The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY At Prices barely equal to those obtained on this clay sennight, rold 13:1 the mark et c l osed heavily. Several offrs came to hand .• the east coast to ship W is r uarter lir money , at whi c h decline next to eats notat per hing was doing. la' had rather a large show of Foreign Wheat., but there iv",a comparative scarcity of fine qualities, which changed ferv or sl .°vin at last week's prices. In the middling and in -,. w inds 80 little was doing that the quotations were almost nominal. time English Barley we were liberally supplied for the 1 4 -6 year,of gbh and the quantity of Foreign was unusually te exTe• l descriptions the inquiry was heavy in li oi n te tnet and prices gave way is per quarter, at which de ,einscarcely any progress was made in sales. ... 4 _ e Malt supported previous currencies, but all other kinds "%re very dull. 1 h e 2 i n . 0 uPPIy of Oats being large, that article was very dull . ...e, and prices gave way 6d per quarter. v.: l " ear li; the quantity of which offering was not large, ruled vD: dull, but we cannot call them lower. pae. sale for P eas was heavy, at late rates. prie n es (ll . ala Corn and Flour moved off' slowly, at last Monday's ___ Wheitt--" II itENCY PER Xlist 3 , 4 ic IMPERIAL MEASURE. Red sr ent, Malt—Chevalier s2s to 551 Ditto ' a w •• • • 36s to 43s Oats— Yorkshire and IzerfAlllte, New 395 49s Lincolnsh., lead. 163 I. olk eto3 bittoeo,ln• Red. L .. 1 .1 1.. 341 418 Potato ...... .. • • 19s 24. Youghal and Cork, ' 4illl/ i wt " `. •• 36. 42 Black ... .. bilk; e " •••• • . 8 it hOld' it ' o • ••• • . 8 —3 Cork, White ... 1.1 "••• • . —1 —6 Scotch, Feed. •. • a m . el". , .. ••• • • 26. 27s Beans—Tick ..... .. `l -- -Gc/ nd c i ;;• . •• • • 28s 29s Pigeons n._ lll4ti ng . ... • . 153 22s Peas—Grey .... at e ;dleyali e , ••• • • 23s 26s Maple .....•• • • • . 27s 32s , ---B,, f r op , •• • ••• 273 29s White. .. ... ••. .. 243 271 folk . ' and Nei, Boilers ... •. • . 263 3 s ~,. Yril . ..... • • • • 433 48s Flour—T own - ma d e ... 35 5 40 / , rkin geton _ : .. L. • • 403 42 3 Suffolk .. .. .•• • . • 29s 33s .. ,, ci ware 473 61s Stockta & Norfolk 29s 441 SEEDS. to.ulataynlvding that the suppiy of F . oreign Clover Seed as extensive, a fair business was traasacted at last week's 7 11 . , quotations. Canary dull, and somewhat L uclai.•- • " * "! 4 a and Rapeseed quite as dear, with a fair IlarnZ vlaite at R ea aim dPer Nish. 105 to 12s 1144111 w,,, liro‘enen •• ••• 1 Is 128 lares e l .. ; ‘ neW • ••• • • • •63 9 41 88 1 0 2 ( 8 1 • •• 4s Od 4s 6d 4: 11 % Der qu _:• •• •• Od 48 Od Ci 0 4 14141. "'•er • • 45s 51 6 Wm„_ • •• • 24s 30s tot e —mb• (cwt.) ass 56s ( Ido l . 1 ; •••• • • • 36s 518, 178 22 4 i - " m • • • • 318 50s 338 50s, "" " • • • th o wing, i•• • • a • SMITHFIELD. jut Aia t h er 0 great measure, to the continued mildness ok ‘„,°l4itidop, last the continent, the imports of foreign stock linth ey week were unusually large for the time of eotr eB "nig amounted to 3,309 head against 971 during mittoi n ,„Pendlng week in 1850; 260 in 1849; and 1,408 loi n Isti oß /rm INTO LONDON IN THY PAST WEEK. AtiiAg en ßeasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. erp .. 14 158 ... 964 .. 1 .. 0 8 Fertilim **** ... 153 ... 91 ... 25 1:144.„„ fgl '''' 18 9 .•• 300 ••• ••• 859 ••• "" *.. ••• * 854 10 ". 10 • • b ordt b_e p 1 .•• 12 ... 98 ••• 381 .•• ••• ••• 7 " "••• 17 ... 50 ... ... 16 ..• "•''• 570 .. 2,217 ... ... 480 ... 32 * ‘ II ,Y Comparison of the weekly imports is as Carraway •• 31s 33s Coriander ............ 151 18 Ilempseed, per quarter 34s 35$ Linseed, Eng. ~ owing.. Ms b 6: Crushing .. 40$ 43. Baltic .• .. 38s 44 • Odessa .. •••• •• •• 42s 46 , LimeedCake,pr. ton — English .71 Os 7118, _ _ Foreign, per ton 6 , 5 s 71 11 Rape Cakes, pr ton 31 lbs 411' Rapeseed, New, prlst 25110 a 2710, , 'MO: . Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Is 4B .......... 185 ... 625 ... ... ... 161 outs . . .... 580 ... 609 ... ~. 215 ... so„ 41, ' 1 11:0 a . ... 30 0 40 ... 200 ... ... 20 ... 1 , :'`,... 3 la st - : head of foreign stock were landed at the out -o,°. N e rek• By sea, from Ireland, 20 Beasts and 42 tOar s _ wi thstanding that the supply of Beasts on offer in t i:at abo,c;uttrket exhibited a slight falling off compared with dot down on Monday last, it was more than adequate to bnll b - r - '• The attendance of buyers was tolerably good, 00 e ri :eds of Beasts met a very inactive inquiry, at unal is ki Per Lations. The highest figure for the best Scots was l '.°ol,:Ni 81 b s• The general quality of the stock was good. 'I:1 z i °stal k tn.., f Suffolk, The Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re - 4,u ou s 1 1 (V, , cots, Short-horns, &c.; from the Northern die- POisirur Short -horns ; from other parts of England, 300 of s!,Was e . Be d I and from Scotland 500 horned and polked Scots. f i cN IVith"gtin tolerably well, but not to say heavily, sup -4111143, w g Sheep for the time of most breeds, the sr, ll l)Wa rc i ka fi rm, and, in some stances,i the currencies had tr ie , tendency. We may, observe, however, that the ;:titl p e ,.gare for the best Old Downs in the wool was ; . 1 1rk et ',6lba. There were about 1,000 shorn Sheep in the Z I N 5 . ; Log ether with 90 Dorset Lambs, which latter sld at b..% th i tn i to 6s per 81bs. C a l ves —th oug h i n s h or t su p p l y s t 4 ln aale, at late rates. We had a better inquiry for P r ices of which were well supported. 1 1% 1. 0 Per illba. to Nina the offal. Zll4lZhellita..... 1 2 d 6 to a. ;i 1 " inferior Sheep .. . S. d i tea a l. 1;7 1 1 14 1 •Z,t% •• •• 210 3 0 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 310 4, t e ki t ; -sea •• 3 2 3 4 C mrse-woolled dltto4 0 4 2 is t t r i e r , • F . id v.e.s 3 6 3 11 1 ) ri l i t t o ti o d u ° t w gi: t w h o e o r I 4 ?) 1 / 4 / 11 , 44 .1 CZ: 4O *. 3 a 4 0 Large Hogs ••-• • 2 10 8 6 "I Si' ••18 0 24 0 Small Porkers •• •• 3 8 4 0 "•• 0 0 0 0 Quartar old Pigs •• I 6 0 21 0 °tan,. TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET Mu• Sheep. Calves. Pigs I I I 18,170 139 320 FOREIGN SUPPLY. tt i.; 44 ' 7 I Sheep. I Calves. I Pura.lll% le3rpti. - . e. 1.030 99 1t h ..,- 1 11 S ..ATM AND LEADDNEA.I.L. 4 4 ,11 t, o f co tiand, as well as from most parts of England, the %gato r t ,lneat received up to our markets last week were n elre ile Ulu s ear and of excellent quality. Those sll "Lill ." y ' • 1,0411,, ed in the metropolis continue seasonably good. ease s Peaking, the demand is in a sluggish state, but "n Material change to notice in prices. Nas t At per bumf) oy mu tAtlCii.le. tiftri 6 a. d. to a. d. , s. d. to a. "... kiddif„ r ,:• ••• • 2 0 2 2. Mutton. 'atom! • 2 6 2 8 N Mta t i 4 •• •• 2 4 2 6 1 middlin g .- 210 3 6 1. .., ;4 1 , 1 •ea ge .. 2 8 3 0 i •`,.. 6 g roall,•• 3 2 3 4 . l' or k, largeri e•• • . 2 6 3 10 6 1 . 1, i'•• • • •... 3 2 4 0 ....._ atuall ••.• • . • -4 8 4 0 Ist.. Pl ll: l r lit i, " 7 0111 AND SPITA.I.FIELDS. 7. ~,,.le . tit cuatinue to be heavily supplied with English tli t °_irt' "Icti are still arriving in excellent condition. ay '`o tr„V„ r ta,,, last week, were 240 tons from Rouen, and 101 tl„eat,,,C, untikirk. Selected samples are in moderate re• we , i. _ llll Prices In the middling and inferior kinds very • uoi np ,. • ,os tith ' '"eot.,, ' Ilea. Per Ton. Per Ton. ror i „. 011 ems. os to 100, Essex Shaws ... 60a to 75s 1, - "eiteh e " ri t B -• 55s to 75s Kent Regents.... —s to - a I , "rid - Cara.. so . -Re Essex Regents... —a to - a l ia tt g 4 . ........ 60s to 80a Kent & Esex. Mid. 50s to 608 t ril e °, l ll. ih.."•••••• Ws to 65s Kentish Red Kid. —5 to - a `Slaa Ns „,`" B -- —s to a Cambridge ditto —s to —s . - ...... 603 to 75s Chats 041 th 330 A au ou h — o l7Gli NOP MARTLET. ~, 1 4% g ih e 'ea P tell- suPPly of Hops of last yea , 's growth con at,i 7 e?ttensive. the demand is firm at very full curren tea t r 3 Prices, viz., ready money :—EAst Kent pockets, It i " Gi 1 k tt'll 21 n --t?; ditto bags, 31 4s to Si ss; Mid Kent Pos7l 3 oel let : s to 5/ 154 ; ditto bags, 2/ to 41 10s; Weald of 74, 21 6s to 4/ 2s; ditto bags, :el 28 to 3110 s; Sussex Iv IBs to 31 16s per cwt. WOOL. e° 4 ll4 l e etl e e: t Public sales of colonial Wool are appointed to D4'alrettuN, Thursday next, the 13th instant. The quan sttir of I. cjr a dvertised i s 10,000 p a ckages, including several illto land Th . ei gn• By private contract, the demand is na fr ndo n - tb —ces are well supported. Last week's imports kit .°111 1:1d were 517 bales from Rouen, 27 from H am b urg b, W erp, r t ,, e 's , t, 07 from Callao, 130 from Mogadore, 8 from a a f • rotn Ireland. 11 1 he la ki r z , ,_ TALLOW. Ptiloosrd,rl,9tracts entered into for forward delivery have list`', r jlav t, 4u ,'e influence upon the demand on the spot. lit ,„ b t .1:c tbuerelore, advanced lid per cwt since Monday hr. /ell the ei ng quoted to-day at 388 to 383 3d per cwt, ts r et 4 , t wiarket is firm. Town Tallow is 37s to 37s 3d for. 4 4t igh i et eas h ; Rough Fat, 2s Id per Blbs. Our St. Pe ----...,5gt t er states that 20,000 ponds of Tallow had sold --.......5.,&1122 - oubies with hand money. a, . , I,7it t hlll day 13,282 'gee h. OE c • 498 tid • • • t, to 50s Ott bittoeht):,l4fit week .. .1.31 444 "n 1 Juae 1 ... • 66,327 bttt 1.-tet week • 51 tli„_4ll.°l4Jtillt 1 68,986 `'‘ fkr Towil • 52 3 od • 1847. 1848. 1849. 12.394 35,502 538 6d 418 Od to Os Od to Cs Od 2,392 2,057 19,081 74,264 1,563 1,097 83,374 102,233 54s 6d 438 Od 1850. 42,864 37s 6d to 37s 94 1,978 C9,?53 1,472 86,746 398 61 1851. 45,527 38s Od t 0383 3d 2,433 70,457 130 90,466 295 6d 4 - 14 kibai Ir ei.I,OUNCIL.—(THIS DAY .) 'ta t , qut l -7''°ll)Mittee of the Privy Council sat to-day Nyt,t the ~C.amber, Whitehall. Among the Lords pre -111;4Y w affler of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the titl o -1 „ t tordZwall. and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. fort Nvere occupied the whole morning with pe etension of patents. Th e C HAN CERY .—( THIS DAY.) p m •• arg ur ,... WARD v. WARD. 1 Lmer, 0cce n 7.„, 44 8 in this case, which stood on the paper by - '"ers op f e r a r i the pourt the whole morning. The case pos- I re of interest. 'lnt .- fsh . i?"--L8' COURT.-- s.rt ft „ - 4ste, f sit to-day in his court, t o meery,l ' Of the Rolls did not (THIS DAY.) ~ 11e,,,, . ane, in consequence of having to attend the Privy Vlr i vi-eIIANC.ERY.—(T HIS DAY.) ki • ' ( Leto o )tsr o _ re the Vice -Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) jilt I i A NL . SALISBURY RAILWAY COMPANY—JUDGMENT... ths pet4?)4ou.a. gaVe judgment to-day in this case, dismissing ~. • '(4l with costs. Lpi,,,. . ti zPitit.rrE v. YOUNG.