The Sun. — London, England, 1850-01-23 00:00:00

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Anglo Italian (late Italian to lend A.astrian) A ? — to cellt°llB and Amiens 20a..... u tral of France ( Orleans nand. Vierzoa) • to 17 1 bnisra rm . ........... ........... ,4. mmm . -- Dwtch Rhenish 8 ..t° oDitt " .............. '.. • 20 •••". "' Gre at *• - to I_l Inditan Peninsular b •••••• to —10 s. — to •,1,2 — ...... ril ti l i t it i, a DOS. ......... 8 ..... ...... t• .wourg to k a D po .... .................... •- 10 •...• Ish rid and Valentia NA Lo t or and Liege . to op L 'eartf of France 34 K . ... i to 14/ 83.. ... I,:ekil'aud Bordeaux; ... - 3 di x.i to ~...• to p a ll ' and Orleans.... - 20 to __ P 118 I ,lncl Return 20 —x.i ... to "' it: 1 8 et Strasbourg ...,.. ..... 12 to 884:4 and Havre to t ir ,,, b , s r e and Meuse to 1'6„ 1 - ` 11 rg and Bale. .... ...... 14 to T o p At Nantes ... - .N 13 1.44 ,Z• Jurbise, Linden, to •wand rtasselt m . 20 .......-- •••••• ' eat V landers ' -.. 8% — """ I* m. k is ' JOINT STOCK BANK to k i NI aala n tlall North Ana 48 ..... 22 68 . .... x . . 1 .1 t to o _- 010 il j ai American .... 23 ...-... 41 sra ! .... • m to 1 Lsoffrefat of L.ondon. ',11_4 Joint Stock ~._ lO ...... ..... . G t! : th t run and 'Westminster. NDitto P rovincial of Engld B5 ...... ••••• to _ ti tto, itw.. . ... . .... 10 ...... ...... to Pr o 7 n 1141 ; et Ireland - ..... 22% — • .** t c ' al [I d ... 251 — x.div to ,„ ot re an 1.1 'N 4 ), Now 10 .• ..: ..• to to 'l O. ll of `'•ustralia ...... ii I to, N 2% to N on N ew .•. to 4 . of London . 10 sir.._ . ...... .. ••-• to - -L , of drill . ...... 40 MINES. Az iiido _ . 100 "'"' " to "14tariZezlean to •••• 'i%trallin...**********" '.. "" 4 to • 411°34e R ange " ...... to •••••• 1101:4111°•Yoll Iron and Coal ... 50 to k it . es Seri° to 1; 41 1 iro n 12 to ~ tazilktk 1 - . . Ditt o c imperial .. ... 24 %•••••• Pi tt ~ ocaes and CuTaba . .... 30 to - eb t ° 't• John Del Rey — l5 ' — ... .. to '.4, %Copp" ......... .....,. 40 ... to Ittn°4l 2B •***" 7... to ..... ..,.•••• 1) 41 vh'i hio- n - te,..UnTegistered - .. ...7 ..... to t, ° - ,Bleek Debentures — to ..... •••••• Nn t o i . 4ed D ebentures ..... .... .. to tait e a r de C uba. •••• 10 -. — ''' ' 14 -an ....... ........ 28% — ••• •t° --' "later COURSE OF 1t0440L1 t , •• •. .•• • • 12 2 k it ‘trh, . 12 0 % g o l:tri,. ••..• • •• l2 2% Iklt o ,. h gria, • ••• .. • ... 25 70 A 44.. ••••• • Mx • 13 12 14,, Li tte, 3 4 ,, YV nigh t . 25 45 11; r4 etu," 401 1the • • • 25 6754 1 4h,„ 4414 11..x . .. ........25 6754 At.ktor t o'• • • • • . . 25 GT% 1,1:,4 4/ Line.... 121% 4 4 , Li. au. Rble.. 37% T 1 14 4: .•" •••• • •• tt, c u t ... e e• U.... • . 11 24 t' sl 4 •—• 11 24 %it • • - I** •• • • EXCIIANGE. Gibraltar•• •• •• •• •• •• •• -. Leghorn ........ • BO 35 Genoa .. • • • 26 30 MilanVenlc... ••.. • . • • — Naples .• .......... •• 40% Palermo, peroz 121 Messina .• •••.•• • • • • • • 121% Lisbon• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 534 Oporto•• •• •• •• •• •• •• 53% Rio Janeiro • • • Buenos Ayres — New York, 21 dayesight Philadelphia .... • . MICE!" or 317LLION, YEA 01. Foreign Gold in bars.. X 3 17 9 Fortmgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars • ... • . 0 4 10% Silver is bars ........ 0 4 Ills LL L 1 4% 0 , 41 : 1 '8 SHIPPING —( THIS DAY.) etz e 4 z , JAN. 23.—Wi n d at noon, W . S . W ., li g h t bt a : T alld dull, hazy, mild weather. t --10, 1;:. JAN. 22.—Wind W.—Arrd. Clio, Mil os , ,t 1 44 14 1 L,., Arid. from the Riv e r, N arm i, Chi na; IP I II i ts " - madras ; Eli za J o h nstone , P ernam b uco. Arr d . lip'liver and sailed, Bussorah Merchant, Port O tt 4114t0,51.11 WIGHT. Sultana, Mainland, Calcutt s; )4.11vq", Philips, China and Cape ( f Good Hone. ( 1 1 .,Lit (4 ,° 0 1,, JAN. 22.—Wind S.S.E.—Arrd. Patria, China • Harriet Humble, Calcutta; John i4itso. td‘flona9ld Bombay • Currency, Kerr, Valpa cgitYP, e Attice Para ; ' Camillus, 9 Silvester, New Orleans; , (It' Little, ditto ; M armion, Foreman, New k c iPt ' a Ch rl Chaloner, New Orleans; Manners, 1 t"%thadoes:s Tars, Ne w Orleans; Jamestown, 1:01 1t 1.4 . Off Purt, Wrloron. Nev, Orte: r I °4. 'Clrr, JAN. 22.—Wind E.—Sld.Pris n cille, Sierra Z 4 411 tt.L t 4 ,C a T BEAD.—Euphrates, Shangime. 41 u Abi 22 W . dN W Arrd. Liura and tp d m N . . 10 N. V.—Acrd, a , rB h, La Gua) ra for Hamburgh. Sld. Louisa tettrt t z , tido Janeiro. A, lt 4tit, - „ 8T "N, JAN. 21. —And. Scourfield, Mozhay, , 11 4, - ; ; Harrison Chelton, Heddle, Callao ; Flirt, %t or I;rjuida 1 de Cuba ; Laurel, Livingston, Deme u44,,,t'" el) ; Albion, Driscoll, Sr. Andrew's, N.B. li e ro4"" * AN. 21.—The Dupan, Sl•go to Trooo, ran on 4 1, t14 t:dataar Blackwater 18th inst., drifted off, and was ‘1 1 , 4 4. 4 t0 In a sinking state. to Pio A.N. 2 1.—T130 Albion, from Yarmouth, is on rt t ar the Li ht The wreck of a foreign vessel has ° 4 g • At ko _ re. 14 r ditt "IL, JAN. 22.—The Marie Ann, Marlaix to kr k i st ruck on the Manacles Rocks yesterday morn -411k; crew drowned. ‘4114 Co h It ET NE W.s.--( THIS DAY.) kf,No—„ll;,,-LXCIIAN GE—WED NESDA Y elititt,bualandin4 that our market to-day was very 1 4 4, (is 84plied' with all kinds of Wheat . of hon i l n e a( !)c e it t t 4 tt,‘' t ° Ilenaand for that grain was in a . ver d y on W t o t n. fl' iftid Pl tees barely equal to those obtain*? . rt. 'ot .; %E(t 1 clearance wad not effected. The impo ) ritlei;:ti W h eat a since Saturday have not exceeded r 3, 0 0 0 1 d 0 411 4 ii-' t he show cf samples was, .howeye , f t 4 R k it t , N , !S were held at full currencies, b u t the g m a i n d y - Oh i t q inferior kinds were cheaper . Scarc el y .t ~I,ttio ~. tkrley %a show . In malting quali fes,_so it'k‘tibitealii(l°ing tb s at on the curre ncies were nominal. No 11 4 ' 1 4 rui e ,, grinding -or d i st illing parcels. The Malt kV 4 , , r tr _" 41 1 in the extreme at barely late rates. We li'l N lZtei 8 !. 0 % , inquiry for Ust., but _ T i o . decline was °ll tv,4 l : o in prieus. Beans, Peas, Indian Cern and \,.....,......5zy (hill. AItRITALS THIS WEEX. • kb Wheat. Barley. Oats. Malt. 4,01, 11 ------. _ ____ __— -- q t tli . .... Q". n• Qrs. Qrs. acs. p 44 .... 49 0 1,410 670 2,730 1, , 80 til '• •. :: " 3,010 890 Flour. tj,(Jt tt i l k. O UOTIGYIt HOP i5.22.1E3"' it,t Ate 111 ( i is of Hops the dem ivl an d . is in a very inac 4 '44 8 i l O e ff ect sales of the middling and inferior ()liver prices must be taken. 'olio -0 14 .. WHITECHAPEL. Meat at barely h rl4.4tket is heavy for each kind of ' 144 .1 Ptie ":—Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; and Pork, tl 15 i t t ,: 4 3 a 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Od ; lin ~ ' ll e 'd per albs. by the carcase. N.? ' th 'l-IEQUER. (Tills DAY.) Nile ° % kir 1, Iny ol . took ths demurrer paper to day, but no N d u jing any question of general importance was • ~‘ Ir t the morning. • N. 1.4",. ......................_„_,_ _ ____ A Y. ) thAt the PLEAS.—(THI S T HIS 1 - ) ma of sittings in wa s occupied iN ti ,„. itt ta e Banco, the Court 'nt i f• , er - morning in hearing an argument upon a t, : , tk l 4,,,t.h° the case of Phillips and another v. Pick , tbr, _ /Ilea as to -" ‘-‘46 Y Well . r be wholly uninteresting -ern' reader. ' 4 lA u , 'gill "--'------------- IS DAY.) I 4 It - STREET—(T HIS liti4N,(l* 4 thi:i'— . 1 : THE PoLicE-coußT.—Alargaret f Le r o e na ls r i d r. , ‘livi.k°'ting Irishwoman, was brought ? i ile (l:l ('," 44 . l 'Ked with having created a dist b ucb o an a c w e s a y t 'I: 1%14,911s police-court, and refusing to g t(1 st )tie vo. T r itt, ci at 4 ,t4 that some time ago the defendant was I'lib lill t We n i:11 this court to the House of Correction .on /tl'ldy';', h i'wich term of imprisonment expired l'tib l ii h11,4t. revi.,,us to her leaving the prison . she tit' of il e p; v4, and a sovereign was found concealed in a t k, ,!, k ati",',.Plison dress As the defendant could . 0 Ijevtlifrti44.44teotor? account . as to her possession cf the ~.4 c l O lt it , m i ,! 10 1 81411:10 f .rn-ier prisoner might have riqu i 44ticid it garment garment the warder took it . !rum her till su ch 1'44" ' ''44 6 Governor, ' f him that the mutit.y '4 '''tl " t° Lll4 ' who detains it 'ls y 4 toe as to saw ) *i.dek, PSI WhenW he will give it up. Since Thu rsday f li t , - ",ids t t , st',,itkt been continually backwards an d to :4' t it l. sl;i, e 4 coll.rt demanding to see the magistra te , tlttt:..ltiK her °t the a ivice given her she 1 " Isted 4414).4Ptit, way into the court, to t he gr e at ier- 4 E. • .) '4l ) °I the business. Yesterday . ti t t 1 1 1 1 , ,,, tc,,' i e . °h il t ~. ihall- past five o'clock, ''t & "'e t i,.. 4 ' 4 ' O lt, the de f•nciant came to ' after r e door ' Ivtll-441.1' %A commenced knocking most furiously e ktt,(l, .44111"reents. .On an of fi cer asking her what . 1‘ hl ti load • • 41, bud 4 d him with a volley of abuse, swearing 4 4 mtltil bee b ,p, 4 1 , n rot, ~d, and would stop where stie 4, '''sbil& saw the magistrate A mob of more t han pti444(tb,gsthered round her, to . whom she related that • 14 e () :' 4. 