The Sun. — London, England, 1851-05-05 00:00:00

oft is th e P er the co orrtl; ; 849, le" - Eslc. .-. res. '• ". 1 12 •• gy II ....: si 5 ••• 3 73 LS •",. wpors res. r! )3 ••• )9By ••• p 6 1341, f r o o f e ste.. A p ii , roZiPg " 0 794 g )g w e r e 0 00 the W I 0 0 rourablo_ ry vat s`e abed_ in "" 8 solliOg 3 were fr ee arrife_l 9. o mprisgu ats — of other P — od, Seol IledS c P - P° SbeeP )1y O. 01, ii n gre er 81 s ', 811* 10d P e o botO )lelf t e . w hicS 'hi, " value of freo pg frl g ht ',le 0 C !woo whte— hie o f P to rate& s, 4. t ° 3 0 , 210 3 4 } 3.2 tto3 6 31 0 ,r 3 • ° 000 ° s 3 0 31 0 :14 3 6 : 0 2° TTIE SUN, lite was heard for several days. It was most anxiously HER 3IAJEST 'S THEATRE. neidered, and the Court ultimately pronounced a must lucid On Saturday evening Madame Sontag made her re...entre for and elaborate judgment, which he had carefully lead and the season, in the character of Maria, in the most lively cf •"'„,'3' concurred in. kr. R operas, La Figlia del Reggimento. Madame Sontag looked oEnth K said he was about to submit to their Lord- more charmingly ann sang more sweetly than ever, her act pa' consideration new matter, but in doing so he must t :s_rt that new matter within the various items of evidence in in the first act was the very perfection of naiveté, and in t Z . L,sere already before the Court. He proposed to treat the second act the singing lesson was one of the greatest rietertic vocal triumphs ever aceieved. G delorti was the Tonio, and i' o e m k e .% . o:urt not in its character of a court of justice, but as a gave the duet in the first act with S , ntag exquisitely. F. guarani, who were called upon to try the moral cha- Lablache made e glorious Sergeant; and the chorus singers of one of its officers; aud, treating the Court in that were admirably drilled in every sense of the work. Between 4, he should ask their Lordships to receive in evidence the acts of the opera Carlotta Grisi danced the Truandaise ; i 5. e,. 10 case matter which, though it could not be considered and the beautiful Watteau ballet, L'lle des Amours, with t .2egal testimony, was yet sufficient to carry with it a Amelia Ferraris as the heroine, concluded the evening's 7 4 ' .. 11 ± 1 convictiOn, which no just or even common sense amusement. The house was crowded. charge could resist. He shouet dismiss at once the r •g e of malpractices which were vamped up 4 4st Mr. Barber before the criminal charge came out, p e t ause he took it up to the period of this transaction the c_Ort held his character to have been highly respectable. " L ' l 2,r. Mr. Barber's conduct, eubseque itiy to leaving Eng ,7,71 was evilently such as to induce a belief that there ) ,""u have been no collusion between him and Fletcher ; and 7. 110 man could be suddenly made a criminal he wanted to bed before their Lordships the proceedings of Barber atter t _ l reduc d from a situation of respectability to that of 4‘,o,nvicted criminal. It should, however, be understood that sa i D er's practice, when he was in business, was not of that I , l l r e as to make him at all acquainted with our criminal law, n oe l e he should again impress upon the Court that the posi ; he wished now to take up was that of simply inquiring , a moral character, just as if he had been acquitted on j e ° criminal charge. Now he understoo d the Court, in g iving S.° judgment in theformer motion, pronounced an opinion Lett Mr. Barber was wilfully blind to the nature of the trans itions iu which he had been engaged for Fletcher. W l T he LORD CDIEF JUSTICE—The Court said he was wilfull y ad) and did not choose to inquire into the c haracter of the tra nsactions. th Mr. ROEBUCKsaid, just so, and he ha d now to show Mr. Barb r was not so wilfully blind as the ° til t supposed. The supposition of the Court was based upon p pp arestantial evidence, but the confession and cou duct of Fle tcher were sufficient to prove tha t such evidence was fall acious. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to argue at length in favour of the allegation, insisting that w et ther so artfully concocted his romances that the most tete attorney might have been deceived by them, and re bhiading the Court that it was utterly impossible for any E "Men being to believe hat Mr. Barber would have same !Act his future hopes in life had he been in possession of the 'ernotest clue to the real nature of the transactions he was &aging in his capacity of an attorney. It should i 7 distinctly borne in mind, that the only intereet :ar derived from the transactions were the fees due to him fit the exercise of his professional services; but it might be un dertake that it was not altogether cred itable for an attorney to ',! U lertake such a questionable spec ies of business. Fletcher, t he concoctor of these schemes, had been extensively engaged g lO ferritin out owners for unc aimed Give:lends in the Bank, and lance he had brought fuur genuine cases to Alr. Barber'e o ffice, how could he refuse to undert ake the others, which, t e laut the face of them appeared to be equally le g itimate? No tlbt there were some professional men who would have re fused them, but it must not be inferred from that fact that d . O practitioner who accepted must be considered as a ta lionest and dishonourable tutee. If such a dictum as thi ere to prevail, how many gentlem en now p ractising at the bar, as well as attorneys who accepted a class of business Which he and others would reject, must be set down as dis honest? Away then with that objection. The Learned Counsel dwelt for some time upon the circumstance of Mr. Z i k rchani having been kept out of the wa y b y the parties "" 0 , prosecuted Mr. Barber. That g entleman, he said, i have proved that Mr. Barber exhorted F letcher, when the fraud t a fraud first came to light , to g o into the witne s-box and all that he knew of the case; but the absence of Mr. irea m gave the prosecutors an opportunity of insinuating a gainst Mr. Barber that he and Fletcher had been together attempted to concoct an answer to the charge. ue Learned Gentleman who spoke ;or nearly two hours, e_ ncluded by entreating the ' Court to do this last act of jus tice to Mr. Barber, and permit that unfortunate gentleman to obtain his former position in society. aidTbeLotto CHIEF JUSTICE said this was a case of con ard e difficulty erabland delicacy, but nevertheless esr. Roe tick had discharged his duty moat efficiently, aud had m ade his statement with great perspicuity, force, and pro , peaty, The Court thoug ht, however, that the most fitting co arse now to be followed was to take ,time to look into te `ue affidavits, and reserve the decision of the Court for come ktue d • e BAIL COURT.—(T HIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice COLEBIDGE.) CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST THE " MORNING ADVERTISER " Mr* Serant SHIM said, he was instructed to move for a title to show cause why a criminal information should not be against Mr. David Scutt, the printer of the Morning lavertiser, for certain libels that appeared in that jouraat o h the t2th and 10th of March last. The Learned Counsel !lade the application on the affidavits of a considerable „"Inber of the inmates of a religious institution or establish rent known as the Conve c t of Notre D,me, in Bedford. Clapham, as well as on the affidavits of the sister auperioress, the spiritu al advisers or directors, t i l the medical attendants be l o n g in g to that society, , . t th h a d b een established under the provis ions of the 10th it.kzeo. e. 7, entitled an Act for the relief of his Majesty's raan Catholic subjects. T hese affidavits set out that on t he 12th of March a paragraph was published in the Morning a dvertiser„, u nder the title of " A New Order of Nuns." * lch stated that very great co mmotion had lately .taken place in a convent on the south side of the Thames, in the . einity of a well-known common , to the suprise aril con- Trnation of the sisterhood , i n conse q uence of a nun of in. P antile age, or rather of no age at all, suddenly making her appearance among them. The paragraph then went on to s ax , that the custom of taking the veil had been dispensed lila on the occasion, that the nun made her appearance I lithont preparation of any kind, and amidst sounds made I 'Y .heraelf, which ill accord- d with the laws of the place ; and concluded by referring t he readers of the journal for fur ther p art i cu lars to the medical gentlemi-n, who, instead of the rvieit; had assisted in bringing the interesting little strange , 114 0 the convent and the world. The second alleged libel c onsisted in what was state d to be a correct report of a speech delivered by a Mr. Edward Turner, at meting, held at the Bridge - ho use Hotel, L oudn-bridge, e for the purpose of petio nin g Parliament for a more effectual Bill against the designs of Popery. Thi. gehtleman, Mr. Turner, after alluding to the detention of a i°ung !My in a convent by the Earl and Countess of Shrews ur3r, was represented in the Morning Advertiser to have ad ' "Med to the demoralizing nature ot these institutions, and to have said that he had go od authorit y for believing the tr uth of the ease of child - b irth which was reported to have ea place at a nunnery at Clap ham. The affidavits now stat e d l4 that these libels were intended to apply to the convent ,of Notre Dame, in Bedford - lane , C la p ham, and were meant o assert and insinuate that a sister or member of that reli f"lll3 society had given bir th to a bastard child, and that tl mmoralities were practised by the i nmates of that cornmu ,, : 4 Y. Clarissa Noel, the sister superioress in her de geitions, gave an account of the convent since establishment in .848, and also the • names ,of the different persons who ever had been or were now and in. mates ot the convent , as well a s the names of the priest ,medical gentlemen who had at any time access to it. She !Rated that the " sisters" bad originally come from the con eat of N o tre Dame, at Namur , and s ettled, in the first in -It4ficv, at Penryn, in Cornwa ll, but moved from there to the i,Cavt-nt tiny are now resident in, in the month of Septern tkr.lB4B. She then went on t o sa y that no persons beyond :` 06 5 she had mentionedivere resident in the conv ent at the time she made the affidavit, except certain scholars who sere placed under her care for the purpose of education, and casionally certain visitors, and that during the time she h ad mentioned no child had been born of her, or, to the t r of her belief, of any m ember of the said community, or o i„ any person at any time residing therein, or t " any way connected w ith the establishment ; (4. had any other pers,n been pregnant with child nor had there been a n y immoralities of any descrip tio xi. ' practised in the said community by any member of it or Person connec'ed therewith. The affidavits of the lady • Visitors at the convent, who it appeared had been inmates ° f convents bearing the same name at Blackburn and Liver- Pool of the twenty " sisters , " who had been resident at the since 18 48 , of the two reverend g entlemen, and a two medical practitioners, who were occasionally in the habit of visiting the establishment, denied the trutri of the assertion as to the birth of a child, in somewhat similar te rlfla, but confining their statements to circumstances within their own knowledge and belief. Mr. Sergeant SHEE, having alluded to the usual affidavits asking his publication and printir.g of the paper, concluded by his Lordship to grant a rule to show cause. air. Justice ConaninaiE;—You are entitled to a rule ; but I would suggest to you that nothing is said with regard to the a ge of the scholars. They maybe, for what appears on the lifidavit, fifteen or sixteen year s of a g e. You should make " affidavit more comolete, becau se one of the medical gen tlemen confines himself to the m embers of the society, and the Other says he only occasionally attends on some of the s cholars. • Mr. Sergeant SHEE—We can make that more complete. