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which opens on toier a b Tuesday. M r . M e ikl am w ill ma k e Philip, y Sure of the Cup with the Best-of-Three or 4r ee On Wed nesday Mari an R amsay f or the F i lly Stakes. If Thu le to prod uce t h e w i nner of the Cup, and the on Handicap to L or d S a l toun. • the Viet ria Stakes for two-year-olds 1,7," 41 1 to Mr. Dawson with Lord Harry,. or Mr. Bul -e% • h r un wlt Walter. The Kersal Stakes will produce a bes..mween Yellowboy and Marian Ramsay, which will cler close. I shall have the latter for the victor. Its: f at% the Br oug h ton Stakes will bring together B est uot tidy field, with Yello wboy for winner—the -01.-Tlitee and Bedale handy. Moo& •"'Y Afternoon. I am, Sir, yours, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. THE CHESTER CUP. elle:es el effect furhiri,,,2t:::rariinyilgEiDn your/'0 RpapOeli: allistEateSmUeniVtt: the pre 'notice the accompanying er to your diction, u tithotieht-of outsider" won i. t o re- Remaining, Sir, yours truly D Pre 'ted a week b f the Race came off, an I'" PROPHECY OF AGRIPPA'S GHOST,d pub- The i n " Sne wi e ng o ' r s e Chest .. er . Cup Chart," May the as Th e ""gs are saddled, with elastic stride . A •Y gallop past, in sportive, wanton pride around, Ist. As though all conscious that the crowds . I° Canraaa each limb, and measure ev'ry bound ~,J4where she comes of symmetry the queen, T ra of of gliding thro' the scene With aerniseria—favoured not alone 'Tis grace and beauty which are o'er her throw: ; 'Als hr's with lightning speed to skim the plat PBut distance foils and maks her efforts vain. a ll 11°4 Caeract rush along the course, I , \ n' e°1131:11011 plate horse, and a madman's force .) pow Tru,boy follows, while his backers see I s ' i l faller& sketch the joy s of victory. NTyne's proud Queen and Strathspey gallop by zitt,,eg---Ceunsellor and dense Obscurity. nines the Irish force he's wise,.l hold, F or " 'ke Sir Robby, baits for them with gold ; . a I % hen tha contest makes some cheeks look blue, ,1%; florask ? the Irish lads may pull him thro'. here Intrepid —sure as I'm a seer b _lth six stone six he'll make the field look queer. I X are the moments now —the womb of Fate it.reeins with the misty future—Chance, awe Th ey're l3%thy s av e s I and clear his dizzy pate. lic off hy're off ! hark to th' exulting cry ! Pe thrills each heart, and brightens ev'ry eye. Ortward they dash, As Jove's bright flash Thunders along the sky; F lee ting they b oun d, r th e ec h oing ground : While on them ev'ry eye, Is fixed as tho' life, Andllang on the strife, Thei..the hop e of victory. sw.ahpjarif past, now by the gentle Dee— 8eg,,,, 'e Placid face, pl 4B their colours joyously-- The the swift race, 14.,hey round the tu r n_ A "a to pride they burn, 11 ,,,", t ug the tightened rein -toe Stand they pass ; 41. gall ant ma ss , As ever trod the pl a i n . Hurrah ! Hurrah I The Youg'uns lead the van I Ould Ireland's star, With burning rays, Its light displays, And makes some cheeks look wan. The ship -yard turn regain'd s The pace begins to tell: • s lany a star has waned And bid Sweet hope farewell. Still, still the light weights lead: i. But g r easing on th e i r fl an k AS As many a gallaet steed, past Dee's verdant bank They rush with thund'ring speed. No scu w o'er th e rainbow train Oearre would fain Her ebon mantle throw; The cloud is past, No veil is c ast Over the gallant show ; Here droops the beauteous seed ~.. Of laughing COMEDY.* P .ehe a lls CAT'ItAcT'S ru s hi ng spee d on the banks of Dee : The P ORTRAIT'S d one ; And now the fun Grows dreadfully exciting. Alas, poor ghost I I wish—almost-- That you were not inditing ; dohmy heart shares throes and cares, . • * st' '" A* trem*bles w * hile I'm writing.. The distance now is gained, And every nerve is strained To lead the glorious van. Dense mists arise Before ray eyes, I s carce the course can scan. Shadows away, The prophet's day Cannot be I see it novo dinar:aid by thee. , INTREPID'S brow Is flushed with VICTORY W hile iR th e race • For second place Strive TRUEBOY and " The Swum," t A nd GUL With H USELTINE And QUEEN of T YNE . • Comedy, the dam of Seiniseria. St. L awrence. Mr, Osbaldeston, owne r ot Sorella. TO r11.;13776-71HE SUN. ef,,,,,lit'-'AS the reports of the proceedings in the House et, ,"0"44T.0r1e, 011 Friday last, coetain matters impeaching INls,""t as a magstrate, I beg . you will have the wah' to state that I have written to Sir James i4i, 42.-Lrequesting the most searching and comprehen t,ethrl7. It became my duty, as I conceived, to tgasseele,ce with in question. In doing this I was .1144,...., by neither fear nor affection. It was simply i;phiejilal act called for by necessity ; and of the mode 1 1 .`lts IV" warrant was executed I had no know % le Sielver, until I became informed of it by a letter alai 41 , allies Graham ; nor upon inquiry will it be L.,..°11. Toe r the character of oppressiveness attributed 4 4; fe r the I:o3lStahle repeatedly offered to N s ? aith it.).nlan, and even offered to allow her to pay for a e eti h n ed t e „ate own wife ! The woman never com e.'s of t i7 e , or to nay colleagues on the bench. The N et ' eoluks" Lease would encroach far too much upon la t 'loall S ' lt the result of the inquiry, I feel con ally d thee, t h I As ti ~ egi.ee at have not acted illegally or harshly .. c e ler th .Whatever. Trusting to your sense of I h et ..e Insertion of this note, ~,,,. '.° reroain Your obedient servant, k'ir I, re SAILIL. STONE BRISCOE. e house Tr • • 1 i tia, .1 Aingswinford, May 11, 1845." 4ti% Pilbli e 'll tr/... , 8 of th WI be amused by the following spectl - lesnewe Eirmingharn Journal, relative to Mr. %e i ), that ( h ero, rk, " Sybil." —"It is said, (observes the 0! .1111, ,shat that e villain of the fiction is to be Sir James .n is 86 y ..ei - .se ilb . C oni ng Will be dealt with after the fashion tls„.,that . the ,gsby.' The knowing ones also sur f soliernin, a °age middleman cajoling one party, and s „ . , of eo t., !l oth er ., . . . I. peel, . •mu t never,, ~0 wit, Sir It. is to figure _in , a_ 1 It t o `,:_itt th e , " Tadpole and Taper (vide ' Coningsby ) 1/4-"the ~„140used°rganised hypocrisy' in all its branch, s, PesCe M Oribp.,... l l ll the indelible saline, and pickled in vat:gasetatle'luieule of the satirist, for the amusement of ets tO - s il t. erllt iotl, and the terror of all quacks and vieie.._korits statesman for the time to come." Ali t ` 4 Of %ell PRINCE CHARLES STUART; with ev et ,_ l ' el sbse p ebellion il5 1745 : By C. L. Sloss, Escl - 4 Ml' of a ti o thohthe ma shook nored years, the bold actor in th e ttl.l4t centur Etngland to her centre in the midd l e o li tor y •. The fact Y, hag and last found a worthy boo h sift is _ „ of so g e an omission ia Eng is sift theyse"Y accounted r fo a r t during the reigns of to rent teeond and George the Third, when the hi s f f.'"Add not tolerate anything like a fair c 't ,I s ' e lr !igh t Z I TS, but looked upon any attempt to set tlis Oiiu s ,,,, e character of the Pretender as an act It„._lti.ll4.4"letit trul':orthy of the severest punishment. At to re -co , 4 fair history of the last effort of the I . of ~ -c o Ilii vhari tk ltter a noble throne, and a faithful por . 4 fki r Os Ed .„, --op— W---, might have been expected ; I ts' t ile h e-aph . before s,„,ohle„e %N t ., v we have in the volume C. taatltY ter ter of the young Prinec is cleared of i s tl , h C„,,,,e beq4 !Von it by the partisans of Hano oi* 'was specim e n the portrait now drawn of him, a tet t %id hn of a Prince than Horace Wel * %re ail ' w ed to be p a inted.—Weekly Chro )kili tt t tt t 't th 4 Tr; 13 Ll llo s e s i p' e 8 ISROP tithe‘- Of t i o—t R ev -or ELY.— Probate of the . t 2, 2 ,„ y, wh._. erend Joseph Allen, D.D., late Lord 5 t ;;Q. Of A i ' died at Ely in the county of Cambridge, 1 5 'ln s t•eh 1 t, • ' • granted qiitit to his as aged seyenty-six, was . l ot ,l l t i l l e ' Girt daughter Ellen Allen, and to his t:4•4 tXte h lt '.'• Allen and William Joseph Allen, 411 ,,, °Pr, 14 _ ra and trustees, a Power being reserved Nat 1, 0 4 1 niaerergaret Allen, to prove hereafter. Personal b h • th th In th ~.4A13004, Bequeaths to his wife a life . k,, at th e ,_ a uOded property and landed estates, and if,,, 4.o_,le"aY receive the sum of 500/, for immediate 4,._ - evesi ti, to Srh fo r h ei'4 ; 1 1 ,, sy s e i e ,., ~ er absolute use such furniture, kis . trezitgt su e t, "., toe remaindor he bequeaths to his °Ph. lai t o Much articles as they may not require are to et IsisV 401,6 ne e nor to the Bishopric, at a fair valua.l, N• `e t -" ‘4l dlVinit k:ith4 s, te r °th e de yto be given, with the consent Tit et h. pat lib a ll and chapte r of the cathedral church V uerioeatrr3:- The propert after the decease ot 4 e ster ,s . in the collo • Y . lel%l N I ' All " y es ' wing manner. —His estates le t ea, :tut ,devseei and bequeaths to his son, i k r , of h _ i to his heirs for ever. Those in or near tliNll tistZitana Ce i r l ,he bee to his son, William 4k0(41N 44041% An ell's. East India stock he leaves Ver,4i tit h ie oi l., the residue of his property to be . Reed .. ,i . A ei,l,. The will is dated September P,.„, 11 4. "" Y. Witnessed by his butler and . Nott f)P tit i of th 1 / 1 11 L . wh„ sal e * O , „ LATE F.A.Er or ST. GERRANs.