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of offences against property ? In the year 1821, there then being many capital punishments on the Statute Book af f ecting various offences against property, there were 1,108 persons capitally convicted under these laws ; et only II were executed. With the exception of those laws against forgery, the Parliament had thought fit to repeal the capital punishment in cases of the kind he had alluded to; and they were now asked to render the law more effectual, by repealing it in that case. While steal ing. from a bleaching-ground was a capital offence, one in twenty of those who were convicted had been executed. Since the repeal of that law, and the substitution of another punishment, one-half of those who had hen tried were convicted. The fact was, that sentence had gone forth against those capital punishments for offences against property ; and that that sentence had been pronounced, not by vain theorists—not by men influenced by exaggerated notions ef humanity—but by persons who were interested in the suppression of the crime. He had hi m s e lf, when in the other House of Parliament, presented a peti tion from 261. bankers, representing 735 persons, partners with them, and 1,000 provincial banks, all d , alers in this paper currency, praying th a t f or th e i r p ro t ec ti on a l one these capital punishments might be repealed Such was the opinion of those men for whose especial protection it was said the Statutes were kept on the Statute Book. It was to be recollected that the Bill which he now presented to their attention had passed twice through the House si Commons. What then, after that, was the chance that men would prosecute or juries convict, or if both were done, that the law would be strictly carried into execu tlbn It was hardly to be supposed that that which had been formerly almost a dead letter should now he anything Snore than a dead letter. Under these circumstances, he now proposed that the Bill to abolish the Punishment of Death for Forgery should be committed. Lord WYNFORD said he should not oppose the Bill, for he was anxious, after the experiments that their Lord ships had been pleased to make with regard to other of fences against property, that this experiment should be made with regard to the crime of forgery. He should he rejoiced to find it made" successfuly ; for he had always teen averse to the punishment of death where that puni*h.- went had not been ?Jr - joked by the most urgent necessity, and justified by evidence of its efficiency. He was Cecid sally of opinion, that as the Legislature had abolished th punishment of death in cases of cattle stealing, it was ad visable th it the ex'reme penalty of the law should in like manner be abolished in cases of forgery. He hop, d the anticipations of the Noble Lord would he fulfilled ; but he confessed that he entertained some doub's on the subject. He believed that the fact of having the gallows in perspt c live was a great prevention of crime. He was disposed accordingly to think that the same alteration should lie made in this Bill, similar to that in the Cattle-stealing Bill, namely, that the Judge should be allowed no discretion, but should be bound, in cases of forgery, to pronounce sentence of transportation for life. He gave notice that it was his intent - on to move a clause to that effect. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE hoped their Lordship, would give their sanction to the general principle, that the extreme penalty of the law shouid not be exacted in cases of forgery ; but he was of opinion that in some casts ex reptions should he made. He was dec'ded'y disposed to think that the punishment of death ought to b, retained in cases of the forgery of powers of attorney. He h ,t 1 rained the extreme punishment in such eases, when lie for merly proposed a similar Pill, and he thought that it would be well to retain it on the present occasion. The Duke of WELLINGTON declared that his opinion es to the expediency of punishing forgery with death was unaltered. Times and circumstances, however, were so much changed, that he did not think it would be 4 xpedient to oprise the present Bid. At the same time, he consi dered that the amendment suggested by the NoWe Marquis ought undoul.tedly to be adopted. Their Lordships then went into Committee. Lord WYNFORD nave notice, that on the bringing up of the rerrt, he would move that the punishment of death should be continued in the cases of forgery of will. or powers of attorney for the purpose of transferring stock. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that these cases were difficult of proof, and that the same indisposition to prosecute to extremity existed with respect to them as in the simple forgery of hills of exch ince. . , Lord HOl LAND wished to abolish the punishment cf death f'r all offences except those in which violence was used. He would support this measure ; and he contended that in none of the cases which might arise should the extreme penalty be exerted, because thus, as in the case of Fauntleroy, the sympathy of the people was excited. Earl GREY was sorry to he obliged to differ with theme who conceived that the punishment of death in cases of forgery should be abolished altogether. He was inclined to think that a distinction should be made between the forgery of wills and powers of attorney, and other cases of forgery. He thought, therefore, that it might be well for their Lordships to accede to the amendment of the Nobly and Learned Loud. If hereafter they found that the for gery of these documents went on as before, and that the ropu'ar feeling was against the extreme penalty, it would be easy to alter the enactment, and bring in a Bill to abo lish the punishment of death in those cases. For these reasons be would be much disposed to support the amend ment. Lord WYNFORD moved a clause to . the effect that the judges should be compelled to pronounce sentence of transportation for life in all cases of cobviction for forgeiy, allowing the culprit, of course, an ultimate appeal to the mercy of the Crown —Agreed to. The Bill then went through the Committee. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS BILL. On the motion that the House go into a Committee on this Bill, Lord WYNFORD opposed the motion, stating that le believed the Bill would he u , terly inefficient, and prov— ing that it should he postponed until next Session. The LORD CHANCELLOR admitted tbat he w. much disappointed in the Bill, and expressed his beli. f that it would not have the desired effect. He knew a better measure than this had been proposed by a friend of his, and be had hoped to have seen it brought forward and adopted. Lord WYNFORD moved that the Bill be postponed till next Session The LORD CHANCELLOR agreed to it, and the Bill was postponed accordingly. GRAND JURIES (INDIA) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the second read ing of this Bill. The Duke of WELLINGTON opposed it as unneces sary, and likely to be injurious. The LORD CHANCELLOR defended the measure The Earl of ROSSLYN opposed i►. The Bill was then read a second time, and at Half past Eight o'clock the House adjourned. The mill-owners in Huddersfield and the mighbourhood have, we understand, come to the resolii• tion to fix a rate of wages on a liberal scale, to be given to their workpeop'e, with the view of putting an end to the &ifs rences which at present exist ; and resolutions to this effect are now in a course of signature, which the mastets hope will he accepted by their wnrkpeople as an evider ce of their liberal intention towards thrm, and supersede the necessity for combinations —Leeds Mercury. TEN LIVES LOST IN DUNGANNON.—We have just heard, on what we consider good authority, that in a case of enforcetnent of tithes due the lute Dr. HALL, of Dungannon, the people made resistance and were fired upon by the police, who shot several, and that ten lives have in consequence been lost. The police ultimately sue.- ceeded in dispersing the infatuated people.---Eveniny Packet.--(Ten livte lost in enforcing tithes due to a dead Parson ! ! A melancholy but forcible commentary upon the system. )—Dublin Morning Register. NVe have seldom had occasion to narrate a more wonderful escape from death than the following. On Wednesday week, a man, named JamEs MA RKLAND, a joiner, was employed to perform some repairs in one of the extensive coal-pi•s belonging to Mr. FITZGERALD, at Charlestown, near Pendleton. The shaft of the pit in question is nearly 200 yards deep. About 100 yards tram the mouth of pit, is an opening of the shaft, forming the first or original level of the pit. In this and near the edge of it stood MARKT—alio and several other men em ployed in the pit. Some nonsense was going on among them, and one of them giving MARK LAND a slight push, he was precipitated down the shaft. Fortunately for him, the engine had not been at work for some days, and there n' in consequence, a depth of fifteen yards of water at the foot of the shafr. Sensation had left the poor fellow before he reached the water, and when he recovered con sciousness, he found a piece of wood floating on the water. With this assistance, though unable to swim, he kept himself on the surface a few minutes. In the mean time, though there appeared little hope of saving MARKLAND, the men in the level cried out to those at the pit mouth. With as little delay as possible the engine was set at work, and a man named ANDREW WRAY put one of his feet Iwo the bucket hook at the end of the chain, and descended the sii ift, at such a rate, that when lie got to the water he sunk over head, taking poor 31ARKLAND with him. They managed, however, to get to the surface again, and secured the chain around them, when they were wound up, and it was found that neither had sustained any injury, through from a comparison of the time from the acciAent to the descent of Wirav, 3IA RKLA ND must have been.4in sensib'e from ten to fifteen minutes.—Manchester Guar- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GOOD WOOD RACES. CHICHESTER, Monday morning. If we may he allowed to form an opinion from appear ances, the ensuing meeting cannot fail of being the most brilliant of the season. An immense number of fashionables have already arrived in the neighbourhood, and at this time there is scarcely a bed or a stall to be obtained within ten miles of the place. At Goodwood, the seat of his Grace the Duke of Richmond, preparations have been made for the reception of a large party, most of whom are expected to art ive in the course of this afternoon. The list of the Noble Duke's visitors comprise the following members of the /taut ion —Duke an.d.Rtichess of Arg3,ll, Duke of Dorset, whose arrival is doubtful, Count Matus zewic, Earl and Countess of Errol, Earl and Countess 3loun•charles, Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock, Earl Jersey, Earl and Countess of Lichfield, Earl Verulam, Earl of Uxbridge, Earl of Stradbroke, Lady Agnes Byng, Lady Georgians Paget, Lady Sophia Lennox, Lord George Bentinck, Lord Robert Grosvenor, Lord George Lennox, Lord Albert Conyngham, Lord James Fitzroy, Lord W. Lennox, Sir James Graham, Sir Mark Wood, Hon. Capt. Roos, Capt. Byng, Col. Udny, Col. Cosby, Capt. Lyster, Mr. Irby, Mr. Mills, Mr. C Greville, Mr. Thornhill. Col. Russell, Mr. Payne, and Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence. The racing is expected to he unusually good ; its im portance in the eyes cf the sporting world is immense, the speculation on the Gold Cup (the most interesting of the kind in the country) having for some weeks past partaken quite of a Derby character. All the stables in the vicinity are full, and it is supposed that there are more horses here than have been known since the establishment of the rac, s. To enable our readers to judge for them-elves we subjoin a list of thern,in addition to those given in the Drawing Room and Lavant Stakes : Duke of Richmond's Conciliation. Lord Exeter's f. by Mountebank, 2 yrs. Lord Exeter's c. by Partisan, 3 yrs. Lord Egremont's c. by Whalebone, 3 yrs. Lord Egremont's Sister to Tom Thumb, 3 yrs. Lord Chesterfield's Priam, 5 yrs. Lord Chesterfield's Alga, 3 yrs. Lord Tavistock's Schoolmaster, 3 yrs. Lord Tavistock's Pedro, 4 yrs. Lord Sidney's Lucy, 3 yrs. Lord J. Fitzroy's Changeling, 4 yrs. General Grosvenor's Sarpedon, 4 yrs. Sir M. Wood's Lucetta, 6 yrs.. Mr. Gardnor's Tarquin, 3 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Deirce, 6 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Delight, 4 yrs. Mr. Dickenson's The Screw, 4 yrs. Mr. Curties's c. by Little John, 3 yrs. Mr. Rush's f. by Whalebone, 3 yrs. Mr. W. Day's Giantess, 3 yrs. Mr. Gully's Lady Fly, 3 yrs. Mr. Ridsdale's St. Giles, 3 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Jocko, aged. Mr. Chifney's Rowton, 6 yrs. Mr. Grant's Flora,3 yrs. And several others who are here for the plates. BETTING. 001.0 CUP 5 to 4 agst Lord Chesterfield's Priam 7 to 2 agst Mr. Ridsdale's St. Giles 1 I to 2 agst Mr. Chilney's Rowton 7 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's Lady Fly 12 to I agst Lord Exeter's Beiram 15 to 1 agst any other. DRAWING ROOM STAKES. 