4 r„?..bheil t f a sovereign while she was in . ohlit,oll-0 thou bec.r ne so violent and abusive that • 411 ,0 tlefluitook her to the :t dion and locked her up. 441 aid she only came to the court or THE SUN, ja•tioe, and was knocking to see the mngLtrate whca the cenvable oolc and loAed he: up. Me. ILanDwicx said ha had repeatedly advised her how to act in the matter. He had no doulY, if the governor ~f the prison found her claim to the money to be correct, he would give it t') her. Ho (Mr. Hard wick) had nothing t, do with the prison arrangement. , , end if she promn ed not to come hero spin he would disch aT ge her. Defendant gave the required promise, and was dis charged. SPORTIN G IN TELLI6ENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER.-TUESDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.-15 to 1 agst Knight of Gwynne (t), 16 to 1 ag , t Peter Simple, 16 to 1 si gst Rattrap, 20 to 1 agst Chandh r, 20 to I sgst Vain llope, 25 to 1 agst Shinrone. It is reported that Fanny Grey has fallen lame. METROPOLITAN lIANDICAP.-20 to 1 agst Testator (t), 25 to 1 agst Snowsto_m (t), 25 to 1 agst Black Eagle (t). THE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-100 to 6 agst Marriott (taken freely), 100 to 5 agst Velox (taken freely), 25 to 1 agst any other. CHESTER CIIP.-20 to 1 agst Fuglema❑ (take 25 to 1), 20 to 1 agst Glauca (take 25 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Peep-o'-day Boy (take 25 to 1), 20 to 1 agtt Miss Ann (tske 25 to 1), 30 to 1 agst Cossack (t), 30 to 1 agst the Whim colt (t), 33 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn (0, 40 to 1 agst The Flea (t), 40 to 1 agst Chantrey (t), 50 to 1 first John Cosser (►), 50 to 1 agst Harriett (►), 50 to 1 agst Clarissa (offers to take), 50 to 1 agst Ruby, 50 to 1 agst Roland (take 66 to 1), 1,000 to 10 agst Ellerdale (t). DERBY.-800 to 50 agst Voltigeur (t). LONDON, WEDNESDAY -EVENING, JANUARY' 23, 1850 Quadroon F' Yet the Americans are sirguitrly gallant ladies generally ; in evidence of which characteristic Mrs. Houstoun remarked that if, in travelling, any gentleman wished a window shut or opened, or any similar alteration made for his per sonal convenience, he invariably used the name cf " a lady" to ensure the desired favour--" Sir, a lady would be obliged to you if you would just close that window," &c. At the magic word of " lady" every thing gives place, and thus proceeds Mrs. Hous toun :—" If the cars, on leaving the depot, happen to be full, a single gentleman, who arrives too late for a good place, may wait in vain for any attempts made by the passengers to afford him room. On such an oc- j cvsion, if he is a smart Yankee, and very few of them are not, he will proclaim aloud (whether the truth or otherwise no matter) that a lady is expecting him, and immediately he is invited in !" Speaking of railway travelling in America, Mrs. Houstoun com plains of its slow rate of speed and many interrup tions, and while 'lamenting these annoyances, she say, "It was quite provoking to hear every one repeating, Well, I expect there's no getting along like this in your country.'" Her visit to Niagara is related con spirit°, but she wisely refrains from attempting to paint a scene better imagined than described. Wordsworth would heartily • sympathise in her lamentations over 'he artificial comforts to be found in such a romantic neighbourhood. "We were located in a comfortable hotel," exclaims Mrs. Houstoun, with pitiable but not unnatural distress ; "I shouldhave greatly preferred a wooden shanty ; end this hotel was in a good clean street! Imagine my dismay at finding myself in an actual street within a hundred yards of Niagara! , Opposite the window of the hotel was the post-office ; and the post• office was also a notion shop, and was flunked on one side by Allen, the tailor, and on the other by Quaig, the boot and shoemaker!" After dwelling upon these grievances, she exclaims, " I had no patience with the Utilitarian Yankees, and at that moment could-have seen a fire break out in the! town rather with satisfaction than otherwise." Mrs. Houstoun's opinion of the Americans is, on the whole, a favourable one, but American manners are, by her showing, greatly deficient in refinement. Nevertheless, she remarks with astonishment that in Boston smoking in the streets is by law prohibited. " Verily," she exclaims, "I could have fancied my-, self in St. Petersburgh, and certainly in no other of the cities of Europe would such a law (even if enacted) be submitted to without resistance." We have said enough of the contents of "Ilesperoa" to show that the attractive %and colloquial manner of its authoress enhances its interesting value as a glimpse of the men and manner 3 in the West. THE EDUCATION OF THE FEELINGS. 1 Vol. Second Edition. ,By Charless3;;Y. The origin of this charming dissertation appears to have been out of some such reflections on the part of the author as the following . :—" Immediately children are entrusted to us, a kind of second education com mences in ourselves; all that we say, do, and even feel, is imitated—we see the ' reflex of ourselves in others, and startled into consciousness by the /ac simile, frequently for the first time begin to inquire what we are and what we ought to be." " The ob ject," says the author in his preface—" the object of this presant edition is not so much to assist in the direct edUcation of children as in this second education of ourselves"—in other words, to aid the indirect edu cation of children. Such a notion we cannot but regard as strictly philosophic, and the manner in which Mr. Bray has endeavoured to carry out his views in the effusion before us assures us that his own feelings must be singularly well tutored. The construction of the work may b e estimated by a merely casual glance at the table of contents. After a general consideration of mental constitution, the education of each feeling is considered separately, and these feelings are classified under tile following heads :---;The self protecting feelings, the self-regarding feelings, the social a ff ections, the moral feelings, the !Esthetic feelings, the religious, and the feelings which give ' , concentration, power, and permanence to the others, such, for example, as firmness and imitation. Other sections are devoted - to the subjects of temper, punishment, manners, example, authority, and obe dience; besides which we must especially particu larise an excellent chapter on " The Feeling of the Ludicrous"—to which we would particularly direct the attention of mothers, and of all other persons entrusted with the education of children. PRINCIPLES OF THE HUMAN MIND, deduced from Physical Laws; being a Sequel to "Elements of Electro-Biology," together with the lecture on the " Voltaic Mechanism of Man," delivered at the London Institution, April 11, 1849. By Alfred Smee, F.R.S. This brochure may be considered the sequel to, or rather the legitimate deduction from the author's larger work on Electrorßiology. It appears that Mr. Smee's work on Electro-Biology has been trans lated into French by M. J .Roset, who sent to Mr. Smee to know whether he desired to make any addition to the original text, and,ip consequence, Mr. Smee wrote the short epitome of the "Principles of the Human Mind," deduced from Electro-Biology, which is at present under our notice. To this Mr. Smee has added the " Lecture on Electro-Biology, or the Voltaic Mechanism of Man," which he delivered at the London Institution on the 11th April, 1849, and which contains a popular resume of his discoveries in - this most important science. The whole work consists but of 32 pages, but it is, nevertheless, one of the most important works ever issued from the press. STUDY of the MIN D. 1 Vol. By Daniel Bishop. As an elementary book on metaphysics, the volume before us will prove invaluable to all beginners, being designed especially, as the title-page itself informs us, for the " senior classes in schools." How admirably has the writer emphasised the uti lity of his undertaking by quotations from some of the greatest thinkers who have existed ! Now he transcribes the exclamation of the Pere Girard— " Here is a complete psychology for us to study, a book ever open, but alas! how little read ; for few even among the adults are taught its alphabet !" Now again he repeats the surprise thus expressed by Dugald Stewart—"lt is astonishing that amidst all the success with which the subordinate sciences have been cultivated, this, which comprehends the princi ples of all of them, should be still suffered to re main in its infancy." He copies reverentially from the Book of Genesis that memorable verse—" And God said let us make man in our image, after our likeness." With St. lugustine he seems to feel that " there is but one object greater than the soul, and that one i s i ts Creator . " He reminds us how Channing has said—" The most lamentable scepticism on earth, and incomparably the most com mon, is a scepticism as to the greatness, powers, and high destinies of human nature." He calls also to our recollection that glorious panegyric on man pronounced by