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lar THE CZi 11. .1 • "• , 6ptcruiut. o:er, with Mr. 1 0/iiis's very accep , abie at,d t•eilt rntJuuS notes by Vk ay of illutqr:ilion. Twenty-six chapters complete the whole narrative of the life a nd death of dear old Sir Roger de Coverley, and these twenty - - six chapters are here given in their entirety with every desirable information about their authorship. LIT IeaIIATURE. POETICAL LITERATURE of the PAST 11.4 L F- CENTURY. By D. AI. Moir. Black• wood and Sons. Delta has heen associated so long and so favourably with the brilliant epoch here celebrated that his ap pearance in his present charadter as critic is scarcely less agreeable than that which he has uninterruptedly oc cupied as contemporary. He: ce it is that lee wel come the beautiful volume lying before us with a most genuine and earnest cordiality. From his prefatory , remarks it becomes apparent that the work just pub lished by the Messrs. Blackwood originated in cer tain lectures delivered during the past session before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. The fact might have been safely conjectured without any such announcement, from the synopsis prefixed tecthe va rious portions of the composition, partaking less of the nature of an ordinary index than of a singularly attractive and comprehensive syllabus. Beeides which the circumstance is yet more brilliantly emblezoned on the pages by the popular and genial spirit diffused over the whole effusion. Delta adventures upon the inquiry here marked out for inves tigation with a scrupulous attention to ex actitude, together with a most delicate appre ciation of the really true and beautiful, as well as a strangely eclectic perceptivity in regard to the most multiform and manifold excellences. All this, though requisite in the reviewer, is nothing less than noble and magnanimous in the competitor. No petty jealousies, no despicable prejudices, no shallow or egotistical predilections are visible on the part of Mr. Muir in his treatment of the subject selected for the display of his powers as a critic, but, on the contrary, there ate everywhere manifest throughout a generous enthusiasm for the merits of writers whom he consi ders not in the narrow aspect of rivals, but in a large minded and large-hearted mood as his brethren and associates. We like this. It is befitting his position in letters and consonant with every phase of his repu tation. It cannot' fail, moreover, to endear him to the reader, while it elicits our very warmest expres sions of admiration. Introducing his disquisition by a sketch of the state of poetical literature as it was in this country at the commencement of the nineteenth century, Delta comments very judiciously on the long mastery maintained by the school of Pope and Dryden, a mastery which was ultimately modified by Thomson, Cowper, Burns, and Goldsmith. The evanescent successes achieved shortly afterwards by Bayley, Darwin, and the Della Cruscans are shown to have evidenced in a remark able manner the fact that literary tastes are influenced by social transformations. Reference is then, of course, made to the tendencies of the supernatural school under the conduct of its undisputed chieftain, Matthew Gregory Lewis, and illustrations are given of its fantastic peculiarities and mysterious characteristics. After an allusion to the pensive muse of Kirke White and to the religious enthusiasm of James Grahame, come some capital definitions of the merit to be dis covered in the satirical and humorous poetry of Cunning, Frere, Gifford, Metbiae, and George Col man the Younger. Sul joined to these are charming sketches of Leyden and Bloomfield, with remarks on the female writers of the period, Charlotte Smith, Amelis Opie, Mrs. Hunter (not the Mrs. Leo Hunter of "Pickwick," but the authoress of the death song of the "Cherokee"), Mrs. Grant, and Mrs. Tighe the gifted celebr )nt of " Psyche." Various poets and translators of the same generation, in most instances long since forgotten, tire recalled to popular remena brance, in order that a general estimate of their merits may be given by the poet-lecturer. A warm eulo gium upon the homely pathos of Crabbe is indulged in immediately afterwards, especial regard being bad to his unquestionable title to originality. Commen dations are next pronounced on the elegant and ar tistic effusions of Lisle Bowles, and yet more so on those of the veteran Samuel Rogers. Hereupon we arrive at a consideration of the peculiarities of the lake school cultivated by Lloyd, Lamb, and Lovell, but led by such powerful minds as those of the indee fatigable Southey, the indolent and dreaming Cole ridge, and the severe but sometim es p ulin g Words worth. Under this same comprehensive survey we find ludicious commentaries on the productions of tValter Savage Landor, James Hogg and Allan Cunningham. Ballad poetry introduces us to the re vival of the romantic school, as was evidenced most especially in the advent of Sir Walter Scott. The classical elegance of Campbell, the ori ental splendour of Professor Wilson, and the humanising suavity of James Montgomery are next particularised. Then, likewine, we rejoice to arrive with our author at the period rendered memorable by the succession of Lord Byron to the poetical supre macy. Having celebrated with due emphasis the remarkable energies of that splendid and transcendent genius, Mr. Moir directs the attention of his hearers, or we should now more properly call them his read ers, to the "Palestine" of Bishop Heber, the " Samar" of Dean Milmau, and the " Sebastian" of Dr. Croly, toge ther with supplementary allusions to the Icelandic translations of the Honourable W. Herbert, to the " Austin Fair" of William Tennant, to the " Whistlecraft" of Frere, the "Ingoldsby Le• gends" of Barham, and the " Rejected Addresses" of James and Horace Smith, not forgetting the improvisatorial powers of Theodore Hook, the mingled wit and passion of Thomas Hood, and the exquisite skill of Moore in amatory compositions. Another phase of the poetic mind is then delineated, that gorgeous phase which was at first indicated by Leigh Hunt, but rapidly perfected by its illustrious masters John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley. Thereupon Procter obtains his deserved share of at tention, under his more celebrated pseudonym of Barry Cornwall. The criticism then extends suc cessively to Robert Pollok, to Thomas Aird, to William Kennedy, Ebenezer Elliott, and William Motherwell. Under the significant designation of Female Constellations, we next come upon a de lightful catalogue of names, such as those of Joanna Baillie, Felicia Hesnans, Caroline Bowles, Maria Jewahury, Mary Howitt, Caroline Norton, Harriet. Drury, Camilla Toulmin, Lady Flora Hastings, Mary Fussell Mi:ford, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, cursory reference being subs quently made to the verses of Professor R. C. Trench, Thomas Pringle, John Clare, Bernard Barton, Aleric A. Watts, T. K. Hervey, Charles Wolfe , Jane Taylor, and Thomas Haynes Bayley. Comprised in the final lecture, also, we eio counter passages of very trenchant criticism on the poetic effusions of Lockhart, on tl:e Roman Lays of Macaulay and the Scottish Lays of Aytoun, with minor commentaries on Mrs. Stuart Monteith, Mrs. Ogilvy, Rev. John Moultrie, Mrs. Downing,' and Miss Agnes Strickland. The observations on Sir. Edward Bulwer Lytton we cannot but regard as the least effective and meritorious portion of the volume, the preference given in it to his translations of Sail- , ler being particularly ungraceful when it is remem bered by what firm that work of his was published.' Finally the book closes with particular reference to the last poetic school, which is here designated not inaptly the Metaphysic Romantic. Alfred Tenny son is naturally recognised at once as its leader, Robert Browning as its high priest, and the " Festus" of Philip James Bailey as its crowning exaggeration. Delta takes occasion at this stage of his inquiry into the state of recent poetry to protest against mysti cism, and olecurity as its supreme and pervading bletm'hea• Together with the names of their contemporaries he blends allusions to those of Charles Mackay, of John Sterling, of Henry Taylor, and of Richard (not Robert, as be cal l s him) Monckton Milnes, not forgetting an inci dental mention of the dramatists' Meturin, Sheridan Knowles, Westland Marston, White, Horne, Samuel Browne, Lovell 13eddues, William Smith, and Thomas Noon Telfourd. Besides these, moreover, we find en u m erated the nam es of our young aspirants in the realmsßuoefppoeets?:--Burbidge, Cass e l s , Cl oug h, West wood,Paton, and Allingh am , to which we it,ichard Selous, would add those of Sydney Yendys, of of George Meredith, o f Henry Ingli s , o f Ch ar les Kingsley, of Denis Macarthy, and of Viscount Maidstone. Altogether, the Work before us is entitled to a large share of approbation from the reviewers, and from the public at large an extension of the au• thor's already wide-spread popularity. