The Sun. — London, England, 1845-08-04 00:00:00

MEE"! ING ()F rr I-1E PROPItIET4)IIs OF DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Oa Sethi-lay h re ‘‘as a general aqFe,,,bl . % ,In ad:. saloon of Dr .ry .of tin , ctent,a ) P., prietors, for .1 rec , iving the annual state ment of the acctui:t. frum tine Cumtuhte , , to elect an auditur fur the ensuing year, and to elect six members of the general committ• e, in the room of six gentlemen Who go out by rotation. The meeting was but thinly attended. Mr. BOND CABaELL presided, and expressed the deep regret he, as well ai the other members of the committee felt at the continued indisposition of the Noble Earl (Glengall), who had so often occupied the position the meeting had just done him the honour of appointing him tn• Tne N o bl e E ar l, h e fund, was still detained in Ire land by illness, or he would, as heretofore, been present en that occasion. —(Hear.) He would now call on the secretary to read the report. Mr. DUNN then proceeded to read the tbll,,wing REPORT. " REPORT OF THE GENERAL COMMIT TEE TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PROPRIETORS OF PRIIRY-LANE " The theatre batting closed, after a protract , d season, the C urnmittee have the pleasure to meet the general assembly with !_heir a nnua l etaternent of the affairs of the Company ; and they , 4 re gre a t sat i s f ection its statitig. that hotwithstanding the gepressed state of the drama, as regards the national theatres, end the threatened annihilation of the total inte ;jests of the proprietary of these once noble establishments ,Y legislati ve enac t men t s , Druty-lAne Theatre has been open to the public, during the past season, no less that, 223 nights, a circ umstance alike benefietal to the artistes coecerned, as also to the numerous depende es upon it for their dad ) support. It • „ gratifying to the Committee to be able to state, that amidte the wreck of the national drama, her Most Gra ee4ns Maje s ty continues her patronage and support to the theatre by her visits, both in state anti in private, the ittfluenee of which, 11 Pun a concern depeetient upon public favour for suppnrt, can not but be of she highest ttepertance tcwerds its suecess, and test excite ti, e livehest f•eliegs of gta Attie. Her Majesty Queen Doe a e er has been generously pleased to resume the o ccupatien of her private box ; and it is matter for comelatiott, that since the Legislature of the country has thought pro e er to extend, by their late Act ot Parliament, the powers of the Lord Chamberlain, and remeve the drama frem tee two national theatres t o Sadl•e's the Yerli•li,e &logo, the Eagle Tavern, and a host of 'niec- establehmeles, to the number of ilii rtYs Mr. Bonet ha been tnaWed to furnish an entertainment worthy of the royal patronage and the public at large ; still the Committee are no-, inset sil•le the diffieultiee which the les•-ce had to encounter :,not sure, Ur' it: the progress of tie past season. from various causes ; ne•withstateling which they have the satisfaetion te state that Mr. Hun has, under every circumeance, r,. ver ta;led in his punctuality in the Paetrent of i.e, rent, and tl;t, teemmetee are advised that all other Blain a u •on him in welting this establishment have been 'net by the same degree f eeuierit vin d••eharge there; f. Again referr ing to the late Act of rarienamt, 7 and 8 Vic. chap. 68, *hereby the chartered t eivileet , of the two national theatres, e l it '" the credit o f w hi c h 3)10.0001. have beet, xp oriel. are so Pi t o l' ai red as t o re d uce th e m nearly to the state from which the b e ' ea already enumerated have bet•n raised. It must cease to 'f surprise that the Committee ha , e to add a nyaP r i.e many bygone, without the prospect of th e ,l u rn to their constituents for the capital atertneed by eost—s erenting the present theatre ; for, in adt::ton to the of thef" the edifi e, the amount actually paid for Is. security p r i, Patent ri• , hts equalled that of he - rid wa , com -40:'" in the fellowitse items t —To Messrs. Sheridan :,nd • tines to the to corn etsiti ' on upon claim% of the late theatte 50.000/. o f oh : e keivent-ga l rden proptietors 21 0001., and The I'2W. charge tee. ann uity of 3,75C1. entailed upon tee present theatre as usta e has thereby bee,ners of the late. An act of the ere -test ir'.l d el i, i nflicted upon' the national th,atres, anti most certainly th e d ands eompereaien at the hands of those who legislate for s -r amie and wile are held enough to centeed that they-are ii)nolding it by legalizing the representat ion of eliaka,eare at ple b:" and ptiblic gardens. The fa - e of the Drury-lane patent ee destroyed the s ec urity of the claims of the renters, and the tiilrees of that body have received payment of 5/. per night for on nights perfo-manees in the past easoli, instead of the Itnal amount of 181. 15s. per night. The repairs to the stage flooring have been effected, wriereh e , p h i, , Is now rendered perfect ; but the state of he roof, the n entails considerable annual expense, is such (according to to re port of Mr. B ea zl e y, th e ar c hitect of the theatre) as ,Tier,equire a very serious °Why previous to the forthcoming l ert from the funds at pres, - nt in the banker's hands. to ;The Committee have to call the attent ten of the assembly g u i or - , annual statement of the accounts which have been re wh,e'Y audited by Niejer Nay'or, now laid before them, by past h it frill be seen that the etcome of the p:optietary for the t 4,1 se ason,unde r the several helds. ameunts to 5,15 1. 6s. ; Th i e st e... on the other hand. the expo rises Amount to 4,77;1. tie Id. trete Committee have paid to the eecount of the renters' o f t ee.; at their banker's. the cum of 1,1151. for 223 eights p:tfor man , at .te lee. night, imfore stated. threeoln concluding their report, the committee le only to r e ' that the season nose ended was the first of a term of Years leased to %lc with the option of either party terminate kt ,_ it at the end of the first year by giving certain eota 'e• The committee rust they have acted judiciously 1 - 1 term the lessee, and hope 'en it. too well satisfied with the "'• of the agreement et seek to disturb it." Sir W st te i , • Cuans moved that the report be approved ,„.a.n)Dted Alt w • etteeo, seconded the proposition. rep ort yVELLs said that prior to the reception of the tlAt t t n e- was anxious to offer a remark. He obeerveci ten had had been a sum of £1,115 paid over to the no 1 ',a body whom he w4g prepared to contend had eot t Zt , claim for such a payment. He for one. it ofOpi o tl however with a great many other persons, was t heir ee -lu n that the renters ought to take the subject into . tor& k7 il l s ideration, in order that they and the prr,pme- Parti. Rut come to such an arrangement as that both Mr. G ould , s hnuld act awl share together.—(llear, hear.) fro th"REtiFELL fully concurred in whet heel yea ni r hon. proprietor. :le bad at their nicr, shout en the liberty to suggen tlut :,11(11 met d be b adoPted, when h- lyen somi'wlArtt to sg , hin,, o - ho by the way he regr , Atk , fi. ou iri the r,,Goi , !.Tit. day. The new renter, in tact t gut to proceed,oti go hand in hand with the prOprie ens, so RS to enubte them to meet the ditlietsittce - ete.:cr tt h ; oh the theatre existed.--(beat, hear.) Mr. WARING considered that this qu , si - ion had most unfairly_ introduced on the present c . ccayion when the meeting was purely one of the p r praetor; am] r,ot ot . the renters. , .6 , 1,0, After some further discn,sione— The CHAIRMAN, in pultii,v, the eleestion that •• the report be received, approved, and adopted," -, ai,, that without doubt much of the discus...ion which lee i taken place had been irregular, but he had ft It that upon this 'titular subject probahly some benefit might arise, if 'e renters were in possession of the feeling:; of the pro- P > eter s —(II . hear.) No due observance c'e•doubt the subject. with a , ° observance of regularity, should not have been in troi met v -'„ .astnoc need - that i i . h as it wov a meet 'cg of a proprietors • d !iut of th , renters. This que,s t,, the a I ; n• it should be borne in mind, had never been treated 3' the prorietors as one between thems. lves and the Public but between themselv. s and the renter , . It w as el as course f r Mr. Whitbread to Moveear that the hr tter a te taken when the arrangement was originally made %weld have been to have turned all their claims , nto tares in th e new hous e and then there could have lo.n b usines s one tttet of int-resi t • be dealt eith, why rens. as the • at present stood, there were two bodies whose intere sts were of a cenflicene character. The hest plan WOuld b„ , that an arrangement should be (tome to by Z, s hieh th ere should be one common and mutual interest. tto th at were d one then the renters wou ld b e in a 1 osi'ion t ake part in the contro l ai d management of the affairs Of the theatre.— (Hear, h. ar.) The motio n was thtn it , aed carried u eanimeus'y. l'h • P dd to the withdrawal, lly L I , meeting next procee 1 Mt, of six ot the res( nt members of tilt: General Com- Ib"tee, Who, by the rovis'ons of the Act of Parliament, astired from P - the following )111 that body. Th e n.i .. nes so drawn were in e °flowing order :--Sir E. Corlringten, Lord Ot.gley, I k ' ar nther E •sq" ' JosephA Arden, E.. the _poi...! of on t oter, ns • t and the Earl ot 1% eEtmorelaud, ali of whom, W ere emotion ot M r . W ar i ng , secon d e d by Mr. Crawcuur, sanP, -elected e s ubeommittee were then appointed in the per t eA c ' f ihe Ea r l o f ( ;1- Tela ll . Si r W. C urt i, Bert., It. It4l .11`, Cabliell Eel J. ' R:onsbottare, &q., and L. " ti• , ER q . '' • )4 C' t i c ' Naylor was then re-elected auditor. h ,,, • gip4, r'ain SPENCER, as the meeting was about to break , that he had b•-en asked by a great many persons a m it was th a t the ceminittee had aliteved the regular ! Th e4it irnnte drama to leave the boatels of Drury-tette of itlitre, and then when or whether it was the intention Dem: e ftenittee or the management to resume those rese nt ances Now, as he had been an adviser of the 14 e t e ,,,, ' nrse ste e l u a in state the reasons why the house had been exult!. to bi t ,mevot e d to musical per f ormances, an d to assert it i k, I .ll; i 4t ° Pinion, that, if the old plan had been persisted tette-v:1444,re could not have bet n carried on, eed teen ', Me et th u e lll i d have been no meney ready with whiell to beco me e e 'ailn for ground rent, which would in due time ease e o e ,: u t le to the Duke of Bea trd. His grace in that t ange b ., — ' not have been paid ; but, under the new ar a 80 — ,,,, e , n ,t5, although they had collected a numerous and thari e r — ,,'"u„ Musical company, it was far less expensive eoeil i ,' Jormer years, when a manager or lessee was hte o W le cl to have three companies. Now, there was to th e yet a distinct company, all of whom were ‘ 0 th e "Y in requisition.