The Sun. — London, England, 1850-09-04 00:00:00

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Pigot s) ‘se It)Blsur,4 yrs—Collingwood, aged—Rhedycina ;, 3 . yrs , 4 Yr yje4raway, Out of Cruiskein, 3 yrs—Strychnine, ,i tol 3 ,,..: c l ea rrnin, 3 yrs—Lalion, 3 yrs—Baby, 4 yrs— weithiiief :44stiyeers. —Langton, 4 yrs—Priesies'' 4 yrs— Lark y gelding by Yeung Long ("Tut of Windlass, 4Byrs—The Cockiail 4 ,) rs- 6 4- 11 aPIe Y , 3 Yrs — Vancc.uver, 3 yrs—Sagacity, , ''Si It(i,'re.; comb, 4 yrs—Torntr, 3 yrs—Aldgate, 4 yrs t r s - - 1 -'l:' , 3 y rs— Weathe;ccek, 5 yrs—King Hal, 5 hil h - 6iv edP, 3 yrs—Kissaway, 4 yrs—Beaupre ztt , , ' ',i .„- Yrs---Thistledown, 3 yrs—Clelia, 3 yrs —Her ,wallers--Clothworker 4 yrs—Sir Launcelot, 4 yrs 1144ihrever' 4 Yrs—l3orn' eo, - 4 yrs—Bon Mot, , 4 yrs— Pr3-..T-Ph',.4„Yrs.—lron Rail, 6 yrs—Knight of Gwynne, Its...sti"'oivindler, 3 yrs—Repletion, 4 yrs—Harrio , t,t, e brg rdi uge 3 yrs—Falcon, 3 yrs—Preslaw, 3 yrs t '''W L'.ladiator, out of Revival, 3 yrs—Panope, 3 yrs— ? ° tan 5 3 ' 8 ' " 14 --41' r Loadstone, 5 yrs—Rabelais, 3 yrs eairt,:,_,. Yrs—Garforth, — 3 yrs—The Cur, aged— N,~Oad3e, l i k-o, d ' in ir e l, 4 yrs—The Moor, 5 yrs—St. George, 3 t itth e il , , 3 Y r s — Longinus, 3 yrs—Utrecht, 3 yrs '' Yrs. „ BE DF D, 1850. Vtgii,4'ePtances for th e e ; Bedfordshire Stakes. Yrs, Ist 511 3—Glen Saddel, 5 yrs, 7st—Wild .tt, Yrs, 7 Bt- Cheerful, 4 3 rs, ist—Kissaway, 4 yrs, lity v,"s, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Hope, 5 yrs, Est 131b— ,ka, . $O--mi n lrat, bat 101b—Bird of Paradise, 5 yrs, tiaedat er " 311113 ,4yr5, Est 71h—C a p s i cum . 5 yrs, 6 jt yrs', 681—Calmar, 3 yrs, sst 41b. AVA - 4: -- -- oR T , zi IN TEL LI GEN CE. hi th e it 0 ,ul.ll , TUESD AY .—By the de ith of Admiral gittleaosatery°l-t reobert Dudley Oliver, which took place at lis cr l' k at l iclenee. Barnhill, Da,lkey, Ireland, on 4c: aged 83, t h e f o ll ow i ng promot i ons ta k e t heli ttl iral Of ,i 4 dth eJ. the White Joh n C oc h e t t o b e Admiral of th of ' White . the Blue John Machellar to be Admiral ' l 4lt tlear 44 4 ,,, ‘ ,41 of the Red Sir Thos. Briggs, G.C.M.G., 1 / 4 e (t e 'itkel ts 'l l ° ,f the Blue. , ts PL of the White Bulkeley Mackworth lee-Adroiral of the Red. of the Blue James Richard Dacres to Itlrt•li,d7 4 l of the White. 14-4 4 ,2 TM of the Red the Hon. George Poulctt to tor.A dei w, , ral of the Blue. li g e l tai of th e of the White Henry Hope to be Rear- Ok it a e rkl iz i'e Rd, O k to be Re of the Blue the Hon. George Alfred Velaia -ear-Admiral of the White. T h e hi t's. 11131e3 Erskine Wemyss to be Rear-Admiral i_tiifittle Al Fo i t r a tit tli t i :rd of the Admiralty made the following A lt :en, t o Edward F. N. K. Wasey, of the Victoria eo twi 5....404 me rank of Commander. t 4 4 lt 411 „ Wi t ik ri M'Crea, Alt xander Philips, and „, c. o r ne er, the Victoria and Albert, to the htenant; Moreton Jones, to the rank of ! 4 trls to lictortilitastihotierr Itzatran.ive . sse.l, Commander St. Leger, went . er gnt, an . d sailed before su . nr . use this ! ‘ ,"11 th e )mouth. Such hurry as this is very ?o,,tistlivf6sore Lradesmen of a port where the vessel fits e r 4 htl a "d Men have no time to adjust their ac r)celBelwFjelt injury to trade is consequently done. O he I raost likely be in Plymouth Sound a 'ht•i tio Str otab erk, ts: lis ftr earn-sloop Commander Lord Amelius ied om S d this morning for Liver trt, P a -1,„ loft e - , 13 AP POINTMENTS. `Otto Afal o 3 --Midshipmen—Henry T. Boger t , tb tb s tie r, 1 20, at Sheerness; William F. Hard trtiarld, 50, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral t thi ta..4, B : i 'or the Pacific station. teet ti f ttt W stan t—V. F. Johnson to the Fisgard IVCOstb.,?eb. , 4t % PLC "rt gri , "Liu Liiffard to the Dragon steam oftqw: J oh Guth. N t'kp et ' e i hd e f t il t s°n, of the compass department at „ s it, h ,aa ent 0-day for Sheerness, to make a series ,hip4llo3ol.BloBoT adjusting the compasses of the Me „Voa, 4 tta t .,,r , aasse ready for sea at that port. titti th e m i r re3 , weab iste r, was paid off to-day at Woolwich. a, orid e ,a9 3 -sloop is now reported ready ior If Ill s 2v ! 0 tti.2. 5 the p4l. expected she will hoist the pen .t.44 e Seilt 11 4 9, lz,qh states that during the recent cruise 0t t 3 : 4, 1 rrE tae, s :°OP Sappho, 12, Commander the Hon. th tl,l dy "In of the Earl of Dundonald, in the It ilt qll ird e * l st : t hen in the vicinity of Si. And . rews, th t ass boys belonging to the ship fell th 3o was t k it ti ,ho t t , 0 all appearance irretrievably lost. tl is ipt st ;le wa-s°rcarnander of the Sappho, notwittistand h44'l',,id j ot : l nning like a mill race, threw off his Q . 0 , to th the water, and succeeded in saving e admiration of the whole ship's corn ro 4 1 - Ad r hlri t t I N S PECTION AT PORTSMOUTH. tA t ,"lt th' l °4l. e t ! inspected the Royal Marine Artillery, burualtoandant Gibsone, on Monday evin rtp, r atit ua l l eks, in Portsmouth, and afterwards 4 01 '8 5t:1 1 , 1 , 4 at lc i bl hquet to the heads of the several l otit c , ( 19 all the criptains in commission; about tk, tt ) lv, r e b e i ng I nher. The commanders (we believe 1 40 h i t a tiot illv 8 ? many captains in commission in .ve rto f4ted, though it has always been the 'lgthem to be honoured with an invi ketik 4 PY t W o i-,:.11a,,,,° state that the First Lord, Sir Fran iSprig_ito-ws liberally presented 251. to the Dock tflorel.l 8 Library. r in g at ten o'clock the Admiralty went )t t , 11 11 ? :' , Io ,f,h_Where their flag was hoisted, and tran yls 'IQ business. At eleven Sir Francis 04 the 4 drair itti l %hi, 1 r b ar , al Berkely, and Captain Milne, 4 4, 4 {1,4 the Ad miral en board the Victory, on board klttioli ape] Tire' Commander-in -Chief, the Hon. , 1 1); 4 , P' CaPtain Blackwood, and the officers 1 0 1 Cti reeei guard of honour furnished by the h %), ce ft 'Jed th 0 er e We re etn. The ship's company and 41044 of tara.ne lnustered, and the books of the and the boy s p u t th roug h t h e i r it.. s ., le reises. A t twelve the Admiralty left ' t ,tl 1) 4t : they P roceeded Proceeded to the Britannia, on board '"fi or dent e w a Pre . received by the Rear-Admiral -111, . It Ptain Yates, and the officers. The 4 At is establishment wcre mustered and in -1154te&14. 1 4. "Petted that some important changes k III R • In thi s I ti, p. (l tti la hen establishment. The Britannia is 1 .,,t „U P Che r rigging, &c. The Admiralty next Biers o'f?,!,l,lrbour and visited the Rodney and 1te, 4 9), 11 : 11 e1 t aute advanced ships. l i4al t ° thin- g`e , Admiralty yacht, will leave to- Ith o 6 w e .arly for Cherbour g with the Board of It;ill visit the Channel Islands on their 4 1d t 1 ".htta n . t.etcarner will sail to-morrow morning, tt(,te.Se y )3l r Thomas Cochrane Sir Charles Na tliti te.rN 1130 ur ' f or vi eeo h., for Cherbourg. tittt ,. N., steamer will also sail to-morrow V l N• m 9Yinn. (°c 'urg, with Captain Chads and the The s, at th e th Ott abo College, and some few ' from the ),,I%,"ilita.4thotith tit 45 persons. Vprig Oalit will go over, we understand, e4,„ l vat e ate 'en and a party of his friends. t jh rto t li r hee ed , an 'ers, the Lindsay and the Albert, ete s , briPort„f) Cherbourg, with large parties on 1 0 4 qil B 7: °ll th, chiefly naval o ffi cers. I h is it rjust, d aa l, 'frigate, Captain Gifford, had her and will leave Portsmouth, to t d iCl ES or , w. I °s t 4 Yl' C-!OMMODORE MARTIN'S 401 ' I N SQUAD 4), tf te On m o RON. k'e 41 04 ficay, 22d July, the squadron un ktoirp4 4, act titid of the same day the Arethusa and at er Wt igh and proceededas far as Passe ,IttstittLl,llth4ere:thzd about fivP.M. The following .alp, (to r , the squadron, consisting of Prince ,1 1 , ,c 1 txrr o „„„.. "0 h ut h".l, and Encounter, joined the too l: ev e* , orders to get under weigh, and 4 1 ,t1;,A0 th e the whole were over the bar, and oV t i li ?eo uoviing order of sailing:—Main Di -04 lon,i-;geht, Leander, and Arethusa. Lar ki t t• to haeto ts,,e t i tie %,,j oaw r n and Arrogant. The Encounter 14 ilt, 143., atthe 4 .Ret wat usual hour, 8.30 signal kt k tt exercise, making and shortening on g taking in ditto, reefing top to,lll,!htillitsiettoile whole, at n° period ' has this sort i hr ta ci „„_ eartly executed, a proof that when 10, 1 " . k N . t , d it is not requisite to keep them t t tst, else i tto u. order to maintain their efficiency. ti t !ts , the'iclaardly terminated, and everhing dad Of the 'gnat " try rate of sailing" was at pc. th., iiortie°ro.,.tuodor9. The Regent, as here • ' tel, ll l s : ti ttlp , pat es, u l .. ll . s , tan ce to windward, and before N 4, flyt o n cl whole topsails, topgallant .N.w g Pb, and driv( rs, had started on ;t t , , veti t) t.f r , sea smooth, force of wind two to r,, Fll 9v A N) t h , four to six knots. l J Fate , t r° ,i 4 l l p riri u,!Ps had the following bearings and N'e; R egcnt:—Leard,r S. 35 E., dis. igtd /,.: , a( l t . on, S. 4t E., distance 1.55 miles; . 'stanc e 2 12 miles; Arrogant, S. kll,:e k tt tl i'd 0 '1 , 4 1 t . 8 , th ' e During tie tri a', which ; ord 7ind was v. ry sariab!e and un 111,,tfttto' vr to reform we found the follow- Ye t hp, selep t; i 1 on Prince R, gent 3.92 2 •8; . 1 5 es; on Arethusa, 1.25 miles; a On Friday, 26th, we had ‘4a ! l id• We stai Cc at 11.15 A.m., tl p, l l 4 , ll or f ; s - 4 1 . 4 ,. (1 N.N.E., sea smoot h, f orce o f L e tter a 1 , 11 . 