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ic a osq: till I , tie lePl O O 1 11°I. feA gd; thi l4 o tt l for 0 , 2 1 58 li f i ; of s _ A O °7o# :** - 4> u ed , '17 6 rOO LITER ATURE. , LIVES OF TAIE QULENS OF SCOTLAND. l'.°l ' ll . By Agnes 6triddanvd. Blackwood and Sons. Our aLtiwpatlons ill regsr i to ties very noble series 14 haTsephies is being fully realized. The' second e ''stelinent of the work demonstrates, in every chap arming the aptitude of the authoress for these most e tc'iartning compilations. Beyond which, it must b . 0)54N that every additional page confirms r us i c i i i . fAs..r admiration for the ever visible impartiality of Stricklaud as an historian. It was observed most admirably of Mr. Macaulay, by the reviewers th rall frhie annals in Blachwoods Magazine —a critic ge thaaaloly uilderstood to be no less important a person that h e 3 diatieguished contemporary, Mr. Alison— hi ,was called to the bar and not to the bench of etivtlsoressNal°lt tbu4' Alison-- tort', popular however, is it with our who'se opinions open the characters and ;(!..nta crowded together in the annals of the . United d atillug*.en. are e.xpreased in terms as well-considered f unimpassioned as any summing up that ever fell her the lips of the most conscientious judge. It i peee ß °, B ' e 'sion of this quality more conspicuously, to mu spa ' Ulan any other which has tended pro to elevate f or m the Miss Strickland's reputation... eees?the numerous evidences of impartiality af , be , her writings in reference to questions of Cum leerable delicacy and importance, a certain weight ;e4aat length become attached to whatever she has fr i 8 ieri subsequently. Confidence has been se! .e a . ef te P re re d be , her former effusions that those w e I 1 a i c 1 3 ., tepteeedards are given to the world are at onlevhile, c ep with feelin g of alacrity and reliance. renaste_eir!eeeiss Strickland has thus rendered herselt coe t i tv ",°l for her truthfulness as a narrator, she has fiv e b strived to render her narrative at all times attra.c the in 3: th® charms of her very graceful style, and by eew,„'eeest arising out of her anecdotal illustrations. h less7,th. at Clio is a severe muse, she has, nevert :. Ptill4 e. e al,d the danger of rendering her severit . ° natt er " 'No nneritrieious ornaments of rhetoric are r are ‘, tbronX through her volumes, although . y As elehaaseout brilliant with oratorical decorations.. her fee attti so freq 4 .. e ntly and truthfully told us in h kltiqtateluo,tation from . Beaumont,. " the treasures esPeeed,e7 laid up in old historic scrolls" she has 4 411 4 end from these records of the past she o ,hihirt:rifaby succeeded in extracting passages t' 81 4,argettea merit and incidents, sometimes the prize4Ptrising beauty. Her opening volume of %g of l erieS we took occasion to commend, in . e t its 4,1,1° inconsiderable earnestness, at the f 'e e l ~,.• appearance. We augured well for E li the . tistr'ee'uner celebrated " Lives of the Queens of "Lives Of the "t'lttl,t,ilet splendid commencement of her ilieet a‘ntlecos of Scotland." The reflection copse °lllY,teaphd there -examination of that opening tllliteatel.;l) t° : assure us in this conviction of i volum t e s 154b leetee e et.og reco g ni sed as an authority ; andthe • . e-414181 er; ," nt the second volume—the one here under 7.l.ereeiettlan--only confirms nein the opinions alreadyan :si.._"lstOrloo 4 regard to the merits of the work as keedenecicoinposition. e a b, tie eo • . Its contents may be briefly io lighting of the concluding chapters of the graphy o f 1, I t a n t . 4r tn i : e rb il ta o f 'lth4erYL O a f dy Lorraine a r a e n t d p t o h u e g lil a h s- ole th o e t .11 - I , : T eekt , a: t.b.:oscenelyes the Countess of Lennox ) and the it b ook °oUld sots) than be more enticing in subject to l•To ro ,Ntit t :!° . b ? like the one before us, undertakes 0 _ 1 ,7 . e_ leeiC histories of the mothers, respectively . 1. tb„ llllll ateL 4B „. 4 , ,4rY Queen of Scots and of the un to) fiitlie.l3o4,"°-uaralty.Aschapters preliminary ea, 111-feexirecorcl of the fortunes of those memo t r o a t b t h le e N ee 0, Persona_ Ze rgori: i the sea those here submitted to t, be Abe le ., weleoal ft d in g public will, we doubt not, we it ache ye,fauelariu:esehrhydingrery sentence in tha snor e • t attitt le tlah, of tae acid refi t e b o e tiv v e er a y m ollg careful the attention stodeots e United Kingdom.As embellish- Pe stee; ° t he ree ft '" Seri etttlY Published portion of this im )tnettisN• :as otifib,ioAraphies, we have a t s r t a he engraved it of Mar leetiationglaa ftaly c haracteristic por . Svet), ef the ‘ . 1 (11 an original painting t 4 (l4l aite ~4 4 of Rorton, at Dalinahoy i : l ;s at u try of Ln'lgnette a t n h d e a c a ol a - Pitt'444) kf rair le in ft thegroup ae tthe Both of figures showing re p re s e n o t -. nith e s) it e, hat §tuart, to Sir Ralph Sadler. 4 411 1(1 Ilt Just ,tlt itht. en a b le , . to remark, have been executed ‘a k - .4 44 44, but- sag' on the part, not only of the t'seesZPYte 4 of the engraver likewise. Appended . ge tilh e eie eletter Of Q 4 i , s omewhat ungrammatically e t x . kee s k a t !, 41 one Page a facsimile of the au o e it :At 'ti a - 1 of Lorraine and in another 11-esi„, e , , llcithsts.eui: euist c r"e of a rather more correctly r4 sni • s'' tlf ''"e that of Margaret Douglas , f 0 ' t 411 41)131 r tho •hi p the way, very tip 13tIrp -11,Y. 'Vire naention these ) particulars a es. t a , 4 , of a h which the oeB,:"eci w e the care with l/ 0 "e th e ' at e "s' nave entered upon :11.1e ,4tiolialkti, afied, to reflect so much a publication "euld 1 1 - 4 k, ho 'ierature. Reverting to the merits w Nas ed ere her obwever, as a literary composition, s 1111 lioe at the v e that the attention of the reader i tpleale:betB.; hese: e el. , outset of the present volume, our L e dtte d '', of Dios issted with a peculiar interest the ch r4ecle,-;,443, , el-ernes V.—that death bed will gapah-e, Ise43l.°(' e.,orraine to widowhood, and ime 44 i 141il itie; 44 d, as they proved in the end, fatal 41 40 (414 to e - " the head of his infant daughter. fore or , ea r , ut e '' w einee thewhether his new born child * were of seglilelittle-ereiseu'itiMonarch almost immedia in te a ly to b n e e ee hte 11,1, , th .erregated the messenger fair k ph r. ~ ° being that it was " ane . Ig o qi e Fa rewell t. 4 t refe..„ , exclaimed the 1 "() th e 4sneel says Miss Strickland, fare i nal 4 hoed ern wo of Scotland : it King, , with . came with 4 1 4411 01 it will t 4 'i 01 Y ebb, i pass with a. i t fial • ° W, e ' 41 4 , th e r 1 continues the biographer of - lat'l gal Poet havin g chosen that noun tis"%ou (atilt he 1 P L otil sc "loin r y used in Scotland fora girt), -44 t se lei alas ) wh i ch he twice repeats the sorrowful baeN ltt atie l lile h express the disappointment of his eTetiatifrore°lltii;a4 And so," she . re,s,umeds, so o ga h in e a.kti,L 4 dhi aw s aY of Pitscottie, an d nith - ",eie 1 elll' to Altai ht God, and turned his 1 °4 h cl-s "". f g 3' wall." With the ace to the tlhte her %thee -, -. 15 141enee, I. ' kary B,' Kin James V., the history of his tte s • l ilth oe h ' Al ert, May be said literally to coin fe Os -g that lop °f* s, . latt and most famous of all the pi. ~ -ot ikuo 11, trlil t v the hoe " w as then only in her earliest in -,5 -, lori - ~e of tza r k IVI N ' ar e io .Y Stuart and the history ;ni l -e of the extricably woven together during e lit hg e th e , e „hour ia etiLeAaered existence of the former, 17 °1 1r e i iraleee to she first drew breath in Lin ,,es 4 eeeeee the moment of her terrible and i 4 tlithi .tiori Noll ; le 88 • 1 1 the scaffold at the behest of restatit, +rely°, Queen Elizabeth. From .th q te a • 4erefore that mi ss Strickland te te _Oilli a , dep artu ) a 'at alt g interest re of James V., a new and tolierreLteceed-t(;'‘thenters into her narrative, the in 11111,P1417 well as 0 " career of one of the most ill , ne m e b. d etao One of the most beautiful and ac -I"like 'Nnad e n g the more celebrated women of the 1 4 nc e t i l l ed the 'file—that Princess whose fate has 11 ' 1 %1 4 e day, it:Ympatbies of' so many great poets te e 4 of the Which she ex Mar Stuart, the te A tea trag ed . e , •P, y, 0 1 1l ill ost i Y ( it iocbille , ti the subject of some 1444 %tri o , Is lovel y and . . patnetic verses of those " 14 (1 e % IN -8 vards--the one the national bard of her I ler Ilf har t ' l' Snug ii •aoR adcmt l ad, and the other the national eth et . th -AN It ij.ed Country France—Burns and 4Ptice 1 „ • g d ew . interesting to trace the sad and ted)iNkt Wee hies of this extraordinary woman from dee: atlcitiu t.heir first development becomes per ...kike ktb , 4 , aVl tig air . 411 i , B l to lit BerrOw Thtti-etpaate-d'ariLto it Withil s andeaokt- perused the tale of love spe:ndour, as breathlesstold by Lucy m e o f recuriosity tv eo 11411 tea ° Y th e Strickland. hot 1 11 °W e f v olum e 1• P Agnes we can 433'4 .tll;hta ° IcloUstolir least Quee n " ourdesk 4 tth Peril e child -Queen through many of her il k 4 %. •151 t 8 naernorable vicissitudes. We h 4 bein ) we flee by Henry VIII. for her ab• t h ~s. oar . , those sinister endeavours foiled by he,' 'Carl lell awn with her mother to . Stirling re ' 4O ll a of Lea 00p iti 4 t of h 40 x and Bothwell ; we listen to L. - el" e arl _ . ; ese tt Phi a ,''`) le e h„,.. t. Y coronation we hear of her p;neit i 1 of e ar TuLionie ; of her marriage to the sli • 4 Fr anc departure %tie Dumbarton • of her As !eioer e • net ' .' 