The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-09 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. i7nder the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING, MAT 9, Will he performed THE LADY OF LYONS. Supported by Mr. Barry Stubvan and Miss Helen Faucit. After which MR. BUCKSTONL'S ASCENT OF MOUNT PAR NASSUS. Y To conobide with OUR MAR ROYAL PRINCESS'S THATRE, O XFORD-STREET. m a de: the Manageme E nt of Mr. Charles Kean. THIS EVENING, MAT 9, Will be performed the Tragedy of MACBETH. Principal cha racters by Mr. and Mrs. C. Kean. To conclude with the new Drama, adapted from the French of Mona. scribe, by Mr. Pa:grave vimpson, called MARCO SP DA. Principal characters by Mgssrs. W. Lacy, J. Vining, Ryder, Graham, and Everett Misses Heel and C. Leciercq. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. THIS EVENING, MAT 9, Will be performed A.S.S. Characters by Messrs. F. Mathews, Enter, and Rosiere ; Mrs. Macn‘mara and. Miss Wyndham. Atter which, A FAST TRAIN —HIGH PRESSURE EXPRESS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Baker, and Suter. To be followed by 'TRYING IT ON. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews To which will he added a DIVERTISSEMENT, in which Miss iloiina Wright will appear. After which, USED UP. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING, Mu 9, Will be presented THE ROUSED LION. Characters by Mess's. Z. Webster, Pal scile, Wigan. Ha.tings, &c.; Mrs. Keeley, Miss F. Xaskell, Mrs. L. Murray, &c. To be followed by TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS. Cha racters by Messrs. Keeley and Wigaa Mrs. Keeley, Mrs. Wigan, and Mies Keeley. ♦fter which, A DESPERATE GAME. To conclude with TUE DANCING SCOTCHMAN. ROYAL OLYMPIC` THEATRE. Lessee and Manager Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, MAT 9, Will be performed THE MILLER OF DERWENT WATER. Characters by Messrs. 11. Farren, F. Robson, Molders, G. Cooke, and Charles; Mesdames Anderson and E. Turner. i After which, UNCLE CROTCHET. Supported by Mr. &c. To be followed by MACBETH. Supported by Mr. Samuel Mac both and Mr. F. Robson ; Mrs. Sarah Macbeth and Mrs. A. Phillips To conclude with THE SWISS COTTAGE. Lisette, Miss H. Gordon. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Sole Lessee an , 1 Manager, Mr. W. Cooke. continued and brilliant mimes] of the New Spectacle of an entirely new Drama. TILLS EVENING, MAT 9, 4 nd daring the week, the performances will commence with the increasingly popular spectacle of AMAKOSA.; or, Scenes of Kafir Warfare ; with all its new and beautiful scenic, interesting dramatic and astonishing Equestrian effects. The Burning Wood, the Leap through Fire, and the terrific spring of Amakosa's Steed over the Falls of the Umtata, nightly received with enthusiastic approbation. To be followed by a novel and incomparable display of Equestrian Achievements in the Scenes of the ARENA, supported by the most accomplished _Artistes of the day. Mr. W. Cooke will introdcee the infant Victor Claude Cooke and his Drawing-room Pony—Mr. W. Pablo—the Corde Elastiqne— Mazatta—Mactie Poses—the highly-trained steed Taglioni, atc., &e. To conclude with a new Cemic Drama, entitled IN FOR A DIG; Or, Life at the Diggings. Box-office open daily from Eleven to Foar. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAT — . Horning 34 min. after 1 I Evening 50 min.aft. 1 Te-Blealow—Morning 6 min. after 2 I Evening 23 min.aft. 2 THE WEATHER.—SuN OFFICE, MAY 8. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 46—highest sinco noon yesterday. 39—lowest this morning and during the night. 50— this day at noon. BARO3fETER,, 2911. WIND, N.N.E. to N.N. W.—Light breeze, and cloudy weather, with occasional sunshine. MAY 9. 55—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 52—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 58. WIND, S.—Morning rain ; afternoon, fine. THE PUBLICATION OF " THE SUN" COMMENCES EVERT AFTERNOON AT THREE O'CLOCK, ♦ND THE LATE OR THIRD EDITION, CONTAINING THE DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT THE SAME EVENING, With all other News arriving up to the hour of Post, AT SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is dosed by the Latest Trains. . c. .. : L a) 4: s- 1 vE .,,, cif - ...''' --Z, un. t„ .„. a....... , t -..... , r,,,, - J-.. - LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 9, 1853. Another amendment to Mr. GLADSTONE'S pro position respecting the renewal of the Property and Income Tax, and one involving a very im portant principle, will this evening be brought forward in the Committee of Ways and Means, by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Berk shire, who has given notice that he will move the insertion of a proviso, to the effect that the Income Tax should be levied on the net annual value of lands, tenements, or hereditaments, after due allowance made for repairs, insurance, and management. The facts of the case are simple and indisputable. They are not merely recognised by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, but have been relied on by him, as establishing an existing distinction between precarious income and that arising from permanent real property. The Right Hon. Gentleman boldly asserted that real estate was practically charged 9d. in place of 7d. in the pound, inasmuch as more than 2i per cent. of the gross rental was absorbed by the expenses neces sary for the preservation of the property in suit able condition, and for other outlay incidental to its condition. Mr. PALMER adroitly avails him self of this admission, and justly complains of the unfairness of the system, which charges not merely the amount applicable to a person's private purposes, but that over which he has no con trol. A demand for redress naturally follows, and the Financial Minister will be compelled once more to defend the iniquitous system, of which he is the champion, in an assembly far more sensitive as to " the rights of property" than to the rights of industry. Whatever may be thought respecting the merits of the proposition, so far as the contributors under Schedules A and D are concerned, there can be no doubt as to its gross injustice as between those under Schedules A and C. Real estate is sub jected to many charges from which personal pro perty is wholly exonerated. Not only is the en tire support of the poverty of the country charged upon it—not only is it responsible for the county rates, and various items of local expenditure—but it is also obliged to support the police force of the district, and to defray the expenditure incidental to the administration of criminal justice in the vicinity. It almost appears as if no protection were required by the owners of personalty, and that the majesty of the law was only to be vindi cated when there had been an aggression on lands or tenements. It would certainly appear as if any distinction that could be made between real and personal property were more than compensated by the burdens above referred to, which are cast ex clusively on the former, and that every due allowance should be made to the former in any additional scheme of direct taxation. But so far from that being the case, we find that one description of real estate—viz., houses--is taxed to the extent of 9d. or 6d. in the pound on the gross annual value—for as we have alr ea d y repeatedly pointed out, the impost, though nominally levied on the occupier, practi cally falls upon the proprietor, inasmuch as the rent, which Would otherwise be paid to him by the tenant, is diminished pro tanto. And it is also subjected not merely to the additional 7d. in the pound, in comm on w i th personal property, but no allowance is made for necessary repairs, or the other out-goings to which house property is peculiarly liable. This c er t a i n l y is neither fair nor just, and but for the extraordinay arguments that have recently succeeded in the popular branch of the Legislature, we should have thought that it could not for a moment be sanctioned by an as sembly of intelligent gentlemen. But the entire system is based on injustice, and is unfair a n d inequitable in all its details. The Financial Minister fights the battle of the moneyeeracy. They are the favoured individuals, and all others are relentlessly s acrificed to their aggrandisement. Let ns see how the case really stands between the different classes. The fundholder, mortgagee, er