--JUDGMENT. ore ;,..oult also gave juslginent in this case, yvhich tn carn the teirt.' l4 in lalichaelma s term, upon exceptions i'lle h:rePort. Ilia Honour entered at considerable l ength -4 R11. t.-- 4 se from Whic h the following appear to be the ....A... .„.,, . C itt4tOdu,'l t.nglish lady had married French offiverof itter;`k, and had become domiciled in France . Some time . 1 : I ,.(i ts.d itt ue, being in England, she was party to and executed c, e tso ij Durk f log to affect certain and reversionary 11 il noTl i rePerty to which she was entitled, but which t-Ltiettled to her separate use. It was contendl t„i Zerfeit,--111 tra asaction, although one - which a marr ied ' ' '''t ;r, th'i ' ,w&s. incapable of entering into accordiog , Ta'''‘' la w . „ 41 V of England , was valid against her b) e. ~-; 31 Frarbce. and that the latter law, being that of the tie-0"44.er itoraicil, regulated the effect of the contract. 14'104+111"80f Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier, two eminent 14tib`", had been taken by the "contending parties, and ,34,,".eq to the blaster. One question was, whether the 1.11,t! article of the Code Napoleon applied to the case? Nav-.4t-ticle pmvides that, what are termed in it synalag. otr6i't,, e.otatract„ shall not be valid unless made . by as many priZat instrurraents as there are distinct parties. I - ‘eut t 4t c aSe this condition had not been fulfilled, but _it was 4 1 ) 016. 44 ,,,d _that the law of the lice of domicile, although ti - "le for the purpose of reg ulating the rights of the fe rtn ,it under a contract, did notgovern the law es to th tki:-ities alteeding the instrumeNts which contained the Itlac,ne- of the contract, but that this law was that of the . v, ate %. ete e secution of the documents. Of two advo itAleo,,,r_th opini.ons of Messrs. Pallet and Duvergier were a l'ilruting, and it was agreed between the perties _ h irtuti dauvocat t should be consulted, to be nominated by a ecrainati rot the equity bar. This gentleman being ac to t i n gly rerlim,ted by the illaster to select an advocate . fo to isi l >nite, vrrote from Boulogne, where he was staying, leginh'unavelot, an advocate, to advise, him as to the se ereoli;;' XChauvelot h er came to Boulogne and re -41:`‘1., ended that the case (which had been prepared by the er) should. be laid before Monsieur Vatismenil, - and on fteottunendation being adopted ietfactVatiare the, tow hom he ma,Proceeded to Paris, and e verball a statement ,ZiZer ot the case, and th en handed him t he statement Red by !the Mas ter, with some mar -791ti04e 4114:MAU Of AL ChauTeict's o ginal notes and wsz conaideratiq and research. The solicitors for the litigant parties then addressed to Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier, a letter jointly signed by them, stating that a third advocate had been consulted for the information of the Court of Chancery, and asking them if the referee should require their assistance to afford it; but adding, that it was understood that no one but Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier, should assist the referee. M. Vatismenil gave his decision, and the Master reported in conformity with it, and the objection made to the report was that the understanding had not been acted upon, as to no one attending M. Vatisinenil, except Messrs. Paillet and Duvergier. His HONOUR, after going at considerable length into the case, ordered the first and second excentiona to be over ruled, and confirming the Master's report as to the other exceptions, the costs of the exceptions to be the costs in the case. (Before the Vice-Chancellor Lord CRANWORTI-L ) His LORD , IIIP having disposed of the case of Lafeaux v. Marsh, which stood on the paper for judgment, proceeded to hear unopposed petitions and motions, which occupied the Court the whole morning. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice TALFOURD and a Special Jury.) . - Nr‘Litax V. HUDSON, M.P., AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought for breach of contract. It ap peared that the defendants, Messrs. Swinborne and Co., a firm in which Mr. Hudson, M.P., is a chief partner, entered into an agreement to supply the plaintiff, who is a looking glass seller in Fleet-street, with any number of glasses that he might require in his trade for a certain period at a certain price; during the first part of the term the orders were few and of small extent, but a considerable rise suddenly taking place „in the price of-glass, the plaintiff sent in an order to the amount of 5,0001., which was not completed within the period prescribed in the contract. The plaintiff brought the present action to recover damages for the alleged breach of contract, and for the defence it was pleaded that no breach had taken place, as the unusually large order sent in by the plaintiff was much greater than he could possibly require for the purposes of his trade. Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Atherton appeared for the plaintiff,and Mr. Watson and Mr. Sergeant Channel!, appeared for the defence. After the case had been gone into at some length, The Learned JUDGE recommended that the parties should endeavour to come to some arrangement out of court. A verdict was then taken by consent for the plaintiff— Damages, 4001. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco, before Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, PLATT. and MARTIN. ) The business before the Court this morning was entirely unimportant. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY-GENEKAI. V. THE LONDON DOCK COMPANY. The Court was again occupied with this cause. The case for the plaintiff is not yet terminated. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT (Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir PETER LAURIE. ) ASSAULT.—A young man named Lynch was indicted for assaulting another named Roberts, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. The prisoner and the prosecutor had been drinking toge ther at a public-house, where a quarrel arose between the prisoner and a third party and ultimately the prisoner was forcibly ejected. When he got outside he was heard to say that he would have his revenge, and accordingly he loitered about the spot till the whole of the company retired, when he threw a brickbat at the man who had offended him, but the brick missed the person for whom it was intended and struck the prosecutor, inflicting a serious wound on his head. Several witnesses were called to prove the case, and in the course of their examination it transpired that all the parties were slightly the worse for drink at the time the assault was committed, while the man whom the prisoner had in his eye, when he threw the missile, had been guilty of great provocation. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended him to mercy on account of the provocation he had received. The RECORDER sentenced him to three months' imprison ment, with hard labour. NEW COURT. ( Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.) James Joseph Stanley, clerk, was charged with stealing two silver spoons, the property of Mr. Davis, an innkeeper. The prisoner bad pledged the property immediately after the robbery. Guilty. He was then charged with stealing a silver spoon, the property of Isabella Eady and another. The prosecutrix is a pastry-cook, carrying on business in gxford street. One day the prisoner honoured her with his custom. He ordered some soup, which was served to him in an inner room, with a silver spoon. Two ladies came in, and while there the prisoner left the shop rather hastily, giving a shil ling in payment. Directly after he had gone the spoon was missed. The spoon was pawned by the prisoner the same day in Drury-lane. There were three other charges against the prisoner, to which he pleaded guilty. He was recom mended to mercy on account of his youth and his father's re spectability. The father is a 'solicitor, with whom he had quarrelled, in consequence of which he had left his home and had since fallen into bad company. He was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment, with hard labour. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner GURNEY.) Henry Munnery was charged with stealing a box of knives, the property of the South- Western Railway Company. The knives had been ordered from a Sheffield house for a gentleman in the country, and bore his crest. The box was stolen from a railway truck at the Nine Elms station about the 2d of February, IQSO, whilst on its way to its destination, Basingstoke. Knives, which were recognized by the crest as part of this property, had been offered for sale to various parties by the prisoner, who described them as being part of a bankrupt stock which lie had got cheap. The prisoner had been in the employ of the railway company, and had been seen with a cart on the premises about the time of the robbery. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted; Mr. Parry defended. Guilty of receiving; twelve months' impnsoment. BOW-STREET. —( THIS DAY ) Elizabeth Flemming, alias Flynn, about 25 years of age, who had the appearance of being a servant, was brought before Mr. Hall, charged with leaving her female infant, aged six months. upon a dun, heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields, expo-ed to the cold and r„in. Mr. Kilner, clerk to the board of guardians of the Strand Union, said he was instructed to prosecute the prisoner Cooper. the porter to the workhouse in Cleveland-street, said on Wednesday evening, the sth inst., a man named Church brought a female child to the house, and said he had found it lying upon a dung heap in Bear-yard, Lincoln's Inn-fields, exposed to the weather. It was raini g very fast, and it was also very cold The child was not cry ing, in consequence of its mouth being filled with sugar. He went to Knightsbridge on Saturday last, and there saw the prisoner. He asked her where her child was. Ihe prisoner said that she had left it in the street. She asked him if he knew where the child was, and he replied that it was sate in the house. She said she did not know that she had left it in his parish, she had de posited it in the street, but did not know where, and when she returned twenty minutes afterwards the child was gone. Witness then took her into custody, and she further said that she was in great trouble, and could nit support her child, that she had been persuaded to leave her child in that manner, as others had done before. The prisoner, who cried bitterly during the examination of the witness, ant who appeared to feel acutely the position in which she was placed, implored the magistrate to have pity upon her. She said it was all true what Cooper had stated. Mr. HALL remanded the prisoner until Thursday next, to give time for the completion of the case. The prisoner was then removed, and appeared desirous of seeing her child, who was in the arms of a nurse, but of course she was refused and locked up. WINDSOR ELECTION.