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MA.GAZINES—(C6NTINITET)). I TAIT. 1 1 1 11 1 ation, and cantemniag !lila for inasmuch as the qua- Ines of his mind are fantastic. One expression in the Paper we cannot but regard as rather extravaganr, namely, w h ere t h e reviewer spsaks of Cralat.e's calmness l i l t s being th e resu l t o f t h e as b es t os character of his intel The artcle, however, is so coloured with entlie 81asin, so enlivened with illu-tration, end at times so ill umined d with e l oquen t e j acu l a ti .ns, that we can par :l such casual eccentricities of phrase. We by no P 11 33 regard th e di s p ar ity of vigour in the minds of Wilson and Macaulay as Mr. Gilfillan regards them, Where he observes that " in Wilson's great shaggy soul and body there is what might make many Mecaulays." 1 4 1 , ;. k t n h r .w le e dg e i a li n g no a t s , we do the genius of old Christopher on that account, so . far . depreciate I r a ! geeins of one of the mellowest writers in the Eng- P' languge. We cannot conceive that the author ef Rargaret Lindsay " and the " Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life," is ' so immeasurably, it at all, above the author T of the "Critical and Historical Essays," and the "Lays of Ancient Rome." If at all—we repeat it. h are disposed to judge a man rather by the thins he as done than by the things he is capable of doing. Were 5 to do ot h erw i se, our est i ma t e o f ou r insular intellect Would vaceillate with every conjecture, and never acquire a ny useful i, ermanenee . T wo fi ct i o n s arc introduced in the Tee of "Luke Willingham" and the " Two Millionaires '' ~,e restriction to one of these would have been prefer ;, both i n p reserv i ng th e or i g inal quality of the type, tell°Tu. in diminishing the ephemeral character of the eon -I.nts• Upon a suggestion derived from Loudon's col i,etad works, and christened by him " Orthograplii- Itrutitieus" Mr. De Quincey favours us with a long ?ling contribution. His subsequent paper, upon l e nan of Arc," in reference to M. Michelet's History of Pontcartee, i s muc h super i or i n po i nt o f p ur p o se, and also in iof ability, It will repay perusal to all interested Ta it cha racter o f t h a t h ero ic enthusiast. Formerly it was r emar k a bl e f or th e p ur ity and excellence and e ., lu 6 e gance of it s poetical contributions. It has latterly mem,- th Ue rated into doggerel that would go far to beggar tio e . reputation of Ca.tnach. We challenge all signedcopei- G " in absurdity and ill-taste with the two pieces Ili ).3dw Y Brmb. One of there is inscribed " The ar Hor n se," a and y dashes off in this fashion— " With a snort and a tramp, the war horse came." A sunder informing us that this war horse wss "like a cloud"—a metaphor most un-equine—that his 'n Y,, es were of flame," that his breath was " a mi e st nd," and his snort was like a trumpet, the poet l.Qceeds— " Ills tramp was like march of ten thousand men, e . And its echoes like march of another ten." t i: r euttlstanti a l enough : ten and ten, that's twenty 'Alsand. Why the horse must be a very centipede on Vs to sound like twenty thousand. "And down his flanks, in a streaming flood, The sweat it ran, and the sweat was blood." 4 ' Th e sweat it ran f' Was ever pronoun put to a more c ° D ri 'Y use —to patch up a bungling metre. But the ti:Tarisons are too precious to be squandered in a g'a stanza; in the second, we find them repeated all over a 2a; 4 gaii•—the eyes, " two fires of flame"—the snort r f , ll, as "the force of a mighty storm"—and his breath efl ; ll ,ea more mentioned as being " fiercely warm ;"—the ';_le verse ending with this magnificent couplet of c ' eli ttYnQ poesy— , "And his snort (again :) was the blast of a clarion far, w As h e sn iff e d the b att l e an d ne i g h e d H a ! ha !" ,fie hav e not t h e pat i ence to exam i ne th e se silly lines o t u t ); further or to refer to more than two lines in the i w e r Producti on by the same contributor, the first the " Sunbeams are God's ladders ;" second mentioning 14 " Flower-cups closed up neatly." ,„ - ' 9l llberin g the admirable verses which at one time t' e a ced the pages of this magazine—among others the antifui " Songs of the Mcnths," by the poet-labourer •A. 03 . , fallin —ne are grieved to see this deplorable " With some judicious and elaborate cri tical notices Ktr.Howitt's recent publication of the " Homes and Wa r, of English Poets " and of the " Romance of ' 4, and the conclusion of Mr. John O'Connell's ar llents for the Repeal of the Union," the number for arch is of average ability. - 4- r 13 U1?N'S UNITED SERVICE MAGA ZINE. oThe article on Portugal with which this number e t ! is evid en tl y th e production of an English Afran e-,:aue. and therefore must be taken cum fianis, but h ell he, Cabralisto. as he is, admits that Costa Cabral a : 4 lest the confidence of all honest men because they Public enriching himself and his family witb the • ta r Q°neY " receiving bribes, and selling honorary iatm e ti ' which thus to th e hi g h es t bidders;" notwithstanding all Ip.n. writer laments the expulsion of this honest tiyu tater, and denounces as traitors all those by whose Prerts he a t expulsion was brought about. The writer did te n a " s that Costa Cabral deceived the Queen. He shitre b r such thing. The Court were parties to and whi c h s c ia L t he produce of the bribery and plunder c ? f . Which h aural w as guilty Not an act did he . commit d Ferdinandad net been previously sanctioned by Thetz,.an Consort Coburg, as the Portuguese call the King- A f , ttcd this is according to the instinct of all I.hr.ancesado Courts. Following the example of , Lonts , 11 iPPe, the Afrancesado Sovereigns of the I enin la have during their whole reign been employed t ; ansasaing large fortunes, and investing a port i o n of t ,, , i 1r 1 ill foreign securities, so as to be prepared for any sday that may c h ance t o a r r ive. The writer, who is 1i acquainted with Oporto, imagines that Saldanha eit " not succeed in stormi ng the entrenchments of that Y, and that affairs must be settled by an accommoda ,on. The “Ilistory of the British Intercourse with Japan" is continued, and we have in the present number a verbatim copy of the letter written by the Emperor of Japan to James 1., and also of the charter of privileges granted by the Emperor to British subjects trading to Japan or settling in the country. Among other articles °J produce which Japan used formerly to export to . falKiand was tea, the quality of which is represented ‘a being much superior to that of the tea obtained from C hina. The " history of the Seikhs and the Punjaub" ii We imagine, being brought down to the period of the tatificatian of the treaties of Lahore and trairitsir. In t he justice of the following observations, as to the man et• in which the rewards and honours to those engaged trill the brilliant cam p a i g n o f the Sutlej have been dis but ed we think all our readers will concur. After re lating the honours and distinctions which were so ; i rs Petly conferred on Lords Hardinge and Gough, the titer says-- h ;nut while rewards, and what a soldier prizes more, mah a ta ° ll rs and distinctions, have been showered on those two uve and undaunted men, we cannot, and it is evident the S zt; ll .,trY also cannot, refrain from regretting that Sir Harry q ii r, the co nqueror o f Ali wa l, an d Si r Walter Raleigh sh ab r t , who so gallantly distinguished himself at Feroze kla n _and bravely led on the desperate charge at Sobraon , ahe brave Si r J o h n Li tt l er an d Sir Joseph Thackwell e w , %%iv e not shared in a gr e a ter degree the public thanks and r da showered on Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh ; • j ERRoLD's SHILLING MAGAZINE. T he first article in this number is the continuation of th I) reamer and the Worker," which hardly fulfils r,,, r ° lll ise of its earlier chapters. We have somewhat 44' 41101 of the dreamer, and his dreams are occasion h " w f c 'tratton-place. The last article in the number 4 tu t'v er, the continuation of " St. Giles and St. James, Mau makes up for any short comings in " The Decip sh tourer and the Worker." St. James once more gives Whi la A t ellaPtation, and instead of obeying his first impulse, IvitC was to release Clarissa, determines to consult 1 1 1 41 ,Crossbone on the subject ; and the advice given to th e that worthy, as may be easily imagined.is, "to take Ala goods the gods provide him." In the meantime, the *h o ; c 3l her retreat has been discovered by Snipeton , hotjt v es Tom Blast ten guineas to conduct him to the th at o ' Sn' s petcn sa conceals himself in a room adjoining f Clari :•—• s _. tO li., °l Peton had resolved to watch from his biding-place: ki ß g e n to the words of St. James and his wife, that he h.q,-„distin g uish between treachery and truth ; and so he tai ll :in°tnised himself that he would suffer the interview, and Inat i i e very calmly—listen. Such was his thought. Weak i "itl l . ,,'L James was about to turn the key, when Snipeton, 0 , jai f ,,""e strength of madness, sprang upon him, and whirled hi s h'°ra the door. In a moment, St. James's sword was in 1te1i 4 c , 44 ; in the next, through the body of Snipeton; who, utlt tv?' drew a pistol and tired. St. James was scathless ; air bullet did its mischief; for„Tom Blast, rushing up kliat\received the unwelcome piece of lead — a sad a llo y , it kr ,e,,awned, to the ten golden guineas. " now the cottage is tilled with visitors; for Capstic k, tfa c i . ; eB l Bri g h t J em , and Jerry Whistle— with a coup l e of ''tich a f!;iends--arriv'e at the door. Snipeton, speechless; u4 traa e s '' 3 of mixed agony and hatred, pointed towards St. Whistle at once divined the truth. `but bl SLord, I ax your pardon,' said the polite official. turn 3.°ll ' r e my, prisoner.' St. James slightly bowed, and 4, -- away followed by the two officers. qil e z ' there's another,' cried Tom Blast, there's Si . _ Je!ly , . l orse stealer—returned convict 7 3•oti know hint the,', Y s l : 4l . rnti;t' - inoWliiin—l'm done for—but it's some -40,,,,0 Lanz that dog ' g o i t ': is too true, mate; said Whistle to St. Giles,' you must „rtR with me.' . 4 0thi n " th all my heart t' answered St. Giles. '1 see there's ~c 6 left me but to die ,• I may be at peace then. am I,4Pstick tried to speak, when his eyes d ti with tears, ras ed it. '1 l tse Je SeiZed St. Giles by the hand, an hea r t ? 'uu ." - gro srle , shook his head, and and hoped better—but take heart g yei , i) man, take ' 441 Capstick, whilst Bright Jem ~ , c kited ez i ° ': r i d n e , r ci e :7 in directly.' . cried Mrs. Daws, with her ‘Mt upon Crossbone 'Here's the d said, good gentleman pulse—an '' \,vii_shone looked at Snipeton—felt his 4 d have thought it ? So he is." is c ' w Agnes Worrall was taught to be Respectable is it ' i s 'tielvded in the present number, and we are of but , ton true a picture of a too common case. a l . ) r -riads iih r tu llan hearts are daily sacrificed at , t , he u nhal p lo e w ts e , %l , by 1 1 1 .; e °l the Aloloch—respectability. Prison d to all th us 44 ' Bell, is a paper we would recommend 1. 