1 1 stei rl y tu he l of all those events which were btts ait g r ather 1" retur i n to the Scottish kingdom th ' 1 6, 440 11 ( 4 oe 4rgelY pg the way for the 41 4 f 3 ki l l be o,l,lrrence, the memoir of Margaret 1 4 e t rt 4 ry of T is3uncl scarcely less interesting than „,0.(1,t.he r ie _7:irrai o , . so that the second instal -441114'4111 b e ? Z ia aeries 0 c i + °. itoyal Lives of Miss Strick t ase,s. Proeo44(l f ee k „ be e minently successful in ex -3;!1 4 ' ''t hat our. e !"ng of curiosity as to its suc . - its V oo 0 d. l°3l tY ) we doubt not, will be grate 'Nee r Mare 4 - me s e e -, memoir—with Mary Stuart b o 7, 1-I...ties Strickland as her biographer. .41,.....5, ---___ leliaPlik:D -AND PROFANE. By It tit 4 j at - c d rrright. z an and Co. jtll(i lavt°l4,4leret,°rY r etna ° rk ng s Ir t ‘ he author of the pre r. lir 4 'oet.f: g `"'ell to the world his estimate of th r i h 4 . Rt i 3 1V ortahtlareattia.abilities. Regarding the late 3 t ' geritt. 8 13`)soibly the most overrated man Ile rlti . leo ~,,, Nli i %il l u ' ~rnUat confess to having perused z,„ 4,,„ 41j,Ition nis ' t ,„ w ritiogs with a feeling of very 4 hk,ew ,, ,i,c o n . 4-tr. Wright has formed opinions ti 441°1 4 1°11 R eat Precis Precisely coincident with those -°a of Of that rtllilled ourselves. He considers the ititijtieriliti so-called herd as a mere accumula ci • "• With caeouelied in the boldest language, and tee L ii ap e ,, e 4 runs o f - f 1 ,v izt Metaphors of the most silly A its °l'daw, ° d'eseti ti Speaking of Shelley te ll of e t , Irth as _ P 01.. n et . et attt: _ th e as °tie it:low:resed with e ach other, he sej i itif a i c _o x , ead o i, ix, tUriating in a re o u a danc -of ti ets ' a sh,e e l ,Peei eilt to the other driven t . ti ll man Y ner te,,,b4pre .urth er 0 identity himself be t `ler ~Plee look i ° .he observes, with an earnest with its n pos -83 k° i , -4 look r'dignation, that "no judicious r , ,),,,„ ttl rtlett ,Pae ned u Poe the inane metrical ver • e Nair J W world te, tl tr etia Afl oat f Ili,non the fashionable 4, 41 4 14 eunf er e,e,llng painfully conscious that lie... W r i,,rta lle. „ "erne;) upon Wordsworth was a na il:4 hi, t o t there 111 illustration of his meaning 4144114; f(itio4teertajoizinati:°°th: Il b d a r u g l g a ei e s , himself, and we be with sundry very Certlstole, thitu these nothing SUN, could be more silly or more fantastic. Fancy a man, on seeing a robin iii chase of a butterfly, writing— " Galld Father Adam optu his eyes, And .t - ee this siffhG heil , atil the skies, he'd wish to close them again." Fancy him addressing a sexton thus : " Mark the spot to which I point! From this platiorm eight feet square, Take not even a finger joint, Andrew's whole fireside is there." Fancy him describing one of his precious heroines in this manner : " She dwelt among the untrodden ways, Beside the springs of Dove; A maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love." Fancy him, moreover, on bearing of the death of a brother, pouring out his sorrows in this exceedingly natural strain:— " Sea, ship, drowned, shipwreck, so it came, The meek, the bravo, the good, was gone; . Ho who had bean our living John Was nothing bat a name." Fancy his calling this poetry : " Such seemed this man, not all alive nor dead, Nur ail asleep--in his extreme uld age." Or this— " A human being destined to awake To human life, or something very near To human life." Or this— Calm did he sit under the - wide-spread tree Of his old age; and yet less calm and meek; Winningly meek or venerably calm, Than slow and torpid." Fancy his singing of the spring time, when - " the patient ptiniroke sits Like a beggar in the cold;" or employing in regard to a dead limb a simile so very novel and exquisite as this — "I raised, while kneeling by his side, His hand: it dropped like lead." Fancy this man writing— His limbs would toss about him with delight Like branches when strong winds the trees annoy;" or again— " That tall man, a giant in bulk and in height, Not an inch of his body is free from delight; Can keep himself still, if ho would? oh, not be! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree." Fancy this man squatting himself down before a thorn and thus musing upon it : " There is a thorn—it looks eo old, ; In truth you'd find it hard to say How it could ever have been young, It looks so old and grey." And then fancy him deliberately enstalled as the Poet-Laureate of England, and worshipped as the originator of a new era and the thunder of a new school in the annals of our national literature ! Really after this it was rather too hard upon Mr. Wakley to abuse him for asserting that he could write poetry like this by the mile ! But that the late Mr. Words worth could accomplish worse things even than any , of those we have above particularised, it is only ne cessary in proof to extract a single passage from Mr. Wright's "Introduction" to his present volume. This passage has reference to Mr. Wordsworth's "Anecdote for Fathers," "in which," says Mr. Wright, " he says he has a boy of five years old, with whom he walked and talked one morning, as was his custom, with their quiet home all full in view.' His own musings recurred to Kilve's delightful shore, where they had resided a year previously. Kilve he thought was a favoured place,' and so is Liswyn farm.' In very idleness' be asked the boy whether he preferred to be on Kilve's smooth shore,' or at Liswyn farm ?' At Kilve was the answer? Why ? the boy knew not why • and being pressed for a reason, he hung down his head' and blushed with shame,' but remained silent. Three times the in terrogatory was put ; when the boy raised his head, and seeing a vane upon the housetop, replied— "' At Kilve there was no weathercock And that's the reason why.' "Pleased with the evidence of childish sagacity, he exclaims— " ' 0 dearest, dearest boy! my heart For better lore would seldom yearn, Could I but teach the hundredth part Of what from thee I learn.' "If the poet's admirers be sufficiently versed in the profound to discover the worth attached to this revelation, they can better deal with the problematical than I can. To me it would seem that for the sake of bringing this child into ridicule, fif teen stanzas were written, which, whether viewed in regard to their meanness of diction, or poverty of idea, should serve as well to show that he was the veritable son of the writer," Well may we find it observed of the writer of such twaddling nonsense, corrected and uncorrected as it was, that he exemplified in himself the truth of the proverb "Nil sine magno vita labore dedit morta libus." And well may Lord Byron exclaim , i n re gard to the excessively vulgar persons celebrated by Mr. Wordsworth in his versification—such persons as Betty Foy and Susan Gale, as Goody Blake and Harry Gill, as Alice Fell and Peter Bell, cum cateris paribus— Pedlars,' and boats,' and ' waggons!' Oh! ye shades Of Pope and Dryden, are we come to this?" Yet this is the man who is crammed down our throats as a Poet, almost as the Poet, certainly as the Poet of Nature—as it common sense alone would not be suf ficient to make us recoil before this unsurpassable dis pley of facetious puerility and preternatural silliness. Turning from the subject of Mr. Wright's criticism to his own metrical productions, we must at once avow in their regard to having experienced a very grievous disappointment. Agreeing as we did so thoroughly with everything he save in his " Introduction, we must acknowledge that we were predisposed to be gratified with his own effusion, and in mere grati tude for our common sympathy, to be enabled to yield him a full meed of commendation. Not such, however, we regret to say have been the results of our dispassionate perusal of his volume. We look upon it as a curiosity, certainly—seeing that it con sists of love songs and such like things, not one line of which was composed before the author had entered on his fortieth year—but assuredly we look upon it as nothing more remarkable in any particular. Mr. Wright has sung of all sorts of little flowers, and all sorts of little WI ds, and all sorts of little fantastic themes of every conceivable species. Ile has lines to the " Snowdrop," and lines to the " Crocus," and lines to the "Hyacinth," and lines to the " aisy," and lines to the " Violet," and lines to the "Nar cissus," and lines to the "Buttercup," and lines to the " Bluebell." He has verses on the " Sparrow," and on the "Eagle," and on the "Thrush," and on the "Blackbird," and on the " Cuckoo," and on the " Skylark," and on the " Swift," and on the " Skylark" again, and on the " Crow," and on the Cuckoo" again, and on the "Swift" again, and on other denizaus of the air besides. He indites all kinds of amatory stanzas to "Amanda," to "A Lady," to " A Lovely Maiden," to Lucretia," to "Her I Love;' to "Ellen," to "A Lady Sleeping," to "A Lady de votedly Attached to the Person of a foolish Man," and to other ladies under very peculiar circumstances. He gives us now a "Midnight Study," and now a " Noontide Reflection," now a sonnet on a " Garden Slug," now some lines to a "Fly," now some verses to a "Jug," and with these a variety of other equally attractive