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r , t , e I- LITERATURE. k inß/S0 V A LV,S WORTH'S ROMANCES. No Vol. IV. Cheep Edition. re-issue of at P pular romances, within our r'" "eti"n, was everso deserving of the title of de up editii)n as the present re-publication of the % °rks ot William I.larri.,on Ainsworh. At its coin . i i r u t e ernent, it may be remembered by our rt:aders, we espi-cially called to the present enterpriz- the att.i Prrogressiv and since then, having watched the e appearance of these romances, we only l e 4nisi- new reasons for reiterating our commends on 8 ' What appears to us to be manifest upon the ve rY face of the undertaking is, that nothing but an ofiritious sale can possibly render it remunerative. , r t he present re-issue, however, in that respect, ,"ing eminently successful, we are in no doubt twbot‘tever, from the extraordinary popularity already ' li ned, and to the present day, we will add too, sustained In the y o n by by the writings of Mr. Ainsworth. ()dui oome lag published, the fourth of the cheap %h u rt the subscribers will have found comprised the e of the tale entitled "The Miser's Daughter," ono fr o " I addition to thi s , a f ront i sp i ece , re p resen ti ng , C R 41 the pencil of Daniel .Maclise, the hand le features c f the novelist. Apart altogether, is frcm this attraction, the volume before us delierc.ially fraught with fascination to all such as gee .g t l'i the agreeable effusions of the imagination, Prod that it contains perhaps the most felicitous a r, a qi ii s : l l:n of the pen of Mr. Ainsworth. It was the Daughter" which first secured the public a, to to the Magazine still published under the this e and editorship of our novelist. Conscious that 1 41 : 2 ' Possibly the happiest of his numerous achieve as A tskas writer of fiction, M r . Ai nswo rth o ff e red it in ;en a of parental affection to his three daughters • medication remarkable for its brief and charming eu r „, Y. The allusion made by him to this.cir boall'`anee in the preface to the present re-issue is so quolittiifoully expressed that we must be permitted its more n • "Whether " says he, "because it was L_ easily written then the rest of my works, or iliitivusaeutsaeleivaesserved the preference, I cannot say ; but always my own fatrite. As such I With ins cribed a _ it t o th ree ot h ers o f my offspring, who With me not less (and with b e tt er r e a son ) favourites ip pr r • n . Knowing thi s , we can now recognise the %tor °Plate selection of the " Miser's Daughter" as the l iittn i 7 i' to be embellished w ith th e lik eness o f th e ro il det• Another cir cums t ance no t ye t re f erre d t o Itori t elerv ioß' of observ a ti on i n th e re -i ssue o f th e th e i r o f Mr. Ai nsworth, namely, the rapidity of b ein °Ppearance no less than three shilling volumes on e !" ti ounced ' for publication in the present month, 111 5 ,°, , r ; t aining "Jack Sheppard" and the other two ori ont , -1 -° , ver of London." Enterprise so conspicuous d ertai :.fail to secure an increase of success to the un- Pr o „ Ln eu g, and i n d o i ng so the cheap ed i t i on now i n thq• Must necessarily tend to popularise still fur an al ready popul a r reputation. THE MAGAZINES, &c. tta BLACKWOOD. itlo n g il t; March number, for the delectation of its aeotnerable readers, is more than usually misce a ils the ci rcumstance not at all to be regretted by A etio rers of magazine literature. Politics, trave, Varlet' Poetry, and criticism alternate in agreeable o f thy' and while the article at the commencement colt; nu mber is d e di ca t e d t o th e great co l on i a l d iffi ex perienced i n regar d to t h e C ana d as , th e ope,ier) g at its conc l us i on is commemorative of the °f th e se of the pr esen t P ar li amentary session. N e i t h er te r "e will be found to be of a s uperficial charac "4 both may be read with advantage, Cum grano salis, on account of the atnhhbias of th e op i n i ons enterta i ned b y our dear, ,tiob L ltn i old 110 my. To our e x c e edi n g gratitica -4,6"e observe that the reviewer of Washington hiatuBl " Life of Oli ver G o ld sm i t h" h as fill e d up t h e el s „; 8 which we remarked in his last month's criti- Pap er 1 1 givin g us in a second and supplementary bui totes on the writings of that delightful genius. It earee;jast that, having commented upon the personal t Ett • of Goldsmith, he should follow up that nar- Iv e by .., an estimate of Goldsmith's abilities as an h isto' r l i B4 a traveller, a poet, a novelist, an terie:ni and a dramatist. All this the the , - „ er in Blackwood has accomplished with eith„ - " e ePtion of any allusions to Oliver's capacity , trer - 11 : ts a Playwright or as an annalist. Here, how ae e "'Pie materials for comment—leaving on th e ai de the school histories of " England," &c., and 4 / 44 ' W ° feli c i tous comedies of the Good-natured e tl 'lll ld eattl;" She Stoops to Conquer—in the sweetest ge e tale in th e l anguage, the " Vi car o f Wak e ojathe garrulous pages of " The Citizen of the tAo re the Poem of the " Traveller," and the yet a t ,. achn irable poem of the " Deserted Village." the "( 8. ,'1t(1 to the former of Goldsmith's masterpieces, the e,(raleller," we are reminded by our critic of beet,'Lonishrnent felt, on its appearance, " that a Ntve4P„aPer essayist and a bookseller's drudge should teeo4,,vrit,ten such a poem"—a surprise not at . a litie,Prenensible. The anecdote about the opening is 441 Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow," t his n i/sin g ; but our chief obligation to the writer of Petiles-n, sing' is for his having revived for our of A4t Oliver's charming though defective allegory IZ: en. ° Two or three little casual interjections he rtiere—entheses) are the best things th . „ sagacious critic has likewise r in vie , a t, ed :vat „s" March number of Blackwood Mr. rcm'4 Powerful and very excellent " Let ; "'he Is t he Queen on a late Court-Martial. " to4vi„-:"owever, Blackwood asserts plainly enough its 4 4(1 u '''pn that Captain Douglas has been most cruelly tetile:JustlY treated, we cannot but disagree alto %Ilk; wi th our contemporary in its opinion that the ver i ,°f thi s deeply-injured officer was marked by 418.1„"s'Ight culpability, a r i s in g f rom an o bli qu ity o f trie - "t• C ons id er i ng t h e treatment already ex -ted at Alderney by Captain Douglas, we think a lv i , s fully justified in the reservation Par "ittvir);Y,_ acknowledgment wh a t eve r o f hi s be acknowledgment firing on the Frying Pan Battery. h tcl tlcei u rt ° ll l this portion of the subject, however, we I' , t hat the strictures of Blackwood are emi pq, Judicious. Both the serials—" The Green 7, 1 1 d, h t ": (1 " My Peninsular Medal"—are continued. "re -es ides, an agreeable and discursive notice of urgilheent travels of Alexardre Dumas and of David h e a t in Northern Africa, under the title of ;''ttlttbh—'4o Rambles,"—the number is embellished 13,,„r'e poetical contributions, the verses addressed .. " 113) " Highland Mary" being the most meri- h W e 1 , BENTLEY. h * - have three delightful chapters of Mr. .Robert r t 'ent ne w novel, " The Ladder of Gold," the Z i t lit: "Inber of Bentley. The hero progresses in in ii 4 :tet t ;Z a . r : l career until he, Richard_ Rawlings, the ! t l'' r Pauper becomes Member of Parliament t t l , :• t i l i - en) and w ' e are informed that the next chap ' ° ea: p . t4 ite Rawlings and his family to London, it e‘orth t to t. the scene of whatever joys or sorrows ! itt itef." Unfolded in this story." In the present in 11, 41 - g ti „ t we have some delightful pictures of English 4114tat,-,enerY and English country society, such, for it Mi ßil ' t:' the picture of " Wren's Nest," and the - 4 i ll ' farnil gr u of the Winsters who inhabit i ),-41v-ie Pnvver Y , the -o irresistible P power of wealth is nityy,lustrated by the calm manner in which h 41 fisi ) r(1 4ftwlings compels the self-willed, ha d ug t ty e , N., ' tYrannical Earl of Dragonfelt, to surren der theh NllolBentation of Ye lton into his hands ; indeed, -4, ill ..1.-- t 4 ~e bit l t " .y . 0 f this r Yarlton election is one of the I.%sti. strations of the absurdity of suffering small '44 4' tlent ie?, under the present system, to return $- Nt inl erl t°Parliament, that ever was penned, and we . 7,., 4 144 1 11t , to the perusal of all advocates for an ex th u t ke, th e suffrageand for vote by ballot. Mr. k P r i e apothecary who attends the household of 1 1 „ 41 11 44 t - . i°,l b ragonfelt, and therefore dares not vote A 1 f ree T 8 Lordshi 's nominee, is the type of b the p ti th 4- 'l l clepende p tit electors" of all such small o- Ifdese P i erbaps the most important paper in the ehtle„-11°Inber is the able, masterly, and conclusi e 6 1; s t ' l nf the policy of Sir James Brooke, by Mr. J s ot - ' t o " I 'n, against the calumnies of the " spouter f k, a ; ' ' '' th) :: 'who, under pretence of being friends o h'met ) y h f - ve in fact constituted themselves into a iteti r q the protection of pirates and the enco s u t - . 