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- --- --- — Alb,,,, vi - .71 , ___ . . ItlnV7rj 'AT .ELT.' :t.nznET177.8.7...f4. ~ _ _ i kut ~) ft t f, Xtensive ipplies of country- killed me,.t 1e . ,4 -'' '"" l:)e arcises—b ave c,:nie to hand tor tliesn m,...tr .icenscP Mohday last, chiefly from this North (f . Lug -I),,fi Those on otl - n• slaut.. , ,i,t , !red in the matropolts . have Mu tton ex ., :rtive. The pritnest .1.3eV1 and t ttlr n il h3 v o sold siinewl) , ,.t steadily, at full rates . o 4;4 1 ' In all other kin 6; of mcat to to hothihg e t , doing, flt barely stationary pric"s. -it per stone. oy the Cal case. l 'eet,i„, s. d. to s 0 . ~,'" r, - ,,Z i ' l l o u r; • ......: 3 29 : 6. 42 ' 4) 2 :* '1 6 4 . 2Antter., i r, s , f i ef a l l o u r ,g .... 2 3 8 0 : 2 i 10 2 ''' .1 1) 41. ,.„ '101 ' . .r11e •• 2 , i2 10 ' rftwa c • -• 3 : 3 3 6 4 . , %4 11-..( ' 'Mall .. 3 0 3 2 iterN,1,..rg'5........ 2 lc . 0 h ... ,•••••• 3 0 ;3 10 s .ail ....-•• 3_ 6 4 Th,;7'.1t07.7%:Z1 .11: , \TD SPITALFZETAV,.. 3 • n ' l ltk im Pirtl or fet.iga Potatoes into Lt-ndo , , last ,e sit as again cxtenive, though by nu tne , , tus so I . a g . /itt t ii'e repott,l b, ii , on Mouclav lsst. lbs total at - 1 11,.' " -1 ‘ rahuatcd to 2,322 tons, - derived A follows ' kili ', 120 AfIIITPT 135; Sr. Valory. i ' 1,1f )1.1 ", 510 ; lt. P o4erdarti, ` ) :15 ; 120; Nieup?rt, thirling.m, 155; t3 iti - ;„ 24 7 ; Dunkirk, 255; Dieppe. toh .: -) Q9 tons.lol ; and Lou ; Coastwise• and by ii4fl4o cotue to hand, in railway, about 3,501 , good condition. For all i pr i the demand i, ~,, ,, ,,s i v e :y heavy, and prices „ ' fu her rates "t pirteatitd ' fu c ilios per ton. Pres-lit pet:- Per Ton. Per Ton. h a „, - 's 80s to 105 s Common Whites as to /5 s 11,41 ••• to ---s Kent Kidneys —sto s ns trits 60s to 73s 1...4ex Regmts —s to 111 41 11 fr Ps 604 to 70s Ditto Shaws . ..... —s to s ?i tt a ••• —s to s Ditto Kidneys ... sto s —s to s French Whites ... 60s to 70s ' to —s I Ditto Reds ..... —s to —s 14iVents. 75s to 90s Belgian Whites... 60s to 65s COs to Dutch Whites ... 50s to bss "r-ti t f i a " . Y 3 —s to s Ditto Reds ..... sto 75 116 e1;t3... 70s to B's German ditto ... 505 to Gas , /fi lla 4 l l.l ..vals of Wool into Lond ,, n since Monday last, 1, 44 ; ci?' totNl to 2 hales from Thulouw; 50 from Leg- I r ' 4 lt .0 :1 ( J from Alexandria ; 90 from Ilarnburgh; 595 k;, 141 4, '‘ 3 „. a ' Bay; 170 from Mogadoro; and 36 from th ltit t i quantity of Wool on offer in the private m arket is small; while the ee:nand fur all dc a3 is steady. at very full prices. b ,. klextouG:a ;rlOl O _ 1, 14 , , T l , 1 e sale o f 150 b a l es A merican H tops has taken whole of the parcel was withdrawn at 75s 00t r ,',.7 at Y raid. The imparts freer abroad last week to 104 bales from New York, 46 ditto from ‘i obtained 50 ditto from Antwerp. Our market is in • 4 te for all hinds of Hops, at prices barely , u oined last week. New Mid. and East c'T eK ets, 61 6s to 111 Ils ; new Weald of Kent ii a h Lto 815; ; new S ussex di tto, Si 8 s to 6/10s ; lip - "`"', 12/ to 131; yearling ' u sstX, 2/8s to 3/ 12s ; old Hops,;ll to 3/ 10s. 'te 0, LO. litl4 last report this market has ruled steady. 4 ,„"IY a moderate quantity of Tallow has Iruands, prices have advanced 6il per c‘ft. n , ( n the spot is quoted at 37s to 3 7 s3d per 1 1 'III t - h e r'e are o ff ers f or th e d e livery of new during 410 there months at 3Ss 6d per cwr. Town Talllow q ed is per cwt. The net cash price is 37s per .. 3 ogh Fat 2s ld per 8113 P. Our St. retersburgh ik.. 4 / i at` s that Lao total supply for the sea son will be <ie 4t. °,o oo cake, including the quantity left over I t•,, 1 1846. Ai I i"al •• • 17 834 4 14 :11" -•1 _! d L •k; r. 42, 9 • •• • t to 43s Od ,1' 14 1 t kv '.t0 4 ,, Week .. 918 titZka la ',. 4 ne t .... 1 75,356 h k4 troi 4 7 ,,. 'Feek ~ 707 B , ie 1 ...I 77,380 : To_ ~,t • . .... 1 45s fid 1317. 1619. 1850. 10,281 9,762 29,081 37,030 51s 3d .50s Od 103 tid to 37s Od o Os Od to 50 , s 3d Os Od to 37s 7d 924 1,780 1,590 1,518 70,444 85,084 82,6(10 76,272 82 1,299 438 35 70,502 84,635 i 101,208 87,831 53s Od 51s Od 148 s Od 39s Gd PRIVY COUNCIL. k Qll ean held a Pricy Council and Court on ' l ,, , le e Y afternoon, at th re e o'clock, at Buckingham ll 'iat e 011)61 was attended by his Royal Highness p a r Albert, the Lord President, the First Lord of ~ittiß , l 4 ' l 4Y , the Secretaries of State for the Home, Lt 4 'end Colonial Departments, the Chancellor ) 4 41 0f Duchy of Lancaster, the President of the ,Y.a t , il ottrol, the Postmaster-General, the Secre- Oe tt :_r, and the Lord Chamberlain. 11 4 "Jesty gave audience before the Council to Th, gals of Lansdowne. 4t l 'ePort of th e J u di c i a l C omm itt e e on the ap ..tort tt o , barn v. the Bishop of Exeter," from the arches, was approved of by the Queen in Itr eet• N e long were made in the names of the sheriffs irties of Monmouth and Merioneth. .On• 'William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Ij! . i vvaiting. Russell had an audience of the Queen. ih r r ., ( lley had an audience of her Majesty. 1 7kcj,; kjourt, Mehemed Pacha, the Turkish Am had an audience of the Queen, to deliver a lo 0 4 n the Sultan. 0 1 4: 41 niandeur Marques Lisboa, the Brazilian . "s t ) had an audience of her Majesty, to take te mporary absence. et,,t his had his first audience of the Queen, to pies credentials on a special mission from the of Nicaragua. ,N 4,, Excellencies were respectively introduced by Palmerston, G C. 8., the Queen's prin- L'Adikteeetsry of Stat e for Foreign Affairs, and k ,.1 t 1 by Colo ne l th e H o nour a ble Sir Edward her Majesty's Master of the Cere -11;(1 6 o urt was attended by the Captain of the tekl k i e `qa of Gentlemen at-Arms, the Marquis th, 3 ey, Gold Sdck in Waiting, the Treasurer p tt I , l lousehold, the Vice-Chamberlain, the 04° 1 " of the Household, Lord Dufferin, Lord lib e i r q3, and Sir Edward Bowater, Groom in COURT UIItUIULAR. o.l„ e ' n 'al Highness Prince Albert rode out on er. e ou Saturday morning, attended by Colonel l f ,• Oi t Vleen bad a dinner party on Saturday at el Palace. The company included his N Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, o guese Minister and Viscountess de Mon -04,,k`1e American Minister and Mrs. Lawrence, li i k ki sti t ue „s 3 of Sutherland, the Marquis of Donegal, 4, l , ll awarden, the Bishop of London and Mrs. t •hi h u, Lord Seaton, Sir George and Lady Grey, 114 t non. Fox aule, the Right Hon. T. B. tla y p Lord Marcus Hill, and Colonel the Hon. Cr°Y. %N,,hd of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance 0 14 ' 4 11er, and played the following pieces : ehl ith e e Euryanthe" . olk a oCtj "° Uble (Vocal) ell - o e, .. „ 'op rreciosa k 41 lise qts etteen's private band afterwards attended in t ttt and played the following pieces : Earl of West- Its lite ) " La Scompiglio Teatrale" e a moreland. Th e m " e , Aria, "Faust" isli'Peen and Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, 1, -8 and gentlemen of the Court, and the do -lole,„°ltsehold attended Divine service yesterday 1 4 the private chapel in Buckingham Palace. i tt ,htt: and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. o • 3al Family took their usual exercise yes -o,lt. the g ar d en o f B uc ki ng ham Palace. ': l A r i ti ll , oyal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge li t t ,tisei e sx Mary, and his Serene Highness Prince " of Hesse, honoured the Lyceum Theatre pt . presence on Saturday evening. Highness the Duke of Cambridge at the ieityme service yesterday morning in the chapel `°ltl Devine Orphan Asylum. Baron Knesebeck i e waiting on his Royal Highness. The Royal le4e kited Christ's Hospital School yesterday tt A. t 4 net Council was held on Saturday afternoon Poreign-office. It was attended by V.kase S „ ° , i ll Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis -4 'wne ' the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, t l / 4 ,. tlt p a inerston, Earl Grey, the Earl of Car t,dohn Hobhouse, the Right Hon. H. Labou -44, ue Marq u is o f Clanricarde, and the Right 14 1( 4 .4 1) Alaule. The Council sat 'two hours. 44At!tation, headed by the Duke of Richmond, at ‘,lnterview with Sir George Grey on Satur kNl_lte Home -office, to present a memorial to the V e se e " favour of an application to Parliament, to L i ,.° 4 to the working by " shifts" in factories, t h ' in k an evasion of the spirit of the Factory d e greatly pr e j u dicial to the working people. u tation consisted of Lord John Manners, 11 4 1 , 4' ll ' Robert Inglis, M.P.; Sir George Strick -114,1( , e a ; Mr. Brocklehurst, AI P.; Mr. George ; Messrs. Thomas Fielden, Samuel Vtll e ) ,„°• Mellor, Grant, J. Cobbett, Mills, Pitt, t otal ' hay, Hargreaves, Unswortb, Balme, and th y le q e Y , and the Rev. G. Bull. ia si lti ee 4 ge Hamilton, M.P., had an interview with . lt )t 'eo r l, lion. H. Labouchere on Saturday. Sir 14414rerrier and Mr< Power, M P., had also an s'iQe " With M r abouchere on Saturday, at the -/S th ' I . e epli e Board of Trade. ~j dG rm t ation on prison labour, consisting of Mr. yt t , Parebrother, the Rev. Mr. Fry, Messrs. tit -Laylor, ic'nolay, and Roper, had an in- VI °II 8 Grey. t jt q r aturday with Sir George Lord ° svenor was unable to accompany the de b• 1 1104, D uke of 'Wellington, the Duchess of St. 4a,,,eltri„"d the M arc hi oness o f Sali s bury, attended 4; 4 4 . s ervice yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. 14 ey,hed te The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and tne4 the sermon. The Bishop of Norwich jt Lie sermon in the daily service. Nlb s 4 44 Tired on Friday that a clerk in the Globe tiZ °l nce had absconded in consequence of data k44 t ee , a mount of which was 89,0001. He had been meh by ' l e years in the office, and had effected his ► th y tel tatati t t h tei, making alterations in the books. It appears e t , himself up with dramatic speculations, and ki t cto,, ei .g of the Olympic Theatre last Thursday 10 1 , -4 uL his inability to carry it on. The For Ct kit, . 