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(3. Ite' l , res l. Ail l ' 10* 1 14 a ta ---- " -- --------____ , ---- unit,i h e n into custodY• Th prlzoner excused his bold n i l L' l, tiee by theta ti, that 1,i3 wite had not on . i t y htth e ', lll o ut cf house and hove, but 11-A take up , a bt l i_h c, a yes ..,!°,,11. It wiz after.vards found ttn.t the vv,2t. , . ,,e1 d . bltb eti lue 2 head Were o f a v e ry serious charactir. o. (l ,. th e g' 3 he Wa s a bl t 1 g i ve evidence agc : l • t s. Pristi ne • . ° ° " ~ . sh. wit). he ~tboio n ~ I '4 wzll be a long tune be - - . ~_ bitt en gutY recovered, the end of her nose having ot—ll kr, 0 1 1 : II Off in the course of the struggle :f bot lintti LILLY addressed the jury for the d:, enc . ?, nad 1 34 1 ,p 1 that the conduct of the wife in i 21 2 , e u ght to ps.lhate the prisoner's offence. provoking her ' k V° a -ettr u i td RECORDER then summed up, and . the , it e t „ -- 7 too prisoner Guilty of unlawfully wounding. . 61 , n), tals one !b,,., r, upon being called upon in the u,•ual e i la at 47,Lis wife had behaved very badly to him. L 'bti t , telt him more t h an enc,•, and set her 'l°3 . t ii h im. who WRS imprisoned for assaulting Li*itilte ' gue her a sovc2rei7,ll to 0, me up from Gre.n .i; ] the nBr),the Exhibition, and ho did not sec her tinwhen by t - ;',,,, git° up his child, and declaring that her s cla- -53 worth two of him, es he had got 401., and ldr ie t rod trad e as a brickmaker. tihe Lad left him Th e ;°°°, end he forgave her twice. 1411 4 in tr4T se ntenced him to twelve inoaft - ‘,,—b' --e 145 3 e of C orrect i on . imprison 16.. 1)1 44 4 , „ c „,, IRELAND. irEb NEsDAy.--Tile rumours respect', the tl iti S j it ` r o the late Dr. Sadiier ore as many awl varied f op ° lost:, 8 ° far uncertc.in. Yeterday, according to Abe TlLlNeurtaise .pecula;i:in, the .candidaLt. . 3 7 q, 1 ', 4 . 11 ,r 1* i.ed to two ? n e c ti t o , u p n e e r l i l la a p e „ d Dr. Tod j. The chances ut . f )Z n ill „' sr . 4 1 re la .14 i Cht, , diminished from the feet of 14 6 tetneu opponent t fir aial.ty. The latter. alth.:,u, , h what is calkd a . t 4 4d ted t o r of tLe Channel a " high" churchman, is 4 . . 1 2, to - , -11 Y° a gentle te7 , clency to Liberal principles,. petlal ec i n ' e oer, said to be friendly to the system of 44/.4)13 - Ile Wtth is, at all evente, extremely po . 411 Parties. °ba to° sioce & fr Ole f 13 0 : fo p a ibe 1 50 )11" ~ l lj so 0 14 , 0 4di 49 : „k ,o 6w- , 1 18 2 d LPG;I4 a to• big 49 old i r 4d ) S i (1 1316 t 1 ,0 494ó; o rpf 5 , ovof d, de .d fOr v - 4 Wit° 4 / . _±.............55----------.... ' 4 Y te' l lltlo s - es ----- _____ lllis t 4 taite 1 - DEATH el' A POILEIGNEII.—(I...,3 MOn • b rl e lllly tt ' i t. iit the dead body of a well-attired gentleman, 1 , iotOse and r lt 3 5 years of age, and supposed by his . ap , tee'sete a ,. eatures to be a foreigner, was found in the 411 r °d, ti as. eie ea - slnnstead-road, quite celd. and no . lie was of a 'tee ) d 'n; /vas ulatilesion, had dark brown hair, . 41... arlt e _. dressed in a bleek dress coat, black eatln ,t,rn.etreilsilzeure trowsers, dark overcoat with velvet Sees.t'eus,Pgton boots, and black hat, with maker's name, :V: 4 4 : e s e i l di ll 9 On searching him some silver L' l lteW a l rumo 4 P Pocket-knife were found ; the deceased's mt •'' tete -c c' "C. Knowbeg." The body was imme is , 0NP,, 1 , tb - ' ll tla tat ' ; ' to the district dead-house for the inquest Vicha s ii "' Nik it a l t l ctitlas a „! 4 'L TO ME.. GEOEGE DUNCAN, MP.- 4 0,11e."14.0t Dundee having resolved to present Mr. _have 'their 'uttnber, with som testimonial, upwards of Iv Vi e s d een t9ready subscribed fur that purpose.— Itit tilz eritser. )44,?titilata11,13,!t S TEAMEns.—The Medway, which I ta'reail r'un yesterday, with the West India and fp,„;404 ~.., too aia ser b N rl - half k out above 120 passengers. ... ea s ___ ... yalp', ;ad to e oohed for CliagreQ on their way to y , iii 50 p... 1 (1 k i a !lsted of miners cent out by the new Califor- Ca r4 Wali ttha F, Cumpanies. - Many of the miners . are is 'll tt i" t atest s ' s is t be West India steamer Amazon arrived vilesSetiurcl ay Pb,,,' 4 ina e - ,," 'ock on Tuesday afternoon, ' from London : it ttrtl N z:o l t i th Cr e ' ra: last, but was obliged to heale on .account of a dense fog.. 1 h . e t ,l l', 1.4 vjiiies r t completed of the new fleet of gigantic ii ,it. 'l's o Ata iv a ill shortly belong to the West India Con,t -tr4l,,,ll(siLersee, ,° ll is the largest steam-packet afloat; sae Othe„: 4 e 2d sae t ake out the West India and Mexican fee e'lite a r ri x'titno and in Cie case will return to k li t khy capatuaoilintethe's sth of March.. She will be com aPtnan, of the Brezilin . packet Tay. p,..44la_tiaescolitother of the gigantic packets, a sill be ready lrurkt s a month s thae. le',.. Th e , s 4 . l'p e ,, e 'kilt ' Gi s -... AND AT 1 ., ~s ___WT 00LW1C7,1 , DEC. Um. e)11 0 4 Com p , ' ' ' 1 C: plain trula ri Yal E s „. ' nY, under the ceinmain of , t _ , n iettt % 4 •' ,l neErs, which ens'oarked at Portsmoa h i e el s tidie s 'wed at their des'ination Bermuda, in the ,0 0 Te e ' i ti the 1 6 , 11 tf \, kA o „ ht e ro of November, ' and landed on the Ohs 4o a be. PanY, under the command of Captain , J. L eva. e „'"use f,l,ng relieVed, were .a:, embark about the 24th Nereteso- gland, and ' .'b ' expected to arrive at tPit s a bout the 1 L "Y B ,o Lieu -44 ° l a. s ie first week of January, 1 0- At alit at ssoMerset is ordered home from Canada,. to 1 111 ' PrOttl oted : TY 001Vsi w " o l , l'°3 tb I) eh, vice Lieutenant and Adjutant 4il L e t - s H Alie-s o - st I NNE/t To THE HON. Ma. WALKER, is;e, etripto o r7The following requisition to the Mayor ! I A ~,S tim ers ,' in course of signature in that town : ertie t 'lll l tl , 'gned merchants traders, and others con ele (4 the Port , ''' t ete.- Your i s , . , of Southampton, hereby request the of th e ssviting the H..n. Robert J. Walker, i r ,_qtri o ' day tta v united States Treasury, to a public dinner late qs, se I t tlia o , r b laY Suit his convenience. We do this, in t 'h e/ ' the ee_sPePreciation of the advantages w . hich have th"k, e ktaerT e T f Southampton the establishmenl, o 14 1 a lesiehs steamers between this port and ;New , Itis iirt ie il l as in a great ?measure brought about.by to' l wa s _ 3' the cabinet at Washington, of which t.,,N, taborerto evs, valuable and influential member; as well Nzekstilse great our most cordial feelings of kindness l' ''`yat nation of which he is so distinguished a °ll-e Perel )r i llCE Rp,,,,, 41(1)S1 at --- ' II M.-0 a Saturday evening,. last l 0 to „him, tookAtat e , ea Meeting of the inhabitants of r Eing .. 'ti:atfe" -r otid s e Place at the Prince ot Wales rave,n, ii ta „-ates ts - 'axe into consideration the steps necessary h hipt,`,L9e of t u,' . _ obtain from the General Poet-office the the sba`ce addresses of unclaimed letters; Mr. Wil k 44 Wal li te I li Ai r. J. Ware contended that the present s tlie / 11 , 1eet asy rs-cient for the purpose, and quoted a late t h .‘ e 4 stla.ry e l t 'rns from which it appared that from the C. 4 .ttej i °I . l' 8;' to the sth of January, 1851, the enor 4d.,'N „a bill, y hi. 10s. besides one million and a f b eic t uer thaVank notes, cheques, 411 °tll4 ni°4 eY W found in letters, the owners for 6,.0f not b, , as &c., leaving out pro. ott e is sil " t s s , . trac e d y the Letter the ordinary means . . .B the Cts,,"ouls ba".%.,a_aitned Letter Gazette," he considere.d _ eisa i e 4ch a ~,,sstreater facilities for tracing undelivehrsetd, tO:Re Wi.l a .t Pe r tre u .l. s tkon could be got up at a trifling a c a et ie read eain tb,;ucal intervals, and might be so t tk e TesP l g a vi decal of all classes. He concluded by . re st e a, v ani ty, Zortous agitation - of - this important_ subject : Stilt. RI Sutcliffe, Wickham, and other gen , Cs, 1 -0 th e eh v.octed the proposition, and after a vote ke Su m. all inan, the meeting separated. e1 e ;,,,c3 eVe • te a i x ;ulty of I „9 l ng a poor labouring man, residing kish i IA 4 to nchelsea, while crossing the line over a kl eh r, l l 0 ,,,,:e k 0n the down side of the Winchelsea sta ih the e '-'3 ,7 the 530 train from Hastings, and ts e ./, spot, s , . • up Nie s At e-Ow sl 0. -r W.aron Guardian. Llt 1 - ' at hei3on r ° o ll , ll ,9 of Dingwell has elected Sir N w PPeEtr, th , , rit. of the burgh. Oh 44 not a ' the fog-bell at the Copeland Light ic,!,,,, NLI e n r . ll ,ng during the fog, when the Africa mail oak sea, ° g the ; T 1 _ or was it until some time after t th h e . ii:eve ri t ta t. H'zitclt .rocks that the light-keepers though that ( let would haven in operation, there is little doubt _ F eil tion e avoided the reefs, and escaped both 11 4 14 and th e dam P ap er . O A r. g /i. RE age. G/asgow, —"se Ctli•l`l4ll.Ard, h_ i _ e I 'ORCEISIENTS FOR THE CA S P i E r • -." Harry , 14741 g Vriatlnd f,s7 determined on meeting 1 s ik os d . y steatnv, further reinforcements at the Cape by ItAsof,,:a h . a ve - c te vessel the battalion of Rifles now at Dover, i t , i st ,es i n ~__,.n sent to Dover, to tAtu;l.lteilacl!ness for immediate embarkation., Cy.