The Sun. — London, England, 1850-07-25 00:00:00

?ItENCH PLANS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. el4dile• THE appeared last night in the character ° s Alarie Stuart, in Pierre Lebrun's translation of nelliller's tragedy. Her impersonation of the Scottish cl '' l . ll een has been long a favourite with the English au ilhen.eei and she last night had diminished not one )1 I t of her e xcellenciee. The third act, in which she L a s zln interview with her rival, Elizabeth, has always 4 7en 4 transcendent triumph for Rachel, and never has 4,?.Berbeen more magnificent than she was last night. t 44,ttempta .at curbing her passion, at speak i i l n i g_ e ! h betht with bated breath and whispering hi bl seas e 41: w re beautifully prithetic ; but'when, finding her scorned and herself insulted, she turns upon f her p ob n . Y . , and with all the vehemencl of maddened fury l it t r 7 forth an overwhelming torrent of sarcasm_ aucrle. lvas I N, who absolutely quails before her, Rachel plia nt !'t magnificent, and as she uttered with tri JLone and gesture , the Por.4 le puignard an ccear de ma riva . l , e," cheeri o , a perfect embodiment of Nemesis. th e e i ng was e nthusiastic, and she was c illed before , n , .artain at the conclusion of tha act. In the fifth „7 1 ,11 ti Y which sh e is led to execution, she was be is, Pat6tie—tonder and resigned, yet at the k'art' queetlike and dignified ; she seemed a _h o op . ' At t i 3 i .r a bout to seal her testimony with her blood. were ete°nclusion she was called 0 , 1, " (111°I h 'qu'~htts, snowered on her from all parts of the Cal 4 W4B CrOWded to suffocation. PO ? , ".`' X TECHNIC INSTITUTION. ILL irs ~...4 ). _ Al b TE E rtATIoNs OF THE ANCIENT Per, HANDLING OF RED HOT LS Mr. FIERY ORDEAL setilir) the professor of chemistry at tAbIeETA on above Monday lag ' 4 Awe of amusement, commenced. truly branch of kiene_ second lecture on this curious fiery ordeal and4hi ' '' The lecturer observed that the Rome, old as the oldest times of Greece or r actuall y used in England so late as the a r k e e ig vil 4 ti l l John ; but that, according to Sir E. CHenry ill, disuse, and abolished in the reign of King 11 p o3itio he fiery ordeal was nothing but a g d ro s s i s m i ply on th e 4 fr onl be to end, and depende Viliereb Pr.eParation and hardening of the of cuticle, 101 l t ij It was rendered a bad conductor heat, ktl ha„cutanenus nerves thus defendedthe callous cipi e "44 nature of the skin. To illustrate by this prin of the 1 4 h a , k r ,ed hot ball was placed in the palm t osl,'„"" l ,eh had been previously covered with char -10,0?? taconye,ience w as experienced ;hand the essel of dater wag placed in the lower part ofav in the Ilpp er Iv its not scalded, when the liquid boiled, l itittid .14", because of the layer of non-conducting a, , and it Ne euti_, was explained that, in course of time, be made to as atlie :le of the hands or feet might _ a lettlin"" Condition of a non-conductor, and Tor nr. 4 . k ee wit ti °4 would bear contact with a heated s Itatithuottt sustaining injury. In the more modern . ttrgee!, viz., those observed by Mons. Bortigny, of , 43 14, 4 „ 1 1. this e xemption from heat depended on the 114vinrPn of the spheroidal state, an d Mr. Pepper ,etialy,Yrst dipped his hands into certain liquids, was ttoilj t ,' 41 this principle to take out an egg from 1411 1, 1 „, *( , t _ t er, and also to horrify the audience by ekl -l i p ilis hands into a cauldron full of red hpt t ll'Lett'll),„Vast experiment being performed by firs "Pti Q ,',," B hand with sulphurous acid, which was e ezi n ti c .,•"e liquid state in one of Master's excellent eett 1.,6 aPparatus. Many persons touched Mr. Pep lea , 4 N t o 41 c 1 after bein • immersed in the red hot d u m _ . g ' It ley cold. btA_ ......... ....r...,....—,........... : I I op THE PRESIDENT OF relic ri ) THE UNITED STATES. ''le ° "Win .. l h. ben issued by h . s i Ex f he y ft , g• urcu ar as e , . create " American Minister to,.;this Court in re- G e t e the late melancholyevent :- Bt 4lt tler k i za h , President of the United e!'l II; '15i14 fatrYTaylor, on the 9th inst., alts r a 4 14 t n, t • ill _ s . This Washington intelligence is too fearfully cer htf.,,eo. p er Lle_ Sra . t its official announcement 4,4' to v i„"2_t e tc! joinaw.at national sorrow. V . 144 i '',,"' . gjo u to in the t.o.sni accustomed I,49tith to g, t l Fancy lessons of pa . ri t_i . . 14; 1 4 of hi s dangers of a frontier L Ile entering the taller dee! uountry in early manho . od distinguishing ti t Ztg reat ' . 7; a lice of toil by succesive victories gained li t , 4 ra, h 'l,adv antages—had General Taylor died in 'ta e would hname of a h ie _ sold ier . have left . behind hi m the .• i n opinion, rapid iittz.ption:oeaftnious in unquestionedcounci.lt,tfiermr integrity-, i humanity, and NtEti'4". A f li wa g s reserved to h . itn. h tth t o the i. higher fume ti th li s „ h . L ead of one of the powerful nations of the (N,' tr. -2tmtoi'ed to the world, under circumstances . . im, 4 _. • ttioruked wi.,glncerity, a prudence, and a moderation, to ittl i cley oti T 4 firmness, a sense of . justice, and a pa hokOttT, w h ,." 4 ,_ to the honour and true interests of his at ,tii ih - ittod ,: e a Won for him an unlimited confidenceHsci. tt ti - , 4 ,3 or fi , - Profound respect abroad. Witt - 1 "° death, 104-`liok th e Purity of his motives, he sank into l it( ' ti; "d ° vi orda, "I am prepared—l have endea St4,l4vito t h e rhY duty." United ki 1 8, am i , eousuls and vice-consuls of the _ 1444t4041 t o others of my countrymen in the United , toBl4bc), roanifest their sympathy in this sad even - , it t - In t h oci ' 6 451 , 0 . general grief it hat ausrd. Our a c and a 10 %e rgl o. et, in the hour of her nee ,great N W ti ' ll s h et ns hope that while his memory . endures i l ic t ikte h i , a ' l o the charge of our publit, ..affairs may b 1 'for patriotism, his integrity, and his his justice, and kil,itio li t '9e's; and that our c)untry men the purity, ki,"lo iti4olitate the modest self-reliance, 1 . /l i lif e. 438 of heart which distinguished him in URENCE. 11 1,1 ABBOTT Li 1850. ` 4 tes Le • 22, gation, London, July ALT 1. !!"'•--- :k4EQ -------- — 0 POISON tb ATTEMPT T master ~, .:41.,. SHIP'S CREW . ' Michel, this yr 11(013Tti, atTLY 23.—Mr. Willialm arrived at the t varnee i Esther Frances, recent 3 i r n custody attematpted.. 4,111:01.111 tfavannab, Was brought up_ tette. 411 yesterday, on a charge el 1101 "fi e M passenger, in con ali --r• Willi Y+ Shaw, a ntioned that having attempted some, it sitil,toi the crew. It may be. ance, ktilibull er violent acts resultininge from the master had tlite4,-‘, with the a bove 'serious attempt, after she . ,ttli i ill arrest by the Cew about a intemper was taking charge ? 41'1,4114h, Wad had been kept in ki w e ' c a' a: k bin the remain -Itiftlis•le,ruyage the ate Mr. Dunipace, she ma .0 1. tii. kill% ua' hermreac'hing the Channel,ded over to the e 110.4114 Port, and the captain was handedhefbre ted, aye,. satliors. At the proceed2 ol g e 3 y . proseet?t ~ t 4104 4xttind other magistrate; Mr. T i. The prinol.3 r 1 wit7,r. Green attended for the accuseu is eonllecteu. sn'itil --1,4,,e8t! axaMined WM Mr. Shaw, whod was a passe.ne e liltt-11;;eal clel Monte Association, and to the captain,_:l_, yin.' up to laitte, foriL *lel. He deposed of the soill much ex tiLq o f A "tuor from the time - seemed they ill i ll _ il e• On the latter day heeabin. which 'n being th 4el4:** w ater ju g in the __.... Shaw was las was kept % L I N t e ~_On the evening of the 13th Al` captain. He w 04 tr," w atch th e ents of the , afterwards ss - op e „ L . e ni.ovena and shortly lie then I, Wks I, '4...id's medicine chest,. he jog' have tOku, ettr, l to pour somethiog into t desired to !,e,,teQ,„,,teera excited in his manner, and and he cried out, tile ""P• Soup was then given him, lled for ginger th,, •••••..., 1,,... I st • " He ca' water from biltetor ~as d.one Ine at .a. • get the mate ft? dipk: 114 directed the mate to water, the•- as kci tl4 beet' the deck. •Requiringna more the deck for t h ; re N. 3' that he need not go jug was found under i oil tot, ,i' ~40111 e in the jug. The out, appeared it I f 40 4 au thew ater being poured take it, and . told .e 1 ste , character. Ile refused to which h ql/41 % tb to second mate two labels Ilk kw get tt bottle from the bottle hai ut Ka • lotialy Riven him. Then They • P te it i t t ile Of extract of lead" and " Pia"' and its taste Ila 4 th e ea of ter, The !rev,ttp„ Enema into a glasst w at a i n vearette the jug' accused i ayAlt t pl an , w.as similar to t t that and on being he tesi‘c 4oa,:eltlhlra.uiril,ewr aorlri,elf Idid it, I mus p•otten." littet.et:z, at theeLalA ' a nd I hope it will be ° consideredfr that tho ,Patiollt • -- 1 - • bench ..n, there t,f 44 us investigation, the a s ~ qtr. „_ e of susplcm • ner 144,9 propc,,was a strong degree therefore the prisoner mlleller44. a felonious intent, Ott t b F TllB u t i kk' t I,: ALLS nt, NIA RA OvERTuRow announce O the itii•,tt tii;14.1113elz•••-Ac-c°ouAnts from CaPaadfaNiagara under rt,,aitt,inepat Table Rock of the Falls extract the followng tf't t ile git Ilineh intrest. W e t . ~ The falling 4tll ' 4 41° C " ) • of the Ist instant . last, was" i,°etty,ehi eisit at 4":. i n Saturday niimmemorial, tai°,llslittt,," has beXiacar: Patlicsa't:d from ti lama 'come t(;oLvliao,,Precise periord° 'air Which the affair fll was from 50 t e ;v4 eot'l. dsignated. The portion that e br d making an t i r 51,11,4 te.hg, and from 30 to 70 feet - . oa n o' which is proc!: 1t Nt; treirl-cirele,the general conformatr been 0 n t . h e %p c a t . 