The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

llit Pri • , ces barely equal t o th ose o b tained on this day SP , nnwnt. 4 ' 4 " IL'e caA ,f. ~. • at, is ppr quar.er le B3 tty money, at which deciine next to nothing v. as Going. rse had rather ' a large show of Foreign Wheat, but there Rands a pastcomve scarcity of fine qualities, which changed fe a r t i l o d 8 81° w last week's prices. In the middling and in almost kinds so . little was doing that the quotations were almost nominal. ti With Engli4 Barley we were liberally supplied for the larg e . "j'ear, and the quantity of Foreign was unusually par vor all descriptions the inquiry was heavy in d th e e cline re ale , .....1 ..0 prices gave way is per quarter, at which - , 3carcely any Progress was made in sales. we M a i It e•avery dun. t supported previous currencies, but all other kinds i n , i ---e F nIPPly of Oats being large, that article was very dull Be , a nd Prices gave way 6d per quarter. ve n,rNithe quantity of which offering was not large, ruled R I 'ats but We cannot call them lower. Ind! sale for Peas was heavy, at late rates. an Corn and Flour moved off s!owly, at last Monday's Prices. Ir., CIIRR E NCY PER IMPERIAL MEASTIRE. ' R ed -..at--Essex & tent, Malt—Chevalier...... 525 to bss Ditt o ' N ew •• • • 368 to 43s Oats— Yorkshire and _ ' , cute, New 398 49s Lincolnsh., Feed. 16s 19s AOrfolk and Lin- Potato .... 19s 23s bitt:oln, ed.- • • 345 41 5 youghal and Cork, ' W hite•• •• • • 365 42s Black . ...... 145 17s • 145/1, Red.. Cork, White ... • • 155 188 k r4 4 , 13 1 to,whi te... Scotch, Feed. .. • • 19s 248 . xewld. .......: :: - 2 - 6: — 275 s Beans—Tick ......... 22s 29s ' 1 1thy..... / ,,... •''••• •• • • 285 29s Pigeons . • .. 26s 31 4. —.ding, •• •• 198 22s Peas—Grey .......... 258 28s +thin g 4._ et ev .,,_ ••• • • .... 23s 26s B . l t-.5„11;;• ••• • • 275 29s Maple . .......... 2 2 4 7: 3 27 2 5 s roz. nd Nor- Boilers ......... 85 26 5 s 4 3 os s • brow n ...... •• • • 43s 48s Flour—Town-made. • • X.- ... ••• • • • 40s 42s --sa Suffolk • .... ••• • • 29s 33 5 ton Ind Ware 47s 518 Stocktn & Norfolk 295 348 SEEDS. 0.-16tw:thstancling t at the supply of Foreign Clover Seed No today w It at lasi as extensive, a fair business was transacted ?wer, L . `. week's quotations. Canary dull, and somewhat ulqui ry. Ili seed and Rapeseed quite as dear, with a fair t uraipo r ,„ he d ZrdPer bush , os to I2s auttrdi rowtl ,.. " • • 93 v%Prla te , " ••• • • •.6s Od 850(11 e alia Old • • • .43 Ocl 4s 6d CYe gl ta D i er q uar i e •; • 3 4 8 5 0 5 d 48 5 0 1 0 s ICb c_er. R e a ••• • • 24s 303 .IYlltt e (cwt.) 36 8 56s tour $n •.• • • :6 . 3 5 5 1 s White 34 60: **** •••• 17s 22 51 th ° Witig. WO, 4t h e . great measure, to the continued mildness ok ;," t o-Lon d „:, °, l l the continent, the imports of foreign stock i' L e ,arith ey ", s i I ,st week were unusually large for the time of corr 4 es " a v lll s amounted to 3,309 head against 971 during dlt to i ti rlding week in 1850; 260 in 1849; and 1,408 Pror a Utr ° ItTB INTO LONDON IN TIM PAST WEEK. ?..rlin,,„ Beasts. Sheep.. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. •• 1 56 ... 964 . 1 .. irterd ain 118tiold. " 18 9 ... 300 ... ... 859 ... '1; 41 44;4:: . . 354 10 ... Uien ... 12 ... 4 1t ** 19 8 ... 384 ... —_ .. 7 4 " ' 4 "" 1 7 .. 50 ... 16 ... ot e i • 57 ° tild Sell • • 2,217 ...480 ... 32 e Y Comparison of the weekly imports is as ,Carraway 31s 33 1 Coriander .. 15s 18 Hempseed, per quarter 343 356 Linseed, Eng. sowing.. 54s 86 , Crushing .. 402 43, Baltic .. .. 38s 44^ Odessa .. 42s 46 , Linseed Cake, pr. ton — English .. .71 Os 7110. Foreign, per ton 61 58 71 On Rape Cakes, pr ton 31 15s 410, Rapeseed, New, pr Ist 25110 s 27103 180 . Beasts. Sh eep. L am b s. Calves. Pigs. 49 ........ 185 ... 625 _.. ..• 161 ..• „ 44 9 **** i. ... 580 ... 609 ~ ~. 215 ... 'Ally abut... 40 ...... h ut. l . tfi r 300 head of foreign stock were landed at t e o 42 i _ 4-1 8 4 . as iv-" r eek. By sea, from Ireleind, 20 Beasts and . i•N ~,,‘iotwithstan iing that the supply of Beasts on offer in fi. t hat a l: filarket exhibited a slight fa cling off compared with I,'"e de on ho konday last, it was more than adequate o "St eu—,ano• The attendance of buyers was tolerably good,. fe ted oreed, of Beasts met a very inactive inquiry, at unal al gd quotati ons. The highevt figure for the best Scots was P roftl Per gib.. NT . The eneral ' quality of the stock was good. in, t6i reclr e „,° l ki Suffolk g , Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we r.e -ettl,l:uv Scots, bhort- horns, &c.; fr om the Northern dm itlhou ru Short -horns ; from other parts of England, 300 of tk e i4 B ; l l . _ ae ds i and from Scotland 500 h orned and polled , Scots. 'eil,„Qii"h"gain tolerably well, but no.c. to say hea‘,il, breeds, - "tEe, hi, ,_ Sheep for the time of year. For most ' ll t ' wal fi rm, and, in some instarvces, the currencies had l'itt"*nrd tendency. We may, obsetrve, however, that the ii,, ale ti h , h, ,, q , i , -gure for the best Old Do wns in the wool was te f;4ktt:',lsltls• There were about 1,000 shorn Sheepi h .. °ll l s. ..“lether with 90 Dorset Lamibs, which latter sld at "In , d ' °O i n to 6 a per Sibs Calves—t.hough in short supply ig:011 1. t f gale, at late * rates. We had a better inquiry for e Prices of which were well supported. Per 81bs. to mint the ‘otiru, s. d. to s. d. Se t tn tu s i r te uti..... % d ; to 2 6. d. 8 infer'•or Sheep .. . 3 4 3 6 k: 4 1 0 111111 „, t ,_ • 7 •2 10 3 0 Seco; td quad . Sheep 3 8 310 Is Stal: 141 111 . .. 3 2 3 4 Clartie-woolledditto4 0 lI N t c o ,— .• ••• • 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wether i 0 2 . 1 ) 4 0 kJ se Olives 3 4 310 Ditto out of the woo 14: 4 , 1 116 -un,gitta •• 3 8 4 0 Large Bogs ...... 210 3 6 1 11 ' ° " 4l •• 18 0 24 0 Small. Pork ers •••• 3 8 4 0 ' ' ".• "• •• 0 0 0 0 Quart or old Pigs ..16 0 21 0 Ve*lts. TO TAL SUPPLY AT Id ARKET. 3,8 /1 • I Sheep. 4 Salvos. I 3 P 2 1 g 0 4 . I 16,170 139 444. 0 .. FOREIGN StrrpL, Y. I aai — I Sheep. Calves. rig s, I, 11 ,' ......._ 1 1,080 I 99 hs'tob,-""IaWCINATE AND LEA MENECALL. (7miz. Scotland, as well as from most parts of England, the 6 i!„ °f Meat received up to our markets last . week were "1q be the time of year, and of exiiellent quality. Those t4r,killed in the metropolis con tinue seasonably go h od t /4 1 4 ,11 speaking, the demand is in a sluggish state, n "" no material change to notice in prices. tiler , t At per stone by the Cr raise. ... *iv a. d. to 8. .1. ,'"••• I t n eit i t e4 ; ... ••2 0 2 2 Mutton, : s. d. to s. 41. C"•01.1,_, .... 2 4 2 6 _ i m nf i e d rior ...• 2 6 2 8 2 10 3 6 r . ....1 1 11;;; Ii4 110 •• 2 8 30 prime .... 3 8 310 •444.• -.Simian .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1emg0........ 2 6 3 6 (1. 11 1...,...„..... 3 2 4 0 —enis 11 ........ 3 8 4 0 h:414.1k,-",411010'Gli AND sprraxarszaram. .. Yk4hoe;"aets continue to be heavily supplied with English me ' -, wuich are still arriving i a excellent condition. t liti. l / 3 'Port. reo. - v fr e ... - ---, last week, were 240 tons from Rouen, and 101 cto,'" Dunkirk. Selected samples are moderate re ltle fUll prices In the middling .and inferior 'n kinds very , l a doin g. ' re -4 Per Ton. Per Ton. i, t — D lt egent 80s to 1005 Essex Slaws ... 60s to — 7s s s -Jett --egentsB: 55s to 75s Kent Regents.... —a to 1-1 R OI 4 C Essex Regents... —s to s ti),reißcl4-5,.. ............. 60s to 80s Kent & E ssx. Mid. 50s to 60s etoi k Q;_..,.... 60s to 65s Kentish Red Kid. —s to —8 4154 6;7 11.8.• —a to - Cambrid;ge ditto —s to to —s 8 •, ••••• 608 to rss Chats . . I . Alth oh , 31 - O ROIIGH HOP MILZITEET. t i lil lits ,;ga 'he supply of Hops of last year's growth con: e". P att y extensive, the demand is fir in at very full curren k - • 16 ",--Lors' prices, viz., ready money ^.—East Kent pockets, t ke ‘ t, .?„, 6 1 158; ditto bags, 31 4s. to Si 5s ; Mid Kent h ttit p ock s r 6 8 to Si 158; ditto bags, 21 to 41 10s; Weald of `klte... — `th!, 3/ 6s to 41 per ditto bags, 2/ 2s to 3/ lOs ; Sussex .., 2 /.llls to 3t 16s cwt. The WOOL. pa 41 1 , 1 heXt public sales of colonial Wtiol are appointed to y k e r n ... ee ., on Thursday next, the 13th instant. The quan "reel "4";i7 advertised is lit 0,0 packages, including several 11 ' 44 ' 1 : °f f " r eign. By private contract, the demand . is 14 to ' t htl. prices are well sup orted, Last week's imports 5 2a f and were 517 hales fro p Rouen 27 from Hamhurgh, 4114.°111 Odessa, 97 from Callao 130 fr ' n:ln Mogadore, 8 from 4 1 3, "Lod 3 frorn Ireland. ' Th, TALLOW. bed large contracts entered into for Cot ivard delivery have Pt: totisicierable ' 1 lee s h a , • influence upon the demand on th e spot. ast, -r , -.. e„, therefore, advanced 6d p el: cwt since Monday St 1- .1.C. bei ng huh the Pe roarkeo 4,,,tVitt net cash per cwt, quoted to-day at 3 f3s to 388 3d p_ _ _ fe''''urgh letter states ;it° '8g I at hfirrn,. Town TirAlow is 37s to 37s 3a ,2s Id per Ms. Our St. Pe t - that 2 0,000 pond sof Tallow had sold :-..,!agust at 113 roubles - 'th hand nu iney. A iallV 17 -..les with hand nu iney• titotit . 1 1847. 1848. 18149. 1850. 185 " t hill a .__, ______ Pri aY •• .. • • 13,282 12,394 35,1502 42,864 45,527 % I , bk i , .• C. .... ito 53s 6d 41s' Od 37s 6d to 38 3 8 83 0( 3 1 d 0 1,3 9 1 0 1 d to Ntt,;eglitst week .. 2033902 d to 2.(4c7k1 318978 1° 2,433 bitt l Zklsl a j n w e 1 . •• • 66,327 79,081 74, , ,64 69053 70,457 1, N 0.1, - eek . 51 1 ' 565 1,,097 1,472 130 ri, line 1 ... 68,986 83,374 102233 86,746 "'' s , t,„_, "u •••• • • 90,466 5 23 Od 5 1s 6d 43s Od 39s 61 39s 6d An_ • . mg. 04.1" VIV: 6--------:OUNCIT DAY.) th,clitlitiai Committee of the Privy Council sat to- d r a e y_ w c"lneil Chamber, Whitehall. AI bong the Lords the Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of la th: The; 4 °l*Cornyvall. and the Judge of t Adnairalty . Cour . Lordsla were occu ied the whol:e morning with pe +as fortes eztension of patents. —KiAdsicEity. (THIS DAY.) ~ Th e ~ WARD V. WARD. 4cltr „c g u ni. ents i thiscase, which steed on the paper by Nat; —euPecl thent the whole mor wing. The case pos no feature of interest. 11 .01. - r c ., ) drt tilanThe Mas—t7Of C OURT. —(T HIS DAY.) Rolls did not sit to-day __ t°till e c ?l? -1411e ' ill eonsequence of havini; to attend the P ivy 1 7 " t o, - '''C4-Cli ---------- lIIS DAY.) , ANCERY.—(T kiti:„tv(ol3lterore, the 'Vi ce - Chancellor KNI GuT BRucE.) , 11 ' 414 4 ''. the aAtaaRURY RAILWAY CO MPANY—JUDGMENT. -mti O NOuR in this case, dismissing petiti withaVe judgnient to-day on costs. Ull a ft GLIEPRATTE V. YOUNG—JUI )GHENT. t 7C)te hr.. 91"1 ,- R also gave judgment in I his case, which came i_ihiteei-sA,.na Miclaaelnaas term, upo n exceptions to l the t' tthz,Tnrt- His Honour entered a t considerable length d i ets ......., e ase, from which the following appear to be the _ mAgoo . 