The Sun. — London, England, 1851-04-10 00:00:00

S • C o OR S TISII f tti ,he Rettirl phi E,glan d in szill. .• I 1 r iti 253 10d 24 sA r. , I ts i tEA2 OI . I is 18 Od PAST I° jsoBl ll Bye, 139; [ls D A :LL. 174 sum 0 t ool a Arundel -5 lebted. d Jare that do qua ri, , er Lrtaer -e%Pirect Robertson 110 wrote to so/ .• _ el t° that sbe w b dr )argain wit are you ? .Ifr Witness — I dcol say. . ; a dr she 0 , - , br fi Laday site b r t joc , Le fire wig pig wa s serfe u h rti o) 'Mrs. 114) " e t prove ) pro O s ad her, an is up sou: o f knocker lam poke t b - • 10 0 al? for. I gc 6 ma ke It Iressing t 1 1;0 0 quabble vv .. t a ken the " :C ther,ho ch S DAY'S , ko atoft, blu „Ad - 0 V :eedinge is , ime sinee.4o e d cause 'w if e proceedirgt te bankrup • and in minatioo R co" obtain O a t >urned, 01 00 1 eedinge oll that ib e t to: 4 t, and the te. . e cV se was qu i :ruptcY • 0 11 ° KIS D " to that i llj el ls Oa ruggliog be sake ° 011, t . , hoped . A 017 loner he- e t s any foitY le it /19 0 na , .., 1 1 , by the 'der v acted lirld Lain froel n6' o, of the Ceitt v , labour 1 for ob.- 0 01 meat esa„fit bfj id been" - ca to the, to t) attach e° O rl i d i 11 a, an d 01, discol er a pt charge , see. Ii Mr' 7 g AYLESBURY ELECTION. AYLESBURY, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9.—The town during the day has been r.markably quiet, and but for the ap • ?earance of a n um b er o f b oys b ear i ng p l acar d s , inscribed Bethel: for ever," and "Ferrand and Protection," &C., no person would imagine th a great contest was about to take place between the supporters of Free-trade and the friends of P rotection. Notwithstanding the apparent want of excitement, there can be no doubt that a severe struggle is expected, and both parties appear confident of success. The general impression, l'ovever, a p pears to be that the principles o f Free-trade will us triumphant, notwithstanding the strenuous exertions made by the Protectionists. In the c ourse of the day Mr. Bethel l h as v i s i te d t h e dis tricts of Hartwell, Stone, Denton, and HaddeTham, where We believe his canvass has been very successful. Mr: Ferrand has been employed in canvassing the voters in the districts of Risborough and Haddenham. The nomi nat i on will take place at elei•en o'clock to-mor row, at the County -hall. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BI N — My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your paper of last night, copied from the Honolulu Times, to the effect that fi ve w hi te men h a d b een seen b y t h e R uss i ans 15 0 miles south-east of Point Barrow; will you allow me to suggest the probability of these being the exploring party now employed in the neighbourh•od of the Mackenzie, under the command of Commodore Pullen, R.N. ? I am, Sir, &c., W. E. P. H. April 8. 111ADLLE. MONTI. T he Fenella, whose debit at her Majesty's Theatre to ght is ' co k ed for with such interest, presents in the story ?t her life a curious and touchin chapter of that strange his tory, the T r i a l s of Genius. For, g to the rare attribute of tirue genius and that of the highest order, Madlle. Monti a s an i ncontestable claim. She is an artist in the widest sens e of the word. Endowed by nature with a deep and Passionate sense of the beautiful, she has cultivated its develo [Aleut not in ones narrow sphere only, but wherever has been able to command the instruments of creative 1 , 1 "- Sculpture and painting, studied with a close applica ?ion, have enabled her to base on the highest principles that Wh ich for the Id ea l o f G race , an d th a t gift of expression, b , 'eh seem i ntu i t i ve i n her organ i sat i on . N ea p o lit an b y Monti d aughter of a sculptor - o f em i nence —M a dll e. was surrounded from earliest youth by im pressions of all that was most beautiful in form colour. Her years of childhood were scarcely Past tat , when the heaviest misfortune that can over isjee t he child ren o f ar t f e ll on h er f a th er , an d so on her _ ' T he successful sculptor lost his sight. His future Oa darken e d f or ever. Failure, poverty, despa i r f rowned d o lt the er alone The energy and genius of the artist's saved him. Young as he was, her utmost niter father, or in 801 ." ° ' 1 3 1 could not be expected at once to command very id returns either in the profession so mournfully lost to painting, to which her own natural talent atronc.i -6 Y pointed. But the young Monti felt that she had another talent, and one of a kind which had sometimes led ▪ most at a bound to greatness. They were now settled at Zile; and at the magnificent Scala she had watched the "t 8 'action and had said to herself when some noted Chefasor of mute eloquence draw down the thunders of -°llB e , ancor Io son Mima.s She obtained a In ualtern engagement, sorely against the wish of the old sculptor, to whom the pursuit of such an art seemed a de lased 5• ...ion.for his child. S ca rcely more . than half a year had in apprenticeship to her difficult vocation, when 1 11 „ e _ 4 * those opportunities offered itself, which Providence i'r e sometimes to place specially as stepping-stones for to ge,nins on its hard road to Fame. Masaniello was taken Plyed. The Fenella— the celebrity of that day— ell suddenly ill, was utterly unable to appear. The Zmanager was in despair the audience impatient. The ,9eng Mo n ti , with a just se lf- con fi dence, declared her con e!!tion th at she could take the part. But just fifteen, with 11 14 , 8 ix months' study in the most difficult of professions, The new" a deat was a bold venture, but it won a full success. Fenella took the house by storm. The bound was a _ a ue, the highest pinnacle reached at once, and thencefor -75 the young Monti was famous as the first Mims in IVY, and therefore in the world. The first success at an was followed by successive triumphs at Venice, at b_l' n ative Napl es , a t R ome , a t T ur i n , an d a t Vi enna . T o i e cr o riginal character of Fenella, Madlle. Monti adds th e 441 i nff parts in the balkts d'action of " Merope," " Niobe," e daa," and " L'Assedio di Corinto," as bein her master Pieces. g Is • Chi interesting to know that her continued success in Otii profession has not led Madlle. Monti to sacrifice all er art. with continues to constancy ting with rare di . - e el lee) and the passionate of a real talent. MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—The Queen's box at Z t e i r Majesty' s Th ea t re was on T ues d ay even i ng ; occup i e d b y .., (3 Earl and C oun t ess o f C aw d or , th e Vi scount an d liscotintess Emlyn and party. Amongst the noble and it inin guished individuals also honouring the theatre with " a ir Presence oa this occasion were the following :—His Grace t h e Duke of Wellington, the Prince Demidoff, his Excellency the Russian Mininter, the Baroness Brunnow and parts, their Excellencies the Swedish and Norwegian Ministers, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury. the Marquis o f Clanricarde, the Marchioness o f Conyngharn, the Marquis of Douglas and the Princess Mary of Baden, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl Mountcharles, the Earl of Falmouth, the Countess of Glengall, and Miss de Horsey, the Earl Gifford, Earl Bruce, the Right Hon. Lord Stanley, the Viscount and Viscountess Dupplin, and the Ladies Henrietta and Geraldine Somerset, the Viscount Can terbury, Lady Hope Purvis, Viscount Ranelagh, Lord Sandys, Lord Templemore, Lord William Lennox, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady Blanche Dunlop, Lord Curzon, the Mon. 0. F. Toler, the Hon. R. C. Neville, Colonel the Hon. G. Upton and the Hon. Mrs. Upton, Hon. A. D. Willoughby, Hon. Mr. Byng, Hon. F. Cadogan, Hon. Mr. Stuart Wortley, Hon. Mrs. Somerset and Miss Somerset, Hon. Mrs. Gore and Miss Gore, Hon. Mr. Norton, Miss Chichester, Hon. Spencer Otway, Hon. Capt. Carew, Hon. Arthur Cunningham, Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., Lady and the Misses Woodford, Sir John Bayley, Bart., and Lady Bayley, Sir Thomas Barrett Len nard Bart., and Lady Barrett L ennar d, C o l. Di xon, M ajor Drummond, Col. Harcourt, Major Loftus, Col. Thornton, Col. and Mrs. Reid, Mrs. Dennistoun, , Col. Wildman, the Russian C onsu l-G eneral, Sir H. Webb, Bart., Sir Charles Ibbotson, Bart., &e. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the per formance at the Royal It a li an Op era w ith th•-i r psesence on Tuesday evening. Her Majesty and the Prince were accom- Panied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. In the ros al suite were the Marchio ness of Douro, the Hon. Miss Seymour, Colonel Buckley, and C o l onel the Hon. Alexander Gor don. Among the fashionable company ;present in the theatre we remarked k l lls Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Ayles r', the Marquis of Douro, tis Excellency the Sardinian Mi nister (Marquis D'Azeglio', the Countess of Malmesbury, the Earl and Countess of Besborough, the Earl and Countess .BVforh, and the Ladies Bridgeman and Miss Moncrieffe, viscount Exmouth, Lord Colville, Lady Stanley of Alderley ! I nd the Hon. Misses Stanley, Viscount Cranbourne, the Ho p' and Baroness Von Stentz, Lady Bateman and the -- fs °ll ' Miss Hanbury and Hon. Mrs. White Melville, Ord Ward and Miss de Burgh, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, M.P., Lady Adelaide Paget, and Lady Alfred Paget, Lady Stanley, Baron de Sternberg, son. Mrs. Dyce Sombre and party, Lord Adolphus Vane, Hon. Hugh Rowley, Hon. John Fortescue, M.P., Major the Needham. Hon. E. Lascelles, Mr. Erskine, Mr. b u uert de Burgh, Lord Broughton and the Hon. Misses itonbohouse, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Col. Brownlow M Hon. Orlando Bridgeman, Dowager Lady °.essvorth and party, Sir John and Lady Burgoyne. Capt. in, Mr. Buckley, Captain Steele, Mr. Raymond Barker, -"r• Makenzie, Madame Ralli and party, Mr. De Bias tore, Majo r H orace Pi tt, Si r Willi am an d L a d y d e B at h e, dt George Armytage Mr. De Lizardi, Capt. De Bathe 1 1 1 7. 4 . Chewtnn, Sir ' Henry Webb, Mr. Orm, Col. Blaine, , J°r Gage, Lieut.-Colonel Crombie, Mr. Lister Kaye, Mr. taarrtineau, Sir John Lowther, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gesrge ri ngton. Mr. William Rose, Sir Charles Marshall, Col. gram, &c.. )1 , LID: AMA. OF THE HOLY LAND.