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respecting the general appearance of the crop, both here And on the continent, are very !.r.vouratle. nivii.ouctrait la_ct..P.MET. The plantation accounts being very 1 4 vourible, the th e supply duty has alvanced to 180,000/. I , Jotwithstanding ..ue -- of Hops on offer is very moderate, the general demand is heavy, and prices are not supportel Mid end Illst Kent pockets, 81 to 101; of Kent ditto, 6l t° 71 7 s; Sussex ditto, 51 5s to 61 6s ; Yearlings, 11 15 s to 41; Old Hops, 1/ to 3/. per cwt. 'OOL. The imports of Wool W iuto London, last week, were ve ry extensive, viz., 2,000 bales from llobart Town; 323 ditto f rom P ort Beaufort; 15 from Constantinople; 128 from rlamburgh; 6.500 from Sydney, 765 from Ade ;tide; 143 from the Cape ; , 124 from Alexandria; 169 ireal Mondore; 14 from Odessa; and 233 bags from reh nd• ' The public sales will not be brought to a close ! i ll the end of the present week. Those held since our 1 ”t report have been well attended by buyers, and nearly the whole of the Wool off:red has changed hands, at about opsning p r i ces . British Wool is in fair request itl t the private contract market; but all other kinds are Zeglected. TALLOW. Advices from St. Petersburgh, dated the 29th ult., bandshat about 8,000 casks of Tallow had changed 8 t at 109 to 110 roubles, with a steady market. th ee our last report the demand has ruled heavy, and Prices have given way quite 3d per cwt. To - day P.Y.C. ea the the spot is selling at 36s 93, and for delivery during t three mont h s , 37 s 61 per cwt. Town Tallow, 351 as tO 35s 6d per cwt net cash; Rough fat 2s per 81h,% 1846. 1847. I 1848. 1849. 1840. Stock th lß d a y ...... 9 ,8 7 i 7 , 833 7,649 23,626 25,084 ?do 3d to 363 8d ei T. c. t to Os 08 ° 0 d d t0"4 59506d1 t044451,63dd 383 s6d to Os Od Deliver last week .. 609 669 1,154 768 824 A... °1 ! 01 :11 June 1.... 2,918 4,336 7,581 3, 16 9 E i laals last week . 146 5,1 10 . 80 227 1,'177 1,937 ~..., fr oal June 1 ... 1,899 4,010 6,543 3,622 4,570 ft " te Of Town •..... 43* Od 515 Od 468 6d 39s 6d 383 Od QUEEN'S TIENCII.—(THIS DAY.) EEN'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord CAMPBELL and a Special Jury.) H ARRIS V. HEWITT. n Thi s was a running-down case. The plaintiff was t he :ner a fishing-smack called the Providence , and e defendant owns another fishing smack called the Spitfire, between which the collision which, was the sub- Jett of the action took place. imu lir• Sergeant Shee was counsel for the plaintiff , d f VII% Watson, Q.C., and Mr. Brown represented the e endant. The act i on was b roug h t to o b ta i n com p e nsation in damages 4„,,, for the loss of the Providence, valued at about 414 -, which foundered in consequence, as was alleged, of ',eollision with the Spitfire, and of the negligence of the servants of the defendant. On the 4th Novenber of lotilteyre:r the two ships in vestion, with a number of Sh„ u.shing-smacks, were in the sicinity of Winterton " 1, in the North Sea, about fifty miles from the Nor folk coast, and the Spitfire was returning from deli ,eLtretiriag her cargo on board a carrier cutter called the , and the Providence was about to deliver her cargo a n board t h e latter vessel, when the Spitfire and Provi enee came into collision, and the result was that the ' pr ovidence, with a cargo of fish, was sunk and en tirely l ost. both sides amount of conflicting evidence was given on ea ,. bides as to which of the vessels was in fault, and ~ - "s ed the accident, each party imputing the blame to Me other. T ie ease was proceeding when our report left. -XCREQUER.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco after Term, before the LORD CHIEF knosi and Barons ALDERSON, ROLFE, and PLATT.) THE GORHAM CASE. DECISION. Ole LOR D C HIEF B ARON d e li vere d th e judgment of eCourt in this case. After stating the facts involved unlit, and reviewing the various proceedings which had ,n place i n t h e C ourt o f A rc h es , th e Judicial Com mittee of privy Council, the Courts of Queen's i t t Bench • n a Common Pl eas , h e p rocee d e d to say, that the ques inn which they had to decide was whether the rule nisi Co d vor should not b e ma d e a b so l u te, and that question eel two points—fi rs t, whether the case before the Urt was a case which touched the Crown, and if it 'pasW then w h y , an d i n t h a t even t there was r , uotiot that an appeal to the Queen in sitinil ells" was good; and, secondly, whether in all tin appeal from the Court of the Archbishop tt sas not to the Queen. Upon the first point the Court en t rta ined consid era bl e d ou bt, w h e th er the m a tter in con rorersy touched the Crown or not; but it was not ne seeh"arY for the C our t t o decide that point, for they were ;" of opinion that by the 25th of Henry VIII. the ireal in all cases from the Arc hbi s h op ' s C our t was to e J udicial C omm i ttee o f t h e P r i v y C o uncil. That also "PPeared to be the result of the most eminent authorities 'alai eg T. hewed had been c it e d a t th e bar. His Lordship then s "ewed th ose authorities, and sa id t h ey a ll agree d that -PPeals from the decisions of the Archbishop was to for merly J the Ki ng i n Ch ancer y, an d now to the Judicial h °lo cnitte e of the Privy Council. In the present case, tZ e T, that was rather a matter of curious speculation f ths — aoY practical importance, for in either view o w " ease the proceedings before the Judicial Committee forth er yell founde , l, and in either view there could be no is s , e s r appeal. Probably, if they were compelled to de • " 0 question, they would come to the same conclu sion at the other Courts of Westminster, that there was tloes t i PPeat to th e U pper H ouse o f C onvoca ti on . The sam,however, before them was, not whether there efter the passing of the 28th of Henry VIII. c. 19, tou ,!ppe a l to the Convocation in some stages of cases , the Queen, but whether in all manner of eccle rtical cases there was an appeal to the Archbishop and so t ti l Cing in chancery. The Court thought there was, kin that there was now an appeal to the Judicial Corn heiseu• Their judgment was founded on what they tke n to be the true construction of the statutes, and on 2 eminent authorities which it had been incorrectly ;Med led t) a contrary conclusion. On the whole, there doeroeileOntinued his Lordship) entertaining, as we d -,, no a on the question before us, and concurring as we m() w• 110 w lt hthe other courts of Westminster-hall, and as far hot thin ow with every judge of all the courts, we do ex e, we should be justified in creating delay and ouat e P w ilt ' n oY sanctioning further proceedings with the r of taking the opinion of the House of Lords, and ul - „ s ilcignien t is that the rule be discharged with costs. ule, accordingly, discharged. ela•Ln. announcement was received with cheers and I t .PPlne of hands, which aroused the indignation of Mr. .ro u A i ss hi ss i o "rants, who observed that either applauding or os• g wai equally offensive and disgraceful in courts _)tistice, and that he should give directions to the officers of tsbao r forg e t to take into custody any person who should himself as to be aainguilty of such ab ort( c onduct. g g Gib e court was crowded in every part, and among Gib p r esent wo n ot i ce d M r . G or h am , t h e Bi s h o p o f „ , a ltar ' tied severa l other clergymen connecte d w i t h tee Established Church. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (THIS DAY.) The OLD COURT. 0 sessions of the Central Criminal Court were R oc this morning before the Lord Mayor, the brothert cr, the Common Sergeant, and Aldermen Fare rs_, Marshall, Hunter, and Duke. Mr. Sheriff Law , " 7 v u e oe and M r. Sheriff Nichol, attended by their respec deputies' wer e also in attendance. The first edition of the calendar contains the names f~ l3 O prisoners, distributed thus-24 from London, 88 's , r a urrey Middlesex, 2 from Esse x , 5 f r o m K en t, and 11 from The G rand Jury having been sworn and empannelled, b w lhe Le arned RECORDER charged them to the fol et ing effect :—The short interval which had elapsed wten the l a t e and the present sessions, would account for the num b er of crimes being less than on ordinary oce of a s'ens• The calendar, in fact, contains the names Offence ; , 13 0 pri soners ; they were charged with several the great majority of them having reference k!0 the felonious acquisition of property. At the same nits there w ere 28 cases more immediately relating to of violence, such as cu tti ng an d woun di ng , 6 c h arges Of manslaughter, and 12 cases of misdemeanour, most !of them attended with acme degree of violence. There es one case of rape, and seven cases of robbery from the Person, accompanied by violence. The most inter esting case of assault, and the one calling forth the stoat indignatio n , was that of a person charged with striking her Majesty, which he should have to advert to hereafter, when he should call the attention to the terms of the more i the mmedi at most whole some statute recently passed for e protection of the person of her Majesty from violence and insult. With regard to the cases of cutting and wounding, they were not all of the like complexion, some of them being of a more aegra 'rated character than others. Ile lamented to observe that the frequent use of the knife was becoming a serious subject for