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RAR .LBRO'—STREET.—(TIIIS DAY.) u STE ALING A WATCH.— Robert Lexis was brought before r ' .l3iu ghatn, charged with having stolen a silver watch, elrahlatire,loL, the prop er t y o f J o h n Cl enton , at th e H ouse o f ThiLY, Rose -street, Soho. Cha prosecutor deposed that he was sent to the House of u nti r p , in Rose -street, by Judge Coleridge, there to remain Bro rn a v acattoY occurred in the Hospital for Consumption at ahA t °n• The prisoner was an inmate of the same place, zriisleet in the same room with witness. About a fort h g ago witness left his watch on his bed while of , went into an adjoining room for the purpose Ip c t. hEtt lging his cravat, and on his return and 4° 2" a minute alter, he missed his watch, th e t ue prisoner, who was the only person in d4° 13 1 when he left his watch. had suddenly taken his departure, and could nowhere be found. This excited the 811 sPicio but ~,4 1 1 . 8 of witness, and he gave information to the police; when ""-ung more was seen of the prisoner until last night, 44 another inmate of the house met him in Oxford-street, ti gave him in charge. 1/ o „ en rY Turner, a servant out of place, residing at the tij l ' t e : of Charity, proved meeting the prisoner on Sunday w Oxford.street. On taxing him with stealing the atch , m eetin g he said it was all right, he " blued" it. Witness on eng With a constable gave him in charge. I,ointnitted for trial. hriiVRPOEKETS AT THE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Thomas 11 14 Z i ns, a well -dressed youth, was charged before Mr. 1 1 , 6 "atn with attempting to pick pockets at the St. James's heawtonld, 123 C, said about eleven o'clock on Friday night Ja me duty in King-street, near the front o f the Iu feti. Theatre, when he saw the prisoner busily employed the er Tg the pockets o f severa l l a di es w h o were l eaving th e raob` i '• Knowing him to be an associate of the swell th e 'le took him into custody, and c o nveyed him to th eatr atation. Wi tness su b sequent l y returne d to t h e thi n , e, and inquired if any persen had lost any tobi); A lady named Blanchard said she had been of a Purse con t a i n i ng two sovere i gns an d some silver, he Centleman informed him that he had lost his watch as bad 48 le aving the pit. The prisoner and his confederates *keno do ubt been profitably employed during the perform- Ptis e '„_ b ut none of th e proper t y h a d been found on the ver.. eloee Pri soner, who is well known to the police as one of the of c 41.kat pickpockets in London, m was comitted to the House ection for three months with hard labour. SPOItTI/S G NOTES. No. XV. SPORT AT COVENTRY. 11,. 2 'o THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. tbeltiT-The present week contains four meetings; two of 1 0 "ut Coyi•tle note the ;slit at Oldham this day, and th d e I lirt h at'' - hat 1 entry to-morrow of t , 01 511 now indite a few lines. The steeplechase, out iotiurtY-two entries has an acceptance of sixteen, exeept h_ it k , ~ re all the best across-country nags of the day, i "e The British Yeoman. The appearance of al , o d r I ti;: 6 , rfloiety of the cracks in the race, is not to be expecte. 6 ita o le i the missing division will include Vain Hope, Peter e_ Dore -e i and Abd-el-Kader ; Mulligan also is dubious, r rre t° he entered by mistake. The most probable runners lon ir Peter Laurie list 51b: Fugitive, lOst 121 b ; Rattrap, lo 1 , 9 ,,, 1b ; Miss Collingwood, lOst 71b; Victim, lOst 121 b, or 11 4 1-6 , 'ura, lOst bib; Trust•me-Not, lOst 61b; Tipperary tit; ',' o 4 21b ; Fu lernan, lOst ; Subduer, 9st 131 b ; Vola -1,14„,ri.t 91b ; and g Maurice Daley, 2st 91b ; one or two of 0 14 -',u;°wever, may be " found wanting." The mischiev- Ofd s "' vi sion of my presumed runners is compose 41.3,. ungitive, Rattrap, Miss Collingwood, and Tippe -4 1, 00 ,"°Y ; and if Rattrap does not stop to have "04 1 „ 1 ‘ at any of the toefnces, a propensity very to f .1 41 With him he ought be about the mark , h Itigit: l :„' Miss Collingwood or Tipperary Boy is my reserve. 1 4 4 , - „' ° : I say but little about, being by no means certain of m ang t , - !'ing ; should she do so, I should consider her especially ted - d'" u e, and in that case good enough to beat Rattrap 1 3 , (~') but as it is I must place my confidence in Rattrap, o4 ti r , end th e B oy fb r t h e three foremost places, with The a nd Sir Peter Laurie foarth and fifth. f ar : 4-lurdle Race here, like that at Liveool, is said to be 1 6 tt I,B°le conclusion in favour of Mr. Oake' rp s Half-and-Half, kiy 14,ei,_"0. but in cae it should turn out a hoax, like tha at Ne7 l , I shall bring the Seignor of Holderuess to t the ~ slid t tt ualcap Flat Race of 5 soya. each, with 25 added, ht tWee Dre bability, figure in the spurt; the finale will be be bet :,, seat of Oak, 3 yrs, sst 41b; and Hazy, 3 yr/4 . 45t 1 . 2 . 1 b ; 1ke431 h a ze as come o'er my prophetic vision, 4 he by the doubt as to whether both the H's will go 4 .2t,b -e an ill ,ain, why, I think the best plan would be to back -4 4111 - ' 4 t hen you'll be as safe as mortals can be on this Sty ball of ours. ka, I am, Sir, yours, Ike. P. 8 • -e ," k 1 851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. ;_hese 1 ..• " 41 ''• past i P.m.-Victim, for the Country Steeple ' 7, 4 lit ti - ell the rage both at the West-End and in the City, t lriti, u ,' 3 to 1 having been booked about him at Beeton's. ttat o ,.' th e money.which is alway one of the best prognos -4";Co8 t i ° l. judge - by, w The Victim will be the winner, with ' ln gwood and Tipperary Boy in close attendance. S A r‘ - kPRTING IN -- t.it itid . BATH AND SOX clar e ,i _'eap for the Somer.etsi 1 - ull Ot before the 15th ink. Ittep. ,I a Age st lb Age at lb V a,,, h4 - 01 ;"a . ... . Boy ... a 9 0 Little George 4 6 9 4 6 9 cits 7py r:. ............... .. 5 8 7 Gladiole h l leby "••. a 8 3 Flying Gout ... 5 8 2 Scarborough ... 4 6 7 lie lti f lt r n (l , ......... ... 4 8 2 Estafette .. ...... ... 4 6 7 Alti• -- •er ....6...... .. 4 8 2 Won't-you-come-out 111 1 : a u .. ** . . 44_ . ....... Voild.' :-• tS. It! e ngratz .. 48 1 Miss Larkaway ri oeTe alia ................ 57 12 Flare..up ......... of re, ... ......... ~. 57 12 Electncfty Wier la Coupe ....... 5 7 11 Rogue 5 6 0 ti st i h 64l theCOnqueror 4 7 10 Brington 4 6 0 k 14 %; I r erker - ..... .. 57 9 Cingari.... . r'tlau ............... 4 7 91 Modestina ; tt r ••• ............... 4 7 9rMade Safe kt . ° Aoas .. 4 7 BlRecruit 47,11r21Giv ......... ....... 4 7 7iNorton ... 3 5 12 4 , lark ~. .................. 5 7 s'c by Bretby dam by 11,,1/trit-,ItY ........... ... 575 Y. Blacklock k%/tii.. '4 ePley . 574 c by Epirus, out of it `er . kl et ' on. •• • • ............ 4 7 4 Enterprise >II tall ............ 4 7 4;Aaron Smith ... 3 3 5 5 10 9 p_tri'o,„,,••• '• •........ 5 7 2 Sunrise Pb•filiti"„`" ............ 5 72Kt of the Thistle 35 7 5 "Nithr - ee 2 ..... 5 7 I , The Ban ..... t obt -r to Dough .. ',.., 4 7 1f by Pantaloon, out &tliti:f I( horassa l e s k illt,r.ftli .. ... .......... ... 4 K 7 0 1 Kn o o f o L k a K d3 noll" . 33 555 41,, 3 ,:i.,o , :crer,Heart of Oak ::: .... ............ 4' 7 6 13 ° ,Brother to Truth- 3 5 4 i'loti.ituell •••••••••...4 613; teller 3 5 1 2,, 4 'one k ; '..... ...... „. 5 6 12,Pandemus ri; h oh, It ...... ... 5 6 11'c by John o' Gaunt, d 3 0 ZoOs "'of Whim 5 6 1;1 by the Saddler ..• 5 k' ll e . . ... 4 6 1 I;Waterfall at a tiae; .. ... .... : 4 6 10 Terpsichore 3 4 8 b e lt r t.V e it,e.r ... •• ••... 4 6 10 Barcelona ritiateghest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will ~. ‘) , rdinglv . A4'4tiii ASTER SPRING MEETING, 1851. lov--414ttio 4 no ns for Sheffield and Rotherham Stakes :- ti 4 ) B '4 Yrs--Oldthe Claret, 4 yrs-Maid of Kent (late Jea n. '411'4 Yors--The Deceitful (late Mr. Merryman), 3 yrs I' l lla alt, 3 yrs-Slang, 4 yrs- Scarborough, 4 yis -01)446 reholder, yrs--Mis Flyaway, 3 yrs- c_h c ,rs bz 'cll;u'llallagh, dam by Liverpool, out of Ninny, 3 IlL tti r f'. 4 y r s-Panope, 4 yrs-The Saxon, 3 a ",,.., (t eetor n, 3 Yrs-Madame . Wharton, 3 yrs-ch f by Irish r.' el. ' 4 yrs-Osbaldwick, 4 yrs-Prince Caradoc, 41 °raj • tigs•Att„),ltations for the Free Handicap Hurdle-race : - Lod ctt;Plo- ( ~,S t e Colstone), 4 yrs-John Lawrence, 5 yrs-Pas tlio't (11 1v i r ' 6 Yrs-The Miller (late Sir Benjamin), 5 yrs . - 5 r i l e) a g ed 5 yrs-The Swift, 5 yrs-Quiz pate Rais -41, Vie), aged-Tally-ho, aged-Little Queen, ab f lesre tu t c ue, 4 yrs-Warwick, 4 yrs - Sampler . , 4 yr --"' -.." 6 yrs-Wharfdale Maid, aged-Wild Hero, TELLIGENCE. dERSET RACES. shire Stakes; forfeits to be de stant. LOST AND FOUND. THE EXHIBITION. ct1!1,4, A 2l° THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. e-sip'llii4-311toaul3R 7 1 . is respectfully made through the above ong the abounding efforts to rescue , t t iki t , l it fro DA "I En inco r tiv a e m nience that ono may have . been ar!- 4 1 . -111 ,Pall' or :;:ch includes the exigency ' of visitors losing their Ih i) ,f a ` 4 4 t el i tl i 4 ei ' r a c._ the crowd, and of the serious and very em ft y. be ulnstances under which persons so placed bni4 lo aed• A flag staff somewhere near the centre : a ° l ig, attr ac ti ng to a sma ll-d e t ac h e d s pot as th e 1 1 84 re, f tb . °B e placed in difficulty, or some ,simple pc ros 4 ght not unlikely pro highly important, and n Y from great perplexity.— ve Yours, &c., A SUBSCRIBER. 144 1 4 -4 %It OF SiR JOHN TOB 89th year. Althou bt_ttle hiv_ursday night last, at i h n i i s h N i risid S en ir ce, j L o i h s n card T H ob a i l n l, 101 Y e oa d ti 7:s a s of time, for he wa t i lia aketed sip allowed to mos s men, his whatdeath t w he as p s r o e m se e hce of 4 0 0vh 010 fo but not so sudden , as to prevent Cses...it ha s l e a n 1 "3". Lady robin s_urv___iv o e h s it4 th in e cu d in ec h e e as ht ed o . f I li! , 4 - ',_ one son, the Rev. J. T th it tOld j".' three daughters—Mrs. James Cockshott, Mrs. h o ,t isle 4.lttledale, and Mrs. Reddie, wife of the governor of 1 24 i?,f.,!4...!an. Yesterday . the flag of the Town Hall was thelL °, /7 )00 7".; mast high, out of respect to the deceased.— ) uournaL l 4 !P e' t e e t k l l B ,,,P , P ENNY PIINCH.—An . admirable article in boo' l ca Y 4l eIVB of Saturday, relating to the " Crystal Pa la r,„ntsios the following:—" Views of the Exhibition, 171. 4 51 1 ‘the E xhibition songs on the Exhibition, thicket - "sli aides; whilst the ' announcements are mere numerous 4 ,:ti I t' tv „ e s the Of thes however, some at least are '4o'B; t h e s upply which we e' carefully avoided giving 10t,..., as vr... _ . 8. one last tl ai rt th at 7 Wished bed to test its authenticity. We mean the state- Vti.Y Luria P e nny Punchollustrated byDoyle, is to appear 1,4„ , ,i thaa. Exhibition.' On inquiry we have disco- I). is, 0 Is assertion, which .. has . one the round of the It jkaa 14 r Was i n it s origin, entirely fonnd . ationteas. 1 4 le; 'l ,l e L ts a rumour, the product of the vivid imagination Lived Z.Died 1:14011 correspondent for a Scotch paper. Then i adin t t ver t , o 4 , B 4 fact into the miscellaneous column nfa le 4111 it Journal, and thence, being at once brief and prog to toe it h 1 1 n, t ,sl been transferred and re-transferred from town 'ln v ilp a hi l l . 1 ,,t has achieved an almost universal circulation. lik: s pa „ et "uoYle will do what Mr. Anstey won't, take a which he did not originate. Un .,,Ll(jielikchna4t,tesYhh,,s planZ an not id c . e o a nt. - adicted the fabulous paragraph, kt . May be inclined to think the Penny Punch b tlo bad speculation." 