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fur his billiard and b agatelle tables. Mr. Bohn's Spirit o f enterprise deserves . support, and we "'WY wish him success.— Another volume o the Sci des enti I f fic Library contains a trsnsiation of a n " Aspects of Nature," ornamented with a., beautiful coloured engraving and a fac-Simile of Ilareboldt's writing, taken from a letter addressed by the Baron to to the publisher. I n thi s l etter h e very begs ar the- reader t o over l oo k the oblique and character of hi s h an d wr i t i ng, for he h as an br as America malad e sinc e his voy age t o t h e f orests o f , ZICIIIIVS ILLUSTRATED LIBRARY.— p LobGE'S PORTRAITS. Vol. IV. b ' a villg already tor than once commended this very ..eautiful edition of an excellent work, it will be sufficient for us now to announce the publication of the fourth 4";llne, Which contains thirty beautifully engraved, , 4 " ' 8 many well-written, " Portraits." The greater dlntiber of these portraits are from the hand cf Van lee, lni some of them have been engraved with marvellous excellence. In this respect this fourth it .wor t h iS superior to its predecessors—in this respect, oti ! s IYOIIII double or treble its actual price. Among ti le e i r ' , ,the portraits of James Duke of llqinilton, ar' o f S'r Surrey, the E irl of Holland, Charles 1., othearfrord, ad, Mon troe, Gord.,,n, I'Llkland, and 3 are most admirable. -- - TI IE ivi.ii. - Olt, ink, T r. «'e lir ENTE RTAINMENTS. 1 ) O. RICAL L e ,are heartily g l a d to he able to announce that 0111 a Y next th ese entertainments will be cot:11.- 4; 4 "d. The sp i r i t in which they will be main last()4l ac cords with t h e taste displayed and developed b e f ore Yeab e subjoi n a copy of the Bill to be placed "I' Itijesty and her visitors at Windsor : ROYAL ENTERTAINLIENT. Friday, Feb. 1, 11 er Uajesty's serv ants ßY wi e ll °3 l:_trro l :m " at Windsor Castle, on Jalim C 1850, Shakspere's tragedy of JULIUS CASAR. o st • ~' ar Mr. CHARLES FISHER riarelt' rIII S Caes a r .......... Mr. LEIGH MURRAY u 3 A , :• • . lciN' POpil ia Ant ......... .. ...... Mr. CHARLES . kar e4 8 11 4 " (a Senator) Mr. HARRIS ~434_118, kirutus .. pin. MACREADY le-;4eai .. ............ Mr. JAMES WALLACR Tr ebOrli ............ 1 (Conspirators Mr. COOPER be e j us US "' ...... against Mr. CATHCART k eteila " ... ....... Julius Ci.esar) Mr. CULLENFORD Cia na 3 ( limber mr. CAULFIELD ~l ' aria l ..... . ~,...;,••• ).Mr. WORRELL S o oo.h .s x°, Aritiulle) .•• ...... ... ... erb aYer ri„._..uus (Sevant to Antonius) V4'r‘nl roll, 8 (Filen Ito Brutus &Cassius) Mr. F. C o ox e'' 4461 Luci us ... } (Servants to'Brutus) 1 1 111 - r r .. is c) o E riGE WEBSTER t a e rt' i t 3 i (Servant to Cassius) S econd c? 1 .................. .. Mr. RAY T t , ira c. !tiz,,n ....... .: ...... Mr. ADDISON eaipt i It!Zen ....... , ..... ••• • . Mr. CLARKE l'orti-fiZI,, Fife t0....ri ................. Mrs- F. SAvii.ms Ladies , b . Ile to Brut US) ........... . I CS 111 attendance on Calphurnia, Miss WOULDS and Miss A. WOULDS. Se . eze d Benators, Citizens Guards, Attendants, &c. " til ing a great part Of the play, at Rome ; afterwards Director Sardis, an d near P h i l i pp i . .............. Mr. CIIARLES KEAN A ssista n t Director... Mr. GEORGE Bp.'s. T4O theatre arr anged and the scenery painted by Mr. THOMAS GRIEVE. ..- - TO Rutty -I, ANE THEATRE. . % et , ri ged , i ..ir of - Othello was repeated at this f ll o l i e tu 9e t s e s thi n ev ening with, if possible, more signal ihe 1 ; un on the first evening of its revival. l co fre k ;8' excellent notice of last night's performance, opi h i " es, is in ;entire accordance with r t6rin°ll6 wh ich we expressed in vvitnessing t . e pc t kury ll .. c i a c'f Othello on the first night of its revival a . ~ an e • ... 1 _ ....... °tit at".kanner in which Othello has been brought ti l d ' this h ouse is so very creditable to the manager,. a /4,4° relTiarkable in its character, that it melds the o,eelal notice than we were enabled to give on eAr.asion of the first night. ili t il" isB of A.ddison's Desdemona is still fresh ih e st yi s ila illenl "r of the play-going public, as last year the 4 Yed alternately with Mrs. Charles Kean a Itltar:sararejlaorittd•iy Lhe he la r rg f e av ti a m r ensions of Drury c.. - , as she is T o % P "stic ° ‘ 41°re power than finish, and her strong r g a the l es ' as, for instance, the appeal i tit eet °ll o r 'h i. act, come out with very greatdr. B '' l 0 -t "' 11 0 was first played by Mr. Ail . e t li i i ,'". I!, tl t the oeo ai•ion pea benefit which he took during ti n t a tt ract a ye management of Drury-lane, and - al iatit-bleted respectful notice. The want of van h a . B:rtslik,"44,deliverr, which has been particularly til a iast ,I, ° ' late years, militates in some degree u te h 'lgitit, "",,e effectiveness of his interpretation, but . h . - Re, - 1 .„ 1 64 dePortment which seems with him to be in 4,1,', w hich is one of his hest qualifications, is trarke7'Y suited to the "noble" Moor, and the more * ith - 38sitges of distress and rage are rendered Is t , i . great ower. m 814 Th en illany _r. Vandenhoft's Ingo is excel him of the character is never obtruded trust ' tho ender? it a wonder how any one can . .. a ' bat . of honesty is carefully ore, de wh the mask tof d the sieht of the other characters, a peculiar the Iludienee„Nlng confidence reveals the real man to 4 40 e. ;j, l ' e ral w n eve ri it is not only to the acting of the 'at rail ' , bllt to the general style of production, r , ell, °I4 I'l4 re fe r when we speak of the Drury-lanefelt - n .41 Pr 48 4 when remarkable performance. Hay' g 1, evi o ,._ c . 41 '. A,,, d " ° elisions that in point of min en scene tr itl ntio n t e t r ii s s ° r ri e seemed to be behind his age, we gladly vival as a symptom of a better state of are T'. , knell of the scenery is new, the costumes 4(113 ( 114) a rid the mere circumstance that in the .l ate toi ; act Othello, hoo, and Cassio all appear . it th iela l.) I ° ll 's an attention to details of decoration fltsrlAti%nut be to highly commended. The re -1144Z lithe (t)efzhoec_haruacters o . f Bianca and the Clown 1 , r llakspere is another good sign, for, ' )f th lll . ll l Lese may add but little to the effectiveness Worke ', ) ' 4 ,3 7 , they show that an originating spirit is at a a'el ,, aU " eh ill ,, e t. 11 ,e cuipeningat Christmas we have never su s of wiecme symptoms of vitality within the Old Drury:" 1 , 0 11% 0 2v. - -- 0 CONCERTS. , I 1 i. , WEDNESDAY good Ili ght, e -'l.leB of fifteen concerts caCmetoanycelroyse kpr Nvit il a crowded attendance and last • fraetratne. The selection included Eyles,soine pieces a young lin 4"4 n 13 / • which Miss nore in the ker , 0 ena, In vol4,Air', r‘c•)t much promise, obtained an,,en,, thi n . no n 1 ~u that I n vivr more might ee two C soprano sotash• and Ai r e . A. Newton ~„.„g• the his own Airs 11_3(eeedingly well. Ernst . played., He was *aeor ,u!zgrois and May seder's Air Vane. nava f st , th :' , l 11 Alittbeorthh, but declined to repeat the former; _villitiations. I`i '1 substituted i fantasias " .e. his o s - rhe of the Car mos 7 4 cl Arorn -1:. -Ihcrg gave which was rea l aand ed. t ., (1 ,, the termer of t • corn i ten air, posed h ,-euriales sang swell--.vl'- IP 4,.Ylulhrt Anchuez, withnil "and the `li i '". L. Phillips — besides " the was compelled a violoncello \v obligate tt,,,e37 or tiseay," the first of which he Itiet Peat A solo on the flute, by duet for flute atki `_4:ith the same c ompliment ; and a , mi.. may- Mr. Richardson, eaq°lstionet, between that gentleman and , Mr. • ' ridelts warmly received. The new of oioFrodsharn, sang " Vivi tu'' and a couplegood kiatill.d' •ik year or two in Italy, with great a things far Alt and diligent study, might 'lee e.l,l‘Pclsban3, who has a singers 1t ere..... ) -,,,"18, wants experience. The other a very p!easi d ri o g and capable ttrecti 485 Poole Who was encored d i'i with the kaia.. ballad of Walter May",l"--/ademoiselle )11,ittl'etrle title Of -Always with me '' 4C eita f ' Who displayed much feeling ' in &c. The b a ' r°lll. Der Freischutz : Mr. Land, ad , cuted thud, ' qader the d• • f• i r Anchuez, exe ' the grand n` ° vert direction o I,r Z niPal and Le qteacti,itires to the Ruins of Athens, Theprogramme ) vith v in give general s atisfaction, but the encores, . 10r ity et. Y . ievv exceptions, were distasteful to the 'Ba the Ns I)erf•!kfter the concert " God save the Queen" Nos, rs?rrned, the principal vocalists taking Nvit4 he verse allotted to Herr Formes was sung Nltt,,ceat Power and loudly applauded. The arrange ;bad „,,,;„' tht National Anthem, ,however, different wrat h VoiaeB\vi the changes of key (to suit the 413tet4li'l.4da.cin an effect by no means natural or Thes ''' . w tnh hi e c B ll ( ' :tett4tlistEi te°4l3neesdtwa'o extra concerts ncerts, at the first of r a°}ll3) theitl°l"B wit?: tll43ex. violin concerto of menufietiz _ "' Ernst is to Play ,f0,u..