— Ft" di ' 444 ••, or th . ' t .et t tal 04 of p e e Right Hon. William Earl of St. ,a *. li th e 19,,rt Eliot, in the of Cornwall, ' 4 "! to . tdve `4 "JanUar l t Aunty granted to the dkothoZ tliet,ard granville Zarlisoias 40 oPte s tl s t he solo St. Germans, here ),.. , . , t - oro „ _, execuor. The personal estate a.ee Theostii -eves - ale Georgiana Eliot, i "t'or and 4.44 Y esr„lthuer,„Bequeaths to his sh tue stre et, eztee ..:41 Bitn eto t ,_ re e t , the f . urniture, &c., in the house i . n . an annuity . of h...Derty or . pt pictures. The rest and rest- Ilelk,l4tetqlbleatii, t every description and wheresoever , i t ) , .1,11,1• of ) 44 _0 .the present Earl. The will is very 411. j 114446843all'dsitn.eIvsiT•"BSetn.neer, both of PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. LYCEUM. The new burlesque of Cinderella is " a bit, a most palpable hit"—as a spectacle superior to Aladdin, and equal to Valentine and Orson, or Whittington, in wit and fun, and humour and satire. It is a good idea that of making the wandering Prince the identical Roclolph of Gerolstein, who is the hero of the Mysteries of Paris. The idea is well worked out, and the piece is a capital quiz upon Eugene Sue's great work. Wigan as Rodolph and Mrs. Keeley as Cinderella were admirable. They convulsed the house with laughter by their humorous imitations of Macready and Helen Faucit. Never was there a more laughable imitation. The ball scene was gorgeous, and in this, too, Mrs. Keeley gave an admirable imitation of Lucile Grahn in the " Mazurka d'extase, while J. W. Collier, as her partner, was quite "up " to all the mannerisms of Perrot. The last scene, however, was the triumph—thirty-six English children, "Les Danseuses Anglaises," pupils of Mr. Frampton, gave the " Pas de Fleurs" and the "Pas des Moissonneurs "—and verily the Viennoise must look to their laurels. There was a perfect hurricane of applause at the conclusion, and it was encored ; the audience loudly called for a third repetition, but Mr. Frampton came forward and expressed a hope that the audience would not insist on an encore, as it might fatigue the children. The justice of this appeal was acknowledged, and the piece was an nounced for repetition by Keeley, who, as Capil laire, the servant of the Prince, had contributed greatly to the success of the piece by his inimitable drollery. THE STRAND. Last night this snug little theatre opened for the summer season, with a new drama, in three acts, called London by Night, and which contains some amusing sketches of low life. Miss Waite and Mr. W. H. Harvey danced the Polka, after the play was concluded, so much to the satisfaction of the audience, that they were loudly applauded, and ob liged to dance it a second time. An extravaganza named Robinson Crusoe,. or the Adventures of a Friday, followed—a laughable sort of hodge-podge. De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis. A good many comic songs are jumbled up in it. Miss Pattison sung one to the air of " My beautiful Rhine," and Miss Bromley another to the air of " By the margin of fair Zurich's waters," in very good style. On the whole, we should say, the piece succeeded—the main object of such a composition being to make the au dience laugh, no matter how or wherefore. The performances concluded with a farce, called Clair voyance, in which Miss H. Wallcott took the prin cipal part, and showed much diversity of humour. Robinson Crusoe, and London by Night, were an nounced for the week, and the announcement was followed by the plaudits of the audience. CITY OF LONDON. A spectacle, — bearingthe startling title of Nelson, Wellington and Napoleon, was produced at this theatre last night. Like the generality of pieces in which the probabilities of life are given to the winds, it abounds rather in startling incidents, hair-breadth escapes, the firing of muskets, and blue and red fire, than a connected story, terminating in a catastrophe —in which the machinations of the bad are successful and the good are defeated. The drama is divided into three epochs, each representing some of the most prominent events in the life of the distinguished men whose name it bears. Thus we have the death of Nelson—the Duke of Wellington and Napoleon be fore the Battle of Waterloo, with a mimic represen tation of which the drama closes. Mr. Waldron sustained the character of Nelson and the Duke of Wellington ; whilst Mr. Broadfoot enacted that of Napoleon. Both gentlemen dressed after the most authentic records of the great originals, and depicted some of their peculiarities in a clever manner. Mr. J. Dunn played the character of an Irish Amazon, and convulsed the house with laughter by his unfeminine appearance. The other characters were fairly sustained. Upwards of thirty of the Coldstream Guards personated the British army. Of the scenery we cannot speak in terms of praise, nor of the delays and mistakes in the substitution of one piece of scenery for another. When accidents of this nature occurred, the gods gave audible expression to their wrath in torrents of hisses. On the fall of the curtain, however, Mr. Fox Cooper came forward and apdogised for the imperfect way in which the piece had been brought forward. He said the house had only been in his possession since Friday ; and although he had made great exertions, he had not been able to accomplish all he had wished. To morrow night he hoped to remedy all defects, and to put the piece upon the stage as it ought to be. This restored good humour. Many of the scenes were loudly applauded, and the drama was altogether successful. The performances concluded with Lon don by Night, an adoption from the writings of Dickens. The house was but thinly attended. QUEEA'S. Although the holiday attraction at this neat and excellently managed theatre was an " Original Bur lesque" of the far-famed dramatic and fairy spectacle of Cherry and Fair Star, it is required by justice to say a few words at least of the successful and praise worthy style in which the legitimate drama was last night presented. In the most difficult of th e w h o l e range of Shakesperian difficulties—the perplexed and perplexing Hamlet--Mr. Grattan Dawson a cqu itt e d himself to admiration, and fairly established his claim to the rank of a tragic actor of high qualifications ; and Miss Waverly Scott's Ophelia was in many re spects admirable, and in most above medio crity. The discrimination of the audience was proved by frequent . and judicious applause. She will, no doubt, give us opportunities o f expressing in more detail our opinion that she is advancing to the highest rank in her profession. This very promising young lady was much applauded. Mr. Parry's Laertes was , perhap s, a little too vehe ment, but, on the whole, adequate; and Mr. Royer as Polonius, was, to say the least, respectable. The ex travaganza which followed is entitled Bone k S'quish, and is written expressly for Mr. Dunn's (the Eng lish Jim Crow) inimitable and peculiar style of acting. It was received with shouts of laughter, and Mr. Dunn's " Nigger songs" were certainly very rich and ludicrous, and h;s acting was relished deliciously by most part of the audience, who seemed to have a more intimate acquaintance with the peculiarities of nigger manners and drollery than we can pretend to. To those who are acquainted with the genuine wit and truly comic powers of Charles Sloman, the improvisatore, it is scarcely necessary to say that the grand burlesque of Cherry and Fair Star; or, The Children of Cyprus, is one of the cleverest of this kind of extravaganzas, that have lately afforded so much fun and delight at other favourite theatres. The scenery, which is painted by the talented proprietor, Mr. James is varied, picturesque, and often magnificent; it elicited very great applause. The acting throughout was a charming and well-sustained vein of comicality, and was worthy of the expense bestowed in getting up the piece. The songs are all parodies upon well known ditties, both comic and sentimental ; and the vocal power of this well-selected company was never more advantageously shown, than by Miss Louisa Lyons, Mrs. Menders, Miss Rogers, Mr. Menders, Mr. Norton, and Mr. Royer, in numerous and humorous songs, duets, trios, and quartets i which were allotted them severally or collectively. Nor must we forget the " choruses," which fairly claim their full share of eulogy. On the whole, the " treat of the %Vhitsun holiday," as it is aptly termed in the announcement, is certain to outlive by weeks, or more, the brief period of festivity for which it has been avowedly brought into existence. STANDARD. The equestrian season of this popular eastern house commenced last night with a piece called The Conquest of Tartary ; or the Eagle Rider and Steed of the Desert. It is from the pen of Mr. D. W. Broadfoot, late stage manager at Astley's, and intro duces some very effective and striking scenes, which would do credit to a more extensive establishment. The theatre is 120 feet in circumference, and is sur mounted with crimson and white tapestry, giving it a lively and beautiful appearance. It should be men • tioned that the arena is beneath the stage, and as the curtain rises the audience see the stage raised and drawn off by machinery. The house was