64)4 the •at:,litinbred by those who htiaeNne. The litrociseemo miles, tiloteitil gh 3 41 1 e 44 4% itia vit'a°si°lta efoarrd thel:oabtsevadistaneeof t sid i e l a heard os thetir,ntilte Of i ?' in tttl:ttVivilagef O t n n t a h te e AmericantrtL visitors %it Ala I ...ties t dinner ° t r . ue when most 0 carriage from zthitt the,e IF ,. .4 un , lost. A rock, and liel, reutels• No lives were , _non the wad, a n d 14 4 t N E , aci.„ sh.ad been detached etoeu"r6iving iid not 411 busrely t ime dq inside. lie felt the reek h fatedt. the th afq, th to get out aud rush to te e . Into 414 belo %Whole immense mass Wa4 preelP T 4 l''' it:l4o 4 le Nat k LANCASHIII— -444y eveninONITENT AT g BURY,futh finance committee fat tliel,"4,tll the ithaovea fr e e c t t, m at ° Bury, it WAS ascertained'tended -'llineea-,‘41 aolount of thejsubscriptions for the in t ; -urY Was 2,692/. 2s. 10id. wh .at 14 blast from 111,314 p,,f4tne but one loud spontaneous ItiarAN °- Penny trumpets .---Eliza Cook's Journal. kattirbriNt` ItAltOn Friday a special generalsaila tiog°t°: l_lrukietors was held at Derby, at the c certain eo,!llltsteocia_o_s_iid?r the expediency of enter.ings intothe d qPttov c 0,?..". with the. holders of 501.. sharrei ; s, and pl.i. tilv'ileos at l''lliongltteration.,f theh condittons, gh and the preferential, I:)lllalllttit'o''ci Payable ttereSoutel. ' k ' i•'"eari.eosilowing propositions were I, tl ttie lt it t° the mei :--" That the 5 per cent. dn lc .i d e tyyt.4 • already meetingd o toe 50/ shares shall cease . to I . (1111 a after the 111 't f n e ..- " "That 391. (livid ras h 3 0 December, 1840. . and receive 1), etul rot „dc) .shall be consolidated into the ....._l_ ~ ,t ly, I, ,eau. y with the rener 1 capital stock of 'l" '4llll it'° J an I, 1851, tla an S' guaranteeing thence -1143' I) end of .1 e eeel- an future calls which 114 _ O mid e on the 5 v Per cent. on .any he cl now due), 15450 co)1/, j 3,. 4,1' 1 ' shares eontl t_ the t 35/ . already tot t 0 ilup., „ 1,4 ri p!r s(1)lar!, part ' o t shall be applied elm 0114,0 n hetfoare 4.ct f I arliamen in iwhich power ti,4ritipa taken tor the lf 9 4 arransenient, n to pav oil the thiek '',(1(1 krt of the lia an(11-•CMPa hY ever they shall eOlagide.', at kr., ~ a ove seares, w en carried by a of verrhle ,„_, 1... a nese proposition Were it , ;1, 13001:ral° Ity on a show of hands; but Mr. Brancker, zi u4loW .....e tided a pll, when the result was declared ale., •et the motion, 7,076; gainat, 1,28 7.—Sheineld LITERATURE CHRISTMAS-EVE AND EASTER-DAY. A Poem. By Robert Browning. Any metrical effusion from the hand of the author cf "Paracelsus" is certain to secure from the critic en attentive examination. His poetical capabilities have been altogether so conspicuously exhibited in that masterpiece of composition, that it would be im possible for a reviewer endowed with an ordinary degree of discrimination to confound the genius of Robert Browning with the merely cultivated talents of the majority of contemporary versifiers. Not but that the writings of Mr. Browning have repeatedly failed to rise above the level of the surrounding me diocrity. Unfortunately this has been too frequently the case among his most recent productions. Inso much that his a Irnirers have found themselves com pelled to revert to the earlier products of his imagi nation, when withstanding the sneers of the captious and the scorn of the depreciative. Failing to recog nize in them beauties in any degree comparable to those crowded together in the dramatic biography of the philos , pher, the most ardent and infatuated en t husiaete about the mind from which " Paracelsus" had emanated, have been reluctantly constrained to f rego the luxury of indiscriminate panegyric upon "13,11 s and Pomegranates." They have unwillingly confessed that, with all their predisposition to be satisfied, they have, in their reglrd, experienced for the most part a grievous disappointment. The beautiful features of poesy were still visible, but the light and glory of intelligence had departed from its countenance. Oe, if perceptible, it was only at intervals, like the flashes of sanity occasionally glimmering through the chaos of some gorgeous hallucination. The music of the rhythm was still audible, but, at the best, it consisted of those intermittent harmonies of language which of themselves constitute but an indifferent compensation for the absence of a sustained purpose—a unity at once clear and harmonious. At the same time it must be averred that whoever might presume from this casual failure of a very refined,intellect in embodying its most copious and mobile emanations, that the genius of Mr. Browning had become dwarfed and stunted immediately after the production of " Para celsus" (like the exotic aloe shedding its one delicious blossom and then withering down to a mere stalk), would betray either a total ignorance of his writings, or a lamentable incapacity of appreciation. For our selves, without in any way deteriorating from the remarkable excellence of " Paracelsus," we would say that its author has penned various poems yet more forcibly demanding the commendations of aesthetic criticism. His " Pippa Passes," of all his works our especial favourite, presents to the imagination of the reader a series of pictures of voluptuous beauty and impassioned eloquence. His " Colombe's Birthday," a flower in flavour racy of the soil of the Roman peninsula, and sparkling with aradiance caught from the Italian skies, has about it a multitude of charms invest ing its dramatic dialogue with irresistible attractions. "A Blot on the 'Scutcheon," though conceived in defi ance of the venerable laws affecting the literary ex tent of tragedy, is no feeble or ineffective offering at the shrine of Melpomene. " The Last of the Druses," in spite of the confusion of its structure and the en tanglement of its interests, possesses powerful claims on our admiration. While many of his minor compo sitions, such as the love songs in the Venetian gon dola, abound in passages of verbal loveliness, com manding the eulogiums even of the prejudiced or indifferent. With these recollections of what the abilities of Mr. Browning had already accomplished, and with this cordial estimate of his genius as a poetic contributor to our literature, we opened and perused the volume now lying before us for consideration. With out circumlocution of any kind we will acknowledge at once that we have experienced something more than mere disappointment from its examination. We have been pained at the violation it evinces of all the most subtle and exquisite ordinances of msthetics. We have been distressed to find a lover of the pure and the beauti ful like Robert Browning:condescending to trifle with the gross and the meretricious—mistaking for once, it would seem, the fantastic for the sublime ; the vulgar for the natural ; the grotesque far the original. In its ulterior design the poem of " Christmas. Eve and Easter-Day"—divided into two parts, dedicated respectively to the Nativity and the Resurrection—is generous and elevating. Yet these very laudable qualities have been so overloaded with the blemishes and indecorums already particularised that their merit is almost entirely obliterated. The author wishes to render the idea of the Incarnate Divinity an object of more universal veneration, and be endeavours to ac- complish this by associating the divine phantom of the Redeemer with everything mean, debasing, and pitiful. He desires at the close of the effusion to enfold in his all-embracing tenderness every form and species of worship practised under the august name of Christianity ; and in order to arrive at this conclusion he pertinaciously depicts these forms of worship under aspects the most degrading, and in colours the most ludicrous. Than this never was there more egregious perversity of - judgment. Even the manner of the poem is as provocative of exception as the matter, the style having in some parts a pure rodomontade of rhetorical fustian, and in others a jingle of eccentric rhymes, partaking rather of the character of doggrel than of poetry. As indicative of the enormous mistake of the. whole book, we may observe that the scene at first selected by the pet for description is, perhaps, the most thoroughly unpoetical that could be chosen in the entire range of humanity —a little Ebenenr Chapel, or a little Zion, or a little Bethel, or whatever You may please to call it. Granted that the painting of this scene in words is as wonderfully faithful and lifelike as if it had been copied in colours by the brush of Hogarth, yet the very vividness of the vraisemblance only renders an object in bare idea disgusting, doubly and trebly loathsome. We by no means despair of proving this by quotation, though we must confess that in forcing such extracts upon the attention of our readers we entertain the most poignant feelings of com punction. Mr. Browning stands in the door way of the wretched edifice; the night is drizzling; and, in seeking that shelter, the poet finds himself in close proximity with discomfort as well as squalor. He describes the entrance with wonderful exactitude even to the " scold of the crazy hinge" —as if he wished to nauseate us prematurely by his punctilious attention to the minutest particulars. Of the wor .. shippers who thronged into the dirty " sheepfold" he says : the most turned in yet more abruptly From a certain squalid knot of alleys, Where the town's bad blood once slept corruptly, Which now the little chafe! raffle.; And leads into day again, —its