- thq • c°lltert b • e vic d for the bene f eUllnent p, r , be announce 41tIntr, T 4 *4 lo l ' LATE -CorEitTr.—The late la of the ~, In nu t ;ell bOWAGER'S andPn effects of her dieposeetld ma3es'ileent furniture l'his arrat'ht Ptivately 4th m e Qupewean of New Bond-street. Dowage is about to be %told t he moo b - b Mr. determined e on in order thet 1 „11151iner in Ltite°avealeansne e 'of a public waction, and . Z' 1011" "uieh the „'aie wit lzke effected is something t he ws :"--An i. -- has been made of the jaush; Park one -,ventory 44 0-papk_r en 8 property at Marlborough-house, ''oen 6 ' and the Priory. The value of each article kid, w. Zed : for thil W ith ie. probate duty in the usual manner, 1144 estileate i l . , tp the corivenie:t disposal osal of tie effects, p d P every lot of fur l:tot 4 . , pliot, iil4,' teen aP end description of property Thertbou linen otherts 0„ tittio:.. willede uu ,handbeques t but priya•e Inv , her late Majesty.. ° Public admission, Tuesday Ite kt _ 4 hkie been iss ed Mr. Owen for h house Itill'e6l3a which davuth' by l at Marlboroug h- house !IrettitY ofttlbt4tica• The ---e sat; a rils a lArge queries °1 N. 'etY 2uperb furttr, upwards of 20,000 o . u s n9 ea I,claha a bentitiful collection of Sevres and Die el to ltA;"),511d the usual eTects of a mansion devote d -4tin— • 'heievveller will not be sold, the late Queers - t lae tt k di of th'l portion of her property by be - 8'01: at° various friend's and dependents. We understand t,lll'ol:44ia'ions are in pre re-s the result of which will •Qiuq,-,31 be tho purchase gcf 'the effects contained in o„'ouile by her Nlttjesty the gucen. 4,l`'utc•rtort TO A tiStIOPRIC --The Rev. Dr. Dull, wu 4°l Chris' Church . • asked it lit. 444 1. 1 , o:dird, being . thti t he 1 . , e to have the bishopric of that sc.:, 1, •i" "1 ~, _ 41.43141 0f ." 5 .( 1 but One objection t) it, which w,s, th 11- "1114 betilUng his u se, as at present, John Bull, he - Seci W 144 j 944 Oxpia,....l'aspin. MISS CIJSIIMAN % I BROADWAY THEATRE.-This - distinguished Ame ricsiii actress is paying a farewell engagement at the • Broadway, preparatory to a lengthened visit to the southern and western Stites. Her reception has been as warm as that accorded to her on her last visit to New York. The species of antagonistic criticism exercised upon Miss Cushman has induced us to watch her performances with increased scrutiny during her present engagement; for we confess to being mong those who would accord to this gifted woman the fullest extent of genius and artistic talent, cordially awarded to her by the ablest critics in England and this country. And in carrying out our observation, we find nothing to warrant us in adopting a " sober second thought" contrary to the opinion we formed on witnessing her first performances on her re-ap pearaece among us. We hold her to be unques tionably one L f the greatest actresses of our times, and especially do we conceive her to be one of the ablest illustrators of that peculiar school of acting, which, taking its impress from our days, bids fair to become the standard on which acting as an art will hereafter be modelled. The acting of 3stiss'eusliman is without dispute a veritable embodiment of the mo dern littral or real school of histrionic art, as con trasted with the ideal, in which may be comprised the classical and the romantic. This modern school is the growth of our practical age, which is alike stamping its brand on every department of literature, science, and art, and is consequently moulding the minds of men to the strictly practical and real. The drama, which is the most secular of all poetry, could not fail of receiving a large infusion of the liberal spirit of the age; and the players, who are " but the brief abstracts and chronicles of the times,"- would be sure to adapt themselves to the prevailing tone of society. But actors, as a class, from their prejudices and conventionalisms, are ultra-conservatives; they eschew reform and •cling to existing evil., with un yielding tenacity. A few daring spirits, ." finely touched," have occasionally appeared on the theatri cal horizon, who sought to bring acting nearer to nature and reality ; and their influence, although limited, has been salutary. But in their day they had to pass through the furnace of opposition, and were branded as " heretics," by the old established leaders of long cherished conventional usages. Quin de nounced Garrick as an innovator, and denied all faith in his delivery of language, because it lacked the ac customed &age "tang. Cooke was pronounced coarse, ungainly, and tuaclassical—by the admirers of the finished Kernble school; and the elder Kean, by.the same infallible authorities, was dubbed a harlequin a mountebank, and a ranter. • Miss Cushman has ventured on the real and literal in acting. She follows out the principles of the great disciples of this school, Rachel, Bonne, and others of the class ; and converting her personifications—not into ideal sublimities ef human nature, harmonized into a species of deification, but into flesh and blood realities, she gives tangible, practical, and readily understood interpretations of her author's language, and this too without conventional regard to rhythm and melody, so strenuously insisted upon, as , being the inseparable adjuncts of stage delivery. Sound, or the " stage tang," is wholly set at defiance, when its adoption would interfere with the due rendering of the sense ; and hence her marvellous power of bringing home to the perceptions of an auditory the true meaning of language. She appears to anatomise every word, nay, every syllable she utters, with a power almost electric, when an accented stress is necessary to convey a great thought. Her acting is consequently always sugges tive. Let any intelligent spectator contrast her method of delivery with that of the actors surrounding her, and the full force of our remarks will become palpably apparent. Her action, bye-play, and the so-called business of the stage, are also modelled after this literal and real school ; and to this joint combination we are indebted for the realities of her Meg Merrillies, her marvellously real Lady Macbeth, and her life-like embodiments of Rosalind, Beatrice, and Julia. To the same causes we presume she is indebted for her reputation in Romeo, and characters of that class. Thia adoption of the real, in preference to the ideal in acting, we know is open to argument. It is con sulered a desecration of histrionic art thus to reduce it to the mere literal. The very illusion of the drama, it is contended, is sacrificed by bringing it down to the real. • But in an age when everything is imbued with the practical, this position is un tenable. At the period when the bar, the pulpit, and the senate have discarded the factitious " graces of the schools," and are compelled to be earnest and real, to secure the suffrages of their auditors, the stage cannot expect to main tain its ascendancy by speaking a language foreign to the appreciative powers, and contrary to the taste of the people. Why even opera is no longer the vehicle of harmonies alone, and unmeaning sounds. It is the lyric drama ; its professors must be able to embody passions, feelings, and emotions, and must interpret the conception of the master, or they will fail in their vocation. Nay, further, what is called this boasted ideal, as applied to acting ? Is not the true use of acting to hold " the mirror up to nature," with just so much, perhaps, of the ideal to render it agreeable and strik ing, as the painter employs to throw a chlrm around pictorial art. The literal school of acting, of which Miss Cushman is so able an illustrator, does this. As the painter is compelled to examine and dissect the minutest particularities of nature, animate or inani mate, so does the actor of the real analyse the hu man mind, lay bare its inmost recesses, and imitate its palpable and actual developments, heightening and colouring each particular phase to suit it for public display, or he resembles the orator, increasing the force of his conversational tones to arrest the attention of his hearers, and give expression to his thoughts. Will the most strenuous advocate of the ideal in acting avow that the customary stage decla mation, with its conventional tones and mechanical and recurring cadences, is a transcript of real life ? Do the pompous and stilted style of action, and the stereotyped trickeries of the stage, look in any way like true reflexes of nature ? Are they not weariness to behold, ridiculous and offensive in the eyes of in- telligent spectators ? As models for professional orators, or as subjects for imitation in social life, they are utterly false and valueless. And yet such is the influence of the stage, in all communities, that it becomes a - model on these points. These evident defects