sonal property a (pro annuitant, all owners of p perly so called), with few exceptions, p y 71• . in the pound, and no more, on the dividen ds, terest, or annual produce of their various invest ments. That is the only demand made on their resources ; from all others they can absolve them selves by abstaining from articles the price of which is enhanced by indirect taxation. The proprietor of broad acres (in addition t ) the various local charges above referred to) is, accord ing to Mr. GLADSTONE'S calculation, compelled to pay 9d. in the pound on his net receipts, or nearly 23 per cent. more than the fortunate fund holder or mortgagee. This is bad enough, but the owner of house property is still more to be pitied. Not only is he taxed 7d. on his gross receipts, which, as the Right Hon. W. E. GLAD STONE acknowledges to be equivalent to 9d. on his net income (it would be easy to show, if the argument required it, that his charges for repairs, and other necessary outgoings, far exceed those of the owner of land, in the ordinary ac ceptation of the word), but he is also burdened with an additional 9d. in the pound on the gross receipts—equivalent, according to the same rule, to something more than 114 d. in the pound ; so that he is practically subjected to rather more than is. Bd. in the pound of direct taxation, or nearly 200 per cent. more than the fundholder or mortgagee. But this is not all. He is liable to every local charge that the landowner is re sponsible for, and, in addition, must pay a stamp duty of more than 200 per cent. on the premium which he pays for the insurance of his property against fire ! These are grievances of no ordinary magnitude, imperatively demanding redress. The whole of the direct taxation — house tax, land tax, and property tax, together with the local rates, should be consolidated, and, after all due allowances, fairly and equitably as sessed upon every description of accumulated and realised property. We confess that there is another and no less cogent reason which induces us to desire that Mr. PALMER may succeed in his amendment. The re fusal to make these fair and just allowances con stitutes the sole pretext, the only plausible excuse for the refusal to modify the other inequalities of the impost. If that were removed, Mr. GLAD STONE would be compelled to yield to the universal demand for a revision and modification of the dif ferent schedules, in order to obtain something like an approximation to justice. We must also say, that although we fully coincide with Mr. GLAD STONE in the opinion that industry is too highly taxed when compared with property, and that pro perty is not sufficiently charged when compared with industry, it is not by the perpetuation of an act of gross and palpable injustice we should endeavour to provide a remedy for a grievance still more flagrant. No, let each case be dealt with according to its merits, and whatever this rate may be that should be on each description of property, let it only be demanded on the net re ceipts—the sums really at the disposal of the pro prietor, and applicable to his private purposes. The advocates of the Ballot in every consti tuency of the kingdom would do well to bestir themselves at once on this truly national question. To-morrow the Hon. F. H. F. BEKKRT,EY, member for Bristol, " will ask for leave to bring in his usual bill for taking the vote of electors by bal lot." It is well worth while for the country to make the Honourable Member's motion something more than a matter of course, and something more, too, than a register of the Members and the persons who in this particular Parliament, or Session, will vote for or against it. It is an important object even to save any wavering Member from com mitting himself to the wrong side. There is, to be sure, in the present state of parties no great solicitude about the disclosures of HANSARD. It appears, in truth, to have become a place of sepul ture for the opinions of statesmen ; and its me morials of infant mortality are very numerous indeed. Some appear to have expired in the very year of their birth. The numbers buried there of two or three years old are, however, very great, and each change of a Ministry has generally been a season of extraordinary fatality to political opinion. Honourable Members seem about as much affected by an occasional glance at these memorials as passengers through a churchyard by the " Sacred to the Memory" which stares them everywhere in the face. Still members do prefer to be consistent. It is not pleasant to see one's name printed in two parallel columns of " for in 1852," and "against in 1853." The first thing, then, to be done is for the active supporters of a doubtful member to write to him immediately on the subject. No one has more influence with all who wish to retain their seats than the elec- tioneering workers in a constituency ; the feeble tie of gratitude and the strong one of hope give them great power. As a gentleman and a future candidate, the member must answer their personal communications. Names to a petition he does not quite disregard, but a letter direct he cannot get over. Even a memorial is easier to manage than au individual letter ; no one individual whose signature appears in it feels himself directly denied in case of a negative answer, nor does the evading member feel that he is hazarding a personal cool ness in his cause. Let, then, as many as can write personally to their members, and let them enumerate and describe cases in which the Ballot has been needed to their own knowledge, especially cases of intimidation and ungenerous influence. The second thing, of course, is to get up peti tions. There is nothing to hinder a petition from every borough constituency in the kingdom. There is not one where treating, bribery, and intimida tion, under the bland name of influence, have not more or less taught some electors the need of secret voting. Especially ought there to be, relatively to their size, monster petitions from all the boroughs which figure in the memorable list sub mitted to Election Committees. An active agent in ' bribery in one of the very worst of them assured us the other day, that "they might argue as they liked, but that the Ballot would utterly cut up their trade." Who doubts it ? Certainly nct Lord JOHN RUSSELL, nor any of its opponents; more cer tainly not Mr. BROWN and Mr. KITTON ; not W. B. and Mr. FRAIL. Let, then, the honest people in the corrupt constituencies demand that the means which corrupting agents dread far more than Elec tion Committees shall be put in full force. Even Canterbury, Cambridge, and Hull have their hun dreds of electors who are wholly free from all con nection with the corruption in those boroughs, or who are no more connected with it than we all are with many social evils, which we deplore and endeavour to prevent. Here is an admirably suit able opening for them to vindicate their characters. Moreover, petitions from those who dwell in the very midst of the iniquity would have a special claim to attention. There are, however, scores of boroughs from which no complaint is heard, where the Ballot is most needed. What a boon would it be to the poor nonenties of Stamford, who pass under the name of electors, but who are so about as much as the chapter who elect a bishop, and who enjoy no political privileges except a conge d'elire from the Marquis of EXETER in favour of Sir F. THESIGER, and the hustings abuse of the now Honourable Member himself. Perhaps, how ever, most of them dare not sign a petition. Let then, such as dare, do it ; and let them speak out roundly the wrongs of the rest. The counties, of course, are tied. No farmer dare ask for leave to vote exempt from his landlord's cognisance. Thousands of county voters are, however, free. Let them, too, lift up their voice for the emancipation of the enslaved. It will quite change the charac ter of the debate if Mr. BERKEkEY'S motion be pre ceded by a deluge of petitions. There is yet a third and most important thing which may be done in the course of these three weeks, and that is supplying facts which demon strate the need of the Ballot. Those of bribery and treating are of great value ; but the most important facts of all are those which prove inti midation. Authentic cases of landlords' proceed ings, of employers of workmen threatening dis mission, of creditors of every class putting on