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE You are entitled to a rule. Rule granted accordingly. t i 4 I`4IICAL INFORMATION AGAINST THE "MORNING HERALD." Mr. Sergeant SHEE then said that h e had to move for ano ther criminal information against the printer and publisher of 0 Morning Herald, for a libel p ublished in that paper on the 20th of March, and arising out of the same circumstances. The alleged libel was a comment, in the shape of a leading iktticle, on an explanation which the W eekl y Dis p atch pub i shed of the transaction, that journal stating that the • Young lady who gave birth to the child was in no way con. • s • li k lected w ith the convent , but was a stra n g er, whose situation h ad been the commiserat i o n of some of the inmates, and '?„ 4 4 been received into the convent during her confinement. statement the Morning Herald treated as coming from ' rDr. Wiseman, and observed that it made the matter worse Instead of exculpating the parties. The affidavits were "early the same, word for word, as those in the above case. Learned JUDGE granted a rule. HAYMARKET THEATRE. Douglas Jerrold's new comedy Retired from Business; which was produced here on Saturday evening, is one of character rather than of plot—of witty, sparkling, sarcastic dialogue rather than of startling incident; it is a comedy of humours, such an one as Ben Jenson would have written had he lived in this our day ; a comedy which to be appreciated properly' must be seen three or four times, a comedy to be studi d ; a play not for the stage only, but for the closet also ; in every sense of the word, a thoroughly English play. England, and Eng- Luel alone, could produce a Puffin, a Pennyweight, a Cackle (an old " Salt" of the genuine Smollett school) or a Gunn. A Jubile_; or a Creepmouse might perhaps be found in France, but even they are modified in so many particulars as to become almost as thoroughly and peculiarly English as the characters among whom , hey live and move and have their being. We give below the notice of the comedy which appears in the Times, in which a full detail will be found of the plot.. The play wes admirably put on the stage. and the acting of Wallack, Webster, Bucketone, and Miss Peyn-lds was perfect as, indeed, was the acting of Mrs Fitznilliam, although she did not look exactly like a young gentleman is his teens. The house was very well attended, and the piece was announced for repetition amidst loud applause. The p performe7s were called on at the conclusion, and ;here were loud calls for Mr. Douglas Jerrold, who bowed his acknowledgments from a private box. (From the Times.) Saturday evening was marked by an event generally deemed interesting in the dramatic world—the production of a new comedy by Mr. Douglas Jerrt'ld. His name is one of the few now connected with the stage that carries with it a uaraltee that the work to be exhibited will have something ood about it in some shape or other. If the plot be not arriel out with Gallic skill, and if the characters be too fan a nically coloured, we may feel certain that there will be bandaece of pungent repartee that th e re will be soe oat combination combination of images that , has never been previouslyv conceived. This time Mr. Jerrold makes his play in three sets a happy sign. When peed dramatists are but few it has an unhealthy influence when a writer like Mr. Jerrold takes the side of a superstition that, as much as any other, has checked the modern English drama—the superstition of five acts. Mr. Jerrold's own successes with the fewer num ber of acts have been brilliant ; his five-act produstions have seldom attained a permanent theatrical existence, and we are glad to see him return to freedom from a shackling con vention. If dramatists would but lay it down as a maxim that the form of a production should be regulated by the material, a whole host of fallacies which now encumber the dramatic atmosphere, warping opinions and generating prac ,ical difficulties, would be swept away into non-entity. air. Jerrold, albeit much more a writer of kindliness than satire—for he only deals hard blows at generalities just to show his epigrammatic power, while he evidently speaks trout his own bea t when he utters a benevolent sentiment— neve thele,s constantly assumes the satirist's habit, and on this occasion he would exhibit the follies consequent on the daltry distinctions of rank observed by those respectable citi zens who, having made their fortunes, seek the otium cum aignitate a few miles from the metropolis. Retired from Business is the title of the piece, and the imaginary village of Pumpkinfield is the place of action. In this cockney para dise society is divided into two factions by the iron law of gentility, and the " bill-ocracy," or quondam merchants, hate the " till-ocracy," or tradesmen, with as much virulence as an ancient Guelph hated an ancient Ghibelline. To use the very happy words of the author, " Raw wool doesn't speak to halfpenny ball of worsted, tallow in the cask looks down upon sixes in the p and, and pig-iron turns up his nose at tenpenny nails." Mr. Puffins (Mr. Rogers), a Russia merchant, his wife (Mrs. Caulfield), and sail Paul (Mrs. Fitzwilliam), to ether with Mr. Creepmouse ( Mr. Buckstone), an army tailor who assumes the airs of a military man, belong to the bill ocrats, while a lighthearted pawnbroker, Mr. Jubilee (Mr. Selby), who iudulges in affectionate reminiscences of a deceased wife, is the representative of the till-ocracy. The Pennyweights, who have recently come to the village, and nave 'dubbed themselves the " Fit zpennyweights," oscillate between the two fictions. Mrs Pennyweight (Mrs. Stanley), having carefully concealed the fact that their fortune was made in the greengrocery line, aims at admission into the most exclusive circle, but her husband, who does not value tbe "Fitz," still retains plebeian propensities. She thinks she gives the greatest praise to the pineapple by calling it the " nobleman of the garden ;" he declares that " titles, to be the real thing, should be like potatoes, and turn up with a lot of land about them." The families of Pennyweight :nd Puffin are chiefly brought into contact by the love of Paul Puffin and Virginia Pennyweight (Miss Annie Romer), a mere boy and girl, who commit all sorts of juvenile extravagancies, to the a nnoyance of heir less parents con . But by tar the best portion of the pla t hat y is t nected with the title, viz., an episode of semi-serious in terest, in which the principal characters are a half pay mili tary officer, Captain Gunn, and his friend Lieutenant Tackle, ef the navy. The story is exceedingly simple. Amy, niece to Captain Gunn, has been governess to a high family, and has had the misfortune to captivate a gentleman whose hand was an object of ambition to one of the daughters. Her situation becomes so unpleasant that she returns to her uncle's house, when it is discovered that Mr. Woodburn (Mr. Howe), the gentleman in question, is the nephew of the army tailor, who being a bond creditor or Gunn's can crush him in an instant. In spite of the consolations of his maritime friend, the poor captain is driven almost to despair, while Creepmouse, anxious to break off an undesirable con nexion, uses his power in persuading Amy to accept a situa tion in Russia, offering to cancel the bond if she will con sent o the proposal. The distress of the good people is ultimately dissipated by a change in the hard nature of Creepmouse, who is touched by Amy's goouness, and not only cancels the bond, but consents to her union with his nephew. The characters of the two old officers are . drawn with exceeding vigour and freshness. The lieutenant, with a weakness in favour of gardening, about which he knows nothing, is endowed with a constitutional good.humour that no difficulty can overcome, and an open heartiness of expressiou that no circutnstauces can restrain. The old soldier, on the other hand, is more sensitive, while more stately in his demeanour, and retires from the assistance which his jovial friend would thrust upon him. The idea of the author with respect to this group was perfectly carried out by the actors. Lieutenant Tackle could not have been better looked, or acted with more hearty geniality, than by Mr. Wallack, and the nature of the captain, subdued partly by tralAiug, partly by misfortune, was most ably set forth by Mr. Webster. Amy, with her weight of feminine sorrow, and with a mind strong enough to contend calmly against it, was in Miss Reynolds's best style. Let any imp .rtial spectator compare this portion of the drama with the rest, which is occasionally tedious, and he will find a confirmation of the opinion which we have just expressed, and which differs trom that commonly entertained, that it is in he utterance of kindly sentiments rather than of satire that Mr. Jerrold excels. In the construction of the play there is, though in a tens degree, the same fault which has marked Mr. Jerrold's more recent productions, and which is the more singular in asmuch ai nothing of the sort is to be observed in the House keeper. The fault we mean is the want of that tact in managing a story which makes the audience constantly feel that t ey ate pn.gressing to a definite point, and which we find de veloped to such an extraordinary degree in pieces like Use Bataille de Dames. Mr. Jerrold is the moat thoroughly English writer now working for the stage, and while he has all the luxuriant fancy and vigour of language which belong to our old prose dramatists, he has also in common with them that looseness of construction which the French have ever avoided. But balance the account fairly, and where shall we find his equal among the playwritcrs of the day ? If he is occasionally led from the path of probability, it is by the sport of an unequalled fanc y ; if his personages, like those of Ccngreve, utter more good things than is consistent with their position, let us bear in mind that they are " good things" notwitstanding ; and if he has not the quality of neatness in point of construction, he has other qualities, which though they do less towards forming the tinish , c l dramatist, are truer exponents of the poetical nature. Who would quarrel with a Jean Piul because he does not go as straight to a mark as an ordinary correct essayist? At the conclusion of the piece, which we would add was excellently put upon the stage, a general call was raised for the author, who bowed from hie box, and Mr. Webster announced the work for repetition every evening amid loud and unqualified -platens. THE CENTRAL AFRICAN EXPLORING EXPEDITION. —We learn by letters from Tripoly, in Barbary, to the 4th of April, that the latest intelligence of Mr. James Richardson and his party only reach to the 26th of October, 11850, at which date he was in good health at Aier, in the Tuarik country, and contemplated reaching Bournon 144 Canci and Sachetu, not, however, without entertaining some fear that the principal scope of his mission would eventually prove a failure. Much money had been already expended, and he had forwarded to Tripoly a 4501. b;11 for negotia tion, with orders to have the proceeds forwarded to him in the interior. READING CATTLE, HORSE, SHEEP, AND PIG FAIR. MAY I.