51.1 4 -tit uf the slave-trade. In this paper Mr. , Of Co ny t° 4 0 41 h lets these orators of ~ crass ignorance,' or Pqi e g t ! n g infinitely worse. They have asserted that pi 4 Rlist, . h a h vessels have been plundered, and no il, r ,, t tEs, ' ll ,,,°jects have been murdered by the Bornean 1i. 4 1' th e " some of them go further, and . absolutely f",l'aa ,,.existence of piracy in the Indian .Archi -,t.,ehon. 3 " 1 r- St John proves that these assertions are 4 '''. l sb •,:) "pure and simple," as the French would say, it i s ti k t g 4the existence of iracy, and the fact of the 8,' 4 4 11) of English vessels by the Sarebas and S .4 :lt tli b ate 3 l,l, lllc h s i ' st fro . ln the testimony of Cornet de Groot, lsi t „ Ih mion orian of the Archipelago, and from the h ` ll p • of various Sarebas Malays . who were enderstittttit,o4,l.l2on by the crews of the Nemesis and . A.l vi- IL% Npa conveyed to Singapore, where their e t s f4 et th at ta ken. . _ We may observe, en passant, that .. 11 41 1 1 . Y tO il t -a t any prisoners were taken is always care P h 'ell 4r i e ealed by the very candid gentlemen who, at i - , i ltle .Biieb°:l*_neer meetings, eeings, ventilate their vocabulary l'il; I N. rr, .t of Si:i James Brooke and the Sarebas h i ° l a 4 , 4. rhs paper, from the pen of Mr. St. John, ivi i tits t eli7innwledged on all hands to be one of the tki, the B' authorities on all matters connected %I t if it E as t, oe Will, we hope, set the question . at rest, ill il nWl ea s not draw from the patrons of . piracy an 'lti • "gment of their error, at least shame ,4e ,Atiphittn silence. Maxwell concludes his story of h a ard Vit i t. ll 4 no ' th ßliff e!tY," and Pa ul . Pinder furnishes us 1 04 er delightful Angling Eclogue. There are f k tilll t:r°ther Papers of interest, besides the review ? 6. -t t4e,pht literature of the month in this, which is '11047/4 number of Bentley. There are two illus 't/ ii The Ladder of (,fold." FRASER. The publication of a series of " Letters from Gene ral Conway and the Countess of Aiiesbury to Horace Walpok, Earl of OArd," is commenced in the pre sent number of Frain.. General Conway, whose fame as a soldier, a statesman, and an orator, are well known to all who are acquainted with the his tory of the latter half of the last century, and who, in 1782, was raised to the rank of Field-Marshal and Commander- in -Chief, began his political career, like the majority (.f the great statesmen of the past and present age, as Irish Secretary. He was ap pointed to this office in 1755, some time atter his marriage with the Countess of Ailesbury. The Lord- Lieutenant under whom he served was the Marquis of Hartington (afterwards fourth Duke of Devon shire), to whom Smollett assigns the credit of having "happily composed the intestine broils of Ireland." Both Conway and his lady were on intimate terms with Horace Walpole, who was Conway's cousin, and the first of these letters, dated May 8, 1755, is addressed to him by Conway, from Dublin Castle. Their contents are interesting as affording- a peep behind the scenes at the manage ment of Irish affairs a century since. Horace Wal pole bequeathed these letters to the Hon. Mrs. Darner, Conway's daughter, at whose death they came into possession of her relative, Lady Johnstone, by whose : permission they now appear. Fraser has two political articles this month, the one a review of M. Guizot's recently published brochure on the English revolution, in the course of which, while eulogizing Charles I. in the highest terms, and vituperating, as Tories are wont to vituperate, the Parliament and the Common wealth men, the writer, such is the force of truth, inad vertently blurts out an admission which stamps his hero as the meanest and most contemptible of man kind, and completely justifies every proceeding adopted by the Parliament against him. Speaking of Charles I. the writer says, "It was his weakness and his besetting sin that he did not know how to keep a promise when he had made it." How could it be expected that the Parliament or any other body of men, or any individual man, could trust a person of this character without receiv ing sufficient guarantees for his observance of the agreements into which he had entered, and the only guarantee that could be considered sufficient under the circumstances was depriving him of all power whatever, so that, according to the admissions of this writer, all that the Parliament did with regard to Charles I. was forced upon them by the habitual and admitted bad faith of this most notorious promise breaker. The other political article of the month is on colonial reform, in which the writer proposes, as a panacea for all colonial grievances, the importation into each colony of an hereditary peerage. Now, comparing the state of England with its hereditary aristocracy, its huge debt and enormous taxation, the necessary consequence of that aristocracy, and that of the United States, without an hereditary aristocracy, and consequently without debt and almost without taxation, it is not likely that the colonists will place much faith in the proposed remedy. They would be just as likely to consent to a proposition for natural ising in every colony an English Court of Chancery. The story of the " Micmac's Bride" is concluded, and we wish we could say as much for the " Peace Cam paigns of Ensign Faunce." The chapters in the present number are wofully dreary. Morgan Rattler gives a graceful translation of Horace's ode, "Ad Lyram," and we have an elaborate critique on the works of Beaumont and Fletcher, besides various other papers. ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL. Part X. Under the industrious editorship of Eliza Cook this popular weekly and monthly - miscellany still maintains its good and true reputation. Forty-three numbers having already appeared, we cannot be con sidered as premature in our present commendations, so many evidences of ability being afforded in the ten months of the journal's existence. Tales of various descriptions abound in its pages for the de light of those who love to wander through the golden dream-lands of imagination. In the present instal ment of the periodical, for example, we have "The Prestons, ' a tale, " The Walk to the Post," a tale, " The Music in the Shadow," a tale, and "Aunt Mabel's Love Story"—enough, surely, of itself to secure to the miscellany an eager and general perusal. Besides these there are essays on sanitary and educational reforms, on the Exhibition of Industry in 1851, and on the various subjects which may happen to be uppermost in the public mind at the time. Also, as usual, there is a bounteous sprinkling of " Diamond Dust," and a few well considered criticisms, such as those before us on 'Panthea" and on " Shirley." But, above all others, the most conspicuous feature in the publication is the number and variety of its lyrical contributions. Within the compass of the tenth part now under consideration, for example, we have first of all," The Waves and the Lost Playmate," in which we recog nise the ghost of some beautiful imaginings of E. E. M. K.—" The Worldly Man's Sorrow,"— " Flowers"—" The People of the World," by Charles Swain—" Song of the Poor Teacher "—" Shut not out the Light," and " Procrastinstion." Three other poems from the hand of Eliza Cook grace the pages of her journal " No," with which our readers have been already made ac quainted—" Oh, let us be Happy"—and " The Two Worshippers." From the two latter effusions we would make copious quotations, but that we conceive we shall be doing more justice to the popu lar songstress by commenting upon some of the more prominent beauties of those compositions. In the first of these effusions, how truthful is the exclamation— "-- he who believes every heart is unreal Has something unsound at the core of his own." Better to our thinking, however, than these lines " for music" (rather too long for music by the way) are the verses at the close of the March number, entitled " The Two Worshippers ;" although it would be impossible for us to assert our conviction that the two worshippers are faithful types of a class, representa tives of their professions. Having depicted in the opening of the effusion the recluse of old in his abbey, Eliza Cook contrasts the picture with the sketch of the poet wandering among its ruins long afterwards,— " See another holy brother, Bending o'er the sodded slope. 'Tis a Poet-one who lingers Fondly where the blossoms start, Pearls of dew upon his fingers, Gold of knowledge in his heart; No rough sackcloth is he wearing, No strange mi, , sal is he bearing, He is smiling as he gases On the spangles at his feet; Childlike, he is plucking daisies, And the violets so sweet; Peacefully he steps about, Where blackbirds rest and cowslips glitter, With a love that's too devout To crush the flower or stay the twitter By the altar :pot Le's leaning, With his bunch of incense bloom, And his spirit hath a meaning, That shall ehasten and illume." We cannot close our remarks better than with this brief but suggestive quotation. MR. COLBURN'S NEW WORKS OF FICTION.