of the ideal School of acting are sufficient to make every intelli• gent playgoer bail the advent of the present stage reform, and give his cordial and hearty support to Miss Cushman, for the very able and powerful expo sition of the one that she has so wisely adopted. /V ew York Albion, Dec. 29, 1849. DEATH OF MADAME GRASSINI. Madame Grassing, one of the most celebrated Ita- Tian singers, and the most beautiful woman, of her day, died lately at Milan, at the advanced age of 75. Few of her profession ever boasted of a career so long and so brilliant as hers. In Italy, France, Germany, and England, she achieved for herself the highest reputa tion, and for many years ruled in undisputed possess sion of the throne of song. She was horn at Varese, in Lombardy, in 1775. From her earliest age she displayed an extraordinary aptitude and predilection for music. Struck with these manifestations, and the singular beauty of her voice, General Belgiojoso un dertook the charge of her education. The progress of the young cantatrice surpassed the must ar dent expectations of her patron. Mdlle. Grassini became an accomplished singer at an age when other candidates for the profession are in their novitiate. She made her debut at La Scala, in Milan, in 1794. She sang with Mnrchisi, and the tenor Lazzarini, in the Artaserse of Zingarelli ; and in the De2nofonte of Portogallo. She was overwhelmed with ap plauses, and the beauty, power, and quality of her voice produced an immense effect. Her lower notes were more especially admired. Madame Gras sini's voice was, in fact, a contralto, but, like Mali bran, she had worked it up into the soprano register. From the moment of her first appearance Mdlle. Grassini created an unprecedented sensation, which soon spread throughout all Italy. Her journey to Venice, to Naples, to Rome, was marked by a series of triumphs. Recalled to Milan in 1796, she sung with Crescentini in Zingarelli's Romeo e Gizdietto, and excited the utmost enthusiasm. The following year she appeared at Venice, at the La Fenice Theatre, where she played Orazia in Cimarosa's opera Gli Orazi e Curiazi. Again she awakened the same furore, each performance confirming more and more the fiat of public opinion. Shortly afterwards she returned to Naples, and performed during the fetes which were given on the occasion of the marriage of the hereditary prince. In 1800 we again find Mdlle. Grassini singing in Milan, at the Scala. After the battle of Marengo she was heard at a concert in pre sence of Napoleon, then First Consul. Napoleon was in raptures with her, and took her to Paris. On the 22d of July, in the same year, she assisted at the grand national festival celebrated at the Champ de Mars, at which 800 musicians performed. At this period her voice had attained all its power, and was in full possession of its freshness and beauty. The sensation d she created, accordieg to the critics of the to London, perfectly indescribable. In 1803 she came At this time Mrs. i l i 3 .: i h llingtots . don, and was engaged was at thethe reigningK n King's Theatre. favou rite the first time at 6 t'lle Italian Opera with the En She had d b e u b t u a ted sho fo r r t the si t a i t I: v) i evl e u. s v n o n previous to te t i "l o ot o G wli r let a di suscio: nse rt a v s ,pu p , uu e t a rt2, r ndt a ie7 l appearance; andwhich o preceded r tri o ey t e n e the other, expectation xv to the highest pitch. Bet expectation, us as italway 'p s Grassini did not move is, was some how disappointed. Madame r 3 . An from Napoleon, then Driperor, in 1804 or 1805, a Madame Grassini to Paris. Specially attached t o ° the theatre and the concerts of the court, t h e sang for several years with Crescentini, Brizzi, Tacchi nardi, and Madame Peer. Paer wrote the Didone expressly for her, in which her acting has been repre sented as equally fine with her singing. Madame Grassini, it is said, made a veritable creation of this character, which was pronounced a chef d ceuvre, as well for dramatic force and expression, as for the pc r. fection of style and vccelisation. The nil of Napc ieon lost to Madame Grassini all the brilliant advan tages she possessed at the court. But her voice no longer retained its freshness and purity, and she could not seek elsewhere to establish a new reign of power and absolutism. She left Paris for Italy, where she sang nr sointi years, and then retired into private life. Musical World. LECTURE on SLEEP, SUSPENDED ANIMATION, AND DEATH. The sixth lecture of this course, at the Royal In stitution, was delivered on Friday evening last, by Mr. Thomas Turner. The lecturer said, that when a person was in a state of catalepsy, a very little fur ther advance would cause the individual to pass from time to eternity. Catalepsy usually began suddenly, and the duration of the disease was uncertain ; it had been known to continue for a day or two, but he believed there were no well-authenticated instances of its being extended over many days. One remark able phenomenon in this state was that the muscles remained in a very flexible state; and that in what ever position the arm, the hand, or the body itself, was placed, in that it would remain. In catalepsy, we had the suspension of the visible evidences of life manifested to the greatest extent to which they could possibly be carried, without their terminating in death. In treating of the subject of death, he should endeavour to divest it of many of those terrors which might be associated with it, and consider it in its philosophical, physiological, and moral point of view. In the language of their syllabus, molecular death was the necessary accompaniment of life— general death was the necessary consequence of life. Every minute that we live there was a waste and a decay, and death took place in the body. There was more mystery, more wisdom manifested in the little things that escapei our attention, than in all the great things we observed. We talked of man, and we considered him in reference to his bones, his muscles, his joints, his organs of digestion, circula tion, respiration, and powers. of thought ; but if we looked into the minute atoms of which man was formed, we-should know that it was in those little cells that all the active operareane of life were carried on—that each cell was an individual organism, and bad its own means of supply and waste—that its existence was ephemeral—that it was formed, per formed its office, died, and passed away. It was through the medium of those eens that the food taken into the body was converted into blood—that the dif ferent solids and fluids of the boO'y were formed—that nutrition was accomplished, the energy of the senses maintained, and the powers of the mind manifested. The death of those molecules or cells., or of the elements of which they were formed, would soon draw in general death. Supply and life were the two essential con• ditions of active life; and in order that health and life should be maintained, there met be a balance betwixt the two. Age made a distinction. In the child, the supply exceeds the - waste, because the exi gencies of growth and nutrition had to be accom plished. In the old man the waste exceeded the supply, and he died from inanition, if not from dis eare. If the supply were withheld, the body became emaciated, the cheeks hollow, the eyes sunken, the face pallid, the skin cold, as. that of a corpse ; the person became pulseless, and the breath was slow, giving no more than an indica ton of life ; the brain became demented, there was an indifference as to life or death; and in that state the individual died. In a case of mesentric disease, food was taken abundantly, and digested, chyle was formed, but its passage to the blood was dammed up.; there was an insurmountable barrier beyond which it could not go, and, therefore, it could not afford any nutriment. The child ulti mately died of inanition, all the soft parts being ab sorbed to nourish the body. Inanition was the cause of death in old age, when disease did not ter- minate death. It was not tbat food was not copiously taken, but the stomach was worn out, and refused to perform its office of digestion. Even if the food were perfectly assimilated, the heart, from age and change of texture, might be incapable of transmitting the blood to the cells, and to the capillary extremi ties of the vessels. Respiration. was not carried on with the energy necessary to maintain the tempera ture of the body, the blood became impoverished, and did not furnish the nutriment w Mich the system de manded ; and thus it went on, until all the organs re fused to act. During this time the system lived upon itself, like a hybernating tree, the vessels of the body lived upon its deposited fluids and solids, and even the animal matter contained in the bones was absorbed, until they lost all their elasticity, and became brittle as glass. The individual at length