—This fair yesterday turned out the most satisfac tory for the breeders and dealers in live stock that has oc curred at Reading for the last six years, both as regards prices and demand. The store beast of all decriptions, and barren . cows, for grazing purposes, were much required, and changed hands in rabid succession, at a very considerable rise above the prices at previous fairs, and fill. 101. per cent. over the price of this time twelve months; milking and in-calf cows and heifers sold well at very satisfactory prices. There was a large show of store sheep, for which sales, were easily effected at improved prices . Good cou p les made from 365. to THE GREAT EX H IBIT lON. 425. per couple. Horses were plentiful, but very few of good (THIS DAY.) quality, • but the trade in them was brisk at high pAces. This morning being the first of the reduced pri ce s, the 'there was an immense quantity of swine, from the little buildin g filled by a large number of visitors, to 1 Buckler to the large bacon hog, a good business cone, and few sehs was early vra the treasures of the Crystal Palace were for the first ' left unsold. time unfold,d. We observed a greater propdortaimononogf thefo \ reign visitors were i USECM. HE BRITISH . its painted wing T M —The new west of seas °a present this morning than appeare • tured on the Museum, with its painted ceilings and walls, was, of c zon ticket holders, and the number of young pictured coarse, an cbjest of attraction. This gallery is built ac ,,,, greater. Amazement and delieht . was : cord ng to the design originally prepared by Sir R. Smirke . au " face for none knew where first to begin their insp . ection h ' t . the northern end of it was erected by him about twenty years tick hurried about to every department v to catch a sig t o . 82Uee : the southern end ha , just been erected under the su e n en E rt ,, st prominent objects. N e suspect that all wil'. speedily p eri ntendence of Mr. Sydney Smirke, under whom, too, the of the wing is now being decorated. The general the Great a season-ticket is by far the cheapest mode of . v.isiting whole ~ Great Exhibition, since not one nor twenty visits will . . . width of the gallery is 41 feet, widening at the centre to 50 feet, and at the south end to 80 feet. The clear height is 31 -11 ; f4 ce for a satisfactory' inspection. The din of hammers is f b e u e i t it m T e h a e su l r e e r s ig .i t 9 h 6 is fe 2 ,4 B . s feet, of o w f b w o h le ich ot. t t h h e is p g o a rt l i l o e n ry re w e i e l n l l b ly e 11 41 heard in various parts of the building, and especially in "e rear of the French departments, where packing-cases ars lyingoccupied by Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities; but the per t:, , about, and much, to all appearances, still remainsll manent ar ea r l a lte n hr g ey eF ao e s‘ n ey t of the sculpture cannot be made until a , "e done. A notice was posted up this morning, that a t i i ta li c n o e u x rs t e y o e t a e r. re erection e is o c u om r i p a l s e t te N d ,i , s w it, h t ic h h e feerkmen lounging about the building would be required to 11 1 1 j!, while those who continued hard at work would re- twhiellsnidoet bg painted red, with a black Etruscan b u ",,undisturbed. The committee are desirous to get t h e walls in part have been L 'ung free as soon as possible. 1 , border around each space, and lo ik very well. Westmacott's Ist ot. A!"Y's but very soon after. They i sculpture for the tympasum of the por ico will probably not property LITERARY GAZETTE. -- I all other literary 'be completed I:y\tlheh - „,P a ,r,t3', this p u blication has been suhjected to fluctuations, were holSting ' 1 at FTatlcs when we were there _ a sitting 0 - "leh its editor has been ne ce s sarily involved. For some , figure of seven or eigut„taonnsi weight. The ce ntral sta t ue , ) I ; e _a • ra it was pre-eminent amongst many rivals, and was then standing, is ‘sNatronotsly, boldlyaarbeout2 feet high. d These De, and it is expected, about ;•aluable property to the partners who possessed it, and to are all of Portland .an effectivle whose tradin e connexions and influence mooch of its celebrity sculptured. The e nelo l s v u i r il e ,b i: ti G u t i e s a h t ed lt , Russell -street, which wa s nw 1., m g. At the time referred to MessrS. Longman and sculpt to be of ponderous character (the central piers in par t, Co,had one-third share, Mr. Colburn another, and the editor ticular are immense). from remainder; and their profits were very great, arising Midsummer next.—Builder. La7vill the extensive sale of the work and the high charges for IV 00D-PIGEONS.—The very great destructive li ve e Pisements. M a ny of the rivals it created were short - powers of wood-pigeons have beta shown, but another in lived, and failed to affect its popularity ; but one became s tance is worth re cording. The keeper at Conon, Mr, powerful by its low price and the daring expenditure and Alexander Cameron, last a eels shot a number of these Is ,TAY of its proprietor. Hence that acquired a large circus birds, and out of curiosity examined the crop of one of il' e one whilst the Literary G azette gradually lost ground. them. Iti it te found not fewer than the enormous nutnber shares, great publi s hing establishments resigned their of 654 grains of tares, and 90 grains of oats, besides 24 small ss . but the original editor continued for many years to struggle stones and a quantity of sand. What a sad loss to the aas sgle against increasing difficulties, till the close of last farmer the consuming a Such an amount of Ned must be.— ~. When he WAS compelled to leave it.--Builder. 1 Inverness Courier. LONDON, 'THE MA GA ZINES, Sze. BLACK WOOD. A delightrui criticism un." tioetum AtiWrican Poets"— imluding L l ue,fellog,. Bryant,. W tattier, Lowell, and Holmes, and strangely oinittieg Poe, Willis, and Emer son—opens the May number with a seasonable gossip about green leaves and Shadowlausl. Space permitting us, we would gladly transcribe into our columns the beautiful little allegory with which Maga consoles some unnoticed poets of our generation. The metaphor is that of a butterfly on a railway. Pisistratai Caxton contributes only a small adilitional instalment of his novel, but what there is of it is written charmingly enough, though it scarcely advances the story in any perceptible degree towards its, of course, inevitable complication. Harley L'E:trange promises to be a delighttul addition to the number at the imaginary personages introduced into the narrative. His mode of proffering assistance to an old brother officer is exquisitely imagined; and the incident which occurs to Richard Avenel in regard to his inexpressibles is told with the quietest but most irresistible humour. M. Matraier and Mr. Taylor have by their .recent works upon America suggested to one of the Blackwood reviewers the subject of a capital paper entitled " Transatlantic Tourists." One M'Corldtidale writes a somewhat dry but pithy letter to Dutisbunner; in which he di-courses upon certain " Onward Tendencies ;" and the next article shows how much the great Edinburgh Magazine still continues to be puzzled by the " Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill." -After a well-deserved eulogium on Mr. Stephens masterly " Book of tbo Farm," Thomas Aird eives us some quaint but noble, verses called "An Evening Walk." In the lag sto.rza he says very beautifully— " In sleep we lapse and lose ourselves away, And thus each night our death do we rehearse." Besides the lor*goiug there are in th.-, curreet number of Blackwood another chapter on" Modern State Trials," and a brier but significant allusion to the dinner recently ,given to Lord Stanley. With articles of this varied de scription Maga contrives to render itself worthy of maintaining its predominance among periodicals. BENTLEY. Bentley is illustrated this month by a life-like portrait of Joanna Baillie, beautifully engraved by Robinson from a painting by Sir W. Neatni. This portrait is accompanied by a well-written biographical sketch. Among the most interesting of the pipers in Bentley for the present month is an original Letter from Wash ington Irving t. , Jesse Merlin,. of Kinderhook, the ori ginal Ichabod Crane of the Sweepy Hollow Legenti, in which Irving indulges in some pleasant vssipping reminiscences of his schoolboy days. We have a pleasant paper from the pen of poor Max well, entitled " The Sportiog Outlaw," and a pathetic tale of the Irish frireine, by Loftus Foxo Buhhe, entitled " The Irish Debtor." " Z ,ological Notes. and Anecdotes" are continued, the Fuhject of the present contribution being the giraffe. Mr. Wilkie Collins re lateg, after his own pleasant fashion, the history of his pictorial tour to St. George BaAerville; and the author of the " Monks of diseerts very learnedly upon Pope Joan. The "Fla.ii" Attorney is an admirable and minutely faithful portrait, mental and physical, of a most contemptible and di,gusting original; but it is drawn by the 'mind of a master—it ii quire ala Bruyerism. This is a very good number of Bentley. kI?AJER. Fraser this month opens with a genial critique of Alphonse Kan's delightful book, Voyage Autour de men Jardin, and follows it by a savage and ferociuus toma hawking of a batch of modern p oets ; the paper is en titled " The. Prevailing Epidemic," and if an epidemic can be stayed by knouting, then most assuredly will the prevailing epidemic cease to prevail. There is a savage earnestness in the onslaught of the wielder of the knout which tells with immense force, but justice compels us to admit that in'too many of the instances adduced the knout was as richly deserved as it has been well laid on. We are sorry to learn from the delightful leaves from the " Note-bock of a N.tturalist" that the monster tortoise, who last summer constituted one of the principle attractions of the Regt-nt's Park Zoological Gardens, has fallen a victim to our climate. This pa triarch of the tortoise tribe died in the month of Fe bruary. Under the title of " Scenes at Maltnaison" we have an interesting biography of Josephine ; the author of this paper has made excellent ute of the materials provided for her by M. Leon Gt zlan. '‘ The History of the Cloister Life of the Emperor Charles V." is con cluded, and the tale, entitled "Phantoms and Realities," is continued. The present number concludes with a piquant review of the Parliamentary campaign up to Easter, to which the writer has given the very appro priate title of "Legislating under Difficulties." • DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. This magazine opens fur the merry month of May with a very readable and tasteful article, " A May-day Feast," noticing various illustrated pub lications which have recently appeared, such as Matvy's " Sketches after English Landscape Painters," with notices by that terror of snobs and Gulliver of Lilliputian vulgarities, W. M. Thaekeray; Hall's " Vernon Gallery," Wells's " Spanish Annual," and others. Critical papers are also devoted to Sir Emerson Tennent's "Christianity in Ceylon," to Meri vale's " History of the Romans under the Empire," and to Gillies's " Memoirs of Literary Veterans." " Maurice Tierney" waxes more and more adventurous. Impressed on board a British man-of-war, he swims clandestinely ashore at Genoa, and imparts some valuable informa tion to Massena, by whom ho is appointed to the staff. What valorous feats he has to recount, achieved at the close of • the sie g e of the proud city of the Me diterranean, will, we presume, burst upon the world in the ensuing number. Jonathan Freke Slingsby confines himself to a version of a German alle gory, entitled "Death and Sleep," a sweet and solemn poem, which, together with the introductory prose, will not serve to detract from his high