The Sun. — London, England, 1851-08-04 00:00:00

'l l .~ .. 1• z The yearly comparison of the weekly imports is as under:— Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1850 . , .... ... 684 ... 3,664 ... 622 ... 463 ... 355 1849........ 752 ... 4.380 ... 405 ...351 ... 100 1648...... 818 ... 5,045 ... 237 ... 603 ... ,The following are the imports of foreign stock into , " 18 united Kingdom during the mouth and the six Months ending July s: Month ending July 5, 6 Months, ending July 5, O ran . 1850. ... 1,374 6)1 6,385 ...... 7,4 , 1 ( .."Ara ...... 942 ....• 778 5,073 sheep„ .. 75 ...... 826 7,654 i .. 5 ,351 21,715 F iffhtis . 439 756 T gs ... 218 f "aY's market was again heavily supplied with stock fr om abroad. The arrivals of Beasts fresh up from our grazing districts were seasonably extensive and of im- Proved quality. Although the attendance of buyers was ( g i ° °d, the Beef trade was in a very depressed state, at a cline in the quotations of Monday last of fully 2d per Z.lbs, and a total cl ea rance was no t affected. From :walk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we re ivecl, Be l e.; ,6 D 00 Herefords, Runts, evons, Scots, Home tereds from other parts of England, 700 of various r "de; and from Scotland 170 horned and polled Scots. Vtliough there was a alight falling off in the supply of „ he ti ) , Compared with that shown on this day oe'linight, ihave not the slightest improvement to notice in the On trade. Prices, however, were fairly supported. u the whole the Lamb trade was somewhat firmer than las t Week, but we have no advance to notice in the cur 141eies• Calves, the supply of which was good, moved "f heavily at barely late rates. Pigs, though dull, were hetcheaper. Per Sibs. to sink the Offal. _ . . s t. a L 4 fe s d r ior Beasts..... 2 4 to 2 . 6 Inferior Sheep .. . 2 6 tu 2 8 ip7n ( ltlriality .... 2 8 210 Second qual. Sheep 210 3 t ~,, p th 7 e large Oxen.. 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolledditto3 2 3 6 1.47 e Be ata •• •••• 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wether 3 8 Blu ge coarse Calves 2 5 3 2 Ditte outof the wool 0 0 0 0 i" tte l ae Mali ditto bang Calves ..18 0 20 0 Small Porkers .... 3 4 3 8 •• •• •••••• 3 10 410 Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 18 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I I Sheep. I Calves. Pigs 4,187 1 31,810 1 438 415 FOREIGN surruy. Busts.l 1,154 Sheep. I Calves. I rigs. I 4.050 314 100 A , Sta tement and Comparison of the Supplies and Prices of "t Stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, 00 Monday, Aug. 5, 1850, and this day, Monday, Aug. 4,1861. Per Sibs., to sink the offals. Aug. 5, 1850. Aug. 4,1851. s. d. a. d. s. d. a. d. Co4iarse and inferior Beasts ......2 6to 2 8 2 4to 2 6 rend quality ditt0.........2 10 3 2 2 8 210 b r Pue large Oxen ell.m_e Scots, rs c............ 3 8 310 3 4 3 6 5,,,,"5e and inferior Sheep... ... 3 0 3 2 2 6 2 8 1,: - 'ond quality ditto ... 3 4 3 62 10 3 0 I) . ! tn e - coarse-woolled ditto ... 3 8 310 3 2 3 6 L r a zn l k e Southdown ditto ... 310 4 0 3 8 310 Largo .. 3 8 4 83 10 410 prime coarse . oalv • e •• s •.:. :.. 210 3 0 2 6 32 t, Small ditto ... .3 2 3103 4 3 6 e rg e Hogs 3 2 3 6 2 6 3 2 eared Pork ". 3 8 4 0 3 4 3 8 Beasts ... 3 , 587 4,187 Sheep and Lambs .. 30,'00 31,110 Calves ... "' 264 438 Pi gs .• 210 415 Is i up PLIE S ON SALE, AUG. 6, 1849. Beasts, 3,433 ; TP and Lambs, 29,580 ; Calves, 203; Pigs, 225. C a l u(i . 7, 1848.—Beasts, 3,659 ;Sheep and Lambs, 28,090; Vest 236; Pigs, 280. I,,NEVITGATE AND LEADENNALL. u ele markets continue to be heavily supplied with to , d of meat, arrivals of which, to some extent, w a iw ithstanding the prevailing hot weather, have taken i n ee from the provinces. The general demand is very c tive, and late rates are with difficulty supported. At per stone by the Carcase. Le er s. d. to v. d. I a. d. to s. d. ...... 2 0 2 4 Mutton inferior .. 2 4 2 8 _ , rrd adling .... 2 6 2 8 ' ------- middling .•2 10 3 4 Primelarge .. 210 3 0 --- prime .... 3 6 3 8 Vka P r inxe small .. 3 2 3 4 Pork, 1arge........ 2 6 3 4 .• •• •- 2 8 3 4 - small ........ 3 6 3 8 Lamb, 3s 6d is 4s Bd. w BOROUGH AND SPITALPIELDS. c. are wholly without supplies of Potatoes from the I tt "ti nenti but those from Essex, Kent, &c., are very ~ge, and in e x cell en t condition. The demand is bteady 4, 1. L toOi 41 to 5154 per ton. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. dem and show of fine Hops is comparatively small. The for them is, therefore, steady, at full prices. In i ferior q ua li t i es excee di ng ly li t tle i s doing. The plan tufttioo accounts are very unattisfactory, whilst the duty e called 90000/. Mid and East Kent Pockets, 90 s to 1558 ;` Weald of Kent ditto, 803 to 105 s; Sussex ditto, 848 to 963. WOOL. Nearly the whole of the Colonial Wool submitted to Pllblic competition last week was disposed of at full 11 6 , 1.1 " 8 : Up to the present time, 37,000 bales out of the I .'ooo have found buyers. By private contract very R3B I ; t ie is doing. Last week's imports into London were bales from Odessa, 51 from Callao, 169 from Moga- Z ) re, 29 from Dunkirk, 185 from llamburgb , 658 from I'Ydney, and 18 bags from Oporto. TALLOW. Since our last report a tair average amount of bug "4s has been transacted in Tallow for the time of year, et full p r i ces . P. Y. C. on the spot is quoted to-day at 2 8 9d to 38s, and for delivery durin4 the last three 'oaths 39a 3d to 393 6d per cwt; Town Tallow, 37s per Z v t net cash; Rough Fat, 2 Id per Blbs. Trio shipments Petersburgh are progressing steadily. — ....?_ , 1 bt. Petersburgh are progressing steadily. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1 1851. 9t,:,, taw „.' ~..- 4 s day ...... 6,413 9,811 23,707 25,0 0 1 32,653 .ric e 415 Od 39s 3d 365 6d to 373 9d h ,t , 01 I ' C * —— 1 to"sos 3l ld to 4456 d to OsOd 363 9d t03 ,, s Od Otto last weekl,2sl 1,254 1,159 4 11 from J une I__ 7,365 12,068 10,534 10,221 11,628 bi t '7413 last week • 788 4,945 919 985 323 1,11 to tsrna, J une I • • • 8,679 14,348 8,768 9,555 7,7 48 ' 43 et Town ...... 523 Od 465 6d 403 Od 38s Od 39s Cd SURREY SESSIONS. (THIS DAY.) Tl© adjourned sessions for the county of Surrey com menced this morning, at the Sessions-house, Newington h;,tisra, before r. Puckle (chairman), and a full o y f , ma The The aulendar was extremely fo r, containing the names of only thirty - one prison ers ST EALING and four for misdemeanour. ' T EALING A PlG.—Thomas Rogers, 36 , was ind icted fir stealing a pig, the property of James Elstone, a r .i l ler) near Guildford. toss ue prosecutor deposed that on tho 22d ultimo he 1 14 „. d a pig from one of the styes on his farm, and 1 . 0 , 1 ' 1 4 given information to the police, the pig was p rit : l d in the prisoner's premises with other pigs. The o ver lived two miles from the prosecutors place. , 14:11 defence, the prisoner said he purchased the pig of a the road for ten shillings. ?e jury found him Guilty, and GuildOURT sentenced him to six months' hard labour fod House ot Correction. BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) 1 0 Pachel Laacs, who stated that she was the owner of tiog-houses of a certain class in Shadwell, was tly ttr ged. upon her own allegations, with the murder of 1 , 0 childrn. 00 4 uPpeared that last night she was found by a pol do l lttable, of the F division, sitting upon the steps of a h ° l ' near this court. Upon his speaking to her, and ht ) 111 g that be would not allow her to sit there she re that she had come to this spot in the afternoon , i n t h g . the intention of giving herself up to justice, and ° t v , - " l essiog to the chief magistrate that she committed eth er murders—one that of a boy, nine years old, and the A e r of a child but three years of age. e , -4s her st a t eme nt represented the offdnce to have been O e ri tnitted in another district, Mr. HALL directed her to t4 ell before the magistrates of that district (Thames.) h jergrant Thompson (ot the detective force) having 4o n directed to make inquiries, considered that the pri iler Was insane, and from what he could as yet learn mss disposed to disbelieve her story. ( ~i , et .w its, however, forwarded to the Thames Police ARLBRu-STREE r—(THIS DAY.) G E THE ARGYLL /I n NTLEMANLY AMUSEMENT AT 11.,,,.‘"113,-- William M'Cloud, York Chambers, st - "` 18 George Turner, Berkeley Chambers, Condui t .reet and William Ginger, 43, South Molton-street, f re e well-dressed gentlemen, were placed at the bar be re Air. Jardine, charged with creating a disturbance lied assaulting the police at the the Argyll Rooms, Great L o dinill-street. tt:f• parry, who appeared on behalf of M. Laurent, Proprietor of the above rooms, stated that he was p‘rstructed not to offer any evidence in support of the ; etent charge. From inquiries that had been made it 1 1 111344 '0d that the young men at the bar were well con weieted, and on Saturday they had been dining at Green -4 c hi and no doubt had taken too much wine, and while se v t „ h ,t, state had entered the, Argyll Rooms, " bonneted" s e b,`"si persons, and, in fact, made great fools of them -134;48. Their conduct was certainly highly improper, t he if they made an apology he, with due submission to xa ,Court, w ou ld let t he matter drop. eh . ', 2. JARDI NE said if M. Laurent did not press the th""ge there was an end of the matter, but he saw by Police-aheet that M.