succumbed to death, almost without a straggle. Disease, as arising from defective supply, or from the molecules falling into a state of decay, would bring on general death. Death, as arising from molecular decay, might well be divided into natural and morbid. Natural molecular decay was that which took place necessarily, and had for its object the removal of the effete and done with matter, which, if they ramai ned, would be not only useless but injurious to the animal economy. In the morbid state, disease began in the molecules, before there was any indication of general death ; but it crept on until it involved the brain, the lungs, and the heart, the great triumvirate for sustaining mental and organic life. When it was seen how all parts of the human organism were knit together by the sym pathy of nerves, vessels, and other things, it was scarcely possible to suppose that one 'part could die, or be affected, without involving the whole. But 'ook to the reparative power of nature. There was inherent in living matter, a povi•er of repair of which medical men availed themselves----if they assisted it, that practice was, when permitted, successful ; if they thwarted it, it was an egregious mistake, and the pa-. tient paid the penalty. This power resisted disease and repaired accident. It was inherent in the tree, and in animals as well as in ourselves, and there foie, it was a gift for preservation. Mr. Turner then referred to, and explained' at some length, a diagram, as well as a cast of the human brain, in order to show the infiuence of the brain up on organic life, and the independence of organic life, to a certain extent, of the brain. The relative de pendence upon the brain was this : That if we withdrew the will from respiration, it would fail to effect its purposes—it would not perform the offices which it was intended to perform, and which we knew it to perform Will was necessary, in con nexion with respiration, for spee6h, for in speaking we had a control over respiration ; but there was also the involuntary power of respiration, such as was manifested by our breathing during sleep, which fulfilled important purposes in connexion with ani mal life. if we were to abate or cut away the dif ferent portions of the nervous system, of which he had before spoken, all the mental powers would be gone—there would be no will, no sensation, no feel ing, no indication of the existence of mental life; and thus, by the separation of one part from the other, we could separate the mind from the body, so far as it could be done, in reference to the nervous system. There was a similarity in the case of dying—for the mind died before the body.—Manchester Guardian. UNIVERSITY IN TELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 30. • JESUS COLLEGE.—A scholarship belonging to one of the six counties of North Wale!, and of the en dowment of Oliver Lloyd, Doctor of Divinity, ac cording to the donation of the benefactor, to be nomi nated by the heirs of his family, being vacant, the Principal and Fellows have fixed Monday, the 18th of February next, for the election of a proper person into the vacant place. The Boden Professor of Sanscrit (Mr. H. H. Wil son), will commence his lectures at the Clarendon on Monday, the 11th of February, at two o'clock. Two elementary Hebrew classes will be formed during the present term. The first is intended for such as are just beginning the language ; the second, fir those who require instruction in the higher parts of Hebrew grammar. Those who wish to attend the elementary lectures are requested tc call on the ttev. R. Gandell, M.A., Magdalen Hall, on Friday, the Ist of February, be tween the hours of two and three. Christ Church, Jan. 30. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 30. The Professor of Mineralogy has given notice that his lectures will commence on Thursday, Feb. 7. These lectures will be given ou 'Mondays, Tues days, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays, from two to three, in the Mineralogical Museum, under the west end of the new library. Gentlemen who attend these lectures with the in tention of obtaining the professor's certificate, which by grace of the Senate (Oct. 31, 1848) is now re quired under certain conditions for the degrees of B A., honorary M.A ~ and 8.C.L., must be provided with the professional lecture ticket, for which they arc requested to apply to the registrary, or to their college tutor. Gentlemen who do not require the certificate are admitted gratis. NORTHAMPTON AND PYTCHLEY HUNT RACES. Earl Spencer, the sttnch and liberal supporter of these well-conducted niece, has suggested a new stake for the second day of the ensuing meeting, to which bis Lord ship will add 1001. It will he a handicap of 20 80WF. ° D eb, h ft, f.,r three yrs old and upwards. To enter on the i s of March, the wcif4lits to be published on the ro, end ferf- its en tti2. , 2dth. There is every prospect of this being one of the most brilliant meetings ever held at Northampton. U N, LONDON, THURSDAY 'E_VENING, ADVICE TO TIIE, LADIES. (From Eliza Cook's Journal) From causes I need not now stop to trace, those persons on whom the ladies liberally shower the epi thets of kill-joy, square-toes, or old quiz, have hitherto, for the most part, had it all their own may in the reading of " lectures" and delivering of preachments" to our fair countrywomen. May not I—seeing from a point o f v i ew qu it e different to theirs—jot down some notions of mine on so impor tant a subject ? I have never heard that the alphabet was less easily learnt from ginger-bread letters; that draughts of medicine were rendered less effica cious by being flavoured with peppermint, garnished with pink paper, an d di spensed by an assistant pos sessed of good teeth, and valanced with those " dear whiskers ;" nor carA believe that my observations, and fault-finding I may add, will be the less note worthy for their writer's being a young bachelor, with not the faintest intention of ever being an old one ; but keeping at the bottom of his Pandora's box of daily vexations, the hope of rriatrimcny. At all events, I shall try the experiment through the medium of passionless foolscap and ink, of making you acquainted with some of my convictions on what I may call lady-vices, illustrated by no highly finished portraitures, but mere outlines of the most prominent characteristics of those of my female friends, who may serve to show my meaning. And, if you please, I shall dispense with the rules of art altogether in my gossip to you, meeting promiscu ously (as I am in the habit of doing with Margaret, of whom, more anon —though there is often some art about that), meeting promiscuously, I say, with the topics as they rise. And, first, my fair readers, I would lay great stress on your not being frivolous ; and this I would beg of you, not to be, in defiance of those conventional rules that indicate the manufac ture of book marks, fly -traps with yellow paper, canary birds inside, Porte monnaies, antiemacassars, Joseph's• coat-like patch-work table-covers, and jug shaped Berlin wool your time, in pence-p ouc h es , as th e fit disposal of defiancen of a saying—current only among the shallowest of men, and having no founda tion in truth—that "nothing profiund should be ex pected from the petticoats;" and in corformity with the sentiment of that beautiful couplet in " Men fred,"— Think'st thou existence cloth depend on time? It doth, but actions are our epochs." Bear in mind-that, as - Dr. Johnson well observes ; " many of our hours are lost in a rotation of petty cares, in a constant recurrence of the same employ ments." That you are, by nature, "noble in reason and infinite in faculties;" that—but I will introduce you to Mrs.` Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, an ex cellent specimen of frivolity. . Mrs. Le Grand, late Miss Pinchbeck, then, is a great correspondent, that is, every afternoon she un locks her ladies' rose-wood writingedesk, and papeterie, which latter contains her envelopes and fancy note-paper, and dashes off some half-dozen vapid notes, containing less practical utility, per haps, than Solomon's (in the " Stranger") "foreign correspondence," and every morning the business-like knock of the postman an nounces the arrival of' some responsive echoes wafced to her, crossed in the writing, and sealed with motto "hubby," ‘Vl: d a e fe a r r s. old S c h r e os e s " bfess p a a ll t e e d b, h „ er an h d us “ b o a l n d d invaarniVysays you," unfailingly,—if she sneezes; carries a Letts' diary, in which she makes ostentatious memoranda, probably having in it for subject-matter, followers and unfair joints; calls any hurry she may happen to be in a "scuffle ;" loses her housewifely keys, and then is "in tribulation about them," and knows only two words cf French, which she consequently wears to death : "distingue," and "distrait." She is no reader, indeed, she wonders how any lady can go and see " Othello;" she parades a superstitious dread of ill luck on a Friday ; she will apostrophize a singed moth fur five minutes together, in your presence ; will speak of "styles of meat," of a cheertemonger's "shining" in bacon, of the weather as " muggy," and when disposed to be jocular, aims at it by using such exaggerating phrases as "exchequer," or " finances," to express a purse or money ; " breaking a charter," for making an exception, and the like. In fine, she will go on with the same monotonous note, as the travelling clockman announces his passing by sounding—day after day; like, as after they have "cast on," "knitted," and "purled" ten or twelve rows, the votaries of crotchet and embroidery will commence again, se, ton or twelve hours of one day of her life and employment of it, typifies the whole. May I not write a brief moral under this picture. I have no high-flown views about woman's mission to impart. I was passed the other evening by two women, one covered about the bonnet and cloak with small dust-fill, followed at a little distance by two men, one of whom had doubtless been amusing himself by pitching handsful of gravel after them. I should not have noticed this, but that, just as they passed me, one of the women said, in reply to an ob servation, I had not heard made by one of the men, " We were not made to throw stones at, h owever ." Very well, I adopt your ;sentiment, madam, that wo man's vocation is not to have stones thrown at it, nor is it either to be put,in a glass-case and looked at like a wax flower—like Mrs. Le Grand. Should you have "great taste in dress," but nothing besides, no genuine sympathies—no degree of information—no average intelligence—no anything? Is it fitting that you should while away your time in conversation, well termed small-talk, that leads to no result—elicits no .new fact, and could possibly have no Q.R.D. written at the end of it ? I, at all events, will launch Barchell's (in the " Vi car o f Wakefield") expressive criticism, "Fudge ' "at you f o r it. I, at a ll even t s , will assert that the cares of house- keeping, whether shared by a family of daughters, or discharged single-handed, are not so engrossing ; but that you, who are engaged in no. regular occupation, have the amplest leisure for laying in a stock of that learning, which is justly pronounced better than houses and lands. Mrs. Bell Wether too is a lady who I hope will not include you among her disciples. She is a great stickler for conventionalities ("I should like to do what is proper, of course," in her own words), tells you that no fashionable person would be seen in town after August 12th ; that the Queen has taken her nge Burke supplieswrot e a physician with her on h er t our ; or that a new ladies' ear. trumpet has been i nvented, shaped like a fiewer. her The book idea oon each) of t ; e sublime pe nd e peerage and ba r oet beautiful (a indeed, she has an implicit respect for the great, in the abstract, and will prose half an hour together as to what relationship my Lord Tom Noddy bears to Lady Noodlehead, and whose tide he will succeed to; she would lose anything rather than caste ; and over her tea, which s h e makes from a tea-urn, s h e will affect a very finical horror of low neigh bourhoods and humble ' people. P oor quivering s 11 . irt hand in White's-rents, ragged hawker in Brown's lane, she knows you not ! And yet, tell her of a shipwreck in the other hemisphere, read to her of a conflagration leagues away, and she will show such " a dejected 'haviour of the visage, together with all forms, modes, shows of grief," as makes me recall a phrase in the cheap outfitters' advertisements, " mourning to any extent at five minutes' notice." But let me now, however, turn to a more congenial subject ; let me leave the Le Grinds find Bell Wethers (polished grates may I call them, compared with stoves glowing with a ruddy, crackling fire), let me leave these, and all who in their anxiety to be lady-like forget to be womanly, and turn to that Joan of whom I confess myself to be the Darby, that certain party who has not the least idea of high life— Margaret. Mind, Iby no means desire to affirm that Margaret is the N. of ,to whom lam irrevo cably willed to b e th e M . of —.No, if it were in that certain state, I should hardly last week have been exacting the customary tribute, which had cost me a three minutes' chase and all my breath, from a very pretty girl in pink, at kiss in the ring, or reassuring her engaging terror, while what was billed as " a sanguine display of fireworks" was going on, hard by : or at a still latter period have, Petrarch:like, dogged a" very Laura of charmers in a slate -coloured bonnet, and a black silk visite, a full two miles out of my way , until, indeed, her abruptly stopping to exchange salutations with a rival in a shooting coat and garden hat at the corner of a street, obliged my simultaneous disappearance down an opposite one. Oh no, we are not engaged, though as she sews a button on for me, she asks what we men would do without her sex, I cannot help be ginning to think. I shall never be able to do without her; though, when I am sufficiently happy to be holding skeins for her to reel, and she calls all my fingers thumbs in such a bewitching way, that 1: do sometimes catch myself glancing at the unringed fourth finger of her left hand ; and though often,when roused by some remark of hers from a wrapt contem plation of her, I begin to wonder 'whether this may not be the private interview preparatory to a final settlement, mentioned in matrimonial advertisements. I will attempt a faint outline of her appearance : Ivory shoulders, pearly teeth, ruby lips, ebon hair, these are some of the gifts which, fused into one person, make her " a real fortune to a husband ;" but could I daguerreotype the " feminine assault " of her smile when she corrects a trifling misstatement with, ne _ I tell a story— or tells your and her humble servant of wet nights, that he will "go home by water, then"—you—why you too, perhaps, would be want ing to launch into the honourable estate of matrimony with so winsome a steersmate. And as I consider Margaret as coming near enough to womanly perfection for my purpose, I shall just finish this paper With her description. Claude She works c ci l a te s v h a in li g er bil t gr t a n Y co m u a r n t: and, in for her living with her bands, which may excuse her f.ndnees for light reading in leisure hours; she can .. h v u ra vial t , th w is it e h a word, generally with that numerous claw of travel stained pedestrians who, towards the close of a wet day in the spring with that ptrhe' that t x o f th e year --, and at the opening of many a dry novel I call to mind, are continually arriving at romantic road-side inns. (I know that JANUARY . 31, J 350. by many this same novel reading is regarded es only an intellectual dram drinking. But is not this pre ferable to the intellectual total abstinence so rigidly observed by Mrs. Le Grand and many ?) In her OA n humble phrase, she is not dull. I say she has a decided talent at making lemon cheesecakes, whips, &c.; she is what is called a good market woman ; she is very fond of her needle, arid mending (her head, I promise you, does not go Berlin wool-gathering); she is the only woman I believe in, for sewing on buttons strong; and, lastly, she has that excellent quality of being a good - listener, seldom speaking but when she has something to say. My dear girls, I have led you with a strangely va grant step, it is true, over a page of my crotchets on that important topic, the ladies and matrimony. I have drawn on life, not fancy, for my sketches and observations ; may I conclude by hoping that such A. B. C. hints as it was in my power to give may not be useless to you, and by adding that I may, perhaps, at no very distant period, write to you in a different capacity than that of a young bachelor. COMMERCE OF FRANCE IN 1848 (From La Presse.) The total value of our imports and export in 1848 was thus divided :—General commerce, 2,014,000,000 f. (official value), and 1,644,000,000 f. (actual value); and special commerce, 1,390,000,000 f. (official value), and 1,164,000,000 r. (actual value). This total is thus subdivided : GENERAL COMMERCE. Imports Exports Official vain?. Actual value. ... 862,000,000 ... 708,000,000 ... 1,153,000,000 ... 956,000,000 SPECIAL COMMERCE. Official value. Actual value. Imports ... 556,000,000 ... 474,000,000 Exports 533,000,000 ... 