111 g 4 to 5 k no t s . A t start i ng r ide r, s . ll , ll ce Regent S. 57 E., distance il Lta ti ' 1 L., distance 5.2 miles ; Are -4 4, 41 t1 4 1 , 8 8. 1,59 is 4 9 miles; Arrogant, S. 24 E., trial lasted 211. 45m., and at "kt, 4.._4( gained on Prince Regent 5.9 ' 4 NI% tulles; oft Areattiso, 3,3 Allies; TUE SUN, LONDON, Saturday, shortly after noon, the signal was made for the " main division to make sail." Aretbusa and Leander immediately shook out reefs of topsail, but it was noticed that the Prince Regent took no part in these proceedings. Our speculations were speedily set aside by the signal that the two farmer ships were to try rate of sailing by the wind. At 12.15 they started on the starboard tack under all plain sail. The wind weal very variable, and in less than an hour had altered nearly three pints. Under these circumstances we coratieler that the commodore, having ordered the vessels to close, was of opinion that the trial would be unsatis faetory, and therefore annulled it. When ordered to close Arethuse had gained on Leander 520 yards. It is but fair to obrerve that every change of wind was in favour of the Arcthusa, the ships falling off. Sea smooth; force mild 3to 4; distance sailed 6.5 miles. On Monday we had a trial off the wind, commencing at 11 A at. and ending at 3 PM , wind E.N.E., course W.N.W., force of wind 3 ti 4, sea smooth, and rate of going 54 to Si knots. Whole distance run 25 miles, under aft sail with starboard studding sails. The bear ings and distanc:-s of the ships from Prince Regent at starting were as under:— ) The Phaeton, S. 9 E , distance 1.75 milt s; Leander, S. 16 E., distance 1.36 tni:C.l; Are- Lhasa, S. 38 E , distance 1.94 miles; Arrogant, S. 17 E., distance 2.25 miles. At the termination Phaeton had gained on Prince Regent 4.13 miles; L. ander, 1.25 miles; Arethusa, 1.15 miles; Arrogant, 2.42 miles. On Tuesday, 30th July, made St. Michael's, and on Wedcesday commodore stood in towards Villa Franca, and communicated with the consul, the squadron stand ing off and on under easy sail. We expected to be at Fayal so as to meet the homeward-bound, West India Mail, but after dodging about the channels leading to that island, we went off towards Augou, chiet town of Terceira. Whilst the commodore aas communicating with the consul the frigates were exercising at general quarters, firing at a mark. This was on Saturday, 3d August. In the evening we bore up for Lisbon. On Monday, sth, we had a trial by the wind, commencing at 10 30 A.M., and ending at 3 30 ran, wind light, vary ing from N.E. to N.N.E., slight head swell and strength of wind 4. At starting Arrogant was on Phaeton's most quarter, Leander on her starboard bow; and Are thus aon larboard quarter of Leander. They started on the port tack. Shortly after starting Leander split her foretopgallant•sail. This accident gave her competitors considerable advantage. About 1 P.M. her royal haul yards carried away. This trial, after various fluctuations, terminated as follows:—Phaeton gained on Prince Re gent 8.32 miles; Leander, 3.50 miles; Arethuse, 2.70 miles; and Arrogant, 4.38 miles. Arrogant has improved in a most astonishing degree since our last trials ; and Leander has improved, but in a less degree. We have yet to try in a strong breeze ; but the general impression is that the vessel is not;ye built which will excel the Phaeton. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CON TIN UED DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. In the present number our scampish young friend, Ileturice Tiernay, has a very narrow escape for his life, after condemnation to death by a court-martial for breach of discipline induced by over-zeal to rout the enemy. His career is, we anticipate, about to take a very interesting turn. The notice of Lsigh Hunt's Autobiography is a very readable paper, doing fair justice to that delightful writer and amiable man. "Lady Alice Daventry ; or, the Night of Crime," is a tale of dark and terrible interest. We have next an article devoted to Words worth's new poem " The Prelude," a work abounding with instruction and elevated poetry, and, despite oc casional obscurities, well worthy of the fame of the monarch of the Lake School. Jonathan Freke Slingsby gives capital versions of some of the popular chansons of France, among which are those vener able vetersns, "Malbroele," ofttimes hummed by Na poleon, and the Parisian favourite, "Au Clair de la lure." We know of no translator who gives a faithful version, yet with all the air of original composition, more felicitously than gentle Master Slingsby. " Elfinair," a legendary ballad of fairyland, and the stanzas entitled " The Railway," are well worthy of a place in the pages of this sterling periodical. The opening chapters of "Grace Kennedy" are written with power and natural feel ing, and if the tale be similarly sustained throughout it is likely to take a high rank among the novels of domestic life. A clear and complete amount of in formation with regard to the origin and working of the Encumbered Estates Court is embraced in an article, which stamps a high value on the Svternher number of this magazine. We would direct particu lar attention to it, cordially uniting in the general opi nion expressed by the writer as to the great benefits hich will ultimately arise from the operations of this long-needed successor, or rather superseder of "that hoary vice, that grey iniquity," the Court of Chan cery. The few pages devoted to a consideration of the modern French novelists have afforded us exceed ing pleasure by the truthfulness and clear-sightedness which pervades them. Of Balzac, it is said, "Superior to all the other writers of his country, he is a leader among their errors. Capable of pourtraying, with the exquisite simplicity of the most perfect art, every phase and shade of character—a great dramatist and powerful narrator—he has over the feelings of his readers the same control which the musician exercises on the strings or keys of his instrument. He holds us for the time bounden slaves to the lamp of his genius. His humour is playful and variable ; we laugh and sigh at hi s biddi ng . Al as ! t h at he should have so often and so shamelessly employed these fair and gracious gifts of his Maker in the service of vice and seduction, and swelled his pages with a wit so unpardonably gross, profane, and blasphemous." Of Paul de Kock—" He is a modern Smollett, and a Hogarth without his moral intentions. We think, however, that his readers must sometimes be re minded, while engaged with his pages, of one of the discoveries of modern agriculture, namely, that it is possible to manure too highly." Of Sue and Dumas —" They recall, by their gaudy, exaggerated style, the paintings of the revolutionary David, and like him, they love to grind up their colours with blood. And of George Sand—" This intellectual hermaphro dite exhibits in her works the frailties and weakness of the woman combined with the vices of the man. She plunges into great social questions and philsophic disquisitions with the same confidence that she handles a trim. con." Due praise is awarded to Charles de Bernaud ; to Madame Reybaud, the captivating writer of the " Annals of the Old Convents of Paris," and the brilliant depictor of the glowing landscapes of the tropics ; to Brisset, Berthoud, and Sandeau. The following observations struck us as being parti cularly happy : " The genuine wit of the French must strike every reader of their literature ; it is eminently compact and keen ; compared with ours, it as the blade of a lancet to the rusty, coarse-grained steel of a school-boy's bread and-che ese knife ; its meaning may travel from one mind to another, by the airy conveyance of an intona tion, an interjection, a single word. It is playful, bril liant, intangible as the sunbeam, which we might as well attempt to catch and shut up in an oak-box, as to pack in the strong practical sounds of Saxon-English French wit, or the delicate beauty of French sentiment— they belong neither to our mind nor our language; they shrink from our grasp; they grow pale and spiritless when we attempt to embody them." And, again, speaking of the novels of the modern French school,— " We cannot wonder at the zest with which they are perused, for the writers, in very many instances, possess great power; they hold at their command a passionate and melting eloquence, an exquisite sensibility to grace and beauty, the acute delicacy of the most vivid pt rcep tions, and the resources of the most expressive of living languages. Disguised and coloured by these precious properties, for the last to enty years the novelists of France have been laying before the reading world their perverted notions on the laws of God and man, on the sutjects of right and wrong, of morality and immor tality; they have be en endeavouring to excite our feel ings and enlist our sympathies in behalf of the woman, Lien corm? tee of 45, who employs herself in the artistic seduction of some handsome youth—in the unnatural rivalry of tw.ther and daughter for the affections of one man—in the betrayal at the sauce time of the erring, confiding mistrese, and her ignorant hapless femme de chambre—in the love of the high-born countess tor some intelligent peasant or mechanic. At other times, to give an additional zest to the narrative, we are kept quiver ing through the whole if two volumes with the ft ar that our interesting heroine may be uukuoaingly in