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ithacompany number ing some 11,97 uron whi ch t he r t aPane gav e hi m credit fur all the calls ;:mouhting to 0/. each. Mr. Cameron bete;; dissatisfied with the ma nagement of the concern applied to the cretary in Au gust last to be allowed to inspect the books and accounts, which was refused on the ground that he could not be lowed in the light of a bond( fide shareholder, and he _1448 ther efore been comp e ll ed to have recourse to the Pre ent proceedings to enforce his right. ,a___Mr• Justice ERLE was not quite certain that a man -'lltOs was the proper remedy. th i lnl lo oones knew of no other, nor was he smlte us_t.nere was any p rece d ent for this application . Justice ERLE w as i n f ormed by the clerk of th e W e ivirn that thee() was a shar e h o ld er i n t h e W e Orford, ord, Wicklow 4 obtained a , and Dubli n R a il way C om p ee y, w h o 00 mandamus to inspect the books of that eo ih r litn Y, and upon the strength of that decision a rule 4" cause might go in this c a se . Role nisi accordingly, inTchard Martin, E sq., 8 . A ., was scorn i n this morn mgcl called to the degree o' Barrister-at-Law. niv,- --4010 N PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) BLOSTER v. RICE. a rui Wall a case in which Mr. Bramwell had obtained stile! ca lling upon George Flintoff, bookseller, of Fleet eau: pnd Joseph Chuck, bailiff and broker, to show ti th he e ti; : fo h Y an attachm ent s h ou ld not b issued against i llegally rescuin g goo d s f rom t h e officers of the of t h e ° Middlesex, and assau l t i ng t h em i n t h e execut i on the e!' d at3 7 - From the affidavits it appeared that, , on tu n wm. Cif Septembe r l ast, t h e Sheriff's bailiff, Mr. Sic. Sti k wa c a in Possessio n o f t h e prem i ses of M r. Ri ce, of ►hillunder a warrant from the She r iff, and fi r ° •fl Possession Chuck the broker put in a distress the rapt ' to the amount of 841., condemned the goods en l i lt treruises, and s o ld t h em to M r. Flintoff, who, as eye% Y e the broker IR 's CR, proceeded to carry them. ah rP --! e rlag the resistance which was offered by the r tl . a followers. The case now came on fcr argument. of itit',4ergeant BYLES, for Mr. Fiintoff, read a number t h 'Moults, which satisfied the Court that he was not atir rB°ll who was sworn to in the a ffi davits of the theme!r' JAMEs, for Mr. Chuck, before entering into ,a of the case, took a preliminary objection that thistt-ontvit of Mr. Sloman, the Sheriff's bailiff, stated Areler.""? 9 th of September he was in possession of the 24th of La question ; under a warrant issued on the ate "_, ugnst, by the Sheriff, and signed Messrs. Carden a tiddi Ougk ni _ n, ,„,„. m 3 the Sheriff of London and Sheriff of ri od 9- .• Now it was a well-known fact that at that that office was filled by Messrs. Lawrence and .11,1 5 ' and that it was not until the 2Sth of September, atess l . B " l daY for ch ang i ng t h e s h erif f s i n L on d on, t h at 4 elee. B. Carden and Hodgkinson were elected to the Th e eltoti oh - ""an CHIEF JUSTICE said this was a fatal ob `koefiri.* It Was not at all likely that these gentlemen for e "aye been so premature as to sign a warrant be fekitha time of their taking office. Mr. Sloman had Pose p t° show that he had been anything but a tres -44' °lt th e premises . The rule must, therefore, be Ittgedßule discharged. bcFmt V. LAWRENCE AND OTHERS. ;144 beStioll • THOMPSON in this case applied for leave to enter a The action to deprive the plaintiff of costs. T c h, ?ought by the plaintiff, Mr. Doyle, of the Weekly de th " i cle, against the Sheriff of Middlesex, to recover fe e .t i tes for a falie imprisonment. A verdict was given eou'ltha plaintiff, with 40i , damages, and it was now /10:I t to deprive. The affidavit on which this applies iteth,..-Ita grounded stated that the defendants resided eeti o ul 20 miles from the plaintiff, and that the cause o t 414 a arose within the jurisdiction of the County . Cour t , that havet" It Was, therefore, competent to the pla i nt iff t Oaght his action in the County Court. "'e &ranted. INS OLVENCY. —(THIS DAY.) , T ILE HATTER. OF ARTHUR HENRY LpIAN. 1134 07 ea se, which ha s b een f rom time to time before fa and reported in this journal, was this morn in g el. bear lee The Insolvent bad got into possession of a house be litiegillt to a Mr. Oppenheim , in Great Prescott-stree t,. pro,„_°4almed it as part of the i Leman estate, in which e Peng h„ . rat O - Was interested. Mr. Oppenheim had been of th Considerable law expenses, and was still kept out !ad, property , which he had held for thirty years ; its D . trUSt Property, he was compelled to recover - 1 8see km- The insolvent ' had been some time in 0: 1 3 and admitted that since he had filed his petition feel -" made an agreement to let the house in question, tiwould not give up his birthright. B Cattl an opposed , and Mr. Saunders supported the B_ve„,. L-"ft:TR again adjourned the case. AMERICAN NEWS. 111141 :VAL OF THE CITY OF GLASGOW. ,„ At LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY. litel l , 4 l early hour thi s morn i ng th e screw - s t eamer l ot Glasgow Captain Matth ews , e nt e red the fe et y 1 from Philadelphia, after a run of thirteen days seeeen hours. She brought twenty-two passengers I , l l t_ fair cargo of g oo d s . ibis is not any intelligence of th e l e ast interest L.l arrival, th e Niagara's advi ces h av i ng aotici itte-d all that is in the Philadelphia papers now to t, 4 ,7 Pena a l l tnat is worthy of noti c e. Lee Senate a lengthy and fierce debate had taken rii—Zs relative to the removal of free coloured people tiot i , fri : c a• Mr. Henry Clay presented several peti tthm- f avour of the subject, as well as one from titi v l7 Island, praying that more effectual t means ade 11 0 11 1 ` be taken for suppressing the slave . r th e Petitions were ultimately permitted h to d lie l o se n b re table. Several members of Congress , a . a aeate d Petitions praying for repeal of the naive aye Bill. t he House of Representatives the new postal .The ere b e i ng discussed. t o P l anters of South Alabama were about to hold p eet ll ,lention t o d evise means f or suppress i ng an ex - A v? insurrecti on o f t h e negroes . pet" lotte ry of pictures for the benefit of the passen l'sati.ll toe Helena Sloman, which took place at New produced 657 dollars. r ol lhe Walls of six four-story brick houses in Twenty l i t;street, New York, fell on the 15th instant with kad e „ li thdolia crash. Several persons were killed Vol f , -. l , l rge number severely wounded. Workmen 4 4 4 . nsY clearing away the rubbish, and severa l he uoclies had been recovered and taken to t hltgte ° th t :,_we had a rr i ve d at N ew O r l eans t o th e e ff e ct AL :41e Government of Yucatan had separated from kr 'a th e ' Jo hn C. Campbell had sailed from New York s A biii w rnpire State, as chief engineer of the Panama Aro?' of ng the, post-offices recently established is which 4, 4 evr Buda, Decatur county, lowa, of hi tt t e r4 l Ladislaus I.ljhazy, late Governor of Comorn, en appointed postmaster. nr4 e 8 . 7 8 - James G oo ld and C o., o f Alb any , h ave shi„ t a pony-slei g h, o f very beaut i ful workman far the World's Exhibition. ilt i l k . rler e is nothing new about Jenny Lind at Havan deem T he Faro exp resses its gratification at the mo ve e scale o f pr i ces. A dance, entitled " The Ar p tiuti4ef Jenny Lind," was already in the course of Bation ; and the F aro expresses i ts i na bili ty t o tte.:" t he immense quant i ty o f poetry re l at i ve to t h e sa re s :fn which i t had received. The Havaneros are '9 7 under the spell. ____ ti, it o Philadelphia,on e 15th instant, the delayed ar- COM the lAL, th il ' uf the pteetner Atlantic had acted unfavourably on h iti Market for cotton, and transactions have been Iv ii ,d*: Without any change in prices. For flour there b ell •, : I ; , tg4 dY . demand, and sales reached 1,600 to 1,700 Itten' n '" eit iding standard Penna. brands at. 4 dolls. 621 c., for.;"°. boding choice western at 4 dulls. 75c., all taken %t fjPort ; the retailers are buying only in bmalllots, toti n 4a er quoted rates. Rye flour and corn meal re el. ba r 0 ' 44 , 4 3, the latter is offered at 2 dolls. 87ie. p %wi t-- ior Penna. ;meal. 4,ootohe demand for corn Grain—Very little uirivlng, ood, Kith sales of 3,000 to li kote blibi Sand Penna. a e a Southern for p e Oats scarce and wanted. Rye is selling at 70c. tark • nn a` Wheat continues without demand, and dull. `..,tio ls , fir at it 32i dolls. first No. 1 Quercitron. Seeds adoration, and sales moderate. C OWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. I'Robr OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ,1)1 0 , 4 ' COWES, JAN. 30. 'nave. c'r CENTENARIAN.—Ott the 25th inst., ill d tcdr terilt e West Cowes, in the 104th year of her age, IteifrhillarY Read, widow of the late William Reed, sh_itp stcrt- The old lady had always enjoyed good health, tlleu t utt(l never required a doctor exeeptconfine , : 41 4 s h e appeared in her usual health at four o'cloc Ul m Elva was a corpse. Her eight was so good pep, eould see to cut profiles and a variety of of he r °l"liments with her scissors. The Queen, hearing %h o t fame this art and her great age, sent Tor her to Out ,: 118 Palace, about twelve months since, when she cut litiOieral birds. cats, &c., fur the Princess Royal, the ire t c e Wales, &c., and for the Duchess of Kent, who a cta - 14 : 2 "It. Her Majesty and Prince Albert made her T here ltindsonle presents, as did the R o y a l . c hild rer. Year s „.7,_ two of her neighbours whose ages excee d 90 tO a i sZvut and twenty-three whose united ages amount tka7 Y ears, hveraging 79 years each, yet this i 3 in one bole.and most densely populated neighbour ,triet,„ It is con'sidered to be the most unhealthy dis- Oe E C this town. In Inspector Ranger's printed report the - L -e , ri beis it as being " inhabited by pigs and people." llfi t 0 ;"c of Wight artist of the Illustrated London News I trour its readers with her likeness and memoirs. lioe , ,,7ad's brother was carpenter of the immortal Nel c s nip at the battle of Trafalgar. of 1,/ ° „ k ill'a of AGE.