The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-31 00:00:00

to 4. 6 % 38 4 3 4 6 4 6 0 0 a 4 • 20 0 Lest on t mid steady united to fl• d• i 8 ) 3 6 I 4 3 3 ' I 10 Be have seen on 1 kinds lowing r Ton. to — 0 to — 5 to 75s to 75s to —s to —I to —1 a being ery in ported. Hobart 'otn the 4 from in our he total I prices the last . C. on wn Tal , 2i 2id 1851. 36,30 405 Od Ito 408 3d 1,616 82,7 67 457 93,577 418 Gd BHT. i journeu B again half of aturday , se gre at pre' o main Doyle ihrews school, la COM that an ntess of 'vent in educa said avoured name Ind that had, by not as a to force Itions of The Learned Counsel was the n proceeding to refer to the allegations that threats had been used by the Earl and Countess to make her consent to a marriage, when The LORD CHANCELLOR said he might observe that there appeared to be some inclination on the part of Mi‘s Talbot to contract the marriage in question, and that there was no foundation whatever for the assertion that she had been forced into it by the Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury. He, however, thought it was not a proper match, and had objected to it, when on a visit to Alton Towers, observing that if the idea were not relinquished the matter should come before him in the regular way. A short time afterwards he received a letter from Earl Shrewsbury, saying that the marriage had beet. relinquished, and that the lady was happy under the circumstances, mean ing that she had unwillingly relinquished it. The words of the letter were—" that she was more disposed to yield to the will of God than to her own inclinations." Mr. ROLT said he was extremely glad that his Lord ship bad exculpated the Earl and Countess of Shrews bury from the monstrous and unfounded accusation that they wished to importune her with regard to the mar riage. Dr. Doyle also stated, in his uffidasit, that he himself had great objections to her marrying a foreigner, and especially to the marriage in question, clearly showing that be was no party to it. The nature of Mr. Berkeley's conduct was furtherelucidated in the letter of the young lady, which his Lordship had handed down to the bar the other day, and which he felt bound to quote, as it had been published in the newspapers of this morn ing, no doubt for some ulterior object. When conclu sions were formed and promulgated in the way they had been before the public, they were certainly calculated to interfere with the due and proper administration of justice, and he could not too much deprecate the prac tice. The LORD CHANCELLOR--It i 8 too much the practice to try cases out of the court, with the desire, no doubt, of influencing the conduct of the judges. A judge who attends to remarks made out of doors can never exercise his honest judgment, but I do not think the judges ge nerally are influenced by them; at any rate I shall not be. Mr. Baur —We have the fullest and most entire con fidence in your Lordship. The LORD CHANCELLOR—I did not think that the letter would be published. Mr. PARKER—We know nothing about the publication of the letter. We think it a great misfortune that so much publicity has been given to the matter. Mr. ROLT—We could do no more than say that we were ready to discuss the matter in private; but, of course, if we had suggested that it would have been a confession of guilt on our part. Mr. BERBECK, who appeared in support of the peti tion, said he was quite surprised to find that the letter had been published. Mr. BOLT thought until the contrary was proved it must be considered that Mr. Berkeley, or some of his advisers, had promulgated the letter. The Learned Counsel then read the letter of Miss Talbot, say ing, inter alia, that she never wished to see Mr. Berkeley again, and that she thought he had disgraced himself by his conduct in the eyes of every just and reasonable person. This letter expressed the true feelings of the young lady, and the truth of it was as undoubted as anything which over oame from the lips of mortal. In his opinion it was worth all the affidavits which had been presented on the other side. When the young lady had broken off a marriage which accorded with her affections, was there a more fitting place to fly to to soothe her wounded feelings than the convent where she said she bad passed nine years of the happiest period of her life? Nothing was more natural than that she should go there. Mr. Bolt next commented on the letter of Dr. Hendren, the pseudo Bishop of Clifton, and admitted that parts of it clashed materially with the statements in the affidavit. The LORD CHANCELLOR—It is a most extraordinary letter. He says distinctly that she went to the convent to become a postulant, and the affidavits assert the con- trary. Mr. BOLT—It is certainly a most objectionable letter; and it is quite clear that the gentleman who wrote it is not fit to be at the head of a convent. It is open to the severest animadversion; but in my judgment it is not characterised by that craft, cunning, and subtlety al leged by my Learned Friend. It is the letter of a gen tleman ignorant of the facts of the case, but conscious of its injustice, presumptuously rushing into a conflict with enemies with whom he is unable to contend. The tone of it is that of a bold vain-glorious polemic, not of a cunning and subtle priest, entering the lists with writers not only of great ability and talent, but well acquainted with mankind, and the daily affairs of life. Mr. Bolt concluded with an energetic appeal against what he called the reprehensible conduct of Mr. Berkeley, and hoped that his Lordship would discharge the petition with costs. Tne case was not likely to conclude to-day. MARLBRO I -STREET-(THIS DAY.) EXTENSIVE ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—EIiza Wil liams was brought up in custody of Stringer, an active and intelligent officer of the C division, charged with having stolen a gold watch, several articles of jewellery, and other property belonging to Mrs. E. Leicester, 23, Broad-street, Golden-square. The prosecutrix deposed, that on the 10th of January last she was residing at 19, Queen-street, Golden square, and at that time the prisoner was in her employ as servant of all work. On th e morning of that day, the prisoner came into her bcd-room at eight o'clock, being an hour earlier than the usual time she had been do sired to call witness. About ten o'clock on the same morning, in consequence of the prisoner haviiig absconded, she looked over the things iu her apartment:, and missed therefrom a gold watch, several pieces of jewellery, and a number of silk dresses, her property. From circumstances which subsequently came to her knowledge, she went to the police-station and gave no tice of the rubbery, with description of the prisoner, to the police. Tht value of the property stolen was about 40(. Jane Cle•alpson, servant to Mrs. Foster, 19, Queen street; proved seeing the prisoner on the morning of the 10,t6 of January leave the house with a large bundle in her possession, shortly after the property was missed. Stringer, 193 C, said, from information he received, he procured a warrant for the prisoner's apprehension, and on Thursday last, about half-past five o'clock, he took her into custody at Kilkenny, county Limerick, where she was living with her mother. On telling her the nature of the charge against her, the prisoner denied that she had lived with . Mrs. Leicester. Witness found some portion of the stolen property, consisting of a visite and a dress, at a pawnbroker's, where it had been pledged by the prisoner's mother on the 17th of March. The prisoner's mother, on being questioned, admitted receiving the property from the prisoner, who told her she brought it from England. The visite and dress produced were identified by the prosecutrix as her property. Mr. `Wolfe attended for the prosecution. The prisoner, who offered no defence, was fully com mitted for trial. THE MARCHIONESS or LANSDOWNE.--By the train which reached the Great Western terminus last night at a quarter-past ten o'clock, no further accounts were received from Bowood Park, respecting the health of the Marchioness of Lansdowne who, we regret to say, is hourly expected to die. The last bulletin expresses not the slightest prospect of her recovery. THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The following Members attended the Right Hon. the Speaker's seventh dinner on Saturday :—Lord Arundel and Surrey, Lord Ebrington, Lord Anson, Lord Entield, Hon. R. E. Boyle, Sir William Moles worth, Sir Percy Nugent, Sir E. Buxton, Mr. E. Ellice, jun., Mr. Hutt, Captain Matheson, Mr. Perfect, Mr. Butler, Mr. Wyld, Mr. Richard Harris, Mr. Locke, Mr. Bass, Mr. Shar man Cawford, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. Morgan John O'Connell, Major Blackall, Mr. Heywood, Mr. Brown Westhead, Mr. Corbally, Mr. Chisholm Anstey, Mr. James Clay, Colonel Dunne, and Mr. Divett. FUNERAL OF THE LAtE LORD DACRE.—Yesterday the mortal remains of this lamented nobleman were removed from his Lordship's late country seat, Hon Hall. Hertford shire, to their final resting place, in a vault built expressly for their reception, in the churchyard of Welling, about a mile distant from the Hoo, in accordance with the wish of the deceased. REPRESENTATION OF BURY.—The electors of this borough are taking steps to secure the services of a gentle man to represent them in Parliament at the general election, which it is believed is fast approaching. Mr. Walker, the present Member, has never yet taken his seat, and of course no one thinks of him. The Conservatives are desirous to bring forward Mr. Henry Hardman, a gentleman of some local influence; the Liberals have not yet made a selection, though the Reform Association is actively moving in the matter, and purposes holding a meeting of electors on the subject in the course of a few days. RtiPRESENTATION OF ROCHDALE.