—(THIS DAY.) The election of a member for the Royal Borough of Wind sor, in the room of Mr. Hatcbell, who has accepted the office of Attorney-General fur Ireland, was fixed for this morning. Mr. J. T. BEDBOROUGII, one of the magistrates of the bo rough, proposed their lateAlember, Mr.Hatchell.— (Cheers.) Mr. HERBY DARVILL, solicitor, seconded the nomination. The SHERIFF, having ascertained that there was no other person to proyose, declared Mr. Hatchell to be duly elected a Member for Windsor, for the present Parliament. --- The proceedings, which were of a most quiet character, shortly afterwards terminated. SPORTING NOTES. No. IX. SPORT AT ST. ALBANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sta,—LincolnOtTenedtfie game last Thursday, and we may now expect a continued string of events—Steeplechases and Flat races—sans intermission to the end of the season, some where about the last week in November or first in December next; this week a few of the right sort have put forth at ancient Verulana a moderate bill of fare for decision on Wed nesday, comprising a Free Handicap Steeplechase of 10 sovs. each, h ft, with 40 added; the winner to be sold by auction for 200 sovs, or upwards ; and a Selling Sweepstakes of 3 soya. each, p. p., with 20 added, Ilst 91b each, with allow ances, if entered to be sold under 100 sovs.Three miles. For the former, thirteen acc , ptances have been declared, three-fourths of whom, at the least, will put in an appearance including those well-known animals with the hounds, Mulli gan, Trust-me-not, St. Leger, Subduer, The Hawk Valiant, Rendsburgh, Legislator, and The Lustrum. The Mulligan party are unzommonly confident of winning, and Trust-me not is not expected to be far out ; Valiant, with lOst up, won the Chipping Norton Steeple-chase last week, in very clever style, and will run well on this occasion; and Legislator, a ver y good fencer, is fancied by a great many; but my private information dictates the following result:— Mr. Elmore's Mulligan, 1 lst 41b .........• (Mason) 1 Mr. Mason's Trust-me-not, I Ist (Oliver) 2 Mr. Price's Legislator, lost 41b Mr. 'l'ollit's Valiant, lOst 61b Mr. Hoc ard's St. Leger, list For the Swelling Sweet stakes some eight or ten will run, in cluding St. Ruth, list 21b, Gelding by Liverpool, lOst 111 b, and Lammermoor, 9st 131 b, among whom, I anticipate, the winner will be fOund; they may possibly catch the Judge's eye in the following order : Mr. Webb's hr g, by Liverpool Mr. Gain's Lammermoor ... „ Mr. Austin's St. Ruth ; I forgot to s ate that the distance of the handicap was four miles, over a capital line of country close to the town, which the Earl of Veruiain has allowed to be selected for the pre sent occasion. The first race will be run punctually at two o'clock, and the second at half-past three; and, a s th e scene of action can be easily gained via Hatfield and the Northern line, a strong muster of the metropolitans may be antici, ated. I perceive, with a curious eye, tine removal of Sir It. Pigot's Derby nag, Runnymede, from John Day's stable to Liloss's at Newmarket. This look- as if th e heads" had measured his chance and found him wanting. By-the-bye, Grecian is improving wonderfully, he'll be a dangerous customer for the Derby and " the Guineas," look all but over; but, notwithstanding, for the former race I must still stick to the following order of things : TflE PRIME MINISTER ••• ••• 1 NEWM IN STER ... 2 GRECIAN ... 8 LAMARTINE • ... 4 Time may otter my opinion, but at the present writing it is fixed firm as the Monument on Fish-street-bill. My analysis of the Metropolitan Handicap on Friday next. I am Sir, yours, &c.. Feb. 10, 1851. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. ASHDOWN COURSING MEETING (CoNcLu)ED). Owing to the unfavourable weather on Friday, the Craven Stakes were divided by Mr. Etwall's Egypt and Mr. Jenner's Faetotum ; and the Ashdown Stakes between Mr. Miller's Manifeato szul Ur. WYlidhaez's Whiff. The Weylalad Mak" wee won by Mr. A. Wyndhatn's Victory; Lord Shefton's Starboard ran up. DONCASTER SPRING MEETING. Weight: for the Doncaster Handicap Sweepstakes. Forfeits to be declared on or beforo the 14th of Feb. Age et lb Age at lb Pitsford Clothworker ......... 5 8 2 1 4bd-el-Kader (hp b) a 6 10 Legerdemain Chantrey 5 7 111 e Comte 6 6 9 Mark Tapley ...... .. 4 7 11 Achyranthes ... Posttempore .. .. 5 711 Scarborough ...... Belus Fleur:de-Seine Melody. .... Jenny Lind ...... Mistake (late Anda- (Gimcrack... 4 6 3 lusian) Whizgig The Baroness Little George .. ...... 4 7 OiScAr 3 5 5 Idle-13-y ...... ..... .. 6 6 12 Knook Knt,ll 3 5 5 Panope 4 6 1 l'Unitv Lady-I-am-off ...... 6 6 I liThe 'Saxon Reversion ...... .... 5 6 I't leart of Oak 3 5 0 Joe Sutherland Selina 5 6 10 1 Louie Slang If the highest weight accepting be under Bst 71b, it w be raised to that, and the others in proportion. ST. ALI3AN'S STEE . LE CHASE.S. Acceptances for the St. Alban's Handicap. at lb' Ben Lomond Mulligan Trust-me-not ll 0 St. Leger .. 11 0 Subduer ..... . ...... ...... 10 12 Anglesea The Hawk The Selli' st lb! The Barcn ... ..... St, Ruth Outcast Rigby (late Pedlar) G. by Liverpool .... lO 1 I Reindeer Ilerts Yeoman . st lb Valiant Legislator Rendsburg The Lustrum lO 3 Buscot Katherine 1 Lug Race. Paddy st 9 lb 13 Katherine... ..... ... 9 13 Brunette . Crystal 9 13 Lammermoor ... ..... Brown Brandy... .... . 9 13 HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Her Majesty's stag lids., Tues., at Knaphill, near the Woking station ; Fri., Slough— 11. Bramham Moor hds., Wed., Bishop-woods; Fri., Stutton mill ; Sat., Harewood—]o4. Essex Union hds., Wed., Woodham Fan; Sat., Hockley Bull lo}. East Essex lids., Tues., Sturmer Lion-104 ; Thurs., Ald harn-hall —+l ; Sat., Notley-ga , e-104. Mr. Conger's lids., Thurs , Mylem ; Sat., High Roothing street-104. South Essex lids., Tues., White's-bridge; Sat., Wenning ton-104. Essex and Suffolk lids., Tues., Stour-wood; Fri., Hintle sham Park-gate-104. Suffolk lids., Tues., Stowingtoft-hall; Thurs., Hareheath mill ; Sat., Depden-green—loi. Durham County lids., Wed., Aldin-grange ; Fri., Dalton —lO4. Stockton and Billingham hars., Thurs., Hartlepool-104. Baby lids., Wed., Witton •, Fri., second mile from B. Auck land on the Durham-road-11. Hurworth lids., Tues., Kennels; Sat., Oak Tree Village —lO4. Mr. Hildyard's hars., Tues., Hemlington Bluebell; Fri., Trenholme-bar-104, Lord Elcho's lids., Wed., Red Scar-bridge; Fri., Etal Col liery ; Sat., North Charlton-104. INiewcastle and Gateshead hrs., Tues., Heddon-on-the- Wall ; Fri., Washington-10. Duke or Rutland's hds., Tues., Lenton-village ; Wed., Stoke Rockford ; Fri., Dry Doddington-104. Cottesmore 'es., Leigh-lodge; Thurs., Holywell ; Saturday, Crown Point—l 1. Lord Yarborough's lids., Wed., Cadney-bridge ; Fri., Swin hop-house —II. Lord Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Bythorn Toll-bar; Fri., Castor Hanglands-10. Lord Henry Bentinck's hds., Wed., Linwood; Th urs ., Carlton- le-rdorland ; Fri., Blankney. Mr. Hellier's lids., Tues., Wood Enderby; Thurs., Legsby ; Sat., Harrington-hall-11. Mr. M. Ingram's lids., Thurs., Drakelowe ; Sat., Black Slough-104. Donnington lids., Tues., Shipley-hall; Sat., Belton-vil lage —lO4. Rufford lids , Wed., Norwood-park; Thurs., Caunton village ; Sat., Langwith-lodge-104. Mr. Lumley's hds„ Tues Osberton ; Thurs., Gateford ; Fri., Gringley-on-the. Badsworth lids., Tues., Al arr-village ; Thurs., Rawcliffe hall ; Sat. Ackwortit- moor-top-104. Holderness hds., Tues., Londesborough ; Thurs., Low thorpe Lodge ; Fri., Houghton-114. Sir Tatton Sykes's lids., Wed., hallow Gap; Fri., Bird sall House-104. Brighton hars., Wed., Racecourse; Sat., the Dyke-114. Brookside hers., Thurs., Telscombe Tye-14 Crawley and Horsham lids., Wed., 4 Ockley-court ; Fri., Handcross-tollgate-114. Southdown hds„ Fri., Laughton-pound. LITERATURE. THE BARDS OF THE BIBLE. By George Gilfillan, A.M. London: Groombridge, 1851. The title of this noble ben,k is well cuosen. The Bards of the Bible. Not THE BIBLE as an indivisible whole, a work of spiritual architecture, a composition of art. a poem, having a beginning, a middle, and an end, ( 4 u 00 59 7 15 7 ;) 6 icooloc) 0 4/ 1 S) and (.kEAorosia ; OUL that sacred College or POETS, that grand brother hood of inspiration, at whose feet civilizati , tn hiss been proud to sit; those " morning stars," who have " sung together" upon the brightest dawn in human history; (hat " company of angels," whose harps have so long given the key- tote to the music of the world. There is a s-i,sv, indeed, in v•e.ich the Bible, though the collected compositions of various authors, wiitirg in different tongues, and living in separate ages, may be looked upon not ruerel) as a volume in vem,, but as a vast oriental epic reriderel uniform by singularity of purpose, simi• parity of machinery, and nti'y t t language. "fo briieve the to be the work of generations of Rhapstalet is not hem ssaril) to deny it the essent!als of Eras; and to admit the pol)giot origin of the great. Bi blicAl poem is to say nothing against its epic character. Etb,ngti that it has successfully embodied the design of our greatest example of the Epopee, and, despite its multipaternity and its chaotic chronology, has main tained n.varia::l). " the height of that great argument To justify the ways of God to men." We eave mentioned " identity of language" among the sinaplif3 ing elements of a book notoriously written in two, probably in three, and passibly in four of the great tongues of the globe, and obi quered, in addition, with the dialects of each. Various as are those tongues, the book maintains its identity of language—a language an tecedent to every tongue, arid independent of all. From the first chapter of Genesis to the last of Revelations, the Bible is one great picture, one transcendent hiero glyph. It ha, °flee been remarked as a wonderfully pro vieteetial arrangerne nt, that the ancient nurse-land of religion and enlightenment was Palestine, the common centre of the noblest races of the earth. Not less notice able in Divine dispensation, is the tact that the records which profess to contain the revelations essential to all men, are inscribed in a language central to the common intellect of mankind. Written