the lips of our immortal Shakspere— " What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving bow express and admirable ! In action how like an angel ! apprehension how like a god ! The beauty of the wor l d ! The paragon o f an i ma l s !" To the elucidation o f this godlike appre h ens i on o f the beauty of the world, the patagon of animals, Mr. Bishop has sedulously directed his intellect with all its energies —and the result of his effort has, in this admirable volufae, proved signally felicitous. SPINAL CURVATURE; its Theory ; its Cure : giving. Description of the Anatomy of the Spine and the Ports in relation thereto. Illustrated by Cases and Coloured Plates. By George N. Epps, Surgeon to Harrison's Spinal Institution, 6-c. 6^c. To Dr. Harrison is due the credit of having been the first to banish from the practice of surgery, in all cases of distortion of the spine, those instruments of torture, by the wearing of which persons afflicted with th ese un h appy d i stort i ons h a d th e i r t orments in creased, and th e i r di seas e and deformity aggravated. By insisti ng on t h e pa ti en t maintaining e n ti re recum bency of posture, with skilful and judicious pressure applied i n accordance with scientific principles, followed by careful rubbing by persons engaged for the purpose, Dr. Harrison' has succeeded in curing distortion s o f the most frightful character, and in restoring the unfortunate sufferers to perfect health. Mr. Epps haS succeeded Dr. Harrison in his practice, and he has given us the r(sults of his. experience in the present work. His practice has been to the full as successful as that of Dr. Harrison, and we recom mend the attentive study of this. work not only to every member of the medical profession, but to every person who is afflicted, or who has friends who are afflicted, with distortion of the spine. The method of Dr. Harrison appears to us to be the most simple, the most reasonable, the most scientific, the most painless, and, at the same time, the most successful mode of treatment ever adopted for the cure of spinal diseases. The British Consul at Mann, Mr. W. Farren, has addressed a' letter to Mr. F. Aguirre, of the firm of Messrs. Mencbacatorre and Co., of that place, owners of the Spanish ship B&-11a Vascongads, expressing his sense of the humanity and kindness manifested by Captain Gorie and the crew ot• ttat vessel to the crew if the British ship Falcon, which was lost at sea. The cap tain of the Falcon, with his wife and child and the crew, had taken to the boat, and after tossing about at sea for ten da3 s were picked up by the Bella. Vascongads, when they were on the verge of starvation. The owners of the Bella Vascongada had generously forwarded tl Mr. 1• amen two doubloons for the crew of the Falcon, expressing a desire to render them further aid if ne cessary. ADULT DEAF A/4D DUMB INSTITUTION.—Lord Ashley bar; signified his intention r f presiding over the public festival, to be held on the 6!ir of March next, at the London Tasern, in aid of the objects of this insti tution. The Earl of Fffingham; Lord Tynemouth, Lord Robert Grosvenor, and the . Bishop of St. David's, are =whored among the present influential list of stewards. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, TUESDAY. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes End Windsor Park. The Royal Family took walking exercise in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. His Royal Highness Prince Albert went out shooting this morning, accompanied by the Duke de Nemours, and attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel F. H. Sey mour. The royal dinner party this evening includes her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper. The Sub-Committee of the Commission for the Ex hibition of 1851, consisting of Earl Granville, Mr. Jones Loyd, and Mr. T.F. Gibson, met at the Board of Trade on Monday. A deputation from the Council of the Society of Arts, composed of Mr. Tooke, Mr. Webster, Mr. Foster, and Mr. Speer, had an interview with the Sub-Committee. The members of the Executive Committee also waited on the Sub-Committee. Sir William Somerville, Chief Secretary for Ire land, arrived in town yesterday from Dublin. The Right Hon. Baronet had afterwards an interview with Sir George Grey at the Home-office, and also visited the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation from the city of Bristol, headed by the Mayor, and accompanied by Mr. F. H. F. Ber keley, the Member for that city, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday. Lord Ashley had ,an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday. Colonel Fitzroy had also an inter view yesterday with the Right Hon. Baronet at the Home-office. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na tional Debt, and Mr. Tidd Pratt, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 22.—The Regius Professor of Divinity (Dr. Jacobson) will begin a course of lec tures on Thursday, the 21st of February, at one o'clock, at Christ Church. These lectures are intended for students of divinity who have passed their examination for the degree of B.A. The Regius Professor of Divinity proposes to re sume the reading of Dr. Routh's " Scriptorum Eccle - siasticorum Opuscula," on Tuesday, the sth of February. These lectures are open to all members of the University who have passed the B.A. examina tion. DIAMOND DUST. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Patience is power in a man, warning him to rein hip spirit. A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. True art finds beauty everywhere. It is more noble to make yourself great than to be born so. Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness to fewer virtues. Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in our families, our tempers; and in society, our tongues. Every time a man breaks a Divine law be adds a thorn to the rod which he puts into pickle for his own back. It is the prerogative of genius to elevate obscure men to the higher class of society. PAROCHIAL WATER SUPPLY ASSOCIATION..—A meeting of the members of this association was held last evening, in the vestry -room of St. Paul's Church, Covent-garden, to receive the report of the committee appointed at St. Martin's on the 7th instant, and for the transaction of general business. The chair was taken by Mr. Moseley. The report stated that about fifteen parishes of the metropolis had already given in their adhesion to the principles of the association, and eight of the vestries had voted different sums for payment of expenses, &e., umounting in all to about 1604 The present claims ; on the association are 631. J. Wyld, Esq., M.P. far Bodmin, offered to advance a sum of 500/. to enable the committee to discharge all preliminary expenses, which was to be repaid when the funds of the association should be in a suffiaiently prosperous con- dition, and on the terms that no member should be per sonally liable for the repayment of the amount. The committee recommended that Mr. Wyld's offer should be accepted with thanks, and that that gentleman should be appointed treasurer pro tem., until application should be made to J. Masterman, Esq., M.P., and Baron Roths child to become joint treasurers of the association. The report concluded with recommending an active canvass of those parishes which have not yet joined the move ment. It was stated that the principles which the association seeks to establish are, that the water supply ~f the metropolis should not be in the hands of join t stock companies, and that it should not be subject to the principle c f centralisation by Government, as in the case of sewers, but should be under the control of the ratepayers of the different parishes. The report, after some discussion on Mr. Wyld's proposal, was received and adopted. Mr. Browne was appointed the secretary on a short term of engagement, Mr. Sidney Smith, to whom the office had been offered, having declined to accept it. It was referred to the committee to procure offices in the City for the transa' tion of the business of the association. The meeting then separated. BRIGHTON CHAIN PIER.---The annual meeting of the direct irs e f the Brighton Cbain Pier Company was held in London last week, at which a letter from Mr. J. Hume, M.P. (who generally presides on the occasion), was read, stating his inability to attend, when Rear- Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, at the request of the meeting, took the chair. The minutes of the last meet ing having been read and confirmed, the secretary laid before the meeting a general statement of accounts, showing the income and expenditure of the past year, which was passed, and the usual dividend of 3 per tent. declared. It will be highly satisfactory to the resident inhabitants of the town and the public at large to know that this noble structure, which is so great an attraction to Brighton, is in perfect condition, and that it is in • tended in the ensuing season to give every accommoda tion to first-class fast packets, by reducing the pier dues to merely nominal charges, so that one packet at least may proceed daily from the pier to Dieppe and other p iris. THE BLASPHEMER'S DEATII.