consideration in this country. For- Utterly the reprehensible, but still more manly mode f r esenting an insult was by having resourc e to the fists, but unh a ppily i n the present day, upon the sli g h test Provocation parties were base enough to resort to the k n if e and inflict dangerous wounds upon those who had gi ven them offe nce . Th ese genera l o bservations brough t hi m to the case to which he bad already slightly alluded, and Which he could not refer to without feeling pain and i ndignation, more especially as the charge was made a gainst a pe rson i n a b etter con di t i o n of life thanthat Which ordinarily led to the commission of such an r ! ence. The charge against the party was that of h v ing met the c arr i age o f the Queen, he extended t4llll into the carriage, and with a ridingk ek or cane which he held in his hand struc ortforehead of her Majesty, as well as disarranged part 141 r dress, namely, the bonnet which her Majesty wore Was ne . time. It appears that no personal harm or injury the leeise Roe intended, but still the indignation which the insult to was not the less painful, nor was the offence and e s complete ; and if the facts were established, i e had not the slightest doubt that they would, it th e 'ci not be the duty of the grand jury to investigate ,w,__,qettpstion as to whether so strange and perversely act resulted f rom any want of sanity, but to • the e▪ h sanity case for f urt h er enquiry elsewhere. The question they or i nsan i ty of the accused ;was one which w ere not ca ll e d upon to try ; they had only to deal w ith the simple facts attending the committal of the offence tinet and s sbecause the Legislature had provid e d a dis !ere natu r e p an a y ra i t e e d m tn ode for d ec idi ng t hi s matter. T hey defect assume that there must be some Pa rty who, ni the u nderstanding or the state of mi n d o f a outra g i n _ a t hout any p rovocat i on, could be guilty of th e sovlig_t.a feeling of attachmert and loyalty towards and particular! W hich in thi s country k new no l i m i ts, Only ag a i wit lY e When such an insult was directed not oTovereign, but against an amiably lady i n the prese nce their attention t her children. He would now call 'Pedal n ano the terms of the statute by which a Unhappily • •*7 wee a • met al:lce applied to cases of this nature. P 9111 1 4 8, 1491 5 41 11 1 4 Occurred where parties who, T" , raMent responsible for 0294 acts, had, from a love of notoriety, or some other cause, yeeturid to discharge loaded fire-arms at her Majesty, greatly to her alarm, and causing leech anxiety in the mind of the public, frotn ignorance of the precise intention of such pirt , es; and, therefore, a new remedy was sought for to meet such abominable cases. It was thought that as the offence was infamous, the punish ment for such outrages ought to be the same; and, ac cordingly, by the sth and 6th Vic, chap i 51, sec. 2, it was enacted, that from and after the passing of that Act, ell parties who should be convicted of having fired or presented arms at her Majesty, or of having struck or struck at her Majesty with any weapon or stick, not with the intention of doing personal injury, but only to alarm her Majesty, and outrage public feeling, should be liable to be transported beyond the seas fir seven years, or to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, for any period not exceeding three years, and during such pe riod to be publicly or privately whipped as often, and in such manner and form, as the Court should order, but not exceeding twice. This Act, however, did not abrogate or interfere with the law of high trea son, and any [arty who should be guilty of such an offence, with intent to destroy the life of her Majesty, would be still liable to be arraigned as of old. He had read the whole of the modern Act, because too much pub!istity could not be given to its wholesome provisions fur pretecting her Majesty, not only from violence, but from that alarm to which no one of manly mind could wish or desire her Majesty to be exposed. He had already told them that they had nothing whatever to du with the sanity or insanity of the accused—that was a separate question, which the law provided should he tried by a special jury, to be ern pannelled for the purpose, who would have the power of convicting the prisoner, or of acquitting him on the ground of insanity, or of his having been irresponsible fur the act at the time he committed it ; and then he would be liable to be detained in custody during the pleasure of the Crown. He had entered into these details, because it would naturally strike a person that a party who not only moved in, comparatively speaking, an elevated sphere of life, but had actually hold a commission in her Majesty's service, would hardly be guilty of such an abominable, so dastardly an offence, while in his right senses; and his excuse for occupying their time a few minutes longer than he otherwise should have done, was his anxiety to point out to them that they had nothing whatever to do with that part of the question. Having made these few gene ral remarks upon the state of the calendar, and called their especial attention to this particular case, it now only remained fir him to dismiss them to their duties, which he was glad to tell them were not likely to be very heavy. The grand jury then retired, and having shortly after wards returned true hills in some minor cases, petty juries were called, and the trials proceeded with. SURREY SESSIONS.—(THIS DAY.) The adj urnfd .leisions fur the county of Surrey commenced this morning, at the Court-house, Newing ton-causeway, before Thoorts Puckle, Esq., and a full bench of magistrates. The Calender contained the names of only 30 ortconers. Henry Thom, 24, and John Field, 19, two labourers, were indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Richard Colebrook, at Cheasey, and stealing there from twenty-nine sovereigns and other money, his pro emyp. Field pleaded guilty, and without the least hesitation the jury found his companion guilty. The Court sentenced them to ten years' transpor tation. As soon as sentence was passed, Thom turned round upon his companion in a furious manner, and would have killed him had not an officer been behind him. He was forced away and taken to the cells with great difficulty. The prosecutor here interceded for Field, who he knew to be the dupe of the other, when the Court called him back and reduced his sentence to twelve months, at Guildford. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day shortly after Twelve o'clock. The Lords' amendments to the following private Bills were considered and agreed to : The Great Northern Railway (Deviations, Amendment of Acts, Alteration of Tolls, and of East Lincolnshire Railway Tolls). The Waterford and Kilkenny Railway. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— The Birkenhead Dock Trustees Bill. The River Dee Conservancy and Improvement Bill. The Westminster Improvement Bill. Sir Pater Hesketh Fleetwood's Estate Bill, as amended, was agreed to. PETITIONS. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from places in Devonshire for and against the recent alterations in the Post-office; also petitions against the Jews Bill. Several petitions against the Jews Bill were pre sented from various parts of the country. Mr. FULLER present!d a petition from a place in Essex in favour of the recent postal arrangements. Mr. FORSTER, presented petitions from places in Essex against the recent alterations in the Post-office. The Hon. Member also gave no ice of his intention, to• morrow, to present a petition from Lloyd's against the Mercantile Marine Bill Mr. CLAY presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Hull against the Mercantile Marine Bill. Lord MELGUND presented a petition from Greenock in favour of the Mercantile Marine Bill. Mr. GROGAN presented a petition from the Cham ber of Commerce of Dublin in favour of the Home made Spirits in Bond Bill. MERC ANTILE MARINE BILL. On the motion that the Speaker do leave the chair for the purpose of the House going into Committee on the Mercantile Marine Bill, Mr. MOFFA TT, puritunt to notice, moved as an amendment, th ,t the House should resolve itself into Committ-e on the Bill that day six months. As a mercantile man, he was bound to say that the measure was viewed with greet suspicion out of doors, and it was thought by mercantile teen that they had been unfairly dealt with by her Majesty's Government. For his own part he thought the Bill unfair and prejudicial to the shipping interest. lie thought that that interest was entitled to expect. after the passing of the Naviga tion-laws Ropeal Bill, that some relief would be given to them with respect to the restrictions relative to pilotage, and that they had also reason to complain of the regula tions with respect to manning the navy, which restricted them in the mode of manning their ships, and placed them in a most disadvantagous position as regarded competition with foreigners.