14 Search of the delinquent, Dlr. W.— Weekly LITERATURE. THE HISTORY OF E.NGLAND. Fifth Edition. 10 Vols - . By John Lingard, D.D. Upwards of thirty years have elapsed since the first appearance of this celebrated production, and through out that period the reputation of Lingard has been steadily ripening into that of one of our greatest an nalists, It is peculiarly fortunate that this distin guished historian survives still amongst us, adding his venerable name to the list of those illustrious con temporaries whose genius and erudition are destined to illustrate to a remote posterity the glories of our national literature. Otherwise his labours could not have been perfected by the publication of the present splendid edition of his " History of England," an edition which has just issued from the press, the re sult of a prolonged and scrupulous revision, re arranged in several parts with extraordinary perspi cuity, and altogether materially enhanced in value by a very considerable enlargement. Remembering the enormous accessions to the bulk of historical know ledge made of late years through the in dustry of many profound antiquaries and philologists, the student will experience no surprise on finding that Dr. Lingard has deemed it advisable, on the one hand, to subject his great work to a col lation so peculiarly stringent; and, on the other, to increase the scope of its excellence, by such conspi cunus and remarkable extensions. Those, however, whose acquaintance with the progress recently made in researches of this character has been restricted al most to a nullity, may, from the explanatory obser vstions of our author (see Vol. 1., pp. xiii.—xxviii.), obtain seine insight into the responsibilities devolving upon him as annalist, in consequence of the recovery of documents hitherto imagined to have been de stroyed, or, still more, in consequence of the dis covery of manuscripts previously overlooked. From his own specific acknowledgments, it will there be perceived how numerous have been these literary revelations, spreading as they do, according to his emphatic declaration (1., xiv.), " over every period of our history, from the mention of the tin-islands by Herodotus, to the flight of James 11., in the seven teenth century." Among the more notice able, or voluminous, of these additions to the materials of English history, many have been carefully enumerated in a Preliminary Notice, wherein Dr. Lingard has set the stamp-royal of his commendations cn the works of these pioneers of the annalist. Nor can we be amazed at the earnestness of some of his sententious panegyrics when•we con sider the toil, the ardour, and the assiduity requisite to secure the success of such herculean undertakings. What ardent studies, for example, were essential to- ' wards the accomplishment of the enterprize realised in the Corpus llistoricum, where every allusion to Britain contained in the classical writers of Greece and Rome was extracted from their compositions, and the whole mass of such references accumulated to gether by the late Mr. Petrie and his assistants!. Again, what untiring zeal in the prosecution of those inquiries of Dr. Giles, which have summoned from the obscurity of dust and mildew so many inestimable documents relating to the reign of Henry 11., and illus trating the career of A'Becket of Canterbury, docu ments enshrined in his singular production, entitled Patres .Ecclesicc Anglicance ! No light task, - enoreover, was that of Benjamin Thorpe, the translator of the " Homilies of SElfrie," and the compiler of our " Ancient Laws and Institutes"—an effort ef scholar ship emulated with kindred ability by John M. Kemble in his " Saxons in England," as also in his " Codex Diplomaticus 2Evi Saxonici." Out of the precious archives of the Tower of London, in like manner, it has been the high prerogative of Thomas Duffus Hardy to select, among other estimable curiosi ties, the " Close and Patent Rolls," having reference to tht reigns of John and Henry 111., documents throw: ing a broad flood of light upon the dissension exist ing between the former monarch and his Pontifical antagonist, Pope Innocent 111. Similar in nature were the researches made by Sir Francis Palgrave, acting under the authority of the Record Commission, to which researches, it cannot very speedily be for gotten, we are indebted for the publication of that vast variety of writs dating back as early as the reign of Ed ward 1., and the importance of which has induced Dr. Lingard to comment (I. xvi.) in so many words upon the "immense value of the collection." Besides some lesser collections dragged out of the darkness of the State Paper Office, and embellishing the already copious annals of the reign of Henry VIII.. with new testimonies of the arrogance of ‘Volsey, and of the servility of Cranmer, the historian has of late obtained an extraordinary increase of data in re gard to the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from the " Bowes Correspondence," from the " Leicester Cor respondence," from the Lettres de Marie Stuart, edited by Prince Labanoff, as likewise from the De peches of Delamotte Fenelon, produced in this ' country under the superintendence of Charles Purton Cooper. Beyond what has been effected by the fore going philologists and antiquaries, effected, be it re- ' collected, since the year 1819, the year in which Dr. Lingard's " History of England " first appeared, lesser, it may be, yet not less laudable revelations have been made through the instrumentality of John ' Bruce, of Jehn Gough Nichols, of the Rev. Joseph Stevenson, of Sir Thomas Phillips, of Sir Harris Nicholas (subsequently deceased), of Sir Henry Ellis, and of Sir Frederick Madden—besides other labourers in the same vineyard of erudition, too numerous to particularise. Having enumerated these substantial reasons for a new and revised edition of the invaluable composition now before us, it only remains to be observed on this sutject, that Dr. Lingard has especially commemorated, in his introductory remarks, the literary achievements, not long since brought to a successful termination, by two of the most popular among the miscellaneous authors of our generation— Miss Agnes Strickland in her "Lives of the Queens of England," and Thomas Carlyle in his " Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell." To the former composition our great annalist makes the following complimentary allusion. "There remains," he says (I. xxi.), " however, one name which shall not be passed over in silence, that of a female writer, Miss Agnes Strickland, whose claim to the distinction is of a different kind, and peculiarly her own, the dis covery of a new mine of historic lore previously unexplored, a mine which she has also worked with great success, in those attractive volumes, her ' Lives of the Queens of England.'" From the powerful interest, also, which is naturally associated with anything relating to that remarkable work on his Highness the Lord Protector, which may be regarded as constituting his literary apotheo sis, we shall, we are satisfied, be gratifying the curiosity of the great majority of readers by tran scribing the allusions made by Dr. Lingard to that singular performance. "The next large collection of docum eats," says the great historian, (I. xix.) "comprises the ' Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell,' which have been collected and published with great care and accuracy by Thomas Carlyle, Esq. In these the character of the principal personage is not drawn, as was that of Queen Elizabeth, by the pencil of another, but by the man himself; and in them we may discover all the idiosyncracies that marked his conduct from the time of his derange ment at Huntingdon, to his death at Whitehall. On that account these documents are well worth the serious attention of the historical student: I mean the letters and speeches themselves,': not the run ing commentary with which the editor has accom panied them, in language most glowing and oracular. In every edition of this work I have allotted to Cromwell that share of praise which I thought, and still think, his due,—a, much larger share than he has received from many other writers • but I feel no disposition to fall down before the idol, and worship him at the command of his panegyrist." A sedate and deliberate conviction as to the peculiar merits and demerits of that man, whom Mr. Macaulay has aptly designated " the greatest prince that ever ruled the destinies of England,"—such as can be no surprise even to the infatuated and enthu siastic temperament of Mr. Carlyle. That in this, as in so many other estimates of historical character, Dr. Lingard has been affected by no precipitate tendency to opposition, by no perverse antipathies, or by no extravagant predilections, but that he has here as elsewhere, evinced a feeling of calm and unimpassioned impartiality, we conceive is sufficiently well demonstrated by that memorable epitome of the conspicuous characteristics of the genius of Crom well, beginning (VIII., 646)—" Till the commence ment of the present century, when that wonderful man arose, who, by the splendour of his victories and the extent of his empire, cast all preceding adventurers into the shade, the name of Cromwell stood without a parallel in the history of civilized Europe." It is with an excusable, or rather we should say, an ad mirable, complacency that our annalist refers to the confirmation of his three most contested opinions, by all the subsequent revelations of facts made in the