11 to 8 agst Lord Tavistock's Posthuinou, Beirain and Bassetlaw are also backed. GOODWOOD STAKES. The Screw and Lucetta are about equal favourites at 4 to I each Lucy and Giantess are talked of, but not backed. FIXTURES ?OP. TO MORROW. The Trial Sakes of 10 sovs. each for all ages. The Drawing Room Stakes, for 3-yrs. old, value 1,090/. Out of 28 horses entered, the following are here : His Majesty's c. by Whisker, 3 yrs. Duke of Richmond's Hyder, 3 yrs. Duke of Richmond's Casador, 3 yrs. Lord Exeter's Beiram, 3 yrs. Lord Exeter's Spencer, 3 yrs. Lord Uxbridge's f by Sultan, 3 yrs. Lord Uxbridge's Hermit, 3 yrs. Lord Tavistock's Posthumous, 3 yrs. Lord Mounteharles's Bassetlaw, 3 yrs. Captain Byng's Dryad, 3 yrs. Mr. Henry's Margaret, 3 yrs. Mr. Sadler's Sister to Euryone, 3 yrs. Lavant Srakes of 50 sovs. each for 2-yrs. old (I 0 sub scribers.) The following are here : Duke of Richmond's f. by Sultan, 2 yrs. Lord Egremont's f. by Whalebone, 2 yrs. Lord Chesterfield's Weeper, 2 yrs. Lord Exeter's t. by Mountebank, 2 yrs. Mr. Garduor's f. by Whalebone, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 100 each for 3 yrs. old. Six subset ihers. Lord Uxbri , fge's Hermit is expected to walk over. Match, 50.—Mr. Gardnor's Tarquin agsr. Mr.W. Day's b. c. by Brother to Interpreter, Bst. 716. each. Match, 50.—Mr. Claidnor's Tarquin agst. Mr. Van sittart's Zebra, kist. 41b. A mile. The Innkeepers' Plate of 25 soya., added to a Sweep stakes of 5 toys. each. Chichester, Monday Evening. The entries closed this afternoon as follows : Innkeepers' Plate (to-morrow). Mr. Oliviera's Chancery Suit. Mr. Dockeray's Rosebud. Mr. Forth's Vertigo. Mr. Moore's f. by Bolus. Members' Plate (Thursday). Duke of Richmond's Conciliation. Duke of Richmond's Casador. Lord Exeter's Fawn colt. Lord Tavistock's Pedro. Colonel Cosby's Sketch Book. Mr. Vansittart's Zebra. His Majesty's Plate (Friday). Duke of Richmond's Conciliation. Lord Exeter's Fawu colt. Lord Chesterfield's Whiskey. Lord Tavistock's Pedro. General Grosvenor's Sarpedon. Captain Martyn's Misletoe. Sir M. Wood's Lucetta. Mr. Sadler's Euryone. Mr. Vansittart's Zebra. No change in the betting, except that Lucy has jumped up for the Goodwood Stakes, and been backed to a large amount. She ran last week at Lewes as a three-year-old, and an objection has since been started that she is a year older.—The company here is immense. ROWING MATCH for 500 SOVEREIGNS. Yesterday a wager of a very Herculean task, which had been made some time, was decided upon the river, fur 500 sovereigns. John Williams, a Waterman, belonging to Waterloo bridge, was backed, for the above sum, to row from that bridge down to Gravesend, up the river to Rich mond, and then back to the place of starting, within 12 hours. Williams, who is about 32 years of age, and of rather slender make, started exactly as St. Paul's clock struck 7 in the morning, the tide having then ebbed about two hours and a half, and pr , weeded down the river with much spirit and speed. He was in Halfway-reach at a quarter before 9 o'clock, and about a quarter past 10 o'clock, he arrived abreast of Gravesend, and then with out landing, or making any great stay, proceeded up the river towards Richmond-bridge. As St. Paul's clock struck 2 in the afternoon Williams was passing throng)] Blackfriars-bridge; having then five hours to go to Rich mond and return to Waterb o-bridge. We ought to state, that in coming up through the Pool and the different bridges, up to Battersea, he showed great strenq.th and freshness, even to the surprise and admiration of the most experienced watermen on the river. He was accompanied from London. bridge upwards, by great numbers of pleasure and other boats, filled with amateurs and admirers of manly aquatic exertions, who heartily cheered him at every pull he gave, and the applause he met with, no doubt, made him strain every nerve to win against time, which he did, by going through Richmond-bridge and returning to Waterloo-bridge about 20 minutes after 6 o'clock, thereby performing his gallant exploit, and gaining 50 sovereigns for himself, in addition to 5001. for his backers, as well as large sums betted that he could not win, and still having about 40 minutes to spare. The whole dis tance rowed in 11 hours anti 20 minutes is between 98 and 100 miles. SCULLERS' WAGER AT GREENWICH. A five-hest wager with sculls (a whole day's sport) took place yesterday at Greenwich for a boat and some con.hlerable minor prizes given by the inhabitant Ladies and Gentlemen. The competitors (six only in number) enjoyed the reputation of good :net:, and as they had youth on their side a good wager was anticipated, nor were the expectations of the lit eral subscribers disappointed. Five beats are decidedly too many for any scullers' wager, more particularly below bridge, and where there are only six men to compete. In every other respect but this the wager was judiciously managed, but would have been better con tested had the men's stamina allow e d them to go through so much toil unimpaired by fatigue. The bank was crowded with persons, and the length of di,tance gave each an op portunity of witnessing the contest. The following were the competitors:— William Worwocd—Orange. John Brown Yellow. Charles Webb Blue. James Colket Red. Samuel Weeks Pink. James Livett Green. Ttifolow the men ihrough each beat Would be a tedious task. The fourth heat, ccrnprising pink, blue, red, and yellow ; was very prettily rowed, and the wager would have passed off with considerable more eclat if it had finished here. But there was another trial of, strength for the wind up. Yellow and Pink, the winners of the fourth, were to again row for the grand heat. At 20 minutes pest 6 these two were placed at buoys facing the Royal 11'spital stairs, to go twice round the front of the town. The start was a good one, and yellow bad the lead.- • The men, before they had once rounded the distance, lost the energy they had dis played in the fourth heat, but still lowed b e tter than could have been expected. Yell ow kept away from his opponent, and completely distanced him ; pink came in about a quarter of a mile astern. LORD DURHAM'S VOYAGE, &e. We have been furnished by a correspondent, with the following narrative of Lord Durham's voyage and reception at S'. Petersburgh : " On our passage to Cronstadt, with Lord Dur ham and suite, we fell in with a Russian squadron, cruising off the island of D.tgo, consisting of erght line-of-battle ship., four frigates, a brig, and three schooners; and on our arrival at Cronstadt (on the llth day from leaving Sheerness), we found at an chor one three-decker, five two-deckers, five frigates, and three corvettes, all in beautiful order, and only waiting to be reviewed by the Emperor previous to going to sea. Soon after we anchored, the Russian Admiral, attended by several naval officers and the Governor of the Fort, came on board to pay their respects to Lord Durham. " The next day, July 17, the Emperor came from Peterhoff (his country palace), to inspect his fleet. He