—There is something so terribly startling in the following facts, and so fear fully exemplifying the grievous sin and extreme peril of blaspheming the name of the Eternal, that had we not made minute and careful inquiry, even among the very haunts of those living where the occurrence took place, we should have believed the whole to have been an ex aggerated rumour of some ordir ary and every-day ca sualty, rather than the awfully true narrative of a dreadful judgment. On the morning of Sunday last, a married woman, residing in the Friars' Fields, named Sarah Morgan, was observed with her infant in her arms, near her awn house, disputing with a woman. Elizabeth Velem A quarrel of a very violent charac= ter, so far as words went, shortly afterwards ensued, and in reply to an observation made by the woman, Sarah Morgan exclaimed that she hoped that God Al mighty would strike her blind, deaf, dumb, and stiff, if she did not revenge herself upon her in a particular manner. Almost directly she staggered, let her child fall from her arms to the ground, and would herself apparently have fallen but that her neighbours immedi ately assisted her into the house. Dr. Stack was prowl tly in attendance, who, we need scarcely remark, email - wed to render 'her every assistance which medical skill and humanity , 'could suggest. From the moment that she was thus mysteriously stricken to the hour of her death, at half-past one o'clock on Wednesday morn ing, the only words she uttered, and just after she was borne in, were, " Lord, have mercy on my poor soul— have mercy on my children!" and then Ler voice failed her, and she became dumb; her sense of hearing was d. strayed; her eyes became glassy and sightless; and in about sixty hours from the moment in which she was struck down, death placed his icy hand upon her, and she became a corpse. This fearful event has produced a painful sensation even among the abandoned crea tures of the locality in which it occurred.—Morimouth Merlin. PURCUASE OF PRlOR•PARK.—Manyrumourshaving for some time past been current in Bath with respect to the Roman Catholic College of Prior-park, the question is now decided; inasmuch as Alexander Raphael, Eq., of Turbiton-place, M P. for St. Alban's, has purchased the above property, with all its appurtenances, ;tor 30.060/.; and l as given an extended lease of it to the same parties at a rental of 3/. per cent. per annum. The property will be reconveyed to them on their payment of the , above sum, together with the rents due thereon. Bet in failure of the strict performance of the several stipulations and covenants expressed in the lease , their right to the repurchase of the property will be forfeited. to LITETIATUR'E. LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ROBERT SOU TREY. Vols. I. and H. Edited by his Son, the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey. Nothing further than an anxious preliminary an nouncement can be made of the appearance of the opening volumes of this singularly attractive biogra phy—anxious from that solicitude which must be felt by every lover of our modern literature, that such a work should be felicitously brought to a conclusion. From the examination already made by ourselves of the commencement of these authentic memorials, we are sanguine as to the fortunate completion of the en terprise, and cordially do we felicitate Mr. Southey, of Plumbland, on the judicious manner in which he has entered upon his editorial labours and responsibi lities. The voluminous quantity of the materials placed at his disposal was, assuredly, suffi cient to tax the discretion of the most practised annotator; and yet a gentleman but little versed, we presume, in the experiences of literary se - lectior , at least to the extent required in the present onerous undertaking, has adventured upon his task with large promise at the outset of its happy termina tion. To any one almost the duty of writing thebio graphy of one who had so written the biography of Nelson might well have seemed a task of enormous, if not insuperable difficulty. Fortunately, however, the gifted father of the present editor had left behind him, among his valuable treasury of manuscripts, papers capable of forming the initial chapters of such an enterprise. From those charming papers we Lear in a posthumous vi hisper fi horn the lips of Robert Southey himself the par ticulars of his ancestry, his parentage, birth, and early education. He himself tells us, in his most agreeable and gossippiug mood, all about the Cannon Southeys, and his father's removal from London to Bristol, about the Hills and the Brad fords, about William Tyler and Parson Collins. These reminiscences he recounts in language breath ing of the gentlest and tenderest affections. In ac quainting us with the particulars of his childhood, he, the scholar, the poet, the critic, the historian, and the philosopher, becomes.once more a child in imagination. He lingers over the particulars of early years with that fascinating fondness for his theme, which he had previously displayed the most .conspicuously in the home scenes depicted in the discursive narrative about the "Doctor." Haiing prepared the way for his own revelations by this genial and en-• thralling introduction, the Rev. C. C. Southey begins in earnest, at page 160 of the first volume, his own record of Robert Southey's "Life and Correspondence." Throughout his very able and sequential memoirs, the editor interpolates here and there those scholas tic and graceful letters which his father lavished with a prodigal band among his friends and fa-' miliars—they are the jewels adorning the golden links of his biography. Some are gay with the hilarity of a young and ardent disposition ' • others breathe the sadness of a nature less morbid than sensitive, less sad from a predisposition to gloom than from the sorrow ful emotions arising at times out of his intense and exquisite sensibility. Take as an expression of the latter trait in his temperament the following eloquent and beautiful letter, in which he announces the death o f hi s fri en d S ewa rd to his friend Bedford—a letter more tender or more touching we do not remember ever to have perused:— " TO GROSVENOR C. BEDFORD, ESQ. "Bristol, June 15, 1795. " Bedford—he is dead ; my dear Edmund Seward! after six weeks' suffering. " These, Grosvenor, are the losses that gradually wean us from life. May that man want consolation in his last hour, who would rob the survivor of the belief, Ghat he shall again behold his friend! You know not, Grosvenor, how I loved poor Edmund: he taught me all that I have of good. When I went with him into Wor ceatershire, I was aqonished at the general joy his return occasioned—the very dogs ran out to him. Int hat room where I have so often seen him, he now liesi n his coffin! " It is like a dream, the idea that he is dead—that his heart is cold—that he, whom but yesterday morning 1 thought and talked of as alive—as the friend I knew and loved—is dead! When these things come home to the heart, they palsy it. lam sick at heart; and, if I feel thus acutely, what must his sisters feel? what his poor old mother, whose life was wrapped up in Edmund? I have seen her look at him till the tears ran down her cheek. " There is a strange vacancy in my hear , . The sun shines as usual, but there is a blank in existence to me. I have lost a friend, and such a one! God bless you, my dear, dear Grosvenor! Write to me immediately. I will try, by assiduous emplo y ment, to get rid of very melancholy thoughts. lam continually dwelling on the days when we were together: there was a time when the sun never rose that I did not see Seward. It is very wrong to feel thus; it is unmanly. God bless you! "ROBERT SOUTHEY. " P.S. I wrote to Edmund on receiving your last: my letter arrived the hour ( f his death, four o'clock en Wednesday last. Perhaps he remembered me at thst hour. " Grosvenor, I am a child; arid all are children who tix their happiness on such a reptile as man;—this great, (his self- ennobled being called man, the next change of weather may blast him. " There is another world where all these things will be amenchtd. God h alp the man who survives all his friends." Among the more interesting incidents recounted in these, the preliminary portions of Dr. Southey's bio graphy, are, those of his introduction to the gifted men who acquired celebrity as his contemporaries— such men, for example, as Coleridge, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, &c. His first acquaintance with Coleridge appears to have been on the occasion of the latter's visit to Oxford, after he had enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons, having previously run away from Cambridge. One of the earliest indications afforded by the two friends to each other of the rich ness and facility of their poetic genius was, if we re member right, the mutual composition of a three act tragedy, called The Fall of Robesp;erre. The subject and