disclosure of some of the documents al ready mentioned, through the researches of literary antiquarians. These opinions, it can scarcely have es caped public recollection, had reference to the cha racter of Sir William Wallace, to the character of Archbishop Crammer, and to the cause of the mas sacre at Paris on the feast of St. Bartholomew. From the estimate originally formed by him of the career and vicissitudes of the famous Scottish chieftain he has not discovered any reason (11., 573) for making any deductions whatever. Upon a review of the life and actions of Cranmer, his words are still permitted to remain (V .passim) as heretofore, stern and uncom promising. While in regard to the lamentable mas sacre in the French capital on the festival of St. Bartholomew, he declares that from the publication of the secret dispatches of Salviati (I. xxiii.) he de tects only additional corroborations cf his own state ments, arid supplementary justifications of his own most reviled deductions. Hence it is but natural that he should rejoice in the tacit approval of his judgment thus afforded by disinterested and unimpeachable witnesses, especially bearing in mind how the statements alluded to, on their first appear ance, according to his own expression (1., xzii.), " were received with bursts of indignation, and con tradicted with sneers of contempt." Before pro nouncing any general t pinion upon this standard history of our country, this history which, in the esti mation of many of our greatest intellects now living, has already risen to the dignity of a classic, we would briefly jut seriously direct attention to the dis claimers put forward by its veteran author, first, of making any pretension whatever to what is termed the philosophy of history, but which he him self felicitously brands as the " philosophy of romance" (1., xxv.), and secondly of adventuring upon any discursive or episodical themes with a view to render his narrative more palatable, preferring as he intimates (1., xxvii.), the composition of " pure history" instead of "an incoherent medley of fragmentary and elementary essays," and justifying his preference by a quotation from the Great Roman historian, Annul. XIII, 31. And se, deeming this to be the last edition he can expect to see, he withdraws finally into the shadow of his scholastic seclusion, saying to us nobly, because victoriously, in the language of the retiring veteran in Virgil— _ " Bic ccesius artonque reponcy" _ _ _ Taking into consideration the magnitude of the under ! taking here perfected with inimitable care in the ripe ness of his autumal years—remembering that it is nothing less than the record of the history of this illustrious island during seventeen centuries—bearing in recollection the multiplicity of authorities that re , quired consultation, the complication of events that needed sifting, the diversieits of opinion that de manded reconciliation, and the perpetual involvement of occurrences that it was absolutely essential to nar rate sequentially throughout calling to mind, moreover, the various and, in some in stances, gifted intellects which had previously been directed to the very effort here attempted by our an nalist—we do not conceive it to be beyond the pro vince of sedate and unbiassed criticism to proffer to Dr. Lingard on the completion of his great history our earnest and cordial felicitations. In 1819, when the work was first issued from the press, its author was in the fiftieth year of his age, consequently, in 1850, when the present revised edition is published with the last finishing touches from the master hand yet warm upon it, he is fast approaching the eightieth anniversary of his nativity—an age at all times ve nerable, but especially so when attained, as in the present instance, with intellectual faculties of the very highest order not only unimpaired, but in all their pristine energy. To us, we must acknowledge, there is something inexpressibly solemn and elevating in the contemplation of a career thus drawing towards its completion in the midst cf so much moral serenity, and surrounded by the increasing celebrity cf an al ready matured and permanent reputation. That the fame acquired by Lingard's " History of England" has not originated in a temporary fascination of the public mind, but that it has been built up on its many enduring excellences, may be recognized best by those who have qualified themselves to appreciate the worth of historical composition by a familiarity with the classic annalists of antiquity. It is only, in truth, through an examination of his work according to this lofty standard that its real merits or demerits can be estimated with accuracy ; for otherwise the mind, sated with the gorgeous panoramas of events disclosed in the narratives of a more modern and, we fear, less enduring school of anna lists—such annalists we mean as are almost peculiar to the soil cf France, and whose meretricious histories may possibly have been originated by the hybrid tastes engendered by the revolution—might experi ence some want of gaudy colouring and eccentric eloquence, and picturesque partizanship in the sedate style, the impassive precision, and the measured ora tory constituting the prominent characteristies of Dr. Lingard. Familiar, however, with the classic models of historical composition—acquainted with the exqui site perspicuity of Herodotus, the inexorable fidelity Thucydides, the sweetness and purity of Xeno phon the energy of Folybius, the amplitude of Livy, and the masculine animation of Sallust—the student of history will be, of all other readers, the best enabled to recognise the indisputable beauties and unquestionable vigour of these re markable volumes, penned by the strong and virile band of Lingard. Clear and cf admirable sim plicity throughout, writing as he does invariably to the point, and ,in the purest idiom of our noble Saxon tongue, his voice on occasions can rise to a strain of burning and sustained eloquence capable of proving his depth and capacity as a rhetorician. In this respect his description of the great plague of London in 1665 (IX., 107 et seq.) is a passage which, for the very loftiest kind of oratorical excellence, is worthy of having fallen from the lips of Cicero, or from the pen of Tacitus. We must remember, however, that our office in this criticism is rather to comment upon the qualities of the present edition than to utter a detailed opinion of the work as a history, or of the author as an annalist —any such latter endeavour being little less than an impertinence with a reputation so fully established. Referring to the edition under review, therefore, we can aver, with all possible emphasis, that it is par excellence THE edition of the "History of England" by Dr. Lingert, revised to the utmost attainable degree of exactitude, and issued altogether in a form and manner worthy of so remarkable and valuable a pub lication. Referring to the illustrious historian him self, now, es hitherto, living in a renowned and academic retirement, we may say as the Abbot Cuth bert said of the venerable Bede, an annalist with whom, be it observed, Dr. Lingard has many things in common, his age, his genius, and his profession,— Et rectum quidem vidctur, ut tota gees Anglorum in omnibus provinciis, übicumque reperti sunt, gratias Deo referant, pia tam mirabilem virum illis in sus natione donavit ! THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. This able periodical for the present month sustains its usual high position in the serial literature of the day. It opens with a very able and elaborate article, as far as it goes, on a subject upon which there has been recently some difference of opinion between political economists, entitled "Absenteeism : its Social and Economic Effects upon Ireland." The writer takes a cursory glance at the enactments of different periods against absenteeism both in this and other countries. In England absenteeism never existed to any mischevious or prejudicial extent, and for very obvious reasons, yet at various periods of her history, very stringent laws were enacted against it. In the reign of King John, the Anglo-Normans, who held estates both in Normandy and England, were ordered to make their election between their two estates, and to reside in the country of their adoption. In the reigns of Edward the First and Third there were also several severe and penal enactments against ab sentees. The able writer of this paper then goes on to show that the English Legislature at former periods attributed to absenteeism many of the evils of Ireland, and enacted several -laws in the reigns of Richard 11., Henry IV., Henry V., and Henry VI., by which several of the English nobility forfeited the whole or great part of their Irish estates in conse quence of non-residence, and concludes a very in structive paper by an admirable picture of the moral and social benefits likely to attend a resident pro prietary. The other papers, constituting the present number are, " I Never Can Forget," " Bertha's Cross —a Story of the Middle Ages ;" " Irish and Danish Antiquities ;" " A few more Random Records of a Ramble in the East ;" " Some Remarks on the Evidence for the Origin of the Round Towers," by the Rev. G. S. Faber; "Annalists of the Restora tion ;" " Lays of the Famine ;" " The Price of Blood—a Story of Gold ;" "Irish Theatricals," second article ; " Irish Tourists—Giraldus Cambrensis ;" " Law Reform." The subject of this last paper will perhaps be noticed by us elsewhere. We will only say here, that we do not concur in the remarks of the writer on the Bills proposed by Sir John Romilly, for the amendment of several branches of the law in Ireland. THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMER CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, and