The Sun. — London, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

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LONDON. AUG.; 12.—Wind at noon 5.5. E,., light brer ES and tine. PORTO GRANGE, ST. VINCENT, CAPE DE VERDS, JULY 15.—The Esther Ann, of Liverpool, Trieste to Pernambuco, has been wrecked on the Hartwell Reef, N.E. side of Boa Vesta; crew, passengers, and part of cargo saved, the latter in a damaged state. CAPE TOWN, CAPE OP GOOD HOPE, JULY 3.—The Sumatra, Shanghai to London, which arrived here 29th May, to stop a leak, sailed on the 4th June. The James Henderson (Amer ship), Manilla to Liverpool, was spoken 20th May, with damsge to masts, &c., and intended putting into Rio for repairs. The Raja of Sarawak, London to Madras, put in 16th June with loss of bowsprit, foremast, mainmast head, &c. It is blowing fresh here to-day from the northward, with a heavy sea on. NEW YORK, JULY 30.—A British barque is reported to be on shore at Port Gullard, Sraits of n:gellan, 14th May, that two of the crew had been murdered by the Patlgonians; remainder escaped in the boat, and got on board another vessel. DEAL, AUG. 11.—Wind light and variable from S. to to S.E.—Arrd. Jarrow, Richibucto. Arrd. from the River, Kestrel, Madras. Arrd. from the River and Godde.s, ll:merara; Nera Cr( ina, Antigua. PLYMOUTH, AUG. 11.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Pro pontes steamer, Cape of Good Hope; left 4th July, Sierra Leone 21st, and Cape de Verds 28th, and proceeds for London. PALM, UTII, AUG. 11. —Wind S.E.—Arrd. J. S. Southard, Havannah; Alehymist, Quebec; Jane Low den, Quebec. OFF THE ',mann—Chatham transport, Antigua. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 11.—Wind S.—Arrd. Urge Svane, Iceland; Mela, ditto; Najadin, ditto; Epaminon-?as, New Orleans. Sld. Wagnolm, Manilla; Earl of Lans dale, Lima; Bonita, Pernambuco; New World, New York; Philadelphia, ditto; Caledonia, Quebec. The Whitehaven steamer took fire last night in the Clarence dock, but it was subdued without its having done much injury. SHOREHAM, AUG. 11.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Britannia, Quebec. OFF FALMOUTH.—Mary, Callan; Columbia, C a ll ao . PILL, AUG. 11.—Wind S.S.E.—SId. Glenswelly, Quebec. KINGROID. Arrd. Armata, Havannah ; Climer, Quebec. BRISTOL, AUG. 11.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. Clara Ann, Now York; Sir Henry Pottinger, Quebec. GLOUCESTER.—Arrd. Eris-go-Brat h, Quebec; Ar gyle, Quebec. Sld. Five Sisters, Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 10 W ind S.—Arrd. Eliza Bowen, L 'guns.. Sld. John Frances, Quebec. SUNDERLAND.—Arrd. Clarissa, Handley, Quebec. PLYMOUTH.--Arrd. Wanderer, South Australia. JERSEY, AUG. 10.—S1d. Irene, Denis, ; Amelia, Sheppegan. NEwron.r.—Sld. Trident, St. Thomas; Julius Car], St. Thomas. SHIELDS, AUG. 11.—Wind S.E. to E.S.E.—SId. Watchman, Monte Video. SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 11.--Acrd. Severn steamer, Rio Janeiro. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) HAT MARKETS. SMITIIIPIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 4/ Os; new ditto, 3/ Os to 3/ 103; old Clover, 3/ 10s to 4/ 10s; new ditto, 315 s to 41 Os; and Straw, 111 s to 1/ 103 per load. Supply good, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 5s to 4/ 4s new ditto, 3/ Os to 3/ 12s; old Clover, 3/ lOs to 4/ 8s; NOW ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ Os; and Straw, 11 2s to 1/ 12s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 315 s to 41 Os; now ditto, 31 Os to 3/ 10s; Old Clover, 31 lOs to 4l 10s; new ditto, 3/ 5s to 41 Os; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ lOs per load. Trade dull, at barely late rates. C0L0N11%.7.. Suchat.—British Plantation was rather dull, only 360 Wads having been sold ; 930 bags Mauritius mostly sold at easy rates, brown 28s to 295, low to good yellow, 33s 6d to 375, and grainy 37s 6d to 435. Of 1,730 bags Bengal offered, the Benares (about one-half) sold at 38s to 42$ 6d, being 6d decline; the brown was withdrawn for want of buyers at relative rates. 3,583 bags Penang went at 6d to Is decline; low brown 28s to 29s 6d, good brown 30$ 6d to 31s 6d, low yellow 32s to 345, and grey 348 6d to 375. 200 barrels Porto Rico mostly found buyers at 6d decline from 35s to 40s 6d; but 80 hhds and 80 barrels St. Croix sold freely at 39s 6d to 445. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,910 hhds, 267 tierces 1.088 barrels; and there were taken for home consumption, 1,591 hhds 180 tierces 880 barrels. The stock in the same places is 18,437 hhds 2,455 tierces 6,336 barrels. COFFEE.-300 casks and 100 bags Plantation Ceylon went steadily at 47s to 67s 6d; but 1,030 bags washed Rio was held above the present market value; a few lots sold at 39s to 41s. Privately, 1.000 bags Native Ceylon sold at 40s 6d, with a few superior at 41s. Ruas—ls without alteration. Tne quantity landed last week at the East and West India Ducks was 502 puns 28 hhde, there were taken for home consumption 126 puns 25 hhda, and exported 177 puns 90 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,083 puns 1,403 hhds. RICE.-1,000 bags good mid white Bengal were taken in at 9s 9d per cwt. TALLOw.—P.Y.C. is 37s 9d to 38s per cwt on the spot, and town, 39s 6d. TEA.—The market is steady. COTTON.—This article is firmer, with a moderate inquiry. BANKRUPTCY.-(TH I S DAY.) IN RE QUARTERMAINE This bankrupt was described w of Ea'on-mews West, Pimlico, livery-stable-keeper, and to-day was appointed for consideration of his certificate. Mr. Duncan appeared to oppose according to notice, but withdrew the opposition; and Mr. Lawrance for the bankrupt. his HONOUR suspended the certificate for six months, on th e ground of bad bookkeeping and expenses ex eQeding profits; the certificate to be of the third class. Protection was granted. MANSION-HO USB —(THIS DAY.) A man of gentlemanly appearance was this morning placed before the Lord Mayor, on a charge of indecently assaulting a tradesman named Perkins, who carries on business in Cannon-street. The defendant was brought uP to the court on Saturday, but was remanded and re leased from custody on bail, in consequence of the non attendance of the complainant. Mr. Buchanan, a solicitor, attended on the part of the defendant. The complainant, having been sworn, deposed that the assault was committed in a court close to his resi dence between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday Light last. On remonstrating with the defendant, he ran off, but ho was subsequently apprehended by a Policeman, to whom ho had mentioned the circumstance. Complainant had been drinking two glasses of brandy and water, end some stout, but he was perfectly sober, and knew what ho was about. To the best of his belief the defendant was the individual who assaulted him. The complainant showed some hesitation, in the first instance, on this point; but he subsequently said he could swear the defendant was the man. The LoRD MAYoa-..Why were you not here on Sa turday to press the charge? Complainant—Business prevented me attending, and I told the police that I could not appear at the court until Monday or Tuesday. The LORD MAYOR—Then you thought you were jus tified in giving, to every appearance, a respectable per son in custody, and allowing him to be locked up in the to proceed with th e case, as you were stati on -h o use, on a serious charge of thi s nature , an d not attending bound to do, both for you own sake and the interests of the p u bli c ? —The complainant replied that he could not spare time from business on a Saturday. Mr. Buchanan said t he char g e was a most un. grounded and improper one, and he should prove that the complainant was altogether mistaken in alleging that the defendant bad assaulted him. The defendant was a highly respectable person, known to many gentle men present in the court, and his moral conduct was above all suspicion. 4 merchant in the City was then called—Ele had known the defendant fourteen years, and he considered h im a most moral and exemplary person. police•sergeant said the complainant was partly in toxicated when ho came to make the charge at the s tation -house, but he seemed to know what he was about. The LORD MAYOR said he felt bound to dismiss the ca sein the absence of any corroborative testimony , but the parties would not be precluded taking it to the ses sions if they thought fit to do so. „The defendant then left the court in company with friends. I 4RLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) ASSAULT ON A POLICE•CONSTABLE.—James Carey 4 " , liary King, two denizens of that respectable locality called Peter-street, were brought before Mr. Bingham, e n l arged with being drunk and riotous, and assaulting "`"ee-constable Silverton, 53 C, while in the execution of his duty. The officer stated that on the previous night he was ell duty in Peter-street, when his attention was called to Pie two prisoners, who wre very drunk, and fighting 11:1 the middle of the road, e surrounded by a mob of the Worst of characters. He went up, and esideavoured to l i t them, when the man struck him a severe blow on th e nose and made it bleed, while the woman followed eP the attack by laying hold of his legs, and tried to pall him down. Being, however, stronger than them o th. he contrived to collar them and conveyed them to the station. The prisoners, ho denied the charge, were com raitted to prison for ten days. h A LLEGED BILL STEALING. — Mr. Peter Scott, Vernon (l'(), Pall-mall, was charged with obtaining a bill of V i e 'allge for 531. f rom J a mes Anderso n , so li c i tor , 14 , e toria-road, Vest BromptJn, by false and fraudulent pretenes• t Oa the suddenlya the case b e i ng ca ll e d on th e pr osecu t or was f ound ° made himself scarce from the precincts of thQ collet, and was nowhere to be found. _ Wolff, w h o atten d e d f or the , defendant, said it was V i otard ease; his client had been locked up et the station n `ght, and now w h en h e was b roug ht here t o re b ut th echarge the prosecutor was non est. eie k ti v r• BINGIIAM—You know your remedy; it is now fend nt. ' , clock, and I s h a ll t h ere f ore di s charge the de ikriliell'NE:KETS AT THE C RYSTA L PALACE.