4,4 t, .IPrjrin LIVERPOOL ni , , , OF PROPRIETORS OF TH E , Llti, VL---coN Fi A LIFE INSURANCE COMPAn •—_ ; L ie I , ()C.L• FAIDA Y. --- T Nn o-day a special general meeting of 4.14, rr°Prieta London Fire and Ist_. in mararie rs of the Liverpool and in - their offices, is 41", street 6 Company was held t a tue , to consider the clauses and provisions a.. slid '‘lPPlemental deed of settlement, .submitted i ` th e la 11 by the annual meetin of rorietors ~,_. ria4„ .stant. William Nichol, Esq., presided 1.-°aivning briefly- stated •. the object for which :''l4itta re ta had %col th e, p T r h o ! i. • Ar.e b ee n called together, the supplemental deed was e z i te of 0 r a few words of explanation respecting the bear 01,1eal n e of the clauses, the resolution approving of the (4 1 th d ental , 5 ~, deed which had been agreed to at the meetin . g . ''''Slasi, Z - . 4 1-1 was submitted to the proprietors, and Amin' "Inflrtued, The meeting then broke up. THE THE MAGAZINES. BLACKWOOD. Pisistratus Caxton continues his very charming ro mance with unabated, or rather with increasing ability. Trivial as the interests of the story may seem to be, they are rendered memorable and of value by the air of fascination by which they are invested. This, more over, is attributable to the exquisite manner of the novelist, by his quiet but sunlit humour, by his genial and delicate sensibility, by his plastic eloquence and his matchless powers of delineating character. The heroine is at last introduced on the stage. Violante, the young and beautiful, as yet little inure than a child—the daughter of cur good old friend Doctor, or Signor lliccabocca. In Jemima the latter has found, we are rejoiced to observe, an admirable helpmate. Lenny Fairfield becomes an inquiring experimentalist i❑ science, and, what is more, a poet. Albeit but a poor village labourer, Lenny has in the latter capacity become invested with a peculiar interest, and, so to speak, with a certain dignity. Fur, as Sir 13ulwer Lytton himself observes—and he ought to know something about it—" he who can view the world as a poet is always at soul a king." The latter portion of the present instalment of his domestic narrative is coloured with a homely, but delicious, humour. Parson Dale, " unaccustomed though he is" to riding on horse back, adventures in this wise to the town of Lansmere. The traveller at the road side inn is capital—just one of those little ineidentnl trifles that Bulwer Lytton ca❑ make so much of. His calling out later on the highway, " How's the leather?" when the parson is getting tossed up and down on the saddle rather unmercifully, is the climax of merriment. Sesrcoly less droll is the landlord of the Lansmere Arms, with his preposterous definition of gumpti,us—" Bumptious is bumptious, and gumptious is eumptious : now the town beadle is humpiious, and Mrs. Avenel h pump tious." Gumptious she most unquestionably proves to be vs hen visaed a little farther on by the good par.on. With the commencement of this interview the portion of the novel fur the March number terminates. A very beautiful and intelligent criticism of Mrs. Jameson's " Legends of the Monastic Orders" Idlows this most de- lightiul contribution. In it the revi-ver expresses a profound and generous admiration of some of the most conspicuous among the saints of the Roman Catholics. St. Theresa in particular he takes to be a most saintly as well as sainted woman. The following account of the origin of the superstition respecting St. Swithin, as given by Mrs. Jameson, may not prove altogether nut', serving a perusal : "He had ordered that his body should be buried among the poor, outside the church, 'under the feet of the pas sengers, and exposed to the droppings of the eaves from above.' When his clergy attempted to remove the body to a more honourable tomb inside the church, there came on such a storm of rain as effectually stopped the procession; and this continued for forty days without intermission, till the project was abandoned, and his remains were suffered to rest in the humble grave be had chosen for himself."_ The subjoined pas ;ago relating to Bt. Thomas I Becket, the groat Ara:bishop of Canterbury, we commend to general con, ideration : " Lord Campbell, in his recent and admirably-written life of Becket, as Chancellor and Minister of Henry 11., tells us that his vituperators are to be found among bigoted Protes tants, and his unqualified eulogists among intolerant Catho- lies. After stating, with the perspicuity of a judge in equity, their respective arguments and opinions, he sums up in fa vour of the eulogists, and decides that, setting aside exag geration, miracle, and religious prejudice, the most merciful view of the character of Becket is also the most just. And is it not pleasant, where the imagination has been so excited by strange vicissitudes and picturesque scenes of his various life—the judgment so dazzled by his brilliant and generous qualities, the sympathies so touched by the tragic circum stances of his death—to have our scruples set at rest, and to be allowed to admire and to venerate with a good con science; and this, too, on the authority of one accustomed to balance evidence, and not swerved by any bias to extreme religious opinions! But it is not as statesman, chancellor, or prelate that Becket takes his place in sacred art. It is in his character of canonised saint and martyr that I have to speak of him here. He was murdered or martyred because he pertinaciously defended the spiritual against the royal au thority; and we must remember, in the eleventh century, the cause of the Church was, in fact, the cause of the weak against the strong, the cause of civilization and of the people against barbarism and tyranny ; and that by his conteMpo raries he was regarded as the champion of the oppressed Saxon race against the Norman nobility." " Lavengro, ' the presumed autobiography of Mr. George Barrow, is subjected to a somewhat severe, though, at the same time, a very judicious castigation. In the estimation of the critic in Blackwood it will not tend very far to exalt the repute of the author. Another paper of an artistic nature will be found among the con tents of the March number, namely, one relating to " The Arts in Portugal," and considering the unfamiliar character of the topic we doubt not it will be generally acceptable. Southey suggests to one of the contribu tors an able and pleasing series of biographic articles— the first of which is here published. Besides the paters already particularized, we must call to the notice of the public the first, relating to the " Internal Dangers of the Country," and the last, referring to the important question of the 3 Ministry and the Agricultural In terest." Altogether the number of Blackwood for March is really admirable. THE NEW MONTHLY. A gloriou3 old legend of Hungary has been taken by Mr. John Oxenford as the subject of a contribution to the March number of the Piew Monthly. It is founded on the myth of the Iron Laci, and is hight " The Three Dragons." The curious in such matters will find it read wonderfully like a story out of the " Arabian Nights' Entertainments;" the only difference, in fact,l being a moat unseemly incredulity apparent throughout on the part of the narrator. " All the World and his Wife ; or, What brought Every body to London 1851"—wein cannot help fancying is the effusion of the facetious Mr. Jolly Green. Only three chapters having as yet appeared, but little oan be conjectured as to the probable merits of the contribution. " Clarissa do Maulevrier" is altogether about the most disgusting paper we ever remember to have seen in any magazine whatever; in parts it is nothing ehort of being abso lutely indecent. We regret to see anything of the kind in a publication like the New Monthly, in whose pages religious fervour should never be pros tituted to the cause of irreligious malevolence. " Soapey Sponge's Sporting 'fours" rattles on ward right gallantly, the writer being as hila rious in style at its close as at its commencement. " The Money banks Field," a tale founded on fact, will be relished by the majority of magazine readers—and so also, in its way, the continuation of "Hester Somerset." The contribution relating to " The Literature of the Troubadours" has the evidences of a very agreeable re search, and the paper on " Russia and the Danube" will be found as authentic in tone as its predecessors. Other papers of a miscellaneous kind make up the residue of the number—the magazine being excellent in every re spect saving the one detestable indecorum already parti cularized. LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—The Royal Mail Steam ship Asia, Captain Harrison, sailed to-day for New York with the usual mails and a large number of passengers, among whom was Mr. Martin F. Tupper, the author. - - DUBLIN, SATURDAY EVENING. —The Earl and Countess of Clarendon family, and suite, h ave ma d e arrange ments for leaving this country on Tuesday next, per the Eblana steamer. The Prince of Wales packet arrived at Kingstown on Thursday evening, will supply the place of the Eblana until her return after landing the present viceregal household. LADY PALMERSTON'S ASSEMBLY.—ViSCOURt and Viscountess Palmerston entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday evening at th e i r mans i on i n Carlton gardens. The guests included his Excellency the Marquis of Normanby, Frances Countess Waldegrave, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Lady Ashley, the French Chargé d'Affaires, M. M aresca l chi, Count Pahlen Hon. W. Cowper. M.P., Sir John and Lady Milbanke Henry Greville, &c. I n t h e. evening the Noble Viscountess received received a very numerous circle of the fashiohable world. His Grace the Duke of Wellington honoured her Ladyship with his company. MR. BAINES, M,P.—The notified retirement of Mr. Baines from the representation of Hull, at the close of the present Parliament, will excite more regret than sur prise among the friends of that Right Honourable Gentle man. Mr. Baines must have found the onerous duties de volving upon him as the representative of such a tyouble tome place as Hull, an overwhelming addition to his daily official labours as President of the Poor-law Board. In deed, only a very short time after his triumphant return for Hull, he expressed great uncertainty as to his again ap.. peering on the hustings in this town; while, at the same time, he warmly professed that the uniform kindness which he had experienced from all classes of the inhabitants would ever be remembered by him with feelings of deep gratitude. There is, therefore, nothing sudden, or of any political significance, in the notified retirement of Mr. Baines from the representation of Hull. In taking such a step, the Right Honourable Gentleman has not been influenced by an intimation of declining influence in this borough. On the contrary, the g rea t b u lk of the electors are proud of having returned a gentleman to Parliament, whose poor-law administration has won for him golden opinions from all classes, and who i s now th e on ly member of the Whig Ministry, whose retirement from office would be sincerely regretted by the best men of all parties.—Hull Advertiser. REPORTED ROBBERY OP A BANK..--A corre spondent states that a report is current in the City that several clerks in a well-known bank have been detected in perpetrating robberies on the establishment to the amount of 10,0001., and that one of the supposed delinquents has been apprehended. We have no knowledge of the affair beyond what lvis been so communicated.