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One of the most promising articles in point of en tertainment which has appeared in the page s o f this Periodical is " A Reminiscence of Cuba," commenced in the number for the present month; " Pencillings of the Prairie," " Sketches of the War in Hungary," and " Reminiscences of a Voyage to Canada," are Concluded, as well as that excellent series of pap, rs on the present construction of the French army. There 1 8 a capital notice of the farewell proceedings of the gal lant hero of Meanee on the termination of his connexion ssitla the Indi an arm y ; an i n t eres ti ng accoun t o f a visit to the Danish army during the siege of Friede richstadt in September last, and several pages of the usual sterling worth. The opening contribution on The Relations of Great Britain with Siam," is emi nently worthy of considerate perusal. It is exceed ingly well written, and pregnant with important matter, which deserves to be prominently urged upon public notice. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY Refreshed after his February nap, " Mauric.? Tierney" re-appears this month with considerable graphic power, especially in the sketch of the veteran of Pontenoy. Of Wilde's "Boyne and Blackwater" t ee have long, ere this, spoken favourably in our co limbs ; and, agreeing with the magazine reviewer, that we know " no book so well calculated to poit lariie Irish history and to exhibit the attractions of Irish scenery," it affords us much gratification to find that a second and enlarged edition of so admirable a handbook has appeared. We are next introduced to the Lusitanian Parnassus, in an account of the mos t a.linaired poet of his time, and one even still held in hi gh consideration, Bernardine Ribeyro, some ex tracts from whose muse, rendered with great f ele gance and perfect ease, are given in the first number o "Leaves from the Portuguese Olive." There is also an excellent critique, penned with vigour, taste, and ?Partiality, on Mr. Johnston's " England in the bliddle of the Nineteenth Century," and another of , : e rY great merit, upon four of the highest produc es of th e f ema l e nov elists of the day : "Olive," lime the Avenger," "Evelyn," and " Nathalie." Jo nathan Freke Slingsby is, for once, songless, but n othing. can be more simply sweet and touching than 1 da prose contribution, "A Legend of St. Valentine," I l beautiful little tale of the early days of Christianity Imperial Rome, when the golden roofs of Nero, !bd the mighty Flavian Amphitheatre were yet un- Irrjured, when she was yet the peerless city of the eiars—not the ruined throne whereon " the Ghost °f the Old Roman Empire" (as the Papacy was de aignated by Hobbes) sits crowned; "ere the .Goth or the Vandal hail sacked her palaces, or ki ngs of Christendom, more destructive than t he barbarians, filched away her precious monuments, ~er marbles, and her statuary ; ere the fury of the -° 'ourbon swept in a desolating tide over all that Alaric and Genseric had spared, that Charlemagne a nd 1 1)bert of Sicily had left uninjured." The papers entitled " Ireland—The Past and the Future," and The Papal Aggression," the latter of which is based "Pon the views put forward in that clever and perti bent little volume, the " Vindicim Anglicanm, are of a very high order, and deserve a more particular notice than our limits would allow at present. Ever Welcome are " Leaves from the Portfolio of a Ma th,. ts " It is true we were no parties to any of the li r " desperate theatrical riots or " ructions' in the bernian metropolis therein commemorated, nor w ere ever p resen t a t an y o f th ose agreea bl e " b reezes ," bh® are known to fame as the " Mahomet Row," r i "Dog Row," and the "Bottle Row ;" of t We d o remem b er th a t unparalleled triumvirate entnicalities, Mick Fullam, Ned Williams, a nd Tom Johnson, were in the house in Hawkins sstreet on th e n i g ht w h en th e f orme r lit e rally di e d i n arn esa, and have a perfect recollection of the un illeakable m i rt h crea t e d b y t h e i mpersona ti ons o f t h e des cribes Dromi os by th e l a tt e r p a ir, w hi c h Mr. Calcratt . t with so much truth and gus to. The men ti°ll of all these matters by the tale n t e d writer recalls e° memory scenes now approximating to antiquity— /en so far back as '24, when Rob Roy, with the t‘ re4 t Macready as the Highland hero, and Miss fir st (now Mrs. Keeley), as Di. Vernon, made a a t and ineff a c e able impre s si o n o n o ur juvenile mind. A mere amusing or interesting production anent ratters theatrical than these contributions by Mr. alc raft will present, when completed, cannot exist; to r • 15 ther e an y au th or b et t er qua lifi e d i n ever y re aPect to h an dl e suc h su bj ects . H e h as ma t er i a l s i n plenty, and need never apprehend becoming tedious. BENTLEY T he current number of Bentley opens with a 4 1 )1 1qt- s ti rr i ng history of the campaign of Edwardes 4 il n i d Courtl a nd against Moolraj, before the siege of oultan, and of the final capture of the fortress; it l i lluatrated with a portrait of Sir Henry Lawrence. t 'e last article in the Miscellany is also on Indian Gtiairs, and is a continuation of the series on Lord is ngh's victories. The subject of the present paper ~the much criticised " Battle of Chillianwallah," I , t v i u the writer proves satisfactorily that Lord Gough 4 51 obliged to fight that battle, that h e h a d no o th e r alternative. " Zoological Notes and Anecdotes" are %tinued, and in the present instalment we may have much curious information as to the natural history 11 ,°d habits of wolves, Mr. Wilkie Collins's story, rThe T w in Sisters," is most interesting, and atllY justifies his warning to the reader 'j , the conclusion, to quote the story of ' t he Twin Sisters" whenever he may be told 11 "" what is impres s ive and pathetic in the drama of u man life has passed away with a past age of chi ;alrY, Mr. Dru mmo nd Wolff continues his amusing rem iniscences of Madrid, and one of the " dilettanti , 'Yes a diverting history of his adventures during a to Gottingen to hear Jenny Lind. " The Wig 414'8's Mu s i ca l P arty " i s an amus i ng d ro ll er y, an d of e Churchyard Bride " a very mediocre imitation the glori o us I n g o ld s by l e ge n ds. We have also 41a v ri eral revie ws o f recen tly p u bli s h e d literary works, 1 4 "„ttle programme o f her Majesty's Theatre f0r18,51 t he present number of Bentley. FRASER. 11 1‘10 twithstanding February is the month in which b„ 4r liament opened, notwithstanding since the last num °f Fraser was published we have had the Queen's t & l e i eb, the Papal aggression measure, and the Minis )-4, crisis, Fraser has no political article this r "Inth. This is the more remarkable, as it is gene , /1 1 (1 1 Y understood that Fraser is the organ of the e tt - , B tre section of the Peelites. The lovers of the an i.stties of literature will turn with curiosi y I,(llted letter of Edward Gibbon, dated London, May bi t ;' 1 : 77 6 and addressed to M. D'Eyverdun at Leip orw6o was engaged in translating the first volu..ne it 410 " "D ecline and Fall," then recently published, German. Gibbons' description of the reception hi s th e , work is very amusing ; it bad succeeded with , Ladies, he said, like a fashionable novel, and both "ertson and Hume had praised it highly. He then r r oeee , , 413 til m besides, I have had the good fortune to avoid the - which is the most dangerous in this country. A iti, t c)r iul is always to a esrtain degree a political cha r, and every reader according to his private opinion to r i t to the most remote ages the sentiments of the his is asu upon kings and governments. A Minister, who pq,_gr.oat friend to the prerogatives of the Crown, has th',4Plinientpd me on my having everywhere professed ,litide,t doctrines. e t Mr. Walpole, on the other hand, and my Lord li both partisans of liberty, and even of a repub i,:iare persu a d e d t h a t I am not tar from their iieas. ‘i t u proof, at least, that I have observed a fair ur a '. ty 1 tia now look at the reverse of the medal, and woVect the means which Heaven has thought fit to em it.3' 10 humble my pride. Would you think, my dear 162p t u e r aittyofmy injustice has been carried so far as to attack 4 faith? The cry of the bishops, and of O r eat number of ladies equally respectable for their b ag L an d under s t an di ng , h as b een raised against me. It uee n maintained that the last two chapters of my Ni t p c4 ed History' are only a satire on the Christian ti e ,, , '"h—a satire the more dangerous as it is concealed th,;"a veil of moderation and impartiality; and that N cl e aliasary of Satan, after having long amused his it it ,, e r 4 with a very agreeable tale, insensibly leads them th is the internal snare. You perceive all the horror of 51 1511 a ccusation, and will easily understand that I tay °Ppose only a respectful silence to the clamours of Th enemies." ibireetvimirers of Isaac Walton, as well as the ad- R N : of Alexis Soyer, the anglers as well as the noe l musts, will be delighted with an article on it "lent Fishing and Fish ;" and the hater of 4 t h it a i r ni find matter to his taste in the paper la ir L e ,— I ' The Force of Fictions." The most amus " T r o ' the articles in this number is, to our thinking, Itstory of French Journals a nd Bi ogr aphy of Ro e ,, tl th Jou rna li s t s ." Th e wr i ter, h owever, d oes no t I,,.T u rther ba c k i n hi s bi ograp hi ca l not i ces t h an t h e fortter days of the Empire, and writes with a bias ; th e `bile he d oes more than j us ti ce t o t h e B er ti ns , St. Marc Girardins, and the notabilities of the ab„ l47. ,nai des Debats, he speaks in the most vulgarly C a Lve terms of Armand Marrast, whom he calls Litilc'sv, v ulgar-bred, and reptile-minded," and yet he v u i 4e lf had just before characterised this " low, qu e l t/ t fbred t and reptile-minded" person as " un ."41513, a writer of point, brillianc, and e% t)osn his account of the quarrels and the y m . utual Gi ra ,.3!" of those quondam associates, Emile de p h 'ulo and Granier de Cassagnac, is excessively rich. La ve 11114 )rns and Realities" is continued ; and we sevetv.l. wreview s ell-writt en " Bi ograp h y o f Alfi er i," besides -- - - Y e erda SUICIDE AT CHARING•CROSS HOSPITAL.