not in words but things, they are the only books which cannot become insigni ficant by age, which retain their vigour and beauty un impaired under every past variety of translation; and of which we may predict with certainty, that into what. soever unknown speech the missionary spirit of Chris tianity may yet carry them, they shall re-appear intact, with undimmed brightness, undiminished grandeur, and untarnished glory, in whatever land has hills and moun tains, light and darkness, winter and summer, sun, moon, and stars. But not in the aspect of unity has Mr. Gilfillan chosen to view his subject; and, perhaps, in acting upon the programme conveyed in his title-page, and combining the quantity and quality of Bible poetry with the nature and characteristics of Bible poets, he is adopting a mode of treatment which is at once more captivating to " the general," more useful to the student, and more gratifying to that passion for Biblical literature which in himself has evidently extended to a personal affection for its authors. . _ _ _ is poetry ?' is a question as universal as " What is nature?" slid " What is mind?" and when one of these questions shall have been answered we may look for the resolution of the others. But while each further step of science, each deeper reverie of philoso phy, destroys some fancied truth, sinks us lower in the slough of uncertainty, and exchanges snore completely the consciousness of ignorance for that of incapacity to know, we must often be content to deal with facts and the modes of their appearance, and to leave intangible essences which we have no organs to detain, and princi pals of whose great circle we see but an inappreciable arc, to tree faculties of a more developed being, or the in structions of a more abounding grace. Sufficient for us that poetry exists, that it is conversant with all per ceivable things in this universe, that it is found in the emanations of a peculiar order of mind, that in them it exists spontaneously and naturally, and that to them it has been and can be communicated by no rule or recipe, by no care of coneertion or inoculation, by no effort of industry, ro experience of manipulation, no "cunninge" of art or man's device. " What is poetry in the ab stract?" therefore, the poet will be the last to answer; but fur poetry in the concrete his instinct is the unfailing test. It i 5 probable that the old prophets kuew little of the theory of inspiration, but they had no doubts as to the criteria of divine sffisius. And in any search wherein the quassita are beyond the reach of acquired knowledge And verbal description, we must depend alto gether upon intuitive perceptions. Till we have clearer notions of magnetism we must be content to trust the needle for the north. The bewildered wanderer in pathless deserts may commit his lett( r in faith to the instinct of the dove, and though we know not the signs of the times, and cannot catal.igue the symptoms of the seasons, we may believe the swallow and the cuckoo, and be sure " the winter is over and gone," when " the voice of the turtle is heard in our laud.' Of every criticism upon a poem, therefore, our first ques tion should be " is the crit►c a poet?" Fortunately, for our time and space, that question has been already answ ered in the cute of the author before us, and, at the expanse of a very few quotation s , can b e answered again. Mr. Gilfillan is not an author o f yes terday, and there are old familiar sentences of his with which any of his readers can ley the matter readily at rest. (Who has forgotten that line—seldom surpassed in the whole range of poetry— " The sea—the shadow and mad sister of the earth?" His" Galleries" are sown broad-cast with such pearls.) We shall, therefore, merely present a few passages from the book before us, and leave our readers to consider these and other credentials with this hearty advice—that whosoever, after due examination had, shall honestly deny our author's right to a place in the genus iroorrr i c, will throw aside a volume which, upon his assumption, must I e at least valueless, and if valueless, then auda- cious to the very verge of profanity. Take for majesty:—" We pause at Sinai, the centre of the ancient system. There was enacted A scene fitted 14:VENING, to produce in the first it), farice an alarm and awe inconsistent with the sublime, but ultimately to create of itself a vo!cenie stream cf nasisnal imagination rising from the roots of the savage hill. Sinai, hare, dark, craggy in itself, surrounded suddenly by a mantle of gloom, and crowned above all other hills with a diadem of fire—a fierce wind blowing in restless eddies round it—torrents of rain descending through the darkness—the lightnings of God playing upon the sum mit—thunders crashieg ineessantly—the trump which shall call the dead to judgment sending forth a pre liminary note and causing the mountain to thrill and tremble—and, heard at intervals above all, the voice of the Eternal—the millions of 'Brael standing silent on the plain, awe and wonder casting a shadow over their faces—and amid all this one lonely man going up the hill and quaking as he goes—the utterance of the fiery law from amid the gloom—the amen of the tribes—the seclusion of Moses with Jehovah for forty days on the top of the Mount—the finger of god, the same finger which dipping itself in glory had touched the firmament and left as its trace the sun, writing the ten precepts on the two tablets—the pissing of the Lord before Moses as he basted and threw himself on the ground—the descent ' of the favoured man with his face shining out the tidings whore he had been ;—all this taken together, while cal culatfd to cast a salutary terror down to remote ages, and to make the children among the willows• of Canaan to trt mble at the name of Sinai, was fitted, too, to produce a pi culiar and terrible poetry." Take for beauty :—" You are aware, again, in singular union with this profound unconsciousness and simplicity (in the Bible) of a knowledge and insight equally profound. It is as though a child should pause amid her play and tell you the secrets of your heart and the particulars of your after history;" or "Galileo and young Milton in the dungeon (surely a theme for the noblest pencil) the meeting of Italy's old savant and England's y oung scholar—the grey-hairs d sage, each wrinkle on his fore heal the furrow of a star ; and the Lady of his Col lege' with Comus curling in his fair locks, and the dream of Eden sleeping on his smooth brow; while the dim twilight of the cell, spotted by the fierce eyes of the offi cials, seemed the age too late or too early, oa which both bad fallen: a meeting like that of Morning with her one star and coming day, and Midnight with all her melancholy maturity and hosts of diminished suns ; a meeting like that of two centuries." Take for grandeur:—" The poetry of the land,which is rarely so sublime as when picturing the character and achievements of the Desired and Expected One. This desire—in what singular circumstances was it fulfilled. The earth was at rest and still. The expectation of many ages had come to its height. Ie the hush of that universal bilence we may imagine the hearts of all nations panting audibly with strong and intolerable longing ;" or , "But who dare claim kindred with Eze- kier, the severe, the mystic, the unfathomable the lonely —whose hot hurri e d b reat h we f ee l approaching us like the breath of a furnace ? Perhaps the eagle may, for his eye was as fierce and as keen as hers. Perhaps the lion may, for his voice too sounded vast and hollow on the wilderness wind. Perhaps the wild ass may, for his step was like hers, uncontrollable. Or does he not turn away proudly from all these. and, looking up, de mand as associates the most fervid of the burning ones, those who of the angelic throng stand the nearest and yet blench the least before the throne of God? Does he not cry as he sees the seven angels holding the seven last vials of Divine wrath, and coming forth from the smoke of the glory of God,' these are my brethren,' be mine to mingle with these ' to be clean as these, and to bear a like v esse l o f th e Lord with these? Does he not wish to stand apart even from Isaiah, Daniel, Ha bakkuk, and John? The comparison of a comet, often used and generally wasted, is strikingly applicable to Ezekiel. Sharp, distinct yet nebulous, swift, sword shaped, blood-red, he hangs in the Old Testament sky rather burning as a portent than shining as a prophet. These passages —a few out of the many we had marked for extract, and neither the fairest nor the lustiest of the flock—may give a notion of that prose-poetry which pervades this brilliant volume. Sometimes strange as the cry of the souls under the altar, sometimes piteous as the voice—sad up the long years—of Rachel mourning for her children, sometimes wild as the shadowy chorus— sorrowful as bells through rain, and swelled by many cries out of every century—" Oh Absalom! my son, my son I" Sweet as the accents of Ruth, dainty as the step of Esther, plaintive as the prayer of Hannah, and the wail of the widow of Nain, it rises through the triumph of Miriam to reverberations loftier and loftiest till we hear the horns to which Jericho fell, and even the very echo of the thunders of the Mount. So far as the poetic quality of Gilfillan's mind is concerned we feel abundantly satisfied. As an indicator of the presence of poetry there can be no question of his competence; but something more is necessary to qualify a man to come forward with a book of such lofty pretensions as that which now lies beside us. The critic, or expounder, or panegyrist, must not only himself be cognisant of the poetry, but he must be so much en rapport with his age as to be able to com municate his instinctive knowledge; and when taking up such a subject as the poetry of the Bible, and speaking of it to snob a strange, anxious, hoping, doubting, fear ing century as oure, all his highest faculties of insight and tradition have work that shall task them to the uttermost, and reward that shall overpay them though they break under the strain. Full of his own individua lity, be must, nevertheless, be so fur a synopsis of his time that every phase of it may own his k ffin . ity. It is little that he. speak with tongues if he cannot also interpret. Little to us that his heart is heaving if he dies and makes no sign. Little that he is full of light it hw cannot shine it into our darkness. Little that he is bruised unless by his stripes we are healed. His nature should have a point of contact for every human soul. Breathing in the vital influence