The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-12 00:00:00

XL‘kC'B C..!LLEGE, that council o f thi s university have givenl notice o 't the mili tary depart meat w i l l open nn\Vera aesday, asea t° . ber 2 . The students admitted into this depart the are matriculated student:, or those admitted to ta.Lregular and full prescribed course of study. caatimoniandidate for matriculation must produce a t e of good character from his Fast in , actor, and when admitted by the Principal 14118 t subscdillribe his name to a declaration that he hcaaform to all the rules and regulations g°od may from time to time be prescribed for the and government o f th e c o llege, under the sanction authority of the council. Tr e academical year of three terms :—Michaelmas term, from the .14' .41)Ln g of o..ttober to the week before Christmas ; te'fat term, from the beginning of January to the week j u ''re Easter ; Easter term, from Easter to the end of end er No one can be admitted a matriculated student of eearttsfifteen sears of age; and at the beginning or srgsion each student must take his card eeti " mission to the professor of military science to be tt t ri b te rsigned and registered. There are examinations th e e end of Michaelmas and Easter terms, when ttit students are classed according to proficiency. The 14 1 ninaticn in June is followed by a public distri emi °' eac °f prizs, and a detailed report is sent at the studh term to the parents or guardians of each s ‘ t te e n,t, both as to his progress and as to his general tui tp li A t l° ll and good conduct during the term. A li the -4 /1 1 ,unaber of students are admitted to reside within rae ot " " e ge• The different classes in this depart tiot i ar e (Ten to gentlemen whose occupation may but etl ° l v th'm to attend the whole of the cours e, is r "'" e l ) Po t„ 11 ,.?, maY wish to avail themselves of the h Yof studying any particular subject. It Nvil l o ted that some o f t h e snore professional studies acceptable to officers of her Majesty's or the curable East India Company's service, who, being their le Yndou on uty or on leave, may wish to emp lo y isure hodurs. --- PP 41VERICAN FAST STEANI-BOAT. , n be elegant new %te a — L RIP OF TUE REINDEER.—T-- _ Itatuer Reindeer made her first trip yesterday. It Priet o ev"'at that excited much interest among pro i4i,er,s of river craft, and nautical men generally. , By tai llA °ll of her accomplished commander, C9e hener• De Groot, a select party of about fly her ! ed. Persons yesterday made an excursion in 1 1 3 West Point. Though not made with the 41 4 1 , 11 , i31 testiog her speed, the result of the tri p sWift3 or to be a very f as t b o at, if not of unequall n e t, d kfld Ile ". The Alida, one of the fastest boats afloat, f retn e her b est passage on the 20th of July, 1849, hour s New York to Caldwell, up the river, in two made and three minutes. The same passage w b a th e ejesterday in two hours and five minutes, y load. . (1 • 4 tindeer, against a head wind and heavily se z it , As further indication of her speed, h dist •rotn Castle Garden to Spuyten DevilCreek,.t 1 )4 41 ; 4 " of thirteen or fourteen miles, in thirty-eight f0 0 ,: e3 ) and from Canal street to Piermont, twenty- Util e T i es) in one hour and eight minutes. Daring this lu re 8" Performed about 20 revolutions, under a pres te4s.t)f 2 61bs. to the square. inch. All circumstances Ile ve l r 4e ts ed, especially as the engine was stiff, having to to k L ue,en worked to any extent, she attained a re at th, l °, l e speed. The party remained about an hour beautiful summer retreat known as Cozzens, to j‘i e th!l'e are now a b ou t 200 visitors, and returned ait y e w York a b out six o ' cloc k , stop pi n g at Jersey litTh t n d Brookl yn to l an d passe ngers highly de viie(i" While on board the excursionists were pro eapt • Wi th a bountiful and sumptuous banqu et. be, a ti lQ De Gr oo t i s prou d o f hi s b oa t, as well he may lve E kl` e , expects to run h er regularly in about a Ate h ?lit the route has not yet been decided on. to g i n ettlieer was built by Thomas Collyer. Her . Aeri e " are from the Morgan Iron Works. Their koti Aerie" are were faultless—almost noiseless in their t ° l l a nd moving with regularity and precision . B greetedßeindeer proceeded on her trip she wa s by the bells of the various steamers passed, lqatt r and j t he Shouts of the people assembled on the ".--Journal of Commerce. taetiEttvxßsiox.—The Rev. J. W. Allies, „tes6 t °, n, in a work just published, announces x;atil 'j i g his preferment, and submitting to ' thev intention ic n a o r i n o a o n f f de Church. Ala list ~,, . ousE.— e and Palai e - i en ing, the directors of the different banking 1 -118I°N-11 Th Lord Mayor entertained, tt,,,ve rq tisitutiona with which his Lordship .f i r a At - private friends. Covers were laid o a c rou ne t c s t et a t n y d . The (La n - Bing and Brymer, in thei r v er 'Was Provided by Messrs. 6 , Si, riot tY best style; and amongst the number assembled Alderman Gibbs, air. e t iw t ted Mr. Alderman Kelly, Mr. - Ila •."` Laurence M Sheriff Nicoll, Mr. Haigh,Mr• Curling k r gthy , 6,, '. o•C. Ba r r * ron, Mr. T. Barker, JosephM i r. r. r Pigeon, Mr. I +iiil i N , • Starling Mr.Mr.„ l T . D , simpson, k r el Tire, the R -11 r. Anderson, a ]e l l I' • gr ew : le nt Le c a , p h n , air. J. Captaileathorrie,lA T. W. Baker,. ,,, _ Mr. W p i i l i - - ther 3 , 41, Ur. R. E. Arden, Mr. • 4,i' •ar. L. Pocock Mr. Lockwood, Mr. R. Wilson, Nv M_r_.. . adk- ' J. 1 J. Courage, Mr. W. E 1 - nis, Dr. H. Greenwood, Br• 1/4te, the Rev. _Mackenzie, the T. B. COx, 11 'E• Giraud, Mr. liog t Mr Norton, Mr. , s te gar , • the Rev. R. B. Gibson, , the thap, , 'Ty, Mr. a p ~,,a the Lord Mayor's chaplain), 8 " party was kept George Brooksbank, Rev. Charles Mar et,2,lth great spirit, and seemed highly delighted with with their 'Lang's entertainment. a .,T,_ he American mail steamer Pacific, Captain Ny e ' afternoon. tT i len. for New York from Liverpool yesterday beadz Ferried out sixty-six es a fair cargo of goods. passengers and a considerable mail, theLIE T of -,,,k.TE SIR ROBER T PEEL.—The executors few letyBe Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, within the att e , jenlitted fees to the various medical f earf ai t ti him and endeavoured to alleviate the effects of the gentlem a enw:he life, ,ident which was the means of . terim . na to an A g le l x iis_ and er ~tiSir Benjamin Brodie, Bart., 250 Ilt° P • aW' sumsoo guineas • and to th g e n o m th e er ' gentlemen ortionate ' St 4 j'e teev eibB or A CHI LD .—A b o y named William re side al, between nine - and ten years of age, whose . parents 'llintt,rat ,Grarden-place, Bell-street, Vincen!-squaite,hcNNerse:s_t °llSat,,' 'bed yesterday- under the following mourns a h al go l Oat ; "iidaY afternoon he asked his mother to let 1 - 411g O h P i - ay, a . nd on being refused he said he andwouldognootice ef h . rnstlf. Ile went out, his mother taking h n 1). is threat b -covered a lai h, . ut a short time afterward ato g u lf; in a back shed. He 11 ester day 11 hat life was almost extinct. He lingered ta . y , was i s m s fr i m e diately cut ,- o lc ' rui ng at eight o'clock, when he died of lock-Jaw. , Am,- Lercia --,-OwelliaNDLE ßS ' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.--Ye - to thi e ,, ye ning a meeting of the committee and sp . bscr o i t b i e i r i. s migeat7°_,ve society, established in 1843, for the red of et h ers "Iln incapacitated tallowchandlers, their wido . ws , , h a a nd . greet,ist ,eoltueeted with the trade, was held in Basalt, 11 hi.l°,lrieneral business. Tne eo for the past year Petiti to'Y encouraging there being now on the funds 41 r not,Z . e ts, the mea rec:eivinp- 13s. and the women , 1 1 4 per smog i t The funded capital 'now amounts to 3,40 t . s* l t 'lf i e s ~1 1140t mie , ,Paid ...to pensioners during the last 12 months ' r tvio,, 'to 3 / 2 /. The income for the past year, including . 4 hl" balance, was 1 2 i 9/. 14s. 41. 4 ci. iT" of 4141. 48. ' lod. At the ri a l n 'e ni e v x er p s e a n ry dit 1 4%' 3 . Ws collected Mrs. North, the wife of the s of the tit" shaving, Illa • id d ' 100 guineas in aid o al e , collected f u e r s t i j N r ' e a r - 1 ,„ litt,,, ""LNIC'ESLINTATION OF CISII3RIDGE UNIVERS.ITY.T: _ ,°,tettsl,ll,ll),-ill, WEDNESD \V SEPT. IL—Some surprise was ' 4 ,.1S tki:e'', Amongst- the ' reUident members of the University () ,l' a‘ l , l l B Q g o il ti n s ' , 3 o l:p c . the Gazette announcement that the Speaker , 1 euxpira ion of fourteen t) ,,Ftls ' is 3 4 ,° his wirit Por o t n h a e w e o l n e l c d tio a n t of a Member in the room t ,„``'eo la % t "‘e Hon. Mr. Law. The election will, unde r r es t en . -4 •entl, !flees, take place before the close of t . he p t Onraa - nd as the long vacation does not terminate until ur, of aY, October 10 (the first day of Term), but . few . NoColleges will have returned h ' i lt:e ofß"ion• Mr• Cowling, who is backed by the tilt the to Cainbridgeo m i n oli tl i i i e i'li to the ^ " t ohn's College, * 's , the only candidate who has,_ r tii`V(ittlsta;ielstrie.soe.n! time.announced l himself. -Although m . s declined becoming a car!: bitt z, th_ .-... r ‘ irit or h alidhur e s d t ' de l l a -mined to put him in nor: i . okrt„'hanedTthe gon i . e G n e a n r tleman, it is expected, will be ~itts, ir,the Majority of the members of Q . e h en si s t, , , hat w; kidre o 'es' the The Trinity men r , sup oh jesus C l ieges' heads of whi n e t a; , ar. c 8 1 to Mr. Walpole. allegesigned the oh i :veN tx , ko_w,,ling's friends ought to have consulted the h t - , ,,cti og -i 0 re bringing him forward, and that, without •a oa tiv_utin personally, they ale determined to oppose z .i. ground. the k a u t t e h rd 'Y ornnibusft commenced running between ii ---tastera Railway s and the Bank at a penny fare. 0 4- t Al a 1 of te r "-ttrym t - To THE itaziLs.