volved in an intrigue with her own natural son; or, by way of variety, the whole treasure of un innocent young heart is lavished on some abominable criminal ; and others contain scenes and passages with the mention of which we dared not sully our pages. To deal rightly with a great proportion of those books—so remarkable for perverted powers—we should possess Hugh Lati mer's heroic gift of plain speaking; and did we arraign at the bar of critical justice, by their right names, the sins to which these pages are dedicated, we can assure the reader we should startle their ears by a very ugly and ill-sounding nomenclature." The essay on the character of the late Sir Robert Peel is a masterly production. It is evidently the oiLpring of a dispassionate and reflective mind, and we make no hesitation in yielding our tribute of ad miration from the consideration that our own views of the departed statesman are not altogether in accordance with those of the gifted writer. On the great ques tion of the currency—if not on Catholic emancipation and the corn-laws—we discern a similarity if opi nion to those of our own school, although the writer bas hovered about, not grappled with the subject, and is cautious in pronouncing a decided judgment. Had Peel been spared to his country, we have no doubt that he would ere long have proved himself the reformer o th On Sunday, 11th, we made all sail (I mean the com- , modore) in order to get an anchorage before dark. Phaeton lost a mon overboard, who was picked up by Arrogant. This accident caused them to get out of station . , and in making sail to regain it the signal was made to demand the rate of going of Phaeton ; she re- plied 13i knots ; Phaeton joint under single-reefed topsails, topgallantsails, and courses. Anchored is Cascaes Bay and the Bay of Passo d'Arcos in the even ing. Phaeton, Leander, and Arrogant got under weigh early in the following morning, and took up berths off Lhbon. In consequence of the strong gales, Prince Regent and A rethusa did not break ground until Wednesday following. Found here the St. Lawrence United States frigate, and Colombo Sardinian brig. These have both left. We are at present waiting the arrival of a vessel from England with stores. Having received these we shall be off for another cruise.— Por ismouth Times. HEALTH of LONDON DURING the WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) The health of London is now better than it usually is at this season of the year. 882 deaths were regis tered ; the average of the ten corresponding weeks (1840-9) is 1,078; or, corrected for the increase of population, 1,176. If the week of 1849 is omitted— % hen 2,796 persons died—the corrected average is 968 ; and the deaths last week are less by 86 than this number. In the last week of August, 1849, cholera carried off 1,663, diarrhoea 234 lives : in the corresponding week of this year the deaths from cholera were 4 ; from diarrhceA 118 ; and at the present time there is no trace of Asiatic cholera in London. A coster monger, with diseased kidneys, died of English cho lera in Walworth, on August 21 ; three cases of cholera infantum were also registered in the week. The following are the particulars of the four deaths : On the 30th of August, at Windsor-cottages, Mensal-town, the daughter of a single woman, aged 4 months, " cholera, English (7 days), dy sentery." On the 27th of August, at 110, Lillington•street, Westminster, the son of a journeyman carpenter, aged 5 months, " cholera infantum (2 days)." On the 21st of August, at 1, Union-street, East street, St. Peter's, Walworth, a costermonger, aged 28 years, " cholera Anglica, kidneys diseased."— Post mortem. On the 28th of July, at the Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, the daughter of a barrack-master, aged 11 months, " cholera infantum (5 days)." In addition to diarrhcea, the two zymotic diseases that deserve attention are typhus and scarlatina ; typhus was fatal to 14 children, to 23 adults between the ages of 15 and 60, and to 3 old people—in all to 40 persons ; scarlatina and putrid sore throat to 28 children under the age of 15, to 4 mutts, and to one person in advanced life. Scarlatina, which is so fatal to young persons, has been advancing slowly for the last 30 weeks ; it was fated in the three series of ten weeks in 146, 185, and 212 cases. It will be ob served in the Registrar's notes that, as is usually the case, the disease has prevailed with severity in parti cular localities. The prevalence of intolerable fetid exhalations from the sewers during the week appears to have attracted attention. What would be thought of the arrange ments of a city in which the smoke was poured from the street level ? yet it is known that smoke is much less noxious than the coitonous vapours that are still suffered to exhale from the gullyholes into the streets and houses of the metropolis. If an epidemic of scarlatina is impending, the removal of this nuisance should be immediately considered, as nothing tends more to make scarlatina a putrid disease than stink ing, putrescent vapours. By the Greenwich observations, the mean reading of the barometer was 29,979 inches, or much higher than in the previous weeks. The mean temperature of the Thames was 61 deg., of the air 56 9 deg., which is 3.5 deg. below the average. The wind was south west and north-west, and often stagnant, travelling at the rate of 230 or 325 miles a day for three days, and from 40 to 85 miles daring the last four days of the week. Rain fell on Monday and Wednesday, but it was not the one-seventh part of an inch. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 31, 1850. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*267 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 40 Tubercular Diseases ... ... 161 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 103 Diseases of the heart and Blood-vessels ... 33 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of lat impolitic and injurious monetary code of which he was himself the mistaken though conscientious originator. Whatever b e our opinions as to the ac curacy of the notions clearly and temperately ex pressed in these pages, the ability and high tone of feeling manifested throughout them must be appre ciated by their perusers, no matter of what shade of political feeling. To the concluding tribute to the private excellences of the mighty dead who will not heartily respond ? " Of the private character of this eminent man there is, there could be, but one opinion. It was, in the highest degree, excellent. Ho was the light and the joy of the domestic circle; and his charities found their stealthy way to many an abode of suffering and of anguish, where the artist lay upon the bed of sickness, heart-broken and destitute; or, more unhappy still, with a family around him pining for food. Often has the man of letters, whose pen had been dipped in gall against him, found in him, when overtaken by want and woe, a munificent benefactor. Nor were those deeds of mercy few and far between. It is our belief that an appeal to his compassion, whether by friend or enemy, never was made i❑ vain; that neither his ear nor his purse were ever closed to the tale of calamity, from whomsoever it proceeded; and that he was as simple and unostentatious in the mode, as he was liberal in the measure of his princely charities. Doubtless all those works of love returned largely into his own bosom; and when be suffered most keenly under what he deemed the detraction and malignity of party hate, 'sweet must have bee❑ the odour of tilt it memory, and pleasant the balm of their consolation!"' Respiration ... 75 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. M al form ation 5... Premature Birth Atrophy Old Age Sudden . Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance Causes not specified ... ... ... DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES 882 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enurncraied, sponding week in the 1841. West Districts... 301,189 North Districts.. 376,568 Central Districts 374,199 East Districts ... 393,067 South Districts.. 503,346 of 1849. • • 353 ... .. 309 ... ... 386 ... 712 ... 1,036 ... Week. 122 181 144 208 227 Totals... ..... 1,948,369 Males ... ... ... 2,796 Females WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, leso. accurately arranged, have now appeared, and we feel confident that this comprehensive work—a work ne cessarily involving vast labour and expense—will, on its completion, be found the most valuaLle book of ref2renee which has yet appeared as a Road- . book and County Atlas, and prove of the most signal utility to the man of business and the traveller. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TUB MORNING PAPERS OF TEIS DAY. CLIRONICLE.