—The following s,erabers of the aristocracy and gentry have recently visited .',4e above beautiful painting :—Her Royal Highness the •sraincess h e of Cambridge and suite, the Archbishop of Ls h il ; terb urY the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, accom 'eAl by Lord Albert, Lord Ronald, and Lady Constance Isi s ve sson Gower and party ; the Duke of Northumberland, the se a r gnis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis and I,Thrchioness of Douglas, the Marquis and Marchioness of sf dare, the Earl and Countess of Ducie, the Earl of St. iiiealans, Ea r l J ermyn an d party, t h e Bi s h op o f St. A sap h, 4 0 Bis holl of Sodor and Man, Lady John Russell and family, s ,. Radsto c k and party, Lady Stanley , the Hon. Niss "Tie,' and party, the Chevalier Bunsen, Lady Goulburn tParty, Sir Gardner Wilkinson Colonel Fielding and Irasyer,t3D,iEgbsgy.,Wyatt, Esq , Eliot Warburton, Esq., Dr. Pet bew• Fs W. Lane, Esqßartlett, Esq., David, Francis Ainsworth, Esq., itsc. FISTULA INFIRMARY.—The annual meeting of the hatibscribers and patrons of this institution took place yes aaY, at the L on d on Tavern ; Mr. Alderman Hooper i n :chair. Th e report stated that the past year had been ne of unexampl e d prosperity; within the last three months jle individual had dona tionpresented them with the munificent of 3,000 i., accompanied by no restrictions, but merely a suggestion that the donation should be applied towards pur- F . hasing a sit e f or erecting the intended new hospital, and that all unnecessary expenditure should be avoided for the external part of the building in order the better to provide c omforts f or the sufferers destined to become inmates within its walls, a d that no part of the funded property of the in stitution should be applied for the purpose of the building; also one condition, that the name of the donor should be lef Withheld. A leg* of 1,000 1. , free o f d uty, h ad also been t t the institution by the late Jeremiah Olive; and one aT 100!. f rom t h e l a t e M r . J. J ones. The) had obtained a S lte upon which they would be enabl ed to ' erect an hospital c apable of accommodating 50 inmates; but the committee lees:in:mended that the building should not be commenced until the amount of subscriptions towards that fund had reached 5 ,C0 . 1., independent of the c oa t of the site. They nad now in hand for that purpose, incl u di ng the 3,000/ , itt3bove alluded to, 4,300/. During the past fourteen years . 13 ' 3 patient s had been relieved by this institution, 2,500 °' whom had been under cure by operative surgery. An auxiliary society, consisting of the poor patients who had Been relieved b this institution, had been formed, and pre aented this ch arity annually with between 401. and 50/. ; ene patient stNewmarket had during the past year this institution. in small sums 211., which he had sent as a donation to is institution. The total receipts for the past year, includ- Ing a balance left, and 6601. belonging to the building fund, riloonted to 2,505/. 13s. lld ; and the expenditure to 1,206. _..ng the du ; 7d. The surgeon's report stated, that of the 537 patients . rregularry ; year, '246 had been discharged cured; 173 maten ilkte_l3'yelieved; 5 incurable ; 33 discharged for of ; i v e tag 80 still under treatment. The report was adopted, _or e s for the ensuing year elected, and after a vote of thanks '" In chairman, the meeting separated. sskirric l ) 1 7 Ta OF TAB O CEAN IN THE S O UTH AT fouo • — •Letters dated W as hi ng t on , March 10, p u blish the berou mg passage from a letter of Lieutenant John in R. Golds au__ gh, United States navy, formerly assistant the coast T u . :7._ It is dated United States ship Saratoga, Cape i ss .,7 l _ ° • e Uttpe of Good Hope, Lim ::6, 1850 :—" During our A 7 1, f:rom . Rio de Janeiro to Saldanha Bay, Cape of Good 4:d o b tained in let. 28 21 S., and long. 29.17 W., wesounded unei a ,Ained bottom at the depth of 3,100 fathoms, or three g nay. muss . ss Our sounding apparatus was a 321 b. shot, itt`Tionawth wire, awl attached to a small line of 5,000 %is Iva wire, and sufficiently strong to bear a weight of „ • The soundings were as good and fair as any I have ' Yet. Been Sul obtained,e the line and down a n d as t au t as i t tin, and wsoundingn , att empting about atboht st au l . it on board, after L i r t o j e tt d uoe g sit parted fathoms from the 4i • The time occupied in soundi ng was one hour and ne Minutes. 5t121121.114, .oncrieff, the present S o li c it or- G eneral for e must be 4" le to be the new Lord-Advocate A s t h e Lord erZti 4 Member of Parliament, a vacanc will litencrieff in Kinross -shire.— Gla y sgow THE SUN, LONDON, SPORTING NOTES. No. XXXII. SCRAPS FROM NEWMARKET. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The race for the Column Stakes yesterday did not end exactly in the manner I thought it would, but it was very r early doing so; the horses that I selected to fill the three first placas did accomplish that feat, only, instead of Ariosto's b e i ng first and Payment second, as xed in my Notes, they reversed the order of things; but Merry Peal *us absolutely third. Payment won very easily, and at once and for ever extinguished Ariosto's Derby pretensions; and at the same time established her right to an equal fa vouritism with Aphrodite and Iris for the Oaks. She is evidently in her spring form of last year, and " come what will, come what may," she, like unto the mighty mower of human grass, will fly through the roughest day. Teddington was brought out for tt e 2 0 sovs. Stakes, and found so many admirers, after achieving a ridiculously easy victory over Midas, that he was forthwith elevated to the rank of second favourite for the Derby, at 8 to 1 ; he •has much improved on his last year's form ; hut, in my opinion, is barely good enough to win the great event of the present year. The betting on the Heath during the afternoon underwent some important changes in additon to Teddington's sudden advance for the Derby. The Black Doctor and the Knight of Avenel at 10 and 15 to 1, and the colt by Gladiator, out of Khorassan's dam, at 20 to 1, were in considerable orce for the Chester Cup ; as was Constellation at 13 to 1 for the Derby. For the Port Stakes to-morrow I have reason to believe that Officious will not run ; in consequence the race will lay entirely with Beehunter and The Knight of Avenel, and although the former is such an immense " pot " for it, it would by no manner of means surprise me to find The Knight the winner. The latest betting (up to half past twelve this day) is as follows :—Port Stakes-6 to 5 on Beehunter, sto 4 agst The Knight of Avenel. 2,000 Guineas-5 to 4 agst Grecian, offered; 6to 2 agst Mountain Sylph colt; 7to 1 agst Sir J. Hawley's lo'. Chester Cup -10 to 1 on the field ; 15 to 1 agst 't night of Avenel ; 16 to I agst The Italian; 20 to 1 agst Gladiator colt; 25 to 1 each agst Hesse Homburg and Woolwich. Derby-6 to 1 agst The Prime Minister, offered ; 8 to l agst Teddington ; 8 to 1, 17 to 2, and 9to 1 laid to a large amount agst Grecian (this, after the enormous extent of pepper administered lately, looks queer); 15 to 1 agst Constellation; Marlborough Buck not mentioned. . Mem.—A report has been in circulation for some time past that Lady Evelyn is in " queer-street," and that she has been put to the stud ; the report is not altogether without foundation, but rumour, as usual, has considerably embe'- lished the actual state of the case. I shall return to the subject next week. I am, Sir, yours, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. April 10, 1551. THE FRIMLEY MURDER. (From the Times.) The decision of the• Government with reference to the fate of three of the principal actors in the Frimley tra gedy has relieved us from the necessity of any longer keeping silence on a subject which seems to call loudly for the animadversion of those whose duty it is to watch the administration of criminal justice. The Learned Judge who sentenced Levi Harwood and James Jones to death did not accompany his judgment with the usual announcement that the pri soners had no mercy to look for in this world. The matter, therefore, seemed to be left completely open to the discretion of the Secretary of State of the Home De partment; and we were unwilling, while such was the case, to invade, by any premature observations of our own, the awful prerogative of mercy which the constitution reposes in his hands. But now that the fate of these men has been decided, and the Secretary of State has come to what appears to us the just and reasonable con clusion, that the lives of the two criminals are justly forfeited to the law we feel it our duty to pre. sent our view of the remarkable proceedings which have terminated in this result. After the mur der of the Rev. Mr. Holiest last autumn, our readers are aware that a proclamation was issued, offering pardon and reward to any person who should make known the perpetrators of the crime; and to this general offer there was but a single exception—the person, namely, by whose hand Mr. Holiest met his death. Four persons were taken into custody en suspicion of having been engaged in the robbery and murder, property belonging to the deceased gentleman was found upon one of them, and a chain of circumstantial evidence con nected each of them with the other, and all of them with the crime. But the matter was not left to circumstantial evidence; a witness of the murder survived in the person of Mrs. Holiest—a lady whose testimony is entitled to the greatest weight from the extra ordinary courage and self-possession which she dis played throughout. She identified three of the men as concerned in the robbery —one, Levi Harwood, as having personally attacked her; another, Jones, as having been engaged in the scuff) with Mr. Holiest; and the third, Hiram Smith, as having fired the fatal shot. Under these circumstances an offer is made to confess, and made by the very person to whom the only evidence which was attainable pointed as being the one person exempted from the proclamation—the man who fired the fatal shot. Strange to say, this person was admitted as ap prover—that is as an accomplice who is to receive a pardon if be speak the truth, and whose evidence is only to be believed if corroborated in material points by the testimony of unexceptionable witnesses. What could induce the authorities to consider that Hiram Smith was a witness of truth we cannot imagine, nor from what quarter he was to receive the necessary corroboration, when as to the very matter on which his evidence was reqnired he was contradicted by the only untainted wit ness who could be called. Hiram Smith had of course the strongest interest that man could have to shift the guilt of having fired the fatal shot from himself to Levi Harwood. Life, impunity, and reward, would be the results of success, and death the punishment of failure. He did not come forward like an ordinary approver to detail a crime of which he had been a participator, but rather to exonerate himself and cast upon his accom plices the principal and prominent guilt in the transac tion. He was therefore triply discredited—first, as being a person, by