The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

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The details were wholly uninteresting except to the parties. Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the. arguments postponed their judgment. VICE-CIIANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CLIANCELLOF: of ExGLAND.) JOY V. BIRCH. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed and concluded to-day, and His Hotioca reserved his judgment. MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.) William Saunders and William Ogle, two rough-looking Young fellows, were charged with committing a robbery at the Queen's Head public-house, Little Pulteney-street. Police-constable 31 C, said he was on duty near the Queen's Head, on Sunday morning about three o'clock, and had his attention excited by a creaking noise in the direc tion of the public-house door. He saw the two pri soners come out and place themselves under the shadow of the nearest lamp. His suspicions being excited, the constable said he went up to examine the state of the house, and found it in darkness, no one up, and the door open; he therefore made for the prisoners, who, on seeing they were observed, immediately ran off. An alarm was given, and the two prisoners were taken into custody by two other constables of the C dieision, and upon them were found a quantity of broken cigars, screws of tobacco, money to the amount of 6s. 6d., including 24 farthings and a quantity of other coppers, and a bottle of whiskey. The landlord of the Queen's-head. Mr. Udal, said he left the doors securely fastened up when he went to bed, but one of the prisoners had, doubtless, concealed himself within, and had admitted his accomplice at the dead hour of the night, when all seemed to be quiet. The prisoners, who asserted their entire ignorance as to the circumstances of the charge, were committed to take their trial at the Old Bailey sessions. WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Henry;Seak, a journeyman mechanic, was charged with riding in a second-class carriage of the Eastern Counties Railway, having paid for the third class only, and refusing to pay the difference, whereby he bad ren dered himself liable to a penalty of 40s. Thomas Abhton, collector of tickets at Shoreditcb, deposed that on the arrival of the train, at about eight o'clock last night, the prisoner was found in a second class train, but produced a ticket for the third class only. He had come from Chelmsford, the fare of which was 4s. 6d., a demand of an additional 2s. was therefore made of him, and on his refusing to comply he was given into the custody of the acting inspector of the company's police. Robert M.Quin, acting inspector, deposed to his hav ing taken the prisoner into custody. The latter said he had been put into the second-class train, although he bad paid 2s. only. He was not aware of the difference. He had paid once, and should pay no more. He then became eery abusive. Robert Combre, a guard in the company's service, said he accompanied the train last evening from Bury. On arriving at Chelmsford, every precaution was used to prevent passengers from getting into the wrong car riages. There was plenty of room in the third-class carriages. Mr. BROUGHTON, on being banded a copy of the bye laws on railways, said ho was bound to enforce the law. The prisoner had rendered himself liable to a penalty of 40s. He should, however, convict him in the penalty of 10a. to the Queen, or be imprisoned in the Hut's?. of Correction one week. THE ARM Y, &c. The 88th Regiment arrived at Barbadoes on the 20th February, per the Herefordshire. There were a few cases of measles on board, which caused the ship to be put in quarantine. General Berkeley arrived at Bar badoes on the 23d of February, and assumed the com mand. The 16th Regiment left Gibraltar on the 9th instant. There was not a man in the slightest degree disguised in liquor, and the entire corps maintained its credit for steadiness and soldier-like conduct to the last. The Euryalus, convict ship, arrived at Gibraltar on the 9th of March. A line-of-battle ship passed Gibraltar from the west ward, without showing colours, on the evening of the 9th of March, and a line-of-battle ship was ,ignalled to the eastward on the morning of the 10th of March, supposed to be the Vengeance, with 42d Regiment, from Malta, but she had not shown colours. WEST INDIES. . Our file of papers from British Guiana extends to the L 7, th L O. ..ei..r,lary. L or d Grey, in his dispatch to the sad Attorn. overn or, Pa, s high compliment to the Court of Policy they h Y General - for the zeal and ability with which ..• -a " train e d and carried several Bills through the Legislature to assimilate the laws of the colonies to the laws of the mother country, among which is an Act for the establishm ent of trial by jury, the operation of which, although a novelty, is carried out b"tter than was anticipated. Among the parties tried was a male coolie for the murder of a female coolie. He was convicted and sentenced to be executed on the 20th inst. An in fluential meeting had been held iu Georgetown for the Irish and Scotch distress. _ The Lady Macnaughten arrived at Demerara in 73 days from Madras, with 200 males, 82 females, 31 boys, 27 girls, and 7 children under one year, in good health. Three deaths and two births occurred on the voyage. The exports of produce were considerably on the increase, there having been, during the first fortnight of February, as compared with the same period last year, 147 Hogsheads 274 Tierces of Sugar, 125 Barrels 253 Puncheons } of Rum, 26 Hogsheads 753 Puncheons 37 Hogsheads of Molasses, 6 Barrels ___ and 307 Logs of Timber, exported more between the Ist and 16th of February. 1847, than in the same period in 1846 ; and in the same period the imports of luxuries indicate an improving condition of the social feelings in the colony ; viz., there is an augmentation of 21,197 Gallons of Wine, 905 Gallons of Brandy, 1,186 Dozens of Malt Liquors, and 437 Hogsheads of ditto, more imported than in the corresponding period of last year. The demand for colonial produce was brisk, at advanced rates. Tonnage very scarce. The weather during the month had been exceedingly favourable, and the appearance of the crops encouraging. The immediate prospect of the railway being o-m -menced, has given life to the inhabitants of the west coast, and is looked forward t o b y all the colon y as a most important and valuable thing for the colony. The papers have begun to discuss the important question of colonization for European families in the interior of this most extensive and valuable colony, which appears to be well suited for the purpose. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne gave a grand entertainment to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, at Lansdowne House, on Satur day last. A distinguished circle, comprising his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, the Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland, Viscount and Viscountess Mahon,_ Lord Foley, Mr. Harcourt, &c., were present to meet their Royal Highnesses, who were attended by Mr. E. St. John Mildmay and Lady Augusta Cadogan. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a distin guished circle at dinner on Saturday evening, at their man sion in Grafton-street. The guests included the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh, Viscountess Cantalupe, Lord Lyndhurst, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sit James Graham, the Right Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, Mr. Montgomery, Mr. Samuel Rogers, and Lady Malet. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons had a Pat liamentary dinner on Saturday last, at the family mansion in Eaten-square. The Right Hon. Sir John Cam Hobhouse re ceived a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday last, in Berkeley-square. HEALTH OF THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.--A letter of the 13th, from Berlin, states that the health of the Queen of Prussia had become so much improved that her Majesty had been able to leave her bed for several days. BINDING OF SATAN.—During the past two or three weeks a number of persons have been going round the streets on the Surrey side of the water—wearing belts like those worn by the fire brigade, on which passages from the Scriptures are painted, carrying with them an ink-horn and long sheets of paper—soliciting signatures to what they pre tend to be a petition to Heaven, for the binding of Satan, the Prince of Darkness. So eager are those parties to get the papers signed, that men, women, and children are stopped indiscriminately and requested to sign. Those who are too young to sign, or unable to write their names, have the same done fur them by the men, who do not attempt to disguise the fact of belonging to the followers of Joanna Southcott. Upon several occasions a deal of confusion has been created by the parties, for they generally manage to go about with knots of forty or fifty persons, and occa sionally discussions ensue which are calculated to bring the Scriptures into perfect ridicule. One person, more intelli gent than the men who are hawking the petitions about, inqui re d who it is that will present the petition, when the man replied with the greatest coolness that as soon as a sufficient number of names are attached to the petition it will be presented to the throne of mercy . by Joanna herself. Surely it is high time that such exhibitions are put down by the police. DEATU OF Sin ALEXANDER WOOD, K.C., M.G.— This gentleman, who for so many years was connected with our colonial Government, died late in the past we,k at his residence at Holies-street, Cavendish-square, at an advanced age. He proceeded to Ceylon on the civil establishment in 1801, and after tilling the offices of Member of the Council and sole Commissioner of Revenue returned to England in 1811. He was subsequently Chief Secretary to the Govern ment of Malta and the lonian Islands,'and up to the period of his demise was Resident Agent in England fur the latter. The deceased was the son of the late Alexander Wood, Esq. and an eminent member of the medical p rofession in Edinburgh, and in , cried, in 1807, the eldest daughter of Sir William Forbes, Bart. THE SMITHFIELD NUISANCE.