—Jaines b e f n : re %,John McCann, an d J ames S m ith, we re brought Jair. Bingh am , c h arge d with being suspec t e d per felo*n, in the Exhibition for the purpose of committing a parse AleCaln was also suspected of having stolen a containing 31. 10s. in gold. t ei lf,oad, 82 L, d epose d th at a b out half-past 5 o ' c l oc k ". ( 47 tifteraeon he was on duty at the kahihitiVri in ,~ s`, :7P ;4 34 d. 46 P .i 6 P THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, plain clothes, when he saw the prisoners, whom he knew to be thieves, come out of Z-Ilverein depart ment, which at present is very much frequented. They stood for a few moments, and then went into a passage leadiag to the waterclosets. They all three then got close to each other, and he saw McCann take something from his pocket and, by his appearance and manner, he believed he (McCann) was emptying something out into his hand. At that time a person came out of one of the watercloscts and they then walked to a bench close by. McCann sat down on the bench and took off his hat, which he placed between his knees. Witness then saw him take something out of his pocket and place in his bat. He then went up to them, and asked McCann what he had got there? McCann looked up into his face and said " Oh, nothing at all." Witness then looked into his hand and saw the morocco purse pro- duced. He took it from his hat and put it in his (wit ness's) pocket. He then procured assistance, and took them to the station, where they were searched, and on McCann was found 3/. 10s. in gold and a gold pin; on Butler 1/. and Bs. 83. in silver; and on Smith ss. 105., and a Sardinian gold coin, of the value of 3/. 12e., in English money. Witness questioned him (McCann) as to his possession of the purse, and his replies were so equivocal that he came to the conclusion the purse was stolen. Several constables of the L division proved that the whole of the prisoners had been seen together coming out of a notorious house in Herbart's-buildings, Water loo-road, no later than Friday last. Three former con victions were also proved against the prisoner Butler. The prisoners, who protested their innocence, were remanded till Saturday next. THE KAFIR WAR. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Geneal Steam Screw Shipping Cominny's steam-ship Sir Robe' t Peel, Captain Govt r, arrived off the port at nine A.M. this morning. Her outward dates are—St. Vincent, May 27, nine A.M. ; sailed, May 29, eleven r.m. Arrived at Sierra Leone, June 1, five P.M. ; sailed, June 3, four P.M. Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, June 26, four P.M. Homeward—Sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, July 4, two r.m. Arrived at Sierra Leone, July 20, five P.M. ; sailed, July 21, two P.M. Arrived at St. Vincent's, July 26, ten A.M. ; sailed, July 28, noon. She brings no decisiva intelligence respecting the Kafir war. Sir harry Smith was on the frontier. The enemy was in check, and he contemplated a de cisive movement, which it was hoped might lead to a termination of hostilities. Sandili continued on the Amatola mountains. It is said that his favoured prophet, Umlangeni, had de serted him and joined another chief. _ . Pato remains faithful to the British cause. The colonists at Cape Town believe that a consti tution has been sent to them, but that the officials have not published it. The Cape Town Mail of July 1 takes a gloomy view of the then existing condition of affairs:— " The accounts from the frontier war become at every post more painful and disheartening. It is evident that the colonists there find themselves unable to make head against the increasing hordes of the enemy. The most active and resolute leaders are falling one after another. Field-Cornet Gray, in Lower Albany; Field-Cornet Bonvver, of the Raga; Field-Cornet Albertse, of Albert District, have all been struck down within a month. We receive week after week lamentable news of the murder of travellers, the burning of homesteads, the de vastation of wide tracts of country, where the horizon is described as lighted up at night by the flames of deserted farmhouses. There is no wonder that, as cur corre spondent writes, a general gloom prevails at Graham's Town. The frontier colonists have certainly done al most all that has been done during the last six months, and that is not a little, for the defence of the colony. But there is no concert, no system—in a word, no Go vernment. Our enemies are united, and the colonists, the troops, the military officers, the civil authorities, arc working, if not absolutely against one another, at least without co-operation or sympathy. The levies are about to return to their homes. Sir Harry Smith, who lately announced the approaching close of the war, has ordered a European force of 300 men to be embodied at Graham's Town for a term of six months. But under the present system there is no apparent reason why the war should not continue for six years. Yet, with a colonial Parliament, uniting all classes of the colonist.s in a phalanx for the common defence, and with Sir Andries Stockenstrom as Commandant-General of the colonial forces on the frontier, this wretched contest. which is wasting the best blood and devouring the wealth of the border districts, might be brought to a close in six weeks." The same journal declares that the rebellion of the frontier Hottentots had assumed a new development during the past month. The insurrection had spread more widely, and the general nature of the objects which the rebels had in view was becoming better known. " These objects," according to the Cape Town Mail— " Were the expulsion of the English colonists from that portion of the frontier districts which is situated between the Sunday's, the Baviaan's, and the Keis kamma Rivers, and the occupation of that territory by the Hottentots, as an independent nation.' These in tentions, however, have not been entertained by all the Hottentots in that part of the country. Many of them have remained faithful, in spite of the defection of their comrades and relatives. The Hottentots in other parts of the colony have had no concern in the plot whatever, and have evinced no symptoms of disaffection. The re bellion, taken in connexion with the general hostilities, cannot be properly termed a war of races. As the Fingoes have been contending against the Kafirs, so, in like manner, the Hottentot levies from the western dis tricts have been fighting unhesitatingly against the rebellious Hottentots of the frontier. The insurrection, in fact, is a purely local affair, affecting only a com paratively small and well-defined section of the colony. " A review of the occurrences of the past month pre sents few incidents of a cheering or satisfactory charac ter. In the latter part of May the marauding bands of Kafirs in the frontier districts became more numerous and bold than they had before shown themselves at any time during the present war. It was generally reported that the Kafir chiefs had given orders to their people to enter the colony, and subsist in it by plunder during the winter, which had just commenced with unusual seve rity. This plan of hostilities has been vigorously pur sued by the enemy during the month, with disastrous consequences to the colonists, whose losses of property have been heavier than in any previous month of the war. Many valuable lives have also been lost, three field-cornets and several other respectable inhabitants having been killed in repelling the inroads of the plunderers. " Sir Harry Smith has remained at King William's Town, arid has continued to send strong patrolling par ties of troops into the enemy's country. The Kafira have thus been kept on the alert, and have been prevented from entering the colony en masse. A few of them have bee❑ killed, some of their huts destroyed, and some hun dreds of cattle captured. It does not appear, however, that any injuries hare been inflicted upon them at all commensurate with those which the colony has suff,red from them. The rebel Hottentots among them, how ever, are reported to be in bad plight, from want of provisions, and a few have come in and surrendered themselves. "The Hottentot levies at King William's Town, chiefly from the western districts, were likely to return home at the close of their term of enlistment, which expires on the 10th inst. Very few of them had con sented to re-enlist. Their general conduct is highly commended. " A party of frontier colonists, proceeding with a train of waggons from Cradock to Graham's Town, were at tacked by Kafirs, several of the waggons plundered, the oxen carried off, and one of the defenders, Mr. G. Dyason, son of the resident magistrate of Bathurst, was killed. Two days before, Mr. Whiting, another traveller, proceeding to Cradock, was attacked in his waggon, and stabbed to death with assegais. "The accounts from the north-eastern boundary re present that part of the colony as in a