The Sun. — London, England, 1850-05-13 00:00:00

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' 1 61 3 5$ FL • • • r• ot 4$ 4r nr qua 5 4i •ovvlng" 4°4 0 • of 4 • • 4 91 91 11° r,Pr▪ • I ' gi 11 10 • • OS 4 1 , 0 , per tca 4 / 04 j6+ pr ton 35 / 0 0 rivr, Pr lit oc; I'll:: k ort pa 'le r itig 4 s 1 4; •, letta in 148,r . 1 toc l‘ Of the 10d• yor , r igo L o caw ° / ". 41 : 201 ". 4 ... 258 ...2 26 ' 21 2 fib° no mod 1 1 Is ei6 4 's and of Y°f to . I PP IY for t he 0 1° bliip t i r'oo 3 0" 00 1. 0 00 1 " 1; D re tb° Ce °f ttel 3Cia %Cef t . n Otl' the „ o tst, i 'd c '..k'S (1 7 34 6°,, , ',1" •',?O v;0 0 - 0 l et ... hiec 0 03 frolo g4O , ; noo ph , Ito, .1" Nw'' -- ; lid f rom Scotland 340 horned and polled Scots. 0115,re was a decided falling off in the numbf-r of Sheep, s hearing to the wet weather of last week having prevented ter Sibs, the atearing in some localities. All breeds moved off freely, Ito improvement in the prices f Monday last of 2cl primest old Downs selling at 4s per Sibs. r a b. B , the supply of which was but moderate, sold and, in some i ns t ances , th e currenc i es had an leadAwar d tendency. From the Isle of Wight nearly 4C 0 l li mato hand. The sale for Calves was inactive, at t r ,,,,, t we ek's quotations. In Pigs very little business was s. —d acted, at late rwe Per Sibs. to sink the offal. Inferior _ s. d. to S. d, s, d. to .• d• 5k0,,,,- ..it5...... 2 4 2 6 Inferior Sheep —..2 10 3 6 z i quauty • .... 2 8 210 second qual. Sheep 3 2 8 trim, large Oxen •• 3 0 3 2 Coarse-weolled ditto 3 6 8 La..__ co cots . ..... 3 4 3 6 kouthdown Wether 310 4 0 I,,,_ge ,s arse • Calves 210 3 0 Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0 5 4 Dash ditto •• 3 2 3 4 Large Hogs ......3 2 3 6 i kab ' n g Calves ..18 0 24 0 Small Porkers ••.. 3 S 4 0 3 .. '' •• •• •• 4 8 510 Quarter old Pigs —l6 0 21 0 Beast s. T OTAL SUPPLY AT MAREET• 3 ,579 I Shen.. Calves. 1 Pigs. I 23,070 177 230 Bea s t s 1 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 20 3 Sheep. I Calves. I Pigs. 340 75 . Th IsrE W . GELTZ AND IMAIDENIZILLI. markets e arrivals of country-killed been small; to these : Since Monday lest have been small; but the to n t l w i e h .offering, slaughtered in the metropolis, have do ,_ at increased. Nevertheless, a good business his -6e4,,ug, at prices re'atively higter than those in Sm't ‘ 4 About 500 carcases of Foreign Meat have been "'posed of. . 2 t per r stone by the Carcase. hen- _ s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d. elarge .. 1nf er10r...... 1 10 2 0 Mutton, Infer i or 2 4 2 6 1 ' 14111 4 •... 2 2 2 4 , middling.. 2 8 3 0 2 s prime .... 3 2 3 6 V ekl. P . l : 4ae 'mall ••2 10 30 ' Pork, large •• •• 210 3 4 ''' •••••••• 23 3 4 small .• • • .... 3 6 4 0 Lamb. Is 4d t* 58 6d. The • WOOL. t itoports of Wool into London, last week, were 28 ales l,s9 n 4 , 11.° M namburgh 1,960 ditto, from Port Adelaide; ts a i,„,' r otti Port Philip; 200 from Bombay; 2 from Ja inacr3 35 from Constantinople ; and 11 bags from Ire -4,,14 The public sales are still progressing steadily. kead in . " t of the parcels as yet offered have changed tra ct '' at about the opening prices. In the private con . market, very little business is doing. Th e • nOROUGEI 110 P te r I mports of foreign Hops into London, last week, A , , 40 bales from Ostend, and 47 ditto from Antwerp. %ha % lh our market is very moderately supplied with vet o a° rne - grown, the demand is in a very sluggish tha n l an d, in some instances, prices are a shade lower lei last 8s week. Mid and East Kent pockets, 6 l to ! „ 0 48,, ' uevg Weald of Kent ditto, 6 1 to 81 ; new 14/ ; ' 1 ditto, 5/ 5s to 61 lOs ; new Farnhams , 121 to g o a, Y e arling Dents 3/ to 41 ss; yearling Sussex, 21 Ss ' 2B ; old Hops 1/ to 31 per cwt. I , 6 IIO 3ZOUGH AND SPITALSIELDS. :. arrivals of home-grown Potatoes, last week tea st , , t o , t ille and by l an d carriage, were about 2 , 500 tons. j ki r k aorl in:?l,le n t:v s e o rafe condition. From abroad we re -403.— 1 ,318 i tons', derived as follows :—Ratterdam, Antwerp, 1881; Louvain, 3; Dun tok: Bruges, 150; Rouen, 279; and Calais, 75 last r ieked samples command a steady sale, at fully Week ' sdo6; quotations. In all other kinds very little is to oh on lower t er ms. From the Ist of August, 1849, Nticoo 4 th instant, 78,999 tons of foreign Potatoes were 'led by the City meters. Yo r k Per Ton. Per Ton. Regents 90s to 120 s Common Whites Fss to 40s Pla sh_ a vra for Kent Shaws ",„cot e ..... —to —s Essex Regents 0 14." egents 70s to 85s Ditto Shaves Ditt o rn,lCups 60s to 70s Ditto Kidneys " iiir s • —s to s Chats, souud SOs to 40s 44 P1„: 8 1 —s to s Ditto damaged lss to 20s ii,,yiBc:o,Ka.:lnegee3r2sts. _7os to 90s French Whites bitt e ' t ch ditto 70s to 85s Belgian Whites 4os to 50s sto - s Dutch Whites twiek ßegts..... 653 to 80s German ditto TALLOW. • 'lin,' a ccounts from Sr Petersburgh state that a very red bu - , n English ac, to ti , t ousiness was doing in Tallow gas.. tha r , ; Yet the holders were firm. About 900 ca, k 3 bad ) char hands, at 111 roubles, with 10 down, and 110 , 13 4b1, 4 8 c'n the spot Our market is somewhat inactive. tri • r‘ ces, however, we have no change to notice. To-day, • oil the spot, is selling at 374, and for forward de ass " 3 3d to 383 6d per cwt net cash; Town Tallow, 36s per cwt net cash; rough f3t 2s per 81bs. 1846. 1847. 1848 koelt this day 10,343 ' 42s 3d of Y C. •• • • b o ;2s 6d bel t bl!erY last week •• 1,(21 fr om June I • • 85,367 tvals last week . Elie Jununee 1 .• • 80,42 6 '4 O f Town • • • • • 448 Od-- 9,079 8,383 478 Od 47s Od to 4786 d to Os Od 23,646 25,606 38s 9d to 373 Od Os Od to Os ocl 1,272 1,138 94,279 90,743 585 j 1,207 77,212 96,012 426 1,798 75,666 96,294 49s 6d 49s Od 100 273 110,392 90,878 393 6d 1 lis Cd EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.) sittings at Nisi-Priu., at Westminster, before the LORD CHIEF BARON, and Special Juries.) T h . THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BLADE. a g , i 'l* was an information tiled by the Attorney-General to pe nst the defendant for a violation of the revenue laws I li gard to the manufacture of malt. .e ease w as u ndefended.. 04 1 , appeared that the defendant was a malster carrying k te vusiness a t St oc kton, in Wiltshire, and that be had tit t jed cert a i n pr em ises, aL:cording to the requirements :mate. l m t ° excise law, for the manufacture and preparation of e xcise In consequence of some information which the officers received, they obtained a search warrant, e etbb elatered the defendant's premises on the 3d of De -43,7 6 r5 1849, for the purpose of ascertaining whether aPartments were in use except those which had sid en duly entered. Their attention was directed to a dwe-door, which appeared to open into an adjoining ° line h a nd the y forced it open, and pro teee,, Ouse, eyed up stairs, and found two rooms which tot the to have been used for a considerable period th„ - ,,L u n preparation of malt. There were at the time f o ,J entered two quantities of malt in the rooms in a 4, - w ard state of vegetation, and a bell was hung up with b,rfaed clapper which communicated with the premises k i a Ow , and which no doubt was intended to give an th - ,.. 1 ; 41 in case any of the excise officers should make him information below. There were several counts in 14,1 against the defendant, each charging 0 ,: 4 with a separate violation of the revenue laws, and tw o ea , el l of those counts the Attorney - G eneral said he ; r i , m press f u r a penalty of 100/. he CHIEF BARN having summed up, the jury found erdiet for the Crown for 8001. Y.` -OMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DA ~ N I: 3 ngs at Guildhall before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Commom Jury.) The b • ness brought before the Court this mornin g 44 business t o cif an entirely uninteresting character, and pre sented feature worthy of a report. COURT.—(THIS DAY.) Vielor e PIEW COURT. the COMMON SERGEANT, and Mr. Alderman W. HUNTEa.) Patri c k P ren d ergast, J ose ph Brown, and Thomas S'f ee " were indicted with burglariously breaking ann Z 4 4ll ;ig the twelling-house of Mr. Terry, 111, Upper s t Smithfield, and stealing a quantity of w ea rin g ap portf : 31 9 and oth e r articles, his property, on the morn in g the 19th of last month. toiit r y "vvn and Steers pleaded guilty, and Prendergast, not t j s be char ge aga i n st the lltter prisoner failrd in its th ( a t Material fart, the only evidence against him bein g ~t ; ,ht-t was been in company with Brown. jury acquitted Prendergast, and, "e COMMON SERGEANT sentenced Brown and Steen: tQ seven )ears' transportation. OLD COURT. (Before the ItECORDER.) CUTTING AND WOUNDING.— 14 idiom Neal, aged 43, h t bearer, was indicted tor feloniou,ly cutting and tri ll t "mg Anne Hefferman, with intent to do her some 7 0118 bodily harm. The prisoner pleaded Not th l ir. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Kenealey d efended e prisoner. 