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China and Cape cf Good Hope. n °lsl ll ~ e °L, JAN 22 —Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Fatria, l''''444oll? `D onald, ; .11ar . riet Humble, Calcutta; John 4 ltti. .0 ' l )onald, Bombay; Currency, Kerr, yalv n a s - . s t . ) ; Aleatriee, Para; Camillus, Silvester, New Oriest_ evr , el ''', ( " 3 . Littl•-, ditta; Marmion. Fore•maMnunnNerp, I, l ° Pe 11 " is Charles Chaloner, New Orleans, N't-trbadoes; Tars, rl , eans; Jamestown, I I'4'4'. Off Port, Wal l d 4 r e o w n. New O Orleans. 'etrte.ll.ru, lAN. 22.—Wind E.—Sld. Priscilla, Sierra O tt I_ ll lll, / _ 4 .,ettv BEAD.—Euphrates shanghae. W• ' Arrd. Laura and ,-°444-‘,,,Lsti. 22.—wind N• •- • ' lid bai t ': 11 „, r8 .h, Ls Guayra for Hamburgh. Sld. Louisa 1 .qh,,,„ J , .1.10 Janeiro.li4::l:oVlri JAN. 21. ArrdLeS,co_eu:field, xhay, sitar. ~,;. . arrisort Chelton, 11 odl Callao; Flirt, '4l per t t laidal de Cuba ; Laurel, Livingston, Deme tlAtt44ll eyel)da ; Albion, Driscoll, Sr. Andrew's, N.B. u tz toek , JAN. 21.—TLe Dupaa, Sligo to roop an on -mtode,,,l,4ar Backwater 18th inst., drifted off, was lit ' 4 ' 4 ill a sinkin ►, V, 111 / j ,1,, state. . a l 'a n e ' AN. 21.-14..43 Albion, from Yarmouth, is . on s - ` 4 4 ar the Light. The wreck of a foreign vessel la r , P AL ! khor. , . j' h ar die °l3l El, JAN. 22.—The Marie Ann, Marlaix to "R sod sunk . litvuche Manacles Rocks yesterday morn k on t , crew drowned. ~. - x. 5 15 -X . i - x.i - X.i 27 1 ,4 16 1 ,4 107.6 - x.i 18IA 6 x. i. -x - dis - 3 x. ' - I. 3' PA -- 2c..d x.d 17% x.d IC -ET NE W>.-(THIS DAY u kt' I ,;',EXCHANGE—WEDNESDAN' ,Ottii*-"alanding that our market to-day was very `Ut t . tYli au with all kinds of Wheat of home pl y % a t4t,, e d emand f•,r h that grain was in a ve o i n ns_c_t o i n. ti "It p i i ~a3', i t , a t'es barely equal to those obtained , M impure, t ,' t ‘ t r ,,,' 4 t( ta i clearance Ras not effected. The I,l4kuitt„,'44 Wheat since Saturday have not exceeded 3,010 ,V 0 51. The show a tiatnpl,s was, however, good. Ill ; . :„ r d ee ls were held at lull curreucie9, but the mid -11, Nit i k - ', inf. , dor kinds were cheaper. Scarcely any o qt t i e —a . le s , vs a, on show. In malting qualities, a lla:as doing that the currencies were nomina . No 1_ e NI , , , ...mg or 11'144 ' in grird' diAilling parcels. Tbe Malt " a d 4y " (lan in the extreme at barely late rater. We l i l i t) lnitt e 7 l _9ow inquiry for Ost , , but no decline was e ar e . uln prices. Beans, Peas, Indian Corn and 't very d u ll . ''''''........................_ ARM '8 WEEK I Vhest. tKok ntl6), li„ Qrs • Qrs. • 490 1,410 .„ ••. .1_ Oath, Malt. Flour. Qrs. Qrs. I Sacks. 670 2,730 1,180 3,010 ja . uziT. t11 %, 4 , 11 k4i1117-( !f tl i G lu s the demand is in a very inac• 441' C' e • To effect s p ales of the middling aad inferior llais lower prices must be taken. Ou r WHITZCZULPEZ. ta Arket is heavy tor each kind of Meat at barely 3s 6d; Mutton, ti 1447 Prices: —Beef, from 2s 4d to and Pork, .. 11 0 6 1 s's 3 34 SCI; Veal, 3s 4d to 45 Od ; •• to 4s Od per Bibs., by the carcase. T he ' ;CH EQUER..—(THIS DAY.) et t ,,,, -.seen took the demurrer paper . to-clay, nn b a ut w n a o s keirtinvolving any question of general imports (lu ring the morning. ive ~ A'7l-1/lON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) -t th thr ou , e sittings in Banco, the Court was occu n p n ied a tle tht geeut the morning in hearing an argument up_ .n. - f ilte r " in the case of Phillips and another v. Pi k to th 8 ° Purely tin technical as to be wholly uniuteres g ~ e general reader. n51Ab.....1•••••••., ' 1 ' 14 3 RO - STREET—(THIS DAY.) -.. k ' I be t : AT TuE PoucE-counT.—Margareg Leonard, 114 ttlye t : s)° Iiieg Irishwoman was brought baore Mr. I he d''''l', charged with hav ing created a disturbance at hel l ° o 7,' f t his - policc-court, and refusing to go away it it ,ierell. (lettty3Peared that some time ago the defendant . was n tle ai Itted from thin court to the House of Correct io n liiArlr'artiralcs which term of imprisonment expired on h Israati-711?,lbst. Previuue to her leaving the prison . s a e Port e t ! - ' l , e ued, and a. sovereign was found concealed in tire " l' Prison dress. As the defendant could not leeer4eibbtisfactury account as to her possession of the literet4l)., bed as souse f eener prisoner might have ! Il d h ~- 6 , 11 ,i n , the garment, the warder took it from her -ti tti ,! - -ea It to the go vernor, who detains it till such it really can be made to satisfy him that the money Est ref When he a w s ill give it up. Since Thursd fi a r y . * I 4 rde (i tis a ; rit has been continually backw ard s a nd . i' ll(1 f it to . " 15 court Oemanding to see the magistrate, 0 ,,, spite of the . advice given her she tersisted 'etert.'„'e'ug her Wa y into the court, to the great Ileue - 0100 of t he business. Yesterday at tehre 41413i'st itbtlut half.pa-t five o'clock, "ter t or the r ate had het, the 1 f , ndant came to the door f . Urt, a „ d e(namenced knocking moat furiously Walt;:1141 Moments. On an o ffi cer asking her what s th, t 1. . bhe loaded him with a volley of abuse, swearing 1e ,, 41 till'iiiie 'he been robbed, and would stop where she ShU pe r , •ue saw the magistrate. A mob of more than e 4 be g ittlaered round her, to whom she related that Drieou, ,a robbed of a sovereign while she was in tile conit"tlib then became so violent and abusive that Th e i i st ,." l " l took hero the ststion and locked her up. • defe n d 1%41 h only came to the court for t e 'ALB THE Barley. S U N, PAROCHIAL WATER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION. meeting of the members of this association was held lass evening, in the vestry-room of St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden, to receive the report of the committee appointed at St. Martin's on the 7th instant, and for the transaction of general business. The chair was taken by Mr. Moseley. The report stated that about fiftton parishes of the metropolis had already given in their adhesion to the principles of the association, and eight of the vestries had voted different sums for payment of expenses, &e., umounting in all to about 160/. The present claims, on the:: association are 631. J. Wyld, Esq., M.P. far Bodmin, offered to advance a sum of 5001. to enable the committee to discharge all preliminary expense?, which was to bo repaid when the funds of the association should be in a sufficiently prosperous con dition, and ou the terms that no member should be per sonally liable for the repayment of the amount. The committee recommend• d that Mr. Wyld's offer should be accepted with thanks, and that that gentleman should be appointed treasurer pro tem., until application should be made to J. Masterman,Ehq , M.P., and Baron Roths child to become joint treasurers of the association. The report concluded with recommending an active canvass of those parishes which have not yet joined the move ment. It was stated that the principles which the association seeks to establish are, that the water supply of the mctropolie should fir t be in the hands of joint stock compeuies, and that it should not be subject to the principle of centralisation by Government, as in the case of sewers, but should be under the control of the ratepayers of the different parishes. The report, after some discussion on Mr. Wyld's proposal, VMS received and adopted. Mr. Browne was appointed the secretary un'a short term of engagement, Mr. Sidney Smith, to whom the office had been offered, having declined to accept it. It seas referred to the committee to procure offices in the City far the transa Con of the business of the association. The met ting then separated. BRIGHTON CHAIN PIER.—The annual meeting of the directors of the Brighton Chain Pier Company was held in London last week, at which a letter from Mr. J. Hume, M.P. (who generally presides on the occasion), was read, stating his inability to attend, when Rear- Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, at the request of the meeting, took the chair. The minutes of the last meet ing having been r ad and confirmed, the secretary laid before the meeting a general statement of accounts, showing the income and expenditure cf the past year, which was passed, and the usual div;dend of 3 per cent. declared. It will be highly satisfactory to the resident inhabitants of the town and the public at large to know that this noble structure, which is so great an attraction to Brighton, is in perfect condition, and that it is in• tnded in the ensuing season to give every accommoda tion to first-class fast packets, by.reducing the pier dues to merely nominal charges, so that one packet at least may proceed daily from the pier to Dieppe and other ports. THE BLASPHEMER'S DEATH.