—(Hear, hear.) If this Bill should become law it would, instead of ac- complishirg the objects proposed, give rise to greater annoyances and vexations than existed under the present system. The whole machinery by which it was to be carried into effect was very defective, and he believed hsd been proposed by the Government on the faith of one-sided information. He doubted very much the pro priety of throwing so much responsibility on the Board of Trade as at present constituted. He did not dis cover throughout the whole Bill a clause which was more calculated to diminish the evils of the crimping system than the existing law. He characterised the Bill as amounting, in feet, to an indictment against the shipowners of the kingdom, for it seemed to be taken for granted throughout every clause that they were guilty of fraud in not pa)iog the wages of their seamen. No mention had yet been made of the expense which the measure would entail on the shipping interest. Local boards of examinatior, and shipmasters with a number of clerks, would have to be appointed at different ports, and all the expense of maintaining such a staff of offi cials would have to be borne by the shipowners. A new system of taxation was to be introduced by the Bill, and this without the consent of the shipowners, who were to be mulcted of a large sum of money for the purpose of carrying it out. They said, if Par liament wished to pass the Bill, that the expense of it ought to be borne by the Consolidated Fund. The port of London was partially opposed to the Bill, but it was wholly and entirely opposed by the ports of Hull, Bristol, Dublin, Dundee, Plymouth, Scarborough, North Shields, Carnarvon, Plymouth, and other ports. The shipping interest protested loudly against the Bill, which they said had been passed without a full and fair inquiry into the merits of the case, and without their sanction and concurrence, which they be lieved was directly opposed to their best interests. Sir W. CLAY said it was not his intention to trespass at any length on the attention of the House, but as he had the honour to represent a borough which consti tuted one of the largest ports in the kingdom, it might naturally be expected that he ought not to give a silent vote on an important measure of this nature. He did not agree with the Hon. Gentleman that the Bill was very unpopular among the shipping interest. o Though he could not deny that a large por tion of the shipowners in Hull were adverse to the Bill, b u t th e i r objections were not so strong or - untversal as stated by the Hon. Gentleman. The laisjorityofthe inhabitants of that borough was largely, intereste d interest, and if h in the prosperity of the mercantile to that interest e thought the present Bill was hostile him to give it nohiss private consideration would induce woo u l ip h ort ; but, on the contrary, he be lieved that it be absolutely impossible to bring forward any measure o ar s Leh would have a more bene ficial effect than the before question for the House(' touonudweonsider t was, he whether liuse The the character of the captains as to oth i er officers of the British mercantile navy was such in teheevate the character of the first commercial country w"11 whether they w ere fit men to be entrusted— with millions of property and hu ndred s of thousands ° to lives? Now it was quite notorious that officers these were not men in whom such confidence oughtbe reposed. He contended that the consular returns showed that the professional character of the masters and captains of our mercantile marine was by no means of that effi cient order which was absolutely necessary, consideri ng the great amount of prop ert y and the numbe r of lives entrusted to their care. That was ow i ng, first, to the great extent of our colonial system, which was carried en under such peculiar circumstances as to preclude a high order or merit among commanders of our mercantile marine; secondly, to the enormous extent during the war of what was called the transtw t service, which engaged many hundreds of tons of sh p. ping; and, thirdly, to the circumstance that most of that service was carried on by convoys, the speed of which was regulated, not by the best sailing ship and the best informed master, but by the worst sailing ship, commanded by the best informed master. He supported the Bill because he saw in it k the sow of Wain the charseter 0 the cias _ cers in our mercantile marine. He thought also that the provisions of the Bill were well adapted to protect the Britimh : fair, for there could not be a more helpless or friendless creature than a sailor arriving at a strange port. The Bill also came recommewltd to his mind because it provided a tribunal of law for settling disputes between masters and sailors. For those reasons, and because he believed that the measure was essentially necessary, not only for the country at large, but especi ally for the shipping interest itself, he would give the Bill his most cordial support.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. CL .Y thought the House was legislating on a great subject in a very small way. The Bill as it now stood was greatly altered and improved since it first came under the consideratiun of the House ; but although many of thos , s alterations had had the effect of conciliating much of the opposition with which the Bill was at first assailed, yet it was not wholly unobjectionable to him. He was at a loss to know why the coasting trade was to be left out of the Bill altogether. He cordially agre !d in that provision of the Bill which provided for sn examination of masters and mates; but there was a second principle in the Bill, namely, that which proposed an interference between shipowners and their ssilors, v.ith a view to the protec tion of the latter, in which be could not concur, because it was always in the highest degree dangerous and in convenient to intervene between a master and his servant. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING; JULY 8, 1850. (LEFT SITTING.) HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. 11 Matrimonio Segretto was repeated on Saturday with the same powerful cast as on Thursday, end the chef dceuvre of Citnarosa was received with that rap turous applause which its pet formtince by such accom plished artistes as Sontag, Frezz,lini, Parodi, the La ulaches (pere et .fils), and Calzolari never fai's to elicit. The Purituni is to be performed to morrow, with Gardoni as Arturo, Madame Prez z as Eiviro, and Isablache as Giorgio; it will be followed by a divertissement, in which the black prima chnna, who has driven Madrid and Paris wild by her astoilishing execution of Cuban melodies, Will appear fa. the first time in Eagland. The Queen's box was On Saturday evening occupied by the Hon. Mrs. Cuet, Miss Cust, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Captain Macdonald and party. Amongst the company were the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, and Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke and Duchess of Cleve laud and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke and Duchess of Leeds and Miss Elizabeth Lane Fox, the Prince froubetskoi, the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunuow, the Viscountess Combermere, Matins. Olga de Lechner and party. the Belgian Mini-ter and Madame Van der Weyer, the American Minister and Mrs. and Miss Abbot Lawrence. the Swedish MiLister, the Mar quis of Donegal, the Marquis of Huntley, the Marquis and Marchioness of Aileabury, the Marquis of Worces ter, the Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl and Countess Malmeabury, the E srl of Lonsdale, the Earl Compton, the Earl Gifford, the Earl of Cardigan, the Baron Vidal, the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, the Earl Mount charles, the Earl Bruce, the Earl of Munster, the Viscount Dupplin, the Count de Barke, the Viscount Ranelagh, the Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady Francis Gordon, the Viscount Enfield, the Baroness (Dowager) de Rothschild, the Baron and Baroness Lionel de Rothschild, the Baron Adolphe de Roths child, &c. ----- ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Ressini's Otello was produced here last evening, with Tamberlik as Otello, Ronconi lago, Zelger Elmiro, and Madame Grisi Desdemona. The part of Desdemona has always ben' a great part in the repertoire of Grisi, and albeit she scarcely looks " the gentle lady married to the Moor" whom Shakespere drew, yet she is an admirable operatic Desdemona, seeing that the Desdemona of Rossini is by no means " a gentle lady," but an impassioned Venetian, who can very well take her own part when occasion re quires. Grisi was in excellent voice on Saturday; she sung the music deliciously, and made all her old points with unerring precision—a compliment, by-the-bye, which cannot be paid to the audience, who unaccounta bly neglected to encore the gem of the opera—the Willow Song. The Otello of Tamberlik was very fine; his "make up" was admirable, his acting most impassioned, and his singing superb; he is the most manly Otello on the stage. Ronconi was excellent as Iago; his duet with Tamberlik, in the second act, was the very perfection of dramatic singing. Zelger, as Elmiro, although not equal t ) Lablache, was very effective. Maralti was a pains-taking Roderigo; and Mademoiselle Cotti an excellent Emilia. The choruses were ad mirably given, and the orchestra all that could be de sired. The principal artistes were frequently called on during the course of the performance. The Queen's box was occupied by Lady George Lennox and the Hon. Miss Lennox, and Mrs. Locke and party. Amongst the com pany we remarked his Excellency the Danish Minister, the Countess Reventlow, Countess Hilda Reventlow, and Count Christian Reventlow, the