`Cloud and Turner were in ar ged with obstructing and assaulting the police whilst a t he tve la execution of their duty; this he could not pass a nd r l. Ginger, however, was not concerned in that affair, Th e "e (Mr. Jardine directed him to be discharged. evidence of the constables was then gone into. Police -constable Hardy, 85 A, stated that on Satur }' ' n ight about eleven o'clock he was standing by the ett `rY-take r ' e b ox a t t he Argyll R ooms , w h e n he was a ho eti into the rooms to assist in suppressing a disturb- As soon as he entered he saw the three defend -8-e";e8, * who appeared to be the worse for liquor, " bonnet" eon lal gentlemen on their hats. Witness said such 1,:u0.0t could not be allowed, and requested them to „..'ve the rooms. Turner said he should not leave, and ",' witness taking hold of him to eject him from the Zee, he struck him three or four times on his back. c r ° tller constable then came to his assistance, and he j i i rli er) and Ginger were conveyed to the station. turc p, 4 A, said he was in the Argyll Rooms on Sa it ; night, when he was called to the assistance of " Ltr iesa• Oa taking h o ld o f Turner, M'Cloud put t 0 pt lelf betw een hi m and his brother cons t a bl e , an d t r i e d pt tsh them out of the rooms. Ginger was tipsy, but m ot=h all vi o l ent. itsgtt ui t J ARDINE said he could no t over look the charge of their ing the const a bl es w h en in the per f or mance of each.fluty, and he should fine M'Cloud and Turner 20e. The money was immediately paid. , K tiLET FOR THE SUMASFR.—A light thread net 1 8 Pe tided before an open wiaduw, will effectually keep out e b koase Sy. Itsingular fact that these troublesome la se h e t 8 will not pass througk the meshes of the net, even —41311 i ih tUVRe Intfille4 are more than as inch in diameter. " ... ..k1ift..... , 1 THE SUN, AAI PEE I Ai, PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair Eihortly after Twelve o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Hove Improvement. Lincolnshire Estuary. Waterford and Kilkenny Railway. Lord Bateman's Estate Bill was read a third time and passed. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from Poole, praying that the Crystal Palace might be retained as a winter garden. Lord J. RUSSELL appeared at the bar and brought up the reply of her Majesty in answer to an address of the House, praying that she might be gra ciously pleased to direct that the Crystal Palace be preserved until the Ist of May next. The reply was to the effect that it was necessary to consider care fully the engagements of the Royal Commissioners, and that her Majesty had directed an inquiry to be made into vistiou, matters of detail which must be ascertained before any decision could be come to.—(Leer, hear ) GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 4) BILL, Tnis Bill, after clause 9 had been struck out, was read a third time and passed. CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. DUCHY OF LANCASTER BILL. _ This Bill as amended was agreed to, and ordered to be rerd a third time to-morrow. _ PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. HENRY moved that the committal be postponed until to-morrow, to give the public an opportunity of considering the amendments that had been introduced into it. _ _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was afraid the post ponement would be fatal to the Bill, and he therefore hoped the motion would not be persevered in. After a few words from Mr. BROTHERTON, Mr. J. P. WESTHEAD said he had carefully exa mined the provisions of the Bill, and he thought the measure was an exceedingly good one. He trusted the motion for postponement would be withdrawn. Mr. GREENE declared that the Bill was defective in many of its details, and it was most unfair to press it forward in this way at the eleventh hour. The question of costs was not the only evil which the public com plained of in this case. The six months' right of speci• fication was a far greater evil, but the Bill took no notice of that, and he hoped the House would not allow it to pass until it did. The Society of Arts, after a diligent inquiry, had made an able report upon this subject, and any legislation to be satisfactory to the public should be founded upon the recommendations which that report contained. Feeling this Bill to be an interference with the privileges of inventors, he should feel it his duty to give the Bill all the opposition in his power. Mr. LABOUCHERE acknowledged the subject to be one of great importance and intricacy, but he thought it had been sufficiently discussed on the second reading of the Bill. It had been acknowledged by all scientific men acquainted with the subject to ba a Bill calculated to work a great improvement. Mr. RICARDO said he,did not think the House and the country had not time to consider the Bill, and he urged upon the Government the necessity of granting a Committee in the next session to inquire into the whole subject of patent laws. Mr. W. WILLIAMS complained of the conduct of the Government in forcing upon the House the consi deration of a Bill of 54 cluases in the last three or four days of the session, when the majority of Honourable Members bad left town. The AT PORNEY-GENERAL said he was asto nished that the Hon. Member for Lambeth should object to the passing of a Bill, the object of which was to cheapen the taking out of patents to an immense extent. Mr. MUNTZ did not approve of all the provisions of the Bill, but he should support it as it was, rather than have none at all. That was the opinion of his con stituents. Sir DE LACY EVANS supported the Bill. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Clauses 1, 2 and 3 were agreed to without discussion. (LEFT SITTING.) HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. La Gazza Ladra was repeated on Saturday evening, and never have we heard this delightful opera more per fectly performed. Alboni was in excellent voice, and as usual produced an immense sensation by her delicious rendering of the "Di placer." The "Oh ! nume be nefico" was splendidly sung by Alboni, Coletti, and Lablache ; and the finale to the first act was most purely and beautifully rendered. The prison scene was exquisitely given by Alboni and Pippo, and never have we heard Lablache in finer voice, or seen him act with more gusto than he did on Saturday. His Prefetto is a thing to be remembered; it is perfect. The theatre was dentely crowded. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. After the pretentious ponderosities of the Prop Ute (much be-praised by pedants though they may be), it is delightful to listen to the ever fresh and ever ,delicious music of Rossini, and therefore do we laud the manLge ment of this theatre for having on Saturday night given us La Gazza Ladra, and the audience seemed to be of our opinion; there was none of that weariness observable of which too frequently there are unmistakeable ages to wards the conclusion of "heavy operas," and the auditors remained until the conclusion. The opera was very strongly cast. Grisi, of course, was the Ninett2; and although she seemed in the early part of the evenirg sufferitg from slight indisposition, and scarcely produced as much effect as usual in "Di piaccr;" yet she rallied as the opera procesded, and in the trial scene, and indeed throughout the second act, was superb. La Diva, in the concluding scenes was quite herself again. Madlle. Angri was the Pippo, and most effectively supported Grisi in the great prison scene. Tamburini resumed his old character of Fernando, and Mario ap peared as Gianetto, instead of Ciaffei, who had been announced. The audience were delighted to see Mario once more on the stage, and greeted him enthusias tically, and albeit he has scarcely yet recovered from his hoarseness, he sang the music exqusitely; nothing could exceed the taste and delicacy with which he .ren dered his aria d'intrata in the first act. Ronconi ap peared for the first time as the Podesta, and gave a lively, amusing, bustling, grimacing, Figaro-like version of the part. Ronconi, however, does not yet possess the secret of repose. The overture was superbly performed by the orchestra, under the direction of Costa, and was, as a matter of course, encored. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —Amongst the noble and distinguished individuals honouring the performance at her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday evening with their presence were the following :—His Grace the Duke of Wel lington and the Marchioness of Douro, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Augusta Paulet, the Duke of Leeds, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, the Earl of Malmes bury. Her Majesty's box was occupied by the Marchioness of Waterford and Viscountess Canning. There were also present Viscount Enfield, the Countess de Flahault and Miss de Flahault, Lady Henrietta St. Maur and Lady Ulrica St. Maur, Lord George Paget, Lady and Miss Graham, Lord Robert Browne and the Ladies Browne, the Baroness Von Stenzhady and Miss Palmer, Count Graben, H6n. Mrs. Tollemache, Sir G. Hayter, Bart, M.P.; Major the Hon. James Macdonald, Sir George Wombwell, Bart. ; Sir Ralph Ihward, Bart., M.P. ; Lady and Miss Howard, Sir Thomas Burritt Lennard, Bart., and Lady Burritt Lennard ; General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Sir Seymour Sadler, Mr. C. W. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe, Reading; Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Colonel Freestnn, M.P., and Mrs, Lockyer Freetstun ; Mr. B. Disraeli, M. P., and Mrs. Disraeli ; Mr. Henry Baring, M.P. ; Captain bleynell, M.P. ; Mr. Strutt, M.P. ; Mr. 0. Morgan, M.P. ; Mr. W. Rose, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Captain Plunkett Burton, Mr. Storer, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Tudor, Mr. Maclean, &c. THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty's box at the Royal Italian Opera was occupied on Saturday even ing by Major-General and Lady Isabella Wemyss and Miss Wemyss, and party. Among the distinguished company honouring the theatre by their presence were his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, the Marchionness of We,tmeath, Marchesa Brancalioni, the Earl of Bessborough, the Coun tess of Glengall, Lady Margaret Butler, the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, and the Ladies Cust, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Clifden, and the Misses Ellis, Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin and Lady Rose Lovell, Viscout Vailetort, Viscount Torrington, Lord Broughton and Hon. Misses Hobhouse, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord and Lady Rokeby and Hon. Misses Montagu, Lerd and Lady Dinorben, Lord Rosemore, Lady Suffield and Dliss Somerset, Lady William Powlett, Lady Keane, Lady Pigot, Lady Seymour, Lady Domvill and party, Baron de Steinberg, Count Hurderiberg, then Hon. J. Fortescue, M.P., the Hon. Henry Lumley , the Hon. Major Needham, the. Hon. Captain Frike, the Hon. T. Dillon, the Hon. H. Row ley, Sir Gerge and Lady Armytage, Sir J. Mackenzie, Sir Henry Webb, Colonel Brownlow Knox, Colonel Blane, Colonel Crombie, Lieutenant. Colonel Tyrwhitt, Major Gage, Captain Bishop, &c. DEATH OF MAJOR•GENERAL RIDDALL, K.H.—On the 28th ult. this distinguished general officer died at South sea, aged 76 years. He entered the army in 1798, and was actively employed with the 62d Regt. in Sicily, Egypt, Cala bria, Italy, Spain, and North America from 1806 to the end of the war. He was detached with the Grenadier company of his regiment to retard the advance of the French in their march to invest Scylla Castle and invade Sicily; served at the Faro in Sicily for several weeks under the fire of the French batteries erected in Calabria He was afterwards second in command to General Blommart, in a Grenadier battalion sent from Sicily to Spain; was advanced with his company and two field pieces in the attack on and expulsion of the French from the heights before Genoa. Afterwards he served in North America, and was second in command, with detachments, up the Penobscot River; he also com manded the advance in forming a position at Hampden, de fended by treble our numbers. The late Major-General Riddall was in 1832 nominated a K.H. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—The Queen w' arrive in London from Osborne, on Thursday next, and will hold a Council on that day at three o'clock, in Buckingham Palace, when her Majesty's Speech on the Prorogation of Parliament will be settled. The prorogation will take place on Friday, and the Session will be closed, as we stated last week, by the Queen in person. After the prorogation the Court will return to Osborne, and remain there in the Isle of Wight till after the 26th of August, the birthday of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, which will be celebrated with rural sports in the usual manner. ACCIDENT TO THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.— The Marquis of Lansdowne met with an accident two days ago, by being thrown from his horse. Though his Lordship did not appear much hurt, it was thought des►rable to post pone a meeting of the Committee of the Privy Council of Education, appointed to be held on Saturday at the Council office. The Noble Marquis has, however, sufficiently re c )vered from his fall to be able to resume his official duties, though he is obliged to carry his arm in a sling. Sir George Grey recovers but very slowly from his severe indisposition, the Right Hon. Baronet being still too 11117(011 to truant buinem& • L 0 N ON, MONDAY THE QUARTERLIES. THE BRITISH QUARTERLY. .No. Intellig9nce and variety have all along proved themselves perhaps the most prominent characteris tics of this now firmly establisned periodical. Its reputation in regard to these merits cannot be in any degree diminished by the current number just issued from the press, a number which displays a singular diversity in the materials selected for criticism, and an equally noticeable ability in the style of the prin cipal contributions. In the opening article the reader is instructed as to certain remarkable theories in reference to the cause of " Human Progression," and the reviewer takes occasion to explain from these the nature of the development of civilization. After this brilliant paper comes a delightful criticism on "Dramatic Poetry in the Age of Elizabeth," a chapter very curious of its kind, having reference to such writers as George Peele, as Robert Greene, as Christopher Marlow, as Philip Henslowe, and as John Lyley, with especial allusion also to such plays as " Ferrex and Porrex," as "Appins and Virginia," as "Garnmer Gurton's Needle," as " Tancred and Gismunde," or as " Alexander, Campaspe, and Diogenes." From the subsequent attempts of Thomson and Sheridan Knowles two of these dramas possess a peculiar in terest for the reviewers of English literature. " Thoughts on the Labour Question" is the indefinite but suggestive title of the next contribution, and this again is followed by a very readable review of " Wil helm Hauff" and the German Romancists. Besides these papers the British Quarterly contains others of various tendency, some, of them marked by very nar row views and prejudices, others conspicuous for their evidences of enlightenment. Possibly the most interesting of these to the philosophic inquirer will be the one on "The Correlation of the Physical Forces," and to the provincial reader the one relating to the condition of the great shires of York and Lan caster. LITERATURE. MELB URN : a Vision. Hope and Co. Happily for the writer of this little volume it has come forth anonymously. It cannot, consequently, reflect upon herself personally the ridicule which would be inevitable on the part of that jolter•headed critic, the public. We say " herself " advisedly, be cause the effusion is evidently from a mind by no means whatever masculine. We speak of the public (and we include ourself amongst the number) thus disparagingly, because, on the part of the authoress, we are indignant that nowhere can be discerned the genius she evidently fancied would be, at little more than a glance, recognised. On the contrary, it must be confessed by the majority of those who find cou rage enough to read a dozen or so of these closely printed pages, that they would more reasonably ex pect to find the Preface dated from the vicinity of Bedlam than from the precincts of Par nassus. " Melburn" is called " a Vision," and yet more boldly, a little lower down on the title-page, " a poem." If it does not begin like " The Doctor " at the seventh chapter, it commences with the conclusion, for the—a-hem--" poem " be fore us is announced at its very outset to be the sequel to a larger work, of which it is the avowed precursor. It reminds us of Mrs. Malaprop's direction to David in the last act of The Rivals,—" You lead the way, and we'll precede !" Fancy, at the very opening of the book a description of the northern regions of frost, where certain outlandish trees are said to— " Bend 'neath the weight of icicles and snow, Thro' which prismatic lamps of lightning glow; Where lucent ice-drops in long crystals clear, Droop all around a lustrous chandelier!" Why, Martinus Scribblerus never gave a more dia bolical example of bathos than this. A " chandelier" at the North Pole—and " lamps" of lightning—and lightning that " glows;" it smells of midnight oil, and goosequills soddened in ink, and not one jot, we can assure the writer of genius or of inspiration. Then imagine anyone presuming to aim at poetry, with such a worse than cockney, with such an absolutely cruel and excruciating rhyme as this, in the third page-- "All thickly laden with bright silvery crust, Like gems embedded, seem with light to burst." The sound of it sets our teeth on edge like the sharpening of a rusty saw. Poetry ! Pshaw, the book is rather the saddest outpouring of the most me lancholy evidence of delirium. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Saturday night an inquest was held at the Red Lion, Strand, on the body of Thomas Gill, whose real name is E isforth, machinist at the Strand Theatre, now known as Punch's Playhouse. The deceased was thirty-nine years of age, and was well known by country managers as an ingenious and clever machinist. He was found dead in his bed. Evidence was given to show that he had died of a disease of the heart, and the jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death." AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 2.