The Sun. — London, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

.ES. SADLER'S WLLLS, An overflowing house was most agreeably enter tained by the performa nce (f or t h e fi rst t i me) at this theatre last night of the tragedy of Bertram, and a 'comic drama, called Charles the Second. Maturin's tragedy of Bertram has been so frequently before the public, and so fully known and appreciated, that it needs no remarks from us to recommend it to the favourable reception of a discerning public. As pro duced at this theatre, it has certainly lost none of its attractions, and the mode in which it was put upon 'the stage was such as to reflect the fullest credit upon the enterprising management of Mr. Phelps. The characters were all well sustained; and, en passaut, we mention th a t B ertram was pourtrayed in a most masterly style by Mr. Phelps, while the the characters of Sir Aldebrand and the Prior of St. Anselm, the former borne by Mr. H. Marston and the Tatter by Mr. G. Bennett, were shown with the g re atest truthful ness . A n d we s h a ll not b e consi- , dered as erring on flattery's side when we accord to Miss Laura Addison the fullest meed of praise to the natural and impressive manner in which she repre 3ented 111 e 0 8.ne. Upon each suc cee di ng occas i on t h at Crycalked tal e ' ated artiste, we notice a marked and rapid LN l Tes's in her onward march to the summit of well tTrite -d histrionic f ame. Th e i nferior characters of riece were sust a i ne d i n a respecta b le and credit 1 .! manner. The entertainments of the evening ‘4',ncluded by an amusing comic drama, called I Flear!es th e S econd, in which Mr. H. Marston, Mr. . n e 'sklns, and Mi ss H u dd art and Wallack, sustained he principal char ac t ers . Th e tragedy of Bertram was annou nced for repetition this evening. SURREY. 1 . The O pera company commenced their engagement s ere for the season last evening. The opera was La "na mbula, with the following cast : Rodolpho, M r . Leffler. Elvino, Mr. W. Harrison. Amina, Miss Rainforth. Lisa, Miss R. Isaacs. T u lle orchetra, which was und er th e a bl e di rec ti on jugir r * Tully, was full and com pl e t e , an d did f u ll vi no to to the exqu i s it e mus i c o f Bellini. The El tem- O f Mr. Harrison, and the Rodolpho of Mr. th,Fri are we ll k nown to all play-goers. . 4 gentleme n were i n a d m i rable voice and t i er ted„, themselve s t o th e utmost. T he Amino 40P 1 sa Rainforth was very tasteful. She beautif u ll y , an d gave the music with at feeling a n d pat h os. Th e fi nale was splen erelrendered. W e never h ave g i ven Miss Rainforth for the p ossess i on o f the power which she ex -144;7_ this far-f ame d scena . I t i s but justice to 11,44;44aaes to sa y th at h er Li sa i s the best on the tons. She made quite a part of it; and her exer lotti Web e not thrown away ; th ey were d u l y ap atrrealtte, y the audience, and were much and de liain aPplauded. Thi s young l a d y i s rap i dly nu le f her professional career. She now makes whit little parts—the time is not far dist a nt Sh e h a :he will be equally great in great parts. sv ateh S r h B l 3l endid career before her, and we shall . — '"ots eProgress with interest. The entertain „the Prltcl il i s e p it ,l'ded with a new nautical melodrama from . —en tlY and —,Peri of Mr. Fitzball, which was emi terestiag tt r s ervedly successful. It is fall of in trated b situations and startling effects, and is illus ctacithe Yzueautiful scenery. It is entitled The Wreck Jon. L' e e.f: The house was crowded to su 0 kirfore the commencement of the opra. ffocation Pe • tOlThiclae y novelty provided at this teatre for th folk, was a grand equestrian h magical sketch,e e ntitled The Golden Footed Steed ; or , th e Ch arme d gorse of the Black Valley —magic and horseman ltip. What theatre in Europe could do justice to ieh a combination, save Astley's ? If asked as to the Szti we reply in the words of Canning— "Stopy, Lord ! bless you, I have none to tell, Sir." t the incidents are many, and interesting. Ze feats of the four-footed artistes are sur- Zingly wonderful—the scenery is magnificent, G om t_he attentio n i s k ep t up we ll to t h e en d . Th e tri7niooted Steed will, for many a night to come, t oilo g gold t o th e treasury. The scenes in the circle ttlwed, and th e p er f ormances conc l u d e d w i t h t h e ar melodrama of the Bride of Abydos. The —.6e was crowded. 11 holid P/CT . O.RIA. Utab era aY folk last night assemble d . in immense Inte l: , at this popular theatre, notw ithstanding the t't iliot hea t of the weather or the superior attractions °rule— Seasonable sports, and long before the rising %ne ih e . tir tain the house rom top to bottom presen a t n ed . or ?'he e mass of human beings. The Lonely ors s p e i eee Ni g ht before the Bridal, was the title of t he Put forward by the spirited proprietor for.t e th e meat of his numerous y atrons, and judging from itiveLPlTlae bestowed upon it, the drama must have LitirrinZiversal satisfaction. It abounds in the usua l vietor,Vl3,eiclents for which the nautical pieces of the t t zikia; Lave so long been famed, and the b7, 411 tY of the marine and rural scenery x f - ' 1 1)es ; -of',_.3 excitement roduced by the hair-breadth o e s Itil,„re hero and heroines (Mr. N. T. Hicks and insured its unequivocal success. The 11-13.4:1111ri the wlh t a ie l t)18 in three acts, was admirably placed wit h 8 • 3 * The various characters were sustained bat e Pint an d ability, and on the whole it bids fair to k t tstef a ui ideingt,hened run. Some exceedingly pretty and d .1 f 33(31Y ing views followed, which were succeed! a *tee - ooth ap and t he entertainments were wound up with ° Pt 'figinal three act drama called Admiral Sam ``*" cf Old London. 4 t, 4 I , rotn il is e e it o o r r a s n IN KENT.—Upon the whole, there is abundant, if not an early harvest. L°P A! 1 dundrained, and in the whea t ; which whichw last year clover, the plant certainly ti v as rather thi e n re ; but th e very a e n t d . g t en w i e a e l k w i r as p re which we have experienced w fo a r rm th and the tittering out, t r eb it a luxuriant appearance, king place most b .atis er- ii; ex . tension, of the plant is ta king lil t , • "only The oats and h b a a s r t l h ey e • well up, an d p abundance 44 ) sni no previous year promise are of . b a severe winter. gene -4121. Greater or more en e c e o t y e r d ag y in , g. It is an old saying 4 ,1; tt late spring,,Pr. A Ushers in a fruitful year ; and this year the two her should .. :*ia .v°3l3 es having been tulfilled, we must hope that the In° conclusion may occur. If the weat %nu n 1 1 ,. ue warm, it is not yet too late for us to have a s•reest not protacted beyond the average season. 1.) ever Chronicle. On the 12th ~.4 - u st• Et coroner's in season.-- in AT SHEPTON MALLET.—„n " L ee Stoke St. Michael, near this town, before M bi t • quest was held at Stoke-lane, oth_e r r- . Daniel Ashford, one of the coroners for this county, on ,, the body of James Royce, of the parish of Stoke-lan de , ,_ bourer. It appeared the deceased had had some w ords Est 'cla.the tap-room of the White Hart beer-house wit h ttout of the tap-room into the tiler pla n (a thatcher). whom the landlord, Richard Hall , _ r th_Pute; deceased being violent, he got possession o f bar, bar, to avoid fur f th th e e Ctcher'a hook, and followed him to the door of t he so _ hip, el : ‘ , 6 Hall, the landlord ordered him away, and re u h / oatC4mittanee; he, however, persisted, and wit , h tri y g th e c t i t ' w ore he would come in, and commenced cloppli n, sw ea . ° ; (4. with the hook for the purpose of g ettin g ff i h e i n "bg he would chop their necks o ff. or : alarmed at his proceedings, told him to go a Hall, "h i would hot hi • he acoordin2ly took a g un Pinel - ""e The eh was in ". root: l :and shot at him through the eh il of the door Which Blyce had cut out. l.fp_ ieurge entering his forehead, he fell a The inqu,r)rl),e, and aid not afterwards move. ; dalr whet) -2 ' was adjourned till the fullow-ng murder" atitih the jury returned a verdict of .. Wilful milted iall, for the offence, and he was fully corn the e " ander the coroner's warrant to await his trial at riti,e,"u4ig assizes. Additional Particulars.—S . Of th - g Day letter, there being so many different accounts t4j. ,e melancholy affair, I have been to Stoke to ascer ill etkr,.urther particulars; and I find Hall loaded his piece wit: ,_Preence of the unfortunate man Boyce, tie4"PPing the bar door, in order, as they say , to in whilit he lo ad at e him. Hall stated to the jury that he only bc tr ed the piece with powder; but that statement cannot gye.._ ie, or else the piece was before charged, and he put t a der on the before -contained contents; for it appeared, he aPeiBl.-nk'rgena !•xavninat!on which took place during 147 41. (4 "" ati Leent of the inqu,-st, that ;_tbove 100 shots of th e et the ee'itro ' e take " f "" the Man's head. There was a wound than the.b a wiii in e c fag blow out, lodging , r 4 ore of the piece, dece ased's forehead, a little larger from which a quanti:y of his on the wall and the door " at the tale WM cho pping.—Sherborne Journal. 1 Yesterday PRINCESS'S. Hamlet 4 t•ecting was pr esen t e d a t thi s th eatre, o,obsequence of the engagement of Mr. Macready fet_; a limited number of nights ; the cha best to r the piece being cast in such a manner as tragedi,ao . -Arty out the powerful character of the great Haml et - Of the e xce ll ence o f M r. M acready ' s turn .it is unnecessary t o spea k , an d we, t h erefore, a, it attention from one whose brilliant talents wlP.ready ac k nowledged and appreciated, to those , sustained the other characters. Mrs. Warner, , the Queen, was excellent, and the performance rof Miss E. Stanl ey i n Ophelia was effective. Mr. J. 