Duke de Rigrano, the Marquis of Winchester, the Marquis of Douro, M. P., the Marchioness of Westmeath and Lidy Frederick Maack, the Marchesa Broncaleone and Mademoiselle Bronealeone, the Earl of Beltast, the Earl of Bess borough, the Earl of Durham, the Earl of Gifford, the Earl of Pomfret, the Earl and Countess Fingall and the Ladies Plunkett, Visomet Ex mouth and the Viscounteas Maidstone and Lady Adelaide Paget and Miss Paget, Viscount Newport, M.P., Viscount Mandeville. Viscount Dungannon, Lord Saltoun, Lady Dinorben and Miss VVabis, Lady Ashley, Lord Cranstoun. Lord Colville, Lady Ro e Lovell and Cap , ain Lovell, &c , James and Lady Anna Mackenzie, Lord Ernest 3ruce M P., Lady Hunt and party, Lady Dufferin and Miss Doyle, Lady Caroline Masse and Miss Masse, Lord and Lady Poltimore, Lord Archibald St. Maur, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon, Lady Ehzibeth Bulteel and Miss Bulteel and Lady Racht-1 Russell, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Sir George and Lady Armytage and party, Lady de Bathe and party. Sir Francis and Lady Lairley, Sir John Yerde Buller. M.P. and Laly Buller and Miss Buller, Sir William Moles worth, M.P., and Lady Molesworth, Sir George and Lady Carroll and Miss Carroll, Sir Henry Webb, Co lonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, &c. THE BERMONDSEY MURDER —The whole of the affair connected with the Bermondsey murder has been set tled by the Treasury. It may be recollected that, shortly after the execution of the Mannings, all the property found on the convicts and in Scotland, and the railway shares, were delivered over to the Crown, to be disposed of. That portion belonging to the murdered man was paid to his relatives, and the remainder, which was clearly established to be the property of Manning and his wife, was retained until some settlement could be made respecting the expenses of their defence. Mr. Binns, the solicitor for Manning, and Mr. So lomons, the solicitor for his wife, received instructions some time ago to send in their respective accounts, and last week letters were sent to them, requesting their attendance at the Treasury. On Saturday those gentlemen had an interview with sir. Maule, and received payment of their accounts, but much reduced in amount. The French Rentes have been disposed of, and the other property has been handed over to Manning's relatives. The America sailed from Liverpool on Saturday for New York. She had 80 passengers and a large cargo of goods. ROYAL COLLEGE OF PIIYSICIANS.—The following genllemen have been elected Fellows :—Dr. Basham, Dr. Peacock, Dr. Herbert Davies, Dr. G. Johnson, Dr. Acland (Oxford), and Dr. Ormerod. The censors chosen for eaf- the year are—Dr. Mayo, Dr. Barker, Dr. B ar low, and Dr. J freson. Letters, dated May 10, from her Majesty's troop ship Apollo, Commander Rawstorne, at the Cape of Good Hope, state that she left Hong-Kong with the 95th Regi ment, about 800 rank and file, on the let of March, and ar rived at Simon's Bay on the Bth of May. During the passage great sickness prevailed among the troops, caused in the first 'place by their protracted residence abroad. The whole ship for a long period was quite like an hospital, as many as 100, and sometimes 150, being sick at a time of dysentery, of which forty soldiers died. On l y one of the officers had been ill, and he recovered. On arrival at the Cape all the sick were sent to the hospital, and the rest of the troops were landed at the dockyard; six men who were very ill when landed died ashore, and more will probably die before reaching England. However, only four or five fresh cases occurred after arrival, and the weather was very fine. No mention is made of any sickness amongst the crew. The senior medical officer at the Cape has been on board and in spected the Apollo ; she was to be cleaned and purified, pro visions got on board, and everything ready to receive the troops by the 26th of May ; but the medical officer thought they ought not to go before the Ist of June, so as to give the men time to recover previous to embarkation. All the sick will be left behind, and this will in some measure prevent overcrowding. The Apollo, it is supposed, will be paid off on arrival home. She has not sufficient height between decks, and is otherwise ill-adapted for the conveyance of troops, of which fact there has been very fatal evidence since she left England. —Portsmou:h Times and Naval Gazette. POISONING IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE.--The inquest upon the body of Thomas Harris, the hatter of Coalpit-heath, about nine miles from Bristol, and who, it was alleged, died of poison administered by his wife, was brought to a con clusion by a verdict of wilful murder having been rammed against the wife (who is about 60 years of age), and she has begn committed for trial. It appeared from the evidence anuced that .the deceased, who was 62 years 'of age, was both a respectable and indastrious man, and had accumu lated some savings; but he did not live happily with his wife, who was suspected of having formed an improper inti macy with a man named Curtis, a shoemaker, who occa sionally visited at the house. About the middle of April Harris was taken ill, complaining of pain and soreness in the stomach, with vomiting. He gradually got worse, and died on the 29th. Upon the day of his death Curtis was at the house, and in less than three weeks after was married to the widow. The public mind becoming excited upon the subject, the body was exhumed, and the viscera, *cc., conveyed to Mr. Herapatb, the analytical chemist, who discovered arsenic in considerable quantities in the liver, and in the stomach and intestines. It was proved that during his illness all the food, &c., taken by him was prepared by his wife (the prisoner), and that she had been frequently heard to say that she wished he was dead. It was also proved that the prisoner had purchased half an ounce of arsenic at a shop at Frampton Cotterell, about ten weeks since, stating that she wanted it to poison a black eat; and it was also shown that she had no black cat. The Co ron"r summed up the evidence, the prisoner having declined making any statement, and the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against her. The prisoner, who was dressed very respectably, and who appeared to take very little notice of the proceedings, was then committed for trial at the Gloucester Assizes. I3PITANNIA BRIDGE.—The 24th or 25th of this month is the day appointed for the floating off the fourth and last iron tube, which, when hoisted and placed, will com plete the railway bridge across the Menai Straits, no exer tions being spared to expedite the work. The third tube has attained its elevation, and will forthwith take its place alongside the tube on duty.—Chester Chronie!e. EXHIBITION or 1851.—The proprietors of the Po lytechnic Institution, at a special general meeting on Satur day, voted the sum of 100 guineas as their contribution to the funds now raising for carrying into effect the Exhibition bf Industry. VERITAS. A Poem. Whoever may have written this anonymous poem has poetic feeling, what though he is guilty through out it of many unpoetic extravagances. " Veritas" is dedicated to Thomas Carlyle, and to Thomas Car lyle it will have come commended quite as much by its eccentricities as by its excellences. Of the better powers of our author let us at once, in all truthfulness, afford a good and golden specimen. Here is his gra phic and sententious delineation of the woman of his affections— " lie said—the maid I love is she whose mind Is gentle. prudent, and sincerely kind, — Whose life is always constancy and love, — Whose modest eye is never prone to rove, — Whose equal conscience is serenely right, — Whose breast is free of jealoury and spite,— Whose thoughts are not too mach of the ideal, — Whose feelingF, though acute, are always real, — Whose judgment in advance is of her years,— Whose genuine sense in every act appears,— Whose cautious tongue from slandering is free, — Whose soul despises all iniquity,— Whose face is lighted with a graceful smile, — Whose conduct is incapable of guile,— Whose ready laugh is not the laugh of folly,— Whose manr er is untouched by melancholy,— Whose chie'est joy is in her neighbour's weal, — Whose tender heart reciprocal can feel, — Whose hopes are always longing for the best, — Whose wishes are but simple in request, — Who knows herself —a knowledge too uncommon! And ne'er forgets the character of Woman." Hear him again descanting more briefly, but not less eulogistically upon the delights of domesticity : •' Home, all endearing haven to the yonng! Thy accent melts like honey on the tongue— The weary exile wandering far away Through tears looks back; the szhoolboy at his play Reckons his dearest joys et Christmas times, When by his friends his village belfry chimes; — The youthful mariner, afar at sea, Looks to his ship, but always thinks of thee; — The distant lover, gazing on the skies, Hopes that the moon is seen by brighter eyes!" Elsewhere his phrases are equally worthy of commen dation, as where he apostrophizes poesy (p. 45) as the " sweet manna of the mind," or where he ex claims (p. 57) " Friendship we long have reckon'd second love, A sort of hallow'd feeling from above." Others of his expressions are rather wiredrawn, and verging too much upon the grotesque. In one place, he calls truth very