—There are some points of strong and very singular resemblance between the coalition which closeu the Post-office for seven or eight suc cessive Sundays, and the alliance recently in session at Frankfort, for the promotion of universal peace. One or two people might perhaps be found who would offer an easy explanation of the odd analogies we descry, and who would tell us that the more active of the Sallbetarian agitators are, as a matter of fact, precisely the same persons with the snore enthusiastic devotees of peace ; nor can we ourselves deny a strong suspicion that, although the tenets of tt:e Quakers may have excluded the drab element from the Sab bath propagand a , an d a l t h oug h t h e decent fervour of English noblemen and clergymen was certainly not represented at Frankfort, nevertheless very many of the same hands which worked the Sunday Screw have been lately applauding M. de Girardin, or holding shaking sides when it pleased Mr. Cobden to juke. Whether, however, it be true or not that Exeter-hall emptied itself into SC. Paul's, we may be permitted to wonder at the coincidences exhibited in the easy-going pace of the slip-shod argument— in the mild inanity of some speakers, and the pompous commonplaces of others—in the mutual encourage meat and glorification—iu the freemasonry and camaraderie of the leaders—and in the quiet belief of all parties in the omnipotence of the platform. A deeper analogy is perhaps involved in the inferences so coolly drawn both by the Sabbath Observance As sociation and by the Peace Congress from the almost universal concurrence of men in the worthiness of their respective objects. The repose of the seventh day—and the repose of the human race—one of these has been celled the type of the other, and no rational being will deny either of them to be an end worth seeking, and worth keeping when attained. But were we to follow up these admissions by giving all our reasons for not incontinently mingling in the .agitations which appeal to them as their justification, we should find ourselves engaged in discussing the great radical source of human error—the confusion between a principle and its application. On one delusion, pervading the w h o l e visible theory of. the Peace Congress, we shall offer a few re mark 3, because it is the exact counterpart of the capi tal mistake into which the clients of Lord Ashley fell. The Post- office is a great labouring ma chine—a standing army is a great killing machine— and it is argued that, if you suppress these mighty engines or intermit their action, labour will be saved pro tante in the one case, and slaughter in the other. The argument would be perfect if it did not omit all consideration of the propensities which lead men to write letters and to kill. So long as people cor respond, the Post-office transmits their correspon dence with the least possible expenditure of labour. So long as people vindicate their supposed rights by force of arms, an organized military force trans acts the murderous business with the least possible expenditure of blood. The proper definition of the Post-office would be, a great contrivance for econo mising work—that of a standing army would be, a great invention for the preservation of human life. On the assumption that Sunday labour ceases in the Post-office on one given day in the week, it has been calculated that the amount of toil actually bestowed in the conveyance of letters throughout the country would be immensely augmented, although nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of the popula tion should absolutely forego the receipt and dis patch of correspondence. Should the remaining thousandth be compelled, by perversity, or by the press of business, to re-establish the broken commu nication on their private account, their clumsy and inartificial contrivances would set a greater number of hands 'to work, and for a longer time, than the whole facilities of St. Martin's-le-Grand when in full and unrestrained operation. The data for effecting the analogous calculation in the case of armaments are more widely dispersed and less easily seized, but they tell their own story to any one possessed of the feeblest historical aptitudes. Hardly a single reason can be given why the English Civil Wars of the seventeenth century should have caused in comparably less of slaughter and devastation than the Wars of the Roses, except the difference, in point of military organization, between the combatants of Marston and Worcester and the tumultuary levies which fought at Towton and Hexham. The example is the more applicable, because, undoubtedly the Pu ritans of the Cromwellian era were infinitely less averse to bloodshed speculatively than the men of the 15th century. It belongs, however, to the common places of history; and, indeed, we should insult the intelligence of our readers, if we set forth one-half of the proofs at hand that improvements in the eco nomy of armaments and in the art of managing them constitute the true explanation why Charles Albert shed less blood than Sforza—why the soldiers of the first French revolution, who cannot be ac cused of any theoretical tenderness for human life, conducted themselves mercifully, even in La Vends, compared with the Huguenots and Catholics, with the Armagnacs and Burgundians—why the Seven Years' War was less murderous than the Thirty Years' War, and the late campaign in Hungary than either of them—why the scenes of Magdeburg are not repeated at riendsburg—and why ldstadt is not followtd by the horrible results of Lutzen. We are, of course, well aware that the Peace Congress nuna bers many whe, bewildered by a shallow philosophy, will ascribe the diversities which we have indicated to the progress of the species, the development of morality, and the force of public opinion. Those who remember what sort of deeds were applauded by tl.e popular voice in 1848, in that very city of Frank furt—those who recollect that, when the bonds of dis cipline have been momentarily relaxed, the soldiers of Wellington and Napoleon have rivalled in savage ferocity those of Count Tilly—will be slow to yield their concurrence. For ourselves, we did not believe in 1747 that moral forces had generally subdued brute impulses, and we need hardly say that we are equally sceptical in 1850. We should be sorry to think that Air. Cobden does not share our doubts ; and, sooner than cast such an imputation on his perceptive faculties, we should prefer passing to the other horn of the dilemma on which he has im paled himself, and bewailing the feebleness of his logical powers. Doubtless he sees what is going on around him, if he reasons upon it imperfectly. Yet it is passing strange that he should fall into precisely the same way of thinking with Mr. Ferrand. The hero of the Wool-League holds that spinning-jennies are the efficient cause of all the over work in the manufacturing districts. The captain of the Anti-Corn-law League proclaims that standing armies are guilty of all the bloodshed in the wcrld. Mr. Ferrand, indeed, seems to discern that somebody must toil, though every boiler in Manchester be empty. He, therefore, proposes that old women ex clusively should spin. But Mr. Cobden appears to believe that, if there is an end of the machine, there will be an end o f th e l a b our. If war and tumults are really to cease through the agency of the Peace Con gress, it should negotiate a fusion with the Evangeli. cal Alliance, and employ itself in purifying the pas sions and exalting the aspirations of humanity. Its time is lost and its funds are wasted so long as it simply denounces the great organization in which the evil instincts of an animal na ture exhaust themselves. To ascribe war to standing armies, leaving the pugnacity of man out of account, is to make the wildest confusion be tween cause and effect. To say that if armaments were disbanded the results of human pugnacity would be mitigated, is to proclaim a downright falsehood. Mr. Cobden, it is well known, makes occasional ef forts to right himself with his argument by thrusting his proposal for arbitration clauses and arbitration courts into conspicuous prominence, as though he meant to imply that they are " the only perfect sub stitute" for military force. We have uniformly maintained that, if Mr. Cobden wishes to introduce a new step into the formalities of international proce dure, he is entitled to be heard, albeit we can't quite see why a Congress should be needed to receive his proposition. Some good may come of it, although the reform he proposes, if taken in any intelligible sense, is an excessively small one, and its results at first mu s t b e qu i te infinitesimal. As to the exorbitant importance which its author sometimes sets upon it, it deserves nothing of the sort, and so Mr. Cobden might have learned from the proceedings which we reported on Monday last. The represen tatives of the principal European States, by their meeting and protocol on the affairs of Denmark, have just imitated, as closely as possible, the operations of Mr. Cobden's hypothetical tribunal. At the late sitting of the Peace Congress, a Dr. Bodenatedt braved the rebukes of the President and won the applause of the audience by vituperating this protocol as the most atrocious infringement cf the rights of man which has been perpetrated since the Edict of Nantes was revoked. Ile was not contravening the principles of the Congress—not be. He merely wished to give them, their natural application and their legitimate expansion. Let the Congress institute a committee to at bitrate on the Schleswig-Holstein question—he would promise that united Germany should respect its decision, provided it were against the London protocol, and unfavourable to the Danish claims. Much to the same effect, the English newspaper which is supposed to have intimate sympathies with Mr. Cobden assured him the other day that he would succeed, if he would proclaim the principles of Peace and Liberty together. Just so, gentlemen. Trans form yourselves into a democratic propaganda —pre pare for subservience to any popular cry which the hour and the place may produce—and the world may then retract the conclusion to which it is fast coming, that your Congress is little better than a purposeless mposture. The recommendations of German Uni tarianism and English Radicalism embody the only true significance of your crowds, your harangues, your itineracy, your correspondences, your political orators, and your pledges of universal brotherhood. As for the Peace you promise, it is repudiated and outraged by every iucideut of your debiltes—by ----- THE GENTLEMAN'S. Sylvanus Urban supplieth store of interesting and readable matter for this present month of September. lie telleth pleasant anecdotes of Sir Thomas Wyatt the poet, and his family, describeth graphically and lithographically various monuments of antiquity to be found at Cirencester and at Oxford, and adminis tereth deserved castigation to Mr. Panizzi for his un justifiable delay in compiling the catalogue of the Museum Library. 