from above, he must im part it by imposition of hands. His eyes may be to wards heaven, but his feet must be firm upon the earth; in his highest rapture we must feel that he is of us and among us; it he is transfigured we must " be with him in the Mount;" in his hour of (hairiest triumph he must bear bleeding witness to his humanity ; the hand of the unbelieving must find the side that was pierced, and his e 3 es be satisfied with the very nailprints of crucifixion. • In this quality of aliritual adaptiveness, on a theme so peculiarly theological, we should not have been sur prised to hear George Gilfillan fail, because, aotwith standing his i.ften-proved literary universality, and the many-sided charity which has fraternised with every colour of genius ar.d every intellectual variety, there were temptation* to sectarianism in the character of his subject which we were not prepared to see overcome by a clergyman "on t'other s'de Twi ed." We give the gifted author of the " Literary Portraits" the right hand of congratulation at the widening landscape of his theology, and the ameliorating atmosphere of his religious sympathies. Not only as the heart-warm panegyrist at once of Charming and Chalmers, Aird and dley, has he broken down those polemical landmarks which have too often straitened the range of Scotch and English exertion, but, passing beyond the pale f Christianity, by virtue of thatcountenance of unruffled fait h with which he puts aside upon the sceptic and the assaults of unb e li e f, an d , f t h ose tear f u l e yes of fra ternal appreciation which h e b en d s the sinner, he has mad e hi msel f f ree o f t h e inner mind of the empire. Thr oug h out t h e b oo k , an d especially , in that magnificent s k etc h o f " the Paul of the Present' a sketch unsurpas se d, p er h a p s , i n mo d er n literature for strength, width, beauty, and insight—there are decla rations and admissions which would satisfy the sternest advocate of ecclesiastical and religious reform, and find the heart and meet the experience of the furthest wan derer from Christendom. We have said so much of the writer, that we have neither tune nor space for an analysis of his book. We regret this the less, because, in a wor k of this kind, the merit of the book is involved i n t h e mer it O f the author, and because the avowed nat ure an d pre t en sions of the performance before us put it o u t o f t h e p rov ince of any thing but the most elaeorate criticism. If a book comes unchristened before the world, the critic has a fair right to class it by its diagnostics, and try it by the recognized qualifications of the class under which its characteristics may reasonably be subsumed. But when a work sets out with an avowal of its objects and sphere of action, we hold that the duty of the critic is limited to a comparison of theory with practice, pro blem with solution, intention with execution. A chart that comes to us guiltless of mensuration may honestly be graduated as our wisdom may direct, but when the map carries a prepared scale of miles, we cannot under stand the critical despotism which persists in applying its own pocket-rule. Mr. Gilfillan relieves us of all un certainty as to the intentions with which his book was panegyrist. The preface to which it aspires. He comeswritten, fo e r n w d a r t d h e av l o i t w e r e a d r i y y r a a s n k a to his volume declares that "its main ambition is to be a prose poem, or hymn, IN HONOUR of the poetry and the poets of the Bible." The structure of a prose poem—implying, we sup pose, poetry exempt from the condifions of art—is so confessedly extra-provincial, that we shall not be guilty of the pococurantism of the critic. Of the essential poetry of the work, the exuberant life which swells in every line, the tumult of grandeur in which, like a sacred pageant, it goes by us from the first chapter to the last, we despair of conveying any adequate notion. The author has met those grand old bards in their own mood. He is neither commentator, annotator, nor even, in some senses , e xpositor; neither die , sertator on dialects nor inquisitor of particles ; ' neither anatomist of hairs nor disintegrator of atoms. Catching the prophetic gait by assoc i at i on h e goes through the great crowd a discerner of spirits," " speaking as he is moved" at the sight of the sublime, the beautiful, and the true; content to cry Hosanna before their first and greatest ministers, and to cast the palm branch of human genius at the feet of those intel lectual giants whose lips repeated the large utterance of Divinity—whose songs were set to the sy m ph on ies of the thunder, and whose chorus will not cease while creation is not dumb. Leaving to colder temperaments, and to minds incompetent to the higher office, the heavier literatures connected with Scripture, he has given himself up to the one and sufficient task of declar ing the intuitions of his poetic instinct respecting it. Availing himself only of so much of his critical nature as may direct him to the beauties of his subject, retain ing only so much of the analyst as may enable him to eliminate and exhibit the Divine, he has laid as ide the philosopher for the poet, the politician for the priest, the alchemist f m the burner of incense, the essayist for the singer of pie zap, the censor for the optimist, the botanist for the flower-gatherer, the sack of chaff upon the crabbed back of Criticism for the basket of summer-fruit in the hand of Faith and Hope ; be has exchanged the speculative eye of the astronomer for the child's geze of love and wonder up to heaven, and has turned gladly from his long toil in the mines of human intellect to be a pearl-diver and a diamond-finder on the high mountains and in the great deeps of God. True independence is to be found where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.— Eliza Cook's Journal. The House of Lords was opened to the public, un der the usual regulations, on Saturday, when mere than 2,009 persoha availed themaelvea of the privilege. FEBRUARY 10, 1851. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 9. We have received this morning, by the arrival in the harbour of the royal mail steam-ship Asia, Lang commander, our usual dispatches from New York, of the 29th ult. inclusive. The Asia left New York shortly after noon on the 29th with 74 passengers, 54,5001. value in American gold on freight, and the usual mails. During her run she encountered much ice, and but for the detention in consequence of repairing her floats the Asia would have arrived i❑ the Mersey last night. She has, how ever, made a very fair average run, having steamed past the Rock Lighthouse shortly after nine o'clock this morning. The United States mail steam-ship Arctic, Luce, arrived out at New . York on the 27th ult.; she had been compelled previously to put into Halifax for coal, having run short like her sister ship Baltic, from some error in the qnantity shipped, Her accounts were telegraphed to New York in advance. Our accounts from New - Yotk are not of great political moment. Mr. Clay's motion for mere stringent harriers against the pursuit of the s]ave trade to Br6zil by American ships had been carried by the Senate. Numerous petitions had been presented in favour of the proposed line of steam-ships to Liberia. The Senate had also sanctioned the French spoliation measure, and various memorials against the existing tariff had been read. More formidable movements, however, had been organized out of the Chamber of Congress, and on the 28th, in the House of Repre sentatives, an amendment was moved to a Deficiency Bill by a Mr. Strong, seeking to establish a much higher duty on iron, and also an increased, though not proportioned, duty on the rates on woollens, &c. Some slight discussion ensued atter the presentation of the amendment, but the House shortly closed' its sitting without firming any decision. Letters from Washington published in the New York Journal state, that the Whig party were by no means satisfied with the proposition, inasmuch as the source was at least suspicious, and the measure sectional in its bearings. Other projects were said to be in process of organiza tion on the 24th inst. Reciprocity with Canada would be specially discussed. Our accounts are not in other respects important. General Henderson's prosecution at New Orleans for complicity in the Cuban invasion, had broken down. Numerous launches of clipper ships, &c., are announced. Philadelphia accounts state that all the funds re quired for the semi-monthly screw steamers line to Liverpool had been subscribed. Four ships were ex pected to be on the line by Midsummer. Letters from Havannah of the 22d ult. state that military evolutions were frequent. Jenny Lind was shortly to return to New Orleans. She will not return to London till 1852. Chagres accounts of the 12th ult , two days later, represent no new arrivals at Panama. Accounts from Canada announce that the Home Govrenment had sanctioned the provincial postal scheme. From Nova Scotia we learn that the Governor opened the Legislative Assembly with the usual kind of speech. COMMERCI AL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORE, JAN. 29.—Business in stocks generally during the last fortnight has been heavy, and the prices of some of the speculative descriptions show a further material advance. The transfers of the United States and other loans to foreign accounts have not been large. 500,000 dolls. of New York City Debt, due on the 16th inst., has been paid off. The demand for money has been much more active, but we have no important advance in rates to notice. We quote loans on calls at 5 to 6 per cent., and discount 6 to 9 per cent., per annum. Favourite signatures are readily taken at 6 to 7 per cent. The scarcity of silver coin has increased to such an extent that retailers are obliged to pay a premium of 31 to 5 per cent. on small change to meet daily wants. Importations come in freely, and foreign exchanges are usually high for the season of the year, when our exports of produce are the most extensive. It may, however, be found that we are predicting too much upon the present un paralleled prosperity of the country in giving such an extra ordinary speculative value to many stocks of which the in trinsic merit as investments is very que-tionable. The fol lowing are the current rates of exchange :—On London, 110 to 1104 ; Paris, 5.10 to 5.87; Amsterdam, 414 to 44; Ham burgh, 37 to 371; and Bremen, 804 to 807. (From the New York Shipping List of Jan. 29.) Cetton—Since our notice of the market for the Pacific a week since it ha's continued depressed, and prices may be quoted cent to lower. Most of this decline has been es tablished since our last. It should be remarked, however, that holders have shown but little disposition to press sales. The receipts at all the shipping ports are 1,148,942 bales against 1,125,918 to same date last year, an increase this season of 28,024 bales. The total foreign export this year is 72,407 bales more than last, say 23,201 bales increase to Great Britain, 34,203 increase to France, 5,602 increase to Northern rairope, and 10,401 increase to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 79,773 bales less this season than last, and there is an increase of st• ck of 7,312 bales. TLe sales during the past 10 days are 8,800 bales. We quote middling fair to fair ma to 137 ; Atlantic ports. 