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A TRAINING MASTEf AT TIIE LEEDS PAUPER INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL'' —This sc for hotheol, built by the Leeds Poor - law Guardians , was open educating and training of orphan children; but since its ed establishment the want of harmonious co-operation amongst the ()Ulcers has been a source of constsnt trouble to the gu,ardiana. Irregularities , from some cause o r other, have continued, and on Monday evening the Board of Guardians assembled at the establishment to investigate them. The first thing which occurred on the board assem bling was the presentation of a letter of resignation from Mr. Alfred Leggett, the second training maAer of the school. Some or the guardians expressed their surprise at this, and having heard some rumours ot misconduct on the part of Mr. Leggett, they determined to investigate them. The result was the most satisfactory proof that the second master had been guilty of the most grossly immoral conduct, and that he had corrupted the mind of one of the pauper children, a girl of 15 years of age. It came nut in the course of the investigation that he had taken her with him to various places of resort in the neighbourhood of Leeds, and TRAVELLER'S LIBRARY. had had trequentititerviews with her. At first. Mr. Leggett denied the truth of the most grave part of the charges, but illessrs. Longmans and Co. , afterwards, through the chaplain, made a full cot.tesbion or A re • rece _ print of the literary portion of the work ! his guilt. T m he ginirdia s, after hearing all the circu vi,,ntlY brought out in a more expen4vo form, stances o t th e cave, determined not to acce p t the resignation illUstrations, under the editorship of Mr. of the p art y impl.cated, but to apply to the Poor-law Board to order his dit•tnis,al forthwith ; and in the meantime sus the Henry Wills, has 'been 11,-re given to pended bins from office, ordering him to leave the establish- Mho by these distinguished and cuts rpaiS- meat the same night. their _publishers. As a Specimen number of REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BlLL.—This Bill, ...!" - .. 11 _ periodical, this fourth instalment is really gutted which was brought from the House of Lords 26th June last, to every commendation, giving us, as it dues, has been printed, by order of We HORN of Commons, . • te Pieistratus advent:, a a little f tatter in the oeveiep ent of his novel, insomuch that the mere romance readers, those who read alone for the interest discever able in a fictitious narrative, will exult in the charms of this sequel to the " Cextons." Leonard ha vin g re solved to seek his fortunes in the metropolis, has eruaa e e U sturdily up to town, takaz u der his care, on the way, ;het little damehter of poor Digbaa who ad been left at the country tavern wipe° ected on death of her father, the old soldier. Immediately afore the entrance of the way ferers into London they liocaaledp to by "le upon in ecce ntric angler, fishing for one iliebo erchin the treacherous stream the Br ent, al the latter as the " Datieah of his exiet enee." Arrived in town with his little c har g e, Leonard meets accidentally with Frank Melt-dean, no w an o ffi cer i n the Guards, and Randal T '" es lies now a subordinate in the Foreign-office und er Audley Egerton. The three young men are tariVe n by a shower to take shelter under an archway leadine. t o some livery stables — an incident remindin g 171 ° ° ' t that capital farce at the Lyceum, in wh ich r. Cherles Mathewi is so delightfully humorous, An Appeal t o th e P u bli c . In the next chapter we are treatederton and Harley tea charming dialogue between Au dle y g r ,f the L'Eetrange, the latter bei n g one most exquisite and masterly creations of Sir 'blwer Lytton. Harley likens the life of Audley to a stortn in a saucer, and Audley returns the compli ment by saying that Harley's lite is as surely the saucer without the storm. The following scrap ex cerpted from their conversation is delicious in its quaint and quiet humour : "Do you know," says Harley, in reply to his friend's unexpected badinage, that's very well said, Audley; I did not think you had so much liveliness of reputtee e Lite—lite! it is insipid, it is shallow. No launching Argosies in the saucer. Audley, I have the oddest fancy—.” " That of course," said Audley drily; " you never have any Other. What is the new one?" mesmerism (with great gravity)—"Do you believe in mesmerism?" AtJDLEY—" Certainly not." 13 .1.1tLEY—." If it were in the power of an animal mag netiser to get me out of my own skin into somebody else's! That's my fancy! lam so tired of myself—so tired ! I have run through all my ideas—know every one of them by heart; when some pretentious impostor of an idea perks itself up and says, 'Look at me, l'am a new acquaintance'—l just give it a nod and say, 'Not at all, you have only gut a new coat on; you are the same old wretch that has bored me these last twenty pears; get away.' But if one could be in a new skin! if I could be for hale-ae-hour your tall porter, or one of your eminent matter-of-fact ruen, I should then really travel into a new world. Every man's brain must be a t a .h et o t u le isht World in itself, eh? If I could but make a parochial settlement even in yours, Audley—run over all your and sensations. Upon my life, I'll go and talk va.alktifinat French mesmeriser about it." Talking about mesmerism, there is a glorious paper on that same subject in the course of the current number of Blackwood. We have devoured every word of it, including the editorial note at the end, and find it all admirable. To ourselves it ap pears little short of conclusive, and we would gladly be the means of directing the attention of thousands of readers to it a s a mo st rational argument upon a !Itibiect scarcely anywhere understood. The article "in question i s s i mp l e , but significantly entitled What is M esmer i sm ?" T a king the recently pub recollections of Count Piniodan as a theme, n e of the contributors to Mega has contrived to e r r edbee a very rea d a bl e account or the "Campaigning an Austrian Aide de Camp," the narrative being ‘,"f Co urse coloured throughout by the Tory views of r magazine. " The Peaceful Lieutenant and his „ a paper reading very much like an effusion dcle author of " The Green Hand," is coacludt d. e account count of the storm at sea in it is powerfully n u e'''. Madame Pfeiffer, by a work lately printed i nVienna, has given a fruitful subject for rit nasal to o ne o f Blaelmood's most intelligent re vie att lve . ,r B : His contribution is headed " Wanderings i n lti the World," and will be interesting to all those revel in the vicissitudes encountered by the en trrsing traveller. Delta's " Lament of Selim" is a al eee se ercely in any respect worthy of one who has Poetic Contributed so many graceful pieces to our auto?iterature. The closing article in the July so mber is ef, a political character, and has as a very 4 1 ,4 beading these two words. " Downward Ten th', „ 3 :• - Among the advertisements accompanying of th eu l a zine, we may be permitted to mention one . 331 °St ix , C ursorily, seeing that it relates to one of the Bl afi rliar and distinguished of all the contributors of ix; 74 ' 0 0d.. Every one who admires the gebius ever y e „ 11 Ibousand a Year" (and who does not ?), the Nvho has cherished a grateful recollection Ph ysic . se nsibility revealed in the " Diary of a Late ri Oalty f ( l ) tin t ; (and who has not ?), will look with curi vryst , r " Lily and the Bee," a romance of the the al Palace, by Samuel Warren, announced as on ev e of publication. THE NEW MOAN THLY. gtaceful tribute to the memory of the Right ;gen. " Richard Lalor Sheil" leads off the July num ber of the New Monthly—a circumstance not the less gratifying seeing that the deceased orator was one of t he most remarkable ameng the many celebrated con tributors to this periodical. Immediately after this b iographic sketch, which is from the pen of Cyrus Redding, we find, by a rather bungling contrivance, laother abusive fiction relating to the religion of which 41 r. Sheil was a member up to the moment of his demise. It i s from the band of the contributor who e already disgraced the pages of the New Monthly ,tl Pandering thus grossly to the bigotry and into lerance of his countrymen. From this article we : 11 ,,r with satisfaction to a charming criticism on the life and writi ngs o f p o or " Hartley Coleridge." As tspecimen o f hi s h umorous s kill in versification we .nve the cap i ta l li nes a dd resse d b y hi m "To th e 4c iagpie," beginning— " What shall we say of thee, pert, perking Mar, Whose every motion seems to fish for praise, Whose whole existence is a game at brag? Art thou a str anger quite to poet's lays, With black and white thy pretty self adorning, ka Like a blith o w idow i n h e r s e c o nd mourning?" g ne te of Ho;me Vale," the next contribution, is a translation by Mrs. Bushby, from the Danish of Jens t aggesen. " London Shopping, Carriage. hiring., uYiu g , 3 cc.," will be found a very agreeab le, and is hat is b etter still, a very use f u l pa p e r, by all the lady reader s o f the .New Monthly. Nicholas MLhell still plods onward in the track of his heroine, " Hester entitled eirset." Th e j um bl e of ecent)icities of thought " Hodge- Fudge," is rather a spasmodic at ,.rapt at W i t , th an w i t i n rea li t y. "Furtrer Reval4- 1,10 7 , -S of, the . Revolution of F.bruary" have been _ Vgested by books recently given to the world e i mm. Sauzet, Lucien de la Hodge, Alfred eau, and Elias Regnault. Thereupon follows a . 