the Russian Ministertihne sion we noticed the foll lington, the Duke and Ductless dale, Earl of h, his Excellency t. andF h 't and distinguished r iN p i r r e ' 3 . n % c t irV e s cleeoe:nntY individuals) ahna: evening 13 lin, Lord William Londonderry, Lady Vane, and Kinsale, Earl of Dial; Isirs., and Miss Richards, Colonel V'ybiledieaain thiso . t C s bhuarryl e:l i r i E s c a o r o l h o t f D L o o p n p s-: oi6ro'xiirbaeuscsregtohfe Du k e o f We l - Alfred Paget, Lord Adol phus Fitzclarence, Lord George Paget, Lieut.-General Sir Charles Napier, Bart., Lady Napier, and party ; Sir H. l-*pLaretnTnio xE,arL'Ail romadifricoli We bb , Bart., Sir George Armitage, Bart., Sir John Bayley, Bart. and Lady Bayley, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Sir Sohn Lowther, Bart., Lieut.-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Colonel Meyrick, Mr. Henry Baring, M.P., the Russian Consul General, Mrs. Hatton and the Misses Hatton, Mr. C. w . Packe, M.P. and Mrs. Packs Reading, Mr. and Mrs. W. ii . Palmer, Mr. Stoic -, Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Paul, Miss Caroline an, z, B i e r i . le s s n v, oiv lN e l , r. c , F i f ty Hungarian refugees left Southampton nTgheytheirh a have sstay Cap Lyon, Mr. Rose, &c. Wednesday for Portsmouth, to embark on board the e migrant li h s o h u G nd ov fo er r n A m m en e t ric d a u . ri day each ; each one also has - a llowe d and 61. 15s. for passage money. REGISTRATION al lowed country a y: il k ao . the t E h6e a ds t . l n e a g been REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCE S BlLL.— Yesterda y Yesterda Lord Campbell's Bill fcr the registration of . assuranceV; amended, was printed by order of th! House of Bill will abolish the present registration-office INFLUX OF VISITORS TO and provide other meansof • OTHEGsr i A n T llt E in i d a le i se ß x i : registration. — ra L nc o o ndon never presented so bustling and animated an Ta t Ei l this week ,a. a a s s thedu during favorablet lielasct change e d a i y o rs , thebu twme weather a especially ha a in . d p“ u ac c rt e r d 3osf t t h atlh ou op s all a l n an d ei s tee ; ,i o come up to the m etropolis from every to visit the renowned by iinCincogndsoem-quednaciely,of the facilities afforded the different railway companies at moderate prices, on taking return tickets. On inquiry at the different metro politan railway stations. the n umber who have already ar rived from various counties, particularly the large manufac turing districts :of Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool , Sheffield, Leeds, Berw ick, Nottingham, Paisley, Glasgow , and the North, and the mining localities, has exceeded 250,000 to 300,000 persons, as not a morning train arrives but what is filled with passengers, so that during the re mainder of the present and following month, it will not be far less than 1,000,000. Notwithstanding this great addition to the metropolis, the shopkeepers, publicans, and hotel-keepers, do not derive the benefit that might be expected from such an influx, as the greater portion return the same evening, without visiting anything beyond the " great attraction of the day, the World'a Fair." The British Museum, National V ern on Gallery, St. Paul's Cathe dr al , Westmin ster Gallery, Vernon other places now open to the public gratis, have however, been visited by thousands daily. From France, B e lgium, Holland, and Germany, the arrivals both by steam-boats direct, from Boulogne, Calais, and Ostend, to London -bridge (by return tickets), or via Dover, Folketone, Southampton, and Brighton, by railway/ are deny Inclll3lns rapidly. MINORITY-NOES, 21. W-- Arkwright, George Cubitt, William reale% Sir G. Baird, James Farnham, E. B. Seaham, Viscount Barrow, W. 11. Heneage, G. 11. W. Stafford, A. Booth, Sir R. G. Lacy, Henry'S. Williams, IV. Burroughes, 11. Lockhart, W. Willoughby, Sir H. Chaplin, W. J. Lygon, Gen. TELLERS. Chatterton,`Colonel Mackie, John Duke, Sir James Cobbold, John C. Masterman, J. Sidney, Alderman Another Amendment proposed, in line 5, to leave out from the words " Public Markets" to the words " Borough of Southwark," in line 7 :—Question put, " That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Commit tee divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 47. Baring, Sir F. Forster, M. .Plumptre, J. P. Beckett, W. Freestun, Colonel Ricardo, Osman Bellew, It. M. Fuller, A. E. Rich, Henry Blair, Stephen Glyn, G..C. Russell, F. C.' Bouverie, E. P. Grace, 0. D. Stanton, W. H. Boyle, Colonel Grey, Sir G. Strickland, Sir G. Brotherton, J. Grey, Ralph Wm. Tancred,.ll. W. Cardwell, E. Hallyburton, Lord Tennent, R. J. Childers, J. W. Haste, Alexander Thicknesse, Ralph Christopher, R. A. Hatchell, John Thompson, Colonel Clifford, H. M. Heyworth, L. Verney. Sir H. Dawes, Edward Legh, G. C. Wegg-Prosser, F. Douglas, Sir C. E. Lewis, G. C. Wood, Sir W. P. Duncan, George Mackinnon, W. Ebrington, Viscount Miles, William Fergus, John Mostyn, E. M. L. Fitzroy, Henry Parker, John TELLER.. Hayter, W. G. Hill, Lord M. MINORITY-NOES, 20. Arkwright, Geerge Cubitt, William Pechell, Sir G. Baird James Duke, Sir J. Seaham, Viscount Barrow, W. 11. Farnham, E. Stafford, Augustus Booth, Sir It. G. Frewen, C. 11. Willoughby, Sir 11. Burroughes, 11. N. Hencage, G. H. Chaplin, W. J. Lacy, H. C. Chatterton, Colonel Lockhart, W. Cobboid, J. C. Masterman, John TELLEIL Sidney, Alderman Williams, W. Another Amendment proposed, in lire 8, to leave out the word " seven," in order to insert the word " three," instead thereof:— Question put, " That the word " seven" stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES, 46. Baring, Sir F. T, Freestun, Colonel Pilkington, James Beckett, W. Fuller, A. E. Rich, Henry Bellew, R. M. Glyn, George Carr Russell, Lord J. Blair, Stephen Goddard, A. L. Russell, F. C. Bouverie, E. P. Grey, Sir G. Stanton, W. S. Bowles, Admiral Grey, R. W. Strickland, Sir G. Boyle, Colonel Hallyburton, Lord 1 ancred, H. W. Cardwell, Edward Hastie, Alexander Tennent, R. J. Childers, J. W. Hastie, Archibald Thicknesse, R. A. Christopher, IL Hatchell, John Thompson, Colonel Currie, Henry Heyworth, L. Verney, Sir H. Duncan, George Higgins, George Wawn, J. T. Ebrington, Lord Lewis, G. C. Wood, Sir W. P. Ellice, Edwurd,jun. Miles, W. Fergus, John Mostyn, E. M. MUSS. Fitzroy, lion. H. Norreys, Lord Hayter, W. G. Forster, Mathew Parker, John Hill, Lord M. MINORITY-NOES, 18. Barrow, W. 11. Duke, Sir J. Peellell, Sir G. Booth, Sir R. G. Farnham, E. B. Seaham, Viscount Burroughes, H. Ileneage, G. H. Williams, W. Chaplin, W. J. Hudson, G. Willoughby, Sir 11. Chatterton, Colonel Lacy, 11. C. TELLZILIS. Cobbold, J. C. Lockhart , W . Stafford, Augustui Cubitt, William liasterman, John Sidney, Alderman COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, accom panied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with their R Highnesses the Duke de Brabant, the Count do Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte, visited the Ex hibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations yester day morning, arriving at the Exhibition at twenty mi nutes past nine o'clock. The Royal suite consisted of the lion. Mary Seymour, Madame de Montanclos, Ge neral Wemyss, Colonel Bouverie, Colonel de Moerkerke, and Count Albert de Bricy. Her Majesty and the august party remained an hour at the Exhibition, and then returned to Buckingham Palace. The Marquis of Anglesey had an audience of the Queen yesterday. Their Royal highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge visited the King of the Belgians yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Coun tess de Neuilly, the Duchess d'Orleans, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville also paid a vist to his Majesty yesterday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Bouverie, rode out o n horseback yesterday morning. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa too k an airing yesterday in an open carriage and four. His ;Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Duke de Brabant, Count de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, her Royal Highness the DachessCam of Gloucester, and his Royal Highness the Duke of bridge yesterday at their respective residences. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Alice and the Princess Louisa, took fonr. a drive yesterday afternoon in an o p en carriage and E que rries in Waiting , General Wemyss and Colonel Bouverie, attended on horseback. Her Majesty b ad a dinner party yesterday at Buck ingham Palace. The company included his Majesty the King of the Belgians, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Royal Highness the Duke do Brabant, his Royal Highness the Count de Flandres, his Excellency f Monsieur and Ma dame Van de Weyer, the ma Westminster, Lady Au g usta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Colonel do Moerkerke, Count Albert de Bn • eY, Sir Ro bert Carswell, and Baron Roppert. The band of the 2d Life Guards attended during din ner, and performed the following pieces:— Overture—`• Fest" Waltzer—" Henrietta" Luther. Selection —" Haidee" Browne. Quadrilles—" Swiss" •'' Auber. J Polka—" Resulort" ••• ullien. • Miaow. Galop—" Velocity" Schuloff. "God Save the Queen:' ••' The Westplinster-brid • ge Commission met the office of her M •Woods and ajesty s Commissioners of Lord yesterday at Forests, Whitehall-place. Present—Lord Seymour, Sudley, Alderman Humphrey, Lord Loosdale, Lord R. Grosvenor, Sir R. Inglis, and the Right Ron. C. Tenny son d'Eyncourt. The Right Hon. Henry Holahouse had a n interview with Sir George Grey yester da y at the Home-office. Mr. James K. Blair had also an interview.with the Right lion. Baroret. Mr. James Lloyd and Mr. John Barnett hadce an of inteerr view yesterday with Lord Seymour at the offi h Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests respect ing the proposed park for Finsbury. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of Western Australia. Dis patches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Lord High Commissioner of the loLian Islands an d t h e Governor of Malta. Dispatches ong-K w on e g re , also andw sent e off to the Gov ernors of Ceylon, Hong-Kong, Zealand. Th e Judicial Committee of the Privy Council met yesterday at the Council-office. The Lords present were—the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Judge of the Prerogative Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Sir Edward Ryan. The appeal " Wallace v. Fielding" (the Oriental), part heard. was concluded. The appeal " Kaapche v. Smith (the Commerce) was heard and decided. MACAULAY AND BULWER. " Though these Illustrious men have ceased to belong to the Senate, which their oratory as much adorned, as their achievements in the closet enriched the realms of mind, we must append some few particulars of their public lives, premising that both were prominent mem bers of the progressive party in politics, the former in the Radical, the latter in the Whig, interest. Sir Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton was created a Baronet of the United Kingdom in the year 1838. He was the son of General William Earle Bulwer, of W ood tilling and Heydon Hall, Norfolk, by the only daughter and heir of Richard Warburton Lytton. of Kuebworth, Herta (who by Royal licence, in 1841, resumed her pa ternal name of Lytton). He was born in 1805, and married, in 1827, the daughter of the late Francis Mas sey Wheeler, Esq., of Lizz .rd Connell, in the county of Limerick, and grandson of Hueb, Lord Massey. Was Member of Parliament for St. Ives in 1831, and sat for Lincoln from 1832 to 1841. He assumed the additional surname of Lytton after that of Bulwer in 1844, in compliance with the will of his mother, representative of the families of Lytton of Knebwortb, and Robinson of Guersylt. His literary works are well known and very numerous, embracing social and historic romance (as " Pelham" and the " Last of the Barons"), history pro per (" Athens, its Rise and. Fall"), innumerable tales (as "Lelia" and " Pilgrims of the Rhine"), poetry, satiric and epic (" New Timon" and " King Arthur"), essays (" Student"), politics (" England and the English"), and the drama (Money, Richelieu, Lady of Lyons, &c.), being by far the most eminent and successful dramatist of modern days, and in that capacity most appropriately presiding at the farewell dinner to the last of great mo dern actors, Macready, on the Ist March. The Right lion. Thomas Babington Macaulay, son of Zachary Macaulay, Esq., was born in 1800, and ap pointed Privy Councillor of Great Britain in 1839. He was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, February, 1826, and elected a bencher in 1849. Ho