—The announce ment by Mr. Crawford, the Hon. Member for this borough, that he does not intend to offer himself as a candidate for the suffrages of the electors, in the event of a general election, Las thrown the inhabitants into considerable perplexity. The Liberals, who have for some time held the representation in their hands, are desirous to have their townsman, Mr. John Bright, to fill the honourable post, when vacated ; but complimentary as such a proposition might be to him, we hardly expect that gentleman will accede to it, for one rea son, at least, that to leave Manchester now would look like running away from the opposition threatened by a section of the voters, who regard his conduct in respect to the Papal aggression as deserving the most marked punishment. ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, MARCH 29. — W e have much pleasure in stating, on the best authority, that INiajor-General Richard Seeker Brough, Colonel Com mandant of the 9th battalion, who had been very ill, is now much better, and that the report of the death of the gallant officer which was current in the garrison was consequently incorrect, A M O DEL EDITOR.—A correspondent of the Boston, Aruseum thus speaks of Mr. Wright, the editor of the Chronolime :—He has been known to write with a pen in each hand on two different subjects, rock the cradle with his feet, and whistle " Hail, Columbia," for the twi❑ babies, While intently perusing one of Parker's sermons, all at the same time. THE BOILE, R ExPLOSION AT MANCHESTER.--The Ain h and last body of the unfortunate persons killed by the bursting of a boiler at Manchester on Tuesday last was taken from the ruins of the mill on Saturday morning, at six o'clock. The remains are th;.se of a boy named John Com rnisky. Mr. Fairbairn, civil engineer, will be called before the coronet's jury at the adjourned inquest, and probably Sere other practical and scientific men acquainted w ith builer-rnaiiiilg. The safety-valve, which was blov,-n from the top of the boiler at the explosion, has been fo und, and a is said to be very small for the quantity of steam which Would have to blow off when the pressure was very high. When a person undervalues himself to another, he is reasonably suspected of a desire to be thought better of than be deserves. - Eliza Cook's Journal. A LONG WlRF.—Amongst the most remarkable productions fr.nn Birmingham at the Great Exhibition, there will be a piece of iron wire for the purposes of the elec tric telegraph, a mile long. This is the greatest length of Wire that has ever been drawn; it is from the mill of Air• John Cornforth. THE SUN, LONDON, AMERICAN NE WS LIVERPOOL, MARCH 30. By the United States mail steam-ship Pacific, Cap tain Nye, which arrived in the Mersey shortly bet Ore noon, we have advices from New York to the 17th inst. She has 65,0001. in specie on freight. The Havre packet had 150,000 dollars in silver and 58,000 dollars in American gold engaged. Tne royal mail steam-ship Asia arrived at New York at 8 A.M. on the 14th instant. The screw steam ship City of Glasgow sailed from Philadelphia on the 14th inst., but has not yet arrived. We have advices from Mexico to the 15th ult. There is no news of importance. We have advices from Havannah to the Bth inst. St47ar continued very firm. Exchange on London, 51 to 6. Advices from Hayti to the 16th ult. have been re ceived. Coffee was very scarce-85 to 86 dollars Haytian per 100 lb. Logwood, 40 dollars per I,ooolb. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. MARCH 19. Money Market—There has been a fair market for Government and State stocks during the week, with a moderate bwiness. The demand has been mostly for banking purpose•. Money continues in active demand at 5 to 6 per cent, on loan, and 6 to 7 per cent. fur short Foreign exchange has been firm and in good request. Bills on London, 1094 to 110 i, and principally at the latter rate. Bills on France, 5 7-1 to 510 for 60 days' paper, and 5t05 2i for short sight. Amsterdam, 414 to 42; Hamburgh, 364 to 36g. Cotton—The cotton market has fluctuated considerably since our notice of it for the steamer Europa, advancing , and receding as the tenour of the European and the southern accounts were favourable or otherwise. On Sa turday and Monday last the market was dull, and prices declined 4c. from the rates of Friday last. Yesterday, however, there was an active demand, and this reduction was fully recovered. We continue our last quotations, which on most descriptions now stand higher than on the Bth inst. The receipts at all the shipping ports are 1,751,328 bales, against 1,615,055 to same date last year —an increase this season of 136.273 bales. The total foreign exports this year are 224,911 bales more than last—say 119,000 bales increase to Great Britain, 54,353 increase to France, 21,824 increase to north of Europe, and 29.211 increase to other foreign ports. The ship menta from southern to northern ports are 115,696 bales less this season than last, and there is an increase i❑ stock of 35,215 bales. The sales for the week ending Friday last were 15,100 bales, and since our last 7,500 bales. We quote inferior Atlantic ports, nominal; Florida, nominal; other Gulf ports, nominaL Low to good ordinary Atlantic parts, 10 to 101; Florida, 10 to 104; other Gulf ports, 10 to 11. Low to good middling Atlantic ports, 11 to 11k; Florida, 11 to 1 other Gulf ports, Ili to 124. Middling fair to fair Atlantic ports, 11g to 121; Florida, 12; other Gulf ports, 12.1. to In. Fully fair to good fair Atlantic ports, 12k; other Gulf ports, 14. ' Flour—Since the circular of the 25th of February the movements in the Atlantic have been almost confined to the home trade, with a heavy market, and the quotations are now 12i-c. per barrel less than at that date. Grain—Wheat is held so much above its realised value that the millers purchase sparingly—Genessee, 112 c. to 115 c. Iron—We have to report a sale of 200 tons of Scotch pig at 20 dolls. 50c. to 21 dolls. 75c., six months, ex ship; 70 tons of Swedes, 84 dolls.; and 56 ditto, com prising a large proportion of extra sinders, 92 dolls., eight months. Tobacco—We have but to note sales of 100 hhds. of Kentucky, at 84c. to 11c.; 20 Maryland, 7 40; two bales of Havannah, 48 to 53; 75 cargoes of Florida, 17 to 30, four months; and a lot of Kentucky stems, in bales, 1 doll, per 100 lb. as cash. Freights are dull. Cotton, to Liverpool, id. asked; Havre, id. To London, tobacco, 22 6 to 25; flour, 15.3 d. to is 4d., nominal. To Glasgow, cotton, i; ashes, 20s. - to California, 40c. to 60c. per foot, dul POPULATION OF AMERICA. Without venturing to assume as indisputably accurate the minuter portions of three rough proofs of the Union census, we may, perhaps, be warranted in concluding that the leading features are correct. The estimated numbers are as follows: No. of I Represcn- Represen- Free pePll - Slaves. tative po- tatives States. lation. pulation. and fractions. .--- ----- 582,026 .. .. 6 22,970 Maine • .. 3 38,475 .. 10 62,964 •• 3 34,1 94 v N e e r w mo r i l l a t mpshiro • • ••• .. 1 54, 73 • • 3 91,385 .. 33 24,010 .. 5 24, 8 19 NN I3It Connecticut h eeww :: ji ea e ' o lr k l . as y ne : tat . :: •". ...: •.: •.: .... ..: ..... 23: ; 0 3931 8: 74911 1 1 1 8 0 8 5307 ,1 422 : 3 848 9243 .. •...• 52 1 ' 1 3 :2 ( I) ,: 0: •.: • i• .. 25 11, 0 4 Pennsylvania •• •• •• • 21 25,244 •• Ohio •• 10 58,498 •• l l ‘ n l d s i c a o n n a sin • •:::::: : : ' : r 7 , , m .. .. •• 3 26,068 •• 4 24,874 Michigan •• •• .. -:. 850 ,000 •• 9 11,416 Illinois •• •• •• •• • " •• Iorra•• • • ....... •• • • 200,008 ( .. " 2 5,648 2 13,648 4J2 ,661 90,355 546 " ,874 5 80,991 140 ,000 460,000 1,216,000 13 4,712 480 ,000 280,000 608,000 6 88,944 Carolina s C(237 o taoia t rir i gri t tf : :ll:3l;'iadarol.i.'n. .: :: ..: :: .... ......: 288 ,000 350,000 490,000 5 24,120 Georgi•• •• •• •• ••• • •• ~ - , • ••-•,000 300,000 774,000 8 28,592 Fwrida....... • • .... „. 45 ,04 0 22,000 58,2 0 1 Alamba •• ........ ~ 4 40,000 3:30,000 638,000 6 78,994 Mississippi ........ .. 300,000 920,000 490,000 5 26,120 Louisiana • • ........ 250,000 200,000 370,000 3 90,472 Tex as ••••..• . .. .. 100,000 50,000 130,000 1 36,824 Arkansas .......... 150,000 45,000 177,000 .: 83,824 Missouri ............ 598,000 91,547 644,928 6S' 872 Tennessee .... • ... , 800,000 250,000 950,000 10 240 Kentucky ••• ..•... 782,000 211,000 908,600 9 .617 Delaware ..., .• .... 90,277 2,332 91,676 1 ZNTIRE POPULATION. free. 13,574,7 6,2944 , 197,9 Free States ....... Slave States•. •• District aNd Territories •••• •• •• • . ayes. 3,057,234 3,500 20,067,720 3,070,731 The entire representative population is about 21,710,000. The ratio of representation will be about 93,176. And as by the law of May, 1850, the number of mem bers to be returned to Congress is fixed at 233, the distribu tion of these among the six-and-twenty States of the Con • federacy will make upon the whole a difference of four votes in favour of the free and against the slave-holding states. Some of each class gain, and several of both lose representatives under the new census; but the probable results are said to be, that while the free states gain six new members and lose four of their old ones, the slave states gain but four additional and are deprived of six. The change at first sight may appear to be inconsi derable, but its importance is in fact inestimable. Hi therto the balance in the Lower House of the Federal Legislature has long been considered so doubtful as to render every vote into which the question of abolition was suspected, however remotely, of entering, exceed ingly precarious. Neither party would admit itself the weaker, and neither could make good its claim to per manent superiority of numbers. But a lasting with drawal of two votes from the south and the lasting addi tion of two votes to the north is a serious matter. Not many days since we showed that what slavery is to the United States, our religious dissensions are to England. The important part of our census, then, will be that of which we find no mention in the return de manded of each head of a household, but which is to be gathered from answers to queries put to the pastors of different religions. This, indeed, will be an important return.—Morning Paper. POISONING IN SUFFOLK.