The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-13 00:00:00

,Ac )le of 11 ,7Q ' TROOPS. ,r Tog y es ter- D rtbern displAY by' th '' e rec! - jod ds, A nd m odern GreAt y'orgg i p artiFi l : )t brill° fnl sea „ a the iv a iltero st , 0 ches s. e king Tbi° 091 f r erraP ld 3y would veliho o con ' c , ult fr. it il9b bat tb e . re f gbh a° u ps tha tte „, u , and senl ' h y le tp 7e Whech 3l tis ri i L yra-t 3 O I Co ' do S , ft .; d a P: 0 - 0 151°s : to jo e. i cii; t n s s , ( i e sty o 'llos° klq 1c111; 'alter in g li of l ive Br a CO suel l an e na, 6 11 :1'0 A ir tte ode- ; oint in , g or isine , I !" (iciet ' l llmousli to Orri C" - f 00 8- ° of s= o ° o - t 4ill P` 0 ,1 fll 17 t" Y e i ' ler ioa Ls au" °- ID' „ nil . for e L 2 : ti 6 th° we ose, n , rn on- 1 • re, -' to • ' your , d tha° an Thel tio ause. )Y a 7,:f -if a' y t heto• o jootl , n t 0 1 " on, they to rej e ; ien tly -2 rown• GE rt3 l Lijo iiO . S jv Of 1 1 erS. eldestboo- Sof )I ' l Dudley , i n fancY' ra I W 3.1 __The 1 1 -nast rk er ere • no a c- Larch 7' THE KAFIR IT A,II, SUCCESS OF TEIE A RRIVAL OF THE BOSPHORUS FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. ?L2 MOUTH, MABCII 13.—The Bosphorus screw t 8 ; e : 11 : v essel, Captain J. Vine Hall, arrived here last evening at ten o'clock, having made the passage from Cape in 38 days, including stoppages. She left 8 Cape on o • w Leone on the 21st Fee. February errs 1, -42 rcey, having stopped there four days to coal. us left Cape St. Vincent on the 28th of February. eeling at the Cape on the leaving of the Bose L e " cl lts was that Sir Harry Smith would very shortly .„,;mace the K a fi rs t o su bj ec tion. Troops and money o nce however much wanted. The extracts from t he 1; 8 e P e11 will show that the gallant commander wa s ‘ l . 4t en taking decisive steps. There ware 3,000 e °° P 2 there and 9 000 Hottentots, under Sir Harry S mith. , °Et her arrival in Plymouth Sound, the Bosphorus ISs brought direct alongside the pier of the Great ester Dock Company, and the mails were at once , lyta in charge of Mr. Markes, the postmaster of outh and conveyed to the station of the South l i v on Railway Company. 4 0 4 ' 3 the ordinary train would not start before Ch. 03 1 12 . this morning, the officials of the railway, agree te prior arrangement by the directors, at one i e l , fli s special train prepared to take on the ma 41?atehes, and such passengers as were disposed to 5t:1 1 ,, 1 themselves of it. This train was ready for d th e ,"il at about a quarter to two this morning, an wi i iefore by this arrangement nearly twelve hours b asftined in the delivery of the letters in Lon lot i; tied the vessel gone on to Southampton, her r 4 could not have arrived in London until some sv Viii e i - d ee c Zr eight hours at the least later than they now sij f or Mail included several boxes for the Admiralty ra l4 ,°r other departments of the Government, and 1,1 s eamen's letters. of ; e t/ glean the following from a very scanty suppl y urnals :-- Feb t/ Cape of G oo d H o p e E xc h ang e Gazette, of 41 The says • • the last post brought news of a success achieved over li te sstifir e nemy. O n t h e 21 s t u lti mo , a t 9 Jam e r ort for e : e nd Alice Town were attacked by a very scrone tse,' e stimated variously at from three to six thousand !ar - ' n u ,ghting in divisions, and supported by a large nue- - 4 4 0 - k ' mounted men, among whom were supposed to eQ n Sandilli and Umlangeni. alte r 'eghting lasted till a quarter-past 2 P.M., and theto a rious captures and recaptures of cattle belonging se em Post, Post, ended in the total defeat and retreat cl the the p?' The brunt of the affair seems to have fallen on ttee, lt tnes, some 300 in number, who fought with great masse Y, and the artillery, which played on the enemy'' k 3 with fine effect. Manana, brother of the chief rope, s , w ass shot. From the number of corpses alreedy !°0 e, -4 upon the field, they cannot have lost less than 'tisr e as and, from the execution done by the artiLe to, t4 01.6 -I P e eted that the lesson given them was still muds B y er s avers. Numerous bodies, wounded or corpse:, R be seen thrown across horses and carried off. tled o : on our side was 6 Fingoes killed and 10 1417-General Somerset regrets, in his dispatch, not I Leltl te b n len able to follow up the success ; but Le had N e l" his garrison by dispatching a force to meet a torat waggons expected from Graham's Town, which s "te e s.t ially did not make its appearance till after the „ Th e l 'aci dispersed, and arrived in safety. iahr t ; . ` h oyal part ot the Kat River people, at Fort Arm attic' were re istress the rebels ported to b© in great d s , . 4, (lriV en them to the Tower, taken possession of all 4 'ernal buildings, and cut off the supply of water. (I sz syes, Press had reached Graham's Town from the t 0 4 ;7. The garrison at Fort Cox were all right. nit; i 4 , 4l Davies, with 300 or 350 men of the Albany 1 14,7 ha d marched from Trompetters, it was supposed, al so " e brift, where he would be opposed by Seyolo, with t olage force. Perhaps the latter may be attacked on the ‘koe s B ,,, i de, at the same time, by a force from King Mi. Th ' 6 "• L e f • ollowing is an extract of a letter, dated Gra lkll; 1, °l 'm, Jan. 18 : Ne lee rtitude and doubt; nothing in the horizon to ti e ton our hearts; the apparent lull in affairs gives oA ai t s ,!rious apprehensions. Our lines of communica , cel r " the ar cut off—every pass being completely . it .eon a - e v ed by the m eemy. The little intelligence gleanea by stealth through the instrumentality of t eto qp 'Who run a great risk in bringing in dispatches. ee, t , i on Rare we are more fortunate in getting news. 1 ,1 0 4 , Somerset is busy in enlarging and repairing Few Kafirs seen in that neighbourhood; they Nit to h ave seceded from that spot and gone else ad is imagination whither. It is, however, sus -44' that they were assembling near Line Drift to lathe see e e y were bring either iuts e cereees, and the next express may Intelligence, or something to cheer our spirits. „ 41 ,thi i `ttlg hinges on Sir Harry's next step; if success- Vski ti thiarabies are safe for a period; if a faux pas be 00, 1 , 1 ' e cl) the colony will be overrun and devaitatel t ie jaet dive into futurity, but we are sitting on the 1 1 4( 11 - t havolcano. Very few ' Kafirs et in the colony. '`h 'et confident only those who hove either deserted 14 %qv lee of their masters, or who have been dismissed 1 , 1 1 , 0 „ 44 , and on their route to Kafirlaud. The colonists, ,14 0 : Will observe by the papers, have suffered severely. '%lded are doing well. I saw several parties from it eft retry, and they had come from different p arts, ► • - ither firs nor the spoor of Kafirs were seen. 1s ser a e four or five waggons have arrived in Graham's aatlr4 r ene Port Elizabeth, without molestation, let, or th tas, ti e.e. The Kafirs evidently intend to have a dee th'rnggle for their country. lam happy to say , it iti . " age against the Katirs of having murder/ iti l l hA tilld children is denied. Up to thie nothing o SC' has taken place. Mutilation of the dead is On tilttiesit,true, as in former wars. We have quite sufficient ; sibs t 0 '•'° Witness, without adding to it by exaggeration. t ta itlntiety exists regarding Fort Cox and Fort White, t s 4 kili t : f Which must be short of provisions. If the 1 1 forces do not hasten to the front, it is dread aNiteer.ficiPate the consequences to the poor creatures .d 4 , 4 4 44 ln these batteries. An epidemic of some kin 4 1 413, ~I lue • Ophthalmia no doubt will prevail. These ter a Ple 1 „" °41 fears—may God avert such visitations.. The W l ° o „,gerly calling out for Sir Andries; ii i e etu.et thousands will flock around him. %ns 6, 4 had in this town to the " pressgang. Shock eo scenes attendant en it; and, shame to . ea!' solely to the natives. What will Britata ti ey e ti ti t,ots t ' hears that coercion is used to force 2 the ; th 4 ght, while the white men is spared. A as.. ba lk s t e the a ll mlghtful times. I heard some Hottentote say 13 0 n ot gist force them to go to Kafirland, but they V d tsea;hroake th e m fir e ! By the bye, speaking of the -f lier - s ; are you not both surprised and shocked to 1 4- , 1 1 ' 'election? Here it is thought to be general; e almot bring my mind to think so. 1 11 14 41 a "en much of them, and though they lire, 146 ranch of the Government, and more the of Sir Harry Smith, yet I be t 4" ile -6111 loyal. Some misguided wretches li t d e stel ° 3 Joined the enemy, and some from fear and o s l9el ll , e t the great body of the hottentots ore true 1 10, 4 4 pel'en, as will be shown ere the war terminates. Is: to r i e more than one reason for their disincline- L t ° th e e ,nt e but the most serious obstacle to their tak le tip "Is the want of confidence in those who have tc lo pointed as their officers. Let men in whom they loNlC„ ll nnence be placed over them, and then the Vlty ; w ill have no reason to suspect either their ba thatliheir valour. However, there is not a doubt ti t hose who have deserted to stn the enemy will ta' , ilt e ' t r Y serious effect on the race in general, f or I a to a aa se t Lfiderstand that some influential individuals are laZas 0 0 ranks of the Kafirs. If Sir Andries were Utoe lv s 4 illisele there would not be a deserter. Could I t'sr B 3 4 Qt to believe the Hottentots intended to join the k m 4,'„ would not remain one minute on the frontier. ev - ve Idountcd Riflemen would be sure to go also. 10;4 1 , e re entertained of the Theopolis people, as a rep : 4,t4. as in circulation, that on a farmer going there to ask tiiNt`pers, he was answered that they wished every eLte p l s hman' . ii throat cut." I have 19 of these men on ci ki e s reaping, and one or two of my friends have )p 541 4 of 3 0. This is a contradiction to the report , q l +lo, Z. Howeve r , the Rev. N. Srait, of Graham 3 iilttigti Aye Pastor of the Hottentots, on hearing that some etl River people were gone over to the enemy , eis te te, r t advisable to p rocee d t o Th e opolie to find out ; 0 4 2 41 Y communieation had been made to the peo telgq tf l '• He found th ere h a d not ; and states that he eil,te th e ln all loyal. Prob a bly you will hear through tb, ph e r channel the f u ll particulars of his interview %), Upwards of 200 burghers marched elf yes tetcko Fort Peddie, chiefly Hottentots; amongst •Pero the first c ontingent from Port Ellis- i yee w uen the next batch will be forthcoming no Ven t a, B * 'You may well imagine Sir Harry's anxiety op a tileo,„T a s he is in a great measure on the fickleness 'as' real 7°l es. In fact, it surprises me that they have so Ye. %via:tined faithful. How sadly he blundered even with Oa k al a teb t (34 he told the chiefs that he should hold them lisi` e Yes Vol' the pacific intentions of their people. t rl 'itii r) 'a whole policy has been directed towards un- S ek ltek g their power as chiefs. Hot and cold with a tk k tl eat ee ee l At one time, when it suited his views, to y ea nlge their power end give strength to it, and a . Polley to destroy their chieftainship in tote. 1 t l est • • • • • upv Intelligence this morning from the front is I t hat 4 se' Of 400 Hottentots have joined the enemy, s 'e lkatirs are . making every effort to enlist the 'At r ed Population in their favour. 