1 ,; 1 4 , 1111 Refferman, the prosecutrix, stated that she lived t '" her mother in Pie-street, Westminster, and re thernbered being at home on the Saturday night before WC examined at the police-court. The prisoner r t x ll l , - ,g e d with her mother, and she asked him for a little 4 „ - , r e money than he had given her. He said he would If‘ give her any more till he got better convenience. er mother said a feather bolster, which was in his ) ,: a ° , l l n, had been made away with, and he said it vas 41 ,: b e away with by witness. Witness said it was no te - ' t hing, and she caught hold of the sleeve of his shirt fro m make him listen to her. He putted himself away L c 're her, and a piece of his shirt was left behind in her LT". He then went upstairs, and she went up after vi 3l , when he struck her a blow across the forehead , 411 4 th a hatchet. After that she was not conscious of , at ,happened, and when she came to again she found j' aelf Westminster Hospital, where she remained ea days. Cath er i ne Macarthy, Ellen Summers, and ot her wit. tresses, corrobor a t e d the evidence of the prose cutrix. th, Dating . the examination of Summers , who admitted she had three times been imprisoned for minor °fe.lees of as sau lt, r• PAYNE c o mplained that Mr. Kenea le y in cress cx.4l -Elli ning the witness drew upon his imag,nation for • •Olestion s . We rth XENEALEY observed that it was false —a falseaced m Y.,,0f his learned antagonia. •rt iur , v l. 2 rATNE ret)rted that some pPople did not care "" what other people said. Had t he observaticn 4 tatid e o rth by any other person be might have felt it Th while to notice it. tlem e RECORDER said it was very unusual for one gen tlext44 to address such an observation to another gen tue ,,... i an, particularly a gentleman wea ring the robes of a r of the English bar. 2r• I iENEALEY insisted that Mr. Payne ha d con thetethe case in a manner anything but worthy of a " 1 4,VE e rnan of the bar. htoh f!".4. 42 ORDER had heard nothing from Mr. Payne ,hould provok e or j us tify suc h language. • ii- ENEALEv then addressed the jury for the de ro,_,econdending that the off ence arose out of an Irish py sener the prosecutrix was as much to blame as the ehe l e having pvoked him by her irritating The I yind sinister ins provoked him by her irritating Sinister insinuations. Learned P,ECORDER having summed up, • Va rdict iurY considered for a few minutes and returned a „, of Guilt The c Y. for seven ears. sentenced the prisoner to be transported This Years, B closed the business of the session. Par floe t 4II3C "S '4 THEATRE. : . .lassingharn. the re til-eed functionary who presides at the box-office of this 11 1 3 4 :e, takes his benefit to-morrow night, when he provides Of 4i ta a nd varied list pf eutertAinmento for the amusement tri944 Til BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) THE ATTEMPTED MURDER IN DRURY-LINE.—Dan. Donovan, the pugilist, charged with the attempted murder of his wite was again brought up. The pri soner %%as not placed in court, but in an adjoining room, the only evidence being that of Mr. Woods, the house surgeon to King's College Hospital. That gentleman said that the unfortunate woman was still in a very pre carious The prisoner here asked if he could speak to his wife, as he had something very important to communicate to her. Mr. HALL said that he bad had already two opporta. nities of so doing, and as he had not done so he must, consequently, wait until his committal. Hr. HALL then remanded the prisoner for another week. 111ARLBRO'-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) SEEOPLIFTING.—EIiza Connor, a well-dressed woman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with ttealint,r 16 yards of silk, value 21. 125., the property of Mr. William Shea, silk-mercer, No. 264, Regent - street. The prosecutor stated that on Saturday afternoon the prisoner came into his shop and requested to see some silks. A variety were placed before her, and after ex amining the lot, she declined to purchase on the ground that none would suit her. She then lett the counter, and on her way to the door she purchased two reels of cotton, for which sho paid fourpence. She then left the shop. Witness having observed some thing in her manner which excited his suspicions, followed her, and brought her back to the shop, and taxed her with robbing him; whereupon she pulled from her pocket the sixteen yards of silk produce 1, which he identified as his property. Ho accordingly sent for a constable and gave her in charge. On being searched at the station other property, consisting of pocket-handkerchiefs, gloves, and pieces of taps, which ate, no doubt, had stolen from other shops, was found upon her. The prisoner, who did not attempt to deny the charge, was committed for trial. CRICKET. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND AGAINST TWENTY-TWO OF SCOTLAND.—The England elevtn proceeded from Car lisle to contend against twenty-two of Scotland, at Edin burgh, on Monday. England scored 134 and 173 total 307; Mr. Felix marking 58 and 5, Parr 11 and 37, Box 3 and 28, Mr. A. Myna 4 and 11, Clark 2 and (not out) 13, Adams 1 and 23, Guy 1 and 5, Chatterton (not out) 14 and 19, Wisclen 5 and 3, &c. Scotland, in their first hands, obtained 95; Whyham, Esq., marking 11, Lieutenant Dickens 14, Anderson 14, W. Moncrief, Esq., 17, A. Imrie, Esq., 12, &c. In the second innings of Scotland they had 212 to get to tie, but at half-past four on the third day the rain came on, and the game terminated, 24 runt only having been scored for the loss of seven wickets. ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. EIGHTEEN OF MANCHESTER, WITH LILLYWHITE, CHATTERTON, AND ARMITA GE. This match, which was commenced at Manchester on Thursday last, was brought to a close on Saturday evening; in favour of Manchester by three wickets. The following the score:— ENGLAND -FIRST INNINGS. Wisden, run out Clarke, b Lillywhite Parr, run out A. Mynn, Esq., b Tinley Adams, c Lillywhite, b Armitage N. Felix, Esq., b Lillywhite Box, b Armitage Martingell, b Armitage Guy, b Armitage lyer, b Lillywhite Wright, n ot out Byes, 0; wide, 1; no ball, 0 ......... Total 152 MANCH ESTER FIRST INNING s. J. Far], sen., Esq., b Clarke S. H. eraybrooke,Esq., b Wisden V. Tinley, b Wisden 22 Armitage, run out ... E. Wright, Esq. C. Felix, b Martingell Chatterton, b Wisden • •.• 0 S. Birch, Esq., run out .. R. T. Belihouse, Esq., b Martingell T. H. Earl, jun., Esq., b Wisden G. F. Cot ke, Esq., b Martingell ... H. de C. Lawson, Esq., c Mynn, b Clarke l3 T. T. Bellhouse, Esq., c Parr, b Wisden J. Rowley, Esq., st Box, b Clarke 4:. Pagden, Esq , c and b Clarke ......... ........... .. P. Birch, Esq., c Felix, b Clarke...... ....... 2 Lillywhite, sen., b Clarke... F. Atkinson, Esq., not out Sherman, run out Byes, 4; 1b 2, w 0, n b 1 7 Total ENGLANDSECOND INNINGS. Wisden, cR. Bellhouse, b Armitage . Clarke, not out Parr, b Lillywhite A. ➢Lynn, Esq., c Earle, jun., b Tinley. ... Adams, c Armitage, b Tinley N. Felix, Esq., c t'herman, b Lillywhite Box, run out Martingell, b Armitage 8 Guy, b Lillywhite llillyer, c Tinley, b Armitage 2 Wright, c R. Bellhouse, b Lillywhite 0 Byes, 2 ; 1 b, 1 ; w, 5 ; n b, 0 Total .... 93 MANCHESTER—SECOND INNINGS. J. Earl, sen., Esq., b Clarke S. H. Braybrooke, Esq., b Wisden V. Tinley, b Wisden... Armitage, b Wisden E. Wright, Esq., b Wisden Chatterton, c Wright, b Clarke . S. Birch, Esq , b Wisden IL T. Bellhouse, Esq., b Wisden T. H. Earl, jun., Esq., b Wisden G. F. Cooke, Esq., b Mynn H. de C. Lawson, Esq., b Martingell ... T. T. Bellhouse, Esq., c Felix, b Wisden . J. Rowley, Esq., c Mynn, b Wisden E. Pagden. Esq., not out P. Birch, Esq., not out F. Atkinson, Esq., b Wisden Byes, 2 ; 1 b, 5; w,2; n b, 0 Total 122 HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Prince of Leinengen and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar, honoured the performances at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening, with her pre- 1 sence. The suite in attendance upon his Royal Highness and ' their Serene Highnesses the Princes, included the Baroness de Speth, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lord James Murray, and Major the Baron Moerkerke (the gentleman in attend ance upon her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians). Amongst the visitors were—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, the puke and Duchess of Norfolk, and the Ladies Howard; his Excellency the Russian Minister and the Baroness de Brun now, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, his Excellency M. de Baucourt. the Marquis of Huntley, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Falmouth, the Earl of Cardigan, the Countess of Lichfield and Lady Harriette Anson, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Countes of Glengall, Viscount Cantaloup, Vis count Dapplin, Viscount Anson, Viscount Clifden, the Viscount Enfield, the Viscount Cranbourne, the Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, Lord Clarence Paget, Lady Charles Wellesley, Lord and Lady Foley, Lord Gerald Fitzgerald, Lord Macdonald, Lord George Paget, Lord Adolphus Fitz clarence, Lord Gardner, Count de Burke, Baron de Cazes, Chevalier Drouet, the Hon. Claude Lyon, the Hon. C. R. Neville, the Hon. Major Needham, the Hon. A. D. Wil loughby, the Hon. F. Stanhope, the Hon. Charles Lennox Butler, Sir W. Fremantle, Bart., and Lady Fremantle, Miss Harvey and Miss Bathurst, Sir Michael Shaw Stewart, Bart., Sir Anthony Rothschild, Bart., and Lady Roths child, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Sir W. Abdy, Bart., Sir Thomas Monro, Bart., Lady Palmer and Miss Palmer, -ir George and Lady Carrol, Sir Seymour Sadler, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart, M.P. Lady and Miss Howard, Sir Edwa rd Butler, Bart., and Lady ' Butler, the First Lord of the Admi ralty, and Lady Arabella Baring, Sir John Thorold, Bart., Lady Thorold and party, Lady Keane, Lady Pigot, Lady Flower, Sir Thomas Barrett Leonard, Bart., and Lady Barrett Lennard, Bart., Lieutenant-General Sir Alex ander Woodford, Bart., ice. ROYAL ITALIAN OFERA.