reputation. " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager" recount the dates and successes of the popular dramas founded on the Waverley Novels. Of these Lob Roy has had the most extraordi nary run. The writer, who himself personated the bold outlaw 173 times, states that it has been acted in Edin hurgh 400 nights, and that he remembers seeing the 500th representation announced in a play-bill at Perth, as far back as 1829. " A Yarn about our Forefathers" is continut d. Whoever the author of this story may be, he is a graphic and shrewd writer; as, for example, is evident from his illustration of the frequent unreality of a strong appearance of sympathy, which is often but the emanation of hypocrisy, politetse, or partiality : " The minister of religion, rapt, excited, ecstatic, pouring forth to a crowded tea-party .his. views, and feelings, and fancies, and meeting no contr diction but silence or flattering attention, is apt to persuade himself that his audience sym pathise with him and consent to his doctrine; while, in fact, many of them have no disti ct notion of the subject matter of his harangue, and some don't care about it, aro some prudently de,line expressing their di , sent for fear of incur t log odium and unpopularity, and injuring their worldly in terests; and some, cleverer than the rest, affect enthusiastic assent to doctrines concerning which they have neither thought nor feeling, and so get a reputation for sanctity and knowledge, which they do not merit. And using this repu tation as an engine, V ey set up for oracles, and managers, and dictators; and the unsuspecting minister, whose self love is flattered by Untir attentions, counts them as very excellent and superior people; and in this scene of humbug a man who humbly and honestly seeks for truth, and will not affect a sympathy which he does not feel, will be despised and insulted." The remaining pages are given to papers on " Dublin University Reform," and on the proposed extension of the jurisdiction of the Civil • Bill Courts in Ireland. The writer of the latter is evidently no friend to local courts and "cheap justice," nor have the Irish assistant barristers any especial reason to pay him a large tribute of admiration, as he by no means places them in the category 'of A 1 for extent or profundity of legal attain ments. . Whether he in reality despises, or rather envies, those learned functionaries, we cannot possibly deter mihe; but the " sour grapes" feeling is pretty generally prevalent in the. present day. we bad nu' quotation& lull—that or it inquiry for wer e held AC •ease. mot eport iu the been verr , a dy, at ISL. : ta as dear 0 s small. 13 held 11:111' t lag week's t town•m+de 12 : .. b2s to IN and 400 'ecd. 165 .3i .... 181 I 'ork, lEe 160 15° •• 209 9 210 25° 26e 1 " 25J rc: 26, 241 3 eo e::: 33:. 3_3 27r 3 Welk Of a ;Inver Seed; ery duly other tso- . 3 33g " 101 15 3 3.5 , rter 345 6NI 5 .0 48% os 44i "in, rt— 1110 1 71 OS 6 i OS 16! 5s 41 1d4 4100 001 It 25100 s of foreirs rig* 44 ) these co II &WW I II ices are Ire- d. to 13 • 6 4 3 0 36 f 4 3 • 6 s I iDS. ii g ily sug" xperi erlce • e :b, therefor,: no weeny a c , g 3 from At., o f April,,.. netere. , 1850, were p er Too• 801 to 9 0 801 to 0 , 4 80s to 7 61 ;pa to 4 , 70 8 to 7o to tO 55s to rips to 0 to p, e ; )rward. t our state, 14 3 to 10 ;74, to, 65i to 301nnle", ) e offere d :"t" sent inoni,.. P eo the supPo w ill no t en o come 1 r" imt is heitiP =pot il 3 • ts lay, 92 fro,` — tabeth, 113 " ,0 es. ening of th. rown 'rano° at a fortba Y.C. on t h : f o r forwar ish ; Roug: ; h reprewao 60. ,s, t 0390 04 VW 610 96, 111 391 al 171 Idtol nor Knight re -hearing e case dated cept to thl Wigram for AY.) liar v. Cray DAY•) s.) ier of Atoll ;titions. bi ° part-heard g with the taftordshir. )AY•) is morning , in Lon doo nTroW. 1 1 thr ugb° us For the commene . ly common :g that the 9 evidence, ks therefor* Move theft ,r to isstle mmand ino ittorney 111 l only hes r hat be rob I , ne w 110 p a , TWA .PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. (From the rotes and Proceedings of the House of Commons STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE, The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee :- 1. That in the case of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Arrangements as to Preference Stock, &c.), petition for leave to deposit a petition for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 2. That in the case of the Caledonian Wilway (Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge. Pelloc, and Govan, Ste., Rail ways—Amendment and Continuation, &c.) Bill, petition for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 105 and 166, the said standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 3. That in the case of the St. Helen's Improvement (No. 2) Bill, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with : That the 'parties be permitted to proceed with their Bill, on the omission of the exception introduced (Clause 110) into the existing limitation of the " Rate:for Paving and High way Purposes" 4. That in the case of the Caledonian Railway (Mother well Branch Extension and Lesmahagow Branches Lease) Bill, petition for dispensing with standing order No. 131, the said standing order ought to be,dispensed with, provided it be proved to the Commissioners of Railways that the Com pany have, Previonsly to the application to Parliament, paid up the proportion of their share capital required by the said order, and expended for the purposes of their Act a sum equal thereto. • 5. That in the case of the Brighton Extra Mural Ceme tery petition, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be ermitted to proceed with their Bill, on serving A copy ther p eof on the parish clerk of Brighton, and out inserting a notice once in some newspaper published in Brighton. That the Committees on this and the two preceding Bills do examine, in the first place, how far such orders have been complied with, and do report the same to the House on the Report of the Bill. • Third, fourth, and fifth Resolutions agreed to.—Report to ie on the table. . --- - CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, at the Three Mariners, Esher, Surrey, on the body of a - male child, which had been found in a drawer in the mansion of Lady Noel Byron, on the evening' of Wednesday last. It appeared from the evidence of a female in her . Ladyship's service that a young woman, named Jane Baker, a kitchen-maid, who had not previously been suspected of being enciente, was found extremely ill, and circumstances tending to confirm the fact that she had recenily been ddlivered of a child prevailed. On being taxed with the same she adMitted the fact. On further questioning as to what she had done with the child, she di rected the attention of Miss Randall to a drawer, in which she discovered the body of a fine male child, full grown, but quite dead. On an' examination of the body by Mr. Cole man, of New Kingston; he gave it as his opinion that the child might have breathed, but. that it was certain it had not existed more than a moment or twc. The body was free i from all marks of violence, but might have lived had the . mother been properly delivered. The jury, upon hearing the evidence, returned a verdict that tue child was still iborn." The female remains in custody at her La d y shi p 's mansion ; and as soon as she has sufficiently recov ered Will be examined. on the charge of ceheeelieg the birth., _~ MONDAY EVENING. MAY 5, 1851. . _ SPORTING NOTES. No Xi.VIII. THE NEWMARKEI SECOND SPRING MEETING. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD Iti.E FORM. ASSOCIATION. (EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY.) edie alley the 30th or AO!, it wan , re solved to address the Crown to issue a Proclamation for the discovery and apprehension of individuals charged with illegal proceedings at the St. Alban's election. Such a process is not without effect; for it in all proba bility interrupts the worldly affairs of the parties impli cated, and when they return to society must send them with recollections attached, which in the most corrupt borough will be of the nature of punishment. On Thursday the Ist of May, the second reading of the Oath of Abjuration (Jews) Bill was carried by the small majority of 202 against 177. The case was only imperfectly argued, but still there was enough to show that the honest opinion was making progress. The bigot party went the length of affirming, that if they were a minority as for instance might be a few Chris tians in a country generally Mohammedan, they should decidedly wish and seriously desire, that the Govern ment should be of the kind which would carry most weight with it in the country, that is to say, that it should be exclusively Mohammedan, and no Christian be allowed to sit. A ludicrous instance of the extent to which men will carry fictions in favour o' their own prejudices. Can there be any doubt that if these worthy Christians were in the situation they suppose, they would swiftly discover that because they were a minute minority, was the precise reason why they should at all events have the power of representing their case, which the presence of a minute minority can afford? An instance in point, after doing away with the mis representations thrown about it, is presented by a Peti tion signed by 456 British Jews in London, against the provisions of a proposed Metropolitan Sunday Trading Bill, which are opposed by many Christians as unneces sary and oppressive. They state that in obedience to their own religion they conscientiously abstain from trading during sixty-six days in the year; and they represent that if the Bill now before the House be passed into a law, it will add fifty - two days mo re, and thereb y prevent the Jewish community from earning a livelihood for four mouths in the year out of the twelve. Now is it possible to deny, that if the tables were turned and Christians were the minority, it would be held a hardship it in addition to fifty-two days in the year and perhaps more, in which they consider them selves bound to abstain from their worldly callmge, they were obliged to add the sixty-six days of the Jewish ritual; and that they would at all events be justified, in doing what has been done here, petitioning against an enactment which they find many of the dominant majority also opposing as injurious? And if Christians might reasonably do this, why should not they also desire to have representatives in the legislative assembly, in proportion to their numbers or property as allowed to other citizens? And still more if the fact were, that they had no visible prospect of sending representatives elected by themselves, but must solely depend upon such Christian representatives as the dominant party might chuse to send for reasons of their own? If a day conies when men shall be judged by the test of having done as they would be done to, there will be sharp inquisition for this. On Friday Mr. Hume made his motion in Committee, for filling up the blank in the Property Tax Bill with " one year " and carried it by 244 against 230. A strange policy, out of which the only hope of extracting final good, seems to be in the chance that the Free- Traders of the community may be roused to the way in which their enemies are closing the toils around them. Here are the Protectionists declaring in Parliament, that their object is to prevent the settlement of an Income Tax in order to replace it with " taxes on foreign pro duce," and with this before his eyes an avowed friend of Free Trade and supporter of direct taxation in preference to indirect, holds out to them the invitation and the op portunity to join. A good