-- iCPital, o Y Mr. Bedfo r d h e ld an i nqu i ry a t Ch ar i ng -cross ~Zn the bod y o f S amuel Bridge, aged t hi rty -t w o, of destroyed himself by jumping out of a window . of one ttLtne wards on the third floor of the building, a height of lit'Linit!t forty feet, on Sunday last, about two o'clock. His alm or w as dreadf u ll y fractured in consequence, and he died in nnediately in the area below. After hearing the the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary THE SUN, IMPORTANT FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. COMMENCEMENT OF HOSTILITIES WITH THE KAFIRS.-LOSS OF LIFE. We have received Graham's Town journals to Ja. nuary 4. Hostilities had commenced in Kafraria. The Graham's Town Journal of Jan. 4 says— " O❑ the 24th Decernher a patrol of nearly 600 men, under Colonel Mackinnon, was inveigled into a narrow and difficult pass by the native police (since deserted), who up to that time remained faithful to wards the colonists. In this defile the Gaikas mus tered in great force, and without provocation com menced a most murderous onslaught upon the troops, wherein 38 men and officers were placed hors de com bat. This, surely, is enough to prove that the pre sent is a war of the Kafirs upon the colonists. They fired the first shot, and having obtained a slight ad vantage, flushed with success, rode on to greater enor mities. The military villages were next attacked— Woburn, Auckland, and Johannesberg reduced to ashes, and the whole of their male inhabitants cruelly butchered. Within five days of the first affair another engagement took place between 250 of the colonial forces and the enemy, at the Chutnie Hoek, wherei❑ the British loss was 20 men and 2 officers killed, and 11 rank and file wounded—the Kafirs in this instance also being the first to rush on to the attack, giving still further proof of their determination to act upon the offensive. The following is an official dispatch from Colone Somerset : Fort Hare, 30th Dec., 1850. Sir,—Having had a severe action with the enemy yes terday i❑ an attempt to open a communication with the Commander-in-Chief, I felt it necessary to transmit to you the substance of my report to him in order to pre vent unfounded exaggerated reports being circulated of the facts. Having on the night of the 28th and morning of the 29th iustAr.t, before day light, forwarded dispatches to his Excellcncy the Commander-in-Chief by a party of the Cape Mounted Riflemen, this party were intercepted by the enemy, and very properly returned and made their report to me. Feeling the importance of holding an early communi cation with his Excellency, and at the same time being desirous of ascertaining what was actually in the front, I detailed a party of 150 91st Regiment under Lieut.- Colonel Yarborough, 70 Cape Mounted Rifles, under Major Somerset; accompanied by a small 3-pounder gun Royal Artillery, ray object being to take up a position on the ridge above the Umnaate stream while I sent a party of Cape Mounted Riflemen forward with the mail to Fort Cox. This object was, however, defeated by the enemy showing themselves in considerable force on our right on the Yellowwood river, about six miles from this post, who attacked us as we were advancing up the hill towards the Umnazie, whom, however, we drove back, and for a time established ourselves in positioa; from the large body of the enemy whom I observed collecting, I saw at once that I could not effect the object I had in view, I therefore directed the troops to retire towards Fort Hare; at this time a very large force of the enemy was also observed coming over from the mountains of the Amatola, and others assembled in the Chumie Hoek. The troops continued retiring in admirable order, con testing every foot of ground with the enemy, whose numbers increased out of every valley, as we passed the successive heads of the various hoofs. The day was most oppressive. I was able to open the gun upon the enemy several times with good effect. After retiring about three miles, while holding a small valley on a hill, in firing a shot lrom the small gun, the trail unfortu nately broke short off, which rendered the gun com pletely unserviceable. I had it brought on until, when passing a valley with rugged banks, the gun fell over, and could be no longer got forward. At this time we were attacked by a very superior force in a thorny valley, the troops having a hand-to-hand encounter with the enemy. Here, lam sorry to say, several of our brave soldiers fell, including Lieutenant Melvin and Lieutenant and Adjutant Gordon, 91st Regiment; En sign Borthwick, 91st, was wounded; also several men 91st and C. M. Riflemen were wound-d, and several troop horses ; also Major Somerset's charger was wounded. Having forced themselves from this difficulty, the troops continued to retire in perfect order, when they were met by 100 men, most judiciously 5..-nt out in sup port by Major Forbes, 91st, whom I had left in command at Fort Hare. The heat of the weather was most oppressive; nothing could exceed the steadiness and gallantry of the troops throughout this most fatiguing and trying service through a most difficult country ;—I am greatly indebted to Lieutenant-Colonel Yarborough, commanding 91it, and to Major Somerset, commanding Cape Mounted Riflemen, for this able assistance they afforded, and the way in which they led their men, and to all the officers and troops for their steady and gallant conduct. The loss of the enemy was considerable, our fire being steady and well•directed, having contested the ground with the enemy fur upwards of four hours. The gun I have had brought in this morning. I have, &c., 11. SOMERSET, Colonel Commanding Frontier. FRONTIER DISTRICT ORDERS. Fort Hare, Dec. 30th, 1850. Colonel Somerset desires to express to Lieutenant- Colonel Yarborough, Major Somerset, and the officers and troops engaged with the enemy yesterday, his high sense of their exertions and gallant conduct. Dieply does the Colonel lihment the loss of those gal ant officers and soldiers who fell in the action. The communications with Fort Cox having been in terrupted it became the Colonel's duty to endeavour to communicate with the Commander-in-Chiet fur many important reasons. The result has proved that it was not possible to effect this object, the troops having to contend against such superior numbers in most difficult ground for four hours. The troops had to contend against the enemy (retiring, however, in perfect order) who brought large bodies of fresh troops up on both Rinks from each successive valley us it was passed. Notwithstanding these obstacles and the advantage ort the side of the enemy, the steadi ❑ess of the troops was admirable, contesting every point of ground, and eventually reaching the post in the highest order. Major Forbes, 91st Reg t., commanding in Fort Hare, having with great judgment sent out 100 men in sup port of the retiring force, whose timely aid was of the greatest assistance. Colonel Somerset also do,ires to express to Captain Carey his thanks for the able manner in which he con ducted a forced march to afford aid and protection to a weak escort, which was said to be on the road from Fort Peddle, through the country occupied by the enemy. This responsible duty was conducted with judgment, energy, and success. Captain Carey, and the officers and troops under him, merit the Colonel's thanks and approbation. - Colonel Somerset will not fail to bring the conduct of all these troops under the favourable notice of his Ex cellency the Commander-in-Chief. H. SOMERSET, Col. COM. Frontier. (By command) C. D. BELL, Lieut. C.M.R., Act. Adjt. Major Burnay, H. A., Com. The following is from a supplement to the Gra ham' s Town Journal of December 31. The following particulars, contained in letters re ceived this morning, could not be extracted in time for our first edition, the post having been ordered to leave Graham's Town three hours before the usual time. Extract of a letter dated Block Drift, 27th Dec., 1850. I doubt not you have already heard that war has com menced up here in earnest. On Christmas morning, at four o'clock, we were roused and told that the Kafirs had attacked the troops, and that we were t o h o ld ourselves in readiness for what might take place. In the atter noon we received information of an attack on Johannes- Berg, and of the murder of three of the settl ers . Sh ortly afterwurds news was brought in that Woburn had shared the same fate. Supt. Stacey and Supt. Phelps (of Ely) were killed. Stevenson was also there to dine with them, but on seeing the Kafirs approaching he sprang on his horse and rode off to Gwali. Both the above places are burnt to the ground. Auckland has likewi se been attacked, and it is reported that all ure killed; but another report says that a few are still alive, and are defending themselves in a small fortification made on the nigh t o f t h e attac k. On the same night sixteen of the K a fi r p o li ce d ecam p e d f r om the fort, taking their arms with them. About three o'clock next morning their station was in flames, and by daylight was burnt to the ground. Y ester d ay morn i ng the whole of the police at Junction Post mutined and took possession, but they allowed Lieutenant Walsh and his sergeant to leave un molested. Yesterday a company of the 91st went out to the relief of th ose at t h e G wal i , an d w h e re engaged with the Kafirs the whole way back; six of the enemy were seen to !all, three of whom were supposed to have been policemen. While I am writing the Cape corps are engaged F with the Kafirs in sight, close to Wynne 's house, part of which has just been burnt. A company of the 91st have just passed the door to scour the hills. The 91st that were out yesterday behaved gallantly, they extended themselves in skirmishing or der, and called out to the Kafirs to come on. None of our men were hurt. We have been expecting an attack hourly. A few of the settlers who have escaped have come in; the women, also, that escaped have had to make the best of their way through the bush. The scenes that have taken place are too horrible to relate. The Cape Corps are still fighting. I can now see a large body of liafirs on t h