its execution were conceived one day in a sportive conversation at Lovell's, where the compact for its execution was made—the tragedy being produced complete as.. early as the following evening : S. T. C. writing the first act, and R. S. the second, and R. L. the third. , Altogether the notion of this drama has since been carried out, as far as its mere form is concerned, by Robert Browning, in his Blot on the 'Scutcheon. Out of our solicitude that every amilable material should be placed betimes at the dispyial of the editor of these volumes, we gladly give the benefit of our circulation to the fol lowing parr.graph in his preface, in which it will be seen that hoe earnestly solicits the assistance of all those individuals who happen to have corresponded with the gi.:fted subject of the biography. Having enumerated. the sources from which he has already acquired c masiderable aid in his undertaking, the reverend eckitor observes : " While, however, my materials from these sources have been most extensive, there must still be many in dividuals wi th whom I have not been able to communicate, who have c( sr responded with my father upon literary sub jec.s; and, should this meet the eye of any of these gentlemen,, they would confer a great obligation upon me by permit' lug me the use of any of his letters to them, which are' likely sometimes to possess an interest dif ferent fro a those addressed to intimate friends and frequent c torrespondents." When coo: pleted the " Life and Correspondence" will extend to six volumes, at the outset of which we have engravin gs from Westall's landscape of Keswick, and from Opee's portrait of Southey. The work promises to be an important addition to our miscellaneous lite rature. HESP.EROS ; or Travels in the West. By Mrs. HouSloun,author of "Texas and the Gulf 91 Mexico.' 2 Vu;/8. In noticing books of travels, we have repeatedly observ..ed how much the interest of such works de pends. on the manner of the writer. An agreeable cieerfrite gives a new charm to pleasant places, and invests even dull ones with some attraction. Such is J.Virs. Houstoun's happy faculty. She reminds us repeatedly of the lady-writer who truth. fully boasted that " she gossipped whenever '`she pleased and pleased- whenever -she gos sipped." It was the purpose of ,this new wan derer in the West to describe, not what has already been so frequently described, the Jaws, institutions, and fixed establishments of America, but to lay before English eyes a sketch of the rapidly changing appearance of the men and manners of America. She has done this in a most delightful way. From the moment when, in the midst of a Liverpool mist, she lost sight of her native country, and soon after found herself more than once echoing the Irishman's wish, that " if Britannia did rule the waves she'd just be so kind as to rule 'em straight, anyhow," until her r e turn to the same misty English atmosphere, Mrs. Iloustoun's wanderings in the West have furnished the theme for two most interesting volumes, abounding in anecdote and enlivened by a charming sprightliness of manner, now and then subdued by some passing meditation. One of these passages of transient sadness is occa sioned by a meeting, on board the Halifax steamer, with a beautiful girl returning from Europe, where she had been receiving her education. "The fair creature entered the saloon alone," writes Mrs. Houstoun, "and alone she remained, for lovely as she was, no one addressed her; but on the contrary, she appeared to be purposely avoided by every one pre sent. Even the commonest acts of civility were in her case neglected lt will be asked by the uninitiated why this fair being was set apart in the way I have described, and why she was like a tabooed creature, or rather a Pariah, from %hick. men and women seemed to shrink as from an unholy tiling. It was this. Within the veins of this fair and delicate girl ran a few drops of that dark Wood, which is sup posed by many—l fear, indeed, by most in Americs —to place the individual cursed by so hideous art accident without the pale of social existence. It r. oat tered not that this poor girl was fair in form Fuld gentle and kind in nature --her mother was a THE ARMY. With the %iew of elevating the tasks and'cultivnt. ing the moral sentiments of the 'soldiers under his commsnd, Lord Frederick Fitzclsrence, G.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, &c., has En gaged a spacious building for the purpose of having lectures delivered to the troops on subjects connected with military tactics and science, as the following oMcial notification, promulgated yesterday, will ex • plain : "Brigade-office, Portsmouth,- Jan. 21. " GARRISON - ORDER. " His Lordship the Major-General l;ving made ar rangements fir the delivery t f a course of instructive lectures, for the bereft of the troops in garrison, on subjects most connected with military science, is desi rous of inviting all officers (naval and military) and their families, and all noncommissioned officers and men in garrison, who may feel inclini dto attend. The first h cturo will be delivered at the Queen's Roomy, near the Lion-gate, Por:sea, on Saturday- next, the 26th inst int, et mmeneinr , at a (varier bef ire five in tl e evening,, wh. n Mr. Hay, chemical assistst t of her Majesty's dt ckyurd, has kindly volunteered his services. _ . . " ' " Arrangements 1;i:1 be made for the admission if all connected with the garrison and navy, on application at :he doors, which will be open at a quart Qr-past four, and, civilians being deiirous of I ttendicg axe requested to! zipply for tickets cif admission to the Town Major, on or. before twelve o'cicck on the ..25thisl1/4," NAPA L INTELLIGENCE. THE BEHRING'S STRAITS EXPEDITION.- In another column will be read a most interesting letter from the Plover, Commander Moore, now engaged in searching fur Sir John Franklin, via Behring's Straits. We regret to hear that Rear-Admiral• Deans:, Dundas, C. 8., M.P., is suffering from a slight indis-; position. We sincerely hope that the Gallant Admiral will soon be enabled to resume his official duties. The Superb, 80, Captain Purcell, from Queens town, and the Stromboli, steam-sl o op, C omman d er Lord A. W. Beauclerk, for Deronport, are ordered to cruise in the chops of the Channel, for the relief of the windbound merchantmen. The Fox, 42, at Portsmouth, is not ordered to be; hastened in her repairs and equipment ; but the, Dauntless screw-frigate is to be completed as soon aS possible, as she is required to be commissioned Captain Halstead's friends make sure of her for him; but it is not certain that he will have a frigate. The Megrera, iron screw steam-frigate, is ordered to be navigated to Sheerness when ready in thei Thames. PORTSMOUTH, TuuDAY.—Rear-Admiral Preseottl C. 8., superintendent of this dockyard, has gone or 4 leave of absence for twelve days. His flag was struck at sunset last night on board the Illustrious, 72; Captain Yates. The Ajax, 60, steam guard-ship, and the Argil new steam-sloop, are rapidly progressing with thei; rigging. The Ajax has her topmasts up and fidded and the Argus has topgallantmasts pointed. TER WEST INDIA SQUADRON. BERMUDA ' JAN. 6.—The Wellesley, 72, Captain Goldsmith, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral tha Earl of Dundonald, G.C.B. ; the Hecate steam-sloop; Commander Shadwell ; and the Plumper screw-sloop; Commander Nolloth, are here. The Hecate hal ,touched here from Washington, on her way to Eng= land, to complete coals. The Persian, 14, Commander Bulman, is at Ver4 Cruz. • The Helena, 14, Commander de Courcey, is at Aul Cayes, St. Domingo, again sickly. The Trincomalee, 25, Captain Warren, is cruising after slavers on the south side of Cuba. The Alarm, 24, Captain Ramsey, is at Barbadoes. The Imaum, 72, Commodore Bennett, and the Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Jenner, are at Port Royal. _ The Sappho, 14, Commander Michell, is on short about 60 miles S.S.W. of Belize, on Seal-reef. It is supposed she will be totally lost if a norther should find her in her present position. She has thrown het guns overboard, and has a hole in her bottom. This station is a most dangerous one to navigat. There is still a good deal of lever at Port Royal. Thy soldiers and sailors have suffered considerably. Fort tunately few of our ships have been there lately. A sergeant and two men of the 42d Highlanderfs were drowned here a few days since when fishing in a small boat off the Light-house. We have received letters from her Majesty's Ali, Herald, 22, Captain Kellet, C. 8., dated Mazatlan ? Nov. 27. She sailed from Honolulu (Sandwic Islands) on the 19th of May, and arrived at Pietro paulski on the 23d of June. In gatting into Behring' Straits, in a thick fog, she touched the ground o Point Pinnock, and lost great part of her fals keel. As the ship had apparently suffered no othe injury, they proceeded up the straits, and (3, the 15th of July communicated with he' Majesty's ship Plover, Commander Moore, at ancho in Kotzebue Sand. The Plover had arrived onl the day before, having passed the