—A very distressing circumstance, arising from the driving of cattle to and from Eniithfield market, through the crowded stree t s of the me tropolis,adds another fatal case to the numbers which have occurred from this lung existing nuisance. A young mar ried woman, named Lott, residing in Tudor-street. Black friars, and who was about seven months advanced in preg nancy, on Monday last went out in good health and spirits to Fleet-street on an errand. She there became so alarmed by an ox &cm a drove, approaching the pavement, that it was with difficulty she retraced her steps home, when she was prematurely delivered, and, notwithstanding the utmost exertion of medical skill, she could not rally from the shock, ' iota expired yesterday. The infant is likely to do well. ~..... '' .. • ' THE FAST-DAY. (F-„m the Disp,.tch.) COURT CIRCULAR. :7 7 7 • Al!, T) ,-riFf.r+. .111.. the ,„ ;: Hn'ice • 3 ;,• vex. chapel at. Bucku;i;hair. iiie. sk,roloo, - 0, I; preached by the Bishop of Norwich. The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated at the service. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles 'Grey and Colonel Bouverie, visited her Majesty the Queen Dowager on Saturday at Marlborough Hou.i.e. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also visited the Queen Dowager on Saturday. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday, at Bucking ham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness Prirce Edward of Saxe Weimar, their Excellencies Baron and Baroness de Moncorvo, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Lady Emily de Burgh, Lady Fanny iHoward, Baroness de Speth, Earl of Desart, Viscount Clifden, Lord Campbell, Lady Campbell and Stratheden, Hon. Miss Campbell, Lord James Murray, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps. A military bud attended during dinner. Her Majesty had afterwards an evening party. The com pany consisted of his Excellency Count Dietrichstein, their Excellencies Monsieur and Madame Van de Weyer, the Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementine Villiers, Count Potocki, Lady Caroline Cocks, Hun. Miss Stanley, Hon. Mrs. Charles Grey, Major-General and Miss Cavendish, Captain Hamilton, R.N., and Captain Francis Seymour. His Royal Highness Prince Albert visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House, and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, at Cambridge House. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early walk yesterday. The Royal Family took their accustomed airings yester _ 1.i!:,• t+! the sake of - the throne and the a.itar." Fast-days came rsaincl annually, and seemed to belong to our honoured institution and constitution. They were occasionally varied by Thanlsgiving-days. When our soldiers had slaughtered many ut the French, we gave thanks ; and when the Fs emelt had slaughtered many of our so'diers, we fasted. The religion and the slsughtering aiv ova weiet together ; so that blood did but flow, the re was sure to be devotion, and I suppose this was what inspired Wordsworth with the thought that "Carnage is God's daughter." The nation of that strange relationship is not abandoned, if we may judge from the recent Proclamation for a Fast. As in those days, our rulers ascribed to Deity the destruction of the French, so du they now ascribe to him the star vation of the Irish. The difference is, that then we wished Him to continue to destroy the French, and now we wish Him to leave off destroying the Irish. Both slaughterings are referred to Providence ; working in one case by leadcu bullets, and in the other by rotten potatoes. It was gen. rally supposed that this sort of barbarism was at an end. The number of those who know better has been multiplied in the interval. A new generaticn has sprung up; and if little has been done for its educe tion, there is a widely-acting Spirit of self-instruction amongst the masses. Honest Fanaticism has been made more modest; and inere cant has become less effective. The proclamation for a Fast. day took the public by sur prise. People had thought of :hundred different things for the relief or mitigation of Irish distress; they had thought of opening the ports last November; of prohibiting the exportation of food; of making large purchases abroad with Government funds ; of a temporary subscription; of a permanent poor-law ; but they never thought of fasting as a cure for famine. Only a superannuated devotee, here and there, is to be found with any faith in its efficacy. Providence is net generally believed to be particular about our eating flesh or fish. It gives no outward and visible sign of a curse upon mutton, or of merit in mackerel. There is no obvious reason why roast meat and repentance should not go together, and be not less available than contrition upon cod-fish. Calamity does not spare those who feed only upon sprats. That a meagre diet constitutes devotion, has come to be regarded as a superstition. The surprise at the doctrine of the Proclamation has sunk into a quiet disgust. People raise their eye-brows, and shrug their shoulders, and wonder what it means. Some imagine it a counterpoise to the recent developments of liberality at Rome. Since Popes have become enlightened Pro testant authorities do the superstitious to sustaiu n the world's balance between the absolute and the progressive. The calm digeity that should characterize a Procla mation is not evinced in this document. Its tone seems to anticipate a sceptical and scornful reception. "We do strictly charge and command," that reverent state of mind which no human being, with whatever brier shadow of authority invested, can effectually command in the conscience of another. The proclamation threatens disregard with the " wrath and indigos tion" of " Almighty God," Who dares thus talk of throwing thunderbolts? Who made the conclave a ' Osborne House, the Privy Councillors of Providence? Anti what further and earthly punishatent is to be su peradded to the divine? With a strange assumption. after the command upon people to be fasting, reverent and devout "as they tender the favour of Almighty God, and would avoid his wrath and indignation," it is added, " and upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as contemn and neglect, the performance of so religious and necessary a duty." So then, the culprit is first to be delivered over to the devil, and afterwards to the Attorney-Genera]. He is in danger, first of the penal ties of divine indignation, and then of the statute (where is it) in that case made and provided. This is taking great liberties with heaven, and with human conscience. Neither our numerous and independent sects, nor the members of the favoured Church, are accustomed to be thus commanded. More will be disposed to anger than to humility; while the millions will eat their dinners, and go their ways, as if nothing had happened of al, this sonorous fulmination. The Irish famine, and the comparative scarcity which is beginning to be felt in England, are ascribed by th. Proclamation to " the iniquities of this land," and to our " manifold sins and provocations." Now, Sir, if this be the fact, and if the Deity be really visiting the Irish with a wise and righteous punishment for their wickedness, I humbly suggest that no more public money should be voted for relieving them, and thus counteracting the. Divine dealings. On that theory, it makes us ex pot facto accomplices in their guilt. God punishes, and we help. He shuts them up in the dungeon of despair, and we set open the prison doors. He starves, and we feed. The piety of the Privy Council is a strange jumble. It blunders somewhere. It is at fault egregiously, eitbes in the pecuniary grants, or in the providential judgments. The sins should have been particularized. What Edmund Burke prcfessed himself unable to do, is at• tempted in this document ! it "draws a bill of indictment against a nation." But the counts are not clear. The specification is omitted. The Irish peasantry may de mand of the Privy Council " What sins ?"They may appeal to that portion of Scripture introduceti into the service which completely nullifies the spirit of the Proclamation. The bishops, as if its sly rebuke—(can the Right Reverend Fathers be so humorous?)—have put in the text which tells us that those on whom the Tower of Siloam fell were not sinners above all men in all Jerusalem. The Irish may infer that starvation is no test of sin. Job's comforters must have assisted at Osborne House. The peasants have lost their potatoes, and, there fore, are plundered of their character. They must be in fault, for they are famishing. The foulness of their deeds is inferred from the ravages of fever. If this be Christian consolation, it is very cold. It would be horribly heartless, if the concocters 01 the document had any meaning in their words. Pro bably they thought of nothing more than the common conventionalisms of a religious dialect, and so went blundering on—now vilifying Providence, and anon the people. If there be " iniquity,"" sin," and "provocation' in the case, and they have caused the potato blight, the offenders should be ferreted out. The Irish people have not been particularly wicked of late. They have re formed their ways as to whisky, marvellously. In the matter of repeal they may have been wrung-headed, but they have very meritoriously kept the Queen's peace. I do not see that any peculiar and enormous sin can be brought home to their door. Nor does it appear that "the iniquities of this land, so far as they are charge able upon the population at large, have been unusually heinous. At present the all-covering mantle of charity is over them. Patience, energy, unfailing generosity, have been evinced, to an extent that might have saved the potato, if it rotted simply from the want of righteous ness. Who the n are the sinners? Mr. Plumptre points to Sir Robert Peel and the Maynooth grant; Lord G. Bentinek intimidated the free traders; Dr. Chalmers glances towards the railway directors that run Sunday trains; the juries of Irish coroners bring in a verdict of Guilty against Lord John Russell and the Whig Ministrjr, If any of these charges can be es tablished, let the culprits be prosecuted. But it gives a very odd idea of Providential govern went to represent such parties as punished by the badness of potatoes. Had they been the offen dens, and nature employed (according to the proclams tion doctrine) for punishment, the blight would rather have fallen upon the vineyards of the Rhine and the silk-worms of Syria. There would have be en typhus among the turtle, and a scarcity of champagne. White bait would be bad and venison villainous. No, they have their faults, and grievous ones; but they have nor brought on us the necessity for fasting by any of the offences just enumerated. In another way, their case is not so clear. It now ap pears that a much larger stock of food might have bees accumulated in our warehouses, from Eastern Europe, hail the corn duty and :he navigation-laws been suspended last autumn. For that neglect, that deep sin of go vernmental omission, we are beginnaig to pay dearly. The pressure will become much heavier, before any sup / lies can be obtained. The industrial classes, who are (by taxation) the true feeders of the Irish, are already pinched themselves ; and have the prospect of severer privations. Proclaim a fast for them, indeed 1 It is proclaimed ty the prices in Mark lane, and ob served. net in churches or chapels, but at bakers' shops. A clergyman in Spitalfields advertises fo' broken victuals to distribite amongst the desti tute on the evening of the fast-day. Charity is in voked, that thousands may have a chance of breaking the day, and a bit of bread, together. This doctrine of fasting is an ill-timed mockery to suffering millions. They have, per force, fasted enough already. And how many operatives can ill afford to lose the day's work, which they forfeit the days wages. Th e by piety of the rich is the penalty of the poor. Royal and ducal revenues know no intermission. Rents and dividends are not diminished by fast-days. The poor man is fitted a sixth of hi T s hn w s e , ek ti l l y e infacsotmineg; and rich man, not a si x p ene prayers of the Peer are paid that bohyebrtaehdemtpaheyaat bethe a t . ne oi mm A .. 