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4 pD.,„ S ITE 2rovApe r (,)/,' 1 71. E FRE T . : CH REJ:O c if a : 1) ,• Qb 1848. 2 Vas. By Capcaa , er, R iv . bft.fecrding to the (pinion expressed by Alexandre n't' 4l siren AI. G- ' ll ''`De la Dern°' tete e •,,, • Ulzot s pernp i eL• th e entt n e iaece," one word hovered on the peri i— of ~,,lsr during its composition and thet weruner Ile aa - r• To estimate in a somewhat similar madntra tioe w e of the volumes now under our consi the bol e : " e theuld say that one sentiment lurked in .. 41 of th e e . commencement to its %stills. author from its . Cale • len ) and teat sentiment one of dejection. , toyaisilitti Ceacnier avows himself at the outset to he a eh,ttv,.,a,nd a hater o f revolutions. Consequently Gov ma " roine nt mu st sy Say respe c ti ng repu bli can f or ms 0: f 040 in common prudence be taken cum Inky „,8a,14. in that his very obvious i af • his %) f ar t ° Aware depreciate the apparent trustworthiness Pref a -tri stive, the gallant beokman tells us . i his lase s e n e th a,t he believes there is no word in his Pr empha teed i Waich he cannot prove (prove being , I. the tiloat il italics), or which he cannot satisfy y from authevecredulous to have been derive never for te te sta sources. Doubtless. We would tailt..Lartt insinuate that Captain Chamier has been s tilpresvcf4.4ooettatferda,udhualserisht ulfaiteezents, has garbled facts, s h e ~ ede-snone of these h th a i s n Prefersi g d s islo e r n te l d d , te a k es nt? against him if we proposed to ourseive mo n .- se s e u d PP i re r a e s n% c o d e t feat te%stecusation. What, however, must be u oe ' a ft to l•-•aat astute judgment is this—that any Pisi o l„ g dealt astute explosions, as Captain C 14t oe j t etik tses he does, must be liable to view th n e n m e il l wait no impartial medium, but rather through Th. ft ell ever object appears jaundiced by his renders t,tae Such a p r edisposition to abominate _ e t tesid a n s e Y to deprecate and contemn inevitable. IL 4 tv l . enrselves justified, therefore, without doing tha"ojustce of to the writer, to regard valetitte'rlieela ef his lueubrations upon the re tillpieif, 1‘37 oUtbreak of 1848 with an - work L'ers ; ti n ,' Xor does an examination of the I n thai"nitted to our criticism tend to convince_ ro. ever-present Plta so p so doing we are acting in any respect . i ‘o. t rap - Y. On the e t , the tone of the his.. e ,or l athe on rary, , t • ;4 lit. 0. rwe should say of the chronicler (for die • %'eattiee • e etet y nt. shrinks from arrogating to himself the ' 4 4ip t " the annalist) is perpetually so • s in regard te t eensl y derisive, to pertinaciously captious, t_ carping, so de`n everything and every person connecte j o b glisrdi deity movement, that the necessityf ko ra 48 easiest such stupendous prejudices becomes_ o P e ttle,l 4 more Manifest the further we the "'• Still we that 'York • ee must perforce acknowl edge serious proceed i kte ti ) With all its blemishes, is entitled to . e Fop e tl x Y ae f t r ° l 4 .411 those who are e solicitous to arrive a the , ‘ estimate of the last tremendous revolution, i t ' l t lei ,°l4llles are, be it remembered, the effusions '4111,1;114 eminently exact in regard to dates and _de lilies °we vsl• it may at the same time be clouded . b . y . Itiils tt:redileetions Besides which it is always ad ' ,4trasrd.exatnine the narratives of such important and se Q t . luary events as they may happen to he . given ,_ 1 4 , 1 11 sk,etireerict,cilssses of spectators—for by so doiiigc o e f eel o‘ari the full and complete impression... is 44841,14,• the y Were viewed in all directions.. It i ttlei e 441 indeed to balance the accounts of friends and to pies, (4. the prejudiced and the impartial, in order .t I lk, I, l e at a cerrect estimate of the Revolution, as .to just praepnedn.the red, the blue, and the yellow rays 1 . , aht. , ions, so as to create) a ure white beam of what to h ay 't Must be visible, consequently, from Nisfe°l'served, that our intention is in no measure _ f i l oe r tni 'h any idea that may have been entertai t _ on d lota tjeaders as to the value of this last emanation i te il l ~''s ehilities of Captain Chamier. We will noto stiiiit'eeettiree ors a enough to hint that his skill as a n t a ilie k „'"esi happily to his aid as a chronicler—recog; hii-"ve unquestionably do throughout the whol ttikristei,tati2ncliced views of French Republicanism, the be er e ho iced of narration. It should likewise ef . e d a 8 f °re 4,, nil additional attraction to the . volumes it 4 I . ,) that their author never once quitted Paris h er I tigle dal Y during the whole of the memorablee 114th of r f P 8) or at least from the explosion of th r tsia ehruery down to the election of the first It is satil . se tt ' t toelte on the 10th cf . December. sie epos that surprise h.° tlak . at throughout events of such t i 41 114 . ere was present . our author, 541 Intelligent Englishman like and in the French httij sbaerving every incident as it transpired,. wry t4oo down, fro day to day, as me smear developed- itself, his own personal him the revolutio c n om. i i . t itg 1;1,1," annotations. Every scene attracted d every 'NI tIV--he assisted at every ,f , e'te 4,4 stratioth to , " Day s and days) 4 the4Presion h passed i n the 4 N4 ' e Assembly, observing with , t 6, vi g i l e atonal . phases of use gallery has de '' N I , l i n t eye the shifting iet: Siltation 414 'Ptlv e • It is inevi i tab p le d , t u h p er n e n fo p r r e n , e t e b e a d t in h g i s s e : tski„ PoWers when employed 1 , 11 - io . s el,,pl.ac!) immediately f under his own obser csesi e,,eale derive . romthat circumstance some of In reading le; e4,11,;' Peculiar vividness.. s e em the N'kit ar:s) consequently, we can almost I .' -- tiosess fancy - ourselves spectators. .l e n r this Channer has le l'll tl l ejenlanne - 4. that Captain bt,elsojtltie'e Varirousl' the incidents ls t `m k tice e 'l,l Whether those incidents too which inaugurated Fi ae ein the The l a st i\ ‘• 4l / 1 : 4- of e iti t he Parliament, in the streets or in the I le rak er e n e,Ovspaper. e:Prie, ll' Deputies in particular are d moments of withtbe hi‘e.liti piele_a..ftectitude. So also are the insurrectionaryicted 1 war "tim e Pr7,n.oangai mit the Republic during the . days tr e t r se "_', l a Government ; the .. co the P -ec l• towards the . . clo . se of the bloody 6" reign d , i • eeaecutive Commission , -siet‘tolsiletligues Which multiplied under Hating and the politthie tit? altse of de 11 e t- ' 11) of Cavaignac's ad do m e i s nistration. with all the inte . n etil of 4 democracy . he te tb e . h!e se e •ln e t , Captain Chamier cannot help being gtqlik tal. "%ri a away on the wings of republicante singing ti la ii tragic It happens thus when he listens to . h e. , e ke _ s actress, Mademoiselle Rachel, Itsirti, its the ot the A. I arseillaise at one of the theatres of e4Pealtithe Presence of the Provisional Government. tit ;', 1 4. 5 ( .. 11 1 of this he observes : e. 'lie . - .Pet Was to revive some excitement in ;sie tr•ePtiblic, and as novelty is ever charmim i t s h e e ; lilted at:Ric actress came forth 'to sing favour Ule Alie more lI t04:11..We h ave never witnessed any exhibition han 110114 iii elaw forth a momentary applaus r e t We cannot te l e e . te tee, ahoy. of this gre . at pertermheen she the un wrapped th e sif i a ~ is a republican, but wa a f lvess, I.:e 4i-coloured flsg, and knelt as p enned, e te 'elt ett ° ' the most spirit-stirring song ever IPenthu she sang tlaek,euctrlves borne away by the univers i n the 1 . ' Of 4 . ° Not all the miseries of the republic we ..... het°, Of simatien we experienced. Neither were ever, taneeti' Ilsilinching royalists as we are, and have sid of N T: n, vieLirras of Rechel's power ; Wile til'lBil ambassador, and he, the representativein the hi t t eal ''sPotisre . Could not refrain from joining a ou lt:104 tonPPlause. It' was what is vulgarly called previ- I lal q o Me shout of ' Viva la Republique' 11 0, 141 . bv.,4lltutnt, represented by Letnarti t n h e e , Lediu 111; 15 (1 4% "put, Louis Blanc, 11arrsst, and Caroot le eelleds`ne Chevaliers de Lustre (as the , q nnient 4 ° oi r '„ roared of course, 4 V ice le Gouver ei hi o e. cla news 4 n t 1 1 tuke of %t it .. 8 o ree , ri the new we may 111- interest imparted to i.n . k le ` . ot th e 'f4l,?, described so frequently, th, 1., of th'llowig account give by Uapta . in Cha tiokti•kh ofeZanuer in which Made Lamartine, on ‘ , 5 1( 51..., aY, was saved from a threatened asses -414 r‘ k arti / NI `be y, I ' m 'now endeavoured to obtain a hearing; lt lit,pot meet's Popularity had considerably faded.. th t e t o at oratorical display the mob wanted; . the.) de sthe s t use rei n sP at te a eibeaegn People. Larnartine in his passage Power and be themselves in to r w ea a l r i d ty s apparently, hgt,ttle4o markw of by many who g ave ' h a g o o f the til a !, tine . 4, of esteem in the friendly 5 `ltth - e, h e , , was nut"4ltritko allowed to ascend the ti re tr aa was surrounded by the insurgents, man e,..,4 1 1e . e ja Itunbliocnated conversation with a young e tess tt sati oe , use, and wearing a black cravat. As the eke° t.otte'edecreased, the position of Lamartine be to prest , te ed h ire, 3 t equivocal; the crowd began e was a fe k tes agorae violent a ords escas ed s and ther o&ltied pul4iion shish excited alarm for the once- Ivo r en by i ; he was extricated from his unpleasantene Naheateight 13,?Iing man who, being aware that I, lb 1.:. t. Put 411142,1 his single sl;ark'. crowd, igaitea manadg'pzell siite erea stia ee els way through the dri i t i gi t in„slseatli;3: the coat, said—' Citizen, you must Your wife is taken seriously ill.s the to t t of 111'e succeeded, every Frenchmen k r i w aa e esu reet,t toeta ,nthand and a woman hes a prior claim La. 1 444 ft not aloud saw the danger of allowing the plat Ille the Chamber; on the contrary, thseehminogh illisc)nsiele b' or and he walked out. o n re esna nied e . ) - Z e " e said to the young man who aec o— e l i ~, v h,„ . t, Ae 4 ,," la Madame Lamartine?' et TiseAlver, Wa s , ' I do rot know.' pli e d qot thel''e is not ill?' continued the poet. i' . ' Ilse slightest iu the world that I know of,' re - 't str an Itt rth,, tt kirt'n,,,g er . 