—The Counci . . the s•ord a 7 of Commerce h. • resolved to memorialise__ e. I l art ate % the reasu-yi f aN e, rof Liverpool as a - L i verp ool of d 4 itio n. t "t the steatin mn , il a s v e o r d vice to the Brazils. Th e r i . 4 . l' •131s11°11 of Oxford Mr Page Wood, as adi4etiiiridell Pal -n - ' VP . ha -e consented actt?.. on th e t !eator a nt • _- ` 7 , C.C., 11 . :' M.P., and kn-' 4 'ss r ,,, n_piize of 100 gi . uncas ' for the best Lisa) _ le t e Zy f or .'Petting the Protection of Women, offered by tl " ( )Men. '4 °f l " oll4Pr°vi ng and enforcing the Laws for the Pro cent,Yesterda„. a o laChurch The ceremony, which was very magni ll'IS(11:. M4rie's C th l' was opened at Sher i : ttliq :satlattes'nded vcra cy. 1 A by a large numbe of the Catholic clergy FACT.nlot,On , p,_ , last a party of seamen for e; t c .. a nursuay , '' 'gtl ti , • °t ie of her Majesty's ships as Portsmouth, atlie 'Atkin w • " Point-sleet, tro at ' ele vate , were walking up h had escaped just - arrived from a I v i t ,_ a si ati, ,,n 'with heavy wet, a . bull, which L i., u his t_.;,zter-hon„, jumped out of ato s w ay eli:eneerect in the air, when all the men jolly Caine running towardsthe sturdy fellow, L',„ ° l i n the rent one, and he, being an iinmtars ta l i in th e street directly in the way of the bull and hailed bull, ahoy i I I.„_;adro„ _'lloWltig manner :—" Bull, ahoy • h, rut b o ' Your Pe a k and came ° eoo t "rn of 'Be?" 11 bull, continuing fas course, _ o c t i e t r i , o , n u a a t t t ed Wi th put your helm a-star .larboard, or you'll J ack and capsized him; but Ja ck, h i i i s o c t io b t e i l ies g , be ' goeu ' 'Prang from the ground, and, shaking,_ kit, I told observed to the bull, 1. bberlv 'Mil you hOw it would be." , I' ', I TT! ~ (. p . _ ! , you a . , h , ~S, l t T i , 'G3 nr Tilt INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT : 7 Co a'a eid l ig y i of th e in rtiroi,• neXt for the hearin-,- Insolvent Debtors Court will be re3tnaFd, kle, a4"ner will preside 1 a'cc irdance with a rule . Just of cases, when the C . lnei -4iNs-juiLiore cases I ' vi I . b - 1 1 , tr:d to three Commissioners 111• 7 . io , ti ' :; ir a e r e ris, of the continued - indisposition of Mr. Com eet:. 1,.1.L. ba untac BATH COMPANY. Petitions have Of thil2 ::o B ,Z t : n d t,o the Court of Chancery for the winding-up e. v Y 1 affairs. th "Rs'rE ( i w a AN D R B, lEW kY.—Traffie for a, 204 , eek erid _, HOLYHEAD A 14,. i • 14 3 . 44 7o Sept. 8, 18_,0: - C. and H. Slain Line, d. ; • vetal . Nlold, 1261. Os. 6d. ; St eam -boats, 291/. • The 1\ , 3, C22/. Bs. 11d. Agoe rtm ont , . clout- of a , prisons are expected to ba occupied, 4, 'ill ;',, 1 ix tilling a limited number of c_onvict_s, sy„ 74144 employed in the adjoining land,- Presiern LITE IZ-A T LIFE OF OLIV.ER GOLDSMITH: By Washington Irving. A biography of the Goldsmith of English literature, by the Goldsmith of American literature, could not have failed, under any circuinstances, to attract the at tention of all those who are inter( stE d in the annals of the really illustrious. Considering, however, that the voluminous memoir of the author of the " De s-rted Village" and the " Vicar of W a kefield," by Mr. James Prior, had been followed, and so very very recently, by the elaborate performance of a similar kind, by Mr. John Forster, it became, of course, no small matter of interest to examine a work of precisely the same character, by Washington Irving. Knowing the extent of the interest thus ex ci'ad, Mr. Murray has acted judiciously in publishing a London edition of the narrative, in a cheap form, as two supplementary numbers to his Home and Co lonial Library. A careful perusal of the life of Oliver Goldsmith, as here penned by his American admirer, convinces us that Mr. Irving has materially added to his reputation by its composition. As a specimen of style it is pure and admirable, re plete with all the graces of his manner, and abound ing with the charms of his aesthetic judgment. As a memoir of a man of letters it is peculiarly and even unusually fascinating, rendered attractive by the beauty of those descriptive passages in which incidents of a homely kind are by the refracting power of fancy transfigured into the romantic. It may not be inap propriate to remember that on the occasion when Charles Dickens was entertained at a grand banquet in the United States, be very humorously appealed to his lady, then present among the fair spectators assembled together in the gallery, whether he di I nut, almost every night of his life, carry up stairs with him to bed either Oliver Goldsmith or his half-brother Washington Irving. The phrase was a felicitous one, as indicating their literary relationship, and the re collection of it is not without its interest, now that we find Irving penning the biography of Goldsmith. That biography compiled from t he scantiest details, has nevertheless an absorbing charm about it, arising, of course, from the thought of those ainialA and loveable qualities which, joined to his great genius, have ren dered poor Goldsmith such a world-wide favourite. Born on the 10th of November, 1728, at the hamlet of Pallas (or Pallasmore), in the county of Longford, in Ireland, and dying on the 4.h cf April, 1774, in the forty-sixth year of his age, at his chambers in the Temple, London, a comparatively brief period was allowed him within which to condense all his many wanderings and vicissitudes. Following him with his sympathetic biographer, it is marvellous to dis cover the charm thrown over the record of his way ward movements by the sense of his gentle nature and all-embracing benevolence. We see him a mere childat the house of his father, the Rev. Charles Goldsmith; we loiter with him along the margin of the river Inny ; we change with him from his birthplace Pallas, to that village of Lissoy, in the county of Westmeath, which he bas celebrated as Auburn, his lovely and beloved "Deserted Village ;" we brood with him over the horn-book at the knees of Mistress Elizabeth Delap; we are promoted in his company, at six years of age, to the benches of the village pedagogue Thomas, commonly called Paddy, Byrne. After a frightful attack of the small-pox, which nearly proved fatal, and pitted his face for ever afterwards through life, we find him studying first under the Rev. Mr. Griffin, of Elphin, Roscommon, afterwards under the Rev. Mr. Campbell at Athlone, and subsequently under the Rev. Mr. Hughes of Edgeworthstown. Sub sequently, on the 11th of June, 1747, when sixteen, ha is entered as a sizer, or poor scholar, in Trinity College, Dublin. He lodges at No. 35, in the top rooms adjoining the library of the building. Here he gets bullied by his tutor, the Rev. Theaker Wilder, loses his father by a premature death, writes street ballads, causes anxiety to his generous uncle Contarine, has Edmund Burke for a fellow-student, and far his cronies one Beatty, and Robert (otherwise Bob) Bryanton. Disgusted with his life at college, and his frequent humiliations, Oliver runs away from Dublin with only a shilling in his pocket, but is induced to return shortly after wards. On the 2 7th of February , 1749, 0. S., he is admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and finally quits the university. Having attained his twenty-first year, he leads two years of an unsettled life, sometimes at Lissoy, sometimes at Pallas, by way of probation to his entering the clerical profession. Here it is that at Ballymahon he carouses with some boon companions in the tap-room of the Three Pigeons. He presents himself at last (in quest of orders) to the Bishop of Elphin, but being arrayed in a pair of scarlet breeches meets with a refusal. A tutor in the house of a Mr. Flinn, he suddenly gets disgusted with his situation, and sallies forth once more into the world on a good horse and with thirty pounds in his pocket —returning home soon afterwards penniless and with a wretched little poney, hight Fiddleback, as his companion. His account of his mishaps on this peregrination is amusingly given in a letter addressed to his mother, Mrs. Anne Goldsmith. Baulked in his project as regards the Church, Oliver obtains fifty pound:: from his uncle Contarine to enter on the study of the law in England—in Dublin, however, he loses every halfpenny at the gaming-table. Dis appointed again in his hopes of becoming a lawyer, he determines to aim at the dignity of a physician, to this end taking his departure for Edinburgh, where he arrives in the autumn of 1752. Thence in February, 1753, he sets off on a tour to the Conti nent with a shirt, a flute, and a guinuea. After two years spent in roving through France, Holland, Italy, and Switzerland, be lands at Dover early in 1756. Ar rived in London, he wanders about the streets almost in a state of starvation. His first situation is as usher to a school; his next as assistant to a chemist near Fish-street -hill—soon after this he sets up himself as a doctor in _Binkside, South wark. One of his patients, a journeyman printer, introduces him to his employer Samuel Richardson, the novelist and publisher, io whose parlour he .en counters Dr. Young, the author of the " Night Thoughts." Goldsmith is engaged by Richardson as his reader and corrector of the p ress, the former still striving to keep up, between whiles, his practice as a physician. About thi s time he becomes again, for a brief period, a pedagogue at Dr. Milner's classical school at Peckham, in Surrey; but in April, 1757, commences his literary labours by becoming a contri butor to the Monthly Review, published by Mr. Grif fiths, in Paternoster-row. At thirty years of age, therefore, we find Oliver entering upon his literary drudgery by writing for his bread as a bookseller's