----Mr. Bell, son of Robert Bell, Esq., d it , ' l ts Castle, East Cowes, attained his majority to - NM.. i ' u t) Castle has been full company all the week, On e "Kcly to continue so for me. There is only continued round of rejoicing theye. T. I:be o collectio°P° has just presenteA to the Vatican a rich (k b. ~'4 of pontafical corns, commenc i ng f rom G regory 11. , "1 1 ), and ending with Gregory XVI. 44011tb PANMURE.—It gives us great pleasure to i D ou nce that thi s venerable nobleman has very much im ex,t/ed in health since our notice last week, and hopes are i',._trtained that he may yet be able to add a icw more to the ~.."tUzerable charities by which his name is so universally 1in...-31ontrose Standard. T 142 LITERATURE. MISCELLANEOUS WORKS of the _RIGHT HON. Silt JAMES MACKINTOSH. 1 Fol. Longmans and Company. Among the splendid intellects whose contempo raneous appearance in Edinburgh about the begin ning of the present century imparted a peculiar lustre to the capital of Scotland, not the least remarkable was that of James Mackintosh. If an attestation of the truth of this sentence were required we might find it lying visibly at our elbow in the form of this noble volu me — a book comprising the majority of his brilliant and diversified compositions. Such testimo nies are not, however, by any means demanded, the fame of the departed scholar and statesman having long since grown to a magnitude more than merely European. Wherever the intelligence of the Anglo- Saxon mind has been rendered apparent, wherever the glory of our English literature has been recog nized, wherever the influence of our modern state.. craft has been in any marked manner experienced, the abilities of Sir James Mackintosh have come at last to be in some measure at least appreciated. These are, in fact, the inevitable fruits of every such sound and ripened reputation. They are as inevitable as the beams flowing from a luminous body. And it is well for the interests of civilization and for the general cause of human advancement that such should be the case— the capacities of a single genius being, through the medium of this sympathetic intercommunication, diffused among the minds of the multitude. Mr. Emerson has said that no thought when once uttered can be monopolized, that an articulated truth cannot be regarded as individual property, but that it be longs to every mind that can embrace or appreciate it. In other words, the recognition of a thought makes that thought the possession of its appreciator quite as much and as ectually as it had previously been the possession of its originator. That is not the only poet who writes poetry—say as Shelley or Drummond—but the reader of Shelley or Drummond, forming a right estimate of the poetic effusion, be comes, while so doing, himself a poet in like manner. He again is not the only philosophic thinker who can pen volumes such as those of Kant or Bentham, but the man who can peruse the writings of Kant or Bentham, and do so understandingly, is also as true a metaphysician. It is from our entire coincidence in these views, and from our sense of their almost inestimable value, that we exult in the renown achieved for himself among the nations of the earth by a strong and original genius like that of Mackintosh. We feel that in the very circumstance of his celebrity we may perceive a calculable increase in the amount of general intel: ligence. So that, according to the multitude and fame of such individuals in an age, we may in exact proportion and in a corresponding ratio estimate the progress of popular enlightenment. From these con siderations, we are impelled to become in 4 a way as earnest hero-worshippers as Mr. Carlyle himself; in reference especially to the lights of science and of literature. Gladly, therefore, do we offer our meed of homage to the memory of a man like Sir James Mackintosh one, and not the least conspicuous, among these veritable benefac tors of our species and eagerly and cordially welcome a volume like the present con taining the mass of his miscellaneous productions. With the names of Francis Horner, the Babbage of political economists, of Francis Jeffrey, the Leibnitz of reviewers, of Henry Brougham the Crichton both of politics and of literature, bas become associated, we believe, inextricably that of the versatile author of the work lying before us for consideration. The mere fact of his being the compeer of such individuals as those we have just mentioned, is a sufficient proof that the mind of Sir James Mackintosh was of no ordinary character; and his inherent capacities were perfected by the number and splendour of his ac quirements. Let the contents of the volume on our desk be the illustration of this, an illustration at once attractive and elevating. Throughout the various themes selected by Sir James Mackintosh may be observed the vigour of his understanding, the depth of his meditations, the beauty of his style, and the abounding wealth of his knowledge. This, moreover, upon all occa sions, and under all circumstances—no matter whether his luminous pencil is touching upon politics, upon philosophy, or upon one or other of the contrasting departments of literature. Everywhere the writer is "at home" with his subject—everywhere his band scatters abroad with a lavish prodigality the riches of his rare and curious information. Throughout the whole of the remarkable treatise with which the book of his collected writings opens—the dissertation on the progress of ethical philosophy, chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, published originally in the seventh edition of the Encyclopcedia Britannica—throughout the whole of this majestic composition are apparent the scope of his capacities and the ornate beauties of his rhetoric. Many careless blemishes naturally crept into a production of such extent, written hurriedly for the purpose of being hastily printed in the great compilation alluded to, but these have been mostly obliterated by the judicious hand of the editor, his respect for the writings of his departed relative fortunately not pre cluding him from such successful efforts at their emendation. In this already celebrated treatise Sir James Mackintosh has passed severally in review the genius of Grotius and of Hobbes, the in fluence exercised on that portion of ethical philo sophy relating to the moral faculties and the social affections by such controversialsts as Cumberland, as Cudwortb, Clarke, Shaftesbury, Fenelon, Bossuet, Leibnitz, Edwards, Buffier, and Mallebranche, alluding, especially in the end, to the foundation of a more just theory of ethics than had before existed, in spite or through the instrumen tality of writers like Butler, Hutcheson, Berkeley, Hume, Smith, Price, Hartley, Tucker, Paley, Stewart, Brown, and Bentham. The general re marks with which the dissertation terminates are characterised by an incomparable excellence. Foremost among the essays of Mackintosh is the celebrated one in which he has contrasted, somewhat after the fashion of Plutarch, the " Philosophical Genius of Lord Bacon and Mr. Locke." This is followed by his large. hearted " Discourse on the Law of Nature and Nations." Then we have the " one entire and perfect chrysolite" of his "Life of Sir Thomas More," the greatest, the gentlest, and the most spotless character whose name is recorded in our national annals—a biography worthy of being enumerated in the eame category with the life of Savage by Johnson, of Goldsmith by Irving, and of Nelson by Southey—a jewel—among memoirs as the life of Benvenuto Cellini is among autobiographies. After the ingenious " Refutation of the Claim on be half of King Charles I. to the authorship of EIKSIN BAYIAIKI-1," and the elaborate "Memoir of the Affairs of Holland," comes the famous "Review of the Causes of the Revolution of 1688," in which Sir James Mackintosh revealed his extraordinary powers as an historical commentator. His account of the " Partition of Poland," perhaps the most admirable narrative of that catastrophe ever penned, his masterly " Statement of the Case of Donna Maria da Gloria," and his inimitable " Sketch of the Administration and Fall of Struensee," impart an ad ditional interest to the volume, whose later attractions are enhanced by the reprint of the well-known reviews on Samuel Rogers' " Poems," on Madame de Steel's, " L'Allemagne," and on the writings of " Machiavel." The " Vindiem Galliew," in which famous work Mackintosh dared, and not presumptuously, to cope with the virile and majestic abilities of Edmund Burke, stands, of course, prominently forward among the rest of these miscellaneous compositions. The close of the volume is preluded by the strains of that classic eloquence which for a quarter of a century resounded at intervals within the walls of the Imperial Parliament—conspicuous among them being those on the civil government of Canada, on the affairs of Portugal, on the criminal law, and on the system of national representation. Altogether it will be seen that the work under review contains the very pith and marrow of the genius of Sir James Mackintosh, yielding to the book-lover an inestimable treasure, and affording another golden volume to the long catalogue of those already issued from the great publishing establishment of the Messrs. Longman. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The members of this society performed — Handers oratorio of Israel in Egypt last evening at .Exeter hall, and notwithstanaing the additi ona l r e hearsal which had been given to it, in consequence, we be lieve, of the marked and lamentable failure of the chorus in the performance of Ely a h, yet we regret to say that there was nogreat improvement o b serva ble last night in the performances of the ladies and gen tlemen connected with the choral department. If sound alone constitutes music, then were the chorus singers of the Sac' Harmonic Society mus i ca l , f or their uproar last evening was at times fearful ; but so long as they continue to render the sublime coin positions of Handel after their present fashio n , th ey are scarcely entitled to style their society "Har monic." Mr. Costa, as usual, took the music too quick. THE ARMY.—It was currently rumoured at the clubs yesterday that the favourites for the vacant regiments were Major-General Winvard, C. 8., Major-General Auch rnuty, C. 8., and Major-General Lightfoot, C.B. ROYAL BANK OF AIISTRALIA.—Yesterday the meeting before his Honour Master Richards, to proceed with the supplemental list, consisting of executors and trustees, was adjourned, Messrs. Pryme, Bartholomew, and Lucas, the executors of Mr. R. Bayley, 8, Old-buildings, Lincoln's lun, who is sought t , .> be placed on the list for thirty shares, not being prepared with the necessary evi.lence. It appeared from the company's books and executorial accounts that dividends and calls had been paid out of the estate in respect of these shares, but only, as alleged, with the knowledge et one of the executors. Lord Durham hag spent 1,4001. i n draining his estates during the last te n years, the tenants be i ng charge d 5 per cent. cm the outlay. Last year Lord Durham allowed :Rper cent. of the rent to be expended in drainage, build ings, and manure. SAN, LONDO N, SPORTING NOTES. No. V. ANALYSIS OF TEE SEVENTY-SECOND DERBY. (Concluded from No. IV.) 4 ‘ The TURF'S mine oyster, Which I with judgment will open." SHAKSPEZE (slightly altered). TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Seventy-one years have elapsed since the first Derby Stakes at Epsom, with 36 subs., wore won by Sir Charles Bunbury's Diomed in very clever style, beating a field of eight. No very great improvement, either in the number of subscribers or starters took place until 1825, when the former amounted to 58, and Lord Jersey's Middleton (sire of Bay Middleton, and grandsire of The Flying Dutchman), ridden by Robinson, beat a field of 17 ; from this time the position of the Derby was determined, it became the first racing stake in the universe. In 1827, a considerable ad vance in the number of subscribers took place, they suddenly rose to 89, and for four successive years (Ma meluke's, Cadland's, Frederick's, and Priam's) remained at that identical figure; from this period the number of subs. gradually increased, until in 1842 (Attila's year) they amounted to 180; however, in the two following years they fell off considerably, and in the Merry Mo narch's year (1845) had decreased to 137, probably owing to the shaking " the ring" bad had two or three years before. From this date the Turf has been in as blooming a condition as a full-blown rose, notwithstand ing the dampers that have occasionally been thrown over it by several wretched settling days, as is testified by the number of nominations in Pyrrhus the First's and suc ceeding years, standing recorded as foliows:—_ Subs. Starters. 1846. Pyrrhus the First 193 27 1847. Cossack lBB 32 1848. Surplice 1849. The Flying Dutchman 1850. Voltigeur 204 24 The nominations for the present year show a slight falling off from the last three years, but as they are considerably above the average, and amount to 195, there can be nothing to complain of, more especially as the quility generally seems to me to be a little superior to that produced last year. Out of the 195 animals en gaged six are dead, viz.: —Mr, Lacey's Aristippus, Mr. T. Parr's Brother to Van Diemen, Mr. Herbert's colt by Sir Hercules out of Factory Girl, Mr. Jenkin's colt by Touchstone out of Miss Slick, Colonel Anson's Potent, and Mr. Johnstone's colt by Charles XII. out of Morsel. Forty-eight are out of training, chief, colt by Touchstone, out of Ellipsis, Galileo, Vagabond, Hibernian, colt by Simoom out of Lady Caroline, Edward of York, Seaman, Robert de Vallious, Molossus, colt by Plenipotentiary out of Amitna, De la Rue, colt by Don John out of Miss Whip, Black Douglas, Lord Nelson, Hexham, Beningborougb, colt by Veni-en out of Hsitoe, The Gambler, War mate, colt by Bay Middleton dam by Bizaree, colt by St. Martin out of Bess, Sailor, Boyne, colt by Cardinal Puff or Hawk's-eye, Scandal, Stafford, Mungo, Duster, Gamester, Philanthropist, The Serpentine, colt by Sir Hercule s out of Miss Touchet, CElus, colt by Epirus out of Emerald, Chatsworth, Presto, Bat terer, Bastinado, Sawdon, Georgey, The Partridge, Rifle, Convalescent, Norton, Scapulary, Scrope, and XX. Mr. Watts' Nitrocis colt is sold and gone abroad. Out of the remaining 140 nominations I have ascertained that eighty are not intended tor the "great go" on the Surrey Downs; this leaves the following sixty from which to pick the field and winner, viz ;—*Coarus, Lightfoot, Hernandez, *Banterer, *Abd'erhaman, *Sir Felix, Con stellation, Juggernaut, *Hookem-Snivey, *colt by Jerry, *colt by Dulcimer, Aaron Smith, Brother to Drakelow, The Marlborough Buck, *Harpsichord, Oleander, *Pri mitius, Bonnie Dundee, Midas, 800, Ariosto, Thick. thorn, The Prime Minister, *The Confessor, Balsamo, Teddington, *The Knight of the Garter, Lady Geral dine colt, *Spread Eagle, *Miss Lett) , colt, *The Tout, Theseus, *fonts, *Boabdil, Grecian, *Entre-nous, *Moo bray, • Mooltan, Hyppolytus, *Louis Napoleon, *colt by Tearaway out of Eathmines' dam, Newminater, colt by Touchstone out of Mountain Sylph, The Black Doc tor, The Black Sea, Runnymede, Lsmartine, colt by Tearaway, dam by Alcaston, Brother to Chanticleer, Storm, *Croupier, *Gholab Sit'gh, *colt by Epirus out of Enterprise, *Azetb, Serus, Napauk, England's Glory, *New Forest Buck, *Goliah, and Buckhound. Those marked with an asterisk form a strong division numerically, if not in quality, and are those that I least expect to see at Epsom, many of them being horses that I could gain no accurate information about as to whether they were intended for the Derby or not. Having deducted those whose appearance at Epsom is the most dubious, it leaves me a batch of thirty-three, whose pretensions I will now proceed to analyse, class ing them in their respective lots or stables. H. WADLOW'S LOT • contains my standard of excellence for the present year, besides Osceola, Active, and Aaron Smith, all of whom are pounds—l had almost written stones—inferior to Mr. fialford's br c The Prime Minister, by Melbourne, out of Pantslonade by Pantaloon. This rattling half brother of Sir Tattoo Sykes will, I think, accomplish what the baronet failed in, as he will be tooled by a steady first-rate jockey, not by such an one as Bill Scott—clever though he was—for there is not a regular turfite living but knows that had be not been drunk, and all but stopped at starting to launch an anathema at the starter's head, no earthly power could have prevented him from winning; the Minister, however, I take it, will do all honour to the Melbourne blood. He made his debut at Warwick, where he won the Castle Park Slakes (not half prepared, re minding me of Surplice's green appearance at Goodwood in the race for the Ham Stakes), cleverly by a length, carrying Bst 71b, beating Catalpa, Bst 91b, and five others. He afterwards ran for the Clearwell Stakes at Newmar ket, which he won in a canter by two lengths, carrying Bst 101 b, and beating Confidence, Bst 51b, Turtle, Bst 111 b, Midas, Bst 71b, and five others. These are his only performances in public—they speak for themselves. The first was over a course a few yards short of seven furlongs, and the last over the T.Y.C. (5 fur. 130 yds.) on the Flat. et Newmarket. At the present writing, be is doing first-rate work, is sound on his pins, looks well, and if he continues improving as the season advances at the rate he does just now, WILL Tan THE DERBY W. DILLY'S LOT consists of Ariosto and 13arc;lona; the former is a good mile-horse, but no Derby winner. WARRENER'S LOT, like Dilly's, only numbers two, Staplefield, who won't run, and the colt by Touchstone, out of Mountain Sylph, who will, barring accidents, &c. The latter is a com pact, nice-looking nag enough, somewhat of The Nigger cut about him; he won the Criterion cleverly by a length, beating Confessor, Ariosto, Mr. Merryman, Confidence, Phlegm, and six others, from the turn-01-the-lands-in; all up hill, a good test for the Derby; yet, I cannot help thinking, that ho is not quite good enough to cut down the two first favourites. FOBERT'S LOT consists of Crams, Pandemus, Juggernaut, Hyppoly tus, and Bonnie Dundee; the last, if he keeps on his ler, for choice. The popular Lord of the Tournament may have a tilt at Epsom for the Olympic crown; but this year he will most certainly be thrown over. B. STEPHENSON, JUN., has Oleander, Harpsichord, and Beaufort; the first named the best, but all very queer. 