—There is something so terribly startling in the following facts, and so fear fully exemplifying the grievous sin and extreme peril of blaspheming the name of the Eternal, that had we not made minute and careful inquiry, even among the very haunts of those living where the occurrence took place, we should have believed the whole to have been an ex aggerated rumour of some ordinary and every -day ca sualty, rather than the awfully true narrative of a dreadful judgment. On the morning of Sunday last, a married woman, fesiding in the Friars' Fields, named Sarah Morgan, was observed with her infant in her arms, near her awn house, disputing with a woman Elisabeth Volan. A quarrel of a very violent charac ter, so far as words went, shortly afterwards ensued, and in reply to an observation made by the woman, Sarah Morgan exclaimed that she hoped that God Al mighty would strike her blind, deaf, dumb, and stiff, if she did not revenge herself upon her in a particular manner. Almost direc tl y she staggered, let her child fell from her arms to the ground, and would herself apparently have fallen but that her neighbours immedi ately assisted her into the house. Dr. Stack was promptly in attendance, who, we need scarcely remark, continued to render her every assistance which medical skill and humanity could suggest. From the moment that she was thus mysteriously stricke n to the hour of her death, at half-past one o'clock on Wednesday morn ing, the only words she uttered, and just after she was borne in, were, " Lord, have m erc y on my poor soul — have mercy on my children!" and then her voice failed her, and she became dumb; her sense of hearing was destroyed; her eyes became glassy and sightless; and in about sixty hours from the moment in which she was struck down, death pieced his icy hand upon h er, and she became a corpse. This fearful e vent has produced a pail ful sensation even among the abandoned ma .iires of the locality in which it occurred.—Monmouth rature. Merlin. PURCHASE OF PRIORIPARK.—Many TUlTlourshaving for come time past been current in Bath with respect t') the Ronan Catholic College (f Prior-[ vie, the question is now decided; inasmuch as Alexander Raphael, Leg., of Turbiton-place, M P. for S'. Alban's, has purchased the above property, with all its appurtenances, ,tor ; and has given an extended lease a it to the same parties at a rental of 31. per cent. per annum. The property will be reconveyed to them on their payment of the above sum, together with the rents due thereon. But in failure of the strict performance of the several stipulations and covenants expressed in the lease, their right to the repurchase of the property will be forfeited. LITERATURE. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT SOUTHEY. Vols. I. and H. Edited by his Son, the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey: Nothing further than an anxious preliminary an nouncement can be made of the appearance of the opening volumes of this singularly attractive biogra phy—anxious from that solicitude which must be felt by every lover of our modern literature, that such a work should be felicitously brought to a conclusion. From the examination already made by ourselves of the commencement of these authentic memorials, we are sanguine as to the fortunate completion of the en terprise, and cordially do we felicitate Mr. Southey, of Plumbland, on the judicious manner in which he has entered upon his editorial labours and respoesibi lities. The voluminous quantity of the materials placed at his disposal was, assuredly, suffi cient to tax the discretion of the most practised annotator, and yet a gentleman but little versed, we presume, in the experiences of literary se lection, at least to the extent required in the present onerous undertaking, has adventured upon his task with large promise at the outset of its happy termina tion. To any one almost the duty of writing the bio graphy of one who had sso written the biography of Nelson might well have seemed a task of enormous, if not insuperable difficulty. Fortunately, however, the gifted father of the present editor had left behind him, among his valuable treasury of manuscripts, papers capable of forming the initial chapters of such an enterprise. From those charming papers we hear in a posthumous whisper from the lips of Robert Southey himself the par ticulars of his ancestry, his parentage, birth, and early education. lie himself tells us, in his most agreeable and gossipping mood, all about the Gannon Southeys, and his father's removal from London to Bristol, about the Hills and the Brad fords, about William Tyler and Parson Collins. These reminiscences he recounts in language breath ing of the gentlest and tenderest affections. In ac quainting us with the particulars of his childhood, he, the scholar, the poet, the critic, the historian, and the philosopher, becomes.once more a child in imagination. lie lingers over the particulars of early years with that fascinating fondness for his theme, which he had previously displayed the most conspicuously in the home scenes depicted in the discursive narrative about the "Doctor." Having prepared the way for his own revelations by this genial and en thralling introduction, the Rev. C. C. Southey begins in earnest, at page 160 of the first volume, his own record of Robert Southey's "Life and Currespon dente." Throughout his very able and sequential memoirs, the editor interpolates here and there those scholas tic and graceful letters which his father lavished with a prodigal hand among his friends and fa miliars—they are the jewels adorning the golden links of his biography. Some are gay with the hilarity of a young and ardent disposition ; others breathe the sadness of a nature less morbid than sensitive, less sad from a predisposition to gloom than from the sorrow ful emotions arising at times out of his intense and exquisite sensibility. Take as an expression of the latter trait in his temperament the following eloquent and beautiful letter, in which he announces the death of his friend Seward to his friend Bedford—a letter more tender or more touching we do not remember ever to have perused:— " To GRoSVENOR C. BEDFORD, ESQ. " Bristol, June 15, 1795. " Bedford—ho is dead ; my dear Edmund Seward! after six weeks' suffering. These, Grosvenor, are the losses that gradually wean us from life. May that man want consolation in his last hour, who would rob the survivor of the belief, that ho shall again behold his friend! You know not, Grosvenor, how I loved poor Edmund: be taught me all that I have of good. When I went with him into Wor cestershire,l was astonished at the general joy his return occasioned—the very dogs ran out to him. Int hat room where I have so of en seen him, he now liesi n his coffin! " h is like a dream, the idea that he is dead—that his heart is cold—that he, whom but yesterday morning 1 thought and talked of as alive—as the friend I knew and loved—is dead! When these things come home to the heart, they palsy it. lam sick at heart; and, if I feel thus acutely, what must his sisters feel? what his poor old mother, whose life was wrapped up in Edmund? I have seen her look at him till the tears ran down her cheek. " There is a strange vacancy in my hear , . The sun shires as usual, but there is a blank in existence to me. I have lost a friend, and such a one! God bless you, my dear, dear Grosvenor! Write to me immediately. I will try, by assiduous employment, to get rid of very melancholy thoughts. lam continually dwelling on the days when we were together: there was a time when the sun never rose that I did not see Seward. It is very wrong to feel thus; it is unmanly. "God bless you! " ROBERT SOUTHEY. " P.S. I wrote to Edmund on receiving your last: my letter arrived the hour of his death, four o'clock on Wednesday last. Perhaps he remembered me at that hour. " Grosvenor, I am a child; and all are children who fix their happiness on such a reptile as man;—this great, this self-ennobled being called man, the next change of weather may blast him. " There is another world where all these things will be amended. " God help the man who survives all his friends." Among the more interesting incidents recounted in these, the preliminary portions of Dr. Southey's bio graphy, are those of his introduction' to the gifted men who acquired celebrity as his contemporaries— such men, for example, as Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, &c. His first