HISTORI CAL GAZETTEER; Travelling Road-Book, and County Atlas. The proprietors of this important work omit no opportunity of rendering it both useful and instructive, and giving it as it progresses additional claims to the support of the public. The present number contains a map which will be found of the greatest utility to travellers—" A Key to British Railroads." It also contains a well-executed map of the county of Wilt shire, and is embellished with a fine engraving of the Royal Institution, Manchester. THE MAGISTERIAL FORMULIST, being a Complete Collection of Forms and Precedents for Practical Use in all Mutters out of Quarter Sessions; adapted to the Outlines of Forms in Jervis's Acts (11 and 12 Vict , cc. 42, 43) ; with an Introduc • Lion, Explanatory Directions, Variations, and Notes ( brought down to 12 and 13 Vict.) By George C. Oke, author of the " Magisterial Synopsis." A practical compilation of forms and precedents such as this was rendered essentially necessary since the passing of the Acts of the 11 and 12 Vict., cc. 42 and 43, introduced by the present Attorney-General, and known as " Jervis's Acts." The object of these Nets was to facilitate the duties of justices of the peace with respect to " indictable offences" and " summary convictions and orders ;" and Mr. Oke, a gentleman of great practical know ledge and experience, seeing the want of uniformity in the forms and precedents in use previous t o th e passing of these Acts, and their want of strict appli cability to many special cases since the passing of these statutes, has, with great but successful labour and industry, supplied this desideratum, and has ac complished a most desirable end in whipting unifor mity of form to uniformity of practice. Mr. Oke has upon former occasions supplied admirable compi lations for the guidance of magisterial functionaries, both in their ministerial and judicial duties; and we cannot too highly commend the present volume to every magistrate and magistrate's clerk in the king dom. It is beautifully got up, and reflects much credit on the publisher. QUESTIONS for LAW STUDENTS on the THIRD EDITION of AYEBOURNS NEW CHANCERY PRACTICE. By JohnSwittin bank, Solicitor in Chancery. . . We think the public will, e.s we certainly aro dis posed to do, receive with commendation every effort to advance the important science of the law ; end we believe there is no method by which that desirable end can be so speedily and solidly attained as by the test supplied by the practical questions of volumes like the present. To the student seriously anxious to acquire a knowledge of his profession such little books are invaluable, while the practitioner who can satisfactorily answer these questions will not be lilie!y to injure either his own reputation or the in terest of his client by a blunder. There are nearly 2,000 questions in this little volume which, when the student hes fully mastered and can satisfactorily an swer, we think he may be fairly entrusted with the conduct of a suit in Chancery. The compilers of little volumes like the present deserve the en - couragement both of the profession and the public. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 6th, the debate was re sumed on the Marriages Bill. There were some points about the resumed debate, which are worth re marking on. One was, how completely the pretence of Levitical authority was driven out of the field and given up. It might be hard to insist on inferring any analogy between our quoters of Scripture, and the enemy of mankind who appears to have been himself a quote/. of Scripture in his time; but assu redly there is a strong resemblance between the ways in which the two comport themselves, upon being met with the resistance we are invited to make to the latter. Another remark is, the abundance of the specimens of those peculiar descriptions of argument which a witty Divine has immortalised in the inimitable " Oration." If the present Bill is passed, why should not an Act be next passed to enable men to marry their sisters ? Simply, unfortunate one, because no body will petition for it, speak for it, vote for it. If these are not reasons enough, none can be. But are not the people demanding to be allowed to act contrary to law ? All amendment of law, is to allow men to act contrary to that which was worse. But is not all that anybody may have suffered, the mere result of the supremacy of the existing law ? Slavery and the Slave Trade would have always been justified on the same principle of jurisprudence. On Thursday the debate ran high on the ques tion of Relief to the Kilrush Union. The case is certainly one having many bearings, and not to be settled on the instant by a headlong charge of phi lanthropy. But can it be altogether right, that when men have been reduced to famine by the potatoes to which they trusted being found to have gone through the ship's bottom and disappeared, the commander and his officers should take that opportunity of dis solving the tenancy, and pulling down their berths and coverings, by way of enforcing their clearing his decks by jumping into the sea? It is clear that in the actual position of things, it is a simple walking of the plank ; and the question I have to put is, whether this comes within the captain's ordinary right to have a choice in his passengers. It looks as if the moment was badly chosen. It looks as it means might be found to invite the commander to exercise his power either before or after, but not to fix on that particular moment to push his passengers into the water. On the same evening the annual motion was made for the establishment of the Vote by Ballot. It was met by the old routine of stale and oft-repeated ar guments. One of the great uses of a Parliament, is to enable the people to judge of the strength or weakness of their rulers. It is only when the string is worn out, and its weakness too palpable for further use, that an unwise Government provides for the necessity. After the acknowledgments that change is on the road, it would appear as if something might have been done, on the principle of the shipmaster who takes in sail before the squall reaches him. But nothing will be taken in here, till something is blown away. There is an admission of the danger, and at the same time a refusal to do anything to ease it, which are curious in combination. The division demonstrates, that the squall is near ing fast ; 123 votes in a House of only 299, is a large advance on any previous display. On Friday came on the Member for the West Riding's motion for the reduction of expenditure. The event was like all the rest. Nothing will be done, till there is reason. It must be the business of the country in its preparatory processes, to make it. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 11th March, 1850. REVIVAL OF THE ANTIGONE" OF SOPHOCLES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—Your remarks on the superb way in which Judge Talfourd's fine tragedy of _lon has been lately represented at Drury-lane Theatre comes very apropos, in aid of those who are longing to witness the revival of the Antigone with its Mendelssohn nian music, at the same theatre. If lon can be so well put upon its stage, how much more attrac tively to the public might the Antigone be given— seeing that the original Antigone would come out in full force—(not in only quarter force, as in the slightly interesting and subordinate role of Clemanthe) —by the side of her father's magnificent Creon ; and seeing, furthermore, that Mendelssohn's glorious choral and lyric strains and symphonies would be a grand and entire addition, over and above any attrac tion which appertains to the tragedy of lon. Add to all these considerations, that the learned world, our collegiate friends and celebrities, would be in evitably anxious to witness the representation of a play enacted more than 2,000 years ago before the Areopagus and the people of Athens ; and that her Majesty, with her Court, would i n all probability bestow her patronage on a representation which owes its first introduction to our own times to the fostering patronage of a crowned head—viz., the King of Prussia—and I think enough has been said to indicate that the revival of the Antigone unex hausted and unworn out with the public as it is, would be a matter of the highest p o licy, certain remuneration, and lasting credit t o th e present lessee of our great national temple of the intellectual drama. I am, Sir, &c., A. FIZZ . - &D OF " OLD DRURY." Inner Temple, March 7, 1850. - - PORTRAIT OF LORD D. C. STUART. A beautiful proof impression of a very excellent portrait of this nobleman, the liberal and popular representative of the borough of Marylebone, has just reached us. It has been printed by Hanhart, from a drawing on stone by Napoleon Ploszczynski, and pourtrays the features of Lord Dudley Co u tt s S tuart somew hat felicitously, especially in the upper por ti on o f the countenance. As an accompanying prospectus very judiciously observes, " All who admire his Lordship's upright and amiable character should secure an im pression early, as a limited number only will be thrown off, and the stone destroyed, to prevent the circulation of inferior copies." A HISTORY OF HUNGARY AND LYRICS, DY A. B. M. WILDMAN.