% th e Irlteab' e u a, l o send them out by It was the battalion,. to hold steam sdecided Ot t Y sh a l l e , at Portsmouth, but it is now . her . Majesty Ceziat b less , _ Proceed CO the Cape in the new iron screw the Qssrti cr ew ' act Sheerness, Mr. Hoffinetster, V , theell t i e ` the Cyclops, just returned from the Cape, ' le,,ougb i l ied over to that ship, the Megiera having i ` l kkha'''cae , s ?; fitted for the conveyance of troops. Lite? t i.p. e ver ; e has received Grant's distilling galley, e ar . h "% ore bpie and convenience for a regim t 1 11 4 ,,A 1., eve, are above 600 strong. He th: 1 11R _l• 4l .EcT i „„ At the , 7 qb. et: ''' 3 Or COMMON COUNCILMEN. — , P4Nr e 10 4 cf . bet of 41 changes common councilmen, on ' s_, olte,_ the ngea will take place in the representaain. J. NM s,oti...rde, Langbourne—Mesers. J. Dixon_ e a . J e ti litO c e d reti ti:,"8*,14 Messrs. Webber, Smith,. Bell,. and B ra ts . li la : i it._ ep ut „ seive% Cripplegate Within— ,to Val's. sl it ) ti ' , o ld J. Frost, resign. The new %gib, C hi:lut e ...4 ck, Thwaites Llod, and Jack. candidatesospple in 1 - 44 "- tt ' and 11 , ' r • T. Eldred resign and Messrs. Sewell,e 4,7,, SpTE , b ee O r th a t,, Bo ,n, start. Bride -A vacancy occurs Oil) .151, 31 ".. death of Mr. W. Game. 11.1essrs. John t4o4,ttlt th e ., Will stand. Aldate-There is no res.igna: esekciretsi:rs• suffragesnd o.smond, have issuenett :iis a 7 tt tis b a , v 7 . !tier theg oft he freemen. 11"rgtle 11 (1 littees i u . s t fourth a joint circular in reply. Ne e 4 Wki a r a r • 11. Carlin resigns and Messrs. ker Far rd I ‘ lrei "; k, 4 will be proposed Vintry—Mr. S. Lepa IV I • 4 1e 4 Witti 4 11 " 0 e-rs • NS T arwick and . Gammon are . candidates. sesar. 4 tilo h t and t ..'n -Mr. W. C. Humphreys resigns. l‘ . l s fi l lizq L't the „"kelday will be proposed. N'ita l " enange Clemow and Gres t, e . e ro a are esers. ran In FarrinOon 1 1 ' 1 11°14 4 m oM of Messrs. Buckmaster and Edkins. In INettate ilr' G. Raymond in the room of Mr. T.A ocks. N e lt!'eeser• Fox in the room of Mr. J. Brown; and c in Int 'e ur • COX in the room of Mr. Gadsden. Thereisa st t a lk.t. uwer Ward arising from the death of Mr. Wylie. Itottoost A/ACCIDENT IN LONG-ACRE. —Yesterday ktioa l , t4l , Par',i3edford held an inquest at the Charin-cross 1741 A. A4tcue body of Aaron Ross, a carpenter, aged t 4o e , allt:ng e see l v as in consequence of falling through h IN" " s .,''' the roof of the factory of Messrs. Home, n 1111.4 (1. 11, 4 he deceased was fixing the purling for the ~..1 14 tsce of r oof on Saturday week, when he stepped on . a N sle t i ti Plank (such as is used for covering roofs prey!, t 4 I tti kh e ence l',', w hich mapped asunder, and the deceased in l / Ni"t of 5" thrOuglt the scaffolding to the ground, from btel y t shout e. He was ins e -te fe et fracturiuer his spine' t hil d : 4 Y la t -en to the la , - h pit ' al where he lingered till b t o la n e expired, death." ell I.' wile h aocos leaving a widow and three t s :El tior, ' Tie nt his loss. Verdict," Accidental ,Ite/It'SEes.:Eis RAILW.A.Y ACCIDENT TO MR. ALEX. ;4 ti ' *ECRETAII.Y OF THE CANADIAN LAND AND 'IA 4, liz i fISBOCIATIOZ ay evening last, when t' 4 1 . ,1.°41 Water I(road to Twickenham arrived at 4 .(, k ,„ , er oo ,44,0 1 1, , I , o ,'Pbell, .wl to was a passenger, stepped on the " turn - 4 , -en the trai nat that moment moved a 41 44 d th I ttl,, I '4, b . e door o f the carriage wheeled him round lit st Seti t s'itn close by the buffers-his legs were caught ttc,: ‘ , 4 B th:e footboards-; inclthe platform, and in this manner l e t ,iesT . aeis a i g o g ri e : l _for . w . arc' l a few elf Mr. Campbell, after t , h e , ooz e w_ Fxtrlcat, ed . himself, but . not before his left y't .4 Ver '3 broken a little abov the knee, an_d_se .m ve e r o a h l ickotase c ontueions sustained. Drs. Clarke and N th e :,', 4 , u,C 411 1) Were in Imediately sent for and promptly at kl,letlar" 4.,., ordered 11.1: .. Campbell's immediate removal tro keitiotuns Tavern where he now lies in a very favou , 1 , Is u, under the 4 :are of Dr. Clarke. 'ltl l 'il oh; tiqq‘v m,21:1,11eY-Stalk of one of the iron works at Lin -140 3 cf -8 blo wn down, in the recent gale, and some hun- Yte l'eoPle • . en t to , . will, in c onsequence, be thrown out of em 1' Jo,. - it 4 re•erett ion. oil; Jog 4. -1 ; 41 nen t °P Tun PEACE.—Yesterday a return to l '''it it 'd th wa3 prime ( 1, from which it appears that in ire e e s a s na e 7 re s „s' s 'e 18 . ;741 justices in . the commission: , of . the sa l i . e 'M i n ' ',", r ° of them have qualified. In 11 aes there je s s'nd ri, ''''e Comm ission, of which E 57 have qualified. 'kes - '1414 e` s e number it I the commis.siou is 3,695, and 3188 rib / erie w e _ s u• There are • 1,645 borough magistrates in Lug pd E u o e s e, and in Ireland 169. There are only e, N. 9 in It el Paul ms gistrates in England and Wales, o e;,,,,1 magisterial fu actions, e i ciai ns , Ireland, It i Scotland there are 201 persons ks j * s t , elt i l ea of which 190 are paid, and _ . s,ul :l art y 50 ' --- ...MD Loa MEAT is ENGLAND. — i /WIC 14 ttle g ° „P e re , ons c onstantly employed in connexion phis CODA numicAtion of the country. . T II E N) heart, and reduces him to worse than his former desolation. " Ravenscliffe" is not half concluded when this incident tttkes place, but, although • the remeinder of the work introduces new charac ters, and, in fact, a new story, the main pur pose is still the came, and only with the con cluding pages of the third volume does the history of Raiidel become complete, and the moral of the story receive its full development. Viewed in this bearing, as we have said, " Ravenscliffe" presents re deeming features. The character of Randal is well pourtrsyed, and the vicissitudes to which such un governed passions as his must necessarily subject their possessor are skilfully and forcibly depicted. Still the theme is mournful and its accessories are melancholy to an extreme. Eleanor ‘Vherneliffe, the heroine, is painted in that graceful and charming manner which Mrs. March so frequently employs in the portraits of her heroines. The nature of Eleanor is week and vacillating; not endowed with suf ficient firmness to do right or wrong, she sacrifices her own happiness and the happiness of others. Speak ing of the deplorable state to which this weak tem perament reduces her heroine, Mrs. Marsh reminds us that Angela (the heroine of one of her former delightful romances) was naturally weak and timid es Eleanor, but the strong religious principles which ruled her heart supported and directed her. In Eleanor, who is without this strength, she has at tempted, raid very successfully, to show the misery that may be wrought by a weak mind, although ac compenied by a lovieg heart and well-meaning inters tentions, if unsupported by principle. In this endea vour, also, as we have said, Mrs. Marsh has been most successful. Having thus awarded to the authoress of " Ravenscliffe " the praises which are her due, we have another, and a serious fault to find with her, namely, the theological remarks and discussions introduced into the pages of " Ravenscliffe." We have the greatest objection to such topics so intro , duced. Practical and not theoretical religion is what we look for in works of fiction. Let the novelist show us how Christians ought to lire, and not remind us, unhappily, how Christians (so called) can quarrel. Ono passage in this portion of " Ra venscliffe " has surprised us considerably, coming from a writer of such benevolence as the author of" Emilia Wyndham," namely, a passage in which she arro g ates to herself a power eppe.rtaining only to the great Searcher of Hearts, and pronounces a large body of Christians to be, many of them, secret infidels. Sorry are we to find such remarks coming from such a writer, and we earnestly entreat the authoress, whose talents we so justly appreciate, and whose works we so greatly admire, to leave these topics for other pens, and to employ hers, as she so well can, in showing the beauty of virtue and the misery of vice. We en treat of Mrs. Marsh to give us again a novel like her enthralling " Emilia Wyndham," like her powerful "Norman's Bridge," like her charming "Angela, or her fascinating " Old Men's Tales," or her " Wil mingtons." Glad as we always are to welcome her productions, we shall be doubly glad to welcome one possessing the attractions but free from the faults of Rave nscliffe." LITEATURE. LIV HES OF TE-QU R EENS OF ENGLAND. Library Edition. Vo!s. 1., 11., 111., IV. By ..4gees Strickland. Colburn and Company, It required very remarkable courage to adventure . upon the composition of the volu mes here reprinting in an edition em inently calculated to extend their popularity and confirm their reputation. Fortu netele for the studentr, in our historical literature, the various qualities which were essential for the due accomplishment of such an undertaking were found combined in the intellect cf Agnes Strickland. Her resolution in carrying out the original design has been unsurpassed by any ether of her capacities as an • historical writer, if we may except the most brilliant merit of her productions generally, that of a consci• entious and unimpastioned truthfulness. Among the impartial annalists who have recorded the deeds of bygone generetions, whether in modern times or in the days of antiquity, she occupies a conspicuous and honourable poeition. Nor can the prejudices o f par tizanship, or the fanaticism of sectarianism, deny to her the admiration due to that veracity. Beyond the dietieguishing qualities here par ticularized, Miss Strickland ad possessed, of fro itsm the outset acother, peculiarly mireble kind, and one which, under any cirurnstances, must have rendered some degree of success inevineble. She cherishes a genutee love for her occupation ; she has an enthusiasm in the prosecution of her enter prise ; sho has an evident delight in turning ',over the mouldy manuscripts of the tne&veval period, and ex tracting from them a store of unexpected revelations. Indeed ebe herself has told us repeatedly, in the words of lisaiiinont, that her hand has opened " the trea sures of antiquity laid up in old historic scrolls," though without adding how eagerly she has done so, or with what earnest assiduity she has conducted her antiquarian investigations. The singularly merito rione manner in