priestliness Lending itself to hide noir beastliness So cleverly (thanks in part to the mason). And putting so cheery a whitewashA . fuce on Those neophytes too much in lack of it. That, where you cross the common as I did, And meet the party thus presided, 'Mount Iton,' . wit'ti Love-lane the back of it," &?. Enough of this preposterous play upon words, how ever. Another specimen will afford a clearer notion of the absurdities and vulgarisms, the coarse ness and uncomeliness of the creatures depicted in this extraordinary production. Hear them enume rated as follows : SIRS. GAMP'S DOUBLE. " Panting and bewildered, down clapping Her umbrella with a mighty report, Grounded it by me, wry and flapping, A wreck of whalebones; then, with a snort, Like a startled horse, at the interloper Who humbly know himself improper, But could nut shrink up small enough, ' Round to the door, and in—the gruff Hinge's invariable scold Making your very blood run cold." THE SLATTERN WITH THE BATTENS. " -- the many tattered Little old-faced, peaking sister-turned-mother Of the sickly babe she tried to smother Somehow up, with its spotted face, From the cold, on her breast, the one warm place; She too must stop, wring the poor suds dry Of a draggled shawl, and add thereby Her tribute to the dour-mat sopping Already from my own clothes' dropping, Which yet she seemed to grudge I should stand on; Then stooping down to take off her pattens, She bore them defiantly, in each band one, Planted t.%ether before her breast And it; babe, as good as a lance in rest." Then comes a horrible fellow, of whom we shall hear more presently— a tall, yell ow man, like the penitent thief, With his jaw bo un d up i n a handkerchief." Meanwhile the poet is still screening himself from the rain in a doorway, under a " tallow candle" in a "cracked lanthorn." After hesitating a little he en ters thus elegantly in the wake of an uncleanly shoe maker's " With wizened face in want of seep, And wet apron wound round his waist like a rope, After stopping outside, for his cough was bad, To get the fit over, poor gentle creature, And so avoid disturbing the preacher, Passed in, I sent my elbow spikewise At the shutti"g door, and catered likewise." We shall not pause while Mr. Browning is expatia ting with a sort of indignant gusto over "the hot smell and the human noises," or while he is indecently rhyming with a sort of half-joke " equipt yours" with the "Holy Scriptures;" but come at once to the crowning grossness and vulgarity of the delinea tion. I- is the effect of the preacher's sermon on the congregation and on the poetical interloper. Here it is : " My old fat woman purred with pleasure. And thumb round thumb went twirling faster, While she, to his periods keeping measure, Maternally devoured the pastor. The ma►e with the handkerchief, untied it, Showed us a horrible wen inside it, Gave his eyelids yet another screwing, And rocked himself as the woman was doing. The shoemaker's lad, discreetly choking, Kept down his cough. 'Twas too provoking! My gorge rose at the nonsense and stuff of it, And saying, like Eve when she plucked the apple, wanted a taste, and now there's enough of it,' I flung out of the little chapel. . The nausea produced by such writing as this is surely too perceptible to require any explicit defini nilion. We ourselves "fling out of the little chapel," as Mr. Browning gracefully expresses it, quite as eager to escape from its " hot smell and human noises," to the free atmosphere of heaven, as the poet himself. Bather than undergo a repetition of it we would undergo the chance of a ducking. It has left off raining, however, and our author, under the clear night sky, is in a some what apter mood for poetry. Nevertheless, he cannot as yet quite rid himself of his " hobby horsical" inclination to pen doggrel, ex gr.— " A tune was born in my head last week, Out of the thump-thump and shriek-shriek Of the train, as I came by it, up from Manchester; And when, next week, I take it buck again, My held wilt sing. to the engine's clack twain, W rile it only makes my neighbour's hunches stir." Altogether his perceptions in regard to syntax appear to be about as confused as in reference to pro sody. So that we find him, at page 18, saying that God is removed from man, "as it were an hand breadth off." Why "an handbreadth ?" Suddenly, however, we are swept away from all attention to defects of composition, by a strange lunar rainbow in the sky, and the appearance of a phantom of Christ— clinging to whose robes the poet is conveyed through the air to Rome and to Gottingen. At Gottingen he listens to the lecture of a sympathiser with Strauss, " proving " the Redeemer of mankind to be a myth and an unreality. At Rome he witnesses the gorgeous wor sh.p of the Catholics in the Basilica of St. Peter's. Here it is that, drawing inspiration from his sub ject, Mr. Browning has 'penned the only noble pas sage in his volume. The lines italicised in the tbl lowing quotation require no comment; their exceed ing beauty appealing at once to the mind and heart of all who are capable of appreciation. "Now I see: it is no dream: It stands there and it does not seem; For ever, in pictures, thus it looks, And thus I have read of it in books, Often in England, leagues away, And wondered how those fountains play, Growing up eternally Each to a musical water- tree. The dark is rent, mine eye is free To pierce the crust of the outer wall, And I view inside, and all there, all, As the swarming hollow of a hive, The whole Basilica alive! Men in the chancel, body, and nave, Men on the pillars' architrave, Men on the statues, men on the tombs With popes and kings in their porphyry wombr, Alt famishing in expectation Of the main altar's consummation. Fur see, for see, the rapturous moment Approaches, and earth's best endowment Blends with heaven's: the taper-fires Pant up, the winding brazen spires Heave loftier yet the baldachin; The incense-gaspings, long kept in, Suspire in clouds; the organ blatant Holds his breath and grovels latent, As if God's hushing finger grazed hint, (Like Behemoth when He praise 1 him) At the silver bell's shrill tinkling, Quick cold drops of terror sprinkling On the sudden pavement strewed With faces of the multitude." After that one magnificent passage we are loath to resume our task of particularizing the blemishes of a poem as terribly defaced with flaws as any perhaps ever before printed from the manuscripts of a man of intellect. We close the book, then, and our criticism with a sensation of profound regret, lamenting that one who can write so well should have written so bddly, tagging rhymes instead of penning poetry — celebrating ugliness and vulgarity instead of dedicating his powers alone to the homage of the Godlike and the Beautiful. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUL Y 25, 1850. NEW LAW of the FRENCH PRESS. The Bulletin des Lois and. the ilfoniteur publish the new law on the press, with the signature of the President of the Republic. We sul - join a summary of this" law for the information of those persons who may not have paid particular attention to its chimes during the discussion in the National Assembly : Article 1 orders th e d epos it o f caution money, the legal interest of which will be allowed fur all political journals and periodicals. In the departments of the Seine, Seine-et-Oise, Seine-et-Marne, and Rhone, the amount is fixed at 24,000 f., if the publication ap pear more than three times a week, and 18,000 f. if only three times or less. In towns of a population of 50,000 and under the caution money of journals appearing more than five times a week shall be 6,000 f. In the other departments, ashen be 3,600 t., and respec tively the half of these sums for journals and periodi cal publications appearing five times a week, or at more distant intervals. By Article 2, a delay or one month is granted for compliance with these con ditions of the law. Article 3 orders that every article of political, philosophical, or relioous dis cussion shall he signed by the author, end that a penalty of 500 f. for the first offence, and 1,000. for the second, shall be imposed for every false signature, not only upon the person who has signed, but also the author who has permitted u false signature, and the publisher of the journal. Article 4 orders that this clause shall also apply to all articles in which the acts and opinions of citizens and indi• vidual or collective interests are discussed. By ar ticle 5 it is ordered that where a second prosecution has been couunenced against a journal before a first prosecution has been brought to trial, a sum equal to one-half of the maximum of fines determined by law shall be added to the caution money. Article 6 de clares that fines inflicted by a court of law shall be paid in three days after the sentence. Article 7 regu lates formalities to be observed; and articles 8 and 9 order the suppression of the journal if the pecuniary clauses be not conformed to. By article 10 it is de clared that during the 20 days preceding an election the circulars and addresses of candidates, after copies have been deposited with the Procureur of the Re public, may be posted up, and distributed with out authorization of the municipal authorities. Article 11 declares that the laws of June, 1819, July, 1826, on the press remain in force on all points not contrary to the present law. Article 12 states that from the Ist of August next journals or periodical publications, or periodical collections of engravings, or political lithographic p r int s o f l ess t h an 10 sheets f