11; Florida, 14} to 15. Gulf ports, the total arrivals have been 8,746 bales. Total import since the ist inst., 4 i,621 bales. Export from the Ist to the 28th of Janu ary, 1851:—Cotton, 16,597 bales; 1850, : 12,680 bales. Ex port from the United States since September 1, 1850, 591,214 bales, same time, 1849, 507,807 bales. The following is extracted from Mr. T. J. Stewart's cir cular, dated New York, Jan.:9 :—" The Arctic letter-mail delivered this morning is construed as promising for an ex tended consumption, and a more elastic feeling for the imme diate future seems prevalent with operators. There were buyers a little under present rates, but holders are not anxious to sell. The business reported being 600 bales. On the subject of the crop I have nothing of the slightest interest to communicate, competitors' opinion differing as highly as before, and as, from causes heretofore noticed by me, it is quite impossible at present to approach probable accuracy by 100,000 bales, it is as well to wait the deliveries from that section for the ensuing two months before venturing esti mates." The latest telegraphic report from New Orleans is of the 25th. Middling. 12%; freight, 15-32 sterling, 7 1 4 c.; and from Mobile of the 27th, middling, 12%; freights per British vessels. 15-32; American, % sterling, 7c. Arctic's advices received. Breadstuffs—The flour market has been quit e d u ll f or some time past, with an increasing disposition on the part of speculators to realize, and prices of State and other descrip tions on Tuesday reached 64 cents. The demand being very moderate from all quarters, canada was held firmly at 4 dolls. 87 c. in bond, but remains very quiet. Genessee is quoted at 5 dolls. to 5 dolls. 6ic. Southern has been in good demand both for home use and export—part to Liver pool; but the market closes in favour of buyers. British, &c., goods—there is very considerable increase on inquiry in the dry goods trade, with a fair enlargement of transactions corresponding to the commencement, at a steady and dura ble rather than a large intermittent activity. British goods of all descriptions show a greet increase of activity, and the country demand has fully commenced. Prices are firm, and, from the limited importations of this month, are likely to advance. Our consumption of dry goods is likely to be very generally extended this spring, and a steady, regular, but not speculative demand, to prevail, with a gradual rise in prices, forced by the greater production and its recent limi tation. Tobacco—There is a fair demand for the various descrip tions, and the market generally is firm. Iron—The market is active and transactions are pretty large; these are, however, restricted by the firmness of holders and the enhanced rates demanded. We noticed sales of 590 tons British bars, at 40 dolls.. ' 2(10 tons Bank refilled, 50 dolls. ; 6,700 tons Scotch pig, 21 dolls. to 21 dolls 50c. ; 400 tons to arrive at the latter rate; and 1,000 packs Russia sheets, 12ic. to tic., six months. Rates to Liverpool • The rates are—for cotton, to 5-32 ; beef, ls. 9d. for tierces, and 2s. to 2s. 6d. for barrels; fnstic, 125.; ashes, 10s., &c. To London—Turpentine, ls. Gd., and other articles on private terms. To Havre -,The packet Ist proximo is full at cent for cotton, and that at the Bth has cotton at the same rate; bark at 8 dolls., and palm leaf 25c. per bundle. Ne w Orleans Market, Jan. 13—Sales of cotton to-day were 4,000 bales; prices were not affected by the news received per Asia. Sterling exchange is at Y pm. Jan. 2l—The sales of cotton to-day barely reach 2,000 bales ; trade dull. Sales of 7,000 barrels of flour at 4 dolls. 25c. for Ohio, and 4 dolls. 40c. for Illinois. Corn is at 60 to 70. Keg lard has advanced ; sales, 700 kegs, at Fe. Jan. 22—The market for cotton is unchanged ; the sales are 11,000 bales at 12A to 12. i. Provisions improving. THE ABSURDITY OF COERCIVE EDUCATION.—If we wish a bey to become a good mechanic, we insure his expertness by an early apprenticeship. The young musi cian that is to be, passes several hours a day at his instru ment. Initiatory courses of outline drawing and shading are gone through by the intended artist. For the future ac countant, a thorough drilling in arithmetic is prescribed. The reflective powers are sought to be developed by the study of mathematics. Thus, all training is founded on the principle that culture must precede proficiency. In such proverbs as—" Habit is second nature," and" practice makes perfect," men have expressed those net products of universal observation on which every educational system is ostensibly based. The maxims of a village schoolmistress and the speculations of a Pestalozzi are alike pervaded by the theory that the child should be accustomed to those exertions of body mad mind which will in future life be required of it. Education means this or nothing.— Social Statics; or the Conditions essential to Human Happiness specified, and the first of them developed. ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL.—On Friday after noon a meeting of the friends and committee of this valued institution was held at the board-room, in Bloomsbury square. The number of disabled and suffering patients claiming the benefit of the institution was stated to be daily increasing —upwards of 300 more than the hospital can accommodate having been recently placed on the books to await their turn of admission. During the past year consi derably upwards of 1,00 patients received the medical and surgical treatment of the hospital ; and since the formation of the charity, twelve years ago. nearly 11,000 individuals had been cured or relieved. For the purpose of facilitating the ~rection cf the mere commodious buildings so urgently needed for the increasing patients of the hospital, the committee ate making strenuous efforts to complete the forthcoming bazaar, towards which it was stated the pa tronage of her Majesty and Prince Albert had been promised, iu addition to a long list of royal, noble, ,and distinguished individuals. THE EXPLOSEON ON BOARD THE PLOVER..--It lA stated that a warrant has been issued by the Sheriff, autho rising two respectable engineers to conduct an inquiry into the cause of the melancholy accident which took place on Wednesday morning on board the Plover. POLITICAL REUNION. -- Viscountess Palmerston had a brilliant assembly on Saturday evening. The Duke of Wellington honoured her Ladyship with his company. Lord John Russell and several of the members of the Ca binet, his Excellency the Russian Minister and most of the foreign corps diplomatique, and close on 200 of the tlite of society iu toga were preeent. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. TUE ADMISSION OF VISITORS Her M.4fe,ty r a6 , lauTi;ioiTersfor the Exhibition of 1851 have had under their consideration the regulations respecting the admission of visitors which it appears to them necessary to adopt for the effectual accomplishment of the purposes of the Exhibition. Their attention has been principally directed to the following points:- 1. The necessity of making such arrangements as shall se• cure the convenience of the public visiting the Exhibition, whether for study or instruction or for the more general pur poses of curiosity and amusement. 2. The due protection and securing of the property depo sited in the building. 3. The effective control over the number of visitors, while the servants and officers entrusted with the maintenance of order and regularity in the building are comparatively inex perienced in their duties. _ 4. The necessity of maintaining the self-supporting cha racter of the Exhibition, and of defraying the liabili;ies incurred. 5. The desire of the Commissioners to render the Exhibi tion accessible to all persons at the lowest possible charge, and with the least delay which a due regard to the preceding considerations will admit. Having these objects in view. her Majesty's Commis sioners have determined to adopt the following r- gulatious : The Exhibition will be open every day (Sundays ex cepted). The hours of admission and other details will be announced at a sub,equent period. The charges for admission will be as follows: _ Season tickets for a gentleman Season tickets for a lady ... £. s. ... 3 3 ... 2 2 These tickets are not transferable, but they will entitle the owner to admission on all occasions on which the Exhibition is open to the public. The Commiwoners reserve to themselves the power of raising the price of the season tickets when the first issue is exhausted, should circumstances render it adyi-able. On the first day of the Exhibition season tickets only will be available, and no money will be received at the doors of entrance on that day. On the second and third days the price £ s. d. of admission on entrance will be (each day) 1 0 0 On the fourth day of exhibition ... 0 5 0 To be reduced on the twenty-second day to ... 1 0 From the twenty-second day the prices of admission will be as follows : On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and s. d. Thursdays in each week ... 1 0 On Fridays ... 2 6 On Saturdays ... 