which- these " Lives of the Queens of England" have been brought to a state of completion is, by this time, tolerably well known to the majority of readers : in fact, the celebrity of the work has been recognised not only in this country, but by the more discerning men of letters throughout Christendom. It has risen even now to the dignity of a classic, and may be regarded as having achieved for itself a triumph . ov er every opposition. The fact of Miss Stricktaud's popularity as an historian, or rather, we should possibly say, as an historical biographer, has been sufficiently attested by the variety of compi lations of a similar character which her "Lives of the Queen of England" have called into existence. Besides her own new serial, the "Lives of the Queens of Scotland," now being issued at intervals from the establiehment of the Messrs. Blackwood, there have been kindred vellums dedicated by other writers respec tively to the Kings and the Princesses of England. Like most imitations, however, these works have by no means equalled in any one particular the extraor dieary production originating that class of cornpoei aerie, the work which is here announced as again in course of publication. Half of the present reprint has already appeared, the edition before us being intended for completion in eight volumes, newly revised, and very considerably augmented. Anxious to impart to them every reasonable attraction vial every desirable e mbellishment, the publishers have arraeged to have each memoir accompanied by a portrah of the queen whose history is recounted, no matte: whether endowed with the roeal• diadem er with the crown matrimonial. Added to all this the augmen tations above mentioned comprise references to all the important collections brought to light ,since the ap• pear ance of earlier impressions. These references, combined with the engraved likenesses first particu larized, likenesses, it would seem, taken from euthentic sources, sources in every instance duly and properly verified, cannot, we feel assured, hut secure a wide and enlarging popularity to every su ccessive volume of the republication. Apart from all adventitious inter est, the "Lives of the Queen's of England," if issued in a form the most scrupulously unadorned, must by necessity have commanded the heartiest welcome from the community. With the decorations s pecified they must inevitably prove most acceptable. They extend in point of time ars over d a period of no less than 652 ye, an relate the fortunes and misfortunes of several illustrious dynasties. Beginning at the death, in 1066, of Edward the Confeseor, they traverse the whole of the subsequent portion of our chrono logy down to the accession, in 1714, of George the First of the house of Brunswick. Among the renowned women depicted in the series are four queens who wor e the royal crown of England, and no less than thirty who wore the crown matrimonial. " What changes," exclaims their biographer herself in the very exordium of her preface—" what che.nges-- • what revolutions —what scenes of civil and religious strife—what exciting tragedies are not involved in the details of these four-and -thirty lives !" In the histories of these memorable women we behold mir rored before us some among the most marvellous epochs in the career of humanity. We see the days of feudalism revived from the duct of centuries, with the throng of barons and of serfs, each alike, in the majority, of instances ignorant of all that knowledge upon which has since been built up the fane of civili zation. We wander again through the gorgeous realms of chivalry, again we listen with rap ture to the incalculable witcheries of romance, hearing the echoed • music that flowed of old from the harp of the bard and the lyre of the troubadour. We follow Richard once more into the crusades, that strewed with blood and glory the con secrated soil of Palesti ne. We accompany anew our Edwards and our Henrys through the numerous b a ttles by which they strove to blend in one the dia dems of France and England. Having advanced thus far in the sequence of these astonishing records: — records of heroism and of criminality—we arrive in due course at the terrible conflict between the partisans of the red and the white roses—the roses of York and of Lancaster, that terrible and deadly contention which ended at length in the extinction of the once glorious and puissant dynasty of the Plantagenets. Upon the consequent accession of the house of:Tudor we watch again the pulling down of the execrable system of feudality, and the building up . of a new hierarchy and the modelling of new principles of ecclesiastical government. Scarcely have we p . er• ceived the completion of these remarkable enterprises than we begin to recognise the commencement of the great effort of the middle classes to vindicate their poli - demo - t i ca l rights and social privileges , t he struggle subvert ing monarchy for a time, and re p lacing it by a c ratic institution entitled a Commonwealth. Scarcely, again, have we seen the republican form of administra tion established in the realm than we see this in the p l ace exchanged for a military despotism, and military despotism in its turn leading in the end to the permanent restoration of the monarchical form of government. Through these wonderful vicissitudes of fortune we come by gradual stages to the demo cratic reaction which was inevitable under the cir cumstances —a reaction which produced the deposition of James 11., the last Catholic Sovereign. Subse quently to the Revolution of 1688, we arrive at what Miss Strickland pithily mentions as the time of " the Patch reign, the era of continental wars, standing armies, national debt, and universal taxation." As the crowning point of the series, we have the close of the reign of Anne and the accession of the House of Brunswick: Such are the personages and the occur rences which Agnes Strickland has described in these remarkable biographies, her heroines being those four-and thirty queens, of whom M. Guizot has said, " Great events have acted on them, and they have acted according to events." How reverently the historical writer who has undertakenbe perceived this task sk has by b rou ght it to a conclusion, may reference to her own very beautiful acknowledgment, whereas, he observes e h The hope that the Lives of the Queens of England' might be regarded as a national work, honourable to the female character, and gene rally useful to society, has encouraged us to the com pletion of the task, and we should be undeserving of the popularity wit h which this work has been honoured, if we could look upon it with apathy, but we regard it as God's blessing on our labours and their sweetest reward." That reward she has as suredly obtained, and upon its first acquisition we hastened to offer Miss Strickland our felicitations. The proof that she has obtained it is the fact of the present reprint—a reprint which has now half of it appeared—the fourth volume under consideration comprising the whole of the masterly biography of `).ueen Elizabeth. ON THE CLASSIFICATION AND MA NAGE3IEAT OF CRIMINAL LUNATICS. By John Charles Bucknill,M.B., London; Super intendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum. Dr. Bucknill has, in the shape of a letter addressed to Samuel Trehawke Kekewich, Esq. the chairman Ithe visiting justices of . the Devon Esq., Lunatic Asylum, given to the public his opinions on the sub ject of the treatment cf criminal lunatic?, a subject which will occupy the attention of Parliament in the .7ourse of the ensuing session. The great abilities and the very extensive experience of Dr. Bucknill as su perintendent of the Devon County Lunatic Asylum entitle his opinions on this subject to most attentive consideration, and accordingly, without at all pledging ourselves to the support of all the opinions which Dr. Bucknill has propounded, we recommend his pamphlet to the atten tive study of all those who may be called upon to take part in the discussion of any measure which may 131 proposed for a reform in the laws relating to this subject. Dr. Bucknill proposes among other alterations that the fact of a lunatic having been tried for a crime should not alone be sufficient to constitute s distinction in his classification, but that all lunatics of criminal propensities, whether they may have ben tried or not, shall be separated from those whose de lusions are of a harmless nature. This is a suggestion of very great importance, and one which we should wish to see carried out. We think we perceive that Dr. Bucknill, in common with almost every medical man who has written on this subject, is inclined to advocate the release of criminal lunatics on too easy terms. Be it recollected that the primary object of the incarceration of a criminal lunatic is to secure the safety of society, and the cure of the person who has violated the laws is, however important, still subor iinate to the one great object, and that, therefore, criminal lunatics should not be too hastily released ; indeed we are inclined to think that they should never, under any circumstances, be wholly freed from re straint. FALK.ENBUIIG. By the Author of " Mildred Vernon." Co - lburn. 