and bewitching lucubrations. Occasionally, of course, he rises a trifle or so above mediocrity—a circumstance scarcely to be wondered at even with his extraordinary inaptitude for the production of anything pretending to the merits of poetry, when it is considered that the volume extends to the length of very nearly 350 pages octavo. One of the prettiest stanzas in the whole book is that which occurs at page 5, where the author says, or sings, of the snowdrop— " In lightsomo green it breaks the ground, By fostering nature led; And having faintly glanced around, Hangs down its beauteous head." Sometimes, but for the avowal already referred to as discernible in the "Introduction," we should have at tributed the verses here presented to our notice not as the effusions of a man past forty, but as those rather of a stripling of a very warm and impassioned temperament. The erotic address to " Amanda," for example, is sufficiently bold in its amatory en thusiasm to have been penned even by Little. But then we recollect, to be sure, that no man is safe from the darts of Cupid even though he has passed his grand climacteric—and the Lord High Chancellor Eldon is known to have been a customer at the forge of Gretna, having figured before the world rather late in life as the hero of an elopement. And then, Mr. Wright is only just past fort! Another little frag mwheenrte sopeaflikiig dsoeserves mention at ou r hands as containing a sor t o f v i g nette embellishm ent ; it is, c a f rr t e b s e ted cubcykotoh,yhleay? observes— " The c hild, Yet agreeable Stands listening with devoted hear t, DropsA ndwonders from its hand the blooming spray , ontdbearusgwhhattbdeeaveicefrtahgomu fragments—( angel's Like angel's visits few and far bet ween")—maY be, they can scarcely comp ensa t e f or suc h a very large assem blage of very indifferent versification. If anything can expiate the guilt incurred by the latter particular, it will be the clever and sarcastic criticism (prefixed to the volume) Wordsworth. upon the writings of the l a te Mr. LIVERPOOL, TUESD XT.—The Boston and Liverpool Steam-ship Company's new screw -steamer, S. S. Lewis, Captain Cole, a rr i ved in the ider.-ey this morning, fro Boston. She was towed into the river by two steam tugs. The S. S. Lewis sailed for this port on the 4th inst. at noon, and experienced heavy E, and N.E. winds until the morning of the [sth, when she encountered a violent gale from the N.E., and had the misfortune to lose her propeller, being at the time 85 miles to the westward of Cape Clear, and 106 days at sea. On the 16th inst. at seven P.M., 35 miles west of Cape Clear, she passed the United States mail steamer Pacific, Captain Nye, for New York. Th e S. S. L ew i s is a lint specimen of naval architecture. A fire occurred last night on hoard the screw-steamer Genova, but it was extinguished with slight damage. The screw st eam-ship Mars, trading between this port and Waterford, burst her boiler on Satur day last, on her passage from the latter port. No injury was suatailted by gie crew Arid paueugeve • • THE SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. WEDNESDA TIMES : —Tne executive is undoubtedly the weak side of the ultra-democratic theory of government. It is very well to tell us that the people are the only source of legitimate power, and that all functions — legislative, ja and executive, are only delegates to individuals of the inherent might of the body poli tic. This resolution of all questions of government into the relation of principal and agent works pretty well so long as the matters in question are compli cated, and such as the masses, though claiming the right, have not the power to manage for themselves. But in the simpler acts of popular sovereignty there is always danger lest the ruling democracy should sweep aside its delegates, and exercise the powers of government in its own person. This we presume to be the theory upon which the acts of Lynch law, now so unfortunately associated with the name of Cali fornia, are defended by the thousands who give their presence and approval to their perpetration. Some such sedative to the conscience there must be, for it is impossible to conceive that thousands of persons who have been instructed, however imperfectly, in their duties as citizens and Christians, should applaud the perpetration of a gross insult to popular sove reignty and a wilful and deliberate murder, did they view the matter in that light. Yet what sophism can be more transparent ? The people who make the law and appoint the Executive are the whole population of the State, legally convened and solemnly delibera ting, The people who set aside the .Executive, and take the law into their own hands, or rather abrogate it altogether, are a multitude casually collected, led on, as all multitudes are, by a few persons actuated by furious passions and gratifying the love of ven geance and the thirst of blood under the abused forms and hollow masquerade of justice. If it be true that no power less than that which founded a constitution can abrogate it, the sovereignty of the people itself is trampled under foot by proceedings which, however great the number of accomplices in their guilt, can never attain the solemnity or authority of the acts by which it is sanctioned. The practice of this model republic presents a curious application of the favourite principle of competition. In order effectively to prevent dangers to life and property, two rival executives are called into existence, and set to work independently of and in hostile opposition to each other. " Him that escapeth the sword of Jehu shall Elisba slay," might be adopted as the motto; of the - Californian Vigilance Committee. There it is not " statutes that glean the refuse of the sword," but rather the sword that gleans the refuse of the statutes., When a crime has been committed the law punishes all that it can, and the Vigilance Com mittee, the antitype of the law, wreaks its vengeance on the remainder. This competitive and concurrent jurisdiction is a new feature in the dreary annals of the Draconic code of Lynch. Formerly we were ac customed to consider Lynch law as a remedy only to be justified on the tyrant's plea of necessity, in cases where such summary measures could alone prevent the escape of some great criminal from justice. But in California, Lynch law bears to the established jurisprudence of the country somewhat the same re lation as courts of equity to their sister tribunals of the common law. It permits the ordinary tribunals to proceed so long as they proceed according to its wishes; and only interferes to correct their errors or to, supply their defects. Of each of these kinds of ju risdiction our late accounts from California afford striking and terrible instances. At San Francisco the Vigilance Committee had obtained possession of the persons of twocriminals, and was about to execute jus tice upon them after its own summary fashion. The Government fell into the error of considering that such matters were not exclusive the province of the Vigilance Committee whenever it chose to act, rescued the prisoners, and placed them in the gaol of the city. They speedily found out their mistake. In the open day, with overwhelming force, the criminals were recaptured, and hung with every circumstance of publicity in the presence of the whole population of the city. The coroner immediately held his in quest on the bodies, and the jury found a verdict which clearly implied that the law against murder has no application when life is taken away at the bidding of a multitude. There was tolerably brisk competition between the two Executives; the popular demand for blood exceeded the regular supply, and the Vigilance Committee undertook to make up what was wanting. The second case was at Sacramento, where three persons having been condemned to death, the Governor respited one and left the law to take its course as to the other two. After they had been executed under the authority of the Sheriff, that official withdrew and left his place to be occupied by the self-appointed ministers of popular vengeance, and in the same place, on the same gibbet, the criminal whom law had respited, but whom lawless force condemned, met the same fate as his companions. Thus, in this so-called free community has arisen an arbitrary power engros sing to itself the vindictive and terrible, unrelieved by any of the mild and conciliatory attributes of royalty. Law, the protection of the weak against the strong, of the individual against the mass, of the ob noxious against the popular, of the minority against the majority, exists only in California as an occa sional and exceptional rule, liable to be bent or snap ped asunder at any time by the hand a supreme and irresponsible power, which assumes to execute jus tice while it knows not mercy, and unrelentingly pu nishes in others the infraction of statutes of which it is itself the most daring and conspicuous violator. It is remarkable that the tyrant's plea of necessity does .. . not apply to either of these cases, which have, as we have before said, much more the air of a race in cruelty between the lawful and the unlawful Executive, than of stern and deliberate justice forced from unwilling hands by an overpowering apprehension for the public safety. In the first case the men were recaptured by