5 0 No change will be given at the doors. This regulation is necessary to prevent the inconvenience and confusion which would arise from interruption or delay at the entrances. Should experience in the progress of the Exhibition render any alteration in these arrangements necessary, the Commis sioners reserve to themselves the power of making such mo difications as may appear desirable, of which due and timely notice, however, will be given to the public. By order of her Majesty's Commissioners, J. SCOTT RUSSELL. EDGAR A. BOWRING (For S. H. NORTIICOTE). Exhibition Building, Hyde-park, Feb. 8, 1851. Those who may be desirous to secure season tickets should do so without delay as soon as the office for the distribution of them is opened. The decision of the Commissioners, it will be observed. reserves power to raise the prices, if found necessary, and hence the propriety of an early application. PAYMENT OF PANCELS. In answer to a letter from Liverpool, the Executive Com mittee have transmitted the following reply : " Feb. 8, 1851. " Gentlemen,—l am directed by the Executive Committee to say that they have no power to pay for the charges of goods transmitted for the Exhibition, such expense falling on the exhibitor, who is required to deliver them at the build ing himself, and then to arrange them. " I am, Gentlemen, &c., " M. D. WYATr, Secretary." THE QUESTION OF ►SPACE IN THE GREAT EXHIBITION. It has been reported to the Executive Committee that in some cases whilst the claims of applicants for space were under examination by local committees or by some of the metropolitan sectional committees, the vouchers for space were lost or mislaid, and, cons€quently, have not vet reached the Executive Committee. Requests have likewise been preferred to continue to receive further vouchers for space in cases where the original amounts of space were not fully allotted when the vouchers were sent in; and further re quests have been made by exhibitors to be allowed to ex change portions of the space allotted to them with other parties, and exhibitors having space allotted in two classes have made application to change the relative quantities in each class. The Executive Committee regret that at this late period it is impossible to entertain any questions which tend to re open the question of space. It is necessary to remind exhi bitors that strictly speaking the 10th of December was the last day fixed by her silajesty's Commissioners for receiving vouchers of .pace from local committees, and that the places for each of the 30 classes have actually been fixed in the building. To re-open the question at the present time would be tantamount to disturbing the boundaries of the 30 classes, and might jeopardize the opening of the Exhibition. At the same time the Executive Committee will do their utmost to meet those cases where, in consequence of the voucher not having reached the Executive Committee, an applicant for space may have been excluded from no fault of his own. Any application properly specified by the secretary of the local committee as having been made and duly sent by him to the Executive Committee before the 31st of October, will be examined on its merits, and if found to be proper will be admitted conditionally, on space being available, when the actual arrangement of the articles is in progress. By order of the Executive Committee, M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary. Office for the Executive Committee, Exhibition• building, Kensington road, London, Feb. 5. GENERAL RULES FOR THE ADMISSION OF PERSONS AND THE RECEPTION OF ARTICLES DURING THE ARRANGEMENT. For the sake of good order and the security of the valuable property of exhibitors, the Executive Committee have found it necessary to frame the following rules, and they hope to meet with a ready assistance from all whom they may con cern in carrying them into effect : ADMISSION OF PERSONS. No person whatever will be allowed access to any part of the building during the arrangement unless he is the bearer of a pass signed by Mr. Digby Wyatt, the secretary to the Executive Committee. Passes will be of two kinds-1, available for more than one day; 2, available for only one day. Passes of the first description, differently marked, will be issued to the Royal Commissioners; to the Executive Com mittee and their staff; to Commissioners of foreign countries arhl colonies; to the officers of the Customs; to Custom house agents and their servants; to the contractors for the building, their servants and workmen ; to such exhibitors as, from the amount of their allotment and the description of the goods they propose to exhibit, it is considered necessary to grant admission for more than one day. Personal applications for such pass must be made on a printed form to M. Digby Wyatt, Esq., at least two days be fore it is required. No exhibitor can have a pass until the merits of the appli cation have been carefully examined by the Executive Committee. The application of every foreign exhibitor will be referred to the Commissioner of his country fur his report before it is granted. Except in special cases the pass will, only be available for a limited time, and only for that entrance and that particular part of the building which is noted on it and to no other. If the possessor is found in any part of the building which he is not privileged to enter, his privilege of admittance will be forfeited. Exhibitors, &c., besides their ticket, will be provided with a brass counter bearing a number, which they will deposit at the entrance, and it will be returned to them when they leave the building. The pass and number will be furnished without charge, but as their being lost would lead to serious inconvenience, the replacing of a ticket will be charged 10e., and that of a number 2s. 6d. The pass must be produced on entering or leaving the building, and while the bearer is in the building it must be attached to a button-hole or other conspicuous part of the dress. Day tickets for workmen and assistants of exhibitors will be issued to exhibitors themselves on personal application to the superintendents, or on a written application, giving the grounds for such application, addressed to M. Digby Wyatt, Esq. Day tickets must likewise be shown at the entrance, worn in a conspicuous part of the dress, and delivered up on leaving the building. Before any person can enter the building he will be re quired to sign the following declaration:— " I hereby declare that I will conform to all such rules as the Executive Committee may find it necessary to make for the convenience of the public and the exhibitors in the management of the Exhibition; that I will not part with my ticket of admission, or be a party to the admission of any person not privileged to enter; and that I will give my best assistance at all times in protecting the general property and interests of the Exhibition." PLACES OF ENTRANCE. All persons must enter the building only at the doors appointed, which are as follows :—All persons belonging to the Customs, all Custom-house aaente, their clerks, porters, &c., all foreign exhibitors, and persons having business in the foreign portions of the Exhibition must enter at the East end. All British exhibitors and persons having business in the British portion of the Exhibition must enter at the West end. All carmen in charge of carts and waggons must enter only at the South side. All officers and persons employed by the Commission must enter at the Central entrance. the exhibitor or MODE OF PASSING FOREIGN AND COLONIAL GOODS INTO THE BUILDING. The receipt of all foreign and colonial articles will be sub ject to the control of the officers of Customs, and in case any uifficulty should arise, application is to be made to Jos e _ r. fu Rolls, Esq., Landing Surveyor of the Customs; or to DI G. N. Fairman, the Registrar. mast o u r s t Every article sent separately, and every package, ex hibitors. b legibly marked with the name of the foreignen manufacture, :faeand, country colony of which they are the produce or roednctns Executive a a Com mittee suggest t or as far as practicable, with the name of t iothey for a considerable time before e In the case of foreign and c b e ib lo it n io ial p must be necessarily unpacked n, th they are finally arranged for x b a t the consigneesagents sh ou ld b e authorized to provide proper temporary coverings to protect the articles from dust, &c. ; and in the c ase of machinery and polished goods make the requisite arrangements for keeps s the arti'des free from rust, etc. Exhibitors intending to introduce foreign articles, upon which duty has been paid, with the view of exhibiting them amo ngst the goods of the coubtry of which they are the produce or manufacture, shosid take to have a ticket attached to each, with the words " duty paid" thereon, and to prevent difficulty in their delivery at the close of the Exhi bition, they should be brought under the notice of the prin cipal officers of Customs at the time they are brought in. MODE OF PASSING ARTICLES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM INTO TIIE BUILDUCO. Every article sent separately and every package must be legibly marked with the name of the exhibitor or exhibitors, and also with the section and class, whether raw materials, machinery, &c. PLACING OF ARTICLES AND PACKAGES OF THE UNITED KINGDOM IN THE CLASS SPACES. Each class will have a superintendent, an inspector, and the requisite number of attendants attached to it ; the two last designated by a badge. The class-spaces will be sub-divided into districts, which will be distinctly marked. Each district space will be subdivided, a far u practice ble, into smaller spaces, for each exhibitor, and so marked ; and when not so marked a spot will beset apart, and marked for " miscellaneous" exhibitors. The inspector of each class will receive the articles and packages as they are brought in. Be will examine the class• mark, and mark it as examined. By order or the Executive Committee. Feb. 5. M. MGM' WYATT, Secretary. The contract for the supply of refreshments within the building has been given to Mr. Schweppe, the soda-water manufacturer. TO THE SECB,EIAtti ol:"114E BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the sth, was some slight spar ring on the Papal question, on bringing np the Report a for Com mitters the Address. But nothing or mark toot piece. Oa midoigl, ; - which was the same night, on a motion for fixing th e d a of Supply, an Arnendm,nt si used for adding the words " and 'hat no vote i.a. • b e t , 0i ... n . a* : i n , j u y u , m up eo p l t t: l e t e rd o b t ) S ii i 7 ipp v l o 3 lcs ef ;j e galn; 116. The.pt entice of raking votes et money wier inidoie,t is'ftetatd not so glarit,g as in the oluen t me, whorl thet-::. , ; A L i i ,-- coats came trooping •r um biix and billiard-- - -- i': : t,.'' a:mac-Does or the whipper-in. Bet thero i „. :, : - . ~, • to mike the pr a ct ice dhugeious; aid the :(!4..