e r id ge from Wynne's house, which is still smoking. Twelve o'Clock—The fighting is still going on very near the fort. The whole of the police haVe deserted Davis, and I have just heard that those at Davis's Post have gone over to the enemy. The Kafirs say we may expect them to-night. Extract of a letter dated Fort Hare, 26th Dec., 1850 : Our Christmas has been a very unhappy one. Poor Dr. Stuart is killed, and Major Bissett wounded; also Catty of the 6th. 16 men of the 45th killed, an d some of the 6th; but I do not know at present how many. They have burnt down the military villages near Fort Hare, viz., Auckland, Woburn, and Johnnesberg—Ely only at present being left. At Johnnesberg the scoundrels killed 26 men, 8 women, and 11 children,* and 3 men killed at Woburn. These numbers we are certain of; and perhaps there are many more, but their number is not known. The Kaffir police have deserted in this dis trict, with their arms, and were engaged with the C. M. Rifles this day. You must not be alarmed, as Ido not think many Kafirs can enter the colony at once, but they are very saucy. The C.M.R. have behaved very well tudeed. J have just been informed that the 6th lost 10 men killed and 10 wounded; also about 20 men, supposed to LONDON, 3. I! URSDAY EVENING, be the 73d regiment, killed, and 5 mule waggons taken, with drivers, &c. All this is horrid, bu:, we tnu,t luok forward to venter tim-s. Another hand writes : A party of 15 of the C. M. Rifle, and a pwrty of ut 30 of the 91st were engaged from one to three o'clock yesterday. The C. M. Rifles aro spoken of in the highest terms. Nine o'Clock.—The Kafirs have burned a house within sight of the Rist, about a mile off. A party of the C. M. Rifles and the 91st went out yesterday. Toe Kafirs kept them bard at it for two hours. The Kafirs were never known to fight before as they fight now. Extract of a letter, dated Fort Hare, 26th Dee. The whole of the military villages have been de stroyed. A patrol is now going out to ascertain what damage is done. The Kafirs also have burned the police station, only 300 yards from the fort. Eleven o'Clock.—A report has just come i❑ that the troops have been fighting the whole of the night at Fort White. It is supposed that twenty men have fallen on our side, and that some more havo fallen in Colonel Mackinnon's division. The murders that have been committed at the military villages are teuly heart rending —men, women, and children share alike. A girl of twelve years of age was hanged by the Kafirs. * This is doubtful, subsequent information stating that the women and children were spared.—Editor of Graham's Town Journal. THE ADVERTISEMENT. (From Eliza Cook's Journal) " Now, Laura, my love, write as I dictate, and take care of your stops." " Yes, mamma, I am quite ready." . " Well, begin. Wanted a Governess; that is the usual heading of such things, I believe. Let me see— comma after Governess—then go on ; to instruct three young ladies in French, (comma) Music,"— " Oh, mamma," interpoed the writer, " We must have Italian too." " Well, put down Italian before Music, with a comma between, then go on—Singing, and the ordinary branches of a sound English Education (cull point). She will be expected to take the entire charge of the wardrobe (full point). Size must be of an amiable and social disposition, (comma) and—now what shall we say hero?" " Of genteel manners, mamma." _ " Well, you may set down—accustomed to genteel so ciety—l think that will do. Ob, yes—add, as she will be treated as one of the family." " But these people, mamma, expect something to be said about salary." " Ail true; I had almost forgotten that part of it. What ;hall we say? We gave your last governess fif teen pounds: I think for twenty we ought to get quite a superior person. Add—Salary twenty pounds per annum. Ample references must be given. Apply to—add the ad dress, my love; and now, Harry, will you be good enough to get that advertisement inserted in the limes and Herald." Harry Ferrers, who had been sitting in an adjoining room during the dictation of this remarkable advertise ment, was the only son of the gay Mrs. Ferrers, who was now on the look out for an accomplished governess for her charming daughters. He was the eldest of the family, and had succeeded to the eminent banking con nexion of his father, now several years deceased. He was still young, not yet twenty-five, but he gave indica tions of considerable business talents, and his tastes had been well cultivated in his early years, by a liberal edu cation. On being appealed to by his mother, he replied that he would see the advertisement inserted, and pro ceeded to read it over before placing it in his pocket. "French, Italian, Mu s ic, Sitigiog, a sound English Education,—to take charge of the wardrobe,—amiable and sociable,—accustomed to genteel society! Why, such a woman would be a treasure: I too am just look ing out for such an one," observed the youth. " llow ? And for what? asked Mrs. Ferrers. _ _ " Why, fora wife, to be sure! If you find any lady that at all comes near to this standard, I hope you will let me know of her. I have never been able to meet with such a paragon as this." " Oh, Henry, how you do talk." " I can find beauty, but without the amiable disposi tions; most generally it is allied to conceit. Then, I find many young ladies sufficiently familiar with French and Italian, but without anything like a sound English culture; acquainted with music, but quite ignorant, I dare to say, of t h e care o f a w a rdr o be. But one, in whom all these are united, where, oh! where is she to be found?" " Well, there will be applicants enough, I can assure you." " What! Can there be more than one such woman upo❑ earth?" " Why, only last time we advertised, we had above thirty applications." " And were they such paragons as you have described here?" " Oh, we selected what we thought the best of them. You remember Miss Fribsby?" " Ah!" " But this time we may be more fortunate." " True; your high salary may induce some gifted be ing to enter the lists." " High I do you think it; why"— " On, don't lower the salary on any account—let the figure stand as it is; seriously, it seems to me that you hold the languages, the graces, and the virtues very cheap: that is what I really mean." " It we offered more we should be positively inun dated with applications. You have Lio idea of the number of —" "Of paragon young women—l see. But I shall have the advertisement properly inserted," placing it in his pocket and leaving the room—" Adieu; au revoir." The advertisement appeared in due season, amongst a long list of similar announcements, in the leading journals. Ah! many are the palpitating hearts that beat over these invitations to hard work, a slender sa lary, and the vision of a home! Daughters, retaining the delicacy of past affluence, but now condemned to the privations and trials of poverty; orphan girls, bred in luxury and ease, but whom a sudden bereavement has rendered penniless and destitute; young ladies, full of accomplishments, and endowed with all the learning that the most fashionable schools can bestow, but unable with the aid of these to relieve the almost insupportable tedium of a poverty-stricken home—hang eagerly over the Governess columns, and proceed forthwith to indite their applications, fearful lest, through the slightest de lay, they should incur the risk of another disappoint ment. The day after the appearance of the advertisement in question, a host of letters lay on the boudoir table of Mrs. Ferrers, which she proceeded to deal with in a most business-like manner. In the course of less than half an hour she had sorted the letters into three several lots, namely, those decidedly rejected, on account, some of defective punctuation, others of ungraceful diction, and a few because of bad grammar and writing. A second, and much smaller lot, consisted of applications tram persons " likely to suit," and a third consisted of doubtful applications, wanting in proper references as to character, qualifications, &c. Having at length finally selected six of the most likely applicants, she proceeded to address notes to those, requesting the favour of a per sonal interview. The next morning the great hall-door knocker of Mrs. Ferrers was disturbed by the timid tat-tats of a succes sion of young ladies, to whom the honour of a personal interview had been conceded. The first who presented herself was a slender girl, dressed in black, in appear ance scarce over eighteen years of age. The deep crape upon her garments indicated a recent family loss, and her pale cheeks and heavy eyes showed that grief had nut been a stranger to her. The interview held with her was brief and unsatisfactory, as appeared by the struggling tears she could not conceal, and which dropped from the long, black eyelashes upon her cheeks, as she emerged from the hall-door. She was " too young," and Mrs. Ferrers decided that she was incom petent to undertake the office of finishing governess to her daughters. The next that appeared was a thin, hectic-cheeked girl, in a faded silk dress, and plain straw bonnet, neatly trimmed. She hesitated before she ventured to lift the massive knocker, and seemed scarcely to have nerve enough to raise it. She wrung her bands, half turned to go away; but summoning up her courage anew, she at last lifted the knocker, let it fall, and a plush-liveried footman appeared, answered her inquiry, and ushered her into the house. In a few minutes she re-appeared, with her head bowed, her shoulders stooping, and she seemed to stagger, rather than walk away down the street. Mrs. Ferrers had found her" shabbily dressed," and not at all a likely person to impart proper ideas of gentility to her daughters. A third came up, knocked without hesitation, and in quired " whether Mrs. Ferrers were at home?" The answer was " Yes, ma'am." " I desire to be shown to her?" —and she presented her card. The footman cast his eyes askance at her, and wondered—" can this be another guvniss?" This lady had no doubts nor mis givings. She was evidently accustomed to plush foot• men; she was not abashed in the least, and was ushered into the presence of the lady of the house with perfect self-possession. Indeed, you could scarcely infer from