3 Vols. This is a tale of the Eli ae. The principal charac ,ers are English, with the exception of Waldemar Falkenburg, the hero, and a young artist, Wilhelm Norberg. The career of the latter is very ably sketched. At first he has more of the affectation of .uperiority than the evideuce, but, led on and incited by his passion for the btartiful, and by his ado ration of Lilian Cameron, his genius bursts forth from its trammels, and he attains a renown almost unparalleled in musical composition. Helen Mac lave is the only really estimable character in the work, and it is to be regretted that her fate is not equally fortunate. Falkenburg, the hero, is a strange individual, his disposition veering between the mean and the exalted. By turns hel debases himself to the lowest pleasures, or seeks to&devote: himself heart and soul to his country's cause. Unfortunately his ambition cannot be gratified. He can find nothing worthy'of his mind,:and he is at last:most:unsatisfacto rily united to the vain and selfish Lilian Cameron. The scene is at first in Germany, the characters are afterwards introduced in a London season, and finally they return to Friederichstadt. There are several other points of interest iu the narrative, and a great deal of under play is carried on by the Grantleys And their designing friends. There is throughout a vigour and expression of style which is not often met with in works of fiction, and the author displays great knowledge of society both at home and abroad. TIIE MONTH. By Albert Smith and John Leech Messrs. Albert Smith and Leech have provided " a feast of fun" for Christmas parties in the present month. As a specimen we give the following " Song for the Times : '— CAB ! Ain—Trab, trab, trab. A cab I lives by driving, And well I makes it pay-- A business nice and thriving, I drives with my old grey. With lots of blessed tongue, And simple force of lung. Cab! cab! cab! cab! I knows my game, And swindles old abl Cabd ou ! ng. CSo. The beaks has took the trouble To regulate our fares; But if we charges double 'Taint them—you see—as cares. 'Taint nobs in cabs as pass, But what they call the mass. Cab! cab! cab! cab! so on we goes, Ana does the Middle Class. Cab! cab! &c. It's greenhorns from the country; As best I likes to drive; Their 'rithmetic I on try, And multiplies by five, Or women folk who dare To offer simple fare. Cab! cab! cab! cab! they're easy done, You've only got to swear. Cab! cab! &c. I sometimes meet with rum 'uns, I'm quite polite to such; Folks often talk of summons, It seldom comes to much! What's every one's affair, Is no one's—you're aware. Cab! cab! cab! cab! to lose their time The folks don't seem to care. Cab! cab! &c. RAVEN SCLIFFE ; a Norel. 3 , Vols. By the ' Author of " Emilia Wyn dham. Colburn. The authoress of " Emilia W y ndham" can hardly fail to interest and fascinate her readers even when, as in this iustance, she selects a gloomy and unpleas• ing theme. Her manner is so earnest, and her belief in the reality of the events which she narrates is so appirently genuine, that instead of regarding her works es the fictions of her own brain, we are apt to look upon them as real histories, of which she is merely the recorder. To say this of any novelist is to accord no mean commendation, and of Mrs. Marsh we can affirm so much in all c onscientiousness. But, admiring her as we do, and justly appre ciating her powerful talents, we must confess that " ItavinaclitTe," while in some respects it has fas• cinated us, has on the whole disa ppo inted us. The story is melancholy throughout, even to monotony, but the principal characters are well conceived. The chief purpose of the work, and its most re deeinit,g feature, is the delineation of the stern and morose Randal Langford. The natural faults THE FAIR CAREW ; a Novel, in 3 vols. Smith of his temperament have been augmented by an ill- and Elder. judged education, and Randal, while yet a youth, is a There is an attracting interest in these volumes, complete - misanthrope—" a perfect Timor), not nine- although the tale is simple and the style has nothing teen." But however austere his disposition, his heart uncommon. Their merit consists in the true delinea is sensitive, and bis love for the gentle Eleanor tion of the characters, and the natural consequences Wharncliffe for a time converts the misanthrope into which follow from the events. The heroine, Selby, I'.- - t;ofc 7.:::. t.- ~, r:7, , t ,:,,,,,, ,-,,,u-., is "w ehAr.m g creation. Placed in the most trying cir- The disappointment Of this affection—a disappoint- ' cuirstances that could possibly exist, surrounded ment peculiarly cruel and trying in its circumstances Iby many conflicting claims, with an unprin - embitters All the genial fleelings of I l ia cipled father and a scheming mother, she con When opposition's talk'd of, On rules of justice plann'd, Our profits to be bauik'd off, My pals and I won't stand. The driver's heads we smash, And through their panels dash. Cab! cabl cab! cab! to interfere With wested rights is rash. Cab! cab! &C. Then on we'll go, like winking, Till some one puts us down, The dread of women shrinking, The thieves of half the to They'll stop us—l dare say; But—till they find a way— Cab! cat ! cab! cab! like Jolly dogs, By Jove! we'll have our day. Cab! cab! &c. trives to secure the esteem of all, and eventually to convert enemies into friends. The story exemplifies the miseries which ensue frcm family feuds and the great an x i e ty and incalculable suffering which mystery and concealment must ne cessarily engender. The Luttrells are a powerful race ; long prosperity and remarkable successes con tribute to render them supercilious and unbending. Prejudice is rooted in their minds against the wife of a cousin never seen by them, and of whom little is known, although rumour is busy to her disparage ment. Hartley, the heir of the house, determines to ascertain the validity of this censure, and seek out its object. The daughter of this repudiated relative is the fair cousin, the interesting heroine. Attracted by her beauty and grace, Hartley continues his visits, and, at last hopeless of overcoming the storm at home, he is privately united to the object of his affections. The delight and pride of the mother at thus securing the tribute of homage, and receiving the advances of the son of her haughty re!atioes is most ably depicted. The subsequent adventures of thei unfortunate bride, who is left unrecognised for three years, are very in ; and the perusal of the whole novel is highly satisfactory. AMERICAN NEWS. (B Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVAL 01? THE ATLANTIC. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY, Dic. 17. By the arrivai of the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, West commander, we have received advices from New York to the 6th inst. She has brought about 822,500 dolls. in specie on freight. The Atlantic sailed from New York at noon on the 6th inst., and arrived in the Mersey at seven o'clock this evening. The United ;States steam-ship Humboldt, Lines commander, which sailed from Southampton on the 20th ult., arrived at New York at two o'clock A.m. on the sth inst. The V Royal mail steam-ship America, Shannoa commander, with the mails of the 221 ult. from Liver pool, arrived at New York at ten o'clock r.m. on the sth inst. The screw steam-ship Glasgow, Stuart commander, sailed from New York for Glasgow on the 6th inst. The screw steam-ship City of Manchester, Leitz commander, sailed from Philadelphia for Liverpool on the 4th instant. Kossuth landed at Staten Island shortly after the arrival of the Humboldt, and met with a brilliant re ception. He stated that he was indisposed. The Washington papers state that the President, on learning the firing into the steam-ship Prome theus by an English brig-of-war, ordered a compe tent force to be dispatched to San Juan to protect American vessels. The last accounts from Northern Mexico state that Albalas, the Mexican General, with 2,000 troops, was preparing to attack Caravajal, who was stationed at Comargo. In the Senate on the 3d inst. a discussion took place relative to the reception to be given to Kossuth, and angry words passed between the Me.mlaers. Last advices from Havannah state that Thrashier had been sent to Spain in a merchant vessEl. The New York stock-market gwas firm, with an upward tendency for most securities. Money was in good demand, with an increased supply. Exchange was not active. Bills on London 101 to 10.3- pre mium ; Paris, 5123- to 5 13 ; Antwerp, 5 15; Amster dam, 4q- to 414; Hamburgh, 364 to 362. and Bre men, 783-. The cotton-market, which had been depressed pre vious to the receipt of the Humboldt's arrival, was a little firmer. Sales for the last three days 4,500 bales. In consequence of the clasing of the canal naviga tion the markets for all descriptions of breadstuffs have an upward tendency. Ashes without change. Iron is less active, 200 tons Scotch pig sold at 20 dolls. 25c ; 20 dolls. 50c. six months. Freights to London, 5,000 barrels of flour at le. 6d. Heavy goods 20s. to 225. 61. to Liverpool. Flour, Is. per barrel. Cotton, 3-16ths of a penny per lb. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 5. The sales of cotton this morning reached. 3,000 bales at steady prices. News by the Humboldt, pub lished in the evening papers, strengthened the market. The receipts are 150,000 bales ahead of last year up to the same date. Stock on hand, 110,000 bales. Strict middling sold to-day at 7i. Sterling exchange, 9to 101. Freights of Cotton to Liverpool, 13-22nds. Charleston Cotton, 1,100 bales, sold at 6} to 84. Better prices were obtained after the receipts of the Humboldt's news. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Arrived at New York, Humboldt steamer, from Southampton; America steamer, from Liverpool; Queen of the Ocean, from Briltul. Arrived at Baltimore, Alexander, from Liverpool. Arrived at St. John's, Now Brunswick, Indus xy, from Liverpool. Arrived at Philadelphia, J. F. Hall, from Liverpool. Arrived at Savannah, Gipsey, from Liverpool. Arrived at New Orleans, Saunders, from Liverpool; Pumtustuk, from Bordeaux. The ritish brig Unity, from Algoa Bay, at Now York reports having shipped a sea, which killed the captain, Salter, and a seaman named William Gibble, and washed overboard the first mate, who was, however, fortunately recovered. ---7, . CONCERT AT HAN 0V E R-SQU ARE ' IN All) OF TILE HUNGARIAN ail USE. On Tuesday a concert was given by Miss Kate Hickson, at the Queen's Concert Rooms, Hanover square, in aid of the funds of the Hungarian Com mittee and of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland. The concert was held under the patron age of Lord Dudley Stuart, Mil. It is satisfactory to be able to state that the concert was extremely well attended, there being scarcely a siogle large room left unoccupied. The followingseat in the artistes gen erously gave their grat u it ous e xertions on the o ccasion :—Vocalists—Miss L ou i sa Fyne M rs. W. Weiss, and d Miss Kate Hicks on , In s P yn a, M iss Allain, Miss Poole ; Mr. Wright on , Mr, Swift , Herr Steffregen, and Mr. W. W e i ss. I ns trumentalists — Pianoforte, Mdlle. Coulon, M r. Ch ar l e t Salami:4 and M. Orosz; violin, M. Reroenyi ; violoacel lo, Si g nor Piatti; concertina, Mr. R. Bi agrove , Conductor, Mr. Charles Salaman. The programme included some of the most admired a i rs f rom the works of Mozart, Schubert, Meyerbeer, Donizetii and. Pacini. The Magyar national song, "Preis f i r and Ebr Magyar," was sung with e ff ec t b y Heir Stoffreg en, and was of course encored l ou dly. It was evid en t , from the enthusiasm which it crea t e d, Bat the Hun garian cause still lives in th e h ear t s of ihe F .eople of this country, and that th e a b sence o f is great hero Mr. Wrighton sung " Madeli ne " an d th) has not lessened the intensity o f f ee li n g n its behalf. " Bose of Tralee" with his usual d e pth o f f ee ling and sweet ness of voice, and had to r e p ea t b o th in o bedience to the universal call of the audi ence . Miss Kate Hick son sang the " Nobil donna," f rom the Ritguenots, and "Il segreto per eager f e li ce ," f ro m tie Lucrezia Borgia. She was encored i n th e latter, and was most warmly cheered on her appearance. in strumental portion of the p rogramme variety The gLve and spirit to the amusement of the eveninf ; a gra n d fantasia on the pianoforte, with Hungariul airs, by M. Orosz, being especially no ti cea bl e for tle rapidity, variety, and brilliancy of its execution. the Misses Pyne, Miss Allain, and Miss P oo le, and the other artistes, were well received, and the nunievus audi ence retired highly gratified. REUNION DES ARTS.--This society gave list nigh, its sixth and final soirée for this season the entetainment b e ing brilliantly and numerously attended. There was a very great assemblage of our best and foreign artists, as well as the amateurs. In the first part Beethoven's quntett for piano, oboe, clarionet, horn, and bassoon was most almirably played, with the finest and most delicate touches os piano, by Mme. Goffrie, Messrs. Harding, Boose, Wain, and Snelling. The solo on cornet by Signor Maffei, on lute by Mr. Wustermann , tMr. Go llmick on piano, (fantasia by Thal berg), were very beautiful andlmuch applauded. The second part opened with Beethoven's trio in D by Mr. Goffrie, Miss and Mr. Chipp, which was executed in a most masterls man ner, and Mr. Goffrie's violin throughout was most beautiful. The Schubert's and Cummer's duett by Mr. John Day and Mr. Chipp, and solo cn harp by Mr. Chatterton were most exquisitely performed. Whilst other solos and songs by Miss Mary Rose, Miss Bennett, Miss Lavinia, Miss Magner, Miss Messent, Mr. Kloof, Mr. Haas, Mrs. Wallack, and every one individually, were most enthusiastically applatded and successively encored, finishing the evening at a tery late hour with great éclat. GRAND SOIREE AT NORTHAMPTON.-- OR Tuesday night a soirée, upon a scale of considerable magnificence, was held in the Corn Exchange of this townito commerto rate the opening of a new suite of bu ildings, destined for the oc cupation of the Northampton and Northamptonshire Ms y, who were in full dress, number than 800, ant included the ppal nobility and gentry resi• a l r n e sti b tueeter;rinci I T it h tl e e c l o es m s pa in n dent in the neighbo urhood, t he families of the e c h o u a l n d i s higher and middle classes, and those of a great number of the operatives - in the town. The splendid hall, which was the scene of the proceedings, was tastefully deco rated with evergreens, and a profusion of beautiful banners bearing appropriate devices. Earl Fitzwilliam, K.G., pre sided, and among the noblemen and gentlemen who sin , rounded him on the platform were Lord Althorpe, Lon Henley, Lord S,Vodehouse, the Rev. Lord Alwyne Compton, the Earl of Aboyne, the lion. G. Fitzwilliam, Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., Mr. Layard,l the distinguished traveller, the Mayor of Northampton, Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. George Cruikshank, Dr. Conolly, the Hon. R. Watson, the Revs. T. W. Barlow, C H. Hartshorne, E. T. Prust, G. Nicholson, T. James, and many others. Some excellent speeches were delivered, and the proceedings went off with great satisfac tion to all present. NEW PHASE TO THE FUGITIVE SL AVE-LAW.—Some of the Southern papers claim that, under the provisions of the Fugitive Slave-law, " aiding and abetting the escape" means writing, speaking, and publishing against slavery, as it induces the escape of slaves, and is therefore a penal offence. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has been pleased to appoint Sir Robert Lyndston Newman, of the 71st High land Light Infantry, to be his extra aide de camp, vice Cap tfatt Cvnyfay (337navur, win has retired fmn the army. L 0 N - D 0 N, THURSDAY _IEVE.N LNG, DECEMBER, 18, lB 1. EAST INDIA COMPANY. Yesterday a quarterly general court of this company was hAd at their hcuse in Leadenhall-street ; Mr. Shepherd was in the chair. The minutes of the last court having been read and confirmed, The CLIAIRMAN announced that the warrants for the half-yearly dividend on the Company's stock would be ready for delivery on the 6th of January next. INTERNAL COMMUNICATION OF GUZERAT. Colen©l DICKINSON, pursuant to notice, rose to mc.vc— " That it be suggested, for the consideration of the Bombay Government, whether the same systematic ar rangement which has so long been acted upon in tho north-west provinces of Bengal, for the repair and ex• tension of the communications in the interior of districts by a ccss on the amount of the Government jumma, or tax, levied and eppropriated Exclusively for tied pur pose, the disbursements of this cess being managed by a local committee, might not with equal advantage to the public be introduced throughout Guzerat." For the all-important object of affording to the in habitants of Guzerat those means of internal com munication for want of which the great body of cul tivators, and those engaged in the transit trade, have so long been compelled to dispose of their surplus produce and mercbandize at a ruinous disadvantage; with the paramount view, it may be thought, also, of enabling British India, in the event of a commercial crisis, through the resources of this productive region, to meet the eventual demands for that superior species of indigenous cotton which forms the staple of this portion of Western India, and of it alone, I have long and most strenuously urged upon the Court of Directors the expediency, not only of a much greater outlay for immediate requirements, but for the adop tion of some systematic arrangement for securing to the public a more equitable portion of the revenue set apart for local amelioration than has hitherto been vouchsafed to this proverbially disregarded province. Surrounded as our possessions in Guzerat are by those of states in subordinate alliance with the Eng lish Government—in consideration also of the greater length of time since they have been under British rule, it will, I hope, be thought that no sub-division of the Bombay territory could, with the same advan tege, as well as with the same claims of its native community, be selected for the small measure of con sideration now solicited, to the want of which, or of some such popular infusion into the formation and councils of our municipal institutions is, I incline to think, mainly to be ascribed the neglected state of the public ways generally, but especially throughout those districts to which the present motion refers ; and as the measure now submitted for consideration is in accordance with one that has been in beneficial operation for many years in another part of India, to the benefits of which the late Lord Auckland, when Governor-General, has borne unqualified testimony ; and as_ it is no later than last year that the Revenue Board of Madras recommended that an annual sum be allotted to each district throughout that presidency for the mainte nance of breach and district roads, it will not, I hope, be imputed to me that I have on insufficient grounds brought forward the present motion. To bear me out in what I have on this and former occasions advanced in proof of the imperfect state of our communications throughout Guzerat, as well as of the means almost everywhere at hand for their im provement, I shall proceed to quote from various au thorities of recent date, including the professional reports of those most competent to enlighten the pub lic as regards such details, than which no stronger testimony could be adduced of the formidable impedi ments so afforded to commerce, as well as of the at tendant hardships of that numerous and industrious class whose cause I shall never cease to advocate until the work of amelioration is in good earnest com menced, and until a somewhat better guarantee is afforded for its continuance than in those professions which experience has taught me but little reliance can be placed. Mr. LEWIN seconded the motion, but said he should be