4:4 Englifih lady had married a French officer of ; te rw a ,l and had become domiciled in Trance. Some time ~; etcrs bgin England, she was party to and executed ,rtrsoltat Purporting to affect certant and reversionary .114 Property to which she was entitled, but which 144114 fief to her separate use. It was contended Ottlith tratulaetiou, although one: which a married t j, tic . - lawlvas incapable of entering; into according Dj: la: of of England, was vahid against her by Th -4 Of h",:, Fr England, and that the latter la w, being that of the k ce 0p:,,4 usaraicile regulated the ( d feet of the contract. "veeilt°llBofMess'rs Paillet and Du: - vergier, two eminent ii el:4 4 . --e a, had been taken by the con tending parties, and i a 2 at m , Illet' 41A to Master. One questi.c n . was, whether the a r . ll . r tiele of the Code Napoleon a ipipliedtp the case? maitt it ers...‘itlB Pt that what are termed in it synalag till . h l'tlatira, eta, shall not ' be valid un !,....,ss made . by as man Reset,. austrunaents as there are dis tinct parties. In . tat t 5, ntea'd&e this condition . had not bet ,t, fulfilled, but it was , s Ppli ca - 544 1 , 1 Mitt the law a the place o f domicile, although "krti ''''''e for th of resole ding the rights of the e ° ei un der e Purpose 474)a1i.,1a vOutraCt, did governnot a the law as to the ~Nle4,...."_,*attending the instruments which contained the tgae -5 ku the contract but that this law was that of the_ t4 tea ° th r the execution of the docunzents. Of two advo eal lti i .e- opinions of Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier were 4 thiln, and it was agreed between the parties . that a eutle.lttivoeate should be consulted, t 3 be nominated bye t•ordit'katt at the equity bar. This gentleman being a I('that ,gIY requested by the Master to a elect an advocare for kre,"POsei wrote from. Boulogne, •tv here lie was staying, ' ett io . e: 4ll „°elot, an advocate, to ad'eise: him as to the r av e. tur ti ,_, La. Chauvelot thereupon carom te Boulogne and ast mike that the case (which had been prepared by the Li s „et) should be laid before Monsie cl.r Vatismenil, and on 114 11 , ici°l3lo4,, ratio being adopted, pi •otrieeded to Paris, and O f tile 'i.vatiornenil, to whorn he madel verbally a statement Prep',„ 4 ets of the case, and then liar ,ded him the statement tiitt.3eq„. bY the Master, with some , marginal notes and /41°118 e the result of til. Chauve lot's own consideration and research. The solicitors for the 144:ant parties then wee won by Mr. A. Wyndham's Victory; Lard Shefton's t , ) prodtve in the first instance en alarm and awn -; , ,U,LedLj :1. Cor:7-t: y . f3FS elf it ei a volt.m.m, • 4tt,-c. 7 .4g . 414t,i,011 -44 g g from toe ron's ot Sin4i, bare, dazic, er.ggy its itseil, sun eundea suaeeley by a mantle of gloom, end crowned above other hil!s with a diadem of fire—a tierce wind bloc jog. in rest' , as eddies round it—torrents of rain dPsoendihg through the darkness—the lightnings of God playing up)ii the sum mit—thunders crashing incessantly—the tramp which shall call the dead to judgment sending forth a pre liminary note and causing the mountain to thrill and tremble—and, heard at intervals above all, the voice of the Eternal—the millions of Israel standing silent on the plain, awe and wonder casting a shadow over their faces—and amid all this one lonely man going up the hill and quaking as he goes—the utterance of the fiery law from amid the gloom—the amen of the tribes—the seclusion of Moses with Jehovah for forty days on the top of the Mount—the finger of god, the same finger which dipping itself in glory had touched the firmament and left as its trace the sun, writing the ten precepts on the two tablets—the passing of the Lord berme Moses as ha hasted and threw himself on the ground—the descent of the favoured man with his face shining out the tidings where he had been;—all this taken together, while cal culated to cast a salutary terror down to remote ages, and to make the children among the willows of Canaan to tremble at the name of Sinai, was fitted, too, to produce a peculiar and terrible poetry." Take for beauty:—" You are aware, again, in singular union with this profound unconsciousness and simplicity (in the Bible) of a knowledge and insight equally profound. It is as though a child should pause amid her play and tell you the secrets of your heart and the particulars of your after history;" or " Galileo and young Milton in the dungeon (surely a theme for the noblest pencil) the meeting of Italy's old savant and England's young scholar—the grey-haired sage, each wrinkle on his fore head the furrow of a star ; and the Lady of his Col lege' with Comus curling in his fair locks, and the dreom of Eden sleeping on his smooth brow; while the dim twilight of the cell, spotted by the fierce eyes of the offi cials, seemed the age too late or too early, on which both had fallen: a meeting like that of Morning with her one star and coming day, and Midnight with all her melancholy maturity and hosts of diminished suns ; a meeting like that of two centuries." Take for grandeur:—" The poetry of the landoshich is rarely se sublime as when picturing the character and achievements of the Desired and Expected One. This desire—in what singular circumstances was it fulfilled. The earth was at rest and still. The expectation of many ages had come to its height. In the hush of that universal silence we may imagine the hearts of all nations panting audibly with strong and intolerable longing ; ' or, "But who dare claim kindred with Eze kiel, the severe, the mystic, the unfathomable, the lonely —whose hot hurried breath we feel approaching us like the breath of a furnace ? Perhaps the eagle may, for his eye was as fierce and as keen as hers. Perhaps the lion may, for his voice too sounded vast and hollow on the wilderness wind. Perhaps the wild ass may. for his step was like hers, uncontrollable. Or does he not turn away proudly from all these, and, looking up, de mand as associates the most fervid of the burning ones, those who of the angelic throng stand the nearest and yet blench the least betore the throne of God? Does he not cry as he sees the eeven angels holding the seven last vials of Divine wrath, and coming forth from the smoke of the glory of God,' these are my brethren,' be mine to mingle with these ' to be clean as these, and to bear a like vessel o f th e Lord with these? Dues he not wish to stand apart even Isom Isaiah, Daniel, Ha bakkuk, and John? The comparison of a comet, often used and generally wasted, is strikingly applicable to Ezekiel. Sharp, distinct yet nebulous, swift, sword shiaped, blood-red, he bangs in the Old Testament sky raiher burning as a portent than shining as a prophet." fairesttt h em a n is o y r w t e h h e a l d u s m a a e r s k t e o d i for T e h sc e t s r e ac p t a , ss a Hg nd es n — ei a th fe er w o t u h t e ° olu notion m e . Sometimes o f that s prose-poetry trange aasds theic h ptheervl°ecsk—thitusabYriglliiave a vnt cry of the souls under the altar, sometimes piteous as the voice—sad up the long years—of Rachel mourning for her children, sometimes wild as the shadowy chorus— sorrowlul as bells through rain, and swelled by many cries out of every century—" Oh Absalom! my son, my son!" Sweet as the accents of Ruth, dainty as the step of Esther, plaintive as the prayer of Hannah, and the wail of the widow of Nain, it rises through the triumph of Miriam to reverberations loftier and loftiest till we hear the horns to which Jericho fell, and even the very echo of the thunders of the Mount. So far as the poetic quality of Giltillan'a mind is concerned we feel übuudantly satisfied. As an indicator of the presence of poetry there can be no question of his competence; but something more is necessary to qualify a man to come forward with a book of such lofty pretensions as that which now lies beside us. The critic, or expounder, or panegyrist, must not ..: `. , ..;.... . ~ L•i -;,, 11 EF,';';',. .rte, 7 1..,..,;: - .L. , ~. , ":•../, .., i i 'T ti t. ~-3, ; , 0 , ept , .1,c, , 5'.i.... , f01i r- to be declared on or before the 14th of Feb. Age st lb' Age et lb Pitsford . Cloth worker ... Legerdemain 5 8 OYork.3-ou're-wanted . 4 6 10 Ch anti ey 5 7 11Le Comte 6 6 9 Alaik Tapley ...... .. 4 7 11,Achyranthes ... Posttempore Belus Fleur-de-Seine Me10dy....., Jenny Lind ...... ..... 5 7 1!Old Claret Mistake (late Anda- !Gimcrack... 4 6 3 lusian) Whizgig The Baroness Little George .. ...... 4 7 01Scar 3 5 5 Idle-bay ... ......... ... 6 6 12 Knook Knoll Panope 4 6 11 1 Unitv I- Lady-I-am-off 6 6 1 liThe Saxon 3 5 2 Reversion ...... ..... 5 6 Io,Heart of Oak 3 5 0 Joe Sutherland Selina Slang If the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will be raised to that, and the others in proportion. ST. ALBAN'S STEEPLE CHASES. Acceptances for the St. Alban's Handicap. at lb at lb Ben Lomond Mulligan Trust-me-not ll 0 Rendsburg .. lO 4 St. Leger II 0 The Lustrum lO 3 Subduer Anglesea The Hawk The Selling Race. at lb at lb The Baron ... ..... St„ Ruth Outcast Rigby (late Pedlar) ... 10 11 Crystal 9 13 G. by Liverpool ..., lO 11 Lammermoor ... ..... ... 9 13 Reindeer Herts Yeoman HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag hds., Tues., at Knaphill, near the Woking station; Fri., Slough 11. Brambam Moor hds., Wed., Bishop-woods; Fri., Stutton mill ; Sat., Harewood—loi. Essex Union lids., Wed., Woodham Fan; Sat., Hockley Bull —10 k. East Essex hds., Tues., Stormer Lion-10i ; Thurs., Ald ham-hall-11 ; Sat., Notley- gate-10k. Mr. Conyer's lids., Thurs,, Mylem ; Sat., High Roothing street-10k . Sour h Essex hds., Tues., White's-bridge; Sat., Wenning ton-10k. Essex and Suffolk hds., Tues., Stour-wood; Fri., Hintle sham Park-gate-10i. Suffolk hds., Tues., Stowingtoft-hall; 'Thurs., Hareheath mill ; Sat., Depden-green-10. Durham County hds., Wed., Aldin-grange ; Fri., Dalton —lok. Stockton and Billingham bars., Thurs., Hartlepool-10k. Raby hds., Wed., Witton ; Fri., second mile from B. Auck land on the Durham-road-11. Hurworth lids., Tues., Kennels; Sat., Oak Tree Village —lok. Mr. Hildyard's hare., Tues., Hemlington Bluebell; Fri., Trenholme-bar-10i, Lord Elcho's hds., Wed., Red Scar-bridge; Fri., Etal Col lier-; Sat., North Charlton-10i. Newcastle and Gateshead hrs., Tues., Heddon-on-the- Wall ; Fri., Washington-10. Duke of Rutland's hds., Tues., Lenton-village ; Wed., Stoke Rochford ; Fri., Dry Doddington—lok. Cottesmore hds., ties., Leigh-lodge; Thurs., Holywell; Saturday, Crown Point-11. Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Cadney-bridge ; Fri., Swin hop-house —ll. Lord Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Bythorn Toll-bar; Fri., Castor lianglands-10. Lord Henry Bentinek's hds., Wed., Linwood; Thurs., Carlton- le-alorland ; Fri., Blankney. Mr. Hellier's hds., Tues., Wood Enderby; Thurs., Legsby ; Sat., Harrington-hall-11. Mr. M. Ingram's hds., Thurs., Drakelowe; Sat., Black Slough-10i. Donnington hds., Tues., Shipley-hall; Sat., Belton-vil lage -10 g. Rufford lids, Wed., Norwood-park; Thurs., Caunton village ; Sat., Langwith-lodge-14 Mr. Lumley's lids„ Tues oAierton ; Thurs., Gateford ; Fri., Gringley-on-the. Hill-10k. Badsworth hds., Tues., 51arr-village ; Thurs., Rawcliffe hall ; Sat. Ackworth-moor-top-10i. Holderness hds., Tues., Londesborough; Thurs., Low thorpe Lodge; Fri., Houghton—lli. Sir Tattoo Sykes's hds., Wed., Gallow Gap ; Fri., 134.(1- sail House-10k. Brighton bars., Wed., Racecourse; Sat., the Dyke-114. Brookside bars., Thurs., Telscoinbe Tye-10k. Crawley and Horsham hds., Wed., Ockley-court ; Fri., Handcross-tollgate-114. Southdown hds„ Fri., Laughton-pound. asking them if the referee should require their assistance to afford it ; but addiur, that it was understood that no one but Messrs. t and Duvergier, should assist the referee. M. Vatismenil gave his decision, and the Master reported in conformity with it. and the objection made to the report was that the understanding had not been acted upon, as to no one attending M. Vatismenil, except Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier. His Hoxorra, after going at considerable length into the case, ordered the first and second exceptions to be over ruled, and confirming the Master's report as to the other exceptions, the costs of the exceptions to be the costs in the case. _ _ _ (Before the Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANwoant.) His LORDSHIP having disposed of the case of Lafeaux v. Marsh, which stood on the paper for judgment, proceeded to hear unopposed petitions and motions, which occupied the Court the whole morning. COMMON PLEA S.—(T HIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice TALFOURD and a Special Jury.) 3PLEAN V. HUDSON, M.P. AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought for breach of contract. It ap peared that the defendants, Messrs. Swinborne and Co., a firm in which Mr. Hudson, M.P., is a chief partner, entered into an agreement to supply the plaintiff, who is a looking glass seller in Fleet-street, with any number of glasses that he might require in his trade for a certain period at a certain price; during the first part of the term the orders were few and of small extent, but a considerable rise suddenly taking place tin the price of glass, the plaintiff sent in an order to the amount of 5,0001., which was not completed within the period prescribed in the contract. The plaintiff brought the present action to recover damages for the alleged breach of contract, and for the defence it was pleaded that no breach had taken place, as the unusually large order sent in by the plaintiff was much greater than he could possibly require for the purposes of his trade. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff,and Mr. Watson and Mr. Sergeant Channel], appeared for the defence. After the case had been gone into at some length, The Learned JUDGE recommended that the parties should endeavour to come to some arrangement out of court. A verdict was then taken by consent for the plaintiff— Damages, 400/. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, PLAIT. and MARTIN.) The business before the Court this morning was entirely unimportant. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. TAE LONDON DOCK COMPANY. The Court was again occupied with this cause. The case for the plaintiff is not yet terminated. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY. GLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir PETER LAURIE ASSAULT.—A young man named Lynch was indicted for assaulting another named Roberts, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner and the prosecutor had been drinking toge ther at a public-house, where a quarrel arose between the prisoner and a third party and ultimately the prisoner was forcibly ejected. When he got outside be was heard to say that he would have his revenge, and accordingly he loitered about the spot till the whole of the company retired, when he threw a brickbat at the man who had offended him, but the brick missed the person for whom it was intended and struck the prosecutor, inflicting a serious wound on his head. Several witnesses were called to prove the case, and in the course of their examination it transpired that all the parties were slightly the worse for drink at the time the assault was committed, while the man whom the prisoner had in his eye, when he threw the missile, had been guilty of great provocation. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of the provocation he bad received. The RECORDER sentenced him to three months' imprison ment, with hard lab ,ur. EW COURT. (Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) James Joseph Stanley, clerk, was charged with stealing two silver spoons, the property of Mr. Davis, an innkeeper. The prisoner bad pledged the property immediately after the robbery. Guilty. He was then charged with stealing a silver spoon, the property of Isabella Eady and another. The prosecutrix is a pastry-cook, carrying on business in Oxford street. One day the prisoner honoured her with his custom. He ordered some soup, which was served to him in an inner room, with a silver spoon. Two ladies came in, and while there the prisoner left the shop rather hastily, giving a shil ling in payment. Directly after he had gone the spoon was missed. The spoon was pawned by the prisoner the same day in Drury-lane. There were three other charges against the prisoner, to which he pleaded guilty. He was recom mended to mercy on account of his youth and his father's re spectability. The father is a 'solicitor, with whom he had quarrelled, in consequence of which he had left his home and had since fallen into bad company. He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.) Henry Munnery was charged with stealing a box of knives, the property of the South- Western Railway Company. The knives had been ordered from a Sheffield house for a gentleman in the country, and bore his crest. The box was stolen from a railway truck at the Nine Elms station about the 2d of February, 1850, whilst on its way to its destination, Basingstoke. Knives, which were recognized by the crest as part of this property, had been offered for sale to various parties by the prisoner, who described them as being part of a bankrupt stock which he had got cheap. The prisoner had been in the employ of the railway company, and had been seen with a cart on the premises about the time of the robbery. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted ; Mr. Parry defended. Guilty of receiving ; twelve months' imprisoment. , !Itt!t'l;' BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Elizabeth Flemming, alias Flynn, about 25 years of age, who had the appearance of being a servant, was brought before Mr. Hall, charged with leaving her female infant, aged six months, upon a dung heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields, exposed to the cold and rain. Mr. Bilner, clerk to the board of guardians of the Strand Union, said he was instructed to prosecute the prisoner Cooper, the porter to the workhouse in Cleveland-street, said on Wednesday evening, the sth inst., a man named Church brought a female child to the house, and said he had found it lying upon a dung heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields, exposed to the weather. It was raini. g very fast, and it was also very cold. The child was not cry ing, in consequence of its mouth being filled with sugar. He went to Knightsbridge on Saturday last, and there saw the prisoner. He asked her where her child was. The prisoner said that she had left it in the street. She asked hint if he knew where the child was, and he replied that it was safe in the house. She said she did not know that she had left it in his parish, she had de posited it in the street, but did not know where, and when she returned twenty minutes afterwards the child was gone. Witness then took her into custody, and she further said that she was in great trouble, and could not support her child, that she had been persuaded to leave her child in that manner, as others had done before. only himself be cognisant of the poetry, - but ho must be so much en rapport with his age as to be able to com municate his instinctive knowledge; and when taking up such a subject as the poetry of the Bible, and speaking of it to such a strange, anxious, hoping, doubting, fear . . . . ing century as ours, all his highest faculties orinsight and tradition have work that shall task them to the uttermost, and reward that shall overpay them though they break under the strain. Full of his own individua lity, he must, nevertheless, be so far a synopsis of his time that every phase of it may own his i.tEnity. I; is little that he speak with tongues if he cannot also interpret. Little to us that his heart is heaving if he dies and makes no sign. Litt!e that he is full of light it he cannot shine it into our darkness. Little that he is bruised unless by his stripes we are healed. His nature should have a point of contact for every human soul. Breathing in the vital influence from above, he must im- part it by imposition of hands. His eyes may be to wards heaven, but his feet must be firm upon the earth; in his highest rapture we must feel that he is of us and among Cs; if he is transfigured we must " be with him The prisoner, who cried bitterly during the examination of the witness, and who appeared to feel acutely the posrition in which she was placed . , implored the magistrate to have pity upon her. She said it was all true what Cooper had stated. Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner until Thursday next, to give time for the completion of the case. The prisoner was then removed, and appeared desirous of seeing her child, who was in the arms of a nurse, but oi' course she was refused and locked up. WINDSOR ELECTION.