—Among the fashionable company who honoured the performance of Les Hugonots, at the Royal Italian Opera, with their presence on Saturday evening, were his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer and family, General Count Cabrera and Miss Richards, the Earl Howe, the Earl and Countess Cowper, the Earl and Countess Bosse, &c. The Queen's box was occupied by Lord and Lady Byron, and Lady Emily Ponsonby and the Misses Poosonby. Thera were also pre sent the Marchesa Braucaleorie and Madlle. Braucaleorie, the Earl of Gifford, the Earl of Portarlington, the Earl of Belfast, the Earl of Oxford, the Countess of Zetland and party, the Earl and Countess of Bradford and the Ladies Bridgman, the Earl of Pomfret, Viscount Malden, Viscount Exmouth, Sir John Cam Hobhouse, M.P., and Miss Hob house, Lord Arthur Hay, Lord George Manners, M.P., Hon. Theobald Dillon, Lady Vernon and the Hon. Miss Vernon, Sir John Burgoyne and the Misses Burgoyne, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lady Elizabeth Bulteel and Miss Bulteel and Lady Rachel Russell, Lord and Lady Edwin Hill, Colonel the Hon. R. Fitzgibbon and Mrs. Fitzgibbon and the Hon. Mrs. Gerald Dillon, Lady Caroline Masse and the Misses Masse, Lady Wallesceurt and party, Lord and Lady Polti more and Lady Mary Vynes, Lady Seymour and the Hon, Miss Seymour, Lord Paget, Lord Brabazon, Sir James and Lady Schuckburgh, Lady Braybrook and the Hon. Misses Neville, Lord Colville, Colonel the Hon. Douglas Pennant, and Colonel the Hon. G. L. Darner, M.P., &c. THE BOROUGH OF FINSBURY..--It is not unlikely that a vacancy (if not two) will shortly take place in the metropolitan borough of Finsbury, now represented by Mr. Thomas Duncombe and Mr. Thomas Wakley. Within the last few days private meetings of influential electors have been held, and resolutions have been agreed to, affirming that it is highly undesirable that the representatives of so large a constituency should systematically absent them selves from their Parliamentary duties ; and that, in the event of constant illness causing that absence, those repre sentatives should at once resign their trust into the hands of the electors. The absence of one of the Hon. Members on the division on the window-tax, seems to have occasioned particular dissatisfaction, inasmuch as it was made the spe cific subject of one of the resolutions. A public meeting of the inhabitants of Finsbury is to be convened on an early day, when a proposition will be submitted, calling upon the present Members to resign. Should either or both of the Members vacate his seat, appearances seem to indicate a sharp contest, a large number of gentlemen being already named as probable candidates. Amongst the gentlemen so mentioned are Mr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., Mr. M'lntyre, barrister-at law, Mr. Charles Cochrane, Mr. David Williams Wire, the Under-Sheriff, Mr. Edward Miall, and Mr. Alder man Salomons.— Weekly Chronicle. L E ICESTER TRADE. —There is very little change in business this week, nor will the present quiet and dull state of trade give place to activity till more genial weather sets in. Though stocks to some extent are accumulating, the hands are generally kept fully employed. Prices of ma terial remain without any appreciable alteration.—Netting.. ham Journal. The Right 'lnn. R. Vernon Smith, M.P., received an elegant circle to dinner, on Saturday evening, at his mi -1 donee in Sayile-row, E SUN, LOND THE YORKSHIRE SOCIETY'S SCHOOL. The 39th anniversary dinner of this society was held on Saturday, at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street. The Earl of Carlisle presided, and was supported by upwards of 100 of the friends of the in stitution. The schools were established in 1812, originally for the purpose of boarding, clothing, and educating both boys and girls, being the children of respectable Yorkshire parents who had been reduced by misfortune, and who were resident within 10 miles of the General Post-office ; but it has recently been determined that the benefits of the society shall hence forth be confined to boys only, one of whose parents shall have been born in Yorkshire. The usual loyal toasts having been drunk, the Noble Chairman pro posed, " Prosperity and Perpetuity to the Yorkshire Society," and in doing so, expressed the great grati fication he had derived from:attending the examination of the pupils. Their physical condition was mani fested by their ruddy hue and chubby appearance, and their moral and intellectual training were equally satisfactory. His Lordship did not, however, think that the great county of York had fairly done what she ought to have done in this matter. The very ex tent of that county no doubt operated against the institution, for it was the besetting sin among all large bodies of men for each person to indulge in the re flection that what he might leave undone somebody else would do. But if every one argued in that way nothing would be done at all. Little Westmoreland had adopted a sounder logic, and had done more for those whom she had sent forth than had that empire o. a county, York, achieved for those of her destitute brethren whose lot it was to sojourn in this gigantic city. He hoped the men of Yorkshire would no longer suffer themselves to lie under this reproach ; and he exhorted the company present themselves not to be fatigued in the work of well-doing.—(Cheers.) In the course of the evening the Mayor of Bradford expressed his conviction that means had not been ad opted to make the nature of the society sufficiently well known to the people of Yorkshire ; otherwise he was convinced that the committee would now he able to support 100 boys instead of 35, which he un derstood was the actual number in the school. As a Yorkshireman he felt perfectly ashamed at the small number that were thus benefited by the institution. The report stated that the committee had been obliged to sell, during the last year, 4001. Three per Cent. Stock, to make up the deficiencies in the funds for the settlement of the preceding year's accounts ; and had found it necessary to decrease the number of children in the school from about 50 to 40. Dr. Saner, the treasurer, and the originator of the society, stated that the contributions on this occasion amounted to about 5001., but he entertained a very sanguine expectation, after the observations of the _Mayor of Bradford, that by means of that gentleman's kind co operation with the committee the funds of the society would be greatly and permanently augmented. The dinner was served up by Mr. Bathe in his well-known style of excellence, and the vocal arrangements were very efficiently conducted by Mr. Bruton. MANCHESTER TRADE REPORT, MAY 11.—WE have had a much better market to-day than we have had for the last three or four weeks. Spinners, as might naturally be expected, have been asking a further advance for their yarns; a small advance it has certainly been, yet not one that would remunerate spinners at the present prices of cotton, but that advance cannot be obtained. In yarns a greater amount of business has been done than has been transacted for some weeks, but in goods the business done has been very limited. Prices have experienced little alteration for goods or yarns since Thursday. Many of the spinners are determined not to take the present prices for yarns, but buyers appear to be quite as firm, and no advance will be given. We have heard of but few transactions in which the rates of the spinners have been conceded. SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF MENDICITY.— The annual general meeting of the supporters of this in stitution was held on Saturday, at the Society's office, 13, Red Lion-square, the Marquis of Westminster in the chair. The chairman,in opening the proceedings, stated that during the past year the money they had subscribed was more effectually and directly than ever laid out upon those for whom it had been intended. The number of cases relieved, the activity of the police, and especially the diminution of begging-letters, were all proofs of the utility of the society, and a consequent source of satisfaction to its friends. The secretary then read a report, which was adopted, on the motion of Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., se conded by Mr. Slaney, M.P. It appeared from the report that a system had been established by which the managers have arranged with the proprietors of some public baths to admit, on their order, persons sent from the society. Most of the speakers expressed their cordial approbation of this measure, as conducive to both the moral and physical welfare of the objects of their charity. The begging-letter cases referred to the office were stated to have diminished from 8,025 in the year 1847, to 5,747 in 1848, and to 4,525 in 1849, which was, no doubt, attributable to the publicity given to the punishments inflicted, upon the writers. Of 905 vagrants committed, however, a large proportion had been begging-letter impostors, and the number of convictions would have been greater but for the reluctance of those im posed upon to come forward as witnesses. The penalty awarded to those found guilty had been three months' im prisonment with hard labour. Other statistics were adduced in proof of the value of the society's reports to the public; and the statements of accounts showed for receipts, includ ing former balance, and other matters, 4,4431. 14s. Bd., with a balance remaining over expenditure of 662/. 3s. 9d. There were present the Right Hon. Lord Radstock, the Hon. E. Phipps, Viscount Gage, Sir W. Sterling, Bart., Major Sothe by, and others. The usual complimentary votes terminated the proceedings. B LEN uEIM PALACE.---It is currently rumoured that this magnificent building will shortly be open to the public as heretofore„ every day except Saturday and Sunday. This concession on the part of the Dike of Marlborough will gra tify the public much. It is to be hoped that care will be taken to appoint civil and intelligent men to show the house and grounds, and that their charges will be moderate and well defined, so as to leave no ground for complaints to the numerous body who now seek recreation in summer ex cursions. -- • • --- REPEAL or THE WINDOW-TAX. —A letter was read at the Marylebone vestry on Saturday from Lord Dun can, M.P., acknowledging a vote of thanks passed to his Lordship by the vestry, for his exertions to repeal the;window duty. His Lordship assured the vestry that if the people were only true to themselves that obnoxious impost would be abolished before the next budget appeared. