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..----'. DAY') r. oesq: duty Os lo deri l lt o pi r tig °tP iref 1 0 1 8 " 0. 1 0 to / 4 3 0 l*r,, I)%°' ~'~hf LITERATURE. O T LAND. tl n; 4/TES OF THE (.4 rIE _E A' .6' OF l' lll . 1 1. I3y Agnes , Stric , ;tie Our antleiparnons in re g ,r , to tl:is very he e series Mind. Blackwood a , n i d_Son, i. .4, of blograpb.es is being fully realized. i graph`" of the work demonstrates, in ' every chap , In, second •.: , ter, the aptitude of the authoress for these must be ,1:' chanting corn ilations. If yowl which, it in '': ., a... 0 iserved that everyP additional of ''' ulf .adaiiratio for the ever visible impartiality _ page confirms us _ . kiss Stricklaentas an historian. It was observed „ Most admirably of Mr. Macaulay, by the reviewers of bis aunals in of dlagazine—a era ,!,.,,, nerally understood to be no lsss important a • than h i s understood contemporary, Mr. A iso h 0.. I per n son b th : at he was called to the bar and not to the bench "'story• Not thus, however, i 3 it with our authoress, all whose opinions upon the charact P e u e rs p ni a t n td d i'sents crowded together in the annals of the well-considered iiingdoin are expressed in terms as 1!rtIcl Unimpassioned as any summing up that ever l f t e i ll s . otti the lips of the most conscientious usr tended L y e , possession of this quality more conspicuously, Perhaps, than any other which has t. 18. tri aeh to elevate Miss Strickland's reputa i a,.. l't°- " h ‘ the numerous evidences of impartiality forded by her evidences in reference to questions of teilosiderabie delicacy and importance, a certain weight as Ras at length become attached to whatever she h so far Pealled subsequently. Confidence has been 14°1)40 by her former effusions that those ss e yb a k c h . aefeterwards are given to the world are at onlevhtle, rem -, mor eover with are feeling of alacrity and reliance. s h e has Alias Strickland has thus rendered herself 'mutable for her truthfulness as a narrator, ~eoutrived to render her narrative at all times attra.c-. rave b ~_ tAhe in. Yterwesetc4htairms of her very graceful style, and by has, never ,were that , .sing out of her anecdotal illustrations. the. l e , e at Cho severe muse, she Dal i.avolded the denger of rendering her severity f il e; ea a live ' No meritricious ornaments of rhetoric h are thl4ered through her volumes, although they A s she°ll,l.!thout brilliant with oratorical decorations. sin As her 4, 0 ' 48 ; 8° frequently and truthfully , t t o t l h d e t ItrSte quotation from Beaumont, listed ;', th e past she :ifqtylci:Yylaid up in old historic scrolls" utr s e h a e su h re as s h os j_._ a , and frona these records of succeeded in extra9ting . passages of 7to. forgotten merit and inciden . ts, sometimes,., volume commend, in the stirprising beauty. ssorrastit series eve took H oCc r asi e o P n ee to ing setiti.e.s tfirst a the time of i t . ° f no inconsiderable earnestness, at for the Ppearance. We augured •s , _ Ittidaf.. uer celebrated We of the Queens conse of the Zolseetnhisit splendid commencement of her " Lives t D ofE ng of Scotland." The reflection ow l te e t oo the re-examination of that opening of cation of its illtialate, tided to assure us in this conviction . volume Ptib• I bring recognised as an authority , and the %side the second volume—the one already elpr talion--only confirms us in the opinions , 8 an here under t _ eased i - the work a ant ori , 1 regard to the merits of eat co • . naeotie !Disposition. Its contents may be briefly th e hie Las consisting of the co . ncludi . ng th c e hapters whole of th e re' 4 ' of Mary of Lorraine anst latt er ernoirs of the Lady Margaret Douglas—the ferinerW,ell kuown kittlee could th e secohads th g e u C ee o h un o tess of Lennox, i 4tn o d r th o e . 4 h ook 1 .,1 1 c 1c1 sUrely be more entficijnagmiens V. dertakes to %kit 0, 1°11 ! like the one before us, undertakes subject than t th e keit,: histories of the mothers, respe f ctively of the un 4°Ntiate s Bs far Queen of Scots and . Inoi, tit caord ' vaid ill a ° Y re c i) or a d rzl o i t eY th . e memorable serv` fated per B e A f s o c r ht u a n p e te s r h s f p t r h e h l s imi o 'nary to the 'ear- 41 Y iir the r onages those . here w s e ub d m o i n t h te t d n t o o t, t . b be e vastly a , 1 eadtng public will, . -40 w b e ce eoule, and every sentence in them we ofthe sod deserving- the very careful attention of.. re Curious and. reflective among the students port", e recea.i ' " -er.:tel a t i o lli t a h l4 °f t he United Kingdom.. embellishA o s .this m. fr o .sii seri es nf-i....iay published portion t ' ~..nthpieee, .-L oiographies, we have as the . engraved r re o oL t ka k i: °lights, characteristic portrai i t n a - "a of Bias, 4 ' 0 41 an original painting and as a o th f e M o a o r i: 0, excillieet Earl f e , oi Morton, at Dalma f t kars. 1 . - vignette a group the in inst Qua °U.orraine in the act of showing Plthirts e•°' kavY S tu art, to Sir ur4:,voituhea, ‘,„'42.l4teititil bkti,tit ju . st to remark, Both of figur n e e s Y . ' represent- Ralph Sadler. have been executed :• • to ti tnts toan i.iii skill on the part, not . only of the .. titetcwoefk. uieuttteorf, the engraver likewise. .APPlenedxed. kit' or - dad ill on s e oro pa e g , a e , h a at fa u cs n i g ua ra il m e ungrammatically uto. Oso r ' at th e Etr Y of Lorraine, correctl noillktl - close of a rather more and °inf. the anothera L ttl er of -Pis se that of Margaret Douglas . oaa to til e r,.. , os t o i ,, Ni tt Z, t.y. the way, very marvellous spew.- Asueosts..rtisoas .-Pi.y. We mention these particulars p w a h r i t e ic h ul t a h r e s 4 46 4 1 514 (3' s howing the care with honour 40 `", we wood have entered upon a publication of ti°,Atlie notillethc.,sat.isfied, to reflect so muc . *O IIP , Wo tk, 1:41 lierature. Revertino tbeliie t w it: tis oti 4 nere 01b°80Wever, as a literary composition, fo h reader is l iath 4 : l , at th e :tve that the attention o our the ' e lth s ees hsvi . " . ..Y outset of the present v . ol t u er m e e st , ted ae ,led of i.i3 levested with a peculiar interest ..,4 k lo g j, V hat death bed which . Poled ary James .--t reed 41 121 1 , +.°f Lorraine to widowhood, and im 4hVitlosibilitiao3; ter. ( i l usd, as they proved . in . the end, .fatal ka a its t o h u the head of his infant . d . a . u ‘ gid were fo ra is c ir w o , eq. sh e his new burn 013 " Of 1„- his ds tri - - 4° ' the monarch almost tone (141-"L'irituitise interrogated the messenger 143,qter,,, '„ttle reply beinc, , thatimmediately be 'het' vare jr, Bell t l° lefere we ' exclaimed • kl nd 4 z..-0 the n ee, says Miss Strickland with it the was Kin ina g n , ae with 1 41,7 8 , Rod c,r'wn of Scotland : it eame „ ~ a , " fare his la-m.eholy „ '.t Will pass with a lass ; of fe n , Idow ,;(1111voque,” continues tbe biographer the onoone. anidiarly V l i t . lirl e ( ‘ stiit tti f e r('.3'.ni Poet having chosen that noun for a), l„. klatl a Ing Which h used in Scotland girl_ _ mt ell , 41 al as ! , etwice repeats the sorrowful itloti h t thly h o ,‘,O express the disappointment of his titota,hl * O , ll kis. " And so," she resumes, again ck leptkri hinitildsa,. .y of Pitscottie, other, king ~ 0 his ordsa it° With the :Almighty God, an ‘ ;cl , a t a u d rn e s d 6 h h i e s 41711 ether f and his face to the wall. k et rii , tia his James V., the history of - %l e % alth oa r / StUart, may be said literally to corn feo n , e ,°B of 8 Ugh that last and most famous of all the thof W' Po t . tr ia tld Was then only in her earliest in eotl ° lied of Mary Stuart and the history . roe,holo ofairhe inextricably woven together during Pith t he hoor7 chequered existence of the former, rkißow p cilfa taw hich she first drew breath in Lin the44alxe,°:„t° the moment of her terrible and f rutbie,,„ '"ott on the scaffold at the behest o tocar,lailstao‘r' I,ivai, Queen Elizabeth. From linthrq the' a lorrefore, that Miss Strickland beetilin • eParture of James V., a new and g Interest lto rred to e h ed t enters into her narrative, the . in . - e olt, e 48 Well ° the career of one of the most ill N' ll4Bll eil ss. 4 °t ie of the most beautiful and 8C liNikte.4 ki n a p ,'" d ° , Og the more celebrated women of hasthe tioe„v:;ed ti;' that Princess whose fate h t e e i Like 4,1 Vrnpathies of so many great poets the kei a .tie of the ,r 1 Which she expired, Mary Stuart, bathe 4l %7 the 4.7 40 4 Y of Schiller, the subject of some 4 stri O4 4 I°Vely ° !l oft bards.--th 1 bard of her and Pathetic verses of those t:lrd , f 4 ,htr . y 8 e one the nations saes -• nor eotiand, and the other the national „,gt4r, 4,t ;. . Lit4gr ' 1 44°14". country Prance —Burns and No D ,` lo g. deet.