deplorable con dition, from the ravages of the Tambookies. " At the last accounts from head-quarters (21st ult.) Sir Harry Smith was preparing for au important move ment, said to be a patrol intended to continue for two or three weeks, and (according to one report) to be com manded by his Excellency in person. It is even ru moured that Sir Harry entertained the hope of being able by this movement to bring the war to a close. Fears prevailed among the frontier colonists that a peace would he patched up' on such conditions as would result in a renewal of hostilities within a few years. " General Somerset was engaged, during the latter part of May, in attempting to expel the Kafirs and rebel Hottentots, who, under the chief Mccomo, had taken possession of the Kat River settlement. The Major- General's force, however, proved to be insufficient to ac complish this object. The enemy constantly withdrew as ho advanced, and returned upon his traces whenever he retired to his encampment. Some sharp skirmishing took place, but with no important result. " The most unfortunate event which bad occurred during the month—and, next to the Kat River revolt, the most unfortunate occurrence in this war—has been the insurrection of the Hottentots of the Theopolis Mission Station, in Lower Albany, near the sea -coast, and about thirty miles southeast of Graham's Town. These Hot tentots had been previously joined by some deserters of the Cape Corps, through whose counsel and assistance, it appears, the insurrection was concerted and carried into effect. At day-break on the morning of the 31st of May the Hottentots suddenly fell upon several Fingoes who resided at their station, and murdered them. They then loaded their waggons with their families and goods and moved off towards the Bushman's River, sending, at the same time, to one of the Kafir chiefs to ask for assistance. Theopolis, it should be stated, al though considered a station of the London Missionary So ciety (and having been, in fact, the seat of one of its earliest ' institutions' in South Africa), had been for two years without a resident missionary, being only oc casionally visited by the missionary resident in Gra ham's Town. The number of persons at the station has of late years been about 300, of whom about 70 were grown men. Many of the Kat River settlers ori ginally emigrated from Theopolis, and an intimate con nexion has consequently always existed between the two places. " The news of this insurrection spread with great ra pidity, and caused the utmost excitement in Graham's Town, and throughout the neigbouring country. Major- General Somerset happened to be at the time in Gra ham's Town. The 74th Regiment, which recently ar rived in the colony, had reached Graham's Town on its way to Fort Hare only three days before. The Major- General et once ordered about 300 men of that regiment to proceed towards Lower Albany, in order to intercept the insurgents—he himself preparing to take the com mand of the force which was to surround and crush them. The graham's Town Mounted Rangers, however, pushed on before the infantry, and, being joined by some mounted burghers from Lower Albany and Uitenhage, made an attack upon a party of the rebels, about 100 strong. A desperate conflict ensued, but the rebels were at length driven from the field into a neighbouring ravine, leaving their waggons and oxen, and seven of their number killed. Of th e co l on i a l f orce , Fi e ld-C ornet Gray, au old an d muc h respec t e d sett l er o f L ower Albany, was kill e d. C ap t a i n W. S tu bb s , o f t h e Gra ham's Town Rangers, and Commandant Woest, of the Uitenhage Burghers, with several others, were wounded. This action took pl ace on t h e 3 d u l t. O n t h e st h , earlya s s em i b n l e the a morning, force f b u o g n t d e ft, This he i w ia a r s e g covert, i v t e rt, fiver. enclosed l e rebels o r 6 - O G O e m n e e r n a , p Somerset a t o a v s i u n r. g round the st rong h ol d in which the rebels had taken re elsenwseerbeuspha'rtiinallya surrounded, but through some unfortunate mistake, or mismanagement, they were allowed to escape at an un guarded outlet. They fled, leaving some waggons and G f e n r e a i awards,so m i e n r s obedience h e t o 7 o 4 r t d h e ;l e a bout 600 cattle in th e h an d s of the troops. Immediately g f i r m o m e n t head o - c ci e u; d n e e d e r t s o , Fort Hare. The rebels, after burning the buildings at Theopolis, retreated into Kafirland." Considerable anxiety exists as to the return of the Hottentot levies to their homes. The Governor had them assembled at King Wililam's TOWD, and offered them, for a re-engagement of only six weeks, a bounty of 1/. and a full suit of clothes, but which offer they declined, persisting in their original determina tion of returning to their homes. An abstracti on o f .o large A portion of 0 l9 force in the field, and tliA portion the parties best adapted for bush-fighting and Kafir warfare, must b© a serious loss to the Gover nor. Added to this, it is impossible to foretel what effect it will have in re-assuring the enemy. When Sir R. Peel left a rumour was prevalent that Earl Grey had consented to grant a constitution to the colony, and that a dispatch had been received from the Noble Earl, in which he expressed his approval of the "16 articles." The Cape Town Mail says on this subject : " We believe that we may congratulate our fellow colonists on the approaching triumph of the cause which they have at heart. It seems probable that the privilege of self-government is at last about to be conceded to this colony. The rumours which are afloat, and confident tone of Mr. Fairbairn's letter, the encouraging tenor of the remarks which we copy from the Times, with various other indications, leave little room for doubting that a constitution will shortly be granted to the Cape, based in its main provisions on the 16 articles' of the popular plan of government." The mails, in charge of Commander Mellor, were landed immediately, and a special engine has been put on by the South Devon Railway to expedite their delivery in London. BANK OF FRAN CE. The following is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Aug. 7:— HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. An Italian version ( f Mr. Baqe's most pleasing eni most popular comic opera Les Quatre Fils Aymon, was produced here last evening, under the title of I Quattro Fratelli. The performance was for the benefit of Mr. Balfe himself, whose exertions as musical director at her Majesty's Theatre have been during the present season, more especially, most un tiring, and most arduous, and to whose admirable organization we are indebted for the present admir able orchestra. The theatre was crowded before the rising of the curtain—a fit and proper tribute to the high merits of the most popular of English composers and conductors. The music of I Quattro Fratelli is full of melody, it is characteristic,:dramatie, and has about it that undefinable charm of unflagging sprightliness without which all the mere school learn ing in the world is of no avail. When originally produced at the Opera Comique in Paris it enjoyed an immense popularity. A Ger man version of it produced at: Frankfort had a great run. The opera was then re produced at Vienna, where it was frequently represented at three theatres on the same evening, and in this country it achieved for itself an enduring popularity, when pro duced at the Princes's Theatre, under the title of The Castle of Aymon. To detail the plot of an opera so well known as this would be indeed work of supererogation. Who does not remember Ivan, the old Caleb Balderston sort of steward to the four poor sons of the Duke of Aymon; who does not re member the pompous and stingy Baron de Beaumanoir and his delightful daughter Iler minie, and how a marriage between herself and Oliviero, the eldest of the brothers (preceded by those of the three brothers with three of her cousins), is brought about by the tact of Ivon and the wit of a rich and lovely damsel. In order to adapt the opera to the Italian stage, Mr. Balfe has turned the spoken dialogue of the original into recitative; he has also composed two new airs for Madlle. Sofie Cruvelli, who sustains the part of Erminia. The first of these, "Di Duchessa it nome altero," occurs in the first act, and is one of the most marvel lous efforts of execution ever heard. Mr. Balfe seems to have taxed his powers to heap together every conceivable species of difficulty, in order to show with what facility and adroitness all difficulties can he overcome by Mdlle. Sofie Cruvelli; the second, "Or qui verra," in the third act, is a delicious melody, replete, however, with difficulties, in the overcoming of which Madlle. Sofie Cruvelli seemed to revel. This brilliant and exquisite piece of vocalization excited the most rapturous applause. Her rendering of the exquisite melody " Giovin belea" was delicious ; and the duet with Oliviero (Gardoni), " Quando tornar ridente ' " was perfect ; never have we heard two voices blend together more delightfully than did those of Mademoi selle Sofie Cruvelli and Gardoni in this exqui site duet, which is, to cur thinking, the gem of the opera. Gardoni, who was in excellent voice, sang the beautiful music allotted to Oliviero with infinite taste, and Pardini, as Riccardo, rendered the martial air in the second act with great spirit. Coletti, as Ivon, exhibited a degree of rough humour, for the possession of which we had not before given him credit, and his heartiness of manner was most telling in the character