the screw, of persons tampering with tradesmen by promises of c us t om, or the more crue l i n timation of its" possible" withdrawal of magistrates and persons having influence in obtaining small salaried appointments using it unfairly-- of kind, indeed, in which the cages every fears of the dependent have been unkindly and meanly worked upon to bias their votes. The persona themselves duo not complain in public. It might be as ruinous to them as a refractory vote ; it need not, however, I be public. Names and particulars which might disclose them to their oppressors may be communicated in confidence, with entire safety, to the BALLOT SOCIETY. That Society solicits, as our readers may see by advertisement, such information. The Hon. F. H. F. BERKELEY himself is itsCbairman, and correspond ents may fully rely upon all communications being dealt with as by gentlemen. Nothing wished to be kept secret will ever be divulged. We would strongly urge, therefore, upon all who can do so to send as promptly as possible any information in their power. Facts, not arguments, are what are now wanted. Opponents have been driven from every shadow of a reason, except their own will, and the allegation (which the Election Com mittees are doing their best to overthrow), that the need for the Ballot is n ot very great after all. Authentic facts, numerous petitions, a diminished majority at least against it, and, if possible, a majority for it—these are the things which will convince our sneering Leader of the House of Commons that he may be in error. The Parlia mentary opening for an effort is very fair. Never were there so many advocates of the Ballot in a Ministry before. The number of Members who will vote in its favour will be found, we doubt not, considerably increased. The Election Com mittees have ripped up much that was believed before, but which is now in evidence. The Com missions will fall to work promptly, and will certainly advance the cause greatly. Indeed we feel quite confident that were those who desire the Ballot to do their part vigorously during the coming three weeks, we might reasonably hope to see the Ballot introduced into the New Reform Bill, and should most certainly have a thoroughly encouraging division and debate on the 11th of May. To secure that object, however, no time should be lost. A reception has been accorded to HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, since her arrival in this country from America, so true as an earnest expres sion of sentiment that we regard it at once as affecting and magnificent. Already " Uncle Tom's Cabin" had elicited from the women of England—through that " Address " authen ticated by more than half-a-million signatures — one of the noblest tributes of admiration ever accorded to a British Authoress. Circum stances afterwards induced the writer of that cele brated volume to visit the shores of these islands, and scarcely had she set foot on the soil of the United Kingdom when the welcome we have spoken of commenced. It was a welcome altogether spon taneous in its character. It was the ebullition of feelings so elevating and purified that the most captious and the most sardonic could not but observe the prevailing enthusiasm with respect, however much they might feel disposed to quarrel with it as an extravagance. It attained its climax on Saturday, when a number of notable sympathisers with the object held in view by Mrs. STOWE, assembled to take part in her recep tion at Stafford-house, in complance with the graceful and hospitable invitation of the benevo lent Duchess of SUTHERLAND. It was an oc casion to which the novelist may look back henceforth with enviable emotions of a half proud and half-humble gratification. Not, for sooth, because she was welcomed thus publicly under the roof-tree of one whose brows were bound with a garland of strawberry leaves. Not be cause the house was a Duke's house in which the guests of Saturday were congregated. But be cause among those guests—as in the bosoms of the host and hostess—were hearts whose sympa thies it was something indeed to have secured. There, for example, was the humane patrician who had penetrated so often in to the foulest dens of our metropolis to carry consolation to the suffering and to assuage the miseries of the humblest of his fellow-creatures. There was the gentle and accomplished Earl of CARLISLE, the eulogist of POPE and the friend of DICKENS. There were the youthful and gifted Duke of ARGYLL, and the venerable Marquis of LANSDOWNE. There were the Noble Lord once Prime Minister of England, and the Bight Hon. Gentleman now her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of the Exchequer. There were one of the profoundest philosophers of the age— WHATELEY : and one of the most illustrious of living statesmen—PALMERSTON. There, too, among the untitled guests, was the national historian, one of the most eloquent writers in the language. There was more than one, moreover, bearing the honoured name of BuxToN—appro priately summoned to that implied protest against Slavery—consoling us if among the crowd we failed to recognise either a CLARKSON or a WIL BERFORCE. The occasion was, in fact, one which it was a privilege to have witnessed, and it is certainly one which it is the duty of the journalist to record in terms of mingled respect and appro bation. INDIAN REFORM SOCIETY.—On Saturday, the 7th inst., a meeting of the committee of the Indian Reform Society was held at the committee-rooms, 12, Haymarket, at which Messrs. Bright, Blackett, Bruce, Bell, Cooke, Phillimore, Danby Seymour, and Viscount Goderich, M.Ps., and other gentlemen interested in the welfare of India, [attended, when several important communica tions were announced. Letters from some of the prin cipal native gentlemen of Madras and Bombay, written in very pure English, were read to the meeting, describ ing the excitement which prevailed at those presiden cies, under the apprehension that the petitions of the natives would be unattended to, and their claims for jus tice disregarded by the English Legislature ; and stating that ample evidence could be furnished of the truth of the allegations contained in their petitions, if time were allowed. These letters were dated before the formation of the Indian Royal Society was known yin India. A letter was also read from the Native Association of Bom bay, referring to a pamphlet on "The Administration of Justice in Southern India," by J. R. Norton, Esq., Government Pleader at Madras, which bas recently created a great sensation in this country, declaring that " the remarks of that author apply equally to the Bom bay presidency." It was further announced that the Native Associations at the different presidencies had re mitted money to a considerable amount to their friends in this country, for the purpose of diffusing information through the British public respecting the wants of India. A portion of those funds was handed to the treasurer of the society. The committee decided on making an ap peal to the public opinion on this question as soon after the Whitsun holidays as possible. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF AN OLD SOLDIER THROUGH DISTRESS.—On Saturday night Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of Chris topher Clark, aged 54, who committed suicide under the following melancholy circumstances :—The wife of the deceased, who appeared absorbed in grief, said that on Monday last she went with her husband to Deptford to receive a pension, which was allowed to him, of ls. 2d. a day, for 24 years' service in the army, but Captain Ward said that he could not pay him, as there was a debt against him of 21., and his pension only amounted to 1/. 