admirably (p. 65), "the power of reason in its prime," while in another he speaks of it must outrageously as (p. 66), " the backbone of the human race." That is one of the absurdities of the volume. Now for more of them. Slang phrases and vulgarisms are never thought too mean for poetry by the writer of " Veritas :" and thus we find him complaining at one instant, (p. 74) " How many hopeful specs in life give way," &c. and at another protesting that (p. 43) " Poor artifice and etiquette but school Into obedience every verdant fool." Then his rhymes ! Hear them : " Perhaps to pawn a watch, perbaps a coat— If more than one the wretched man has got. You only cast your pearls to the swine, And do the act perhaps at the wrong time. This man was fl stter'd daily by his friends — Ile liked it, but to likings there's nc, end. . . . . . . The walls were wood, the dwelling quite compact, With luxury of window front and back." As to his metre, our author must have some odd notions, as also in his mode of pronunciation. For instance, " world" must be to him as it is to Mr. Peggo t t y , a dissyllable, wurreld, in o x r T d t or e a r ya a t ng o d amne ourselves e a ve k e s even the second line in the following completely correct , (p. 50) : "Even from the Transatlantic side they come Yet, shown, we rnwi : T iat s o ih, s, s i e naa t losl thetwtw i thout eiwisertste ha v eoubt w l ea o mlr itsrl ides already e n eys a au intimated andht i u e m s . . ' e ' Andt tiThose.pr nr i oi ' Dv e 8 , there is something very graceful in the thought struck out by the author, where he is describing him self at the time when he (p. 39) " Wrote sonnets, too, on lovely woman's eyes— Warm from the heart, and free of all disguise, With thoughts, mysterious in their varied strains, As frozen dreams upon the window panes !" Speaking of the vernal season, he describes it (p. 65) as the time— " When birds begin to sing; When woods are yellow with the buds of spring." Of jealousy, especially in its evidence towards all would-be poets, he says (pp. 92, 93), with much of his own veritas : " But be it understood, there is a thing . Callel envy, with a hidden, hideous sting; Always desirous to bring others down To a dull level equal to its own. And poets get enough of this to quaff— The scorner's censure and the idiot's laugh;—. The secret whisperings of lesser men, Who loathe the effusions of a friendly pen. Thus jealousy, fiend of the eye-ball queen, Sister of fear, and demi-god of spleen! Seen in the lover's trembling form to swell, poetry ttrey be 7raur,rtiloers's. meanings—loads finds faults, and while it calls you friend! m gth o teo st who with it have an equal tame.— Would laugh with silent joy to see your end." gone Alluding b y, histo the vin d assertion icttion is that altogetherth e passed over unnoticed. " What ! " he exclaims (pp. 97, 98)— " Did Alexander —Philip's compering son.— Leave no campaigns for great Napoleon? Did Homer write what Virgil since has done? Did Virgil pen what Shakspere's fame has won?— Or Shskspere pen what Byron, Cowper, Young, Hay , s.rewn among creation, nobly sung? Di 1 M 1 n live of old? is Moore yet dead? Or wave‘ the grass o'er Wordsworth's aged head?" To the last inquiry the answer is, unhappily, by this time in the affirmative. The argument is good ; but we very much fear, with all its merite, whether the illustration will be found in " Veritas." ANONYMOUS POEMS. Forty years have been consumed in the compokition ,of this volume, which nevertheless, after All, does not extend beyond sixty pages, and presents altogether a remarkable illustration of Sheridan's sarcasm about " a rivulet of rhyme running through a meadow of margin." Several of the pages contain no more than four lines—the entire moiety of a capacious leaf being dedicated to an epigram. As to the period occupied by the anonymous bard in the travails of metrical composition, we learn its exact duration from a state ment very explicitly given to that effect in the pre face. We complain not of the paucity of verses— heaven forfend we should be afflicted with more of a comparable mediocrity. There are enough of them and to spare, few though they , are numerically. But what excites cur sur prise in reference to them 13 the length of time ab sorbed in their production and its hardy acknowledg ment. To us it appears like the antithesis to Byron's propitiatory note to the " Hours of Idleness," inform ing the critics that they were the effusions of a " minor." Several of the fragments from Camoens and Petrarch are ingenious—some of thkm felicitous. But what shall we say of the "Fragments intended for a copy of verses to be spoken at Oxford in 1814, after the visit of the Allied Sovereigns," for example ? In one part of it we have— •' Ile flies—a refuge Elba's rocks afford, And the bleak isle receives hrr faun lord." Then come a number of asterisks ; then— " A narrow speck amid the dreary main"— Then more asterisks. Why, after thirty-six years, preserve that fragment? Why print it, and correct the proof•sheet of it, and publish it ? To be brief, the author of " Anonymous Poems" is a scholar, but not a poet. THE MINISTRY OF THE BEAUTIFUL. By H. Slack, F. G.S. " A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is an opinion which has received an unanimous assent, but the chief value of beauty and of joy is their powerful efficacy in producing and promoting good, and this beautiful ministry of the beautiful is the theme of Mr. Slack's little work. " The Ministry of the Beautiful, as endeavoured to be set forth in the following pages," be tells us, " consists chiefly in its omnipresent power of stimulating the fancy and the heart to join the intellect in adoration of the good and true." This most truthful and beautiful definition is enoughof itself to predispose all who read it to turn with interest to the work itself, from the perusal of which they cannot fail to derive pleasure. In two respects, however, we are somewhat dissatis fied with the manner in which Mr. Slack has set forth his very delightful subject-matter. He has adopted the form of a dialogue between two persons of the names of Edith and Lyulpb, but these individuals are introduced to us without being invested with any in dividual interest whatsoever ; and, again, the style of their discourse is at times deficient in that simplicity which renders conversation so charm ing. These two drawbacks we mention frankly, because we so greatly sympathise with Mr. Slack's sentiments and with his enthusiasm for his subject. The volume is rich in beautiful pictures and beautiful thoughts. Turning over the pages at random we read : " Life should be measured by time wisely employed, and not by periods unprofitably spent. He is the oldest who has thought and felt the deepest and the the most. . . What efforts should not woman make to preserve in maturity the sim plicity of the child. When that is lost, the sunlight of her being is sadly over-clouded, if not wholly gone. . . . The human soul should receive from all directions, and harmoniously weave together the filiaments of truth which float like gossomer-threads throughout the universe. . . . Those who love most know most. To the true worshipper, nature ex hibits beauty and sublimity, while to the irreverent is barrenness and vacuity. . . . In proportion as a man develops beauty within, does he find it without," &c., &c. 'OPULAR .HISTORY OF MAMMALIA. By Adam White. VOICES FROM THE WOODLANDS. By Mary Roberts. The publications of Messrs. Reeve and Benham are, in their peculiar style, unequalled. Again and again have we had occasion to commend the excellent and very attractive manner in which works of science or natural history are issued from their establishment. The two works above mentioned are inferior to none of their predecessors in external advantages. Two thick square volumes, handsomely bound, beau tifully printed, and embellished with from ten to twenty brilliantly-coloured lithographs. The history of Mammalia is by Mr. Adam White, of the zoological department of the British Museum. It comprises a familiar account of the classification and habits of the most numerous and important divi sion of the animal kingdom. For the young espe cially this volume, with its brilliant pictures and in• teresting anecdotes, will be an invaluable acquisition. " Voices from the Woodlands," similar in character is totally dissimilar in style. By a graceful kind of :poetic licence, the authoress has literally put " tongues in trees." The dwellers of the woodlands, from the stately oak to the modest lichen, have here found a voice, and, in simple but most attractive language, have indivi dually recorded their natural peculiarities and their family associations. In this sultry season it is quite refreshing to turn over the pages of this volume, em bellished as it is with a pictorial abundance of verdant foliage. MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) BENTLEY. The "Ladder of Gold" is the chef d'oruvre of Robert Boll; whether we regard it as a novel of manners or as a novel of character it is equally great; the manners of this our day are portrayed with a Watteau-like taste and fidelity, while the cha racters are accurate studies of human nature. In the present instalment the sacrifice is completed ; the stern, cold-hearted Rawlings has forced Margaret to become the wife of Lord Charles Eton. He hiss now ascended the ladder of gold, and the