—To be bad at all the Libraries—l. Pride and Irresolution, by the author of " The Discipline of Life"-2. The Scottish Cavalier, by James Grant, Esq., author of the " Gordon Highlanders," &c.-3. Adventures of a Gold finder, written by Himself-4. The Petrel, a Tale of the Sea, by a Naval Officer-5. The Wilmingtons, by the author of " Emilia Wyndham" -6. Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland, of Sunny Side, written by Herself, second edition-7. Leonard Normandale; or, the Three Brothers, by the Hon. C. Stuart Savile-8. The Fortunes of Woman, edited by Miss Lamont. THE DUKE OF SUTHERLAND.—The following paragraph is going the round of the journals, after having appeared in most of the daily papers :—" It gives us much pleasure to learn, on good authority, that by a new system of medical treatment, the Duke of Sutherland has been relieved from the deafness under which his Grace has so long laboured." We hear that the physician, through whose medical skill the Noble Duke has been cured, is Dr. Turnbull, of Manchester square.—Observer. DARING AND EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT TEE SWAN HOTEL, BRISTOL.—During the night of Friday a rob bery of s very daring and mysterious character was committed at the Swan Hotel, Bridge-street, Bristol. The family and domestics of the establishment retired to bed soon atter twelve o'clock, leaving, as usual, " boots" up to guard the premises, and await the arrival of guests arriving by the night tittins, or otherwise. The plate was gathered up in the customary manner, and carried into the bed-room of an elderly lady, a connexion of the landlord, Mr. Gray, where it was nightly deposited for security. At about five o'clock in the morning one of the street-doors of the hotel was observed to be open by a policeman, and it was soon discovered that the house had been plundered by. thieves to a very large amount. The robbers must have secreted themselves during the evening in an underground cellar, from which they cut their way through a door into some wine-vaults con nected with the hotel. Here they possessed themselves of all the contents of the till, and having regaled them selves with bread, and beef, and brandy, they forced open a door connecting the place with the dwelling part of the inn. Here they helped themselves to some more refreshments, after which they found their way to the bed-room of the lady bef 're-mentioned, where, without alarming her, they rifled her boxes, possessed them selves of the plate basket, and decamped with their bo ay. Among the property stolen were nearly three zen silver table spoons, a number of dessert, tea, and gravy spoons, satiee ladles, &c., some of which were marked "Swan Hotel," others " Gra; ," and some with initials merely. The boots, who had to stay up, sat in a back kitchen, and states that he was awake during the whole of the night, and heard nothing in any way to create a suspicion that thieves were on the premises. THE ASYLUM TOR IDIOTS.—We have the satisfac tioa to know that her Most Gracious Maj, sty the Queen has been pleased to honour the Asylum for Idiots with her patronage, and to constitute his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales a member of the body of patrons for life, with the privilege Of appointing to one bed in per petuity. • THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1850 THE ROYAL GE soc lETY. Perhaps no class of men have so fair a claim to the charity and commiseration of the more fortunate of their fellows, as those who, after spending their prime in pursuits of a mercantile and commercial character which add lustre and stability to the greatness of their country, find themselves in the season of age and ex hausted ensrgy, in spite of industry and forethought, in a stet of hopeless and bitter penury. Poverty has comparatively few stings to those who have scarcely known aught else from their infancy. But it is ether wise with men who have been reared in the lap of ease and comfort, and during the greater part of their lives may be said, in the touching words of Jaffier, is have known "the luscious sweets of plenty." When age and and want fall simultaneously upon such persons, their crushing force is augmented by the recollection of better days, and a melancholy spectacle is presented, appealing strongly to the best fselings and sympathies of the hu man heart. To relieve the necessities of this class of persons—to afford maintenance and shelter to those who would otherwise be driven to seek them beneath the roof and in connexion with the degrading incidents of a workhouso —is the benevolent object which the Royal Gsneral An nuity Society seeks to promote. The meritorious indivi duals which this institution aspires to succour consist of decayed merchants, bankers, clergymen, solicitors, medical men, master manufacturers, and tradesmen, who, after passing their early and middle age in comparative pros perity, are, from an accumu'atio❑ of varied misfortunes which prudence cannot always anticipate or avert, too frequently reduced in old age to a state of abject penury, and bowed down with a load of difficulties and pri vations, than which death itself would be almost pre ferable. It also includes within the sphere of its usefulness deserving single women, who have perhaps a stronger claim upon the sympathies of the charitable and the affluent than even those classes whom we have enumerated. When it is remembered how many females devote the days of their youth to the care of an aged parent or relative, to the rearing of their orphan brothers or sisters, or to the education of the rising generation, we cannot but think that a society which holds out to ' such persons a fostering hand, when poverty and age come upon them, is deserving of the warmest support, even if it had no other claim upon public sympathy. This society was established some twenty years ago, and for some considerable time alter its formation it continued to flourish, when, owing to the death of some of its early patrons and supporters, it sunk into compa rative obscurity. About five or six years ago, however, vigorous exertions were made to restore and com mend it to public favour, and annually since that time with marked success, no small de gree of its present prosperity being directly attributable to the great personal exertions of its excellent secre tary, Mr. Aldrich. It numbers amongst its patrons her Majesty the Queen, who graciously permitted it to be called the Royal General Annuity Society ; His Royal Highness Prince Albert, his Majesty the King of the Belgians, the Most Noble the Marchioness of Sligo, the Right Honourable the Countess of Carlisle, the Right Honourable the Countess of Jersey, the Hight Honour able the Viscountess Sydney, the Right Honourable Lady Wenman, the Right Hon. Lady Fanny Howard, &c. The society is not limited in its operations to any particular district, but it relieves, to the utmost of its power, applicants from all parts of the United Kingdom, there being two elections in each year, January and July. The funded property, since the resuscitation of the society, has increased from 4001. to 2,770/., and is still increasing, while the subscriptions for the past year exceeded those of the previous years by 6601.—the total receipts being the largest for twenty years. At the present time there are forty annuitants on the funds, the men receiving 2/. ss. per month, and the women 11. 10s.; and the necessity that exists for in creased exertions on the part of its friends is shown by the fact that these are 114 deserving individuals, who have been reduced from comparative opulence to po verty, still seeking admission to the charity. Many of the parties now on the funds of the charity are more than eighty years of age, and some even over ninety. All have known comparative prosperity. Some of them, it is said, have been worth 60,000/. or 70,0001.; and one is the daughter of a baronet, who, having been reared in the lap of luxury, is now dependent upon this society for support. The Anniversary Festival of the society, as will be seen by an advertisement in another column, is fixed to be held on Wednesday next, at the Londan Tavern, and will be presided over by the Hon. Edward Henry Stanley, M.P. (eldest son of Lord Stanley), who has this day arrived in town after a voyage to the West Indies. The approaching festival is likely to be one of more than ordinary interest, and the grea'est, exertions arc being made to give it effect. The following noblemen and gentlemen, among many others, have already signified their intention of being present :—The Earl Pelvis, Lord Ashley, M.P.; Sir John Heron Maxwell, Bart.; Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P.; Sir M. R. Shaw Stewart, Bart.; Sir Robert Gore Booth, Bart.; Sir E. Belcher; Sir Alexander Hood, Bart.; the Mayor of Gravesend; the Mayor of Rochester; the Mayor of Rye; the Mayor of Banbury; the High Sheriff of Surrey; the Ex-High Sheriff of Surrey; C. N. Newdegate, M.P.; Thomas Greene, Esq., M.P.; Richard Bremridge, Esq., M.P.; G. Cornwall Legh, Esq., M.P.; J. C. Renton, Def., M.P ; William Mundy, Esq., M.P. A festival, having so laudable an object in view, and presided over by a chairman bearing the name of Stanley, upon whose entrance t public life no small degree of , interest must hang, cannot fail to prove not only highly.; attractive to all who may witness it, but advantageous - to the charity itself. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. On Saturday the Rev. Dr. Spry took the chair, and the usual weekly business was disposed of, when— Sir BENJAMIN HALL read a letter from the secre taries of the " Royal Commission for the Exhibition ( f the Art and Industry of all Nations," in which they begged that he and his Noble Colleague would exert themselves in promoting the objects of the Com mission. In compliance (continued the Honourable Baronet) with that request, he gave publicity to the intended exhibition, at the vestry meetings of St. Pancras and Paddington, and with that view laid that day the letter he had just received before the present vestry. Both he and his Noble Colleague pledged themselves to advance the great object which the ex hibition contemplated. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., thanked the Hon. Ba ronet and his Noble Colleague for their assistance in forwarding the success of the exhibition. He moved that Captain Holland, R.N., and Messrs. Plowden, M.P., John Williams, Broughton, Bridgman, Nico lay, Daviss, and Graham be appointed a committee to co-operate with the other parishes in preparing for the exhibition. Mr. GRAHAM seconded the motion.—Cirried. Mr. HUME said that authorised reports and state ments of the most startling charges of mismanage ment and reckless expenditure by the parochial autho rities reached him, which, in his opinion, demanded a strict and searching investigation. According to those authenticated statements the parish was in a much worse condition under an elective government than when it was governed by a self-elected body. It appeared that, in 1832, the rates only figured 111,0001.; while last year they reached 170,0001., although the number of pauper bastard children dwindled from 4,688 to 1 last year, and the police-rates fell from Bd. to 6d., and the church-rates from 3id. to a ld., which, with other similar reductions, should have lessened the parochial burdens 39,000/., with a proportionate reduction of the per centage. In St. Pancras, which contains 150,000 inhabitants, the average cost of each pauper was Si. 6s. Bd.; while in Marylebone, which numbered only 160,000, each pauper costs 71. 12s. sd. In St. Pancras the coals cost only 405/. ; and in Mary lebone, 1,084/. In the latter parish five articles of food cost 10,5651., which, in the former, amounted to 5,7521., making a difference of 90 per cent. The out-door relief in Marylebone averaged, during the last three years, 63,248/., and in St. Pancras only 33,5211., making a difference of 40 per cent. During six months, in 1848, the meat for 2,048 paupers cost 4,070/. 1 ls. Bd., of which one and-a-half pound were once a week given to each pauper, while the same quantity was daily given to each of twenty• six officials. From January to June, 1849, the meat cost 2,848/. 6s. 3d., although the consumed amounted only to 1,674/., leaving 1,073/.,t0 be accounted for. It was also stated that, contrary to Act of Parlia ment, certain vestrymen held lucrative parochial situations. He, therefore, moved the appointment of a committee to investigate and report upon those charges. Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion.: Mr. H. C. WILSON pronounced all those accusa tions as false and groundless. Mr. W. WILLIAMS, M.P., moved an adjournment of the debate, and the vestry accordingly adjourned. VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S SOIREE. —On Saturday evening Viscount and Vis countess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly at their residence in Carlton House-gardens, the announcement that Lord Gough would, in all probability, be present, tending, no doubt, to attract a more than ordinary gathering of the aristocracy. A dinner preceded the reunion. The following were the guests:—Lord Edwasd Howard, Lord Howden, Lady Minto, Marquis and Marchioness Clanricarde, Earl of Powis, Mr. Greville, Lady Jocelyn. B aron R o l ler, Mixon and Baroness Bru now, Lord and Lady and Miss Foley, and Miss Loch man, &c. Soon ef:.er ten o'clock the company invited to the evening assembly b egan to arr i ve, and a num b er o f the visitors having teen at the Speaker's levee, the different costumes added much to the brilliancy of the gathering. Lord Gough, on his arrival, was received with many con,gratulations. Several hundreds of the nobility and the elite of the fashionable world were present. BRUTAL CHILD MURDER IN THE GREEN PARK. —Yesterday morning, about seven o'clock, the constable on duty in the Green Park, in passing round the reser voir, bad his attention drawn to a dark substance lying at the bottom of the water, and on getting it out It was found to be the body of a male child, about one month old (evidently cruelly murdered, the head being beat in, and marks of strangling round the throat), wrapped in a black silk apron. It was removed to St. Martin's workhouse, where it awaits the inquest. Recently a hawk pounced upon a weasel, and was carrying off its prize in triumph, when it was observei to spread out its wings, and both came gradually t o t h e ( arch. The hawk was dead, but the weasel, after turning round onoe or twice, began deliberately to Make gt meal on the eereftle of his wow. NERAL ANNUITY 1 TO T,qE_ SECRETARY OF THE BRAD_ FORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Viredi iesday the 27th, motion was made to bring in a Bill to legalize marriage with a deceased wife's sister. ;owe alteration has taken place in tie complexion of the opposition, since the Bill was pro posed in last se pion. By dint of pains, it has been beaten into the Opposition, that their quotation from I,?viticus is one a uthorising such marriages and not forbidding. Noti iing has in all ages been more re markable, than tile pertinacious vitality of what Milton calls "the: gloss of theologians." Prove that their quotation co ntains the negative to what they represent, and like Proteus they slip out of }'our hands, and appear- in a new shape nothing the worse for damage dont:. to the original. On the present occasion they ad witted that their quotation proved permission ; but. :then they stood upon " the myste rious incorporalit y." They admitted that the Jewish law did did not ; :brbid. But this, they urged, was the reason why the Christian law must. For if the Christian law is better than the Jewish, it is bound to forbid what the other does not. Such was the argument. 'I hey stood therefore on this, and on " the mysterious incorporality ;" but showing no reason, wby what :they intended by that term, was to be continued after death which dissolves the " incor porality" in its s:imple form. By such figments should we be gove rued in Acts of Parliament, if hap pily the information of the public was not in all directions rising iat arms against such Middle Age decrepitude. Another opponi n t of the Bill urged something still more refined and imaginative. I could only fragmentally collect it, though near the orator; and as I can find rs.o traces cf it in the press, the pro bability is that it latterly transcended the reporters' apprehension. The words I heard were, that the phrase "a wife to her sister" meant "putting one board to another,'" and the book of Ezekiel was named, in a way which made it probable that there the confirmation was• to be looked for. As the words of an adversary are Always to be assumed to have the most meaning which can be given to them, I venture to surmise that the point meant to be stated was, that the phrase " to her sister" was in Oriental phraseology found,applied even to inanimate things, where a certain degree of fellowship •or mutuality was to result; and that in proof of this,, it was found applied to the put ting one board to another by a carpenter. On which it will immediately occur, first, how little propriety there is in applying the metaphor of one board put to another by a caryenter, to the case of a prohibited second wife forced into rivalry with one who will be anything but a " sister ;" and secondly, how poor a pass the opponents axe reduced to, when they are fain to hurry their favourite passage off the field, by con struing it into a general prohibition of polygamy, to escape the effect their own passage produces against themselves. On the whole therefore, the resistance to