`; interesting to trace the sad and 4pfile,'etl whe interest of this extraordinary woman from tied d e : an d 11111 the first development becomes per- Aike at of ft sort! 5 already perused the tale of love ~.4 , to ' li tA ow and splendour, as told by Lucy Areehonotea`u to it with yet more breathless curiosity N il 14 Rh th e by the lips of Agnes Strickland ti oi:Ow fell° louse lying on our desk we f can hr 1.,„, eh ~., Iv the child-Queen through dNeh to'.ltons , many o We -11 tt' me eff asa °I. least memorable vicissitudes. I N 1 1 ; 41 I.' Ww-...4 t ande by Henry VIII. for her ab b e t' th e a 4 eery''ee those ainister endeavours foiled by this it kuleofed 1- 4w aY with her mother to Stirling o ghee flat of i'elloox and I3'ithwell ; u ah i , 4l t o 1 her early coronation ; we hear of her we listen t 4 vriWto ; of iillehlnahOtrio ; of her marriage to the DrecL.a France departure from Dumbarton ; of her 4 , 111111.'1v to ; and of all those events which were IN t lin g ; ,_° he; return to the Scottish kingdom. bc,..teeatiO4"'" lergely in Preparing the way ti t tight, Pest be . Margaret ,at of 11 111 b e rrence, the memoir of he t 4tar found scarcely less interesting than for the la °t ofth e Y n of found ; so that the second instal : titi e Will b e pw series of Royal Lives of Miss Strick e tat o ° Pfofo"igti t° ho eminently successful in ex its il li ii d thB;, I:hatuetiofseietling of curiosity as to its sue . - grati -4 ', l O o rdin Y) we doubt not, will be roioe anti' arY memoir —with Mary Stuart .A 0.,,, augries Strickland as her biographer. 4 4.1,......s --_ ~ to h ; ,Joh, lii•C?C'D AND PROFANE. By lilt 4 1 13 tr ci right L ongman and Co. th e ll'illunle 17 1 Lict°rY re marli;' the author of the pre :lfr. Ilf oet-La 14 tit l ' g iv en to the world his estimate of hi. ord,we ,httreste'B abilities. Regarding the late this titia n , „R:ene r rt " its Possibly the most overrated man ph is; „:ricer Must confes s to having perused t 'l' APtt ftijeauP°° his writings with a feeling of very Vre h as W .-.'1412.4t. Air av Asa., t . • Wrightin has formed opinions etr,,_, e ia„ rri tif.4.14404a of "R ,entertai precisely coincident with those n ed our- 1 H e considers the k: Of a ,„ , !nett 5n.,5.,, be veg. NI ,-uerliities 'stied bard as a mere accumula 7 km •N with couche in the boldest language, and t, . 1144 111.4aPpro • /114 u ofdetanhors of the most silly t alk y 0,141-late des er i,,,, in ,•- i -- 1 eking of Shelley 01141,44,tii:tlbe::rottlriellizetionrpta.s-tLe'd ' aal e th each other, he 1144,13.10itif,(!1 ex ' p e ti d ? e c i ti n t f " th redundancy of he driven to Ns ea. .'arti l sto be himself with its p . .all m ann ,, e B. r teesxpreasi er on b e ta b s earnest -6' binder ve of i a . erves, with an . isk„ an look thugnation, that "no judicious 48 P f rl°l 't pal ,111341 th e • e metrical ver the -°e'vY with tried unon th e inarl world ?tlatlllarronage e4o°lii.t feeling Painfu lly fa s hionable conscious that I 11'7.4,!sfurt,44:rred upon Wordsworth was a na .eve h i, At there In illustration of his meaning Nillsia re ade rs ; nPois indulges himself, and we be g citletqtin'llto the bargain, with sundry very 48 Certainly than these nothing , could be more silly or more f,intastic. Fancy a man, on seeing a robin in chase of a butterfly, writing— " CJulci Father Adam open his eyes, -- And see this sight beneath the skies, ; • He'd wish to close them again." Fancy him addressing a sexton thus : " Mark the spot to waits I point! From this platform eight feet square, Take not even a finger joint, Andrew's whole fireside is there." Fancy him describing one of his precious heroines in this manner : _She dwelt among the nntrodden ways, Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there wore none to praise, . . And very few to love." Fancy him, moreover, on hearing of the' death of a brother, pouring out his sorrows in this exceedingly natural strain :. " Sea, ship, drowned, shipwreck, so it came, The meek, the brave, the good, was gone; He who hud been our living John Was nothing bat a name." Fancy his calling this poetry : • .... " Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead; Nur all asleep—in his extreme old age." Or this— . , " A human being destined to awake To human life, or something very near To human life." Or this— " Calm did he sit under the wide-spread tree Of his old age; and yet less calm and meek, Winningly meek or venerably calm, Than slow and torpid." Fancy his singing of the spring time, when-,- " the patient primrose sits Like a beggar in the cold;" or employing in regard to a dead limb a simile so very novel and exquisite as this— "l raised, wails kneeling by his side, •, His hand: it dropped like lead." Fancy this man writing— " His limbs would toss about him with delight Like branches when strong winds the trees annoy;" or again-- " That tall man, a giant in bulk and in height, Not an inch of his body is free from delight; Can keep himself still, if be would? oh, not he! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree." Fancy this man squatting himself down ' before a thorn and thus musing upon it • " There is a thorn—it looks so old, In truth you'd find it hard to say How it could. ever have been young, ' It looks so old and grey." And ' then fancy him deliberately enstalled as the Poet-Laureate of England, and worshipped as the originator of a new era and the founder of a new school in the annals of our national literature Really after this it was rather too hard upon Mr. Wakley to abuse him for asserting that he could write poetry like this by the mile ! But that the late Mr. Words worth could accomplish worse things even than any of tbose we have above particularised, it is only ne;- - cessary in proof to extract a single passagelrom Mr. Wright's "Introduction" to his present volume. This passage has reference to Mr. Wordsworth's "Anecdote for Fathers," "in which," says Mr. Wright, "be says he has a boy of five years old, with whom he walked and talked one morning, as was his custom, with their quiet home all full in view.' His own musings recurred to Kilve's delightful shore, where they had resided a year previously. 'Eilve he thought was a favoured place,' and so is ' Liswyn farm.' 'ln very idleness' he asked the boy whether he preferred to be on Kilve's smooth shore,' or at Lis wyn farm ?' At Kilve was the answer? Why ? the boy knew not why ; and being pressed' fur a reason, he hung down his head' and blushed with shame,' but remained silent. Three times the in terrogatory was put ; when the boy raised hi& head, and seeing a vane upon the housetop, replied "6 At Kilve there was no weathercock And that's the reason why.' "Pleased with the evidence of childish sagacity, he exclaims— '" 0 dearest, dearest boy! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.' "If the poet's admirers be sufficiently versed in .he profound to discover the worth attached to this revelation, they can better deal with the problematical than I can. To me it would seem that for the sake of bringing this child into ridicule, fifteen stanzas were written, which, whether viewed in regard to their meanness of diction, or poverty of idea, should serve as well to show that he was, the veritable son of the writer," Well may we find it observed of the writer of such twaddling nonsense, corrected and uncorrected as it was, that he exemplified in himself the truth of the proverb "Ail sine magno vita labore dedit morta libus." And well may Lord Byron exclaim, in regard to the excessively vulgar persons celebrated by Mr. Wordsworth in his versification—such persons as Betty Foy and Susan Gale, as Goody Blake and Harry Gill, as Alice Fell and Peter Bell, cum ceteris paribas -• Pedlars,' and 'boats,' and waggons!' Oh! ye shades Of Pope and Dryden, are we come to this?" Yet this is the man who is crammed down our throats as a Poet, almost as the Poet, certainly as the Poet of Nature--as it common sense alone would not be suf ficient to make us recoil before this unsurpassable dis play of facetious puerility and preternatural silliness. Turning from the subject of Mr. Wright's criticism to his own metrical productions, we must at once avow in their regard to having experienced a very grievous disappointment. Agreeing as we did so thoroughly with everything ho says in his " Introduction," we must acknowledge that we were predisposed to be gratified with his own effusion, and in mere grati tude for our common sympathy, to be enabled to yield him a full weed of commendation. Not such, however, we regret to say have been the results of our dispassionate perusal of his volume. We look upon it as a curiosity, certainly—seeing that it con sists of love songs and such like things, not one line of which was composed before the author had entered on his fortieth year—but assuredly we look upon it as nothing more remarkable in any particular. Mr. Wright has sung of all sorts of little flowers, and all sorts of little birds, and all sorts of little fantastic themes of every conceivable specles. He has lines to the " Snowdrop," and lines to the " Crocus," and lines to the "Hyacinth," and lines to the "Daisy," and lines to the " Violet," and lines to the "Nar cissus," and lines to the "Buttercup," and lines to the " Bluebell." He has verses on the " Sparrow," and on the " Eigle," and on the " Thrush," and on the "Blackbird," • and on the " Cuckoo," and on the " Skylark," and on the " Swift," and on the " Skylark" again, and on the " Crow," and on the Cuckoo" again, and on the "Swift" again, and on other denizens of the air besides. He indites all kinds of amatory stanzas to "Amanda," to " A Lady," to " A Lovely,Maiden," to Lucretia," to "Her I Love," to "Ellen," to "A Lady S!eeping," to "A Lady dee votedly Attached to the Person of a foolish Man," and to other ladies under very peculiar circumstances. He gives us now a "Midnight Study," and now a " Noontide Reflection," now a sonnet on a " Garden Slug," now some lines to a "Fly," now some verses