1 1 1 )0 a rs posing idpi display a w y ai o i wantonly on devotion.ly created, It pretend to th is e to f t ew who mon sense of the country should endure all this, for fear little more of justice of the noisy vituperations o f interpret the will of Heaven. j a n ad ; c a h n a d rit n y ot w t o h u e ld les b s en•orben r g P UBLICOLA. ficial to mankind. acceptabletb a dtAeoa ofe t fa for b e e a i n n dg J a the day. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary attended Divine service yesterday morn ing, in St. Michael's Church, Chester-square. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine service yesterday morning in Grosvenor Chapel. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge, attended by Lady Augusta Cadogan and Mr. Edmond Mildmay, honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Lans downe with their bompany at dinner on Saturday, at Lans downe House. A Cabinet Council was held at three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, at the residence of the Marquis of Lansdowne, in Berkeley-square. It was attended by Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Mints, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the Earl Auckland, Sir John Hobhouse , Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay. The Council sat two hours. A meeting of the new Bishopricks Commissioners was held in Whitehall-place on Saturday. There were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord John Russell, the Earls of Chichester and Powis, the Bishops of London, Durham, Winchester, Chester, and Lincoln, the Home Secretary of State, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation from the Committee for establishing Houses of Occupation for Discharged Prisoners waited on Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. The deputation con sisted of the Earl of Denbigh, the Lord Bishop of Norwich, Lord John Manners, M.P., Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., Mr. John Laurie, Mr. Alderman Sydney, Mr. James Window, Mr. Joseph Heywood, Mr. William Jerdan, the Rev. S. R. Catt ley, and Mr. W. J. Donthorn. A deputation from the Commissioners of Sewers for Surrey and Kent, consisting of Mr. H. Kemble, M.P., Messrs. Not ledge, Shadbolt, Johnson, and Drew, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth, on Saturday, at the office of the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests in Great George-street. The Duke of Wellington and the Earl of Aberdeen at tended the early Service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Helmore. The sermon was preached by the Bishop of London. The Hon. D. H. Gordon was ordained by the Bishop of London. At the daily Service the Prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. llelmore, the Lessons by the Rev. J. V. Povah, and the Communion Service by the hey. Dr. Sleath. The Sermon was preached by the Bishop of Chester. The Anthem was, " 0 Lord give ear" (Greene). Mr. Turle presided at the organ. The Marquises of Anglesey and Northampton, Ladies Wilton, Palmerston, Campden. and Compton, Lords Wilton, Granby, Cawdor, Listowel, St. Germans, Eliot, Castlereagh, and W. Graham, were among the nobility present. The Bishop of London will preach the Sermon on Wed nesday next, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. ITALIAN OPERA -AT COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. (From the Observer.) A fortnight only has elapsed since our columns pre venteda description of most of the arrangements of this undertaking. On Saturday the last of the boarding in the front of the theatre was removed Nearly the whole of the face if the building and portico has been washed; and the carriage -drive, a species of stone tramway, under the latter, is nearly completed. The arrang' inents for the access to the theatre, so far as Bow•street is concerned, "Say thus be described. Going up from the Strand, the tirst entrance will be for the gallery, the second for the pit; the next, by means of the grand portico, for the (poxes; the next, the stage-door; and the last is the box )ffice. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the other members of the royal family, will have a separate entrance at the back of the theatre, leading round by the old box -office in Hart-street. Here the illustrious visitors will also alight beneath a portico, which is almost completed. Saturday morning commenced the operatien of pull ing down the scaffolding which was erected to enable the nainting and completion of the proscenium, and the ceil tag was perfected on Friday evening. By this after noon the scaffolding will have been altogether removed, save such trifling portion as may be necessary fer the accommodation of the decorators. The painted ceiling has occupied Signor Verardi and his assistants for a considerable part of the period which has elapsed since our former notice of the works. The ceiling has been painted by Signor Verardi and Signor Ferri; the figures are the work of M. Zarra. The paint ing is divided into two compartments, which may be de scribed as the outer and inner circles. The ceiling, or the kind or cupola, is of a circular form, extending seventy feet from the gallery to the proscenium, and sixty-two feet across from side to side. The old chan delier, which was put up by poor Laporte, at an expense of 1,0001. has been removed, and will be replaced, it is said, by a successor of larger demensions. All parties concerned in the undertaking entertain the utmost confidence as to everything being in a state of readiness for Tuesday the 6th of April. In the course of the next, or at the commencement of the following week, Rovere (the buffo from Milan), Ley, Lavia, Tulli, Polonini• and Hano will have reached the metropolis. In reference to the ballet, which will be a new one, it was be stated that the requisite rehearsals have been carried on in Paris. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—As a labourer at the Docks at 2s. 7d. per day, with a wife and lat ge family (six children under four teen), pray do point out to those in authority the great injustice myself and hundreds other poor men like myself are subject to, is not being allowed to work, and our families almost starving as it is, upon this little pittance ; and, although I am grateful to those who employ me at all, yet on Good Friday we shall have to make another sacrifice of a day's labour ; for it is with us as in the India warehouses—no work no pay. Your interest on our behalf will be received grate fully by hundreds, and by yours very obediently, HENRY GORING. 14, Holywell-lane, March 20. A Boy SHOT AT PENRITH.—Thomas Bell, a youth aged sixteen years, son of Robert Bell, of Eamont bridge, stonemason, was accidentally shot in Sandgate, Pen rith, on the morning of Monday last. It appears that a boy of the name of John Little (son of a labourer of that name who lives in Friar-street, Penrith), had been entrusted with a gun to frighten the 'cows from a field of wheat, the pro perty of Mr. Foster, of the ;. rown Hotel, Penrith. This boy in charging the gun so fixed the ramrod in the barrel that he could not get it out again, and meeting Bell in the street, asked him to pull it out. When attempting to do this the Fun went off, and the ramrod passed through Bell's body. fhe by still lives, but is in a most dangerous state.—New castle Joursal, THE SUN, LONDON, MO`NDAY EVENING, MARCH 22,_1847 HAYMARKET THEATRE. A new farce, in one act, ei.titled the Light Troop of St. James, was successfully produced here last evening. It is an adaptation, by Mr. T. M. Morton, from a French original. The plot, which is somewhat of the flimsiest, is as follows :—Jane Roberts (Miss Reynolds), the daughter of an apothecary at Kensington, comes to the Court of St. James's, in the reign of Queen Anne, to ;elicit the place of attendant as one of the Maids of Honour. She arrives just at the period that he Masham intrigue, which eventuated in the down !all of the Duchess of Marlborough, is at its height, Lady Alamode (Mrs. W. Clifford), the superintendent of the iaids of Honour, to whom she applies, is a strong partisan of the Marlborough factions, and drill :he Maids of honour to coquette with various in fluential courtiers, so as to bring them over to her party. Jane Roberts has a great anxiety to procure this situation, as on her success in so doing depends :ler union with Master Thomas Smallbones (Buckstone) the Inspector of the Queen's Kitchen, and the son of a rich old money-scrivener. Smallbones, who had imagined that the office was merely honorary, finds to his horror that he bas actually to attend in the kitchen, and to taste every dish before it is presented to the Queen, and being a man of taste, he has no taste for such a tasting occupation, and is about to resign his office in disgust, but the Maids of Honour, to prevent his quitting the palace, pretend to fall in love with him, and each makes an assignation to m ee t him at twelve at night near a statue in the apartments of the Queen. Jane Roberts gets possession of the billets, and transfers each billet to the courtier who ad mires the writer of it. 'They keep the assignations, ind are thus won over to the Malborough interest. Lady Alatnode meets Smallbones in the dad:, and is exceedingly affectionate to him. However, at the entry of Jane Roberts every thing is cleared up, and the lovers are united. The piece owes its success entirel) to the admirable acting of Buckstone and Miss Rey nolds: The latter was deservedly encorvd in a very beautiful balled, the music of which is the composition of Mr. T. S. Reed. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—There were presen at her Majesty's Theatre, on Saturday evening—The Conde de Montemolino ' the Princes Louis and Jerome Bonaparte, the Marquis and Marchioness of Ormonde, the Marquis and Marchioness of Worcester, the Hon. William and Mrs. Ashley, who occupied her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box ; his Excellency the Russian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and, Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner ; the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailesburv, the Marquis and Marchioness of nd S ateNwhf,ffe l ai i eses‘gnjvkel Count the :nutunl nptaepnthnyeete:: tdntEiLieb:MarquislooeErldeda EEarl r l of o faDouro,Munster, Countess nt thethee s E s aoErfl Earl lt Harrington,Cardigan, Gr e nv llethe cthn Countess 10 1 Earl Coun tess of Blessington and the Misses Power, the Earl of March, e aouAnfrcn. Falmouth, yo,n} Ernest i h t z e t Beh e reu ur e u e Venn Bruce, Lord thees Led Viscount ond r a s utd a nyH y rit , daG t o b i eeessni Lennox, Count wno u Aeox n , ru, tt Viscounti oai r o reL u d, d at d r hc i y Macdonald, Lady Woodford, Lord Foley, Hon. G. Byng, lion. Mr. Upton, Hon. Mr. Butler, Mr. Dodd, Sir Jasper Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs. Brenton Trelawny, Sir H. Webb, .Sir John and Lady Jervis, Sir A. Barnard, Sir H. Wil loughby, Sir P. Shelley, Sir R. Vivian, Sir W. Ball, Captain Greville, Major Baring, Mr. P. Wheeler, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Ryder Burton, Captain Reynolds, Mr. Barry Baldwin, &C. &c. A theatrical benefit on behalf of the Printers of Edinburgh, will take place at the Theatre Royal, English Opera House, Strand, this evening. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN R. VYSE, M.P.— On Thursday last the Baron Rothschild's hounds met at Rowshann. The deer took a line towards Bierton , and when near Mr. Eustace's Mr. Vyse, in taking a fence near the road, fell from his horse, in consequence of the saddle slipping rou nd. His loot, unfortunately, hung in the stirrup, b ;vhich he was dragged upwards Of one hundred yards, eolnsaeng,salhloein)idngagantif;,usltl t s i p le ee g d .ro a n n i d id b . eat ., i ‘ u t g i t e h n e g i t : n nfo h r i t s un to a o te t irrup, and he was carried to the house of ' Mr. John Eustace, from whence, after a short til e e nt i l i railway. We understand be id. very Alarming state.—Pecks He a period, it was deemed advisableistontrenhtiosvielohnisme in n o t L n o li n m dm i t n b3 a • became diseneliged from the st OVERLAND MAIL.---;l!)xOtSTbe-iOngFutillCeEdaNyoaTpplCoiEn.t.—ed cleaneenraclefoafstN,Nt'eh'elnaeus(tih'(Y)rities at the Post. office have the following notice :--"General Post-office, Merck 2 ifson Ci sr , u'ci'l'e 4 ''E 7 g' .—T he Overland Mail for India, &c., rid Marseilles, appointed to be dispatched on the 24th inst., has been de tained.the2sth Line:ttaenrts.w_ißllybeeoimnintianniedoonf the thn e p s n 'e s i t tli m ig ns o t f e T r- h G u e rs n d er a a y l: W. Maberly." LITERATURE. TANCRED, or the NEW CRUSADE. RP" ("7: 19 7 7:: rff:Vr - S I= l , F Roprwr er-r,41/. T r :101n -r• t.n;hur bt-i.oAl the OUS r duciions of his pen collected together after many years of periodical publication, it is no less pleasant to his admirers. The writer of these goodly volumes has long since acquired for himself no small share of popularity, and that not merely through the enterprise which he has evinced in aiding his brother in the dissemination of knowledge by cheap publishing, but likewise through his own earnest and industrious labours as a contributor to modern literature. The bulk of the humorous and familiar essays contained in the work just issued is already known and appreciated by the million. Some of the articles have been printed and reprinted in a hundred different forms, and distributed to the reading Corn munity through as mar.y different channels, so that they will attract attention less from their novelty than from their bearing about them the associations of the old famili ar faces. What is particularly observable through out the collection is, the admirable simplicity of the author's style, and the sedulous exclusion of anything pernicious, whether in manner or matter, from his com positions, The humour is always genial and natural; the themes are often homely, but never vulgar; the sarcasm is invariably good-natured; and the thoughts are, with one exception, namely, in the eccentric chap ter upoa " Christian Names," never pursurd to an ex travagance. To those who regard Robert Chambers as a source to them of many literary boons both agree able and beneficial--and of these there are thousands— the appearance of his select writings will be a matter of congratulation, as it will enable them to enshrine him on their bookshelves as one of the most welcome and valued of their household companions. The volumes are compact and elegant, all their appointments being excellent—printing, paper, arrangement, and binding. The collection was wanted. c:!!. :! HUGH TALBOT. A Tale of the Seventeenth Century. By William J. O'Neill Daunt. By several previous publications—more particularly " Ireland and her Agitators"—Mr. Daunt is already familiarly known to many , of his countrymen. His present work, though coming under the unpretending title of a tale, we cannot but regard as the very best of his productions that have come to our knowledge. There is a liberality, moreover, about the object of " Hugh Talbot" that, to us, is peculiarly palatable. It makes its appearance, too, at an appropriate crisis, when the bile of the polemical disputants throughout the kingdom is being excited into rancour by the revival of one or two very old and very obsolete bugbear cries. As is announced on the title page, the book is founded upon the Irish confiscations of the seventeenth century— namely, during the reign of James I. and the supremacy of Steenie. At all times the contemplation of intole rance is distressing; at all times it forces upon us the spectacle of the degradation of our species. But when we find that intolerance, coupled with the dis semination of the Biblical truths, and, in fact, sprouting like a villanous disease out of the very stem and branches of Christianity, we cannot but mourn doubly for the blindness and degeneracy of our forefathers. The history of the penal laws is among. the most lament able portions of our national records, and the skeletons of those penal laws—these laws which Mr. Watson is just now endeavouring to have obliterated from the statute book—is a damning proof of the authenticity of the narratives relating to their operation. Those laws—the laws, we mean, which are at present under the consideration of Parliament—are virtually abolished already. They are no longer enforced; and we would stake our word fer it that the Honourable Baronet the Member fur the University ~f Oxford would be very loath to clamour in the House of Commons for their enforcement. Bet, dead-letter as they are now, they were once enforced with the utmost rigour of the executive and many others, yet more strigent, which have been some time since, to the credit of Parliament expunged. A barbarian code is not the code for a civilised and enlightened race, and, therefore, the laws we speak of, have been abolished It is upon the miseries entailed upon the victims of those enactments that this noveldte has been penned. It is a melancholy and distressing but salutary and Eistructive picture. Hugh Talbot is calculated to do good service in purging from the popular mind that old leaven of bigotry and of religious animosity which is still—though to an insig nificant extent—fermenting in the community. It is likely to render all classes more charitable the one towards the other, and to render the most obstinate and zealous religionists indi-posed to tyrannise over their neighbours. Dogmatism, of course, can never be got rid of until human nature he thoroughly transformed, but cruelty and petty despotism may be, and, indeed, are now tolerably well overruled. That not only in this country, but throughout the world generally, a spirit of sympathy and brotherhood is spreading is manifest. Through that expanding spirit Ibrahim Pacha was induced to pay amicable visits to the courts and people of Western Europe. Through that spirit his children are being educated in French seminaries. Through that spirit Dwarkanauth Tegore was prompted to labour in London for the moral and mental regenera tion of his oriental fellow-countrymen. Through that ,pirit almost as much as through force of arms, new relations of amity have been established between the Emperor of China and our beloved Sovereign. And very recently, through that same benign and enlarg ing spirit, a cordial understanding has for the first time been arrived at between the head of the Papacy and the Mahometan Sultaun. For these reasons we are disposed to welcome this little tale by Mr. Daunt with pleasure. The times are those of progress and liberality, and the book is in accordance with the principles of the times. Hugh Talbot is the chief victim of the laws of confisca• tion—being a priest. Eveline is the heroine, and, for the advantage of her father and the benefit of the priest Hugh Talbot, and also for the gratification of her own lust of power, she sacrifices herself by marrying an old nobleman, Lord Carthwaite. The incidents of the story are numerous and interesting, particularly those descrip tive of the various escapes and perilous adventures of Hugh Talbot himself. Altogether the tale is a genuine original. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTU. RAL SOCIETY OF ENGLAND. Vol. VII. Part 11. Another of those important and elaborate volumes which have in their character something absolutely national, is lying before us. As a specimen of the industry of the persons engaged in its composition, and as a sign of the comprehensive efforts made by the society from which it proceeds it is peculiarly remarkable. Agri culture, at this particular period , is attracting more notice in Great Britain, than it has ever done previously; and it is attracting more n otice, for two reasons, first, because there is a manifest necessity for an increase of our enterprise as cultivators of the soil, now that we have to compete upon the same footing with the agri culturists of the whole world ; and secondly, because Ireland and Scot the vegetable disease, now afflic tin g land, is a fresh inducement to to to stud y yet more pro foundly the mysteries of the gro wth and nourishment of plants. On these accounts, th e p resent p art of the voluminous library of the Royal Agricultural Society of England is invested with more interest and importance than any of its predecessors. MR. GYPSON'S BALLOON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. ' Sin,—ln the report which your widely-circulated journal ave of the accident which attended the private trial of Mr. (Tycoon's new and magnificent balloon it is stated that the cause of the disaster was owing to the netiing being of an " inferior description," and that it was " discovered by com petent judges to be defective in its meshes." Now, although the termination of the experiment would seem to justify this and incorrect, and will, as bri efl y as possible, po conclusion, I have no hesitatio n in pronouncing it p int premature circumstances under which the first fracture happened, and the final separation, which led fin s parr being " left in the lurch" with feelings of disappointment and regret. When er here the the inflation was commenced th e weather as s p remarkof ably fine. No sooner, however, ha d the upp gigantic machine become distended with about 15,000 cubic feet of gas than the breeze freshened considerably, and agitated the balloon with greater violence than is usually experienced at public gardens, owing to the protection afforded by the surrounding trees of such place& The gas being exceedingly rood on this occasion, and the lower lines of d i t i o n a l length shi stronger that swept 1 le the sgewnee practicableph than h o over a r n -1 the netting being left ten feet longer than is commonly• 07 pdptahmrea3; us,balloon re quired, in order to allow room to test some ingenious theihoop-lines. the hs . et : united gas-works : P - d : s i machinery invented by Mr. Gypson, and in readiness for use ; the balloon in consequence was subjected to the full force of eraffrtokhrsatstb, tremendous or fae s k,a, t ,eb r s a oet i uin n ttec f hfi r l o irnti m nye a strong wind, which had greater power on it from the ad ditional indisputably have saved nine." but the that fia a wti ss ralfiisn is ttedf, t uw a al n blogi t dueu s ilnshd a tga n dni d t friends the balloon could not be hauled down, and the pressure becoming from wind and restraint unequal on the netting, the injured part yielded a grdually, and that eand bearing, alf wai continuedg h t,when t e workedsufficiently large to perfect a the netting is good, Notwithstanding the everygwi h v i e e h wra w eys i ,p l 1 e untilct bearive anline more aperturet h h a 3 no it saw was sro proper satisfaction of the positive proof of the adroitaccident, o f tlli boldlye escape give o f m t y h the opinion balloon. intend to share with strong, and fit for general use; and, construction the intrepidearnestnesso o f f proprietorin the faith, whole dangers of a second private trial, which the honours and pro bably in the course of a week or ten days. will take place I remain, Sir, your obliged n Editor of the "Erostatic maga2inielENßY COXWELL. DEATH OF SIR. HARFORD JONES BRYDGES.—This venerable Baronet expired on the 20th inst., at his seat, Boultibrook, Herefordshire, aged 83. He was son of Harford Jones, Esq., of Presteign, Radnorshire, by the daughter of Richard Hooper, Esq., of Whittern, Herefordshire. Ile was born in 1764, and in 1796 married the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Gott, Knt. In 1822 the deceased gentleman was created a Privy Councillor, and in 1826 assumed the addi tional name of Brydes. He was a Deputy-Lieutenant for H ere f o rdshire. The great grandfather of the deceased having highly distinguished himself in the army, especially at the battle of Blenheim. was presented by Queen Anne with a valuable sword. The title, which was created in 1807, with the estates, are succeeded to by Hartland Jones, eldest son of the late Baronet, who was born in 1808. DEATH or' COMMODORE HARRISON.—The public in general, and more particularly the patrons of aquatic sports, will regret to hear announceti the unexpected demise 01 William Horatio Harrison, Esq.. late Commodore of tt,e Royal Thames Yacht Club; he expired on the 17th inst., at his residence at Brompton, in the 49th year of his age, after a lengthened illness. He was a true English gentleman, re markable alike for benevo!ence of disposition, goodness of heart, gentlemanly demeanour, and integrity of conduct. He was an ardent admirer of aquatic sports, and was Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club up to a few months since, when be resigned, owing to ill health. ----- The result of extensive inquiries as to the amount of orders from the United States by the last packet is upon the whole satisfactoiy. The purchase s cons id era bly exceed those of the corresponding period of last year, and a promise is held out in the general advices of a further increase, as it is ex pected a large number of buyers wiil leave New York and Boston for this country by the packet which will sail at the beginning of next month. RIISAI,E3I •, •.;.grk. - , , , , a the of - 1,1c42; - ; cet, but. its beam has long lett the garden of Gethsemane anu t... tomb of Absalom, the waters of Kedron, and the dark abps of Jehoshaphat. Full falls its splendour, however, on the opposite city, vivid and defined in its silver blaze. A lofty wall, with turrets, and towers, and frequent gates, undulates with the unequal ground which it covers, as it encircles the lost capital of Jehovah. It is a city of hills, far more famous that those of Rome; for all Europe has heard of Sion and of Calvary, while the Arab and the Assyrian, and the tribes and nations beyond, are as ignorant of the Capitolian and Aventine Mounts as they are of the Malvern or the Chiltern Hills. . " The bread steep of Zion, crowned with the tower or David; nearer still, donut Moriah, with the gorgeous tem ple of the God of Abraham, but built, alas! by the child of Hagar, and not by Sarah's chosen one; close to its cedars and its cypresses, its lofty spires and airy arches, the moon light falls upon Bethesda's pool; further on, entered by the gate of St. Stephen's, the eye, though 'tis the noon of night, traces with ease the Street of Grief, a long winding ascent to a vast cupolaed pile that now covers Calvary, called the Street of Grief, because there the most illustrious of the human, as well as of the !Hebrew race, the descendants of King David, and the divine Son of the most favoured of women, twits sank under that burden of suffering and shame which is now throughout all Christendom the emblem of triumph 'and of honour; passing over groups and masses of houses built of stone, with terraced roofs or surmounted with small domes,we reachl the hill of Salem, where Melchisedek built his mystic citadel ; and still remains the hill of Scopas, where Titus gazed upon Jerusalem on the eve of his final assault. Titus destroyed the temple. The religion of Juclwa has in turn subverted the fanes which were raised to his father and to himself in their imperial capital; and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, is now worshipped before every altar in Rome. "Jerusalem by moonlight! 'Tis a fine spectacle, apart from all its indissoluble associations of awe and beauty. The mitigating hours soften the austerity of a mountain land scape magnificent in outline, however harsh and severe in detail; and, while it retains all its sublimity, removes much of the savage sternness of the strange and unrivalled scene. A fortified city, almost surrounded by ravines, and rising in the centre of chains of far-spreading hills, occasionally offer ing, through their rocky glens, the gleams of a distant and richer land!" ASSOCIATIONS. " Tancred came forth from the garden of Gethsemane, his face was flushed with the rapt stillness of pious ecstasy ; hours had vanished during his passionate reverie, and he stared upon the declining sun. " ' The path to the right leads to Bethany.' The force of association brought back the last words that he bad heard from a human voice. And can he sleep without seeing Bethany? He mounts the path. What a landscape sur rounds him as he moves! What need for nature to be fair in a scene like this, where not a spot is visible that is not heroic or sacred, consecrated or memorable ; not a rock that is not the cave of prophets ; not a valley that is not the valley of heaven-anointed kings; not a mountain that is not the mountain of God! _ " Before him is a living, a yet breathing and existing city, which Assyrian monarchs came down to besiege, which the chariots of Pharoahs encompassed, which Roman Emperors have personally assailed, br which Saladin and Coeur de Lion, the Desert and Christendom, Asia and Europe, struggled in rival chivalry—a city which Mahomet sighed to rule, and over which the Creator alike of Assyrian kings and Egyptian Pharoahs and Roman Caesars, the framer alike of the Desert and of Christendom, poured forth the full effusion of his di vinely human sorrow. " What need of cascade and of cataracts, the deep green turf, the foliage of the fairest trees, the impeneti able forest, the abounding river, mountains of glaciered crest, the voice of birds, the bounding forms of beauteous animals,—all eights and Kends of material loveli ness that might become the delicate ruins of sonic archaic theatre, or the lingering fanes of some forgotten faith! They would not be observed as the eye seized on Sion and Calvary; the gates of Bethlehem and Damascus; the hill of Titus ; the mosque of Mahomet and the tomb of Christ. The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and heaven." OPPORTUNITY. " It was destined that Napoleon should never enter Rome, and Niahomet never enter Damascus. What was the reason of this? They were not uninterested in those cities that in terest all. The Emperor selected from the capital of the Caesars the title of his son ; the Prophet, when he beheld the crown of Syria, exclaimed that it was too delightful, and that he must reserve his paradise for another world. Buonaparte was an Italian, and must have often yearned after the days of Rome triumpiant. The son of Abdallah was descended from the patriarchs, whose progenitor had been moulded out of the red clay of the most ancient city of the world. Absorbed by the passionate pursuit of the hour, the two heroes postponed a gratification which they knew how to appreciate, but which, with all their success, all their power, and all their fame, they were never permitted to in dulge. What moral is to be drawn from this circumstance? That we should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets." LORD PALMERSIION. " Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the policy pursued by the Foreign Minister of England, with respect to the settlement of the Turkish empire in 