The Sun. — London, England, 1845-05-12 00:00:00

d• o r 6 2 4 10 8 6 0 ' 0 0 4 0 0 110 0 toi I • 4 I tO 4 6 10 0 4 I s~~'" it is capable of performing any operatic music, however difficult. The arrangement of the keys is most ingenious, and whether as a beautiful musical instrument, or as an in genious piece of mechanism, it is well worth attention and inspection. The stones from which the notes are produced were brought from the mountain of Skiddau, in Cumberland. ' IRELAND. __"„____-- DUBLIN CORPORATION. a_ LIN, MAY 10.-For a considerable time the Corpora artCon of Dublin have been trying to obtain a reform of %mutt of Conscience (which had grown into an intolerable nil under the old Corporation); but the Irish Government, t _ e 1; whom the patronage of this Court had been given by the "zunicipal .A.ct, had taken no steps for altering the arra laletita of Use Court. The matter having been pressedupon Till: 6 attention of Lord Heytesbury by a deputation from te a the . t ril Donnell, his Excellency has NVisely yielded to the P past e L lit ioa. The result is that the Lord May r o e r si o e f n t t L._ Oilr, Timothy O'Brien) will become ~,,grt of-Conscience until the end of the present F d ear. The y the next e ofthe tlfent Lord Mayor will succeed to the office . for '''''', Unless the alm s t Corporation should deem it advisable a ointment b of a a , , ,L , o the Lord-Liutenant for the H is . eans lair aa permanente president ; but that yno m At a • . this day, the L 0,.., .... aPecial .meeting of the Corporation that, before tham,ayor,presided. Mr. O'Connell suggested , proceeded with the lor which they were assembled wa P f n the , „._ . letter which the Lord Mayor had received from atiteLlentenant should be read. isttret ar3' then read the following letter :- u t ry T "Dublin 45. Castle, May 9, IS . to in- Bu r yo - 6:; - 1.arii directed by the Lord-Lieutenant nted to him by k-,,..501P, in answer to the memorial prese n an _ Burk e ' s. , Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Aldernre , d the Co -es of Dublin • for the total suppression of . urt of Cofisci , praying _ , does not deem it exp e di en , . ence, that his Excellenc y of the inhabi tant. ss With a view to the general interest , Curt whia,Partieularly of the lower orders, to abolish a t into i t, is th notwithstanding the abuses that may have crep a turn ° 9 21 3' Court constantly open to them, exercising in A jurisdictiontruin dispute " f isa not u i i , ° lceed the value of 40s. . tion, so °, f however, to meet the wishes of the Corpora to the p t o ; , ar as it can be done consistently with a view . that lc "e Interest, I am directed by his Excellency- to sa3 ~ 1 to 11 e will be ready, with the consent of the Privy Counci, 0(1 1 ' pre t „,,e• and reform the present Court in the manner l. ties se ''d ha - the Municipal Act ; and, under the regir aet lire contained therein, the Lord Mayor for the time being, to bettektaY regularly appointed, to be in the first instan ce lia . ak e t _ e Judge of the newly-modelled court, without to re tie Eneu..thY subsequent application by the town-councilas per t* anto",,eney to nominate and appoint a barrister, ec am. leered J u uge, pursuant to the powers in that respect _ c Von him by the Aot.-" I have the honour i lte i , l ic . •, hire tight lion, the Lord Mayor." O'oarrs • that the letter must be lietentahl ELL said he was sure He w ee t ti eto every man in that assembly.-(Cheers.) on sn tr. notice of his intention to move that it be inserted . °II th e -- " nute s•-(Cheers.) He then moved for a Committee 14. L e sUbject of municipal reform. In doing so, he said . that the felt ths n as e „„,,- /Lightest apprehension of party spirit gaining - "(U - ""aat. he would abandon the motion at L one. letare°4!•) Tile English Municipal Act passed the i r s s, - bef ore B t l i Tears and the scotch Municipal Act four ye gape!LAN • e Irish'lneasure, and that was given in the mutila ted __ ar _ in it was brought into operation.-(1 - ere .) We re . w e till was brought into the House of Lords, there 55 clauses struck out by . Lord Lyndh urB ßill tlu tt .7 4 R• Peel has engaged to give us as good a .11 4r aland '' N ' e a to grandEn and Scotland. One party 1 t ef wealtll f . as deficient pot of numbers, the other in poin e i xtend ed ‘ ,, a l .,l he asked was that the English Bill should b ti°fl yei... harla -- -itottad Under the English Act, the corpur,- (4 '-' The " Qf • ' the sheriffs aud other civic (ch.___:ena h e oi „ . _ appointing right for the Irish.- eindX) Th e s i "unied the same d Gentleman con the 'V rnov,„• '',_ °l3o nrable and Learne . Petition -UnlitCommittee be appointed to prepare the . 8 to the 410 a praying for a reform in dri h /4, 1 „, . use of Commons, Sir jci,lN ripe' Act. fall Dr ` Rates "'Ea, Bart., seconded the motion. e n fin -slits, • . word that had ~, said he concurred in every !the 6.!!' the rlonourable and Learned Alderman opposite. Loluitmittee MA A , was appointed, and the Council adjourned. 111° Lo -4 " 1.- OR'S DINNER-QUEEN'S VISIT. tle a and rd M ayor ent • i ', I h Members of the Corpora ertaines. t . e f.._.4 4 Select eir I fiends at dinner, yes i7;4l,l4lsening, in ell: ofhur pri h vate e. us On the right of the Chi e f Por sat slr. O'Conn rie e l lr i.i. ° Percy Nugent, Bart., the Com„,. a ron of the Ex h a Sir ' Richard Nrosle, Bart., Mr. h._ ..'"lsaioner p e e i"' Ennis,Mira Fetherstone- Reegn , 14._ arrell, Mr. John 4 k0i,,, , Fre„ll Brochaza,&c. • and on his left Lord Stuar de . ""P., 8: " e l% Power, Mr. ' George Roe, Mr. Smith O'Brien, The cloth T he , haying been removed and thanks returned. the he MAYou rose and said he had now to propose , toa s t aPon his list -a toast which he felt confidently in at ria be received by such an assembly es the present h ad .anner becoming the character of Irish gentlemen: He Q4._"! Propose the health of her Most Gracious Majesty the teo;vow.,--(Loud cheers.) She was the first Sovereign of her % s at wh o ever entertained a friendly feeling towards this reeo4; and as her virtues no less than her exalted station • se te „ end her to the admiration of her subjects, he was et ta .. o tuat h L I h -er name would be received with every demon . ..„,,,,„ef affectiomate loyalty wherever Irishmen were as ' 1.44 the--(Cheers.) Her Ma j esty, was be trusted, about to Le.. shores of this That very evening he (the ' u ka • country. 1411,theats.3°0 received a piece of intelligence from that most er .41'reh dab quarter, which left it beyond all doubt. theirh ' keer;i'w.le,ets Would have the happiness of seeing r.... ( en in • el iter , this country during the course of the summe . tile r 8.) Whenever she came she would be welcome, and the &ption she would receive would be one becoming alike m.e fitsloonarch and the people.-(Cheers.) The cead land, d 1 sahi' , r the Irish heart would resound throughout the h the I)6o4nerever she tu dch would be greeted wit h af. n_ f( ftedt„," a g r ateful r , n a e ttaCh e ed, and loyal ple•_ Pe° of her Most "The health ra c i on l..! great pleasure to propose 1. Alajest th i _ -he to . Y e Queen. ' of with every demonstration Vlty , I :.**‘ !ma received applause. Song by 4„.41tei11113e times nine and enthusiastic 1 , aoke L O „, , " God save the Queen." " The health of the aittah a d nPLMAYOR next proposed " The toast Wall 1.0 -..- tuei r gracious Queen, Prince Albert. 7,Lec,ePred with enthusiastic acclamations. t, The health of il'i';,,,l..,onti MATon again rose and proposed--" rest of the Ro'"_,Yel Highness the Prince of Wales, and the tum our & warmly." The toast was drunk with all the tie Lonn II op a ~_ _ Mr on said he had now to propose-" The health Irek iiii ir ? ee ,l,7 l rY the Lord-Lieutenant, and the Prosperity of The Lostri resin was warmly received. Daniel 0 9 (.1 was warmly pro os e .....44 health of 11 owns , the first L d P d The ~., r. ?oration ; long life and h • W E B S at -.Layor of the new Co r• with every de lies or to him." The toast was I mam. Nine m , demonstration of the warmest enthu lir ' "es nine, and • 0 Coroorta, rose , great cheering. plause. Ile did and was received with renewed ap leaeure _ not know that he land ever felt so much __,.00 of he had experienced that evening, from the re- ZAt t ! . h is baying been once the Lord Mayor of Dublin. .._, to ime of his life, to be Sure, he could scarcely . have bat get credit h.., •Qa t he ab* for sanity were he to have said seriously zenlin......laii awned to be one day a chief magistrate of 7. 1 t Ideasur ..,(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And yet, though he that he woulde in having attained the dignity, he protested of dee liedrer with no other feelings than those th at 0 , sorrow, if thought that his advancement, and .. Or ill his Party, could have the effect of creating ill-will L, _ uereasing divisions and differ amongst his fellow ., ;',!,11 trym en. _ (cries 0. . _ differences ma irn a ph 1 " Hear, hear.") He sought no • hi e i. whatever, and if it was true that during part of . mo re had - • men been struggling for one portion of his count non, h e than another, the reason was that the section for * ere t a r e . Nr aa struggling, though multitudinous in number, ~ ,,,t 4 _ error in political rights, and the object he bad in view (14:4t- ascendancy for any class, but equality for all.- Ilia 14, 1 and eheers.) He had succeeded, but he would regard Aart,..7n with deep regret if he thought that it could create nsenge"lneour in the minds of any class of his fellow-country , Ni s : t,,,be productive in any degree of a feeling of unkind to. 6 ; .11 he knew himself, the dearest twish of his heart was bateZlßlrishinen of every creed and every class into one tik;allion of fellowship, and Ith gh a neutrality of poll tltkl wti°,_bgerved a that bear a d, o w u hich he would respect, attle, `.-1, Prevented him from alluding unreservedly to Z e Ul,, t 7v ,_euts, yet he would take leave to say that lie i'ned.• wish to be unsuccessful in the struggle he was en• klif 14, if it en ows . . was not to result in the benefit of all classes of ~Lo pti (~ enizens.-(Applause.) 4 lEht OVART DR DECIEs proposed " The health of the Lillieyon. the Lord Mayor.,, 1 4 4 .orin x t " The qt "1 P e er Yon returned thanks, and proposed hei r ge of Ireland, and coupled with that the health staid ted Lord Cheers.) ". des guest,. Stuart de Decies."-- 1 ( s by the tbi,of in„Reins said, prevented as I have been .c... to ,e Part i r o "ealth, for sonic time past, from taking ai.y , n, etit for theubhc alrairs I really feel quite at a loss ,- to flc -3. Lo - kind - -'" flattering manner iu which von, 0.. rd ) o ._ and N ery , _ .. 