deal may be attributed to the inability to see that the stock argument on the unfair ness of the Income Tax on what are called perishable in comes, depends on its being assumed to be temporary. And yet the declared advocate of au Income Tax as per-, petual as the Mutiny Act, makes his stand upon the inequality arising out of its not being perpetual. It anybody maintains, that of two men of the same age and value of life, to one of whom his father has left a medi cal practice of a thousand a year, and to the other a thousand a year for his natural life out of his father's savings in the medical profession, the first should be taxed at a lower rate than the other, let this case be put and argued. But this is not the case as commonly put, and on which the cry of unfairness is raised against the Income Tax. And everybody moreover knows that if it were put, there would not be the remotest chance of ever carrying it against the powerful influence of the holders of property in perpetuity. The Member fur the West Riding saw distinctly the danger, and proclaimed it with energy and effect. But it was all too late. The courage of the Protectionists in the House of Commons has been allowed too much accumulation, to be put down at will. The Protectionists under the leadership of an avowed Free Trader, have got rid of the obstacle a three years' Income Tax would have presented to their calling out next year for the renewal of a Bread Tax. A huge and a magnificent step, the effect of which nothing can obviate or take away, unless it should chance to rouse the sleeping in ,erests of commerce to a timely defence. I am, Sir, yurs very sincerely, lAN OLD REFORMER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN, Six,--The " list "defalcation in St. Martin's-lane is a much greater one than I imagined ; I stated the amount last week at seven or eight thousand pounds. It turns out, however, that what with money s*aked on future events and the money due on the races already decided at Chester, Mr. Dwyer is indebted to the public much nearer 25,090/. than 8,000/. ; and (I have it on good authority) supposing any arrangements were come to, it would be perfectly , impos sible on his part to pay ten shillings in the pound. Several " small men" who "t losed their boa's" after the decision of the Cup, are not likely to cause any inconvenience. I glanced at the Sec nd Spring Meeting at head-quarters on Friday, so shall merely state the probable starters and winers for each event, according to my accounts received this m rising. With the exception of a match over the Y:C. between San tiago and Glendale, which the ' former , being the quickest starter, oaght to win, the remainder of to-morrow's engage ments, including the Rowley Mile Plate, do not close until this evening. On Wednesday, Nutshell will walk over for I the 50 Sovs. Stakes. John o'Groat having , Tetired from the turf some time since, and Mildew, reported to have died some weeks ago, although alive, is out of training. Santiago has two opponents left in for the Champion Staks, the Amima colt and Cro;chet, neither of whom are likely to trouble him, consequently, he also will probably walk over. For the Suffolk States, the field, in all prdbability, will con sist of the following :—Sauter-la. Coupe, 5 yrs, Bat llb (d); Swordplayer, 6 yrs, 7st 71b ; Gladiole, 4 yrs, 7st; Anspach, 3 yrs, tat 61b (d); King Charming, 3 yrs, sst 131 b ; Artisan, 3 yrs, sst 710 ; Cane, 3 yrs, sst 71b ; Fortuna, 3 yrs, sst 51b ; Cult by Prince Caraloc, 3 yrs, sst 41b ; colt, by John O'Gaunt, 3 yrs, sst 41b (d) ; Barcelona, 3 yrs, sst 21b ; Abderrhaman, 3 yrs, sst 21b. The race, in my opinion, will lay with Cane, Barcelona, Prince Ciradoc colt, King ChaTming, and Gladiole; possibly terminating in favour of CANE or BARCELONA, with the other three and Abderrhaman close up. For the 10 Sovs Stakes for two-years-old, on Thursday, over the first half of the Abingdon Mile, a large field, in fact, within three or four of all the nominations, will be found at the post, viz.:— Sabra H.R.H. filly, Passion colt, Toga filly, colt by St. Francis, colt by Alarm (d), filly by Hr-tnian Platoff, dam by Sircingle, Event filly, Malibran colt, colt by Young Priam, Moulton Lass, France, and La Tempesta. The majority of these animals are perfectly dark, never having been tried in public or private. The final struggle, I fancy, will be between Sabra, St. Francis colt, Malibran colt and France; the last two for choice. The judge may possibly place them thus:-- COLT BY ORLANDO - MALIBRAN . (Nat) 1 FRANC& ......... . SABRA The latest betting this morning is as follows :—Suffolk Stakes-4 to 1 agst Cane, 4to 1 agst Barcelons, 6to 1 agat Anspach. 10 sous.. Stakes-5 to 2 agst Malibran colt, 3 to 1 agst France, 5 to 1 agst Iletman Platoff filly, 6 to 1 egst Sabra. 1,000 cove. Match—Even betting, the. Dutchman for choice. Derby-5 to 1 agst the Prime Minister, 5 to 1 agst Teddington, 7 to 1 agat Hernandez, 11 to 1 agst The Marlborough Buck, taken to 2001, 23 to 1 agst Bonnie Dundee, 33 to 1 each Heart Breaker and Mountain Deer, 50 to 1 agst Newminster, who is evidently on the wrong road to glory, 50 to 1 agat Midas. Even betting that the field is nearer 17 than 27, taken. - Oaks-5 to 2 agat Aphrodite, 5 to 1 agst Payment, 6 to 1 taken to ups ards of .?00/ St. L.ger-8 to 1 agst the Prime Minister. That arch impostor Light oot was scratched for the Derby at a quarter to twelve on Friday morning. In order to be early in the field, it is my intention to publish my remarks on the Great Derby of 1851 at the commencement of next week. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. May 5, 1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. The following is an outline of the present and proposed en. gagements for the ensuing meeting : The horses marked thus a are already at Newmarket. TUESDAY. Fifty Sovs. ; three yrs old, Est 21b ; four, 8 t•, five, sst 71b ; six and aged, Bst 1216 ; the winner to be sold for 200 sovs. T. M. M. Fifty Soya, tor three yrs old ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b ; R. M. A Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 Boys. each, for three yrs old and upwards ; T. Y. C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each ; three yrs old, 7st 41b; four, Bst 716; the wiener to be sold for 60 sovs. T. Y. C. A Sweepstakes cf 10 sovs. each ; two yrs old, Est 121 b ; three, Bst 121 b; fillies and pldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold for 100 soya First half of Ab. M. Match, 50 ; Bst 71b each ; Y. C. —*Duke of Bedford's Santiago agat *Mr. Payne's Glenda'e. WEDNESDAY. A Handicap Plate of 50 boys., f.r three yrs old and up wards. New T. Y. C. The Jockey Club Plate of 50 says. ; four yrs old, 7st 21b ; five, Bst 31b ; six and aged, est 91b; for horses the property of members of the Jockey Club. B.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three yrs old ; colts, Bst 71b; fillies, :.•st 41b ; the winner to be sold fur 11.0 sovs. T.Y.C. Acceptances for the Suffolk Stakes. yrs. st. lb. Vatican .. 5 8 9 *St. Rosaila . , 5 8 *i Herbert Sauter-la-coupe ..... 5 8 1 Swordplayer Pio N0n0..... Gladiole Ariosto. Anspach ...... . 3 6 6 Cornelius (late Kre men) yrs. st. lb. *Artisan .... 3 5 7 *Cane . ;Fortuna ...., .• 3 5 5 lik c by Pince Cara doe .Tulia Bennett ..... Ch c by Jobno'Gaunt, dam by The Sad dler *Barcelona 3 5 2 *Abderbaraan... 3 5 2 *King Charming ... 3 5 13' The Champion Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h ft; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies and geldings, Bat ; the winner of the 2,000 Guineas or of the 1,000 Guineas Stakes 7lb extra; from the R. M. starting-post to the Duke's stand (6 Subs.)—c by Plenipo tentiary, out of Amina, *Santiago, Crotchet, Bargeman (paid), Ariadne (paid). A Sweep takes of 50 sovs. each, for four yrs old; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 010 ; winners of the Derby, Oaks, or Doncaster St. Leger, Port, or Claret Stakes, 61b; of any two of those stakes, 1010 extra; maiden horses which have never received 100 sovs. for running second allowed 51b (winners of matches only considered maiden hinesl; _the last three miles of B.C. ( 3 Subs.)--ai.orcl Exeter's Nut shell, Mr. Jaques's Mildew, Duke of Bedford's John-o% Groat (paid). THURSDAY. A Handicap Plate of 50 suvs., fur three yrs old and up• wards ; A. F. A Ilandicap Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, and only 5 ft declared by 10 o'clock in the evening before running, to go to the second, for three yrs old and upwards; T.Y.O A Sweepstakes of hi sovs. each, for three yrs old; colts, Bst 71b; tidies, Bst 41b; the winner to be sold for 40 soya.; D. 51. A Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; three yrs old, 7st 41b ; four, tist 91b; five and upwards, 9st ; the winner to be sold for 2(0 soya. ; T.Y.C. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each; two yrs old, 6st 121 b; three, Bst 121 b; fillies and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 80 sovs. ; first half of Ab. M. A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 54 added, for two yrs old ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b ; the, „winner of a stake value 2 0 sovs., including the winner's own stakes, 51b extra ; T.Y.C. (15 Subs.) • Mr. F. Clarke's b f Sabra- 3 ' Lord Clifden's bf by Bay Middleton, out of 11. R. 11.- 5 Mr. Etwall's br c by Venison, out of Passion—" Lord Ex-.ter'sf by St. Martin, out of Toga *slr. Gurnel 's b cby St. Francis, darn by Jerry—Sir J. llawley's c by Alarm, out of liaitoe—* Mr. 'Morris's ch by Haman Platoff, dam by Sircingle—• Mr. Mare's Sister to Hatherton- 5 Colonel Peel's b c by Venison, out of Queen Anne—*Colonel Peel's ch c by Orlando, out of Malibran— 'l' Lord W. Powlett's b c by Y. Prism, out of Y. Bamboo dam—Mr. St. George's ro f Safety— Mr. Stephenson's br f Mountain Lass--*Mr. Watson's France...a-4 Mr. Williams's b f La Tempests. EPSOM SUMMER MEETING. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. - - Mr. Dorling has just issued his sheet list, the richest ever produced to an expectant public. There are five fixtures for each day, the f o ll ow i ng s t a k es closing next Saturday: —The lleathcote Plate, Epsom Town Plate, and Cobham Pla te, and it the en tries correspond with those made for the other engagements, as doubtless they will do, the pride of Surr e y will flaunt in gayer a p pare l th an ever. If this be not the Great Exhibition Meeting, we shall in deed have reckoned without our host, and we should heartily rejoice to pe-ceive the presence of the Great Wonder of the Queen and the Prince, as in the whip-bestowing year by her Majesty's Consort to the rider of the Derby victor, Little Wonder. E. R. Clark, ESq.,IIIIS called his remarkably fine yearling colt, by Irish Birdca tcher out of Betsy Bird, darn of Black Doctor, Early Bird ; a nd his colt foal byNapier, o u t o f the same darn, Bonnie Bird. S IIREWSBURY.t The Great Cleveland Ha a nd nd a icap quarter Acceptan cea.—About 2 miles yrs st. lb 1 yrs. st. lb. Eva ... ........... ..... 5 8 7 Nliss Spri ng 8 1-; salute ~„,......... -.. 4 4 1 4 7 1 Egret .................. 6 ................. 4 8 2. Lucy ILiwthorne . 4 6 9 Zad0c'....... 47 11 , Jolsterdtle Panope ........... . 4 7 .;oldiiilder ...... 3 5 9 C an dlewick .......... l .t Leap Tear Flash .................. 7 Acceptances for the Shropshire Sweepstakes, Handicapped. About one mile and a quarter. y rs. at. lb. s yrs• 8 7 \Vilmont ..... 4 6 13 Eva ........ 5 8 6 Master Friday Doubt . ......... 4 7 11 Upton ' Zadoc .................. ... ............ 6 7 7 Lucy Hawthorne 5 7 7 Colsterdale ..... Grief Ribaldry -• •" ...... '''"' r 7 5 Badajoz ...... .. 