4 4 t act 1; 2 1, ,)f another letter, dated Graham's Town, ‘ 4 l, Otre t ".' - ' 3 l half-past two P.M. 111 11%.,, BUT, since my last to you, that the favour 'Se Ti; B 'ioniconveyed to you regarding the Hotten kitueal ° ° ,Polie is quite reversed. Evidence has this c e ,? 4 en before the clerk of the peace to the effect Ot in o ,7Piraey exists against the English. Measures o k the s'eration to disarm them. lam fully aware Os "just • + far) ate the entapieby the people in this town et t ::te 4 1 : coloured race—thou they not .._ to . call cut for their assistance. Nsi. INIn 11 dihelieve now, from the many fact re t tee disclosed, Chet the defection of the Rotten • eta re extensive than is dreamt of. In other re ap t tl k tie, to r e in 4.ate quo. This hemisphere, dark and hal''a 01. ° One knows what an hour may bring forth. l et th e b 'Phant'a Hoek—a disision between the English si lt .4 'Stub, almost coming to actual conflict. I have ti ta ~l ° with' possession giving the whole particulars, bi Iva] . unld saying more for the present, hoping that smooth as 't; I ant not desirous that and peri .e English should in the moat remote manner THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, MARCH 13, lB5l. fJ4 clividod, at a time when unanimity of feeling ought Th..! Frontier Times, of Jan. 21, says : S>nce the defeat and death of the traitor Hertnanus, nt Fort Beaufort, on the morning of the 7th inst., there has been no agvressive movement on the part of the enemy, either in British Kaffraria, or within the limits of the colony. His Excellency, it is well understood, is con centrating as large a force as he can muster at head quarters, to assail the enemy. In the mean time, the Kafirs, it is supposed, arc closely watching his proceed ' ings, and will probably make a desperate effort to inter cept the supplies, which must in a short time be sent to the two posts, Fort Cox and Fort White, with which all communication have been cut off for some weeks. If they should be unsuccessful in this attempt, and his Ex cellency should be sufficiently reinforced to be able to follow up any success by vigorous severity, they will in all probability overrun the colony. Their first rush will be tremendous, and will be withstood only by the most populous towns and the largest fortified camps. Look ing, then, to this obvious probability, it is earnestly and anxiously recommended that all the small lagers that may exist throughout the country should be at once abandoned, and that all preparations be cotnplet id with out delay in every town and village to repel the enemy, fur in the precent state of affairs, no man residing in any of the border districts can count upon his safety for a single day. The Cape of Good Hope Observer, of Jan. 28, says : The intelligence from Kafirland is that the Governor would move, it was supposed, yesterday morning, upon an encampment of the Kafirs on the Debe Flats, between Fort Cox and Fort White. It is trusted by all that the Kafirs will here attempt a decided stand. The desultory operations of last war were the strength of the enemy. They scarcely once offered our troops a hope of entering into fair contest with them. Wearisome marches and counter-marches, with the position of our nimble-footed enemy very often unknown to us, were the character istics of the contest. The Prophet has so far worked upon their hopes this time, that Hermanus and his people had the boldness to attack oven the town of Fort Beaufort, avid they happily met with a fit repulse. He has, it is said, held out hopes to them of successfully en. countering the troops on the open field—a proceeding in which the military power of the civilised man, when opposed to that of the savage, will not fail to assert its superiority. The prospect, thus, of some effective proceedings against the Kafirs appears nearer. The speedy arrival of the volunteers sent from the west had much encou raged his Excellency, and they would form probably a part of the force with which Sir H. Smith would proceed. The movement, it is stated, was of the greater import ance, as it would convey relief and the means of com munication to Forts Cox and White. A letter from Graham's Town, of which an extract is published below, speaks very despondiegly of the ex tent of the disaffection attributed to the float ntota The people et the station cf Theopolis are said, it is feared upon unexceptional authority, to be disaffscted to the English, and to be engaged in some conspiracy against them. The number of persons at this station is not large, certainly, but each addition is painful that is made to the distrust which exists between the several portions of the community in the cast. From rat River reports arc more favourable. The Frontier Times states that 400 Hottentots are in camp at Buxton, under Field-Cornet Botha, and 300 are at Fort Armstrong. Or the loyalty of these no suspicion is mentioned, a circumstance in the highest degree en couraging. Field-Cornet Botha is the officer named in his Excetieney's recent proclamation, commented upon last week. Some particulars of the proceedings at Theopolis are given (rein the Frontier Times. The employment of the press-gang at Graham's Town for the compulsory s , rvice of coloured persons only, is a most unfortunate business. There can be no doubt that on the coloured people at this time, within the border depends much of the safety of the colony. Some fears are entertained of their faithfulness, exaggerated perhaps, but yet having at least a measure of Lan:ta ttoo. Hence the present is not a time, if any time may be permitted for the purpose, to make any improper dis tinctions between the races, or to tempt them to view the whites otherwise than as friends and equals. It will be seen that there are references above, which want of papers preclude our rendering clear. The latest intelligence received from the interior districts is to January 22, but supplies nothing of importance to add to the foregoing. Arrangements had been made further to facilitate and induce the ear dment of volunteers. The Governor had appoi❑ted Friday, February 7, as a day of fasting and humiliation, in consequence of the wan—Daily News. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SLOUGH STEEPLE CHASES. WEDNESDAY. Free Handicap SteepiCchc;;;;:of 5 sous. each, with 20 added; the winner to ray 5 sov!:. towards expensei. About 4 miles. Mr. Vevers's Volatile, aged, 9;t 10Ib ...(Sadler) 1 Captain Fraser's Kilkenny, aged, 10;t 101b...(Frisby) 2 Mr. IL Thomas's llensburgh, lOst 51b... (Sail) 3 Betting-5 to 4 agst Kilkenny, 2 to 1 agst Rens burgh, 4 to 1 agst Volatile, and 5 to 1 apt The Hunter. Won ly six lengths, and about the same distance be. t acen second and third. The others did cot pass the post. A Selling Race of 3 sow. each, with 20 added. the win. nr to say 3 cove. towards expenses. About 4 miles. Mr. J. Darby's Cowslip, lOst 71b ...(S , yfort) 1 Mc. G. Gray's Outcast, 1 Ist (Land) 2 Mr. Smith's Tamworth, lOst 71b• (Burrows) 3 Farmers' Stakes of 1 soy. each, with LO added; I Ist 71b each; winner and professional jockies extra. About 3 miles. Mr. Shu Ale's Chronometer, 12st 31b... ...(Rackley) 1 Betting—Even on Widow M'Crea. Won in a canter, the othcqs having gone the wrong course. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING, 1851. _ The following is a list of the horses that have arrived for t';e ensuing races:— * Mr. Cunningham's ch g Quadruped, aged; *:slr. El more': b g' Mulligan, aged; Mr. J. H. Kemp's br g Hope, aged; *Mr. J. Darling's b h Bedford, 5 yrs; Mr. Atkinson's Chieftain, 5 yrs; *Mr. Walker's b g Cadeby, aged; *Mr. Higgins's b m Maria Day, aged; Mr. Jamie son's b f Merriment, 2 yrs ; Mr. H. Stebbing'a b c Knook Knoll, 3 yrs; Mr. H. Stebbing's br f by Ithuriel out of Miss Norton, 2 yrs; Mr. H. Stebbing's b c Guardsman, 3 yrs; Mr. Farrar's bl c Viscount, 5 yrs; Mr. G. Bar ton's b f The Little Fawn, 3 yrs; Mr. G. Barton's bl f Madame Wharton, 3 yrs; Mr. Allen's ch c The Saxon, 3 yrs; Mr. Jones's ch c by Faugh-a-ballagh, dam by Liverpool, 3 yrs; Mr. Lister's b m The Wharfdale Maid, aged; Mr. Foster's ch m Nanny, aged; Mr. Phillips's b g aged; Mr. Wiley's br f Eliza Middleton, 4 yrs; Mr. Eddison's h c Slang, 4 yrs; Mr. W. Wright's b f Miss Flyaway, 3 yrs; Mr. B. Eddison's ch c by John o' Gaunt out of John Cosser's dam, 3 yrs; Mr. T. Lister's br f Nsncy, 3 yrs; Mr. Armstrong's b c Har leiton, 5 yrs; Mr. T. Lister's Lady of the Grove, 3 yrs; Mr. Lawson's b h aged. (Those to which an ssteriLk is prefixed are engaged in the steeplecase.) B o xes are also engaged for Lord Eglintou's Belus and Pepinia, Mr. Dawson's Old Claret and Reversion, Mr. Stotas br h Witchcraft, Mr. Hutton's Psycho and Dame Tattle, Mr. Gardner's Little Queen, Mr. Osborne's Abd el-Kader, Mr. Lamplugh's standard and The Wild Hero; and numerous others from John Scott's, Wad low's, Osborne's, John Shepherd's, C. p ec k' s , J . Dawson's, &c. PEDESTRIANISM AT THE REDHOUSE. Battersea was on Monday the scene of an unexampled occurrence in pedestrianism. Dead heats for sellingers have been threefold, and for most of the minor turf events, memory will serve to recal the like occurrence. But in a fourteen-mile rac e between a p air of bipeds, such a result is a long way beyond the memory of that respectable personage " the oldest inhabitant" of any where. Caarles Westhall has so often appeared befo re the public, that a supplement o f a daily journal would about hold his detailed performances, and no more. Old Smith, of Ipswich, first burst upon the world as a " fest one" some four years since. They were matched yes terday for 501. to walk seven miles, and run seven miles, succestively; and in consequence of frequent interrup tions on the turnpike, they selected the enclosure at the Itecliaouso. Battersea, for the contest. THE MATcli.