110 1150, a cco unt of the War i s K ifir land, it grki this, with a chapter on " Tne Overland Route i l l California," some pleasant notes anent the :,"Pera and a continuation of Mr. Jolly Green's "',°tY about " All the World and hi s Wif e ," corn tastes the current number of the New Monthly rather agreeably. THE ECLECTIC. " Descarte s " i s ce l e b rate d in the opening paper of „ Eclectic, somewhat too briefly, It is true, but still Cleverly, and with a judieious appreciAtion on the part o f the r e vi ewer of h i s h i stor i ca l position and phi osophical claims. Pulsky's " Tales and Traditions °f Hungary" are next criticised, and in a ma nner, it 1.:11119t be admitt e d, s i ngu l ar l y gen i a l a nd delightfu l . !Janie' Da Foe, one of the brightest Lam" In English literature, a name dear to eve r y % t rue English heart as that of the author of " Robin - J": 1 Crusoe," is, aft er thi, weighed in the balance ss _ l l the E c l ec ti c , an d no t f oun d wan ti n g. " Firma mental Architecture" is another fine paper, both in sublime subject and in its admirable treatment. a vg.ot=si ppin 2: article relating to " Memoirs of i cidllerary Veteran," and an ingenious comment on of 'kPuleius," make up the rest of the number deserving ally notice, the close of the periodical being filled u „P With literary notices o f a very briet and miacella '3°lls character. FBAS ER. t Yraser this month opens with a laudatory review of 'ill' Franci s P a lgrave's " History of Normandy and n gland," in which we find muchcurious information plating to the life and times of Charlemagne. Under t he titl e "A J ung l e R eco ll ect i on ," by C a pt. Hard ; °gain, we have a spirited narrative of a tiger hunt 41 India, and in a review of certain "Little Books w ith Larg e Aims," the writer administers a well ejited castigation to the whole race of pub ., ski ers , booksellers, and circulating library keepers, W ho for their own pecuniary advantage force authors v o l expand their works into the regular orthodox three i i , t itnPS; without regard to anything but quantity. „": 3 son. G. S. Smylhe M.P. contributes "his ,ic feneY " the " Rhine of the Franks," and " l ' Et ( t ) eltoon-Pla ce Man" makes some amusing " I °Els.' Colonel Cornelius O'Donoghue continues i ,;s amu s i ng narrat i ve o f a scramble amon g the •r t yrene es . W e have t. l so an i nteres ti ng bi ogra phy ‘ Poulailler, the celebrated French robber, whose b )ro mantic, a tr oc i t i es surpasse d even those of Cattouche nlin *L. ;. and t,he magazine concludes with an elabo- V.e revi ew o f t h e recent l y pu bli s h e d Memoirs of William Wordsworth. Taken as a whole, this is a ' ie tY excellent number of Fraser. No. 11'. sc. ~.. t •~. riN t• r(' {r{ SUN, LON DON, FIVE A N.TS, To L PICT L ! , OF ri By George Cruikshcmh. Numerous as nave been the representaions of the interior and exterior of the Crystal Palace, scarcely one of them has hitherto proved really satisfactory. There have been woodcuts, and steel engravings, and engravings on copper and in nil zzotinto—worka of all sizes, and taken from every imaginable „point of view, the productions in some instances of uninis tskeable talent, and in others of unmistakeable mediocrity. Yet, varied as these endeavours have been, we have found them, with little more than one or two • exceptions, unde serving of any very high commendation. The exquiitelv coloured plates produced from the draw ings of Mr. Nash, drawings made in obedience to a royal command, and now in her Majesty's possession, must, of course, be particularised as those which have mainly extorted our sulogium. Yet something was still left to be accomplished after even the most successful of those adventurous attempts at an ac curate delineation of one of the most memorable, as it was also one of the most beautiful, incidents in the reign of our beloved Sovereign. There was wanting an engraving which, in addition to the merits of ' architectural detail and of artistic execution, should preserve about it in every particular a life-like verisimilitude. Such an engraving is the one here published by David Bogue, from the inimitable and glorious George Cruikshank. Altogether, to speak briefly and emphatically of the merits of the picture before us, we may say with the strictest truth that in it we see the Ist of May daguerreotyped. The view is taken from the south-west gallery at the moment when the Archbishop of Canter bury is invoking the Divine blessing upon the objects of the Great Exhibition. Under the pendant canopy, sanding by the throne, upon the elevated dais erected in the northern division of the transept, are the Queen, the Prince, and the two eldest of the royal children. Immediately on the left of her Majesty is the Primate of all England, and further back, among a crowd of courtiers, may be die tinguished the Prime Minister, the Marquis of Anglesey, and the Duke of Wellington. Pourtraying with the utmost minuteness every feature in that most gorgeous pageant, the heralds in their ta bards, the line of gentlemen-at-arms, the ladies in waiting, the beef-eaters in the background, and the vast and compact body of spectators, the artist has nevertheless at the same time imparted to the spec tacle an air of ease in the flowing outlines of the whole, such as might scarcely be expected in a work so microscopically elaborated. When coloured the engraving cannot but be an exquisite transcript from that brilliant and superb original which, among its varied hues, gave the green of the elm boughs, the scarlet of the drapery, the blue and amber of the iron- work edifice, added to the chequered tints of the costumes worn by the different beholders. Conspicuous among the latter may be recognised several of the representatives of the various nations of Christendom, pencilled off with that humorous ap predation of character for which George Cruikshank nes been so long and agreeably remarkable. Tne re doubtable Mandarin, known among our sight-seers as the Commander of the Chinese Junk, is readily per ceived near the Crystal Fountain, and other notabi lities may be detected almost as easily by a little re search among the motley groups depicted. As a memento of the inauguration of this unprecedented exposition of art and industry, the plate here submitted to our criticism moat be regarded as really inesti mable in every particular. It will be gratefully wel comed by every individual interested in the under taking, from the illustrious originator himself down to the must obscure visitor of the Crystal Palace, en dearing yet more to the popular heart the old familiar name of George Cruikshank. THE ART JOURNAL. Added to the attractions of the Art Journal the sub• scribers to this popular periodical find those of the illustrated Catalogue. As illustrations to the former moiety of the publication there are engravings in the current number of Hart's " Jewish Synagogue" and of Bonnington's " Columns of St. Mark, Venice," and of Stothard's sketch of " Intemperance," all of them taken from the well. known originals preserved among the Vernon Collection. Further wood cut specimens of Albert Durer are likewise given among the varied pictorial embelii_hmeot►—such, for in stance, as the " Great Horse," as the " Knight and Lady," or as the "Virgin and Child." An extraor dinary variety of engravings illustrative of the con tents of the Exhibition are mingled with the letter press portion of the catalogue. MODERN CRUELTIES—FLY PAPERS. Mr. Kidd has just taken up the cudgels, in a spirit el true humanity, on behalf of that troublesome and an noying race of summer visitors—flies. Not that he de precates their destruction, quite the contrary; but he proves to a demonstration Low cruelly they are "tor tured," before thiy are killed by those fearful engines of horror—fly pspers.! Mr. Kidd thus writes in the Gardeners' Chronicle, of June 21, on this new invention of refined barbarity; and no one who has ever witnessed the " action" of it, can disprove one syllable of the statement:— " FLY PAPERS.—Your correspondent Curiosus' has, in his zeal to protec:, the poor inventor of the fly papers,' not only o'erstepped the modesty of nature,' in attempting to prove too much, but he has put an inter pretatien on my remarks perfectly unwarrantable. So far from giving the poor inventor an ignoble character,' I volunteered the charitable belief that he was ignorant' of the atrocious barbarities he was the author of, and hinted that if he were enlightened or made wise' on the nature of the tortures he had invented, it would only add to his own. As these sentiments were dropped en passant, and savoured strongly of common humanity only, I am at a loss, and so must your general readers be, to imagine why' Curiosus' should feel so anxious to endeavour to reclaim the reputation of this fellow creature, and set him right in the scale of creation.' Had I gone out of my way to injure him (I know him not, even by name), or indulged in any personality, it would have been another thing. 'Curiosus' will please to bear in mind, that I do on every possible occasion • examine the mute vegetable kingdom,' and that I am quite alive to the ' glutinous excretions' he speaks of. I have often admired tho wisdom of nature in their crea tion. These, however, let me kindly remark, do not at all bear upon the question at issue. If winged insects are secured, by the by, under such circumstances, they aro spot dily released by birds, spiders, and a variety of other animals; it bait g a wise law of nature so to destroy supetfluities, and to send one animal to prey upon amaistr. Let us consider this paint settled. I will now, es the hot season is at hand, put in a word for the poor flies; and be the means, let me hope, of sparing some millions of them unnecessary torture. Killed let them be, by all means ; but not first put to the rack.' iiearken ail ye who patronise these fly-papers! Hear how they are made. The two compounds are, common resin and sweet oil; heated, amalgamated, and spread upon sheets of old newspapers. Thus are they manu factured ' Now for their attractive' qualities. ss . herever fives abound, there it has been deemed advisable to spread out these papers, one, two, three, or more. A little sifted loaf-sugar lightly sprinkled on them completes the 'charm.' Let us note the result. In an instant some luckless fly descends, in search of a treat. He realizes it by finding either a leg or a wing fixed as in a vice. Escape is impossible. Tne more ho struggles the worse the consequences. Here he must live, here be must fast, here he must linger, here he must stick' and groan, till starvation and insect endurance can hold out no longer. Sometimes the poor flies are glued down by their hinder extremities, thus allowing freedom to their head and trout legs, which, being elevated, give free play to their respiratory organs, and prolong