came down the river in a steam-boat, which he quitted for his barge as he approached the ships, but his visit was strictly private ; no salute, no manning yardg, nor any ceremony whatever ; he steered his barge himself, and went on board every ship in the flee , , which he inspected most minutely, in a very husiness•like way. His Msjesty then sent an officer on board the Talavera,ro compliment Lord Durham on his arrival, and w inquire for the ladies, and also requested to see him "en habit de voyage" on board the steamer, as he said he should like to make ac quaintance with his Lordship at once, without delay, and without ceremony. Lord Durham accordingly went on board, and was (as our newspapers wou l d have it—they don't report these matters in Russia) very graciously received. During this intet view, the Emperor intimated his desire to visit the Tala vera, and promised to fix an early day. He then left Cronstadt, and his departure was marked by as little ceremony as his arrival. " Soon after this the Ambassador, with Lady Durham, the two Miss Lambtons, and the Gentle men of his Lordship's suite, left the Talavera, and proceeded to St. Petersl urg in his Majesty's steamer Comet, which had accompanied us from England for that purpose. The usual ceremony of manning yards, and firing a salute, was observed on his Lord ship's leaving the ship ; and it is bet justice to say that their departure was viewed with regret by all the officers on board; indeed, the whole party had been so cheerful and so sociable, and given so little trouble to any body, that the shortness of our pas sage was sincerely regretted by all hands. " Some of our officers (as many as could be spared--the writer of this letter among the rest) went up to St. Petersburgh in a Russian steamer; and here, according to the roost approved cu-turn of modern travellers, I believe I ought to launch out into a description of the buildings, laws, institutions, manners, and customs of the Russians. It is true I was only there a few days ; but what does that sig nify ? I should not be the first traveller who has described things which lie never saw, and explained things which he never understood ! But, don't be alarmed, I am not going to inflict anything of that sort upon you; if ever I commit an offence of that kind, it shall be in some other shape. I will publish two volumes in quarto, or some such thing. For the present, I must be satisfied with telling you that we found St. Petersburg a most superb city to look at, but a very dull one for strangers to spend a few days in. There is not a good hotel in the place; the best, though handsomely furnished, is full of bugs, and the charges most exorbitant, and as for the shopkeepers ! it is said there are no Jews in Russia, and it may be so, bur if it be, their place is exceedingly well supplied by the shopkeepers of St. Petersburgh, for they are the most Judaisieg Christians in Christendom ; they invariably demand four times as much as they mean to take for every, even the most trifling, article, so that the purchaser is reduced to the necessity of submitting to thegross est imposition, or of spending an hour in beating the tradesmen down to what both parties know to be the current price, anti has only to choose whether he will lose his money or his time. Hackney car riages are to be hired in all parts of the town ; they are very good, and not expensive, but you must make your bargain with the coachman as with the shopkeeper; the police don't interfere with the coach fares, but leave the coachman without re striction to get as much as he can. The droskey is a very convenient and cheap conveyance for one person, but there is an almost insurmountable ob jection, which is, that you sit close behind a bearded Russian, who generally stinks abominably of gar lick, or of something equally offensive. The close carriages have always four horses. " The Russians of all descriptions, but especially those in the employment of the Government, treated us with the gr, atest civility ; indeed, we found the British uniform, without any other introduction, sufficient to procure us admission to view all the pa laces (which are splendid beyond any we have to show), the museums, the libraries, the gardens, and, in short, whatever was considered worthy the ob servation of strangers. This facility was invaluable to us, who had so much to see and so little time to spare, and is highly worthy of imitation by persons in more southern climates, who think themselves much more civilized, but it is to be feared that the midshipmen, the lieutenants, and captain of a Rus sian ship would wait a long time before they would gain admission to view any of our palaces, or any thing else, with no other introduction than their uniforms. Our tour of inspection was cut short be fore we had seen half the sights, the Emperor fixed on Saturday, the 21st of July (N.S.) to make his promised visit to the Talaccra, and, of course, we were all hurried down to the ship to be ready for his reception. " The weather on the promised morning proved remarkably fine, and at an early hour the Comet steamer came down from St. Petersburg, bringing Lord Durham, Mr. Ward, the Secretary of Lega tion, the lion. Mr. Ponsonhy, Mr. Ellice, and Dr. Eden, and two of the gentlemen attached to Lord Heytesbury's embassy, all in full diplomatic cos tume, with the exception of the Ambassador him self, wha wore a military uniform. " Soon after 10 o'clock the Emperor came from Peterhoff its a steam-boat, us in his former visit, but 011 this occasion he came in state, with the Imperial standard hoisted, lie was attended by a numerous retinue, arid a second steamer, a large vessel carry ing twenty-two long guns. As he approached, the whole of the Russian fleet manned yards, and sa luted, and when they had finished, the Talavera did the same. He then quitted the steamer for his barge, which be again steered himself, and, with the Imperial standard in the bow, he proceeded to visit sereral of his own ships, and then came on board of us. We received him with all the ceremony usually observed on hoard British ships when visited by So vereigns. He was accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince William of i'russia, the Prince of Oldenburg, Prince Menz koff, Prince Urisoff, and a very numerous and brilliant staff; but you must ex cuse the names. (Oh, these Russian names !) On reaching the quarter-deck he shook hands with Cap tain Brown very cordially, and said i n E ng l ish, ' you let me see your ship ? I speak very bad English.' lie appears to understand English very well, but, from want of habit, expresses himself im perfectly. The fact is, that to foreigners he usually speaks French or German, but as Captain Brown understands neither