to a "Jug," and with these a variety of other equally attractive and bewitching lucubrations. Occasionally, of course, he rises a trifle or so above mediocrity—a circumstance scarcely to be wondered at even with his extraordinary inaptitude for the production of anything pretending to the merits of poetry, when it is considered that the volume extends to the length of very nearly 350 pages octavo. One of the prettiest stanzas in the whole book is that which occurs at page 5, where the author says, or sings, of the snowdrop— " Iu lightsome green it breaks the ground, By fostering nature led; And having faintly glanced around, Hangs down its beauteous head." Sometimes, but for the avowal already referred to as discernible in the "Introduction," we should have at tributed the verses here presented toournpoatsi as ,the effusions of a man past forty, b u t as those rather of a stripling of a very warm and impassioned temperament. The erotic address to " Amanda," for example, is sufficiently bold in its amatory en thusiasm to have been penned even by Little. But then we recollect, to be sure, that no man is safe from the darts of Cupid even though he has passed his grand climacteric—and the Lord High Chancellor Eldon is known to have been a customer at the forge of Gretna, having figured before the world rather late in life as the hero of an elopement. And then, Mr. Wright is only just past forty;! Another little frag ment of his deserves mention at our hands as containing a sort of vignette embellishment; it is, where speaking of the cuckoo, he observes— " The child, arrested by thy lay, Stands listening with devoted heart, Drops from its hand the blooming spray, And wonders what device thou art," Yet agreeable though these fragments—(" Like angel's visits few and far between")—may be, they can scarcely compensate for such a very large assem blage of very indifferent versification. If anything can expiate the guilt incurred by the latter particular, it will be the clever and sarcastic criticism (prefixed to the volume) upon the writings of the late Mr. Wordsworth. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—Th Q Boston and Liverpool Steam-ship Company's new sorely-steamer, S. S. Lewis, Captain Cole, arrived in the Mersey this morning, from Boston. She was towed into the river by two steam tugs. The S. S. Lewis sailed for this port on the 4th inst. at noon, and experienced heavy E, and N.E. winds until the morning of the 15th, when she encountered a violent gale from the N.E., and had the misfortune to lose her propeller, being at the time 85 miles to the westward of Cape Clear, and 10 , days at sea. Oa the 16th inst. at seven P.M., 35 miles west of Cape Clear, she passed the 'United States mail steamer Pacific, Captain Nye, for New York. The S. S. Lewis is a tine specimen of naval architecture. A fire occurred last night on board the screw-steamer Genova, but it was extinguished with slight damage. The screw steamship Mars, trading between this port and Waterford, burst her boiler on Satur day ,tast, on her passage from the latter port, injury was sugabaed by the crew an d passogeri. . • • —•- T H E s'eN l WEDNESDAY SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROSI THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIM ES.—Tae- cxemcivo is undoubt,dly the weak side of the ultra-democratic theory of government. It is very well to tell us that the people are the only source of legitimate power, and that all functions — legislative, judicial, and executive, are only delegates to individuals of the inherent might of the body poli tic. This resolution of all questions of government into the relation of principal and agent works pretty well, so long as the matters in question are compli cated, and such as the masses, though claiming the right, have not the power to manage for themselves. But in the simpler acts of popular sovereignty, there is alWays danger lest the ruling democracy should sweep aside its delegates, and exercise the powers of government in its own person. This we presume to be the theory upon which the acts of Lynch law, now so unfortunately associated with the name of Cali fornia, are defended by the thousands who give their presence and approval to their perpetration. Some such sedative to the conscience there mutt be, for it is impossible to conceive that thousands of persons who have been instructed, however imperfectly, in their duties ai citiz?ns and Christians, should applaud the perpetration of a gross insult to popular sove reigaty and a wilful'and deliberate murder, did they vie iv the matter in that light. Yet what sophism can be more transparent ? The people who make the law and appoint the Executive are the whole population of the State, legally convened and solemnly delibera ting. The people who set aside the Executive, and take the law into their own hands, or rather abrogate it altogether, are a multitude casually collected, led on, as all multitudes are, by a few persons actuated by furious passions and gratifying the love of ven geance and the thirst of blood under the abused forms and hollow masquerade of justice. If it be true that no power less than that which founded a constitution can abrogate it, the sovereignty of the people itself is trampled under foot by proceedings which, however great the number of accomplices in their guilt, can never attain the solemnity or authority of the acts by which it is sanctioned. The practice of this model republic presents a curious application of the favourite principle of competition. In order effectively to prevent dangers to life and property, two rival executives are called into existence, and Set to work independently of and in hostile opposition to each .Other. " Him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Dish slay,' might be adopted as the motto of the Californian Vigilance Committee. There it is not " statutes that glean the refuse of the sword," but rather the sword that gleans the refuse of the statutes. When 'a crime has been committed the law punishes all 'that it can, and the Vigilance Com mittee, the antitype of the law, wreaks its vengeance on the remainder. This competitive and concurrent jurisdiction is a new feature in the, dreary annals of the Draconic code of Lynch. Formerly we were ac cestomed to consider Lynch law as a remedy only to 'be justified on the tyrant's plea of necessity, in cases where such summary, measures could alone prevent the escape of some great criminal from justice. But in California, Lynch law bears to the established jurisprudence of the country somewhat the same re lation as courts of equity to their sister tribunals of the common law. It permits the ordinary tribunals to proceed so long as they proceed according to its wishes; 'and only interferes to correct their errors or to' supply their defects. Of each of these kinds of ju risdiction our late accounts from California afford striking and - terrible instances. At San Francisco the Vigilance Committee had obtained possession of the personsof two criminals, and was about to execute jus tice upon them after its own summary fashion. The Government fell into the error of considering that such matters were not exclusive the province of the Vigilance Cornmittee whenever it chose to act, rescued the prisoners, and placed them in the gaol of the city. They speedily found out their mistake. In the open day, with overwhelming force, the criminals vvdre'recaptured, and hung with every circumstance of publicity in the presence of the whole population of the city. The coroner immediately held his in quest on the bodies, and the jury found a verdict which clearly implied that the law against murder has no application when life is taken away at the bidding of a multitude. There was tolerably brisk competition between the two Executives; the popular demand for, blood exceeded the regular supply, and the Vigilance Committee undertook to make up what was wanting. The second case was at Sacramento, where three persons 'having been condemned to death, 'the Governor respited one and left the law to take its course as to the other two. After they had been executed under the authority of the. Sheriff, that official withdrew and left his place to be occupied by, the self-appointed ministers of popular vengeance, and in the same place, on ethe' -seine gibbet, 'the criminal whom law had respited, but whom lawless force condemned, met the same fate as his companions. Thus, in this so-called free community has arisen an arbitrary power engros sing to itself the vindictive and terrible, unrelieved by any of the mild and conciliatory attributes of royalty. Law, the protection of the weak against the strong, of the individual against the mass, of the ob noxious against the popular, of the minority against the majority, exists only in California as an occa sional and exceptional rule, liable to be bent or snap ped asunder at any time by the band a supreme and irresponsible power, which assumes to execute jus tice while it knows not mercy, and unrelentingly pu nishes in others the infraction of statutes of which it is itself the most daring and conspicuous violator. It is remarkable that the tyrant's plea of necessity does not apply to either of these cases, which have, as we have before said, much more the air of a race in cruelty between the lawful and the unlawful