670,000,000 Thus, from whatever point of view we regard these figures, the same fsct strikes the eye—viz., that the amount of the exports greatly exceeded that of the imports. What is the signification of this reversal of the ordinary course ? It signifies that in 1843, work being slack under the influence of the political crises, we drew from abroad less raw material; it also sig nifies that the internal consumption having fallen off, our producers were compelled to seek foreign outlets at any cost, in ;which they were aided by the pre miums and sur-premiums granted ,by the Govern ment (to the amount of 21,399,4511. in 1848). There is, therefore, no reason to rejoice at this circumstance. The carriage by sea plays the most important part in the general movement of our exchanges. It figures for 71 per cent. In this movement the share taken by our [own navy is, unfortunately, anything but considerable. We shall discuss the subject in a special article. Let us examine what goods and what powers oc. copy the first rank in the ensemble of our commercia operations:— Goods—As regards the imports, cotton wool occu pies the first !place, although the quantity was less than in former years. The total quantity imported was 80,000,000 f. (official value), or 40,000,000 f. (actual value), nearly the whole came from the United States; 39,000,0001. out of 40,000,0001. There follows :—silk.; 26,000,0001. (actual value); coal, 39,000,000 f. ; common wood, 30,000,000!. ' • colonial sugar, 23,000 , 000 f .; o li ve o il , 21,000,0001. undressed skins, 14,000,000 f. ; indigo, 12,000,0001.; and copper, 12,000,000 f. As regards the exports; tissues figure most conspicuously. Silk tissues alone figure for 139,000,000 4 . in the mass of the value exported. Woollen and cotton tissues occupy a far more humble place; the first figure for 66,000,000 f., and the second for 44,000,000 f. (actual value). After tissues come our wines, 43,000,0001. ; corn, nearly 37,000,0001. ; dressed skins, 31,000,0001.; brandies, 24,000,000 f. ; toys, 24,000,000 f. ; and works in m etals , 12;000 / 000f. It is interesting to ascertain what countries are our best customers, what is the nature of the pro duce which they buy from or sell to us, by what means our intercourse might be extended, and so on. The following are the countries which furnish us with the largest supplies : Amount of the Imports. Francs. 1. United St:An 101,000,000 2. Belgium 63,000,000 3. Sardinia 46,000,000 4. Russia ... ... 45,000,000 5. England . . 28 ,000,000 F. India ... ... 24,000,000 7. Turkey 22,000,000 8. Germanic Confederation ... 21,000,000 9. Spain ... 20,000,000 10. Switzerland ... 14,000,000 The above figures indicate the official values, which are fictitious. The real values are as follows : Francs. 1. Belgium 74,000,000 2. United States ... 57,000,000 3. Sardinia... ..• ... 39,000,000 4. Russia ... ..• ... 31,000,000 5. England... ... ... 30,000,000 6. Germanic Confederation ... 23,000,000 7. Spain ... ... 18,000,000 8. Turkey ... ..• ... 17,000,000 9. India ... 17,000,000 10. Switzerland ... 18,000,000 This Belgium [passes from the second to the first rank ; the United States from the first to the second ; Sardinia, England, and Russia keep their places; the Germanic Confederation and Spain rise at the ex pense of English India and Turkey. Switzerland remains the last. Coal constitutes the largest item of the commodi ties supplied from Belgium. In 1848 we took from that country nearly 12,000,000 of metrical quintals, valued at 26,000,000 f. Cast iron figures for 5,500,000 f.; horses for an equal sum ; linens for 3,000,000f.- ' and woollens (en masse) f o r 3,000 ,000 f. The Belgium imports thus consist for the most part of raw material. Cotton wool it is needless to say is the great staple of import from America. In 1848 it figured for 57,000,000 f. After cotton comes tobacco, nearly 6,000,000 f. ; and oak staves, nearly 3,000,000 f. Sardinia sends us twilled silks, olive oil, articles of goldsmithery, and raw silks. From Russia we receive nearly 17,000,000 f. of corn. It is our granary of abundance. We also re ceive oleaginous seeds, linens, hemp, common woods, and raw tallow. England pays for our own exports with coal (9,500,000 f.), pure copper (3,500,000 l.), cast iron, iron, and steel (nearly 3,000,0000, and woollens, en masse (nearly 2,000,0000 From the Germanic Confederation we take com mon woods, refined sugar, and coffee (a rather curious circumstance, as the Confederation has no colonies), woollens, cattle, and leaf tobacco. Spain supplies us with woollens, olive oil, oranges and lemons Turkey with corn, grain, tobacco, and oil. We have recourse to the English Indies for indigo, rice, and nitrate of potash. Out of a value cf 17,000,0001., indigo alone figures for 10,000,000 f. Lastly, Switzerland sends us a little of everything, it being the great transit country. It supplies us with no staple commodity of its own. Such are our most important purveyors. Let us see now which are our most eager custo mers. They are as follow : Amount of Exports. Francs. ... 189,000,000 ... 116,000,000 ... 72,000,000 ... 66,000,000 ... 63,000,00 C ... 48,000,060 46,000,000 ... 35,000,000 ... 16,000,000 ... 15,000,000 1. England .•• ... 2. United States ... ... 3. Algeria ... ..• ... 4. Belgium ... ••• 5. Spain ... ••• ••• G. Switzerland ... ... 7. Sardinia ••• ... 8. Germanic Confederation 9. Brazil ... ... 10. Mexico ... •• 111 • Tnese are only the official values. If we take the actual, we arrive at a different result. England and the United States still march foremost. Algeria yields the third rank to Belgium, and descends to the fourth. Russia, which did not figure at all in the above list, now takes the ninth rank, and Brazil falls to the last. What do we especially export to England ? Silk tissues, 52,000,0001. ; corn, 14,000,000 r. ; woollen tissues, 1 9 ,000,000 f. ; brandies distilled front the grape, 10,500 000 f. ; dressed skins, 10,500,000 f.; and wines, 5,000,000 f. Silk tissues also take the first rank in our exports to the United States of America. The English race in both worlds is the chief customer of our Lyons' manutactures. The other exports to the States in clude woollens, cottons, wines, dressed skins, and hosiery. Next to England and the United States the Bel gians best' appreciate our silk tissues. They pur chased more than 8,000,000 f. in 1848. They also took 7,000,0001. of woollen tissues, 5,000,0001. of corn, and 3,000.000 f, of woollen yarns. The importance assumed by Algeria as an outlet for our produce since the year 1843 is worthy of special notice. In 1848 that colony took 11,000,000 f. of our cotton tissues, and 6,000,0001. of our wines. Cotton tissues are also the great element of our trade with Spain, besides woollen snd silk tissues, linens, and hemp. We give the Spaniards clothing in return for their oranges, - nor do they lose by the exchange, for we send them necessaries and take their superfluities in return. CHATHAM, JAN. 29.—Private Robert Gordon, of the 18th Foot (Royal Irish), was tried this day by a court-martial at Chatham, for going into his barrack room and loading his firelock with ball cartridge. It is supposed that be intended to do some serious injury to Colour Sergeant M'llv%rt'.n, being the non-commissioned 0112er in charge of the pri,oner's room. T.:appears that tin the 21 st inst. the prisoner was confined in the gum-d -rool) by the colour sergeant, rnd he wa3 released by the commanding ofrwer of the battalion, after five days' dril!. At the close of the last day he went down to Lis room, in which was the colour rergeaat nursing his child, when the prisoner deliberately took up his musket and loaded it, butlhe was secured before he had time to dis charge it. The court's decision is not known. . ,fits_at -44.71,740. t t g r 4 POPULAR LIBRARY. Price One Shiiiing in boards, or Is. 'id. cloth gilt, 0 LIVER GOLD SMITI a Biography. WASHINorT(V " The reader of Mr. Irving's book will restn himself into the hangs of his biographer, and be carried on to the last page in unintvrupt, cl gratification."—Blackwooci's Magazine for February. Also, p rice One Shillig, REPRESENTATIVE MEN. By R. W. EMERSON. London : Gee. Routledge and Co., Soho-square ; and all Booksellers, Newsvenders, and Railway Stations. EVIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS DAY.) HO USE OF LORDS. The eventful session of 1850 was cloned t , ;.