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.—The Parlia mentary- Committee have decided that the standing orders 'ought not to be dispensed with in the case of this company asking leave to deposit a petition for a Bill this session. TEE SUICIDE AT WANDSWORTH.—On Saturday evening Mr. W. Carter concluded an inquiry at the Spread Eagle Hotel and Tavern, High-street, Wandsworth, relative to the death of a gentleman at that time unknown, who committed suicide there on Wednesday night. The name of :the deceased, it appeared, was William Baker, and he was a native of Kit gston. He had been employed as storekeeper .at the Clarence Foundry in Liverpool; but, in consequence of a dissolution of partnership in the concern, he had been thrown out of employment, and, being of a desponding turn of mind, it was conjectured that he had committed suicide under the pressure of tear that he could not obtain another engagement, The jury were unanimously of opinion that deceased was of unsound mind when he committed the act, and returned their verdict accordingly. THE INFANT PRINCE.—We are informed that on the baptism of the infant prince he will take the Christi , n names of Arthur Patrick Albert. The first its compliment to the Noble and Gallant Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington (as has been already announced) ; the second in compliment to Ireland, and as commemorative of 'her Majesty's visit to the " green isle ;" and the last after his illustrious father, the Prince Consort. ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOiPlTAL.—Yesterday morn ing a sermon in aid of the funds of the above charity, was preached at St. Germans Chapel Blackheath, by the Rev. J. Wright, M.A., F.R. S., Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge. During a very eloquent appeal, the Rev. Gentleman warmly advocated the claims of the charity,which, in curing and re moving different deformities to which the human frame is subject, was daily conferring a most invaluable benefit upon the community ; and needing, as the charity did, the further co-operation of the benevolent, an urgent appeal was made upon their liberality and sympathy. At the conclusion of Divine service a liberal and gratifying collection was made at the doors of the chapel. • - • - • -• Sir G. and Lady Stanhope entertained at dinner on Saturday, at their house in Grosvenor-place, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Lord and Lady Willoughby, Count and Countess Wittgenstein, Count and Lady Cecil De la Feld, Mr. and Lady M. Lindesay, Mr. and Mrs. Drummond, Mr. and Mrs. Lethbridge, Sir E. Cockburn, and Mr. Villiers. ETON COLLEGE.—Mr. Creasy, the eminent bar• rister and professor of history to the London University, himself an Etonian , and also of King's College , Cambridge , has just completed a work of great and general interest entitled " Memoirs of Celebrated Etonians." No foundation in the kingt.om has produced a greater number of men dis tinguished in the highest departments of military and civil life than this ancient, renowned, and magnificent establish ment. Mr. Creasy's work will include sketches of the greater number of these "worthies." Thus this new work w ill have an historical value and possess interest not merely for all Etonians, but for the public generally. Mr. Creasy's book will be published on the day of the ensuing anniversary dinner of the Etonians. TESTIMONIAL TO THE MARQUIS OF TWEEDDALE. The Society . of Madras have presented the Marquis of Tweeddale, Governor and Commander-in-Chief 1842-1848, with a very superb silver candelabrum, upwards of four feet high, and of the value of 2,0004 modelled by Mr. A. Brown, after a design of Mr. F. Grant, A.R.A., and under the in spection of Mr. Baily, R.A.., at the establishment of Messrs. Hunt and Roskill, Bond-street. On the base of this very elegant piece of plate is represented stag, boar, and wolf hunting. A group surmounts the base, representing the celebrated ancestor of the present Marquis, and the story of his resistance to the Danes. The group consists of the fi gu res of the elder Hay and his eons, who attack a Danish horseman and defeat him. .The figures are beautiful speci mens of the art of modelling statuettes. They are very spirited and fu ll of character. The minuter portions of the ca ndelabrum are of e laborate workmanship, after the manner of the times of L ouis XIV. The work is one of great merit and of the highest rank ofmodpm. art. The inscription, w hich is short, says the testimonial is presented as " a token of respect and esteem for the public and private worth of George Bth Marquis of Tweeddale." LADY ALICE PEEL'S SOIREE DANSANTE.—On Friday night the Lady Alice had a "danse" at the family mansion in Park-place, St. James's. About 200 of the elite of fashionable society we nt on the occasion. We believe the reunion was given as an introductionto Miss Peel, who has recently made her debut in the fashionable world. NOTTINGHAM LACE AND HOSIERY TRADE.—Nei ther of these stable articles of commerce of this town and neighbourhood present any more favourable appearances than that we have reported for the last . few weeks. Each trade, it is said, is retarded by the ungemal weather we have lately had. Yarn is still held at high rates, although the sales have considerably diminished. —Nottingham Journal. SINGULAR IMPORTATION.--An importation has just taken place of a parcel of horseflesh from liamburgh, for feeding cats and dogs, being the flesh of the horse dried and salted in the ordinary manner of preparing the Article for tin PurP949 riOted, *IA ifl AdrAimap fm 9f clgti.. Is , The EDINBURGH REVIEW. No. CLXXXIV. A better number of the old blue-and-buff quarterly has not for a considerable time appeared. More or less, each of the contributions, upon the most various subjects conceivable, has a superior excellence ; and the tendency of each is of that elevating character which is alone suitable to an age like the present, one of continual progression and perpetual advancement. In testimony of this we should be tempted to enter into an elaborate consideration of the opening paper dedicated to the delineation of our " National Ob servatories," but that the charm of the theme, and its engrossing nature, if al lowed to master us at the outset of our notice, would leave us but little space or opportunity for reference to the other meritorious contributions. Nevertheless, white refraining from a closer and more detailed allusion to this masterly essay on a noble branch of science, we must especially and earnestly beseech in its favour that attention from the public to which it is peculiarly entitled, revealing as it does in such vivid and agreeable colours the economy of one of our least noticed, but at the same time one of our most important, institutions. We allude to the observatory at Greenwich, a building whose external peculiarities are we doubt not fa miliar to the mass of the holiday-makers of the metro polis, but the marvels of whose interior arrangements are known but to a select few out of our vast and in telligent population. An hour's perusal of the article here spoken of as standing at the head of the current number of the Edinburgh will acquaint the reader, and that too in a most delightful manner, with a mul titude of facts hitherto scattered through such ab struse works as those of the Russian Struve and Captain William Henry Smyth, R.N., and the Astronomical Lectures, or the Planetary, Magnetical, or Meteorological Observations of the dis tinguished Astronomer Royal, George Bidden Airy. Here recounted, in a most lucid and popular form, these facts are grouped together in a way such as must materially tend to facilitate their remem brance, while acquainting the uninitiated public with the nature and use of that extraordinary apparatus which is accumulated in the Greenwich Observatory. Having completed the examination of the paper the reader will feel as though he had personally traversed the circle-room, the transit-room, the computing-room, the chronometer-room, and the library ; and will have become familiarised with the shape and meaning of such scientific eccentricities as the time ball, and the brazen and the astronomical quadrant, aasntdrontohme altitudel clocks,and azimuth in struments. Many passages connected with the pro gress of modern discovery demand quotation, but we are compelled to pass on regretfully to the notice of the subsequent contributions. A genial and judicious criticism on Sidney Smith's recently printed " Moral Philosoph y ," enables the re viewer to illustrate anew, by extracts from lectures hitherto but little known, the subtle taste Water toand discriminating discriminating judg ment of the celebrated wit and ecclesiastic. All th ose whoof are interested the l and who is not ?) in the Supply tropolis," should not only re da, but study, seriously study, page by page, the paper contained in the Edin burgh Review upon this subject, a paper in which due regard is had to an evil so seriously affecting the sanitary condition of the metropolis. Tracing the his tory of what we must call, for want of a more a ccurate word, the improvements in the supply of water to London, the writer demonstrates most forcibly the necessity for rapid and gigantic and gigantic innova tions. Most agreeable to us , , among all the contributions to the great Liberal Quarterly is the critical essay on " Landor 's Poetry, in which the most judicious and exquisitely balanced opinions are pronounced upon "That deep-mouth'd Breetian Savage Landor, Who taketh for a