0 , - . r who are labouring under the disease of admiration of ' ultvresting criminals. Our friend Paul is the genius ek:`",:non sense, and most pleasant is it . to see " ...., i he Di ,L,"'s, hypocrisy of every sort and description. T sir : a l of the Potato Rot" is an eloquent and argumenta ttio_ pleading agaiw t the present law of real property, e qt.': Particularly the law of primogeniture, from th al.:t ts of which, as this writer observes -B,We all suffer, even when we are fortunate enough to re , ... the prayer' of the prophet, and 'are trverty nor riches' from this distribution of property. All given' neither po'ore l?:sesintennediate between the very rich and the very pnilistur.r;adiug poverty more t h an cr i me—for the f ormer is Sho rt '" ding enduring shame, while the latter escapes with a Virtue, t ic ' sharp penalty, and seeking wealth more than vrilllritet , : ke llt 'e ./ ‘ e . a:e it is more highly honoured—make the pur iner,.,.f liches the one great business of their lives. The great property, like a false light held out by a Cornish ti n n. l'; guides the voyager on the ocean of life to destruc tratu_it ollowing it, and aspiring to be very rich, we unfairly ilit o : l e on one another, and convert the brotherhood of man PerPttual content ion." kl &sip 4.0. N. 4.1 and Scenery," that the account of his decease will be matter of sorrowful interest for all its readers, eubscri hers, and contributors. Anoiher of the deplorable in. stances of misfortune in connexion with lite rary powers of some eminence is furnished by the career and demise of this lirely delineator of .American society. Unlike poor Hewlett, Hooton does not appear to have bean a long sufferer from the ills incident to the precarious income acquired by writing for the periodicals. Of this at least we are rejoiced, for until these miserable cata.trophes become less frequent, until indeed their recurrence be altogether prevented, we shall regard the "Literary Fund Association" as inefficient, and of a very suspicious utility. Th 3 Colonial is, as usual, varied and entertaining. [We have not received the Railway Register for the present month]. l'he present distress of Ireland he traces directly to this cause. Nowhere is this vicious diaribution more apparent than in Ireland. Such men as the Duke of Devonshire, the Marquis of Lan-AoWne, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Arclibishnp of Armagh, with 17,670/.. a year, derive immense incomes from that country; while the peasantry on their estates—in most favourable seasons—have little else to live on than notatoes, are lodged in miserable huts of one room, with no more fur niture than a kettle and a table, with no bed but straw, and no clothing but rags. More destitute than the negroes—who have plenty of food— and a climate which makes nakedness and an airy dwelling luxuries, it is impossible that the:: should lose any of their possessions and continue to lira. Lower in the scale of subsistence they cannot sink. At tine best of times the bulk of the Irish have nothing to spa.re. Now comes the potato rot, and deprives them of nearly all their food. They have nothing wherewith to buy food, talc' they must be fed, or perish. Interest and humanity alike forbid the latter. Poor as they are, their toil gives value to the nobleman's estate. Their labour pays his rent; allaw them to perish, and rent will perish too. If humanity were dead, interest would plead ; and duty, enforced by the pub lic voice, comes to the aid of still living humanity. "Those who have monopolised the land are responsible for the lives of the people. If they will not allow them t.) have the land to feed themselves, they are bound to feed them. The source of the obligation on the landowners and the Governmbnt to sustain the people, denied by some on th e ground that naturally one man is as able to provide food for himself as another, is the monopoly by the Government and the landowners of the whole soil. Throw it open to all; throw even the waste and unoccupied land open ; give equf,l freedom and equal rights to all; and the obligation—except as an act of charity and love for a brother in distress—would have no existence. The monopoly of the soil—the main source of inequality of property—carries with it the obli gation to feed and save from starvation the habitually oestitute peasantry of Ireland. It is only by fulfilling this obligation, that the landlords can hope to be secured in their possessions. Duty, humanity, and self-interest, all combine to make the rich sacrifice their superfluity, and lessen their own wealth to relieve the poor of Ireland. Be cause the destitute people can give up nothing more than their lives, the potato rot inevitably carries with it a reduc tion of the wealth of the wealthy, and an approximation to equality of property." And the moral of the potato rot is, that if we wish to avoid a constant recurrence of failure we must legislate in accordance with the laws of nature, and encourage the distribution rather than the accumulation of landed pro perty. This article is of great permanent value. We should like to see it reprinted as a tract, and circulated throughout the kingdom. CHRISTOPHER TADPOLE. By Albtrt Smith. Illustrated by John Leech. Port VII. In the last number we left Sir Frederick and Mr. Gudge retiring suddenly from the dinner-table of the latter, frightened from their propriety by the unex pected appearance of Mrs. Hamper and her nephew— the latter, a Mr. Ellis, is the brother of the mother of Christopher ; hence the agitation of Sir Frederick. He is, however, re-assured by Gudge, and rejoins the company. " The dinner was dull—dull as a standard comedy, or a November twilight; or an amateur work, or a popular lec ture—dull as only a canveraional dinner can be, in other circles besides Mr. Gudge's. For you must have recollected many parties to which you have been asked, whose very ghastliness almost made them amusing ; where several dreary people had been cruelly collected together to get no thing comfortably ; and to all appearances, for no earthly purpose but to be shown silver spoons and new-patterned champagne glasses, and forced into the necessity of repeating the same absurd ceremonies in their turn. We never yet considered it a compliment to be asked to a dinner, were dis play was palpably the main cause of giving it; and the whole attention had been directed to collecting showy things on the table, which money could procure anywhere, rather than agreeable persons round it. Whenever you hear indi viduals spoken of as great dinner people,' you may be cer tain they can shine in no other way but with the borrowed lustre of their epergnes and hash-dishes. If pleasant feel ings and social en . ;o3ments cannot be got off common crockery and plain joints, they will never come from heavy plate and chilled made dishes. On the contrary these have a tendency to weigh down the lightest spirits. " The gentlemen were not more lively when the ladies had left than before. Mr. Snash amused himself with pitch ing into the Government generally ; attributing, however, all the crimes and evils of the State to the Stamps and Tax_es. The Baron wished to unfold to Sir Frederick a scheme he had for emancipating Poland by a company with a capital of a hundred millions to be raised in shares. and, it Sir Frederick's name was down amongst the directors, would ensure its success with enormous profits—' in salt, Sir; in the simple domestic article of salt alone,' as he energetically informed him, as he went off into a series of complicated saline statictics that would have driven Cocker himself into Bedlam to have ft flowed ; to all of which Sir Frederic bowed, but, for the world, could not have told the next minute what lie had been listening to. Mr. Gudge and Mr. Flack got up a little dismal conversation about bills; and Mr. Ellis, who had been intro duced by Mrs. Hampe r, not knowing anybody, sat by him self and appeared to wish that he was anywhere else. "At length Christopher announced that tea was ready; upon which Mr. (Judge did not wait, according to custom, until the information had been repeated, but asked every body, at once, if they would have any more wine. And as the manner in which the question was put ensured an answer in the negative, he proposed that they s h ou ld join the ladies; w hic h ever y bod y a pp ear e d q uite ready to do except Sir Frederick Arden; and he slipped off quietly, whilst Mr. Gudge waited behind hi the room to put what wine remained in the glasses back into the decanters, and lock them up." Driven to desperation by the vulgar obtrusiveness of Gudge, Sir Frederick determines to take off Christopher, so as to free himself from the clutches of the unprin cipled attorney, and finding Christopher alone at Gudge's chambers one evening, he induces the boy to enter his cab, drives to some livery stables, engages a chaise, hurries off to Weybridge, in which neighbourhood an old servant of his keeps a beer-shop. He stops at this place, and asks Andrews, the keeper, to take charge of Christopher, and carry him safely to Southampton. A navigator is sleeping on a bench, waiting for a canal boat; he awakes, and Christopher, to his horror, recog nizes Hockey, who engages to see him safely delivered to the address at Southampton, which Sir Frederick gives him, and, notwithstanding the cries and entreaties of poor Christopher, he is once more given into the grasp of Hockey, and by him carried to the canal boat. Si r Frederick then enters the chaise, and orders the rostboy to return to town. In going over a high wooden bridge which spans the junction of the canal with the 614 r Wey, the horses, frightened by a flash of lightning, back against the parapet, and the chaise falls over, the horses falling half across the flood-gates. The post boy escapes, but the chariot, with Sir Frederick in it, falls into the deep water of the lock. The next chapter brings us back to Sprouts and his friends. The jolly man, Mr. Chirpey, makes an offer to Miss Twits, and is accepted, and a grand supper and ball is given in honour of the betrothal. This ball and supper is most graphically described, and the whole chapter is overflowing with good-humoured fun. Their festivities are, however, interrupted by the appearance of ' Gudge, who has come to seek Skittler, who is in attend ance professionally as the fiddler, and whom he instantly dispatches to Kingston in search of Christopher, as he has ascertained that it was for Kingston Sir Frederick had ordered the chaise at the livery stables. L'ECO DI SAVONAI?OLA. No. 1. We have here submitted to our notice the first number of a little publication of an unusual and interesting character ; namely, an Italian periodical, written, printed, and published in London. We have examined it with care and impartiality, and confess ourselves singularly disappointed. To us religious tolerance is everything; and we reverence that prin ciple so truly, that we are prepared to contemn bigotry at home as much as the bigotry of an Inquisition, or a Smith field ahlo-da-fe. Here is an example of the tolera t ion of the Eco di Savonarola, page 27 .