'Webster as Laertes sustained the character well, and, though last not least, Polonius was exceedingly well represented by Mr. Granby. A more effective cast in Hani!et could not be, each part being well conceived and sustained, and the jarring effect of tame and ineffective minor characters playing t o th e performance of a master genius was entirely ob viate d . The strongest • symptoms of approbati on were manifested by the audience, and at the. fall of the curtain, Mr. Macready and Mrs. V r trarner were loudly called for. A very amusing The Parce, entitled A Wife for an Hour, followed. many jokes and points told admirably with the 2ects'„ors, and at it s c onc l us i on i t was much applauded. khe: farce of the Sleeping Draught (for the fourth tirne at this theatre) concluded the entertainments, sand formed an admirable wind up to them. It was -Well received, and the audience departed after a really good evening's amusement. TELE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY _EVENING, MAY 25, 1847 WHITSUN AMUSEMENTS. COLOSSEUM.—This establishment was open yesterday fir the reo ption of visitors. A considerable number attended. They belonged in g enera l to t h e upper and middle orders; but, so far as we could perceive, few, if any, of the working classes were amongst the spectators. The price, although reduced, still keeps the interesting 'sews of this establishment beyond the reach of the artizan and humble tradesman. DionamA.—The Diorama, Regent's Park, was visited yesterday by several persons. The exhibition consisted of a representation of the iaterior of St. Mark's, at Venice, and a view of Tivoli, near Rome. Both repre sentat ons are extremely interesting, and well deservieg of a visit. THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—In consequence of the fine ness of the weather yesterday attracting the holiday makers to the out-of-door amusements, the number who visited this establishment was not so great as at Easter. The great source of attraction at this place was the new hall and staircase, which (not yet opened at Easter) ex cited the admiration of all. The people were well con ducted and orderly, and rendered the attendance of extra constables to preserve regularity unnecessary. THE NATIONAL GALLERY.—At this place the heat, from the number of visitors who pay their annual visit to this receptacle for the fine arts, was almost insuffer able. All the pictures had their admirers, but the greatest admiration was bestowed upon the recently ac quired picture by Raffaelle of the " Knight's Vision." THE ROYAL ACADEMY, &c.—The Royal Academy and the other exhibitions devoted to the annual show of what has been done by our native artists during the past to elve months, were well attended. WESTMINSTER ABBEY AND ST. PAUL'S—The first of these establishments was open yesterday, and in conse quence of the reduction in the prices to view the various chapels a large number of persons, who had been to see the House of Lords, also availed themselves of the op portunity of viewing this noble pile with the ancient tombs, coronation chair, &c. St. Paul's, in consequence of the preparation for the anniversary of the charity children on the 3d of June, was not open for Divine ser vice. ) Junction ; and Mr. Saunders, secretary to the Eastern Union and Harwich Junction, had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways, in Great George-street, y( aterday. Th e Marquis of Normanby transactel busineEs yo - terday at the Foreign-office. Mr. Higbam, Secretary and Comptroller-General to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the Nl..tional Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dispatches for the Governors of Hong Kong and Ceylon were sent off yesterday evening from the Colo nial-office. THE NAVY: — In resuming our notice of the conditions at present regulating the armaments and equipments of our steam fleet, we have to acknowledge th e va l ue of some sugges tions contained in a lette r a dd ressed to the First Lord of the Admiralty by Captain Robert Spencer Robinson, of the Royal Navy, a copy of which he was obliging enough to send us; but as it appeared to be intended only for private and limited circulation, we did not con ceive that we should grat if y t h e author by giving a more extensive publication to his name than he seemed to have designed for hi mse lf, though we willingly aided in in u ati n on ae o n f t d im oc e t n ri t n a es pr s o o vi e o n u t s i l r y e . ly ex in pv c e o s n se c d u . rren T c o e withthe m dis O e ur own those, however, who are inclined to pursue still further the clue which we traced out the other day, we can well commend the perusal of this able and intelligent pamphlet. Our r emar k s on that occasion tended to show it how came to pass th at f or many obvious duties we had no efficient or appropriate steamers, and, by consequence, b h u o t w to se o e m er tt a n l y, p of o e u v r bap passt, prophesied.disaster v disasters might hle now pa tbe expl ainses from explained, our mishaps to our miscarriages, —from our accidents to our blu n d ers ; and shall endeavour to throw some light on the circumstances which preclude even the single class of steam ships we have adopted from answering their own prtjector's designs, and which lead to such un remitting expenses and exposures. All our steam navy should nut be frigates; but all our frigates should at least be good ones—should swim when they are launched, and take the guns they are pierced fur. We observed some time ago that the comparison between the steamers turned out from merchants' yards ano those launched from the Royal docks, so frequently drawn to the disad vantage of the latter, was thus far unfair,—that the former were exempted from that condition which in ducts the greatest difficulty—namely, the necessity of carrying heavy guns. For, although certain companies are bound by contract to build vessels capable of mount ing powerful metal on emergencies, they have never yet been tried, and we have reason to fear they would prove quite incompetent to this contingent part of their duties. Against this plea, however, we must set off the fact that, Gov-rnment vessels are almost equally prone to consider their armament as nominal; for we believe we are correct in stating, that three or four only of the steam-frigates have ever been found able to receive the main-deck guns at which they are rated. So that both classes are thus far even, except that the Royal Mail packets do undoubtedly sail, though they may not be able to fight ; whereas many of the war steamers, with almost as much uncertainty as to their abilities in the latter line, are utterly devoid of any compensatory excellence in the former. It is in the engines, however, and in the mutual adaptation of these machines and the hull, that we suspect the serious fault to lie ; for the discovery of the right principles of ad justment on this point would probably bring with it the means of improvement in all our other deficiencies. In our paper of the 30th of November last we called atten tion to some of the circumstances which were said to affect the arrangements injuriously in this particular, and we observe our conclusions confirmed by some of the illustrations. which Captain Robinson has adduced. Fifteen years ago the Surveyor started, as Mr. Hume re marked in the debate of the 29th alt., with nine steamers which were done to his hand by way of mo• dels, and which he was at liberty to use for his deduc tions. Two of these were the Comet and the Lightning —good vessels even to this day, but not good enough to content the Surveyor. He took his departure from the Comet, and produced a terrible caricature in the Gulnare, which, after a second failure under the anagrammatical apellation of the Gleaner, was finally condemned, but the Comet lines were not reverted to. His translation of the Medea was not quite so bad, since it seems to have suggested the Devastation class, which, if not an improvement on its original, is yet respectably spoken of. But it is to the all-pervading and radical error of these experiments that we wish to direct especial attention; and this, as Captain Robinson has stated, is our pertinacity in testing too many points at once. We never start ccrteris paribus; we are, conse quently, never able to establish an improvement or de tect a fault, and remain just where we were at first. In the first place, we never know beforehand for what purposes we are building the vessel. Her work is never cut out for her before her drawings are made. She is to be " a steam-ship," to carry so many guns ; and there the instructions end. In the next place, whereas the hull, the moving power, and the armament have all a direct relation to each other, the proportions of which remain to be discovered, we are never content to ascertain one point at a time, a n d th e resu lt is, that we ascertain none. Captain Robinson agrees with ourselves approving rn the Vesuvius and Stromboli, which were fitted with Napier's beam engines. The only fault ever found with these engines was their weight, and it was justifiable to try an experiment for removing it. The Driver was accordingly fitted with Seaward's engines ; hut, unfortunately, a simultaneous experiment was tried upon her hull, so that it is now quite impossible to draw any certain conclusion from her recent meritorious ser vices. Had either the hull or the engines, only been changed, we might gain some architectural or mechani cal deduction from her creditable circumnavigation of the globe ; but, as it is, one. experiment vitiates the other ; and whether the engines or the hull exhibit the improvement it is hopeless to conjecture. Again, tl , e Devastation was tried with another new engine— Maudslay's double cylinder ; but at the same time her horse-power was increased by 129 over that of her class, so that whether any improvement or inferiority arose from her double cylinders or her double power no human shipwright could say. Once more, when the Cyclops disappointed us, we were not content even with two experiments in her suc cessors, but we actually tried three, for the improved specimens of this class were lengthened by ten feet in hull, were strengtheuad by 100 additional horse power, and were then equipped by two new kinds of engines, one from Messrs. Fawcett, and one from Bolton and Watt. After this, it will not create surprise that our system of naval architecture contains so very few axioms. No less than ten different sorts of engines are now in use in the steam navy, and these of as many different powers, in vessels of as many different dimes sions. Well may Captain Robinson consider comparison and deduction as difficult ! We will conclude with one more remark. It is obvious that all our late observations would wer be were app ni li a ca in b l l y e nteogapttavdeddleb ywhtheeel general introductionrs only , of the screw, which would both diminish the chance of d . damage and leave the broadside entire. We have seen too by the trial of the Amphion last week, and by the orders which we reported in our naval intelligence for the construction of an 80-gun screw ship, that the Ad miralty are attentive to this point ; and yet of such a character are our experimental combinations that, up to this moment, the exact relation of the power of the screw to that of the paddle remains unascertained ! Times, THE TOWER OF LONDON.