his own confession, of infamous cha racter; secondly, as having, from the peculiar circum stances of the case, a strong interest to misrepresent the facts; and thirdly, as being contradicted by the only person, other than the criminals and their victim, who was present on the occasion. Under these circumstances he was admitted an approver, and the authorities thought fit to put forward his testimony as fitting ground for the jury to act upon in a question of life and death. We cannot imagine a more injudicious use of the power of admitting accomplicies to betray the secrets of their companions in crime. Perhaps it may be urged that the admitting an accomplice to give evidence is at all times a most unwelcome and distasteful expedient, only to be resorted to or justified by necessity, and that where that necessity exists such a practice tends to pre vent the perpetration of crime by sowing mutual dis trust among its perpetrators and by preventing their ulti mate impunity. We may grant this—but where was the necessity here? In the first place the approver was, as we have shown, not likely to be believed, nor, indeed, deserving belief from a jury; and, in the next place, except as to the matter of the fatal shot and the incri mination of Samuel Harwood, he did not carry the case any further than the circumstantial evidence and the direct testimony of Mrs. Holiest. The. result has proved that the admitting Hiram Smith as an approver was unnecessary, for the jury, totally disbelieving him and putting his evidence aside as of no value whatever, has yet found sufficient evidence to convict Harwood and Jones. The judge has not hesitated to sentence them on that evidence, and the .Secretary of State is moat properly about to suffer the law to take its course. The admission, therefore, of such a person as Hiram Smith as an approver, the placing him before a jury as a per son on whose evidence any one in any matter would be justified in reposing the slightest reliance, is a most de plorable error in itself, and one which in its consequences tends to bring contempt on the administration of justice, and has caused no little risk of defeating its ends alto gether. The jury having convicted Levi Harwood and James Jones, against whom there was other evidence than that of the approver—having acquitted Samuel Harwood, against whom there was no sufficient evidence without that of the approver—and having distinctly recorded their conviction of the falsehood of the statement which transferred the guilt of firing the shot from himself to Levi Harwood—the embarrassing question naturally arises, what is to be done with the approver? He has given at the trial substantially the same statement as that on the strength of which he was admitted as a witness for the Crown; and on the strength of his evidence he claims impunity and reward. He has done all that was expected from him, and if the judge and jury have been less credulous than the authorities who admitted him as a witness, that, he would doubtless urge, is their fault and not his. On the other band, is it to be tolerated that because a man, in addition to the guilt of robbery and murder—a murder not consisting in construction of law, but as there is too mach reason to believe, perpe trated by his own hand—lays upon his soul the addi tional guilt of perjury, he is therefore to escape the punishment which will overtake his guilty but leas criminal accomplices? Surely not. Hiram Smith was admitted as an approver on the condition that he should give true evidence. The falsehood of his statement should have been seen through in the first instance; but because its manifest infirmities were overlooked it is not the less false. He claims the performance of the con tract, his own part of which he has signally failed to perform, and after the addition of perjury to his other crimes he has no right to complain if he were placed in a situation no worse than that which be would have oc cupied had such perjury never been committed. It ap pears to us, therefore, quite fair that he should be left to take his trial upon the same evidence as that which has convicted his accomplices, and we regard this course as the more necessary since, unless it be adopted, it will hardly be possible, without an apparent violation of distributive justice, to inflict upon those accomplices that punishment which the law and the interest of society alike require that they should undergo. It could never be tolerated that persons convicted only as princi pals in the second degree should suffer capital punish ment, while the person whom the same jury undoubtedly would, had they had the opportunity, have convicted of being the actual perpetrator of the crime, should escape unscathed. It is a stern necessity which requires society thus to vindicate its outraged rights, but it is a necessity, and the rule which that necessity prescribes must be ad ministered with no faltering hand. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET CRAVEN MEETING.--.WEDNESDAY. Subscription Plate of 501., for three yrs old, 7st ; four, Bst 71b ; five, Bst 91b ; six and aged, 9st 21b. T.Y.C. Colonel Peel's Longinus, 4 yr 5..... (Flstman) 1 Duke of Bedford's Newport, 5 yrs ... (F. Butler) 2 Mr. Etwall's Knight of the Thistle, 3 yrs ...(Hammond) 3 The following also ran :—Mr. W. Edwards's Prima Donna, 3 yrs (Sharp)—Mr. Barnes's Sotterley, 6 yrs (Rogers)—Mr. Batson's Abderhaman, 3 yrs (J. Mann) and Lord Exeter's Clelia, 4 yrs (Norman). Betting -2 to 1 agst Newport, 7to 2 agst Sotterley,4 to I agst Longinus, and 5 to 1 agst Clelia. Longinus made all the running, and won by a length. Run in 1 min. 17 secs. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, for three-yrs-old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Bst 31b; the winner to be sold for 2001. First half of Ab. M. (5 Subs.) Mr. Delamere' Forlorn Hope (Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Barnes's Trinket (Chapple) 2 Colonel Peel's Black Sea ... (Flatman) 3 Mr. Ramsbottom's Alboni (Marson) 4 Mr. Combe's Naptha... (J. Marson) 5 Betting-2 to 1 agst Trinket, sto 2 agst Forlorn Hope, and 3 to 1 agst The Black Sea. Forlorn Hope made the running, was never caught, and won in a canter by three lengths, Run in 52 secs. The winner was claimed. Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, h ft ; for colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst; winners extra. D.lll. (7 Subs.) Sir J. Hawley's Teddington, Bst 121 b ( 51b extra) (Marson) 1 Lord Exeter's Midas, 9st 21b (inc. 91b extra)...(Norman) 2 Betting-8 to lon Teddington, who waited to the cords, and won in a canter by a length. Run in 1 min. 53 secs. The Column Stakes of 50 soya. each, h ft; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b; those by untried stal lions, &c., allowed 31b; both 51b. R.M. (26 Subs.) Mr. Delatnere's Payment, Bst llb ....... ..(Bartholomew) 1 Mr. Greville's Ariosto, Bst 41b (Flatman) 2 Sir J. Hawley's Merry Peal, Bst llb (J. Marson) 3 The following also started :—Mr. Howard's Christina, Bst 41b (A. Day)—Mr. Batson's f by Venison, out of Lady Sale, Bst llb (Sly)—Col. Peel's f by Slane, out of Palmyra, Bst 41b (Rogers)—and Mr. Mare's Hatherton, Bst 41b (W. Abdale). Betting--2 to lon Ariosto, 7to 1 agst Palmyra filly, 7to 1 agst Payment, and 7to 1 agst Merry Peal. Merry Peal took the lead on starting, waited on by Ariosto, the Palmyra and Lady Sale fillies; this lot remained in advance to the bushes, where Ariosto took up the running, which he carried on at a good pace into the bottom; Payment, who laid off in the early part of the race, then joining issue, quitting him half way up ; the cord, and winning easily by two lengths, Merry Peal a bad third. Run in 1 min. 51 secs. Payment coughed repeatedly before starting, and was not backed by her party for a shilling. Handicap Plate of 501. for three yrs old and upwards. A.F. Lord Clifden's Sagacity, aged, 7st 71b (Chapple) walked over. BETTING AFTER THE RACES. PORT STAKES. 6 to 5 on Beehunter. 16 to 4 agat Knight of Avenel. 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES. 6 to 4 offered on Grecian. CHESTER CUP. • 10 to 1 agst Black Doctor 125t0 1 agst Hesse Homburg 16 to 1 agst Kni g ht ofAvenel I 30 to 1 agst Woolwich (t) 20 to 1 agst c out of Khoras- 1 33 to 1 agst Nancy can's dam DERBY. 6to 1 agst Prime Minister 114 to 1 agst Newminster 8 to 1 agst Teddington i 16 to 1 agst Con.tellation 8 to 1 agst Grecian I 50 to 1 agst Neasham 12 to 1 agst Marlboro' Buck 1,000 to 100 laid once agst Grecian, and 500 even between him and Teddington. Plenty of offers agst The Mountain Sylph colt, but no backers. Beehunter, Officious, William the Conqueror, and Knight of Avenel arrived this evening. WEDNESDAY NIGHT, NINE O'CLOCK. ENTRIES FOR THURSDAY. Handicap Plate of 501 T. Y.C. Bushranger, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Despair (late Hope), aged, Bst 71b —Coryphee, 3 yrs, 7st 121b—Sagacity, aged, Bst 71b--- Visite, 4 yrs, Sst—Second Chance, 4 yrs, 7st 121b—Forest Flower, 6 yrs, Bst 71b—Femande, 4 yrs, Bst—Beaufort 3 yrs, 6st 121 b. Subscription Plate of 501. D.M. Winner to be sold for 300. Bushranger, 4 yrs—Gardenia, 6 yrs—Newport, 5 yrs— Knight of the Thistle, 3 yrs—Flare-up, 4 yrs - Harp, 3 yrs—Herbert, 5 yrs Mummery, 3 yrs Ventre a Terre, 3 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 sous. each. D.M. Girdle, Flare-up, Quasimido, Femande. LATEST BETTING. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) PORT STAKES. Even on Beehunter. 16 to 4 agst Knight of Avenel. 2,000 GUINEAS STAKES. - - . - - . . . . LO to 6 agst Grecian 4 to 1 agst Nawminster 5 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph 1 colt CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst c. out of Kho rassan's dam 25 to 1 agst Hesse Homburg The rest as before. CHELTENHAM STEEPLECHASES.—WEDNESDAY. The United Hunters' Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 2 ft, and 25 added. About 2 on the flat. Gentlemen riders, &c. (18 Subs.) Mr. Cartwright's Thurgarton, aged, 10st 101 b (Chesuas) 1 Mr. Gain's Seignor of Holderness, 9st 121 b ......(Archer) 2 Mr. Quartermaine's Harry, list .(Owner) 0 Mr. Clowes's Dr. Husband, lOst 101 b (Darling) 0 The Guard Steeplechase Handicap of 20 sovs each, h ft, or 5 ft it declared, with 1001. added, the second to save his stake. Nearly four miles. (23 Subs., 14 of whom de clared.) Mr. P. Barling's Bedford, 9st 121 b. .