1840-41, none can be permitted, by those at least competent to decide upon such questions, as to the ability with which that policy eras ac complished. When we consider the position of the Minister at home, net only deserted by Parliament, but abandoned by his party and even forsaken by his colleagues; the military occupation of Syria by the Egyptians; the rabid demonstra tion of France; that an accident of time or space, the delay of a month or the gathering of a storm, might alone have baffled all his combinations ; it is diffi cult to fix upon a page in the history of this country which records a superior instance of moral intrepidity. The bold conception and the brilliant perform ance were worthy of Chatham ; but the domestic difficulties with which Lord Palmerston had to struggle place the ex ploit beyond the happiest achievement of the elder Pitt. Throughout the memorable conjunction, Lord Palmerston, however, had one great advatage, which was invisible to the millions; he was served by a most vigilant and able diplo macy. The superiority of his information concerning the state of Syria to that furnished to the French Minister was the real means by which he baffled the menaced legions of our neighbours. A timid Secretary of State in the position of Lord Palmerston, even with such advantages, might have faltered; but the weapon was placed in the hands of one who did not shrink from its exercise, and the expulsion of the Egyptians from Turkey remains a great historic monu ment alike of diplomatic skill and administrative energy." LOVE AND POVERTY. " Generally speaking, it will be found, notwithstanding the proverb, that, with persons of a noble nature, the straitened fortunes which they share together, and manage, and mitigate by mutual forbearance, are more conducive to the sustainment of a high-toned and romantic passion than a luxurious and splendid prosperity. The wife of a man of limited means, who, by contrivance, by the concealed sacra five of some necessity of her own, supplies him with some slight enjoyment which he has never asked, but which she fancies he may have sighed for, experiences, without doubt, a degree of pleasure far more ravishing than the patrician dame who stops her barouche at Storr and 'Mortimer's, and out of her pin-money buys a trinket for the husband whom she loves, and which he finds, perhaps, on his dressing table, on the anniversary of their wedding-day. That's pretty too and touching, and should be encouraged; but the other thrills, and ends in an embrace thnt is still poetry." ♦ LADY OF SEXTIMINT. " His tumultuous reverie was broken by the sobs of Lady Berth'. " By heaven, I cannot endure this!' said Tancred, ad vancing. Death seems to me preferable to her unhappiness. Dearest of women !' " Do not call me that,' she murmured. I can bear any thing from your lips but words of fondness. And pardon all this; I am not myself to-day. 1 had thought that I had steeled myself to 011, to our inevitable separation ; but I have mistaken myself, at least miscalculated my strength. It is weak; it is very weak and very foolish, but you must pardon it. lam too much interested in your career to wi,h you to delay your departure a moment for my sake. I can bear our separation, at least I think I can. I shall quit the world—for ev: r. I should have done so had we not met. I was on the point of .oiug so when we did meet—when — when my dream was at length realised. Go, go; do not stay. Bless you, and write to me, if Ibe alive to receive your letters. " I cannot leave her,' thought the harrowed Tancred. 'lt never shall be said of me that I could blight a woman's life or break her heart.' But, just as he ;as advancing, the door opened, and a servant brought in a note, and, with out looking at Tancred, who had turned to the window, dis appeared. The desolation and despair which had been im pressed on the countenance of Lady Bertie and Bellair vanished in au instant, as she recognised the handwriting of her cor respondent. Tney were succeeded by an expression of sin gular excitement. Stia tore open the note; a stupor seemed to spread over her features, and, giving a taint shriek, she fell into a swoon. _ 6"fancred rushed to her side; she was quite insensible, and pale as alabaster. The note, which was only two lines, was open and extended in her hands. It was from no idle curiosity, but it was impossible for Tancred not to read it. lie had one of those eagle visions that nothing could escape, and, himself extremely alarmed, it was the first object at which he unconsciously glanced in his agitation to dis cover the cause and the remedy for the crisis. The note rau thus— ' 3 o'clock. The Narrow Gauge has won. We are utterly done; and Snicks tells me you bought five hundred more yesterday, at ten. Is it possible. " Is it possible!' echoed Tancred, as, entrusting Lady Bertie to her maid, he rapidly descended the staircase of her mansioir." NORMAN NOBILITY. rt' 41 C, ,arc:', .~:i~~ t~~.i mein* 0 , 0 tie 6-, ionde - for her, 7 near her throughout the night as the attc, of the would allow. At five o'clock the next morning t).s ciew of the burning vessel lowered their boat, and with con siderable difficulty were got on board the Mercury. Although Captain Peters was short of provisions at the time, he generously shared everything on board with the sufferers, eleven in number, all French, for whom he provided accommodation on the floor of his cabin, giving the Fiwi,.h captain a b:rth. The Frenchmen spe2l: with the utmost gradtude 'the humanity of Capt. but for whose active and timely exertions they would have all perished, either by the flames, or the waves, or by starvation, as the fire cut them off from their stores. Baffled in his endeavours to reach Cork, by the preva lence of severe easterly gales, Captain Peters made the harbour of Valencia, on the 6th inst., where he remains unavoidably windbound. The Mercury is laden with oil cake for Lynn, in Norfolk. The people on board the Mercury, for some days before reaching Valencia, toad been reduced to half a glass of water each, and nearly out of provisions. On reaching Valentia, Capt. Peters completed his kindness by conveying the whole party of sufferers to the protection of the French consul at Cork. Such traits of national liberality and generosity are highly gratifying; and we are sure the public, as well as the owners of the Mercury, will applaud Captain Peters for an act which reflects additional credit on the character of our countrymen for deeds of humanity. " ' Gentiles,' murmured Fakredeen ; ' Gentiles I—you are a Gentile, Tancred ?' " 4 Alas! I am,' he answered, ' sprung from a horde of B .ltic pirates, who never were heard of during the greater annals of the world—a descent which I have been educated to believe was the greatest of honours. What we should have become had not the Syro-Arabian creeds formed our minds, I dare not contemplate. Probably we should have perished in mutual destruction. However, though rude and modern Gentiles, unknown to the Apostles, we also were in time touched with the sacred symbol, and originally endowed with an organisation of a high class, for our ancestors wan dered from Caucasus, we have become kings and princes.' " I MERITORIOUS ACT of HUMANITY. SIR HENRY 11ALFORD'S BILL TO ItvGULAIT lIANUFACTuRFs or of the Mercury r _ P.lt • t' •'t oft inoha ni Review.) ; . • a broz..lght .1 - I`!yu,s,• - • ContiLons, on the 12th llstant, by .ry Raiford, Mr. rackv, and Cclonel intitukd— A Bid to repeal an Act for making further regula -6)113 respecting the tickets of work to be delivered to parsons Employed in the manufacture of boriery in certain case 3, and to make other provisions instead thereof, and to make further provisions to secure the wages of persons employed in the manufacture of hosiery." 1. The preamble states it to be expedient to abolish the Tioket Act, and to give further and more efficient protection to the workmen engaged in every department of the hosiery trade. 2. The old Act to expire on the Ist of next Septem ber, on which day the present Act is to come into force. 3. The interpretation clause contains the limitation of the term " manufacturer," to mean any person fur nishing material to be wrought into hosiery goods to be sold or disposed of on his account ; " agent" or " ser vant," any person acting for and in the name of the manufacturer ; " workman," any person by whom the materials furnished are to be actually wrought and con verted into hosiery. 4. Declares the practice of receiving materials by in termediate parties, and employing workmen under them to convert the same into hosiery goods to be objection able, and ought to be abolished and discontinued, and enacts that no person, save the manufacturer, being the real and absolute owner of the materials, and interested in the sale of the material when wrought up, shall give out work, employ workmen, or enter into any contract whatever for that purpose. 5. A partner may act for a firm, and make a contract and deliver out materials. 6. Permits an owner to act by an agent or ser►ant; the acts of such to be binding on the principal. 7. Enacts that every manufacturer of hosiery shall, on delivering out any materials to be wrought up, whether on his own premises or elsewhere, enter in a book or books to be kept by him for that purpose, a statement of the particulars of agreement between such manufacturer and the workmen by whom such mate rials are to be wrought and converted into hosiery goods, such entry to specify names and places of abode of work men, and be in form in every respect and particular of schedule annexed, and be signed by the manufacturer or his agent. The schedule for stockings requires twenty-three columns of particulars, besides signature. That for socks sixteen columns. For gloves seventeen columns. For shirts sixteen columns. For caps ten columns, and eight columns for any other description of hosiery. 8. Inflicts a penalty of not exceeding 501., and not less than SL, for contravening, in any respect, the provisions of this Act, on proi,f before two justices; whether it re gards contracting between manufacturers and smaller maters, or non-inserting, altering, or obliterating the particulars of contracts with workmen as ordered. 9. litluires the book containing particulars of agree ments entered into to be kept at the ordinary place of the manufacturer's business, and makes it lawful for any workman, being at the time, or having been within fourteen days in his employ, to apply for and obtain in• ipection of, and to take copies of any entry or entries therein, at all suitable times. Any person hindering or refusing to allow inspection of copies, to be liable to fine of not more than 201., nor less than 51. 