lite—to be further tor tured by want of food. Every person possessing only common feelings of humanity, and who may be halting between two opinions, must feel greatly interested in put ting my assertions to the proof. Let such carefully observe (whilst his thoughtless neighbour is spreading the snare), s,he almost supernatural endeavours of the poor flies, when inveigled by these diabolical papers, to extricate their feet trom the rivets; and note how, in the vain ffort, they tear out in their final agonies each several limb from its socket—their axis-shapen forms being elevated, after death, to thrice their naturul height! The distinctly audible vibrations of their wings in their last dying pangs, as they lie one glued to the other in countless numbers, complete this picture of newly-in vented horrors (unfit even for Madame Tussaud's 'Chant bar')—a picture, alas! but too faithfully painted. Them aro simple facts, which, by a few momenta of close oh. nervation, any body may verify, by gazing on a well-filled ' sheet of flies.' I have used the word groan' with re ference to their agonies; and if any of your readers have ever chanced to listen to the 'horribly' peculiar sounds produced by the motion of the prisoners' quivering wings, either by day or by night (the latter especially), one moment's reflection will make them grateful that `Curiosus' should have unwittingly drawn forth this ex position from his obliged collaborateur is the field of Nature, WILLIAM KIDD. " New-road, Hammersmith, June 19." Niw YORK AND GALWAY.—The Galway voyage is abandoned. The steam-ship North America was sold yes terday for 200,000 dolls., to run between Realeio and San Francisco, in connexion with Commodore Vanderbilt's Nicaragua line. She was to have left for Galway about the same hour that her sale was effected. The negotiation that resulted in her detention was effected while her passengers were on board and her steam was up, ready for departure. Captain R. J. Vande , ,vate , , the agent, who sold her, imme diately engaged rooms fur her passengers on the steamer Pacific, of the Collins' line, which sails on Saturday for Liverpool. The North America will be dispatched for the Pacific in two or three days.—New Yorh Paper. NOTICE TO VOTERS FOR THE RETURN OF MEM. BURS AND KNIGHTS OF TITS STILES TO PARLIAMENT.— No person will be entitled to have his name inserted in the list Of voters for the cities of London and Westminster, and the metropolitan boroughs of the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, Marylebone, Lambeth, S hwar Greenwich, and also for the counties o f bliddlesex, &c., unless he pays upon or before the 20th inst. all poor rates and asses s ed taxes due previously to the sth of January last. " TUE PoPE H E LEADS A HAPP Y L lFE ."—This _lin t e he of fe ti s i t e i‘ o ,a ld l s f o d n e g dlC . did — by atstrchingly illustrated at a late revel the clergy of St. Barnabas; illustrated by the following hems ;—" 'hie gross weight of the meat. was upwards of I,oooibs., and there were one hundred g iUous of ale, and port and sherry in abundance." Out of compliment to the Yope, the beef was, no noult, bull beef.—runch THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1851. YAELIAMENTC , ItY DIVIVOISS 'From the Vote* and ceettirigs of the H.Guke of . Commons ) WEDNESDAY. JULY 2. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) Clause 3 (Appointment of Inspectors): Amendment pro posed, in page 2, line 35, after the word " being," to insert the word " Practising:"— Question put, " That the word practising' be there inserted." The Committee divided:- - - - - ------- WHAT IS POETRY ? (Fr,in Eliza Cock's JournaL) A very short questi , .n way require L. very long 011! wa. to do justice to the euljeet which it open:. up. What is religion? What is truth? What is poe , ry, ? To aeswer either of these queries satitfactery would require, not a brief note only, nor an article, our a year's articles; but it would demand a life-time cf articles, and even at the. end of that life-time it were just possible that we might fail in answering clearly and satisfactorily either of these que.'stione. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Elunt, Je . ffiey, El liott, and Southey, with many other great minde, have occupied themselves with the solution of the question " What is poetry?" We do not know that they hav e succeeded. Perhaps poetry, like many other subtle thiegs, eludes definition. Who can define life—the com mon daily life we carry about with us. We live, and that is all we know of the cause of life. Poetry is—vve teel it—how shall we define it? It is not a term but an essence: it is not a substance, but a spirit—the spirit of beauty. Its utterance is the utterance of passionate and intense truth. Elliott says it is " philosophy in its es sence—the spirit of that ' bright consummate flower' whose root is in our bosoms." Leigh Hunt says it is a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its impressions by the imagination, in order that it may enjoy and impart the feelings of their truth in its utmost conviction and effluence. In a word, it is imaginative passion ; and " he who has thought, feeling, expression, imagination, action, character, and con tinuity, all in the largest amount and highest degree, is the greatest poet." Philip James Baily, in that grand poem of his, " Icstus," says— " Poets are all who love—who feel great truths, - And tell them; and the truth of truths is love." Again he says that poetry is " the bright precipitate of truth," and that the poet's mission is to sort out many glorious likenesses in the world, and string them into music—the poet's pens hying " The true divining rod Which trembles tow'rds the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources wh ch we have Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms." Poetry begins where matter of fact ends. It is fact and feeling idealized and unrolled in beauty and power. Shelley says of it, that it "hits the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as it they were not familiar." Keats says it is "a drainless shower of light 'Tis the supreme of power ; 'Tis might half slumbering on its own right arm ; And that the great end of poetry is That it should be a friend To soothe the cares and lift the thoughts of man." Its language is musical, and assumes the measure of verse. But as poetry is ideal, and depends not on its clothing for its power, verse is not indispensable to it. Jeremy Taylor's writings contain passages of the noblest poetry, conveyed in grand and solemn prose. Bunyan's fine sod truly poetical allegory is not written in verse. Some of Milton's grandest imagery is contained in his prose writings. Carlyle is a great poet, though despising the artifice of verse. Ossian's poetry is not couched in verse, and yet Napoleon held him (whoever he was) to be the greatest of poets. Nor was Napoleon himself with out poetry. Pointing to the Pyramids he said to his army, "Forty centuries leek down upon us." Surely that was no mean stroke of poetry—one which his nephew of the tame eagle gives no hypes of equalling. But true poetry may resume many other forms besides the spoken. In painting it reaches great heights: witness the grandeur of Martin's conceptions, nor are Denby and Turner far behind him. Even Landseer has treated animal subiects with the true feeling of poetry, witness " The Slain Fallow Deer," exhibited by him at the Royal Academy some two years ago, " The Dead Dam" lies on the snow, which is died with its trickling blood, while the fawn, atter lorg pattering round its mother, vainly tries to suck the ineffectual teat. Bailey ana Calder Marshall are poets in sculpture; they embody a poetic idea in the marble, which byes enduringly, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Meyerbeer are great pouts in music, and perhaps greater and sublimer than all is Handel. Poetry is a gre at ennobler of life; it is purify ing, refining, and elevating. Many can say of it what Coleridge did—' Poetry has been to me its own exceed ing great reward. It has soothed my afflictions, it has multiplied and refined my enjoyments, it has endeared 1 solitude; and it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and the beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me." FASHIONS FOR JULY (From le Toilet.) Oao of the heat Lucile de of iacurming our readers of the actual " modes" is to eita some ensembles de toilettes worn by ladies whose good, taste and elegtnee are iti diaputahle. We shall, therefore, at once proceed to describe a visiting dre,”:—The robe is of pearl gray taffetas shot with pick; plain skirt; body open to the waist, with revers edged with narrow pink and grey braids placed a:ternately. The same trim ming urnameats the cuff:, which turn hack towards the elbow, and are very loose. The body is finMied with a basquine, and is edged with a deep fringe de scending half-way down the skirt ; this fringe, which is a mixture of pink and grey silk, has a wide heading en re,ille guipure, forming teetoons, terminating with long tassels. The bonnet which ac companies this toilette is of bands of whalebone separa ted by open straw, trimmed with bows of white ribbon edged with fancy straw; small moss-roses and sprigs of straw s are intermixed with the ribbon and, also ornament the inside. An immense Chantilly-lace shawl accompanies this toilette. Another was of dark green and white glace taffetas; the flounce, deeply scol loped were edged with an embroidered wreath in white silk. An echarpe mantelet of Brussels point, lined with dark green cape, the lace trimming reaching from the waist haft-way down the skirt. Open-work straw bonnet imitating lace, lined with pink crape, and trimmed on either side with a branch of pink haw thorn, united by light wreaths of leaves, which pass all round the crown. The curtain