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f or his billiard and bNatelle tabl es . M r . B u b n ' s spirit ofrtil enterpri se d eserves support, and we y wish him success. Ai.o.her volume nof the Scientific Library contains a translation of 1141 bDIdt' s " A spects of Nature, " ornamented with b e'utifu , l colou re d engr a ving and a facsimile of nb oldt s w ritin t he Bir on to thy, take n f rom a l etter addressed by to lie In this letter he very I, t r begs the reader to overlook the oblique and "itible character of his handwriting, for , taz bras America lad s i nce hi s voyage to the foreg „f ..—....,......_ ~•....y".„-adt 45 . ' .5' ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY.— i i L,Ol-)GES PORTRAITS. Vol. IV. k u , altig. already more than once commended this very •autiful editio n of an excdlent work, it will besofficient f or „ -,1ame..3 HO W to announce the publication of the fourth , , r , i , wrach contains thirty benutirully engraved, - ." I ' 8 many well-writter, " l'ortraits.'"Fhe grenter " d umber of these portraits - are from the hand of Van- Z lie ' a nd some of them have Men engraved with 1 , irvellous excellence. In this respect this fourth it is i_ Weis sup er i or to its predecessors—in this respect, other th doubl e or tre b le its actual price. Among tl th e i , le port ra i ts of James Duke of Hamilto,,, S tra f i. 4rl of Surrey, the 4; irl of Holland, Charles 1., ot hers ur sdrei I aid, Montahlrose, Gordan, Falkl a nd, and In j ost ad mirp. ~..........____ 'rat WINDNOR THEATRICAL lir EN TE RTAIN ME NTS. e are heartily glad to he able to announce tha /11 °13 Frid aY next these eLtertainments will be conl taitneed. The spirit in which they will be maiend 1/48ned accords with the taste displayed and developed More Yea r. We subjoin a copy of the Bill to be placed a re her M:jesty and her visitors at Windsor : ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT. der Majesty's serv ants " wi e ll ",3 , , r rA fo N rin at Windsor Castle, on • I.ri day, Feb. 1, 1850 , P Shakspere's tragedy of Juli,.. n JULIUS C.ESAR. -- ..msar ... Mr. CHARLEs FISHER ?teat:wills cre3ar Mr. LEIGH MURRAY Yohp_A;BlOnill .. .......................... ..... .. Mr. CHARLES KEAN 1,/:__ lutr_Lrena (a Senator) 3 3 1 / ri. :l -A I A A R c Ri t ii:ADY ,4ars%B IaUS .. ;I,4cia ........ .... Mr. JA3IES WALLACK 11.6 011 i ............ (Conspirators Mr. Coorrat ar De c i us us... ...... against i Mr. CA . Tnc .. A FOpD ellieet_eilus ........... 1)e ; Julius Csar) I Mr. CULLEN . $'14,711!L ....... ... I Mr. CAILFIELD L.Mr. WORRELL . Buothltl3:(arTriblule) ... ........ .... W. DAVIDGE Berl'iliSS(eB ...................... lir,... -ENEitirr iiti, eryant to Anlonius) tV„:ol4(Pr,ell Ito Brutus &Cassius) Mr. F. Coor E eei ...... Mr. Cos ?...„tis .... (Servants to Brutua) 1 Mr. GEORGE WEBSTER 4,11817,,1t5. (Servant to Cassius) ~,Seeotd Citizen - +him Citizen Mr. ADDISON b e oph - r „ n izen ................... Mr. CLARKE sorb; ( pia (Wife to . .......... i ............ L kt .k 7 ife to Brutus . WARNER. le a in attendance)on Calphurnia, Miss WOULDS and Miss A. WouLps. Sce ne , Senators Citize ns , .nri ng a g;eat Guards, Attendants, atßome part of the play, . D irect at Sardis, and near Philippi. Rome; afterwards .uirecto ........ ' ... . r. CHARLES KEAN • ~,, Assistant Director... M Mr. GIORGE E!.l.is, . .ge theatre arranged and the scenery painted by Mr. THOMAS GRIEVE. _ ' --- -L ANE THEATRE. the/threeutriatliecil_t Y 1 .Y cf Othello was repeated at i t n h a is . sas eesa „•,_43t evening with, if possible, more f o n ow. i,na n 3 g The l on the first evening of its revival. Etna = inkg excellent notice of last night's performa n ce, . °Pinionr rates, is in ;entire accordance withth e . ,no a , - ;" Which we expressed in witnessing the per t u rai 3 ,l:° l Othello on the first night of its revival at ii The t i h et th . l nann er i n which Othello has been brought 10 I s hoe is so very creditable to the manager a , tkir e 4 rem arkable . in its character, that it merits . the o,te.lat notice than we were enabled to give on i‘ttiltsion of the first night. to th e 38 the Addison's Desdemona is still fresh Ole m e t of the play-going public, as lastyearat th e b 3ed it alternately with Mrs. Charles Kean . tne4lftrimarket. The large dimensions of . Drnr a y c_ tres s of e decidedly in her favour, as she is an it,4340e Power than finish, and her stro n g i i . "„',,,,,a, for instance, the appeal in - "te °- u ct, come out with very gre at r- 141 on Pillello was first played by Mr. And . t -1 / 4 t4u c e r7 easion of a benefit which he took during t= o o - attract dye management of Drury-lane, and .n oted acres la his , respectful notice. The want . of varia ;ble 4 ,. cl Aivery, which has been particularly ob- Ph -''' late year. militates in some degree 41Roit!,.e effectivenes's, of his interpretation, but the ~,4 4t P "ea(' dePortnient which seems with him to be in ta."4l44hcwhieb is one of his best qualifications, is Nlt:kited . 4 , o „ su ited to the "noble" Moor, and the more i great. 'Nes of distress and rage are ren dere d , e 0 ; Power. qr. Vandenhoff's 'ago is excel i'", 4; to villang of the character is never obtruded un. rend 7 how any one can trust , , b,,, . er it a wonder "or o ir,"',ltill while the mask of honesty is carefully l. „ 41 t of c f t,ne sight of the other characters, a pecu li ar the 'eti:ellgnillg confidence reveals the real man t t. ke.. 41 4 „ e . k rer e i „.. v !r, it is not only to the acting of the "14t " rt s , but to the general style of pr oduction,_ e i i .... when we speak °I4 w' rt.fm " of the Drury lane Zi l Pre ° v i aB a remarkable performance. Having felt - V, A"I ()M t ' t h a t in point of n mons t Oee t r o Mers on thi n 4 th' . i a g e, we gladly seemed to be behind his . q tr , O. js/ 8 revival as a symptom of a better state of - c o , u nen of the scenery is new, the costumes titttlotioud'acYt,oatVelitoh,e mere circumstance that in the . I,,, hith r, th ows an lago, and Cassio all appear .o in attention to details of decorat ion r atio n i lite4ll nq be too highly commended. The re q. o f e °4l th the characters of Bianca and the . Clown tr itl ,Tug e l i t t Z t . of Shakapere is another good sign, fo r , vts;itge. soia.3,:toheei3rn,ay add but little to the effectiveness ... sho w that an originating spirit is at 4 1 , 4 ,, 4 , such -inc,P the Opening at Christmas we have never " 11 l r 1 - \;', e icled symp - toms of vitality within the \Jut Drury " . ------------ CONCERTS. 4°A71)(1 nAY last Iv .—N IKE DNEs_ liißlit: series of fifteen concerts came to a very close good K ra With a crowded attendance and a rt.otil" .44_41e. The selection included some a., %go, s'nft Botena, in which MI pieces oung Cr , , of Much promise, obtained anen_copreeihn non t 01,,,,,? that I never more might see" (`` the two soprano IN, z . and ?IN. A. Newton =tlingp,ayed his owns 44.4 .ii'eedingly well. Erns . 1 Van e. He wa tlieortdllgbis, and Alape.derds toA for th ll °'n but declined ava 8 la ter . , tritriatio he substituted some of ? repeat the former ; ai :0:b pelcigo l arn le t d ° and N4°. Thalberg gave his the Carn 7 ksild,d"t4o7.. the tormer fa h n i t c a h sias wa o s n 21 r e i ( e ie s - t k iseri 1..' Perines sang swell-written ofw ° "Y Ht-with p jq r . vb. rr .A.nchuez, . a violoncello was ow I' liay ' 1; L. Ph illips —besides ." the e \Volt " h t °I .ise aY '' the first of which and the n, ray ' by Mr. Richardson, het wi th * h A. solo on the flute, and eit . twe same Compliment ; and a duet for flute tott, rionet, b etween that gentleman and te M uo r r . , M m ay r: ridgeAs warmly received. The nevy and a couple of bslials Prodshain, Sa ng " Vivi tu'' with a good taav,i,' A year or two in Italy, foil/ and diligent study, might v2ice r.h.'„,.rqsbatu, who has a p!eafing . d o g a r n e d a t singers The other capable a things pable ape` 1,-.‘" Wants experience. _ ct in a very ttf,t1:011811 Noie who was encore with the k til ,_ ,! bEtlla of Walter Maynard,;" Mademoiselle teelfbtaken'in titled°f " Always with me ri e p who displayed much feelinganida, &c. The (..'and, 1 ::: 1 11 -br Preischutz ; Mr. th e 04 _ er the direction of Herr Anchuez, executed OteDdlures to the Ruins of Athens, Zampa, pro4ramme seenitete 13ronze, with great spirit. The t the encores, and Le I vith ,„„° give general satisfaction, levit y cry few exceptions, were distasteful bu to the ma- Iva% , After the concert " God save the i the Itilqirrfortned, the principal vocalists takans sung Ivith The verse allotted to Herr Formes w Queen 44tRte4t Nvver and loudly applauded. The arraavnegrey bad n c lf the Nat. it -ne the changes Anthem, of key (to su e i a t n t s h n e a d t i u ff r e a r l en or tireevvq,letng an effect by no lon The re • Wtirti:shiboet%rt:(ll3eetzo e n x e tr x a t, concerts, at the first of Ernst is to ItZ11::) tb.egelletliilellekt,tvitti:the violin concerto of M pla e y nd_el o s- .. etanaent ne:4t being announced for the benefit t 1-- '"rhier. Tt 4 1 . WhOle •'ATE 1 4 '......5--- ---- .. 