from 25 to 32 decimetres square, or of less than five sheets of from 50 to 72 decimetres square, shall be subject to a stamp duty of five cen times per sheet of 72 decimetres square, and under, in the departments of the Seine and Seine. et- Oise, and of two centimes for journals, engravings, or periodical publications published in any other department. By article 13 non-periodical publications, treating; of political matters, or of social economy, which are not now in course of publication, or which prior to the present law had not fallen into the public domain, if they are published in one or two numbers, having less than three sheets of text, of from 25 to 32 decimetres square, are subjected to stamp duty of five cen times. For 'every additional 10 decimetres, 11 1 - cen times extra is charged. This clause is also applicable to non -periodical writings published in a foreign country, which, on importation, shall be liable to the same duty as if published in France. Article 14 pro vides that every romance or novel published as a feuilleton in a journal or its supplement shall pay a stamp duty of one centime each number in the departments of the Seine and Seine-et-Oise, and half that sum in other departments. Articles 15 and 16 declare that the stamp duty charged shall free the journals from postage on the following conditions : The stamp of five centimes for the transport and dis. tribution throughout the whole territory of the Re public, and that of two centimes for th e tr ans p or t o f journals and periodical writings in the interior of the departments (other than those of the Seine and Seine et-Oise) where they are published, and those.adjoining. Journals or periodical publications which pay a duty of two centimes must, in order to be transported and distributed beyond the above•mentioned limits, pay a postage of three centimes. Article 17 states that COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Oa Tuesday a Ccurt was held for the continuation of the discussion upo❑ the reports of the Markets Improve. meat Committer, and the motion and amendment sub mitted oa the subject of the removal of Smithfield market. " Motion—That this Court do agree with the com mittee in their reports, and that it be referred back to the committee with instructions to send an answer in conformity with their report to Mr. Cornewall Lewis, and with power to communicate or confer with the Go vernment if necessary, and to report to this Court.',' `° Amendment —That the consideration of ,the report be adjourned, and that the committee _be directed to ascertain the nature and extent of the powers her Ma jesty's Government would be disposed to confer on the Corporation for the control and management of a new market beyond the limits of the metropolis." The paper contained notices of several other public questions. THE LATE SIR 'ROBERT PEEL. The Tobin Clerk read the following comwucioation to the Court : " Whitehall-gmlens,July 17, 1850. " My Lord,-1 am directed by Lady. P. el to convey to you her sincere thanks for the kind manner in which yen have communicated to her a resolution which has been carried unanimously by the mayor, aldermen, and commons of tho city of London in Common Council assembled, expressing their admiration of the character and services of Sir Robert Peel, and the deep emotions of sorrow with which they received the fearful intel ligence of his death. "Lady Peel desires gratefully t> acknovilegge the tribute of respect to the memory of Sir Robert Peel from the Common Council of the city of London, and has derived a melancholy satisfaction from the assurance of their symptyhy with her in the affliction which has befallen her and the members of her family. "I have the honour to be " Your Lordship's obedient servant, "FREDERICK PEEL. " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c." Upon the motion of Mr. RICHARD L. JONES (se conded by Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR), it was ordered that the letter should be entered upon the journals of the Court. THE TERMINATION OF THE SMITHFIELD-MARKET the franking resulting from the payment of the stamp duty is only available for the day on which the jour nals are published ; the editors of journals or periodical publications will, however, have a right to sand to a subscriber on the same terms the back numbers for a period of three months. Article 18 declares that a supplement which shall not exceed 72 dClimittres square published by journals which appear more than twice a week shall be exempt from the stamp duty, on condition that they only contain political news, the debates of the Assembly, the proceedings of the tri bunals, and the reproduction of and discussion on Government documents. The supplements of tip , Ilioniteur, whatever may be their number, are exempt from the duty. According to article 19, whoever, except the editor, shall send a journal or periodical publication by the post must pay the postage of 5c or 2c ,as the case may be. In the event of its not being paid as above, it will be charged as a singly letter. Article 20 provides that an allowance of 1 per cent. will be made to the editors of journals for spoiled stamps. An allowance of one centime per journal will be made to editors who distrib u t e Orel, own juurnals in Paris and the banlieue. The condi tions to be observed to obtain this reduction will be fixed by a decree of the Minister of Finance. Arti- Iles 21, 22, 23, and 24 relate to the carrying the law• into execution, and the measures to be observed in case of contravention. Article 25 orders thAt the stamp duty on subscriptions entered into before the operation of this law shall be reimbursed. Article 26 allows a delay of two months for compliance with the provisions of the law ordering all articles to be signed by their authors. Article 27 states that all journals or periodical publications printed in France in a foreign language, but destined for circulation out of France, are exempt from caution money and stamp duty. THE SUN, LODGE'S PORTRAITS. Vol. VIII. The last volume of this excellent and cheap edition of a valuable work has now appeared. Eight vo lumes of Bohn's " Illustrated Library" have sue cessively presented us with thirty beautiful engraved likenesses, and as many interesting biographies of the most remarkable individuals of modern times—a work already celebrated under the name of " Lodge's Portraits," but now for the first time placed, by its moderate price, within reach of general popularity. Among the personages noticed in the volume now be. fore us are Walter Scott and the Princess Charlotte, Lord Nelson, Lord Rodney, Sir Ralph Abercrornby, William Pitt, Charles James Fox, and the Duke of Wellington—the only individual in this memorable gallery of portraits yet num bered among the living. From this list which mentions only a few out of the thirty—all interesting —subjects it will be seen that the last volume of the series is in no way inferior to its predecessors. As regards the excellence and elegance of the type, paper, binding, and " getting up " of this work it is quite unnecessary to speak, all Mr. Bohn's beautiful " Li braries" being no less remarkable for their excellence in these particulars than they are for the value of the various works which they contain, or for the moderate rate at which they introduce them to the public. PRESCOT7' S CONQUEST of PERU. Vol. 3. This, the third volume, concludes this edition of Prescott's history of Peru, one of his most brilliant and delightful works. The civil wars of the con querors and the ultimate pacification of the conquered country are the themes more especially dwelt upon in the chapters of this volume, which is rendered most interesting on account of the variety of the ad ventures and vicissitudes, and of the peculiarity of the characters which it describes. Two characters, who figure prominently in the concluding portion of the history, appear more peculiar and more attractive by their vivid contrast to each other. Gonzalo Pizarro (the brother of the conqueror) is a very Murat in gallantry, and a Rupert in recklessness, whereas Gasca, the President, and the pacificator, whose cha racter is sketched with a masterly hand, is entirely dissimilar. Of him we are told—" A distinguishing feature of his mind was his common sense, the best substitute for genius in a ruler who has the destinies of his fellow-men at his disposal, and more indispensable than genius itself. In Gasca the diffe rent qualities were blended in such harmony that there was no room for excess—they seemed to regulate each other. While his sympathy with mankind taught him the nature of their wants, his reason sug gested to what extent these were capable of relief, us well as the best mode of effecting it. He did not waste his strength on illusory schemes of benevo lence, like Las Cases, on the one hand, nor did he countenance the selfish policy of the colonists on the other. He aimed at the practicable—the greatest good practicable. * There are some men whosa characters have been so wonderfully adapted to the peculiar criies in which they appeared, that they seem to have been especially de signed for it by Providence. Such was Washington in the United States, and Gasca in Peru. We can conceive of individuals with higher qualities, at least with higher intellectual qualities, than belonged to either of these great men. But it was the wonderful conformity of their characters to the exigencies of their situation, the perfect adaptation of the means to the end that consti tuted the secret of their success; that enabled Gasca so gloriously to crush revolution, and Washington still more gloriously to achieve it." JULIA _HOWARD : a Novel. Martin. 