the expression of her features, when she lent the house, whether she had been successful in her application or not, so indifferent and thoroughly self-satisfied did she seem. Another and another followed—and at last the sixth applicant draws near. She looks timid and hurried, as if too late, and she walks rapidly up to the door and gives a double knock. Let us describe her as she waits there, anxious and tremulous. She is tall, round, and graceful; dark-haired and dark-eyed, a clear, beaming sweetness mantling her features, and almost speaking from her delicate ripe lips. Her complexion is fair; and a warm, rich colour mantles in her cheeks, almoSt heightened into a blush by the exercise of her walk, and the agitation of the moment. She is carefully but plainly dressed in black silk, her neat mantilla falling down her back only serving to reveal the outlines of her finely turned figure; and a little collar, of the finest point lace, sets off to the best advantage the pure white of her taper neck. along which float a few glossy curls of her waving dark hair. But here comes the footman, and to the young lady's inquiry of whether Mrs. Fer rers was at home?" his answer was—" She is, walk in;" when she flits through the doorway, passes through the vestibule, in which two other footmen in livery are in waiting, is ushered up the grand staircase, treading upon piled carpet, soft and mossy under foot; then entering a drawing-room full of classic bijouterie and ornaments, porcelain and vases, profusely decorated with drawings, mirrors, bronzes, and pendent chandeliers, intro ducedsheaissuperb f through a door leadi n g out of the further e nd of this apartment, into the boudo ir of the stately Mr s . Faeurtreeuirsl: waiting whe t re t ho receiveladyat her. sits movement yun en o ta g l mo a n d g y h bo ,r wed , and letters. Mrs. Fe she took r rre thes made a card winch was handed to her by the servant— " Ah, Miss Vernon, you are late! I appointed twelve o'clock i n m y no te to you, but I see (glancing at the ora rlu cluck on the )it is now foil ten mi nutes past the hour." "I aak pardon, Madame; but I have been detained much to my regret, in cons , quence of not being sufficiently ac quainted with the localities aoout tiwn." You are from the country, I believe?" "My family has been living in the neighbourhood of London for a short time past." " Ana you consider yourself competent to undertake the education of my daughters in the branches which I have snecified ?" " I have a complete knowledge of French, from having resided abroad for some years; and have sufficient ac quaintance with music, to be able to impart instruction in that department. I do not feel so thoroughly grounded in Italian, but I can read it with ease, and have no doubt I shall he able to impart a sufficient knowledge of it to my pupils." "You have observed, that I also require that my go verness should be able to impart a sound English educa tion. What are your capacities in that respect?" "It scarcely becomes me, Madame, to speak of my own culture; but I may say, without vanity, that I have received a most careful education, at the hest schools"— " Al 1 I'm afraid that sort of thing is becoming far too general among your class. It is quite astonishing what a number of young persons apply for these situa tions: hero have I had letters (tossing the pile from her) from I do not know how many people." The aspirant for place hung down her head, and was silent at the remark et the distinguished lady, whose lot it was mot to go a governessiog. "Have you been at all accustomed to take charge of a wardrobe. My daughters have been accustomed to very superior service from their last governess, and I wish every attention paid to them in this department." "I shall do my hest, Madame; and having had con siderable experience iu this way, I feel greater confidence than in some of the other branches." "Pray what experience have you had?" "I have entirely managed the clothing and wardrobe of my own family." " Slender enough, perhaps, if that be all your expe rience." and she glanced at the dress of the candidate. "It has been better with us than it is now," she an swered with a sigh, and her eyes filled. " I meant no offence, young woman; but let me ask, how am Ito know that you can do all you say?" The young lady stept forward—for Mrs. Ferrers had not bethought herself all this time to point her to a chair—aud presented ts letter. "I have the ' honour to present a testimonial from a lady to whom I am well known." "Ah! La ly Lovemore; I see. A lady of distin guished rank. I wish I had known this sooner. The fact is, I have been induced to engage a young person of high recommendation, who waited upon me this morn ing, and who, I think, will quite suite me. lam very sorry; but should I be disappointed in her. I shall let you know. I think I have your address. Yes, here it is. Good morning, Miss—l shall not detain you longer. Good morning!" And the young lady turned, with a heavy heart, and left the boudoir, walked through that gorgeous drawing room, her small foot sinking amid the pile of the rich Persian carpet at every step, scarce glancing at the precious statuary and artistic works with which the place was filled—for the hollow grandeur struck a chill to her heart —then proceeding down the grand stair case, she passed again the liveried footmen, and had nearly reached the half-opened door, when a young gen tleman, who had just dismounted from his horse in the street, brushed into the hall, without knocking, and en- • countered her full in the face. There was a recognition; a blush mantled her cheek; and making a hurried bow, she proceeded quickly towards the door. " Miss Vernon! This is unexpected. I regret that I should not have been within at the time of your making this visit. I was not aware"— And he hesitated. " There is some mistake, Sir. I have only been ap plying about the governess situation which was adver tised in the papers"---- " On! I remember! Some young person in whom you are interested, I suppose?" " No, Sir, I was applying for myself; but I was quite unaware that I should na,et you here, or that you were connected with the lady of this house:' "Indeed. For yourself! How can that be? I had no idea of such a thing. Your connexions"— " Connexions go fur little, Sir; we must live. My family has been plunged into poverty, and there is no alternative for us but to take our place among the hired labourers for bread ;—but I detain you. Sir; and it is not fitting that I should;--_ Adieu, Sir." " One word—allow me to ask your address before you go. I cannot understand all this." "I have left my address with Mrs. Ferrers; but should now feel most reluctant to enter upon the engagement which I had proposed with her. Adieu." And she left. Harry Ferrers—for it was he—felt that a light had departed from the place, as the door closed upon her. Why, this was the face which had haunted him ever since he had last encountered her, like some beautiful vision, at Lady Lovemore's soirée—to whom be had learned she stood related. And now—that she should be a supplicant at his mother's, for the situation of governess!—he could not comprehend it. He sprang up stairs, and met Mrs. Ferrers on the landing. She was about to give her orders, in passing, to bring the carriage round, that she and her daughters might take their forenoon drive. _ _ _ "You have had a young lady here?" Harry asked of his mother. " Young lady? I have had six young persons inquiring after this situation ; and I might have had fifty. There seems to be no end of governessee new a-days." " But the young lady I met just now—Miss Vernon I msan. Surely, you cannot have had six, far less fifty applicants like her." Harry! I think you are foolish. What should you know of such people?" " I have met that young lady at Lady Lovemore's. I wish to know her address. She told me she had left it with you." _ _ " The address! My dear child, leave such things to me. You may be competent for many things beyond my reach; but leave m e t o c h oose a gove rn es s." " I am not thinking of a governess, my dear mother." " Then, what can you be thinking of?' " By-and-by I shall tell you." Harry succeeded in obtaining the address, with many misgivings on the part of Mrs. Ferrers; but she had faith in the prudence and integrity of her son; and, be sides, he was his own master. We must explain the mystery of the rencontre between these two young persons in the ball of Mrs. Ferrers' mansion. Many months before, Miss Vernon had moved in society equal to that of the Ferrerses. The father was a merchant, carrying on an extensive trade with all parts of the world, and was deeply engaged in large speculations in Eastern markets. But the war with China threw all his affairs into confusion, and involved him in sudden and unforeseen ruin. He withdrew from trade, a broken man, with scarcely a wreck of what had before seemed a gigantic fortune: such casualties are of every-day occurrence in the mercantile world, in seasons of reverse and disaster. He retired, with his family, into a suburban district, where they found the limited means which had been saved from the general havoc insufficient for their maintenance. Old Vernon w as poor, but still proud, and his sons and daughters in herited his spirit. They had relatives of high rank, but could they consent to live upon the pittance they could beg from them? No! the Sous would carve their own way in the world, as their father had done before them, and meanwhile, the daughters, each of whom had re ceived a first-rate education, would endeavour to main tain themselves. Lady Lovemore, related by blood to Mr. Vernon, deplored this change in the fortunes of her friends, but was unable to dissuade them from the reso lution they had formed. It was at her house that young Ferrers had met Miss Vernon, shortly before her father's reverse; he had been suddenly struck by her—haunted by her face—and his heart had been secretly touched to the quick. He had returned to her Ladyship's house, mixed in her soirdes, joined her parties, but had never her, until sudd e nly and unexpectedly he a had e n m e c o t u h n e t ri e n d hismother's hall. It was her first ex periment in the career slit had resolved upon; her first unsuccessful attempt to obtain a situation as a governess. And it was also her last. Henry Ferrers' soul was moved with pity for the position of this beautiful girl— aud " pity is akin to love." He sought her at her home: he wooed and won her honourably; they were fitted for e n ie se w in a i t i r e l e in harmony, the disparity of mere intelligence, heart, f h e e l a t r a t s , an be ci a b u s ty ta , cl a e n . d love; rs again introduced Miss Vernon to his Gover ness for his sisters! as Miss Vernon—and not as a emwaanooeHdrthlhedwel°llryhriefenibllrriltettuhritrn€o. meeting g en of R th ai e lway Junction Company was DUNDEE AND PERTH AND ABERDEEN RAILWAY.