—This national exhibition, with its jewel room and armoury, was well patronised by the holiday folks yesterday, the reduction in the price of admission being the cause of so many people visi , ing it. ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, REGENT'S PARK. — During yesterday the public were admitted to these gardens without obtaining fellows' orders, merely by paying the customary price of admission. The consequence was, that a greater number of parties paid than would have been the case had they to seek first for members' orders and pay afterwards. We understsnd that the same pri vilege will be extended to the public during the holidays. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—An immense number of adults and juveniles paid a visit to this in structive and amusing exhibition. Not the least interest ing portion of the performance was the lecture on Natural Philosophy, by Dr. Bachhoffner, and the ex planations to the working models and machinery, which are calculated to incite the rising generation to become acquainted with this very useful department of science. MADAME TUSSAIID.—SeveraI hundred persons visited this talented lady's exhition during the day, indeed from the time the doors were opened until late in the after noon the large room was densely crowded. Several ad iitions have recently been made to the collection, amongst the figures are Pope Pius IX., in full costume, Henry VII., James I. in the splendid costume of the period. The new magnificent ventilating dome, which has been erected at a cost of 700/., was greatly admired by the company. BRUNETTI'S MODEL OF JERUSALEM.—During yes terday a gentleman attended every hour to explain this exquisite work of art, and from the time the doors were opened a great many persons availed themselves of the opportunity presented by inspecting this great model of the holy city. THE WHITSON FAlRS,—Yesterday the fair annually held in Greenwich at this season commenced. Rich ardson's theatre and iAlgar'a Crown and Anchor booth, as usual, were the principal objects of attraction. A host of minor entertainments were also on the ground. The town and fair was crowded throughout the day with visitors from the metro. polls, who arrived by railway and steam boat, the former bringing its living freight every twelve, and the latter every ten minutes. A large fair was also held on Stepney-green, the principal features at which were Wombwell's menagerie, Clark's equestrian circus, and three theatres (Johnson's, Paterson's, and Frazer's). This fair also had its Crown and Anchor booth. upwards of 400 feet long. Upwards of two hundred thousand persons visited this fair during the day. Fairs were also held at Wandsworth, Chalk-farm, and the Chalk , road, Islington, all of which received a fair share o public patronage. The whole were under the contro of the police, who caused all amusement to cease at P.N WRESTLING AT THE BRECRNOCK ARMS.—Yesterday the grounds at the Brecknock Arms, Camden town, were thrown open for the display of wrestling in the Devonshire style, and the wrestling at this season, al ways good, has this year as well as last been attended with novel and extraordinary interest. This is owing . to many noblemen and gen tl emen , ar d e nt ad mirers of the manly art, having subscribed liberally to raise such a sum as will insure handsome prizes to the best men. Tbis induced many Cornish celebrities last year to come up to London and display their prowess, victory attending their efforts ; and the committee having this year announced their intention of giving the Devon men a fair chance of success by arranging the three first days' play in the Devonshire, and the last three days in the Cornish style, a large number of their crack men have come up from Devon, who, with the "stars" from Cornwall and tho " luminaries" of the London ring, formed a combination of wrestling talent never before collected in any ring. It was decided, the better to test the me gs r t i lt t eo s t o wh f ee t i gs h eh e cto m na e dn e d , t i t t h ee a r t fotr t hm h e e a y cna s cne h sd o ,i u d l aa d nted be sth ro hoa a ut t i c ida h et orderhdraoc c t r w d i r n e his opponent two back falls. Those so successful were • Water (C) who th rew E yers (D) twice and quickly; Flynn (Ireland), a stunted Ajax, w h o tw i ce grasped R. Dyer (C); and Oliver (0) the Roper, a little pheno menon, who first tripped and then heaved Kemp (D) Gundry. the Cornish champion (winner of these prizes last year), now faced the celebrated Chapple, champion of Devon, and their movements were watched with breathless interest, when, after strength and science had both been almost exhausted, Gundry threw his powerful opponent a single fall. They will meet again to-morrow as will Lemon (D) and Tresise (C), who each won a fall. Snell, Eilicombe, Hodge, Goodman, &c., have yet to wrestle. FRENCH PLAYS, ST. JAMES'S FHEATRE.—His Im perial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, attended by the Hon. Colonel Grey, the Baron Brun now, Admiral Lutke, Monsieur de Berg, Monsieur Koudiraffsky, and the Baron Friedriks, honoured the French plays with his presence last evening. His Im perial Highness occupied her Majesty's box. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by the Baroness Hamerstein and Mr. Edmund St. John Mildmay, also honoured the theatre with ber presence. We observed also the Duke de Palmella, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, Lord Clitden, Lord Somerton, Lady and Mi ss M ac d ona ld , Lady Jodr e ll, Si r W. and Lady Martens, Lady Meux Monsieur and Mad ame Mrs. Mountjoy Martyn,' Sir Henry Mildr ua y. th e Count Irtelmansegge the Baron and Sirs. hfilaer.Gibson. Tux Jisurr' AT Oallanatboa..A new work of an extraordinary character from the pen of Sir George Stephen, has just -appeared under the titl e o f " The Jesuit at Cambridge." It is a narrative of events sup posed to have occurred at the university, thrown into the form of a novel ; the principle personages both Catholic and Protestant, having been drawn, it is said, from existing originals, and the whole movement to wards Popery displayed and illustrated in a manner as entertaining as it is truth-like. We are, indeed, very much inclined to discredit the author's statement that the work is but partially founded on fact ; for extra ordinary as some of the incidents would be in real life, there is so much probability in the narrative, that they seem introduced to preclude any recognition of personal identity. This clever work will doubtless be perused with deep interest even by the ordinary novel reader, and at our universities it will not only be read but studied. THE NEW NOVELS.—Among the many works of distinguished novelists for which this season has been remarkable, the following may be regarded as among the most popular :—Mrs. Trollope's " Three Cousins," and "Father Eustace," Mrs. Gascoigne's" Evelyn Har court," Mrs. Gore's " Temptation and Atonement," Mrs. Crowe's "Story of Lilly Dawson," and the author of " Whitefriars' " historical romance of " Caesar Borgia-" ARRIVAL OF THE GRAND DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SAXE WEIMAR.—WOOLWICH, MAY 24.—Intelligence was received at an early hour this morning, that the Grand Duke and Duchess of Saxe Weimar would ar rive in the Cyclops, a war steamer of the King of the Netherlands, and at nine o'clock A.M. a guard of honour, under the command of Captain Elliott, proceeded to the dockyard in honour of the royal visitors. Lord Den bigh, Master of the Horse in the Queen Dowager's household, and Sir Andrew Barnard, with three royal carriages, arrived in the course of the forenoon, and at twenty minutes before two o'clock P.M. the signal was given that the Cyclops was in sight, with the standard of the Grand Duke at the mizen. At ten minutes past two o'clock the Cyclops arrived opposite the dockyard, and Commodore Sir J. Gordon Bremer having hoisted his broad pendant on the barge of the William and Mary yacht, proceeded with Lord Denbigh, Sir Andrew Bar nard, and several members of the Queen Dowager's household to the Cyclops, and escorted the Grand Duchess on shore, and conducted her Royal Highness to one of the royal carriages ; Captain Hall attended on the gentlemen and members of their Royal Highnesses' suite. Their Royal Highnesses left Woolwich dockyard at half-past two o'clock for Marlborough House, on a visit to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. A letter from Dresden says that forty students of the University have been severely punished for having been present at the meetings dangerous to the State and public tack*: SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS! wearing out his powers. There had been to solemn FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. ' . judgme n t o :' cast off by t h e mass of his adherents—he had not lest ' public opinio n u p on hi m. H e had not been ! CHRONICLE.