(Archeri 1 Mr. Elwes' Tipperary Boy, 9st 121 b (Ablett 2 Mr. Elmore's Mulligan, lOst Mr. Wilmont's Ironside, lOst (Pearson) 0 Mr. Kirby's Linkboy, 9st 101 b (Frisby) 0 Mr. B. na Cayenne, 9st 71b (S. Darling) 4 The Selling Steeplechase Stakes of 5 sovs. each and 30 added ; the second to save his stake. About three miles. ,0 to 1 agst Black Doctor 17 to 1 agst Knight of Avenel (12 Subs.) Mr. Walk is Victress (3W) (C. Boyce Mr. Dolby's Ploughboy (80!) Mr. Newman's Freemason ...... . . (Owner ) 3 The following also ran :—Mr. Price's Lady Godiva (Mr. Horlock) Mr. Palmer's Parson's Daughter (Archer) —Mr. Smith's faraworth (Burrows)—and Captain Lindow's The Captain (Burrows). The Welter Steeplechase Stakes of 5 soya. each, gentlemen riders, 13at 71b each. (5 Subs.) Mr. E. Griffiths's Boxkeeper (Owner) 1 Captain Warrener's Friday ....(Sir J. Malcolm) 2 Major Crommelius's Major .. ••• (Owner) 3 The Farmer's Steeplechase Stakes of 2 soya, each and 10 added, about three miles (7 Subs.), were won by Mr. Gard ner's Midnight, beating two others. SHREWSBURY RACES. Nominations for the Cleveland Handicap. Age at lb Age at lb Windischgratz . ..... 4 8 12 Flash Raby Cyprus... Sauter la Coupe 5 8 5 Flareup Telford The Alp Haricot ..... Eva 5 7 6 dara by The Sad- Prior of Lanercost Eeret .. . Zadoc ............P.... 4 7 3 Newman Noggs .. 3 5 7 Acbyrantbes Abbess of Jervaux... 4 7 0 Waterfall Glen Saddel ... ..... 6 7 0 Burndale, brother to Panope Wilmont 4 6 9 Goldfinder ..... 3 4 10 Snowdrift Candlewick... Acceptances to be declared on or before ApTil 20. The Shropshire Sweepstakes (Handicap) of 10 soya. each, 5 ft, with 501. added, to close and name on April 20. Present s ubscribers—th e Viscount Newport, M.P., R. A. Slaney, t ' c l" , M.P., E. H. Balldock Esq., M.P., J. Meiklam, Esq., Robert. Clive, Esq., Mr. Nor ton ' Hickman, Mr. Weldon, E. J. lr‘pon , Esq.' J. B. Minor, Esq., Mr. Robins, Mr. Ed mund Jones, Mr. Winch, Mr. Palmer, Mr. Burton, Mr. E. Corbett. YOUNG COLLINS, THE JOCKEY.—It is a singular coinci dence that for two years in succession a Goodwood horse should not only win the Newmarket Handicap, but be very near carrying off the Metropolitan too; and naturally enough, that circumstance, coupled with the quarrel between the trainer and the rider of Cheerful, is exciting a good deal of conversation in sporting circles. Kent, it seems, has lost the services of his smartest light weight, through some exhibition of temper on the part of his son, and it is much to be regretted that somebody is attacking the unimpeach able character of the youthful jockey through the medium of the advertising columns of the Street Calendar. Such an exhibition of spite is unworthy of honourable men, and now that it is acknowledged that no censure whatever can attach to the lad, it is to be hoped he will be allowed to serve others as well and as zealously as he has hitherto served the pa trons of the Goodwood stable. APPROACHING NARRIAGB 7N BICH LIFE. --We understand that the accomplished daughter of Rear -Ad miral the Hon. F. F. Berkeley, C.B , M.P., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and niece of the Duke of ttichmond, will be led to the hymeneal altar, on Saturday next, by , Captain Armytage, of the Guards, son of Colonel Army.. tsge• late of the Grenadier Guards. PREPARATION AND BLEACHING ' OF FLAX. We have had occasion so often to notice the useful tendency of the scientific discourses at the Royal Poly technic Institution that further comment would be un necessary, but our attention has been specially directed to Mr. John H. Pepper's lecture on " the Preparation and Bleaching of Flax," which afforded much satisfac tion. The lecturer commenced his observations by speaking in the highest terms of the kind,philanthropy of Mr. Beale Brown, who had at his own charge lectured at the Polytechnic, for the sole purpose of awakening in the minds of agriculturists a sense of the great value of the culture and growth of flax; that , about nine mil lions were paid annually to foreign countries for this article which we might very well raise ourselves. After a brief description of the preparation of the plant, a section of which might be described by three concentric circles, via., the epidermis or outer bark, the liber or inner bark (wherein the fibre resides)talled the heart, and centre circle, composed of woody matter, termed the boon; after explaining the;retting, rotting, or rnsting,:the breaking and scotching, and the heckling, the lecturer alluded to the various new chemical processes which had been devised to get rid of the troublesome operation of ratting, and stated that a handsome fortune would re ward the discoverer of a new, complete, and expeditious plan of preparing the flax yarn; but care was required in all chemical processes to prevent the weakening or partial destruction of the fibre. All flax contained, how ever, colouring matter, which it was necessary:to:get rid of in the best kind of goods, white and fair linen of course being an absolute requisite of civilised life. Bleach ing agents might be considered under three heads-Ist, Absorptive agents, such as charcoal; 2d, Deoxydising or hydrogen giving agents, as in the preparation of white indigo by protoxide of iron; 3d, Oxydising agents, which were very numerous, and of these chlorine was the most valuable. After alluding to the first and second, which were not used for bleaching fabrics, the lecturer pro ceeded, by a number of experiments, to show the agency of chlorine. This important element was discovered by Scheele in 1774; but it was the celebrated French chemist Berthollet who who first thought of applying it to bleach cloth, and in 1787 Mr. Milne, of Aberdeen, and the celebrated Watt introduced it into the bleach fields of England. In 1798 Mr. Tennant discovered that the alkaline earths, such as lime or barytes, might be united with chlorine, and serve the same purpose. From that period chloride of lime has been manufactured on an enormous scale, and is used for bleaching in large quantities. Some flax was now rapidly deprived of colours by chloride of lime, the lecturer explaining that the lecture-table process would be too quick for useful purposes, and rotted or destroyed the flax. Six weeks were usually required, and some idea could be formed of the value of chlorine when it bad been stated that as much cloth could be bleached in six weeks on a 100 square yards as was formerly conducted on 100 acres in six months. 22 distinct operations were counted by the lecturer as required for bleaching cotton, which only lost one twentieth of its weight, whilst from thirty to forty were necessary for linen goods, and they lost one-third during the processes. Mr. Pepper observed, that the philo sophy of bleaching depended on the evolution of oxygen, and a conclusive experiment was finally shown, in which EVENING, APRIL 10, 1851. THURSDAY dry chlorine did not bleach, whilst the damp gas in stantly removed the colour, the decomposition of water supplying the oxygen gas. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the Howe of Commons.) WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. SMITHFIELD ENLARGEMENT BILL. Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, "That the word now stand part of the question." The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 121. Arkwright, George Forester, G. C. Morris, David Baird, J Jules Fox, It. M. Mullings, J. R. Bankes, George Frewen, C. H. Newport, Viscount Barnard, E. G. Gailwey, Sir W. P. Noel, Gerald J. Barrow, W. 11. Gibson, T. M. O'Brien, Sir Lucius Beresford, William Gilpin, R. T. O'Flaherty, Anthony Blackstone, W. Gooch, E. S. Osborne, Ralph Blair, Stephen Goold, Wyndham Packe, C. W. Blake, M. J. Raiford, Sir.llenry Palmer, Robert Blandon', Marquis Halsey, T. P. Pechell. Sir G. Bolder°, George H. Hamilton, G. A. Reid, Colonel Brooke, Sir A. B. Bostic, Alexander Renton, John C. Bramston, T. W. Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John Brocklehurst, John llervey, Lord A. Rice, E. R. Buller, Sir Y. Hildyard, T. B. T. Richards, Richard Banbury, W. Hindley.Charles Rushout, Captain Burghley, Lord Hornby, John Scott, Francis Burroughes, H. N. Iludson, George Seymer, 11. K. Chaplin, W. J. Hume, J. Sidney, Aidernaan Chatterton, Colonel Humpliery, Ald. - Smollett, A. Cobbold, J. C. Inglis, Si lt. Stafford, Augustus Cocks, T. S. Jermyn, Earl Stanley, Edward Coles, IL B. Johnstone, Sir J. Stanley, E. 11. Copeland, Ald. Jolliffe, Sir W. 11. s.eplienson, Robert Cubitt, William Jones, Captain Thornhill, George Currie, 11. King, B. J. Tyler, Sir G. Davies, D. A. Knightley, Sir C. • Vesey, Thomas Deedes, W. Knox, Colonel Vyse, R. H• D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lacy, H. C. Waddington,:David Duncan, Lord Lennox, Lord A. Waddington, H. S. Duncombe, T. Lennox, Lord G. 11. Wakley, Thomas Duncombe, A. Locke, Joseph Wall, C. B. Duncombe, 0. Lockhart, A. E. Walinsley, Sir J. Dundas, George Lockhart, W. Williams, John Dunne, Colonel Lygon, General Williams, W. Du Pre, C. George Mackenzie, W. F. Willoughby, Sir 11. Edwards, Henry Mackie, John Wortley, J. S. Evans, Sir De Lacy Macaghten, Sir E. Wynn, 11. W. Evans, John M'Gregor, John Evelyn, William J. Nagar, W. H. TELLERS. Farnham, E. B. Maher, N. Duke, Sir James Filmer, Sir E. Maunsell, T. P. Masterman, J. Forbes, William Meux, Sir Henry - MAJORITY—NOES, 246. Floyer, John Norreys, Lord Foley, J. 11. Norreys, Sir D. Fordyce, A. D. O'Brien, J. Forster, Matthew O'Connell, John Fortescue. Chichester O'Connell, M. J. Fortescue, J. W. Ogle, S. C. Fox, W. J. Ord, W. Freestun, Colonel Ossulston, Lord Fuller, A. E. Oswald, Alexander Glyn, G. C. Owen, Sir John Goddard, A. L. Paget, Lord A. Grattan, Henry Paget, Lord Clarence Greene, John Pakington, lift John Greene, Thomas Parker, John Grenfell, C. Pascoe Perfect, R. Greaten, Charles W. Peto, Samuel Grey, Sir G. Pilkington, James Grey, Ralph W. Plumptre, J. P. Grosvenor, Lord R. ronsouby. C. I. Guest, Sir John Portal, Melville Gwyn, Howel Power, Dr. Hall, iir B. Price, Sir Robert Hallyburton, Lord Pugh, David Hamner, Sir J. Rawdon, Colonel Harcourt. G. G. Ricardo, Osman Hardcastle, J. A. Rich, Henry Harris, Captain Hominy, Colonel Harris, Richard Eomllly, Sir John Ilatchell, John Russell, Lord J. Hawes, Benj. Russell, E. Hayter, W. G. SalweY,Colonel Heald, James Saudars, George Heathcoat, John Sandars, Joseph Henry, Alexander Seymour, H. D. Herbert, Sidney Seymour, Lord Haywood, James Shafto, R. D. Heyworth, Lawrence Sibthorp, Colonel Higgins, G. G. Simeon, John Hildyard, R. C. Smith, J. A. Hill, Lord E. . Smith, John B. Hill, Lord M. Smyth, John George Hobhouse, T. B. Somerset, Captain Hodgson, W. N. Somerville, Sir W. Hollond, Robert Spearman, H. J. Hope, Henry T. Stanford, J. F. Hope, Alexander Stanley, W.O. Horsman, Edward Stanton, W. S. Howard, E. G. Strickland, Sir G. Howard, P. IL Stuart, Lord J. Hutchins, E. J. Stuart, 11. Hutt, William Stuart, John Jocelyn, Viscount Sutton, J. H. Kershaw, James Tancred, IL W. Knox, W. S. Tenison, E, K. Labouchere, Henry Thicknesse, R. A. Langston, J. H. Thompson, Colonel Lascelles, W. S. Thornely, Thomas