winter in a harbour (Noovell) on the Karrychatka coast. She out out of the ice there on the 30th of June, and had been • fortnight reaching her present anchorage. Lieutd pant Pullen, who had come up_in the Herald there!, superseded Lieutenant Lee, who rejoined his ship the Asia, and having provisioned and coaled the Plover, she", in company with the Herald and the yacht Nancy Dawson, proceeded to the northward. Communica tion was frequently had with the natives, who are a remarkably good-tempered race, but no informatiof) could be obtained, either from them or the natives of Cape Lisburn or Wainwright's Inlet respecting Sir John Franklin's expedition. The Herald's pinnace, decked over, and three whale boats sailed in company on the 25th of July, at midnight, with the sun two degrees above the horizon, with Lieut. Pullen in com mand, to go as far into th e ice as they could, and there provision the two whale boats from the others, an'd start for the Mackenzie River, to Fort Hope, the Hud son's Bay settlement, to get what information he could from them, and proceed overland to York Factory, in Hudson's Bay, to be ready to take advantage of the next year's ships going home on the breaking up of the ice. The Herald party here left them with three hearty cheers for their success, and . went on board. The ships were kept under moderate sail to enable the boats to go ahead, and at four o'clock that day (the 26th of July) Cape Franklin bore X.E. four leagues ; by noon of that day they came in sight Of the packed ice, from N.W. by W. to N.E., and rap along it, occasionally heaving to among masses of it, and at half- past one the fog cleared away, and the ide was six or seven miles to the N.E. The Nancy Dawson accompanied the boats to the .Mackenzie on the morning of the 28th, threading their way througi the ice, The ships reached the latitude of 72 51 and longitude 163 48, the highest latitude yet reached bi, any English ship, and considerably above where Beechey lays down, in two succeeding years, the line of packed . ice. Satisfied with their position, and knowing that the ice was in large quantities betweeil them and the open water, they bore up to get to the southward, and on the 31st returned to Wain wright's Inlet, which they surveyed. Immense numbers of sperm whales were constantly, aboift the ships, and the American whalers, of which their Were several, got many fish. There they cruised several days, between the Arctic and American coasts, to look out for some shoals not laid down. Icy Cape, N.E., 231 miles at noon, in lat. 70 16, long. 174 40, the ice extending in pack, with extremely high peaky mountains showing over it. A party was landed, and formal possession taken. The islatid appeared to be connected with the apparent continent by shallows, as there was a continual line of ice fro one to the other. On the Ist of September they r - 1 , turned to Kotzebue Sound, where the Plover was o winter, and having left Lieutenant Cooper in her, vice Lee, during the winter, the Herald quitted there on the 29th of October, and arrived at Mazatlan qn the 13th of November, where the Amphitrite, 26, Captain T. R. Eden, was collecting freight. Tbt Herald's people were sickly, hating suffered from scurvy, from being nearly six months on salt pro visions and no vegetables. It is supposed that orders will be received for the Herald to proceed home ward, as her false keel is gone, and she has ahead) been tw•o voyages to the Strait-, and five years in commission. By the month of June the two ships from England (Enterprise and Investigator) will have arrived. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE STATION. On the 13th of October the Apollo troop-ship, Commander Rawstorne, from England, arrived with cholera on board. She landed all her bad cases on a small island at Rio Grande. Several deaths occurred before sailing, but she is now quite healthy. On the 14th of October the Pantaloon arrived here from England, having touched at Pernambuco only for water. Mr. Kelly, naval cadet, joined the Castor from her. She sailed for the cruising•ground on the Mozambique on the 18th of October. On the !3d the Athol troop-ship arrived here from England, all well on board. Her troops were disem barked by the boats of the Castor, and she will sail soon for Mauritius. Her Majesty's ship Castor, 4G, Commodore Wyvill, is in Simon':-bay, and will not lift anchor until the convict agitation is over. Mr. William White (c), 1815, Ahstcr, R.N., his retired with the rank of commander under the order in Council of 1846. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JAN. 22 . — Surgeon—Charles D. Steel (1841) to the Arethusa, 50-gun frigate, at Devonport. Assistant-Surgeons—Eustace J. Walsh (1839) and John Cotton (1847) to the Arethusa. Nate—Arthur R. Owen (1849) to the Arethusa. MidshiFtnen—G. W. Strong to the Arethusa, and E. A. Tweedale to the Hermes steam-vessel at Wool wich. Naval Cadet—John Morley to the Arethusa. PROMOTION• Nicholas J. Potter to be acting gunner. near-Admiral Charles John Austen, C. 8., with his Flag-Captain, Francis W. Austen, his Flag-Lieut., th , orve- T. M. Purvis, and his. Secretary, Paymaster, and g urs.r, G'corze P. Manin, will aisemble at South.mpton on the 2,1 of February next, and on the following morning proceed in the Company' s 'Vessel, which will leave on that day en route to India. Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, , Surveyor of the Navy, visited Woolwich to-day, and was accom• panied by Captain Superintendent 11. T. Austin, C 8., when visiting the Retribution steam-frigate. Mr. Casey, chief engineer of Captain Austin's stemn.departinent, has been appointed to superintend the fitting of the engines of the Retribution steam frigate. The Hermes steam-vessel, Commander Fishbourne, when ready for sea, will leave Woolwich fur-Ports mouth, and will : proceed froM the latter port on the sth of February . with the mails for the Clpe of Good Hope, where she is to be stationed. Mr. Pcakp, assistant to the master-shipwright, with a leading man and six shipwrights, left Wool wich--for Greenwich- to-day, to examine told report as to the value of the Iphigenea for the Marine Society boy's vessel, as it ~is intended to sell her out of the service. ARCTIC EXPEDITION. BEHRING'S STRAITS. The following interesting letter has been addressed by Commander Moore, of her Majesty's ship Plover, to Mr. Barrow, F.R.S., of the Admiralty:— " Her Majesty's ship Plover, Kotzebue Sound, September 28, 1849. " Many thanks for your very kind letter of the 14th February, 1849, and at the same time lam much grieved to receive the melancholy news of your beloved and honoured father's death. Every one on board was much grieved at it. You must excuse my short note to you. I intended sending you a long account, but Captain Kellett, o f th e H era ld, sa il s much sooner than I exPected—that is, to-day. I did not think he would have sailed before the Ist of October. After leaving the Sandwich Islands, I pro ceeded with favourable winds and thick weather, and arrived off St. Lawrence Island on the 9th of October, the wind at S.E., with every chance of being at Kot -zebue Sound the next day, but the wind came round to the N.N.E., and the current running strong to the' S.W., and on the 16th I found it was useless to attempt to beat through. We were then running upwards of 30 miles a day. I determined to anchor; under Cape Tchoukotsky. We had not been at an chor long when the natives came off, but it was some: time before they would come on board. I sent a boat away, thinking I could see some appearance of an inlet, and to my great joy we found a most splendid harbour ; and, wanting water, we instantly got the ship in, getting ice and everything ready at a mo-, ment's start, should the wind shift; but no, we re mained until the 25th, when we were driven into a, most snug inner harbour, and obliged to secure the ship, much against my will ; but we cannot go against wind and weather, and with such a miserable, dull sailing craft, that can only proceed as if time were no object. I have had much to put up with here, but truly glad and thankful, with the help of Providence, point-, ing out snug winter quarters, and thus prevented me from losing a mile. I have sent a tracing of this new harbour to the Admiralty. The account of the natives will be most interesting. We have gained their greatest friendship, and I was enabled to travel all over the country, and was in hopes we should have reached Kotzebue Sound by sledges, but after six weeks' Isevore travelling, arrived within twenty miles of East Cape, and found the ice was broken up there, and the natives could not go across. We found them far different to what we read about, and all along the coast to Point Barrow. Many a tear was dropped by them when we left, and their feeling towards us was most kind and hospitable. I was always having them to dine with me; and through kind ness and treating them with determination, I can assure you row that whatever ship should touch there will meet with kindness from them. Deer I get plenty of it ; fish at times, and it was a great thing for my ship's company. We all suc ceeded very well with their language, and only sorry to find it different on this side. A few only can understand us, but we have established just as. good a feeling here, and every chance of supplies of deer; but a dangerous place for the ship, and we could not fmd a single place to the northward. If we could have put the ship into Wainwright Inlet it would have been a great thing for me. I then could, have gone as I intended in the boats. We got to 72 51 N., and were then stopped by the ice. My large boat got well round Cape Barrow, and when the two small boats started for' the Mackenzie no ice was to. be seen. I have been expecting Lieutenant Pullen back every day, and still look for his return. I have, all the time I have been in this sea, found the cur-. rents alter with the winds. I hope long ere this that Sir John Franklin has arrived safely in England and all his brave companions. They must have had plenty to go through. I send this short note sooner than none; my next shall be longer. The herald is just going to be off, and I must finish." MURDER AT SUTTON-IN•AsHFIELD.