full. ASTLEYS. The holiday entertainments at this ever popular establishment commenced last evening with a spec tacle, entitled, The Godolphin Arabian; or, the Race Horse of the Desert. This is one of the most gorgeous and effective pieces which Mr. Batty . has presented to the public. It opens with a beautiful representation of the Desert of Arabia, and the scene representing the desert is particularly striking from its truthfulness, and furnishes the beholder with a very clear idea of the peculiar burning appearance of the desert. The next striking scene—for it is the scenery of the piece which constitutes its chief at traction—is that of the great Oasis and sacred water of Zimzim. In this scene the gradual rising of the sun upon the desert is beautifully managed, as is the appearance of the wild simoom which follows. The effect of the dreaded simoom is presented on the stage, and with it closes the first act of the spectacle. The scene of the second act is laid in France, the time being that of the reign of Louis XV. The act opens with the palace, terrace, gardens, and fountains at Versailles, being a most effective scene. The fountain—a real one—would do credit to the gardens of a real palace. In the crowded theatre, heated as it of course was, the very sound of the water was cooling and refreshing. The second concludes with a very excellent representation of the fair of St. Germain, with its multitude of visitors. In the third act, the scene is laid in England, in the year 1732, and is very effective, concluding with a grand equestrian tableau. The piece has been dra matised by Moncrieff from Eugene Sue's romance, " L'Arabian Godolphin, ou L'Histoire d'un Cheval." The first act is interspersed with portions of Felicien David's popula asy mphonic ode oriental, "Le Desert." The whole piece is put upon the stage in a style which reflects the highest credit on the management. The dresses are magnificent, After the spectacle came Mons. Tournare's celebrated troop of French equestrians. The performance of these artistes is wonderful, for its intrepidity and daring, and highly pleasing from its elegance. They perform upon their own horses, brought expressly from France, attended by their own grooms. This engagement must have been made at an enormous expense to Mr. Batty, but we feel confident that the result will amply realise his expectations. Madame Louise is the most elegant horsewoman we have ever seen, and the command which Madame Klatt has ac quired over her steed is astonishing, and, as the play bills say, may be termed the ne plus ultra of the eques trian art. Every one ought to visit Astley's. For elegant amusement and delightful recreation it stands now almost without a rival. 'The house last night was overflowing.' are sure to escape being drenched. The mantle of the immortal Simpson has fallen upon Mr. Widdicomb, for many years the Master of the Ring at Astley's, who is a very efficient Master of the Ceremonies. ROYAL ADELAIDE GALLERY. With very great pleasure we mingled with an exceedingly numerous company last evening, in this most interesting Institution, after its recent much• regretted interruption. As it is the first of the kind established, we believe, in the world, and has always been considered by us with especial regard, and we are sure that the prospect which last night's attendance, philosophical exhibition, lectures and lighter enter tainments open for a return of patronage and a long career of success, must be hailed with gratification, by all who wish instruction to be made attractive, science popular, and refined amusements multiplied and presented in the most inviting form to the public. The decorations of the Gallery are, in many respects, superior to the former embellishments, and the lighting, by night especially, is far more agree able now, than we know of in any other building of the same size. The chandeliers are of novel design and peculiar elegance, and whilst the effect of the light is brilliant, it is not dazzling or oppressive. A new and exceedingly pretty theatre for ballets has beeen erected in a situation to place the artistes in clear and conspicuous view to every part of the house. The avowed intention, however, of the new mana gers, is to make the Institution that for which it was originally designed, a " Gallery of Practical Science" —not exclusively, indeed, but to a great degree, mo dified only by the expediency of varying the in struction of the graver kind with musical and other entertainments of a high order. Amongst the most important of the scientific lectures of yesterday were those of Mr. Phillips on his inventions—`'The Ship Preserver," and the "Fire Annihilator." Of these the principles are simple, and the apparatus not complicated. The mod e l in ie Gallery is a cylinder having pipes for the water to escape, and is connected with two smaller cylinders in which carbonic acid gas is generated. The pressure of the gas causes the water to rise in the pipes, and to fly up to a height proportionate to the pressure. The power which can thus be obtained is very great, and seems well worthy of trial on a scale of greater magni tude, and for a practical purpose. The in ventor considers that it would be highly useful in the pumping out of ships, and from the immense quantity of water which can be thrown out in a short space of time, it is even supposed that a ship could be kept so dry that an ordinary leak might be reached and stopped. Its use in cases of fire will also be evident. From the rapidity with which carbonic acid gas can be generated under this process the inventor has it also applied for the " exterminating" of fire. This is simply by the introduction of a stream of carbonic gas into any apartment which may be in flames, and of course, the action of the gas is instantly to ex tinguish the conflagration. The trial of this new mode of putting out fire was highly successful. The inventor (Mr. Phillips) generates his gas in both processes by mixing charcoal, nitre, and sulphate of lime, which are ignited by a drop of sulphuric acid. At an opportunity of greater leisure, the im portance of these inventions may justify a more careful detail. The explanations by Mr. Scott, of the habits and structure of the electrical eels, are highly interesting, and not the less so from the fact t t h h e a m t it has they been ha o v w e in e g o tloonhgislivsekdilfiun this place, and management of have so thriven under his care as to increase in length from twenty-two inches to four feet, and from a girth of not more than three inches to more than six. They are also the only specimens now alive in Europe. The promenade concerts, under the very able ma nagement of Mr. Sedgwick, elicited much applause. Several of the solos were encored, and the infant ballet, in which the performers are the Misses Frampton, Miss Palser. and Master Forrest, merited the loudly expressed admiration of the visitors. The entertainments concluded with a new and beautiful series of dissolving views, not surpassed by any which we had previously seen and were warmly praised. NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS AT THE EGYPTIAN-HALL, PICCADILLY. Eleven native Canadian Indians of the 0-jib-way Ode-au-wau, and Mis-sis-sages . tribes, are now exhi biting at the Egyptian-hall, Piccadilly. The party consists of ten males and one female, and their ages vary from 3to 40. They are a finer set of men than the Indians who were e x hibiting there last season. One of the warriors is 6 feet 3 inches in height, and two of the others are more than 6 feet. It appears they have been induced to come over by the flattering accounts given of England by the Ojibways who were here last year. Tire exhibition opened this day at two o'clock, with a grand Indian council, at which the whole party attended in full costume. The inter preter then delivered, in very good English, a short lecture on the manners, customs, and religion of the Canadian Indian tribes, after which followed the Dance of Wabunnoog, or Sun Worshippers. The chief then exhibited the manner of using the blow gun, and placing one of the Indian boys at one end of the room with an apple on his head, the chief sent three arrows into the apple from the blow-gun with out touching the boy. This feat was much applauded. Then came the War Song and Dance, and the Pipe Dance, followed by the ceremony of Burying the Hatchet and Smoking the Calmet, or Pipe of Peace. This last was a very imposing ceremony. There is another performance at eight in the evening, which varies somewhat from the morning performances, in asmuch, as in the evening, there is exhibited a fac simile of the scalping. The Indian costumes, orna ments, and arms, which they have brought with them, are of the most curious description, and the exhibition is one which cannot fail to become popular. The performances were very well attended. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA MORNING, MAY l3, 1845. all inferior machinery—must ever be the great autocrat ( of the mechanical w or ld. H ow w id e are i ts provinces— how extensive its fields of enterprise—how numerous its subjects, and how diversified their aims! Over the ocean and the estuary, across the inland sea and the mountain lake, along the sinuous river and the placid stream, it passes in majestic sweep like the vapour-tailed comet athwart the planetary domains, dispensing bles sings in its course, and gifts yet unrecognised by the recipients of its bounty. The merchant and the tra veller, the naturalist and the voluntary exile, the philan thropist and the ambassador of heaven, are borne with speed and safety to the scenes of their respective labours. Man meets man, interchanging the works of their hands or the produce of the soil. Antipodes, who have hitherto been planted with foot opposite to foot, now stand in parallel intercourse and craniological proximity. The white man and the black, the serf and the freeman, the liberated slave and his repentant master, commune on each other's sufferings and aspirations, and prepare for that reign of peace which is gradually evolving from the mysterious cloud that now overhangs the nations. Nor are its labours less marvellous and less benevolent within the more limited range of our daily interests and observation. Here it stands at the mine head disem bowelling the earth of d its treasures—there delivering it from its superfluous waters, or depriving it of its dele terious or explosive atmosphere. Here it has fixed its abocl.e in the factory, giving life and motion to the va rious combinations of art which prepare for our use the necessaries and luxuries of life—there it takes its loco motive flight along our pathways of iron, shortening time and space, and uniting in one brotherhood the most distant and dissevered members of the common wealth. Wherever, indeed, its throne is reared it exer cises a beneficent sovereignty, feeding aad clothing man, subjugating the material world to his use, and summon ing all his intellectual powers to make new demands upon its liberality, and draw new prizes from its trea sure house." After such beautiful writing and such scientific demolitions of long- cherished delusions, who would have expected that the whole disquisition should have ended in Non-intrusion and Maynooth ? No magic ever produced such an unexpected change ; but Sir Isaac Newton, after astonishing the world by his dis coveries, spent the remainder of his life in the vain attempt to unravel the mysteries of the Apocalypse, and fortune delights in humbling the mighty : Valet ima summis Mutare et insignem attenuat dens, Obscura promens; hinc apicem.rapax Fortuna cum stridore acuto Sustulit; hic posuisse gaudet." We subjoin the conclusion of the article as confir mation of the poet's worts : " The transition from the supremacy of knowledge to :the decline of its power, and from ecclesiastical to civil rule, is one of the most extraordinary phases of modern times. As science has become more valuable to the State, she has, in the same proportion, sunk in in fluence and esteem; and as religion has become more pure and simple, she has, even in a higher ratio, been shorn cf her inherent and inalienable rights. An oli garchy of wealth has replaced the nobler oligarchy of knowledge, and a conclave of statesmen has usurped the hierarchy of the Church. To compensate for mis government, or to quell turbulence, or, perchance, to purchase a temporary quiet, error, intellectually de basing and spiritually fatal, is about to be fostered and endowed, and that system of faith which claims a sove reignty over things temporal as well as eternal, is to be sustained by those very men who have denied to a Pro testant Church its spiritual jurisdiction, and whose hands are yet scarred with its destruction. If, in their thirst for power, hostile factions shall combine in sup port of an idolatrous creed, while Protestant truth en joys but a partial toleration, it is time that the host of evangelism should be marshalled for the combat. The shadow of the coming conflict is already cast before us: Revelation has predicted the collision, and woe be to those who are blind to its indications, or who shrink from the stern duties which they impose." This Number contains an impartial review of the writings of Charles Dickens; a useful Essay on the Improvement of Land ; a graphic description of Prince Polignac and the French Carlists, in which Maynooth again figures ; and concludes with the " Past and Present Policy of England towards Ire land," where, of course, Maynooth appears in most conspicuous characters. Of that we do not complain, it is in its proper place, but we complain that able writers should mislead their readers by forcing certain dogmas upon them at every turn, and lower themselves in public estimation by imitating the mer cenary poets who sing the praises of Macassar oil. SURREY. Mrs. Davidge has opened the Whitsun holidays with one new, and, if we may believe the play-bill, " ori ginal" drama, written by Mr. Fox Cooper, and en titled the Old Fleete Prison, and an adaptation from the French by Mr. E. Stirling, called the Secret Foe; or, the Mason Y . Abbeville. The American Samson (Mr. Canfield) also exhibited to the astonished lieges a succession of Herculean feats, perhaps unrivalled since the days of the English Topham. Any attempt to detail the plot of the new piece would, la e are afraid, prove sufficiently tiresome to the reader, and, therefore, we shall content ourselves with stating that the play contains the stock characters which have formed the staple of all " original" productions since the days of the earliest dramatists ; namely, an elder brother, sensible and selfish, and, therefore, a scoundrel; a younger, handsome, amiable, and a spendthrift; a rich widow, who, wooed by the first, wooes and marries the second ; a young lady in love, sentimental and silly, and a motley group of secondary beings who strut their little hour, not so much with the view of contributing to the " perfect whole," as to exhibit to the audience the abilities which a tyrannical management has in their proper persons condemned to minor p Irts and unworthy situations. Some excellent scene painting (whether new we know not) by , Brunning, Turner, and others, excited universal ad miration, and the rich but formal costumes of the latter part of the seventeenth, or beginning of the eighteenth century, were admirably preserved. After the drama, Mr. Canfield, the strongest man in the world, exhibited his wondrous feats—feats which cer tainly speak well for the degeneracy of our age. He thought nothing of bending bars of iron across his arm ; breaking ropes two inches in diameter ; carrying cannons of 400 and 600 lbs. weight; waltzing round the stage with a couple of men across his neck, and other sundry and pleasurable amuse ments of a like character. His muscular develop ment affords a study to those persons who delight in physical superiority, and we heartily recommend all such admirers to see this artiste. The adaptation from the French finished the evening. Mr. 11. Hughes, Mr. N. T. Hicks, Mr. Fredericks, and Mrs. Honner, sustained the principal characters. The whole piece presented a wonderful resemblance to the first, as if they had—to use the graphic language of a gentleman in the same box with us—come from the same parent nest. The house was very full, and the performances seemed to give great satisfaction. SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. This favourite place of summer resort opened for the season last evening. Mr. Tyler, the new lessee, has vastly improved upon the plans of his predecessor. He has a new subject for his fete every year, and al though he thus subjects himself to a greatly increased outlay in catering for the amusement of his patrons, yet we doubt not but that the increase of public patronage will more than compensate-him for his in creast d expenses. The gardens too have been entirely renovated and re-decorated. Several new walks and bosquets have been formed, and the grounds are tastefully adorned by groups of statuary. The gardens were well filled at an early hour by parties who had. come out determined to make the most of Whit-Monday. At half-past four the carnivore were fed ; the pelicans and birds at five ; and at six the promenade concert, under the direction of Mr. Godfrey. Among the other improvements we may mention that the orchestra has been enlarged, advanced nearer the audience, and re-decorated. At this period there were upwards of three thousand people assembled in the gardens, and the colossal pictorial representation of Edinburgh, the chef d'ceuvre of the pencil of Danson, was the subject of universal admiration. " Have you been at Edin burgh ?" "Is it like ?" were the questions that were constantly heard on all sides ; and when any in dividual, who had been at "Auld Reekie," com menced explaining the model to his friends, he was immediately surrounded by an anxious group of inquirers, eager to listen to his explanations, and not back ward in asking him questions. Never has any thing been yet produced at these Gardens, which has created anything like the sensation of this colossal model of Edinburgh ; and Prince Albert has proved that he completely understood the taste of the English public, when he recommended the subject to Mr. Tyler. 