-day, not by her Majesty in person, tilt by her Royal Commission. Long before the hour appointed opening the Com mission the House cf Lends and the strangers' gallery was psrtly filled with ladies and visitors anxious to witness the.cosemony of the opening of the Great Council of the nation. The assemblage thus drawn together firmed a pleasing'group, though its appearance faded into almost insignificance, when put in comparison with the splendid tout ensemble of the House of Lords when her Majesty is present, and when the beauty, the noble, and wealthy of the land . vie with each other in their endeavours to show • their loyalty to their Sovereign, by being present when she appears in the upper branch of the Legislature to open or prorogue her Par liament. Among the Peers present we noticed the Earl of Sheffield, Vienount Strangtord, Lord Colburne, Lord Campbell, Earl Mounteashel, Lord Lucas, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Bishop of Worcester, the Bishop of Hereford, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Monteagle, the Duke cf . Wellington, the Duke c f Norfolk, and Viscount liar dinge. _ Shortly after two o'clock the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lautdowi e, tl e Marquis of Bread albane, Earl Minto, and the Bishop cf London. robed as the Lords Commissioners for opening the Par liament, entered the House and took their seats below the throne. Having done so, their Lordships com manded Mr. Palmer, the Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod (who officiated in tt e unavoidable absence of Sir Augustus Clifford), to summon the Commons to the bar, to hear the Royal Commission read her Majesty's most gracious Speech to both Houses on opening the present session. APer the lapse of a few minutes, the Speaker of the Howe of Commons, attends I by a great number of Members,: appeared at the bar. Among the members present we noticed Mr. Brotberton, Mr. Locke, Colonel Thompson, Mr. F. O'Connor, Mr, Spooner, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Ricardo, Mr. Ellictr, and several others. On the Sle4ker appeiritg at the bar the Commission for opening the Parliament was read by Mr. Edmunds, after %Thiel!, The LORD CHANCELLOR read, in a clear and distinct voice her Majesty's! most gracious Speech, which will he found in mother part of our impression. At the conclusion of the reading of the Speech, the Lords Commissioners and the Speaker and Members of the House of Commons retired, and their Lordships ad journed to Five o'clock. In the gallery devote! to Members of the House of Commons we noticed Sir James Graham, Mr. W. Brown, Mr. Thornely, Mr. F. Freccb, Mr. J. Wilson, Mr. B. Denison, Mr. Greene, and several other Hon. Members. • I - TOUSE OF comioNs. The gallgy doers wer e o p ene d 24, ten minutes after two o'clock, when we found that the Speaker had hft the House, having been summoned to the House of Peers, to be present at the Royal Commission, and to hear her Majesty's Speecb. We gatherel that the SPEAKER had taken the Chair at a quarter befire two o'clock, when prayers were read, and that about 100 Members were present, nearly all of whom aceoteranied the Speaker to the other House. The Speaker returned at half-past two. - ThA House then adjourned until a quarter to Four o'clock. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. The sales of Ct.tt.)n at Liverpool yesterday were esti mated at 5,000 bales, a which 1,500 w ere t a k en on epeculati .n, and included about 4,000 American, 2,000 Pernatn and MaranLam, at 64d. to 71d.; 100 Bahia, at to 7d.; 100 Egyptian, at 7d. to 74d.; and 200 Surat, at 41d. to 40. per lb.—ln Railway Shares only a limited business was done, at rather lower quotations. There are no colonial arrivals. The Frankfort report of the 28th inst. quotes Austrian Metallic% at 85k, and Spanish Three per Cents. at 294. At Amsterdam on the 29th inst. the Home Funds were rather firmer ; Dutch Ta e-and-a-Ilalf par Cents., 55 7-16. In the funds there has been soma flatness, owing to a sale or two for monvy, Consols bare ranged from 96A to 962 for Transfer. and 94 to 96j fur Account. Mexican are 29i to and Spaniah Three per Cents. 361 to 37. Shares generally ore much the same. The North Stafford report is thought more favourable. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'ULOCE. (From the Official List.) Bank Stock '05;4; 3 per Cent. Reduced. Annuities 96% % 3 per Cent. Consols Anna New 3 1 4 per Cent. Anus. 99 98% Long Annuities,.Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 B% D 0.30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1859 8 7-16 Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 B% India Stock 266% 269 Do. Bonds, 100 W. 9O 1-3 p Ditto under 1.0001 South Sea Stock 105 3 4 _Consols for Account 964;i Exchequer Bills. I%d. 2d. March. Jane. 58 61 p 58 61 p 1,060/. 5001 Small' 5S 61 P 'RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent BB Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto for the Account Danish Bonds 1825, 3 per Cent.— Ditto, 5 per Cent Equador Bonds 4 , i 2 NV2 Mexican 80rk5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons Ditto Ex Jau. Coupons Ditto Account Ditto, Small Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent 73 `4i 3 A Ditto for the Account .... 73% 74 Ditto Deferred Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 3 71 Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent —; Ditto Scrip 3%% P Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o Ditto Passive Bonds . 4 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent......... Ditto for the Account ...... ... 36% 37 Venezuela Bonds ...• 3 3 ,4 Ditto Account _ Dividends on the above payable in Lonuon. ZUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK RAILWAYS. PAID. I'EB SUARE. Caleionian ...... 50..... I*A 1,4%, to Ditto, New 101. Preference 10 ...... 8 Eastern Counties Do. Exten.,s per et. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d.. 1 p ..... to % p Fastern Union, Claes A (late E. U. Shares).. 2 .„... .. 25 .....• to - Ditto, do, Class B & C 25 Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20 . 14% to Great Northern 2O ...... 7,y .. ... to Great Western 100 Ditto, Quarter Shares Do. New 171 l5 .. ... 9%...... to Lancashire and Yorkshire 100 Ditto Half Shares .... 49 ...... 27 ...... to Ditto Fifths lO ...• 2lh to Load., Bright.,& SouthCoastloo ..... 86 London E& North Western.....loo IIN 117 to 116% Do. New Quarter 5........... 12 Do. Fifths l2 ..... 14% ...... to London and S. Western Ltwestoff, guar. 4 per ct...... 20 Manehr, Sheffield, and Linc.100 Ditto, % Shares (No. 3)... 12%...... 2% to Mid1and........, .... lOO ...... 44 1 4-- to Ditto,,so/. Shares ..... SO ...... 1: 1 / 2 ... .. to Midland, Birm., and Derby 100 .....124% ..... to 123% orth Statiordshkre... 17% f 'xford, Worcest er , and Wol- .. .. viThainptoa Reading,Guildfd.,& Reigate 15 ... .. 15% li hrewshury and Birmingkara 12% 4%...... to South Eastern: ..... ... 33% — Ditto, No. 2. Ditto, Scrip No. 4.. Wear Valley 6 per Cont. Guaranteed ...... .... . 5O ...... Do. do. do. FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens 2O ....... 7 3 4. ..... —to Dutch Rhenish s ...... 2 ...... to Northern of France.... 141 Ss.. ... 14 di?... to Orleans and Bordeaux: ... -•— 334 to Reuen andHavre 2O ...... 9N I :to DNA MINES. United Alexicau ......... 28% 5 a.div 4% MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) NMI:VGATM AND LEADENEEALL. These markets ruled heavy, on the following terms:— Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 33 6d; Veal, 3s 2d to 4s Od; and Pork, 2s Sd to 4s Od per Sibs by the carcase. ICZEAT MARZETS. SOUTHALL, JAN. 30.—The general demand, although the supplies on offer were very moderate, ruled Leavy, et barely last week's quotations. Baee, from 35 to 4s; Mutton, 3s 4d to 43 2d; Veal, 33 4d to 33 10d; and Pork, 33 2cl to 3s Sd per 81hs, to sink the offal. ROaIFORD, JAN. 30.—Primo Beasts and Sheep were in moderate request, at about stationary prices. In other kinds of stock exceedin g ly little was d o i ng. B eef, from 33 Od to 4s; Mutton, ds 4d to 4s 2d; Veal 3s 4d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 3s 8d per 8110. Suckling Calves, 183 to 245; glikrWr•Old Story Pigs 16i to 21s; and Milch Cows, with their small Calf, 15/ to 18/ each. liku.szrAst, JAN. 30.—Our market was somwhat in active to-day, and prices were not supported.—Beef frc ul 3s 4d to 4s; Mutton43s 6d to 4s 4d; Veal, 3s 6d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s 6d to 3s 8d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, JAN 29.—Prime Down Sheep moved off steadily at fall prices. In other kinds cf stock excet d ingly little business was doing.—Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton ' 3s 4d to 411 4d; Veal, 35 4d to 3 s 6d ; and Pork, 3 a 4d to 3s 8d per 81bs. CHICHESTER. JAN. 30.—We had a very slow trade to-day, at barely stationary prices. —Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 38 8d per 81bs. Sucking Calves, 185 to 225; Quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 203 each. zus eadx 212 /11FLICT. SNITEFTELD.—Mow Hay El S , 2/ 8s to 3110 s; Clover ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 10s ; and Straw, 11 2s to 1! 7s per load. Supply good, and trade very dull. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 218 s to 3/ 10 s; Clever ditto, 31 Os to 41 7s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ 9z per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL. Meadow flay, 21 5s to 31 103 ; Clover ditto, 31 Os to 4/ las; and Straw, 1/ Is to 118 r.er load. Trade dull, at barely stationary prices. CORN AVERAGES, GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH coRN( Fer the Week ended Jan. 27, 1850, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the diffcreut Citier and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WELEAT. BARLEY. OATS. RYE. BRANs. PTA ic I PRICE .. 