10. In case of dispute arising, this book to be pro duced. and the entry shall be evidence respecting the particulars contained in it. 11. Except where the dispute arises from alleged im perfi.etien of work, when the piece of work in question blia4 be produced, or if not, it shall be taken to have been well made. 12. Makes the wages contracted for a debt, to be paid without any deduction whatever. 13. Declares that frame-rents are unjust to workmen, and have given rise to many evils, atid therefore ought to be altogethcr abolished, and goes on to enact that no person shall let on hire any frame to any workman, or take from him any money, rent, gain, or prcfit, or de duct from his wnges on account of his renting, hiring, or using any such loom, frame, or apparatus for making hosiery. 14. Enac►s penalties for breach of the preceding clause ; but the sum is left blank, to be filled up in Committee. 15 to 18 Prescribe forms of legal proceedings, and give penalties to fte Crown. 19. Declares no removal by certiorari allowable, nor any conviction to be invalid for want of form, nor any but special damage recoverable in case of any irregularity in proceedings. This Bill, though short, is of an extraordinary and sweeping character. It abolishes frame-rent, but makes no provision for securing the owner's right of property in frames, hitherto exercised, not so much by removal, for in many cases they have been continued in the uninterrupted custody of the same workpeople for twenty, thirty, or forty years, as by the weekly charge of frame rent, and by payment of the expense incurred by the larger repairs. Who is to pay for these repairs in future is not stated ; neither does it deal with the question of who is to compensate the owners of inde pendent frames for this legal destruction of their property. It makes every workman or workwoman independent of any control but that of the hosier. All journeymen and apprentices are under this Bill to become their own mas ters. A hosier could not under it give out work to s husband for his wife, or to a parent for a child. No exceptions are contemplated ; the sole object seems to be to get rid of unjust charges, by destroying every species of intermediate agency at any cost. No one is to make a bargain for a working stockingmaker but him self or herself. The hosier may employ a paid agent. but the workman must appear in person, and be dealt with separately. Each one must have his separate agree. ment with the hosier, both as to money and material—s thing impossible. Will the hosiers be willing to increase the number of their accounts four-fold? Or to intrust a frame and materials to every stockingmaker on his own account? It is very unlikely,. The chief places where materials are given out, and stockings are taken in, from the workpeople, are Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Belper, Derby, Loughborough. Leicester, and Hinck ley ; by the Bill, all the 40,000 men, women, and youths must waste their time, and strength, and money in going to these places, instead of three-fourths of them staying at home to work at the frame, clean the house, garden, or otherwise both profitably and safely employ themselves. How will this help them? In the county of Nottingham, for instance, there are 16,°280 frames. gathered into about 5,200 shops. At present each shoprnaster only attends the hosier's warehouse. In this county alone, therefore, this Bill, if it could be carried into effect, would oblige eleven thousand people, instead of five thousand, to travel every year four hun dred miles each, chiefly on foot, and this for the purpose of crowding still further warehouses already too much resorted to, and exposing them to temptations and ex penses.—The book containing particulars of agreements, is to be open for inspection and copying. Any one working for the house may see - and copy all the entries he pleases, and do with these copies what he pleases— publish them if he chooses. Is this fair dealing with the employer's business ? An apprentice may be pu nished for revealing his master's secrets—a workman may do it with impnnity,—No workman can incur any penalty under this Rill. We desire, as well as the gentlemen whose names are to this Bill, to see the stocking-maker disenthralled from his difficulties, and raised in his station and means. But this mode of dealing with the subject will no more answer any good purpose than did the " ticket" Bill, which we predicted would soon be repealed or fall into disuse, as it has done. In this effort at trade legisla tion we have another proof that Parliament can only be looked to for power to adjust trade matters , the exercise of that power must be placed in hands accustomed to the details and necessities of the various businesses sub jected to their action, and theirs alone. ORIGIN OF THE MARSEILLAISE. M. de Lamartine, in his Histoire des Girondins , just published in Paris, giv e s th e foll o wi n g a c count Of the origin of the French national air, " The Marseillaise.' In the garrison of Strasburg was quartered a young ar tillery officer, named Rouget de Lisle, a native of Lous le Saulnier, in the Jura. lie had a great taste for music and poetry, and often entertained his comrades during their long and tedious hours in garrison. Sought after for his musical and poetical talent, he was a frequent and familiar guest at the house of one Dietrich, an Alsatian patriot, mayor of Strasburg. The winter of 1792 was a period of great scarcity at Strasburg. The house of Dietrich was poor, his table was frugal, but a seat was always open to Roueet de Lisle. One day, when there was nothing but bread and some slices of smoked ham on the table, Die:rich, regardirg the young officer, said to him with a sad serenity, " Abundance fails at our boards, but what matters that if enthusiasm fails not at our civic fetes, nor courage in the hearts of our soldier. I h ave still a last bottle of wine in my cellar. Bring it," sa id he to one of his daughters, " and let us drink France and liberty. Strasburg should soon have its patriotic so lemnity. De Lisle must draw from these last drops one of those hymns which raise the soul of the people." The wine was brought and drank, after which the officer hfeisry instrument,cu r of hi ) s departed. The night was cold. De Lisle was thought ful. His heart was moved ; his head heated. li e re turned staggering to his solitary room, and s l ow l y sought citizen inspiratio n, sou!, anon on sometimesthekeys of in the composing now the air before the words, and then the words before the air. Ile sang all and wrote and at last, exhausted, fell asleep with his h nothing, head resting on his inst-ument, and awok e not till d. music of ttv! night return u d to his mind daybreak. The like the impres ioe o f a dream, he wr o t e it, and ran to Dietrich, whoa he found in the garden digging winter lettu ces . The wife and d aug ht ers of the old man were not yet up, Dietrich awoke them, and call, d in some f r i en d s , a ll as passionate as himself fetin lc, and able to execute the comb siti(4ll of De Lisle. 'At the first stanza cheeks `grow pale, at the second tears flowed, ' and at the last the d.eirium of enthusiasm burst forth. Tee wife of Die rich ,his daughters, himself, and the young officer threw themselves crying into each other's arms. The lquel or the country was found. Executed some days i ait Twarr , s in Strasburg the new song flew from city to elty, L , .. eit), and was played by all the popular orches tras. Marseilles adopted it t,, be sung at the commence recut of the sittings of its clubs, and the Marseillaises \spread it through France, singing . it along the p u bli c roads. From this came th e name of " Marseillaise." T COMMUNICATIC/Nl4iR RAIN WITH SALISBURY MARKET.—After siorne urgent remonstrances on the part of the S ,utliarupton butchers, the South-Western have put on an extra train on market morning=, leavit:g•Southampton at fi ve o'clock A.M. At the inns, last market, at which a crowd of carts and horses tilled the yards and stables, scarcely one was to be seen, the trade coming from Portsmouth, Basing stoke, Andover, and other places, being able now to dispenan with " traps" or " flies,' transact their business and get borne to dinner by the middleot the day.—Hants Advertiser. ENGLISH CIVILIZATION. " We ought never to be surprised at anything that is done by the English,' observed Fakredeen, ' who are, after all, in a certain sense, savages. Their country produces nothing; it is an island, a mere rock, larger than Malta, but not so well fortified. Everything they require is imported from other countries; they get their corn from Odessa, and their wine from the ports of Spain. I have been assured at Beiroot that they de not grow even their own cotton, but that I can hardly believe. Even their religion is an exotic ; and, as they are indebted for that to Syria, it is not sur prising that they should import their education from Greece.' " Poor people l' exclaimed the Quken, and yet they travel—they wish to improve themselves.' " TEE MURDER IN SHOREDITCII.—It appears that for some time back there have been frequent quarrels be tween the deceased and the acc used wis•ti respect to souse trifling articles claimed by each as his property, and it is said that the deceased had more than once eudea#oured to terrify the prisoner by taking a number of his shopmates to demand restoration of the property. This irritating course was unfortunately pursued ou the night of the mur der. Notwithstanding the overwhelming evidenze of Brooke N's guilt, irrespective of his own admission, it is by no means clear that after his threat to put a bullet in de ceased's head he loaded the carbine on his return to the attic of the house in which he lived. During the day he had been employed in shooting rats in the cellar, light being afforded him by a lantern. The carbine is said to have b, ea left loaded, and the sudden consciousness of that fact acting upon his excited mind seems to have tinpellect him to its deadly use against the deceased. Pending the co roner's inquest the utmost excitement has prevailed in the neighbourhood. THE MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. A special general Court of the governors of this hos pital was held on Saturday at the hospital, Charles street, Berners-street, to receive a report of the com mittee appointed to inquire into the government and management of the hospital. Sir Robert H. Inglis took the chair. A dispute arose as to whether the apothe cary and house-surgeon were entitled to be present at the Court. The CHAIRMAN read one of the rules of the hospital, (sec. 12, chap. 1), which prohibits their attendance. and which he (the chairman) said was absolute. The apothecary accordingly withdrew, and Mr. Rogers, who temporarily filled the office of house surgeon, as a volunteer, tendered his resignation of that office, and remained in the room. Af.;. HAWES read the report, which stated that the committee, having collected ample evidence, had come to the decision, that the order, discipline, and cleanliness of the hospital by no means equalled those of other metropolitan hospitals ; that the nurses were not engaged with sufficient care ; that these facts proved the constitution of the weekly board to be defective ; that the respective offices of matron, se cretary, and house steward (the last two offices being held by one person), had not been properly filled; and that there was a want of cordial co-operation among the officers. The committee begged, with reference to these objections in the management, to suggest the following alterations:-1. As regards the weekly board, that in lieu thereof there be a new general board elected, to consist of a president, vice president, and eighteen governors: that a book be kept, wherein to enter remarks and sug gestions of improvement; that a sub-committer be ap pointed for visiting; that six lav governors go out of office annually, by rotation, but that they be eligible for re-election. 