the Vigilance Committee before it could possibly be known what fate awaited them at the hands of the regular judicial and executive powers, and in the second a crime, for the expiation of which two lives were sacrificed, could give no colour for illegal violence in order to augment the number of victims. In this the republican inquisition is only following in the steps of all bodies which have con trived to raise themselves to a similar pitch of arbi trary and uncontrollable power. The necessity on which the assumption of that power was founded is soon lost sight of, and gradual encroachments are made, till tyranny and cruelty become their own pre cedent. The country where such things can be done, and done with impunity, may be rich, but has no claim to the title of free. That hardy plant will not flourish on its golden soil. What matters it under what name the tyranny is disguised ? The man whose life can be taken from him at any moment by a stretch of arbitrary power is a slave, whether his serfdom be concealed under the name of citizen of a republic, or paraded under the badge of the subject of an autocrat. It will be vain to look for order or to hope for tranquillity in a society where every mind is full of the spectacle of such wild and frightful excesses. The same code of public morality which sanctions the knotting of the halter in public will find no greater difficulty in reconciling itself to the use of the knife or the pistol in private. Human nature, to use the words of Thucydides, ha v ing con quered, the law will eagerly show that she is intem perate in anger, and au enemy of her superiors. If no other consideration could restrain these fearful outbreaks of vindictive passion, it ought to have oc curred to those who thus create and stimulate a po pular taste for sights of blood and scenes whose at tractions consist in huinan suffering and the fierce passions by which it is surrounded, to consider how easily such a craving for the stimulus of horror is created, and how constantly it must require fresh victims. The elegant and philosophical Roman found no sight so alluring as the deadly combat of gladia• tors. The lovely daughters of Spain could smile and flirt over the horrors of an auto dale just as their fair descendants do now over the sanguinary brutali ties of a bull-fight. Man, the paragon of nature, has lurking about him something of the tiger, and woe to that State and that people where this deeply-seated instinct is stimulated and encouraged instead of being repressed and subdued. HERALD. _.We are the last persons in the world who would be disposed to encourage a too prying ex amination into the affairs of the Continent of Europe —or who would seek to sow distrust among states. In the military organization of Europe we take no very great interest—for this organization affects us in a very subordinate degree. With the naval organ ization of Continental Europe, or the efforts of any obtain a state to seaboard, it is, however, different. These eff or t s , b e they great or be they small, affect m us intimately, and may first haveantb influence ue n a c p e p e v a e r ry v much \ greater than would at a the e b hold it to be the usiness of British statesmen and politicians to seethat the maintainedpreponderan , c fn e r o t f hia G p r r e e a , t Britain on th e seas is always ponderance is not alone necessary to the maintenance and extension of our eoe commercial and co l on i a l sys t em , well-being—nay, n y t o t h our i n nn anything but it is indispens a bl e to our very existence as a na ti on. itisthat a that has a tendency to alter the relative m ar iti me to forces of Europe oughtim e mediately enga ge o ur attention. Most certainly we have no de s i re to exaggerate the power of r Russia, or to cre ate suspicions in reference e to the Govern mf til e nt of the Cr.Czir. 'llya' power of Russia we have no dread EC, l ong as the empi re i s c onfined within its present maritime limits. But re when we find the Government of t ersburgh en deavouring to extend its maritime frontier at one a n d th e same time on the banks of the Caspian end on the confines of the Baltic and German Ocean, it becomes o ur duty to drew the attention of Englishmen to efforts so restless and so ambitious , and, we may add, so'o Its ' r n c onsistent wit h t hat settlement of E urope as the : basis of the treaty of Vienna to which Russian authorities so often refer. We are not in the least disposed to d e ny the obligations under which our neighbours the. D ane s lie to the ittliiii4 l l Government in a recent pas sage of Danish history. But the friendliness exhibited by Russia was no greater , in a public sense, than was exhibited by England end F: erica. England and France both protested against tbe,unjust and spo!iat ing war which the Germans waged, - and which Prussia fostered. We cannot, therefore,eisle in what respect Denmark is more bounden to Russia than to her two more civilised and mare powerful allies. It is true there is a family connexion be tween the Houses of Rorhanzoff and Den mark, but as there is neitheit.`f kith nor kin in trade," according to the provertveso is there among monarchs little consanguineous affection when in terests diverge. We cannot suppose that it is from any feelings of mere consanguinity that Denmark has exhibited such a marked deference for the Court of Petersburgh and such a willingness to meet its wishs. The two Cabinets have few or. an interests in com mon, and the Danish people have certainly no liking for the Russian Government orssystem. How is it, then, it may be asked, that for the last three months there have been such frequent interchanges of couriers between Copenhagen and Petersbargh, and that so many as five Russian ships of war have, during that period, anchored in Danish waters ? If we are to believe the Weser Zeituny, thew , circumstances have arisen from the eager desire of Russia to purchase the island of Bornholm of the Court of Denmark, with a view to make in it a harbour of-the first rank. Now, though the Russian navy has Dever been formidable, notwithstanding the immense maths lavished on it, and though probably it never can be in our day formid able to even any second-rate naval power—yet it is the duty of England to site that the maritime condition of Europe is not etlisturbed, and that a great military monarchy is not by these—or by any other means whatever placed :in a condition to be nearer the British shores by alraost , approximating to the German Ocean. Such a position gained by Russia, whether by purchase or by influence, would greatly diminish the importance of a maritime kingdom like Denmark—might occasion serious inconvenience to Sweden—to Hamburgb, to Mecklenburgh, to Bel gium, and to Holland, and even to England and France. These considerations are more than sufficient to excite the vigilance of Great Britain, totally irre spective of the injury which such an acquisition on the part of .Russia would inflict on Denmark itself. It is no answer to say that the Baltic is closed for six months in the year—that a tideless sea, with light nights, can never produce thoroughly-good sailors. Though we know the fact to her so, and that the maritime system of Russia is ,thoroughly lubberly and inefficient, and can never be formidable by itself, yet with the aid and assistance of Danes and of Danish harbours, it may accomplish, in combination with others, purposes now wholly without its reach. Besides, it is not so much as a naval as a military power that the possession of Born holm would give Russia influeripe ; and of such ag gressive influence she has no need whatever. Under the circumstances to which we .allude doubtless ex planations have been asked of the Cabinet of Copen hagen. These ought to be clear, and explicit, so as to satisfy the reasonable anxiety of ,the principal Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. Independently however, of the most frank and.pordial explanations, it were well that a British warliteamer and a frigate should be detached for the purpose of giving our Government more accurate inforanation than it may be possible to obtain from mete civilians at Copen hagen. If, inst e ad of keeping „so many of her Ma jesty's ships rotting at our port!, one, a steamer, was designated for the Baltic, a national—indeed a Euro pean—service might have beenxipportunely effected, for this question concerns England, France, the North of Germany, and all the mihrtr maritime powers of the Baltic and the North Sea. BRADFORD ELECTION. EYENIN&, OCT OBER 22, 1851. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, Or:. T. 21. Her Majesty end his Royal Highness P 6 , riem Al bert went out on horseback yesterday after noon into the park, attended by the Hun. Miss Seym our, Cul. Buckley, end Col. P. H. Seymour. Tne Marquis and Marchioness of Aberec rn, with Lady Harriet Hamilton, Earl Granville, and Vis count Canning, arrived yesterday evening of 2 a visit to the Queen. The Royal dinner party last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the. Marquis and Marchioness of Ahercorn, Lady Harfiet Hamil ton, Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness Evet.h, Earl Granville, Viscount Canning, and Sir G. Couper. The band of the Grenadier Guards attended , during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Fackel Tanz March de la Carawanne, from " Le Desert" Duettino de Is Nuit, from the Opera " Les Montenegrina" Linxnander. Osterur Polka Selection from " Cenerentola" Her Majesty's private band was in attendance in the Castle after dinner, and played the following se lection : Overture, " Die Genueserinn" Pas de Schal, " La Bayadere" Marche du &lore, "Le Prophete" Meyerbeer. Sinfonia (No. 1), Adagio molto, Alls con brio _ _ This morning her Majesty was driven out in an open carriage by his Royal Highness Prince Albert into the Park, attended by Colonel F.H. Seymour on horseback. The Prince of Wales, Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family took their usual walk ing and pony exercise. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday from Frogmore. Her Royal High ness visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and in the afternoon left town on her return to Frogmore. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. BRADFORD, YORKSHIRE, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, The election of a Member in the place of the late Mr. Busfield, M.P. for the borough of Bradford, took place this day, in the yard adjoining the Court house. The proceedings were of a formal character; Mr, Robert Milligan, a Liberal in politics, and an emi nent local merchant, being the only candidate. Mr. Milligan and his friends went in procession from the Exchange to the hustings, and was there met by between one and two thousand persons, though the apparent paucity of attendance cannot be taken as an index of the public feeling in favour of Mr. Milligan, who was solicited to become a can didate by the most numerously-signed requisition of electors ever before presented to any gentleman. Few gentlemen are held in higher esteem, or have rendered more essential service to the Liberal cause. Mr. JOHN RAND, the mayor, officiated as return ing officer, and briefly introduced, with the usual formalities, the necessary preliminaries. Mr. Tirus SALT, who two years ago filled the office of Mayor of the borough, nominated Mr. Milligan. He said he was happy to say Mr. Milligan required no introduction to a Bradford constituency, having for forty years carried on a very successful career amongst them. His high integrity and unimpeach able honour were well known to them, as,well as his political views, which were liberal and progressive.— (Loud applause.) He bad ever been ready to aid every good work in the borough, and it was a grati fying circumstance that those amongst whom he bad so long and so honourably lived, had now the privi lege of sending him to represent the interests of the borough in Parliament.—(Cheers.) He begged to propose Robert Milligan, Esq., as a fit and proper person to represent them in Parliament. (The nomi nation was received with loud cheering.) Mr. Alderman S. SMITH seconded the nomination. He spoke of the late Member in terms of great eulogy, and also referred in most honourable terms to the ca reer of Mr. Milligan. No other candidate being proposed, the Mayor, after a short pause, declared Mr. Milligan duly elected. Mr. ROBERT MILLIGAN then presented himself, amidst great cheering, to acknowledge the honour conferred upon him. He spoke but briefly. He thanked them most sincerely for the distinguished position in which they had placed him. He should not have ventured to occupy the position he now did had he not been requested to do so by a large number of his most intimate friends; and also by a requisition presented to him, respectably and numerously signed by his fellow-townsmen.—(Loud cheers) A seat in the House of Commons had never been an object of his ambition ; but, from the spontaneous and generous way in which it had been proposed to him, he had considered it his duty to comply with the request to offer himself to them for election.—(Applause.) Hav ing resided in Bradford for the greater part of his life, and having taken his share in nearly all the the great questions of the day, his political principles must be very well known to most of them. He was therefore sure they would not wish him to detain them in order to explain his political views in detail.—(Hear, hear.) He was now, and ever had been, a firm friend to free dom, to order, to progress, and to good government.— (Loud applause.) After again thanking them for the honour they had conferred upon him he concluded his remarks amidst loud cheers. After a few questions had been asked by a Chartist named Lightower, which were apparently answered to the general satisfaction, the proceedings termi nated. THE KAFIR WAR. (FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.) CAP E TOWN, SEPT. 10.—In consequence of the non -arrival of the mail steamer Sir Robert Peel, due on the 26th ult., and owing to important dispatches from Sir Harry Smith, her Majesty'a steamer I3irken head will start from Simon's Bay this evening, at five for England, under full steam, with her M iis jesty s mails. Sh e i s expected to make the passage n 32 days. Th e following is a short summary of events since the . depa r t ure of the Hellespont : Affairs both in the colony and beyond the frontier have assumed a more gloomy aspect than they have ever worn; since the commencement of the war, for while the enemy have sustained no important check in. Kafirla n d, th ey have continued to lay waste exten sive tracts, sweeping off thousands of head of cattle, sheep, &c., whil e th e loss of life on the part of the colonists in the different skirmishes has been consi derable. The stre ng th of the army has in the mean time received a considerable increase by the arrival from England of her Majesty's steamers Birkenhead and Cyclops, and the freight ship Sumner, with the 2d Queen's Royals, a company of Artillery, and de tachments for the different regiments in the field, to gether with th e return of her Majesty's steamer Hermes, with the 12th Foot, from Mauritius, making an addition of 56 officers and 1,455 rank and file. The 12th Lancers and the 60th Rifles are hourly and anxiously looked fur. At the Sovereignty affairs are in a bad state. Two companies of the 45th Foot , u n d er Captain Parish, and some Cape corps, have been sent by Lieutenant- Governor Pine to Major Warden's relief. It is, however, stated that Moshesh and Molitzane have joined and are marching on the colony. If this re port be correct, they will prove our most formidable foe; at all events it is stated that the news from this quarter has had the effect of hurrying off the steamer. The frontier post, due yesterday, has not yet , arrived. The Birkenhe a d, h owever , b roug ht a single Graham's Town journal o f th e 6 t h i ns t., which is the latest intelligence we have, from which the following are extracted:— " Fort Peddle, Sept. 1. " To .day we were aroused to arms by heavy firing between Breakfast Valley an d th e mountains near Committees Drift. An express arrived trom a patrol that was out bringing i n t e lli gence o f an a ff a ir with the enemy, and requesting waggons, sc., for the pur pose of conveying the killed and wounded to Fort Peddle. The detachment of the 91st Regiment, under Lieutenant Rae, with SO Fingoes, immediately left, and reached the Camp on the morning of the 2d. It appears the 2d Royals fought like Britons, and had they known a little more of the Kafir character, would have taught the enemy a lesson they wound not soon have forgotten. " Return of killed and wounded—Royal Suppers and Miners, 1 killed and 1 wounded ; 2d Royals, 1 sergeant and 1 private killed and 5 wounded • Cape Mounted Rifles, 1 woun d e d ; Armstrong's Horse, ' 1 wounded. One of the wounded men died after his arrival at Port Peddie. " The conduct of the 2d is very highly spoken of." Another hand writes as follows : " Semr 4th. " Colonel Burn, 2d R oya l s, h ad a s ha rp be affair Wit Monday near Breakfast Valley, in the Fish River Bush, with Stock's Botman's, and Seyolo's Kafirs, conjoined with a lot of rebel Hottentots. The killed and wounded were sent in here-3 of the former and twelve of the latter. The killed were buried yester day ; the wounded are doing well under Dr. O'Con nor. Colonel Burn returned to King William's Town by way of Old Fort Wiltshire, and on his line of march the Kafirs attacked him again, as we heard very heavy firing in that direction, but have not yet learnt the results. The Kafirs appear to have plenty of ammunition." Dates from East London are to the 2d of Sept. The Dee had arrived with troops and levies. The Journal, in its summary for the week, ob serves : " We are unable to record any improvement in frontier affairs since our last. From all parts of the country we have intelligence of the maraudings of the enemy. In Albany, although defended by nearly 800 troops and a strong provisional force, there still continues to be extensive aggressions committed. Scarcely a day passes without tidings of disaster. The loss of cattle has been ruinous. Tne rebel Hot tentots are still in the Kurraa, at Oliphant's Hoek, and in the Fish River Bush. In the latter place they have already given evidence of their strength. In the Bavians River and surrounding country matters are unquestionably in a fearful and distressing state." The following has been the first document issued since the arrival of Major Hogg and Mr. Owen : " GOVERNMEN T NOTICE]. "King William's Town, Sept. 1, 1851. " His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief having submitted to her Majesty's High Commissioner and Assistant-Commissioners the proceedings of a Court of Inquiry, held in Graham's Town, to investigate the causes that have led to the recent desertions of certain soldiers of the Cape Corps, and the report thereon, that such desertions have been caused by rumours having been spread among the men that they were to be disarmed and given over to the Fingoes and Settlers, they doem it necessary to notify to the Hottentot classes generally, that determined as the Government may be to punish the guilty, it will not fail effectually to protect from injury and oppression the loyal and innocent; and they are further advised that rumours of a contrary tendency can only have been framed for the purpose of involving them in the same disastrous consequences which await those of their fellow-subjects implicated in rebellion, that they are entirely groundless, and if traced to their authors will subject them to condign punishment. "By his Excellency's command, "Jones GARVOCK, Lieutenant -Colonel." The distribution of the army at the Cape is as fol lows :—The 6th Royals and 73d Foot at King Wil liam's Town; the 2d Queen's Royals in Kafraria ; the 45th Foot in detachments between Natal and the frontier; the 12th Foot and 74th Highlanders are at present attached to General Somerset's division; 91st at Fort Hare ; and the Cape Mounted Rifles in the field from Natal to British Kafraria ; the 60th Rifles, when they arrive, are to be attached to the Ist division ; and the 12th Lancere, it i s sa id , w ill proceed to th Sovereignty, but this is uncertain. The war vessels in Simon's-bay are her Majesty's ship Castor , Commodore Wyvill, and the Hermes steamer, Captain Fishbourne. The Dee is at East London, and the Cyclops and Radamanthus steamers are en route to that port with troops and stores. Her Majesty's ship Penguin sailed on the 2d inst. for the east coast on a cruise. The amount received by the Cape -town Committee for the relitf of the destitute on the frontier is up wards of 2,000/.—Times. A GLOUCESTER GHOST. Notwithstanding the reputation which ghosts have of only honouring the earth with their ghastly pre sence at the midnight hour— " the witching hour, when churchyards yawn, And graves give up trier dead," many seem to think them capable of breaking through their usual etiquette on this point, and visiting " the glympses of the moon, Making night hideous," at other and earlier hours. Nortbgate street, in the neighbourhood of the Black Dog, was, on Wednes day night, all agog at the awful presence of au un mistakable ghost at the top window of an empty house now undergoing repair. Yes, there was the awful visitant, "all in white," looking like the trou bled spirit of some young girl just risen in its grave clothes to scare poor mortals. The news flew; the panic spread ; and upwards of 2CO persons soon col lected, and stood gazing up intently at the apparition. Two lads, more bold than the rest, determined on satisfying themselves and the multitude ,'as to the substantiality of the poor ghost, and furnishing themselves with a lighted candle, made their way through the back of the premises into the haunted dwelling. Boldly ascending the stairs they reached the room which afforded a resting place to the grisly phamtom, and picking their way across the rafters, for there was no flooring, they found the ghost, as most of its speci2s turn out to be, a very harmless and unsubstantial creature, being nothing more nor less than the light of the street-lamp reflected by the swing window, which was open, upon the white washed wall of the room. The lads presented them selves at the wind ow t o assure the spectators below that they were uninjured, and the ghost " all my eye," when the gazers dispersed, l aughing at their own and nei g hb ours ' credulity. On the following night, however, the phamtom again appeared, about fifty persons collected, and could not persuade them selves but that after all it must be a real ghosts ! Gloucester Journal. T :HE ILL-LOOKING HORSE._A PUN THAT WAS NO JOKE.--A Frenchman, near the Canada line, in Vermont, sold a horse t o hi s Yankee ic neighbour, eeanim wh l i , ch li? la s e p r it e e co o m f m hi e s n u d n etl as being a very sound, sere ahl p re p os sessing appearance. 'l'o ever inquiry of the buyer rfaevspoeucrtaihnigetirieepirtitestf the horse, ' the Frenchman gav a always commenced his commendation with the deprecatory remark, " He's not look ver good." The Yankee, caring little for the looks of the horse, of which he could judge for himself, without the seller's assistance, and being fully persuaded, after minute examination, that the beast was worth the moderate sum asked for him, made the purchase, and took him home. A few days afterwards he returned to the seller, in high dudgeon, and declared that he had been cheated in the quality of the horse. " Vat is the mattaire?" said the Frenchman. "Matter!" said the Yankee, " matter enough—the horse can't seo!—he is blind as a bat !" "Ah !" said the Frenchman, " Vat I vas tell you? I vas toll you he vas not look ver good—be gar, I don't know if he look at all !"—Boston Post. . scovered w t es SPONTANEOUS COMBUSTION. — About a quartterto, a one this morning a fire broke o m o lb, u ou t r st a tu t i no ß na ,t e e r bl m yy oisntedmws e ea y so , in h " f ing the we to o t-ahe were t rk - - e e r n e gines of the yard of Mr. William Warwick, Willow-walk, overheating smoeonn wafhtafter r wihe were e f s rick e a pmonp tla spontaneous u t aasnl combustion, night. The . of England and London Fire Brigad e spot, and the vigilance of the arealea Revell promptly romtutiy the lir oenf from the eitOliCliAigi NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Yesterday being the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, the various clubs attthe ports met to cele brate it. The old Victory was, once more decorated with wreaths of laurel and evergreens at the trucks of her mastheads—flag and Jack staves. Lieutenant Crowder, who ir . commanded the Dee steam-vessel, for some time at the Cape, has returned to England in the Birkenhead, Mr. Price, clerk, has also returned home from the Cape. Birkenhead steam troop-ship, Master-Commander Salmon, has commenced refitting at Portsmouth ; she wall be ready for sea again in ten days. Cyclops steam-frigate, 'Master-Commander Hoff meister, may be daily expeotell from the Cape. Dido, 18, Captain Morsheati, C. 8., was paid ad vance at Sheerness yesterday;, and now proceeds to the Pacific, touching at Portsmouth and Devonport. Desperate screw steam-sloop, went into harbour on Monday for a supply of coals. Fury steam-sloop, Polyphemus and Pluto steam vessels, having been repaired, , are ordered to be taken from Woolwich to Sheerness, to be kept in readiness for service. Havannah, 19, Captain Erskine, had arrived at Sydney from New Zealand, and remained there June 22, waiting to be relieved by Captain Sir E. Home, in the Calliope, 26. Hermann,.6: steam- sloop, Commander Tichbourne, had returned to the Cape with troops from the Mau- Lucifer steam-vessel, Lieut.. Commander Jackson, left llevonport on Monday for Woolwich, to be paid off. Modeste, 14, Commander Lord W. Compton, calls at Malta on her way to Leghorn. Penguin, 6, Commander Etheridge, arrived at the Cspe, from the coast of Africa, August 18, and sailed for the Mozambique. Ranger, 8, Commander Miller, was mustered and exercised at Devonport on Monday, by Flog Captain Lowe ; after which she sailed into harbour, to be paid off. _ _ Simoom iron screw-frigate, fitting at Portsmouth, is to be hastened. She was to have been ready by the 15th November, but will h ow by the 10th November, to convey troops. Tyne store-ship, Master-C ommander P. Welling ton, was towed from Deptford to W oolw i c h yester day. She is ordered to embark an art i llery detach ment for Berbadoes. probably be ready Virago, 6, steam-sloop, Commander W. H. Stew art, arrived at Madeira, from Devonport, Sept. 13, after a passege of seven days. DANGEROUS RAILWAY ACCIDENT. An accident, fortunately not resulting in the less of life, occurred re..ar the Clifton Junction on the East Lancashire Railway, about six miles from Manchester, on Monday afternoon. The train from Yorkshire, duo in Manchester at 3.45 r.m., had travelled safely towards its destination until it reached a point within 300 yards of the Junction named, where a short line running from the Liverpool and Manchester line at Patricroft is con nected with the East Lancashire ; but when there, from some cause not at present understood, the engine and tender separated from the train behind it, and proceeded forward toward the Clifton Station, while the passenger carriages, eight in number, and the luggage van in front, took the line to Patricroft. The speed at which the train was moving was fortunately not great, as the driver had to stop at the Clifton station ; he therefore soon brought his engine to a stand, and no damage to himself or his assistant accrued. The occupants of the vagrant carriages, however, were not so fortunate ; they were driven down the line about thirty yards. At that point some impediment threw the luggage van off the rails, the others following it, and arranging themselves in an iregular crescent, each carriage struck the one preceding it at the corner. Through this arrangement, and to that circumstance, probably, h is to be attributed the escape of the passengers, for though the carriages were much broken at the corners they were untouched in the middle, and the in juries the occupants received were all from being violently jerked from their places. Several persons were severely bruised. A Mrs. Lennox received a dan gerous contusion on the head, and another on the groin. found for r e. ponecessary , Tyson, a got an ndme to d irce al examination. The gua rd of the tram An infant she had in her a rms also was in jured , but not seriously. Both were rem oved to the Bru nswick Hotel, M anc he s ter, were they still re main in a fair way for speedy recovery. Mr. H olmes, of Bradford, was s everely _ move brui him donth alsoe d w hich rendered him insensible, injure him. All on igh, and it is feared may 'pe rmanently to th an and it Brunswick,was ugly knock on the hea , the train were more or less hurt by this somewhat m y s t er ious occurrence. T ESTIMO NIAL TO THE POLICE.