—On Friday and Satur day last a long investigation took place at Stonham Aspal, near Ipswich, botore the coroner and a jury, to ascertain by what means a labourer named Cage, came by his death ss picion having attached to his wife of having poisoned h u im with arsenic. From the evidence produced it appeared that the deceased and his wife lived on the worst terms, and that she was a very profligate woman, that Cage was for some days previously to his death very ill in bed, and that me dical aid was obtained. He died on Saturday week, and was about to be buried, when from certain intelligence as to the cause of his death the clergyman of the parish caused a post ponement of the funeral and a coroner's inquest to be called. The evidence of two medical men affirmed the fact of the presence of arsenic in the stomach, &c., and it was proved that Mrs. Cage had employed a woman to purchase for her a pennyworth of arsenic. A good deal of circumstantial evidence was adduced to fix the guilt on Mrs. Cage, who has been taken into custody by order of a magistrate, and remanded for examination this day, and in the meantime the inquest has been adjourned for a full analyzation of the contents of the stomach of the deceased to be made. SIR GILBERT is with much re gret we have to announce the death of Sir Gilbert Heath cote, Bart., of Nortnanton Park, Rutland, and of Durdans , county of Surrey. He died at his seat Durdans, on Wed nesday last, the 26th inst., after a short illness, aged 77. He entered the House of Commons at the early age of 21, where he represented the county of Lincoln in three, end the county of Rutland in nine, Parliaments. At the dissolution in 1841 he retired from active political life, but continued to the end of his days much devoted to the amusements of the turf, on which no one was more distinguished for high principle and honour. It is singularly worthy of remark, that during his long political and sporting career on the turf he never made a bet, and in his many elections he never had a contest. Sir Gilbert won the Derby in 1838, and on that occasion and on all others his success was always greeted with unwonted enthusiasm. ORGANS AND VANS.—A horse drawin g a brougham takes fright at one of the huge grind-orga ns , and the conse quence is some damage to the carriage. Forth w ith th e Corn missioners of Police forbid the performance of the monster grind-organs in the great thoroughfares. This is doubtless quite right, but what is sauce for the goose is since for the gander; and why are the monster advertising vans permitted to go about frightening horses, and thereby endangering people's properties, limbs. and lives, while the organs, not a tithe part so large, glaring. and apt to star le horses, are put under a ban ? The vans are sheer nuisances, and nothing but nuisances in any way. The organs have their redeeming music. Why, then, is the worst of the two tolerated ; or, we should rather say, favoured? Are the Commissi oners ' waiting till some gentleman has to complain of damage? W e will answer for it that for one horse that starts and becomes unruly from the noise of an organ there are a dozen that are frightened by the vans,with which they never get familiarized, as the vans are continually altering their shapes, colours, and appearances, and enlarging their size.—Examiner. Christchurch, Blackfriars-road, was sacrilegiously broken open by some thieves some time during Saturday night. They did considerable damage, but did not succeed in carrying anything away. THE GAME LAWS.—At the recent Nottingham assizes Baron Alderson, in a night poaching case tried before him, and where it came out that Earl Manvers' keepers had a savage dog, his Lordship commented upon the shameful practice of gamskeepers taking out ferocious dogs " to worry men," as he justly termed it. Let us ask, by do keepers go out with loaded guns? Not to shoot game in the night, we apprehend. Time the odious game-laws and the execs- BiYe game-preserving propensity were rectified, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Having commenced the season on Saturday week by the ddbt%t of Mademoiselle Caroline Duprez as Lucia, and by the production of one of the most charming of ballets, Mr. Lumley has followed up his " most excel lent beginning" by producing, on Saturday last, Auber's most original, most delightful, and perhaps, taken as a whole, greatest opera, Gustave 111. The plot of this opera, which is from the pen of Scribe, is well known to every playgoer in the United Kingdom, and the most popular of the airs are familiar to every one, for there is scarcLly a theatre in the whole realm in which Mr. Planet e's version of it has not ben per formed. In that version, however, the opera is sadly curtailed of its fair proportions, the whole of the recita tive is omitted, a n d as it pleased the Covent-garden management of that day to consider it necessary to give the part of Gustavus to an actor wbo could not sing, Mr. Plande was obliged to introduce a new cha racter, a certain Colonel Lillenhorn, whose -de busi ness appeared to be to sing the music which the King could not sing, and whose presence was felt as a perpetual intrusion. Familiar therefore, as is the Covent-garden operatic version of Gustave 111. to the English public, to Mr. Lumley is duo the honour of having been the first to produce, In this country, in its original entirety, unmutilated and without interpolation (save in one instance, to which we shall presently allude, and in which the interpolation is au improvement), this the chef crceuvre of Auber; and to produce in a style surpassing, in every respect, even that in which it was originally produced at the Grand Opera in Paris. The cast was as follows: Amelie ••• ••• Mine. Fiorentini. Arvedsen (the witch)... Mdlle. Feller. Oscar (page of the King) Mdlle. Caroline Duprcz. Ankastrom ..• .. Signor Lorenzo. Dehorn, Ribbing, } nobles ... Signor F. Labluche. / M. Poultier. Gustave DI. Signor Calzolari. Madame Fioreutini, who made her debiet during the last week of the last season, but who, during that week, achieved for herself an European reputation, has added immensely to that reputation by her performance of Amelie. Never have we heard the exceedingly difficult music of this part more purely or more sweetly rendered, while her acting was tragedy of the very highest order. The trio in the second act, " Dio the in o r mi leggi" was delightfully rendered, and the grand scene at the com mencement of the third act was a superb piece of perfect dramatic vocalization. Her look and manner as she draws the fatal name from the urn was one of the most powerful pieces of acting we have ever witnessed, and Madame Fiorentini has added immensely to her fame by her representation of this cha racter. Mdlle. Caroline Duprez made one of the daintiest and prettiest of pages, and sang the music of the part deliciously. It is exactly suited to her voice and style, and she seemed quite to revel in the saucy melodies of Auber. Her aria in the first scene was exquisitely ren dered, and the well-known invitation to the ball seemed to acquire additional freshness and spirit from her admi rable manner of giving it. The great triumph of the night, however, was in the last act, in which she introduced au air from Auber's opera Le Serment, com posed, as it would appear, for the purpose of condensing the greatest possible number of vocal difficulties into the smallest possible compass. In this air Mdlle. Caroline Duprez, by her marvellous powers of executien,excited quite a furore ; never have we beard a more marvellous and perfect specimen of florid vocalization. Calzolari sang the music of Gustave with exquisite taste and sweetness, and Lorenzo gave a fine, spirited, and manly version of the part of Ankastrom. The trio of the conspirators, by Lorenzo, F. Lablache, and M. Poultier (who h as b een engaged from the French Academie de Musique expressly to take part in this trio), was the very perfection of part-singing. Mademoiselle Feller made her debrit in the character of Arvedsen, and from the manner in which she performed the part we are most desirous of seeing her again. Her voice is a contralto of rich and sono rous quality, and her intonation is perfect. It is evilent from her manner of performing this little character that she is a most accomplished artiste. It is not, however, so much on the solo parts as on the choruses that the success of Gustave 111. depends. Among the chortles of this opera are to be found some of the tery finest specimens of Auber's choral writing, and these were rendered with an exactness and closeness that left nothing to be desited. The " Viva el re," at the conclusion of the second act, was redemanded as a matter of course. The choruses were not only admirably sung, but they were acted with infinite spirit. Never have we seen a more lively scene than that to which we have jus; alluded—the sailors' chorus at the conclusion of the se• cond act. In order to render the production of the opera as perfect as possible, Madlle. Carlotta Grisi was brought over from Paris expressly to take part in the masked ball, and made her dibQ f'ir the season in a new grand pas composed expressly for her, and engrafted on the " danse des Folies." Her reception was most enthusiastic; she looked as lovely, as graceful, and as fascinating as ever, and danced divinely. The orchestra, under the direction of Balfe, did full justice to Auber's brilliant, sparkling, and most expres sive music, and the success of the opera was at once brilliant and complete. All the principal artistes were called on at the conclusion. The beautiful new Watteau ballet concluded the evening's entertainments. The house was crowded in every part; long before the rising of the curtai❑ there was not a box or a stall unoccupied, and the pit and gallery were crowded. DRURY LANE THEATRE. A translation from Scribe and Auber's comic opera the Dame dc Pique, which has lately been so successfully pro duced in Paris, was announced for performance at this theatre on Saturday, but shortly before the doors opened a notice was posted to the effect that the