11AilLoCK has two of Lord Exeter's, Midas and Phiegethon; the former has a diminutive outside chance, but as to the latter, shades of _ " Cognael— Sweet Naiad of the Phlegethontic rill"--: were my lips denied by thee a chaste salute until Phle gethon had carded off the Derby, I'm afraid I should have to bid adieu to thee for ever, thou soul-enlivening kindred spirit! KENT'S LOT is but a so-so affair this year, 800 with the blinds, as the son of Wapiti is called, in consequence of some de fect in the sight, is the best in the stable, and may, from his size and power, be capable of doing a deed of note ;" he is, as yet. dark to the public, but will make his appearance at Newmarket in the Spring Meeting. Hernandez ranks the second in the Goodwood stable, Buckhound third, and Girdle fourth, but they are all in ierior to 800. STEBBING'S string this year is a dead failure ; out of eight nomina tions, not a starter, without they pull out the colt by Lanercost, out of Garrick's dam. T. TAYLOR'S LOT is represented by the Brother to Drakelow, who may be ciaEsed with Ariosto and Hernandez, and set down as a bad spec. PECK'S LOT, consisting of Hookem-Spivey, Azeth, and Touch-me•not possess no chance of pecking at the Derby stakes. G. TAYLOR'S LOT. Louis Napoleon, backed by Ricardus de Picburne and Pierre de Touche, cannot oust the Prime 'Minister het e though he may do so in France. A. TAYLOR, has five Derby horses in training for Sir J. Hawley, ore of whom, Balsamo, is dark, though, if I can trust my optical nerve,, I shoald say that would be the one des tined to throw light upon the fortune of the stable. Tsddington has been out five times and won twice; he looks well, and is Visibly improved since last October. The Confessor does not attract my fancy; he is said to be, and is, inferior to both Balsamo and Trddington. but superior to The Ban, and infinitely so to the colt by Ascot. T. DAWSON. is coming out with a constellation, but it strikes me very forcibly they are fixed stars, shining brightly enough oo Middlaham Moor, but, whoa removed, not likely to do so on the downs of Epsom. Mr. Meiklam's nag has been backed for a great deal of money lately, but as he has not improved so very much on his last year's form, and then succumbed to the Ban at Doncaster, I cannot place any confidence in the son of Lanercost and Moonbeam. JOHN DAY'S LOT, g, o ut of twelve no _ reioforrcaen,imhaavlsin (Grecian, Lam s rti ne , as usual, no minations, i: and Runnymede), and s ix of a res p ectable i nferior class , viz., Primitius, New For es t Buck, The Bri ton , Boabdil , tihnre immens e superior Trunnion, and Ipsus. This latter lot we may consider disposed of, and I turn to Mr. Howard's ch' c . Grecian, by Epirus, out of Jenny Jumps, who made his first ap pearance at Stockbridge last year, where he won a small sweepstakes in a canter, and afterwards won the JulyStskes (after a dead heat with Aphrodite) also in acanter ! Imme diately after this performance he was made first favourite has continued so ever since, and is likely to continue so to the end of the chapter, unlkss be 4ten in the Guineas He is doing good work, looks uncommonly well, is per-. fectly sound, and will be very difficult to beat, unless he. shows temper at the hill. Mr. Powney's ch c Lamartine, by Epirus out of Grace Darling, is perfectly dark, but, in my opinion, but little, if anything, inf e ri or t o Th e Gr e cian. Sir R. Pigot's Runnymede will run a stout horse, but is deficient in speed. E VENi NC3 Now comes the " Wiztrd of the North," JOHN SCOTT'S turn. Out of nine entries, one-third only are of any note, viz.:—Newminster, colt by Tearaway and Storm. My estimation of their merits and pretensions was shown in my Derby Handicap, published in The Sun last Monday. Since then I have ascertained that Storm's understand ings are very cranky, and likely to give way altogether in the course of a Derby preparation; so I will dismiss him from my though's at once, and proceed to a consideration of Mr. Nichol's chance with his b c Newminster, by Touchstone out of Beeswing, who, like several others, is dark, but with a reputation of having achieved wonders in private; wiihin the last day or two, some sinister reports have been afloat concerning him, but I am happy to say tor the most part without foundation in truth. As I re marked the other day, he is an improvement in the Nun ny kirk breed; was as late as last week, looking and going well; and from appearances bids fair, with his tine quarter, to show the field the way up the Derby hill; more anon. The Tearaway colt has not speed enough to beat his stable companions, but he will he heard of, I calculate, in the handicap department. Having glanced at the principal lots, containing likewise the principal animals, I shall just pass a few comtnents on one or two of the castaway division; Mr. Clark's stout halt . - bred son of Venison end a Defence mare. The Marl borough Buck is quite capable, I imagine, of repeating on a pinch the Hotspur dose of 1849, consequently taking liberties with him is a remarkably dangerous movement. Lightfoot is not worth a thought! Sir Gilbert Heatbeote's Lady Geraldine colt is fancied by a select circle, but the cognoscenti of the ring pass him over. Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor, like unto Colonel Peel's The Black Sea, will find the company too good for them. Mr. St. George's Brother to Chanticleer has been backed for a good deal of money; all gone into the sink ing fund. To sum up, it is my present opinion that THE PRIME MINISTER WILL WIN ! and that Newminster and Grecian are his most formidable opponents. I also think that Lamartine is quite equal to the task of getting a place; and that the Squire's nag and Marlborough Buck may divide the first flight from the nick. These are my present opinions; time may disarr ange the m; but as, with the exception of Storm, I have stuck to my colours for the ensuing Derby for nearly two years (having selected The Primo Minister, Newminster, Laceartine, and Storm in 1849), I think it highly probable tnat I may nail them to the mast, as " Yates ' did with his memo rable tartan. I am, Sir, yours, &c. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. Jan. 31, 1851. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 10 to 1 sgst Vain Hope 12 to 1 agst Maria I)ay 12 to l agst Abd-el-Kader NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 12 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Cocktail—taken CHESTER CUP. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Treen'a Rhesus 20 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Brown's Haricot—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Clifden's Wallflower—taken to 1001. 25 to 1 agat Lord Strathmore'a Montague—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Lady Evelyn 40 to 1 agat Mr. Saxon's The Black Doctor—taken 40 to 1 agat Lord Caledon's The Flying Gout 50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's The Knight of Avenel 1,000 to 20 sgst Mr. Glen's Damask—taken 1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Howard's Brother to Dough—t 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Carew's Eva—taken 1.000 to 15 agst Mr. Disney's Sir Richard—taken 15,000 to 150 agat Mr. Kemp's Sprite filly—taken The chief alteration in the betting on the above event was in Cossack, who, in consequence of some sinister rumours, was sent to the right about on Wednesday, but rallying, was quoted at the opening of business this afternoon at 20 to 1, layers. These odds were taken near the close of the betting, to three or four ponies, and his backer seemed disposed to go on. Of the other horses included in our return, Rhesus, Haricot, Wallflower, Montague, The Flying Gout, and The Black Doctor, were most in favour. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 500 even laid on Grecian—taken DERBY, 5 to 1 agst Mr. Howard's Grecian 12 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mountain Sylph colt —taken 25 to 1 eget Mr. Powney's Lamartine—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Constellation—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. J. Clark's Marlborough Buck —takes The Mountain Sylph colt was backed for 2001., and Lamartine, Constellation, and The Marlborough Buck, for 1001, at the quoted odds. OAKS. 15 to 1 agat Mr. Payne's Citolel—taken 25 to 1 agat Sir G. Heathcote's Dark Susan filly—t ST. ALBAN'S STEEPLECHASE. , Miss Mowbray is scratched for this event. PORTLAND ROADS, JAN. 30.—(From a Corres pondent. )-100 sail at anchor, all well. The beneficial effects of the breakwater (1,030 feet) is already felt. It blew hard all last night S.W. to W.S.W. to N.W.to W.S.W., more mo derate squalls with heavy rain; a heavy sea in the west bay ; a large steamer beating down channel. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—The infant harpists, the Lockwood family, after a very successful tour throughout England and Scotland, have just returned to town, and are now performing daily at thisinstitution, under the directim of their instructor, Mr. Frederick Chatterton. Their constant practice during an absence of about three years in the country has greatly contributed towards the perfection of harp-playing, whi c h i s f u ll y a ppreciated by crowded audiences. To the c ur i ous i n c l oc k s w e would point out one just being demonst rated, wh i ch h as a ll the ap pearance of magic, and, like all magical delusions, is easily comprehended; it is explained in the great ball of the es tablishment amongst the other mechanical inventions, and was introduced here by the president of the institution, Sir George Cayley, Bart. In appearance it is simply one sheet of glass and a hand, yet this instrument chronicles time ac curately. MR. MACREADY.—The Era newspaper of to- morrow will contain a full and original Memoir of the eminent actor Mr. Macready. Order of all newsmen, or send six postage stamps to the Era office, 3, Catherm' e-streat, Strand. TILE CAPE DE VERD IBLANDs.