—At three o'clock the pair started to walk the seven mil es , k ept we ll t og ether, neither much in advance, hut alt e r nate l y leading for four mile s . At that time the pace, cons id er i ng th a t the ground was slippery, and the men walking on turf, was terrific. About this period it appeared io tell on Westhall, for got a lead, which h e gra d ua ll y i ncr eased till the seven miles were completed by him 100 yards in ad. ' vance. Time, 58 minutes! The men, immediately on arriving at the mark, went cif at a run, Smith's 100 yards giving him nearly 170 advantage, when Westhall changed his ayle of going. At about two miles, Westhall, by dint of great exertion, came up to S m i th and paste d him . The old 'an persevered, and Westhall seemed at about the third inile of the running in a little difficulty • but both kept gamely to their work, keeping so close that, when everh one slackened, the other for a time took the lead. This occurre3 at least twenty times during the la.t four place, Westh a ll l ea ding miles of the race. Finally, the last roun d of the enclo errautaebisotgru;gbgalet tools about 120 y ar d s f rom home smith got to him, and at the straight run for the finish 'l N: l i l t ' ' I l l strong; a desperate the 'long racc ended with the closest thing ever seen. The referee, a most respectable and unimpeachable man, pro nounced it a dead heat ! Total time, 1 hour and 44 mi nutes! A decision which was assented to by many y who were nearest the goal, among whom the general opinion was, that a more decided tie hail scarcely ever lozna seen in the shortest of sprint races. A prize of 51., given by Mr. Ireland, the proprietor of - the ground, was then run for, di.tariee 120 yards. Mayne (Mile-end), J. Petterson, Jesse Smith, en,! L ee (a novice), appeared at the post. They started level, and Mayne won a good retie by a couple cf yarde,. The weather real unfavourable, but the attendance gun& ANTICIPATED VISIT OF HEIL MAJESTY TO P EAT _ namm—lt is now fully anticipated that her 111 , jesty will honour Pembroke Dockyard with her premaice on the cca sion of the launch of the Victoria, first rzCc, which it is ex pected will take place very shortly. Should her Majesty honour the neighbourhood with her proseqce, the Earl of Cawdor will plo.;;e his seat, Stc,ckpole •court, at the disposal of her Majesty. The do;k-yard streng:h has been increased to 8i) men.—Adcertistr. -- - Extraordinary virtues are ever defAmed by those who want the courage to imitate them.—•Eli=u cook's Journal. - - A CAUTION.—Never nod to an acquaintance at an auction. We did so once, and when the sale closed we found four broken chairs, six cracked flower pots, and a knock !creed bedstead knocked down to us. What we intended as nods to a friend, had been taken by the auctioneer as bids for the kitchen furniture. LITERATURE. ITIIE GERI-11,4NY AND AGRICOLA OF TACITUS. With English Notes. By the Rev. John T. White. Longman, Brown, Green. and Longmans. Editions of Tacitus, the incomparable historian of antiquity, cannot, to our thinking, issue from the press too frequently. As a perfect model of style in prose composition, as the most admirable prototype that could, perhaps, be selected from the literature of any tongue, in regard to the graces of narrative, Tacitus must ever be welcomed by the judicious and discerning. The learned and reverend editor has, therefore, acted wisely in choosing his text in parti cular for annotation. In extracting his " Germania" and his " Agricolee " from the mass of voluminous records in which they are, as it were, imbedded, Mr. White has exercised a no less laudable discretion. Each of these masterly productions has, with all its astonishing condensation, the indisputable merit of completeness. The one affords a comprehensive view of the origin, the geographical position, the manners, and the people of Germany, net exactly of the coun try known now-a-days as Germany, but what was formerly known by that designation, namely, the land beyond or on the eastern bank of the Rhine, Germania Transrhenana. The' other relates the memorable career and achievements of Julius Agricola, accompanied (a matter of no small interest to us English !) by a description of Britain, and an account of the famous defeat of the Caledonians. Those who have in any way endea voured to appreciate the beauties of Tacitus will re qaire no reminder whatever of their splendour; they will cherish a vivid remembrance of the felicities of his ripened and eloquent diction, the charms of his episodical illustrations, the force of his onward moving and picturesque narrative. Who can forget his graphic portraitur 3of the German people :—"lpse eorum opinionibus accedo, qui Germanise populos, nuilis aliarum nationum connubiis infector, propriaua et sinceram et tantm sui similem gentern exstitisse arbitrantur. Unde habitus quoque corporum, quam quam in tanto hominum numero, idem omnibus : truces et ccerulei oculi, make conice i magna corpora et tantiCin ad impetum valida." A minutely finished and exquisitely coloured enamel of the ap pearance of the ancient Germans could convey no more brilliant picture than those closing syllables. Again, how perfect in its minute exactitude that mention of the personal aspect of Agricola—" Quod si habitum quoque ej us posteri noscere velint, decentior quam sublimior fait : nihil metes in vultii: gratia oris supererat." Surely, after its kind, this is us marvel lous a portrait in pen and ink as any ever traced by , the hand of Minasi. The notes appended to the vo lume by the rev. editor are laboriously lucid and ex plicit, betraying more than once, without one vestige of ostentation, an intimate acquaintance with most of the masterpieces of classic literature. CHAMISSO'S PETER SCHLEMIIIL. With a Vocabulary and copious Notes. By Faith Le bahn. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. Adelbert von Chanaisso should have survived until now, instead of dying in 1830, that he might have witnessed this very splendid tribute to his abilities. A Frenchman by birth and educa tion, he nevertheless rendered himself so pro found a master of the Teutonic language as to have produced one work at least worthy of being numbered among the masterpieces of German litera- ture. The wonderful history of "Pater Schlemihl, the Shadowless Man," had been many years familiar ised to the reading population of Europe before its author had breathed his last; but, honoured as he had been by reiterated translations, it was reserved for Falck Lebahn to confer upon Chamisso the greatest glory yet accorded to him as a writer. lie has se lected " Schlemihl" for a standard classic of his tongue, as the model for the acquisition of the Ger man language, just as " Telemaque" has been the model for the acquisition of the French language, fragments of " Quixote" of the Spanish language, or stories from the " Decameron" of the Italian lan guage. The laurel crown thus placed by scholars on the head of Fenelon, of Cervantes, or of Boccaccio, has been at length placed also on the temples of Chamisso. The author of this posthumous corona tion, moreover, is no other than Falck Lebahn, a Ger man grammarian, who has already done so much towards imparting a knowledge of his mother tongue to Englishmen. We are rejoiced that the wonderful history of the " Shadowless Man" has been thus put to an account so peculiarly admirable, and been employed for a purpose for the furtherance of which it is so excellently adapted. We have always considered that the selection of an entertaining class book, through which to break up the difficulties of a language', was the accomplishment of half the labour of tuition. The imagination in its perusal aids the judgment, and the dryness of mere rules of syntax and prosody becomes lost in the interest of the narra tive. No story more admirably calculated to secure these advantages could have been chosen than the story of the strange and surprising adven tures of " Peter Schlemihl." The student will hurry on in his task-work in his anxiety to watch the unbending faithfulness of Ben del and the rascally knaveries of Rascal. The bird's neat cap rendering Peter Schlemihl invisible, the inexhaustible purse of Fortunatus endowing him with incalculable wealth, the seven-leagued boots enabling him to perambulate the globe in five minutes, are all incidents that arrest the fancy and stimulate the curiosity of the reader. The horrid consequences to poor Schlemihl of having sold his shadow to the abominable old gentleman in the grey coat, only tend to rouse the attention to a more engrossing vigi- Ilene. Added to which the melancholy close of the love passages, first with Fanny and afterwards with Minna, imparts to the fiction a pathetic charm, blended with its many grotesque and fantastic pecu liarities. The horror with which the narrator re counts his first interview with the grey devil, who afterwards deprived him of his shadow, when he pro duced from his pocket so many incongruous articles— eine Brieftasche, ei t Fernrohr, ein Teppich, zwanzig schritle tang wad zehn bred,: ein Luftzelt von derselben Grosse, and alle daze gehorigen Stang en end Eisen, !