1, d the e er,is-- `Who aw at once the object, and asked 1 e 1 rie s , re be?' ~.• .. ~, r ay You 11,1;1' rsaatv'e P led the young man, eeke ate 4 to save you from your unpleasant p 1 ' the citizen Hirahl o e s r_ . ; rep,' inn g o 01:1"/ free,— act.' tilth4itni ytwfvf"conle,' replied Lamartine, ' that I steps 1 ' e c' ' -44 ; et a m oment,' and he directed his ‘tea ll4 sself , - 1 ; where he found General Courtais e , r e so h n o . , h * ere 1,41 s oueht a refuge, and these two p th: d iatie 4 °lle '" v . ctnes iskQikNatturlaa some of the scene sketching in o ttlt, o i ae t or this ssembly is really admirable. A 11 1 ,,,. on iwvh„.."'s may b e aff or d e d b y r e eeering to the totlee i, ertently ' t.‘"t in adv ', on the 13th of June, M. Jules Fevre spoke of Louis Napoleon as the he thngoder: "7"..whercupon like an electric shock, t 'e!.‘lollllott‘j iinndiegilatien'poured down upon him from t s eee i • Our author writes -474111 R.. PUVre ‘Xplained,-11. Ledru Rollin rolled die k Pirit i s .1(3 forwards in his seat, like a Quaker when tiii,„t4ti eui .,.. out to mo ve him. M. Flocon, who alwaysl4,; asgrii„'_:, now p,esticulated more furiously ; lo Yea, to 4' _'_ieeeured a pen; Mori° appeared. lik ,e. Lam e ar a e ti l tl. irau4sealder the words es part of a client's case; , tif 4 aniusiZ e , n i Tel to turn a deaf ear to any remark, t he py_ h n Asell by reading a paper." . 4enee displayed by the Prhwe 4,.... _prelident LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7 , 185 0. THE SUN, frern the moment his interests were in the ascendant, Chamier spF.aks terms of earnest and merited admiratiol3. Nevertheless, with all hit , good (pinions of individual men and individual events, he remains to the very end of the second volume over helmed by his prevailir g sentiment of dejection. Compared with this dejection, M. Guivit's despair is nothing. Should the most joyous Frenchman in existence happen to read the work we question very much whether his hilarity would not be extinguished under the weight of such a terrible wet blanket. Sterne's Smellfungus was nothing to Captain Chamier in his petulant depreciation. He views every republican virtue through a diminishing glasF, and every republican vice through a micro scope. Democracy is his bugbear, and such is his devotion to royalty that, supposing him to have lived under the earlier Georges, we doubt not but that, like Uncle Toby, he would have relieved his mind on every occasion of discomfort by whistling the refrain of Lillibullero. JANE EYRE. Fourth Edition. By Currer Bell. A testimony of the genius of this brilliant novelist is here given, very unmistakably, not only in the circumstance of a fourth editior, but of an edition so cheap and compact, having been already printed of her masterpiece. Com pressing the three volumes cf oct avo into one uniform in size with the standard novels issued by Mr. Colburn, the publishers of Currer Bell have ren dered the work more capable of being carried into the green fields during summer days, and into the chim ney-corner on winter nights, besides making it, in its diminished price, more generally accessible to the multitude. For years no novel has appeared which has taken so strong a hold on the popular imagina tion. Its originality, its vigorous and nervous style, its brilliant talent in the colouring of character, its enthralling and yet homely interest, its delicate and yet masculine sensibility, have secured for it the ad miration of many hundreds of readers, previously enervated in taste by the mawkish sentimentality and frivolous mediocrity co nstitutin g the predo minant characteristics of the current mass of light literature. " Jane Eyre," by its innate power alone acquired for its author, although strictly anonymous, a wide and almost immediate reputa tion. The interest inspired by the novelty of the pro duction was moreover stimulated by the prevalent solicitude to strip off the mask of the mere pseudonym, and to learn who this new writer was whose keenness of perceptivity penetrated into the innermost recesses of our being. Although somewhat diminished on learning that Currer Bell is a female, that curiosity is not satisfied, so that it tends still to invest her name with the interest of a dubious identity. Having shown by her second fiction, entitled " Shirley," that her fancy, though aloe-like in beauty, was not re stricted to a single blossom, the author of " Jane Eyre " has afforded her admirers additional reason to revert to the re-perusal of her first and most re markable composition. There they can scarcely fail to be again enthralled by the incidents associating together the rough but loving (and be is said, too, in spite of all his vices and rudeness) the loveable Fairfax Ro chester, the pure but stern, the ambitious butt self denying St. John, and the heroine o f the autobio graphy, whose whole being thrills through every nerve with an almost diseased sensibility. The work, we cannot but think, is not only fascinating but instructive ; it is not only a source of amusement for the lovers of romance, but a study for the meta physician and the psychologist. NIMROD. A Dramatic Poem. Conceived somewhat in the lofty school of "Cain," the scriptural drama, or as the writer himself desig nates it, the " dramatic poem" of " Nimrod" reveals a daring imagination in accordance with the gigan tic subject into the depths of which that imagination has adventured. As in the veritable " mysteries" of old, we have here mingled together celestial and terrestrial personages, angels and archangels, spiritual and corpo real existences, priests and arch-priests, dialogues and choruses, grouped together round the principal dramatis persona, if we may venture so to style them, Satan and Nimrod, Shaul and Nahmah, Cush and Ludim, Abdiel and Abaddona. Most of the five acts are penned in blank verse, always flowing and occa sionally vigorous. Sometimes, moreover, the drama tist allows his spirits and choruses to float off on the wings of recurrent rhymes—a fluctuation of manner peculiarly agreeable in effect, and consonant with the mood in which such passages are written. If we wanted to demonstrate briefly the capacity of the author to express beautiful thoughts in exqusitely poetic language, we should quote that " Chorus" in the second act — "When hovering o'er the formless void concealed Asleep in darkness, God rebuked the night, Creation, sudden to itself revealed, Smiled on its Maker, and its smile was Light." The last line is to us one of matchless beauty, and although bearing a vivid resemblance t o a simile contained in Abraham Cowley's " Hymn to Light," is nevertheless of such majestic excellence as to ad mit of any such partial resemblance. In the sub joined specimen of our author's skill in the composi tion of blank verses it will be observed that two sen tences are marked by ourselves in italics, the first painting the skies with a word, and the second in its oddity calling to mind the metaphors of old George Herbert. The description is that given of the ghastly vision seen by Abaddona " Appear as suits thee, then! I see the star Slow rising mildly in the golden west, Like a returning sun.—What mean the clouds Thick rushing, curling back on either side With scorched and shrivelled edges, while white red, As furnace within furnace, glows the air? What mean these tongues of flame that dart along The crackling earth, while the vexed ocean's steam Wells fr,,m its bubbling depths? On still—on—on The morning sun sickens along the east With jaundiced eye, and blackens. In the west The star is :melting, nearing. Is the world A fagot for the flames of angry heaven Burs,ing and rending ail? And now that star, With eyes ten thousand thousand, looking each Into my soul, each finding horror there; And behind all, the Power whose frown is death, The death, whose being is unending pan! Where am I? Where the world? Where hell itself? It were a refuge from this awful sight. And now still nearer, fiercer, burning on It scorches through my brain; I c .nnot bear it. Spirit, hold—hide thee; more I cannot bear." Many other passages of equal excellence might be culled from the pages of " Nimrod," but to the vo lume itself we commend all those who exult in tra such lofty fields of poetic speculation. lam with thee now l' The bann'd of heaven, Who clove the hurt of Love in twain, And c6uld not lao;:o en, Then gave the bluml , nd sign again. All fcarles2 beam'd that princely brow, Scorn on the lip; in heart the vow That bore the spirit to its shrine, And gave fur human love divine. Thrice from th' ensanguin'd fount that head Rebounded, like the battle-tread; Flash'd the bright eye, ere quenched its light; The proud lip curl'd, Disdain's delight; Back rush'd the blond-3tain'd slaves in dread, And the scar'd murderer muttering fled. The biocd•cry rose! Granada weeps The flower of all her chivalry; Her fame departs—her empire sleep, Faith, Hope, Love, Joy all trembling fly. Oh, dark atou'd that deed of death! Red Vengeance bar'd her arm; Through cuurt, camp, plain and hill, the breath Of battle woke th' alarm. 