—Tae Royal Mail steam-s! - Ip Canada, Captain Lang, urrised here today, at one o'clock, from Boston and Halifax, having on hoard 72 passengers, and 185,000 dollars in specie on freight. The Canada left Boston at noon on the 231 ult., and Halifax er.rly in the morning. of the 25th, bringing direct advices from New York to the 22d, and per telegraph to Halifax, commercial reports from the same place to the 24th July inclusive. The R3yal Mail steam-ship America arrived out at Halifax on the 22d ult., at half-past six P.M. The United States steam-ship Pacific arrived on Monday night, July 21, about nine o'clock. On the 17th, when she was eight days out, she broke a part of one of her engines, which rendered it necessary to stop and disconnect the two, causing a delay of three hours. The rest of the passage was done with a single engine. The United States steam-ship Crescent City ar rived at New York on Sunday morning, July 20, with 143 passengers and upwards of 1,000,000 dolls. worth of gold dust. The steamer Cherokee, from New Orleans, with Havannah dates to the 17th ult., arrived at New York on the evening of the 21st. There was no later news at New York from the gold districts, and the political intelligence by the Canada is comparatively meagre. The cholera is prevailing to a considerable extent in several of the western states. A number of fatal cases have occurred in various towns of Illinois, In diana, Missouri, and Ohio, and the pestilence appears to be spreading with alarming rapidity. The city of New York was visited on the night of Saturday, the 19th ult., with a very severe thunder storm, which did consierable damage. Many deaths from sun-stroke are also recorded in the papers. REPEATED INSURRECTION IN CUBA.--The report is that there has been a conflict between five or six hundred of the people of that place and the troops, in which the latter were defeated. Troops were sent to disperse them, but they were repulsed with the loss of their commander, and 28 killed and wounded. The insurgents had retired to the mountains and fortified themselves. Other towns followed the lead, and in a few days the whole eastern part of the island will be in a state of revolution. The Government have been sending troops to Matanzas the past week, but it seems they did not call there, as something more ur gent pressed them eastward. The Havannah papers say little on the subject, and it is understood the Go vernment are doing all in their power to prevent the true state of things becoming known. Our private letters state that the newspaper reports are somewhat exaggerated. In the Canadian Legislature the Church of Eng land University Bill has been so far modified that the clause allowing the establishment of separate common schools at the public cost for that denomina tion has been struck out. An unsuccessful motion was made by Mr. Mackenzie to strike out the portion repealing the statutes of mortmain in favour of the Church of England. The Bill to abolish the right of primogeniture in the succession to real estate has passed to a second reading in the Assembly by a large majority. The crops in Upper Canada are said to be unusually good. We have dates from Central America to July 4. The state of affairs in San Juan de Nicaragua re mains unchanged, the new administration acting har moniously, and giving satisfaction to the inhabitants. Our latest advices from Rio Janeiro are to June 11. There is no news of importance. A steam tow-boat had been seized by the British steamer Cormorant on suspicion of having furnished supplies to vessels en gaged in the slave trade. She was taken outside the harbour and blown up. Major Hobbie, the Commissioner from the United States Government, and late assistant postmaster general, who has been engaged for some time past in effecting improved postal arrangements on the route ' to California, returned home in the Crescent City. Previous to the negotiation by Mr. Hobbie no ar rangement has been made to enable letters mailed either in this country, or in England, to pass through Havannah without the intervention of a correspon dent at that place, and the same state of things existed on the Isthmus. The party must write to a correspondent at Havannah or at Panama, to get his letter sent thence to its ultimate destination. The Captain-General of Cuba declined to enter into any agreement on the subject, but Mr. Hobbie succeeded in effecting an understanding with the British Consul at Havannah, by whom the American Consul there is constituted a postal agent, and under certain regu lations for paying over the postage to the country which may be entitled to it, letters can now pass through Havannah as readily as from one state to another. THE CONVICT SARAH BARBER.—A petition, which in the course of three days has obtained 5,088 signatures, was forwarded on Saturday from Nottingham to the Home oftice for presentation to her Majesty, praying for a commu tation of the sentence of death passed at the last assizes upon the wretched woman Sarah Barber, whose execution is an nounced to take place on Wednesday next. VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO SOUTHAMPTON. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by Colonel Phipps, lauded on Friday afternoon in the Southampton Docks, en route to Bishopstoke station, on a visit to the Rev. Dr. Gamier, Dean of Winchester, and to inspect the beautiful gardens and grounds attached to the dwelling of the Deanery. The Prince returned to the Docks shortly after six, the Royal yacht Fairy, under charge of Commander Crispin, R.N., en tering the tidal basin at the same moment with her Majesty and the Royal children on board. While waiting a few mi nutes before embarking, his Royal Highness entered into con versation with Captain Peacock, the Superintendent of the Docks, as to the size and capabilities of the new West India mail steam-ship Parana, and other matters connected with the docks. The Fairy left the docks tor Osborne Bay amid loud and hearty cheers from a great number of persons who had been attracted thither by the news of a visit from the Queen and Prince Albert. w in a o s vi c u l g ose t d he to h c e a a rr v i y ag g es ran of it a e ll descriptions. sone hi On Friday, pursuant to notice, Blackfriars-bridge s n o g r k o o n f the re - rto Th re e s w ti faulty arches has already commenced, a light wooden path way having been provided for pedestrians. The thick bed of earth at present forming the bed of the road is to be taken away, preparatory to the contemplated repairs. During the closing of the bridge, omnibus travellers will have to remem ber that the Kensington" busses," as well from Islington as King's-cross, pass over Waterloo-bridge. DOWNING• STREET GOSSIP.—Mr. Lewis Charles Tennyson D'Eyncourt, of the Inner Temple, is appointed a police magistrate for the district of the metropolis, in the room of Mr. Burrell, of the Westminster Court, whose re signation will date from Thursday next, the 7th of August. Mr. Fletcher Conyers Norton has been transferred as Attaché from her Majesty's mission at Brussels to the mission at Naples. Mr. Joseph Cuffe is appointed Registrar of the Supreme Court at Ceylon. The Marquis of Lansdowne met with an accident two days ago, by being thrown from his horse. Though his Lordship did not appear much hurt it was thought desirable to postpone a meeting of the Com mittee of the Privy Council of Education appointed to be held yesterday at the Council-office. The Noble Marquis has, however, sufficiently recovered from his fall to be able to resume his official duties, though he is obliged to carry his arm in a sling. Sir George Grey recovers but very slowly from his severe indisposition, the Right Hon. Baaronet being still too unwell to transact business. The Chnce llor of the Exchequer and the First Lord of the Admiralty are expected to return from their trip to the Channel Islands on Monday.—Sunday Paper. ACCIDENT TO THE MAYOR OF COLCHESTER. —thy Worship was riding over East Bridge, about three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, when his horse shied at a tilted cart, and, in a desperate plunge on to the side pavement, threw his rider with much force against the pallisades of the bridge. Mr. H. S. Goody, with his family, were passing at the time, on their way to the rural fête at Wivenhoe ; but, on witnessing the accident, their cab was at once vacated, and his Worship, being assisted into it by Mr. Goody and Mr. Warmington (who was also passing in the same direc tion) was accompanied to his residence by those gentlemen. He was shortly afterwards visited by his medical attendant, Mr. G. B. Clark, who found him much bruised about the body, and cut on the elbow, but the principal injury con sisted in a very severe bruise on the right thigh, which is in a degree agravated by the fact that the same limb was 6imilarly hurt in an accident a few years back. Mr. Clark has no apprehension that anything more than a temporary confinement will result from the unfortunate occurrence. — Essex Standard. We regret to learn that Dr. G. C. Holland has sus tained a painful and severe accident, by which he has lost the sight of one eye. While amusing his children in the gar den he received an accidental blow on the right eye, which penetrated the eye and, immediately destroyed its vision.— Shdfield Independent. CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE AT ALEXANDRIA.