—Advertiser. SUICIDE Or A TRADESMAN. —On Saturday, Mr. H. M. Wakley held an inquest at the Wrestlers' Arms, Highgate, on view of the body of Mr. Perkins, pork butcher, aged 45, lately carrying on business at No. 15, Eversholt-street, Somers Town. Deceased left home last Wednesday, and in the evening his wife received a letter from him dated Highgate, Min which he observed, " By the time you receive this I shall be no more. Igo from this to a place of death. There were many I should like to send my love to. Give my love to Henry, and let hi m f o ll ow George's example. God bless you. — T. Perkins." In the afternoon he was found suspended from a tree by a silk handkerchief, near the Wrestlers, by a man named Kempton, who went to the police-station, a distance of above a quarter of a mile, for 'a policeman. who cut the deceased down. In his pocket was a piece of paper on which he had written :—" Since I have last gone down the lanes, and seen the beautiful things Nature sends, and not gruel (meaning spirits), I thought how happy we could be.—T. Verdict—Found Dead. SUICIDE FROM LONDON-BRIDGE. —On Saturday evening a respectably-dressed female,ayparently about thirty years of age, was observed by constable Ball (Thames po lice) to precipitate herself from the third arch on the Mid dlesex side of the above bridge into the river. The constable was proceeding down the river in his galley, and had just emerged from under the arch, when the unfortunate female fell within a few inches o f th e b oa t which he was rowing. lie immediately endeavoured to catch her, but the tide run ning down strongly it was some time before she could be got out of the water. She was then alive, but presented a fright ful spectacle, her head (ha v i ng caug ht the buttress of the bridge in falling) being completely battered in. With all possible speed she was conveyed to the Old Swan Tavern, Thames-street. Dr. Groves was then sent for, who, having ad miniatered all the aid his power witt l eut effect, advised SUN, LONDON, her instant removal to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. On her arrival at the hospital great exertions were made to alle viate her sufferings, but she expired some time after her arrival in the greatest agony. Several persons attended to view the body, but up to seven o'clock last evening it had not been identified. ALARMING 'AND DESTRUCTIVE FlRES.—Shortly after eight o'clock en Saturday morning a fire of a very se rious character broke out on the premises of Mr. Pezzy, up holsterer and cabinet-maker, Old-street-road, St. Luke's. It originated in the workshop, during the absence of the work people, and the discovery was not made until the whole of the workshop was in flames. A number of the brigade engines were soon on the spot, but although the firemen ob tained a good supply of water, they were unable to check the fire before the workshop was entirely consumed. About two o'clock in the morning a house, in the occupation of Mr. Duncan, No. 3, Melbourne-place, Cambridge-road, Hackney, was burned down. The family were awoke by some person in the street, who saw the glare through the shop fanlight. Fortunately the inmates escaped from the premises in safety. About one hour previously, the engines had been required in Cleveland- place, Fitzroy-square, where an alarming fire had broken out on the premises of Mr. Matthews, carpenter and builder. The fire was not extinguished for nearly an hour. Most of the workshops were destroyed. The total loss of pro perty at the fire cannot be far short of 2,0001. CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE.—It has at length been decided that the suspension bridge over the river Avon at Clifton shall forthwith be comple . e . d. This undertaking was commenced many years ago, but was never finished, for want of funds. Arrangements have now been made for the resumption of the works. Mr. Hennett, the engineer, is to finish the work at his own expense, the subscribers abandon ing any claim that they may have on the ground of former investments, reserving, however, to themselves , the right of passing over the erection, and entering into a heavy bond of indemnity to secure the promoter against any legal proceed ings which may be brought against him by the owners of the ferry. In consideration of the outlay incurred, which will amount to many thousands of pounds, the engineer will have the bridge under his control for a length of time, suili cient to repay him for his skill and capital embarked. The ironwork has been taken by Messrs. Fox and Henderson, the eminent contractors in connexion with the Crystal Palace. When completed, the bridge will form a most picturesque adjunct to the beauty of the Clifton scenery. A METHOD OF EXPOSING AN OBNOXIOUS TAX.— Dropping into a grocer's shop, our attention was drawn to a ream of brown paper by the words, " Tax on this ream of paper ," in very conspicuous letters. Reading on, we ob tained the information that the tax amounted to 16s. 9d., and this on a single ream of the coarsest paper, the cost of which, exclusive of the duty, would be about 1/. 7s. ; so that the duty was, in reality, above 60 per cent. —Preston Guardian. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY.—A 13i11 is about to be introduced into Parliament for making a branch railway from the London and Blackwall Railway to Haydon square, Whitechapel, and for granting certain powers to the London and North-Western Company with reference thereto, and another Bill at the same time for extending the time limited for widening the Loudon and Blackwell Railway, and for making the branches to the London and St. Katherine's Docks, tor erecting a station and other works at Rodeswell, in the parish of St. Anne, and for amending the Acts relating to the said railway. The first-mentioned Bill contains 22 sections or clauses, and the latter Bill 15 clauses, on the vari ous points contained in the said enactesents. ROCHESTER, MARCH I.—As several labourers were engaged yesterday morning in pulling down some houses, in order to clear the ground for making the approaches for the new bridge in course of construction at Rochester, one of the walls suddenly gave way, burying two of the men in the ruins. No time was lost in extricating them, but when found one was dead, and the other so severely injured that his lite is despaired of. We have reason to repose every confidence in the accuracy of our information, when we state, that the imme diate termination of the crisis will be the return of the late Ministry, with possibly one or two exceptions, to office—it being distinctly understood between Lord John Russell and Sir James Graham, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Sydney Herbert, and one or two others of the leading men among the Peel party, that when the Papal Aggression Bill has become the law of the land, they will join the Russell Ministry, which will then become a Coalition Cabinet. The Papal Bill is the only im pediment to the chiefs of the Peel party accepting office at once. It is a curious fact, that they are, to a man, more or less deeply tainted with Tractarianism. Some of them, in deed, are actual Romanists, though still retaining the Pro testant name.—.Aicertiser. The Earl of Clarendon is hourly expected in Lon don, from Dublin. THE REPRESENTATION OP GREENWICH.—We derstand that during the past week two private meetings have been held at the offices of a legal gentleman in Green wich to secure the return of Admiral Dundee, our present Member, and another gentleman. The latter is an inhabit ant of the borough, but we refrain from further remark until another opportunity.—Kentish Mercury. THE SOCIETY OF ANCIENT BRITONS.—The anni• versary festival of this valuable institution took place on Saturday evening, at the Freemason's Tavern, and, as from the strong nationality which Welshmen still cherish might have been expected, the natives of the principality in London mustered in great strength upon the occasion. The festivi ties of the evening were presided over by Colonel Rice Trevor, and were greatly promoted by the excellent enter tainment provided, and by the efforts of a well-selected party of vocalists. From the secretary's report for the past year we collect, that since the establishment of the schools sup ported by the society, 2,045 boys and 590 girls have been clothed, educated, maintained, and permanently provided for thereby. The number of children now supported by the charity is 200. They made their appearance in the dining hall, and their healthy looks, combined with the effective manner in which they sung, no doubt acted as a powerful stimulant to the benevolent feelings of the company. DEATH OF A WELL-KNOWN CHARACTER AT SEL-. KlRK.—Alexander Ross, better known by the familiar soubri quet of Highland Sandy, the itinerant piper, died on the 13th inst., in the 99th year of his age. He was originally from Ross-shire—his parents having been many years under Ross of Balnagowan. lie left his native highland home at the age of 35, when he entered the marine service, in which he continued 13 years. During the next six years we find him labouring as a farm servant ; but this mode of life seems to have ill suited his roving propensities—for from this period up to the closing scene at Selkirk his life was no longer of a private but public character, being well known over all the border, as well as other counties of Scotland, as an old rem nant of that wandering minstrel band, whose thrilling strains used to resound through the halls of our forefathers, and to which we ourselves never listen without calling forth remi niscences of the olden times. In the land of the Sassanach, far from the Highland mountains, and the scenes of his youth ful days, this son of the Gael slumbers in the churchyard of Selkirk. —Kelso Chronicle. APPALLING SUICIDE AT CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL. —Yesterday (Sunday) afternoon, about half-past one, a most Hospital, act of su i c id e was comm itt e d a t Ch ar i ng - cross Hospital, under the following melancholy circumstances : The unfortunate individual was a person by the name of Samuel Bridges, aged about 30, and was well known in the sporting world as a jockey. Mr. H. Lingham, the house surgeon, states that he had been a patient for the last six months, but had nearly recovered, and, in point of fact, was about being discharged. Although he showed considerable despondency of late, he exhibited no symptoms of derange ment, such as to induce the least suspicion that he might destroy himself. At the usual hour he declined taking dinner with the other patients, and was observed to go to the window (on the third floor). He then took off his coat, looked out into the street for a minute or two; in another moment they saw him precipitate himself from the window, lodging for a few seconds on the abutment of the second floor, and then falling on his face into the area. The de ceased had previously destroyed all his letters and documents. When picked up there were symptoms of life, but ere his re moval to the ward he gasped and expired. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—The splendid spectacle of Azael ; or, The Prodigal, still continues its bril liant career. Amongst the numerous fashionables who visited the theatre on Saturday evening were the Marquis of Done gal, Duke of Devonshire, Duchess of Cleveland, Viscount Canning, Lord De Tabley, Baron Parke, Earl of Glengall, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Marquis of Nor manby, Viscount Canterbury, Sir B. Graham, Captain Fre mantle, &e. MIDDLESEX HOSPlTAL.