—We have infor • mation of a recent date from an English resident in San Nicholas of a series of calamities which have destroyed a large proportion of the inhabitants, and threaten to reduce the remainder to actual starvation, unless prompt relief be afforded in aid of the succours which hate already been sent to them from a neighbouring island. The facts are briefly these:—During the latter end of the past year fever, ushered in by a preliminary attack of measles and hooping cough, appeared first amongst the poor inhabitants of the town, then attacked the wealthy, spread through the country districts, and prevailed so universally and severely that scarcely an individual escaped the malady, and out of a po pulation of about 4,500 there were above 700 deaths in about four months. In many houses not an inhabitant remained to bury their dead; those that did not perish by disease died from starvation for the want of aid. In the midst of these calamities there arose on the 2d of September a frightful . hurricane, which in the course of three or four hours swept away the whole of the crops, and completely destroyed near 400 houses, and as there is only one annual crop in these islands the wretched inhabitants have the prospect of imme diate famine staring them in the face, unless they can receive assistance in the way of provisions from other than the limited sources of their immediate neighbourhood. MURDER IN CUMBERLAND. —We regret to have to record the.perpetration of a most shocking murder in Mary port. The victim is Anne Clarke. the wife of Joseph Clarke, a seaman, now abroad, and who for three or four months past lived in a cellar under the house of the Rev. Mr. Bookless i a Dissenting minister, residing i n F lem i ng-square. The affair is involved in considerable mystery. The woman resided alone, and had been last se en on F r i day n i g h t, fi rst b y a female in the service of Mr. Bookless. and afterwards by a man named William Irving, who states that be sat up with her until one o'clock on Saturday morning, when he left her in bed. The window shutter of the cellar not having been opened from that time until Monday,suspicion was excited. It bring imagined that something was wrong, inquiries began to be made respecting her, and the door of the cellar was accordingly forced upen, when the deceased was found stretched on the floor, quite dead, with a towel tightly twisted over her head and under the chin. A jury was em pannelled, and an investigation entered into at the Braddyll Arms lan. The inquiry was commenced on Tuesday, but from the conflicting nature of the evidence, no satisfactory conclusion could be arrived at ; and it was therefore deemed advisable by the coroner to adjourn the inquest till Friday, ordering a post mortem examination to be made in the inte rim. Accordingly on that day the inquiry was resumed. when the evidence of the witnesses was proceeded with, and extended over that and the following day. Eventually the 8%-SH ERIFF NICOLL.—The new jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murd er against some of Cor n hill i n the Court of a-IS'dblieen invited by an infl ue nti a l 9om person lni Nooi representativeEß persons To fo lsur the Council, ah k n having zi w nwx n g C body of his constituents to meet them at dinner, the re union accordingly took place yesterday evening at Tom's Coffee-house, where a very 'elegant repast was provided The chair was taken by Mr. J. Carter, who fulfilled all its duties with much ability and good taste. After the usual preliminaries the Chairman gave the to as t o f the evening, viz., " Health to Mr. ex-Sheriff Nicoll," conveying at the same time a well-deserved eulogium, on that gentleman's public career; for which Mr. Ni 01l replied, expressing his grateful acknowledgments to the electors, and assuring them of his earnest desire to deserve their good opinicn, and to maintain to the utmost of his ability the hospitable associations connected with their ancient and highly re spectable ward. The Chairman's health was followed by other appropriate toasts, when the company separated, after hearing some excellent glee and ballad singing, under the direction of Mr. Edney, assisted by Messrs. Shoubridge and Holmes. CALLS TO THE BAR, LINCOLN'S INN. —The Hil ary 30th), and they coin- I T t e n r: w c e a r l e ls n t l o ad t e he ye b s a t r er o , f iay the o H a o n t u w a u ry rable Society of Lincoln's prise the after- mentioned gentlemen :—Danby P. Fry, Esq.; St. George Mivart, Esq. ; Hilton T. Jenkins, Esq. ; Thomas A. Corlett, jun., Esq. ; Alexander H. Jenkins, M.A. ; James T. Hopwood, Esq. ; Robert W. Gilbert, MA. ; and William Freeman, Esq. ANOTHER FIRE IN BERMONDSEY.--LBEt night, shortly before twelve o'clock, a fire, which did considerable mischief, broke out in the extensive buildings belonging to Mr. Hacker, tanner, Spa-road, Bermondsey. The fire com menced from some cause not clearly ascertained, in what is termed the drying-room. This building was upwards of one hundred feet long, by thirty or forty feet wide, and at the t me of,the misfortune contained some hundred pounds' worth of property. The moment the existence of the flames be came known, numerous engines started for the scene, and there being an abundant supply of water, the flames were quickly extinguished, but not until the building in which the fire originated, together with its valuable contents, had been destroyed. The most difficult thing in the world is to talk good nonsense. No person can do it but one of first-rate ability.—Eliza cook's Journal. Tne election for. South Nottivgbaculaire takes place on_ the 10th and 11th Fekrusry. FRIDAY THE TAX ON PAPER. DEPUTATION TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Yesterday, the deputation - , appointed at the con • ference of delegates from all parts of the country, had their interview with the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the office of the Treasury, in Downing-streat, for the purpose of representing the grounds of their demand for the repeal of the tax on paper. The deputation comprised Mr. T. B. Cromp ton, Mr. Chambers (of Edinburgh). Mr. Charles Knight, Mr. Charles Dickens, Mr. P. Borthwick, Mr. John Cassell, Mr. Baldwin (of Birmingham), Mr. Towle (of Oxford), &c. The deputation was introduced by Mr. CROMPTON, who opened the interview by stating that he came there to give a plain and simple manufacturer's statement as to the oppressive operation of the tax on paper. The position in which the paper manu facturers of this country were placed had now become so desperate that be thought even, politically speak ing, the Chancellor 'of the Exchequer must allow that some alteration must be made. As a paper manufacturer, he had no hesitation in saying that it was impossible to check frauds upon the re venue ; and he did not think it creditable for a country like this to exact a duty—he would not say at the point of the bayonet—but the Govern ment was driven, and particularly in Ireland, to en force its payment by the aid of the police; and he believed that by-and-by the same course would have to be resorted to in England. The temptation to fraud was almost irresistible, and the fraudulent trader was fast driving every fair trader out of the field. The gross revenue from the paper tax was represented zo be 800,0001, but deducting the drawback on the exports and consumption of the Government offices, he estimated that the net revenue from this impost could not 'exceed 700,0001. That sum was not much to forego out of the three millions or three millions and a half surplus which the Chancellor of the Ex chequer was believed to have to spare. Ile had been forty years in the paper trade, and for thirty-eight years of that period he had been a large importer of the raw material ; but now the American, whose ma nufacture paid no duty, came and took away the very refuse from our mills in this country and manufac tured it into paper, - which competed with the paper of this country, which was subjected to an Excise duty of no less than 300 per cent. It was true the American bad to pay the freight of his raw material ; but that cost only one farthing per pound, whilst the Excise duty paid by the British manufacturer amounted to seven farthings per pound. From this simple cause the paper mills of this country were becoming closed one by one. He had applied to the chairman of the Board of Excise, on behalf of the trade, for a return of the number f mills at work, and the number closed; but Mr. Wood declined to comply with that request. Now he (Mr. Crompton) was satisfied that if the tax was taken off, within ten years it would cause at least double the present number of persons to be employed, than were now dependent on the paper manufacture. The injustice of the tax might also be seen from the fact that it amounted to 50 per cent. on wrapping paper; and he could say, that in certain cases he bad had orders for such papers from foreigners, and in those cases the foreigner had the drawback; so that the English purchaser of wrapping paper had to pay 50 per cant. more than the foreign consumer for the same article.