sorry to see the cess collected as at Madras, where it operated as a great hardship, while it opened the door to very considerable peculation. He had never seen an indisposition on the part of the local Govern ment, or of the Board of Directors, to expend money in local improvements, more especially in roads, for good roads were essential to the revenue. He had, however, seen a great deal of money wasted on what were called improvements, and he should he sorry to see the Board authorise the payment of a gum of money for the purposes proposed by his Hon. Friend, unless they knew how they were to be carried out. The CHAIRMAN said, it appeared to him that his Hon. and Gallant Friend bad not said much as to the specific matter of his motion. He had detailed very much in the language he used in June last the defi cient state of the roads in Guzerat. Upon that occa sion he (the Chairman) had quoted the official reports of a director, and the opinion of a private merchant who had just returned from Guzerat, which went directly to contradict the statements of the lion. Proprietor ; and, in fact, be could only account for the different statements made by different persons with regard to the same locality by the supposition that some of the correspondents muot refer to a period of three or four months of the year of the monsoon, when the roads are wholly impassable. He was now further fortified by the reFort of Mr. Davis, the col lector at Guz?rat, who stated that the extreme dis tance from the great cotton district of Broach to the place of export might be taken as about 30 miles ; while the average distance was about 15 miles. The communication throughout, he said, was perfect, and always open, except during three months of heavy monsoon weather. Mr. Landon had also stated that the nature of the soil was such that during the fair season carts could travel everywhere, and that even if better roads existed they would not be used during the monsoon, and it would therefere be a waste of money at present to expend more upon the roads ; for to make them passable during those three months it would be necessary to raise them, and lay out a very considerable sum. With reference to the particular motion, it must be remembered that this cess was not a compulsory levy of 1 per cent. on the jumma. Pre vious to that araangement parties were compelled to keep up the i awh r me o a yso a ds u always snhtoi which h should l hd t i opuh e an i y r cwe lar district, stper t iehnru,ceietu t wb. requireduoalst uthem,m of mtao payi ng t a h n e d ra w t h h t i a h c t h e They concurred in that proposition, and this 1 per cent., therefore, was not an amount paid out of the revenue, but was in excess of it. There would, in his opinion, be no justice in extending such a system to Guzerat, and, indeed, he thought it would be most inapplicable for the purpose. The Hon. Pro prietor having given utterance to his desire to for ward the interest of the people, he suggested that he should leave the matter in the hands of the Govern ment, who were extremely anxious to carry out every measure of improvement. Colonel DICEINSON, in reply, complained that the remarks of the Hon. Chairman and the authorities he had quoted had been confined to a very small portion of the great district of Guzerat. He believed that the chairman was in error with reference to the three months' bad weather. He knew that the rains were frequently very slight, and that the return of the only year which he bad been able to procure gave the fall of rain as only 18 inches. Another argument in favour of assigning to the natives of Guzerat a more prominent share in this branch of municipal adminis tration, is the similar boon which was seventeen years ago conferred on their brethren on the island of Bombay, which, by elevating some of the more in fluential members of the different casts to the dig nity of the justices of the peace, placed them as it were upon a footing of equality with their European fellow-subjects exercising like vocations in private life—and it must be a source of no small satisfaction to those persons by whose persevering exertions (foremost among whom was the late Sir Charles Forbes) that tardy recognition of their claims was acquiesced in by the Legislature to learn, that many of those native gentlemen have manifested a most exemplary zeal and fitness .in the discharge of the magisterial duties so assigned to them, involving, as these do, a voice in the rate of assessment for the repairs and improvements of the public ways, as well as on the multifarious details of its appropriation. Major OLIPHANT said, that the fact was, that in the wet season the merchants did not travel, nor did they want to travel. if they were anxious to send their merchandise in wet weather, the necessary roads would no doubt be made ; but that was surely a matter for the consideration of the local Go vernment, and not of gentlemen residing in London. He spoke with some knowledge of this matter as an engineer officer, and he was of opinion that it would be a waste of money to expend it on such a purpose. Colonel DICKINSON, in reply to Major Oliphant's remark, differed in toto from his Honourable Friend behind the chair, and deeply lamented that by mistaking cause for affect, the cause which he had, and should never cease to have, so much at heart, should not have received a larger share of, his sym pathy and valuable co-operation. The motion was then put from the chair, and lest by a large majority. - The court adjourned. QUEBEC, Nov. 25.-5 somewhat novel ' bull" has been recently issued by the prelates of the Roman Catholic Church. It prohibits the ladies of their communion from in- dulging in the profane amusements of waltzing and polkaing Ludicrous as such an order may seem in England, it is a ;very serious affair here, and may open the eyes of the Roman Catholic laity to the tyrannical theocracy under which they live. The ladies of the upper classes of French Canadians have been hitherto accustomed to take their share in all the innocent diversions which form the passe temps of our winter evenings, and among which the waltz and polka are not the least considered and cherished. They are now forced to re lincraish these amusements, under the pain of ecclesiastical censure, and final excommunicatiox. CuEAP OMNIBUSES. —yesterday a new feature in the cheap omnibus system developed itself by vehicles starting from near the corner of Ilungerford-street, Strand, and car rying passengers all the way to the Bank fa a penny, and on to Shoreditch for twopence. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING r APEES OF THIS DIY. TIMES.—The Chairman of the East India Company, in addressing last Monday the select candidates for the civil service of India, admonished them, in remarkable worth, of the resnonsibilities to which their profession was now subjected-by the improvements of postal inter course. "Remember," sail he, "that the days are gone by when it required months, or even years, to re view in England the proceedings of our administration in India. Even now the facilities of communication bring you almost under the immediate control of public opinion in your native country. There is now no longer concealment in distance, and in a brief period we shall have the mistakes of incompetence and the offences of indolecce so speeded to us by electricity and stsam that the errors of the Courts of Delhi shell - be aspatent and as promptly before us as these of West ' ster-hall." This prophetic monition fell, wo trust, t tn n ul d 0 weight OD the ears cf the audience; but it did w e t eecur to the speaker that the Capacity t u perhans. o ', - d t' of the whole Indian Government would bebaronoudgcne_tn, operation of the same circumstances, test of which he was warning its youngest officers. r . by t the In these days no Administration cm shift the' bility of failure from itself to its eubordiratees.sPc'Tnshie. same telegraph which appriees the directors of the re's conduct of a collector or a j u d ge w il l inform the Bri tish- public of the gen era l e bi e i ey of the directors evinced in the conditi o n o f I n di a . If productive 4pro vinces remain without roads, fields without water, and ports without cotter, the " c , ntrol of public opinion" will be exercised upon that body from which these sun plies are expected, nnd the cheirmen and court of the company will infallibly he put to that trial which in the case cf their owe offiedels they already diFnern. We live in times when a tree is judges by its fruits. No person conversant with the subject will deny that the acquisi tion and maintenance of cur empire in the east reflects extraordinary credit on these who achieved such a mo• nument of enterprise and lamer; but India is not what it might be, and its resources have hitherto failed us exactly at the point where they are most indispensable. We get little or no cotton from a country which is confessedly as well qualified to produce it as Georgia itself, and when we investigate the causes of the defalcation we discover that the whole territory is without roads for the car riage of agricultural produce, and the whole population without energy sufficient to speculate in the improve ment of its field crops. If we push our inquiries further, we are assured that a vicious system of taxa tion so cripples the means of the farmer us to lc ave him helpless in the hands of the collector, and that native enterprise has altogether vanished under a Go vernment which closes every opening to native ambition. Whether this reasoning be correct or not, the original proposition at any rate remeins. India can not rear its own natural produce for exportation, and the published accounts of its governors distinctly inform us that a considerable