of those languages, his Majesty was obliged to speak to him in English, anti got on very well. lie was co n d ucted over every part of the ship, which he examined most minutely, arid asked such questions as evinced a knowledge of naval affairs, which is quite surprising, particularly his - acquaintance with the state of the British navy. He inquired by name for Mr. Blake, the builder in the dock-yard at Ports mouth, and made some remarks on his proposed im provement in ships' bows. He also mentioned the name of the hailder of the Devonport. There is on board the Talavera a 68-pounder, which he exa mined most minutely, and caused it to be run in and out, and trained. He seemed pl, a'ed at the fa cility with which this heavy gun was handled by so few men, and taking the handspike in his hand, he tried the weight of the gun himself, and said, ' Oh it is quite easy.' Whilst the Emperor was below examining the store rooms, it struck eight bells— (l2 o'clock.) Now it is the custom throughout the British Navy for the sailors to dine at twelve o'clock, ar,d never but in cases of urgent ne cessity are they made to wait a minute for their dinner; this custom was observed on board of us, notwithstanding the presence of the Emperor. Ac cordingly when his Majesty returned to the lower deck, the people were at dinner; be appeared to be much ploased at this, and tasted the soup and beef, and said it is very good—now have you some rum or whiskey?' The Captain said your Majesty shall have some refreshment in the cabin: He said `No. no, I don't mean that; I mean that I would drink with the people: Accordingly a glass of grog was presented to him, of which he drank, saying, I drink to Me health of King William IV., and all the peo ple.' In the store-room some of the carpenter's stores are so arranged along one of the beams as to form the words God bless the King.' This was pointed our to him, and on reading the words he said, Ah / God bless the King ! so I say, God bless him, he is very good friend to me.' There was, in his manner of saying this a something so frank so manly, and apparently so hearty, that it won all our hearts; and as for Captain Brown, he from that moment forgot the Emperor, and treated his Majesty as one honest English sailor would treat another• who loved his King and his country as well as himself. The Emperor readily fell into the same vein, and al their future intercourse was carried on with a degree of cordiality which must have been as flattering to Captain Brown as it was surprising to all the Russian courtiers. " The Emperor expressed himself highly gratified with every thing he saw, and with his reception altogether; and I am sure that we had every reason to he gratified also, his manner was so easy, so affable, and evinced such a desire to please, and such a determination to be pleased, that it was impossible to be otherwise than gratified. He asked some questions of all the officers who were presented to him, and with the Mids, who had that honour, he shook hands. But I must bring this to a close, or your patience will be exhausted. " Before he left the ship he said, Captain, I ant extremely much obliged to you for your kind ness to me ; you have shown me every thing, now I have nothing to show you in return but my Guards. You must stop till Wednesday, and come with your Officers to the camp, and I will show you my Guards.' He then invited Captain Brown and Commander Herringham to dine at Peterhoff on the following day, and, shaking hands cordially with the Captain, he left the ship,. the same ceremony being observed as on c)ming on board, the Imperial standard being again hoisted on board the steamer, the whole fleet again saluted, and his Majesty re turned to Peterhoff. The ships were dressed with their colours as on gala days, and continued so for the next day. During the Emperor's visit to the fleet, all the small craft were got under weigh, and kept manccuvring. The spectacle was truly mag nificent, and, as a naval review, the most complete I ever saw; but there was one circumstance rather striking, and, to English eyes, somewhat extraor dinary, which was, the total absence of spectators ! Were our own beloved King to review his fleet at Spithead (I would to God he might do so), there would be so many yachts, so many vessels and boats of all descriptions, crammed with spectators, as to cover the whole space between Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, and it would require the utmost skill on the part of the different steersmen to keep from running foul of each other; but her, at Cronstadt, we did not see a single boat of any description; and, of course, there were no spectators but those enaged in the business ! ! The Emperor made a present to our ship's company of 1,000 ducats, which is nearly equal to 500/. sterling. " In the afternoon we all returned to St. Peters burgh. The next day (Sunday) was the day fixed on by the Emperor for the reception of Lord Dur ham at Peterhoff : accordingly his Lordship left St. Petersburgh for that place, accompanied by Lady Durham, the two Misses Lambton, Captain Brown, and Commander Herringhatr, who were all invited to dine. The Ambassador had his audience of the Emperor to deliver his credentials, and the ladies a private audience of the Empress immediately be fore dinner. These presentations were conducted by the Master of the Ceremonies, and attended with the usual Court etiquette. " Sixty persons had the honour of dining with their Majesties on this occasion (the dinner was at four o'clock ), and there was a ball and supper in the evening, which was attended by about 150. There were beds provided in the Palace for all the English party, but they preferred returning to St. Peters burg, where they did not arrive till five o'clock on Monday morning; the distance is about eighteen English miles. As I had not the honour of being at this entertainment, 1 cannot give you much ac count of it. \Vhen I write a description of what I did not see, it shall be published, as I said be fore, in two volumes, something in the style of Dr. Granville. Ail I can tell you is, that our Cap tain and Ci mmander came back highly gratified with the flattering reception they met with at the Russian Court. Both the Emperor arid Empress paid them the most marked attention during the whole of their visit. At table the Emperor (contrary to the Russian custom) said he must have the pleasure to drink wine with Captain Brown in the English fashion. Her Majesty told Captain Brown that she felt extremely obliged to him for his kind reception of the Emperor on board the Talavera, of which his Majesty had spoken in the highest terms; indeed she said that she had not seen him return from any visit with so much satisfaction for a