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'" ue no p u blic el a e dini , sion, but Pri"_i_ T e uesday tl ekt, bad been issuod by Mr. Owen it e" which day the sale at Marlbc fo r r ough-house quan- YLft°,.tneLee. The property include' alargeoo ounces of lAm •ety superb furniture upa aNis of 20,0 Dresden N eel ek , ' 4 beaUtifUl colleet'on Of Sevres and to teh ot ln, and th usual effects of a mansion devoted thathntivitivYa: The jeweller will not be sold, the late Que b e e n . 'AN' "'"Posed of thil portion cf her property by d ..to various friends and dependebti. We understar?„ 140144.1P'wions are in progrets the result of which i'Vil ;4 114 8 „ .. , be the purchase f the effects contained in O.IJ 'louse by her Majesty the Q :tea. 414eTliee TO BISHOPRIC. —The Rev. Dr. Bull, , w ,ould °1 Christ Church, OxfJrd, being asked if . he stittt of ; 0 to o t eve the bishopric of that see, replied, ktekit'a(l bone objection tl it which was, that in -114%4 we L al :h i: 1 ; 41 g his n!iine, as at present, John . Balls he - "Red tO sign him 0z0u,...-pasgurn. Ili THE SUN, MISS CUSHMAN. BROADWAY THEATRE. — This distinguished Ame rican actress is playing a farewell engagement at the Bread way, preparatory to a lengthened visit to the southern and western Stites. Her reception has been as warm as that accorded to her on her last visit to New York. The species of antagonistic criticism exercised upon Miss Cushman has induced us to watch her performances with increased scrutiny during her present engagement; f we confess to being among those who would accord to this gifted woman the fullest extent of genius and artistic talent, cordially award: d to her by the ablest critics in England and this country. And in carrying out our observation, we find nothing to warrant us in adopting a " sober second thought" contrary to the opinion we formed on witnessing her first performances on her reap pearance among us. We hold her to be unques tionably one of the greatest actresses of our times, and especially do we cone; ive her to be one of the ablest illustrators of that peculiar school of acting, hich, taking its impress from our days, bids fair to become the standard on which acting as an art will hereafter be modelled. The acting of Miss Cushman is without dispute a veritable embodiment of the mo dern litsral or real school of histrionic art, as con trasted with the ideal, in which may be comprised the classical and the semantic. This modern school is the growth of our practical age, which is alike stamping its brand on every department of literature, science, and art, and is consequently moulding the minds of men to the strictly practical and real. The drama, which is the most secular of all poetry, could not fail of receiving a large infusion of the liberal spirit of the age; and the players, who are " but the brief abstracts and chronicles of the times," would be sure to adapt themselves to the prevailing tone of society. But actors, as a class, from their prejudices and conventionalisms, are ultra-conservatives; they eschew reform and cling to existing evils, with un yielding tenacity. A few daring spirits, " finely touched," have occasionally appeared on the theatri cal horizon, who sought to bring acting nearer to nature and reality ; and their influence, although limited, has been salutary. But in their day they had to pass through the furnace of opposition, and were branded as heretics," by the old established leaders of long cherished conventional usages. Quin de nounced Garrick as an innovator, and denied all faith in his delivery of language, because it lacked the ac customed wage "tang." Cooke was pronounced coarse, ungainly, and nnclassical—by the admirers of the finished Kemble school ; and the elder Kean, by the same infallible authorities, was . dubbed a harlequin, a mountebank, and a ranter. Miss Cushman has ventured on the real and literal in acting. She follows out the principles of the great disciples of this school, Rachel, Bouffe, and others of the class ; and converting her personifications—not into ideal sublimities of human nature, harmonized into a species of deification, but into flesh and blood realities, she gives tangible, practical, and readily understood interpretations of her author's language, and this too without conventional regard to rhythm and melody, so strenuously insisted upon, as being the inseparable adjuncts of stage delivery. Sound, or the " stage tang," is wholly set at defiance, when its adoption would interfere with the due rendering of the sense ; and hence her marvellous power of bringing home to the perceptions of an auditory the true meaning of language. She appears to anatomise every word, nay, every syllable she utters, with a power almost electric, when an accented stress is necessary to convey a great thought. Her acting is consequently always sugges tive. Let any intelligent spectator contrast her method of delivery with that of the actors surrounding her, and the full force of our remarks will bfcome palpably apparent. Her action, bye-play, and the so-called business of the stage, are also modelled after this literal and real school ; and to this joint combination we are indebted for the realities of her Meg Merrillies, her marvellously real Lady Macbeth, and her life-like embodiments of Rosalind, Beatrice, and Julia. To the same causes we presume she is indebted for her reputation in Romeo, and characters of that class. This adoption of the real, in preference to the ideal in acting, we know is open to argument. It is con sidered a desecration of histrionic art thus to reduce it to the mere literal. The very illusion of the drama, it is contended, is sacrificed by bringing it down to the real. But in an age when everything is imbued with the practical, this position is un tenable. At the period when the bar, the pulpit, and the senate have discarded the factitious " graces of the schools," and are compelled to be earnest and real, to secure the suffrages of their auditors, the stage cannot expect to main tain its ascendancy by speaking a language foreign to the appreciative powers, and contrary to the taste of the people. Why even opera is no longer the vehicle of harmonies alone, and unmeaning sounds. It is the lyric drama ; its professors must be able to embody passions, feelings, and emotions, and must interpret the conception of the master, or they will fail in their vocation. Nay, farther, what is called this boasted ideal, as applied to acting? Is not the true use of acting to hold "the mirror up to nature," with just so much, perhaps, of the ideal to render it agreeable and strik • ing, as the painter employs to throw a charm around pictorial art. The literal school of acting, of which Miss Cushman is so able an illustrator, does this. As the painter is compelled to examine and dissect the minutest particularities of nature, animate or inani mate, so does the actor of the real analyse the hu man mind, lay bare its inmost recesses, and imitate its palpable and actual developments, heightening and colouring each particular phase to suit it for public display, or he resembles the orator, increasing the force of his conversational tones to arrest the attention of his hearers, and give expression to his thoughts. Will the most strenuous advocate of the ideal in acting avow that the customary stage decla mation, with its conventional tones and mechanical and recurring cadences, is a transcript of real life ? Do the pompous and stilted style of action, and the stereotyped trickeries of the stage, look in any way like true reflexes of nature ? Are they not weariness to behold, ridiculous and offensive in the eyes of in telligent spectators ? As models fur professional orators, or as subjects for imitation in sacial life, they are utterly false and valueless. And yet such is the influence of the stage, in all communities, that it becomes a model on these points. These evi3ent defects of the ideal school of acting are sufficient to make every intelli• gent playgoer hail the advent of the present stage reform, and give his cordial and hearty support to Miss Cushman, for the very able and powerful expo sition of the one that she has so wisely adopted. — .New York Albion, Dec. 29, 1849. DEATH OF MADAME GRASSINI. Madame Grassi&, one of the most celebrated Ita lian singers, and the most beautiful woman, of her day, died lately at Milan, at