the Bill for any assigned reason, may be said t o b e aban doned. Or at all events it rests on the "mysterious incorporality," and the " putting one board to another." On Thursday came on Mr. Humes motion for amending the National Representation. The case was ably stated by the mover and . those who foll owe d him. The answer of the Prime Minister will probably be sifted with sufficient severity by portions of the press, without doing more here than pointin g t o one i of those glaring unfairnesses ▪ n argument which a good lawyer takes care to avoid before the most rustical assemblage of jurymen. In reply to the state ments of the unfairness of packi▪ ng fourteen or fifteen thousand constituents like those of Manchester and the Tower Hamlets, into boroughs sending no more Meru hers than those of three or four hundred constituents in other places, the Premier asked why the complainants did not compare the borough population with the county. " There is Oldham," he said, " with 42,000 inhabitants and two Members, and Bradford with 34,000, and Dorsetshire, exclusive of the boroughs (sic in orig.), with 170,000 persons, sending no more Members to Parliament than Oldham or Bradford." The merest babe in politics might ans we r th e Noble Lord, that the Borough representation is on one scale, and the County on another, an d th ere f ore borough ought to be compared with borough, and county with county. But if borough i s t o b e com pared with county according to the Noble Lord's theory and practice, the complainants have a right to extend their complaint, and compare Lyme Regis and its population of two thousand, with the West Riding of Yorkshire and its population of a million. An argument which it would have been very damaging to the complainants, to have been found ad vancing for themselves. One very important point was conceded nemine contradicente from all quarters of the House. Which was, that the thing must come. Nobody pretended to believe, that it was not in the ordinary course of events, as much as the appearance of one of the comets in our system, though perhaps nobody has the power of pointing out to a month the time. This then is a great point to act upon, for all who are engaged in the campaign. What everybody says Must come, is much nearer coming, than before Such general opinion was admitted. On Friday, the Bill for increasing the number of Irish voters was proceeded with in Committee. The opposition was not precisely of the same kind as on a former evening ; but still resolutely slow. As was said by a Member present, it was a contest pro aris et focis, or at all events for their seats, with many of the defenders. So much light begins to be thrown on the connexion of the present position of things with the condition of the Suffrage, that it is to be hoped it will end in turning the bull's-eye in aid of the darkness of the Minister. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 4th March, 1850. COURT CIRC ULAR. Lord John Russell had an audience of the Queen on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Prince Royal, the Princess Alice, th e P r i ncess H e l ena , an d the ofales, P r i nce Alf re d, t h e P r i ncess Louisa,R' and attended by the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Lord Byron, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Bouverie, lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley, and Mr. Birch, left town at five minutes past one o'clock, on Saturday afternoon for Windsor Castle. The Queen and the Prince were conducted to their carriage by the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Edward Howard, Denman. Lord George Lennox and Captain the Hon. J. The august party went from Buckingham Palace in five carriages to the terminus of the Great Wes tern Railway at Paddi ngton, and proceeded by a spe cial train to Windsor. The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Friday evening, and performed the follow ing pieces : Overture (Op. 44) ....... . ....... Kalliwoda. Fantasia, violin, M. &A nton. . Sainton. Selection, " Faust" ....... Trio, "Le Pre aux Clercs" WINDSOR, • SATURDAY. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Royal Fa mily, . and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, ar rived at the Castle at two o'clock this afternoon from town. A guard of honour of the Scots Fusilier Guards was on duty at the railway station. Tier Majesty and the Royal party went from the station to the Castle in five of th e Q ueen ' s carriages. The royal dinn er party this even i ng i nc l u d e d h er Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Mr. Birch. SUNDAY. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked this morning in the Slopes. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the grounds around the Castle. kler Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince cprivate Albert, her R oya l Hi g h ness the P rincess R oyal, the Ladies and G ent l emen o f t h e C o u r t, an d t h e domestic household, atten d ed D i v i ne chapel We llesley officiated. Her l this morning, The Hon. and Re v . G. Roy al serve in Highness the he the Duchess of Kent al so a tt en d e d t h e service. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glouces ter, on Saturday, at Gloucester House. Admiral Bowles, Admiral Hope, and the Secretary of the Sailors' Home, had an interview with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere on Saturday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. The Finance Committee of the Exhibition of 1851 met on Saturday at the Board of Trade, There were present Lord Overstone, Sir Alexander Spearman, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. F. T. Gibson, and Colonel Reid, R.E. A deputation from the Corporation of London, con sisting of the Lord Mayor, Mr. Masterman, M.P., Alderman Wilson, Alderman Humphery, M.P., Alderman Hunter, Alderman Moon, Mr. Sheriff Lawrence, and the City Reraembrancer, had an in terview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home office. Lord Gough had an interview with Lord John Russell, on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing- street. Mr. Hutt, M.P., and a deputation, had an inter view, on Saturday, with Lord John Russell. Messrs. Devereux, Talbot, and Faga n , h a d an in terview, on Saturday, with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. DiTatches were sent off on Satulay evening from the Colonial-office for the Governa of the Gambia and Weotern Australia. The Duke of Wellington, the Duchess of St. Albans, and the Marchioness of Salisbury attended the early service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The ,Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated, and ad ministered the sacrament. THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—To the surprise of every one, thr. Severn Ronal Mail steam-ship, Captain Vin cent, arrived in the river last night about eleven o'clock. She has made another rapid passage, having been only 16 day s and six hours from St. Thomas, a voyage hitherto a ithout parallel since the establish ment of the Royal Mail Company. February being a short month, the Severn, notwithstanding her acknowledged speed, was not looked for until Tues day or Wednesday at least. The freight of the Severn is 971,226 dollars on merchants' accounts, 23,612 ounces of gold dust (the total value of which two items is 1,409,388 dollars), two boxes of platina, 12,0641. in British coin, 112 bales of sarsaparilla, 421 serons of indigo, a quantity of coffee, succades, turtle, &c. The hitt st dates by this arrival are—Chagres, Jan. 28 ; Carthagena, 31st ; Demerara, Feb. 4 ; Trinidad, 6th ; Jamaica, 7th ; Grer ada, 7th ; St. Jago de Cuba, Bth; I3arbadoes, 9 h; Porto Rico, 12th ; St. Thomas, 14th ; and Fayal, 25th. The following is a list of passengers, and from whence they embarked :—Mr. Lopez, Mr. Gev‘rs, Mr. Schull, Chagres ; Mr. Amador and son, Mr. SarnueF, Mr. Magid, Mr. Uribe, Mr. Santania, Car thagena ; Mr. Jones, Mr. Henriques, Mr. Levi, Jamaica; Messrs. Marquis, Croil, Fain, Burnett, Runge, Hater, Bell, &c. Feb. 6—Her -Majesty's ship Wellesley, Admiral the Earl of Dundonald, Alarm, and Plumper, were at Trinidad, the last vessel having arrived that day from Bermuda with dispatches far the Admiral. Feb. 7—Her Majesty's steamer Vixen was at Ja maica, awaiting the arrival of the Admiral from Tri nidad. Her Majesty's ship Sappho, having repaired her damages at Belise, sailed thence for Jamaica on the Ist of January, but she had not arrived at the latter place when the Severn left. The n company's steam-ship Thames was in the Gulf of Mexico. The Tay was spoken by the Severn on the l2th of February, off Porto Rico, en route to Jamaica. The Teviot had not returned to Jamaica from Havannab, having bad to wait for the Trent's mails. JAMAICA. The accounts from this island are down to the 7th February, three days later than those forwarded to England from thence via New York. Nothing of any