—" La religion di Gesu religione di amore, rappresentandoci it Signore come padre delle anime che egli ha create, specialmente di coloro che credono net Vangelo del suo Figlio Gesu. Le religione di Roma a religion di terrore. Ella rappresenta it nostro Dio come un giudice severo, seduto sovra trono di maestil, guardando con piglio sdegnoso le sue creature, e lanciando folgori per punire i loro peccati, ele loro tralezze. In una parole Roma ha modellato le sue credenze sulle tavola delle Legge dettata sul Sinai, e nei sul Nuovo Testamento dove sta seritto Dio e Carita." That is not the to lerance we can applaud ; that is not a mode of argument in accordance with the liberalising spirit of the age ; it is not the toleration which was avowed by the Ministers of her Majesty's Government on the second reading of Mr. Watson's Bill, or the toleration pro nounced, on Tuesday evening in the House of Commons, by the late Secretary for the Home Department. THE PATRICIAN. In this number we have an interesting account of Bagley, the far-famed domain of Lord Lyttelton, situated in the most picturesque part of Worcestershire—the glories of which have been sung by Thomson, and which, from its connexion with the literary history of our country, may be regarded as classic ground. The curious trials connected with the aristocracy are continued, and we have in the present number the two trials of Lord Mohan for murder. These trials are curious, giving a singular insight into the state of the streets and taverns of London towards the close of the seventeenth century, and a view of the outrageous lives and conduct of the roues and gallants who frequented them. On the 9th of December, 1692, Lord Mohun agreed to assist Captain Hill in an endeavour to abduct Mrs. Bracegirdle, the celebrated actress. Capt. Hill's suit to that lady had been previously rejected by her at the instance,as he ima gined, of Mr. Mountford, an actor. Mrs. Bracegirdle had been spending the day at the house of a Mr. Page, in Drury-lane; as she was quitting, at ten o'clock at night, Captain Hill and Lord Mohun seized her and attempted to force her into a carriage. Her cries brought Mr. Page and his friends to her assistance, the assailants were overcome, but they insisted on accompanying Mrs. Bracegirdle and her friends to her house, in Howard street. Having done this, they left, and, with drawn swords, paraded before the house of Mountford , in Norfolk-street, awaiting his return, and vow ing vengeance against him. While thus engaged they were encountered by the watch, who demanded of Lord Mohun why he had his sword drawn, to which he replied that he was a Peer of the realm, and bid them touch him if they durst. Mountford shortly afterwards arrived, and Lord Mohun engaged him in a conversation, during which Hill came up and stabbed him. Hill escaped, and Lord Mohun was taken, tried, and acquit ted by his peers. A few years afterwards he was again tried for the murder of Mr. Coote, who had been killed in a duel, and again acquitted ; and at length his turbu lent career was cut short by a violent death. He was killed in a duel with the Duke of Hamilton in Hyde park, who also fell. The present number likewise con tains several literary articles of merit, besides reviews of various new publications, and critiques on the dramatic ' productions and exhibitions of the month. SIMMO.N7DS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE. It is melancholy to open this periodical for March, considering that one of its very ablest contributors has perished since its last publication, and that too under very mournful circumstances. Charles Ilooton has lat terly been so conspicuous in the pages of the Colonial, by the republication of his " Sketches of Texan Life FINE ARTS. BURGER'S LEON 0 RA. Translated by Julia M. Cameron ; with Illustrations by Daniel Maelise, R.A. Among the numerous offerings of song from Germany, this noble and celebrated ballad is one of the worthiest, and it is here produced by Messrs. Longman in a gor geous arabesqued binding, printed on glazed paper almost as massive as cardboard, and in type of the German cha racter. Tu the lovers of ballad poetry what a feast is not here! The genius of Burger, the accuracy of Miss Cameron, and the imaginatio❑ of Maclise! And who was not already familiar with the verses of Leonora? Who had not already hung over that thrilling tale, rivetted by the horror of its catastrophe, and entranced by the music of its diction? Who had not already mourned for, and with Leonora, and followed her breath lessly through her flight with the goblin horseman? Those vsho had nut will find a now field for their ad miration in the present version, embellished as it is by the poetic fancy of Daniel Maclise. Those who, like ourselves, were, long before its publication in this form, lovers of this masterly ballad, will derive new pleasure from its appearance under a guise so novel and so beauti fully appropriate. Although there is a glaring absence of the renowned lines in the translations of Taylor and Scott— "Tramp, tramp, across the land they rode, Splash, splash across the sea ;" that very omission is admirable as a token of the rigid manner in which Miss Cameron has adhered to the text of the original. Besides, as that lady judiciously inti mates her preface, the introduction of the sea, in the interior of Germany, is somewhat of a solecism. The success. with which Miss Cameron has rendered Burger's words i.nto English, without scarcely the alteration of a syllable, is extraordinary : and, although she adheres strictly to the text of her author, she in no measure trammels the ideas or fetters the rhythm. Maclise has drunk deeply of the spirit of the poem, his pencil has been the truest interpreter of the " sentiment" of Leonora. The drawings, which have been dexterously engraved by John Thompson, are exquisitely classical; two of them are not unworthy of the hand which limned that splendid cartoon of the Genius of Chivalry which some time back hung in the south-western corner of We4minster Hall. In the first delineation there is an animation in the crowds in the background, which contrasts charmingly with the pensiveness of the solitary figure in the foreground. The victorious battalions are returned, they are marching homeward through the streets, and the maiden is looking anxiously among; he warriors for her betrothed— " But why stands Leonora there Alone, amongst the rest, Whilst all embrace? To her pale lip No loving lip is prest." The face of Leonora is beautiful as the dreamings of a poet. Miss Cameron has translated the subsequent stanzas with singular felicity and power. The ravings of Leonora in her grief, her wild and blasphemous ex clamations in answer to the solace offered by her mother, and the broken colloquy which ensues between them is only inferior to the original of Burger, in pro portion to the appropriateness of the language in which the thoughts were conceived. "God is love," says the mother. "0l mother, mother, lost is lost," cries Leo nora. When the mother insists that " All that God doth is wisely done," Leonora exclaims, almost beside herself with sorrow, " Oh! mother, God bath not well done," the mother bids her calm herself by thinking of God and heaven; and then comes that most impassioned verse— " Oh, mother, mother, what is heaven? Oh, mother, what is hell ? To he with William, that's my heaven ; Without him, that's my hell." It is in the simplicity of the translation that we con ceive that the success of Miss Cameron's version consists. She has contented herself with allowing the language of Burger to be heard in all its purity without attempting any alterations of her own. The most admirable draw ing by Daniel Maclise, in the collection is, to our think ing the one prefixed to the lines:— " Now, nearer draws the funeral train ; Like croak of frogs resounds the strain. Why tolls the bell? Who, solemn, say, Dust unto dust, and clay to clay ?" The posture of the horse, and the grouping of the spectral figures, with which the air is filled, are the pure emanations of artistic genius. The volume altogether is a beautiful novelty. ROYAL GEMS FROM THE GALLERIES OF EUROPE. Part XII. Gladly do we observe a continuance of ability in this interesting serial, and a promise that on its completion the subscribers will be possessed of a very valuable treasury of pictorial art. The celebrated picture by Rubens of " Saint Martin dividing his cloak" is here given ua by the graver of if. Robinson. Excepting that there is an inelegant harsh ness in the delineation, of the mendicant woman and her children, and a striking deficiency of expression in the features of the principal figure, the plate, as a specimen ot manipulation, is successful. " The Siren "ofJ. G. Middleton is the second engraving, but although there is much skill in the management ot the lights and shades, and in the disposition of the drapery, there is an ab sence of espitglerie in the countenance of the Siren which militates against the production as an accurate copy. "'The Way-side Fountain," from the original of Berghem, is a cool and Cuyp•like landscape. TME CHRISTIAN IN PALESTINE. Part XI. - . Often as we have eulogised this periodical, we have never yet been disposed to do so with more alacrity than at present. The portraitures of scenery are iu their way inimitable, and, from the extraordinary and paramount fascination of Holy Land, they are always and peculiarly attractive. From the brevity of our space at this moment, we are compelled to do nothing more than enumerate the plates contained in the eleventh part, just published. Those plates are the " Plain Er-Itahah," the " Mount of Olives," the " Dead Sea," and " Sarem." The publication deserves success. LE FOLLET. Strange as it may appear to notice an ephemeral hand-book of the fashion under the heading of the " Fine Arts," we do so with premeditation. Le Follet is totally different from anything of the kind that has been hitherto issued. Considered even as a work of art, it is really beautiful. The sketches are charmingly pencilled and delicately coloured. No comparison whatever can be drawn between it and its numerous predecessors. THE HEROINES OF SHAKSPERE. Part XI. This ye ry beautiful series of engravings, from fanciful sketches of the females created by the sublime and perennial genius of Shakspere, are continued with the various ability upon which we have so frequently ob served. Jessica is scarcely invested with the loveliness of the fair damsel who sat on the garden grass in the moonlight by the side of Lorenzo. Isabella, the Nun, by the same artist, J. W. Wright, is immeasurably better. In her eyes, and indeed in the whole character of her physiognomy, there is the deep and loving devo tion, the angelic purity, and the pathetic supplication which are associated with the heroine of Measure fur Measure. The drawing of Rosalind, by Kenny Mea dows, is scarcely feminine enough. THE PICTORIAL GALLERY 0 . Part XX VI. Proportionately with the progress and development of art, the engraviLgs in this periodical become more and more