3 Vols. By Mrs. Bell Written by an Irish band, and filled with descrip tions of Irish scenes and Irish characters, "Julia Howard" is throughout suffused with the freshness and warmth and animus so characteristic of the Eme rald Isle and its inhabitants. "Julia Howard," how ever, bears no resemblance to those spirit e d serio comic sketches of Hibernian life which have rendered the writings of Lever popular favourites. The story related in its pages is supposed to have occurred many years back, even in the days of the Empress Queen Maria Theress, among whose soldier s th e h ero o f t h e tale, an exile of Erin, 14 proud to be numbered. A considerable portion of the narrative relates to the wanderings of the soldier-hero in Germany, and these chapters contrast well with the Iri s h scenes. The name of the authoress is affixed to the title-page, or we should hardly have fa nc i e d "J ulia Howard" the work of a lady's pen. In the trials of Allastor O'Connor and Julia Howard she has endea voured to depict, and nut without success, the undy ing character of true affection ; still few readers will think that her love-story tends to elevate the cha racter of love. The little history of the dying Alm a , with her purity and unselfish devotion, is by far the most attractive portion of the tale, and by the effect of contrast it disposes us to look less favourably on the passionate scenes which are occasionally intro duced into the otherwise interesting pages of " Julia Howard." NEW CHURCH, GREAT EALING, MIDDLESEX.— interest on The foundation-stone of a new church, about to be erected in c ‘ r % e ' a a s t e I d a id Much of Christi an lib era li ty under wh i ch the goo d work. has been on is Tl o ni co r a sd si a o y n , fr t o h m e t l h l o th ri i r n o s o t m . commenced. Mi ss L ew i s , t h e f oun d ress , l a id th e first stone in the presence of the Vicar of Ealing-, some of the neigh bouring clergy, and a large number of the inhabitants, as well as of h er personal triends. The church is proposed to be a handsome building in the Decorated style worthy the present age of rev i ved ecclesiastical architecture. The de signs have been prepared by Mr. G. G. Scott. The church is to accommodate 800 persons, and will cost in the whole about 7,000/. We understand that Miss Lewis is the only sister of the gentleman who died last autumn, and by his will bequeathed a portrait and a reversionary legacy of 10,0001. to the National Gallery. —Builder. TILE NEPAULESE ANIDASSADOR.—His Excellency the Nepaulese Ambassador and suite propose leaving for Dublin, on Iklonday, with a view of making a tour through Ireland. It is expected that after vi s i t i ng Belfast and the nor thern districts they will cross to Scetland. His Excel lency will leave for the East about the latter end of nest month. TEST OF AFFECTION. Mr. Archibald Stanhope, a groggy sentimentalist residing in Buckley-street, Philadelphia, conceived the harrowing suspicion that his wife was not as passionately fond of him as a lady of good taste should be ; and, to put the matter to a fair trial, he hit on a little stratagem, which he put in practice the other day, with the results hereafter to be detailed. He rook a suit of clothes and composed an effigy of himself by stuffing the garments with a quantity of straw which had lately been discharged from an old bed. Having suspended this figure to a rafter in the garret by means of a piece of clothes line, he ensconsed himself behind a pile of rubbish in the same garret, to watch the effect. After a while his little daughter came up after ' a jumping -rope, and caught a glimpse of the sus pending figure. She ran down the stairs, screaming —" Oh ! mother, mother, daddy has hung himself!" " Now for it," thought Archibald, in ambuscade, "we shall have a touching scene presently." " Hung himself ?" he heard Mrs. Stanhope repeat, as she walked leisurely upstairs ; "he hasn't got pluck enough for such a thing, or he would have done it long ago. Well, I believe he has done it, however," she continued, as she tame in view of Archibald's straw representative. "Moll," to the little girl, " I think he ought to be cut down. Tim had better go into the kitchen and get a knife, my dear ; but don't go down too fast, or you might fall and hurt yourself. Stay—l forgot—there's no knife in the kitchen sharp enough. You can go round to Mr. Homes, the shoemaker, Sixth-street, he's only two squares off; and ask him to lend us his paring knife ; tell him to whet it a little before he sends it. And, Molly, while you are in the neighbourhood, you can call at your aunt Sukey'e, and ask how the baby is. And, Molly, you can stop at the grocery store as you come back, and get a pound of seven cent sugar. Poor Archy I" sighed Mrs. Stanhope, when her daughter had departed, " I hope we'll get him down before the vital spark's extinct —for these buryings are very troublesome, and cost money. He wanted to put an end to him self too; and I think I ought to let him have his own way for once, in his life; he used to say that I was always acrossing him. I wish he hadn't spoiled the new clothes-line—an old rope might have an swered his purpose." Here a voice, - which sounded like that of the supposed suicide, broke in on Mrs. Stanhope's soliloquy with, "You confounded Jezabel, be the death of you!" Mrs. Stanhope, thinking this must, of course, be a ghostly exclamation, uttered a wild scr eam , an d attempte d to escape down the narrow staircase. Archibald, starting from his place of concealment, gave chase. Mrs. Stanhope stum bled midway on the flight of the stairs, and Mr. Stan hope having just reached her and made a grasp as her dishevelled hair as it streamed backwards, the amiable partners were precipitated to the bottom to gether. Both were rather badly bruised, and the cries of the lady raised the neighbourhood. Archi bald was arrested for making a disturbance and prac tising on the tender sensibilities of his wife. He was recognized in 200 dollars, and jocularly proposed his suspended effigy as his surety ; but he found, to his sorrow, "straw hair was not acceptable under the administration of Mayor Jones.— Pennsylvanian. SONSAMBULISIL—DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. A most distresing accident 'happened at the house of Mr. Young, builder, Tarporley, Cheshire, on the night of the 15th inst. About ten o'clock the servant, Elizabeth Jones, aged 15, went to bed, and shortly afterwards Mr. Young's son ,was awakened o ut o f hi s sleep 'by h e aring the most piteous moans, and the loud barking of a dog which was chained in the yard. He dressed himself, went down stairs, and was shocked to find the poor girl lying on the pavement in the yard, where she had fallen from an attic door, a height of eighteen feet. A surgeon was immediately in attendance, under whose treatment a favourable change took place, and in a few days she was so far recovered as to be considered out, of danger. The girl had no recollection how the accident occurred, and the probability is that in her sleep she must have walked from her bedroom through the attic door, which, unforttuiately, was left open. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Pr°inScße,°R:toNciEmi'plln.rEieDdi illustrious visito rs , wa lk e d early th i s morn i ng in Os borne Park and groun d s . His Royal Hi g h ness t h e P r i nce of Wa l es an d t h e E b s y DA t ir h . eir younger members of th© Royal Family, walked and rode as usual. Lord John Russell arrived at Osborne yesterday afternoon, and :had the honour of joining the Royal dinner party. His Lordship returned to London this forenoon. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, visited their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz yesterday, at Cambridge House. Her, Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Tuesday evening, at Clarence House, St. James's. The Commissioners of Clerkenwell Improvements, Mr. Samuel Hay ne, Mr. John R. Taylor, Mr. Spindler Hopwood, Mr. Pascall, Mr. Crossley, and Mr. Hurst, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing -street. The deputation was introduced by Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P., and Mr. Wakley, M.P. Sir James Duke, M.P., Mr. Deputy Harrison, Mr. R. Taylor, the City Remembrancer, Mr. Bun nev, and Mr. Scott, h.d an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at the same time. A deputation, consisting of Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Mr. T. 11, Baykett (returning officer), Rev. D. Wilson, M.A., Mr. C. Woodward, F.R.S., Mr. R. L. Jones, Mr. W. Tyler, and the senior church wardens of the parishes of St. Luke, Middlesex ; St. Andrew, Holborn ; St. James, Clerkenwell; and St. Mary, Islington, attended by Mr. James Lloyd, their honorary secretary and projector of the park, and ac companied by Mr. T. Wakley, M.P., had an inter view with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home office, and presented a memorial from the inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury, on the subject of a park for the northern district of the metropolis. Mr. Turnbull had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office. Lord John Russell arrived at his residence, Pem broke Lodge, Richmond Park, yesterday afternoon, from Osborne. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Brothert on , M.P., Mr. Alderman Nield, Mr. G. E. Marsden, Mr. H. Nield, and Mr. Bright, M.P., had an interview yes• terday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of Hong-Kong, Ceylon, and Malta, and also from the Lord High Commis sioner of the lonian Islands. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hung-Kong. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CHELMSFORD RACES..—WEDNESDAY. The Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Three miles. (5 Subs.) Major Bere.ford'a Zadok, 3 yrs, 7st llb (Dean) 1 Capt. Lowther's Ballet Girl, 3 yrs, 7st lib (Dockeray) 2 Mr. Bramston na Nutbrown, Est 121 b ...... (Plummer) 3 Sir E. Buxton na Sam Hood, Bst 131 b ...(Abrahams) 4 Sir John Tyrrel na The Captain, aged, 91 61b (Salt) 5 (Won by three lengths.) The Town Plate of 501. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Lewis's Michael Brunton, Est 511) (Sherwood) 1 1 Mr. Land's Sir Benjamin, 4 yrs Mr. Milner's Alpheia, 5 ars, Bst 61b (Beard) 3 3 Won easily. The Mark Hall Stakes of 50 sovs. each, and 25 added. One mile. (8 Subs.) Mr. Dennelt's Grasshopper, 4 yrs, Bst 31b ...(Boyce) 1 Mr. J. Cassidy's Diligence, 3 yrs, 7st llb (Dean) 2 Mr. Stevenson' s Goodwood, 4 yrs. 7st 81b (Doekeray) 3 Mr. Lewis's Hind of the Forest, Bst 41b (Moon) 4 Mr. Smith's Lady Bountiful, 3 yrs, Est 9lb (Leader) 5 Mr. Abel's Anchor of Hope, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Beard) 6 Mr. Smith's Lovelace, 5 yrs, Sat (Crouch) 7 Won by a length. The Hurdle Race was won by Frank, beating Sham rock in a canter. WINCHESTER RACES.—WEDNESDAY. The Two yrs old Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 50 added. T. Y. C. (7 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Catalpa, Bst 31b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Etwall's Iracandus. 71b ((i. Brown) 2 Duke of Richmond's Niargellina f, Bst 31b (S. Mann) 3 Mr. Sadler's Sepulchre, Bst 3lb (A. Day) 4 Mr. Judd's Lonat.r, Bst 71b (Rice) 0 Won by a head. The Winchester Stakes of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft, and 50 added. lipats, one mile. (12 Subs.) Mr. W. V. Jenkins's Miss Larkaway, 3yrs (Burn) 1 1 Mr. Y. ,King's West India, 3 yrs, 6st 91b(Gilbert) 4 2 Mr. Sadd's Salute, 3 yrs, 61 91b (Sabin) 3 3 Mr. Burgess's The Crowner, 4 yrs,Bst 4 ib(J. Sharp) 2 4 The first heat was won easily, and the secondly a neck. The Foul Stakes of 25 sovs. each; for colts, Bst 91b; fillies and gellings, Bst 61b; untried stallions or mares, :Wowed 31bs, &c. New Mile. (7 Subs.) Mr. Payne's Sergius, Bst 91b (Flatman) 1 Mr. Deline's Ranger. Bst 61b . (S. Mann) 2 Mr. Dorrien's The Verderer, Bst 9lb (Ducker) 3 Won easily. The City Members' Plate of 501. Heats, two miles. Mr. Stollard's Woodsprite, 5.t 911s...(Gilbort) 1 2 1 Mr. Burgess' Red Due, 5 yrs,. Tat (Burn) 4 1 2 Mr. Williams's Syrup, 4 yrs, Est 141 b (Sabin) 3 3 3 Capt. Mime's Rosewood, 6st 71b...(Wheeler) 2 dr Won easily. GOODWOOD RACES. The number and groat length of the engagements for the ensuing meeting puts it out of our power to give mare than a brief outline of the programme, from which, however, enough will be collected to show the brilliant character of the spore to be anticipated. The first day (Tuesday next) promises nine races, of which three have yet to be entered for—viz., the Craven Stakes (for the first time a handicap), with 50 added; the Innkeepers' Plate and the Bognor Stakes, the latter for gentlemen riders. The standing ft, fur three yrs old, 38 subs; the Ham Stakes of 100 s ovs , each, h f t, f or two y rs o ld, Stakee, 100 tom eac, e h egagemsnts are the Gratwicke 38 subs; the Levant Stakes of 50 soya. each, 30 ft, for two yrs old, 16 subs; the Three Hundred Sovereigns Stakes, h ft, for four yrs old, 12 subs (a certainty for the Flying Dutchman); a Post Sweepstakes of 300 sovs. each, h ft, for two yra old, 3 subs; and a Match for 100, h ft, between Chaplet and Henrietta. The principal events on the second day will be the Goodwood Stakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft, and only 5 if declared; the Drawing Room Stakes of 25 soya. each, with a bonus of 10 goys. each, fur three yrs old, twelve subs; the F;linton Stakes of 10 sovs. each, with 100 added by Lord Eglinten, for two g yrs old, twenty-four subs ; a Sweepstakes of 100 soya. each, h ft, for thr ee yrs old, five subs; and a Match for 300 sovs., h fc, between Moult= and William the Conqueror. There will also be the Stewards' Cup, value 300 sovs., added to a handicap of 5 WV& each; a ao yet t a eleven be Selling Sweeepstakes o f 10 sovs. each, with 50 added, the Members' Plate, an d the Cowdray Stakes,all of which races, nariae o dfforwch four have yet to . hi On the great day, Th ursday, we have a prospect of not - close—namely, the D u k e of Richmond's Plate of 100/. ; epstkthe Anglesey Pl a t e of 50/., for gentlemen riders; a less have tb e s S t o e a m l k l i b e nsg s o t Hf a 1:0e y n s d s 0i0cf4351) Plate o f S O L ; and a selling Sweep . o e ocyh h ea f e t, h, w h ith fi, so f added. or two ;rTshoeldc,lofiser.d p, twenty-three t o w f e l n o ty o -t s h o r y e s e . s e u s b e s h . , the for Mthorlees etenegnag e subs;m e nt a s a s r w e e the C a u yrs old, four subs; the Racing Stakes of 50 soya. each, for three yrs old, sixteen subs; the Sussex Stakes of 25 soya. each, for two yr s old fillies, nine subs ; stakes of 200 sovs. each, for two yrs old fillies, three subs; and a Matck fur 200, h ft, between Claymore and Mimosa. The fourth and last day will furnish seven or eight, and probably nine, races, three of which, the Queen's Plate, a Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each, and the March Stakes (in one heat) have yet to be named for. The stakes which have closed are the Settrington Stakes, of 25 soya. each, 10 ft, for two yrs old, 17 subs; the Rich mond Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 10 ft, for three yrs old, 28 subs; the Nassau Stakes, of 50 soya. each, for three yra old fillies, 16 subs; a Sweepstakes of 200 sovs. each, , h ft, for threw yrs old, 3 subs; the Goodwood Nursery Stakes, of 15 soya each, 5 ft, with 200 added, for two yrs Old, 35 subs; and the Chesterfield Cup, by subscription of 15 soya. each, 32 subs. Allowing for forfeits, the prizes to be run -for will amount to upwards of 16,0001., including about 1,100/., public money. There can be no doubt, therefore, of an abundance of first-rate and highly-interesting racing, and of a grea t attendance. The arrangements announced by the Brighton and South - Coast Railway Company reference with to this meeting, are unusually c omprehensive, and was this meeting less attractive than we have shown it to be, would alone ensure a large company. Express trains will run from the London-bridge sta tion each of the race days at nine and ten o'clock A M., arriving at Chichester about half-past eleven and half past twelve o'clock, respectively; , returning so as to arrive in Lond on a t or before ten oclock P.M. There will be al so a new feature in the shape of cheap t ra i ns on the Goodwood Stakes and Cup days (Wednesday and Thursday) offering for the first time to the " masses " an opportunity of visiting Goodwood for the low fare starting at 7 A.M., and returnin g of 7s. there an d b ac k, s tar . Spemal trains will leave from Cnich es t er at 7.30 P3l. London-bridge at one o'clock on the Saturday and Mon- I day before th e races , f o r the conveyance of horses and carriages, and on all the rac e da y s between Bri g hto n and Chichester. The company have also determined to afford similar accommodation to the public duriag the Brighton meeting, which, stren gthened by the formati on of a race club, ou the same plan as the Bibury, bids fair to be unusually attractive. t r attendance uil.ii aat cut h i s s t e h v r e o r a a t l --- .‘,.. . SUICIDE OF A WITNEsS AT .1. tiftic—A. shocking instance of self-destruction occur.reda!York on Thursday last. and causing immediate death. Mr.T.Toutill, a gentleman farming his own estate in the vici nity of Ferrybi idge, had a • clays at York, in connexion with the prosecution of his brother in .law for forgery. Oa Thursday he purchased a large knife and made it very sharp. He then went straight way into a stable belonging to the White Horse Hotel, Cop_ pergate, and with the newly severing the carotid artery, It appears that his intellect was in a very unsettled state, and that his brother, anxious for his safety, had accompanied him to York, and kept a vigilant. watch upon him. c b q e u e ied 1 1 1 With that adroitness, however, which frequently. accompanies insanity, he slipped away from his b rother while at the as size court and when next found he was a corpse. A coroner's jury the same evening investigated the circumstances of Mr. Toutill's death, and agreed that he destroyed himself while in a st a t e of mental iasanity.