—III a long memoir in the Builder of the 2d inst., on Egyptian obe lisks. with proposals in detail for bringing to England that called Cleopatra's Needle, Mr. Nathaniel Gould, the writer, says :—" I feel persuaded that the removal and transport of this large mass to London is both practicable and compara tively easy, and to be accomplished within one-fourth of the time expended on the same operation by the French, which was three years and a half from the sailing of the vessel to the erection of the column in Paris, and about four years and a half from the commencement of building the Lusquor ; and lam prepared with a plan for its execution, and to enter into contract, either on my own account or conjointly, for performing the same within nearly one-fourth of the time, and at nearly one-fourth of the actual cost of the removal of that of Luxor by the French, which could not have been .less than from 35,0001. to 40,0007." In a note the editor re marks that " the writer urges, with justice, that the feeling manifested with respect to the Great Exhibition shows that ' the public would now appreciate the erection in London of the ancient obelisk belonging to them, and that the pecuniary success of the Exhibition offers the means of ' in dulging the public taste, without calling on the Chancellor of the Exchequer." M. Freyberg, director of the Italian Theatre at Berlin, brought an action some time ago before the Tribunal of Commerce against Mme. Florentina Jennings, the singer, to recover from her 80,009 f. as damages for having broken the engagement into which she entered with him in October, 1849, to sing at his theatre for a certain stipulated period; and he brought another action against Mr. Lumley, director of the Italian Theatre, to recover damages for having en gaged Mine. Florentine Jennings for his theatre at Paris and London, though he knew she was under an engagement to him. The Tribunal held that it could not interfere with respect to the arrangement between M. Freyberg and the lady, as they were both foreigners ; and as to Mr. Lumley, who, in his capacity of director of the Italian Theatre at Paris, was subject to the French tribunals, it held that he had done nothing which entitled the plaintiff to demand da mages. Against these decisions M. Freyberg appealed to the Court of Appeal; but the Court, after hearing length ened arguments, confirmed both of them. REVAL, JULY 25.—The Emanuel Gabel, from Stock holm to this port, has got aground at the entrance of this harbour. A similar arrangement has been concluded with the British Consul at Panama, affording every facility for correspondence 'pith persons in the Southern Pacific as well as in California. Mr. Hobble also re organized a portion of the mail service in California. Daily mails have been established between San Fran cisco and Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose, and Sacramento and Nevada. _ • A banquet was given on the 21st ult. to Dr Hughes, H. C. Archbishop of New York, in celebra tion of his return from Europe. Nearly 200 of the principal Roman Catholics of New York were present at the Astor-house on the occasion. The first toast, as at the entertainment in Liverpool to the same per sonage, was " The health of the Pope." The lion. Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, proposed as a toast, " Religious toleration and charity." The fes tivities , were kept up till an early hour in the morning. Another fugitive slave case had recently occurred. A negro named Daniel Hawkins was arrested at Lancaster, and on being taken before the United States Commissioner, was ordered to be sent back to his owner in Maryland. Great excitement existed, but no violence was offered in opposition to the law. The following particulars of the accident to one of the engines of the steam-ship Pacific, above alluded to, are furnished by;an eye-witness :—";On Thursday morning last an unusual vibrating motion was felt in the ship, and which was almost immediately followed by the breaking of that part of one of the engines (the port engine) called the cross-tail,' which se vered in the centre ; and at the same time its con necting rod snapped off about two feet from the end. The starboard engine made some three or four revolu tions after the accident, which wielded the broken rod so that it came into contact with a beam supporting two pillars, and broke it. The piston-rod of the damaged engine having been deprived of its assisting power, fell heavily on the cylinder top and crushed it. The swinging about of the mutilated machinery came also in contact with the feed pipe, which broke it; and in a moment the whole of the engine department was filled with boiling hot steam, the density of which was such as to render it impossible to discover what damage had been done for some time. The firemen, however, alive to the probable danger, and energetic to prevent it—although compelled, in detachments, fainting and almost overcome, to grope their way on to deck to breathe the air—immediately, on tempo rarily recovering, hastened down again, to aid it possible in the reparation ; and in a space of time to me inconceivable, succeeded in raking out all the immense fires (32), and thus all was safe. Soon after this the steam cleared off, and within three and a half hours from the time of the accident, the starboard engine was at work, and we were steaming it at eight miles per hour." COMMERCIAL NEWS. STCCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.—There is a better feel ing in the market to-day, though the transactions aro very few. The demand for money continues active, and rates are without change. Foreign exchange was very dull to - day, though it is steamer day for remittance by Canada, which sails to morrow from Boston. The rates, however, are very firm. Sterling, 10 to 10} per cent. premium; France, 5.10 to 6.08 q. Iu freight there is less doing, but the rates are steady for wheat and flour. There is no corn of moment offer ing. A vessel was taken up to Dundee at ls. 11d. for flour, and one for Glasgow at the previous rate. To St. Petersburgh measurement goods are taken at 395., and sarsaparilla at 1/c. To California there is but little going forward, and the rates are about the same. The amount received at the sub-treasury is 122,074 dolls. raid, 46,310 dolls. Balance, 1,856,535 dolls. NEW YORK. MARKETS. NENV YORK, JULY 22. Ashes—A steady market, with a fair demand for pots, at dolls. 5 25; pearls are quiet, at dolls. 5 50. Cotton—The market is very much depressed, and prices continue to droop, and are very unsettled. Flour, &c.—There is rather a better demand for low grades of State and Western flour, and the market favouring the seller. The inferior and better grades are firm, but quiet, at the decline of yesterday. The supply afloat is moderate, especially of State. Canadian is not plenty, and the demand is limited, at dolls. 4 12} to 4 25. The sales of domestic are 4,000 brls. at dolls. 4 12i for State; dolls. 4 16 to 4 lq for Michigan and Indiana; and dolls. 4 lq to 4 311 for pure Genessee and Ohio. Southern is heavy; holders are disposed to meet buyers freely, there being more new offering. The demand is fair for export and the trade; sales of 1,800 brls. at dolls. 4 31 to dolls. 4 44 for mixed to good straight brands. Rye flour and corn meal are steady. Grain—There is a fair demand for wheat for milling and for export, but at prices below the views of holders, and the tendency is in favour of the buyer. Rye i s quiet at the decline. Sales of 10,000 bushels at 70c. in store. BY TELEGRAPH FROM NEW YORK TO HALIFAX. The followinc , is a copy of the telegraphic dispatch brought by the Canada, via Halifax : " NEW YORK, JULY 24. " More doing yesterday on receipt of American news. Western Canal sold freely at 4i dolls. ; Ohio EVKNING, at 4 3-16 to 44 dolls. To- day market quieter, at saint: prices. Arrival of wheat large; t,ales at a trifling concession. Indian corn dull. Cotton fall lc. per lb. lower ; small sales making at irrffrular prices. United States Sixes, 1856, at 106 ; 1867, at 1154. Stock market heavy, and lower than yesterday. Money tighter. The Prefect of the Seine occupied the choir placed in the centre of the salle, opposite to which stood the bust of Louis Napoleon beneath a semicircle of bi coloured flags, most gracefully arranged. On the right of the chairman sat the Pope's Nuncio and Lord Granville, the Vice-President of the Exhibition com mittee, and on his left Lord Normanby and the Mi nister for Foreign Affairs. The Lord Mayor presided at a table opposite to that of the Prefect of the Seine. The valets and jockeys, who, covered with gold lace, stood behind his Lordship, attracted much curious attention. THE FETES AT PARIS. Palm, SATURDAY.—Yesterday having done ample justice to the good cheer provided for them by the municipal authorities of Boulogne, the Lord Mayor and aldermen, and other visitors, noble, civic, and scientific, took their seats in the train " of honour," and started at a rapid rate for Paris. At Amiens, a second refection was prepared of wine and fruits, laid out on long tables, tastefully decorated with flags and flowers ; and the National Guard was drawn up to receive the strangers. After a short delay the train proceeded, and arrived at Paris at nine in tae evening. Meanwhile, as early as seven, a detachment of 100 Republican Guards proceeded to the terminus of the Northern Railway to await the arrival of the distin guished visitors. An immense crowd gathered about the terminus and thronged the streets adjacent. Shortly after arrived MM. Berger and Carlier, the pre fects of the Seine and of police, and M. Lanquetin, president of the municipal commission, accompanied by a deputation of ten members of the commission. The administrators of the railway had placed at the disposal of the city of Paris one of their rooms for the reception of the guests. When the train arrived at the terminus, the two prefects and the president of the municipal commission received at the entrance of the room the guests, introduced by M. Petiet, engi neer in chief of the railway. Carriages of the mu nicipality of Paris were waiting in the inner court, and, after the presentation, the trumpets of the muni cipal guard gave the signal of departure. The pro cession passed at a rapid rate through the Rue du Faubourg Pols sonniere, along the Boulevards, through the Rue de Richelieu, across the Place du Carrousel, and gained by the quays the Hotel de Ville, where the lodgings of the guests were pre pared. Throughout this circuitous