Lawless, Cecil Tollemache, John Legh, G. C. Towneley, John Lennard, T. B. Townsheud, Captain Lewis, G. C. Traill, George Long, W. Trevor, G. R. Lopes, Sir Ralph Tafnell, IL Mackinnon, W. A. Verner, Sir W. M'Neill, Duncan Verney, Sir H. 31`Taggart, SlrJ. Vivian, J. H. Mahon, Viscount Walpole, Spencer Mandeville, Viscount Walter, /. Marsh.ll, J. G. Wawn, J. T. Matheson, sir J. Wegg-Prosser, F. Matheson, Colonel Welby, G. E. Maule, Fox Wigram, L. T. Melgund, Viscount Wilcox, Brodie Miles, William Wilson, James Monsen, William Wilson, Matthew Moody, C. A. Wodehouse, E. Morison, Sir W. Wood, Sir Charles{ Mostyn, E. Wood, W. P. Mowatt, Francis Wyvill, M. Mulgrave, Earl Yorke; E. T. Mundy, William TELLER& Naas, Lord Christopher, R. A. Napier, Joseph Fitzroy, Henry Aeland, Sir T. D. Adair, Hugh E. Adair, R. Shaft° Aglionby, Anstey, T. C. Armstrong, Sir A. Arundel, Earl of Ashley, Lord Bagge, W. Bagshaw, John Baithe, 11. J. Baines, M. T. Baldocii, E. 11. Baring, Sir F. Barrington, Viscount Bass, M. T. Bell, Jacob Bellew, R. M. Benbow., John Berkeley, Admiral Berkeley, Henry F. Berkeley, C. L. Bernal, Ralph Birch, Sir T. Bowles, Admiral Boyle, Colone, _ .. . Brisco, 31. Brockman, E. D. Brotherton, Joseph Brown, W. Bruce, C. L. C. Buck, L.IW. Banbury, E. 11. Burrell, Sir C. Cabbell, B. B. Campbell, W. F. Cardwell, Edward Carew, W. P. Carter, J. B. Caulfeild, J. M. Cavendish, C. C. Cavendish, G.H. Charteris, Francis Childers, T. W. Clay, James Clay, Sir W. ' Clerk, Sir G. Clifford, H. M. Clive, H. B. Cochrane, A. D. Cockbura, Sir A. Gke, Edward K. Colebrooke, Sir T. Colvile, C. B. Compton, 11. C. Corbally, M. E. Cowan, Charles; Cowper, W. F. Craig, Sir W. G. Dalrymple, Captain Darner, Colonel Dawson, T. V. Denison, J. E. Dick, Quintin Divett, E. Douglas, Sir C. Drummond, Home Drummond, Henry Duckworth, Sir J. Duncan, George Duncuft, John Dundaa, Sir D. Ellice, Edward Ellice,"E., jun. Ellis, John Elliot, John E. Emlyn, Viscount Evans, William Ewart, William Fellowes, E. Ferguson, Colonel Fitzpatrick, J. W. Fitzwilliam, G. W. SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL. Order for Second Reading read; Motion made and Ques tion put, " That the Bill be now read a second time." The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 230. Evans, William Morison, Sir W. E wart, William Mostyu, E. M. L. Fellowes, Edward Mowatt, Francis Fitzroy, lion. H. Mulgrave, Earl Fitzwilliam, G. W. Mundy, William Floycr, John Mure, Colonel Foley, J. 11. Napier Joseph Fordyce, A. D. Norreys, Lord Forster, M. O'Connell, M. J. Fox, W. J. Ossulton, Lord Freestun, Colonel Oswald, A. Fuller, A. E. Peelle, C. W. Gilpin, Colonel Pakington Sir J. Glyn, G. C. Parker, John Goddard, A. L. Perfect, Robert Gordon, Admiral Pete', Samuel Greenall, G. Pilkington, Jamea Greene, John Plumptre, J. P. Greene, Thomas Portal, Melville Grenfell, C. Pascoe Power, Dr. Grey, Sir George Price, Sir R. Guest, Sir John Pugh, David Hall, Sir 11. Rawdon, Colonel Hall, Colonel Ricardo, Osman Hallyburton, Lord Rich, Henry Hanmer, Sir Joha Robartes, T. J. A. Hardeastle, J.:A. Romilly, Colonel Marris, Captain Romilly, Sir J. Harris, Richard Rushout, Captain Hawes, B. Russell, Lord John Heald, James Russell, Edward S. Heathcoat, John Russell, F. C. Henry, Alexander Salwey, Colonel Herbert, Sidney Sanders, G. Ileywood, James Seynaer, li. K. Heyworth, L. Seymour, H. I). Higgins, George Seymour, Lord Hildyard, It. C. Slaney, R."A. Hill, Lord E. Smith, John Abel Hill, Lord Marcus Smith, J. B. Hindley, Charles Smyth, J. G. Ilobhouse, T. B. Somerset, Captain Hodgson, W. N. Somerville, Sir W. Holland, Robert Sotheron, T. 11. S. Hope, A. Spearman, li. J. Iloward,lE. 0. • Stanford, J. F. Howard, P. H. Stanley, E. H. Mitchell, John Stanley, W. 0. Hutt, William Stanton, W. H. Jermyn, Earl ' Strickland, Sir G. Labouchere, Henry Stuart, Lord J. Lacy, 11, C. . Stuart, 11. Langston, J. H. Tancred, 11. W. Lascellee, W. S. Tenison, Edward K. Lawless, Cecil Thicknesse R. A. Legh, G. C. Thompson, Colonel Leonard, T. B. Thornely, T. Lennox, Lora A. Tollemache, John Lewis, G. C. Tutisell, Henry Lindsay, Colonel Tyler, Sir G. Lockhart, A. E. Vane, Lord H. Long, W. Verner, Sir, W. Lopes, Sir Ralph Verney Sir IL Mackie, John Vivian, J. H. Mackinnon, W. Walpole, S. U M'Neill, Duncan Wawn, J. T. Mahon, Viscount Welby, G. E. Mandeville, Viscount Willcox, Brodie Marshall, J. 0. Wilson, Matthew Marshall, W.. • • Wodehouse,Edmund Matheson, Sir J. Wood, Sir Charles Matheson, Colonel Wood, W. P. Maule, Fox Wyvill, Marmadttke Melguncl, Viscount Young, Sir John Miles, William TELLERS. Moffatt, George Monsell, William Grey, H. W. Moody, C. A. Hayter, W. G. Acland, Sir T. Adair, Hugh E. Adair, R. A. Aglionby, H. A. Ansley, Thomas Arbuthnott, lion. H. Armstrong, Sir A. Arundel, Earl of Ashley, Lord Bagge, William Baines, M. T. Baillia, H. J. Baldock, E. 11. Baring, Sir F. T. Barnard, E.G. - - Barrington, Viscount Bass, M. T. Bell, Jacob • Bellew, R. M. Berkeley, 11. F. Berkeley, C. L. G. Bernal, Ralph Birch, Sir T. Blair, Stephen Blandford, Marquis Booker, T. W. Bowles, Admiral Boyle, Colonel Brilm;ton, T. W. Brisco, ➢i. Brockman, E. D. Brotherton, J. Bruce, C. L. C. Bunbury, E. Burrell, Sir.C. . . Burroughes, H. isr. Cabbell, B. B. Campbell, W. F. Cardwell, Edward Carew, W. 11. P. Carter, J. B. Cavendish, C. C. Cavendish, G. 11. Chart eris. Francis Christopher, R. Clay, Jame!, Clay, Sir W. Clerk Sir G. Clive, 11. B. Cockburn, Sir A. Cocks, T. S. Coke, Hon. E. K. Colebrooke, Sir T. Colvile, C. K. Corbally, M. E. Cowan, Charles Cowper, W. F. Craig, Sir W. G. Dalrymple, Captain Darner, Colonel Davies, D. A. S. Dawson, T. V. Benison,' J. E. Divett, Edward Douglas, Sir C. Drummond, henry Drummond, horns Duckworth, Sir J. Duncan, George Duncuft, John Dundas, Sir David Edwards, Henry Egerton, Sir P. Egerton, W. T. Ellice, Edward Ellice, E., Jun. Ellis, John Elliot, John MINORITY—NOES, 65. Arkwright, George Filmer, Sir E. Muntz, G. F. Baird. James Forbes, William O'Brien Sir Lucius Barrow, W. 11. Gallwey, Sir W. P. O'Connell, John Blake, M. J. Gooch, E. S. O'Flaherty, Anthony Boldero, Henry Halsey, T. P. Osborne, Ralph Brecklehurst, J. Hamilton, G. A. Pechell, Sir G. Banbury, William Hastie, Alexander Renton, J. C. Burghley, Lord Henley, J. W. Reynolds, John Chaplin, W. J. Hildyard, T. B. Richards, Richard Chatterton, Colonel Hernby, John Scott, F. Christy, Samuel Hudson, G. IS nsollett, A. Coles, 11. IL Inglis,, Sir R. H. Stafford, Augustus Copeland, Alderman Keogh, William Taylor, Thomas E. Cubitt, William Knightley, Sir C. Vesey, Hon. T. Devercux, J. T. Lennox, Lord 11. G. Waklcy, T. Duke, Sir James Lockhart, W. Walrusley, Sir J. Duncombe, T.; Mackenzie, W. F. Williams, John Duncombe, A. Megan, W. H. Willoughby, Sir H. Duncembe, 0. Maher, N. Wortley, J. S. Dundas, Georgo Masterrnan, John Du Pre, C. G. Mitchell, T. A. MIA'S. 1 Evans, Sir De Lacy Moore, George 11. Sidney, Alderman 1 Evelyn, W. J. Mullings, J. R. Hume, Joseph BANK 01' ENGL4ND.--A Court of Proprietors was held yesterday for the election of directors. The pro ceedings commenced at ten o'clock, and at four o'clock the following gentleman were declared duly elected :—Thomas Baring, Esq., Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq., Edward Henry Chapman, Esq., Robert Wigram Crawford, Esq., William Cotton, Esq., Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq., John Oliver Hanson, Esq., John Benjamin Heath, Esq., h irkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq., Thomas Newman Hunt, Fsq., Charles Frederick Huth, Esq., Alfred Latham, Esq., George Lyall, jun., Esq., Thomas Westerman, Esq., Alexander Matheson, Esq., James Morris, Esq., George Warde Norman, Esq., John Horsley Palmer, Req., Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., Henry James Prescott, Esq., Thomas Charles Smith, Esq., Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Francis Wilson, Esq. TY POGRAPHICAL CUBIOSITY.—We have been shown a very interesting specimen of typographical ingenuity—an architectural elevation of the Free Church College on the Mound, composed wholly of moveable types. The effect, at a little distance, is that of a wood-cut or engraving, and, considering the nature of the materials, is really wonderful. The work, which is to be forwarded to the Great Exhibition , is the production of Mr. R. Ramsey, a compositor in one of the newspaper offices in town.—.EdinburglsCourant. A well•known impostor, named Evan Griffin, Was yesterday committed from the Maryieboue Police-court for month for elmumuing Eta in the Amt. THE QUARTERLIES. THE ZOIST for April. No. XXXIII. The present number of the Zoist contains two most interesting cases of the cure of tetanus or lockjaw in horses by means of mesmerism. These cases are so important that we make no apology for giving them entire. The cases are communicated by Dr. Elliot son. The first case is by Mr. H. S. Thompson, of Fairfield, near York, the other is by Mr. South, veterinary surgeon, New Bond-street. MR. THOMPiON'S CASE. " Understanding that a case of lock-jaw or tetanus in a horse has been successfully treated by Mr. Amor, of Bond-street, I have thought that an account of a case of lock-jaw in a horse, treated by myself, several years ago, and in which the animal recovered, may not be altogether uninteresting. "A valuable yearling colt was suddenly seized with lock-jaw. As I was from home, staying at a friend's house in the neighbourhood, my groom immediately dispatched a messerger to inform me, and in the mean time sent for a veterinary surgeon. I arrived a few minutes after the veterinary surgeon, and asked him what treatment he proposed. tie said bleeding, and, if possible, giving calomel and opium: if he could nut get anything down the throat, then to give it injections in the first place of oil and opium. I next asked him if he had seen many instances of tetanus. He answered that he bad seen many. How many had he cured?' None!!' I then told him, as that was the case, I should prefer killing the colt my own way; and I immediately set two men to work, one on each side, to rub the animal from the head to the tail with a piece of flannel steeped in oil, hartshorn, and camphorated spirits, and to make the friction as light and as rapid as possible over the animal. When the men were tired, I put two others to take their places. I had the satisfaction in two hours of finding the animal could turn his head slightly, and that it could separate its teeth about half an inch. This process was continued for several hours, and there was a further improvement. I then ordered some sheep to be brought up, and two to be killed every two or three hours, and their warm skins to be wrapt round the body and neck, and partially over the head. The colt the next day could move about, bend his neck, and drink