— pall y, presided. From the report of the di shareholders of the Dundee reared that the revenue for passengers and haTnehldedhlo)areilrfF;Yhr.iedaaarid,),in the °lice, Dundee. Lord Kinnaird, chair man the Dundee and Perth line, for the half year, period of the previous year of upwards of 1,5001., 151/. 18s. 4d., being The working an increase over the cor respondingarm di rectors, ca goods to n our o n of the eriaat fl t ap 15 , expenses and other charges 2s. Ild, being a decrease as compared with the previous year, and thus making the present clear surplus upwards of 2,0001. above that of the corresponding half-year ending 31st January, 1850. The report was approved of. Or:3, On the motion of Mr. Kennedy, it was unanimously agreed to present Mr. Anderson with the sum of one hundred gui neas for the time and valuable services he had given to the company as an engineer. amount oo 01. to a 6, year.2B 1 . LORD CAMPBELL'S BILL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE. — Lord Campbell's Bill to Improve the Administration of Cri minal Justice, now in the House of Lords, has been printed. It contains 34 clauses. The object of this Bill, as expressed in the preamble, is to prevent offenders escaping conviction by technical strictness in the proceedings. A criminal court may amend any variance not material to the merits of a case. In indictments for murder and manslaughter the man ner and means in and by which the crime was committed need not be specified. In trials for felony, if the offence be not completed, the parties may b e / min , u guilty of an attempt to commit the same, and in that case are to be liable to the same consequences as if they had been indicted and convicted of the attempt to commit the felony only. Among various alterations contemplated is one of a novel character on the arraignment of a defendant either for felony or misdemea nour. He is not to be called upon to plead "guilty," or "not guilty," but shall be asked, "whether he wishes to plead ' guilty,' or any other plea, or to be tried?" If he shall say he wishes to be tried, then the officer shall enter a plea of " not guilty," and when a refusal to plead is apparent then a plea of" not guilty" is to be recorded. SENSIBLE HousEs.—Laing, in his Travels in Norway, says that the horses in that country have a very sensible way of taking their food. Instead of swilling them selves with a pailful of water at a draught, no doubt from the fear of not getting any again, and then overgorging themselves with dry food for the same reason, they have a bucket of water put down beside their allowance of hay. It is amusing to see with what relish they take a sip of the one and a mouthful of the other alternately, sometimes only moistening their mouths as a rational boing would do while eating a dinner of such dry food. A broken-winded horse is: scarcely ever been in Norway. MARCH 6, 1851. MINISTERIAL CRISIS. - SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. itt) NICLE.—L d Jana Ru-,ell appears to he slowly arriving at certain sound conclusion, wi t h F spect to the aggression business. He is reported not only to have informed the meeting ut his supporters on Tuesday that he is opposed to unnecessary I. gislation, but to ha e raised again t Lord Stanley's proposal tin welt-founded objection ;bat inquiry by a co ,,, init,re would only tend to prolong an agitation which it is on all accounts desirable to terminate. It is true that he nevertheless announced his intention to proceed with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill in a modified form; and, he entreated his adherents to waive their objections to the measure, in order to secure the country against a change of Ministry, and a consequent return to Protection. The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill must be considered on its own demerits, whatever may be the form of vexatious tri viality which, from time to time, it may successively as -611,130. It is unfortunate that its author was not earlier impressed with the evils of " unnecessary legislation." The virtual repeal of the Charitable Donations Act in Ireland, and the gratuitous persecution of the Scottish Protestant bishops, can scarcely have formed part of the vengeance which may have seemed neces sarily called forth by the blustering language of the Pope and of Cardinal Wiseman. Almost the whole force of the measure will fall upon persons entirely un connected with the recent aggression. A powerful body in Ireland, and a harmless community in Scotland, will bear the brunt of the "necessary legislation," to which provocation has been given only as respects England. It is true that the only necessity which originally occa sioned the introduction of the Bill still, in some degree, compels the Minister to proceed with it. The party ne cessity of seeming to follow up the Durham letter, and of humouring the late agit a ti on , s till f orces L or d John Russell to alienate Ireland, and to interrupt She business of the Empire; but it is satisfactory to observe that the Premier's enthusiasm has subsided into an unwilling as sent to some undefined minimum of persecution. As the rapid subsidence of the recent popular agitation becomes generally recognised, we do not despair of seeing the evanescent zeal of the Premier dissipate itself into entire forgetfulness of the whole subject. His'prudent protest against a continuance of the contest implies a still more rapid return to sobriety. The popular feeling—which was correctly indicated in the Speech from the Throne as the origin or excuse of an unstatesmanlike attempt at legislation—has almost ceased to afford an apology for the perpetuation of the blunder. The Durham letter has collapsed into the Aggression Bill—the Attorney-Gene ral's statement of its provisions into the clauses as they actually appear—and the printed terms of the Bill into some unknown formula, constructed to suit the taste of a Roman Catholic archbishcip without irritating the Bri tish lion, who is becoming slightly ashamed of his re cent " alarm and indignation," The country at large was indignant at finding that a measure which was offered as a satisfaction to Protestant zeal was repre sented, however untruly, by its authors, as a contriv ance for the benefit of the Roman Catholic laity. Every fresh oscillation in the conduct of the business has tended still further to alienate general sympathy; and we believe that the revolution in public opinion foretold by Lord Aberdeen will be completed in a shorter interval than that wbich be may probably have assigned for the change. We have little curiosity as to the changes which may be promised by Sir George Grey in his statement tomorrow. The pretext that the Bill interferes with the consecration of prelates or the ordination of priests is too absurd to be repeated, after a week's conside ration of Lord John Russell's singular announcement to that effect; but it may be presumed that, on some more or less plausible ground, the provision of the third clause will be virtually abandoned. The second clause, which renders void proceedings which were never recognised by law as valid, may be retained or omitted at pleasure. The concluding provision for the discovery of illegal trust deeds will probably be left in the Bill, when it has been determined that there can be nothing to discover. The false recital in the preamble, as to certain imaginary " doubts," will no doubt be inserted as a congenial in troduction to the penal fictions which will fill up the clauses. The 1001. penalty, to be sued for by the Attor ney-General whenever an existing Government may be disposed to persecute either Roman Catholics or Scotch Episcopalians, will no doubt figure in the foreground of the Bill. Yet this silly and insincere farrago will give the Government and Legislature as much trouble, and will consume as much of the time of the country as would a genuine and effective scheme of active persecu tion. The Irish opponents of the measure must be a singular body of politicians if their resolution is weak ened by the marked success which has hitherto attended their cause. The Aggression Bill has broken up the Government, and has prevented the formation of s stronger Ministry. With singular infelicity, the wishes of a Roman Catholic prelate have been recognised as the basis of legislation, without any serious attempt to meet them. If Archbishop Murray's remonstrances are entitled to any degree of attention, they extend to the whole principle and to all the details of the Bill. There is no excuse for any penal legislation whatever against the Irish Hierarchy; and any modification of a measure introduced for the purpose of committing this injustice is only an admission of weakness and of error, without in any way removing the objection. Lord John Russell already stands convicted, by his own admission, of having attempted " unnecessary legislation;" and, in admitting that whatever is unnecessary is also inexpedient, he condemns his own recent policy. It is more than probable that, at the next check in his career, the Minister will reel off into the course so strenuously urged upon him by many of his present or late supporters. The restriction of the Bill to this country will get rid of some difficulties, and will stave off others for a time. Yet even in this case the final passing of the measure will remain as uncertain as ever. The ultra Protestant feeling of the country will scarcely assent to that virtual recognition of the Pope's authority in Ireland which would be implied in express restrictions imposed upon its :exercise in Eng land; nor could Lord Stanley, with any regard to con sistency, allow the establishment of a legislative distinc tion between the rights of the Crown on this side of the Irish Channel and on the other. The Government is involved in an inextricable labyrinth, and it can only escape by retracing its steps. The applause of those whose clamour induced it to enter the maze is every mo ment becoming fainter and fainter; and those who warned it of the danger, while there was yet time to stop short, will yet be found to have been its most prudent friends, though they may probably meet with but little gratitude. ADVERTISER.