0a rhtle se „ ItYor, have been good enough to propose, anq 3 ~,, ha m s: , "Ave had the kindness to l•eceive the mention O. L_, -1111 41 8 7(1-lear, hear.) I can only attribute it to that t'''Youd 4Lrit which, actuating Irishmen, distinguishes them i kst, an'dalost all the people 4 every other country in Eu tuartshi 131.91insts then: to draw closer and closer the bond of atl eshe l l a ll dh those in whose society they mingle. But, • ",,tal o f n ! there is a common bond of union between us-a t"Ii.t)troll°11 which I sure my Hon. and Learned Friend r t ar 1 111 1e11) w ealed-the com ve ev e f ou d a mver wish to see rep ,ref fte ,I, confess, found it a pleasant land to live in, and, barged ' "aye consulted my inclination as much as I have r * lter "ci a ~.., dutv, in malting it my home during the ee4e part o f everyduty, ' And I cannot help *ere f, t hat, ne , s , Year.---(Cheers.) kis ‘ not f o l: p erh aps, more proprietors would act . . so likewise, ortan that certain tone of acerbity in politics which whit ‘t _ ately till, ap„ Pervades too often our domestic discussions ; but mticalreel!ting political acrmony, I am no advocate . for t a. ~, oactivisy,...._ (Cheers.) And Ido trust, as my Ml le ki ber' " en d has hi 41 11 elm s _ • eer chosen to connect my name with that of t s t • --,, eer of a gel say Ido trust that, inasmuch as I am a „ ..., 1 4 kn ow a branch of the Legislature, that that Legislature . '' -e a • th e lea h • • • de those mea tio ° f uat• aof public opinion, and conce 41 4 q l Ice necessary to raise Ireland to her proper posi kr, e Beale ce 4t .- , at tzett uropean nations.-(lmmense cheering.) t Funds t tot lane t o a ANGE, SATURDAY.-The Government . _ x. wi t h Th e it'r°,ol), although not as yet to any material e zas alma..., -. . Q„ eoneid ~, Share market was again ' heavy to-day, eat Pest fluctuation • of the lines. Irish / %eh esterh (Dublin in some • 4,,. cie, ftd , to Galway) and Kingstown and Bra l y st, - ,L a t egt e m „ s e avilY, the former at 3%, the latter at 7A. 41 - "Y du r i o '" (Dublin to Mullingar) have been tolerably _t o No 4 th e week, and opened and closed to-day at Tl, vtax kp a ,ge of importance in the other lines. i . jee.hrtd...:l\T FUNDS. -Three per Cent. Consols, 97k; (a..e.ea t° 211. per Cent. Stock, 1001 ; Four per Cent. 1 rt. 44 1 : z • 13s. 4d. sterling per annum, 47 1 ; Six per t ic, 3, et e „ d _tO 41. sterling per annum, 71k; Royal Canal lozaseaLtz'ativ.; Grand Canal Stock, 10. 1.40 X dir . 17, 8 ,* -- City of Dublin Steam Packet Shares, 11 lai." `Lknernian Bank, 31; Mining Company of ' la Ak wAys ‘ib ; thiblia.---Oreat Southern and Western Extension, . ieblio to mu end 15k ) i . -elfast Junction, 10i ; Great Western av a t t e __9o,,, a3 , ), l 2 ,gar), 44 A i:i i ; Irish Great Western (Dub- . 4-i 57terd a nd ~'?- 1 a;. Belfast and Ballymena, 7i 1 4 i . i 8 , i. i • te e and 8 7{ 8 ; Dundalk and Enniskillen, h a ; Cork „„ r ",,and Carlow, 4i i ; Kingstown and Bray, 71 V„ e ftA 4; Newry' n 7i 8 ; Londonderry and Enniskile at eine ,I„,s' and Enniskillen, 5; Dublin, Belfast, and 1 .,....._" 1, 31; Londonderry and Coleraine, 3i. Ittre it --_-,.._____,_ l7_ ________________ 43t -31 i HARMONICAN AT 'lll Tut V . 4 . e Nib_ BEE-TRADE BAZAAR. In.onseen:"lahees of the Messrs. llarrison on the Rock th7a t tis, h avin at the Anti-Corn-law League Free-Trade • ant narm oni _t reatea quite a sensation, some account of i l e ader ,: n itself may not, perhaps, be uninteresting to e )t Ood it°° k liar • t o en fra,„ lean is composed, in the first place, of a 1 .47 ri g h t "n yith four horizontal bars of wood crossing it lace tones left, which (being properl padded) are to al % ",! 8 Or portions of cert • sorts frock, properly cut eit ' 'e., and am 0 like ate. • 5 treef a . regularly arranged in musical order, thetn._ , Pianoforte. The performers, of whom there with w a Z. o _ e ach provided iswth two wooden ham the ,dise ours I " they strik e the tones and thus make .... Ito., •atess,. elpnst c-xcelleot music. The manner in which . ‘'eraZ t . l ast they' a ro rrls °n perform is really astonishing, ai?d :„ sh?oct.tlan We priac i i i p st e b a e a cconplished musicians, thoroughly ei. ' ..tlettk toe,Pr'nciPles of heafr their art, for unles . *they . un e d i s `,,ae.lt I ,- Perf orm .... .. mony it would be impossible for perfect ';!ttal, 1 4 .armom on '''';, t a rkey do on this the most ... , 9) t, * L hEi s a "k t .has ever yet been exin ' tins I,_ complete chroMati6 • settle -limn .the uottona, and 1 1 5 compass is so great that SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (PROINI OUR CORRESPONDENT.) The Newmarket Second Spring Meeting, against the continuance of which so mach has been said and written, commences on Tuesday, and will manage to "drag its slow 'length along" until Thursday. No country town in Eng land could have kept alive beyond one season a meeting with a programme similar to those furnished by the New market Second Spring Meeting during the last few years. But the Newmarket people are as bigoted to old customs as Lord Eldon was with regard to the introduction of the Re form Bill, and I am afraid some years will elapse before this meeting is (as has been so strongly urged) added to the July Meeting, which is almost as weak. On Tuesday there are four races. The Rowley Mile Plate will, as usual, I suppose, bring out a new Derby favourite, or if the winner should at present be in the betting, why he will of course mend his position. Ever since Phosphorous won this race and the Derby, in 1837 every body has gone down to try and discover another Ep som winner ; but, although it has been the means to intro duce many good colts to the public, such as Rat-trap, Sea horse, &c., still I believe the sire of Lamplighter is the only animal which can lay claim to have won both events. As the entries close this evening at Newmarket, of course I can not speculate on the winner. In the match, which is be tween two very unfortimate yet spirited turfites, Sir Joseph Hawley and Lord Exeter, I lean to the former. On Wed nesday there are four races. I say four, because in all pro bability Panther will walk over for the 50 Sovereign Stakes for four years' old. The Suffolk Stakes will be the leading feature of :the day. Eighteen horses are left in, but I do not expect the field will be a large one, Alice Hawthorne has, of course, the top weight assigned her, 9st. 41b., and if Heseltine thinks proper to send her, I cannot fancy she will have any difficulty in winning. Young Lochinvar, with ist. 51b., from not having been sent to Ches ter, where he was well in for the Free Handicap, has been no doubt reserved for this stake, and looking to his run ning at Bath, where he beat Pug and St. Lawrence, will, I conceive, in the event of Alice not going, be there, or there about. If Wee Pet did not belong to such an unfortunate man as the Marquis of Exeter, with 6st. 131 b., I should say she could not be far off winning. The Bishop's Cob will find the distance too faryor him with 7st. 81b., if say faith is to be placed in his past performances. The same remark will apply to Minotaur. Khorassan, 7st. 111 b., is a useful horse, but I imagine more suited to the hill at Epsom, than to the flat at Newmarket. Queen Mab, 7st. 31b., cannot complain of being hurt by the handicapper, and I fully expect to sea her very forward in the race. The manner in which she won the Goodwood Club Stakes last year, beat ing Quebec and eight others, showed that she possessed speed and stoutness, two great requisites in a race horse. Best Bower and Buzz will find the weight too much for them. Ould Ireland, I should not imagine, will be sent, as he is engaged at Gorhambury on far more favour able terms than he is here. Conrad cannot have recovered from the accident he met with while running with Wee Pet at the previous meeting, to:make it likely that they will send him. Sir Francis, after having been beaten by Captain Ph albus, I will not hear of. Fuzbos, Deodara, and Secutor, have done nothing to warrant the public backing them. Prologue will beat all the three years old, but I am afraid, with sst. 51b., will be unable to get in front. In conclusion, therefore, if Alice goes, I expect to see her the winner; if she does not, why then the race will be left to Young Loch invar, Wee Pet, or queen Mab. The other races this day are merely plates. On Thursday, old Garryowen, Sat. 71b., is matched against Lord Exeter's once flying mare Celia ; as a matter of course, I stand on the horse. The Manchester people have done wisely in fixing their meeting this week, as there are no races in that part of the country going on to prevent horses being sent, and the -New market meeting will only draw down the old stagers, and not the general frequenters of races. There are not a more sporting race of people in the world than the good folks of Manchester. The love of racing pervades equally the breast of the humble weaver as the wealthy manufacturer. And it is worthy of remark, that among no class of sportsmen are en gagements more honourably kept than among the Man chester men. I venture to say that there will be more money depending upon one race at this meeting than will be wagered at Newmarket during the present week. To the Manchester Cup there were , 17 subscribers, the acceptances amount to 10 (Semiseria being left in by mistake). Philip, Bst. 21b., and the Best of Three, 7st. 121 b., are in the same stable; therefore it is impossible to say which Dawson will try to win with of the two, I should fancy the latter. Queen of the Tyne, after her recent exhibition at Chester, I cannot have. Cataract, of course, will not go. Agriculture might., I think, as well remain at home. The Old Maid can have no chance. Sinbad will not be as fortunate as his namesake. Marian Ramsay, I am afraid, will be too sore from her recent running to be able to win this race, which I leave to Hooton or Porto bello. The Filly Stakes on Wednesday, I imagine will, through Marian Ramsay, go into the pocket of Mr. Sal yin. The only other that appears to have a chance in the race is Lord Eglinton's Pythia. The Free Handicap Ambition ought to win, if she is worth a hayband ; if she does not go Lord Saltoun must win it. If the distance, in • deed, was two miles, instead of a mile and a quarter, I should stand on his Lordship, but 161 b. is a good deal to give away in so short a distance. The Victoria Stakes, on Thursday - , seems destined for Mr. Heseltine's Thalia. For the Race course Cup The Best of Three, Miss Holbrook, and David appear to be the best on paper. The Rural Stakes will be a race between Yellow Boy and Marian Ramsay; and the Best of Three ought to be the best of all those engaged in the Broughton Stakes. ph* it i s I aO4! 