long time, an d she had never heard him speak so much English as he had to Capt. Brown. The Empress herself speaks English per fectly. Before he took leave, the Emperor re mined Captain Brown of his promise to visit the cam p with his officers on Wednesday, on which day, at a very early hour, a large party of us left St. Petersburg, for Krasnoe-Selo, which is a kind of military village (about 16 miles from St. Peters burg), in the immediate neighbourhood of which the Imperial Guards are encamped. In this village there are several houses belonging to the Emperor, which are used for the accommodation of the Court. The Ambassadors, and other foreigners of distinc tion, were invited to attend the review. " On our arrival at Krasnoe-Selo, we were met by an Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor, who con ducted us to a house appropriated for our reception. The house was directly opposite to the one occupied by the Emperor, and in it we found refreshments already prepared, and, in short, every thi ng pro vided for our accommodation in the most hand some mariner. The Imperial carriages were sent to convey us to the ground, and horses pre vided for our use when there. Of the latter, however, I must acknowledge that we made but little use ! The fact is, that sailors do not shine much oil horseback, and as there was something in the look of these horses that promised to be extremely frolicsome, to say the least, the greater part of us re membering that € the better part of valour is dis. cretion; declined the use of them, and spent the day in carriages, or on foot, notwithstanding the example set us by the Captain, who mounted, and continued on horseback the whole day; but then the most sedate-looking old steed was selected for his use, and one whose very sober conduct during the review did ample credit to the discernment with which he had been selected. Very soon after we reached the ground the Emperor arrived, accompa• nied by Prince William of Prussia. Ills Majesty was attended by all the foreign Ministers, who are military men, and by a vet) , brilliant and exceed ingly numerous staff. I think his staff must have been composed of nearly one hundred persons, all the flower of the Russian Nobility, but there was not one who could be compared in personal appear mice with the Emperor himself. He is somewhat increased in size since his visit to England, which has improved his appearance very much ; he is now, without exception, the most noble looking person I ever SAW ; his manner is so easy and yet so digni fied, and something so frank, honest, and manly in the expression of his countenance, that it is impos sible to look at him without admiration. His son, the Grand Duke Alexander, who was also on the ground, is an exceedingly intelligent-looking lad, and promises to resemble his father. " The Imperial Guards encamped at this place amount, we are informed, to 30,000. On this day his Majesty reviewed the first division consisting of 16,000, with 52 pieces of ordnance. There was a sham fight and various evolutions, to describe which lam utterly at a loss. I wish most sincerely that I could do justice to this splendid military spectacle, but I feel it to be qui!e impossible; in the first place, because I am altogether unacquainted with military phraseology; and, in the next place, because I never before saw so many soldiers collected toge ther; the movements were conducted with a degree of rapidity and precision that to me appeared truly astonishing ! The artillery was in excellent order, arid the ordnance served in masterly style. Equally at a loss am I for language in which to describe the extraordinary attention which we received from his Imperial Majesty. Nothing could be more compli mentary to the British nation than the attention paid to the officers of one of her ships, by the Emperor of Russia, in the presence of all the foreign ambas. sailors at his own court, and in the face of the elite of his army. His Majesty did not lose sight of us for an instant during the review ; and whenever, by a sudden movement of the troops, we were thrown into an unfavourable situation, he instantly des patched an Aide-de-Camp to conduct us to the most advantageous position ; and at last Count Orloff himself was sent by the Emperor to direct our postillions to keep close behind his Majesty wherever he went. We accordingly fol lowed him to a commanding position, which he took up, in order to address the troops as they filed past him, on their way to their respective quarters in the camp. Each regiment marched by in solid square, and to each he said something kind, such as—' How are ye?' or IVell done, my children ." and they all shouted Very well, thank you,Plier ; we will live and die for you;' and each gave two cheers. Thus the whole brigade retired to the camp, chaunting a peculiarly wild melody, which, to our unaccustomed ears, had a remarkably singu lar effect. The Emperor then, turning to Captain Brown, said, Captain, I hope you have been pleased. I have nothing more to show you to-day, but you must give me twelve hours to-morrow; I ask only for twelve hours, and I will show you my ca valry.' Now this was not to be re-isted, even though a reprimand from the Admiralty for delay might be staring one in the face. Then, addressing us, his Majesty said, Gentlemen, I hope you have been pleased?' We then returned to our quarters, where we found a second breakfast, in the Russian fashion, prepared for us. In the course of the afternoon the Empress sent several times a gentleman of her household, to inquire if there was any thing want ing that could contribute to our comfort ; and the Emperor sent to say that we were all expected to dine at the table prepared for the foreign ambas sadors—of course we dined at this table. The din ner, as might be expected, was magnificent. The French Ambassador, Marshal Mortier, presided at the head of the table, and the Austrian Ambassa dor at the foot. It would appear invidious to par ticularise any where, all seemed anxious to treat us with the greatest kindness and civility, but I must riot omit to mention die names of Marshal Mortier and of the Baron Dorriburg, the Hanoverian Minis ter, who were exceedingly kind and attentive to us. Here also, I must mention the civilities which were received from Prince Metchikoff and Count Orloff, who both regretted that their constant attendance upon the Emperor prevented their showing us that hospitality which they were pleased to say, they were always anxious to pay to British officers. Count Orloff said that he could never forget the kindness and hospitality which he had so recently experienced in England : 'but you must see,' added he, that it is sufficient here to be Englishmen, to in sure respect