—(Hear, hear.) —With ret•pre . t. seat drama of what was denominated the legal ratna b ared to show that the most dis asteou. , e was prep . .. Of big." consequences had arisen from the management . Si r i x , Macready. did e W. CURTIS thought that this was a subject . whieh th e I , ‘ " ot fairly come under the notice of the meeting on ni te r ccasion. It would, therefore, be folly to hie ll s. ° Pon it. There were, moreover, a variety of opi teok• nu the question and he might say that he himself pre s , a different view of it to that which had been ex- Ca ed by i dl ant e g captain. the plait; SPENCER thereupon said that he would not ey er, e,nter upo n t h e detail of the reasons. This, how l:pen:le w as anxious t o prove — t h a t t h ere h a d b een more th a 'Y received f rom Mr. Bunn and music in two years rt du rat . had been paid by Mr. Macready during the same i,,eion of time. For instance, he found that the Coca ''t e had received in two years from lit „inn 1, and Music .f. 8,000 .aaaeready and Legitimate Drama Leaving a balance in favour of " Bunn and Music" of i Clis!r then, "B unn an d Mus i c " had yielded far more jacready and Li gititnate rams." Pla na d sz : • n Cunris—Ah, but this difference requires ex- CRAIIUMAN said the gallant pr o pri e t o r was no t ve bv cor rect in th e statement he had just made. It was lo r3 :trile that the Committee had received a larger amount !:Ititl.e car om Mr. B unn t h an f rom M r . M acrea d y ; ter "" accounted for by th e c i rcums t ance t h at th e dti re undertook to l ay out a cons i dera b le sum up ,. n the ~, Which were required in the theatre. It was the of the Committee to see that amle justice was % sett ' nut to every one. and therefore ho h art f. It it n— litooarT,F give this explanation in order that to. erro taie(C"Pression should not be creattd in the public _T s lu tnit Il lgltgiA ,living then been voted to Major Naylor (the -• to the Chairman, the meeting separated. SES-( CONTINUED.) RENTLEYS MISCELLANY. Marcllion , - - s, of T3rinviliets, the Poisoner of •;,, 17th Cetoury, a Romance of Old Paris," chapters 22, n,.-1 24, Mr. Albert Snail h very ably sustains the in ten-4 of tilt, highly-wrought story. We are glad to fall in, again, with some of his notes on the topography of Paris, under the aspects which it may be supposed to have exhibited at the date of his story. The Hotel de Clam.) , is very picturesquely conceived and well made out ; and the debauched revels within its walls, in which Lauzun, the Abte. Dubois, and other historical profli gates figure, afford Situations of fearful interest for the exhibition of the beautiful, but guilty heroine of the tale, and her paramour, Sainte Croix. John Leech's illustra tion, of which the subject is the unexpected rencontre of these parties with the miscreant. Exili, is capital, both in drawing and conception. The poetry of W. Y. 8., Will Jones, the Rev. NV. Flower, &c., is generally good. We have ton little respect for professional criticism— that is the opinion of actors upon the acting of their con temporaries—to he much disappointed at the poverty of Mr. Carter's Outpourings;" but there is one racy scene in them which is worth giving. It is as follows—the scene is laid at the Crow-street Theatre, Dublin : " But when a new Lord and Lady Lieutenant visited the theatre fur the first time, Pat's peculiarities became most diverting. " Pat Mooney !' shouts a voice in the gallery. " Halloo !' answers Pat, from the opposite side. Voice—Can you see 'em, Pat? (Meaning the Lord and Lady Lieutenant. ) " Pat Mooney—l can. " Voice—Well, what's he like? " Pat Alooncy—Oh, mighty like a grazier or middle-man. Any way, he has got a good long nose of his own.—(Loud laughter, in which his Lordship joins.) " Voice—ls he clever, think you? " Pat Mooney—l'd lie sorry to make him sinse• keeper. (Laughter arain.) " Voice—Does he look good-natured? " Pat Mooney.—Wel, he does. and enjoys a joke, too — Heaven bless him !—like a gentleman as he is. Voice—Then we'll not have to send him back? " Pat Mooney—No, I don't think we shall. We may get a worse.—( Roars of laughter.) They say he's mighty generous, and me-ms to spend his money amongst us like a prince. " Gallery—Bravo ! bravo ! We'll keep him, then—we'll keep him. Three cheers, lads—three cheers for the Lord- Lieutenant !—( Cheers and laughter.) Vo'c , —V ell, and what's she like, Pat? " Pat Mooney—Oh. nothing particular. She'd not frighten a horse.—(Roars, her Ladyship joining. ) " Voiee—ls she tall? " Pat Mooney—Wait till she stands up. Voie--May be she's stout, Pat? " Pat Mooney—Faix ! you may say that. It isn't the likes of her lives on buttermilk —(Roars.) " Voice—D'ye think she's good-natured? " Pat Mooney—Oh, I'll engage she is. She has the raal flood in her, and there's plenty of it.—( Roars, and Bravo !' from the gallery.) Many Voices—She'll do, then, Pat? "Pat Mooney—Och ! she will—she will. I'll engage for her Ladyship. " Voices—We may keep her then, may we. " P..t Mooney-06 ! the longer the better—the longer the b..tter.—(ll,,ais.) It's her Lacll ship that'll speak the good word LT the man that's in thruf , ble. and never let the dement woman want, that's in the straw—God Wes; her ! " Ga . !. i.ri . ..—Bravo bravo ! Three cheers for her Ladyship ! —three cheere for the Lady Lieutenant!—(Cheers and laughter. Pat Wow) , (seeing the Lord Mayor)—My sowl to ye ! Dan Fibnagan, is that you ? " Gallery—Ah ah Is that you. Dan Finnagan?—is that ou ? ( H isses and laughter. ) •' Pat Mouney—Faix ! it's good for the likes of us to see you Down among the gintry there, Dan Finnagan !—( A loud laugh, at which his Lordship does not seem particularly pleased.) :eh I you needn't look up so sour at us Many's the good time you've sat up here yourself;—you know it is, ye ould vinegar brittle !—( Roars.) "6 Voice—Sure the world's gore will void you, any way Dan Finnagan. Ye hadn't them white kid gloves " Pat Mooney—No, nor that grand cocked hat there— " Voice--No, nor that white wand, ye cormorant ! when you kept the chandler-shop, and cheated Mike Kelly out of a farden's-worth of pipes, and " Gallery—Ah ! ah ! Who cheated Mike Kelly?—who cheated Mike Kelly?—(Great confusion, during which the orchestra strikes up. )" " Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Brougham " is a critical refutation of the opinion adapted by Hume, and vindicated on singularly insufficient grounds by Lord Brougham, of the guilt of Mary, touching the mysterious ,:if her weak and profligate husband, Darnley. Of this .thd all the other high crimes alleged in her licetime against the unfortunate, but bigoted, Queen of Scotland, we should suppose that no candid reader—now that Prince Lubanoff has given to the world the completion ( - .f his Lang and laborious, but must satisfactory, investi gation into her history—whi hesitate fully to acquit the ill-starred .mother of our first James. An interesting memoir of the late Rev. R. 11. Barham is accompanied by a. good likeness of our lost "Thomas Ingoldsby," and a pretty ballad by the same gifted writer, now, aims'. mute within the tomb. Mrs. Rower's "Story of a Pic ture" is a clever trifle. THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE REVIEW. A grave number, but containing mutter more interest ing than the table of contents would seem to promise. The papers follow in this order:—" Ireland—the Endow ment of the Catholic Clergy ;" " Wealth and Want," a review of Mr. D. Urquhart's work ; " The Progress of Organic Chemistry ;" " Adolphus's History of England." Latitudinarianism" is a severe critique upon a " Bill to lliT Majesty to Endow New Colleges for the ad 1-anc,'m •7'n t cif Learning in lrebn I;" " M moirs of the Lady Hester Stanhope"; (" eke! jam sates"----we are tempted to ~ ?:volaim, This endless lady will be the death of us). A iew of " Etudes sur les Orateurs ; par Timon, 9:A) is made a vehicle for a severe, but not alto dliberal estimate and analysis of the political cha ,,,,A,7,r an 111 0 forewirt pretensions of Earl Grey. With eg . :',rd to ihe latter, its eulegium is at once unqualified, a!,k, end e!”bortte. We have been both amused and staz•twd by the following passage in the article on W:‘.11 , .1) Wa72t:7— . - 111;. Urquhart's defence of villenage is able arn4 successful ; and those who object to it that the t. - rm itself proclaims that it was 00 the inhabitants of towns, riles, who enjoyed its bene fits and that consequently the rural population was in a state of slavery, nverlook the fact that to every village or hamlet, how ever small, the term was applied ; indeed. up to this day, in the midland counties, '° town' is the appellation invariably given by the common people to every coriere'tation of cottages ' • and Mr. Urqnhart's assertion th a t England was divid e d into makes. ,men, rust. es, or villeins, and slaves, just as to-day England might he said to be divided into esqu'res, tennants, labonrers and convicts,' is t.rne Out by the tesults of the re searches of such men as Sir Frincis Eden and Sir Francis Paigrave. The truth is that the feudal systrm was the most perfect form of society that the world has seen since the theocracy rd the Jews ceased ; for in it privileges depended upon the performances of duties, whereas now they are too commooly regarded as a ground of immunity from it. Lands were granted, honours conferred ; but it was not for the ex altation of the unit so much as for the benefit and defence of the community." DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. This periodical is gradually strength‘ating the already conspicuous position it has attained among the ablest of irA competitors for public favour. Itt the present num ber we have " Rinuecini in Ireland" —some more " Stray Leafl.-ts from the German Oak"—(very beautiful poetical translations they are)—" O'Gorman's Practice of Ang ling ;" " Italian Poets (Ariosto) ; " Our Portrait, Gallery" (with a Portrait of Dr. Whitley Stokes) ; of Geld—The Treasure Box"—(a highly in vrestxg story). There is a large sprinkling of poetry scatt , red through these August pages. We have read with regret the following announcement—enhanced by t he reTect which is excited in us for the writer, by an address so remarkable fur its good sense and good foeling ,‘ A WORD AT PARTING-FROM THE EDITOR. " Kind Public,-1 believe it is Mr. Puff who expresses his dismay, that there is no getting people off, on their knees.' Such is precisely my difficulty at this moment. lam about to take leave of you, and most anxious to know how best and most ,uit , ..hly to express the sense I entertain of your favour rod my own unworthiness. " It is—happily for us both—unnecessary to enter into any explanation of the reasons which induce me to take the step. En , uel. if I say, that no dinaini.hed interest in the success of the Dublin University Magazine—no abated desire for the advancement of the principles it has always so ably upheld and defended—enter into these causes. Neither can I gratify pri vate gossip by a hint that any disagreement with my publishers has its share in this determination. I abdicate at good will with all my fellow-labourers, and for reasons so purely per sonal, that I feel to obtrude them on public notice would be merely an act of egotism. I should have left the boards in silence—as I do without a farewell benefit—if I did not feel that one who has so largely enjoyed your favour could not so depart, without some stain of ingratitude for kindnesses which, he is not ashamed to own. contributed so much to his hap piness at the time, and which are so dear to his memory at this moment.—l am, your very grateful and devoted servant, CHARLES LEVER. " Bruxelles, June, 1845." [This notice should have appeared in our last Number, but was not received in time.—A. P.] HOOD'S MAGA Zll% E. " The Bushranger of Van Diemen's Land," a vigo rously written tale, of which chapters 16 to 18 inclusive here keep up the stirring interest. " 'The Stake" is also a graphic sketch of one phase of modern life, as it is called, at the West End. The infatuati on o f gam i ng i s strong) , depicted, but its strength is not exaggeration. 