0 0 7 - er iies Ao so 4 0 1 coo'co. s:s ,631 Do 0.0 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1845. ROYAL ACADEMY. The Royal Academy Exhibition of this year con sists of no less than 1470 works of art, so that what ever may be said of the quality of the productions of English artists, no one can have just cause to com plain of their quantity. Among these, however, there are a great number of portraits, of which, 33, Lady Sale, by J. Sant; 81, O'Connell, by N. J. Crowley; 293, Sir William Nott, with Candahar in the back ground, by T. Brigstock ; 496, another portrait of Sir. W. Nott, by B. R. Faulkner, and 452, Sir Ro bert Sale, by G. Clint, are the only portraits worthy of observation, inasmuch as they possess an his torical interest—of the remainder of the portraits we observe, in the words of the law reporters to the newspapers, that " they are of no interest ex cept to the parties more immediately concerned." Having thus disposed of the portraits, we will confine our attention in the present notice to the pictures in the east-room. On entering it, the spectator will observe a crowd collected at the far end of the room, immediately opposite the entrance. They are ad miring Edwin Landseer's only contribution to the Exhibition this year.---No. 141, The Shepherd's Prayer. This subject: is a shepherd kneeling before a rude crucifix, his flock gathered around him, guarded by his dogs, in the di s t an ce an open country. The execution of the sheep is marvellous—as regards the dogs, it is sufficient to say they are painted by Edwin Landseer; the crucifix too is admirable, but the shepherd has evidently assumed an attitude before it for the purpose of having his picture taken. He is clothed in purple, and his eyes elevated to Heaven, and his hands stretched exactly in the attitude of a saint expecting the crown of martyrdom. There is nothing about the expression of the figure of .‘ Let me with lowly voice a blessing crave, On these my anxious charge." The expression is rather that of one in the actual en joyment of the beatific vision, than that of a humble shepherd craving a blessing on his flock. The attitude is the attitude of triumphant resignation, if we be allowed the expression, rather than that of humble supplication. In supplication the hands joined are uplifted towards Heaven—the face averted, is cast down towards the Earth. The extreme of supplica tion is prostration. There is nothing of this expres sion in the figure of the shepherd. The picture, not withstanding, is one of the gems of the exhibition but the shepherd is a mistake. Eastlake, like Edwin Landseer, contributes but one picture, No. 222, illustrative of the concluding lines of Comus. This is an exquisite picture—the expression of the features of every figure—the group is that of the most serene calm—and albeit the expression of se renity borders occasionally upon weakness, yet upon the whole the picture is exquisitely poetical—so har monious that it might almost be termed musical, for as there is a harmony of sounds so is there a har mony of colour, and who shall venture to affirm that these harmonies are not cognate. Etty has several pictures in this room, all miracles of colouring, all worthy the pencil of him who has been not unaptly called the English Titian—No. 12, Aurora and Zephyr, by Etty, is a magnificent specimen of colour ing, and of graceful beauty of design. The figure of Zephyr, however, is not that of a youth, it is that of a girl. In one who studies the nude figure as does Etty, this mistake is surprising. His flower girl, 185, is not unworthy of the pencil of Murillo, while 186, the Votive Offering, is perhaps one of the most beauti ful specimens of colouring and drawing that Etty has yet produced. In expression and form, how ever, his best picture is "the Indian alarmed," No. 97, an American Indian roused by a distant noise. Every sense is awake. Sight, hearing, smel ling are acutely on the watch—the expression of the features is that of anxious acuteness, and the muscles seem all strung, so that he is ready to spring on a being in a moment. The colouring is very fine. No. 109, " Cupid interceding with his mother for Psyche," by the same artist, is also a very beautiful picture. In this room Turner has four pictures, 50 and 77 "Whalers"—the last by far the best picture of the colouring, and;ll7, Venice, lastpicturesMorning—returningmiraclesoffromtheßall. These them closely they are existence--mere palettes on aerial the v veriest daubs in Loo e k x which colours have been coarsely spread—but give them distance; as you retire, the colours begin to separate into masses. Now, they harmonise--order arises out of chaos ; and now the picture bursts upon ' you as the most gorgeous specimen of colouring, the most miraculous specimen of aerial perspective that the pencil of artist has ever produced. To appre ciate Turner, however, the connoisseur should go earl 7 y in the morning, before the exhibition is crowded. It is impossible to attain the proper " point of view" for his pictures after the rooms are filled. In contrast to Turner, is Clarkson Stanfield, the successor of Calcott, the painter, whose works are so beautifully finished, that they will bear the closest inspection. In this room we have three gems from the pencil of Stanfield, 65, the Mole at Ancona, a beautifully finished painting ; 205, Dutch Boats run ning into Saardam—Amsterdam in the distance—a picture full of life and animation, as all Stanfield's sea pieces are—and 254. The action and capture of the Spanish xebeque frigate El Game, of 32 guns and 319 men, commanded by Don Francisco de Torris, and H. M. sloop Speedy, of 14 four-pounders and 54 men, commanded by Lord Cochrane (now Earl Dundonald), off Barcelona, on the 6th of May, 1801. As a work of art this last pic ture is certainly one of the most exquisite pro ductions of Stanfield's pencil. As a historical pic ture—a pictorial record of the most gallant achieve ment of one of the most gallant officers of the most gallant navy in the world—it is invaluable. This picture ought to be purchased by the nation, and pre sented to Greenwich Hospital. 34. Ruins of Kar nak is a magnificent picture by David Roberts. The subject is treated in a most masterly style, and the manner in which the rays o f the setting sun are re flected from the columns of the ruined temple is one of the most splendid efforts ever produced. Taken as a whole, this is perhaps the landscape of the exhibi tion. 87, Peter the Great, Teaching his Subjects the Art of Shipbuilding, is by Sir W. Allan. Th is pic ture has scarcely sufficient di g nity to be called an historical picture, altho ug h mo st likely it is a very accurate portraiture of th e t rans action it represents, as it actually took place. It w ould not, however , have been the worse as a w or k o f ar t, if it had a little less of the real, and a little more of the ideal. 131. The s Heiress, by C. R. Leslie, is one of those delightful illustrations of existing manners which Leslie alone can produce. He is the Watteau of his age, and, as illustrations of the costumes and manners of the nineteenth century, his paintings will, ages hence, be eagerly sought after. 200. Fetch ing the Doctor by Collins, is an admirable painting of the Wilkie school. It is a night scene, and a chubby boy has just knocked up the village doctor, appears, who h a lf-d res sed, to answer the call. The bewildered expression of the doctor's coun tenance, neither asleep nor awake, is admirable. 105. The Greeting, Worthington, is the return from market of a Welsh farmer's wife, who is met by her husband and family at the entrance to the farm-yard. The grouping is very beautiful, and the picture altogether is excellent. 277. The Water Cart, by Lee,.w of Caen, is a land scape, in the true Gainsborough style. 1 25 by W. Fowler, is a small cabinet p icture o f g reat merit ; and 126. Ventner Undercliffe, Isle of Wight, W. Col lins, is a beautilful picture of some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. We were turning to leave the room, when our attention was attracted by a picture close to the door—No. 11, The Governess, R. Red grave—a little piece of domestic tragedy that goes at once to the heart. The scene is a school-room in a gentleman's mansion, opening upon a lawn. The governess sits at her daily drudgery, her attitude, her features, betokening that despairing resignation which springs from the utter annihilation of hope. She is friendless and broken-hearted. Admirably contrasting with this expression of passive grief in the governess, is the expression of active grief in the features of the little girl seated on the bench, who is conning her lesson, and endeavouring to concen tratecare, her attention to her book— her endeavours are however in vain —her attention wanders to her two sisters, who are leavin g t he school - room for the lawn, and w ho in all the joyousness of have quitted the s have stor a y lre it ad i y s. school-room. This one picture tells th e s t ory o f a yh ew o hg u ou t l h ne t dh o th einir a e t sspt cr k t sd n o re a w v mesn before a_ no a they very ad We fear it is an o ver true one. We must d e f er our notice of the other p ictures of the exhibition to ano ther o pportunity. FLANDERS MAIL. BRusstu, MAY dreadful catastrophe; which public report however exaggerated, occurred on Monday lag about eleven o'clock in the morning. it wa s an explosion of fire damp at Mons. The workmen above ground were astonished at seeing a thick smoke arise from the shaft, as they had net heard any explosion ; not seeing any of the workmen come out, they gave notice to the direc tor, who immediately descended into the shaft with two other per sons; on arriving at the bottom they found a number of men more or lees mutilated and burnt, but still alive, and a greater number already dead. It was ascertained that ninety-four men had gone down the shaft, of whom twenty-seven escaped uninjured ; twenty five were brought ou t mutilated and burnt, o f w hom two died im mediately, thirty - fo ur were found dead, an d it is certain that five are still buried und er the rubbish. It appears certain from the testimony of th e surv i vors, t h at t h e odbiseaysedterthwea chief received. This workman hat escaped unhurt. TT , - 11 ' • so caused rders b y which be h the imprudence pf worb rimn who dis. We learn from Captain Spajin:ortt6:l.Bll3 litriti cit a E tZ s a:rTived fromMobile j that he was p i Li mi t! g e e t e r d or i n I e isgealv- e f l de ra t t i o a t o h nL eer D p s e oe e oa e l . m ; b aF e n r rdo w mo hni thelteh eko2nnoohtwhi s In lat. 50, lon. 35, be saw the skylights, bulwarks, and booby hatch, painted gre en, g ledge he has of our packets, he supposes that they belonged to one of the missing ships. Indeed, he feels sure that they did. At the time he saw them he thought they belonged to a packet. ship. These facts have been in his possession since the 20th December, but be did not have them published, because he has been at sea part of the time since that date, and because he did not wish to create any unneeessary alarm. They we r e a part of o ne of the ill-fated packets, there i 5 WCltteAy a doubt.