—A neat little volume, under this title, has recently been printed in Bradford, and a copy having fallen into our possession, we can afford the author our felicitations. Some of his verses having originally appeared in our columns may be in the recollection of those interested in the progress of the Hungarian movement. The modest volume before us is rendered additionally attractive by the preservation in its pages of some of those famous documents and speeches which even in England have secured to Kossuth a high reputation as a poet and an orator. LEGAL REFORIC—A brief but excellent pamphlet has within the last few days appeared in the form of "A Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Brougham and Vault on the Amendment of Common Law Procedure," by W. H. Smith, attorney -at-law. From the ability displayed by the pamphleteer in the lucid suggestions thrown cut by him in reference to the improvements necessary in the com mon law procedure, it is to be hoped that he will apply his attention in a subsequent brochure to the considera tion of the changes requisite in the laws relating to real property. His remarks go far towards the elucidation of many difficult;es at present experienced by our legal reformers, especially in the simplicity and compactness of the forms of action proposed by him in lieu of those antiquated, if not obsolete ones now employed. COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS--John Porter Atthill, Esq., late Attorney-General of St. Lucia, is appointed Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court in that island. Louis Le Case, Esq., Solicitor-General, succeeds Mr. Atthill as Attorney-General; and Cyprian Millet Pont. Esq., is appointed to the vacant office of Solicitor-General. George Garcia, Esq., is appointed Solicitor -General for Trinidad. David Jardine and Joseph Frost, E.qs., are a pp o i n t e d m e mb ers o f th e L, gislative Council of Hong- Kong.—Observer. Tas EGYPTIAN MEDAL.—The following are the names of some of the survivors of the Egyptian achieve ments of 1801, who are no longer in the service:— Thomas Davis, Esq , formerly assistant surgeon 20th Dragoons; Lieutenant Colonel S. J. Cochrane, fur- Ensign 3rd Guards; M. L. Este, Esq., formerly 3rd Guards; Lieutenant L. A. tie Nee, formerly of the 10th Foot; Lieutenant Colonel D. Baby, formerly Lieutenant 24th Eoot; Major Campbell, formerly Lieutenant of the 42nd; Lieutenant Colonel Fulton, formerly of the 70th Re gimei.t; Captain Metcalfe, formerly 79th Regiment; Lieutenant Colonel Gunning. ditto; Lieutenant Colonel Marsh, ditto; J. 11. Soden, Esq., ditto (Assistant Sur geon); Lieutenant Russ, formerly 88th Regiment; Captain S. Nicoll, formerly 26th Cameronians. AILWAY COMMISSIONERS.—Captain Harness, se , cretary to the Commissioners of Railways, is appointed to a high position in the Mint. lie is succeeded by Captain Simmons, as secretary, now one of the inspec : tors of railways. Capt. Laffan is re-Es'ablished on the commission as inspector.—. British Army Despatch. THE GREEK QUESTION. Note addressed by Count Nesselrode to M. Brun now on the subject of Greece, dated the 7th (19th) of February : "No econer had the dangers that menaced the peace of Europe, and caused by the precipitation with which Admiral Parker entered the Dardanelles, been removed than the appearance of his squadron on the coast of Greece perilled it anew. Russia finds it difficult to comprehend this anxiety to create complications in the East at a period when the repose of the west is exposed to so many perils." The note recounts how the British fleet unexpectedly presented itself at the Piricus, in a moment of profound peace (en pleine pair), and without the slightest intimation of the intentions of the English Government ; how Admiral Parker, after having been courteously sad cordially received by the King and Queen, changed, the very next day, into an imperious ultimatum a demand for the settlement of claims of trifling impor tance, some of which were in progress of adjustment, dec. "A wan," observes Count Nesselrede, "is the best judge of his own dignity, and Russia does nut pre tend to contest the right of the English Cabinet to ap preciate and maintain its dignity as it think., proper. Europe, more inapattial, however, will decide if the measures resorted to wero worthy of a mighty power like England towards a feeble and defenceless state. But what we are perfectly justified in remarking, and what we have a right to complain or, is the total want of courtesy towards the two powers who were parties to the treaty; who established the kingdom of Greece; who ever since the 6th ( f July, 1827, have invariably acted together, and who have ever taken the same it:- merest in the affairs of that country. Rusia was well aware that England had private claims to settle with Greece, and that in 1847, during the administration of Colletii, she was on the point if adopting measures fir their enforcement. But since that period she heard no more of them; and considering that far more important objects called elsewhere the attention of England, she, indeed, little expected that the solution of that ques tion would appear to her so urgent as to justify the exercise of extreme measures. Had Russia received any intimation on the subjec', she would have coun selled Greece to attend to those claims, and if the latter refused to satisfy them, then, indeed, England might have adopted such measures as suited her to obtain redress. But England did not act so ; England did not condescend to apprise either Russia or France of her intention. No communication to that effect was made, either at St Peterburgh or at Paris ; and it was only when the evil:was done, and the mischief consummated, that the Russian and French governments were informed of it. The Russian minister at Athens twice offered his good offices to Mr. Wyse, who twice rejected them, saying that ' he would not accept the ar bitration of the two powers in a question that did not concern them.' Yet Greece is not an isolated state ; she cannot bo said to be a power that is indebted to herself alone for her existence (et ne relevant qua de lui-merne). Greece is a state created by Russia and France, in virtue of the same rights, and on the same terms, as it was by England. Tho three powers founded it in common, and bound themselves, each towards the two others, to respect _ _ its independence, to maintain its integrity, and to strengthen the dynasty they placed on the throne. Surely neither of those three powers can pretend, nor does it become either of them to undo its own collective work, to threaten the independence of Greece, to encroach on its integrity, to endanger (ebrankr) the existence of that dynasty by humbling it in the eyes of the w•,rld, by disturbing the tranquillity of the country, or expos ing it to the attacks of factions, encouraged, as they may be, by the presence of the English fleet, and perhaps to the horrors of civil war. Russia and France are esrer.- tidily and materially interestei in the maintenance of its repose. They have lent it funds, the repayment of which both these states desire no less than England. But they must necessarily condemn measures that are likely to incapacitat e G reece f rom d o i ng h onour to her pecuniary engagements. They have th ere f ore a right toinquire into the cause of a quarrel which is produc tive to them of such serious consequences, and to regard the affair, not by any means, as the British Minister asserts, in the light of an exclusively English question, but as one which, in an equal degree, affects Moth France and Russia. It is true that England communicated to Russia a list ( f her claims, but judging from the information supplied by the opposite party, they appeared somewhat exaggerated. At all events, whether we regard their amount or their object. they are out of all proportion with the means em ployed to enforce them. The same may be said, a for tiori, of the two small islands contiguous to the Eiellenic continent, and which England claims as belonging to the lonian islands. This becomes a territorial question, and on it Russia and France are justified in demandieg in virtue of what title England presumes to change a status quo that has lasted for 18 years; to take upon herself to reconstruct the map of Greece, and to appropriate y . portion, how small soever, of her territory This is a question that must be examined into by the three Powers. Russia, England, and France having assigned to Greece a certain extent of frontier and coast considered suffi cient for her defence, you will ask if that object can be obtained if England be authorised to have a footing in these small islands, one of which is situate within one eighth of a mile from the coast ? The Emperor instruct s you to make serious representations to the English Go vernment, and to invite it in the most earnest manner to hasten the cessation of a state of things which there is nothing whatever to render necessary, or to justify, and which exposes Greece to disasters and dangers of a most .lerious kind. " The tmuner in which your representations will be received will throw much light on the nature of the re lations which we may hereafter expect to entertain with England, and, I will add, on her position with respect to ell the powers, great and small, whose coasts aro ex posed to sudden attack. It will also enable us to judge whether England, abusing the position afforded to her by her immense maritime superiority, contemplates in future to pursue a distinct and isolated policy (politique (lisolcmcnt), ref,ardless of those engagements which bind her with other Governments, to free herself from all joint and common ob!igations, and all community of action (solidaritd d'action), and to authorise each of the great powers, whenever au opportunity shall offer, to follow, as regards the weak and defenceless, no ether rule but their own good will and pleasure; no other right but that of material force (a ne rcconnaitre envers les foibles d'autre regle gee sa rolante, d'autre droit que la force materiede)." THE PENINSULAR MAIL.-SOUTRAMPTON, MARCH 9.