'Tis night once more! strange terrors low'r O'er mosque, and palace-hall, and tower; Ceas'd song and dance—the ' Sisters" Hall Is dark—saloons deserted all; From those bright gardens' myrtle bowers, For ever speed Love's, Joy's wiug'd hours; And o'er tti' Alhambra's tower-girt pride The Afrites gather, Ghouls deride. Fierce sounds of hate, toil, jeer or wail, Till silence brood, and shadows pale, As spectres flit—murmurs the air, Though still the leaves as love's despair." After this celebration of the " Last of the Aben cerrages" comes a tale of English industry and self dependence, entitled "Bertha; or, What makes the Hero ?" More romantic subjects, however, still ex ercise the sway of fascination over the taste of Mr. Roscoe; for we find him further on, in the volume chaunting the glories of "King Alfred" with all the gusto of Joseph Cottle, and offering up a song of re collection to the " Last Moments of Andrea Zur baran," the celebrated Spanish painter. A great variety of miscellaneous poems, written apparently at different times, like fugitive pieces, make up the residue of the volume which is dedicated in grateful terms to the Prime Minister of England. COURT CIRCULAR. BALMORAL, SEPT. 4. His Royal Highness went out shooting to-day, ac companied by the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps and Lieut.- Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon. Her Majesty drove out in an open carriage in the afternoon. The younger members of the Royal Family took walking exercise during the day. Sir George Grey left Balmoral this morning for Northumberland. The Earl of Carlisle arrived at Balmoral this evening. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial-office, for the Governor of Canada, and also for the Governors of the other North American Co • lonic!. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ROCHESTER AID CHATHAM RAMS FRIDAY. The. Gold Cup Stakes of 3 sols.caeb, and 50 added; the v•inLer to be sold for 200 sous., by auction, and the second to save his stake. Heats, one mile and a half. (4 Subs.) Mr.Elvves's Mrs.Telt, 5yr5,84t81b(1501.) (Rogers) 1 1 Mr. Lambert's lii,ghwayman, agEd, Bst .51b (Bailey) 0 2 Mr. Cowley Second-Sight,4 yrs,Bit2ll(Doekcray) 2 3 Mr. Messer's Grasshopper, 4 yri, Bst 21b (Crouch) 0 dr Won in a canter by twenty lengths. The West Kent Stakes of 2 soya, each, and 25 added, the second to receive 5 sovs., and the winner to be sold for 80/. once round. (7 Subi.) Mr. Wt t en's Msrchiont - es,7stl2lU(4o/.)(Doelteray) 1 1 Mr. C. Ifot rn by's My. Mary, lig( d, Sat 911(Planner) 0 2 Mr.Scut t's kterquisofG.myngliam,Bst 51b(J.Sharp) 0 3 Mr. Joy's Why-not, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (Tooter) 3 0 Mr. Weston's Oeyroe, aged, 7tt 12ib...(Brarnble) 0 0 Mr. Messer's Malmsbury, 5 yrs, Bst Sib (Crouch) 2 dr The Marchioness won both heats cleverly and was claimed. _ _ The Railway Plate of 351., added to a Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, the second to receive 5/, and the winner to be sold for 2001. if demanded. Once round and a die. (9 Subs.) Mr. G. Drewe's Bellissinia, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (Lowe) 1 Mr. Rayncr's Puleherrima, 4 yrs, 7st9lb (Dockeray) 2 The following also ran :—Mr. Howard's Titbit, aged, Bst 1111) (Abrahams)—Mr. St. Aubin's Jesse, by lon, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Mr. Kimmins's Jessie (late Busyfoot), 4 yrs, 6st 10:b—and Mr. C. Formby's b f by of Guzman's din, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b. Won cleverly by a length. Slane, out din, The Hunters Stakes of 3 sovs. each, and 40 added, the winner to be sold for 120 guineas, and the second to save his stake. Heats, twice round and a distance. (4 Saba.) Capt.Lsmoti Cs Miss Nipper, lOst2lb(lliggins) 2 1 1 Mr. Jarratt's Lady Fordwich, aged, lOst 21b 1 2 2 Mr. P. Barling's Bedford, 4 yrs, 10st 91b 3 0 dr Mr. Miller's Flirt, aged, lOst 21b (Mr. Rolt) 0 0 dr Mr. Blackstone's Khondooz, aged, lOst 91b 4 dr Mr. Southby's Vesta, aged, lOst 121 b (Yeates) 0 dr Three well-contested heats. The Scurry Stakes were won by Mr. C. Formby's Slane filly, Bst 91b, beating two others. LINCOLN RACES.—FRIDAY—(CONCLUDED.) The Brownlow Stakes of 5 sore. each, and 25 added, for two yrs old, bit; three, Bst; four, Bst 121 b; five, 9st 71b; six and aged, lOst. One mile. (5 Subs.) Mr. Hobson's Gladiole, 3 yrs (Flatman) 1 Mr. Blanlord's Hippogriti, 2 yrs (J. Osborne) 2 Mr. J. Scott's Presto, 2 yrs ... Mr. Baxter's bm by Sirlians, d byColwick (Marion) 4 Mr. Key's bf by Hardwick o.of Missßurnley( Denman) 5 5t04 on Gladiole. Won cleverly by a length. The Brocklesby Handicap -of 10 sous. each, and 30 added. One mile and a half. (6 Subs.) The winner to be sold for 80 soya. _ _ _ Mr. in Clough'sb dia;;;, 6 yrs, Bst 71b (G. Oates) I Mr. Sergeant's King Hal, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b (J. Mama) 2 Mr. Staudwell's Miss Stanford, let 121 b (Dentnan) 3 B tting-3 to lon Clara. Won in a canter. Her Majesty's Plats of 100 guineas. Two miles. Lord Exeter's Little Jack, 3 yra, Bst 21b, walked over. The Burleigh Stakes, of 5 soya. each and 20 added, the second to save his stake. Heats, one mile and a-half. Mr. 11,..bsori's Gladiole. 3 yrs, 7st 21b...(0.sborne) 1 1 Mr. C. Marshall's Nutbrown, Est Illb (Plummer) 3 2 Mr. Clough's Clara, 6 yrs, Bst 10Ib ...(G. Oates) 5 3 Mr. Harrison's Old Charlotte Hyde, 3 yrs, 6st 11Ib 2 4 Mr. Waring's Dart, 6 yrs, Bst slb (Ware) 4 dr Both heats won cleverly by three tarts of a length. WESTERN MEETING AT AYR.—TUURSDAY. The Ayr Gold Cup, by Subs. of 10 cove. each. Two miles. (13 Subs.) Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 4 yrs... ....walked over. The Ay rshire Handicap of 10 sovs. each, h ft, and 50 added. Two miles, (5 Subs.) Lord Eglinton's Elthiron, 4:yrs, 9st 71b (Cartwright) 1 Mr. Brown's Luxury, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (T. Johnston) 2 Lord Eglinton's Peasima, 3 yrs, Est 71b (G. Peacock) 3 Won by a length. The Scotthli Volunteer Stakes of 2 sous. each, 1 ft, and 501. added; the second to receive 51., and the third 2/. out of the stakes; 13st each. One mile and a hal£ (17 Subs.) Mr. Forest na Sivaldale (251.) (Mr. Deans) 1 Mr. Laing's Gaiety and lnnuctnee ...(Mr. Maitland) 2 Mr. Tailor's Douglas (251.) (Owner) 3 Several others started. Won by two lengths. Plato of 501. Heats, two wiles. Mr. Thrift's John Dory ( 150/.)...(11. Robwrison) 1 1 Mr. D4wson's Methodist, 6 yrs, (501) (It Ryder) 2 dr Handicap of 3 Boys. each, p.p., and 10 added. Half-a mile. Yeomanry riders. (4 Subs.) Mr.Laing's Gaiety and Innocence, 13st (R. Maitland) 1 Mr. W. Jolly's Heir-at .Law, list 71b (Owner) 2 Mr. Milnu's Nepaul, Ilst (Mr. W. Rutherford) 3 Mr. Campbell's Fitzebarles, lOst 71b (Mr. M'Kenzie) 4 Won easy. CIIRRAGH SEPTEMBER, MEETING.—TIIIIasDiY• The races for the Handicap Sweepstakes and the second•class Railway Plate were both admirably con tested, particularly the former, for which Lord Water ford's Marquis of Carrabas and Captain Farrar's Tan cred by Tearaway ran a dead heat, the latter subse quently winning rather cleverly. Duc•an-Durras won the Railway Plate aster a fine race up the rails with Louis Philippe by a length, Elemi and Miss Reilly well up. An objection was raised that there was no start, only ore of the flags having been dropped when they got off. It waz, however, overruled by the stewards, as it did not appear that any advantage had been obtained thereby. The four events were decided as under:— Waterford Stakes of 10 sots, eaUl3,sosovs. added ; for two yra old colts, Bst 71b; fillies, Est 31b. Lord Waterford's c f Perdita 1 Mr. Watts's br f Plaything 2 Mr. Irwin's b 43 Lord Edward 0 Betting-2 to lon Ptrdita filly, which led all through, and won in a canter. Her Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for three yrs old, colts, B.t 51b; fillies, Bst 21b. Two miles. Mr. Disney's ch c Captain Grant, 3 yrs (G. Harrison) 1 Mr. D. Wynne's b c Remunerator, 3 yrs ............. 2 Mr. R. Newcomen's br c St. John, 3 yrs ............... 0 Betting-3 to 1 on Captain other. The Captain made the r unn i ng f rom end to end, and won in the commonest of c anters . Sweepstakes of 5 treys, each, w i t h 2 5 Bo y s , aided, for two yrs old. Anglesey Post. Mr. Farrar's bl c Tancred ....... Grant, 4 to I agst any ............. 1 ..ord Waterford's oh c The Marquis of Carrabas ...... 2 Mr. Deney's ch c Julia ....................................... 0 Mr. Irerio's eh f The Abbess Mr. Lalor's gr f Bustle 0 Lord Waterford's b f Vaudeville Betting-2 to 1 agst Taucred, 2to 1 agst the Abbess, 4to 1 agst any other. The lot kept well together to the chains, where Vaudeville, Carrabas, and Tancred quilts d the ruck. Cart abas then led to the distance, where he was collared by Taucred, and a most exciting race be tween the two to the chair ended in a dead heat. The deciding heat was run after the Railway Plate—the bet ting even, Tancred having the call. The two ran toge ther to the distance, where the latter headed the Mar quis, and won cleverly. Second Class of Railway Stakes.—Sweepstakes of 15 soya., 5 ft, with 50 soya. addtel by the Great Southern and Western Railway Company, and 50 sovs. by the Turf Club. Waterford Post. Lord Waterford's b h Due-an D urras Mr. MiCormack's ch c Louis Phili ppe Mr. King's nd ch h Eli Captain Oakes nd b m Miss Reilly Mr. Keary's b c Conveyor ........................... 0 Lord Waterford's ch f Modesty 0 Mr. Irwin's ch c Pio Nono ........ Betting-5 to 2, agt Due-a n -D urras , 2r to 1 agst Elemi, 3 to 1 agst Conveyor, 5 to 1 agst Louis Philippe. Due an Durras made the running to the bank, where he was head by Louts, who carried it on for about half a distance, when Duc-an-Durras again came up, passed biro, and, after a good race, w on b y a l ength. There are four races to c ome o f f this day, viz.:—The Queen's Plato each, and th e C or i nt hi an Stakes. A special train will l eave at twelve o'clock. a Sweep sta k es of 25 soya. each,B. Mr. Watt's Chatterbox and M arc hi oness d 'E u were shipped from the North Wall 3 eAerday for Liverpool, Good Sweepstakeso od fur of mares, 10 en route to Dorcaster. Both are engaged in th e G rea t St. Leger; the Marchioness is also i n t h e P ar k gill Stakes. They appeared to be in first-rat e con dition, and aro accompanied by their clever trainer, Prince. DONCASTER RACES. The Great Northern Railway Company int en d to start at extra express train s speeds durio g the r act single e we: k, fa , ctaersrying passengers for the double journey. On Monday, in addition to the us ua l express arid a4 , ven o'clock trains, a speci al train will l eave the King's-cross station about a quarter before eleven o'clock in the morning, for the exolusne accommodation of the racing community, and on each of the four following dais a fast train will be dispatched at seven saa , to re turn from Doncaster at six P.m . As similar facilities will be afforded to the north of Doncaster, there is every reason t.i expect a very full meeting; the sport promises to be brilliant. EXTRAORDINARY CRICKET MATCII.--A great number of extraordinary elevens have at one time or another been made up to play the national game of cricket —married men and bachelors—old and young—maids and wives— fathers and sons against a parish - blind against the lame-- all these and many other odd assortments have we at one time or other recorded, but we have now a match to rel a t e which out-herods Herod. There formerly lived at llunton a worthy yeoman, named Nash, who had two comely daughters. One was " wooed andwon" by a youth name d Whyman, and the other by a similar process changed her name to Tucker. So numerous are their descendants that, on Saturday last, a match at cricket was played at Hunton, in which both the " elevens," the scorers , umpires, and all engaged were furnished by them ; in short, the whole party were either Whymans or Tuckers, besides twice as many of the same lineage, who acted the part of " lookers on," A liner or more athletic race could seldom be met with, and when all were assembled with their wives, sons, and daugh ters, a more interesting scene could scarcely be imagined; they could not have numbered, including Ihe se con d and third generations, less than a hundred. No fewer than forty of the males of the family sat down to supp er. A fter supper a vocal performance of no slight merit took pl ace, the performers all belonging exclusively to the famil y. The game was played by the Tuckers against the W hyrn ahe ' i and the former were victorious in one innings, -- a i dstone Journal, EMIGRATION.—On Friday morning Upwards of fifty persons from the county Fermanagh, consisting of farmers and their families, all Protestants, with scarcely an exception, proceeded from this city by the early tra in to Belfast, on their way to " the land of the west. Tltihey eyweeornescailelnitniohliisgihy spirits, and expressed the greatest satisfaction at ex c h ang i ng a country where they are already looked up on as aliens, for one in which they will be i owned upon o n account of CHISWEL COVE, WEST-BAY, I PORTLAND. There are ficquently during north-easterly gales from twenty to thirty sail at anchor here bound to the eastward. This shows the necessity of the Port land Breakwater in the East-bay. It is to be observed, in the West-bay Admiral Christian's fleet of transports were wrecked in a south-west gale, on their voyage to the West Indies, in November, 1795, when 1,500 perished. Captain Joseph Bennett, late senior commander of her Majesty's packet service on this station (after being seventy years at sea), remarks to Mr. John Harvey, Nov. 20, 1834, in regard to Chiswel Cove, as follows: " Vessels anchoring in Chiswel Cove during N.E. gales reed keep a sharp lock out in the evez.t of a shift of wind, fur if it should suddenly veer round to the southward and westward whilst there, the consequences are fatal, and almost inevitable, as an easterly wind is a dry wind, and as soon as moisture is observable in the atmosphere, although the wind may be still tastcrly, Chiswel Cove must be avoided, and vessels must get under weigh from thence instantly, as a sudden shift of the wind from the S.W. is most certain ; and ho it fur ther observed, for the benefit of mariners, that should a vessel remain too long under these circumstances, even if the master has a thorough knowledge of the locality at Chiswel Cove, viz., that there are nine hours strong outset of the tide towards the Bill of Portland, and only three hours inset from the Bill towards Ct,iswel Cove, she will inevitably be drawn into the Raee of Portland, unless the master has sufficient confidence to stand with her head towards the Rocks of Portland, in doing which with a sufficient breeze, the tide will take her (by keep ing its force upon the larboard bow) clear of the Race, and in the proper channel between the Race and the Bill of Portland. "If a calm ensues after an easterly gale, the vessel must be got under weigh immediately; and should the calm continue but for a short period, the tide will cer tainly take her through the Race, where there is a great chance of foundering." SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH. It appears ithat in the year 1842 Mr. Walter Han cock, of Stratford, in this county, suggested to Messrs. Cook and Vv heatstone, the patentees of the electric tele graph, the plan, as now adopted, for projecting a sub marine telegraph between Dover and Calais, in order to enable the latter gentlemen to extend the benefit of their useful invention to the continent of Europe, and subse quently to other parts, a desideratum which , no doubt, will sooner or latter be accomplished. In the first in stance, Mr. Hancock proposed seven electric wires to be coated with India rubber and shale; which formed a compound suitable for the purpose, but on the introduc tion of gutta percha into this country, Messrs. Charles and Walter Hancock made a series of experiments on that novel commodity, which they found would answer the object—in fact, was preferable, from its peculiar plastic and chemical properties. The success of these experiments led Mr. Walter Han cock, in conjunction with his brother, Mr. Charles Han cock, to take out a patent, in 1848, for coating electric wires with gutta percha and. other substances; and the machinery necessary for working the patent was con structed at Stratford, under the superintendence of Mr. Walter Hancock who claims (and justly so) to be the original projector of a submarine telegraph between Dover and Calais. The importance of Messrs. Hancock's patent may be inferred from the fact, that large quantities of the pa tented article have been supplied to Mr. Reed, of Uni versity-street, London, for the use ef the London Elec tric Telegraph Company. We may notice that Mr. Walter Hancock's name is associated with many im portant improvements in steam locomotion, on and sub sequent to the year 1824; and from that to the present period, Mr. Hancock has been before the public as the projector of many useful inventions in other depart eaents of science—in short, his whole life has been de voted to various inventions connected with the arts and sciences.—Esser Standard, Sept. 6. RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETU - NS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Mlles opened, 1850. NAME OF RAILWAY. BRITISII. Aberdeen .. •• •..... Belfast and Ballymena •............. Belfast and County Down .. .. .. .. .. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. Bristol and Exeter .................. Caledonian... .......... .... Chester and Holyhead • • .... • • .. Dublin arid Belfast Junction ........ Dublin and Drogheda...—. . .. Dublin and Kingstown ............•• Dundee and Arbroath .............. Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen*Junction Dundalk and Enni5ki11en............ East Anglian.. ..... ................ Ewa Lancashire .. .. Eastern Counties and N0rf01k........ Eastern Union ...... ................ Edinburgh and Glasgow .... Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee Furness Railway ... Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr •.... Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Great Northern and E. L Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western •• • • ...... ••• • .. Lancaster and Carlisle ........ ..... . Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ Leeds and Thirsk ••.. • • • Liverpool, Crosby. and Southport London and North Western.•.• London and Blackwall.• • . • London, Brighton, and South Coact London and South Western Londonderry and Enniskillen .. Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Manchester and South Junction Elaryport and Carlisle .. • . • Midland ..... ...... Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... Newcastle and Car1i51e.............. North British ...................... North Staffordshire .......... North-Western ..... ..... Scottish Central ...• ....... Scottish Midland Shrewsbury and Birmingham . • . ..... Shrewsbury and Chester • ........... Shropshire Union .................. South Dev0n........ . .. South Ea5tern.......... South Wales .......... South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. Taff Vale .......................... Ulster • ... ..... West Cornwall Whitehaven Junction ... • • •......... York and Newcastle, and Berwick . ... York and North Midland. •• •• •. .... FOBEIGN. Amiens and Boulogne. .• •• • • • • •• •• •• Monfereau A nd Troyes ........... Northern of France .... • • ...• ... 876 18,206 3,272 3.265 8,50 G 8,295 3,568 Orleans to Bourges (Cont.) ........ Orleans to Bordeaux .............. Paris and Orleans ......... . Paris and ltouen ................ Rouen and Havre .....• .• . RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Sam 6 STOCK EXCKANOR.—The share market presents a much brisker appearance than it did yesterday, and prices are higher. The transactions to-day were - Bristol and Exeter, 6!►/, c. ex div. Caledonian, 8 5-16 c.—Great V. estern, 65 c.— Ditto, 171. Shares, 6% dis.—London and North- Western, 111 c. ex div.—York and North Midland, 17 1 ,E c. ex div. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was dull to-day at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—Lan cashire and Yorkshire, Consolidated, 43L —Ditto, Fifths, 8% dis.—London and North-Western, 110—Ditto, N ew Quarters, % c. p. Ditto, Fifths, 14 9 p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 151, Midland, 35 Ditto, Halves, 25 dis.— Ditto, Consol. (B. and D.) IVA—Liver pool, Crosby, and Southport, 4t4 dis —South-Eastern and Dover, IN - Ditto (No. 4), Registered, s%—York and North Midland, 17 11 A —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Ori• ginal N. and 13.), 15%—Shrewsbury and Chester, Prefer ence, guaranteed 8 per cent., 12. MANCHESTER, SEPr. 6. STOCK ExcllartaE.—We have little change to notice in this share market. Only a small business has been done, and prices remain without any material deviation. The transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 43 Ditto, Fifths, 85 r , dis.—Ditto ( West Riding Union), 7 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 15L. 4 n.— Ditto, Preference, 8%--East Lancashire, 8% c.—Ditto, Pre ference, Quarters, 7 1 4 3 —Royston and Hitchen, 6% ex in.— ScUtish Central, 12A. YORK, SEPT. 5. SrocK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), 41. Ss. 9d.—Great Northern, IVA—N or th B r iti s h , 630—York and North Midland, IN. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.—/ the amount and value of the 31 by the Commissioners for the 13 on account of friendly societies lowing is the yearly amount of from which it will be seen tha creased in importance every ye Year. Val. of Stock 1828 1829 18':;0 1831 .. „ 183/ 1833 ..... 400,032 1534 1835 1836 ... A return has been made of Itcek and other securities held deduction of the National Debt from Ib2B to 1849. The fol f the value during that period, at these institutions hare in ear : Year. Val.of Stock 1839 1840 1841 1842 1,41Q,624 1843 1844 ...... 1845 184 6 ....... 1847 ~ 1,576,899 1837 1838 348 945,221 1849 It will be observed that in 1846, 1847, an d 1848 there was a falling off in the amount as compared with 1845, and the pre ceding year. That was attributable to bad trade and in sufficient employment; but it is gratifying to observe that there was an improvement in 1849 over the best of the pre 100,000i. ced A' in i g . Pyeuairtsevoifnneharalsy communicated to the newspapers the following account of his balloon ascent on Sunday :—" I soon reached the clouds, and rapidly passed above them, but I did not rise co high by far as on the last occasion, and yet my horse bled from the mouth and rostrils. This emission of blood shows what was previcusly proved to me by a num ber of experiments, namely, that the beds of the atmosphere do not progressively decrease : in other words, that the baro metric column, after having fallen to 4,000 metres, may rise to 6,000 metres and even more. In passing through the clouds, I was not, as on the last occasion, covered with con gealed vapours; the electric state of the atmosphere was in equilibrium. I arrived at a quarter-past Eix between the commune of Nozay and that of Marceussis, and was Tell kindly receiv e d b y M . Erizon, of Bellebat, in the latter corn. ' mune. '— Galignani. ORNITHOLOGY.—A beautiful specimen of the night jar, or " Goat-sucker," was slant in the parish of Wytham a short time ago, and is now in the hands of Mr. John Evans, of Bourn, for preservation. It is a rare bird in that neigh bourhood, although found in the southern counties, and is migratory, arriving in England in May and leaving in Sep tember. It derives its name of Goat-sucker from a super stition of universal prevalence that it fastens upon the feet of goats and cows, which RfICIWAITIQ become dry and dirt:Wed. Receipts 1819. £670 445 431 4,616 6,809 2,492 805 1,014 673 3,859 15,254 1,497 4,269 2,74 S 3,833 1,523 2,262 3,423 16,124 4,212 13,791 171 47,025 954 12,932 11,410 193 5,062 655 24,168 1,148 2,248 3,905 4,593 1,762 143 1,545 282 1,955 13,048 1,943 G7B 224 13,459 9.139 1,718 1851. £1,804 221 1,273 674 :4,911 7,350 4,066 467 1,002 1,230 654 852 702 3,761 13,1'G 2,384 4,32 L 3,273 332 3,517 1,591 5,864 4,575 16,936 5,204 16,077 1,402 224 51,212 1,263 13,353 13.052 203 6,249 640 24,1 - ,68 1,325 2,4 A 4,140 4,987 748 1,905 722 1,666 487 2,241 16,606 1,043 1,048 2,523 821 198 14,501 9,948 2,229 1,064 1,033 21,276 3,058 3,47 i 8,212 9,310 3,818 EXHIBITION OF 1851 The following documents have jast been circulated throughout the me' -cpolis ACCOMMODATION FOR ARTISANS. Regulations under R hich a register of persons dis posed to provide accommodation for artisans, &c., from the country, whilst visiting the Exhibition of 1851, will be opened by the Secretary of the Execu tive Committee of the Exhibition under the direction of her Majesty's Commissioners:- 1. No fee will be charged for registration. 2. The names of persons (f good character only will be received, and parties must be prepared to produce references to character, it' required. 3. Authori-cd persons to be admitted to inspect all registered houses. 7 4. Accommodation for married couples and fami lies, fur single men, and lor single women, must be distinct. In no case can single men and single women be lodged in the seme house. 5. In case of lodgings for females, the arrange ments must be superintended by a married woman. 6. The prices charged for accommodation to be fixed up in every room. 7. A form of application, to be obtained at No. 1, Old Palace-yard, Westminster, must be filled up and signed by every person desirous of being regis tered. 8. If any person refuse to conform to these regula tions, or others which may be found necessary, his name will be erased from the register. The object of the register is explained in the fol lowing " decisions of her Majesty's Commissioners" (Nos. GO, 61), to which particular attention is desired : ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE VISITS 01' THE WORKING CLASSES. 61. With the view of affording information, a re gister has been opened at No. 1, Old Palace-yard, Westminster, by the Secretary of the Executive Committee for the Exhibition of 1851, in which will be entered the names and addresses of persons dig. posed to provide accommodation for artisans from the country whilst visiting the exhibition next year. Copies of the Register of Lodgings may be had on application. Other arrangements are under con sideration for guiding the working classes on their arrival by the trains to the lodgings they may select. The register contains a column in which the par ticulars, &0., of the accommodation each party pro poses to afford will be entered. All applications for participating in these arrangements must be made through local committees. 62. - It must be clearly understood that, whilst her Majesty's Commissioners are desirous of collecting the fullest information likely to be serviceable to the working classes, they do not propose to charge them selves in any respect with the management, but simply to afford information. (Signed) M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary. [The form of application for registry of accommo dation for artisans, &c., visiting the Exhibition, is then given.] FOREIGN AND BRITISH ORNAMENTAL GLASS AT THE EXPOSITION. -.- One department of manufacture it was thought Ger many would excel! Britain in was ornamental glass in colours, generally called Bohemian glass. But the Eng lish have recently attained a spontaneous perfection in a branch unknown to us, and altogether inimitable, we fear, however well known hereafter—viz., silvering glass. This is not only as applicable as Bohemian to every pur pose of ornament or utility, but to endless others, many of great importance, especially reflectors for astronomi cal instruments, railway carriages, lighthouses, and the like, for which it is peculiarly suited, from its capacity to throw back rays, and because no cleaning or polishing is ever required more than a window pane or common tumbler. The silvering is indestructible in composition, and is coated over with glass, the vividness of whose colours, be they what they may, or however varied, are thus in fi nitely heightened, and the most delicate carvings upon them are so brought out as to recall the old By zantine mosaics in their multiplicity of tints, and lustrous harmony of combination. We speak of the pro ducts of Berner's-street, London. Hale and Thomson, the patentees, discarding the old impracti cably expensive essential oils, coats all his surfaces, flat or curved, the smallest toilette bottle or largest vase, with pure silver, far more brilliant than the amalgam applied to ordinary looking-glasses, and can never be tarnished or impaired, except by destroying the