15s. He ordered him out of the office, and abused him very much, which seemed to prey greatly upon his mind, as he had been out of work for a long time, and they had a family of six children. When they returned home she went out to borrow three half pence of a neighbour. On her return to the room in which they lived, in Brent's-court, Southwark, the deceased was sitting with two children (twins) on his knees, and was crying. She told him to keep his spirits up, as she had borrowed a shilling, but he only replied, "What will become of my poor children I" She condoled with him, and said they would go again on Wednesday, and try to get his pension. On Wednesday morning last, about eleven o'clock, she missed her husband, and went out to seek him. On her return, seeing the cellar shutters closed, she felt all in a shudder, and was afraid that he had done something to himself, from his depressed state of mind. She instantly ran down the steps, and then saw him lying upon the floor with his throat cut. She screamed out, and on some neighbours going in he was taken to the hospital. It was the way he was treated at the office that had preyed upon his mind. He had a good character, to show that there was nothing against him. Mr. Jones, surgeon, said the deceased was brought to the hospital on Wednesday morning, with a wound in his throat. He had lost a great deal of blood. He died on Thursday evening from the effects of the wound. He spoke of his children several times. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity," but added that, from the account given by the widow, it appeared to have been brought on by the harsh treat ment of Captain Ward, and they think he exceeded his duty in not paying him his pension. MURDER OF A NAVAL OFFICER.—We deeply regret to announce the murder of the paymaster of her Ma jesty's ship Daedalus, at San Bias. The unhappy victim, Mr. Michael Feeley, who had gone on shore at that place, was found dead by the crew of the boat that left the ship on the morning of the sth of March for the purpose of obtaining fresh beef. A man suspected of the murder was captured, and was in prison at the date of the letter (15th March) announcing the melancholy event. Some money was upon Mr. Feeley's person when discovered, but it is supposed he had been robbed of a portion of that previously in his possession. We regret to add that Mr. Feeley has left a widow and young family, who were wholly dependent upon the - unfortunate deceased,—Efampeore Telegraph. THE SUN, LONDON', MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 18 53. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool Saturday were estimated at 5,000 bales—of which 500 American were taken for export. The market was rather tame, but closed steadily at previous prices. The sales comprised 4,000 American, 600 Pernam and Maranham at 6d. to 7d., 50 Bahia at 6d. to 60., 20 Egyptian at 6kd., and 400 Surat at 30. to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull at lower prices. The following interesting report on the fruit crops is furnished by Messrs. Witherby and Han son : " The announcement by the Chancellor of the Ex chequer of his intention to reduce the duty on raisins to 10s. per cwt., led at once to a few speculative purchases of Chesme barrel fruit at former rates ; but the article subsequently became dull and neglected. On the 27th ult. telegraphic dispatches were received from Smyrna, via Trieste, announcing serious injury to the Vines, from a sudden and extraordinary low degree of tempera ture. On the receipt of this intelligence, very extensive speculative purchases were made here in Chesme barrel fruit, causing a rapid advance from 41s. to 445., and even 455. ; and though the stock here is immense, there is very little left now in importers' hands. This move ment, as was the case with that in currants last July, emanated from the Continent, where, as stated in our previous report, the stocks are nearly exhausted, and can only be replenished by liberal supplies from this market. Later accounts from Turkey are anxiously expected, for, should the apprehensions of damage from cold weather prove to have been to a certain extent unfounded, serious results may be feared from the scourge of locusts which infest, to a fearful extent, all the raisin growing regions. Some idea of the nature of this scourge may be formed from an extract from a letter published in the Osseinwtore Trestino of the 27th ult., which states : ' For some time previous to this visitation of frost, the poor inhabitants of the territory of Chesme and Alazzata had been zealously and with incessant labour and toil, employed in endeavouring to extirpate the locusts, and down to the 17th inst. had succeeded in destroying to the extent of 53,000 okes of weight (about 130,0001b5. English).' Such a shtement appears almost too extra ordinary to obtain credit in this country, but it is more than corroborated in private letters, which give upwards of 200,000 lbs. English, as the total weight of the young locusts actually destroyed. There is, therefore, some reason to be uneasy respecting the crop, by reason of both or either of these severe visitations." The New York accounts to the 23d ult. notice no important change in stocks. _ _ The people of New Brunswick have adopted a memorial to the home Government, in which they state that— " When the United States are willing to concede to the provinces reciprocal free trade in the natural pro ductions of those provinces, including those of the field, the forest, the mine, and the fisheries, to extend the principle of reciprocity to colonial ships, and to open the coasting trade, then they say :—We will be willing to admit the American fishermen to a free participation with British subjects in the inshore and bay fisheries on the coasts of New Brunswick, with permission to land upon the coasts for the purpose of drying their nets and curing their fish, not interfering with the rights of private property or British fisher men, provided that the fishermen of New Bruns wick are permitted to enjoy a free participation with American citizens in the inshore fisheries and the fisheries within the bays on the coasts of the United States, sub ject to the like conditions, limitations, and regulations as should be imposed upon American fishermen in the waters of New Brunswick. Shorld these negotiations prove unsuccessful, and the Government of the United States persist in refusing to extend to those colonies advantages similar to those which the American people have obtained from Great Britain, we would earnestly urge on your Majesty the necessity of withdraviing the restrictions imposed on the Colonial Legislature, and leaving them to exercise their own discretion with re gard to differential duties." The London Bank of Australia and China intend, it is stated, to wind up, having received a further communication -7 com the Duke of Newcastle, d . e vl i a n s n a g e h t o a r accedee li t o m t h e e d i r l s i a e c b o i i n i t d y a , p o p n l y c a w t riotnh,o without irceh ference to any banking privileges in the colonies which would have been sought from them. The official communication states, however, that his Grace sees no reason to depart from the rule lately laid down respecting a previous reference to 'ere colonies cor cerned. Whether the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, which is understood to have been equally unsuccessful, will go to the colonies remains to be seen, and must rest probably with the shareholders ; but in such case there must necessarily be considerable delay before the bank can be formed, admitting that a charter worth having is to be hoped for in the present temper of the colonists, and that it is advisable to incur the expense of sending out spe cial agents. There is a flat market for public securities, and the supply of money stock continues, cash being readily absorbed. Consols have been marked 100 k tog for transfer, and 1001 to for account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 103- to 1, and the Three per Cents. 100 to 1. Bank Stock is steady at 228. Exchequer Bills of March are at only 2s. to Ss. premium, and East India Bonds are marked 28s. to 325. premium. Foreign Securities have been dull. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 27/. The Envoy of the Peruvian Government has announced the terms upon which the Deferred Stock is to become active, bearing 3 per cent. interest immediately. The conditions will no doubt secure the acquiescence of the principal holders, and as a further portion of the guano proceeds, hitherto paid to the Govern ment, is to be cosigned for the payment of interest on this new Active debt, and there will be a good sinking fund, in addition, the purchases made in the open market from time to time will be all in favour of the holders. The Red Greek Bonds have been at 9 to 9/. Brazilian Old Stock is quoted 100*. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have realised 104 k, and DutehTwo-and-a-Half per Cents. 