—cannot be forgotten as among the more hu morous portions of the narrative; and these portions seem to us to indicate most vividly the quiet sense of fun with which Chamisso contemplated his fantasy throughout the major part of its composition. Ap pended to "the present edition of " Peter Schlemihl," are, as the title-page truly proclaims, very " copious notes," accompanied by an elaborately compiled voca bulary. Altogether the volume is deserving of every commendation ; and we doubt not will tend very considerably to confirm Falck Lebahn's already widely-extended popularity. THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER GOLDSMITH. With Thirty Illustrations. Cundall and Addey. Numerous as are the editions already existing of these classic po3ms, the sweetest fruits of the genius of .Oliver Goldsmith, there is yet room for more— especially when they come to us, like the present, with so many graceful and characteristic embellish ments. Upon the illustrations here given to the " Traveller," the "Deserted Village," and the fugi tive pieces by which they are happily followed, the delicate and congenial fancies of John Absolon, of Birket Foster, of James Godwin, and of Harrison Weir have been employed. Each of these draughts men has performed his part in the labour of love to admiration. The frontispiece, by Foster, is an ex quisite little sketch of Auburn—" Sweet Auburn." in one page "the hollow sounding bittern guards its nest," in a no th er " t h e swa i n respons i ve t o th e milk-maid sings ;" h ere th e no i sy geese are ga b • bling o'er the pool," and here again " the village statesmen talk with looks profound." Scarcely a line but suggests an en grav i ng t o it se lf, an d o f th ese suggestions the very best have been realized. We are rejoiced to see that simil ar e diti ons o f ot h ers among the English classics are in preparation, and anticipate with satisfaction the issue in this gui4e of the " Vicar of Wakefield," the " Seasons" of Thomson, and the poetical works of Gray and Cowper. The series is entitled to very general encouragement. BORtE VAC TViE: a Thought Book. Collected, arranged, and edited by James Elmes. Longman Brown, Green, and Longmans. A lovely little bijou of a volume, printed after the bygone fashion,with scrolled initial letters, and capitals to the majority of the nouns substantive, with a wood-brown medieval-looking binding, and brick-red edges—such is the external appearance of the Bore Vacivx. Internally the book is precious, being a col lection of thoughts culled from the writings of " the wise spirits of all ages and all countries, fit for all men and all hours." Charles Lamb would infallibly have kissed it, as he did his dear mouldy old folios. " Thoughts," saith Jeremy Collier, " take up no room : when they are right they afford a portable pleasure,which one may travel with, without any trouble or incumbrance." And thoughts like these are here in abundance, gathered up from the lore of ages by the scholarly hand of James Elmes ' a learned man, who tell; us, very tou ch i n g l y , in his preface how his love of letters has hed to struggle against the great calamity of blindness, as it does likewise in the case of two illustrious historians, now living, a Frenchman and an American, Thierry and Prescott. Weighed down by the sorrows of his most grievous intirmitv, Janice Elates has, nevertLe less,contrived to gather together, in what he very beau tifully calls his " spicelegium of golden thoughts," the wisdom of many varying generations. The book is to general literature what the " Thumb Bible" (a work also published by the Messrs. Longman) is to biblical literature exclusively. The mere enumera tion of the great men who here speak to us in their own words —poet-, annalists, divines, essayiste, novel ists, philosophers —would be a labour cf needles , ex tent in the present notice, seeing that our aim is to commend all readers, but especially all tbiakera (for unfortunately there is a difference between them) to the wise and sententi , )us piges of the Hone Tracive. EXCURSIONS AND ADVENTURES IN NEW SOUTH WALES By John Henderson, Esq., 6'e. We have seldom met with a work more likely to fix public attention than the one bearing the above title, particularly at this time, when the swelling ocean of politics is strongly urging the tide of emi gration towards distant, and, to the inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, unknown settlements. And though a careful perusal of " Excursions and Adven tures in New South Wales," replete as these volumes decidedly are with multifarious information on all practical points, leaves us is considerable doubt as to the moral which the author wishes us to draw from his tale ; though we are at a loss to say whether his intention is to hold out inducement to future settlers in favour of that colony, or to deter them from the attempt, by an unflinching and positive account of the difficulties that await them in that region ; though we cannot even discover whether the writer's enter prising spirit was ultimately rewarded for his un wearied exertions by a moderate share of success, or whether sore disappointment was the result of his strenuous efforts, certain it is that the picture he draws of life in Australia is such as deeply to interest all classes of readers, but most of all those who may be now contemplating the selection of a spot whereon to "commence the world anew ;" and on these last in particular the author has a strong claim for grati tude. For, though the picture is not a flattering one; nay, more, because it lays bare all the disadvan tages they, the intended emigrants, will have to con tend with—because it gives a real insight into things as they really are, so far as to enable them to pause and ponder ere they come to a decision, their best thanks are due to him, the honest chronicler of the present history of a country which bids fair, under good management, to become one day one of the most important colonies of Great Britain. But the author's claims for popularity do not rest only upon the utility of his work to emigrants. To the general reader, also, it will prove highly entertaining, from the vast fund of information it contains upon many points connected with travels, natural history, botany, geology, &c., and last, though not least, from the many personal adventures of the writer, which would make the account of his residence in New South Wales almost as fabulous, and of course attractive, as the once incredible, and therefore by many readily believed, adventures of Defoe's hero; but that such things are now of daily occurrence, and consequently divested of much of the prestige which attaches to the marvellous, but not of the admiration due to patient endurance, energetic perseverance, indomitable cour age, under most trying circumstances. But to the book, as a book, we hasten to return. After a humorous, though in some respects ominous, descrip tion of his departure from the mother country, and progress to the antipodes, and of his safe arrival in Sydney (for which he is in duty bound most grate ful to the captain of his ship, seeing that he had well nigh commenced operations by a most venturesome and dangerous enterprise), we find him employing several months in reconnoitring the ground, procur ing information, visiting localities, and at last going to work in earnest. From that moment we follow him through several years of a settler's life, and can not but wonder at his good fortune in escaping un scathed the many dangers to which Europeans are exposed from ungenial climate, from the host of natural enemies which the very soil generates against man, or from the still more fierce hostility of the na tive tribes; at his having been able to retain through out his severe trials that taste for literature and the arts—that admiration of the beauties of nature—that aptness to see, discern, and judge, for which he was indebted to the civilization of the Old World, and which we find amply recorded and exemplified in the pages of his book, particularly in the latter part, in which he takes a scientific view of the subject he had before treated in the light of a great and important speculation. Finally, we leave him with the only regret of not knowing precisely what conclusion to draw from the whole, and recommend our readers to do as we did—read and Judge for themselves, only promising them that they will find room for merely one disappointment, viz., the omission of a chapter which the author doubtless deemed unnecessary, as being entirely personal to himself. FINE ARTS. View of the Building in Hyde park for the Exhibition of 1851. View of the Interior of the Building in Hyde-park for the Exhibitien of 1851. Published by G. Berger, Holywell-street. These lithographic views of the exterior and the interior of the Crystal Palace give a more accurate idea of what the wonderful structure really is than any that we have yet seen ; as works of art, also, they possess great merit. At the foot of each engraving we have fec similes of the signatures of Prince Albert, the originator of the Exhibition, and of that of Mr. Paxton, the architect of the Palace. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Queen and Prince were prevented, by the in clemency of the weather, from taking their usual early walk this morning, and the younger members of the Royal Family wale kept at home fur the same reason. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by her Lady in Waiting, is expected at Osborne this afcernoon, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness. There was no addition yesterday to the Royal dinner party. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Colonel Sir George Couper, left her residence, Frogmore, near Windsor, at ten o'clock yesterday morning for Farnborough. Her Royal Highness left the Farnborough station, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Oxford University C omm i ss i on met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, Downing-street. Present —the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlille, the Master of Pembr( ke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rye. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (S, - cretary). The Earl of Harrowby had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Coloni a l- o ffi ce. Mr. J. Morris, aolicit?r to the parish of All Saints, Poplar, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yester lay, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Earl of Minto gave a dinner to the Cabinet Mi- nisters yesterday evening, at his residence in Eaton square. The Transatlantic Packet station Commission met yesterday at the B:mrcl of Trade, Present—Earl Gran ville (Chairman), Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., Sir James Gordon, K.C.8., Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., and Captain Stephenson Ellerby. L ord Hobart, Secretary to the Commission, was in attendance. appointed to take place on Friday, when she will be buried late of Sefton's funeral is byTlhh6e D of o t w h a e g l e a r te C :b i le t' L s Ord, at the family vault, U SHIPB U ILDING.— 30 tons and 130 lorse The sc rew r4 P a steamC E D E N. shipT E D A p r a i b e i P a a . 11 T , C o a i f 8 e power, now lying at the Bromielaw all ready for sea, was laid down on the 12th of December, 1850, was launched on the 3d of the following February, and was ready to start on the 28th of the same month (Friday), making altogether only ten weeks from the time the keel was laid till the com pletion of the whole contract. Such dispatch is, no doubt, wonderful, and shows what management and the division of labour can accomplish in these go-ahead times. The Ara bian is a particularly handsome vessel, her great length • • her very fine lines, with a long giving floor. Her length is h 1 200 feet; breadth, 23 feet; dept . 7 feet; screw, 11 feet diameter, driven by spur gear, with engines on the im proved beam principle. She is intended for the Liverpool and Constantinople trade, to run in connexion with the Gre cian, recently fitted out by the same eminent builder, Mr. Robert Napier. The Arabian is owned by the Glasgow and Liverpool Shipping Company. and will be commanded by Captain Ewing, late of the West India mail service. Glasgow Citizen. The Arabian , arrived in the Mersey on Friday, and after a run from Greenock of only 16 hours.— ' Liverpool Albion. CAFE OF GOOD HOPE —Letters and papers have been received direct from Port Elizabeth, Algoa Bay, which confirm in all particulars the accounts previously arrived re garding the co.nmencernent of war on the frontier, and the entry of hordes of Katirs into the colony, Although the alarm of the colonists was very great, every available mea sure had been taken for their defence. The worst feature in this intelligence is the confirmation of the report that four thousand rounds of ammunition had fallen into the hands of the Kafirs, and that several of the Cape Mounted Rifles had mutinied. The Katirs are stated to bo well suppli e d with arms and ammunition. The Eastern Province Telegraph says, that during ' the last nine months no less than one hun dred thousand pounds weight of gun powder had passed through Port Elizabeth, consigned to private Parties in that province, together with between two and three thousand stand of arms. These supp li es had been received through two sources, viz., coastwise and direct. A A.RCIIITECTS' BENEVOLENT SOCIET Y.'--The first annual meeting of the friends of this charity was held yester day afternoon, at the Freemasons Tavern, Hr. Sidney Smirke in the chair. The minutes having been read and confirmed, the report of the committee was preslited. Although the society, which had for its object the relief of decayed members of the profession, had only been founded a few months, it had received very considerable support, giving a very favourable augury of its future success. , At th e close of lest year 170 gentlemen had become annual subscribers, and 30 or 40 more had since joined. The amount received up to the 31st December last was, altogether, 390 / , of which 3001. had been invested, and the remainder 1 to be applied to the ordinary purposes of the society. Some large donations had been received this year. The Royal Institute of British Architects had kindly granted to the association the use of their rooms for the meeting of the council, thus effecting a considerable saving to the society, and adding greatly to the convenience of some of its members. The council had drawn up a complete code of by-laws, which would be submitted to the meeting for their centirmatien. The report having been agreed to, the by-laws were decided upon, and, aft er the elec tion of its officers, the meeting thanked the chairman and separated. LARGE IMPORTATION OF PEARL S a ELLs.--The vessel Martha, which has just arrived in the docks from Panama. has brought the extraordinary large number of two miliionS and one hundred and four thousand pearl shells, consigned to an eminent foreign house in Loudon, and comprising the entire cargo. We belieTe Co large an importation of this shell as on the prese:3 occasion to be entirely unprecedented. FATHER GAVAZZTS LECTURE. Fa'h-r Gsyszzi, the great I eliee pre:teller, gave e second lecture at Willis's Rooms yesterday, at half , past two o'clock. The subject wee, The Celibacy of the Clergy." Father Gavazzi is Letter known, generally speaking than ho is in particular, and therefore a few words on his antecedents will not perhaps be unaccept able to the reader. He was born in I3ologna, in the )ear 1809, and was regularly brought up to the service of the Catholic Church, as member of the order of St. Barnabas. Subsequent to his ordination he obtained the professor ship of rhetoric at Naples, and in due course became the most popular preacher in Italy. In fact, from Como to Calabria, and from Genoa to Ancona, his fame resounded in every city. It is to his credit that et this period, though still essentially a priest—anti we are told that " the snake cannot slough his skie"—he was noted among his compeers for the largeness of his religious views and for the liberality of his secular politics. When Gregory XVI. died, and Pio None ascended the Papal throne, Gavazzi hailed, in common whli all his countrymen, the advent of a new era for the oppressed Italian people; and an eloquence almost unprece dented in point of force and of act gave utterance to his aspirations for freedom. In fact, at this period Gavazzi was the vox populi of the Roman states; for the people spoke through his organ. His first rips pearance, however, as a politician was on the occasion of the Milanese insurrection of 1848, when he solemnly pronounced a benediction of that event in the great church Santa Maria dello Rotund°, at Rome—better known as the " Pantheon." From thencefhrward, as Mazzini was th e h ea d, so was G avazz i recogn i sed as the voice of Italian freedom; and day after day he harangued thousands of Romans in the ancient theatre of their greatness, the arena of the Colosseum. Pio, unable to stern the flood of liberty that then overflowed the land like a life-giving river, treacherously yielded to the cur rent, the better to divert it; and consequently affected to encourage the orator. His object was, however, to re move him from Rome, which he effected by appointing him to the chaplainship general of the Papal levies, known as "Crusaders," Lumbering some 15,000 cf the beat blood of Italy. It boots not now to enter on the subject of the treason of the Pope to the cause he pro fessed to espouse; but Father Gavazzi asserts that he himself received positive instructions from l'ius IX. to attack the Austrians near Vicenza—the Austrians who are at present "the white-headed boys" of bis Holiness, the "head of the Catholic world." From Vicenza Father Gavazzi went to Venice, and, in conjunction with Denied Manners, of noble and exalted memory, he lent hi: beat efforts to the cause of Italian regeneration, It is stated that, on the occasion of his preaching in the Grand Piazza de San Marco, in that city, the whole population ! not only poured out to hear him, but one and all flung their choicest treasures into the common fund for the re demption of their country. Can such a people ever perish, ever become brute slaves like the Irish and the Austrians? It is impossible. Gavazzi after this went as a missionary in the sacred cause of freedom to Tuscany, where ho was expelled by the faithless Grand Duke, no doubt at the instance of the Pope; but subsequently when General Zacchi, one of the late Count Rossi's familiars, seized him, the timorous as well as treacherous Pontiff yielded to the popular indignation once more, and released the eloquent priest. Upon the declaration of the Roman Republic, Mazzini and the Triumvirs re-appointed Father Gavazzi as chaplain general of the Roman army, and in that capacity be lent all bis powerful energies to the recon stitution of the hospitals, and the care of the wounded and dying. Ho frequently accompanied the troops to the field, and at the close of the sortie, in which Oudinot and the French Pnvalini were defeated, he stood by the side of the brave Garibaldi at the head of the column, succouring the wounded and soothing the last moments of the dying, though a hail of balls was whiteling - round them. Ho also assisted at the defeat of the Neapolitan brigands and