route the visitors were received on their passage with every demonstra tion of good feeling and welcome, and, above all, with frequent cries of " Vive le Grand Maire." At the Hotel de Ville all had been prepared for the reception of the guests, and already the tables were laid out for the grand banquet of this evening in the beautiful Galerie des Fetes, and the adjoining saloons. This vast hall, hung with the flags of all nations, has been entirely refitted and newly em bellished. In addition to the ordinary lights, lustres of exquisite lightness and elegance have been sus pended above the tables. All the staircases and ' vestibules have been ornamented with flowers, mir rors, and tapestry. The inner court on the entresol has been converted into a delicious flower garden, in the midst of which a fountain tosses its sparkling jets. Statues impersonating the French cities have been ranged along the arcades. In the Salle du Trone a theatre has been prepared, where the leading actors and actresses of the Theatre Fran9ais, MM. Provost, Got, and Delaunay, with the captivating Madeleine Broban, are to play the " Medecin malgre lui." The banquet is to be fol lowed by a ball and concert. The President is not to be present at the banquet, but will receive the visitors at a dejeuner at St. Cloud on Monday. To morrow the waters are to play at Versailles. On the sth will take place the grand ball at the Hotel de Ville ; on the 6th the military fete and the represen tation at the Opera. The Municipal Council decided, in its sitting of yesterday, that a largess of 12,000 f. should be distributed on this occasion among the poor of the twelve arrondissements. The walls of Paris are covered with placards, an nouncing the various fetes; and in each of these " Le Grand-Maire de Londres," figures in enormous capitals as the leading attraction, with the fireworks and waterworks. The special train of honour which brought the Lord Mayor and Aldermen were succeeded at the interval of an hour by another train, which conveyed upwards of a thousand visitors from England. To-day the Lord Mayor visited the English Am bassador at two, and remained in conversation with his Excellency for half an hour. He then repaired to the Assembly, where he was introduced into the tribune of the Municipal Council. He was preceded by two ushers of the Assembly, and accompanied by M. Baze, one of the questors, M. Gustave de Beaumont, formerly ambassador in England, and M. Ferdinand de Lasteyrie helped the questors to do the honours of the Assembly, and pointed out to the mayor the parliamentary notabilities present. After witnessing the proceedings for about half-an-hour the Lord Mayor retired. Singularly enough, the debate concerned a municipal question of the first mag nitude—the loan for the improvements . of the city of Paris. The following is the programme of the maneauvres which will take place on the 6th by the troops composing the garrison of Paris. Two corps d'armee are supposed to be opposed to each other, the one on the left the other on the right bank of the Seine. The former will occupy the Champ de-Mars and Grenelle, and the latter the Trocadero and the Bois de Boulogne. The army on the left bank will endeavour to make an offensive move ment on the right bank, and will throw a bridge over the Seine, over which a part of the troops will pass and establish themselves on the right bank, under the protection of a heavy fire from their ar tillery. An attack will then be made on the Troca dero on the left, while the troops which have crossed the newly-constructed bridge will make an attack on the right. These attacks will be repulsed, and the troops will retire to the Champ-de-Mars, under the protection of their artillery. The troops of the right bank will then cross the bridges, and advance on the Champ-de-Mars. Charges of cavalry will be made to oppose their advance, but which will not pre vent the whole of the right bank army entering the Champ-de Mars. A general filing off of all the troops engaged will then take place. The President of the Republic has given orders that the public shall be allowed to approach as near to the scene of action as is consistent with the movement of the -troops. The quays, the heights of the Trocadero, and the houses adjoining, will be the most favourable spots for witnessing the manoauvres, which will occupy about two hours. PARIS, SUNDAY MORNING.-It would be hardly possible to exaggerate the magnificence of the ban quet which was given last evening to the Lord Mayor of London and the committee of the Great Exhibi tion, by the Ville de Paris. The hour appointed for the banquet was six o'cl oc k, as th e car d s o f invita tion had it tres precises, b u t a lth oug h t h e 5 00 gues t s were politely punctual to time, they had to spend upwards of an hour waiting the appearance of the Prefect of the Seine. Th e d e l ay o f t h e wort h y h os t was explained by referen ce t o w h a t was ta ki ng p l ace in the Assembly, of which M. Berger is a member, for, by a coincidence worthy o f no t e , th e goo d c it y o f Paris was itself on its trial as it were b e f ore th e legislative body, having to ju s tify th e s t ewar d s hip of its large revenues, by way of preliminary to the passing of a Bill authorising a loan of fifty millions to be spent in city improvements. The principal arti cles of the Bill were carred with no further incon venience than that of retarding a banquet, which Ministers were anxious to grace with their presence. By another coincidence worthy of note the visit of the Lord Mayor to the Assembly at three o'clock yester day was during the debate on this city Bill. The worthy Lord Mayor having been treated with due attention, having been shown over the old Chamber of Deputies and through the library and rooms, was introduced into the tribune belonging to the city authorities, from which he had pointed out to him such Parliamentary celebrities as were present. Having remained little more than a quarter of an hour, his Lordship left to pay his respects to the President of the Republic and the British Ambas sador. Upon the arrival of the Prefect of the Seine from the Assembly, followed shortly after by Minis ters, three folding doors were thrown open, and the guests admitted into the city's unrivalled ban quetting hall. Seated at table, the guests found themselves in a long, spacious room, with a gallery at each end, remarkable for their architectural lightness and beauty, beyond which the room, continued for some extent, presents vistas of the most airy appearance. Fourteen lofty-arched windows at each side, set in light Co rinthian pillars, from which spring to the ceiling highly decorated and painted supporters, if the word be correct, would, any one of them, be sufficient to give a character of richness and elegance to a large saloon. From the ceiling, which is in the style of the renaissance—that is to say, in numerous small squares forming so many frames to a central orna ment, having three rows of large new lustres of most beautiful design, in which the blending of golden branches and foliage, with drops of crystal cut under myriads of soft stars of light, produced an enchanting effect. Harmony of effect must have been studied by an able master, and produced with a skilful hand. The window curtains of a delicate lemon hue, with white under-curtains, set off with silver fringe, formed a ground for the light of the candelabra and lustres which in its way was . perfection. The tone of colour throughout very delicate : the Corinthian pillars are pure white, the ceiling is painted in colours of a deeper tone, but not much deeper, while the central ornaments of the nu merous small squares before refer red to being of blue, give character to the rest. The flags of the different nations suspended over the heads of the company pro duced a strikingly imposing effect. As if by instinct each stranger looked towards the flag of hi s own d ear land awaking his patriotic sympathies, while any dis - position to rivalry was soon quelled by seeing all blending their colours together in sign of the philan thropic objects which had re-united all who were there. A splendid band in one of the galleries played pieces from Rossini, Gluck, And Auber. At the dessert the Prefect of the Seine rose, and after giving the health of the President of the Re public, which was drunk with loud applause, he pro posed the following toast : " Gentlemen,—l give a toast to the noble guests of the city of Paris ; to the Commission charged by the Queen of England to organize the universal Ex hibition ; to Prince Albert, its illustrious President ; to the Executive Commission ; and to the interna tional Jury, whose enlightened labours have given so much éclat to this imposing solemnity. Honour to the fruitful idea which has assembled together in one palace the marvels of human intelligezice ! In this industrial congress, the true congress of peace, the people in thus coming together forget ancient enmities, and in presence of the chefs d'ceucre of all, wish only to form one great family. The city of Paris inscribes with pride the date of the 2d August, 1851, among its municipal files ; it is for it a memo rable day, of which its magistrates will retain a long remembrance. Thanks, therefore, to our guests for coming to take a place at our banquet ; the Hotel de Ville is proud at receiving them ; I drink to the il lustrious representatives of the industrial genius of all nations ; to the Royal Commission of London, and to the international Jury." These words were received with loud and prolonged applause. Lord GRANVILLE, Vice-President of the Royal Committee of the Exhibition, then rose, and in the midst of the most profound silence returned thanks as follows :—Monsieur le Prefect and gentlemen, —Allow me, in very bad French, though with the greatest sincerity, to thank you, in the name of Prince Albert and of the Royal Commission for the honour which you have just done them. For my own part, gentlemen, the impressions of my youth, the bonds which I have since contracted, the souvenir whic h you have preserved of him whose name I bear — (Loud applause)—and who devoted so many years to cement the union between England and your fine France, which he had learned to love and to respect like as second country—(Renewed cheers)—all, gentlemen, makes me feel both pride and embarrass ment in having the honour so little merited by me of being the organ of the Commission at this brilliant assembly, at a fete the magnificence of which is only equalled by the cordiality of your reception.