65k to 66k. Sardinian Stock has realised 98. The Railway Share Market has been rather heavy, principally from the absence of business. Caledonian have dropped a A, Chester and Holy head 1, Great Northern A Stook 1/., and Great Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and North- Western to k. South Wales have been higher by about 10s. Strasbourg shares are higher, but Western have dropped 10s. Central are flat at 2i to * premium. It is reported that a heavy " call" is about to be made, and that 80,000 shares are herd in England. The Gold Mine Shares are heavy, and United Mexican are lower. The Joint Stock Bank Shares are lower as re gards the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China, and the Union of Australia. The Oriental and the South Australia tend upwards. The Jamaica Mines are still depressed, orders to sell having come over pretty freely last week from Kingston, owing to the cessation of the works at the Pembroke lode. Metcalfe are 11 to 12 prem., Sue River 1i to 1i prem., and Jamaica 4k to 5,1 prem. Berlin Waterworks are to * prem., and Canada Trunk 4 to 1 prem. The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Place. Cork and Bandon May 20, 17,Graceehurch-st, London and South-Western May 19, 34, York-road, Lambeth. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire South Yorkshire May 12, London Tavern. BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS Div (From, the Official List.) Business done. Bank Stock 3 pc: WA. Reduced Annuities lOO ill 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities New 31 per Cent. Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO 32 Cor sols for Account Exchequer Bills lid. June. Marc;.. £lOOO. £500 Small PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small Ditto New, 1852, 41 por Cent lOO3 i Greek Bonds, Red 271 Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto 4i per Cent lO4l Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 9B Dividends on the above payable in London. Belgian 41 per Cent. Dutch Exchange, 2, 1 e per Cent. 12 Guil. Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 964 4 HALF-PAST TWO. Ditto eonsol yi s. ;3; ...... c .. 0 . u .. n . .. NEW CEMETERY FOR MARYLEBONE. -Cn Saturday the burial board of the parish of Marylebone reported to the vestry in favour of purchasing twenty-seven acres of land at Finchley for a cemetery. The estate is called Newmarket Farm, and is situated at East End, Finch ley, about four miles from the northern boundary of the parish of Marylebone. The purchase money is 5,2001., thus under 2001. per acre. The situation is of conve nient access from the parish ; it is off the main road, but approached by a good road leading from it. There is a cottage upon the land, of the value of about 401. per an num, which, with the timber upon the ground, is in cluded in the purchase. The land tax amounts to 61. is. 6d., and the tithe rent charge to lls. lid. per annum. The soil is of a light loamy clay, and the ground affords great facilities for drainage. Lord Pal merston has approved the site upon the report of Dr. Sutherland, and the vestry will have next Saturday to annul or ratify the bargain. ROY AL ACADEMY. It is deeply to be regretted that so many of our distinguished artists, still living, have abstained this year from contributing the aid of their genius to the present collection of the Royal Academy, that of the season of 1853, being the eighty-fifth anniversary of its foundation. Latterly death had accustomed us, it is true, to the absence of several important names from the catalogue. Recently, for example, we had come at last to be habituated to the non-appearance among the annual exhibitors of such illustrious masters as Etty and Turner. But we were not prepared for that reason to find so considerable a body of their survivors remaining, in the full vigour and maturity of their powers, indifferent to the incitements of competition. Mulready, no doubt, had long disappointed his admirers by his indolence : but, until now, Maclise had always delighted us by his activity. Besides Maclise, we have to regret as absent this season from the " storied walls" in Trafalgar-square, men no less important than A. Leopold Egg, and W. Powell Frith, and W. Edward Frost, and P. Falconer Poole. Not one of them has added to the treasures of the Gallery even a single contribution. Happily, with a few minor exceptions, the rest of the Associates and Academicians have proved, on the contrary, both industrious and ambitious. The President himself has afforded them, in the latter respect at least, the benefit of an example at all times influential. Although he has produced this year only two pictures, those pictures are in many ways worthy of Sir Charles Eastlake's high reputa tion. The larger work of the two (No. 124), a Scriptural subject, is conceived in an elevated style, and executed with consummate ability, although the exquisite finish degenerates almost into the effemi nate softness of enamel. It represents " Ruth Sleeping at the Feet of Boaz," and perhaps the only portion of the " design" that could reasonably be cavilled at is the attitude of Ruth, which is cer tainly anything but calculated to dispose the daughter-in-law of Naomi to somnolency. The other production of the same master (No. 186) is, this time, not Scriptural, but Shaksperian. It portrays Violante, the gentle and beautiful. There is something most lovely to us in the delicate tenure of those faint little blue blossoms—are they violets ?—in that hand so soft, and fair, and dimpled. Sir Edwin Landseer is of course, as he always is, wonderful in his studies taken from the animal kingdom. His great works this season are (No. 46) " Night," and (No. 69) "Morning"— nothing in the least like Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's " Night and Morning "—" Night depicting a couple of magnificent stags at war with their ant lers, in the midst of lake scenery in the moonlight, and " Morning" revealing them both stretched in death from the effects of their ferocious struggle, a fox sniffing stealthily towards the carcase of one, while, in the grey glimmer of dawn, you detect, winging its flight towards the other, a bird of car rion. How all this is told no one can conjecture who has not stood in front of those two marvellous productions. Altogether, we believe they are re garded by the majority of visitors to the gallery as constituting its principal attractions. Landseer's remaining contributions are (No. 291) " Twins " astonishingly clever in all its details, but chiefly so in regard to the woolly covering of the lamb kins.; and (No. 170) " Children of the Mist " —not those described by Sir Walter Scott, but a cluster of stags, a small composition, which we consider in the light of a capital eccentricity. Clarkson Stanfield displays two admirable works of art, one of them a great national sea piece worthy in every respect of the artist's celebrity. This is no other than (No. 87) showing us " H.M.S. The Victory (with the body of Nelson on board) towed into Gibraltar, 28th of October, 1605, seven days after the battle of Trafalgar"—the gallant old man-o'-war battered and blackened from the con flict from the agonies of which she had so recently emerged—sorrowful but triumphant. It is one of those noble pictures that ought to be purchased by the nation and enshrined in the painted hall at Greenwich. Stanfield's other contribution (No. 325) portrays "An Affray in the Pyrenees with Contrabandistas"—the n blue sky and the snowy mountain peaks glimmering out through a gap in the surrounding darkness of cloudland. Five paintings in all appear this season as from the easle of David Roberts. One (No. 89), " The Cathedral of St. Stephen, Vienna," is an extraordinary architectural interior, and an other (No. 415) a masterly view of t'ie inside of the Crystal Palace, on the Ist of May, 1851, during the progress of the inauguration. Francis Danby—one or the greatest names in the Academy, although he is still only an Associate— gives us for the present season merely a solitary production. But it is one full of poetry and su blimity—(No. 155) " A wild sea-shore, at sun set," a splendid illustration of that golden truth enunciated by Shakspere, and which we rejoice to see emblazoned on the title-page of the Catalogue as its appropriate motto : " Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean—so o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes -The art