and attention without reference to poli litics or rank,' to the truth of which, I am sure, our own experience bears ample testimony. In the evening. we received another message from the Empress, de siring our company at tea in the Imperial tent, at 8 o'clock ; after which we attended their Majesties, and the whole Court, to an elevated position in the centre of the camp, when, at a signal given by a rocket, the soldiers all appeared in their evening dress, in front of their tents, which extended as far as the eye could reach. The evening was remarka- • bly serene, and the most profound silence reigned throughout the host. The Emperor alighted from his carriage with his head uncovered, and the priest stood forward and offered up to God the evening prayer, which was responded by the assembled thousands. Need a British sailor blush to acknow ledge, that he was affected, even to tears, at such a scene ? No I saw the tears glistening in the eyes of more than one of my brother officers, and I gloried to see, that though they could not join in the language, yet they jellied in spirit, in the wor ship of the King of kings, the one God and Father of us all. I assure you the effect was so grand, so awful ! so sublime ! that it beggars description., • • • • • • . " I regret to say, that by some accident in letting off the signal rocket, an explosion took place by which two men were seriously injured. On the acci dent being reported, the Emperor went instantly to the spot, sent for the medical men, and personally assisted in the measures taken for their relief ! e m the h re ke a b trla, o i d i ecyie -1 g " The Emperor returned very much chagrined at this unfortunate accident, the Court broke up, and we returned to our respective quarters. " The next morning at an early hour we were again on ,the ground, when his Majesty came, at tended as on the day before, and reviewed about 12,000 of his cavalry ; this spectacle was even mor e splendid than the one we had seen the day before, but it is equally beyond my powers to describ e . The Emperor himself gave the word of command, and manoeuvred the troops in a style that sh owe d him to be perfectly in his element ;—he app eare d really to enjoy it. He said, ' Captain, I cannot manoeuvre a ship with you, but this I u n d erstan d . ' Some Cossacks and Cncassians were p ut t h rough shotge : a theiri 'e N ta r a p n their peculiar exercise, which was e xcee di ng l y cu srtiuoeatetrisd.;—ot fh T et h i hr e ed C ye xo i r ut c en a rg s i s t y i Gr i a I a s, at ndl Dobelieve, uink was very remarkable, as they w ore c h a i n armour of their horses were at their utmost speed, was more astonishing than anything of the kind I have seen. But I must bring this to an end. I have endeavoured to keep my narrative within the shortest limits, yet I am frightened at its length. His Majesty treated us with the same flattering attention as before ; and, when the review was over, he embraced Captain Brown, and said,' Captain, I am glad to have made your acquaintance—God bless you. When you see your King, assure bitn of my highest regard, and tell him that I pray for him every night. Then, riding up to us, he said,' Gentlemen, I ann delighted that you have been pleased; I shall always be happy to see you : adieu.' The Empress, also shook hands very cordially with Captain Brown, and ! said, ' Cap tain, I shall be glad to see y ou again. We then returned to Krasnoe-Selo, where we breakfasted with the foreign ministers. The Austrian Ambas sador gave us a very pressing invitation to dine with him ; but the Captain was in too great a hurry for any more delay. We immediately started for St. Petersburgh, were we once more partook of the splendid hospitality of our own Ambassador, Lord Durham, and the next morning returned to the Talavcra, got under weigh without loss of time, and here we are on our passage home, regretting ex ceedingly that our visit to Russia has been so short. Every thing on board goes on so much in the usual way, that our brief, but brilliant career at the Rus sian Court seems like the remembrance of some fairy tale ! Empre , ses, Princesses, Dukes, and Ambassadors pass before our imaginations in bril liant succession. But, alas! t he horse rough voice of the boatswain's mate, calling all hands to reef top sails,' speedily awakes from these delicious re veries to sari reality, and the whole appears to have been but a dream. " It may be asked what were our unhappy mess mates about all this time ? who were obliged to keep ship whilst we were at St. Petersburgh ? I assure you they were by no means so unhappy as might have been imagined. The fact is, that whilst we were losing our heads among Princes and Pleni pos, they were losing their hearts amongst pretty girls and Princesses; and, upon my word, I don't know if theirs was not the pleasantest employment of the two! They had constantly the pleasure of receiving on board large parties of ladies from the opposite shore, who came to visit the ship, and seemed uncommonly pleased with the attention they received. One day the Princess Gargarin came on board with a numerous party ; tin y had up the band, and the young Princesses danced quadrilles and mazourkas on the quarter-deck ; and they had scarcely left the ship before another party arrived; so that our lucky rather than 'unhappy rnessmates, had a succession of partners without having to go in search of them ; and, besides all this, there were constant invitations to parties on shore, given expressly for their entertainment. The Port Admiral gave a splendid &liner at his residence, to which all the per sons of consideration in the neighbourhool were in vited to meet the British officers; but, alas, very few of our people were able to attend, almost all who could be spared were at St. Petersburgh, and there must be a certain number on board : however those who (Id go were very highly gratified with their reception. About sixty persons sat down to the dinner, which consisted of every thing—hut who can (in any moderate space) describe the lengthened enjoyment of a Russian dinner?