comedy of Simpson and Co. would be substituted for the Queen of Spades, in consequence of the sudden indisposition of Mrs. Nisbett, who was to have taken the principal cha racter. The curtain accordingly drew up for Simpson and Co., which was proceeded with quietly for a few minutes, but on the entrance of Mr. Simpson, the audience, especially the "gods," became impatient, and re fused to allow it to continue. Mr. W. West, the stage director, came forward but could not obtain a hearing. Mr. Anderson himself then appeared, and stated that he bad not been made acquainted with Mrs. Nisbetess in disposition until ten minutes to six on that evening, but if the audience desired it, the Queen of Spades should be given, as Miss F. Vining had kindly consented to read Mrs. Nisbett's part. This arrangement appeared to give entire satisfaction to the audience, and in about half-an-hour the curtain again rose for the Queen of Spades. The scene is laid in Russia, and the principal character is Katinka Nelidorf, who, having been so impru dent as to box the ears of the Czar Peter, who bad been making love to her, bad been ordered to bo arrested for the offence. She, however, has contrived to escape un der the disguise of her humpbacked and lame old aunt, the Princess 13eresina, to the castle of the Princess at Poleax. On her way she accidentally becomes acquainted with Eric Klareberg (Mr. Craven), a courier in the Imperial service, whose father had been unjustly disgraced from the rank which he held in the imperial army by the machinations of the Prince Moskau. At the castle he meets the Prince (Mr. Walter Lacy) and challenges him, but the Prince declines to fight until Eric has paid a large debt duo to him from his father. In a moment of exaspera tion Eric strikes him, and is immediately arrested and sentenced to be shot. In the meantime he is confined in a salt mine belonging to the Princess, the superin tendent of which, Ivan (Mr. Anderson) has ruined him self by his love for gaming, which he seeks to gratify at every risk on every opportunity. He has heard of a legend that the Prince ss B eres i na i s i n possession of a certain ring which contains the names of three magical cards, which are always sure to win if the owner of the ring turns round a secret spring in its interior. Olga (Mrs. Walter Lacy), the waiting-maid of the Princess and the betrothed of Ivan, bribes him, by means of the ring and the secret of the cards, to permit his prisoner to escape by the panier which serves to let down the workmen to the mine, which is 1,000 feet below the surface. The escape is accordingly effected, the supposed Princess tells Ivan the names of the three cards,—the three, the ten, and the Queen of Spades, —and gives him the ring, which, however, is immediately taken from him by the Prince, who has overheard the secret, although too late to prevent the prisoner's escape. Tho second act of the play passes at the publi c gar d ens a t C a rlsbad, in Bohemia, where Kopeck (Mr. Barrett), an old usurer, has set up a gaming house, and taken into his service Ivan, who has lost at play all the money given him by the supposed Princess. Prince Moskau, the Princess, and her waiting-maid, and Eric, are also at the gardens on the night of a masquerade, and the Prince, who wishes to mend his fortunes by marriage, exchanges a paper, proving the innocence of Eric's father, for a contract of marriage with himself, signed, as he imagines, by the Princess. He then tries his for tune at the faro table, betting on the three cards ; and Eric, who has rai se d a p or ti on o f t h e amoun t o f his debt, stakes it against him. At first the three cards win, but immediately afterwards they lose, and Eric, therefore, is enabled to pay off his whole debt, and meet his enemy upon terms of enmity. They are about to fight, when Katinka makes her appearance in the dress of the Queen of Spades, with the real Princess Bere sine, and bestows her hand upon Eric, and that of her waiting-maid upon Ivan, who promises thenceforth to renounce gambling. The piece was very well put upon the stage, and was perfectly successful in spite of the drawback of the principal character having to be read. Miss F. Vining, however, went through it as well as it was possible, under such unfavourable circum stances, and was called for at the conclusion of the first act, and at the end of the piece, and loudly applauded. Mr. Anderson was excellent in the character of Ivan, never thinking of anything, but maddened at seeing gam bli ng which he cannot join, an d rus hi ng to th e gamine-table with frantic eagerness when he has go, hold of a little money to stake upon the magic cards The other characters were also very well sustained, ant w h e n either Mrs. Na.bett is recovered sufficiently t) sustain the principal character, or Miss F. Vining hea had time to study the part, the piece will, no (hat, have a long run. Tho performances concluded wall the magnificent spectacle of Azad, which continues to draw crowded houses. Mr. French, publicly addressing the directcrs of the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway, said to them, Yere a dirty crew—a shabby lot ! Dirty water upon ye—bid luck to ye all !" _ be lit(rally surn T m he ed es u s p en t t h ia u lss:_Sea, salt, sun, sand, shrimps, shells,of a watering - place may steamers, ships, and sailors. CEYLON PAPERS.—The appendix and index to the evidence taken before the select committee in Cey;on have just bee n published in the form of a blue book, weighing Lib. 12oz. It is composed of rather more than 550 closelyprimed pages, and contains a great variety of documents connectd withithe aft'air3 of the Waal MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 3l, 1851. be looked upon as the standard edition of it, having passed under the hands of its author shortly before his lamented decease, and having besides this been very carefully edited by his son, the distinguished repre sentative of Buckinghamshire. A POPULAR NARRATIVE of the GREAT _EXHIBITION. By Peter Berlyn. James Gilbert. Within the compass of an elegant pocket volume, the compiler of the present narrative has contrived to fur nish his readers with a very copious history of the origin, progress, and prospects of the Great Exhibi tion. Throughout the work he has written with an especial regard at once to'sitnplicity and perspicuity, so that we rest satisfied his labours will prove eminently successful, the book being incontestably the narrative of the great Industrial Exposition. Beginning with all those preliminary particulars which are absolutely essential for the comprehension of the entire scheme of the Prince Consort, the narrative describes very lucidly the growth of the first crude idea to its present gigantic dimensions. The share taken in the project by the Society of Arts is duly celebrated, and the in fluence of the successive expositions of French in dustry especially notified. One paragraph is eminently deserving of quotation. It runs as follows : "On the 30th of June, 1849, Mr. Cole and Mr. Fuller, with Mr. Scott Russell, attended by his Royal Highness's command at Buckingham Palace, where Mr. Thomas Cubitt was summoned to meet them. It was at this meeting that his Royal Highness communicated his views fully with regard to the formation of a Great Col lection of Works of Industry and Art in London in 1851, for the purpose of exhibition, and of competition and encouragement. It was at this meeting also that his Royal Highness first stated the four great divisions— of Raw Material—Machinery and Mechanical Invention —Manufactures—Sculpture and Plastic Art—of which he proposed the Exhibition should consist. It was at this meeting also, June 30, that his Royal Highness gave to the proposed Exhibition that great feature of universality which has ever since formed the chief cha racteristic of his plan. His Royal Highness considered that, whilst it appears an error to fix any limitation to the productions of machinery, science, and art, which are of no country, but belong as a whole to the civilized world, particular advantage to British industry might bo derived from placing it in fair competition with that of other nations.' Thus it will be seen that although a Great National Exhibition had been proposed and aimed at over and over again, yet it was reserved for the Prince to give the finishing stroke to the structure which had been gradually rising, by making the propo sition that the Exhibition should comprehend the In dustry of All Nations." From this it will be sufficiently apparent that his Royal Highness was literally and actually the originator of the whole undertaking, and that as its originator he is, beyond all others, entitled to congratulation in regard to its successful development. The different meetings held in the metropolis in furtherance of the design, are scrupulously recorded, and the speeches delivered upon those occasions accurately reported. Mr. Paxton's description of the Crystal Palace is given, moreover, in the very words in which he himself de livered it to the Derby Mechanics' Institution. In like manner, we have a little further on a reprint of the brilliant article on the same subject printed in the weekly miscellany of Mr. Dickens. The subjoined particulars of the building, extracted from another portion of the " Popular Narrative," cannot fail to be regarded with considerable interest by those not al ready aware of its dimensions : " A résumé of tine statistics of this marvellous edi fice will best convey, at a glance, an idea of its vastness: —lt consists of a nave 72 feet wide, and 64 feet high, with a series of aide aisles, two of 48 feet, and six of 24 feet wide, of the respective heights of 43 and 23 feet, the whole spreading to a width of 456 feet; the total length is 1,848 feet: a transept, 408 feet long and 72 feet wide, intersects the building at right angles in the centre; this transept is covered with a semicircular roof, springing at a height of 64 feet from the level of the ground, and making the entire height 110 feet. The total area of the ground floor is equal