of the old Seneschal. The making-up of Massol as the Baron di Beaumanoir was as perfect in its way as the making-up of Lablache in Don Pasquale, and Massol sung and acted in the true Italian buffo style ; we have never seen any buffo duet more effectively rendered than the duet descriptive of the riches of the sons of Aymon, by Coletti and Massol. In the duet with Made moiselle Sofie Cruvelli, in the third act, in which the bells are introduced as an accompaniment, Massol was also admirable. The concerted music was perfectly given, and we have seldom heard any thing more quaintly effective than the chattering quartet of the four cousins. The bril liant overture, and the whole of the music was admirably rendered by the orchestra. At the conclusion of each act the principal performers were called on, and at the conclusion of the opera there were loud calls for Balfe, who was led on by Gardoni to bow his thanks. TEETOTAL DEMONSTRATIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The following letter has been received by the committee who conducted the above demonstrations, and as a practical testimony that rational amusement is perfectly compatible (if not greatly enhanced), by the absence of all intoxicating beverages, we beg most re spectfully to solicit its insertion in au early number of your valuable paper. T. C. PREBBLE, H on. Secretaries. E. GRIFFITHS, Royal Surrey Zoological Gardens, Aug. 7, 1851. Sir,—lt gives me infinite pleasure to bear my testimony to the conduct of the vast assemblage of persons who thronged this establishment on Wed nesday last. In the first place, I think I am right in stating that so large an assemblage was never before congregated in a place of amusement; but this I am certainly right in, that a more orderly and decorous one I never beheld. I did not hear of a rob bery or quarrel, or even anything that was unpleasant, a profane word never reached my ear. Now, Sir, when you take into account the vast number (nearly 25.000), this will appear (as it certainly is) a most remarkable event, and one which reflects the highest honour on the cause you advocate, as well as the general public; for bear in mind that at least 8,000 persons did not belong to the Teetotal Society. Sincerely congratulating you on the success of your exertions, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, W. TYLER, Proprietor. To Mr. W. Tweedie. ARCH2EOLOGICAL DISCOVERY AT GREAT YAR. MOUTIL—There is a tradition thut soon after the erection of the fortifications at the south end of the town, near where then stood the Blackfriars Priory, and acijoining one of the towers, was the garden of a convent of nuns; that the Lady Abbess while walking in this garden overheard four of the monks talking, and one of them boasting of the familiarity he had had with her; fearing that her reputation would be destroyed, she determined to get rid of such dangerous wit ness4s ; she therefore poisoned the wine they were drinking. They were seated at a table in the room of the tower, which is still standing; they all perished; and the tradition pro ceeds to state they fell from their seats in the form of a cross, thus t, and as they fell, so they were buried. The tower belongs to M r . G eorge D an b y P a l mer, w h o h as hi t h erto b een decidedly opposed to any search being made. But a few weeks since, when in company with some gentlemen, the conversation turning on the subject of antiquities, Mr. Jay, of the Market-row, mentioned the above tradition, and Mr. Palmer gave Mr. J. H. Harrison, who rents part of the pre mises, and a Mr. Blythe, a conditional leave to examine the tower ; Mr. Harrison proceeded to remove the soil from the lower chamber or cell of the tower, and very shortly came to the top of a stone coffin lying in the direction north and south ; the foot of another was soon uncovered, lying in the ; while the f oo t f a third was angles;revidently provi ng th a t th ere are directiondisceN discovered atm ri. 7 h u t th to no north four coffins lying foot to foot in the f orm o f a cross. Th e tops or lids are of Purbeck , with a double foliated cross, and pediment of three steps. To TELL THE NUMBER THAT ANY PERSON SHALL bYd five, and give the, it bei ng so f ar product o THINK OF, BE IT EVER SO GREAT.--B id --B idthe party double them refuse bothto the number which he has fixed on in his mind ; w hi c h d one, bid id hiul (whichmultiply b above the number thought of), . from which, if you cut off the last figure of the product (which will always b e a cypher), the number left will be that firs t thou g h t upon. As, for he willnever of example, let the number thought of be 26, which, doubl e d , makes 52 ; that multiplied by 5, produces 260 ; then, if you take away the cypher which is remain 26, the number thought of. —Family Economist. ~, The sentence on Henry Groom, convicted at the late Norwich assizes of the murder of John Ayton, at Holk ham, will not be carried out until the 16th instant, Saturday r next. The convict has fully acknowledged his guilt. The convict Mary Cage, who was found guilty of poisoning her husband at Stoneham Apsal, will be executed on the same day at Ipswich. RESTORATION OF THE SEPARATE SEE OF GLOU (2Es-11:Lt.—The petition for this object has been forwarded to the Home Secretary, for presentation to her Majesty. Ap pended to it are the names of no fewer that IG9 of the paro chial clergy of the diocese of Gloucester, and 227 church wardens, besides which there are the signatures of a large body of the nobility, magistrates, and resident gentry of the county, making a total of more than 1,300 names. This list might have been increased to a very large extent had it been the desire of the promoters to display mere numbers; they, however, confined the signatures to those only who perfectly understood the object of the petition, and really felt the necessity for its prayer being granted.— Gloucester Journal. The Law Amendment Society of Glasgow have appointed a committee to consider the best mode of begin ning the preparation of a report on a general scheme of amalgamation of English and Scotch law. The late Dr. Lingard has left his valuable library t 9 St. Cuthbert's College, IJ§haw,—Lancaster Guardian. ASSETS. Cash in band ... f. 465,823,455 9 Ditto in branch banks 132,520,563 0 Bills past due ••• •• ••• 255,084 8 Bills discounted, but not yet • due, of which 12,563,651 f. were received from the Branch Banks ... 38,063,662 40 Bills in the branch banks ... 66,003,437 0 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 1,139,600 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 1,767,950 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 8,309,746 10 Ditto by branch banks... ... 2,394,806 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Oitto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0 Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Rentes, disposable funds 42,678,118 53 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds 12,952,725 74 Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch banks ... 3,532,791 0 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0 Ditto branch banks ... 168,000 0 expenses of administration of the Bank 77,867 56 Ditto at the branches ... 121,877 0 Aliscellaneous ... 2,260,687 70 f. 892,270,371 20 Capital ... . . f. 67,900,000 0 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 0 Reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 14 Reserve-immobiliere ... 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation ... ... 422,211,800 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 114,823,175 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 7,068,691 48 Account-current with Treasury creditor 114,576,511 49 Various accounts current 83,123,615 56 Ditto in branches ... 28,381,399 0 Bills payable at sight ... 7,502,500 0 Ditto at branches ••• ... 3,290,020 0 Dividends payabl® ... . • ... 920,617 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank 7,760 0 Expenses anticipated ... ... 261,722 98 Discounts, interest, and expenses 266,584 80 Ditto of branch banks ... ... 479,099 0 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 96,733 70 Ditto in branch banks 227,245 0 Interest on protested bills ... ... 419,275 25 Miscellaneous ... 382,870 55 f. 892,270,371 20 Certified by the Governor of the Bank, D'AROOUT. It appears from the preceding account that the cash in hand has increased by 5,750,000 f. The commercial bills discounted have decreased by 14,850,000 f. The Bank notes in circulation have decreased by 3,500,000 f. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has in creased by 2,200,000 f. Sundry credits have increased by 1,500,000 f. LONDON AND PARIS. (From the Journal des Debats.) Magnificent weather enlightens and renders gay the fetes offered to the delegates of England, and we congratulate ourselves on it, because it flatters our vanity as Parisians. Paris more than London has need of fine weather, because the way of living is more out of doors. Paris is all to all ; it is cosmopolite par excellence—from the first moment of arrival one is at home. At London one must be English, or half so; at Paris one is all that one wishes to be. Everybody is Parisian, but everybody is not a Lon doner. No passports are required to enter England, but they are necessary to enter English society; whilst, when you are once in Paris, whoever you may be, everything belongs to you—the museums, libraries, churches, restaurants, and caf6s. Not only the neces sides, but the superfluities of material, intellectual, and moral life are within the reach of every one. Paris when the sun shines is twice as beautiful as in bad weather, for it is the city of monuments—it is especially, compared to London, an architectural city. The Arc de Triomphe, the Madeleine, the Quays, and the Louvre become embellished by light; but the most brilliant sun in the world could no make a monu ment of Buckingham Palace, or give architecture to the dovecots which decorate the academy in Trafalgar square. London, it is true, has width and grandeur in its streets—it has extent and space. When, after an excursion on the other side of the water, we return to Paris, we find horizons drawn closer, and points of view diminished by half, All appears lei sened, as when we see, after several years, the houses, gardens, or chambers, in which we lived in infancy. One would say that Paris has been sub ject to the Collas process—there are the same squares, the same streets, the same edifices, the same houses ; but all on a reduced scale. 