Executive, than of stern and deliberate justice forced from unwilling hands by an overpowering apprehension for the public safety. In the first case the men were recaptured by the Vigilance Committee before it could possibly be known what fate awaited them at the hands of the regular judicial and executive powers, and in the second a crime, for the expiation of which two lives were sacrificed, could give no colour for illegal violence in order to augment the number of victims. In this the republican icquisition is only following in the steps of all bodies which have con trived to raise themselves to a similar pitch of arbi trary and uncontrollable power. The necessity on which the assumption of that power was founded is soon lost sight of, and gradual encroachments are made, till tyranny and cruelty become their own pre cedent. The country where such things can be done, and done with impunity, may be rich, but has no claim to the title of free. That hardy plant will not flourish on its golden soil. What matters it under what name the tyranny is disguised ? The man whole life can be taken from him at any moment by a stretch of arbitrary power is a slave, whether his serfdom be concealed under the name of citizen of a republaicu,ocrrat I paradedt will be under the e ai bad too geloofkr orderthfuesubect of an to or to hope for tranquillity in a society where every mind is full of the spectacle of such wild and frightful excesses. The same code of public morality which sanctions the knotting of the halter in public will find no greater difficulty in reconciling itself to the use of the knife or the pistol in private. Human nature, to use the words of Thucydides, having con quered, the law will eagerly show that she is intem perate in anger, and an enemy of her superiors. If no other consideration could restrain these fearful outbreaks of vindictive passion, it ought to have oc curred to those who thus create and stimulate a po. pular taste for sights of blood and scenes whose at tractions consist in human suffering and the fierce passions by which it is surrounded, to consider how easily such a craving for the stimulus of horror is created, and how constantly it must require fresh victims. The elegant and philosophical Roman found no sight so alluring as the deadly combat of gladia tors. The lovely daughters of Spain could smile and flirt over the horrors of an auto da Jo just as their fair descendants do now over the sanguinary brutali ties of a bull-fight. Man, the paragon of nature, has lurking about him something of the tiger, and woe to that State and that people where this deeply-seated instinct is stimulated and encouraged instead of being repressed and subdued. HERALD.—We are the last persons in the world who would be disposed to encourage a too prying ex amination into the affairs of the Continent of Europe In rhwmhoiliwtaoruyldosregeai k nz t a o tio s n ow of dis E tr u u r s ope distrust among take stat n es o . very great interest—for this organization affects us in a very subordinate degree. With the naval organ ization of Continental Europe, or the efforts of any state to obtain a seaboard, it is, however, different. These effort s , b e t h ey great or be they small, affect us intimately, and may have an influence very much greater than would at the first blush appear. We hold it to be the business of British statesmen and politicians to see that the preponderance of Great Britain on the seas is always maintained, for this pre ponderance is not alone necessary to the maintenance and extension of our commercial and colonial system, but it is indispensable to our well-being —Day, to our very existence as a nation. Hence it is that anything that has a tendency to alter the relative maritime forces of Europe ought to immediately engage our attention. Most certainly we have no desire to exaggerate • the power of Russia, or to cre ate suspicions in reference to the Govern ment of the Czar. Of the navel power of Russia we have no dread so long as the empire is confined within its present maritime limits. But when we find the Government of Petersburgh en deavouring to extend its maritime frontier at one and the same time on the banks of the Caspian and on the confines of the Baltic and German Ocean, it becomes our duty to draw the attention of Englishmen to efforts so restless and so ambitious, and, we may add, so in consistent with that settlement of Europe as the basis of the treaty of Vienna to which Russian authorities so often refer. We are not in the least disposed to deny the obligations under which our . neighbour s the m Dimes li e to the Russian Government a recent pas- sage of Danish history. But the friendliness exhibited by Russia was no greater, in a public sense, than was exhibited by England and France. England and France both protested against the-unjust and spoliat ing war which the Germans waged, and which Prussia fostered. We cannot, therefore, see in what respect Denmark is more bounden to Russia than to her two more civilised and , more powerful allies. It is true there is a • family connexion be tween the Houses of Romanzoff and Den mark, but as there is neither " kith nor kin in trade," according to the proverb, so is there among monarchs little consanguineous affection when in terests diverge. We cannot Sstippose that it is from any feelings of mere consanguinity that Denmark has exhibited such a marked deference for the Court of Petersburgh and such a willingness to meet its wi:hs. The two Cabinets have few- or no interests in com mon, and the Danish people have certainly no liking for the Russian Government or system. How is it, then, it may be asked, that for the last three months there have been such frequent interchanges of couriers between Copenha gen an d Petersburgh, and that so many as five Russian' ships of war have, during that period, anchored in Danish waters ? If we are to believe the Weser Zeituny, these circumstances have arisen from the eager desire of Russia to purchase the island of Bornholm of the Court of Denmark, with a view to make in it a harbour of the first rank. Now, though the Russian navy has never been formidable, notwithstanding the immense sums lavished on it, and though probably it never can be in our day formid able to even any second-rate naval power—yet it is the duty of England to see that the maritime condition of Europe is not disturbed, and that a great military monarchy is not by these—or by any other means whatever placed in a condition to be nearer the British shores by almost approximating to the German Ocean. Such a position gained by Russia, whether by purchase or by influence, would greatly diminish the importance of a maritime kingdom like Denmark—might occasion serious inconvenience to Sweden—to Hamburgb, to Mecklenburgh, to Bel gium, and to Holland, and even to England and France. These considerations are more than sufficient to excite the vigilance of Great Britain, totally irre spective of the injury which such an acquisition on the part of Russia would inflict on Denmark itself. It is no answer to say that the Baltic is closed for six months in the year—that a tideless sea, with light nights, can never produce thoroughly good sailors. Though we know the fact to be so, and that the maritime system of Russia is thoroughly lubberly and inefficient, and can never be formidable by itself, yet with the aid and assistance of Danes and of Danish harbours, it may accomplish, in combination with others,- purposes now wholly without its reach. Besides, it is not so much as a naval as a military power that the possession of Born holm would give Russia influence ; and of such ag gressive influence she has no need whatever. Under the circumstances to which we allude doubtless ex planations have been asked of the Cabinet of Copen hagen. These ought to be clear and explicit, so as to satisfy the reasonable anxiety of the principal Secre tary of State for Foreign ;Affairs. Independently however, of the most frank #nd cordial explanations, it were well that a British war-steamer and a frigate should be detached for the ,purpose of giving our Government more accurate information than it may be possible to obtain from mere civilians at Copen hagen. If, instead of keeping so many of her Ma jesty's ships rotting at our ports, one, a steamer, was designated for the Baltic, a national—indeed a Euro- pean—service might have been opportunely effected, for this question concerns England, France, the North of Germany, and all the minor maritime powers of the Baltic and the North Sea. EVENING-, OCT 013 ER 22, 1851. THE KAFIR. WAR. (FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAPE TOWN, SEPT. 10.