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Sultan, Captain Brooks, from Constantinople, &c., ar rived here this afternoon at three o'clock. Her dates of sailing were :—Constantinople, Feb. 20 ; Smyrna, 22 • Malts, 26 ; and Gibralt ar , M arc h 3 . Th e S u l tan h a d fifteen:paFsengcrs, principally Hungarian refugees; a full general cargo, comprising fruit, cotton, opium, 1,100 bales of silk, 730 packages of goats' hair, a large num bnr of packages of sundries, and specie to the amount of 98,0001. On the 20th ult. a steamer had been dispatched from Constantinople to Varna with Hunga rians. The same steamer was to return to Malta with a number of Poles. At Constantinople things were re presented as Loving remarkably quiet—little business being transacted. The Egyptian Minister for Foreign Affairs was about to return to Alexandria. Diplomatic relations between the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires and the Porte had not been resumed. The Jane Ellis, for Glasgow, and the Azores Packet, for Liverpool, left Gibraltar on the 27th ult. The Exile, for Liverpool, left on the 2d inst. W hen Lear Gibraltar the Sultan passed a portion of Commodore Martin's squadron, comprising two line-of-battle ships, four frigates, and two steamers, steering to the eastward. Exchange on London, 90 days, 50k; on Paris, ditto, sf. 36c. In freights there was no change since our last. FIRE ANNIHILATOR. —Several interesting and sue cosbful experiments were exhibited on Friday last, at the London Gasworks, Vauxhall, before a numerous company of ladies and gentlemen, invited to witness the effective power of Mr. Phillips's new invention for ex tinguishing fires. After adverting to the inefficiency of water as a means of quenching flame, and the consequent loss sustained annually throughout the kingdom by the destruction of property, to the amount of about 2,000,0001., ho introduced one of the smaller of his own machines, and explained that the agent by which he sought to ac complish his object was a mixture of gas and vapour. After several experiments on a small scale, to show the success he had attained by these means, the attention of the company were directed to a compartment of a large open-building, quite twenty feet high inside, which was fitted up with partitions and temporary joisting of light wood well soaked with pitch and turpentine, and over hung besides with rags and shavings soaked in like manner. The torch was applied to this erection, and the flames, which ascended immediately, at length roared with a vehemence which drove the spectators back to a distance of forty feet, and was already beyond the power of water. The inventor then brought forward one of his hand machines, and threw out a volume of gaseous va pour, which, in half a minute, entirely suppressed all flame and combustion; and to show that the vapour which now filled the space was quite innoxious, Mr. Phillips mounted into the loft, and passed and repassed through the midst of it with a lighted candle in his hand. The machine with which this effect was accomplished was rather larger than a good-sized coffee-pot, and consisted of threz. tin cases, one within another and mutually com municating. There was a small quantity of water in the bottom of the machine, and in the centre case was a composite cake, of the size and colour of peat, con taining, in the middle of it, a phial of sulphuric acid and chlorate of potash. In order to put the machine into action this phial is broken, and a gaseous vapour is ge nerated so rapidly and in such quantity that it immedi ately rushes out from a lateral spout with great impe tuosity. Mr. Phillips explained that a machine of any size could be made according to the purpose for which it was intended, and that a company was at length formed to carry the invention into effect. The com pany present, who seemed to be taken by surprise, vnry cordially expressed their satisfaction with the success of the achievement. THE GORHAM CASE.—The following is a list of the division in tho Ceminitt-e on the question placed bt f 're them: —Assenting—Lord Campbell, Lord Langdale, Baron Parke, Sir S. Lushington, Lir. Pembert on L e i g h. Dissenting—Sir J. Knight Brace. Of the Right Rev. Prelates who sat as assessors, it is understood that the Archbishops of Caatertury and York were assenting, and the Bishop of London dissenting. THE GORHAM CASE AND THE METROPOLITAN CHURCH UNION.—We are authorised to state that im mediate steps are in contemplation on the part of the Metropolitan Church Union, for the vindication of the Church's autonomy in matters of faith, in consequence of the judgment pronounced yesterday by the Judi cial Committee of the Privy Council. We understand that the union has been hitherto silent on the subject, from a persuasion that the question might be taken up with much greater practical effect after the delivery of the sentence.--John Bull. A SCRUPULOUS CRIMINAL:A person named La.- boueite was en Friday condemned by the Court of Assizes to ten years' imprisonment for having embezzled a sum of 211,4 , 14 f belonging to the family of Laroche . foucalt Doudraovil!e, in whose service he had been for many years as steward. lie was also condemned to re store the sum in question, or, in default, to undergo five years' additional imprisonment. His peculations had amounted in reality to more than double, but the Duchess de Larochetoucault, now deceased, generously pardoned him for the enormous frauds which had Lem discovered some years ago, and retained him in her ser vice. The Duchess de Bourbon, in whose service he had previously been, left him by will 25,000 f. in cash, and 3,0001. a year for life, This fellow, who, it appears, was an accomplished hypocrite, carried throughout the trial the same air of sanctity which enabled him to plunder his benefactors. At the moment the sum total of his peculations was totted up, adding the interest, he begged leave to speak. Immediately prof und silence prevailed, and it was thought that the criminal was about to make a public confession of his conduct, and to express penitence. " Well, what have you to say," asked the judge. " That the item of interest is exag gerated," was the reply, which the crowd, after a moment's hesitatio:, receired with shouts cf laughter. Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, representative of the Seine, and coue,in to L.,uis Napo'eon, President of the Freach Itcpuh:ic, has just arrived in London horn Belgium. Prince L. Lucian, who is so well known in the scientific world by his irnportaut discoveries in chemistry, is ill only make a slum stay in England, the object of his journey being limited to his scientific pursuits. A statue representing the Republic has been placed in the Salle Casimir Perier, at the Notional Assembly, in the place which was two years since occupied by one of Louis Philippe. The statue, which is the work of M. Barre, sculptor, is about nine feet in height; it has the right hand resting on a hive, the symbol of riches and of industry; in the left hand it holds a crown of laurel, and at its f: et are the farces of the Republic, the Gallic cock, and a broken hatchet. TILE SEWERS COMMISSION AND TILE PARISLI or ST. JAMES. —At a vestry meeting of the parish of St. James, Westminster, held on Saturday, the subject of the proceedings of the new Commission of Sewers was discussed, and considered very unsatisfactory to the ratepayers, when the following resolutions were pro posed :—" That the vestry learn with surprise and re gret that the New Commission of Sewers for the West minster district, in which this parish is comprised, have sanctioned a large outlay of the rates for the construc tion of a new and additional sewer, which is to have its outfal into the Thames, thereby, in the opinion of this board, contravening the great object of the appointment of the present Commission, which was to devise a plan for diverting the sewage from the river.—That the vestry have learnt with equal regret that the Court of Sewers have appointed an additional officer at the large salary of 1,500/. per annum, whose first act has been to con tinue the old system of partial and objectionable drain age.—That they had looked forward to the present Commission as a guarantee against any further outlay of the rates in new works until the great objes: sought by the public was decided upon." It was ultimately de cided that as soon as the returns ordered by the House of Commons, upon the motion of Mr. llume, should be obtained, a committee of vestry should be appointed to call it public meeting, if necessary. NAvT.—By a statement just published the sum required to be voted to defray the excess of the naval expenditure beyond the grants for the year ended March, 1849, is 211,1591. 3s. 7d. FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.—Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, accom panied by Baron Knesebeck, the Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and the Under-Sheriffs, attended service at the Female Orphan Asylum, Lambeth. Prayers were read by the Rev. S. R. Cateley, the chaplain; the sermon was preached by the Rev. H. How arth, rector of St. George's Hanover-square; and Mr. Hasley, who has been attached to the asylum for more than fifty years prcsidel at the organ. The c o ll ec ti on was more t h an 501: NEW HOUSE OF COMMONS.—The sum required for the completion of such portions of the New House of Commons as are ntcessary for the convenient transa3- lion of business is estimated by Mr. Charles Barry, in a st:tunent recently issued, at 102,1801. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—The gossips of Melton and the neighbourhood have just been de prived of a rich treat, in the settlement of a matter which was to have given the gentlemen of the long robe a cause for trial; and, strange to say, the unusual feature would in this case have been reversed, for the plaintiff is not a fcmale, but a person in holy orders, and no doubt claim ing succession from the apostles. He is an exportation from the Emerald Isle, and at present officiates as curate in a village not a hondred miles from Melton. The fair defendant is a lady well known here, and rather re markable for the extreme simplicity of her manners, and the general urbanity and kindness of her disposition. It is said that the immediate cause of the rupture was a prior attachment to a younger branch of a noble house, and which became renewed by a temporary visit. This roused the suspicion of the plaintiff, and letters written by the lady were freely handed about and shown to several people in the town. An action was then com menced, but it is now withdrawn, the plaintiff accepting a money compensation, with which he is quite satisfied. —Stamford Mercury. DEATH OF GENERAL PAKENHAM.—Major-General the Hon. Sir Hercules Rowley Pakenham, K.C.8.. brother to General Pakenhatn, who fell at New Orleans, and brother•in-law to the Duke of Wellington, died suddenly on Thursday evening, the 7th instant, about 10 o'clock, at Langford-ledge, the family residence in the county of Antrim. General Pakenham was shout 70 years of age ; and, as an effiJer, had earned a high character by his services in the Peninsular war. Sub sequently to his retirement from active service, ho re ceived the appointment of Governor of Portsmouth. Latterly, he lived in the enjoyment of great domestic felicity, on the peaceful banks of Lough Neagh, amidst the cheerful society of an amiable and exemplary family. Sir Hercules served at the siege and capture cf . Copen- liagen, in tie year 1807 ; also in the Peninsular cam paigns of 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, and 1812, including the battles of Roleia, Vitniera (wounded), Busaco, and Fuentes D'Onor, siege and storm of Ciudad Rodrigo, two sieges and storm of Balajoz—severely wounded at the assault. Sir Hercules received a silver medal and two clasps for Roleia and Vimiera ; a gold cross for Bueaco, Fuentes D'Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, and Badajez. His commission as ensign is dated July 23, 1803 ; as lieu tenant, March, 3, 1804 ; as captain, August 2, 1805 ; as major, August 30, 1810 ; as lieutenant-colonel, April 27, 1812 ; as colonel, May 27, 1825 ; as major-general, January 10, 1837 ; as colonel of the 43d Foot, September 9, 1844.—Northern Whig. VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREE. —Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained at dinner (pre vious to her Ladyship's assembly) the Marquis of Angle sey and Lady Adelaide Paget, the Earl of Carlisle, the Earl and Countess Granville, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lord Elphinstone, Mr. Tufnell, M.P., and Lady Anne Tufnell, Mr. Rutherford, M.P., and Mr. Macdonald, on Saturday evening, at their resi dence in Carlton-gardens. Soon after ten o'clock com pany began to arrive to the soiree, and it was after eleven when carriages ceased to set down visitors. There were close on 300 of the elite of society and most of the foreign ministers present at the re-union. TEE SFEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Right lion. the Speaker of the House of Commons held his second and last levee on Saturday night, at his temporary official residence in Eaton-square. As usual, the Right Hon. Gentleman bad a Parliamentary dinner, the guests in cluding the Marquis of Douro, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord Norreys, Lord Ashley, Lord Seymour, Sir Robert H. Inglis, Hon. Robert H. Clive, Lord Melgund, Lord Robert Grosvenor, &c. At ten o'clock the entire range of rooms was thrown open, and brilliantly illuminated. The Right Hon. Gentleman received bis visitors in the principal saloon, which is hung with the portraits of some of his most illustrious predecessors in the chair. Lord Gough was among the visitors, the Noble and Gallant General meeting with a cordial reception from the Hon. Members present. There wore about 200 Members os the House of Commons in attendance. THE EXHIBITION OF ALL NATlONS.—Yesterday (Friday) morning his worship the mayor received a beautiful emblazoned card from the Lord Mayor of Lon don,:by way of invite to alend a dinner at the Mansion House on Thursday, the 21st instant, on the subject of the exhibition of all nations. His Royal Highness Prince Albert will be present. The dinner will be con ducted on a scale commensurate with the importance of the occasion. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of the provisional committee took place at the Council House, t'or the purpose of carrying out the views of the meeting held on Monday, in connexion with the grand forth coming exhibition of fine arts. The mayor was in the chair; and after a short conversation a sub-committee was appointed, whose duty it will be to carry out the necessary mechanical arrangements. At the same meeting it was determined to issue an address, and an executive committee was elected, it being contemplated, by means of a public meeting or otherwise, to invite the co-operation of the working classes. Bristol Journal. FATAL AcciDENT.—On Saturday an inquest was taken by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital, on the body of Francis Barry, aged 44, who was killed by the horses and carriage of Earl De Grey. On Wed nesday week, about ten o'clock at night, the deceased was crossing the road opposite Fendall's Hotel, in Pa. lace-yard, when the carriage of Earl De Grey came from the direction of St. James's Park towards the Houses of Parliament ; the coachman called to him several timef, but deceased appeared tipsy, and staggered against the pole of the carriage, and he was thrown down, the fore and hind wheels going over him. Had be stood still the carriage would have pas•ed him, and the coachman did all in his power to pull the horses up. He was at once conveyed to the Westminster Hospital, where he apueared to be suffering from the effects of some severe internal injury, and he died on the morning of the Gth instant, apparently from inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by the accident. The jury, after a very short consultation, returned a verdict of "Acci dental death." NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—Lace—We have again to report a quiet market. All the German buyers who generally purchase for the Leipsic fair arm now here. but their operations have been so limited that they have scarcely been 1:1t. We understand that it is probable the Americans will soon be in the market again, and there is every prospect of their doing an extensive trade. The prices of ail descriptions t f goods aro stationary ; whose an) trifling alteration is made, it is in favour of the buyer. Hosiery—We cannot notice this week any material alteration in our trade; the demand for the home market is of a more limited character than we have noticed in some former years ; buyers are now operating with very great caution, and only purchasing for immediate vi ants, and even on these terms st prices very unremunerating to the manufacturer. The stocks of goods now on hand are below the average, but still quite equal to the de mand, notwithstanding the shortness of supply arising from strikes, and the workmen generally not producing that quantity which they did when prices were much lower. Yarns at present maintain their high prices, although very little is doing in the marker, and the operations on a much smaller scale than usual for this periol of the year.—Nottieghant Mercury. DIABOLICAL MURDER AT ABERDARE.—It will be remembered that information was recently given to the police authorities at Aberdare that the lives ef several families had been placed in peril in consequence of having been shot at by some colliers who had " struck," who had threatened the lives of all who returned or re mained at work. In one case a stocking, containing a. large quantity of gunpowder, with a fusee attached, was thrown at night through the window of a man named John Williams. The breaking of the glass awakened him, and he jumped out o f b e 2, b ut not in time to pre vent the explosion, whi c h bl ew t h e roo f o ff t h e house, andinjured the unfortunate man to each an extent that he expired in a few hours, leaving a wife and several children to lament his loss. An inquest has been opened on the body, but in consequence of time being required for the preparation of some docum ents , it has - been ad jouenel Active measures are being adopted for the ap prehension of the murderers. ALLOWANCE or SPlRlTS.—Admiral Dundas' pro position, ao v the subject of consideration by a committee sitting at the Admiralty. is, tt at the pay of every officer and man shall be increased 3. per month, and that half only ( f the present allowance of spirits shall be issued to them. All persons under 13 years of age not to he allowed any spirits or additional pay. A period to be fixed, from and after which date all ships comtnissioned should come under this new regulation, and their officers and men sec:Ave 3s. a month additional, with half the present allowance of spirits. The estimated expense of this :Alteration at the present price of rum would be, for the ' , umber of men voted for 1849-50, 40,000 (after de ducting marines on shore and boys). and also taking into account the raving of spirits (the price of rum being le. 4d. per gallon), about 38,0001. per annum; however, as it would not come into operation for the whole fleet at once, but gradually become general in about three years, the cost would be for the first year about 13,0001.; for the second, 26,0001.; and for the third year the sum of 38,000/. as already mentioned. SOCIETY OF ARM—The committee has not yet finally decided upon the day when the exhibition of ancient and medimval art shall be opened. Objects of the highest interest are daily sent in, and only the day before yesterday the Queen, at the instance a Prince Albert (the President of the Committee), sent in four most beautiful cups of carved ivory and gold, of Italian workmanship. Her Majesty has alscsallowed the society to exhibit the shield which Francis L gave to Henry VIII. on the Field of Cloth of Gold, and the beautiful partisan, belonging to the same monarch, of gold, silver, and steel. Complete suits of armour of different periods have been brought from the Tower and placed in the principal room, which is hung with old tapestry. Yes terday the Duke of Devonshire sent his Lismore Crozier. and that exquisite relic, carved by Holbein, the rosary of Henry VIII. The Society of Antiquaries have lent the oldest clock in the known world, dated very early in the sixteenth century, which is so perfect that it goes accu rct?ly even now. Mr. Rothschild and Mr. Magniac, and many others, have liberally contributed, and the apart ments, when opened, will be found full of objects of the highest value and interest. ADVANCE OF WAGES AT WIGAN.