40s id 25s 9d 1 15310 d I 21e 2d l f 2 68 Id 1 283 5d DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. VVUZAT. I BARLEY. I OATS. I R. I LEANS. I PEAL is Od Od I Is 0,1 Is OJ Is N i s 04 COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY. 'The Queen and his R o y a l Highness Prince Al bert took their usual early morning walk. The Royal Family took walking and pony exercise in the Slopes and Windsor Park. Her Majeity held a Privy Council at two o'clock. It was attended by his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President; the Earl of Minto, Lord Privy Seal ; Lord John Russell, First Lord of tre Treasury ; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department; Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Earl Grey, Secretary of State for the Co lonies ; Sir Charles Wood, Chancellor of the Ex chequer; Sir John Hobhouse, President of the Board of Control; Lord Campbell, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster; the Right Hon. H enr y L s b ouc h ere , President of he Board of Trade ; the Earl of Carlisle, First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests ; the Right Hon. Fox Maule, Secretary at War ; the Mar quis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain, and the Duke of Norfolk, Master of the Horse. Lord John Russell had an au e ce of the Queen previous to the Council. The Marquis of Vansdo rine had 'also an audience of her Majesty. At the Privy Council an election was ordered for two Scotch Peers, in the room of the Earl of Airlie and Lord Colville, of Culross, deceased. The Queen's Speech on opening the session of Par liament was arranged and agreed upon. The Hon. 'William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in waiting. Mr. Justice Talfourd was presented to the Queen at an audience by the Right Hun. Sir George Grey, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, kissed bands upon his appoint ment, and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon him by her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir David pandas, Judge Adm. cate-General, had an audience of the Queen, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of some courts-martial. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Camoys, Lard in Waiting, and Major General Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting. After the Council luncheon was served to the Mi nisters and officers of State in attendance. Shortly after three o'clock Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, the Earl of Car listle, tbe Earl of Minto, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Campbell, Sir G. Grey, Sir John Hobbouse, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Fox Malik, and the lion. W. Bathurst, took their departure, returning to town by a special train on the Great Western Railway. The Duke of Norfolk, the Right Hon. Sir David Dundas, and Sir Thomas Talfourd, also left the Castle. The Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower are expected to arrive at the Castle this evening. The royal dinner party this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, the Duchess of Sutherland, Lady C. Leveson Gower, and Sir George Cooper. The Queen's private band will attend after dinner A Sub-Committee of the Commission fcr the Exhi bition t.f 1851, met yesterday at the office c f the Board of Trade. There were present Earl Gran ville, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. T. P. Gibson. A CURIOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE GREAT .I.XLIIBITION OF 1851. " Isaac Ironside" writes thus to a Sheffield paper : " The public have not generally ben made ac quainted with the discovery of a race of men in the interior of Africa, having tails. Some months ago Colonel du Couret, who had already penetrated far into Africa, was about to set out on a new and exten sive exploration of five years, under the special aus pices of the French Government, and at the charge of the Treasury. The it! mister of Public Instruction asked of the Academy of Sciences some instruction for him, which was read at one of the sittings. At the game tame the Colonel addressed to the Academy a notice oi the Ghilanes inhabiting the interior of Attic?, rnd known among the neighbouring tribes as having toils. The report is too long to be inserted here ; an extract hill suffice :—` I inhabited Mecca in 1842; says Colonel du Couret; and, being often at the house of an Emir with whom I was intimate, I spoke to him c f the Ghilane race, and told him how much the Europeans doubted of the existence of men with tails, the vertebral co lumn elongated externally. In order to convince me of the reality of the species, the Emir ordered before me one of his slaves, called Bellal, who was about 30 years old, who had a tail, and who belonged to this tribe. On surveying this man, I was thoroughly convinced. He spoke Arabic well, and appeared rather intelligent. He told me that in his country, far beyond the Sennaar, they spoke a different lan guage ; that of his compatriots, whom he estimated at 30,000 or 40,000, some worshipped the sun, and moon, and stars ; others the serpent, and the sources of an immense river, in which they immolated their victims (probably the sources of the Nile) ; that they ate with delight raw ilesh, as bloody as possible, and that they loved human flesh above all things. This Ghilane had become a devout Mussulman, and had lived 15 years in the Holy City. . After describing the race of Ghilanes, the Colonel gives the following description of Bellal :—‘ Ile was thin and dry, but nervous and strong. His skin was black-bronzed, shining, and soft to the touch like velvet. His feet were long and flat ' • his arms and legs a pp eare d f ee bl e , but well supplied with muscles. his ribs could easily be counted. His face was repulsively ugly ; his mouth was enormous, his lips thick, his teeth strong, sharp, and very white; his nose broad and flat, his c ea ed rs in l g ong , his and hair notdeformed,v very his forehead r y woollyo r w and thick, hl ckbut very t re never theless curly. He had no beard, and his body was not hairy. He was very active and hardy. His height was about five feet. His tail was more than three inches long, and almost as flexible as that of a monkey. His disposition, setting aside the oddity of his tastes and habits, was good, and his fidelity was above all praise.' My object in introducing these facts is to suggest the propriety of the French Go vernment being asked to . produce a male and female Ghilane and to tend them to the exhibition. They would produce a sensation not to be produc-A by anything else. Lord Monheddo's theory would be discussed by the learned of all countries." [ADVERTISEMENT.]—THE SPRING lIANDICAPS. 7 Bell's Life in London ( f Saturday and :Sunday n zt ~ill contain the complete acceptances for the . Chester Cop, Dletroponan Handica;., Nt , wmarket handicap, Son.),ei setthire Stakes, and Lireat Northampton . Stake . s , ..%.! ' o ß b e s l e r r s v L at if io e n z s .n bi on P d e o g n a , s p u r s ic — e 0 6,1 111 . ce, Strand.-1 'rice of IRISH AGRICULTHRF.-.-Tile follow ing is an ex tract from a letter fro m a medictl gent l eman, county of a t least the p ro p rietary S and tenantry, aro clamouring fur protecti on . I do nut beleabtyb, the lie papers fand , tot that lns Ireland,friend in Eciaburg b Fee you subscribe to the movement, tis moi• calculated to keep up high tents and lazy faimep than to benefit the la bouring class. The imposition cf duty would not remove the incubus cf poor-rate, which is the principal ' t hi ng crashing Ireland, leaving a lar ge port i on of it un cultivated, and uninhabited. I any let free-trade in i t c a h: L e n td t h i nepruiaarr't earth au o a rl f r lty l h d our43bt hat d g t r o i agricultural s l e t o ta p r a eh ( i ti l n e wet e rh d o community, ofo, e r c o g r t :mtn n coin i ola i r r: e g n : tries in the article of grain. If America pays no rent mak e s fo u r p w iths het ground the ayfor price ground of here.labour TT i t s h n er o e t fully free trade that is doing the pre, ntv.->milsieviledki—the' t i i r s our om p r e o s: prietory of ill classes having otr and their present inability to retrench or reduce their lands to the rents aey must do in the end. Nov fur our poor-rate. Iu parts of this country it has gone to such a heiglA that on thousands of acres i n p arts o f the west you will not see a beast feeding— it might be seized on for rate, so theta is a perfect wilderness. I know not how the present rates due in those places can be paid up. Contractors and creditors of all kinds must be paid—whence remains unknown. 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