swan rogue Southey'a gander," as Byron termed him in his Poetical Encyclopaedia " Don Juan." As an imaginative prose writer the veteran author of the " Imaginary Conversations" has acquired a large degree of celebrity, but a very restricted amount of popularity. As a poet, he is still less known and still less appreciated. And hence we are gratified to see hi s claims to poetical honours manfully acknowledged , and energetically and aesthetically proven in the luminous pages of the Edinburgh. If for nothing else, the general readers of the Review would have reason to thank the contributor for making him acquainted with Raicos, the lover of the Carian hamadryad, with Aeon and Rhodope, with Enallos and Cymo dameia, with Corythos the son of Paris and (Boone, with the madness of Orestes and the death of Ante midora. Yet, beyond the gratification derivable from these unhackneyed passages of poetic beauty, are the intermediate comments upon the metrical productions of Mr. Landor, accompanied by discursive critcisms on this kind of classical poetry in the abstract, preparatory to which the Reviewer descants upon the differences exist ing between ancient and modern poetry, and upon the connexion traceable between pantheism and poly theism. Upon the " Imperfect Appreciation of Classic Mythology" by modern writers the remarks of the Reviewer appear to us to be so eminently new and judicious, that we must gratify ourselves and our more reflective readers with the subjoined quotation : " It is in delineating the least pronounced part of the Greek mythology that a clear discernment of its mean ing is most required. In the poem from which we have quoted, the shadowy nature of a being not so much ele vated above our mortal nature as standing at one side of it, seems to us most happily indicated. Such discrimi nation has long been rare, both in French and in English poetry. In the gods, as described by each, the god like element is left out; while the heroes of antiquity are, and yet more frequently were during the last century, restored to life as courtiers and fine gentlemen, touchy about their honour, and admirable in the decorum with which they carry their wig above peplon or toga. Prior was not unfamiliar with ancient mythology; but in his case familiarity may be said to have bred contempt; and though many classical touches are to be found in his verses, yet, in his jocular vein, he too frequently de grades his Venuses and Cupids not less than his Chloes and Silvias. Akenside, in his ' Hymn to the Naiads,' presents us with forms truly antique, but the spirit of life is not in them. He imitates the ancients rather than catches their inspiration, and the repast which he lays berore us, however grand, is served up cold. Dryden and Pope, men whose masculine understandings and manifold accomplishments must, despite the caprices that affect public taste, long preserve for them the high place they have occupied, largely as they translated from the ancient poets, never entered into the genius of the ancient mythology. The spirit of Theocritus is not to be found in Dryden's version of his Idyls. In his noble Ode on St. Cecilia's Day' it has been well remarked thic idea of the mysterious divinity that when he makes Bacchus show his honest face,' he Pope, in his ode on the same w w h h o o l m ly h m e i v ss u e l s g a t h ri e se m s. y . oc casion, is still more unfortunate; and although, in his Tartarus,' Proserpine is stern and Orpheus devoted, while Ixior, Sisyphus, and the Furies, do what they ought to do' with laudable industry, we lack, notwith standing, both the awfulness and the serenity of the Elysian region. •' Nor has ancient mythology fared much better in the hands of most of our recent poets. They have loved it more; but their love has often been as undiscriminating as that of a wood-god for a fugitive nymph. They have Childe Harold,' describing the Venus de not alwaYs appreciated the character of divinities, even when exlibited in sculpture before their eyes. Lord the goddess whether she appeared in this guise' to Paris, or to more deeply blessed Anchises,' or to Mars more fortunate still; and then follows a rhapsody about lava-kisses, melting while they burn,' showered on the cheek of the recumbent war-god. Byron, medi o i in, asks h i Such a group would hardly have suggested itself to the imagination of a Greek sculptor about to embody a Phedra; and is in strange contrast with the Venus of the Florentine Tribune, that beautiful and passionless impersonation of the morning star. Elaborate blunders in a case of this kind are the less pardonable, because it is especially through the interpretation of Greek art that the several c haracters of Greek divinities are to blameless, nbeeitdhiesrtiqaugitiviesrbeed sho i.l u V ler norrequiree d no allusive attribute, crescented brow, to recog nise a than in those f eet, firm and aler t , though for the momen t arrested, tha t slender but such a nd above all, the far - p ro j ected Apollonian g lance, clear as jo n s an y d fo rm, the beams of the sister lumin p ar e y em y bodied. With the form, strikingly contrasted as with a Pallas, a g oddess chaste as the Huntress that outsped the shafts of Love, but ofa ll equally girlish gairl Grace, ish sim l a divini t y was a l mos t as o u sinewy but chaste from the collected sternness of self-sufficing strength, and from the high wisdom, confederate with virtue, which subdue d the pres!imin_ g with its Gorgon and presided over every industrious art. The character of a Venus was expressed not less pi a i,F , y in early ages of art, by the union of perfect beauty with a reserve and sacredness which belongs to the maternal relation, and in later by the languishing and humid eye, the lips en wreathed with smiles and dubious look, the narrow shoulders, the marvellously- moulded f orm , s li g htly de n veloped and yet luxuriant, i which numb er l ess an d in calculable curves were lost in one another, and finally by the slender feet, and the tread, at once confiding and in secure, apparently accustomed to a more unstable ele ment than earth. The g enius of a nation's poetry will ever be exhibited in its other arts,—at least, in those it cultivates,—as Oar latent spirit of its philosophy is dis closed in its laws." The rest of the criticism is of similar excellence. Speaking of the superiority of modern over classic poetry, the writer inquires, very happily, " Should we prefer to the choral vesper chaunt of creation the early and slender trill of a bird but half-awakened ?" Again, such sentences as these sparkle throughout the contribution—" Poetry is the vital religion of nature "—" Nature itself was the first revelation made to man," Scc. Its eloquence sometimes rises to a strain as sonorous as the following : "We would not indeed divide the crown' between Cecelia and old Timotheus; yet we may reflect that the instrument which in later times shook the Christian temples with awe, or thrilled with the secret of a hushed and subdued pathos the sanctuary itself, bore yet in its glorious aspect and manifold organization, no small ana logy to the simple reed-pipe of the Arcadian divinity as well as of the shepherd watching his flock by night.' The paper closes with a strange and startling legend of rarmenio, who was Priest of Lychui Apollo CEYLON and the CINGALESE. .By H. C. Sirr, late Deputy Queen's Advocate for the Southern Circuit in the island of Ceylon. 2 Vols. Mr. Sirr, whose professional residence in the island has well qualified him for the task, has just published (through the instrumentality of Mr. Shoberl) two most interesting and most delightful volumes, pur porting to give a faithful picture of Ceylon and the Cingalese, " their history, government , a nd,reli g ion ; the antiquities, institutions, produce, revenue, and capa bilities of the island, with anecdotes illustrating the manners and customs of the people." Seldom has the promise on a title-page been so accurately and so pleasantly redeemed as in this case. The pecu liarities of Ceylon, natural, national, and historical, are most vividly set before us. In regard to the first mentioned—the natural beauties of the island—thoroughly does the reader of the opening chapters of the first volume coincide with the quotation from Byron on the first page— " It is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land! What fruits of fragrance blush on every tree, What goodly prospects o'er the hills expand." Ceylon, with its clear atmosphere, fertile vallies, cin namon groves and rice plantations, and the abundant variety of rich foliage presented by its magnificent trees, is apparently a very Paradise of picturesque beauty. In one place we read of a glorious tamarind tree, very appropriately surnamed " the giant's tree," of which the height is ninety-eight feet, and the solid stem (seven feet from the root) is thirty-nine feet in diameter. But yet more attractive than this is the talapat tree. " This magnificent tree," writes Mr. Sirr, " towers above all the other gigantic monarchs of the vegetable world, and it is utterly impossible to find words ade quate to describe its splendid beauty. It (the talapat, or great fan palm) varies in height from seventy to one hundred feet. The leaves frequently measure, from the extremity of the stalk to the point, more than twenty four feet, and the width varies from twelve to seventeen, and these are used by the natives for fans and um brellas. Under the native Kings none, save those be longing to the highest caste, were allowed to use these leaves, and the number was fixed that each chief, ac cording to his rank, was to have borne before him. The flowers spring from the diadem of graceful verdure that crowns the palm, the blossoms being of a most exquisite pale yellow, and continuing in bloom for the space of three months, when