—Yesterday morning a sermon in aid of the above hospital was preached by the Rev. J. H. Gurney, M.A., before several members of the late Government and a very crowded congregation, at St. Mary's Church, Bryanston-square. The Rev. Preacher, taking for his text "The rich and the poor shall meet together,' de livered a very impressive discourse, and eloquently pleaded in behalf of the institution. Having adverted to the length ened existence of the Middlesex Hospital, the high repute which it held for medical and surgical skill, the fact of 2,559 indoor and 11,38 , outpatients having been treated during the last year, and the consequent claim the charity had upon the sympathy of the benevolent, a collection was made amounting to between 901. and 1001. The Right Hon. the Speaker entertained at dinner, on Saturday, th e f o ll ow i ng M em b ers o f th e H ouse o f Com mons :.--Lord Kildare, Lord Ashley, Lord Jocelyn, Lord Clarence Paget, Mr. Sydney Herbert, Mr. Henry Goulburn, Sir James Graham, Mr. T. d'ryncourt, Mr. Edward Ellice, Mr. Vernon Smith, Sir George Clerk, Mr. James Stuart Wortley, Mr. Henry Tuffnell, Mr. Henry Fitzroy, Sir Charles Lemon, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir John Young, Sir Robert Price, Colonel Romilly, Mr. Wrightson, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Wilson Patten, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Harcourt. The Marquis of Douro and Lord Ernest Bruce were prevented from attending. REPRESENTATION or MARYLEBONE.—DETERMINA's TION TO RETURN THE BOROUGH MEMBERS FREE OF Ex- PUNSE.—On Saturday evening a numerous meeting of the East Pancras Parochial Association was held at the Glebe Tavern, Derby-street, King's-cross, for the purpose of con sidering the present representation of the borough, and the propriety of according in the resolution passed at the great meeting of the rate-payers held on Tuesday evening at the vestry rooms, determining on returning the present Mem bers for the borough, Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, free of expense. The following resolution was unanimously carried : That this meeting having the most perfect con fidence in the conduct of our much-respected representatives, Sir B. Hall and Lord Dudley Stuart, pledges itself to use their utmost exertions to secure their return, in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, free of expense." It was resolved to forward copiesito the secretary of the St. Marylebone Ratepayers' Protection Association and the Parochial Com mittee of Marylebone, as also to Mr. E. W. Gooch, the se cretary of the Paddington Association, asking their concur rence and co-operation. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—The profes sor of chemistry to this institution, Mr. J. H. Pepper, has just commenced his second lecture on the curious principle tire, which, although it did not display so many brilliant and astonishing experiments, yet is more adapted to interest the various classes who visit this place, by the philosophical spirit with which it abounds. The professor entered at great length into the examination of ignition and combus tion, and after demonstrating the bidden source of fire, and obtaining, or rather evoking, heat from solids, fluids, and gases by condensation, by squeezing or contracting matter like water from a sponge, the term ignition came under consideration ; its derivation, heat or fire, was shown to be correct by various experiments. Some gun cotton placed in a jar of carbonic acid gas could not be ignited by a lighted taper, the lecturer in vain endeavoured to bring the fire in contact with it, because the gas directly extinguished the flame, but a red-hot poker being merely ignited matter was not affected by the noxious gas and immediately forced the explosive compound. Many highly amusing and bril liant experiments were exhibited during the course of the lecture, which appeared to be greatly relished by a numer ous audience. Captain Rolles, of the ship New Liverpool, against whom a warrant f manslaughter was issued some months sipce, in consequence of the death of some Lascars on board his shi p, was apprehended on Friday at Southampton, MINISTERIAL CRISIS. SPIRIT of , the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—This is the eleventh day of a Ministerial crisis. A whole month of the session has been thrown away, and besides all kinds of horrors looming in the horizon, the agreeable arrangement of three months for Parliamentary work, and three months for the Exhibition in Hyde-park, is now utterly hopeless. Though it must be confessed that the public at large endures the suspense with an almost stoical apathy, there are people who feel some anxiety to know the present results, if any, of the crisis, and for their sake we will attempt to state them. All our conclusions, however, must be offered with one important reserve. Since Friday evening the crisis has rested with the invincible and impe netrable Duke, who my, or may not, have some plan of his for extricating the nation from its difficulties. He may suc ceed in reducing the Government apple of discord to a pa latable form, which shall answer all purposes and offend no body. He may, by the • weight of his advice, induce Sir Robert Peel's friends and Lord John Russell's colleagues to forego their differences and form a joint Cabinet for the good of the public. He may effect reconciliations in other quar ters. At all events be is not the man to let an occasion slip through his fingers. But, putting him out of the question ; and looking only to what is decided and known, what is our present position ? In the first place, it is very clear, from the explanations of last Friday night, that the Protectionists have no chance of forming a Government with the present House of Commons. Lord Stanley has described the utter hopelessness of the attempt with a fidelity which is candour in him, but would have been ha. pertinence in an opponent. So anxious was his Lordship to impress on his hearers the poverty of his materials, that he scarcely escaped a tinge of satire, and has almost left on re cord a parallel to Sir John Falstaff's narrative of his march through Coventry. Much has been said lately of " candid friends," but the part of a " candid leader" had yet to be illustrated—that omission has been supplied by Lord Stan ley. As his colleagues are some of them incompetent, some of them too busy about their own affairs, and some of them too modest, and as nobody else will come forward to supply brains, tongue, or hands, to the dull carcass of Protection, he is confessedly unable to provide us with a Government at this moment, In the order of events a Russell-Graham Cabinet was the next alternative. Whether any previous differences might have been got over, or not, the speeches of Sir James Graham and Lord Aberdeen on Friday night have interposed an insurmountable obstacle in the way of a union. Both these statesmen have now spoken of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill and the movement out of doors not only with censure, but with absolute disgust, and declare themselves averse to any legislatioe of this kind. As there is no other visible alternative, the revolution of the political wheel brings the Whigs once more to the top, and there seems no doubt of their trying it on again. The first thing, however, that strikes one is, that they will be exactly in the same condition as they were a fortnight ago. They will have the same, or rather an increased number of Pro tectionists arrayed against them, and the same number of Irish Roman Catholic Members ready to throw themselves into the anti-Ministerial scale. They will be liable to the same pressure from the Radical party, with the same dis position on the part of their own friends, and all 'the rest of the House, to let them fight their own battles on Parliamen tary reform, and posssbly on some other equally interesting questions. No possible modification of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill will propitiate the frantic Irishmen, though it may alienate some Protestant supporters. As for a mere recon struction of the Cabinet out of the old Whig materials, that will only be another symptom of weakness and another ground of attack. Sir Charles Wood might have devised a more captivating Budget, but we doubt whether any Budget whatever would have escaped, a storm of opposition from some quarter, if not from all quarters. As for the colonies, though a good tempered Secretary might give them a chance, we believe that they cannot, and will not, he governed without an occasional disturbance. So we cannot hold out any hope of peace and quiet, if the late Adminis tration should simply resume its performance, with a some what different cast, and with, perhaps, one cr two principal parts given to new hands from the same school as the old ones. But, as there must be a Government, and as this case ' of suspended animation is beginning to look awkward, it is time to look out for suggestions. One proposal has been gaining ground for the last two or three days, that not only promises to meet the difficulty, but seems to be almost un avoidable. It is proposed to refer the whole subject of Papal aggression to a Select Committee. Of course, this looks ominious of delay, of flagging zeal, of growing discretion, and perhaps of final indifference; yet there are not a few circumstances that point in this direction. It is admitted by Lord John Russell, that without modification the pre sent Bill will interfere with that religious liberty which he has no wish to disturb. A large section of the public, among whom we must reckon ourselves, think it mere pedantry to include Ireland :n the operation of the Bill. The Protectionist chief, and many others of that body, think that Papal aggression will be much more effec tually met by a series of legislative checks, adapted from time to time to the overt acts of the Roman Catholic com munity. Much deliberation would be necessary to meet all these views, and that deliberation would be given with far less scandal to religion, and far more chance of success, in a Select Committee than in the more public arena of the House. The dignity of the Crown woad be not the less effectually vindicated by a leisurely defence; and mean while the ordinary legislation of the country might proceed. That is the case of this proposal, and, without having a strong opinion about it one way or another, we must allow that it deserves consideration. This, however, would only re. con stitutional weakness of the Ministry ant. the rising hopes move a temporary obstruction, and would leave the of the Protectionists without alteration. That weak ness can only be cured by stronger men and stronger measures. If Lord John Russell could attach to himself some of those men who possess the conficence of the more liberal section of the Legislature, he would not find that section acting so independently and so inconveniently—pur suing its objects in season and out of season, and inflicting defeat, as it did last Thursday week, at the most critical mo ment to his fortunes. As to stronger measures, we need only point to one which would both secure the eetter co-operation of the party just described, and also cut avay the last hopes of the Protectionists. They boast that a general election will give them a clear majority of 30 votes, with which they will ride into power, and impose a moderate fixed duty on foreign grain. For their own sake, as well as for the sake of the country, they ought not to be alloyed to cherish this delusion. But surely Lord John Russell must now see how nearly he has escaped, if, indeec, he has escaped, a dissolution, and how absolutely necessary it is that the next general election should take place under the safest possible conditions. Without particular re ference to Mr. Locke King's plan, it is evident that a large extension of the county constituencies it necessary to make the House of Commons a proper representation of the intel ligent people of this country. The Irish Roman Catholics reckon on returning sixty members of their communion into our next Parliament, and if the British Protestants gain even a respectable minority, they will soon be able, with their Irish auxiliaries, to push the Whig Government into a cor ner. Self-preservation, then, demands that the new Parlia mentary Reform Bill, which Lord John has long had in con templation, and of which he had prepared a draft before the present session, should be introduced forthwith, with as little delay as possible. We are speaking, of course, off the book at the present moment, as no man livingcan say what advice the Duke of Wellington will tender to her Majesty this morning; but, assuming that he will not advise the rejection of Lord John Russell's services, we beg to suggest the first use he should make of his fresh lease of power. HERALD.