—IreIand may well deem this a caia mitous y ear . W orn d own b y f am i ne an d pestilence, the affecti ons o f hi s people or his church. There had been no ev e nt, no revo l tit i on, no turn of the tide that she ha s now to f ollow to the grave the remains of her greatest man. The stroke will not be less severe be cc u'd account f ur thi s remar k a b le vicissitude. The only cause it was anti c ip ate d. Th e d eat h o f a man lik e I a( co lle t o f i t i s t hi s—that Mr. O ' Connell had outlived his O'Connell i s on e o f t h ose even t s w hi c h are scarce l y b e- I e:e d t an d h i s power. There is a strangeness about the lieved to be po ss ibl e unt i l t h e stern rea lity i s before us. ; reek:lents a n d co i nc id ences of his departure that seems to Nor will En g li s h men v i ew w i t h indifference the loss o f indicate a myst e ry o f w hi c h t i me only will tell all the the great Irish leader. They will differ in their esti- import. That he has died at the acme of an unparal , mates of the go o d an d ev il o f hi s career; b u t th ey w il l 1 leled disa s t er i s no acc i dent ; his death attests far more `than any ac t o f hi s life the warmth if not the unalloy e d recognise it a s t h e career o f a g i ant . If hi s sp h ere o f ac tivity were remot e f rom t h e i r k now l e d ge an d s y mpat hi es, simpli c i ty, of h i s patriotism. It is the famine, seen and they would still hear with sorrow that that mighty soul I felt though it be through an earthly and selfish medium had passed away; but the event is one to call forth in j that has smitten down his soul. But there are other cir in this country a deeper feeling than that of passive sym- l cumstances of his death not so naturally associated. pathy. Mr. O'Connell, intensely national as he was, I While the great Irish agitator was dying on the shores belonged to the em pi re . I n sp i te o f hi s repea l d octr i nes, of the Medite rranean , death also was visiting the abode against which and it s occupants he had maintained a the union betwe en t h e two countr i es was em b o di e d i n his mind and ch aracter. E ng li s h l aw, t h e e l a b orate life long anta gon i sm . A thousand miles and a still creation of En g li s h id eas and ha bi ts, b a d as large wider gulf of antip a thi es separated the representatives a share in him as Irish leadership. He was of Irish nationality and British royalty, both sharing no alien. Hi s lif e was id ent i f i ed w i th an epoch the calamity of th e p eop l e to whom they were in English hi s t ory . E ngland as well as Ireland has so differently related. B ut twenty - four hours di lost a great man. B u t t h e work wh i ch w i ll make the vided the demagogue an d t h e Vi ceroy, equally name of O'Conn e ll memora bl e was done i n Ireland, sinking under th e i r i n t o l era bl e b urdens. It What a work it was w ill perhaps b e b etter understood seems, too, an instructive c h ance t h at h as brought hereafter. He di es i n t h e m id st of soc i a l and pol i tical to the foreign ob s equi e s o f th e I r i s h l ea d er the eec disorder, and i m p at i ence may cry out that he lived in cesiful chief of that great E ng li s h l eague, f ounded vain. Such men never live in vain. He found a people for - better objects than the disunion of these realms. He, of serfs, s o d e b ase d b y oppress i on as to b e scarcely con- too, may see in o ur p resen t m i s f or t unes h ow l i ttle scions of th e i r own d egra d at i on. H e awakene d i n them nations can do towards re c tifyi ng th e errors o f t h e past, a sense of th e i r own wants . H e created a pu bli c op i - and how a good c ause may ac h ieve a present v i ctory, nion, and ev o k e d th e sent i ment of a nat i onal l i fe, which, and yet see the act ua l f ru i t i on o f i ts o bj ects i ndef i n i tely wild and wa y war d as t h e i r f i rst workings may be, are Postponed. A powerf u l ar i s t ocracy h as b een b eaten, and the only means by w hi c h nat i ons attain the happ i ness a monopoly car r i e d by assau l t; b ut there ends the and the dignity o f goo d government and self-respect. triumph hitherto b arren o f resu l t. C heapness and plenty It was a stupend ous tas k to b reak down the anc i ent bar- are beyond the rea c h o f po li t i ca l ag i tat i on. The whole riers of legal inequality which divided the Irish people. civilised world is so thoroughly and so unanimously per- But it seemed hard er s till to s h a k e the superstructure suaded of a fundam en t a l j ust i ce i n M r. O ' Connell ' s cause, and an essential h ero i sm i n hi s character, that which cust om h a d reare d upon the basis of l aw. When m the legal di sa bili t i es o f R oman C athol i cs were gone, the modesty as well as generos i ty compe l us to deal tenderly social inequ a lity o f caste still remained firm and intact, with this beli e f ' , Wh a t ever we may th i nk of Mr. O'Con like an arch o f so lid masonry f rom w hi c h t h e sca ff o ldi ng nell, our respect f or h uman nature w ill h ardly allow us is removed. But th a t so lid arc h a l rea d y li es i n crum bli ng to believe all the w or ld i n t h e wrong. At the same fragments. The great task of social equalisation is all time, fidelity to our own honest impressions, and to that but accomplished. W e see o ld di s ti nc ti ons an d exc l u - national instinct whi c h h as so o f ten proved right, re sions almost oblit e rat e d. Si gns o f un i on mu l t i p l y. Th e quires us to s t a t e h ow every true hearted Englishman descendants of those who won a t th e B oyne w ill pro regards the car eer o f t hi s extraord i nary man. It is bably be seen following the h earse o f hi m w h o ra i se d up possible that f o r e i gners may b e d azzled by the brilliancy the vanquished people. Mr O'C onne ll' s l a b our was not and power of a n e l oquence o f w hi ch they can only read confined to the destruction of la ws an d usages w hi c h the langua g e a n d l earn t h e i mpress i on on the multitude to whom it i s a dd resse d. W e are a b le to compare words were pernicious. In destroying he al so create d an d — o id n e o n t ee in of the co nddietaiothn ofto organized. I rregu l ar an d p er il ous as hi s met h o d m i ght be, he taught a people, who were a l most d est i tute of withllEfaßc our AtsL. readers p .Tli with ugh legalwe are evidence legal institutions, habits of united ac ti on an d o f o b ed i ence Present to authorities in which they could confide. When his Mr. O'Connell, still there seems to be little doubt enter agitation was most formidable, it was still a proof that tained in the best informed quarters that the great the Irish are eminently a goveinable people when the Agitator is no more, and that all that was mortal of governors are skilful in their business. Clare election him perished at Genoa on the 15th instant. When pa c assemblages and monster meet i ngs were not mobs, but consider the mode an d manner of h i s reported death, arrayed masses, almost as r es t ra i ne d and as manageable and reflect, that notwith stan di ng a ll hi s efforts—notas armies. Such manif es t at i ons i mply not only the withstanding all the strug g l es o f a m i n d at one period vigorous and vivacious, a n d o f a b o d y w hi c h , l ong after falling in with th em w h en t h ey are suite want of new social arr a n gements , b ut an aptitude for d to the he had passed the grand clim ac t er i c , s till presented a genius of the people. M r . O'C onnell supplied the robust and hide conformation—th a t h e f a il e d in achiev ing his darling purpose of reaching th e s ea t o f t h e Pa • place of a government i n I re l and. The confi deuce which the law and i ns tit ut i ons o f the country pecy, and witnessing the splendours of that max i ma never called forth was given to hi m an d hi s various rerum Roma, far dearer to him as a Roman Cath o li c , societies. He was, in fact, the first in modern than as a classic city—we are tempted to muse on the times who ruled the people with their own consent. vinity of human hopes and wishes, and to To accomplish so much required that extraordi- draw from the event which we painfully record nary combination of powers which the world has recog- a mournful and a moral lesson. The tomb nised in Mr. O'Connell. His intellect, shrewd and pe- has now closed over the greatest and the most netratiog rather than comprehensive, and his tact in successful agitator of modern times; he has died, not in dealing with m en , would of themselv es h ave ma d e hi m the Rome of th e P opes , b ut i n G enoa the Superb, well eminent in his profession, but tot the leader of a-nation. called the R ome o f t h e ocean, and he sleeps his last It was the passionate irrepressible energy i m p e lli ng sleep far fr om th e l an d i n w hi ch he was born, and from that intelligence which gave it a power so commandin g , that ocean besid e w hi c h hi s c hild hood was cradled. By Most of his writings and spe e ches, if v i ewe d sepa - foreign hands his e y es were c l osed and his dying limbs rately, may ex c it e won d er th a t an a pp arent meagreness adjusted, and if we are to b e li eve the account of the last of intellectual resour c e s s h ou ld b e connecte d w i t h a re- sad scene of his lif e , p u bli s h e d i n the Ga li gnan i , he putation so great ; but th e grea t es t s i ng l e e ff ort o f M r , was neither consci ous o f the place in which he l a y i n hi s O'Connell was but au a t om in t h e mass o f hi s pro di g i ous o death-struggle, tat of the persons by whom h e w as stir activity. He w as no t an utterer o f nove l or b r i lliant rounded. The image o f d ea th s h ou ld at any t i me dis apothegms, but he said a few thi ngs , a ll o f w hi c h had arm resentment ; but ho w muc h more e l oquent l y an d probably been said before, with suc h t remen d ous force powerfully does death a pp ea l t o us w h en i nvested with of iteration as t o d r i ve th em h ome to the convictions attributes so sad and so mour n f u l— so tam i ng i n every and to weld th em i nto t h e po li t i ca l creed of seven mil- way to human pride, and so con t raste d to a renown not lions of people. Yet that Titanic energy might have merely European, but stretching from pole to pole— worn out the powerful frame in which it was embodied world-wide, in truth, in its immense extent. with but little