—Weiv York Herald. i / ~~'` .. ,--/ TELEGRAPH. SALE OF THE RACING S LATE LOR TUD D . WESTMINSTER'S The sale of the racing and breeding stud of the late Mar quis, took place at Eaton Hall, on Saturday last. The fol lowing prices were realised : BROOD MARES. Gs. Gs. Maid of Honor ... ...... ... 320 Phryne Languish ........."••• , ...... 360 Maria Day Sarcasm ..... - ......... 360 Fanny Eden ... Retort ... ..................... 350 Thais ... Lampoon ... . .............. ... 220 TEARLIIIGS. Gs. - . _ Br c by Pantaloon, out of Retort l4O Br c by Touchstone , ou t of Deco y Br f (sis to The Libel) by Pantaloon, out of Pasquinade 310 Br f by Pantaloon, out o f Banter B fby Touchstone, out of Ghuznee 2OO Br fby Pantaloon, out of Shiraz Br f by Pantaloon, out of L am p oon l3O Br f by Pantaloon, out o f Aura 25 TWO YEAR OLD. B c by Touchstone, out of Laura Br c (bro to The Libel) 270 • Br f by Touchstone, out of Maid of Honor 290 TISREE TEAR OLD. Falstaff l6O Br c, by Touchstone, out of Morea 240 Br c by Touchstone, out of Laura B f by Touchstone, out of Languish 340 The sale of Mr. Foljambe's hunters on Thursday last, realised 3,0121., not 1,600 g,s. as erroneously reported last week. ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS HO f_)D, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE SONG OF THE SHIRT." Alas I poor. Hood ! thy kindly heart is now at rest ; Thy playful fancy, which was wont to raise Delightful thoughts to soothe the aching breast, Is quench'd in death—no more to win our praise. Peace to thine ashes ! For if mortal man E'er did the duty which his Maker wills, Thou bast done thine in the brief span Of mortal years which now thy destiny fulfils. Long will thy memory live whilst hearts can feel For wrongs and woes which carking care and want Inflicts on those who are without a meal, Or scant can gain it, by the use of fingers gaunt. How true thy pathos ! How exact to life, The wretched life of many a British maid, And widow'd mother, and heartbroken wife, Who seeks her pittance for a shirt or braid. " Song of the Shirt !" Long may it ring with quiv'ring note In ears that tingle—hearts that learn to feel The truthfulness of what thy genius wrote, And have the means such want and woes to heal ! Blest be thy shade ! "Itis a good and holy thought To pray for the departed" souls of those Whose acts true charity and kindness taught ; I therefore pray for thee, at thy mortality's sad close. May 9, 1845. COWES,-ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL VISIT TO OSBORNE. At six o'clock the Lightning steamer arrived off Osborne House, and her Majesty, and suite embarked in the barge, intending to land on the sands, but it being dead low water, and the royal barge drawing 4 feet water, it could not be accomplished; she was therefore rowed round by Norris Castle into Cowes harbour, and a landing made at East Cowes. Royal salutes were fired from the several R.Y.S. yachts in the roads, from the Castle, R.Y.S. House , and from a Swedish barque. Her Majesty was received on her landing by the Earl of Errol and his daughter, with whom her Ma jesty most cordially shook hands, as did Prince Albert. The Corporation of Newport propose presenting an address to her Majesty, if she will allow her privacy to be intruded on by their visit ('tis strange her Majesty's known wish for retirement should be so intruded on), and no small confusion has been created amongst the Mayor, Aldermen, and Coun cillors to obtain suitable- dresses, they never before having appeared in corporation robes. But for the passage of the royal barge up the harbour, nobody at Cowes would be aware of the Royal Family being so near them. Almost the whole of the supplies necessary for the royal establishment are found at Osborne, or supplied from London; and the town is as dull and quiet as in mid winter. There are very few Louses taken, much less than in any former season. It is supposed that her Majesty's talked-of visits prevents those coming who generally resort here at this season and her Majesty bringing no company, and living so strictly private, there are no calls for accom modation for visitors, and trade suffirs accordingly. VAUXHALL GARDENS.—The cP,Jebrated wid. ilicombe;of Astky's, bas.b sw .,,ovor to the late iminorthl Simpson, master of the eere . oniei the' "royal property," -,,iwhich opens this every;;og la all its tilitine splen dour, and Tfith incrtased At aGti01~8; SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vubltt Optnton. " Who runs may read." FOREIGN. The following is the report presented by the Committee appointed to examine the Bill relative to the railroad from Paris to the Belgian frontier, with a branch line to Calais and Dunkirk :—" The Minister of Public Works is au thorised to grant the concession of the lice by public com petition, his permission, however, being required to enable - persons to send in tenders. The maximum of the lease was fixed by the Government at forty-five years ; this has been reduced by the Committee to thirty-three years. The caution money of 30,000,000 f. required by the Government is fixed at 45,000,000 f. by the Committee, but the latter calls for the payment of a further sum of 9,000,000 f. within a fbrtnight after the approval of the adjudication. The responsibility of the original subscribers, carried by the Bill to five-tenths of the amount of the shares subscribed for, is reduced by the Committee to four-fifths." The Chambers are expected to close their labours this session earlier than usual. According to the present appear ances they will be able to adjourn about the end of June. The Committee on the Budget has got through its labours, and the report will be laid before the Chamber on Wednes day next. A Berne journal announces, that en the 6th instant the Government of that Canton had despatched M. Aubry, a member of the Grand Council, to solicit a pardon for Dr. Steiger, who had been condemned by _the criminal tribunal of Lucerne to be executed. The locusts, which had appeared in swarms on different points of the African coast, showed themselves, for the first time, near Algiers on the 30th ult. At Khadrah, to the west of the Fondouk, they devoured all the grass and leaves of the trees. Several flights alighted early in the morning of that day near the Maison Carrde, and numbers fell in the Place Royale • at two o'clock in the afternoon, however, they had completely vanished. Those insects are yellow, a couple of inches in length, and maintain themselves and direct their course in the air as easily as birds. Mr. Buiwer was to leave Madrid for England on the 13th. - A letter from Berlin, May 2, in the Nuremberg Cor respondent, states that the latest news from St. Petersburgh announce that towards the end of the month the Emperor will accompany the Empress as far as Warsaw, whence her Majesty is to proceed to Berlin to consult the medical men, and learn what baths she ought to repair to. At a later period the Emperor is to proceed to Berlin to escort back her Majesty. According to a Berlin letter of the 4th, in a Frankfort journal, the northern powers, finding it impossible to induce Don Carlos to come to any arrangement with the Spanish Government, feel disposed to recognize Queen Isabella_ The Franconian Mercury contains a letter from Munich, May 2, which states that a duel having taken place there between a Portuguese and an attaché of the French Em bassy, about a lady to whom the former was betrothed, the attaché has been suspended by M. Guizot from his func tions, and his passports having been delivered to him, he had taken his departure from Munich. COURT-FASHIONABLE. Lady Charles Wellesley and her infant son are both pro gressing as favourably as could be desired. Viscount Melbourne left his residence in South-street, on Saturday last, for Brocket Hall, Herts, for the holiday. Vis count and Viscountess Jocelyn went to Brocket Hall on Saturday afternoon, and Lord and Lady Beuvale were to join the family party there; but his Lordship bad experi enced an attack of gout, which obliged him to defer his de parture until to-day. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have gone to Broad lands, his Lordship's seat, near Romsey, Hants, for the re cess. The Duke of Sutherland, accompanied by the Marquis of Stafford, has made arrangements to leave Stafford House at the end of the week for Scotland, with the view of going over his extensive estates in that country. The Duchess and family remain in town. The Duke of Rutland, accompanied by a family party, in tends to embark at the close of the ensuing month on his Grace's usual aquatic excursion, on board the Resolution schooner-yacht, now lying at Southampton. The Earl and Countess of Orford and Lady Dorothy Wal pole, after a protracted residence at Rome and Naples, re turned from the Continent last week. The Noble Earl and Countess came direct from Rome to England. Lord and Lady Walpoleovith the Hon. Lady Pellew, are still residing at Ilome. The Earl of St. Germans entertained at dinner on Satur day the Earl and Countess of Morley, Lord Granville Somer set, Sir James and Lady Graham, Lady Georgiana and Miss Stuart Wortley, the Hon. Colonel, Mrs. and Miss Dawson Darner, &e. Sir John Cam Hobhouse had a grand dinner party on Saturday at his mansion, in Hill-street. The Russian Minister, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Bread albane, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Mr. Lockhart, were among the guests of the Right Hon. Baronet. IVitSCEIMANEOUS. The Bishop of London on Saturday last consecrated the new edifice, which has just been erected in Endell-street, leading from Long. acre into Broad-street, Holborn, &c., by voluntary contributions, for the purpose of affording the poor of the surrounding neighbourhood the means of attending Divine service, &c. The church, which is of plain design, is in the Gothic style. The interior is fitted up with open seats, and