to 772,784 square feet, and that of the galleries to 217,100 square feet. The galleries are 24 feet wide and extend nearly a mile. The table space for exhibitors will be more than 8 miles in length. The total cubic contents of the building are 33,000,000 feet. In addition to the timber for joists, flooring, &c., the glass and supports of iron comprise the entire structure; the columns, sash-bars, and panes of glass, are similar in form throughout. There are 2,244 cast-iron girders for supporting galleries and roofs, in addition to 1,128 intermediate bearers, 358 wrought-iron trusses for sup. porting roof, 34 miles of gutters for carrying water to the columns, 202 miles of sash-bars, and 900,000 super ficial feet of glass, weighing 400 tons. The average weight per superficial foot of the ordinary roofing is only 3i lb. The tender for its construction was accepted on the 26th of July, 1850; possession of the site was ob• tained on the 30th of July; the first column was fixed on the 26th of September; and only 145 working days after the commencement, but little of the vast building remained to be finished. To give an idea of the enor mous extent of the building, it may be noticed, that the width of the main avenue is within 10 feet double that cf St. Paul's Cathedral, whilst its length is more than four times as great. The walls of St. Paul's are 14 feet thick, those of the' Crystal Palace'sonly 8 inches. Saint Paul's occupied 35 yeses in building, whilst the Hyde park building will have necupiPti loch than half that ....- her of weeks; the celerity of the construction has been most remarkable. As many as 308 girders have been delivered on the ground in one week. Seven of the great trusses of the nave were raised in ono day. Each man fixed about 200 superficial feet of glass per day. In order to perform these marvels, it was necessary to de vise and employ various contrivances for Economising labour, such as the sash-bar machine, the gutter ma chine, the morticing machine, the painting ma chine, the glazing machine, besides many others of an equally ingenious nature. The average number of work wpalsoyweedekwlyas about 1,8, goeos, Even amongst in thewhom pa y a m b c o n u t t o m f se 2,ol, t on he em workmen ingenious machinery was called into re quisition, by which it was found possible to make nearly 2,000 distinct payments within the space of two hours!" Among the subordinate details of the enterprise, we learn that 3,6001. has been paid as purchase money, jointly by Messrs. Spicer Brothers and Messrs. Clowes and Sons, for the privilege of printing and publishing the Official Catalogue, while Messsrs. Schweppe and Company have on their part paid 5,500/. as purchase money for the purpose of supply ing the refreshments. The volume is altogether a very clever and most complete compilation. THE CENSUS.-LAST NIGHT. The Census-office, at Craig's-court, for the last two or three days has been comparatively quiet, having issued all its tons of returns and instructions to all parts of the country. By " taking time by the forelock " the necessary arrangements for the census of last night were so complete, as to leave the officials a lull of repose after their recent very pressing engagements. Some excite ment was experienced up to the last hour, owing to the information which had to be given to those who had not perfectly understood their instructions, and in conse quence of a pleasing fact respecting the educational de partment which it is very gratifying to notice.: It appears that the estimate formed at the Census office, of the number of schools in the country, had been very far below the reality, and in consequence it was necessary to supply a largo additional number of the forms to that department. This deficiency of schedules applied more to England than to Scotland, for which coontry a largo supply had been furnished. But the estimate for that country, in the first instance, was by no means adequate. The num ber of forms for day-schools sent to Glasgow in the first instance was 800; for adult evening schools, 200; and for Sunday•scheols, 200; but it has been found neces sary to increase the number for day-schools to 1,500; for adult evening -schools to 800; and for Sunday-schools to 1,000. During the latter part of last week, after the issue of the schedules, the most gratifying evidence was given of the willingness of the public to supply the desired infor mation. In some cases they wished the enumerator to fill up the schedule then and there, and offered to give him all the information required. A few old people have shown some lingering recollections of the poll-tax; but they have been very few who have indicated any un willingness to give adequate replies to the queries proposed. The printer had been besieged by soma fifty or sixty persons who had mislaid their papers, and who applied to him under the impression that ho was the proper authority to supply the defect. The enumerators and local registrars have reserved stores of schedules to meet such cases, and also double schedules, with linos for 55 names, where the household is very large, besides being able to furnish any further quantity that may be required. Individuals who may be at a loss would also find their wants in this respect at once met, by application to the head office, where, perhaps, it would be well to report all cases of neglect or omission. As far as has been ascertained, all parties are willing to co-operate in producing an accurate and ample census, whether old or young, married or single, rich or poor, lay or clerical. An excellent example will be set by one lady at the west-end of London, at the head of a very large family, of some 800; who, though married, is the head of her family, and who, through her Lord Cham berlain, will duly answer to all the queries of the sche dule, and accurately report her own age and place of birth, with all requisite particulars as to her husband and seven children, an example which, it is hoped, will be readily imitated by her subjects, whose numbers are now to be ascertained. MR. COMPTON'S BENEFIT.—That most artistical of our low comedians, Compton, takes his benefit at the Olympic Theatre this evening, on which occasion lie appears as - Dr. Pengloss in the Heir at Law, and as Paul Shack in Peake's excellent farce Master's Rival. No actor on the stage has won his laurels more fairly than Mr. Compton, or is more deserving of his high reputation. We anticipate for him a bumper. The Duke of Brunswick and Mr. Charles Greene contemplate another attempt to cross the Channel in the Nassau balloon. They will start from Hastings very pro bably in the course of the next few days. The services at St. Barnabas were resumed yes terday. and notice given that they should be continued as heretofore. Tee interior of the church remains untouched, and the choral service has been retained, though the old choir is missed. The sermon was preached by the Rev. James Skinner, late fellow of Durham University, from 1 Cur. 9. The discourse was listened to with great attention by a crowded congregation. SECESSIONS FROM Roma.—Two members of the Church of Rome have recently been received into the Church of England by the Rev. J. W. Grier. The ceremony was performed in the presence of the congregation asierubled in AlubltC9tt gaigch, Stcurbriclie. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Ccuutess of Desert, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Bouverie, left town at eleven o'clock on Saturday morn ing, and paid a visit to the Countess de Neuilly and the French Royal Family, at Claremont. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace shortly before two o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived in town on Saturday, attended by Lady Fanny Howard. from her residence, Frogmore, and visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert, and in the afternoon returned to Frogmore. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, on Sa turday afternoon, at a meeting of the Royal Commis sion for the Promotion of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel Bou verie, arrived at the Exhibition building in Hyde-park, at three o'clock. The Commissioners present were—Earl Granville, Lord Stanley, Lord Overstone, Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Charles L. Eastlake, Mr. Baring, M.P.; Mr. Bazely, Mr. Cubit:, Mr. T. F. Gibson, Mr. Jchn Gotr, Mr. Pusey, M.P.•, Mr. Stephenson, M.P.; Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P.; and Mr. John Shep herd (Chairman of the East India Company.) Mr. Scott Russell, Secretary to the Commission, at tended. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Com mittee; Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioner; and Dr, Lyon Playfair, Special Commissioner, were in attend ance. The meeting broke up at half-past four o'clock. His Royal Highness Prince Albert afterwards in spected the building. The Royal Family took their usual exercise on Satur day in the garden of Buckingham Palace. Tho Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Leveson Gower, the Marquis of Westminster, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord and Lady John Russell, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, had the honour of dining with the Queen on Saturday. The band of the 2d Life Guards was in attendance, in Buckingham Palace, during dinner, and performed the following selection:— Overture, " Jubilee" Weber. Fest, Polonaise Selection from " Robert le Diable" Waltz " Henrietta" (Ist time) T. Browne. Pas Rede, " The Fox and the Crow" Quadrille " Masaniello" The " Victory" Galop Tinney. God save the Queen. The Queens private Band afterwards attended, and played the following pieces:— Overture "libella" Air " Le Dieu et la Bayadere" March " The Sleeper Awakened" Duetto " Don Pasquale" Donizetti. His Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured Mr. Wil liam Theed with a visit at the studio in Henrietta -street, on Thursday last. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon, which was at tended by Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Earl of Minto, Lord Broughton, the Righ Hon. Henry , Lebow:there, and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Coun cil sat two hours and a half. Mr. Alexander Hastie, M.P., had an interview with Sir George Grey, on Saturday, at the Home-office. The Agricultural Implements Committee of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 had a meeting on Saturday, at half-past twelve, in the Exhibition Build ing in Hyde-park. There were present Mr. Pusey, M.P. (Chairman), Hon. Dudley Pelham, Colonel Chal loner, Mr. J. V. Shelley, Mr. H. S. Thompson, and Mr. Brandreth Gibbs. Colonel Reid (Chairman), and Mr. Dilke, of the Executive Committee; and Dr. Lyon Play fair (Special Commissioner), attended. Mr. Blanchard had an interview with Earl Grey on Saturday, at the Colonial -office. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Jackson. At the daily , service the sermon was preached by the Bishop of Here ford. Tho prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore; the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Haden, and the Communion Service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (EVERY BIONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) Sir,—The House on rising on Tuesday was ad journed till Thursday; partly on account of the late sitting, and partly, probably, on account of the Queen's levee. On Thursday the 27th, motion was made for a Committee to consider a Resolution, that it is expe dient to put in force the power given by the late Act altering the Navigation Laws, whereby additional or differential duties should be levied in British ports on goods exported or imported in Spanish ships, sufficient to countervail duties of the same kind levied on British ships in the ports of Spain. The principal movers were connected with the Northern fisheries ; and the Free Traders replied to them effaetieely, that the proposal went to enact, that whereas now Shetland salt-fish was hindered from going to Spain in the cheaper British vessel, means should be taken to make the Spanish one also dearer than at present. The Shetlanders appeared unable to answer this, and so the votes went against them by 98 to 53; the strong and substantial argument against them being, that it was impolitic to allow the Protectionists to take a step under the shelter of salt-fish, towards anything like the renewal of the ancient state of things. An effort was made on the same day to renew the attack on the Member for bleat Surrey for his out spokenness on the subject of monastic institutions. But the Speaker was stanch, and it fell to the ground without effect. A division took place on the salary of the Vice- Chancellor, in which the Vice-Chancellor won. It is not good lawyers that run away with the public millions, but dilettanti gentlemen who build large baby-houses of stone, which after all have not room for the Members of the House of Commons, and generals who please themselves with sending their brass-headed sticks to native chieftains, as Gessler set his hat upon a pole, and then we condemned souls have nothing to do but pay. On Friday a petition was considered on a question relating to an Election, where it appeared that a cer tain act had taken place at an interval of fourteen days, but not of fourteen clear days. Whereupon, since it was not stated that the Act of Parliament said fourteen clear days, it seems to have been properly determined that fourteen days would suffice. At all events the House so thought, as evinced by a majo rity of 204 to 79. On proceeding to the Committee of Supply, a ques tion was moved on the maintenance of the Military Hospital at Kilmainham. A listener to the Irish orators who opened the subject, must have been shocked with the idea that the Government con templated ignoring the services of all the Irish in the army, and confiscating the revenues appropriated for their aid. But on submitting to the rule of Audi al teram partem, he would piecemeal have discovered, that the whole amounted to the facts, that Chelsea Hospital i 3 large enough for all, that the soldiers, English and Irish, have no great affection for being made shows of in hospitals, and in general vastly pre fer ending their days among their kindred and fziends, and that there are expenses attendant on the mainte nance of many hospitals for few men, which are worth the saving, In opposition there appeared nothing but the spirit of nationality which demands an Irish hos pital for Irish soldiers ; a demand which is somewhat ludicrously taken down by the fact, that Irish soldiers are not sent to the Irish hospital, but soldiers dis charged in Ireland, so that the Irishmen may be looked for in Chelsea, and the English in Kilmain ham. The opposition was finally overcome, by a ma jority of 137 to 105. On going into the questioa of Land Forces, the usual kind of motion was made for reducing the num • ber by five thousand men. If something of this kind was not expected, the original vote might have been found increased by the five thousand. The customary , motion therefore acts as a useful ballast. In the pre sent instance the ballast was maintained by a demon stration of 47 against 186. On Saturday the House met for a few minutes to receive the Report of the Resolution on the above. I remain, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 31st March, 1851. Mss. TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL.—The excitement recently created in the religious world by the proceedings of a certain clergyman and a certain bishop, appears to have attracted the attention of one of our ablest novelists, for Mrs. Trollope, in her new work just published under the title of " Second Love ; or, Beauty and Intellect," has introduced in a very entertaining story several clerical characters, ra minding the reader strongly of the best passages in her popu lar " Vicar of Wrexhill ;" and among them is a bishop of the Established Church and a clergyman belonging to his diocese, whose proceedings afford a very lively view of Church principles and Church patronage at the present crisis. All the proceedings in the Court of Chancery, in the case of Miss Talbot, on Friday and Saturday, were given in yesterday morning's Observer, to the extent of six folio columns, with editorial remarks. The Observer of March 23, which gave three folio columns of Miss Talbot's case, has been reprinted, and copies can yet be had at 170, Strand, On Sunday next, April 6, a gratuitous supplement to th e Observer. Price of the Observer and supplement, 6d. The trustees of the Cholmondeley chariti es, through their treasurer, have presented a donation of 25/, to the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear, Dean-street, Soho-square. All ruins are delightful. Antiquity i s a m ighty sorceress, that flings a beauty and an interest around what ever she touches, hallowing even the most common-Pia" ob jects to the contemplative eye.—Eliza Cook's Journal. ELOQUENCE OF THE HAMMEL—An a uctioneer in South Durham announced for sale last week, an eel-spear, w hich he grandiloquently trident with which N eptune persuades his dolphin coursers described as "a match for the in their gambol speed through the labyrinths of his ocean!" He also had a miscellaneous lot of " books, boards, bottles, posts, props, pump - handles, and a pretty paradigm of pots, pans, and pantry pipkins!".—A pretty paradigm!---Gates head (lbservcrt LITE RAT URE COMMENTARIES ON THE LIFE AND REIGIV OF CHARLES THE FIRST. 2 Vas. By Isaac Disraeli. Edited by his Son. London: Henry Colburn. Several years since, the present remarkable contri bution to historical literature was originally published. The new edition, now lying before us, possesses conse quently but the attraction of a reprint, well revised and judiciously corrected. Issued as it is, however, at a moment so peculiarly appropriate, it will be welcomed with no common eagerness by the majo rity of the reading community. It comes to us indeed, just now, as aptly as the essays written by M. Guizot upon the characters of Monk and Washing ton cane of late to the great multitude of intelligent Frenchmen. It comprises within itself at once a warning and an example. In one chapter it has par ticular reference to " The Genius of the Papacy." In another it takes into account "The critical and variable situation of English Sovereigns with regard to their Roman Catholic subjects." It consequently arrests the attention of the masses throughout these kingdoms at the existing crisis with a power appor tioned to the influence of existing circumstances. We doubt not, therefore, that of all the valuable compilations for which we are indebted to the industry and eradition of Isaac Disraeli, this will, for a while at least, be incontestably the favourite. It will be pa • remount in public esteem for the time being, beyond even his memorable and estimable "Curiosities of Literature." Those who have already perused its pages will revert to them with only increased avidity, and this not merely because of their having passed under the scrupulous revision of their author, now, alas deceased, but because of their extraordinary applica tion to events now transpiring amongst ourselves, and provoking, by their unusual importance, the scrutiny more cr less of the entire of Christendom. Those again who, on the contrary,, have yet to acquaint themselves with the fruits of Mr. Disraeli's research in regard to English history immediately prior to the foundation of the Commonwealth, will find their cu riosity stimulated in no - ordinary manner by the reflec tion that now-a-days we are being afforded a striking illustration of the veracity of the old saving, that the annals of a country are little better than perpetual repetition. From the crimes perpetrated by a by gone Government, the Cabinet of the day may learn great lessons of admonition. From the weakness or ferocity exhibited by the mob in days long since de parted, the multitude of the hour may, in the record preserved of the frightful consequences of those excesses, perceive the folly of allowing themselves to be