revenue is so entirely absorbed in an imperfect administration as to leave no appreciable fraction for works of public use or popular advantage. If the evil does not lie in the general impossibility of the problem, it must be sought for either in the in judicious assessment of the revenue or in the faulty system of the expenditure. We believe the latter cause is in reality operative to a very ma terial extent "No man," as an a ccom pli s h e d essayist once remarked, " will work for the same remu neration under the sun of Calcutta as he would accept under the trees in Ring's Bench-walk." This is per fectly true, and perhaps 10,000/. a year is not more than sufficient to tempt across the Bay of Bengal such men as the Government of India may require. But when this principle is carried out through every department of an Imperial service two results are inevitably pro duced: first, the consumption of all working power upon the machine itself; and next, the extinction of all available talent in a people superseded in its political duties by an imported administration. The restriction of all State and judicial offices of importance to Euro pean competitors, end the demarcation thus established between a handful of highly paid functionaries and an immense native society, must of necessity be extremely detrimental to the latter, while the charges entailed by such an arrangement operate with equal prejudice on the revenue. The strength of India, in fact, is self consumed, and contributions which are represented as distressing to taxpayers scarcely suffice to maintain in action a cum brous and overtasked Government. It is considered that both the military and civil services of the Company are at present under-officered; the Sepoy regiments aro notoriously weak in this respect, and the administration of justice is said to be suffering likewise from the want of hands. Yet when complaints of this nature are made, it is unanswerably replied that the finances of the Go vernment will bear no further charge, and that the taxa tion is equally incapable of extension. While this is the case with the ruling nation the inhabitants of India suffer in a still greater degree. There is no avenue cf distinction open to a native gentleman, whatever may be his capacity, integrity, or ambition. Ile is absolutely excluded from any concern in the administration of his country. Such regulations, of which there are many examples, have invariably produced ono of two effects —either radical discontent resulting in revolution, or listless apathy resulting in the extinction of all national spirit. The latter has been the case with the popula tion of India. We have kept them from all public (Mee till they are described as no longer competent for the duty. We have withheld trust from them till they are reputed as really untrustworthy, and we have de graded them till they are pronounced incapable of ele vation. We are consequently compelled to export from 1 England every responsible officer required for the go vernment of a hundred millions of subjects, and we find that. all the revenue which these subjects can contribute is insufficient to leave any portion for their own benefit after liquidating the expenses of an artificial administra tion. Zut what is this system, in plain words, but the support of a mercantile company at the cost of a noble empire? The reasots which originally dictated this policy aro both manifest and sound; but they cannot be alleged with equal force in defence of its continuance. If India, with its teemiog population, its variety of cli mate, its precious products and its proverbial resources, cannot be made to do more than provide its rulers with a balance-sheet, from which all charges of public utility are practically excluded, it would be hard to make out a case for our dominion. This wonderful empire, as the Haileybury cadets were truly told, is now under the eye of the English public, and the English public is not ac customed to acquiesce in results so sterile. We acquit the Company of wilful misgovernment and of uny systematic disregard to the interests of their subject*. They have maintained a dominion of unexampled splendour through the perils and trials of a century. They have reared a body of officers inferior to no ser vice in the world in ability and conduct, and they have exhibited, on many occasions, an unflinching rectitude of policy not often discoverable under European Go vernments. But the present and visible result of their administration cannot be considered satisfactory. It is possible that other systems may yield no better fruit, but the "control of public opinion" is not likely to stop short of suggesting a trial. India must be something more for the Indians, and more for Englishmen, too. There is no reason why it should have ceased to rear either cotton or men, and perhaps the changes which tend to regenerate the latter may best bo trusted for the reproduction of the former. DAILY NEWS.—The first want of France—the grand thing to be desired by those who look to a defini tive settlement and: pacification of that country—is, or rather was, a-reconciliation between the upper and lower classes of society. It was the total breach, the wide schism, between those classes created by, or at least terminating in, the communistic tendencies of the ono class and the ultra-Conservative tendencies of the other, that has ruined France, and laid its liberties and its existence at the feet of an usurper. We have often said, and wo again repeat, that no one will succeed in be coming permanent had of the French nation unless he succeeds in effecting this great compromise, this vital reconciliation. There was, perhaps, no person better placed to effect this compromise than Louis Nepoleon, previous to his late coup d'etat, or when h o fi rs t as - 1 sumed the office of President. He was sufficiently strong in Conservative support, and in the necessary adhesion of the wealthier classes, to have addressed the people in some other language than that of bayonet and re pression. By allowing full scope and play to discussion and association, and to the ventilation of ideas, he might, whilst putting down conspiracy, have soon con vinced the Communists of she folly of their schemes,;or at least exposed them to the ridicule of all. The de mands of the more rational of the popular party could easily have been reduced to some standard compatible with society and with government. And the National Assembly, instead of being an arena for the conflicting passions and mutual challenges of the two classes, might have been made the scone and the means of their com mon understanding. After all, had Louis Napoleon the true sense of his own interests and position, it is with the people he would have identified himself. His birth, his name, and the respect borne to both by the working classes, and by no other, suggested such a policy. But the dandy of the west end of London could not stoop to be anything less than the heir of an Emperor; and so he trusted his fortunes and his political guidanco to the re presentatives of the wealthier classes, all of whom placed their hopes and reposed their fealty in a very different dy nasty from his. One mighthave thought that when Louis Napoleon had made full discovery of this; when he bad seen that the other monarchic parties would never more tolerate him, and would never let p ass an opportunity I for conspiring pgainst him, or against the Republic; one would think such a convi c ti on wou ld have prompted' the President to address himself sincerely to the people. It was, perhaps, not too late on th e second of December. i teseol If there over larked a re a lly generous and liberal ff stood displayed d ten dency in Louis Napole on , i t must have then. It could not be th en ra id that he the Assembly, or that h o was compelled to o° b l o n w a t w o its majority. He was master of his actions, and free to pro fess any doctrine. And yet he chooses this very mo ment to profesAn the face of the world the most retro grade principles of government of the two most retro grade schools. All that is bigoted in legitimacy , with all that is v i o l ent and arbitrary in a purely military government, unite to earn the cha racter and political creed cf Louis Napoleon. We can conceive such a policy, if representative or parliamentary government was to be continued, and if it were n ecessar y to win over some hundred members e n m e b n er d s of a hostile majority. B u t Parliaments are att a n is, of and the word majority a delusion. que s Napoleonio 1 what use legitimist adhesion will be to Louis thr ou ghout the count#y. We may answer at once that I . I it will do as much harm as good, and produce as much w eakness as strength. For every partisan who may be won from the high noblesse and the ultra-montane clergy to Louis Napoleon, en hundred liberal men will be dis gusted. Besides, all the charlatantrie of the President will never win over the more respectable and moderate of either the Legitimists or of the Churchmen. That Phillpotts of France,—the Bishop of Chartres,—may write circular pastorals in Napoleon's favour; and Count Monlalembert may intercede for him, by alleging that peoplo may support him without beeou)jug upproyera of all his acts. But this will not affect such men ss the Duo de Neallies or the Archbishop of Paris. It is but the vet) , ultra section of the Lsgitimists that will go with him and tho more ultra•montane of the elsrs7 And one effect of this will be to cre a t e or to widen the schism. which exists both in the Legitimist party and in the French Church—a schism that, far from diminishing the enemies or opponents of Louis Napoleon, will very se riously and widely increase them. Should, however, even the apparent result be that the