—It has been the subject of great and general regret for many years past, that England has no poet. Byron was the last of the race, so far as his own country is concerned. Nor do we know that other coun tries are in this respect much better off than our own. Everywhere there is a dearth, if not an absolute destitu tion of rail poets. It is true, that there is no lack of persons pretending to the name. If versifiers were synonymous with poets, we should have the latter in abundance. They would be plentiful as blackberries—a fact which is abundantly testified by the " intolerable quantity" of lines which every year ushers into exist ence. There is, we fear, an equal paucity of another class of men, who for all practical purposes are much more important than poets. The country is sadly in want of Premiers. The race of real ones seems to be ex tinct. As true poetry died with Byron, so real Premier ship appears to have perished with Sir R. Peel. The sorry figure which the present possessor of the office has cut ever since he crossed its portals, must make the coun try feel more sensibly by contrast every succeeding day, the magnitude of the loss which England sustained in the death of the Right Hon. Gentleman. Had that illustrious statesman been spared — to us, we should not have been domed to witness the humiliating spectacle which this great country has presented for the last fort night. The Queen and the country would have simul taneously turned to him, as the individual destined to extricate the nation from its difficulties, and to restore England, as if by magical agency, to the place she had so long occupied as the greatest country on the face of the earth. The adage is in everybody's mouth—that we do not know the real worth of great and good men until we lose them. Never did the saying apply with greater force, than in reference to the death of Sir Robert Peel. It is only now that the nation begins to realise the loss of the Right Hon. Gentleman in its full extent. But regrets are unavailing. He has been snatched from us, and cannot be recalled. Though we cannot help mourning his departure with, if possible, a greater depth of sorrow than before, we know that we must mourn in vain. We must now look to the living, not to the dead—to those who are still among us, not to those who have been wrested from us. But to what par ticular quarter shall we look for the man who can bring the country safely through the perils of the present ' crisis? Not, certainly to the Whig Premier. He has been tried and found wanting. It is he who has brought us into all our difficulties, and it would therefore be unreason able to expect him to extricate us from them. He is wholly unfit for his office. It is one to which he ought never to have been called. It is one to which he never would have been called, but from the lamentable paucity of qualifications for the Premiership, to which we have alluded. And yet there the Noble Lord is. He is the First Minister of the Crown. The destinies of the greatest empire on which the sun ever shone, during the six thousand years he has run his course, are committed to the hands of a man who is wholly incapable of pro perly guiding and controling them. This is a melan choly reflection. It is a lamentable fact. What is to be done? No one can answer the question. No one can point out a person, among all the men who make pretensions to the character of statesmen, to whom ti.e reins of government could be transferred with confidence. They are in bad hands; and yet the universal conviction is, that they might be in worse. This is certainly sorry comfort; end yet we are compelled to consider it as com fort in its way. In ell the great conjunctures which we read of in the history of other countries, and in all we have witnessed in our own land, there has arisen some master spirit suited to the emergency. With the hour there has come the man. The storm has thrown up to the surface men of great genius, who had been before buried in the depths of obscurity. Not so in this in stance. We see no indications of a coming man—no symptoms of the advent of some person of mighty mind, fitted to take the helm of affairs—qualified to discharge efficiently the functions of the Premiership. The coun try does, indeed, still cling to the hope that such a per son will suddenly burst, like a brilliant luminary, on our benighted political world. The nation will not forego the satisfaction of thinking, that the day of deliverance from our troubles is near at hand. We would nor, if we could, extinguish this hope. We would not li wkoteossheear it e exchanged for despair. Rather, by far,would it with our countrymen. But we hopecannot without ground. And, certainly, there nev er, so faras we can discern the signs of the times, w hoping than there is at present—that a we are on the eve of seeing some mightysless ground fur g genius sud denly start up, to bring us out of our troubles. The crisis in which the country is placed has been . greatly aggravated by tho infidelity to his principles of . . the Noble Lord-at-lbe her43-of---tha Goternment.__ f hqj e...43.4E4ent biz iLenpacity _lot lietat pro kucti gzicze L ebittly t ; Ehe b.A VN .ayai of the cause of hien he C d cusce i!..: champion, and of his vlta!- ; IleBs to th, , intoreste he undertf , ok to defend end pro mote?, that we are to a crihe the difficulties into wrich t h e e. , eittry has brute plunged. Unhappily, more inte grOf will n ,, t extricate the country from its difficulties. 1: requires capacity, it needs genius to do that. - Lord John Russell has neither. Nature never meant him for the Premiership; and circumstances have not made up for nature's niggardliness to him. As theta great mental capacity, if not genius of a high order, is indispensable towards extricating the country from its present per plexities, and as the Noble Lord at the bead of the Go vernment is confessedly wanting in capacity, the question again recurs, whether we wilt or no, " What is to be dune?" It will be inferred, from what we have already said, that we see no appearance of the near advent of any such master spirit as tne crisis requires. Consequently we see no reason to expect that we are at once to tonne triumphantly out of our great and manifold difficulties. But we do discern some glimmering of hope. Though no idividual mind be equal to the crisis, a combination of men of fair capacity, acting honestly, and with energy and in accord, may very greatly mitigate the evils of the "situation." Such a combination, we can state, with con fidence, is in contemplation. But, at present, it would be premature to enter into particulars. Suffice it tor the moment to say, that there is a fair prospect of seeing, before many weeks have elapsed, a new Government, which, if nut remarkable for the brilliancy of its indi vidual or collective talents, will certainly be remarkable for its business capabilities —a Government not only pledged, head and heels, to a thoroughly free-trade policy, but prepared to make concessions on the question of Parliamentary reform, which, though not so large as we and the country could desire, will still be worthy of the people's acceptance, as an instalment of that which they have a right to claim. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty received yesterday the melancholy in telligence of the death of her Serene Highness the Princess Elisp of Hohenlohe Langenbourg. His Royal Highness Prince Albert presided, yester day afternoon, at a meeting of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. His Royal Highness arrived at the building in Hyde park shortly before three o'clock, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Colonel Bouverie. The Commissioners present were—Earl Granville, Lord Stanley, Lord Overstone, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Sir Richard Westmacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. T. Baring, M.P., Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, Mr. T. J. Gibson, Mr. J o h n G o tt, M r. Stephen.. son, M.P., and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Mr. Scott Russell, secretary to the Royal Commis sion, and Mr. Edgar Bowling, acting secretary, were in attendance. Lieutenant-Colonel Reid, R.E., chairman of the Executive Committee; Dr. Lyon Playfair, Special Commissioner ; and Colonel Lloyd, Special Commis sioner, were aso present. The meeting broke up at twenty-five minutes before six o'clock. The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Fri day), at Buckingham Palace. Summonses were issued yesterday from the Privy Council-office to the Ministers and officers of State. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Lord Brough ton, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Henry Labouckere. The Council sat four hours. The Marquis of Nornaanby had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Down ing -street. Ms. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, and Mr. Pressly, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence iniDowning-street. Mr. Duncan, Mr. Fenton, and Mr. Brice, being a de putation of the Caledonian Railway directors, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways, at the office of the Board of Trade, yesterday. IRELAND. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY.—Lord Clarendon is still Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland. The preparations for his Excel lency's departure, have all been suspended, and the usual dinners and evening parties at the Castle are to be resumed forthwith. DUBLIN, UNivEnsrrv.