carried away by the impulse of passion or by the contagion of a diseased excitement. The brilliant author of " Coningsby " has performed his duties as editor with all filial assiduity, and with an earnest regard for the maintenance of his progenitor's reputation. His "advertisement," although unsatisfactorily short, is pithy and to the purpose, directing the notice of all men to the words of wisdom contained in these two volumes of Commentaries, words which it were well the public, and not only the public, but the Legisla ture, considered betimes in a light appropriate to their true application. The history of the " decline and fall" of monarchical power during the latter por tion of the reign of King Charles the First is itself an epic crowded with a variety of solemn and moving incidents. The loyal devotion of the Cavaliers, the democratic enthusiasm of the Roundheads, the fer vour of those who clung with passionate tenacity to the Crown, and the sincere fanaticism of those who assumed the designation of the Covenanters, make up picture y a rivalw hic h among for its the emotionalmany sstartling t intensity ling speo t a o h l e a s s displayed ar e el in the annals of humanity. Removed as we are by so long a period from the time when that heroic generation convulsed the whole framework of English society by their contentions, we can now happily look without prejudice at the many chivalrous deeds performed on both sides indiscriminately, on the side of the King, and on the side of the Parliament. Devoted as we are by all our political principles to the cause represented in the stalwart form of our im mortal Cromwell, called, and with truth, by the most eloquent of historians, " the noblest prince that ever ruled the destinies of England," we behold in the policy of Charles only a series of execrable duplicities and prevarications. We believe him to have been a man with many noble qualities, but with a tyrannical temperament, so paramount among all the peculiarities of his great nature, and so indulged in from the earliest period of his childhood, as to have ultimately warped his judgment and distorted his conscience. That he ' played false with the nation, all history proclaims in characters as indelible as the bloody record of his death afterwards inscribed by the hand of popular passion upon the stones of Whitehall. For inasmuch as he compelled the people by these detestable proceedings to fly to the last resource of a deceived multitude, the desperate resource of insurrection, we abhor the me mory of that monarch who, by his mistaken worship pers, has been transfigured into a hero unblemished and incomparable. Entertaining these sentiments, nevertheless, in reference to the policy of the King, we recognize in the King himself personally qualities such as command our most earnest and unconditional admiration. We behold in him a prince worthy, even in his weaknesses, of the title, a prince stubborn to force, but placable to persuasion, a prince brave in the midst of innu merable dangers, and resolute to the last even in the avenging face of the Nemesis of our national liberties. Who can read unmoved the touching narrative of his decapitation as penned by his present biographer ? " Addressing the headsman, the King said, ' When I put out my hands this way, then!' As soon as he had laid his head on the block, the executioner thrust his hair under his cap; and Charles, thinking that he had been going to strike, commanded him to stay for the :sign!' On the uttermost verge of life, men could dis cover in the King no indecent haste, no flurry of spirits, no trembling of limbs, no disorder of speech, no start in sorror—his eyes were observed by an eminent physician to be as lively and quick as ever, as his head lay on the block. The blow was struck—an universal groan, as it were a supernatural voice, the like never before heard, broke forth from the dense and countless multitude. All near the scaffold pressed forwards to gratify their oppo site feeling, by some memorial of his blood—the blood of a tyrant or a martyr. The troops immediately dis persed on all sides the mournful, or the agitated people." There is a solemnity in all this that one would think might have touched the large and sensitive heart of Milton ; yet Milton it was who, blinded by his poli tical prejadices, beheld in the serene demise of his sovereign only the mimic valour of a hero shod for a while in the sock and the buskin ! Affecting inci dents are rot wanting, however, in the life of King Charles long before the period of his execution, and Isaac Disraeli has availed himself of all these with the adroitness of a master in biography. Take the fol io wiag by way of illustration : " Often the King rode hard through the night, and saw fie break of day, which only recalled the wearied fugitile to the anxious cares of a retreat, or a pursuit. Once, late in the evening, the King summoned several gentlemen together, and after their conference he dis missed them to their beds with this pathetic address— ' Gentbmen! go you and take your rest, for you have houses Ind homes, and beds to lodge in, and families to love and live with—but I have none! My horse is wait ing for me to travel all this night, and return to the place wren I came.' The King had long been like a hunted partridge, flitting from one ground to another— this is en affecting image given of his erratic and anxious courses. In his strange condition, destitute, not merely of the household wants of men, but of those still more poignant, the bereavement of his wife—his chil dren—his friends—the suffering Monarch once ob served, 'As God hath given me afflictions to exercise my patience, so hath he given me patience to bear my afflictions.' " Among his dependents and counsellors similar longauimity seems to have been frequently rendered apparent. It was thus that Strafford died the death unappalled, almost we had said unmoved, by the hor rors of dissolution—as white a soul, said Archbishop Usher, as ever returned to its maker I Through every stage of thisremarkable history of the rapid progress from tyranny to republicanism, the biographer pur sues his way with a facile and abounding eloquence, lighting up his path by the luminous track of his erudition. Having hastily recounted the birth and boyhood of Charles, and given a secret history of the Spanish match, ne advances with great speed into the narrative of the stirring events which followed England valorous og t r e l oa l s h un and nw w dh the on unflinching compelled Parliaments hr e i e n s e dnet that pt io r vt e e ieg ofn immediate upon the accession o f t h e f u t ure victim of popular vengeance. One a ft er anot h er , h e yoked a n d di ss olved, u n til th e assembling of those w th e e re m e c n o con voked at length not war ry and o tdraw vicissitudes s wer(ol f t but he s s o u v b e s r e e q i subsequently during ntlyt to fling e away the scabbard. In tracing the events of the c i v il time whe n h e s t oo d at bay aga i ns t t h e nation he had outraged by his depotism—Mr. Di srae li h as of course given a c o l our i n g to hi s compos iti on which suf ficiently i n di ca t es th e pr o p or ti on i n wh i ch his sympa thies al partizan,ievrarresd, Nor in h divided among authora onhgattshimes manifestly endeavourneilfleisgtely striven re n t s h Neverthe less,most proved as while de vo t e d heart and s ou l t o t h e cause of the as siduously to wr it e i n a , l o fti er sp i r i t than that of a Cavaliers, entirely unsuccessful. Hence the value of the work in our consideration. Several • new lights are of course thrown upon such parts of the annals of Charles as have been hitherto somewhat obscure, and among the most curious sources from which the biograph er h as drawn his information we may allude more particularly to the 111 ercure _Francois, a journal previously over looked or depreciated, but containing a large mass of valuable, and even in some instances, inestimable in telligence, having been contributed to not unfres quently by Louis XIII. and Cardinal Richelieu. A vigorous and laborious composition upon a subject ever interesting to the majority of Englishmen, these . "Commentaries of the Life and Reig n o f Ch ar l es th e First," by Isaac Disraeli, must always be regarded as an important addition to our historical literature. The present, moreover, we doubt not, will henceforth NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MALTA, MARCII 22.—The Resistance troop-ship, after a beautiful passage f rom E ng l an d o f only 20 days, has arrived at this port. She brings out the 68th Regiment, to relieve the 44th service companies, which will embark for Gibraltar on Tuesday next. The sergeants of the 69th Regiment are about to pre sent to their late sergeant-major (Honnor) a silver cup, in token of their regard for him during a period of 21 years. The sergeant-major retires into private life en joying the esteem of the entire corps. A melancholy accident occurred on Monday last. A boat of the Medina was sent round from the Grand to the Quarantine Harbour, to creep for a chain and anchor, from which she had slipped a short time before. Having succeeded in her duty, she was returning, and when off St. Elmo she was caught in a heavy squall and capsized. Her crew consisted of Mr. Long, a Master's assistant, and six men, two of whom, James Griffin and William Crawley, sank to rise no more. This morning a largo party of fashionables left the island by the French steamer for Naples. Among the number were the Earl and Countess Cottenbam and family. During his Lordship's stay in Malt a hi s h ea l th has materially improved. A general court-martial will assemble shortly for the trial of a private of the 69th Regiment, who having had a quarrel with a comrade on the preceding evening, loaded his gun yesterday morning and fired at him. Providentially the vile act was rendered nugatory by the ball striking an iron pea!, and glancing off from the in tended victim. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH SO.