the ceilings, which are composed of wood, display portions of the roof. The east and west windows are fitted with painted glass. The only deviation in the building from , modern ecclesiastical architecture, is the erection of galleries, a mode of accommodation of late scarcely adopted, The ceremony of consecration was witnessed by several persons, including many of the class for which the locality is so pro verbial. All the sittings will be free. The grand national archery meeting is to be held this year at Knavesmire, near York. Upwards of five hundred members of the principal clubs will compete for the prizes. The meet ing will be held on the 25th and 26th of June. A woman who was incautiously sitting on the bulwark of a Greenwich steamer yesterday fell backwards into the water when off St. Katherine's Dock, hut was fortunately rescued by prompt assistance with a boat-hook. A rat's nest, containing no fewer than thirty-five ratlings, was found, last week, in a pig-stye, belonging to John Jack son, of Pasture House, Lytham. Some time since an officer in the Guards laid the odds of 2001. to 300/. with Mr. Bragg, the proprietor of the North Star Inn, at Slough, that he could not produce a man on Friday, the 16th of May, who would run twenty miles within two hours. Mr. Bragg has had four or five celebrated pe destrians in training ever since the bet was made, he not being compelled, according to the articles of the match, to name the man until he is brought to the post to start. The celebrated runner known as the North Star will, it is ex pected, be the party selected to attempt the feat, which, if accomplished, will be one of the most extraordinary under takings ever attempted. The match will come off in the immediate neighbourhood of Slough. Betting, at present, is 5 to 3, and 2 to 1, on time. Last week the anniversary meeting of the Indigent Blind Visiting Society, of which her Majesty the Queen Dowager is ts.troness, was held at the Music-hall, Store-street ; Lord hobert Grosvenor, Esq. M.P., in the chair. The report read by the secretary stated, that since the establishment of the Association 370 aged and destitute blind persons had par taken of its benefits, and there were at present on the books 151 who regularly received spiritual instruction and temporal relief, while several received pensions and bad had lodgings provided for them. The report having been approved of, and several motions acknowleding the utility of the Society carried, thanks were given to the Noble Chairman, and the meeting separated. A curious document has just been issued by Parliament, in relation to the convict establishments at Portsmouth, Chat ham, and Woolwich ; and at Bermuda and Gibraltar, where are stationed the hulks employed for the confinement of offenders under sentence of transportation. It thence appears that, during the year ending 31st December last, there were eleven hulks for this service, six of which are in various home ports, four at Bermuda, and one (the Owen Glendower) at Gibraltar. The expense of th is convict establishment was, dur ing the year, 54,686/. ; and the total earnings from the labour performed by such convicts amounted to no less a sum than 62,195/. Of this amount, 23,0951. were the earnings of con victs on the hulks in this country, 30,348/. at Bermuda, and 1,251/. at Gibraltar. On the lit of January, 1844, there were on board the several hulks 3,550 convicts; arid during the course of the year there were received in addition 286, making fa total remaining, on the 31st December last, of 3,160, after deducting 601 who were discharged, and 75 who died on board the hulks. The numbers were divided in the following proportion :-2,202 in England, 1,350 in Bermuda, and 313 in Gibraltar. _ _ _ -.- On Whitsunday from forty to fifty thousand persons are supposed to have passed down the Thames from below bridge, in the various steamers, of which they were nearly 100. WHITSUNTIDE EXCURSIONS AND FAIRS. Yeaterday the morning was ushered in with merry peals from the church bells, and at an early hour thousands of well dressed people were making their way to the numerous steam-boat piers on the river, and to the terminus of the Dover and Brighton Railways at London-bridge, for the pur pose of escaping the smoky atmogphere of the capital and enjoying themselves in the country. The cheap excursion trains on the Dover and Brighton trains carried upwards of 20,000 persons from London at half-fares, which are to be con tinued during the holidays. The steamers, of which there were as many as a hundred in requisition above and below bridge, came in for a large share of traffic. Before eleven o'clock thirty steamers left the Watermen's Adelphi pier for Greenwich, Woolwich, and Gravesend, and also for Putney, Fulham, Richmond, and other places up the country, and they were all filled. The Watermen's steamers, a fleet of thirteen Vessels, carried 27,000 passengers during the day between Woolwich, Greenwich, and London, and as many were taken up and down the river in the boats of the old companies. The boats of the iron and wooden companies conveyed immense numbers to Vaux hall, Battersea, and Chelsea during the day, and occasionally they were fearfully overcrowded, and some times rolled from side to side in a frightful manner. There were twenty Gravesend steamers in requisition, and some of them made more than one trip. Between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and two in the afternoon 17,000 persons had landed at the Terrace Pier, Town Quay, the Floating Pier, and the Rosherville landing -place, at Northfleet. The trains on the Greenwich and Blackwell Railways were running every quarter of an hour, and the tea-gardens and other places of resort in the suburbs of the metropolis were filled with company. The beautiful park at Greenwich, the favourite resort of the Londoners, presents a rich and verdant appearance. The late rains have improved it vastly, and the gay multitude were scattered among the hills, the dales, and the shaded walks, and the usual diver sion of running up and down the far-famed One-tree Hill, was indulged in by the lads and lasses, who seemed content with the cheapest amusement. The country in and about Woolwich, Blackheath, and Shooters' Hill, was thronged with visitors. The morning was fair and warm, and pro mised a favourable day, which promise was not disappointed. There will be three fairs during the holidays, Greenwich, Stepney and Wandsworth. The first is on the old spot, and Richardson's theatre, and Alger's Crown and Anchor booth are, as usual, the principal attractions. Stepney fair will be held on two large fields near the Thames Police-office. One has been laid out by Mr. Pituson, whose theatrical booth is the principal feature, and opposite to it. are Hylton's and Wombwell's menageries. The old field has been laid out by Mr. John Stevens, the celebrated Essex higgler, whose mon ster booth, 400 feet long, and 54 feet wide, for music, refresh ment,_ 000th, con in London. street, asame dimensions, and va and dancing, is placed in a conspicuous situation, and is surrounded by a fives-court, Clarke's equestrian e ir, Powell's equestAan circus, the large Cricketer'- 13 ee ducted ket t b , t y Tyr. decoratedN ic k s ,n , beol o cio f t3h t_ c hj ; :Ittat Cricket ihr,e r s ritms ot h e rs. ex~ihiti". swings, and merry go -rou nd s - great i number of minor n profusion. DIEPPE, MAY B.—The M arrivedt agnet steam-p ac k e t h as just r l3 praighton, after a fi ne passage of seven ho ) I;4rties of distin c ti on for Paris, among As a wan on Thurs Jay last w as di gg i ng in S wains wick Wood, Bath, he fund UaLtshillings of the reigu ~' I La frome-e dalt George LITERATURE. THE CONQUEST OF SINDE, WITH SOME INTRODUCTORY PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF SIR CHARLES JAMES NAPIER. By Major-General IV. F. P. Napier. Part 11. In the present volume we have a brief historical account of the state of Sinde, about the period when Sir Charles Napier assumed the command of the army of occupation—details of the intrigues and plots of the Ameers, in conjunction with their allies, the Affghans and Beloochees—and the final results, in cluding the battles of Meanee and Dubba, and the conquest of Sinde. The work will be found of deep interest, because its object is to show (and in that the author has been successful) that whatever might have given rise to the first British connexion with Sinde, whether our interference was right or wrong, neither Sir Charles Napier nor Lord Ellenborough had any thing to do with that part of the question. They found the country in the possession of British troops, or at least such parts of it as could command the whole; they found also certain treaties entered into with the Ameers, and all they had to do was to see that these treaties were observed, and that the Anglo-Indian army suffered no wrong. Wicked attempts have been made, both by writers in India and this country, to throw the blame of the whole transaction, if blame it can be called, on the government of Lord Ellenbo rough, for the purpose of screening Lord Auckland and extolling the merits of Major Outram. The at tempt has been defeated in the most triumphant man• ner, and these men have " fallen into the pit that they had made." Never did General display more patience, more forbearance, more reluctance to decide the contest by battle, than Sir Charles Napier, and never did any negotiator, whether styled ambassador or minister, or commissioner or political agent, not excepting even Mr. Frere, so notorious for mislead ing Sir John Moore, bring an army so near the verge of ruin as did Major Outram, while at Hyderabad. Sir Charles Napier, the life and soul of the Sinde di vision, for it could not be called an army, was saved from an ignominious death by a miracle. Some would say no—he was saved by his own far-seeing mind —by comparing circumstances—by making himself acquainted with the character of his enemies, and be lieving neither their solemn oaths nor the equally solemn asseverations of the English Commissioners, when he found them controverted by indubitable facts. While the negotiations were going on, he dis covered beyond the possibility of a doubt, that the proceedings of the Ameers were deceitful. They only thought of gaining time for the assembling of their whole army, amounting to at least 70,000 men ; and to delay the war till they could be brought toge ther, no falsehood, no intrigue nor fraud was spared. His correspondence with Major Outram was through their instigations, stolen; the Ameer Roostum and his sons wrote letters and made statements as