lezzeroni, who the King of Naples had created into a marauding army. His integrity, his piety, and his bravery won for him even the good-will of the French invaders of his country; and be succeeded through these means in escaping the fate of his friend and fellow-labourer in the " good cause, " Father Ugo Bassi, who was ruthlessly murdered by the Austrian invaders at Bologna. From Italy he flsd to England, and here he has lived iu all the anguish which the res angusta dotal can inflict upon an exile. Nessum maggior dolore, Che ricordarse lo tempo feiice Ne! miseria." A few " friends, Romans, and fellow-countrymen," in dividually as straitened in circumstances as himself, col lectively straitened themselves still more to obtain the means of publicity for his eloquent denunciations of clerical and secular oppression in Italy; and once again Father Gavazzi is the vox populi in England of Italian nationality. The lecture of yesterday was crowdel by persons of the highest consideration in this country, as well as by the elite of the Italian and German emigrants at present in London. He denounced the celibacy of the clergy as a political institution of the Church of Rome, having for its object purely secular purposes, and he challenged the " doctors," seraphic or secular, to justify that negation from Scripture. The passages in Paul he held to be in terpolations, and he denied the institution of celibacy even the merit of originality, inasmuch as it was common to the Pagan priesthood of all forms of worship, 20 ages be ore the advent of Jesus Christ. He like wise showed that the " fathers of the Church" were at issue with one another on the subject, and that more than one " council " in the purer days of Christi anity had rejected it as a mockery, a delusion, and a snare. After much to the same. purpose, which every man of reading knows by heart, he concluded by con ttasting the gross licentiousness and profligacy of the dignitaries of the Catholic Church, the Bembes, the Sadolettis, the Bentivoglios, the Dubois, with the squea mishness of their sucessors in hypocrisy, ifnotin vice, who since the return of Pius IX., and the subjugation of the Eternal City, have covered the nakedness of tho statues in all public places—their own private cabinets excepted —so as to convert the cape d'opere of the greatest sculp tors into uncouth absurdities, lest it should shock the susceptible morality of the French "camp followers." Repeated applause greeted the orator daring the whole of his impassioned and eloquent cppe il, and at the close of the lecture he was literally honoured with a public ovation. SHAMAN'S FIOSPITAL.—The anniver3ary festival in aid of the funds of this comprehensive and most valuable charity took place yesterday at the London Tavern. The chair was filled by the Earl cf Hardwicke, supported by the Sheriffs, Sir James Law Lushington, and other influential gentlemen. About 100 guests sat down to dinner, which was served in the usual style of the London Tavern. Little need be said in favour of an institution the merits of which are so obvious as those of the Seamen's Hospital, and which has now pursued its career of usefulness for 30 years. To all who know anything of the port of London, the value of a charity where cases of disease and sickness among the sai lors of all nations are promptly and efficitntly attended to does not require to be pointed cut. Everybody who has passed up or do. n the river must remember the old "read nought moored off Greenwich, her great hull appropriated to the relief of those whose "home is on the deep" to whatever ciuntry they may belong. From the report submitted to he company last night, we learn that during the p as t year nea , ly 4,00 J seamen have been relieved at th e h osp i tal. During the evening subscriptions in aid of the funds were an nounced to the amount of between 80.1. and 9.0/. Mr. Higgs officiated on the occasion as toastmaster. GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—A child was burnt to death on Saturday morning last, under the following circum stances : It seems that a woman named Catherine Morris, of Duke-street, St. Clement's, wife of a fouudryinan, had left her child of ten months old in a wicker chair, within a foot of a blazing wood fire, whilst she went out to gossip with a neighbour. On her return the chair was on fire, the clothes of the infant were burnt off, and the little sufferer was re duced to a cinder. The woman just before she left actually piled some long pieces of thin deal on to the fire, before which there was no guard, and within twelve inches of which was the infant seated in a wicker chair. No doubt one of these blazing pieces of wood fell upon the child. Au inquest was held the same day, when a verdict of " Acci dental death" was returned; but the jury expressed an unanimous opinion that the mother had been guilty of gross neglect in leaving the child in such a position.—lpswich Express. THE BATH STARVATION CASE.—The husband of Harrier. Spring. wbo died trcm starvation at Bath, has been anpn-her del and I , Cged in the ila'h Gaol, t await his trim ar 11:, erutfrkg asr.,z-s. on he charge of wiltnl murder. The pear ner, n hearing that an inquest was to b. hell on his wife. abfc.mdei, and suczeaueet for some hue i cvadag ho vigilance of t',e poi:c3. I ap ea-s hat he went to Bristol, ued or s ma dii a , odged with Mr. Banco, a publcan, under the r acne ef Edware Woodman, but was very reserved, ar.d ! ept himse f remarkably qu'e . He that enlisted in .h. 30th Regiment of the line. and 01 Wednesday was sun off t Kent wi h o*h2r recruit; Mr. Bence having subs. querdly seen a descrlpti n cf Sparing in the Hue and Cry, suspected his lodger to be the min, and immediately geve infor.riati n o the clt,.f of the lath pollee. An officlr, ccompanied bo Mr. Ben^e, was dis patched in search of the prisoner, whom they found enjoy ing his dinner in Weimer Barracks, Kent, but on se • rig the officer he becaml much frightene t and trembled violently. He was at once b -ought back, and yesterday lodged in the Bath Gaol, neuter the coroner's warrant. TROOPS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD ITCPE.—The Singap'..re, Peninsular ani Oriental Company's steam r at S .uttampton, bcloiging to the Mail Company, will take cut to the Cap* 300 men, nam-ly, 1 0 from the dept of the 4'rth regiment, now in the Is'e of Wight (who were ready on Tuesday last to embark), and a detachmentof about 1.5 A men. vohnteers for the Cape service from the Ist Bat talion of the 91st Regiment now at Liverpool, tt e latter de tachment expected at Southampton. They are to embark to-morrow, an l sail on S4arday. Mr. E. Chamberlain, the chief clerk in the Port Admiral's-office at Portsmouth, is to have the charge of victualling the roldiers on board the Sin gapore. The Vulcan screw steam-shi , Master-Commander Penn, arrived at Queenstown on the 10th, to embark the 74th for the Cape. Ties MAIL DUE FROM THE CAPE.—We learn from Plymouth that on the 11th the Clifton, Captain Bessly, last from the Cape and St. Helena, had arrived there. The Clifton had not put in at the Cap:, bat she brings intelli gence that the llovhorus, which has been daily expected in England with the Cape mails, was hourly awaited at St. Helena, whence she would take the regiai,:ut on stati9n to Cape Town. M-n think it no shame to give bandgotrin obsequ'es to those dead, whom livi ng th e y had sufre.ed to starve un noticed ; but the struggle o f shrinking poverty passes urseon in its corner; the pompous tr a p pings of death are witnessed by all the world. —Eliza Cook's Journal. A daring attempt at bib way robbery wrs made a short tome agi upon a person of the name (dr:l - own, a ser vant at Capenwray Hall, near Lanc as ter : ILe was pasting Skerion Green about seven o'clock in the evening, when he was acc3sted by a man, who, after walking by his side for a few paces, suddenly tripped up his heels, brought Brown to the ground, and then deminded his money. Brown, how ever, gathered himself up, and belaboured the fellow, who, in turn was brought to the earth, and wa3 there left, while Brown proceed e d ou his way home.—Cumberland ,P, acquet• NEW HoSPITAL FOR KING'S COLIA I.tGE.—w cor poration of King' s C o llege intend making application to Par liament in the p res ent 89Fsion, for a Bill to authorise the purchase of the o ld burial -ground of :- , t. Clement Danes, in Portugal-strt,et, Li n coln's-inn-fields, and to erect thereon a new and enla rge d Lospital : to accommodate an additional number of patients. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Mr. George Asser Whit; Webb, a mate of 1848,70.'0 of the Powelf1:!. 84, anfl the senior on the list, his re- cently been promoted to the rank of lieutenaet. The folio kie,g mares received their certificates at the Royal Naval College, fur the rank of lieutenants, on Tuesday :—Mr. Miller, late of the Howe, 120 ; Mr. Robinson, late of the Bellerophon, 78 ; and Messrs. Thompson and Alexander. Mr. Miller is the eighth ogicer of her Majesty's ship Howe who has received first-class certificates both for gunnery and seamanship. Lieutenant J. Byng, sou of Admiral the Hon. H. 1). Byng, has arrived in England, invalided, from the In flexlble, 6, ste:on-sloop, iu the «c at Indies. THE CUMMZELAND, 70, FLAG SHIP OF SIR GEOrGE SEYNuUR.