—In consequence of the non -arrival of the mail steamer Sir Robert Peel, due on the 26th ult., and owing to important dispatches from Sir Harry Smith, her Majesty's steamer Birken head will start from Simon's Bay this evening, at five r.m., fur E ng l and, under full steam, with her Ma jesty's mails. She is expected to make the passage in 32 days. The following is a short summary of events since the departure of the Hellespont : Affairs both in the colony and beyond the frontier have assumed a more gloomy aspect than they have ever worn since the commencement of the war, for in while the enemy have sustained no important check Kafirland, they have continued to lay waste exten sive tracts, sweeping off thousands of head of cattle, sheep, &c., while the loss of life on the part of the colonists in the different skirmishes has been consi derable. The strength of the army has in the mean time received a considerable increase by the arrival from England of her Majesty's steamers Birkenhead and Cyclops, and the freight ship Sumner, with the 2d Queen's Royals, a company of Artillery, and de tachments for the different regiments in the field, to gether with the return of her Majesty's steamer Hermes, with the 12th Foot, from Mauritius, an addition of 56 officers and 1,455 rank and file.ma king The 12th Lancers and the 60th Rifles are hourly and anxiously look e d f or. At the Sovereignty affairs are in a bad state. Two companies of the 4511 Foot, under Captain Parish, and some Cape corps, have been sent by Lieutenant- Governor Pine to Major IVarden's relief. It is, however, stated that Moshesh and Molitzane have joined and are marching on the colony. If this re port be correct, they will prove our most formidable foe ;. at all events it is stated that the news from this quarter has had the effect of hurrying off the steamer. The frontier post, due yesterday, has not yet arrived. The Birkenhead, however, brought a single Graham's Town journal of the 6th inst., which is the latest intelligence we have, from which the following are extracted : " Fort Peddie, Sept. 1. " To•day we were aroused to arms by heavy firing between Breakfast Valley and the mountains near Committees Drift. An express arrived from a patrol that was out bringing intelligence of an affair with the enemy, and requesting waggons, &c., for the pur pose of conveying the killed and wounded to Fort Peddie. The detachment of the 91st Regiment, under Lieutenant Rae, with 30 Ji'ingoes, immediately left, and reached the Camp on the morning of the 2d. It appears the 2d Royals fought like Britons, and had they known a little more of the Kafir character, would have taught the enemy a lesson they wound not soon have forgotten. " Return of killed and wounded—Royal Suppers and Miners, 1 killed and 1 wounded ; 21 Royals, 1 sergeant and 1 private killed and 5 wounded ; Cape Mounted Rifles, 1 wounded ; Armstrong's Horse, 1 wounded. One of the wounded men died after his arrival at Port Peddie. " The conduct of the 2d is ♦ery highly spoken of." Another hand writes as follows : " Septemb er 4 t h . Colonel Burn, 2d Royals, had a sharp affair last Monday near Breakfast Valley, in the Fish River Bush, with Stock's Botman's, and Seyolo's Kafirs, conjoined with a lot of rebel Hottentots. The killed and wounded were sent in here-3 of the former and twelve of the latter. The killed were buried yester day ; the wounded are doing well under Dr. O'Con nor. Colonel Burn returned to King William's Town by way of Old Fort Wiltshire, and on his line of march the Kafirs attacked him again, as we heard very heavy firing in that direction, but have not yet learnt the results. The Kafirs appear to have plenty of ammunition." Dates from East London are to the 2d of Sept. The Dee had arrived with troops and levies. The Journal, in its summary for the week, ob serves : " We are unable to record any improvement in frontier affairs since our last. From all parts of the country we have intelligence of the maraudings of the enemy. In Albany, although defended by nearly 800 troops and a strong provisional farce, there still continues to be extensive aggressions committed. Scarcely a day passes without tidings of disaster. The loss of cattle has been ruinous. The rebel Hot tentots are still in the Kurraa, at Oliphant's H oe k, and in the Fi s h Ri ver Bush.ln the latter place they have already given evidence of their strength. In the Bavians River and surrounding country matters are unquestionably in a fearful and distressing state." The following has been the first document issued since the arrival of Major Hogg and Mr. Owen : " GOVERNMENT NOTICE. " King William's Town, Sept. 1, 1851. " His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having submitted to her Mjesty's High Commissioner and Assistant-Commissioners the proceedings of a Court of Inquiry, held in Graham's Town, to investigate the causes that have led to the recent desertions of certain soldiers of the Cape Corp., and the report thereon, that such desertions have been caused by rumours having been spread among the men that they were to be disarmed and given over to the Fingoes and Settlers, they deem it necessary to notify to the Hottentot classes generally, that determined as the Government may be to punish the guilty, it will not fail effectually to protect from injury and oppression the loyal and innocent; and they are further advised that runiours . of a contrary tendency can only have been framed for the purpose of involving them in the same disastrous consequences which await those of their fellow-subjects implicated in rebellion, that they are entirely groundless, and if traced to their authors will subject them to condign punishment. "By his Excellency's command, " JouN GARVOCK, Lieutenant -Colonel." The distribution of the army at the Cape is as fol lows :—The 6th Royals and 73d Foot at King Wil liam's Town; the 2d Queen's Royals in Kafraria ; the 45th Foot in detachments between Natal and the frontier; the 12th Foot and 74th Highlanders are at present attached to General Somerset's division ; 91st at Fort Hare; and the Cape Mounted Rifles in the field from Natal to British Kafraria ; the 60th Rifles, when they arrive, are to be attached to the Ist division • and the 12th Lancer e , it i s sa id , w i ll proceed to the Sovereignty, but this is uncertain. The war vessels in Simon's-bay are her Majesty's ship Castor , Commodore Wyvill, and the Hermes steamer, Captain rishbourne. The Dee is at East London, and the Cyclops and Radamanthus steamers are en route to that port with troops and stores. Her Majesty's ship Penguin sailed on the 2d inst. for the east coast on a cruise. The amount received by the Cape-town Committee for the relief of the destitute on the frontier is up wards of 2,000/.—Times. A GLOUCESTER GHOST. Notwithstanding the reputation which ghosts have of only honouring the earth with their ghastly pre sence at the midnight hour— " the witching hour, when churchyards yawn, And graves give up tier dead," many seem to think them capable of breaking through their usual etiquette on this point, and visiting " the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous," at other and earlier hours. Northgate-street, in the neighbourhood of the Black Dog, was, on Wednes day night, all agog at the awful presence of an un mistakable ghost at the top window of an empty house now undergoing repair. Yes, there was the awful visitant, "all in white," looking like the trou bled spirit of some young girl just risen in its grave clothes to scare poor mortals. The news flew; the panic spread ; and upwards of 200 persons soon col lected, and stood gazing up intently at the apparition. Two lads, more bold than the rest, determined on satisfying themselves and the multitude ; as to the substantiality of the poor ghost, and furnishing themselves with a lighted candle, made their way through the back of the premises into the haunted dwelling. Boldly ascending the stairs theyregacrihaelyd the room which afforded a resting plac e to the phsmtom, and picking their way ac ross the rafters, for there was no flooring, they found the ghost, as most of its species turn out to bne,otavnegrymhoarremlneosrs and unsubstantial creature, being hi less than the light of street - lamptheaanpen, uprlecthteed bviyhitthee. sw i ng window, which w washed wall of the room. Th e lads presented them selves at the window to assure the spectators below that they were uninjured, and the ghost " eye," when th e gazers dispersed, laughingy ll own and nei g hb ours ' credulity, On the at are f d ol , lo a w b i n n n g t night, h owever, the phanatom e fifty persons co ll ected, and could not p.,,rsuade them selves but th at after all it must be a real ghosts ! Gloucester Journal. T T rs^ _IIE ILL-LOOKING lionn A PUN T H A T W A S NO JOKE.—A Fre nc h man, near the. Canada line, in Vermont, sold a horse to his Yankee neighbour, which he recommended as being a very sound, prepossessing appearance. To every inquiry il? spiteo tohfebbisu7; respecting the qualities of the horse, ery tti n e g Yr r e y nchman gave a favourable reply but always commenced his commendation with the deprecatory remark, " He's not look ver good." The Yankee, caring little for the looks of the horse, of which he could judge for himself, without the seller's assistance, and being fully persuaded, atter minute examination, that the beast was worth the moderate sum asked for him, made the purchase, and took him home. A few days afterwards he returned to the seller, in high dudgeon, and declared that he had been cheated in the quality of the horse. " Vat is the mattaire?" said the Frenchman. " Matter!" said t h e Yankee, " matter enough—the horse can't see ! —he is blind as a bat !" "Ah !" said the Frenchman, " Vat I.uinavrtathseerttteaolnl o k n Post N a - as ill, Lot zto lo st o '7N:lg:7—be gar, j y do o n u ' ? t kn l o v w as i t f e h li el o o u ok h a e t SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION.--Ab ou t a to the it I'v'ajcsvidnigscovered one this morning a tire broke out at Bermondsey,l spine of the work yard of Mr. William Warwick, Willow_ overheating of a rick of tan. Fortunately engines of the West soon after the spontaneous combustion, l,h b e - y Brigade were promptly on the o in f e l n n w g h la o n w d e a r n e d e Lo mp P lo d y o e n d- F a i i r l e ni jr h i spot, and the Vigilance Qt the firemen Ne veatQ d the Are a wn 0.14011042g* NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday being the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the various clubs-at the ports met to cele brate it. The old Victory was once more decorated with wreaths of laurel and evergreens at the trucks of her mastheads—flag and Jack staves. Lieutenant Crowder, Who commanded the Dee steam-vessel, for some tiros at the Cape, has returned to England in the Birkenhead. Mr. Price, clerk, has also returned home from the Cape. Birkenhead steam troopship, Master-Commander Salmon, has commenced refitting at Portsmouth ; she will be ready for sea againin ten days. Cyclops steam-frigate, Master-Commander Hoff meister, may be daily expected from the Cape. Dido, 18, Captain Morihead, C. 8., was paid ad vance at Sheerness yesterday, and now proceeds to the Pacific, touching at Portsmouth and Devonport. Desperate screw steam-Sloop, went into harbour on Monday for a supply of coals. Fury steam-sloop, Polyphemus and Pluto steam vessels, having been repaired, are ordered to be taken from Woolwich to Sheerness, to be kept in readiness for service. Havannah, 19, Captain Erskine, had arrived at Sydney from New Zealand, and remained there June 22, waiting to be relieved by Captain Sir E. Home, in the Calliope, 26. Hermann, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Tichbourne, had returned to the Cape with troops from the Mau ritius. Lucifer steam-vessel, Lieut.- Commander Jackson, left Devonport on Monday for Woolwich, to be paid off. Modeste, 14, Commander Lord W. Compton, calls at Malta on her way to Leghorn. Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, arrived at the Cape, from the coast of Africa, August 18, and sailed for the Mozambique. Ringer, 8, Commander 1 1 1iller, was mustered and exercised at Devonport on ilonday, by Flag Captain Lowe ; after which sh e st il ed into harbour, to b e paid off. Simoom iron screw•frigate, fitting at Portsmouth, is to be hastened. She was to have been ready by the 15th November, but will now probably be ready by the 10th November, to convey troops. Tyne store-ship, Master - Commander P. Welling ton, was towed from D e ptf or d to Woolw i ch yester day. She is ord ere d t o em b ark an artillery detach ment for Barbadoes. Virago, 6, steam:sloop, Commander w. H. Stew• art, arrived at Madeira, from Devonport, Sept. 13 after a passage of seven days. --- DANGEROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. An accident, fortunately not resulting in the loss of life, occurred n e ar th e Clif ton Junction on the East Lancashire Railway, about six miles from Manchester, on Monday afternoon. The train from Yorkshire, due in Manchester at 3.45 P.M., had travelled safely towards its destination until it reached a point within 300 yards of the Junction named, where a short line running from the Liverpool and Manchester line at Patricrof4 is con nected with the East Lancashire ; but when there,from some cause not at present understood, the engine and tender separated from the train behind it, and proceeded forward toward the Clifton Station, while the passenger carriages, eight in number, and the luggage van in front, took the line to Patricroft. The speed at which the train was moving was fortunately not great, as the driver had to stop at the Clifton station ; he therefore soon brought his engine to a stand, and no damage to himself or his assistant accrued. The occupants of the vagrant carriages, however, were not so fortunate ; they were driven down the line about thirty yards. At that point some impediment threw the luggage van off the rails, the others following it, and arranging themselves in an iregular crescent, each carriage struck the one preceding it at the corner. Through this arrangement, and to that circumstance, probably, is to be attributed the escape of the passengers, for though the carriages were much broken at the corners they were untouched in the middle, and the in juries the occupants received were all from being violently jerked from their places. Several persons u were severely bruised. A Mrs. Lennox received a dan gerous contusion on the head, and another on the groin. An infant she had in her arms a of Bradford, injre was seve rely but not seriously. Both were removed to the Brunswick Hotel, Manchester, were they still rem ain in a fair way for abprtueids bruised recovery. also to itMghher: ll n o d iw it as found n ecessary to re moveesW Brunswick, for repose a n d me di ca l examination. The guard o f the trai n , Tyson, got an I him. All on ugly knock on the head , which rendered him in sens ibl e, and it is feared may Termanenty injure the train were more or less hurt by this somewhat mysterious occurrence. TESTIMONIAL To THE l'orAcE.—The committee of watch, clock, and chronome ter exhibitors hav e forwarded to the superintendent of the A division of the metropolitan police an expression of thei r admiration and sa tisfaction at the vigilance, courtesy, and attention of the p ol ice stationed in the vicinity of their good s in Class 10, and they accom speanntyedittwo Police-constable v ic st attached to their department. The watch bears the following sei.looenrwahatiochjoo of a s,e3u4p3er A, io r whowas specially quality, to be pre inscription :—" Presented by the Committee of Watch and Clockmakers to T. E. Jones, 343 A, as a mark of their satisfaction with his conduct in care of their g oo d s d uring the Great Exhibition of 1851." It is worthy of remark, that in the large and highly valuable collection of goods under the charge of this department not a single loss or ac cident has occurred since the opening of the building. EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.--Yesterday the Chelsea Improvement Commissioners commenced their ope ration for the construction of an embankment on the north side of the Thames, extending from Battersea-bridge to Cremorne-gardens. This improvement will be a great public boon, and afford a delightful promenade and carriage drive to the thousands who visit this popular resort in the summer season. The embankment of the river front of Battersea Park is making considerable progress, as also that on the Middlesex side of Vauxhall -bridge. PENNY OMNIBUSES. —Yesterday the first of the long talked-of " penny omnibuses" made their appearance in the metropolis. The line of route selected for the experi mental trial of cheap metropolitan locomotion was Oxford street, and passengers were conveyed from the end of Totten ham court-road to the Edgeware-road for one penny. The vehicles were abundantly patronised. They started from either end every ten minutes, and no somer was one set of passengers put down before double the number the vehicle could accommodate were struggling for seats. To judge from yesterday's experience, the caterers for h c eap public conveyance will find the speculation highly It remunerative. is understood that the entire leading thoroughfaresofthe metropolis metropolis have been into Idand that omnibuses parcelled . 2 d. stages , and, that are forthwith to be put on for the . convey- "Ce of passengers at tiwo rates. - LONDON, COURT CIRCULAR. BRADFORD ELECTION. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON.— The election of a Member in the place of the late Mr. Busfield, M.P. for the borough of Bradford, took place this day, in the yard adjoining the Court house. The proceedings were of a formal character; Mr. Robert Milligan, a Liberal in politics, and an emi nent local merchant, being the only candidate. Mr. Milligan and his friends went in procession from the Exchange to the hustings, and was there met by between one and two thousand persons, though the apparent paucity of attendance cannot be taken as an index of the public feeling in favour of Mr. Milligan, who was solicited to become a can didate by the most numerously-signed requisition of electors ever before presented to any gentleman. Few gentlemen are held in higher esteem, or have rendered more essential service to the Liberal cause. Mr. JOHN RAND, the mayor, officiated as return ing officer, and briefly introduced, with the usual formalities, the necessary preliminaries. Mr. TITUS SALT, who two years ago filled the office of Mayor of the borough, nominated Mr. Milligan. He said he was happy to say Mr. Milligan required no introduction to a Bradford constituency, having for forty years carried on a very successful career amongst them. His high integrity and unimpeach able honour were well known to them, as well as his political views, which were liberal and progressive.— (Loud applause.) He had ever been ready to aid every good work in the borough, and it was a grati fying circumstance that those amongst whom he had so long and so honourably lived, had now the privi lege of sending him to represent the interests of the ' borough in Parliament.