—We have no doubt as to the deep disappoint ment and as to the unfeigned grief with which the agricul turists of the empire will have receives the unwelcome in telligence that Lord Stanley has failed in forming an admi nistration.,Their regret, we feel sure, will be fully shared by all the members of two most important professions, by every independent member of the bar, and ty every honest, and true-hearted British seaman. We can state, without fear of contradiction, that Lord Stanley, in endeavouring to con struct his Cabinet, solicited as Lord Chancellor the most pro found lawyer, and the most deeply-learned equity judge that has graced the bar since the days of Lord Coke. Whether we regard Sir Edward Sugden in his private or in his public capacity, we feel assured that the most virulent opponent cannot substantiate one fair or legitimate charge against him, which can in the slightest degree detract from his high and unblemished reputation as a lawyer, as a judge, and as a gentleman. His conduct as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, at two distinct periods of holding that office each peculiarly distinguished from the other by the cir cumstances nevertheless, peculiarly ms tan in ces di s o p f o s i h n gis ofp t a h r t e y b us a i n n d ess marked by his unflinching energy ct'of°fhis own situation, his court—an energy only equalled by the justice and the unexampled success of his decisions. The spirit which he displayed in reforming abuses was followed by the fairness with which he exerted it; while he only looked to the merits and services of those whom he rewarded. He never exercised his patronage to serve party purposes, or to gratify sectarian antagonism. The Court of Chancery, in England, stands in need of speedy and effectual reform, which has been long talked about, which has been even mooted, nay, more than once attempted ; but we despair of seeing it effectually grappled with, much less successfully accomplished, unless the task should fall to such a Lord Chancellor as Sir E. Sugden would make—the only lawyer in the empire capable and willing to carry out such a inform effectually, honestly, and triumphantly. The other appointment to which we alluded is that of First Lord of the Admiralty. We believe we are correct in stating that that high post was offered by Lord Stanley to and ac cepted by the Duke of Northumberland. The administration of the office by his Grace, under the peculiar circumstances of the times, would have been most acceptable to the profession of which he is a distinguished member, and in which he has attained the high rank of a flag officer. At the same time the exalted station to which he has succeeded since he left active service in the navy, and the unbounded weafth which he in herited, place him far above the suspicioneof undue favouritism or unworthy partiality, to which a man of inferior rank, who merely occupied the post of First Lord of the Admiralty from being a naval officer, might be subjected, however unde servedly. As a zealous officer, who for years followed the profession from choice, and from the honest admiration of its high utility and national importance, his Grace has all the knowledge which the head of the department requires, but for which, on a first instalment in office, a First Lord is ge nerally obliged to be indebted to the kindness of others ; while, as Duke of Northumberland, he carries with him that weight and that authority which high private character and exalted station combined cannot fail to confer. hourly Ministerial changes whichA DV w E e have ADVERTISER.—Amid IS ER— . witnessed d d during never for a moment relnquis.hthe ed the belief, th at Lord John Russell is destined to be aga in p ri ncipal adviser of her Majesty. And however va ried ma y be the phases which the " situation" may yet assum e befor e the final arrangement, we adhere more strongly tha n ever to the opinion, that Lord John Russell is proximate as well as past Premier. In the A m ther n prospect of seeing the Noble Lord again a t t h e head of the councils of his Sovereign, it is devoutly to be wished that he would definitively determine on what course of policy he will adopt. The wonderful alacrity which he displays in abandoning positions which he had taken up, and changing the policy which he had announced his determination to pursue, have done more to damage his Ministerial character, than even those finality speeches which :have brought so much obloquy upon him. We invited attention, on Saturday, to the changes which the Noble Lord's views bad undergone,within the pre vious day or two, on the question of the Papal aggression. We affirmed on Friday, and now repeat the statement, that after he had been a second time summoned to Buckingham Palace, to receive her Majesty's commands to construct a new Cabinet, it was his full determ ination either to introduce a new Papal Bill, or to give greater . stringency to some of the provisions of the measure which before the Hons e . The Noble Lord admits, through his evening organ, that the pre sent Bill was a compromise to conciliate om e o f hi s col leagues, whose Tractarian tendencies are notorious to all who are acquainted with them. And now, that the dis so l u tion of his Ministry has released him from the obligations he had come under, he was to introduce a measuremore in accord ance with his speech on the introduction of the Bill. But i mme di ate l y a ft er this resolution had been formed,ithe Noble Lord is brought by some means or other into contact with Popish influences; and because, forsooth, Dr. Murray, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, whom the ex - Premier regards as a very mild and moderate man, thinks the Papal Aggression Bill rather stringent, he not only abandons th e id e a of MONDAY EVENING, giving greater stringency to the measure, but consents to make certain modifications in it. We witness—according to the Noble Lord's own confessions—similar vacillation and change, in his conduct with regard to the extension of the franchise. Many of our readers, we are sure, will remember, that about three months ago, we announced in the most posi tive terms, that Ministers had determined, immediately on the re-assembling of Parliament, to introduce a measure for the extension of the franchise. We expressed our doubts as to the adequacy of the intended measure to meet the exi gencies of the case, but still we attached importance to it, as a distinct and deliberate recognition on the part of Government of the principle, that an enlargement of the electoral circle was necessary. Our information we knew to come from the very best source. The paragraph in which we made the announcement, was copied into scores of the public journals. Parliament re-assembles, and there is not only no intimation in the Queen's Speech of any intended measure for an extension of the franchise, but Lord John Russell takes the earliest opportunity which is afforded him to apprise Parliament and the public, that he has no such measure in contemplation. The natural conclusion to which the country must have come, on hearing the announcement from the Noble Lord, must have been, that we had been mis informed respecting the Ministerial intentions as to the ex , tension of the electoral qualification. And yet it is now proved by the lips of the Noble Lord himself, that we were per fectly right. In his speech on Friday, Lord John Rus sell explicitly stated, that not only had he and his colleagues made up their minds to introduce a measure for the exten sion of the franchise immediately on the meeting of Parlia ment, but that he himself, with his own hand, had actually drawn up the heads of the Bill. For soma reason or other, however, a change afterwards came over the spirit of the Noble Lord, and there is, after all, to be no measure this session for the extension of the franchise. Now, is not this infirmity of purpose in the Prime Minister of a great country like England, without his being able to assign any reason for the change, truly deplorable? Nothing can be more damaging to the character of a sublic man, than to witness, in his conduct on important questions, changes for which no reason is given, but which, on the contrary, appear to be the result of mere caprice. If Lord John Russell, in the anticipated contingency of his re turn to power, would wish to prolong his tenure of 'official life,—if he would win the esteem, and command the confidence of the country, he will at once take the ground of high principle, with a firm deter mination neither to be seduced by the blandishments of one class of persons, nor diverted by the menaces of another, from the course of policy which he has chalked out for him self. If the existing perplexities should be productive of no other beneficial result, than that of demonstrating the utter impossibility of the Conservative party to construct a Minis try, much less carry on the government of the country, the price which we have paid will scarcely be too high for so great a good. Lord John Russell must now see his way much more clearly than before. He will no longer stand in daily dread of being overthrown by Lord Stanley in the one House, or Mr. Disraeli in the other. He cannot, therefore, have any excuse for vacillation or indecision. Let him but act in accordance with his convictions of what is right ; let him take high ground, and keep it, regardless of all opposi tion, and the new Russell Administration will be one of the strongest Governments which has existed during the present century. DAILY NEWS.