3 511 Docility , .............. J 3 7 Le Juif The Monk ... ...... ... 4 P u l c herrima ......... 5 7 2 THE DERBY.—Lightfoot was struck out of the Derby on Friday, - the•2d of M a y, at 11 45, A.m. ____-------- Total ... ... £10,38'2 11 11 Total miles open, 1851, 173 , 4 ; ditto, 1830, 171 1 ,‘ London Terminus, May 5, 1851. POPULATION OF PRESTON. The population of Preston, as indicated by the late , census return, is 69,353. The population in 1841 was 50,829, so there has been an in crease of 1.8.,5a4, or more than 36 per cent. in the nine years and three-qnarters that have elapsed' since the last return. The-e are 4.700 natives of Ireland resident in this town.— Preston. Chronicle. POPULATION OF DointiEs.—ln 1841 the popu lation within the Parli was I tary boundar the y of Dumfries, ce excu was 1,839 ; and by present nsus sive of Maxwelltown , it is 13,210, being an increase of 1,371, or very Maxwell- 12 e cent. Of this, Dumfries hes inc e / 784, and town 587. It is satisfactory to observe that the dispropor which was so marked in 1841, h as tier between the sexes, increased five more than females, diminished, males hav in g although in 1841 females outnumbered the males by 1,553; the difference is now 1,548. ATLESBuitY ELBCTION.—The petition presented to the House of Commons against the return of Mr. Bethell sets forth that be was by himself and agents guilty o f bribery and corruption at the last election, and did by means of money, promises of e mployment,.and intimidation pro cure votes a nd forbear to have them given in favour of Mr. Ferrand, the opposing ca,,didate ; tha.. meat, drink, and en tertainment were given. intimidation and duress resorted to, and gross anti system a tic bribery; that.. Mr. Calvert, wh ose return had beendeclared void , b ecame an agent, friend, manager, and partisan of Mr Bethell; and that Messrs. Acton Tindal, J. and J. Ward, C. Wheeler, R. Benson, G. Defraure, J. James, J. J ones, J. Prickett, and a certain in dividual known as the " Man in the Moon," alias Crouch, and others, who had been the agents of Mr. Calvert, were the agents, friends, managers, and partisans of Mr. Bethel' ; that the votes of many persof.s not legally en titled to vote were accepted; and that many votes were rot allowed as good votes on behalf of Mr. Ferrand. The k petition, which is of unusual length, concludes by praying L that the lieuse will declare the return of Mr. Bothell null wad veil COWES, ISLE OF WIGH FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, MAY 4 REPRESENTATION OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT.—TWO candidates have at length come into the field to contest the honour—first, Charles Cavendish Clifford, Esq., son of Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford, Bart., Usher of the Black Rod, who says in his address—" I stand on Pro testant, on Free-trade, a nd Liberal principles." He is s trongly supported in Hyde, and it is expected will be by thu Free-traders in Newport and Cowes, and %leo by the proprietors of the Appuldurcombe, Noithwoo d, Nuuwell, and Swainston estates; the largest in the island. The second (may he keep that place) is Cap tain Andrew S. Hamond, the son of Admiral Sir U. Eden Hamond, who in his address says—" My principles are Conservative; a firm Protestant, feeling a determined resistance to the Papal aggression; a strong supporter of the agricultural interest, and opposed to unlimited free trade." A meeting of his friends took place at the Bugle lan, Newport, on Saturday evening, B. Cotton, Lg., of Freshwater, in the chair. The Hon. W. H. A. A'Court Holmes (who represented the island in the last Parliament), the Rev. Walton White, and many other Protectionist landowners were present, and voted him a fit and proper person to represent their in terests in Parliament. There will be a severe struggle between the advocates of the cheap loaf and the dear one. CREAP EXCURSION TRAINS FROM LONDON.—The first of these to the Isle of Wight arrived at Cowes at about half-past twelve o'clock this day; another is to arrive to morrow at the same time. The exeursionists remain here till five o'clock, they will theretore have nearly two hours in Southampton, as the train does not leave for London till eight o'clock. The South-Western have at length found out that these things pay well, and have commenced early this year, intending to run two a week during the summer. Traffic—Week ending May 3, 1851 ... £10,328 11 11 T ra ffi c —Week ending May 4, 1850 ... 8,824 15 11 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1851 ... 151,043 11 5 Total of the half-year, to this date, 1150 ... 13 ,803 3 8 Total number of Passengers—Week ending May 3, 1851 „.. 55,818 Passengers ... .., £8,141 9 9 Goods ... Z . ... 2,187 2 2 FIRE OW THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.--A fire occurred last night at the Wallingford-road station of the Great Western Railway, by which a considerable amount of property was destroyed. It was about nine o'c!ock when one of the officers on duty discovered a body of flames to issue from the goods shed, a large building composed nearly of wood, and situated at a distance of fifty yards from the station. An alarm was of course instantly raised, arid though there were but few officials at the station, others were quickly on the spot, and used their utmost exertions to subdue the fury of the raging element. In less than five minutes from the time of the discovery of the fire, the whole building was in one entire blaze, and as its total destruction was inevitable, the men directed their endeavours towards saving the property deposited there for conveyance to diffe rent parts of the country. The chief contents of the shed appear to have been a large quantity of all kinds of corn in sacks; and so rapidly did the fire extend itself that but very few of these could be saved, the remainder being en tirely destroyed, or so damaged as to be perfectly useless for any purpose. In the short space of a quarter of an hour the hulloing was reduced to a heap of ashes, and the property destr,iyed is estimated at between 8001. and ,0001. By this c nflagration Mr. Prowse, a corn-dealer, residing at Walling ford, is a loser to a considerable extent. PENINSULAR MAILS.—SOUTH 4.—The Montrose, Captain Bogen,"l PT h O i N c , ht.ar S 6ri u vq st eud D at e rht v eirs , MAY morning, brings on freight 798 chests of or w ange k wine, Hi octaves ditto, 8 bags cork, 42 packages new s potatoes, eci 6 packages green peas, 28 cases eggs, 7 packages q s u r. o 3 t o ed c. a i s m f a O r l s le ei v, l • l s es :-- , Gib raltar 20 packages sundries. Our accounts from y this packet are to the 26th ult. Exchanges were s A f t . 3 9 2 0 0. ;daaveso,o3,on London, 51; Paris, sf. 41c. At 8 days' s p i a g r h ; t, h e i n al l‘ a l g a a d , rlil a d n i d .; Seville,Alicanttl ; s Cadiz and Barcelona, dis ; Valencia, 11 dis.; Spanish pillared dollars, 2i per cent. prem. The British transport.ship Alrpore, 18 days from Malta, arrived at Gib - raltar on the 17th ult., having on board part of the 69th Re giment, and sailed again for Portsmouth on the 18th. The Resistance troop-ship, 23 days from Malta, arrived on the 17th, bringing pat of the 44th Regiment (480 nor *commis sioned officers and privates 30 women, and 47 child, en), for the garrison of Gibraltar privates, 30 of the 56th Regiment, under the command of Major P.dmer (14 officers, 514 non. commi , sioned officers and privates, 30 women, and 76 child ren), em barked on the 26th ult., on board the Resistance,,for passage to Bermuda. The Br iti3h steamer Arabian, 10 days from Smyrna, arrived at Gibraltar on the 20th, and cleared for Liverpool. The French war steamer Descartes, six days from Brest, arrived on the 21st, and cleared for sea. for Majesty's ship Janus was at Gisthbraltar.ult., goin g The MintoontrGibralt ose spokear, the Ripon ocam - s hip on the 2 and on the Ist inst. t h e Iberia a nd Sultan steam - ships, all from S.natlaampton. BUY 2.—The following members INNER TEM PLE, of this society have been called to the bar, and were sworn in this evening in the Hall :—Roger Fenton, of Univer• itv College, London, BA.; John Ilarrison Miller, of Wadham College, Oxford, M.A. ; Mr. William Stuart, Mr James Pearse Peachey ; James Pearse, of St. John's College, Pearse 8.A.; Thomas Hugh Malkhana, of Brasenose College O x ford, 8.A.; Mr. John Francis Cam p bell; an d Arthur , Codd, of Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. TIIE NEW CUSTOMS•DUTIES. —The new duties on forceclo6ftl h e e uo an ni t. the ha t er i e m l b sit: e t h r 3b h doe a .f : s e anuAbp a jar l e r iclQ e i a uea cy a l kiln -dried duties.dN s roasted, - a r t h e o v u o c s or e a n m s o r e n co ot i m n ff t h t ed e e, the new duty 6d. per Ib. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. forated open the riband at the station from which it FURTHER PARTICULARS. transmitted. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIE. — Proceeding along the gallery All these details will became easily and rapidly intelli over the north side o f the western main aisle will be found a gible upon inspecting- the apparatus which will :be found in cane, lion of philosophical apparatus and instruments, among the Exhibition. • which is included a great variety of electric telecsraphs. rifir•srs. Brett and Littl e ex hibit th e i r electric telegraph. The British TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE stir. Electric Telegraph Company exhibit a large collection of Sere—Being continually asked by the nobility and gentry telegraphs on different systems ; Mr. Alexander Bain exhibits who have visited the Symposium " what arrangeinents, I also his electro-chymi ca l telegraphs, copying and printing propose to adopt for the large numbers anticipated 'An , dints telegraphs, and electric clocks. Mr. Walker, of Tunbridge, hero daily," I beg to state that, in the course of a few days, exhibits improved methods of insulating the telegraphic wire the advertisements containing the whole arrangements will and a variety of other improvements in the details of the appear in the public press. Owing to the number of privates operation of the needle telegraphs at present in this country. dinners and ban q uets I have on order, and the unfinished Mr. G. R. Smith exhibits a comic electric telegraph, with a state of the culinary department, I beg to say, for the con variety of accessories, which will, no doubt prove amusing to venience of the p ublic, it cannot be o p ened before the 16th of the visitors to the Exhibition ; and Mr. Joseph Burdett ex- this month. I also beg to state that the charges will not hibits an improvement upon the system of bells for the call preclude persons of various stations from partaking of the of servants, consisting of a domestic telegraph, which requires gastronomic enjoyments and comforts of the Symposium. only one bell for all the rooms in the house, howev e r unmet- I am, Sir, &c. A. SOY ER. ous they may be. There are, of course, besides these, a variety of other electro-telegraphic systems exhibited in the foreign sections. The general principle of the electric telegraph admits of easy explanation. Whatever be the form of such an appa ratus, it is indispensably necessary to establish a continuous metallic communication by means of a wire stretched from station to station. This wire must be kept from contact with any body capable of conducting electricity, which is accom plished either by supporting it at a certain elevation above the ground upon supports composed of non -conducting mat ter—such as porcelain or glass, or by enveloping it ia non conductors, such as gutta per cha, and burying it in the ground. The former of these expedients is generally