—Lady Seymour end the two Alisse4 Seymour and sorvants arrived at the George flo%l. Portsmouth, on Tuesday; the gallant admiral also arrived .esierday afternoon, shoot three o'clock. lie will not etuh4rk on board the Cumberland till this morning, when his flag will be hoisted, and, if the weather permits, will sail on Friday morning. The Cumberl,:nd proceeds first to Bermuda, whi , re the Wellesley, 72, Cytain Goldsmith, with the flag of Vice-Admiral the Earl of Dundoneld, G.G.8., has been ordered to wait her arrival. The shipwrights completed the defects on board the Com- • berland yesterday morcing, and the Sprightly (that took out some stores for her) brought thew into harbour. THE. SHELL PRACTICE AT PoRTSMOUTIL—The shell • practice on board the Excellent, to test which sort are be best, has closed, and the committee will make their report. We understand that Captain Moorson's per cussion shells have proved the most correct in bursting, and in all re►pects are better than the concussion shells that have been recently tried. We supp ,- )se the old Topaz will now be sold or broken up; she is knocked about a good deal. Bonetta, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant Commander Wake, left the Downs on Tuesday for Devenport to be paid ad vance previously to sailing for Brazils. Banshee steam-packet, Lieutenant-Commander Ars ken, leive3 Devonpurt this day, after the arrival of the mail, for Malta. The Fairy royal yacht embarked her Royal Highnef the Duchess of Kent this afternoon at the Clarence yard, for Osborne, to visit her Majesty. The Port- Admiral and staff, and a guard of honour, received the Duchess, whose standard was saluted by the Vengeance, Cumberland, and the garrison battery. The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Lyster, wi.s taken under the shears yesterday, and masted. The American packet• ship Congress, and the India man Madagascar arrived at Spithead to-day, from the Thames, to embark passengers and stock for their re spective destinations. The Sprightly steam-vessel, Mr. George Allen, Mast( r- Commanding, returned from Devonport yesterday. THE FIRST LORD'S FIRST LEVEE FOR 1851. WOOLWICH, MARCH 12.—The night Hon. Sir Franc:a T. Baring, ifirt., held a levee yesterday, at the Admi ralty, at Whitehall, where he received the tollowirg officers:— Rear-Admiral David Price. Captains—Henry Dandas (1825), Hon. George P. Hotham (1820, Minns Diukinsou (1832), librah?rn M. Hawkins (1835), Russell Eliott (1838), and Thomas F. Birch (1850). Commanders—Thomas Hope (1841), Thomas Clia hmer (1845), E. A. Inglefield (1845), Frederick A. Campbell (1846), Henry E. Wingrove (1846), Gillmore Harvey (1846), Charles Jenkin (1846), Alan H. Gard ner (1848), Charles Codrington Forsyth (1849), George Hancock (1850), Stephen S. L. Crofton (1850), and George Western (1851). Lieutenants—William B. Noble (1814), John Sand?rs (1815), Charles W. Hallett (1841), Justus B. Kooystra (1841), Samuel H. Derrimao. (1842), John Seccombe (1842), John D. Courcy A. Agnew (1843), and William Codrington Forsyth (1845). Surgeon Thomas Rubertson (A), (1794). Paymaster and Pun:cr Joseph Mason (1808). The Alecto steam-sloop, Commander George Llvie, left Woulwich this morning ior Greenhithe, to have her compasses adjusted by Captain Johnson, and Rill then proceed to Plymouth, where she will take out the mils fur the coast of Africa. Tne Rhadamanthus steam troop-ship, Master Com mander Belam, on her arrival at the Cape of Good Hope, will remain and relieve the Doe steam troop-ship at that station. ADMIRALTY HIRED TRANSPORTS. TROOP SHIPS, CONVICT. SHIPS, AND FREIGHT SHIPS, NEW REGULATIONS. The fullovviiig now regulations for the survey, &0., of ships tendered as transports for the conveyance of troops or convicts, and for the freighe of stores, also regulations with respect to the number of the crew required for Ihe manning ships chartered by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, have been issued by the Board:— A4miraliy, March 11, 1851. 1. The hold to be elcart d fore and aft, the keelson, limber boards, breast books, and transoms to be cleared and exposed to view, and a listing, from two to three inches wide, to be cut between the breast hooks on both sides. 2. A listing, from two to three inches wide, about twenty feet in length, to be cut between the keelson and the second futtock heads on both sides, when required by the surveying officers. 3. A listing from two to three inches wide, about two-thirds the length of the ship, to be cut on both sides of the second futtoch heads; one-third on one part, and one-third on the other. 4. A listing from two to three inches wide about one-third the length of the ship, to b e cu t amidships, under the clamps of the hold beams on both sides, and a stage to be slung under the beams, fore and aft, in orier that the state of the beams and knees may be carefully inspected. E. The 'tween decks to be perfectly clear, and a listing from two to three incite, wide to be cut just above the spirketting on both sides, in length about 20 feet for ward and 20 feet aft; and also amidships, if required by the surveying officers. 6. TheSt.:to and condition of the decks, waterwa3s, knees, outside pl a nki ng , a nd c opp er on the bottom to be carefully inspected i n a dry d oc k, an d th e masts and rig ging to be carefully examined, for the purpose of ascei taining that they are in a good and so end condition. 7. In all cases the owners are to cause such bolts to be driven out, and other works performed, as may be considered necessary by the surveying officers to enable them to form a satisfactory judgment of the state of the ship. 8. All chips ordered for survey must hoist a union jack at the main, or where best seen, end keep it flying until the ships have beeu surveyed, a neglect of this re gulation having caused much inconvenience to her Ma jesty's service. All ships must be ready to be surveyed at the periods stated in the form of tender, to prevent the surveying officers being taken unnecessarily from other duties. 9. All ships accepted for the conveyance of troops or convicts are to have such bulkheads put up and other works performed, &c., as are usually required, and which the surveying officers will point out, who are to report their fitness and extent of accommodation for Govern ment purposes. REMARKS. I._ Listings will not be required to be cut in any shic tendered for the conveyance of troops, convicts, or stores, during the period of her being in the chess A 1 of Lloyd's Register Book. 2. Listings are to be cut in ships below class A 1, which may be tendered for the conveyance of troops and convicts; and it is left for the surveying officer to decide whether listings are to be cut in ships tendered for the conveyance ff small detachments of troops or of stores, who are to report whether listings have been cut or not. 3. Ships in the class A' 1 will not be required to le:: put into a dry dock or laid on the ways to examine the state of their bottoms, if satisfiictery certificates be pro duced of their having been so decked or laid on the ways within the last twelve months, unless they have touched the ground or been on a voyage since their last survey; and the docking of ships not more than twelve months old which have not performed a voyage will not be re quired; but i❑ all cases (f doubt they must be docked if the surveying officers should consider it necessary. Note.—Ships tendered for the conveyance of troops of c )nvicts must not be less than five feet eight inches from deck to berm, and the deck must be properly laid on the beams, and those chartered for such services must be fitted with lightbing conductors. 4. Ships tonderad — for the conveyance of not more than 20 tons of stores will not be required to be surveyed; but if for ammunition and powder they will be surveyed or insp(c'ed, and the ammunition and powder must be stowed under two decks, and the ships must be fitted with lightning conductors previously to their being sur veyed. i. Ships tendered fer the conveyance of troops or con victs, of a class below ' (red), or for the freight of stores below 1E (black), will not be accepted. 6. All ships must be classed, and the classification inserted in the tenders, and likewise the national flag under which they are sailing. 7. Ships leaving out Government stores will be liable to any expense incurred thereby, and to a mulct, at the discretion of their Lordships. 8. All ships tender,d must be in tho river above Gravesend. 9. Ships engaged for troops or convicts, mus t proceed to Deptford to be fitted, an t i w h en engaged for store s exceeding one-halt their registered tonnage, they must also proceed to Deptford to load, if requ ired. 10. All the columns and particulars specified in the printed forms of tenders must be properly filled up and signed as directed, and it is to be observed that in de ciding upon the ships tendered, their Lordships be guided by the character, capacity , or eligibility for the performance of the services required, without rezerence to the rate offered. Regulations with respect to the number of the crew required to manning snips chartered by the Lords Cum reisaioners of the Admiralty:— 1. Transports awl troop freight ship to be manned at the rate of lour teen and one boy for every 100 ton s register U.M. of ship. not. e - xeredii.g 700 tons burd en , and at the same rate or men only for every 100 tons be yond 700 rolls. 2. Convict ships to be manned at the rate of five m ec register of s ,, zp „ and one hey to each 100 and tr.:. the same ritie;,-inZ :v• ef.dirig 700 tons huri.en r every 100 testy beyond 700 toms. 3. The crews of all ships to consist of cme-half of able s.ernen before the mast, 'and the rerroori ng hull of th e (Akers orditlary toaraen who mus, have born at sea. 4. S►hips chartered for the cunvP.:,-ance of ster, , s be manned according to the practice of the merchant sarvic;?. By command of their Lordnhips, `T. P-4-11KEN, Sccrctary. LOYAL T AR-CR Y FOIL PROTE:;;TIONISTS.