itself is nature." There is also visible on the walls of the gallery but one contribution from the hand of Frederick Good all—(No. 248) "An episode of the happier days of Charles I,"—the King and the Royal Family on a summer's day floating in a pleasure boat to the sound of music and festivity—a work re plete with grace, and beauty, and imagi nation. The merry monarch and James the Second, of the hereafter, still children, are flinging morsels of cake to the swans, while a blackamoor attendant is holding a rich salver with the dainty on it in the background. The gorgeousness of the scene, and the tranquillity of it, are expressed even in the surging waters that flash to the sweep of the rudder, gaudy with the Royal arms of England. William Dyce (in No. 140) depicts, with much ten derness of feeling, " The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel," and Thomas Webster (in No. 116), with admirable humour, the interior of " A Dame's School," such as may be - found in almost any of our inland villages. Yet, while recognising the merit of both productions, we cannot but re gret that Dyce, this year, does nothing at all com parable to his famous picture of " Lear and the Fool," any more than Webster achieves anything worthy of comparison with his " Boys' Play ground." Frank Stone, besides presenting thepublic with his customary glimpses of female loveliness, as in (No. 113) "A Nile Flower," purity itself, although verging upon the voluptuous, and in (No. 333), a group of young rustic girls at play, delightfully entitled "Now I'll tell you what we'll do "—soars for once into a loftier region of art, and not by any means unsuccessfully. This is in (No. 478), where the artist reveals to us the emotions of awe and pathos under which Mary is told " secretly" by her sister, " The Master is Come." Seldom have fea tures so haggard by weeping, or eyes so reddened by tears, beamed from the canvas with more be witching beauty. Another important contributor to the collection remains yet to be especially parti cularised—Edward Matthew Ward, whose genius has for some time, particularly during the last two or three seasons, been wonderfully and conspicu ously in the ascendant. Everybody recollects his masterly picture, the year before last, of " Louis the Sixteenth in Prison," and his scarcely less masterly production, last year, representing "Char lotte Corday on her way to Execution." Instead of one, the artist this year contributes two large historical paintings to the exhibition—(No. 396) " Montrose at his Execution at the Cross of Edin- burgh"—that execution over the memory of which Professor Aytoun has sung in accents so impas sioned : " He is coming !—he is coming I Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom. There was glory on his forehead, There was lustre in his eye ; And he never walked to battle More proudly than to die. He mounted up the scaffold, And he turned him to the crowd, But they dared not trust the people, So he might not speak aloud. But he looked upon the heavens, And they were clear and blue, And in the liquid ether, The eye of God shone through." Different, though hardly less mournful, is the subject selected by the same artist for his other his torical composition—(No. 512) " Josephine sign ing the Act of her Divorce" in the presence of Na poleon. Painful as this subject is in itself, Mr. Ward seems to have been anxious to render it still more painful by the manner of its treatment. Nothing more sallow, or rather bilious, was ever seen than the flesh tints of the picture throughout. Several of the portraits introduced are admirably clever without doubt, from the brilliant Murat to the sardonic Talleyrand, from the beautiful Hor tense to the handsome Eugene Beauharnais—but the lights are so numerous and scattered that the effect of the whole is marred, the work being, we conceive, distressingly deficient in its want of con centration. The collection of the Royal Academy is more surprisingly rich than ever in landscapes. Wither ington, as usual, in his particular department, is facile princeps. Although merely three pictures constitute the whole of his contributions, those three are sufficient, and more than smeficient, to sustain his reputation. In some respects we are scarcely satisfied with (No. 129) " The Village Post-office," remembering that the same subject was treated a season or two ago so much better by Goodall ; but then we are more than compensated for that sense of disappointment by the exceeding beauty and truthfulness of (No. 142), " A Sum mer Afternoon," and still more by the incompar able merits of (No. 332), " The Way Round the Park." The last mentioned work of art, in parti cular, is really exquisite. Redgrave again appears this season to singular advantage (No. 182), " The Forest Portal" tempting oneto penetrate the sylvan solitudes beyond ; (No. 541), "An Hour with the Poets" reminding one instinctively of the approach ing season so daintily named by Spencer " The leafy month of June ;" and, best of all (No. 340), " The Lost Path," in which the story is told with matchless ability throughout. Looking elsewhere than at the foli age, it is possible to perceive that Redgrave has " taken a leaf" from the pre-Raphaelites. Of these same pre-Raphaelites several are again this season contributors. W. H. Hunt has, in (No. 44) " Claudio and Isabella," a grotesque group from " Measure for Measure," in which we know not which is the more grotesque, the nun or the prisoner. A deli cious glimpse of a blossoming apple tree, or May tree, seen through the dungeon bars, compensates in some degree for the twisted position in which Claudio is wedged into the angle of the casement. J. Stirling portrays in the same microscopic fashion (No. 497) " A Lassie and a Lamb," suggested by a couplet from Wordsworth. E. Rainford, too, in the Octagon Room, has an equally odd delineation of that incident in ".As you Like It" of (No. 1238) " Celia telling Rosalind that Orlando is in the forest." But incomparably the most admirable of all these strange and startling compositions is that (No. 520) of " The Proscribed Royalist, 1651," by J. E. Millais—the king of the pre-Raphaelites. There is another picture by the same artist in the collection (No. 265), " The Order of Release, 1651;" but the " Proscribed Royalist " is, in this depart ment of the art, the gem and glory of the Exhibi tion. Replete with passion and resplendent in colouring, true to nature and abounding in poetry of sentiment, the painting, in none of its minuter details, approximates in any way towards extrava gance. Excellent, however, as we consider it to be, we scarcely regard it as comparable to either of those surprisingly clever productions exhibited by Millais last season at the Royal Academy.— " Ophelia " and the " Huguenot.' Both Lee and Cooper shine as ever conspicuously on the walls of the larger apartments. Separate or united, their powers are in every respect brilliant and harmonious. Lee especially commands our admiration by his sylvan or rather piscatory solitudes-- (No. 35) " The Poacher—scene on a Highland river ;" and again a companion picture (No. 109), likewise so entitled. Anthony, though scarcely in this equal ling the merit of his Fern-sketch of last year, has a marvellous piece of leaf-painting in (No. 480) " The Monarch Oak"—embellishing, according to the catalogue, a passage from Wordsworth. Mr. Inchbold seems to have been infected by the pecu liar style of the preceding master, as may be re cognised, we fancy, on even the most cursory glance at (No. 489) "The Chapel, Bolton." Every fibre in the stalks, every wrinkle on the boles, every crack in the ripe fragments of foliage, has by each been pencilled with painful minuteness. Several of the miscellaneous contributions yet require to be mentioned as highly me ritorious. About the boldest, and certainly not the least admirable, effort at histo rical composition for the present season is that large painting by J. Cross (No. 582), depicting the memorable " Death of Thomas h Becket"—a picture fraught with passion, pathos, and majesty. Another considerable work in a different quarter of the Gallery (No. 36), " The Incredulity of St. Thomas," is interesting as one of the celebrated productions of Overbeck. Cope has, in No. 174, cleverly delineated " Othello relating his adven tures ;" while Horsley, in No. 171, bas given a lovely portraiture of " Lady Jane Grey discovered by Roger Ascham," reading the Phwdo of Plato, in Greek, at Bradgate. Hart reads a solemn, or indeed awful, lesson through that wierd limning (No. 207) of " Solomon at the rock-hewn dial, pon dering o'er the flight of Time." There is a pathos in the age visible in the very hands of the glorious Sovereign, and a fantastic appropriateness in the ugly bosses of the cacti, and in the fluted shafts of of those oriental tree-trunks. Charles Land seer's picture (No. 217) of " The Iron Mask," commands, as it deserves to do, a wide and scrutinising ob serva ti on . A n d Jones's renowned painting of " Waterloo" (No. 224) derives a new interest from the comparati7ely recent date of the demise of the Duke of Well'ag ton. Besides these, must be noticed Elmore's awkward group of (No. 320) " Queen Blanche ordering her son Louis IX. from the presence of his Wife," if only for the talent which shines out of that very awkwardness. Plenty of chain armour, moreover, may be seen delightfully con trasting with the flesh tints, through (No. 304) that gorgeous production of F. R. Pickersgill, dis playing the bride rescued from the pirates by Angelo Participazio. Unhappily, of portraits there are "enough and to spare." Rather more, in fact, than customarily. They sprout forth each season after the manner of those abominable reasons of Fal staff, "as plentiful as blackberries." Several of them, however, will be examined with curiosity and satisfaction—this, too, not only from the recognised skill of the artists, but also from the popularity or celebrity of the originals. Gordon and Grant, of course, bear off the palm, according to their wont in the school of art dignified by the labours of Reynolds and Lawrence. Among the individuals whose effigies appear upon the walls, there are personages from every grade and profes sion. Here (No. 66) Mr. Cobden, there (No. 70) Sir Charles Napier—here (No. 176) the Duke, and , there (No. 209) the Duchess of Montpensier—in this direction (No. 159) the veteran Walter Savage Landor, and in that (No. 130) George Wilson, the chairman of the Anti-Corn-Law League. Beyond these and many others, there are observable the por traits also of (No 312) the Marquis of Anglesea, of (No. 284) Lord Campbell, of (No. 277) the Lord Chancellor, of (No. 376) the Duke of Portland, of (No. 383) Hiram Power, the sculptor of the " Greek Slave," of (No. 483) William Penny, the Arctic navigator, and of (No. 429) George Dawson, the popuar lecturer. There are plenty of likenesses of the late Duke of Wellington—and some horrible caricatures. Take that one (No. 473) by J. W. Glasse, as a melan choly and ludicrous specimen. " Uncle Tom," as might have been conjectured would be the case to a dead certainty, is rendered a theme for illustra tion. We were not surprised, therefore, to find him visited by Cassy in the picture from the hand of A. Rank y, any more than we were surprised to find " Eva, as depicted by Papworth (No. 1,334), among the sculpture. Scarcely anything is de ' serving of particular mention, by the way, in the lower apartment, devoted to Sculpture, if we ex • cept a few meritorious busts, such as that (No. 1,436) of Douglas Jerrold, by Baily, and that (No. ' 1,452) of his Holiness Pope Pius IX., by Tadolini, or as Monti's (No. 1,312) statue of " Truth Unveil ing Herself," or Macdowell's (No. 1304,) lovely figure, typical of a "Day-dream"—strangely as it may sound—an embodied idealisation. It remains for us now to glance briefly at the South-room, with its varied collection of drawings and miniatures. Remarkable in every respect among the latter, are Mr. T. Carrick's delicately pencilled portraitures on porcelain. Several of these are really exquisite works of art, and some of them quite inimitable for their verisimilitude. Let us especially direct attention to (No. 634) Mrs. W. P. Johnson, and (No. 755) the companion miniature, or again to (No. 789) W. Edgar, Esq., or to (No. 795) Mrs. Water house Kaye, or to (No. 863) Mrs. George W. Hodge—as brilliant examples of the artist's power as a depicter of " the human face divine"— productions truthful not only to the contour of the features, but the subtlest shade of expression. Besides these charming products of the skill of Mr. Carrick, we must in justice speak of Mr. Anthony de Solome's contributions to the same apartment in the highest terms of commendation. There is (No. 682), for instance, a portrait in coloured chalks, described in the catalogue as that of " Madlle. de Solome," but bearing about it so conspicuously the semblance of a fancy head, that we should conceive it to be precisely the sketch adapted for publication at the hands of the engraver or the lithographer. Further on the same artist has (No. 984) a masterly crayon draw ing of the family of Samuel Whitfield Daukes, Esq.—to all appearance executed exclusively with black chalk, and constituting, as such, we conjec ture, about the largest drawing of the kind ever attempted, or, at any rate, ever exhibited. Poked away in the room dedicated to architectural de signs, is one of the most exquisite masterpieces in the collection—the fruit of the fancy and genius of a Frenchman. This is (No. 1,056) "La Fee et la Pert poursuivant fame d e l'enfant," by E. Sig nol. In conception, in treatment, in grouping, In colouring—though to some it may seem fantastic—it is, to our thinking, absolutely) deli cious as a work of art born from an un fettered and refined imagination. Altogether there are nearly one thousand five hundred con tributions exhibited this year by the Royal ly in drawings, paintings Academy—(l46s)—various and sculpture, or, in other words, in oil, water colours, crayons, marble, or plaster-of-Paris. And while the visitor cannot fail to be delighted with several of the remarkable productions which we have here particularised, scarcely any one can in the porch of the Academy without—if it be 0 111 Y. I ts , reference to the indolence of so many living artis t' of celebrity —some sense of disappointment. LITERATURE. A Visit to Mexico. By W. Parish Robertson. IP 2 vols. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. The object of these volumes is announced to f , less to convey information than entertain boa. The reader will, however, find a happy comb° 0 tion of the useful and agreeable. The first voltol describes the journey from London, through .C 411 3 0,. peachy, to Mexico ; and the second, the city Mexico, Real del Monte, and the return by -A-ri v ac . and Vera Cruz to England. The author vros,i s companied by his daughter, to whom the wor' us dedicated. They e nco u n tered very ternpest ti f e l f weather on the outset, but were proceeding 713', to their destination when they struck on t he l o st cranes—the reefs on which the Tweed had beeo er two years previously. All the passengers, ho c , el 4, escaped, with the loss of much property, and the of of course, experienced great alarm. This W ors; only serious misfortune which befel the trave.rs, for, though repeatedly threatened with r°h:2,3o they never encountered them. Once, indeed' of the party engaged four or five suspicious °b o o tern as an escort, thinking it safer to PO moderately in the capacity of guards. Mr. Robertson visited Mexico in an official es l,r; city, of which he gives an account in a closing ei'e;i ter. He describes the different towns and 0 11 0 5 through which they passed, and the foreign ail to whom they were introduced. He gives the ftlie high characters, and remarks particularly difference . which he found between Aeleb-etl, society and what he had heard it des erl ot and believed it to be. He considers „ ie nt those who have attributed want of refillenwio. as the prevailing disadvantage of American A 7 O O ners must have taken the portraits of a secen' fl ot class, and asserts that the " very amusing 13° , 0 " very highly polished" society to be met in a t ale, mercial room" might as w e ll b e t a k en a s a ' A O of English society. Se vera l c h ap t ers i n the_;ts ind volume are devoted t o M ex i can politics and statistics, and a report of the mines of Fel Ar Monte. The author remarks ho w s trange l obe pears to a visitor to see the natural riches ° The country, and recal the low state of its cr edit. d e . curious customs and processions in Lent a re ° e iti scribed with much reality. A notice of t' e f t he sights and public works gives an account e ' r ich