7HE PALLADIUM. A third number of this new and excellent pericdi , cal opens most admirably with a criticism upon the genius of Currer Bell. The writer evinces a subtle appreciation of those powers of perceptivity which are absolutely r equ i s i te i n the novelist. His observation upon Dickens, that his genius has been " strong enough to create a literature," and upon Thackeray's skill in painting hi s p or t ra i ts of character, " e.ith a nicety of di,tinctive taste that makes them infallible," are evidences of his ability to comprehend the re spective merits of the various living contributors to our imaginative literature. The following passage fron, this criticism w ill show the style in which it is written:— " Who is Currer Bell? is a question which has been variously apse ered, and has lately, we believe, received, in well informed quarters, a satisfactory reply. A year or two ago we mentally solved the problem thus: Currer Bell is a woman. Every word she utters is female. Nut femine, but female. There is a sex about it which can not be mistak en , even i n its manliest attire. Though she tran s l a t e d t h e manuscript of angels—every thought neutral and every ft cling cry p toga mous—her voice would betray her. Th ough she spoke in thunder, and had the phra se an d idi om of Achilles, she cannot think in a beard. Far more curious, perhaps, than anything her pen pourtrays, is her own involuntary revelation of the heart of woman. It is not merely improbable, but impossible, that a man has written Jane Eyre.' Only a woman's eye could see man as she sees him. The landscape is too near to yes to glow with purple light. We cannot make a religion of man, for to us he has no mysteries. We cannot worship the idol whose mortality aches in all our bones. We hear no oracles—we who have so often smelt the stench under the tripod. Currer Bell is not so troubled. She thinks or the abstraction, man, with all the blissful ignorance of a boy's dreams of woman. To her, he is a thing to be studied present, and mused upon absent. He comes, and she owns her master; departs, and leaves the air full of vision. She hangs on every word of her hero, as though it were a message from the unknown. His how d'ye dos' leave a track of glory behind them, and his monosyllables have an atmosphere through which they shine the very stars of fate. For her, he cannot leave the room but on high intent, and shuts the door after him on a world of busy speculation. Her cars are open before he speaks, and the unhappy monarch eats, drinks, coughs, smiles, walks, and sits in a distressing state of unmitigated significance. Is he sullen? It is the wrath of Jove; the thunderous exhalations of a universe of cares. Point not, oh mortal, thy conducting finger, lest thou bring down the light nings of heaven! Is he mute? With holy awe she listens to his silence, and gazes on the taciturn face, till the Memnon grows musical. He is plotting empires; he is dreaming epics; he heaves with incommunicable sor rows. Is he gay? She does not wonder that the whole world looks brighter; for, for aught she knows or doubts, he may be leagued with the powers of nature them selves. Alack-a• day ! But then, to her, he walks in glory ; to us in one pound ten' and a dickey.' To her, the great hero who shakes the earth; to us, a poor Ilistrio, with rotten teeth and corns. Never since—or before —the destruction of the cities has man looked on man with this romance of latert love. Currer Bell, then, is a woman, and a young woman. With a heart, when she wrote ' Jane Eyre,' as yet iinengaged, though perhaps not wholly un smitten; with experience of little more latitude than her home-circle and native parish (though wo augur that she has been unusually fortunate in the peculiar cha racteristics of these), and with powers which have al ready drawn the best eyes in England on this young 'Penthesilea mediis in minibus,' who, if she can endure the trial of early success, will work one of the richest fields which the world ever offered to labour, and, hand in hand with one or two poets, may have to carry down to posterity the ideal literature of our day." After this comes a review of the Parliamentary session just completed, a second paper on "The Invasion of Nepaul" (interesting to all those who are curious as to the visit recently paid to England by the Nepaulese Ambassador), and a notice of the "British Asso.- elation," revised by Sir David Brewster. Three more chapters are given of " The Minister of Fi nance," and a most eulogistic commemoration, in fact, a sort of literary apotheosis, of Mr. William Wordsworth. These, with other miscellaneous papers, constitute the third number of the Palladium. FINE ARTS. THE ART JOURNAL, Prominent as usual among the contents of this I elegantly illustrated periodical are the engravings from the pictures of the Vernon Gallery. Since the demise of the Queen Dowager the public have been happily enabled to obtain a view of tl'e original paint• ings in their present position on the walls of Marl borough House. From the first, however, thanks to the enterprise of the proprietors of the Art Journal, the people at large, even the inhabitants of the provinces, have been empowered to obtain sorne notion of the genius displayed in modern art by Englishmen—empowered so to do by this admirable series of engraved repre sentations. In the number for September we have an exquisite copy by the graver of Mr. Artlett of the " Countess " by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Besides this there is Mr. Cousens' transcript of the " High land Cott " age " by A. F raser; and Mr. Bentley ' s plate of The Port of Leghorn," by Sir A. W. Cal cott. The latter particularly forms an exquisite specimen of engraving. As embellishments illus trative of passages from the poets we find this month Miller's sketch of the Ariel of Sbakspere, and Hulme's representation of the Garden of the Countess of Winchilsea. The artist's pencil in the last-men tioned vignette has truthfully defined those " paths so lost and trees so high, That the world may ne ' er invade, Thro' such windings and such shade, Our unshaken liberty." Among the miscellaneous contributions to the Art Journal must be especially particularised a likeness of John Burnet, accompanied by his autobiography. Mr. Wornum, the historian of art, contributes a charming paper on "Modern Moves" among the artists of our generation. Perhaps the most useful paper in the number just published is the continua tion of the " Dictionary of Terms in Art," and un questionably the most curiou s and interesting is the account given of Samuel Coop er , miniature painter to Cromwell and Charles 11. , to whose brush we are in- 1 debted for most of the effigies preserved to us of the great men of the days of the Commonwealth and the Restoration. THE HARP UNSTRUNG.* 'Tis said that the light of thy spirit is fled, That the wild, flashing mirth of thy soul is no more : Like the urn that remains though the red wine be shed, Like the rose that is blighted —thy brightness is o'er. Sweet Harp of Green Erin I thy chords may not give Such tones of rich music as charmed us of (Al; Yet the world-vaunted fame of thy minstrel will live Till the warm soul of Erin grows lifeless and cold. 'Twill live on for ever. A nation will keep Those sounds of sweet melody fresh in its heart; Though in darkness and silence the harpstrings may sleep, The spell which hangs o'er them will never depart. ELIZABETII P. ROBERTS. • A newspaper paragraph speaks of the poet Moore as mentally dead. .......