hack. His lodgings are at this time near Salisbury square, Fleet-street; his address is the Temple Ex change Coffee-house, near Temple-bar. Returning for an interval to his pedagogic labours at Peckham, he endeavours to obtain some medical appointment in India, but ineffectually. Reduced by poverty to great straits, he becomes • temporarily relieved by contributing to the Critical Review, published by ArchibMd Hamilton, and thereupon moves into a shabby first floor in a forlorn court near the Old Bailey. On the 21st of Dec -mber, 1758, he fails in his examina tion before the College of Surgeons—and settles down again as a literary hack, drudging in his shabby lodgings at No. 12, G reen Arbour-court, between Fleet-market and the Old Bailey. Here he writes a " Life of Voltaire," and in the March of 1759 brings oat his " Inquiry into the Present Stat e of Polite Learning in Europe." Besides the periodicals already mentioned as being contributed to by Goldsmith, his pen was employed in writing for the pages of the Bee, the Busybody, and the Ludy's Magazine. He was likewise employed by Me. _Newberry as an essay ist in the Public Ledger, a newspaper first issued on the 12th of January, 1760—about the middle of which year Oliver leaves Green Arbour-court, Old Bailey, for some more respectable apartments in Wine-office- court, Fleet-street. It was in the last mentioned abode that he first received as a guest to supper, on the 31 st of May, 1761, the great Dr. Johnson. Before long the two Doctors become inti mate by meeting con inually together at Davies's, the bookseller, in Russell-street},C ovent garden. His connexion is all this while still maintained with Newberry, for w hom he writes a pamph let on the Cock-lane Ghost, and a Life of Beau Nash, besides remodelling and republishing his anonymous Cninese letters, under the title of " Tao Citizen of the World." Towards the end of 1762 he removes to Islington, where he produced in two volumes the " History of England, in a Series of Let ters from a Nobleman to his Son." About a year later, namely, in 1763, Goldsmith becomes acquainted with Bowel). In 1764 is established the famous Literary Club, meeting at supper once a week, on Monday night, at the Turk's Head, in Gerard-street, Soho —its original members being Reynolds, John son, Burke, Dr. Nugent, Chamier, Hawkins, Bennet Langton, Topharn, Beauclerc, and Goldsmith. Among the other " piece-work" productions of poor Oliver's about this period was an oratorio, entitled The Captivity. On the 1 9 th of Decembe r, 1764, his poem of the " Traveller" makes its appearance. Become by this time a celebrity, he emerges from Wine-office -court and takes chambers on what was then the library staircase at the Temple. His many anonymous effusions in the magazines are only collected together in 1765, and reprinted as " Essays by Mr. Golderntth." It was on the 27th of March, 1765, however, that hi; greatest prose work was pub li-thed, a work fo r which two years previiu!ly he had received sixty gu ineas front Newberry — of Wakefield." Scarcely twelve months afterwards, early in 1767, his comedy of the Goodnatured, .111. an and having been rejected by Garrick was completed, for Drury-Lane, wa s broughtout by Colman at Covent-gardee. Producing for its author no less than 500/., this comedy induced Galdsmitdgh.to s aspwith!re to a nobler residence than his shabby Jeffs, the butler of the Temple--inconsequence of loing which we find Oliver at length purchasing the la ase of three rooms on the second flo or of No 2, Brick court, Middle Temple, on the right hand as you as cended the staircase, In these apartments t,he poet novelist-drematis' keep'; up h 7; gey v, ith s.ech t - ' a ' 6 racket" o' nights that " B:ckson‘', viho,e deem • hers were immediat-ly below, and who was studiously occupied on his Commentaries, used to complain of the noise ma le overhead by his revelling nei g hbour !" Having made another tern pote&ry sojourn (not before mentioned) at Isling - on, Goldsmith in 1768 takes up his residence for the summer season in a cottage about eight miles from town, on the E igware-road. About of Mey, 1769, his " History of Rome" was published, and in the same year he commenced writing his " History of Animated Na:.ure." The Royal Aca demy of Arts having bet.-n founded in 1768, honorary professorships in connexion with it sere first inti tuted in December, 1769, Johnson being nominated to that of Ancient Literature', and Goldsmith to that of History, at a time when Napoleon was yet an infant at Corsica. On the 26 , h of May, 1770, ap peared the " Deserted Village," a poem which of it self would have given the name of Oliver Goldsmith to immortality._ After its publication, the next li terary effusions of Goldsmith were his " Life of Parnell," and soon afterwards his " Life of Boling broke." During the August cf 1771 his "History of England," in four volumes, made its anonymous appearance. A year liter, to escape from his cre ditors, he lodged at a farm-house near the six-mile stone on the Edgware-road, in which farm-house he penned the comedy of She stoops to Conquer, first performed at Covent-garden, under the management of Colman, on the 15th of March, 1772. This brilliant comedy was the last production of any eminence given to the world by the genius of Oliver Goldsmith, if we except that witty jcu d'esprit entitled " Retaliation," which was thrown off in a humorous inspiration shortly before the poet's disso lution. In recounting this narrative in a detailed biography, Washington Irving has allowed the cha rater of Goldsmith to develope itself in his actions, in his sayings, and in his writings, illuminating his pages with frequent anecdotes, and scattering through them at intervals his own comments and de ductions. One phrase, - and one phrase alone, in this • biography we do not regard as felicitous, and that is, where speaking of Goldsmith and Reynolds, it is said, —" They were men of kindred genius, excelling in corresponding qualities of their several arts, for style ; in writing is what colour is in painting." Injudicious illustration ! seeing that the colours of Sir Joahua Reynolds have already faded almost entirely from his canvass, and knowing that the colours of the poetry of Goldsmith are of a perennial brightness. Mr. Irving agrees with Mr. Forster in surmising that the nursery story of " Goody Two shoes," and mayhap some similar effusions, were the work of Goldsmith's innocent and versatile imagina tion. What renders the present life of our poet " best beautiful" of all is the nature of its frequent allusions to the family of the Hornecks. Insomuch so, that the deathbed of the bard becomes invested with an overwhelming pathos, and we close the volume with a loving memory for the very name of the Jessainy Bride, and a sigh for " Poor Goldsmith." GLOUCESTER MUSICAL FESTIVAL. GLOUCESTER, WEDNESDAT.—The first grand con cert at the County Hall, last night, was attended by about GOO fashionables. The concert was opened with Spohr's overture to Jessonda which was faithfully rendered by the band. Herr Formes then made his debid to a Gloucestershire audience in the beautiful and solemn air from Mozert's Zauberjlote "In diesen heilingen," which displayed the full power and compass of his magnificent organ. He was raptu rously encored. The duet, " Serbami ognor," from the Semiramide was set down for Madame Castel lan and Miss Dolby, but in consequence of the con tinued illness of the latter, as explained by Mr. Tur ner, one of the stewards, Miss Williams, took the contralto part. Nothing could have been more per fsct than this duet in the hands of these two aceom pliehed artistes. Madame Castellan's pure soprano blended in delicious harmony with the mellow con tralto of Miss Williams. In this duet, however, as in several other pieces performed during the evening, the band was too powerful for the voices. This was a fault which no one acquainted with the undoubted talent of the members of the orchestra could have anti cipated. Mr. Lockey sang " Ob,'tis a glorious sight to see," from Oberon with taste and correctness, and had we not heard a Bral;am deliver the same song, Lockyer's enunciation of it might have satisfied U 3. After this spirited song Sontag came forward, and was most warmly received by :the audience, many of whom were present at the rehearsal on Monday night, and were greatly prepossessed in her favour by her manner in the orchestra on that occasion. She made her deldit in an aria of Donizetti's" Caso berie," in which she both astonished and entranced her hearers by her delicious voice and wonderful powers of exe cution. Sims Reeves was the next debutant, in Bee thoven's lively " Adelaida" song, which we imagine we have heard him sing batter. Miss Williams's deli very of the recitative and air from Oifeo (Gluck), " Sposa,"tec., was a most chaste performance; and Castellan's " Son vergin vezzosa," in the pollees and quintetto from Puritani, was equally delightful. Mr. Blagrove played a violin solo—" Introduction and Polonaise"—by Mayseder with correct taste and cer tainty of intonation, and was loudly applauded. But the gem of the concert was Sontag's " Soldier tired" (Arne), in which she elicited the most unbounded admiration. A little more English, and far less Italian, would have been most agreeable to a mixed audience like that of last night. The first part of the concert was closed by the ever-pleasing, never-tiring " Haste thee, nymph," which was given by Henry Phillips with that jocund spirit and abandon which no man can so well impart to the music. The overture to William Tell, opening the second part, was played amidst some noise arising from parties returning into the room. This may account for the curious fact that the ostensible conductor (Mr. Dove, of Worcester), and the leader of the band (Mr. Blagrove), were each beating different time. It ap pears a farce for a prominent cathedral organist to attempt to conduct such a band in such a subject. The overture was brilliantly played, but the succeed ing accompaniment to Herr Formes' song from Der Freischutz, a Taci, taci," was sufficiently powerful to drown even Formes' voice. The air and rondo " Prendi, per me," from Elisir d' Amour, was a com plete illustration of the skill with which mechanical difficulties may be overcome, and apparently almost imposiible achievements attained without destroying musical proprieties. In the hands cf Madame Cas tellan it was a thorough triumph of art. Madame Sontag's air, "Ah ! VOU3 direr (Adam) was aco ther illustration of a similar s chool. M. Remueat's flute accompaniment to this air was a brilliant and wonderful performance, and was greatly admired. The piece was encored. The Oberon quartet, " Over the dark blue waters," was admirably given by Miss Byers, Miss Williams, and Messrs. Lackey and Phillips. Tee madrigal of the evening was Welbye's " Stay Cerydon," which greatly disappointed the audience. Mr. Lawler sang the song " As I view," from La Sonnambula, very respectably; and the concert closed soon after eleven with the quartet from Don Giovan ni, " Non ti the executants Mesdames Sontag and Castellan, Suns Reeves, and Herr Formes. At the conclusion of the concert there was a ball, which was attended by between two and three hun dred of the company, but the assembly broke up early. The weather to-day continued most brilliant, and not a cloud appeared in the sky. Fresh immigra tion began to pour in early, and by half-past eleven o'clock, when the performance of sacred music commenced at the cathedral, the floor of the nave was crowded in every part, the aisles were also fully occupied, and the western gallery had but a few va cant seats. The oratorio to-day was Mendelssohn's .Elijah. On the whole it was not 60 finished a per lorinance as we have heard at these festivals, and was not at all to be compared to that at Norwich, in 1848, when it was a much greater novelty. Miss Dolly, we were happy to see, was sufficiently recovered to take her part in the oratorio, but Miss Lucombe was still confined to her room, and her placa was filled very inadequately by Miss Byers, of Exeta - Mr. H. Phillips took the part of the Prophet, and Madame Cas:ellan the widow. Lockey sung the air, "If with all your hearts," beautifully, as usual. The double quartet, "For He shall give II;s angels charge over thee," was indifferently performed by Mira Byers, Master Woodward, Miss Dolby, Mr. Williams, Mr. Lockey, Mr. Rickhep (Worcester Cathedral), Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Whitehouse (Windsor Chapel Royal). The air, "Help me, man of God," was exquisitely given by Madame Castellan, and Mr . Phillips interpolated soli sere given with his well-known taste and judg ment. The duet between Castellan and Phillips, "Now by this I know," was hardly taken brisk enough, and failed to afford the contrast to the preced ing passages which was intended by the composer. Tae succeeding chorus, "Blessed are the men who fear him," was well rendered by the choral body. The choruses by the priests cf Baal, were given with that discrimination which showed the artists to have seized ' the Composer's ideas. The lovely quartet, " Cast thy burden upon the Lord," was sustained by Miss Byers, Miss Dolby, Mr. L )ckey, and Mr. Lawler, and pro duced a marked effect upon the audience. The chorus, " The fire descends from heaven," was most effectively rendered; and the next chorus, "Take all the pr. - .oeti of Baal," was well taken up. Miss Williams eclipsed her farmer doings in the air, which she has made her own, "Woe unto him." In the unfortunate absence of Miss Lacombe, Miss Byers took the part of the child in the interlocutory passages with Peillips, commencing " Gj up, now," but the result was far from satisfac tory. Madame Sontag made her first re-appearance iu oratorio at these festivals in the divine air, " Hear ye, Israel." Her clear ringing mellow voice never told more effectually than in this air. The following chorus, "I3e not afraid," was admirably taken up, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1850. a- d the z;,,:ck:7A rat s}f the oratorio, after Mad:-.ln. tiootab saq, went off with far more spirit than 1!. first, thou Ali there waa occa s i ona lly a lagging in the time as given in the choral parts. Phillips seemed to regain a freshyouth in th e b eau tiful i" It s enough, 0 Lord." In the lovely trio, " Lift thine eyes," Madame Castellan kindly took the place of Miss Lucombe, and assisted Misses Dilby and Wil liams. It was the gem of the morning, and was re pE ated by desire. Miss Dolby was as delightful as ever in the beautiful air " 0 rest in the Lord." Miss Byers improved in the recitative, " Behold God bath sent." Tile collection for the charity to-day :0 1521. amounted COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 8. Her Majesty and his Royul Highness Prints Xbert attended Divine service tt is morning in the parish church at enable. The ladies and gentlemen of the household were in attendance. The service was per formed by the Rev. Principal Lee. In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert went out walking, accompanied by the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Princess Alice, and Pi ince Alfred. The Principal Lea will have the honour of dining with her AL:jesty this evening : SEPTEMBER 9. Her Majcsty wEnt out riding Chiit morning, ac companied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. In the afternoon her Majesty drove in the opEn carriage. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shoot ing to-Jay. Toe dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Leiningen, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Au gusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Lord James ltdurray, and Sir George Couper. The Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President) ar rived in town yesterday, from Lis seat, Bo ood Park, Wilts. TILE ARMY. CIRCULAR.—MEMORANDUM. " Hor,e-Gusrds, Aug. 30, 1850. " It appearing to the Commander-in-Chief that the ammunition as well as the pouches of the infantry would be much less liable to damage, if at least one of the compartments of the pouch was. kept constantly filled with ammunition, his Grace has entered into arrangements with the Ordnance Department for completing the present ordinary supply to twenty rounds a man, on the requisition of commanding offi cers, who will be careful to cause it to be picked, and constantly carried, in the centre compartment of the pouch. " By command, " C. BRows, A.G." AN EMIGRANT SHIP LOST. A shocking shipwreck was reported at Lloyd's on Tuesday, namely, that of the total loss of the ship Bridgetown, belonging to Liverpool, having on board 390 passengers, emigrants for America, whose escape, considering the fearful circumstances of the wreck, was most miraculous. The ship, which was nearly 1,000 tons burden, sailed from the port above men tioned on the 4th of July last, under the command of Captain John Mills. She was bound to Quebec, and accomplished the passage ccross the broad waters of the Atlantic by the 31 of the following month (august). The succeeding night witnessed the de struction of the ship. They had sighted the Banks of Newfoundland, and were bearing to the southward, with light breezes and foggy weather, when about midnight she went upon a rock at Clam Cove, be tween Cape Ballard and Cape Race. The violent force with which she struck instantly aroused the emigrants, who rushed upon deck in a state of great excitement, and the scene that ensued, when it was found that she was fast filling, and must inevitably go down, was painful beyond description. The first object sought by the master was to run the ship towards the coast, which, though not seen, was supposed to be close at hand, and then getting out the boats, he fortunately succeeded in persuading " his living freight" to follow his instructions. The female emigrants were got into the boats, and these having been safely put ashore, the boats returned, and even tually, after considerable exertion, the whole of the remainder were saved, excepting three children, who were lost in the confusion, and were supposed to have perished in the ship, which shortly foundered in five fathoms of water, and was a total loss. The poor emigrants lost everything they possessed ; many reached the shore with nothing on their persons but their night-clothes. The distress of the unhappy creatures was very great. There were several cabin passengers ; among them was an episcopal clergy man, who had lost property to the amount of upwards of 1,0001. Amidst their misfortunes a gang of des• perate wreckers visited the spot, and .carried off the little property that was cast up from the wreck and washed ashore; everything in fact they laid their hands upon they decamped with. Captain Mills, the master, attributes the loss of the ship not only to the dense fog and darkness of the night, but in a great measure to the variableness and uncertainty of the currents, together with the force • and strength with which they set in towards Cape Race. The vessel was but partially insured. MATRIMONIAL AFFAIR.