meritorious. Instead of the crude productions of an embryo genius, we have representati ,, ns of the mas terpieces of the greatest painters the civilised moderns cm enumerate. For example, there are copies from the " Descent from the Cross," the " Hippopotamus and Crocodile Combat and Hunt," and the " Rainbow," by Rubens ; there are the " Fresco of Aurora"—" rosy checked Aurora"—who has appeared " Even as the sun with iurple-coloured face, Had ta'en his last leave of the weeping morn," by Guido, the " Seaport," by Claude, the " Adoration of the Shepherds," by Spagnoletto, " The Nativity," by Rembrandt, a landscape by Wouverman, " Boors Merry-making," by Ostade, and a multitude of other compositions. For moderation of price, lavish illus tration, minuteness of engraving, and clearness of printing, the "Pictorial Gallery" has scarcely ever been surpassed. con sisting of detailed Maps of the differe i n V t O P ß a L ri p s A POPULAR ATLAS OF THE b yJa7 :e i s il lV b y e /t/ t , he sDescrai atlas, a i s o , ns w . h e End c o mpleted, te d Globe, illustrated by Geographical and Statistical the Queen and H. R. H. Prince Albert. No. Geographer Thi oe the world, and, judging from the present number it will be also one of the most beautifully got up, and one of the most accurate.' It is intended to be completed in 24 maps, each of which will be 23 inches by 23 inches, and each number will contain two of these maps. The editor states that his object is to republish such a collection of maps as shall supply the wants of the ma jority of the reading, travelling, or trading public. The maps will all be upon a sufficiently large scale to show every important place, and enlarged plans of important localities will be added us appendices, together with tabular views of the terrestrial and celestial phenomena. The British colonial depen dencies will be delineated on separate sheets, and all geographical, topographical, and statistical infor mation will be given up to the day of publication. This object has, as far as the present number is con ' cerned, been fully accomplished. The map of Europe is one of the most beautiful specimens of map engraving we have ever seen. Every important place is marked down in the most beautifully clear and distinct manner possible. As a school atlas, and an atlas for general purposes, this will supersede every other. FIRE AT CLAPHAM-COMMON.—On Saturday night between eight and nine o'clock, a fire originated in the second floor front of the premises, No. 17, Polygon-row, Clapham-common, in the tenure of Mr. J. Marks. Engines of the London Brigade, West of England, and County Offices attended, but owing to the exertions of the inmates and police, under the direction of Inspector Cree d and Sergeant Emmersop, they succeeded in confining the fire to the floor in which it originated. oNDO X, o D , A. v IN G) YMA ft c 1 . 1 ei) 1847. AN IMPORTANT LEGAL DIS CLOSURE. (From the Opera- g lass.) COVENT-GARDEN CLOSED AGA SST ITALIAN OPERA.—MUTUAL CON VENTI PATENT THEATRES. If the good faith of treaties have any weight in the moral estimation of the community—if repudiation of engagement have not ceased to incur among us an honest English clis. gust—if deeds are to preserve their legal value, and a plain commercial transaction to maintain its probity through the lapse of time—then, through the authentic statement we have now to make—and the verified legal documents by which we shall support that statement—the public will arrive at the conclusion that Covent-garden is, by every code of justice, closed against the undertaking which it is seeking to enforce; and that, of public right, there can be no second Italian Opera in this metropolis—no legal Italian drains but that which is performed at her Majesty's Theatre. The story of the circumstances out of which arose, and upon which were founded, the patents granted respectively to the three great theatres, in the Haymarket, Covent garden, and Drury-lane, must now be, for the first time, made known to the community; and it will be seen that what is now her Majesty's, and was, of old, the King's Theatre, secured to its own, arid shut out from the other patents, the exclusive right to the per formance of Italian opera in. London, by an immense pecuniary sacrifice—a large amount of money paid in compensation, and a vast transfer of vested interests—the consequences of which have all descended, with the deed by which they were exe cuted, to the present proprietor, and, through the changes of property, brought with them incumbrances which he has de frayed. That deed, embodying a mutual convention between the three theatres, and reciting the very stipulations upon which they obtained their patents in concert, is morally as binding now as it was then, and must hold its good faith in public estimation, in spite of the flagrant and daring violation of it which is being attempted now. The deed was framed " for the purpose of regulating the conduct and management of the King's Theatre in the Hay market, and for the purpose of paying the debts of the late Pantheon Theatre, and for other purposes therein men tioned." It refers to a most interesting period in our dramatic history, when Richard Brinsley Sheridan was one of the ruling spirits ; when Thomas Harris (the theatrical veteran, so long proprietor of Covent-garden, who ended his days in rural retirement and rheumatic gout iu that elegant ground-floor villa called " Kensal Manor," now in the possession of Harrison Ainsworth); when George Prince of Wales and the high nobility took warm and per sonal interest in the prosperity of the drama; when the Duke of Bedford was proud of having a national theatre on his domain, and the Marquis of Salisbury performed the office of Lord Chamberlain with con amore spirit and a hearty good will. The condition of AA* called into action the energies of all these royal, noble, and distinguished personages. An at tempt bad been made, to establish a second Italian Opera at the Pantheon, in Oxford•street, which had ended in signal failure and ruin; debt having overwhelmed the project, and fire consumed the premises. Harris was one of the parties interested in settling the enormous responsibilities which had accrued; and Druly-lane, only itself a skeleton theatre, new building from the wreck of another conflagration, wanted house room for its company, and leave and license to perform on the Italian Opera stage. Harris had a dor mant patent to assign and legalise this performance, and for such assignment he sought compensation in sterling moneys. The King's Theatre in the Haymarket was selected to meet the difficulty and to bear the onus of all these emer gencies. It was to settle the debts of the Pantheon—to award Harris a compensation—to give the Drury-lane com pany a place of pertbrmance, and to actually disemburse or encumber its exchequer with a responsibility of about 68,000/. ; the condition being a right in perpetuity to the ex clusive production of Italian opera, and a bar in perpetuity to either of the other theatres attempting the same. And the value of this condition has been always taken by other pro. prietors, and was taken by Mr. Lumley, into the estimate of the value of the property when he purchased her Majesty's Theatre. Now here are the incontrovertible facts—facts which, if they do not startle the Court' of Chancery, force conviction upon the Sovereign and the LOrd Chamberlain, assume the form of injunction, and crush an -attempting treason in its plot, will yet speak trumpntrtnilued to the British public, and proclaim the truth througn, the land. The proceedings commenced gust 24th, 1792, as: " Between William Taylor, Jain Andrew Gallini, William Sheldon, Robert Burton, John-Needham Williatham, Richard Brinsley Skeridan, Thomas beet Bray O'Reilly." These parties having drawn up a preliminary outline of arrangements to be submitted to the arbitration and ap proval of the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Bedford, and the Marquis of Salisbury, preparatory to a deed of convention between the three theatres being founded upon it, this out line has been preserved, and is before us; and we make from it the following extract from the seventh clause : " It is to be understood as apart of the settlement bond fide between the three theatres, that the patents of Drury lane and Covent -garden shall never be exercised for the purpose of Italian operas; a nd,that the Haymarket Theatre and patent shall be fur Italian operas only, with such occa sional aid as has been usual from' balls and masquerades." The entire outline of these ir rangements was laid before the royal and noble arbitrators In the following form by the parties interested in their fulfilment : " We recommend the above outline as a just and honour able settlement for all parties. " R. B. SHERIDAN. THOS. HOLLOWAY. AVM. SHELDON." To which the arbitrators responded:— " We approve of the same. " GEORGE P. BEDFORD. SALISBURY." d upon the good faith of the Prince nearest the throne, the authority of the Lord Chamberlain, and the participation of the landed proprietor of the Covent-garden domain, the deed in 1793 was duly executed, is now in the proprietor's posses sion, and recites as follows: "It is agreed, with the consent and approbation - of all the said parties to these presents, that the said theatre or opera house, in the Haymarket, shall bo again exclusively used for the performing Italian operas, and tor exhibiting ballti,:sitw querades, musical and other entertainments according to the original institution tittreof." The deed goes on— " And this indenture further witnesseth, that in further pursuance of the said outline, and for effectually carrying the same into execution, they, the said R. B. Sheridan and 'l'. S. Holloway, for themselves respectively, and for their respec tive heirs, executors, and administrators, do, and each of them for himself doth covenant, promise, and agree to and with the said W. Taylor, his executors, a dministrators, and assigns, that from and immediately after the execution of these presents, the said two Theatres Royal, Drury-lane and Covent-garden, shall be used only for exhibiting English plays, tragedies, and comedies, farces and other entertain ments such as have usually been given in the same theatres respectively. And that no Italian operas shall ever in future be given there." There can be no mistake about such a document as this deed, framed fora perpetuity, and by t h e Act of the three great theatres in concert excluding one of them—the Italian Opera—for all time from the performance of the British drama ; and the other two—Drur --lane and Cov ent- g arden — equally for all tim e f rom th e performance of Italian o p era. Upon this mutu a l convention were obtained the patents which have been from time to time renewed to the Great English theatres--which have formed the stronghold of that very exclusiveness which one of them is now seeking to dare and to defy—which have been the subjects of so many popular murmurs, so many dramatic execrations, such fierce and radical debates in the Commons, and such sturdy de fences by the Peers; these patents, which the