2. That the offices of house steward and secretary be no longer vested in one person, but that sin active and competent house steward be immediately ap pointed. 3. That the secretary no longer reside in the house. 4. The committee suggested that the duties of the matron require revision. 5. That the number ot nurses are at present too few, the night nurses being allowed only six hours out of the twenty four for rest. 6. That in future there be a weekly report as to the management of the hospital. And lastly, 7. After mature consideration, the comm;ttee think it ess , ntia, to the welfare the hospital in general that Mr. Tuson, one of the surgeons, should resign his appointment. On the CHAIRMAN putting the question of the adep tion of and printing the report to the meeting, great objection was off-red, on the plea of it being very unde sirable to adopt so important a report without toe must careful consideration. _ _ _ An amendment was also proposed, to the effect, that if the report were printed, it should be with the omission of the se venth suggestion respecting Mr. Tuson ; it being contended that it would be highly unjust to that gentle man to cast any imputation upon him, to attach itoy stigma to his character, when they did not even know of what he was accused. Sir WALTER STIRLING did not see that in requesting Mr. Tuson to resign in consequence of there being a disagreement between him and the other medical officers, they cast any stigma on his character, either personal or official. With reference to printing the report without that part relating to Mr. Tuson, Mr. MALTON did not think it competent in any meeting to adopt a report, and then to print it only in part. After much discussion, an amendment was carried, resolving that four copies of the report and two copies of the evidence should lie on the table for the inspection of Governors until that day five weeks, until which time the meeting was adjourned. DESTRUCTION OF A COTTON MILL BY FIRE, AT BACulr.—On Thursday morning, about three o'clock, a mill at Bacup was destroyed by fire, under very peculiar circum stances. It was known as Lee Mill, and stood a short dis tance from the town ; it was occupied with looms by Mr. Samuel Lee, manufacturer, with the exception of a room which was let off to a small spinner. The machinery was driven by water, and neither gas nor fire of any kind had been used within the walls on Wednesday; yet, notwith standing this, it was discovered to be on fire at the early hour on Thursday morning mentioned above; and, though two fire-engines were on the spot promptly, their assistance was unavailing, and the fire was not extinguished until the building was completely gutted and in ruins. The origin of the conflagration is involved in mystery, but will be nar rowly investigated. The owner of the building is fully in sured, and so is the spinner, but Mr. Smith is not insured; and as his portion of the building contained fifty looms, and other machinery, it is calculated his loss will not be less than I,oooL—Manchester Courier. AURORA BOREALIS. We had last night a most splendid exhibition of this beautiful phenomenon in the western heavens. It was observed about half-past seven, and at times was unusually radient, describing an arch across the sky from west to north. The light was of a singular and milky whiteness, and rivalled in intensity that of the young moon, which bad risen on the opposite side. From this arch conical streaks of brilliance shot upwards at considerable dis tances from each other, enlightening the whole of the space occupied by them. This arch gradually appeared to become exhausted, and faded out !lowly; and then a mass of light rose a little more to the south, which gradually spread over a considerable space, and presented the appearance of a full moon rising behind a cloud of medium density. After the lapse of a minute this light gradually commenced a dis tinctly perceptible movement from west to south, the west end appearing to wrap up as if on a roller, or like a scroll, until arrived at the other end it ina.eased in brilliancy, ex patided, and died out. It is scarcely possible to describe the beauty, c:earoees, and power or this portion of the pheno menon. The sky was clear, scarce a cloud intervening be tween us and the illimitable abyss beyond, but after the last named spectacle had passed away, dark clouds obscured the moon, and gradually spread over the whole heavens, moving and taking possession of the ground of a few stray streaks of light which still continued to shoot from the horizon.— Manchester Courier. REPRESENTATION OF BEDFORDSHIRE.—UntiI within the last few days it was not decided who should be put in nomination as the success,tr of the late air. Astell in the re presentation of this county. Common rumour nominated several robletnen and gentlemen as candidates, but in most of the nominations the " wish was father to the thought," and no one knew more this's his neighbour. At length several gentlemen of the Conservative party had a formal meeting, and they agreed to invite Mr. Pym. The high character and ability of that gentlemen, together with his popularity among the agriculturists, would seem to guarantee his suc cess; but Mr. Pym had objections, and therefore deelined to respond to the requisition. About the same time some lead ing gentlemen of the Whig party decided upon requesting our former representative, Lord Charles James Fox Russell, j to allow himself to be put in nomination. It was well known that his Lordship had expressed a strong disinclination to take this prominent part in the politics of the country again ; but, nevertheless, hopes were entertained by his friends that he would be induced to waive his objections. Toe applica tion has been successful ; he has consented to be nominated, and tiore is no doubt will be elected without opposition, as we have received an authentic intimation to the etTect that several gentlemen of the counts, after having held meetings upon the subject, had determined to take no steps to propose a Conservative candidate. It had been arranged by the Whig party, that in the event of their request to Lord Charles Russell being unsuccessful, they would invite Mr. Hastings Russell, whose character, talents, and business habits render him eminently qualified to take a high position in the coun cils of the country. The day of election is fixed for Tues day, the 30th instant.—Bedford Times. The will of the late Mr. George Robins was exe cuted by him in March, 1844, and to which, at various pe riods in the years 1845 told 1846, be has added eight codicils. the whole contained in fifty sheets of paper. He has left his family, bequests in small amounts to various members of family, in sums of 500/., also annuities, amoamounting alto gether to 350/. per annum. To his executors, J ohn Squire, his cousin Mr. Edmund Robins leaves E:Jci., banker, Pall-mall, James Park, Esq., Lheincolnslnlono fields, and qthueestbuosfinle,(s)osof/o.r; guineas each , ch ie a f n delteorkt,hewlhaottehrasa cfounddhueertebde and 3 to N h ,e i a s rs, 1001., as a token of esteem, and of whom he speaksmany - itt flattering terms. Directs his executors to invest 0 000/. and pay the interest to his wife, as well as an im mediate bequest to her of 2,000/., and 2,000/. to each of his daughters. His estates, freehold, copyhold, and leasehold, are to be applied for the general purposes of the will, the trustees only to dispose thereof at such time as in their judgment shall appear for the benefit of his children, to whom he leaves the residuary trust moneys, but under the directions and appointment of his widow, to be vested in sons at twenty-one, and for daughters at that. age or marriage. His library and pictures, and all the marble, statuary, and bronze, and the mirrors, with certain pla:e, he leaves to his wife and as she may appoint. The family porti7.its and paintings, and the silver cup presented to him by Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart., to trustees for the life of his widow, and afterwards to the eldest son then living. To his eldest soa, he bad left b o y s - N h :n i a s will his (itii George, e o , f u s o a w le it a i n h d is bouti minority,caia catalogues, in anticipation that be would have continued the business, and surpassed him in energy end tact ; but having abandoned the intention of tollowing his tether's prolesion. he leaves such ;nooks and catalogues to his widow, to be preserved by her for such one of his sons who may be so engaged in the callitip of an auctioneer. He is dEsir. - .us that two of his son: erL.ll tie educated for the Established Church, and has em e.wor 1 the trustees to purchase out of their share of hi: estat es advowsons for them, of not less annual ifnc:uet7:l.:l:o:: or more than 800/. The deceased's personal e t "li a s s oo u t i ,. have n , a e le r s e d g y r t e to t t t ie u ed l e , a w r a n s tl.at tits probate wich ha to Psrie, e o r f i d tia g e e, alarm a been called suddenly away in vited the Lord Chief Ba ron an d Mr. Justice Lordshipo e u t n log illness of the Dowag er C ount e ss. had party of the county magistiates,.to au entertainment a Ilin chinbrooks pn Weoclfiteasdera• evelung: but the later accounts from Paris being the character his departure, d9 at e id a , e a f on t at au early to lead to apprehension f;a. the Countess's safety L h o o r u d r soynaso Wednesdayblige(l to hasten iug.—Canibri ~~.