1.11. of the " Chronicles of the Fleet" compris e s a tale call. d " The Turnkey's Daughter," th.. heroine being a srenes of Eugene Sue's " Fleur Marie," a g irl pure and urpolluted amidst the pollutions and the horrors of a prison. The " Bar of England" supplies a very able mem , ir, antiquarian and critical , of the rise an d pro gress 'if this P o ole institution. There are some inci denta anecioies of a piquant character, just now, when lyir-me:sPs ort becutnit , e fi getty. " As a consequence ot the circumstance to which I have adverted, every student for the bar is supposed to possess an independent fortune. Irdee I, a rule made in 1600, sanc tioned by Elizabeth, and her successor James, prairies that none shall be admitted ot Inn= of Court who are not of good parentage, and not of ill behaviour ;' and there is another about the same period, purporting to be made by the judges and butchers,' that none but gentlemen be admitted.' Hence the rank of esquire' is always affixed to his name. No doubt, i n many instances, this supposition mar be classed with other pleasant deceptions with which the law and its establishments abound, for otherwise, I suspect the spec imens of the genus would be more scarce than we see them in our days. Never theless, fiction though it be, something must be dens, as in other cases of legal shadows, to give it the appearance of a substance. It follows, therefore, that no one who is palpably and manifestly dependent on his own labour for a livelihood, will be admitted into the brotherhood of the Inns of Court. Thus a person openly engaged in trade or commerce, in what soever department, is certaiu of refusal. If, however, he cease to be engaged in the objectionable occupation for at least two years, a s suming meantime the appearance of independence (before the eyes of the Inn), though he may have it not in fact, he may be admitted. I am acquainted with two counsel, each eminent in a different branch of the profession, who were bosh shoemakers, the elder one having made shoes for my father. 1 know a barrister also, who was formerly a dancing master at Bath ; and his son, who subsequently taught the sal tatory art, is sow keeping his terms. These are living illus trations of ;iv remark, to which I could add others, without recurring to for Mer times, did I think them required." " 'lambics through 'Bohemian - Irrllages," we have found, in the author's company, exceedingly pleasant ones. 01' ""I'Le Curate Chambord, or the Secrets of the Confessional," a smart translation from the French of Dumas, we have another chapter. Mr. Roworoft is pursuing his editorial task successfully. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING MAGAZINE. The present number fully maintains the high charac. ter which this magazine has already acquire 1. The tale of St. Giles and St. James . becomes intensely in teresting as it proceeds. Our readers will remember that in the last number young St. Jame s, for the murder of whom St. Giles had been apprehended, had been dis covered to be alive. The present number begins as fellows : " And now,' thinks the reader,' St. Giles is free. There is no charge against him ; he is not the murderer, men, in his wretchedness, took him for. St. James, with his injuries upon him, has withdrawn himself; and once again the world lies wide before St. Giles.' Not so. There still remains, to his confudor, a hard accuser. St. Gies is destitute. In the teem ing, luxurious county of Kent, amidst God's promises of plenty to man, he is a guihy interloper. He may not grasp a handful of the soil, he cannot purchase one blade of wheat ; he is a pauper and a vagrant; a foul presence in the world's garden, and must therefore be puni-hed for his intrusion. Every rag he carries is an accusing tongue : he is des. itute and wander ing: he Las strayed into the paradise of the well-to- do, and must be sharply reproved for h s %hereabout. And therefore St. Giles will be committed for a season to the county gaol, as a rogue and vagabond. The roguery is not proved upon him, but it has been shown that whilst decent people have goose-beds and weather-proof chambers. he, at the best, has straw and a barn. It is, too, made a misdemeanor against mo ther Earth to sleep upon her naked breast, with only the heavens above the sleeper ; and as St. Giles had orten so of fended—he could not deny the inquity— he was, we say, corn mitted to gaol by Justice Wattles, as rogue and vagabond. Now, to punish a man for having nothing, is surely a sport invented by Beelzebub for the pleasure of the rich ; yes, to whip arascal for his rags is to pay flattering homage to cloth of gold. No thing was proved against St. Giles but want ; which, being high treason against the majesty of property, that large offence might be reasonably supposed to contain every other." It happens, however, that a teurder lets actually been committed—a certain ferrner Willis, the brother-in-law of Justice Wattles, has been found murdered. A pocket book fails into the hands of Wattles, which proves that Robert Willis, a rustic thaurais sujct, the nephew of the murdered man, is the ruurtl rep. This evidence Wattles suppr, saes, not desiring to bring disgrace on his family. Robert Willis, however, is apprehended on the charge, and c,auntitted, tied in prison he meets with St. Giles, and to him coefesses his guilt. Willis, at his trial, is defeedel by Mr. Montecute Crawley, a man who, by virtue of wearing a % ig and gown, is entitled by law to becoirP a-cessory after the fact to the crime of murder, provided only his principal gives him the usual fee. This honor , ab'e ins.rnbcr of an honour able profession, so i,,,,d ; . ; ers and brow- , hcats the witnesses of truth that Rob' rr Willis is acquitted, and St. Giles, who bad given e%;dence against him, is exposed to the danger of being torn ie pieces by Willis's pot-house companions. St. James, how ever, who is on the bench, is struck with the manner of St. Giles. He sends for him after the trial is aver, and engages him as his groom, and thus St. Gil, s has, for the first time in his life, the chance of becoming an honest man. " The Spirit of Chivalry" is a well written paper on the exhibition in Westminster Hall, and we are glad to see that the writer does justice to the noble cartoon of Maclise en this subject. Coven try Patmere contributes a somewhat coarse, but very pow erf lly written poem. entitled " The Murderer's Sa crament." Aid Juniper Hedgehog continues his piquant correspondence on the events of the month. " The Englishman in Prussia" is the first of a series of papers en the manners and customs of Old Prussia. It promises to be an extremely valuable series. The author is evi dently a shrewd observer, who has studied well the nation which he undertakes to daguerrotype. There are %arions, other papers, to which, for want of space, we cannot further silude ; but we may sum up all in these few woris—" There is not a single line in the maga zine which we should desire to see cancelled." the desolate condition of the eastern frontier; bounded MI It IS by a dense arid almost impenetrable jungie, to defend which nine timlts ttre'rnititary force now ern; lord •would barely be adequate; and flanked by a population of ei:ihty thousand dire, m hie savages, naturally inimical, ;sat-like, and predv tibry, by whom the hearths of the Cilia, border colonists have rot' years past been deluged with the blood of their nearest and dearest relatives." But, as is justly obiurv , d ny the writer in this Maga zine—this is not the whole of the case which the Boers can make out against the Colonial g iverinnent. " The farmers addressed the Government upon their grie vances, real and supposed, by petitions, to which they received only cold, short, and unsatisfactory official answers. They laid their con.plair.ts before the newly-appointed Lieutenant- Governor on the frontier, at the same time stating their deter mination to emigrate unless justice was done to them ; they were told in reply that there was no law to prevent them leaving the colony. This must never be lost sight of in considering the ease of the emigrant farmers." It has been stat,d, that the emigration of the Boers to Natal was occasioned by their dissatisfaction at the eman cipation of their slaves, and their d. sire to re establish slavery. The Natal Bo rs, however, c xpressly declare, in their official answer to the Gov,rnment proclumati.m— -" A long and sad experience has sufficiently convinced us of the injury, loss, and dearness of slave labour; so that neither slavery nor slave-trade will ever be p rmitted atr.ong us. " There was no concealment on tt-e part of the Roe s of their intention to emigrate ; :11(4 march to he frontier we, made openly. A forma, it might almost be called a religious, leave taking took place bets een them and their English fellow-colo nists, as they passed near Graham's Town, on which occasion a harrlsomely bound Bible was given them, and the blessing of Providence was invok"d for their undertaking. This was not done without the knowledge of the Government authorities. Nnw what the G ivernment does not oppose it sanctions, and, it is to be supposed, approves. When persons in authority wink at irregularities, they become as responsible as though a formal act of approbation had b'en published ; and the Biers quote this implied sanction to their emigration, in their answer to Sir George Napier's proclamation. " It would be hut just, therefore, to recollect— " That the Beers asked fur inq airy into tl eir grievances, which was refused ; "That they were m'sadvi.ed by the highest co'onial authority after the Governor himself, the Lieutenant.govtrno.., as to the legality of their emigration ; " That no steps were taken to stop or check the emigration, although the intention and purpose of it had been publicly stated." The Boers are f...eaerally a kind-hearted, hospitable people, and if they are treated with kindness and justice, the writer c , ,nsitfers that Natal may become a strong, profitable, wal flourishing depen•lency of the Cape Colony. The Boers, however, have recently be come involved in disputes with the Griquas or Bastards 0 This will affect the question more seriously than perhaps the Government is aware, namely, that these very Griquas, as they call themselves, are similarly situated, in reference to the colony, to the emigrant Boers. A number of half-bred or bastard Hottentots, di.satibfied with their treatment within the colony, ton proud or too lazy to work, and restrained under the old colonial law from w.ndering about without employment, emirwed, forming themselves beyond the frontier into an inde pendent society. They called themselves Griquas, by which name they are known to the missionaries, and have been acknowledged by the Colonial Government as a free people." We trust that the Governmoit will adopt a as ice, firm, and conciliatory policy towards the Boers, so as not to give rise in South Africa to that hosility of races which, as this writtl justly observes, is the curse' oc our American colonies. Tht re are several other in teresting papers in the present numb r of this magazine, to which, how -ver, for want of space, we cannot more particularly allude. THE TRAVELLER'S MAGAZEVE, and Review of British and Fo . eign Litlatve. No 111. "My First Pilgrimage and Last Tour" is continued by the Editor in a vein of sound observation and with much sprightliness of manner. His pen-and•ink like sketches of " Monsieur l'lnsreeeur" of the Pinacothek Gallery at Munich—of the rack still preserved in the torture ehambtr of the Castle of Saltzburg—of the smoking Prussian Courier (a portrait full of character). are very artistic, and worthily illustrate this agreeable paper. Charles Johnston's " Narrative of a Voyage along the Easto rn Coast of Arabia. from Aden to Suez, in the year 1843," is a well sustained narrative of a trip that c‘imprehendi a portion of the shores of Africa, among the most intere,ting in its various associations that can be found upon the map of the globe. From the poetical contributions we quote the following beautiful sonnet:— SALTWOOD CASTLE, NEAR HYTHE, KENT. Woods, in the autumn, when the sun begins To gild green branches with imperial gold— Valleys of dry soft verdure, where the cold Of dewy twil,ghts no continuance wins Through sultry morrows—brooklets, blithe and bold, Darlog the fiercest heat in their excess Of liquid weal!h—a Castle, grey and old, Yet grand in its surpassing loveliness:— These have I here—these, and the ceaseless sea, That penetrates, like Death, through every part OF Nature's mazy world. Saltwood, thou art A glorious ruin—whence the memory Of visiting kings and prelates, almost gone, Leaves thee still royal in thy beauty lone! irnp. grNT, LONDON, :HONDA MOANING, A: Erg 1757"4, I. N.A.VAL INfELLIGENeE. PORTSMOUTI.I, FRIDAY.