freely. I continued this treatment for two days, i. e., friction and sheep skins, and at the end of a week a slight stiffeess only in the limbs was observable; but the eyes were still turned up and drawn inwards. The friction was still persevered with for an hour or so each t day, and the animal kept warm. Te last thing hat got quite right was the direction oft he eyes. It was nearly five or six weeks before they looked quite natural. The colt got perfectly well; I sold it for a good price, and it won several races afterwards. Its name was Cable, by Sheet Anchor. At the time I pursued this treatment with the colt I was altogether ignorant of the benefit of mesmeric manipulations, though I had been long aware of the great use of friction and animal heat in cases of strains, rheumatic affections, and swelling of the joints and limbs. "The first time that I witnessed the good effects of animal heat in recent strains was when I was quartered with my regiment in Ireland. A horse I was training sprained the fetlock so severely that it could scarcely put its foot to the ground, and the joint was much swollen. I was recommended by an old man, who had had great experience with horses, to apply a lamb skin hot from an animal recently killed. The effect was al most immediate; the horse very soon appearing free from pain: and with no other applications than fresh skins, and light friction, it was soon quite sound again. The application of a sheep akin, warm from the animal, in cases of strains, or rheumatic affections of the loins and back of a horse, is a very old and common remedy with country farriers; and I know of none so efficacious. The skin is generally left on until it becomes offensive: but I am convinced, from experiments which I have wit nessed, that the application of fresh skins is far more effective. Of the use of friction every horse owner is aware. After severe work, or when the legs are at all swollen, hand-rubbing is the usual and constant practice of all good grooms; and I have often seen hard swel lings removed by the use only of constant friction with the hand. 11. S. TllO/IPBON. " Fairfield, near York, Feb. 28, 1851. "EASE EY 74R. SOUTH. " Sir,—l hope you will excuse the liberty I have taken in writing to you respecting the case of tetanus that you saw at my Infirmary. Should you, Sir, con sider this case worthy of forwarding to the Zoist I shall be very happy. Your obedient servant, "To Dr. Elliotson. G. SOUTH, V. S. " On the 25th Dec., 1860, I was sent for' to see a horse that was very ill, and on my arrival I found him suffering with a general spastic rigidity of the muscles; the jaws were completely closed. I had him removed to my Infirmary with the intention of carrying out the new views on the subject; and, if possible, to put him into a comatose or sleepy state. Having had the oppor tunity of seeing the operation of mesmerism in the human subject, and with a satisfactory result, I con cluded that some relief might be given to the horse; and, with the kind assistance of Mr. Amor an d a fried, we commenced our operation at 5 o'clock P.m., and con tinued till 12 P.M., and durinc , the latter part of the time he was sleepy, frequently nodding' his head, and nearly falling. We made passes with contact from the back of his head to his tail, and down his face. "26th, 8A M. I recommenced my former treatment with the assistance of Mr. Amor and my assistant; we kept at him until 11 P.M. At 6P M. I was visited by Dr. Ashburner and Mr. Amor, who kindly assisted in the operation. "27th. Treatment continued to 31st; water well MeS. merised, and likewise gruel, were frequently offered, but he was unable to partake of the slightest quantity. " Jan. Ist. Treatment continued; and oefore leaving him two quarts of water were strongly mesmerised, and drunk by him. " 2d. Treatment continued. " 3d. Ditto, ditto; symptoms better; not so much rigidity of the muscles or excitement; and with great difficulty ho partook of a little hay. There wes thus decided improvement on the 9th day; and from this time he continued to mend. " 4th. Symptoms better; treatment was persevered in. and he steadily improved, so that on the 25th Feb. sent him home perfectly well. "*.„' Those who thought Miss Martineau mad for de claring she cured a cow may ponder on these two cases, and begin to remember that cows, horses, and other brutes, are, like us, flesh and blood, and brain and nerves; and, like us, eat, drink, and feel, and walk, and above all things take physic like ourselves with advan tage.—JOHN ELLIOTSOI Dr. Elliotson might have added that in cases of animals the opponents of mesmerism are precluded from repeating the old exploded libels of collusion and imposture, with which they were wont to greet both mesmeriser and mesmerisee, when any mani festation of the curative powers of mes merism took place in the human subject. They cannot treat these horses as they endeavoured to treat poor James Wombwell, who had his leg am putated without feeling it whilst in a state of mes meric sleep, in 1842, and who has been the object of the unceasing persecution of certain parties ever since. They bave not scrupled to forge pretended con fessions in his name. The whole history of this dis graceful affair is given in the present number of the Joist. Colonel Davidson contributes some interest ing illusttations of mesmerism in the native human and brute inhabitants of India, attributing to the stare of the tiger and of the serpent mesmeric effects by which they produce coma in their victims before they seize them ; and Sir Charles Isham relates some curious in stances of spectral, visual, and acoustic illusions. Mr. Lloyd, of Naburn,near York, relates an interesting case of tetanus in a youth successfully treated with mesme rism, from which it appears that this usually fatal disease readily yielded to mesmeric treatment. Among the curiosities of mesmerism may be mentioned the report of Dr. Motherwell, of Melbourne, in Austra lia, of a clairvoyante who traced the whole course of Sir John Franklin. The paper was communicated to Dr. Ellietson, who transmitted it to the Zoist, with a request that only a portion of it should be published at present. The following is the report : "Friday evening, Ist October, 1850.—A letter writ ten by Sir John Franklin, in 1838, was placed in the hands of a clairvoyants by Dr. Motherwell. She said that she saw the writer in Hobart Town, the place where that letter was written; and upon being requested to trace the writter from thence, she described with com plete accuracy several events in Sir John Franklin's life in the Australian colonies, and ultimately followed him to England. She then commenced following him upon his expedition to the North Pole: and the following is substantially and nearly verbatim the account which she gave from time to time of the expedition : " ' I see the vessel Sir John Franklin is in; there are other vessels with him; they are all starting together. I think there are three or four of them, and they are sailing now : they ore passing land just now which is very high. Shall I follow the vessel Sir J. F. is in, because they are beginning to separate? (Told to fol low the vessel.) I see land now; it is very low, and seems inhabited by natives who are quite astonished and are running down to look. The vessels are beginning to come near each other now, and I see floating in the sea those large white cliffs; they ar e icebergs. . . request Z forwar t d ha th t etwhehorleesMt may S.to n t o h t e beedipteurbsliostethdeaf otst but pre sent; for it by no means follows that, because those parts of her enunciation which can be at present verified are perfectly correct, the remainder must be equally so. Indeed the case may be, in regard to what is known to be correct, cerebral sympathy rather than clairvoyance. The best clairvoyants wander egregiously, and the pre sent, however gifted, is no e xception, because in one cir cumstance she is to a certainty incorrect. I believe in clairvoyance; but I place implicit reliance in no clair voyant; and, as there is generally more error than accu racy in the whole clairvoyance of every person, however m inute and abundant the accurac y , I s hall defer publi cation of the remainder till we have tidings of Sir John Franklin and can verify her statements.—J. ELLIOTSON.% EAST INDIA IlousE.—Yesterday a ballot was taken at the East India house for the e l ec ti on o f s i x di rectors, i in the room of M r. IN lliain Butterworth Bayley, Mr. Rus sell Ellice, Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.13., Mr. Ross Donnelly M es Mr. John Masterma n , M.P . , an d M a j or J ohn Arthurangi A Mo l Or l e 3 : who go out by rotation. At six o'clock the glasses were closed and delivered to the scrutineers, who re ported that the election had Callen on Mr. John Cotton, Mr. John Loch, Mr. Charles Mill, Mr. Wm. Henry Chicheley plowden, M.P., Mr. henry Shank, and Mr. Henry St. Geo. Tucker. A Court of Directors was also heist at the East India House, when the thanks of the Court were voted una nimously to Mr. John Shepherd (Chairman), and Sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. (Deputy Chairman), for their great appli cation and attention to the affairs of the East India Com pany during the past year. We are requested to contradict, on authority, the statement that " the elder brother of the Bishop of Oxford bad been received into the Church of Rome a few days linCile".■••fferaidi MAGAZINES, &c.