the advanced age of 75. Few of her profession ever boasted of a career so long and so brilliant as hers. In Italy, France, Germany, and England, she achieved for herself the highest reputa tion, and for many years ruled in undisputed possess. , sion of the throne of song. She was born at Varese, in Lombardy, in 1775. From her earliest age she displayed an extraordinary aptitude and predilection for music. Struck with these manifestations, and the singular beauty of her voice, General Belgiojoso un dertook the charge of her education. The progress of the young cantatrice surpassed the most ar dent expectations of her patron. Mdlle. Grassini became an accomplished singer at an age when other candidates for the profession are in their novitiate. She made her debut at La Scala, in Milan, in 1794. She sang with Marchisi, and the tenor Lazzarini, in the Artaserse of Zingarelli ; and in the Demofonte of Portogallo. She was overwhelmed with ap plauses, and the beauty, power, and quality of her voice produced an immense effect. Her lower notes were more especially admired. Madame Gras sini's voice was, in fact, a contralto, but, like Mali bran, she had worked it up into the soprano register. From the moment of her first appearance Mdlle. Grassini created an unprecedented sensation, which soon spread throughout all Italy. Her journey to Venice, to Naples, to Rome, was marked by a series of triumphs. Recalled to Milan in 1796, she sang with Crescentini in Zingarelli's Romeo a Giulietta, and excited the utmost enthusiasm. The following year she appeared at Venice, a t the La Fenice . Theatre, where she played Orazia Cimarosa's opera Gli Orazi e Curiazi. Again she awakened the same furore, each performance confirming more and more the fiat of publia opinion. Shortly afterwards she returned to Naples, and performed during the fetes which were given on the occasion of the marriage of the hereditary prince. In 1800 we again find Mdlle. Grassini singing in Milan, at the Scala. After the battle of Marengo she was heard at a concert in pre sence of Napoleon, then First Consul. Napoleon was in raptures with her, and took her to Paris. On the 22d of July, in the same year, she assisted at the grand national festival celebrated at the Champ de Mars, at which 800 musi c ians performed. At this period her voice had attained all its power, and was in full possession of its fre s hn es s and beauty. The sensation she created, according to the critics of the day, w as per f ect l y indescribable. In 1803 she came to London, and was engaged at At this time Mrs. Billir t the King's .. Theatre. the first time at the Itsitaliasnaleope'rabe favou rite with the English ,g ub o r n wa s the reigning He h u ad se d b e u b t u a ted sho fo r r t time previous to Grassini' t rearance ; and from the favouritism bestowed on be stowed—and the immense reputationeene—u a w n hd which h justly . precededthe other, expectation was wound tois, t highest pitch. But expectation, as it always p some how disappointed. Madame Grassini did%naost Mrs. Billington from her popularity. An order move fro Napoleon, then Emperor,. in 1804 or 1805, recalled n Madame Grassini to Paris. Specially attached to the theatre And the concerts of the court, she sang for several years with Crescentini, Brizzi, Tacchi nard;, and Madame Peter. Paer wrote the Didone expressly for her, in which her acting has been repre sented as equally fine with her singing. Almiame Grassini, it is said, made a veritable creation of this character, which was pronounced a chef dceuvre, as well for dramatic force and expression, as for the per fection of style and vocalisation. T►ie fill of Napo leo❑ lost to Madame Grassini ail the brilliant advan tages she possessed at the court. But her voice no longer retained its freshness and purity, and she could not seek elsewhere to establish a new reign of power and absolutism. She left, Paris for Italy, where she sang f sorr2 years, and then retired into private life.—illusical World. LECTURE on SLEEP, SUSPENDED ANIMATION, AND DEATH. The sixth lecture of this course, at the Royal In stitution, was delivered on Friday evening last, by Mr. Thomas Turner. The lecturer said, that when a person was in a state of catalepsy, a very little fur ther advance would cause the individual to pass from time to eternity. Catalepsy usually began suddenly, and the duration of the disease was uncertain ; it had been known to continue for a day or two, but he believed there were no well-authenticated instances of its being extended over many days. One remark able phenomenon in this state was that the muscles remained in a very flexible state; and that in what ever position the arm, the band, or the body itself, was ph‘ced, in that it would remain. In catalepsy, we had the suspension of the visible evidences of life manifested to the greatest extent to which they could possibly be carried, without their terminating in death. In treating of the subject of death, he should endeavour to threat it of many of those terrors which might be associated with it, and consider it in its philosophical, physiological, and moral point of view. In the language of their syllabus, molecular death was the necessary accompaniment of life— general death was the necessary consequence of life. Every minute that we live there was a waste and a decay, and death took place in the body. There was more mystery, more wisdom manifested in the little things that escaped our attention, than in all the great things we observed. We talked of man, and we considered him in reference to his bones, his muscles, his joints, his organs of digestion, circula tion, respiration, and powers of thought; but if we looked into the minute atoms of which man was formed, we should know that it was in those little cells that all the active operations of life were carried on—that each cell was an individual organism, and had its own means of supply and waste—that its existence was ephemeral—that it was formed, per formed its office, died, and passed away. It was through the medium of those cells that the food taken into the body was converted into blood—that the dif ferent solids and fluids of the body were formed—that nutrition was accomplished, the energy of the senses maintained, and the powers of the mind manifested. The death of those molecules or cells, or of the elements of which they were formed, would soon draw in general death. Supply and life were the two essential con• ditions of active life; and in order that health and life should be maintained, there must be a balance betwixt the two. Age made a distinction. In the child, the supply exceeds the waste, because the exi gencies of growth and nutrition had to be accom plished. In the old man the waste exceeded the supply, and he died from inanition, if not from dis ease. If the supply were withheld, the body became emaciated, the cheeks hollow, the eyes sunken, the face pallid, the skin cold, as that of a corpse ; the person became pulseless, and the breath was slow, giving no more than an indication of life; the brain became demented, there was an indifference as to life or death; and in that state the individual died. In a case of mesentric disease, food was taken abundantly, and digested, chyle was formed, but its passage to the blood was dammed up; there was an insurmountable barrier beyond which it could not go, and, therefore, it could not afford any nutriment. The child ulti mately died of inanition, all the soft parts being ab sorbed to nourish the body. Inanition was the cause of death in old age, when disease did not ter minate death. It was not that food was not copiously taken, but the stomach was worn out, and refused to perform its office of digestion. Even if the food were perfectly assimilated, the heart, from age and change of texture, might be incapable of transmitting the blood to the cells, and to the capillary extremi ties of the vessels. Respiration was not carried on with the energy necessary to maintain the tempera ture of the body, the blood became impoverished, and did not furnish the nutriment which , the system de manded ; and thus it went on, until all the organs re fused to act. During this time the system lived upon itself, like a hybernating tree, the vessels of the body lived upon its deposited fluids and solids, and even the animal matter contained in the bones was absorbed, until they lost all their elasticity, and became brittle as glass. The individual at length succumbed to death, almost without a struggle. Disease, as arising from defective supply, or from the molecules falling into a state of decay, would bring on general death. Death, as arising from molecular decay, might well be divided into natural and