'We are not surprised at the admi ration which has been so freely expressed of this beautiful work of art. Scott has done Edinburgh no more than justice, in calling it his " ain romantic town." Whether we regard its situation, or the grand historical events of which it has been the scene, Edinburgh is, " take it for all in all," perhaps the most romantic place in the world. Here w e have presented to us, a bird's-eye view of it, as cor rect, as complete, as if the town itself, with its suburbs, had, by some Aladdin-like process, been suddenly transported to the banks of the Thames. There it is—the Old Town—with its quaint medi aeval buildings, the scene of many a deadly deed, and of many a joyful revel—the New Town, with its magnificent streets and squares, a rich millionaire ostentatiously parading its wealth in the face of its poor Nobility. There, too, is the Nor' Loch, as it existed in days " lang syne." The Carlton Hill, Nelson's monument (erected years before the Nelson monument in London, to the shame of the English be it spoken) ; Scott's monu ment ; Salisbury Craggs, rendered immortal by the Great Wizard of the North, in connexion with Jeanie Deans ; Arthur's Seat; the fine old Castle— who that has read Marmion or Waverley can forget the Castle ; the Royal Institution—the strong hold of the moral force of the present day, as the Cas tle was of the physical force of a former century, each building emblematic of an age ; and, though last not least, the fine old Palace of Holyrood, the scene of the revelries of James—of the misfortunes of Mary—of the short-lived triumph of Charles Edward—there, too, is the river, the silver Forth, " wandering at its own sweet will," and the dark mass of the Bass, proudly rising from the ocean. It is night—the night of the day on which the Queen first arrived at Edinburgh ; one by one lights appear at the windows; gradually the whole city becomes illu minated, and presents a most gorgeous spectacle, Salutes are fired from the Castle, bonfires blaze on the Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the surrounding mountains ; and then commences a grand pyro technic display, which far surpasses even Southby's former doings. The grand finale is certainly the triumph of the pyrotechnic art. A grand transparency, fifty feet high, consisting of medallion portraits of the Queen and Prince Albert, supported by Britannia, and surmounted by Fame, appears in the middle of the lake. This transparency, which is beautifully executed by Danson, is surrounded by appropriate emblematical devices, and is made the centre of one of the most elaborate displays of the resources of pyrotechny ever exhibited. It is impossible to de scribe the various brilliant effects, unfortunately, as evanescent as they are brilliant, which are introduced in this grand finale. We certainly never have seen anything of the sort which can be at all compared with it. There cannot be a doubt but that this will be by far the most popular tableau that hastver been exhibited at these gardens, and that the season will be most prosperous. VAUXHALL GARDENS. Vauxhall Gardens, which have been closed for some years, were re-openekl last night under the ma nagement of Mr. H. Wardell. The interior has been thoroughly cleaned and painted ; the walks have been newly laid out, and no expense appears to have been spared to make these grounds what they were many years ago—a favourite place of resort for the middle and upper classes. Many rumours had got about re specting them—it was confidently stated that a rail way terminus, spacious warehouses, and manufac tories, were to be erected on their site. These pro phecies, however, it would appear, were not destined to be fulfilled—and the doors, as we have said, were thrown open to the public last night, and shortly after the gardens were very well filled. A band of 00 performers played a number of national and other airs at intervals during the evening— some pretty songs and duets were sung i n t h e o rchestra. A ballet entitled Myra was produced in the rotunda. Among the many attractions offered to the visitor may be mentioned the . Golden T emp l e of Honan, which was beautifully illuminated; the EruiStion of Etna, with the destruction of the City of Catana, the dissolving views, &c. The fire-works, under the management of Air, Darkly, were on a sca l e of great magnitude, and elic i ted loud applaus e , J oe l H. Diavola descended from a considerable height on a single wire during the display. A handsom e ball room has been erected for dancing, after the fire works, which presents a view of the Valley Sweet Waters on the Barbyses. The illuminations, consist ing of 20. 000 lamps , were, if possible, on a more mag nificent scale than ever. The covered w a lk s h ave b een greatly extended, and, in the event of rain, the visitors THE ROCK . HARMONICAN AT - THE FREE-TRADE BAZAAR. The performances of the Messrs. Harrison on the Rock Harmonican, at the Anti - Corn-law League Free-Trade Bazaar, having created quit e a sensat i on , som e account of the Harmonican itself may not, perhaps, be uninteresting to our readers. The Rock Harmonican is composed, in the first place, of a wooden frame, with four horizontal bars of wood crossing it from right to left, on which (being properly padded) are placed stones or portions of certain sorts of rock, properly cut into sizes, &c., and regularly arranged in musical order, like the keys of a pianoforte. The performers, of whom there are three, are each provided w ith two wooden ham mers, with which they s t r ik e t h e stones , a nd thus make them discourse most excellent music. The manner in which the Messrs. Harrison perform is really astonishing, and proves that they must be a ccomp li shed mus i c ians, thoroughly versed in the principles of th e i r art for un los they under stood the principles of har mony i t W ou ld be impossible for them to perform as they do on this the most perfect Rock Harmonicon that has ever yet been exhi bited. It has a complet e c h roma tic scale from the top to the bottom, and it s compass is so great that it is capable of performing any opera tic music, however difficult. The arrangement o f t h e k e y s i s most ingenious, us and whether as a beautiful mu s i ca l i ns trument, or as anin genious piece of mechanism, it i s we ll worth attention and inspection. The stones from which the notes are produced were brought from the mountain of Skiddau, in Cumberland. LITERATURE. THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. No. V. The writers in this new periodical would consult their interests better, if they adhered to the topics on which they profess to comment, and forgot alto gether the theological opinions of the editor, and the parties with whom it originated. We have no means of knowing who got up this rival of the Edinburgh, or who are the chief contributors, but report says that they belong to the Free Church of Scotland, and that Dr. Chalmers and Sir David Brewster are its chief patrons. We should iufer as much, however, without any other authority than internal evidence, for the train of argument on church matters, and the conclusion of arguments on other matters, are so evidently tinged with the peculiar doctrines of the party, that we can hardly doubt it is a Non-intru sionist Review. There can be no objection to this. Every sect and party have a right to establish an organ for themselves, and the public have no reason to complain of articles in accordance with the views of the editors; but the public have a right to com plain when they are led astray by skilful devices, and a conclusion is inferred not founded upon reasoning, or any way connected with the question under dis cussion. We remember no instance of such a glaring departure from the usual course of discussion, as is exhibited in the first article of this Number. It is evidently written by the Principal of St. Salvator and estab and St. Leonard. No m an in the country is so well acquainted with thesubjaesctms atdoewrriliaicnhy important it refers— he is versed in the occ ult scienc es — he knows well the theory of optics _h li s hed a discoveries title l i e n tthat pre-eminence branch of knowledge, wideh ho man in this look country beyond or his France object can ?why dispute intrude; but why tj peculiar the ological notions on readers while discussing a subject that may have some connexion with the mountains an , . the man of the moon, but none whatever with May nooth and Non -intrusmit. Ile has founded the article on a work of Salverte's, a French philosopher, pub lished some fifteen years ago, entitled " An Essay on Magic, Prodigies, and Miracles," and has treated these interesting subjects, if liot profoundly, at all events in a popular manner, and well calculated to throw doubts on pretended miracles, to destroy the delusions pro duced by wizards and conjurors, and to excite the in quisitive miisd to think well before it believes. The introduction to the article is splendid, the explanations of magical operations and delusions interesting and in structive. and some of the descriptions of modern dis coyqies are in admirable keepik the-extraorai nary results of science tpui art Which distinguishes the present age above all others. We have read many descriptions of the effects produced by steam, but none at all to be compared t o this, which combines the highest flights of poetry with univeri,ally admitted facts : " The mighty steam eng ine—whether we view it in its individual grandeur or in its universal dominion over MR. D'ISRAELI'S SYBIL. The following are extracts from this highly in ;eresting work : THE QUEEN'S ACCESSION. " Hark ! it tolls ! All is over. The great bell of the metropolitan cathedral announces the death of the last son of George the Third who probably will ever reign in England. He was a good man : with feelings and sympathies ; deficient in culture rather than ability ; with a sense of duty ; and with something of the con ception of what should be the character of an English monarch. Peace to his manes ! 