—(THIS DAY.) The election of a member for the Royal Borougb of W ind oor, in the room of Mr. Hatchell, who has accepted the office of Attorney-General for Ireland, was fixed for this morning. Mr. J. T. BEDBOROUGH, one of the magistrates of the bo rough, proposed their late Member, Mr. Hatchell. (Cheers.) Mr. HENRY DARVILL, solicitor, seconded the nomination. in the Mount;" in his hour of divinest triumph he must bear bleeding witness to his humanity; the hand of the unbelieving must find the side that was pierced, and his eyes be satisfied with the very nailprints of crucifixion. In this quality of spiritual adaptiveness, on a theme so peculiarly theological, we s h ou ld not h ave b ee n sur- The SMEaIFF, having ascertained that there was no other person to propose, declared . Mr. Rachel' to be duly ele zted a Member for Windsor, for the present Parliam en t. The proceedings, which were of a mo s t qu i e t d iame t er , s hortly afterwards terminated. SPORTING NOTES. No. IX. SPORT AT ST. ALBANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Lincoln opened the game last Thursday, and we :may now expect a continued string of events—Steeplechaser and Flat races—sans intermission to the end of the season, sm me where about the last week in November or first in December next; this week a few of the right sort have put forth at ancient Verulam a moderate bill of fare for decision on W ed nesday, comprising a Free Handicap Steeplechase of 10 Sc each, h ft, with 40 added ; the winner to be sold by auci Lion for 200 soya. or upwards; and a Selling Sweepstakes cif 3 soya. each, p. p., with 20 added, list 91b each, with allow ances, if entered to be sold tinder 100 sovs.Three miles. For the former, thirteen accTtances have been declared, three-four rths of whom, at the least, will put in an appears nce including those well-known animals with the hounds, M.: all gan, Trust- me - not, St. Leger, Su bd uer, Th e Hawk, Vali ant, Rendsburgh, Legislator, and The Liistrum. The Multi gan party are uncommonly confident of winning, and Trust- me not is not expected to be fler out ; Valiant, with lOst up, •won the Chipping Norton Steeple-chase last week, in very cli ever style, and will run well on this occasion ; and Legislate r, a very good fencer, is fancied by a great many • but my pH': vate information dictates the following result Mr. Elmore's Mulligan, 11,st 41b (Mason,) 1 Mr. Mason's Trust-me -not, 1 1 st ,,,,,,(01iver,) 2 Mr. Price's Legislator, 10s! 41b Mr. Tollit's Valiant, 10st 61b Mr. Howard's St. Leger, 1 Ist 5 For the Swelling Sweepstakes some eight or ten will rim., in eluding St. Ruth, 1 lst 21b. Gelding by Liverpool, 10st 111 b, and Lammermoor, 9st 131 b, among whom, I anticipate,. the winner will be found; they may possibly catch the jud, ge's eye in the following order : Mr. Webb's br g, by Liverpool Mr. Gain's Lammermoor Mr. Austin's St. Ruth 3 I forgot to sate that the distance of the handicap was' - four miles, over a capital line of country close to the town, which the Earl of Verulam has allowed to be selected for the pre sent occasion. The first race will be run punctually at: two o'clock, and the second at half-past three; and, as the scene of action can be easily gained via Hatfield and the Northern line, a strong muster of the metropolit ans may be I antici; ated. perceive, with a curious eye, tke removal of Sir R. Pigot's Derby nag, Runnymede, from John DI ty's stable to Moss's at Newmarket. This looks as if the heads" had measured his chance and found him want.l ng. By-the-bye, Grecian is improving wonderfully, he'll k.e a dangerous customer for the Derby and " the Guineas," Look all but over; but, notwithstanding, for the former nu 2e I must still stick to the following order of things:— THE PRIME MINISTER NEWMINSTER ... 2 GRECIAN ... 3 LAMARTINE ... 4 Time may alter my opinion;but at the present writing :it is fixed firm as the Monument on Fish-street-hill. My analysis of the Metropolitan Handicap on F.Ki iday next; ... 1 I am Sir, yours, Feb. 10, 1851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. prised to hear George Gilfillan fail, because, notwith standing his ( ften-proved literary universality, and th e many-sided charity which has fraternised with every colour or genius and every intellectual variety, there were temptations to sectarianism in the character of his subject which we were not prepared to see overcome by a clergyman "on Vother side Twced." We give the gifted author of the " Literary Portraits" the right hand of congratulation at the widening landscape of his theology, and the ameliorating atmosphere of his religious sympathies. ASHDOWN COURSING MEETING (CONCLUDED:). Owing to the unfavourable weather on Friday, the Cra yen Stakes were divided by Mr. Etwall's Egypt and Mr. Jenz er's_ Factotum ; and the A s hd own Stakes between Mr. Mill er's Manifesto and Mr. Wyndhues Whiff. The Weyland Sta kes Not only as the heart-warm panegyrist at orce of Charming and Chalmers, And and Bailey, has he broken down those polemical landmarks which have too often straitened the range of Scotch and English exertion. but, passing beyond the pale of Christianity, by virtue of thatcountenauce of unrufilod faith with which he puts aside the assaults of unbelief, and of those teatful eyes of fra ternal appreciation which he bends upon the sceptic and the sinner, he has made hi msel f free of the inner m i nd of the empire. Througho u t t h e b ook, and especially it, that magnificent sketch of " th e Paul of the Present " — a sketch unsurpassed, perh aps• i n modern literature for strength, width, beauty, and insight —there are decla rations and admissions which would satisfy the sternest advocate of ecclesiastical acd religious reform, and find the heart and meet the experience of the furthest wan derer from Christendom. We have said so much of the writer, that we have neither time nor space for an analysis of his book. We regret this the less, because, in a work of this kind, the merit of the book is involved in the merit cf the author, and because the avowed nature and pretensions of the performance before us put it out of the province of any thing but the most elaborate criticism. If a book comes unchristened before the world, the critic has a fair right to class it by its diagnostics, and try it by the recognized qualifications of the class under which its characteristics may reasonably be subsumed But when a work sets out with an avowal of its objects and sphere of action, we hold that the duty of the critic is limited to a comparison of theory with practice, pro blem with solution, intention with execution. A chart that comes to us guiltless of mensuration may honestly be map carries a prepared scale cf may dir ec t, b u t w he n the miles, we cannot under .t, nd graduated the critical as o our despotismwis do m which persists in applying its own pocket-rule. Mr. Gilfilla n re li eves us o f a l l un certainty as to the intentions with which his book was written, to which it aspires. He comes panegyrist. Ihe preface o h " '" mate ambitiou is to be ti s v forward ol a ru n w end er m t dd hee declares literary loa rweesdl that avowedly rank.s a i a prose poem, or hymn, , IN HONOU R of the poetry and the poets of the Bible. ' exempt from the conditions of art—is so The structure of a prose po em —i mp l y i ng, we sup shall not be guilty of the pococurentism of the critic. Of th e essen ti a l p oe t r y of the work, the exuberant life which swe ll s i n ever y c p o o n se fe ' s p s o ed et ly ry extra-provincial, that we line, the tumult of grandeur in which, like a sacred pageant, it goes by us from the first chapter to the last, we despair 0•f conveying any ad equate notion. The author has met those grand old bard s i n t h e i r own mood. He is neither commentator, annotator , discerner of spi r its," b n e o r r ta e to v r en, on in some senses, exposi tor; neither dialectsdis nor inquisitor of particles ; neither anatomist of hairs nor di s i n t egrator of the beautiful, and the true; content to cry H os:lune goes through sCateh th ir e ggtrhoestporroopwhedtio,,gaais by association he before their first and greatest ministers, and to cast the palm branch of human genius at the feet cf those intel lectual giants whose lips repeated the large utterance of Divinity—whose songs were set to the symphonies of the thunder, and whose chorus will not cease while creation is not dumb. Leaving to colder temperaments, and to minds ineomp , tent to the higher offic e , heavier literatures connected with Scripture, he has given himself up to the one and sufficient task of declar lug the intuitions of his poetic instinct respecting it. Availing himself only of so much of his critical nature as may direct him to the beauties of his subject, retain ing only so much of the analyst as may enable him t. eliminate and exhibit the Divine, he ha s laid aide the philosopher for the poet, the polnician for the priest, the alchemist far the burner of incense, the essayist for the singer of r ce.ip, the censor for the optimist, the botanist for the flower-gatherer, the sick of chaff upon the crabbed back of Criticism for the basket of sunner-fruit in the hand of Faith and Hope ; he has exchanged the• ileeulative eye of the astronomer for the child's gsza • f love and wonder up to heaven, and has turned gladly from his long toil in the mines of human intellect to be a pearl-diver and a diamond-finder on the high MUUII tUillzi and in the great deeps of God. True independence is to be found where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.