morbid. Natural molecular decay was that which took place necessarily, and had for its object the removal of the effete and done with matter, wt ich, if they remained, would ,be not only useless but injurious to the animal economy. In the morbid state, disease began in the molecules, before there was any indication of general death ; but it crept on until it involved the brain, the lungs, and the heart, the great triumvirate for sustaining mental and organic life. When it was seen how all parts of the human organism were knit together by the sym pathy of nerves, vessels, and other things, it was scarcely possible to suppose that one part could die, or be affected, without involving the whole. But 'ook to the reparative power of nature. There was inherent in living matter, a power of repair of which medical men availed themselves—if they assisted it, that practice was, when permitted, successful ; if they thwarted it, it was an egregious mist a ke, and the pa tient paid the penalty. This power resisted disease an I repaired accident. It was inherent in the tree, and in animals as well as in ourselves, and there fore, it was a gift for preservation. Mr. Turner then referred to, and explained at some length, a diagram, as well as a cast of the human brain, in order to show the influence of the brain up on organic life, and the independence of organic life, to a certain extent, of the brain. The relative de pendence upon the brain was this : That if we withdrew the will from respiration, it would fail to effect its purposes—it would not perform the offices which it was intended to perform, and which we knew it to perform Will was necessary, in con nexion with respiration, for speech, for in speaking we had a control over respiration ; but there was also the involuntary power of respiration, such as was manifested by our breathing during sleep, which fulfilled important purposes in connexion with ani mal life. If we were to abate or cut away the dif ferent portions of the nervous system, of which he had before spoken, all the mental powers would be gone—there would be no will, no sensation, no feel ing, no indication of the existence of mental life; and thus, by the separation of one part from the other, we could separate the mind from the body, so far as it could be done, in reference to the nervous system. There was a similarity in the case of dying—tor the mind died before the body.—Manchester Guardian. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 30. JEsus COLLEGE.—A scholarship belonging to one of the six counties of North Wale., and of the en dowment of Oliver Lloyd, Doctor of Divinity, ac cording to the donation of the benefactor, to be nomi nated by the heirs of his family, being vacant, the Principal and Fellows have fixed Monday, the 18th of February next, for the election of a proper person into the vacant place. The Boden Professor of Sanscrit (Mr. 11. H. Wil son), will commence his lectures at the Clarendon on Monday, the 11th of February, at two o'clock. Two elementary Hebrew classes will be formed during the present term. The first is intended for such as are just beginning the language ; the second, for those who require instruction in the higher parts of Hebrew grammar. Those who wish to attend the elementary lectures are requested to call on the Rev. R. Gandell, M.A., Magdalen Hall, on Friday, the Ist of February, be tween the hours of two and three. Christ Church, Jan. 30. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 30. The Professor of Mineralogy has given notice that his lectures will commence on Thursday, Feb. 7. These lectures will be given on Mondays, Tues days, Thursdays, Friday', and Saturdays, from two to three, in the Mineralogical Museum, under the west end of the new library. Gentlemen who attend these lectures with the in tention of obtaining the professor's certificate, which by grace of the Senate (Oct. 31, 1848) is now re quired under certain conditions for the degrees of B A., honorary M.A., a►nd 8.C.14., must be provided with the professional lecture ticket, for which they are requested to apply to the registrary, or to their college tutor. Gentlemen who do not require the certificate are admitted gratis. NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES. Earl Spencer, the stanch and literal supporter of these will-conducted races, has suggested a new st a k e f or t h e second day of the ensuing meeting, to which his Lord ship will add 100/. It will be a handicap of 20 sour. each, h ft, for three yrs old and upwards. To enter on the Ist of March, the weights to be published on the 15th, and forfeits on the 20th. There is every prospect cf this being one of the most brilliant meetings ever held at Northampton. LONDON, THURSDAY YVENING, ADVICE TO THE LADIES. (From Elizq Cook's Jour-vat) From causes I need not now stop to trace, t' awe persons on whom the ladies liberally shower the epi-• thets of kill-joy, sq uare -t oe!, or old quiz, 1 e hitherto, for the most part, had it all their own Nra 'y in the reading of " lectures" and delivering of "preachments" to our fair countrywomen. M 1 3 1 ' not I—seeing from a point of view quite diffiareot . to theirs—jot down some notions of mine on so Tally or taut a subject ? I have never heard that the al .plaabet was less easily learnt from ginger-bread Letters; that draughts of medicine were rendered less effica cious by being flavoured with peppermint, gat niishcd with pink paper, and dispensed by an assistat. .t pos sessed of good teeth, and valanced with those "clear whiskers ;" nor can! believe that my obser ratit ns, and fault-finding I may add, will be the less nc te worthy for their writer's being a young bache:tor, with not the faintest intention of ever being- an old one; but ker ping at the bottom of bis Pandora.'a box of daily vexation! the hope of matritnc,ity. At all events, I shall try the experiment th rough the medium of passionless foolscap and ink, of m taking you acquainted with some of my convictions on what I may call lady-vices, illustrated by no highly finished portraitures, but mere outlines ef the: most prominent characteristics of those of my female friend!, who may serve to show my meaning. And, if you please, I shall dispense with the rules of art altogether in my gossip to you, meeting promiscu ously (as I am in the habit of doing with ,Hang-aret, of whom, more anon —though there is often some art about that), meeting promiseuouslv, I say, with the topics as they rise. And, first, my fair renders, I would lay great stress on your not being frivolous; and this I would beg of you, not to be, in defiance of those conventional rules that indicate the manufac ture of book marks, fly -traps with yellow paper, canary birds inside, torte monnaies, anti-macassar s , Joseph's. coat-like pat c h- wor k table-covers and jug shaped Berlin wool pen ce - pouc h es, as thefitdisposal of your time, in defiance of a saying—current only among the shallowest of men, and having no founda tion in truth—that " nothin g profound should be ex pected from the petticoats;" and in conformity with the sentiment of that beautiful couplet in "Man fred,"— ‘•Think'A thou existence doth del nod on time? It cloth, but actions are out: epochs." Bear in mind that, as Dr. Johnson well observes ; " many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employ ments." That you are, by nature, " noble in reason and infinite in faculties ;" that—but I will introduce you to Mrs. Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, an ex cellent specimen of frivolity. Mrs. Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, then, is a great correspondent, that is, every afternoon she un locks her ladies' rose-wood writing-desk, and papeterie, which latter contains her envelopes and fancy note-paper, and dashes off some half-dozen vapid notes, containing less practical utility, per haps, than Solomon's (in the " Stranger ") " foreign correspondence," and every morning the business-like knock of the postman an nounces the arrival of some responsive echoes wafted to her, crossed in the writing, and sealed with motto wafers. She called her husband variously "hubby," " dear old crosspatch," and " old man ;" says " bless you," unfailingly,—if she sneezes ; carries a Letts' diary, in which she makes ostentatious memoranda, probably having in it for subject-matter, followers and unfair joints ; calls any hurry she may happen to be in a " scuffle ;" loses her housewifely keys, and then is "in tribulation about thew," and knows only two words cf French, which she consequently wears to death ; "distingue," and "distrait." She is no reader, indeed, she wonders how any lady can go and see " Othello;" she parades a superstitious dread of ill luck on a Friday ; she will apostrophize a singed moth for five minutes together, in your presence ; will speak of "styles of meat," of a cheesemonger's "shining" in bacon, of the weather as "muggy," and when disposed to be jocular, aims at it by using such exaggerating phrases as "exchequer," or " finances," to express a purse or money ; " breaking a charter," for making an exception, and the like. In fine, she will go on with the same monotonous note, as the travelling clockman announces his passing by sounding—day after day ; like, as after they have , " cast on," ' knitted," and " purled" ten or twelve rows, the votaries of crotchet and embroidery will commence again, so, ten or twelve hours of one day of her life and employment of it, typifies the whole. May I not write a brief moral under this picture. I have no high-flown views about woman's mission to impart. I was passed the other evening by two women, one covered about th e bonnet arid cloak with small dust-fall, followed at a little distance by two men, one of whom had doubtless been amusing himself by pitching handsful of gravel after them. I should not have noticed this, but that, just as they passed me, one of the women said, in reply to an ob servation, I had not heard made by one of the men, We were not made to throw stones at, however." Very well, I adopt your sentitnen*, madam, that wo man's vocation is not to have stones thrown at it, nor is it either to b 3 put in a oi3s-ease and looked at like a wax flower—like Mrs. L 2 Grand. Should you have "great taste in dress," but nothing besides, no genuine sympathies—no degree of information—no average intelligence—no anything? 13 it fittieg that you should while away your time in conversation, well termed small-talk, that leads to no result—elicits no new fact, and could possibly have no Q.E.D. written at the end of it ? I, at all events, will launch B irchell's (in the " Vicar of Wakefield") expressive criticism, '• Fudge," at you for it. I, at all events, will assert that the cares of house•keeping, whether shared by a family of daughters, or discharged single-handed, are not so engrossing ; but that you, engaged in no r egu l ar occupat i on , h ave t h e amplest who are lesure for layin g i n a stoc k o f t h a t l earn i ng, whichis justly pronounced better than houses and lands. indeed, thedo what o ee d d ri e abstract,bl s a c h relationship ,ffle o all: and:casnhts wdi aaPhnwmi will c eh r y Mrs. Bell Nether too is a lady who I hope will not include you among her disciples. She is a great stickler for conventionalities (" I should like to do what is proper, of course," in her own words), tells you that no fashionable person would be seen in town after August 12th ; that the Queen has taken her physician with her on her tour ; or that a new ladies' ear- trumpet has been invented, shaped like a fl)wer. e Tr halfeo suppliesrespect aenNe t ho fNoddy hour yr h tet bears eegia together hr a t eeo roa Lady a s, a t d h it yf e ol The sublime and beautiful (a Burke wrote a book on each) ; implicitllose title he will succeed to ; she would lose anything rather than caste ; and sh fi e hic m al ak h e o s rro f r rom of l a ow te n a e - i u g r h u . , ee u r r " h h. o iel e lr ds and humble people. Poor quivering shirt hand in White's-rents, ragged hawker in Brown's se I , ) ,n i p i l i v i 6 r e r c a k t i , i ) n n t l h e a e g other w h a e y m , i s a p n h d e r shee, r e w a i d ll t s o ho h w er Brown's lane, she knows you not ! And yet, te l l her of a s o u f ch a ,4 a dejected 'haviour of the visage, together with all forms, modes, shows o f gr i ef, " as makes me reca ll a phrase in the c h eap outfitters' advertisements, .4 mourning to any extent at five minutes ' not i ce. " But let me now, h owever, turn to a more congen i a l subject; let me leave the Le Grands and Bell IVethers (polished grates may I call them, compared with stoves glowing with a ruddy, crackling fire), let me leave these, and all who in their anxiety to be lady-like forget to be womanly, and turn to that Juan of whom I confess myself to be the Darby, that certain party who has not the least idea of high life— Margaret. Mind, Iby no means desire to affirm that Margaret is the N. of —, to whom lam irrevo cably willed to b e t h e M . of --- No, if it were in that certain state, I should hardly last week have been exacting the customary tribute, which had cost me a three minutes' chase and all my breath, from a very pretty girl in pink, at kiss in the ring, or reassuring her engaging terror, while what was billed as " a sanguine display of fireworks" was going on, hard by : or at a still latter period have, Petrarch-lik e , d ogge d a very Laura of charmers in a sl a t e - co l oure d b on net, and a black silk v i s it e , a full t wo m il es ou t o f my way, until, ind e ed, h er abruptly 'itch ping to exchange salutations with a rival in a shooting coat and garden bat at the corner of a street, obliged my simultaneous disappearance down an Opposite one. Oh no, we are not engaged, though when, as she sews a button on for me, she asks what we men would do without her sex, I cannot help be ginning to think. I shall never be able to do without her; though, when I am sufficiently happy to be holding sk e ins for her to reel, and she calls all my fingers thumbs in such a bewitching way, that I d o f s o o u m r e th tim fi e n s ge c r a o tfchherleft h myself glancing at th e unr i nge d and ; and though often, when roused by some remark of hers from a wrapt contem plation of her, I begin to wonder whether this may not be the private interview preparatory to a final settlement, mentioned in matrimonial advertisements. one perso n , I will attempt a faint outline of her appe e a b r o a n nce ha : Fr, but could I Ithv makee o s r e y ahr s ee h r s o o u , n‘ l should, reel esia the h p feeoarrtl giftsuy n t ew e t e ho t i h ca , h h, r fu u us b t c y adn l di intop;s daguerreotype the "feminine assault" of her smile when she corrects a trifling misstatement with, no— I tell a story— or tells your and her humble servant of wet nights, that he will "go home by water, then"—you—why you too, perhaps, would be want ing to launch into the honourable estate of matrimony A ith so winsome a steersmate. _ I shall just purpose,description. .d m A y ,which may excu3e her And as I consider Margaret as coming near enough c d h a e s v h a m l f er h ighwayman, v aa ne ourt She works fifi t o )nri N s 'i h - h ( e r womanly thisal perfection i t v il i y npgapNrit hw ihtehr .h f h o ea r rn Claude and, in fondness for light reading in . leisure hours; she can p sy i m pi p t s , th w is it e h a word, generally with that numerous class of travel stained pedestrians who, towards the close of a wet w th i a th t p t r h e a ux t day in the spring of the year — 7 , and at the opening of many a dry novel I call to mind, are continua lly arriving at romantic road - side inns. (I know that JAN UAR Ne 31, 1850. PERIA L PARLIAMENT, (THIS DAY.) HO USE OF LORDS. The (le Cul session of 1850 was oreled t rot by her Majesty in person, ')tt by her Royal Cenlinissi,n. Long before the hour appointed f,r opening the Com mission the Ficuse cf Lords anu the strangers' gally was partly filled with ladies and visitors anxious to witness the ceremony of the opening of tie Great Council of the nation. The assemblage thus dray n together formed a pleasing group, though its appearance f Wed into almost insignificance, when put in comparison with the splendid tout ensemble of the House of Lords when her Majesty is present, and when the beauty, the noble, and wealthy of the land vie with each other in their endeavours to show their loyalty to tl er Sovereign, by being present when she appears in the upper branch of the Legislature to open or prorogue ber Par liament. Among the Peers present we noticed the Earl of Sheffield, Viscount Strangtord, Lord Colburne, Lard Campbell, Earl Mountcashel, Lord Lucan ' the Marqui s f Salisbury, the Bish o p o f Worcester, the Bishop c f Het eord, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Montesgle, the Duke c f Wellington, the Duke c f Norfolk, and Viscount liar dinge. _ _ Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Bread albanr, Earl Minto, and tho Bishop c f London, robed as the Lords Commissioners for opening the Par liament, entered the House and took their seats below the throne. flaring done se, their Lordships eons olandel Mr. Pulman, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod (who officiated in tf e unavoidable absence of Sir Augustus Clifford), to summon the Commons to the bar, to hear the Royal Commission read her Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses on opening the present session. After the lapse of a few minutes, the Speaker of the House cf Commons, attends 1 by a great number of Members, appeared at the bar. Among the members present we noticed Mr. Brotherton, Mr. Locke, Colonel Thompson, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr. Spooner, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Ellictr, and several others. On the Splicer aprearing at the bar the Commission for opening the Parliament was read by Mr. Edmunds, after which, The LORD CHANCELLOR read, in a clear and distinct voice her Majesty's' most gracious Speech, which will be found in another part of our impression. At the conclusion of the reading of the Speech, the Lords Commissioners and the Speaker and Members of the House of Commons retired, and their Lordships ad journed to Five o'clock. In the gallery devotes to Members of the House of Commons we noticed Sir James Graham, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. Thornely, Mr. F. French, Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. B. Denison, Mr. Greene, and several other Hon. Members. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery doors were opened at ten minutes af.er two o'clock, when we Lund that the Speaker had left the House, having been summotel to the Howe of Peers, to be present at the Royal Commission, and to hear her Majesty's Speech. We where i that the ...I°E.I.XIIR had taken the Chair at a quaver bef,re two o'clock, when prayers were read, and that about 100 Members were present, nearly all of whom accomfanied the Speaker to the other House. The Speaker returned at half-past two. The House then adjourned until a quarter to Four o'clock. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Cat m at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 5,000 bales, ( f which 1,500 were taken on speculation, and incluthd about 4,000 American, 2,000 Pernam and Maranham, at 611 to 74d.; 100 Bahia, at 6/1. to 7(1.; 100 Egyptian, at 7d. to 74d.; and 200 Surat, at 40. to 4id. pvr lb.—ln Railway Shares only a limited business was done, at rather lower quotations. There are no colonial arrivals. The Frankfoi t report of the 28th inst. quotes Austrian Metallics at 85k, and Spanish Three per Cents. at 29 : 4 1 . At Amsterdam un the 29:h inst. the Home Funds were rather firmer ; Dutch Tar-and-..-Half par Cents., 55 7-16. In the funds there 1 at been sosro thtness, owing to a sale or two for money, Consols hate tiviged from 96} to 964 for Transfer. and 964 to 961 fur Account. Mexican are 29i to -a, and Si , a‘iish Three per Cents. 361 to 37. Shares generally tiro much the same. Stafford repo' t is thought more favourable. ONE pivijE K OF LYNDo O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Antis 3 per C.eat.CoiLsols New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anns. Long Anna. to expire J an. 1860 Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10. 1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Stock 266% 269 India Bonds, 1,000/ .... Ditto under 1,0001.. ....... 90 93 p South Sea Stock Consuls for Account Kxchequer Bills. 1 1 A .o. di 2d 1,0001. June 5001. June Small. June PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. The Neith • >G MIC I I. S. 205 1 / 2 96 '4 l 96 1 , , g V13%/4 8% 26~ 93 p 93 p 1U534 96,43 61 p 61 p 61 011 . E O'CLOCK. ?RIC ES • razilian Bonds BB Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Account Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. Ditto 5 per Cent. ... Equador Bonds Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. Ditto Deferred Mexican, f> per Cent. 1846, with Coupons Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons ... Ditto, Account Ditto, Small Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent Ditto, Account ........... Ditto Deferred Portuguese 5 per Cents. Ditto, 4 per Cent. Ditto, Account Russian Bonds ...... --- Ditto Scrip 3 l / a 3A p Bpanish 5 per Cent. 184 U — Ditto, Account Ditto, Passive 4 Ditto. 3 per Cent Bank Stock for Account , 36% 37 Venezuela Bonds, DA per Cent Ditto, Account . 33 34 Dividends on the above payable in London. 594 4k,<, 184 4tAi 20% 29% 73% 73 le i 2 9 % 36:1.i 37 32 3 1 4 r 1 '74 19% 3% 231 A 34 94f. 50c. 25f. 43e. French Rentes, 5 per Cent — Exchange Dutch 2-LA, per Cent., 12 Guild. .. Ditto. 4 Der Cent. CertifieateF — 86% I•RICES OF ;BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN+- RAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PitlcEs Aberdeen ?AID. 12% Caledonian Ditto, New 101. Prof... 10 pester and Holyhead... 50 Ditto, Preference 68 cast Anglian, 25L, L. & E. and L. and D...... 25 - ... Do. 181., E. & 11.... 18 Eastern Counties........ 20 Oitto,Extension, 5 per Cent., No.l 6/.135. 4d.... 1 X p .. Eastern Union, Class A % P (late E. U. Shares) 25 ...... Do., Class B & C 25 Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ... 14 3 4 ...... .3reat Northern Do., ' 4 A Deferred ... 12 1 4...... Do., 8 6 per Cent— 7 1 4. — 4 ;reat extern 100 ..... 70 69% Ditto. 14 Shares 5O Ditto, L A ( Shares Ditto. New 171._ 15 ... . ...... Lancashire & Yorkshire 100 ..... Ditto, 14 Shares 49 ... .. 27 .. Do. Fifths.... ....... 10 Do. Thirds ...»........ 18 ......... Do. New Guaranteed Cent...... lO ......... ....• London & Black wa11...11/. 6s. 3d... London. Brighton, and _ _ 39-, 14 3 / 4 74 3 314 33% 16' 9!4i 27 2% 12x.i. Of 3 85:5i 1164 13 5 .y 144 68 16% South Coatt.. .. . 109 ...... 86 ..•..•......... Londcn and N Wostern 100 116 1 ,,, 1 4 117 11614 Ditto, Ncir Quarters.. 12 n' 'to, Fill ,- London 4 s.W , at-..rn ..100 .. .. 6 8 ......... —• owestoff. guar. 4 per et 20 ...... 16% Winchester, Sheffield, an d Lincolnshire... loo ...... ..., D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12%...... 2% "' Midlmcl . ............ ....P 0 ..... 44 1 4 Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ....• 6% .. ...... ..... Bi rm ing., 6 per et...A of i ...... 124 % 123 North Stafford hire ... 17% 7% Ila o.iferd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Reading, Guildford, and 2 15 5 .. .... —1 2 5 5 :: :: 31 ...: Reigate Scottish Central ihrowabtiry and Birra l2 14 , ..... 4 1 / 2 .......... `oath Eastern ... 33 1 / 2 •• '' " Do.. N 0.2. Do., Scrip No 4 Wear Valley 6 per Cent. .• •••• ••• Guaranteed ... ... ..... 50 Do. do. do. ... 25 York and North Midland ski ~ .. _ 1) tttl Froferenc. ~,..... 10 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Dutch Rhenish ......... 8 2'- Northern a France 11,4 Va,,, 1% db. .. 2 1 X 3 44 1 4 6 1 4 128 3 ,i V A 10% 15% 151,4 15' ..... 27%8 7 3 4 2 dis Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... 3"% ..... Rouen and Havre 2O ...... 10 1 ,i ..... MMES. Brazilian Cocaes&Cuiaba 30 ......3- ..... ....... Do. St. John Del Rey 15 ...... ...... 137 i United Mexican 28% 5 L,§ x.div :33.; le% MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) These IvENVGATIS AN NR D LEADMALL. markets ruled heavy, on the f )11ovring terms:— Beef, from 23 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Sibs Vealby the carcase. , 38 2d to 4s Od; and Pork, 2 i 8d to 4s Od per DICE.A.T 11TAREETS. SOUTDALL, JAN. 30 . —The general demand, although the st . pp ies on offer were very moderate, ruled to try, at iiire:y last week's quotstion9. Beef from 3s to Mutton, 3s 4d to 4 s 2d ; V eal, 3s 4d to , 33 103; and Pork,4a; 3s 2d to 3s 8d per 81bs, to sink the offal. RONFORD, JAN. 30.—Prime Beasts arid Sheep were in mod• rate request, at about stationary prices. In °tilt r kinds of stock exceedingly little was doinr. Beef, from 3s 03 tc 4s ; Mutton, 3s 4cl to 4s 23 ; Y er 1 3a 43 to 3s Si; ar.cl ork, 3s 4d to 33 83 per 81br. S uc kl ing Illves. 18s to 245; Quarter-old Store Pies .to 218; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 1 1 5 181 each. / to HAUSMAN, JAN. 30.—Our market Was somwhat in active to-day, and prices were not supported.--Beef fcrto 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton, 3s Gd to 4s 4d; Veal, 38 6d to 33 8d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, JAN 29.—Prime Down Sheep moved off steadily at fall pricer. In other kinds cf stock exceed ingly little business was doiug.—Beef from 35 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per Sibs. CHICHESTER. JAN. 30.—We bad a very slow trade to- 2d 3 to 47 9 s ati b u ar tt e o ly n, st 3 a s tio 4 n d ary t oAis2d;Veal, prices.—Beef froms 4d to to 3 locl; and Pork, 3s 4d t o 3 s 8d p er 81b s. S uc ki ng Calves, e '2d a ; t 185 to 225; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 161 to 20s each. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNssuAT. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Al. bert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the slopes and Windsor Park. Her Majesty held a Privy Council at two o'clock. It was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince, Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Presiders the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John Russell, First Lord of the Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Rome Department ; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; Earl Grey, secretary of State for the Co lonies ; Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Ex chequer; Sir John Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, President of the Board of Trade; the Earl of Carlisle, First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests ; the Right lion. Fox Maul e , S ecretary at War ; the Mar quis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain, and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse. Lord John Russell had an au e ce of the Queen previous to the Council. The Marquis of Lansdowne had also an audience of her Majesty. At the Privy Council an election was ordered for two Scotch Peers, in the room of the Earl of Airlie and Lord Colville, of Culross, deceased. The Queen's Speech on opening the session of Par• liament was arranged and agreed upon. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Mr. Justice Tagourel was presented to the Queen at an audience by the Right Hun. Sir George Grey, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, kissed hands upon his appoint ment, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by her Majesty. The Right lion. Sir David Dundas, Judge Advo• cate-G-eneral, had an audience cf the Queen, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts• martial. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting, and Major General Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting. After the Council luncheon was served to the Mi nisters and officers of State in attendance. Shortly after three o'clock Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the Esrl of Car listle, the Earl of Minto, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Sir G. Grey, Sir John Hobhouse, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Fox Maule, and the lion. W. Bathurst, took their departure, returning to town by a special train on the Great 'Western Railway. The Duke of Norfolk, the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas, and Sir Thomas Talfourd, also left the Coatle. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leve!on Gower are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening. The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal llighness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady C. Leveson Gower, and Sir George Couper. Te Queen's private band will attend after dinner A Sub-Committee of the Commission for the Exhi bition cf 1851, met yesterday at the office cf the Board of Tnate. There were present Earl Gran ville, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. T. F. Gibson. A CURIOUS CON TRIIIU'I'ION TO THE GREAT I.XIIIBIIION OF 1851. " Lilac Irenside" writes thus to a Sle.ffield paper : " The public have not generally been made ac quainted with the discovery of a race of men in the interior of Afric , , having tails. Some months ago Colonel du Count, who had already penetrated far into Africa, was about to set out on a new and exten sive exploration of five years, under the special aus pices of the French Government, and at the charge of the Treasury. The Minister ot Public Instruction asked of the Academy of Sciences some instruction for him, which was read at one of the sittings. At the lame time the Colonel addressed to the Academy a not:ce of the Ghilanes inhabiting the interior of Airier., and known among the neighbouring tribes as having tails. The report is too long to be inserted here ; an extract will suffice I inhabited Mecca in 1842,' says Colonel du Couret ; anO, being often at the house of an Emir with whom I was intimate, I spoke to him (f the Ghilane race, and told him how much the Europeans doubted of the existence of men with tails, the vertebral co lumn elongated externally. In order to convince me of the reality of the species, the Einir ordered before me one of his slaves, called Bellal, who was about 30 years old, who had a tail, and who belonged to this tribe. On surveying this man, I was thoroughly convinced. He spoke Arabic well, and appeared rather intelligew. He told me that in his country, far beyond the Sennaar, they spoke a different lan guage ; that of his compatriots, whom he estimated at 30,000 or 40,000, some worshipped the sun, and moon, and stars ; others the serpent, and the sources of an immense river, in which they immolated their victims (probably the sources of the Nile); that they ate with delight raw flesh, as bloody as possible, and that they loved human flesh above all things. This Ghilane had become a devout Mussulman, and had lived 15 years in the Holy City.' After describing the race of Gbilanes, the Colonel gives the following description of Bellal He was thin and dry, but nervous and strong. His skin was black-bronzed, shining, and soft to the touch like velvet. His feet were long and flat ; his arms and legs appeared feeble, but well supplied with muscles. His ribs could easily be counted. His face was repulsively ugly ; hie mouth was enormous, his lips thick, his teeth strong, sharp, and very white; his nose broad and flat, his ears long and deformed, his forehead low and very re. ceding, his hair not very woolly or thick, but never theless curly. He had no beard, and his body was not hairy. He was very active and hardy. His height was about five feet. His tail was more than three inches long, and almost as flexible as that of a monkey. His dispcsitien, setting aside the oddity of his tastes and habits, was good, and his fidelity was above all praise.' My object in introducing these facts is to suggest the propriety of the French Go vernment being asked to ,produce a male and female Ghilane and to send them to the exhibition. They would produce a sensation not to be produced by anything else. Lord Monboddo's theory l would be discussed by the learned of all countries. (ADVERTISEMENT.] --TSB SPRING HANDICAPS...-. Bell's Life in London a Saturday and Sunday next will t Bell's cb re, observationstesj aifi rrot ii fmt Stakes, eat iaGnkelitbLoeeyistwit neupdra i L , on . rntdeu, frothßpa price e ir.cal e ea p mt6 t T a dse n hd. acceptances e rc stafhloal following the Northampton oinn as tiChesterStakes, e : ia withe ex tract Cup,. Metropol.tin Handica„- , Newmarket Handicap, S omer . Pegasus. — Office, 179, Strand.—Price of gentlemau, h e . oun4 ) of d st in t b h u e rg p at least le E a :.!:tty,,,hler Deland , papers to tt e h t i l s re f l r a i n e d n? proprietary and tenantry, are clamouring for • protection. I do not subscribe to the movement, 'tis more calculated to keep up high rents and lezy farmers than to bouring class. Th e i mposition of duty herefit the la duty would not remove the incubus ef po ' tir-ra, e, which is the principal thing crashing Ireland, leaving cultivated and uninhabited. I say let fres-trale continue, and that by renewed exertion on the part of our anicultural community, making mt ther earth yield" its hunderfold, that Ire land is fully able to cope with foreign coun trite in the article of grain. It America pays no rent for its ground the price of labour there fully 1 macs upwhat we pay for ground here. 'Tis not free trade that is doing the present mischief—'tis our pro prietory of all classes having over-lived their incomes, and their present inability to retrench or reduce their lands to the rents ttey must do in the end. Now for our poor-rate. In parts of this country it has gone to such a height that on thousands of acres in parts of the west )ou will not ace a bea: t feeding-- it might ba seized on fur sate, to there is a perfect wilderness. I know not how the present rates due in those places can be paid up. Contractors and creditors of all kinds mutt be paid—whence remains unknown. But for the future, it 300 acres were attached to each poor-house, it would make the institution self-supporting. This is my cure for the rate. Protection is a 04113132913 13111t2bug."