and broad strings were made of pink and white taffetas ribbon. The inside of the bonnet was ornamented with hunches of hawthorn, We must mention another toilette of a more sedate character. The dress is of violet-coloured taffetas d'ltalie, with three scolloped flounces, embroidered with black and violet silk', each flounce separated by three narrow ones of black lace. Black lace mantille. Black tulle bonnet edged with straw; a ruche of narrow black blonde, embroidered with straw round the front; a bouquet of black feathers mixed with light chains of straw rings, falling very low, is placed at each ear: bouquets of straw flowers with long narrow leaves of black velvet inside. The strings of black taffetas ribbon embroidered with straw. Morning bonnets of coarse straw have open edges; they are lined with taffetas of the same colour as the trimming. Plaid ribbons are used, and the greater mul tiplicity of colours the more 1 la mode. The bows are large, and form several coques. separated in the middle by a torsade of ribbon; small flowers and leaves are per mitted as ornaments for the inside of negligee bonnets. We have noticed a fancy bonnet, composed of chains of straw rings looped in each other. A pink taffetas ribbon is passed through the rings at the edge, forming small curls both inside and outside. The bonnet is lined with pink taffetas. A simple branch of ivy crosses the head, and mixes with the coques of pick ribbon at the ears. The saaae trimming inside. Feathers are much employed for rice, straw, and open whalebone bonnets, and have been brought to great per fection this season both as to shades and term. We have some beautiful bonnets of white tulle worked in Email spots with straw, so fine that they appear like gold spots; a triple row of straw-coloured ribbon is slightly drawn round the edge. A bouquet of marabouts ornaments one side; the ends have small lilies of the valley in straw, lookng like drops of rain. Lillies and ribbons inside. A charming bonnet, the front formed of boulonnees of pink crape separated by ribbon, drawn like a ruche across the crown; bouillonnees of crape edged with nar row ribbon, forming a small funchon, the ends of which are fastened on each side under tufts of small field flowers, mixed with coques of ribbon and straw. A double curtain of crape edged with three narrow ribbons matching the edge of the bonnet. The strings of broad pink taffetas ribbon, with a lace edge. Thin tarlataice dresses have deeply cut flounces, trimmed round with three narrow gsuzn ribbons, drawn at oue edge. Ribbon placed en echelle, very closely to• gether, on the body. The short sleeves are entirely covered with ribbon. Many head-dresses for young ladies are composed of a single ribbon placed under the bandeaux, and, passing behind, are fastened with a bow and long ends. Many dresses have their trimming printed in the ma terial. Redingotes of plain or chine silk have a broad satin stripe down the front, of the dominant shade of the dress. Upon the dresses with flounces these stripes are graduated in width, resembling narrow ribbons. We have seen a redingote of brown end pink taffetas in this style; a broad stripe of brown satin runs be tween two narrow tucks; the button of the sleeve matches; ribbon-bows are placed down the front, fixed with an amethyst butterfly mounted in gold. The body is very open; half pagodes sleeves, disco vering the collerette Medicis, and sleeves of Valen ciennes. A robe of green and brown chine, strewed with bouquets of roses, with three flounces, each edged with three stripes of shaded green. The body a Louis XV., the front trimmed with an echelle of ribbon of the seine shades of green; between each a narrow flounce of English lace imitating the gukape, which is of lace. The bottom of the sleeves are trimmed with green satin ribbon, separated by English lace. We must mention also some beautiful robes of plain grenadine, of different shades of gray; the flounces edged with three or four rows of gray satin, The come kind of stripes are round the sleeves and body. We have observed some robes of this style, called bayed elres, having stripes of divers colours 'Ton grena dines, and white mousseline de soie. Bonnets of whalebone are very fashionable: some are of black and white, trimmed on the side with bunches of dark roses. The broad strings and the curtains are o f black and pink, or white and pink ribbon. They are lined with pink tulle, the cap of tulle, and rosebuds. Another bonnet of white whalebone trimmed with narrow ribbons forming hanging-foliage; on each side broad &thugs of ribbon to match. The mantelet echarpe is decidedly the fashion. They are made in black taffetas trimmed with deep magnificent lace, and enriched with ribbons or embroidery. Young ladies wear the same make of mantelet in pink or green taffetas, trimmed with a double row of Brussels or Alencon lace. Some, more simple, are in taffetas of all colours, trimmed with a deep plain tulle of the same colour as the silk. Upon this tulle are placed narrow velvets in rows of threes. A broad velvet, which forms the head to this trimming, is placed upon the silk all round the mantelet. Sometimes, in place of the velvet, a bouillenne of tulle separated by three or four rows of narrow velvets. W© must notice one, of white taffetas, the mantelet itself being embroidered with silk en sou . . tache; the tulle which trims it has nine rows of passe menterie in place of the velvets. This mantelet is fas tened with magnificent buttons. Independent of all the fancy mantelets, scarfs, and shawls of black lace, embroidered muslin mantelets, each have become indispensable accessories to summer toilettes. Wedding dresses merit particular notice for their splendour. The greatest novelty is the skirt, with al ternate flounces of embroidered muslin and Brussels lace. A cannezout of lace, with a deep lace from the waist, meeting the first flounce on the skirt. Another, less splendid, has the front breadth embroi dered apron-fashion; the rest of the skirt is embroidered in three rows imitating flat flounces. The body is high, I embroidered over the chesP and sleeves; a narrow lace is fulled in round the throat. THE CHIFFWVIVIERS OF PARIS. The fraternal association of rag-gatherers (chiiron niers) gave a grand banquet in Paris on Saturday last. It took place at a public-house called the Pot Tricolore, near the Barrier° de Fontainebleau, which is irequented by the rag-gathering fraternity. Ia this house there are three rooms, each of which is specially devoted to the use of different classes of rag-gatherers: one. the least dirty, is called the " Chamber of Peers," and is occupied by the first class—that is, those who possess a basket in a good state and a crook ornamented with copper ; the second, called the " Chamber of Deputies," belonging to the second class, is much less comfortable, and those who attend it have baskets and crooks—not of the first-rate quality; the third room is in a dilapidated condition, and is frequented by the lowest order of gatherers, who have no basket or crook, and who place what they find in the streets in a piece of sackcloth; they call themselves the " Reunion des Vrais Prole taires." The name of each room is written in chalk above the door, and generally such strict etiquette is observed among the rag-gatherers that no one goes into the apartment not occupied by his own class. At Saturday's banquet, however, all distinctions of rank were set asiue, and delegates of each class united fraternally. The president was the oldest rag gatherer of Paris; his age is 88, and ho is called the Em peror. The banquet consisted of a sort of ollapodrida, which the master of the establishment pompously called a gibelotte, though of what animal it was mainly composed it was impossible to say. It was served up in huge earthen dishes, and before it was allowed to be touched payment was demanded and obtained. The other articles were also paid for as soon as they were brought in, and a deposit was exacted as security for the plates, knives, and forks. The wine, or what did duty as such, was contained in an earthen pot called the Petit Pere Noir, and was filled from a gigantic vessel named Le Moricaud. The dinner was concluded by each guest taking a small glass of brandy. Business was thenpro ceeded to. It consisted' in the readin€ , and adoption of the statutes of the association, followed by the drink ing of numerous toasts to the president, to the prospe• rity of rag-gathering, to the union of rag-gatherers, &c. A collection, amounting to 6f. 75c,, was raised for sick members of the fraternity. The guests then dispersed, but several of them remained at the counter until they had consumed in brandy the amount deposited as secu rity for the crockery, knives, and spoons. DISCOVERY or AIiCIENT SILVklt Coiri." —A na " t interesting circumstance in the nature of tressupt,_tl,97oooc cuired a few days ago on the domain of the liie! . " °ll ar priiteidshbysiAlvlerr. able Viscount Maynard, in the parish of ItadvlTler. pour labourers employed in stubbing down an old stiff clay bank, , 0 0 f cc B u near Bendysh-wood, on Bendysh-hall fabrnri W. S. Hustler, dislodged a large nun' coin, which in all probability had been Concealed there up., b o x, if . ever confined in any wards of 200 years; the bag, or having mouldered into dust. Th.? pieces, 602 in number, are all in most excellent presecfv.!, and consist of many and Mary, Llizatieth, James 1., and specimens of half-crownsan shilling s of the reigns of Edward VI., Philip Charles 1., but nono later than 1644, thereby causing the supposition t h a t during the civil war some royal i st off i cer or other army PaYrn"t"' being hard pressed, was obliged to hide them, and never returned to regain the cash ; and this idea is greatly strengthened by the sharp state of almost all t h e i n sciptions , as it is well known that Charles I. called into active operation the services of his Mint At henever and wherever his resources were exhausted. The weight of the specie is 101bs. tro and th value for old silver horn 25/. to 30/. The whole p are now in the pozsession of the Noble Viscount, who, with his wonttd benevolence and continual care for the welfare of the poor, has generously directed, as he has done in other instances of finding old money, that the entire original current value shall be divided amongst the honest labourers who made the discovery.