adopted in England, the latter in Prussia and some of the German States. When such a metallic communication is established between two stations, a current of electricity can always be transmitted upon it, and this current can be suspended and re-established at any intervals, long or short, at the pleasure of an operator at either station. It therefore is always prac ticable to produce an intermitting current between stations, however distant, provided they are connected by such a wire, and to regulate the intervals of intermission with the greatest precision, and according to any manner that may be desired. It would he possible, for example, to take a piece of music and to play it with such a current as that the inter vals of intermission of the current should correspond exactly with the length of the notes. Now, it will be easily understood that if this play of the electric current, produced at the will of an operator at one s'ation, could be rendered sensible to an observer at another station, it might easily be converted into a system of signs expressing the letters and words of common language. Still more effectual would it be if such an intermitting current could be made to act upon a pencil, causing it to trace upon paper at one station a series of marks corresponding with the play of the current, and therefore expressing the signs trans mitted from the other station, and these objects can obvi ously be attained if we can discover any sensible effects capable oi , being produced by the intermitting current, and which will correspond with its intervals of intermission. There are three effects produced by such a current which have been adopted by different inventors as the means of at taining this end. If the wire upon which the current passes be carried over and near a magnetic needle, this needle will, the moment the current passes along it, throw itself out of its position of rest, and take a direction at right angles to the wire, the north pule either turning in the direction of the hands of a clock, or in the contrary direction, ac cording as the electric current passes over it from north to south, or from south to north. The mo ment, however, the current is interrupted the needle resumes its position of rest parallel to the wire. It is clear, the; efore, if the current which passes along the wire be sub ject to an alternate play of intermission and suspension, and if also it be alternately transmitted in the one direction and the other on the wire by an operator at one station, such a magnetic needle as here described, placed at the other sta tion, will have alternate motions to the right and to the lift, taking positions at right angles to the wire, in accordance with the alternate transmission and suspension of the cur rent. If there be two or more such wires extended between the stations acting iu this n anner on two or more needles, the movemen' of these needles, right and left, may be com bined in an infinite variety of ways, and may conventionally be made to express an unlimited variety of signs. In this manner it will be easily perceived how the letters of the al phabet and the numerals may be expressed at the one sta tion by the agency of an operator at the other; a - d, as there is no known limit to the distance to which the electric cur rent may be transmitted, and no appreciable time between the moment of transmission from the one station and the moment of arrival at the other, it follows that, provided only the conducting wire can be carried between station and station, communication, practically speaking, instantaneous may always be effected between them. Such is the principle of this class of electric telegraph, known as the needle telegraph, numerous examples of which, will be seen in operation in the Exhibition. But with such an apparatus it is necessary that an agent should be prepared at the station to which the communication is transmitted to observe, interpret, and commit to writing these signs. It has been attempted, and not without success by some inventors, to supersede the necessity of such an agent by making the telegraph itself not only transmit the message, but also write it. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—lt is but right that at the same time the worid is aequainted through the medium of your columns ths't the Queen of England, surrounded by her court, goes" this day to inaugurate that great gathering of the works of nations, triut it should also know that she goes there unaccompanied b y the men whose u n limited ex penditure an d unwearied efforts have contributed to fill this vast building with unexampled specimens of their industry, intellig.nce, and skill. She does not go there, as her advisers might have re commended her to have done, to welcome the exhibitors of her own great empire, of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, but in the presenco of an assemblage of season ticket-holders to open, in all pomp and circum stances of state, this eighth wonder of the world. How much more graceful to the exhibitors, how much mo re genial to our Sovereign's own feelings would it have been for her to have received the exhibitors them selves, than the welkdressed three-guinea gathering which assembles within those glass walls to great her to-day. The Royal Commissioners cannot complain that ax. hibitors made no remonstrance to their unjust arrange ment. Memorials and deputations were alike unsuc cessful from the offices of the committee to the very foot cf the throne. The reasons given for excluding the exhibitors are so palpably absurd as scarcely to require comment. That the impossibility of admitting the body of workm en , under the title of assistants, and all the members of honorary district committees, should be the preventive to the free admission of those whose talent, energy, and capital have produced the specimens which fill the build. ing, is hardly to be credited. One thing is certain, the exclusion of the exhibitors must throw as inevitable damp on this day's rejoicings, and be an indelible stain on the page which records the proceedings of the Royal Commission.—l am, Sir, yours, &0., AN EXCLUDED EXHIBITOR. May 1, 1851. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, and their Royal Ilighnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Princess of Prussia, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended Divine service yesterday morning, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. sad Rev. Gerald Wellesley uffielatEd. The Royal Family took their usual airings yesterday. The Queen and Prince Albert, with Prince Alfred and the Princess Alice, accompanied by the Prince and Princess of Prussia and Prince Frederick William, visited the Exhi bition of the Industry of all Nations on Saturday forenoon. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess Oriolla, Hon. Beatrice Byng, Colonel the Hon. Charles 3rey, and Lieut.- Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour. The Countess de .Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, and the Prince de Joinville, visited her Majesty and their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. The Duchess d'Orleans visited the Princess of Prussia on This has been accomplished by two different methods, which we will now briefly explain. If the wire along which the electric current is transmitted be coiled spirally round a rod of soft iron, this rod will ac quire the magnetic virtue so long as the current passers along the wire; but the moment the current is suspended the iron instantly loses the magnetic property. If, then, the current be, as has already been described, alternately transmitted and suspended during intervals of various lengths, the rod of iron will in such case alternately acquire and lose the magnetic virtue during corresponding intervals. If, then, we sup pose an iron penholder to be placed near the bar of soft iron, so that when the latter is magnetic the pen holder will be drawn towards it, and detached from it when it loses the magnetic virtue, we can imagine that the pen may be raised and lowered in correspondence with the play of the currant. Now, if a sheet of paper be placed under the point of such a pen, being continuously and slowly moved under it, the pen will be pressed upon the paper and raised from it alternately, and the paper will be marked with lines of varying length, at varying intervals, corresponding exactly with and faithfully representing the play of the current. These signs being adopted in their various combinations as conventional representatives of letters and words, such a symbolic language will become by practice as easily and rapidly readable as a printed book. Such is the principle of one class of writing magnetic tele graphs, sue example of which is presented end may be seen in the Exhibition, in the telegraph known as Morse's, and which is used on several lines in the United States. Ihe pen used by Morse is a pointed style, which is pressed upon a riband of paper, having upon it indented lines of various lengths, which express, as has just been explained, the let tug and words composing the communication. The method used in telegraphs of this kind for the pur pose of impressing the style upon the paper is adopted in the needle telegraph first described for the purpose of ringing a bell, by which the attention of the agent at the place to which the dispatch is about to be sent is awakened. With out some such expedient it would be indispensably necessary that an agent at each station should be continually on the watch for the arrival of dispatches; in fact, his eye could never be for one moment withdrawn from the dial of the te legraph without the liability to more or less delay in the communications. To remedy this, a bar of soft iron, sur rounded by a spiral coil, is provided at each station. This bar is placed near the detent of an alarum. The moment the current passes through the coil, and the bar becomes conse quently magnetic, it attracts the detent, disengages the alarum, and informs the agent at the station that a dispatch is about to arrive. This agent has likewise the power to ring a bell at the station from which the dispatch is about to be transmitted, to inform them that he is prepared far its re ception. It is evident, however, that an infinite variety of other expedients may be adopted b y which these and like communications can be inte rchan g ed between the stat'ons. The method adopted in Morse's and similar telegraphs for writing a dispatch, by acting upon a style through the inter vention of an intermitting magnet of soft iron, is subject to some practical inconveniences, owing to the force of the elec tric current which it requires, a forces which cannot always be obtained with certainty, in consequence of the electric vicissitudes of the atmosphere. An apparatus based upon another principle has been accordingly invented, art example of which will be seen in the electrochemical telegraph ex hibited by Mr. Alexander Bain. The principle of this apparatus is easily rendered intelligible. The electric current has the property of decomposing certain chemical solutions when it is transmitted through them. Now, if a sheet of paper be moistened with a liquid which itself is colourless, but which holds in solution colouring matter, such, for example, as Prussian blue, the electric current, being transmitted through any point of such paper, will decompose the solution at that point, will liberate the Prussian blue, and produce a blue spot. If while the current passes the paper be moved under the wire which conducts the current, a blue line will be formed upon it, and if while the paper moves under the wire in contact with it the cur