—(CONTINUED.) DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. Four articles in the present number are devoted to the review of works the recent publication of which has ex cited attention in the reading world. Of the graphic volumes of the gallant Major Edwardes it is happily ob served, "All is written in a plain, unpretending, straight forward, military style; by no means deficient in either elegance or force of diction, and perfectly intelligible in every line. We are not mystified by affectation, or any exuberant display of Eastern metaphor, phraseology, or nomenclature; there is no studied exhibition of oriental learning, to render a glossary indispensable at the end of every sentence. We meet with no abuse of any one, no undue assumption of exclusive per sonal superiority; but a disposition to do justice to all parties concerned, in a simple narrative of events. The author is evidently of a buoyant, happy, contented temperament, and wishes to render his readers as happy as himself. Young and successful, he looks on the bright side of life's picture, and casts its shadows. All this is wholesome and invigorating, and when we close the volumes, so far from being wearied by their perusal, we feel sorry they are not longer." The republication of the works of the deathless Bunyan, the all but inspired author of the most sublime mad beautiful allegory ever penned by man, is admirably noticed; so are Lord Elks. mere's edition of Amari's " History of the war of the Sioi hem Vespers," and "Roche's Vanities of Literature. '' On the latter, the delightful and rare work of the Octogenarian of Cork, we could dwell at length with pleasure, did our limits at present permit it. Sir John Stevenson, whose name will go clown to posterity linked with the great lyrist to whose verso he wedded the exquisite strains of the Green Isle, is commemorated in a well-penned memoir, accompanied by a full-length etching of the friend and coadjutor of Thomas Moore. " Maurice Tiernay" finds himself unexpectedly transported to the banks of the St. Lawrence.. " A Yarn about our Forefathers" opens a most amusin history of a family res id en t i n " th e good old times " in the western city of Skibbereen, la superba; and in " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Manager," we have a delightful gossip on the dramatic productions of Joanna Baillio. Jonathan Freke Slingsby is glorious this month, in his version of the " Hymn of St. Patrick," " The Lover's Complaint," " Love in Reality," and "The Bachelor's Memories"—the last an exquisite! ballad. In the third mentioned of these lays occurs the following enigmatic: clue to the name of the bard's " Fayre Ladye," and although he states that— " Not one in a thousand that try will make out of it The name of the maid most beloved of his heart," we commit it to the investigation and ingenuity of our readers. He thus propoundeth:— " And now to conclude with a stiffish conundrum— A part of the stern of a boat o'er the wave, Seven haiels whose barren twigs cast no fruit under 'em, Is the name of the fair one who holds me a slave." THE FARMERS' Contains a mass of interesting bucolic matter, and is illustrated by two admirably executed engravings, the subject of the first plate being a grey horse, " Lincoln," the property of Mr. Charles Poulton, of Reading, to which was awarded the first prize in class 3 at the meet ing of Royal Agricultural Society of England, held at Exeter in July last year, as the best roadster. The se cond is the portrait of a long-woolled ram, belonging to Mr. W. Game, of Aldesworth, in Gloucestershire, for which the first prize was awarded at the same meeting; and a noble-looking animal he must be, judging from the picture. THE SPORTSMAN. Peep-o'-day Boy, the winner of the Chester Cup in 1848, figures as the principal embellishment of the pre sent number, engraved by E. Hacker, from a painting by Harry Hall, of Newmarket, and is accompanied by a well-designed engraving by H. Beckwith, called " The Fox Hunter." Divers appropriate papers fill the pages of this well-conducted periodical, among which may be mentioned a contribution by Lord William Lennox on Captain Rous's book on the Laws and Practice of Horse Racing, with a slight memoir of the gallant author. CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF THE INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. Under the instructions of the couneil of this increas ing institution, the secretary, Mr. C. Manby, has pro duced a catalogue of the works contained in its library up to the termination of the past year. Considerable pains and trouble must evidently have been bestowed by him in getting up a catalogue of engineering literature, displaying such excellence of arrangement and especial adaptation for reference on subjects connected with Civil Engineering. It is formed on a simple alphabetical system, giving, under the au thor's name, an entire transcript of the title-page of each work and tract, the subject entries being made as brief as possible, and the cross references being so multiplied, that scarcely any subject can escape unnoticed. The utmost attention appears to have been paid to collating the titles, and ensuring completeness, accuracy, and the avoidance of clerical errors. The publication of the present catalogue will prove of the utmost service to the institution, as tending to induce a presentation of any scientific and technical works which may be wanting to render the library complete. It is, indeed, highly sea sonable, and creditable both to the character of that ex cellent body and to Mr. Manby's own industry and faculty of lucid classification. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next, the 14th instant, at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-office, to the Minis te:s and Officers cf State. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert walked yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Prin cess Alice took a carriage drive yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Al fred, and the Princesses Helena and Louisa, took their ac customed exercise yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, his Excellency Monsieur Van de Weyer (Belgian Minister), Monsieur de Marescalchi (French Chargé d'Atlaires), Lady Fanny Howard, Viscount and Vis countess Barrington, the Right Hon. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Colonel Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey, and Sir Charles Lyall. Lord Lyttelton had an interview with Earl Grey yester day, at the Colonial-office. A deputation from the Institute of British Architects, con sisting of Mr. Fowler (Vice-President), Mr. Mocatta (Chair man of the Committee), and Messrs. Scoles and Nelson (Honorary Secretaries), had an interview with Lord Seymour yesterday, at the Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. Lord Monteagle had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing• street. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Down ing-street. Present, the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary). THE FRENCH REFUGEES IN ENGLAND. 'We have been requested to publish the following letter : " 71, Dean-street, Soho-square, London, April 7. "'We, the undersigned French Republicans, refugees resi dent in London, lay before the English people the following declaration : " The expulsion of the Republican exiles from Switzerland on the threats of Russia, Austria, and Prussia is now sought to be accomplished, as regards England, by trickery on the part of these Powers. " But England, who had no idea of such a proceeding, would be in this case ruled by the foreign Powers. " There is a coincidence, however, which is very remark able. At the moment when the Governments of Europe de mand of the British Cabinet that we shall be put out of the pale of humanity, the mercenary journals of the counter revolution in France redouble their accustomed violence against us; and two individuals (for diplo mac y as not but official agents) unite to accuse us of the basest and most de testable designs. .. Who are these two individuals? One of them is a Frenchman, who is not a political refugee, although he has assumed that title, and whose coming to this country has not to our knowledge been satisfactorily accounte d individual, after having made before a po ice magistrate l . . var i ous allegations of a most odious charact er a g ain st us, has since, in an official examination made by order of the supe rior authorities, been obliged to deny their truth, which de nial has been duly recorded in a former report addressed to the Government. " The other is a native of this country, who has forfeited the confidence of the political party whose cause he pretends to espouse, and who seeks to recover his lost popularity by exciting among the masses old and nearly forgotten interna tional hatreds. The antecedents of this individual were, however, so well known to us that not one among us would enter into any communication with him, notwithstanding all the advances he has made to that effect, which is no doubt our inexpiable crime in his eyes; but the English pub lic will have no difficult in divining that, without our being either assassins or incendiaries, we may be fully justified in regarding with distrust such a false democrat as Mr. Feargus O'Connor. .4 We, therefore, declare in the most solemn manner that whosoever attributes to us, the French Republicans, refugees, now residing in London, designs such as those individuals have attributed to us, or in any manner similar to them, is a vile slanderer. " We make this solemn declaration, not because we dread to be driven from the refuge we have found in this country, for the revolution which has had power in France may re sume that power, and in so doing exact, perhaps, too large a satisfaction for the wrong of which we should be the victims —an idea which never entered into our minds. " We make this declaration voluntarily, we make it freely, we make it without after-thought, without any fear of me naces ; we make it in the flame of the eternal principles of brotherhood and concord among nations and peoples—prin ciples for which we now suffer the pains of exile. " We may be calumniated, but the world will never be lieve that men, the very first act of whose advent to power was the destruction of the scaffold—men who accesn_ m PPLJ ) e blood, a great revolution without shedding a single drop .or without committing an act of violence, without , ment, and without confiscation—the world will never believe that we are assassins or incendiaries. " J. P. BZZJEAU. " LUMARD. " F. BERTRAND. " J. MAD " V. CIIUTELET. E. fignvitu. E. M. DE MONTJA.U, JE. " C. DELESCLUZE. " DIBON. " GUSTAVE NAQUET. PARDIGON. " DUPONT. " PETIT-JEAN. " TREMOND. G. PitturrE. " D. PEnzco. " ROUSSIER. " THEODORE KARCHEE.. ISIBEYROLLA. " LANGERON. a A. RICATEAU. " LuAto RoLux. " SUIREAU. " LIONNE. " L. VILLAIN. " LABAT. " GOGUIN." " DAECANNITZ. A WOMAN KILLED BY HER 1 - InBnAND.