—Chelmsford Chronicle. BIAJORITY-AYES, 51. Archdall, Captain . Fortescue, Chichester Macnaghten, Sir E. Bailey, Joseph Fuller, A. E. 311'Cullagh. W. T. Beresiord, William Gallwey, Sir W. P. Napier Joseph Booth, Sir R. G. Goold, Wnydham O'Brien, Sir Lucius Brown, W. Grace, 0 D. J. O'Brien, Sir T. Bunbury, William Grattan, Henry O'Connor, Feargus Carew, W. H. I', Grogan, Edward Patten, J. W. Chichester, Lord J. Ilatiewell, E. G. Power, Dr. Clive, H. B. Hamilton, G. A. Prime, Richard Cobden, Richard Hamilton, Lord C. Scobell, Captain Corbally, H. E. Harris, Richard Scully, Francis Corry, H. Hayes, Sir E. Spooner, R. Davies, D. A. Heald, James Vesey, Thomas Denison, Edmund Herbert, H. A. Walmsley, Sir J. Devereux, J. T. Hodgson, W. N. Young, Sir John Duncan, George Jones, Captain TELLEM. Duncuft, John Keating, Robert Naas, Lord Dunne, Colonel Lacy, H. C. Whiteside, James MINORITY-NOES, 44. Abdy, Sir T. N. Hastie, Alexander Pilkingten, James Armstrong, Sir A. Headlam, T. E. Rawdon, Colonel Bell, Jacob Heathcote, Sir G. J. Seymour, 11. D. Birch, Mr Thomas Heyworth, L. Somerville, Sir W. Clements, Charles Hindley, Charles Sullivan, Michael Cowan, Charles Robb ouse, T. B. Tennent, R. J. Davie, Sir Henry Kershaw, James Tbicknesse, R. A. Divett, E. Labouchere, Henry Thompson, Colonel Elliot, J. E. Lewis, G. C. Thornely, T. Evans, William Mackinnon, W. Watkins, Colonel Fergus, John Morris, David Wawn, J. T. . Fortescue, J. W. Murphy, F. S. Williams, W. Freestun, Colonel Norreys, Sir D. Grey, Sir G. Nugent, hit' Percy TELLIRS. Grosvenor, Lord R. Philips, Sir G. R. Bouverle, E. P. Rally burton„Lord Pigott, Francis Ratchell, John Clause 6 (Guardians of Unions to divide them into Dis pensary Districts):— Amendment proposed, in page 3, line 18, after the word " necessary," to insert the words " subject to an Appeal in Council as hereinafter provided :" Question put, " That those words be there inserted." The Committee divided:— MINORITY-AYES, 58. Anstey, Thomas Grace, 0. D. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Archdall, Captain Grattan, Henry O'Connor, Fcargus Barrow, W. H. Grogan, Edward Packe, C. W. Beresford, William Hailewell, E. G. Power, Dr. Booth, Sir R. G. Hamilton, J. H. Renton, John C. Buck, Lewis W. Hamilton, Lord C. Reynolds, John Bunbury, William Mayes, Sir E. Scobell, Captain Burrell, Sir. C. Heald, James Scully, Francis Carew, W. P. 11111, Lord E. Somerset, Captain Chichester, Lord J. Jones, Captain Sotheron, T. H. S. Christy, Samuel Lacy, Henry C. Spooner, Richard Clive, H. B. Lawless, Cecil Sullivan, Michael Corbally, M. E. Lindsay, Colonel Verner, Sir W. Corry, H. L. Lockhart, W. Vesey, Thomas Duncuf t, John 31 annaghten, Sir E. Wakley, Thomas Dunne, Colonel M`Cullagh, W. T. Whitesid e, James Fellowes, Edward Mahon, O'Gorman French, F. Masterman, John Fuller, A. E. Mullings, J. R. Gallwey. Sir W. Naas, Lord Goold, Wyndham Napier, Joseph TELLIES. Herbert, H. A. Hamilton, G. A. MAJORITY-NOES, 70. Armstrong, Sir A. Fergus, John 'Coneys, Sir D. Baring, Sir F. T. Ferguson, Sir R. Paget, Lord C. Beckett, W. Fertescue. Chichester Parker, John Bell, Jacob Fortescue, J. W. Patten, J. W. Bellew, R. M. Freestun, Colonel Pendarves, Edward Berkeley, H. F. Greene, Thomas Pilkington, James Birch, Sir T. Grenfell, Charles W. Rawdon, Colonel Brotherton, Joseph Grey, Sir G. Rich, Henry Buxton, Sir E. Grey, R. W. Robartos, T. J. Cayley, E. S. Harmer, Sir Jolla Seymour, Lord Clay, James Harris, Richard Smith, Vernon Clay, Sir W. II atchell, John Somerville, Sir W. Clements, Charles Hawes, Beni. Tennent, R. J. Craig, Sir W.G. Headlam, Thomas Thicknesse, Ralph Davie, Sir Ii Ileathcote, Sir G. J. Thompson, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Hey-worth, L. Watkins, Colonel Duff, George S. Ilindley, C. Wawn, J. T. Dull, James Ilobhouse, T. B. Wilson, James Duncan, George Howard, Lord E. Wood, Sir Charles Dundas, Admiral Kershaw, James Yorke, E. T. Dundas, Sir David Lewis, G. C. Ellis, John Littleton, E. R. TELLERS. Elliot, John lw athesun, Alex. Hayter, W. G. Evans, John 3.40n5e11, William Bouverie, E. P. Evans, William Morris, David Another Amendment proposed, in line 30, to leave out the words Number and:" Qie..tion put, " That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the Clause." The Committee divided : MAJORITY—AYES , 57. -- - - Armstrong, Sir A. - Fortescue, J. W. Nugent, Sir Percy Baring. Sir F. Freestun, Colonel Paget, Lord Clarence Bellew, K. M. French, F. Parker, John Birch, Sir T. Glyn, G. C. Pa tten, W. Carter, J. B. Grace, 0. D. Pendarves, E. W. Cayley, E. S. Greene, Thomas Peto, ,amuel Clay, James Grenfell, Charles W. Rawdon, Colonel Clements, C. S. Grey, Sir George Reynolds, John Conolly, Thomas Grey, Ralph Wm. Rich, Henry Corbally, M. E. Harris, Richard Somerville, Sir W. Craig, Sir W. G. Hatchell, John Sotheron, T. H. S. Crowder, R. U. Hawes, B. Tennent, .J. Dawson, T. V. Hindley Charles Thicknesse, R. A. Dundas, Admiral Howard, Lord E. Thompson, Colonel Dundas, Sir D. Howard, Sir R. Watkins, Colonel Elliot, J. E. Jones, Captain Wood, Sir CharleS Fergus, John Keating, Robert Young, Sir John Ferguson, Sir R. Meagher, Thomas TELLERS. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Matheson, Colonel Hayter , W. G. [ Fortescue, Chichester Moncrehl, James Lewis, G. C. MINORITY-NOES, 44. Anstey, T. C. Fuller, A. E. Napier, Joseph Archdall, Captain Galway, Viscount O'Brien Si LuciuS Barron, Sir H. Goold, Wyndham O'Connor, Feargus Berestbrd, William Grattan, Henry Renton, J. C. Booth, Sir B. G. Grogan, E. Scully, Francis Buck, L. W. Gwyn, Bowel Spooner, Ittchard Bunbury, W. Hallowell, E. G. Stafford, Augustus Burrell, Sir C. Hamilton, Geo. A. Sullivan, Michael Chic kester, Lord J. Hamilton, J. H. Taylor, Thomas E. Child, ,niith Hamilton, Lord C. Verner, Sir W. Clive, H. B. Hayes, Sir E. Vesey, Hon. T. Cocks, T. S. Hill, Lord E. Whiteside, James Corry, Henry Lindsay,Xolonel Duckworth, Sir J. Macaghten, Sir E. Duncuft, John Maxwell, J. P. Dunne, Colonel MuWags, J. B. TELLERS. Herbert, H. A. Naas, Lord COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal 'Highness Prince Albert, with her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, accom panied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with their Royal Highuesses the Duo de Brabant, the Comte de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations at,twenty- five minutes past nine o'clock yester day morning. The royal suite consisted of the Hon. Lucy Kerr, the,Comtesse de Montanclos, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, Colonel de Moerkerke, and Count Albert de Briey. The royal party and suite lett the Exhibition at a quarter past ten o'clock. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester visited his Majesty the King of the Belgians yesterday. The Countess de Neuilly, the Duke de Nemours, and the Prince and Princess de Joinville, paid a visit to his Majesty the King of the B e lgians yesterday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The Duke de Nemours after wards visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at her residence, Clarence LlouSe, St. James's. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Arthur and the Prin cesses Helena and Louisa took an airing yesterday fore noon in an open carriage and four. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Bucking ham. Palace. The company included his Majesty the King of the Belgians, In r Roy al ilighn“s the Duchess ut Kent, his Royal Highness the Duo de Bratante, his Roy ul Highness the Count de' Flandres, their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg, his Serene Highness the Prince of Loewenstein, the Marquis and Marchioness of Norrcanby, the Earl of Liverpool, Lady Bloomfield, the Right Hon. Sir Charles ited Lady Mary Woud, the Bight Hon. Sir James Graham, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir Hamilton and Lady Seymour, Colonel the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, Colonel de Moerkerke, Baron Wan eenheim, Count Albert de Briey, and Sir Robert Carswell. Lord Charles Fitzroy has relieved General Wemyss in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to her Majesty. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour has relieved Colonel Bouverie in the duties of Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited and took leave of the members of the Royal Family yesterday, at their respective residences, on his return to the Continent. A deputation of Irish Members, on the subject of the New Land Clauses Bill, had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Sir L. O'Brien, Sir Robert Ferguson, Mr. S. Crawford, Mr. F. Scully, Mr. M. E. Corbally, Mr. H. Herbert, Lord C. Hamilton, Hr. T. Vesey, Mr. Clements, Colonel Dunne, Sir E. M.'Naughten, Captain Jones, Sir T. O'Brien, Mr. Grogan, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Geoid, Sir Edward Hayes, Sir John Young, Mr. Napier, and Mr. J. M.Cullagh. The deputation was accompanied by Sir M. Barrington, Bart., Mr. Jeffers, and Mr. Tyrrell. The Rev. Mr. Murray had an interview with Earl • Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. to TIIs BOTAISICAL SOCIETY. The last exhibition for the present season of the plants, flowers, and fruits ex hibited for the prizes awarded by this society took place yesterday, in the grounds at eßegent's-park, beneath the tents erected by Mr. B. Edgington, of the Borough. The specimens were of the first class of excellence, and showed the great progress made in the science of horticulture. The company assembled, which was more than usually nume rous, included almost all the rank and fashion of the metro polis, besides many foreign visitors of . prizes distinction. The fol lowing is a list of the principal es awarded by the judges for the best specimens exhibited :—Extra Gold—To Mr. May, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing-park, for 30 stove and greenhouse .plants; to Mr. Mylam, gardener to Mr. S. Rucker, Wands xorth, for 25 exotic orchids. Large Gold—Mr. Cole, gardener to Mr. H. Colyer, of Dartford, Kent, for 30 stove and greenhouse plants. Medium Gold— Mr. Smith, gardener to Mr. Quilter, Norwonl, fur 15 Cape heaths; Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen, Lea-bridge-road, Es sex, for 20 stove and greenhouse plants ; Mr. Taylor, gardener to Mr. J. Coster, Streatham. for 20 stove and greenhouse plants; Mr. Franklin, gardener to Mrs. Lawrence, Ealing park, for 25 exotic orchids; Messrs. Rollison, nurserymen, Tooting, for 20 exotic orchid's; Mr. Blake, gardener to Mr. Schroder, Stratford-green, for 15 orchids. Gold Medal—Mr. Green, gardener to Sir E. Antrobus, for 20 stove and green house plants ; Mr. Speed, Edmonton, for 10 stove and green house plants; Mr. Cole, gardener to Mr. H. ( - Myer, Dartford, for 15 Cape heaths; Mr. Black, Clewer Minor, Windsor, for 12 pelargoniums; Mr. Turner, Royal Nursery, Slough, for 12 pelargoniums. GLASGOW, JUNE 28.—Cotton—The market has been dull all the week; tran sactions have taken place only on a limited scale, and prices of middling American were from 1 , 6 d. to 1 4. d. lower. The better qualities maintain pretty nearly former rates. The stock in Glasgow at pre sent amounts to 33,000 bales. At the same period last year the amount was 35,000 bales. The demand for good 3 and yarns has been lighter this week, and prices are a shade eerier. As summer has now set hi in earnest, it is expected that the home trade in light fabrics will receive a healthy impulse. Pig Iron—The market for pi. 4 iron continues almost at a standstill, shipments much i-rnalla, but rather more inquiry for warrants. The price of No. 1, g.us.b., may be quoted at 395. 6d., and GaAsherrie at 41s. DEATH OF 111 R. DYCE SOMBRE. The lovers of the marvellous and the lovers of the scandalous will regret lo learn the death, which took place on Tuesday evening, at his apartments in Davies street, of Mr. Dyne Somhro, a gentleman whose strange career in Europe, with his not less marvellous antece dents in the East, have furnished so many a piquant subject of conversation and conjecture. He appeared in this country, we think, about a dozen years ago, bring ing with him a reputation, not ill-founded, of almost fa bulous wealth, and said to be—although of European blood by the father's side—thoroughly an Oriental in education, customs of life, and manners of thought. His arrival attracted much notice. He became one of the feted lions of the season, and ultimately married, in 1840, Mary Anne, daughter of the Earl St. Vincent. A separation soon took place, and the legal proceedings consequent upon this ill-starred marriage—followed by those adopted for the purpose of establishing Mr. Dyne Sombre's lunacy—were long matters of public talk and universal notoriety. Into either branch of the multitu dinous details in question this is certainly not the time to enter ; suffice it to say that the deceased gentle man, even laying aside his alleged lunacy, was not—whatever were his feelings and opinions, and whatever were his actions—fairly amenable to the standard of European judgment. Born and educated—or rather not educated—in a state of false and depraved Oriental semi-civilization, into which entered, in no in considerable degree, the worst vices of the Western world, Mr. Sombre was unhappily induced to change the moral and physical atmosphere in which he had been brought up for a new sphere, to which he had neither the mental vigour nor the mental flexibility to adapt himself. A man of stronger mind might proba bly have worked himself clear of the barbarisms and pollutions with which he had been surrounded. Mr. S om bre, however, was not so gifted, and his life in Eng land was such as to afford abundant matter for the gra tification of the strongest appetite for the raciest species of gossip. liis attempt to enter public life was seconded by the worthy and enlightened electors of Sudbury, who sent him to Parliament, from whence, however, ho was speedily ejected on petition —the borough being soon afterwards, mainly in consequence of proceedings at that election, disfranchised. For the last few years Mr. Sombre has resided on the Continent, to escape the effects of the decision of the Court of Chancery in his case—a decision which he had come over to petition against when he was seized with his fatal illness. The deceased was understood to be the son of a Ger man adventurer in India, of the name of Summer, who espoused the late Brgum ()ewe°. All manner of wild and scandalous stories are afloat as to the life of this woman and the death of her husband. It seems not to be quite certain whether Mr. Dyce Sombre was the real or only the adopted child; but, be that as it may, upon the death of his father, the Begum transferred her ma ternal affections, such as they were, to the son of the German, who was educated, it is said, by a Protestant clergyman, although the old lady herself by turns pro fessed herself a Catholics and a Mahometan—having actually built a cathedral and a mosque, with the inten tion of having two strings to her bow. After her demise Mr. Dyce Sombre came to Europe, and first made him self remarkable, in Italy, by the extraordinary black marble monument which he caused to be executed and sent to India in memory of his benefactress. His subse quent life in England has already been noticed. In consequence of his death in a state of lunacy his money in the funds, railway shares, and other property, of the annual value of 11,000/., will become divisible between Captain Troup and General Soldroli, the husbands of his two sisters, who are next of kin. An additional sum, producing 4,0001. a year, will also fall to their families on the death of Mrs. Dyce Sombre.—Chronicle. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday by the police returns 49,399 people entered the building, and the receipts amounted to 2,3631. 18s. Every day the assemblage wears a more countryfied aspect, and is more popular in its character, so that the failing off in the attendance is less easy to account for. Until now the weather might have been pointed to as the cause, but the decline is so steady that even this ex planation ceases to be satisfactory. Perhaps, after all, the multitude have found out that there aro limits to the numbers which the Crystal Palace can accommodate with comfort, so as to see properly its varied wonders. The presence of charity children still continues to form an agreeable feature of each day's incidents. Yester day the girls of St. Olave's school were enabled to go there by the liberality of . Mr. ex-Sheriff Filcher, and the trustees of the Broad-street Ward School also treated their scholars to an inspection of the interior. Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the King of the Belgians, and their respective suites, visited the Exhibition yesterday morning, at their usual early hour. They first inspected the Zallverein compartment, the most attractive fea tures of which were pointed out to them by M. von Viebahn. Thence they passed into the division of Northern Germany, . and thence again into that of Russia, where they were received by M. Kamensky and M. Nottbeck. The illustrious party were attended during their stay by Mr. Cole. Not the slightest incon venience or crowding arose from the admission of the public before their departure. POIMMOUTII, WEDNESDAY.—Major-General his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge inspected the 12th Lancers at Winchester, prior to their embarcation at this port in hired freight-ships for the Cape. His Royal High- Less afterwards honoured the Major-General commanding the South-Western District (Lord F. FitzOarence) by ac companying him to Portsmouth, and inspecting the 7th Fusi lee-s, 48th, and 95th Regiments, separately in drill order on Southsea-common, which troops his Royal Highness will re view on the same ground to-morrow morning. This evening the Duke dined at the Government-house, where the follow g guests were invited to meet him :—Admiral the Hon. Sir Bladen Capel, K.C.8., Commander-in -Chief of Portsmouth; Rear-Admiral Prescott, C.B. Superintendent of the Dock yard; Colonel Menzies, Commandant of Royal Ma rines; Colonel Gibsone, Commandant of Royal Marine Artillery; Lord Dufferin ; Colonel Sir John Mark Frederick Smith, K.H., Commandant of Royal Engineers; Sir George Wombwell, Bart. ; Colonel Campbell, 95th Regiment; Lieu tenant-Colonels Yea, of the 7th Fusiliers; Thultain, of the Royal Artillery ; the lion. A. Dalzsll, of the 48th Regiment; Captain IL D. Chads, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Excellent; Captain Lord E. Russell, of her Majesty's ship Vengeance; the staff of the Lieutecant-Governor, the lion. W. Mouck, Acting. Brigade-Major; Paymaster Gilley, of the 7th; the Hon. 31r. Russell, and other guests. EAST INDIA 110USE.