proprietors of Drury-lane and Covent-garde n have claimed as permanent and inalienable, exercising towards all minor establishments the most tyrannous rights of property—which Covent -garden was loudest to proclaim when its own interests were in jeo pardy, and is loudest to abjure now that it is about to per petrate on another the injury it once scouted from theatre elf— these patents, which, in the ca se o f her Majesty's T only, secured the aristocracy, when in the cases of the other theatres they robbed the people ; —well, t h ese were only granted in virtue of a conv en tio n which, in return for an outlay of 68,0001., secured to the Italian Opera its solitary privilege and its exclusive right. The matter does not seem to be one for the Sovereign or her Chamberlain, but f o r th e L or d Chancello r o f England ; but even if the deed were by some slaughter of honesty to be struck dead—if the respect due to the good faith of her Majesty's august uncle King George IV. were to be violated, to the detriment of regal authority and the value of a royal word—if the compact made through the instr umentality of the house of Bedford were to be broken upon its own ground of promise—if a succeeding Lord Chamber me lain were asked one to abrogate a property which the arrangent of a former d secured—if, in a word, all ties of probity are to be shattered for the purpose of giving to a Costa what wou ld have been refused to a Kemble, and floundering a Mario over the ruins among which a Macready failed—we believe that equity will gladly step in to stay the robbery and the desecrat he ion n , and , that the law will ratify the natural integrity of t Eglish people, and vindicate the national fairness of the land. Nous verrons!—and we believe we shall witness also the closing of Covent-garden Theatre against the performance of Italian opera. A MAN AND A HORSE DROWNED IN TileßcidSenUtßittooEYk CANAL.—On Saturday forenoon a distressing place at the Grand surrey Canal Docks, Rotherhithe, by which a man and a horse lost their lives. _Bmeitthw, about forty ten and eleven o'clock a man of the nam e of John S years of age, went with a timber car riage and three horses to the dock for the purpose o f getting a load of timber deals. In order to get the carriag e to the edge of the dock, the man unhitched two of the horses, and was backing with the one in the shafts, when the anima l backed farther than it ou g ht, and the carriage fell over the bank into twent y feet of water. The deceased, who had hold of the reins, was pulled in with the horse. The animal, as the carriage drifted about, kicked an d plunged most frightfully, and having struck Smith a violent bl o w with its feet, the unfortunate man became andstun ed i m mediately sank. Mr. Mackinnon, the super intendent of the dock, gave orders to have the waters searched, but upwards of an hour and a half elapsed before the poor fellow was found, life of course being extinct. The body was removed to Rotherhithe parish dead-house to await a coroner's inquest. The carriage and horse were got out of the water at a late hour of the day, with the aid of floating cranes belonging to the Dock Company. Smith was in the employ of a timber-merchant at Paddington, and has left a wile and two children totally unprovided for. THE LATE STEAM-SHIP COLLISION.—GRAVESEND, SATURDAY NIGHT. —The efforts of the Whitstable smack men in raising the sunken wreck by theckoft Royalhescho o v n i e c r to ß ri o s s , e h , run e down on Sunday morning last proved most successful. Immediately intelligence reached them of the accident they proceeded to the spot, and con trived, after much labour, in chaining down six smacks to the wreck, and on Friday she was lifted and carried about a mile up the river. She there grounded, and the flood this morning carried the smacks and their burthen on to the Essex shore at Shell-haven, where there is little doubt all her cargo, a most valuable one, will be saved. Her appear ance externally forcibly shows the fearful character of the collision, her larboard bows being cut down nearly to her keel, the deck torn up to a considerable extent, and the foremast carried away. Captain Webber, the master, who was saved, and taken into Leith by the steamer, returned to London last night. It should be observed that the captain was saved by a bargeman, who picked him up in a boat and took him aboard of the steamer. With respect to the situa tion of the schooner at the time of the collision, we have ascertained that she was moored close in shore on the Essex side, out of the way of the general navigation of the Thames. There were three or four large vessels lying at anchor outside of her. How the steamer came so close in shore, out of the proper course, is a circumstance difficult to solve. A young man, of about 20 years of age, was arrested on Friday, in the garden of the Palais Royal, after having seized on a handful of bank-notes at a money-changer's. He entered the shop under pretext of inquirillg whether a counter which he presented was gold or not, and whilst the master of the shop was looking at the piece lie seized on the notes and took to flight. Fortunately for the money-changer, k the thief was arrested, and the money recovered. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. MIIITSMOUTH, MAWR 7.—The Sphynx was docked yes terday afternoon (the copperinL, , of the Centaur having been most expeditiouly completed), but the water not having Leer, run off, the damage she has sustained cannot be all r.scertatned. That the vessel is much strained is evident, in. asmuch as the bed-plate and condenser of the enginea- are both broken, the former in several places. The kelSorrbolts . are also several of them started up by her thumping on the rocks. The engines and boilers will have to be entirely re moved to repair the injuries sustained by the keel and bottom planking. The lower part of the knee of the head was car ried away on the 14 ult. by the chain cable, when the vessel went broadside on the shore. ( ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) TILE RECOVERY OF THE SPRY NI STEAM :?LOOP.—The recovery of the Sphynx steam-sloop from the fate which was generally predicted for her, has reflected so much credit on Captain Austin, C. 8., Commander Caffin, Lieutenant Thompson, of the Victory; Mr. Bellamy, assistant master attendant of Portsmouth Dockyard ; Mr. Biddlecomb, master ; and Mr. Mallard, second master of the St. Vincent, and the officers and men belonging to the royal navy, and Mr. Watts, assistant master shipwright, and the officers and men of Portsmouth Dockyard, that although it involves a repetition in some respects of what we have already pub lished, we shall be excused far giving the following correct details of an operation which has excited so much attention. As we have before stated, it is impossible to commend too I ighly the exertions of all engaged in the arduous task, and the cheerful manner in which they endured all sorts of pri vations. It will be recollected that Commander Catlin, of the Scourge steam. sloop (a most worthy officer), was at first sent to assist in getting off the Sphynx. He at once saw the necessity of mechanical help, and immediately applied to the dockyard, when Rear-Admiral Parker ordered Mr. Watts to go to her, taking 50 mechanics of different departments. In an officer of Mr. Watts's attainments, scientific and prac tical, Commander Catlin had a most agreeable colleague, and no time was lost in consulting on the best means to be adopted. It occurred to Commander Caffin that they should avail themselves of the paddle beams and framing to apply buoyant vessels of some kind underneath, and Mr. Watts thought a raft of casks or of tanks might answer the purpose. The difficulty, however, of lashing or uniting them together sufficiently securely to withstand the immense force of the rollers and breakers, so common off that part of the island, was seen, and Commander Caffin then suggested the London barge, decked over and applied as camels underneath the paddle-boxes. On this the framing was immediately planned, and Mr. Watts's designs were received at Portsmouth-yard, where it—together with the barges—was prepared. In the first attempt with these barges they failed, in consequence in part of one of them having received injury for want of suffi cient security. Unfortunately it forged a head, and the pump, which projected up through the deck, came in contact with one of the bearers of the framing, and ripped up a portion of it, which caused it to fill. But even if this accident had not happened, the change of weather would have defeated them. They profited by this experience, and Commander Caffin having left, Mr. Watts went to work to remedy and improve on the first attempt; and Captain Austin having arrived, determined on carrying out the plans agreed upon. The barges were found not to possess sufficient buoyant power, and consequently they were raised upon so as to bring them up to about 140 tons. Mr. Watts found that the nose of the vessel, instead of being lifted ever the reef of rocks or bank, was rather forced into it by the downward action of the cables when hove upon. To obviate this he had a third barge or camel prepared, with a framework at the extreme end sufficiently high that when the cables, hawsers, &c., were carried over it, this downward action, instead of de pressing the vessel, should produce the contrary effect. To accomplish this he placed at the opposite end of the camel, firmly secured to its deck, two strong pieces of timber, kept sufficiently asunder for the stem of the vessel to pass between them, so that they forked the stem. Attached to the stem , immediately over this fork, was a strong cleat on each side. By the depressing of the end on which the frame was placed the end next the vessel was raised, and an upward pressure on the cleats resulted therefrom. Beyond this a great por tion of the buoyant power of the camel came into operation. The undulations of the sea also contributing to increase its effect. . The Sphynx, cleared of everything except her engines, drew upwards of ten feet of water; and the reef over which she was ultimately carried had not more than six feet on it at the time. She had twice before been brought up to this point, and could not be got over it; but on Wednesday last, by the joint effects of the camels under the paddle-boxes — the one against the stern, nicknamed the dromedary, and the two tiers of casks (alias bulls', under the bottom, and main strength in heaving, she effected the passage. The outer shoal or reef, on which there was only about. six inches more water than on the inner, brought her up again. The pur chases having been perhaps prematurely detached from the vessel, not expecting that they would be further required, they impeded the progress of the vessel over the intermediate flat, and would perhaps have prevented her reaching the outer reef in time to get over in that tide, so that the result would have been the same in either case; thus she was not got entirely over these reefs before ten o'clock on Thursday morning. The "recovered" Sphynx was taken into the Angle Dock at Portsmouth, on Saturday afternoon, but as it was too late to get the water out, it could not be seen what damage she bad sustained in her keel, stern-post, &c. As she made but little water after she was floated off (about an inch per hour), her bottom cannot have been very materially injured. To-day, a large gang of shipwrights will be turned on her, and we have no doubt but in a short space of time she will be again fit for commission. Her engine gear having been nearly all disconnected and brought up to Portsmouth piece meal, will also require very considerable repair. The Echo and Monkey steamers have returned to Brook to collect the material, hawsers, anchors, &c., which were of necessity left behind. With great pleasure we mention the Admiralty Board had, previous to the getting the Sphynx off the shore, rewarded the risers and artizans employed on her for their extra exertions, and the damage done to their clothes, by a payment of 61. 