—The committee of watch, clock, and chronometer exhibitors have forwarded to the superintendent of the A division of the metropolitan police an expression of their a dmiration and satisfaction at the vigilance, courtesy, and attention of the police stationed in the vicinity of their goods in Class 10, and they accom pany it with a silver watch of a superior quality, to ho pre sented to Police-constable Jones, 343 A, who was specially attached to their department. The watch bears the following c w ol o l r e t c h tion of goods inscription:—" Presented by the Committee of Watch and y of remark, Clockmakers to T. E. Jones, 343 A, as a mark of their satisfaction with his conduct care of their goods during the hat G in re t a h t e E la x r h g i e bit a i h on d o h f i under the charge of this department not a single loss or ac cident has occurred since the opening of the building. EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES. -- Yesterday the g l b B l s y L v " alu l a t bl valuable Chelsea improvement Commissioners commenced their ope ration for the construction of an embankment on the north side of the Thames. extending from Battersea-bridge to Cremorne-gardens. This improvement will be a great public boon, and afford a delightful promenade and carriage drive to the thousands who visit this popular resort in the summer season. The embankment of the river front of Battersea Park is making comiderable progress, as also that on the hlid:llesex side of Vauxhall -bridge. PENNY OMNIBUSES. —Yesterday the first of the long talked-of " penny omnibuses" made their appearance in the metropolis. The line of route selected for the experi mental trial of cheap metropolitan locomotion was Oxford street, and passengers were conveyed from the end of Totten ham court-road to the Edgeware-road for one penny. The vehicles were abundantly patronised. They started from either end every ten minntes, and no sot ner was one set of pas ( 2ngers put down before double th e nu mber the vehicle could accommodate were struggling for seats. To judge from yesterday's experience, the caterers for cheap public conveyance will find the speculation highly remunerative. It is und erstood that the entire leading thoroughfares o f the metropolis have been II d • t Id. and that omnibuses parce e o 2d. stages, and are forthwith to be put on for the convey- ghee Of passengers at those rates. DR. LEICHARDT'S PARTY. SINGAPORE, Ave. 15.—The Pioneer, one of the ves sels engaged by the Government of New South Wales to call at Port Essington to make inquiries for Dr. Leichardt's party, and leave supplies for them, has not succeeded in fulfilling its mission, having suffered ship wreck in Torres Straits. All the information rega ding this occurrence which has reached us is contained the following statement, made by one of the seamen of the vessel, who reachei this town from Batavia some weeks ago:—" Thomas Gallagher, able seaman on board the brig Pioneer, states that the above vessel was wrecked on the Cockburn Reef, in Torres Straits, about half-past four o'clock in the evening on the 30th of May last, from Sydney to Booby Island and Port Essington, to look after Dr. Leichardt. The crew was brought by the barque Waverley, of London, to Batavia. Captain Mor gan, of the Waverley, kept the starboard shore all the way up, and did not sight the coast of Australia after leaving Booby Island. I did not hear anything about tents being seen on the coast of Australia. I arrived hero from Batavia in the Ellenora. I never heard any account of Dr. Leichardt. We had provisions on board the Pioneer to be landed at Booby Island and at Port Essington.j . l heard in Sydney that there were tents seen at Port Essington about four years ago, and that the naives drove the people away. The people were sent there by the Government of Sydney; they all came back to Sydney." FATAL ACCIDENT AT KING'S- CROSS.--011 Mon day afternoon, as some masons in the employ of Messrs. Jay, the contractors for building the terminus of the Great Northern Railway, at King's-cross, were raising a piece of stone to the top of the building, some of the tackle gave way, and three men fell to the ground, and the stone, weighing nearly half a ton, fell on a man of the (name of Lucas, breaking both his legs, and causing such other injuries that he died in a few hours, leaving a wife and seven children. The other two men eseaped with a few bruises. THE INHABITED HOUSE DUTY.--The first half year's duty on inhabited houses is now due, and will be shortly collected under the following schedule, forming a part of the assessed taxes:—" For every inhabited dwelling house which with the household and other offices, yards, and gardens therewith occupied and charged is or shall be worth the rent of 201. or upwards by the year, where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person in trade who shall expose to sale and sell any goods, wares, or merchan t dise in any shop or wareh ouse b e i ng part of the same dwelling-house, and in the front or on the ground or base ment story thereof, and also where any such dwelling-house shall be occupied by any person who shall be duly licensed by the laws in force to sell therein by retail beer, ale, wine, or other liquors, altheugh the room or rooms thereof in which any such liquors shall be exposed to sale, sold, drunk, or consumed, shall not be such shop or warehouse as afore said, and also where any such dwelling-house shall be a farm-house occupied by a tenant or farm servant, and bond fide used for the purpose of husbandry only, there shall be charged for every 20s. of such annual value of any such dwelling-house the sum of 6d., and where any such dwelling house shall not be occupied and used for any such purpose and in manner aforesaid, there shall be charged for every such annual value thereof the sum of 9d." CORONER'S INQUEST.—SUICIDE BY ONE OF MESSRS. CLOWES'S Pumnits.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. William Carter, the Surrey coroner, held an inquest at the Dover Castle, Commercial-road, Lambeth, on the body of Frederick Franklin, aged 55, pressman, at Messrs. Clowes and Son's, who committed suicide in the following manner : —Th e de ceased resided with his wife at No. 6, John-street, Cornwall road, and of late had mixed himself up with parties taking a prominent stand in politics. This circumstance, added to his having indulged rather freely in drink, no doubt affected his mind. On Saturday morning last he got up about half past four o'clock and retired to the yard. He returned soon afterwards, and went to bed again. He however left his bed in a short time again, and soon afterwards a noise was heard outside the bed-room door, and on his wife going to ascertain the cause, she found her husband suspended to the railings of the staircase by means of a piece of rope which he had cut from one of the clothes lines when he went into the yard. The poor woman raised an alarm, and with the aid of three of the inmates, the man was cut down alive, and Dr. Menzies was quickly sent for, who bled h.m, and applied sundry other remedies. For some time there seemed every probability of the unfortunate man's recovery ; he, however, continued to sink, and expired at half-past nine, having lingered five hours in pain. The jury, taking all things into consideration, returned a verdict that the " deceased de stroyed his life whilst in a state of unsound mind." THE HIGH SHERIFF OF NORTHUMBERLAND. — Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., High Sheriff of Northumberland, has announce.' the offer of three prizes, of 100 guinea each, for k.slayil Q 1 imperauce.