— The Warspite, 50, Capt. Wallis —The names of the men .'ho met their death by the upsetting of tie second cutter of this ship at Beyrout, on the 22d of June, were James APCortnack, quartermaster, Samuel 'tans wold, John Hewitt, John Webb, Joseph Sampson, and Joshua Tucker, able seamen. The Alfred, 50, Commodore Purvis, is nearly dismantled, and will be ready to be paid off early in the ensuing week. The Frolic, 16, Commander Hamilton ; the Sa'ellite, 16, Commander Rowley; and the Dolphin, 3, Lieutenant-Com mander Levigne, were at Buenos Ayres when the Alfred left Rio for England (4th of June). The Cambrian, 86, Commodore Chads, came into harbour on Wednesday morning to discharge her valuable freight of 2,000,000 dollars in sycee silver, a portion of the Chinese ran som money. The freight is contained in 500 boxes, the whole weighing 62 tons. Mr. Cooper, of the Treasury, superin tended its disembarkation this morning, and it will be conveyed to London under his charge and an escort of the Bth Regiment on Monday, by a special train. Orders were received yester day for the Cambrian to be paid off at this port, quite contrary to t,blic expectation. She was inspected, and her crew mus• te.,.1 and exercised yesterday by Captain Mowhray, of the Victory, for the Commander-in-Chief, Sir C. Rowley (whose ill state of health does not permit him to perform the duty), after which she was hauled alongside the jetty to discharge her valuable cargo. This morning she unbent sails, struck her topgallant masts, and unrove her running rigging ; her crew being a very smart one, sbe will soon be dismantled and paid off. The Fairy, tender to the royal yacht, Master-Commander Thain, came up from Cowes last evening, and was docked it the room of the Carysfort this morning, to examine further into the injuries she sustained by the strain to her screw, in consequence of having got a halser twisted round it some days since, and also to see if she was injured by grounding on Tues day at the entrance of the harbour, and to have some alteration made in her machinery. The Royal George, late the Royal sailing yacht, is alongside the jetty, being fitted as a receiving hulk for the officers and crew of the royal steam yacht. The Centaur steam.frigate progresses very ra?idly in con struction. The hands employed upon her are working extra time, in order to expedite her completion. The Victoria and Albert hove in sight at Spithead about a quarter-past four o'clock this afternoon, with her Majesty and the Royal Family on board, the Royal standard flying from the main. The yacht proceeded as far as the Spit, and on ap proaching the Monarch, a splendid Indiaman of 1,400 tons, the property of Mr. Green, the captain manned his rigging and dipped his colours, which compliment was duly acknow ledged, as also were the hearty cheers of the men ranged along the bulwarks and in the rigging, by repeated bows from her Majesty, who ordered the Royal standard to be dipped, in further acknowledgment of the respect of her loyal subjects. The Royal yacht steamed completely round the ship, and re turned to Cowes, under a Royal salute from the platform bat tery. The day was beautifully fine, and a delightful breeze was blowing at the time. In Harbour—The Victory, Excellent, Alfred, Cambrian, Royal George, Seallower, and Comet and Echo, steam-vessels. In Dock—The Prince Regent, Amphitrite, and Trinco malee, raseeing ; and the Leander, 50, and Centaur, steam frigate (building), and the Fairy, steam-yacht. In the Basin—The Carysfort, Athol, Kingfisher, and Scourge, steam sloop. At Spithead—No man of war; the Monarch, 1,400 tons, Indiaman. SHEERNESS, THURSDAY—The Monkey steamer having broken down in her passage hence to Portsmouth, with super numeraries, returned, and, having disembarked them, pro ceeded to Woolwich to have her defects made good. She re turned here on Saturday, and again proceeded to Portsmouth with supernumeraries and engineers for the Bloodhound steamer at Plymouth. The Raven cutter, Lieut. J. Stephen, sailed on Sunday for Yarmouth, and returned on Wednesday with seamen volun teers, entered at that port for the navy. The Goodwill . lighter, arrived from Portsmouth on Sunday with stores, which having delivered she proceeded to Chatham on Wednesday. The Asia, 84, advance-ship, dropped down from her moor ings on Monday to the jetty, to have her sides recaulked and painted. The Ferret, 10, Commander Josiah Oake, recently from the coast of Africa, arrived on Tuesday from Spithead, and came into harbour on Wednesday, to be paid off. The Brilliant, 20, razee, having completed her alterations, was hauled out of dock on Monday, and now continues her fit tings for commission in the basin. Her masts are ready, and will be put in on Monday next. The Scout, 18, Commander the Hon. ,James Drummond, recently from the Mediterranean station, is hourly expected here from Spithead, to be paid off. The following vessels occupy the basin :—Hawke, 72, and Russell, 72, fitting for advance; Crocodile, 26, Captain Max well, fitting for sea ; and Juno, 26, Alarm, 26, Brilliant, 20, Havannah, 20, and Sampson steam-frigate, for commission. In Dock —Dido, 20, and the new caisson. In Harbour—Ocean 80, flag-ship pro tem. ; Ferret, 10 ; Raven, 3; and African, steamer. WOOLWICH, FRIDAY.—The Lightning, steam-vessel, Mas ter-Commander Petley, and the Monkey, Master-Commander W. Bryant, are ordered to attend the Victoria and Albert, royal steam-yacht, to Antwerp, on the occasion of her Majesty's visit to the continent. The Avon steam-vessel has been commissioned by Com mander Denham, and the under-mentioned officers appointed to her :—Mr. A. S. Knight, acting-master ; Mr. R. A. Cum ming, clerk in charge; Mr. A. Middleton, clerk; Mr. J. Walker, master's assistant. The - Meteor steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander George Butler, is ordered to be paid off at Woolwich on Monday next. The Black Eagle steam vessel, Master-Commander S. B. Cook, returned to Woolwich from Portsmouth yesterday. The Falmouth will sail early next week for Portsmouth and Plymouth. The crew of the Fearless, Lieutenant-Commander Sher ringham, were this day turned over to the Dasher steam-vessel. The Medea steam-vessel was taken into the basin yester day, to be fitted with engines of a larger description than those formerly used in her. _ A pilot left Woolwich this morning for Portsmouth, tobring round the Royal Victoria and Albert yacht to moorings op posite Woolwich dockyard. COLLISION OF STEAMERS. LOSS OF ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE LIVES. CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 17.—0 n the night of the 11th instant, on the Black Sea, about forty miles east of the Bosphorus, a most dreadful catastrophe took place. Two Turkish steamers, the on* coming from, and the other going to Trebizond, came into sudden collision, and one of them went down with the greater part of her crew and passengers. The vessels were the Scutari, commanded by Mr. Dubbing, and the Medjehrai Tidjahret, commanded by Mr. Lambert. The commander of each vessel was perfectly aware of the approach of the other full twenty minutes before the fearful event happened, and there was apparently no danger. But Capt. Lambert, fancying he had an Austrian vessel before him, to obey a rule of the Austrian service, put his helm a starboard, whilst the commander of the Scutari, following the rule of the English ser. vice, put his helm a.port. Thus the former ran right under the bows of the latter, and the ;,collision was inevitable. If both commanders had put their helms a.port, no accident could possibly have happened. Though it was a moonlight night, there was a good deal of fog, so that the mistake was not discovered till it was impossible to avoid its terrible consequence. The Medjehrai Tidjahret was struck between the fore rigging and the engine. The shock was tremendous. There were a great nuns. her of passengers on board both the vessels, chiefly Turks and Italians, and a scene of indescribable dismay and confusion arose. At first it was not known which of the steamers bad received fatal damage. As the Scutari is an old ship, and greatly out of repair, it was thought she must have suffered most, but the con. trary proved to be the case. Whilst this was in doubt, however, her commander proposed that the vessels should be lashed together, or that one should be taken in tow by the other, in order that if either of them should be found to be unseaworthy, or in a state of wreck, the sound vessel might be able to rescue the ship's com pany and passengers of the other. This proposal was most un. fortunately rejected. The vessels parted ; the Medjehrai Tidjahret dropped about a mile astern, and in the course of less than a quarter of an hour it was found that she was sinking rapidly The Scutari, which had got but slight damage, then went to her help; but it was too late. Very few, comparatively, could be saved. The boats of the devoted vessel were so overcrowded by those who strove with frantic eagerness to make their escape, that they suuk at once. About seventy, however, by swimming, and by clinging to spars, reached the Scutari, where they clustered round the psddle.boxes till they were taken in. Captain Lam. bert and an engineer were picked up by a boat of the Scutari. All the lest, one hundred and thirty.five souls, perished. Their agony was a short one, but it was terrific. As the Scutari approached the wreck she heeled over (the people on the deck, like wild maniacs, were visible in the moonlight), and as the sea sucked her down—as the vortex of waters she formed in sinking almost made the Scutari spin round with the motion, there rose a scream of utter horror—a last scream !