—ln the case o f the unfortun ate woman, Esther Curtis, who died near Gloucester, on Saturday evening, from the effects of Lrutal ill-usage from her husband, a gardener, as mentioned in this paper of yesterday, the coroner's jury have returned a ver dict of meneleughter. The man has coasequently been com mitted *trial. SHIPPING. Returns have been published relative to the shipping registered during the year ending December 31, 1850. In England the number of sailing-vessels registered was as follows:-Under 50 tons 6,675, tonnage 202,424; above 50 tons 11,718, tonnage 2,410,160. In Scotland 1,278 sailing-vessels under 50 tons were registered, amounting in tonnage to 38,531; and above 50 tons 2,154, equal to a total tonnage of 452,864. In Ireland the numbers were 1,057 under 50 tons, tonnage 29,570; above 50 tons 1,098, tonnage 204,183. In the Isle (Allan the sailing-vessels registered were, under 50 tons 315, tonnage 7,471; above 50 tons 37, tonnage 2,815. In Guernsey under 50 tons 31, tonnage 949; above 50 tons 110, tonnage 15,547. In Jersey, under 50 tons 158, tonnage 3,881; above 50 tons 188, tonnage 28,396. The steam-vessels registered were-in England 470 under 50 tons, total burden 11,423 ; above 50 tons 425, total burden 97,283; in Scotland 38 under 50 tons, total bur den 1,064; above 50 tons 131; total burden 29,763; in Ireland 12 under 50 tons, total burden 398; above 50 tons 102, total burden 27,281; in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands 7 steamers above 50 tons were re gistered, amounting in tonnage to 1,130. The number of vessels that entered and cleared coast wise, including their repeated voyages, is thin enume rated :--Inwards--Ia England 101,361 sailing-vessels, tonnage 8,009,681, and 10,782 steamers, tonnage 2,313,664; in Scotland, 16,766 sailing-vessels, ton nage 1,042,971, and 4,467 steamers, tonnage 983,760; in Ireland, 16,403 sailing-vessels, tonnage 1,191,243, and 4 340 steamers, tonnage 1,303,489 ; in the Isle of Man 1,337 sailing vessels, tonnage 40,094, 117,073 , aili and 225 steamers, tonnage 35,448. Outwaros-In al gland Bailin und 10,447 steam-vessels, tonnage 9,124,135, and 2,264026. In Scotland 17,322 sailing and 4,603 steans-vessels, tonnage 1,028,376 and 1,018,634. In Ireland 7,360 sailing and 4,534 steam vessels, tonnage 438,532 and 1 ,338,732. In the Isle of Man 740 sailing and 172 st eam -vessels, tonnage 19,621 and 24,517. The movement of sailing vessels engaged the colonial gland, 4,264 B r iti s h v tr e a s d se e l i s n o e u n r te p r o e r d ts i vi n a vi s a a r s d fol t l e o n w n s a : g - e, E 7 ,259,478, and 214 foreign, tonnage 72,171; cleared outwards, 3,912 British, tonnage 1,135,734; and 233 foreign, toa nage 73,233; Scotland entered inwards, 514 British and 8 foreign,: tonnage 178,574 and 3,778; cleared outwards, 508 British, 12 foreign, tonnage 171,626 and 3,029; Ireland entered inwards 318 British and 15 foreign, tonnage 90,012 aad 6,129; cleared outwards 248 British and 57 foreign, tonnage 68,626 and 16,082; Isle of Man and Channel Islands entered 30 British ves sels and no foreign, tonnage 4,004; cleared 73 British, tonnage 9,482. The total number of steam-vessel' en gaged in the colonial trade, entered inwards at our ports, was 399, tonnage 73,249, and of those cleared outwards 369, tonnage 72,267, all being British vessels. The number of sailing-vessels engaged in foreign trade which entered inwards and cleared outwards at our ports (including repeated voyages) is as follows:-. England entered inwards 10,811 British vessels and 11,244 foreign, tonnage 1,868,088 and 1,767,567; cleared outwards 11,076 British and 13,159 foreign, tonnage 2,110,924 and 2 ,041,295; Scotland entered 1,510 British and 1,834 foreign, tonnage 223,279 and 185,578; cleared 1,738 British and 1,799 foreign, tonnage 282,752 and 195,793; Ireland entered 1,016 British and 871 foreign, tonnage 155,000 and 169,288; cleared 433 British and 704 foreign, tonnage 96,497 and 130;588; Isle of Man and Channel Islands entered 1,148 British and 330 foreign, tonnage 43,529 and 24,720; cleared 1,230 British and 278 foreign, ton nage 40,260 and 19,709. The steam-vessels entered and cleared at our ports to and from foreign porta were :-Inwards, 3,877 British, and 959 foreign; tonnage, 853,520 and 204,759; outwards, 3,705 British, and 936 foreign; tonnage, 103,919 and 202,133. These numbers exclude the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The first receive no steamers engaged in foreign trade, and for the latter the numbers are 194 British and 9 foreign entered, tonnage 18,430 and 639; cleared 195 British, foreign, tonnage 18,593 and 355. The number of sailing vessels built and registered during 1850 was 610 timber, tonnage 117,033 and 11 iron, tonnage 2,078; and of steam-vessels 18 timber, tonnage 3,862; and 50 iron, tonnage 10,722. There were sold and transferred 2,261 sailing and 95 steam-vessels, amounting in tonnage respectively to 351,012 and 15,148. The number of British vessels wrecked was 692, tonnage 127,188, four of which were steamers, whose total burden amounted to 1,462; and there were broken up 119 sailing-vessels, amounting in burden to 4,850 tons. and 10 steamers, the tonnage of which equalled 946. The number of colonial-built vessels registered in the ports of the United Kingdom was 33, amounting in burden to 19,382. The colonies furnishing them were Newfoundland, Canada, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward's Island. There were also 57 foreign built vessels registered in our ports, amounting in ton nage to 10,499. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORTH-WI:STERN RAILWAY.—Retuni •f Traffic for the week ending April 6 : Passengers, parcels, &c. ....£23,633 16 10 Merchandise ... ... 18,291 17 3 Cattle ... 901 17 9 Total ... Z 43,027 11 10 Corresponding week last year 44,019 13 8 Note.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, North Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Manchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles open, 112. ) Return of traffic tor the week ending April 8 : Railway and canal ._ ....E4,813 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,401 0 0 Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. LANCASIIIIIE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY. (260 Miles open.)—Traffic for week ending April 6 ....C15,154 9 3 Corresponding week in lag, year, (24 miles open) .. ...£11,827 19 11 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAlLWAY.—Traffic for the week ending April 6:— MAIN LINE. Passengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. Mails ... .£904 14 5 ... 58 7 7 ... ... 468 10 2 ... ... 575 0 0 Total •-• MOLD. Passengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... ... £2,00G 12 2 Total ... £33 18 2 ... 1 19 2 ... 70 11 10 ... £lO6 9 2 ••• STEAM-BOATS. Passengers . Parcels, H. C. and D. ••• £ll3 8 10 .£127 9 5 LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAT.—Amount of reTentle for the week ending April 6:— Passengers Goods 14 0: 7 Total ... Z 696 9 1 21 10 0 ••• ••• Total ... £917 'l9 1 Corresponding week last year SO 2 1 4 TII>yATES•--BENEFIT attention t A o l t a h . e B duties . D — CANS T o . . t h e free-list office has won for him the approbation of all who have known him there, takes his benefit to-morrow - Benton, AN B T w il ho E s A e T a E s E sid -2 u E s night, when, no doubt, the attendance of his friends will prove that they duly appreciate the civility and atten tion which they have always experienced at his hands. V ACA NCY AT THE NATIONAL GALLERT.—Th• situation of housekeeper to this institution has become vacant, by the sudden decease of Mrs. Braybrooke, the late occupant. Industry and economy will get rich while sagacity and intrigue are laying their plans. —Eliza Cook's Jouraul. OMNIBUS SERVANTS' PROVIDENT SOCIETT.—On Tuesday night a crowded meeting of the members and friends of this institution was held at Exeter Hall, Lord Robert Grosvenor in the chair. After a few observations from his Lordship on the objects of the meeting, the secre tary read the report, which stated that the society was formed by Mr. Sculley, by whose perseverance, although it had only been established two years, the funds amounted to nine hundred pounds. There were several noblemen and gentlemen contributors to the funds, as well as s7T. ' : bus proprietors, and it had so far increased in public e colonel tion that Prince Albert, through his secretary , A to Mr. Phipps, and only last Monday week, forwarded in aid of Sculley a cheque on Messrs. Coutts for ~ ensidered the said he had on being requested to preside the society. At the conclusion of the report 2; his Lordship no _e_ther class of w the deter- There matter, and from inquiries made had come ohis_budget, s a t b a o te : mination to consent, believing that , o g in n doubt would be men had been so much maligned , worked, and were better worthy 0 . r, _, employing 11,000 men, and Sir Charles Ivo°. no less than 3,000 omnibuses_ _ ,, r c u l n ewt ri ve nue as hackney carriage duty su support. There so ha rdly that there was paid to the re be A subscriber to the funds of th w e a s ociety, were to be p n a o id lem , vehicles and had named, for the number of omnibuses groomed,_ t. a c ti . d shod, together with than 400,000/. Besides tbiSv no less a sum than n an u d m h b o er rs le e s s s b i o n u e g id h e t n a ta n i d fed , _ _, paid by the public for omnibus travelling, exPe"ll h ably approved of the society, which he 2,000,000/. a veart h P ig could meet. Ile - ' self k e wise. Mr. Owen, Mr. Joseph Payne, and should henceforward Win suPPort, and endeavour to make his friends do h several ot her gentlemen having addressed the meeting, and urged the n otice of the society upon the public, the Rev. Pr. Ainslie m oved the adoption of the report, which was carried 0 „17, and several resolutions in furtherance of the nun view of the " Metropolitan Omnibus Servants Be- I l i iis c t. i s i a n e t society" were passed. Thanks were voted to the Noble Chairman, who having acknowledged the compliment, the meeting separated. AN APOL OGY WHICH WAS SADLY NEBDED.—The is, as every g a good Ministry ; but still it must be present Ministry one it k is no th w e s, bes a t lo o n i g it w s k a i y nd f , ro fo n; being confessed th r a t t i: as far as it has gone — and w e have hopes it will ve " A n Out-and-Out further -Out e lliTni it has _ prove d itself in every re spect,stry."—Puneb. BREWERS, VICTUALLERS, SCC.—Froul a return irint i e l db a 3 n 'o t r h d e nerooobiftlieer o llt brewersouse'ofczz, it appears that n Printed England and of victuallers 59,676. 35,808 persons are licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, and 3,350 are licensed to sell beer not to be drunk on the premises. :23,851 victuallers brew their own beer ; 12,497, who brew thei r own beer, are licensed to sell it if drunk on the premises; a nd 951 persons are allowed to sell beer not to be drunk on the premises. The amount of malt consumed by 6401 class is, in bushels, as follows : Brewers, 17,800,683; victuallers, 7,154,519; persons licensed to sell beer to be drunk on the premises, 2,884,249; and persons licensed to cell beer not to be drunk on the premise 341,875. In Scotland there are 151 brewers, and 14,971 victuallers, 178 of whom brew their own beer. The brewers consume 831,981 bushels of malt, and the victuallers con sume 118,024 bushels. There are 95 brewers in Ireland, who consu me 1,164,702 bushels o f malt, and there are 13,793 v i c t ua llers. A N EDITORIAL DILEMMA. — An editor in th e western part of Michigaa is in a fix. He dunned a subscriber for his subsc ri p tion, which he refused to pay, and threat ened to flog the editor if be stopped the Asper.—Au Corigt York - a 11 , I I