to their troops, and their intentions, designed to mislead Outram, and they did effectually mislead him ; but the statements which Sir Charles received through paid native agents, in other words spies, were clear, distinct, and positive—all in contradiction of the Ameers and the British Commissioner, and all in accord with each other. About the beginning of February 1843, the troops of many tribes were marching towards Hyderabad, the Ameers were in close alliance with the Affghans and Beloochees, and all that was required to accomplish the annihilation of the British forces was to keep them at a distance from the capital of Lower Sinde till the preparations were completed. Major Outram did every thing in his power to stop our troops on their march ; he wrote repeatedly from Hyderabad conveying advice to that effect, nay he actually invited Sir Charles Napier to leave his army and come down the country alone to settle affairs by negotiation, when the train was actually laid for destroying himself and his small division of 100 men, and they merely delayed the explosion till the Com mander-in-Chief could be brought within the range of destruction. No intentional mischief, of course, is ascribed to Majur Outram, it was merely a defect of judgment—a want of prudence—a complete miscon ception of the character of the Ameers, and a fatuous blindness to palpable events which were passing around him. Had Sir Charles yielded to this advice, the Cabul tragedy would have been repeated at Hyderabad, and Napier and Out ram would have suffered the fate of Burnes and M'Naughten, and probably not one man of the army would have been left to tell the tale. This was about the first week of February, and the dreadful battle of Meanee took place on the 17th of that month. Sir Charles Napier, however, had too much skill and foresight to fall into the snare; and when the Ameers found that he could not be caught, they unravelled the plot, attacked the residence of the British Commissioner at Hyderabad, and the fearless courage of Major Outram and the determined bravery of his small band of British troops alone saved them from utter destruction. The Commander in-chief then saw on what a precipice he stood, and, with a moral courage never surpassed, resolved at all hazards to save, if not his life, at least his honour, and that of his brave army. Ile prepared for the contest without a moment's hesitation ; and to most men such a contest would have appeared utterly hopeless. After detaching a few troops in different directions, to preserve his communications, he had 2,000 of all arms, officers included ; the rank and file were only 1,780, but they were of sterling stuff, and among them were 500 of the Queen's Regiment, under the command- of the Gallant Colonel Penne father—all Irishmen, " strong of body, high-blooded, 1 fierce, impetuous soldiers, who saw nothing before them but victory, and counted not their enemies." But their numbers nevertheless were apalling to ordi nary minds. The Beloochees of Lower Sinde, 30,000 strong, were assembled on the plain of Meanee; the princes of I. Tpper Sinde had 7,000 at Khoonpera ; the Chandians, 10,000 strong, had crossed the Indus in rear of the British camp ; Shere Mohamed had 10,000 at Merepoor ; and thousands of the hill tribes were hastening down to the Indus. Not a moment was to be lost, and Napier, true to his family motto, " Ready, aye, ready," rushed at once against this combined host of 30,000 brave troops. But we will allow his brother to describe the onset : " When the line was formed the General gave the sig nal to advance, and rode forward himself with his staff, and his interpreter, Ali Acbar, an Arab gentleman of high race and true Arab courage, who has never left his chief's side in any danger. Constant and heavy was the fire from the Belooch guns ; and though few men could be discovered, the rapid play of the matchlocks indicated the presence of numbers, and marked the position. "The Ameer's right was found to be strengthened and covered by the village of Kattree, which was filled with men ; the flank offered no weak point. But in the Shikargah on their left the General instantly detected a flaw. It has been before said this argah was covered by a wall, Laving only one opening, not very wide, through which it was evident the Beloochs meaned to pour out on the flank and rear of the advancing British line. The General rode near this wall and found it was nine or ten feet high ; he rode nearer and marked it had no loop-holes for the enemy to shoot through • he rode into the opening under a play of matchlocks, and looking be hind the wall saw there was no scaffolding to enable the Beloochs to fire over the top. Then the inspiration of ge nius came to;the aid of heroism. Taking the grenadiers of the 22d, he thrust them at once into the opening, telling their brave Captain (Tew), that he was to block up that entrance ; to die there if it must be, never to give way ! And well did the gallant fellow obey his orders ; he died there, but the opening was defended. The great disparity of numbers was thus abated, and the action of six thousand men paralysed by the more skilful action of only eighty. It was, on a smaller scale as to num bers, a stroke of generalship like that which won Blen heim for the Duke of Marlborough. "Now the advancing troops, formed in columns of regi ments, approached the enemy's front. The British right passed securely under the wall of the Shikargah, cheered and elated as they moved by the rattling sound of Tew's musketry ; the left was somewhat refused, to avoid the fire from the village of Kattree, which it was designed Clibborne should storm with his Sepoy grenadiers. Meanwhile the dead level of the plain was swept by the Belooch cannon and matchlocks, which were answered from time to time by Lloyd's battery, yet not frequently, for rapidly and eagerly did the troops press forward to close with their unseen foes. When the 22d had got within a hundred yards of the high sloping bank of the Fullaillee, the columns opened line to their left ; and as the companies formed in succession, they threw their fire at the top of the bank, where the heads of the Beloochs could be just seen, bending with fiery glances ever the levelled matchlocks. The formation was still incomplete, when the voice of the General, shrill and clear, was heard along the line commanding the charge. " Then rose the British shout, the English guns were run forward into position, the infantry closed upon the Fullaillee with a run, and rushed up the sloping bank. The Beloochs having their matchlocks laid ready in rest along the summit, waited until the assailants were within fifteen yards ere their volley was delivered ; the rapid pace of the British, and the steepness of the slope on the inside deceived their aim, and the execution was not great ; the next moment the 22d were on the top of the bank, thinking to bear down all before them, but they staggered back in amazement at the forest of swords waving in their front ! Thick as standing corn, n and gorgeous as a field of flowers , sto od the Beloochs _ their many-coloured garments and turbans ; they filled the broad deep bed of the Fullaillee, they clustered on both banks, and covered the pla in be y ond. Guarding their heads with their large dark shields, they shook their sharp swords, beaming in the sun, their shouts rolled like a peal of thunder, as with frantic gestures they rushed forwards, and full against the front of the 224 dashed with demoniac strength and ferocity. But . with shouts as loud , and shrieks as wild and fierce Ih ris as theirs, and hearts a 3 bi g and arms as strong, the so ldi e rs mct them with t hat queen of weapons the mus ket, and sent th eir foremost masses rolling back in blood. " Now the Beloochs closed their dense masses, and again the shouts and the rollin g fire of musketr y and the dreadful rush of the swordsmen, were heard and seen along the whole line, and such a fight ensued as has seldom been known or told of in the records of war. For ever those wild warriors came close up, sword and shield in advance, striving in all the fierceness of their valour to break into the opposing ranks ; no fire of small arms, no push of bayonets, no sweeping discharges of grape from the guns, which were planted in one mass on the fight, could drive the gallant fellows back ; they gave their breasts to the :lot, they leaped upon the guns and were blown away in twenties at a time their dead went down the steep slope by hundreds ; but the gaps in their masses were continually filled up from the rear, the survivors of the front rank still pressed for wards with unabated fury, and the bayonet and the sword clashed in full and frequent conflict. "Thus they fought in this fearful struggle, never more than three yards apart, and often intermixed, and several times the different regiments, aye, even the Europeans ! were violently forced backwards and pushed from the line, overborne and staggering under the might and passion of the barbarian swordsmen. But always their General was there to cheer and rally them. At his voice and intrepid demeanour their strength re turned, and they recovered their ground, though nearly deprived of regimental leaders ; for fast those leaders had gone down, dying as British officers should, and always will do, where they cannot win. " The noble soldier Pennefather (I use his General's words), the noble soldier Pennefather fell on the top of the bank, deeply, it was thought at first mortally, wounded, and his place was taken by Major Poole. " Major Teasdale, animating his Sepoys of tho 25th regiment, rode violently over the ridge into the midst of the Beloochs. and was instantly killed, by shot and sabre, dying with a glorious devotion. " Major Jackson, of the 12th, coming up with his regiment, the next in succession, followed the heroic example, as if the succession of death had been also in his orders. Two brave Havildars kept close to him, all three in advance of their regiment, and all fell dead to gether, covered with wounds ; but not passively ; several of the fiercest Beloochs were seen to sink beneath the strong arm and whirling blade of Jackson, as crowding around him they tore his body with their griding weapons. " Nearly all the European officers were new slain or wounded, and several times the Sepoys, wanting leaders, slowly receded ; but the General, a skilful horseman, and conspicuous from his peculiar headgear, half helmet half turban, was always at the point of greatest pressure, and then manfully the swarthy soldiers recovered the lost ground. Once he was assailed by a