—.Slielield Times. DEBATE. Mr. T. H. HALL, in rising to open the adjourned de bate, hoped the Court would approve of the motion of his friend, Mr. H. L. Taylor. By c.mmon coment it was now admitted that Smithfield was not an unhealthy place. Wherever the market might be situate, the cattle must be driven over some bridge or other; and how were they to avoid this? Then it was the fact that, in con sequence of the central position of Smithfield, the cattle could be brought from all parts much sooner, the market could be closed much earlier, while the parties seeking a market of this national character would, upon the whole, find it to be much nearer and far more conve nient than a more distant market. Be called upon the Court to reject the amendment. Mr. WitiTE argued that Smithfield had been fully proved to be a nuisance. He exhorted them to take time by the forelock, and endeavour with a good grace to get rid of the nuisance. —(Hear.) Mr. CLAnx considered that the necessary enlargement and improvement of the present site might be effected for a much smaller sum than had been computed. Mr. W. A. ROSE vehemently denounced the existing market as a public disgrace, which no parties except corporate authorities would tolerate. Mr. LAME was in favour of the retention of Smith field-market. He could not agree with those who were of opinion with Mr. Dickens and the Times newspaper that Smithfield was a nuisance. Deputy BEDFORD had much pleasure in pressing upon the Court the necessity of supporting the motion of Mr. H. L. Taylor. He aas confident that the worst thing that could be done for the neighbourhood in which he lived would be done if the market was taken away. Mr. GEORGE BROOKE considered that the market was a nuisance. Mr. CLARKE supported the motion. Mr. HOWARD, viewing the question as a great metro politan question, considered that Smithfield could not be better located, and could not support the amendment. Deputy flannisorr was in favour of the retention of Smith&ld-market. Mr. H. L. TArLon briefly replied. A division, called for by Mr. Norris, then took place, when there appeared— For the amendment ... ... 13 Against it... 89 Majority ... ... —76 The following are the names of the minority:— Alderman Lawrence. Commoners—Brook;, Clarke, Evans (deputy), Laurie, Maynard, Pead, Rose, Ward, White, Wylie, Norris, and Rannoch. Alderman LAWRENCE than rose to move as an amend ment to the original motion, which was about to be put, " That it be an instruction to the committee that before an answer be sent to Mr. Cornea all Lewis's letter the committee do open a communication with the Govern ment on the subject there&f." He wished to see whe ther a conference might not lead to something like an understanding upon the subject, from which some advantaT,e might arisa.—(Cries of " No, no," " No con ference.") The amendment was nexatived, and a motion that the report be agreed to was carried amid loud cheers.—Ad journed. CITY COURT OF SEWERS., On Tuesday a court was held in the Guildhall; Mr. Deputy Peacock in the chair. The inspectors reported that the works of the Great Central Gla Company were proceeding every night so rapidly and effectually, that in the morning there was scarcely any appearance in several places that anything unusual had occurred. SANITARY CONCERNS OP THE CITY. Mr. D.sw, the chief clerk of the commission, read a report of the committee of health, stating that means had been taken to summon betore the court persons guilty of suffering a waste of water on their premises to the prejudice of their fellow citizens, and it was hoped that this would teed to the abatement of the evil. They recommend that the surveyor be authorised to employ, during the but season, such additional assistance as may be necessary to enable the inspectors to have all nuisances removed from the dwellings of the poor, and to have the same duly cleansed and lime whitened whenever ne cessary; but they are of opinion that the system of medical visitation for the treatment of disease does not come within the powers committed to the court by the Act of Parliament; and haring full confidence that the several boards of guardians in the City will therein ex ercise all needful control, as they aro empowered to do, so as to preserve the health of the city of London should any visitation of the cholera again occur, they think the court are not called upon to interfere therein. The report was agreed to unanimously, and the court adjourned. THE ECUADOR BONDHOLDERS. --- A meeting of the Ecuador bondholders was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, for the purpose of taking into consideration the urgent necessity of forth. with nominating a special agent, with powers to ob tain certain guarantees, and to make such other ar rangement for the gradual liquidation of the public debt as the peculiar circumstances seemed at the pre sent moment to warrant. Sir I. L. Guldsmid was in the chair. The advertisement by which the meeting bad been called having been read, Mr. MORIARTY, One of the requisitionists through whom the meeting had been conveued, entered into the circumstances connected with the origin of the debt of Ecuador, and stated that no interest had yet been paid upon it. As the Gallepagos belonging to the state were now becoming valuable, he suggested that some agent should be forthwith accredited by the bondholders and sent out fur the purpose of endeavour ing to obtain such a cession of those islands as could be received, so that in the event of this or any other coun try securing the sovereignty of them, the claims of the bondholders should be duly considered and liquidated. He believed the state of Ecuador was perfectly willing to assent to such an arrangement. He concluded by moving that the committee of South American bond holders be requested to dispatch forthwith a commissioner to the Republic of Ecuador to effect with that Govern meta an adjustment of its foreign debt, subject to the approval of .the bondholders, and that the bondholders would refund the expenses of such mission out of the first dividends which might bo paid. The motion having been seconded, was carried, and a vote of thanks to the chairman concluded the business of the meeting. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir,—Allow me to call the attention of your many aristocratic readers to the fact that the Right Hon. Mr. Wortley's Bill to legalise marriage with the sister of a deceased wife obtains daily increased support. In 1849 there were 224 petitions in its favour, with 42,092 • signatures. In 1850 there have been 1,079 petitions, with 107,932 signatures, and these are independent of a petition signed by above 12,000 females of the middle classes, not presented because informal. Your Belgravian readers have little conception of the strong feeling that exists on this subject a little lower in society; or of the disregard which is paid to the law by persons scrupulously obedient in other respects. And though I by no means justify those who break the law, yet its constant infraction is a strong reason for not imposing a restriction which God's law has not sanctioned. It may be sometimes convenient, though I believe more often dangerous, for a rich widower to have the sister and resemblance of her whom he has lost to live in his house without marriage; but, as the Rev. Mr. Gurney well observes, such an arrangement is impossible among the poor, from the crowded state of their dwell ings, - and therefore, though the law may seem equal, the Inequality is in fact very great indeed. In conclusion, let me call the attention of your readers ,o the very able advocacy of the measure in the charge ately published by the Archdeacon of Lewes. Your obedient senant, A CHURCHMAN. St. James's Eve. The higher the order of intellect with which one is brought in contact, the less one has to fear; true goodnes is all charity, and true genius is the least presumptuous.... Eliza Cook's Journal. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—BeII's Life in London, SUM.. day, July 28 :—Gill, of Coventry, and Griffiths, of Woolwich. —A full rep or t o f t hi s pugilistic contest, coroner's inquest, and all particulars connected therewith. A sixpence enclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will ensure a copy of Bell's Life to any part of the United Kingdom by return of poet. The sale of Bell's Life exceeds 28,000. c 7 • KINGSTOWN AND HOLYHEAD MAILS. The Select Committee 62' the House of Commons pointed to investigate and report to the House upon stA matters connected with the contract for the conveynece of the mails between Kingstown and Holyhead, and to report also bow far the eoeagements entere d into by the Admiralty with the City of Dublin Steam-Packet Cum ' pang tend to develop, or olierwiee, the lull advantsgea of the direct and continuous line of communication be tween London and Dublin, which the Chever and Holy head Railway Company are, under the provisions of their Act of Parli amen t, n ow labouring'to effect, have agreed to the following report:— Your Committee find that, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee on Navy Estimates, in 1848, and also in accordance with the views of the Committee on the Contract Packet Service of the late session of Parliament, the Lords of the Admi ralty decided on having the packet service between Holyhead end Kingstown performed by contract in stead of by her iUajesty's packets. and ids,t on pet ting. the service up to eublic competition. In the month of October, - 184M public advertis-mer is ar-re is sued, stating that the Lords of the Admiralty would be prepared, on the 11th of the following. Deer-ember, to treat for this service with parties tendering on tlit,t day, in compliance with the prescribed forms and coviiitions. A tender was then male by the City of Dublin Steam packet-Company, in strict conformity with those condi tions, to perform the service for 55,0001. per annum; on the same day a letter was ad tressed to the Lords c f the Admiralty by the Chairman of the Chester and. Holy head Railway Company, stating that the directors of that company had submitted a representation to the First Lord of the Treasury, upon the successful issue of which " they trusted to he enabled to undertake the packet service between Holyhead and Kingstown on terms highly advantageous to the public interests." 