'There is a phy sical impression common to all those who have passed some time at London. But if London is larger, Paris is more elegant—it has more harmony in its propor tions. We take it in a glance, either from the boulevards or the bridges. Oar quays and boule vards are probably two things unique in the world. London has no quays or boulevardes, and London does not wish to have any. The great storehouses which I;ne the banks of the Thames are an undisputed ugliness ; but they are the sources of enormous profits. The Londoners greatly prefer for quays entrepots, which receive directly the merchan dise of all the ships of the world, to pro menades planted with trees and ornamented with seats for idlers ; and we understand their preference. London, it is true, has something which we have not —the parks. We may, if we will, prefer to them the garden of the Tuilleries, or the Luxembourg, or the Jardin des Plantes; but the parks of London are not the less something quite different, something apart, something original. The Londoners are justly proud of them; they love them; they are considered privileged ground, as might be seen when part of Hyde-park was taken for the Crystal Palace. One of the last Kings of England asked what it would cost to close the parks against the public. " Three Crowns," replied the Minister. But no town in the world has the boule vards of Paris. They are what are veritably, essen tially, uniquely Parisian ; what are to be found neither in Hyde-park of London, nor in the Toledo of Naples, nor the Corso of Rome, nor in the Cas cines of Florence. If London wished to seek a point of comparison, it could only find the Thames. The 'Thames is the true boulevard of London. The descent of the river from Hungerford bridge to Blackwell is for London, in the English style what the line from the Arc de Triomphe to the Bastille is for Paris. Naturally, we are not inclined to undertake a controversy on the comparative ad vantages of the two towns ; in this respect there is nothing absolute, and we must no more dispute national preferences than tastes or colours. But we only wish, on behalf of Paris, for the judgment of the English themselves, and we dread nothing, since they return to it always. The two nations, however, have serious instruction to derive from the exchange of visits which are taking place so rapidly and so happily. Thus we can show with pride to the English the Museum of the Louvre, the Museum of Versailles, the Jardin des Plantes, and our admirable libraries, all our national edifices, opened gratuitously to all, whilst in England you cannot look at a pic ture, nor read a book, nor even offer up a prayer, without a tariff being presented to you. But, on their part, the English may reply to us :—" We have not such fine things, it is true, but the things we have we made ourselves. If we have no monuments in our streets we have none in our budget. We have not such fine stations as that of the Strasbourg Rail way ; but when we want a railway we do not request the assistance of the State. The state for us is not a servant of all work—we do not ask the State to think, to work for us—we do not ask it to keep up our roads, to water our streets, to clothe us and shave us; and when we build a Crystal Palace to give hospi tality to the universe we do it at our own risk and peril, with the aid of private fortunes, not with the budget. It is we who make the State live, but it is the State which makes you live. When you pass along the streets of London, or visit the faubourgs and villages, you may read on certain] edifices, Supported by voluntary contributions,' and that is worth your three words, Liberte, VratPrnitr,.'" That is what the English might say to us, and we do not see what we could reply to it. They might also say to us that we possess works of art which they do not envy us, like the fortifications and the detached forts, and edifices of which they make little use, such as barracks. They might also ask us what pleasure we find in exchanging our peaceable black coats for a National Guard uniform, and with a musket and sword standing two hours as sentinels in the rain or the sun to prevent little dogs and parcels from entering the Tuileries. They might also put to us many other questions. But who knows whether our pacific visitors will not be corrupted by the air of Janis, AO will take back AUGUST l2, 1851. with them military tastes ? Were not two hundred municipal guards on horseback sent to receive the Lord Mayor at the Northern Railway station, and did not the sentinels the other day present arms to him ? We should like to have seen the worthy and grave magistrate of the City make the military salute —he who does not permit a soldier to pass Temple bar and enter his domain with arms. And what will he think after having seen the sham-fight in the Champ-de-Mars? By the way, bow is it that the Peace Congress has not risen in insurrection against this corrupting spectacle ? How can it allow the di vision of General Guillabert to make an offensive re connaissance on the division of General Carrelet, and throw a bridge over the Seine to attack Trocadero ; then, on being repulsed by considerable forces, repass the bridge and confine themselves i❑ the Champs-de- Mars under the protection of their cavalry and artil lery ? Such is the abridged and softened programme of this barbarous fete. Fortunately all terminates by the filing off of all the troops united. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED). BEA TLEY. The series of papers now publishing in Bentley, under the title of the " Picture Galleries of England," promises to be both valuable and interesting ; the notices of " Northumberland house and Sion House," which appear in the present number, are models in their way. " A Visit to a County Gaol at the Public Expense," is the narrative of the gaol experiences of an unfortunate individual, who, unable to pay a fine inflicted on him by a police magistrate, for some petty misdemeanour, was committed to the :county gaol. This narrative fully confirms the statements of Mr. Ernest Jones, as to the atrocious tyranny habitually practised by the governors and authorities of the gaols on those unhappy persons who are committed to their tender mercies, and who ar e su bj ected i n many i nstances to severe flog gings at the mere will of the governor, and whose scan.ty allowance of provisions is stopped for the most trival offences, and frequently for no offence at all. These matters all require reform, there must be a clean sweep out made of the greater number of the gover nors slid officials of all our houses of Correction ; and above all, they must be d e p r i ve d o f th e power o f inflicting any disciplinary punishment save by the written authority or two of the visiting magistrates, who would, in such case, be held responsible. Alfred Crowquill gives us a delighful paper on Vauxhall in the 18th century, and the admirable Zoological Notes and anecdotes are continued, the manners and habits of eagles being the subject of the present notice. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE; PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty commencA their annual inspection of this port and its dependencies this afternoon. The Board consisted of the Right Hon. Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., M.P., First Lord ; Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., M.P., Senior Naval Lord ; Rear-Ad miral M. F. P. Berkeley, C. 8., M.P., Captain Alexander Milne, R.N., the Right Hon. William Cowper, M.P., and Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, R.N., Second Secretary. Captain Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K C. 8., &c., Surveyor of the Navy ; Greene, C. 8., Director of Engineering and Archi tectural Works ; Captain Charles Eden, Private Sec retary to the First Lord ; and Mr. Francis Graves, clerk, were in attendance on the Board, which left London by the 11 o'clock express train on the South- Western Railway, and arrived at Gosport at a quarter to two, where their Lordships' local representatives were in waiting to receive them. First Lieutenant George Mason, of the Victory, was appointed their Lordships' flag-lieutenant pro tem. The Board first proceeded to the Royal Marine Barracks, at Forton, where Colonel-Commandant Menzies, K H , and staff were in readiness to commence the inspection of the corps. Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzcla ence, Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, joined the Board at Forton. The corps was minutely inspected by the gallant party, who ex pressed their warm satisfaction with the proficiency displayed, and the high and serviceable state of the division. From the Royal Marine Barracks, we be lieve, the board went to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, and the Clarence Victualling Establishment, both under the superintendence of Captain Sir Ed ward Parry, F.R.S., who accompanied their Lord ships over each, and with the economy of which the Board were well pleased. The executive of each establishment also received their Lordships' commed dation. The Board embarked in their barge, in charge of Flag-Lieutenant Mason, at the Clarence-yard, at 10 minutes to 5, when, the flag being hoisted in the bow, the Victory fired the customary salute of 19 guns in honour of their Lordships' office, and they landed at the stairs of the Gun-wharf, ordnance depot, under the direction of Mr. Alexander Stewart, the storekeeper, who conducted them over that establish ment, whence they visited the barracks of the Royal Marine Artillery Corps, under Colonel-Commandant D. A. Gibsone, who, with his staff, was in waiting to receive them, and conduct them over that establish• ment, whence they proceeded to the George Hotel, their own head-quarters during their visit, to transact a little other business, after which they were enter tained at dinner by the Commander-in-Chief, at the Admiralty-house in the dockyard, where a distin guished circle had the honour of being selected to meet them. The Centaur steam-frigate; Captain Cannon, flag ship of Rear-Admiral W. W. Henderson, C.B. K.H,, fitting out for the command on the Brazil station, has been taken into the steam-basin to-day to proceed with her outfit. The Tiger, new steam-frigate has been brought under the shears to-day to have her masts, which are to be reduced three feet, taken out. The Victoria and Albert royal yacht, in charge of Commander Crispin, went down to the moorings off Osborne this morning. It is stated here that Captain Lord Edward Rus sell, of the Vengeance, will leave that s hi p an d j o i n the Rodney, and that Captain C. Graham will join the Vengeance, and proceed in her to the Mediter ranean. The Rodney was taken into the Angle-dock this . morning to have her copper cleaned and in spected. Captain Graham and her commander joined her this morning. DEVONPORT, AUG. 9.—VISIT OF TEE DUCHESS or ORLEANS, FAMILY, AND SUITE TO THE DOCKYARD, Scc.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Orleans, with the young Comte de Paris ail his brother, ac companied by the suite of the DlPtchess, arrived to day at Plymouth, from Torquay, by the 10.15 A.M. train of the South Devon Railway. The carriages of Admiral Sir John Ornmanney and Major-General the Hon. Henry Murray were in waiting for the dis tinguished visitors, who proceeded to the official re • sidence of the port admiral. After a short sojourn the Duchess, with the ladies accompanying her, and the admiral (Sir J. Ommanney) and Captain Lowe, of her Majesty's ship Impregnable, proceeded to the dockyard in carriages, through the town, while the young Princes with the suite went round to the ar senal in the ship's boats. On the arrival of the Du chess and her pasty in the dockyard, they were received by J. E. Miles, • Esq., master-attendant (the Gallant Commodore being still confined by serious illness), and the other principal officers of the establishment. As soon as they were joined by the young Princes, and the party forming the suite of her Royal Highness, ac companied by Captain Lord George Paulet, of her Majesty's ship Bellerophon ; Lieutenant Warren, flag-lieutenant to Sir John Ommanney ; Lieutenant Lord John Hay, flag-lieutenant to the commodore, they were conducted through the ropery, where the process of the formation of rope was explained by Mr. Gard, the master ropemaker. Prom thence the visitors proceeded to the several building-slips, where they inspected the ships in various stages of building, and passing the mast-houses on to the smitheries, where Nasmyth's tilt-hammer was set to work and appeared generally to interest the whole party. The party then proceeded to the slips, wait ing whilst the young Princes visited the Sanspareil, new 80 gun screw steam-ship, in the North Dock. The party then left the dockyard in the barge of the St. George, and having visited the new works at Keyham, proceeded on board that ship, which they minutely inspected, and proceeded thence to the gar dens and beautiful grounds of Mount Edgecumbe, returning to the port-admiral's at about half-past four o'clock. Her Royal Highness and party re turned to Torquay by the train which leaves Ply mouth at 6.25 P.M. The Lords of the Admiralty are expected to arrive at this port, on their annual official visit, on Sunday next, the 16th inst. The ball in aid of the funds of the Royal British Female Orphan Asylum (annually patronised by the First and other naval Lords) is an nounced to take place on Monday next, at Moors head's Royal Hotel. This excellent institution, which is thus annually honoured by their Lordships, is es tablished for the support, clothing, and instruction in domestic work, so as to fit them for service in respect able families, of the female orphans of seamen, ma rines, and others employed in the public service ; and, judging from the experience of the past, is a charity every way worthy of support, and as such we com mend it to the support of all who feel an interest in the welfare of the united services, and those dependent upon them. The Virago steam-sloop was commissioned this day for Commander W. H. Steward, by Mr. Inskip, master. Mr. Joseph Brown, son of Mr. Brown, clerk in the Master-Shipwright's office, has been appointed a third-class clerk in this dockyard, vice Dent, pro moted to the second class, vice Gibbs, superannuated. APPOINTMENTS: WooLwicn, AUG. 11.—Second Master George Stovin (1843), to the Shearwater paddle-wheel steam vessel, of 16O.horse power, commissioned this day at Woolwich. Clerk in Charge—John M. Jefferson (1845), to the Shearwater. Assistant-Engineers—Henry D. Gardner, James King, and Ebenezer Clements, to the Shear water. Master's-Assistant—Alfred Lidbetter, to the Shen water. The Vesuvius steam-sloop embarked Captain Craw ford's company of Royal Artillery at nine o'clock A.M. to-day, and in less than a quarter of an hour after the men were on board left for Jersey in charge of Mr. Macdonald, Master-Attendant at Woolwich Dock yard. She will bring back Captain Taylor's company from Jersey, to join head-quarters at Woolwich. Mr. Bean, Master of the Filgard, is appointed to do the duties of Master-Attendant at this port until Mr. Macdonald's return. The Myrmidon iron paddlewheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander William K. Jolliffe, had her compasses adjusted in the basin to-day by Captain Johnson, and is under orders to leave on Friday next for the coast of Africa, where she is to be stationed. Mr. Muntz has given notice of a motion for next session, to the effect that the reporters be allowed to remain in their gallery during divisions of the House of Camuions, and to take into consideration if the strangers in the other gallery can also be permitted to remain there during the divisions, without prejudice to the business of the House. THE AGE WE LIVE IN.—One evening last week a gallant Marquis, having returned from his accustomed ride, was leisurely ascenCing the staircase of his mansion, not a hundred miles from Park-lane, when his ears were saluted with double knocks at the street door, in quick succession. The porter having opened and shut the entrance without any audible result, the Peer was induced to look over the bannis ters and inquire who it was that knocked. "No one in par ticular, my Lord," replied the pampered janitQrf on ly the cat's b4tcher anci Amly's-irtaid's Herald," DUBLIN UNIVERSITY " Chatterton" and " Maurice Tiernay" are conti nued. In the former, we find the boy• poet, after an unsuccessful attempt to impose on Horace Walpole, bent on abandoning his native town, and following the professional walk of literature in London. The capture of the ill. starred Due d'Enghein, whose hur ried execution in the midnight fosse of Vincennes, brought such odium on Napoleon (Talleyrand and Savary being in our mind the real culprits), is nar rated in the latter. " A Visit to Warmbrunn and Grcefenberg in Silesia" is told in a fluent conversa tional style, the very thing for the pages of a maga zine. The lovers of Spenser will enjoy the paper on " Irish Rivers," devoted to the Mulla and Allo, streams which the glorious poet loved and sung. An article, entitled " The British Of ficer," is exceedingly worthy of perusal, replete with excellent observations, and written by one of evident experience in matters relating to the military profession ; we are inclined to attribute it to the same agreeable and accomplished writer to whom the magazine has been indebted for several months past for that admirable series of dramatic feuilletons, " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager." A criticism on " Pendennis" treats that work of Mr. Thackeray fairly and impartially, not forgetting to give him a rub for his cockneyish Hiberno-phobia, the worst fault of a shrewd and humorous author, who, if " Pendennis" be not a first-rate production, has, at least, in " Vanity Fair" given to English literature the best every-day-life novel since the immortal " Tom Jones. , In the opening paper, " Fruits and Flowers," we find a garland of poetic beauties skilfully selected, but J. F. Slingsby might, we think, just as well, and somewhat better, figure as a contributor of original