—We have been informed that it is the intention ( f the millowiers of Hindley to make an advance of ten per cent. on the wages cf all the factory hands in their employ.—Man chester Examiner. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY—IN CREASE OF TRAFFIC.—The great increase of traffic, which has taken place upon the London and North- Western Railway since the commencement of the year must be extremely gratifying to the shareholders. Th e augmentation fur the week ending the 3d instant was 1,375/. in the passenger and parcel, and '2,3031. in the merchandise and cattle traffic—together 3,7681. The total increase for the last seven weeks over the corre sponding peri , ,d of 1849 has been 18,6621., or upwards of 2,0001. per week. This increase is exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal, Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, and Manchester and Buxton Railways. THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY. —Shortly after four o'clock this afternoon, the British and North American Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, sailed from the Mersey with the usual reads for Canada and the United States. The Niagara goes to Boston, after calling to land and receive the mails, &c., at Halifax. She carries out a number of passengers. There is not any incoming American steamer this week, but the packet ships, Constitution and Rosen's, both of which will bring later dates, may arrive ere the America, from Boston. with advises to the 6th instant inclusive, announces her entry into the Menu. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT.—MARCH 9.-- There is still a disposition to withhold from purchases either of goods or yarns except at reduced prices, and & general want of confidence in the present rates is ap parent. Hence dulness is the prevailing characteristic of the market. In low numbers of yarns prices have receded; but fine numbers continue firm, and are pretty much inquired after. The business done in the cloth market yesterday wore a more healthy appearance; to day, however, a change has taken place, and the market has been very dull indeed. There was less animation exhibited in it than cn Tuesday last, though there is no change in prices. EXTRAORDINARY BIRTII.—On the first instant a mai rind woman named Cole, 39 years of age, whose husband is a bricklayer living in Charles street, Wind sor, was safiiiy delivered of two sons and a daughter, all of whom ore likely to live - , and ,have been registered by the names of Robert, I%illiatr, and Priscilla.—Bucks Herald. REVENUE OF THE DUCHY OF CORNWALL. -- The accounts of the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall up to the end of 1849 havo been published. The whole in come received, including arrears of outstanding ace ounts, amounted to 51,8821. 13s. 2d. The sums paid to his Royal Highness's use out of the gross income amounted to 29,557/. 10s., and the payments to the account of the Duke of Cornwall at the Bank of England were 3,7501. These sums, together with 5,244/. 16e. remaining at tae bankers to the credit of the account of the Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and the various items for salaries, law expenses, repairs, tithes, &c., make up the expenditure side of the balance. ELOPEMENT.—An elopement, under circumstances of a peculiarly painful chat acter, occurred in Chelten ham last week, and—as may be supposed would be the case—has ever since formed a principal topic of conver sation throughout our fashionable circles, the family of the young lady having been many years resident in the place, and participating a good deal in its gay doings; the gentleman, if such he must be called, bad also, during the past six months, become known to many of our resi dents and visitors, but is better known to the public by the notoriety acquired by him in connexion with cer tain court-martial proceedings, which, a few months ago, deprived him of his commission in her Majesty's service. As events of this kind always undergo exaggeration, we will endeavour to state the facts of the present unfortu nate affair as briefly as possible:—At the time of its occurrence it appears that the father of the young lady, who has long been known as the intimate friend of the Hon. Craven Berkeley, had accepted an invitation from Earl Fitzhardinge to spend a few days with a party of gentlemen at Berkeley Castle, his family, of course, remaining at home. On the Monday following—last Monday week—after her mother and sister had retired to rest, which they did at an early hour, the fair subject of our notice effected her escape unheard—not the slightest suspicion of such an intention having been ex cited by her previous conduct—and, it would seem, re paired to the house of her betrayer, in Rodney-terrace, distant not many hundred yards from her own. Here, we understand, she was discovered next morning by the police, and brought home, where she remained until last Saturday, when she again escaped, and is supposed to have gone gone off by train to London—the object of her attachment having, it seems, left Cheltenham on the Thursday previous. Not the east sad part of this sad affair is the fact that the gentleman is known to be a married man, and the father, we are told, of two children. The father of the young lady, who returned from Berkeley Castle immediately he heard of the first incident, repaired to the metropolis in pursuit of his daughter on Monday, and had not, down to the time at which we write, returned.—Chetenham Looker-on. ROCHDALE SAVINGS BANK.—The following notice has been issued by Messrs. John and James Fenton : " In consequence of the position of the Rochdale Savings Bank, Messrs. John and James Fenton beg to inform the public that they have decided to receive at their bank any sums not lower than 11., hoping that shortly some other means may be afforded for the public con venience. Their present rate of interest is 2/. 10s. per cent. Should the deposits of the Savings Bank be paid in cheques, Messrs. J. and J. Fenton will be glad to ac- commodete the depositors by taking the cheques at their bank, the same as money. —Rochdale Bank, 6th March, 18 50 ."—Manchester Examiner. MR. B. DISRAELI, M.P.—We are happy to learn that the Hon. Gentleman is recovering from bis recent severe attack of influenza, and is expected shortly to resume his duties in the House of Commons. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY . — The re. to the twenty - fourth to be held here on R po a r i t lw b a y y th c e om di p re a c n tr of the Edinburgh and ha G if- l y as e g a o r r y general meeting of thes h ar eholders , . traffic a d decrease receipts rease o f heansabnegentrainsusuaeryd.3lTshhen show with the corresponding period t . r i bTuhteedto t balancehge fort7ll, o e 7t l 3h 2 ie. t hu half s.sy instant de.: r as compare d 11. competition with e 7 r s. ce l n i t. dg p a er d a iv n i n d u en m d , which is e o vi ta i 11 ' y h ea t r h . e C r a h le is clo fa nia m n g ß o a ff il i w s leave m a balance of 3,6761. 7s. 11d. to be added to the period of . last ra 3 te 7, 0 0 f 26 3 1. p rest.—Nortli British Mail. of e r n e d v e e d n revenue being the AGRICULTURAL RIOT AT FORDHAM.—This formerly peaceful village has, during the last week, been the scene of disturbance, Boccasioned perb by a m,e t r i e c d . u e T tiu n ot h o f i a t t h h e e y labourers' : de termined not to subtnit, and, contoquently, re fused to work ; and a number of the must daring of them peram bulated the village with flags, bearin g the motto "Free trade fur ever." They went round to the different farms, and threatened there whom they found at work, unless they immediately desisted and joined them. Every precaution eras tlkrn to restore tranquillity, and the magistrates were obliged to have recourse, to swear ing in a number of N pceial constables. Threatening letters have been since addressed to ele authorities, stating that they are neither done with nor forgotten, and that fires and rohb3ries may be expected. A number ef Mr. Fysoa's ploughs have been cut and broken to pieces. seven of the more clamorous of the rioters were taken into custody on Wednesday the 27th tilt ~ and being taken before J. Dobede and A. Cotton, Esqs , were committed to Cambridge gaol for a m ont h. The threat to burn down the premises of the farmers was on Thursday night partially carried into effect ; about eleven o'clock, the farm premises held by R. D. I'y son, Esq., near the church, were fired, and the barn, stables, sheds, &e., and a quantity of corn, with straw , and clover stacks, we re totally consumed. Th e loss i s Ntimeted it 210064—Aunford Alerevry, . THE SUN, LONDON MONDAY EVENING, MARCH, 11, 1850