—Yesterday being Shrove Tuesday, the Spring commencements were held at Trinity College. Among them was that of LL.D., pre sented to the Right Hon. Lord Gough. His Lordship appeared in the examination hall in the full uniform of a general officer, and wore the insigaia of the Order of the Bath. Joseph Napier, Esq., M.P., and G. A. Hamilton, Esq., M.P., were also raised to the dignity of LL.D. REPRESENTATION OF KILKENNY COUNTY..--The friends of Mr. Sergeant Shee, in anticipation of a gene ral election, have commenced an active canvass of the county Kilkenny. Mr. Patrick R. Welch, one of the defeated candidates at the last general election, has ad dressed the constituency, which will amount, under the new franchise Bill, to upwards of 5,000 electors. MR. JOHN O'CONNELL —lt is said that Mr. John O'Connell has come to the final resolution of withdraw ing from Parliament and public life. The universal teeling of indignation expressed by the people of Ire land at the conduct of himself and connexions, on the occasion of Mr. Disraeli's motion, has led to the most desirable consummation. The Conciliation Hall delu sion will also be abandoned. An advertisement, an nouncing the suspension of the meetings, by order of Mr. John O'Connell, appears in the Freeman's Journal of this morning. GENERAL THEATRICAL FUND.—The annual meet ing of the subscribers to this fund took place yesterday, in the saloon of the Lyceum Theatre, Mr. Buckstone occupy ing the chair. Mr. Cullenford, the secretary, stated that having determined upon application for a royal charter of incorporation, the directors had prepared a memorial to the Home-office, which was presented to Sir George Grey by Mr. Justice Talfourd. It afterwards appeared that the power of granting the prayer of that memorial rested with the Queen in council. A second memorial, together with a draft of the required charter, was consequently in preparation. A ques tion had arisen as to the defraying of the funeral expenses of deceased annuitants, and it was resolved that the repre sentatives of deceased annuitants should be entitled to 101., as the portion of the quarter's annuity due at the time of death, but not to both. Their finances were in a flourishing condition. After defraying the expenses of the year, there remained of its income, which was 8421. 18s. 11d. a balance of 403/. Os. 3id. Their general assets were as follows :—ln vested in the funds, 5,545/. 55. 7d. ; in the bankers' hands, 1,2801. ; ready cash, 691. 3s. ld. ; making a general total of 6,9031.85. Bd. Mr. Hoskin was elected in the place of Mr. Lyon, one of the five retiring directors, Messrs. Cullenford, Lacy, Attwood, and Lewis being re-elected, The other offi cers were re-elected, and thanks passed to them for their services. It was resolved that a special general meeting should be held on the Wednesday in Easter Week, to revise the rules and consider the charter. Mr. Worrell proposed the thanks of the meeting to Mr. C. Mathews for the use of the saloon, and the usual compliment having been passed to the chairman, the meeting separated. FIRE IN OXFORD - STREET.—Yesterday afternoon, at o few minutes before two o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. Smith, perfumer, No. 1, Prince's street, Oxford-street. The building, including the base ment, was five floors high, and was adjoined on one side by the premises belonging to Messrs. Thomas and Robert Mar tyn, silk-mercers, which formed the corner building of that portion of Regent's-circus. The property of Mr. Os borne, a jeweller and silversmith, flanked the other side of Mr. Smith's establishment. The fire mounted terrifically, igniting, not merely every floor of the premises in whi c h it commenced, but also the adjoining property of Messrs. Martyn. From inquiries made on the spot the reporter learned from Mr. Smith that a bottle, containing some per fumery spirits, had been placed on the mantelpiece in the counting-house. There being a fire burning in the grate, it is supposed that the heat must have altered the temperature of the spirits, and made them expand, for all of a sudden the bottle burst, the contents ran into the fire below, and then arose an immense sheet of flame, igniting the counting house and every other room in the building in rapid suc cession. In a very brief reriod the engines of the London Brigade, West of England, and SL Marylebone parish were on ,the spot, and copious streams of water were scattered over the flaming premises; but, in spite of the indefatigable exertions of the firemen, the work of devastation continued and it was nearly five o'clock before the flames could be subdued, and, not until the whole of Mr. Smith's valuable stock-in-trade, his furniture, wearing apparel, and other effects, were entirely destroyed. The extensive property of Messrs. Martyn is also severely damaged. Mr. Smith was not insured to one-half the extent of his actual loss. Mr. Osborne, the silversmith and jeweller, who has also sus tained great damage by water, was uninsured, but, fortu nately, Messrs. Martyn were insured in the National Mer cantile Fire-office. TRH GREAT EXHIBITION.-FOREIGN ARRIVALS. —The arrivals of three days from abroad have included the following for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all :Nations in Hyde-park, viz.-52 packages by the Antwerpen, from Antwerp; 5 by the Albion, from Boulogne; 10 by the Fyenoord, from Rotterdam ; 6 by the Fame, from Calais; 15 by the William Jolliffe, from Havre; 3L by the City of Rotterdam, from Dunkirk; 44 by the Countess _et Lonsdale, from Hamburgh ; 80 packages by the Governaowle: from Genoa; 30 packages by the Ranger, from Amsterdam; 265 packages by the Earl of Auckland, from Dunkirk; and 11 packages by the Sir Edward Ostend; Banks, a t r r r 7 v m p ais comprising altogether the largest number ofibition within so have taken place from abroad for the these, "5 packages short a space of time. In addition to which have arrived by a Spanish ship at for the East tyxiii o:u it t i h on fra il S d a in n g ta ; nd an er d , which have been forwarded to tbe P-1 several arrivals at Southampton , houses in London, under spe al privilege from the Treasury, * I s f l r o 'h n e t India Company, which have beenf forwarded r°nndi to their ware- Itsyi of t v o er t y he v ir al d u e a s b ti l n e a j t e i w on e latter r tt e e x r hamavienaitnicolnudaendd strqaunasnm- Lahore, which have a b n e d e sentn whi ch by fo the Government the purpose of os security, r lndia ity for the Exhibition, were sent direct o t r o tli T e ll E E ast House. s ln o duiTaaN TTlNG oIIAMMIRE ANECDOTE NT. —During the canvass of Lord Newark in the lat e contest Mr. Barrow, his Lordship met an intelligent farmer in the neighbourhood of Loughborough, and ac costed him with the inquiry, "Are you art elector ?" and re ceived an answer in the affirmative. The farmer was then told who his Lordship was, and learned that ho was the aristocratic candidate for his suffrage, which was then most earnestly solicited. " No," said the worthy farmer, "we have had plenty of boys, we are goi ng t o have a man this time." His reply proves now to h ave been a pretty true prophecy.— Nottingham Mercury. REFORMATION IN DIJBLIN.•+011 Sunday four per sons renounced and abjured the errors of Popery, under the spiritual direction of the Rev. Thomas Scott, and subse quently received the holy communion in St. Thomas's Church. One of the converts had been a student for the Romish priesthood in St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, u nder the auspices of the most R ev . Dr. M‘liale, and is no w a pastu lant for admission to th e care of the Priests' P ro tection So ciety,—,DublinAersing NAVAL INTELLTaFiNcE OUlii, SD shell praolie.,: to ,f,-; p„--:, 'ir.s a:, - .:;:i - i. - . n ci , ..J0a...,3 4 4 ,1-;- . 5,71 - ,-- N, Excpllt,ncy oini,r . i-, -- lip, t Inu'r.in 11, D. C:..-,.-b.-, V . 8.`,.-- - ;;i:;-„,„ in tue iir, ,euce ui R::: - a-Adaiii - al ::,:t.. F. F. 8.:.'-` 4,,,.,,,0.... ; -, / ,:' . 1 C. 8., M.P., one f. f the Lords oi; the Adminilty. t 215 . ' , nt`l4;L: , l • , :nio the lion, I'. Duudas, abil Captain Sir "filmes klititi g ' ....,,....,, 1 of the Ordnance departrntm; and other ditttinkoi: officer*, were present. The praeice took place . a- --."-:- , stage alo ngs id e t h e Exe•Alent, the old b utt and , gr-\. ‘, , i , :,..,-... ,. Topeze husk f orm i ng the targets. Capta i n M oors a, -. - -•v,i --?/., shell seemed to b e th e b est tried yet. T he practilyu. ' . -, :--4--, --- ;-', - be continued. during the week. K ..- I i .---.- • "N • N ›,,,..--' Admiral the Hon. Si r Bl a d en Capel, .C. 8., the Com __— mander-in-Chief, struck his flag last evening at sunset and went on leave until Friday. The Cumberland, 70, Captain G. H. Seymour, flag of Vice-Admiral Sir George - Seymour, K.C.8., and the Vulcaa iron steam troop-frigate, Master-Commander Penn, will receive advance for their crews on Monday. The Penelope, 22, steam frigate, is receiving her anchors, painting down, &c., and will be ready iu a few days for re-cotatnisEion. The Fairy Royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch, proceeded out of harbour this morning to try Ler screw. ♦PPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, MARCU s.—Lieutenants Frank R. Haw kins (1845) to the Impregnable flag-214 at Devonport; Edward Marshall (1843) to the Penelope, 16, eteam frigate, at Portsmouth. Mate Frederick Fyne (1850) to the Prince Regent, 90 , at Portsmouth. Second-Master Frederick William Rea (1849) to the Victory, flag ship at Portsmouth. Midshipmen Stratford Juke and H. C. Wogan to the Prince Regent. Master's-Assistant Samuel Sibby to the Banshee steam-vessel, at Woolwich. Clerk William S. E. Freeman (1849) to the Alecto steam-sloop, at Woolwich. The armament of the Alecto steam-sloop, Commander Lavie, consists of four 32-pounder broadside guns of 32 cwt. each; one 32-pounder long gun of 40 cwt. mounted on r pivot-carriage; two 12-pounder brass howitzers of 6 cwt. each; one 6-pounder brass gun, and one 12-pounder brass howitzer mounted on field battery carriage for service on shore. The Shearwater steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Tumour, was paid off here to-day, and will be taken into the basin to-morrow on the Alecto and Banshee steam-vessels being taken out. In the navy estimates for 1851-2 a vote is to be taken for 7,0001., and a further estimate of 9,5001., or a total of 16 5001., is calculated as being required for the erec tion of a new cable-store and rigging -house at the west end of the dockyard immediately adjoining the basin. The remarks on the necessity for this outlay are that "the present cable-store and rigging -house is not only in very bad condition, but being situated at the extreme end of the yard, every fathom of rope or rigging returned to or issued from store has to be carried 900 yards to and fro. A new cable-store and rigging -house was pro jected 12 years ago, but has not yet been carried out; it is most urgently required." LONDON HOSPITAL.