perilous descent, we imagine, is about to commence ; the railway panic looms gloomily in the distance ; we are at the beginning of the end. Mr. Bell, as usual, embraces every opportunity of inculcating the neces sity for practising that virtue which is the very foundation of Christianity itself—charity. At the commencement of Chapter VI. he says— " People who show an eagerness to condemn the con duct of others in situations in which they were never placed themselves, are apt to lay the flattering unction to their souls that they would have acted differently in similar circumstances. We are all wise and judicious and self-possessed after the event. And very virtuous are we who aro out of the reach of temptation, and un scathed by the sore trials of the world. This is the virtue which looks out from its draperies and carpets upon the bleak wintry landscape, and hugs itself upon its honest comforts; the virtue of the coward who, secure from danger, boasts of his courage; of the shrew who, after an unlovely and unsolicited youth, casts her scorn upon the blight of poor beset and suffering beauty; of the rich man, to whom Rant is an allegory, and who, when he denounces the famishing wretch that has stolen a loaf, is ertite confident that he would rather star% e than do such a thing himself. Alas! for all our self reliance, none of us know what we should do till we are tried. If our virtues were to be measured by the loud ness of our protests against the vices, what an angelic world it would be! But virtue is not the negation of evil, it is the practice of good; and the most practical, and saving, and sweetest of all the virtues is charity!" The author of " Reminiscences of a Gaol Chaplain" gives us an interesting account of a visit to Bishops thorpe during the reign of the courtly but kind hearted Archbishop Harcourt, and an equally amus ing sketch of high doings in society, of an altogether opposite complexion, is an account of a " Dignity Ball at the Seychelles.. " The " Inedited Letters of Cele brated Persons" this month consist of the first instal ment of Mrs. Piozzi's correspondence with Lysons immediately after her marriage, during her tour on the continent. These letters represent both Mr. and Mrs. Piozzi in a most amiable light, while the be haviour of Johnson appears to have been not only overbearing and tyrannical, but intensely selfish. An article on La Tempesta does full justice to "an opera which combines a wider field of artistic combi nation than has ever before been embraced in a single production." After going into a detailed criticism of the opera, in which honour due is paid to the " elo quent pantomime," the " graceful and expressive action, and the " floating steps" of Carlotta Grisi as Ariel, to the Calibsn of Lablache, " the supreme monster of all earth's dire chimeras," who " when he gets drunk among the sailors" feels his " humanity dilating in its passions under the influence of that fierce excitement, and rises to the climax of his savagery, .beyond which it is impossible to conceive any impersonation more grand and perfect," to the liquid, clear, and fluent melody, and felicitously per fect singing of Madame Sontag as Miranda, and to the spirit and gusto of Mademoiselle Parodi as Ste phano, the writer thus concludes : " To the enterprise and liberality of Mr. Lumley we E.re indebted for a lyrical drama which marks an im porNnt era in the history of the Italian Opera in this country. Instead of exclusively relying upon the repertoires of the Continent, we have here ( riginatt d a great production upon our own stage ; and it will be a lasting reproach to the amateurs and patrons of high art in England it' our spirited entrepreneur be not cheered onward in the arduous couree he has so auspiciously commenced, and encouraged to persevere in the same ambitious direction." There are two illustrations to the present number of Bentley, the fir s t is to "The Ladder of Gold," the second is a portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Allred Crowquill. DAVID COPPERFIELD.—Nos XIV. and XV. By Charles Dickens. Within these two latest instalments of the auto biography of " David Copperfield," the narrative has become surprisingly developed. David has not only obtained the sanction of the Misses Spenlow to his suit, but through the instrumentality of Traddies has greatly propitiated the favour of those ladies in his behalf. It is true that much difficulty has been ex perienced by Deady is the main of them arr4Dge ments, in consequence of Traddles's hair standing so much in the way. Those who may fi n d any diffi culty in comprehending how this can possibly b e th e case, we refer to the original history of our hero's dilemma, where,it will be,found that, besides imparting surprised and rather " hearth.broomy" expression to the countenance of Mr. Thomas Traddles, of the Inner Temple, the locks of Mr. Thomas Traddles have materially interfered with his own personal fortunes. Not, however, to pause unnecessarily upon mere details, we may observe briefly but significantly, before coming to the consideration of the July num ber, that David and Dora are happily united in wed lock, in the presence of Mr. Dick, and Aunt Betsy, and Peggotty, and Traddles, and Agnes, and the dearest girl in the world—one of seven. The com mencement of the number just p'iblished recounts the progress of " Our Housekeeping"—especially detail ing the miseries experienced in regard to servants. Parragon is chiefly remarkable for having as " fol lower" a "cousin in the Life Guards, with such long legs that he looked like the afternoon shadow of somebody else!" Another handmaid deserves par ticular commemoration, for inasmuch as though " one of the most amiable of women," she " generally made a point of falling either up or down the kitchen stairs with the tray, and almost always p!unged into the parlour as into a bath with the tea-things." The quarrel between the bride and bridegroom almost im mediately after the honeymoon is beautifully told, and yet more beautiful in its naturalness is the reconciliation. Aunt Betsy living next door to them is all gentleness in her behaviour to Little Blossom. As instances of Dora's economy in her mode of housekeeping, the incidents regarding the purchase of a salmon and oysters are humorously illustrative. We have a suspicion that little Dora will die prema turely, the mere expression of the "child-wife" being a sort of confirmation of this melancholy conjecture. The manner in which Mr. Dick " fulfils my aunt's prediction" in reconciling Dr. and Mrs. Strong with each other is told with extraordinary power, the broadest humour and the most touching pathos being blent together in the descrip tion. We know not whether to laugh most at the stupidity of the Old Soldier, or at the interjec tional sarcasms of Aunt Betsy, or at Mr. Dick being fortunately prevented, "by a hug and a sounding kiss from the latter, from standing on one leg as an appro priate expression of delight." The eloquent appeal of Annie and the silent response of the dear old Doctor are alike touching and beautiful. The last chapter in the July instalment, headed "Intelligence," affords us some information of poor Em'ly, and of Steerforth, through the revelations made one evening at High gate to David Copperfield, indirectly by Rosa Dartle. and directly by Littimer. It is not less, we believe, from the probability of a double marriage, than from the circumstance of David Copperfield beginning life as a abort-hand reporter, and rising afterwards into celebrity as a novelist, that the rumour has sprung into existence that this work—the most noble and exquisite of all the effusions of his genius—is the revelation by Charles Dickens of his own personal experiences ; and that altogether in its character it is more of an actual than of a fictitious autobiography. LITERATURE THE SOLITARY, and OTHER POEMS. By Charles Whitehead. In dedicating his volume of vrrses to the Lord Francis Lsveson Gower, Mr. Whitehead has evinced a laudable discrimination, seeing that among all his contemporaries scarcely any is more peculiarly quali fied by the due admixture of taste and scholarship to es timate the value of any such literary performance. W.th many inequalities, the style ofour author is on the whole agreeable andsatibfac tory ; and the tendency of his muse to the mournful by why of preference to the gay, might be conjectured scarcely less from the selection of subject indicated by the title of his principal poem, than the quotation from Lard Bacon affixed as a motto to his title-page I — J. Yet, even if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearselike airs as carols." o:her tokens of this predilection may be observed also among the themes of his miscellaneous productions, in the " Dirge of Ophelia," for example, or in the "Riddle of Life," or in the lines commemorative of the " Death of Chattsrton." In the last-mentioned he has had to compete, and that not altogether unsuccessfully, with the comparisons provoked by the famous ode of Coleridge. The first production in the volume, " The Solitary," is penned in the most gorgeous, but also the most artificial of all stanzas, the Spenserian. Among the more prominent expressions scattered through the poem, some are very fine and others very fantastic. What, for instance, but sheer absurdity can be detected in that line (p. 5) — "The moon glides o'er the heaven with printless tread t" On the contrary, the phrase is very nobly introduced where the writer calls Chaos (p. 8.)