they gradually disap pear as the fruit forms. Near this gigantic tree are to be seen the banian-tree, the myrtle, the bay-tree, and the tick-seed sunflower, which bears an immense num ber of golden-coloured blossoms, whilst on the opposite side fragments of yellow rock are clothed with luxuriant balsams, whose delicate white and brilliant red blos soms stand out in bold relief from the shining foliage." While perusing these and other passages so richly descriptive of the beauties of the island, we can hardly wonder at the ready offer of the heroine of " The Belle's Stratagem," to listen "to the soft breathings of the flute in the cinnamon groves of Ceylon." The chapters containing these pictures of the country are happy specimens of pen and ink painting, but matter of deeper interest is not wanting as we advance further in the work. The historical anecdotes and legends read in some instances like chapters from the " Arabian Nights," and are occa sionally of a very tragic and romantic character. As a specimen of this, which will doubtless prove to some readers the most attractive por tion of the work, we, were about to relate a mo dern tragedy founded on the deathful antipathy of castes, which has been sadly prevalent in Ceylon ; but the following old legend is even more romantic, and will perhaps, in consequent, prove more acceptable : STRANGER THAN FICTION. " The following enigma in verse was composed by one of the native kings, Kumara Dhas, a prince of great learning, who reigned A.D. 517, and both riddle and answer are looked upon as masterpieces, as the number and position of the letters in the original, in both enigma and reply, strictly agree, the latter being written by Kalidhas, the celebrated poet and friend of the Monarch. Naturally in translation the ,peculiar beauty is lost but we give it as a curious and interesting poetical specimen. " The riddle of Kumara Dhas— " By beauty's grasp in turmoil, uncomposed He is kept a prisoner, but with eyes unclosed.' " The elucidation by the poet Kalidhas-- "' Although closed at night, the lotus keeps the bee The dawn will see him gay, unhurt, and tree.' " The circumstance which occasioned these lines is thus recorded in the native annals; the King was in the habit of visiting a courtesan, celebrated alike for her wit, beauty, and captivating manners, and one evening, whilst in her company, remarked a bee alight on a pink lotus, closed upon, and imprisoned the insect. The Monarch immediately wrote the two lines on the wall, intending to compare his own situation with that of the captive bee, as he was enthralled by the woman's wiles; stat ing that whoever would complete the stanza should have any request granted which they might choose to prefer. " Shortly after the Monarch quitted the courtezan's abode, and Kalidhas, who was also in the habit of visiting the woman, entered the house, and, seeing the writing on the wall, immediately concluded the verse in the same style. The wretched woman, to obtain the promised re ward, murdered the poet, and buried him under the floor; but when the Monarch saw the reply, he imme diately recognised the style and writing of his favourite Kalidhas. " The murder was discovered, the corpse disinterred, and, by order of the King, a. most magnificent pile was prepared, whereon the body was to be burned with all the rites and ceremonies which belonged solely to roy alty. When the funeral pyre was ignited, the grief and mental agony of Kumara Dhas, at the loss of his friend, overcame all other feelings, and he rushed into the flames, and was consumed with the body of the post, Kalidhas. History also recorded that the five queens of Kumara Dhas voluntarily immolated themselves on the same spot shortly afterwards, and we believe this to be the only record of royal widows in Ceylon sacrificing themselves at the tombs of their spouses." The manners and customs of the modern Cingalese are, many of them, of a most extraordinary character, and these are related by Mr. Sirr in a copious and anecdotal style which renders them fully as interesting as (being another chapter of the "proper study of mankind") they are valuable. These curi ous customs of the Cingalese are too numerous to permit of more than a cursory mention of them here ; so we must refer our readers to Mr. Sirr for an ac count of the various baptismal, marriage, and other ceremonies of the modern inhabitants of the island, as, for example, how, in addition to his or dinary appellation, every child receives a rice name, breathed in his ear while his mother is feeding him with rice, and never known to any persons but the child's father and an astrologer. "It is remarkable," says Mr. Sirr, " but all Cinga lese believe that ill-luck and misfortune would attend a child if the rice-name were known to any one save the astrologer and father, and we have never yet met with a native who could affirm what his rice-name was." In addition to their numerous strange marriage cus toms there are it appears in this country two distinct classes of marriages, the one is called " Beene " and the other "Deega." In the first of these the husband resides at the wife's home and she shares the family inheritance with her brothers. In the Deega marriage, as in the ordinary unions of other nations, the wife leaves her paternal home to dwell with her husband. From his historical researches, Mr. Sirr infers that the forefathers of the Cingalese people, " whom for a lengthened period we looked upon as savages, were a civilized and a comparatively refined nation at a period anterior to the discovery of Great Britain and her then semi-barbarous denizens." The Kandian Cingalese, had, it seems, a tradi tion that " the island of Lanka-diva never could be conquered and retained by a foreign power, except two impossible things were performed, namely, a road bored through the bowels of the rocky mountains,: and the Maha-welle-ganga spanned by a sing le arch —impossibilities which have been accom plished by' a tunnel recently pierced through the mountain, and bridge whose single arch measures two hundred and five feet, thrown across the waters of the Maha-welle gangs. The tunnel, says Mr. Sirr, " was c?nstruc capital of Ceylon) came into our pos!ession, on be of ru t le h d e t t e o d speak,by order the o fß r i S t i i s r hEpdowwaerrd after Barnes, K a n to d co y ( n t s h o e l . da lent a n t, o account of the legend above-mentioned, and, adds Mr. Sirr, " a chief told us that iw e throughraesetheir r rocks c kt destiny e an b dow undermineeo s when his countrymen beheld this task commenced, their hearts failed them, but when they saw it com mountains." We must, however, take leave of Mr. p bear l y et ts e h d n, st a hi n ieo d yn m twh e eh n no Sirr, for his volumes so abound with interesting inci dents that an attempt . to mention even the greater walkingk could new t p part would be impracticable. We took up the work expecting to find it valuable from its historical and ge ographicalinformation ; in this we were not disap pointed, but we found it moreover as richly coloured as a picture gallery and as attractive as a romance. ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS - WOOLWICH, MAY 11.—The 18th company, recently returned to head quarters at Woolwich from Portsmouth, under the command of Captain Barry, Royal Engineers, have been placed under orders of readiness to embark in the Resistance, troop-ship, for a passage to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to relieve the sth Company under the command of Captain Bermester, Royal Engineers, at that station since May, 1843. The Resistance is to call at Cork on her way to North America, to receive on board detachments of the line to fill up the head-quarters of the regihrut4 bet - Tips in Ganlido• MONDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1850. LITERATURE. when Polycarp sat yet in Smyrna,—a legend which we feel satisfied will prove as new to the majority as it did to ourselves. The rest of the papers in the current number of the Edinburgh are of various merit and miscellaneous character. The one on "Hun garian Literature" will be read just now with inte rest ; the " Agricultural Complaints " have elicited an article from the quarterly organ of the Whigs, which we most earnestly commend to our most excellent and obtuse friends the Protectionists; the contribution regarding Germany is well-timed and able ; but the most remarkable paper among those not enumerated is unquestionably the one relating to the extinction of the Polynesians. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, S U NDAT.