matter than as a lazy collector of the effusions of others. The best among them are the knightly tale, " Sir Rainulf's Henchman," " The Roses," " A Storm at Sea," a sonnet commencing— " Down springs the hawk-winged tempest from his lair Upon the slumbering sea," and " July," a set of delectably melodious stanzas, of which we give one as a specimen—a perfect pie . ture " Not a single cloud is drifting O'er the far blue sky, As throughout the twilight starless, In a light skiff, not cigarless, Quiet gaze to Heaven uplifting, Languidly I lie, And behold thy glories shifting, Beautiful July I" Of the deeply interesting paper, " The Line of the La kes," we shall only say at present that it merits the attention of every one desirous of entertaining a just conception of the vast natural advantages pre sented by the peculiar features of British North America. We may take a future opportunity of ad verting to its valuable contents. COLDURN'S UNITED SERVICE. Mr. H. St. John continues his " History of the British Conquests in India," which he has now brought down to the first partition of the territories of Tippoo by the Marquis of Cornwallis. Captain Bellew concludes his interesting account of the con quest of Arracan. We have in this number the first part of the journal of an officer at present engaged in the Kafir war ; this journal we commend to the at tention of all who are interested in the subject ; it exposes the causes of the war in a masterly manner, and among those causes are some which few will suspect who have not read this officer's journal. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. .No. IV. We have here three additional chapters of excellent classical fun, illustrated by a glorious view of the wonderful act of rapid horsemanship of Marcus Curtius. MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO, We were yesterday indebted to the courtesy of the Vice-Presidents and Council of the United Service Institution for an admission to what they term a pri vate view of a model of the battle of Waterloo, and we deemed it due to them, to their interesting mu seum, and to the importance of the subject, at once to avail ourselves of their offer ; nay, more, in the pre sent lull of politics, how could we better employ the breathing time left us by the recent prorogation than in devoting an hour or two to the inspection of the work of art, for in that light we view it, introduced in their extensive and entertaining collection of military and naval trophies and specimens, and, much as has been said and done, printed and pub lished, in reference to the great event which closed the late war and restored peace to the world, every thing which tends to throw a light on the ever memorable battle of Waterloo is sure to excite inter rest and fix public attention. Such, no doubt, will be the case with the new model, and thousands will be indebted to the United Service Institution for a clearer notion of, and a more practical acquaintance with, that great contest who would scarcely form an idea of what a battle is, judging from mere maps and plans, or even from descriptions in books. Here we have so clear and so faithful an imitation of the field of battle, of the villages, farms, houses, even of the very clumps of trees within its range, that the dullest comprehension becomes at once familiar with most of the principal features in the case. One thing only, we admit, created regret in our mind—an absurd scruple, maybe, but we are un der its impression—large as the new model is (about 20 feet by 20), the figures employed to represent the real actor in the drama, man, are necessarily so small, and many of those who were engaged in the affair we have been accustomed to look upon as so great, that we could hardly reconcile ourselves to connect the diminutive forms before us with the heroic names, whether as friends or foes, we may well be proud, as contemporaries to transmit to posterity. But we hasten to silence our strange notion on this point, to award our raced of praise to the taste which prompted, and to the talent which executed, th e new mo d el, which at no distant period we sh a ll b e g l a d to v i s i t again. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Among the fashionable company attending the performances at the Royal Italian Opera last evening we observed their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, the Marquis of Northampton, the Marchesa Brancaleone and Mille. Brancaleone, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Cork and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, the Countess Poulett and Miss Dormer, the Earl and Countess of Besborough, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount and Viscountess Torrington, Viscount Ingestre, Lord and Lady Carrington and the Hon. Miss Carrington, Lady Suffield, Baron Steinberg, Lord and Lady Charles Fitzroy, Lord and Lady Rokeby and the Hon. Misses Mon tague, Lord George Manners, ALP., Lord Arthur Hay, Lady Glamis and Lady Frances Lyon Lord and Lady Colborne, Mr. and Lady Caroline Sanford, Baroness; Von Stenz, Capt. the Hon. Evans Freke, Colonel the Hon. Arthur Upton, Hon. Hugh Rowley, Sir Henry Webb, Sir George Armytage, Lady Pigott and party, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir John and. Lrdy Campbell, Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Miss Bur dett Coutts and party, Colonel Tyrwhitt, Mr. 11. Greville, Mrs. Morier, Mr. Martineau, Mr. Gregory, Mr. Raymond Barker, Mr. Wyndham, Mr. De Biaquiere, Captain Ellison, Captain Shearson Captain Paget, Count Rosen, Hon. C. Hanbury, Hon. Shearson, Stonor, &C. HOLYHEAD HARDOUIL—The works for the filling up and formation of the new breakwater in the harbour at Holyhead are steadily progressing. A large number of men are regularly employed, and the stones and material are con veyed from the quarry to the breakwater by locomotive. power, which runs along the staging. The new wharf coin cconno tnenced on the western side of the harbour, for the a . o _, dation of the Irish cattle traffic, has been abandonecit wlub to the impracticability of making a deep c hannel e entrance of the inner harbour up to the p f wh n a l it th in e - r"" The eastern consequence of the hard and rocky g 9 side of the harbour is now spoken of. : A wharf s tation, and in roundar.f er ected there would be in close p rox i m ity t o the railway' every way convenient. The St. Paul's, FATAL ROWING MATeri. prematurely brought to a close Shad well, regatta was yesterday _ first the use of the " out by a fatal accident, resuiting r heat of a race, for a prize rigger" below bridge;.; u fn thef the district, for competition presented by the te'" trlifiloned Robinson, who was engaged by free watermen, a man ; and, in the second heat, in rowing, fell overboard hort distance h t he rowed but a s , w en two of them, wagerrnen had Skeers (the latter a fine young man be longingSimonds and John ._ dwell dock) were capsized, although there was to Sba trilling ripple. Simonds only at the time a was immediately ked up, an d sustained little but harm more than conse- Pic n immersion ; but although a number of boats ro wed towards Skeers he was never seen again. This lament able circumstance of course put an end to the regatta. HOLYROOD PALACE.--On Wednesday, workmen commenced to excavate the foundation of the site in front of Holyrood Palace for the statute of her Majesty, now in course of completion by Mr. 1.1. Ritchie. It is expected to be placed on its pedestal previous to the approaching visit of her Blaje*ty to her Scotti4h capitalo.Scotdinan. SPORTING NOTES. No. CIV. ODDS AND ENDS FROM WOLVERHAMPTON. (By ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Sotterley, General sale, The Italian, Bacton, Ebor, Salute, and Cheddington will not run for the Cleveland Cup. HIProGRIFF, Labyrinth, and Cloth worker will be about first, second, and third. Only three or four run for the Chillington Stakes; they will, probably, pass the post thus:—My FANCY first, Lady Amyott second, and The Monarch third. The Greek, Wedlock, Athena Pallas, and Morning Star are non starters. The three first for the Patshull Handicap are marked to Grief, 5 yre, ist 11lb; Le Juif, 3 yrs, 7st 21b; and Green Oaks, 3 yrs, Gst 41b. Herbert, Truth, British Boy, and Manchester are non-starters. The llolyoake Stakes, to-morrow, will be contested by Egret, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b; Border Boy, 3 yrs, sst 111 b; Ischia, 3 yrs, sst 91b, and, perhaps, another or two. Iselin+. and Egret will figura as the first two. Backbiter, Champion, Administrator, The Ebor, Sunrise, Elcho, and British Boy will be non est on the occasion. SPIT may just win the Free Handicap; and THE DECEITFUL will, it is presumed, walk over ter the Foal Stakes. I um, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Aug. 12, 1851. HALF•PAST ONE, P.M. P.S.—Last night a " move," originating at the Le viathan's, was carrif , d out very extensively, considering the odds, on Nancy for the Great Ebor Handicap; the rush, however, was a brief affair, for, after having ad vanced to 3 to 1 yesterday, this morning plenty of offers against her 4 and sto 1 are to be met with. The bet ting to-day is quite as brisk as it was yesterday; the Wolverhampton races being the principal attraction. Latest prices:—Cleveland Cup-6 to 4 agst Hippogriff, 2 to 1 agst Clothworker, 5 to 1 agst Egr et , 1 0 to 1 each Langton an d L a by r i n th. Chillington Stakes-6 to 4on A 137 Fancy, 6 to 4 agst Lady Aniyott, 5 to 1 agst Ithu r'el filly. Patshull Handicap—Even on Le Juit, 4to 1 each i Humphrey Ischia, phreyand Herbert. Holyoake Stakes -3 to Egret, and Herbert; the last-named is reported to have arrived at the scene of action; 8 to 1 agst Leap -year. Foal Stakes-2 to lon lanthe, 2to 1 agst The Deceitful. Berkshire Stakes-6 to 4 agst Cranberry, , 3 to 1 agst Melford, 3 to 1 agst Brington. Reading Stakes--Even on Grey Tommy. Ebor Handi cap-4 agst Nancy, 5 to 1 agst H ar i cot . Ti m id Fawn is to 1 reported " the thing" for the Huntingdon Sweepstakes, and colt by Gibraltar, out of Apricot for the Huntingdon Two years old Stakes. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE TATTERSALL'S—YESTER DAY . GREET YORKSHIRE STAKES. At the commencement of the betting 7 to 4 was the highest offer against Nancy, and 5 to 2 might have been got about Neasham ; at the close, however, 2 to I was offered against each, with scarcely anything to choose between them; 4 to 1 and 7 to 2 were taken about The Marlborough Buck, and 20 to 1 offered against anything, bar four. ST. LEGER. The first bet laid on this event was 1,000 to 500 against Hernandez, who afterwards receded to 3 to 1, but rallied a little towards the close, leaving cff, however, with plenty of enemies. Nothing else mentioned. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 1,000 to 30 agat Nancy—taken. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—MONDAT. The Trial Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 30 added; three yrs old, 7st 41b; four, Bst 71b; five, Ost 11b; six and aged, 9st 51b; mares and geldings allowed 31b; winners of 100 or t wo fi ft i es 316 extra, of 200 or three fifties 51b extra; those that have started three times and not won allowed 31b. Once round and a distance. (4 Subs.) Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, 4 yrs (W. Sharpe) 1 Mr. J. Hargreaves's Osbaldeston, 4 yrs (R. Dauman) 2 The Produce Stakes of 10 soya, each, and 20 added. Once round. (9 Subs.) Mr. Halford's Prime Minister, Bst 31b ... walked over The Wolverhampton Stakes of 25 sous. each, 15 ft, and 5 ft only if declared, with the Trades' Purse of 100/. added; the second to save his stake. Twice round and a distance. (30 Sub 3., 17 of whom declared.) Mr. Palmer's Goldfinder, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (Knott) 1 Mr. E. Dixon's, jun., May Day, 5 yrs, Est 41b (Johnson) 2 Mr. T. Parr's Cloth worker, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b (Flatman) 3 Mr. Meiklam's Snowstorm, 5 yrs, 7st 81b ......(Lye) Mr. J. Wiggan na The Reaper, 3 yrs, sst 81b (Wells) 0 Won by a neck. The Welter Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft. Gentlemen riders. One mile and a half. (6 Subs.) Mr. J. Davies's, jun., Gay Lad, lOst 91b ...(Owner) 1 Mr. IV. H. Scott's Aristos, 3 yrs, lOst 41b ...( Walker) 2 The Ladies' Purse of 501. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. G. Hawkes' Milk Boy, 7st 31b(W. Sharpe) 0 1 1 Mr. Taft's bf by Don John, 6st 81b (Ashman) 1 2 2 Mr. T. Stanley's sister to.Clothworker (Biett) 0 4 3 Mr. Deacon's Minna, 3yrs, Est 81b (Charlton) 2 3 4 WARWICK SEPTEMBER MEETING, 1851. SECOND DAY. Nominations for the Borough Handicap. One mile. Cane, 3 yrs—Harp, 3 yrs—c by Touchstone, out of Fugleman's dam, 2 yrs—Trickstrcss, 3 yrs—Urbanity, 2 yrs—Cnxus, 3 yrs—Paddy Bird, 2 yrs—Lady Blanche. 2 yrs—Deceitful. 3 yrs—Truth, 3 yrs—Director, 2 yrs —b f by Birdcather, out of Wadastra, 3 yrs—Cutton Lady, 2 yrs. Nominatiuns for the County Stakes (handicap). One mile and n half. King of Oude, 4 yrs—Simplicity, 3 yrs—Tophana, 6 yrs—Windhound, 4 yrs—Sunrise, 3 yrs—Grief, 5 yrs— Rhesus, 5 yrs—Humphrey, 4 yrs—Miss Ann. 5 yrs— Trickstress, 3 yrs—Le Juif, 3 yrs—Little Jack, 4 yrs —Cane, 3 yrs—The Monk, 4 yes—Doubt, 5 yrs—Gold finder, 3 yrs—Bacton, 4 yrs—ltalian, 4 yrs—Cocktail, 5 yrs—Unity, 3 yrs—Waterfall, 3 yrs—Catalpa, 3 yrs —Avia, 3 yrs—Fogleman, 6 yrs—Woolwich, 5 yrs— Alonzo, 3 yrs—Dulcet, aged—Tonic, 3 yrs—Russ berough,4 yrs—Snowstorm, 5 yrs—Harp, 5 yrs—Agis, 6 yrs—The Heriot, 3 yrs—The Castle, 4 yrs—Vampyre, aged—Barcelona, 3 yrs—Cossack, aged—Marlborough Buck, 3 yrs—William the Conqueror, 4 yrs—Pulcher rims, 5 yrs—PrinecCaradoc, 3 yrs —Post -tempore, 5 yrs— Candlewick, 5 yrs—Joe o' Sot, aged—W ansdy lie, 4 yrs—. Landgrave, 5 yrs—Herbert, 5 yrs—Gipsy Boy, 3 yrs— Clown, 4 yrs—Sir Rowland Trenchard, 3 yrs—Bush ranger, 4 yrs. The weights to be declared on the 14th inst. Nominations for the Welter Cup, one mile and a half. Aristos, 3 yrs—Cocktail, 5 yrs—Ebor, 3 yrs—Mark Tapley, 4 yrs—Administrator, aged—Mutta—Garforth, 5 yrs—Agis, 6 yrs—Crocus, 3 yrs—Fugleman, 6 yrs— New Forest Deer, aged—Remunerator, 4 yrs—Melford, 6 yrs—Fazeley, aged—Combatant, 5 yrs—Upton, 5 yrs —br c by Velocipede, out of Lady Geraldine, 4 yrs— Bushranger, 4 yrs—Aristocrat, 4 yrs. CRICKET. TUE GENTLEMEN OF SURREY V. TEE GENTLEMEN OF SUSSEX.—For the first time the gentlemen of these two great cricketing counties met in friendly contest, and fought during the two last days of the past week. The final score was as follows•.—Sussex—First innings 101; ditto, second innings, 73. Surrey—First innings, 142; second innings, 33. And so Surrey won by two wickets. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. TWENTY-TWO OF NEWARK. AND DISTRICT.—This match was brought to a conclusion at Newark, on Saturday evening. The ultimate scorn stood thus, whereby the Eleven were defeated by 15 runs:—Newark—First innings, 135; second innings, 70. The Eleven of England—First innings, 87; second in nings, 103. 111 RS. lIARRIET LEE. Our obituary notices the death of a remarkable person, Mrs. Harriet Leo, at the very advanced age of ninety four. Much of the literature of the last century is pass ing away ; but the gathering time will comp when the works of two sisters, Mrs. Sophia and Mrs. Harriet Lee, will be in the selection for perpetual preservation. Those names will bo conspicuous among the " celebrated wo men of England." They are, perhaps, better known as the authors of the " Canterbury Tales." The tale of " Kreutzner," by Mrs. H. Leo, inspired the genius of Byron. Ile formed from it his tragedy of Werner, and in its preface acknowledged that " the germ of much that he had written was discernible in that popular ro mance." It must be for other hands to distribute to. rks—in each sister her own share of their popular tragedy, comedy, and more particularly in tb"!:",,Ciannk terbury Tales; upon which latter chiefly ti think their united fame will rest. Those whose her re it was to know Mrs. 11. Lee, and to enjoy ee in her markable conversational powers, could , her vigorous clear depth of judgment and intellect, gratification genius without f ility of arrange and comprehensive memory, n client, that combination of the gifts6d, °f have been oala not which the tale of " Kreutzner the age in which tho modern literature and art ten. The wider field of in o . r n e te " ol c r t c o ommunion of friendship can scarcely admit of that I recently lamented the loss of Porter, who died in our city, osa among authors which belong ed sisters wrote. Mrs. 1. consider to have been rich in t of one of these, cersons. More eminent friends she mourned John Kenabl c m e whichresidence ocfa eminentn n s o i d t M d b o u i n a t a sipn the elder portion of this Ice bl e mourned years ago , family—Mrs' s the friend and correspondent y o e f t ai su r r s - . vives, S. 13° g e t r w ' o sisters were the firat to predict this ir • . Le, who in his after life, in li. Lee. T Lawren . ie d gme nt of haeorni!iinnoegwnacredoTfal!d.. friendship, thur kin dnes, and as a memorial of presented to them the por t;;itrseof Mrs. Siddons and John Kemble, and the more valua bl e portrait (one of his very best) of their friend General Paoli. Mrs. Lee retained her large and clear faculties to nearly the last moment of her life.—Bristol Gazette. MORALITY IN 13IRMINGNAM.—Never within the memory of any living person has the calendar of assize for the county of a Warwick presented so meagre a number of prisoners, withless jus gtie m, grave catalogue of crime, than that placed before M r . 500, 000 inuihae.bita A inhabitants containing a months furnished only thirty.;twoclr'insi generally, t 1 criminals e 24;f course or fr trialomo fri o y# .l population o f near l y these there were—From the county Bir mingham, 8. If this condition of things is ex t r aordinary as regards the county, it is even more astonishing so far as I3ir mingliam is concerned. About 250,000 persons, or one-half of the population of Warwickshire, are congregated in the borough and its suburbs. In such a dense community good and evil must necessarily commingle; the facilities for the commission of crime must be numerous; and yet hi half a year only eight offences have been perpetrated amongst us of sufficient importance to be sent before the first crimintil tri bunal of the realm. With one-half of the population of the county, Birmingham furnished only one-fourth of the pri soners for trial. The cases too were of the slightest kind. One of manslaughter was a boy who killed another lad by throwing a stone. That the offence was not a very serious one may be inferred from the sentence, which was four days' imprisonment. A policeman was also indicted for per;ury, two robberies, and a ease of Cut e was no aggravated offence but the bill was ignored. The other cases consisted of'a b ti u n r g gl a a n r d y, w. a vo h u o n u d s i e n b g r . eak T in h g e , r murder, and, singularly enough, only one charge of tat offence, no base coin, for the manufacture of which Birmbagham eiu time bad A Pellyiabll tel•utati9a,....,uirriir h .. at-one "9 ao 7; _ ..... ;~~ AI 30 • ?3/4, r dou•