10s. each, and higher re wards to the leading men ; in addition to which all the bands employed on her recovery Ns ere on Saturday assem bled at the Naval College, when a public letter of thanks from the Admiralty was read to them acknowledging their services. The Centaur, steam-frigate, having been caulked and cop pawl, was-brought out of dock at Portsmouth, and will take on board another load of meal for Scotland. She is still under command of Mr. Davy , of the Caledonia. The Rattler, steam-sloop,Commander Moorman, is lying at the mooring of the King's Stairs, Portsmouth, awaiting the arrival of Lord Bowden. Mr. Grant, paymaster, ap pointed secretary to Sir Thomas Herbert, goes out to South America in her. The Myrtle, steam-vessel, left Devonport for Portsmouth on Friday morning. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutenant Robert Reid (1843), late first lieutenant of the Sappho, to the Mariner, 16, at Devonport. Acting-Master William Thomas Chapman, second master of 1844, to the Volage, surve) ing Nessel for the Mediter ranean. Surgeon William Folds (1830), to the Royal Sovereign. Paymaster and Purser C. Little (1835), to the Volage. Chaplains—Rev. G. Bellamy (1840), to the Ocean, vice Fielding; Rev. Charles L. Bell (1846), from the Avenger, steam-frigate, to the Rodney, 92. Second Master—James F. Tomlin, from assistant-master, to the Volage. ROYAL MArtms.—Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Wearing, Captain Phineas Priest, First Lieutenant John Manger, and Second Lieutenant John Barlow Butcher, to the Plymouth division. The following ships are confidently spoken of as under con sideration for forming the chief members of an experimental squadron for 1847 : Britannia, 120 guns, 2,616 tons, built by rule in 1820, stationed at Portsmouth. Howe, 120 guns, 2,619 tons, built by rule in 1815, sta tioned at Sheerness. St. Vincent, 120 guns, 2,612 tons, built by rule in 1815, stationed at Portsmouth. Queen, 110 guns, 3,083 tons, built by Symonds in 1839, stationed at Devonport. Powerful, 84 guns, 2,296 tons, built after the Canopus in 1826, stationed at Portsmouth. Formidable, 84 guns, 2 ,289 tons, built after the Canopus in 1825, stationed at Sheerness. By a letter from the Hibernia, 100, Captain Richards, flag of Vice Admiral Sir William Parker, dated off Lisbon, February 19, we are furnished with the following statement of a trial of smartness in executing the important manoeuvre of sending down and sending up lower yards and topmasts by the fleet then off Lisbon : - Sending down. Sending up. Minutes. Minutes. Hibernia, 100, Captain Richards (flag) 12 9 Trafalgar, 120, Captain Nott 22 30 Canopus, .84, Captain Moresby Superb, 80, Captain Corry 23 18 America, 50, Captain Sir S. Maitland 33 38 1 ' Thetis, 36, Captain Codrington 42 28 Mutine, 12, Commander Tryon 27 18 Captain Frederick Wood (1842) died at Southsea yester day morning, aged 48. 1 - 4 was raade a Lieutenant in July, 1821; Commander June, 1838 ; and Captain Septem ber, 1842. Mr. Vincent Pappalardo is appointed Vice-Consul for the Brazils for this port and district. The Royal Humane Society of London yesterday sent a most handsomely-worded certificate, and the committee of Lloyd's an unanimous vote of thanks, expressive of their sense of the noble gallantry displayed by Lieutenant Clarke, R.N., of the Hayling coast-guard station, in rescuing the lives, at the risk of his own, of nine men belonging to the brig Gipsey, wrecked on the Woolsners, near Portsmouth, during the late gales. Lieutenant Clarke was Admiralty midshipman (supernumerary in the Leander frigate for a passage to join his proper ship, the Pactolus) at the battle of Algiers, where he was wounded in the left arm. lie has lost five brothers in action in the naval service of his country. The Undine steam-vessel, Master. Commander Allen, is rilaced under the orders of Commander Crispin, of the Royal achts, and will be employed chiefly as a dispatch-boar, and relieve the Fairy frequently in the duty of conveying h Majesty's papers, letters, &c., during the sojourn of the Court r at the Isle of Wight. The Britannia, 120, has been hauled down from her moor ings, it is asserted, to be prepared for commission by Captain Sir James Stirling. This ship has been four or five times in commission, whereas neither of those fine 120's, the Nelson or the Neptune (although the former has been lying in this harbour ever since she was brought from Woolwich in 1814, and the latter ever since she was launched at this port in 1832), have ever hoisted a pennant. The St. Vincent, 120, Captain Milne, flag of Admiral Sir C. Ogle, Bart., Commander -in-Chief at this port, is about to have a thorough overhaul and refit. She will have entire new rigging, which she will commence being fitted with to morrow morning. We expect to see her at Spithead by the latter end of May. The Favourite, 18, Commander Murray, was at Sierra Leone on the 18th of January, all well ; and the Kinfisber, 12, Commander Horton, at St. Helena, on the 11th of January. The - Rapid, 10, Commander Galwey, was cruising off Benguela on the 2d of January, in company with the Espoir, 10, Commander Hand, which latter was under orders for England, and was to proceed round the coast to commu nicate with the different officers in charge of the cruising grounds. She is to come home in company with the Cygnet, the latter in a leaky state. They may both (says our let ter) be expected at Spithead in April. The Kingfisher gave a parting dinner to the officers, and three cheers when they took their departure. Commander Galwey, of the Rapid, has come home invalided in a merconhboard the ant vessel, which has put i nto Penzance; he King fisher, which took him to St. Helena. All healthy on the Benguela station. The Wanderer, 14, Commander Somer ville, was at anchor off Sierra Leone at the above date. She was to have received pratique about the Ist of January, the fever having left the ship. Commander Galwey was much beloved and respected by his officers and men, who wit nessed his departure with deep regret. The Myrtle steam-vessel, Master-Commander Battiston, arrived from Plymouth yesterday morning. The Aid, navy lighter, arrived yesterday with stores from the eastward. (From the Deronport Independent.) Her Majesty's steamer Volage, was commtssioned on Mon- * And ant flubbed at t h at time, .. . _ , . _ semnsteu liewasseasse. ase-Nasen sessuson . day by Lieut. Gabriel Johnson, for Captain Thomas Grum& DEPUTA TI ON' • FROM - THE ' f 111 Of She is to be employed on surveying service in the blgaiter- 1 PARTY TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. ranean. • I Pursuant to previous arrangement, the result of a corre ' The Mariner was docked yesterday to have her copper ' spondence between Lord John Russell and Lord Mont eag l e , cleaned. She will be t a ken ou t o f d oc k t o d ay , an d on M on - • Mont ilay will go into Barnoool, t o h ave h er compasses adjusted, a deputation from the Irish party, consisting of Lord eagle, the Right Hon. Frederick Shaw, M.P., Mr. George -prior to sailing for the coast of Africa. ' Alexander Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Edward Grogan, M.P., and The Peter e f p ac k e t, i s h a yi ng h er de f ects made good, and m • will not be out o f th e h ee d s o f t h e d ockyard till the end of Anthony Lefroy, M.P., waited upon the Prime Minister next week. at r ins official residence, Downing-street, on Saturday last, for Mr. Alexander Leg, first eng i neer , an d M r. W. H. J . the purpose of submitting to his Lordship certain resolutions • 1 adopted at a meeting of Peers and Members of the House of Newberry, third engineer, o f th e A venger, steam-frigate, I Co mons connected with Ireland, condemnatory of the pro have been dismissed the service, for neglect of duty in letting ! pad -al the water our of one of the bailors, thereby seriously injuring it.-law, as regards the extension of out- door , new poor . , able-bodied labourers, the assessment H.M.S. Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill, has been spoken ' relief to the destitute . with in the Channel. She is from the Cape of Good Hope n unions at large, instead of electoral districts, and the station, and has landed her mails and dispatches at Penzance. , powers intended , to be conferred on relieving officers. H.M.S. QUEEN, 110.—We have frequently had occasion Lord John Russell informed received the deputation most graciously. to notice the smart and seamanlike activity of the crew of tation from pa rt y . Lord MONTEAGLE the . Noble Lord that the depu this splendid ship, under the able command of Capt. Sir the Irish waited upon him for the purpose Henry Leeke, K.H. To the instances we have b fore given . - , ot hrinaing under his consideration and that of Government we have now to add two others, alike honourable to the officers . a series of resolutions, adopted at a meeting of Peers and and ship's company, and to the navy in which they serve. A .I Members of Parliament connected with Ireland, and subse man need not rank very high in nautical knowledge to un- 1 Leen y approved and signedby many I tl' noble lords and derstand that the "fitting out" of a frigate is no small per- absence in ons towts or other unavoidable circumtanc h es, were W .. e to attend the meeting. Those resolution has ap and method of proceeding, it must be a matter involving Pendell to them the signatures of sixty-four Peers and for!)- - - not only much confusion, but a corresponding amount of three Membersof the House of Parliament who time. 