—One of tha most brufa! and cold-blooded murders that it hat of late eon our duty to record, took place at the small town of Sutton-in-Ashfleld, fif ern miles from Nottingham, on Monday morning last. It appears Clot Berry, the man implicated in this diabolical deed, is about fi ty years of age, and, some p ars ago, owing to the disioputable course which his wife was pursuing he became jealous (.f her. They had for a 'engin t f time been living on bad t-rms, and the conduct of the wife becoming more onclisguiscal, he resolved to leave her. The ems( quence .vas that the woman went to live with her paramour, the husband in the meantime cohabiting with a wom an, rt - siding in the same parish, of the name of 'Tanana, Ly whom Le had a child. His conduct has for a consider able time been marked by unsteadiness, and on Monday morning, at about half-past eight, he returned to his re sidence, and after a short absence, locked the door, tak ing with him a butcher's clearer. He proceeded up stairs, where his daughter then IMF, and immediately struck at the unfortunate child's head, mr.king thre e frightful wounds, inelaal almost hewing the head in pieces. Hearing the cries, the neighbours forced open the door, and Mr. Lomax, surgeon, was sent for, who, however, could render no effectual assistance. The child soon after died. Berry was taken by the police to the Mansfield lock-up, where he will remain until after the coroner's inquisition. FIRE AT PALMER'S CANDLE FACTORT.—Yester day morning, about six o'clock, a fire broke out in the immense range of premises known as the Patent Me tallic-wick Candle and Lamp Factory, situate in Great Sutton-street, Clerkenwell, the property of Messrs. Pal mer and Co. The discovery was made by one of the lads employed on the premises, who, in opening the door cf the tiumen's workshop, found the place in flames. Having the presence of mind to close the door again, he was enabled to give an alarm, which speedily brought a number of workmen to the spot, who in .tantly set to work, and happily succeeded in preventing the conflagration from extending. The outbreak was caused from a pipe-stove used in the workshops. [ADYERTISEMENT].—BOTANIC WATER AND BEARS' GREASE.—When the hair is becoming thin, and falling off; the only effectual remedy, besides shaving tke bead, is the use of the two above-named articles, applied alter nately, the botanic water to cleanse the roots from scurf, and as a stimulant, and the bears' grease as a nourisher. If any further evidence was required of the virtues of hears grease for renovating and preserving the hair, Mr. Catlin 's account of the quantity used, and the length of hair obtained by some of the North American Indians, would be a sufficient answer.—Ross and Sons, 119 and 120, Bishopsgate-street, London, who first introduced the use of bears' grease in this country, and who fat and kill the animals, recommend the public to purchase none other but with their names and address printed on the pot, or the chances are their obtaining a spurious article. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY FOR 1850.—A cheaper edition of this important work, cor rected to the present time, and comprising particulars of wore than 100,000 persons, has just appeared, complete in 2 vols., at the low price of 21. 2s. " The untitled aristocracy (rays the Morning Post) have in this great work as perfect a dictionary cf their genealogical his tory, family connexions, and heraldic rights, as the peerage and baronetagc. It will be an enduring and trustworthy record. A work of this kind is of a na tional value. It may be regarded as the Domesday Book of our own time. Its utility is not merely tempo rary, but it will exist and be acknowledged as long as the families recorded in it continue to form an integral portion of the English Constitution. As a correct record of descent, no family should be without it." SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN ITUNGART, IN 1848-9. BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER.—" This is a work of deep excitement—of soul-harrowing interest. It is icepossible to imagine a more vividly picturesque sketch of the late military operations in Hungary—a more powerfully graphic view of the horrors of civil war— than are here presented. Independently of its general interest as regards the progress of the war, this produc tion has many claims to notiae. The author is evidently A fine high-spirited, soldierly, chivalrous fellow. Amidst a thousand daring exploits and hair-breadth escapes—at one time dreadfully wounded and left for dead upon the ,field of battle—his personal adventures illustrate the re-_ mark, that truth is often more romantic than fiction.' Language could no t express too highly our fe eling of the intense and a b sor bi ng interest of this vo lu me."— Naval red Military Gazette. THE WEATHER AND THE ARs THE FROST.—During the who le or;e — st ß er u d le y Ax a Ur ve O ry r place in the weather , a gradual m bu a t rk d e ec d id a e li cl "a thaw tookwhaying set in, with s rain, and in the a dense and foggy atmosphere, accompanied by a fall of course cf a f ew hours all appearance of a frost had dis appeared in the metropolis. Oa the waters in St. James ' s Park, the Serpentine, and in Kensington gardens, owing to the thick state of the ice, a large body of skaters and sliders continued throughout the day to avail themselves cf the opportunity of following their favourite amusement; but the numbers were much less than on former occasions. No accidents beyond mere contusions from fills took place. GERMAN HOSPITAL, DALSTON.--His Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge has signified his intention of presiding over the filth anniversary festival of this useful charity, at the London Tavern, in February next. Among the present list of stewards are the names of the Chevalier Bunsen, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Sir Francis Lawley, tart., Mr. Benjamin B. Cabbell, M.P., &c. . CITY. COURT OF SE,WERS, The commissioners held their ordinary weekly meeting at the Guildhall yesterday ; Air.. Deputy Peaccck in the chair. THE CITY MARKETS. After the usual routine business of the day had been diepos e of; Mr. Sawa', City medical officer of health, said: he had to announce to the Court that he had received summons" to _attend as a witness before the Royal Commhsioners appointed to inquire into Smithfield market; and ,being an officer of that court, whose duties were connected with the markets of the City, he wished to submit the matter to their consideration, to ascertain whether or not he ought to olyi the summons. Mr. Deputy CORNET referred to a complaint made at a previous meeting, that a certain court was not properly supplied with water, and said it hail turned out, on further investi ga ti on , that and not: wi t hi n the jurisdic the court in e calumny, h owever. had gone ques tionon o NN t ' . A t s h i e n e t h i :y e . ou l n ,h t3 e r, in the case in question; b u t th ey h ad no means i,f com forth to the worl.l that the c‘anmissio n negleet.-11 its i it with the ref u t a ti on of the eh 4rge. Therefore the commission was not all owe d b y these iutaye'panying aspersions to stand in a fair position before- the public, who only heard ono side of the question, and that an untrue one. Under these circumstances, ,he thought if Mr. Simon was to go bt fore the ltu al Coinini.4.