—____-----,., every feature of your organization. Solitudinem STRANGE arsToRY OF A, facit,nt—pacem appellant, exclaimed the earliest Ger- SMUGGLER. lean orator of whose eloquence we have any record. (From the Dumfries Courier.) Now-a-days they collect a mob, and they call it We are indebted for the &flowing extraordinary Peace. DAILY NEWS. —Wh en t h e Times was abetting story to our respected friend M r . J oseph Train, of Castle Douglas : with might and m a i n th e restoration of the despotic " Although the contraband trade from the Isle of power of the King of Naples over the Sicilians, the Man was nearly suppressed before I was stationed as burden of its cry was, that General Filangieri was a an excise officer in Galloway, my duty occasionally humane and liberal, as well as an enlightened man, brought me into contact with some of the remaining the King himself placable' and when the King and landloupers of the free trade, a term by which the his General triumphed, they would grant institntion s Manx smugglers were known in the south of Scot to Sicily far more consonant with its welfere and land. Msn othe heic achievemets of these constitutional developm en t dev e l o p men t t h an t h e i nsurgents could terprising individuals are yet remembered in Galloway create. Well, the King of N ap l es and Filangieri and Ayrshire. The persona were victori ous , since which tim e no t a s i ng l e insti- them are known to me; but I l hi will here re a tution has bee n gran t e d to t h e Si c i lians. Far from few incidents of the last of these adventurers lateonly with it, even the Neapolitans were deprived of the last whom I was acinte, merel to show the bad re vestige of freed om an d even j ust i ce. The same was suit of such a hazardous course o y f life. the case when the French strove to burst their way y Crowe was for m y years a schoolmaster into Rome : they would see the Romans in possessi on in ` the Isle of Man, but he 14:: at length induced to of rational liberty, we were told, and the rigour of embark his lille capital in the free trade, at that time priestly rule would be moderated. Has any o ne o f carried on to a great extent by the islanders. For these things been done, or one promise fulThled ? some time he conducted a profitable business between When Hungary was sought to be crushed under the the Isle of Man and the shores of the Solway, b t and having lost by his informatiou feet of Austria, and when, after Austrian discorofi- having a Judas in his emplyment his cog hole t Rae u ture, Russia was called in to effe c t the work of berry was discovered by the Customhouse offiacers i suljugation, and protect the Austrians in the use of Kirkcudbright ; the executioner's axe and whip, the Times was equally all the contraband goods of which he wes possessed') bold in in its promises that liberal institutions and laws he was reduced to the necessity of becoming an agent would be granted to Hungary. How or wh en h as fur more fortunate traders. From this time Myles this been accomplished ? Hungary is at thi s mom en t resided permanently at Kirkcudbright, but he visited as nakedly exposed to the rod and the sabre a s i n th e I s l e o f M an annually to receive the rent of a the first dais of Russi a n victory. Witness the num- small patrimony which he held there, and generally hers of the Pesth population driven into the barracks laid out the sum received in the purchase of some and flogged the other day, merely because they re- contraband commodity. Whilst he dealt in spirits he fused to cry " Long live the Emperor." A year has was successful, but in other branches of the trade he now elapsed since the Austrian Ministry completely was less fortunate. put down insurrection. Yet, what has it done ? "At the time to which I here allude it was the what founded ? Has it kept any one of its promis es fashion for gentlemen to wear very wide small clothes, of constitutional organization? It sent a civil go. buckled immediately below the knee, and Myles vernor to Lombardy ; but the military commander Crowe being then a gay fellow, that part of his dress has kept him a nullity. He has done nothing. The was smuggled nankeen. He had an idea that the other provinces are left at the mercy of whoever most convenient mode of smuggling a few pounds chances to command the army ; and he is maintained of tea out of the island was by filling the vacuum of at his post as long as he is sanguinary and rigid. his small clothes when on his person with that arti- The moment he tries conciliation, and grants a de. He accordingly filled them up to the waistband; few pardons, he is recalled, like Haynau. Yet but, unfortunately, just as he was about to embark, this is the Government that the Times, considered having made a long stride from the quay to the on the Continent to represent English opinion, lauds vessel, his nankeen dress was thereby rent from side as its model Government. It actually spent a to side, and instantly his whole cargo of fine congou column yesterday in laudation of it. Even Bach the showered into the water , to the no sma ll amusement renegade, once a memb er o f t h e lib eral cause, and of a large assemblage of fashionable spectators, with since his accession to the Cabinet the upholder of whom the quay of Douglas happened to be at that every act of proscription and murder, down even to time crowded. that of Bathyany, he is one of the especial favourites "Finding the tea trade to be rather a precarious and proteges of the Times. We must protest against business when carried on in such a small way, these ravings of insanity, not because any of our Myles engaged next in the tobacco line, and, with a English readers could be perverted by them, but be- view to elude the vigilance of the Custom cause they go forth to Germany and to the wide con- house harpies, be rolled his person up like tinent as the expression of the feelings of Englishmen. an Egyptian mummy, from neck to heel, in spun to- Were they really so, Englishmen would deserve to be bacco ; and, being a tall, raw-boned, gaunt-looking kicked and scouted from the face of the earth as the person, he concealed a large quantity in that manner, most servile and the most selfish betrayers of hu- without increasing his size so as to occasion even the manity, and as men who, having gained freedom for suspicion of the officers stationed on the quay that he themselves, were ready to h e lp d espo t s t o f e tt er t h e carr i e d any contraband commodity on his person. rest of mankind in order to procure the English the An experienced smuggler of tobacco in a small monopoly of all moral and materi a l advantages. way generally rolls it immediately over his It is in truth most disgraceful to the English cha- under garment, but poor Myles fell into the racter to b e h o ld one o f i ts leading organs thus su p- mistake of placing the twist under it. He had port the most infamous and retrograde of European scarcely reached what sailors call his berth in the Governments and causes, and not only uphold it in vessel that was to convey him to the shores of Gallo its power at home, but aid it in the subjugation of way when he was thrown into a hectic fever by the more enlightened an d more lib eral Germany. For tobacco in which h e was enro l led, which soon rose to our part, we care no more for a Prussian dynasty such a height that he seemed to be just on the eve of than for an Austrian one, for an empire in the north passing from time to eternity. A sailor, who came more than for one in the south. But when we see to his assistance with a view of allowing him to the Prussian Monarch grant a constitution, and up- breathe more freely, opened the collar of his shirt, hold representative government and municip a l in s ti- when, lo ! the tobacco appeared, and the cause of his tutions, and at the same time recommend and stri ve indisposition was consequently ascertained. The to obtain the same advantages for Germany a s a skipper, in wrath at his vessel being subjected to the whole,—when, on the other hand, we see Austria risk of seizure by such a paltry stratagem, instantly abolishing every shred of constitutional government handed the unfortunate Myles over to the tide at home, and insisting that Germany shall have no waiter on duty, who immediately carried his seizure federal assembly save one composed of the delegates away to the Custom-house. My informant, Mr. of its courts and princes, —when we see religious Ryall, of Douglas, happened accidentally to peep into tolerance and freedom of religious opinion and the king's warehouse just as the revenue officers were worship maintained and extended in Prussia, whilst employed in separating the vegetable from the animal Austria relapses from lay Catholic rule back into all part of the mighty roll of which Myles Crow e formed the night of priestly domination, when we the centre. His head only was seen above the tobacco see education in Prussia conducted by th e when the operation of unrolling commenced. Though most enlightened and liberal men in Europe, he seemed almost unable to stand, one party of the while in A us t r i a it i s prohibited or en- kingsm en d rove hi m round like a whirligig, whilst trusted to the Jesuits,—when we see in Prussia a another coiled the tobacco, of which they disengaged him with surp r i s i ng rap idi ty. national army, ra i se d f rom a ll t h e citizens, high and low, rich and poor, a body incapable of being the in- " Old age and poverty having at last overtaken the unfortunate Myles Crowe, he became an occa strument of oppression, when, on the contrary, we see sional assistant to a ferryman, an Austrian Government support itself solely by the who plied on the Dee jealousy of races, making use of the Croat soldiers t o between Kircudbrigbt and Castlesod, in whose em ployment h e di e d su dd enly, as was supposed, from crush the Ger mans , th e G ermans to oppress the Ita lian, and the Italians again to keep down the Bohe- having drank immoderately of ardent spirits. Soon mian,—when we see in Prussia the most eminent, the after his interment in the old churchyard of Kircud b most instructed, th e most wea l t h y men associated bright, it was rumoure d that his corpse had been together to form a constitutional party, and when carried away by resurrection-men ; but