—(Hear, hear.) The large consumers in this country bad no idea of the amount they paid to the Government. Some thought the duty might be about 5 per cent. of the price ; but the fact was, it was 50 per cent., or 5001. out of every 1,0001. they spent upon the article, that was seized by the Government. F or hi s par t, he believed that the re peal of the paper duty ought to take precedence of the repeal of the window- tax—obnoxious as the latter was—because, for every additional man the repeal of the window-tax would provide employment for, the repeal of the paper duty would employ fifty. He (Mr. Crompton) had lost several of his best workmen, who were going to America ; and if the tax wasccon tinued, he was sure the manufacturers' fast-wasting capital would soon be all gone from so unequal a com petition with the American, and he would not be able any longer to employ his men. Mr. CHAMBERS next read to the Chancellor of the Exchequer the series of resolutions agreed to at the meeting held at the King's Arms, Palace-yard, on the preceding day, and then proceeded to repeat the same arguments which be had adduced when second ing one of the resolutions in question. He said that he and his brother, having for the last twenty years been engaged in the publication of cheap and improving literature, accessible to the intelligent and aspiring me chanics of our large towns, had had ample proofs of the injurious operation of the tax on paper in crippling all important efforts in that field of enterprise. A pub lication of theirs, with a circulation of 80,000 a week, was obliged to be abandoned because they found that the Government had swallowed up all the profit. They attempted another publication one halfpenny dearer, and it circulated from 30,000 to 40,000 weekly. On the paper used for it they paid 8001. a year duty, which was exactly the same they had paid for authorship. This periodical also they had had to give notice of their intention to stop, to the great regret, he was warranted in saying, of an intelligent and respectable circle of readers. The operation of this duty was to leave the publisher no fund for re munerating suitably literary talent. Again, a rise in the price of paper was taking place; and this was be cause the American importers were sweeping all rags out of the markets of this country, and were carrying them from the Clyde almost every week in ship loads. The English papermakers, there fore, could not purchase the raw material, and if this continued it would be impossible to go on with cheap publications, that would perforate and reach down into the recesses of poverty and ignorance. He thought the Government should do everything in its power to encourage that growing class of healthful and useful popular literature that had sprung up during the last 20 years, and that had done so much good in elevating the people. Mr. C. KNIGHT said, that to obtain an improving and highly useful species of literature to be as cheap, and therefore to go into the same quarters, as the immoral and debasing literature issued from the press, there was only one course to pursue, and that was to obtain the assistance of the very best authors. He had paid about 100,000/. for authorship in the course of 20 years; and with the tax upon paper it was im possible for excellence in literature to compete with low publications paying little or nothing for author ship, being made up very much of translations of vile and demoralising French novels, and yet written with great ability. He would give an illustration. Take the case of a work like " Macaulay's History of Eng land." Supposing he paid 1,0001. to the author, and calculated on a sale of only 1,000 copies, the author ship would cost him 11. per copy ; but if be sold 40,000 copies, the authorship would only cost him 6. 1. per copy. But then came the paper duty, which, on the issue of 1,000 would indeed be only 6d. a copy, or 28/. in all ; but on the 40,000 it would still be 6d. per copy, and would thus absorb 1,0001, which was ex actly the amount that was paid for the authorship. Then the duty paid on the paper used curtailed the fund which ought to go to pay authors of first-rate excellence for works which ought to be accessible to all. Mr. TOWLE, paper-maker, of Oxford, then detailed various cases of ruin to the tenantry of paper-mills in that county, where, he said, he was the only paper manufacturer left. All this calamity he ascribed to the operation of the paper-duty, and he said he would also have been engulphed in the same ruin, but that he possessed some property independent of his busi ness. He rejoiced at the glorious privilege he en joyed of whispering these facts into the Chancellor of the Exchequer's ear. In fact he (Mr. Towle) was, as far as Oxfordshire was concerned, "the last rose of summer left blooming alone."—(Laughter.) All the rags having been bought up in his county, he had introduced straw for the manufacture of paper boxes, such as those imported from France. This straw he could buy from the farmer for 30s. per ton, and thus benefit agriculture at the same time that he benefited himself, but then the Government stepped in and ex sated fourteen guineas from a ton of worked up raw material, which was almost worthless originally, and fur which he paid the farmer only 30s. Consequently he was obliged to abandon the manufacture of these boxes, because the enormous duty made it unprofit • able, and yet they could be made at Boulogne free of duty, and imported into England at a duty of only 10 per cent. Mr. BALDWIN, paper-maker, of Birmingham, then explained that the duty on paper used as button boards and for wrapping heavy articles of Birming• ham manufacture was very oppressive, and subjected the British manufacture to an unequal competition in the markets of Europe and America. Buttons, made at Birmingham, were sold at skd. the gross, and no less than a halfpenny each gross was charged for duty on the button boards. This amounted to 10 per cent., and when it was considered that the Govern ment of the United States placed 20 per cent. duty on our manufactures, it was clear that Birmingham would not be able long to compete under such ad vantages. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS said, in the exercise of "the glorious privilege" to which a previous speaker had alluded, he also wished to make an observation or two to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. 11" only expressed the conviction he gathered from what he saw and heard every day, when he said that by reducing the amount which it was possible for publisheri to pay to authors, the paper duty conferred a positive boon on the worst species of literature. The publisher of pernicious works being, morally speaking, the most abject and degraded, did not want to pay for authorship a single farthing more than they could help ; whereas the respectable publisher of wholesome and useful literature who wished to pay the author adequate remuneration, could make no profit for himself in consequence of this duty. Th e deputation had come before the Chancellor of the Exchequer on a question of finance. Well , he (Mr, JAN UARY 31, tB5l Dickens) wished to remark that we knew on the one hand what this tax yielded, but we did not know what it cost in the way of immorality or degradation, Whether they used their own eyes and went into the worst parts of tat town, or of the other large towns of England, and there saw the thousands of demorali - sing publications circulated, or whether they read the reports of gaol inspectors and chaplains, they would find that the dissemination of low publications was at the root of much of the pauperism, crime, and many of the other social evils of the country. He would respectfully suggest, therefore, that the Government got little by this tax but odium, and although he could not agree with Mr. Crompton, that he would prefer its repeal to the repeal of the window-tax, be-, cause he believed the latter ,was chargeable with mense social and sanitary evils, still he would submit that they might repeal both. Mr. SMITH, of Bingley, wished just to observe, that the Americans not only took the raw material of paper out of this country, but sent the manufactured article into our own North American territory. Re move this duty, however, and the English manu facturer could advantageously compete with all the world. Mr. CROMPTON then banded in ninety-five memo rials, signed by upwards of 11,000 names, from vari ous parts of the country, praying for the repeal of the tax on paper ; and expressed a hope that the Govern ment, by removing the duty, would supersede the necessity for any further agitation or petitions on the, subject. Jhe CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER. then ad dressed the deputation. He said he had listened at tentively to the statements of the different gentlemen who had spoken ; but, of course, they were aware that he could not then give them any information as to what his intention was. That privilege of whis pering into his ear which had been referred to, was not, they were aware, confined to the manufac turers of paper alone; and next week, he believed, l he was to see bodies of gentlemen who complained' of having to pay taxes of almost every possible de scription. Before he made up his mind as to what course to pursue be must, therefore, hear their " whisperings," as well as those of the gentlemen present. The deputation then withdrew, THE FOURTH ESTATE.—PAPER DUTY. (From the Times.), The press, we are told, by our flatterers, is the Fourth Estate of the realm. If that be true of its power, it is still more true of its insulation. Even in its moat com prehensive sense it is an estate, and therefore a clas►. The result is, that while it can do everything for others, and is the medium of all changes, good or bad, in the community at large, it is almost utterly helpless for its own good. That will partly account for the fact, that though it provokes and collects all the complaints of other tax-payers, and transmits them to the Government and the Legislature, it is at this moment the most tax laden interest in the kingdom. The sheet before you, good reader, is taxed up to the throat. The material is taxed nearly 2d. per pound; the advertisements are taxed is. 6d. a piece; and though the sheet before us is still under the same roof as the printing machine, its publication, to the distance of about a dozen yards, entails the stamp duty of a penny. It pays all this assignable aed appre ciable taxation besides the nunieroua rates and taxes, direct and indirect—customs, excise, assessed taxes, and income•tax—incident upon our building, our servants, and the many dutiable commodities they consume. How is it that the universal friend of the distressed, the patron saint of afflicted tax- Flyers, and the agitator-general against all manner of grievances, cannot take better care of itself than to groan under this heap of taxation? The press must be a very wooden idol if, while thousands exp.ct deliverance at his hands, it cannot help itself in a strait. One reason, we suppose, is, that as the press has always been the ♦oice that called the nation to war and every other expense, so, like the trumpeter in the fable, it must pay the penalty of its too