— (Applause). The desire was felt in England of trying one of those grand national exhibitions which had so well succeeded in France, and which had been found to be productive of so much advantage. Prince Albert thought that the idea might be still further enlarged, and its advantages extended, if, at one time, all countries, brought together by the pro gress of science, and by the diffusion of education, could be invited to exhibit their varied productions. It appeared to him that such :an exhibition would serve to show the progress of actual civilization ; and that while it taught us to return thanks to the Creator of all things for the blessings he has heaped upon us, it would also teach us how much might be added to the common happiness by the union not only of individuals, but of nations.—(Loud cheers.) lam specially charged by Prince Albert, as well as by my colleagues of the Commission, to thank Prince Louis Napoleon and his Government for their zealous co-operation, for the enlightened mea sures which they have taken to dissipate any prejudices which might still exist, and for the choice of the persons who have co-operated in the execution with so much ability and conciliation.— (Bravo, bravo.) We had no pretension to make an English exhibition of the industry of the world—we regarded it as a great honour to be able to offer to the other nations the means of making their own exhibi• tions as integral parts of this great work.—(Re newed approbation.) Gentlemen, we also thank the French exhibitors for the elegance and splendour which they have given to the Fxhibition by their pro ductions. They have more than confirmed their long-established reputation for the invention and good taste which prevails in the execution of their manufactures. I hope that the sacrifice of time and money which they have made will not be all lost for them, even in a commercial point of view. I also hope that they will feel no jealousy if we, on our parts, should profit a little by the lessons which they have given us.—(Loud and continued applause.) Our thanks are particularly due to those men, distinguished in sciences, arts, and industry, whom France has sent to us as jurymen. Our orga nisation as a voluntary association has made us estab lish rules which were contrary to their old experience. As French jurymen they have not ceased for a mo ment to fulfil their laborious duties. No opinion was rejected—everything was freely discussed and voted. It was frequently French jurymen who were the first to point out the merits of the exhibitors of other na tions. At the end of a labour of seven or eight hours a day, during the space of two months, they sepa rated from their confreres in perfect harmony, and have excited in England only sentiments of kindness and respect. Permit me also, gentlemen, to say a word of the visitors which France has sent to the Ex hibition. Among them were some of her most illus trious statesmen, literary men, and soldiers. There were representatives of those renowned names which since the middle ages have illustrated the history of France and of Europe; there were citizens who have advanced the prosperity of your nation ; and there were intelligent working men and industrious peasants. All, gentlemen, have shown, in different degrees, that intelligent curiosity and that good humour and courtesy which so much distinguish the inhabitants of this country.—(Applause.) At the end of thirty-six years of peace, the Exhibition has given my countrymen of all classes an opportunity of witnessing the intellectual and moral qualities which render the French so distinguished in arts of peace. For ages before they had only been able to know them for their bravery and their military genius.—(Re newed applause.) An enormous and unexampled step has been made this year towards the destruction of national antipathies and prejudicies.—(Bravo.) I beg pardon, gentlemen, for having so long trespassed on your patience.—(No, no, and bravos.) I thank you from the bottom of my heart for the obliging at tention you have given me, and I demand permission to drink, in a glass of this wine, one of the most delicious productions of your soil, 'To the political, social, and commercial prosperity of the city of Paris.' " (Long continued bravos.) The speech of Earl Granville was received with thunders of applause that lasted several minutes, and it appeared that the audience scarcely knew how to show how deeply they were penetrated with senti ments corresponding with those which his Lordship had so well expressed. When sile nce was at last ob- tained, M. LANQUETIN, President of the Municipal Coun cil of Paris, rose to reply. He said that he ought, perhaps, to leave them under the influence of the charm of that eloquence which had marked the speech of the Noble Lord, but that he felt himself compelled in the name of the municipal body in Paris, t o at tempt a reply, being impelled thereto also by the fact, that the Lord Mayor of London was seated by his side. He augured the happiest results from the visit of the Lord Mayor, as he considered it an event that went to tear up the last roots of the prejudices that had been nourished by the long wars and their effects that had hitherto divided two nations formed to esteem each other. He begged to propose a toast in honour of the Lord Mayor.—" To the Lord Mayor, to the municipal ma gistrate who is so worthy, so revered, and so powerful to do good; to the city of London, to the immense and wealthy capital of the United Kingdom of Great Britain ; to the worthy and noble rival of Paris—ho nour and gratitude !" " Honour (said ha) to her, for she has been the first to realise the grand idea of the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations, for she has thus made a great and noble emulation triumph over every feeling of egotism ; honour and gratitude, for she has shown herself great and gene rous in raising splendid arenas for the display of that pacific struggle, and in offering the most distinguished hospitality to the sages of industrial science, called together to bestow the crown upon the most deserv ing." After some further complimentary expres sions that marked the strong desire he felt to do ho nour to their guests, he concluded, amid tremendous applause, with proposing" Prosperity to the City and Corporation of London. The LORD MAYOR, then rose and addressed the assembly in English. He expressed the highest gra tification at being the chief magistrate of London for the year 18 51 , and in being the first individual who in that capacity had had the honour of accepting an invitation of the Prefect of the Seine. In the name of all the municipal auth or ities, he assured them of the satisfaction th e y h a d i n co-operating with them in the success of the Great Exhibition, which he hoped would conduce to the happiness, peace, and unity, not only of France and England, but of all th e countries of Europe. H e concluded_ by thankin g them for the great honour the y had conferred on him, and proposed " The Health of the Prefect of the Seine, and prosperity to the City of Paris." Alderman SALOMONS, in the midst of the cheering ' the Lord Mayor resuming his seat, called out in English, " For the City of Paris, Hurrah," which was taken up and responded to in the true English style by the British guests. • After the banquet the guests were shown into that mag nificent room called formerly the wile du trone, which was fitted up for a theatre, and in which was gived Le Medecin max re lui, with great humour and point by the artists of thegheatre Francais, including Mdlle. Brehm and beldlle. Denain. While the guests were making their way to this room, the ladies, now entering for the concert, were trying to invade the banquerting hall, now metamorphosing into a con cert-room• The fair invaders had, however, to be prevented until the necessary changes were made, and which were indeed effected with marvellous rapidity. The concert did not begin before half-past eleven o'clock ; but who would not wait until morning to hear the unrivalled band of the Conservatoire ? TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (EVERY MONDAY AND WE D NESDAY.) Sir,—On Wednesday the 30th, the House in Com mittee was engaged with the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill; a fruitfuCsubject, in which it was as much as conld be expected, to have proceeded from Clause 5 to " re porting progress to sit again to-morrow." On Thursday the Second Rending of what is called the " Episcopal and Capitular Estates Management (No. 2) Bill," from the Lords, was carried by 45 votes against 