no person in Austria we see not a vestige of mind or man, having taken the trouble to ascertain the fact, the re whoort died away, till the miscreant Stewart, who wa seems t o h ave an i dea, or to cherish a P principle of constitutional government:—when we hanged in Glasgow in August, 1829, voluntarily ad ' look upon this picture and on that, we must nutted, just before his execution, that, among many owr, that with every E ng li s h man who is above other per sona w h ose d eath he- had occzsicned by giving the polities of a tuff-hunter, we prefer the indepen - them d e l e t er i ous d rugs in liquor, and whose bodies ho demo and ascendancy of North Ger many to the had raised frcni the grave and sold for dissection, was military and despotic predominance of an empire the old assistant boatman at Kirkcudbright. This which is one quarto r German in tongue, and which is declaration was confirmed by the grave of Myles whole Cossack in policy and civilization. Prussia may Crowe being then examined and found empty ; which succumb in the struggle of light against darkness, and leaves no doubt of the mortal remains of tl.is once re spectable i n di v id ua l h aving been ultimately mangled freedom rgainst despotism ; but, if 10, it i s th e f au lt of her Government and of her King. By Prussia's on a dissecting table." succumbing, the North German cause may be for a moment eclipsed. But as intelligence, and wealth, and courage must in the end predominate over the brute qualities contrasted with them, we have no fear of North Germany finally emerging from any politi cal extinguisher that Austria and Russia may frame at Frankt o n, or that the Ti mes may l acquer for them. The fault of the King of Prussia is, that ho puts his trust in princes, when he ought to have put trust in peoples. He did so because the majority of princes seemed favourable to his liberal views. But it was mere hypocrisy on their part. They prefer the more despotic to the more enlightened powers. In an assembly of elected Germans, of men chosen by all interests fairly, there could be no fear of either the absence of intelligence or of freedom. But in a diet of princes, that kind of constitutional assembly which the Times evidently prefers to all others, it is plain that popular rights or representative government could never be entertained or discussed, save to be interred. And this is what the Times prefers. In order to be in the least consistent, it ought to propose the abolition of the House of Commons in this country, or at least the repeal of the Reform Bill. THE DUTCH NEW NAVIGATION LAWS. The follo w i ng i s an abstract of the Dutch Lew navi gation laws:— " 1. Unconditional repeal of discriminating favours granted to the Dutch flag, by suppression cf the rules allowing to this flag preferences above foreign flags. 2. Conditional similarity of flag in the navigation to and from the Netherlands colonies. " 3. Stipulations by law, concerning the trade and na vigation in tie colonies and possessions cf this realm in other parts of the world. " 4. Repeal of the interdiction to grant Netherlands registers to foreign-built vessels, by admittance of such vessels at a small duty on their value for registry. "5. Diminishing of import duties on head materials for ship- building. " 6. Suspension of the shipping duties on the Rhine and Wesel. "7. Total abolition of transit duties." • THE HASTINGS MILKMAN.—Jinks, the Hastings milkman, one morning forgot to water his milk. In the hall of the first customer in his round the sad omission flashed upon Jinks' wounded feelings. A large tub of fine clear water stood on the floor by his side, no eye was upon him, and thrice did Jinks dilute bis milk with a large measure filled from the tub, before the maid brought up her jugs. Jinks served her and went on. While he was bellowing down the next area his first customer's footman beckoned to him from the door. Jinks returned, and was immediately ushered into the library. There sat my Lord, who bad just tasted the milk. ,•Jinks," said his Lordship. "My Lord," replied Jinks. "Jinks," continued his Lordship, " I shall feel particularly obliged if you would henceforth bring me the milk and water separately, and allow me the favour of mixing them myself." " Well, my Lord, it's useless to deny the thing, for I suppose yi.ur Lordship watched me while— " No," interrupted the nobleman, "the fact is that my child ren bathe at home, Jinks, and the tub in the ball was full of sea water, Jinks."—companio n to a Cigar. Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon ; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower, by reason of our blindness.-- Lliza Cook's ..-rournal. SUICIDE FROM JEALOUSY.--On Sunday William Coates, an innkeeper at Darlington, committed a most de termined act of suicide by placing the muzzle of a double barrelled gun in his mouth, and discharging the contents, causing immediate death. The coroner's inquest was held on Monday, when it appeared that deceased had for some time entertained suspicions of the virtue of his wife, who had lately been addicted to drinking. Some circumstances having occurred on Monday week to confirm his suspicions, he turned his wife out of doors, and remained during the rest of the week in a state of great nervous excitement and despondency. On Sunday night he closed his house and put an end to his existence as described. A letter was found in the pocket of deceased, addressed to the coroner, in which he stated his intention and the cause of it, and requested that the little property he possessed might be divided equally between his two children. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." A correspondent informs us th a t a mem b er of the Peace Cong re ss has returned to En g l an d m i nus a portion o f his wardrobe, and that dark makers. This is distr ess i ng, but let the f o rlorn the integrity of his fellow-p r c o ace suspicions cloud hi s m i n d as to pistcon sole himself by reflect ingptdbicated his principles by sacrificing T he instance is n o t w i t h out a a breeches to philanthropy. out a strain of that he has nob once poured parallel. An enthusiastic patriot ly hil v a i n n upon a crowd of -eager listeners; he impassioned eloquence told them of their wrongs, of the glories of f reedom, and of the beauty of patriot martyrdom. Ile audi ence shouted, the orator grew warm ; in order to cool hi s h eated brow, he un covered his head, and placing his hat in a convenient spot, re commenced his eloquent discourse. As everything comes to an end at last, his oration closed, and the orator sought to depart, when lo! he discovered that his confidence had been abused, and, turning to his audience, he addressed them in tones of touching remonstrance, "I ckane to emancipate you," said the indignant patriot, " I carne to emancipate you, and you stole my hat." We have seen a great deal written about the great German mind, and its efforts to expand itself; let the discontented philanthropist console himself by the reflection that his missing garments are comforting that portion of the German frame which a learned professor has proved to de monstration is the seat of the German mind. The theory is rendered a probable one by the appropriateness of such a re sidence for such a guest in weight, symmetry, and other par ticulars unnecessary to mention. Who would not lose a breeches to be the benefactor of the great German mind? If we lived in mythological times, the garment would be trans ferred to the skies, and be reckoned with Orion's belt and Berenice's hair. AIANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, SEPT. 3. The intelligence of the Camhria has had some effect in steadying the market, which for a week or ten days has been in a very fluctuating condition. Cotton has advanced something like id., and this has necessarily made our market more firm, though prices are not quotably higher for any kinds of yarns. The lower qualities of mule twist keep firm compared with the fine counts of mule and water twist, which are flat and slow of sale. There is a very slight improvement in the de mand for grey goods, principally 40-in. shirtings; lifeclapol lams and T cloths are quiet and unsaleable. On the whole buyers remain cautious; little business has been ventured upon ; and until some definite accounts of the crops are re ceived from across the Atlantic, it is not expected that large transactions will be entered into, SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. —Accord ing to a return issued yesterday the number of days on wnich the House of Commons sat during the last session was 129. The greatest number of sittings in any month oc curred in July, when the House sat 23 days. The total number of hours occupied by the sittings was 1,104 14 mi nutes, of which 1084 were after midnight. The average time of sitting per diem was 8 hours 33 minutes and 35 se conds. The total Jauntier of entries in the votes during the session was 8,571. If every one will but do his duty as an individual, and will be but courageous and sufficient in the sphere of his immediate calling, there need be no fear for the weal of the whole.—Eliza Cook's Journal. A TOWN wiTuotrr Cens.