—A young lady of respect able family and connexion, in the neighbourhood of Armagh, while on a visit some time since to her brother, who has been for some years settled in a mercantile capacity at Liverpool, formed an acquaintance with a medical gentleman of some eminence there, who was in attendance on her brother during illness; the acquaintance ripened into an attachment, which resulted in a proposal of marriage on his part, and acceptance of the proposal on hers. Matters remained thus for some time, the engagement being known to the friends of both parties, on each side of the Channel, and preparations were in progress, we understand, f ur t h e ce l e bration of the nuptials, when suddenly a stop w as put to the proceedings by some untoward occurrence, of w hi c h t h e following is the current version : —That the gentl eman i n ques ti o n required the lady to bind herself to hold no i n t ercourse with her brother after her marriage, to which terms she would not consent. What may have moved him to make such a proposal with reference to a gentleman whose medical attendant he was, is not cosy to conjecture; but it is not improbable that it may have been connected in some way with the circumstance of her brother having been some time before unsuccessful in his mercantle . . pursuits, in consequence of extensive speculations in which he had engaged in railway transactions, by which he had been a heavy loser, and into which he had been perhaps led by the facilities open to him as a railway sharebroker. Whatever may have been the case, the result has been an intended action at law for the double injury of breach of promise of marriage and implied defamation. The record was to have been immediately tried in England, and a worthy baronet in this neighbourhood had actually gone over, to testify to the t respectability he t of the lady' s f am il y , w hen a compromise was agreed a terms of whi c h are , as we have been informed, h defendant pays th e l a d y 1,5004 —Armagh Guardian. that the to ,ie CUANCERY REFORM.. On Tuesday evening a lec- tu-e on the admieistration of the Court of Chancery was de livered in the Mechanics' Institute, Southampton-buildings, by Mr. Carpenter, under :the auspices of the Chancery Re form Association. Mr. E. Wilson presided. The lecturer described the process of a Chancery suit from the commence ment to the close, and pointed out the principal causes of the delay and procrastinations which, suitors know too well, are invariably attendant upon Chancery suits. Amongst these he' enumerated the practice of referring questions to the Masters, by which a suit was frequently locked up, for eight, ten, or twelve years. Another great source of delay was the practice of the Court in making so many persons parties to suits, the frequent abatements caused by the deaths of par ties, and the supplemental bills and answers consequent upon the birth of children. The new rules and orders issued from time to time by Lord Chancellors, he contended, effected no amelioration. Numerous instances were cited of the work ing o f the system; and it was asserted that at the present time the victims of the court in one prison alone—the Queen's Bench - amounted to 24, who have been incarcerated for periods varying from one to 38 years, e ithout any hope of release. The court had now 1 00,000,00;q. sterling under its jurisdiction ; ant as every man was liable, by the merest the i accident, to be broug ht within its meshes, it believed all to join in so amending it as to make it a blessing instead of a curse to society. A resolution affirmin g the necessity of re form in the court was p assed. touching the 1. 1 shl ' SERIOUS ACCIDEN T ON CHATHAM LINE S .—O n Monday afternoon a coroner'sjury ass em bl ed at the Queen's Head Inn, Brornptee trench surroundingd e death o f garrison rion . Gra l tl i i e , a pensioner of the 66th Re g iment of F oot , which was caused i by falling into h deceased had been t o ' the races on Fr iday, and, after the races were over, he , l ike man y other s , went to a drinking booth, and remain ed with others drink ing and seeing the t n, dancing until night, when he left to go home to his house at Brompton. Th e night was very dark, and he must h ave mistaken the road , a s he was found the n ex t morn i ng by s ome workmen lying at the bottom of the t renc h near the Sally-port, apparently dead. Information was given to the sentinel, and assistance given, and the man was removed. He died a few hours afterwards. Upon examination of his person hi s shoulder was fou nd to be put out, several of hi s ribs broken, and he Wa s otherwise seriously injured. A N 'Cr diet of "Accidental death" wasreturned.ahe same night th a t the above accident occurred, Sergeant Powell, of the Royal Marines, who is pay -sergeant of the division, was a l so found 3 l ing in the trench. B y his fall his right s h ou ld er i s dis located, and three of his ribs broken. He was conveyed to M e l v ill e Hospital, and faint hopes are entertained that he will recover. Several other accidents occurred, and Mrs. Green, of Wood street, Brompton, had her right leg broken, and a young woman. whose name is unknown, broke her leg, and she was o therivise very seriously hurt. It is evid ent from the occurrence of so many accidents that something is required to warn persons of the dangerous position of the trench. The depth varies fr om 20 to 30 feet ; and there is no railing to prevent persons falling iu . DISASTER ON LAKE ONTAII!O._The Schooner Nekick, Captain Sias, was capiz:al i n a squall near the mouth of the St. Lawrence River on Friday evening, the Oth instant, and every person on board perished. There were board, among them the wife of the c • eight per.ems on _ to captain. Th e N o kia . W as forty tons . den, and left Oswego with past of a cargo of merchandise on Friday, hound for Cape Vincent. ' ri ce vessel was found on Siturday floatin bottom upwar , lat.—M on dsand was towed into C ape Vinco g - treal Gazette. this borough have ' forwa ' rded an ad oftrff oN.-1 he Protec tionist which 11.,. Mackinnon has given to dress to Mr. Mackinnon, in which they inform the lion. Gentleman that be doas not possess their confidence, and that they will oppose his re-election at any future period. iE P A R : s o Association t T i o A n T the policy of free trade, is _sssigned as the reason fur this manifestation apolitical feeling. Tire uniform PROGRESS OF SCIENCE.-THE WA lER GAS. We can conceive of few subjects more gratifying to a contemplative idnd than observing the vast ins provements constantly taking place, both in science and art, calculated so largely to increase our personal and social comfort, and to bring not only the neces saries, but even the luxaries of lre, within the reach of the great mass of the community. In this respect steam, railways, and the penny postage, have bound friends and relatives within the range of a family circle, although separated by hundreds c f miles ; and, last of all, that miracle of miracles, the electric telegraph, not only conveys our thoughts and wishes in an instant, as if by magic, from one extremity to another of our sea girt isle ; but, despite of winds and wave?, has ben made to span the English Channel, and thus enabled us to converse with our warm-hearted friends in the centre of Pari3, while sitting at our ease, sipping our coffee or smoking our cigar, in the metropolis of England. Certainly, were our forefathers, of even thirty years ago, permitted to revisit the scenes of their nativity, they would hardly believe this was the world they had left ; and what more startling improvements the next thirty years may produce we shall leave to more fertile imaginations than ours to hazard the conjecture, con fident only that past attainments will stimulate to greater efforts in the accomplishment of still greater end 11Te well remember the exuberant delight it afforded us, when only entering our teens, to ace our streets and public buildings tir.t lighted with gas, and the dingy oil lamps laid aside for ever. Tnis was an era in our life which we are not likely to forget. It was the prelude of a mighty social improve ment, which we may not even now sufficiently appreciate. But in these days this was likely to have been altogether outdone. The electric light threatened to entomb every rival, and virtually, at almost a no minal expense, to change night into day. This was, i,ovvever, highly patronised, rather too much to be lieve, and beyond that of a mere pleasing exhibition in a lecture-room, it has now ceased to make any pretensions. Then our go-ahead friends across the Atlantic startled us by their daring announcements of converting the elements of water alone, by means of electricity (obtained for nothing) , into so splendid a light that you could read the smailest print a mile off. Millions of dollars hung upon the issue. Every newspaper was full of it, as the greatest discovery of this or any age. The day of trial came, and in one hour Payne was denounced as an arrant deceiver, and his mighty pretensions le• veiled in the dust. The very important subject of obtaining a supply of cheap and good gas, free from the usual contaminations of sulphur and ammonia, has for a length of time engaged the attention of the first scientific men of our day, who suggested mani fold improvements, some of which have been valuable, but as their whole efforts were directed to neutralise or absorb the noxious compounds inevitably contained in all gas prepared from coal, they have been only partially successful, much of the contamination still remaining, in spite of every precaution. It seemed es sential that, to obtain a pure gas, a pure material should be employed ; and sceptical as we have been as to this being obtainable, or that any substitute fur coal, in the production of gas, could ever be made available in this kingdom at least, we were recently induced, by the re presentations of a friend, to ascertain the result of the lighting of the town of Southport, and other important places, by Mr. Stephen White, of Manchester's patent " ilydro-carbon gas," where no coal is required ex cept to heat the furnace. We confess we were any thing but sanguine as to the result, having been al most sickened of the gas question altogether. How ever, a visit to this lovely watering place soon satisfied us that this " water