acquaintance with Coleridge appears to have been on the occasion of the latter's visit to Oxford, after he had enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons, having previously run away from Cambridge. One of the earliest indications afforded by the two friends to each other of the rich ness and facility of their poetic genius was, if we re member right, the mutual composition of a three act tragedy, called The Fall of Robespierre. The subject and its execution were conceived one day in a sportive conversation at Lovell's, where the compact for its execution was made—the tragedy being produced complete as early as the following evening : S. T. C. writing the first act, and R. S. the second, and R. L. the third. Altogether the notion of this drama has since been carried out, as far as its mere form is concerned, by Robert Browning, in his Blot on the 'Seutcheon. Out of our solicitude that every available material should be placed betimes at the disposal of the editor of these volumes, we gladly give the benefit of our circulation to the fol lowing paragraph in his prefac e, in which it will be seen that be earnestly solicits the assistance of all those individuals who happen to have corresponded with the gifted subject of the bio g ra p h y . Having enumerated the sources from which he has already acquired considerable aid in his undertaking, the reverend editor observes : While, however, my materials from these sources have been most extensive, there must still be many in dividuals with whom I have not been able to communicate, who have corresponded with my father upon literary sub jects; and, should this meet the eye of any of these gentlemen, they would confer a great obligation upon me by permitting me the use of any of his lett e rs to them, which are likely sometimes to possess an interest dif ferent from those addressed to intimate friends and frequent correspondents." When completed the " Life and Correspondence" will extend to six volumes, at the outset of which w e have en gravings from Westall's landscape of Keswick, and from Opie's portrait of Southey. The work promises to be an important addition to our miscellaneous lite- HESPEROS ; or Travels in the West. By Mrs Boustoun, author of "Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.' 2 Vols. In noticing books of travels, we have repeatedly observed how much the interest of such works de pends on the manner of the writer. An agreeable cieerone gives a new charm to pleasant places, and invests even dull ones with some attraction. Such is Mrs. Houstoun's happy faculty. She reminds us repeatedly of the lady-writer who truth fully boasted that " she gossipped whenever she pleased and pleased whenever she gas sipped." It was the purpose of Allis new h an as - dprer in the West to describe, not what already been so frequently described, the laws, institutions, and fixed establishments of America, but to lay before English eyes a sketch of the rapidly changing appearance of the men and manners of America. She has done this in a most delightful way. From the moment when, in the midst of a Liverpool mist, she lost sight of her native country, and soon after found herself more than once echoing the Irishman's wish, that " if Britannia did rule the waves she'd just be so kind as to rule 'em straight, anyhow," until her return to the same misty English atmosphere, Mrs. Houstoun's wanderings in the West have furnished the theme for two most interesting volumes, abounding in anecdote and enlivened by a charming sprightliness of manner, now and then subdued by some passing meditation. One of these passages of transient sadness is occa sioned by a meeting, on board the Halifax steamer, with a beautiful girl returning from Europe, where she had been receiving her education. " The fair creature entered the saloon alone," writes Mrs. Houstoun, "and alone she remained, for lovely as she was, no one addressed her; but on the contrary, she appeared to be purposely sent. Even the commonest avoid a ed ets ofone y civility eve were in e e r d h y this fair be in l g t ww ibe sbeet asked apart b i y n her the e ll a n S i e ni n ti e a g t the way I have described, and why she was like a tabooed creature, or rather a Periab,from which men and women seemed to shrink as from an unholy thing. It was this. Within the veins of this fair and delicate girl ran a few drops of that dark blood, which is sup- ' posed by many—l fear, indeed, by most in America —to place the individual cursed by so hideous an accident without the pale of social existence. It mat tered not that this poor girl was fair in form and gentle and kind in nature—her mother was a THE justice, and was knocking to sea the magistrate when the constable took end locked hcr up. Mr. 11,tanwicK said he had rep.ia;edly advised her how to act in the matter. lle had no doubt, if the governor of the prison found her claim to the money to be correct, he would give it to ner. lie (Mr. Hari - - wick) had nothing t) do with the prison arrangbinenti, and if she promised not to come here spirt he woula. disehie ge her. Defendant gave the required promise, and was diz charged. SPORTING IN I'ELLIG-ENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—TUESDAT. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. -15 to 1 agst Knight of Grwynne (t), 16 to 1 ag-t Pdter Simple. 16 to 1 cast RattrAp, 2U to 1 agst Chandler, 20 to 1 agst Vain Hope, 23 to I ugst Shinronß. It h reported that Fanny Grey has Wien lame. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-20 to 1 agst Testator (t), 25 to I agst Snowsto:m (t), 25 to 1 agst Black (t). fitz NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STARES.-100 to 6 agst Ha7riott (taken freely), 100 to 5 agst Velox (taken free! , ), 25 to 1 Apt any othbr. CHESTER Cur.-20 to 1 agst Fogleman (take 25 to 1), 20 to 1 agst Glaueu (take 25 to 1) 20 to 1 tw it Peep-o'-day Boy (take 25 t o 1 ) , 20 to 1 a g st Miss Annl" (take 25 to 1), 30 to 1 apt Cossack (t), 30 to 1 agst the Whim colt (t), 33 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (t), 40 to 1 agst The Flea (t). 40 to 1 apt Chantrey (t), 50 to 1 agst John Cosner (t), 50 to 1 agst Harriet'. (0, 50 to 1 agst Clarissa (offers to take), 50 to 1 agst liaby, 50 to 1 agst Boland (take 66 to 1), 1,000 to 10 apt Ellerdale (t), DERBY.-800 to 50 agst Voltigeur (t). COUItT CIItCUILAR. WINDSOR, TussnAy. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Windsor Park. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. Ills Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours, and attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel F. 11. Sey- mour i The royal dinner party this evening includes her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Spetb, and Sir George Couper. The Sub-Committee of the Commission for the Ex hibition of 1851, consisting of Earl Granville, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. T. F. Gibson, met at the Board of Trade on Monday. A deputation from the Council of the Society of Arts, composed of Mr. Tooke, Mr. Webster, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Speer, had an interview with the Sub-Committee. The mimbers of the Executive Committee also waited on the Sub-Committee. Sir William Somerville, Chief Secretary for Ire land, arrived in town yesterday from Dublin. The Right Hon: Baronet, had afterwards an interview with Sir George Grey at the Home-office, and also visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A d?putation from the city of Bristol, headed by the Mayor, and accompanied by Mr. F. H. F. Thr keley, the Member for that city, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Lord Ashley had . an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Colonel Fitzroy had also an inter view.yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-office. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, and Mr. TRW Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. UNIVERSIT Y INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 22.—The Regius Professor of Divinity (Dr. Jacobson) will begin a course of lec tures on Tnursday, the 215 t of February, at one o'clock, at Christ Church. These lectures are intended for students of divinity who have passed their examination fir the degree of B.A. The Regius Professor of Divinity proposes to re sume the reading of Dr. Routh's " Scriptorum Eccle • siasticorum Opuscula," on Tuesday, the sth of February. These lectures are open to all members of the University who have passed the B.A. examina tion. DIAMOND DUST. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Patience is power in a man, warning him to rein his spirit. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. True art finds beauty everywhere. It is more noble to make yourself great than to be born to. Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in our families, our tempers; and in society, our tongues. Every time a man breaks a Divine law he adds a thorn to the rod which he puts into pickle for his own back. It is the prerogative of genius to elevate obscure men to the higher class of society. Quadroon F' Yet the Americans are singularly gallant to ladies generally ; in evidence of which characteristic Mrs. Houstoun remarked that if, in travelling, any gentleman wished a window shut or opened, or any similar alteration made for his per sonal convenience, he invariably used the name of " a lady" to ensure the desired favour--" Sir, a lady would be obliged to you if you would just close that window," &c. At the magic word of "lady" every thing gives place, and thus proceeds Mrs. Hous toun :-" If the cars, on leaving the depot, happen to be full, a single gentleman, who arrives too late for a good place, may wait in vain for any attempts made by the passengers to afford him room. On such an oc casion, if he is a smart Yanks e, and very few of them are not, he will proclaim aloud (whether the truth or otherwise no matter) that a lady is expecting him, and immediately he is invited in !" Speaking of railway travelling in America, Mrs. Houstoun com plains of its slow rate of speed and many interrup tions, and while lamenting these annoyances, she says, "It was quite provoking to hear every one repeating, Well, I expect there's no getting along like this in your country.' " Her visit to Niagara is related con sparito, but she wisely refrains from attempting to paint a scene better imagined than described. Wordsworth would heartily sympathise in her lamentations over the artificial comforts to be found in such a romantic neighbourhood. "We were located in a comfortable hotel," exclaims Mrs. Houstoun, with pitiable but not unnatural distress; "I should have greatly preferred a wooden shanty ; and this hotel was in a good clean street! Imagine my dismay at finding myself in an actual street within a hundred yards of Niagara ! Opposite the window of the hotel was the pest-office; and the post- office was also a notion shop, and was flanked on one side by Allen, the tailor, and on the other by Quaig, the boot and shoemaker I" After dwelling upon these grievances, she exclaims, " 1 liad no patience with the Utilitarian Yankees, and at that moment could have seen a fire break out in the town rather with satisfaction than otherwise." Mrs. Houstoun's opinion of the Americans is, on the whole, a favourable one, but American manners are, by her showing, greatly deficient in refinement. Nevertheless, she remarks with astonishment that in Boston smoking in the streets is by law prohibited. " Verily," she exclaims, "I could have fancied my self in St. Petersburgb, and certainly in no other of the cities of Europe would such a law (even if enacted) be submitted to without resistance." We have said enough of the contents of "Hesperus" to show that the attractive and colloquial manner of its authoress enhances its interes►ing value as a glimpse of the men and manners in the West. THE EDUCATION OF THE FEELINGS. 1 Vol. Second Edition. By Charles Bray. The origin of this charming dissertation appears to have been out of some such reflections on the part of the author us the following :—" Immediately children are entrusted to us, a kind of second education com mences in ourselves; all that we say, do, and even feel, is imitated—we see the reflex of ourselves in others, and startled into consciousness by the fac simile, frequently for the first time begin to inquire what we are and what we ought to be." "The ob ject," says the author in his preface—" the object of this present edition is not so much to assist in the direct education of children as in this second education of ourselves"—in other words, to aid the indirect edu cation of children. Such a notion we eannot but regard as strictly philosophic, and the manner in which Mr. Bray has endeavoured to carry out his views in the effusion before us assures us that his own feelings must be singularly well tutored. The construction of the work may be estimated by a merely casua l glance at the table of contents. After a general consideration of mental constitution, the education of each feeling is considered separately, and these feelings are classified under the following heads :—The self protecting feelings, the self-regarding feelings, the social affections, the moral feelings, the msthetic feelings, the religious, and the feelings which give concentration, power, and permanence to the others, such, for example, as firmness a nd imitation. Other sections are devoted to the sub j ects of temp er, punishment, manners, exa mple, authority, and obe dience; besides which we must especially particu larise an excellent chapter on " The Feeling of the Ludicrous"—to which we would particularly direct the attention of mothers, and of all other persons entrusted with the education of children. PRINCIPLES OF THE HUMAN MIND, deduced from Physical Laws; being a Sequel to "Elements of Electro-Biology," together with the Lecture on the " Voltaic Mechanism of Man," delivered at the London Institution, April 11, 1849. By Alfred Smee, This brochure may be considered the sequel to, or rather the legitimate deduction from the author's larger work on Electro-Biology. It appears that Mr. Smee's work on Electro-Biology has been trans lated into French by M. Roret, who sent to Mr. Smee to know whether he desired to make any addition to the original text, and, in consequence, Mr. Smee wrote the short epitome of the " Principles of the Human Mind," deduced from Electro-Biology, which is at present under our notice. To this Mr. Sinee has added the " Lecture on Electro-Biology, or the Voltaic Mechanism of Man," which he delivered at the London Institution on the 11th April, 1849, and which contains a popular resume of his discoveries in this most important science. The whole work consists but of 32 pages, but it is, nevertheless, one of the most important works ever issued from the press. STUDY of the MIN D. 1 Vol. By Daniel Bishop As an elementary book on metaphysics, the volume before us will prove invaluable to all beginners, being designed especially, as the title-page itself, informs us, for the " senior classes in schools.' How admirably has the writer emphasised th e uti lity of his undertaking by quotations from some of the greatest thinkers who have existed 1 Now he transcribes the exclamation of the Pere Girard— " Here is a complete psychology for us to study, a book ever open, but alas ! how little read ; for few even among the adults are taught its alphabet !" Now again he repeats the surprise thus expressed by Dugald Stewart—"lt is astonishing that amidst all the success with which the subordinate sciences have been cultivated, this, which comprehends the princi ples of all of them, should be still suffered to re main in its infancy:' He copies reverentially from the Book of Genesis that memorable verse—" And God said let us make m an i n our i mage , a ft er ou r likeness. ,, With St. A ugust i ne h e seems t o feel that "there is but one obj ec t grea t er th a n the soul, and that one is its Creator." He reminds us how Charming has said—" The most lamentable scepticism on earth, and in compara bl y th e most com mon, is a scepticism as to th e grea t ness , p owe rs, and hi g h destinies of human nature." He calls also to our recollection that glorious panegyric on man pronounced by the lips o f our i mmorta l Shakspere— " What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving how express and ad m i ra bl e ! In action how l i ke an angel ! In appr e h ens i on h ow like a god The beauty of the world ! Th e paragon o f animals I" To the elucidation of this godlike apprehension of the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals, Mr. Bishop has sedulously directed his intellect with all its energies—and the result of his effort has, in this admirable volume, proved signally felicitous. SPINAL CURVATURE ; its Theory ; its Cure giving a Description of the Anatomy of the Spine and the Parts in relation thereto. Illustrated by Cases and Coloured Plates. By George N. Epps, Surgeon to Harrison's Spinal institution, 6' . C. To Dr. Harrison is due the credit of having been the first to banish from the practice of surgery , in all cases of distortion of th e spine, these instruments of torture, by the weari