has been a commissioner of bankrupts; a commissioner, and subse quently secretary to the Board of Control; fifth mem ber of, and legal adviser to, the Supreme Council of India; was Fellow of Trinity College, Cam bridge ; Secretary at War from 1839 to Septem ber, 1841; elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow in 1848; professor of ancient history in the Royal Academy in 1850. He is the author of " The History of England from the Accession of James IL," of " Lays of Ancient Rome," and of many articles in the Edinburgh Review. He was Member of Parham nt for Cattle in 1830, for Leeds in 1832, and for Edinburgh from January, 1840 to 1847." With a variety of interesting particulars such as these, the compiler of the present volume contrives to render his chapters singularly delightful and attrac tive. To any traveller on; he Eastern Counties line of railway the book will be found the most agreeable anion. corn COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JUNE 19 ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Juno 13. Magician cutter. J. S. Parker, Esq., from Lymington; Aurora cutter, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., from St. Helen's. 14. Beatrix schooner, Sir W. P. Carew, Bart., from Portsmouth. 15. Geuntlet cutter, W. Peareth, Esq., from Sandgate. - 1 6.Wizard critter, William Delafiold, Esq., Portsmouth. from 18. Plover cutter, Major Martyn, from Antwerp. 19. Sy ren cutter, Rev. R. P. Har top, from Southampton. SAILINGS. June 18. Maritana cutter, James Gee, Esq., for Guernsey. 19. Resolution schooner, Duke of Rutland, Portland, and other western ports. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Drift, Wizard, Elizabeth, Stella, Brilliant, Osprey, Livlock, Turquoise, Seagull, Aurora, Gondola, Spider, Merlin, Nautilus, Plover, Ripple, Coquette, Titania, Ma gician, Syron, Laelia, Leda. The Bill for extending the provisions of the Public Health Act to West Cowes, it is understood, is to be read a third time in the House of Commons this (Friday) evening. Mr. Ranger is to open his court at the Medina Hotel on the 25th instant, to fix the boundary for the town of East Cowes, on the Public Health Act being extended to that town. The hay harvest has become general throughout the Isle of Wight; the crops are good, and the weather as fine as could be wished. Though barley and oats have advanced full 20 per cont. within a very short period, the same complaints continue of the ruinously low prices which they produce. Reports are already spreading of the appearance of the potato blight; wo have not seen it, and we beiieve that what some represent as the plague spot is only the damage done by the late high wind, and that the crop never looked better. In fruit, peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears, and plums are a said failure. CREMORNE GARDENS.—The ascent of a female aeronaut new to the metropolitan public attracted an im mense concourse of visitors at this favourite resort la't night, and well were they repaid for their visit. Mdlle. Palmyre Garneron, with a self'-possession that must place her in the front rank of aerona uts, is youthful, calm, and quiet in her d emeano ur and arrangeme nts, and with a pleasing and graceful smile bid adieu to the visitors punctually at the ap pointed time. The elegant balloon was distinctly visible for some period es it moved gracefully along at an unvaried al titude, and judging from the smoothness of its passage, her first trip from Cremorne must have been as delightful to her self as it was satisfactory to the public. The new perform ances by the celebrated equestrian troupe, "Le Cirque Na tional de Francs," were of the most brilliant character, and in magistrate, e t p z e r t r so e t fl gr ee e e c t ti t : e e d or n g t rh r r e et a i etsdcraeyd eveningit upon was thea brilliantname one. of Franconi. Al cOtaabflteTerOs morning last, a person evidently moving was loc with being intoxicated the night before, and obstructing the kbroughtall steam• boat passengers whilst on the Temple Pier, and lined 20s. He was alto fined a further sum of ss. for tearing the pier man's jacket, who endeavoured to prevent him from an noying the pasengero. phlaieDvrienisgoofbuleinfeens PEOPLE. —At Bow-