gas," as it has been called, was no phantom, but a blazing reality of the greatest brilliancy, throwing a fine, beautiful, soft light, perhaps unequalled in the kingdom, over the length and breadth of their principal street, which is about a mile long; and a l Jolt into the first-rate shops and hotels will satisfy any observer of its superior bril liancy to any coal gas he has ever seen—the ceilings, too, after nine months' use, being untouched and untarnished, naturally excites no little surprise, proving that, unlike coal gas, it emits no smoke whatever. A visit to the gas-house is of itself a great treat ; it is a handsome erection, admirably arranged, and ought to he taken as a model; it is like going into a comfortable kitchen—neither smell nor filth of any kind ; and the man who has the charge of making all the gas for the town not only does the whole himself; but could attend, he says, to three times the quantity required, if needful ; and so simple does it seem, that it is almost self-acting. The retort into which the liquid rein is constantly running in a small stream only requiring being cleared of any so:Ay depo3it every six or eight hours, and the water retort only every few days; while the large station meter satis fies you that, notwithstanding the quietude and still ness of the place, more than 300 feet of gas passes through it in the same time that coal retorts of an equal size would produce 100 feet. This is a most striking circumstance to every observer. The ordinary filthy process necessary to purify coal gas, so nauseating to all engaged, is altogether avoided ; and as we found, on the most strict inquiry, that while the brilliancy of this gas is decidedly superior to that from the best Cannel coal, it is produced at a much cheaper rate, it can be no surprise that its adoption is rapidly spreading, both in Lancashire and Yorkshire, where large establishments are now lighted up by it. Having thoroughly satisfied ourselves as to the value of this invention, and the certainty of its suc cess, we were gratified to find that, instead of in juring gas property, it would materially enhance it, as, by merely changing their retorts, they can adopt this at once, at a comparatively small cost. We have entered into this subject very much more at length than we at all contemplated when com mencing this paper, but believe our readers will be satisfied that its importance demands it. We hope at no distant date to bring the subject again before them. We have not the pleasure of knowing the ingenious inventor, but cordially wish him the success he so richly deserves.—Standard of Freedom. TESTIMONIAL TO DR. JACKSON. Oa l'e'da tove Prebendary y dsi t eu s ri t. er. Paul's,a given Bis a ho p the Rev. Dr. Designate of Lyttelton, New Z?aland, and P r i nc i pa l o f ua Jackson, gran the Training College, Battersea, by the students of the college, by whom a testimonial had been also subscrib,d for, to he presented on this occasion. The entertainment tlok place in the beautiful grounds belonging to Mr. Fownes, contiguous to Christ Church, Battersea, where was created several marquees, iucluchng that within which the dejeuner took place, together with the emigra tion tent presented by the students to 11r. Jackson, also exhibited upon the grouted. In the Bishop's tent, prior to the entertainment, the testimonial wit: exhibited to the company. It consisted of a splendid solid silver epergne to form a table centrepiece, beautifully decorated with foliage and figures, of the weight of neatly 139 ea., tied of the value of 120 guineas. It bore the f dlowiug inscription:—" Presented to the Bishop Designate of Lyttelton, New Zealand, and late Principal of the Train. ing College, Battersea, by the master, stud-nts, and officers of that college, Sept. 10, 1850. This offtring is respectfully made by the masters and students of the Bat tersea Training College, in grateful remembrance of valuable talents and services devote' to the training of schoolmasters f or th e Ch urc h o f England during a period of six years. They sorrow in parting, but whilst they remember his persevering zeal and the distinguished blessings which have attended his labours as principal of the coll. ge, they feel the assurance that in his exilted station abroad he will be as successful as he has been in England." In the unavoidable absence of Lord Ashley, the chair was filled by the Rcv. C. B. M.A., rector cf . Lambeth, who was supported by the Rev. T. B. Murray, rector of St. Dunstatr's-in-the-Eist, and the Revs. M. Howlett, C. Lilley, 11. Twining, and Dr. Hussey. Nearly 100 ladies and gentlemen sat down to a most elegant repast, and at the conclusion, after the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, the Chtirman pre sented the epergue to Dr. Jackson, who briefly addressed the company in acknowledgment of the honour. During the entertainment a new glee, called " Tne Canterbury Pilgrims," was received with much apprebation. SUICIDE OF DR. BLAKE OF THE 20TH REGIMENT. —We deeply regret to learn that Dr. Blake, Surgeon of the 29th Regiment, now in garrison, deprived himself of life, yesterday morning, by cutting his throat with a razor. The facts, as related to us, are, that for some days back, Dr. Blake had been indisposed and unable to attend to his duties, and that, in his house in Durham pl ace , a b out three o'clock yesterday morning, he desired his servant to go up stairs and warm some beef tea fur him ; as soon as the servant left the room, it would appear that he (Dr Blake) went into the adjoining dressing-room, and taking a razor from its case, too (ff.ctually committed the dreadful act, which he only survived for a few hours—during which time, however, he was collected, and acknowledged that he had fallen by his own hand. An inquest was held io returnedueccentric e e a verdict t rie i n his o f manner n c suicide, , upon his body ye s terd a y. Th e j ury, a f ter hearing the evi dence of sevt ral of the f r i en d s an d atten d ants of the deceased, and the medical testi mony o f D rs. S eaman, of the :23d, and Regiments, rs committed under the infl uence o f temporary insanity. Dr. Cole, Blake nof the as m 2. e 0 20th tan d, ath n de ,li n and habit , , much esteemed in the regiment. Alontreaf Weekly Herald. DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED SUICIDE. —Last evening the following discovery was made of a supposed suicide. It appears that the landlord of the house No. 17, Stephen-street, Tottenhatn-court-toad, had, for the last fort night, missed one of his lodgers, named James Partington, a coachman, who occupied the second floor. His room had never been entered, owing to the door being locked en the inside. The landlord last evening called in the assistance of Sergeant Palmer and another constable of the E division. 1 hey all three entered, and having knocked at the door of the second floor they burst it open, and in looking on the bed t discovered, to th e i r h orrar, the body of Pettington, in a state of compl e t e putr i faction, with his throat cut from ear toear, and a razor lyi ng b y his aide. He must have been o dead at least a fortni g ht . A shell was procured, and the 1d mentioned corpse con veyed to the Middl esex Hospital. The landlord to the poli ce th at h e knew the unfortunate deceased had been out of service f or a num b er of weeks past . The body now awaits a coron er ' s i nquest. ACETIC ETH ER .—A parce. 1 f MerChllndise having ae o been imported from one o f the Belgian ports, 3 it was found ether and on examination to conta i n a mixed spirit — viz.,s.4d.per gallon. alcohol, and as suc h li a bl e to t h e d u ty f 0 The duty was ord ere d t o b e char g d accordingly. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RADC LI FEE RA CE Ss-WEDNESDAY. The Manchester Cup of 501., added to a Sweepstake t 10 sovs. each, 5 fr, and 3 only declared; the second to save his stake. One mile and three-quarters. Mr. J. Brown's Harricot, 3 yrs, sst 6lb (Osborne, jun.) 1 Mr. Reid's Clothworker, 4 yrs, ist 61b (Sibs extra) 2 Mr. Cotgreave's Abbess of Jerveaux, 3 yrs, 5A 31b 3 Mr. Nichol's John of Berwick, 3 yrs, Est 31b Mr. Shepherd's Alp, 4 yra, Bst 6 to 4 on Clothworker, 2 to 1 agst Llarricot, and 4 to 1 agst John of Berwick. Won by a length. The Bury Purse of 301., added to a Sweepst tke of 5 sovs. each; for two yrs old, 7st; and three )rs old, 9st; fillies and geldings allowed 31bs, winners extra; the see nsd to save his stake. Three-quartera of a mile. (6 Subs ) Mr. G. Barton'a Madame Wharton, 2 yrs (G. Oates) 1 Mr.W. Jones's br c, by Launcelot, dby Liverpool, 2 yre 2 Mr. Palmer's True Love, 2 yrs Mr. Ilendi-rson's Coquette, 2 yrs Mr. W. T. Parks's Rose 13radwardine, 3 yrs .... 5 6 to 4 on Madame, 5 to 2 agat Launcelot col', and 5 to I egst True Love. Won easy by a length. The Scurry Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, three-quarters of a mile (9 Subs.), were won easily by Mr. Iluldforth's Romance, 6 yrs, 9st 41b (G. Abdale), beating Mr. Foster's Osb:ildwlek, 3 yra, 7st 6113—Mr. Barton's Clara, 6 yrs, Bst 21b—Mr. Walker's Repulse, 5 yrs, 83t Mr. Martin's; Wilmont, 3 bra, 7st 101 h Mr. o.borue's Snowdrift, 3 yrs. 7st 81b—Mr. Scott's Pansy, 3 yrs, ist 51b—Mr. Bell's First-rate, 3 yrs, Tat lib—and Mr. Pedley's Lady Speedy, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b. LEICESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Belvuir Stakes of 5 sovs each, and 20 aided, for hunters, four yrs old, 10. st 71b; five yrs, 11,t 71b; six and aged, 12st. Heats, twice round and a dis. Captain Brandin's Squire of Mahon, aged 1 Mr. Wildman's Fama 5 yrs The Two-Years old S.akes of 5 sous. each, and 30,added; colts, Set 71b, and fillies B.st 41b; winners extra. About three quarters of a wile. (5 Subs.) Mr. Spnggs's ch c, by Knight of the Whistle 1 Mr. Robbins's br c, by Lanercost, out of Miss Clifon 2 Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, and 40 added, the second to save his stake; three yrs old 7st 41b; four yrs, Sst 31b; five yrs, Bst 91b; six yrs and aged, 9s:; winners once 3155, twice slbs, thrice, Ms extra. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Tresham's Cogia, 4 yrs Mr. Barling's Bsdtord, 4 yrs Mr. Meeson's The Castle, 4 yrs 3 The Leicestershire Handicap of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 75 goys. each; the second to receive 20!., and the third to save his stake. Two miles and a dis. (16 Subs., nine of whom declared.) Mr. T. Dawson's Priestess, 4 yrs, Bst 31b.... Mr. C. W. Packe nd Cingari, 4 yrs, 6A 101 b Mr. W. Herrick ad Vanguard, 4 yrs, Bst 31b PEDESTRIANISM. W. SPOONER AND GEORGE BRADSHA.W . B SEVEN MILE MATCH FAt 251. A-SIDE.—The exploits of George Brad shaw, of Hammersmith, whether defeated or victorious, are matter of sufficient importance in the records of pedestrianism to render their repetition a " thrice-told tale." For seven years he has been pitted, with various success (having begun early, and being yet a young man), against all the best walkers who could be found. However, like many horses of high repute, he has " run in and out;" and of late years, despite some astounding performinces in the way of time, he has shaken the con fidence of his backers , by failing marvellously when brought to the test. Nevertheless, on the present occa sion, he found friends, who, confiding in former excel lent and undeniable proofs of his capability, posted the needful for a match with young Spooner, a rising per former, and yesterday the competitors met on Stoke common, three miles from Slough station, and about twenty-four from .London, to settle the question of relative speed in walking. The day was favourable, and the ground, a measured mile, though somewhat loose and stony in several places, was, on the whole, a moderately level and straight one. At four o'clock the men showed, Bradshaw seeming to have few friends, and spare attendance, and certainly looking unlike his former self. The Young One's adherents, on the other hand, though more numerous, did not seem remarkably coLfident. At first evens, and then sto 4 on Spooner, was the utmost they would venture; in a word,_thLy seemed doubtful of " their customer" till the match was fairly on, %hen, after the second mile, they let loose their tongues, and were bravely offering 2 to 1, and all sorts of odds. The men went off at five minutes past four, walking together for three-quarters of a mile, when Spooner startel away with a swinging spurt, and was soon several yards a head of Bradshaw. In the second mile George got near him, and, as it seemed to us, almost by sufferance, came within three or four yards of Spooner. Coming down the third, mile, Spooner literally walked away from his opponent, and keeping up a rattling pace, widened the gap between them at each successive turn. Keeping up tee steam, he finished some 300 yards in front of Bradshaw, covering the 7 milts L. 57 min. 48 secs. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY OF BRADFORD. This grand match was resumed at Bradford on Tues day, at the conclusion of which day the score presented the appearance indicated below. It will be noticed that the Eleven were 17 behind upon the first innings. BRADFORD. First Innings. Second Innings. Wadsworth, run out ... 5 run out ..... ...... .. 14 Hall, c Hillyer, b Clark ... ..... 21 e Wisden, b Clark... 1 Dalby, Esq., b Clark ... ...... 5 c Felix, b Clark 2 J. Thomas, c Adams, b Wisden 4 b Clark Burlinson, c Guy, b Clark Joe Berry, 3 Box, b Hillyer Barker, b Clark Armitage, c Wisden, b Hillyer 7 c Parr, b Clark T. Sidebottom, Esq., b Hillyer 1 Abel, b Hillyer ....... .... ... 0 b Clark R. Boyes, Esq., b Hillyer ....... 4 Dendiurst, c Adams, b Hillyer.. 3 b Hillyer 0 J. Ingle, c Box, b illyer Bankart, Esq., b Hillyer .. 0 Scaife, b Hillyer M. Hurst, Esq., b Martingall 3 H. Hurst, Esq., c and b Mayer 7 J. Lund, Esq , not out 7 Hepworth, run out ... 0 Wright, b Martiugell Byes 1,1 b 4, wide 1 ... Total 101 Total THE ELEVEN. A. Mynn, c Dalby, b Armitage .., 2 Pilch, c Walsworth, b Hall . 3 Adams, c Thomas, b Armitage Guy, b Ha 11.... ... 4 Wisden ' c Wadsworth, b Hall l5 Parr, c Burliuson, b Armitage. ...... Box, c Armitage, b Hall Martingell, c lugle, b Armitage ... . N. Felix; Esq., b Hall Clark, b Armitage .. 15 lkillyer, not out .. ..... Byes 2, wide 1 ........... ......... ~. Total 84 SCULLERS MATCH BETWEEN SAVAGE ANDWIGGETT. —The scullers match between Savage and Wiggett, both of whom belong to the lower part of the Thames, for 201. a-side, took place yesterday. The distance selected was from Putney-bridge to Mortlake, and Savage was slightly the favourite. The men went to their station in the presence of a tolerable muster of spectators, and effected a very good start. They were scull and scull up to Messrs. Searle's - yard, both rowing very capitally; but here Savage began to draw away from his opponent, and contrived to gain considerably right to the finish. Wiggett made some plucky EffJrt3 to better his position, but without effect; at Hammersmith bridge he was three or four lengths astern, at Chiswick Eyott considerably more, and a long way behind at the finish. IRON STEAM YACHT FOR THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. —A beautiful yacht, built of iron by Mr. Mare at Blackwell, is at present in the East India Docks, having her engines, of 140-horse power, put on board by Messrs. George and Sir John Rennie, and is expected to be ready for trial down the river in about three weeks. This fine vessel, when com pleted, will be navigated to St. Petersburgh for the use of the Emperor of Russia. She is 180 feet long by 21 feet inches in breadth and 10 feet depth, and although 390 tons' burden will only draw four feet of water. Her engines are on the oscillating principle, 4 inches in diameter, with a stroke of 3 feet 6 inches, and the whole of the works con nected with them are finished in the best style of workman ship, and more like the works of the superior description of clocks than the machinery of a marine steam engine. The eccentrics are concave, and do not require flanges, and the bearings are of a new description of metal which will not heat, howe ver great t h e f r i ct i on or numerous t h e revolutions of the machinery. The parts are so well arranged, and under such admirable control, that a very young person could work and manage them with the greatest ease. The vessel is to have paddle-wheels with the latest improvements, and is expected to have a speed of 17 miles per hour. THE NEW ACT TO FACILITATE THE ABANDON MENT or RAILIVATS.—The new Act to facilitate the aban donment of railways received the Royal assent on the 14th ult., when it came into force. Its object is to facilitate the clissAntion of rail wa y companies, as also to enable com panies to abandon railways or certain parts where they can not be carried on with advantage eith er to the promoters or to the public. It is provided th a t ra il way companies may make application to the Commissioners of Railways to be allowed to abandon their undertaking. " That it shall be lawful for the directors of any such railway company at any time to call a meeting of the shareholders thereof, for the purpose of determining whether such application shall . be made to the C omm i ss i oners of Railways, and so from time to time as they shall see fit." Shareholders may require such meetings to be called. When an application is enter tained by the Co mm i ss i oners, opportunities are to b e afforded to parties wh o may consider themselves aggrieve d to st at e . their objections. Th e C omm i ss i oners, by their warratTereo7 may authorize the aband o nment of a railway o r part Compensation may be made to parties who are injured by the abandonment. Where a railway abandoned its affairs may be settled under the I:4n d g P Act. There are forty sections in the Act, and notices l o i fpr u oceeding adopted under it are to be laid before Parliament . - - EXPENSES OF PUBLIC BOARDS.—Yesterday a Parliamentary paper was printed, showing in detail the ex penses of the General Board of Health, the Commissioners in Lunacy, and the Poor-law Board. The expenses of the General Board of Meth to the 31st of March last were 8,034/. Gs. lid. The travelling and personal expenses of the Commissioners in Lunacy, in the year ending the 31st of July, were 2,3551. I ls. l Id. ; and of the Poor-law Board, for the year ending the 31st of March last, 8,8781. Os. 2d. ; leaving a surplus of 1,261/. 19s. 10d. For the General Board of Health 8,0001. was voted; for the Commissional in Lunacy the exact sum; and for the Poor-law Board 10,0001. CORK AND BANDON RATLWAT.—Mr. Barney, soli citor to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners ; accompanied by the chairman of the board of directors, Mr. Ratcliffe, London solicitor to tha company, and Mr. Nixon, the engineer, proceeded along the line from Cork to Bandon on Monday, to satisfy himself that the works were effi ciently executed preparatory to the Treasury advancing the loan to the line. Mr. Barnes is to make a tour through the lines in Ireland to which the Government has made advances. AN EXCITING SLAVE CASS. WASHINGTON, AUG. 7.