34; thus demonstrating that there was a struggle upon the question. There is nothing a man of any experience dill more certainly have learned, than that he may easily he wrong; and yet he cannot give up the privi lege of risking being %% rung when he has done his best to be right. It certainly was heard represented, and from sources commanding respect, that there was some great enormity in this Bill; which was confirmed by the tone taken by its opponents, who called it an " attempt to impose upon the laity a certain price for the lands which they held of the Church, and that price was to be arbitrarily imposed by the bishops themselves"—(Sea Times report). The image raised by this description, is that of an uWortunate representative of the laity as the graver of Punch might portray him, crouching with purse-strings open, and ready to disburse the sum com manded by a swollen biskop in pontificalibus standing over him. But on looking into the Bill, nothing of the kind appeared to be discernible. It was a Bill to au thorize a certain existing body, to wit the Church Estates Commissioners whoever that may be, to give their consent and thereby legalize the execution of agreements voluntarily made between two contracting parties, to wit an Ecclesiastical Corporation on the one side, and the present holders of leases from it on the other. It is certainly difficult to see in this, anything to justify the description of it quoted above. Put what seems to be the extreme case, that the Commissioners and the Ecclesiastical Corporations should be found to be the same flesh, and it only amounts to this, that the Corpo rations shall have the power of snaking a composition with the lessees when they like 14 ena when they do not like it, may leave the lessees as they are. Thi s wou ld no doubt have a one-sided appearance; but aft er a ll it gives the Corporations no power over the lessees which they have not already. The lessees could in no case force a composition without the Corporation agreeing to it. So that all which results, is the absence of t h e power which might be supposed to forbid the execution of some of the agreements on which both parties were agreed. This may amount to something, but not at all to the thing stated in the description quoted. One of the first necessaries of life, is not to get into the habit of being run away with by misrepresentations. Some men may like bishops, and some may dislike them; but whether they like them or not, there is a fair play whose prico is proverbially like that of rubies. Much puzzle was attempted to be raised upon mention made of certain Rules to be laid down for the guidance of the Commissioners; and the line taken, was to con found these rules with something to which the lessee was, will he nill he, to be forced to agree. Now there ap pears nothing to bear out this construction. The ob ject of the Rules, is to restrain the Commissioners from giving their assent except upon terms fair to somebody who has not yet been named; and that somebody is the public. Suppose, for instance, it proved true, as ap pears to be suspected, that thero was too much of corporal identity between the Commissioners and the Bishops, and that the Commissioner-Bishops or Commissioners and Bishops were found disposed toj make aareements with the lessees having a ten dency to sacrifice the future revenues of the Church for the interest of present incumbents,—which it is not impossible they might be tempted to, among other things as well knowing that the end would be a demand on the public to come forward and pay for more Church when wanted;—is there no visible use in Rules to pro vide something like a check upon such proceedings in posse? The public must look to this, and not be run away with by a simple misstatement, if it is one, of the bearing of the Rules. On Friday, from mere desire of information, like the man in the play who asks his friend if he has such a thing as eightpence about him, I took the opportunity of the re-appearance of the Bill to ask whether this view was right or not. And the result was, that it was de clared as distinctly as Parliamentary usages could make it, that this and nothing else was the object of the Bill. So that if it turns out to be anything else, we are all of us deluded gentlemen; and we must in self-defence look sharply after the future stages. On Saturday the House met for a little more than an hour, for the furtherance of business, principally of a formal nature. I am, Sir, yours very bincerely, AN OLD REFORMEIL London, Aug. 4, 1851. SPORTING NOTES. No. XCVIII. GOODWOOD SETTLING, &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Considering the heavy amount that has to be transferred by the list-houses, the Goodwood settling up to the present time has been of a most satisfactory nature, not one of the leading bettors having been found in default; some few of the small fry are non est as usual. The betting this morning ou a few events is uncommonly brisk, at the following prices:—Pavilion Stakes-2 to 1 on Freedom. Marine Stakes-6 to 4 each agst Freedom and Harbinger, 4to 1 agst any other. Brighton Stakes —5 to 1 apt Backbiter, 5 to 1 agst Narcissus, 5 to 1 agst Grand Duke, 6 to 1 agst Westow, 6 to 1 agst Ingrati tude, 20 to 1 agst CEdipus. Brighton Cup-6 to 4 on the field. Ebor Handicap-6 to 1 agst Haricot, 10 to 1 agst Backbiter; offers to lay against Nancy, but no price transpired. Great Yorkshire Stakes-3 to 1 each egat Nancy and Marlborough Buck, 6 to 1 agst Neasham. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Aug. 4, 1851. - _ SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES. The following is an outline of the engagements for the three days' racing next week, commencing on Wed nesday : FIRST DAY.—The Brighton Stakes of 25 sees. each, 15 ft, &c., with 250 added, with 33 acceptances; the Pa vilion Stakes of 30 soya. each, 20 ft, for two yrs old, 5 Subscribers; the Trial Stakesoind three Plates of 501. each, one in heats. SECOND DAY.—The Marine Stakes of 20 soya, each, h ft, with 100 added, for two years old, 11 Subs.; the Brighton Cup of 100/. in specie, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, 9 Subscribers; the Grand Stand Plate of 100/., added to a handicap of 10 goys, each, h ft; a Sweepstakes of 20 soya. each, h ft, for three years old; a Handicap of 5 soya. each, with 50 added, and two 501. Plates. _ . _ , -KURD DAY (Club Racing).—The Bri g ht on Cl u b Handicap of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 50 added; the Claret Handicap of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, a Sweepstakes of 5 cove. each, with 100 added, and a Plate of 501. for two and three years old, jockies up. All the races, with the exception of the Brighton, Pavilion, and Marine Stakes, have yet to be entered for. The New Grand Stand, capable of accommodating 4,000 persons, will be ready by the commencement of the races, and every possible facility afforded by the the railway company (their arrangements including a cheap train each day at 8 A.M., returnable at 7 P.M , the fares being respectively 7s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 3s. 6d. for the double journey), so that there is every prospect of a most brilliant meeting. BRIGHTON, MONDAY MORNING.—The following horses have arrived:— Lord George, Duc-an-Durras, Chatterer, Catalpa, Freedom, Glen Saddel, Ischia, Tilsit, Backbiter, Cham pion, Gillyflower, Upton, Manilla, Ethelwolf, Herschel, Cna3us, Falcon, Fifty-one, Perjury. Between thirty and forty more are said to be on the road. LATEST BETTING ON THE BRIGHTON STARES. 9to 2 agst Backbiter I6to 1 agst N arcissus—t. At a meeting of the J oc k e y Cl u b, held on Saturday, the 31st of May, it was reso l ve d, " That tho following words be added to rule 66—' But in all articles where It is stated that winners shall carry extra penalties of weight, such p ena l t i es s h a ll be enforce d u p to the ti me of starting.' " I t was a l so resolved , " That case N o. 17 be omitted in p u bli s hing the adjudged cases in f u t ure volumes of the Racing Calendar.' preTshenetrrualetiorneaslcrinegdeut wtioan. s in e xact antagonism with the Ncithwe narrationsk....ilitoNookfDatoouAnristslits: miNson. Br F. A. N E ALE, ESQ. 2 it V h Sr th ßi e EIGHT YEARS IN fl been 'utmost however,expedi hithertochwiehre ytAtti:eEperuTenisented with the wanderings and religion lend period as eight years in those East have who have burn tion. Here , d l ied over so t .on e g gr a regions wthoowhPiageboth histor their interest. of one The author o - Ming f this entert • 7 work, who • so far out of the beaten track of t carries the reader new vein of native society, linkingrevellers, has opened the domestic life with his own vivid descriptions of its g ive unflagging sprightlinessexperiences and adventures,which takes the reader to those to the narrative. 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A surgical operation has lately been performed in this city which is deserving of remark. About sixteen years since, a smith, named Joseph Daniels, in the employ of Messrs. Stothard an! Slaughter, iron-founders, Newark street, was working at the anvil, when a chip of red-hot steel entered his left eye. Surgical assistance was of course obtained, but the chip was not extracted, and became em bedded in the substance of the eye, occasionally causing acute pain. A fortnight since the chip was successfully ex tracted by John Soden, Esq., of Gay-street, and it proved to be one-eighth of an inch in length. The sight of the eye, which had been injured, is now gradually improved.—B s Chronicle. I