article it self. The metallic radiance of this deposit imparts a com bined sparkle and warmth, quiet beyond the Bohemian, which is comparatively merely pretty and tinselly; and ' there is the important fact that British glass is far supe rior to any thing elsewhere produced. Hence, taking quality of material, the English is on a par with Bohe mian in price, and the beautiful and unique silvering is so much additional gain. The richness and purity of British crystal admit splendour and voluptuousness of dyes that satisfy the most exigent fastidiousness; hence the purples, saphires, pinks, vermilion', pearls, bronzes, &c., in short, every chromatic hue thrown up by this now argentine reflection, have the gorgeous glow of the antique Venetian glass, the secret of which is now a lost art; but whereas the Venetian absorbed the light, and had to be held up to it before its softened beauties were revealed, the ;English silvered glass flashes back the light, and is seen best at night, or when surrounding ' objects are in comparative gloom. Another charac teristic, never attempted since the discovery of glass itself by Hermes, the Syrian, is embussing— that is to the eye, fur it is an optical delusion, there being no raised surface to the touch, though the ap pearance is that of pure solid silver, either dead or frosted, burnished or in high relief, or sunken. It is impossible to exaggerate the results of this, applied to finger-plates for doors, enrichments of cabinets, panels, cornice-mouldings, or combinations with ivory, gilding, or rare woods, to all which and innumerable other pur poses, this invention is adapted. We trust our German manufacturers at the London Exhibition will investigate a mystery so fatal to many advantages which Peel's freedom of the English market threw open in 1845. At some of these glass silvering works, it is stated, there are vases as high per pair as 3,500 thalers, or 6,000 Rhenish florins (5001. sterling), nine-tenths of this cost being incurred in designing and engraving alone. In deed, in design, English glass has made immense pro gress; and the goblets, epergnes, candelabra, wine- T.wlers, &c., now referred to, are equal objects of vertu, in classic beauty of form and of commercial importance for suitability to the taste of the age. But, as if to ex emplify the adage, that the closer to simplicity the greater the art, perhaps the chef d'ceuvre in this manu facture are mirror glebes, of plain silvered surface, all sizes, from 2 to 30 inches in diameter, from hall-a-pint to 40 gallons. These, placed on bronze figures, as an Atlas or eagle, or attached to chandeliers, or on a side board or mantlepiece, are a most striking appendage to drawing-room or banquet-hall, and are perhaps the fa• vourite specimen among continental connoisseurs, though we think most susceptible of continental imitation.-- Frankfort Zeituny, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES SEPT. 6. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON IN TEL, LIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Aug. 30—Talisman cutter, Captain IL N. Smith, from Darth mouth. 31—Freak cutter, William Curling, Esq., from Poole. Sept. 2—Mirage schooner, Marquis of Ormonde, from Plymouth. 3—Petrel cutter, Earl of Ilchester, from Dartmouth. SAILINGS. Sept. l —Wyvern schooner, Duke of Marlborough, for Cherbourg. 3—Tarifa schooner, Commodore Earl of Wilton, ditto; Capricorn schooner, Vice-Commodore C. H. M. Talbot, Esq., ditto; Merlin schoontr, Colonel William Markham, ditto; Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., ditto; Freak cutter, William Curling, Efq., ditto; Aurora cutter, Le Merchant Thomas, Esq., ditto; Ta lisman cutter, Captain H. N. Smith, ditto; Alarm cutter, James Weld, Esq, ditto. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Titania, Ariel, Eagle, Petrel, Elizabeth, Frisk, Os prey, Cygnet, Gond,la, Susan, Water Lily. The schoooner Arid, Sir George Douglas, Bart., R.Y.S., will sail next week for Teneriffe, thence on a cruise among the West India islands. The R.Y.S. cutter Gondola, W. H. Woodhouse Esq , is under refitment, and will proceed sh ort l y to the Me di'erranean. '1 he Phantom (a small yacht) has been lengthened, and launched this week from Mr. Joseph White's ship yard. - G. Holland tickers, Esq., V. 0., of the Royal Victoria Yacht Club, passed through the roads with eight yachts in company f o r Ch e rb ourg on Monday afternoon, and on Tuesday morning the Earl of Wilton, Commodore cf the Royal Yacht Squadron, left these roads with the Vicc-Commodore, and a large fleet of yachts for the same destination. The Emperor of Russia's yacht Queen Victoria sailed with tho rest, but returned to these roads the same evening. The Royal Yacht squadron has been divided into a number of little fleets in this visit to Cherbourg. The Commodore of the Royal Victoria takes his friends under his flag, a number of Commodores and Vice- Commodores doing the same, each sporting their flags. TEE ISLE OF W IGHT IN LoNnoN.—All the inhabi tants seem t o h ave taken it into their heads to iit t h e great m etropo li s ou Tuesday next, availing them se lves of a cheap train of the South-Western. THE HARVEST.—Finer weather could not be wished for_,. harvest work is proceeding mos t ee is still spreading, satisfactorily. THE POTATO BLIGHT.—Tbis p t differentr s are only n l t y o but though th e halm is all black, very triflingly injured Yet. It isalto th g e eth te e b r e former years; the po tato es when the blight struck the helm used to be conv erted from balls of flour to some thing more rescmb 14g lumps of soap, but the tubers never were more flowery and better flavoured than they 1 1 are this season. This may, in part, be caused by their have being planted earlier. All that been lifted yet have been an excellent crop and superior quality. NEW MODE OF ADVERTISING —The inventive genius of the advertisers has adopted a rather novel and amusing mode of bringing their wares before public notice. Yesterday morning a dog, covered over with advertising pla cards, perambulated the Strand and Fleet-street, attracting particular notice, and exciting much amusement. The quadruped appeared to be fully conscious of the importance of his office, and marched along the street with great dignity and gravity. An order has been issued by the Supreme Govern ment of India discontinuing in the army the morning dram of arrack. THE INDIANS OF CALIFORNIA. We copy the following interesting sketch of the Indiana of California from the Sacramento Frans-. cript - - " The aborigines of California at the most feeble and incapable of carrying I,s - system of warfare of any of the IS ean..ll 14, ' r Indians. C er t a i n it is they have net o that skill and baldness that have I L. , Indians in other portions of the conl its discovery. They are different in - or life, more imperfect in their physici and in whatever light we view them, inferio - rity to most of the Indian races is stamped upon their cha racter. They have existed in this country without any evidence of nationality, without establishing boundaries, without claiming a right even in the soil, with little or no knowledge of property of any kind, and, in fact, as a disorganized though distinct people. " Game, although abounding in the country, has never, so far as we have been able to learn, constituted any considerable part of their diet, for the only appa- rent reason, that it is too much trouble to kill and prepare it for food with their rude weapons and in struments. Thus, what the great western tribes glory in, the California Indians are too indolent scarce to attempt. "To give a correct idea of this people, it will be necessary to enter somewhat into particulars. In the summer season they lead a roving life, and are found in greatest numbers along the borders of the western side of the Sierra Nevada. In these regions they find berries, grapes, seeds, acorn•, various kinds of roots, and insects, on which they principally subsist. The rank herbage and grasses that spring up during the latter part of the rainy season, and come to maturity in summer, wither and die on the surface of the earth during the latter part of the dry season, and swarms of grasshoppers, large and fat, abound among it. " The Indians set fire to the dried up vegetable matter when the wind is favourable, and burn over whole districts ; the grasshoppers cannot escape ; their wings are burned off, and after the fire has con sumed the grass the burnt district is covered with the lifeless bodies of these insects. Then comes the In diana' harvest. Their food is all around them, cooked and ready for eating. With their bows and arrows they sometimes kill elks, deers, bares, &c.; but, as before remarked, they manifest, as a people, but little taste or skill for hunting. In the proper season they manage, by means of wooden spears, of their own manufacture, to catch fish from the numerous streams of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys; and it is said that they manifest more skill in taking fish than in any other art. " They are called Digger Indiana,' from the na ture of their habitations, which are constructed in the following manner : " A circular hole is dug in the earth —say three or four feet deep, and from ten to twenty feet in diameter, over the top of which poles are laid in an arching form, and covered first with small sticks and weeds, and then with earth and green sods. A small opening in the centre of this roof is left for the escape of smoke, and on one side is a doorway just large enough to admit a man's feet first, which serves also as a window. In these cellars the natives are