n g of which p erso ns afflicted with these unhappy di s t or tions had their torments. in creased, and their di s ease and deformity aggravat ed. By insisting bency of postur e , w ith skilful and judicious pressure on the patient maintaining ent ire recum applied in accordance with scientific principles, followed by careful rubbing by persons engaged - for the purpose, Dr. Harrison: has su cceede d in cu rin g distortion s of the most frightful character, and in restoring the unfortunate sufferers to perfect health. Mr. Epps has succeeded Dr. Harrison in his practice, and he has given us the results of his experience in the present work. His practice has been to the full as successful as that of Dr. Harrison, and we recom mend the attentive study of this work not only to every member of the medical profession, but to every person who is afflicted, or who has friends who are afflicted, with distortion of the spine. The method of Dr. Harrison appears to us to be the most simple, the most reasonable, the most scientific, the most painless, and, at the same t ime, the most success ful mode of treatment ever adopted for the cure of spinal diseases. The British Consul at Manilla, Mr. W. Farren, has addressed a letter to Mr. F. Aguirre, of the firm of Messrs. Menchacatorre and Co., of that ploce, owners c f the Spanish ship Bella, Vascongads, expressing his sense of the humanity and kindness manifested by Captain Gorie and the crew of tt at vessel t ) the crew if the British ship Falcon, w hich was lost at sea. The cap tain of the Falcon, with his wife and child and the crew, had taken to the boat, and after tossing about at sea for ten ydajest were eerhe thepicked vergeu o f starvation. The owners of p by the Bella Vasconga c h), w hen the Bella Vascougada had generously forwarded ti Mr. Yarren two doubloons for the crew of the Falcon, expressing a desire to render them further aid if ne cessary. ADULT DEAF ABD DUMB INSTITUTION.—Lord Ashley has signified his intention t. f presiding over the public festival, to be held on e 6th of March next, at the London Tavern , in aid fo the objects of this insti the present influential list of stewards. tution. The Earl f Fffingham, Lord Tynemouth, Lord Robert Grosvenor, and the Bishop of St. David's, are numbered among THE ARMY. With the view of elevating the tastes and cultivat ing the moral sentiments of the soldiers under his command, Lord Frederick Fitzclareuce, G.C.B , Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, &c., has en gaged a spacious building for the purpose of having lectures delivered to the troops on subjects connected with military tactics and science, as the following official notification, promulgated yesterday, will ex plain "Brigade-office, Portsmouth, Jan. 21. " GARRISON ORDER. _ His Lordship the Major-General having made ar rangements for the delivery of a course of instructive lectures, fo the benefit of the troops in garrison, on subjects most connected with military science, is desi rous of inviting all officers (naval and military) and their families, and all .non-commissioned officers and men in garrison, who may feel inclined to attend. The first lecture will be delivered at the Queen's Roomv, near the Lion-gate, Portsea, on Saturday next, the 26th inst ant, commencing at a quarter befire five in the evening, when Mr. flay, chemical assistant of her Majesty's dockyard, has kindly volunteered his services. " Arrangements will be made for the admission of all connected with the garrison and navy, on application at the doore, which will be open at a quarter-past tour, and civilians being eeirous of Lttending are requested to apply for tickets of admission to the Town Major, on or before twelve o'clock on the 25th inst." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. TDB BEIIRING'S STRAITS EXPEDITION.— In another column will be read a most interesting letter from the Plover, Cimmander Moore, now engaged in searching for Sir John Franklin, via Behring's Strait. _ We regret to hear that Rear-Admiral Deans Dundas, C. 8., M.P., is suffering from a alight indis position. We sincerely hope that the Gallant Admiral will soon be enabled to resume his official duties. The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, from Queens town, and the Stromboli, steam-sloop, Commander Lord A. W. Beauclerk, for Devonport, are ordered to cruise in the chops of the Channel, for the relief of the indbound merchantmen. The Fox, 42, at Portsmouth, is not ordered to be hastened in her repairs and equipment ; but the Dauntless screw-frigate is to be completed as soon as possible, as she is required to be commissioned. Captain Halstead's friends make sure of her for him, but it is not certain that he will have a frigate. The Megrera, iron screw steam-frigate, is ordered to be navigated to Sheerness when ready in the Thames. PORTSMOUTH, TITESDAY.—Rear-Admiral PIT seotf, C. 8., superintendent of this dockyard, has gone on leave of absence for twelve days. His flag was struck at sunset last night on board the Illustrious, r 2, Captain Yates. The Ajax, 60, steam guard-ship, and the Argus new steam -sloop, are rapidly progressing with their rigging. The Ajax has her topmasts up and fidded, and the Argus has topgallantmasts pointed. TUB WEST INDIA SQUADRON. BERMUDA, Jan. 6.—The Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral the Bari of Dundonald, G.C.B. ; the Hecate steam-sloop, C.aannander Shadwell ; and the Plumper screw-sloop, Commander Nolloth, are here. The Hecato has touched here from Washington, on her way to Eng land, to complete coals. The Persian, 14, Commander Bulman, is at Vera Cruz. The Helena, 14, Commander de Courcey, is at Aux Caves, St. Domingo, again sickly. The Trincomalee, 25, Captain Warren, is cruising after slavers on the south side of Cuba. The Alarm, 24, Captain Ramsey. is at Barbadoes. The Imaum, 72, Commodore Bennett, and the Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Jenner, are at Port Royal. The Sappho, 14, Commander Michell, is on shore about 60 miles S.S.W. of Belize, on Seal-reef. It is supposed she will be totally lost if a norther should find her in her present position. She has thrown her guns overboard, and has a hole in her bottom. This station is a most dangerous one to navigate. There is still a good deal of lever at Port Royal. The soldiers and sailors have suffered considerably. For tunately few of our ships have been there lately. A sergeant and two men of the 42d Highlanders were drowned here a few days since when fishing in a small boat off the Light-house. We have received letters from her Majesty's ship Herald, 22, Captain Kellet, C. 8., dated Mazatlan, Nov. 27. She sailed from Honolulu (Sandwich Islands) on the 19th of May, and arrived at Pietro paulski on the 23d of June. In getting into Behring's Straits, in a thick fog, she touched the ground on Point Pinnock, and lost great part of her false keel. As the ship had apparently suffered no other injury, they proceeded up the straits, and on the 15th of July communicated with her Majesty's ship Plover, Commander Moore, at anchor in Kotzebue Sand. The Plover had arrived only the day before, having passed the winter in a harbour (Noovell) on the Kampschatka coast. She cut out of the ice there on the 30th of June, and had been a fortnight reaching her present anchorage. Lieute nant Pullen, who htd come up.in the Herald there, superseded Lieutenant Lee, who rejoined his ship the Asia, and having provisioned and coaled the Plover, she, in company with the Herald and the-yacht Nancy Dawson, proceeded to the northward. Communica tion was frequently had with the natives, who are a remarkably good-tempered race, but no information could be obtained, either from them or the natives of Cape Lisburn or Wainwright'e Inlet respecting Sir Juhn Franklin's expedition. The Herald's pinnace, decked over, and three whale boats sailed in company on the 25th of July, at midnight, with the sun two degrees above the horizon, with Lieut. Pullen in com mand, to go as far into the ice as they could, and there provision the two whale boats from the others, and start for the Mackenzie River, to Fort Hope, the Hud son's Bay settlement, to get what information he could from them, and proceed overland to York Factory, in Hudson's Bay, to be ready to take advantage of the next year's ships going home on the breaking up of the ice. The Herald party here left them with three hearty cheers for their success, and went on board. The ships were kept under moderate sail to enable the boats to go ahead, and at four o'clock that day (the 26th of July) Cape Franklin bore N.E. four leagues ; by noon of that day they came in sight of the packed ice, from N.W. by W. to N.E., and ran along it, occasionally heaving to among masses of it, and at half•past one the fog cleared away, and the ice was six or seven miles to the N.E. The Nancy Dawson accompanied the boats to the Mackenzie on the morning of the 28th, threading their way through the ice, The ships reached the latitude of 72 51 and longitude 163 48, the highest latitude yet reached by any English ship, and considerably above where Beechey lays down, in two succeeding years, the line of packed ice. Satisfied with their position, and knowing that the ice was in large quantities between them and the open water, they bore up to get to the southward, and on the 31st returned to Wain wright's Inlet, which they surveyed. Immense numbers of sperm whales were constantly about the ships, and the American whalers, of which there were several, got many Ash. There they cruised several days, between the Arctic and American coasts, to look out for some shoals not laid down. Icy Cape, N.E., 231 miles at noon, in lat. 70 16, long. 174 40, the ice extending in pack, with extremely high peaky mountains showing over it. A party was landed, and formal possession taken. The island appeared to be connected with the apparent continent by shallows, as there was a continual line of ice from one to the other. On the Ist of September they re turned to Kotzebue Sound, where the Plover was to winter, and having left Lieutenant Cooper in her, vice Lee, during the winter, the Herald quitted there on the 29th of October, and arrived at Mazatlan on the 13th of November, where the Amphitrite, 26, Captain T. R. Eden, was collecting freight. The Herald's people were sickly, having suffered from scurvy, from being nearly six months on salt pro visions and no vegetables. It is supposed that orders will be received for the Herald to proceed home ward, as her false keel is gone, and she has already been two voyages to the Straits, and five years in commission. By the month of June the'two ships 'rom England (Enterprise and Investigator) will have arrived. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE STATION. On the 13th of October the Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, from England, arrived with cholera on board. She landed all her bad cases on a small island at Rio Grande. Several deaths occurred before sailing, but she is now quite healthy. On the 14th of October the Pantaloon arrived here from England, having touched at Pernambuco only for water. Mr. Kelly, naval cadet, joined the Castor from her. She sailed for the cruising-ground on the Mozambique on the 18th of October. On the 23d the Athol troop-ship arrived here from England, all well on board. Her troops were disem barked by the boats of the Castor, and she will sail soon for Mauritius. Her Majesty's ship Castor, 46, Commodore Wyvill, is in Simon's-bay, and will not lift anchor until the convict agitation is over. Mr. William White (c), 1816, Master, R.N., has retired with the rank of commander under the order in Council of 1846. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JAN. 22.—Surgeon—Charles D. Steel (1841) to the Arethusa, 50-gun frigate, at Devonport. Assistant-Surgeons—Eustace J. Walsh (1839) and John Cotton (1847) to the Arethusa. Mate—Arthur R. Owen (1849) to the Arethusa. Midshipmen—G. W. Strong to the Arethuss, and E. A. Tweedale to the Hermes steam-vessel at Wool wich. Naval Cadet—John Morley to the Arethusa• PROMOTION. Nicholas J. Potter to be acting gunner. Rear-Admiral Charles John Austen, C. 8., with his Flag-Captain, Francis W. Austen, his Flag-Lieut., George T. M. Purvis, and his Secretary, Paymaster, and Purser, George P. Martin, will assemble at Southampton on the 2.i of February next, and on the following morning proceed in the Company's vessel, which will leave on that day en route to India. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.B , Surveyor of the Navy, visited Woolwich to-day, and was accom panied by Captain Superintendent H. T. Austin, C 8., when visiting the Retribution steam-frigate. Mr. Casey, chief engineer of Captain Austin's steam department, has been appointed to superintend the fitting of the engines of the Retribution steam frigate. The Hermes steam-vessel, Commander Fishbourne, when ready for sea, will leave Woolwich fur Ports mouth, and will proceed from the latter port on the sth of February with the mails for the Cape of Good Hope, where she is to be stationed. Mr. Peak', assistant to the master-shipwright, with a leading man and six shipwrights, left Wool wich for Greenwich to-day, to examine and report as to the value of the Iphigenea for the Marine Society boy's vessel, as it is intended to sell her out of the service. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. BEHRING'S STRAITS. The following interesting letter has been addressed by Commander Moore, of her Majesty's ship Plover, to Mr. Barrow, F.R.S., of the Admiralty:— " ller Majesty's ship Plover, Kotzebue Sound, September 28, 1849. " Many thanks for your very kind letter of the 14th February, 1849, and at the same time lam much grieved to receive the melancholy news of your beloved and honoured father's death. Every one on board was much grieved at it. You must excuse my short note to you. I intended sending you a long account, but Captain Kellett, of the Herald, sails much sooner than I expected—that is, to-day. I did not think he would have sailed before the Ist of October. After leaving the Sandwich Islands, I pro ceeded with favourable winds and thick weather, and arrived off St. Lawrence Island on the 9th of October, the wind at S E., with every chance of being at Kot zebue Sound the next day, but the wind came round to the N.N.E., and the current running strong to the S.W., and on the 16th I found it was useless to attempt to beat through. We were then running upwards of 30 miles a day. I determined to anchor under Cape Tchoukotsky. We had not been at an chor long when the natives came off, but it was some time before they would come on board. I sent a boat away, thinking I could see some appearance of an inlet, and to my great joy we found a moat splendid harbour and, wanting water, we instantly got the ship in, getting ice and everything ready at a mo ment's start, should the wind shift ; but no, we re mained until the 25th, when we were driven into a most snug inner harbour, and obliged to secure the ship, much against my will ; but we cannot go against wind and weather, and with such a miserable, dull sailing craft, that can only proceed as if time were no object. I have had much to put up with here, but truly glad and thankful, with the help of Providence, point ing out snug winter quarters, and thus prevented me from losing a mile. I have sent a tracing of this new harbour to the Admiralty. The account of the natives will be most interesting. We have gained their greatest friendship, and I was enabled to travel all over the country, and was in hopes we should have reached Kotzebue Sound by sledges, but after six weeks' severe travelling, arrived within twenty miles of East Cape, and found the ice was broken up there, and the natives could not go across. We found them far different to what we read about, and all along the coast to Point Barrow. Many a tear was dropped by them when we left, and their feeling towards us was most kind and hospitable. I was always having them to dine with me; and through kind ness and treating them with determination, I can assure you now that whatever ship should touch there will meet with kindness from them. Deer I get plenty of it ; fish at times, and it was a great thing for my ship's company. We all suc ceeded very well with their language, and only sorry to find it different on this side. A few only can understand us, but we have established just as good a feeling here, and every chance of supplies of deer ; but a dangerous place for the ship, and we could not find a single place to the northward. If we could have put the ship into Wainwright Inlet it would have been a great thing for me. I then could have gone as I intended in the boats. We got to 72 51 N., and were then stopped by the ice. lily large boat got well round Cape Barrow, and when the two small boats started for the Mackenzie no ice was to be seen. I have been expecting Lieutenant Pullen back every day, and still look for his return. I have, all the time I have been in this sea, found the cur rents alter with the winds. I hope ling ere this that Sir John Franklin has arrived safely in England and all his brave companions. They must have had plenty to go through. I send this short note sooner than none; my next shall be longer. The Herald is just going to be off, and I must finish." MURDER AT SUTTON -IN-ASEFIELD.