— Eliza Cook's Journal. The House of Lords was opened to the public, un dir the us ua l regu l a ti ons , on Saturday , when wore than 2,000 persons availed themselves of the privilege, :.'1 •, LITERATURE. THE BARDS OF THE BIBLE. By George Gilfillan, A.M. London : Groombridge, 1851. The title of this noble boek is well chosen. The Bards of the Bible. Not THE BIBLE as an indivisible whole, a work of spiritual architecture, a composition of art. a poem, having a beginning, a middle, and an end, pzooc, 7207), )skis, 'savoict, otliic, and p..EAorossa ; but that sacred College of POETS, that grand brother hood of inspiration, at whose feet civilisation ham been proud to sit; those " morning stars," who have " sung together" upon the brightest dawn in human history; that " company of angels," whose harps have so long given the key-note to the music of the world. There is a sense, indeed, in which the Bible, though the collected compositions of various authors, writing in different tongues, and living in separate ages, may be looked upon nut merely as a volume of poems, but as a vast oriental epic rendered uniform by singularity of purpose, simi• larity of machinery, and identity of language. To believe the Iliad to be the work of generations of Rhapsodei is not necessarily to deny it the essentials of Eros; and to admit the polyglot origin of the great Bi blical poem is to say nothing against its epic character. Enough that it has successfully embodied the design of our greatest example of the Epopee, and, despite its multipaternity and its chaotic chronology, has main tained invariably— _ _ the height of that great argument To justify the ways of God to men." We have mentioned " identity of language" among the simplifying dements of a book notoriously written in two, probably in three, and possibly in four of the great tongues of the globe, and chequered, in addition, with the dialects of each. Various es are those tongues, the book maintains its identity of language—a language an tecedent to every tongue, and independent of all. From the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelations, the Bible is one great picture, one transcendent hiero glyph. It hai often been remarked as a wonderfully pro vidential arrangement, that the ancient nurse-land of religion and enlightenment was Palestine, the common centre of the noblest races of the earth. Nut less notice able in Divine dispensation, is the tact that the records which profess to contain the revelations essential to all men, are inscribed in a language central to the common intellect of mankind. Written not in words but things, they are the only books which cannot become insigni ficant by age, which retain their vigour and beauty un impaired under every past variety of translation; and of which we may predict with certainty, that into what. soever unknown speech the missionary spirit of Chris tianity may yet carry them, they shall re-appear intact, with undimmed brightness, undiminished grandeur, and untarnished glory, in whatever land has hills and moun tains, light and darkness, winter and summer, sun, moon, and stars. _ But not in the aspect of unity has Mr. Gilfillan chosen to view his subjeet; and, perhaps, in acting upon the programme conveyed in his title-page, and combining the quantity and quality of Bible poetry with the nature and characteristics of Bible poets, he is adopting a mode of treatment which is at once more captivating to " the general," more useful to the student, and more gratifying to that passion for Biblical literature which in himself has evidently extended to a personal affection for its authors. " What is poetry ?" is a question as universal as " What is nature?" and" What is mind?" and when one of these questions shall have been answered we may look for the resolution of the others. But while each further step of science, each deeper reverie of philoso phy, destroys some fancied truth, sinks us lower in the slough of uncertainty, and exchanges more completely the consciousness of ignorance for that of incapacity to know, we must often be content to deal with facts and the modes of their appearance, and to leave intangible essences which we have no organs to detain, and princi pals of whose great circle we see but an inappreciable arc, to the faculties of a more developed being, or the in structions of a more abounding grace. Sufficient for us that poetry exists, that it is conversant with all per ceeh e xma t si v as a bnt s b ea e l ts e ni po t ona h nsn i tndoalseasoniupnbselecyt.uchaloii and adr mu order dn v t iue e er r ra s aot e l efl , yd t ,m b b a a iynn t dnd i 6 ,0 i ttr s hhuaa f , o tte u ito n nor d it rhh i ee n eemmi the e t, by no care of consertion or inoculation, by no effort of industry, no experi e nce of manipulation, no "cunninge" of art or man's device. " What is poetry in the ab atract?" therefore, the poet will be the last to answer; but for poetry in the concrete his instinct is the unfailing test. It is probable that the old prophets knew little of the theory of inspiration, but they had no doubts as to the criteria of divine sfflatus. And in any search wherein the qurcsita are beyond the reach of acquired knowledge and verbal description, we must depend alto gether upon intuitive perceptions. Till we have clearer notions of magnetism see must be content to trust the needle fur the north. The bewildered wanderer i n pathless deserts may commit his letter in faith to the instinct of the dove, and though we know not the s igns of the time s, and cannot catalogue the symptoms of the seasons, we may believe the swallow and the cuckoo, and be sure " the winter is over and gone." when " the voice of the turtle is heard in our land." Of every criticism upon a peein, therefore, our first ques , Lion should be " 15 the critic a poet ?" Fortunately, fur our time and space, that question has been already answered in the case of the author before us, and, at the expense o . f a very few quota ! i ons , ca n be answered again. Mr. Gilfillanis not an author of yes terday, and there are old familiar sentences of his with which any of his readers can lay the matter readily at rest. (Who hes forgo tten that line—seldom surpassed in the whole range of poetry— " The sea—the shadow and mad sister of the earth?" His" Galleries" are sown broad-cast with such pearls.) We shall, therefore, merely present a few passages from the book before us, and leave our readers toc3tnel ner these and other credentials with this hearty advice—that whosoever, after due examination had, shall honestly deny our author's right to a place in the genus rotrirr i c, will throw aside a volume which, upon his assumption, must be at least valueless, and if valueless, then auda cious to the very verge of profanity. Take for majesty :--" We pause at S i nai, the centre of the ancient system. There was enacted a scene fitted AMERIC AN -.NEWS. F, t, V t, LIVERPOOL, Pins 9. We hare reejv,d this morning, by the , %rriv.4l in the harbour of the roy.:l mail steam-ship 11si~+, Lane comurmder, our usual dispatches from New York, of the 29::h ult. inclusive. Tne Asia left New York shortly after noon on the 29th with 74 passengers, 54,5001. value in American gold on freight, and the usual mails. During her run she encountered much ice, and but for the detention in consequence of repairing her fbats the Asia would have arrived in the Mersey last night. She has, how ever, made a very fair average run, having steamed past the Rock Lighthouse shortly after nine o'clock this morning. The United S!att-s mail steam-ship Arctic, Luce, arrived out at New York on the '27th ult.; she had been compelled previously to put into Halifax for coal, having run short like her sister ship Baltic, from some error in the quantity shipped. Her accounts were telegraphed to New York in advance. Our accounts from New York are not of great political moment. Mr. Clay's motion for mire stringent barriers against the pursuit of the slave trade to Brazil by American ships had been carried by the Senate. Numerous petitions bad been presented in favour of the proposed line of steam-ships to Liberia. The Senate had also sanctioned the French spoliation measure, and various memorials against the existing tariff had been read. More formidable movements, however, bad been organized out of the Chamber of Congress, and on the 28th, in the House of Repre sentatives, an amendment was moved to a Deficiency Bill by a Mr. Strong, seeking to establish a much higher duty on iron, and also an increased, though not proportioned, duty on the rates on woollens, &c. Some slight discussion ensued after the presentation of the amendment, but the House shortly closed its sitting without forming any decision. Letters from Washington published in the New York Journal state, that the Whig party were by no means satisfied with the proposition, inasmuch as the source was at least suspicious, and the measure sectional in its. bearings. Other projects were said to be in process of organiza tion ou the 24th inst. Reciprocity with Canada would be specially discussed. Our accounts are not in other respects important. General Hendersen's prosecution at New Orleans for complicity in the Cuban invasion, had broken down. Numerous launches of clipper ships, &c., are announced. Philadelphia accounts state that all the funds re quired for the semi-monthly screw steamers line to Liverpool had been subscribed. Four ships were ex pected to be on the line by Midsummer. Letters from Havannah of the 22d ult. state that military evolutions were frequent. Jenny Lind was shortly to return to New Orleans. She will not return to Lo.idon till 1852. Chagres accounts of the 12th ult, two days later, represent no new arrivals at Panama. Accounts from Canada announce tha the Ilomf Govrenment had sanctioned the provincial postal scheme. From Nova Scotia we learn that the G )vernor opened the Legislative Assembly with the usual kind of speech. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE NEW YORK, JAN. 29.—Business in stocks generally during the last fortnight has been heavy, and the prices of some or the speculative descriptions show a further material advance. The transfers of the United States and other loans to foreign accounts have not been large. 500,000 dolls. of New York City Debt, due on the 16th inst., has been paid off. The demand for money has been much more active, but we have • . - no import an t advance in rates to notice. We quote loans on calls at 5 to 6 per cent., and discount 6 to 9 per cent., per annum Favourite signatures are reaaily taken at 6 to 7 per - cent. The scarcity of silver coin has increased to such an extent that retailers are obliged to pay a premium of 3i to 5 per cent. on small change to meet daily wants. Importations come in freely, and foreign exchanges are usually high for the season or the year. when our exports of produce are the most extensive. It may, however, be found that we are predicting too much upon the present un paralleled prosperity of the country in giving such an extra ordinary speculative value to many stocks of which the in trinsic merit as investments is very que , tienable. The fol lowing are the current rates of exchange :--On London, 110 to 110,1; Paris, 5.10 to 5.8 i; Amsterdam. 