—On Saturday evening the town of Liverpool was surprised by the following notice: —"Notice to the Public—The coach and car proprietors beg most respectfully to acquant the inhabitants of Liverpool, and the public, that in consequence of the unjustifiably low rate of fares which the town council have fixed to be charged for hackney coaches within the borough and its vicinity, to the extent of five miles from the General Post office, fares utterly inadequate to admit of the proprietors being ever remunerated, and which are on a much lower scale than in any town in England (London not excepted), they have unanimously concluded to discontinue plying for hire from and after Monday next, Sept. 2, believing it to be better to make this very serious sacrifice than to work at rates which will eventually lead to ruitmus consequences.' Accordingly the various 61 am:6 were deserted during the day. Strangers coming to town by the railways and steamers are slid to have felt it molt acutely, inasmuch as, their arrival at the stations and the pier -head, they vlere unable tot L) ., p e r i o i cetuto sroute r,m theirde t s a t Lie; n at i °buy omnibuses. ulllessthey would subnfitThe affair caused much excitement during the day. DAMAeKE tiNING.—ThiS term, derived from the Syrian Damascus, so renowned in art, designates the diffe rent kinds of steel ornamentation. The first is the many coloured 'catered Damascus blades; the second kind consists in etching slight ornaments on polished steclwares; the third is the inlaying of steel of iron with gold or s il ver, as was done with s ab r es, artn , ur, pistol-locks, and gun-barrels. The designs were deeply engraved, or chased in the metal, and the lines filled with gold or silver wire, driven in by the ham mer, and fastened firmly. This art was brought to great per fection by the French artist Conmet, in the reign of Henry I V. —Art Jouriud. MARTINET.--There is no doubt the term martinet is de! ived from the general flicer, M. de Martinet, indic a t e d by Mr. C. Forbes, and who was , as Voltaire states,celebrated for having restored and improved the discipline and tacti cs of the French army, whence very strict officers came to be called martinets; but it is also from the restorer of discipli ne that the name of what we call cat-o'-nine-tails is i n F rench mar ti ne t? This is rather aninteresting query, considering how severely our neighbours censure our u se o f t h at auxiliary to discipline.-11 otes and Queries. TUE HOPS.—The accounts from the hop districts in Kent are satisfactory. About Maidstone they have a most luxuriant appearance; in many other districts they are re ported as doing well, and likely to exceed the general ave rage ; but from some quarters there are complaints of the effect produced by the cold nights.—Essex Herald. We learn that, should the Bishop of Exeter persist in his alleged intention further to disturb the peace of the Church by prosecuting his charge of heresy against Mr. Gorham, there is every probability of steps being taken in reprisal against Dr. Pusey, Archdeacon Wilberforce, and others, on account of various alleged errors of doctrine con tained in the acknowledged writings and sermons of those liTineo.—Gloucater Journal. IMPORTS OF PRODUCE INTO LIVERPOOL.—In the two weeks ended the 28th ult., there were imported into Liverpool, 225,856 bushels wheat, 28,598 barrels flour, 10,700 sacks flour, 45,610 bushels Indian corn, 208 bags Indiau corn, 5,480 bushels barley, 26,096 bushels oats, and 7,456 bullets beano. ... 882 ... 451 ... 431 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males ... Females ... Total ... ... 727 ... 734 ... 1,461 * In this number aro included 33 by Scarlatina, 40 by Typhus Fever, 118 by Diarrhoea, and 4 by Cholera. POPULATION or GERMANY.—The late Parlia mentary census of the German States shows the following figures:—Prussia contains 16,112,948 inhabitants; Bavaria, 4,504,874; Saxony, 1,886,433; Hanover, 1,758,856; Wur temberg, 1,743,827 ; Baden, 1,349,930; Electoral Hessen, 72.;,073; Grand I)uchy of Hessen, 852,679; Saxony-Weimar, 257,373; Saxony-Coburg-Gotha, 147,195; Saxony-Meinin gen, 160,515; Saxony-Altenburg, 129,589; Brunswick, 268,943; Nassau, 418,627; Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 528,185 ; Oldenburg. 278,909; Anhalt- Dessau, 63,082; Anhalt- Cothcn, 43,120; Anhalt-Bernburg, 41 , ,844 • Schwarzburg- Rtidulstadt, 68,711 ; Schwarzburg-Sondersciatisen, F 8,682; Reuss-Major, 3:3,159 ; Reuss-Minor, 77,016; Lippe, 108,236; Schaumburg-Lippe, '28,837 ; Waldek, 57,60-1 ; making a total of 31,670,237 inhabitants of Germany, exclusive of the German provinces of Austria, Holland, and Denmark, of the Flee Ilanse cii ii s, and the petty principalities of Hessen.. Houil.u,rg and Lichtenstein —Kohler Zcitunti. BRIG nroN.—The theatre here opened for the season on Saturday last, under the maragement of Mr. Belcour, of provincial celebrity. He has spared no expense to render the theatre available to its numerous visitors, with a good company selected from the principal London stars, with Sheridan Knowles's play of the Hunchback, a divertisement, and the farce of That Rascal Jack. The house was very fully attended. A rumour has been raised, no doubt by some parties who desire to seize upon the representation of this city, that Mr. Divett is to be appointed successor to the late J. Ley, Esq., the Clerk of the Home of Commons. Our re. commendation is to the friends of Mr. Divett to be wary, and not allow themselves to be tricked into ary promises, under any ouditim 1711 Atoyer,—Peronehire Chronicle 9f yelMiltty. FRASER. Fraser this month is a purely literary periodical, and the greater number of the literary articles are of a very high order of merit. Our friend, the Natura list, continues his delightful leaves from his note book, and gives us :a pleasant account of the serpent-charmers, from the days of the Psalmist down to this present month of September, 1850, when two of the race are attracting all the London world to the Regent's.park Zoological Gardens. General Conway's "Letters to Horace Walpole" are continued, and the tale of " The Heirs of Gauntry" is concluded. The article entitled " The Sounding Statue of Memnon" is one of the most logical examples of classical criticism which it has ever been our good fortune to peruse. Well would it have been for the cause of truth had all writers of history possessed the critical acumen, the remarkable power of weighing evidence, the logical method, and the sound judgment of the writer of that very remarkable hale -r. We have re views of Tennyson's Poems, of Professor Creasy's Eminent Etonians, and of the late musical season. The number commences with an introductory chap tlerrenettoeur,,aL s series of papers entitled " The Age of in a shish the l r o i r tt; s r t o n f l I s "shams;"us it shis n d inten tion con cludes with a pleasant gossip anent the watering places and summer haunts of England. THE BRITISH GAZETTEER. Parts XVI. and XVII. of this admirable compila tion are illustrated by maps of Yorkshire and Mon mouthshire, four of which are devoted to separate portions of the former great county, and by two ad mirable engravings, one of the Town-hall, Liverpool, and the other of the New Buildings, St. John's, Cambridge. 576 pages of information, embracing a vast aucietint of statistical, details, and lucidly and COURT CIRCULAR, BALMORAL, Au G. 31. Her Majesty and his Royal Hi g h ness Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Pri ncess Royal, Princess Alice, and Prince Alfred, left Edi nburgh this morning, at half-past eight, by r a il road, for Couper Angus, and from thence posted to Balmoral, where where the Royal party arrived at twenty minutesthe before seven. In attendance were the Marchioness of D ouro, the Non. C. B. Hon. Miss Lennox, Lieut.-Colonel the,SirtGeoirogeeGrey, Colonel Hon. A Gor don, Sir James Clark, and Mr. Birch. ROYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GAR. DENS• The lovers of instrumental music were greatly de lighted at these pleasant gardens on Monday last, when the entertainment provided for them by a gen erous ma nagement presented an ensemble rarely witnessed. The bands of the Royal Artillery, the 2(1 Life Guards, and the Coldstream Guards, were, by permission of their respective colonels, added to the well-known band of the establishment; and the whole conducted by Godfrey. The effect was re illy magnificent. We have rarely heard su perfect a combination Of wind instruments, and the precision and force with which some of the pieces were rendered was indeed perfect. The " Battle Sym phony," accompanied by aischarges of mu,lectry, was very grand. The display of fireworks was gorgeous, and, added to the other attractions, rendered the evening remarkable in the brilliant annals of these gardens. W e understand the Me will be repeated On Monday next, a lien no doubt this popular place of amusement will be crowded. To-day there is a grand dahlia show, which will be very attractive. • Yesterday morning our friends of the barrel, im patient of the additional day thrown between them and their game, were up early, and eagerly pursuing their way to the fields, which, in this district generally cleared of the sheaf and the swarth, present a clear stage for their sport. Th e birds, we believe, are an average number—in some dis tricts more than usually plentiful; the day , too, was favour able, but we have not returns Of the dead. —Essex afraid. y e t received any ..—/ par. ----"" Sae"' CO on t he ( own, 35 t 4 case. in a; rov'' •) I in , ode" wer° I) 06 of cl ee f ib e were that f livi/ ect.d iss ,d d co 1 ito' 0 0 ' coo ow Pr' ell f air