- 2 ,4ii s persisted in. It was rat h er en un f a vourabl e , ~ .. **i r following with a motion, " that no business shall be-m -et, tied with atter midnight; and that at twelve o'clock Mr. Speaker do adjourn the House without putting any questioa;" and, as might he expected, it was sup ported by a still smaller propordon of 32 against 108. Yet this is clearly •what common sense aid experience point to. The trial has been made on Wednesdays, when the House always rises in to manner proposed at six. There is no technical IRO-. priety, in allowing a summons for attendance on one day, to extend into another day. And the unfairness of pitting men whose constituents expect them to be always upon deck, against men who do the duty at three watches, is us palpable as it would be if proposed at sea. On 'Thursday was moved by the Prime Minister " That this House will not proceed upon any motion for an Address to the Crown to which opposition is offered, but in a Committee of the whole House, except with respect to matters which have been previously submitted to a -Select Committee." Nobody appeared to under stand either the terms or the object; so that it is not surprising the motion was withdrawn, , with an inti mation that it would be tried in an altered form. On Friday the Prime Minister moved his Bill " To prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiastical Titles in respect of places in the United Kingdom." The Bill appears to be limited to this. and to giving the Crown a power to dispose of endowments made to parties using titles in contravention of the Bill. The surprise ap peared general; those who wished nothing to be done, being further disposed to laugh. The only speech of which wisdom could be predicated, was that of the Member for Surrey; reserving always certain I pas sages about " sacraments," and " the Queen's dal =tic." Mr. John O'Connell gave a harrowing de scription of the deathbed of an unfortunate statesman in Piedmont, who had taken the lead in promoting re strictions on the Papal power in that country, and was refused first Absolution, and then the "Viaticum," till he had first acknowledged his guilt, and then consented to his acknowledgment being made public. The tendency on the majority of the hearers must have been to rouse the feel ing, that within the limits of what experience has proved politic and just, they would as soon voluntarily make inlet for the religion of Moloch, as for the horrible tyranny described. A man new to the question, might defend himself by asking why, and on what evidence, he should be obliged to burn his child. But we know the effect of early habit on the mind. On another point, the same speaker made a very naive declaration. Lord John Russell in collecting the precedents in Catholic countries for precautions against the Papal power, had stated his regret that the Austrian Government had just been found removing restrictions previously existing. It was not difficult to burmise the connexion; but the speaker alluded to re moved all doubts by saying, "1 he restrictions had been imposed by the infidel Joseph, and were removed because in the late contest (to wit, against the attempt to establish something like constitutional liberty) the Emperor found that the Catholic religion was the only sure supjort upon which he could rely." This is speak ing out. What Catholicism does in Austria it would do in England if it could. Aud after the declaration that has been made of the revival of all ancient claims and principles of the Roman bee, I have no hesitation T; saying professionally, that if contest should arise with a power connected with Rome, I would not if a captain commanding a picket of dragoons, leave a Catholic lieutenant in charge of my advanced post, but would relieve him and say to him, " You and I have seen service together. For the res pect I bear you, I will not leave you in a position where you may have a notice served upon you to show a li g ht when you think the post may b es t be ridden in upon, or else incur what you have been bred to think the pain of eternal damnation. You will be so good as to leave the advanced post in charge of Sergeant Ironsides, and tell him to have all his party on horseback an hour before day-break." I put it to military and to civil, whether this would not be the duty of a man who meant to earn his fourteen-and-sevenpence a day. The simple truth is, that Absolutism having by the avowed help of Catholicism become rampant on the Continent, this aggression is the feeler sent to England. It brings out the weaknesses of the land, and shows who is disposed to temporize and who to assist. If feebly replied to, it will probably bring something dif ferent next. The point for present consideration, is whether it would not Le more manly and more effective, to revive the Acts of 5 and 13 Elizabeth with such penalties as may be found in the present Bill when we get at them, than to try a flimsy new Act, which its deriders in the 1101150 already ray sill be driven through in as many places us there are permu tations and combinations among a *core tf Tarts of bptech. Those Acts did the business of our foiefathera; why should they nut do ours? If vague, they were also comprehensive. " put in ure" was a sweeping clause, which will not be tound among the mincing phraseology of a modern Act of Parliament. If enybody sees the thing in the same light, it should be embodied 'n Petitions within the coming week. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, Feb. 10, 1851. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES:FEB. 8. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE. Lord Godolphin, Captain Hamlyn Williams, and several other members are at the squadron-house; his Lordship is expected to proceed in his yacht for Littlehampton this even ing. Lady Godolphin and family are expected to arrive at G chic-villa about the lst of March. Captain C. H. Wil liams's yacht building in White's yard is in a forward state. as is Mr. A. Hill's. The Leader and several other yachts are also in a forward state. RYILM—STEAMBOAT WAR.--The rival companies that run their steamers between Rvde and PA . tsmouth are at open war with each other, and constant collisions take place, to the serious annoyance of the passengers, and indeed to the great risk of their lives. On Monday the Prince of Wales cut the Prince Albert down nearly to the water's edge, and great was the terror of those on board her; but after some difficulty they were all got safe on board the Prince of Wales. and taken back to Portsmouth ; and the Albert, after having her ballast trimmed astarboard and getting some more aboard from the Prince of Wales, was got into port. The share holders, captains, anti all employed seem embarked in a des perate struggle. The magistrates at Portsmouth, Hyde, and Newport, have constantly cases of assault to determine, arising on board the steamers, or on Hyde and Portemoush piers. Died, on Friday evening, at Hampstead, Isle L. Wight, aged 76, Mrs. `ash, relict of the late celebrated architect, John Nash, Esq., to whose scientific abilities we are indebted for the designs of Buckingham Palace, Brighton Pavilion, Regent-street, Langhava eiiurch, &c. &cc. REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.—DEMONSTRATION AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The parishes of the city of Westminster have engaged Drury-lane Theatre for a demon stration on the subject of the window-tax. Viscount Dun can, M.P., has consented to preside on the occasion; and not only the metropolitan Members, but all Members of Parliament known to be favourable to the movement, have been invited to attend. The delegates from all the metro politan parishes who attended the deputation to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, have also been requested to be pre sent on the occasion. The admission is to be by tickets, in the same manner as the meetings of the Anti-Corn-law League; but the meeting takes place in the day time, so as not to interfere with the performances at present going on tkere. incapable of alarming even the The sad news of Mrs. Shelley's death throws the mind back into that stirring time when her father, Godwin, and her mother, noble Mary Wolstenecraft, were. outraging the respectabilities by earnest utterance of audacities in spe hriitian-hearted man of whom that epoch culation which now seem timid—for the persecuted audacity of one day becomes the yositntiznation, Percy Bysshe Shelley ! To the li ne of those books that commonplace of toinsirrow—and recall her illustrious hus t:FefLaPaakrki;osennnot sof romances.--The Leader. givesb nd, u t the e a most /I"B: T S h h e el L ie s y st Man,"" Lodore," kc. h d a d t edthat of being the t g e e i u ofuF s wt t rh r a: a nro t ik i oe o ef n i become the parent The Countess Grey is recovering from her recent severe illness, and will shortly be able to resume her visits in society. Immediately after her Ladyship's restoration to health, the Noble Earl and Countess will enliven the fashion able world by a series of receptions and dinner parties. MUNIFICENT BEQUESTS TO HOSPITALS, &C.—The following is a correct list of the legacies left to hospitals and for other charitable purposes by the late Thomas Ans.aldo Hewson, Esq., of Woburn-place, who died on the 6th ult., all free of legacy duty, which is directed to be paid out of the estate : To the Charing -cross Hospital, 500/. ; to the hospital for Consumption at Brompton, 1,000/. ; to the Uni vfisity Hospital, Gower-street, 1,000/. ; to the Middlesex ' Hopital, 1,000/. ; to St. George's Hospital, 1,000/. ; to the Westminster Hospital, 1,000/. ; to the Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-lane, 1,000/.; to the Seamans' Hospital, off Greenwich, 1,0001.; to the Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, 1,0001.; and to the 'rector and cli,urecnhtw-gaarrddeenns, 1,0 for e t o, to the time p beingpiythe in ofttheerespr to ish the of relief o St.Paui i Gwent -garden, the deserving poor of that. parish. THE MANSION HOUSE.—The Lord Mayor enter tained at dinner at the Mansion House, on Friday evening, the master of the Merchant Tailors' Company; the master, wardens, and court of assistants of the 'Vintners' Company ; the sherift:3 of London and Middlesex ; the master, wardens. and court of assistants of the Clothworkers' (his Lordship's) Company, with the joint board, &c. After the passing of the loving cup Non nobis Domine Was sung by Messrs. Lockey, Francis, and Hatton, who, in the course of the even ing, sung several favourite songs and glees. The Lord Mayor will give his first dinner to the members of the Court of Common Council, in the Egyptian Hall, on Wednesday next ; and the Lady Mayoress will give her second soiree dansante on the 18th inst., after receiving a party of private friends at dinner on the same day, An old man, named Robert Evans, was fined 40s. at the Thames Police-office on Saturday, for assaulting an officer of the Whitechapel County Court, in the executiou of his duty.