result, if it had been coupled with an aus tere and unsocial disposition. But Mr. O'Connell's nature was genial, and full of deep affections. His attachments to family and friends were warm to intensity. He loved his children, not like a father, but like a mother. There can scarcely be a better proof of the fervour of his per sonal feelings than the passionate devotedness which he inspired in others. He did not, indeed, brook rivals near the throne; but long before his political consequence had either provoked rivalry or invited adulation, he was famed for the number and the tenacity of his friendships. All such connexions became elements of strength in the position of the popular leader; but perhaps the single characteristic which contributed most to make him the darling of his countrymen, was the rich and gushing hu mour which burst up constantly, as from an inexhaustible fountain, and blended itself with the whole stream of life and business, at one time adding poignancy to scorn, at another heightening, by contrast, the tenderness of pity. Few, we think, who have seen a popular meeting in this country under the spell of Mr. O'Connell's humour, will doubt that in that faculty lay one main source of his power with a people so susceptible as the Irish to the ludicrous emotions. It seemed the natural mood into which he relapsed after every suspension of effort. His indignation was often histrionic, his pathos sometimes arti ficial; but his humour appeared to be the unforced and joyous play of the mind in relaxation. He laughed throughout his whole frame, and the contagion of his mirth was too potent to be resisted. Mr. O'Connell had his faults, and they were like his character—great. But this is ni. t the time to speak of them. In his failings, as in his powers and nobler qualities, there are some curious resemblances to another and a greater leader— a leader of agitation—who, with similar weapons, broke the fetters, not of one people, but of the human mind. A rugged force of character, the keenest sensibility to humour and pathos, a hard legal intellect, passions often uncontrollable, fervent attachments and fervent hatreds, the most arrogant and off • ens t v e assumption and the , were all most foul-m ou th e d abusivenese!in united the great refor mer o f the ' sixteenth century. But time, and the veneration which sees that the good done b such y men long outlasts the evil, has softened all the harsher lineaments •in the portrait of Martin Luther. Whatever nobleness and truth and earnest pose were in him whatever can enlighten, inspire an r i u m r te does no ' decay, age, anbecomes but brightens f rom age to ' ad 't an im perishable p ossess i on of the race. Time will in like manner separate the dross from the gold in the character ofainielO'Connell. His work will remain open, and vindi cate its author. Other leaders, less open to accusation, will enter into his labours, and probably demonstrate that freedom from his faults is not the chief requisite for accomplishing similar results. W e may possibly see more I d; en.argee v i ews, more strict consistency, more scrupulous propriety, but the mighty heart which moved the people will scarcely be felt again. In the government of Ireland Mr. O'Connell's death opens a new era. It creates difficulties and presents opportuni ties, which, if not skilfully dealt with, may lead to very disastrous issues. The labours of half a century had united in Mr. O'Connell' s person an unparalleled combi nation of influences. To move him was to move Ireland. For Irish Governments that resource is now at an end. The tie which held together so many jarring elements is broken, and his political despotism seems likely to be succeeded in the first instance by anarchy. While men are still looking undecided into a doubtful future, a vigorous policy and some regard to popular prejudices might win the confidence of the nation. The object, in fact, for an Irish Executive to aim at should be nothing less than to step into Mr. O'Connell's vacant place. But time is precious, and there are political passions now at work in Ireland which, if not counteracted, will soon transfer the public mind of that country to new and more dangerous leaders. The materials for agitation were never more abundant, and the flame, if kindled at the present time, will catch in quarters which it never reached before. Government should look welt to its poAition and resources. Patronage is not an instrument to' be effect- . Wel at suoh a time. If it be relied upon fur the supprei= sion of agitation, the Executive may find its followers reduced to a band of placemen and expectants. One word upon a point to which we allude with reluctance, though it is not impossible it may have already suggested itself to the generous feeling of her Majesty's Govern ment. The remains of Mr. O'Connell will naturally be brought home to be laid in his native soil. Under existing circumstances, it would, we think, be a mark of respect at once becoming and just, and which certainly would be fully appreciated by the Irish people, to permit those who are charged with this sad offic e to avail them selves of the services of one of her Majesty' s ships. TlMES.—There was a time when the thought of Mr. O'Connell's disappearance from • the scene suggested many interesting and anxious speculations. Would he transmit his sceptre and crown, or would they be buried in his grave ? Would his honours remain in his family, or, like the Macedonian conqueror, would h e l eave then ; t 3 be fought for or divided by his chiefs ? Would it indeed be found that so turbulent a career only disguised a mission of peace, and that the prince of demagogues mediated between the conqueror and the conquered, between the unbending Norman and the revengetul Celt? When the imposing phalanx of a national confe deracy was removed, would a thousand sanguinary quar rels occupy its place? Ireland had so loeg beets identi fied with Daniel O'Connell that it was scarcely possible to conceive the one without the other. The People were committed to a mighty enterprise, of which only one man had the key. The Argonauts without Jason, the followers of Ulysses deprived of their leader, could not be more helpless than the Irish repealers, should they suddenly find their Liberator no more. Such were the reflections that for more than thirty years, and up to a day, were familiar to th e mind of very recent ( very thoughtful Englishman. Mr. O'Connell is dead. Where are now the questions with which peace-loving people were wont to torment the future, and endeavour to ex tract an oracle fro:n every sign of the times ? All is s il en ce. All is calm. The sudden close of half a cen tury's agitation almost passes in the crowd of events. The death of that formidable tribune who was supposed to keep the whole tyranny o f the old world at b ay , and whose name had long been in either hemisphere the watchword of revolt, falls on this changeful and melan choly hour with no more force than a faint recollection of the past. No one asks what will Ireland d o ? T he event has no bearings on the future. O'Connell is gone, and his mission expires. Yet how is this? Most cer tainly it is no human hand that has wrought so O'Connell had mar vellous a change. Mr. not been d e t ecte d at last in the s ubtleties of litigation, or overwhelmed by the majesty of the law. He had not been eni,bed by the triumph of his political adversaries. H e was taut under the ban of a victorious party, the frowns of indignant royalty, or the killing vigilance of energetic statesmen. No coercion was taming his spirit, no prosecution was THE 'LAST MOMENTS OF MR. O'CONNELL. We have received the following letter from a gentle man, to whom it was addressed from Genoa, with per mission to publish it : milvtsi ihi flight,na, It nrtift " Intent " Genoa, May 18, 1847. paying his homage, as a Catholic , to Pius IL, O'Connell on visiting the tombs of the apostles, and was interrupted at this stage of , his pilgrimage by fatal illness, and expired at the Hotel Feder, in this city, about an hour and a halt after sunset on Saturday, the 15th instant. " His life is for history, which will take care of it, but this memorandum of what occurred since his last illness seized him will be received, perhaps, with some interest, were it only for its complete exactness. It has been read for the approval of Mr. O'Connell's friends and the physicians who attended him ; they sanction it as correct. " For two days after his arrival here from Mar seilles by the Lombardo steamer, the friends of the illustrious pilgrim observed with joy that the im provement in his health, which they began to date from Avignon, went on increasing ; but on Satur day, the Bth, it became necessary to have recourse to the same aperient remedies which had been for some time past adopted to relieve him, and always with com plete success. Diarrhoea, however, set in some time after the remedies applied on Saturday night had pro duced the desired result, and as it still continued on Monday morning: (after a partial cessation on Sunday) it was deemed expedient to call in additional medical aid. The English physician resident here, Dr. Duff; and Dr. Berretta, of this city, met in consultation with Dr. Lacour, the physician who had accompanied O'Con nell from Lyons. The diarrhcea was regarded as rather fortunate than otherwise, as helping to relieve the head, where they were of opinion the chief danger was to be apprehended. " With this view (which coincided exactly with that taken of O'Connell's case from first to last by the most eminent physicians of France), their remedies were mainly directed to check the congestion, which they judged to have been gaining ground in the brain from a period considerably distant. The success with which their efforts were attended was not lasting. However, even after a fourth physician, Dr. Voiiani, was called in on Friday, there still were hopes. Nevertheless, it was judged prudent to be prepared for the worst ; and on Friday night the last rites of the church were re ceived by the illustrious sufferer with a serenity and a fervour of piety which produced