—(Cheers.) He begged to propose Robert Milligan, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament. (The nomi nation was received with loud cheering.) Mr. Alderman S. SMITH seconded the nomination. He spoke of the late Member in terms of great eulogy, and also referred in most honourable terms to the ca reer of Mr. Milligan. No other candidate being proposed, the Mayor, after a short pause, declared Mr. Milligan duly elected. Mr. ROBERT MILLIGAN then presented himself, amidst great cheering, to acknowledge the honour conferred upon him. He spoke but briefly. He thanked them most sincerely for the distinguished position in which they had placed him. lie should not have ventured to occupy the position be now did had he not been requested to do so by a large number of his most intimate friends; and also by a requisition presented to him, respectably and numerously signed by his fellow-townsmen.—(Loud cheers.) A seat in the House of Commons had never been an object of his ambition ; but, from the spontaneous and generous way in which it bad been proposed to him, he had considered it his duty to comply with the request to offer himself to them for election.—(Applause.) Hav ing resided in Bradford for the greater part of his life, and having taken his share in nearly all the the great questions of the day, his political principles must be very well known to most of them. He was therefore sure they would not wish him to detain them in order to explain his political views in detail.—(Hear, hear.) He was now, and ever had been, a firm friend to free- (tom, to order, to progress, and to good government..._. (Loud applause.) After again thanking them for the honour they had conferred upon him he concluded his remarks amidst loud cheers. After a few questions had been asked by a Chartist named Lightower, which were apparently answered to the general satisfaction, the proceedings termi nated. DR. LEICHARDT'S PARTY. SINGAPORE, AUG. 15.—The Pioneer, one of the ves sels engaged by the Government of New South Wales to call at Port Essington to make inquiries for Dr. Leichardt's party, and leave supplies for them, has not succeeded in fulfilling its mission, having suffered ship wreck in Torres Straits. All the information regarding this occurrence which has reached us is contained in the following statement, made by one of the seamen of the vessel, who rea,cbed this town from Batavia some weeks ago:—" Thomas Gallagher, able seaman on board the brig Pioneer, states that the above vessel was wrecked on the Cockburn Reef; in Torres Straits, about half.past four o'clock in the evening on tho 30th of May last, from Sydney to Booby Island and Port Essington, to look after Dr. Leichardt. The crew was brought by the barque Waverley, of London, to Batavia. Captain Mor gan, of the Waverley, kept the starboard shore all the way up, and did not sight the coast of Australia after leaving Booby I s land. I did no t hear anything about tents being seen on the coast of Australia. I arrived hero from Batavia in the Ellenora. I never heard any account of Dr. Leichardt. We had provisions on board the Pioneer to be landed at Booby Island and at Port Essington.ll heard in Sydney that there were tents seen at Port Essington about four years ago, and that the natives drove the people away. The people were sent there by the Government of Sydney; they all came back to Sydney." FATAL ACCIDENT AT KING'S-CROSS.--011 MOH day afternoon, as some masons in the employ of Messrs. Jay, the contractors for building the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, at King's-cross, were raising a piece of stone to the top of the building, some of the tackle gave way, and three men fell to the ground, and the stone, weighing nearly half a ton, fell on a man of the !name of Lucas, breaking both his legs, and causing such other injuries that he died in a few hours, leaving a wife and seven children. The other two men eseaped with a few bruises. THE INHABITED HOUSE DUTY.--•ThO first half. year's duty on inhabited houses is now due, and will be shortly collected under the following schedule, forming a part of the assessed taxes :—" For every inhabited dwelling house which with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged is or shall be worth the rent of 201. or upwards by the year, where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person in trade who shall expose to sale and sell any goods, wares, or merchan dise in any shop or warehouse being part of the same dwelling-house, and in the front or on the ground or base ment story thereof, and also where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer,' ale, wine, or other liquors, although the room or rooms thereof in which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed, shall not be such shop or warehouse as afore said, and also where any such dwelling-house shall be farm-house occupied by a tenant or farm servant, and beau fide used for the purpose of husbandry only, there shall be charged for every 20s. of such annual value of any such dwelling-house the sum of 6d., an d w h ere an y suc h dwelling house shall not be occupied and used for any such purpose and in manner aforesaid, there shall be charged for every such annual value thereof the sum of 9d." CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE BY ONE OF MESSRS. CLOWES'S PRlNTERS.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. William Carter, the Surrey coroner, held an inquest at the Dover Castle, Commercial-road, Lambeth, on the body of Frederick Franklin, aged 55, pressman, at Messr2. Clowes and Son's, who committed suicide in the following man ner: — The de ceased resided with his wife at No. 6, John-street, Cornwall_ road, and of late had mixed himself up with parties taking a prominent stand in politics. This circumstance, added to his having indulged rather freely in drink, no doubt affected his mind. On Saturday morning last he got up about half past four o'clock and retired to the yard. lie returned soon afterwards, and went to bed again. lie however l e ft hi s bed in a short time again, and soon afterwards a noise was heard outside the bed-room door, and on his wife going to ascertain the cause, she found her husband suspended to the railings of the staircase by means of a piece of rope which he had cut from one of the clothes lines when he went into the yard. The poor woman raised an alarm, and with the aid of three of the inmates, the man was cut down alive, and Dr. Menzies was quickly sent for, who bled lira), and applied sundry other remedies. For some time there seemed every probability of the unfortunate man's recovery; he, however, continued to sink, and expired at half-past nine, having lingered five hours i n pa i n. The jury, taking all things ' into consideration, returned a verdict that the "deceased de stroyed his life whilst in a state of unsound mind." THE HIGH SHERIFF OF NORTH UM BERLAND.—. Sir Horace St. P au l , Batt., High Sheriff of Northumberland, has annonncei the offer of three prizes, of 100 guineas each, Elmay4 vu Tewperancee4Vevicants Courant" WINDSOR, ( )cr. 21. Her Majesty and his IRS al Highness - Prince Al bert went out on horseback yesterday aft , !moon into the park, attended by the Hon. Miss Sey niour, Col. Buckley, and Col. F. H. Seymour. The Marquis and Marchioness of Abel !corn, with Lady Harriet thmilton, Earl Granville, and Vis count Canning, arrived yesterday evening on a visit to the Queen. The Royal dinner party last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abercorn, Lady Harriet Hamil ton, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness Speth, Earl Granville, Viscount Canning, and Sir G. Couper. The bind of the Grenadier Guards attended during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Feckel Tenn Meyerbeer. March de la Caravanne, from " Le Desert" Duettino de la Nuit, from the Opera " Les Montenegrina" Limnander. Osterur Polka . . . ... Kuhner. Selection from " Cenerentola" Her Alajesty's private band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner, and played the following se lection : Overture, " Die Genueserinn" Pas de Schal, " La Bayadere" Marche du Sacre, "Le Prophete" Meyerbeer. Sinfonia (No. 1), Adagio molto, Alls con brio .. Beethoven. This morning her Majesty was driven out in an open carriage by his Royal Highness Prince Albert into the Park, attended by Colonel F.H. Seymour on horseback. The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family took their usual walk ing and pony exercise. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday from Frogmore. Her Royal High ness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon left town on ber return to Frogmore. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. JOINT REPORT OF THE RECENT EXA MINA. OF THE NEWRYDISTRICT NAT M ODEL SCHOOLS. lONAL (From the NeuTry Telegraph.) We have lately had the pleasure of witnessin g the and feel it ti) be a Annual Examinations of the Pupils of the /ewry impressions produced District duty to p ta o t e i National 0 11 1. 