buried through the winter in the most filthy and disgusting condition. " Some contend that there is a class of mountain Indians in California different in their habits from the race just described. After making extensive inquiry, in which we have consulted gentlemen who have spent years in Oregon and California, we have come to the conclusion that the natives west of the Sierra Nevada are all the same class of beings. It is true they do not all burrow every winter, but this is a matter of chance. " We have yet to learn that any of the Indian race can be found this side of Oregon, who ever build anything like comfortable wigwams to shelter them from the weather. We have been assured by me& who have been in the mountain regions, that the na tives there are evidently the same class that are found in the valleys, and that during the most inclement season, one-half of them are in a state almost of com plete nudity. In the mountains, as in the valleys, they chiefly subsist on acorns through the long rainy season. These are gathered in the latter part of au tumn, dried and stowed away in large receptacles above ground, formed of a sort of wicker-work, in the shape of hogsheads, and containing sometimes several hundred bushels. Through them the air circulates, and the acorns become dry and hard. To prepare the acorns for food the Indians pound them to a powder with stones, and then make a pasty gruel, and sometimes a sort of bread. Such are some of their habits. "Further evidence of the imbecility of this people appears from the fact, that they lack that feeling of independence elsewhere a prominent trait in the In dian character. Before the discovery of gold it was customary among the few in this country who culti vated the soil, to keep droves of the natives around them to do their labour. When the first operations were commenced in the diggings the Indians were employed, for the consideration of a few most paltry trifles, to perform the heavy labours of mining. To get together a sufficient number, a few whites would go to the places frequented by them, and drive away as many as they chose. " The influx of strangers since tke discovery of gold has been so great the quiet of the race has been disturbed. A new order of things has commenced, to which they will not, or cannot, adapt themselves; still their old customs have been in some measure broken up. The whites have introduced into their midst what to them are luxuries, which they have become accustomed to take possession of by stealth or robbery, whenever opportunity presents itself. Their rights have not always been respected ; in many instances abuses have been practised upon them, and from these facts it is easy to see the cause of much trouble. A. mutual hatred exists between them and the mining community, and their characters are se different that this feeling can hardly be eradicated from either party. Where that hostile feeling exists one party or the other must prevail until the weaker party becomes extinct. "We will now take a hasty glance at this people as they have conducted themselves in war, citing a few instances. In the winter of 1848.49 the people in the vicinity of Sutter's Fort often received accounts of Indian depredations in the north, and sometime in February, about thirty murders committed by them, on various occasions, had been heard of. The victims were principally Oregonians. In the latter part of February, 1849, a company of about sixty, horse and foot, left Sutter's Fort to chastise the Indians. They took the direction of Sutter's Mill, or Culloma, and the Indians fled before them. Some of the mounted men overtook the natives, and several were killed while trying to escape. A quantity of stolen property was recovered in this expedition. "Further depredations were committed, and a few weeks after another company of about twenty whites left the region of Cullom*, and followed the Indians to their encampment. This handful of men actually took prisoners, and drove to Sutter's Mill, between 200 and 300 Indians. A sort of trial was then given them, after which thirty of their number were shot. The rest were released. From that time very little trouble was had with the Indians in the northern 1 1 mines till the winter of 1849-50. " Such is the character of the race with whom the difficulties in California on various occasions have arisen. It is not our purpose at this time to discuss the morality of the course pursued by both parties in relation to each other. But we have seen that the natives of California have given no evidence of skill in warfare. Almost all their acts of violence have been perpetrated in a stealthy, cowardly manner, and never have they attempted to carry out any extended or general plan of operation. Never have they come upon a town at night, and laid it in ashes, as might have been expected from a s avage f oe. T hey seem to have no higher idea of warfare than to attack un armed individuals, or to kill the sleeping inmates of a tent in some isolated place. They have only the rudest implements of war, and cannot successfully defend themselves against American rifles. The pro babilities are that they are not clannish in their feel ings, and will never unite as a people against the whites. " From the foregoing the inference is that no very serious trouble will occur with the natives on this side of the Sierra Nevada." EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY.—The Equitable Assurance Company held their usual quarterly meeting on Thursday, at which the accounts for the Midsummer quarter were presented. Mr. Price, the vice-president, read a report from the court of directors on the subject of some changes which bad been suggested in the constitution of the society, with a view of rendering the establishment more attractive to new insurers, and an address was read by the actuary em bodying the result of some calculations, showing the benefit that would he likely to be derived by the present members from an increase in the number of fresh policies. It appears the society now consists of about 6,000 members, with an undivided reserved fund cf a million and upwards, and that the period in which a new policy would participate under the existing regulations would be about eight years. The ac tuary's report was ordered to be printed and circulated, and the meeting adjourned. It is stated that Gallipoli oil (generally combined with spirit, tar, and tobacco liquor) applied to sheep, renders the wool both liner and heavier on shearing. Four good mothers have given birth to four bad daughters.; Truth has produced hatred; success, pride; secu rity, danger; and familiarity, contempt. And, on the con trary, four bad mothers have produced as many good daugh ters, for astronomy is the offspring of astrology ; chemistry of alchemy; freedom of oppression; patience of long suffer ing.—Jewish Chronicle. MIRACULOUS EscarE.—On Tuesday last an old man of the name of Rae, residing in Marketgate-street, Ar broath, proceeded to sea in an old crazy boat, and was driven off the coast in the storm of that day. Not making his ap pearance at night fall, considerable apprehensions were enter tained as to his safety. Wednesday passed over and no ap pearance. Thursday with the same result. All hopes of his safety had now fled, excepting the faint one that some vessel had picked him up ; but he made his appearance in his cockle-shell of an ark on Friday about noon in the offing, whereon s )me men proceeded to his assistance, when they found him in an almost exhausted fittite, drifting op! mitt to the rocks.—Dundee Courier, re, pelhaps, th onsirformidabl corilv America! ver ishown any n charkipt*rhted-th inen'keYer-tinc , their ITIVe so cal develWpkeitt 'ersing latcd by THE COME DY ric O k Ba nnF DANTE. Trans, Paterman. After the elegant and vigorous translation by Cary of the Divine Comedy, it appears to us to be not only rash but superfluous to attempt another English ver sion—more especially if the latter proves, on perusal, to be very careless in its versification. This emphatic dispraise we must in all truthfulness accord to the labours of Mr. Patrick Bannerman—a circumstance which we cannot but regret, seeing that those labours have necessarily been voluminous. Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise are alike flawed in this respect by the slovenly manner of the rhythm, by the frequent neglect of all rhyme wha tever, and by the occasional (and because occasional, the jolting) introduction of the triple rhymes, such favourites with Dry den. Either let us have the triple rhymes throughout—and that would be eminently effective and in accordance with the melodious original, as sung by the inspired lips of Dante Alighieri—or no triple rhymes at all. As the fittest token of the utter incapacity of Ur. Bannerman to supplant his distinguished and accom plished predecessor, we give his version of the opening canto of "Dell" Half through our mortal life, myself I found In a dark forest's will and rugged ground, Where the right way was lost in shaggy wood, A rude and savage woodland solitude. The very thought still robs me of my breath, And memory counts it littlo less than death: Of good to treat, discovered in the wood, IT tell of other things I understood. When the true way was lest, the path forsook, Of sleep so deep that moment I partook That bow I catered I can scarce relate, So dull the slumber and so dead its weight. But when the mountain's feet my steps drew near That closed the vale that filled my heart with fear, Upward I looked, and saw its shoulders bright Already with that planet's rays of light That guides all others through each path aright. The fear was then subsiding into rest That shook the placid deptn within my breast, All the night log so saddened and perplexed. Like one who breathless issued from the waves Turns to the waters he no longer braves, My spirit, that still flies, turns buck to see The pass that living man ne'cr trod but me. My weary flame once more refreshed, I paced The way along the de.ert ridge, and trac , d The hindmost footstep ever deepest placed." That, we take it will be amply sufficient to justify the language of depreciation in which we have been compelled to characterise the laborious performance of Mr. Bannerman. With THE LAST of the ABENCERI?AGES. other Poems. By Thomas Roscoe. That legend of voluptuous Granada which Mr. Roscoe has selected as the theme of his present grace ful effusion had its attractions for the refined annd cele cul - tivated mind of Chate 4 ub riand. It bas bee brated moreover already in our prose literature by the genius of Sir Bulvver Lytton, in whose elegant romance of " Leila" are depicted in brilliant colours the fall of Ahdallah and the triumph of Ferdinand. The consummation , of the ever memorable conquest of . Granada by the armies of Isabella , in a deed of agsas•ination, is thus vividly depicted by theverses of Mr. Roscoe : " Wreathe, wreathe for Inc my myrtle crown, I come, my love—my sword, farewell; Sweet, lov'd land's hopes—all, aq thine own, Thy angel guards my spirit well! STRAND THEATRE. Flexmore's ballet of the Fays of the Forest has proved an attractive hit. The house last night was crowded, and the several artistes acquitted themselves with admirable spirit. Cormack and Wright were vehemently and deservedly applauded. Flexmore, we understand, has concluded a short engagement with Mr. Bolton, and will make his bow on Monday next for a few nights' performances, previous to the commencement of the approaching season at the Princess's. where he is to re-appear in all his glory; and the bills announce the speedy return of that de lightful danseuse, Rosina Wright, to this excellent Terpsichorean corps. THE DRAMA IN LIVERPOOL, Theatrical entertainments are very popular just at present in Liverpool, and the drama thrives there with almost as much vigour as in the metropolis. Besides several minor places of amusement Liverpool boasts of three theatres, two of which are now in full opera tion, while the third, or rather the first, for it is par excellence the Theatre Royal of the place, has within the last week or so put the finishing stroke to a very successful and profitable operatic season. Nor are these, it would seem, sufficient to satisfy the theatri cal appetite of the large speculative population who are located on either side of the Mersey, and two ad ditional playhouses are to be brought into existence for their especial accommodation—one in the southern district of Liverpool, and the other in the centre of that rapidly-extending town Birkenhead, which, from an obscure ferry has suddenly sprung up into an important and extensive shipping port. Much of this growing taste for theatrical amusements may be attributed to the unvarying exertions of Mr. Copeland, the spirited lessee of the Theatre Royal and Amphitheatre, who spares neither pains nor ex pense to secure the services of the first artists of the day for the gratification of his numerous patrons. Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam are now the great attractions of the Amphitheatre, but amongst a corps dramatique which boasts of clever actors like Mrs. Copeland, Mr. Basil Baker, Mr. John Reeve, and Miss Fanny Baker, the stars do not shine with the same lustre as when they are in company with the less brilliant satellites of the other theatrical he mispheres in the provinces. Still the irresistible drollery and vivacious humour of both are held in more favour here than even at the Haymarket, and they never fail to prove a trump card to the Liverpool manager. During their engagement Morris Barnett's comedy of the Serious Family, in which Buckstone undertook the character of Annni dab Sleek, Leap Year; or the Lady's Privilege, and The Green Bushes, have been presented to over flowing houses. In the latter, Miss F. Baker sus tained Madame Celeste's part of Miami, and threw into the earlier scenes a good deal of melodramatic energy, which in the closing act she judiciously changed for a dignity and pathos that were truly touching. The good folk of Liverpool are somewhat annoyed that she and her father, who achieved so many triumphs at Drury-lane last season, are again to be snatched from them, to add to the phalanx of dramatic talent that already adorns the metropolitan stage. They join Madame Vestris's company at the Lyceum. FIRES.—Two fires occurred 3 esterday morning. The first broke out about half-past two o'clock, on the premises of Mr. J. A. Jordon, wheelwright, 20, Old-street road. The fire was discovered by the police on duty, by sparks issuing from the roof, which was burnt cif. The en gines from Whitecross-street were quickly on the spot, but the fire was net extinguished before it had communicated to the premises of Dlessrs. Smith and Owen, timber-mer chants. Considerable damage was done to the stock. About an hour afterwards another fire was discovered by the inmates on the premises of Messrs. Caldecott, Manchester warehousemen, Wood-street, C heapsiae: On the arrival of Mr. Braidwood with the engines, it was ascertained that the flames bad originated from the heat of the kitchen-range of the adjoining house. After cutting away a considerable quantity of timber, the fire was extinguished. PRICE OF GAME IN LEEDS.—At the commence ment of the season on Monday, the dealers obtained 2s. Cd. a brace for partridges, but they are now selling at from Is. Sd. to 2s. Grouse are fetching ss. 6d. a brace. FUNERAL OF THE LATE SIR PETER POLE, BART. —Yesterday morning the remains of the late Sir Peter Pole, Bart., were conveyed from his late residence, 41, Welbeck street, Cavendish square, for interment in the family vault at Kensal-green Cemetery. The principal mourne , s were the sons of the deceased, the present baronet, Sir Peter Pole, and Mr. H. Pole, the Earl of Winterton, and General Clitherue. The proses-ion consisted of a hearse drawn by four horses, and four mourning coaches, followed by several private carriages. ANOTHER CALIFORNIA.—The advices from Texas furnish some striking and characteristic details of the prepa rations which are in progress in all parts of the state for a gran d expedition to the g old region, which has just been dis covered in Northern Texas, not far from the ruins of the an cient city of Gran Quiyira. Gold mines are credibly stated to have been discov ered in many localities all along the great chain of mountains extending from the sources of the Ar kansas and Platte Rivera, by Santa Fe, to the Rio Pueico. Immense excavations are shown along the feet of these moun tains, and the ruins of large cities would appear to in dicate that these mines were once worked by thons rn an , d t s ha o t f people. The ge o g ra p hical formations of this region are stated to be so similar t o those of the gold regions of Calif , ja the two appear to he identical, and contain similar deposits of th e precious metals. These facts having been made known throughout Texas, appear to have caused quite a ferment amongst the population, and the local papers say that they "should not he surprised to find that the emigration to the gold region of Texas in the ensuing autumn should exceed the emigration to California." SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A RESPECTABLE FEMALE IN THE HAMPSTEAD PONDS.—About six o'clock on Thurs day evening, two water-carriers,. of Hampstead, named Reynoldsfrom one of the large ponds on the Lower eir Heath, Hampstead, observed a body floating in the centre of the pond. Wil liams took off his clothes and went into the water and brought the body out, which proved to be that of a well dressed female about twenty years of age. She was quite dead, and appeared to have been iu the water some days. She had long gold ear-rings in her ears, and on the arrival of Hunt, the suinm , Ding officer of Hampstead, he searched the body. A small amount of money was found, as also a letter addressed to Miss Jane Smallwood, Sydney-street, Brompton. The officer proceeded to the above address, and ascertained that deceased bad lately been living there, and that she bad been missing since Saturday last. Her friends are highly respectable, and the impression is that she has committed suicide on account of some love affair with a per son with whom she had a long time teen keeping company. The body was conveyed to the Freemasons' Arms public house, Downshire-hill, to await the coroner's inquest. We learn from New York that another new Atlantic steamship, the Franklin, has been completed, and was advertised to leave on the 16th cf September. She is the first of two that are to run between New York and Havre, and she will call at Cowes both going and returning. Her consort, the Humboldt, was also in a state of forward ness, and would soon follow. Acccrding to the books of the Town Treasurer of Inverness, the streets of that burgh were first swept at the public expense, by order of the Duke of Cumberland, after the battle of Cullodern The following is the entry, dated 1746 :—" Pad labouring men for keeping the streets and kennels clean, by order of the magistrates, upon a message from his Royal Highness, the Duke of CumberlAnd, um the 191 , 11 Vt . April tv the 23d vf Augu3t, 47/. 25." 85% 160 94% 67 3 A 75A, 322 100 22% 219 188►% 230 253% 39 123 470 5% 171% 239 11% 167 28 491% 290 1 4 256