—which those who heard will never forget. But more impressive still was the passive resignation of the Turks; they ►at motionless muttering their prayers; neither by cry nor gesture did they manifest any consternation ! In im passive silence—amid the shrieks of despair of Christians—the fatalists met their frightful doom. From the first shock to the sink. ing of the vessel not more than half an hour elapsed. The captains of the two vessels were English ; the engineers were also English. Upon English navigation and engineers, therefore, this terrible accident must bring much discredit in this part of the world. Indeed, after every account has been given, one hardly knows how to explain it. Two ships on the broad sea, being perfectly aware of each other's vicinity, run foul of each other, and nearly the whole of the crew and passengers of one of them perish ! There has been a court of inquiry held upon the matter, but the Turks who formed the court were so utterly igno. rant of nautical affairs, that nothing like a clear explanation was elicited. These Turkish steamers have now been for seven years commanded by Englishmen, and worked by English engineers, and out of seven hundred voyages, they have only three times met with accidents. This fact may be some set off against the mon. strous blundering which led to the fearful event just narrated. THE PRESS AND THE BAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES. Sir,—l trust that the editors of the different county papers circulating in the Western and Oxford circuits will unite, in common with yourself anti the gentlemen who have the manage ment of the principal London journals, and resent the insult offered to them by the bar of those circuits, and refrain from mentioning the names of the barristers employed in the various causes, which it is advisable, for the public benefit, to have re ported. Such a proceeding, I think, would affect the interest of these wealthy gentlemen more than any other plan that could be devised.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, A SOLICITOR. HEREFORD CITY R E PRESENTATION.—IIEREFORD, THURSDAY.—The nomination took place this morning; the worthy Mayor, W. Webb, Esq., in the chair. There was no opposition, therefore there was no uproar. Sir Robert Price, Bart., was pro posed by Robert Biddulph Phillips, of Longworth, Esq., and se. corded by Mr. Alderman Rogers. The Town.hall was crowded with respectable citizens, and the return was made amidst the plaudits of the assembly. The Hon. Baronet, on being declared duly elected, addressed the meeting at considerable length. After the election the new Member was escorted through the principal streets of the city in an open carriage. and four, attended by an im mense number of friends, the whole preceded by a band, &c. SUNDERLAND ELECTION.—On Thursday, Thomas Wood, Esq., shipowner, and one of the leading members of Mr. Hudson's Committee, was summoned before the magistrates and fined, for assaulting a poor tailor, named Kirkbride, who had been guilty of the unpardonable offence of hissing Mr. Hudson while Wood was cheering hint. The fining of this gentleman for the assault has produced an excellent effect in checking the " physical forte" demonstrations of the Tories. The canvassing was going on unremittingly during the day, and at night the constituency were addressed by the candidates and their friends. It is expeeted that the nomination will take place on Monday, and the polling on the following day. • TROTTING TN% 0 MILES UNDER SEVEN MINUTES.-- On Friday, a match, which had been made by Wells (of Islington) to trot his snare two miles within seven minutes, was accomplished on two miles of the Lower-road, Islington. The stakes were 101. The animal was drivel.' by its owner in harness and a common chaise-cart; the first wile was completed in three minutes and twenty-six seconds, and the second was performed in three minutes and twenty.two seconds; thus winning the match by trotting the two miles in twelve seconds less than the stipulated time. The mare was driven without a whip, and went the mole distance without a break DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE. This is an unequal number, with a choice of papers— some of considerable originality, others of singular de ficiency in that respect; and most of them too much clashed with a spirit of angry nationality. The " Coun tess r7lem:Jicc," by the Edier, is a well imagined adapta tion from the Sivilian I.genils of the eleventh century. — rich in historic interest and picturesque beauty, of which the I ditor has skilfully availed himself. This close of the " first book" brings us to the death of the execrable Giorgio Majone, the High Admiral; and the arch-poi soner of the story. " The Popular Author" is concluded with all the powers and pathos of the author of "La Gitaun." " Anecdotes of the Bastille," full of circum stantial but. terrible details, contrast fiercely enough with a very mawkish " Vision" by a Mr. L. Buckingham: to whom we are tempted to exclaim with the warning spirit of the great dramatist, "Sleep no more !" The best con tribution of all is the " Analysis of Wit from Esop to Pi n th." The essay entitled "Importance of Papal Bulls as Historical Records" is written with great earnestness, and by strie one who has devoted much research to the it u •t ration of a subject that carries with it historic value, as well as amusement. Nevertheless we are at once amused and startled by the gravity with which the or thodoxy if tl e writer's Romanism overlooks all moral and political wickedness in the Sovereign Pontiff in favour of his spiritu a infallibility. Thus, in recording with great complacency the crowned heads which in past ages in voked, received, or (tn,,re inexplicable still!) tolerated the suspension of their Sovereign titles at the hands of the reigning Pope, he allti.les to the most execrable mons ter of the middle ages, Rodrigo Borgia, in these terms: B V a single stroke of his pen, Alexander VI. put an end to the disputes between the King of Spain and Portugal, by &titling the boundary of their American conquests." In the a days the lay reader, we suspect, will be re under any feeling but one of kindred reverence or tee arrogance of the dispensing power which excites so witch admiration in the author, that " for 240 years the Supreme Pontiff deprived Polonia of the rank of kingdom, allowing is rulers to be distinguished by no to her title thiin that of duke." But with the horrors, the atrociti4?s, the iniamies, that have disgraced so many ocatipiers of the papal chair, and are still, as it were, present to our own eyes. as they will be in those of posterity, in the vivid pictures drawn by papal secre taries acid historians, Burchardus, Paulus Jovius, Plating, &e. ; we must protest against the " pious frauds" incorporated into the following wholesale ibis r?present Jtion of their ministry. " And let not the reader suppose that the pontiffs abused the power entrusted to them, for their own selfish purposes. They sought not to extend their territory, for they have ever been content with their own small patrimony; they strove not to enrich themselves, for, though the treasures of Christendom were poured into their lap, they were freely distributed for the good of religion and the relief of the distressed throughout the world. The propagation of religion, the diffusion of sound morality, the peace of Kings, and the happiness of the people, kave formed their rule of action." . t' - $ a live thrown a few words into italics to mark the fine ircmy with which they reflect on the real character of th, Johns, the Sinuses, the Juliuses, the Alexan ders, the Leos—of the papal rescripts and decretals (collected into such a system of morality as that, pro bably, to be found in the orthodox work of Sanchez) —of the Papal " indulgencies," and the doctrines taught by Iccelius and others in superintending the sale of them 1 THE BRITISH iIIeIGAZIIVE. The " original papers " of this number are " Modern " Antiquities " (being a further series of extracts from Archbishop Marsh's Diary), " The Church in Newfounoland," " The Supremacy of Conscience in the pursuit of Religious Faith," " On the restoration of the JesVs to the Land of Canaan," (a very " so so " spe culation)—are of unequal interest and very various merit. The ..miller contributions are generally of much inferior pretensions. The reader may be amused with a more than Pitseyite Puseyism. " Most extraordinary passages of this description are found in Dr. Pusey's books. For example, in his adaptation of Surin to the use of the English church, where he talks of truths which God inspires him to propound (p. 234), and says, ' As for me, i only follow his direction, and am hardly master of my pen,' (p. `24s)—and in another place he says, We feel ourselves, in fact, more enlightened in this one instant, than we should be after ten years of study in the schools. This is done by the operation of the Holy Spirit, and by the infusion of a light whi. h is quite simple, with no variety of objects, but which contains within itself the essence and abridgment of a thousand truths,' (p. 189); arid to illustrate the superiority of this inward light to that of reason or study, he says— " This has been proved in very many instances, and parti cularly with respect to St. Theresa. Fifteen learned men were assembled at Avila to judge by what spirit she was led. When the examination was finished, they concluded that the astonishing things that God worked in her were the operations of the devil. But a holy monk, of the order of St. Francis, passing by, perceived and declared that it was the spirit of God that governed her ; and St. Francis of Borgia, more illustrious for the gift of contemplation which God had given him than for his learning, eonfirmed this declarw ion. " • It is written in the life of St. Oar aof Monte-Falco, that she discovered a concealed heretic, who was universally re gardi.d and revered as a saint. God has worked many other wonders in his servants. Hi sent St. Bernard to destroy many errors, and to undeceive many heretics. Yet the saint in his youth had given but little time to study, and with all his talent, what he had learned could not have sufficed to write the many admirable works which he has left us. " Even women, as St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Theresa, and some others, have discoursed so well on the mysteries of the faith, that their works cannot be read without admiration. St. Ignatius, the founder of the Company of Jesus, had re ceived such light on the ineffable mystery of the Trinity, that he undertook to write a book on it without having studied. St. Francis of Assissi, when consulted on many difficult passages of Scripture, instantly replied so clearly, that learned men were surprised at him. You have only to read the Ckroniclesof his order to see acme remarkable instances of this; and all this proceeds, not from the strength and penetration of the human mind, but. from Divine illumination. Therefore it is more fitly called wisdom than learning.' "--p. 190, 191. " Tue forc,:t of Icily can no further go !" SIMMONDS' COLONIAL MAGAZINE. The Boers of Port Natal are under groat obligations to Mr. Simmonds. In an article in the present number, entitled, " The Cape of Good Hope, the emigrant Boers and Natal," he has made their oaseknown to the British public, and hari shown that they are more sinned against than si:,nitz, Major Sir W. C. Harris, in his work on Southern Afties, which is quoted in the paper now un (!er our consider.l6:,n, gives the following account of the grievances of the Boers berore their emigration to Nat al : 6 , Long subjected to the pilferings of a host of Hottentot