—Captain Arthur Lowe, son-in-law to Admiral Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8., will be flag -captain, and Mr. Alexander Kent, secretary to Sir John at Devonport. The Penelope, 22 Captain Lyster, was reported com plete in the master-shipwright's department to-day. She will probably be taken out of harbour on Tuesday, and sail for the coast about the 10th, with Commodore Bruce, to relieve Commodore Fanshawe on the coast of Africa. The Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, arrived at Tria comalee on the 29th of January, and remained there on the Bth of February. The Fox was to go to Madras to meet the Hastings, 72, Rear -Admiral Austen, from Sin gapore. The Salamander steam-sloop sailed from Trin comalee on the Ist ult., for Moulmein. The good service pension, which reverted to the gift of the first Lord of the Admiralty on the promotion of Captain Henderson to the rank of Rear-Admiral, has been conferred on Captain John Drake (1835). Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant permission to Lieutenant W. Parker, of the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, to wear a gold medal bearing an ens bossed star and crescent upon it, conferred on him by the Sultan for his services in co-operating with the army in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie, in 1811. The Fantome, 12, Commander Gennys, and the Cal liope, 26, Captain Sir Everard Home, arrived at Madeira on the 11th instant, and the Pandora, 6, on the 15th. The Avon steamer, Second Master-Commander Veitch, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday with seamen for the Prince Regent. The Avon returned the same even ing to Plymouth. The Birkenhead steam-trooper, is taking on board provisions and water. She will go to Woolwich the early part of the week, to take on board four companies of the Royal Artillery for New Brunswick and Canada. The Rhadamauthus, Master-Commander Belam,troop steamer, with Artillery (two companies) and some de. tachments of the line on board for the Cape, anchored is St. Helen's Roads in the night, and came up to Spithaad on Sunday morning. She will proceed for Plymouth the same evening, to await final orders and complete fuel and water. Wind N.N.W., fresh breezes, and fine. DEVONPORT, MARCH 28.—The Retribution has con siderable defects to make good, having experienced very bad weather on her passage home from Lisbon. H er rudder-head is t w i s t e d, an d requ i res a new main pin. Her port paddlebox is much damaged, and it will re quire a fortnight before she is fit to go to sea. She came into harbour on Thursday evening. The Bonetta sailed this morning. The Avon steam-tender sailed to-day, with supernu meraries for Portsmouth. A court-martial assembled this morning on board the Impregnable, to try Mr. Robert Watson, supernumerary boatswain of the St. George, on _a charge of drunken ness and disobedience of orders, preferred by Lieut. Cull, of the St. George. Commodore Lord John Hay, president; Captains Nias, St. George; Sir Thomas Mait land, Impregnable; Captain Warden, of the Retribution ; and Commander M'Cormick, of the St. George. Mr. George Eastlake, Judge-Advocate. Mr. John Beer, solicitor, defended the prisoner. After a strict and patient investigation, it was eonsi dered that neither charge was proved, and Mr. Watson was honourably acquitted. Mr. Watson is an old and efficient warrant officer, having first-rate certificates for near 40 years. He lately served in the Wellesley. The Camel lighter, Faben master commanding, sailed this afternoon with stores for Pembroke. Her Majesty's ship Cumberland, 70, Captain Peter Richards, was in Torbay on Friday, and is now beating down Channel. The packet brig Brilliant, Captain Calbeck, with mails and passengers for Madeira, sailed yesterday. WOOLWICH, MARCIE 29.—The Caradoc steam-vessel, recently plying between Dublin and Holyhead, but now fitting at Woolwich as a packet to run between Mar seilles and Malta, went down the river in charge of Lieu tenant Derriman, with Mr. Humptaus, chief engineer at Woolwich dockyard, on a trial cruise, to ascertain her speed and the efficiency of her engines before proceeding to her destination. The weather was rather unfavour able for the experiment, but her average speed at the measured mile, with 8 feet 6 inches draught of water, was 131 knots p er h our, t h e engines making 25i revo lutions per minute. She now carries 140 tons of coal, and her new boilers occupy a space of about two-thirds of the original ones. She stared at 10.45 Ix , and re turned to Woolwich at 5 P.M. The Roy nerd steam-sloop, Commander Peter Craeoft, was ut Whampoa on the 25th of January last, and a letter from on board, dated that day, was received here by the last India mail, in which it is stated that a dread ful fire had taken place on the previous night just ahead of the ship, and only about 200 yards from her. The whole of Bamboo town, consisting of about 350 wooden houses, was hurnt down in the short space of three hours. The other blade of the screw of the Rey- Davi was broken off at Shanghai and a new one put on at Ningpo in twelve days, the two engineers doing all the work on board themselves, and they have now a pro peller of their own construction, affording evidence of the benefit of having practical engineers on board. Mr. Oultram was promoted for repairing the first blade, and Mr. Goldsack is deserving of promotion for his indefa tigable exertions in assisting in repairing both blades. TRIAL OF THE NIX PRUSSIAN WAR STEADIER. A trial took place on Saturday with anew iron steamer intended as a gun vessel for the Prussian service. This vessel, built by Messrs. Robinson and Russell, left Blackwall shortly after twelve o'clock, not only to try her rate of speed, but to test her power of firing guns in a manner quite novel, and for which a patent has been secured. The paddlewheel war steamers of the Royal Navy can fire only one gun ahead or astern; but, in the case of the Nice, the sponsons or platform in front and astern of the paddle-boxes are so formed and strengthened that two guns, one for each sponson, can be fired either forward or aft to cress each other at a distance of 130 yards from the bow or stern. The Nix is a vessel of only 550 tons, builder's measure ment, with a mean draught of water of six feet six inches. The engines are of 150-horse power, and her armament consists of four 8-inch guns, 65 cwt. each, and 9 feet long; also, two 32-pounder guns, 25 cwt. each, and 6 feet long, mounted upon carriages made by Messrs. Fergusson, Miliwall, with all modern improvements in that department cf gunnery. She tried her speed at the measured distance in Sea reach, and performed the mile, with the wind and tide in her favour, in 4 min. and 5 sec. When the Nix arrived off Southend she fired two 8-itch sponson guns shotted, firing three rounds from each, the shot crossing each other within a dis tance of about 130 yards ahead of the vessel, making an angle towards the line of keel of 2i deg. The vessel then returned, and although encountered by a strong wind and tide performed the measured mile in 6 min. and 55 sec., making an average speed of 11,684 knots or 13,463 miles per hour. The Nix being intended as a vessel of war has been fortified on the inside with two thicknesses of 4-inch teak plank, and is considered to be very strong. She carries about 124 tons of coals, equal to ten days consumption. The engines performed 32 strokes per minute. They, as well as the vessel, were constructed by Messrs. Robinson and Russell. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EPSOM SPRING MEETING. Tho programme fur Thursday and Friday next is by far the strongest that has been issued since the establish ment of the Spring meetings. So strong is it—thanks to the liberality of the licensed victuallers and their friends, and the zeal of the clerk of the course—that the stewards of the flat races are at length enabled to dis pense with " heats ;" and we have no doubt will excl u de them altogether from all future lists, whether in spring, summer, or autumn, On the first day the venue will be laid in the same locality as last year—the sport to con sist of three steeplechases and a hurdle race w ith public , money amounting to 2201. Th e " legiti mis m" racing on the following day will b e i n every respect f i rst-rate. Six events will come off—viz., th e T rial Stakes, the City and Suburban Handicap, with an a cce ptance of 27 out of an entry of 51 (one havin g b ecome void b y t h e d eath of that straight-forward sp ortsman Sir G ilb ert H eat h oote); the Two years old St a k es, with wearies (one void), an d the prospect of a large field; the Great Metropolitan Handicap, for whi c h 44 were le f t i n out o f 1 01 nomina tions (one void) ; th e Railway Pl a t e an d S e lli ng S takes, which, as w e ll as the Trial Sta k es , c l ose on W ednesday afternoon at fou r o ' cioc k—tbe money added amo un ti ng to 6504 So ext raor dinary an improvement in the cha racter of th e meeting is creditable to Mr. Dorlin g ; an d as the B r i g h ton Ra ilway Company will provide ample accommodati o n in the shape of special trains on both days, there is no doubt that he will be liberally sup ported by the public. NORTH OF ENGLAND STEEPLECHASE. The dis puted r ace has been decided in favour of Isaac. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. SIR,-1 should feel extremely obliged if you could find a corner for the following acrostic on the name of Phelps; it was written by a deceased friend of mine just before his death.—Yours obediently, W. J. L. P ouring thy sounding lines on eager ears, II urling thy flashing sentences afar, E 'on as iu Feudal Times thy form appears L it up to greatness as the truthful ‘4 Mar." P (Ant onward still and long b enea th thy reign S hall " Sadler's Wells" its proud career maintain. CIIARLES WILTON. THE LONDON SEAMEN.—A monster procession of the seamen of the port of London is appointed for Wedset : day, to convey the petitions for the repeal of the Memo* Marine Act. seed ices, iuite with our itac© 71109 71 OS 41 1" 27103 rt of ed to 1850 ,484 63 3 66 is 6$ 'igs. ~~ .;