successful exhortations. But the chief cause of its burdened condition is its insu lation as a class. It can plead for others, but not for itself. This Fourth Estate, represented by a body of paper makers, publishers, writers, and editors, met on Wed nesday at an extempore hall of assembly in Palace-yard to discuss their grievances, which they yesterday laid before the Chancellor of the Exchequer. By some hippy instinct they bad picked up a few score me morials which gave a sort of public cha racter to the movement, otherwise never did anything look more like a class meeting. In fact it was the fourth estate in all its majesty —multifarious, jealous, divided, and presenting infinite varieties from the trade," with its orthodox octavos, to the amateur printer of the Working Man's Friend— from the writer of our popular novels to the publishers of our cheap miscellanies—from the man who makes paper of his own cotton waste to the man who, like the children of Israel, goes about looking for straw. Though heterogeneous, it was still one; and when it marched yesterday in solemn procession to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, he could hardly fail to think of it as of a party of gentlemen come to ask for 800,0001. a year. Indeed, some of them pay such large quotas of that sum as to help, in spite of themselves, the inevitable illusion that it is a class question. Messrs. Chambers, Charles Knight, Hall, and the other proprietors of serials or pe riodicals, pay every year as much as would make pretty fortunes divided between them and their writers. We pay the moderate sum of 16,000/. a year, exactly a fiftieth part of the gross sum raised by the duty. Now, here is the difficulty and hardship of our case. We can hardly ask for a remission of duty with a decent face. The Times was not represented in the deputation yesterday. Had it been, Sir Charles Weod, who was evidently half worried, half amused with the conference, might have said to our re presentative, "I can understand your objection to the tax very well, for it amounts to a penchant for 16,0001. a year over and above your present receipts." As far as we can see—though the result might undeceive us— this would be a true account of the matter. The paper duty only amounting to a small fraction of a penny on each paper, we should still be obliged to charge the present fivepence to the public; while competition would keep paper down at the present price, minus the duty. How could we go to ask the Chancellor of the Ex chequer fur the salary of a Lord Chancellor or an Arch bishop? Of course we shall be most happy to accept it, and if it is possible to spend more money on the paper to any purpose w e are ready to do so; but in the first in stance, at all events, it is asking for 16,0001. a year Others are in the same case. Hence the unavoidable. class character of the movement; hence the difficulty there is in getting up a good popular movement against the paper duty. Such a difficulty we presume there must be, else more than a few thousand names would have been collected to the memorials presented yesterday to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In honest truth, and putting our own interests out of the question—thinking, also, with Mr. C. Dickens that the window tax is a degree worse than the paper tax— we still believe the latter to be a very great evil. The hardships stated yesterday by the manufacturers and publishers almost surpass belief, were it not notorious that some hundreds of paper mills have been totally ruined by the duty and no longer exist, while cheap periodicals of immense circulation and the best and soundest matter have been stopped by this single item of their cost. The public ought to know that in cheap publications, dependent for success upon very large issues, there is a direct antagonism between the cost of authorship and the paper duty. With a sale of 50,000 copies a publisher can afford to pay his authors very handsomely and to employ great variety of talent; but that circulation is not attainable unless the raw material—the paper—be cheap. They who have no commisseration for publishers will perhaps have some for authors. Poor authors! Without caste, without profession, without promotion—incapable of office, un known to the Treasury, unemployed, unennobled, unre warded, and, except in some rare instances, unpensioned —there exists not a more pitiable class, though the spread of education is continually adding to their num bers. As a general rule, their only hope lies in the re sources at the command of the publisher; but when the Chancellor of the Exchequer steps in and levies 5,0001. or 6,0001. from, say. the Art Journal, before it has yielded one penny of profit to its enterprising proprietor, what chance is there of artists and authors being paid as they deserve? The poor fellow w hose profession is his pen is not only excluded froth every department of the public service, but actually robbed of that which is his ,own—that capital which his pen bas created— for he that taxes paper taxes the pen that gives it cur rency and value. (From the Post.) It will hardly, we presume, be disputed that the pri mary object of the financial statesman, whenever he happens to be placed in a position to inaugurate any modifications of taxation, which however cunningly de vised, cannot but be in some degree disagreeable and re strictive, is to select for preferential abolition or reduc tion those taxes which are levied on manufactures, in respect of which we have, both in domestic and external markets, to struggle with foreign rivals, and which operate restrictively on our ability successfully to ncom pete with those rivals in quality and in coat of proq . ne g ti . , _ The Times, in urging the advisability of repetrvie window duty rather than that which deavoured, and we believe successfully endweesiv: show, presses upon the manufacture of to stand upon so manufacturer—for we have not taken net so injurious, not merely to the intte,ru-eralr of the mere of the community, u s re w d, an to . narrow a ground—hut to the interes or ignored this es appears entirely to have overlooked sential and guiding principle. Possibly it may ped the observation of the was involved in the weigh ing of the respi-etkve Times that this consideration of windows and pap er , f or a remission of exci se possibly our cont emporary , iurstog surpicion that th e a d opt i on o f may ha v e ha d 11 this princ iple might ultimately lead to an unavo id a b le e of d competition. !'barn once described a r es the principle 0 ays of 0 n o f the p so r u ot n e l c n t.e e" shelterin g your domestic ma riuftietur, rs, whether in home or in external markets, f ro m being overwhelmed by the advancing tide of foreign production. One ine de is to impose upon the importer of the results of foreign industry and 'capital duties for the enjoyment of the privilege of access to your own markets, of such an amount as shall prevent his unfairly underselling the domestic producer; and the other is to enable the domestic producer, by the remission of any duties which are peculiar to his branch of industry, and which enhance to him the cost of manufacture, to bring his produce into market at the lowes price of the world. It is to the application of the principle of protection, in its last-mentioned shape, that our cotton manufacture owes, in a great measure, its present unexampled deve lopment and greatness. I: was not possible to protect the British cotton-spinner by the imposition of Customs duties on the import cf foreign commodities, nor was that indeed, in 'that case, where the shoe ptuched. His battle-field was abroad, not at home ; sad it was is fo reign marts that he had to struggle againsit rivalry and competition. Well! how did the Legislate re deal with his case ? Why, by relieving him from thi j pressure of Excise duties which - viihanced the cost of production. The result is notorious to the least consider ate observer. Now, it is precisely this mode of treatment It 'hich we are desirous of seeing applied to our now, we rt-gret to say, declining paper manufacture, declining not so.much in ex tensiveness, as_in what is far more important as affecting the capital of the country—the rate and amoant of profit. We confess that when we first turned our attention to the condition of the paper manufacture in thiS country, we had no just idea of the extent of its industrial im portance, or of the degree of repression which it is ,suf fering from the operation-of the duties imposed ; upon it. There is, perhaps, no branch o f i n d ustry. the vicissi tudes of which,from its birth to the present time, present so cemplete an illustration of the effectieof taxation upon its development. Progressing gradually' from its feeble beginning in the reign of Elizabeth to a strength and importance which, in an evil hour, a tt racte d the at tention of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, 'driven to his last shifts for ways Y and meatus, if xuf fered on the imposition, and, during the continuwnoe of its first and most unjust taxation, met severe and serious depression, but sprung again into position on the reduction of the duties with au elasticity indica tive of the highest strength and vitality. Immediately subsequent to the grant of that measure of relief, an,e x ., traerdinary impulse was given to this madnfacture,„and no doubt large profits were made by those who had embarked their capital in it. But what is the condition of the trade at the present moment ? and why are the paper manufacturers press ing for a remissiou of the duty still remaining' on their production? and why are we, as public joarnaiistiwtirg ieg their claims in preference to many others? Because they are alarmed by finding that their rate of.proat is steadily and continuously decreasing under the pressure of foreign competition, and