—`The warrants for the divi dends on East India Stock will be payable on Monday next, the 7th inst. (under the 11th section of the Act 3d and 4th of William IV., cap. 85), and the transfer-books for the said 1 stock will be opened on Tuesday, the 15th inst. BRITISH . A SSO CIA TI ON for the ADVANCE MENT of SCIEIVCE. Irswlca, WeneeSDAY —The annual meeting of this essocittion cernmenced here this morning. This is the 21st anniversary, aed upon no occasion since its birth in 1830 up to its ulaturity, or " be coming of age," in 1851, have any of its meetings been attended with so much interest as the present. The attendsnce of the illustrious Prince who is earning for hinuelf an imperishable name as the pro moter and patron of the arts and seienoss, and to whom the country is indebted for the present extra ordinary opportunity of witnessing their practical development in the piece of wonders in Hyde-park, the expectation that many of the numerous distin guished literary and scientific foreigners now in England will be present at this meeting—there, toge. tiler with the fact that there is a strong and in creasing feeling pervading all classes of the commu nity in unison with the objects of the association, will account for the more than usual interest attending this meeting. The objects of the British Association are to give a stronger impulse and more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different parts of the British empire with one another and with foreign philosophers, to obtain more general attention to ob jects of science, and the removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress. Every necessary arrangement to promote the comfort and convenience of the members of the association and strangers visiting Ipswich has been adopted by the local committee. The various institutions and other establishments, and everything worthy the notice of the curious, have been thrown open for gratuitous inspection. The f o llo w i ng are some of the members and others who h av© signified their intention of being present, moat of whom have already arrived :—The Duke of Argyll, Lord Sheffield, Lord Monteagle, Lord En niskillen, Lord Ross® Lord Rendlesham, Lord A. Paget, Lord Lond es borough, Lord Stradbroke, the Bishop of Oxford, Sir Charles Lemon, Lord Wrot tesley, Hon. Sir E. Cust, Sir W. Jardine, Sir W. F. Middleton , Sir Charles Lyell, Sir H. De La Beche, Sir 3 . - W. Hooker, Sir J. Boileau, Lord Abercorn, Honourable Colonel Grey, Colonel Seymour, Mr. W. Cubitt, Captain Smith, Captain Brooke, Professor Faraday, Professor Playfair, Professor Henslow, Dr. Bateman, Rev. W. R. Holmes, Professor Phillips, Dr. Re Bell, Rev. Dr. Whewell, Professor Airy, Sir R. Murchi son , Dr. Roger, Mr. W. B. Byng, F.R.A.S., Mr- R.. Hunter, F.R.S., Mr. R. Roberts, Mr. L. Buchan, Mr. F. E Cottam, F.R.A.S.,,Mr. G. W. Ormerod, MA., Rev. J. C. hden, M.A. F.R.A.S., Colonel Sabine , Mr. C. W. Dilke, 1\..1r. W. Re Grove, F.R.S., Mr. Algernon Peckover, Mr. Joseph Hone, Dr. Lee, Professor Owen, Mr. W. J. M. Rankine, F.R.S.E., Rev. W. Airy, Mr. W. D. Saull, F.G.S., C. Fox Banbury, F.G.S., &c. Among the foreign visitors are—His Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, his Excellency M. Van de Weyer, C. Boneparte, Prince de Canino, Dr. Carl Bischoff, Signor Bartolomeo Cinci,lll. Dumas, 3.1. D'Abaddie, Dr. Hamel, Colonel Mari, Professor Wartmann, Dr. Nordenskiold, Professor Scharling, Signor Osculati, Professor Elton, D.D., United States, Professor Shaf heutb, Dr. Beckie, Dr. J. E. Vrig, Mr. Whit ney, Messrs. Pierre and Plat 6, Tchitchicheff, M. Van Gallen, Professor Johnson, United States, &c. The present officers of the association are— President—Mr. George Biddle Airy, M.A.,F.R.5., Astronomer Royal. Vice-Presidents—The Right Hon. Lord Rene dleshem, M.P., the Lord Bishop of Norwich, the Rev. Professor Sedg wick, M.A., F.R.S, Rev. Professor Henslow, M A., F L S., Sir John Boileau, Bart., F.R.S., Sir William F. F. Middleton, Bart., Mr. John Chevalier Cobb-old, M.P., Mr. Thomas Burch 'Western. General Secretaries—Lieutenant-Colonel Sabine, Vice-Pr'sideot and Treasurer, R S., Woolwich; J. Forbes Royle, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in King's College, London. Assistant General Secretary—Mr. John Phillips, F.R.S., York. General Treasurer—Mr. John Taylor, F.R.S., 6, Queen-street-place, Upper Thames-street, London. Secretaries—Mr. Charles May, F.R.S.; Mr. Dill wyn Sims, Mr. George Arthur Riddell, Mr. George Ransouse, F.L.S., F.L.S. Treasurer—Mr. John Biddle Alexander. The Rev. S. J. Rigaud, M.A., was elected as an additional secretary at the meeting of the general committee this afternoon. The business of the day commenced by the meeting of the Council, at 10 o'clock, and of the general com mittee at 1 o'clock, ter the election of sectional officers, the allocation of the various sections, and the dispatch of business usually brought before these bodies. The first general meeting is to be held at 8 o'clock this evening in the Corn Exchange, when the ex-President, Sir David Brewster, K.H., will open the business of the association, and resign the chair to the President elect, Mr. George Riddell Airy, M.A., F.R.S., Astronomer Royal, who will then deliver an address on the objects and proceedings of the association. The sections are— Place of meeting. A. Mathematics and ,physics Town-hall Council-chamber B. Chemistry, &c Old Assembly-rooms C. Geology D. Natural history E. Geography and ethnology Mechanics'lnstitute (Theatre) F. Statistics G. Mechanical science The different sections will assemble for the read ing and discussion of reports and other communica tions to-morrow, July 3; Friday, July 4; Monday, July 7 ; and Tuesday, July 8, at eleven sox. each day. Saturday, July 5, being an excursion day, the sections will meet or not on that day, ac cording to the decisions of their respective commit tees. To-morrow evening the Corn Exchange will be thrown open for promenade and conversation. On Friday evening Professor Owen will deliver a dis course on the distinction between plants and animals, and their changes of form. On Monday evening the President, Mr. G. B. Aire, will deliver a discourse on the total solar eclipse of July 28, 1851. His Royal Highness Prince Albert is expected to arrive here about a quarter to eleven o'clock to-mor row morning by special train. HER .aIAJJEST Y'S THEATRE. Yesterday's rehearsal of the new opera, by M. Thalberg, appeared to produce on all who were pre sent the impression which we ventured yesterday to record as our own in regard to the musical character cf the work to be brought out to-night. A musician who has deservedly acquired the highest reputation, not only with the world at large, but in circles be yond the influence of mere popular applause, was felt to have thrown his full strength into his task— " The first essay of arms untried before." The artists engaged buckled to their duty with that energy which is only called up when real music— ' as distinct a thing as possible from the result of musical cleverness—is in question, and went through the rehearsal with an earnestness and a precision which foreshadow well the " event" of to-night. We are disinclined to say more in anticipation of what it will, we trust, be our pleasant duty to say to-morrow ; but we may be allowed to make the agreeable announcement that Muffle. Cruvelli (whose honourable exertions to do justice to M. Thalberg bad incapccitated her from appearing in Mon' day's concert) has recovered her powers, and re hearsed the arduous part of Floriuda with all her natural vigour. 'There are some admirable "situatious" in the drams, which M. Scri be has furnisla-d, and we much mistake if Cruv elles actin g , as the outraged daughter of Count J ulio, and the victim of Roderic, the " Last of the Goths," will not surpass her noble personations of Fidelio and o f Norma, upon which the habitues are so enthusiastic. The young vocalist is now fairly fitted with an origi nal part, and we do not fear to prophesy that she will make it her own.—Narg in g Paper. FREN STCH PL S'SY s . JAMEA • _ .S. Adrienne Lou'" _Wa s agLin performed at the St. James's last evening' he character of Adrienne is the most perfect of . Mademoiselle Rachel's impersona moder.n heroine of a modern play, and p l o y itself is. the most perfect of its sort. t th io e ns of the exceedingly Beautiful was her impersonation character of her great predecessor, sa rcasms were with er i ng , her intensely impas hlaesrt e venlog of the s i o ned agony he ar t ren di ng . Her delivery of the re citations hem the classic tragedies was magnificent, and her concluding scene was replete with exquisite pathos. At the conclusion she sve,3 called on, and greeted with the most enthusiastic applause. The house was well and fashionably atonded. DUNMOW GAMMON OF BACON.—After the lapse of 100 years this gammon of bacon has been claimed by a couple in good circumstances, as farmers, at Felsted, Essex, named Ilurrell, but, failing to obtain it from the lord of the manor. the inhabitants of Dunmow have procured one by subscription, which will be presented to them, instead of the lord's, on their taking the usual oaths, at Broomhills, near Dunmow, on Wednesday, the 16th of July. The couple will drive on to the ground (escorted by a band of music) in their own carriage and horses. A large number of persons are expected to congregate to witness the ceremony. A Roman Catholic priest has been tried at New York, and cast in 1,600 dolls. damages, for seduction.. The affair caused great scandal among all religiousdenommations. The Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill, a s amended by the Committee, and on consideration of the Bill as amended, has been printed by order of the House of Commons. The Rev. Hinton C. Smith, minister of Trinity Church, Plymouth, has signified his intention to resign his incumbency on account ol Ins health. The Rev. W. Norval, late incumbent of St. James, Bermondsey, has been presented to the rectory of Ickleford, Herts, vacated by the Rev. R. . Dagen Brown. Patron, Ralph Lindsay, Esq., F.S.A. ,Its. )8.) ) 1 ) 2 I to the by nin. )104 the 'ills a in 71b, ing, in 2 eer. and l be Bst; I, 3 yrs. 01.); Irti- IL) ; Man yrS 11 ) ; Wu [an y if 1 . 2 , 3 e of 2 won 1