41i to 42i; Liam burgh, 37 to 37k ; and Bremen, 80i to 80i. (From the New York Shipping List of Jan. 29.) Cetton—Since our notice of the market for the Pacific a week since it has continued depressed, and prices may be quoted cent tog lower. Most of this decline has been es tablished since our last. It should be remarked, however, that holders have shown but little disposition to press sales. The receipts at all the shipping ports are 1,148,942 bales against 1,125,918 to same date last year, an increase this season of 28,024 bales. The total foreign export this year is 72,407 bales more than last, say 23,201 bales increase to Great Britain, 34,203 increase to France, 5,602 increase to Northern Europe, and 10,401 increase to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 79,773 bales less this season than last, and there is an increase of stcck of 7,312 hales. The sales during the past 10 days are 8,800 bales. We quote middling fair to fair 135 to 135 ; Atlantic ports, 14 ; Florida, 145 to 15. Gulf ports, the total arrivals have been 8,746 bales. Total import since the Ist inst., 43,621 bales. Export from the Ist to the 28th of Janu ary, 1851:—Cotton, 16,597 bales; 1850, '12,680 b a l es . Ex port from the United States since September 1, 1850, 581,214 bales, same time, 1849, 507,807 bales. The following is extracted from Mr. T. J. Stewart's cir cular, dated New York, Jan. e 9 :—" The Arctic letter-mail delivered this morning is construed as promising for an ex tended consumption, and a more elastic feeling for the imme diate future seems prevalent with operators. There were buyers a little under present rates, but holders are not anxious to sell. The business reported being 600 bales. On the subject of the crop I have nothing of the slightest interest to communicate, competitors' opinion differing as highly as before, and as, from causes heretofore noticed by me, it is quite impossible at present to approach probable accuracy by 100,000 bales, it is as well to wait the deliveries from that section for the ensuing two months before venturing esti mates." The latest telegraphic report from New Orleans is of the 25th. Middling, 12 1 , 2 ; freight, 15-32 sterling, 7 41 c.; and from Mobile of the 27th, middling, I2Lij ; freights per British ves , ell, 15-32 ; American, LA, sterling, 7c. Arctic's advices received. Breadstuffs—The flour market has been quite dull for some time past, with an increasing diposition on the part of speculators to realize, and prices of State and other descrip tions on Tuesday reached 6i cents. The demand being very moderate from all quarters, Canada was held firmly at 4 dolk 871 c. in bond, but remains very quiet. Genessee is quoted at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 6ic. Southern has been in good demand both for home use and export—part to Liver pool; but the market closes in favour of buyers. British, Src., goods there is very considerable increase on inquiry in 'he dry goods trade, with a fair enlargement of transactions corresponding to the commencement, at a steady and dura ble rather than a large intermittent activity. British goods of all descriptions show a gre.zt increase of activity, and the country demand has fully commenced. Prices are firm, and, from the limited importations of this month, are likely to advance. Our consumption of dry goods is likely to be very generally extended this spring, and a steady, regular, but not speculative demand, to prevail, with a gradual rise in prices, forced by the greater production and its recent limi tation. Tobacco—There is a fair demand for the various descrip tions, and the market generally is firm. Iron—The market is active and transactions are pretty large; these are, however, restricted by the firmness of holders and the enhanced rates demanded. We noticed sales of 500 tons British bars, at 40 dolls.; 200 tons bank refined, 50 dolls ; 6,700 tons Scotch pig, 21 dolls, to 21 dolls. 50c. ; 400 tons to arrive at the latter rate ; and 1,000 packs Russia sheets, 126 c. to 4c., six months. Rates to Liverpool - The rates are—for cotton, to 5-32 ;- beef, Is. 9d. for tierces, and 2s. to 2s. 6d. for barrels; fnstic, 12s. ; ashes, 10s,, &c. To Londo r n—Turpentine, ls. 6d., and other articles on private terms. To Havre The packet Ist proximo is full at 4 cent for cut ton, and that at the Bth has cotton at the same rate; bark at 8 dolls., and palm leaf 25c. per bundle. New Orleans Market, Jan. 23—Sales of cotton to-day were 4,000 bales; prices were not affected by the news received per Asia. Sterling exchange is at pm. Jan. 21—The sales of cotton to-day barely reach 2,000 bales; trade dull. Sales of 7,000 barrels of flour at 4 dolls. 25c. for Ohio, and 4 dolls. 40c. for Illinois. Corn is at 60 to 70. Keg lard has advanced ; sales, 700 kegs, at Bc. Jan. 22—The market for cotton is unchanged ; the sales are 11,000 bales at 123 to 12i. Provisions improving. - - TUE ABSURDITY OF COERCIVE EDUCATION.-If we wish a boy to become a good mechanic, we insure his expertness by an early apprenticeship. The young musi cian that is to be, passes several hours a day at his instru ment. Initiatory courses of outline drawing and shading are gone through by the intended artist. For the future ac countant, a thorough drilling in arithmetic is prescribed. The reflective powers are sought to be developed by the study of mathematics. Thus, all training is founded on the principle that culture must precede proficiency. In such proverbs as—" Habit is second nature," and" practice makes perfect," men have expressed those net products of universal bservation on which every educational system is ostensibly based. The maxims of a village schoolmistress and the speculations of a Pestalozai are alike pervaded by the theory that the child should be accustomed to those exertions of body and mind which will in future life be required of it. Education means this or nothing'. Social Statics; or the Conditions essential to Human -Happiness specified, and the first of them developed. ROYAL ORTHOP-EDIC HOSPITAL.—On Friday after noon a meeting of the friends and committee of this valued institution was held at the board-room, in Bloomsbury square. The number of disabled and suffering patients claiming the benefit of the institution was stated to be daily increasing —upwards of 300 more than the hospital can accommodate having been recently placed on the books to await their turn of admission. During the past year consi derably upwards of 1,. 1 00 patients received the medical and surgical treatment of the hospital; and since the formation of the charity, twelve years ago, nearly 11,000 individuals had been cured or relieved. For the purpose of facilitating the erection of the mere commodious buildings so urgently needed for the increasing patients of the hospital, the committee a:e making strenuous efforts to complete the forthcoming bazaar, towards which it was stated the pa tronage of tier Mjesty and Prince Albert had been promised, in addition to a long list of royal, noble, :and dis:inguished individuals. TEM EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE PLOVEIL—it 19 stated that a warrant ha s b een i ssue d b y t h e Sh er ;fl, autho rising two respectable engineers to conduct an inquiry into the , cause of the melancholy accident which took place on ednesday morning on board the Plover. POLITICAL ILL UNION. Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly on Saturday evening. The Duke f Wellington honoured her Ladyship with his company. Lord John Russell and several of the members of the Ca binet, his Excellency the Russian Minister and most of the foreign corps diplomcilique, and close on 200 of the elite of society iu town were present. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. c)1 ; itirajc • „,, Itssd have ha; under tipflr cou.ideration the reguia:.ior,s respecting. t 1 admif•s:on of visi.Lor6 ~'hie:] it apppars to theta neeessary ta adopt for the tifelamlaceutrph6htste:: oi !he purposes of the Exl - libitic.,u. Their :attention has ben principally directed to the following. poxlt 1. The necessity of making such arrangements as shall se cure the convenience of the public visiting the Exhibitior, whether for study or instruction or for the more general pur• poses of curiosity and amusement. 2. The due protection and securing of the property depo sited in the building. 3. The effective control over the number of visitors, while the servants and officers entrusted with the maintenance of order and regularity in the building are comparatively inex perienced in their duties. 4. The necessity of maintaining the self-supporting cha racter of the Exhibition, and of defraying the liabilities incurred. 5. The desire of the Commissioners to render the Exhibi tion accessible to ail persons at the lowest possible charge, and with the least delay which a due regard to the preceding considerations will admit. Having these objects in view, her Majesty's Commis sioners have determined to adopt the following regulations:— The Exhibition will be open every day (Sundays ex cepted). The hours of admission and other details will be announced at a subsequent period. The charges for admission will be as follows : Season tickets for a gentleman Se• :ke E. ,s. ... 3 3 Jason tickets for a lady '2 2 These tickets are not transferable, but they will entitle the owner to admission on all occasions on which the Exhibition is open to the public. The Commissioners reserve to themselves the power of raising the price of the season tickets when the first issue is exhausted, should circumstances render it advisahle. On the first day of the Exhibition season tickets only will be available, and no money will be received at the doors of entrance on that day. On the second and third days the price £ s. d. of admission on entrance will be (each day) ... 1 0 0 On the fourth day of exhibition ... 0 5 0 To be reduced on the twenty-second day to ... ... 0 1 0 From the twenty-second day the prices of admission will be as follows : On Mundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and s. d. Thursdays in each week ... ... 1 0 On Fridays ... 2 6 On Saturdays ... . 5 0 No change will be giv en a t th e d oors. ' This regulation is necessary to prevent the inconvenience and confusion which would arise from interruption or delay at the entrances. Should experience in the progress of the Exhibition render any alteration in these arrangements necessary, the Commis sioners reserve to themselves the power of making such mo difications as may appear desirable, of which due and timely notice, however, ill be given to the public. By order of her Majesty's C,,mrnissioners, J. Scow RUSSELL. EDGAR A. BOWRLNG (For S. H. NORTIMOTI). Exhibition Building, Hyde-park, Feb 8, 1851. Those who may be desirous to secure season tickets should do so without delay as soon as the office for the distribution of them is opened. The decision of the Commissioners, it will be observed, reserves power to raise the prices, if found necessary, and hence the propr i ety o f an ear l y application. I PAYMENT OF PARCELS. In answer to a letter lrum Liverpool, the Executive Com. mittee have transmitted the following reply _ _ - "Feb. 8, 1851. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Executive Committee to Fay that they have no power to pay for the charges of goods transmitted for the Exhibition, such expense falling on the exhibitor, who it required to deliver them at the build ing himself, and then to arrange them. " I am, Gentlemen, &c., " M. D. Wyarr, Secretary." THE QUESTION OF SPACE IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION. It has been reported to the Executive Committee that in some cases whilst the claims of applicants for space were under examination by local committees or by some of the metropolitan sectional committees, the vouchers for epacl were lost or mislaid, and, contrquently, have not vet reached the Executive Committee. Requests have likewise been preferred to continue to receive further vouchers for space in cases where the original amounts of space were not fully allotted when the vouchers were sent in; and further re quests have been made by exhibitors to be allowed to ex change portions of the space allotted to them with other parties, and exhibitors having space allotted in two classes have made application to change the relative quantities in each class. The Executive Committee regret that at this late period it is impossible to entertain any questions which tend to re open the question of space. It is necessary to remind exhi bitors that strictly speaking the 10th of December was the last day fixed by her Majesty's Commissioners for receiving vouchers of space from local committees, and that the places for each of the -l() classes have actually been fixed in the building. To re-open the question at the present time would be tantamount to disturbing the boundaries of the 30 classes, and might jeopardize the opening of the Exhibition. At the same time the Executive Committee will do their utmost to meet those cases where, in consequeve of the voucher not having reached the Executive Committee, an applicant for space may have been excluded from no fault of his own. Any application properly specified by the secretary of the local committee as having been made and duly sent by him to the Executive Committee before the 31st of October, will be examined on its merits, and if found to be proper will be admitted conditionally, on space being available, when the actual arrangement of the articles is in progress. By order of the Executive Committee, M. DIGBY WYATT, Sccretary. Office for the Executive Committee, Exhibition-building, Kensington. road, London, Feb. 5. GENERAL RULES FOR THE ADMISBION OF PERSONS A.ND THE RECEPTION OF ARTICLES DURING THE ARRANGEMENT. For the sake of good order and the security of the valuable property of exhibitors, the Executive Committee have found it necessary to frame the following rules, and they hope to meet with a ready assistance from all whom they may con cern in carrying them into effect : ADMISSION OF PERSONS. No person whatever will be allowed access to any part of the building during the arrangement unless he is the bearer of a pass signed by Mr. Digby Wyatt, the secretary to the Executive Committee. Passes will be of two kinds—l, available for more than one day; 2, available for only one day. Passes of the first description, differently marked, will be issued to the Royal Commissioners; to the Ex ecu ti ve Com mittee and their staff; to Commissioners of foreign countries and colonies; to the officers of the Customs; to Custom house agents and their servants; to the contractors for the building, their servants arid workmen ; to such exhibitors as, from the amount of their allotment i and the description of the goods t'ey propose to exhibit, t is considered necessary to grant admission for more than one day. Personal applications for such pass must be made on a printed form to M. Digby Wyatt, Esq., at least two days be fore it is required. No exhibitor can have a pass until the merits of the appli cation have been carefully examined by the Executive Committee. The application of every foreign exhibitor will be referred to the Commissioner of his country. for his report before it is granted. Except in special cases the pass will only be available for a limited time, and only for that entrance and that particular part of the buildmg which is noted on it and to no other. If the possessor is found in any part of the building which he is not privileged to enter, his privilege of admittance will be forfeited. Exhibitors, &c., besides their ticket, will be provided with a brass counter bearing a number, which they will deposit at the entrance, and it will be returned to them when they leave the building. The pass and number will be furnished without charge, but as their being lost would lead to serious inconvenience, the replacing of a ticket will be charged 10.5., and that of a number 2s. 6d, The pass must be produced on entering or leaving the building, and while the bearer is in the building it must be attached to a button-hole or other conspicuous part of the dress. Day tickets for workmen and assistants of exhibitors will be issued to exhibitors themselves on personal application to the superintendents, or on a written application, giving the grounds for such application, addressed to M. Dighy Wyatt, Esq. Day tickets must likewise be shown at the entrance, worn in a conspicuous part of the dress, and delivered up on leaving the building. Before any person can enter the building he will be re quired to sign the following declaration : " I hereby declare that I will conform to all such rules as the Executive Committee may find it necessary to make for the convenience of the public and the exhibitors in the management of the Exhibition; that I will not part with my ticket of admission, or be a party to the admission of any person not privileged to enter; arid that I will give my best assistance at all times in protecting the general property and interests of the Exhibition." PLACES OF INTRANCE All persons must enter the building only at the doors appointed, which are as follows :—All persons belonging to the Customs, all Custom-house agents, their clerks, porters, &c., all foreign exhibitors, and persons having business in the foreign portions of the Exhibition must enter at the East end. All British exhibitors and persons having business in the British portion of the Exhibition must enter at the West end. All carmen in charge of carts and waggons must enter only at the South side. All officers and persons employed by the Cornmi,sion must enter at the Central entrance. MODE OF PASSLNG FOREIGN ♦ND COLONIAL GOODS DITO THE BUILDLNO. The receipt of all foreign and colonial articles will be sub ject to the control of the officers of Customs, and in case any difficulty should arise, application is to be made to Joseph Rolls, Esq., Landing Surveyor of the Customs; or to Mr• G. N. Fairman, the Registrar. Every article sent separately, and every package, must be legibly marked with the name o f th e f ore i gn country o r colony of which they are the produce or manufacture, en d , as far as practicable, with the nam e of the exbibitor or xu hibitors. tions, as they must the case of foreign and colonial prodae time befo re must be necessarily unpacked for a consid erable they are finally arranged for exhibition, the Executive Com- Msha'Cuhlidnerbye mittee suggest that the consignees ary covering s to protect au, horized to provide proper tempor the articles from dust, &c. ; and in th e . requisite arrangements for an„ polished goods make the &C- Exhibitors the articles free rust,from. o r c a se agents.o t. • ding to introduce foreign articles, upon Exhibitors 'limn the viewof' which duty has been paid, with exhibiting them amongst which the goods of the couctry of which they are the tacture,should take to have a ticket attached produce or manu to each, w ith the words " duty paid" thereon, and to prevent difficulty in their delivery at th e c l ose of the Exhi bition, , .• they should be brought wider the notice of the prin cipal otEreis of Customs at the time they are brought iii. MODE OF MASSING ARTICLES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM INTO THE. BUILDING. Every article sent separately and every package must be of l e gibly marked with th e name the exhibitor or exhibitors, and also with the section and class, whether raw materials, machinery, &c. PLACING OF ARTICLES AND PACKAGES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN TUE CLASS SPICES. Each class w ill have a superintendent, an inspector, and the requisite number of attendants attached to it ; the two last designated by a badge. The class-spaces will be sub-divided into districts, which will be distinctly marked. Each district space will be subdivided, as far as practica- ble, into smaller spaces, for each exhibitor, and Ao marked; ki w.f; be bet upart, and mac ked for li,4lleotr4" PXhibIIOTS. The in,pector vt each cla<s will receive the articles and Pa:k ges as they are bn.uglat in. He will examine the ciaas•mark, anti mark it as examined. 13v order the Executive Committee. Feb. Z. Al. Lit;BY WYKII, Secretary. eE7r:tract for the supply a rthesianents within the buildmg has been given to .1.11. Schweppe, the soda-water 111 anufacturer. THE SECKETAItY OF THE BRADFORD Sir,—On 117‘Ere}eleOesidlaMe A tb S e S s O th C , IwAn.