va gabondQ, whose lives are passed in one perpetual round of idle ness, delinquency, and brutish intoxication on the threshold of the gin-shop, the South African settler has lately, in too many instances, been reduced from comparative affluence to want, by being unseasonably, and without adequate compensation, bereft of the services of his slaves, who, prone to villany, and no longer compelled to labour, have only served to swell the swarms of drones by which it is his destiny to be persecuted. Far greater than these, however, are the evils that have arisen out of the perverse misrepresentatio ns o f cant i ng an d d es i gn i ng men, to whose mischievous and gratuitous interference, veiled under the cloak of philanthropy,lB principally to be attributed THE RAILWAY REGISTER. This periodical is exactly what it professes to be, a complete register of all scatters relating to railways which have transpired during the last month, and a per manent record of every thing of interest connected with railway progress, and railer ay legislation. The valuable paper on Indian Railways is continued in tha present number, and is illustrated by a map care fully and accurately drawn on a large scale, showing the projected lines of the Great Indian Peninsular Railways. This number also contains a valuable paper (also il lustratt-d), a map on the subject of railways in the island of Sardinia. The article on railway legislation is con tinued, and in connexion with this subject,the editor of the Register, like every other person interested in railways, expresses his great a stisfaction at the extinction of the rtilway department of the Board of Trade. There are also articles on railways in Canaqa, arid railways in Holland, each illustrated by maps. The map illustrations of the Register are admirable, and are given with no niggard hand. They cannot but prove most useful to all persons interested in the subject, and reflect the highest credit on the liberality arid enterprise of the proprietors of this splendid periodkal. THE ART UNION. The present number contains as elaborate critique on the " Cartoon Exhibition in Westminster Hall," and ano ther on the " Frecoes in the Grand Pavilion at Bucking ham Pa'ace." Thcre is Rho an excellent paper (profusely illustrated) on "Ot want ntal Iksigns." The editor is doing good service to the cause of ei t by hie exposures (.f the tricks of picture dealers. His "Notices of Picture Sales" •+re worthy tile attf-ntion of all who set up for con noiseurs. GEORGE CRUIESHANICS TABLE BOOK. The August numbe r o f the " Table Book" is as full of wit and fur aq any of its predecessors. The illustra tions of " 'The Annual Emigration of Birds," and of 4' The Concert Monstre," wit re all the instruments are played by steam, are most laughter moving. W ADE'S LONDON REVIEW. The best paper in this number is a reviewer's, who has ad'iressed himself to a critical examination of Dr. Prichard' " Natural History of Man." What the " origin : A" paper s want in originality an d curious matter is abundantly suppliud in the article we are al luding to. THE BRITISH CHURCHMAN. We have, here, the first number of a series of papers ou " Christian Politics." It is entitled the " Church and the Ministry," is very bitter on the conduct of Sir Robert Pee), in respct of the late 11Isynooth and College En dowmAlts (Ir:,land) Bills, and concludes by an appal to the lay constituency of the kindom to return at the next general election "Protestants and Churchmen" But with the same amusing confidence in the man, which the High Church party still deny to the Minister, a locus penitentice is again provided for the Premier. " Then try," it is said, "if Sir Robert Peel's eyes cannot be opened to the real wants of the British nation. If he will but take this line, he would still be the best Minister that at present we could have ; he possesses unquestion ably more power eve n in his increasing unpopularity than any statesman who could be placed in his seat." " The History of the Church Establishment" we hope to see continued. It may be made to form an useful manual of reference. " Conversations of Contempora ries" supply a dramatic ~ ketch between Dr. M'Hale and Sir Robert Peel, not very smart nor effective. Mr. Ancona supplies an agr eea bl e paper on the r i se an d pro gress of architecture in England. FANNY. THE LITTLE MILLINER; or, THE RICH AND THE POOR. By C. Rower oft. Of this little tale the nterest does not at all flsg in the present number. There is abundant observation evi- ' denced in chapt r 44, from which we can only find space for extractiug a part of the homily delivered by some paupers whom a traveller encounters at their mid -day meal, at a road-side country ale-house. 6' That any one should talk to them of their hearts being glad, was to them altogether as unaccountable as the thing was inconceivable 1 and as to the sun shi ning —whether the sun shone or not, what was it to them ? The sun might shine, but the sunshine of the heart was a thing they never felt. Did the shining of the sun make their labour less, or their enjoyment mere ? If it ripened more plentifully the fruits of the earth, it. was not for them that e fruits of the e art h were ripened. It was for them to toil and sow and exhaust their animal ener gies in cons'ant labour, but it was for others to reap and to revel in its produce. What were they ? Labourerers. What are labourers? Human machines for the proAuct ion of wealth ; to be used like other machine s. atdmate or inanimate, at the minimum of cost : to be v orks d while they last, and to be flung aside like rusty iron and useless logs when they are fit to work no long , r. Their heart s feel g lad e ion whi c h t h ey had heard p G oo la r d g f o o t r i w )o h o a re t r ? ? That riid they produced more wealth fo r th e rich ? What w as it t o e arts and imp rov e ments not reason, but th ey f e lt t ttni h hfi e eee tn ytsyqsi t hut h iaiz a rrae t etsi t in h t, na. e tkt r ho i oe c tt h i, h3 g eom o v t w; r r i h c i ! ta h yTt e w r hoeic w ;t h ehe i en l a s l t adt h ht that as civilization increased their condition got worse. The wonderfil inventions of machinery, which t h ey b eheld but could not prize, what was it to them? Did it cause them to labour less ? They hated it,be d e t a at us i e t wthaesyhfeelldt thmaat,tinntshteeamdinofthebewinagy made the means of lightening the i r labour, it was u s ed i n com petition against their labour , pitting wood and i ron aga i nst o m f u d sc e l fi e a a n n ee d vi b ln then e st? e;and complained of the insufficiency of their r intolerable wages. They would have welcomed it as an aux ili ary ; t h ey abhorred it as a rival. As to t he education o a f o w t hi tn ch i, t ,e h r e ie ir s s m up or e e - periors made a parade—what was the use of it to t h em ? T o t m e a i s e e h r them a b le, t n h e e r gin ts g ; b t u o r t ens m make thoerie We understand that no day has yet been apointed for the execution of the seven pirates convicted at the Exeter assizes of the murder of Mr. PArner on the high seas. A legal cd Judge who pre objection, taken to their conviction by the p r i soner ' s counse l , thence t o the Learned Home-office , om e-offic e a' and which, we pre sumo, ee w n in to b r d to e w r a e r fe d red t sided at the trial of these monsters. This re f erence must necessarily cau.e some Hale delay, but i n t h e meantime no respite will be required for stay of execution, i nasmuc h as no precise day had been named for it when the conv i cts were sentenced.— Observer . re THE ARMY. ARRIVAL AT CHATHAM OF THE GALLANT 13TH LICHT IN - ra t - i.y rita:.l INDIA —The head•quartet sof the l'ith Light Inf:ntry, or Prince Albert's Own, arrived at this gar rison on Monday, from India. Their strength consisted of 23 sergeants, 15 corporals, 14 buglers, and 310 • privates, with 18 women and 21 children, under command of Lieut.- Colonel T. C. 'quire, with Major J. H. Fenwick; Cap tain A. E. F. Holcomb, Lieutenants Arthur Oake, P. R Burrowes, Arthur E. Frere, Charles Compton Abbott, Ensign J. F. Woolhouse, Quarter-master Sheridan, and As• sistant Surgeon A. A. Prout. They embarked at Bombay, in the ship Cornwall, March 23 ; and during the voyage, which was most favourable, the troops lost by death nine men and one woman, and the daughter of Major Fenwick. This distinguished regiment, the heroes of Jellaiabad, entered the garrison rm d the hearty welcome from the troops assembled to receive them on the general parade groun d, an d b y the principal o ffi cers of the garrison. The troops are very healthy. They brought home three colours which they captured in the late war with the Aff4hans ; two of them were taken at the recapture of Caubul; and another, which was a large scarlet flag, the standard of Akbar Khan, captured by Sergeant Ulyett; the armoury sergeant at the memorable retreat of the Affghans at Jellalabad on the 7th of April, 1842 ; when, on that occasron, the gallant 13th formed the centre of the army under General Sale and con sisted of 501) men. The m .jority of these soldiers are deco rated with three medals, bearing the inscriptions Ghuznee," "Jellalabad," and " Caubul." The Queen's colour is very much shattered, and also the regimental colour. The depot at this garrison, which joins th 3 regiment, is 361 in strenzth. The left wing of this regiment, by the ship Boyne, is expected Daily, having embarked at Bombay at the same time. 9th Royal Lancers.—On the 20th and 21st of May, Major General Sir Robert Dick, K.C. 8., commanding the Cawn pore division of the army, attended by Major-General Fearon, C. 13., and the division and station staff made his half-yearly inspection of this regiment, commanded by Colunel Campbell, C. B. and K. H. At the conclusion of the inspection. the gallant general highly complemented the commanding officer upon the very eff , cive state cf the corps, and remarkably healthy appearance of the men ; five horses only are wanted to complete this fine regiment, and they are prepared at all points to take th 3 field at the shortest notice. On the evening of 21st May the majorsgeneral and a large patty were entertained by Colonel Campbell and the officers at dinner. Colonel Scott, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel Fullerton, Captains Power, Willoughby, and Dawson, Lieutenant James Browne, were on leave at Simla. INFANTRY. 6th Royal.—Head-quarters and four companies, with the band and colours, staff, &c., under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Michel, marched from Richmond Barracks, Dublin, to Great Ship-street Barracks, on the 25th July. Four compa nies, under Major Crofton, marched on the same day to Ald borough House Barracks ; and two companies marched to Beggar's Bush Barracks. Relieving head-quarters of the 41st Regiment, and the detachments at the stations, the 6th Royal will shortly march for Mulltngar to relieve the 54th Regiment. 11th Regiment (Chatham).—On Friday next the Ilth Re giment, consisting of 10 sergeants and 240 rank and file, with 30 women and 40 children, will embark at Gravesend on board the ship Ramilies, for Van Diemen's Land, under the com mand of Major J. Singleton Captain E. L. Bl oss e, C a pt a i n W. Kenning, Lieut. ' John R. H. Parker, Ensign Stewart, Ensign Quantrill, Ensign M'Lean, Ensign M. S. Creker, and Assistant Surgeon Marshall. The following drafts from the Provisional Battalion embark with the above :-14 privates, 55th Regiment ; 32 privates, 96th ; and 4 privates, 99 , h Re giment. It is expected that a demi-battery of Royal Artil lery, from Woolwich, will proceed with the above. 