2. The letter to the First Lord of the Treasury therein referred to has been laid before this Committee, and con tains statements of the financial difficulties of the rail way company (some of the causes of which are attri buted to the acts of the Government), and from which, in the opinion cf the directors, without the aid of the Government, they saw no prospect of extricating them selves; they further state that they have been restrained from tendering to the Admiralty, in reply to a recent invitation for the performance of the packet service across the Channel in connexion with the two mail trains, solely by the embarrassments explained, and in a great degree accounted for in that letter. 3. The Lords of the Admiralty having received an intimation from the Lords of the Treasury, subse quently confirmed in official form, on the 11th of February last, that the letter of the Chester and Holy head Railway Company contained nothing to influence or delay a decision with regard to a tender received from the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, pro. ceeded to treat with the latter company thereon ; and after some negotiation, a reduction of the terms from 55,0001. to 45,0001 per annum was on the point of being agreed on. 4. Your Committee find that there has been no evi dence to show that this amount of 45.0004 per annum was excessive or unreasonable; on the contrary, it has been given in evidence that the cost to the public when the service was performed by her Majesty's packets ex ceeded that amount. 5. Your Committee have it in evidence, that whilst this negotiation was pending, a director of the Ches ter and Holyhead Railway Company intimated to the Admiralty that parties acting in concert with this com pany were willing to undertake the service fur 35,0001. car annum, and handed in a letter to that effect. 6. Under these circumstances the Lords of the Ad miralty, not feeling justified, with due regard to the pub lic interest, in recommending the proposal for confirma tion by the Lords of the Treasury, applied on the 1 Ith February for the sanction of the Treasury to put the Holyhead Mail Service again to public tender. 7. This sanction having been given, tenders were received from the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company and the Chester and Holyhead Railway Company. 8. The Lords of the Admiralty determined upon ac cepting the lowest tender, and having received the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury, the contract Ras accordingly entered into with the Dublin Steam Packet Company, and duly executed previous to the appoint ment of this Committee. 9. Your Committee consider that the conduct pursued by the Lords of the Admiralty, with the sanction of the Lords of the Treasury, in all the transactions relating to the contract concluded with the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, was in all respects unexceptionable. 10. And, under these circumstances, your Committee consider that the engagements entered into by the Ad miralty with the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company have, as far as under the circumstances, and with re ference to the proposals made to them, they were enabled to do, tended to develop the full advantages of the direct and continuous line of communication between London and Dublin. 11. It also appeared to your Committee that the mail which leaves Kingstown for Holyhead at half-past seven o'clock P ni., being delayed at Chester for a period of about two hours, appears thereby to deprive the public of some of ,the advantages proposed by the completion of a thorough railway communication between Holyhead and London. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The fillowing officers had interviews with Sir Frarcis T. Baring, Bart., at the Admiralty, on Tuesday:—Cap tain J. B. Xl'Hardy, G. N. Broke, It, F. Rowley; Com mander C. Y. Campbell ; Lieutenants J. Green. A. liortright, J. A. Dunbar, Thomas Wrieht, master; C. P. Bellamy, late Muster-Attendant of Wookich Dock yard. The Commander-in-Chief of the East India and China stut;on, Rear-Admiral Austen, C. 1- and family, were quite well at Singapore on the 2d of June. The Gallant Admiral had his flag flying on board the Fury, 6, bteara ,doop, Captain Wilcox. On the Queen% birthday the Commander-in-Chief prcceedeci in the Fury, forty miles eastward of Singapore, to a spot called Pedeo Branca, lud performed tho_ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a light-house in course of erection there, and khich, it is genet ally admitted, will be of the utmost value to navigation. We regret to report the death of Lieutenant Philip Wheler Darnell (1846), First Lieutenant of the Fury steam-sloop, at Singapore. This promising officer, who had been engaged in the gallant affairs with the Chinese pirates, was midshipman of the Hazard, 18, during her service in the operations on the coast of Syria, and the bombardment of St. Jean d'Acre, and erved on shore at Tyre for the protection of the town. He next served with the Hon. Captain Elliot (who commanded the Hazard) four years in the Spartan, 26, in the West Indies, passed his examination in 1843, and was promoted in 1846. As a lieutenant he served in the . Retribution steam-frigate, and Vengeance, 84, pre viously to his appointment to the Fury. Albion, 90, Captain Hope Johnstone, has completed her advanced complement of 332, at Devonport, and is now ready to go into the Sound. Amphitrite's freight, amounting to nearly 400,0001., was delivered at the Bank on Tuesday morning, by Mr. lienry Robertson, who bad the efficient assistance of Nlr. Sutton, the superintendent of the London and South Coast Railway at the Portsmouth terminus. Amongst the freight there was a large quantity of California gold; we saw one box, containing about 1.501b5., the dust being packed in leather belts, which had evidently been worn round the bodies of the miners. Apollo, 8, troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, has been spoken by the Brilliant, from Madeira, and may, therefore, be hourly expected at Spithead, from China and the Cape. Hercules store•ship, Maoter Commander Fulton, was to leave Malta, for England, with stores, on the 15th inst. Salamander, 6, steam-sloop, Commander El!man, has hoisted the pendant at Devonport. PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Niger steam-sloop, Commander Heath, is progressing fast in her equipment. The Admiralty, impressed with the importance of ob taking some infallible remedy against the destructive agency of worms and animalculte on iron vessels, have ordered one sido of the Niger to be coated with the anti corrosive preparation invented by Mr. Peacock, R.N., of Southampton, which has been applied with Brest success to the iron steam fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, and is spoken of by that body in the highest terms of praise. There have been a great many trials of applications professing to prevent the growth of adhesive substances to iron vessels, but none have as yet proved perfect. PORTSMOUTH GARRISON. Major-General Lord F re d er i c k Fitzelarence, Lieutenant-Governor, &c., inspected the 7th Royal Fusi liers at Winchester on Tuesday, and the 95th Foot yes terday, in the same garrison. Lieutenant-Colonel Far quharson, of the 7th, we are informed, is about to retire and be succeeded by Major Yorke. The Princess Royal transport sailed from Barbadoos on the 4th inst. for Portsmouth with invalids from the regiments serving in the Leeward Islands and Jamaica. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JULY 24.—Paymaster and Purser—Ro bert KeHand (1845). to the Salamander steam-sloop, at lleyonport. Assistant-Surgeon W. S. Bourchier, additional (1850), to be acting.surgeou, Wellington, 72, depot ship of ordi nary, Sheerness. Midshipman—F. 0. Handfield, to the Stromboli steam sloop at llevonpor t. Clerks—Charles W. Motherwell (1846), and Francis Braddon (1850), to the Ajex, 56, steam-ship, at Cork; G. J.. D. Andrews (1849), to the Fisgard flag ship, at Woolwich. Tho Hight Hon. Sir Francis T. Baring held a levee yesterday,which Wa3 attended by the following officers : Ceptains—Richard F. Bewley (1830), John B. B. Mg:lardy (1840), and G. N. Broke (1845). Commander—Colin Y. Campbell (1846). Lieutenants—J. Green (1809), Thos. Wright (181 5 ), Alfred Kortright (1828), and James A. Dunbar (1842). Master—Charles I'. Bellamy. The First Lord has announced that he will discon tinue holding 'ewe , until further notice._ tgaecni t recently rri T et lE); received laoTbstl obliged u s : 1 11;;:t. illustration 'i t r i o i aa T tni s o (in —; iatTi face, t i e s ca o ans n ed s fh o ias f gentleman well known in Liverpool and Birkenhead for the and dh downis the features. Strand,Bein g when latel y he in e was London,acco accosted ( x i ' by u who, after apologising with the utmost polite nsaOtergsoiseelinifliottnriagelhmL-u.ia a s psn t t7 amiliarity, begged Mr. to allow him to take a sketch of his face, as it wore the exact expression which he wished to introduce in one of the characters of a grand historical picture. Our townsmen consented, and ac companied the artist to his house, where his visage was quickly traced on canvass. A friend was subsequently - anxious to know sorttt w eoorag h opspun a hpeug t e(st,latwy t er h odstra e ootb g : rand painting.was in which the i‘j).e(i)berr work ee ad__fl conspicuously.otr:tewdauelunfinis hed, eoefignsi l ines et etcdthal, unavailing.4,l e te ped it . Blu p . O Ar uaet was the g Taa is t hpn l gen tleman titait attempts tet ti tirai N rm v uat a einps s tattt se t ll length the artist consented, took him to his studio, and there hti sac; himself figuring in a large scriptural piece as Judi.s Iscariot. This is strictly true.—Liverpool Times. c