upon the members of m th o e s c t l p e r rg o y eou an n d d h an is d f e r d ie i n fx d i s ng wh im o p s r u e r s r s o io u n n s d . ed his bed the " Towards three P.M. on Saturday he called his own man, and, taking him warmly by both hands to acknow- 1 ledge the rare fidelity with which he had served hi,n, he said, ' As yet I am not dying ;' but two hours later he called for the Rev. Dr. Miley (his chaplain), to whom he said, when he had bent down over him, the better to hear his fast sinking voice—' I am dying, my dear friend !' " The physicians were still in attendance ; but from that moment the prayers and other o ffi ces of religion, which had not been interrupted from the preceding night, were pursued with redoubled earnestness by his friends and the chief members of the clergy. At first his voice was united in the prayers and responses ; but as it became less and less distinct, his hands clasped in fervour—his eyes, his countenance revealed hoot his soul responded to the litanies for the dying, which they were mingling with their tears around his bed. " Occasionally, during this, his last illness, as the brain became more and more invaded, there was a momentary wandering of the mind, from which, how ever, the slightest word recalled him. He never mur mured, though his internal sufferings, at times at least, must have been great. Every one was struck with his serenity, his recollection, and fervour in receiv ing the last rites of religion. The adorable name of Jesus. and , the. prayer of St. Bernard to our Blessed Lady. mingled from time to time with verses from the Psalms, and the most earnest and contrite aspirations, were almost perpetually upon his lips. Up glste:nd t s o ttoo a ef nfgepdlwcirimyn pre pared long, long La ments before he expired he continued to recognise his for its advent. our being, took a "Far d t o confess or , fshotwosehewrdfi that his tottiy"mbhsos with p d petetfhehirsr t arreeuie o fterritehna, r ,pwesed e s: ats s blsi iyospsrnia,oengnmunag:adsdi tempests ngtthmdthi which contemplationyrah:li hisalmost which reo s hsauhteigacoegdehf agitateae bogs s ) A eert eager eerg o snm n i struggle than when the babe in smiling sinks to slumber h fami l y,g h stillthat a no sorrowfu lres o u r ce c consola tion, sol skilla- upon i P o ' o n ' or climate calculated to prolong the existence of this ex traordinary man has been left untried. The professional advice obtained for him was always the best that could be procured. " His body is to be embalmed and conveyed to Ire land. His heart he bequeathed to Rome. The autopsy demonstrated singularly the correctness of the view taken of his case, and how wonderfully successful had been the remedies recommended in postponing the fatal event. " His obsequies commenced from the moment of his decease, and are still continued with princely pomp in the church of our Blessed Lady dells Vigne. They are to close to-morrow with a grand requiem mass, at which his Excellency the Governor• General, the fo reign Consuls, and Mr. R. Cobden, are invited to be present. THE LINNEAN SOClETY.—Yesterday, the 24th of May, being the anniversary of the birth of J. Linnaeus, the celebrated naturalist, the annual general meeting of the members of this society, was held at their apart ments, Soho-square. The Bishop of Norwich, the Pre sident, in the chair. The report of the auditors, read by R. H. Solly, Esq., stated the receipts to have amounted to 1,097/., and the expenditure to a sum less by 1671. The debt on the society amounted to 9051. Since the last meeting the society had lost, by death, sixteen fel lows, two foreign members, and one foreign associate. After the reception of the report, the secretary read me moirs of the most distinguished members the society bad b_que obden, lost. The officers were then balloted for and el ected. The Bishop of Norwich was re-elected p resid ent • J. S. Bowerbank, Esq., W. J . Burchell, Es q ., F. H. janson, Esq., Daniel Sharpe , Es q ., and N. Wall ich , Esq., were appointed mem bers of the society. The meet i ng then atnhnaotun city c announces n that of M. C a splendid an dissolved, and in the evenin g the members dined tc. gether at the Freemasons' Tavern. MR. COBDEN IN ITALY.---A letter f rom Livorno, honour M.P.--La Bilancia (Italian paper). r theidsabteedingp d re p i' b a aced tilt COURT CIRCULAR. Yesterday was the Queen's birthday. The Court being at Claremont, a serenade was performed at seven o'clock in the morning at Claremont by the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards, under the direction of Mr. C. Boose. The performance commenced with a choral, " Eine fete Bu a rg ist unser Gott," Adelaide—Beethoven. The band afterwards played a selection from the " Zaberfloti"—Mozart, and concluded the serenade with the Jubal overture—C. M. Von Weber. The royal circle at breakfast consisted of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert,her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended dur ing breakfast a❑d played a selection from the Sonnam bula—Bellini; and afterwards performed quadrilles from Wallace's opera of Matilda of Hungary—C. Coote. Her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their usual early walk. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice walked and rode out in the Park. The Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, the Maids of Honour in Waiting, arrived at Claremont from town. At luncheon the band of the Scots Fusilier Guards again attended at Claremont, and played a selection from Mose in Egitto (Rossini), and also waltzes " Les Ger maines I Paris" (Tolbecque). Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, Sir George Couper, Lord James Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel F. Hugh Seymour, Captain Francis Seymour, and Sir Frederick Stovin, arrived in the afternoon, and had the honour of joining the august circle. Sir Robert 'and Lady Gardiner, the Misses Gardiner, and Captain Lynedoch Gardiner, Wad also the honour of joining the . royal circle at dinner. A number of the Nobility and Gentry called and left their names yesterday, at Buckingham Palace. Among them were the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Duke of Rutland, and Lady Adeliza Manners, Lord George Manners, the Marquis of Exeter, the Marquis of Granby, the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, Hon. Major and Lady Mary Hood, the Marquis of Worcester, the Earl and Countess of Morton, Lady Ellen Douglas, the Countess Dowager Somers, the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Ladies Anne and Louisa Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, Earl and Countess of Kinnoull,Lady Sarah Hay, Viscount Dupplin, Lady Eliza beth Dawson, Lord and Lady Ebrington, Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Darner, Miss M. Seymour, Earl and Countess Warwick, Lord Brooke, Colonel and Lady Sarah Lindsay, the Ladies Gore, Captain Hon. Robert Gore. Dowager Lady and the Misses Napier, Lord John Man ners, Sir Henry and Lady Wheatley, the Misses Wheat ley, Mr. and Mrs. Bates, Major-General Sir Harry and Lady Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Hope Johnstone, Colonel Sir George and Lady Couper, Miss Couper, Sir Edward and Lady Bowater, Lady and Mis Ouseley, Viscount and Viscountess Falkland. Viscount and Viscountess Beres ford, Viscount and Viscountess Milton, Lord and Lady Camoys, Sir Edmund and Lady Antrobus, the Misses Antrobus, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus, Sir George Anson, Lord Waterpark, Hon. Captain and Mrs. George Camp bell, Sir Edward Codrington, Misses Maria and Emma Codri ngton. Their Royal Highnesses the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimar landed at Wool wich yesterday afternoon from Rotterdam, en route from the Hague. The Master of the Horse to the Queen Dowager received the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess on their landing, ard conducted them into one of her MAjesty's carriages -and-four. Their Royal Highneses, attended by their suite, proceeded to town, and arrived at Marlborough House at half-past three o'clock. The Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess took a carriage drive early in the evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge vi sited her Maje-sty the Queen Dowage r yesterday, at Marlborough House. H er Royal Highness honoured the performance of the French Plays with her presence last evening. The state apartments in Windsor Castle were closed yesterday, and will not be re -opened until after Mon day the 7th of June next. Th e Governor of the Bank of England, and the De puty Governor, had au interview with the Chancellor ut the Excht.quer 3 esterday at his official residence iu Downing-Art et. A deputation, including Mr. Braithwaite, engineer to the. Eastern Counties and Harwich Junction Railway ; Mr. Bru ff, engineer to the Eastern Union an d Harwich SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—MONDAY. Business was almost entirely confined to paying small accounts, and in checking the larger balances for the settling in chief, which takes place this afternoon, and which, from all that we can learn, is likely to be an easy one. Nothing has yet been done with regard to the two plates on Friday, but as one gentleman has declared his intention not to pay on Glory's race, the matter, as we stated on Saturday, must come before the stewards. That it was a very gross case seems to be beyond a ques tion ; we trust, therefore, that the guilty parties will be exposed, and that it will lead to the abolition cf heats at Epsom, and all other respectable meetings. There were not half a dozen bets laid yesterday, but for the guidance of those who are disposed to speculate we sub join the market prices of the events that have been touched upon since Friday last:— THE EMPEROR'S VASE. 5 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Mendicant 4 to I agst Mr. John Day's The Hero 6 to 1 agst Mr. Isaac Day's Sir Tatton Sykes 7 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Poynton 10 to 1 agst Lord E. Russell's Sting—taken 20 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Grimston—taken We understand that Eryx is not likely to start. ASCOT STAKES. Even on the field agst six. ST. LEGER. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Pedley's Cossack 9 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Van Tromp. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Mr. Martin DERBY. 800 to 100 agst Beverlac, Flatcatcher, and Assault—t. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have again, for the third time, been successful ' in my Derby prognostications. In my letter of Mon ' day last I stated that the van at the stand would be ' composed of Van Tromp, Conyngbam, Old Port, and Cossack, the latter leading. This was the fact, with the exception of Old Port, whose day has not yet arrived. At that time I gave Conyngham the credit of being a better horse than his stable companion, Cossack, conse quently my decision in his favour; but " a change came o'er the spirit of the dream." On Monday night I re ceived positive information that Cossack was the horse, that the stable money was entirely on him, and that Conyngham, though he might run forward, could not win. This very materially altered the state of affairs, and on Tuesday morning, in giving the names of the starters, I took Cossack as well as Conyngbam and Van Tromp for the three first places; and the decision of the race proved my judgment to be tolerably correct. Most of the remarks I have made on this great race from time to time, by reference will be found was borne out in the running of Wednesday last. It is a curious circum stance, but not the less a fact, that for the last three or four years, The Sun is the only newspaper that has every successive year foretold the winner of the Derby. This year it was prophesied in the most positive manner by that clever poetic seer " Esau," who asserted that — "If any one wishes his fancy to back, He must lay out his tin on the chestnut Cossack. Folks have many fancies, but I have but one, The winner! he comes from the banks of the Don." This week there are two meetings deserving of atten tion, Newton and Manchester. I shall not enter into particulars, but jump at once to the conclusion. MANC HESTE R. Stake. Probable winner. Manchester Cup Annandale. Salford Cup Executor,orLady Wildair. NEWTON. Eryx, Virolfdog, Lord of the Manor Gold Cup 1 or the Maid of Lyme.Newcourt, Drawing-room Stakes Lucy Ashton. St. Leger Stakes apthong. Golborne Stakes Shylock. Garswood Hunt Stakes Borough Cup Prior of St. Margaret's. Twenty Sovs. Stakes Garswood Cup Sir J. Gerard. Fifteen Sovs. Stakes Mermaid. I am, Sir, &c., THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF, May 24. CRICKET. TWO PICKED TWELVES OF THE MARYLE BONE CLUB AND GROUND. This distinguished club opened their season yester day, by a one day's match between two selected aides at Lord's. The ground was far better attended on the oc• casion than we had anticipated would have been the case under such a sudden change of weather. The Earl of Strathmore was unable to be present, but his Lordship's place was supplied by Lord Burleigh, a nobleman who has during the last two or three years manifested much interest in the game, and who is no mean player. His Lordship made two astonishingly fine catches at short slip. Hillyer, it will be seen, came out, as he originally did, as an admirable batter, and Royston was well up to the mark. Dakin played beautifully. The Hon. C. Lyon also hit exceedingly well ; whilst Mr. Haygarth has not forgotten his steadiness. The bowlers were all likewise to the mark, and, with few ex ceptions, were difficult to be got away. As soon as each side had had an innings the stumps were drawn, and at that moment the score stood thus:— EARL STRATHMORE'S BIDE. Lord Moungarret, b Bayley Lord Burleigh, run out C. H. Hoare Esq., o Dean, b Bayl e y Hillyer, b Dean Clarke, b Lillywhite .... 16 Royston, run out .. Hon. C. Lyon, b Lillywhite M. Ainslie, Esq., b B a yley 7 Lord Guernsey, b Dean 5 W. Moncrieff, .Esq , b Bayley ... 0 Good, b glean T. Burgoyne, Esq., not out 0 Byes 127 EARL WINTERTON'I3 SIDE. S. Taylor, Esq., c Lord Burleigh, b Hillyer 1 Tuck, E,q., run out A. Haygarth, Esq., b Hillyer l3 Dean, c Hoare, b Clarke 8 Dakin, c Fellows, b Hillyer Lilly white, b Royston 3 Hon. R. Grimston, b Hillyer Bayley, c Burleigh, b Hillyer 4 Earl Wintertoa, b Hillyer H. Fellows, Esq., not out Titchmarsh, Esq., run out 4 Captain Blackwood, c Burleigh, b Hillyer 0 Byes 8, no ball 1 AQUATICS. HAMMERSMITH SUBSCRIPTION REGATTA. This event came off yesterday evening, and, consider ing the many attractions which had been provided for the amusement of the million at this holiday season, was most numerously attended. Nine scullers, the greater part of whom were fine powerful fellows, daily employ* d upon various descriptions of craft upon the river Thames, contended, in four heats, for a purse of sovereigns, given by the nobility and gentry of the vicinity, and the races throughout were of the most spirited description. FIRST HEAT. Thomas Hoare (Yellow) Jaw es George (Red) 2 George Otterway (Blue) 0 The distance was from buoys off the Red Lion, up round a boat moored off Hammersmith -terrace, down round a buoy off the Queen's (Brandenburg) House, and back to the place of starting. They all got away at the same moment, and after a few strokes, Yellow took the lead, and maintained it throughout, winning by two or three lengths. Blue was second in the start, and held it round thelower boat, but jest it in winding the apper buoy. SECOND HEAT. George Green (Yellow) 1 Thomas Gibbs (Red) 2 James Waite (Blue) o Blue dashed off with the lead with Red, being the second boat, but in rounding the lower buoy, Yellow cut them off, and with difficulty maintained it, his opponents both working hard to win. THIRD HEAT. Samuel Widdick (Red) I Thomas Mitchell (Blue) 2 Joseph Martin (Yellow) 0 Yellow took the lead and kept it down and up to the upper buoy, when be and Red fouled, and Blue rowed on to them. Red disengaged himself, went away, and won. GRAND HEAT. Hoare Green (Red) 1 (Blue) 2 Widdick (Yellow) 3 Blue took the lead, but was imediately pas4ed by Red, and these two fouling, Yellow in advance. Red soon recovered his place, and won by six lengths. PEDESTRIANISM. BARLOW AND B - YR - 02t1 -7 6 - 10Tlit:ILE RACE FOR 30L A SIDE. The race between John Barlow (alias Tollick) and James Byrom, the Lancashire runner, attracted several hundreds of the patrons of pedestrianism yesterday to the Rosemary Branch, Peckham, in the spacious enclo sure of which house, once forming part of the East Sur rey Race-course, the match was brought to issue. The men are well known to the public, from previous per formances. Barlow, who was born on the 28th of Nov-. , 1819, at Cockey-moor, near Bolton, Lan cas hi re, is in his 28th year, and stands 5 feet Gf inches. He is a likely looking lathy fellow, with a greyhound post in a sty l e that diet credit to his trainer. His principal performances, and thc*e which gave reasonable confid ence to his friende, were his victories over Maxfield, t h e N orth Star, whom he de feated in a four-mile race over Doncaster course for 50/. a side, on the 26th of February, 1 8 45 . (tim e 21 m i nutes 10 seconds); Willi am Robinson, of Newton Moor, the like distance for the same amou nt, on th e 13th of May. in the same y ear, at New ton- in-the-Will ows ; and his well run race with Greenhaigh, on Knutsford Race course, which ended in a draw, June 25, also in the same year. He, however, succumbed in a tea-mile race to Manks, on the last day of 1845. In 1846, however, he defeated Manks in turn, in a ten-mile handi cap, havi 200 yards. n g 3 00 yards start ; an d L ovett, o f D oncaster , The performances of Byrom ive haie given on a former occasion ; we shall not, therefore, repeat them here. Byrom, though known as the "Lancashire Room r," is a Dative of Brigworth, near Huddersfield, in York s hi re; hi s h e i g h t also, five feet six inches and a half, and his frame considerably more athletic than his antagonist's. He is three years the senior of Barlow, -- ----- CORONER'S INQUEST. A case of supposed child naerder, under circumstances of a very extraordinary na'ure, underwent investigation at Bow -street Police court on Saturday last. Informs tion of the circumstance-s havieg been forwarded to Air. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, that gontf,-m ah issued his warrant fur holding an inquest on the body of the deceased child, and at twelve o'clock yesterchty jury of fifteen respectable inhabitants of Sr. Pars l's, Covent-garden (of whom Mr. Salter, one of the owe r seers, was foreman), assembled at the York Hole I, Upper Wellington-street, for the purpose of pursuin g the investigation. Mr. Benjamin Brooking, surgeon, of 7. Bow-vree-s, was the first witness exatnined. Ile deposed to barunt.r, been caned in to attend a wemati named Ann Cleveland. of No 9, tipper Wellitigtpu-street, it, bur confinement, which took place on Wednesday nmrning last. "the child was pirfectly healthy, and iramidistely after its birth was placed in charge of a woman named Barbel to dry nurse. Witness saw the child last alive on Prisiay morning. It was quite well at that tirce ; but about six o'clock on the same afternoon witness Witti stmt., for, and on arriving found the child dead. The case appearing to be fraught with suspicion, witness gave information to the police inimediatel,, and in the course of the fi MVO evening called in Mr. Charles Guthrie, surgeon to the Bye! Westminster 01,10;a!mic 1 - 10-pit,.l, %Nilo, on seeing the body, at once gave it as his opinion that the chiid had been suffocated. By request of witness, Mr. Guthrie made a post mortem examination of the body at an early hour on the tollowii , g morning, the result of which lett no doubt on the mind of either Mr. Guthrie or himself that the child died from suffocation. The CORONER here inquired who was the next wit— ness, and Mr. Moseley, vestry-clerk of St. Paul's, Covent-garden,. who attended to watch the case on behalf of the paro chial authorities, said a gentleman was present who he thought had evidence of a very important character- to , offer. The gentleman referred to here stepped forward arid gave his lialliC as Mr. William Lawson, surgeon, of 13, Cleveland -street, Fitzroy square. He said, about three weeks since be received a letter signed " Hurry Hart.