—" Time's yes terday." As a fair specimen of Mr. Whitehead's powers of scenic painting, we may transcribe the following (p. 12): " Laid at the foot of some old tree, whose boughs Leafladen, bent, their soften'd shadows wed In the clear water, on whole surface ploughs His venturous way the midge, with trailing thread: The dusky-spotted moth, his wiogs halt:spread, Goes flagging drowsily across the mere, The Druid echo slumbers overhead; A shrunk leaf wavers down untimely sere; No sound that silence hears but the rapt senses hear." While the first poem in the volume is thus exclu sively contemplative, " The Story of Jasper BrookP," in a different metre, wanders off directly afterwards, and rather delightfully into the narrative. Besides these, the readers of Mr. Whitehead will be variously entertained by the " Ode to a River," (p. 153), reminding one of Coleridge's famous scheme of a poem, Called " The Brook," a singular chimera in rhyme entitled " Ippolito," and a play, in three acts, containing some of the best things in the volume, called " The Cavalier." The book altogether is in teresting as the rhythmical effusion of Charles White head, the romantic biographer of Richard Savage. CAPTAIN SWORD and CAPTAIN PEN. A Poem. By Leigh Hunt. Our allusion to the present republication is pro voked principally by our estimate of the Arbitration Movement. A third edition of any satire so popular as this satire upon war and warriors is, by no means, reason for surprise;; our only amazement being that the honours of such a reprint were not long since accorded to one of the most humane, and not the least infelicitous of the poetical productions of Leigh Hunt. Upon Leigh Hunt we can never cease to look as upon one of the most genial and delightful writers in the whole range of has long our modern soiunrcelitgeariaiti gained him im H a i s ge " n S u t i o n r e y re o pu f te ß a i mmo i nng v , poets, as his "Feast of the Poets" had already done among our satirists. It was natural, therefore, that " Captain Sword and Captain Pen" should at once have been welcomed by a multitude who regarded his name as one fraught with the pleasantest associations— especially seeing that, with all our hubbub about Wa terloo, and our illuminations about the Peninsula, we English are not infatuated worshippers of military glory or entirely deafened by the voice of fame to the gentler dictates of humanity. Hence this poetic satire was certain to acquire instant popu larity, celebrating as it did the peaceful triumphs of journalism over the warlike conquests of generalship. Tne work itself, in its details and in its completeness, has now for several years been familiar to the popula tion ; consequently any critical analysis of its peculiarities would be merel y idle and sups rerogatory. Neither so idle or so su p erero g ator y , however, is the very simple remark that these agitators of arbitration are very sad and blun dering plagiarists —taking to themselves a vast amount of credit for carrying out upon a wrong scheme altogether an idea broached many summers back by the poetic and sagacious hand of Leigh Hunt. To him is due the praise monopolised by these political adventurers who, like the Knight of La Mancha, are mistaking Quixotism for Chivalry. Leigh Hunt, with the intuitive keenness of a poet, recognised how it was that war might best be done away with—not by preposterous schemes for the premature disband tnent of armies, but by exciting a horror against the atrocities of battle, and by tearing the mask of pomp from the hideous front of carnage. It was from his judicious recognition of this necessity that Mr. Hunt penned this vigorous fiction of death and glory, where Captain Sword gains his last victory, while " Sneereth the trumpet and stampeth the drum." As a wholesome corrective to a merely fantastic and bootless agitation, we are gratified to welcome the third edition of a powerful and persuasive satire. Translated HERMAN AND DOROTHEA. from the German of Goethe. A charming version of this very exquisite poem is here before us—the German hexameters being dex terously and melodiously rendered by the translator into English hexameters. Any thing further than an incidental comment on the faithfulness with which this masterpiece of the genius of Goethe has been " done" into our mother tongue, were a preposterous deprecia tion of the popularity acquired in this country by the great poet of Germany. " Herman and Dorothea," dedicated in nine books to the nine muses—the first book to Calliope, the second to Terpsichore, and so on to Thalia, Euterpe, Polyhymnia, Clio, Erato, Melpomene, and Urania, presents to the imagination one of the loveliest pictures of domestic life, and household affection, and pastoral courtship, ever painted by the hand of a great master. Who that has once read it, can ever forget mine host of the Golden Lion, or his thrifty house wife, or the selfish surgeon, or the good natured pastor? Who can ever lose a recollection of Herman himself, or of his glorious Dorothea? The scene between Herman and his mother under the pear tree (no wonder Goethe could never read it for weeping !)—the description of the vineyard and the garden surrounding the tavern—the account of the procession of fugitive exiles—the encounter at last of the long-talked-of Dorothea in person—her approach at night, with Herman, to the house where his family are waiting for him—their preliminary contention and ultimate reconcilement are all sketched with the warm and glowing colours belonging only to the very highest order of ge nius. How felicitously the t rans lator has caught the spirit of the original may be perceived from the manner in which he has rendered that celebrated passage opening book the seventh : "As the wandering tr av ell e r, shortly before the sun's setting, Gazes upon the full orb, too soon from his eight disap pearing, Until his eye the bright image retains and constantly sees it, Or in the gloom of the thicket, or on the face of the mountain. Dancing before him and glancing and waving in glorious colours; Se, to the fancy of Herman, the m a g i cal f or m o f the Maiden Sweetly appeared, and it seem'd t he p ath of the corn field to f Mow. Bat from the startling dream he awoke, and unto the yet did his wanderin village S I • f) Onceaw n l a s i or e wended picture be fore him. h er; —thi s ti me i t was no illusion, It was herself, and sh e bai in her hand a lar g e and a upon Steadfastly gazed be small crock; the f° Maiden°tstP Ps'•g standing in beauty Holding each by the handle, she busily went to the fountain." Here too is the famous description of her appearance able to single her out from all " ReVily will you be others, to find one like her in figure. For %arum a difficult task . (Ant out something to guide as given by Herman in book the fifth:— Yet of her neat attire I'll p you:— figure, Pi And ett ily laced , b o a d red dice stomacher colse fitting, within which rises in her fair round throat a small plaits, black adornin. ad and the shape a delicate Free mad bright is Ler he , Linen of purest whitene3s, oval; Manifold braids of her hair are twined round the bod kins of silv, r ; Ample and blue are her skirts from the stomacher gracefully falling, Pkying around her footsteps, and shapely ancles die closing." Earnestly do we hope that the translator may be in • s duced to carry out the intention hinted at, at the close of his very intere stin g and intelligent " Intro ductiong submitting n i ,Luie to thae pssuobrk wi l i ah e : " as is a w i ma morotheally suggested Giihe—th the idea of " Herman a nd D at idea having been per fected in its p resent form under 9i l n r versione ell the encouraging gaze of S chiller. To the anonym o us kthatn c % , v f ii : ;s i f Vossi translator of this very delicious poem the English public are as much indebted for their introduction 1 to Dorothea, as they were already to Mr. Carlyle for their acquaintance with the angelic illignos the sprightly Philina, the sombre Aurelia, the beautiful Amazon, the bewitching Countess, and that most loveable but capricious of the female creations of Goethe, the actreis Marianna. ONE HUNDRED SONNETS. Frank Lott. The genuine affection for poetry which is evidenced by the mere publication of this little volume, of itself propitiates us strongly in its favour. Some of the fragments contained in it may perhaps be recog nized as having already appeared in our columns ; and hence we cannot but have some interest in the sonnets, although personally, in every way, total strangers to the sonnetteer. Mr. Lott must, one would opine, be fully qualified to appreciate the renown of Petrarch, seeing that he has dedicated his powers solely to that peculiar form of reflective and erotic poetry in the cultivation of which the bard of Laura acquired his literary immor tality. Yet it must not be imagined by any means that the author of these one hundred sonnets is an imitator in all things. In his manner he has followed Petrarch, but whatever his thoughts are, they are his own, and sometimes fine thoughts they are too, and truly poetic. Nor has he blundered in selecting the sonnet as the mode in which those ideas should be conveyed ; for assuredly the sonnet cannot be regarded as a style of composition inappropriate to the language, seeing that the English tongue has