—The quarterly court of the governors of this institution was held yesterday, at the Hos pital. The secretary, Mr. Nixon, read a report of the ope rations of this society for the past quarter, which stated that during that period 471 in-patients had been cured, 387 re lieved, and 64 had died. The number of in-patients remain ing in the hospital is 306, and the number of out-patients now on the books 1,934. Notice had been received during the quarter of two legacies to the charity, one from Captain Bean, amounting probably to 8004 the other 500/., from Thomas Corey, Esq., of Bristol. The governors have also received a life-governor's benefaction of thirty guineas from the son of an accident patient, in acknowledgment of benefits received by his father. The report having been adopted, some routine business was disposed of, and the court then adjourned. A JUDICIAL OPINION ON " THE SOFTER SEX."— At the Northampton Assizes, the other day, in the course of a trial for poisoning, before Baron Alderson, several interrup tions took place in consequence of the over-crowded state of the court. The crowd consisted chiefly of women, two of whom fainted, upon which the Learned Judge expressed his surprise that women should be so anxious to be present at such dreadful investigations. It was, however, a matter of taste. They were called " the softer sex," but he thought incorrectly. MONEY MARKET—The quotation of gold at Paris is 3 per mille discount, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.10; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.021, it fellows that gold is 0.30 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Earn burgh the price of gold is 424 k per mark, which, at the Eng lish Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.4; and the exchange at Ham burgh on London at short being 13.4, it follaws that gold is 0.76 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. About a week since M. Salto, a rich proprietor, native of Perugia, died at Rome, aged seventy-two, and was interred there. On opening his will, which was in his own handwriting, at the top of that document, instead of the pro fession of religious faith generally used in such cases, there was a note to the following effect :—" As I have always doubted of the existence of God, I omit here the ordinary preamble to a will." The cardinal vicar of the diocese of Rome being informed of this atheistical declaration, imme diately ordered the body of M. Salto to be disinterred and removed to the corner of a cemetery set apart for the burial of criminals who refused religious succour at their execution. —Galignani. ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.—On Tuesday the Sardinian brig Arpia, Captain Bartholetto, arrived in the Mersey with the expected Hungarian refugees. The vessel is direct from Constantinople, and brings 262 passengers. These people are confided to the care of the authorities here, who have made arrangements with Mr. Sabell, of the Emi grant's Home, in Moorfields, to receive them. They will be landed to-day and taken to the refuge. Though the vessel which brought them over is small, there has been no sick ness on board, and they speak in high terms of the treat ment they have met with on the voyage, and also of the conduct of the Turkish people during their stay of 18 months in that country. They consist chiefly of Poles, mixed with Italians and Hungarians, and they are of all grades in rank. They are exceedingly poor, though healthy and in good spirits. An attempt will now be made to further their in. terests by opening a subscription in this town, with the ob ject of forwarding them to America. The costumes of the refugees are various, and we believe that they will be found to be a fine set of men. These refugees have appealed to us in distress; they have been unfortunate, but they are brave men, and there can be little doubt that the appeal to English sympathies will be liberally responded to.—Liver pool Courier. A deputation from the Seamen of the Port o f London, consisting of Mr. George Riddle and Mr. John Ka vannagh and Mr. Mouse, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, at the office of the Board of Trade, when they presented him with the memorial of the Master Mariners' and Seamen of the Port of London, relative to the new Mercantile Marine Act oflBso. The Right Hon. Gentleman received the deputation with great courtesy, and promised them an answer to their memorial to-morrow. BOYS' MARBLES.—There is something ingenious in the manufacture of these toys. The greater part of them are made of hard stone found near Coburg, in Saxony. The stone is first broken with a hammer into small cubical frag ments, and about 100 to 150 of these are ground at one time in a mill somewhat resembling a flour mill. The lower stone, and which remains at rest, has several concentric circular grooves ; the upper stone is of the same diameter as tho lower, and is made to revolve by water, or other power. Minute streams of water are directed into the furrows of the lower stone. The pressure of the runner on the little pieces rools them over in all directions, and in about one quarter of an hour the whole of the rough fragments are reduced into a nearly accurate sphere. MANUFACTURE 05' STEELIND GAS BY ONE PROCESS. —Mr. William Dick, of the Veterinary College, Edinburgh, has just obtained a patent for improvements in the manu facture of steel and gas, enrolled Feb. 22. The patentee's invention consists in the manufacture of steel and gas at one and the same time. His process is as follows :—Heat an or dinary gas retort (that made of fire-clay preferable) to the temperature required for the manufacture of gas, and having placed a layer of small coke on the bed of the retort, lay thereon the bars of iron to be converted into steel. These bars may be of any length; but it would be better they should be of the same length as the retort. Then charge the retort with coal, as in the ordinary method of manufac turing gas; work off each charge in the usual way; and when the coke from each is successively withdrawn, turn over the bars of iron, so that each part may be fully sub mitted to the cementing action of the coke. Continue the process until the required degree of cementation is obtained, which may be ascertained by testing the bars in the usual way—by withdrawing them from the retort, cooling sud denly, and breaking them, when, by the appearance of the " pith" it will be ascertained whether the conversion of the iron is complete. The patentee does not claim the manu facture of steel by means of carburetted hydrogen gas, as that is not new; but he does claim the manufacture of gas and steel at one and the same time.-111ining Journal. THE SON or MARSHAL JUNOT.—Another name has to be added to the obituary of distinguished persons of the present year. That name was of the the eevmort popular to be found in the military annals coeval wit'llition and is Duke of Abrantes that of Bonaparte. Napoleon ntt jU. ° d the Marshal, L , the elder the Empire, and whose fame of the two sons who survice as _ as just died in a lunatic the 44th year of his age i . _ ylum near Paris. h and eccentric career of the deceased are thus The wild yout Notwithstanding the accounted for : only be explainedreat i rregularities of his life, which could by partial insanity, the son of Junot possessed talents of no mean order. As may be supposed, the imaginative faculty was red • t. p ominan He composed a nd p ublis hed several pieces o f poetry which had considerable merit notwithstanding, or perhaps because of their eccentricity. He was also the au thor of sever l dra matic pieces, and published a considerable a erable number of ro mances separately, or in literary periodicals. He was also an excellent musician ; he spoke and wrote with much correct ness the English, Spanish, and Italian languages, and was au excellent classical scholar. _For the last few years of his life, and during th e intervals of his malady, he devoted himself to the production of what he considered his most important work —a translation of Shakspere, in verse and prose, into French. The work is, it appears, considerably advanced, and it is curious that it was while he was em ployed on the tragedy of Lear that the most decided symp toms of his malady appeared. The only surviving tn bro er of the deceased, and the inheritor of his title, is now a captain on the staff of General M'Mahon in Africa. INTENDED DUEL BY LADlEs.—Great sensation has been lately caused at Florence by an intended duel with pistols between two countesses, in consequence of a political dispute. One of these ladies had taken an active part in the war of Italian independence, and the other is a fair daughter of the North, whose name is well known in the di plomatic world. The combatants were on the ground , and the pistols charged, when, f or tunately, their husbands ar rived, and put a stop to the affair. Tn E SArnoas' STRlKE.—Upwards of 400 sa i lors have been in Manchester these two days past collecting money to support the strike against the Mer can til e M arina Act. They have been very peaceable, but the police have kept an eye upon their movements, to see that no sort of ' intim - dat i on was produced by men moving about in large numbers, as they usually do. It is stated that, at dinner, no one is ever per mitted to sit at the same side of the table with Cpsdina 1 Wiseman, and that the dishes are presented to him on bends knee. _ _ DIE hum LINEN TRLDE.—The exports during the past week were as follow:—Linen, 649 boxes, 231 packaVS ; yarn, NextLettcr. 9 Packages; thread, 260 boxes,—Rcifaa