—where dish after dish is brought in, and handed round separately, in such endless variety as would astonish the under standing—aye, and some of the cookery, perhaps, might astonish the bowels also, of a London Alder man ! I feel that I base already trespassed too much upon your patience; but my narrative would he incomplete, and I should be guilty of ingratitude indeed, if I omitted to mention the great kindness and hospitality we all experienced at the hands of our Vice-Consul (mind me, I don't mean the Con. sul at St. Pe•ersburgh—we saw nothing of him— but Mr. Booker, Vice-Consul at Cronstadt), who treated us with such genuine (not modern) good old English hospitality, as will be remembered with pleasure and gratitude by every one. Mr. Booker is not one of those who shelter themselves behind the convenient screen of an unmeaning general in vitation—whereby a man thinks to preserve his cha racter for hospitality and his dinner at the same time. No ! he would not be satisfied till he had entertained at his table, either at breakfast, dinner, or supper (for his style is as old-fashioned as his hospitality) every officer and midshipman in the ship—and I believe they all partook of it before we left Cronstadt. FESTIVITIES AT COMPIEGNE. PARIS, SATURDAY AFTERNOON. On my arrival at Compiegne, I was accidentally thrown among a party of Belgians, the greater part of them in habitants of Antwerp, who, without being connected in any degree with the personal suite of King Leopold, had followed him as a deputation, to testify their respect for his public and private character, and in several instances to gratify their individual anxiety to witness the comple tion of an alliance which is to seal their national inde pendence. The sentiments of several of these gentlemen were a year ago decidedly of an Orange complexion. It is known, in fact, that Antwerp and Ghent, from which most of them hid come, were the places where the family of Nassau retained the strongest hold on the affections of the people. Such, however, is the prudence, intelligence, and firmness with which King Leopold has conducted himself since his at rival in the country, that the deser tions from the enemy's camp have been numerous and im portant, of which a better proof could not be adduced than the appearance of this very deputation at Compiegne. As I happened to reside in the same hotel at Com piegne with these Belgian gentlemen, and from the general deficiency of accommodation was obliged to share with them the same sitting-room, I had frequent opportunities of °toe' ving a certain inconsistency in their feelings, which struck me as not a little remarkable. Through the instru mentality of a friend attached officially to the person of one of the members of the Royal family, I had secured the means of ent,rine the palace at all hours, and of seeing and reporting what went on in the interior. During the days which preceded the actual celebration of the nuptials, my Belgian friends discovered a most feverish anxiety lest some unforeseen event should arrive to prevent its consumma tion. Now the inconsistency to which I alluded was, that these very gentlemen, from the whole course of their con versation, led the irresistibly to the inference, that their feeling towards the French, as it nation, was any thing but cordial. It was, in fact, a sentiment not of respect or attachment, but of fear. If such were their national views, their individual and personal feelings were, perhaps, still less favourable. Their commercial relations, (for the whole of this deputation were connected with trade), allied thin, as they said, more closely to England than to France, and I believed them when they assured me that the integrity they met with in their dealings with English.- men, presented a striking contrast to all that they had ever experienced from their Gallic neighbours. It was by the members of this deputation, that the splendid robe of Mantles lace was presented in which the Princess was married. I saw her Royal Highness piss into the chapel surrounded by her family. There was, in fact, some standing room reserved fir strangers in the ante chamber, which is considerably larger than the chapel itself. It was whisp red afterwards that the Bishop of Meaux, who, with the assistance of his grand vicar, con ducted the ceremony, had allowed himself to make some indecent lamentation about the circumstance which prevented the marriage from being solemnized in the church of his diocess, with all the pomp and splendour of the Catholic faith. The mot d'ordre among the gentlemen of the Court was, that the marriage was to be regarded as an affair de fa• milk, and that it was therefore not consistent with greater publicity then had been given to it. With the single exception of the nuptial benediction, however, the whole proceedings were as public as can well be imagined. The parties dined every day surrounded by some 200 guests, and under the eye of al! who chose to look at them: There as not a morning but the Royal Family, seated in a low open carriage, with a roof supported arils sha y pe of slenderest pillars, and without anything thee tiun or from l t l , i e nd g s n o e r of t curtainshe multitude,t oprotect p the gates of the make a promenade palace at the slowest walking pace , fight the • • reviewing in the forest to witness a Sham e te streets of the ground, or simply to perambulate was town ; the object of thefts and if an accession of poP"lan t Y movements, in the course of which every look and ges tureFmily, and even their conversation, of the Royal a could be heard and observed, I have no doubt that the accomplished. purpose was fully 'fhe business of yesterday was an excursion to Pierre funds,noble mass of ruins near the northern extremity a of the forest. The castle and the neighbouring domains have been an apanage of the family of Orleans for several tor fur a lew thousand francs. c enturies, and it was only at the period of the Revolution that they were confiscated, and afterwards sold to a specula rtFoic'reoememdeft(rthi oo e f"r d 'o a int t h e of the original sale, in 1798, the property passed through several hands: and up to 1813, when re-purchased at the public expense, and definitively incorporated with the domains of the Crown, the ruins became a sort of quarry for the buildings in the neighbourhood ; so that, during that short period, they suffered more than by centuries of natural decay. The pile, however, has still an imposing appearance. It is situated on an eminence of no great height, surrounded on all sides but one by a flat tract of country, which, if you could suppose it to he covered with water, would place the fortress on a peninsula, connected only with the main land by a narrow isthmus. It teas at an early period of the second dynasty of France, and, as I think, in the eighth century, that this castle was raised by one of those proud barons who often dared to dispu'e the will of their sovereign. During the wars with England in the fifeenth century, it withstood several Inc moral sieges ; and it was in returning from Pierrefonds to Compiegne, where H. nry IV. resided with his celebrated favourite, In Belle Gabrielle, Duchess of Beaufort, that he escaped one of those attetnps at assassination which ultimately proved successful in the streets of Paris. It was a Duke d'Aumale, the creature of Rieux, then Lord of Pierrefonds, who attempted to cut off the King at the