been adorned by the sonnets of Milton, and, in our own time, by those of `Wordsworth. As a token of the revival of a poetic taste among the masses, we hail the appearance of these sonnets by Henry Frank Lott, even though they number up one hundred. By henry POEMS ORIGINAL AND TRANSLATED. By W. G. T. Barter. We take Mr. Barter to be a sort of poetic wag— fond of perpetrating literary eccentricities. Other wise never should we have seen this volume of metri cal effusions, preceded by a pert little preface, avow ing in its first line that "Poetry is a drug, and a Preface a bore." Among the translated pieces we find the first book of Homer's Iliad—so bald, so lean, so literal, that such a translator would infallibly have tingled under the birch rather than the bays in the " good old times " of scholastic flaggellation. Among the original compositions we observe one entitled " Aberrations of Genius," and should be disposed to attribute the pre sent book to one of those same aberrations, but that we cannot in any one of these leaves detect the smallest modicum of that same genius. The subject of the first poem in the volume is a sort of scrambling ode "To a Cricket ;" it only serves to remind us, however, that we are anything but as merry as a cricket by the time we arrive at the conclusion. THE MYSTERY OF TIME. Fancy a small duodecimo pamphlet stitched up in a fly cover of crimson paper, consisting altogether of sixty-eight pager, and purporting to be a poem un der the above appalling title, in four cantos Fancy , all this in blank verse, very blank verse indeed, be ginning with a conjunction, ending with a sudden " pull up," split into divisions with little clusters of asterisks, and preceded by the subjoined announce ment :—" Notice to the reader ! The reader is re quested to observe, that wherever asterisks occur an indefinite period of time is supposed to have elapsed." Fancy all this, and you may have some idea of the " Mystery of Time." We know very well that not only did Milton write a poem on " Paradise Lost," but that Blackinore wrote one also on the " Creation ;" and we remember, too, that Dr. Johnson preferred the " Creation "to " Paradise Lost." That was going far enough in all conscience ; yet we wonder if any Johnson of our generation will prefer the author of the " Mystery of Time" to Blackmorel ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL. If, according to the adage, " variety is charming," then, indeed, -Eliza Cook's Journal must be among the most charming of periodicals. Subjects of serious and of trifling interest mutually add to each others attraction by their judicious combination. In turn ing over the pages of the monthly part just published, this happy characteristic is immediately apparent. Now we ponder over some thoughful " Words on Railways ;" now we are thrilled with horror at a tale of =the "Hungarian Revolution ;" now, in some delightful chapters of "Mrs. Dumple's Cooking School," Silverpen indirectly teaches the close rela tion of domestic and political,economy. " Daguerre and his Successors," a " Bi(graphie Sketch of Mali bran ;" Savings Banks," " The Advance of the Working Classes," and other equally instructive essays, are contrasted with a variety of pleasing and beautiful sketches, such as " Margaret's Wedding Ring" and " Aunt Lizzy." The " Lessons for Little Ones" contain stories adapted for youthful readers, and the "Diamond Dust" is as miscellaneous and as valuble as ever. Eliza Cook's Journal is always rich in poetical contributions, conspicuous among which are, of course, the compositions of the editress. Of these the most beautiful is entitled " The Philosopher's Stone." After comparing the delusive hopes which, in sucession, delight and disappoint us in childhood, youth, manhood, and old age, to the futile search of the Rosicrucean, the poem concludes with the fol lowing truthful " moral" : " Oh, what folly it seems to be striving to gain Heaven's alchemy-secret with efforts so vain ; Why struggle for bloom of celestial birth, While neglecting the flowers beside us on earth ? Let ui keep a 'good Conscience'—this talisman seems To come nighest the charm of our chemical dreams, 'Tis the ray most direct from the Infinite Throne, And the only enduring Philosopher's Stone.'" The following sweet verses are rendered most attrac tive by their simplicity of style, and by the evidence furnished by every line that they are the genuine aspirations of a mother's heart:— " TO MY INFANT DAUGHTER. "1 (Time on thy tiny face, my May, 'With many sad doubts and tears, And I fain would lift the veil, my May, That covers thy future years. • "But whatever thy God sees fit, my May, To inflict of grief and care, Be sure that thy mothi-r's heart, my May, In each and all will share. " I covet not wealth for thee, my May, Nor beauty, so highly prized: I've known the owners of both, my May, Unloved, and oft despised. " But I pray for thy portion to be, my May, The tender and loving heart, That early thou'lt learn to choose, my May, The wiser, the better part.' " And ever may'at thou possess, my May, So much of peace, hope, and love, As shall make thee a heaven on earth, my May, And fit thee fur that above. M. E. H. W." CRICKET. MARYLEBONE CLUB WITH CHESTER c. PRESENT ETONIANS. This is one of the trial matches to which the Etonians ara subjected by the N. C. C. in anticipation of the public schools' contests, which commence in the first week in August. A perusal of the score will show that at the con clusion of the proceedings the difference between the con tending parties was no more than five runs, by that amount the N. C. C. were hailed the victors. The final score was thus : MA RYLEBON Z. First Innings. Second Innings. Earl ofLeicester, b Thackeray 7 b Thackeray .. •• 0 Lord Lytlelton, a Coltman, b Thackeray... Hon. IL Grimston, b Thack eray W. Nicholson, c Bathurst, b Trimlett Chester, b Th,ckeray 9 cßathurst,bThackeray 7 R. Kynaston, Esq., run out Lord Burghley, b Thackeray 1 b Thackeray ..... 1 F. Blicklethwaite, Esq., b Thackeray... ..... . Capt. Wynne, lb w, b Prest 2 b Thackeray Sir F. Bathurst, b Thackeray 15 b Thackeray 4 A. Baillie, Esq., not out ...... 0 b Thackeray 4 Byes 3Zlb 1, wide 9 .........':l3 Byes 3, Ib2, w 13 18 3 c Coltman, b Prest..... 1 Total ..... ....... 76 TAIL ETONIA NS. Total First Innings. Second Innings. T. Reay, Esq., c and b Chester 10 c Kynaston, b Bathurst 2 11. Drake, E“l., h Bathurst.. 8 b Chester ........ •„, 19 C.Thackeray, Esq., b Bathurst 0 c Burghley, b Chester 29 F. Bathurst, Esq., c Chester, b Bathurst... .. ... ...... ... 0 sNicholson, bßathurst 2 C. L. Norman, Esq.,b Bathurst 11 b Chester ... 9 W. Prest, Esq., c and b Chester 3 b Bathurst 2 A. Coleridge, Esq., b Bathurst 2 b Chester. ..... ........ F. Coltman, Esq., b Bathurst 0 c Grimston, b Cheater 8 H. Moody, Et , q , b Chester ... 5 b Chester A. Alderson, Esq., c Leicester, b Chester T. Trimlett, Esq., not out .. 0 not out Byes ..... 0 Leg byes 4, wide 1 5 Total. Marylebone thus won by five runs. Total 100 DESPERATE LEAP FROM BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE. — On Saturday morning, between twelve and one o'clock, A respectable married female, named Margaret Thompson, whose husband and family reside at No. 22, New-cut, Lam beth, made a desperate attempt at self-destruction by leaping off the centre arch of Blackfriars-bridge. The unfortunate woman, who was dressed in the first style of fashion, and wore a gold chain and watch round her neck, was observed by the workmen on the bridge to walk hurriedly past, mut tering something to herself. She then mounted one of the seats, and deliberately jumped over the parapet into the river. An alarm was given, and several boatmen put off, who suc ceeded in rescuing her. She was in a very exhausted state, and eventually recovered. It has been ctscovered that sbe was induced to commit the rash act owing to a suspicion of her husband's fidelity. THE ARMY.—The Ist battalion Rifle Brigade are under orders to return home from the Cape of Good Hope, and we understand that the Northumberland bas been en gaged for their conveyance to this country. They are not to be relieved by any regiment from hence, as their with drawal from their present station is included in the general arra ngements of the Colonial Secretary for the reduction of the force in the several colonies. MR. BUNN'S ENTERTAINMENT.— Mr. Bunn has m ap p ea red on the boards of th e Ptyouth Theatre with the utmost success his Monologue havi n g been rec e i ved through out with perfect enthusiasm. The boxes were thronged with the military, and numerous filnilies of distinction in the tom.' and neighbourhood, who were equally instructed and gratified. Mr. Bunn has gone on to Exeter. STAG FIGHT.—A few days ago two fine stags in the park at \Volley, near Beverley, the seat of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., engaged in fierce combat, and as soon as blood Wan to appear upon one of them a number of other stags, which were stanuing round at a short distance watch ing the fight. rushed, as is their practice, upon th e wounded stag and kill-d him instantly, l lercing him in every part with their sharp horns. —Leeds Intelligencer. Mr. Corbould, the artist, has received the com mands of her Majesty to paint a large picture of the grand coronation scene in the opera of Le Prr)Phetes as represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Caveat-sullen.