--ZlTewoaette Courant. LONDON, JOINT REPORT OF THE RECENT EXAMINA TION 01? THE NEWRY I)I6TRICT NATIONAL MODEL .3C1100L.1. (From the Newry Telegraph.) We have lately had the pleasure of witnessing the Annual Examinations of the _Pupils of the Newry District National Model School, and feel it to be a duty to place upon record the impressions produced upon our minds by this gratifying exhibition, as well as our views upon the system itself, founded upon a full knowledge and accurate experience of its working. These examinations were held in the Model School on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 7th, Btb, and 9th instant, and were conducted by Dr. Patten and Mr. Butler, in the presence of a large and respectable audience. The boys were examined in Mathematics, Algebra, Geography, History, Me chanics, Political Economy, Mental Arithmetic, Recitation, and in singing, according to the Hullah system, &c. The girl s were exam i ne d i n a ll the suitable branches of a plain education ; whilst they exhibited specimens of plain and faeby work, which proved their efficiency in those de partments of useful instruction more properly adapted to their sex. The intelligence and eatuest desire for information which were displayed by the children, in general, whilst it excited the admiration of all who were present, at the same time proved that the system pursued in this school is not merely me chanical, but one which brings into exercise and in terests all the mental faculties of the pupils, and en lists their af f ections on the side of solid and useful learning. On Thursday we had the pleasure of examining the children of our respective denominations, as to their proficie ncy in reiigious kn ow l e d ge , an d the answer ing was such as to chew that this pre-eminently im portant subject, without a due attention to whiCh mere secular learning is more likely to be injurious than useful, occupies its proper place in their regards. One of the chief advantages, indeed, of the system adopted in this school is —that it makes proper Pro ee the vision for th e re li gious education of the pupils. Half an-hour eac h day is devoted to religious instruction, antod atnh e superintendencehourerliagnido religious h monitors, b e l ong i ng re spectivelyhi under lrd n ; a d l e f n i o s en se i t nation t s on of ea ti c s h e Friday f or the clergy and ministers to ap g a i r ve, either personally or by deputy, such more special religious instructio n as they think necessary, to the children belonging to each. On these occasions we have al ways felt it a pleasing duty to attend to give this in struction in person, whenever and as often as our other engagements would admit. From the impression produced on our minds by this most interesting examination, as well as from our almost daily observation, we can bear our warmest testimony in favour of the salutary effects of the system of education pursued in this school. Here children of different denomination s are taught to unlearn those feelings of, hatred and distrust which have so long been the curse of our country, and to make the hippy discovery that, whilst they differ in religious belief, they can nevertheless cultivate and manifest towards each other those feelings of hal-- mony, kindness, and good-will, which should ever subsist between fellow-countrymen and fellow-citi zens. Here the household virtues of neatness, clean liness, and punctuality are admirably inculcated. We have been frequently struck with the good humour and cheerfulness that prevail during their hours of play. We should also remark that there is a greater mix ture of children of different grades in society in this school than in any other with which we are ac quainted, the excellence and usefulness of the edu cation having attracted children of a higher rank than might have been expected. And this re port would be seriously defective if we failed to bear our strongest testimony to the character and exertions of the teachers, Mr. Brady, Miss Gummer son, and Miss Fitzgerall A more fortunate selec tion could not have been made. They are intimately acquainted with the system over which they preside, and have learned the happy art of blending kindness with decision, so as to have succeeded in uniformly maintaining proper discipline, and at the same t i me gaining that h o ld over the affections of the children which is the best means of insuring a ready and will ing compliance with the rules and regulations of their respective schools. It may be interesting to mention the number of children of the respective denominations at present on the rolls of the school, and also the numbers who have attended the school since its opening in May, 1849. These are as follow : 1. - NUMBER AT PRESENT ON THE ROLLS. Boys. Girls. Infants. Established Church . • 3 t 20 20 Roman Catholic Presbyterian Methodist 5 0 4 ...... Total at present on} the Rolls 112 102 RO Or 304 children in all. u.—NIIIIIIIER ADNITTED SINGE THE OPENING OF THE SCHOOL. 13 , ya- Ltabiished Church 7B Roman Catholics .54 Presbyterians Remonstrant Synod Methodists Girls. Infante. 64 67 140 172 52 67 10 4 8 5 Total since the School 1 240 opened 0r_929 in all. 315 We may here mention that the above numbers bear a fair proportion to the numbers of the different de nominations in the population of this town ; so fleet the Newry Model School affords one of the best spe cimens in Ireland of uni ed education. It is a re markable fact that the existence of this school, instead of diminishing the numbers in attendance at other schools, hai, on the other hand, tended considerably to increese them, and by exciting emulation, has led to a decided improvement in the system of teaching_pur sued in other schools in the neighbourhood. With respect to the National System of Education in general, we feel it right to take this gpportunity of expressing our unanimous opinion. We may not, looking at the question of education merely in the abstract, deem it to be the best system that could be devised ; but we do not think this is the point of view in which this question should be regarded. We should look at it as practical men, taking due ob servation of the peculiar eircurnstences of our country, of the character of its people, of the number of con flicting pplitical parties, nod of different religious de nominations it contains ; and, taking all these points into full consideration, we have no hesitation distinctly to express our conviction that the present National System is the best practicable system of education that has been as yet devised; and that, in fact, if the question of National Education for Ireland were to be again discussed, ab initio, the alternative would lie, not between the present system and one which we may deem the best in the abstract, but between the present National System, and no System of National Education at all. We, whose names are subscribed to this report, belong to different religious denomina tions, and are rigidly and devotedly attached to our own respective systems, yet we do not feel that there is any compromise of our several opinions.in co-ope rating in the support of a System of Education, which is based upon the principle of non-interference with the peculiar creeds of the children attending its schools—which secures perfect freedom of conecience for all—which takes care that the children of one de gn i o o m u s i n i a n t s i o t r n u s t i h o a n l 1 h pnoont the b s pcompelledetfo a Li r e e c t h e i e v r e f r r e e l tn i - iwnhitchhethpeeyerconmsachientthioeuselaymdeisrsiegnilt—t re which cognizes never man, of directin been denied to the rich the religious education of his own child-----whicg egfivdesiffefurellntopdpeonrotumniintaytietons t t h h e iClerymparta r n e d l ig m io i u n s isters in struction to Foe children of their respective flocks-- and which tends to unite all our exertions to promote the moral, intellectual, social, and national improve ment of our country. We therefore, wish the Na tional System every success, and so long as it is based upon the principles to which we have referred, We shall feel it to be our highest gratification, as well as our bounden duty, to continue to extend to it our humble but zealous countenance and co-operatioa. DANIEL BAGOT, 8.D,, Dean of Dromore, Vicar-General of Newry and Morrie, and Vicar of Newry. D D 1 - MICHAEL BLAKE, • .9 Roman Catholic Bishop. JOHN DODD, Pres by terian Minister. HENRY ALEXANDER, - P r es byterian P Minister. A. L. DOBBIN, Methodist Preacher. Newry, Oct. 10, 1841. RurroßD POACHING AFFRAY.—The Coroner has held two inquiries, and adjourned to next Monday. Nothing. a s yet, has been brought home to any parties, though seve ral are in prison suspected of being concerned. The Earl of Scarbororgh has published a reward. DISPATCHES FOR TIIE CAPE BY THE SHANCRIAI. —lmmediately on the intelligence reaching London of the arrival of her Majesty's steam-vessel Birkenhead, with im portant news from the Cape, the Peninsular and Oriental Company sent telegraph orders to Southampton to detitin their screw-ship the Shanghai from proceeding en route t• Calcutta and China until they had communicated with the Government. Having proffered the use of that ship for the conveyance of any orders to the Cape, the Colonial-office at once accepted the generous offer, and last night dispatches were sent off to Southampton, with which the Shanghai will leave this day for her destination. but for the arrival of the Birkenhead, the Shanghai would not have gone out of Cer route to touch at the Cape; but would have made the best of her way to Calcutta. THE GREAT THEWLES CASE: We understand that a new claimant, with superior rights, has appeare d in the person of Mr. James Thewles, after an a t h o sepoe e of forty county years from his native land, to assert his title vast ..pro perty left by the late Edmund Kelly, - 1 -t: 1 11 of aarrom sor 1 1 o r s e c , o i m n m th e e n, ci is ty to of wDiullb endeavour lin, e the decree lately pronounced by the Court of Delegates i 4 the cause . of " Ttiewles v. andi tkows°eria'sa the I & of a