- nell," the writer of which described himself to be an old friend of witness, and— Mr. Wolff, who attended on behalf of a person at pre sent in custody, objected to this evidence but The CORONER overruled the objection and the witness proceeded as fulluws : — The letter request, d witness to call on the mother of the deceased child, al.el went on to say that if witness could take a hint and work it out well, it would be 5/. in his pocket. Witness nut recullecung the name of " Hart nell, ' nor hiring the style of the letter, did not call in Wellington -street, and destroyed the letter. A few days subsequently, witness received a second letter, which explained more minutely who the writer was and was dated from Portland chambers, Great Titchfield street. The writer requested that witness sr( uld attend Mrs. Cleveland in her confinement, and promised that if he did so and would call atterwards at Portland cham bers, the writer would pay all charges. Witness re ceived this letter last Saturday fortnight, and on the following Sunday called on Mrs.Clevelaucl, and conversed with her. Sh, asked witness whether he thought her child was deed. From symptoms which she described, witness assured her that it was not. Witness called on Mr. Hartnell, at Portland chambers, on the Monday fol lowing, and found that he had known him 17 or IS years previously, but had not ten him since that time. The first question he put to witness was, "Don't you think the child will OH still-burn ?" Witness said, "No." The nest question was, 4- Could it not be managed that it should be still born ?" Witness felt greatly insulted by the remark ; but not wishing to ( knock the man down, affected nut to understand the question, on which Ilartuell said, " Oh, you are very squeamish ; they marine these things much better in France. I have seen to oor three cases of the kind in that country." Witness declined to LuVe anything to do with the case, and warned Air. liartnell of the danger of attempting to bring on premature labour. WitneSs heard nothing more of the case until he saw it mentioned in the papers of that morning, when he felt it his duty to come forward. In reply to the Coroner, Mr. Moseley stated it had been satisfactorily - anertained that the party in custody was not Mr. Hartnell. Mr. Charles Gardiner Guthrie, surgeon, of 19, Saville• row, was next examined. Ile depos , A to having made a post rnorteni examination of the deceased child in tho presence of Mr. Brooking, Mr. Canton, Mr. Echling, and three other medical gentlemen. On opening the chest the liver and lungs were h.Jund go4;ed with blood, and on the left lung there were.. several spot s o f ex .- travasation. The brain was very vascular, and there was extravasation on the left side. In all other respects the body presented a perfeotly healthy appearance. The CORONER—Lid you form any opinion as to the cause of the child's death? Mr. Guthrie—Yes; its death arose from suffocation. The CORONER—Have you any doubt on the subject? Mr. Guthrie —Not the slightest. I remarked at the time of making the post mortem examination, that if I had met wi.h sti_th a bony in the dts ecting room, I should certainly have inquired how the infant had come by its death. Had the child died tr m convulsions, the lungs would have been more vascular, and not gorged with blood. A very slight pressure is sufficient to suffo cate a child of such tender age as the deceased, and unless hard substances were used, the body would not have presented a different appearance from that of the deceased when I first saw it on the Friday night. Harriet Swan, servant to Anne Cleveland, was next examined at great length. Her evidence was strong!) , means having bee n practised to procure the child' s death . corroborative of the suspici o n entertained as to uniair knew oonfi n s e l tn r. eh li t ar s t h n te.llh, andssrid hera few m s d t r a e ) s ' s s pnraey vBihoeu s Ba t i o d s h h e e r that be would attend her. Witness knew that Mr. Hartnell cohabited with her mistress, and expressed her surprise; on which Mrs. Cleveland said she knew ho was the tether of her child, but if she did not suffer him to attend her in her conline me nt, he would never enter her house again. The witness further stated that a person who wore mustachios. am whom she knew by the name of " live d constantly with her mistress, though the fact was wholly unknown to Mr. Flannel!, who was only an occasionalvisitor. After the death of the child, when the police were in the house, Mrs. Cleve land told witness that she would give her a soy, reign to go and meet " Dolly" at some place, and tell him there was a bother about the child's death, and that he bad better not come to the house, as if Mr. ilartn.ll met him it would be the ruin of her. Witness promised her mistress that she would do so,__ but " Dolly" was in cus tody before she saw hi m . Witness could not posit ivel y say that Mr. flannel' had called in Wellingtuni en on n ea t t h h e of the child F ri d ay,o esds p n r,sfi always ous addressed by b b i g m fbr t e be t r h e e to witness as Mr. Harr3,': that name believed, and since Friday a ft ernoon, as witne ss home on by her mistrese s a o zi rder. ".Dolly" was at w his apprehension her mistress had more than once asked be was taken, adding that she was prepar e d f or the worst. At this stage of the prod edings, the re being several more- witnesses toe xamiize, the ii:quir‘ was adj ourned. The person alluded to as " 1-I6rry Hartneli" wasre sent durirg the latter part o f the investigation.p His Imperial Highness Constantine the A-------rehd Cost, of Russia honoured Mr. Beard, Niu u tiday last, by sit ting for a photographic portrEi't Oa t Ins.itutio a Jtis establishment, in the Royal Polvti-cb: ie of this charity took THE JEWS HOSPITAL. _n, R. giant street. place at t'it.ohLe o ti ci l o i n ive T r b s v ar a y ra feFtival )abtnr. Highness the Dukt. day, and was very of Cambridgeater uus Iy attended. p r e i d ad , and H is among the cimpany present were —Sir Moses Aloutefiore, Mr. Emanuel Luusada, M. ad., Castro,'Mr. S.ll. Elii,, Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Hey. iii..Miir (Odd' 141.bbi), Rev. Dr. Bowles, Sir Anthony De li, , thbehild, Mr. Luke J. Hansard, Mr. W. Bother, Mr. B. S. Phillips (Com mon Councillor), Colonel E. Cadogan. Baron Snest-beck, and Mr. David St.!otnots. 'The report for the year states, that whereas et the commencement of the insti tution 10 aged and 18 young persons were alone hd mitted to its benefits, these advantages are now extended to 86 inmates, 12 of whom nit' aged persons, 57 boys, practically, b y b ringing r and 17 girls. The principle of the charity i s to e d ucate o a u p n g t 0 committed einpi) ittedt,. tl to m itse l ae t or trade, and encourage ments are held out in after life to per severe in the habits the th them up of industry and honesty which they have acquired while in the hospital. The results of the system are stated to be very satisfactory. During the evening subscriptions were announced to the amount of 8001. The inmates of the institution paraded round the room, many of them bearing specimens of their handicraft, and exciting by their appearance the wario approbation of Yoe Cuniparly• We are at a loa d w h a : L ., e‘ay or the cilmer, as it was given in the Jewish fashion. The wines, however, were excellent, and there was some good music from Mr. Genge and the other professional gentlemen present. Mr. Higgs was toastmaster. e ..............................—..., eete having numbered thirty-one su mmera. The men showed on the ground about four o'c lock, but upwards of an [ hour was "cut to waste" in re. measuring the ground a: d I iselecting, umpires slid a referet At length, a I being in readiness, the word " off" was eiven, aid the men atarte d fairly, Byrorn with a shade of a lead. It e ought here to state that the ground is en,' closed by a stout hoarding, and the course marked out by a stout inner ring of posts and chains, within which tl ie multitude principally arranged themselves. The cirt uit is 647 yards, and this bad to be made el even t i mes, m i nus 77 yards, to coma plete the distance of four miie s, contequentiy the win ning flag was at length short of the starting. scratch For the first 300 yards Byrotu led, but in the Next the men occasionally passed eiw , 11 other, and the first turn was completed in close company, Byrom lend ing on! yard. The pace for this and the following' round did.not seem first rate. 4 t the second turn Tollick ' led three yards; to they came' down what the Yankees would call the back stretch, Byrom overhauled hii anta gonist, and led at the third rour ! dly by a couple of y a rd s . rollick fetched this up by pui'llrg foot, sh ort l y a t ter passing Byrom, and completuig the f ourth circuit five yards in front. In the fifth, i ncr eased they inter valgas 'low between himself and his adversary vv by twenty yards; spurt, in the sixth (having run somelns t over h a lf t i , e dis tance) time, 11 minutes 3 seconds, klyrom was tsventy eight yards behind. He, however, mied a " " bat in vain, h e cou ld no t muc h a l ter th e stkqe of affairs- In' the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth time of going round, Barlow still held his own running kght, springy, and with a long stride, while Byrom seomi d to lab.t ur and go short; in fact, he appeared rather fleshy:, a; nd completely fagged. He was thirty five yards belqud on the tenth time of passing, yet he struggled gamely, a nd in going down the tar side of the course, for ail •w ' seconds, lessened the space between himself and Toth* .k —it was the last flick, r, he fell quickly astern, and Rai - - low ran in an undeniable winner by fifty to sixty yards, • Time, 21 min u t es 10 seconds; which we take to be a proof that both men are good ones, when we consiaer. the shape of the course and the heat of the day. ;t.ifp tbe be en- 0a OA tbst 'are ors ,n's t— by tb, ri be Di of