rent be Intermitted as already described, a series of blue lines will be produced of varying lengths and with varying , i_r!t e e s re . vals, representing exactly the play of the current. iy e __! . lines will Ocordingly be traced upon the paper, iswhichhnd Ps such moving under the wire which conducts the current, and such marks may be interpreted and read as easily Is language, in the same meaner as in Morse's telegraph described • the difference between the two consisp ten and in n l r e s y , that in the' one traces are produced by mechamee the other by chemical action. In comparing together the relative merittsioonf t t h o e as di c ff e e r r t e a n in t it electric telegraphs is an important o sruaesnsmitted by them the rate at which dispatches can b respectively. For it is evident that the t e t t h h e transmitting power o t a ra tn n o s u m n i t tt ofeapital of a wire being determined bt_ line will, to a certain invoiced in the establishmenithyouls, if by one system we are extent, be affected by t• hes along a single wire ten times enabled to transmit dispatches as fast as by .another, rt f o ll e o_w s s ys t t l e i m at w to oh ex d ec r u e t q e u a ire giv th en e amo unt of business the former in wires as the latter. ere ction of ten times as many It is found practically that by means of the needle tele graphs not more than about 20 letters per minute can be transmitted. We are aware that the partisans of this system affirm that more rapid transmission is effected, and this ma y be true occasionally, and under particular circumstances, but we doubt whether a greater average rapidity of trans mission can be effected by it, and certainly a much greater speed of communication cannot be maintained. By . a peculiar and happy arrangement in the electro chymical telegraph of Mr. Bain, the details of which will be found in the Exhibition, a rate of transmission is realized which not only exceeds the speed of the most expert stenographer, but exceeds even the rapidity of the most rapid utterance. In some experimental trials made with this apparatus lately, before Committees of the Institute of France and the National Assembly, dispatches were sent a distance of upwards of 3UO miles at the rate of 1,50 t letters per minute, and it is certain that in average circumstances the speed of transmission may always exceed 1,000 letters per minute, or 17 letters per second. The means whereby this is accomplished admit of easy explanation. The dispatch to be transmitted is first im pressed by a machine provided for the purpose upon a riband of paper of about half an inch broad, and of sufficient length to carry the entire dispatch in pierced characters, consisting, as already deecribed, of lines of various lengths. These open characters are cut b y means of punches, which are made to act with inconceivable rapidity upon the riband by the ma chine already mentioned. The riband is then rolled round a spindle, and, being attached to the telegraphic apparatus, is made to pass rapidly over a metallic roller, upon which it is pressed by a needle along which the electric current is con ducted. When the needle falls into perforated characters the electric current is transmitted from station to station but when the needle rests upon the spaces of the riband which are not perforated the current is interrupted. It is clear, therefore, that if this riband be passed with a motion, no matter how rapid, between the needle and the metallic roller, the play of the intermitting current will be regulated in strict accordance with the pierced characters on the riband of paper; and, according to what has been already explained, this play will produce corresponding characters, paper at the station to which upon the chemically prepa red hus we shall have the dis the dispatch is transmitted. T patch written urn the chemical paper, character for cha racter, correspeadirig precisolY with the dispatch per- ~~' S;,VC.4 Saturday,. and took a drive with her Royal Highness in an ,h open carriage a r i r ,n i r s i gec eof and four. Wales, The attended by Mr. Birch, took an airing in an open carriage on Saturday. The Princess Royal and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four on Saturday, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Mar quis of Abercorn, Lord George Lennox, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Seymour, and Lieut.- Colonel F. Hugh Seymour, honoured the President and members of the Royal Academy with his company at their annual dinner, in Trafalgar-square, on Saturday evening, revious to the opening of the Exhibition . The Prince afterwards joined the Queen at her Majesty's Theatre. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Prussia, and Prince Frederick Wil. ham, honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with her presence. The Royal suite con sisted of the Countess of Charlemont, the Countess Hacks, the Countess Oriolla, Hon. Beatrice Bvng, Lord Waterpark, Count Puckler, Count Goltz, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Fischer. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also honoured the performance at her Majesty's Theatre with her pre sence on Saturday evening. Lady Fanny Howard and Lord James Murray were in attendance upon her Royal llighness. Mr. Joseph Nash had the honour of submitting to the inspection of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. two drawings of the opening of the Crystal Palace, of which drawings her Majesty and his Royal High ness were graciously pleased to express so much approba tion, as to command them to be retained in her Majesty 4 possession. Prince Edwar I of Saxe-Weimar visited the Prince an& Princess of I'russia on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Glouces ter Ilouse. The Countess de Neuilly, the Duchess d'Orleans, the t=ake and Duchess de Nemours, and the Prince de Joinville, visited her R.,yal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Saturday, at Clarence House, St. James's. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing -street. The Ministers p resent were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, Lord Brougham, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Carlisle, and the Right lion. Fox Maule. The Council sat an hour and a half. A deputation from Jersey, Mr. Edward Nicolle Law and Mr. W. Grant Lumaresq, had an interview on Saturday with Sir George Grey at the Home-office, to pres the estent a peti tion from the inhabitants of J erse y , praying for ab lishment of paid police, a sitting magistrate, and a court of requests for the recovery JWilliams, .P., Mr. A deputation, consisting of .J. of small ,. debts. Humphreys Jones, Mr. R. H. Wyatt, and Mr. Rymer, had an interview on Saturday with Lord Seymour, at the office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, W hito hall-place, on the Wrexham Improvement Bill. The Oxford University Commission held a meeting on Saturday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. Present—the Bishop of Nor wich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rey. 11. Liddell, the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. 5. Johnson, the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). A deputation from the Committee of Paving St. Martin's- in-the-Fields, consisting of Mr. Staunton, Mr. Barton, Mr. Dengerfield, Solicitor to the Committee, and Mr. Farrants Clerk to the Committee, had an interview on Saturday: witls Lord Seymour, at the ffice of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests. Dr. Paris had an interview on Saturday with Sir George Grey, to present the annual report from the National Vaccine Board. and the recrieleedputkhee s o a f crWamelelnintgytoeneteartdtaeyn,detdh the Ceahrelypesleirvleiyc,ea,l,asnud James's. Rev. viTehseleyßeavd.mTin. sermon,ititielrlsedptrheeacshaecdramtheent. IC OLYMPIC THSATRE.—MR. LEIGH Muz• RAY'S BENEFIT.—Thst excellent stage-manager and admir able actor, ➢lr . Leigh Murray, takes his benefit a t the Olympic this evening; on which occa o s p i fa o r n mt.rf h .o e rLt w ehig i e l h l p s sie u r a s ia n i aa n; for the fi rst time, the character of Evelyn, in Sir Bulwer :I f ie lir p ° e n c r u Y liar Th ta is len is ts a h t him; It eminently_ov Lion to o n; s w c omedy andica addition to the comedy of Charles King, which will be per formed as the afterpiece, we are promised a fantasia on the harp, by M-. Gerhard Taylor; and a Grand Divertissement, in which Madlles. Adele, Lee, Coleman. of her Majesty's Theatre, Desborough, Sc., will appear. We have no doubt but that the house will be a bumper, M. Robin's elegant place of entertainment, 232 , Piccadilly, continues every eveningrho igs t r o e n crowdede meth by which h most fashionable audiences. The new haso a p n e t n as e t dth es e „ in s c e o co n ntadsallseriesh t of e formed by command her Most Gr acious Soiiees Parisiennee et F iqu delusions Majestyw ere thepen Queen, at Windsor, on the 25th of April, and of which per formance her Majesty most graciously conveyed her high ap probation to Id. Robin through Lord Byron. AEROSTATION AT VAUXHALL. GARDENS.—The first ascent this season of the Great Nassau Balloon for "experi mental purposes," announced for Saturday, was postponed in consequence of the unpropitious state of the weather, to this afternoon. Too LATE FOR THE EXHIBITION.--Four monster casks of wine arrived in the London Docks on the opening day of the Exhibition, by the ship Travel ler, Captain A. R. Henderson, from Cadiz, for Mr. John Fowler, wine merchant, Wells-street, Cripplegate-2,900 gallons for the larger casks, the duty being 8331.155. EXHIBITION SERMONS AT EXETER HALL.—Yes. day the two first of a series of sermons for the Sabbath-day commenced at Exeter-hall. The powerful organ of the estamisument was used for the occasion, and the hall was crowded in every part. The morning sermon was preached by the Rev. Baptist Noel, that in the evening by the Rev. W. Kinney. No collection will be made at these sermons. [ADVERTISESIENT.J —The Observer of yesterday (Sunday, May 4), gave the fullest particulars of the Great Exhibition, extending over 21 of the Observer folio columns. Price of the Obse and its gratuitous Supplement (toge rver - ther 60 columns) Sixpence. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM CONTEST.—It id stated that a considerable majority of votes, chiefly proxies, will, at the meeting to be held on the Bth instant, be given in favour of the proposed lease of the Shrewsbury and Bir mingham line to, and subsequent amalgamation with, the Great Western Company. THE RIOTERS AT THE BOSTON ELECTION _T €SB men were again brought up for examination on Friday last. Not any of them were charged with the full offence. Seven were discharged on finding security each for 25/. and them selves bound in 501. each. Three were fined ii. each, and one 51. A number of new trifling cases were brought for ward, but the parties were all discharg ed on finding the re quisite security for keeping the pea ce ; some for six, and others for twelve months. ROBBERY OF DIAMONDS WORTH 4501.—Informa tion has been received by the police of a robbery committed in an office at 8, Broad-street-buildinltgis, not City, kno wof diam in on d or naments to the value of 4501. n what manner the robbery was committed. BREMEN, APRIL 28 . —Emigration from Bremen in this year to this day :—For New York in 30 vessels. 4,022 passengers ; for New Orleans, in 8 vessels, 1,9,8 passengers; for Baltimore, in 7 vessels, 1,199 passengees; Galveston, in 3 vessels , 272 passengers; for Philadelphis. 3 vessels, 229 passengers; total, 51 vessels, vial 7, 690 Pm angers. S 14 g : ✓~ -->l;\,°).) 850. 1,89 1 8,804 1,082 gib.. I I