- sione ra on Smithfield-market; it was highly neci scary that he should receive instructions to confi ne hi s statements to what existed within the boundaries of the jurisdiction of that court. Mr. BLAKE said it was true a court to which their attention had been called proved to be sittutted in the county, and out of their jurisdiction; but before they censured their officers for being too officious, , they ought first to have no courts in the City quite as badly supplied with water as this one, whith . hap pened to be Out of their jurisdiction. :With .regard to Mr. Simon attending the Royal Cornmission, he (Mr. Blake) apprehendee no member would oppose that; and as respected instructions, , he presumed that none further should be given t o lkr. Simon than that he was to give all the truthful information , .to the Commissioners which he possessed. Mr. GODSON concurred with, Mr. Deputy Corney in considering that Mr. Simon's statement before the Royal Commissioners should be confined to the juris diction of the City. , Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that with regard to Mr . Simon's request to have the sanction of that court for going before the Royal Commissioners, he hoped the Court would not express any opinion at all on the subject,'but allow Mr. Simon to adopt the course that he thought proper. If the Commissioners wanted evidence from him as to the sanitary state of Smith field, and were not satisfied with the evidence already adduced before a Committee of the. House of Corn mons, which had declared, beyond the opinion of any man, that the existing market could not be better, and that there was no other place in the world equal to it, then let them procure what further evidence they required; but that Court ought not to give Mr. Simon any instruction on the subject. The CHAIRMAN then announced that the Court would make no order in the matter, but left ittntirely to Mr. Simon himself to decide whether be should appear before the Royal Commissioners. or not. The discussion then dropped, and the Court shortly afterwards adjourned. THE RUSSIAN LOAN. TO THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Sir,—Will not the wily Nicholas by-and-by tell all the English subscribers to the Russian fivc-and-a-half millions' loan, that it is an illegal contract, and that they are entirely out of court ? Is he not better versed in English law than some of our high-principled merchants and innocent stock jobbers ? Does not the 3d Condition of his cunning ukase subject English buyers and sellers, as well as the contractors, to the pains and penalities of our lottery laws ? What says her Majesty's Attorney-General ? Should contractors with foreign Governments be more eligible to sit and vote in Parliament than con tractors with the- British Government ? What says the First Lord of the Treasury ? Why do you inexorably tax bargains and passen gers in English, Irish, and Scotch railways, and wholly exempt those of Prance and Muscovy' Why I oh, why I say you ? Jan. 21, 1850. Z Accao. ERRYSHIRE PROTECTIONIST MEETING. _Air. ville, one of the members for South Derbyshire, rvii not present at the Protectionist meeting, held at Derby last Friday; and we understand the Honourable Member has considerably altered his opinions, and has become a con vert to free trade. There is a rumour that he is about to ri sign his seat.—Nottingharn Journal. DEFEAT OF THE PROTECTIONISTS IN. SOUTH LEI CESTERSHIRE.—A meeting in support of Protection was held at Hinckley on Monday, at which Mr. Packe, the Member for the southern division cf the county, pre sided. Lord Howe declined attending, because he dif fered in opinion with those who had conver e>l the meta ing as to ti e cause of agricultural distress. Mr. 'Nen• degate, M.P., was among the speakers. Mr. Pratt, a cocking-maker, moved an amendment to the first reso lution, to the effect that the meeting repudiated the idea of petitioning for a return to Protection. This amend ment was carried, and Mr..Psche then dissolved the me. ting, finding that a prolongation of the Iroc ceding. would only confirm the d, feat already sustained. THE LATE FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT ♦T WOMB.. WELL'S MENAGERIF.—During tt e past weAt many hun dred persons have visited the cxhibition, attracted thither by the interest the late melancholy accidet.t has occahiored, as the tiger which caused the death of the uuf irtunate " lion queen" is still shown. It was fur some time announced that the authorities had inter fered, and that the animal was to be shot, but owing to there being some difficulty in :this matter—it being con sidered as private property—this has not taken place. The animal is a fine specimen of the feline tribe, though certainly not so large as many now exhibiting in this country, and among the other beasts confined with it appears by no, means a vicious animal. We understand that for the future Mr. Wombwell has prohibited a female from entering the den of any cf the animals, but occasionally one of the male attendants will enter the cage, to show the master► to be obtained over the deni zens of the . forest and jungle. The unfortunate gig', who mot with so shocking a death, was on Tuesday re moved by her iarents to Coientry, where she was buried. Since the catastrophe, we understand that the tiger has been confined in a separate den.—MaidAtent Journal. MYSTERIOUS DIIATII Or A Poucestin.—On Monday night policeman Stamf Ord , c f the Notts rural police force, left Cotgrave, a village about seven miles from Nottingham, in a cart, along with a prisoner who had been apprehended on a charge of robbery, and whom he vas directed to convey to the NoVingfain police-station. At eight o'clock in the evening, Mr. Thomas Smelt, of the Trent Bridge, when prooeediag on the Cotgrave-road, observed the policeman in the cart alone, with his head reclining on the seat. Mr. Smart, and a man who came up at the moment, supposing the policeman was asleep, endeavoured to arouse him, het were horrified to find that he Was lifeless. The body was conveyed to the Treat Bridge Inn, and a surgeon was sent for, but his services were of no avail. 7 hers were no marks of violence on deceased's face, but the surgeon refused to examine the body until he received instructions from the coroner. The man who had beers in deceased's company has not yet been recaptured. Attaiv - aLs or Srk.ClF.—The following arrivals of spece The vessel havejust taken from place f m Boromtm6ay, brought men tioned.becountries cases of silver, consigned to order; the Diamond, from Callao, 1 box of gold, addressed to an eminent house, and 1 bar of silver, and 1 box 4 , f gold, consigned to Lk. Bank of Englan d ; the Highlander, from Oporto, 4 cases of silver, consigned to order; the Free-trade, from Opurto, 2 cases of specie addressed, and 1 case con signed to order; the Glenelg, from Port Adelaide, Bom bay, and the Cape of Good Hope, 5,491 bags of copper, consigned to order, 1 case of specie from the Cape, ad dressed, and 16 boxes of silver from Bombay, consigned to order; the Charles Brownell, from Coquimbo and Valparaiso, 325 bars of copper, addressed to a firm of eminence; the Parliament, from Boston, United States, 600 bars of (Chili) copper, similarly addressed ; the Carnatie, from Cuddalore, Madras, and the Cope. 1 box of specie from the latter place, consigned to ordert the Essex, from Calcutta and the Cape, 1 box of specie from the latter place, addressed to a firm of eminence; the Black Prince, from Arica and Islay, 3,000 bags at copper, addressed to a house of commercial eminenoes and the vessel Coldstream, from Calcutta, 5 boxes of silver consigned to order. NE T E :S o T r IM T O H N E IA N L OR T T O H IA. y it l a a i s hv b ay ro , th a e u r d olficers m testi monial of respect for his 1s well - known ahas had an the proud 414 • s D rE oc it rost ß a l r i , Lw ß Ad e y s . r_Dl A : a Ei grity of character, :Mr. Doe r _y __ . gra tificatione by other portrait of himself, painted by Phillips, gentlementh professionally connected with him, w i t h i h ed by a purse of 60 sovereigns and 500!. of an h c e l i N ng or p th re - s li ren e t s e t d ern h London and North-Western Stock at par. Mr. Dock rayLondon was, moreover, presented at the same time with as elegant silver service of plate of the value of 198/. Both portrait and service bear the following inscriptions-- This service of plate, together with his portrait, and 5001. London and North-Western Railway stock, was presented to Robert Benson Dockray, Esq., M.LC.E., resident engineer of the London and North-Western Railway, by 700 subscribers, consisting of his brother officers and private friends, as a testimonial of their respect and esteem. November, 1848." The portrait has been engraved in a masterly style by T. L. Atkin son, Esq. RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR EDINBURGH.—On Fri day forenoon last an accident occurred on the North British Railway, about three miles from Berwick, by which an elderly female lost her life. The deceased was crossing the rails at a place called Marshall's Mea dows, when the express train which leaves Edinburgh at a quarter before ten A. s. came up, knocked her down, and the wheels passing over her, caused instantaneous death. REMARKABLE lirrisoa.—A very large and brilliant meteor passed nearly over this city, yesterdaymorning, at six o'clock. Its apparent magnitude %a.: about half that of the MOD and its colour was purpli s h. It had long tapering tale. Its course was nearly fiem south-to north, aad, while its rapid transit lasted;lViiii i bly illu minated the etteets.—Aberdeen Herald 4,Eriturday.