chief, but on the instant Lieutenant Marston of the 25th Native Regi ment was at his side, and slew the Sirdar, whose tomb has been raised by his tribe since on the spot where he fell. At another period of the fight he was alone for several minutes, in the midst of the enemy; they stalked around him with raised shields and scowling eyes ; but whether from some appearance affecting their minds, for the Beloochs are very superstitious, or from some other cause, none lifted sword against him, and he returned to his own people unhurt. The 22d soldiers seeing him thus emerge from a crowd of foes, called to him by name, and gave him a cheer heard distinctly above the general din of the battle ! And there are men who think the murmur of their factious calumnies can stifle that heroic sound !" It is needless to extract more. The battle now had lasted for three hours, but was far from being won. A skilful manceuvre, however, of the General and the unabated energy of his troops finally pre vailed, and in one hour more the victory was com plete. The remainder of the work we will notice at a future period. In the meantime, it may be instruc tive to state that, although all the troops fought well, Sepoys and Sindians, as well as those of the line, the mainstay was the little brave Irish division of 500 men ; they were led on by an Irishman, Pennefather ; Captain Tew, who contributed so much to the vic tory, and fell in defending his post, was an Irishman ; and the General himself belongs to that nation. To Irishmen we owe the conquest of Sinde—the rank and file were Irish, and chiefly Irish Catholics. We allow these Catholics to gain victories for England, and, by one of the most glorious battles on record, to raise her name to the highest pitch of glory, yet we grudge their priests a grant of 17,0001. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS; a . Digest of the Productive Resources, Commercial Legislation, Customs, Tariffs, Navigation, Port and Quarantine Laws and Charges, Shipping, Imports and E.rpolts, and the Monies, Weights and Measures of all Nations, cc. By JOHN MACGREGOR, Author of "British America," and one of the .Joint Secretaries of the Board of Trade. 3 vols, large Bvo. No publicist of our times has rendered more signal services by his contributions to the statistics of British and universal commerce than Mr. Macgregor. The wonderful production before us is an epitomized treasury of all the information necessary for the duly understanding not only the present condition of our mercantile and fiscal relations with other states, but of the natural and political causes which have led to their establishment. In this respect it is more con venient, and more instructive, because far more inte resting than the very valuable compilation annually produced by Mr. G. Porter, under the title of the " State and Progress of the Nation." The plan of Mr. Macgregor's work—far from being limited by a strict tabular arrangement, after assuming an:admira ble methodical development, illustrates and combines the voluminous data which it incorporates by copious references to the domestic history of each state, wherever events have happened therein, that controul or bear upon the international regulations subsisting between it and our own country, touching the trade maintained between them. From the careful fidelity with which Mr. Macgregor (in his " Commercial Statistics" of Turkey, Austria, Russia, &c. &c., from time to time presented), preserved those portions of original treaties and agreements that record the pri mary and rare ancient stipulations agreed upon be tween our own Ministers and those of foreign govern ments, on the origin of all existing branches of our commerce, we were prepared to expect the very im portant feature we find embodied in the present work. He gives us all the modern and effective treaties applicable to these regulations. These commercial papers form part of the general collection we are now presented with, and they are modestly alluded to by Mr. Macgregor in connexion with a just tribute to the memory of the late Lord Sydenham, and a hand some acknowledgment of the liberal co-operation and encouragement of his Lordship's successors in office. In the same very interesting preface in which these acknowledgments occur, mention is made of a gentle man, now no more, in terms which will find a ready echo in the breast of every man, who has enjoyed (as it was the fortune of the writer of this notice to do) the advantage of frequent personal intercourse with him, and the ready communications to which that was sure to lead, of the abundant stores of his gifted mind, imparted with a simplicity and epigrammatic force peculiarly his own. We allude to the late Mr. Deacon Hume. It is a melancholy pleasure to fall upon such a reminiscence, where one might least have expected it, and a sincere gratification to learn that he had earned additional claims to the respect in which he was universally held, by having been, it should seem, the principal cause of Mr. Macgregor's really admirable labours in the same wide field of public usefulness. " The whole customs laws of the United Kingdom have been consolidated in one octavo volume by my pre decessor and intimate friend, and the friend of the whole human race, as well as the indefatigable benefactor of his own country, the late James Deacon Hume, many years comptroller of the customs of the Port of London, and afterwards for thirteen years one of the joint secre taries of the Board of Trade. That volume was pro claimed by Mr. Huskisson in Parliament to be the per fection of codification. When it is considered that about 2,200 Acts had been passed by Parliament to regulate the customs and navigation of the United King dom and British possessions ; and that in 1815 more than eleven hundred of those ambiguous and conflicting statutes were in force, it was not surprising that, not only the merchants, shipowners, and manufacturers who had to regulate their commercial and shipping transac tions by such a heterogeneous mass of laws, but that those, also, who had to execute them, acted generally in almost utter ignorance of the legislation formed to govern the trae and navigation of the empire. Mr. Hume, therefore, in consolidating, under the Treasury and Board of Trade, the whole customs and navigation laws of England within the compass of one octavo volume, rendered the greatest service to his countr y . Mr.Huskisson, who relied implicitly on the knowledge, acuteness, judgment, and above all, on the uncompro mising honesty of Mr. Hume, said, on bringing forward that volume in Parliament, in February, 1826, ' the task' (consolidating the customs laws) ' was of great magnitude, but we did not shrink from it. But I am free to admit, that we never could have succeeded in our undertaking without the assistance of an official gentle man, in the service of the Customs—a gentleman of the most unwearied diligence, and who is entitled, for his persevering exertions, and the benefit he has conferred on the commercial world, to the lasting gratitude of the country. Of the difficulties of the undertaking the House will be enabled to judge, when I state that there h were no fewer than five hundred statutes, relative to numerous enactments concern' Customs alone, to wade through, indeprdenwtliyreohfottohse: n .n tfie sm e u grin ' two of this ing, the plantation!), &c. I . now, , . battles without end to fight. comprised duty we had innumerable difficu A lt o i p e d s to encounter,str aonnde all the laws at present in theexistoefoce customs, of naviga little volume, which I hold in my o h o an th d o , a s r o e h j c o o o m t P of the management and the rev a e r n e tje ousiom and of our colonial tion of smuggling: of w h manner, that no min cal! n p , Mr. Hume continued in trade, compressed in so cleaorsasinhdlyyemt issotachoomtphreehmeneasinvienag or the application of the... • _ lamentable death of the latter, a,. which to co care, iium t e o , the intimate confidence of ,111 r. d ll a u m sk o i n sson a until the s o rdreeastphr committeeden ce, a few of private roon tt a s P b e e r f s o a re nd hi c make such use of as I mi g ht j ud g e fit, Mr. iluskisson's private letters to Mr. Hume show the great con;:4ence he placed in his judgment. To Mr. Hume's confideb..ce and friendship I certainly owe the confirmation of those principles, and that ambition to labour, through all the difficulties, at my sole expense, of collecting in Europe and America the materials of the work which I now venture to present to the public." No better notion can be afforded of the enormous ap plication and energy which our compiler's task de manded and received at his hands, than what he states in the following passage : " I consulted Mr. Hume on the subject: but the com plete accomplishment of such work was considered too arduous, from the circumstance of our scarcely pos sessing any one foreign tariff, nor any of the foreign revenue or customs laws (except those of the United States), printed in the English language. I, however, had previously arranged nearly all those then in force in America, and had also prepared the way to obtain all subsequent information relative to the commercial re sources and legislation of each of the North and South American States. In 1832, being then disengaged from any official employment, I visited Fra nce with the view of collecting the materials for my contemplated work. in the following summer I travelled over 134Plgiurat Holland, and the principal States of Germany, for th same purpose, and in 1834, 1835, and 1836, travelled over several other European states, returning during the winter of each year to Paris to arrange the materials I had collected. The years 1837, 1838, 1839, I spent chiefly in the Austrian States and in Italy, and last autumn I revisited Germany and Holland, in order to completed my researches. With the exception of the commercial laws and tariffs of Russia, which I employed a very able foreign gentleman (who, from having for a long time held office in the finance department of that country, understood the subject well) to translate ; and with the exception also of the tariffs of Sweden and Denmark, I translated or supetintended the translation of all the other tariffs and commercial regulations, in this work, into English from the French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese languages : the labour of which was not, however, so much that of verbal trans , lation, but of arranging the tariffs alphabetically, after wards, in the tabular form which I considered necessary, and in the weights, measures, and