—" Rally round the Crown"—that round Five tihillings fixed duty ma Can. Punch. INJUSTICE TO THE LATE ADMIRAL (_7O LUNG WOOD. T: THE EDITOR OP THE }HORNING DERALO. Sir,—l have perused with intiiiite gratification yal remark upon the injustice shown to the family of Ow % amiable and most distinguished officer, the late Admiral Lord Coliingwood. It is well 'known that the only f,vour he asked of the then existing Ministry was, that his peerage might be muck over to his eldest daughter, as he had no sons. This hero (next only to Nelson) litel%illy died in the service of his country, for it is a kia;:vra fact, treat afiee thu bottle of 'Trafalgar he wxs never= 3ut of his ship until hq came to die at Minorca, six years after. O what use to him weab peerage under such circum esnces; to a man at the time advs.nced in years, and not likely long to er:,oy it, as it happened'? It hail been and exi.ectaci, that tie late King, who i,iofi.ssed such great regard tor him, wou'd on his cc c,,ssion to the throne hitve mach it a point to rectify this scandalous neglect; but if he no intended, it was never carried into affect; why or wherefore none can explain. The pePrage cf the late Viscount Hill WAS very pr o . perly at his decease made over to hi, nephvvr. Lord Hartis, too, tl - 4e hero of Scringapatam, aho had also h , en ncgiccted for nearly twenty years, at last received his. May mot then a similar tardy act of jus'ico be dealt •rat now to the family of this Gallant Admiral? Bettor late than never, and lam sure the voice of the uction would applaud any Minister who should have the gram to accord it.—l em, Sir, &c., FELIX. Tunbridge Wells, March 11, 1851. HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . (From the Registrar-General's Return.) The return for the week ending last Saturday ex hibits an unfavourable state of healtn atnougtt the population of the metropolitan districts. It was formerly shown that the mortality rose in the third w:ek of February to 1,213 deaths, and slightly de clined in the subsequent week, when the number was 1,148; but it is found that the deaths registered last week amount to 1,247. Taking the ten corresponding weeks of 1841-50 for comparison no example occurs in the series of so great a mortality; the highest return (in ilie tenth week of 1845) having been 1,141, whilst the average did not exceed 1,001 deaths. This average, with a correction for the assumed rate of increase of population, is 1,092; on which the 1,247 deaths re turned for last week show an excess of 155. Last week 570 chi.dren died under 15 years cf age, whilst the corrected average is only 473; 374 persons died at 15 years and ur der 60, while the average is 361; and 302 persons of CO years and upwards died, trough the avenge is only 252. Hence it appears that the young, and persons in advanced life are now the princi• pal sufferers. The excess both on the previous week and on the ave rage is principally due to diseases which affect the organs of respiration. Ilooping.cough carried off 70 children, considerably more than ua.al at this pi.riod; broLchitis 160 persons of various ages, but principally amongst the old, though the greatest number in any corresponding week v.as not more than 95; asthma 40 persons; laryngitis and laryngismus stridulus 8; croup 13; iufluenza, which is increasing, 15. Pocumonia, or idlarnmation of the lungs, was iatal i❑ 96 cases, a great majority of which were among children; hut, the number attributed to this cause is not remarkable. Consump tion destroyed 154 lives, which, with one exception, is a greater number than in any corresponding wick. The zymotio class, besides hooping-cough, croup, and iifluonzt, already mentioned, comprises small-pox and ms asles, both of which are now more fatal than usual; also scarlatina, typhus, and other complaints, which dis cover no remarkable results. The births of 1,550 children (of whom 795 were boys and 785 girls) were rogisterod in the week. The average of six corresponding weeks in 1845-50 was 1,412. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 in. on Sunday and Monday; the wean of the week was £9,590. The mean daily temperaturc., was on each day rather below the average of the same day in ten years, except on Tuesday and Wednesday, when it slightly exceeded it. The moan of the week was 39 deg. 4 m. STATE or THE WEATLIER DURING THE LA:T WEEK. SUNDAY.—The •Ly was generully free from cloud during the morning; one-half covered during the after noon, and at night; the amount of cloud was variable; cirrostratus and fleecy clouds. _ MONDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day; cirrostv.tus. TUESDAY.—The sky was one-half covered with cloud till sh. P.M., and overcast aft.erwards; cirrostratus and 'Racy cloudF. WEDNESDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day; cirrostratus. Rain fell generally throughout the day. ___ _ r fuunsnAv.—The sky was generally clear till near noon, and covered with cloud throughout the remainder of the day. FRIDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day; cirrostratus. SATURDAY.—The sky was overcast till 7h. P.m.; from this time till 10h. p.m. the clouds were much broken, and the sky was clear afterwards. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the mainmast, and read each day at 9c. A.M., was 41 •7°; and the mean reading at 9b. P.M. was 41 '0 ; the mean rtading at the Royal Observatory for the the same times were 39 .1° and 39 '34 respectively. The direction of the wind was principally N. on the first and last three days of the week, and was movly S.W. on the remaining three dap% The reading of the barometer increased from 30 03 in. at the beginuieg of tho week to 30.27 in. by 10h. A.K. on the 2d, and it conduced at this reading till after 9h. P.M ; it then decreased to 39 •53 in. by 9h. P.m. on the sth, and increased to 29 .94 in. by the end of the k. 31ORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. &UMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IS TEE WEEK ENDDW SATURDAY, MARC rt 8, 1851. Epidemic, Endemic, and Conti g ous Diseases ...*2 51 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... _ 50 Tubercular Diseases 20S Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 125 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 70 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ... 321 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ... ••• Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations... Premature Birth .• ••• Atrophy Old Age ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• Sudden ... Violence, Privation, Cold, and Inteuiperanee Causes not specified ... ... 72 ... 36 ... 20 ... 45 ... 5 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,247 Population Deaths in corro- Deaths Enumerated. sponding ~,, eek in the 1841. of l 8; 0. Week. West Districts... 301,189 . . 123 ... 175 North Districts , . 376,568 .. 160 ... 220 Central I 'istricts 374,159 ... 160 ... 255 East Districts ... 393,067 ... 186 ... 272 south Districts.. 503,346 ... 246 ... 325 TOtals... ..... 1,948,369 875 1.247 682 G 65 Males Femaks BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... Total ... ... ... ... , ... 1,580 * In this number are included 20 by Scarlatina, 36 by Typhus Fever, and 13 by Diarrhoea. INSTITUTION 01* CIVIL ENGINEERS. On Tuesday (William Cubitt, Esq., President, in the chair), the paper read was a "Description of the Mode of Working an Inclined Plane, of 1 i n 27k, on the 0 1 ham Branch of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, by Captain J. M. Laws, R.N., Assoc. Inst. C. E. The mode of working this incline was byli wayaat com bination of locomotive power and gravity. first proposed to be worked by a h . °riZ ne :n n t d train at each end of the rope, so that one train alwheel, rope, and puffier:, with a locomotive e a n in - a might descend, while another ascended the incline ; but a s this method ap- peered to be liable to many . by h• - co ntingencies, w ich the regular traffic wouldhave been deranged, and th e ex . pence of locomotive )? ower increased, a balance w e i g h t wa s substituted for the descending . a ppropriated tot . t ac theamotione line ef rails being ve, and other retain e d for locomotive, the goods and passenger tie . The balanc e we i ght tisted of a heavy break van, and a numb er of ballast c : a n agons filled with sand ; but in place of liar latter, l oa ded coal waggons were frequently used, usthere was a coal pit at the top of the incline, arid this was found to be a most economical and advantageous way of work ing the coal truffle. When the Lill wit.; in pe a li aean t, it was stated in evidence, that there would be great dan ger in descending so steep an i ec ii nation; but the experi ence of seven years—during w hi ch period iaa rope had broken several tinier, and the break van had once been allowed to run down by itself, without doing any serious injury—had proved this opinion to be erroatous. The ordinary passenger trains ascended and descended the incline at trona 20 miles to 25 miles per hour, the mode then nb t a o e sto th p e at e tl g i eit!eio sot of t t h o e (l it r i a e w li u t e lu to e b a a t l t a a n eh the ce trai rope, . the Lcoteh tit thi, the Ira:." * l( ' er. do (l .• Tais mode of wurLing ha 4 hceu at top, when the steam was put or, and tend with the most perfect success, and it was thought, that if more attention was paA in the existruetton of railways, to what could be tieenuipl.died by gravity and impetus, in eumbiutition with h cotentive pee er. a gr&et B "i= ta in the otigitall cast of the iiue would be the re,nit. The wire rope-s which had been used were manurgx tut( d by M. ssy. R. S. New alit ! Co.; U alt such rope was rather more than one mile and a quart..zr in leagth, 31 izehes in circumfertnce, weighing 126 cwt., an d costing 316!. Their av:.rrlp duration was ::brut tao y‘Aare and Lair months. following paper was announced to b e rea d , at t h e ine The tingofTuesaav, March 18th: " Amount of the Sea Walls at I.'...ena:.enNfa.Yr, on the title of the Chester and Holyhead Rallwey," by Mr. 11. Swinbuaac. SUGAR CANE .—An importation of ten cas, I if sugar canes has taken place by a vessel which has jus.si rived in the docks troth. Aialeirl. Some t r ifling imports i of the sugar cane have been made on two or thre occ si at* front this place, and also from the West India Islsnds, uut we have never known an importation to take place cf the articic to the samo exterl as on the present occasion, and arrival is of snore iZtaest.