—Very considerable light has been thrown upon the nature and the working of constitutional go vernment amongst us by the speeches of Lord Stanley and of other Lords and Honourable Gentlemen in explanation of their conduct during the present Ministerial crisis. Lord Stanley, in enumerating the difficulties which prevented his forming a Government, put forward as the greatest, the cir cumstance that although he numbered so very large a pro portion of the House of Commons as his adherents, amongst them was but one who had official experience. In conse quence Lord Stanley could not fill the Ministerial bench in the House of Commons with members of his Cabinet capable of decorously and efficiently opposing, even for a short time, a hostile majority. We may here observe, that of all the men upon Lord Stanley's list, the most incapable was pre cisely the individual with official experience. It follows, from what Lord Stanley said, that no one is thought worthyof being a Minister save a man who has served his poli tical apprenticeship in some of the great parties. But Whigs and Tories confining their patronage to the aristocracy, it is a mere chance if one or two men capable cf inferior rank are allowed to beini tiated in the mysteries of office. These are easily interested and bound up siith the great parties that have advanced them, and the consequence is that British statesmanship is as much a monopoly as any of the old guilds or corporations which existed centuries ago, which perpetuated their nar rowness and their imbecility by self-election. We have . striking examples in the Cabinet just defunct of the kind a politicians which this system has saddled on the nation. We do not want to assail men who have fallen, or single out in dividuals as objects of attack. But it is quite evident, that very many of the departments of Government were in the hands of worn-out or incapable men, who would never have held such places but for their connexions, and in whom that connexion has supplied the place of capacity and youth. It is in this way, indeed, that the old aristocratic parties have always fallen. When some time in possession of office, all advancement, even the b oon o f apprent i cesh i p, has b een given to a young generation, ill chosen and unable to sup port the weight of the office. Whilst the party in opposition recruited talent with more facility and surety. Peel was perhaps the only leading statesman who turned the time and the patronage of ascendancy and office to recruit a party; and this he did so effectually that the party whom he formed and left behi n d, i s p ower f u l o f i tse lf and of its very capacity, though a l mos t w ith ou t principle, or without any clear connexion with either coun try or commercial interests. But of what use would these members be, had not Peel favoured them with office? No thing save Peel's choice and favour, then, has made states men of them. For we cannot consider Messrs. Sidney Her bert and Cardwell any cleverer men than thousands who have not chanced to have those advantages. The fact, then, is, upwards of twenty years after the Reform Bill, that mere patronage and connexion, though somewhat more restricted than of old in the fabrication of legislators, forms a greater monopoly than ever of the manufacture of Ministers. The people have evidently no choice in the matter. Nor has talent any power. Men like those who set on foot the league agitation, and carried the abrogation of the corn-laws, they have died in the breach they stormed, and have been un serviceable since. Why—because by the very act they dis pleased the magnates who dispense power, and who deem and avow that men thus raised to eminence by the popular voice would prove troublesome Members of a Cabinet, would disturb its unanimity, and offend its gentility. Now, we say at once that the country !will not much longer stand this system. It will not look on and see for years Sir John Hobhouse entrusted with the affairs of our Indian empire, and Sir Charles Wood lord of our finances, their sole claim being their connexion or their ap prenticeship, whilst such men as Hume, Cobden, Charles Villiers, Roebuck, Bright, and Gibson are scouted as the Pariah of official life. If it is the principle of the unanimity and friendly binding together of a Cabinet that is the cause of this—and we believe this, rather than any mean jealousy, to be the real cause—it will be for the country to consider whether the whole system of governing by a Cabinet may not be wrong, and whether se parate responsibility might not be established for the chiefs of the different departments of Government. Of what use is the voice of a subordinate Minister on the question of finance for example, which he never studies? Why should a Home Secretary be displaced by a blunder in foreign poli tics, and so on? But above all things it is neces sary that the public and the Sovereign should have a large field of choice. There are but two or three men in the empire to whom at present it would be thought wise to entrust the management of the Foreign- office. We will be bound to say that such was the prevailing maxim in France up to 1830. But since then the most successful ministers of foreign affairs were men who never entered the office, till they entered it as Ministers. M. Guizot and M. Thiess were supposed to be sufficiently fitted for it by historic studies and some Parliamentary expe rience. General Lahitte proved no unsuccessful or inapt Minister; yet he left the head of a regiment to guide the legions of diplomacy. Seeing these examples, we cannot but look upon Lord Stanley's declaration that he saw no one in his party to whom he could give foreign affairs as a very great insult, especially to such a man as Mr. Disraeli. What in the world is the British empire to do, when in a few years Lord Aberdeen and Lord Palmerston are past the age of hold ing office? The rising or risen generation are evidently considered incapable of bearing the burdens of these men. Those of the present day are pigmies compared with the great of the past. And it is not one party that utters, but all who echo this twaddle of aristocratic and official mo nopoly, which will neither itself raise and educate fit candi dates for power, nor allow the popular voice to discover and provide them. Lord Aberdeen and Sir James Graham made long speeches the other day to say, that although they would adopt an extension of suffrage, they would still not influence, or any such extension as would weaken lordly or disturb the present balance of the constitution. In the same breath with this declaration they gave their assent to the establishment of a Roman Catholic hierarchy, with car dinals, and legates, and synods, out-topping and over-ruling the Protestant Church. Why, that is a more serious abroga tion of the constitution than any extension of the suffrage. Allowing the Pope to nominate dignitaries, independent of the Sovereign, rivals of the Peers, enforcing tem poral obsequiousness by spiritual authority, this is a greater breach of our territorial constitution than universal suffrage itself can be. But these men would grant to the Pope of Rome what they would not cede to the people of England. They will have no extension of suffrage which will prevent a few lordly houses and a corporation of official pundits from monopolising Ministerial power, and perpetua ting it in their caste, but they will allow a foreigner to establish an absolute and uncontrolled dominion over one third of the population of England. They will look on, see this done, declare the powerlessness of the law to resist it, and then call this toleration. And this forsooth is the Liberal party of the day. Verily, it is time for the people to tell us what they consider a popular policy. It is time for them to declare in what direction they would have Liberalism move ; time for them to have a voice not merely in the men who pay for their beer at elections, but the men who actually govern, who impose taxes, and who can let loose or restrict the public liberties. Al A it C 11 3, lB5l. THE EXHIBITION. in Chesham-place. The Noble Lord was: summoned from the dinner table to L assdowne-house. — COU RT CIRCULA.R. The Duke of 'Wellington had an audience of the Queen at half-past two o'clock on Saturday afternoon ar. Buckingham Palace. Later in the afte moon the Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience cf her Majesty. Yesterday morning the Marquis of Lansdowne had an audience of the Queen. Lord John Russell had an audience of her Majesty yesterday afternoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen on Saturday, and partook of luncheon with her Ma jesty and Prince Albert. Her Majesty's private band attended at the Palace after dinner on Saturday, .and performed the following selection : Overture, " Bohemian Girl" ... . . Terzetto, "Crude Solrte" Duetto, " Die Lnstigem Welber von Windsor" Otto .Nicolai. Triumphal March The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the garden of Buckingha m Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess I loyal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, took thel r accustomed exercise yesterday in the garden of the Palace. Her Majesty and h is Royal Eighness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses tL e Prince of 'Wales and the l'rincess Royal, the Ladies am I Gentlemen of the Com t, and the do mestic household, att ended divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hen. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Lord Alfred Paget (Clerk Marshal) has relieved Lord Charles Fitzroy in hi; 3 dnties as Equerry in Waiting to the Queen, and Colonel Bi niverie has relieved Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon in his duties as Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Mr. Ker Hamilton, Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada, at tended the Queen's Levee on Wednesday last. Her Royal High nes s the Duchess of Kent left Frogmen! on Saturday morn ng for Kew, and paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duch ess of Cambridge. Her Royal Highness afterwards proceeded to town. In the afternoon the Royal Duchess left Clarence -house, St. James's, attended by Lady Fanny Howard and Eir George Cooper, on her return to Frogin o re The Duke of Werlington arrived in town on Saturday from his seat Strathfieldsaye, Hants. Tha Noble Duke attended the early service yesterday in the Royal Chapel, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended the daily service in the Clapel Royal. The prayers were read by the Rev. J. Themes, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Wesley. The anthem was, " I will sing of Thy power." Mr. G. Cooper presided at the organ. Sir Thomas Redingt on had an interview with Sir Geolgne Grey on Saturday at the Home-office. Mr. Spooner, M.P., had also an intery iew with the Right Hon. Baronet. Dispatches were sent of on Saturday from the Colonial office to the Gove:more of the West India Islands. The name of Mat jor-General D'Aguilar was omitted in the list of presentation s at the Queen's Levee, on the occasion of the Major-General's appointment to the Colonelcy of the 23d Regiment of Roya I Welsh Fusiliers. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES MA/ CCU 2. MODELS OF FRIGATES, YACHTS, AND STEAMERS.—We last week noticed the launch of a splendid steamer for the Turkish Government, constructed by the Messrs. White, of this town. The public will be glad to learn in these ex citing times of daft race between England and America, that that talented family is on the gui wive, and are preparing a series of models, China clippers and others, to form a new class of merchant ships, and which are destined to be exhi bited at the Crystal Palace at the ensuing exhibition of the world's industry. There can be no mistake that our little Island bears the palm in ship-building, both in her Majesty's navy and mercantile marine, as it does of, her phantom ships, which may be fund in every Royal Yacht Club. Mr. Joseph White is al: so preparing models of all the ships he has built and altered f0:.7 the Government, including the renowned Phaeton, the Watei7witch, the Daring, the Contest, and Ter magant, with those of the altered bows of the Amphion and Fox frigates; also a few specimens of his schooner and cutter yachts. Th.?. Queen Victoria schooner, built for the Emperor of Russia, the schooner Constance for the Marquis of Conyngham, am' the cutter Lavrock, now building in his yard for Captain C.. Hamlyn Williams, R.N. ; also a model of a schooner, desi fined to compete with the Yankee clipper yacht which is to .astonish " the Britishers." We understand that Mr. Thomas White, of Gosport, is also " up and doing," so that the talents .o 1 a whole family will be exhibited for the honour of their country. Independent of this branch of service, the island will not be backward in sending forth specimens of her and ustry and manufactures. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Lord John Russell has been again sent for by her Majesty. The Noble Lord had an interviewiwith the Sovereign yester day afternoon. On Saturday, at half-past two o'clock, the Duke of Wellington arrived at Buckingham Palace, in obedience to the command of the Sovereign. His Grace came from Strathfieldsaye, where he had entertained the Judges and the bar of the Western Circuit on the previons evening. The Noble Duke had a lengthened conference with the Queen. At five o'clock on Saturday the Queen summoned the Marquis of Lansdowne to the Palace. The Noble Marquis was not at home when the Royal summons arrived at:Lans downe House, but immediately upon his return his Lord ship proceeded to the Palace. The Noble Marquis was ad mitted to an audience by the Queen, and remained in con sultation with her Majesty for nearly an hour. Lord John Russell arrived at Lansdowne House shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday evening, and had an interview with the Marquis of Lansdowne. The Duke of Newcastle received a visit from the Marquis of Lansdowne on Saturday. Yesterday morning the Marquis of Lansdowne waited upon the Queen at Buckingham Palace, and had an audience of her Majesty. The Noble Marquis afterwards called upon Lord John Russell, at his private residence in Chesham-place. At four o'clock Lord John Russell proceeded to the Palace and had an audience of the Sovereign. The Noble Lord re mained in conference with her Majesty more than an hour. Sir George Grey and Sir Charles Wood paid visits to Lord John Russell yesterday. A communication from her Majesty the Queen was for warded to Lord John Russell last evening. The " Peel" party were very busy yesterday. The Duke of Newcastle and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Mr. Cardwell, and other leading members of this section of politicians , met a t the residence of Sir James Graham, in Grosvenor-place, and had a long conference. Sir James Graham subsequently visited the Earl of Aber deen, at Argyll-house. Lord John Russell entertained a large party of members of the llouse of Commons on Saturday evening, at his residence NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The Admiralty h :Iva ordered the Comet steam-vessel, in charge of Mr. Yule, master, to proceed from Tobermory to Edinburgh, to be at the disposal of Sir John M'Neile, con nected with the adn iiniatration of the poor-law. RECOMXISSIONING• THE PAINCE REGENT AT PORTSMOUTH. —The new appointments for this ship, recommissioned for the red pendant of Commodore Martin, have been issued. Captain Harris has been selected as flag-captain. The selec tion of so able an of ficer and experienced sailor reflects groat credit on the nominator. The other appointments are : Commander—Henry Caldwell (1847), who has served in the Powerful, 84, during her commission, vice Fead, who, it ' is said, will be appointed to the command of a sloop. Lieutenants—(4. W. Preedy (1844), late additional, to be first lieutenant, vice Barnard, promoted ; Thomas Brandreth (1845), for gunnery duties, a new appointment as second, vice Egerton, appointed flag-lieutenant to the commodore ; John B. Scott (1844), new appointment; Robert B. Beale (1846), new appointment; C. S. Waddilove (1849), late additional. Master—Richard Sto keg, re-appointed. Surgeon—James Sale lon (1840), vice Dr. G. Burn. Paymaster—A. Sugden (1822), vice Cotteril, to be socre. tary to the commodore. Assistant-Surgeon—lDr. William Macleod, re-appointed. Second Master—Rob.ert L. Cleveland, re-appointed. Captain Alexander h lurray (1829) has been appointed to study steam at Woolwich. Commander George Lavie, who was promoted in No vember, 1 846, from command of the Flamer, steam-vessel, in the Mediwrranean, has been appointed to the command of the Alecto., steam-vessel, fitting at Woolwich for the coast of Africa, Commander:Rowlett having declined the appoint ment. Commander William Ellis has been appointed from the Greenhithe coast-guard station to the Exmouth district as inspecting commander, vice Thomas Edmond Symons, re moved to the Dublin district, vice William Neame, removed to Greenhithe, vice Ellis. Lieutenants—R. B. Miller (1837) to the Impregnable, 78, flag-ship, Devonport ; Alexander Charles Birtwhistle to command the St. Alban's Head coast-guard station, vice Mr. Gibbon, previously removed. Masters--Frederick John Kent to command No. 2 Battery coast-guard station, Dungeness, vice Mr. J. K. White, re moved ; Richard A. Burstall to be in command of a station. Captain William Maclean (1841), died last week. He was ninth son of Colonel Alexander Maclean, of Ardgour, by the Lady Margaret Hope, daughter of the second Earl of 'dope toun. He entered the navy in 1823, in the Briton, obtained his lieutenant's commission in 1830 ; served in the Success, 28 ; Calcutta, 84 ; Blonde, 46 ; Britannia, 120; and was promoted for flag-.lieutenant to Sir F. Mason, in the Mediter • ranean, Nov. 1841. He commanded the Apollo troop-ship for about eghteen _months, and then was appointed to the command of the Cruiser, 15, in the East Indies, from which ship he was promoted. He married, August 30, 1838, Eliza beth, only daughter of the late T. Melet Charter, Esq., of Lynchfield House, Somerset. Lieutenant James John Harrington Groves, late of Brad ford, Wilts, and eldest son of the late Captain Groves, R.N., died Nov. 27, on board the Salamander steam-sloop, whilst on her voyage to China. He was appointed as cadet to the Agincourt, 72, in 1841; was in China at the close of the war, and afterwards engaged in New Zealand at the taking or Koweti's pah, under a severe fire of the natives. He also assisted in taking surveys of the coast, which have since been transmitted to the Admiralty. He was a . young and promising officer, and his loss is deeply and sincerely la mented by his numerous friends and relatives. . Mr. Samuel Paramore, a clerk of half a century's service in Devonport Dockyard, and who had recently retired, died last week. Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour's flag-ship, Cumber land, 70, Captain Seymour, arrived at Portmouth yesterday at noon, and anchored at Spithead, where she will be paid advanced wages, and receive the flag of the Vice-Admiral, previous to her sailing for the West Indies. As the Earl of Dundonald is to be at Bermuda by the end of this month, to give up the command to Sir George Seymour, the Cumber land, we presume, will not be many days at Spithead. We regret to say the boatswain, Mr. Turnbull, who was injured by a man falling from the rigging on his head, at Gillingham Reach, died at Melville HospitaL The Powerful, 84, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, was towed into harbour from Spithead, this day at noon, by the Echo steam-tug, to alongside the dockyard, to be paid off. As she was coming to the mouth of the harbour, close off Soutbsea beach, the troops of the garrison happened to be returning, on the esplanade on the beach, from their usual Saturday morning's march into the country, and in pasting the bands of the military appropriately struck up " A life on the ocean wave," after which the band on board the Power ful played " Home, sweet home." The effect of the whole, with the troops and the majestic 84-gun ship, just returned from a three years' absence, passing each other at only a few yards distance, being very striking. Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey-, arrived at Devonport from the coast of Africa at 6 30 P.M. on Wednesday evening, and is to proceed eastward to be paid off. She has brought no news. Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the Centaur, steam-frigate, with the Cygnet, 6, Commander Robertson, and the Harlequin, 12, Commander R. Wilmont, were at Sierra Leone, Jan. 28. The Harlequin sailed the 26th for the Bights, to join Cnptain Adam's division. The Kingfisher has brought home some invalids. She has not been par ticularly fortunate in making prizes. The coast was generally healthy. The Kingfisher confirms our previous accounts of the decline of the slave trade. The Kingfisher is ordered to be paid off at Devonport. Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, arrived at Queenstown, on Thursday, to embark troops for the Me d i teranean, the West Indies, North America, &c. on Pandora, 6, Commander Drury, touched at QuS e en,s_tff . n ' Thursday, on her way from Devonport to New',.r . " WOOLWICH, MARCH I.—Rear-Admira l d m n ally, o or e Fite hardinge Berkeley, C. 8., one of the LornclisedofbtyhecAo visited IVoolwich to-day, and accomp heads of the departments, Henry Eden and several of inspected the Banshee, f the Mediterranean steam-vessels,fitting or Lieutenant -Commander Hosken, and the Caradoc station. TherLieutenant- Commander Tu ste Woolwich ain-vesr' to-day,e from the coast of o ur, arrived a Shearwatert Ire land, where she was employed on a tltie this port. surveying service since March, 1848, and is to be paid The Vulcan steam-frigate, blaster-Commander John Penn. w ill l e ave Sheerness on Monday, March 3, for Portsmouth, where she is to embark troops, and then proceed to Cork. The Pyrenee hired convict-ship has arrived at moorings opposite the Royal Arsenal, to take on board male conv i cts for the Swan River settlement. Two of the guards of the Warrior convict-ship go out with the convicts, and will re main at Swan River. The convicts are to receive tickets of leave on arriving at their destination. The Governollo Sardinian steam-frigate, Captain Count Persano, when she discharges the packages qf articles brought over to this country for the Exhibition in Hyde park, intends taking a cruise to the coast of Scotland, that her officers may visit the capital of that country; and they will afterwards visit the most interesting places in the north and east of England, proceeding as f ar as th e Land's-end. Messrs. Maudslay and Field, the makers of her engines, of 450-horse power, went on bo ar d to-day to inspect them, and were much pleased i with their e xce ll en t con diti on , a nd the good working order n which everythi ng connec t e d with them i 5 kept. 1 Captain Johnson, of the compass departm en t, attended on board the Fisgard, flag-ship at this port,: i n t h e afternoon of to-day, to superintend a series of experiments w hi c h are to be carried on with fi ve diff ere nt d escr ip t i ons of binnacle lights. The lights were to be lighted at 6 o'clock, Pat., and continue all night. Lieutenant Robertson attended during the first watch, Lieutenant Gore during the middle watch, and the Second Master of the Fisgard during the third watch. Captain Johnson remained during the evening, and was to go on board at 5 A.M. on Sunday to see the state of the different lights at that hour, and receive the reports of the manner in which they continued to give light during the latter part of the experiment. The testing of the lights will occupy several days before the final report as to the best binnacle light. R Etel.:ooßyoMu under the Sir,—l a TO THE SECRETARY