1 t o o t d S t c h h ee upon our minds by this gratifying exhibition, As well as our views upon the system itself, fcanded upon a full knowledge and accurate experience of its working. These examinations were held in the Model School on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 7 th, Bth, and 9th instant, and were conducted by Dr. Patten and Mr. Butler, in the presence of a large and respectable audience. The boys were examined in Mathematics, Algebra, Geography, History, Me chanics, Political Economy, Mental Arithmetic, Recitation, and in singing, according to the Hullah system, &c. The girls were examined in all the suitable branches of a plain education ; whilst they exhibited specimens of plain and fancy work, which proved their efficieacy in thcse de pArtments of useful instruction more properly adapted to their sex. The intelligence and earnest desire for information which were displayed by the children, in general, whilst A excited the admiration of all who were present, at the same time proved that the system pursued in this school is not merely me chanical, but one which brings into exercise and in terests all the mental faculties of the pupils, and en lists their affections on the side of solid an(l useful learning. On Thursday we had the pleasure of examining the children of our respective denominations, as to their proficiency in religious knowledge, and the answer.. ing was such as to shew that this preeminently im portant subject, without a due attention to which mere secular learning is more likely to be injurious than useful, occupies its proper place in their regards. adoptedunder nins -di hoe noutfron g c t ehi is ono devoted se l e One of th e c hi e f advantages, indeed, of the system vneo i cdt s eue — dcoaf t tt h omi a o nto monitors, i religious t m otrh ak s e bp s eulippnorinsol instruction, e iun r Hegt n ia r ol o nf for the s ed r r e a iy l u s i re spectively to the religious denominations of the children ; and an hour and a half is set apart on each Friday for the clergy and ministers to give, either personally or by deputy, such more special relignms instruction as they think necessary to the children belonging to each. On these occasions we have al. ways felt it a pleasing duty to attend to give this in struction in person, whenever and as often as our other engagements would admit. From the impression produced on our minds by this most interesting examination, as well as from our almost daily observation, we can bear our warmest testimony in favour of the salutary effects of the system of education pursued in this school. Here children of different denominations are taught to unlearn those feelings of, hatred an d distrust which have so long been the curse of our country, an d to make the happy discovery that, whilst they differ in religious belief, they can nevertheless cultivate and manifest towards each other those feelings of har mony, kindness, and good-will, which should ever subsist between fellow-countrymen and fellow -citi zens. Here the household virtues of neatness, clean liness, and punctuality are admirably inculcated. We have been frequently struck with the good humour and cheerfulness that prevail during their hours of play. We should also remark that there is a greater mix ture of children of different grades in society in this school than in any other with which we are ar quainted, the excellence and usefulness of the edu cation having attracted children of a higher rank than might have been expected. And this re port would be seriously defective if we failed to bear our strongest testimony to the character and exertions of the teachers, Mr. Brady, Miss Gummer son, and Miss Fitzgerald. A more fortunate selec tion could not have been made. They are intimately acquainted with the system over which they preside, and have learned the happy art of blending kindness with decision, so as to have succeeded in uniformly maintaining proper discipline, and at the same time gaining that hold over the affections of the children which is the best means of insuring a ready and will ing compliance with the rules and regulations of their respective schools. It may be interesting to mention the number of children of the respective denominations at present on the rolls of the school, and also the numbers who have attended the school since its opening in May, 1849. These are as follow :-- I.—NUMBER AT PRESENT ON THE ROLLS. s. Gi r l s . I n f ants. Established Ch urc h B 31uy 2O 20 Roman Cath o li c Presbyterian Methodist 5 0 4 - - Total at present on 1 the R 9119 12 102 90 Or 304 children in all. IL-NUMBER ADMITTED SINCE THE OPENING OP THE SCHOOL. Established Church 7B Roman Catholics 54 Prvsbyterians Remonstrant Synod Methodists Girls. Infante. 64 67 140 172 52 67 10 4 8 5 Total since the School opened 240 Or 929 in all. We may here mention that the above numbers bear a fair proportion to the numbers of the different de nominations in the population of this town ; so that the Newry Model School affords one of the best spe cimens in Ireland of uni:ed education.. It is a re markable feet that the existence of this school, instead of diminishing the numbers in attendance at other schools, has, on the other band, tended considerably to increase them, and by excitin g emulation, has led to a decided improvement in the system of teaching.pur sued in other schools in the neighbourhood. With respect to the National System of Education in general, we feel it right to take this opportunity of expressing our unanimous opinion. We may nor, looking at the question of education merely in the abstract, deem it to be the best sys!em that could be devised ' • but we do not thi n k t hi s i s the point of view iu which this question should he regarded. We should look at it as practical men, taking due ob servation of the peculiar circumstances of our country, of the character of its people, of the number of con flicting political parties, and of different religious de nominations it contains ; and, taking all these points into full consideration, we have no hesitation distinctly to express our conviction that the present National System is the best practicable system of education that has been as yet devised; and that, in fact, if the question of National Education for Ireland were to be again discussed, ab iaitio, the alternative would lie, not between the present system and one which we may deem the best in the abstract, but between the present National System, and no System of National Education at all. We, whose names are subscribed to this report, belong to different religious denomina tions, and are rigidly and devotedly attached to our own respective systems, yet we do not feel that there is any compromise of our several opinions in co-ope ratingin the support of a Sy s t em o f E ducation, which is based upon the principle of non-interference with the peculiar creeds of the children attending its schools—which secures perfect freedom of conscience for all—which takes care that the children of one de nomination shall not be compelled to receive reli gious instruction upon the principles of another from which they conscientiously dissent — which recognize s been denied t o t h e rich in the poor man t h e same right which has never the reli g i ous e d ucation of man, of directing his own child— w hi ch gives full opportunity to the clergy of different denominations to imp and ministers art reous in struction to th e c hil dren of their respective ligi flocks— and which tends to unite all our exertions to promote the moral, intellectual, social, and national basprove ment of our country. We therefore, wish the Na tional System every success, and so long as it is based upon the principles to which we have referred, we shall feel it to be our highest gratification, as well as our bounden duty, to continue to extend to it i our Dromore, on. erat humble D b A u N t I z z e L al o ß u A s G countenance D an e s ei n e 0 0 - f o p tMICHAEL BLASE, P.D., Roman Catholic Vicar-General of Newry and Morne, and Vicar of Newry. Bishop. JOHN Donn, Presbyterian Minister. Presbyterian Minister. A. L. DOBBIN, Methodist Preacher. Newry, Oct. 10, 1841. HENRY ALEXANDEB, RIIFIFORD . POACHING AFFRAY.--Th e C oroner has held two inquiries, and adjourned to next Monday. Nothing, a yet, has been brought home to any parti es , th ough sere. ra s lare in prison suspected of being concerned. The Earl of Scarborough has published a reward. DISPATCHES FOR TUE CAPE BY THE SHANGHAI. —lmmediately on the intelligence reaching London of the arrival of her Alaje.ity's steam-vessel Birkenhead, with im itortant news from the Cape, the Peninsular and Oriental Company sent telegraph orders to Southampton to detain their screw-ship the Shanghai from proceeding en route to Calcutta and China until they had communicated with the Government. Having proffered the use of that ship for the conveyance of any orders to the Cape, the Colonial-office at once accepted the generous offer, and last night dispatches were sent off to Southampton, with which the Shanghai will leave this day for her destination. But for the arrival of the Birk en h ea d , t h e Sh angha i wou ld not h ave gone out ut of her route to t ouc h a t th e C ape ; b u t wou ld have made the best of her way to Calcutta. We unders!and TUE G REAT T BEWLES CASE.--- that a new c l a i man t, w ith su p er i or r ights, has appeared in the person of Mr. James Thewles, after au absence of forty years from his native land, to assert bis title to the vast pro perty left by the late Edmund Kelly, Esq., of Merrion. square, in the city of Dublin, and Rookwood, in th county of Roscommon, who will endeavour to set aside rho decree lately pronounced by the Court of Delegates in the cause of " Thom* st, I 0 r { i e h r :1