... . SCUtinilin. by many this same novel reading is regarded as only an intellectual dram drinking. But is not this pre ferable to the intellectual total abstinence so rigidly observed by Mrs. Le Grand and many ?) In her own humble phrase, she is not dull. I say s h e h as a decided talent at making lemon cheesecakes, whips, &c.; she is what is called a good market woman ; she is very fond of her needle, and mending (her head, I promise you, does not go Berlin wool-gathering); she is the only woman I believe in, for sewing on buttons strong; and, lastly, she has that excellent quality of being a good listener, seldom speaking but when she has something to say. My dear girls, I have led you with a strangely va grant step, it is true, over a page of my crotchets on that important topic, the ladies and matrimony. I have drawn on life, not fancy, for my sketches and obs!rvations ; may I conclude by hoping that such A. B. C. hints as it was in my power to give may not be useless to you, and by adding that I may, perhaps, at no very distant period, write to you in a different capacity than that of a young bachelor. COMMERCE OF FRANCE IN 1848. (Front La Prcsse) The total value of our imports and exports in 1848 was thus divided :—General commerce, 2,014,000,000 f. (official value), and 1,644,000,0001. (actual value); and special commerce, 1,390,000,000 f. (official value), and 1,164,000.000 r. (actual value). This total is thus subdivided : GENERAL COMMERCE. Official valu'. Actual value. Imports ... ... 862,000,000 ... 708,000,000 Exports ... 1,153,000,000 ... 956,000,000 SPECIAL COMMERCE. Utficial value. Actual value. Imports ... ... 556,000,000 ... 474,000,000 Exports ... 533,000,000 ... 670,000,000 Thus, from whatever point of view we regard these figures, the same fact strikes the eye—viz., that the amount of the exports greatly exceeded that of the imports. What is the signification of this reversal of the ordinary course ? It signifies that in 1848, work being slack under the influence of the political crises, we drew from abroad less raw material; it also sig nifies that the internal consumption having fallen off, our producers were compelled to seek foreign outlets at any cost, in ;which they were aided by the pre miums and sur-premiums granted by the Govern ment (to the amount of 21,399,451 f. in 1848). There is, therefore, no reason to rejoice at this circumstance. The carriage by sea plays the most important part in the general movement of our exchanges. It figures for 71 per cent. In this movement the share taken by our sown navy is, unfortunately, anything but considerable. We shall discuss the subject in a special article. Let us examine what goods and what powers oc cupy the first rank in the ensemble of our commercial operations:— Goods—As regards the imports, cotton wool occu pies the first °place, although the quantity was less than in former years , . The total quantity imported was 80,000,0001. (official value), or 40,000,000 f. (actual value), nearly the whole came from the United States; 39,000,000 f. out of 40,000,000 f. There follows 26,000,000 f. (actual value); coal, 39,000,000 f.; common wood, 30,000,0001. ' • colonial sugar, 23,000,000 f .; o li ve o il , 21,000,0001. undressed skins, 14,000,000 f. ; indigo, 12,000,0001.; and copper, 12,000,0001. As regards the exports, tissues figure most conspicuously. Silk tissues alone figure for 139,000,000 r in the mass of the value exported. Woollen and cotton tissues occupy a far more humble place; the first figure for 66,000,000 f., and the second for 44,000,0001. (actual value). After tissues come our wines, 43,000,000 f. ; corn, nearly 37,000,000 f.; dressed skins, 31,000,000 r. ; brandies, 24,000,000 f. ; toys, 24,000,000 f. ; and works in metals, 12,000,000 f. It is interesting to ascertain what countries are our best customers, what is the nature of the pro duce which they buy from or sell to us, by what means our intercourse might be extended, and so on. The following are the countries which furnish us with the largest supplies : Amount of the Imports. Francs. 1. United StAtm 101,000,000 2. Belgium ... 63,000,000 3. Sard:nia 46,000,000 4. Russia ... ... 45,000,000 5. England .. 28,000,000 6. Inds 24,000,000 7. Turkey ... 22,000,000 8. Germanic Confederation ... 21,000,000 9. Spain ... 20,000,000 10. Swi zerland 14,000,000 The above figures indicate the offiicial values, which are fictitious. The real values are as follows : Francs. 1. Belgium 74,000,000 2. United States 57,000,000 3. Sardinia... ... 39,000,000 4. Russia ... 31,000,000 5. England... 30,000,000 6. Get manic Confederation ... 23,000 000 7. Spain ... 18,000,000 S. Turkey ... ... 17 000,000 9. India .. . . 17,000,000 10. Saita,..rland . 14,000,000 'Thus Belgium 'pas ses f rom th e second to the first rank ; the United States from the first to the second ; Sardinia, England, and Russia keep their places; the Germanic Confederation and Spain rise at the ex pense of English India and Turkey. Switzerland remains the last. Coal constitutes the largest item of the commodi ties supplied from Belgium. In 1848 we took from that country nearly 12,000,000 of metrical quintals, valued at 26,000,000 f. Cast iron figures fir 5,500,000 f.; horses for an equal sum ; linens for 3,000,000 f.; and woollens (en masse) for 3,000,000 f. The Belgium imports thus consist fur the most part of raw material. Cotton wool it is needless to say is the great staple of import from America. In 1848 it figured for 57,000,000 F. After cotton comes tobacco, nearly 6,000,000 f. ; and oak staves, nearly 3,000,000 f. Sardinia sends us twilled silks, olive oil, articles of goldsmithery, and raw silks. From Russia we receive nearly 17,000,000 f. of corn. It is our granary of abundance. We also re ceive oleaginous seeds, linens, hemp, common woods, and raw tallow. England pays for our own exports with coal (9,500,000 f.), pure copper (3,500,0001.), cast iron, iron, and steel (nearly 3,000,000 f.), and woollens, en mane (nearly 2,000,0001.) From the Germanic Confederation we take com mon woods, refined sugar, and coffee (a rather curious circumstance, as the Confederation has no colonies), woollens, cattle, and leaf tobacco. Spain supplies us with woollens, olive oil, oranges and lemons Turkey with corr, grain, tobacco, and oil. We have recourse to the English Indies for indigo, rice, and nitrate of potash. Out of a value of 17,000,0001., indigo alone figures for 10,000,000 f. Lastly, Switzerland sends us a little of everything, it being the great transit country. It supplies us with no staple commodity of its own. Such are our most important purveyors. Let us see now which are our most eager custo mers. They are as follow : Amount of Exports. Francs. 1. England ... 189,000,000 2. United States 116,000,000 3. Algeria ... 72,000,000 4. Belgium ... 66,000,000 5. Spain ... 63,000,0'30 6. Switzerland ... 48,000,060 7. Sardinia 46,000,000 8. Germanic Confederation ... 35,000,000 9. Brazil ... ... 16,000,000 10. Mexico ... 15,000,000 These are only the official values. If we take the actual, we arrive at a different result. England and the United States still march foremost. Algeria yields the third rank to Belgium, and descends to the fourth. Russia, which did not figure at all in the above list, now takes the ninth rank, and Brazil falls to the last. _ What do we especially export to England ? Silk tissues, 52,000,000 f.; corn, 14,000,000 c.; woollen tissues, 12,000,000 f.; brandies distilled front the grape, 10,500.000 f. ; dressed skins, 10,500,000 f.; and wines, 5,000,000 f. Silk tissues also take the first rank in our exports to the United States of America. The Engli,h race in both worlds is the chief customer of our Lyons' manutactures. The other exports to the States in clude woollens, cottons, wines, dressed skins, and hosiery. Next to England and the United States the Bel gians best appreciate our silk tissues. They pur chased more than 9,000,000 f. in 1848. They also took 7,000,000 f. of woollen tissues, 5,000,000 f. of corn, and 3,000,000 f. of woollen yarns. The importance assumed by Algeria as an outlet for our produce since the year 1843 is worthy of special notice. In 1848 that colony took 11,000,000 f. of our cotton tivues, and 6,000,000 f. of our wines. Cotton tissues are also the great element of our trade with Spain, besides woollen and silk tissues, linens, and hemp. We give the Sp an i ar d s c l o thi ng in return for their oranges, nor do they lose ky the exchange, for we send them necessaries and take their superfluities in return. CHATPAM 7 JAN. 29.—Private Robert Gordon, of the 18th Foot (Royal Irish), was tried this day by a court-martial at Chatham, for going it to his barrack room and loading his fireluck with ball cartridge : It is supposed that he intended t) do some serious injury to Colour Sergeant APllsra'o, being the nor.-commissioned officer in charge of the prisoner's room. It appears that on the 21st inst. the prisorer was confined in the guard room by the colour sergeant, and be is as released by the commanding officer of the battalion, after five days' drill. 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