monies of England, as well as in those of their respective countries." And again— " In the progress of my researches, the natural re sources, and the agriculture and manufacturing pro ducts of foreign countries, the prices of earn, and the wages of labour ; the trade and the navigation ; the taxation, and the revenue of foreign countries, consti• tuted a principal object of collection and arrangement ; and I for some time considered that these should form a distinct work from the mere commercial treaties, tariffs, and customs laws of Europe and America. My view of carrying into execution this separate plan was over ruled by the mature opinion of Mr. Deacon Hume, and by a letter to me while I was in Germany, from the late Lord Sydenham, of whose friendship, for several years before his death. I must speak with gratitude, and under whose auspices it was then intended that the . work, when completed, should have been presented by her Majesty's command to both Houses of Parliament. I am bound to state this in honesty, and in justice to the memory of the late Governor-General of Canada." And here, in justice to Mr. Macgregor, we subjoin the acknowledgments of which we have spoken above :-- "If I have felt myself bound to acknowledge my ob ligations to the memory of Lord Sydenham, I am justly compelled to declare—that the several comidereial tariffs, regulations, and statistics of Europe and America that I prepared, in the form in which they have been presented by her Majesty's commands to Parliament (and which are embodied in, and constitute a great por tion of these volumes), were brought out under the prompt and kind auspices of the Earl of Ripon, the late President, and of Mr. Gladstone, now President of the Department of which I have the honour of being one of the joint secretaries. In stating this publicly, I must say further, that on no occasion have I known any but the most liberal willingness on the part of not only the Earl of Ripon and of Mr. Gladstone, but also on the part of Mr. Laboucbere, when President of the Board of Trade, to have statistical, and all really useful returns prepared for the information of Parliament and the public." The Introduction is divided into three sections, which treat, respectively, of " Commercial and Financial Legislation," " Interchange of Commodities," " Taxes and Consumption." The first and second volumes in clude the Commercial Statistics of the Austrian Em pire ; Belgium ; Denmark ; France ; the Germanic Union of Customs, Holland; the Italian States, Gib raltar ; Malta, and the lonian Islands ; Ottoman Empire in Europe ; Greece ; African States ; the Russian Empire ; Sweden and Norway ; Spain; Por tugal. Each of these divisions treats of the geographi cal position, boundaries ; area and population ; com mercial legislation, tariffs, revenues, &c. ; agriculture, trade, navigation ; seaports, shipping ; products and their prices, conventions and agreements with this country ; exports, imports ; manufactures, wages, fairs, &.. In short, there is no information which can be gleaned from any authentic source on all these topics, that Mr. Macgregor has not fused into his compilation. Row agreeable and interesting some portions of this excellent work are to the common reader, who may be absolutely ;nnocent of all com mercial and fiscal curiosity, some extracts that we have marked for future notice may suffice to show. Altogether, Mr. Macgregor's work is one of the most remarkable, and, what is more, one of the most useful works which has been published since the commence ment of the present century. THE COCK AND AZVCHOR. A CHRONICLE OF OLD DUBLIN CITY. 3 vas. This is a narrative of old Dublin, some hundred and fifty years ago, bearing the name of a celebrated public-house, supposed to have flourished about that period. It is not a tale that will amuse, but it is one that will afford both interest and instruction. It is a history of the gradual progression of crime, showing, as the French say, " ce n'est que le premier pas qui cage." It is easy to deviate from the right course, but a false step once taken, it is not only impossible to recede,—it is impos sible to pause. Fault follows fault, like the steps of a ladder, till by imperceptible degrees the hapless victim finds himself from the borders of virtue fallen to the depths of vice. The hero, in whose history this lesson is conveyed, is Henry Ashwoode, a young baronet, of moderate fortune, and proud and passionate disposition. His faults having increased by bad education and bad example, he is the willing slave of his own passions. Step by step, he advances in the path of sin. First, his love for play leads him into bad company, then, by his pride, be insults his low companions, and thus creates a powerful enemy. Ruined by gambling, he is induced by cunning representations to forge s signature to a bond, whichshall free him from danger. This bond falls into the possession of his enemy, who now has an opportunity of gratifying his revenge. Through the fear of exposure, the haughty Ba ronet is compelled to obey the caprices of his cruel tormentor; till at last his pride gets the better of his fears, he refuses to submit, and then—but we will not destroy the interest of the story by giving the conclus ion; suffice it to say, that it conveys a moral lesson well worthy of attention. It is written in a bold and vigorous style, adapted to the characters and the subject. The gentle Mary Ashwoode, the sister of the gambler, forms a beautiful contrast to the gloomy pictures of her brother and his companions. The description of her escape from the power of Blarden, her brother's enemy, is one of the most inte resting passages in the book. Among the various scenes we are introduced to the Vice-Regal Court, during the Lieutenancy of the profligate Marquis of Wharton, the father of the celebrated Duke Philip; here we see Addison, Swift, and others, but we have only a passing glimpse of these important charac ters, the chief interest of the story following the for tunes of Ashwoode. The following remarks on the inveterate pursuit of gaming are full of melancholy truth " With the immediate urgency of distress, any thoughts of prudence or retrenchment which may have crossed his mind vanished, and along with the command of new resources came new wants and still more extrava gant prodigality. His passion for gaming was now indulged without restraint, and almost without the in terruption of a day. For a time his fortune rallied, and sums, whose amount would startle credulity, flowed into his hands, only to be lost and squandered again in dissi pation and extravagance, which grew but the wilder and more reckless, in proportion as the sources which sup plied them were temporarily increased. At length, after some coquetting, the giddy goddess again deserted him. Night after night brought new and heavier disasters ; and with this reverse of fortune came its invariable accompaniment —a wilder and more daring recklessness, and a more unmeasured prodigality in hazarding larger and larger sums ; as if the victims of ill luck sought, by this frantic defiance, to bully and browbeat their capri cious persecutor into subjection. There was scarcely an available security of any kind which he had not already turned into money, and now he began to feel, in downright earnest, the iron gripe of ruin closing upon him. ,‘ He was changed—in spirit and in aspect changed. The unwearied fire of a secret fever preyed upon his heart and brain; an untold horror robbed him of his rest, and hauntd him night and day." ----- WILL OF THE LATE BARON GURNEY --Probate of the will of Sir John Gurney, Knight, of Lincoln's Inn fields, late one of the Barons of her Majesty's Court of Ex chequer, was granted cn the 6th inst. to his sons, the Rev. John Hampden Gurney, clerk ; Russell Gurney, Esq., and Sidney Gurney, Esq., the executors. Personal estate sworn under 80,000/. Sir John died on the Ist of March last, aged seventy-seven. He leaves to his wife 6,000/., and the fur niture, &c. ; also the residue of his property for her life. His lib r ary (not law books) to be divided among his chil dren after Lady Gurney has made a selection. Bequeaths to his eldest son, the Rev. John Hampden Gurney, a legacy o f 8,0001, and the chambers in Paper-buildings. To his second son, Russell Gurney, barrister-at-law, he bequeaths all his freehold estates at Northlands and Abbots Farms, and the property at Cuckfield, in Sussex, and his chambers in King's Bench-walk; also his law library. To his son, Sidney Gurney, a legacy of 2,0001. To his three daughters 1,000/. each. The residue of his property, at the death of Lady Gurney, to be divided among his children in portions, as directed by the will. To each of his nine grand-children a legacy of 100/., and to his faithful clerk, who had been with him many years, a legacy of 400/. The will is written in draft, dated November 30, 1844, signed, " John Gurney," witnessed by C. Ewens, Basinghall-street, and his clerk. On a separate paper is a list of his children and grand children, and their ages, places Of birth, &c. WILL OF THE BISHOP OF ELY.—Probate of the will of the Right Reverend Joseph Allen, D.D., late Lord lishop of Ely, who died at Ely, in the county of Cambridge, on il , e 20th of March last, aged seventy-six, was granted on the 1;:..h instant to his daughter, Ellen Allen, and to % his two sons, Cleorge J. Allen and William Joseph Allen, Esqs., the excel:l - ors and trustees, a power being reserved to his widow, Margart:t Allen, to prove hereafter. Personal estate sworn under 40,0061. Bequeaths to his wife a life interest both in the funded property and landed estates, and directs that she may receive the sum of 500/. for immediate use ; and leaves to her for her absolute' use such furniture, &c., as she may select, the rem aindor he bequeaths to his children • but such articles as they may. not require are to be offered to his successor to the Bishopric, at a fair valua tion. His books on divinity to be given, with the consent of his wife, to the dean and chapter of the cathedral church of Ely for the library. Thep rop . erty after the decease estatesof his wife be bequeaths in the following manner: His ~.n at Manchester he gives, devises, and bequeaths to his , George J. Allen, and to his heirs forevetor. h T is hO so se n , ik 2. the county of Chester lie bequeaths_ 1 1 : 1 near li r The.bast India stock he leaves Joseph Allen, and his heirs. to be September to his daughter. And the rThideuewiouf ishisaPtreodPertY divided among his children. 23, 1844, signed "J. Ely." Witueesed by hie. butter awl gardener.