'We are summoned to a different scene. " In a palace in a garden —not in a haughty keep, proud with the fame, but dark with the violence of ages ; not in a regal pile, bright with the splendour, but soiled with the intrigues, of courts and factions—in a palace in a garden, meet sceije for youth, and innocence, and beauty—came the voice that told the maiden she must ascend her throne ! " The council of England is summoned for the first time within her bowers. There are assembled the pre lates and captains and chief men of her realm; the priests of the religion that consoles, the heroes of the sword that has conquered, the votaries of the craft that has decided the fate of empires ; men grey with thought, and fame, and age ; who are the stewards of divine mysteries, who have encountered in battle the hosts of Europe, who have toiled in secret cabinets, who have struggled in the less merciful strife of aspiring senates ; men, too, some of them, lords of a thousand vassals and chief pro prietors of provinces, yet not one of them whose heart does not at this moment tremble as he awaits the first presence of the maiden who must now ascend her throne. " A hum of half-suppressed conversation which would attempt to conceal the excitement, which some of the greatest of them have since acknowledged, fills that brilliant assemblage ; that sea of plumes, and glittering stars, and gorgeous dresses. Hush ! the portals open She comes ! The silence is as deep as that of a noon tide Forest. Attended for a moment by her royal mother and the ladies of her court, who bow and then retire, Victoria ascends her throne ; a girl, alone, and for the first time, amid an assemblage of men. " In a sweet and thrilling voice, and with a composed mien which indicates rather the absorbing sense of august duty than an absence of emotion, the Quee n announces her accession to the thron e of her ancestors, and her humble hope that Divine Providence will guard over the fulfilment of her lofty trust. " The prelates and captains and chief men of her realm then advance to the throne,find kneeling before her, pledge their troth, and take the sacred oaths of allegiance and supremacy. " Allegiance to one who rules over the land that the great Macedonian could not conquer ; and over a conti nent of which even Columbus never dreamed ; to the Queen of every sea, and of nations in every zone. " It is not of these that I would speak ; but of a na tion nearer her foot stool, and which at this moment looks to her with anxiety, with affection, perhaps with hope. Fair and serene, she has the blood and beauty of the Saxon. Will it be her proud destiny at length to bear relief to suffering millions, and with that soft hand which night inspire troubadours and guerdon knights, break the last links in the chain of Saxon thraldom ?" THE STATE OF THE PEASANTRY. " Their wretched tenements seldom consisted Of more than two rooms, in one of which the whole family, how ever numerous, were obliged to sleep, without distinction of age, or sex, or suffering. With the water streaming down the walls, the light distinguished through the roof, with no hearth even in winter, the virtuous mother in the sacred pangs of childbirth, gives forth another vic tim to our thoughtless civilization ; surrounded by three generations whose inevitable presence is more painful than her sufferings in that hour of travail ; while the father of her coming child, in another corner of the sordid chamber, lies stricken by that typhus which his contaminating dwelling has breathed into his veins, and for whose next prey is perhaps destined, his new born-child. " The town of Marney was a metropolis of agricul tural labour, for the proprietors of the neighbourhood having for the last half century acted on the system of destroying the cottages on their estates, in order to be • come exempted from the maintenance of the population, the expelled people had flocked to Marney, where, during the war, a manufactory had afforded them some relief, though its wheels had long ceased to disturb the waters of the Mar. " Deprived of this resource, they had again gradually spread themselves over that land which had as it were rejected them; and obtained from its churlish breast a niggardly subsistence. Their re-entrance into the sur rounding parishes was viewed with great suspicion; their renewed settlement opposed by every ingenious contrivance; those who availed themselves of their la • bout- were careful that they should not become dwellers on the soil; and though, from the excessive competition, there were few districts in the kingdom where the rate of wages was more depressed, those who were fortunate enough to obtain the scant remuneration had, in addition to their toil, to endure each morn and even a weary journey before they could reach the scene of their la• hour, or return to the squalid hovel which profaned the name of home. To that home, over which Malaria hovered, and round whose shivering hearth were clus tered other guests besides the exhausted family of toil —Fever, in every form, pale Consumption, exhaust ing Synochus, and trembling Ague,—returned of er cultivating the broad fields of merry England the bold British peasant, returned to encounter the worst of dis eases with a frame the least qualified to oppose them; a frame that subdued by toil was never sustained by animal food; drenched by the tempest could not change its dripping rags; and was indebted for its scanty fuel to the windfalls f the woods." THE WELLIN'GTON ADMINISTRATION. " From the death of Mr. Pitt to 1825, the politio4l history of England is a history of great events and little meb. The rii'e of Mr. Canning, long kept down by the plebeian aristocracy of Mr. Pitt as an adventurer, had shaken parties to their centre. His rapid disappearance from the scene left both Whigs and Tories in a state of disorganization. The distinctive pri;iciples of these con nexions were now difficult to trace. That period of public languor which intervenes between the breaking up of parties and the formati on o f f act i ons now transpired in England. An exhausted sensualist on the throne, who only demanded from his ministers repose, a volup tuous aristocracy, and a listless people, were content, in the absence of all public conviction and national passion, to consign the government of the country to a great man, whose decision relieved the sovereign, whose prejudices pleased the nobles, and whose achievements dazzled the mu:titude. " The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame ; a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others. His public knowledge was such as might be expected from one whose conduct already formed an important portion of the history of his country. He had a personal and inti mate acquaintance with the sovereigns and chief states men of Europe, a kind of information in which English ministers have generally been deficient, but without which the management of our external affairs must at the best be haphazard. He possessed administrative talents of the highest order. " How comes it then that so great a man, in so great a position, should hare so signally failed ? Should have broken up his government, wrecked his party, and so com pletely annihilated his political position, that, even with his historical reputation to sustain him, he can since only re-appear in the councils of his Sovereign in a subor dinate, not to say equivocal, character ? " With all those great qualities which will secure him a place in our history, not perhaps inferior even to Marl borough, the Duke of Wellington has one deficiency which has been the stumbling-block of his civil career. Bishop Burnet, in speculating on the extraordinary in fluence of Lord Shaftesbury, and accounting how a statesman, so inconsistent in his conduct and so false to his confederates, should have so powerfully controlled his country, observes, His strength lay in his know ledge of England.' " Now, that is exactly the kind of knowledge which the Duke of Wellington never possessed. " This is not the occasion on which we shall attempt to do justice to a theme so instructive as the admi nistration of his Grace. Treated with impartiality and sufficient information, it would be an invaluable contri bution to the stores of our political knowledge and na'ional experience. Throughout its brief but eccen tric and tumultuous annals we see continual proof, how important is that knowledge in which lay Lord Shaftesbury's strength.' in twenty-four months we find an aristocracy estranged, without a people being con ciliated ; while on two several occasions, first, the pre judices, and then the pretensions, of the middle class, were alike treated with contumely." THE TORY PARTY. " But wo forgot, Sir Robert Peel is not the leader of the Tory party: the party that resisted the ruinous mystificatio►► that