OF- THE BRADFORD go of your being likely when you receiv e thi s to be in possession of new information which may make all I can now report comparativaiy obsolete and unimportant. But there may still be a certain value attaching to the past. Whet is dear :s, that for the pre -eat you are saved. The attempt to advance your interests by bringing back a Protectionist Ministry and a five-sl.illinn dune on to reign coin, has for the present entirely failed. re :;t one has been left unturned to obtain it for you; but for this time you must be resigned to going eithout. If the wind will only bold as it now blows, the poor risen among Sou may sulfil his promise to his danehter of a new gown at Easter, and the rich no longer hetitato about sending his second son to the University. ; tit as the wind is notoriously uncertain, I would eon ieceni mend in me t ier matters a degree of caution. Do not go on with y, or Music-hall, till you see a final end of the project tor securing Free Trade by bringiiie, in a Pro tectionist Ministry. if you do, depend upon it you will never pay for it. or pay for it out en the ae•ee is to your creditors. And if your leading firms ore unwise enough to continue their present speeuletieus bets re this principal point is settled, take care that you of the middling rigid operative classes look the clanger more wisely in the face, and view all this as what must be checked by bankruptcy and the Gazette, securing your temporary gains in Savings Banks or otherwise, against the want and misery which nothing could prevent your friends from bringing upon your heads. Do not believe lam malting a fictitious case. The Member for Montrose on Friday night avowed in his speech that his desire was tb bring in a Protectionist Ministry. So it was for this that a hundred of us were brought up to join in a vote intended and calculated with that object,—a vet) , good vote in its way, but not good when interposed with a purposed design to shut up Bradford work-shops and send their inmates to the poor house. I hope we all feel the extent of our obligation, and shall be the better for the feeling another time. There are things to be borne, and things not to be borne. I tell 3ou plainly, that your leaders are insane. Not with that insanity, which as it is the heaviest of heaven's inflictions, removes responsibility and sinks-all ideas of retribution in commiseration for the sufferer. But with that more dangerous mainly, which is en gendered out of superfluity of activeness and scaetincss of caution, leading men to desert their just spheres of action, and display the misplaced energy which makes a little boy put a hot poker to his Papa's ponder-flask, by way of seeing whether gunpowder will burn. Those who (eight to be defending you, have got other views and other ambitions. They have discovered that they are called to be statesmen, publicists, determiners of nations' quarrels, setters-up tied pullers-down of Minis terial dynasties; and the vulgar office of keeping open a trade in corn and cambrics is grown mean in their eyes, unless as it may be played as a card in this their more interesting game. If any man wants to ;put down the Church, put up the Pope, dismantle the Navy, reduce the Army, remove the Squadron from the Coast of Africa, drink slave-grown Sugar, if ho objects to a Wind ow t ax , House tax, Malt tax, Pepsr tax, Coffee tax, Chicory tax, Income tax, any tax, they are there to enter into partnership. They have souls above corn, and to stop your Bradford trade with a five-shillings duty is like the sufferings of the frog in an air-pump when in the way of these bril liant operators. Or they consider it at most, as a step backwards to be recovered with grace and vigour, in the grand galope they are bent on exhibiting before the public gaze. All this may be sport to them, but it is death to you. Turn it over in the society of your quiet Reading-Room by the Sun Bridge, and sit tmg there with your temperance drinks before you, ask all steady and intelligent men of whatever grade or standing in your industrious community, whether while the trade Of Bradford consists in mak ing the goods which go abroad for foreign corn, the one thing desirable for keeping thin porridge from the working man's table, was not that Free Trade should by any means within human attainment be made to go on smoothly silently while we had it, because every day and every hour was di minishing the interests in favour of stopping Bradford trade, and increasing the interests in favour of maintain ing it. Ask them, whether this is not as plain to man and boy, as that when a patient is passing through the crisis of an illness, it is policy to encourage the rest which is allowing his strength to collect and the causes of danger to subside. And just at this moment it is, that up jumps a medical practitioner, and cries out, " No! Bring back the delirium and the struggle; and when you have beaten them, you will have beaten all. This is the way our school goes about to save life." Bring back a five-shilling duty. Stop Bradford trade, that Bradford men 'Ray have time to attend Anti-Corn-law lectures. Rause up all the dis honest interests in the country, and collect them into one general run upon the trade of Bradford. Men at Bradford are getting fat and pursy ; you have no no:ion how good it would be for their healths to be put on low diet for a few years while we were fighting the Corn law question over again. Goad is no good, but as it is contrasted with evil. The man is miserable who has enough for his family to eat seven days in the week; and here we offer to do our best to cut them down to four. If you wish to prolong the conversation because your hour for separation is not come, collect about the fire such of your friends of the Working Classes as are most anxious for the Extension of the Suffrage, and put be fore them the following case. Their hundred supporters in the House of Commons are called together for one of the annual motions on that subject. The Minister re plies that he has prepared a proposal for next session; and a subordinate member of the Government goes and intimates to the mover, that after that declaration, he will probably not insist on pressing his motion. The moveri s willing, but the leader who avows his desire to introduce a Protectionist Ministry, resists, and the motion is persisted in. There were not ten out of the hundred misguided gentlemen (of whom I was one) who voted on that Occasion, who would have done it if they had known the object with which they had been marshalled. We have been like common soldiers, with our names on a regimental list, and then brought out to fife upon our friends and cousins; as we did on you, when we voted for what was intended to turn out the Ministry that engaged to give Extension to the Suffrage, and bring in a Protectionist one instead. Mr. Wilberforce used to relate, that a beggar once came to the door and asked for food. Some remnant victual was given him, which happened to be vermicelli soup. The poor man returned it meekly and said, " In deed I am very hungry, but I cannot eat broth with mag gots in it." Now I am precisely in that position; I cannot eat broth with maggots in it. It may turn out that I am all wrong, as the poor man was with his vermicelli, and that the true way to benefit Bradford trade would be to bring in a Protectionist Ministry and a five-shilling duty on foreign corn. But till I "know the reason why," I will not go along with what I believe to be insanity of one or other of the kinds attempted to be described. You will expect to receive some statement of what we heard on Friday. Lord J. Russell's account of what had taken place, was minutely accordant with what had been stated by the public journals. He threw out an inti mation, that he was ready to reconsider the Anti-Papal Bill on some points; which may be supposed to have been directed as an invitation to Sir James Graham. He further signified his conviction upon reconsideration, that the majority of 14 on the Pro tection question, and his minority on Mr. Locke King's motion, had net so seriously affected his posi tion as he had thought. And he concluded with the information, that the Duke at Wellington had undertaken the office of Queen's Counsel till a further settlement. At first I thought this meant that the Duke of Wellington was Prime Minister; but nobody else seemed to think so. The D u k e o f Wellington knows a civil position when he sees it, as well as he does a mili tary; so that there is not much danger in his hands. Sir James Graham afterwards rose, and avowed his agree ment with Lord John Russell's Government on the questions of Free Trade and Extension th i e n th u e a r g t e * but declared the impossibility of his joinin g vocation had b il e: - Papal Bill, though he admitted the pre position of affairs great. If it was clear that the present of a Bill through presents no obstacle to the passingha appeared to b e the Parliament, I should agree in _, that the opt 'llion of everybody I coup h upshot of all this is to be, that the Anti - Pupal d Pill is to pass, and then the presen t G ov ernment is to be stren g th ened by • the accession o f Sir James Graham and his frie n d s . So to have no Protectionist Ministry after all that you are I beg you not to be an r •g y with For which anybody, for there has been no stone left unturned which cou ld have favou red you with that blessing. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 3d March, 1851. ___ SERIOUS FIRE IN RING WILLIAM -STREET, CITY. —On Saturday, at a few minutes before midnight, a fire of a very alarming nature broke out in the premises belonging to Messrs. Hughes and Co., the army and navy outfitters, No. 76, King William -street. When discovered the flames were raging with great violence in the warehouse, on the ground floor. In spite of the exertions of the firemen, they were unable to get the mastery over the flames until the :.valuable stock in trade w as nearly destroyed, and the upper part of the premises also severely damaged by fire. The cause of the tire is not k nown. The firm, it is understood, was i nsure d in the Plimnix Fire Office. NARROW ESCAPE FROM DESTRUCTION OF ly!L ilt So: 9 B PANORAMA OF THE CAPE AND PORT NATAL e escape -b p n e - frcm de ne;fthe scenes The whole exhibition had a very narr e ow representation on struction by lire in the course of t!i room became enveloped the light curtain on one side of the Saturday evening. During the change bt, first would also have been mind of one in flame, and had it not been for w h o quickly extinguished a rush at the door, and it 1 the blaze, the chances are to x;rania. the last exhibition of the p or two gentlemen near tli_e ac c i it eh , A cry of fire was raised presence of o and many of the spectators their fears were sufficiently allayed was some minutes before . • nation of the entertainment which was, to allow of the continuation brought to a conclusion, with great however at length satis faction to all present. TEE DODDINGHURST ATURDER.—The trial Of the youn g man Thomas Drorv, wh o stands charged with the J el Denny,Rill • wilful murder of a Wi take place in the course of this week, before Lord Campbell. The assizes will be opened to -day. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Hawkins are, we un derstand.retained to defend. The calendar for the assizes is exceedingly heavy, there being no fewer than Live prisoners awaiting trial for murder. I ...... . , . ~ , i 3 . ~ 4 # 4 6 4 I ir ° / stir I' a. eo• 000 , a Andi ' 756 0 16 :dieP 51 Log * +At' Il t of : ev ;eri en) ,or, Imo' -04 ibe if r .