—Several of the Lords of the Admiralty, with Sir B. W. "Walker, the surveyor of the navy, are expected at Portsmouth to-morrow to inspect the Ajax, and probably the Dauntless. Commander Moorsom's percussion shells are also to be on board the Excellent to-morrow, and:probably the Admiralty may go on board her and see them thrown. These shells have been undergoing a series of trials, and they have been proved to be far more correct in their bursting than any shell hitherto invented. Other shells burst at uncertain periods—some directly they leave the gun—but Commander Moorsom's shells have scarcely ever burst till they struck the object. The Rolls, tender to the Victory, has remained at Spithead this day, instead of, as customary, coming into harbour for the Sunday. She is kept out to be in readiness to embark the Admiralty to-morrow, should they think proper to go on board her. he Dauntless will be ready to proceed again on her trial along the meakured mile in Stokes Bay to morrow, at half-past nine o'clock. Major-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, Lieu tenant Governor of Portsmouth, has proceeded on three weeks' leave of absence. Her Majesty's birth-day will be kept at Ports mouth on Wednesday, when there will be the usual dockyard and Government office holidays. The last stone of a new graving-dock at the north corner of this yard, abutting on the entrance to the steam basin, built by Mr. Benjamin Bramble, form ing the chief of those fabrics of which we now have several magnificent specimens at this station, was laid yesterday afternoon by Captain James, R.E., F.R.S., &c. This dock is 305 feet long, and 88 feet broad. The entrance, which is closed with a caisson, is 65 feet. Captain James has resigned the appointment of Director of Works in counexion with the Admiralty estAblishments at this port, and was to have been re lieved by Captain Mould, R E., from Chatham, but, in consepuence of some important questions having been raised, he was requested to continue to hold his office a short time longer, which term lapsed yes- terday. Lieutenant-Colonel Jebb, C. 8., and Lieutenant- Colonel Greene, the director of Admiralty works to the board, inspected the old laboratory on Wednes day, in company with Captain James, to decide on the plan of the ground to be given for a convict barrack, for which 15,0001. has been voted this year. The experience of the Portland convict establishment has shown how much more efficiently the discipline of convicts can be carried out on shore than in hulks. The 11.1egmra steam-frigate, at Sheerness, is ordered to be fitted immediately for commission as the Com modore's ship for the East India station, to relieve the Cambrian, 40-gun sailing frigate. The schooner yacht Fernandez sailed from this harbour for Cherbourg last evening. The schooner yacht Dolphin came out of the Cor porate Camber yesterday to be commissioned. Commodore Martin's squlron was at Lisbon on the Ist inst., on which day the Superb, 80, Captain Pur cell, arrived from England. The following acting mates passed the College in navigation last week :—Messrs. E. Chambers, J. A. Close, and F. Hurson. Second Masters I. W. Ward (late in command of the Harpy steam-vessel on the Brazil station), and Mr. Thomas Kerr, also passed at the same time for the rank of the master, which they have since been promoted to. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, MAY L—Surgeon—James J. Pau, M.D. (1845), from the Hydra, 6, steam-sloop, on the south-east coast of America station, to the Pro metheus steam-sloop, commissioned on the 9th inst. at Woolwich. Assistant-Surgeon—Charles. D. Shephard (1845), to the Prometheus. Chief Engineer—George Russell, to the Prome theus. Assistant-Engineers—George Crichton, William Austin, and Samuel Griffiths, to the Prometheus. The Crocodile, 8, formerly receiving-ship at Cork and recently paid off at Sheerness, was towed up the river to-day, by the Adder and African steamers, to opposite the Tower of London, where she is to be stationed as a receiving-ship, instead of the Perseus, now so old as to be only fit to be broken up. The Lizard, iron steam-vessel, is ordered to be taken to Sheerness after all her stores are put on board ; she is at. present in the basin at Woolwich. The Banshee, Holyhead mail steam-packet, Master Commander Smithett, having been ordered round to Chatham to be paid off, the following detail of the total dis time gone over by each of the vessels of her Majesty 'a Holyhead mail steam-packets since launch ing, iucl uding trial trips, passage round, and passages made on the Liverpool stations, may prove interest ing to the public:— The Banshee, constructed by 0. W. Lang, and fitted wit h engines of 350-horse power, by John Penn and Son, was commissioned by Master-Commander William Smithett on January 5, 1848, and including her trial trips, passr.ge round, and passages made on the Livei-pool station, ran over 42,000 miles at the rate of 16 miles per hour of average passage. The Llewellyn, constructed by Ravenhill and Miller, and fitted with engines of 350-horse power by Miller and Ravenhill, was commissioned by Master-Commander John Grey en May 3, 1848, and including her passage trips, passage round, and pas sages made on the Liverpool station, ran over 28,500 miles at the rate of 15.5 miles per hour of average passage. The Caxadoc, constructed by Sir William Symonds, and fitted with engines of 300. horse power by Sea ward and Co., was commissioned by Lieutenant- Commander Charles P. Ladd on April 4, 1848, and including her trial trips, passage round, and passages on the Liverpool station, ran over 27,300 miles at the rate of 14.2 miles per hour of average passage. The St. Columba, constructed by Laird, and fitted with engines of 350-horse power by Forrester, was commissioned by Second Master-Commander Richard Michael on March 1, 1848, and, including her trial trips, passage round, and passages on the Liverpool station, ran over 36,600 miles at the rate of 14 miles per hour of average passage. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On 'Wednesday the Bth, was a long debate on the order for a second reading of the Irish Fisheries Bill ; which appeared to be a contest between Millers and Salmon-fishers. In which the Millers carried the day, by a majority of 197 votes against 37. An Extra-Mural Interments Bill was thrown out by a majority of 123 against 4; the reason of its unpopularity appearing to be that it interfered with plans more promising of ultimate success. On Thursday the Elections (Ireland) Bill was proceeded with in Committee, and a disputed ques tion in clause 22 carried by 157 against 44; which looks as if there was steam sufficient for the general purposes of the Bill. The Benefices in Plurality Bill was read a third time, and passed. On Friday was a debate of unwonted interest for a Private Bill, on the Manchester Rectory Division Bill. A round amount of revenues is to be divided among the clergy there ; and a Committee upstairs (which means a Committee of a dozen or fifteen Mem bers sitting in a room upstairs by themselves) have recommended a mode of division, giving to each of certain Canons 8501. a year in the whole. On this came forward the Tory and Ecclesiastical party in the House, and vigorously contended that (to use their own words) the clergy at Manchester were required to mix with millionnaires and rich to peop e, an therefore—what? That it was expedient cut down the incomes of the fifty inferior clergy, o t make up the incomes of the Canons to 1,000/. a yT. This ought to be understood at Manchester. It is th e " rob to make rich" principle of Protection introduced into the Church. Possibly it may sharpen the disposition of the fifty to sift and exa mine the principle in which they and their flock are to be equally concerned. We shall possibly see some of these clergymen at the next Anti-Protection meeting in the Free-Trade Hall. It is very likely that their theological studies were never broken in upon by such a direct inducement to enter into a question of Political Economy before. It is a favourable measure of the disposition of the House of Commons, that this new Protectionist out break was put down by 193 votes against 60. On Friday the Parliamentary Voters &c. (Ireland) Bill was debated on the third reading by the whole force of the Protectionist party. Like the boy who would not learn A because it would lead to his being asked to learn B, they stood upon the certainty that an extension of the suffrage in Ireland must be fol lowed by the same process in other places. With a rare ingenuity, they mixed up the question with their war-horse of the hour ; asserting in two following breaths, that the whole of the community was with them on the subject of Protection, yet to extend the suffrage would be the death of them. The Prime Minister answered with energy and point. His at tack on the " paternal government" of the opposite side, consisting, he said, in "keeping the Irish , from the suffrage, and taking care of their fisheries, ' :ar t worthy of European celebrity; and the astlbisebnicon is, that a leader who sees so clearly into nexions and consequences of thing-, should campaign found ian mpa to ign lying in his quarters without any P chur n except opposing the enemies w hen they come to him. The majority was not alvBe6r.y. fl.Tathteerinvgrootneec,tiobneiinstgs only of 254 against should have a ina.. loudly vaunted, that if the Minister could only b e j ree Trade . has been made to dissolve Parliament , f t h l e , jority of forty. The caiseo no improbabi so badly fought ever since the Lea . gue .divided its funds on the drum-bead, that there like it taking piece. lity in sometbinA I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD LEFoItALEIL Lonclopt 18th May, 1860. EXTENSIVE FORGERIES. On Friday afternoon Mr. William Threlfsll, cot ton-spinner, of the Addington Low Mills, near Bol ton Abbey, was apprehended at the George Hotel in this town, on a charge of forgery, which be is sup posed to have committed to the extent of several thousand :pounds. When the prisoner was searched at the bridewell, 3,0001. was found on his person, and in a carpet bag, which was found in his bedroom, 3,0001. more were discovered. It is stated that a subsequent inspection of his pocket-book disclosed a further sum of 5,0001., and bills, apparently available at any moment, to the amount of 12,000/. Some of these are certainly forgeries, but several appear to be genuine. Along with the bills were found numerous letters on business and relating to private affairs. Both, we are told, betray the condition of Mr. Threl fall's circumstances. His private letters relate to some domestic matters which leave little doubt that he was fully aware of impending consequences. He had directed how his plate was to be disposed of, and given hints on other matters indicative of a contem plated arrangement. The business letters tend to the same inference. Bankers urged him to repair his overdrawn accounts, and merchants and manufac turers reminded him of