metamorphosed direct taxation by the Crown into indirect taxation by the Commons; that de nounced the system that mortgaged industry to protect property; the party that ruled Ireland by a scheme which reconciled both churches, and by a series of Parliaments which counted among them Lords and Commons of both religions; that has maintained at all times the territorial constitution of England as the only basis and security fur local government, and which, nevertheless, once laid on the table of the House of Commons a commercial tariff, negotiated at Utrecht, which is the most rational that was ever devised by statesmen; a party that has prevented the Church from being the salaried agent of the State, and has supported through many struggles, the parochial polity of the country which secures to every labourer a home. " In a parliamentary sense, that great party has ceased to exist; but I will believe it still lives in the thought and sentiment and consecrated memory of the English nation. It has its origin in great principles and in noble instincts; it sympathizes with the lowly, it looks up to the Most High; it can count its heroes and its martyrs; they have met in its behalf plunder, proscription, and death. Nor when it finally yielded to the iron progress of oligarchical supremacy, was its catastrophe inglorious. Its genius was vindicated in golden sentences and with fervent arguments of impassioned logic by St. John, and breathed in the intrepid eloquence and patriot soul of William Wyndham. Even now it is not dead, but slcepeth; and in an age of political materialism, of con fused purposes and perplexed intelligence, that aspires only to wealth because it has faith in no other accom plishment, as men rifle cargoes on the verge of ship wreck, Toryism will yet rise from the tomb over which Bolingbroke shed his last tear, to bring back strength to the Crown, liberty to the subject, and to announce that power has only one - duty —to secure the social welfare of the People." -- --- ON THE DEATH OF THOMAS HO OD, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE SONG OF THE SHIRT." Alas ! poor Hood I thy kindly heart is now at rest ; Thy playful fancy, which was wont to raise Delightful thoughts to soothe the aching breast, Is quench'd in death—no more to win our praise. Peace to thine ashes ! For if mortal man E'er did the duty which his Maker wills, Thou bast done thine in the brief span Of mortal years which now thy destiny fulfils. Long will thy memory live whilst hearts can feel For wrongs and woes which carking care and want Inflicts on those who are without a meal, Or scant can gain it by the use of fingers gaunt. How true thy pathos ! How exact to life. The wretched life of many a British maid, And widow'd mother, and heartbroken wife, Who seeks her pittance for a shirt or braid. " Song of the Shirt !" Long may it ring with quiv'ring note In ears that tingle—hearts that learn to feel The truthfulness of what thy genius wrote, And have the means such want and woes to heal ! Blest be thy shade ! "Itis a good and holy thought To pray for the departed" souls of those Whose acts true charity and kindness taught ; I therefore pray for thee, at thy mortality's sad close. May 9, 1845. H. THE LATE THOMAS HOOD. " Can Fulvia die ?" There are people in the world of literature as of social intercourse, who seem so in dispensable to us that time must elapse ere we can believe that they are gone to return no more. It is thus we feel in recording the death of lhomas Hood ; after a wasting illness of many years' slow progress, terminated by months of extreme debility and suffer ing cheerfully borne. Often and familiarly as he was wont to talk of death and the things of the grave, there seemed a vitality in the man no less than in his genius, which makes the catastrophe startling as it is sad. Thomas Hood was the son of Mr. Hood, the book seller, of the firm of Vernor and Hood. He gave to the public an outline of his early life, in the Literary Reminiscences," published in Hood's Own. He was, as he there states, early placed " upon lofty stool, at lofty desk," in a merchant's count ing-house ; but his commercial career was soon put an end to by his health which began to fail ; and, by the recommenda tion of the physicians, he was " shipped, as per advice, in a Scotch smack," to his father's rela tions in Dundee. There he made his first literary venture in the local journals; subsequently he sent a paper to the Dundee Magazine, the e dit or o f w hi c h was kind enough, as Winifred Jenkins says, " to wrap my bit of nonsense under his honour's kiver, without charging for its insertion." Literature, how ever, was then only thought of as an amusement, for, on his return to London, he was, we believe, appren ticed to an uncle as an engraver, and subsequently transferred to one of the Le Keux. But though he always retained his early love for art, and had much facility in drawing, as the numberless quaint illus trations to his works testify, his tendencies were lite rary, and when, on the death of Mr. John Scott, the London Magazine passed into the hands of Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, Mr. Hood was installed in a sort of sub-editorship. From that time his career has been open and known to the public. The following is, we apprehend, something like a catalogue of Mr. Hood's works, dating from the pe riod when his " Odes and Addresses," written in con junction with his brother-in-law, Mr. J. H. Reynolds, brought him prominently before the public : "Whims and Oddities ;" " National Tales ;" "The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies" (a volume full of rich imaginative poetry) ; " The Comic Annuals," subsequently reproduced with the addition of new matter as " Hood's Own ;" " Tylney Hall ;" " lip the Rhine ;" and "- Whimsicalities : a Periodical Ga thering." Nor must we forget one year's editorship of " The Gem," since that included " Eugene Aram's Dream," a ballad which we imagine will live as long as the language. Of later days Mr. Hood was an occasional contributor to Punch's casket of mirth and benevolence ' • and, perhaps, his last offering, " The Song of the Shirt," was his best—a poem of which the imitations have been countless, and the moral ef fect immeasurable. The secret of this effect, if analysed, would give the characteristics of one of the most original arid powerful geniuses which ever was dropped by Faery into infant's cradle, and oddly nursed up by man into a treasure, quaint, special, cameleon -coloured in the changefulness of its tints, yet complete and self-con sistent. Of all the humourists Hood was the most poetical. When dealing with the most familiar sub jects, whether it might be a sweep bewailing the sup pression of his cry, or a mother searching through St. Giles's for her lost infant, or a Miss Kilmansegg's golden childhood—there was hardly a verse in which some touches of heart or some play of fancy did not beckon the laughing reader away into far other worlds than the Jester's. It is true that he was equally prone i n n d e s streakv,. with familiarhis noblest . poems, awful nthea allusionsa n o d n grotesque s a g n u c e l similes; and this union of sinks is near and tangible with what soars high and deep, wrought out in every capricious form which a gamesome invention could suggest, enabled him from time to time to strike home to the hearts of every one— the fastidious and the commonplace—the man of wit and the man of dreams—of all, we should say, except the bigot and the charlatan. To these Hood's genial sarcasms must have been gall and wormwood, directed, as they were, to the noblest purposes. His jokes pierced the deeper, too, inasmuch as they were poet's jokes—clear of grossness or vul garity. But what need is there once again, in this j ournal, to dissect or to display the gifts of one whose published works for years furnished out its . richest mirth ?—nor is the present the time. Our lTs may speak of the wit which Death could only exhaust, and the humour which sickness could not daunt, nor hard fortunes depress into silence ; but our thoughts are fixed on the pall which hides them fram us for ever ! As little can we attempt any portraiture of the man ; more original, we verily think, more gifted when met in a private social circle of those to whom he would open his stores, than when presenting himself to the world in private. The service is one comprehending too many mingled recollections to he borne at the moment. The world will presently feel how much poorer it is for Hood's withdrawal, and then there will be no lack of remembrancers and memorialists. Sufficient for the day is the regret !—Athenteurn. THE AMERICAN NAVY. The recent message of President Polk, and his threat ened appropriation of the Oregon territory in oppo sition to the claims of this country, have naturally turned the attention of the public to the resources which Ame rica can command in the event of a hostile collision with England. The following is the list of the American navy, including the vesse!s building and in ordinary, to gether with an analysis of the power of the various ves sels in their respective classes.— LINE OF BATTLE SHIPS. Pennsylvania Ohio BO New York North Carolina BO Franklin Delaware BO Washington 74 Alabama . Vermont . FRIGATES. Independence'. United States . Constitution Potomac . litandywine 44 ' Savannah Java . 