'We shall see how the officers and crew of the Queen res. eetibih - , , t Poor butßeliii'Bili firmly protested against the permarren e regard such a " piece of business." They commenced their Noble Lordthenproposed to be enacted for Ireland. duties in reference to the Tyne, 26, at a quarter before 12 o'clock on FrWay, and on Saturday last at 2 P.M. she was ready read the resolutions, which were as fol lows : for sea, and the first cargo of meal went off to her for Ireland. e That any abandonment at thepresent of the system of The Portland, 50, was commenced on Monday morning, electoral .divisious, by which the, oor-law assessments ' of Ireland is generally regulated, at seven o'clock, and they bent s'ils by five for p the purpose of substi tuting the larger divisions of unions, appears to us a to be Cclock ! Now, such expedition as this deserves more i r , , ag a e s m l e e n s stenoifng estates . tlie a motives nthe fora than an ordinary paragraph. It shows not only what might fraught and e nli enlightened done, but actually what is, which is infinitely more satis- i t t e h n edda danger, factery generally speaking,—it shows 00, what thoroughly improvement in the condition of the occupying tenantry, and good, officer-like management can be toopucti , e of, for we also lessening the means of administering relief with that consequent liberal have the greater pleasure in referring to this subject from discrimination and economy which are perfectly compatible our knowledge of the system pursued on board. The lash w ith rea l . charity and benevolence. is completely at a discount, the punishments are always mild "That a departure from the permanent system becomes and always rare, everything goes on quietly and effectively, t h e more f ata l if app li e d to t h e out-door relief of the able because, from the Captain to the most inferior officer, the bodied labourer, because such relief is, of all modes of ap orders are wisely given, and steadily, and firmly seen exe- plying the principles of a poor-law, the one which requires cuted. The kind, but just example of the Captain is not the greatest care and caution, to prevent it from leading to lost upon the other officers, nor is their consistent demeanour consequences dangerous to property, subversive of social without its legitimate result upon Jack. We must not order, and ultimately injurious to the best interests of the close this, without stating that the Lords Commissioners of labouring classes. the Admiralty have in the strongest terms of approbation, "That the principle of giving out door-relief to the able conveyed their sense of the singular activity displayed by bodied labourer of Ireland s has been condemned by ,the the officers and erew of the Queen, on the occasions we have various parlimentary committees and commissions as well referred to. ' as by the public officers appointed to consider this subject, In Harbour—Queen, 110, Captain Sir H. Leeke, ICH., and that the experience of the last twelve months, by which with the flag of Admiral Sir J. West, K.C.8.; Caledonia, it has been shown how relief, even though accompanied 120, Captain M. H. Dixon, with the flag of Rear-Admiral with work, has interfered with ordinary agsactilturil labonr, Sir John Louis, Bart.; Mariner; Volage; Avenger, and and endangered the future production of food for the Col:fiance, steam-vessels; Peterel, packet; Sylph and Net- people, demonstrates conclusively how much more fatally ley, tenders; and Constitution, Brazilian frigate. a system of gratuitous out-door relief to the'able-bodied In Barnpool—Recruit. labourer will produce and perpetuate the sanie 'lamentable Wooewictr, Matzen 6.—Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam, consequences. K.C.8., Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., Lords of the Ad- e That these resolutions are intended to apply exclusively miralty ; Captain Ellice, Controller of Steam-machinery; to the permanent laws propose to be enacted, and-not to'the and Captain Sir William Symonds, Surveyor of the Navy, temporary measures which the present calamity may render visited Woolwich Dockyard to-day, and were received by it expedient to enact, Commodore Sir James G. Bremer, K.C.B. and K.C.H. ; " That our Chairman be instructed to present these reso- Superintendent Lieutenant Fowler, and Mr. Dyer, Secretary ; lotions to the Peers and Members of Parliament connected Captain Beatson, R.E., in charge of works; Mr. Lang, with Ireland, who have been unable to attend the meeting, master-shipwright; Lir. Read and Mr. Chatfield, assistants requesting that such of them as may approve of these reso to the master- shipwright; Mr. Lloyd, chief engineer ; Mr. lutions may return them with their signatures affixed, with Atherton, assistant to the chief engineer; Mr. Jenkins, store- the view that the whole should be submitted to her Majesty's receiver ; Mr. Elson, master-attendant at her Majesty's G over nment for their most serious consideration." dockyard here; Mr. Miller. of the firm of Miller and Raven- ASSENTED OR SIGNED BY hill; and Mr. Smith, inventor of the screw-propeller. Leinster De Vesci Bateson, T. Their Lordships arrived at two o'clock, and shortly after Waterford Doneraile ' Barron, H. W. proceeded to the Amphion steam-frigate, at present in the Headfort Liffdrd Chichester, J. east dock, opposite the blacksmiths' shop, and, having de- Counghans O'Neil Coote, C. H. scended the steps leading to the bottom of the dock, ex- Westmeath Avonmore Conolly, H. amined the stern part, where the screw-propeller, 15 feet in Ormonde Lorton Cole, H. diameter, is fitted. Their Lordships, on coming up from the --- Beresford Chapman, B. bottom of the dock, went on board the Amphion, and a poi, Fingall Gort Corbally, M. E. tion of the crew, under the command of Lieutenant Sibbald, Shannon Gnillamore Darner, G. Dawson manned the capstan, and raised the powerful screw-pro- Mornington ---- Fitzgerald, E. B. peller from its position at the bottom to the level of the Arran De Ros French, F. maid deck of the vessel. This is effected through a well cut Courtown Dunsany Ferguson, R. A. in the stern, to admit of the screw-propeller being entirely Howth Farnham (for3d resolution) detached, and taken on deck when necessary, er when Al oun teash el Riversdale Grogan, Edward it is desirable, to make the vessel depend upon her can- (for resolutions 3, Kilmaine Grattan, Henry vacs alone, without the aid of steam. Their Lordships 4, and 5) Clonbrock Gore, W. O. appeared to think it would be advisable to raise the screw- En niskil I: n Rossmore Gore, W. R. 0. propeller about 6 feet higher than it was raised during their Ern , Cremorne Hatton, V. F. visit, which may be easily effected by raising the supports of D ,, art Crofton (for 3d, 4th, and sth its great weight to allow more space for working the blocks Cloninel Wallscourt resolution) by which it is raised. On the screw-propeller being again Clare Clarnia Hamilton, Geo. A. let down to its working position, their Lordships descended Leitrim Castlemaine Hamilton, J. H. to the bottom of the dock, and held a long conversation Lucan Downes Hamilton, Claude with the heads of the departments on improvements which Castlestewart . Templemore Lefroy, A h the working of this invention would admit of. Their Lord- nt ony Donoughmore Carew Maxwell, J. P. ships went on board the Amphion a second time to examine Caledon De Freyne Martin, Thomas the engines and boilers, and the mode in which the axle of Limerick the screw-propeller is adjusted, with themanner in which it Stuart de Decies Newry and biome Clancarty Blayney is connected and disconnected, and altogether remained at b oss , O'Brien, Cornelius the Amphion upwards of an hour and a half. Monteagle of O'Brien, John Charleville Brandon O'Ferrall, R. M. From the Amphion their Lordships proceeded to visit the Pantry Royal Albert, of 120 guns, and Mr. Lang conducted their ----.- Shirley, E. P. Gleneall Adare Shirley, E. J. Lordships under the larboard aide of this spleituid vessel, • Stradbroke Bernard to show them the strong manner in which the oak planking Shaw, Frederick Dunraven was attached to the frame. Their Lordships then went on Clements Stuart, Villiers Ranfurley Acton W. Taylor board the Royal Albert to witness the progress she is G ormanstown Archb O ld 'J. E. , it Tuite, H. M. making ; the cross-beams of the orlop deck being nearly M assarene Archdall, Mervyn Verner, W. half laid, and they give an appearance of great strength, Middl eton Brooke, A. B. White, Henry owing to the massive timber required for the breadth S out h we ll Butler P. S. of beams in a vessel of the magnitude of the Royal L or d M onteag l e handed Lord John Russell a copy of the Albert. Their Lordships subsequently visited the Terrible resolutions, and in doing so, said that since the meeting of steam-frigate in the basin, where she is fitting with Captain the Irish party at which they had been adopted, the Noble Smith's paddle-box boats, and a number of artificers and Lord announced his intention of amending the Poor Relief others are employed 'upon her to make her ready for sea. Bill in some respects conformable to the suggestions thrown The Terrible is under the charge of Lieutenant Murray ; out in both Houses of Parliament. Those amendments had Captain Woodford J. Williams, her commander, being en- been printed, and one of them went the length of altering gaged in charge of the Odin steam-frigate, with provisions the liability as to payment of the rate, and proposing to for Ireland. Their Lordships remained at the dockyard place the charge, up to a certain amount on the electoral until 5 o'clock, when they left by the west gate on their district ; but if the charge should exceed 2s. 6d., in the return_ to town. pound, on the year, that then, and in that case, and when it exceeded the amount, it should be charged to the union at large. The amendment, so far as it went, was an improve ment on the original determination of Government, but he could not, in the words of their first resolution, regard any abandonment, at the present period, of the system of electoral districts otherwise than as fraught with danger and calcu lated to lessen the motives fns a libevalsand enlightened ma nagement of estates. Lord JOIIN RUSSELL said, that in connexion with this sub jr ct he had a great number of representations made to him. Public opinion in Ireland appeared very much divided on the subject; some persons were desirous that the entire expense incurred under the Relief Act, should be thrown on the elec toral divisions; others thought a uniform system of rating over the entire union was the most equitable course; and a third section advocated the plan which the Government after a great deal of consideration had determined unon pro posing. Mr. Shaw, Mr. Grogan, and Mr. G. A. Hamilton supported the views put forward by Lord blonteogle, and maintained that an out-door system of relief to the able-bodied was alto gether inapplicable to the requirements of Ireland. Their resistance was principally limited to the principle of oat dopr relief, which they thought would be ruinous to their property and most demoralising to the people of Ireland. The resident landlords had subscribed, and would continue to subscribe to benevolent objects to the utmost of their ability. They had not the slightest objection to any ex tension of the workhouse system that might be considered necessary. They would cheerfully support, and they had already done so, any proposition for additional workhouses to provide for the reception and maintenance of the poor, upon the distinct understanding that the workhouse test was strictly adhered to ; but seeing the evils which bad arisen from out-door relief in England, and knowing how they would be