obligations demanding settle- went. Shortly after his apprehension the prisoner was placed in the dock before Mr. Rushton, and Mr. Harvey, of the firm of Messrs. Harvey and Falcon, appeared to prosecute. It appeared from the state ment of Mr. Harvey, that, on the 13th February last, Mr. Timothy B. Bourne, cotton-broker, of this town, received a letter from the prisoner, enclosing a bill for the sum of 2,0001., drawn by Mr. Threlfall, upon the Hull Flax and Cotton-mill Company, and pur porting to be accepted by Mr. Joseph Rylands, manager of the said company. The writer requested Mr. Bourne to get the bill discounted, and to apply the money for his (the prisoner's) advantage. The bill was discounted by the bank of Liverpool ; but, on Thursday, in consequence of information he had received, Mr. Langton, the manager of the bank, went to Hull, and there discovered that the acceptance was a forgery. Word to that effect was instantly sent by electric telegraph to Liverpool, and the priso ner was in consequence arrested here. Mr. Ilaritey, at the conclusion of his statement, prayed the magic trate for a remand, which was granted. On Saturday afternoon the prisoner was again placed in the dock, and the court was crowded by merchants and brokers, many of whom were person ally acquainted with the prisoner, and recently had had transactions with him. Mr. Harvey again ap peared on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr. Aspinall, barrister, assisted by Mr. Bremner, of this town, and Mr. Barret, solicitor, of Leeds, for the prisoner. The latter gentlema❑ was informed on Friday, by a tele graphic message, of the prisoner's position. Mr. T. Bourne produced a bill drawn by William Threlfall, dated the 10th of March, 1850, for 2,0001., upon the Hull Flax and Cotton-mill Company. He also produced a letter which he received enclosing the bill. In pursuance of the instructions contained in that letter, he got the bill discounted at the Bank of Liverpool, and transmitted the money. In answer to Mr. Aspinall, witness stated that he did not know prisoner to he a partner in the Hull Flax and Cotton mill Company, Mr. Layton, manager of the Borough Bank, proved the discounting of the bill at the bank, and said that he had been assured by the acceptor that it was not genuine. Mr. Superintendent Towerson, examined by Mr. Rushton, stated that he had examined the carpet bag, and in it he found a small lock and leather bag. In the small bag were the bond stamps which he pro duced. He also found some red ink and paint. One of the stamps contained the words, " Old Flax and Cotton Mill Company," and the other " Chief mana ger." He had looked at the bill of exchange pro duced, and he believed it was stamped with the instruments produced. Mr. Rushton then intimated that there was suf ficient evidence to justify the detention of the pri soner, who was remanded until three o'clock this afternoon. We understand that Mr. M‘Manus, the high con stable of Hull, received a warrant in that town, on Friday, for the apprehension of the prisoner, on a charge of committing this and other forgeries, but on the arrival of the officer in this town he found Mr. Threlfall already in custody. Mr. Threlfall was, we are informed, always highly respected in his business transactions, and was con sidered an opulent manufacturer. Amongst other mills, the prisoner owned one at Rochdale, recently in the possession of Mr. Hey worth, of savings-bank notoriety. RIOT BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND WELSH. ABERDARE, FRIDAY NIGHT.—This district has been the scene of one of the most alarming riots that have occurred for some time past. Men, women, and children have been severely, and, in one or two in stances, it is feared, fatally injured. The houses occupied by a number of English have been partly razed to the ground, the shutters and doors being either carried away or thrown through the windows amongst the alarmed inmates. In order that the public may rightly understand the cause of such a shameful pro ceeding, it is necessary to state that some time since the colliers in the Aberdare works struck, and about 150 men were procured from the Forest of Dean to supply their places. These men proved to be mostly English, which gave rise to unpleasant feelings, the Welsh declaring that unless the English turned out they would be made to pay for it. A few weeks since a stocking, filled with gunpowder, was thrown into the bedroom of one of the workmen, which ex ploded, and the man lost his life. A verdict of " Wil ful murder" was then returned against some persons unknown. The guilty parties have as yet escaped. Ever since the inquest the same unfriendly feeling has been evinced against the English, and on Monday last some two hundred Welshmen proceeded to a wood, where they cut sticks, and meeting ,some of the English on the bridge they made a fearful attack upon them, cutting their heads open, and covering them with blood. The mob, then, according to the evidence given yesterday before the magistrates by a policeman who apprehended ten of the rioters, marched to the houses occupied by the Nngliab, where they broke open the windows, and knocked out the sashes. They then took the shutters, and threw them sideways through the windows. The rioters then got in at the windows, and the officer saw a girl fall from the window, and four or five Welshmen fell on her. He heard cries of " Murder" proceeding from many of the houses. After they had partially destroyed five or six houses at one end of the street, they went to another part, and served a similar number m the same way. A great many persons spoke as to the dreadful treatment they had received. A boy, aged 13, had some of his teeth knocked down his throat. A woman named Meredith had her head cut open, and was in such a dangerous state that little hopes were entertained of her recovery. A great number of persons are so badly injured as to be obliged to keep to their beds. Ten of the more formidable rioters apprehended by the police were fully corn ' mitted to take their trials, and there is no doubt but that, in the course of a few days, a number of others will be taken, as they are well known to the police. REVENGE. —A fearful act has just been perpetrated in the French island of Guadeloupe. A man having dis covered that his wife was unfaithful to him, watched his op portunity, and, upon a Sunday night, when the wife and her paramour were in bed together, he barricaded the hut, and then set fire to it, with the hope of consuming the guilty pair, but the soldiers of the garrison arriving sooner than he expected, they were liberated almost unhurt. The fire de stroyed a number of negro habitations. GRATITUDE AMONGST PAUPERS.—During the past week a somewhat novel occurrence took place in the Taun ton Union. Mr. Welsh, who, some time since, tendered his resignation to the board of guardians, when about to leave the union, was presented by the paupers with a handsome silver spoon, which had been purchased by subscriptions raised amongst them, many of them giving their little all for that purpose, as a small testimony for the great kindnes s, con sistent with the duty of the house, which he had ever ob served towards them. The officers of the 2d Regiment ofLifeGuards gave a grand dinner to the Marquis of Londonderry, and Lady Adelaide Vane , at the barracks in the Regent's Park. an9nd Marchioness Friday evening, Owing to the very limited accommodation afforded in the o fficers' mess-room, e very were —the select f tehwe.nuAmmbeornogfstgutehsotssewwerheonercecesesiavriedlylimited invitations b laide Paget, Lord Comberre (Colonel of the let Life e Marquis of Anglesey (Colone l of the Blues) and Lady Ade laide observed—C the olonel Williams, inEvans Amongst Guardsu ards ), tLhaeduyincCeorsmpb e r me present e; an d the Hon. Miss Cott on . „. M rd a V ud Y e s , e' theH i e i n o . n. C C a a p p tam ta. Freke, the Hon-CaptainLawley, Captain and Mrs. Howard 3', Lord Loughbo- Townsend Stephen , Major Ovilgy and Major rough, Mr. Augustus Lumley, &c Lieut. Lumley Howard, yon_ . Jacob s Astle Montagu, Mr. —ugu GREEPJAND FISHERY.—By the Hamilton Ross, Captain Burnett, which arrived at Peterhead on the 3d inst., letters la e been received in thi s t own f rom some of the commanders of fishing vessels at Greenland belonging to this port. The Eliza had 3,000 to 4,000 seals, and the Flamingo 186 on the 24th of April. The Swan and the St. George were on the fishing-grounds. The Rose, Hebe, Argo, and Rufus, were, so far as known, clean. The report which has ap peared in a shipping paper as to the success or non-success of the Abram, Lord Gambier, Truelove, a nd Ann, is quite premature and erroneous, as their destination was Davis's Straits, and not Greenland. They would, in all probability be on fishing -grounds 1000 miles distant from any vessels that the Hamilt on R oss would fall in with. The success of the Peterhead vessels is, upon the whole, very encou raging. Th e H am il ton R oss is quite fall, having upwards of 150 tons of blubber, or 10,000 seals, most of them of an unusually large size. The voyage altogether has been made in two months and three days. The passage home occupied eight days. The following is Mr. Burnett's report British Ships—Of Peterhead —The Commerce, 5,000 seals; Dublin, 10,000 ; Eclipse, 600 ; Enterprise, 11,000 ; Hamilton Ross, 10,000 ; North of Scotland, clean ; Union, clean ; Resolution, full; Traveller, clean ; Victor, not known ; Joseph Green. Foreign—The Greenland, 11,000 seals; Joan Augusta, 9,000; Te zchelt, 8,000; Dirk Adam, 7,000; Flora (ship), 7,000; Alt y ona, 6,000; Fryen, 5,000 ; Clyne Henry, 5,5,00 ; Augusta, 6,000; Hanover, 5,500; Polar Star, 7,000; Flora, 4,500; Hoffnung, 3,500; and Jonge Martin, 3,500. Most pf the other foreiGhers Ilan Got A fow, n ilua ,advertiser.