moment had occurred in the interim. No change of any consequence had taken place in the state of the markets. The receipts had been mode rate, but trade had not, notwithstanding, improved. Operations were still confined to purchases for immediate consumption. The House of Assembly had closed. Among the last bills which had received the assent of the Governor, was one which will relieve all steam vessels arriving in the ports of the island from payment of the customary tonnage dues. The session was, as our readers are aware, a tedious and pro tracted one. The February term of the Supreme Court of Judicature had commenced its sitting before the three judges. Mr. William Girod, editor of the Colonial Standard, was to be prosecuted for a libel on the Council of the island. Some excitement had been created at Kingston in consequence of an unsuccessful administration of chlo reform. The subject was a patient in the Public Hospital, and being about to undergo a very painful surgical operation, it was deemed a d v i sa bl e to p l ace him under the influence of chloroform. The sponge, steeped in the liquid, however, had scarcely been applied to the nostrils, when the unfortunate fellow struggled a good deal, made a few sterterous inspira tions and then ceased to exist. The quantity applied was about one drachm. The jury delivered the fol lowing verdict : " That the deceased died from the inhalations of chloro form, and the jurors are of opinion that the diseased state of deceased's Leart predisposed him to the fetal effects which followed the use of the chloroform— age, 29 fears."—Journal. - The Weather had remained the same as at the date of our last accounts. REVIEW OF JAMAICA MARKETS. (From De Cordova's Intelligencer.) (Unless specifically stated to the contrary, long or duty paid prices are always given, and are to be considered as wholesale prices.) Alewives-May be quoted at 21s. Beef-American " family" is in good supply, and is worth 425. to 465. per half barrel. Bread-Crackers are scarce, but pilot is abundant and dull at our quotations. Brandy and Geneva-Remain as last reported. Butter-American is dull at 7d. Irish has been sold at 10Id. to 10Id. The demand is very inactive. Candles-Are generally inactive, with a la( avy stock; 6's and 12's, the favourite sizes, are taken at 7d., and other sorts at 6kd. per lb. Cheese-Eogiish sells at 10d. 100 boxes American have changed hands at 60. per lb. Gold-American is worth 2f to 3 per cent.; Colum bian doubloon9 ' 2 per cent., on 16 dolls. ; an d Sp an i s h per cent. on 17 dolls. Hams-300 Westphalia have changed hands, at 11d. per lb. We have not anything to report of other de scriptions. Oil-Cod commands 2s. 61 to 2s. 7d. per gallon. The stock is moderate. Pimento sells readily, at 4d. per lb. It is generally held for 41d. Peas-50 bags B. E. have moved, at 7s. Pork is in somewhat better request, but no improve ment has occurred in prices. Mess is worth 66., and prime 525. to 545. per barrel. Rice-The sales since oar last have been 2,100 b igs Coringa, at Bs. 6d.; 40 bags fine white, at 10s. 6d. in bond; and 200 bags white Bengal, at 14s. 10d., duty paid. We have not anything to report of Caroline. Rum-Holders are asking per gallon, pro( f 21, for consumption, but sa'es cannot be effected freely at that rate. We have since learned that for a lot of 20 pun cheons 2s. 11d. has been accepted. 2s. per gallon is de manded for parcels for exportation. Salmon is exceedingly inactive, at 565. for No. 1, 525. for No. 2, and 445. for Ne. 3. Salt-The market is quiet at the usual rate, 51. 61 per sack. Soap-We quote St:ele's 481bs. at 10s. to 10s. 6d., 561bs. Feather at lls. 6d. to 125., 601bs. Crown at 15e, and 561bs. at 14s. 6d. Irish is unsaleable. Sugar is improving, and ranges at I3s. to 20s. p r 100 lbs. Tobacco-We have not been told of any operations in this article. The high price of manufactured, conse• quent on the increased duties, materially affects con sumption. Tongues-No change has taken place in this article since our last. Exchanges on London-Jamaica and Colonial Banks: -90 days, 1 per cent. prem.; 60 days, 1k per cent. prem.; 30 days, 2 per cent. prem. Vessels arrived at the port cf Kingston:- From London- Jan. 26, ship Prince Albert. via Cowes, 32 days, general cargo, S. and T. De Pass; barque Marlborough, 54 days, general cargo, Porteous, Carbon, and Co. From Liverpool-Jan. 22, barque Black River Packet, via Belfast, 50 days, general cargo, Scott, Leaycraft, and Co. 27, brig Jane Anderson, 60 days, coals, J. Derbyshire and Co. From Newport (Wales)-Jan. 25, barque Mercy, 34 days, coals, Hutchins and Co. Jan. 27, brig Romance, 60 days, coals, R. Currie. From Sunderland-Jan. 26, brig Bride of Abydos, 56 days, coals. Scott, Leaycraf, , and Co. From Newcastle-Jan. 28, Norwegian brig King Oscar, 36 days, coals. B ARBADOES. Our papers from this island are to the 7th inclusive, being the latest published previous to the sailing of the packet on the 9th. The Legislative Council had closed. The Barba does Globe says The session was brought to a close on Tuesday, when the Council met and passed two Bills, which have been assented to, and appear this day in our columns. What has become of the Ballast Wharf Bill which passed the Assembly at its last meeting, ~we do not know, but we hope that there has been no neglect of the strong and unanswerable appeal that was made to the Legislature on this subject by the merchants, and that the Act will come to us in course. While, w ith one or two solitary exceptions, the session has been ex hausted in legislation upon objects which we shall nit call Petty, but certainly of a minor character, we can scarcely believe that there has been any attempt to stifle an arrangement called aloud for by as large and re spectable a number of merchants as we ever knew to append their names to any legislative petition —a work closely and intimately connected with the proper police of the port, and one which the contributors of our ton nage duties, no mean portion of the public revenue, have a positive right to re quire. The charges on ship ping in Barbadoes are very heavy, and are the subject of frequent and loud murmuring, and we ought in justice to do a little more for the great number of vessels, that, notwithstanding, come to us, than merely to offer thi.m for their money the accommodation of an open roadstead." It was expected that the general election would take place on the 25th of February. The writs had not been issued when the packet left, and it was fully expected that it would pats off quietly. An accident had occurred to the quarantine boat when the Conway, royal mail steamer, arrived with the last English mails:— On the arrival of that vessel she was made fast to the moorings with a warp. The quarantine officer, as in duty bound, proceeded alongside, gave the ship praligue, stepped on deck to obtain a list of passeng. rs for his Excellency's information, and immediately got into his boat again, giving the order to shove off from the bow. After loosing his hold firward, and while lying broadside off, the order was given on board the steamer to turn a head, which brought the mast head of the quarantine boat in contact with the quarter boat of the steamer's davitF, and consequently dragged her along, broadside-or, until she filled and went down. The crew i were soon rescued by a shore boat, which, with many others, were on the spot. " Captain Wolley, of the Conway, is acquitted of all suspicion of having known that the boat was alongside when the order was given for turning a head. We are quite sure On affair was purely accidental." MONTSERRAT. We observe with deep regret that this generally healthy island is suffering from small-pox to a fearful degree. One of the Antigua papers (the Observer), of the 18th January, says that 700 cases of the disease were then existing in the island. Looking at the in creasing poverty in this place and of its inhabitants, and their consequent helplesness, we really think t h heirpresent affliction one that calls for sympathy a n d elp. Since the above date we learn that the disease had increased to a frightful extent, and that a large pro portion of the cases proved fatal. The disease had also been introduced into Antigua, from Montserrat. The Antigua Weekly Register, of Feb. 5, says— " The board of health held a meeting on Friday to concert the best means of laying out the 2001. granted by the Legislature in aid of the sufferers from small-pox at Montserrat, and provisions and nourishment to a large amount were purchased and forwarded immediately. It is to be hoped that this benevulent assittance, which could be hardly afforded, owing to tLe embarrassod sta'e of the treasury, will be judiciously employed by those to whom its distribution Lai been intrusted." PANAMA. We have news from Panama to the 22L1 of Janu ary. The Oregon steamer had arrived from San Francisco with upwards of 2,000,000 of dollars' worth of gold dust, and 300 passengers, many of whom bad returned from the " diggings " dispirited with their adventure, and is nowise improved in their resources. Others, on the contrary, had been more for tunate. Among the passengers in the Oregon was Colonel Fremont, together with his lady and daughter. There was a great deal of fever existing in Pa nama, but no serious cases ; it yielded to mild reme dies, but it takes a considerable time for the patients to regain their strength. The British steamer New Granada was hourly ex pected. The railway had not commenced, notwithstanding the fine weather was so very favourable for its begin ning. It is generally supposed that capital was still wanting to carry out the project. It was current at Panama that Baring Brothers had invested 50,000/. in the line. Traffic on the Isthmus was increasing daily to a very considerable extent. Admiral Hornby was collecting his squadron a Callao. The news from San Francisco reached to the 31st of December, the details of which have already been published in England. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The service will be glad to hear that the Right Hon. the First Lord of the Admiralty, who has been severely indisposed, and has been confined to his bed during the past week, is fast recovering, and will shortly be able to attend to his Parliamentary duties. Admiral the Hon. Sir T. Bladen Capel, K.C.8., re turned from short leave, and his flag was re-hoisted on hoard the Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, on Friday evening. CAPTAIN AUSTIN'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The .._ ;- Ptarmigan is to be named the " Resolute," instead of the " Baboo," which ship is to be called the " Assist ance," the Resolute being the " flag-ship." Mr. Par minter, appointed clerk in charge of the Assistance, did not decline the appointment; but has been obliged to forego the service on account of his health, the sur geon having pronounced him unfitted by constitution to contend with the climate of the icy regions. Some tons of waste lignum via wood, the refuse from the blockmaking machine at Portsmouth, with a quantity , of old broken shivers, have been forwarded to Wool wich by railway, to be supplied to Captain Austin's vessels for fuel in their N.W. search. The lignum vitro wood makes a much stronger fire than coals ; it ignites quicker, and while burning emits a most agreeable aroma. The wood itself, although very heavy, stows in a very small compass. CAPTAIN PENNY'S EXPEDITION.--ThS Admiralty have ordered ice saws to be forwarded from Woolwich to Aberdeen for the use of Captain Penny's vessels in his N.W. search. SURVEYOR'S AND STEAM DEPARTMENT.—Orders have been received at the dockyards for the authori ties to send all correspondence relative to steam ma chinery to the, Surveyor of the Navy, instead of to the comptroller of steam machinery, as heretofore, the latter office having been merged in the former. Mr. Waller Clifton, who has been at Somerset House with the charge of the steam department, has returned to the Admiralty, Whitehall, on the break ing up of that department. Lieutenant Baker, R.N., of the coast-guard ser vice, stationed at Garrison Point, Sheerness, made a seizure last week of a vessel, 62 tons burden, the Mary Ann, of Rochester, which, up on b oar di ng h er , was - found to contain 62 tubs (half-ankers) of foreign spirits. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Lord A. Fitzolarence, was moved under the large shears in the new steam basin at Portsmouth, on Saturday, for the purpose of receiving her new boilers, which are now ready for putting on board. The Lively lighter, returned to Portsmouth, from Dungeness on Friday, having recovered one of the bower anchors and the kedge anchor lost by the Dart, brigantine; she has also weighed and brought round a Dutch anchor which she found off Dunge ness (when sweeping for the other bower, lost by the Dart), for which the men employed on board the Lively will get salvage. The Sharpshooter, iron screw steamer, Lieut. Com mander John C. Bailey, arrived at Spithead on Friday evening frotn the Mediterranean, having been ordered home from that station to fit for the Arctic expedition. She went into harbour on Saturday morning, and alongside the :coal depot for fuel, and it is supposed she will go round to Woolwich, as her boiler tubes require repair. She went out of dock at Malta on the 2d February, having gone in to have her iron bottom cleansed, it having become very foul. By getting rid of the weeds, she increased her speed, when under full steam, two knots per hour. It appears she is not a desirable vessel ; that she is either very h o t or very co ld, and th damp and iron rust spoils the chattels of the crew. Lieutenant Bailey, her commander, is suffering from an accident, having fallen, when at Malts, and hurt his knee-cap. Mr. Truman, promoted from the Triton, and Mr. Winstanley, late clerk in char g e o f the Medina, have come home in the Sharpshooter as passengers. The orders countermanding her return to England did not reach here in time. DEATH OF " THE MAN-0'- WAR'S-MAN "or Black wood.—Died, on the 18th of February. in London, aged 66 years, Mr. David Sta wart, journeyman printer. He was known in literature as the author of a most interesting and popular series of papers, under the above title, descriptive of a sailor's life in the royal navy, which originally appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, and were subsequently pub lished in a separate volume. He likewise contributed to the Naval and Military Magazine, besides fugitive pieces to other 'periodical journals. He died in po verty in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, after undergo ing an operation for a most painful disease. One might have hoped for a more prosperous career for one who could write so well.—Herald. MALTA, FEB. 22. DISTRIBUTION OF TILE MEDITERRANEAN SQU ADRON. In Malta Harbour—Ceylon rcceiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Edward Harvey, Superin tendent of Malta Dockyard, and second in command ; Volage, 6 (surveying ship), Captain Thomas Greaves; Oberon (laid up), troop-ship ; Waverley, Captain J. Morgan ; Locust, in ordinary. At Gibraltar—Janus steamer, Lieutenant Powell. At Leghorn—Spitfire, Lieutenant Gardiner. At Patras—Frolic, 16, Captain N. Vansittart ; Tar tarus' steam-vessel, Commander Sir G. Webster. At Salonica—Research, surveying tender to Vc lage, Lieutenant Lord John Brown. At Syra—Spiteful, steam corvette, Commander J. Carmichael. At or near Athens—Queen, 116, Captain C. Wise, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir W. Parker, G. C. 8., the Commander-in-Chief; Caledonia, 120 ; Captain T. W. Carter; Howe, 120, Captain Sir J. Stirling; Belerophon,i7B, Captain Robert L. Baynes ; Powerful, 84, Captain the Honourable R. S. Dundas ; Vengeance, 84, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood ; Ganges, 84, Captain H. Smith ; Firebrand steam frigate, Captain T. 0. Knox ; Bulldog, Commander Key (on a cruise), Rosamond, Commander Foote, Ardent, Lieutenant Nowell, steam-sloops ; Odin, the Hon. F. Pelham, Dragon, Captain W. H. Hall, steam-frigates ; Porcupine, Lieutenant E. F. Roberts; Growler, Commander Stoddart ; Scourge, Lord F. H. Kerr ; and AuxiliaVy, surveying tender to Volage, Mate Commander J. H. Gover. En route from Mata to Gibraltar, Lisbon, and England Sharpshooter, Lieutenant Commander Bailey. En route from Malta to Corfu—Racer, 12, Captain Beddow. MAIL STEAM-PACKETS. At Malta—Merlin, Lieutenant J. H. Turner ; Triton, Lieutenant Glinn. En route from Malta to Marseilles—Medusa, Lieu tenant Bathurst. En route from the lonian Islands and Greece to Malta —Antelope, Lieutenant Smitb. En route from Malta to Alexandria—Medina, Lieutenant A Darby. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY ' S FLOTILLA. At Southampton—Pasha, Queen, Tagus, Hindos tan, Euxine, and Pottinger. En route to Gibraltar and Southampton from Malta —lndus. En route from Southampton to Malta—Ripon. En route from Constantinople and Black Sea to Malta.—Sultan. At Constantinople—Erin. UNITED STATES' SQUADRON. At Naples—lndependence frigate, bearing the flag of Commodore Charles W. Morgan. At AlfibCA—Stv WIT/egiCep Gapes PAuldia~• At Constantinople—The Mississippi steam frigat e , Captain Long. At Genoa—Constitution frigate, Captain Conover, and Jamestown corvette, Captain S. Mercer. At Messina—Cumherland, Captain Latimer. Foreign Ships of War and Packets in Port—The French steamer Eurotas. Yachts —The Firefly, Petrel, and Nautilus; lonian Government steamer Eptanisos ; Tbmis Government brig Suria ; Russian brig Ptolome.; Neapolitan steamer Ercole ; steamer Oronte. PoaTsmourn, SUNDAY.