because they apprehend that the result of the struggle in which they are engaged will be, should the Govern ment unhappily listen to the louden clamour instead of the strongest argument, the displacement of British by Continental labour. And we do not hesitate to say that, after.taking the greatest pains to inform our selves upon the subject, We are convinced that that Alarm and that apprehension are just and Well-founded. Now, we will place before our readers one out of a thousand instances which have come to our knowledge kills course of our inquiries into the merits of the case, and which has, with others of the same character, had its share in guiding us to a conclusion. The AmeriCans are engaged at this moment in purchasing in this coun try, for import into the United Slates, the raw materiel for the supply of their paper mills; they have., the„,ex• peruse, of course, of the freight of a bulky article to pay, ID addition to the cost price here, yet they can afford— such is the pressure of the Excise duty upon our own manutacturers—to work it up, in spite of these prelimi nary expenses, at so cheap a rate that they are now effecting sales in our own colonies at so low a piing that they have driven the British salesman out of the market. . We shall, no doubt, be met by a reference to the Board of Trade returns, snd we shall be told—oh, but look under the head of exports; why, under all this dis couragement of which you talk, there is a positive in• crease in the export trade in paper. We acknowledge unhesitatingly that it is so; but we answer in this case precisely as we have answered on former occasions to the allegations of general commercial prosperity, sup ported by references to the exports, as set forth in re turns of the Statistical Department of the Board of Trade, that the amount of exports of any manufactured article affords no true measure of the prosperity of the trade, or of its value to the country. Tell us what profit accrues upon the sales, and we will tell you what addi tion it renders to the capital of the nation. Now, what are the claims of the window-fax as com pared with those of paper? The window -tax, we ad mit, is most unquestionably unpopular, though not to the degree to which the Times and its clients would fain persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer it is. It is offensive in its operations, unequally adjusted, and awkward in its working; but after all it is only a per sonal tax. It does not with directness injuriously affect to the investment of capital and the employment of labour, as the paper tax does. On the contrary, capital employed in the building and purchasing of houses yields, as is well known, a very good return; nor, above all, does it, as the continuance of the paper duty does, put a most important branch of domestic industry to the imminent hazard of being displaced by foreign enter prise. And for these, and other reasons, on which we have insisted on former occasions, we again beg to join our voice to that of the deputation, whose interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday will be found reported in another part of our paper, in urging upon him most earnestly the primary importance of relieving their manufacture from the tax which so heavily presses upon its further development, and even renders its pre sent footing most preoarious. MISTAKEN IDENTITY. PARDON OF MR. GOLDSMID. It will be recollected that Mr. John Goldsmid was tried at the last Middlesex Sessions before Mr. Sergeant Adams, for an assault alleged to have been committed by him on George Treveman, an excite officer, and after a trial which occupied a considerable time, found guilty and sentenced to an imprisonment of three months. Im mediately after the trial Messrs. Lewis, of Ely-place, who defen.led Mr. Goldsmid, having, from the instruc tions they had received, felt confident of the innocence of Mr. Goldsmid, proceeded to obtain evidence in addi- Lion to that given at the trial, with the view of laying the whole body of testimony before Sir George Grey. Assisted by the efforts of Mr. Goldsmid's family, and numbers of his friends, his solicitors, produced fifteekt declarations upon the eubjeot, and forwarded them to the judge who tried the unlucky defendant. While this was in the possession of Mr. Sergeant Adams the inno cence of Mr. Goldsmid was placed beyond all doubt by the appearance of Wm. noggins, the person who bad, as was slated, committed the assault, and who came forward to take upon himself the responsibility and to relieve the individual erroneously charged from the im putation against him. Mr. Sergeant Adams, name dtately upon hearing the statement of Mr. noggins, and Messrs. Lewis having reduced that statement to ads. claration on oath, addressed the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and the result was that within half an hour of the presentation of the document yes terday Mr. Goldsmid was liberated from custody with a free pardon—the pardon being of course a mere form, but necessarily arising from the fact that the verdict of the jury was " guilty." UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. MINERALOGY. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 30.—The Professor of Mineralogy has given notice that kis lectures will commence On Thursday, Feb. 20. These lectures will be given on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from two to three o'c:ock, in the Mineralogical Museum, under the west end of the new library. Gentlemen who attend these lectures with the inten. tion of obtaining the professor's certificate, which, by grace of the Senate (Oct. 31, 1848) is now required under certain conditions for the degrees of 8.A,, Hono rary M.A., and 8.C.L., must be provided with the pro fessorial lecture-ticket, for which they are requested to apply to the registrary, or to their college tutor. Gentlemen who do not require the certificate ere ad mitted gratis. Efforts are being made to establish school •f design in the " faithful " city of Worcester with a ♦iew to the improvement of the porcelain and other manufactures there. The maltsters of Ware met last week and agreed to petition Parliament for a remission of the additional duty of 51. per cent. imposed, in 1840, on the amount of tin malt duty. APPREHENSION OF A MURDERER IN LIVRIPOOLe— In the month of November, 1842, Mr. James Scully, a ma gistrate of the county of Tipperary, was barbarously mur dered near to his own residence, at killfeacie. The mur derer eluded the vigilance of the police, notwithstanding that a reward of 2001. had been offered for his apprehension. On Tuesday night be was given into the custody of the Li verpool police, through the instrumentality of his wife, whom he had deserted. The alleged murderer's name is Andrew Coffee. He was taken before Mr. Rushton, sad ordered to be sent to Ireland. :fiolreytehredliasuPantachie: ---- enlng there siere A LARGE MAIL.—On Monday eV-- • tier ," (besides a bout _ at one time not fewer than 90,0ti0 €1 of re the correspondence office—the ship-letter office. They ,_ a ,,„.. 5 ; or prepared to be die -40,000 newspapers) in one departmen w t e l received from America by ti e A ls ' fi l io % o n Saturday next. The the Liverpoo l rest. patched to America by 8 Times. from any post-office. JI L T ve ic 7; Er MOONLIGHT.--011 Africa will probably SHIP LATINO"' preparations were made at the ship yard of Wednesday last Hessen and Messrs. ered) barque, of 525 tons burden, named , copp . of a splemlida. an ItlBlesu:etjahirsgepitrint eminent Greek firm in Londom. A.large Syria, built" persons were assembled, anxiously • ' wetting to ocourse 0 co the interesting event. The shipwrights' sledge witness drove in the wedges, and the ship sledge hammers was . ultimately pronounced, to be ready. " Stand clear ' was the ,order, and the " dogshores " knocked away, but the ship con• tinued in her position, and although the screws were used to force the vessel into her destined element, it was all in vain, and this disappointed the anxious curiosity of many hundreds of persons then assembled, who, soon afterwards, rapidly dispersed. Immediately the vessel was .replaced on her blocks and the " ways ' got ready again, by being soaped and greased, and at about three o'clock the ' next morning, being then very moonlight, the ship was launched in gallant style, and, although thus early in the morning, a conEiderable number of spectators were present. The vessel is the largest ever built at Rye, and is pronounced an excellent model. She is intended for the Mediterranean , trade. . • A RAILWAY TRAIN ATTACKED Bl rthAe approaching,B l e a st u 0w . a 7 .0:1. The mail train on Wednesday night narrowly _ear-s ue Fl°:_in,lF. and re i 3 light s er m°BB en o g n u Y t the thrown off the rails between Headcorn full tilt against the i the bullock which had strayed from a drovewh il e the as t) body h b a yp y i t n h g s rail.t gate, Th whendro Ye r the l i ad mail-train succeeded in 7 v aalsruitnans se enti hoef w et ' b g i i c n h e, tn w e i tbheiatsst tailnaa deindtihreectdlrr.t°T/ It shock w was tb e stopped, occur r e b n u ce t . toc lu eed aideten ed on e engine and was dashed to pieces, e of 60 yards from the lace been picked up at a distance where the colli,ion occur!e • e n ascertaininggine-d engine-driver, i t• e r , tibn a eci n i d s enrt.a.ehtteui ortliei ont and taken care of by Memory.--.. Journal. Experience-knowledge sold at a high price by THB WINDOW-TAI.—A spirited and unanimous E M g a ort coo nne h meeting in favour of a repeal of the window-tax was held under the presidency of the mayor, in the Guildhall, Ply mouth,The Rev. Robert Eden, Rector of Leigh, Essex, ' t s o .iournat hasbeen Bi sho p oneleWeteeddnesda-. of the diocese of. Rose and Moray, in the Episcopal Church of Scotland, by a maj ority 0 fi re te two, in succession t o tile Right Rev. Biihop Low