origin of the College of the Biscayans. Thr u e° o s') merchants of Mexico, who were born in P i t beic walking through the part of the town wiler e A , poor countrymen lived, were struck with norance and neglected state of the children. us educate them," said one. " Bien" (go0 C 1_,,: 1 the each of the others. " I will put down, r n oo - I.)' first, " a hundred thousand dollars" ( 2 u, " I will do the same," said the second ; `` said the third, and thus commenced the loot ficent establishment which is one of the gr ee d ornaments of Mexico. The volumes will b e ; Ti ci g in to be full of entertainment, as well as posses s t ia no small degree the recommendation of prose' us with valuable information. WV; History of the _Reformation of the Sixteenth (jet,' tea Vol. V. By J. Merle D'A u bi gne . h; by H. White. Oliver and Boyd, Ediabwg Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London. This volume is entirely dedicated to this 0° bot Those preceding it treated of the Continen, this one is s o l e ly con fi ne d to t h e R e format) England. Hence it is peculiarly interesting t° 03 of lish readers. It goes back to the earliest tip3,,briy our history ; it relat es th e es t a bli s h men t of i u , is lli tianity, and the various c h anges th a t gro',- - ,e'4 took place before the final ov er th row o f the f o 'll3 l supremacy. It enters upon the question of 1 00 0, in all its branches—Papal reform, episcopal% of royal reform, legitimate reform. The ae ll o wea Wolsey is the concluding point, and it is de y that three movements were from thenceforth '7 O O dated—namely, the supremacy of the r °l:43 i wrested from him, the authority of Scrip Ch re-established, and the faith of the Spiritual n ri llf was evidenced by the martyrs. It is veld the observed that they were the true childrenr rs ie Reformation. We must not seek its suppooe er of the palaces, or the councils, but in the Tow London, the prisons, the rack, and the stake' cro ss. " The purest Church is the Church under the 0 Henry VIII. was not the father of the Reforruat'°s ito England, as some have so falsely asserted—bel3ooea executioneer. The Church of England was f° l : a l e - tril L 3 be in its restoration a Church of martYr°. , r: hed ," yet). father of this Church is our Father which ' 0 v To . 01 OF TV ELLI-` T.HE BURIAL OF THE DUKE • ' Take, for instance, the resplendent c haracter p 110 9 whom the nation, with the eyes of all other 0° upon it, so lately buried with reverent affection... s ce° I witnessed that great bu r i a l ; an d methinks t P- 4 e yes' of solemnity and grandeur r i ses aga i n b e f ore 0 1 J I can conceive nothing mo re ca l cu l a t e d thanr -, beg_: transcendant spectacle profoundly to affect w e The': and the imagination of a philosophical beholder: teg' was to be seen the chivalry of the world shedcll, ll '' as d e ; round a mighty fellow-warrior's coffin, whic h : no el° d e ' scending gently for ever from their eyes, a midst " fee cliof melody, into the grave where the worm is no g i -, 0 10 sweetly upon all that was mortal of Arthur A' fi t '` Wellington. While my tears fell, in conunr A hil e those of all present, including Royalty itself AD music pealed mournfully, dissolving the very 74 , til e ,l the gorgeous coroneted coffi n fi na lly disappear e- j.fferfra arose before my mind's ey e a ki n d re d yet a l y O a scene—the vision of some pauper-burial, eillt; t b l) , rude, occurring, perhaps, at that very mode cal / burial of some aged forlorn beingt whose ere ' h i ° • stricken spirit was at length safely housed w -e wl e weary are at rest ; the poor dust unattended, u s" wit . ,'; those whose duty was to bury it—without a ein o cl P h i out a tear—with no sound but a reverend voice, v iov gusty air ; and no prolonged ceremonial. In t ' n e e t-e e .3 of spirits both these might already have 1 " f warrior-statesman and the pauper, each avr a ,, re i 43 '0"„r different disposal of the dust he had left behind '„ e o,l are we equally unable to evade death, to e° 11 ;t1 0 4 ; disguise its true and awful character. One e t ; e c l - g r e e s h . peneth to all. The word spoken on high, 10 - 1 1 and mean are beside each other in the sam e with the same event before them.—Mr. WARR EN ,„ lectual and Mo r al Developm e nt o f th e Present - 6 7> , ~:e eV? * It was affecting to see the present Duke 01 , otil ton gently extend his hand to touch his illustrioas i iae descending coffin. „ bat At the remote village in which Lord i",,,J 0 of by buried, a friend of mine recently saw on a Irtue vet register near that which cont a in e d a n entry 0 " . low poet's burial, an o th er th us :—" A n o ld m an, 5 5- name unknown." PRESENT TO AN AF RICAN POTENTATE ---A ,-- .- ag n . iii lP 'o o piece of silver plate, weighing upwards of I,')"",,tote 1 3 - intended as a pr esen t f or one o f t h e Af r i c an geF" on the Gold Coast, has been manufactured 11 o f ) ft e j Charles Taylor and Son, of Bristol, by °rat' te,ip John Wood, Af r i can merchant, an d was ,t``h i e t o !'" during the past wee k f or t h e coast of Africa In t i t sP r od Hope. The pr esen t cons i sts o f a s il ver hipa n ted' rrbe bath, most elaborately chased and o rnaine ll l 4, standing between seven and e i g ht f ee t in be i ,g; bath stands on a roll foot, o rnamen t e d with I cr t 4 he : 0 % the back chased with armorial b ear i n gs, ivit', l oo;„ t ir and unicorn as supporters. The elbow rots rise s 1 7 11 elegantly chased sc r olls. F r o m the bath r' in te massiveornamental silver pillars, fittil i yslof foliage sockets, and supporting a flanged t o ll 0 . 0 ,110 11- 0 ,1 silver cistern, capable of holding 10 or 1 ', o res i 5 water, ornamented with an edging of lotas a , u ' e- r til° l ,o fluting, the whole richly chased relief. Jil ser l) „ s lf very handsomely finished off with a twists c ials'bo• handle. The curtains are of rich le is e crimson EAU!' lined with oiled silk. The whonclosed l i c j i for oi ja gany case, clipped with silver mountings , s n o sla t tle altogether a most unique article of vi°r lcra t 11 silver. The cost of the article, we are inforinew short of 1,0001. • t, TREMENDOUS CONFLAGRATION IN 50U ,, .- ,,t0 Pr e , 0 1. P. 'Ol. Saturday night, about half-past ten o'clock, br oke 011 tended with a great destruction of proPer t N ono , ' in the premises belonging to Mr. ititchoo i"; joti tie r proprietor and turner in general, situate rty (1 0 10 street, London-road,' So u thw ar k. The Prq e whi clj erf' tion covered an immense space of ground , 0 00 j the erected a spacious mill, fitted up with costlY_r foro adjoining which were timber-yards and S W l a ce. d more valuable veneers, &c., deposited in the,10)10, n e e fire was first discovered by one of the neigh ° „ s ite' oft Wicks, who resided almost immediately 01 ) 1 3 0 - a sent the at once gave the alarm in the usual waY, fn s for the aid of the engines and fire - es ° , 3l l e se 3l/ 10 ,1 , e course of a few minutes the Royal Seeieo", n d o o Virib rived, followed by the engines of the I vo ter p oi; and West of England Office. Plenty °f Lambe 0 ' 133 ta° been procured from the mains of the Lain te - c d. the est li ii th© engines were set to work, but• in sP I or i c of d 01 , strenuous exertions of the firemen, the w sol ect s t oi: tion continued, and at length the fire 3 _, s o f th° jo a 1) , formidable appearance that nothing shat pe.rreetio?: demolition of every house near cou:N l _l„ r t he 4 1 0 . anticipated. The firemen, however, lulu: br igae of Mr. Henderson, the chief officer of t e h water io Hambleton, the head engineer of th . t of 9/ 0, 1 ,1,1 station ; and Mr. Connorton, of the weorthily, fa l Office, exerted themselves most praise over t he :10 0 1' 0 o % length succeeded in getting the master9_,ciock, element, but not before nearly twelv.e : 4 until the major portion of the P reinise t ' the s u nen de ;d The origin of the fire, or whether or no „„ er _ h Dur t ioS insured, could not learned. ..., ean t 13 0, e o Haynes, Inspector Cowlen, and S er f r the oP vg great difficulty in keeping the re of the firemen. of 1 . 015 , ir e VAUXHALL-BRIDGE PIER. — The ° on 1311-i a ts b tj j hall-bridge Company have resolved. l' tea pi.bo o laD o t moving the pier at which passengers by ark. to 14. 0 ed to ein for several years been accustom , being advised that it is calculated x.ito the solidity of the fabric. a space clear o