22d Regiment.—Lieutenant Mayeoek, will embark this day at Gravesend, on board the ship Owen Glendower, for Bombay, to join his regiment there. ilst (Welsh) Regiment.—Four companies head-quarters, with the band, colours, and staff, under the command of Lieu. tenant-Colonel Browne, C. 8., marched from Great Ship-street Barracks, Dublin, to the Royal Barracks, on the 25th July ; the detachment of 4 companies, under Brevet Lieutenant-Co. lonel Simmons, C. 8., Aldborough House Barracks, and 2 companies under Major Carpenter, moved from Beggars Bush Barrack to the Royal Barracks same day. 54th Regiment, Mullingar, will shortly march on Dublin, the service companies to embark by steam-vessels for Cork, there to await further conveyance to Gibraltar. Col. Mildmay False is commanding. 60th ( Royal Rifle Corps).—The depot of the 60th Rifles arrived in Chatham garrison on the 27th instant. Strength as follows :—Captain Poyws, Lieut. Fielden, Lieut, Travers, 11 serjeants, 6 corporals, 1 bugler, 72 privates, 35 women. and 46 children ; 1 pay-serjeant, 3 privates, and also 9 men sick in hospital were left behind. The depot of this regiment at Paisley was reviewed on Wednesday last, in the Barrack square, Paisley, by Major General Sir Neil Douglas, com mander of the Queens forces in Scotland. He arrived shortly after twelve o'clock, accompanied by Lord Jocelyn, his aide de camp. The general was received with all the honours by Major Cromhie, the soldiers presenting arms, the band playing a salute. The general, after inspecting the front and rear ranks, took his station on the south side of the square, and the whole were formed into four companies, and marched past him in slow and quick time, formed in line, and went through the manual and platoon exercise, and fired a round from flank to centre. They next marched across the square in echelon, drew up in line and fired a volley ; then formed into two squares, those in front kneeling, with fixed swords on their rifles, and those in the centre discharging their rifles as if attacked by cavalry. The whole body then formed into one solid square, and repeated the previous beautiful tactic. The whole of the manoeuvres, under the command of Major Crombie, were ex ecuted with a precision that would have done honour to a cores of veterans. The general complimented the major highly on the soldier-like appearance of the corps, and their high state of discipline. The general afterwards visited the barracks and the soldiers' mess-rooms. 61st Depot arrived at Chatham from Cork, on the 27th inst. The strength is 12 sergeants, 6 corporals, 1 drummer, and 123 rank and file, under the command of Captain William Ward. with Lieut. T. P. H. Fitzmayer, Lieut. W. Maycock, and Ensign Charles Lennox Maher; 63 women and children came with the troops. The depot leaves behind at Cork 3 sergeants and 21 privates. 64th (2d Staffordshire) Regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Severns William Lynam Stretten, arrived at the North-hall, Dublin, on the 26th July, on board of the Bir mingham, Mersey, and Leeds steam-vessels, from Liverpool, were disembarked, with their baggage, women, and children, and marched to Richmond Barracks, to relieve the 6th" Royal Regiment. Lieut. Kilvington is recruiting at London, as su perintending officer of the 2d Infantry, sub-division. 65th Regiment.—On Monday the head quarters, comprising the Grenadiers and the Ist, 3d, add 6th company, numbering 22 sergeants and 292 rank and file, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Henry Senior, with Major James Fatience. Captain J. Lewis Smith, Lieuts. Peter Wolfe, J. W. Marshall, Chas. G. Trafford, D. Bazalgette, T. R. Al‘Coy, F. Barnard, and Lieut. George Mayler ; Ensign Stephen Blake, and Assistant Surgeon James G. P. Moore, arrived at Chatham, from Dublin. The other divisions of this regiment are expected. 76th Regiment (China).—Ninety-six persons of this regi ment, from Chatham, will embark on board the ship Owen Glendower, at Gravesend, this day, for Bombay. THE CONVICT SLAVERS. (From the Western 7 lines.) The conv:ets. immediately on their condemnation, appeared to be moved by indignant feelings rather than apprehensions :Or their fate. Alajaval, the Spaniard. exclaimed that he had not had a fair trial ; he had been silent during the whole time; but if he had thought that he should have had such justice as this, he would have taken a very different course. He said that before such a fellow as Cuqueira would have been permitted to give evidence in his country, the people would have torn him to pieces. He drew his hand across his thro t with an action that could not be mistaken ; and the revengeful feeling which it indicated being rebuked, he said that the people would have killed him ; he did not mean that he would have done it himself. The idea of bloodshed seemed to be familiar to his mind. He begged to be allowed to write to the Queen of Spain. He complained that he had written to his Government, wlien first taken into custody, and had received no reply, and had no notice taken of his letter. His whole bearing indicated anger rather than terror. Serva, the captain, maintained his wonted tranquillity, but his frame relaxed on hearing the verdict, from the iron tension to which it had been screwed up. Alves, the blood-drinker, has a high and expansive brow; there is less of the fiend in his countenance than in that of his right-hand man, Serva, who stood by his side during the trial. His demeanour was quiet, grave, and thoughtful, and valid thoughts, one would have supposed, held firm possession of his quiet breast. Yet this man was the first to rush upon deck, in reply to the bloody command of Serva, "kill, kill ;" he was he first who received the knock-down blow of the quarter master, and being pitched into the sea by that heroic English man, regaining the yes-el after the latter was killed, and not having had his revenge—drank his blood ! Such is the evi dence. Murderer and savage as he was by the evidence, he stood in the dock, repelling, by his placid demeanour, and his mild and thoughtful face, the bloody reputation which the evidence cast upon him. When the verdict was pronounced, he, for the first time, appeared anxious. The torture of them all, when brought up to know the issue, NM visible ; for there was a formal placing of them in the dock, the counting of the jury. and the customary challenge to the foreman as to the unanimity of their agreement in the verdict they were about to deliver. All this, if done in any ordinary matter, would pass unnoticed. But when life or death are in the issue, the moments hang like a weight on the soul ; and even to the spectator the suspense is intolerable. Majeval east a glance timidly round at the jury ' • but he quickly withdrew it, as if be felt that he had a part to play, and that it ill became him to express apprehension, or anxiety. But though his mind was sealed within his breast, his sufferings we:e manifest to the close observer. A restless movement in the half closed right hand showed the intense effort which it required in that awful moment, to assume the bearing of repose and indifference. Serve's arms fell placid by his side, and his whole frame became listless—it was but momentary—but it showed that his mind was struck with the agony of the moment. Alves was calm tiX the sentence was delivered. Profuse per spiration then overspread his brow, and he wiped his forehead with a small bit of rag, which he had been rubbing to and fro in his unconscious fingers. In earnest, but gentle accents, he sought t 3 speak, but through the clamorous gesticulations of the Spanirds, he received no attention, and redoubled agony cams over him, as he had to speak an unknown tongue to an audience and judge ignorant of his language. His look of wild despair reminded one of a man struggling in sleep with some desperate phantom from which there is no hope of escape. They were all taken back to prison, and placed in the con demned cells, with guards over them day and night. Janees Majaval is not the nephew of Espart.ero ( Duke of Victoria), as reported, but the second cousin of the Duchess of Victoria. Majaval's grandmother, and the grandmother of the Duchess were sisters. The prisoners have not been ironed. They are kept in separate cells, and eat and drink heartily. They are allowed tobacco to chew, and snuff. They take their meals with as much nonchalance as if there was no sentence of death im pending over them, and "they eat their full allowance." They all take exercise daily, except Serva, vrhe keeps his bed, being afflicted with a bad leg, and Alves, who spends much of his time in reading. Majaval, immediately after condemna tion, applied for writing materials, and would not listen to any spiritual advice until he had penned a narrative ( as he says) of the whole transaction for the information of h is Government.of diligence. Those of them who ca The materials were supplieJ, and l n ie r s e e a t d a h tu e t b i e t en wi s t u h p g p r l e ie a d t the m hi t s wie,, s w id it er h atiloeuasttbeonotkiOn.by the priest, and they read them with con- Theß th e e v. un T f h o o rt s u . Costello, natep ser vices to Tiverton, o h n a , d volunteered attended theß ev.ofDariarLgiema,arespectable when on Tuesday last, Por tuguese priest, who has charge rion of er T s congregation at Strat ford, Essex, was directed by the Catholic Bishop, Dr. :Griffiths, to come down and afford them every spiritual assistance. lie is indefatigable in his attentions, and the good effects of his visit are very manifest. They have all been much tranquillized since his appearance, most of them having " made a clean breast of it." All, except Serva, have been wrought upon by the coun sels of the reverend father ; but he remains obdurate. What he has," he says, " is in his own heart." He'll confess nothing. This man was the terror of the coast—d ar i ng and unscrupulous, . pursuing his bloody traffic with a fearless and ferocious spirit— ,t neither fearing God nor Devil." Ile held human life toe cheap to be unprepared for this alternative, it is to be pre sumed; and he bears himself with a degree of stoical indiffer ence, which was unshaken by the three days' trial. A petition against the execution of the prisoners has been got up in this city ; and it is reported that Sir Thorns, Wilde intends to brieg the subject before Parham - at—but nothing ti yet art , . tain. They remain at present under sentence of death. But the general opinion of the lawyers being strongly in favor of Str-geant Manning's law, Baron Platt deter mined to consult his Learned Brother, Mr. Just ce Erle, as to the propriety of reserving the points of law for the decision of the twelve judges. The Under Sheriff, Mark Kennaway, Esq., was to meet the Learned Judges to. day, on their return from Corn wall. Should they dec;tle against the appeal, the prisoners will be left for execution. HON. RICHARD RUSH ON OREGON. (From the iVtw York Tribune). Mr. Rush has done the public a timely service in this publication. A part of it, indeed, is rather agrveable than important—accounts of great men visited, good (In ners eaten, &c., while there is evinced throughout an anxious desire and study to exhibit the author in a fa vourab!e light, as a vigilant, sagacious, and devoted champion of his country's rights and interets. Natural