—Orders arrived yesterday morning to expedite the Lily, 12, for the reception of officers and men. She will probably be commissioned this week. The Adventure naval store ship, Mr. Peter Wel lington, Master-Commander, will leave Spithead for A.cension and Rio as soon as the wind is fair. The Castor, 36, Commodore Wyvil), Commander in-Chief on the Cape of Good Hope station, with the Geyser steam-sloop, Commander Brown, the Athol troop-shit', Master• Commander Pearne ; the Serin gapatam store-ship, Master-Commander Russell ; and the convict ship Neptune, were in Simon's Bay on the 7th of January. The Centaur steam-frigate, Commodore Fan shawe, C. 8., Cammander-in- Chief on the West Coast of Africa, was at Sierra Leone on the 19th of January. The Hound, 8, Commander Patten, sailed on th e 17th of January from Sierra Leone fur the Cape of Good Hope. The Alarm, 26, Captain G. Ramsay, sailed from Sierra Leone on the 17th of January for Bermuda. The alterations and additions to Southsea Castle (military prison) are to be proceeded with during the next year, the original charge for which was 3,6401., but it has been reduced by a revised estimate to 2,0001. The covered ways of the Semaphore tower battery , are also to be completed, and the parapet of Block house Fort is to be raised to mount a 56-pounder. The new mess-room and officers' quarters, building at Forton, for the Portsmouth division of Royal Marines, are nearly equipped, and if the weather prove favourable, will be occupied by midsummer. PEMBROKE DOCKYARD, MARCH 2.—The custom ary annual admission of boys into this dockyard as apprentices, having been ordered by the Lords of the Admiralty, took place this week. The candidates for the vacant apprenticeships were previously examined in the presence of the Captain-Superintendent, Sir Thomas Pasley, the Master Shipwright, Mr. R. Abe then, the chaplain, &c., and the result was that six of the best qualified were ultimately selected and entered as apprentices. With one exception, .they are the sons of workmen employed in the establishment. By this annual entry the number of efficient and experi enced workmen in our dockyards is kept up. The Valarous steam man-of•war, now in course of building, is to be fitted with the patent flange, similar to those given to the Samson steam-vessel at Woolwich. The Board of Admiralty have instituted an inquiry at this yard, with the view to ascertain what elaborate and complicated accounts can be dispensed with, prior to a reduction of clerks. The handsome adornments and fittings of the Royal Sovereign yacht are to be carefully preserved, in order that they may be used again when required. They were found to be remarkably sound and good. APPOINTMENTS. WooLwicn, MARCH 2.—Mate—R. B. Pearse (1849), to the Resolute, fitting for the Arctic expe dition. Naval Cadet—Cecil G. Stanley to the Victory, 101, flag-ship at Portsmouth. Boatswain—Henry Osbourne, to the Assistance, fitting for the Arctic expedition. The Magicienne steam-sloop is to have a second experimental trial, and will leave Woolwich on Fri day next for the Nore, where she will be tried between that light and the Mouse-light, in deep water. She will return to Woolwich on Saturday to discharge her ballast, and will then be taken to Chatham, where she is to be made ready for sea. Preparations are in progress for the erection of gal leries to witness the launch of the Nankin, 50-gun frigate, which will take place at Woolwich on Satur day, the 16th inst. One of Porter's anchors of 47 cwt. 2 qrs. 201 b., and one of the common anchors made at Portsmouth dockyard in 1825, of 48 cwt. 2 qrs. 211 b., hare been supplied, and will be sus pended at the bows of the vessel when she is launched. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Pioneer steam-vessel has made considerable progress during the present week, and will be out of the hands of the shipwrights and engineers by the end of the present month. O n cu tti ng out par - t of her planking to admit of strengthening her, she hat been found to have been built of excellent oak, and the workmanship of timbers would have been creditable to any dockyard. Her gunwales are to be strengthened with teak, and her sides with a species of American ash, which is lighter than teak, and has a great power cf resisting the action of water. The Resolute and Assistance sailing vessel-, fitting at Black wall are to be both barque-rigged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING. Weights for the Grand National Steeplechase handicap of 15 sous. each, 10 It, and 5 only if declared on or before the 6th inst. st. MI st. lh. Peter Simple British Yeoman 11 1213i11y-from-Brig g ... 10 0 Abd el-Kacler ..... Farnham .. . ll 0' Mercury Lucy Neale lO 12Young Lottery Rachel lO 4; eestling (late Cali- Ace of Trumps The iDoncast, r Handicap of 10 sous. each, h ft, and 3 only if declared as above. St. Leger Course. Age. at. lb.. Age. at. lb. Lady Hylda . 6 8 7 Present Foreclosure 6 8 4 Lady I- am-0ff...... 5 7 0 Meaux . ... 6 8 3 Good Girl Prieq-ss 4 7 13 Reversion Pelham Quiz froublesomeJohnn) 6 7 7 Laura Luxor King Hal 6 7 3 If the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it will be raised to that weight, and the others in proportion. Nominations for tie Handicap Hurdle-race. __ _ Mr. J. R. Scott's ch m Good Girl , 5 yrs—Mr. Cun ningham's ch h Quadruped, aged—Mr. Hady's b m Mischief-maker, 5 yrs—Mr. Phillips's b g Tally ho, aged —Mr. Gardner's br f Little Queen, 4 yrs—Mr. Lister's hr m Wharfdale Maid, aged—Mr. Hargreaves na b h Chintz Print, aged (halt-bred)—Mr. Inman's br h Gil nochie, 5 yrs—Captain Reynard's hr g Jack in the Corner, 5 yrs—Mr. Forter'a ch m Fanny, aged (half bred)—Mr. E. Thorp na Lansquenet, aged—Mr. T. C. Percival's ch g Dunchurch, aged (halt-bred). Nominations for the Grand Stand Stakes of 5 soya each, with 30 added, for two yrs old, &c. Mr. A. Shepherd's ch f Emma, 3 yrs (1 , a'f-bred)—Mr. G. Barton's La- c Leonidas, 3 yrs (51b)—Mr. Barker's br c Tordesillas, 3 yrs (51b)—Mr. Barlett's ch c Young Bamboo, 3 yrs—Mr. Dawson na b e Mark Tapley, 3 yrs —Mr. Jamieson's b c Tower, 3 yrs (51b)—Mr. R. Hes seltine's b c Timothy, 3 yrs (51b). The Sheffield and Rotherham Stakes, a Handicap cf 6 soya. each, h It with 40 soya. added by a few friends of racing in the above towns, for horses that before the entry never won at any one time 160/. clear. The winner to pay 5 soya. towards expenses. One Mile. Mr. J. Osborne's b c Tity, 4 yrs—Mr. Rickarby's br f by Touchstone—Lady Emily, 3 yrs—Mr. G. Bar ton's b c Didsbury, 4 yrs—Mr. J. Shepherd's b • Kill or Cure, 3 yrs—Mr. R. Hesseltine's b c Timothy, 3 yrs— Mr. B. Green's br c Osbaldeaton, 3 yrs—Mr. B. Eddit- SOWS br f Eliza Middleton, 3 yrs—Mr. Mangan's b f Portia, 4 yrs—Mr. J. Taylor's br h Luxor, 6 yrs—Mr. Styan's br m Ellen, 5 yrs—Mr. Barker's ch c Young Bamboo, 3 yrs—Mr. Dawson's na be c Reversion, 4 yrs —Mr. Cowelb's b c Patrick, 4 yrs—Mr. Hopkinson's ch c AND LEAMINGTON SPRING vv (lu n iz vv , MEETING, 1850. Acceptances for the Willoughby Handicap. Rat-trap, aged, 11A 71b—Eagle's Plume, 5 yrs, 11st 41b—Yard arm, lOst 111b—Reversion, lOst 101b—Fugi tive, lOst 91 b—Andalusian, lOst 71b—Jack of all Trades, lOst 51b Free Handicap of 10 soya. each, sft., and 25 added. Cosachia, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Rathmines, 6 yrr, 8A 11b— New Forest Deer, aged, 7at 131b—Doubt, 4 yrs, 7st 31b —Andalusian, 4 yrs, 7st 31b—Christian, 4 yrs, 785 lib— Docility, 4 yrs, Est 13113--Knight ( f Grv)nne, 3 yrs, 6st 51b—Eunuch, 3 yrs, 6st lib. Acceptances for the G reat Warwickshire Handica p. Ballinsfad, 6 yrs , B st 71b—lle Dart, aged, Bst 6113 Bst—Pelham, 4 yrs, 755 91b—Eagle's YrP' yrs, 7st 91b—Deceptive, 5 yrs, 785 81b— K p aged, 7st 71b—St. Antonio, 5 yrs, Tat 51b— Yard-arm, aged, 7 st 31b—Emma, 3 yrs, Set 101b.—Th e b iC e l d eclared 1850. rest declared. Co Bo l:l:N ea T e ß: w S it T h E l E o P o L ad E d C e il d. AS: ort M ei E ts E t T o l Handicap for the Craven Steeplechase Stakes, of 10 on the 7th March. Knight of Gwynne, 1 lst 121b—British Yeoman, 1 lst 91b—Rattrap, list 61b—The Victim, list 31b—Chand ler, llst lib—Proceed, lOst 1 11b—Farnham, lost 111 b Vainhope, lOst 8 lb—Sir Peter Laurie, lOst 61b—Meath, lOst 61b—Rory be airy, lOst 61b—Miss Collirgwood, lOst 31b—Laurel gelding, lost—Tipperary Boy, 9st 101 b —Bayonet, 9st 61b—Vengeance, 9st 61b. Free Handicap (Hurdle-race) of 10 bOVA. Each, h ft in case of acceptance, with 40 added. Fugitive, list 51 b — Half-and-half, 10st 71b—Mischief maker, lOst 71 b — Legislator, lOst 21b—Lansquener, lOst 21 b—Volatile, lOst 21b—The Streamer, Wot—Vant Wee, Ost 81 b—Docility, 9st 81b—liawkstonr, 9st 61b— Jatk-uf-all-trades, 9st 61b—Slug, 9st 61b—Veritas , 9 st 51b—Sotersides, 9st 21b—Syrup, 9st 21b. elrOa:ti 31b—Latitat, gat 91b— Free Handicap (Steeplec a n d a d s e e d ) . of 5 sous. each, and 3 0 10 T st r 3 u 1 s b :Lm T e- h n e o i t, ,hr l u l a s h t , Bless Bess, 9st 41b—VeritSo, 9st 41b. 10; 31b—Volatile, 316—Foresit°Msto7n1arb—ch, V Forfeits thtsfoe 7th of rallthemaabreovh.e handicaps to be de c l are d on or before Viscount and Viscountess Hardinge gave a grand enterta i nment on Saturday last, at th e i r mans i on, i n Greatotjgplitageos py. hope ;r a t treet, to Lord and L a d ? G vns b so d • di