—The runaway slaves have been so numerous of late in these pars, under the instigations of the Abolitionists here and else where, that the owners of this species of property have become very much alarmed, and hence are disposed to remove them to safer parts of the United States, or to sell them to slave traders. A cruel instance of this kind is exciing great sym pathy at present. The family of William Williams, the coachman of Presidents Polk, Taylor, and Fillmore, were suidenly, on Friday morning, seized by a sl ave t ra d er , an d t a k en f ro m their ho mes in this city off to.Biltimore, to be sent to New Orleans. His wife, over fifty years of age, three daughters, and three gr an d c hild ren, were thus snatc h e d f rom him in an hour to a fate worse to him than death, to be sold in the South to the highest bidder, and separated from him and each other. The poor man was nearly crazed by the dreadful part ing. After many years' toil he very recently pur chased his own freedom, but his family were owned by some one i n N ew O rleans. The President, feeling deeply for his distress, gave him money, and let him go to Baltimore to see them again. Williams found the trader would take the sum of 3,200 dollars for them, and he returned with the hope of raising that amount here to redeem them. A petition was drawn up, and to-day circulated about the city and Hauge of Representatives, setting forth the fact, and asking for assistance, which was so promptly rendered that the prospect is, in the language of Williams, himself, " very fair." The Presid en t, M r . W e b ster, General Scott, and a number of Senators, members and citizens, have contributed sums from 5 to 50 dollars. Mr. Corcoran gave 200 dollars, which was the price asked for the aged wife, and be made her "free" at once. Besides doing this Mr. Corcoran has purchased one of the women, who has lived in his family for some years, Mrs. Commander Paterson another, and Mrs. General Towson a third, who lived with her some years past. So the children, for whom 1,500 dollars were asked, only remain to be purchased by their grandfather, and he is in a fair way of raising this money.—Correspondent of the Express. LABLACH.E. Lablache is the oldest and the best-established fa vourite of her Majesty's Theatre. He made his first appearance in this country some 20 years ago, and from that time, with the exception, we believe, of one year's secessio n , h e h as returned hi ther every spring with increased popularity. Twenty years is a long test applied to public performers; and be that could pass such an ordeal of time must possess merits of the very highest order, which could conquer the appetite for novelty, and overcome the fickleness of popular applause. All this Lablache has effected. The public, so far from being wearied at the long-continued cry of" Lablache the Great," as were the Athenians cf hearing Aristides everlastingly called " the just," elevates him, if possible, into greater popularity yearly. His place is not to be supplied ; no other artiste, not even Herr Formes, could compensate for his Ices. Independently of his powers as an actor and a singer, so great a lover is he of his art, that he will undertake with delight the most trifling character in order to ensure the success of a piece. From this it follows that no great singer has, within our recollection, undertaken such a variety of characters. We find him in every possible grade of representation ; from the loftiest tragedy to the most burlesque comedy he is equally great and efficient. From Bra bantio to Dan Pasquale—from Marino Faliero to Dandolo. Through all the gradations of passion and humour he exhibits a superior insight into humanity, and, with the finest dramatic artifice and discrimina tion, he seizes on the salient points, and strikes them out into bold relief, giving life and verisi militude to his abstractions. In a comic part he fills up the stage with his acting, no less than with his voice and size. Every character around him seems merely subsidiary. He is the sun of humour, about which the rest, as planets, perform their revolutions, deriving light and heat from him. He is the centre of gravity, that attracts all the laugh ing humours from his auditory. Yes, we say gravity, nor therein are we guilty of a bull. In his most whim sical efforts his countenance is as serious as that of a mid-day owl. While all around are convulsed with cachinations, his face is as compased as a Chinese mandarin's, or a Spanish hidalgo's sitting for a genealogical portrait. His comedy is not sparkling and effervescent like champagne, it partakes more of the body and flavour of tokay ; you may sip it—the smallest taste is palatable. lie possesses somewhat of the stolidity of Liston, with occasionally the raciness of Dowton. His humour is as rotund as his person, and his person is a hogshead of wit and mirth. Lablache's voice is an organ of most extraordinary power. It is impossible by description to give any notion of his volume of sound. He is an ophicleide among singers. One may have some idea of this power of tone, when it may be truly asserted that with the entire opera band and chorus playing and singing forte, his voice may be as distinctly and separately heard above them all as a trumpet among violins. He is the very Stentor of vocalists. When he sings he rouses the audience, as the bugle doth the war-horse, or as the songs of Tvrtaeus re-animated the Spartans. With this prodigious vehicle of sound, his singing is distinguished by superior softness and expression. Lablache is a thorough musician, and no artiste on the stage excels him in the knowledge and appliances of his art. He has written a work on the principles of singing, which has been published in England ; and he was chosen, some years since, as the vocal instructor of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria. This great singer is as great in person as he is in fame. He is nearly, if not fully, six feet high. His figure, though exube r oat, is portly and commanding ; and his entire bead one of the finest that ever decorated a human body. Notwithstanding the opinions about his age, and the cognomen of " old," which for many years has at tached itself to his name, Lablache is still compara tively young. For the space of twenty years has he been the pride and delight of the frequenters of her Majesty's Theatre. This season Lablache has been particularly fine. His Celiban, in Halevy's opera La Tempesta, has added another wreath to the brow already groaning with these proofs of popularity. We believe that Lablache has entered into an engagement With Mr. Lumley for three years.—Bentley's Mis cellany for September. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. The Society of Arts has just issued the following notice in reference to the Exhibition of 1851: " The intimate connection of the Society of Arts with the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in 1851, which is a subject of congratulation to the members of the society as the auccettoul enlargement of an idea the society has long aimed to realise, has ap peared to the Council to render altogether supetflueus any attempt on the part of the society to pursue its ordinary course for the encouragement of arts, manu factures, and commerce by the offer of its usual prizes for the session cf 1850 and 1851. • " The Council have, therefore, considered how they might most usefully apply that portion of the revenue of the society to the particular circumstances of the year. " The Council are of opinion that the most useful work they can undertake, _anti one they believe to be rrictly auxiliary to the views of their Royal President, his Royal Highntss the Prince Albert, and her Ma jesty's Commissioners for the Exhibition, will be to encourage de production of philosophical treatises on the various departments of the Exhibition, which shall set forth the peculiar advantages to be derived from each to the arts, manufactures, and commerce of the country. " The Council accordingly offer, in the name of the society, the large medal and 251. for the best, and the society's small medal and 10/. for the second best trea tise, on the objects exhibited in the section of raw ma terials and produce. " A. large medal and 25/. for the best, and a small medal and 101. for the second best treatise on the ob jects exhibited in the section of machinery. " A large medal and 251. for t he best, and a small medal and 101. for the second best treatise on the objects exhibited in the section of manufactures. " A large medal and 251. for the best, and• a small medal and 101. for the second best treatise on the objects exhibited in the section of fine arts. " Each treatise must occupy, and not exceed, 80 pages of the size of the Bridgewater Treatises. " The society will also award its large medal and 25 guineas for the best general treatise upon the Exhibition, treated commercial;y, politically, and statistically; and small medals for the best treatises on any special objects or class of objects exhibited. " The treatises for which rewards are given are to be the property of the society; and if deemed suitable for publication, should the Council see fit, they will cause the same to be printed and published, and will award to the author the net amount of any profits which may arise from the publication after the payment of the ex penses. " The treatises to be delivered at the society's house on or before the 30th of June, 1851. "In announcing this lizt, there is no intention on the part of the Council to confice the rewards of the society to the subjects named there, though, for the reasons given, they do not anticipate that communications of in terest on other subjects will be submitted." Gainsborough (bays the Lincolhshire Times) has for a week been kept in a state of considerable excitement by a number of boys being placed in the stocks in the market-place for Sunday gaming. They were confined three hours each on several days. Large importations of fruit continue to be made into the port of London from Belgium. The King and Queen of the Belgians hare arrived at (Mend. The stay of their Majesties is intended to be pro longed to the end of the present month, in the hope of im proving the health of the Queen. A regular steam communication between Lirerpool and Trieete will commence on the 20th hist