as this is. we think it might base been efft c'ed leis ob trusively. Yet the book is a good one for all times, anti esneeially for this time. Mr. Rush was lung on terms tif intimacy and mutual regard with many of the g , eat nun of the la-t generation—among them, with Cas•l,re , gh, Canning, w:.ll 7 n , rton, end thtoir comp , trots, who hal just carried England triumphantly through the mightie t struggle in which any nation had ever het.n cryogen. Mr. Rush shows tht_A the Tory ministry of the day was ardently desirous of preserving End inttretsing friendly rela: ions between their country anti our.;, out th , tt (11 one ecasiun (the hanging of Arbuthn it and Arnhrister by General Jackson), when tl.e ministry opposed and defeated a motion by the Marquis of Lansdowne, look ing to belligerent action on the subject, Lord Castlerogh privately assured him (Mr. li.) that, such WAS the urn per of parliament and such the feeling of the country, that war might have been produced by holding: up a finger, and he thought an address to the Crown recom mending one might have been carried by nearly a anon'. mous vote. Ana now of Oregon. Five years bad passed, and with them Lord Castlereagh, to whose place as Secretary to Foreign Affairs George Canning had succeeded. Mr. Rush had instructions from our administration (Mr. Monroe's) to press the se'tlement of several oeen questions, among them that of our boon lary westward of the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Canning invited him ta a personal interview, expressly on this subject. Mr. Rush went at the appointed time, and found Mr. Canning confined to his bed by an attack of the gout, but still ready and anxious to proceed to business. He desired first to be put in possession of the American claim, and the grounds on which it. was based. Mr. Riot (htteitlg been five years minister at London, and fully instructed on the subject by our Go', ernment) stated °tic claim, and traced on a map of America, laid on the bed, the boundary we required. Mr. Canning, hardy able to follow the delineation, only remarked that " our claim seemed much beyond any that England had anticieated." Mr. Rush answered that he hoped to be able to show a good foundation - for it. After some further but general conversation, Mr. Rush took leave, having at Mr. Cart ning's request submitted " a brief informal statement. or memorandum of our claim in writing." Mr. Cenekg sent a similar note in the everieg, expressiter, serp , e,e at that portion of Mr. Rush's eee.(bee suggested an interdict of British sealeaeles ee • coast north of 55 d eg ., w hi c h l ed to rxplenet; ; •Ht. all this is immat er i a l. O ur b us i ness i s here w i t h he main question. Now, will not our people who have Oren tol,; in the resolutions of reckless, shameless party caucuses, that " our right to the whole of Oregon [that is, to 54 aeg. 40 min. north] is clear and unquestionable," be astonished to hear that we did not even claim so far, by 200 mules, twenty years ago ? Yet such is the te letnn, officially demonstrated fact. Mr. Rush was not asked to prip-se a compromise, or to say how little we se mild take. Ele was asked to set forth familiarly the extent of our chilli to territory west of the Rocky Mountains, and he (act ing under ample instructions from Mr. Munro,'s Cabi net) only claimed to the 51st degree of north latitude. When the negotiation was opened, he came down to the 49th degree, but even this was deemed inadmissible by the British Ministry, who propesed the middle of the Columbia river as the boundary, the navigation of sa':.cl river to be at all times free and open to both pares. This was in turn rejected on our part, and finally (ISe7) Great Britain offered to concede in addiColi a *mall de tached district on the Strait of Fuca, so es to give us a good harbour on the Pacific, there being no harbours deemed safe and easy of access for large vessels, eitler at the mouth of Columbia, or in Oregon south of it. This is the nearest approach to an agreement which has jet been made. The tract really in dispute, lying , be tween lat. 49 deg. and the Columbia river, has very little intrinsic value, but the navigation of the river is a mat ter of prospective importance. Suck is substantially the case as it stands. Now we ask every candid, intelligent being, in vi: w of these undeniable facts, to judge whether the ass , r • tion that "our right to the whole of Oregon is clear aril unquestionable " is not a flagitious, monstrous false hood ? If there had been a colour of truth to sustain it, would our Government have commenced the negotia tion by claiming only to 51 deg., and from this have speedily offered to compromise at 49 deg. ? In one case, indeed, in reply to remonstrances against Mr. Monroe's famous declaration that this continent was to be regarded as no more subject to European co lonisation, Mr. Rush intimtted (as we find in his report to his own Government) that our claims extended as far north as the 60th degree, but we find nothing an swering to this in the pretensions which astonished Mr. Canning. On the other hand, Mr. Canning very forcibly urged, in resisting our claim up to the 51st degree, that Great Britain had been obliged to resist this very claim of exclusive jurisdiction when preferred by Spain her self, and attempted to be enforced against Mearbs at Nootka. Having thus resisted and compelled a relin quishment of this claim when set up by its original author, she could not recede from the around then esta blished and admitted at the demand of a purchaser or legatee. And it is deserving of remark that, this Nootka treaty of 1790 was first appealed to as evidence by Mr. Rush on our part—not proffered on that of Great Bri tain. But neither party dreamed of questioning the validity, subsisting and active, of that treaty or cenven don. Both sides clearly regarded it as we have ever regarded it, and as all who consider the nature of that treaty and the acknowledged principles of the law of nations, must regard it. The contrary assumption ,-.fords a striking evidence that " Necessity is the mother of in vention." And now consider under what circumstances our Go vernment is urged to take military and formal p :sses sion of the whole territory. including many British trading posts of 10 to 30 years' standing. We com menced by claiming 51 deg., otier.Nl to be , ittlistii.d with 49 deg., were refused that, and are now urged to take the whole at one dash, without negotiation or compro mise, and, it was even urged, without giving the year's notice which we have solemnly stipulated by treaty. Would not any formal taking possession of Oregon, without the year's notice, be a flagrant violation of national faith ? Would not the taleieg forcible posses sion of all Oregon, after having formally offered to be content with halt of it, be an act of the clearest egres sion and hostility, sure to be resisted as such ? To these questions there can be but one honest, intelligent answer. He who urges our Government to take possession of all Oregon urges the commencement of a distant, expensive, and bloody war, with one of the great powers of the earth, for so much of that territory as lies north of the Columbia River. Now, if the American people choose to begin such a war, they will do it ; but they shall not be led into it blindfold. We do not doubt that it is profitable rather to hurrah our people on to unjustifiable and unfour.ded pretensions than to undeceive and warn them. Let a stranger ccme along, telling each family that a great estate had just fallen to it by inheritance, and he would be welcomed and feasted though his news might be doubted ; but he who came after to disabuse the general credulity would hardly be thanked, even thong h he could not be dis believed. Thus, we have just received two papers, the Ohio St ,tesman and the Buffalo Mt. which r. peat the parrot slang about "taking the British side," without offering one particle of evidenc e to invalidate our positions. Th. Pilot is mean enough to talk of our " mentA vassalage to English teaching and opinions," our "contracted trade views from the importing atmo sphere you breathe," &c. The editor, however male volent, is not ignorant that the importing interest has never supported or been supported by the Tribune, and that the journals of our city, which are subservient to that interest, are all hot for taking Oregon. And the Ohio Statesman says, we "show the cloven foot" in the ground we take on this question, and that "since the first organisation of this Government, in all its difficulties with foreign nations, Federalism has shown its consistency by invariably taking sides against tha Unied States." If we hare read history aright it was not the Federal party that opposed the course of our Government in our difficulties with France in 1798-99 ; neither was it the party the Statesman calls Federal which took the part of Great Britain in the Went India trade controversy of 1826-7. How was this, Statesman ? But for our part, we hold it the part of a good citizen first, to keep his country in the right, and warn her when demagogues would put her in the wrong to subserve their own selfish ends. This duty we shall fearlessly discharge, at what ever cost. We stand for justice and peace ; whoever would tempt our country to do w rong is her . illusive deadliest enemy, though thoughtless millions huzza at Success in wrong is a guilty and triiimph, surd to re , ult in direct calamities. Woe to that people whicl, dreams of aggrandizing itself by encroaching ou and de spoiling others. Mg. HORACE SMITIL—The distinguished author of .‘ Brambletye House," and a host of other works which have placed his name in the front rank of our living novelists is about to put forth a new work of fiction, bra ing the cu• ions yS thatm Smith's h ' s e pen had has bef rc achieved title of " Love . and Mesmerism." From this designation we may conceive that we are to have one of those lively stories of notte dayeve even y exceeded which :I rb.reputation the field of historical romance,. or the more sparkling realms of wit. , cqu acquired e d a " Mesmerism" is now an all-engrossing topic, and a better hand than that of the author of " Rejected Addresses" hardly be found to treat so rich a subject. HOLY IsLA.ND.—Dur'ng the past week some dis coveries have been suede upon the island which are likely to be interesting to the antiquary. The wo:kmen employed in forming a road-way from the lime-kilns to the place or ship ment came upon the foundations of some buildings, and as neither tradition nor history assign any habitation or structure to that part of the island, the workmen's curiosity was very much excited; and along what is called the Snook, on the north side of the island, they traced a line of foundations which oc cupy in extent about an acre and a half. In the course of their operations they found two coins of the reign of Ethelred, and, supposing that to have been the period when these foundations were formed, they must have existed for upwards of a thou san d years. • The cathedral was built in the reign of William Rufus, 200 years after Ethelred. The coins have been shown us, and are certainly a great prize to the antiquary. We were in formed they are Saxon sticas; they are in wonderful preserva tion, the superscription being unmutilated. The coin is made of a composition apparently, being neither silver nor brats. A stica, we understand, was worth about 2d. or lid. 1 -1 I of etc' of Ile