magnified in Ireland under a similar system, and how pernicious would be the consequences to the great bulk of the population, they came forward to remonstrate with the Government, and to advise against the pursuing a cou rse of legislation which, as regarded this particular mode of relief, was certain to produce results long to be regretted, and difficult, if not impossible, to be remedied. Lord Joni; RUSSELL said he had heard the resolutions read by the Noble Lord, and the various arguments which the deputationists put forward in support of their views. He mould take an early opportunity of submitting for the consideration of Government the statement to which the numerous array of signatures was appended, and there was no doubt that it would receive all that attentive de liberation to which any document coming from so influential a body of Irish noblemen and gentlemen, on a subject deeply connected with the bestiinterests of their country, was emi nently entitled. He did not mean to express any opinion whatever on the resolutions of the Irish Peers and Members of Parliament, but he repeated, what he had before said else where, that the opinion daily gained ground, not only in this country, but in Ireland, that the distress to which the people of that country may be reduced, even in ordinary years, ought to give them a claim upon the property of Ireland— such a claim as the people of England had upon the property of England in times of great distress, and that there should be legal provision made for relieving the destitute in the workhouse when the workhouse was not full, and out of the workhouse when it was full. Some ,of the suggestions i which the deputationists had made, suggestions ot detail in the practical working of the measure, they would find had been in some degree anticipated in the amendments which he announced the other evening in the House of Com mons when moving the committal of the Bill pro f ° rma . evil --if If they were only legislating to meet a te m p ora ry there were no serious apprehensions of a futureunder stand recurrence of the calamity they had all to deplore—liecould the country the solitude a those who desired to save from the burden whic h out-door relief to the able-bodied would not only how entail; but the question now was, afford temporary relief to the Irish people,but they were to h o w was starvation to be provided against, and how were the inhabitants of the sister country to be placed ire such t h eir a position as to preclude the necessity of _ a ppealing to England for aid in a season of distress. The Noble Lord then briefly adverted to the safeguard throws' round the Bill for the permanent extension orthe poor-law in Ireland, by the reconstruction of the boards ofguardians d by and the increase of ex officio membe rs ,o hi and m conclude would be duly stating that the resolutions presented t c o nsidered by her Majesty's Ministers, but that he could not alteration in the Bill pl e dge himself to recommendfurther than had already been effected. The deputation having expressed their acknowledgm en ts to Lord John Russell for his courtesy, and thanked him for the attention with which he had heard their statements, withdrew. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Findon• hds., Tues., Parham 'Park ; Thurs., Nipping Thorns ; Sat., Piecom be— 11. Wheatland hds., Tues., Lound Coppice ; Fri., Cound-101. Herefordshire hda.,Xies., Village ; Fri., Tin Hill. Ludlow hds., Tues., Wigtnore Rolls ; Fri. , Orleton Corn mon-10. United Pack, Wed., Mainstone Wood-9. Earl of Harewood's lads., Mon., Kirk Deighton ; Wed., Bilton Banks; Fri., Bickerton Bar-14. Holderness lids., Mon., Tickton ; Tues„ Beverley Queen's Gate Tolibar ; Thurs, Burton Constable; Sat., Wailer Hall. Cheshire hds., Mon., Warningham Village; Wed., Booth's Obelisk; Thurs., Duddon Heath; Sat., Sutton t infold-11. Sir W. W. Wynn's hds., Tues., Iscoyd ; Wed., Wynnstay ; Fri., Nescliff; Sat., Holt-10%. Montgomeryshire hds., Tues., Cock Inn, Forden ; Fri., Kerry. Mr. Trelawney's hds., Tues., Train Brake ; Fri., Plym Bridge. Mr. Deacon's hrrs., Wed., Roborough ; Sat., Lamberton Green-10. Suffolk lids., Tues., Pakenham-street ; Fri., Dalham Baron Rothschild's 'stghds., Thurs., Aston Clinton. Sir C. Constable's stghds., Wed.. onistan-11%. Bedale hds., Wed., Camp Hill; Fri., Streatlam Village-11. Essex and Suffolk lids., Tues., Bradfield-street; Fri., Dal ham Hall-10i. V.W.H., Tues., Three Magpies; Thurs., Wroghton; Sat, Eastcoart Mouse. Berkshire hds., Wed., Fyfield Tree; Fri., Buscot Park. Mr. Brand's hds., Fri., Coleman Green-10i. Cleveland hds., Thurs., Osburn's Rush-10 Mr. Theobald's staghds., Wed., Quy ; Fri., Eight-mile Ditch. Devon hds., Thurs, Sandy Gate-11. Essex Union hds., 'Wed., Beckingham Hall ; Sat., South minster. Mr. Drake's hds., Tues ., Soulderon Gate ; Thurs., Edgcot Village ; Sat., Byfield Tollbar. Lord Parker's hds., Tues., Theme Park; Fri., Farley. F. B. lids., Wed., Tresillian Bridge; Fri., Bishop's Wood Earl Fitzwilliam's hds., Wed., Gadden Windmill; Fri. B) them Tollbar-10. Badsworth lids., Tues., Barnsdale-bar ; Thurs., Askern ; Sat., Brierley-1 0. Lord Yarborough's hds., Wed., Newsham Lodge; Fri.. Crosby Village-11. Lord Redesdale's hds., Wed., Eyford; Fri., New Barn ; Sat., Ensham Hall. Sir Tatton Sykes's hds., Wed., Belman, Stamford-bridge, and Helmsley ; Fri., Scampston House —lO l / 2 . Haydon hds., Wed., Causburn House; Sat., Lough Green. Oakley lids., Thurs., Chicheley Hall; Sat., Milton Mill — 1 ,4 to 11. Mr. Horndon's lids., Thurs., Lifton Park-10&. Hurworth hds., Tues., Croft Bridge; Sat., Leven Bridge —lO%. Mr. S. Lowndes' hds., Wed., Drayton Cross Roads ; Sat. Twnmile Ash-11. Puckeridge lids., Wed., Peverils; Sat., Layston-10%. Raby lids., Wed., Hartforth ; Fri., Hamsterley-11. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the HOUR.' eftningto, NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE. SATURDAY MARCH 6. The following Railway Bills are appointed to be read a second time:— WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10. Edinburgh and Glasgow. Wexford and Valencia (Killarney to Valencia). FRIDAY, MARCH 12. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton (No. I—Exten sion and Amendment). FEVER IN LlVERPOOL.—Government ought at once to be moved to erect enormous sheds in Ireland, where as in barracks, the destitute poor may have shelter and warmth, in good air. All paupers leaving Ireland for Eng land should be told that they will be immediately liable to be sent back again by the parochial authorities of Liverpool, Bristol, &c. ; and back they should go if they came and re quired relief at our expense. We have no right to sit still and let pestilence walk in amongst us. At this moment the progress of the fever in the cellars and garrets of Liverpool is most alarming. The first flush of warm weather will spread disease and death into hundreds of streets. The filthy state in which the poor people arrive, and the shocking dark damp dirty places in which they herd—as many as 30 in a cellar— are the most certain constituents of malignant fever; and deeply shall we suffer in a few weeks by the loss of many of our valued townsmen and towns-women, if the evil now growing around us be not stayed.—Liverpool Mercury. It has been currently stated that the King of the Belgians, who has been staying at Paris for the last week, would proceed to England with a view bf restoring a more cordial feeling between the Courts of France and England. Several very ingenious comments have been expended in discussing the affairs to be settled, and the mode of arranging them to everybody's satisfaction, as if his Majesty could not pay a visit of friendship to his royal relatives without some deep political design. All speculation, however, will be at an end by the announcement, which we believe we can vouch for, that his Majesty is not expected in England at present, and that he did not contemplateextending his visit this time beyond Paris, whence he will return to his own dominions. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT CLEuKuNwELL.—Yester day morning, at three o'clock, a fire broke out at 22, Amwell street, Clerkenwell, in the occupation of Mr. L. Talus, lisher. It commenced in the lower part of the house, and , was discovered by the police-constable on the beat An in stant alarm was given, and after a deal of trouble the inmates were aroused, and happily effected th ei r , escape in saf e ty. The engines were early at the scene, no time was lost in setting them to work, but the flames continued to progress, and at one time the residence of Mr. George Cruikshank, the artist next door, was in great da nger. The firemen, however, laboured until nearly five o'clock, when they at length sub dued the fire. By that tim e the whole of the back portion of the house .was consum ed, and the front severely injured. The two adjoining houses, in the occupation of Mr. George CTrhueickorisgiu of hank . an d Mr. Everard, have sustained trifling injury. the outbreak is tutkuown. THE LATE ROBBERY AT TILE CATHERINE WHEEL, IN TAZ B ORO UGH. William Barfield, the porter, who was con - VlC:led on Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court, of robbing Ur. Skipp of 3001., in bank-notes, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. HEALTH OF ME. O'CONNELL.—There is no doubt but that the health of Mr. O'Connell has been muck affected since his arrival in town. For a few days the Hon, and Learned Gentleman was exceedingly ill, but at no time did his illness assume a dangerous character. He is, however, in an extremely weak state, but his medical advisers have every confidence that a cessation from all political excite ment, and a change of air, will ensure a perfect restoration of his health. In accordance with previous arrangements made on the subject, Mr. O'Connell left the British Hotel, Jermyn street, at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, accompanied by his son, Mr. J. O'Connell, en route for Hastings, where he intends to remain for some time. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman will, it is understood, pay a visit to the south of France previous to his return to Ireland. It is to be hoped that by a suspension of all excitement, and. a change of scene, the result so confidently anticipated by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's medical advisers will be insured.--.- Sunday Times. We regret to hear that Captain Frederick Wood died at his residence in Southsea, from rapid consumption, , on Saturday last, aged forty-eight. He was commander of . the R.,yal George yacht, in which her Majesty visited Soot ' land in S. pteniber, 1842, when he received his post rank. lie was formerly senior lieutenant of the Belvil.ra frigate, ' an,: aft, r that commander of the Implacable, 72, with Cap-' tain Harvey. Vt Ides 'era of I Due Foscari (that is in active pre paration at her Majesty's Theatre) has been very suc cessful at Rome. All the artistes who performed in this opera were much applauded, and especially Madams Montenegro, why has created quite a sensation. 0. 4 It the three led.-- i and picot. I f