Legitimists, as a body, lend a silent and passive support to Louis Napoleon, whilst the Constitutionalists abstain altogether and hold aloof alike from the hustings and from politicsl discus sion, then it will become evident to the people that their cause, as well as that of liberty of all and of every kind, has been abandoned by the upper classes, and that the only hope of recovering those blessings, without which life has neither dignity nor security, rests with the working classes. Of all the convictions that could expand through Franca, we own that this is the most serious. For the abdienticia of the wealthy, the high born, and the highly educated, leaving the post of danger and of duty to those beneath them—gives a new force to those doctrines which repre sent the people as alone possessed of courage and of virtue, and which depict wealth and rank es the great corrupter and degrader of the citizen. This doctrine, with the state of things and of opinion on which it is founded, prevails not iner_dy in France, but extends over G,srmany and Italy, through a great portion of Europe. And it is such conkssions and cdmissions as these which give new force and vitality to parties and to causes that are led by such men as Mczsmi. It is such an universal bowin g of the head and prostration of the spirit which compels such spirits as Eessuth—men who never rest, and who cannot despair—it is this which drives them to z l 7i , !s tsi,, F ren d u, to ancdr y for help no longer to the cowed upper -r, effzininated educated ones, but to the broad, uncompromising popular masses. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY. The Que en and Prince with the Royal C hi ldren, ----: walked and rode yesterday as usual. The Marchioness of Ely arrived from London to succeed the Marchioness o f Douro as L a d y i n Wait ing to her nijesty. L a d y D ouro rcmsins at () b orne on a visit. The party at dinner included the Marchioness of Douro and the Hon. Colonel Phipps. Mr. '\V. 11. Simies had an interview with El.tl Grey yesterday at the Colonial -office. had also an interview with the Noble '. Mr. Kennedy Sir George Grey left, town y es terday t a f r o l i Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a visit to her Ms'e The Oxford University Commissions Y i; yesterday, at the official residen , e -e 'the Present, the e First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing -street. Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Mas ter .' of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. G. Liddell, J. T. Esq., the Rev. Professor Powell, the Rev.. Garyfier., Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretaiy) . S. The Cambridge University Commission h a d a meeting yesterday, at the official residence of th e First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing. street. p re _ sent, the Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely. Sir John Herschel, the Rev. Professor Sedgwick, and the Rev. W. 11. Bateson (Secretary). The Marquis of Lansdowne left the seat of Earl Fortescue, in Dvcnsbife, yesterday, for the Gra nge , Alresford, Hants, on a visit to Lord Ashburton. Dispatches were received yesterday . at the Colonial. office, from the Gavernor of the Mauritius. MARYLEBONE THEATRE. The performances here on Tuesday evening were for the benefit of that talented actress Miss Eliza Le Brun. The fair hengficiaire appeared as Pauline Deschappel les in the Lady of Lyons, and seldom has the character of Pauline been more exquisitely or pathetically de lineated. The performances concluded with the Greth Slave, in which Miss Eliza Le Brun sustained the character of,llaydee very gracefully. The house was well attended. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.--RettlM of Traffic for the week ending Dec. 14:— Passengers, parcels, mails, &c. X 29,022 19 2 Merchandise ... 17,823 2 6 Cattle .. ... 1,417 3 1 Total ... £41,268 4 9 Corresponding week last year ... 41,484 13 6 Aggregate, 1850 £1,114,738 2 2 „ 1851 .. 1,328,124 17 2 Ncte.—The returns as published are exclusive of the traffic of the Huddersfield Canal and Shropshire Union, Nerth Union, Preston and Wyre, South Junction, Blanchester and Buxton, and Buckinghamshire Railways, and of the propor tion of traffic deducted under agreement with the North Staffordshire Company. GREAT WESTERN RAILIVAY.—Return of traffic for the week ending Dcc. 14 ... 6,338 11 6 Corresponding week last year... 16,632 10 1 THE GRIAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—(I4IiIea in work, 2411) 'Return of Traffic for the Week ending Dec. 7, 1851 : Passengers, parcels, carriages, horses, dogs, and mails ... £4,346 17 6 Merchandise and minerals ... 5,781 811 Cattle ... ... 270 17 1 Total .. ....C10,402 3 6 Corresponding week, 1850 (236 miles) :7_ Passengers, parcels, &c. Merchandise, Cattle, &c. :.. £3,812 1 6 ... 3,602 13 4 Total ... £6,814 14 10 LAWCASIIIRE AND Yonxsuirtit RAILWAY. (260 allies open.)—Traffic for week ending Dec. 14 £16,506 16 7 Corresponding week in last year (260 miles open) ...£14,152 lE 5 LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Amount of Traffic for the week ending Dec. 17 : Passengers Goods ... ... £6,771 15 9 ... 2,423 0 :1,1 Total ... ... ... £9,194 16 6i Corresponding week last year... 8,395 6 0 NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY.— (Miles 0pen,112.)--• Return of traffic for the week ending Dec. 7 : Railway and canal ... £4,683 0 0 Corresponding week last year ... 4,514 0 0 Note. —The above is exclusive of the receipts available under the agreement with the London and North-Western Railway Company. SHROPSHIRE UNION RAILWAY.—(Open 29 miles.)—Traffic for the week ending Dee. 14 : Passengers, parcels, &c. ... Goods and live stock ... £3lO 7 8; ... 232 15 5 Total .. ... .. £543 3 1 Corresponding week last year ... 427 6 O CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY..—Traffio for the week ending Dec. 14:— MAIN LI/a. Passengers ••• ~, Parcels, 11. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. ... Mails ... ... ... ... £823 8 11 ... 63 13 7 ... 614 6 i ... 575 0 0 Total ••• MOLD. rastengers ... ... Parcels, H. C. and D. ... Goods, cattle, &c. .... ... £2,076 6 7 ... £2616 2 ... 3 17 11 ... 121 8 8 m............. 11 Total ••• ••• •114 £152 2 9 STEAM-BoATs. Passengers ••• ••• Parcels, H. C. and D. ... ... £135 6 2 ... 25 4 4 Total Rico 10 6 CALIDONIAN RAILWA7,.(IE9I miles opened.)—Return of raffle for the week ending Dec. 7 : Passengers, &c. Goods, &c. ... £2,772 4 9i ... 4,759 19 8 Total .. ... ... £7,532 4 5i Corresponding week last year ... 6,855 13 9 FRENCH RAILWAY TRAFFIC. The following are the last returns of the gross re.. ceipts of the principal French Railways : NORTHERN.—From Dee. 3 to Dec. 9 : Passengers, 167,8081.; goods, 228,629 f.; total, 396,437 f. itollEN.—From Dec. 3 to Dec. 6: Passengers, 52,7701.; goods, 74,5451.; total, 12 7,319 f. lllvuE.—From Dec. 3 to Dee. 6 : Passengers, 17,1221.; goods, 33,030 f. ; total 50,192 f. ORLEANS.—From Dec. 1 to Dec. 7: Passengeris 86,540 f. ; goods, 89,724 f.; total, 176,263 f. VIERZON.—From Dec. 1 to Dec. 7: Passengers, 37,724 f.; goods, 37,568 f.; total, 75,292 f. BORDEAUX.—From Nov. 25 to Dec. 1: Passengers. 42,0801.; goods, 65,5511.; total, 107,6321. NANTES.—FrOto Nov. 26 to Dec. 2 : passengers, 25,2091.; goods, 2 2,690 f • t0ta 1, 47 899 f. Passengers, MoNTEREA.UFrom 26 to Dec. - 7,1921,; goods, 11,1461.; total, 19,3374 rt — I, BRIsTOL, DEC. 17.-- ALAMMING G AS .r.XPLoaloN. — , • This morning, about half -pa st o dock, the inhabi. were much alarmesi by tants of Temple-street, in t h i s _3. ded like the report of a cannon. a loud explosion, airvirs.°Ziallsiasmomlle i o t f ch th m e an, grocer, were windows of Mr. The shop windows blown into the Shoemaker,street two doors above. In addition to King, boot and _ premises the adjoining houses were much shaken. these two ce of the explosion that the whole of the Such was the for ce was torn up and the door forcibly flooring i n the e . iron hinges. The house was so much rent from he avy shaken that Mr. Hitchman was afraid it would have fallen Om him. A portion of the chimneypiece was knocked off and projected nearly through the ceiling. The windows and a great deal of the flooring of Mr. King's h ouse were also blown up. There is a lane immediately above, called Water lane, and the cause of the explosion is supposed to be the leakage of a gas pipe in that lane. The gas had penetrated into the drain which runs under the premises, and mingling with the foul air of the drain, formed an explosive mixture. . DEBYRIJ claw: FIRE IN LIVER-POOL.—YQSterday morning (Wednesday), about three o'clock, a fire was dis covered in the extensive warehouses of Messrs. Verdun and. Cullen, general merchants, St. James's street, Liverpool, and before assistance could be rendered the whole of the bu ldings with their contents, and a considerable portion of the adjacent property, were enveloped in games. Me ssrs ' V. and C. are also extensive cattle salesmen and corn omer chants : and the previous night no less than l ' c' n b v ar e r m eh ade flour were taken into the upper warehouse. We a any inquiries on the spot, but are unable to ascer t a in _disaster. The au thentic particulars as to the origin of l ° in sured. premises and merchandise were only pal: n y of the Redowt ARGYLL RocMs.—A new P waltz has been produced at these favourite assembly rooms.. and seems likely to It is flayed nightly w i t h ge th ea s t i 7 vrest.. West-end. M. Laurent, jun., become highly popular in the deal of spirit into the and his able orchestra throw a h is exceedingly pretty, and the execution of the music, sill dance, though considered d ifficult for the ball-room, is well performed 14 many Q f the frequenters of t hi s beautiful salk.