`l9l4(o)tnNe. Flight spar ring on the Papal question, on bringing up the Report of the Address. But nothing of merit took place. Oa words Supply, and that A i eo t r l ai n le votedt nj z was htntlo p „n r e : x p b o tii sceehdo:yteba was the same night, on a motion for fixing the day s for Com =tient; thee f in Committee of Supple' only eupperted by 47 votes against 116. The practice of taking votes of money after midnight is cent:ink: not so glaring as in the olden time, when the white waist coats came trooping 'rom boss and billiard-room, on the summons of the whipper-in. But there is enough left to make the practice dangerous; and therefore it was persisted in. It was rather an unfavourable moment for following with a motion, " that no business shall be pro ceeded with after midnight; end that at twelve o'clock Mr. Speaker do adjourn the House without putting any question;" and, as might be expected, it was sup ported by a still smaller proportion of 32 against 108. Yet this is clearly what common sense and experience point to. The trial has been made on Wednesdays, when the House always rises iu the manner proposed at six. There is no technical pro priety, in allowing a summons for attendance on one day, to extend into another day. And the unfairness of pitting men whose constituents expect them to be always upon deck, against men who do the dutyat three watches, is its palpable as it would be it proposed at sea. On Thursday was moved by the Prime Minister, " That this House will not proceed upon any motion for an Address to the Crown to which opposition is offered, but in a Committee of the whole House, except with respect to matters which have been previously submitted to a Select Committee." Nobody appeared to under stand either the terms or the object; so that it is not surprising the motion was withdrawn, with an inti mation that it would be tried in an altered form. On F:iday the Prins Minister moved his Bill " To prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom." The Bill appears to be limited to this, and to giving the Crown a power to dispose of endowments made to parties using titles in contravention of the Bill. The surprise ap peared general; those who wished nothing to be deae, being further disposed to laugh. The only speech of which wisd,_m could be predicated, was that of the Member for Surrey; reserving always certain pas sages about "sacraments," end " the Queen's dal mat;c." Mr. John O'Connell gave a h.rrowing de icription of the deu'bbed of an unfortunate statesman in Piedmont, who had taken the lead in promoting re , trictions on the Papal power in that country, and was refused first Absolution, and then the " Viaticum," till he had first acktiowh dged his guilt, and then censeniaa to his acknowledgment being multi- public. The tendency on the majority of the bearers must have been to rouse the feel ing. that within the limits of what experience has proved politic and just, they would as soon volubtatily make inlet !or the religion of Moloch, as for the hunible tyranny described. A man new to the question, might defend himself by asking why, and on what evidence, he should be obliged to burn his child. But we know the effect of early habit on the mind. Ou another point, the same speaker made a very naïve declaration. Lord Juhn Russell in colic cling the prect,dents in Catholic countries for precautions against the Papal power, had stated his regret that the Austrian Government had just been found removing restricti , ns previously existing. It was not ciiffieuit to surmise the corn exion; but the speaker allueed to re moved all doubts by saying, "'1 he restrictions had been imposed by the infidel Joseph, and were removed because in the late contest (to wit, against the attempt to establish something like constitutional liberty) the Emperor fund that the iTatholic religion was the only sure support upon which he could rely." This is speak ing out. What Catholicism does in Austria it would do ie England if it could. And after the deelaretion that has been made of the revival of all ancient claims and principles of the Reiman see, I have no hesitation in saying professionally, (tat if contest should arise with a power connected with Reme, I would not if a captain commending a ticket of dragoons, leave * Catholic lieutenant in charge of my advanced post, but would relieve him and say to him, " You and I have seen service together. For the res pect I bear you, I will not leave you in a position where you may have a notice served upon you, to show a light when you think the post may best be ridden in upon, or else incur what you have been bred to think the pain of eternal damnation. You will be so good as to leave the advanced post in charge of Sergeant Ironsides, and telt him to have all his party on horseback an hour before day-break." I put it to military and to civil, whether this would not be the duty cf a man who meant to earn his fourteen-and-sevenpenee a day. The simple truth is, that Absolutism having by the avowed help of Catholicism become rampant on the Continent, this aggression is the feeler sent to England. It brings out the weaknesses of the land, and shows who is disposed to temporize and who to assist. If feebly replied to, it will probably bring something dif ferent next. The point for present consideration, is whether it would not be more manly and more effective, to revive the Acts of 5 and 13 Elizabeth with &uch penalties as may be found in the present Bill when we get at them, than to try a flimsy new Act, which its deriders in the House already say will be driven through in as many places as there are permu tations and combinations among a score cf parts of speech. Those Acts did the business of our forefathers; why should they not do ours? if vague, they were also comprehensive. "Shall put in are" was a sweeping clause, which will not be found among the mircing phraseology of a modern Act of Parliament. If anybody sees the thing in the same light, it should be embodied in Petitions within the coming week. I am, Sir, sour obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, Feb. 10. 1851. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)_ COWES, FEZ. 8. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. Lord Godolphin, Captain Harnlyn Williams, and several other members are at. the squadron-house; his Lordship i• expected to proceed in his ya,..ht for Littlehampton this even ing. Lady Godolphin and family are expected to arrive at Gothic-villa about the Ist of March. Captain C. H. Wil liams's yacht building in White's yard is in a forward state, as is Mr. A. Hill's. The Leader and several other yachts are also in a forward state. RYDI.—STEAMBOAT WAR.—The rival companies that run their steamers between Ryde and Portsmouth are at open war with each other, and constant collisions take place, to the serious annoyance of this passengers, and indeed to the great risk of their lives. On Monday the Prince of Wales cut the Prince Albert down nearly to the water's edge, and great was the terror of those on board her; but after some difficuAT they were all go: safe en board the Prince of Wales. and taken back to Portsmouth ; and the Albert, after having her ballast trimmed astarboard and getting some more aboard from the Prince of Wales, was got into port. The share holders, captains, and all employed seem embarked in a des perate struggle. The magistrates at Portsmouth, Ryde, and Newport, have constantly cases of assault to determine, arising on board the steamers, or on Ryde and Portsmouth piers. Died, on Friday evening, at Hampstead, Isle of Wight, :aged 76, Mrs. N as h, re li ct of the late celebrated architect, John Nash, Esq., to whose yientitic abilities we are indebted tor the designs of Buckingham Palace, Brighton Pavilion, Regent-street, Langlaam Ohurch, &c. Sze. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW- TAX.— D EMONSTEATION AT DRURY-LANE TREATRE.—The parishes of the city of Westminster have engaged Drury-lane Theatre for a demon stration on the subject of the window-tax. Viscount bun can, M.P., has consented to preside on the occasion ; and not only the metropolitan Members, but all Member* of Parliament known to be favourable to the movement, have been invited to attend. The delegates front all the metro politan parishes who attended the deputation to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, have also been requested to be pre sent on the occasi,n. The admission is to be by tickets, in the same manner as the meeting s o f the Anti-Cnrn-law League; but the meeting takes place in the dcy time, 50 as ry , t to intezfere with the performances at present g big on there. The sad news of Mrs. Shelley's death throws the mind back into that stirring time when her father, Godwin, and her mother, noble Mary Wolstonecraft, were outraging the resprctabilities by earnest utterance of auaacities in spe culation which now seem incapable of alarm in g ev e n the timid—for tt.e persecuted audacity of one da y beco mes the commonplace of to-morrow—and rec all her illustri ous hus band, the most Chrisiiao-hearted m an of whom t hat epoch gives us any intimation, Percy Bysshe Shelley ! To the il lustration of parentage, Mrs. Sheilay added that ef bein g the author of "Frankenstein. " " The Last Man.".. Lodore," &c. " Frankenstein" is one of those books that. become the parent of whole generations of romances.— The Leader. Irecovering from her recent w G i r ll ey shortly be able to resume her • • alter her Ladyship's .... ...____ • 6 dflor hospitals visits tie Nubie Earl and Conn -- will restoration to tess enliven the fashion-able world by a series of receptions a , • seve re i.n e a T lti h t i s ociety ,lCnesutaeigi ds Immediately following is a correct list of the_ legaci es M U NIFICENT BFQUESTS TO HOS PITALS, &C.—The for other charitable purposes Howson, &q., of by the late Thomas Arnaldo tie and Woburn-place, who • died on the 6th ult., all free of legacy duty, whic'a is directed to be paid out of the 'state : To the Charit , g-cruss Hospit a l, 500/. ; t o t he Host ital ter Consumption a ' t Brompton, I,t 001.. to the Uni. versity Hospital, Gower- Hointai, 1,0001.; to St. J e t o reet, 1,0001.; to the Middlesex We.tminster Hospital, 1,000/r.g-e'tso Hospital,thF ree 1 1 -1( ( ?p 0 i 1 t . a ; l, Cfra t v h 's e Inn-lane, 1,0001.; to the Seamans' Hospital, off . GreenwiCh, 1,0001.; to the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, 1,000/.; and to the rector and churchwardens for the iime being of the palish of St. Paul, Covent-garden, 1,0001., to apply the interest to the relief of the deserving poor of that pariah. THE MANSION HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor enter. tained at dinner at the Mansion House, on Friday evening, the flimsier of the Merchant Tailors' Company; the master, wardens, and court of assistants of the Vintner.' Company; the sheriffs of Loudon and Middlesex ; the master, wardens, and court of assistants of the Clothworkers' (his Lordship's) Company, with the joint hoard, tie. After the pas s i ng of the loving cup IVon nails Domine was sung by Messrs. Lockey, Francis, and Hatton, who, in the course of the even ing, sung several favourite songs and glees. The Lord Mayor will give his first dinner to the members of the Court of Common Council, in the Egypiian Hall, on Wednesday next; and the Lady Mayoress will gi ve her second soiree dansante on the 18(h itn.t., after receiving a party o f private friends at dinner on the same day. An old man, named Rob er t Evans, was fined 40s. at the Thames Police.,,ffice on Saturday, for assaulting officer of the W Court,County the executionhitechapel Count in an of his duty. ......... -...w ....-...'".' do' di . ...........' ~.0 4 1 0. . 'boo' , bide 0. i$ ' 2l THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1851.