—One of the most brutal and cold-blooded murders that it has of late been our duty to record, took place at the small town of Sutton-in-Ashfield, fifteen miles from Nottingham, on Monday morning last. It appears that Berry, the man implicated in this diabolical deed, is about fifty years of age, and, some years ago, owing to the disreputable course which his wife was pursuing he became jealous of her. They had for a length of time been living on bad terms, and the conduct of the wife becoming raore undisguised, he resolved to leave her. The consequence was tbat the woman went to live with her paramour, the husband in the meantime cohabiting with a woman, re siding in the same parish, of the name of Hallam, by whom Le had a child. His conduct has for a consider able time been marked by unsteadiness, and on Monday morning, at about half-past eight, he returned to his re sidence, and after a short absence, locked the door, tak ing with him a butcher's cleaver. He proceeded up• stairs, where his daughter then was, and immediately struck at the unfortunate child's head, mtking three frightful wounds, indeed almost hewing the head in pieces. Hearing the cries, the neighbours forced open tl:e door, and Mr. Lomax, surgeon, was sent for, who, however, could render no effectual assistance. The child soon after died. Berry was taken by the police to the Mansfield lock-up, where be will remain until after the coroner's inquisition. FIRE AT PALMER ' S CANDLE FACTORY.—Yester day morning, about six o'clock, a fire broke out in the immense range of premises known as the Patent Me tallic-wick Candle and Lamp Factory, situate in Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, the property of Messrs. Pal mer and Co. The discovery was made by one of the lads employed on the premises, who, in opening the door of the tinmen's workshop, found the place in Hamer. Having the presence of mind to close the door sgaie, he was enabled to give an alarm, which speedily brought a number of workmen to the spot, who in stantly set to work, and happily succeeded an preventing the conflagration from extending. The outbreak was caused from a pipe-stove used in the workshops. [ADVERTISEMENT]. —BOTANIC WATER AND BEARS' GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling off, the only effectual remedy, besides shaving the head, is the use of the two above-named articles, applied alter nately, the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf, and as a stimulant, and the bears' grease as a nourisher. If any further evidence was required of the virtues of hears' grease for renovating and preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin's account ef the quantity used, and the length of hair obtained by some of the North American Indians, would be a sufficient answer.—Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgets-street, London, who first introduced the use of bears' grease in this country, and who fat and kill the animals, recommend the public to purchase none other but with heir names and address printed on the pot, or the chances are their obtaining a spurious article. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY FOR 1850.—A cheaper edition of this important work, cor rected to the present time, and comprising particulars of more than 100,000 persons, has just appeared, complete in 2 vols., at the low price of 2/. 2e. " The untitled aristocracy (says the Morning Post) have in this great work as perfect a dictionary of their genealogical his tory, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetag'. It will be an enduring and trustworthy record. A work of this kind is of a na tional value. It may be regarded as the Domesday Book of our own time. Its utility is not merely tempo rary, but it will exist and be acknowledged as long as the families recorded in it continue to form an integral portion of the English Constitution. As a correct record of descent, no family should be without it." SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY, IN 1848-9. BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER.—" This is a work of deep excitement—cf soul-harrowing interest. It is impossible to imagine a more vividly picturesque sketch of the late military operations in Hungary—a more powerfully graphic view cf the horrors of civil war_ than are here presented. Independently of its general interest as regard& the progress of the war, this produc tion has many claims to notice. The author is evidently a fine high-spirited, soldierly, chivalrous fellow. Amidst a thousand daring exploits and hair-breadth escapes—at one time dreadfully wounded and left for dead upon the field of battle—his personal adventures illustrate the re mark, that' truth is often more romantic than fiction.' Language could not express too highly our feeling of the intense and absorbing interest of this volume." — Naval and Military Gazette. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.—BREAK Ur OF THE FROST.—During the whole of yesterday veal with a dense a nds d ggye marked alteration took place in the weather, ape g ea ,„ d n but decided thaw having set in, atmosphere, accompanied by a fall of r t course of a few hours all appearance of On te waters in St. appeared in the metropolis.. e, and in Kensington- James's Park, the Serpheinntir saintrost had die state of the ice, a large gardens, owing to the d bo ay dy to of ay s a k i a l saliodfte rtsh acontinued o t h y r o c u f g followingut h e e much s. No accidents beyond ltehaesirtfhaavoouoroitefeosavoluesermoceonat:iobout the numbers wer t t e h r e s m a s n el d ve mere contusions from falls took place. GERMAN HOSPITAL, D A LSTON.—His Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his intention of presiding over the fifth anniversary festival of this useful charity, at the London Tavern, in February next. Among the present list of stewards are the names of the Chevalier Bunsen, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Francis Lawley, Bart., Mr. Benjamin B. Cabbell, M.P., &c. CITY COURT OF SEWERS. The commissioners held their ordinary weekly meeting at the Guildhall yesterday ; Mr. Deputy Peaccck in the chair. THE CITY MARKETS. After the usual routine business of the day bad been pose of, kr. Sim . oN, City medical officer of health, said he had to announce to the Court that he had received a summons to attend as a witness before the Royal Commissioners appointed to inquire into Smithfield market ; and being an officer of that court, whose duties were connected with the markets of the City, • he wished to submit the matter to their consideration, to ascertain whether or not he ought to obey the summons. Mr. Deputy CORNET referred to a complaint made at a previous meeting, that a certain court was not properly supplied with water, and said it had turned' out, on further investigation, that the court in .ques tion was in the county, and not within the jurisdic tion of the City. The calumny, however, had gone forth to the world that the commission neglected its duty in the case in question ; but they had no means of accompanying it with the refutation of the charge. Therefore the commission was not allowed by these aspersions to stand in a fair position before the public, who only heard one side of the question, and that an untrue one. Under these circumstances, he thought if Mr. Simon was to go before the Royal Commis sioners on Smithfield-market, it was highly necessary that he should receive instructions to confine his statements to what existed within the boundaries of the jurisdiction of that court. Mr. BLAKE said it was true a court to which their attention bad been called proved to be situated in the county, and out of their jurisdiction ; but before they censured their officers for being too officious, they ought first to have no courts in the City quite a s badly supplied with water as this one, which hap pened to be out of their jurisdiction. With regard to Mr. Simon attending the Royal Commission, he (Mr. Blake) apprehendee no member would oppose that; and as respected instructions, he presumed that none further should be given to Mr. Simon than that he was to give all the truthful information to the Commissioners which he possessed. Mr. GODSON concurred with Mr. Deputy Corney in considering that Mr. Simon's statement before the Royal Commissioners should be confined to the juris diction of the City. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that with regard to Mr Simon's request to have the sanction of that court for going before the Royal Commissioners, he hoped the Court would not express any opinion at all on the subject, but allow Mr. Simon to adopt the course that he thought proper. If the Commissioners wanted evidence from him as to the sanitary state of Smith field, and were not satisfied with the evidence already adduced before a Committee of the Honse of Corn mons, which had declared, beyond the opinion of any man, that the existing market could not be better, and that there was no other place in. the world equal to it, then let them procure what further evidence they required ; but that Court ought not to give Mr. Simon any instruction on the subject. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the Court would make no order in the matter, but left it entirely to Mr. Simon himself to decide whether be should appear before the Royal Commissioners or not. The discussion then dropped, and the Court shortly after wards adjourned. THE RUSSIAN LOAN. TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Sir,—Will not the wily Nicholas by-and-by tell all the English subscribers to the Russian five-and-a-half millions' loan, that it is an illegal contract, and that they are entirely out of court? is he not better versed in English law than some of our high-principled merchants and innocent stock- jobbers ? Does not the 3d condition of his cunning ukase subject English buyers and sellers, as well as the contractors, to the pains and penalities of our lottery laws ? W hut says her Majesty's Attorney-General ? Should contractors with foreign Governments be more eligible to sit and vote in Parliament than con tractors with the British Government ? 'What says the First Lord of the Treasury ? Why do you inexorably tax bargains and passen gers in English, Irish, and Scotch railways, and wholly exempt those of France and Muscovy ? Why ! oh, why ! say you ? Jan. 21, 1850. ZACC /10. DERSYSBIRE PROTECTIONIST MEETING.—MY. Col ville, one of the members for South Derbyshire was not present at the Protectionist meeting , held at Derby last Friday; and we understand the Honourable Member has considerably altered his opinions, and has become a con vert to free trade. There is a rumour that he is abort to resign his seat.—Nottingham Journal. DEFEAT OF THE PROTECTIONISTS IN SOUTH LEI CESTERSHIRE.—A meeting in support of Protection was held at Hinckley on Monday, at which Mr. Packe„ the Member for the southern division cf the county, pre sided. Lord Howe declined attending, because he dif fered in opinion with these who had convened the meet ing as to tie cause of agricultural distress. Mr. New degate, M.P., was among the speakers. Mr. Pratt, a s tocking-maker, moved an amendment to the first reso lution, to the effect that the meeting repudiated the idea of petitioning for a return to Protection. This amend ment was earned, and Mr. Packe then dissolved the met ting, finding that a prolongation of the proceedings would only confirm the defeat already sustained. THE LATE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT WOMB WELL'S MENAGERIr.—During the past week many hun dred persons have visited the exhibition, attracted thither by the interest the late melancholy accident has occasioned, as the tiger which caused the death of the unfortunate " lion queen" is still shown. It was for some time announced that the authorities had inter fered, and that the animal w ass to be shot, but owing to there being some difficulty in Alia matter—it being con sidered as private property—this has not taken place. The animal is a fine specimen of the feline tribe, though certainly not so large as many now exhibiting in this country, and among the other beasts confined with it appears by no means a vicious animal. We understand that fur the future Mr. Wombwell has prohibited a female from entering the den of any of the animals, but occasionally one of the male attendants will enter the cage, to show the mastery to be obtained over the deni zens of the forest and jungle. The unfortunate girl, who met with so shocking a death, was on Tuesday re moved by her parents to Coventry, where she was buried. Since the catastrophe, we understand that the tiger has been confined in a separate den.—Maidstone Journal. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A POLICEMAN.-011 Monday night policeman Stamford, of the Notts rural police force, left Cotgrave, a village about seven miles from Nottingham, in a cart, along with a prisoner who had bren apprehended on a charge of robbery, and whom he was directed to convey to the Nottingham police-station. At eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Thomas Smart, of the Trent Bridge, when proceeding on the Cotgrave-road, observed the policeman in the cart alone, with his head reclining on the seat. Mr. Smart, and a man who came up at the moment, supposing the policeman was asleep, endeavoured to arouse him, but were horrified to find that he was lifeless. The body was conveyed to the Trent Bridge Inn, and a surgeon was sent fur, but his services were of no avail. There were no marks of violence on deceased's face, but the surgeon refused to examine the body until he received instructions from the coroner. The man who had been in deceased's company has not yet been recaptured. ARRIVALS or SPECIE.—The following arrivals of specie have just taken place from the countries men tioned. The vessel Java, from Bombay, brought 7 cases of silver, consigned to order; the Diamond, from Callao, 1 box of gold, addressed to an eminent house, and 1 bar of silver, and 1 box of gold, consigned to the Bank of England ; the Highlander, from Oporto, 4 cases of silver, consigned to order; the Free-trade, from Oporto, 2 cases of specie addressed, and 1 case con signed to order; the Glenelg, from Port Adelaide, Bom eboanys,iganneddtthoe o C r a d p e e r, of t e G a o se od o H f s o p p e e e , i a 5, f 4 r 9 o l m b t a h g of e s Cap co e p , p s e d r ! dressed, and 16 boxes of silver from Bombay, consigned to order; the Charles Brownell, from Coquimbo and Valparaiso, 325 bars of copper, addressed to a firm cf eminence; the Parliament, from Boston, United States, 600 bars of (Chili) copper, similarly addressed ; the Carnatie, from Cuddalore, Madras, and the Cape, 1 box of specie from the latter place, consigned to order; the Essex, from Calcutta and the Cape, I box cf specie from the latter place, addressed to a firm of eminence: the Black Prince, from Arica and Islay, 3,000 bags of copper, addressed to a house of commercial eminence; and the vessel Coldstream, from Calcutta, 5 boxes of silver consigned to order. TESTIMONIAL TO MR. DOCKRAT, RESIDENT ESOP. NEER OF THE NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY.--AS a testi monial of respect for his well-known and uniform inte grity of character, IMr. Deckray has had the proud gra tification of being presented by his brother officers h in a bb n i d by w o i t h er t a h e e nt L le o m nd en on p an ro d fe N ss o i r o t n h a iW ly es eo te n rn nee ßa te i d l w .wsl a t t et , b d half-length portrait of himself, p of the valve of 1981. Both London and North-Western Stock par. D oc k. y Pre sented at the same time with an accompanied by a purse of 60 s overeigns a a t l and iu rsooeosf ray was, moreover . o _ portrait and servic e plate, together with his p on:— This service of _ portrait, and a p r iate th 5001. London and North-Western ailway stock, was presented to Robert Benson Dockray, Esq., M.LC.E., elegant silver service bear resident engineer ( f the London and North-Western 1848.,, testim onial The orßa i lwa y, by 700 subscribers, consisting of his brother respectoffic rs and an esteem.private f N rie o n v d em s, be a r s , aopftheirt has been engraved in a masterly style by T. L. Atkin son, Esq. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR EDINBURGH.—On Fri day forenoon last an accident occurred on the North British Railway, about three miles from Berwick, by which an elderly female lost her life. The deceased Was crossing the rails at a place called Marshall's Mea dows, when the express train which leaves Edinburgh at a quarter before ten A.M. came up, knocked her down, and the wheels passing over her, caused instantaneous death. REMLRIUBLE METEOR. —A very large and brilliant meteor passed nearly over this city, yesterday moraine, at six o'clock. Its apparent magnitude liras about half that of the moon, and its colour was purplish. It had e long tapering tale. Its course was nearly from south to north, and, while its ra id transit lasted, it visibly Wu, m inded the streets.--A60440 Jlsrald Qi sturdoy.