44 l3aritan 44 Hudson Santee . ... 44 i Maced - mian Camber - land SLOOPS OF WAR, &C. John Adams 2O Preble.... Buston . 2O Yorktown . Lexington 2O Marion Vincennes 2O ' Dale Warren ... Natchez 2O Porpoise . Falmouth Fairfield 2O ; Grampus Vandalia . St. Louis Concord 2O Boxer . lO Levant. 2O Experiment ... 10 Cyane Erie . 20 IS Wave . Otsego Seagull 6 Flying Fish 6 sTEAX VESSELS. Princeton.. Mississippi Missouri Fulton Poinsett. The Missouri steamer, although included in the above list, was accidentally burnt and sunk at Gibraltar about twelve months ago. From the foregoing list it appears that the total num ber of vessels of every description, including steamers, comprising the American navy, amounts only to 67. Of these, 11 are line• of-battle ships; 17 frigates; 34 sloops, brigs, or schooners, and 5 steam-vessels. Among the line-of battle ships which we have enumerated, there are four not yet built, viz., the Alabama, Vermont, Virginia, and New York; and of the frigates there are six that are in the course cf construction, the Santee, Cumberland, Sabine, Savannah, Baritan, and St. Lawrence; conse quently the Ame leans at the present time have only line-of-battle ships and 11 frigates, including those in or dinary, available for service in the event of a war. Although the numerical strength of the American navy is not very formidable, the Americans imagine that the want of numbers is more than compensated by the power and efficiency of each individual ship, and that should one of their frigates encounter a British frigate she would eventually capture her. They say that such. was the case in the war of 1812, and point to the Guer riere, the Java. and the Macedonian, as triumphant il lustrations of this fact. During that war their frigates were the largest class vessels they had in their service, but since that period they have built their line-of-battle ships, which, although nominally rated at 74 and 80 gun ships, carry considerably mole guns than their rating indicates. They have one first class line-of-battle ship—the Pennsylvania. This ship, although stated to be of 120 guns, actually carries 140 guns, and instead of king a three-decker, is to all intents and purposes a four-decker. Our first-class vessels, such as the St. Vin cent, and others, only carry the number of guns at which they are rated, 120 ; but, notwithstanding the inferiority of their armament to that of the Pennsylvania, the dis parity is not so very great as to preclude the possibility of any of our first-rates successfully contending with her. With regard to the American 80-gun ships, such as the Delaware, they ought to have been rated at 102 Cues, for that is the number of guns they actually carry-. They have 34 long 42 pounders on their lower deck, g 4 long 42-pounders on their main-deck ; 34 42- pouieler earonnades on their upper deck, The total weight of metal they can discharge is 3,6161b5., and the weight of thdr broadside is I,BoBlb. Thus, although rated as SO gun ships, they are of superior force to oar 90 gun ships, and throw a heavier broadside by 1321 b. than they do, for the broadside of the Albion, Rodney, Nile, and London is 1,6561 b. This class of the American line of-battle ships may, therefore. be rated as a class be tween our 90 gun ships and our three-deckers, such 34 the Queen, for her broadside is 1,97216, being 1641 b. more than the broadside of the Delaware. The American 74-gun s hi ps actually mount 90 guns ; 30 long 32-pounders on the lower deck ; 30 medium 32- pounders on the main -deck, and 30 32-pounder car ronades on the upper deck, consequently the total weight of metal they can discharge is 2,88016., or a broadside of 1,44016. This class of vessels, although actually car rying 90 guns, is inferior to our SO-gun ships, which only carry the number of guns at which they are rated ; for instance, the Vanguard. SO, can discharge a total weight of metal, equal to 2,9921 h., consequently the weight of her broadside would be 1,4961 b., being 501 b. heavier than that of the Franklin and other nominally 74, but in point of fact 90-gun ships. As to the American frigates there is no question that, in the event of a war with this country, these will be the vessels most likely to bear the brunt of it. If, however, the Americans anticipate the same results in their frigate actions in any future war as they experienced in 1812. they will find themselves pretty considerably mistaken. The class of British frigates which they would now have to contend with is a far different one from that which they encountered at that period, and if they then had great difficulty, as in the case of the Java, in overcoming vessels whose armament was so inferior that the whole weight of metal they could discharge was actually much less than the single broadside of their more powerful antagonists, how utterly impossible will they find it now successfully to compete with our new larger class frigates. Although our 50-gun frigates do not even now mount so many guns as some of the Ame rican frigates, yet they are nearly as powerful in their armament, without being hampered with guns on their gangways, and far more efficient ; for when the Brandy wine and other American frigates carry carronades on British frigates carry long guns they mount 60 their upper decks, the Verno o n n , t i h V ei a r r s s . pi T te h , e a A nd me o ri t c h a e n r frigates are rated only at 44 guns, _but ,and 30 nar 60, 30 long 32-pounders on their main-deck, r e 9 5 0 0 8 - r b u s n . !o h o e metal they discharge is 1, f 32-pounders on their upper d , : oiba., T a h n e d total that weefigateeirf The e d fr dischargeom the broadside d u d 't B h l e 6 r i e hs i " s even now an advantage of 521bs. broadside 9601b5. in favour of the broadside of the American frigates.. c fr e i n e s a e t g es uen is tb l . This, however, is more than compensated by having long guns instead of carronades, and the absence of guns from the gangways. The Americans, however they might have been elated with their success in capturing our frigates during the last war, had in reality little or nothine to boast of The discharge from the Java's broadside was under 4001b5., while that of the American frigate was 9601b5., being 1601bs. more than double that of her opponent. The same excess in the number of guns actually mounted over the rated number exists in the Americaa sloops of war. Their 20-gun sloops (corvettes) mount 26 guns, their 16-gun brigs mount 20 guns, and their 10-gun brigs mount 14 guns, and so on in proportion with their smaller craft. Here, however, their 26-gun ships have no advantage over our new class corvettes, the Amazon, and Daedalus (razees), which are rated at and carry 26 guns ; and they would not ha ve t h e slightest c h a nce with our other 26-gun ships, which, having main decks, would be enabled to fight their guns free from any entanglement from wreck of spars or rigging. With respect to the other sloops and small craft of the Ameri can navy, those who are acquainted with the improve. ments that have been made within these few years in this class of vessels in the British service, are fully eware that the Americans have little cause to congratulate themselves upon their superiority on this point. We now come to the most important branch of the question—the comparative strength of the steam navies of the two countries. From the foregoing statement .it appears that the United States Government have at present only four effective steam vessels, whereas there are now in the British service semewhere about 100 steamers of various tirades and power. In addition to • this, some hundreds of effective sea-going steam vessels can be brought into operation from the mercantile ma rine. This fact has been ascertained from the result of an inquiry recently instituted by the Lords of the Admiralty. In the last war with the United States considerable injury was done to our commerce by American privateers. At that period, how ever, steam had not been applied to mari time purposes ; since then, this great addieional power has come into operation, and its usefulness has been fully developed. By the applying of this force to the blockading of the American ports it would be utterly impossible for their privateers again to injure our commerce. No doubt many privateers would be fitted out with this object, but with one or two steatnera in the offing, it would be next to impossible for them to leave their respective ports. What have the Ame ricans got, in addition to the four war-steamers already mentioned, to compete with this powerful force ? s They have no mercantile steam marine to resort to. It differently constituted to ours, that is is only ap plicable comprised could be rendered e ffec purposes, It Must be obviou s from to river traffic, and not one of the vesselstire for sea or war the recedingp statement of ihe comparative n aval p ower of the two nations, that, of which it is cannot collision take place, the result prove , satisfactory to the Americans. They must inevitably should any co suffer greatly in their commerce, while the injury they can effect with respect to our mercantile marine win to Ontario Peacock Decatur 18 1 18 16 tee 0 15 We e hes. rdSl